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An act of self destruction, accompanied by three attempts
to destroy a rectory-house by fire, took place in the village
of Bradford Peverell, about two miles from Dorchester, on
Saturday last Just before six o'clock that morning the
deceased, tamed William Howe, and serving-man to the
Rev. Blackstone Williams, Rector of Bradford Peverell,
and high sheriff's chaplain, was heard to go up to his
room by one of the servants, and shortly afterwards she
remarked a singular smell of smoke. On descending she
found the lower part of the rectory and the s'a'rcaee were on
fire, and at once communicated with her master. The Rev.
Mr. Williams immediately ran to the nursery and saved his
children, and the household was almost instantly astir. It
was observed, however, that Howe was not abou', and Mr
Williams thereepon went to his room, and after getting no
reply to repeated calls', the rev. gentleman entered de-
ceased's bed-room, and found the unfortunate man lyirg
motionless on the floor, with his face downwards, and a
discharged gun beneath him. He called to a man named
Bartlett to assist Howe, and then went to rescue Mrs.
Williams, who, owing to the heat of the staircase, and the
smoke, was hardly able to effect an escaee. Mr. Williams
then returned to deceased's room, and found him attempt-
ing to cut his throat with a razor, and the rev. gentleman
managed to get posseseion of ihe razor, and to throw it
away, when II )wa fell ueon the floor as if dead. It
was found that by means of Leaps of candle ends, straw,
empty casks, and portions of wall beirg bared to the
lath, preptrations which must have occupied hours
for their consummation, the hcuse was in a very danger-
ous condition. However, the Rev. Mr. Williams made
his way again to deceased's room, when he found the
man on his feet, hacking at his throat with another
raz: la the ex etence of which was unknown to the rev.
gen lemen, and the man bleeding prefusely, almost im-
mediately after expir;ng. No cause for th committal
of these ceeds has peen assigned. Howe always bore a
good character for honesty and attention to Lis duties,
and up to bedtime the neevious night had, as usuel, waited
upon hs master. 'I he appearance of deceased's bed,
ht,werer. the clothes of which were undisturbed, showed
that he had not been to bed all night, and ho was dressed
as on the preceding evening. Although no report (f fire-
arms was heard by any of ha inmates of the rectory, it is
believed death ensued from bullets which had penetrated
the bedy. The unfortunate man, at his own le quest, was
just on the point of leaving Mr Williams's service, whence
he intended to enter the police force at Bristol, and
afterwards to get married. An inquest was held the same
day before the district corener, Mr. Giles Symonds, and
the jury returned a verdict of felo de se. The body was
interred at midnight.

At LEWIS & COMPANY'S, Ranelagh-atreet,
BOYS ate CLO I BED from the Ages of Six to Twenty Years.

THE INDIAN ThIBVS OF Texas.—The 'Zan tribes
Texts are passing into rapid decay. In 1853 the whol7
number of Indians was estimated at 20,100. In 1856 the
number, fr. m fficial accounts, did rot exceed 12,000.
Some 1,500 Lichens t 11 the reservation of the clear fork
of the Brazos, as t make good crops ; 3,000 semi-civi ized
C e tke, Del iwattes, end Cherokees, a-e in Eastern Texse ;
in North, 1,000 Wesbitas and Waeos. There are 3,000
Camauches, 1,000 Lipari-, and 4,000 of all other stragglers
CATTLE. FROM THE NORTH OF EUROPE.—The grits
importations of cat le i.ito Lowestoft froM the north of
Europe auseunted in the week ending the 20th inst. to 945
oxen an i ratl er mere than 1,1100 sheer and lambs. The
stock was riceieed from the asull pens, Tanning, Husum,
and F eel( rickstatla On Friday the North of Europe
Steam Navigetion Company's steamer City of Norwich,
Captain Oliver, arrived with 171 beasts and 100 shi ep, and
the Tot. nine. Captain Russell, with 203 beasts and 531
sheep A telegraphie despatch rev ived from Lowestoft on
Saturday also announces the arrival of the Cumberland
with 129 betas's and 33 sheep. This env, s a total for the
prelent week of 563 beasts a- d 664 sheep, at d a fourth
steamer will probably bring a further consignment. The
stock has bsea forwarded, as usu 11, to the metropolis.
STAIR FEDWIE.ADS FOR TPE FGYPTIAN COVEDNMENT.—
A megnificent electre-silver state bedstead, manufactured
by Messrs. Charles Willi ems and Co., of 223, Oxford-
street, is now on view at Willie's Rooms, King-street, St.
James's. The bedstead is one of six which were (Men d
by the late Viceroy Abbas Pasha, in contemplation of the
marriage of his son to the daughter of the late Sultan of
Egypt. Three of the bedsteads are stationer,, end the
other three moveable, or, as they are celled, camp bedsteaels,
which admit of being taken to pieces and deposited in a
case of very small dimensions. The di sign has no pre-
tensions to originality, Mr. Williams admi ting with very
creditable c ndeur that he derived the idea frem the
celebrated carved wooden bedstead by a Belgian artisan,
which was so much admired in the Exhibition of
1851. The dimensions of the bedsteads are as follows :
The height 13ft., the ngth 7f'. 6in., and the width
sft. ; the smallness in the latter respect was explained by
Mr. Wiltian s saying that in the East it is not
customary to seep two in a bed. The head of the bed-
stead is composed of elegant polished pierced work oat of
the sclid metal, and is surmounted by a rich Italian
foliage. the foot 1- eautifully harmonises in character with
the head, and is enriched on the outer side by a large
arabesque shell in bold relief. The sides are composed of
rich Italian scroll-work, the open work being shown ep
by crimson velvet linirg. The bate consists of highly-
polished Guilloche ornament, and the entire work is sur-
mounted by an elegant arched canopy, supported by four
light, trilliently polished pillars. The whole presents a
very hiautifel piece of fairy-like workmanship, and rail eta
great credit en the ingenuity and taste or the arlist. The
travelling bedsteads vary in some resp-c's in their de-
sign, but these are not yet completel. We under-
stend that the price of the whole of the articles will
not be less than £lO,OOO. Hugh Thurban, an
agent of the Egyptian government has, with his family,
inspected tLe work, and has expressed himself much gra-
tified at the a xcellert manner in which it has been execu-
ted. Messrs Williams and Co. have long been honoured
by the orders of the Egypttan government, and some few
years age executed fur the late Paella feur magnificent
silver electro-plated candelabra, eighteen feet in height,
with twenty-four lights each. It was observable that
throughout the whole of the design for this splendid
piece of art, tbere was rot a single allegorical figure, or
heraldic device introduced. This reminds us that many
years ago, whon a splendid service of porcelain was
specially manufactured for the then Viceroy of Egypt, the
artist having embellished his work by various mythological
subjects, the whole service was rejected, and returned upon
the hands of the mskette Mr. Williams, upon this matter
being pointed out to him, said he bad been informed by
high authority that all such embellishments were contrary
to the " custom" of the Emiyptians.
CONEXCRATION OF THE BISHOP OF SIERRA ZONE.—
Monday being St. Matthews' Day, was apse ted for the
cons. cralon of the Rev. John Bawer', 1 L.D , of Trinity
College, Dublin, Rector of Arton Longville, Huntingdon-
Aire, who has ken appointed by the Crowe to the
bishopric of Sierra Lsose, re.nderectracant by the death of
the Rev. Dr. J. W. Weeks. At eleven o'cl-ck a pro-
cession, consisting of the Archbishop- of Canterbury, the
Bishop of Peterborough, the Bishop of Victoria, Dr.
Bowen, the Bishop designate, Mr. Francis Hart Dyke,
her Majesty's proctor. Mr. Felix Knyvetf, the Archbishop's
secretary, the Rev. John Thomas, L.0.L., his Grace's
chaplain, and Mr. James Barker, the apparitor, en-
tered the chapel, and the archbishop and bishops took.
their seats within the rails of the communion table:
Prayers were read by the archbishop's chaplain (nir.
Thomas), and the sermon was preached by the Rev. Chas.
B. Gribble, Al A , incumbent of St. Paul's church, Waite-
chapel, who selected for his text the Ist verse of the 2nd
Epistle of S'. Paul to Timothy—" Thou, therefore, my son,
be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." s'.t the close
of the sermon the Bishops of Peterborough and Victoria
presented the Bishop Designate (who was habited in his
rocket) to the Arclibis'iop, and the Queen's mandate for
the consecration was read by Mr. Francis Hart Dyke,
her Majesty's proctor. After the usual preliminaries
had been gone through, Dr. Bowen retired, and soon
afterwards re-appeared in the full episcopal habit. He
knelt at the rails of the communion table, when the
Archbishop and the Bishops present placed their hands
upon his h'ad. Then handing the new Bishop a Bible,
the Archbishop saii :—" Give heed unto reading, exhorta-
tion, and doetfine. Think upon the things contained in
this book. Be diligent in them, that the increase coming
thereby may be made manifest unto all men. Tike heed
unto thys.lf and to doctrine, and be diligent in
doing them, for by so doing them shalt th'u both
save thyself and them that hear thee. Be to the Ink
of Christ a shepherd, not a wolf ; feed them, devour
them not. Hold tip the weak, heal the sick, bind
np the broken, bring again the outcasts, seek tae
lost. Be so merciful that you he not too remiss. So mitester
discipline that you forget not mercy, that when the Chief
Shepherd snail appear, you may receive the never-fading
erown of glory, through Jesus elitist our Lord. Amen."
The new Bishop of Sierra Leone parsed several Tears of
his early life in the Caradas, and bas also visited several
countries in the East. He is a man of independent fortune.
His seat is Milton House, Pembrokeshire, where he has
considerable property. He is unmarried, and from his
former habits and strong physical powers, added to his
sterling worth, and evangelical piety, it would have been
difficult to select one more fitted in every way for the
important post he is ceded upon to fill in nursing the infant
churches in Western Africa. .

At LEWIS & COMPANY'S, Ranelagh-street.
BOYS are CLOTHED from the Ages of Six to Twenty Years.

A letter in the Times of yesterday contains the follow-
ing :—" In your paper of Wednesday, the 16th of July, is
an extract from the Melbourne Argus, g.ving an account of
a hearing at the Williamstown Police court, resulting in a
fine of £233 is 6d, or, in defaalt of payment, three
months' imprisonment, imposed on the master of the ship
War spirit, from Liverp)ol, for not having a sufficient
supply of water on board his ship to allow of his issuing
the daily quantity required by the Passer gers' Act—
viz , three quarts of pure water to each person, exchasive
of that used. for cooking purposes. Inca defence was
"that the casks had leaked, and that the passengers
were necessarily put on short allowance on the
59th day of the voyage, and that in doing this
the cap'ain had exercised a sound discretion ; also,
that he condensed salt water to the amount of 50
gallons a day, which the passengers might have used, but
disliked it, as testis.. of salt and lead, and would not use
it, although it had been pronounced by the doctor to be
wholesome." '1 his decision may be very useful to the
public, but it also raises a very important question as to
the comfort of our troops g 'ing out in the noble merchant
ships which the lion. Fast India Company have hired for
them upon tha consent cf Government to allow the
Admiralty to refuse to carry British troops—th!s, by tl,e
way, after the Royal Albert for England and the Napoleon
fir France were employed to carry each 1,000 men to
Belaklava in 1855. I have been assured by a captain
of a floe screw steamer that, after leaving the Channel,
water enough was distilled on board his vessel to
supply the whole ship's company during her voyage to
the Cape, and this was used, while that in the casks
remained untouched ; sled that in a similar ship the
apparatus for condensing sea water was wholly neglected.
It can be fitted at a small cost to sailing vessels or to screw
or paddle steamers, the product of course being in propor-
tion to the firs used, but in all cases it may be consider-
able. Sir Edward Parry once told me, on the flttinc, of
the Ajax and Blenheim blockehips with screw propellers.
that the diminution of the capacity to carry water in hose
ships, by reason of the space occupied by the engines, would
be counterbalanced by the ficility of condensing water.
Now, referrirg to the case cited, I must add that it is one
thing to condense water, another to make it drinkable. As
in the process of condensing or distillation the water is
rol bed of its oxygen, it becomes necessary to aerate it,
and this may he effected by the very simple process of
passing it two or three times through a cask pierced
with small holes, or a coarse seive, care being taken
that while it is running it is exposed to the free
action of the air. The importance of alditional water on
a long voyage across a line to our soldiers is very great. Is
mere neligence to deprive them of it.; or is the command-
ing officer of the troops to be blameless if he emit to instruct
his men how to prepare the water when it has been served
out to them? I am here reminded of the gross neglect of
cookery by soldiers which I have seen on board transports.
Soldiers know nothing about preparing salt beef or pork in
a ship's galley. They have a seperate kitchen, and are not
instructed by the sailors I once saw 300 men endeavour-
jug to est the hardest possible salt meat and dumplings on
board the—, in the Black Sea. The soldier's friend was
oa board and asked M. Soler to suggest a remedy, and the
next day both were excellent ; the difference arose from
the senior sergeant having had the beef in the boiler one
hour the first day and eight the second. There were half
a dozen officers on board, bat it was not etiquette for them
to interfere with their men's dinner. The salt meat for
the army is contracted for (as for the navy) to remain
serviceable for three years, and before it can be made into
nutritious and wholesome meat for co kieg it has to be
washed, soaked, or parboiled (and if it goes through all
these processes the better). Unless the superfluous reit is
thus got rid of our soldiers cannot arrive in health in India,
even though they have the advantage on ship-board of
that lemon juice which vas denied them in the Crimes,
bemuse it had gone into the stores of the Medical De-
partment instead of those of the Ccmmissariat. One
simple method of getting rid of the salt is to place the
beef lightly in an empty cask, the bottom of which has
been bored full of small holes, and then to allow sea
water continuously baled or pumped into it for some hours
to percolate through the cask. When this is done by
sailors the cask is lashed in the chains or rigging, so as to
keep the decks clean.

To PARENTS AND GUARDIANS.—The Paris correspondent
of the New York Journal of commerce furnishes
p'easing intelligerce to family men :—We thought that
ti-e excessive luxitly displayed by our fine ladies vieuld h.ve
produce,l, ere this, a reaction, and that simplicity in dress
would again ristinguish the Frenchw, man of bon-lon ; but
everything ird'eate', cn the contrary, for the coming
bseasi n, an unusual display of ex'rav )gance.
REPRE,ENTATION OF GREENWlCH.—Committees have
been formed at Greenwich, Woolwich, and Deptford for
the rurp ,se of raisin.; a fund to pay off the liabilities of
Mr. Townsend ; and his friends are very sanguine of sue.
cast. Mr. A. R. Bristow, solicit,r, ha, published an
adOresv, in which he states that he has had nothing to do
with the creditors of Mr. Townsend, and with respect to
futtrc elections !or the boroligh he has made up his mind
not t )filt2rtere on behalf of any candidate as a profekkional
agent.

AN ADVENTURE IN THE ALPS.—GENOA, SEPT.
" And now I mu-t tell you how it was quite on the cards
that you might Lever have seen me again, except. in the
Canvent Morgue, which would have been a dull thing. I
got to Orsieres about three, and as I could not stop in that
miserable place, although I knew it was late, I got a
mule, with a man, to start at ones for the convent. The
weather was coming on veer, but nothing out of the
way, so I went on, leaving Favret to follow with my
luggage on his mule, and the m .n. 'You know I am
well up in the locality. At St. Pierre the rain began,
and I wrs so cold with riding that I palled up at the
canteen (the last habitation tp the pass); and got some
brandy ; and while I was there the man cone up, leaving
Favret behind to get some dinner and rest his male,
which had come with us all the way from the Tote Noire
that day. The man, the mete, and I left the canteen about
half-past 6, and dark and dreary eno-gh the route 'coked.
About half-past 7 we arrived at the first deadhouse—not
the Morgue, but the refuge—and then a storm came on
such ac I had never before witnes-era. It row got pitch
dark, but the lightning was so incessant, that we traced the
way between us pretty well until, in another half hoar,
above Pont d'Hudri, a den•e fog came on, wi:h a cutting
sleet, and the rain came down as if in one sheet. The
mule got frightened and turned round, but we got her
head to wind' again, until in another quarter of
an hour we got on a sheet of snow, aml neither the
man nor I could make out the track, and the water was
r,ging and lashing and roaring apparently on every side of
' us, hut we could see nothing et apt in the refracting of
the light from the snow. The man was a famous fellow.
He said, 'We can't stop here, and we can't go. on;'
bat, if you will mind the mule, I will try and get to the
convent.' This was a dreary alternative, but I stuck
my baton in the enow, tied the mule to it, and
then got in her shelter, as he crunched over a. few
feet of snow on his way, and then I heard him no
more. I did not mind for the first ten minutes
or a quarter of an hour, but I soon got fearfully cold,
and I did not dare move, not knowing what was on
either side of me ,• and when half an hour had passed and
I was still there I certainly thought it was a bad business.
I shouted as loud as I could, but my voice was nothing in
the wind; and you can understand, in a si nation like that,
what horrible things came into my mind ; and I thought
it would be so hard for me to be lrot there who knew-
every stone almost on the pass. I had been wet through
one hour before, but that was nothing; but there was
a sack of corn on the mule, and I was Suet going to
cut this down and open it to put over when I
thought I heard the dogs. I listened in agony for five
minutes, but the wind came roaring on again, and I
was all but done as I saw a light dancing up above and
before me. This came on, and I gave a shout, which was
answerei' and in a few minutes more the man reached me.
We now found we were cif the track, but we soon got on
it again, and the revulsion of feeling was so great that
how the rest of the way was accomplished np to the convent
I don't know. They were all in great excitement there.
Meilleu was out and met me at the, door. They did
not know it was 1, only that there was a traveller
in danger ; and when I staggered dripping, and
frozen reed chattering into the room, who should be there
but —, of the Garrick, and youeg ? But I could
not say much to any of them, so Meilleu took me into a hot
air room, and dried me, and found me some fresh things,
and after a time got some life into me, but I could not eat
any supper. I did not make a. " to-do" about it, but I was
very gra'eful when I got to bed. I should add that I
sent the can and the " marronier" to look after Venance,
and they found him an hour afterwards in the same lock,
at the same place. It was cheerful to hear that the
snow, where we bad lost the route, was that of an ava-
lanche of last year, which came down from Mont Mort
and killed two men. I saw them next morning in the
Morgue, and winced as I looked at them. The poor fellows
were found close together. I also heard afterwards that
this storm (Thursday night, September 9 ) was one of the
wildest known for years. Above Verret, in the valley of
Aorta, the water broke and carried away a village, or rather
hamlet, at the time I was on the mountain, so the diligence
could not go from Aoata to Turin, and we were the first
who crossed on Saturday, with men to carry our luggage.
Nineteen of the poor people had been found, and were laid
out in the church, all smashed and drowned ; but the others
were under the grit and boulders, some of which were six
or eight feet square."

At LEWIS & f OMPANYS, Ranelagh-street.
BOYS are CLOTHED from the Agee of Six to Twenty Yellrei

Left without any support, the Liverpool Share
Market has been at the mercy of specu'ators all this
day, who have again put down prices. At the
close, however, there was a slightly improved feel-
ing. The following were the day's transactions:-
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 65*, 653 ;
Caledonian, 43. 423, 423, 423, 42.3„ 421; Eastern
Counties, 11 1-16; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 963,
96 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 77 ; Lancaster and
Preston, Twelfth Shares, 7 15-16 ; London and
North Western, 96 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshira, 403, 401, 401, 403, 403 ; Midland, 803,
801, 80, 80*, 80; Nei th British, 123; North Eastern,
23, 223; Dovers, 193, 19 13-16; Dutch Rhenish,
31,1; Grand Trunk of Canada, 113,
11. 5-16, 113, 11 3-16 ; Great Western
of Canada, 203, 203 ; Ditto New Shares,
par; Royal Insurance, 3 15-16 p. The follow-
ing were the closing prices :-Blackburn, 73, 8;
Chester and Birkenhead, 651 xd, 66 ; Caledonian,
421 423; Chester and Holyhead, 163, 161 ; Eastern
Counties, 11 7-16, 113; East Lancashire, 93 xd,
931 ; Do. 97. shares, 3, xd, 9-16 p ; Great Northern,
231, 24; Do A, 103, 11 ; Great Western, 531, 531;
Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock, 951 xd, 96; Do.
91. shares, 3 xi], 3 p; Liverpool, Crosby, and South-
port, 183 xd, 183; London and North Western
Stock, 953, 96; Ditto ith. Shares, 13-16, 11161;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 401,
103 ; Midland Stock, 793, 80; North British,
123, 123; North Staffordshire, 44, 43 d ; North
Eastern-Berwiek, 223, 23 ; York Capital
Stock, 394, 393; Leeds Stock, 243, 241 ;
Scottish North Eastern, 11 12 ; South Eastern and
Dover, 19i, xd, 193 ; ; Dutch Rhenish, 33, 33 d ;
Great Luxembourg, 03, 63 ; Buffalo. and Lake
Huron,sl, 5 41; Do. New Shares, 51, 5 d ; Grand
Trunk of Canada, 113. 113; Great Western of
Canada, 203, 201; Do. Near shares, 3. 3d.
The Money Market remains in a quiescent state,
and the funds to-day underwent no fluctuation
whatever, the market being excessively dull at the
quotations of yesterday. Consols for Money closed
at 903 to 901, and for the Account at 90 5-16 to
90 7-16; Exchequer Bills quiet, at 7 to 3 dis.
In the London Railway Share Market there
was exceedingly little business done to-day, and
prices were not supported. The following were the
c!osing quotations :-Caledonian, 833. 84; Eastern
Counties, 111, 113; East Lancashire, 02, 94; Great
Northern, 96, 961 ; Do. A, 84, 86; Great West-
ern, 533, 511 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 953,
96 ; Leeds Northern, 483, 49 ; London and North
Western, 951. 961 ; London and South Western,
913, 923 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, 403, 41 ; Midland Stock, 805 ; North
British, 503 ; South Eastern and Dover, 053, 661 ;
York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 923, 931 ; York
and North Midland, 781, 79; Grand Trunk, 113;
Great Western of Canada, 201, 201 ; Do. new, 3,1,
The Manchester Mai kets are Tater, but producers
being deeply engaged, buyers have to pay extreme
rates for all they require.
The fine weather has had the effect of producing
extreme dullness in the Breadstuff Trade, and at
the country markets held to-day, a sensible decline
occurred in the prices of Wheat and Flour. At
our own market old Wheat declined in value 41
per bushel; new Irish and Scotch were in large
supply, and, though offered at a. reduction of 61
to 81 per 701bs from the currencies of Tuesday last,
sales in either were scarcely practicable. Flour,
notwithstanding the small stocks, suffered a decline
of 61 per barrel and is per sack on the weak.
Oats : Old, for provender use, being in limited
compass, commanded full prices. New, quiet, and,
if anything, rather easier. Egyptian Beans had a
steady consumptive inquiry, at extreme prices.
Barley without change. Indian Corn : Mixed and
Yellow, were bought upon sornwhat easier terms ;
the value of White remained unaltered.

At the meeting of the British Seam Fisheries
Company, yesterday, it was agreed to wind up the
company, as likely to he unprofitable.
The report of Captain Galton to the Board of
Trade on the railways of the United Kingdom for
1858 has just been issued, and is a. very
.clear and
satisfactory document, calculated-, on the whole to
strengthen the hope that, with improved manage-
ment, the recovery in the value of this description
of property will be steady and continuous, although
it must be slow. Notwithstanding that the pre-
ferential and loan capital constituted 43,per cent>
of the whole of the railway capital raised to the end
of 1856%. and that the interest payable on this,
owing to the state of the money market, was higher
than during any former period, the per centage
having been 5 08 against an average of 4..72 for
the preceding seven years, the average rate of
dividend available for the ordinary share
capital was 3.12 per cent., being equal to that
of 1855, and considerably higher than the
average of the preceding seven years, which was
2.59. In 1854, however, the rate was as high as
3.39. Of the total 308;7751894/. now embarked in

railways, 77,359,4101. has been raised by loans,
57,057,1711. by preference shares, and 174,359,3C41:
by ordinary share capital. This represents an
expenditure of 35,4591. per mile, the cost of the
English lines haring been 40,2881. per mile, of the
Scotch 27,7501., and of the Irish 14,8081. The

period of extravagant outlay, however, was prior
to 1849, the average cost of lines constructed since
that period having been only 9,5681: per mile. The
working expense:last year experienced an increase

of l per cent. in Englaud, and a diminution of 2
per cent. in geotland and Ireland, the average
being 47 per scent. as oompared with 48 per cent.
in /855. The development of the-goods traffic-has
gone on upon, a rapid ratio, and its proportion to
the passenger traffic is now 53 to 47 per cent.
whereas eight years ago it wl:3 only 44 to 56
per cent. The total of passengers conveyed in
1856 was 129,347,592, being an increase of
10,752,457 on the previous year;. and the number
conveyed per mile of railway open was. 15,213
against 14,503 in 1855, the receipts per mile
being 1,1941. against 1,1641: Only one traveller
in 16.168,449 has, been killed, and one in 438;370 in-
jured, showing a degree of safety greater than in any
year since 185 L The general uffects of the raising
or lowering of fares are detailed, and the result

appears to be against the policy of high clia;;;.
The length of line open, for traffic in the United
Kingdom on the 30th of June, 18:,6„ %as 8,506,
miles, and the persons employed amounted to
102,117, or ]2 per mile, There were also 963 miles
in course of construotion at that period, of which
about 208 were opened before the end of the year.
The whole are double lines, excepting 2,511 miles.
Between 4,000 and 5„000 miles authorized by Par-
liament, remain to be constructed. The total will

then be 13,173 miles—namely, 0,700 in England
and Wales, 1,647 in Scotland, and 1,826 in Ireland.
The number of Acts passed in the session of 1856

was 59, authorising a length of line of 322 wiles at

a cost of £6,784426. Captain Galton refers to the
delinquencies in connection with the Great Nor-
them line, &c.,and cans the atten ion of the Board
of Trade to the fact that shareholders will be con-

tinually liable to frauds of this nature " until a
more careful system of audit, and one independent
of those directly concerned in the management of
the railways, be generally adopted, and until a
direct responsibility be Owed on those to whom

that management is confided "
The Traffic Returns of the Grand Trunk Rail-
way Company of Canada for the week ending
August 29, show a total increase of 9,947/ , against
3,2631. corresponding week last year; being an
increase of 4,5341

The following are the latest quotations for Foreign
Exchanges :—Amsterdam, short, 11 15 to 11 ]6;
Do. three months, 11 19 to 11 191; Rotterdam do,
11 19 to 11 191 ; Antwerp do., 25 35 to 25 40 ;
Brussels do., 25 35 to 25 40 ; Hamburg do., 13 71
to 13 81; Paris, short, 25 20 to 25 25; Do., three
months, 25 579 to 25 624 ; Marseilles do , 25 62 to
25 624; Frankfort do., 1191 to 119; Vienna do., 10
32 to 10 35 ; Trieste do., 10 34 to W 36 ; Peters-

_
burg do., 36 to 364; Madrid, 39 to 491.
Advices from Strasburg mention that the convey-

tion for the construotion of an irotn bridge over the
Rhine for the service of the railway has been signed.

LIVERPOOL PRODUCE MARKET. —SEPT 22.
Fn.) R.—The market remains quie`, and we have only to report
100 lihds Porto Rico at 493 to 49s 3i per cwt.
Motßs,ES.—:oo punt ions h Ivo found buyers, chiefly Auttna, at
22c per cwt.

Rum AND CO psi —Fothing has occurred.
Rice.—The ca-goe of Rangoon off,r dby auction did not sell, and
by private we have only to re colt 1 GOO bags Bengal at 13s, and 2,000
bags Necrans c at 1 is 3d per cwt.
S LTPETaE.—A further parcel of 500 bags for arrival has been
placed a, 60s i er cat for 3 per cent refrac ion.
xn.—The us ,rket retna ns ma:Tye, and of 2,460 bales offered Ly
auction, a few devnaged parcels only found buyers.
HIMP.-100 bales Bombay realis d to £2l per ton.
PEPPER.—behave also to notice the sae of 159 bags white at 811,
and 400 bags t•ingapore t lack, to arrive, at 54d per lb.

LIVERPOOL (ScoTcH) PIG IRON MARK ET.— SEPT. 22.
Onr market for wa rants closes quiet, but firm, at 68i for cash,
but price n m'nal.
Shipments from Glasgow, last week' 9,900
Do. Do., corresponding week, 1856
Do. Do., corresponding week, 1855 13,671

Total shipments from Glasgow from J:tn. 1, 1857, to date 393; 6i
Same period, 1955

Increasr
Price this time last year, 72s

...20,673

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE MARKET.--Sap r. 22.
Per stone, 201bs.
I Per goNs. o. d. a. d
s. d. P. d.i Potatoes, Pink Eyes° 0 to 0 0
Hay. 01d...... ... 0 7 to 0 4 Ditto, Kemps 4 0 ' o 4 3
Ditto, new.. ..... 0 6 to 0 73 Ditto, Whwerocks 3 0 to 3 4
Ditto, clover .... 0 7 to 0 71 Ditto, Seed ing 4 6 t- 0 0
Green Clover .... 0 13 to 0 li,Ditto, Beldrunat 0 0 to 0 0
Vetclie. 0 0 to 0 0 Ditto, cattle 0 7 to 0 1+
Straw, wheat 0 3 to 0 33 Per ton.
Ditto, oat
Ditto, barley .... 0 :3 to 0 31 Carrot.
Oats, in straw ... 0 0 to 0 0 }l.tngle wurtel
Manure 4 0 tr, 6 0