The Sun.
London, England, 1864-08-16 00:00:00

TRE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 16, 1864,

police version of the matter upholds this theory.
But it appears from the testimony of European
eye-witnesses, that the unfortunate Wretches
flung themselves under the wheels, and the
shouting crowds around them testified to the
same effect. The chief part of the festival
is the progress of the immense cars, of which
most persons in this country have seen some kind
of representation. They are about 60 feet high,
built in four storeys, and are moved on six wheels.
They are drawn by means of ropes which the fanatics
eagerly dispute the honour of dragging, and being
crowded with the Brahmins of various degrees who
escort the idols are of no light weight. It certainly
would not seem to a European to be a very attrac-
tive mode of committing suicide, to be crushed
beneath the wheels of this slowly advancing mon-
ster. There have been not a few distraught mortals
among ourselves who have flung away life and care
before an express train, but the swiftness and cers
tainty of the death might not be without its fas3i-
nation. The suicide remains to be found who
would prostrate himself before an omnibus. The
worst part of the affair is, that it affords us another
proof of how strong a hold the fanaticism of their
creed still has over the Hindoo mind, and it shows
us how much yet remains to be done of our most
important task. It is well to introduce English
capital and enterprise, to encourage commerce and
stimulate the dormant energies of the people by
opening fresh channels for industry and developing
the resources of the country, but England's work in
India remains incomplete while such spectacles are
possible. Our public works, when fully carried
out, are likely to prove substantial blessings to
many an Indian generation. The parched and
famine-stricken lands will gather fresh verdure and
fertility from the water works projected by English
science; the trader and agriculturist will send his
goods down the canal on the highway which Eng-
lish enterprise has opened to him ; while the
marvels of steam and electricity will bring their
blessings to the people; but so long as suttee, in-
fanticide, and human sacrifices form part of the
Hindoo code, our task will not be done. There is
nothing more difficult than to uproot an ancient
faith, and to substitute a new one in its place; but,
as the old Latin adage tells us, " truth is great and
must prevail." It is the ignorance of the Hindoos
that is the stronghold of their superstition, and as
the advancing tide of civilisation removes the bul-
wark, the fanaticism itself must surely give way.
Oar duty as a Government is, undoubtedly, to leave
the work to time and tolerance, not to interfere
harshly or violently with native prejudice. But
we have manifestly a right, in the maintenance of
public order, to repress with the strong hand of the
law such atrocities as those of the Juggernaut pro-
cession, the suttee, and others which offend our
national code of Christian morality. It is to be
hoped that for the future the authorities will watch
the proceedings of Juggernaut and his votaries a
little more closely, and make some person, or per.
sons, responsible for the proper and orderly conduct
of the great procession of the ears.

The Last Year of the Old Fire Insurance
Duty.

As the year 1863 was the last in which the uni-
form duty of 3s per cent. was levied for the whole
period, the Parliamentary return on this subject,
just issued, has a special interest. From it we find
that the Sun is the largest insurance company hav-
ing its principal office in London, and the Royal is
the largest whose chief establishment is in the pro-
vinces. The next companies in order of magnitude
to the Sun and the Royal are the Phoenix and the
London and Liverpool. The amount paid by all the
London companies was £999,971, and by all the
country ones £715,152 ; the total being £55,207 in
excess of the previous year. This increase is, how-
ever, very unequally distributed among the different
offices, some having contributed a material advance
of business, and others showing a decrease. The
largest increase is again exhibited, as in several
previous years, by the Royal Insurance Company,
which, indeed, figures for nearly on.e-fourth of the
whole. Of course, the year 1861 will show a great
diminution in the duty collected by all the insurance
companies, as the reduced rate on stock commenced
in April of this year.

Annexed is a table of the respective increases and
decreases in the duty payments of all the offices for
1863 as compared with 1862:

IR CREASES. Cl:,nrch of England £177 11 5
Royal .... ..... .X 12,934 8 101 Uuardign
L'pool ez London.lo,7lo 5 2 Scottish NationaL 159 14 3
North British and Sheffield
Mercantile .... 7,981 1 5 Essex and Suffolk 12) 2 8
London 4 Lancas. 5010 17 7 Norwich Union
Queen '4,897 1 4 Blanchester....... IL9 16 2
Commercial Unioli 4.363 15 6 Town and County
Northern.
Imp,rial •• • ..... 2,645 0 3 Shropshire and
A11iance........, 2,505 11 5 North Wilts
County .... ........ 1,505 3 5 Volunteer Service 83 7 7
Plicenix. ......... 1,828 0 3 Notts aJd Derby,. 79 14 5
Law .... ........ 1,715 12 8 alp
ScoCtish Union .. 1,292 1 0 Emperor
London 1,219 15 6 West of England. 36 51i
(;eneral 1,020 11 8 Norwich Equitable 14 2 2
Provincial
Law Union
Royal Exchange 7 902 1 0 &c.
Hand in Hand .. 700 17 7 Netherlands
Caledonian ...... 663 16 7 Equitable
Scottish Provincial 550 15 9 Hants, Su.sex, &
Yorkshire 50516 7 Dorset
B.rmingham .... 320 2 4 Preserver
Lancashire
afidland Counties 240 18 9 Union
•• 170 18 o
Globe
Leeds & York sra 315 2 8 National of Ireland 125 11 8
lt
235 3 7 Atlas 3OO 13 7
Kent
District
.
Royal Farmers .. 189 18 0 Sun
.......
4,416 13 ,k

THEATRE ROYAL, ADELPHI.

Webster, -as Triplet, in "Masks and Faces,"

All theatre-going Londoner's, who may happen
to be still detained in town, are, at any rate in one
respect, in luck's way, for that precise reason—
because they yet happen to be Londoners! If
they have but the smallest capacity for
appreciating what it is that constitutes the
true genius of acting, they may find, any evening
this week, upon the stage of the Adolphi
Theatre, far more than merely compensation for the
delay of their holidays, whether at the seaside or
upon the continent. In saying this we speak strictly
within the mark, feelingly, and from our own expes
rience. Announced for six representations (that is,
for the whole of this present week, beginning with
lee% evening), "Masks and Faces"—the celebrated
comedy written conjointly, after the Beaumont and
Fletcher fashion, by Tom Taylor, Playwright, and
Charles Reade, Novelist—is now being nightly
enacted by the Adelphi Company ! With Mrs.
Stirling—sparkling, perennial, sterling Mrs. Stir-
ling—as the Peg Wellington I With, alto-
gether, one of the very best casts, there
has ever yet been upon any boards, of
this exquisite Hale two-act drama I Above
all, with Mr. Benjamin Webster as Triplet—that
true Artist's Original Character I Mr. Webster's
Triplet—we do not hesitate to pronounce (and
this without one single exception) the very
finest piece of acting that can anywhere now-as
days Le witnessed. It is a truly noble and
affecting impersonation. For ourselves, we could
witness it any number of times, night after night,
and with increasing satisfaction. It is more than
simply a creation of consummate art. It has—besides
—that one ineffable touch perfecting every truly great
work of art, that " one touch of nature," that not
only (as the greatest of poets says) ".makes the whole
world kin," but that stamps the true metal of the
artist with the royal " hall mark "of Genius. Mr.
Webster's Triplet is, in a single word, a masterpiece.
Throughout his impersonation of Triplet, whenever
he is before the footlights in " Masks and Faces," he
does whatever he lists with us as part of his audience
—he is absolute master of our tears and of our
laughter Often and often, during the two
acts, he is master of them (of our tears and of our
laughter) together—simultaneously So wonders
fully, indeed, are the pathetic and the ludicrous
mingled together in his performance of Triplet—in
the every ton 3 of his voice, in the every glance of his
eye, in all the quivering nerves of his mobile counte-
nance—that, again and again, we are gazing at him—
with laughing eyes—through our tears. Whatever
we might write thus of Mr. Webster's Triplet could
not by any passibility be couched in words of
extravagance or exaggeration. And this, for the
simple reason, that the character of Triplet as repre-,
sented by Benjamin Webster could not, to our mind
by any possibility be portrayed by anyone with a
nearer approach to perfection—with an art so ex-
quisitely finished of its kind as to bear all the
semblance of the absolute artlessness of Nature. In
which of the principal scenes or situations of the
drama, the genius of the Actor appears the most
conspicuously, we should find it difficult indeed in
any way to decide. Whether in the opening scene
of the First Act, where Triplet, with his three
tragedies just returned upon his hands from Mr.
Rich, the manager, renews his forgotten acquaint-
ance with Peg Woffington —or in the banquets
ting room at Mr. Vane's, where Mabel Vane
touches the poor starving Poet's very heart
with her kindness, plying him the while
with wine and biscuits—or (" last scene of
all" in this same "strange eventful" comedy of
" Masks and Faces"), in the wretched garret where
James Triplet, Poet, Playwright, Painter, Musi-
cian, Man of Arts, and Man of Letters, toils and
starves with his poor invalid wife and his hungry
little children ! Artistically viewed, perhaps
the scene of scenes in the whole drams, is
one last mentioned. Though the others,
the • preceding scenes, aro not one jot less
admirably, are not one jot less inimitably touched
into reality by the genius of the actor. Hogarth's
immortal picture of "The Poet's Ciatret" is therein—
particularly in the opening part of the last
wonderful scene in "Masks and Faces"—Hogarth's
pictare, is, as it were, now being nightly
realized upon the stage of the Adelphi ! And is
being realized,too, as (by the necessity of his dumb
art) the powers of the great national painter's
hand perforce failed to re)lise it ! It is now
virtually being realized, in other words, night
after night, at the Adelphi Theatre—it is being
realized there audibly as well as visibly—
thanks to the marvellous capabilities for realization
appertaining, EIVOng all the arts, alone to the his-
trionic art, as d3fined by Thomas Campbell, where
the Poet of Hope sings
"Till 13! the mighty Actor wrought,
ninsiaas perfect triumphs come,
Verse ceases to be airy thought,
And foulpture—"
(he might also, as in this instance, have said
painting)
---" to ba dumb."

Here, in this last act of" Masks and Faces," now, for
at least every owning during this present week, it is
as if in Hogaith's "Poet's Garret," the affecting
drama of a real human life was being played out
nightly by a Pcor Poet. Not (like Hogarth':-) a mere
painted semblaine of a Poet--but one living, moving,
breathing, toiling, weeping, laughing in our presence
mastering
all our tenderest emotions in turn
While we watet him—surrounded, now by his patient
wife and prattling children, now by radiant, kindly
Peg Woffiogtd2 and her entourage of wicked beaux
and cynical cities, Mr Snarl and Colley Cibber,
Ernest Vane, and Sir Charles Pomander ! To see for
the first time "Webster's Triplet, in " Masks and
Faces," is—we would here quite confidently assert it
—nothing less than an event in the life of the most
fastidious of playgoers—and an event, too, that
that most fastidious of playgoers must ever after-
wards bear with delight among the very choicest of
his rEcolleetiors.
Death of Alexander liastie, Esq.

It will be to many a source of deep regret to learn
that Glasgow has lost another of her public men in
the death of Al'. A. Hastie, who for ten years repro;
sented the eft* in Parliament. The melancholy
event took
Piece on the morning of Saturday last,
at 3.30 at Luker House, near Dunfermline, Mr
Hastie had an attack of cerebral paralysis about
six months ago, from the effects of which he suf..
fered for soma time, but he bad so far recovered
as to be able partially to resume some of those
duties to which he has more or less devoted him..
self during a pretty lengthened connection with
Glasgow. Last week he took his place as president
of the Chamber of Commerce and Manufactures, and
appeared to be a g
Shortly before he hatl. this
good deal recovered, although
still feeble-looking.
attack of paralysis, he purchased the estate of Lug-
kar, near Dunfermline, for we understand the sum
of £70,000 or £75,000. Some time was necessary
to prep
are it for the residence of himself and family,
and. last Thitrsday he left Glasgow, where, we
believe, he had been residing for the last few
months, to enter upon the possession of it. On that
occasion Lis hmlth appeared to be considerably bet.
ter, and the announcement of his death only two
days afterwards came upon a few of his friends in
Glasgow somewhat suddenly. Mr Hastie has left
a widow (the daughter of Mr Napier of Shandon)
and two daughters, girls of six and nine years of
age, to mourn his loss, all Of whom had the melan-
choly
satisfaction of being with him in his dying
motaints, having accompanied him from Glasgow
on Thursday. Mr Hestia was, we believe, in the
60th or 00th year of his age.—Mail.

THE CONFEDERATE CRUISER FLORlDA.—Yester-
day a telegraphic message was received at Lloyd's,
dated Lisbon, Aug. 15, announcing that intelligence had
been received at that port, dated Bahia, July 28, that the
Confederate war steamer Florida, in company with the
steam cruiser Electric Spark, had just captured the Federal
merchant ship Imfican, Captain Delills, bound from Cali-
fornia to New York, having 70,000 dole in specie on board,
and an extremely valuable cargo. The Florida took out
the treasure and portions of her cargo and her crew. The
vessel and her cargo, valued at £20,000, were then set fire
to and destroyed.
Admiral the Hon. Edward and Mr. Howard
have lef t Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Woolbeding,
Swot.

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

[REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

AMERICA.

(Per the Europa.)
NEW YORK, AUGUST 2.

The news from the Army of the Potomac is of an
important character. Another attack upon the de-
fences of Petersburg has resulted in disaster to the
Federal arms. Oa the 28th June, under the super-
intendence of Col. Pleasant, an experienced Penn..
sylvania mining engineer, the Federals commenced
to undermine a fort mounting six guns, considered
the key to the first lino of the Confederate works,
By the 28th July the work was successfully accom-
plished. The tunnel leading to the mine was 500
feet in length, four feet wide at the bottom, and two
feet at top, its height being five and a half feet.
Six tons of powder were deposited in the mine :
co-operate arrangements being effected, early on
the morning of the 30th of July the mine was ex-
ploded with tremendous effect ; an immense column
of dirt, timber, and other debris was thrown to a
height of 300 feet; the fort was utterly demolished,
and the garrison, composed of South Carolina
troops, all either killed or wounded. Immediately
after the explosion the Federal artillery opened a
furious fire, under cover of which the Federals
charged and captured nearly the entire first line of
the Confederate entrenchments. The coloured
troops of Burnside's corps were then advanced in
two columns to sustain tha assaulting force and
carry the minor works. The negroes at first ad-
vanced in good order, but, being furiously charged
upon by the Confederates, they finally gave
way and fled in confusion to the rear. The
Confederates now bore down upon the white
troops, forcing them back, and inflicting upon
them severe loss. General Bartlett and staff, and
twelve or fourteen hundred Federals were made
prisoners. The officers of the coloured troops suf-
fered severely while endeavouring to rid!), their
men. The slaughter of the negroes is said to have
been fearful. The entire Federal force finally re.
treated, under a severe fire of grape and canister,
back to their own lines. The total Federal losses
are estimated at from four to five thousand. Dur-
ing the charge immediately following the explosion
of the mine the Federals are reported to have cap.
Lured four hundred prisoners. The Confederate
troops engaged were mostly South Carolinians,
under the immediate command of Beauregard. It
is reported that on the day following the battle
General Grant went to Fortress Monroe, and had a
protracted consultation with President Lincoln.
Latest advices, which are up to nine p,m on the 31st,
state that hostilities had not been renewed. Grant
had asked a truce to bury the dead. This the Con-
federates refused, but a truce was finally agreed
upon, and the dead were being buried, and the
wounded lying between the two lines cared for.
The Confederates refused to exchange newspapers,
and had suspended all communication between the
pickets. This was thought to indicate that Lee was
executing some important movement, and was
guarding against the possibility of its detection.
Cars were heard running all night on the 30th, and
it was rumoured that Lee was throwing forward
heavy reinforcements either to Early or Hood.
Prisoners report that Lee has for some time past
been undermining the Federal works. No Con.
federate accounts of the battle on the 30th have been
received.

The new Confederate invasion of Pennsylvania
and Maryland seems to be enveloped in mystery.
It is not known definitely to the publio where or
in what force the invaders are. A Harrisburg de..
spatch reports them moving to Bedford County ;
another despatch represents them to be marching
against Hancock, while another report is that they
have entirely evacuated Pennsylvania, and are only
in small force in Maryland. Nothing positive is
known, but the general belief is that the main
body of the Confederates is still between Winches-
ter and Martinsburg in the Shenandoah Valley,
and that small bodies of cavalry are still operating
in Pennsylvania. The report of the destruction of
a portion of Chambersburg by the raiders is con-
firmed. It is stated that a force of about 250 under
M'Causland entered the town on the afternoon of
the 30th ult., and after an unsuccessful attempt
to levy a contribution on the inhabitants of 500,000
doll., fired the town in several places, after inform-
ing the people that the town would be destroyed
in retaliation for outrages perpetrated in the Shen-
andoah Valley by the forces under Hunter. The
Federal forces under General Averil came up during
the conflagration, but, being unable to subdue the
flames, started at once in pursuit of the raiders,
who had fled upon Averill's approach. It was re-
ported that Averill overtook and routed them et
M'Connellsburg. About 250 houses and public
buildings were destroyed at Chambersburg, in■
volving a loss of several millions of dollars, and
causing great suffering among the inhabitants.
Latest advices from General Sherman,a army
report that on the 27th ult. General Hood made
another attack upon Sherman's intrenohed position,
but was repulsed with a loss of nearly 1,000 in
killed. The Federal loss being a little over 600
in killed and wounded.
Confederate accounts state that on the night of
the 24th of July General Sherman attempted to
break Hood's lines, but was repulsed by Cheatham
after a sharp fight lasting an hour.
General Hood has issued an address to his troops
telling them that their safety in time of battle con-
sisted in getting into close quarters with their
enemy, that if the Federals were allowed to con-
tinue their flanking movements the Confederate
cause would be imperilled, but that recent
operations had proved that his soldiers had the
power to prevent it.
The steamer Clara Bell was attacked on the 24th
ult. by a Confederate battery near Carrollton Land-
ing and entirely destroyed.

Richmmd papers announce the re-election of
Govenor Vance, in North Carolina. Holden, the
peace candidate, receiving but few votes.

_
The Southern papers regard Vanca's election as
an endorsement by the people of North Carolina of
the policy of the Richmond Government.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, AUG. 2, P.M.
The money market is active, 7 per cent. being
the current rate for loans on first-class securities.
Government Securities are depressed on account
of the war news, but the heavy European orders
sustain prices against any serious fall. Registered
Sixes of 1881, 105 ; Coupon do., 1041; Seven Thir-
ties, 107 ; Five Twenties, 107 ; One Year Certifi-
ficates, 931.
Gold is quiet at 258, and exchange moderately
active at 28 for bankers' bills.
The Share Market is active. Erie, 1101; New
York Central, 1301 ; Hudson River, 12911 Read-
ing, 137 ; Illinois Central, 138; Michigan Southern,
891; Chicago and Rock Island, 1131; Pittsburg,
Fort Wayne, and Chicago, 1151.

Flour.—Market quiet. 9 dole. 20c. to 9 dols. 40c.
for superfine State and Western; 9 dole. 80c. to 10
dole. for extra State; 10 dole. 15c. to 10 dole. 25c.
for choice State; 10 dole, 26e. to 10 dolo. 60c, for

good shipping Ohio ; 10 dole. 75c. to 11 dols. 30c.
for common ; and 11 dols. 40c. to 13 dole. for fancy
and extra Southern ; 9 dole. 90c. to 10 dole. 20c. for
common ; and 10 dols. 25c. to 12 dols. for fancy
and extra Canadian.

Wheat.—Steady. 2 dols 220 to 2 dols 40c for
Chicago Spring; 2 dols 25e to 2 dols 41c for Mil-
wanksi Club; 2 dols 42c to 2 dole 453 for Ambir
Milvvanksi.; 2 dole 58c for Winter Red Western ;
and 2 dole 600 to 2 dols 62c for Amber Michigan.
Pork.—Firm, 35 dole to 36 dols for mess; 40
dols to 40 dola 25e for new ditto; 45 dole for prime;
and 37 dots for prime mess,

Beef.—Dull. 18 dos to 20 dole for unpacked,
and 22 dol3 to 26 dols for extra mess.

Ashes.—Quiet. 13 dols 50c for pots, and 15 dols
25c to 15 dols 50c for pearls.
Cotton.—S toady. 1 dol 63c to 1 dol C4c for mid-
dling Uplands.

Petroleum.—Steady. 50c to 51c for refined, and
82c to 83c for refined in bond.

SPAIN.

SAN SEBASTIAN, AuG. 15, Evening.
The inauguration of the Northern and Spanish
Railway took place to-day.
The King of Spain arrived at San Sebastian at

HER MAJESTY,

OSBORNE, August 15.
The Queen and Royal family walked in the
grounds this morning.
E,•rl Russell has left Osborne.

His Royal Highness the Dake of Cambridge,
accompanied by the Princess Mary, the Bon. Col, Curzon,
and a lady in waiting, arrived in Aberdeen on Saturday 11
the limited mail train at 12 30 p.m.; and after taking lun-
cheon in the Douglas Hotel, and visiting various parts of
the city, the party left by the Dees:de train at 2 30 p.m. for
Aboyne, on their way, it is understood, to Abergeldie, on a
visit to the Prince and Princess of Wales.
His Excellency the Danish Minister, M.
de Bills,
is expected to leave town, to-day or to-morrow, for Denmark.
It is said his excellency will return to this country within a
few weeks in order to marry Miss Doraville.
The Duke of Leinster leaves town in a day or
two for Carton House, Maynooth.
of
The Marquis Conyngham has left Cowes, Isle
Wight, in his yacht, for Ireland.
The Earl and Countess of Seafield have
left
Castle Grant, for his lordship's shooting-box at Balcarran,
where a select party is about to meet the noble earl.
The Countess of Listowel has arrived at the
Clarendon Hotel from the Continent,
The Earl and Countess of Eglinton will enter'
tain a select party at Eglinton Castle, Ayrshire, during
the preseiat month.
The Count de Blome has left the Clarendon Sotel
for Paris.
Lord West has arrived in Grosvenor-street on
his way to Scotland. hotel
Lord Knisington and femiiy have left the
Mirabeau, Paris, for Germany.
Baron A. de Rothschild has left Thomas's Betel'
Berkeley-square, for Vienna.
Lady William Russell has been indisposed for
the past few days,
Sir A. and Lady Arabella Bannerman are cruising
off Cowes, in their beautiful yacht, the Gem. left
Colonel Farquharson of Invercauld has
Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Scotland.

CONEY MARKET

AND

COIIMEILCIAL INTELLIGENCE,

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Monetary affairs within the past few days have
lasumed a very favourable appearance. The con-
tinuance of the official minimum at 8 per cent., and
the constant increase of the capital afloat in the
general
discount market, have occasioned an easier
"ling to prevail, and the brokers seem more dis-
?need to compete with the authorities for the busi.
:leaf' brought forward. Discounters are now willing
l° negotiate approved short-dated mercantile seen-
titles as low as 71 per cent,, and with this con-
cession there is much less demand for accommoda-
tion. The authorities of the Bank of England, as
may be expected, are daily receiving less applica.
tons for assistance ; and this circumstance, if long
e°ntinuod, will doubtless cause a favourable altera-
tion to be recorded in the next balance-sheet issued
i
ironl the national establishment.
Business in the Mincingelane markets during the
,last few days has been rather dull. For raw sugar
nnwever there has been a fair enquiry chiefly for
shipment to France, and prices have been well sus-
tained. Coffee has been dealt in to a very limited
eztent at slightly reduced prices, while in rice, fruit,
andepiees, there has been little change of importance.
In the tallow market the operations for both pro-
tect and forward delivery have been on a moderate
scale, at steady prices.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have ape
Pointed Friday, the 19th inst., a special settling day
in the shares of the Great Eastern Steamship Come
Pany (Limited), which are to be marked in the
twice a week lists.

There was a parcel of gold amounting to
£lOl,OOO taken into the Bank of England yea-
terd,y.

Two o'CLocK.

At Paris this day, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the French 3 per Cents. were 66t, 50c.
Film.

The market for English Stocks has presented
47ery fiat appearance this morning, the transac-
tions recorded having been chiefly by sellers.
'rices have accordingly given way, the decline in
the Funds amounting to . per cent. Consols are
again quoted 89k 4 for money, and 89k a for the
Recount. The New Threes and Reduced Annui-
ties are 881 the. Five per Cents, 1873, 104; do.
1885, 14 9.10 11-16. Exchequer Bills, 253. to 15s.
die. ; India 5 per Cents., 1038 1041 ; do. 4 per
Cents., 991; ditto Certificates, 99; and Enfaced 5
Per Cents., 94.
The buoyancy noticeable yesterday in Foreign
Securities has passed away, and general depression
this morning prevails in its stead. Mexican, ex all,
have declined I to 281 29; the New Stock has also
receded a to 26 8 ; Greek are k worse at 23! ;
SPsuish Passive k, at 301 ; bat Turkish Conso-
tides are I better at 50k d ; and the Confederate
;can is k higher at 77 79.
In the Railway share Market the operations
have been on a very limited scale, and prices have
shown rather less firmness. Great Northern A
Stock have declined L 1; Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln, and Metropolitan, each 10s. ; and South
Eastern, 10s. ; while Caledonian have improved 10e.
The Foreign and Colonial lines remain without
change of importance.

Bank and Miscellaneous Shares are in mode'
rate request at almost previous quotations.

BRITISH FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
GOVERNMENT FUNDS.
3 per Cent. Consols
Do Account, Aug. 8
3 per Cent. Reduced
New 3 per Cent
New 21 per Cent. Jan. 1894 —
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1873 lO4
Annuities, 30 yrs, expire r3th Jan., 1880 —
Do for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 l4 9-16 11.16
Do (Red Sea Telegraph), Aug. 1908 —
March. June.
Exchequer Bills' £l,OOO, 3 & 31 per Cent. 24
Do £5OO ••••
Do £lOO and £2OO
Back England SUE, 51 per Ct.
Do Account
INDICA GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
India Stock, 10± per Cent., April 1874 —
Do Account —
Do 5 per Cent. July, 1870
I )0 Account... •
Da 4 per Cent., Oct. 1888 991
Do Certificates
Do Enlaced Paper, 4 per Cent
Do 5 per Cent., Jan. 1872 —
Do 5i per Cent., May, 1879
Do 4 per Cent., Aug. 1866
Do Bonds Ll,OOO —
Do under £l,OOO
FOREIGN FUNDS—ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Do 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent
Do 4/ per Cent., 1852-58-60
~ Do 1863
'Dumps Avres 6 per Cent —
Ulailian 6 per Cent —
Colombian 6 per Cent
~
'llba, 6 per Cent........... —
bDo 6 per Cent. 1864
44(luador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —

i,
-uo Provisonal Land Warrant
Danish 3 per Cent., 1825
gl,ptian 7 per Cent lOll
~. Do, Second Issue— —
creek 5 per Cent., 1824-5, ex-Coupons 231
Do Account
Do Coupons —
Do Account....
Guatemala 5 per Cent. —
Do 1839 and 1859
Italian 5 per Cent. (Maremmana itailway) 731
Idexican 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent, 1864
Do French Scrip, Ex. 25f 20c.. —
Do 6 per Cent. Anglo-French — die
Ditto Scrip, £23 paid
fdoorish Imperial 5 per Cent
New Granada —
Do 2 per C0nt..... —
Do Deterred
Do Land Warrants (Hectares) ..
Do Debentures, 4 per Ct., April 1861 —
, Do do Aug., 1866 —
eruvictn 41 per Cent —
Do 3 per Cent. (Crribarren) .. —
Do 41 per Cent., 1862 -
Do Account
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Do Account
Do 3 per Cent., 1856, '7, '9, 'GO, 62,'3 471 1
Do Account 471
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St —
Do 41 per Cent., 1850 ..
Do 1860
Do 3 per Cent 1859 .
Do 5 per Cent, 1862 B7l 8
Do Anglo-Dutch
Do Scrip, £4O paid pm
Sardinian 6 per Cent ..

Do Account
Spanish 3 per Cent
Do Account
Do New Deferred
Do Account
Do Passive
Do Account
Spanish Cert. of Coup not funded
Do Account l2l I
Swedish, 4 per Cent
Do Scrip, £6O paid. pm
Turkish 6 per Cent. 1854
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent. 1858 .

Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds
Do 6 per Cent. 1862
Do Account
1)0 £lOO Bonds
Do 1863
Do Guaranteed, 4 per Cent
'Venezuela 3 per Cent.
Do Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
die
Do Scrip £45 paid
Do 1 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London
Austrian, 5 per Cent., TAx. 10 Florins.
Do Account
Belgian 41 per Cent., -Ex. 25f
Dutch 21 per Cent. F,x. 12 Guil
Do 4 per Cent. Certificates
It 5 per Cent, 1861, Ex. 25 francs —
Do account
Preach Relates, '2 per Cent .
Peravian Dollar Bonds, 41 per Ct. Ex. 4s.
l'iocirnontese, 5 per Cent., Ex. 25f
TWO O'CLOCK.
Console Money
Do Acco

Liverpool Cotton Market—This Days

3larket very firm. Sales about 8,000 bales.

BURIAL GROUNDS.—An act of parliament was
I,ss3d:on the day of the prorogation for the registration in
*-I:',*land of all burials performed according to the rites of
the cstablished church in grounds provided under the burial
aetp.

TAXING HER EASE,—An American paper'etates
that there is in St. Louis a young lady of 18 who has done
4°thirtg but eat and sleep since she was four years old, She
is 4wake furs few uilautes twioe iu the 24 heura,

67 59
25 87
92} 9.4

103 105
7 8
187,} 3811
1 10i 11i
8 9 p
165 170
8 7 c
1 3 k p.

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101 IC4

34 36

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91 i 4 2

BRITISII FOSSBSSIONs.
Closing
Share Railways Paid. Price. Business done
100 atlantic &St Lawrenc< all 58 60
Bom.,Bs.rodaa.Cent Ind
SitGu. 5 percent... lOO ICO 101 1014
20 Do. New . ..... 8
20 Do. E. Shares
204 13utlalo and Laaelluron all a 51
10 Do. Preference .... • all 74 86
100 Buffalo,BrantasGodria
100 75 80
5 p. et. bds. Aug. 1, 187.-
100 Do. do. July 1, 187 100 75 80
100 Do. do. June 1, it; 100 75 80
st Clcutta.aS.Eamtn. (Lin, 100 97 99
st CapeTov.-nlz Dock Serif 100 91 96 91
stook Mastn. Bengal gu. sp. < 100 101 103
Stook East Indian. gu. sp. c. 100 1( 0 1001 101
20 Do. do. G Ext l5 par 4 p
20 Do. do. H do.
stook Grand Trunk of Canada lou 141 29
100 Do. Ist Pref. Bonds all 71 73
100 Do. do. deferred all 60 63
100 Do. 2d Pref. Bonds., all 66 68
100 Do. do. deferred all 55 57
100 " Do. 3d Pi ef. stock
1.00 Do. do. deferred all 43 45
100 Do. 4th Pref. stook all 27 29
100 Do. do. deferred all 26 28
stook Gt.lndiaPentn.gua.sp.c 100 101 102 1021
20 Do. New gua. sp. e„. 12 par 11,
Do. January, 1862
stock Gt. South.of India (Lim
guaranteed 5 per cent. 100 98 100 100
201 Gt. W. of Canada Sharei. all 9/ 01
206 Do. New . • 18 . ... . . 18 111 101;
100 Do. 6 p.0.'73 with't opt. all 89 01
100 Do. 51 p. a. do. '77-8 all 82 81
10 Indian Branch Limited 2 d fn
stock Madras, guar., sp. o.
stook Do.4t p. c. Extension 100 92 94
stock 1)c. 46 d 0....
20 Do. Fifth Extension 2 --
stPok Melb.Corp. 6p. o. Bnds lOO
50 Melb. .4; Hobson's Bay all 60 62
100 Do. 7p. O. Hoag. Bds all
$0 Newßruuswick a Candu
Claes A. and B. all 3 6
N. Rhe'da6 pc let Tbds 100 82 84
stook &hide (100 99 101
stock Do. Delhi .: 100 09 110 091
20 Do. do . 4
. 0 2 I id
et Do. Punjaub c all 93 100
Do. Do.
stook Do. Indus. St. Flo.) 1
.100 93 95

COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.
- Cau.Goy. 6 p.c.J ul)
1877-84 100 96 99
Do. Rp. c. Feb.& Aug. 100 96 99
Do. Ep. e.Mar. & Sept. 100 98 102
Do. sp. o. Jan.&July. /0c 84 86 85
Do. 5 Inscribed stock 100 84 86
Cape G.l.lope, 6 p 0,1873 100 101 106
Do.Ap & Oct. 1880 100 107 109
Do. 1890 100 118 110
Do. Jan. & July, 1891 100 106 103
Ceylon, N0v.1878, 6p c 100 110 112
Mauritius 6 per cent lOO 103 105
Natal Gov. 6 per cant 100 1.c,4 107
N.8.G0v.6 p.c. J a.&Jul3 100 97 100
Do. 6p. cap. & Oct 100
N. S. V. Gov. 6 p c.,186t 100 96 98
Du. sp. c.,18/1 to 171" 100 96 98
Do. d0.,1888 &upwds 100 96 98 sei
New Zealand 6 p cent 100
Nova Scotia Gov. 6 p. C
sterling„ 1875 lOO 99 102
Queensland Gev. 6p. a 100 101 104 1031
8. Aus G6p.c.1878.& up lOO 105 107 106
°p.c. Ja.&July 100
- iDs In 0 p.c. A.0.400t. 100 108 i 1096

LAW INTELLIGENCE.---This Day,

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fane.)

His Honour resumed his sittings after the vacation, but
the cases were for release from custody, &c., unopposed.
Mr. Registrar Pepys presided over the meetings for the
choice of assignees, which were not of interest; the only
one of the slightest importance was that of Dando and
Chetwynd, of Leadenhall-street, shipbrokers and owners,
and timber merchants. The debts and liabilities are stated
at £31,837, and the assets are expected to realise a divi-
dend of 2s. 6d. in the pound. The failure is attributed to
failure of debtors and general losses in trade. Messrs.
Perrin, of Fenchurch-street, shipowners, were chosen
assignees; Mr Perrin, and Messrs. Terrell and Chamber-
lain were appointed solicitors, and Messrs. Cartars and
Harper, accountants to the estate.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ASSAULT ON A CONSTABLE.—EIIen Carmoody, a young
woman, was charged before Mr Tyr whitt, on a warrant,
with assaulting police constable George Bettsworth, 181 C.
Bettsworth said that on the night of Sunday, the 17th of
last month, he saw a crowd collected round a man and his
wife who were quarrelling. While dispersing the crowd
the prisoner rushed from some young men she was standing
with, and, making use of a vile expression, struck him a
severe blow in the eye with a door key. The crowd got
the prisoner away and she escaped, but two of the persons
were brought to the court and fined 20s each or 11 days.
He then applied for a warrant against the prisoner, and
seeing her in New street last night took her into custody,
when she said that she was sorry, and that it would not
have occurred had she not been in liquor at the time.
The prisoner said she had no key in her hand at the
time.

Mr Tyrwhitt said he recollected that the constable had
his eyes blackened.

The prisoner was fined 20s or H days.

THAMES.

DASTARDLY OUTRAGE.—George Griffith; an umbrella
maker, aged 20, of Cable-street, \Vhitechapel, wao brought
before Mr Paget, charged with being drunk, disorderly, and
violently assaulting Edward Dillon, a police sergeant, No.
19 K.

Yesterday evening at five o'clock Dillon was sent for to
the Hoop and Grapes public-house, in Ratcliffe-highway,
to suppress a disturbance. The prisoner was then very
drunk and disorderly. He demanded beer and Mr Shepherd
refused to serve him. Dillon removed him and he became
very violent and raved loudly. He lay on his back, got hold
of the police sergeant's leg and attempted to throw him, He
also made repeated attempts tobitehim. Assistance came and
the prisoner, after a most determined resistance, was removed
from the house. On the way to the station-house the
prisoner was again violent, threw Dillon with great force
on the ground, kicked him, and tore the skin off his
shin. He also " broke" his uniform trowsers. It required
three constables to take the prisoner to the station-house
by force. Dillon was smuch injured, and his wrist sprained.
Mr Paget said, if the prisoner became inebriated and
conducted himself like a savage, he must take the conse-
quences. The prisoner was a brutal ruffian, a nuisance in
the public-house from which the police-sergeant removed
him, and then committed a dastardly assault. He sen-
tenced him to two months' imprisonment and hard labour.

MARKETS—This Day.

HAY MARKETS.

SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, £3 Os to £5 5s ; clover,
£4 Os to £6 Os; and straw, £1 4s to £1 10s per load.
Trade firm.
CUMBERLAND.b—MearIOW hay, £3 Os to £5 5s ; clover,
£4 Os to £6 Os ; and straw, £l4s to £1 10s per load. A
steady demand.
NVIIITECHAPEL —Meadow hay, £3 Os to £5 ss; clover,
£4 Os to £6 Os; and straw, £1 4s to £1 10s per load.
Trade firm.

COLONIAL.
TEA—Business has been rather dull, and the few dealings
reported have been at about former rates.
SUGAR—The market has been a shade firmer in conse-
quence of an export demand for France, and prices have in
some instances ruled a little higher. Ia the Refined
Market, however, no material change can he reported.
COFFEE—The demand for colonial descriptions has been
limited, and quotations are slightly depressed.
RICE—A fair amount of business has been transacted,
without any material alteration as regards prices.
TALLOW—Business has remained very quiet, owing to
the excessive heat of the weather. P.Y.C. on the spot is
quoted 41s 9d, and last three months 43s 9d per cwt.