The Sun.
London, England, 1864-10-07 00:00:00

SHIPPING-THIS DAY.

LONDON, Out. 7.—Wind this day at noon—North-
Easterly; strong brecz3 end fine weather.
PLYnounr, Oct. s.—Wind E.—Sailed—Athens, screw
steamer, for the Cape of Good Hope—St. Hide, for
Sydney.
CLYDE, Sept. 5. —Wind E.—Sailed—Caledonia, screw
steamer, for New York.
SWANSEA, Oct. 6.—Wind S.E.—Sailed—Mary Ann
Holman, for Valpaaraiso

PILL,' Sept. 3.—Wind N.N.E.—Sailed—ltalia, for
Akyr.b.
OFF DOVER, Oct. 4.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Black
Watch, from London, for Maurifus.
CARDIFF, Oct. 6.—Wind N.E.— Sailed—Typhoon, for
Hong Kong.
Crr THE EDDYSTONE, Oct. G.—Arrived—Her Mujest) 's
ship Vulture, from China.
Orr CAPE CLEAR, Oct. 7.—Arrived—City of Man-
chester, screw steamer, from New York.

(BY MAGNETIC TELEGRA.PII,)
GitiTzsziorp, Friday Morning.
Arrived, Oct. 6—Margaretha, from Nykj,•bing—Char-
lotte, from Arundel.
Arrived, Oct. 7—Perseverance, from Danisic—Hovrap-
ner, from Gothenburg—Pilot, steamer, from Hamburg.
Sailed, Oct. 6—Lord J. Russell, steamer, for Dunkirk.
Sailed, Oct. 7—Lisbon, steamer, for Lisbon—Lady Have-
lock, steamer, for Bordeaux—Cossack, steamer, for Cron-
stadt—John Bunyan, for Port Phillip.
DEAL, Friday Morning.
Passed, Oct. 6—Mary Fry. for Naples—Eclipse, for Car-
diff— both from London.
Passed, Oct. 7—Corcyra, from Patras for London.

The Bank of France return for the past week is
of a rather unfavourable character. The bullion
has been reduced by £620,000, and the Treasury
Balances by £1,266,700. The discounts show a
a falling:off of £BO,OOO, while the notes in circu-
lation have received an addition of £480,000, the

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current accounts of £,260,000, and the advances on

Stock of £53,400.
The failures have been announced of Messrs.
John Gladstone and Co., Australian and American
merchants, with liabilities amounting to £150,000;
of Mr. Patrick Thomson, West India and Cape
merchant, with engagements of £25,000; and of

Mr. John CAtte, English and foreign paper trier.
chant, but his commitments are not expected to ex-

owed £250,000.

A STEAM VESSEL ASHORE IN THE RIVER.—Last
night a large steam vessel was proceeding down the river,
when by some means at present unexplained she ran ashore
near the pier at North Woolwich. Measures were being
taken last night to extricate the vessel from her present
position at the next high tide.
A notice was issued from the General Post-office
yesterday to the effect that extra mails for Madeira, the Cape
of Good Hope, and Natal will be made up at the General
Post-office on the morning of the 15th inst., for conveyance
from Southampton by the steamship Anglican. The letters
forwarded by this opportunity will be liable to the usual
packet rates of postage.
A letter from Hamburg, in the Kreutz Ze:Yunq
of Berlin, says :—" The advertising sheet of Ran-
ders publishes a notice from the head of the police to the
eff ct that, by order of the military governor of Jutland,
sportsmen are forbidden to shoot in that province for the
present season. All persons infringing this order will be
liable to imprisonment and to have their arms confiscated.
A. Roman Catholic mission has been established at Flens-
burg, with funds raised by subscription at Munster, and
the cures of the diocese of Osnabruck have engaged to pay
a yearly sum of 600 thalers (3fr. 70e. each) for the support
of the head of the mission. The Catholic clergy of the
diocese of Munster intend to establish a similar mission at
Newmunster, in Holstein."
MARRYING AGES,—The recorded statistics for
three years of the ages at which people marry in
England and Wales present some interesting and curious
subjects for remark. The registers from which the fol-
lowing statistics and observations are drawn aro those for
1859, 1860, and 1861. Marriages are recorded from 15 to
80 years of age. lip to the ago of 20 a much greater pro-
portion of women are married than men ; but after that
age more men are married, and a much greater proportion
of old men between 50 and 80 than of old women. Dur-
ing the three years in question there were 78 girls
married at 15 years of age, but no males ; and while 17
youths of 16 years wedded, there were 637 girls of the
same age who took the step, The greatest number of both
sexes marry at 20 years, but more of the ladies. At 25
and 30 the proportion is greater of the men ; but after 30
the number falls to half, and up to 60 men seem to get
regularly less and less inclined to matrimony, but they con-
tinue to marry up to 80 years. The greatest number of
women marry at 20 years; at 25 there are fewer by more
than half ; and five years more reduces the proportion
considerably more than half again; but at 35, 40. and
45, the numbers f ill off more regularly. For example, in
1861 there were married at the age of 20, 48,495 men and
50,646 women; at 25, 26,478 men and 20,673 women; at
30, 10,621 men and 7,840 women ; at 35, 5,464 men and
4,252 women; at 40, 3,649 men and 2,875 women. There
were 119 men married at 70 years of age, but only 21
women ; 30 men at 75, and 3 women ; b men of 80 years
old, but 2 women; while in the previous year, 1869, there
were 10 octogenarian gentlemen wedded, and only 1 lady
of an equal age. The total number married of each sex in
these years were-1859, 102,549; 1560, 106,30; and 1861,

04,694.
" TIIE SCOTS IN FRANCE."—Some gentlemen in

terested in this subject embraced the opportunity of
the learned author, M. Franci:.:,ue Michel, of Bordeaux,
passing through Glasgow, on Tuesday, to present him with
a copy of " Chalmers' Caledonia"— a rare and valuable
book, and one likely to be of use to him in his study of
Scottish history. The party met in the Bedford Hotel,
when Councillor Arthur, as chairman, presented the book
on behalf of himself and the other subscribers, accompanied
by a few appropriate remarks on the subject of M. Michel's
literary labours and the peculiar connexion of them with
Scotland. The learned gentleman, who was quite unpre-
pared for the object of the meeting, acknowledged the com •
pliment in suitable terms, and expressed the hope that be
might have some future opportunity of meeting his Scot-
tish friends.—Glasgotv Herald.
ANOTHER ABSCONDING BANRRIIPT.—At the
Leeds Town Hall, on Wednesday, Mr Jennings, collector
for the Leeds New Gas Company, applied for a distress

warrant against William Marsden, iron merchant, Old
Brolery-yard, for arrears of gas rates amounting to up-

wards of £3. Mr Jennings stated that Mr Marsden had
become bankrupt, and had absconded on Thursday last. It
was understood ,he had sailed for America iu order to join
his brother, John W. Marsden. Tho warrant was granted.
THE SUSPENSION OF MESSRS. FLETCHER AND
CO., CORN MERCHANTS.—The creditors of Messrs.
Fletcher and Co , corn merchants, Manchester, held their
second meeting yesterday at the offices of Messrs. Hall and
Janion, solicitors, when a revised balance sheet was read,
showing the estimated liabilities— £143,175 ls. Bd., and
the assets £63,850 lls. 4d. An offer of 9s. in the pound was
made by Mr Moss, the principal, payable in three instal-
ments at four, eight, and twelve months. A resolution was
unanimously agreed to, appointing three of the creditors to
investigate the accounts and report to a future meeting, to
be called at their instance,
THE MISSING CHORISTER.—The lad, Henry
William King, one of the choristers of St. Paul's Catbe
dral,who has been missing since Saturday last,when he re-
ceived the sum of £3 15s. as his quarter's salary, was dis-
covered on Wednesday. The greatest anxiety has been
experienced for the boy's safety, both by the parents and
the masters of the school, by whom every exertion was
used to discover his whereabouts, the result of which, we
ara happy to state, is that he has been handed over in
safety to his parents, the affair having been solely the re-
sult of a boyish freak.
A BAD DEBT.—Good Queen Bess, when she
vssited Worcester, borrowed £2OO of the Corporation, which
still stands as a bad debt on the town books.
A silver cradle,worth £5O, has been presented to
the Mayor of Basingstoke, in consequence of the mayoress
having given birth to a son during his mayoralty.
A YORESIIIRE HERMIT.---In the East Riding of
Yorkshire there dwells a mto of property, who, from
some cause or other is in a degree emulating the character
immortalised by Dickens in one of his Christmas numbers
of " Ail the Year Round." He lives in a large old man-
sion, into which no feet are allowed to encroach. His food
is left for him in a shed ; and last year's crops are out in
the fields yet; the hay rotting in cocks, uncut ; and the
rye grass standing in one field about 6ft. in height.—New.
castle Chronicle.
A communication from Copenhagen says :—" No
one knows how the Oldenburg Government has been able
to procure one of the rare copies of the opinion of Dr Oster-
wald, on the legitimacy of the Royal line. It is on this sub-
ject that a statement has been made that the Grand Duke
of Oldenburg had been authorised to make te,earchts
among tae areLivca of I),lnunk, to justify his right to the
Kiocttawa of the DuQbiev 'I

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,—This day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY AT TAE UNION BANK OF LONDON BY A
CtEßK.—Henry Gordon Palmer, about 20 years of age, a
clerk, in the Argyle-place branch of the Union Bank of
London, and residing at No. 19, Palace-gardens-terrace.
Kensington, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt, with steal-
ing a £lO Bank of England note, numbered 09913, the pro-
p3rty of Mr Peter Northall Lawrie., and others, trustees of
the Union Bank of Lotion

Mr Campbell, of the firm of Campbell and Davis, War.
w'ck-street, attented for the prosecution, and in opening the
Case said the prisoner entered the hank on the 20:11 of Sep
te'nber les,, and on the same evening a £lO note was missed.
Notice was immediately giv,n at the Bank of England, and
the note was paid in, and subsequently traced to th,
r ironer.

Mr Horace Edward Jay, one of the cashiers at the Union
Bank, said on the 20th September last he received a num-
ber of Bank of England notes from Messrs. Hurst and
Blackett's, and entered the total of them in a book and put
them in a drawer till they were taken away by another
cashier.

Mr Robert Stuart, another eviller at the bank, produced
a book containing the entry of the note produced, and seve-
ral others. After counting the notes—those spoken of by
the last witness—he placed them in a tin by his side, and
the tin was by his side all day till he went up to Mr Jay,
in the evening. _ _

Mr Oglevy, a clerk in the bank, said that at the end of
the day, the 26th Sept., he received an account of all the
notes received in the course of the day by the different
cashiers, for the purpose of going through the totals to see
if they agreed with the cashier's waste books. He found
£lO short, and had to trace the numbers of the notes through
Mr Gay's waste book, and then found a £lO note missing.
Henry Colegate, in the employ of Mr Smith, the keeper
of billiard motor, at No. 82, Regent-street, said, on the 26th
Sept., about 5 o'cloek in the afternoon, the prisoner played
a game of pool at the rooms, and in payment of 63. gave him
a £lO note to get cashed for him. He could not say whether
the note produced was the same. He gave it to a fellow
servant to get cashed, and on receiving the change gave it
to the prisoner. The prisoner two or three days afterwards
called upon him and asked him to try and get the number
of the note for him as he wished to trace it.
Charles Henwick, also in Mr Smith's employ, proved
seeing the prisoner playing a game of pool and receiving a
£lO for the last witness, He wrote the name of Colegate
on the note. He could not swear the note produced was
the same. He got the note changed by the foreman to Mr
Wenkheim, a tailor, down stairs.
_ .

Mr Campbell asked the witness to again look at the note,
and to say whether the word "gate" was not part of the
name " Colegate" he had written, the rest of the name being
torn off, and tho witness said it was.
Mr Wenkheim's foreman proved changing a £lO note for
the last witness.

Mr Charles Earles, from the Bank of England, produced
the note, and said it was paid in on the 28th Sept. amongst
a large number of others, from the London and Weatmin-

ster Bank.

Mr Thos. Phillips, the sub-manager of the Argyle .place
branch of the bank, said the prisoner entered the bank as a
clerk on the morbing of the 26th September, the note being
missed the same evening.

Henry Dawson, 301 A, proved taking the prisoner into
custody yesterday afternoon at the bank, when ho said that
if he took the note, it was by mistake, while taking up his
pocket handkerchief.
Mr Tyrwhitt said the case must go for trial.
•A gentleman requested the magistrate to deal with the
ease.
Mr Tyrwhitt said if it was the wish of the prosecution he
would yield to the request.
Mr Campbell said the bank would throw no obstacle in
the way.
Mr Tyrwhitt slid it was a sad thing to see a young man
at the outset of life getting into such a scrape.
The prisoner was then committed for 6 months with hard
labour.

THAMES.
THE MAN WITH SIX SurnTs.—Henry Muller, a Ger-
man, who was said to very strongly resemble his namesake,
who is charged with murdering Mr Briggs, was brought
before Mr Selfe (presiding for Mr Partridge), charged with
stealing three new flannel shirts, two flannel drawers, a red
shirt, a pair of stockings, and other articles, the property
of some person unknown.
Adolphus Clarke, a constable in the service of the East
and West India Dock Company, stated that yesterday
evening he stopped the prisoner as he was leaving the South
West India Dock, and observing he was very bulky, took
him into a box and stripped him. He took from the pri-
soner three new flannel shirts, an old red shirt, two flannel
drawers, one pair new, the other old, a pair of st :cltings
new, and other articles.
Mr Self—llow did he can y the property?
Clarke—He was wearing the whole of them under his
own clothes, He had on six shirts—ho has two on now,
which I believe are his own.
Mr Selfe—Six shirts and three pairs of drawers. The
wind was from the east yesterday, 1 believe. (A. laugh.)
Clarke—l believe it was, sir.
The prisoner, in defence, said he bought all the articles
taken from him of a German sailor on Wednesday night,
and gave him las for them, besides 10d he spent upon him
in beer. The sailor was to:give him the money back again
if he could, and he was to keep the goods until the sailor
could find the money. Yesterday he put on all the shirts,
drawers and stockings, and went in search of the sailor.
Mr Selfe—Who is ho
The prisoner—l don't know, mine lord; it's all quite
true what I say.
Mr Selfe remanded the prisoner until Monday next.
Clarke—lt is no use remanding
him, your worship,
there are no marks on the things. He commits these rob-
beries on sailors just as vessels are going out. The things
have been taken from an outward bounder. He has com-
mitted several of these robberies before—once in the Lon•
don Dock, twice in our dock, and once in the Victoria
Dock, and has been repeatedly e,ommittad to prison.
Mr Selfe—l know him well; he has been before me iu
this court when I was a magistrate here.
The Prisoner Only once, mine lord, I have bee-, Le:ore
you. I will give the sailor all the money when he comes
back—all the money.
Mr Selfe—l dare say you will when he comes back. I
believe you stole that property, and I shall sentence you to
two months' imprisonment and hard labour for the unlawful
possession of the property.
The Prisoner—What am Itodo ? Where is the pro-
perty to go ? The sailor will come back and want his pro-
perty, and what am I to do, mine lea.'
Mr Selfe—The constable will take io,._essiou of -,he prn.•
perty. Send the sailor to him. (La-_-.g.e.ter.)

MARKETS—TaiS 1543''

MARK-LANE.

Fresh up to our i;;;;;-;-;Y tlre arrivals of hom,••
grown wheat were but moderate. For all qualities the
trade ruled firm, and although sales progressed slowly,
Monday's prices were steadily supported.
There was a full average supply of foreign wheat
stands. The amount of business transacted was but raode-
rate; nevertheless, the quotations are unaltered from Mon-
day.
Floating cargoes of grain :moved ;off slowly at about
stationary prices.
With barley the market was moderately supplied. Good
and fine malting qualities moved off steadily at full quota-
tions, Secondary and inferior descriptions of barley, how-
ever, met a slow sale, at the late decline in the currency.
The malt trade was dull, at the recent fall in prices.
There was a large supply of oats on sale, and the trado
ruled inactive, at about previous rates.
Beans and peas were in. slow request, at late quotations.
The flour trade was quiet, on former terms.
ARRIVALS THIS VIZEIC.
49
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour.
English ...... 1)070 1,110 1,9:30 3,260 380
Irish ........ 1,760
Foreign ..... 2,140 2,960
,760 7,470 bile

on sale is tolerably largo. For good
an
steady demand at full prices, but
BOROUGH HOP.
Tdh finee
parcelsof ileor
for inferior produce the trade continues slow. The cur-
supply
there
cur-
rency is as follows :---
hops
is a

per cwt.
New Mid and East Kent ......... ICOs to 190 s
New Weald of Kent.. .. 90a to 130 s
New Sussex .................... 90s to 140 s

B AND LEADENHALL.
of meat are on sale at these
markets. In oNdlEenrWaall desl3lll-siipetions the trade rules firm at full