The Express. — London, England, 1850-03-08 00:00:00

1051 RY 11BSTING8 IN CHURCHES. On the Iselin of Nt. WOOD leave woe give* to bring is h ;; is prevost the bolding of vestry meetings in cbsevisea ' ga for regulating the epeeists/et of vestry clerks. RELIEF OF THE POOR. AP SIR moved t hikes is a bill regaled% the die e of the poor rata in sonsis tows l o ne wu sires. THE ROYAL NAVY. Oa Or modes Waif. arm; the Sensitise Mune were erdfitemd u rri, is celassse,of the same of "sae/ Mr 11= eivre sod noels of war. distisedelting these is ens age in mammy, on the Ist day of Jansen, 1830; stating where and whoa bash. and by whom built; the tesseee, b rea dth of beam, depth of hold, extreme lesetk of hi keel and gun deck fin tontine, the member sad rim of same; die cieguishing those ships fit lee servin, and the ',Plasma VIM "e so b., the exposes of each sklp, stating the total expense of each, of the eon pr ton, distinguishing separately Mesa `IIIWIN and the power et Asir @asides ; also the sirgreasto number of toes sad the agiresees east of the whole; of to. somber ships is erdhtary, a each year sines 1828, static, the number ot toss of Pith slam h isrega tonns is r etilieery ;of the nersber suships ecimmission. eiss,., in sack year since 1828, stating the somber dew of oath elan (is coetinsatios of Return, page 39, of impact of Isis', and the aggregate tonnage in commission. And or event, is abstract, of tbe total amount expended ea each of s,, Si.jrsty's "hips and vessels in building and in repairing, at brute and abroad, for establishment of dockyards, sad for the repair and improvement of dockyards, distisguishiag the &mount at home sad abroad, under them three basis, in n ick year sines 1828, end stating the aggregate expesse of each year," PORT OF NEWCASTLE. Mr. WAWN towed for senora nterito Maths to the C,, t omr waits of the port of Netrertlo-spos•Tysto. A z retd to. PANNE SETTLEMENT ON THE GOLD COAST. M T II 1 . ME n.oved for ropier or ortracto of tbe sure t had taken place b•toreen the pogrom:%T= mark a, a the Bytish government respecting the ;weir* of the eettleoust !elates, to Denstask ea the Gold Coast. *teed to. LIN lON SCHOOLS. Mr. EAMES moved to bring to a till to make better rots's§ tee the rontnbutions of anions and parishes, in t eed diaries, to the common tunas of their respective Curiae. The s.sin object of the bill nu to amend the act 1845, by esablio t all the perithee to take their aver• apt expenditure for the same period. She media was agmed to. CAS= OF CRISH22IA Boy! WITITL. 10.1 Fair - Aid eseeed T. ;ei - duies - sitit; ;Wee Ina. NI F. besagy, sad substitute the following :—Thst there t Wore this hoses sepias the dmpatehts hem the F ..t e y ereersaaat reopening the dams of Crisham' Row gill, siIkIPS4OSSINII ; she copies el any orders or Mortar mood by dm Coen of Dingman of the last ladis Cole t •.,gg Samos ; teletther with s espy of say " dames* re , • Ihe Mathias& meiabers of the wart Si the subject. Amyl 10 . Iig.tiISTRAR CA RRIAGE OF METROPOLITAN BILL. PUBLIC S paned throsok committee. TM ...her ceders of the dey havieg been disposed of, the to ,gg a.keurard at a quatter•pett 12 o'clock. tile rtoo. orroorso MAIM The wain for British North Amain and the tailed Met% will be aide up this riming. The mill for Lisboa, Spain, and Gibraltar will be made tr. ea ire I;ti inst. Ti. Best lad Mails. eaciadiag Bermuda, Hamaaals, Bums. darn, New Gamins, Sid Mutes, aid including *see tor Madeira. St. Jasa-tle-Nisamita, New Granada, Qua, aid Paced' be made up an the ITth inst. Ti' Mile for Gibraltar, liana, farm*, the linen Islastds, Lis. Ceylon. India, tad China. Me Southington, will be grin so en the riorniag Muni 90. Its rids rit Marseille., to the Mediterranean, Egypt, C lid* lionglioag, La, will be made tap on ne owing el the 24th inst. Tba midi kr Modena, tle Bridle, and Bunn Ayres, will be aids ay a the emir( et April 4. Slot tT LONDCIII trIDOL 11l ISt Atlonme. I. 33m LONDON, FRIDAY, MARCH S. TEE Arron.sEr-G Es ERAL it tithe opinion that we con tax.the colonies. Abstract rights are little worth csotend.ng for in these days. But, in truth, it does sum an anomaly that colonies are to contribute in nothing 13 limir military defence, which the inhabi tant of England is alone to pay for. There are two put:es whin have no cause to be dissatisfied with this engagement—the colonies which avoid a burden, and our souping classes, which monopolies military pa. tro-agt and emolument. But why poor John Bali at home should be made t 3 pay for the exemption of the one, or the rank and honours of the other, does seem u kris inquired into as migifaineet It ea system of taxation be the true one, which is, ti.st money to meet rate expenses should be raised fnm profits and from wages rather than front pro geny, no countries are so well able to bear taxation e calculi,. The old times, when Eoglish youth vent forth to make money in colonies, and return now in restore age to spend it, have passed by. bad climates have tested to be profitable, and to god climates men go now to settle and abide permanently. There is no reason eihy the horee-etaying Englishman should pay for the security of the colonial Englishman. But if so. there is (gully little reason for the home-staying knolishman to monopolise the appointments, the emcdstsents, the honour,, and distinctions of the mili tary pro!ession. Throw open the army to the colonial poperlation, interest and connect their families in it, sad there will be no objection on their parts to pay their share. This participation in our burdens may, ilamdontlit them join in our efforts for retrenchment,. It will prompt them to inquire whether there be such need for an immense moveable and permanent force. And it will induce them to devise means for main taining in each c•lony that kind of defensive force which, whilst it disciplines men to military MAW and habits, does not neutralise them as industrious and active citizens. The question of our own military economy is time boned up in the larger question of colonial reform. And if boil were rightly managed, and conceived in a truly statesmanlike and comprehensive spirit, a great diminution of our burdens might be accomplished by knitting the bonds with the colonies, rather than dswilving them. And we might admit the colonists to adorer fraternity and, quality with Englishmen, thin our churlish and 'mit(' monopoly of patronage and power, and our coistquent privilege of providing for al, military expanse, at present allow. If ever we are to compete with the other great powers of the world—we do not mean in actual war, tot in the relative estimates of strength, which now enter into all calculations of war, and which prevent them turning to anything dangerous—it is plain that we must look to our colonies, colonial population, to their wealth, erect:intent to the mother country and the English name, as well as their readiness and ability to contribute to the common defence. For if our colonies are a source of weakness and expense to am, whilst the large provinces and population of. other countries are united in strength, wealth, and sapprt, we shall never assu that ttitude which renders war so formidable, me as to a almost preclude the possibility of its occurrence. Under the present system our c - ilonies are a source of military ss weakne ; they neither p rov id e so ldi ers, nor f for soldiers; they do not pay for fortifications or per manent military eiFentes. If our soldiers cost double Cr net& what other 'Adieu, cost, it is owing to the expente of trarsport ; the distance which renders so many trotps ineffective for the time ; end the leas occasioned by sending European troops to climates unfavourable to their health. In order to form • clear idea of this, let us cat a glance at the military ststngth and expendi ture of several European eaten. The British army emits about 130,000, being 6,004 Menlo 1000 nos-oommissioned officers, who cost ir 4 . 6 41,0004 TOO French army coon's ab ou t 400,000, o f w hi c h IhilSro ere elan, 27,000 sub-officers, and 33,000 corowels, who cost above seven millions sterling. The pay of the 6,004 officers of infantry and cavalry cf the English army amounts to 1,140,4671.; the pray cf the 18,000 French officers of infantry and randy ismounts to 32,000,0001 r., or 1,240,0001.1 l t rnsua speeds , bat threemind-crhslf millions stet knit in maintaining an army of 600,000 men. Austria rood to maintain a more regular and active, if not a mare alheisat army, for the ..as ram. P iarosollv. says the author of tree" Revelations./ Iterels," the coat ef sowie,, io these countries, seem*, dee titares wasise, isia read numbers. per seta, in Ruda absdi is Austria and in Prum•is, 1:,1.,im Prams 261. emuslip. "116 soldier, inclusive of the due properties a mad a nd ofillfl, of transport to diatom esiewillos mo bentch-soomi at home, emits somewhere about 601. per us. sad doubt., the price or the French, treble of the Aestriae, sad irsiold of the hessian. We should therefore thick of how we should best econonvse to very tip naive an article a. the British 141 fLer. We do not at ail deny that he is to the full se nimble as he is expensive, and that he is in sit respects worth his money in th e field. But whether these storing ipialities of the British soldier may not be obtained, The wanted, in a shorter time and at a less cost than keeping Ali peemswat y 139.000 of 'these saes, most of them in oobaise, where they have no enemy to °combat save the climate. and a great properties actually reaming about, aid consequently Iwith their genies lost to the state for this time— these are points well worthy of cossideratios. Two years have prod since the first important inroad was legislatively made upon the right of Trial by Jury. The 10 St 11 Victoria, dup. 82. 'commonly known by the name of the 'larvaeOffeaders Act, deprived the children of the poor of their only protection against magisterial caprice, stupidity, or ',ricketiness. Its easetinants may be summed up briefly thus : that whereas hungry and homeless children are much give* to appropriate unlawfully the crumbs whisk fall from rich men's tables, and whereas it is a bore to be obliged to hear their story, or to pay for their keep until it shall be to the convenience of the Great Unpaid to tremble at quieter sessiens—it is therefore expedient that any two gentlemen, who may happen to hold the cem mission of the peace, may order wild friendless and audeferded outcasts tra,be flogged or imprisined, as unto their said worships shall seem fit. The pretence for positing this - pi:lid and oppreezive lavi was the reformation of offenders, and the saving jueimile offenders from the contamination of associating with the other inmates of primal. As for the solicitude expressed for the benefit of the victim clue, we know pretty well what that moans. It was always for the benefit of the working man that the priceof his loaf was raised. And it is the self same influence that parades its 'pi-drivel philanthropy in both mess. It is the spirit of landlordism that alternately craves power to exact, and power to punish at its own unbridled will But why should not the delinquencies 4 the poor be judged as fairly as those of the rich? Why should not equal opportunities be afforded for defence or ex tenuation ?Vi is the sense or decency of guarding the string and wealthy from the possibility of injus tice, and Bulging the mast helpless and destitute poe tise of the community to be dealt with as the squires in each parish please? Is it because they are poor, or because they are young, or because they are powerless to resist the face of secusation, both from their youth and their poverty, that the sons and daughters of the poor are to be consigned to &tribunal, alike incompetent and irresponsible? We would as soon draw lot' fora decision on a question of crimi nal evidence as abide by the judgment of an average bran of country justices of the peace. And the un fortunate arraigned would of operas much rather stand the hazard of the dir, for then they would have a chance of crape, whereas now, *Wee certain circum stances, they have none. And now it would appear that, emboldened by the success of their late encroachment oo the principle of jury -trial, the landlord party in parliament m. ditate a further step with the same benevolent aim., A bill has already punt' a first and second reading far the further extension of the power of summarily dealing with all cases of poly larceny, where the magistrates think fl: to surmise that the accused is under 16 years of age. The stammering boy or timid girl who may have incurred the seep,- cion of any retainer of Sir TAreshon, or Mr. Lock-up, may be cast into a gaol for three whole months, at the summary direrttion of those worthies, shoul d bill now pending pass into a law. At present no individual can be so dealt with whose age exceeds 14. Bad enough in principre and practice even as it stands—what would it be were another leaf added to the statute ? As an experiment, the law of 1847 has notoriously failed. Toe number of committals of juvenile offenders, u has been clearly shown by Mr. llerjeant ADAMS, in his charge to the grand jury of Middlesex, has greatly increased since its provision' came into' eneration. Instead of lessening the number of youth ful prisiners in our gaols, the effect of giving tin checked scope to magistiatis has been to swell the crowd deplorably. Corporal punishment, the infal lible the urce of arbitrary and intemperate tribunals, has been made use of most anscruoulonsly ; but all to no purpose. Tee wrongfully condemned have gat e forth tainted by contact with the ruffisnism into the midst of which they have been temporarily flung ; and the vicious, warned by experience of the impels. demos of perpetrating small them, are found return ing, after a brief interval, charged with more serious offincer, for which, because they are more serious, on esgacious legislators have decreed that they shall have a fairer trial, and ten times a greater chance of escape. A very excellent pamphlet by Mr. Witthroat— entitled, "Is Trial by Jury worth keeping ?"—we c .mmend to the careful perusal of every person who takes an interest in this painful but important subject. It is perfesrly clear, that if the Lew crusade against the legal liberties of the poor be not resisted promrly and peremptorily, an additional source of clue distrust and hatred will be implanted which it may be difficult to eradicate hereafter. To measure crime by a tariff of prices which the things purloined will fetch at the pawnbroker's, is to resuscitate in all its iniquity the ancient distinction between the upper and the lower ranks of society, in matters where the law should be administered indifferently and without respect of persons. A gentlecou's son, who is detected in an attempt to cheat one of his clas;fellows, is with drawn from school, and sent abroad for a year or two, until the elderly female gossips of the family have c eased to talk about the matter. " Poor fellow ! He wae, after all, so well disposed in every other par ticular. It would be cruel to remember—almost ill natured to believe—him actually guilty of petty lar ceny." But the hungry widow's child who has been caught filching a loaf from a baker's cart,or snatching a bundle of faggots from the loosened pile—" the young scoundrel! he must be taught how he dares to rob; let him be kept in a prison for two or three months, and flogged every now and then by the hangman, until he faints." We have received many communications on the subject, to which want of space and time alone have hitherto prevented us from adverting. But we shall certainly Lot allow the question to drot"; and we hope that parliament will never suffer itself to be in duced to sanction any proposition for the further ex tension of irresponsi ble jurisdiction in criminal mat ters. There is no conceivable reason why trial by jury should not be abolished in cases of burglary or forgery, if it may be dispensed with in cases of lar ceny. Indeed there is much tem reason; inasmuch as the gravity of the offence and the amount of public attention it is sure to excite, =natant* no trivial guard against those abuses of judicial authority which are apt to occur in regard to more common place offences. Tae beet moral law is that which springs from universal assent, and the beet punishment is that which universal custom and opinion inflict. In heinous crimes this is not seltsufficient. It re quires the prison, the judge, and the executioner to carry it out. But there are portions of the moral code which society can enforce to the utmost, almost without an effort, and without even procedure or sen tence. In such a way is the moral code which con gers@ the relations of the sexes carried out. The law whisk guise that coanexion is the opinion of society, whisk is armed with its own peculiar and effectual made& In support of the moral law of opinion uses that of religion. We know of no cue in which statute or legislative easements have been made to come in aid of social judgments and penality, where harm snd injustice have not come of them, whilst no advantage has ac crued. Such enactments are oily tolerable when they keep price with, and do not golnyond opinion. U they do, they defeat themselves. Whilst If they merely substitute a statutory prohibition for a Local one, they disarm social reprobation, and make the thing a matter of law, which had better been left cam of cone fence. There is no one, who has considered the gulden which suggests these remarks, them arriage via a deceased wife's sister, but must desire that fl bid never been discussed. Morally and rel' van both dictate, not to encourage such m /111 at the same time, as the prohibition of them cannot be so strongly and s° clearly based, as to war rant the punishment of those who conscientiously and freely contracted them, prohibition in such cases would be idle, and punishment unjust and cruel. As to the religious question, it may be argued front this till doomsday without being °occlusive. And when this is the ease, it is against the very funda mental principle of protestantum, as well as against every liberal feeling, to decide upon it dogmatically, THE , EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1880. or to bring authority to supply the weakness of the rezoning and the right, by which • prohibitory law is supported. Uafortsaately it is is these weak, doubtful, an prove, and non-aseetial points, that the champions of sedesisatical authority love most to exercise and enforce it; sad that, not fee the sake of the particular aim to be chtlimed, or peibeiple enforced, bat' for the sake of mieffilihing a new basis sad a new proudest for the pedisseinasse of church authority. Muss it heal gems taps that this authority and these pre intend of Wag pet forward on vital and Important pots% auk es would do honour to the chink sail aM sersegth to it, are on the contrary slahsed and aged with regard to questions of which NW gravity, u well u truth, may be denie d . Bat of all the arguments for passing a bill pro hibitory of certain marriage., and anathematising certain coonexione, the meet droll is that of Sr.' F. Tanana, who urged that this should be done in order to prevent a broader division of the church into two parties. So that the validity of these marriages is not to be decided on their own merit., bat from considerations of the result the decision may have upon the church. The ease is so doubtful, that it creates division in the church. Parliament, therefore, must clear away the doebt by statute. It matters not what wrong is dome to society, or to individuals, pro vided union be preserved is the church. Such an argument as this readers Sir FILIDEZIOIC Tante= eminently worthy of a cardinal's bat If Sir FAZDISIICK THESIGISE went to Rome he his irritants, Mr. ROZBUCK went to Utopia. The gees doe is not whether it might not be better for the parity and -sanctity of ever domestic circle to have men and women within certain degrees of affinity irrevocably and effectually forbidden to look upon each other in the light of poseible husband and wife. We admit at once that it might be better to endow the man and his sister-in-law with inch relative sentiments. But, we ask, is it panible Parliament may make a statute for bidding first cousins to marry, and the church may sanction it, from high ideas of its own authority, and of purity of life. Bat will the statute bind the conscience P Or how will two first cousins, that come to like oue another. be prevented in England from questioaing church and statute, and, if their love be strong, and their temper decided, setting both church and law at defiance P It is the same in the relation which is the object of the bill before parliament. If you cannot demon strate the religious law of separatioa to be binding on the oon,cience, or the moral law upon the conduct, what will your statutory prohibitions be but " a de lusion and a snare r The courageous and conscien tious will brave it and suffer. The cunning and the timid may indulge in an immoral and secret con nexion to escape it ; whilst if society, the society in which people move, agree to set the law at nought, it will be set at nought, and thus become a source of unworthy and of class perused**. Admitting, therelbre, that it would be desirable to preclude a man from regarding his sister-in-law as in the category of women whom he could many, we cannot admit that this desirability amounts to any thing like necessity for attempting it in law. Even that desirability is a matter of opinion, and much die. pored; and as to the moral and religious grounds of prohibition, neither are clear. In such a state of the question, it is against every principle of tolerance, of expediency, and of justice to interfere, and to create, for any vague rupee of good, prohibitive laws, which must be ineffectual, and must provoke their breach, not insure their obarvanon GREECE AND THE LEVANT. MALTA, MASON 2. The Fres& steamer Osiris same in from Alexan dria on the 24tku1t, and left at 6 pm. for Marseilles. H.M. steamer Antelope also arrived the same day from Corfu, &ate, and Patna; she brought no Athens mall, although she waited for it until the noon OMER,. Metter keen Patna says z eUp to this time so armagemeit has been made towards settling the differences between the !betel' and Greek go memento, and lir William Parker continues' his restrictive assasens, ref to anew any Greek ship to quit the principal beebeurs of Greece, or to permit them 1 ,0 land goods( .for • Oreek.sesrehents. , In, Act we have the imaniend. Gmenmader Foote; Racer, Gmunacder Bidden; and the Tartarus, Lieut. Commander Sir G. Webster, cruising off here; these vessels seize any Greek ships they lad in the vicinity, mid take them to Corfu, when the Frolic, Oom. Vansittart, is in charge of them until the peewee of the British government is known. Nine ships have been taken to Corfu, besides two small soltooamn of war ; their value is at leant 20,0001.; the mews are obliged to leave the weeds, with the martian of master, mate, and one se tiro bands, which is very distressing to them, as they have no mesas of prooseding to th e i r I mam There can be no doubt, believer, that the Greek government deserved a laws of this kind, for, whatever may be said by some of the insignificance and the weakness of the country, it was highly necessary to bring them to a sense of their dependency, as tor the lest few years they have treated the demands made brover7 British authority with the greatest contempt. Nothing dsiog. Woos% the only ankle for freight, , at 30e., 10 nes. and 10 we eent—Exebalege, 601 d. to 61d. the Spanish dollar.", A letter from Corfu of the 20th states t—u Borne stir is making in oil. Four vessels wen chartered to day at 37e. 64., to load in this port, bat first calling at Gallipoli for casks. Trade is generally dull, and these unpleasant affairs. between Greece and England tend to make matters worse." IThe direct French steamer from Marseilles was in on the 29th, and proesided on to the Levant the same day, at 6 p.m. The Peninsular and Oriental steamer' Sultan, Captain Brooks, also came in the same morn ing from Constantinople and Smyrna. She will leave for Southampton immediately after the arrival of the Medina from Alexandria. A Quteu's messenger, Captain Cecil Johnstone, came in the French steamer, Telemaque, from Mar seilles, on the 25the with important despatches for Sir W. Parker, Mr. Wyse, and Sir Stratford Canning, relative to the Grecian affairs. He is said to have the opinion of St. Petersburg with him upon the subject, se also a despatch having reference to the Russian- Darkish question. I believe that he is the bearer of a despatch from Lord Palmerstoa, notifying the acceptance of the French mediation, and desiring Sir William Parker to raise the blockade and restore the vessels seized. Alter deliver ing the despatches to the admiral in the bay of Salamis, he will proceed on to Constanti nople in the same steamer, and deliver a despatch respecting the Russian unit Austrian question, and, after receiving an answer to them, return in her im mediately to Malta, en route to France. The Greeks here are delighted at the rumour of the removal of the blockade; for, had it continued much longer, they must have sold or mortgaged their Teasels for a subs►stence. Captain Johnstone is endeavouring to best Mr. Ha viland, who left for Greece, eia 'Trieste, on the 14th, so as to supersede the despatches he carries by his own. The captain, D. Napier, of the barque Commerce, of Montrose, with his crew, arrived here on the 25th in his !erg-b.:at, and reports as follows :—At 10 a.m., on the 21st, he left Girgenti, with a crew of fourteen men and five passengers, with a cargo of sulphur, for Glasgow. The same night it blew hard from the W.N.W., with a heavy sea; the following day (22nd) the vessel sprung a leak, making 32 inches of water per hour. He therefore bore bore up for Malts, to save the vessel and the crew. On the 23rd the wind shifted to the E.S.E., right stead, and so continued until he arrived in sight of the island, bat to the southward. On the 24th, at 9 p.m., the captain and crew abandoned the vessel, she having six feet of water in her hold, and being distant about twelve or fourteen miles E.S.E. of the island of Filfla. At 11 p.m. the vessel foundered. At 2 a.m. in the morning of the 23th the captain and crew landed at a place called Ta Gueira, on the S.E. coast. INDIA FRANCE. PARIS, THI/11DAT 610 ..x. The proceedings in the Legislative Assembly yes terday were exceedingly calm, the whole sitting being occupied with the consideration of M. de Melon's proposition to improve the dwellings of the poorer elapses. The articles were severally adopted. To-day the debate was totally devoid of interest, but the . prosecution of M. Michael de Bourges, was the subject of much comment. The extraordinary meeting of the Great Northern of France Railway, which was to have been held yesterday, for the plapoes of taking into consideration the projected execution by the company of a railway from St. Quentin to Brquelines, by Maubeuge, the ways and meats required to execute that and the other works, as well as for the payment of the debt of the company the State, has not taken place, in conse quence of a sufficient number of shares Lot being re preeented. The meeting is now postponed to the 204 of April next. An extraordinary general meeting of the Dieppe Railway Company took place on Monday, M. &Alton- Sine in the chair. The objects to be discussed were the propriety of not constructing the branch-line to Fecamp, and the expediency of obtaining from the government the exoneration of the mid execution. Each of these propAitious was voted unanimously by the meeting. General d'Arboaville, M. Pets:l, and M. Laborde, who were candidates upon tke li,t of the Electoral Union, have, in virtue of their pledges, withdrawn from competition, and requested the electors to vote in favour of the three candidates who had the majority at the preparatory ballot. At the Bourse this afternoon wagers were laid Neely that two of the moderate candidates, one of the republican party, would be returned ; but there is strong reason to believe that the Montagnard party will effect a signal triumph by the return of at least two of their candidates. PARIS, Macu 7. Far Iloaa7. Fat Amount. 3 par Dints. ...... .. ld 0 53 34 38 35 IS 20 IS 23 $ per Cents. 5 do. New Loam * ~ N N IS per Outs. SO " 0 la * * le 4 per Cents. I, .. VP . * Enahange on London : SO days, 26 478 ; 90 dm, 15 W. Dar, 6, 1840 b, 11142 Do. 4 Do. 24 Dunk Mares 2290 : Piedmont 6 par Casts 18 10 "„ Banaa—Arlo and Odors, 713 ; Pall and Bonen. 630; Itemen and Maim 940 •, AAntes and liersetiles, 110 • /tsar beers and On* 113 ; Owns (ilennon), 318; Orleans s ad !Jor dan; 403; Northam, 40 73; Psrle sad Ittrasneurg, 141 73; Thus and Mali% ISO ; Mostarlen nod Trope, 110; Grande Coat . , GOO; Venal= (ripe banal), 116; tandlles (11t bona). 167 30. Wpm, 3.--Tbrie pa Cents, HI paper: 1 7 007 pa Cutts, 121 paper; Ka par Ceuta, 12f paper ; eftapaaa, 71 paper. Bask ot St. Ferdinand, 01. Exchange a s Laudon, 30.20. SCHLESWIG HOLSTEIN. A letter from Berlin, of the sth inst., in the Kamer Zeitumg, states that the PtIISII6II Cabinet had refused to consent to a prolongation of the armistice with Denmark, and that no prolongation will in future be consented to unlesi Denmark should consent to some modifications of the treaty. GERMANY. PRUSSIA.—At a meeting of the Verwaltungs-Rath at Berlin, on the 6th, the official protest from the Hanoverian government against the right of that body to summon the German parliament at Erfurt was read. It declares at the same time that this set on the part of the council fully dissolves all connexion between Hanover and the Band. The Prussian government had sent in its reply to the Austrian proposition for a omtoms•nnion with the other German states. It was probable that the meeting of the Erfurt parliamett woad be postponed fora fortnight. BOSUN. Kasai IL—Vole/stag Loa, lON, National Debt, ill. Mat tau% 94j. ZOOLOGICAL 80CITTY OF LONDON.—At the monthly geeersl astetiag held yesterday at the seelety's house to Hasoveruguan, P. Bolster, Beg and Thomas Day, Beg., wen proposed as candidates fur t h e fellowship ; **Rev. J. L. Pat, Thome Tooke, kn., Beg., and Mies Bolivia wen elected shows; and Dr. Balegel, of Leydea, a iorreepond. lag spember of the comely. REFORM MEETING AT ETL—OttO of the mat orderly, enthusiastic, and the hugest meetings ever held within any buildir.g in Bye, assembled is the Theatre there, on Tuesday, to listen to the advocacy of the above prlaelpise by Mr. T. *limner. The chair was takes by P.. Jame, Beg. Ater a few opening words from the cluirman Mr. M'Xateer addressed the meeting at great length, edielnd leg with en appeal to the tenant farmer's to leia with financial reformers, as the *sly method of nlMdsg Maw selves from the dithcolties seder which they are la Other gentlem. n addressed the meeting, and it was resolved 1 that ea eiseektios be sow fieseed, to be called the "Bye Parliaments" ami Iftsessia alders Messiahs." A Dna - ber of gessiases had scrolled tiisaselete as members of the fi sew seekiii. THE OVERLAND MAIL. By special express we have received our overland despatches in anticipation of the Indian Mail. The dates are: Bombay, Feb. 4; Calcutta, Jan. 22. The following is the summary of the Bombay noses; The chief event of the put fortnight has been the Governor-General's visit to Bombay. Having jour neyed from Simla through the Punjaub and Schiele, he arrived here on the night of the 26th of January, and left on the 2nd of February. He publicly declared his extreme anxiety for the maintenance of peace, and intimated his determination to proceed with peace im provements. The chief of Baroda, his Highness ' the Ouioowar—the first prince in Western India—is here at present on a visit ; he is escorted by about a thousand horse and foot, with troops of elephants and camels. He has been most graciously re ceived both by the Governor and Governor-General. There has been a slight disturbance at Lahore; come half dozen of Sikhs, who have all been killed, having run a-muck. India is perfectly tranquil throughout. The Governor-General is on hos way to Ceylon and the Straits ; the Governors of Bombay and Madras are at their respective presidencies. Trade at Bom bay continues extremely dull. The summary then,' as follows, goes more into detail. The statement in our last Overland Summary, furnished us by as officer ander Colonel Bradshaw, that several women had been burnt in the village of Bunchso, when set firs to by OUT troops, proves unfounded. Only two comes men left behind by their people. One was killed by a shell be fore the troops entere d , the other wee placed by Colonel Lawrence himself on a trooper's hone and rescued from the cooditsratka. Bat few occarrenecie of public interest have come to our knowledge during the fortnight. The Bombay troops had all left Peshawar before the lbtk Jas., midi the exception of the 3rd N. I. Perfect tranquillity had Mowed the recent expedition into the Banitsdo erearsy ; and crow d s of people, with merchandise, ham Cabliel, were daily making their appearencs. Dost Mahound was mid to be In mortal fear of oar again penetrating the paseee, and had mad* his arrangements to seek reface in Rhooioem in gess of our ad vance. There had been heavy rain all over the Penjaub,as well as throughout the Northwest Provinces betwixt the bth and 12th January : the storm crisis of the 9th had boon esperieuced from Cochin, Catch, and Kusrashee, all along the tins of the Indus, and woes through Central India as far south as Handily. lilt Charles Napier was par ades his coarse northward; by last accounts he was about half way from Lahors—everythiog was inspected by him with the greatest care as be went, and most Wrap condemned or censured. The extreme violence of his censures after the Inhere review Is generally condemned. Rumours prevailed es to the perfidy of AU Moorad beginning to make its appearance : the only thing surprising is that such a traitor to his own coun try and race should so loag have kept up the show of fidelity to any one. The 'onion of the Khan of Bahawalpore, who so promptly sent succour to Mechem In May, and has on an occasions acted so honourably towards us, especially la the time of difficulty, has been rewarded fee the sonless et his troops with 60,0001. In eash, bei 10,0001. for each month his army kept the fleld,m2 10,0001. es a stipend for lite. The trainman of Dn. Campbell and Rooker, by the Ratak of dickies, stems to have been as barbarous as it was unpro voked; they arrived at Darjeeling ander an escort cf the B haugulpore Hill Rangers. The Oovernor-Genenl had written a very threatening letter to his highness, who was said to be terribly alarmed ; his only safety con sists in the inacommbility and worthlessness of his ons. Mr. Dickinson, member of council at ra i d . rt i , who tendered his resignation in consequenos et sickness, changed his mind, and intimated his purpose to rentals just as his expected saccessor Mr. Thomas, was about to be sworn in.—The 'visits of the Governor-General of India, and of the Rider of Bareda, to Beetbsy, have constituted the great events of the month. nip health of the Marquis of Delhausie bed hies so much impaired that he was advised to try the MIAs of sea air : in November, as the cold weather begin es ost ht, he began to get better. He then resolved es mimed to Bom bay, examining the lower Paajaub and taeleMs en Money. strength increasing by ermine mad deny of sir, he visited is pima every part as he preemided, bent Usultelr and Lahore downwards. He reached Kereaskee su the 22ad, and Bombay en the 26th January, leaving pen the Ist Feb . after a six days' sojount. During his stay be visited our dockyards, factories, hospitals, schools, end seminaries of learning, examining every object that presented Itself with the utmost attentka. He held • levy fee the European coaunanity the day after his arrival—admirer for the patina the second day atter Ole. He received the Ottioowar and suite in form at the Town-hall, and afterwards visited his highnessat himpiace efmYemm. He was met with a comp. gma t o7 addlfai y illio whohneenemunity, &separate one from the seesmde lwelleresP—erse pieleatted with a memorial from the *bele of OM Earepiali MA a hrote'number of the native laellballae-wwas west* at an sammisation of the alumni of the liMbn• Collage, whore le distributed the prism, sad exembed the Grant Mahal College, the Jam- Hospital, and Dharramalla. He afterwards Wale to the Island of ' Elephants, and oneatimed the far-famed eaves—bestowlng every mo ment at his sonimand dating hie residence on some e worthy purposes. Every needs( daring his stay there was party awaiting him of from fifty to hundred gouts at ParelL To every are with whom .he same in coated be made himself most agreeable, and he leaves us after having wen golden °plaints of all meth of people. Not 001111 R• fag : himself Sc the semen plus topies of: the sights he fed mu, or the .cannier be had met with at Bulbs or ea his }same, thither, the Governer Maud IMO fully on all the gnat stsbjeirs Of interest soineeted with the pdiep of the government, the position and the prospects, of I. He warted opportu nities of learning the opinions of others and of explaining his own ; and Witham who had thawed' to have had coca eion to address him dam his arrival in India on any subject whatever, he at ones spoke of the matter, show ing that there was no Misr sent to him 'limed over by himuiread; se matter of business left to the disposal of un dirtier, end nethieg which he had ever examined that had' cusped his recollection. He obviously sifted with alacrity ea 'the onearion presented by the addtem of the community, to proclaim his satiety for the ataistenanes of prime t lad, while he de clared the glut *sty of guirnmest to be the im provement if BM sonatey, net SIN *Wpm , was uttered abut the eemseilkinlise of our empire, the strengthening of oar frostier, es the easasse ihr the wicked and wasteful wars on whisk at nressies mile, character have so oltea bass mind. The laradald iletrisse about maintainiag India by the ewer& as it hid hewn won by the sword, or of the proper plus of thir Guenter-General being by WA side of the Oemmende r-in.Chisf, se w e d ae If they had' belonged to • lisemer_ generation instead of being not yet six yeas old. His lordship tarried out the pueorb of like wake like usu. Sir Hoary Elliot, the (ideate:rotary in %stashing* is ems of the most able 5- Emden and dielingekhod Oehratal tthelers of whom India Units. It was his isles* mad accomplislimenta that secured IlimEourtecay the pest of plate secretary. Capt. Ramsay, auk of the noble marasis, dad now military, m aviary, was welrknown for his gensaily bearing when on the staff of Sir W. Cotton ad Sir a. H Clerk. Major Panes exploits in leading into action a earns which had loot nearly all its oM ewe, ate well known. Captain Bowie dfiniestuisited himself as 'Witty* to Colonel Leona*. Captain Metcalfe, au of the illustrious nobleman of that mune, seems not to Mures without I heritage. Dr. Great, the medical attendant on the marquis, is well known sea naturalist and man of great talent ; so that of all his followers, nano were without a name. Jest before his departure, the noble marquis presented 1001. to the District Benevolent Society, and 601. to the Masonic Charity Fund.—On the day of the *dust of the Governer. Omura!, the Guieowar, or chief of Bared., the most impor tant ulnas in Western India, made his appearance amongst us. He was received with royal salutes, and the other honours , due to hie mak, the whole of the native troops at the presidency being out with a guard of honour on the ea Calli On. The right boa. the Governor of Bombay (Lord Felk land) met him en the grand flight of steps in front of the Town Hall, and aosompanied !him to his mat : his lordship had before easigad to his highnegs one of his ewn Ml domes daring his stay, and there the Rolle lord took en early opportunity of visiting the prince. He was received with kindred state and solemnities similar to these attendees ea his visit to the Governor of Bombay, by the Governoe. Oeaeral, who also visited him at hie residence-- both visits of Mate having been duly returned. tiu highaem bad come to the presidency, where he still remains, to converse with the Governor-General ow I the constracton of forty miles of railway from the seaport' of Tankaria to the capital, proposed to be elastruted within the Baud* state, to which his kighoese is himself chief contributor. He is attended by a few thousand fol lowers, and at every corner some of his estaolishment are to be met, the whole presidency being kept in com motion by the gaieties of the woolen: Nothing cat be more desirable than to pet natives to visit the feat of government, to see with their own eyes the to them incredible marches of civilisation. The Gui. cower bas lived all his days within forty miles of the coast, and till now never saw the sea. He leaves Bombay • week hence on a pilgrimage to his native village in the Deccan, wilt • retinue of camels, elephants, and horse and feet, auk as might have won the smiles.' the hero of Sotenauth himself ■r numerous, so noisy, so senseless, nuke, ad expensive is the tr An. The cold season is now at its coldest, mumps nied with the mists usual with u in Febrasiy.—We have just heard of the discovery in Central Africa, let. 19 deg. S., of a splendid freshwater lake, of which the one shore is in visible from the other. It seams fed by vast riven, derived apparently from the Snowy Mountains, which, reaching the line of perpetual !!ngelation, in all likelihood border the ew.tern Lone of Ak:e's, u the Andes do the western border of America. The eziatence of these has bean long suspect, d, but so slow are we in matters of reseasula, that though within a week's sail and a fortnight's journey of these wooden, we have n thought of exploring them. The Imsum of Mascot some months since applied lot the services of a medi cal man at Zanzibar: so soon as this was heard of, applica tion was made to have him instructed is the use of mete*. rologwat instruments, and to be the bearer of one set fcr his wn use at &medlar, and of another for ...trier at Johanna. No cloths was taken of the application—the party was des patched without instruments or instructions. Government in this case were in no way to theme. At Lahore everything remained as usual. On the 22nd Jan. a small body of Sikhs, supposed to be Oooroos, rushed into the part of the fort occupied by Nos. 8,9, and 10 Compunits of the let Fusiliers and the married people, cut down one of the men and wounded six or eight more, before the men could get their arms. The alarm was soundtd, and in five minutes the whole regiment was under arms. One of the Fathers received two tremendous sword cuts over the face, and has since died. It was evidently a well concerted plan on the part of the Sikhs. All the women escaped. The station at Wevrerabad is to be given up, and Search) has been pitched on in its stead. The committee appointed to examine and re port on the new station consisted of Colonel Becher, deputy-quartermaster-general ; Lieut. Maxwell, of the engineers; Dr. Corbyn, superintending-surgeon ; arm Surgeons Stewart, 14th Dragoons, and Baddeley, of the artillery—and their report waa most favourable. From 'adore we hear that Mr. ANT. C. Hamilton, the resident, had applied for a commission to inves tigate the charges preferred against him by his Assis tant, Csptain Harris. The Times says : Letters from Marra of the 27th nit. are full of anticipa tions of the nature and results of the approaching inquiry into the charges preferred against the Resident by Capt. Harris. Mr. Hamilton had been called on for explena tioes on the 17th of November : en the 3rd of December these were sent in; and it is raid that it was at lie request the commission was appointed—an allegation which some of our correspondents question. Considerab!e speculation was on foot as to where the commissioners—Colonel Low, the Governor.Cienerel's agent for Ajmeer, sad Mr. Mos.ly Smith, judge of Jubbulpore—would take up their abode. Under ordinary circumstances, of course the residency would have been the natural receptacle for the friends of the resident; but in this cue they are his judves, and, however little the parties are open to the envision of influencing or being influenced, the case of the Clibborn commission, where Mr. ROOM Bell soto riossly crammed the commissioners, who were then his guests, is too fresh in our recollection not to make the so ceptance of hospitalities from any of the parties to the case unsuitable. PESHAWUR.--Vie have letters of the 15th nit. from Peshawar. Lieutenant Walker, of the Bom bay Engineers was to remain to finish the yof the Valley of Peshawar. The salt mines of Kohat had been reported by Mr. Cause as most valuable. A constant influx of Caboolees was taking place, and new buildings were rising in all parts of the city. Brigadier Sir C. Campbell had gained the good will of all under him, and was con sidered a worthy successor to the late commander. AU was quiet at Peshawar on the 15h ult., though our friends of the Khyber amused themselves occa sionally in the dark nights by stealing horses and camels from camp, with the view of benefiting by the large sums offered for their recovery. There were twenty-five heads of clans cf the Khyber present in Peshawar, who bad mumbled for the purpose of taking an oath to the commissioner to prevent their followers from plundering our people, on condition that they were not to be abut out from bringing in wood, grass, charcoal, &a., to the Pesha war market. The result of the Beadede expedi tion promised favourably, the people of Pallid hav ing sent to their chiefs who had fled to Swat, informing them that they intended coming in to maks their miasma, and giving up keeping the sowers who had hitherto plundered the peaceful Eusufsaies. The Ameer of Cabool was reported to have taken Khooloom from the Mete Wallet, and to intend flying to it when the British troop. move on Cabool, which he is said folly to expect they will do sooner or later : on this head fortunately for ourselves he may set his mind at ease. The weather at Peshawar was very . cold, the thermometer at two in the afternoon standing in an open verandah &slow as 41 deg. _ The Bombay artillery, horse and foot, return ing from Peshawar, were on the 17th ult. three marches on this side of Rawal Pindee, the lit Foal Hers being three marches in front of them. They expected to reach Mooltan on the 20th and 17th inst. respectively. A great deal of rain had been met in with on the way, which rendered tea telling rather uncomfortable ; the weather was bitter cold. All in both camps had got oa wall—ecaroely any sioknsim BCINDE.—Our obituary, says the Bombay nowt records the death at Kurrachee on Jan. 5, of H. Z. Marriott, Req., eon of 8. Marriott, Req., late a MOON" of council at Bombay. The deceased had formerly be longed to the 16th N. 1., and was when he resigned fie service • lieutenant in that corps. Some of dr sepoys of the 27th N.L, now at Knrrachee, wttk whom he bad been a great favourite, voluntarily offered to carry his body to the place of interment, which they did. On arriving at the churchyard gap. the clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Watson, refused le allow the corpse to be home to the grave by them, they being heathens ! After some hesitation, the sepoys, who had honoured to the utmost of their ability the remains of the demoted, were induced to lower the corpse from their shoulders, and remelt silent spectators of the ceremony outside the gate. It • would appear, however, that they made a cepreeenta tioa on the subject to the offic. r commanding et Kurrachee, by whom we are told the case has bees banded on to government. We le.,ve our readers to make what comment they chotes on the facts above stated. • COMMERCIAL BANK OF INDIA. Report of proceedings at the half-searly general meeting of the Communal Bank of 29th January, 1880, W. Howard, Esq., in the chair. The chairman then read Os directors' report as follows r. DIRMCTOBJC REPORT-JANUARY, 1850. The auditors having repaited to ly on the halt yearly accounts, and the **entities held by the bank, it only m easles for the directors to offer a few remarks on the general °Ouse of its business. It will be seen, that although the bank has been employing its fands in lend diaconate sad cash credits to an extent exceeding half its capital, the ex change business of the half year has been by far the greeted sondes of profit ;— fully justifying the views which led to the resent setablishment of our agency in China. The bush nom of that agency is entirely confined to exchanges, and is under very strict regulations. The Shareholders awe already aware that the directors bad long since discontinued to make asy advances on the security of shares on other uneharterest beaks. They are now happy to inform the ehareholders that so sacuritift of this desenpucn are my !anger held by this bank in pledge, with the sole excerion of 32 Agra Bank sharee r which Wad been deposited by Mr T. R. Richmond, sad &gaml of which is arrested, our claim being disputed MR grounds which have only come to the knowledge of the directors since the auditors' report W6ll prepared. Ths retirement of Major Willoughby from the board sinew the Withal( year's meeting led to the directors' appoiatmeet (under the 80th clause of the de d of settlemeet) of Liget, Colonel R. Bt. John ; but, though that gentleman has Was been obliged now to vacate his seat on his return to Europe, and though Mr. Howard and Mr. Boraanjee Honnasjee re tire by rotation, It is not necessary for the shareholding, under the new deed (although it is optional for then), to elect more than one director on the present criterion. The following resolutions were then paned " That the report new read be approved and adopted." " That Ard Hersnalee, Esq., be nominated a director of the bank, in room of W. Howard, Big , who retires by no. tease." °Toot the directors' nomination of Mr. M•Cullolb to a seat in the board be confirmeo." •'That Mr. Howard be elected one of the auditors for the current year." " That Covrasjee Jehargeer, En., be the other auditor b the current year." " That the thanks of this meeting be given to the Chair sem, Mr. Howard, on his retirement from the dtreetion ler his valuable services w the bath since its establish: meat." "That the thanks of the meeting be a:se given to Bo manjee liormarke, Esq., for kilo service. while in the direc tion of the bank." "That the cordial thanks of this meeting be given to the directors and raanagir for their able a.cl succeisfal endearoars to promste :be interests of the Bank during the past half year." ALTERATION IN THE CUSTOIIS DUTIES.—We un derstand that the rvernmcnt has at length decided as to the long pending alteration in the Customs duties. Import duttes on manufactures and metals are to to increased to 8 per cent. Export duties and drawbacks are to cease, without the formerly proposed exception of indigo. It is expected that this alteration will take place about the let of May, being the termination of the commercial peer. We are not certain whether foreign maatractures and metals are still to bear a distriminving duty, but we should suppose that it will be equalised on the free trade principle new acknowledged. It is probable that the gain to the revenue by the increaeed import duties will far mere than compensate for the abolition of those on exports, and the greater facility which will be everywbere given to the shipment of produce will certainly be a b - on to the agricul turist. The British manufacturers will suffer, but it is not supposed that any article will be excluded front the Indian market by the change, though the consomy ion of some will unquestionably be affected, especially the staple article of cotton twist. —Cokutta Englishman, Jan. 14. THE STATE OF THE MARKETS. BOMBAY, FIB. 2 —Our money market Mill minima's in as enemy and unsettled state, nor do we think it likely to be other. wise for some time to come. Government Securities partici pate In the general uneasiness alluded to. and there are easy few buyers at the quotations given in our prises cornea. Bank Shares maletam their value, and the &einem dams both in oriental and commercial has been considerable. The firmer have been gelling at Hi to Itq, and the latter at It to IS rer cent. die. count. We ham perused with much satisfaction the report received by last mail from the Oriental Bank Board in London—not that we have any interest in the conce rn , but bivouac we think it likely to die. pet much, Gnat all, of that unwarranted gloom which hung over the 'Weds of some of the shareholders here. Doubtleav a great &al at the aucce,4 which has hitherto attended the operations of this beak is due to the management in Bombay, wh i ch we believe to have tem characterised by the most corsumiii;t:i skill and ability. Our market for Imports is in a very iesatielactury state et present. with little prospect of any immediate improvement. The native deCers complain of the total want of inquiry In the basear —in fad. that they cannot sell even at reduced mires : this is caused by the unfavourable accounts received tram the up-country markets, all of which are stated to be over supplied : and till these stocks are reduced, few orders will be sent for further supplies. Our only hope is that some demand will spring u after the Ilooly holidays that take ;dace and the n end of ti e month, but the supply of geode on the way will effectually prevent any improvement in rime, which, in feed , are not likely to be maintained. Very little has been done in the Export market during the fortnight, except in Opium, which has been purchased to tome extent. There is a report that the government is about to increase the import dales, by 3 per cent, viz., from 5 per cent. to It Corms Piece Gooos.—Large stocks of all kinds continue on dealers' and importers' hands, end tits demand continues dull as at last report—f3rey tweets are scarcely inquired for; and we have no sales to report. Madapollams are nearly as dull of sale, only 3,000 pieces coarse having been disposed of at Rs. 2 : 74 amiss per pleas.—Donartics have given way. fm pieces have been sold at from Si. Iti to Re. 124 per piece. Shirting. have been sold to extent of 2,230 pieces, at from lbs. 54 to Re. 7 per piece. 60 reed qualities continue steady in price; while 17 i SI reed 40. inch have become so dull that a r. duction of a couple of alines per piece mast be =brained to to ellket sales, and 4S inch with difficulty command the rates mentioned in last report Long Cloths : Of the ae, 1,3(15 pieces have been sold, at from 4 1.16 th rupees to 54 rupees. The qualities sought after are those usually purchased foe the purpose of being dyed and exported to Sciede and Arabia, but even for these a reduced rate is offered.— Heavy T cloths omit under the same remarks le regards prior, while the lighter makes find no purchasers.—Bieached Jaccosets have ee.. ceded in value, and are in good inquiry.—Madspollams and Deranges are uninquired fur, with heavy stocks.—lSO pieces Shirttail have been disposed of at re. Si per piece. The remarks made on Grey apply also to bleached Shirtings.-01 Lengeloths we have no Wee to report.—Twilled Cloth has declined, and there Is little 'Lenin y for it even at the reduced rate. Lappets have eold to extent of ten pieces, at from rs. 119 sense to rs. 2 9 minas. Yee low Jacconets, Satin Spots, • and Stripes, there la some ale. mand. Dyed Goods Starched Mulls are in moderate in. quiry, and Twilled Clothe are inquired fir to a considerabie extent, with small node. Prints of suitable divine continue in active demand. Of Turkey red plain cloth first bands are Ave, but the bazaar dealers are pretty well supplied. (not, YAWL—The fah 5 since our last amount to no more than g tales mule end 110 bales water twist. Noe. 80 and 60 mule and 44 water are scarce, and are those most in demand. Noe. 20 mule and 10 and 30 water are uninquired for ; indeed, the demand tor newly all descriptiees is extremely limited. Turkey red of firer (Scotch) is in good demand, while rho rate for °wee bus dee= sad green is not asked after. _ _ . 11sraut—Prim of nearly every description of metal hare grim way. Copper: Of this metal large /notice exist, and there is but bills demand for any description. Iron: British bar, skeet, hoop, and nail rod share in the general decline and want of i nquiry . Swedish beg . iron, pig and sheet lad, and Swedish steel are aft . * In the mine Mani. Tin plates are heavy in Mock, and sales cannot be effected. SAM price of this article has fallen of late. COClUNlAL.—Notwithstanding the advance In the price of this arti cle in England, It has ...e'en gold here during the fortnight at a mimosa rate—viz., 4,11001b5. silver, at re. 21; 3,ooeibs. at re. 21, and Wks. at re. 2 114 a... per lb. Bun—Very little doing; the only salmi we have lewd of having been IS tihda Baas, at te.115, and 15 hhda. Smell (rainier) and CO., Ili 111. SO per hhd. Of Allaop'a the markat is completely hale. Smarm—We have only beard of a sale of 200 tiftcen.heettle Wee Of gin, at re. 14 per use . This spirit is in good demand, while brandy continues dull and neglected. A alight inquiry exists forJainmea rum. Manias flrestra.—!tales to a moderate extent in pitch, tar, and paints, have had amt. A alight improvement has taken place in cordons, and canvas la in moderate request. *Spirits of turpentine us dull of sale, while oil of linseed is in demand. Paints are leas its foe. Carron Woot.—The purchases during the fortnight amount he 3,625 bale and 2,250 candies. ghostly after the arrival of the &u, Mail the price of Compts slightly improved, but it has again begun le fidl. The value of Dhollera increased by a few rupees per Lundy after the arrival of the chine mull, and has maintained its price ever one. Jumboosrer and New Breach to arrive is March have been purebred in those districts at 95 and 94 Its. per candy respectively. A quantity of new Camden& just arrived has told at 83 Rs per candy. PIPPKIL—iOO candies Bhatooll bane been purcbesed at 53 rums Ocandy. nve.-3falwn maintains its baiter value, and the quantity chipped monthly continues Liege —more offering for dispatch by the Peninsula and Oriental Oompent's stamen than can be takes on. houtinrs have been very dull throughout the past formate. Tare was a slight improvement in the rates about a work ago, bee they bars since declined, and we cannot quote them higher now thee 31. IL to London, and Si. 2.. 6d. per ton to Liverpool, rat which there is nest to nothing offering. To Chine, engagements bore beat made at 11 t tv. per may. 12zensmom—A tale amply of bills cane on from China by lad steamer, end In 000•MIIIIX• of the rate tiers keHog 1141141101 d is, ed. per dollar, the recipients here could afford to put with their bills at • cheaper rate thaelise been current in Bombs, for earns rem tie rya te formrr ee have s. tt ib ' agusheshat,typ:trire:h.htot:trmwebanat r been ose ed. md e pee . ""we but m nir i t e e:::!Lthe eir thaws. memo( mikesa and we cannot quute higher this evening than Is. I id. to 2s. limb banks have been lithe market aa salsas at hi per rupee six months' sight. Calcutm bills are loan!. now the we ever remember them W quote sixty days' sight rt.9B, Wady days' at and sight bills at e 99 per Be.loo. CALCUTTA, JAW. a IPSO. Sinn date ot eta Iset report, 7th instant, the Elsa& mail of the November bee some to bawl, reaching town on the leth lawest„ a day after the departure of the outward going mall. The dew. titre of the latter bad been kept beck on. day, but the detemehe did not saner the object desired. This makes or I thisd Weems of tinge: theappointatest vithia elittt I 1