The Sun.
London, England, 1854-10-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 13, 1854,

and shown that such transactions, if not unpre-
cedented, are at least of very rare occurrence, and
that there is no probability of any repetition of
occurrences so calculated to excite the sorrow and
indignation of those desirous of maintaining the
honour and efficiency of the maritime service.

LATEST NEWS.

THE CRIMEA.

BERLIN FRIDAY.
The following Russian official despatch was
published in St. Petersburg on the 11th :
Nothing fresh had occurred before Sebastopol
up to the 6th.
Prince Menschikoff still retained his old posi•
tion on the north side.

THE SUN EXPRESS EXTRAORDINARY
OF SUNDAY, THE Bth OCTOBER, WITH
THE LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDI-
NARY.

We have much pleasure in acknowledging the
thanks of our various correspondents throughout
the country, and the handsome notices of our pro-
vincial contemporaries, in recording our exertions
to gratify the public •anxiety with the earliest
authentic intelligence of the great battle of the
Alma, together with the list of the killed and
wounded on that memorable occasion.
Mrs. Bingham, of Bristol, Mr. Wheeler, of Man-
chester, Messrs. Willmer and Smith, of Liverpool,
and many other agents, distributed copies of the
Extraordinary Sun to the public authorities, news-
paper offices, and others, and received well-merited
thanks for their laudable exertions. Messrs. Clayton
and Son, of the Strand, also received great and
well-deserved praise for their prompt alacrity in
forwarding large quantities of the Extraordinary
Sun of Sunday to their numerous country corre-
spondents. At Woolwich, Chatham, Sheerness,
St. Leopards, Hastings, Dover, Brighton, South-
ampton, Portsmouth, Plymouth, and other mili-
tary and naval stations, the tidings were received
and appreciated with intense interest.
(From the Bristol Mirror, of Monday, Oct. 9.)
The following despatch from Lord Raglan, detailing
the glorious victory of the allied forces over the Russians
at the Alma was published yesterday (Sunday) in an
Extraordinary Gazette, and re-published in The Sun. It
arrived in this Cltv about six o'clock, having been for-
warded to Mrs. Bingham, news agent, to whom we are
indebted for a copy of that journal.

VIENNA, THURSDAY.

A private despatch from the Black Sea, dated
the Bth inst., states that the bombardment of
Sebastopol commenced on the sth inst.

Two breaches were mad© at the Quarantine
Fort on the Bth.

Advices from Odessa, of the 7th, state that
Prince Menschikoff's right wing was .at Bakshi-
Serai, his left wing at Alushta, his centre at
Simpheropol, where reinforcements from Perekcp
will concentrate.

THE BALTIC.
KIEL, Oct. 9.—Rear-Admiral Plumridge arrived
here last evening in his flag-ship, the Neptune,
120 j and this morning the following line-of-battle
ships came in :—The St. George, 120, Captain H.
Eyres ; Monarch, 84, Captain Erskine ; and Royal
George, 120 (screw), Captain Codrington.
•The French line-of-battle ship Duguesclin, in tow
of the steam-frigate Le Milan, has passed the Great
Belt. The Jemappes, which broke her chain cable
during the gale of last week, and was obliged to get
under weigh to prevent going ashore, arrived safely
in Wingo Sound, near Gottenburg.
' The Swedish steamer Core arrived yesterday from
Stockholm, passed the Swedish line-of-battle ship
Carl Johann going into Carlscrona, and the same
afternoon saw two British line-of-battle ships, and
a French screw steamer towing one of them ; from
the course they were steering it was supposed they
were trying to make the Great Belt.
We have had very heavy equinoctial gales, and
from all ports of the Baltic accounts have been re-
ceived of losses and damages to merchant ships.
Fortunately no ships of war are known to have

Report says that the Russians have sunk 32
ships in the Tenikale Straits.

MARSEILLES, THURSDAY.

The coffin containing the body of Marshal de
&int Arnaud has been conveyed to the cathedral.
To-morrow it will leave for Paris by a special

(Pron, the Bristol Times, act. 9.)
At half-plst six yesterday (Sunday evening) we were
fa.voured throuei the kindness and enterprise' of Mrs.
f3inEtiwn, 110M4-agent, cf this city, with an Extraordinary
Edition of the .)un„ c,ntainipg these important de-
:-.patehes, and which had been forwarded to her by
special express.

suffered any damage.
From all that has transpired it appears certain
that, though the order for the return of the French
and English fleets was countermanded pro vision-
al!y, while consultations were going on as to the
expediency of making an attempt on Sweaborg be-
fore the ice appears, yet these consultations have
ended in the confirmation of the impossibility of
doing anything of importance in the Baltic this
year, as the season is too advanced. The ships,
therefore, are going home. A French
• battle ship passed the Belt yesterday, steering
north, and a French steamer is despatched from
here to Nyberg, to fetch pilots to steer the allied
ships here through the Belt.
The reception of the British ships here has been
quite enthusiastic. It happens to be the time of
the Michaelmas fair, so that there is an assemblage
in town of people from all the surrounding country,
who appear to be quite astonished at the magni-
tude . of the ships, and altogether delighted with
the novelty.
COPENHAGEN, OCT. B.—The Oresundsposten men-
tions the arrival from England of the electric tele-
graph cable which is to be laid across the Sound,
and will then connect the Swedish with the Danish
telegraph lines. The engineers have now decided
on the direction of the submarine line, which will
enter the Sound a littlo to the north of Elsinore,
and emerge about a mile from the town of Lands-
crona.

(From the Bristol Af enter!' )
We were favoured with a copy of Lori Raglan's de-
Rratch (ir. The San), at 6.30 last evening by Mrs. Bing-
ham, of U!gh-'trcot, who was the only party in Btisltol
that then received the special news in full. By a later
tr.:in we had forwarded t:, 0,11-:,lves the Gaz:.tte extraor-
dinary, winch has been carefully collated with The Sun's
tl:e document, together with a second Gazette
contAning despatches from Admiral Dundas. We have
to thank, also, the managers of the Telegraph-office fur
an abstract of Lord Raglan's interesting document.
Let us hope that our united exertions in distri-
buting the coming capture of Sebastopol may be
equally successful.

told, very curious. They prove that Austria re- through the press, such information as may reach him I paid for laud transport from Russia to Prussia
garde hostilities with Russia as imminent, and that on the subject.
Meanwhile, we think it as well to sum than in driving their hazardous trade with dimi-
she no longer entertains the idea of following a up both the official reports and the numerous private nished profits.
policy of neutrality. It becomes, moreover, daily accounts published by yoffithe journalscers hor received by our- The Giornale di Roma publishes a text of a con-
clearer that the propositions of Austria will not venison concluded between the King of the Two
have a majority in the Federal Diet ; perhaps, to selves. Two
Sicilies and the Holy See to regulate international
thel other. more severely, but' not in such a way as
avoid a rupture which would put the Federal Con- telegraphic correspondence.
endanger his life. Several field officers are said to have
etitution to a severe trial, Austria will abandon her The llioniteur says :—" Captain Sir Edward
been killed. The death of only one is confirmed
Belcher, commander of the last expedition to the
propositions, so that the Diet will remain inactive.
in an undoubted manner, namely of Commandant
• The Cologne Gazette, under date of Berlin, 9th, Troyon, of the 7th of the line, a man of great Arctic wean, has addressed to the Admiralty a re-
alty s merit, and one of the youngest officers of that rank port, in which he bestows the highest praise on M.
"The publication of the Austrian note of the 30th of in the army; he was on horseback when a ball Emile tie B:-ay, a French officer who took part in
September has produced considerable sensation. It is in the breast struck him dead. M. Leblanc, a sub- the expe'iition on board the English ship Resolute.
comprehended that Austria has spoken her last words, intendant of the first class, has had his thigh amputated His Excellency Lord Cowley lets heen charged by
and that she will maintain her policy against Prussia, after the wound which he received near Prince Napo- tl'e Government of her Britannic Majesty to
even without being supported by Germany. It is more leon ; his situation is as satisfactory as possible. Three transmit a copy of this report to his Excellency
than doubtful whether Prussia can maintain her iso- officers were killed where they stood—Oaptain Coudroit
the Minister of Foreign Affairs."
lated position." de Laurels, of the Ist Zouaves ; Sub-Lieutenant Poidevin,
A Berlin journal says:— of the 39th of the line, killed as he heroically planted a
"On the 17th the trial of the persons implicated in flag on the telegraphic post ; and Sub-Lieutenant [lob,
the plot of March, 1853, will commence before the Court of the marine infantry. Fifty-four officers of various
of Political Justice in this city. It will probably last grades, amongst whom are Capt. Francois Cluzel, of
several weeks. The accused are 10 in number, and they the 39th of the line, who had the right arm shattered,
will be defended by five advocates. More than 30 wit- and Lieutenant Gaston Paris, of the same regiment,
nesses, several of them front Mecklenberg, will have to who had his arm broken by a ball, have received wounds
be examined. The indictment is very long, the police serious enough to necessitate their removal to the am-
having collected agreat quantity of papers. The Director. bulances ; the most of them are going on well, but
General of Police (M. Hinkelberg) was to have been some have fallen since that period. The number of non-
examined, but on his representations the Court has de- commissioned officers and soldiers killed or wounded
cided not to hear him." l amounts to about 1,300 ; only one name has been as
yet given, that of the brave Serjeant-Major Fleury, who
was killed in circumstances analogous to those of Lieut.
Poidevin's case. The Zouaves posted as skirmishers on
positions deemed as impregnable are they who have suf-
fered the most of the whole army ; the Ist Regiment
has 280 men hors de combat ; the other losses have been
divided amongst the marine-infantry, the foot-chasseurs,
the 7th, 20th, 27th, and 39th Regiments of the line, the
sth and 22d Light Infantry, the Foreign Legion, and all
the brave regiments which have co-operated in the glo-
rious day of the 20th Sept. As to the artillery, every
one agrees in saying that it was admirable, and that that
of the reserve rendered the greatest services ; but none
of its losses has been anywhere specified. It appears
that in additiOn to the figures given above must be
reckoned a number of very slight wounds and contusions,
receivedat those points where, when our troops were mixed
pell-mell with the Russians, the struggle during a certain
time assumed an individual character. Iu title, many
officers and soldiers escaped as if by miracle from the
balls which flew round theta in every direction ; coats
and trousers were cut with balls, caps pierced through ;
and one case is mentioned, that of the colonel of the 22d,
where an epaulette was carried away by a ball. We may
add that several field-officers had their horses killed un-
der them, without themselves having received any con-
tusion or wound. Of that number was Col. Pacqueult
de Lavarande."
There is nothing else of any interest in the lead-
ing columns of the journals on the war.
The Emperor and Empress left to-day for Amiens
to be present at the consecration of a chapel dedi-
cated to St. Eugenie in the cathedral of that town.
The visit is in pursuance of a promise given to the
clergy last year by the Emperor. ATe Delon will
also be performed in thanksgiving for the victory
of the Alma.
The Steele has an article which may interest some
of our readers as have not fully comprehended the
allusion to chauvinism in the letter of Bathes,
which led to his liberation by the Emperor—an
act of clemency for which it appears he has not
manifested the feeling which would have been
shown by a generous mind.
The Moniteur contains three decrees—one, ad-
ding two judges to the Cour Imperial of Algiers ;
another, extending the duration of the modifica-
tions of the customs' tariff in the French colonies
as regards corn, flour, and dried pulse, to the 31st
July, 1855 ; and the third, making a number of
promotions and nominations among military offi-
cers in the Legion of Honour.
The Three per Cents. closed yesterday at 76f.
35c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. at 98f. 85c. ; and the New Loan,
at 76f. sc. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,215 f. ;
Rouen, 988 f. 75c. ; Havre, 570 f. ; Great North-
ern, 873 f. 75c. ; Strasburg, 841 f. 25c. ; New
Shares, 656 f. 25c. ; Paris and Lyons, 1,037 f. 50c. ;
Lyons and the Mediterranean, 862 f. 50c. ; Western
of Francs, 663 f. 750. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 621 f.
25c. ; Great Central of France, 520 f. ; Lyons and
Geneva, 538 f. 75c. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier,
'62f. 50c.

THE PENINSULAR MAIL.

(BY ELE TRIO TELEGRAPJI)
YirrilA NIP fON, FRIDAY.

By the arrival of the Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steam-ship Eux.itw, we have dates from
Gibraltar to the 4Lii Cadiz 5, Lisbon 9, and,
Vigo 10.
The Euxine had on board 45 passengers, 65
packages of specie, and the clego.
Her Majesty's steam-ship Viper arrived at Lis-
bon ou the 3d inst. with du.pitches for Constan-
tinople, and, after taking in coals, proceeded on her
voyage the following morning
Her Majesty's. steam-sloop Sphtux arrived in
Gibraltar Bay on the 21 inst.
The British steamer Sallie°, six days from Liver-
pool, arrived out at Gibraltar ou the evening of
the 3d.
Her Majesty's steam-sloop Stromboli passed on
• the 3d for the Black Sea.
The despatch screw gun-boat Lynx proceeded
from Gibraltar to the Black Sea on the same day.

THE BRAZILIAN MAIL.

(BY ELECT.R.I6" TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY, 9.30 A.M.
The Royal Mail Company's steam-ship Severn
has just arrived with the abovo mails. Her dates
are—Buenos Ayres Sept. 1, Monte Video 4, Rio
Janeiro 14, Bahia 18, Pernambuco 21, Madeira
Oct. 5, and Lisbon 9. She had on board 56 pas-
sengers, 21 of whom landed at Lisbon.
The Severn has on freight 16,1221. in specie,
10,0001. value in diamonds, and a very full cargo.
From Buenos Ayres there is little to notice of
importance. In political affairs all was tranquil.
The market for imports was dull, but an improve-
ment was expected at the commencement of the
spring trade. The produce market was bare of
stocks, and hides kept high. Tallow was flatter,
and wool entirely neglected, although the forth-
coming clip was pronounced better than usual.
Freights were dull. Exchange on London 60 6to
60 9 per ounce.
At Rio the Legislative Chambers were prorogued.
A large business had been done in coffee. In dry
goods there was no improvement. Exchange at
sixty days 27, but some small transactions had
been effected at 27i to 27k. Freights continued.
active. _ _ _

At Pernambuco business had boon in a complete
state of apathy. In exchange little had been done
at ' cash. Freights dull.
At Monte Video there was a good demand for
imports, but prices had declined.

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Exchanze, 40s.
The coast of Brazil is reported as very healthy,
no fever ni auy kind prevailing.
At Lisbon the disease in the vine still existed.

CRYSTAL PAL .Cr, OCT. 12 (ONE SHILLING DAY).—
;%t the (bar:, 5,082 ; admission by season

Leketa, 615 ; total, 5,697.
MUEDICROCS AiiMAULT.-At the Lawford-gate Petty

The Cuckoo gun-boat, Lieutenant Commander
Augustus G. E. Murray (2d May, 1854), arrived
at Sheerness, from the Baltic, yesterday, at 10
p.m., last from Yarmouth, where she put in, being
quite of out coals.
The Cuckoo left Ledsund on the 19th of Sep-
tember last, and arrived at Faro Sound on the 21st
of September. On the following day the Swedish
camp broke up. The Porcupine was there in
charge of the colliers for supplying the steam-fleet
with coals. She left Faro Sound on the 23d.
In consequence of very boisterous weather, she
put into Christianopel, and afterwards into Uhg-
skar for shelter ; she arrived at Copenhagen ou the
27th. The Danish troops, in very large force,
were;encamped in and around the town. The troops
had been exchanged ; the Zealand troops were sent
to the southern dominions, and the southern troops
to the north. This was done from political motives,
to prevent a particular object being carried out by
the troops in their own district, of which the
Danish Government had had a very broad hint, if
each body of troops remained in its own locality.
The Cuckoo left at Copenhagen three Danish 50-
gun frigates and one French steam-vessel of war.
She left there on the 30th, passed Elsinore the same
day ; left two French line-of-battle ships and a
French frigate there. That night she was obliged
to anchor under the island of Anholt for shelter ;
next morning proceeded and put into Gothenburg
from stress of weather, and there coaled ; left there
on the 6th of October. She left in Wingo Sound
her Majesty's ship Cumberland and a French line-
of-battle ship.
The Cumberland had carried away all the lower
part of the knee of her head, stem, and cutwater,
having been in collision with a French ship of war.
The Cumberland was repairing damage to enable
her to return to England. She may be hourly ex-
pected, as her repairs of damage were nearly com-
pleted. From the departure of the Cuckoo from.
Sheerness, on the 31st May last, she has been con-
stantly on the sea, and never, through all the in-
tricacies of Baltic navigation, once settled or
grounded.
Lieutenant J. Davies, lately promoted from
mate, late serving on board the Hogue, and Mr.
Daniel John Durgan, late Assistant-Surgeon, pro-
moted from the Duke of Wellington, have come
home on their promotion, as supernumeraries on
board the Cuckoo.
The machinery of the Cuckoo has on the whole
acted exceedingly well, and she has kept her speed
from 10 knots to 10.2 on her passage home. Her
boilers are completely wore out ; they have been
now seven years in constant work.

Sessions, ntld at Bi.istol y,si.erday (Thursday), Thomas
Eaglestaff, I,aacEigleAaff, Daniel Wills, George Brown,
and Charles Cliapple, were charged with hawing assaulted
Mr. Watkins, a cattle dealer, and inflicted on him such
injuries that his life is now despirod of. The court was

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densely crowded, as the cave excited much interest from
the position in life of the different persons.
THE IRISH MILITIA EisaoLLED.--At the Privy

SPAIN.

The illessager de Bayonne announces the arrival
of Marshal Narvaez in that place on the Bth, and
his departure the next day for Vichy. The same
journal states that M. Salatnanca, who has been at
Bayonne for some time, has taken the clihteau
Prisse, close to the town, bought horses and car-
riages, and seems to have the intention to reside
there for some length of time.

Council held in Dublin Car tic o,l_ TiLursthq,theLorcia

FR AN CE.
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
PARIS, THURSDAY, 6 P.M.
One of the chief causes, I might perhaps say the
only cause now, of anxiety as to the expedition
against Sebastopol—so strong is the conviction
that it must fall before the skill and courage of the
allies—is the fear that the Russian army may receive
in sufficient time reinforcements which would en-
able Prince Menschikoff to offer battle to the allied
army with such an augmentation of force as to
occasion great slaughter and protract the siege.
The exact amount of the Russian army at Sebasto-
pol is not known, nor is it known with certainty
what reinforcements likely to reach before the for-
tress shall be reduced are on their way. The De-
buts has some observations of a tranquillising nature
on the point. It says :
"Every one asks himself what may be the number of
the Russians engaged in the defence of Sebastopol ; but,
in the absence of positive data, it can only be estimated
in an hypothetical manner. The Vienna journals, de-
ceived, without being aware of it, by the agents or par-
tisans of Russia, made the forces of that power in the
Crimea amount to the exorbitant number of 140,000
men. We may judge how far this is an exaggeration
when we call to mind that these same journals, on the
faith of similar information, stated that the garrison
of Eupatoria was 15,000 strong, and that the Rus-
sians had flanked the walls of that town by three
large forts. The allies on landing there found a
town without fortifications, .and having for its en-
tire garrison 200 men. Setting aside, therefore,
these improbable numbers, and even that of 103,000
men, given more recently, the force at the disposal
of Prince Menschikoff may be estimated at 70,000,
including the division which has arrived from the
line of the Dniester, after a march of 28 days. All the
reinforcements which he could collect throughout the
extent of his command must have already joined him.
It appears that the reinforcement of 8,000 men who
came from Kertch, and who joined him on the Alma the
very day before the battle, included the garrison of
Anapa, and among others the 16th and 33d regiments,
which were in front of the battle, and suffered severely.
It is regarded as a very difficult matter for the troops
which must have left Kherson and Nicolaief, on hearing
of the landing of the allies, to arrive in time to take part
in the defence of Sebastopol. The reinforcements re-
ceived by Prince Menschikoff are composed of troops from
the garrisons on the coast of Oircasia, which the Russians
have been compelled to evacuate. There must be also
added to these reinforcements the sailors of the Russian
fleet, by means of whom the enemy's force may be brought
up to 85,000 men, which is the highest number that can
be admitted, since the Russian army on the Alma was
only estimated at 50,000 men. But the combined army
also receives reinforcements, which will bring it up to
the same number, if not to 90,000, and it will, therefore,
be perfectly prepared, while carrying on the siege ener-
getically, to cover it with an army capable of gainiy,
if necessary, a second pitched battle over the Russians."
It is known that General Canrobert received at
the battle of Alma a contusion in the breast from
the splinter of a shell. The Moniteur de l'Annee
says that a consecrated medal, which he wore under
his uniform, and which had been given him by an
august hand at the moment of his departure, pre-
served him from a more severe hurl.
We read in the Gonstitutionnel
" The names of the persun3 killed at the victory of
the Alma have not yet arrived. ' The Minister of War
has been kind enough to announce that he will give

Justices made the order for eorolli,ig the Irish militia.
SUPPOSED MURDER —We u%derAand that a woman
has been lodged in gaol bele, on a charge of having
poisoned two of her oNO children. Tile authorities are
engaged in investigating the C3Ee.--,Stirling Journal.
THEFT OF BANK NOTES.—On. Tuesday afternoon the
sum of 3501. was stolen from the person of a gentleman
at Falkirk Tryst. Some of the notes were 501. Bank
of England notes, and their numbers are known.
THE LATE ATTEMPT AT ABDUCTION.—We can posi-
tively state that the gentleman who lately attempted
abduction in Northamptonshire is not, or ever was, an
officer in the army, He is an Irishman, the Hon. Mr.

C., nephew to an earl in Ulster.
ASSESSED TAXES.—It is not generally known that
a party served with a surveyor's schedule, and failing to
make a return, may be refused to be heard on appeal,
before the Court of Appeal, against a charge made on
him.

THE EARL OF ENNISKILLEN.—The officers of the
Barnsley District Loyal Orange Society have forwarded
to the Right Hon. the Earl of Enniskillen, Grand Master
of the Orange Lodges of the United Kingdom, an address
of congratulation and sympathy on the providential
escape of his lord,hip and 800 of their Protestant brethren
from the recent attempt to overthrow the railway train
in which they were travelling on the Enniskillen and
Derry Railway.
EPWORTH FAIR.—At this the principal fair in the Isle
of Axhol me, North Lincolnshire, the number of sheep
penned was unusually large, but the quality of the
animals was not of the most superior kind, they being
principally stock ewes, which sold at from 30s. to 40s.
each. Fat beasts were scarce, and realised from 7s. 6d.

to 7s. 9d. per stone of 141 b. There were few good
horses shown ; good foals were in great demand, and
the small number in the fair were disposed of at high
prices.
THE CHOLERA AT MERTHYR, &c.—We regret that
this fearful disease has been very prevalent in the dis-
tricts of Merthyr and Dowlais, in South Wales, and
that though every Effort has been made to stop its
progress its ravages still continue. Since its first appear-
ance between 200 and 300 persons have been carried off.
The authorities are on the alert, and adopting the mea-
sures best calculated to stop the spread of the pestilence.
House-to-house visitation has been adopted by the
medical staff, who daily visit each dwelling. The streets
are being cleansed and well lined, and the boards of
health are active in carrying the provisions of the act
into operation. Yet much more remains to be done, as
slaughLerheu,es abound, open drains are allowed to pour
forth their miasma in volumes, and generally the drain-
age and sewerage of the towns are in the worst condi-
tion. Theo towns have acquired an unenviable
notoriety by their filth, and now they are among the
first to feel the presence of this dread scourge.
HEART WORK. - are not sent into this world to
do anything into which we cannot put our hearts. We
have certain work to do for our bread, and that is to be
done strenuously ; other work to do for our delight, and
that is to be dohs heartily. Neither is it to be done by
halves and shifts, but with a will ; and what is not worth
the effort is not to bP dsee at all.
THE ALLEGED MURDER IN WESTMINSTER.—AD-
JOURNED INQUEST.—Yesterday, Mr. Bedford, the coro-
ner for the City of Westminster, resumed the inquiry
into the cause of the death of Mary Ann Lever, aged
36. Deceased died in the infirinsry of St. John's Work-
house on the 6th inst., having been admitted on the 3d,
and it was stated by Dinah Reid, a nurse in the in-
firmary, that (according:, to a statement made by de-
ceased) her death arose from injuries received through
the violence of a man unknosi-u, who had thrown her
over the banisters of a house in Orchard-street, West-
minster. The inquiry previously held was adjourned
for the purpose of further investigation by the police ;
but on the coroner and jury re-assembling yesterday, the
only additional evidence adduced was that of two women
of the same unfortunate class as the deceased, who stated
that she had about three weeks ago fallen down stairs at
the house in Orchard-street, but they knew nothing of
injuries inflicted by any man. Mr. Lavies, the surgeon
of the infirmary, repeated his former evidence, that in
his opinion the immediate cause of death was inflamma-
tion of the peritoneum, which latter might be occasioned
in a person leading the life of the deceased, independent
of the injuries alleged to have been inflicted. The jury
accordingly returned a verdict that the deceased had
died from inflammation of the peritoneum.
A SOLDIER'S RECEIPT FOR PROCURING SLEEP.—Th
following (says the Bath Journal) is an extract from
the letter of a youth, son of an ancient Wilts family, to
his parents :—" As soon as our division (the Ist) was
formed on landing, and the light division had marched
off, we started and marched five miles over a large flat
plain, with a ridge of high rugged-looking hills facing
us, and encamped at half-past four p.m. in a large
ploughed field, with a quantity of bushy weeds on it,
which luckily made very good bedding when pulled
up and heaped together, so a general rush took place
as soon as we had piled arms, and not a weed was left
in half an hour ! So we had our chip of cold pork and
biscuit and go-down of whisky, put our cloaks over us,
and with our bearskin caps for a pillow, lay down on
our bed of rushes,' and slept like a top, though it rained
a good part of the night rather sharpish. Now I will
tell you a receipt for sleeping under any circumstances.
syouc a
n coldca r
ry, pork, a n
d
Have all the excitement of landing on an enemy's shore,
mixed with as many haversacks, cloaks,
pis-
tols, telescopes, hatchets, &c., as
bearskin cap and epaulettes on top of all. Lie down
with your conscience at case from a sense of doing your
duty, and put the cape of your coat bang all over your
head, so that you can't feel the rain or dew fall, or be
dazzled by the moon or stars, and then commend your-
self to God. If you don't sleep then, there must be
something wrong in the inside."
A THoUSLND SINGING BIRDS FOR AMERICA.—
Amongst the " passengers" by the Washington steamer,
which left Southampton on Wednesday with the United
States eisil were Up N,ad 3Of 1.,0?, singing canary birds.
A cabin op f',:r then'. Almost every one of the
birds w:,s a separate casc. '3go is dome-shaped,
and is ‘)f C,.rtar7 bir.l3 are exported in
1)3. tt ;;th,
anyton stesinea, and they are collected from all parts
Of 6ierinany.

MONEY MARKET

•Nn
COM MERC/AL INTELL IGENC

CITY, TViTO O'CLOCK.

The cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was
firm, with a good demand. The sales comprised
8,000 hales, of which 2,000 were taken for export
and en speculation at previous quotations. Rail-
way Shares were generally steady.
In the Colonial and Foreign Markets this .week
there has been an average business. Sugar has
been steady, with a fair home demand. Coffee has
been held for full rates, and also tea, but neither
have been very active. Rice has been dearer.
Cotton has been quiet. Cochineal is held for the
ormer quotations, and also saltpetre. Jute has
been dearer, and hemp dull.
The following letter respecting the lamentable
shipwreck of the Arctic has been received by Mr.
George Peabody from a passenger on board :
" St. John's, Newfoundland, Oct. 3, 1854.
"My dear Mr. Peabody,—l avail myself of a steamer
that has touched here on her way to England, to send
you a paper, giving an account, which I have prepared,
of the wreck of the Arctic, and the probable loss of all
passengers and crew, except those mentioned as saved.
My own safety was little short of miraculous. I jumped
into the boat at the request of Captain Luce, having
brought the ladies of the Brown family to the side for
the purpose of putting them in, and expected to have
them passed into me but ; judge of my feelings when I
saw them rudely thrust aside by a number of men, ren-
dered desperate by the struggle for life, and the boat
filled without them. I was thus kept in the boat in spite
of myself, as I had resolved to save them at any risk even
of my own life. We landed on this bleak coast, after being
forty-eight hours on the deep ; many of us with no over-
coats, and wet, and with nothing to eat or drink.. We
then walked five miles to the nearest place, which was
a collection of fishermen's houses, and obtained some
refreshments. The hole in the Arctic was so large, that
she took in thirteen feet of water in an hoer,
n spite of the efforts of all her pumps. She must have
tone down in an hour after we left, taking some of
Mr. Brown's family, Mr. Sandford, and at least 300
more souls. Captain Luce aoted heroically, and perished
with his vessel. -
"We shall not be able to reach New York for ten
days, and this news will probably reach England as soon
as it reaches New York.
" I have no time to say more, as the steamer sails
immediately.—l am, &c.,
(Signed)
"To George Peabody, Esq."

" NV. W. GILBERT.

The business done in United States' Securities
during the week has been at rather lower rates for
the Government Sixes, but at fuller terms for some
of the City and Railroad Bonds. The quotations
furnished by Messrs. Bell, Son, and Co., are as
under :

Redeemlble. Per Cent.
United States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1862...101 102
United States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1863...107 108
United States 6 per Cent. Inscribed
Stock 1867-1868...105i 106
Pennsylvania 5 per Cent ... 76
Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds 1877... 81A 82i
Massachusetts 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bords) 1863-103 105
Maryland 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) ...
91
Alabama 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds) 1858-9-66... 83
Virginia 5 per Cent.. (Sterling Bonds) _1888... 90 92
Virginia 6 per 'Cent-Baas 1886... 92A 93i

LOINS OF CITIES.
Boston 4i Tor Cent. (Sterling Bonds) ... 99 101
New Orleans 6 per Cant. Bonds 1893.- 82

RAILROAD BOND&
Pennsylvania Central R. Rd. 6p. Cent... 1880... 90A 91
New York and Erie 7 per Cent. let Mort-
gage lB6B-1869...101 103
New York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort-
-1883... 77 78
gage
Northern Indiana 7 per Cent. let Mort-
gage (Goschen Branch)
Terro Haute and Alton 7 per Cont. let
Mortgage 1867... 75
The steamer Queen of the South, from Australia,
is telegraphed as haring arrived at Southampton,
but there is little probability of her letters being
delivered in town until to-morrow. Although she
brings a large mail, her dates will not be quite so
late as those per overland mail. She left Sydney,
July 15, with 4,000 ounces and 60,0001., and
Melbourne, July 22, with 60,000 ounces and
100,0001. in gold.
The steamer Severn, with the Brazilian and Ar-
gentine letters, is reported also off Southampton.
The accounts from Liverpool are still of a com-
paratively unsatisfactory chlracter. One of the
main difficulties in the way of arranging Mr. Ed-
ward Oliver's affairs appears to be that, if the
ships are returned to the parties from whom he
purchased them, the remaining creditors may find
theyhave the least valuable portion of the assets, part
consisting of bills receivable. Supposing, however,
that there exists anything like the surplus stated,
the safest plan undoubtedly will be to come to an
arrangement as soon as possible, since every business
man knows how the property of a stopped house be-
comes depreciated. It is stated that towards those
having smaller claims upon the firm great liberality
has been exercised, as they have been paid promptly
in full. The liabilities of Messrs. James M'Henry
and Co. prove heavy, and it is reported will give
rise to legal proceedings involving some family

172
The rate of exchange having fallen 3d. per dollar
at Canton and Id. at Shanghai, it is hoped the de- 20
wand for silver to be exported to China will alto- ,T())
gether cease for the present. With gold we are 20
amply supplied, and further amounts have this week 20
been paid into the Bank of England ; nevertheless, 100
it is reported there will be a decrease in the bullion
shown by the return made up to last Saturday. 192 g
The amounts remitted to the Continent for railway 25
calls and the Turkish loan will account for this.
25
In noticing yesterday the loss of the Arctic, she
was inadvertently mentioned as belonging to the 100
Cunard, instead of the Collins, Company. I+'o
The payment of the dividends at the Bank of 20
England having commenced to-day, there is more g
activity in the funds, with. some little buoyancy) 20?,
although the speculative dealing is wholly in abey-
-100
ance, and the transactions are exclusively for money.
Consols have been 95 to 95i for transfer, and 954 k 100
for Account. At one time they were nearly buy- ru?)
ers at 95k, but have since been again 951 I. Ex-
chequer Bills have been 4s. to 75., and East India 12000,
Bonds 7s. to 10s. premium. The New 3k per Cents. 20
have been quoted 94 to 94k, and the 3 per Cents. 5
937 g to 944, both ex dividend. Bank Stock is --
worth 208 to 2091, ex dividend.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred. Bonds, 51 to 6/ ; Mexi-
can, 241 to 25 ; Peruvian, 71 to 73 ; ditto, 3 per
Cents., 51 to 53 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 40 to
42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 96 to 98 ; ditto, 41 per
Cents., 84 to 86 ; Spanish New Deferred, 18ato
18i ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 371 to 38± ; ditto, Certi-
ficates, 5 to 51 ; ditto, Passive, 4 to 4a.
In Foreign Securities business is rather livelier.
The Turkish Scrip has been at 31 to 3t premium.
- Mexican Bonds have been done at at 24i to 25,
and Peruvian at 711 for tlie Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., and 53 for the Deferred. Dutch Four per
Cents. have been 921 to 92 ex dividend.
The Railway Share Market is decidedly heavier
to-day, most of the quotations being lower, and
the transactions very limited. Great Northern,
however, are an exception, being rather firmer.
The foreign lines are without particular alteration,
but dull.
The miscellaneous undertakings, comprising
Mining, Banking, and Land Companies' Shares,
are at previous values.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
(Prom the OfAcid List.)
mpiness done.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities... 94 * 3i x d
3 per Cent. Consols Annaities
-• 95 $
New 3 per Cent. Annuities 94) R 1 x d
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 ... 4 5-16 x d
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859.... 4 I.IG i
India Bonds £lOOO ... ........................ •
Ditto under aOOO ........................... 7 10 p
Consols for Account 17th Oct.
Exchequer Bills, 211 7
£OlOOO ......................... ~., ..... .....
0 . ... . - ... . ................... .
Exchequer ....... 1858, 31 per Cent —
0 p
Ditto 1859,
),
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent
Ditto 5 per Cent
.
Mexican 3 per Cent. ••••• '•••"" 2-li
Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cent ............... 711 1
Penivian 3 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent —
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent lBi
Ditto Passive (Converted)
I)
TarkishScrip 6 per cent
Ditto for the Account '1 i p
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian
Bonds 41 per Cent, ex. 25 fr
Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent. 12 Gail 6ll
Ditto 4per Cent. Certificates.....,
THREE O'CLOCK.
Console
Ditty ()dolor Account