The Sun. — London, England, 1857-10-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LOR :01N, TUESDAY _EVENING, Or TO BEI? ?,, 1 7, 1'857, a free line of discounts ; instead of that, they were forced by their fears into an unnatural contraction, which has brought them to their present condition. The example of the Conservative Bank of Com merce deserves commendation. In the midst of the contraction it has maintained its old line of dis count almost impaired. - Among the great failuros outside of the banks three have especial interest for Englishmen. First is the Illinois Cntral, the stoppage of which will probably excite less surprise in London than it did in New York. The notes payable of this company amount to 3,510,000 dole. of which 2,400,000 do's. fall due previous to the Ist of January next, and the remainder in 1858. The optional scrip also falls due in January to the amount of 750,000 dols. Against this liability certain provisions had been made in London; the details of which I need not go into. Suffice it to say, that about three weeks since the company received authority to draw et r ling bills to the amount of 200,0001. Unfortu nately, there was no sale for exchange. The bills were offered. Erie was also in the street with sterling credits ; and exchange fell to a point where gold could be sent here from London at a profit of nearly 10 per cent. It was impossible to contend against this, and on Saturday last it was announced that the company had made an assignment of all its property out of Illinois. Another instrument is being prepared, and is either executed to-day; or is to be this week, conveying the property within that State, thus divesting the corporation of its whole assets. The trusts provide for the expenses of runing, &c., and then prefer the end orse d p aper on which ' the directors' names stand. Part of thi had been previously taken np by sterling bills, but a large amount is still outstanding. Certain other claims, the payment of which is necessary to dis charge collateral, are also preferred, and the re mainer are charged with the general floating debt. The directors suppose that they have thus pro tected the property against judgments, and that the eompany will be enabled to resume. No state ment has yet been made to the public. New York and Erie has also gone to protest ; the property is still in the hands of the corpora tion, and no steps have been taken to sequestrate it. Some of the directors' friends charge gross mismanagement upon the late president. At a pubic meeting of the friends of the route • a week since I beard very strong language used on this subject, but no details have yet been made public justifying it. I believe it to be true, however, that that officer failed lately, owing the corporation some 75,000 dols. or 100,000 dols. for freight (he was a, large -lumber merchant) upon goods delivered in violation of the customary rules of the company, and under some special agreement, It may be that the rumours and charges grow out of this small but highly discreditable transaction. Three years since the corporation were advised (by an independent committee selected to examine their affairs) to require its president to abandon a'sl other avocations. The advice was declined, and we new see the result. Michigan Central has also gone to the board, without any rumours of fraud or mismanagement. These suspensions must do away with the system of floating debts. The fall of all these corporations can be directly traced to this pernicious system. In the midst of such a general overthrow it is pleasant to see a railway with a good statement. The New York Central will show for the fiscal year ending September the 30th gross savings of more than 8,000,000 dole., being an increase of more than 300,000 dole., and will report itself as without any floating debt. It is also very agreeable to record th• strength of the leading private banking houses. They have had ample opportunity to strengthen themselves for the crisis. In the general suspension they are forced to pursue the - same course as the public banks—namely, suspend specie payment ex cept to specie depositors. Otherwise they would liquidate for the whole community. But this ought not to, and will not, shake their general credit. They feel—indeed, everybody must feel—that this country is rich, and that the banks and merchants only need act with a little more harmony than of late to make its wealth available. The state of affairs is thus 'described in the New York Herald of the 14th : " The town was rife with rumours of commercial failures on Monday, most of which were entirely without foundation. The Grocers' Bank, however, stopped payment, and there was somewhat of a run on one or two of the savings institutions, among them the Bowery Savings Bank. The depositors re ceived their funds as fast as they could be counted out. This bank on Monday received 607,000 doll. from the Secretary of the Treasury, for redeemed Government securities, and may, therefore, be re garded as impregnable. The Pennsylvani a House of Representatives, on Monday, by a vote of 34 to 56, defeated the Senate bill, legalising the suspension of payments by the banks. • The money panic has indeed become a oriels. Neiier has Wall-street presented such a scene of in tense excitement as was witnessed yesterday. From time to time the announcement of city bank sus pensions was made, _until the total failure of these institutions number 18. The Hudson County Bank of Jersey City also closed its doors. It is somewhat remarkable that there were no failures of commer cial houses, or at least none of any importance. The officers of the various unsuspended banks held a meeting last evening, and after a discussion of some three hours' duration, resolved to suspend to-day:' Furthermore, a committee was appointed to pro ceed to Alb any, to urge upon the governor the necessity of calling . an extra session of the legisla ture to pass measures of relief. The run of the pre vious day upon the savings banks fell off yesterday forenoon, and before the close of business it had nearly ceased. The Pennsylvania Legislature yes terday passed a relief bill, and adjourned sine die. The second Monday in April is the time fixed for the resumption of specie payments in that state." A reporter in the same paper gives the following sketch of the excitement in Wall-street : " Since the financial crisis has been upon us the city has not passed through so severe an excitement as was witnessed yesterday. " At an early hour in the day rumours were rite that several of the city banks bad suspended, and immediately the vicinities of the different institu tions mentioned, and in fact of all the banks in the city, were surrounded with anxious and alarmed crowds, whose excitement was not allayed by see ing the ominous announcement on the doors of the -,qcsed banks, This bank Lao euspended.' " Wall-street in particular exhibited a scene which it has not presented since the terrible time of 1837. The banks were literally besieged, not alone by those particularly interested, but by multitudes of idlers and alarmists. To such an extent did this reach that the aid of the police had in some in stances to be called in to enable the clerks to trans act business. On the streets the panic manifested itself in thousands of alarmed lices either passing hurriedly along from bank to bank, or gazing in silent stupor from the opp site sidewalks at the crowds ascending or descending the- steps of the banking houses upon which the excitement seemed to concentrate. It may hardly be necessary to say that much of this alarm was needless ; but when we look at the actualnumber of banks whir. hauspended during the day, irrespective of the vague rumours with reference to others flying around through an already over-excited community, it is no wonder that the equanimity of the city should have been seriously disturbed." The .New York Times thus speaks of the distress which prevails in that city : " It is certain that more than 2,000 girls, engaged in the various departments of mantilla and cloak making, are already out of employment. Nearly every establishment of numerical importance has reduced the number of hands from one-third to one-half, and some of them more. Bulpin's esta blishment, before the failure, offered employm ent to from six to eight hundred girls ; and MlCenzie's establishment in Canal-street, before his failure, gave employment to over two 'hundred girls, all of whom have been discha , g,:d with the exception of two. . _ "The bonnet business has not suff-red so much as many other trade, al hough tt:et a is not so much doing as is common at this season. The stock of fall bonnets is not so large as usual. The principal manufacturers are endeavouring; to make up in ac cordance with each day or we'k's demand, so that there have not been *o many employed, and as the demand continues, there have not been so many discharged. The decrease is estimated at from BJJ to J,OOO hands. "The jewellery business is already sefonsly ,affectad. Several establishments that have em ployed from 20 to 50 men have discharged, some one-third and others One . -half . their usual nunubt. But as the quantity of jewellery manufactured here is but small in comparison with the quantity im pede], the curtailment in the numb?r of men em ployed in manufacturing is nit large. The effect of the pre-sure collies chiefly upon the wholesale and retail de tiers. A heavy importer of French jowellery in Nassau-street informed our reporter that .he was the only person who had en ere 1 estahlishihent in three ai eske hid had no pur chasers, neither had there been anyone" cur;ous as to how he was getting along to step in and inquire. All through the city the trade i nearly at a " stand-still." " Messrs. Starr and Underhill; 127, Maiden lane, who haVeiecently su'sperided, were largely engaged in the manufacture of hats, which were made in Bloomfield, Orange, and Newark, N.J., and Sta pleton, Staten Island. They furnished employ ment to about 300 hands, who are now thrown out of work. Their payments were from $l,OOO t) $l,BOO every Saturday. They bad dieicounting facilities with the country bankF, which, one after another, were obliged to contract their discoun!s, compelling them to seek elsewhere for the means to pay their bands. They have sold goods on eight months to the large trades in St. Louis, Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and all the principal cities. Frotn present indications they see no prospect of a resumption of business for months to come by the hat manufacturers to whom they, have given employment. "In Danbury and Bethel, Connecticut, the peo ple are almost wholly employed in the manufacture of hats. Not less than from 1,500 to 2,000 persons find employment there, all of whom have been de prived of business by interruption of this branch of trade. "All these establishments are winding up and finishing what is on hand, but they are not manu facturing one new hat. There is, they say, a large demand for the goods, but they have no money to pay the hands with, and must therefore stop. The proprietors of one of the largest houses say they will not resume, at any rate, before the Ist Jan. "Frank and . Straus, No: 51,Vesey-street,Clo thiare(failei), employed from 175 to 200 hands, all of whom are thrown out of employment. Every girl and man, however, was paid off before they were discharged." Under the head of " The Disasters of the Day," we find the following in the New York Evening Post of the 10th : "Joseph H. Conies and Co., a well-known dry goods commission house, has also suspended. They are known to be worth three or four times their liabilities, and went to protest from inability to procure some $7,000. It is to be presumed that their suspension will bo but temporary. Mr. Cor lies, the senior partner, has been more than forty years in business in this city, part of the time as a member of the well-known Quaker firm of Corlies, Haydock, and Co., and has always been distin guished for his prudent business habits. " The Bowery Bank, of this city, and the Central Bank, of Brooklyn, stopped yesterday. " Henry A. Coit, who has long been regarded as one of our wealthiest citizens, and .whose business operations have been very limited in proportion to his means, was obliged to let his paper go to pro test yesterday for the want of some five or six thou sand dollars. The charac' er and extent of his liabili ties beyond has not transpired, though no ultimate Ms is likely to be sustained by his creditors. " John M. Genie, the hatter, has also been obliged to suspend. He has been doing a very large business, his sales amounting to some 800,000 dots. a yew: He hopes to get an extension and pay in full." The Nets York Courier of the 14th inst. says :-- " What resources have we abroad to depend upon And what aid can Europe give us during the coming year ? These questions are of vital importance, and will be asked and answers given in doruestic as well as commercial circles. We can best resolve the pro blem by a consideration of the effect of the panic of 1837 upon our foreign trade. Not that our trou bles are as great, but they are of a similar kind ; otherwise the comparison would not hold good. We give some statistics illustrating the changes at that time in our foreign trade, and from this we can forM some estimate of our foreign trade for the next year :-- STATEMENT OF THE FOREIGN COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES FOR A SERIES 04' TEARS. Years.• Exports. Imports. 1836 $128,600,000 3190,000,090 1810... ......... 132,000,000 107,000,000 " From this we see that the exports in four years increased four millions, - while the imports decreased 83 millions, or showing an improvement in our fo reign balance of 87 millions of dollars. The reaction that took at that period four years to produce, will now. be produced in twelve months. "The commerce of the United States for the &cal year 1856 was as follows : expOrts, 317,000,000 dole. ; imports, 315,000,000 dots. The decrease in imports from 1836 to 1840 was 48 per cent., and the increase in exports wa's 3 per cent. Applying the same per tentage of increase and decrease to the trade of 1856, our commerce for the present fiscal year would be as follows Exports Imports Year 1857.58. • Dais. 437,n00,000 286,000,000 Balance in our favour Add Californian gold Debi due Europe . 101,000,000 40,000,000 Balance From this we see that, if Europe remain solvent, the balance due us, after paying the debt which is now due to Europe, will be over one hundred and fifty millions of dollars. This is au under-estimate of our exports. The Emperor of France has just issued an edict forbiddir, the export of grain from France. The imports of cotton into Great Britain from India this year will be nominal. Great Britain will want our flour and provisions for her Indian army. Enough has been given to show that our exports must increase, and our imports are subject to our own 'control. Europe must have our cotton and breadstuff, and India our provisions. The gold from California must stay with us. This aid we did not have in 1837, and is in itself alone sufLient to insure our recovery." We derive the following particulars from various sources : • "BOSTON, Oct. 14. (By telegraph.) "At a meeting of the Boston Bank Presidents to-Clay a general suspension of specie payments was agreed upon. "BOSTON, OA. 13. "Messrs. Francis Shinner and Co. suipended largest d r y goo d s comm i ss i on city. the .They w ere agen t s o f t h e Pep perell, Bate., Vassalb ora , an d many other promi nent mailufacturing c owpon i es. house to-day. in " The bank failures in New York, to-day, caused considerable excitement in State-street, but as yet the news has had no perceptilode effect on our banks, which continue to dtscJunt t) a reasonable extant. The committee appointed at the meeting of the -Bank Preidents , was authorised to consult with and ask the co -Operation of New York banks, in extending the line of discounts to solvent mer chants. The Courier stateY, in regard to the suspension of Messrs. Frank Skinner and Co., that " they have stood thron4h all the changes in mercantile affairs for nearly 40 yeari, and now they yield to the pressure' from the utter impossibility of obtain ing that which has no.peace--money. Their means are ample, and their suspension is but temporary. They have resources to pay their debts nearly twice over, and their paper we are assured will now sell at better prices than much of the paper offered in the market. Such is the effect of the panic on one of the first dry goods -tirnli in Boston." ST. LOU IS , O c t. 13. A number of Santa Fe merchants arrived here to-night with upwards of 1 00,0b0 dol. in gold, for the purpose of settling old accounts and purchasing new goods. " From the north, east, west, _ and a few locali ties in the south," sags the Washington Union, our advices in relation to business and financial matters c )ntinue to be of the ay.)st gloomy charac ter. In addition to bank failures by dozens, we have now to record the bankruptcy of three of the larvat railroad companies iu the United Stahel-- the Reading, the Illinois, Central, and the New York and Erie. The first continues on with its business in spire of protest° i paper ; the lest two have Made a-signmentsfor the benefit of their cre ditors." SUSPENSION OF THE BANK OF THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. —This banking institution of thesstats was compelled by unavoidable circumstances to suspend this forenoon. A good deal of excitement, on the announcement of the fact, pervades our com munity. There is, however, no just cause of panic —such a panic as will induce an unnecessary run on the other banks. The liberality of this bank in accommodating the people, when neither fun :a nor currency could be obtained from other quarters, had so exten&d its discount and ciiculation lines that when the other banking institutions, insisting on constant discharges of balances in specie between them—an unwise and incongruous measure at this crisis—made a pre-s upon it, its suspension became inevitable. The note holders and depositors peel not, however, apprehend any loss, unless in their panic they choose to sacrifice their securias. The immediate liability on bills and deposits is about a million and a half. Th . s is hut a small praportion ortho a sse t s o f th e b an k , w hi c h are unques ti oua b le. Its dis coun t li ne o f promissory no t ed, its bond', it s excha nge , i ts st:cks, all of which are realis a bl e in a li m i te d and tie period, are nearly treble those ties. Its ad ii ion to the amplitude of the a sse t s getter I — soundness of the bank, the state stands as a guar tutor of its eventful liquidation of all dennaids. —.Charleston News. RICHMOND, Oct. 10. —G9ve) nu Wise has issued a nrocl unation prohda;ting the notes of the Bank of K nawlia being rec-ivyd in payment for money due to the stase, in cinsequence of the refusal of tl at bank to redeem its notes and removing a large amount of its assets beyond the limits of the state. ESCAPE AND RE-0 OVUM OF A PRISONER.. —On Saturday last Francis Tubbs, a man about 50 years of age, under sentence of ten years' transportation, wade his escape from the county gaol at Chelmsford, by first opening the door of his cell by mrans of a skeleton key which he bad ingfniously eorsti ucted out of the tube of a magnum borium pen and the flade of a pe! -knife, and then concealing himself in different parts of the building till he reached the outer wall 18 feet high, from which he dropped, breaking the fall by lowering himself by some old clothes tied together. He was taken within four hours after his escape and brought back to his old quarters, POLICE INTELLIGENCA—Ocf. 26. WORSHIP-STREET.—A VICTIM.—After the night charges had been disposed of, a young person of lady-like address and deportment, entered the witness-hos, and timidly re ques t e d the advice and assistance) Of the magistrate under the follow ing afflicting circumstances : The applicant, in a low and tremulous voice, proceeded to state that she had recently returned from Australia, where she had occupied a happy and comfortable position for a considerable period, as the wife of one of the clerks in the Melbourne Post-office. About three years ago her husband sud denly died, but she was left with a sufficient provi sion to enable her to continue in the respectable sphere to which she had always been accustomed, until she was induced in au evil hour to accept an offer of marriage from a person who represented himself as a man of fortune, iu which character he had obtained admission into the first circles at Mel bourne. Immediately after their marriage, how ever, she discovered that she had united herself to a penniless adventurer, of such lavish and extrava gant habits, that in less than 12 mouths he had squandered nearly the whole of her property, but still kept up his lofty pretensions, and in order to induce her to draw out from the Australian Bank the small residue of her money, amounting to 801.. be deposited his will in her keeping, which he as sured her would put her in possession of his patri monial estate, in the event of his death. After placing the whole of her remaining funds at his dis posal, they embarked for this country, where he tAd her that his presence was imperatively required to look after his property, which had been greatly neglected in his absence, and as soon as they ar rived, he en g aged obscure apartments in the neigh bourhood of Mile-end, where he commenced a con tinuous career of drunkenness and dissipation, for the indulgence of which he deprived her by degrees of all her personal ornaments, including her gold watch and chain, which he afterwards laughingly told her he had seen the last of, as he had pledged them all, and lost the duplicates. About three weeks since he was brought home by a policeman at two o'clock in the Morning in a helpless state of drunkenness ; and on upbraiding him with his heartless conduct when he recovered his conscious ness, lie coolly took up his hat and left without a parting word, since which time she had seen no more of him. After disposing of the few trifling articles of wearing apparel which had not been sa crificed to thedebauchery of her worthless husband she was reduced to such extremity that she was co_npelled to take refuge with her child in the Bethnal green Workhouse, the matron of which had advised her to submit her unhappy case 'before the magistrate. In corroboration of her sad narrative, the appli cant produced some of her wedding cards, her mar riage certificate, and the valuable will, which had been manifestly intended as a mere instrument of deception from the obviously mythical character of some of the bequest, one of which empowered the legatee to receive all the rents and profits accruing from two of the testator's houses, situate in King street, in the county of Wilts. After examining the dominants of the unfortu nate lady, - Mr. itammill expressed a hope that the case would be noticed by the press, for the consideration of the benevolent, as a more lamentable instance of unmerited distress and wretchedness had never before been brought under his notice. In the meantime he should p►esent a sovereign to the applicant for her immediate exigencies, and re gretted that the funds at his disposal were in such an exhausted state that he was unable to afford her further assistance. The poor lady returned her heartfelt thanks to the magistrate, and left the court in tears. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. LAMBETH.—THE RECENT ROBBERY AT PECK HAM-RYE. —Mrs. Caroline Richardson, a middle aged female, the wife of a notorious thief and burglar, who about 12 months since had been con victed and sentenced to eight years' penal servi tude, for stealing a cash-box containing a consider able sum of money, from a public-house at Bognor, in Sussex, was brought before Mr. Elliott for final examination, on a charge of being concerned with a man named Brookes, and a woman named Peach, in stealing 2301. in gold and notes from the King's Head public-house, in Meeting-houselane, Peck ham. It will be recollected, from the testimony before given, that the bedroom of the prosecutor, Mr. John Coleman, which was on the first floor, had been entered on- the night of the Ist Sept. last, and cash to the above amount carried away from one of the drawers. Some days after a notorious thief named Brookes and a woman named Peach, with whom he cohabited, were apprehended, and at their lodginga were found two gold watches and a quantity of jewellery, which they had purchased the day after the robbery, and for the possession of the money with which it had been purchased they could not account, beyond Brookes saying that it was a bet won on a horse-race. The prisoners were spoken a b f e t f eet o ro r pwd e rya a ers e n ad s d tt; t o a nasnhtdho shop prisoner ti e l v yet was the robbery, b u t no t to as having been a t th e Ki ng ' s H ead several times i ea w n s g ß e r so e o ti. f i o b se g q h u e s n h committed subsequently had ta fo k r e s n e t t r i u a t p l o . c T u h s business in, and though at the time she denied to Sergeant Bond, 2 P, tint she had any mo ne y i n theouse, or books relating to money, a savings bank book for 301., deposited on the day after the robbery,- was found in her box, as well as several articles of new wearing'apparel, and yesterday the following additional evidence, conclusive of her participation in the robbery, was given ':— Mrs. Mary Greenfield, 1, M eet i ng -h ouse -l ane, Peckham, deposed that on the evening of the Ist of September, at about half-past eight o'clock, she saw the prisoner come from the house old. Cole man, the prosecutor, and on passing,ap a short dis tance she stopped and returned towards the King's Head, and at nine o'clock, on going to Mr. Cole man's for her supper beer she saw her standing at the bar drinking a gl,iss of gin. Thomas George Allen, who described himself as a leather-dresser, residing at 7, Earl-street, South wark-bridge-road, said—l know Mrs.. Peach who has been committed for trial with a man named Brookes, -and visited her in Horsemonger-lane gaol. She told me to find out Vie prisoner's residence, and I did so, and told Mrs Peach of it. She (Peach) then saidto me, "Then you e . 0•., to Mrs. Richa r d son , and tell her she must know I am in Horsenaonger lane Gaol, where she ought to be, and that it she does not'provide me with money for counsel, and also mamtain me whi'e here I shall not be quiet. She knows sh. had a share of the property, and can do it." I, said the want ss, took the message to she prisoner, who raid in reply, " If I bad my share of the money I have not la,.en such a fool with ,it as they have been, and am making good use, of it,- and tell her I shalt give her nothing." This reply to the ines.sagel communicated to Mrs. Peach at Horse monger-lane Gaol, who told me to go back to Mrs. Richardson, and g te al l v l re h em e ti r ier t nolelconsider be a t tt e t r h a e b r o e u ci t u i e t s saying, "That is all o slh f de M idsh r s s a : n P ahn e a a dv c es h .h , "6 who told sue to say that that was not Richards, e n fati o yap u i g di elhsysro,,a andprisoner, upr,rr dnet e s si htet h aten e ttertet t ti, hn gave thvo e eedbmyiosopffinsr cteo stating wn e ar oganssl statement made aeaetna m d eßwe ia nh r r bti e egym . nh tat ohdh neee salebntl Railway, (Richards) had her husband in custody, and at the time of hie trial, she was in the deepest distress, and without a particle of furniture of any descrip tion, NEWMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. MONDAY. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each for three-yr-olds and .up wards. Toe winner t o be sold for 350 soya if de- manded, &o. Criterion Coarsii(alur;r:g;l32 yards. II subs.) Lord Chesterfield's Peter Flat, 4 yrs, Bit 31b (Flatman) 1 Mr. T. Walker'. Oltenitza,, 4 yrs, 84 31b...(Aldcroft) 2 Mr. Dodsworth's Skycutter, 3 yre, 7st 71b (Challoner) 3 The following also ran :—Noisette, Admiral Lyons, and Delhi. Betting-7 to 4 agst Oltenitza, 7to 2 agst Peter Flat, sto 1 agst any other (~ffereci). Skycutter broke away and ran a considerable dieance before she was stopped, Won by a length and a half; bad third. Handicap Plate of 501. Cambridgeshire Course (1 inle 240 yards. Mr. T. Parr's Old Trick, 3 yrs, 7st 111b...(Charlton) 1 Mr. La Mert's Admiral of the White, 3 yrs, 54 12Ib (A. Edwards) 2 Mr. ax's Ruth, 3 yrs, Est 121 b. (Ducker) 3 Lor Wilton's Bracken, 6 yr,4, 6 t 101b...(Cresswed) 4 The following also ran :—Uzella, Romeo, Welham, Ronzl, Indulgence, Renown, Dramatist, Madame Rachel, Vision, Colt by Epirius—Elcot's dam, Gelding by Para gone—Sneer, Leo, Sunrise, Barflour, Ida, Young Hopeful, The Abbot. Betting-4 to 1 agst Odd Trick, 6to 1 aget Leo, Bto 1 agst Bracken, 10 to 1 agst Ronzi, 100 to 8 ago Romeo, 100 to 7 agst Weibull, 100 to 7 agst any other. At the Duke's Stand, Admiral of the White and Odd Trick, ho were on the higher ground, had the race by them selves, the Admiral holding his command until about a distance from home, when Odd Trick went up, cleared him is a few strides, and won by a length ; about five lengths separated the second from the third, and three lengths the third from the fourth. At a distinct interval, Elcut's dam colt was fifth, Ronzi was sixth ; Welham, Renown, Sunrise, and BarfLur, in the order named, wore next ; Romeo headed the next lot ; Vision was left at the post. The Criterion Stakes, of 30 soya each, 20 ft, for 2-yr olds ; colts, 84 71b ; fillies, B.st 51b. Winners extra. From the turn of the Lands in (5 furlongs 182 yards.) 42 subs. Lord Ribblesdala's The Happy Land, by Jericho, Bat 101 b (inc. 31b es4ra) (Fordham) 1 Count Batthyany's The Farmer's Son, Bst 7lb (Bray) 2 Duke of Bedford's Leontes, 84 71b (E. Sharp) 3 The following also ran :—c by The Flying Dutch. man—Galor, Syllabus, c by Alarm out of Elsp4h, c by Nutwith—Latitude, Excelsior, Allspice, Maid of Kent, Grand Duchess, Adeliz, Beacon, Harry Stanley, Green finch, Dumfries, Supple Jack, filly by Melbourne— Sacrifice, The Flying Duke, and Ravenstoedale. Betting-6 to 1 agst Elspeth colt, 8 to 1 each agst Grand Duchess, Latitude colt, Greenfinch, and Dum fries, 10 to 1 aget Happy Land and Allspice, 12 to 1 agst Harry Stanley, 100 to 8 agst Ravenstondale. The three placed ran in front throughout; Happy Land, pulling double rushed to the front half-way up the hill, and won by two lengths ; a length and a half between the second and third ; Supple Jack was a bad fourth ; the Latitude colt fifth, Maid of Kent sixth, Grand Duchess peventh, Adeliz and Allspice next ; Sacrifice filly, Gala colt, and Dumfries, were the last three. Optional Selling Plate of 501 , for 2-yr- , ,lds and upwards. Bretby Stakes Course (6 furlongs.) Mr. Mitchell's Lady Conyngbam by Slane, 2 yrs (501.), - • • sst 71b 1 Mr. T. Cliffs Amorous Boy, 3 yrs (501), 7st 71b (D. Hughes) 2 Mr. Angel's Woodmite, 2 yrs (50/,), Sat 71b (Custance) 3 The following also ran :—Glimpae, Spinet, As You Like It, and Lady Bird. Batting-7 to 4 agst Woodmite, 3to 1 aget Amorous Boy, 4to 1 aget Lady Conjngham. Wun by three quarters of a length, a head each between the second, third, and f Alrth, good fifth, the other two beaten off. The winner was claimed, and Mr. J. Osborne claimed Woodmiie. Match, 300, h ft. A. F. (1 mile 2 fur 73 yards). Mr. Jackson's Saunterer, by Birdcatcher, Bit 71b (J. Osborne) 1 Mr. F. Robinson's Anton, B,t (A. Day) 2 The betting opened at 6 to 5 on Saunterer, and closed at 11 to 10 on Anton. Anton led. At the bushes SAunterer joined him, ran with him half-way down the hill, where he quitted him, and won easily by three lengths. The pri who reserved her defence, was fully committed for trial. Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, for 3-yr-olds and upwards. The winner to be sold for 250 sous if demanded, &c. Ab.M. (7 furlongs 212 yards.) 4 subs. Captain Connell's Little Tom, by Scamander, aged, 94t (Swift) 1 Mr. T. Walker's Kingmaker, 3 yrs, 7st 91b (French) 2 Mr. W. Saunders's Master Begot, 3 yrs, 7st 9lb (L. Snowden) 3 Mr. Allison's Evelyn, 3 yrs, 7st 91b Betting-6 to 4 on Kingmaker, 4 to 1 agst Master Bagot, 6to 1 agat Little Tom. Won by half a length ; three lengths between the second and third. Sweepstakes of 10 sops each; for 3-yr-olds and upward The winner to be sold for 60 sovs, if demanded, &c. D. M. 3 subs. .Mr. Payne's , Orianda, 3 yrs, 7st bib (French) 1 Mr. Mellkh's Rotterdam, 3 yrs, Tat Gib (Hibbard) 2 Mr. R. King's Wild Honey, 3 yrs, 7st 61b......(8ray) 3 Betting-2 to lon Orianda. Won by half a length ; Wild Honey was beaten a long way: Selling Handicap of 10 sots eacb, for 2.yr-olds. The winner to be sold for 150 sots, if demanded, Ste. 6 subs. D.M. (7 fur. 201 yards). Lord Wilton's Mufti, 7st 1016 (Flatman) 1 Mr. Saxon's Miss Harkaway's dam colt, 7at . 1016 (Dales) 2 Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Silicia, 7st 91b ' (Charlton) 3 The following also ran :—Bianca Capella, Dividend klly, and Plumetone. Betting-5 to 2 agat Silicia, 7 to 2 agst Dividend filly, sto 1 agst Alufti. Won by three quarters of a length ; three - lengths between second and third ; bad fourth: ' GREENWICH.--SINGULAR APPLICATION. -- Mr. Inspector Barry applied to Mr. Traill for advice as to the bringing of three prisoners into court, who were then in a state of nakedness ex cepting their shirts, ponfiued in one of the police cells. The inspector observed, that the prisoners, three young lads, -were brought before bis worship a few days since for tearing their clothes and leaving them Selves in a state of nudity on Blackheath, on which occasion - they were taken into custody and supplied each with new suits of corduroy by the authorities of Greenwich union. His worship had discharged them from custody, ordering them to be taken to St. George's workhouse, Southwark, where they stated they belonged to ; but the authorities of which place had refu.ed them admit tance,-on the ;round that they had no legal set•le meat. • Having been found destitute in the parish of Letvishain they had had a accommoda tion aff(irded4hem ; but had since disposed of their clothes furnished them by the Greenwich union, on which charge they were then lock( d up. Applica tion had been made at the Greenwich union for other clothes for the prisour rs, but which bad been • rJused to be supplied. Mr. Traill - ordeted the case to stand over unti! after the surninan:sos were heardovlieu the prisoners, who gave their names William Hilbert, Henry Aneersley, and Thomas Henry James, were brought int) eouit, canvas trousers having ben furnished them during the interim. Thomas Martin, porter at the Greenwich union, said that on • Wedriesday last the police authorities made application f o r and were supplied with four suits of clothing for boys who had bleu found naked on Blackheath. New suits of corduroy were fur niched to them, the value of each suit being 12 , . - The prisoners, in reply to the magistra,t o , con fessed that they had sold their clothes to Some may. who had given them 3s. each. Mr. -Train said he regretted that the prisoners had not actually been inmates of the Greenwich union when furnished with the clothes, when he could Sweepstakes of 10 sovs eacb, for 2-yr-olds ; colts, 83t 71b ; fillies, Bst,slb. The winner to be sold for 250 Love, if demanded, &c. First half of AIL M. (3 fur, 215 yards). 8 subs. Cipt. Christie's Tambourine„ Bst slb (Bray) 1 Lord Portsmouth's Pinsticker, Bst 51b (A. Day) 2 Mr. J. Dawson's Polly Johnson, Bst slb. --(Kendall) 3 The following also ran :—Topsy, Royalty cat, Belle field, Massacre, and Marauder. Betting-7 to 4 art Polly Johnson, 3to 1 agst Tam bourine, 5 to 1 agst Pitisticker, 10 to 1 agst Bellefield. Won by a neck, a head between the second and third. Match, 500 ; 200 ft, Bst 71b each. T.Y.C. Lord Glasgow's filly by Teldington out of Maid of 111t - Alam received forfeit from Mr. F. Robinson's Hum ming Bird. NEWMARKET, MONDAY, MIDNIGHT. LATEST BETTING. CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. 15 to 2 agst El Hakim 11 to 1 agst Prioress 11 to 1 agst Mcestissima 11 to 1 agst Madlle. de Chantilly 100 to 8 apt Odd Trick 16 to 1 agst Fright 20 to 1 ag,t Cyrano 20 to 1 agst Tricolor 25 to 1 ago, Rosa Bonham. 28 to 1 agat Queen Bess 30 to 1 agst Whistling Willie • 33 to 1 agst Artillery The continental advices estimate at about 300,0001. the liabilities of M. Balabio, banker, of Milan, to whose failure reference has recently been made. 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Deafness.—New Discovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an extraordirarily powerful, small, newly-invent-d instrument for deafness, entirely different ,from all others, surpassing anything of 'the kind that has been, or probably can, be produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at churchand at rublic assemblies; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely removed, and it affords all the assistance that possibly could be desired.-- 1 -3 4 . AlVe• niarle.street, Piccadilly.—Opposite the York Hotel, W. • (Jon victed wider ine Wor':.dr)us zot 4 -1 SCA-PE OF A 116. Eh 12; RATCLIFFE-NMI WA I It was, however, sufficiently evi,lent tLey had chosen a life of wandering about and imposing upon the several parishes, and. for which he should sen tence each to one month's imprisonment in the House of Correction. The prisoners were then removed. Yesterday afternoon, about one o'clock, as a cattle-van was conveying from the London-docks a remarkably fine specimen of the Bengal tiger, re cently imported by Mr. Jamrach, the eminent na turalist, of the abi,ve neighbourhood, the latch or lock of the door gave way, and the animal finding itself at liberty, bounded into the road, to the in tense terror of the passers-by. For some distance it proceeded rapidly up the carriage-way, in a crouching position, until by a fatal chance it en countered, at the corner of Betts•street, a little boy, aged 11 years, who stood gazing curiously at the strange spectacle. Before the lad had time to escape from the ravage animal's path, it sprang upon him, lacerating the back of his neck and head in a ftightful manner. In the meantime one of Mr. Jauurach's men, who had followed the beast in its flight, had armed himself with a crowbar, with which he struck repeated blows on the animal's head to compel it to relinquish its grasp of the boy. The last of these blows took effect, and so far stunned the creature as to enable it to be secured ; but we regret to say the bar, glancing from the skull of the brute, inflicted a blow upon the head of the already fearfully mangled little sufferer, who was promptly removed to the London Hospital, where he lies in a very precarious condition. But slight hopes are entertained of his recovery. We have received another account of the occur rence, as follows :—" Yesterday morning Mr. Jam rach received several boxes, containing two tigers, a lion, and or,her animali, from the steam-ship Ger many, lying . off Hambro'-whiirf, near the Customs home, Lower Thames-street, City. The packages were safely placed in a van, and conveyed to th e warehouse iu Betts-street, t. George's-in -the-East, where a number of labourers began to unload the vehicle. They had removed several boxes into the premises in safety, and had just lowered a large iron bound cage to thepavement in front of the gateway, where Police-constable Stewart, 427 A, requested the persons standing round to keep back from fear of an accident. The next moment the occupant (a fine full-sized tiger) became restless, and forced out one end of the cage, when the spectators rushed in every direction from the spot in a state of extreme terror. The tiger appeared to be in a state of mad ness, and ran along the pavement in the direction of Ratcliff-highway, where it seized the little boy, John Wade, by the upper part of the arm. The enraged animal was followed by Mr. Jamrach and his men several yards, when the former obtaineu possession of a crowbar and struck the tiger upon the head and nose, which caused it to relinquish its hold. In the meanwhile ropes were procured, and the savage beast was secured and dragged into the premises, where it was firmly fastened up by the keepers. The poor boy was raised up by Stewart, the police-officer, in a state of great suffering, with two severe lacerated wounds in the arm and right side of the face, and it was quite a miracle he was t turn to pieces. The teeth of the animal passed completely through the right arm. A cab was pro cured, in which the wounded boy was conveyed to the London Hospiltal, where Mr. Forbes, the house surgeon, rendered every assistance. The boy was in a very low state from loss of blood from the wounds, and last evening, at 7 o'clock, he was in a very precarious condition, both from the injuries and shock to the system through fright. At the time of the escape of the animal the tradespeople in the neighbourhood closed their shops, and remained in a state of fear and anxiety for nearly half-an hour afterwards." THE GREAT MONEY PANIC ZX THli UNITED STATES. rT AVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. Intelligence has been r eceived at Chatham that Ensign Thomas S. Mitchell, 89th Regiment, who was placed under arrest at Shorncliffe, with orders to proceed to Chatham garrison for the purpose of 'being tried by general court-martial on several charges of disgraceful conduct and drtmkennes while on duty, has broken his arrest and gone to -the continent, leaving behind him a letter addressed to the adjutant of the corps, in which hestates that, as there was no doubt whateve r of his being found guilty by the general court-martial, and, conse quently, dismissed from the service, he declined taking his trial, and had proceede d to France. In conse quence of the course t aken b y the prisoner her sty will direct his dismissal from the army. YeAerday Captain C. C. Abbott, commandin 'the Falkland Island Corps, which has been raised at Chatham, received an order from the War -1 (ace directing the non-commissioned officers and men to proceed to Graveseud, there to embark on b oar d the Ealing Grove for conveyance to the Falkland Islands, where they will relieve a detachment of pensioners who have been doing mi litary duty at that station for many years. The whcle of the men are married, and on their arrival at their destination each will be provided with guar. ters and a certain quantity of land, and in addition to the ~egulation pay, will receive free rations for himself a:td family. The sum of 3/. has been pre sented to each man by order of the authorities at the H orse Goads for the purchase of sea comforts. Orders have ,_men received at the Invalid Esta blishment, St. Mails, Chatham, directing arrange ments to be made fo' .1. the reception of 200 sick and wounded troops, who are now on their passage from India, having been wounded in their conflicts with the mutineers, and of 70 men who are shortly expected to arrive invalided home from China. Owing to the large nungbers of infirm troops who have lately been discharged at Chatham onaccount of their unfitness for further service the strength of the invalid depot is reduced t.) less than 100 men. Durhiet‘the past week unwards of 100 wheelers and smith's have been added to the Royal carriage cleparttnent of Woolwich Arsenal, bringing the estaldishment, exclusive of contractors' labourers, to 6,ooo—nearly equal to the highest number em ployed at any period during the Russian war. The officials are collecting subscriptions for the present relief of the wives and families of. the Artillery soldiers who have already gone to India. The following appointments were made yester day at the Admiralty : Lieut. F. P. Doughty and Lieut. H. Packe to the Royal Albert for disposal ; Lieut. H. E. G. Earle to the rersian ; J. L. Hope, acting mate, to the Triton. OPENING OF THE FIRST DOCK ON THE TYNE. On Thursday took place the formal opening of the first dock on the Tyne. The dock has already been in practical use—the first ship having entered it on May 7. Thursday's proceedings were in celebration of the laying of the last coping stone by the Duke of Northumberland, after whom the dock is called the Northumberland Dock. It is situated at Hayhole. The area of the main dock is 55 acres, the tidal basin being 2 acres. The dock and river entrances to the basin are respectively 70 feet wide. The lock is 52 feet wide, and 250 feet between the gates. The sills of the entrances, to the 52 feet lock are laid at 10 feet below low-water level. When the - dock is in full working order, the water can be kept in the dock from 18 to 24 feet according to the state of the tides. The entire outlay incurred in the com pletion of the works is about 180,0001., being at the ' , rate of little more than 3,0001. per acre ; and we have heard the dock characterised as the cheapest in point of construction of any in the kingdom. The - cofferdam was begun Aug. 9, 1853, being the first part of the works. It was closed on the 10th April, 1851. The first stone, which was the pointed sill stone of the 52 feet lock, was laid 14 1 11111oseph Cowen, Esq., chairman of the Tyne Commission, on the 13:u Sept., 1854. There are two rows of piles in the embankment, extending to the length of 3,800 feet ; the number of piles being 7,600. The embank ment involves somewhat peculiar principles of con struction, which it would perhaps be scarcely jus tice to the engineers to make public. Suffice it to say that it has answered every purpose ; and that, after being put to the fullest test, it has been found to be perfectly water tight. The tidal basin is 475 feet in length, and 175 feet in breadth; including, as already stated, an area of about two acres. The .dimensions of the dock are such as to enable some of her Majesty's largest steamers to come in and take a supply of coals. The amount of land re claimed in the construction of the dock has been about 70 acres. There was on one occasion 25 fe-t of water in the dock ; and the embankment then bore the teat to complete satisfaction. This , being only a coal dock, the amount of quay space is merely nominal. The dock gates were contracted for and constructed by Messrs. Hawks and Craw *hay. A remarkable fact of a highly gratifying nature is, that the dock has been constructed with little or no interference with the traffic of the river, or with the deep water channel close to the staiths adjoining. It may ,Le worthy of men ion that the coals shipped from these staiths at the time when the dock works - were commenced were to an annual amount of 1,200,000 tone, and have since increased to an annual amount of 1,400,000. .Now that the water is held up in the docks, there will be facilities for shipping double the latter amount, or nearly 3,000,000 tons a year. In the dock, this week, there have been some sixty or seventy vessels of an average tonnage of 250 tons. A dock now c netruoting on the opposite side of the river by the North Eastern Railway Company, and called the Jarrow Dock, is progressing favourably. An act of Parliament has already been obtained for a third dock at Coble Dene, which is to have an area of 40 acres, depth 2G feet, and a 70 feet entrance.- When the three docks are completed, Newcastle wilt be in dock accommodation inferior only to. London and Liverpool. About 10 o'clock in the morning the Duke of Northumberland arrived at Newcastle, and pro ' ceeded by steamboat down the river, the shipping of which was gaily decorated, as far as the new ~ dock. The Mayor and principal inhabitants, and large number c.f ladies and gentlemen from the immediate neighbourhood, were present to receive Lis grace, who, after inspecting the dock, received from Joseph Cowen, Esq., a richly ornamented, trowel, manufactured by essrs. Reid and Sons, which bore the following inscription :—" To the Most Noble Algernon, Duke and E ar l o f Northum berland, &c., K. G., this trowel was presented by the Tyne Improvement Commissioners, on laying the last stone of the Northumberland Dock, 22d October, 1857." On the reverse side, or back of the trowel, were inscribed th e names of commis sioners, with the names of the clerk and s e cretary— Mr. Claytonnames and Mr, Guthrie. His GRACE having taken the trowel, and the mortar being applied, the stone was then moved to its position. His Grace then said, that instead of Lying the foundation stone at the commencement _of this work, the commissioners had prudently delayed any ceremony until to-day, when the coping stone had been placed. To this dock, which was the first dock ever built on the Tyne, • ell must wish prosperity. Indeed, no doubt could be entertained of its success. There was one matter which was due to the contractor of the works, And that was that no serious accident bad occurred. In conclusion, he asked the Chairman of tbe com missioners to accept the trowel as a memorial of the ,completion of the dock. (Cheers.) Alter the ceremony, a dinner took place, his Crace the Duke of Northumbarland in the chair. There were present—the Mayor, the River Corn - rni-sioners, Mr. G. Ridley, M.P., Mr. Ingham, M.P., Mr. G. Hudson, M.P., Rev. Dr. Davies, rector of Gateshead. ; and other gentlemen. The veecht's had reference solely to local and commer cial interests. On Friday the workmen employed at the docks had a ho'iday and entertainment. THE LATE RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT WESTOIN-BRIDGE.— Ii is satisfactory to state that the sufferers by the late accident at Weston-bridge,. near Tuxford, on the main ' :Ins of the Great Northern Railway, who were left at the latter place a n d a t .11 ,:tford, have sufficiently rec:ivered t R.,rd two inn, to their reFpective hona: , e, excepting two ladies 1 • l nn gentlemen who ate still staying at the Queen etttrd , Dyenn, the guard, has greatly improved of th e a t , Y ,Z 4 , 41 : ) ; but he is a ti l t su ff er i ng f rom the effect. Tim t ot :easier; of the brain h e s u s t a i n ed. tiaturdsy ON ,r A G ENTLEmAN POUND DaoIYSZD. y. , ars ag'z, w n a on , tin, body o f a gent l eman, about :,tsar the brid, tt,it sting in the Surrey Canal, ptford road. The body, 19:1hciuniltilhtiaodnatnarr:atn1,9i'ten:birir Pte .' water 801110 days, was neighbouring 11 , .ve Q e. d t t 7: to is.:sed ab iut 5 feet 10 o t 9 a'xait.tsti irgnest.. The Y T i h f ,,; e ik • a t a r dresse d n i n d • I,cheef-high, and hit 9 aubur n ► aJ vhiin niat, sl.a - al pattern g : i rropaitio n black silk st,:ck, with whit,: recta. that the deceased lied been • banks, and fallen ih to ttie"water, as at theZ ie ti t ' i : c h an d Td . was discovered he hid on his hands a pair of blneKek-°k-iYa lotea. Oa his person were toued a white leather purse, a Rossia leather po , :ketbook, and a new church service r • DREADFCL MURDER IN TIPPERARY —Account; have • reached town asinounciag that Mr. Ellis, a Scotchman, was shot dead near Temp;emore on Thursday night last. lie had shortly bebie arrived by train at that station from Maryborough, and was on his way home t o Dover , when he was met by a man armed with a pistol.' The a 'l , a , v ihin, it is said, discharged the conte nts of 134 wevon in cue ii•girn, o f were others the ill-fated gent. l #mau's heart. Where Trans, present at the time to Mr. Mr. Ellis wasiagent in that neighboOfrhra,"ea' and p . urchased some preperty cause o f )uri, which is rumoured to be the ; nation. He a'so rented : Ilia farm of Meelick, near Mountenelick in the Queen's County, which place he spent the most part of last Thursday. From the Preto Toni Correspondent of the Times.) NEW YORK, Oar. J 4. Picture to yourself the immense crowd that - four years ago lined the Strand to witness the funeral procession of the Duke of Wellington, all clothed in masculine habiliments, the universal black smoke , pipe of London exchanged for the many-coloured sloughed hats of New York, the smooth-shaved faces covered with beards and the mouths draped with moustaches, the j •lly English expression elon gated and careworn, and the round cheek sunken ; fancy those easy, careless sightseers thus metamor phosed all pressing into Lombard-street with a hurried, anxious pace, crowding and jostling their neighbours in their has' e until compelled by their very numbers to drop into the slowly moving lines marching and countermarching up and down the centre of excitement; imagine Lombard-street ex pyided to twice its length, audits trottoir enlarged to more than twice the present width, and every third house a bank, with depositors or billholders bent upon obtaining gold for their debts, and you will have a real idea of the condition of Wall-street yesterday. New York was in a state of convulsion. A financial earthquake was rocking its moneyed institutions to their centre. One fell after another; shook followed shock ; and, - in the panic, no one felt sure that, at the day's close, anything would be felt to tell the tale of the wealth, the commercial credit, and the mercantile honour of this commu nity. This morning the partial suspension of yes terday has become general, and New York is now doing business on currency. - On Saturday morn ing last it was announced that the Illinois Central Railway Company had yielded to the storm, and had made an assignment ; that the Erie had al lowed its acceptances to go to protest ; and that the Michigan Central had, in the modest language of its Boston friends, deferred the payment of its floating debt. Some of the sugar acceptances ma turing on that day were also left to go to protest, owing to the attei inability to get money. One house of limited liability and undoubted, means and credit was obliged to suspend with the best mercantile- paper on hand only 15 days to run. Notwithstanding this Monday went by without a breakdown. There were several commercial failures, but nothing indicating a general breakdown. At four o'clock on Monday afternoon, after banking ,hours, the clearing-house statement for the week was made public. It showed, as compared with the statemer t of the week p:ovious, a _ _ Decrease of loans . - 4,017,930 dole; Increase of specie 75,881 „ Decrease of undrawn deposits 3,053,190 „ Decrease of circulation 224,668 „ Decrease by failure of capital 656,000 „ In other words, the banks had, in the face of. the panic and the demand for money, proceeded with their liquidations to the amount of 4,000,000 dole. This statement shows, in round numbers, a liquida tion since the commencement of the panic of about 18,000,000 dole. , by the contraction of loans. In ordinary times, and with money at anything short of extraordinary prices, it would have been thought to be a favourable statement. With a contraction of loans of over 4,000,000 dole., and a payment of liabilities to depositors of over 3,000,000 doll., the specie reserve had actually increased, notwithstand ing aid known to be afforded to country banks, and the known fact that depositors had been making a run for gold. But in the present feverish state such a contraction was regarded as the precursor of still further trouble. Besides this I believe that the country banks brought an hostile influence to bear upon the city banks. The motives to this were twofold-Ist. The domestic exchanges upon New York from all parts of the country are at such a premium as to entirely put a stop to all business. Not only is the transmission of gold impossible, from the unwillingness to part with it, but the pro duce of the country is equally unavailable. Confi dence is so entirely destroyed that the farmer will not sell to the local dealer, and the local dealer cannot forward to New York. At this mo ment Chicago is filled with grain which the machinery of commerce affords no means of moving to New York, although Chicago owes New York and wishes to pay the debt, and New York is suffering, dying, I may almost say, from want of the remittance. The Illinois Central Railway Com pany has a large amount in the Chicago Land-office for investment in its Construction Bonds. These bonds are selling here at 50 ; it is ready to pay 65 forithem in Chicago in the currency of that place ; and yet nobody can be found to undertake the operation. This one illustration will show you how completely the business of the country is blocked by the unexpected and unaccountable destruction of domestic exchange. Its wealth becomes unavail able. The resources relied uporr to get out of its difficulties prove unavailable. Sterling exchange, too, naturally sinks under the pressure, and New York, the creditor of the country, is left to bear the brunt of the battle. The country banks, who feared that a continuance of the present state of things would drain them of specie for New York remit tances, have been naturally anxious to create a suspension here, in order by that means to restore the equilibrium in exchange, and prevent the drains of gold. 2d. They have also been influenced by the desire to protect their circulation. The cur rency of the interior is supplied by means of bank notes, issued upon a deposit of State securities with the Controller of the State. The stringency of the money-market has compelled the retirement of this circulation to a large amount, and the redemption of these securities for the purposes of sale. The amount thus forced upon the market has reduced the value of State Stocks. Simultaneously with this a new issue of bonds has become necessary for covering certain State canal liabilities. These securities have not been negotiable within the line required by law ; it is reasoned that if specie pay ment be suspended in New. York, there will again be a demand for country currency, and an up ward turn given to State securities. There is reason to believe that the movements of yesterday were not entirely without concert of action. The final blow, however, was as rapid, and apparently as un premeditated as the blow that brought about the French revolution of 1848 ; like that, there was a concealed power that excited and directed the popular feeling. The first run yesterday was made upon the smaller banks outside of Wall-street, that afford accornmo datiou and circulation for the tradespeople, artisans, shopkeepers, hotelkeepers, itc. These institutions were naturally in a less strong position than the banks doing business with the mercantile classes, and less able to stand a run. They opened at 10, and: before 12 had fallen. Up to 1 o'clock every thing was quiet in Wall-street—as quiet, that is, as has been any day for the past three weeks. There was a steady payment of specie over the counters to depositors, but nothing indicating a general alarm. Almost in an instant the street was crowded, and a run begun upon the American Exchange Bank, the weakest of the largest institutions. I had passed the Exchange a few minutes before ; there was no appearance of unusual commotion. When I looked from my window there was a crowd of some hundreds (or thousands rather) gathered in front, and a long line of hill-holders and depositori formed en queue. Mr. David Lemitt (of North American Trust and Banking Company fame) mounted a step, and treated the crowd to the uni versal Anglo-Saxon panacea 7 —a speech ; and the crowd partially dispersed, but the bill holders kept up the run. From every direction men now poured into Wall-street. The marble steps of the Custom house, the classic entrances to the banks, the noble spaces around the Exchange, the ugly stoops (an inheritance from the architects of Amsterdam) that gave a ladder-like entrance to the offices, were all alike quickly covered with curious spectators. The desks of the offices were deserted and the windows crowded. From the American Exchange Bank the attack was shifted to two or three banks further up the street. The Bank of America and the Mechanics' Bink were particu larly selected. The stream of the anxious in-goers steadily increased ; as they came out-, with hands- filled and pockets bulging out with gold, [ s )me looked happy —more looked uneasy and foolish. Fr mn Wall-street the rush extended into Pine and _Nassau, and tho large Broadway banks ; and before 3 o'clock the specie reserve was reduced to 5,500,000 doll. The whole thing was as sudden as a tornado ; the comparison also bears good as to the effect. Eighteen banks fell, with a united line of _loans of 21,000,000 dots. The banking commu nity of New York was.called upon to l4uidate in less than two hours. No bank could have stoat] the pressure. Last night those that had gone safely through the day met in council. The Seni.in lasted until 11 o'clock, and resulted in an nn trti mous agreement to suspend specie payment °eel. the counter ; to petition the Governor for a can of an extra a ssion of the Leg slature for the pas,agf• of laws to protect the banks, and prevent a 'sum wary and forced liquidation ;hat would destroy all the capital ieveeted in them ; and to resume specie Parnen.s at the earliest possible moment. I wi'l riot try to *speculate upon the causes that have ffesught New York to bankruptcy at a time when there Lee ever s e esee. actual wealth in the country{ than which matuexreeattti been before. If the West had made. a vigorous been averted. on to pay its debts to New York, but an absolute inability is Ther e time of the year, it woub haste plenty of property there, six months ago I wrote tY to forward it. More than woods' that when the 00ober there would be trouble, ov rraents should mature of the West. The intervelfj° the expanded state inn of the September panic has changed the anticipated pr universal bankruptcy. The certainty oettlC ict 3 a a ailed upon the banks to maintain a bold eerneessaunrde Country Markets. CHELMSFORD -00T. 23. Our market to-day was rather dull, every sort of wheat being at a decline of 2s, with little business doing. In fine malting barley nearly last week's rates were main tained, but inferior was 2s cheaper. Beans sad peas slot sale at last week's rates. Wheat, white, old, per a. qr.si new 48 red, old 43 Barley 35 Chevalier 33 Grinding . 35 Malt Chevalier 75 11. f 62 1 Oats, per qr 24 3? 61 1 Peas, Partridge 41 44 56 I White 38 46 ,,, 55 Boiling 4O 4i 46 Dun 40 n 50 Beans, Tiak 41 4 .: 42 Harrow ticks 41 45 77 litazagan ..... 37 4 .! 79 Ditto, new 37 *4' Official Statement of the Quantities of Corn, &c in the port of London, from the following pi Oct. 19 to Oct. 24, both inclusive. ~ received 3rte, from °Ds -.3 1 p.:. ''' A 41 I , , r 3 Colchester Harwich l -30i Leigh Maldon 1269,417' 4 1 8 g i D 114 I- I--- I. 150 15 1 180 i 30! COLCHESTER— OCT. 24. The tightness of the money market still presses heavili on our market heze ; best wheats were is and inferior 2 0 cheaper, and very dull at that reduction. Best barleys re• mained about the same; inferior, is cheaper; all olio Ws same as last week. Prices to•daywere as follow :—Wheat, white, 683 to 62 ; red, Ms to 565; barley, 40s to 50s ; oats, 26s to 325 ; beano, Mazagan, 40s to 445 ; middle and small, 445 to 48s; white, 46s to 48s ; grey, 44s to 481. KIRKCALDY—Oca. 24. To-day we had a fair supply of grain. Sales slow, " 4 cepting for fine qualities, which sold readily at last week's rates ; inferior, is cheaper. _ _ _ Wheat. 1 Barley. ! Oats. 1 Beans% First 6OA Od I 38a Od • 29s Od 1 Os -- 1 /1 Second Third 565 Od 36s Od I 28s Od , Os 0 ,..3 I 365 Od 255 Od f 22; Od I Os ' Pa.—OoT. 23. the close of the market Wa a il• ..lmont • 19 r iraddyll 9O ° Fletton 2l Framwellgate 19 6 Keiper Cimino ' .****_ 2O o n Stewart's' - 21 v roes 4 21 0 Nixon's Duffryn. 21 t a 6 Cassop * 20 . Heugh Hall 19 1 ' 1 Lambtou 2O 9 south Hetton 20 : Lyon's Stone Coal 2O 1 ,; Eden Main Riddell 18 6 Haswell • l9 , 21 0 0 uth Hartlepool 2 - n Lumley ' - 1 9 1 2 Hartlepool 2O Llietton Lyons Main lB 6 IWhitworth l6 ° COAL MAR Prices of Coals per ton a 0. d Wylam Tanfield Moor l4 31 Tanfield Moor Butes 14 3 1 Bebside's Hartley 17 9 Haswell Gas 14 6 forth Percy Hartley l6 0 Morpeth West Hartley 17 Howard's West Hartley Netherton 17 6 6 Hastings Hartley 17 6 Walker Primrose l5 0 Wallaend, &c. Gosforth . 18 6 Eden l9 6 Birchgrove Graigola ...21 0 Squborwen Merthyr 21 0 Northumberland l7 6 Russell's Hetton .20 0 South Kelloe 20 0 Hunwick l6 0 Montague 19 Ships at market, 167 ; nold, 141. 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