The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-05 00:00:00

Tim SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 5, 1868.

and fittings, weighing 3i tons each, intendedto man
the Packpool battery, in course of completion.
The 10th company of the Royal Engineers has
arrived at Chatham garrison from Shorncliffe, and
joined head-quarters at Brompton barracks. The
strength of the company is 6 staff-sergts., 11 cor-
porals, 2 buglers, and 51 sappers, with 12 women
and 18 children, the whole under the command of
Capt. Malcolm and Lieut. Scott. The 21st company
of Royal Engineers, consisting of Captain Crozier,
Lieut. Coates, Lieut. Buckle, 5 staff-sergts., 8 cor-
porals, 2 bugler; 65 sappers, 9 women, and 26 chil-
dren, having completed the period of engineering in-
struction at Chatham for the season, have left the
garrison for Shorneliffe, there to be stationed for the
winter.

£2,463, with the intention of paying the sum due for '
locomotion. That had been done, and there still re-
mained a sum of £1,300 due for carriages and trucks;
for this account there were bills outstanding, which
the directors had made provision to meet when due.
An opinion had been expressed by the shareholders
that, when the dividend reached 45., the directors
should pay off the liabilities of the company. Per-
haps that would have been the height of prudence,
with the balance in hand, to have paid off the whole
amount due for carriages and trucks, instead of in-
creasing the dividend from 4s. to 4s. 6d. per share.
If they were enablel to pay 4s. 9d. per share next
May, which he thought they would do, it would
make the dividend for the year 1866 more than Bs.
9d. per share. It had, therefore, been moved that
when the dividend arrived at this amount the ques-

On Saturday detachments to the number of 100
non-commissioned officers and men, selected from
the various corps comprising the 2d depot battalion
at Chatham, proceeded from that garrison to Mil-
ton, there to undergo a course of ball practice be-
fore embarking for foreign service.
The examination of candidates for direct commis-
sions in the cavalry and infantry, under the regula-
tions dated Horse Guards, May 10, 1866, will com-
mence at Chelsea Hospital this morning, before
Major-Gen. W. C. E. Napier, vice-president, and
the members of the Council of Military Educa-
tion. The examination of Candidates for admission
to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, under
the regulations of March 31, 1866, will commence
on Dec. 12 ; and the examination of candidates for
commissions in the Royal Artillery and Royal Engi-
neers, for admission to the Royal Military Academy,
Woolwich, under the regulations of June 1, 1865,
will be held on Jan. 3, 1867.

tion of the right of the preference shareholders
would be raised. Upon this question the directors
had taken the opinion of eminent Belgian lawyers,
and of Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Prioe, and they had
agreed to the opinion that the preference share-
holders had no right to any increase of dividend
until the proprietors of the £324,872 original stock
had received 5 per cent., which was equal to 12s. 2d.
per share. The directors had also taken the joint
opinions of Sir Hugh Cairns and Sir W. Bullar,
which was in general terms the same as the other.
The directors gave notice that, if they passed a vote
at the next meeting giving effect to a dividend of 4s.
9d. per share, they would be prepared to pay it, and
that would be more than Bs. 9d. per share, and this
would give the preference shareholders an opportu-
nity of raising the question. Under Article 7of the
statute the directors could submit the subject to
three arbitrators, whose decision would be final.
Mr. GOEZ agreed with the chairman in the course
taken with respect to the preference shares, as he
did not think that there could be any doubt on. the
subject. He believed that when 5 per cent. was paid
on the capital there must be a deduction from the
surplus to form a reserve fund.
After some observations from Mr. S. HERAPATH
and other shareholders, the report was adopted.
A dividend at the rate of 4s. 6d. per share was
approved.
The agreement for the concession of the branch
line from Hazebrouck to the Belgian frontier was
confirmed.

The deaths of the following officers have been
officially reported at the War-office since Oct. 1 :
Lieut.-Col. Thomas Wright Hudson ; Majors
Lionel Bridge, Royal Artillery; Louis Howe Bazal-
gette, 24th Regiment ; and Robert Watson, Cey-
lon Rifle Regiment;, Captains Edward Egan,
Royal Artillery ; Francis Davis, 19th Regiment ;
James Moorhead, 27th Enniskillens ; J. Phillips
Cosby Lanphier, 25th King's Own Borderers ;
William Wise, 72d Highlanders; and Charles
Dutton. Lieutenants C. Fitzherbert Errington,
Royal Artillery ; John Herbert Smith, Royal En-
gineers ; Frederick Tweed, 21st Fusiliers ; Leonard
J. Wilkinson, 58th Regiment ; John Leggett, 3d
Dragoon Guards ; John Nicholson, 14th Regiment ;
and H. Harman Young, 31st Regiment ; Ensign
the Hon. Henry E. Dormer, 60th Rifles. Assist.
Commissary-Gen. W. Stevens ; Inspector-Gen.
of Hospitals, Joseph Skey, M.D., l,Surg. G. Cal-
vert staff ; and Richard Arthur Pearson, M.D.,
87th Regiment. Assist.-Surgeons T. Quinlan,
staff ; J. Henderson Rolland;staff ;land T. Kennedy,
staff. Deputy-Purveyor R. Wright, Assist.-Super-
intendent of Stores, E. Fayrer.
The following appoirAments were made on Satur-
day at the Admiralty :—Capt. Richard Purvis, of
the Satellite, transferred to the Racoon, re-commis-
sioned ; Stopford C. Tracey, master, to theßacoon;
Sub-Lieut. Edward J. Wingfield, to the Reindeer;
Sub-Lieut. George C. Higgins, to the Rinaldo ;
Willoughby E. Still, midshipman, to the Gladiator;
Carleton Tuffuell, midshipman, to the Rinaldo ;
John G. Haggard, midshipman, to the Satellite ;
Albert C. Allen, midshipman, to the Caledonia ;
John Pooley, paymaster, to the Racoon ; Derisley
Martin, assist.-paymaster, to the Impregnable ;
Lewis G. Hodder, assist.-paymaster, to the Cum-
berland ; Edward Robinson, assist.-paymaster, to
the Racoon ; William G. F. Hunt, clerk, to the
Royal Adelaide ; Charles Walker, clerk, to the Ra-
coon ; and William A. Harvey, assist.-clerk, to the
Racoon.

Messrs. A. Greig and E. V. Richards were re
elected directors, and a vote of thanks to the chair
man concluded the proceedings.

GIRVAN AND PORTPATRICK JUNCTION.

The half-yearly meeting of this company was held
in Stranraer, on Friday—Provost Guthrie in the

chair.

Mr. M'LIMoNT, secretary, read the report, which
stated that since last meeting the directors had done
all in their power to get the remainder of the shares
taken up, but their efforts had been much retarded
by the effects of the monetary crisis, and the high
rate of interest which prevailed for several months.
Some of the landowners who had not previously
subscribed had since taken up a portion of the
stuck. But the directors had not felt justified in
actually commencing operations. The engineer of
the company had prepared the working plans for
the portion of the line between Girvan and the
March of Wigtownshire, being a distance of about
18 miles; and, where any objections were antici-
pated, the plans had been submitted to the land-
owners, and negotiations were now pending be-
tween the company and the proprietors as to the
taking of the land and as to accommodation works.
'the directors were in hopes the arrangement would
be satisfactorily completed, and that they would be
in a position to commence the works, at the latest,
early next spring,
The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the
report, expressed regret that the whole stock had
not yet been taken up. Probably some of the share-
holders had heard that another line was projected to
go along the shore, but of course the directors would
carry out their scheme if it was at all possible ; and,
as the two lines could not be made, and as this
would be the last opportunity they would ever have
of carrying out a central line as proposed, they
ought to resolve to make every exertion to get the
remaining stock taken up.
Sir J. C. D. HaY seconded the motion, which was
agreed to.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

MADRAS.

The report of the directors states that the season
and the state of the provinces through which the
railway passed had been peculiarly unfavour-

able for traffic. The failure of the monsoon rains
caused a great failure of crops, reducing the quan-
tity of produce to be carried, and raising the price
of food to nearly a famine rate, thus affecting inju-
riously both goods and coaching business. At the
same time the sudden fall in the price of cotton in
A pril led to an almost total suspension of the trade,
while general and severe visitations of cholera
throughout the country had interfered seriously
with passenger, and in less degree with all other
traffic. Those evils had now much abated, and they
could look forward to the beneficial effect on the
receipts of an improving state of things. They had
also the satisfaction to know that the privations of
the suffering districts had been much mitigated by
the facilities of transport by the railway. No ex-
tension of the open Hues took place in the past half-

LONDON, WORCESTER, AND SOUTH WALES
The report of the directors states that the pror

sional arrangement made with a contractor for the
completion of the railway had been broken off, and,
owing to the state of the money market, they had not
entered into any new arrangement. The Teme
Valley Railway had received the royal assent. This
railway at the west, with the East and West Junc-
tion, which was in an advanced state of construction,
at the eastern end of the line, would perfect the
system between London and the Welsh coalfields,
which were admitted to be of much importance, in-
dependent of the intermediate traffic which might
be calculated upon.

year, but on the Ist of August last a further section
of 34 miles of the North-West line towards Gooty
was opened for traffic. Compared with the corre-
pondiug half of last year, the mileage worked was
611 against 571 miles ; the number of passengers
930,815, against 861,467 ; and of goods 132,052
tons against 131,487 tons, exclusive of railway ma-
terials. The aggregate traffic receipts were
£213,676 against £179,893, being an increase of
£33,783, equal to nearly 19 per cent. ; and the net
receipts had been £117,873 against £87,952, an in-
crease of £29,921, or 31 per cent. over those in the
previous year. The permanent way and works
' were in good order, and the requirements of the
traffic had been fully met by the locomotive depart-
ment. The lines had continued to be worked with
economy and regularity and with the usual exemp-
tionl from injury to passengers. On the South-
\rst line and Bangalore branch the way and works
had been maintained at an average cost of £176 per
mie Per al
nnum, including charges for renewals by
F°ll instead of wooden sleepers. The Bangalore
branch, which had from the first been laid with
iron sleepers,
per mile per annum forma
had cost only at the rate of £65
half of
The total re-
ceipts on this line for the half-year ending the 30th
of June amounted to
33c,:e8u6t5iagainst,
asnh do £ 165 , 005
£79,6il
for the correspondiet,
in-
crease of £20,893, or 121perof
to £86,654, against £ leaving thewtihn
eg expensesnaent
re-
ceipts £99,244, against
24i per cent. The receipts per tra'infe9a,vse7r3;gendr
6s. 90., against ss. 'lid. for the corresponding half
of last year ; and the expenses amounted to 3s lad
iNn sotr
North-West
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line,
the correspondingearthw earthworks
s half-year.ef
thee On
the p.
eed.
against
portion of the line, 119 miles, from Arconum to
Cuddapa, had stood well, and were in good order.
The permanent way had been maintained at a cost
equal to £69 per mile per annum. A section of 34
miles beyond Cuddapah to Moodanoor was opened
on the Ist of August. This advance into the cotton
country would facilitate and encourage the convey-
ance of that great staple over the line. The num-
ber of
passengers during the half-year had been
116,269, and the goods, exclusive
19,966 tons, against 16,638
otlofsn6rsa,9ii Inlwltaiegmaterials,aj isamelst six month
receipts for the half-year ending 30th of June
amounted to £27,778, against £14,888, and the
expenses to £9,149,
against £6,607 in the
nd the net receipts
corre-
sponding half last year; a
amounted to £18,629,
per train mile
against £8,281, showing an
increase of £10,348. The receipts p
amounted to 6s. 61,1., against ss. Sid., and the ex-
penses to 2s. 14d. against 2s. 41d.
T
and maintenance charges had fallen frtihne wi4o4rkpinegr
cent. to 33 per cent. of the gross greceipts on the
past half-year. The stagnation of the cotton traffic
had materially affected the receipts. Upon the
capital cost of the South-West Railway and Ban-
galore branch, the net receipts for the year ending
30th of June last might be taken as equal to a 4 per
cent, dividend. The directors were now issuing
debentures to the extent of £500,000, bearing a
guaranteed interest of 5 per cent. per annum for
five years, and convertible into stock.

Lmerican v. European Travelling.

The following letter has been addressed tC a con

,emporary

SlR,—Safety, comfort, and ease are desirable essen

WEST FLANDERS.
The half-yearly meeting was held on Friday at
the offices, Moorgate-street Mr. Temple Frere in
the chair.

The report, an abstract of which has appeared in
The Sun, was taken as read.

The CHAIRMAN said there was no particular alte-
ration in the capital and construction accounts. In
the revenue accounts they had carried forward

splendour of the state-rooms, the cuisine unsurpassed
in any hotel in Europe, and, above all, their com-
parative cheapness as a means of transport. Some
of our English readers will reply, " That is all very
well, but you must remember, as a general rule,
our rivers are not as smooth as the American rivers ;
they are not liable to encounter the storms we have
on the coast." I can only say the ferry-boats that
Sid across the river from New York to Brooklyn,
and from New York to Staten Island and New Jer-
sey, are liable to much rougher weather than ever a
penny steamer on the Thames does, or ever could
encounter. Yet in America the boats travel at

night in safety ; they are well ventilated and lighted,
the cabins commodious and luxurious, seats covered
with velvet per contra. Can a more dismal picture
be imagined than that of being on a London Thames
Express Boat ? There is no necessity for describing
them ; they are well known to both elements of the
Anglo-American public. Lately a sort of apology
for the American style of steamboats has been in-
troduced for summer travel with the most success-
ful results. The Albert Victor, and boats of that
class, are able to charge much higher fares, and are
patronised by a better class of people than the old-
fashioned ones. Pleasure-seekers demand comfort,
and they will pay for it. I again ask, are not the
Boston and New York Sound Boats liable to quite
as rough weather as the boats to Dublin or Ham-
burgh ? They have all the strength, speed, and sea-
worthiness of our iron coast steamers, but their
comfort is incomparably superior.
But the millions who travel on railways are every
day asking what improvements can be made for
their safety and comfort.
Is it any reason because a man can only afford to
pay for a third-class ticket, he should be, as a rule,
placed in a compartment hardly fit for cattle ? That
in this place people should be allowed to smoke the
most abominable tobacco in the foulest of pipes?
that weakly females, consumptive men, and febrile
children, should inhale the sickening and nauseous
smoke, which to them, perhaps, is an abomination?
that the door should be slammed at every station
with a sound as loud almost as the report of a 12-
pounder cannon, and enough to frighten and jar
the life out of.a nervous or a hypochondrous body.
But it may be answered that people will smoke in first-
class and second do., that they have the slamming of
doors. This is too true. There is one comfort, however,
in riding in a first-class English carriage. They are
luxurious ; and no one who enters would think of
puffing any but the most delicate of Havanas. We
pay well for our luxurious first-class. We hear a
great deal about the filthy tobacco habits of the
Americans; but, for my part, I never saw any one
smoking where ladies were, or in any carriage in
that country, unless it was in the regular carriage
appropriated to that purpose, and I have often
known gentlemen who were desirous of smoking
ride in the large van appropriated to the luggage
rather than annoy their fellow-passengers.
Respect for the softer sex, on the other side of
the water, is the absolute slavery of the rougher
half of that world, and has given rise to the state-
ment by an eminent writer, that " America is the
Paradise for Women." Now, I never smoke, do
not like the smell of smoke, and yet I think the
individual is selfish indeed who would deprive his
fellow-creatures of that which he conceives to be a
luxury. And the sooner the managers adopt the
American system in reference tosmoking the better
for all classes who will and•must travel.
In English railways you are locked in, and we
know well enough what the consequences of that
system is ; gentlemen with reputation and character
hesitate now to occupy carriages alone with their
fellow-travellers sometimes placed therein. Many
gentlemen have been almost ruined, and the peace
of their families destroyed by the, unjust charges
made by designing persons. Then, again, we know
that one or two ruffians could and have robbed,
insulted, and murdered those who, being locked in,
were at their mercy.
If au English railway carriage took fire, the
whole of those who occupied an apartment might
be burned or suffocated before a guard could be
made aware of the fact. If an English railway
carriage or the train is precipitated down an em-
bankment there is no outlet for escape ; they are
safely locked within.
Now, what are the conveniences of the American

system ?
We will imagine the system between New York
and Washington, or the former city and Montreal,
introduced into Europe—we will suppose the pas-
senger is journeying in the early morning train—
he arrives at the station, purchases his ticket, tells
the baggage or luggage man where he is going ; he
receives a brass or copper cheque, the duplicate
number of which is strapped on his baggage. On
entering one of the carriages he finds himself in a
compartment capable of containing sixty persons.
The seats have all velvet cushions and backs, while
resting places for the feet are arranged under the
seat forward of the one he occupies. These seats
are arranged parallel to each other, each capable of
holding two persons ; a long passage passes down
the centre to the doors, which open at either end of
the apartment ; there are seats, therefore, right and
left. There is no necessity of a passenger ever leav-
ing the train during his journey, however long it may
be ; for lines being connected and of an equal gauge
the trains can be shunted from one to the other.
During the journey boys pass through the cars or
atshsee
nl agteers t
desirouspapers,
of occupying
cbaororki as easnwd i tthh
ea 1p
his time finds mental nourishment at hand. If the
weather is warm a boy with refreshing ice-water is
in attendance. In every railway-carriage there are
those conveniences which are especially necessary
to the invalid. if on the route the passenger is
desirous of leaving his family for the enjoyment
of a cigar or pipe be has only to pass forward to the
smoking carriage, for all the carriages are so connected
and covered over so as to be passable; and when he
has finished the said luxury he can return to his
former seat with his family. A large front carriage
is devoted to a refreshment-room, and here he will
find hot coffee and tea, stewed oysters, smoking hot,
broiled fowl, ham, eggs, and in fact a cafe or re-
staurant on wheels. Supposing there is sickness how
easy to obtain a physician, for the chances of one
being on the train is almost a certainty.
What murder like Muller's hellish business could
occur, what false charges of attempted insults,
what real insults, could take place, and what real
protection to life, honour, and property there would
necessarily be.
Then when we are almost at our journey's end
perhaps we have business to attend to before we
arrive at our hotel, or we are in a hurry and do
not choose to wait for our baggage. An autho-
rised agent passes through the train, he asks
for our check (optional or not whether we hand
it to him), he gives us a receipt and a duplicate
number, we pay him one shilling, and we have no
more bother ; in an hour our luggage is at our
residence, he takes a receipt of its delivery if at a
hotel, we show our duplicate ticket when we ar-
rive and deliver our baggage ; if at home, of course
our family recognise our baggage, and have no
bother from beginning to the end.
Then we will suppose we have been busy all day;
we want to rush off to Manchester, to Liverpool,
to Scotland, to the Continent, anywhere. Do we
not all know that the deprivation of rest affects the
system more than either the loss of food or
water. Suppose for two shillings extra we can
enter a carriage where long sleeping berths
are arranged with curtains, blankets, and that
we can remove our hoots and clothes, and
take a sleep during the night of only five hours, cm
if the novelty is such that we cannot sleep, that we
can extend and recline our bodies during that space
of time. In the morning the male -chamber maid,
as he is denominated, has water, soap, and towel
for our morning ablution, our clothes are brushed,
our boots are blacked ; then, after a good hot cup
of coffee, we retire to another carriage, and just
at the grey of the morning we arrive fresh
and
,invigorated at our destination. Surely
every one will acknowledge that it would
be an improvement on the present mode of
travel in England and on the Continent. Why not
take a lesson, then ? Why cannot we, who are com-
pelled to travel, find those conveniences in Europe
that Young America boasts in the enjoyment of ?
The railroad structures here are beyond any in

tials of travelling. If we are about to embark upon a
lengthened voyage on the ocean, of course our first
inquiries are in reference to the seaworthiness of the
craft to which we entrust our lives and our pro-
perty. But our ease and comfort are inquiries that
promptly follow. The human biped has wondrously
changed since the introduction and utilisation of
steam. In the early days of the present century
the traveller was satisfied with being cramped up
and almost smothered in a crowded compartment of
a mail coach, and was grateful if, as a consequence,
he only suffered a day's stiffness in all his limbs.
If he was an outside passenger, especially in winter,
on the termination of his wondrous journey of a
hundred miles, he was thankful if he was not chilled
through, and escaped with the rheumatics. In those
days we made vast preparations for a journey of a
hundred miles, and the partings of fond husbands
and wives was something touching to contemplate.
But we have wondrously changed ; the adaptability
of human nature to every new innovation is laudable
indeed. If by steam we can traverse five times the
distance in the same period we formerly did in the
stage and the mail coach, we are at once ready to
try the experiment. But the primary skeleton
railway carriages, besides conveying us more
speedily, were soon expected to convey us with an
equal ratio of comfort. As we increased in our
utilitarian manners, we also increased in our love
of luxury. If a steamship made her introduction
into marine society she was expected, to present
sogng,lutiav: ntsesnwpeaaNnvy
satin,e feature of comfort and elegance. Oak
topanels, richly
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carvings,o ga
paintings,
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and sumptuous carpets were all welcome surround-
ings, which once enjoyed
were
necessity. So the MercantileF
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tak upon a
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rative safety, and not only do they give us the
sumptuousness of a palace, but they feed us bet-
ter than even the. African King Dahomy stuffed his
I adipose brides. Now the land is more travelled
on than the sea, and perhaps Americans are, of all
the peoples of the earth, the greatest travellers.
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plored rivers just as difficult to find a bye-path,
and they have explored mountains and deserts over
their whole continent, which have presented as
many, if not greater, obstacles than accompanied
either iiaker or Livingstone. Schoolcraft, Strain,
Fremont, Bane, and the thousands who have
wended their way to the Pacific, have encountered
hardshi.ps and perils enough to frighten the heart of
the bravest and most heroic of our kind ; and
wherever their footsteps have made a pathway we
find the iron-rail has either pushed, or is pushing,
its way. The American people, active, restless,
tahnedwpeuasrihninesgs aosf tthraeyveacrer,edhaaeLvsde,
iitn otoardseerietnocere. lieve
Let us look at their steamboats for one moment.
Can any one who has tray elled in :an American
steamboat and an English o'me failed to draw a con-
trast unfavourable to the lat ;ter 41. The magnificent
drawing-rooms, the sumptitous adornments, the
comfortable, and in some places the almost regal

the world for solidity and costliness. The stations
are commodious and comfortable, the restaurants
clean and inviting. But travellers do not want to
use a station as an inn or a cafe. They go to
that station in order to reach their destination with
as much speed as possible, and once in the carriage
they want to remain there. We must learn to be
less conceitedly national, and become more adapt-
able to the universal spirit of improvement. We
want to be more cosmopolitan on this side the
water. We want less selfish individualism. There
are blessings yet in store for the railroad managers
of England, if they will seek for them.
Blessings from the smokers, if they will permit
them to avoid continuing a nuisance. Blessings
from the non-smokers, if they will grant the prayer
of the smokers. Blessings from the nervous, the
gouty, and the rheumatic, from those who suffer
from toothache, dislocated limbs, or headache. If
the carriages might open at the end, and be long
apartments instead of small and opening at the side,
when the guard, with an arm like Vulcan and the
force of Jove and bis thunderbolts, hurls his creator
of thunder, i.e., the door, with such force as to
electrify the nerves as-if operated on by a galvanic
battery. The poor passengers NI ould that " Othello's
occupation's gone." Blessings from the poor and
the unprotected, who now travel in fear and trem-
bling, not knowing what villain or scoundrel they
are left at the mercy of when the key grates in the
door.

At daylight, yesterday morning, gangs of citizens
at once commenced a thorough scouring of the
country, and it is believed the arrest of the thieves
is not far distant.
The company offers as a reward the sum of
$5,000 for the arrest and conviction of the thieves,
or one half for either, and one quarter of all moneys
recovered.— Cincinnati Commercial.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK, Oct. 20.

The tone of the market continues bullish. Government
stocks still have a rising tendency, and the Railway
Market is strong. Gold closes at 1471 after selling at 149.
The bogus despatch of the Philadelphia Ledger exercised
a strong influence for two or three days, although few
believed one word of it. Gold rose 4 per cent., and it is
generally thought the object was to effect this ; if so, the
ruse has been successful. The excitement occasioned was
very great. People freely discussed the chances of a civil
war, although scarcely one of them believed a word of the
despatch. Money continues abundant—the price may be
quoted at 5 per cent., though a great deal is loaned at 4
per cent. Best commercial paper sells at 5 per cent., and
good at 51 per cent. to 6.
Exchange is firm at the following quotations :—London
prime bankers', 60 days, 1081 to 108 i; London, prime
bankers', sight, 1091 to 1091 ; London, prime commercial,
1071 to 108 ; Paris, bankers', long, 5.21 i to 5.20 ; Paris,
hankers', short, 4.171 ; Antwerp, 5.231 to 5.221 ; Swiss,
5.234 to 5.221; Hamburg, bankers', 36i; Amsterdam,
bankers', 40 to 411 ; Frankfort, bankers', 41 to 411 ; Bre-
men, bankers', 781 ; Berlin, bankers', 72.
The purchase of St. John's Park by the New York Oen-

Blessings from those whose natural infirmities
and weaknesses make a journey sometimes a per-
petual agony, but who, by the adoption of the
American principle of secluded, necessary conveni-
encies in a wooded-up apartment, would be re-
lieved. I hope there is no shock to delicate ears

in mentioning this fact.
Blessings from those who love comfort, ease, and
sleep at night, all of which can be obtained by
adopting, or partially so, the American system.
There is no reason why the advice of the Queen
of England should not be adopted ; when thanking
the directors for her comfort, she wishes them alike
to grant the same protection to the lives, the com-
fort, and the convenience of all her subjects.
T. R.
Gresham-house, Nov. 2, 1866.

tral and the Hudson River roads is regarded by railway
people and merchants as a step calculated to benefit alike
the roads and the trade of the city. Parties owning real
estates fronting on this park, and who have the right to
enter it, have sold their claims at a certain price per foot.
The President of the Erie Railway has invited the direc-
tors to make an official examination of the road next week.
As the two now directors are both thorough accountants
and business men, the stockholders would be glad to have

General American News.

from them a detailed statement of the financial condition
of the property, and what, in their opinion, it can pay in
the way of dividends.
The business of the Sub-Treasury was—Receipts,
$1,586,823 65—for Customs, $316,000; payments,
$456,365 24; balance, $100,408,262 80—gold notes,
$150,000.
Glenn and Co., in their weekly circular of November 2,
remark as follows:—" There has been a fair demand for
choice American Securities during the past week. United
States 5-20's have advanced per cent., closing to nght at
681 4. Illinois Central remained at 77 to Eries have
advanced to 511 There is but a small amount of Erie
Stock now held on this side of the Atlantic, nearly all
having beenbought up and sent to New York to influence
the recent election of Directors. Numerous transactions
have been effected in Atlantic and Great Western Conso-
lidated Bonds, but prices have not materially advanced
We are in receipt of many letters asking information of
the United States 5-20's—whether, the principal will be

TRIAL OF JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Inquiry having been made to the United States
Government with reference to the condition of Mr.
DAVIS at Fortress Monroe, the following letter has
been returned by one of the officials :
" OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT
ATTORNEY FOR VIRGINIA.—NorfoIk, Oct. 8, 1866.

—Hon. Henry Stanberry, Attorney-General of the
United States :—Sir,—ln compliance with your
request, I submit herewith the substance of the
verbal statement I made you a few days since, in
answer to your question why no demand had been
made upon the military authorities for the surrender
of Jefferson Davis in order that he might be tried
on the indictment found against him in the United
States Circuit Court, at the term held at Norfolk
in May last? Two reasons have influenced me in
not taking any steps for not removing him from
their custody. The one relates to his safe keeping,
the other to his own personal comfort and health.
I have never had any doubt but that he would be
delivered to the United States marshal for the dis-
trict, whenever he should have demanded him on a
capias, or any other civil process.
"But you'readily understand that so soon as he
gets into the hand of that officer, upon an applica-
tion had by me, his place of confinement would be
one of the State gaols of Virginia. At Fortress
Monroe all necessary precautions can be and are
taken to prevent his escape. Over the internal
police of a State gaol the marshal has no authority,
and the safe custody of the prisoner could not be
secured, save at a very great expense.
" Mr. Davis is now in as comfortable quariers as

paid in gold ? The word "coin" not being inserted in the
Bond has led many erroneously, we are happy to state, to
believe that they will be redeemed in greenbacks, which
are a lawful tender in the United States. They will be
paid off in gold for these reasons—first, the Act of Con-
gress authorising this issue was passed before specie pay-
ments was suspended, and the Act would be broken should
paper be substituted for specie; secondly, the American
Finance Minister, Mr. Chase, says that the spirit and in-
tention of the Act of 1862, which he framed, was that
they should be paid off in specie. This decision is now
being practically confirmed by the present Finance
Minister, Mr. M'Culloch, who is now anticipating the pay-
ment of the old 6's of the United States due next year in gold,
in consequence of which they are now selling in New
York at 140. Our advices from New York are by mail to
20th ult., and by telegraph to 30th. Gold was less firm,
with a downward tendency. The sub-treasuries at New
York will disburse $24,000,000 in gold on Ist November
on account of dividends, a large amount for the speculators
to control. Railway shares were buoyant, and a strong
demand for Government securities ; 5-20 s, 115, buyers.
Money easy, at 4 per cent. on call. Cotton was coming in
from the South:; probable yield 2,000,000 bales this season,
we are confident, notwithstanding many reports to the
contrary.

Le most of those occupied by the army officers a'

the fort. The location is a healthy one, his family
having free access to him, he has full opportunity
for exercise in the open air, if his health be feeble.

Remove him to one of the State gaols, and his con-
dition, instead of being bettered, would in all re-
spects be much for the worse. His counsel probably
understand all this, and, I think, will not be likely
to take any steps which would decrease the personal
comforts or endanger the life of their client.
" I have the honour to be, most respectfully,
your obedient servant,
L. H. CHANDLER,
44 United States District Attorney for Virginia."

:From E. F. Satterthwaite and Co.'s Weekly Circular,
October 31.)

Our advices from New York by the " Persia" reach to
the 17th inst., and report continued activity in the Stock
Market, prices generally being well maintained, notwith-
standing an increased demand for money from the corn and
cotton district& Government Bonds were in good demand
at former rates. In Railroad Shares there had been a
general advance during the week, but prices gave way,
and Stocks were more freely offered. State Bonds we're
steady, but Railroad Mortgages, with few exceptions, were
lower. Gold, after having risen to 53, declined to 48
premium.

Seymour, that they were passengers who had been speculation in stocks there has also been an enlarged de-
carried by that point, again used steam until sig-
mand
has advanced to 5 for currency from
perth cent.,interior,
h and lhe rate on call
loans
exceptions at 4 per
nailed by the messenger to stop. One of the route cent. Discounts are firmer at sto 6 per cent. for prime
agents of the company, who was on the train, at paper.
once returned to Seymour on foot, procuring a National bonds have been firmer, under a partial de-
hand car and gang of men, and repaired to the mand from foreign orders, combined with a comparative
scene of robbery, and, after a search, found the stoscarcityo 1158, afndb°cnlodsse'd YfiersmteartdairlsFii. Five-Twenties
1867
1882
; rose
•
safe some sixty yards from the track in the woods.
and 1868 are firm, the former at 138 to 141, and the latter
It is presumed, as this safe contained some $15,000 at 135. The Treasury has bought up a limited al:,pul,t
in coin, besides currency, that the consideration was of these securities at 90, in gold, for 1868's, and 92 for
too weighty for two men. 1867'5.
• . .. . . -

The extreme activity in stack speculation has been par-
tially checked by the firmer aspect of the money market ;
and under sales to realise, at the opening of the week,
prices fell off 3 to 4 per cent. The market has since
steadily recovered. Erie common stock has fluctuated
between 82 and 84, and closes steady at 83k. Illinois
Central Shares opened at 128, subsequently declined to
126, and close steady at 1261.
State Stocks have been active, but scarcely retain the
improved quotations noted at the close of last week. The
following are the closing quotations—Tennessee 6's, 1890,
91 to 95. Tennessee 6's, new, 731 ; North Carolina 6's,
83 to 831 ; Virginia 6's, 671 to 68 ; Missouri 6's, 811 to 82.
The speculation in gold for a higher premium has been
checked by the disbursements of coin by the Treasury, in
the purchase of bonds of 1867 and 1868. After touching
1541 on the 13th, the price fell to 1471, subsequently re-
acting 1 to 11, and closes at 1471.
Foreign hills have been more in demand, and the rates
of Sterling exchange are i to 1 per cent. higher than at the
date of our last. The closing quotations are for Bankers'
60 days' sterling, 108 to 1081 ; do. 3 days, 1081 to 109 ;
Francs, long date, 5.22 k to 5.20; short date, 5.184 to
5.17 k.

Cotton has beon firmer, under the advanced quotations
reported by cable from Liverpool. The week opened with
quotations for Middling Uplands at 42 to 43 cents, but the
subsequent decline in gold produced a fall of 2 cents per
pound, and the market closes heavy at 40 to 41 cents. The
receipts at all the ports, reported for the week ending Oct.
15, amounted to 17,000 bales, and the exports for the same
period to 13,000 bales.

FOREIGN QUOTATIONS.
Oct 19. Oct. 12.
London commercial 1064 1071 105 1061
Do. bankers' long lOB 1081 106 107
Do. bankers' short sight lOBl 109 107 1071
Paris sixty days 522/ 520 5261 525
Do. short sight 5lBl 517/ 5221
Antwerp 525 5221 530 527 A
Hamburg
Amsterdam
Frankfort
Bremen
Berlin 72 711 --

COTTON QUOTATIONS.
-Uplands. Mobile. N. 0. &T.
Good Ordinary
Low Middling 3B to 39 39 to 40 40 to
Middling
Good Middling

MOVEMENTS OF SPECIE AT NEW YORK.
IMPORTS.
Foreign, week ending Oct. 13

$510,320
Import for last week
Previously from California 33,039,210
Previously from Foreign Ports 77742)863

Total since January Ist ..

• EXPORTS
For week ending October 13
Previously

Since January 1
Same time 1865

-$41,292,393

• $198,050
54,196,928

$54,394,978
23,841,658

CO UN TRY MARKETS.

NO T T INGHAM-SATURDAY.

The supply of wheat was tolerably good, and prices
similar to those of last week. The demand for barley Nral
steady, at late rates. Beaus were in small supply, and sold
at prices quite equalling those of last week.
Old white wheat, 64s to 68s ; old red, 56s to 62s ; nevi
white, 60s to 66s ; new red, 54s to 60s per 36 stone. Oats,
old, 32s to 368 ; new, 24s to 32s per 24 stone. Beans, old,
52s to 55s ; riew, 48s to 50s per 38s stone. Fine flour, 410
to 43s per sack.

NORWICH— SATURDAY.
A fair supply of wheat offering to-day, prices for which
remained unaltered. A large supply of barley, and best
Plaiting descriptions maintained late rates.
White wheat (weighing 631 b), 60s to 64s ; old red aitto,
(weighing 631 b), Ms to 58s ; new red ditto (weiglliug
601 b to 631 b), Ms to 52s ; best malting barley (weigbill
521 b to 531 b), 48s to 508 ; runs ditto (weighing 511 b to OOP
44s to 46s ; distilling ditto (weighing 501 b to 521 b), 348 t°
36s ; oats, 24s to 26s ; beans, 578 to 39s ; peas (maple), 3°9
to 38s per qr. Flour, 42s Od per sack.

LEWES T ER —SATURDAY.
We had an average supply of wheat at our market to-
day. Sales were made to a limited extent, and prices
were rather easier. The demand for barley was not so ac-
tive as last week. Oats in limited supply and fair dernano•
A small show of beans, which sold at last week's prices.
New white wheat, 58s to 63s ; new red, 54s 'to 60s ; ol",
white, 63s to 67s ; old rod, 58s to 62s per 36 stone. 133ar-
ley, for malting, 45s to 50s per qr.; grinding, 32s to 313
per per 30 stone. Oats, old, 32s to 38s ; new, 25s to 32s•pe1 2
stone. Beans, old,, 52s to 58s ; new, 48s to 56s per 38 stone'
Fine flour, 465; seconds, 40s to 42s per 20 stone.

YORK—SATURDAY.
A limited show of wheat, and few old sorts were obi:
bited. There was not much life in the trade, and recoilt
prices were mostly made.
New white wheat, 56s to 64s ; new red, 50s to 60sper 36
stone. Barley, for malting, 36s to 40s per qr. ; 011036'
32s to 34s per 30 stone. Oats, new, 24s to 28s per 24 stone•
Beans, new, 52s to 56s per 38 stone. Malt, 70s to 725'
Flour, 45s to 46s per sack of 2801bs.

Foreign Mail Packet List.

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MAILS DUE.
Australia and New Zealand, via Southamptoft......„Nov. 19*
Ditto, via Marseilles
Brazil and Cape Verds. by British packet ...... Nov. 6*
Ditto, by French packet Nov. 23'
Cape of Good lope, Ascension, and St. flelena Nov. ,28
China, Penang. and Singapore. via Southampton Nov 3.
Ditto, via Marseilles• Noy. 13
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar, via Southampton Nov. 3.
India (Calcutta), and Ceylon, via Southampton Nov. 3
Ditto, via Marseilles . ........ ........Nov. 13
India (Bombay), via Southampton. Nov. 13.
Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 7
Malta, Egypt, and Aden, via Southampton Nov. 3.
Ditto, via Marseilles NOV. 7-
liauritius, via Southampton
Ditto, via Marseilles Nov. 13
Newfoundland ... , Nov. 7*
Portugal
Ditto, by private ship to Lisbon..
United States and British North America, by Bri-
tish packet .. . Nov. 7*
Ditto, by United States packet, via Southamp-

ton • .
Ditto, Ida Cork
Ditto, by Canadian packet, via Londonderry ..Nov. 9•
West Coat of Africa, Madeira, and Tencriffe ....Nov. I°'
West Indies and PaGifio (except Bahamas and
Honduras) No 13
Cuba %nd Mexico
Bermuda. via Halifax Nov. 21
Bahamas, via New York. Nov' 15'

ot
The mechanics of Norfolk, Virginia, are about
establish a library of scientific and mechanical works.
LADVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and
ce:
Much watchfulness must be exercised as winter advan
and the earliest evidences of ill-health must be immediately
checked and removed, or a slight illness may result ill t'
serious malady. Relaxed and sore throat, diphtheria
quinsey, throat cough, chronic cough, bronchitis, "lb,
most other pulmonary affections will be relieved by rile,
bing this cooling Ointment into the skin, as near as Pre.4o
ticable to the seat of mischief. This treatment, so siOrd
and effective, is admirably adapted for the removal 40
these diseases during infancy and youth. Old asthnn,
invalids will derive marvellous relief from the use of -I'°oll
loway's remedies, which have brought round many susio
sufferers, and re-establish health after every other ole
had signally failed.

Births.
GRYLLS—On the 2d inst., at 43, Queen's-gate-terrace, 14°11'
don, the wife of Major Grylls, of a son and heir. b,
GRANT—On the 2d inst., at 42, Albany-street, Edinburcl
the wife of Commander James Grant, Royal Nail,
daughter.
GRAHAM—On the 2d inst., at Drums House, Renfrewellite'
the wife of J. H. N. Graham, Esq., of a daughter' -de
MILDMAY—On the Ist inst., at Holybourn, Hants,
of Arthur St. John Mildmay, of a son.

Mas.
TOUCUE—STRANSHAM—Onrriage the 2d inst., at St• Gel
Hanover-square, Capt. W. P. La TouChe Bomb3Y tbe,
Corps, third son of the late Major P. La'Toiielle'''. .„(1, • 0'
Bengal Army, to Frances Gertrude, second &tog
Lieut.-Gen. Stranshain, et,or
YOUNG—JAY - On the Ist iust., at Worfield Chure,b, P-h
shire, Henry J. Young, Esq., M.D., of Bridge ,°rl"'
of
Ellen Martha, daughter of the late Thomas Jay,
Daneford, near Bridguorth.
Deaths.
BALEY—On the 29th ult., at 1, Liverpool-street, I°.
cross, Thomas Baley, Esq., aged 68.
CURRIEHILL—On the Ist inst., at Curriehill, Mrs.
314re'
Pod Bell, wife of Lord Curriehill. peg
FARR—On the 31st ult., at his residence, Minting,
Horncastle, Francis Farr, Esq., aged 82. atter,
HUNTER—On the 2d inst., at Margate, George Y•
Esq., J.P., Mayor of Margate. 013015814
HALL—On the 2d inst., at 23, Oxford-terrace,
Louisa
~trl.° Hall, aged,B4. Stret"
HOLLAND—On the 2d •
inst., at 25, Lower B11)°:
Grosvenor-square, Saba, wife of Sir 11. 11olland,14ovo1et
NEVILLE —On the 3d inst., at Esher, Williara
barrister-at-law, aged 41. d et°l3'
PHILLIPS On the 2d inst., at Moreton Hampstesd
Wm. Phillips, Assistant-Paymaster, R.N. :age
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