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London, England, 1855-08-09 00:00:00

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COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS

MINCING-LANE.-PHIS DAY.

SUCIA6 —The market is quiet, and a portion of the 600
Mids. Pirtt Rico and 150 ohds. Cuba was bought in to
support the market. 11,6ned steady, without alteration in
Moissans.—A large business was done yesterday. Cabs
Muscovado, at 18.. 9d ; Antigua, 18s.; Nevis, 171. Bd.
COPFII —2OO casks plantation Ceylon were offered ; a
small part bought in ; the remainder sold at previous rates-
-595. 61. to 65i. 1,000 bags native Ceylon offered and bought
in at 495. ; 49s offered.
Taii.—The demand has rather improved,
Rost —The market has a downward tendency.
Corrow.-250 bales sold yesterday.
Siarriris.—The market continua dull, and last week's
prices cannot be obtained.
Rica.—The speculative demand continues. Yesterday,
on 'Charge, 10,000 hese Bengal reported sold at 14•. 6d.
to 16t. 9,1., and 3,000 tons atLat at 14s. 3d. to 14s. 9J. ex-
'hip.
In other articles no material a;terstiaa.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
The 'market is steady to-day, with few sellers. Tows
Tallow is quoted 54, 31. nett rub ; Petersburg Y. C. as
the spot, 641. 9d. to 555. ; October to December, 555. 3d.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Mr. E. J. Davis reports the supply larger, and trade
heavy. Prime meadow hay, 105 s. to 112 s. 6d. ; superior,
117 s. 6d. to 1261.; Ulterior, 80s. to 951; new, IC5t. to
1265.; rowan. 85e. to 955.; clover, old, 100 s. to 1354.:
mooed cut, 100 s. to 1265.; new, 110 s. to 130 s. ; straw, 255.
to 280.

FATAL ACCIDENT IN BIZ GEORGE DUCKETT'S
CANAL.—(Tate DAT )—This mornieg, a fatal accident
took place in Sir Gimp Makatea Canal. Victoria-park,
Bethn►l Green, whereby a fine boy, aged 14 years, lost his
life. It appears that the deceased and two other lads pro-
ceeded to the canal to amuse themselves with a small toy
sailing boat, and while deceased was in the set of dragging
the little craft with a piece of string along the surface of the
water, be stlabled backwards, fell into the canal, and was
drowned.

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BRADYOID, WAYBNILD, AND LIU= RAILWAY —The
bait-yearly meeting of the shareholders of Ws company was held
yesterday. at Bradford; intern Frith, aiS4.. disitsara of the board,
prattling. from the directors' report cad the steleseat Sae dish,
man, It appeared that the direeton had putakeed Oka 61111141.1111 of
the land required for the railway end works. no aroolks et the
latter bad been let to Mr. George Bolton. a geedenest d eimiderable
experience I. each Nutters, and the time epedied der the sempletion
was April, 1817. Walden agreements had bees ardalid with the
Groat Northern aad Lancishire and Yorkshire Cheepries which. it
was believed, would ware the satisfactory marking ef the he. The
cethentad mat at the line was 230,0001. The direerse hod saebeted
confides* is the utility and advantages of the umistablein Up to
the 80th o• June there had been retired, es depselle end breast,
111,9151. se. ed., while the payments (I MOM. Ile ltd.
'zanies of Oblides act) were 17,1101. lee. Si The repeat was
uanizeoury adopted. The salary of the smeary mos find et OWL
per annum. A yen of thanks to the chairman eanoluded the pa
DoDuelist ANDWICKLOW RAILWAY.—Tb• halt-rat lOW
Ni maim Maim emapany was held DutOn Teatetw. MM.
F. POOKaby. chairmen of the torepany, preiding. The rem. NSW
that notwtedtag the neserity at the Sear sod IFS& the helt•
yeses receipts had not twee off et. seriously as mitehe lace bees mitt.
slated. The artillery preastgers insides et imesegises, bad
avenged 3.014 weekly. It was meetd the sada line wield he
vestal ter traths eriy in Overshot. Ito sodden& Ise mewed
=half-yew. sad the Immetite espeeditame Wetsa -
5.471. pa mile. TS waties seek was eil le So het poor-
ble ceedlilse. The Stone ea delsetatee. =mei, i•
Ild.. led bore paid out of the ledßyeeta FOY. and Se elfresters re-
ementiMlMl that the Wass on rem= account be carried forward
Me So sat belt yeert sweat. After some tram discsodan the
slglMllMlSMniesseetyalepluL

MONEY MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Two o'Ctocx.
The English stock market has been dull to-day,
but no further decline has taken place, at d prices are
now quoted the same as they closed yesterday. Con-
sols have ranged between 90: to 901 for money and
901 to 91 for account, and are now quoted 90,1 to
for cash, and 903 to 91 for the 6th of
8-pt. The Three par Cents. Reduced have been
dealt in at 913 to 1; the New Three per Cents. at
921 to 1 ; the 30 Yews' Annuities, 1885 (New Loan)
at 16 15-16; Exchewr Bands 1859, at 100! to ;
Exchequer Bills, June, at 19s. to 225. prem.; and
India Bonds at 235. to 31e. prem.
The dealings in Turkish stock continue marked uy

some excitemint, and the price has gradually risen to
92: to 1. Mexican is quoted 211 to 22 ; Spanish De-
terred Three per Cents., 181 to 19 ; Russian Five per
Cents., 100 to 102 ; and French Scrip, 21 to
Spanish Old Three per Cents. hsve been dealt in at
374 to ; the Passive Bonds at 41; Swedish Four per
Cents. at 891 ; Sardinian 87; Equador at 4: to 4! ;
Granada Active at 201; and Brazilian Old Five per
Cents. at 1021.

The steamer Alhambra has taken out 51,0001. in
specie and gold bare to the Peninsula.
The Admiralty have ordered the ships Jane, Llew-
ellyn, Henry Turner, Circassian, Cassandra, Jenny
Lind, and Ann Locket by, to be surveyed for the
transport service.
The Admiralty will receive tenders on the 15th
inst. for the supply of 150 toes of rice, 200 tone of
sugar, 30 tons of tobacco, and 30,000 lbs. of tea.
The Committee of Spanish American Bondholders
have forwarded to u. the following memorandum,
which has reference to the foreign debts of New
Granada and the Ecuador:

New Granada Fot,igu Debt.—The Committee of Spanish
American Bondhold.rs have rec•ived from her tdsje‘ty's
Charge d'Anires at Lime, Peruvian Bonds of 4j
per cent. interest, anvunting to 907,000 dollars, which
have been appropriated by the Governmeat of New Granada
to the payment of the arrears of interest to the Foreign
Debt.

Ecnadnr Foreign D.bt. Tha Committee have also
received a letter from their Commissioner, Mr. Monett',
dated " Panama, July 7," stating that he was on his re-
turn to England with the 860,000 dollars in Peruvian Bond.
at 41 par cent. interest, wench bonds he had received on
account of the Ecuador foreign debt.
It has become a subject of animadversion in many
City circies, that tho regulations at present in force
for preventing the supply of munitions of war to
the enemy are extremely liable to evasion. We have
on former occasions drawn attention to the export,
which has been carried on to some extent, of lead to
the United States and other neutral ports, with the
direct object of shipping it fur Hamburg, or other
convenient ports of Northern Europe, en route to
Russia. Projects for impeding this trade, it is true,
are beset with difficulties, but such du not exist to
the same extent in respect of the article of salt-
petre, th, movement of which, as forming one
of the most important components of gun-
powder, ought to be watched by our government
with great jealousy. We are assured that the
enemy is now availing himself of the British market
for a portion of hid supplies of this article, and that
this very week a shipment of some 100 tons of salt-
petre has been made from London to Hamburg.
fhe destination of this supply on reaching Hamburg
can be easily guessed at. The poverty of the enemy's
supplies of this article is sufficiently indicated by the
necessity under which the Russian government has
found itself of issuing an invitation (1. e. an order)
to all Russian subjects to bring in to the government
stores all the saltpetre at prevent in their hands. It
should be the endeavour of our government to in-
cream) this pressure on the enemy's resources.
At the meeting of the Australian Agricultural
Company yesterday a call of 30s. per share was agreed
to, for the more effectual working of the company's coal
mines at Newcastle (New South Wales). The call
will be required about the end of October next.
Tho Midland Railway Company are offering 4 per
cent. per annum interest for loans on debentures for
four or five ye..rs.
The receipts of the Caledonian Railway Company
for the week ending the 29th ult. were 14,7511.,
against 11,5671. in the corresponding week of last
year, the increase being mainly due to the Royal Agri-
cult oral Society's meeting at Carlisle.
The receipts of the Stockton and Darlington Rail-
way for the month of July were 24,8111., being 198!.
more than in the corresponding month of last year.
The final call of 2/. 10a. is to be paid on the new
shares of the South Australian Banking Company by
the Ist Sept.
The shares of the old companies comprised in the
fusion of the railways of Normandy and Brittany,
comprising the St. Germaine the Paris and Rouen,
the Rouen and Havre, the Western of France, and
the Paris, Caen, and Cherbourg Companies, may now
be exchanged for shares in the amalgamated company
of the Western and North Western Railways of
France. The certificates of shares, however, of the
old Western of France Railway Company, which re-
present an (gaol number of new shares, will not be
exchanged until the Ist Oct.
Relative to the hide and leather trade, the monthly
circular of Messrs. T. J. and T. Powell observes as
fol lows :

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The neoessity of not only keeping up the present warli
position of the countty, but of adding largely to the muni-
tions cf war, involves so great a demand fur leather, that we
have to report an advance during the month ut b to 10 per
cent. on the artio.es chiefly needed for military powers, in
addition to their previously reported increase of prices ; sod
the present army orders are such es will require all the
hides of this description which may he brought into the
market for sum. week, to come, so that their prices are
more likely to advance than recede. As to the posits re-
' gaited for general, consumption there has been about an
average demand and steady prime during the month, and
this demand, no doubt, will be greatly improved by toe
mitigation of the present prospects of an abundant h t.
Market hides are rather higher. The well flayed cows have
advanced is. per hide. Market calf skins are 6d. per skin
dearer. Market horse hides are unaltered.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.

The English funds to-day experienced a decline of
about 1 to 1 per cent., owing in part to the unsettled
weather, but chiefly to the arrangements in connexion
with the settlement of the monthly account in Con-
sole, which indicate a more liberal supply of stock
I than had been anticipated.
Consols were quoted during a portion of the
morning at 91 to 1 for the new account of the 6th of
September, but closed at 90Z to 91. For money
arses were made u low as 902, and the closing quota-
tion may be given at 901 to 1, the " contango"
having advanced to full♦ 1 per cent. The official
business report is as follows : Three per Cent. Con-
sols, for money, 901, 91, 901, 901, 901; ditto, for
account, 6th of September, 911, 91. Three per
Cent. Reduced, 911, 911. New Three per Cents.,
921. 921. Long Annuities, expiring in January,
1860, 4, 4 1-16 ; ditto 30 years, October, 1859, 3/ ;
ditto January, 1860, 31. Bank Stock, 214.
In the foreign stock market the only feature of
interest was a renewal of the late upward ',movement
in Turkish, which continues in strong speculative
favour. The closing quotation was 921 to ors per
cent. above that of yesterday. Other stuck% were
steady, but quiet.

MINES.-THIS DAY.

Two o'Ciocc.

The gold mining shares remain without transac-
tions of the slightest importance.
Australian Agricultural shares are quoted 284 to
291 ; Peel River, 21 to 21; North British Aurra-
lasian, 1 to 1 dia. ; and Scottish Australian Invest-
ment, 9-16 to 11.16 prem.
Great Polgooth shares have been dealt in at 21 ;
St. John del Rey at 281 ; Blaenavon at 81 ; and
United Mexican at 31.

Annexed is the Mining Exchange official list of
yesterday's sales :
Callington, 275. 64.: East Buller, 8}; Header, 41, 4i•
4+; North Beset, 29, 30, 29,, 291; Rlsewarne, 2071, 210;
flortridge Console, 31. 4, 3 18, 3 15 16, 4, 41. Os 61., 4, 3+;
Teeter Consols, 21; Wheal Grenville, 31 3t. ; Wheel Wrey,
71, 7. 71, 71. Foreign : Chaneellerville, 10s. 61., 10s. 3J. ;
Wm 61.,10..94.; Fort Everett, 3s. 9.1.

LONDON AND NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—We
understand that the dividend to be declared at the
ensuing half-yearly meeting will be at the rate of
per cent. per annum, with a balance of about 7,0001.
to be earned forward to the next half-year's account.

CAMP OF THE FOREIGN LEGION AT

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Auever 4.

Tt,e exclamation, "A pretty day this for target
pract:cr," accompanied by sundry hearty, untranalate-
abk b. nedictions on the weather, seemed to be the
universal greeting that passed between the few
hooded and cloaked figures that were to be rest
striding across the camp, in the midst of the pounsg
rain, at an early hoot yesterday morning. By the
loudness of their expletives I knew them to be
°Moors, even at • distanse--no private dare blase
half so loodly—and on a nearer approach I toned
they we about to tarn out their seen for rifle pray
tin on the artillery rounds beyond Hythe. Oh for
a good ray march with sturdy German troops! The
rain! Bah! it is already forgotten, except by the
spectacled few among the uarn,w bo every now and then
race • laugh 11 their on impatient exclamations, as
b they
wipe the ►ftding rain from off their glares. And
the fatigue! Who ever felt fatigue marching at each
a pace, in company with such gallant fellows, and
I. time with each right joyous music P For now the
band—a taw musicians picked out from among the
men of the ruts, and very imperfect es yet—
has ceased top nd the voices of the men have
taken its place. Old, new, quaint, simple, sad, joyous,
loyal, revolutionary, are the songs theymng ; bet all
are alike soul-stirring, full of meaning in their
melody, rich with feeling in their words. They are
a common stock, known to all, and cherished by alt.
There an some among them—old once—that are said
to owe their birth to time. whoa no tobacco yet in-
spired the composer, and beer was the only
accompanienest to song; and new ones, that tell of
railways, and of " Schleswig-Holstein, main-eur-
rounded," which are so universally known that
throughout the length and breadth of Germany there
I. hardly a man bat knows how to join in their
shorn. They are respected, too, and honoured;
some are not to be sung on every occasion, and all
must be sung well or not at all. It is the strangest
of masonic signs, this sign of song ; it is at
once • bond of brotherhood; it resembles the Arab's
bread and salt—we have song together, we are
friends. It has • thousand meanings and a thousand
charms. Listen to the measured tread—listen to the
sound, as it swells and falls with the roar of the sea
upon the beach—look upon that handful of men, on •
foreign shore, surrounded by strangers, about to
shed their blood in a cause not their own—they march
and sing, and their own voices carry their thoughts
home to those they love. Strange is the power of
song! And of all those that march there, there
but one who understands it not. It is he who leads;
them along the peaceful English land, by the shore—
it is he who will have to lead them, amid bullets, on
the stern path to death or victory. There is but
one who knows not what they say or sing, who can-
not bid them be of good cheer, or call them " chil-
dren" in their own rude tongue. There is but one
who looks upon them merely as part of a pageant,'
and on their singing as a pretty novilty in "his
men," to show to friends and visiteYs, to make
much of, and to glory in. It is not given to
every man to understand the deeper meaning of the
outward sign, but this is no reason why the deeper
meaning should be discarded. Is there no one to
command these men who knows at least their lan-
guage, who mi;ht learn their thoughts? Is the
utter disregard of common sense to continue for ever
in the management of our army, the locomotive put
into a child's hands for play. and the penny whistle
set to draw a train ? Out upon it!
Bit we are marching with the dark green lagers,
beneath their flattering standard, where on alternate
black and white squares are the English arms and
the skull and bones of the old Brunswick Homan
and of Lutsow's band. Gaily they march, and ever
and anon amid the merry music sounds a merrier
laugh, elicited most frequently by some joke with the
passers-by, in a few words of broken Esglish, ad-
dressed more often to the gentler sex than to the
men. But so genial is the laughter, so hearty the
merriment, that none can take tt amiss, and if the
labourer likes not at first the compliments paid to
his pretty wife, he ends by smiling as he sees the
daughter of the angry farmer in his gig blushing so
rosy red, and even the London lady on her tide not
escaping without sundry respectful bows and "pratty
Wye." The labourer passes on, and as he nudges
his wife, he rye, " Well, they be's queer ones, any-
how." The farmer thinks to himself it is a good
thing it was not his wife, bat his daughter, and
grunts contentedly that there's so many men leas to
be taken away from haying and reaping; and per-
haps the lady sighs, and thinks of Fred, who is "out
there" too. And so they march, and sing, and are
wiry The
order is given to fall in. We are entering
upon the streets of Hythe. The regiment
silent in the streets, the measured tread their
only music. Thus should the soldier much through
towns; but if silent, they are not blind, and
if they do not vent their admiration in clumsy com-
pliment, 'tie not that they the less do homage. The
shrines are numerous,and the goddesses unveilled. Full
many a chaste and modest lady comes to gaze, nor
looks unkindly on the foreign gentleman. The feel-
ing that prompts the smile is honourable, courage-
ous, English.
Again the " march at ease " sounds along the line,
again the chorus is complete; and as a wilder and
more stirring strain ended in a joyous shout, they
told me to that air they would march upon &baste-
pel.—and I believe it.
The rain had oared, and the morning had become
fir, when we reached the practising ground. I
mentioned in my last letter how short a time these
men have had their arms ; yesterday they fired for
the first time with ball cartridges. Each officer com-
manding a company stood in front of his men, rifle in
hand ; he repeated the exercise before them ; he went
through it again with them as they ioaded. They
fired at a hundred yards. In the first round, out of
76 shots fired by the men near whom I stood, 23 hit
the target. One man had lost his bullet in loading.
These facts speak for themselves. Several more
rounds were fired, both standing and kneeling,
with varying results, and another round for • little
prize given by Brigadier Woolridge. After get-
ting some refreshment, provided by an enterprising
lad with a donkey-cart, and consisting of damp boos
which the men indignantly, but not unjustly, des-
cribed as neither black nor white, and which r, from
melancholy experience, have come to believe indige-
nous to all small sea-side towns, and gingerbeer—
a beverage which, under the sneering name of " pep-
p.tr water, " (beer, indeed !) has drawn upon itself their
unmitigated contempt—the merry-hearted, thought-
less throng returned home amid renewed rain, as
they had come, laughing, singing, and march-
ing at their ease. Before reaching camp I
left the lines ere the order to fall in
was given, with many farewells and kind wishes
from those whom I had accompanied ; and not a
few expressed a flattering hope that I would soon go
and chat with them again. The lights hem the
camp were stealing upon us through the drizzling
rain when the band resumed its duties, and soon the
German Legion was housed, and perhaps a-bed, ,
dreaming of Sebastopol and pepper-water and their
own fatherland, when I sat me down to begin this
letter.

ROBBERY' OF THE GOVEZZIMECT STAMP Onicg
AT MANCHLIITSA.-•Oreitardiy :Amiss tbie discovery was
made that durum the previous night lb. premises of Mr.
Alderman Shuttloworth, or Croes-otrest, Measheeter, the
government distributor of stamps, hid been mitered by
thieves, who had suoceotlod in tarrying off a largo qua,-
tity of postage and other 'temps, worth 1,5001., and 431.
is gold aid silver coin. The stamps taken consisted of 700
sheets of penny postage stamps, worth 7001. ; 100 ditto
at twopence, worth 2001. ; 100 ditto et tenpins*, worth
1001 ; 190 ditto at one sbilliog, wor:h 1001. ; 100 ditto
at fouipanett, worth 1001. ; printed bill stamps, worth
2001.; 100 sheets of tizreaoy 'Um" worth 1001. The
thieves Srs supposed to have 'oersted themselves oa the
previous night to adjoining promises, from whence they had
effected en entrance by canto, through a door "UkalUale*
tug with the Stamp Office. A reward of has hoes
ollored h, ePPrehrr•ion or J he. treaders.
Re ISIAN TRADE AND TIIE Welt.—Spenee" Berliot
Grautte gives euirrney to a rumour, that iu eras•asosee of
the greet injury ieflJeted oa Maisie by the blockade, that
power is shout to do ewer with its system cf mama imam
as the frOlltarl of P/1111,111 Slid Austria, is order ti be able
to proven by lend lb. produeti as of whirl she stied. in
need. o•.her Germs. papers mention rodaflcatioas of the
costa, loose system as the sub mot of negotiatioa between
the Premien and Russian gevernmente.