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The Washington correspor Courier and Inquirer is of find transport by sea unattainable, nothing is more probable than that he will endeavour to turn his Teyan levies upoh Mexico, not only in the hope of conquest, but In order to revenge himself for hie' shameful defeat in Lower California. The Mayor of New York had issued a proclama• tiox in which be says : "We hav e over 200,000 persons i n thi s city w h o , either directly or indirectly, depend for subsistence upon manual labour. If the present want of employment and continueforce severe r mans a must thsetrortmp ha than e r. l e y uvba u mi p li o et n dt o e d i e t ui h rt e hi r ielrg p o u t :: e i public these 2 or s t p ipl ri r v ae a nc t a : charity, an d I f ear that not a few will resort to violence nous and humili at i ng dependencies. 26th. PIJRSUANT to a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, made iu a cause JAMES BRAIDWOOD and another against DANIEL BLYTII HADDoN and others, the Cre ditors of JOHN H kDDON, late of Castle-street, and Tabernacle- Walk, in the County of Middlesex, printer, and of Hawley place, Camden-town, Middlesex, deceased, the testator in the plead ings named,:who died in or about the month of February. 1855, are, by their Solicitors, on or before the sixteenth day of November, 1857, to come in and prove their debts at the Chambers of the Vice- Chancellot Sir John Stuart, at No. 12, Old-square, Lincoln's-inn, Middlesex, or in default thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the said Decree. Monday, the 23d day of November 1857, at twelve o'clock at noon, at the said Chambers, is appointed for hearing and adjudicating upon the Claims. Dated this 28th day of July, 1857. ALFRED HALL, Chief Clerk. WALTERS and SON, Plaintiff's solicitors, 36, Easing. hall-street, London. N: ) . 20,310.) whose mothers have all taken the first step in pros ! titution. And this number, it is supposed, scarcely amounts to one-third of the actual cases where wrong is done, yet no evidence transpires. If we remember that in no case does any legal penalty attach to the betrayer for the wrong he has done to the woman, whilst the cordon of prudery is drawn so tight aronnd her that she has little chance of escap e from the wide-opened portals of the way that leads to destruction, it can hardly be wondered that the i -lanks of prostitution are densely filled. And now th e h u Llow hypocrisy of the present system begins to show Ault. The woman who has cast virtue behind her, who has said, in the bitterness of her heart, " Evil,. be thou my good,'' i accorded a licence granted to none others of her sex. She may come and go as she will ; no law restrains her —no thought of " what the world will say." The best streets are given up to her, and arranged so as to suit her hours (we ref er t') police management, gas-lighting, cab-stands, &c.) She may thrust virtue into the mud without rebuke, may leer at the passers-sy, accost them with her solicitations, and insult them if they shrink from crntact with her. In her haunt she reigns omnipotent ; for the fortunes of many tradesmen are built up by the wages of prostitution. Taverns, cafes, restaurants, &c., where she resorts, are allowed to remain open all night for her convenience. And, lest her allurements should fail for want of gaudy trappings, there are booths in Vanity Fair (whose owners pride themselves on moral characters of the choicest kind), kept by traders called " tally-two," who supply her with clothes on terms especially adapted to her precarious trade, charging exorbitant prices to cover all risks, and being paid by instalments. How thew are gained is a mattes of indifference to men who would scarcely have hesitated to pocket the thirty pieces that Judas cast from him. It is in grateful acknow ledgment of these provisions for their comfort that loose women flock to London from all parts of Europe. Turning from the prostitute to her companion we see how the evil that she does gradually makes itself felt. There is many a slang word used in the boudoir which, though uttered by lips that know no guile, is only a left-off epithet of the harlot, car ried home by her paramour, and taught to his sis ters. For one miserable result of unrestrainedly permitting these women and their companions to assemble in public places and exchange the kind of banter in which they indulge, is the production of a race of wretched boys, half-fledged in manhood, who take pride in a knowledge of what is vile, who think they are clever when they are only blas phemous, and witty when they are only obscene. The one fool who especially makes many, is the vicious fool. Thus clerks, students, youths with homes rendered sad by their evil conduct, men who take the Queen's money and disgrace her service, with many others of like sort, are attracted by com panions or entrapped by harlots, to join the Satur nalia allowed to continue throughout the night in certain of the streets of London. The first visit is seldom the last ; for the vice of sensuality is to the degraded mini as attractive) as the vice cf gambling. There is work to be done, perchance in the morning ; but the shaking hand,l the heavy eyes, the aching head, are unfit to do it. Perhaps there is a path in life to be won ; but he who walks in sin is little likely to hap upon it. And if the poor deluded fool follows out the evil course that our present social system renders it difficult for him to altogether escape, his physical degradation too fre quently keeps pace with his mental depravity. His settlement in life is but that of a foul sediment. Vitiated himself, and " 'sox daturus progeniem vitiosiorem," his constitution too often points to 12 on the dial of life which his years are at six. These, then, are the pet, prodigal children of society ; these are the bright resuhs of non-inter ference with the vice of prostitution ; these are the human bein g s tempted or driven into vice, and for whom society has so carefully chosen and ploughed ' the ground that they may " sow their wild oats" unchecked. li in othemnrs: sfre o oti f nii i d na o i lt l e a l sr,s, the t w sol goboretyha deducted. o s f Bilkthere ndsh shirt-linings in an itt a g r sst e oa f cea bss ii ma 4,000,000 of male coats, all the cravats and w coats of silk that the American men from 3 .. r eaine to California contrive in a twelvemonth, to consume, remembering when we make the sum that the " black satin waistcoat" may almost be considered as a "national costume" in certain portions of out beloved country, all the mystical ribbons and aprons et all the orders and lodges which swarm iu tfie land, all the flags and banners in which we Americans so extravagantly delight, together with such silken vanities in the way of cushions and cur tains, dec., as are common to both sexes. Allow ing less than 2,250,000 dols for all these things, we have a total of 23,000,000 dole spent by our women in silks. Is this extravagant ? At an ave rage of two dollars per yard in price the qua n tity o f silk thus represented would be 11,500,000 yards, equal,—as a reasonable young lady assured us, to 1,000,000 of silk dresses made very moderately. Now, there were in the United States in 1850 just 3,363,427 houses occupied by free persons. Of these houses it is a low estimate to assume that 1,500,000 were tenanted by families whose incomes averaged 1,000 dole per annum. We have, there fore, the proof before us that, out of 1,500,000 households whose resources would certainly justify the expense, only two-thirds can possibly have in dulged thenuelves in the purchase of a single silk dress during the years 1858-7. Again, our importation of gloves in the same time amoutated to 1,344,550 dols. This comprises the value of gloves of all kinds and sizes, and if we limit the men and children to the 344,550 dole, it gives us just a single million of dollars spent upon the defence and ornament of the 8,00a,000 of white hands upon which 6,000,000 of adult male lips kept constantly swearing fealty for 12 long months. Thread laces are certainly in modern times a purely female gaud, though the legend still survives in this city of a gentleman whose nuptial garments were made beauteous with borders of point ; and threw', laces are costly. Yet in 1856-7 our account for this triviality rose only to 410,591 dols, against a purely masculine expenditure of 576,435 dole for fancy fo reign fire-arm I Much was said last year of the fe male expenditure in furs, but the remorsole;:s tables of the Treasury set off against 605,607 dole of gar ment furs 1,755,704 dols imported by masculine hat ters. The emhroideries of the year constitute a serious item, rising to 4,604,353 dols, but it is per hap as well that no observations thereupon should be indulged by us, who spent at the same time 4,754,582 dols in cigars and foreign smoking tobac co, and who must bear pretty largely the responsi bility of disbursing over 7,500,000 dols for foreign wines and spirits. Our space forbids us from pushing these compa risons so far as they might with advantage be car ried. It would be unprofitable, for example, to dwell upon the fact that the total amount of our expenditure for foreign luxuries of all kinds during the year 1855-6 does not reach the sum of 50,000,000 dols., while our national income from the rated property of the country, if calculated at 6 per cent., rose during the same period to 422,295, 750 dollars. But the figures which we have given may at least suffice to satisfy the most captious and the most querulous of the eons of Adam that when he rails upon the women as the cause of his troubles, he is only "darkening counsel by words without knowledge," and contributing a new ele ment of stupidity and misconception to that confu sion of ideas which is the most dangerous as well as the most humiliating feature of our present national crisis. PUBLIOATIONS. THE sn;',VENAGE MURDER. Imnios will, on arriv a l i n I ndia, be stationed;:s f b ollor Capt. D es b orough ' s, sth company Ist ;t ai : nand Capt. W r i ght ' s 6th company 9th bat n, c .alion, at Madras, udder the command of Lieut.-. 1 1 Col. P. P. Faddy ; Capt. Bayly's 2d company 11th battalion, Major Grant's 7th company llth battalion, tud Major Singleton's Ist company sth battalion at Kurrachea, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Price. The total Artillery force for India, including the ' troops of Royal Horse Artillery, the foot Artil lery, the field batteries, and siege trains now ou passage or about to embark, with those companies already arrived and on active service, is ss fol lows :—Now on active service in India—Captain Longdon's sth company, 13th battalion ; Captain Nliddleton's Gth company, 13th battalion ; Captain Knox's sth company, 9th battalion ; Captain Freeth's 3d company, 14th batt a li on ; C apta i n Bolton's 3d company, 4th battalion ; Capt. Hardy's Ith company, sth battalion ; and Captain Traver's 3d company, Bth battalion. Embarked in August f as t—The E and F troops of Royal Horse Artillery ; the X field battery and the six companies coin manded by Captains Godby, Paget, Smith Palmer Ommanney, and Gordon.. Emb ar k e d in Sep'Lember —The Et troop of Royal Horse Artillery ; and the C. T. and 0 field batteries. Embarked in October— The D Troop Royal Horse Artillery, and Captain Dyneley's Company Foot Artillery. By overland route—The companies commandeil by Captains Thring a n d C a l ver t . O r d e red-live comp an i es . Total effectiv e force to be stationed..- at Bengal, Bombay, - Alai;rae, and Kurrachee, 4 troops Royal Horse Art;:iiery, and 25 companies of the field batteries anr, Foot Artilleary. This fo rce comprises upwards, o f 5 ,000 men, exclusive of offi oars and non-corr amissioncd officers. Five hundr e d and forty boxes of cartridges, packed in boxes covered with tarred canvas, were yesterday forwarded from the Royal Arsenal to, St athampton, for conveyance to India by the over land route. Now realy the Libraries, ha 3 y ofs: COURT SEORET 5 . By Mrs. THOMSON. " Mrs. Thomson is known as the author of some excellent novels, but we can remember none of them that we like better than this." — Examiner. " Mrs. Thomson is one of the best of our lady authors, and this admirable tale is, in our opinion, the bestof her productions."—U. b Mag. FOR GENTLEMEN.—GEO. HOBSON begs to call the attention of the public to his NEW STOCK in AUTUMNAL GOODS, consisting of West of England Bearer and Venetian Cloths, Scotch and Heather Twist, Mixed Doeskins, Cashmere and Toilanette Waistcoating., both of English and Conti nental manufacture, which will be found on inspection at price ,, most moderate fir Best Goods.—GEORGE HOBSON, 57. Lombard-street. Hurst and Blackett, Publishers, successors to Henry Colburn. NEW WORK BY THE HON. GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY. Just putnished, in I vol. post Bvo, with 2 Etchings by John Leech ( I coloured), price Bs. 6d. cloth, announced that the Governor of Georgia' wol'Ad withhold any action a ,, ainst the suspended. banks until the meeting of the Legislature. Advices from Nicaragua state that all Americans suspected of sympathising with Walker had been expelled the country, and great preparations were being made by President Martinez to resist a Fill busterinc, invasion. A MONTH in the FORESTS of FRANCE. By the 11011. GRANTLEY F. BERKELEY. "VIETER HALL. —INDIA. Rev. Mr. IL/ BELLEW. THURSDAY, NOVE ftER 12.--)Ir MIT CHELL begs to announce that the Rev. J. M. I'ELLEW has con sented to Repeat the LECTURE upon INDIA.—Past, Present, and Future, on Thursday Evoking. November 12, the proceeds of which will bo handed over to the Indian Relief Fund. Admission to the whole of the West Gallery, the Orchestra, and Under the Gallery, ONE SHILLING ; a few Reserved and Numbered Seats near the Platform, Five Shillings; Reserved Seats (not numbered), Three Shillings. Tickets may bo obtained at the Office, No. 6, in Eseter Mall; Mr. Carter's, Carlton Library, 12, Regent-street; Fentum's Must* Warehouse, 78. Strand; Keith, Prowse, and Co.'s Music Warehouse, 48, Cheapside ; and at Mr. Mitchell's, Royal Library, 33, Old Hond.street. By the same Author, in Bye, price 14s. cloth, REMINISCENCES of a HUNTSMAN. With 4 Etchings by JouN LEECH. London : Longman, Brown, and Co., Paternoster-row. Just published, in post Bvo, price !Os. Gd. cloth, AHUNDRED YEARS AGO : An Historical Sketch, 1755 to 175 G. By JAMES Hui'Torr. The New York Courier and Enquirer of the 26th remarks that, notwithstanding the daily reports, that " financial and commerc i a l a ff a i rs were getting easier," and that " a more cheerful feeling was mani fested," commercial affairs had made but little pro gress in the direction of sound and permament im provement. "The b ext weekly statement," it says-- " Will show whether the banks have had the resolu tion to carry out their asserted intention of increaSing loans and of nx.tep4.is,l, - h4"epj,roelation of state cur renoy. 'Wei !thew already - hat the latter has been partly frus trated, in o nsequenco.of the adoption of the ptan to pay daily balances in currency, and that we have already nearly three millions of state currency in the vaults of the Metropolitan Bank." It does not believe that it would be advisable tc resume specie payments at present, with such an unsettled financial condition, both at home and. abroad. It thinks, however, that if the banks, by a liberal course, and by a total abandonment of their present selfish policy, could get the co-opera tion of the community, specie payment could safely be resumed. The Courier and Inquirier gives some tabular returns showing that the holders of State bonds have ample security, apart from State ci edit and honour. The total debts amounted to 238,902,542 dols., while the taxable property ia 1840 was 6,580,0,00,000 dols. The amount, of bullion in the coffers of the Bos ton banks when they suspended was 2,461,000 dols.; on the 24th it had reachetl 2,888,100 dolt. The .New York Times of the 26th says :-- "The money-market was easier at the close of last week to moderate dealers at bank. The country circulation is ad'aing to the discount ability of the city, and although the, heavy mercantile firms already in embarrassments are not relieved by it, the case is different with trade generally. The stock-market is depressed by the foreign accounts—the news of dearer money in England and the possibiity of embarrassment to some of the American houses being actively employed by the spectators against a rise. There were several heavy failures rumoured oa Saturday, but none so far verified as to authorize the use of names. The domestic exchanges with Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Richmond were worse. Tho European exchanges from 1 to 2 per cent, higher for select bills. The pick of bills on London sold at 105 per cent. The range, however, csatinues wide, and sales were made at 101 to 103 k to 105 at 60 days, and 106 to 106 i for bills 20 to 30 days to run. The feeling was less troubled on Saturday in regard to the return of bills drawn in September and early in this month on Liverpool and London. The agents in this city of the two or three Scotch banks and the correspondents of the London joint stook banks have drawn little or nothing which was not under acceptance at the latest date. These banks are of undoubted strength. The standard bank ing firms who draw on Peabody Browns, Dennistoun, Fielders, and others, are under no apprehension as to their friends on the other side, nor ought the public to be, in view of their known strength. The weekly import of dry goods has fallen quite low, while the export list of domestic produce and articles of foreign growth re turned fora better market than they find here is on the increase. The rainy weather on Saturday was against a. vigorous business in the general produce markets. " The falling off in the freight and passenger business among the various railroad and steamboat lines running out of this city presents in a striking light the extent to which the whole business of the country has been af fected by the revulsion. ?,There is scarcely one that has not lost from one-third to two-thirds of its business dur ing the three weeks of October. CONTENTS —Historical Sketch, 1755.56; Miscellaneous Events; Men of the Day, and what they were doing a Hundred Years Ago ; the Dark Side of Society ; the Frivolous Classes and their Frivo lities ; Amusements and Pastimes ; Glimpses of Society. London : Longman, Brown, and Co., Paternoster-row. CHRISTY'S MINSTRELS, POLYGRAPHIC MALL. King-William-street, Strand, every Evening the JULLIEIf BURLESQUE, received nightly with shouts of laughter. Doors open at half-past 7, commence at E. Stalls, 3s. ; area, 2s. ; amphitheatre. Is.; Private Boxes, 11. Is. Seats cau be secured at Mr. Mitchell's, 33, Old Boad-street, and at tke Hall. On Saturday, & Morning Eatertainatent, commencing at 3. NEW WORK BY THE AUTHOR OF " BARCHESTER TOWERS." Just ready, in Three Y&s., post Byo, T HE THREE CLERKS. By ANTHONY TROLLOPE, Author of " Barchester Towers." London : Richard Bentley, "few Burlington-street. A DELAIDE GALLERY, Adelaide-street, West Strand.—Licensed pursuant to Act of Parliament.— °R&M) CASINO.—The above snacious rooms, elegantly decorated With extensive alterations and improvements, opened for the Winter season on SATURDAY, "ith the original Argyll Band, conducted by Mons. LAMOTTE, of Paris. Principal cornet-a-piston, BouLcoulT. Leader, Mr. Cass. HALL. AdmissiOn, One Shilling. Doers open at half-past Eight. The above Band :d at the service of the mobility and gentry for Private Balls, &e., &e.—Apply by Letter to R. R. Itignell, Argyll- Rooms, Great Windmill-street. LORD MAYOR'S DAY.—The " City Press" of Tuesday next (extra number), will contain special Re ports of the Procession and Banquet—Biographies of Lord Mayors Carden and Finnis—Historical Notes and Anecdotes of Ancient City Pageants. Order the `• City Press," Weekly, Id., of every News vender, all Rail Stations, or at the Office, 1, Long-lane, E.C. Try OLD JONATHAN'S BOOK FOR BOYS, 2s. N•w ready, price One Shilling and Sixpence, FEIST'S RACING RECORD. Edited by ALB ER r FEIST, Editor of the Turf Department of the " Sunday Times," and Re porter of Sporting Intelligence to the London Daily Papers. THE MILITIA. The Worcestershire Regiment of Militia is ordered to muster at Worcester on Thursday next. It is expected that the regiment will be ordered to un dertake garrison duty. The 2d Lanark Militia will proceed frem Dublin (on arrival) to Kilkenny. The South Down, from Dublin to Aldershott. The South Devon, from Plymouth to Dublila, thence to Waterford. The City of Dublin, from Dublin to Liverpool, for Newcastle-on-Tyne. The Tower Hamlets, from Liverpool to Dublin, for Newry. The Limerick County, from Buttevant for Aldershott, via Liver pool. The Shropshire, from Liverpool to Dublin. The Antrim Rifles, from the Curragh, via Dublin, to Liverpool, for Dover. A Cork paper of Friday says :—" Yesterday 21 privates of the South Cork Militia were conveyed here in cars from Fermoy under a strong police escort and lodged in the county gaol, for having enlisted into the North Cork militia and obtained the bounty. The men, who were brought before Mr. Neal Brown; R.M., admitted that they had been in the South Cork, but that the reason they enlisted in the other corps was that theirs had not been called out for service, and that having heard the North Cork were destined for foreign ser vice they were anxious to serve their Queen and country rather than remain at home idle. They were committed to gaol for periods of six weeks or two months each. Certainly at a time when so much is said about the necessity of procuring re cruits this seems rather a harsh way of dealing with these men." PROVIDENT CLERKS' MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE ASSOClATlON.—Established 1840. TarrsTias. Thomas Bating, Esq.. M.P. I Wm. Geo. Prescott, Esq. Thomson liankey, Esq., I Baron L.N de Rothschild,M.P. Taisisuasa or THE BENEVOLENT FUND. —John Abel Smith, Esq., - • The AL.nthly parts may be obtained separately, price two-pence each. The next part will be published on the Ist of December. Ad. vertisements cannot be received later than the 24th of November. " The Racing Record " contains a complete Calendar of sport In England, Ire:and, and Scotland (fully indexed), from the Ist el January up to the time or puolication. M.P. Accumulated fund ..... £95,000 Annual income This Associatiog offers every advantage to all classes desirous of assuring. Benevolent Fund Is attached exclusively for clerks. WM. THOS. LINFORD, Secretary. 15, Moorgate-street, Nov. 1, 1857. W. Wright, sporting printer and publisher, Fulwood's Rents, Rol born, London. A New Edition, the Fourth.—Just Published, price 55., by pos, free, ss. 4d. E CONOMIC LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY 6, New Bridge-street, London. Chairman—HENßY FREDERICK STEPHENSON, Esq. Deputy-Chairman—ROßEßT, BIDDELPH, Esq, ADVANTAGES— Mutual itsarance. The lowest rates of Premium on the Mutual System. The whole of the Profits divided every Fifth Year. An accumulated Capital of .. • • .. 21,575,000 During its existence the society has paid in Claims.. 1,455,000 Reversionary Bonuses have been added to Policies to the extent of .. •• •• •• 890,000 The last bonus, declared, in 1854, averaged 671. per cent. on the Premiums paid, and amounted to • • 397,000 Policies in force .. .• 7,437 The Annual Income exceeds .. 240,000 The next Division of Profits will be made in 1859. Assurances effected prior to 31st December,lBs9, will participate 'n the Division of 1863. Prospectuses and full particulars may be obtained on application to ALEXANDER MACDONALD, Secretary. ON TRUE F A.E: 4 ESI 3 ERMATORREICE A win a View to the Correction of wide-spread Errors in re lation to iti Nature, Treatment and Cure. Translated from the German of Dr. PICICFORD. To wh'cls is added, AN ESSAY ON SEXUAL DEBILITIES. By the Editor. " Dr. Ptelford is known to English readers by his frequent pract eai contributions to German medical literature. This is the er time, he informs us, that he has addressed himself to the non-med, sal reader. We trust this may not be the last, if he shall detest an) other equally flagrant evil which it may be in his power to cor rect."—London Medical Gazette. " The tribe of Quiet Sympathisers, ind Medical Friends,' are mcrcilessly exposed; and if this boo) :mild find its way into the hands of those who stiffer from the com plaint of which it treats, we are satisfied that many hundreds won't' be saved much needless suffering of body and mind, and what is o' less importance, though it is that which the quacks most prize— /inch money ......This volume is well qualified to put an end to th' empirical system of treating Spermatorrhesa, and to place the treat. ment upon a more rational and physiological basis. It is, therefore , ikely to do much good."—Medical Circular. London: H. fialdere, 519, Regent-street. OFFICERS PROCEEDING TO INDIA, also CIVILIAN'S, can effect ASSURANCES on their LIVES with the COLONIAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY on the 0117 AL TERNS, the Directors having RESOLVED NOT TO INCREASE Turn RATES at this time. Premiums can be paid to the Company's Agents at Calcutta, Ma dras, or Bombay, or at any other of their Agencies in the East.4ll BANK OF DEPOSIT, 3, Pall-mall East. Established A.D. 1844. NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVEN, That frost this day until further notice the INTanrer payable on deposit accounts will lee increased to £6 PER CENT. per annum. Parties desirous of investing Money are requested to examine the Plan of the Back of Deposit. Forms for opening accounts and every information post free on application. PETER MORRISON, Managing Director. Oct. 10, 1857. The Lireetors also advance Loans on good security for tempor — y periods. The Colonial have Agencies in every British Celony, where Pre miums are received and claims sealed. WILL. TAO. TRO 1.150 N, Actuary. SAMUEL R. FERCILTSSoN, Resident Secretary in London. NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENCE. DREADFUL QUARRY ACCIDEN2'.-LOSS OF SIX LIFES. 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James Porter , Athol-street, Perth.. t Important Caution against the fearful dangers of spurious indite , tations: — cellor Sir William Page Wood granted an 1 The Vice• Chan h 1854, against Alfred Hoo 'guile the lOth Marc , per Neville, for tion on A bic F od " Barry's Revalenta ra a o . Imitating "Du for all climates, and with full instructions, In Suitably packed 215 4s 6d; 51b Ils , 1211 s 225. The 1211fcar. lib 2s 9d ; Post-office order. Barry Du Barry' and canisters, receipt of, nags free, on t London; .1. ortnitm, Mason, and Co.. pur veyors Co.. 77, Regent-street, , 162, Piccadilly; also at Si), Gracechurch her Majesty, . 4, Cheapside ; 149, Bishopsgate to d 451, Strand , ~ 330, 430, an street ; i: Oxford-street. street, and 1 5 0, aa.? 15, The Moniteur contains the official tariff for telegraphic despatches from France to Algeria by the Mediterranean submarine line. The charge for 15 words to Boca is 151.; Philippeville, 161.500.; Constantica, 181.; Algiero, 19f,_50c. ; and Oran, 22f, 600, Since the I discovery of tip mutilated remains of a policeman in a pool of water near the village of ,e Stevenage, Hertfordshire (as a,uno"inced in a pare -raph in The Sun of Thursday last), 6 perpe tratorunfortu- o. - f the murder. The name of the circumstances nate policCta an w merly in the ..° Earl of Verulam, at, as John Starkins ; he we: for' rnploy of the St. Alban s, and lan. force a few m07 411 .s ago. He had, however, only joined the county coustabu displayed so much activ: l tY loon f occasions where in and intelligence that h . e was frequently employed 1. ordinary cases the services 0.. d Numerous members of the force are engag'e • more experience lace in the petty depredations have recently take P (lance neighbourhood of Stevenage, and in c onseq. the police have received strict order s to search the baskets or wallets of the farm labou rers returning from their work. On the afternoon of Friday, the 30th ultimo, Starkins was directed by his inspector to look after the men returning from their work on the Hertford side of Stevenage, and he was particu larly ordered to watch the proceedings of a man named Carpenter, who was suspected of stealing his employer's corn, and who had been frequently herd to say that no one policeman should ever search him. The constable was also directed to return to the police station and report himself at 6 o'clock. At half-past 5 o'clock he was seen in a lane leading from the high road to Norton-green Farm, in the occupation of Mr. Horn, about 150 yards from thn spot where his body was subsequeutly discovned. Nothing more was seen or heard of until the following Monday, when in consequence of a strict search having been ordered to be made for him, a police-constable named Isgate entered a field called the " Baehes," and in a pool of water at the lower end he observed the foot and hand of a man above the water. He immediately obtained assistance, and on recovering the body it proved to be that of the unfortunate man of whom he was in search. It presented a 4hocking spectacle, the throat being cut and the head nearly severed from the body. There were also several wounds on the back of the head and shoulders, which appear to have been inflicted by a knife or dagger. The ground near the pond bore traces of a desperate struggle. The grass for some distance was trampled and torn up, and in the field lay a pair of handcuffs, as though the struggle had occurred while the constable was attempting to make a capture. The man who has been appre hended, and upon whom suspicion rests as the perpetrator of the murder, is the labourer men tioned above—Jeremiah Carpenter, an athletic young man, who for some time had been employed )n the Norton-green farm, and who lived in one of four cottages at the south end of Stevenage, about 300 yards out of the town, and about A mile from the farm. The grounds of suspi cion against him are as follow ;—On Friday, the day of the murder, he was not employed at the farm, but in a field at some distance from it. He left work about half-past 5 o'clock in the evening, and his nearest way home was across the secluded field in which the murder took place. He did not, however, reach his cottage until 10 minutes past 6 o'clock, having taken 40 minutes in going a distance which he usually walked- in 2G. A man named Shepherd, who works on the same farm, and lives in the cottage adjoining to that occupied by Carpenter, was detained on the farm for a quarter ~f an hour after Carpenter left, but reached home first, and shortly afterwards saw Carpenter come from the direction of the railway over a fence into his own garden, whence he entered his cottage by the back door. Shephered noticed that the smock frock which Carpenter wore was twisted round his shoulders, and soon afterwards he reappeared from the cottage dressed in his Sunday clothes, and went into Shepherd's house, where he stated that he had been attempting to split the trunk of a tree and had hurt his leg. Shepherd examined the leg, which was much swollen, and advised Carpenter to see a doctor. As soon as the above facts reached the ears of the police Carpenter was taken into custody. At the time of his apprehension he wore the clothes which he had on on the slay of the murder, and on examination it was discovered that his smockfrock, boots, and pocket-knife, bore marks of blood. He, however, stoutly denies his guilt, and accounts for his unusual delay in reach ing home on the night of the murder by stating that he took a circuitous route, At the spot where the struggle evidently took place in the "Bathes" a quantity of corn was found lying upon the ground. - It has b e en e xa m i ne d by M r . H orn , the respectprisoner's similar employer,to somewll who s h t i a c t h e shthat beenit is in every abstracted from his p rem i ses . A post mortem examination of the body has b een ma d e , an d the medical evidence goes to show that the unfortunate mati strangled, probably by th e mur d erer grasping him was by his neckerchief, and that his throat was cut while he lay in a state of unconscousness upon the ground. Carpenter has been examined before Mr. Prime at Hitchin, and stands remanded. The adjourned inquest upon the body will take place at Stevenage this day (Monday.) PROSTITUTION-THE NEED FOR ITS REFORM. (From t 4 Lancet.) "This," said Mr. Disraeli in a recent speech, "I believe to be the age of statistical imposture ;" and an ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer should be no mean authority on such a point. As concerns pros titution, the elaborate statistics collected represent in only a faint degree the amount of evil that is doing. Like a hideous parasite, it has swollen into rank and filthy luxuriance in the shade thrown over it. Its dimensions have been very accurately mea sured. We know, on the best authority,* that one house in sixty in London is a brothel, and one in every sixteen females (of all ages) is, de facto, a prostitute. Yet, startling as these figures appear, we repeat that they convey but a feeble impression of the effects produced on society by the mass of sanctioned wickedness thus represented. High and low, rich and poor, the virtuous and the vicious, alike present evidence of the taint. We plume our selves on the decorum of our court ; yet the sworn testimony of many witnesses in frequent trials proves that there is a strong undercurrent of licen tiousness and immorality—that the powerful in fluences of the most virulent court in Europ e is no match for the allurements of Delilah — that the high and mighty rush from the fane of the patrician Pudicitia to abase themselves in the temple of the Immodest Venus. There is, to be sure, a flimsy veil thrown over such doings—and herein only does the vice of the courtier differ from twenty," that Nveennt o t, ; h, t u, h t e v o e s s t e o r, p m e o n n l y g e r in , w h h i s o a s t i t n e . m p , t , s ß n u o t co nc one e al- in ' says Mr. Mayhew, "of the street folks, who theirl m iv s e tt a e s r-o m f- a fac n t a l n ir d es w a if r e s , p a a r s e t m in arr si i n e , d h ; y " w ana hom if is the first stone to be cast ? It is, however, among the middle classes—in comparably the mast important to the welfare of the state, that the chief mischief is done by the evil that they are the most persistent in ignoring. The typical Paterfamilias, living in a grand house near the park, sees his Bons allured into de bauchery, dares not walk with his daughters through the streets after nightfall, and is disturbed from his night slumbers by the drunken screams and foul oaths of prostitutes reeling home with daylight. If he look from the window, he sees the pavement—his pavement--occupied by the flaunting daughters of sin, whose loud, ribald talk forces him to keep his casement closed. Yet he refuses to sanction any means for remedying the evil, or to lend his aid to its reform. He not only allows the dirt to accumulate, because it is dirt, but scrupulously carries out the social code under which prostitution has so notably increased of late years.: It has grown into a custom to oppose to marriage every resistance that the most over-strained pru dence can suggest ; except uuder circumstances sel dom attained until middle life by a man of good and even high social position. In the meantime society cares little what may be his private life during the long years that he is ineligible. It has even invented a lying, wicked phrase about his "sowing his wild oats," (as though God had freighted him with wickedness which must perforce be scattered abroad), in order to shift the burden on his shoulders, and thus avoid the recollection that every incentive to immorality is encouraged to lead him astray, and that even if he would avoid the "social sin that wars against the strength of South," his resolves are combated by temptation from w hi c h there is no escape, and vice that dogs his very footsteps in the streets, and solicits him to evil age, 40 per ` a ` I n: unchaste look, loose gesture, and foul talk." The e ff ects of this arrangement may be easily sur mised marry at more advanced ages, or not Of women in London above 20 years of number of broth elsce- are unmarried. In England and y 50,000 illegitimate children are born * Mr ' T and other careful observers calculate the prostitutes 80,000. in London at i,OOO, ami the number of WHO SPENDS THE MONEY P (Froim the 11 ew York Times.) The, women of America have of late been paying the penalty of their position. From the extreme of obsequious gallantry in treats i d to them we are passing to the opposite excess of them, in • ilnn jmuns ! h e e. as the W We Africana t treating savage fact, very the times of our prosperity we could not sufficiently tables, the only seats in railwTayh-ecbaress,t teheaetsfleantenbnoiteel s e adulate these lovely and omnipotent beings. W could refuse them nothing, of the steam-boat deck, and the decorum of the pswteer ile a steam-boat exacted-obfo theat supper p ourper our wives and alike reserved for them. only ono virtue, were daughters lee only one duty, to escort streetsaughters daintily through the treacherous r l all a i s o Li c e h r a o n u g s e d.;t and we expected of all men whic that Flora M'Fli nise3 , is of an almost servile courtesy to the ladies. 3uts' adversity has overtaken us, and The pretty creatures of yesterday are the"extravagant syrens" of to-day. Miss the type of her thoughtless and sex, and the piteous cry of " nothing to pay," debtors of the comes up from all the desperate of the iniquitousf land, we declare to be but the echo female complaint of " nothing to wear." The argument t of this alteration in the tonene ne of the men is a n f ew one. It is as old, indeed, ° as the troubles "gardener Adam and his wife." The man h as got himself into a scrape, and the woman must to be his " hel be his excuse. She was born him from the pineet," and if she cau't save consequence of his folly, at least he may throw on her shoulders the blame. Whose fault it is, b shoulders so often by the way, that those lovely he does not, in his need something thrown on them, • flurry of selfish concern, parti cularly pause to inre. There let the blame fall, and rest if it m ay . qui Now, w e do n o t classes of women in pretend to deny that certain living to dress, to America. have of lat e y ears b ee n do not pretend to den ctrlve, and to dance. We females has flowered y that a n or d er o f f r i vo l ous World, remarkable outof the soil of this New earth for an exclusive amongthe simpletons of the extravagant faults. We development of all sorts of do not pretend to deny that the vulgar aims and the vulgar ambitions of reck less and money-seeking men h ave been fairly s b y the equally vulgar aims and the equally vulgar ambitions of reckless and money spending women. B ut we do deny most emphati cally that the women of America, or that the women of New York , are as a body liable to the charge of rec klessness and extravagcg' er as a body respon sible in any appreciable audegree for the present cala mities of the financial and the commercial world. This very city of Gotham, whereof the name is a synonym throughout the land for all manner of gorgeous follies, and costly absurdities, and expen sive immoralities, teems at this moment with quiet, loving, sincere, and honourable men, regu late their own h ouseho lds and wo share with their husbands the anxieties of his industrious career, and lighten by their counsel as well as by their sym pathy the burdens of his perplexing affairs. dreds and thousa nds of these wom e'a Hun in every rank of life , in the circles of fashion are, and ashion as well as in the homes o f mechanic toil, whom the trials of this critical seas on will fi nd as th e trials of pro sperity have found them— ' Nobly planned, to warn, to comfort As the skies dark en, as t he need of command." makes itself more shar p l y an d more retrenchment felt, as one luxury after anoth er must b put down universally by the opulent, an d one co mfort afte r another sacrificed by the merely well-to-do this truth will be nobly vindicated in a thous and households. No man who knows the se x an d their ways will doubt ti that the cashmere w ill be rel inquished, to say the least, quite as chee rfull y as th e Morgan and that Mrs. Smit h will fi n d i t quite horse," countermand her soiree as Mr , Smith t as easy to o resign his membership at the club. The statisti cs on this subject are eloq uent e nough to be the past e of some use, perhaps, to those who doubt about the future, and who tremble afresh for Wall-street, whenever they think of Fifth-avenue. It has become a commonplace of misogynistthe decla mation, for instance , to aver that " excessive importations of superflu o us goods from countries," to which a cer t ain s et o foreign economists choose to trace our present disorders, p have been provoked by the ex t ravagance of our women Crinoline and moire, gloves and feathers, fans and furbelows, kickshaws a nd getvgaws' these have ' ruined us I These hav e d rained us of our western wheat and Californian gold, to give only hotel flirtations and waterlog-place polkas. Let us see how this matter stand s . year 1855-6, the importations of For the fiscal silk goods into this country amounted to 25 2 Truly a "parlous" su m and , 0 0,651 dols. a tremendously effective figure of speech for a "sermon on the times" or a lecture on the ladies But sta tistics are like puddings , the proof of 1 _their value is , only to );$e got At 11 discussion. Out of those mil- Information has been received at the headquarters of the Medical Staff Corps, Chatham, that the autho rities at the War-office have it in contemplation to send a large body of stewards, wardmasters, and orderlies to Alexandria, for the purpose of being employed in the transit of the troops who are pro ceeding overland to India, and also of rendering ',assistance to the sick and wounded soldiers who are returning from India. On Saturday 100 recruits arrived at Chatham Bar racks from the recruiting districts of London, Bris tol, and Liverpool, York, making a total of up wards of 400 who joined the Ist, 2d, and 3d bat talions during the past week. A troop of the 15th Hussars have left Norwich en route for Coventry. Large numbers of recruits continue to arrive at the Colchester Camp, and a portion of the second battalion of the troops now in camp are about to be despatchedto India. Major-General Lawrence, who has commanded the Camp for some time, has received another appointment in the south-eastern district. The president of the general court-martial which recently assembled at Chatham Garrison for the trial of Ensign T. Stanley Mitchell, 89th Regt., on a charge of intoxication when on duty, has received an intimation that in consequence of the prisoner having refused to appear before the court, her Majesty has directed his dismissal from the army. A general court-martial assembled at the Royal Marine head-quartt , rs, Woolwich, on Thursday, for The trial of First Lieutenant Sharp, on an indict ment preferred against him by his commanding officer, charging him with conduct unbecoming the character of an officer and a gentleman. The mem bers of the court were—Col. Stransham, president; Lieut.-Col. Congdon, Brevet-Major Fraser, Bre vet-Major Elliott, Captains Bunee, Harris, Wear thy, and Willson, First Lieut. Pritchard, all of the Royal Marine Light Infantry, and three lieutenant colonels and one major of the Royal Artillery. Lieut. and Adjutant Fraser, R.M.. acted as De puty-Judge-Advocate. The court was occupied the whole of Thursday and Friday in receiving evidence for the prosecution, which was to the effect that the prisoner had absented himself from duty without leave, and had endeavoured to justify his conduct by a series of false statements to his commanding officer. On Saturday the prisoner read his defence, declaring his innocence, and referring to his hitherto unblemished character. The judgment of the Court will be forwarded to-day for the approval of the Lords Commissioners. A detachment, consisting of Lieutenant Rideout 1 sergeant and 42 gunners of the Royal Horse Ar tillery, Woolwich, have received orders to embark on board the transport John Marshall, at Graves end, for Calcutta, for the purpose of filling up va cancies in two troops there. Major-General Sir Frederick Love last week in spected the depot battalions stationed in Limerick, and ordered the 2d Battalion of the Buffs, which has been raised under Lieut.-Col. Maude, C. 8., in an incredibly short space of time, to hold self in readi ness to proceed to England. The new battalion pro mises to be a very fine regiment, and is already above the establishment, 650. The head-quarters are still at Corfu, and are suffering severely from fevers and ophthalmia. In a few days a large number of drafts from seve ral regiments, including the 21st, 71st, 46th, 48th, 14th, 28th, and 57th, in all about 600 men, will be assembled in Cork for embarkation on board her Majesty's ship Urgent. Their destination is for service in the Mediterranean. _ The sailing transport Starr, of Halifax, sailed on Saturday from Woolwich Arsenal with a cargo of gun carriages and stores for Bermuda. Her Majesty's sailingcorvette Brilliant, 26, Capt. Paynter, arrived at Spithead on Saturday afternoon from the West India station, having been ordered home on account of yellow fever attacking her crew most virulently at Grenada. She lost the Rev. T. IL Watson, chaplain and naval instructor, and 34 men by that plague, and had in all 102 cases. She left Halifax on the 18th of October, and Grenada on the 12th of September. At Hali fax were her Majesty's ships Indus, 72 (flag), Ata lanta, 18, and Buzzard, 6. The surveying steam vessel Colombia had been paid off at Halifax, and her officers and crew sent home by the packet. The paddle-wheel steam-sloop Styx, 6, returned on Saturday to Plymouth Sound, from Ferrol, where she left the steam-frigate Valorouq, 16, in attendance ou the Turkish line-of-battle ship Fethie (Victory), which experienced a storm in the Bay of Biscay, and had been supplied with a new rudder, and was receiving anew foretopmast and other spars. She may be expected shortly at Plymouth to be fitted with machinery and a screw propeller. Tile steam store-ship - Urgent, from Portsmouth, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday. Two companies of artillery will proceed this week for India by the overland route, with au infantry regiment and a large quantity of ball and cannon cartridge, which has been prepared at the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, and three other companies will embark on board the Indomitable at Woolwich and a screw steam vessel at Gravesend. The five corn- A frightful accident occurred on Friday afternoon at the quarries of Cloddafa'r Len, situate in the vale of Nantile, about nine miles from Carnarvon, resulting in the death of six persons, and serious injury to two others. A temporary cessation of work had taken place, owing to an accident to the piston-rod of the engine, and the poor fellows, about 14 in number, congregated together at the base of the deep hollow, to pass the time in conversation. Soon the dreadful cry of " war," an abbreviation for "beware," in common use, startled them. Act ing on the impulse that the cry came from the place of danger, they instantly made for the cabin con structed for the safety of those at work when dan ger is expected. Unhappily this proved the worst spot that could have been chosen. A huge rock,. estimated at about 30 tons, fell in one large masf from a height of 50 yards, and, striking against the ' ledges of stone in its descent, broke into a thousand pieces, which bounded with tremendous force to the ground, killing three of the men on the spot, the fourth died a few minutes afterwards, the fifth while being carried home, and the sixth in about eight hours after the catastrophe. Their names are Wm. Roberts, John Parry, Hugk Prichard, Joseph Williams, and two men named Jones. The bodies presented an awful spectacle, being fearfully crushed and lacerated. William Roberts, .under the im pression that the rock above his head was falline., rushed headlong into the danger trying to drag with him another man, who only escaped from him by leaving part of his waistcoat in the hands of the poor fellow, who, had be remained stationary, would have been in all likelihood saved. John Parry also lan towards the danger, was burled down by the falling mass, and drowned in about a yard and a half dpth water. On his legs was a stone which had to be lifted by a steam-engine in order to extricate the body. The injured men, though severely hurt, are progressing favourably. Many others had narrow escapes. The deceased were married, and have left many young children. The cause of the accident is supposecito have arisen from the adhesiveness of the rock, being affected by the lodgment of water in a bevel joint, which runs to an angular point at the bottom, thus mak ing the mass top-heavy. The rock had been minutely examined only the day previous. ROYAL VISIT TO "THE LEVIATHAN." On Saturday afternoon his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, paid a visit to the Leviathan, and were occupied some time in examining the ship, the machinery, and general arrangements for launching her. In the course of the morning a kind of survey was made of the cradles on which the monster vessel sits, with a view of setting at rest the doubts that have been expressed as to their injured condition. It was averred, in a letter published in one of the morning papers, that owing to the great weight and pressure on the iron rails, which were laid down longitudinally on the ways, that they would be likely to roll up, as it were, the iron plates on the bottom of the cradles, and to embed themselves so much in the river as to render any further descent of the ship almost impossible. To disprove this supposition, an experienced man passed under the I kolson of the ship, close by the side of the cradles, ancithe could not discover the least failure, defect, or inigry, to either the cradles or the ways. She sits as eve as she did on the morning of the launch. The ship itself continues uninjured, both as regards her build and position. She has not experienced any material deflection, and neither has she exhibited any symptoms of settling. At low water on Satur day, labourers were engaged in clearing the ways of the mud whi c h th e tid es h a d l e ft on th em , b u t this in no way impaired the solidity of the work. It has been stated that another attempt might be made to launch her at the next spring-tides, on the 17th instant, but we believe that the operation has been definitely postponed until the 2d of December, and that the attempt will not be renewed until that day. It will be high-water at London-bridge about 20 minutes past two o'clock, near the same time within a few minutes as on last Tuesday. THE SPORTING SEASON. —According to the annual return which has just been published in the Sporting Review, we find that, putting aside mere scratch packs, there are six packs of staghounds and 116 of foxhounds in the United Kingdom. Of these nearly 30 are hunted by the masters. About a dozen first and second whips have become huntsmen this season, a most unprece dented occurrence • sever al huntsmen have reti re d or are out of place, and four have become first whips. A s a general thing, foxes are plentiful, and the Heyth ro and Grove countries each numbeied, according to t he eart b- s t o pp e rs, nearly half a hundred litters at --- at the beginning of the season.—lllustrated London News, [AnyznnsEmENT.]--Holloway's Ointment and Pills have cured a wound in the leg of eleven years standing. Mr. Welch, chemist, of Brighton, states, in a l e tt er to P or Hud Holloway,o 0f c daecl Se pt. , 1855, th a t M rs . Cavendish-place, from 6 .p 1 ace, had been su ff ering f or 11 rCatherinefess in that town, years an ulcerous wound in the leg, for which she ha d been u n d er me di ca l treat ment in the L on d on and Brighto n Diepensaries, but re ceived,nsefit ointm en t , therefro m an c; , ; th the appli ca ti on , however, , c . i _ s e o u ld se by of a H ll o ni llo e w di a c y jn e e p v i e ll n s „. have effected a perfe c t cure dors throughout the world ; at Professor Holloway's establishments, 244, Strand, London, and 80, Maiden lane, New _ York ; by A. St ampa , C onstan ti nop l e ; ; and, E, Muir, Malta. "-" The Governor of Missouri is for further strong and direct measures to secure the prompt payment of inte rest on the public debt, and favours the stoppage of the issue to the railways under par. In addition to the pre sent sinking and interest funds, provided by the last Le gislal,ure, he suggests that a direct tax be levied an the whoie property or thi; at a rate to reuder certain. beyond all caitiagoncy, thy payment of interest." rtcls e eso o r n al t 4 t e o ve t i lr in N g eowf the Yo r 2 k 4th T r a it 9 u 8 n t e 0 , l exchange sed on tie evening of t he 24th at 98 to 103, with. some leading drawers asking higher figures. - The Net. York Evening Mirror of the 2Gth says " The bank statement is encouraging. It is supposed that before the 20 days are out for the date of suspension our principal banks wilt resume specie payments. A large sum has arrived by the Baltic, and large sums are expected by the next steamers." In the absence of a more trustworthy authority we quote the following from the New York Heald of the 27th : " There was no movement of consequence in any lead. ing stock security, and the operations were principally for cash. The European advices appear to have had very little effect upon our finances, one way or the other. The feeling in the street was so much better than generally anticipated that the market actually improved under the favourable influence. We hear of orders from Europe to purchase our stocks, limited at prices considerably above those now current. We learn that the Treasurer of North Carolina offers to pay now, in the currency of the State, at Raleigh, the coupons due next January in New York. Those who prefer to wait until the new year will find the funds here at the Bank of the Republic ; those who want the money now can obtain North Carolina bank bills at once by sending their coupons on to Raleigh for collection. " Money was very stringent in Baltimore on Saturday. Exchange o❑ New York was in active request at 7 to per cent premium ; on Boston 6 per cent. ; Philadelphia, 31 to 4 ; and gold, at 7/ to 8 per cent. Silver, in small lots, 6 per cent. premium. Virginia banknotes (old), 4 to 5 discount ; new, 6 to 19 ; North Carolina, 8 to 10; Ohio and other western banks unsaleable. The returns of the banks of that city for the week ending Oct. 24, 1857, compared with the previous week, exhibit the following changes Decrease in loans and discounts Increase in specie 2,568,413 Decrease in circulation. Increase in deposits, actual 5,177,888 "A number of New York merchants called upon the Secretary of the Treasury yesterday morning, and gave their views as to the present condition of affairs. Al though the entries at the Custom-house last week were as large as usual these importations were to fill orders sent out three or four months ago. These gentlemen as sured the Secretary that not an order had left New York for the past 40 days, and that December would mark the falling off in the current receipts. They fur ther stated that immense quantities of goods would be reshipped to Europe. The New York Express of the 27th reports that no bills had been returned by the Baltic. S:trlino• ' bills were higher ; the chief business was at 103, but some names were held as high as 105. Three of the leading banks suspended at St. Louis on the 26th. The suspension of Beebe and Brother, of New York, is announced. Also the bank of the State of Missouri, the Merchants' Bank, and the, Southern Bank. The following wera the latest quotations og stocks ; Virginia Kees, 77 74 ; Michigan State &zoo, 80 ; Ohio State Sixes, 1860, 921 ; New York State Sixes, 1860, 98 ; Tennessee State Sixes, 1890, 70; Mississippi State Sixes, 651 657 ; Erie Railroad Company's Bonds, 1862, 25; Nassau Bank, 61 ; New York Central Rail. road, 604 60 601 60 61 604 601 ; Reading Railroad, 25{ 26 ; Erie Railroad, 91 ; Cleveland and Toledo Railroad, 264 ; Chicago, 62 ; La Cross and Milwaukie Kailroad, 6 • Michigan Southern and Northern Indiana, 19 19k 184 ; Delaware and Hudson Canal Company, 88. . - Flour and wheat were heavy and lower in price. There were no particular transactions in cotton. Sugars were steady. Freights were firmer, with. more offering. SUICIDE ON THE MIDLAND RAILWAY.—Art inquest was held on Thursday night at Upper Easton, Glouces- ' tershire, on the body of Dr. Diot, of Bristol, a medical lecturer, who destroyed his own life by throwing himself before a train on the Midland Railway, under the cir cumstances already described. It appeared from the • evidence of his wife that he had been somewhat disor dered in his mind lately on account of pecuniary troubles ; he was very nervous and low-spirited, and told one person that he was mad, and wished to go into a lunatic asylum. Verdict accordingly. at St. been given relative to a serious robbery comm itte d when EXTENSIVE ROBBERY. —Th e folio wing particular s have Ives, Huntingdonshire, on the 29th of last m on th, tolen from t h e com. a brown coloured carpet-bag the B an k of viz., The bag, which was rather old and mercial room of the Golden shaving-tackle , four 101. notes of wastioanneddH worn,ob teesl besides ens with t t h h a e t onetown.usu oalf r Si. co five o th e r England, untry bank• the hand-straps broken, fi c n o th n articles Fo s t er,B o f ba the notes,conveyingaboutand a 2 n ol. , c rfiacvnsedi eyes,ttwrao n5B/fe. 4/, in gold and shares.silver, and The supposed thief was a two darkone 30/. , complexion, one man of a nd dressed in clothes, who had been observed loitering about dark the hotel previously, but `vas never seen after th, 100 Crystal Palace discovery of the robbery.