The Sun.
London, England, 1861-08-10 00:00:00

PERCHLORIDE OF IRON.

Share! Railways. , Closing Business
!Paid I
1 Price. Done.
25 Blythe and Tyne 10 pert
c. pref. (issued at .£s' all
stock finis. & Exet.4 p.ct.stock 100
20 Do. do. do. Shares
stock Caledon £lO, 44 percent 100 101 103
stock Do. Quar. Shares, No. 2. 100
04 Cork & Bandon, 54 p. C. all
20 Cornwall, 5 per cent all 20 21
65 Dun.Perth&Aber.Jun all 54 64
14 Do lst Class Frei all
stock E.Angn.Class A 7 &sp.c 100 99 101
stock Do. do. Class B 6 pm._ 100 108 112
stock Do. do. Class C 7 pm.
stock E. Coun. Ex. sp. c. No.l 100 105 107
stock Do. do. No. 2 100 105 107
stock Do. New 6 per ct. stock. 100 122 124
stock Eastern Union, 4 per ct. 100 78 80
stuck Do. 5 per cent. guar._ 100
stock 14.:clin.kGlas.5p.c. shares 100 109 111
stock i Do. 4p. c gua. S. &D. 100 90 92
stock ! Edin. Perth& Dun. 4 p.c. 100 75 77
stock i N'urness, 5 per cent .... 100
stock IG las.& S. West.p;.a. 5 p.c, 100
stock IGret,,t Northern, sp. et, 100 115 117 1165
stock iro.sp.c.Redm., 10 p.c.pm 100 110 112
stock ; Do. 44 p. c. do. do.
100 . Do. sp.c. ltedm. 5 p.c. pm 80 106 108
10 (it. Nh. of Scotld. Ist pt all
stock 5 Gt. Sn. & W (Ireland) i 100 97 99
) p. ct. pref. stock
50 Great West. (Berks an,
Hants) Ext. sp. et.., 6
stock Lo. Redeemable, 44 p.ct 100 95 97
stock Do. Redeemable, 4p. et. 100 87 90
stock Do Irredeemable, do.. 100 87 8 )
stock Do. 5 p.et. Redeem. Pref. 100 100 102
8 Do. Birm. Pref. Shares, all 94 10 10
10 Gt. W. Ches. 8 p.c. pf.sh all 164 174
10 110. do. sp. et. pref all 104 lot
stock Do Birmg.zuar. stock lOO 75 77
264 Do. Chester gua. shares all 204 214
135 ,'o. do. do.
20 Do. do. do.
100 Lan. & Carl. 45 pc. pref 6O
stock Lan.&York 6p. c. stock lOO
stock Do.Barnsl.stXs3s 10d pc 100 ,
stock Do. 6 per c. (E. Lan.)
stock Lon.& Brig.spc.gu.No.- 100 112 114
stock Do. sp. C. No. 2 100 112 114
stock Do. gua. 6p. c.
stock Do. do 5( e. No. 4 100 112 114
stock Do. do. 4 per tens lOO 99 101 100
5 Do. do. 4 p. c. shares all
stock Do. 7p. ct. Pref. stock lOO 148 153
stock Do. 6p.c. do. (W.E.&C.P ) 100 125 153
stock Do.4p.c.S.(div.def.til '6s' 100 71 74
stock Do. 4 per cent. Pref lOO
stock Lon. Chat. and Dover lOO 95 100 96 54
Do.W. A rceiv. no div
101 Ex.A til 6pcis pd on all
1
20. B B. & Brom ex. all
10 Do. Metropolitan Ex B 35 24
stock Lon. and N.W. Coy. and
110000
stock Lon.Nu netesa.twon,, 5
7p. e
p.
c
stock Do. 44 per cent t. tsio.c.k.
100
2s. dd. Do. (Prtsm. perpl anns.
of 2s. 8d..... ....
125 Londondy. & Cole. ssh all
124 Londony. & Ennis. 4sh all 134 14
stock Man. Sh. &Lin. 6 per ct 100 120 125
6 I )0..£6
stock Do. 34 per cent
10 Do. redeem 6 percent 5 I i P
124 '.laryoort & Car., 4p. c all
125 Do. 45 per cent all .
stock Mid, on. 6p c. stock lOO
stock Do. Con.Bris. & Bin. 6 p.c 100 132 194
stock Do. 44 p. c. pref. stock lOO 102 103
6 Do. 46 per cent 3
stock Do. Leic. & Hit. pref. et 100 91 93
stock Norflk sp. c. Ex. st.lB4r, 100
stock Do. 54 p. a Pref. do 1847 100
stock Do.sWay.Val.Ex.stlB47 100
stock North British, sp. o lOO 110 112
stock Do. New, gua. sp. c..,, 100 108 110
10 I Do. Bor. Un. g. pf. she 5 1 14 p
101 Do. do. do all
st Nth.Dev.Rail.&Dek.Co. 100
st N-EastCons.Pref. 4 p lOO 91 93
st I Do. 44 pc. redeemable lOO 101 103
at 'Do. G.N.E. 4 per c. pref. 100 101 103
17 I Do. Berwick, 4 p.c. Pref. 8.13.4. 4 I p
P
20 j Do. Leeds, 6p. e. No. 1 13
124 i Do. do. Quarters, 1848 9
25 I Do. York, H. &S. Purch. 10 id p
20 'North Staffordshire all 22 23
10 Rhyraney Guaranteed. all
84 !Scottish Central, new pf all
st Scottish North-Eastern
34 p. c. prtf. stock.... 100
st Do.Aberdeen,gua.6p.c 100 —•—
st Do. 7p. C. pref. stool, 100 132 134 1334
10s. South Devon, Ann. 10s. all 10 105
10 Do. Fixed 44 per cent. all
1.0.. South Eastern (Reading
Ann., 1.0.6)
st Do. 44 per cent lOO 97 99
at Do. Fixed 14p.c. Ist is lOO 97 99
st South Wales, gua. 4p. c lOO
et Do. 44 per cent. lOO 08 100
at Do. 5 per cent' lOO
at S.-Yorkshire, 4p. c. gua i 100 83 06
25 Stock. & Dar. Asp. c all 265 274
25 Do. B 6 ner cent all 31 324
25 Do. C 6 percent all 315 324
at Watrfd &Kilkny, 6p. c lOO 45 48
at W.Mid -Oxf let Gua stk 100 124 126
• st Do. 2d do 100 118 122
• at Do. Newport 5 p.c.pf.red. 100 100 103
at Do.Perpet. 6p. c. pf 1866 100 120 123
st
Do. till 1869, let is. 100 115 117

ve
Nil„,l'eve several times had occasion to
.mention
lag idles for the very painful case of a toe-nail grow-
'at° the flesh, but none so curious as the follow-
the 1,-";° Published by Dr. Wabu, chief physician to
—Llitary hospital of Nice, as having been suc-
Oh% •
Alit Practised upon himself. He states that
bith:'ltuwards the end of 18.58, been for some time
habit of wearing a pair of shoes which were
lain e tee short, he more than once felt a. violent.e ,
t'llia°l,l. the great toe of his left foot coming into
grttd,,el"„lvith the extremity of the shoe. The pain
Wenmal_Y increased, and at length became perma-
tEttht';wuen he was obliged to stay in bed. On
Its —ntng the member, he found both the nail and
e
klidelli/tftr,i,lc perfectly healthy, but the flesh on on
the toe had grown up like a cushion, under
10 ton id there was a long erosion, which suppura.te
:1011,-erallilY, and was the seat of pain. Unwilling
of th-Jeet himself to the torture of a partial avulsion
teriz,%?_aii, the doctor at first endeavoured to cau
tlnd i;',.ue Place, first with Vienna paste (quicklime)
tatea `l3,,l'aasa eaustica), and then with potassa cans-
a"vel4o-11,e• These cauterisations, repeated ten or
I,`"lles, led to no result ; the cushion no doubt.
ut th-.8",(1 in thickness by the action of the caustics,
.iters
ne tissues were speedily reproduced, and mak
Inained as before. At length the idea struck
w-herhat the part might be completely daied, or in
fel satwerds tanned, or mummified by some powehr-
reelv,raingent ; and after some consideration
hee
applied try the perchloride df iron, which
tibia beta Powder, insinuating it as deeply as pos-
lrareveen the border of the nail and the erosion.
felt, 1'4613' a local pain of no great intensity was
as
hour °Oher with much heat; and a quarter of an
Pain afterwar,_,
us the doctor could walk without
riltiireoievrietshaktatntsahei6igudhe had been unable to do for many
Part, 8. On the following day he examined h
nadpptlhiecataioe
application, which
as bard as wood;
.he
been s ° hoe been quite
ufffcieut to effect a radical cure.
w useless,hich the however,first hilaev ineg-

LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS.
Paid. Leasing Closing Business
Railways. Co.'s ' Price. Done.
Bedford and Bletchley all Ln &N.W • • • •
Btriiringhamshire .... 100 IDo ....- • 91 96
Chester 45 Holyhead... 100 ,Do.. . 52 63
Do. 5i percent 100 Do ll9 120
Do. 6 ~ i 100 ',Do lO9 111
Clydesdale June lOO Caledon... 101 103
Colchester, Stour Val all E.U.45E.0 15 16
E.Lincolnsh. g 6 per c' NO Gt. North. 132 134
E.Union,HarwichSlis ali E.Counts.l q4B
Do. Woodbridge , 100 , .. - -
Gls.Barr.&Neils.Drct lOO Caledon.., - -
Do. new ' 100 Do. -. . . .1 - -
Gloster &Dean Forest all IGL Wes L- -
Hrtlp'l Dock & Rail- all Yk.N.&Brl -
Hull and 5e1by........; all Yk.N. Md. 112 114
Do. halves... all Do. ..., .
.1 - .-
Do. quarters........l all Do. ...... I -
Lanc.&Carl. p.c., 100 ,194 196
London & Greenwich.' 100 I'S Ea 59 61
Do. Preference ....1 100 Do ..... ... 112 117
Lon.,Tilbury,& S -end, 100 Peto &Co.l 83 86
Lowestoft gua. 4 p c.. 100 Norfolk..l - -
Do. A per cent lOO ,Do. - -
Mnc., Bxtn.,&Matlocki all IL NW&M 31 31
Mid. Bradford Prefer-
ence Stock . 100 Midland.. 93 95
Newmarkt,BuryEx. j 1C t „
gua. 5 percent.... 5 ~ 5 6 E.otms. It a p p
Northn.&Eastn. sp. c. all IDo.. 55 57
Do. 6p. c. - -
Do. Fixed sp. c all ' Do.
North Western all Midland 151 15}
Preston and Wyre. 1 all
;ILT:.&tllL.NrN.YaoWskrat.ehly. ill
112283
_ _
Do. i Shares A. all ID° 6
stryeswtns.bHryitcschae&reSfhoerpd 10000
Do. do. I I Do. 1 lip
S.-Staffordshire all M`Clean... ,
Wilts and Somerset lOO )Gt. West. 5 -go
Wimbledon&Croy 4ll iLAßrita 8# 91

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all
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all
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2f 21
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19 20
88 89

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55 67

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THE SUN. LONDON, SA.TURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 10, !1861.

!Business done

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.-1 This Day.)

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

WINDING UP OF THE "DISTRICT SAVINGS DANfi."

To-day was appointed for hearing a petition for winding
up the affairs of the "District Savings Bank" on account
of the loss of capital and discontinuance of business.
None of the facts or circumstances were gone into, as Mr.
Roxburgh, who appeared for the petitioner, Mr. Geo. Hy.
Laws, who was a shareholder of 1,000 shares, said
that he was very glad to say that a well-established
company had agreed to take the business at a price
to pay the creditors of the company in full. He (Mr.
Roxburgh, therefore, had to ask for an adjournment, to
enable the parties to complete an arrangement which must
be highly desirable, as the creditors would be paid in full.
Mr. Cotterell, for the Company, assented, as did Mr.
Bayley, for a contributory.
Other gentlemen appeared representing parties interested,
and a discussion arose as to the terms on which the order
for adjournment should be made.
Mr. Roxburgh and Mr. Bayley urged that to whatever
day it is adjourned, no fresh petition shall be allowed, or
that the present petition should take precedence.
His Honour said that he had no power to prevent any
party, entitled so to do, presenting a petition if he thought
fit—all he could do would be to adjourn the case generally
till the 10th of October, with leave to apply at any time
previously.
The effect of this will be that in the event of another
petition being filed, it may probably frustrate the professed
object of the present adjournment.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—( This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBING A COFFEE-HOUSE KEEPER.—Raffaello Tra-
bucco, residing in Trevor-square, Brompton, artist, was
charged before Mr. Mansfield with stealing a silver watch,
value £5, the property of Thomas Howard, coffee-house
keeper, 51, Haymarket.

Mr. Howard said that on the Bth of July the prisoner
came into his coffee-room about 5 o'clock and asked for a
cup of coffee, He (Mr. Howard) was alone, and took the
prisoner the coffee, before doing so laying his watch and
chain on a marble table. He was called away to attend a
person upstairs, and on his return the watch and chain
were gone. Those produced were his property.

Prisoner said he was an Italian, and one of Garibaldi's
officers, and with much vehemence asserted that he had
bought it of Mr. Howard for 20s.
Mr. Howard denied this.

James Edwards, 43, Frith-street, Soho, in the employ of
Messrs. Simmonds, pawnbrokers, said he took the watch in
pledge on the 10th of July. He lent 12s. on it, and it W 34
a very common watch.

Butcher, 137 C, said he went to Trevor .square, and after
waiting for an hour met him in the street. Prosecutor told
him the charge, and prisoner said he could get him his
watch in the morning if he let him go, but not without,
and that a friend of his who had gone to America had taken
the chain. On telling him that he must take him into
custody he gave him the ticket of the watch. He wished
for a remand, as he believed he had defrauded a German
of £6O.

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16i I

Mr. Mansfield remanded the 'prisoner, who is said to be
a lecturer, frequently attending Hyde-park, till Wednes-
day next.

THAMES.

THE FOOTMAN AND THE LADY'S MAID.--WHI, Wood-
land, footman to Sir Edward Ryan, the eminent lawyer and
member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, of
No. 5, Addison-road, Golden-lodge, Kensington, appeared
before Mr. Woolrych on a summons to show cause why he
should not be adjudged the putative father of an illegiti-
mate male child, born on the 10th July last, and which the
mother, Augusta Moon, of 23, Back Church-lane, White.•
chapel, carried in her arms.
Mr. Jonson, from the office of Mr. Charles Young, soli-
citor, appeared for the complainant, a very interesting and
pretty young woman, who was maid to Lady Jocelyn.
Last summer her ladyship let her house in
Hastings to Sir Edward Ryan and family, and
the complainant was left in charge of it. She formed
an intimacy with Sir Edward's footman, and lis-
tened to the tender arguments of the gallant gay Lothario
in plush, and surrendered herself to her admirer without
applying to the church to sanctify the union. The conse-
quence of this intimacy was the birth of the " little one" in
the classic locality of Back Church-lane, on the 10th of last
July.

arr. Gomm—l believe the defendant will admit the pater-
nity.
The defendant said he would admit the intercourse be-
tween him and the complainant, but not that he was the
father of the child.
Mr. Gomm—He admitted he was the father of the
" little stranger" before me and the officer Taplin,

The defendant then made some further ad nissions.

Mr. Woolrych—l am not going into a physiological in-
quiry. I adjudge Woodland to be the father of the child,
and to pay 2s. 6d. per week, and 235. costs.

EXTRAORDINARY CASE OF CUTTING AND WOUNDING.
Walter Adolphus Mason, a tall, sallow-faced man with a
large moustache, was brought up on remand before Mr.
Woolrych, charged with cutting and wounding Walter
Griffiths, who appeared in court with his right hand in a
sash.

It appeared that the prosecutor is the second mate of the
Nedagdude, an English ship with a Russian name, which
sails cn Monday. The prisoner is the second mate of an
American ship. They were lodging at a seaman's board-
ing house in Prince's-square, Ratcliffe Highway, up to
Thursday morning last. At an early hour that morning,
Griffiths was in bed, and the prisoner who was dressed,
suddenly threw himself upon him, took out a knife, and
said " You were out last night very late. You are
fined five shillings." The prosecutor said he would
not pay any fine, and had a right to stop out as late as he
pleased. The prisoner immediately raised his knife and
made a blow at Griffiths's throat. The prosecutor put up
his right hand to ward off the blow, and caught the knife
on his hand, which was severely cut. The knife flew out
of the prisoner's hand and struck the wainscot at the side
of the bed. The prosecutor's hand was seriously wounded,
and he was sent to the London Hospital. He lost a good
deal of blood.

The prisoner asked the prosecutor if he was not "sky-
larking" with him P
Griffiths—No, you were not.
Mr. Woolrych—Where did he take tho knife from?
Griffiths—From his right side.

Mr. Carter, house surgeon of the London Hospital, said
the palm of the man's hand was cut very deeply. He
believed the wound was inflicted in the way stated by the
prosecutor.

The knife, stained with blood, with which the wound was
inflicted was produced. It was found under a carpet hi the
lodging-house. _

Mr. Woolrych committed the prisoner for trial for un-
lawfully wounding, and bound over the witnesses to prose
cute.

The prosecutor—My ship sails on Monday.
Mr. Woolrych—l cannot help it. The law must take its
course.

MIS DAY'S SILIPPING.

LONDON, Aug. 10.—Wind this day at noon, South-
Westerly ; moderate breeze, and fine weather.
SWANSEA, Aug. 9. Wind W.—Arrived—Marshal
Pelissier, from Coquimbo ; Augustine Schneider, from St.
Jago de Cuba. •
TORBAY. Aug. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Flora, from
Pottle for Newfoundland.

COWES, Aug. 9.—Wind W.—Arrived—Saxonia, screw
steamer, from New York.
DGvE RAug 9.—Wind W.—Arrived—United, from
Iceland; Nixen, from Newcastle for Port en Basseni, with
loss of two anchors.

PILL, Aug. 9.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Uncle Joe, for
New York.

LIMERICK, Aug. 9.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Lady of
the Lake, from Miramichi.
FLEETWOOD, Aug. B.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Neptune,
for Quebec. _

BELFAST, Aug. B.—Wind S.W.—Sailed—Cora Linn,
for St. John's, N.B.
WARRENPOINT, Aug. B.—Wind N.W.—Sailed—Henry
Cort, for Quebec.
LEITH, Aug. 9.—Wind S,W.—Sailed—Royalist, for
Quebec.
SHIELDS, Aug. 9.—Wind N.W.—Arrived—Henrietta,
from Quebec.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH)
DEAL, Saturday
Si
Hongkong—alll v es Morning.tra n , Passed—Sammemuir, from New York
I Atlanta, and
for
rae mnLwi eoßombay
dLady:
Jacobi—all3l Montmorency,
Maria,net
from°m obr
eeCrnmhc
ay°st,
London, for New York ; Lydia,
for Mauritius ; Sydney Griffiths, for Portland Bay ; Ring-
leader, for Boston; Mento, for St. John's; Herman Albert,
for Lisbon; Citizen, screw steamer, for Bordeax—all
from London; Choice, for Singapore; Balfour, for Bar-
celona ; Pomona, for 'Moulmein —all from Shields ' • H.M.S.
Himalaya, with nearly all the outward bound, for the west-
ward; and the Swedish line-of-battle ship, from Stockholm,
for Sheerness.
The bark Queen, at anchor in the Downs, was run into
by the American ship Martha Ward, and sustained sundry
damages.

THE AMERICAN BLOCKADE.

THE Loss OF THE BALTIC.—The particulars of
the loss of this fine steamship, belonging to Messrs. T. Wil-
son, Son, and Co., of Hull, have already been reported. At
the Police-court yesterday morning Mr. T. H. Travis, the
stipendiary magistrate, read a letter which he had received
from the Board of Trade, stating that they had carefully
considered the circumstances under which this vessel was
lost. " The default," it says, "of the master in leaving the
ship when in such a position, and under such circum-
stances, in charge of a thoroughly incompetent person, ap-
peared to them to be so gross that to mark their disapproval
of his conduct they have deemed it right to cancel his cer-
tificate, without naming for the present any time at which
application may be made for its return,"

The Fort Pickens correspondent of the New York
World, who writes under date of July 7, is respon-
sible for the following very doubtful statement :
" Through a third party I have been endeavour-
ing for some time to obtain something like the sub-
stance of a report of our blockade, made to the Bri-
tish Admiralty by Admiral Milne, the Commander-
in-Chief of her Britannic Majesty's naval forces
here. I had learnt three things from undoubted
authority—first, that Lord Paget had instructed the
admiral to detail vessels to look after the cutting off
of egress to the Southern ports; second, that the
admiral had obtained one or two copies of Commo-
dore's Mervin's official orders ; third, that his ad-
miralship was reported in Havannah to have
laughed at the idea of the United States being
able to cut off maritime communication with the
harbours of revolted States.' It seemed to me that
the reply of the Commander-in-Chief to the First
Lord of the Admiralty would be a document of
great importance to you, and I left no means un-
tried to procure it. Owing to the industry of a
subordinate officer of one of our gunboats, and to
the kindness of one of our most loyal citizens in tt e
Cuban capital, lam enabled to give you the body
and soul' of Admiral Milne's letter. Leaving out
the verbiage, here is its substance.
" I regret that it is my duty to discuss, in a
measure, the nature of this so-called blockade.
Representatives of the United States meet me
with two statements, the force of which it
will be for your lordship to decide. lam told by
some that there is no pretension on the part of the
United States of a blockade existing; that the Go-
vernment is merely closing its own ports, to do
which they claim to have a perfect right. In direct
conflict with this are all the official notifications of
United States' officers. Capt. Adams, for instance,
writing on board the Sabine, on May 19, says, in
a letter to General Bragg
This (Pensacola) port is now strictly block-
aded, &c.
" ' Commodore Mervin's announcements—l have
not seen any of them—are said to be similarly
worded, and lam told that the President of the
United States publicly promulgated the blockade
of all the ports south of Baltimore' (which is in the
State of Maryland).
" 'A prominent feature of this alleged blockade
is the complete absence of uniformity, order, and
regularity which has characterised it. The distance
of several rendezvous of the naval fleet from Wash-
ington, the difficulty with which communication is
kept up, and the immense extent of the coast line
to be guarded, are represented as the causes which
necessitated the United States Government to leave
the date of blockade and the commencement of it
to the discretion of the commanders of men-of-war.
No date was laid down on which the cessation of
general commercial intercourse was to stop, and
ports situate within a day's sail of each other have
been for weeks blockaded, and not blockaded, at
the same time.

" The confusion arising from this state of
thin vs can be imagined by your lordships. On
the 19th of May, as you will see by the enclosed
circular, the blockade at Pensacola began ; yet, up
to the 30th of that month, vessels freely obtained
admission, some had leave to do so, others were not
even overhauled, and others, still, seemed to
defy the cruisers. One barque ordered off
from the Pensacola entrance, through an un-
known instrumentality, found out that Mobile was
not guarded, and immediately sailed for and arrived
at that place, where her cargo was disposed of.
Five or six brigs, two barques, and some fifteen or
twenty schooners, also warned off by the fleet,
moved to other harbours and easily gains d admis-
sion.

" A grace of fifteen days was given to vessels
under certain circumstances, which were so con-
fusedly explained that no one I have seen thus far
could properly understand them. Three British
ships, laden with cotton, in the harbour of Mobile,
were compelled to pack up and go away to fulfil
this requirement. while under almost similar cir-
cumstances four barques and brigs were permitted
to commence loading at another point, on the
twentieth day after the announcement of the
blockade.

" ' The frequency of vessels escaping the vigil-
ance, or rather the lack of vigilance, of the United
States' squadron are too numerous to be even
named. I sent Capt. Von Donop, of the Jason, to
look after the interests of our shipping, and to the
efficiency of the blockading ships in several ports.
He mentions numerous cases of ships, barques, and
brigs escaping the cruisers. I learn that while a
large American frigate, fully as formidable as the
St. George, apparently, was under steam, off
Charleston, a complete flotilla of small ocean coasters
continued to pass in to the city, and out again,
either regardless of or insensible to the presence of
war ships.
" ' The numerous facts establishing the pei feet
inefficiency of the men of war in regard to the
stopping of commercial intercourse with ports
before which they have appeared could be elabo-
rated to a great length. But even now [the Ad-
miral, permit your correspondent to say, is WI iting
aboitt the 2d of June] St. Marks, an important port,
is not at all cut off from maritime trade, as one of
my fleet saw all sorts of vessels enter and depart
from it, without being impeded. Apalachicola was
thronged with craft until a few days since, and four
other ports are stated to be open to-day.
" A regular steamer communication is constantly
kept up between Savannah, an important harbour
in the State of Georgia, and some other port.' "

METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS.

The ordinary meeting of the board was held yes-
terday at the offices of the board, Spring-gardens;
Mr. Thwaites in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN opened tenders for making sewers
and subways in connexion with the Southwark and
Westminster communication. The tender of Mr.
Down (£7,983) was accepted.
Tenders were also opened for constructing sewer
and making up the road along Victoria-park ap-
proach. The tender of Mr. Thomas Pearson, viz.,
£2,481, was accepted, subject to the usual inquiries.
A report was brought up from the sub-architect,
in which he proposes for the accomplishment of the
widening of Great Turnstile, Holborn, that the
whole of the houses on the west side of Great Turn-
stile, and two printing warehouses in Tichborne-
court, should be cleared away. The width of the
new street would be 47ft. 6in. at the north end,
gradually increasing to 50ft. in the centre. He also
stated that on the west side of the new street, and
south end of the Robin Hood public-house, there
would be a piece of building land, with a frontage
of 80ft. and an average depth of 36ft., and this he
arranges into plots for five houses, fora set of offices
suitable for solicitors and barristers. He considers
that the cost, together with the expense of forming
carriage and footways, and lamps. will be £28,800,
which sum would include the return which might
be obtained from the sale of vacant building ground
and old materials. He further considers that a
more complete improvement would be effected by
clearing away the five houses and two shops on the
west side of Newman's-row ; by doing which the
width of the new street would be equal along its
whole length.
A motion was made and agreed to that the archi-
tect's report and plans be referred to the Works and
Improvements Committee for report.
The board then adjourned for the holidays.