The Sun.
London, England, 1855-08-15 00:00:00

TIEIE SUN, LONDON, `VEDNESD►AY EVENING, AUGUST 15, {865:

Market closed heavily, at about Monday's cur-

rency-
There is a firmer market for public securities,
the destruction of Sweaborg having imparted con-
6dence. Consols opened at 91 / for transfer, but
have since been 90/Tc, as it is thought money will be
scarcer. For account they have been 911 to
Exchequer Bills at 2d. have dropped to 15s. and
18s. premium. The New 3 per Cents, are 222
and the Reduced 914 to 92. Bank Stock has risen
to 214-k and 215.
The Sultan steamer, with the rest of the Indian
mail and China dates of June 10, has not yet
arrived. She left Malta July 30, and has been
now out 16 days at sea. The voyage is generally
made iu nine or ten days, and the contract time is
eleven days.
The effect of the terms of the new loan have
been to depress Turkish Stock, although upon what
precise ground we aro rather at a loss to conceive,
except that holders of the existing loan sell out in
order to have funds at disposal to participate in the
new loan. The quotations have been 93-1- to 931,
and are since 92g- to -I. Sardinian Stock has
realised 87, Peruvian is 812, and Buenos Ayres
56k. Dutch 4 per Cents. are 961 to 96g.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 7 to
Mexican, 21g- to 21i ; Peruvian, 81i to 84- ;
ditto Three per Cents., 59 to 60 ; Portuguese
Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Thissian Five
per Cents., 100 to 102 ; ditto Four-and-a-
Half per Cents., 89 to 91 ; Spanish New Deferred,
181 to 19 ; ditto Three per Cents., 37 to 37--2 ;
ditto Certificates, 41 to 42 ; ditto Passive, 4 to 41.
This is " ticket-day" in the Railway Share Mar-
ket, and attention is principally directed to the
necessary arrangements for the settlement of the
account. The principal lines are at an improve-
ment generally, and Great Western are not so
heavy as they were. - The foreign lines are very
quiet, and Great Western of Canada are higher.
St. John del Rey are firmer. Bank Shares are
steady, and the Miscellaneous dull.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLCc

( From the Official List.)

Buqinexs done
BAnk Stock ......... ... 2141 151
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuitiea......... ...... 92 li
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9ll f 90/
Now 3 per Cent. Annuities
India Bonds, £l000
Consols Zor Account, 6th September 9li 1 -1-4
Exchequer Bills, 21d. j 2d.
21000
1500
Small .
Exchequer Bonds 1858, 31 per Cent.... 101 i
Ditto 1859, ~ ~. 1001 i
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO, i's ,
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 561
Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cent Bll
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Tarki.li Bonds, 6 per cent 931 i 2i i
Ditto for the account
~tivitlends of, toe above payable in London„
Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent. 12 Gnil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifleates .. ....
HALF-PAST TWO,
Consols
Ditto for the Account.... 9ll 1

LONDON AND NORTH- WESPERN
RAILWAY-(THIS DAY.)

The half-yearly ordinary meeting of this company was
held this morning at Euston-square Station, for the
transaction of the general business of the company ; the
Marquis of Chandos, IMP., in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN said he had no longer to call their
attention to an increasing traffic, but a falling off in the
most important branch—the passenger traffic. The
diminution was from 704,0001. to 680,0001., which he
thought was to be attributed much to the war dimi-
nishing the means of persons to travel. The di-
minution was not confined to stations where they had
competition, but was observable in others, and he re-
ferred, in illustration, to the decrease of traffic at the
stations between London and Layton. Another cause
of diminution was the numerous new lines, and the
altered position of others from recent legislation being
brought into competition with them. Amalgamations
bad been effected, which the directors always predicted
would be injurious to them, and the result had verified
these prognostications. If they compared the traffic
of the past half•year with those of previous years
they would find that, when new channels of coin-
munication had been opened, they tended to d
lute and but slightly increase the traffic of
the district. The diminution of their passenger traffic
might be divided into two heads, 20,0001. owing to the
opening of new lines, and 12,0001. from a diminished
traffic arising from what he had already alluded to.
There was a large increase of income connected with the '
merchandise and mineral traffic, which it was gratify-
ing to find had been earned at a reduction of working
expenses, arising from arrangements made by the direc-
tors, and the accounts showed the excess of receipts over
the corresponding period to be 7,0001. Arrange-
ments had been made to meet the reduction of
passenger traffic, and the directors thought that,
having placed a check on increasing expenditure,
they might hold out hopes of reductions in the working
expenses commensurate with its being carried out. The
noble chairman alluded to the payment of 4, 00 0/. to the
Shropshire Railway over the usual half-yearly payment,
which would be done for the future until that account
had been brought up to the date of all the others. After
referring to the bills that had been passed this session of
Parliament connected with this line, he _adverted to the
bill for improving the communication with Ireland,
which ultimately would have to come specially before
them before anything could be done under it.
The rejection of the North Staffordshire Amalga-
mation Bill was to be regretted. It was intro-
duced into Parliament under a belief that it was a
wise measure, believing from the position of the North
Staffordshire Railway it could be worked in cordial
co-operation with this line. It was with that view the
company entered into arrangements with the North
Staffordshire Company. The bill had, however, been
rejected a third time, but he hoped it would not render
a less harmonious working of that line by the two com-
panies. By the arrangement between the two com-
panies, if Parliament rejected the bill three times
on its merits, and not on formal points, the arrangement
was to be at an end; and the bill having been rejected a
third time, the board of directors considered they were
no further bound by the arrangement ; but it had
been asserted otherwise, and the directors designated
repudiators in eonsequ.snce of expressing such an opin-
ion. His lordship then entered into the details of the
proceedings in Parliament, relative to the three applica-
tions for the bill, and said there could be no doubt three
applications bad been made, but denied there had been a
suspension of either of them, as had been stated, so
as to make it appear there had been but two applications
made to Parliament instead of three. He contended
the applications had been refused by Parliament entirely
on their merits, that of amalgamation, which was so
understood by the North Staffordshie Company, and
who were aware the last was the third application.
The directors of this company, after reviewing tho whole
of the circumstances, were of opinion they had fully
carried out their engagements with the North Staf-
fordshire Company, and that the agreement was at an
end.

Mr. Boom, one of the secretaries) then read the re-
port, which recommended a dividend of 21. 7s. 6d. per
cent. for the last six months, amounting to 535,8651.
Is. 2d., leaving a balance of 6,9501. is. 6d. to be car-
ried forward to the next half-year's account.

[We will give the close of the proceedings In our late
edition.]

DEATII OF OENERAL BOURKE.

General Sir Richard Bourke, whose sudden
death at Thornfield, Castle Connell, near Limerick, was
announced yesterday, was son of the late Mr. John
Bourke, and was born in 1777. He married in 1800
Miss Bourke, yonngest daughter of Mrs John Bourke, of
Carshaltan, and Receiver-General of the Lard-tax for
Middlesex. The deceased entered the army in 1798, as
ensign in the Ist Foot, and the following year served with
his regiment in Holland at the Helder, where he was
severely xvounriea in both jaws, after having participated
in the ar,tiotm of the 27th of August, the 10th and 19th of
September, and the 2d and 6th of October. On his reco-
very be was placed on the staff in England, and was for a
short period Superintendent of the Military College at Mar-
low. In 1806 ho was appointed Quartermaster-General in
South America, and was present at the actions of the 19th
and 20th of January, 1807, at the siege and storming of
Montevideo, and in the expedition against Buenos Ayres.
He also served with the British army in the Peninsula
in 1809, 1812, 1813, and 1814. In 1825 he was ap-
pointed Lieutenant-Governor of the Eastern district of
the Cape of Good Hope, and conducted the government
of that colony till November, 1829. Sir Richard, in 1831,
was appointed Governor-in-Chief of New South Wales
and Van Diemen's Land, which he held up to December,
1837, when he resigned. He was created a Knight
Commander of the Order of the Bath in 1835, in conside-
ration of his military and civil services, and in 1837 he
obtained the colonelcy of the 64th Regiment, which be-
comes vacant by his death. His commission bore date
as follows :—Ensign, Nov. 22, 1798 ; Lieutenant and
Captain, Nov. 25, 1799 ; Major, Aug. 27, 1806 ; Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, Sept. 16, 1806 ; Colonel, June 4, 1814 ;
Major-General, July 19, 1821 ; Lieutenant-General,
Jan, 10, and General, Noy. 11, Ha

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1851

LITERATURE.

The Wabash ; or Adventures of an English Gen-
tleman's Family in the Interior of America.
By J. Richard. Beste, Esq. 2 vols. Hurst and
Blackett.
As delightful volumes descriptive of travel and
adventure as we remember to have perused for
many a long day—a narrative, moreover, which we
can conscientiously declare to be in our estimation
not less instructive than entertaining. It has been
with a peculiar sense of enjoyment that we have
read from "preface" to " finis" Mr. Beste's amusing
account of his personal experiences. And not of
his personal experiences alone, but of those also
of the various members of his rather nume-
rous family numbering altogether that omi-
nous total of thirteen, which is diminished
to twelve before the travellers can retrace their
steps from the interior to the Atlantic coast of the
great North American Continent. It must be per-
mitted us to remark that, although wecommenced
the examination of the work before us as entire
strangers to the author and his companions, we
did not complete its perusal without having ac-
quired from its pages a habit of regarding each and
all in that charming group—the wandering English
gentleman, his lady-wife, and their youthful chil-
dren—with sentiments of affectionate interest—
with feelings, indeed, not altogether easily distin-
guishable from those of actually personal friend-
ship. We cannot close the concluding volume, in
truth, without finding our thoughts in regard to the
author and his family involuntarily resolving them-
selves into an aspiration for their future wel-
fare, for their ultimate reunion, and for
their continued and protracted happiness. It may
be advisable to acquaint the reader of these critical
remarks of burs, at once, with the constituent ele-
ments of this genuine English family Robinson—
so far, at least, as we have been enabled to under-
stand the relative position and distinguishing
characteristics of the roving household, now that
we have carefully collected together divers particu-
lars in reference to the thirteen wayfarers, particu-
lars given by Mr. Beste, quite incidentally, as it
were, or strictly par parenthese, but which we
have taken pleasure in gathering up from their
scattered position in the narrative, with a view to
some such ulterior explication. Reviewing, in this
manner, the whole of what we have here read in al-
lusion to the author and his co-voyageurs, it appears
that, strictly speaking, it was in quest of health for
an ailing daughter, and of fortunes for his younger
sons, that Mr. Beste adventured, when he origi-
nally undertook this rather extraordinary expedi-
tion. Extraordinary it must undoubtedly be
admitted to have been, when we have remarked
that the head of the family, an English country
gentleman, then residing at Bordeaux, determined,
as it seems to us, somewhat suddenly, though at
the same time without anything like undue preci-
pitation, to take ship at Havre, and after travers-
ing
the Atlantic, to move onwards by railway-cars
and river steam-boats, and other conveyances when
necessary, into the remote interior of some of the
back states of the North American Continent—not
alone, not accompanied by one or two fellow tra-
vellers, but having with him, we will not say, as
encumbrances, but certainly as sources of the
weightiest of all imaginable responsibilities, a lady-
wife and not less than eleven carefully nurtured
and some of them delicate children. The leader
of this goodly party seems himself to have been
conscious that his enterprise might be re-
garded by many as somewhat Quixotic. How-
ever, he manfully deprecates any such repre-
hensive imputation, and while doing so, avows the
existence of certain occult reasons of his own, not
here explained, impelling him to the apparently
eccentric course already described—wherefore the
most captious censor of other men's doings
amongst us, must perforce hold his peace, if only
from motives of decorum : permitting Mr. Beste
to judge for himself in a- matter over which he
alone could by possibility be said to possess any
positive right of adjudication. Well, whatever his
motives—and two of them, all-sufficient motives of
themselves to our thinking, he has already, as we
have intimated, explained ; namely, a search after
health (happily not in vain) for one of his daugh-
ters, and after fortunes (ultimately, let us hope,
too, quite as effectually) for two of his sons—Mr.
Beste quits the coast of France (May, 1851) on
board that excellent teak-built vessel the Kate
Hunter, Captain Parsons, commander, having
with him his wife, and eleven of his children,
the latter numbering amongst them five
boys and six girls, or let us say (place aux
dames), more explicitly—Catherine, a young
lady of twenty summers, with her younger sisters,
Ellen and Lucy, besides twins (Agnes and Louisa)of
thirteen, and Isabel, a darling little cherub of nine,
with laughing blue eyes, and " a wilderness of
pale, pale flaxen curls," who is left by the rest,
when they return homewards, in the green grave-
yard
of the Wabash, in the recesses of the lovely
State of Indiana, and with these six fair daughters,
sons, as we have said, to the number of five, in-
cluding Kenelm, a youth of sixteen, Frank, aged
fourteen, Constable, ten, a little boy of four, and a
two-year-old baby-boy named Bruno. Such were
the members of the English gentleman's family
who quitted Bordeaux on the 2d of May, 1851,
and after penetrating as far into the interior of
America as the fatal Wabash bottom in Indiana,
where they left, as we have seen, one of their
tc
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we find amusingly intimated by our author, while he
musingly turns over the exorbitant bill of the Vic-
toria Hotel, Euston-square, to, in more senses than
one, dear old England—sadder from some of their
recollections, wiser from many of their experiences.
Eleven children, we have observed, have been
among the companions of our principal traveller
in these curious peregrinations across ocean and
continent, but with these, too, what numerous and
weighty encumbrances—heavy packages by way of
luggage, including among them (par example) three
substantial cases containing altogether 784 pieces
of plate for table, knives, forks, spoons, dishes,
side-dishes, cream jugs, etcetera, et cetera, the whole
paraphernalia of the buffet and the buttery, and
with all this luggage such an astonishing assem-
blage of domesticated pets—a queer little lapdog,
something between a yellow cur and a long-haired
spaniel ; half-a-dozen canary birds in a cage ; an
African parrot • and the veriest oddity of an elfine
dormouse ! About this latter curiosity, Mr. Beste
tells this wonderful—

" DREAM-STORY.
" We had a dormouse, also," he says, " with a hairless
tail,—for said dormouse had a habit of escaping from its
box— and being once caught by the tail, it had slipped its
skin, which had remained, like a scabbard, in my wife's
fingers. She had dreamed a dream about that dormouse,
which I submit to the judgment of those curious in such
matters. She had dreamed, some three years before, when
this dormouse, who was called Sailor, had a fellow•pet
called Soldier, that it said to her, ` Oh, Mistress, Sailor has
beaten me so cruelly that I have been obliged to run away
and hide in your box of worsted work.' Of course, when
the maid came in in the morning to wake her mistress, she
told her to fetch instantly the dormouse cage. The cage
was open; a small spot of blood stained its door—Sailor
alone was there, and poor injured Soldier was missing.
" ' Fetch the box of worsted !'
" In vain it was tumbled over ; no dormouse was to be
found. Who would be so silly as to believe in dreams !
" Three weeks afterwards, a doll's cap was wanted ; the
worsted box was again hunted over ; and there, in a netted
cap, need as a bag for loose bits of worsted, was found
coiled up the missing dormouse. He was near starved,
and had eaten half the worsted around him. All this is a
fact.'

As to the Parrot, we must let our author describe
his heartburnings on its account in his own words :
" We had an African parrot in a tin travelling box,
which I had often joyed to see the French porters, igno-
rant of its contents, bury under piles of baggage; but the
malicious beast would not be smothered, and generally ut-
tered some scream which startled and caused them to re-
lease it from its confinement. I own that I had
done all I could to cause its neck to be twisted,—
with the chance of going into Italy, I had taught it to cry
bas l'Autriche !' Vive Napoleon !' and I now la-
boured to make it say General Cass—hurra. !' I fondly
hoped that some or other contending faction would silence
it for me ; but there I now still hear it below stairs—
whistling, whooping, and crying Vive Napoleon !' as if
triumphant over me and all its own adventures."
With such an entourage our author sets forth on
his transatlantic wanderings. Scarcely has he
planted foot on the quay at New York when he is
struck by the abominable aspect assumed by the mob
of emigrated Irishmen, the beasts of burden in the
large cities of the Republic, well-to-do vagabonds
who, judging from this description of them, appear
to be the pest of the United States. Remember,
the estimate formed of them by Mr. Beate is
one eminently calculated to be dispassionate—
seeing that Mr. Beste is a co-religionist in his cha-
racter as an English Roman Catholic gentleman.
Hear him speak, out of the fullness of his disgust,
scorn, and indignation of these—
" IRISH IN AMERICA.
" Despised by the Americans ; themselves despising the
blacks ; with their bellies full for the first time in their
lives ; insolent in their looks ; extortionate in their de-
mands; oaths in their mouths ; free from all restraint of
neighbourhood or parish priest; beggars upon horseback,
they ride full tilt to ... Enough for the present. I would
commit them to their clergy and the treadmill."
To take the taste of these bitter words out
tof
our memory, let us listen to'our author's ecstatic
mention of his first Sherry Cobbler :
" I met Captain Parsons in the street, and
k glazed calico,
into a little shop, hung with white and he took me
rcunnter and half a
and in the centre of which was a
and clean•nsisctoed upon treating
r dozen bottles of wine or spirit,smasher,'
have? ' me to my first glass of Amerkcainlyiqoir
Sherry cobler," mint j Ip., `brandy W iat
—or any of half a dozen other delicacies which he named ?
I chose the far-famed sherry cobler, and curiously watched
the lad behind the counter squeeze a little lemon into a
large tumbler full of small lumps of bright, transparent
ice ; lay over them-one or two bits of lemon peel (perhaps
a dusting of spice, I am not certain now), cover the whole
over with pounded white sugar, and thou pout about a