The Illustrated Usk Observer and Raglan Herald

THE NEWS BUDGET. A Lady Killed on the Brighton Railway- On Saturday morning, on the arrival of the 11.30 up- train from Brighton, at Horley station, a lady, who had just previously been seen on the platform, either stepped or fell on to the rail, and one of the wheels of a first-class carriage was seen resting on her chest as she laid face upwards. So soon as the carriage was removed the dead body was picked up and conveyed to the waiting-room. On the train reaching London, some servants who were waiting made inquiries for a lady answering her description, and it was then ascer- tained that she was a Miss Anderson, sixty-five years of age, residing with her sister at Park-place, Peckham, who had been staying with some friends in the neigh- bourhood of Horley. Lifeboat Service.—Mr. Alex. Sim, of Lossie- mouth, reports the following gallant service of the National Institution's lifeboat on that station:—"At daybreak on Friday morning last a vessel was dis- covered stranded amongst the breakers, about a mile to the eastward of this port. The lifeboat stationed here, belonging to the National Institution, was im- mediately launched, and rowed through a very rough sea. to the reaoue of the shipwrecked crew of three men who were seen clinging to the vessel's rigging. The lifeboat's crew were so exhausted by the time they reached the wreck—some of them having been washed out of the boat more than once—that they were unable to pull the boat alongside through the breakers. A large crowd having collected on the beach, the boat was run ashore and a fresh crew shipped, who pulled most nobly alongside the vessel, and with heroic ex. ertions, and at great personal danger, succeeded in taking off the three men and landing them in safety. The vessel proved t) be the Agnes, Captain Winter, bound from Scrabster to this place, with a cargo of stone. It is but right to add that the coastguard men were first aA the spot with Manby's apparatus, and fired several well-directed rockets, but the vessel was so far from the shore that they all fell short." Asylum for Idiots.-At the autumnal election of inmates into this asylum, which took place at the London Tavern, Mr. Alderman Abbiss, the treasurer, in the chair, there were forty cases to be admitted out of a list of 151 candidates, viz., five for life, and thirty- five for five years. The chairman, in opening the pro- ceedings, said the committee had decided on admitting ten more cases than usual out of gratitude for the very generous manner in which their special appeal for donations to pay off the debt of the asylum had been responded to, by which they would be enabled to clear off the whole of the debt by the end of the present year. There were at present 350 inmates in the asylum, many of them of the most interesting nature. After making a strong appeal for extended support to so excellent an institution, he concluded by declaring the poll opened. It was announced that the names of the successful candidates wo-alcl be duly advertised in the daily papers. The Explosion at Erith.—The vestry clerk of the parish of Erith has received a communication from the Home Secretary to the effect that his attention had been called to the circumstance that a public thorough- fare passes on the top of the river embankment, and crosses the landing-stage close to the door, and within a couple of yards, of a powder magazine on the same level; and also, that persons who were smoking have frequently been seen passing along such thoroughfare. It was therefore suggested by Sir George Grey that the inhabitants of Erith should take immediate mea- sures to divert the roadway. The letter was submitted to a vestry meeting, and it was generally considered that the public road alluded to should not be interfered with. The river wall requires constant attention, and forty men are daily employed to strength the repairs already effected. Robbery by a. Post-office Official.-A clerk in the General Post-office, Cape-town, named Arm- strong, has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzling .£1,600, being the cash paid to him by the public for postage stamps. He had a good salary, but we believe lived in a style for whieh even a good in. come was not sufficient. Strange to say, his balances had never been checked since his appointment. The Postmaster-General relied on the chief clerk and the accountant, and these good easy gentlemen relied on Armstrong, and the result is that nearly .82,000 of the public money has gone amissing. Startled by this occurrence, the governor has appointed Messrs. Bourne and Overbeek a commission to inquire into the working of the Post-office department. It is thought that these gentlemen might well extend their inquiries into the working of other departments of the civil service. Fatal Railway Accident near Ballinasloe. —A fatal accident occurred on the Midland Great Fatal Railway Accident near Ballinasloe. —A fatal accident occurred on the Midland Great Western Railway, about five o'clock on Saturday evening, to the down train from Dublin to Galway. When about two miles from Ballinasloe, on the Dublin side, a third-class carriage in immediate connection with the engine ran off the rails and was propelled down the embankment, throwing the tender off the rails, and breaking the coupling between the tender and train. The engine ran a considerable distance in ad- vance of the train; the carriages following propelled the first carriage with so much force that it ran down the embankment into the adjoining field, dragging the others after it, and overturning the I first and second- class carriages, which were shattered to pieces. Mr. Glanville, a builder, of Ballinasloe, and a mason, named Henry, were killed. Five persons received serious injuries, and twenty others sustained slight contusions. Compensation for "Milton's House" in Barbican.—At the Lord Mayor's Court, before Mr. Commissioner Kerr and a special jury, a compensation case was tried, Hayward v. the Metropolitan Rail- way Company," to award a sum for the house No. 17, Barbican, in which Milton had for some time resided, and which was still standing. Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Potter were for the claimant; Mr. Lloyd and Mr. Hollway for the company. On the part of the claimant, a lady, nearly .£3,700 was claimed, and on the part of the company .£1,500 had been offered, and the value given was from .£1,999 to £ 2,200. Property, it was urged, had "gone up "in the City. The land, irrespective of the premises, was worth £ 200 a year. In 1860 a person who resides in Essex, and Who, it was stated, could not have known" what he was about," leased the premises at .£63 for 21 years, and on the same day the lessee sublet the premised at < £ 125. That lease had 17 years and a half to run, and the principal question in the case was the value of the reversion. Mr. Hawkins said that Milton had resided in the house which the jury had been to view in the year 1646, after the reconciliation with his first wife. Mr. Commissioner Kerr told the jury that witnesses became insensibly biassed in favour of the parties for whom they appeared, and that was the only way to account for the great difference in the opinion of the valuers. The jury eventually awarded £ 3,250. The Murder of a Child by its Mother — An inquest was held on Saturday before the Liverpool coroner on the body of Matilda Dawson, 22 months old, the daughter of a man residing at Toxteth-park. One of the witnesses, Mary Farrell, deposed that she went into Mrs. Dawson's on Thursday morning. She saw Mrs. Dawson on her knees, on a piece of carpet by the hearth-stone. She held her eldest child Mary Jane, aged 4J years, in front of her. At the same time witness saw that she had a table knife in her right hand, and was sharpening it on the hearth-stone. Witness asked her what she was doing with the child, and Mrs. Dawson then looked round, but did not speak. On witness giving her a push, she fell over the child. Witness then ran out of the room with the child, followed by Mrs. Dawson, who said, Bring Mary Jane back, for I have murdered Tilly." Witness shouted out, Murder," and Mrs. Dawson went back into her room, still keeping the knife in her hand. Mrs. Murphy came to witness's assistance, and they followed Mrs. Dawson into her room, as witness knew that there was a child five weeks old and the deceased. When they entered the room they found Mrs. Dawson sitting on the floor with the deceased, who was in a dying state with her throat cut, on her knee, and near her, under the window, there was a large quantity of blood. The woman's throat was also cut. After the coroner had summed up, the jury returned a verdict of Wilful murder against Catherine Dawson, that, person not being accountable for her actions at the time." The coroner told the foreman that they had nothing to do with that. Their verdict would be simply one of wilful murder against Catherine Dawson. Clerical Appointments and Vacancies.- Appointments-The Rev. R. C. Pascoe, Fellow of Exeter, Oxford, to the Principalship of the Exeter Theological College, vacant by the elevation of Dr. Harold Browne to the Bishopric of Ely. The Rev. E. J. Howman, of Corpus Christi, Cambridge, to the rectory of Bedworth, near Coventry; patron, the Earl of Aylesford. The llev. T. S„ Ackland, to the in- cumbency of Pollington-eum-Balne, York; patron, the Viscountess Downe. The Rev. J. Wise, of March, Cambridgeshire, to be commissary for the late Bishop of Colombo. The Rev. S, Buss to the chaplaincy of St, Pancras Workhouse. Vacancies-The rectory of Welford, Gloucestershire, the Rev. C. Davenport, deceased, < £ 500; patron, Lord Amherst. The vicarage of Knutsford, Cheshire, the Rev. R. Clowes, deceased, < £ 310; patrons, Lord de Tabley and others."The rectory of Bentham, diocese of Ripon, the Rev. W. Clayton, deceased, < £ 462; patron, Mr. J. W. Farrer. Girls attending Local Examinations.- Among our university intelligence (says the Cambridge Independent) will be found a copy of a memorial which has been presented to the Vice-Chancellor, praying that girls may be included in the system of the university local examination; and the committee who have originated the movement which has resulted in the memorial, have this week circulated in the uni- versity a brief statement of their views and objects. Their object in applying for girls to be admitted to the university local examinations is chiefly that "teachers may no longer be at a loss for some definite aim and standard to guide them in their work." The Dean of Canterbury is the chairman of the committee, and: among those who have signed the memorial, or sup- port the prayer of it, we observe the Countess of Clarendon, Mrs. W. E. Gladstone, Lady Page Wood, Lord Brougham, G. Grote, Esq., the Bishop of St David's, and Lord Lytteltan. The university, we have no doubt, will be quite willing that girls should be included in the local examinations, but who is to pay the expense? We cannot reasonably expect examiners to encounter so much additional labour without a proportionate increase of salary, and that increase certainly ought not to come out of the uni- versity chest. The university has already to boar the expense of a good deal of non-university work, and if an addition is to be made, where is it to stop ? Graveyard Intolerance—A recent visitor to the Isle of Wight acquaints us that while rambling in the burial ground attached to the Independent Chapel the burial ground attached to the Independent Chapel at Brading he was as much pained as surprised at lighting upon the following inscription on a tomb- stone :—" The three bodies here interred were denied Christian burial by the clergy of their respective parishes—the two children because they died unbap- tised, the youth because he had been baptised by a Wesleyan minister. This stone is erected as a tribute of affection for those whom Christ hath received, and as a standing testimony against clerical intolerance." He asks whether we have much right to boast of our superior civilisation when such a record as this is to be found in the burial-place of the dead. Nobility at Oxford University .—The following are now pursuing their studies at Oxford University:— Noblemen: His Grace the Duke of Hamilton and Brandon, at Christ Church; the Earl of Harrington, at Christ Church; the Earl of Eldon, at Christ Church; Lord Willoughby de Broke, at Christ Church; Hon. George Edmund Milne Mo nekton, eldest son of Viscount Galway, at Christ Church; the Earl of Caledon, at Christ Church; the Earl of Morley, at Balliol College; the Earl of Kerry, at Balliol College; the Earl of Jersey, at Balliol College. Gentlemen Commoners: Hon. Henry E. Butler, eldest son of Viscount Mountgarret, at Christ Church; Thomas Charles Agar Robartes, Esq., of Lanhyderock- Bodmin, at Christ Church; Fortescue J. Tynte, Esq., of Haslewell-house, Somersetshire, at Christ Church; Henry Jacques Tuftop, Esq., eldest son of Sir Richard Tufton, Bart., at Christ Church; Salusbury Main- waring, Esq., Oteley-park, Shropshire, at Christ Church; G. W. Griffith Thomas, Esq., Ystrad Mvnacle, at Christ Church; Charles S. Mainwaring, Esq., at u Christ Church; Arthur Hugh Smith Barry, Esq., Fraty-island, Cork, at Christ Church; Thomas E. Walker, at Christ Church Sewallis Evelyn Shirley, Esq., Eatington-park, Warwickshire, at Christ Church; Charles W.' Blundell, Esq., at Christ Church; Charles C. Cotes, Esq., at Christ Church; Lionel E. Darell, Esq., and Edward F. D&reli, Esq., sons of the Rev. Sir William Lionel Darell, Bart., Stroud, Gloucestershire, at Christ Church; A. Rickads, Esq., at Christ Church. Robbery by a Ticket-of-Leave Convict.— William Dunn, about 30 years of age, was brought up at the Thames Police-court, on remand before Mr. Partridge, charged with stealing a silver watch and chain and .£9.10s. in gold, the property and money of Mr. Arthur Newton Fiewker, of Gurney's Hotel, Little ) Britain. The depositions having been completed, Daniel Davey, 169 H, said the prisoner was a ticket- of-leave convict. He was tried at the Westminster Sessions on the 27th of January, 1859, for highway robbery. Several other convictions were proved again him, and he was sentenced to seven years' penal servitude. The prisoner was liberated on the 8th of June last, with a ticket of leave, and there were then eighteen months of his sentence unexpired. Mr. Part- ridge committed him for trial. ) Attempt to Drown a Wife.—A man, named Lyons, a farm labourer, was brought before the Wigan magistrates, on the charge of attempting to drown his wife. The prisoner, an idle, dissipated man, and his wife latterly have had no home of their own, the woman residing with her mother. Mrs. Lyons, who is a very decent-looking young woman, before her mar- riage moved in a respectable sphere. On Tuesday she was brutally illused by her husband, because she asked him to furnish her with money. The husband and his brother then attempted to get away from her, but she followed until the men reached Poolstock, a suburb of the town, and here they turned on to the bank of the canal. Her husband halted, and his companion passed on, and he then declared with an oath that he would drown his wife if she came on another step. She did so, not imagining he would carry out his threat, and he seized her in his arms, flung her in the canal, and then ran away. His brother-in-law returned to tie spot in time to rescue the woman as she sunk for the second time. Several girls came up at the moment, and the woman, who was in a very exhausted condi- tion was taken home and put to bed. The prisoner was remanded. Trials of New Lifeboats.-Some harbour trials of three new lifeboats, to be stationed on the Lincoln- shire coast, took place on Wednesday in the Regent's Canal Dock, Limehouse. A large number of persons had assembled to witness the trials. The boats are of the same size, being respectively thirty feet long, seven feet three inches wide, and rowing eight oars, double- banked, and their self-righting qualities were fully and satisfactorily tested on the occasion. The water each boat shipped was self-ejected, through patent valves, in twenty-five seconds. The cost of the lifeboats, amounting to about .£800, has been presented to the National Lifeboat Institution by different benevolent persons. The Skegness lifeboat is named the Herbert Ingram, after the late representa-tive in Parliament of Boston. The cost of this lifeboat was raised by Mrs. Ingram's friends. The Donna Nook boat is called the North Briton, after a ship on board which the donor had made a long add prosperous voyage. The Theddle- thorpe boat is named the Dorinda and Barbara, the gift of two attached friend. The National Lifeboat In- stitution has now 137 lifeboats under its management. Watering Places without Water.—A cor- respondent gives a rather startling account of the results of the long drought'in three midland water- ing places-Great Malvern, Cheltenham, and Clifton -reducing them to the anomalous position of water- ing places without water." From the month of March up to the middle of October (excepting for a week in September) scarcely any rain fell in the dis- trict, and the effect has been sufficiently remarkable for historical record. At Malvern the water patients have been put upon short allowance, and the main public spring for a long time dropped water in such small quantities as to take five minutes to fill a tumbler, while a second spring at North Malvern was shut up. At Clifton the inhabitants were even worse off, and the supply was intermittent, while the quality was decidedly inferior. At Cheltenham, called" the Queen of watering places," the supply of the pure element has been so deficient as to call into existence a new water company. The resources of the old com- pany proved inadequate to the requirements of an increasing population, and they applied to Parliament for a bill to take water from the Severn, nine miles off but the inhabitants strenuously opposed it, and the schene was abandoned. The company then sunk a deep well in the centre of the town, but this only drained the present wells. A new company, under the title of The Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Water Company (Limited)," has consequently been formed for obtaining a supply from a famous spring at South Cerney, on the Cotswold Hills, distant seven- teen miles. These springs are of great purity, and yield over three million gallons of water a day, so that, should the project be carried out, Cheltenham will have an ample and certain supply for the future. Fall of a Gable in Edinburgh.—Between two and three o'clock on Tuesday morning a large part of the gable of a house in the Lawn-market of Edinburgh. known as Gowanslochs-land," fell with a heavy crash, startling the whole neighbourhood. The build- ing, which is seven stories in height, had been ordered for demolition by the authorities on account of insta- bility and decay, and the inmates, consisting of a large number of families, had all been removed some months ago. The adjoining house to the west had been taken down shortly after. the calamity in the High-street three years ago, and the west wall of Gowanlochs- land" propped by great beams extending from the house still farther west. The windows of the huge building, one of the biggest, and certainly the ugliest, in the town, had been taken out; it had also been partially unroofed, and the work of taking down the walls had begun. It was the south half of the west gable that fell, next the street, crushing the hoarding erected in front and forming a large pile of rubbish. The inmates of the higher stories of the house to the west were warned out, owing to the threatening state of the north part of the gable. It was extremely fortunate that the fall did not take place in the day- time, when there is usually a great deal of* traffic in the street. Extraordinary Hoax.—A Fleetwood woman being. unable to raise the wind, hit upon the novel expedient of writing to her own and husband's relatives announcing the demise of her husband, who was to be carried away for interment at Belfast by the steamer leaving Fleetwood the following evening. A large company was of course invited to the "wake," and l sundry hints given, expressing a. hope that as the deceased had died very poor and left a large family his friends would send something handsome for the occa- sion. The friends of the deceased, however, expended on themselves all. that was necessary in order to show becoming respect to their relative, and then brought with them cash enough to keep a wake," and pay°all necessary expenses. In addition to this, however, we .believe that one of them brought for the widow a set of mourning weeds." Next day seven or eight of the" sorrowing" relatives arrived per train in Fleet- wood, and on proceeding to the residence of the "deceased" were disappointed and shocked to find themselves the subjects of a. shameless hoax. Mutter- ings of wrath and recrimination followed this discovery, which, however, were speedily turned into laughter by the appearance of the deceased," not coffined and shrouded for his last resting-place, but clothed in his usual garb, and as ready as any of the" weepers" around to enter into the festivities of keeping his own "wake." On the discovery that the dead was alive again, and that the lost was found, a sort of merry making ensued. Fire at Hull.—A very disastrous fire has occurred in the grain warehouses and drying kilns of Messrs. R. Oxtoby and Sons, on the Harbour Side, at Hull. The premises are calculated to hold ten thousand quarters of grain, and were nearly two-thirds full. Within a quarter of an hour of the first appearance of the fire the whole building was one mass of dames. To attempt to save any portion of its valuable contents would have been fruitless, and the attention of the firemen was therefore directed, if possible, to prevent the fire from spreading. Messrs. Oxtoby, about two years since, fitted up the building with a most powerful engine and machinery for drying grain, and all were destroyed. The roof fell in within an hour. Almost adjoining the burning warehouse is a store containing hundreds of barrels of tar. Happily, however, the fire was restricted to the warehouse, but the loss cannot fall short of < £ 80,@00. The Messrs. Oxtoby, we under- stand, are insured to a considerable amount. Hotel Robberies.—A young man, calling himself Alexander Blume, and a native of Geneva, was charged before the Lord Mayor at York with having committed a robbery in the Great Northern Hotel (Mrs. Shaw's), Tanner-row. On Monday night, Mr. A. C. Sherriif. the Mayor of Worcester, slept at the above hotel, and be- tween seven and eight o'clock on Tuesday morning he was disturbed by hearing a noipe in his bed-room. On looking up he saw the prisoner with his (Mr. SherriiTs) trousers in his hand, and apparently in the act of plundering them. Mr. Sherriff called out "thief," and the prisoner immediately took to his heels and left the house. He was followed by the "boots" through Rail- way-street into Micklegate, where he was secured. On inquiries being instituted it was ascertained that Blume, who was dressed in a stylish manner, had stayed all night at the North Eastern Hotel, York. Next morning he paid his bili there, and then went into the city and paid a visit to Gray's Adelphi Hotel, in Micklegate, and to the White Horse Inn, Copper- gate. Alleged Cruelty to a Child.—Annie Smith, a middle aged married woman, was charged at Lambeth, before Mr. Elliott with being drunk and illusing her child 15 months old. Edward Davis, a butcher, said that on Saturday afternoon he saw the prisoner near Lambeth-walk in a state of excessive drunkenness, and carrying the child in her arms. Considering the child in great danger, he watched her for some time, during which time she went into two beer-shops and had a halfpennyworth of beer in each, and knocked the head of the unfortunate child three times against the wall, causing it, to scream violently. The passers-by called out shame, and, having no doubt that she would have done some serious injury to her child, he took it from her, wrapped it up in his aprcn and gave it and the prisoner into the charge of a constable. The witness added that the child was in a very filthy state, and was nearly naked, having only a thin wretched rag to cover her, and had he (witness) not protected her, she would have been limbed by the wives of the men in the employment of Messrs. Maudsley, in the West- minster-road. The prisoner said she went out to get some soap and soda, and got a drop too much. Mr. Elliott remarked, that it was quite shocking to see the mother of children in such a state, and asing such cruelty towards her offspring, and convicted her in a penalty of 20s. or 20 days.

Money Market CITY, Nov. I.-The Stock Exchange is closed to-day, by order of the Committee, and we have, consequently, no transactions to report in stocks and shares. Owing chiefly to an inquiry for gold and silver for abroad, the demand for j money is more active to-day, and there is no disposition to take good three months' bills below 81 per cent.

The Corn Trade MARK-LANE, OCT. 31.—There was again firmness in the English Wheat market, supplies being moderate, and pur- chases readily made. Nearly all brought forward was dis- posed of at rates ranging for new white at 40s to 45s, and red at 35s to 40s per quarter. Foreign in good demand, and rates full up, supply having diminished, and the terms obtained were 36s to 44s, and for prime, 45s to 49s. —A fair sale was experienced for American, and prices ruled stiff, white selling at 42s to 45s, and red at 33s to 41s.-Floating cargoes of Wheat were dealt in with .more readiness, and firm prices obtained.—Flour sold full up, with a fair trade: town-made, 33s to 40s; country, 27s to 32s; French and Spanish, 33s to 36s per sack; and Ame- rican,20s 6d to 24s per barrel.—Although a good demand for Barley, still rates remain low, malting selling at 29s to 36s; distilling and grinding, 24s to 28s.-Only a moderate trade for Malt and rates weak, pale selling at 58s to 64s, and brown 50s to 52s per quarter.—Oats continue to be largely purchased, and prices to range stiff, supply being less plentiful: English and Irish brought 17s 6d to 24s; Scotch, 20s to 26s; and Foreign, 17s.to 24s.—A slow trade for Beans, and rates in purchasers' favour, small English selling at 37s to 42s; midd. size, 35s to 37s; and large, 33s to 35s.-Peas are wanted; white and pearl brought 38s to 42s, and grey, 34s to 38s.—A good demand for Maize, at 29s to 30s, and market firm.-Linseed dealt in with more readiness, and market in a firmer position; Odessa brought 58s, and East. India 58s to 62s.—Rapeseed wanted, and rate*, stiff, East India at 53s to 64s.—Many contracts in Linseed Cakes prices for town-made are jSlO 15s to £115s; Ameri- can, L10 15s; best, in bags, L10 10s to R10 15s; Western, £9 10s to d39 15s, and Marseilles, R9 15s.-Trade dull for Rapeseed Cakes, at £5 10s to £6 5s per ton. LIVERPOOL, Nov. I.-The market fairly attended. Wheat in moderate demand at full rates. Flour unaltered. Indian corn in good demand, at 64. dearer. Beans steady. Oats rather dearer. Oatmeal held at 6ii. advance. HOPS, BOROUGH, OCT. 31.—Messrs. Pattenden and Smith report a; continued steady demand for all descriptions of new hops. Fine samples are scarce and command higher rates. Prices generally improving. COTTON, LIVERPOOL, Nov. I.-The market sten- AND. sales probably 8,000 bales. TALLOW, Nov. I.-The market is steady. Town tallow is quoted 42s net cash; Petersburg Y. C. on the spot, ,1,;8 (3d; all the month, 40s 3d; December, 41s; January to jilarch, 42s; March, 43a. HAY, SMITHFIELD, Nov. 1.—Messrs. Harvey and Easton report trade firm at the following prices :—Prime moadew hay, 80s to 110s; clover, old, 100.3 to 130s; ditto new, swoafi cut, 90s to 110s; straw, 27s to 32s. FRUIT AND VEGETABLES, CovENT-ftABDEN --The market is still crowded with all kinds of hardy i r-.ht in season, especially pears, of which there is abundance of ad- mirable specimens. Among the latter are Marie Louise, Duchess d'Angouleme, Crassane, and others. Grapes are likewise sufficient for the demand; among them are Dutch Hamburgs at from 9el to Is per lb. Of pine apples there is but a limited supply. Kent filberts and cobs fetch from 75s to 85s per lOOlbs. Walnuts are very plentiful, and oranges begin to make their appeal ance. Lemons fetch from 5s to 10s per 100. Tomatoes are large and fine. For potatoes there is a heavy sale. Flowers chiefly consist of orchids, heaths, asters, fuchsias, mignonette, and roses. Pine apples per lb, 6s to 8s; Grapes, per lb, Is to 5s; Peaches, per aoz., 6s to'183; Nectarines, ditto, 2s to 6s; Melons, each, Is to 4s; Figs, per doz., Is Od to 2s Od; Plums per i sieve, 2s to 4s; Pears, per doz., Is Cd to 3s: Oranges, per 100, 6s to 12s; Lemons, pr 100, 5stol0s; Nuts, Barcelona, 16s per lOOlbs.; New Brazil, 10s per lOOlbsS Almonds, 18s to 20s per 100; Apples per sieve, Is Od to 2s Cabbages, per doz., Is to 2s; French Beans per 1 sieve, 3s to 4s Potatoes York Regents, per ton, 60s to 80s; Rocks, do., 453 to 60s' Flukes, 60s to 90s; Carrots, per bunch, 4d to 9d; Turnips' per bunch, 6d to 8d; Cucumbers, each, 4d to Is; Baet per doz., Is 6d to 2s; Shalots, per lb., 8d; Garlic, per lb 8d* Lettuces, each, Id to 2d; Endive, per score Is to* 2s ■ Horseradish, per bunch, Is to 4s; Mushrooms' pe' pott. Is to Is 9d; Parsley, per 12 bunches, 3s to 4s Herbs, per ¡ bunch,6d.

I Cattle Market. METROPOLITAN MARKET, OCT. 31.-The number oi beasts is again smaller, and the average quality is scarcely improved. Choice descriptions are readily disposed of at fully late rates, and in some instances higher prices are obtained. The supply of sheep is also much smaller, and. best qualities are rather dearer; but inferior kinds !1::e still; I difficult of sale. Calves are rather dearer than on Th dav From Germany and Holland there are 3,030 beasts" 7,<33& sheep, 321 calves, and 60 pigs; Spain, 90 beasts Sc^-Iaud 40 beasts; Ireland, 560; and 1,960 from the north-n "and midland counties. Per stone of 81bs. s. d. a. d. Per stone of 81bs. s. fo. s. tL Best scots, Hfds. 5 2 5 4 Best Long-wools 4 10 5 2 Bast Short-homs 4 10 5 2 Do. do. shorn 0 0 0 f; 2nd. qua!, beasts 3 4 3 10 Ewes & 2d. qual 4 4 f- Calves 3 8 5 2 Do. do. shorn. 0 0 ft 0 Pigs 3 0 5 0 Lambs .000 BestDns& J-bdss. 5 4 5 8 Beasts at market, 5 9i0; ghee? and Lambs, 20,GS' -'H'-rd* 1 322; Pigs, 290,