The Sun. — London, England, 1857-08-20 00:00:00

aim= 3 sap . ~ and ,ught merit duty iddle ced A t ening 41, soner us to. knife• 1, and in hie chile :e her at oho cook ced to )btairt bete lad to t an CO, i n g to pri had plead, Ito 4 )ir of at In f the a let! )an` ) ad in ~r koNEY MARKET COMMERCIALAND INTEUIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLooK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed firmly, and with au improving tendency, at pre vious rates. The sales amounted to 15,000 bales, 1,000 of which were taken on speculation, and 1,000 for export. The Railway Share Market closed without animation, and prices of all descriptions of stock were a shade lower. The public sales of colonial wool are drawing to a close, and, notwithstanding a considerable quan tity has been disposed of, the competition among the ETiglish and foreign buyers continues exceed ingly keen. Manufacturers both here and on the Continent must have had very small stocks on hand, otherwise the high prices, the dearness of money, and the quiet state of trade, would no doubt have induced them to limit their purchases. The ad vance established at the commencement of the series has not only been maintained, but during the last few days a slight additional improvement has taken place. This day a meeting of the Northern Counties Union Company was held at the London Tavern. Mr. Middleton took the chair, when a report was laid before the meeting, showing a balance in hand of 9,371/. 14s. 9/1., besides a sum of 7,875 1 . due from the Leeds Northern Company, against whom legal proceedings were now being taken. The imi.roved condition of the weather seems to have dissipated the fears produced at the close of last week by the storms which then prevailed, especially as the corn market is rather less buoyant than on Monday. Notwithstanding considerable damage may have been close in certain districts, it is believed that the result of the harvest will prove exceedingly satisfactory. This is naturally a sub ject which enters int ) the cm , ;ideration of all per sons interested in the progress of the money market, because the greater the deficiency in the yield the more shall we have to depend upon foreign countries for supplies, which must chiefly be paid for in specie. Judging from the accounts received from all parts of the world the crops are decidedly more satisfactory than for many years past, and as in America and perhaps on the Continent there is likely to be a surplus over the amount required for consumption, the high prices ruling here will no doubt attract large quantities, and so cause some Blight reduction in Mark Lane. The official returns of the trade of France for the Month of July are as satisfactory as could be expected, considering the dearness of money and the dull state of most of the foreign markets. During that period the import duties amounted to 15 ,706,790 f., against 16,490,497 f. in the same pe riod of 1856. The reduction was apparent in coffee, cocoa, colonial sugar, cotton and wool, oil, tallow, iron, and raw silk; but there was an increased supply of foreign sugar, linseed, indigo, (.41 - c. The export tables show an augmentation in almost all articles of manufacture. The steamer Jura has arrived at Southampton with 40,0001. in Australian gold, recently received at Suez by the Simla. The steamer Simla left Suez with the English mails of the 16th July for Australia on the 26th July. The Market for English Securities continues heavy, and a further decline of a to per cent. has occurred. There is no business of importance in progress, and the market is suffering as much from the absence of dealing as anything else. After the late excitement, however, it is only natural that a temporary pause should ensue. Consols for transfer have been 91k and 91 -A. ; while for account they are 914 1. The New 3 per Cents. have been dealt in at 91i 4 ; and the Reduced, 91i Bank Stock is 214 to 215 ; and India Bonds are marked 18s, dis. ; Exchequer Bills are par. Foreign Stocks are still very inactive, and rather weaker. Turkish 6 per Cents. have receded to 94' . i, and the present price is 94k 2. Spanish 3 per Cents. have been 40, Do. Deferred 25g, Sardinian 89 1 i 2, and Russian 5 per Cents. 1121. Mexican Stock is 221. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :-Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5.1 61 ; Mexia.tu 3 Per Cents, 22/1 ; Peruvian 41 per Cents. 81 83 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 55 57 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 4 4i 451 1 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 112 114 ; ditto 4'' 2 Per Cents., 97 99 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 40 40k ; do. Certificates, 51 61 ; do. Passive, 52- 61. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under :-- 18b7. 1856. Great Western £33,653 £31,822 North-Western Brighton Midland South -Eastern - 24,234 24,942 Caledonian Great Northern Lancashire and Yorkshire 27,805 25,878 Bristol and Exeter 7,468 7,405 Chester and Holyhead East Lancashire 7,391 7,477 1 Lancashire and Carlisle 7,830 7,405 Man;.hester, Sheffield, and Lincoln 10,827 10,030 North Stafford North• Eastern North London Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver 5,790 3,936 South Devon - West Hartlepool Belfa s t an d B a lly men a Glasgow and South-Western Scottish North-Eastern 4,580 4,462 Grand Trunk of Canada Great Western of Canada 6,969 7,880 Northern of France Very little business has been done in the Rai' way Share Market this morning, and the few bar gains reported have, in most instances, been at lower rates. Great Westerns have declined 15s. Brightons 11. Lancashire and Yorkshire 1, and Uidland and North-Eastern I ork 1. The Foreign Colonial undertakings have also been flat. Paris and Lyons have receded ss. North-rn of Pranc e 55., and East Indian about 10s. Grand Trunk of Canada advanced about 11., and Great Western of Canada and Great Indian Peninsula Were steady. Mining shares are quiet. Wheal Trelawney are dealt in at 25, North Wheal Bassett at 284, St. John Rel Rey at 12i 122, and Santiago de Cuba 22. Joint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are almost at nominal rates. London and County have 7 r eceded to 292. National Provident of England are at 8, and Oriental Bank at 361. Peninsular and Oriental Steam are steady at 68& 69, and South Australian Land improved to 33. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. (From the Officut/ List.) _ . Business done. rank Stock 3 per t,ent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cont Console Annnitios 9l* I 1 * 1 New'} per Cent. Annuities Ola i L,,,,,Annuities, expire stl: Jan. 1869... Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 lB,l 1-16 I • 1;.. tionds, li:l . i(:ti ' , itto, under £lOOO lB d Cit sole :',t. ~0 10 4 ... .. .. 9111 1 Ex thequer Eills, 20. kdok lti ......... ....... '5130 S ;All, Fxchequer Bonds, V-58, 31 per Cent Ditto, 1359 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK, Mexican 3 per Cent --- Ditto Account 22 i • $ _.,i n lion l 8 Russian i nia Bonds o 722 t D , St., 5 per Cont V', 5 per Cent. Spinith Bonds, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. - - Ditto Account 2sa Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent — Ditto Account Dividends on the above payable in London. TWO O'CLOCK. Consols, money Consols account THE ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS. —Th e O fficial Gazette of the Tiro m Smiles states that the two streams of lava, which had been for some time slowly rolling d own f rom Mount Vesuvius, have stopped their course from want of aliment from their craters, but that a third crater has opened higher up, which emit!stone and ashes. A meeting of the East Indian Iron Company was to have been held yesterday, but there was no attenda nce of shareholders. The report issued is not favourabl e, " i ing to unlooked-for, but it is hoped, temporary ca nettles. IRISH TRANQUILLITY. —As a gratifying instance of the progress of Irish tranquillity, it may be mentioned that the county inspector for the North Ri din g of Ti pp e rary has-jest received orders from Dublin Castle for the re duction of the cons t a b u l ar y force of that once lawless dultriot by 210 men. 111 E SUN, LONDON, r HURS DA Y EVE NIG, AUGUST 20, 1851 Z,HAitE MARK.ETS—Ihis Day.) RAILWAYS. Closing ?rice' , yesterday RAILWAYS. iNmbg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. Junc ;Belfast & Ballymena 'Birrong. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct Blackburn Blyth A-, Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) ;Bristol & Exeter Caledonian. _ • ft. 1100 P 5 all ;5 all ft. 100 ;t..100 ;t. 1100 'Obester 1r Holyhead) 0 1 all 0 ! all 0 1 all Cork and Bandon Cork, Thlck. & Pass Cornwall .0 ; all 0; 8 Do. B io 45 15 all , , t. 1100 I Dublin&Belfast Juno. iDun. P. &A.ber. June. I FAA Anglian ......... 20 ; all Eastern Counties.....! St. 10 0 EasternUnion,A. stk. St. 'lOO 'Do., 25 181 iDo. New A - 25 17i ':East Kent ... St. 100 : East TAncashire 20 j all East Suffolk 10 , 4 Do. 100 ,FA inburgh & Glasgow 0 all ;Edinb. andPeebles t. ,100 ,Edinb.Prth.&Dnndeo 0 all I Fortlrand ClydeJunc. St. ,1.00 Furness ... ... St. 'lOO Glasgow & S.Western 10 all Great N. of Scotland St. ; 100 ,Great Northern St. 1100 Do., A. Stock '.11.00 iDo., B. Stock St. 100 , Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire. )' St. 1100 IGreatWest ern. . St. 'lOO Do. Str.V.R. gua.St 12 all !Irish South-Eastern. 5C all !Lancaster & Carlisle. 1.61 Do., Thirds. ... . .. 16i 12 Do. New Thirds St. 100 Lancash..SfYorkshire 16 6 Do., do. F £l6 3 Do., Wst. Riding Un 20 all Do. Southport.. 14 all London & Blackwall St. 100 Lond.Bright.&S.Cst. l St. 100 London &N. Western 20i all 10 ! all 12A' 5 3t. 100 25 all 25, all St. ,100 10 1 10 1 1 De. Fifths Do. ,16/.5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths London & S. Weatern l Lndndrry. &Coleraine Lndndrry. St Enuisk. Manch Shef. &Lincln. Metropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement Midland . Do. Birming. & Derby Midland G.West.(lr.) Do. i Shares Newcastle &Carlisle 'Newpt.Aberg.&llrfd ! Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint & Rostrevor Norfolk Northn. Counties Un North British North Devon, Rail. & Dock Stock Do., A Stock ;Do., B Stock N. Eastern Berwick Do. do. Extension Do do. G.N.E.Purch. Do. Leeds 'Do York North London ...... N. & S. Wstn. , Ramp ; stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire ;North Western.. IN. & S. Westrn. June. ;Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton.-- I Portsmouth Rhymney Scottish Central Scot. N. E. Abrdn . St (Shropshire Union Sitingbourn e &Sheer. South Devon ...... South Eastern Do. 4. per:. Shares South Wa1e5........... S. Yorksh. RivsrDun St. 100 St. 100 50 all 25 all LOO all 25 all 50 9 20 all st. 100 50 31 1 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 25 all 25 163 50 all St 100 St. 100 10 31.1 20 172 20 ; all 10 I all St. 100 !O 1G 0 10 ;t. 100 3t. 1 100 it. 'lOO L 0 St. IC3 10 all St. 100 20 all 20 10 20 all 25 all 25 15 25 5 164 St. 100 St. !100 25 22 20, all 20 all Do Staines,Wok.,,S;Wok. Stockton & Darling.. Do. do., 1854 Do. do., 18C.5 Stockton & HPI lepl I Taff Vale Do. Pref., Lo. 1 Amines Hay. ST Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West Col West End of Londor and Crystal Palaee 1 5 all Do. A 5 all Do. B !O all West London O all Do. First Class 20 all Do. Scuuad 10 all Wmbledon &Croydon !O all .0 all BRITISH POSSESSIONS. JO all Atlan. and St. Law. 1 .8 9 Bombay, Baroda, and' Cen.lnd,guar. 5 p. c. .8 all Do. ;04 l 0 Buffalo & Lake llur. 0 jlOO ! Buff., Brut& God ch. I 0 100 I li p.c.lads., 1 Aug.,'72 I I Do. do., 1 July, '73 0 0.00 Do. do., 1 June, '7 , f 0 2s. Calcutta and S. East.! 0 :2s( 1 1 Central Oude (Lim.), I 0 IlOs . Ceylon A shares 0 1 Do. B. do. 74 all Demerara • O i 2s. Eastern Bengal it. 1100 lEast Indian i 0 115 I Do. C 5hare5......... O all Do.4i p.c.8nd5.,' 57 1 O all Do. do. do. '59, do.; 10 ail Geelong & Melbourne! I guar. 5 per cent. I It. 100 jGd. Trunk. of Canada O all I Do. 6p. c. Deben 10 all Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 per c. 4 jDo. New. guar. 5 p.c. ;O all .Gt. Wcstn. of Canada' !Oil ill!, Do. New 0 all Do. Bds., payable '57, 0 all Do. do., '7 6 , p.' 6o ; O all Do. do., '73, do ; O all Do. do., '73, without I option O all !Madras, guar. 4A p.c 1 O all I Do. do., 5 per C. I 10 I Do. 4i p. c. Exten I O 5 Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.c ' !O 5 Do. 4th Ex., do. !O ss. Oude (Limited) n 5 Scindo, guar. 5 per c ?.0 all Do d— par ii 4id 188 92 85 90 85 90 Bnsiness done this day. Paid 2:1 'I I 10' I all all ... --- - ii -- ITT, _ A 1 lii 'par -- 201 2 0 i 50 52 85 8 7 19i 19i, - PI 21 -- 211 2 99 101 105 110 405 -- 110 106 108 18 19 I 19A 20 dl d par e d— par, I = ii; 1: RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day it. 100 Iluckghamsh. ;t. 100 ,Clydez''.ale Je. ;5 all i Col.Stour Vy. it. 100 JE.Lin. g. 6 p.( 5 all jE. Un. H. Sh. ;t. 1100 Glas. Barr. di Neils. Direct. Do. New I Glstr.&Dn.Fr Hull & Selby Do. 1 Shares Do. 2 Shares. Lon. &Greenw Do. Preference Lon. Til., &S. 'Do. Bark. Sh. Manch.Bxton. and Matlock Mdld. Bradfd. Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. N.&Est.s p.c. iDo. 6 per et Do.Fixeclsp.c Prest. &Wyre It. 100 g all i 0 j all ;5 all .2i all .2i all !O all ;t. 100 .0 71 N all 100 6j 5 ▪ I all ▪ I all O 1 all ;5 all i.2i l all iDo. Shrs. St. 100 Roystn. & Hit. 10 all ;Shrews.k, Her 12 all :S. Stailordsh 50 all WearVal.g6pe 25 all Do St. 100 Wilts&Sornrst Leasing Companies Ln.&N.W. Calorlon ... E.U.STE.O Gt. Northn E. Count. Caldonian. Do. Gt.Westn. Y. & N.M Do Do S. Eastorn Do Peto & Co Do Ln. &N. W & Midld Midland. E. Count Do Do Do L. &N. w 1 Do .. .. Gt.No;th . n . T. Brassey M. MCI eau Sti:.&Dar Do Gt.w , PR.EF ERENI :5 all Blyth and Tyne 10 p. e.pref. (issd.at 501.) it. 100 'Brig. &Ex. 4 p.c. St. 10 5 IDo. 4 per c. Shares it. 100 Caledn. £lO 41 p. c it. 100 'Ches. & Ho. 51 p. c it. 100 Do. do. 5 per cent 61 all Cork &Bandon s /p.c 6i all ,Dun.Perth.&Aher.J 0 2 jE. Anglian Cls. ASh it. 100 iDo. do. Cls. B 6p. c it. 100 IDo. do. Cls. C 7 p. e 6i all l Eas.Co.Ex,sp.cNo. l 6i all I Do. No. 2 ....... .0 all Do. New 6 pr. c. St. ;0 all East Un., G. 6p. c. 5 all Do. 51., 10 per cent. .0 all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. it. all Do. do. 4 per cent it. 100 East Lancash.6p.cts 5 all E.&W. York. J. sth .0 5 Edin. & Gl. sp.c. Sh it. 100 Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.e it. 100 Furness, sp. c it. 100 Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c it. 100 Great Northn. 5 p.c it. 100 Do. 5 p. c. Redeem at 10 p. c. prem Do. 4, per cent Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prem. Gt.N.of Scot.lst Pro Gt. S & W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. Gt.W.(B.&H.Ex.spc Do. con. red. 41 p. c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Do. irred. 4 per sent. Do 5 p. c. red. pref. Do. Birm. Pref. Sh Do. Chester Bp. c .P.S. Do. do. 5 p. c. do.. Do. Birm. Gua. Stk Do. Chesh. Gua. Sh. Do. do. do Do. do. do Lan.& York. 6 pc. St, Lon.&B.G. 5 pc.No,l D0.,P., 5 p.c.St.No.2 Do. New Guar. 6p. c. Do. do. 5 p. c., No. 4 Lon. & N. W,, Cov. & Nuneaton 5 p. ct Lon. & S.W. 7 per et late 3d Shares Londy.& Color. 1 Sh Londy. &Ennis. Sh M., S.,&L. 6 p. Cent Do. do. do. £6 Do. do. 3.} per cent. Marypt. 1 Carl. 4 P.C. Do. 41 per cent Do. do. Mid.Consol.6 p. c. St Do.Con.Br.Bir.6 p.c Do. 41 p. c. Pref. St Do. L. & Tl. Pref. St New., Aber., &c., pr 5 p.c.red. 5 p.c.pm Do. Perpet. 6 pr. ct. Norf .Deb. 4 p.c. Sb. Do. sp. c. Ext. Do. 51 p.c. pf , 1347 Do.Wv.V.sp. x.,'847 North British ,Do. 71. Preference N.B. Berw. 4:. e. Prf. Do. do. do I Do. Leeds 6 pc. No. 1 Do. do. Qrs., 1848_ Do. York FL &S. Pur. North Staffordshire Ox., Wor. & Wolv. 6 p.c. Ist guar. iDo. 6 p. c. 2d guar Scot. Cent . New Pref. Dc., do. 7 p.c. pf. St. Do. d 0.31 p.c. pf. St South Devon Do. fixed 41 pr cent 9. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 41 per cent Do. Fixed 41 p.c. Sh S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c Do. do. 41 p. c S.Yorksh.4 p. c. Guar Stock. &Dar., 5 p. C Do. do. do. Stock. & Flartl. g. p.c. till July 1, ',6 1 5 all I Wltterfd& Bilk. 6 pc. it. 100 0 60 [of all ,100 2i all all it. 100, 6 41 3t. 100 L2' all L2i all L 2 101 it. 100 3t. 100 it. 100 3t. 100 0 all O 8 O all ;t. 100 ;t. 100 ;t. 100 ;t. 100 7 ;t. 100 .7 8! :0 13 rs' . 10 0 all it. 1100 St. 1 100 all St. 1 100 St. ,100 St. 1100 25 1 all 10 I all L 0.61 all 100 ;t 100 ;t. 100 ;t. 100 • all 15 all 15j 15 L 24 all 91 - 93 94 - 96 ii - 13 ii - iii 1107 -- 16 12 -12 i - 234 98 - 100 P 21 - 2} 91 - 92 - P 51 - 56 115 -- iii. 8 - 8 Pi - 9 31 --- 32 86 - 88 E SHARES. 6 - 1- - k 95 = 97 51 = .ii - 115 12 - 116 ;2: - i? - i+ ) 12i -12 i 70 --- 7. .ii - ifti 105 - 107 1100 - 102 60 - 62 10k - 5/- 61 91 -- 93 82 - 84 83 -- 85 98 -- 100 94 -- 10 161 -- 17: V/ -- 10, 68 -- 72 18i- 10, 9$ -- 14 -- 14 135 - 139 113 - 115 1153 - 155 ••• - ..• i - 0 64 - 66 130 - 132 97 - 99 87 - ••• ••• 11 - 11!, 1 102 - 104 91 - 96 li ld i ;c1 22 22 2`2. 1131 - 114± 1 100 - - 102 ••• 18 - 19 221 - 23 98 - 100 95 - 100 26 - 27 2p 2i - BRITISH MINES. 2t 12 , Alfred Cons. (Philk.) 14 British Iron 20 Condurow (Cambrn.) I 1 Dev. Gt. Gusts. (Tay.) 4 14s Great South Tolgus 11.131 Grt.W.Alfrd.(Philk.) 7 tGrt.W. Vor (Helstn.) 13S Lady Bertha 7i N. Frances (Mogan) N.W.Bassct (Illogan) 6115 North Wheal Crofty lh Par. Cons. (St.Blasy) 9 Porkellis U. (Wend.) 6s. Sort. Cons. MM. Co 2i S. Caradon (St. Cleer) 2 Carn Brea (Illogn. 19 S. W. Frances( 11l ) 4i Tarn. S. it L. Min. Co 9 Tin Croft 40 Un.Minc (Gwennap) 12s 6 V. of Towcy (Camar.) 1 W. Basset (Mogan) 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd.)l, 5h Wh. Basset (Mogan). 5 IWIL Buller (Rdruth). 5i IWh. Edward(Calstck) 117 s Wh. Kitty (U. Limit) 8 Wh.Ma.Ann (Menht.) 4i Wh. Trelawney (Lis.) 15A 16 6 -- 7 133 140 110 450 16 17 3 7 7il -- - 4 9 __ 11 17i -- 14 3 -- 4 20 -- 21 5 -- 6 la 1i 315 -- 325 5 -- 6 2285 -- 295 - 4 - 44 1140 - 160 - 1 - 115 - 125 220 - 230 290 300 5 - 22• 21 48 - 50 23 - 25 FOREIGN MINES. FOREIGN. 2035 277 Australian - 4 10 all Antwrp &Rotterdam 6t, - ,a 20 , 18 Ardennes - ... at £5 pm) - 2 5 all Belgian Eas t. Junct. i - ih 30 all Do. Cocacs & Cuiada ... ... 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 12 - 14 1.2 / 6 all Carmeaux&To u l ou se 1 4 Clarendon Con. Min. 20 16 B C ° z o i a e l r s o MinesG i•a a i :s a e s n sa y e . . . 4 . i, - -...... 5 ... Co. of Jamaica— ... - ...a 20 12 Dutch Rhenis h ...... 4 a 4Li i 40 all Cobre Copper 43 - 45 20 all Eastern of France ... 27 -27 A . . 16 Copiapo - 12 .• - ••• 20 all Do. New all Fortuna - la 20 2s, Euphrates Valley ... •.. - ... 20 all General - ... 2020 all lB 211 3 all Linares 5 14 Lusitanian - p 10 4 Italian Junction Bale .• - ••• 1 all Mariquita - IGGti;CatettulemofbFourargn!.e. 23 71 -- 20 all Lake Const. & Bale .., - ::: . 4.ip 101 4 1 all New Granada 1 all Novena Monde - II 20 all Lierre and Turnhout ... - a - . 20 all Pont.Sil.LdM.& Smlt • 5 - 7 . 20 6 Lombardo-Venetian 44 - 5 all Lucca Pist.sp.c.p. ••• - ;,•,,, 3 5 1 Port Philip & . • - ••• 20 all Lyons and Geneva ... 26 1 - 4 ' Fl - 0 16,, Santiago de Cuba 1 all South Australian - ... 20 i all Lyons & Mediterran. ... - ••• 1 all Do. Scrip 33k all Maria Antonia - ••• •• - ••• 1 all Do. 10 p. c. Pref.... ... - ... 10 all Do. New .. - ••• 281 all United Mexican...,.. 3 -3/ 20 all Namur & Liege - 7 4 20 all Do. do. 6p. c. Pref l9f - 191 .. MISCELLANEOUS. 16 all Northern of France 341 ..- 341 34! .1 10 all \ NorwegianTrnk.Pref 9 - 10 25 19 Australian Agricult. 21., - 22A1 20 all Paris and Lyons 3SA - 35/ 3 5 i 10 all Australn. Royal Mail ... - ... 20 all Paris and Orleans 57 -.- 59 10 all Berlin Water Works.. 4 - st; 20 7 Reeife & San Frau , 1r , ,, :. 1 1 3 : 2 6 CD p ao o n..Ga 6 do p a..6 c p . m c. J u rt . n: s . e u p ly t . 1 13 . 1 . 8 2 . 50 40 Brit. American Laud 35 - 40 (Pernam.) g. 7p. c. d -- par 8 a 10 Ti (Rome and Frwszrati,.. ... - ... --- 1 11 4 . 3 . 2 . 20 au Royal Danish l6 -- 18 St, 100 Do, 6 p.c.Feb.&Arg, ... 2 5 5 all Do, 5 all Royal Swedish i - 1 ... 20 all Sambre and Meuse 7i - 7 4 C p ery f c: ; s s P t ta a r l i o P p t a a lalc o o P f St. all Copper Min. of Eug. 30 - 35 10 all Do. 51 per cent. prof. 74- - ° 20 all Southern of France.. 254 - 264 . F l e m , e n n e t e . 2 . 5 .1. i 7 2 1. 7 .4. 251 84 all Westi Flanders 4l - 5 5 all Do. Preference 10 all 'Do. r;., per c. Prof . 9 -- 9 4 4 all 20 all W.& ' 11. W. of France 28 -29 1 i Duston Iron Ore ••• ... 20 6 Western of Austria 20 18 Eastern Steam 20 all ( West, of Switzerland ... ... - ... St. 100 ElectricT 1 e eg,raph • - ••• - 101 6 all Wiesbaden .. 1 all Electric Tel. of Irel. 6 all Do.B p ..... —— . cent. pray , ••• - ... ••• - ••• 5 all En.&Aust.Cop.SmCo 11 - li 20 all Zealand lO 10s. Eur. & Ind•Jetn. Tel. ••• - ••• 25 all Gen. Ir•Se•Col.(lim.) ... ••• ••• _ JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 15 14 Gen. Steam N av i ga t . ••• 20 5 London Dis coun t ... 1 ' lii 40 all !Australa s i a ••• ' 87 - 83 4 all Lond. Gen. Omnibus 3 1 25 181 Bank of Egypt \ i 34 100 50 Bank of London 24 - 3.,i 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig. 40 all Bri.Col. Bk.& Ln. Co . 47 - 49 10 all Mediteran. Elec. Tel. ... - ..‘ ••• 10 all Mexican& S. America, 1 i 2 . 50 all Irritish N. American . - m 5 5 'Nat. Discount C0....1 li - 1 20 1 S •• -- ... C.Bk.of Incl.An.&Cir ai. a 5 5 iDo. New lli - ad 100 1 50 City ' 54 - 66 10 , 5 Netherlands Land..., 1 ": "• 100 23 Colonial •• 2 3 ••• 100 20 Commercial of Lond. - ... 5 all !Do. 8 p.c.Pf. iss. at Id. 2' - 4 3 20 all .Eng.Scot.&Ans•Cht. 19 - 1 w 5 2 Do.' Do. - t 20 all Lon. Ch. Bk.of Alla. 171 -- 18 1 100 80 New B. &N. S. Land 16 - 18 '2O all Ditto New ............ ..,- - .... St. 100 N.S.W. Gov. s p.c.D.I 97 ~ 0 , 50 20 (London and County ~. - ... _ 29 1 all N. B. Australasian... $ 1 50 Lud.&E.Bnkng.Corp ... _ ... " 10 all Nrth.ofEuropoSteam 84 - 9 ... ;50 10 London Joi nt Stock.. ... -. ... 1 a ll , O r i en tal Gas ......... i - li 160 20 'Lond.andWestminst. ... - ... 12 10s. 'D o New Shares id - ip ' 100 35 ( National Pro. of Eng. ... - ... 78 . 25 all Peelßr. Ld. & Minrl it - 2 3 20 ,10 ,Do. Now ............... ... ... 50 all Peninsular & Oriental 67 -69 68i 9 50 22 .., National Bank ...... ... - •• • 50 10 Do. New . 3 20 tall New South Wales .... 46 - 43 50 all Rhyrnney Iron D 25 ' all Oriental Bank Corp. 35i - 364 36 , 15 all IDo. New. •• 6 - 8 4 d , 20 15 'Ottoman Bank ...... r 4 ---- • 60 60 !Royal Mail Steam 5B - 60 v 100 ;5 Provine'al of Ireland ... - ••• 1 all IScot. Austral. Invest li - lt 10 , all Do. New ... --- ••• all Do. New ••• 5 I R . Ans. B. &G. Im•Co. i ... - •• • 100 all S. Aus, Gov. 6 p. c . bds . 106 -- 168 e 25 all ,South Australia '33- 34 t 25 all South Austral. Land 32 ,- 3 4 33 25 all ' Union of Australia 514 --5 2 A 1 all Submarine Tel. Scrip 1 .... 1 9 ... 24 Do. New I 6 - 7 1 gall Do. Regi s t ere d 50 10d n Union' of Lo on .... ... - ... 20 5 Tilts. Ln. Co. Up. Can 0 ...-: ... a 100 50 Unity Mutual. . ' -• d ••• ... 100 28A Van Dieraen'a Land l l. -4 12 100 60 'Nostra* ofLond, 12 = 11c 1 :. a . r r` flualness this day YORK RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) FILLY SAPLING STAKES. Syllabus walked over ; and Mr. Howard, Sir C. Monck, and Sir R. Bulkely divide forfeits. PRINCE OF WALES STAKES. Proud Preston Peg Amsterdam 2 Nine ran. JUVENILE STAKES. Target Massacre Three ran. LA.TESr BETTING-11.45 EBOR HANDICAP. 2 to 1 agst Warlock (taken freely) 5 to 1 bar one (offered) No outsider backed. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Day.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. Carew's Estate hill and Keay's Thvorce bill were read a third time and passed. RATING OF TENEMENTS. Lord STANLEY moved for returns from the several parishes in the townships in the counties of Lancashire, Suffolk, Hampshire, and Gloucestershire, respectively, of the number of tenements assessed to the rate for the relief of the poor made nExt before the rate r,ow collect ing; specifying the amount of such rate, the number of assessments rated under 41. annual veins, at 41. under 51. at 5/. and under 61., at 6/ and under 81., at 81 and under 101. atlo/. and under 121., at 121. and under 151., at 151. and under 201., at 201. and above respectively : Of the num• ber of tenements assessed at each of these several values of which the occupiers have been excused (so far as the same can be ascertained :) And, of the number and amount of compositions with owners of small tenements. Agreed to. DIVORCE - BILL. Several petitions were presented against the Divorce and Matrimonial Clauses Bill. The amendments to the Divorce, &ci , Bill were con sidered. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved to leave out clause 15 and substitute the following : " Application for judicial separation or restitution of conjugal rights on any one of the grounds aforesaid may be made by either husband or wife, by petition to the court, or to any judge of assize at the assizes held for the county in which the husband and wife reside or last resided together, or to the court of quarter sessions of the peace held for the county or borough in which the husband and wife are or were last resident, and which judge of assize and Courts of Quarter Sessions respectively are hereby authorised and required to hear and determine such petition according to the rules and regulations which shall be under the authority of this act, and the court or judge to which such petition is addressed, on being satisfied of the truth of the a ll egations thereiu contained , and that there is no legal ground why the same should net b 3 granted, may decree such judicial separation accordingly, and whore the application is by the wife, may make any order for alimony which shall be deemed just : Provided always, that any judge of aasize to whom such petition shall be presented, may refer the same to any of her Majesty's counsel or sergeant-at-law named in the commission of assize or nisi pins, and such counsel or serjeant shall, for the purpose of deciding upon the matters of such petition, all the powers that any such judge would have had by virtao of this act or otherwise." Agreed to. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved a clause to follow the last, providing for carrying out its provisions, and for fixing and regulating the fees of the court. Agreed to. Clause 19 in the original bill was struck out. The ATTORNEY GENERAL brought up a new clause relative to the separate earnings of married women when judicial) , separated. Sir W. HEA.TaCOTE thought the provision should be made to prevent collusion between the husband and wife in getting a judicial separation, and the wife's earnings protected, and their afterwards coming together again, and the property under the decree being held against the subsequent creditors of the husband. Mr. HENLEY asked the Attorney-General if he thought the clause gave sufficient proteotion to the earnings of a wife as against the husband or his creditors. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said in case of seizure by the husband himself, the magistrates' order, making the wife a femme sole, would be a sufficient pro tection ; but there was a technical objection against giving the wife the right of proceeding against her hus band by action. In case of attack by a creditor or as signee of the husband, the wife could take an action for the recovery of her property, if under ad., in the county court, and, above that sum, in the superior courts. Mr. MACAULAY asked how the wife was to be pro tected by the criminal law ; it was provided that if any creditor of the husbund acted in contravention of the law, the wife might sue as a femme sole. He wished therefore, in reference to the technical obstacle to know how the wife would get her remedy against the husband, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that at present the right of separate property in the wife was a matter of contract before marriage, or of the husband's consent afterwards ; but this was a case in which the legislature for the first time by positive enactment gave her the same right of property, as if she were a femme sole, and for that reason he thought there would be a remedy by the criminal law. He considered it the most impor tant clause, and was open to any suggestion for its improvement. After same discussion. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved the clause as follows :—" Provided also that if the husband in viola tion of any such order shall possess himself of any such earnings or property of the wile, he shall on conviction before justice of police or quarter sessions be liable to be committed to prison for a period not exceeding two calendar months uvde:is be shall restore the same or pay the full value to the wife and all the costs and expenses incurred by her. Sir 1). NORREYS said that the objection would still remain if the husband chose to remain in prison for two months he would be able to.deprive the wife of her pro perty. (Hear, hear.) Sir E. PERRY veld that on the husband's release under the clause the wife would be able to sue him tinder the common law. Mr. CRAWFURD suggested that the imprisonment should be " with or without hard labour," according to the discretion of the magistrate. (Rear.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the clause would not interfere with the wife's civil remedy against the husband if he made away w ith the property. The clause was to put a pressure on the husband if he re fused to give up the property, and it w ould not inter fere with the wife's civil rights. Mr. A YRTON said, that under the bill, all the rights of a single woman, would answer every purpose. The common law would be able to vindicate its rights. [LEFT SITTING g iving a marr ied woman, LLOYD'S ZIIIPPINC.---(This Day.) LONDON, Aug. 20.—Wind this day at noon, N.E. moderate breeze, and cloudy. GLOUCESTER, Aug 19.—Arrivod—Satherine, from St. Johns ; Amelia, Miramichi ; Grof V. Brandenburg, Quebec. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 18.—Wind N.—Arrived—May Flower, from Liverpool for Aveiro, PENZANCE, Aug. 19.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Helen, from Quebeo. OFF DARTMOUTH, Aug. 19. — Arrived —Ann, from St. Vincent, CARDIFF, Aug. 19—Wind W. —Sailed — ci f E e i l i e z n a , bet f h o: Point Aß de Gs Tlval 1 l e r ; H , P A e n u e g l .. o i p 9e Winde a n d E r a ; Wasp, ditto. for Quebec. SHIELDS, Aug. 19.—Wind E.S.E. - Arrived — Lord Brougham and Vaux, from MiramiehiN..—Arrived—Flora , CARLISLE, Aug. 18._-Wind Mure, from St. John's, N.B. (PER ELECTRIC TELECIRAPIL) SOUTLIANPTON, Thursday, 10.30 a.m. Wind E.N.E., blowing fresh ; cloudy. Arrived—Argyll, steamer, from Carenton ; Grouse, Car diff ; Nuighsden, Christiania ; Bertsha, Shuudewall ; La Poule, Cherbourg. LIVERPOOL, Thursday Mornin; c m . o fi ne , Dantsic ; AUL Uleaborg ; Wind N.N.W. Arrived—Thor, from Quebec • Bentiuck, Amsterdam and Holyhead ; Italian, Havre ; R. A. Lewis, and Talisman, Quebec; Olive, Ceelio ; Middleford, Dens; Mobesium, Nakskon. NEWPORT, Aug. It. The Three Sisters, for Liverpool, with iron, struck on the Mouckston last night, and filled, and is expected to become a total wreck. QUEENSTOWN, Aug. 19, Wind N. Arrived—Coura,uto, from Porto Rico; Bywater, lia• vannah ; Chester, screw steamer, Odessa. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGIAAPEf.) DEAL, Thursday, 9 ada Wind N.E., fresh. _ Passed, Aug. 19.—Catherina, from Laguna, for Altona ; Augusta, Richmond, Bremen—all well. Passed—Sir Robert Seppinga, from London, for Madras. SHARP PRACTICE. — In the Crown Court, on Friday, Mr. Ferguson ' a medical gentleman from Bolton, while passing to the witness-box to give evidence, had his poc ket picked of a valuable gold watch, and this in the very face of the judge, the Hon. Baron Watson. — Liver of Daily Post. PRICES OF GROWING CORN.—At a recent sale of growing corn crops at Pickering, Yorkshire, the highest price Wained for wheat was 121. per acre, and the lowest price 41. 15s. per acre, the average being Si. 15s. At a sale of growing wheat at Doncaster 141. 7s. 6d. per acre was realised for wheat. The crops were in good condition. HIGHLAND GAMES AND SPORTS AT THE CRYSTAL PALACE.—The Early Closing A.ssociation has announced a third fete at the Crystal Palace for Monday, when the I Highland games and old Englieh sports are to take place, I in the same manner as is announced for Saturday next. ' an d seeing that this is the first time that the By this arrangement the convenience of a l l classes will be met, these interesti n g g ames , doubtless a "people" have had an opportunity of viewing at the " The Italian con 3 p ftn y , from the Lyceum ( Ro y al large PeoapineLPbaelracweill avail themselves of it. " Italian Opera), with Madanae Ristori at their head, gave last evening, at the Theatre Royal, Manchester, the first of four pertormauces. The play was f .... ‘ Macbeth:7, LITERAT URE. art and history. The author is not altogether un worthy of his subject though his selection of stanza and of scene sometimes provokes comparison with Byron's address to the " Niobe of Nations." He complains that he has been much disappointed in the execution of his ide t, and that there are some weak lines he could not dispose of. He is certainly free from the literary vanity which refuses to see its own error, but the weak lines are less objection able than the halting measure which the "needless Alexandrine " occasionally betrays him into. This is a fault which a little care would ay( id, and an other of the same class is a too frequent repetition of words or epithets. This may be occasionally effective, but carried too far has quite the contrary result. The following lines exemplify this— " Such painting as from inspiration falls, When cunning bands with cunning arts defy The death a happy thought was doomed to die. These coloured poems on the canvas rest As summer clouds on summer ocean lie, Making fresh pictures in the mind that's bleat With pow'r to feel so much, and then dream out the rest." We meet with fine thoughts clothed in vigorous language. The following lines express the idea of an artist never attaining his ideal—. Sinai, the lledjctz, and Soudan. By James Hamil ton, author of " Wanderings in North Africa." Bentley. This volume contains the record of a tour made some time ago in the neighbourhood of the Red Sea and across the Ethiopian desert by an intelli gent and observant traveller. He tells us it is so long since he parted with these notes that he has but a confused recollection of them, but as he is sure they represented the true state of things at the time they were written, he hopes they are not unlike the truth now. The political aspect of affairs may, he remarks, have changed since they were penned, but this will probably be only a fresh source of interest to the reader in comparing the present with the past, and enabling him to trace the causes of recent events in the occurrences of that time. The early spring of 1854 found Mr. Hamilton enscouced in Cairo, where he had passed the winter. The opening season and the proposed departure of a friend for India induced him to leave it. This friend invited him to accompany him to Suez, and having secured another com panion for the journey, he agreed. Wishing to avoid passing twice over the same ground. they arranged to proceed from Suez to Gebel Tur by sea, and to return thence to Cairo by Cosseir and the Nile. This return route forms the subject of the narrative, and the description of places and tribes is told in a pleasant manner, enlivened by several discursive sketches and observations. The traveller saw a good deal of the Arab tribes in hit wanderings, and was particularly struck with their simplicity and native nobility. Ho considers them the most perfect of the present Eastern races. In Arabia Proper the Arab has, he tolls us, successfully resisted the contamination of Turkish dominion. He groans under the op pression but does not despair. "He believes in yesterday and to-morrow, and this consoles him for to-day. He has seen the Egyptian Pha raoh and the Persian King, the Roman Emperor and Abyssinian Najash swoop down down upon his lands , like birds of prey, but he has seen them swept off like a cloud of locusts into the desert, leaving no trace but partial desolation easily repaired behind them. Such, he is confident, will be the near end of the Turks." The desert, he ob serves, is the stronghold of their liberty. In another place he gives an interesting record of the life of Mahomet and the progress of creed, but while disclaimng the intolerance he satirizes, we must consider he has allowed him more than his share of praise. It must be remembered, while rendering him admiration for the idolatries he sub verted- and turned from in disgust, that he was bore in the day of a happier revelation, and that he turned from the truths of Christianity to elevate himself. The author remarks that the spiritual destiny of Islam in all countries of the known world is a rapid and inevitable decay. Neverthe less, among the idolaters of Central Africa it is making progress. It is, he remarks, peculiarly adapted to the rudest races of men, but can never be the religion of a civilised nation ; " the growth of ignorance, it perishes at the approach of science." Speaking of the Koran, he says— " When it is considered that the Koran provides for all the relations of life, that in its minuteness it pre scribes the machinery and details of the commercial and civil, as well as of the religious and criminal law,—that it limits the cycle of the arts,—that it contains for the devout Mussulman the only elements of all the sciences which he rosy lawfully cultivate ; we may wonder, not at its tendency to confine the intellectual development of its followers, but much more that during a short period some of the arts and sciences should have flourishediamong them. The explanation of this fleeting phenomenon seems to lie in the preponderance at the court of the Caliphs of the Persian element. The Bar inacides and many others of the leading men under the Abbassides were of Persian origin. Bagdad, the seat of the empire, was on the borders of Persia and naturally affected by its vicinity. And it was from Bagdad that that intellectual movement went forth, a movement bitterly condemned by many orthodox contemporaries, which endowed the Caliphate with a scientific literatty e, —Greek not native in its origin, but superior to any thing that contemporary learning could produce. But even during this exceptional period Islam was great in only one of the fine arts, architecture, and was reduced to seek to supply the want of sculpture and painting by calligraphy. The productions of this period were ad mirable, but it was of short duration, for it was contrary to the genius of Islam." On his road to Jidda the travellers met a ship crowded with dervishes, who were proceeding to Constantinople to offer their assistance to the Sul tan. The concluding portion of the following ex tract is very striking at the present time, when we remember it was written three years ago "The enthusiasm for the cause of Islam is at this moment extreme in the cities of the Hedjaz ; and more than one of the pious settlers round the House of God has sold all that he possessed to buy arms for the equip ment of volunteers in the Holy War. France, as well as England, in the interest of their Mussulinan subjects, if for no other crime, are entitled to call Russia to a severe reckoning in her unprovoked attack upon Turkey, for this revival of a fanaticism so oppoood bo rho pro gress of civilisation. However the struggle may ~err oinate, its effeots can only be injurious as regards the disposition of the Asiatic moslemiu towards their Chris tian masters : if, as is more than probable, justice and the rights of nations be avenged by the intervention of England and France in the contest, the result will be ascribed only to the ever-victorious arms of the Sultan ; should he succumb, it is a Christian power which has inflicted the blow, favourc l by the treachery of false allies. England will not have aided him, because she is powerless against the Muscovite, whose name and whose designs are too well known on the northern frontiers of Hindostao, and the blow which strikes Constantinople will be felt at Calcutta." The journey through the desert was rather a for midable undertaking, and, unfortunately, the sup ply of water was not quite sufficient. Those in tending to pass through a desert would do well to profit by Mr. Hamilton's experience. The party unwisely objected to taking extra camels, which was, ho says, " a small and a bad economy." The camel cannot carry so much in the desert, where it only drinks once in four days, as where it finds water every day; also the loss from dripping and evaporation should be allowed for, and the water should be secured in barrels, from which there is no loss or depredation. One barrel should be allowed for each person, three camels would then suffice for six persons, while the party of Mr. Hamilton were badly off with five. Though injudicious to drink much in the day, Mr. Hamilton says it should be from choice not necessity, as the fear of wanting water aggravates thirst almost as much as the reality. Death from thirst is very rapid in the desetr from the dryness of the air. A few days before the passage of the party, a merchant of Assuan impru dently quitted his caravan, and missing his way, was found the next day dead from thirst in sight of the Nile l Such catastrophes aro not surprising in an atmosphere described as follows : "To give an idea of the heat it is not enough to say that the thernaome;;er was at 110 deg. every day from 12 to 4. This is only to say that it was four or five degrees higher than we have had it every day for the last three months. The dry heat was such that it was impossible to write two words consecutively without re dipping the pen into the ink-bottle; my india-rubber bath and sponge-bags, though protected from the action of the sun, were rendered useless ; but what will give a hotter idea of the temperature as judged not by the ther mometer, but by sensation is, that when at night the thermometer fell to 84 deg. the body felt the change so intensely, that a Scotch plaid was a welcome covering on camel-back, and in the tent a woollen blanket or quilt was absolutely necessary ; in the hot hours of the day, water cooled down to 75 deg. chilled the teeth as if iced." " The statue leaves divinity behind ; The painter never paints his golden day— Or gives rare form that in conception by; The Poet's thoughts ask for intenser speech ; Music's Lye dreams on dead harps seen to play; Nor can the architect do more than preach : Art shows how we can climb, yet climbing never reach.'' Tint the author is not one of those ambitious poets who have more metaphors than ideas, is sufficiently proved by the prose part of the work, for we meet several original and striking sentiments in the pre face and notes. The author has a considerable share of poetic talent, and a little more carp in his style, and possibly a little less ambition in his sub ject, will enable him on some future occasien to produce a poem of a high order. Two maps trace the traveller's route, and point ou1; the spots described to the reader. It is not often that the traveller enters so thoroughly into the national life and character; as he himself observes, it requires a peculiar temperament to appreciate the charm which some minds find in the East. "It possesses a fatal charm, which deprives him who has once tasted it of his zest for the more com fortable but infinitely less poetical life of Europe : " This spell has been fully experienced by Mr. Hamil ton, and he contrives to invest a route , which does not include any of the great objects of general in terest, with attraction and incident. Leoniida : A Roman Romance of the Sixteenth Century. By Felix Meldred. Mitchell. Thie is a romance in verse, in the Spenserian stanza —a somewhat ambitious attempt it must be ad mitted, although the author must be allowed cre dit for more success than usually attends such efforts. He gives us in the preface a curious Re count of his beginning to write verses, and his at tempts as a poet seem to have resulted from his failures as a painter. Being in Italy, the land of inspiration, and having vainly endeavoured to clothe his ideas in colours, he thought he would try painting iu words, though without any intention of presenting a long poem to the world. Ho was nerved, he tell us, by the continual failures of others. " There is nothing under heaven which the world treats with so much silent contempt as indif ferent verse. Bad pictures are hung up and looked at, and sometimes admired ; b ad sculpture iss that looked for a garden ; but indiff eren t poetry, what i t good for ? The world will f or g ive many weaknesses and even crimes in a mau before it will forgive his silly verses." He appears, however, to have taken courage with time, and the reader has DO cause to regret his venture. He has chosen for his period the pontificate of Leo X, and the story turns on an attempted assasination of -the Pope by a baud of ambitious cardinals, which is recorded in Roscoe's Life and Times of Leo X. The plot is slight, and in some points painful, but it affords the author au opportunity for digression and description. The age, as he justly remarks, is admirable ground for a poet—its events are a Wing interest, Nth in worth one hundred thousand pounds. The latter portion of his Australian r, , cords is devoted to the politics, finances, and legislation, and afford some interesting particulars of the establishme It of the new constitution. The eagerness with which the colonists avail themselves of it is a s'riking proof o f its judicious introduction. Speaking of the demo cratic tendency in Victoria, the author says it would be a mistake to suppose it is only recently developed, though the sudden accesAon of popular strength from the masses brought by the gold dis. covery has rendered it more conspicuous, and en. enabled the colony to surmount with more than usual colonial rapidity the restraints of the imp,. rial "This exemplifies the usual fate of our colonies ir 4 time past ; which, by custom and prejudice of the parent state, have been held in bonds till they could be I.teld no longer. "There is an evil in this repressive imperial system which needlessly prolongs unsuitable political insti tutions among the colonists. If the bad effect do not come prominently before home eyes, we may attribute that circumstance to the forbearance of our colonial countrymen. They rarely now think of exhibiting die. satisfaction in any other than constitutional forms ' ;. while, on the other hand, the re mo t e i mper i al govern, ment has been proverbially apt to disregard so gent'', an aspect of colonial discontent. To illustrate lar,w needless, or rather how hurtful, has been this t; s h y a stpino.ft checking colonial development, I may remarknathtuakra:vteiets concession to colonial freedom, and every withd, l2 ,,,, ai of imperial interference with local colonial off...ire, has s been tate attended n a d r e e d s ü b L y o p i t n i ocrne,asiend short,attachment of those s t e o that bad been only weakened by the curbs and precau tions of imperial pollcy. A severance T,arty, that wan ever lifting its head in Victoria, was never effectually extinguished until the recent concession of complete self-government." The great check on the violent democratic party will be the liberty allowed in local ma'ters to the colonists, and they gave an emphatic proof of their good-will towards the home government with re spect to the emigration money—a fund destined by their parliament to be set aside for the encourage ment of emigration from the mother country, and amounting in 1854, to upwards of 865,0001. Thia surplus was, owing to some financial difficultie, employed for other purpose?, add this was censured by the representatives. Victoria and the Australian Gold Mines in 1857. By William Westgarth, E , q. Smith, Elder and Co. Though the author of this work professes to re present colonial life as it appears at present, his volume furnishes a complete outline of the rise and progress of the colony of Victoria. He tells us that this is the third time that he gives an account of it, having on two previous occasions employed the leisure of a return voyage in recollections of the land he had quitted. Having to cross the line once more he resumes his accustomed task, but finds as his subject expands his time diminishes. On the first voyage, one hundred and forty days were occupied, while by mere sail propulsion the homeward passage has recently been performed in sixty-three days. His opening chapters are de voted to a . :retrospect of aboriginal Victoria, and a comparison with its present condition. Geologists may not be acquainted with the following curious facts : " Science is slowly reading the physical history of the past in the strata of Australian geology. Here aro the analogies of other countries, the corresponding systems of rocks and strata, showing that Australia was identi fied with the great cycles of the earth's developments, although she still preserved her local distinctions. There are Australian granites, and basalts, and coal formations. The eras of huge mammalian quad rupeds of various kinds in the other continents are marked by corresponding eras in ancient Australia ; but all these animals bear, in this remote era, th 3 Aus tralian stamp by which they are now distinguished. All the quadrupeds of the Australia of to-day, it we except the doubtful claim of the dingo or native doe to be con sidered aboriginal, bear the marsupial character ; and this great modern distinction of Australian mammals is still traced in the records of the past. Cotemporary with the mastodons and dinotheria of other countries, Australia had her race of these pachydermata ; not, in deed, rivalling the first in dimensions, but bearing some what of a proportion to her smaller modern races that the mastodon did to the elephant an I other animals that represent the largest forms now existing. Kangaroos six teen feet high sported over the ancient sod, and unwieldy creatures that combined the features of the elephant, the wombat, and the kangaroo, were basking, probably, in the same bright sunshine that now enlivens A UE. tralian scenery. All these animals carried with them, either in the perfect or imperfect development, the Aus tralian feature of the marsupium. This peculiarity, which forms a link between the perfectly viviparous and the oviparous or egg-bearing animals, marks the lowest order of mammiferious races ; and it is not unin teresting to observe that the same strange country which these creatures, stamped by this relative inferiority, have so long and so uninterruptedly occupied, is found in the co-possession of the most degraded and irreclaimable specimens of the human race." The natural productions of Australia he regards as very inferior. The fish can bear eio comparison to those found in European waters awl the native fruit is very indifferent beside of those exported, and now naturalised in the country. We shall judge the adaptation of the natural productions more justly, he remarks, by the satisfaction they afford to the aborigines, " who appear to have long revelled alike on the fruits, the fish, and the flesh, wilh festive interludes of snakes, toads, and a va riety of small reptiles " It is curious to reel the difficulties and hardships of the first overland jour ney between New South Wales and Port Philip in the present altered state of things. " Where Hume and his party struggled in a strange land to cross the streares of the Murray and the Ovens, there is now the corporate town of Beeohworth, in whose vicinities twenty thousand busy hands gather the mineral wealth of the new land. The steamboat already moves at their once solitary crossing-place on the waters of the Murray ; and the charts of the country shows that railways are already marked out, in pre liminary surveys, for the future traffic. And yet but 33 years have elapsed since these travellers launched forth into the unknown wastes of the South and West. To complete the satisfaction of the picture, both of the en terprising explorers who headed the expedition are still alive, to enjoy, by a comparison they are well qualified to make, the spectacle of progress around them." The writer does not confine himself to the agricul tural districts. He takes a survey of Victoria co lonised, and his remarks and suggestions on public and social matters are well deserving of some do gree of attention. The rapid iuflux of Chinese has presented a difficulty to the colonial Government that they do not exactly know how to meet. They endeavoured to check the stream of immigrants acme years ago by putting a sort of t ix on them on their arrival, ostensibly for the benefit of the Chi nese themselves. This has since been altered, but their number is still very large, Mr. Westgirth reckoning them as one-thirteenth of the inhabitants. He does not appear quite satisfied with their num bers himself. He asks— " Are these masses of Chinamen to be privileged like other colonists, or are they to remain amongst us an inferior race—inferior alike in their collecti to consti tution and in their political negations I Either alter native has a dark aspect. Somewhat of an American difficulty looms upon our future ; for although a China man has more intelligence than a Negro, his people are perhaps more obstinately anti-European. Like an in digestible mass in the system of the c boy, they will turn up to-morrow, and an age hence, just as they appear to-day. " The distinguishing feature of a free and enlightened society is the condition of its operative masses, whose vigour of body and originality of mind are ever rising into the superior grades to. maintain the onward pro gress. This social aspect, which so well characterises our good Old England, the Northern States of America, and, more than any other, a thoroughly British colony, is materially altered by the large infusion of the Chinese. We cannot exactly predict what aspect time will give to the question ; but, whatever form it may here after take, I regard our Chinese visitation as threat ening our moral and intellectual greatness, and the darkest spot that has yet come upon the colonial horizon." His view of the future of the colony is sanguine and satisfactory. He sees and admits the draw backs and disadvantages that may retard its pro gress, but its onward tendency he does not ques tion, and the free and broad principles of equity and toleration that are general in such a mixed nationality are in every way encouraging. He speaks at some length on the colonies as a field for emigration, and laments, as so many have done, the large number of emigrants who are quite un fitted for the place. The numbers "who can turn to anything," the respectable married couples with no particular vocation, the young men well educ_atee. but with no profession, seem entirely o ut of plae an THE AMERICAN A good book-keeper, an experienced tradesm MAIM—LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY. Oliver Eldridge, sailed from the Mersey this forenoon _;The United States mail steamship Atlantic, Captain ing the stream of progress, and the s accurate accountant, are never long withoeuti:easyzebr-e• said of the female emigrants, 1 disappointed. for Ne w York, with the United States mails, a full definite employment are genera y of emigrants, it is . . complement of passengers, and a large cargo of mei , chand" As these constitute a large class Ise on freight. should be more generally , important that this fact buit thaese with no THE BRAZILS.—SOIITHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY.- - In . telligence reached here to-day by electrio telegraph to poser of the mechanical 1 . - app the effect that the European and American Company's struck with the v g the gold. Powerful ma- screw stearneihip Hydasp known. With respect to the mines, the author is antes for procuri es, with passengers cargo, and is evidently the want here. a few days' later advices from the Brazils:left Lisbon °hickory, he say!, Nothing struck him so much in a view of the Vic- last evening at five o'clock for Southampton. She may the f t for the conveyance torian gold-fields as great expending o human and the small results. In this age of iron, has been chartered by governmen strength ediately on her return. be expected here on Saturday next. The Hydaspes it is indeed surprising that no machines of a more of troops to India lam powerful character have been exported, especially being taken to establish re learn that active step,s are for the quartz-crushing. He gives us a picture of vessels between. Liverpoo land the Victorian " diggings," having been one of the Royal Commission to enquire into the condition of l of steam WEEKLY ATLANTIC STEAM LIWe are glad to weekly Quehee i f n or e which a giant of 50,000 1 . was voted by the Legislature drusiog the late session . The pro.. the gold-fields, which recommended a' complete prietors of the Montreal Ocean h ine, whose vessels are Canadia ' n four tionCa2tadiare change in their administration. He had thus, of rapidly becoming contracted wire change most P b O a f. r e fon, forevenew steam s course, a full opportunity for a thorough acquaint- Messrs. auce with them. The account he gives of the hotel of first-classlen j p i o w f e 'l 2 ' 2 d accommoda charges at the gold-fields is amusing, and it must News' DAMS Tosser:DS EXIIIBITION.—AnOther highly certainly have been a matter of congratulation to interesting object has just been added to the Largo the travellers that they went at the expense of collection of historical models. It represents a per. Government when their host reckoned 16s. each t ra it model of Miss Madeleine Smith. This figu re 1$ for dinner without wine. The great apparatus for and thee considered an excellent likeness of the young lady, and was the represents an interesting young female in fashionable producing gold at the time of their visit puddling machine, which requires a large supply of modern attire, the execution being admirable j bo water, and those who owned these appliance we . re appearance most life-like, and it will o , u la s ooubt, looking out anxiously for a long an object of interest to the nuTer visitors Wll6 which, in the circumstances, way reckoned ain al honour the Messrs. Tussaud with their patronege. '• The Council condemned the proo3dure of the Execu tive in laying hands on the accumulation of the emi gration money, whose tempting accessibility, it is to be feared, had furnished the chief stimulus to the extrava gance that swallowed it. A motion was passed ordering the repayment of the whole sum, and that in future the appropriated moiety be remitted to the Emigration Commissioners, in accordance with the provision by act of Parliament. "The carrying out of this self-denying ordinance might have afforded a rare trial to the colony's fidelity to engagements. Towards the end of the same year, however, came the proclamation of the New Constitu. tion, which transferred all colonial affairs and revenue s to the control of the local legislature, and we have heard no more of the emigration fund balance. But the case, so far as it goes, forms a pleasant illustratioa of those views of colonial policy that I have already touched upon ; for we here find that it was the imperial administration in the colony that contravened the im perial interests, and that these interests were taken up and defended, not as might be naturally supposed by the imperial party in opposition to the people, but by the popular opposition itself, in some of its last con tendings with the expiring imperial system in Victoria." The author having beau a member of the Victoria Legislature, is well qualified to give his opinion on these local political questions, and his penetration and observation enable him to estimate clearly the position of the colony, and to trace its probable progress. This work is characterised by an air of quiet, good sense, with which prejudice or personal feeling does not appear to mingle. A resident for many years and a participator in the legislation of the colony, he is yet an Englishman by feeling, as well as by birth, and can look on the tumul tuous progress of a new state with the expe rience of an old one. He gives us some chapters on Ceylon Aden, and Egypt, which places he vi sited on his return home, and he has prefixed to his substantial volume somo useful maps of the colony. A July Holiday in Saxony, Bohemia, and Silesia. By Walter White, author of "A Londoner's Walk to the Land's End," 6,1 c. Chapman and Hall. Among the numerous works of travel that issue from the press, Mr. White's are always remarkable for their good sense, quick observation, and plea sant style. As the readers of his former works are aware, he does not adopt the express mode of tra velling for which English tourists are proverbial ; he prefers to wander about the quiet bye-ways of a country, to mix freely with its inhabitants, and see something of their domestic system, as well as to form a personal acquaintance with its chief natural features. This mode of travelling makes more de mands on the traveller's energy than on his purse ; and those who are accustomed to a more indolent and extravagant method will learn with surprise that after a month's wandering over the three countries, the author reckoned up the sum of his journeys and outlays, and discovered that he had hw wl o k e e a d lrvei l t ual h pen r c e toue e ts tHo h b u mae l e d dah r su e t tr d oognc a stf n ir: a d euvdr et fi le ti f eih t nn y m that pounds.cthilli charges r s g , e s ad passage unTe Those orex pended,testo London, with etceteras, amounted to three pounds more. The author is well acquainted with German history, and knows the special points of interest, historical or legendary, of all the spots be visited; he therefore adds much to the interest of his narra tive by recalling them to the reader's memory. His little sketches of the country people themselves give a favourable impression of the national cha racter. The vexatious passport system is sure to be felt by a wandering traveller, who does not make a long stay in any place ; but nowhere did our au thor find its numerous annoyances more oppressive than in Bohemia. The inhabitants are not allowed to go more than twelve miles from home without a pa sport, which is frequently refused. Passports for France and England were peremptorily rex fused to Hungarians of every degree during 1855, and in 1856, when the ri g our was a little re laxed, leave was only granted for three months. Should auy one be known to have visited Kossuth, whatever his professed opinions, he would be im prisoned on his return. An amusing mistake oce. curred at an inn where the traveller was passing a night. It is the custom for the landlord to examine the passport, and enter the guest's name in a book kept for the purpose, as the inspector frequently comes in the night to examine it. On examining his passport the host add his son were ho p elessl y bewildered, and invoked the aid of a soldier who knew a little English. This sage puzzled out the first line, and informed them that the traveller was " Vilheim Fredrich Clarendon, Baron," and as such, in spite of his remonstrauces, he was eutercd. in the book, and treated with the greatest deference by the household, who believed him to be travel ling incognito in the German fashion. Another amusing mistake respecting an English minister was nearer home. It appears that great excite ment prevailed in Germany respecting the trial of the poisoner Palmer. Even in little towns the author saw the Process for sale, and eager discus sions in public places were common. When his execution took place the news was telegraphed in a brief despatch, ' Palmer is hanged." The clerk, by some extraordinary mistake, thought it was Palmerston, and great was the amazement o e Pal quiet Germans when the n ews was issued—'ebadl, me rston gehangot." In his acco unt of C arl re specting the springs. Those wh t o he h i y sa b lt y atlined. arvextent. 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