The Sun.
London, England, 1861-10-18 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP.

The business doing in all kinds of hops is very limited,
and prices continue to give way. The duty is called
£116,000. Foreign hops still come freely to hand.
New Mid and East Kents 190 s to 260 s per cwt.
New Weald of Kents l6os 200 s ~
New Sussex

COLONIAL.
TEA.—The public sales have gone off with considerable
animation, and prices have been well maintained.
Su GAR.—The demand has been active for good and fine
grocery descriptions at an advance of about 6d per cwt.
Other qualities have also supported previous prices. In
the Refined Market a fair business has been done at full
rates.

CO7FEE.—For the better qualities of Plantation Ceylcn
there has been a better demand, and prices have tended
upwards.
RlCE.—lncreased activity has prevailed, full rates being
obtained for all descriptions.
TALLOW.—The market has remained moderately active,
and prices are steadily supported. P.Y.C. on the spot,
51s 3d to 51s 6d, and spring delivery, 52s to 52s 3d per
cwt.

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Account, pursuant to ti
cap. 32, for the week ending
of Oct., 1861:

ie Act 7th and Bth Victoria.
on Wednesday, the 16th day

ISSUE DET
Notes issued 1......X27,754,755

'ALRTMENT.

Governn;-ent Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3.634,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 13,104,755
Silver Bullion ....

Z 27,754,7551

$27,754,755

Proprietors' Capr:—.---
tal £14,553,000
Rest
Public Deposits (in-
cluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ao-

:PARTPLINT.
Government Seeu-

rities (including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) £12,153,001
Other Securities 16,884,816
Notes
Gold and Silver
Coin 790,382

counts) 3,568.765
Other Deposits 14,411,153
Seven Day and
other Bills 808,592

436,460,839
M.]

£36,460,839
SHALL, Chief Cashier.

Dated October 17, 1861.

Numerous transactions have taken place in the
discount-market yesterday at 3 per cent.

About £144,000 in gold, chiefly Australian, by
the Lincolnshire, was taken to the Bank yesterday.

THE FROME WOODLANDS MURDER.--After en-
gaging public attention for upwards of a month, the in-
quiry into the case of Joseph Seers, charged, on his own
confession, with the murder of the girl at the Woodlands,
Frome, in September, 1851, is now virtually at an end. In
answer to applications at the War-office, the prisoner's
solicitor, Mr. Bertram, and Superintendent Deggan havei
both received communications from the War-office officially
informing informing them, as the result of inquiries,
that .
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prisoner Seers, being then 16 years of age, enlisted nstiedt
talinltnedtihae
army for a period of seven years, that he was ,
and passed the whole of that time in the service of the East
India Company, at Bombay, being discharged in 1854.
lane fdorthkeirme
itSsounhe
eha have
doubticnogm tmthhieat
that when
httsiei tmhwruoarnsdgemhr
tiann:elfeBoBsrtellyarFeprMiallsgiieb'strates on
Saturday, on remand, he will be discharged from custody.
Meanwhile much speculation is rife not only as to his ob-
ject in making the confession, he being pronou teed sane by
the medical authorities, but also as to the quarter from
whence he derived his very minute and acctuitte account of
the circumstances of the horrid deed. It if i intended on
Saturday to apply to the magistrates to con trait the man
Payne for perjury, he having deposed to a conversation
with Seers in 1851, which could never have ts ken place.
SALE OF " PEELE'S COFFEE-HOUSE."--Yesterday
this well-kn Own and old-established house, formerly the
resort of the leading literary and legal celebrities of the
day, was offered for sale under the hammer. The biddings
commenced at £3,000, and the property wee's- ultimately
knocked down, but not sold, at, 14,300, being below the re-
serve price.

The advices from Paris are still of a very anxious
character. The drain of gold continues, and the rate of ex-
change on London is firm. The Bank of France perseveres
in itz sales of stock, but the market is sustained in an ex-
traordinary 'manner by large investments on the
public.. To such an extent are th^'" —.Jou that it is said
the prices of all 1,;^4 .ceurittes would exp erience a de-
,;4_ 3 -..aaj to tiae face of the existing difficulties were it not
for the realisations effected by the Bank of France. The
expectation of a fresh movement in the rate of discount ap-
pears to be generally entertained. The sale of the bills for
the £2,000,000 on Messrs. Rothschild and Baring is to com-
mence this week.

A writer in a contemporary says:—Amid all the
outcry made about a " Cotton Famine," and in view
of the salutary efforts likely to be produced by a
little alarm and high prices, I hardly know whether
you will care to give insertion to remarks on the
other side of the question ; but, as apprehension is
felt in some quarters that distress among the opera-
tives will render them very troublesome this winter,
and as so staid a journal as the Economist has found
it necessary to remind the spinners of Manchester
that their necessities will no more justify England
in breaking the blockade of the cotton ports than
in stealing the cotton afterwards, it may not be
amiss to give a few words of comfort and hope to
the desponding.

The quantity of cotton taken out of this port by
the trade in the year 1860 was at the average rate
of 49,000 bales weekly, at the end of the year the
stocks in their hands were greatly increased, and it
is probable that, what with the large stock of cotton
en hand and the great accumulation of "waste,"
which during the good times of last year spinners
had not time to use up, the quantity which actually
passed through the spindles did not exceed 45,000
bales weekly. The short time movement began in
earnest about the beginning of September, and the
reduction of consumption already is estimated at
30 per cent ; if the supply of American cotton is
entirely withheld during the whole season, it seems
likely that the consumption will be reduced by one
third, and the trade will not require more than
30,000 bales weekly from Liverpool from the Ist of
September, 1861, to the Ist of September, 1862.
The export from Liverpool during the last 10 years
has averaged 291,551 bales per annum ; last year
it was much greater, owing to exceptional circum-
stances—the enormous American crop of 1859-60
having been sent to this market, it became the
cheapest, and Continental buyers came here for a
larger quantity than ever before.
Now let us examine what our position will be on
the Ist of September next, supposing we do not re-
ceive a bale from America, that the importation
from other places is only increased by the quantity
of cotton actually known on the Ist of September
last to be at sea from India in excess of what was at
sea at the same time last year, assuming the con•
sumption to be two-thirds of that of 1860, and the
export at the average rate of the ten years 1850 to
1860, inclusive.

Bales.
885,610

Stock of cotton in Liverpool, Sept. 1, 1860
Import of cotton, other than American, into
Liverpool, Sept 1, 1860, to Sept. 1, 1861 ....
Known on September 1 to be at sea (Bombay to
Liverpool) in excess of same time last year 164,152

Twelve months' consumption at
30,000 bales weekly
Export at the average rate of last
ten years

867,494

1,917,25

It may be urged that the Continent, and, per-
haps, even the United States, will have to come to
England for their supplies ; but it must be remem-
bered that the trade here hold very large stocks of
cotton of which no account has been taken, and the
same is unquestionably the case in all other places ;
and abroad of course the same economy will
be forced upon spinners as in this country.
It may be further urged that bales of other
kinds of cotton are smaller than American bales ;
but this will be far more than compensated for
by the fineness and lightness of the goods which
are made when cotton is dear. Then the price of
middling New Orleans cotton to-day is 104 d. per
lb. ; while this time last year it was 6R d. per lb. ;
and it will be contrary to the laws of trade if such
an increase of price does not call forth an increased
supply.
Our American friends have been very much sur-
prised at what they have termed the apathy of the
manufacturers of England in not running up prices
of cotton much sooner, and they will be still more
surprised when they learn the calm business-like
way in which the prospect of an entire absence of
Amerimn cotton is met. The Southerners are ac-
customed to regard England as absolutely dependent
upon them, and it will be a very disastrous circum-
stance if the labouring population of the manufac-
turing districts should be reduced to two-thirds of
their usual wages ; but this is very different from
" famine," or from such distress as will convert
honest and industrious operatives into a dangerous

class.

I have endeavoured to allay needless alarm at the
loss of one American cotton crop, but I should be
sorry indeed to check the regular and natural pre-
cautions which are being made to meet the present
exigency.

Liverpool, Oct. 16.

WILLS AND BEQULSTS.

(From the Illustrated London News.)
The will of Lady Baker, relict of Vice-Admiral
Sir Henry Lorraine Baker, Bart., C. 8., of Kingston
Russell, near Bridport, Dorset, and of Dunstable
House, Richmond, Surrey, was proved in London
on the 30th ult. by the executors, the Rev. Sir
Henry Williams Baker, Bart., the son, and Arthur
Sperling, Esq.. the son-in-law. The will was exe-
cuted on the 9th of August last, and her ladyship
died at Dunstable House on the 12th of the follow-
ing month. Lady Baker has left her property
amongst her sons and daughters, leaving to some
pecuniary legacies and to others specific bequests
consisting of books, plate, furniture, pictures, and
some other effects. There is a particular direction
with regardto the portraits representing the Baker
family, which aro vested in her eldest son, the now
Baronet, to be retained by him as heirlooms. Her
ladyship has bestowed a legacy of £4O upon her
domestic man servant, The will, which is very brief,
concludes with nominating her two unmarried
daughters residuary legatees.
The will of Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Edward
Mainwaring Ellerker Onslow, late 3d Foot Guards,
of Woodbridge House, Guildford, Surrey, was
proved in the London Court on the 9th inst., the
executors appointed being his nephew, Lieutenant-
Colonel Arthur Edward Onslow, together with the
Revs. Alfred Bishop and Chas. B. Bowles. The per-
sonalty was sworn under £12,000. The testator is
the third son of Earl Onslow, and served for some
years as an officer in the 3d Guards. He acquired
the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel in 1810, retired from
active military service in 1815, and attained to the
patriarchal age of 82. The colonel's will contains
a great variety of bequests. There are many of a
minor description to personal friends and relatives,
but the bulk of his property is bequeathed to his
brother, his nephews, and nieces. His nephew,
Guildford J. H. Onslow, Esq., takes by succession
the estate of Risby, and a sum sufficient to pay the
expenses incident to the succession and legacy duty
is bequeathed. The dividends arising f
hromt
estator he sum,
of £13,000 are directed to be paid to t e s
brother, the Hon. Thomas C. Onslow, for life, and
on his decease the principal is to devolve to the
nephew, Lieut.-Col. Arthur Onslow, his wife and
children. To provide for all these bequests and
legacies the real estate is directed to be sold. The
colonel has left to some of his domestic servants
annuities and to others legacies. The will bears
only
Thseix will
lys of ptrhieor Rtoev. theT hteosmtaatsor c'surteis, death.
of
Rector
date in 1851 ; a codicil in November, 1860 ; and a
further codicil executed on the 24th of July last,
Sevenoaks,
and Vicar of Smallhythe, Kent, was
proved
London on the sth inst. by the executors,
Henry Lipscomb, Esq.,
the testator's brother-in-
law, and Charlotte Anne Cox, widow, the testator's
daughter, the personalty being sworn under £5,000.
The will bears date the 10th of July, 1858, and the
testator died at the rectory, Sevenoaks, on the 2d
of August last. This clergyman, who was the in-
cumbent as well as the patron of Sevenoaks, died
possessed of real and personal property, which he
has bequeathed principally to his son and daugh-
ter and to some other members of his family. To
his son, the Rev. Cyril Thomas Curteis, 8.A., be
has left the residue of his real and personal estate,
the realty for life, and the personalty absoluetweleYy_
in,the latter is included the bequest of pltels i Cox,
lery, snuffboxes, &c. To his daughter,dlvl
20'perty
the testator has bequeathed certain
—ia and
at Sevenoaks, as also the furnituorae. --
inuel Thomas
other effects. To his grandma given,on the de-
Curteis, a minor, the tes2:s7: Cyril T. Curteis, the
cease of his fatherslPtite. The testator possessed
residuarve preferments which he has vested in
ura
trustees for the ^ future benefit of his above-men-
tioned grandson. There are legacies of small
personal friends pa—
amount left to / able free of
legacy *—
ty.---Fro7ll th.e Illustrated London News,
-)ct. 19.
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Mr. Motley, the historian of the Dutch republic,
still remains in Paris, where he has been lionised during
the last week or ten days by his countrymen and women.