The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-22 00:00:00

SATITRIAT ' AVEIFINd, "lAtiatkie ' 164 k r

.W INTELLIGENCE.- {TitItPDAY.)

OOTTRT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Hazlift, Acting Conneivioner.)
IN lIC EN HAIM LLANDAPT 1111,4011.

This W3B a renewed application for release out of cus-
tody, the bitting for choice of assignees haring tskein
Tho bankrupt was a general merchant carrying on
buliziess in (fruit Winchester-street-building* and he
conic before the court on his own petition, which he tiled
in tennis psuperie. The debts were 7,000'., which tho
bankrupt had contracted during a trade of fifteen months,
rid there is noshing for the creditors beyond property
consisting prineipolty of cigar warrants, which the bank-
rupt has depoeited as security from time to time.
Mi. Haigh opposed on behalf of one of the assignees,
and Mr. Downing fora detaining creditor ; the other as-
signees consented to the bankrupt's release.
In oppooition, it was stated that the bankrupt was a
foreigner, and dust in order to secure Dia attendance at
the court when required it was weaves he should give
bail. The case was fraught with inasmuch as
there had been previous failures, and the court had set
aside a deed of arrangement which the bankrupt had re-
cently executed.
After hearing Mr. Banks for the bankrupt,
His Honour declined to order the release except upon
the bankrupt giving bail for 100/., and finding two sure-
ties of 601. each.
Order accordingly.

LATEST SPORTING INVELLIGENCE

(BY mumps.)
TUNBRIDGB 11:1111TING.--(THIS DAY.)

RUMMY PLAT& rive !arbor'. •_.
Prebendal, Redora, Jaaaitai Bay Rosaliod o,• L sly
Palinerskio g, and Royalist are beria•

t2O CUP. One mile 16m1
Criral, Mont Blanc, Peninsula. Lady Wand, and
Retribution are here.

SOUTH-EASTERN PLATE. Piie furlongs.
Programs, Lionel, Sweet Boy, Hopvine, Red lliband,
Barrington, and Gamin are here.

YID-KENT STAKES. One mile.
Fitz-Ivan, Breach of Promise' Programs, Hz=
Helder, Lymington, Red Riband, Aldershot, ant
are here.

SELLING STASES. Half a w. 44.
(Radice, Cotheretone dam L Oen* Sweet Boy, Mies
Charlotte e, rhigar, Norriegtos, ElldiableSkanble,
Red Mend, and are here.

BROOK STREET STASIS/3. One mile.
Did not ell. Left open to °lose an the mite.

ISTIING IN LONDON.-Cringi DAY.)
LAY e.g.

There was very Little doing to;tigy, the prin-
cipal feature kit the backing of Visotiont.
7 to 1 ler elk 81. User, /00 to 100, and wen
titles being booked ; 64s 4 Men allased against The East
without a response; for the mat Ina* was no ohmage.
Prices as follow;

LllOllll.
6to 4 -tThp yarl (off)
4 to 1 King Alfred (off)
7to 1 Viscount (t)
20 to 1 TrOoeus (off, t 26 to 1)
25 to 1 ESf. Ronan (off)
30 to 1 Green Sleeve (t)

.41,7:8y MARKET.
.--(rfu,s DA F.

ONB O'CLOCK,

The building being under repair, the Stook.
Rackange is closed to-day, and consequently no
business is going forward in public securities.
The rate for bills iikelfe discount Market is !tit°
11 per cent., 'with a good supply of' money, and
little demand:

• Abeut,27, in gold was sent into the Beak
yesterday.
The Louisiasia, from New York, has brought
13,0001. in specie. ' • •
The steluner Ceylon will take to-day 27,071 f:
in specie, of whiob nearlY the whole is silver for
Hong. Bong and Manghai.
The Maitchater Courier announces the failure of
ItesTr; and W. Newlands, Brazilian merchants,
of w, with liabilities estimated at about
'l5O, . The diffioulties of the home are stated
to have arisen from the unfavourable position of
the Braznian trade.

At Paris the rate of &mount in theopen market
is mat.; at Hamburg, Hoyt. sad
Briwds. 2; at Amsterdam. 4; at Berlin, 3; at
♦ienna, 4 ; tit Turin, 41; and at fit. Petersburg,
6 per cent, ' _ _

Thetelegraphie ommennunieWien between Point
dethilesidLondoniWinteeinpted.

The continental exchanges yesterday afternoon
were firm, pod a alight advanoe was established
on Holland, Germany, and Italy.- The list is sub-
joined :

hinstordam, 3 month..,, 12.01 to 12.1; ditto, short,
11.114 to 11.191 ; Rotterdam, 3 months, 12.01 to 12.1;
Antwerp, 3 months, 26.16 to 16.40; Brume* 3 mouths,
26.36 to 26.40 ; Halal= and Alto's, 3 months, 13.11)1
So 13.101/ Berlin. Cologne, &e., 3 months, 6.28, •
et. Petersburg, 3 month.. 3g t 9 ; rots, ihiet, 26
19 2/.90: Months, 26.35 to 95.371 ; Marseilles,
8 months, 26.36 to 26.371 ; Prankfort-on-the-Maine, 8 .
months, 190} to 1201 Vienna, 3 months, 11.70 to
11.80 ; Trieste, 3 month., 11.70 to 11.80 ; Madrid. 3
months, 481 to 48 ; Santander, 3 months, 482 to 481 ;
Cadiz, 3 months. 49 to 481 ; Seville, 3 months, 49 to 481
Malaga, 3 months, 481 to 48 ; Valencia, 3 months, 48
to 481 ; Barcelona, 3 months, 481 to 48} ; Bilbao, 3
months, 481 to 481 • Saragossa, 8 months, 481 to 481;
Leghorn, 3 month., 27.90 to 28.00 ; Genoa, 3 months,
27.90 to 28.00 ; Naples, 3 maths, 27.90 to 28.00; Pa-
lermo, 3 months, 27.90 to 28.00 ; Messina, 3 months,
27.90 to 28.00
date,; Lilsbon,
61f.
90 days date, 61f to 611 ; Oporto,
90 days'6l to
_ _

A special meeting of Reuter's Telegram Com-
pany (Limited) will be held on the 7th of Sep-
tember, "for the purpose of confirming an agree-
ment dated the 14th day of July, 1868, between
her Majesty's Postmaster-General and this com-
pany, and authorising the sale by this company
to the Postmaster-General of so much of the
undertaking of the company as consists of the
Nordeney cable, and of the property, rights, and
privileges of the company therein, or connected
therewith, and the benefit of all cone ssions from
foreign governments in relation to the said cable,
and of all contracts between the company and the
Electric Telegraph Company and the Indo-
European Telegraph Company, or either of them,
upon the terms expressed in the said
4agirment."
We are informed %bat ollotnm ZA shares in
the Dondok Tleigiuni, Brazil, and River Plate
Royal Sfaii Steam Ship Company (Limited) was
made by the directors al a tueetmg_held yesterday.
The half-yearly coupon of the Danubian Prin-
cipalities Loan of 1864, due Ist September, will be
paid at the London agency of the Imperial Otto-
man Bank.

The Transfer Books of the Agra Bank (Limited)
will be closed from the 24th to the 31st instant,
preparatory to the payment of dividend on Ist
Serber.
ulToined are the quotations of insurance,
gas, OnsierwOrkll, end Canal shares, as given in the
Stock Exchange list of last evening :
.b1111111%110(t. Commercial Union, ; London, 46; ;
lcortiN. British and Mercantile, 16-1 ; Universal Marine
(Limited), 6 7-16, ex div.
Gaa Light and Coke.—Bombay (Limited), 31; Imperial
Continental, 100.
Waterworks.—Grand Junction, 74, VII.
Canals.—Regent's (or London), 22h 3.
Mr. Wilson, of the Royal Exchange, has just
issued the fourteenth edition of "The Modern
Cambist," by Tate. The standard work of this
country ss a manual of foreign exchanges, it is
more indispensable than ever since political
changes in Germany and Italy have introduced
some considerable alterations in the finance of
those countries. The edition is, in all respects,
brought down to the present time.

MINES.-(THIN DAY.)

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ONE O'CLOOE.

The Stock Exchange is closedto-daTiind no
business is, therefore, going forward in mining
shame.

The subjoined report on the metal market is
from Messrs. von Dodds:en and North :
The market remains "Inactive, and motel., without ex-
oeon, show no change of importance sinoe our last
circular. bon—The accounts from Wales and Stafford-
shire are cheering, and prices well maintained. Scotch
pig iron continnes steady at 625. 71d. cash. Copper—
English raw, from second hands. is still unsettled. Manu-
factured remains at 78/. A moderate amount of business
has been done in Wallaroo up to 7W. 10s. cash and 801.,
with some prompt, at which there are now sellers. Burrs
is obtainable at the mme price. Chili bars, after having
touched 681. 10s., have become Eat again, with sellers al
681. Tin—Straits has kept its position at 931. ea* ; 931.
10s. asked to arrive. Banes. nominally 941. to 941. 10s.
English tin is steady. In Holland the market is quiet at
54}f. to Tin plates in moderate demand at late rates.
Lead is quiet ; good soft English, 181. 16e. ; L. 8., 191.
Specter—Common brands in London have realised 201. 2e.
&I. ; outposts, they are obtainable at 191. 158. ; specials,
20/. 7s. 6d. ; V. and S., nominally 201.

Great Wheal Vor United Mines sold on the 19th
instant 53 tons 9 cwt. 0 qrs. 191bs. of black tin for
2,9931. 10s. ld.

An inhabitant of Berlin lately. during the great
heat, experimented on the hatching of hens' eggs in sand.
On the 22nd July he placed six in • cigar but filled with
that material, and exposed the case to the eon on that and
the following days. The first chick broke the shell on the
9th of August, the second on the 10th, the third and
fourth on the 11th, and the other two on the following
day. They are all going on well, being fed on boiled
eggs cut up small and mixed with millet. The average
period of hatching chickens is twenty-one days ; in the
pr Bent case the first was produced in nineteen.
The heat has been intense at Madrid this sum-
mer, and on Saturday last the thermometer stood at 39
deg. in the shade (102 1-5 Fahren.). The Ebro is de-
scribed as almost dried up, and the small thread of water
in it is so infected with earthy matter es to be unfit for
use.

After a long drought rain has become general
all over France, and especially in the South, ands now
falling at Toulouse, Valence, and at Grenoble. "In the
neighbourhood of Lyons," says the Saha Pu " the
wet, which Ix*" CoPIC qp at lag) continues 4E lw;CrTala t.
the great satisfaction of the farmers, who were complain•
ing of the great heat and dry weather. The vines were
losing their leaves on some hill sides, and the grapes were
being burnt up by the sun. The present change will not
repair the berm that has been done, but it will prevent a
further extension. The moisture is softening the skins of
the fruit, and is favouring their ripening, which is already
advanced."

A boy 13 years of age has just committed
suicide by hanging himeeLf at Deurne, in Belgium, because
his father bad punished him for some trifling fault.

DEATH or LADY Bp. .—The announcement
of the death of Lady Brand, the wife of the venerable
Speaker of.the House of Assembly, will be received with
deep regret wherever it is made. The deceased lady has
been for the past two or three weeks in ap•said, date
of health, having suffered from two M.. of apoplexy,
but so early. a termination of her sufferings was by no
means anticipated. On Monday evening her ladyship be-
came much worse, and expired shortly after the return of
Sir Chrktopher Brand from the House of Assembly. On
Tuesday the house met, and adjourned until Thursday,
and yesterday the remains of her ladyship were earned
to the grave, followed by a large number of sorrowing
friends and relatives.—Cape Arrirs,Jyul 9.

CAMBEIDGENIEBB Meters. Young
and Brand, the liberal candidates for the Mhos
of the county, arrived yesterday evening at Übe& by
the 7.20 tram from Cambridge, and ware met at the
station by a large assemblage of the inhabitants. A Iwo.
cession woe formed, which, headed by a band of music,
accosepaeSed the candidates' carriage into tho town.
Both gentlemen addressed the elertoen Their reception
was most enthusiastic.

3

IMMERCIAL AND MARKETS,

•
LIVERPOOL .00TTON MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
(aT ret.aotaric.)
Crow ova oww .ociaalorowparer.)
Ilita 'statist Arm.. Balm about 16,000 bales, at rat's.-
day'a altavata rake. •

CidAN $l4lll/2 IiARKET.,-(THI3 DAY.)
.)
- • (rum ors oirx ornissasPossissisi
Oriihary, 1225., 1155., 1065., 97, 775. ;
Mild cured, Bea, 1235., 117 s. ; 140 firkins.

1,60 firkime.

TiltLol4 DAY.J
7he market is *Woody. Town tallow, 434, 3d.
•Fetersbarg Y. 0., on the spot, 444. ; October to De-
«whew. 445. 9d. to 464. ; December, 465. to 45e. 3d.
Year ATIZACMIL —Town tallow, 464. 9d. ; Lt
ditto,. b. Rd. ; yellow Bussisa. new, 465. 6d. ;
stuff, Us. ; rough ditto, 17s. Ed. ; greaves,
dregs, 6s. Imports for the week amount to 1,857

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Charles James Easton reports bads as follow}':—
Prises old meadow hay, 110 s. to 120 s. ; inferior dritsb
90e. to 100 a. ; prior new hay, 106 a. to 116 s. ; inferior
ditto, M. to 100 a. ; prints old clover, 130 s. to 136 e.; in-
ferior ditto, 110 s. to 190 e. ; prime new clover, 110 e. Pe
130 p. ; inferior dittat 90s. to 10is. ; straw, au to 40s.

00VEN't GARDB/t.—(THIS DIY.
Bomb's/sop the week have been short, •
u regards vegetables, which are • •
(31 pines are also rather more in request teas
they have been. Apples, pears, and plums are sullUient
for the demand. Heavy conagnments continue to b 3 Ilt?
cciyed from the Continent. Kent Alberti are otwaiag-bs----
in .abundance. Potatoes are Lm nee, -aild -many of
them are badly diseased. Mowers chiefly consist of
orcieide, balsams, pularooniume, fuchsias, mignonette, sal

p^r bunhel, 411 to
Apritoto, per dos., : to 4a
Fw, per dos., No to U.
}inert., per lb., Sd to I.
ape% per lb., 3r to G.
Lerttows, p 2 Wu, .0a to 1.1.

rRrIT
Girton*, rseh, Ss to G
NeetArises, p. th 4.. a, to Gs
Ptivi lies, per dor., Sii to 6s
Pests, pre dos., 2,. to 4
Pine-apples, per lb., 4. to Gs
Plui,as, per 1 sieve, Jr. to Gs
vi:ri 17T/1 B LES.

Arti, hoVe.. per doz., J. t , 1.
Beane, Kidney, pr half tbme,
/test per doz., Is to I.
Fat lag per d 0,.. Ir to 2+
Carrote, per bunch, 9d to to
Celery, pr bundle, 1. to 2s
eueumhers, ea.+, 4d to te
Endive, p•rr dor., Is Cal to Se
Garlic and Rhallots, p. lb., bd
Herbs., per bunch, 2d to 4d
llorse flattish, p. hood, Se to Se
L&tks, per bunch, 2d to 4d

In•lhar,,, per trmm, 2. to 4,
! Perm+. per dos aft
Miut, per bunch, bd
Mushrooms, p /wilt., a, to 64
Onion•, per bushel, 4. to fis
Powder, per bunch, 4.1 to 9d
PotatAys, York Itogents, p. ton
170,. to 190.
Maws, do., 140 s to 105.
Myatt'e, do., DlOft
Spinftri,, per bushel, Is to Gs
Toniatonn, per doJr, IF to SI
Turnipa(new), p. bun , tato 1466

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

THE PORTSMOUTH AND CORK COMMANDS.—
Ad m irel Sir Thomas Paisley's time, as Commander-in-Chief
at Portsmouth, will (says the Army and Nary Gazette)
expire on the lat of March of the ensuing year, and it is
stated that Admiral the Earl of Lauderdale, first and prin-
cipal naval aide-de-camp to the Queen, is a candidate for
the appointment. The same journal says that as Rear-
Admiral Buckle was nominated to the naval command
at Cork with the distinct understanding that
he should mita nit appotntannt Aft his 0.01077.-
'3'g t" I.4te :Cir the retirement of officers of his
rank, he will, as a matter of course, heti down hi Bar
towards the close of the year, and it is confidently
rumoured that he will be succeeded by Rear-Admiral F.
Warden, C.B. There is thus a prospect at last, however
slight, of a move on the captains' list, as the promotion of
the Director of Transport is, at all events, certain before
the year runs out, if it does not occur owing to other tic-
cumatanceil 1119 himuir23.

TESTIMONIAL TO CAPTAIN TRYON.—The captains
of the Abyssinian transport ships have taken steps towards
presenting a handsome testimonial to Captain Tryon,
RN„ who won great popularity at Animaley Bay. About
3.ooUrs. had already been raised is Bombay alono,—
'' 'led &reit? Gmette,

The following promotions will take place in eon-
sequence of the death of General Sir G. Wymer :—Lieut.-
General Sir David Capon, }C.C.S., colonel of the 106th
Foot, to be general ; Major-General IL K. Bloomfield,
colonel of the 64th Foot, to be lieutenant-general ; Colonel
m. W. Whitfield, from the 2nd West India Regiment, to
be I:eajoy-general ; Major Robert Mammal, of the 9th
Depot V.:ettalion, to be lieutenant-colonel; and Captain
R. onslow Farmer, Roy* Artillery, to be major in the
army.

ADMIRALTY, AIIOUST 21. •••••APPOINTXENT.
Commander Wm. B. Goold, to the Fort&

The Morning Post understands that it is the in-
tention of the Marquis of Salisbury to rebuild his late
father's family mansion in Arlington-street, Piccadilly.
It will take two years to rebuild and complete it for the
reception of the family.
The Prime Minister, on the part of the crown,
has nominated the Rev. W. R. Thompson, M.A., to the
vicarage of Exmoor, Somerset, vacant by the preferment
of the Bev Morton Drummond, M.A.
Mr. Disraeli bail presented, through the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer, ,are r. •ohn
Askham, the Willingboro' poet, froth the Royal Bounty
Fund.
The Queen hus been pkaeed to approve of Don
Vermin Ortega y Molina all consul at Gibraltar for her
Majesty the Queen of Spain. The Queen has also been
pleased to approve of Mr. Michele Suarez Ghana as consul
at Sierra Leone, with jurisdiction over Senegambia, for
_his neesty the King of Italy. The Queen has also been
E77to appoint Samuel Mitchell and Daniell Webster,
, to be members of the council of the Island of
Grenada.—Gazette.

About 300 acres of barley near Dorchester, were
left standing until after the wet weather set in, and thus
became very reriously damaged. The owners had been
offered the asaistanceof the soldiers in the neighbourhood,
but this was declined, as it was thought the drought
would last much longer than it did. The property in that
neighbourhood belongs to the Prince of Wales.
Charles Cutler, cake Barris, wee yesterday com-
mitted, on the coroner's warrant, for kicking to death Mr.
hiddon, landlord of the Duke of Cambridge Tavern,
Wood-green, on the day of the Alexandra-park races.
The jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter.'
HORRIBLE MforsLaroterga IN DEvoYsitrafl.—
The village of South Tawton was horrified on Wed-
nesday. by an old man ha been beaten to death by
his neighbour. Thomas Glandfield, carpenter, has
a daughter, whom he accused an old man Pows-
land of harbouring in his house contrary to his
wish. On Tuesday evening Glandfield broke into
Poweland's house in search of his daughter, and on the
following day (Wednesday) the two meeting in the road.
• quarrel arose when Glaudfield, who had a large stick in
his hand, commenced beating the poor old man in the
most ;savage manner. The injuries inflicted were so
murderous that in about twenty minutes the unfortunate
man was dead. Olandfield was at once taken into cus-
tody, and the body of his victim bee awaiting the inquest.
TAf seem Times.

TRAFFIC B.ACErrrit—The traffic receipts of rail-
ways in the United Kingdom for the week ending
August 16, amounted on 13,360 miles, to 817,366/.,
and for the corresponding week, 1867, on 13,008 miles, to
835,9321., showing an increase of 320 miles, and a decrees.
of 18,6 W. The gross receipts on 14 of the principal rail-
ways in the United Kingdom amounted for the weak on
9,672 miles, to 686,019 L, and for the corresponding week of
last year on 9.394 miles, to 698,4681.. showing an
increase of 226 miles, and a decrease of 13„449/.
The decrease on the Great Eastern amounted to
1,5001. ; on the Great Southern and Western, 'to
803/. • on the Great Western to 1,9741.; on the
Lancichire and Yorkshire to 7791. • on the London and
North-Western to 2,6291. ; on the London, Brighton,
and South Coast to 810/. ; on the London and South-
Western to 1,6241.; on the Mancharter, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire to 96/. ; on the North-Eastern to 5,106/. •.
and on the South-Eastern, to 2111.—total 13,4311. ; but
tjoglthp Pt* be dtdricted 1,6631., the increase on the.
Caledonian and North British, 2171. on the Great
Northern, and 2031. on the Midland, together, 1,9821.,
leaving the decrease as above. 13,449/. The re-
ceipts on 62 other railways in the United Kingdom
amounted cal 3,678 miles to 3'2,347L,1 and for the corm-
ann gailia week *of ;a veer on 3,814 miles to 137,4641.,
increase of ba miaz and • decrease of 6,1171.
The goods traffic on the 14 systems of One; !II*" Men.
tinned amounted for the week to 323.9741., Against
330,036/., showing a decrease of ANIL The passengers,
parcels, mails, traffic on those Mn.. amounted to
361.0364, and for the corresponding week of 1867 to
368,4331., showinga decrease of '7,398/.- The total receipts
for the past week show a decrease of 19,0641. as compared
with those of the preceding week, ending the Bth August.
EOM BRUSHING BY MACHINERT.—Esir brush-
ing by machinery is hardly applicable to human heads •,
none but the shortest crop of bristles and the toughest of
skins being able to support it, whilst fine hair, if not torn
out by the roots, is apt, if long. to get mund the spindle
and scalp the patient before le can say, "Hold, enough 1"
—a thin not likely to occur in dreming the horse.
Grooms, gof mune, will for a time be against the method,
and old hands sadly bothered to use the rotating brush;
but with several horses to dress, the saving will. be
the lying polisher passing over the surface with ten=
the velocity of the hand. The use of the machine would
not abolish the hand-brush, any more than the bIIWII-12101110r
supersedes the occasional use of the shears for trimming
rr and thruhs and borders. The scheme is well worth a
trial. It saves seventy-five per cent. of labour, and with
far more brilliant recults.—Gestleromis Mort:ion for
ANATIONAL EXHIBITION OF WORKS OP ART AT-;
I must—lietnin of admissions: Friday, August 21, W.
reason tickets, 916 ; by payment of 2e. Gd. each, 74f1,'
total. LOG&