The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-23 00:00:00

SECONDARIES COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

BARBER V. BALLS.
This was an action to recover damages for breac—
h f
promise of marriage.

The plaintiff is daughter of a respectable In**
residing at Norwood, and defendant is an omnibus Po-
prietor. It appeared that the defendant had three Year°
'ago made honourable proposals to the plaintiff and bet
parents, and was admitted as a suitor up to Aprilt
The defendant paid such attentions as led to
firm belief that he was not a mere
but after having bought the ring, and had the banespublished, he declined to tie the lover's knot.
The jury gave a verdict for 751. gay deceivers

MARLBOROUGH-STREET-(THIS DAY)'

A SHAW:M.—Samuel Anderson, a young Mint WIT
described himself as a horse dealer, residing at N°• ><4r
George street, Hampstead-road, was charged before su"
Hardwick with uttering a counterfeit five-shilling 1358ce:
Mr. John King, licensed victualler, 84 John-411°1
Tottenham court-road, stated that between twelve •
one o'clock this morning the prisoner came into his houre
and called for a bottle of soda water, with which witll7
served him, and received the crown piece produced
la i
payment. Witness, on taking up the coin, irnn3ndiatee:
detected it to be a counterfeit, and asked the pris°l/4
where he got it from. The prisoner said he reel"
it at the " Giant's," in Drury-lane, and was not lIILAV
till then that it was a bad one. Witness observing "7 f
he was accompanied by a notorious " smasher," sent®
a constable and gave him (prisoner) into custody-

other man effected his escape.
The prisoner, in defence, said he was a horse dealer_;
and attended " Smiffel" market. He happened to be
the " Giant's" last .night, and received the crown Piece

'there.
Police-constable 92 E said he took the prisoner int:
custody, and after locking him up, he went to the Mickel:is
where prisoner said he lived, and on making incluirle.
there he found that he was not known to any one in
house. Prisoner was remanded till to-morrow.

ST. PETERSBURG.—A dvices from St. Petersburg -r, -' ICA
to the Ist inst., but] they contain nothing new, • let
„.0,
that Archangel Archangel was effectually blockaded on the •
the
inst. As [this would be the Ist inst. according the
old or Russian style, the delay in establishing
blockade, which excited surprise after it had been o'3
tied for the Ist, seems to be explained. e srs
NEw LONDON CHURCHES.—SeveraI new churches. _►
about being commenced in the metropolitan thefts f
and some are so far advanced as to be nearly ready; r,
consecration. In Paddington three new churches are ti;
be at once commenced, the Bishop of London having 011,.
scribed 1,0001. towards that object. In Coventry-etree!7
Haymarket, between Rupert-street and Princess-etre&
a church is to be erected, her Majesty the Queen havirt
subscribed 5001. ;the Bishop of London, 1,000/ ; Vision° r
Sydney, 251. ; and Mr. W. T. Egerton, M.P., 25L, I°. a
that purpose. Three churches are to be erected 1-
Clerkqnwell, an influential committee, of which Lori
Shaftesbury is at the head, having been formed for tb.i
purpose of raising the necessary funds. In the Wisp'
of St. Andrew, Holborn, a 'large church is to be erectsi ede.
at the sole expense of Mr. J. Gelhbrand Hubbard, a t'.
!laving been given by Lord Leigh. At Limehouse P.
church is to be built at the sole expense of Mr. Wilhalls.
Cotton. "A merchant," whose name has not transpireo
has offered to build and endow a church in any part 03'
London the bishop of the diocese may point out. 14
Kensington, Isleworth, Ha.minersmitii, St. Panera
Shoreditch, Whitechapel, and other densely-populate
emh districts,autrte Matthew's,
s,w Oakley-square;
churchesiackhi
eya
.7agrueltpeor
;0
approaching
bnLugtil ikte.,s:ANni completionotnfor
dta.hrpeel a n:te
All Saints, Nutting-hill ; St. Andrew's, NilVes • t r
Trinity Church, Newington : and one near Litt:Ales e 9
built at the'r'e ex,,eri,e of Mr Ald. Cubitt, M. P.
MELANCHOLY Lose OF Two LIVES. TYNEMOI7'
Aug. 21.-11. r. S. steed, the o,ro! er for South Nor to.
umberland, held an inquest at Cullercoats to-dhy on the
body of Mary Armstrong, who, opt
named a young W g;t
named Adam Cochrane, lost their lives in a n' ),2-t
distressing occurrence which happened at Whitley, 3° 04
three miles northward of this place. Dec" 0$
was a domestic of Mr. Guthrie, the account. ;10
to the River Tyne Commissioners at Nesvcastle.
family was staying at Whitley, which is a bath
tot"
lace on the Northumberland coast, and on
day forenoon Mrs. Guthrie, the deceased, and the (
08..
dren, went down to the sands for the purpose of Wahl al,.
There was a northerly swell on at the time, whicbd ofi
ways causes an awkward backsweep of the sea, an on;
the south end of the sands, during the first two h(dil
of ebb, a strong current also sets out to sea. S° f
gerous, indeed, is this part of the shore at the till 0 a
tide mentioned, that the authorities have s b
placed in a conspicuous place warning bathers 0: wr
from it. The board seems to have been ° 'to
looked by Mrs. Guthrie, for the women proceeded 1.
bathe in the most dangerous part of the sand. pd,
Guthrie had bathed and come again, when the deco; ;be
borrowed her bathing-gown and went into the water•
in
had gone outside a sandbank, and had not been hog be'
when she found the tide dislodging the sand frog)
•
neath her feet, and commenced screaming for assists. ace'
able
Her mistress ran into the sea to her help, but was,ut bor
to, reach her. In the meantime the poor girl bad icTil
feet and got into the current, wbich was
gra.i 40.
drawing her out to sea. The scene at this mome]esc rip'
scribed to have been of the most heartrending
tion, the women and children on shore screw:Tr:she
concert with the drowning girl and running abb,...4
most distracted manner. Mrs. Guthrie ran to TOO
three men, desiring them to render assistasc Le or
they. declined going into the water. thf.)__Lireeir
time young Mr. Cochrane, son of a tradesman
_ianrci
castle, and who was in delicate health, having bear
screalniug, ran from a cleft in the rock, where 04'
been dressing after having bathed, and plungedo‘i got
sea to the assistence of the girl. Ile had n p.3s, rai:
into the breakers, however, when a tremendous s'`
in, which knocked him down, the backsweeP
him under water, and he was drowned. The llor
still floated, and made a desperate struggled' a roes'
The village by this time bad been alarmed, sn_n cart
senger was sent to Cullercoats, and a boat 5evn,b6.064.0
round the point, rowed by two sturdy fishermen• i_ boat"
into the _
hold of the girl and were able to haul her ,;glor
but their assistance came too late. She gave Tlve
after she was taken out of the water, and exPirwsitle:
sea was so high that they durst not venture to re tte
and they had to pull round to Cullercoats was Pe 9,
could the body. The body of poor Cochran()
_0 6% C.
picked up until this forenoon, when it 1
a'-a`'unccorr
between two rocks near where the accident' belong' at
Mr. Charleston, corn factor, a fine young nv'tri ~„re thioid;
to Newcastle, was drowned upon the coo, 7.0°.` Ar.
accident happened, while bathing, Thenth, ar'etigilect
strong was a native of Carlisle. jury
'ea wee trif
verdict of "Accidentally drowned."
INDEX FOR RAILWAY PLATFORMS.--00.- ra 9 ni
we made allusion to a very ingenious aPP"otion°,7o
indicating the tiinea of departure and destisf. Puot,
trains at the different stations, invented by il),Liy`,erpsos
Sinclair, of the Waterloo station on the oneists
Crosby, and Southport line. The invention o_f the de!'
an index for showing, at a glances the times,. the da7l
parture of the successive trains througheub go ;
and the towns to which passengers raeaY the t"isk
above this is n signal bell, to be rung w-en.., of ea
ought •to start. The index, after the dePartil: 010°5 •
train, is set to the proper time for the nel'v_r winand
moving a small cylinder by means of a key v. ;„°.
h ralswv bag;
and the names of the towns are shown od w
fixing an "arm "on which they are painted, „ over_
is done by a contrivance upon the priuc pistexhrib'ited t;
On Wednesday one of these indexes was. _ is eoW
the Exchange News Room, and the invente?r.,,_ Doveyj
operation at the Titheharn-street station of tsi:iverpeer
shire and East Lancashire Railways. --
Standard. .0
°CI
THE SAILOR'S BIBLE.—The following transcri ;
le
tide
bti
the fly-leaf of a brave officer's Bible tells a sin)! ,
the dangers of a seaman's life, and the siourc.e.;b2,oo,ll
fidence in the hour of his greatest trial, wlrt°_, fonovo,4
with the elements or his country's foe. It ,iteaikey,f;r
---" This Bible was presented to me by Mr' rewarcl,4
the town of Hertford, January, 1781, as
my punctual attendance at the Sunday sev°'-'
behaviour when there. And after being ray, iii the s
0,
fifty-three years, forty-one of which I spen,t2 eus4
service, during which time I was in tames times ohlY;
merits, received thirteen capsized threearat, toia_
wrecked, once burnt out, twice pin .
had fevers of different sorts fifteen times, this, join_
my consolation ; and was newly hound form 1,4_ tbe_
Bishop, of Edinburgh, on the 26th of October, 01
day I completed the 60th year of my age, As
hand."—Deeds of Naval Daring. id not r
A SLIGHT MISTAHE.—A sailor who COall.
lately appeared at the Naval Rendezvous at t° bit',
'who, in answer to one of several questions,rch
he
said he had an excellent written character,
rileid the rif
proud of, and, in proof of his assertion, 11
bhaerel39 cerivita*
lowing document to file officer : `` - IF
thatadmitted into the ,
, sailor, was _osl, ana "
ary for delirium tremens, on June 25,
charged well this day (June 30, 1854). Sig
Rouse Surgeon."—.Ecii7tburglt Courant.

M ON E Y
Ai Ait VA ,

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO o'C L 0 CK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 4,000 bales, including 500 American
taken for export. The market again closed heavily,
with but very little change in prices. The sales
comprised 80 -Pernam and Maranham, at 6ad. to
lid. ; 30 Bahia, at 6kd.; 150 Egyptian, at sid. to
Bd.; 500 Surat, at 3d. to 41d. ; and the remain-
der American. Railway Shares were steady.
Tile Foreign Ex °hang s yesterday afternoon ex-
hibited some slight symptom of weakness for three
months' bills. Paris, however, remained unaltered,
being 25, 27k to 30. Antwerp, 25, 25 to 30. Am-
sterdam, 11, 171 to 17k; Hamburg, 13, 61 to 6i- ;
Frankfort, 118/ to 119 ; and Trieste, 11, 52 to 56.
There has been a sligh t demand for gold to be
shipped to the Continent, and, with the exception
of the fine gold from America, which has been
melted and sent into the Bank of England, all
available parcels have been taken. Bar gold is
775. 9d. per oz. standard, and bar silver ss. 1:d.
per oz.
From Brinsels. yesterday, under the head of
various important tours in the interior, it is stated
the markets continued to be well provisioned with
considerable quantities of the new wheat and other
grain. Active purchases at Courtray had improved
the quotations, both for wheat and oats, two francs
per hectolitre. At Grammont, on the contrary,
with very plentiful supplies, prices were lower. At
Liege and Louvain again prices had realised an
advance of about one franc.
The suspension of M. Henri Von Wertheimstein,
" one of our great houses of commerce," says the
advice from Vienna, suspended payment in that
capital on Monday last. The fact transpired here
late yesterday, but must have been known to lead-
ing mercantile houses connected with Vienna on the
day of its.occurrence, probably through the electric
telegraph. No 'particulars of the extent of the lia-
bilities involved are as yet known. Two other
great failures were also spoken of, but apparently
as 0 •nnected with Stock Exchange speculations.
The stops age of Messrs. Morpurgo and Co.,
general commission merchants, chiefly in the
Italian trade, became known yesterday on 'Change.
The house bad, it is stated, been concerned in ex-
tensive grain speculations in connection with
Galatz and Alexandria.
The Stock • Market has been remarkably quiet
all morning, which indeed maybe readily accounted
for, not only by the absence of any existing intelli-
gence, but by the thin attendance of jobbers and
speculators, whose operations are the animating
cause of all business and fluctuations other than
what might more gradually grow out of the less
massy but more regular every-day business of
money purchases by the public for bona fide in-
vestment, or sales for the realisation of funds
wanted forcommercial or other purposes. Brighton,
Paris, and the Rhine, are now probably among the
temporary quarters where many of the more stirring
spirits of the Stock Exchange are seeking repose,
Or recreation, or both.
The quotations of public securities, in conse-
quence are not quite so well supported, but still the
variation of Is. Bd. can scarcely be called a de-
cline. Consols are called 934 to 4 for transfer,
and 94 to for time, with sluggish business.
Threes Reduced 93k to 4k. 3/ per Cents. 941 to
Long Annuities (1860) are done at 4 11-16ths
and 4i. Bank Stock at 208 i and 21.0. India
Bonds 2s. to ss. premium. Exchequer Bills ls.
discount to 3s. premium. Exchequer Bonds, 1859,
94.
Foreign Stocks are quiet. Brazilian Small
Bonds are 1044 to 101. Russian 5 per Cents. are
weaker, being 99. Sardinian have risen to 87 and
87i. Spanish 3 per Cents. are 37f to 38, and the
New Deferred firmer at 17/ to 184. Dutch 4 per
Cents. are at 931. The Turkish Loan Scrip has
been dealt in at 61 to 7* premium. •
The controversy between the Proprietors of the
Ottoman Bank and the Agents, or, astheynow pub-
lish themselves, the Contractors of the Turkish
Loan, would seem to be far from temiin.ted, as
will be sewn below from the letter of Mr. S, auley,
representing the Bank. It is in flat contradiction
of the assertions put forth in the letter recently
pblished and 'signed by M. Musurus, the Turkisu
Envoy. No observations need for the pres.tut to
be made on the subject matter of dispute, respect-
ing the facts of which we can hardly fail to be fur-
ther enlightened in its progress. It may be stated,
however, that according to accredited advises the
loan hangs fire in Paris, and on the Bourse its ex-
istence seems to remain unrecognised. It is re-
marked, also, that no sign of recognition or al pro-
"val similar to that stated of Lord Clarendon, has
yet issued from M. Drouyn de I'Huys, the French
Minister for Foreign Affairs, talthough in the
programme of the loan issued by the re-
spectable agents here, the act of that Minis-
ter's adhesion and approval was very dis-
tinctly notified and assured as forthcoming.
The publication of the Sultan's firmans at once
would do much to settle this vexed question. In
the meantime, it is to be hoped that the present is
not destined to conclude in a catastrophe like that
of the last war, in which the dealers and holders
were so unluckily shorn of their paid premiums.

THE TURKISH LOAN.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
" SIR,—My attention has just been called to the letter
published in your journal of the 21st instant, and signed
M. Musurus, the Ambassador of the Sublime Porte,
in London.'
" The letter states that Messrs. Trouve-Chauvel and
Stanley question the right of any one to apply any por-
tion of the Egyptian Tributes, as guarantee for the new
Turkish Loan, alleging that those tributes are already
made over in favour of the proposed Bank of Constanti-
nople.
It further adds that the Embassy of the Sublime Porte
in London gives the most formal denial to this unjustifi-
able assertion ; and whilst acknowledging that a contract
was passed between the Subline Porte sbnd certain bankers
at Constantinople, asserts that they (the bankers) have
since obtained the cancelling of the contract, and that con-
secluently all engagements on both sides are null and void.
I am compelled, sir, in reply to state—first, that the
contract passed between the Sublime Porte and the
bankers alluded to was, with the sanction of his Imperial
Idajesty the Sultan, transferred by a sub-contract duly
certified to M. Trouve-Chauvel and myself, under the firm
of E. R. Stanley and Co., and that in the contract the
tributes of Egypt were transferred to the bank ; secondly,
that there never has been any vttempt made by the
bankers to obtain the cancelling °fetich contract, nor of
any part of it, and that, so far as I know, there has never
been any desire on the part of the Ottoman Government
to disengage itself or relieve us from engagements which
are mutually binding.
All the documents relating to this question are now
deposited in the hands of the legal authorities in Paris,
and are consequently open to public inspection—every do-
cument bears the necessary signature of the official ap-
•pointed by H.I.M. the Sultan, countersigned and attested
by the French and British Consular authorities—and as it
is upon these documents alone that we found our claim, so
it will be from the same source alone that the propoied
subscribers to the loan can ascertain how far their preten-
sions can be upheld in so far as regards the tributes of
Egypt.—Yours, &c. E. H. STANLEY.
Craven Hotel, Aug. 22, 1854.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds 6 to 6i, Mexi-
can 241 to 241, Peruvian 71 to 73, ditto 3 per
Cents. 52 to 54, Portuguese 4 per Cents 40 to 42,
Russian 5 per Cents. 99 to 101, ditto 41; per Cents.
85 to 87, Spanish New Deferred 171 to 18k, ditto
3 per Cents. 37 to 38, ditto Certificates 4i- to 51,
ditto Passive 3i to 4.
- - - -

A very limited business is doing in Railway
Shares to-day, and quotations are heavy. The
Foreign Lines are nominally without variation.
Mining, Banking, and Land Shares are without
particular change, but the transactions are unim-
portant.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Ulacial Lie.)

llnyinegs dnne
Panic Stock ••••• • 2OSi 10
3 Per Cent. Rectum:a Annuities
3 Per 00,t, elan.,'- Annuities 94 3R I
31 Per Cent. Annuities
Lung Annuli._ ~.re .sth .i 5..., 1860
Dittc, 30 Years, Earl ro 10th Oct., 1859 4 7-16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4 7-1 G
India Bonds, £1000
Consols for Account 13th Sept. . 94i 4 -
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
£lOOO
2500 ..... .....
1 dis
Small
Exchequer Bonds Scrip, 1858 . . —
Ditto 1559 4
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. _
Ditto Small
Russian Bonds. 1822. 5 per Cent. £ St 99
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent B7 i 7.
Spanish Bonds. 3 per Cent
gnmligli New Deferred, 3 p .1r Cent. l7i 18}
Turkish Scrip

_
Dividenda on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2a per Cent. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ......
HALF•PAST TWO.
Consols 931 4
Litto September Ac •onnt

LANDLORDS AND WAITERS.—As a rule, it is a good
plan never to negotiate with the waiter about an over-
charge or an inconvenience, but always with the landlord
i't person, and if possible when nobody ehe is present.
Always pay up your bill, too, some hours before you
Bart, or you will find half a score of complaints, per-
ils, to make, and nobody to hear them. Mine host
nearly always takes care to he out of the way after send-
g in an exorbitant bill to a departing guest, and out of
the way lie will remain till you are safely off, and, and
nobody else can help you. Mine host i., indeed, full
of tricks as a pantomime, especially if an Italian; so that
it is better always to keep a tight hand on him. Roving Engligman.

YORK RACES.
(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

DUNDAS STAKES.

Bourgeois
Eleven ran.
NORTH AND SOUTH BIENNIAL
Meteora

Ten ran.
Umbriel received ft

LATEST BETTING ON THE ST. LEGER.
7 to 1 agst Boiardo.

Entries for the Queen's Plate—Kingston, Dove, De-
fiance. Billy Richardson. Sheriff, Hermit, Jetty Treffz,
Arribas, Seducer, Grapeshot, Virago, Merry Monk,
Lerrywheut, Itch, Professor Buck, iind King of Trumps ;
all here but Defiance and Sheriff.
Arrivals for the Great Ebor Handicap—Kingston,
Little Harry, Muscovite, King of Trumps, Aquilla,
Hermit, Early Bird, Heapy, Grand Inquisitor, Dr.
O'Toole, Tros, Amalgamation, Rodomeli, Ethelwolf,
Humguffin, and Lindrick.
ADDITIONAL ARRIVALS.—NettIe, Vandal, Cockspur,
Merry Lass c, Determination, Pumicestone, Correbus,
The Medway, Fayaway, Tadcaster, Igo, The Cropper,
Marley Hill, Braxey, Baalbec, Ammonia, Priestcraft,
Capucine, Musqueto, Neville, Cecrops, Ludwig, Johnny
Taft, and Dr. Cooke.

ORDER OF RUNNING.

Dundas
Biennial ......
Oaks
Convivial
Chesterfield
Queen's Plate

1.30
2.30
3.0
4.0
4.30
5.0

MARKET NEWS-L-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

The show of English wheat in to-day's market was very
limited ; yet the demand for all kinds was exceedingly in-
active, and Monday's prices were with difficulty sup-
p3rted.
_ _

- Although the supply of foreign wheat was not to say
large, all descriptions moved off heavily, and inferior par-
cels were lower to purchase.
Barley commanded very little attention, on former terms.
The molt trade was dull, but no actual change took place
in prices.

Oats were in moderate supply, and heavy request, on
former terms.
Beans, peas, and flour were almost nominal.
ARRIVALS THIS VEER.
Barley. Malt. I Oat..
20 ) 1,980 770
1,360
6,031

Wheat.
720

English ..
Irish ....
Foreign ..

Flour.
640

6,070 i 4,620

I,soosks

WHITECHAPEL.

The general demand was in a sluggish state, as follows :
Beef from 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 10d ; lamb,
4s Od to 5s Od ; veal, 2s 10d to 4s 2d ; pork; 3s 4d to
4s 8d per Blbs by the carcase.