The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-04 00:00:00

ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.

Mr. Alfred Wigan commences his second season
at this theatre on the 14th inst., with a very excel-
lent company. Mr. George Vining is stage manager;
and rumour speaks highly of the novelties that
have been accepted by the management.

THEATRICALS IN HOLY WEEK.—In future the
Good
compulsory. closing of theatres in Lent is to be limited to
nday. The announcement of this change was offi-
cially made
oesn,s. Monday last at the special annual court held
at St,
purpose
ef
graurlace, by the Lord Chamberlain, for the
the London me
the yearly licenses to the theatres. All
berlain managersinformed them
were present, and the Lord Cham-
berlain
had arrived at, and of the determination which the exe-
cutive which would be set forth in their
licenses. The
grateful thanks far the managers having briefly expressed their
that the matter, which had been withdrew. We believe
mr.
John
long under consideration,
was first mooted by
restriction inflicted
and pointed out
the injury which the old riction inflicted upon the
poorer employes of the theatres.
DEATH FROM STRYCHNINE.---An inquest was
held on Tuesday last at Witheral, Carlisle, on the
body of 'William lloodless, four y„rnse
of
Brfill age.
Hendrie of Car-
had been ailing for some time, when The child
lisle, was consulted. He attributed its
and prescribed a medicine. It was given to the toworms,
deceased in
the form of a powder mixed up in some preserves,
art hour after it was taken the child fell on the floor, Half
died in violent convulsions. A post morteru examination
and
of the body was made by two medical men, Who reportedti
on
that death had resulted from a dose of strychnine.
At the
inquest Dr. Hendrie stated that he meant to adniinigter
powders for worms frcm santonine. In his surgery, how-
ever, the santonino bottle and the strychnine bottle stood
together. Both were covered with blue paper, and both
were labelled, but the rain had got in and destroyed the
writing. He had in consequence taken up and used the
'wrong bottle. The jury found that the child Dad died fro
rie.
m
Eftryetmine inadvertently administered by . Hend
They recommended that he and all other doctors should
have their bottlas properly labelled.
TILE MURDERER GNEENACRti—The weapons
with which Greenacre destroyed Mix. Brown were not
found until quite recently. In making the railroad from
Dulwich to the Elephant and Castle, the excavators had to
empty the cesspool of' Greenacre's house, and therein they
found a butcher's knife and two-foot crowbar, with which
he supposed to have committed the murder. , •

MONEY MARKET AND CITY NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.

The Bank of England return, completed to the
2d October, is not of quite so satisfactory a charac-
ter as was generally anticipated. The bullion
shows a slight diminution, and there is a decrease
of upwards of a million sterling in the reserve of
notes. The other securities also have been aug-
mented, consequent upon the preparations made to
meet the engagements due on the 4th of the month.
The public deposits, owing to the payment of offi •
cial salaries and other disbursements usual at this
season, have been lessened by about a million,
while the active circulation has consequently been
largely augmented. The other items of the balance-
sheet exhibit little change of importance ; they
will be seen in the subjoined table :
Active Circulation .. '521,087,955
Increase ..
141,112144,632756
Stock of Bullion • • •• O•
Decrease .. .. • • 117,615
Rest .. •• •• •• •• 3/809,537
Increase • • • • • • • • 13,517
Public Deposits • •• —4, 909, 918
Decrease .. .. 900,506
Other Deposits.. .. .. 12,115,942
Increase .. 158,134
Seven Day and other Bills .. 748,891
Increase .. •• •• •• 57,423
Government Securities 10,733,123
Increase .. • • • • •• 282,323
Other Securities .. , • 17,717,494
Increase • •• •• 278,235
• ••
Notes unemployed. .. 6,922,565
Decrease .. 1,185,350
A further small supply of good—viz., £7,000,
was sent into the Bank of England yesterday.
An instalment of 2') per cent. becomes due on the
New Indian Loan on the 22d inst.
There is rather less demand for money to-day,
ample provision having been made for the engage=
ments due to-day, the 4th of the month. The
market, however, presents a firm appearance.
During the last few days business has continued
moderately active in the markets for foreign and
colonial produce. Tea at public sale realised previ-
ous values, while full rates were obtained for sugars,
coffee, and cocoa. Rice, however, remained dull,
but a fair business was done in fruit and spices,
without any material alteration in quotations.
Saltpetre has been neglected, but increased anima-
tion has prevailed in the tallow market, prices
generally showing an upward tendency for both
present and forward delivery.
Increased activity prevailed in the Liverpool
cotton market yesterday, and prices were firm. The
sales amounted to 15,000 bales.
The market for Public Securities has under-
gone very little variation to-day, the few dealings
entered into for transfer and speculation having
failed to influence prices to any material extent.
Consols have been steady at 92-1 93 for transfer,
about 93 for the 10th inst., and 931 for November.
The New Threes are firm at 918'; the Reduced
steady at 908 91 ; Exchequer Bills, March, at par.
to 3s. prem. ; and the June flat at 7s. prem. ; India
5 per Cent. Loan has improved to 1031, but the
Bonds remain at 1 ls. to 13s. prem.

A fair amount of business has been transacted in
the Foreign Market, and prices show no important
variation. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 841 to 85 ;
ditto, 1858, 681 69 ; Mexican have been 261, but
are now 261 ; and Spanish are flat at 494 ; Buenos
Ayres have improved to 86 ; Brazilian to 99/ ; and
Venezuelan are firm at 201.
The dealings in the Railway Share Market have
been limited, and rather less firmness has been ex-
hibited in prices. Eastern Counties and Midlands
have receded 55., and Caledonians and Great Wes-
terns, 10s.; North-Eastern (Berwick) and South-
Easterns have improved 55., and Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 10s.

The Foreign and Colonial lines continue at
steady rates—South Austrian and Lombardo-Vene-
tian, however, advanced 55., and East Indian, Great
Indian Peninsula, and Punjaub brought former
prices.

Joint-stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares
exhibited rather more firmness. London Joint-stock
improved 55., and Royal Mail Steam, 10s.

BRITISH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9ok 1
3 per Cent. Cons(ols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Annuities, 30 y-rs, expire 6th Jan., 1880 —
Ditto for 30 yrs, expire sth April, 1885 ls}
`rutin. Stock ..

Ditto 5 per Cent.
Ditto Enfaced raper, 4 per Cent —
Ditto 5 per Cent. 961 i
Ditto 51 per Cent lO3l
Ditto Debentures, 4 per Cent., Oct., 1863
Ditto 1859
Ditto Bonds £l,000
Ditto under £l,000
imasols for Account, Oct. 10 .. 93
India Stock for Account, 5 per Cent .... 1031 f
March. June.
gachequer Bills, £l,OOO, 2d par 7 pm 9
Ditto £500
Ditto Small -

FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Brazilian, 5 per Cent . 99/
Ditto 41 per Cent. 1851 9l
Ditto 41 per Cent., 1860
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent. . —
Ditto Account
Chilian 6 per Cent
Ditto 41 per Cent .. 841 5
Equador New Consolidated
:dexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account
Spanish 3 per Cent ..
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred
Spanish Cert. of Coup. not funded 6
urkish 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
Ditto New Loan
Ditto A ccount
Ditto £lOO Bonds
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Venezuelan 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Italian, 5 per Cent., 1861
Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 4k per Ct. Ex. 4s B9l
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money
Ditto Account

MISS HARRIET MARTINEAU IN "ONCE A WEEK."
—There used to be a larger proportion of artists and poets
among us than there are likely to be again ; for, as know-
ledge and taste have advanced, the need of cultivation is
more generally perceived, if not by the aspirant, by the
public. Verses wonderful for a milkwoman no longer excite
an interest; and the poetry of ploughboys is prized, if at
all, for its keen and clear reflection of nature, and not be-
cause it proceeds from a ploughboy. Elaiott of Sheffield
proved that good poetry wins fame for a blacksmith as for a
nobleman or gentleman; but the self-made men among the
poets are, and will be, fewer and of a higher order than for-
merly. We do not look for a Burns twice over ; but of Bloom-
fields and Clares we shall hear less than our fathers did ; and
mere rhymesters, like some who made a great noise in the
last century, are obliged to withdraw their pretentious, as
we see in the instance of Close of Kirkby-Lonsdale, who
would once have been a great man for life, after the Prime
Minister had spoken of him as being " in the same category
with Burns."

THE QUEEN'S PRIVATE VISIT TO FETTERCAIRN.
—The ladies of Fettercairn are wroth that the Queen
should have stayed over all night in the village without
their knowing it or seeing their Sovereign. Some, too, who
keep lodgers are thinking over the appearance and looks of
certain gentlemen who resided with them on that memo-
rable night, with a view of seeing whether they may have
been among the honoured. At one hOuse, where a stranger
slept, the good lady orderel all the bedclothes to be religi-
ously put by, and preserved for ever and ever, in the hope
that the stranger was the gallant Prince Louis of Hesse,
which he wasn't. On being undeceived she called out from
the top of the stairs, in an agitated but effective manner,
" Jeanie, woman, wash th' claes, the chield was only a
commercial traveller."—Caledonian Mercury.
THE ASSASSINATION AT NEWCASTLE.—The in-
quest upon the body of Mr. Mark Frater, collector of as-
sessed taxes, who was brutally murdered on Tuesday morn-
ing in Blackett-street, under circumstances already detailed
in The Sun, was opened at the Eldon Arms Inn, on
Wednesday evening, before Mr. Hoyle, coroner The jury
returned a verdict of wilful murder.
AN ADDRESS TO RAILWAY PORTERS.—The
Gloucester Journal has the fallowing :—A wag, who sent a
cask per railway, a few days ago, and who had heard some-
thing of the propensities of railway goods porters, added
the following caution upon the address :
" Ye railway chaps perhaps may think
This cask is beer—taste not— tis ink I"
Charity dinners are, though not exclusively, yet
eminently
English. 'There is first, the solid intelligible
_word on which to build, around which the floating philan-
thropy gathers, under which it developes itself. The
feeder of the hungry
upon the inner,"
I is, I say, first, the must first be fed himself. There
realisation of the charity in company with
the word " d*
the honourable then the actual influence of the food
donor.chaTirhraeozolltMlioaddeoinraaTott mellowhw uspelecsh of
pose I had better be honest—the 'curtain lerturee. Butpl
must have done, though I might say much more. The
subject is endless : every
one is more or less a competent
critic. I have been too bold to write on such a theme.—
Once a Leek,