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      CORN MARKET . llark-lanc , Friday , September 5 , 185 C . Tjte supplies of English and Foreign Wheat during tho week have been limited , but in order to effect sales of the fortnor a decline of 3 s . to 4 s . must bo submitted to , and the quantity of tho latter held herd is too small to make holders anxious to press snles , yet prices hare fallen Is . to 23 . There , liavo been very few arrivals off the coast sinco last Friday , Danube "Wheat is held at 47 s . to 50 s . Galatz Maize now shipping has been sold at 30 s ., cost , freight and Insurance , whilo a , cargo arrived lias been sold at 35 s ., and one or two near at ; hand may bo had at 35 s . Od . Oats are firm , and thero is no change to report in cither Barley , Beans , or Peas .

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      The Boiler Explosion near Burt . —The inquest on the nine persons killed by the recent boiler explosion at the bleach and dye woiks of Messrs . Warburton and Holker , near Bury , was brought to a close on Friday week . The jury , after a consultation of three-quarters of an hour , found that the boiler was very defective , and working at a much higher pressure of steam , than it was calculated to bear ; that the plates of the boiler had been corroded by the dampness oftlie brickwork , and reduced to one-third of their original thickness ; and that the owners had not exercised sufficient caution . They recommended a Government inspection . The coroner told them that this amounted to a verdict of Accidental death . ; and a verdict to that effect was accordingly entered in the inquisition .

      The Harvest . — A favourable change having taken place in the -weather , a large breadth of corn apd other cereal crops Txaa been got in ; but the accounts from various parts of England show that the recent rains have had a deteriorating effect . Wheat and harley have , in many instances , begun to sprout ; but the chilliness of tie temperature has kept the evil in-some check . There has also leen some discoloration , and in several localities a degree of over-ripeness , owing to a scarcity of labour . For tho same reason , labourers are commanding very high wages , there being less competition than usual from Irish reapers . As ranch as thirty shillings an acre has been asked for getting in the crops . Prices have again gone up . Notwithstanding the damage done by the rains ( which , has probably been exaggerated by the farmers ) , it is believed there will be an average yield ; and the moisture has brought the root crops forward admirably .

      Health of London . —The present return shows a continued improvement in the public health . In the three previous weeks , the deaths registered in London were 1232 , 1250 , and 1122 j last week , they were 1081 . The present rate of mortality is very near the average rate of corresponding weels in ten previous year 3 , if the excess of deaths produced by epidemic cholera in 1849 and 1854 is not admitted into the comparison . The deaths caused by diarrhoea , which in three preceding vreeks were 211 , 253 , and 214 , declined last-week to lftO . This disease was fatal last week to 141 children

      who were less than a year old . The cases referred to cholera , and which previously numbered more than 20 , were , last week only 11 , and 8 of these occurred to children . With regard to other diseases in the epidemic class , the return exhibits satisfactory results ; the numbers are either less than or do not exceed the ordinary amount , Tliere were no less than 8 fatal cases of carbuncle . Fourteen children are registered as having died from want of breast-milk or inanition , 42 from atrophy , 36 from debility , and 31 from convulsions . Mr . Wilson ,

      a registrar 5 n MaryleboJie , makes some observations on this" waste of infant life , which his experience leads him to attribute , to a considerable extent , to the practice -which prevails among domestic servants and others of putting out their children to nurse . Three women died last week at the respective ages of 90 , 96 , and 98 years . Last week , the births of 909 boys and 869 girls—in all 1778 children—were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 , the average number was 1431 . —From the Registrar-General ' s' Weekly Return .

      A Fatax . Practical Joke . —Mr . James Cooper , and Messrs . Edmund and Alfred Hoof , gentlemen of Brentwood , lately hired a stable of a baker named John George , to keep their stud of horses in . They determined to celebrate the bargain by a 'jollification , ' and accordingly sent for several bottles of port , and made the baker excessively djunk . Rumour asserts that the wine was drugged ; but , fee this as it may , George became insensible , and the ' gentlemen * smeared his face and parts of his body with red ochre , made a red mark round hia neck , to give the appearance of the throat being cut , placed him in a barrow with his head hanging down , and wheeled him home . The result was that he died . An inquest has been opened , but is adjourned for a . post-mortem examination , in order that it may be discovered -whether anything deleterious was given to the man . Mr . Cooper made his appearance , and was held to bail ; bat the Messrs- Hoof are not forthcoming .

      Reverend Disputants . —A correspondence between the Rev . Hugh M'Neile and the Rev . W . J . Conybeare appears in the Times of Wednesday . It has reference to a statement published in . the Edinburgh Review , as long ago as three years , in tlie course of an articlo written by Mr . Conybeare , to the effect that Dr . M'Neilo belongs to " the extreme section of the Evangelical party , " that he , in common with his followers , preaches " the worthlessness of morality . " This , Dr . M'Neile indignantly denies , and states that he demanded , at tlio time the article was published , that tho statements should bo proved or retracted ; bwt no answer was returned . To hia second application to tho same effect , Mr . Conybearo replies ( without alluding to tho charge of disregarding morality ) that ho cannot retract what he said about Dr . M'Neilo leading tho extreme section of the Evangelical party , " as it is unquestionably true . "

      A Strange Rumouk . — ¦ -We are official ^ authorized to declare ( says tho Times , in its largest type ) that a report which has been circulated by some of the daily journals of this and other countries , to tho effect that the Portuguese Government hnd applied to the British Government for a squadron on tho occasion of the recent broad riots at Lisbon , 3 a totnlly destitute of foundation . Manchester Mechanics' Exhibition . —The opening of this exhibition , on tho 9 th instant , is to take plnco with less ceremony than was intended . In addition to tho excuse of Lord Palmerston , who is prevented from attending by tho death of his brother , tho committee of management have also , received letters from other distinguished gentlemen on , whose nasistnnco they hnd calculated , and have thorcforo given up their intention of holding an evening meeting at tho Thoatro Royal . Mr . Oliver Heywood , the President of tho Mechanics' Institution , will deliver nn address in tho morning , and it in expected that n considerable numbor of tho aeaaon ticket holders will bo present .

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      Aberdeen , — , —; Caledonian , 52 , B 2 J ; Chester and Holy , head , 16 i , 174 ; Eastern Counties , « , Oi ; Great Northern , 95 J , 96 & ; Great Southern and Western ( Ireland ) , 117 , 119 Great Western , 64 } , € 5 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire , 97 i , 975 ; London and Blackball , 6 f , 7 ; Xondon , Brighton , and South Coast , 105 , 107 ; London and North-Western . 103 J , 104 ; London and South Western , 106 , 106 J ; Midland , 80 * , 80 f i North-Eastem ( Berwick ) , 80 , 81 ; South Eastern ( Dover ) , 72 J , 734 ; Antwerp and Rotterdam , 7 f , 7 J ; Dutch Rhenish , 2 J , 2 g pm . ; Eastern of Erauce ( Pans and Strasbourg ) , 36 i , 37 $ ; Great Central of Trance , 6 J , 6 f pm . ; Great Luxembourg , 4 J , 5 J ; Great Western of Canada , 244 , 245 NamurandXiege , 9 i , 95 ; Northern of France , 40 , 404 ; Paris and Lyons 53 , 53 }; Royal Danish , 19 } , 205 ; Royal Swedish , b . II ; Sambro and Mouse , 121 . 13 .

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      FROM THE LONDON GAZ E TTE . Tuesday , September 2 . BANKRUPTCY ; ANNULLED . — John Beoadhuest , Stoke-upon-Trent , earthenware manufacturer . BANKRUPTS . —William Iainbrid < je and Josefit James Dale , otherwise Joseth James Dele , otherwise Josete James Djem ., Soutlwari-bridge-road , shoo manufacturers—Jane Xi / izA Noeton and Geoege Zacamah White , Harrow-road , stone merchant—John" Ross , Brunswick-terrace , Comtnercial-road Hast , shipowner—John Ca&-PENrEK , Hythe , Hants , grocer—Geobge Hebton , Chapelplace , South Audley-street , Grosvenor-square , licensed victualler—John Cosbett , Birmingham , licensed victualler —Edmund Roberts , Derby , jeweller—Allen SeabeXiL , Furzely-niill , near Ashburton , miller—Benjamin Greeting , Manchester , manufacturer of wire fencing—James Tatxob . Tottington-lower-entl , Lancashire , cotton-spinner . SCOTCH SEQUESTRASJOIfS . —R . Thomson , Glasgow , wr iter—G . Dougxas , Airdrie , watchmaker—J . MitcheIE , Glasgow , cuirier—T . E wing , T ? alkirk , nurseryman .

      Friday , September 5 .. BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED . — Livian Benson Peabse , brick * tile , lime , and cement merchant , York-road , King ' s-cross , Middlesex—Theodore Diedexch : WimEiai Chk 3 stian Setd , private hotel keeper , 39 , Finsbury-square , and IS , Wilson-sfcreet . . BANKRUPTS . — Joseph Miller , publican , Bevoisstreet , Southampton—Samuel Davis , grocer , Bristol—Ed \ va . kd Wm . Perky , mercliant , Fenchurch-buildings—GoDTEEX Gkegobt Pipe , grocer , Birmingham—Heitrt Jajies Bhown , cheesemonger . Queen ' s-buildings , Knightsbridge— Donald M'Lf ktx , John M'Keanv and Robert Lamiont , merchaivbs . Iiiverpoql—Wiiliam Bkittain Jon . es , groc-ei-, Birmingham—Sa 5 ID el Smith , machine maker , Northampton—William Sjiith , banker , Watford , Hertfordshire—James Adams , milhvriglit , Crown Wharf , Shad Thames—James Thomas , grocer , Ebbw Vale , Monmouthshire—Peter Scaiteeg-ood , machine maker , Stapleford—Nathaniel ELLIOTT , cigar dealer , Manchester . : ; . ¦ SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS . —James Steel and Soira , engineers and iroa founders , Dundee—Haul arid Robson , sewed muslin warehousemen , Glasgow—Messrs . James and Thomas M'Keamd , oil merchants , Glasgow . .

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      September 6 , 1856 . ] T H E 1 , B A D E B . 861

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      ¦ ' . ' . BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . . BIRTHS . ¦ Dtf ^ SANY . —On the 10 th ulfc ., at the seat of her father , IiOrdSherborno , in Gloucestershire , tho lady Dunsany : ¦ a son . M 0 ORE- —On the 29 th ult ., at Frittenden . tho Lady Harriot MToore : a daughter . EUMBALL . —On the 10 th ult ., at Lisbon , the wife of Thomas Rumball , Esq . - CE .: a daughter . TURNOR . —On the 29 th ult ., at Stoke Rocliford , the Lady Caroline Tumor : ' a daughter . "WHITTY —On tho 4 th inst ., Mrs . E . M . Whitty , under tho influence of chloroform : a son . MARRIAGES . DITNIAGOU-FLEETWO 0 D . —On tho 22 nd of July , from Hill House , Windsor Forest , tho scat of Sir Hesketh Fleotwood , Bart , ( godfather of tho bride ) , according to tlie Roman Catholic and Protestant rites , Monsieur Antoino Laurent Airne Duniagou , of Calais , to Emma-Flcotwood , third surviving daughter of U . C . Moroton-Dycr , Esq . HOPKINS—BAIN BRIG GE- —On tho 27 th ult ., at Titchfield Church , Captain Francis Powell Hopkins ; 15 th Regiment of Foot , only son of "William Hopkins , Esq ., M . A ., St . Peter ' s College , Cambridge , to Rachel Elizabeth , third daughter of Liieut .-Gcn . Bainbriggo , C . B . LIDDELL—WABRINGTON . — On tho 2 fith ulfc ., afc St . Saviour's Church , Jersey , Captain tho Hon . Hodworth XAddcll , 41 st Regiment , second son of tho Right Hon . lord Ravens-worth , to Florence , second daughter of "WU-1 lam Henry Warrington , Esa-, eldest son of tho lato Colonel Hiimncr WurThigton , H . M . 's Consul-Gonoral at Tripoli . OLLIER—DENKIN . —On tlio 30 th ult ., at St . Mary's , Wosfc Urompton , Mr . Charles Oilier , jun .. to Ellen Mary , only child of tho lato Thomas Denkm , Esq . DEATHS . A' 3 BECKETT . —On tho 28 th wit ., at Boulogno-aur-Mor , ago , 3 years and 3 months , Waltor Horace Callandor A'Bockott , or malignant Boro throat ; also , at thosaihoplaco , on tho : 10 th ult ., aged 45 , Gilbert Abbot A'Bcckett , Esq ., of Iondon , father of tho abovo . of congestion of tho V ) rain , greatly Augmented by anxiety consequent upon the illness of his son . A SK 15 Y . —On Lho 28 th ult , drowned by tho upsetting of his boat , whilst on duty in Btudland Hay , Sydney Yovko Askoy , of the Const tiunrd Service , 8 wanago , Dorset . GOltDES . —Oiv tho 23 rd ult ., accidentall y drowned b . v tho BwavnphiK of a boat in . Plymouth Sound , James Jamleson CordoH , jim-i Eso ., of Onius CoIIobo , CaYnbridgc , the youngest son of James Jnmioson Cordos , Esq ., ol tho WoodlnntlH , 5 r » thn county of Monmouth , ngcd 21 . ROSS . —On tho 80 th ult ., at Gilltnghavn-streot , Pimlico , Roar-Adrairnl Siv John lloss , C . U ., to tlio ( loop regret of hi . s relations and friends , 1 u tho 70 th year of hi * am . SCHIMLMELPENNINCK . —On tho 20 th iiH ., at hor resilience , a , HaTloy-plncc , 01 irton , in tho 78 tli year of her age , Mary Ann Soliimniolixmninek . WHSTMACOTX . —On thu 1 st in 8 t ., at his roHidcnco , South Audloy-strcct , Sir Richard Wostinncolt > ll . A ., i » thts 82 nd year of his aRo .

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      London , Friday Evening , September 5 , 1856 . Fine weather , and excellent accounts from all parts of the country of the abundance of harvest , has not had corresponding effect upon tho Funds . Tlie monthly settling is uowcloseat hand , and . perhaps tho closing of several Bull accounts has been one of the causes that has depressed the market . But , above all , thero is languor and inactivity in the Stock Exchange ; half the merabors aro away , and the amount off business transacted insignificantly small . Heavy ? haie 3 a J « £ »* tho only line in which there has been Y

      : , , ^^ - ^^ nbrfn iS n ^ iSi tt 5 h . ' Tte «^ rnfi rotn Paris of the Money Market aro not cheering . Tho last & « VT £ on haS ^ off ve . 7 lamoly , and prices in Bhares and ™™\ l \ have not been maintained . The suspension of pavments _ by the Royal British Bank ha 3 had a gloomy effect In ho City . Tho bank in question has been suspected for some lmc and tlie shares were greatly depreciated . If the whole truth of good and bad debts liabilities and assets , of every Joint-Sto « k Bank coulcl be known , and the question raised as to whether the best of them aro in a position to pay their shareholders such large dividends , how many could stand ; ne ordeal ? ' .

      ? The price of all the Joint-Stock Banks has been affected ay this stoppage . East Indian shares aro still a . favourite investment . Great Western of Canada has decline ! 12 s . 6 d per share , owing to forced sales from the country , and the temporary dispute existing between thej English and Canadian directors . Grand Trunk of Canada areT firmer . Ottoman and Egyptian Banks are flatter . _ Ceylon and Riga Railways stand at about 1 $ premiumtne other new lines show no improvement . A demand for a few ; shares in good Cornish mineshas been shown during the week . United Mexicans remain at 4 tl . per share . ¦ ¦ - . Consols for Money , 94 b , 95 ; for Account , 85 J , 95 f .

      We are desirous of directing the attention of our readers to a Company which has just been formed for working one of those mines of wealth which have hitherto received but little attention , though whether considered as an investment for capita ] , or as a means of cheapening and augmenting food , the particular branch of industry alluded to may well demand consideration . Wo refer to the British Steam Fisheries Company—another result of tho Limited Liability Act . The capital is 100 , 0002 ., in 10 , 000 shares of lOZ . eaclt : and Mr . Roebuck , M . P ., is the Chairman of tho Board of Directors . The Company truly remark in their Prospectus that " our Fisheries remain in the same state in which they were two centuries ago ; " yet the employment of steam power would greatly increase and facilitate tho means of gathering in the great harvest of the deep . This journal called attention in ts leading columns , about a year ago , to the Irish Fisheries ; but the British Fisheries are surely still more important .

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      BRITISH FUNDS FOR THE PAST WEEK . ( Closino Pkiceb . ) Sat . 3 fon . Tues . Wed . T ? ucr- Frid Bank Stock 2191 2194 219 220 220 3 por Cent . Red 9 DJ » 5 if « r > J 951 95 f 95 J S per Cant . Con . An . 95 95 !)< tl 94 J 95 95 Consols for Account 95 $ . 95 i 1 ) 5 9 < tJ 95 05 No \ v 3 porCont . An . 90 90 9 o 5 95 } 95 J 95 J Now 2 $ per Cents Long Ana . 1800 India , Stock 2 : J 2 232 Ditto JJonds , £ 1000 15 p ir > p 15 P Ditto , under j ? 100 O 15 p 17 p 17 p 17 p Ex . Bills , . £ 1000 15 p 15 i ) IBP 15 p 15 p 12 p Ditto , . C 500 15 p 12 V ™ ™ Ditto , Small 12 p 15 p lap ...... 16 p 10 p

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      FOREIGN FUNDS . ( Last Ofeioia . 1 . Quotation DumiNa the Week ending VRf at Evening . ) lirazilIan Bonds 103 Portuguese 4 por Oonts . 001 liuonoB Ayrcs fl p . Cei > ... Russian Bonds , 5 por Chilian tf por Cent . s ,. / Gonta , 109 Chilian 3 por Cents Russian dj por Cents .... U 85 Dutch 24 per Cents 65 t SpjmlHh 44 } Dutch 4 por Cent , Ccrtf . 08 j Spanish Cominittoo Cor . Hqtiodor Honda of Coup , not fun Moxiciui Account 22 « ' , TurKish ftpor Cotits 103 J Peruvian 44 por Co > itn .... 8 H Turkish Now , 4 ditto ... 103 J PortuKiiCBO 3 por Oonts . ... | Vonozuola , 44 por Conta . ...

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 6, 1856, page 861, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2157/page/21/