The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 22, 185 3.

terly wanting in that freedom and heartiness which
alone could interest them.

Here then is the real work for Sabbatarians, if
they are honestly concerned for the welfare of
those on whom they would lock the gates of the
railway station, and who will now be locked out
by the season itself. Let them organise a tho-
rough visitation of all the dirty and demoralised
neighbourhoods of our cities and towns. Let
them see first to the physical condition, which
must be attended to, before the unfortunate deni-
zens of such habitations can be reasonably ex-
pected to give a thought to any, intellectual or
moral subject. Indeed, it were impossible to
attempt religious exertion amongst them without
perceiving that physical amelioration is the indis-
pensable primary step. Hopeless, however, and
repulsive, as first appearances may be, it is in
evidence that hardly any effort amongst them,
conducted in a manly unsectarian and benevolent
spirit, has been in vain. If Ministers will
lay aside their buckram, or intelligent lay-
men acquainted with their habits and feelings
will visit them—will gather them together in
an unpretending and easy way, and will reason
with them candidly on social or religious subjects,
the men have always been found accessible enough,
and grateful enough too to the kindly and unas-
suming visitor.

We will honestly confess that these thoughts
occurred to us while asking ourselves how best to
improve, in behalf of the classes in question, the
cleansing spirit which is in many places at least
reforming the physical conditions of our citadels
of disease. The first step is now taken, but it
will be foolish, indeed, to consider it as the final
one. The school, and the place of worship suit-
able to the people, must immediately follow. Edu-
cation and some consciousness of religious obliga-
tions are indispensable to complete and render per-
manent a work which must begin with such hum-
ble agents as whitewash, brooms, and nightmen.
The moral pollutions of such localities can of
course be only cleansed away by the corresponding
means ; but the opening for these means is now
made, and is it too much to ask those to whom it
pertains to see that these openings be promptly
filled up. The Ragged School, and the Ragged
Church too, are the desiderata. It is folly
to be perfecting our education for those who can
and will perfect their own, folly to be building
everywhere new churches for the middle and upper
classes ; and at the same time to leave those
without schools who most need them, and those
without a room for worship who will never enter
the places frequented by their betters.
It is becoming, happily, distinctly recognised,
that we must aim more at the prevention of crime
at its fountain than at vainly endeavouring to
dam up its streams. Transportation and crank
labour, and every mode of deterring seems doomed
to failure. Habits once formed, can hardly
be broken by penalties. The grand hope is to
compel the industrial and moral education of neg-
lected children, and to carry suitable instruction
to the haunts of filthy vice, which dread of the
cholera has compelled us to cleanse. We must
make men self-reformers. We: must appeal to
them as reasonable beings, as immortal beings.
We must go to them in the spirit of brotherhood.
We must regard ourselves as, in some sense, their
debtors. Qualified heads and hearts for the task
are, we believe, not wanting, and the same per-
sons would be hailed as friendly instructors, who
would be hated if they came with prohibitory
Acts of Parliament.

MONEY MARKET

AND
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

There was a good demand for cotton at Liver-
pool yesterday. Sales 7,000 bales, of which 2,000
were taken for export and on speculation. Prices
were firmly maintained. Railway Shares were
heavy at lower prices.
The statement of the Bank of England for the
week to the 15th inst., gives the results of the
large national disbursements occurring quarterly ;
but in connection therewith, some circumstances
of more than usual interest are observable. It
has been well understood for some time past that
the balance of the Chancellor of the Exchequer was
lower than usual, and that this restricted the means
of the Bank at the very time it was more largely
called upon to accommodate the public in the way
of discounts. A glance at the return will show
how these various influences combined. Upon the
resumption of transfers, loans obtained upon Stock
and Exchequer Bills during the " shutting," had
to be repaid, and this strengthened the resources
of the Bank in meeting the dividend payments
which, in their turn, occasioned an addition to the
balances of parties having accounts at the Bank.
Still the necessity arose, further to make available
the reserve of notes and the specie. A renewed de-
mand for the latter, with a view to its exportation,
had likewise, no doubt, some effect, but future
balance sheets will better enable us to judge of
this. Compared with the previous return, the
changes were as follows

Active circulation
Increase 826,820
Bullion
Decrease 477,615
Rest
Decrease 529,958
Public Deposits 3,700,859
Decrease
Other Deposits
Increase
Seven-day and other Bills 1,405,093
Decrease
Government Securities 12,455,161
Increase 116,078
Other Securities 17,425,089
Decrease 1,516,460
Notes unemployed 5,012,490
Decrease 1,349,410

Bills were taken yesterday afternoon upon the
principal Continental cities at nearly previous rates.
When business commenced there was a slight de-
cline, but afterwards this was recovered. Paris,
90 days, realised 25 271 z to 30 ; Amsterdam, 11 171
to 18; Hamburgh, 13 61 to 6 ; Frankfort, 1191
to 120 ; and Trieste, 11 20 to 22.
The amount of silver exported from London
during the week to Thursday last was 44,690 oz.,
and of gold 13,078 oz. and 3001. The whole went
to the continent.

The English Funds have been heavy to-day, the
amount of business having been limited. Consols
for money opened at 91k to I, and afterwards re -
ceded to 94. They have not since recovered.
Bank Stock is at 217. The political news is con-
sidered alarming.

Foreign Securities are all flatter. Spanish De-
ferred 21 g, and Mexican 23 I. Russian Five per
Cents. have still been maintained at 112 k.
Railway Shares have been heavy, without many
sales.

The Shares of the Gold Mines and Miscellaneous
Companies' have not varied much.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
( From the Official List.)
Business done.
Bank Stock

3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities. . .
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9ll i a 1 i
New 31 per Cent. Annuities 924 a
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
India Stock
India Bonds, £lOOO .
Bank Stock for Account 216
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, 2d.
2500
Small par 4 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
New Brazilian Bonds, 1829 & 39, 5 per Cent 97i
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 5B
Chiliau Bonds, 6 per Cent , lOO4
Mexican 3 per Cent!! 23
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent 4l;
gritto Ex all over-due Coupons 3Bl
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £St ll2 i
Ditto 41 per Cent OG 7
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent 9Ol
Spanish Bonds, 3 peeent 44
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent 214
Dividends on the above payable'in London.
Dutch Exchange, 28 per Cent. 12 Guil 62
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ..
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols 914 i
Ditto October Account 9lB i

SPORTING NOTES.

CHANCES FOR THE CAMBRIDGESHIRE.

The advance of Seahorse, and the retrogression of
Orestes, have imparted a little activity to speculation on
the Cambridgeshire Stakes. Still the betting is not re-
markably brisk, and the movements in the turf market
possess scarcely sufficient importance to occasion either
curiosity or interest. Nabob steadily maintains the po-
sition of leading favourite, and Haco is supported with
much spirit and confidence. The comparative chances
of these animals I have already reviewed, and the pro-
ceedings of the betting fraternity have not been such as
to upset the conclusions which I arrived at as to the sound-
ness of their pretensions. On Friday, Orestes encoun-
tered determined opposition, but the cause of this hosti-
lity scarcely admits of satisfactory explanation. Rumour
asserts, however, that recently Orestes has taken
only walking exercise. I am, however, at present
disinclined to allow vague reports to destroy the
favourable opinion which I have formed as to
Orestes's chance. Should he go to the post in health
and condition, and get quietly off, he will be a most for-
midable competitor. Both he and Cineas are horses of
a superior class, and are entitled to conspicuous places
in the " dangerous division." Recently, however, few
investments have been made on Cineas, whose position
in the betting is scarcely commensurate with his supe-
rior racing merit. Asa " mile horse," he has few, if any,
superiors. The Newmarket folk calculate with confi-
dence on the success of Seahorse, who, on the strength
of a favourable trial, has within the last day or two been
supported with much spirit. His pretensions are entirely
founded on a " continental reputation," and his racing-
like appearance. He has not yet publicly "performed"
in England ; it is, therefore, impossible to obtain any
trustworthy information respecting the extent of his
ability. Hervine is another " foreigner," who, as an
" outsider," is deemed worthy of notice. She has fre-
quently run in this country, but her racing displays have
been somewhat insignificant. Her most meritorious
performances was, perhaps, that for the Goodwood
Cup this year when she ran second to Jouvence. Of
John Day senior's lot., King Pepin has been the only
animal on whom the investments have been somewhat
heavy. In my opinion he will not be capable of figuring,
so respectably in the race for the Cambridgeshire as he
did in the encounter for the Cesarewitch. If intended
by his party, his stable-companion Rataplan will be en-
titled to favourable notice. He is a horse of sound
racing merit, and will doubtless take a conspicuous
place in the race. At the commencement of the year
Invasion—then known as the Alkali colt—was in con-
siderable force for the Metropolitan Stakes, for which
event, however, he did not start. We now find him at
the end of the year again figuring' prominently in the
list of quotations on the last great handicap of the
season ! Since his match at Newmarket, in the second
October Meeting, his downward tendency in the betting
has been perceptible and unmistakeable. Ido not pre-
tend to a knowledge of his owner's intentions, and as I
am unable to account for the adverse movements rela-
tive to him in the turf market, I shall regard
Invasion with doubt and suspicion. Of the
other animals likely to compose the field, I
have a decided preference for Mistletoe and Bal-
rownie. The latter, however, has, since his victory at
Kelso, unaccountably receded in the betting. The
field for the Cambridgeshire is likely to be numerically
strong—it will perhaps comprise nearly forty runners.
To indicate, therefore, with any degree of certainty, the
probable result of the race, one ought indeed to be
gifted with the spirit of prophecy. Taking the Cesare-
witch running as a criterion, I shall anticipate again,
seeing Haco and Nabob occupy the foremost places in
the encounter. To them I shall add Cineas and Orestes,
as animals of equal title to support. Should an out-
sider be destined to achieve success it will perhaps be
either Rataplan or Mistletoe. My passing acquaintance,
the " Man in the Street," has an odd fancy for Hervine
and the Black Swan !

The Criterion Stakes is the only event of present im-
portance to be decided on Monday. Of John Scott's
lot Moresca is the only horse that has been backed for
it. Some investments have also been made on Middle-
sex and Alembic, who has a 61b. penalty. The winner
will, I anticipate, be either Middlesex (with a start) or
Andover.

I shall be located at head-quarters this evening. On
Monday I will publish the most interesting " facts and
scraps" I can collect relative to the Cambridgeshire.
October 22. A FRESH MAN.

MINING INTELLIGENCE.

(From the Mining Journal of this day.)

The Mining Market continues in a depressed state,
especially for speculative shares, prices in which ge-
nerally rule lower, with a preponderance of sellers.
Lead is rising in price, and many of the mines are now
getting 41. per ton more for their ores than they did a
few months since, which will materially add to their
profits. Copper and tin are also firm, and we see no
reason, taking all things into consideration, for the de-
pression which exists in shares.

In the Bullion Market—Mexican and South American
dollars, 4s. 110. per oz. Bar silver containing gold,
all gold above 5 grains in the pound to be paid for, ss.
11d. per oz. standard. Bar silver without gold, 55. 11d.
per oz. standard. Bar gold, 775. 9d. per oz. standard.
Spanish doubloons, 78s. 6d. per oz. Fine cake silver,
55
The 6 ddpl Goldt.sales. Under
s rehdar have
ntuocendo.attendingdrruled
Miningsedelr
Teoe deuatS,
hredh3
ateoeahgswdr
eeee
efloi
rMci
ap,
notificationoi
trelaancdrrnueael
dsmrt esis toc.
circumstances,
aoal
operations
snTnhi
eosdcandfewte
stimulatete he
repeatedek
leading
eaasd assumed
sgsduec ml
specula-
tiveoa
com-
panies
s,
the n
yesterdayear lyawl
with
haaflpa ndaa advised appearanceias
se
de-
scriptionsepas
Anglo-Cali-
fornian Company required new capital, with the fact
that in California about 14,0001. has been expended
without any definite result, has assisted the prevalent
depression. Some descriptions of stock during the
early part of the week were in demand ; but after
Thursday there was a marked decline, with scarcely any
exception. The accounts from Australia are of a more
encouraging nature. In the week ending the 4th June,
2,161 ozs, of gold, valued at about 8,0001., reached
Sydney from the various New South Wales diggings,
which may be enumerated as follows :—Bathurst, Sofa-
la, Yass, Bingara, Tambaroera, Avisford, Mudgee,
Braidwood, Bell's Creek, Major's Creek, Goulburn,
Murrurundi, Cameron's Creek, Tamworth, Hanging
Rock, Rocky River, and the Ovens, where new and rich
placers had been discovered. In the week ending June
10th, the arrivals amounted to 4,325 ozs., valued at
15,0001. ; in the week ending June 18th, 1,446 ozs. of
gold came to Sydney, together with 2,864/. in cash.
The total of the exports of gold since the first discovery
amounted to 1,332,741 ozs., which at 70s. per oz. repre-
sent a capital of 4,664,5931. It is, of course, impossible to
estimate the amounts taken out by passengers, either on
their own account or for others. The prices of gold at
tSoy d3ln.ey in
17s.
t6he d. tpheirr do
oz.
week
Considerable June
losses,
serso 31.
2m
in some
ls.
5
cases amounting to Bs. or 10s. on the ounce, had been
sustained by Sydney gold brokers from adulterated
gold, sent from Melbourne, and the consequence was
that New South Wales gold was much in demand ;
while the parcels imported from Victoria were looked
upon with a good deal of suspicion. The Sydney Em-
pire reports rich diggings being found at Burran-
doing, to which numbers were flocking. "Our dig-
gings," it adds, "have never yet had a fair trial. Their
resources are inexhaustible, and only require being pro-
fitably developed by the many thousands who will yet
visit our auriferous districts."

In miscellaneous shares, although business has been
limited, prices have shown an improvement on last
week's quotations.

PRICE OF BREAD.—The prices of wheaten bread ix
the metropolis are from lid. to 11id. ; of household
ditto, 10d. to lOid. ; some bakers are selling from Bd.
to 90. ; and League Bread Company's 9d. per 41b. loaf;
weighed on delivery.
Hubert de Burgh, Esq., commander of the Uxbridge
Yeomanry Cavalry, And nearly allied to the Earl of
Cardigan, has been appointed by the Emperor of the
French honorary chamberlain to his Majesty.—British,
Army Despatch,.
TUSSAUD'S EXHIBITION.—This most excellent exhibi-
tion, which has so justly received for years such ex-
tended public patronage for the various and highly to be
admired combination of national subjects, which has
stamped it as one of the first exhibitions in the metro-
polis. It is rendered famous for the number of distin-
guished characters it contains, but it is still more ad-
mired for the relics of the Great Napoleon, which surpass
all other departments in the museum. A few of these
we will mention, and only a few, the collection being so
exceedingly numerous :—The camp-bed used by Napo-
leon during seven years at St. Helena, with the mat-
tresses and pillow on which he died, and on which he is
represented lying in state in his Chasseur uniform,
covered with the idenical cloak he wore at Marengo,
which he expressly left by will to his son, the King of
the Romans. Near the bed are deposited the robes
worn by the Emperor and Josephine at their coronation ;
between the robes are placed the cradle of his son, the
King of Rome.
CASE OF WATCH-STEALING AT MARLBOROUGH-STREET
POLICE COURT. —On Tuesday we published the report
of a case at this court, in which a young man, named
Henry Harris, was committed for stealing a watch from
a water-gilder, maned. Crouch, in Old Compton-street,
Soho. The defendant was charged on his own confes-
sion, he having addressed a letter to Mr. Crouch, ad-
mitting the robbery, and stating that he would be found
at No. 8, Bow-street. It now appears that this letter
was incorrectly copied—the words " No. 8, Bow-street,"
being substituted for " Bow-street, 8 o'clock in the
evening." We are the more anxious to correct this
mistake, as, from the representations made to us, it ap-
pears that, by a singular coincidence, the son of the
occupant of No. 8, Bow-street, bears the name of Henry
Harris, though in no way mixed up in the affair.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

FRANCE.

The answer given by the French Government to
the application on behalf of the Porte for a number
of officers to be attached to the staff of the army of
the Danube and Asia, it is rumoured. is to the effect
that for the present there appeared no sufficient
grounds for complying with the demand. It is
stated that the English Government has given a
similar answer to the same demand.

Another Russian manifesto has arrived in Paris,
and is now in the hands of the French Government,
but the authorities have formally forbidden such
of the Paris papers as may receive it from publish-
ing the document. This fact is considered a suffi-
cient ground for believing that the manifesto is a
warlike one, and extremely hostile to France.
It is said that M. de Kisseleff, the Russian Mi-
nister, has had a long and animated conversa
with M. Drouyn de Lhuys on the general state of
affairs. M. de Kisseleff positively declared that
Russia, Prussia and Austria perfectly understood
each other, and were resolved on the course they
should take in certain circumstances ; and he added
that, in the event of the slightest revolutionary
movement in Switzerland, Italy, or Germany, they
would unite to put it down, even at the expense of
a general war.
It is not easy to ascertain the truth as to the
number of persons in custody. Some state them at
600 and upwards, others at from 60 to 70 for Paris
and about the same number for the departments.
Truth may lie between the two statements, though
the margin is rather a wide one. It does not ap-
pear, however, that there are any persons of note
included. On one side you are told that the affair
is serious, on the other, that it is very vague and
futile. So far as can be learned the object appears
to have been the blending into one mass of the
various sections of the revolutionary party, and
to induce the extreme sections of the Democrats
to adopt one man of known republican princi-
ples as their leader, with the view (as is stated)
of profiting by the confusion which a general war
might give to realise their peculiar system of go-
vernment. It might, however, have been foreseen
that at the first indication of war, the revolutionary
party would be up and stirring. There is exag-
geration in the affair altogether.
The Charlemagne has just left Toulon for Algiers
with a body of engineers and other men who are to
organise the corps d'armee to be sent to Turkey.
Marshal Paskiewitsch has gone to Hamel, a pro-
perty which he has in White Russia, near Mohilow.
It appears that at the request of the marshal the
Emperor consented not to insist on his accepting
the command of the army of occupation in the
principalities, in consideration of his age and infir-
mities. He is 76 years of age.
The Impartial de la Meurthe announces that the
report of the organisation of a military camp at
Melz to be commanded by Prince Napoleon was
generally credited in that part of the country.
The publication of the Phare de la Loire of
Nantes, of which M. Mangin and one of his sons
are proprietors, has been suspended. Amongst the
domiciliary visits at Nantes was ono to the resi-
dence of M. Rocher, who was commissary under
the Provisional Government for the five depart-
ments of the west.

The indemnity which the city of Paris owes to
the bakers for the second fortnight of September
amounts to 933,363 f. Nearly the same sum is due
for the first fortnight of that month. The differ-
ence between the real price of bread and the ad-
ministrative tax amounts to six centimes per
kilogramme.
The speculators at the Bourse appear to be un-
willing to engage in any important operation, as
long as the present uncertainty exists with respect
to the course political events may take. The market
was consequently heavy, and the opening prices
were not maintained. The Three per Cents. opened
at 72f. 50c., and rose to 72f. 55c. They fell subse-
quently to 72f. 20c., and closed at 72f. 25c. for the
end of the month. Orleans Railway Shares, 1,145 f. ;
Rouen, 1,002 f. 50c. ; Havre, 477 f. 50c. ; Great
Northern, 831 f. 25c. ; Paris and Strasburg, 896 f.
25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 887 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the
Mediterranean, 720 f. ; Western of France, 659 f. ;
Bordeaux and Cette, 580 f. ; Great Central, 512 f.
50c.; Lyons and Geneva, 497 f. 50c. ; Shares of the
Bank of Credit Mobilier, 690 f.