The Brecon Reporter and South Wales General Advertiser

A FORTUNE-BLUNTER OUT WITTED. A local contemporary tells the following story:- "About 18 months or two years ago, an Irish family residing at Rainhill received a, remittance from a female relative living in California. The family belong to the labouring classes. The father and the eldest daughter, at the solicitation of their relative, went out to California to see her, going by steamer to New York, and thence vid the Isthmus of Panama. The father returned home some months since, the daughter not until the 27th ultimo. On the voyage from San Francisco to the Isthmus, and from the Isthmus to New York, the daughter uaie the acquaintance of a gentleman who, under the Lincoln Government, had held a lucrative State office, from which he had been removed owing to his views not being in accordance with those of the present President. The girl gave the ex-governor officer such a glowing description of her property near London, and her rich relations in England and Ireland, that he lost no time in falling head and ears in love with her, or at least he told her so, which is as much as the words mean in many oases. On arriving at New York the happy couple were made man and wife, and in a few days took passage for Liverpool. On arriving at Liverpool on the 27th ult. they put up at the Washington Hotel, and the young woman left her husband, under' the pretence of going to Birkenhead to see some relatives, and went by rail to .Eainhill to see her father and mother. On Saturday to see some relatives, and went by rail to .Rainhill to see her father and mother. On Saturday and Sunday the did the same. On the Monday she persuaded her husband to agree to an alteration in. their arrangements, which would iolovi thorn to go to Preston, where, she alleged, she had some relations who would be delighted to see them. He consented to this, and to Preston they went, where they put up at the Ball Hotel. On the Tuesday morning, the Caliior- nian awoke to find himself the only occupant of the bed or the room. On inquiring from the servants at the Ball, he found than his wife had left, but could obtain no information as to where she was likely to bo found. She had taken with her her own clothing, her husband's gold watch, some loose jewellery, and about £ 50 in money. Of money she left her husband con- siderably more than she took, so that he was in no difficult to Day the bill and move about in search of her. His first step was to get back to Liverpool, and make inquiries at the Washington. On arriving there he found that his wife had preceded him, and had re- moved the boxes which had been left there until their return from Preston. He ascertained that his wife had arrived at the Washington in a hired con- veyance, and on procuring the boxe3 had driven away. More minute inquiries resulted in his discover- ing that the conveyance belonged to Presoot, and that the driver said he was engaged to drive to Eainhill. On hearing the name of Eainhill he immediately re- membered his wife having once eaid that her solicitor, Mr. Barrow, lived at that place. He was not long before he was in the train on his way to Eainhill, in search of the runaway» Hearing or seeing nothing ot bia wife, he called upon the attorney next day, and ex- plained hia business. Hero his dreams of property near London were entirely dissipated, for he learned the real circumstances of his wife's family. Indeed, while he was in the house a little sister of his wife's came with milk, and was point ed out to him. On hear- ing of the relationship he followed her to the cottage in which his wife s parents lived. Here he made him- self known, and demanded to know if they had seen or heard anytmng of their daughter. They pro- fessed to have neither seen nor heard anything of her, and he was obliged to leave the house no wiser than he entered it. He paid a numbet^of visits to the cottage I in the hope of meeting with, or hearing of, his wife, but was on each occasion unsuccessful. On one occasion he feigned sudden sicknass, and earnestly implored to be allowed to rest on one of "he beds upstairs. The family consented, but never left, him by himself for a single moment until his recovery, which, finding he had no chance or exploring the other rooms m the cot- tage, was not long in taking place, iowarua the last of his stay at Eainhill, the girl's father informed him that he had found out where the girl was, but that it was about 200 miles away, and that for a7 he would go and fetch her. Thia was at once refused, as by this time the Californian was more anxious for the re- covery of his watch, money, and property than his wife. Before he left Rainhill, which was at the be. ginning of the following weak, we believe the girl a mother informed him that when he was lying on the bed in the upstairs room in the cottage his wife was looking at him through a nick in the door. However this might be, he never had the satisfaction of seeing either wife or property again, for on Wednesday he sailed from Liverpool for New York, leaving both wife and property behind him."

New Extradition Aet.-The Aeb to amend the law relating to treaties of extradition just issued, enacts that warrants of arrests and copies of deposi- tions, signed or taken fey or before a judge or compe- tent magistrate in any foreign State with which her Majesty may have entered into, or may hereafter enter into, any treaty fer the extradition of fugitive offenders or persons accused of crimes, shall henceforth be re- ceived in evidence if authenticated in the manner pre- scribed as to the warrant of arrest being properly signed, and the dapoaitiona authenticated with the signature and seal of the court. The documents so signed and sealed ara to be received in evidence with- out further proof.. The statute is to be construed with the 8th and 9th Victoria, c. 113, and 14th and 15th Victoria.. c. 99. The duration of the Act is limited to the lat September, 1867 Nothing Impossible.—The s'reatfst: and most useful invention of the day, AQUA AMARELLA.. — Messrs..JOUiJ tiOSiVELL and Co., Three ivmg-eourt, .Lombard-street, perfumers to her Majesty, respectfully offer to the publie this truly marvellous fluid, which gradually restore the human hair to ita pristine hue-n 0 matter of what age. The Agua Amavella has none of the propcrtie s or dyes; it, on the contrary, is beneucial to the system, and when the hair is once restored one application per month will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle; half bottles, los. 6d. Testimonials from artists of the highest order, and from individuals of undoubted respectability, may be inspected. Messrs. John Q-osnell ami Co. 1XSY6 been appointed perfumers to the ?riftcess oi Wales.

MURDER IN HURST-STREET, BIRM- INGHAM. A shocking murder was perpetrated in Hurst-street shortly after 12 o'clock on Thursday morning, by William Smith, aged 34, one of the scene shifters at Day's Concert Hall, which for atrocity has rarely been equalled. The deceased, Elizabeth Smith, resided with her husband, William Smith, at 2 Court, 17 House, Hurst-street, and they had for a lodger a young woman named Catherine Bradworth, 19 years of age, fog signal maker. There appears to have been some misunderstanding between the deceased and her husband for some time past, and on the latter return- ing home from his work at about 12 o'clock some words ensued, which resulted in a quarrel, when the husband took out a knife, and attacking his wife furi- ously, attempted to strike her. She escaped from him out of the house, but he overtook her in the yard, and cut her throat in a frightful manner. The girl Catherine Bradworth, who witnessed the commence- ment of the quarrel, followed them out to interpose between the wife and husband, and in the encounter received a severe gask across the left eye. An alarm was raised, and Spear, with one or two officers, were promptly on the spot. The girl Bradworth was taken to the Queen's Hospital by a man who was passing at the time, of the name of John Insley, residing at the back of 65, Angelina-street, and her wounds were promptly attended to by the house surgeons. While the medical officers were attending to Bradworth, the body of the murdered woman was taken to the Queen's Hospital by Police-constable Thomas Hardy (62). The murderer, William Smith, was taken into custody by Inspector Spear and Police-constable M'Crohen. At the station he said he had no knowledge of the transaction. A purse containing Is. n-d., a number of pledge tickets, and a key, were found on the body of the deceased, but the purse was so filled with blood that it was scarcely possible to decipher the tickets. On the person of the young woman Bradworth a purse containing 7id., completely saturated with blood was found. The woman Bradworth lies at the hospital in a very dangerous state. The accused assigned as the cause of the event a quarrel arising out of his wife's unfaithfulness. The murderer Smith is said to be by no means ill- looking. Langley, for whom Mrs. Smith forsook her husband, and who died of cholera at Liverpool on Monday, Mrs. Smith being at the time with him, was considerably older. It is said that Langley had no wish latterly to have Mrs. Smith living with him, but that she was attracted towards him, and would be with him. It would appear that Smith was devoted to his wife with an unreasoning passion, which led him to pardon her irregularities for a long period, even when they caused him the greatest pain. He has often been haa-rci-and notably so, it is saiq, on Sunday last—to protest that he "loved her from head to foot," but that her conduct was driving him mad, and she would compel him to do for her." He and his wife were in the habit of using very violent lan- guagetowards each other. She was unalterably attached to Langley, and it is said she foolishly declared that he died of a broken heart because he could not marry her. The sympathy of the neighbours is wholly with Smith, who was undoubtedly greatly wronged, and was goaded to madness by his wife's taunts, and her openly and aggressively avowed preference for another man. Among the groups of women in the neighbourhood disoussing the occurrence on the following day, it was often declared that the deceased, Mrs. Smith, deserved what she got." The same gossips—who, idly as their tongues wag, doubt- less know pretty well how the truth lay between Smith and his wife-say that she led her husband a miser. able life, and that she even caused Langley some un- easiness on the score of her intimacy with other men. The commission of the crime created intense excite- ment in the neighbourhood. The accused has always been known as a quiet, steady, obliging, inoffensive man. He was quite the reverse of hot-tempered, a-aci could not easily be provoked to use an angry word,.much less inflict a personal injury. Of his early life, his marriage, or the circumstances under which he first became acquainted with the woman whom ho afterwards murdered, scarcely anything ia known by the neighbours. It is said he was formerly a sailor, but it is quite certain that about six or seven years ago he was employed by theG-as Company in this town as a general labourer. Ha was always looked up to by his follow-workmen as an agreeable, and, for hia posi- tion in life, clever fellow.

GREAT FIRE. 01)8 of the most extensive and destructive conflagra- tions with which the metropolis has been visited for some years broke out on Sunday morning, shortly before one o'clock, on the premises of Messrs. Holland and Hannen, formerly Winsland and Holland, builders, of Duke-street, New Oxford-street, and which threatened to involve not only the whole of the adjacent distillery of Messrs. Tanqueray and Co., and the houses forming the whole of the western side of Museum-street, bat also those on the northern side of Broad-street, St. Giles's. In addition to the immense workshops of Messrs. Holland, the spacious timber yard, containing stacks of timber piled in height to a level of the roofs of the adjoining houses, were one I mass of name, the fire shooting so high into the air as to campletely overlap the houses forming the Museum- street boundary, and almost reaching the frontages of those on the other side of the street. Although nearly the whole of the Fire Brigade force, and hand ateam- engines were on the spot and in full operation, yet the difficulties of getting at the burning mass were very great. The flames ascended so high into the air that tha steeple of St. Giles's Church, the summit ef the Royal Italian Opera and Drury Lane Theatre, the steeples St. Mary-le-Strand and St. Martin's Churches, were completely brought out by the illu- mination and the stupendous outline of the dome, cross, and upper portion of St. Paul's Cathedral, and, indeed, all the more lofty buildings, almost for miles round, might be'seen from various positions by the bright light produced by the conflagration. Great, apprehen- sions were entertained lest there should be an ex. plosion, as in close vicinity to the burning mass, in Museum-street, there was an extensive naphtha ware. house. So sudden and rapid was the progress of the fire after hrst breaking out that the inhabitants of the houses m Museam-street had scarcely time to escape before the flames came pouring against their back windows. Many engines attended, and the fire, from want of food and application of water, began, in some measure, to abate at about two o'clock. It was near eleven o'clock on Sunday morning before the fire- men were enabled to leave the place, the fire having consumed property to_ the amount of many thousand pounds; and it is estimated that the loss experienced by the workmen in their tools will reach above < £ 2,000. Crowds of people visited the spot. It is believed that the fire originated in the engine-house, bat a minute inquiry will be made. >

On Thursday morning, the Lord Lieutenant, accompained by the Marchioness of Abercorn and family, made his public entry into Dablin. The streets along the route of the procession were greatly crowded. The reception was most respectful, but there was no enthusiasm on the part of the people. Clerical Vacancies and Appointments.— The Bishop of Chichester has instituted the Rev. H. Hastings, M.A., to the vicarage of Hellingley, near I-IUYBT Green, Sussex, vacant by the death of the Rov. John Olive, M.A., on the nomination of the Earl of Chiceater; and has licensed the Rev. Henry Mahoney B&vey, M.A., of Emanuel College, Cambridge, to the curacy of Fantingdon, Sussex. The Bishop of Ripon has instituted the Rev. Edwin James Bamskill, M.A., of St. Catherine s College, Cambridge, to the inenm- bency oi Holy Innity Church, Knaresborongb. The Bishop of Durham has licensed the Rev. B. fowler, B.A.. to the curacy of Croft, near Darlington. Longevity in -U'xlgland.-The mortality returns of England for 186 show that in that year 98 persons (28 men and. 1° women) died who had reached 100 years of age or one woman dying at 108 and one man at 1UU. ut these 98 very old people 12 died in London, viz., one at the age of 106, two at 105, four at 103, one at 102, one at 101, and the remaining three at 100 each. In lorkehire, with nearly three- fourths of the population of tha metropolis, there ware only three. There were three also in the north mid- land division, which had lot two-thirds of the popula- tion of Yorkshire; and Wales, with less than half the population of London, bad 21 centenarians in ita obituary. The man and woman who had attained the great ages af 108 and 109 years respectively, xesided, the former at Hereford, and the latter at Bolton, in Lancashire. In consequence of the Re&uctim in Duty, Teas are now supplied by the Agents EIGETPEITCE per lb. gHgArza. Every Gmmn PoeMia signed fS fiormmas & Co."

THE CHOLERA. On Thursday the registered deaths from cholera were 38, being an increase of 3 over Wednesday. On the same day the deaths from diarrhoea were 17, being aID. increase of 3 also over Wednesday. The following are I the classified returns:— Cholera Diarrhoea. West districts North districts 2 4 Central districts 1 3 Eastdiatriots. 26 4 South districts 9 6 Total in London 38 17 From representations made to the Mansion-house Committee on Friday, by various local authorities in infected districts, it would appear that generally speaking, with an exception here and there, the epidemic continues to subside, that there are fewer deaths in proportion to the attacks, but that with less mortality there are more cases of diarrhoea. Still the local committees concur in stating, from personal ex- perience and observation, that there is a vast amount of distress consequent upon the visitation, which is aggravated by the want of work in the shipbuilding trades along the Thames, especially at Poplar and Millwall, and that the fund raised by the Mansion- house Committee is most opportune, even though con- fined in its application to the relief of those suffering from cholera. Up to last evening the committt33 had voted in all, since the commencement of the fund, upwards of X5,000 towards the relief of he distress, of which X525 was granted on Friday, and t425 the day before, which has been, and is being, ex- pended in all cases through the agency of local com- mittees. On Thursday the Lord Mayor paid a visit to an auxiliary hospital for cholera patients and convales- cents which had been on foot within the last few days in Commercial-street, Whitechapel, at the expense chiefly and under the auspices of a committee of gentlemen, of whom Mr. E. H. Palmer, a director of the Bank of England, is at the head. A large unoccu- pied warehouse of three stories and nearly new, has been adapted far the purpose. The matron and nurses are all Sisters of Mercy, to whom ministering to the sick and -poor is a labour of love. The Lord Mayor went alone, and in a strictly private way, and though the hospital had only been improvised within the last week, he found it in good working order. In all cases the Mansion-house Committee require from the local authorities to whom they make grants strict accounts as to how the money is expended, not wishing at the same time to tie their hands in the distribution, which they leave to their discretion and judgment. The fund collected up to Friday evening amounted to about £ 15,000. As compared with Thursday the registered return for Friday shows a decrease of three deaths from cholera, and an increase of two from diarrhoea. The numbers being:—Cholera, 35; diarrhoea, 19; as will appear from the following classified returns Cholera. Diarrhoea. West districts 2 2 North die tricts 2 2 Central districts 1 4 East districts 26 6 South districts 4 5 Total in London 35 19 Three cases of cholera were reported at iviertnyr Tydvil on Friday; one in a low locality called Cal- draw; another at Abercannaid; and a third at Dowlais. The superintendent registrar ef Mile-end Old Town states: I have the pleasure of reporting a still further decrease in the deaths from cholera and diarrhcoa, in Mile-end Old Town. The number reoorded weekly from the 14th of July have been as follows 1, 56,126, 155, 80, 45, and last week 20. If to these are added 20 deaths in the London Hospital of parties removed from Mile-end, the mortality by cholera in seven weeks will have amounted to 503, or six per thousand of the population, estimated at 83,000. 126 fathers of families have been removed by this awful visitation. The deaths from all causes last week were in Mile-end 48, against 29 the corresponding period of last year." The ts Second Report of the Sanitary Commission on the Epidemic of Cholera in the East end of London," published in the Lancet, gives some particu- lars as to the sewage received by the River Lea and it tributaries above Enfield, where the East London Water Company take their supply. One of these is Cobbin's Brook, which runs into the Lea at Waltham Abbey. It receives the drainage of Epping. The Cobbin, according to the information of the above journal, is not dry, as Dr. Farr say a in his laat report was stated to him, but pours into the Lea the sewage of Epping and Waltham Abbey in its most offensive state. The Leafurtherreceives the sewage of Waltham- crOiilS, Cheshunt, Wormley, Brox!aourne, and Hoddesdon. The sewage of Hertford is nominally deodorised by the New River Company before entering the Lea, but it does in fact pass into the river in a highly offensive state, and causes much complaint. To sum up the total results of these inquiries, it would seem that nearly the whole of Hertfordshire, besides the western borders of Essex, drains into the Lea. The corre- spondence of the cholera field to the East London water field is traced in detail. It appears, however, that this is no longer so marked as it was. The faot. of this decided difference is not by itself very important as a means of concluding as to the influence of the water of East London upon the cholera outbreak, but taken with other facts it is of much interest. Sup- posing the water supplied to the cholera field to have been active for a time only in sowing cholera among the inhabitants of the field, and since then to have lost this power, either from a change in its qualities, or from a cessation of other circumstances in the atmosphere, &c., suitable for the development of the disease, we ought to expect the limits of the cholera district and those of the water-supply district to become, as they are doing, leas and less nearly co- incident. In both cholera and diarrhosa the registered deaths on Saturday exceeded those of Friday. The deaths from the former were 36, a against 35 the day before; and from the latter 22, as against 19 the day before. The following is the classified returns: Cholera. Diarrhoea. West districts 0 2 North districts 1 4 Central districts 1 1 East districts 25 10 South distriots 9 5 i Total in London 36 22 The following painfully touching narrative may be taken as an illustration of the dreadful fruits of cholera visitation. On Saturday, about mid-day, David Daniels, a mechanic, residing in one of some cottages in the Blue Anchor-road, Bermondsey, was brought into Guy's Hospital suffering from Asiatic cholera. On the previous day his wife and three children had succumbed to the disease, and on Saturday morning he was in apparent health arranging with an under- taker in the neighbourhood for their burial. He was, however, shortly after attacked, and brought to the cholera ward of the hospital, where he remained per- fectly senaible, expressing his firm conviction that he should not recover, and his perfect resignation, inas- much as he had nothing to live for now he had lost all those he held most dear on earth. About six o'clock in the evening he died. He was 31 years of age, and his wife 28. The latter was exceedingly handsome. The relations of the wife hearing that she and her little ones were attacked by cholera refused to visit her or attend upon her at all, and some of them, with whom one of the children was, sent it back to its parents' house. The body of Daniels was sent back to his house on Saturday evening, and on Sunday father, mother, and three children were all interred together in the same grave, in the district bury in g- ground belonging to Bermondsey. A sight so hovel and at the same time so melancholy attracted, as may well be imagined, a large crowd of spectators. On Sunda,y night an old woman applied for, and obtained, admission into the female casual ward of the Marylebone Workhouse under the name of. Catherine Young; and she said ehe was the wife of a master tailor at Sheffield. After the usual bath she was put to bed, and at ten o'clock she was seized with diarr- hoea, followed by violent vomiting. rh0 master had her at once removed to the workhouse infirmary, where she was immediately attended to, but died at five o'clock on Monday morning from Asiatic cho- lera. This is the only casawhiolt has occurred in the parish this year. Since the outbreak in April last the i,700 inmates of the 'eiLaT'Ylebone Wt)rLhous e have been put upon an increased diet. We learn from a telegram that two cases of cholera have taken place at Plymouth ia a homo for fallao women. The matron died on Monday. The opening of a choked drain on the premises is believed by the medioal men to have caused the outbreak.

OUR "CITY" ARTICLE. --+-- EVERYTHING was pleasant in the Stock Exchange on Monday, consequent upon the ease ia the money market, leading to the belief that the rate of discount must again be lowered, and that in consequence Stock Exchange investments will be more sought after. Consols and foreign stocks were firm, the former having advanced an eighth. Railways were also very firm up to twelve o'clock, but prices after that hour became a little easier. Anticipations of a further reduction in the Bank rate on Thursday cause the demand for discount accommodation to be very limited. In the mean- time, the supplies were continually increasing, and very little business was done above 6 per cent. Consols may be quoted at 88i to 89 for money, and 89 to t for account. In foreign stocks, Passives were 20t to i; Cer- tificates, 14| to §; Turkish of 1865, 25f to | Mexican, 15| to f; Greek, 13 to and United States Bonds, 71 to 7213. s S, Of railways, Caledonian were 125 to 126; Great Eastern, 28 to i; Great Northern A, 130 to -i 4 2 London and North Western, 119 to 120; Great 4 Western, 65t to 66i; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 4 4 123i to Midland, 121 to i and Metropolitan, 4 2 117i to 118. The dealings in the funds on Monday were as under:—Three per Cent. Consols, 88|, 9; ditto, account, 89; Three per Cent. Reduced, 8Sk, 8. i; 4 New Three per Cent., 88, 8 India Stock, Five 91 1 41 per Cent.; July, 1870, 103J-, 4; ditto Debentures, Five per Cent., Aug., 1873, 101. The official list of business transacted in foreign stocks may be thus given:—Five per Cent. Brazilian, 1865, account, 72, f; ditto, .£100 Bonds, 72i; ditto Scrip, £ 65 paid, 2-| dis.; Six per Cent. 4 4 Chilian Scrip, £ 75 paid, 2f prem.; Seven per Cent. Egyptian, 1864, 85-j, 64 ditto < £ 100 Bonds, 86J, Five per Cent. Greek, 1824-5, ex Coupons originally attached, account, 12, 1, c; Five per Cent. Italian, 1865, account, 67-J; Three per Cent. Mexican, 15-; ditto account, 15$; ditto, 1864, lOf; Six per Cent. Montevidean, European, 63; Three per Cent. Portuguese, 1856, '57, '59, '60, '62, and '63, account, 431, 3 Five 4 per Cent. Russian, 1822, 89; Four-and-a-Half per Cent. ditto, 1850, 8n; Three per Cent. ditto, 1859, 53|; Five per Cent, ditto, 1862, 87f; Five per Cent. Sardinian, account, 68J; Three per 2 Cent. Spanish Passive, account, 20, t; Spanish Com. Cert. of Coup. not funded, account, 14; Six 8 per Cent. Turkish, 1854, account, 78; ditto, 1862, £ 100 Bonds, 5li- 50, -J-; Five per Cent. ditto, 1865, 2' 2 account, 25, 4 £ Four per Cent., ditto, guaran- teed, 97t, 8t ex div.; Four per Cent. Dutch Certi- ficates, 90; Five per Cent. Italian, 1861, ex 25f., account, 54^, 3$. London and County Bank shares were quoted 65J to 66 Union, 47 to J; and Alliance, 20 to i. Atlantic Telegraph shares reached lOi to 11, and Credit Mobilier, 3f to I dis. From Frankfort we learn that all telegraphic despatches are prohibited by order of the Prussian authorities, and have been since the invasion. The Atlantic cable is therefore quite useless to the resident Americans, or those doing business with the United States, as the only means of informa- tion are letters and the English papers. The total receipts of the Frencll railways during the first six months of the present year were £ 11,376,000 against ^810,354,000 of the same period last year, showing an increase of £ 1,022,000. Steps are being taken to supersede the various coins now circulating in France, Belgium, Italy, and Switzerland, by the issue of gold and silver coins of uniform nominal and actual value. The gold coinage will consist of 100, 50, 20, 10, and 5 francs only, and the silver coinage of 5, 2, 1, and 1J franc pieces. Other countries may join the con- vention by subscribing to its articles. z, It was notified on the Stock Exchange on Mon- day that in June lastthe police entered the premises of a printer in Calcutta and seized a large quantity of forged labels of several English manufacturers, among which were those of Allsopp and Sons, Lea and Perrin, P. and J. Arnold, Day and Martin, and Crosse and Black well. T1-18 latter firm imme- diately commenced a prosecution under the Trades Mark Act (India), section 485 of the penal code, which resulted in the conviction of the offender and his being sentenced to two years' rigorous imprisonment, a similar punishment being awarded to a native who sold some of the spurious goods upon which the forged labels were placed. On Tuesday the scarcity of bills was everywhere made a matter of complaint. The average rate was 6 to 6^- per cent., but some parcels of paper were negotiated at 5i. per cent. The terms for loans at the Stock Exchange stood at 4 to 4 per cent. The Liverpool Cotton Market showed steadi- ness at the opening. The sales probably reached about 8,000 bales. The following summary of colonial intelligence is taken from S. W. Silver and Co.'s Circular, published monthly, at 66 and 67, Cornhill, and 3 and 4, Bishopsgate Within, London:— VICTOEIA.—Gold exported during year, 757,843 oz., in- cluding 133,881* oz. from New Zealand. Two nuggets recently found at Dunolly weighed respectively 351 oz. and 22J oz. SOUTH AUSTRALIA.— Abundant rains, and season more promising than for several years. Reports on copper mines continue encouraging. Some largo and fine specimens of marble from Macclesfield quarry, distant about 27 miles from Adelaide. Flax as a new article of export attracting attention. Skilled workmen needed. NEW SOUTH WALES.—The Peninsular and Oriental Com- pany have submitted a proposal respecting a bi-monthly mail to this colony and Victoria, for a subsidy of £170,000 a year, or a fortnightly service for £184,00(). Sydney.—Gold dust received during- May, 21,609 oz. A great demand con- tinues for agricultural labourers. Large arrivals of wheat and barley reported. QUEENSLAND.—Coal discovered in Kennedy district. TASMANIA.—Discoveries of gold and silver reported in the bed of the Hellyer river. NEW ZEALAND,-Panama route opened up under most favourable circumstances. New coal fields continue to be discovered, and quality pronounced excellent. A scarcity of good labouring men—wages high. AUCKLAND.—Tne Grey gold fields yielding largely. Welling- ton.—Several sales of land at prices varying from 5a. to 21s. per acre. Otago.—The total quantity of gold exported from this province from 1861 to end of 1865 is 1,929,747 oz. Nelson. —Intelligence^ from West gold field satisfactory. Canterbury.—Provincial^ matters look bright, and land sales keep up well. Gold fields continue to yield abundantly. Domestic servants much wanted, and good labourers in demand. Taranaki.—Petroleum prospects improving. CAPE COLONy.-Heports from the agricultural districts highly favourable; more land under cultivation than at any previous period: crops in a forward and flourishing state. NATAL.—The report that gold has been discovered in Transvaal appears to be without foundation. Alcroa L-at, Several cargoes of wool were dispatched between 20th June and 5tii July, chiefly for the English market, and valued at £ 161,000. CANADA.—The oil wells in Western Canada are causing much excitement, and the holders of land are realising enormous slims a great impetus is thus given to trade, and labour, whether skilled or otherwise, commands high rates. Several iiiillioiis of acres of surveyed crown lands are offering for sale at prices varying from 3s. per acre. The wool crop has lately increased rapidly. » —

An Affectionate Hiac-e.-The wife of a merchant was walking a few days since in the Rue du Fauboursf- Saint-Antoine when ayom-ig girl about 13 threw herself on her neck, exclaiming, "Oh, my dear aunt! The lady released herself from tha embrace, tollm? the child that she was mistaken. Ah! said the girl, in a sorrowful tone, looking attentively at the lady, I see I have made a mistake!" and she went away asfi to hide her confasioa. Not long after the lady missed her purao, and all at once the idea struak her that the child might have taken it. Sbe accordingly returned, and after considerable search discovered the child in a wiiie shop with her father and mother. They were all arrested, and the purse was found on the .mother.— Galignani. l .">im SiogueM rmd Co.'s Ciio-ry Taofirn P"i\ prí J. 110 Decidedly the best preparatioa for eieausinfj and prewiring ttie teeth SoMbyall and obemists. l3jTbxe« King"<Hj Itombara-st, ia C.

Usnfroa artb ùuntr}2 glarims, The Money Market. CITY, AUGUST 28.-The extremely favourable tendency of the discount market, and the arrival of a further sum of nearly £ 300,GOO in specie, have imparted additional firmness to the quotations for public securities. The funds continue in request, and have attained a fresh rise of -J per cen-t A fair amount of business has been transacted in Bank shares at improved prices in several cases. There is still, however, very little inquiry for financial descriptions. The discount market is quiet to-day, with very few trans- actions. The quotation for good bills is 5i to 6 per cent., being 1 to It below the charge at the Bank of England. The opinion is therefore general that the official raini-inum will be reduced on Thursday to 6 per cent. Consols are now quoted 88t to i for money and 89; to f for the account (September 6). The railway market to-day exhibits an improved ten. dency. London and North-Western stock is now quoted 120J to h Great Western, 56t to Midland, 121| to Lancashire and Yorkshire, 123J to ff; South Eastern, fiSt to 69; Great Eastern, 29J to f ,• Metropolitan, 1271-to 128i Caledonian, 124^ to 125J; Great Northern, 121-J to 122 £ ditto A, 130 to î; and London, ickatium, and Dover, 18 to J. BANK OF ENGLAND.—An Account, pursuant te the Act 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednea- day. August 22, 1866. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued £ 28,680,635 Government debt JB11,015,100 Other securities. 3,984,900 Gold coin & bullion 13,690,635 Silver bullion £ 28,690,635 £ 28,690,635 BANKING DEPAETHJHT. Froprietors'eapit'l £ 14,553,00f>, Goveromentsecu- Rest 3,846,260! rities (inc. dead Public Deposits 3,411,63 weight annuity) £ 10,711,723 Other Deposits 18.763,474:0ther Securities 24,888,153 Seven days and (Notes 4,503,520 other bills 615,613; Gold & silver coin 1,081,585 £ 41,189,986 £ 11,189,986 August 23,1866. W. MILLER, Chief Cashier. The Corn Trade. MABK-LANE, AUGUST 27.-We had a good supply of new Wheat this morning, and arrivals from abroad are liberal. The larger supply and line weather caused a dull trade, and new English sold at a decline of 3s to 4s per qr. from the prices previously paid. Old Wheat was about Is per qr lower, and foreign Wheat met a retail demand at a similar decline.—The Flour Trade was slow, and prices were Is to 2s per tack lower.-Peas and Beans were without change in value. -Barley met a good inquiry and maintained former q,LLota,t,ioiis.-A-rrivals of Oats continue very large. The trade to-day was active at the decline submitted to last week, and the market closed with more firmness. From the ports of call large arrivals from the Black Sea are reported, but few samples are as yet to hand. ImDortera ask .the prices current last week. CUEBENT PRICES OF BRITISH GBAITT AND FLOUR. Shillings per Quarter; WHEAT, Essex and Kent, white new 40 to 513 „ red 40 47 Norfolk, Lincoln, and Yorkshire, red 40 47 BARLEY 30 to 34 Chevalier, new 38 42 Grinding 29 31 Distilling 33 37 MALT, Essex, Norfolk, & Suffolk, new 59 68 Kingston, Ware, & town-made, new 59 66 Brown 52 56 P,YE 26 28 OATS, English, feed 20 to 25.Potato. 24 30 Scotch, feed .20 26 Potato 25 30 Irish,feed, white 18 21 Fine 22 26 Ditto, black 18 20 Potato 23 27 BEANS, Mazagan .41 43.Ticks 40 43 Harrow 43 46 Pigeon 45 49 PEAS, white,boilers33 41 Maple39no41 Grey,new 36 37 FLOUR., per sack of 2801bs., Town, Households 47 50 Country,on shore 35 to 36 .38 42 Norfolk and Suffolk, on shore 34 35 LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 1,8.-Good attendance at market. Wheat slow and only saleable at some slight concession.- Flour dull and 6d lower.-Bea11s rather firmer.—Oats and Oatmeal quiet, and prices in favour of buyers.—Indian Corn, heavy arrivals; passed 26s ia opening, but closed firm at 2Gs 3d. WAKEFIELD, AUGUST 24-New wheat in fair supply, and sells slowly at 213 to 3s reduction; old, Is cheaper. Other articles unaltered. Meat and Poultry Markets. NEWGATE AND LEADENIIALL.—There are moderate suonlies of meat, and the trade is steady. Per Sibs. by the carcase s. d. s: d a. d. to s. d. Inferior beef 3 6 to 4 2 Capons, each. 0 G 0 0 Middling ditto 4 4 4 6 Chickens, each 2 6 4 0 Prime large 4 6 4 81 Ducklings,each 19 2 6 Ditto small 4 10 5 0; Rabbits, each. 10 16 Large pork oo. 4 0 4 6 Hares, each 2 6 3 0 Inferior mutton 3 8 4 6,' Grouse, each 1 9 2 3 Middling ditto 4 8 5 4 Partridges,each 0 0 0 0 Prime ditto 5 6 5 8 Pheasants,each 0 0 0 0 Veal 4 0 5 0 Pigeons, each. 0 6 0 8 Small pork 4 8 5 0 Ostend fr.butter, Lamb 5 0 6 0 per doz:_ibs. 11 6 14 6 Turkeys, each 0 0 0 0 j English ditto. 12 0 16 0 Goslings, each 6 0 7 0 j French eggs, 120 6 6 8 6 Fowls, each 2 0 3 01 English ditto. 9 6 10 6 IslETliOi OJiiTA.M.—A statement- OT tile suppnes ana prices of htlive stock on Uonrl!1Y. August 23, 1865, as com- pared with Monday, August 27, 1866 :— Per Sibs. to sink the offal. August 28, 1865. August 27,1866. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior Beasts S 0 to 4 0 3 8 to 4 0 Second quality ditto 4 2 4 8 4 2 4 8 Prime large Oxen 4 10 5 0 4 10 5 2 Prime Scots, &c. ,5 2 5 4 5 4 5 0 Coarse and inferior Sheep 4 G 5 0 3 10 4 6 Second quality ditto 5 2 5 8 4 4 5 2 Prime coarse- woolled ditto 5 10 6 2 5 2 5 0 Prime Southdown ditto 6 4 6 S 5 10 6 8 Lambs 00 7 0 5 f 6 L«rge coarse Calves 4 4 4 10 4 2 4 8 Prime small ditto 5 0 5 4 4 10 5 8 Large Boss 4 0 4 6 4 0 4 2 Neat small Porkers 4 8 5 0 4 8 5 6 Fruit and Vegetables. COVENT GARDEN, ÁUGUST 25.-Pears still continue to be imported from France. Oranges are becoming scarce, as are also West India pine-apples, the last cargo of wnich for this season is said to have arrived. Home-growu pine- apples and hothouse grapes.are still plentiful, and prices for these as well as for other kinds of indoor produce, continue about' the same as those of last week. Greengages are now making their appearances; hut these, as well as best samples of other plums, are scarce, and Lore fetching high prices. Vegetables generally are sufficient for the demand. Flowers chiefly consist of orchids, asters, calceolarias, pelargoniums, fuchsias, balsams, cockscombs, stocks, mignonette, a.nd roses. FRUIT. s. d. d. d. s. Apples.p.hf-sieve 0 G to 0 0 ] Peaches,per doz. 4 0 20 0 Currants, pr. siv. 4 0 5 0 Pears,kitchen,&z. 0 0 0 0 Grapes, per lb. 2 0 6 0! dessert 0 0 0 0 Lemons,p. 100 8 0 14. 0 Pineapples,p. lb. 3 0 5 0 Gooseberries qt. 0 3 0 6 Strawberries,p. lb. 0 0 0 0 Nuts,cob,1001b 0 0 0 0 Walnuts, pr bh. 0 0 0 0 Filberts, pr lb. 0 0 0 ° I Chestnuts, do 0 0 0 0 Oranges, p.100 12 0 20 0 j VEGETABLES. sdsdl sdsa Artichokes,per doz .2 0 to 4 0| Mushroom s,perpott.2 0 3 6 Asparagus, per bun. 0 0 0 0;Mustard& Cress,p.p.O 0 0 Beans,kidnev,p.l00 0 6 1 0 Onions, per bushel.7 0 10 0 Beet, per dozen 2 0 3 0j „ picklmg, p.qt.O 0 0 0 Broccoli, p bundle 0 0 0 0 Parsley, per sieve 2 0 3 0 Cabbages, per doz. 1 0 2 0 Parsnips, per doz,l 0 2 0 Carrots, per bunch 0 4 C 8 Peas, per qt. 0 6 10 C, 8 Cauliflowers,p. doz. 2 0 6 0 Potatoes, York Be- Ceiery, per bundle 2 0 2 6 gents, per ton. 80 0 95 Cucumbers, each 0 3 09 Rocks, per ton 60 0 70 0 Endive, per score.1 0 2 6 Flukes, per ton 105 0 125 0 Garlic, per lb 0 10 0 0 Kidneys, per cwt.6 0 10 0 Herbs, per bunch.0 6 0 0 Radishes, p. 12 bn. 0 6 10 Horseradish, p. hn.2 6 4 Ollihubarb, p. bundle 0 0 0 0 Leeks, pex bunch.0 3 00, punnet 0 0 0 0 Lettuces, per score 1 0 1 6 Spinach, per bash. 2 0 3 0 Mint, p~r bunch .0 3 0 4jT<u:nips, per bunch 0 6 0 9 London Produce Market. MINCING-LANE, AUGUST 28.-SUGAR: The market has opened steadily, with a fair inquiry; the sales include a parcel of brown Bahia at 26s 3d. Refined-Both dried goods and pieces have been sold on lower terms commen brown lumps are now to be had at 43s. COFFEE.—There is a fair inquiry for East India descrip- tions, at last week's currency. TEA.—The market remains quiet. RUL-The market continues steady. 20 puncheons of pale Leewards, Is 4Jd; and 60 puncheons good brown, Is 8id. • FEUIT.—Another cargo of Valencia raisins to arrived, and business is doing at 34s for common, and at 38s to 45a for selected. „ RICE.—The market continues quiet, but firm. ISDIGO.-SO chests of East India sold at prices ranging from 4s 8d to 7s 2d. G^HBXEE.—500 bales sold at 23s 6d. t COTTON.—The sales are confined uo small parceis at, about P1JuSU-Business has been dona in cuttings at £ 6 5s. p-RTOES OF BUTTER, CHEESE, HAMS, &c., at per cwt; -Butter- Friesland, 112s to 114s; Jersey, 90s to 104s; Dorset llGa^ to 120*. Fresh: per doz., lis Od to 13s 6d, Cheese': Cheshire, 72s to 84s; Double Gloucester 74s to 78s; Chedcla1- 76s to84s; American, 66s to74s. Hams: York, new. 90s to 100s; Cumberland, new, 90s to 100s; Irish, new, 90s to 100s. HCOll: Wiltshire, 78s to 82s; Irish, green, 70s to 74s. HOPS, BOROUGH MLEKET, AUG. 27.—Messrs. Pattenden and Smith report an im proved demand for all hops of last year's growth, at an advance of from 2s to 3s per cwt. on last week's prices. The plantation accounts not quite so favourable. TALLOW, AUGUST 29.-Tlie market is steady. Peters. bur<* Y.C. on the spot, old, is quoted 45s; ditto nes-, 46s; September, 45s 9d; October to December, 46s; December, 46s 9(1. COTTON, LIVERPOOL. AUGUST 28.—The market quiet. 458 9(1. COTTON, LIVERPOOL. AUGUST 28.-The market quiet. Sales probably about 8,000 bales.