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London, England, 1853-08-27 00:00:00

NAVAL OBITUARY.

Captain Joie: .1. /tallow (1851), on the Wired list of
1840, died on the 19th Mat., at Plymouth, in his Sixty-sixth
year. He was midshipman of the Kent in the expedition
to Egypt ; lieutenant of the Aisne, at the qtipture of the
French West Indiamen, and senior of that ship at the cap-
ture of the French frigate Topnze, under the batteries of
Guadalorme; and at the taking of the Saifites. in 1809 ;
and in 1813 and 1811 was actively employed in the Scheldt,
particularly in an attack on five French brigs, under Fort
Life, with the boats of Amon and Amphion. Ile NAM made
a commander for that service, but remained at that grade
for thirty-seven years, when he was placed on the retired
list of captains.
Commander the Hon. A. R. Trallors ), on the
reserved half-pay list, died on the `2llth inst., in the sixty-
sixth year of his age. He was second son of the second
Earl of Winterton; entered the navy in 1799, and served
seventeen years afloat, all during the war. He was in the
Comae, with Sir Janie!. Saumarez, in his Algesiraa actions.
Commander 3,04 Es ftlowAnn Tea as 1)4)21 died at
Hasler Hospital, on the '2oth inst., aged fifty-eight. He
entered the navy in 1811. was made a lieutenant in lre2rr,
and for eight years commanded the Falmouth packet
Ranger. His last service was in command of the Merlin
steam.packet, in the Mediterranean.
Retired Commander (.11 Itt.CS ROYER died in London on
the 21th instant, aged 77. Ile was a midshipman of his
Majesty's ship Swiftsure, 71. under Nelson, at the Nile,
and served ashore with the army in Egypt, on the Bth,
12th, and 21st of March, I m1)1 ; was mate of the Chameleon.
sloop. and served in her boats at the rapture of several
armed feluccas, near Tarragona. in 18111 ; was lieutenant
of the ,4mboneade, 44, in the Adriatic, and wounded in
Athi in cutting out a vessel front under the hatterioi of
Tremiti ; was second lieutenant of the .4strcea, in net'
with the French squadron off Madagascar, in 1811 ; and
late harbourmaster at Port Louis, Mauritius.

APPOINTMF.NT4 AND PRoMOTIONs.

rlPTAlN4—Captliin Henn. Hyatt' Martin. C.ll. (1527), is pro-
moted to be a commodore of the Kecond elass, and appointed 1.10
hoist WS broad pendant on hoard the Mike of Wellington. 131,
screw steamer. as a mark of her Majeaty's approbation of the
part R4l ably perfortned by the cmillant °Meer at the recent review
of the fleet in the presence of her )4 eteaty Captain Hon. Frede-
rick T. Pelham (154(t), to command the Blenheim, fin, screw steam
guard-ship of 4rtn horse.power, at. Portawhoonth, in the room of
Captain William H. liendemon, Cll., tn
has resigned the cum-
'nand of that ship.
Comm V.KI,ER—H. N. Hillyar (1553). late of the Sphrt.s, steam-
sloop. to the Agamemnon. 91. screw. Spithead, vice Horton.
LTECTFNANTR—J. W. Armatmng (1554 to the Dttke of Wel-
/ington; H. W. Corneck to the Edinburgh, 5.4, anew gunnery-
ship.

MASTER—H. *AUXINS& lU the Ntromboli, 14011111.11100 p.
PAYMASTER—W. F. Lep age. to the Ntnesboh.
CLERIC IN CH/AWE—H. F. Budgie, to the belphim.
Cu:Rice—Arthur 111. Dueller, to the l'iefory: J. P. Sargon
acttag, to the Anse.

In the VW` of the •• foreign correspondents" of the
French papers. the Claud of Appeal of Rouen has decided
that the Govt. lit has a tight to open letters at the
postoffiee, and to convict criminally on the contents of
them. 'MIr is still, it appears. another appeal possible.
iutd the defendants intend to avail themselves of it.
M witch, the thirsty capital of Bavaria, is menaced with
a drought of beer. The daily mm*1'1110(11% of man
liquor in that city is set down at '2,000 laurels, and
it appears that the total stock in the forewent cellars did
not exceed 145,P.100 barrels On the 10th instant: KO that,
unless brewers set to work manfully More the wonted
time, only six barrels of beer will be forthcoming on the
Ist of October
Our old friend the sea-serpent has been seen off M`Nab
Island, but it was only twenty feet long.
riche Earl of Ellesmere arrived at Halifax on the ;Ird
instant
The 3lonib'ur publishes a list of all the mediae awarded
for meta of humanity and courage during the first aix
mouths of ISM. The number of gold medals is only two,
but that of the silver medals amounts to 416, via., thirty
first-class and :186 reeotal-class. There is also a bronze
medal. awarded to a w ttttt an for her zeal in restoring ace-
, tam drowned persons to life.
Lola Moues has married again in Ameriea. The new
adventurer is Mr. Hall, late editor of the San Francisco
Herald.
A very considerable fall has taken place On the
Continent in the price of grain, in consequence of the re•
as.ti tttt in the larger corn markets of Europe, a proof, it is
said, that prices had been artificially forced up.
A bright comet has for some evenings past been visible
a little above the N.W. horizon at dusk. (hi Saturday, at
nine o'clock, the nucleus was brighter than the well.
known star ('or Carob, which is of the second magnitude;
a short tail could be distinguished with the naked eye, but
was waved to a much greater distance with au ordinary
night glass. The comet is at present on the borders of -,
Leo and Ursa Major. The tail streams off directly from
the head, without any appearance of divisiot., and the
comet is altogether a very pretty object when viewed with
a low magnifying power.
Professor Stillman, the eminent geologist, discredits the
opinion advaneeel by some that the gradual wearing away of
the rocks of Niagara Falls may pessibly result in draining
Lake Erie. In a recent lecture he remarked :—" They will
nut halt at their present station, but retreat slowly and
surely ahead two mike+ further, when they will stop again
for an unknown period, and probably for ever, since at this
place the hail limestone will form both tetrar and top of the
falls, and thus stop the destruction of the rock. Some
have thought that t hey would finally reach Lake Erie, and that
then the lake would be completely drained. Such an event
is impossible. At the point already mentioned the torrent
will gradually wear away the surface of the limestone, form-
ing a rapid, and thenceforth Niagara will be one of the lost
wonders of the world."
The application of electric gas as a motive power hes
been discovered to possess extraordinary advantages: •
machine appended to a steam-engine will generate gas
sufficient to supply as much power as the ordinary furnace&
The London and North-Western and the South-Eastern
Railway Cotnpanies have, it is stated, already entered into
contracts with the Electric Gus Company fur the use of
their lovomotives. ,
It is reported that the French Government, to show its
friendly feeling towards Turkey, is tatout to permit the
erection of a mosque in l'aris, and to assign a apecial
buriabground for the interment of Alussulmans.
The Prievincial Meta of Saxony, Prussia, and Wei 4
phalli' are convoked for the end of September.
Sir Frederirk Thesiger, it is understood, is going to
give tie public " a full, true, and particular amount ' •
the great Smyth fraud.
It is stated that a vein of rich auriferous ore has bees
discovered, at five fathoms depth. in Wake.
A large number' of navvies are wanted for the Manches-
ter and Southport Railway; and the " want" (an unusual
one of these useful 'individuals) induces the contractor to
offi.r " liberal wages."
The. Prince elf Echmlihl, Puke of Atterstsult, only sou of
the celebrated Marshal Itavoust, has just died in his forty-
third year, after a painful illness, against which he
waggled for six yearn. He served in the short expedi-
tion to Belgium in IS:II, and timed as an 'Aver of the
staff, under Mantled Gers44,, at the siege of Antwerp in
tic Is:e.t. He' wits Mlttelelllielltl3l !ended will the order of
il Leopold, 'M appointed too ding t Regiment of Lancers.
The mineher of nunneries flyspain is 1403, and the num•
ber of nuns in them 20,61:1. ,•1
A public banquet is to be wen to General Sir Joseph
Thiwkwell by the mayor,.tuunicipal authorities, and citi-
zens of tiloucester. Th., niyitation has been accepted by
Sir Joseph, and the festivity?will take place about the end
of the month.
From returns of Scotch agricultural atatiaties it appears
that in the county of Haddington the steam and water
power of engine* applied to agricultural purposes is equal
to hiss host's. There are in use PIO steam•enginea, 81
water-wheels, and 107 horse machines.
The Giornale di Catania announces that the great mole,
or breakwater, of the port of Catania, u gigantic under-
taking which has been in hand several years, is an the eve ,
of completion, only one coffer-dam more remaining to ba.
sunk for the purpose.

Abraham Jackson, a Jew outfitter at Shields, has been I
sentenced to pay ss. and costs, or to sit for four hours in
the stocks, for not observing the Christian as well as the
Jewish Sabbath.
A Russian Commissioner has arrived at the Suline mouth
to investigate the condition of the river, and advise as to
the means of making it navigable.
Six hundred poor children, associated with various
ragged schools in Spitalfields, were taken on an excursion
on Tuesday last to the residence of Mr. H. E. Gurney, at
Upton Park. Upon the fact becoming known, many of
the surrounding gentry paid a visit to the park, where the
children were being hospitably entertained by the host.
The Magdalena Steam Navigaion Company have just
launched the first of their fleet of ships for the navigat►on
of the river Magdalena and the coasts adjacent. She is a
fine vessel of 00 ► tons, and 120 horse-power, called the
Estrella, of light draught of water when loaded—a feature
of great necessity in the service in which she is employed.
The site of old Verulam was wild by auction yeitun
day week. The lot, comprising the Verulam hills and the
site of the Roman city, with the St. Germain's estate of 80
acres, was bought by Mr. Adams, banker, of Ware, for
6,6501. The Earl of Verulam bought 10 acres of the land
adjoining for 1,0301. The sale realised 3,0001. more than
the price fetched by the same estate two years ago, when
it was purchased by the Freehold Land Society, who it is
thought have been induced to give it up in consequence of
the dishanchisement of St. Alban's.
The report of a great battle among the Indian tribes
sear Fort Kearney is confirmed by some returned Kioways,
according to whose account the Sioux and Cheyennes
(Dogrilis ?) are almost exterminated.
A splendid tablet has been erected to the memory of the
late Sir John Webb, director-general of the ordnance medi-
cal department, in Trinity-churchyard, Woolwich.
The removal of the Tivoli tea-gardens and pleasure-
grounds at Battersea commenced yesterday week to clear
the ground for the formation of the new park. The com-
missioners have obtained possession of the celebrated Red
House Tavern and grounds, and but little now remains to
impede the laving out of the proposed park and the forma-
tion of the themes embankment, for which a sum of
300,0001. has just been voted by Parliament.
The Spithead review brought an immense flow of traffic
to the Southampton Railway. During the week including
that event the receipts amounted to 23,1124., being more
than 11,0001. above the the corresponding week of 11452,
and 0,0001. higher than the highest sum ever attained by
the weekly revenue of the company. The South-Coast
line partook also of the increase, its receipts for the week
being 18,2841. against 12,812/. last year.
The British Museum will be closed on Wednesday next
for the autumn vacation. It will reopen on Friday, the

9th of September.
The value of land in the city of London, as shown by
some ground rents offered for some ground at the end of
Pinch-lane, is no less than 510,0: Se. per acre.
Nearly 400 shareholders in the London and County
Bank have presented their chairman, Mr. John Sadleir,
M.P., one of her Majesty's 'Lords of the Treaeury, with
three silver candelabra, valued at 0001., as a mark of admi-
ration for his munificence in contributing 4,5001. towards
founding a provident fund for the officers of the establish.
ment.
The wires of electric telegraphs which are painted red
are found to be much less liable to oxidation than those

which are painted white.
Within the last month there have been large importa-
tions of horses into France from the north of fiermany.
They are believed to be introduced on the French Govern-
went account for a remount of the cavalry.
The scheme for having sea-water baths at Paris is about
to be realised. A concession has been accorded to the pro-
ector, who undertakes to have sea water brought to the
j park of Monceau:.
Mr. Salk Schwabe, who recently died in Manchester,
kas left 3,000/. to the Manchester Infirmary, of which he
was a patron during his lifetime.
Captain William Gregson, lately residing at Hampstead,
was seised with an apoplectic fit, on Tuesday, while in an
omnibus, near Templehar. He was instantly taken in an
insensible state to King's College Hospital, but died
shortly after his admission.
The hippopotamus from Egypt has arrived at the Jar-
dine dee Plantes. Thirty goats, which supply him with
milk, came with him to Pans. He does not, however, live
exclusively on milk, but eats melons and some other vege-
table productions. He is exceedingly tame, and allows
himself to be handled by strangers.
The mileage duty paid by the stage-carriage proprietors
in England in the year ending 6th January last was
208,54'21., of which 67.1•241. was for the country, and
136,3181. for the metropolis. The licence duty for the
same year paid by the same parties in England was 11,3431.,
whereof 6,6701. was for the country, and 4,603/. for the
metropolis.
A vast trade has sprung up in the importation of foreign
arms of various kinds for immediate shipment to distant
parts of the world since the issuing of the Treasury order
on the subject of the shipment of goods in transitu.
Foreign arms were before entirely prohibited by law to be
imported for the purposes of trade; but now it is allowed
on condition that they be in transit, and so declared to be
en route to another place abroad : and the consequence is,
that there are daily numerous importations of arms of
every description, principally from Belgium and Gen
many, for exportation to Australia and elsewhere. Foreign
are still prohibited to be brought to this country for
home use.
Forged 51. notes are being somewhat extensively passed
in the metropolis. The engraving is very good. and would
deceive the most experienced judges, especially the Bri-
tannia in the corner ; but the water-mark is badly executed,
appearing to have been impressed after the paper was
made ; and the note has not that crispness of feel and
whiteness of colour peculiar to Bank of England notes.

It mug Niarket au (it Inititigtna.

FRIDAY ETENING
WE hardly ever remember a period when the fluc-
tuations of the funds have been less than during the
present week ;—until this morning the price has not
varied from 98t Stock has been very scarce, if
anything, rather better for money than for time, which
proves how largely the public have bought for invest
ment.

This morning the funds have receded to OR to I,
in consequence of the unsatisfactory state of the
weather, and the apprehensions which exist relative
to the harvest, not only in England, but on the
Continent.

As this is a matter on which the future state of the
Money Market must in a great measure depend, we
have made careful inquiry on the subject, and from
the best information we can gather it would appear
that the wheat crop in France is not more than about
three-fourths an average ; in Italy it is in many parts
a failure ; and from the fact of large buyers from
France, Holland, Belgium, and the Rhine being in
our market, we may infer that in these parts of the
Continent the crop is deficient.
On the other hand, the crops are stated to be very
abundant in the northern provinces of Europe and in
the Black Sea, and likewise in America. Much will
depend, so far as our Money Market is concerned, on
the yield of our own crops, and, from the unfavoura-
ble summer and short breadth of corn sown, they are
computed at below the average.
The fear therefore is that should a demand arise
for our own consumption, we should have to repur
chase at an advanced rate the stock we are now sell-
ing to foreigners. If so, we may expect the ex-
changes will be against us, and the Bank of England
will be compelled before the end of the present year
to raise the rate of discount. At present the rate of
money is below Bank rates ; for, as we explained last
week, so long as bankers and brokers can obtain
money for nothing by lending their stock in the
market, which is at present the case, in consequence
of the great demand for stock on the part of the
public, there is no probability of the Bank raising
the rate of discount, from the fact of the bankers
and brokers lending money below the Bank rates ;
and, consequently, all pressure on the Bank for
money is obviated.
The settlement of the Turkish question would un-
doubtedly bring both Austria and Turkey in the field
as borrowers, although in the present state of public
feeling it would be almost impossible to raise a loan
for Austria. With regard, however, to Turkey the
case is different, as we are informed that England
and France, with a view of strengthening the posi-
tion of Turkey, both financially and politically, will
give their moral support to a loan having solely for
its object the development of the resources of the
Ottoman empire, which are immense, although at
present dormant.
The fun& close 981, the rate of money is 31 per
cent. Exchequer Bills, 1 dis. to 1 prem. The
exchanges are lower this afternoon, especially
Hamburg.