The Sun. — London, England, 1858-02-23 00:00:00

THE SU:N, L'OND:OW, TUESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 23, 1858 b , MONEY iviA li,' K E T SHILAt M Alt Li.El l 3- This Day). LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Closing Prices Madness AIM i RAILWAYS. Shr. Paid Rimwets. Companies this day this 4147 ' COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. 1 „ oiefitrg Pile, Business dor e - - ................-...... r ......_,,,,,,,____ 1 oar. Paid RAILVIAM this day, this day, St. 100 Buckghamsh. n.&N.W. 98 - 100 99 .1 1 CITY, Two O'CLOCK, 1 St. 100 Clydesdale Je. Caledon„. 100 -- 102 E , 25 all Col.Stour Vy. .U.drE.o 13 - 15 St. 100 E.L.n. g. 6 p a . ' t•Northn 139 - 141 - The Foreign and Colonial Produce Metkets & Eastn. June.- 5 a - Si -- 121 - 10 A. - mbg. - Nottn , 2. Rost. .-- 5 all E. Un. IL Sh, E. Count. 4 - 1a during the last few days have exhibited rather reore 50 , ni a a l u l B Be irra lfa n st g St. 100 Glas. Barr, & Caldonian. en 0 activity, and most of the leading articles of con- Stour Valley 72 - 73 . & w ß o a ie ll e Y r in h. 84 - 81 Neils. Direct. s St. 100 Do. New Do ••• - ••• suroption have realised steady rates. Tea has been St. 103 Birkenhd. Lancsb. 41 25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Gt. Westn. ... - ... a Cheshire Junct...... •.. - .„., 111 firmer, and common congou realises 13d. per lb. 94 - 91 50 all Hull & Selby. Y. & N.M. 110 -U2 a 25 all Blackburn . ••••• a cash. Sugar of the better qualities is in good de- 25 all Blyth & Ty - ne original 25 all Do. 1 £25 (iss. at £45)... . - 121 all Do. Shares. Do Shares Do I ••• .... ••• .. ... a mend, and at a slight improvement, but the info- 12i all LonakGreenw S.Eastern. 124 - 136 St. 100 Bristol & Exeter....., 95 - 96 24 - 25 .-' rior descriptions are not much inquired for ; late St. 100 ,Caledonian..... ..... ... 94/ - 954 951 41 20 all Do. Preference Do e rates, however, were in most instances realised. St. 100 master it Holyhea.l 3 1 "•-• 3 9 374 1 1. 100 10 D Lon,o. Bark, Ti 1 . , d' Sh S - ••• S 50 all Cork and Bandon.... •• • - ..,.. Peto po &Co 97 - 100 974 In the Refined Market a fair amount of businesss4 all Manah.Baton. .. diN. W 0 20 all Cork, Black. & Pass. ••• - ... A - ..• St. ;100 MM. Bradfd. dland... 98 - 100 10 a has been reported, chiefly for home consumption, 20 all Cornwall 4 - 5 and Matlock & Midld. 2 4 - 2 8 ) and full rates are current. Good qualities of plan- 10 all D ( . ) all Do. B - ••• 61 51 Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. E. Count.. 3 - iP I>! Cation Ceylon coffee maintain their value, but for 50 all Dnblin&BelfastJune ... - „ad 56 - 58 50 all N.&Est.s p.c. Do n other kinds there is little 'demand. Rice has been 25 all Dun. P. &Aber • Junc. 8 - 9 81 8 50 all De. 6 per et.. 1 0 ... - ... it St. 100 East aaia•lian ....... 18 - 19 steady, and saltpetre fiat. A moderate amount 50 all Do.Fixedsp.c Do I- St. 100 Eastern Counties...l . . 62A - 631 61i 31 a 25 all Prest. & Wyre .drls . W ... - ... e . of business has been reported in rum, at about St. 100 EasternUnion,A.stk. 48 - 50 496 St. ,, 100 Do., do. 13............. 32 - 34 32/ 3 124 all Do. 4 Shrs. 4 Do a - ••• St. 1.00 Roystn. & Hit. et. Northn ' 138 - 140 •-• previous quotations. The Tallow Market has St. 'lOO 6 ' ) 01 Do. New A ....... ..... ••• - ••• 10 all I Shrews.& Her . Brassey 8 - 81 , 0 been very quiet, and prices are rather lower. 25 all Eaq Kent ... 15 - 17 •••••-. 12 all 'S. Staffordsh.. M. MClean 101 - los t P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted at 525. 9d. to 535. ; 50 all WearVaLg6pe StkaliDar. ... - ... !S 20 all East Suffolk 'East Lancashire ...... 931 - 946 , 944 25 all 'Do Do 33 - 34 ni March delivery, 525. 6d ; and last three months, 10 all Do. d - - ••• St. 100 IWiltediSonarst Gt.Westn. 191 - 93 51s. 6d. per cwt. st. 100 ,Edinb - arghee Glasgow 68 - 69 ' .- n , The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed 0 all lEdinb. and Peebles ••• - ••• - 284 274 81 ls riFERENCE SHARES. la ' t. 1 00 Edinb Prth &Dunde.' 23 S lo t. 100 aa I with an improving tendency, and prices of all 0 all Fortha . ndthyd.eJunC, ••• - ... - 2 - 5 all Blyth and Tyne 10 p. c.pref.(issd.at 50/0 ... - ..• it descriptions were fully id. per lb. dearer. The St. 100 Farness ... a • ...... - - ''' St. 100 Bris.&Ex.4 p.c. St. 90 - 95 d sales were estimated at 7,000 bales, 500 of which asgow di S. Gl Western 91 - 9 6 all Great N. of Scotland 9 3 -10 i 20 7 o. 4 per c. Shares.. ... - ••• :a St. 100 Caledn. £lO 41 p. c. 102 - 101 were taken by the speculators, and 500 by the ex- 4. 1 100 'Great Northern lO6l - 1074. 107 61 1 St. 100 Do. A. Stock 92 - 94 93 2 St. 100 Ches. & Ho. 51 p.c. ... - ... porters. In the Railway Share Market there was , t. e •••••• St. 100 Do. do. 5 per cent... ... - ... Le Wil Do., B. Stock - 133 Y less animation, and values were at a slight decline. et. 1 100 rlt. Sth.&West.(lre) lO4 - 106 61 all Cork&Bandonslp.e. ... - •.. • a Perth.&Aber.J. 6 - 6411 un•l id Th e s t eame r Sultan which leaves to-morrow for St. 100 G rea t We s te rn. - 61.4 604 11 601 1 - 6 •an Cls.A Sh - - . ... St. 100 D o. Str P.R. gua.St 6 1 - 63 St, 100 E. Anglian Bombay will take out 213,434 1 . chiefly in silver. 12 all Trial South-Eastern.. ... - ... St. 100 Do. do. Cls. B 7 Op. c. 108 •••• 112 These additional remittances tend to augment the 50 I all Lancaster &Carlisle. 85 - 88 St, 00 Do. do. Cls. C p. c. 110 - 114 1 115 - 120 8 . I.6ii 144! business in the silver market, and the quotations - - D 0.,...... p St. 00 Eas.Co.Ex,sp.c No. St. 00 Do. No. 2 ...... ..... 115 - 120 It 165 15 Do. New Thirds .., 11 - 12 p al -- are maintained with greater firmness, bars being St. 100 Lancash. & Y or k s hi re 95 --95 4 944 51 St. 100 Do. New 6 pr. c. St. 130 135 20 all East Un. G. 6p. c. ... - ... 1, ss. lid.; I- per oz. standard. The Eastern ex- 16 6 Do., do. F £l6 - i d 5 all Do. 51., 10 per cent. ... - ... 3 IDo Wet. Riding Un. ••• - .. • r is . changes, as reported by the advices yesterday, are 20 all Do.. ' Southport. - • ... 10 all Do. 10/. Debentr.Sh. ... - ... St. all io. do. 4 per cent_ • ... • - ... 76 51 se . _ rather in favour of this country, but the shipments Ili ; all London & Blackwell 61 - 6/ 64 d• of specie will, no doubt, continue on the present S t ' I St 100 Lend Briaht &S Cst 107 - 108 103 71 [lOO/ St 100 East Lancash.6 mtg. ... - ... . ' • Weeter• 101 - 1014 101 1001 11 - 5 all E.diW. York. J. Stilt ... - ... . 100 London &N. , of lo 9 Edin. di Gl. sp • c. Sh. ... -- ... scale. 20 1 all Do. Fifths - ••• ;la 10 i all D0.,10/.5h.,M&8...0 ... - ... St. 100 Ed.Prth.&Dun.4p.c. 74 - 76 Nearly 50,000/. was sent into the Bank yester- , er 121' 5 Do. Eighths i • - 11 d St. 100 Runless, sp, c ••• -- .•• day. The principal portion of the gold received St. 103 London & S.Weatern 97 - 98 971 8 7 St. 100 Glas, & 5.W.G.5 p.c ..• -- „ a he St. 100 Great Northn. 5 p.c. 120 - 122 120 ry from Australia by the Northumberland has been -5 ' all iLiadndrry.&Coleraine ... - .. 25 i all Lndndrry. & Eunisk • - ••• St. 100 Do. SP. c. Redeem. ei, forwarded to the Continent. St. 1100 ,Manch.Shof.&Lincln. 394 - 40 4 40 at 10 p. c. press..,. 113 - 115 of As anticipated, the interest on Exchequer Bills 10 1 14fMotropolitan -.a.- ••• - ••• St. 100 Do. 41 per cent - 107 lot will be reduced to 2d. per cent. per diem. An 10 ' 1 Do. J. L. Ricardo's 100 60 Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prom. - CO he arrangement ...... ••• - ••• 'Midland . les official notice ha s b een g iven to that effect. Even St. 100 100 - 1004 991 1 1001 A 10 all Gt.N.ofScot.lst Pre. 104 - 11 ' 7 ... 1 . at the altered quotation, however, these securities St. 100 Do. Birnaing.4 Derb. . 1 - - 73 71 20 18 Gt. S &W. (Ireland) - ... 50 • all Midland G.West.(lr.' •••• - ••• 20 18 Do. 4 per c. Prof. St. a . - „, 50 t 5 I Gt.W.(B.dall.Ex.spe 51 - 6 ia- will yield rather more than 3 per cent. per annum, 25 ___ . ! all Do. 4 5harpe......... -• •• St, 100 Do. con. red. 41 p.c. 92 - 94 93 24 IS Viz., 31. Os. 10d. , 00 all Newcastle &Carlisle.. ••• -•- )ct The following are the nominal prices of Foreign 25 all Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfd 13 - 14 St. 100 , Do. con, rod. ip.c. 87 - 89 St. 100 Do, in•ed. 4 per tent. 88 - 90 88 9 50 l ' 9 Newry & Enniskillen ... - ••• ; a Stocks :-Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6t064 ; Mexi- 20 1 all Newry, Warrenpoini St. 100 Do. sp, c • red. pref. 93 - 101 1004 100 he 8 all Do. Birm. Prof. Sh lOl - 153 can, 20 to 201 ; Peruvian 44 per Cents., 81 to , ds,Rastrevor ... - ... led It. 100 Norfolk - 67 66 10 all .1 . Chester Bp. e, P. S. 16 - 17 to , 83 ; Do. 3 per Cents., 55 to 57 ; Portuguese 3 per 50 ,36 No: ' ' U 91 11 •thia. Counties n 0 - .. 10 all Do, do. sp. c. d 0... 10 - 101 St. 100 Do, Bil7ll. Gue. Stk. 74 - 76 AO Cents., 454 to 464 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 110 to St. 100 North British ...... 521 - 531' 521 261 all Do. Chesil. Gua. Sh. 19 - 20 ' , y 112 ; R.). 4: 1 2 . per Cents 93 to 100 ; Spanish 3 per St. 100 North Devon, Rail. a 131 all Do, do. do, 9l - 10 rs, I .) Cents., 43,1 to 44i ; and Do. New Deferred, 26 to ' Dock Stock ...... ...... ••• -"''' ••• St. 100 Do., A Stock ... ••• ..., 20 al Do, do. do ,he St. 100 Lan, & York. 6 pc. St l3B -- 140 110 264. St. 100 Do., B Stock ....... ••• - •• . St. 100 Lon. &B. G. 5 pc. No.l ... - ... U 0 aali St. 100 N.Eastern - Berwick 974 - 98. 1 . 97 4 4 St. 100 D0.,P., 5 p.e.StalsTo.2 ... - ... dot The half-yearly meeting of the Peel River Land 25 ' all D' ' o. do, • 2( Extension ... ••• - ... St. 100 Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. ... - ... a and Mineral Company has just been held. The 25 16/ Do do. G.N.E.Purch. ld - purl St. 100 Do. do. sp. c,, N 0.4 ... - ..* of ' St. 10) Do. Leeds aCCIUUta for the year 1857 will be suhrnitted. at ° - 62 St. 1 100 Lon, & N.W., Cov. & cl.g• i 1 St 100 Do. York 824 - 831 823 1 3 the next meeting. The returns for the half-year St. 100 No . rth 94 - 96 Nuneaton sr. et... ... - ... ace L0nd0n......,, St. 100 Lon, & S.W. 7 pact. were as follows :-Sales of stock, 1,9211. 0 8 . 4d ; W 31.1 N.& S. Wstn., Hamp cal 113 cattle, 453/. 12s. ; three horses, 231. L • i stead, and City Jia. ... - ... late 3d Shares ... 160 -- 165 35 Leaving 20 174 North Staffordshire 3l - 36 144 1 12 4 all Londy.& Color. 1 Sh. ... - ... ed. in hand 54,526 sheep, 3,475 cat . le, and 223 horses, 20 , all North Western - 8 12 all Londy.&Ennis. 1 Sh. ... - are 247 gold licenses had been issued, producing 2141. 10 all N. &S. Westria June 84 - 94 St. 100 1., S.,&L. 6p. Cent. 121 - 123 6 41 10. do. do. £6 ... .. 3 --- i ii ...it 10s. 327 bales of wool had been transmitted to st. 100 Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton,..,. 32i - 33 324 St. 100 Do. do. 34 percent. 66 - 70 i 10.9 - 5 4 121, all Marypt. a Carl. 4 P.C. a. - ... his Sydney. The report is still under discussion. 20 18 Portsmouth 10 10 Rh min* , l2l all Do, 41 per cent ••• - ••• ttO At the special meeting of the Pernambuco Rail- St. 100 Y - Scottish Central ...... 109 - 111 110 121 104 Do. do. - ••• re. • way Company to-day, a r eso l u ti on was passed for St. 100 Sc.ot N.E.Abrdn. St. 264 - 271 St. 100 Mid.Conso l . 6 p.c. St ... - .. St. 100 Do.Coia.Br • Bir.6 p.c 137 - 139 1374 84 71 in -St 100 Shropshire Union. 49 -- 61 raising the 400,0001. required to complete the line, ' - • St. 100 Do. 41 p. c. Pref. St. 102 - 101 St. 8 Sitingbourne &Sheer. :11 -24 hie by a loan in the guarantee, by the Brazilian 50 100 South Dev0n........., 36 - 38 361 7} St. 100 Do. L. dcll, Pref. St. 93 - 95 his Government, of 5 per cent. per annum. St. 100 South Eastern .. -.. ... 744 - 75 741 i 10 all New., Aber., &c., pr. 41' 10 all Do, 44 per c. Shares ... - - ... The report of the directors of the Buffelo and St. 1.00 South Wales... .... .. . 82 - 83 10 all Do. Perpet. 6 pr. et. 113 - 113 'his 20 all S. irorksh RiverD . 13 -15 d 10 all Norflr.Deb.4 c,Sh. ... - ... ices Lake Huron Railway Company has just been • UE 7 - 5 d 20 10 Do,. St. 1100 Do. Sp. c. Ext. 1846 ... - ~. to presented, and states that the line will be opened 20 all !Staines,Wok.,&Wok. 9 - 11 St. 100 Do. 5•4 p.c. pf, 1847 ... - ... eii o I in June next. The present outlay was $2,750,000. 25 all Stockton; & Darling.: 38 -39 St„ 100 Do.Wv.V.sp. ~ ,1847 ... - ... St. 100 North British 108 - 110 • , 25 174 Do. do., 1854 7 31 De. 71. Preference,,.l ... - ... 'sirs I It is proposed to issue 15,000 preference shares at 25 5 Do. do., 1855 - ... tie g St. 100 N.E. Beres, 4p.c.Prf.! 98 - 100 99 ... 161 Stockton di Hartlepl. ... - ... 17 81 Do, do, do / - 1 d M r , 101., at 7 per cent., to complete the work. St • 100 Taff Val© •.• - .•• 20 13 Do, Leeds 6 pe. No. 1 ... - ... like The English Funds have been much firmer to- .--* st. 100 Do, Prof., No. 1., ... - ~. 121 9 Do. do, Qrs., 1848._ ... - ... [cal day, and there has been an improved tone in all 25 22 Thames Hay. D. &R ... - ... 25 10 Do • YorkH.&S. Pur. 1 - 1(1 rate departments of the house. Although a feeling of 20 all 'vale of Neath. ..... - 103 1.011 21 20 all North Staffordshire.. 22 - 23 fie ' St 100 IWaterel. & Kilkenny ... - ... uncertainty still prevails, it is thought that Lord 50 1 • ' all !West ... - St. 100 Ox.,Wor. & Wolv. 6 .P. ,c.iir D p.c. Ist raar. ...... 121 - 123 1211 21 Der will be able to form a Ministry, and that 20 all 'West Cornwall.. his St. 100' Do. ep. c. 2d guar... 107 - 109 ing political affairs will soon make favourable progress. 10 all 'West , End of London ' and Crystal Palace . - . . St. 100 Do, do. Debentr. St. 97 - 99 ,We Purchases to a small txtent have consequently been 5 all Do. A - .3/; 81 all cot. Cent. New Prof. .. - ... ar e Its 5 all Do. B - 61 St. 100 c.N.E.Aber.g.6p.c. 118 - 120 -de, and the result is rather more firmness. St. 100 Do, do. 7 pas. pf. St. 103 - 112 'ba t Console have been 96a / for money, and 964 i 10 20 all West London St. 100 o. d 0.31 p.c. pf. St. 71 - 73 rile all Do. First Class • - ••• i for account, but they are now about 964 I both 20 all Do. Second Class ... - ... ' 25 all nth Devon lO3 -10 i la p s 10 all ,Wmbledon&Croydon, ... - • ... 10 all o. fixed 44 pr cent. ... - ~.. • for Money and account. The New Three per 1.0.6 all S. Eastern (Reading ;OW Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 25 - 251 kta - Cents. are 974 1, the Reduced 961 974, and the BRITISH POSSESSIONS. St. 100 Do. 44 per cent lOl - 103 ago, advertised Exchequer Bills 235. to 30s. premium. 100 all iAtian. and St. Law. ... •-- a. iB6 St. 100 Do. Fixed 41 p.c. Sh 101 - 103 vith B an k Stock i s 227 , an d I n di a ditt o 2201 t o 223 . 18 9 'Bombay, Baroda, and • 1 St. 100 Do. New 41 pr. cent ... - ... the A.moderate amount of bwieess has been done in 18 all Do, ' Cen • lnd guar. 5 p.c. ' 1 - / 194 St. 100 1 100 S. Wales Gua. 4p. c. ... - . . - ... 1 18/ St. 1100 Do. do. 41 p. c ••• --- ••• t een the u. the Foreign Stock Market, and pric es are ra th er 20 6 a ll Buffalo Lake 1 13 -14 20 I all aYorksh.4p.c.Guar. ... - ... I r 25 {all tuck. &Dar., sp. c. 28 - 29 00 100 ißutf Brut & Godeh. I I 188 -92 I 19/ firmer. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 101 4, and ditt 1 - ' " ' ° 100 100 rq p.e.lids., 1 Aug.,'72, 25 I 19 Do. do. do. a nd 4 per Cents., 1044 I ; Buenos Ayres 6 per Cents., Do, do., 1 July, 'TX 84 - 88 St. 1100 Waterfd& Kilk. 6po ... - ,„ - WO 804 and ditto Deferred, 18; Chiliau 3 C 100 par ents. 100 Do, do., 1 June,Bo - 84 of BRITISH MINES. i ' 20 2s. Calcutta and S. East.lpar - ip oof 74 ; Grenada Deferred, 64 ; Mexican 3 per Cents., 20 2s6d Central nude (Lim.)( ... -• ••• _______ s3 20 ... 211 Alfred Cons. (Philk.)i 12 - ... l a of if 5 ; Peruvian 3 per Cents. VI •• • Spanish N ~ te ,ew 20 10s Ceylon A shares lB - lip 24 20 14 British Iron 1 3 - 5 20 ... 20 Condurow (Camlarn.l 80 - 'A itio, Deferred, 264 ; French , q per Cents 94f. 50 • 3 0 • 174 all Demerara. - a. 10 1 Dev. Gt. Cnsls. (Tay.) 460 - 480 !by . . and Dutch 4 per Cents 1004 1. 20 2s. Eastern Bengal - 1 ... 271 Exist Basset (Mogan) 100 - 105 10 2 I • ; A. moderate business has been - reported this St. 100 East Indian 'llO - 111. 1104 10 ... 17s Great South Tolgus.. 16 - 17 iter, 20 15 Do. C Shares ll - I.lp 161 . morning in the Railway Share Market, and an •... 1715 Grt.W.Alfrd.(Philk. 41 - 51 nailim- too all D 0.41 p.c.Buds.,'s7 ••• - ... 73 Grt.W. Vor (Hestia) 1f - 13 I. by provement of about Ito 1 per cent. may be quoted 100 all I Do. do. do., '59, do. ... - ... ••• 178 Lady Bertha - 11 13 ••• asko on most of the leading lines. Caledonian, E 20 Las*. all ,Geelong & Melbourne , I guar. 5 per cent...,] 191 - 204 ... 8 N. Frances (Illogan) 10 - 11 ~, „, N.W.Basset (Illogan) 16 - 17 are Lancashire, E liuburgh, Perth, and Dundee, Great ' St. 100 Gd. Trunk. of Canada 50 - 52 ... 6/15 North Wheal Crofty 41 •-- fi ally N ortheru, North-E astern (Berwick), North- 100 all Do. 6p. c. Deben...l 83 - 85 1 84A ... 11 Par. Cons. (St.Blaxy) 204 -21 i We ° 20 all Gt. In. Pen, g. 5 pore. 21a - 22 , 211 3 9 S or t. U. (Wend.) 5 - 6 Eastern (York), and South-Eastern, 10s. G••• ; reat 20 4 Do. New, guar. 5 p.c. I - lo I as Sort. Coons. Min. Co. 11 - 11 11 10! Western,•.• • Loa. and Lancashire and Yorkshire, 15s. ; and . 201 all Gt. Wcstn. of Canada 204 - 201 201 A/ i 21 S. Camden (St. Clem.) 360 - 370 sod • Eam era Counties, N North-Western Western • , and Mid- 204 13 Do, New - fa 121 1 100 all Do. Bds., payable '57 ... - ... ••• 2S. Camn Brea (Illegal.) 53 - 53 Lel land, 1/. In the Foreign Lines scarcely 100 all Do, do., '76, p. '6O llO - 115 ••• 19 S.W. Frances(llloan.) 235 - 245 46 Tam. S. &L. Min. 1 - 11 an d any business was reported, and pricloo all Do. do., '73, do. - 115 44 - 41 44 10 9 Tin Croft an - es remain 100 all !Do, do., '73, without . 40 Un.3.lines (Gwennap . ... - ... ' quite eominal. The Colonial lines have been I option 105 - 110 req . .. '• 0 flat. G ran d T run k o f C ana d a i mproved 10s., 20 all !Madras, guar. 41 p.c. 191 - 191 191 ••• 12s V. of Towoy (Camar.) 11 - 11 ... 14 W. Basset (Illogan).. 26 - 27 all ' Do, do 5 per c 204 - 211 21 20 . .., p , 1 . 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd.) 105 - 115 r of and East Indian declined 10s. Great Western of 20 10 Do. 44 p. e. Exton. id - par, ... 54 Wh. Basset (Illogan). 230 - 250 ark"' , Canada and Great Indian Peninsula reached yes_ 5 Wh. Buller (Rdruth). 320 - 350 We terday'a quotations. 20 5 Do, 4th Ex., do, 1 - 3p 51 ~• ... 51 •.. Edward(Calstek) 7 - 74 i h! o In 2O ss. Oucle, (Limited) ' ... - ... ... 157 s h. Kitty (U. Llant) 134 - 144 ;sett is Min es,Banks, and Miscellaneous Shares there 20 5 ISe scarcely any b • lade, guar. 5 pert., 1 - 1 ,i1 3 1 ... 8 Wh. Ma. Ann (Menht. ) 47 - 49 , 20 all iDo e ta business reported, and prices are 4 4 Wh. TreLawney (Lis.) 21 - 23 , unaltered to any hismaterial extent. Canada Land • Shares have improv e d a b out 21. FOREIGN. FOREIGN MINEB. 10 ! all !Antwrp &Rotterdam 6 - 64 20 71 'Australian • 1 --- l i p BRITISH FUNDS.-CLOSING PRICES -T2O all 'Ardennes 1 10s. Bon Accord Cop. (11.) on HIS DAY, 5 all Belgian East. Junet. 1 -11 35 27 Brazilianlmp.(hsued (From the Offimal Lut;) l3 - 21 y 0 . 20 all Beziers to Graissessac ... - ... at £5 pm) Business dote 6 all Carmeaux&Toulouae • 30 ' all Do. Cocacs & Cuiada ... - ••• Le e ° Bank Stock 227 Coal Mines and Ry. 31 - 4 I 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 13 •- 14 134 r a ; Per cent. Reduced Annuities - 301111 1 4 Clarendon Con. Min. 150 New Cont. Consols Annuities 9 Q II ia i 20 all Eastern of France ... 27 - 28 274 Co. of Jamaica...... ... - ...d per Cent. Annuities 961 71 7 i 20 all Do. Now . 40 all Cobre Copper 4l - 42 OW , LOW! per Annuities,expire sth Jan, 1860 2 1-16 a - •.• 20 2s. Euphrates! Valley ... ... - ... ... 16 Copiapo - 15 al e ° , India Stock 223 201 20 all lat. Central of France ... - ... 1 all Dun Mountain Oop• oil lndia Bonds, £lOOO ..... . I 25 29 p 20 all Great Luxembourg... 73 - 84 per Mining Co. ... d - ii P . Va_sols for Account ........... . .... .....- ...... -. id the •... Exchequer Hills, 26a .. .. 16 6 Italian Junction ••• - ••• 2 all Fortuna • x;1000. June. 20 all Lake Coast. & Bale ,•• - ••• 20 all General - 171 ........................ 32 20 all Lierro and Turnhout ... - ...d 3 all Linares - 91 Pak • aim 26 20 6 Lombardo-Venetian 41 - splo I 11 5 1/ Lusitanian - ict 13-I.oi Ivor ; - t 1 all Mariquita Ditto Advertised --- I se', 2t233026 32 p 1 20 all Lyons and Geneva... 27' - 28 . 1 all New Granada Exchequer Bonds, 1858,36 per Cent.... 100/ fate ' 20 all Lyons & Mediterran. ... - ... 1 all Novean Monde - -. bs 6 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS-THIS DAY, 331 all Maria Antonia - ••• 20 all Pont.Sil.LdM.&Smlt 5 - 6 --- Do. New seß i l Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cont. BO4 10 all • ••• 5 1 Port Philip • • - ••• , ace' Ditto Deferred, 3 per Cent. . - 9 84 1 30 161 Santiago de Cuba ...I 25 -2/ 21 f It 15 Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent. 3064 20 all Do. do. 6p. c. Prof. 201 - 211 all United Mexican r 4or 41 • fo re Ditto 3 per Cent 74 16 all Northern of France.. 373 - 344 . 00 a Eauador New Consolidated l4l 10 all NorwegianTrnk.Prei 81 - 9 MISCELLANEOUS. • ' 20 all Paris an'l Lyons 33A - 331 331 ,ce de Orenadri New Active, 21 per Cent. -., 20 all Paris and Orleans,... 51 - 56 10011 900 Atlantic Tel, (Lim.) ... -- .. the • - . a ,.. Ditto Deferred - 27 1 261 . Atexicat, .3 per Cent 2O 9 Ree,j.fe & San Fran., 10 all Australn. Royal Mail 11 - 2 see p (Penman.) g. 7p. c. par .- ip Bii 94 I , ato Account 204 1 , 10 all ! Berlin Water Works.. 4 - 5 iiertivian Bonds, per Cent lO all Rome and Frascati.. ... - ... 10 2 Do. New iss. at 51. d ... - ... ! lito 1 Ditto 3 per Cent . - 20 all Royal Danish l6 - 18 50 40 Brit. American Land 35 - 40 bleb . Ditto Account 556 I 5 all Royal Swedish A- i 100 324 Canada HI - 155 150 PO 20 all Sambre and Meuse_ 8 - 8i St. 100 iDo•Go.6pc.Jan&July 1134 - re - " P o r tuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 - 1141 114 131 14 ow Ditto 18a3, 3 per Cent - 8 6 St. all ;Copper Min. of Eng. 27 - 32 I a a t Ditto account (February 26) - 22 25 all IDo. Prof. 74 p. cent. 25 - -27 al p an rash oomds, .1 per Cent. - 81 all West Flanders 4l -41 5 all 'Crystal Palace ll -11 10 all !Do. 54 per e. Pad 9- 9 6 5 all Do. Preference let Ditto New Deferred 3 C • per enc. - A Ditto .A.,,count, . 20 all W. & N.W. of France 26 - 27 4 all Crystal Pal. of Franco „„ _ ... 1" Ditto .sonde, 6 pz,i..,;;li, - ••• 20 all Eastern Steam 44 -54 Isi. 40. . . Ditto Account .. t ••• . lOl 20 all !Wea. of Swazi) la rnd ... - ... St. 100 Electric Telegraph ••• 102 - 105 1034 - of Ditto Guaranteed, . .; , p•;-; . .6;;;i .............. 1001 1 r k 6 all ,Wiestaden - ... 11 10- Ditto Account .. ......... • ........... . - ... '6 i all I Do. Bp, cent. pref. - 5 all En • .&Aust.Cop.SmCo 14 -1311 3 art ° Dividends on, ti;,-, - .............. . :. 1044 4 31 4 1 • above payaoie in Londe.. 20 1 all ,Zee'land .•. ". ... 10 I.os.lEur. & Ind,Jctn . Tel. .., _ . . French Routes, 41 per Cant. ....... __-- - t of j 1 1 ...... 94f 500. Belgian 44 per Cent., ex. 25 francs,;;. ' - - .... 91 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 9 all lEur.&Am.Stm.(lim.) 41 --• 41 . ai 20 all I Gen. Ir • Sc. Col.(11m4 .., ..... ... • Dutea. Eichange, 24 per Cen.;., 12 Guilders 66 - 15 1 c 1 - 40 all !Australasi a . . 'B6 ----- 15 14 (Gen. Steam Naviga.t. ... -. ,-88 86 • s of i Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ............. 1004 4 25 18( Bank of Egy , 234 -24 21 4 20 5 !London Discount ... 14 i•d ,yo:' ' !MEE O'CLOCK. 100 50 !Bank of London 40 all !Bank Col Bk &Ln C 0.20 10 Magdalena St. Navig. ... _ ... rat ) ' Consols, money • 10 all Mediteran. Elec. Tel, 8 - 9 l° Consols account (March 4) 20 10 ,t.13k.0f Ind. Au.diCh. *** 10 all Do. ... a- 0 (3)1 ... .... - _ ---- - - -1.) ) 50 'City 59 - 61 10 all lOXiCall&S.Amerien a , ..... 2. 1)/ 6 1,,0 25 Colonial ........... - . tit , SOL(TH KENSINGTON NIiZISEUM. -During the week end 23 5 Nat. Discount C 0.... 14 - 34 4 )0 100 20 Commercial of Load. .., _ •• held n ag Feb. 20 the visitors have been as follow. : _o a 10 6 Netherlands Land.... i -13 •' . 20 all Eng•Scot.&Aus.C.a. 171 - 18 10 all Do. Do. - 3i a ge Monday, and Saturday (free Tuesday, days), 8,896 ;on 20 all Lon• Ch. Bk.ofAust. 173 - 5 all Do.Bp.c.Ptiss.atld. 21 - 31 23 3 ) otO Monday and Tuesday free evenings), 4,137 • on the • 181 . three Now students' days (admission to the public, 6d.), R - 19 , 50 20 London! and County ''' I on e students' evening (Wednesday), 132 ; total, 8,984. ... 50 Lncl ••• - .&E.Bnklig.Cor • ... 100 80 New B. &N. S. Land 17 - 20 ••• St. 100 N.S.W. Gov.s p.c.D. 96 -97 98 196;i o g 01:1T11A1IPTON, Sunda. I t 11,q-nce was received 150 10 London Joint Stock. ... -.. 1 4.y.- D e -t •• 1 all N. B. Australasian 8 - 1 i iirig here this morning of the American ship William 14)0 2 . 0 Lond.andWestminst. ... - .., 44; i 20 all ?Irth.ofEuropeSteana ... - ... ~; an y, •,,:nger, 1 200 tons laden with , natio, b:ing on shore at PO 35 , National Pro. of Eng. ~. - ... 1 all riental Gas - 13 f ' lrn ok, at" '. N farther 40 10 'De New.. ... - ... 211 i it e toe ba ck of the Isle of Wight. u .1 10s, De New Share. P if , ha d • Particulars 50 25 National Bank - ••• 5 all PeeiHr. Ld. dr Xinrl. 23 '2l despatched are known here. Three steamers have been 20 all New South Wal es 44 - 46 451 50 all Peninsular & Oriente' 784 - 794 a to /1 0 to her assistance from Southampton and 25 all 'Oriental Bank Corp, 37 - 39 3 7 50 10 Do. Now 7 - 8 p Say' rtsmouth• 20 20 Ottoman Bank 50 all Rhymney Iron ,e o se Roy -L-, -- The 00 25 Provincial of Ireland ••• - ••• 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 63i - 644 f b AL .1: RES HOSPITAL, GBAT'S-INN ' , arl o f la . 1 10 all Do. Now i 30 0 ' f ee ,. .rowis has eoasented to preside at the 41311118 5 1 ~,.. s 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. 11 -11 the ' ."•al on behalf f tl o a, zau .8.&G.1m Co.- •• ajp , . . c ....14 very excellent charity, which 25 all 3outli Australia ' :a St. 100 S.Aus, Gov.6p.c.bds. 108 - 110 1 !WI . a - " taks place at the Freemasons' Rne, a a ,Tavern early in 25 all Union of Australia . _ • 146 - 48 471 8 7 25 all South Austral. Land 38 - 40 1 all übmarine Tel. Scrip 3 - 1 )0 05 ' g ood .• e tru-t T., i;eo a list of stewarl. va itaa the ... 2 Do. New - '2B 27 4 1 effected aaal the • • ' • 1 all 'Do. i - Legisteied - 1 both in the nun erssl philanthropy exalted, 50 10 Union of London..., 23 -25 20 5 True. Lia,Co. Up. Can ... - ... I kflath a d . pion of the Royal Free Hospital and the 100 50 'Unitemutna.l .... ci A 10( 281 Van.Dremeu's Land lO ••••• 12 I; in which it is carried Out, igo 0 ,Wostrpßk of Loud - d -• A __,.. PII gotten their duty as the appointed guardians of British honour, as to neglect returning an ener getic answer to the menacing despatch of the French Government, dated Paris Jan. 20, and which had been laid before Parliament. Conse quently, the apparent tenor of Mr. Milner Gibson's amendment did not directly affect the contents of the Conspiracy Bill, though the author of the amendment declared himself personally hostile to the governmental measure. In style else, the amendment was extremely cautious. It was just such a specimen of careful and polished speech as might have been expected from Mr. M. Gibson. Yet, in spite of this outward caution, and, to some extent, over-scrupulous wording of the proposi tion, it was not without its sting,—and a sharp one too • the effect of which was not unappreciated by the Ministers and their adherents. They all, one after the other, declared that to carry the amendment would be considered as a rejection of the bill. This declaration is important enough to be placed in relief by a short reference to the observa tions of the several ministerial speakers. . First of all, the Lord Advocate—in order to frighten the house away from the amendment— distinctly asserted that "its adoption would be fatal to the bill." Again, another of the foremost speakers in the Ministerial interest laid it down that "those who voted for the amendment, voted in reality against the bill." In the same way, the Attorney-General emphasised the importance of the proposition of the Member for Ashton by re marking that " everbody knew the carrying of the amendment would be nothing less than a condem nation of the bill." More explicit still was the Premier himself when concluding a speech which was interrupted by such a plenitude of " Ob, oh's" as be has probably ne ver b e f ore b een favoured with during his long political career. "It is idle," exclaimed Lord Palmerston, "to assert that you can pass this amendment to-day, and yet go back to the bill to morrow. Such a course is not possible. If the house should prefer the amendment to the motion for the second read ing, there can only one interpretation be put upon that decision—namely, that the house has utterly altered its opinion —that by some unknown influ ence, some accidental circumstance, the decision of Parliament has been reversed through deliberate conviction, and after most thorough investigation." These are the words of Lord Palmerston. After declarations so plain and distinct, any fur ther attempt at changing our laws for the benefit of foreign despots, stands eo ipso, condemned. Parliament has thus, even in the opinion of the very Cabinet that brought forward the obnoxious measure, pronounced against the Bill by pronounc ng in favour of the amendment. A. revival of the discussion of the former is, therefore, logically out of question—let whoever may in future be placed at the helm of affairs. So far the issue is satisfactory. Still we would warn the country against fondly believing the ques tion to be entirely laid at rest. Many a demon stration cf public feeling has yet to be made before our courtly and aristocratic factions will be con vinced of the earnestness of the people in this matter. Many a battle has yet to be fought are a certain Absolutistic clique will desist from their endeavours to introduce into this countty a system of political surveillance only intended to serve as a prelude for further attacks upon our own liberty. The fact is, the virus of despotic Continental notions has already deeply affected public life in this country. It is useless to at empt concealing that our oligarchs strive more and more to assimi late the insiitutions of England to those of foreign countries suffering under irresponsible sway. On whatever side we look, we find indices that the obnoxious Conspiracy Bill is only part and parcel of a system with which we have had to deal for years past. It is the same system which, during the late Russian war, influenced a high personage, standing beside the Throne itself, to launch out in a diatribe against the freedom of the Press. It is the same system which, on a memorable cccasion, brought the police in violent and sanguinary conflict wish the people assembled in public mewing. It is the same system which made certain Absolutists among us speak ofjthe necessity of " terrifying the canaille" by the "crash of 6-pounders." It is the same system which seeks to disguise its tyrannic leanings under the more acceptable of "centralisa tion. It is the system which enhances the power of the police, and undermines the guarantees of personal freedom,—the system which attempts to accustom us to the sight of large standing armies, within a few miles of our wealthy cities,—the system which would fain induce us to accpt foreign autocracy as a model of efficient administration, — the system which plots the overthrow of freedom at home by entangling us in alliances with tyrants abroad. This is the parent system. The Conspiracy bill is but one of its offsprings. We 'may gat rid of one by the energetic attitude the people are at this moment exhibiting through the length and breadth of the land: But unless we continue in our efforts, watchfully and incessantly, the same dangerous designs will still reappear under another form. Let public opinion. therefore, take heed how it is lulled into a feeling of false security by the result of the vote of Friday night. " The snake is scotched, not killed." Many are the Protean forms and figures the foe may yet anume. And the more dangerous is he that he has con trived to instil his noxious ideas not only into a small not of Absolutistic politicians, but into pub lic men of the most various parties. It is, indeed, a saddening sight to behold the progresl those dangerous " Continental notions" to which we have alluded, have made in the very ranks of Liberalism. That English spirit of inde pendence which once characterised even our Con servative parties has gradually grown weaker, and is now rarely to be found in its purity, even among such of our public men as aro wont to pride themselves on their stanch Liberalism. Both in home and foreign policy the majority of our party leaders have become degenerate. It requires popu- lar demonstrations such a^ those we have seen'on this occasion to revive their faltering courage. Lq us continue, therefore, this healthy stimulant to the political bidy ; for thus only can we hope to restore England once more to the prowl position she occupied before she was contaminated by the influence of Bonapartism in her Government Councils. THE CHARGE AGAINST MR. ISAAC BUTT, M.P. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE.—THIS DAY. The committee appointed to inquire into the truth of the petition of Edward Lees Coffey, of Sheffield, which alleges that Mr. Isaac Butt, the member for Youghall, in the month of July, 1856, did corruptly enter into an agreement with the Rajah Ali Moorad Khan, or his agents, to the effect that he the said Isaac Butt would, on condition of certain sums of money being paid to him, advocate and prosecute, in the House of Commons, and with the East India Company, the claims of his highness for the recovery of his territory. That, in pursuance of such corrupt agreements, divers sums of money had been paid to the said Isaac Butt, and that the petitioner was advised that, in entering into such agreement a breach of the privileges of Parlia ment bad been committed. The members of the committee present were Sir J. Graham, Mr. Bright, Mr. Sergeant Kinglake, Sir W. Codrington, and Mr. S. Herbert. Mr. Roebuck and Mr. Sergeant Deasy, who had been appointed by the house to take charge of the petition, and take part in the committee without the power of voting, were also present. Previous to the commencement of the investigation the room, which was pretty fully attended, was ordered to be cleared, and after the public had been excluded for a quarter of an hour the room was reopened, when Sir James Graham, the chairman of the committee, addressing.the members of the press present, said the committee had no objection to a report of the proceedings appearing, but it was their especial desire that no com ments on the evidence should be published pending the inquiry. Mr. Roebuck then stated the case of the peti tioner, and said he had undertaken the position he at present occupied purely upon public grounds, and in no vindictive feeling towards Mr. Butt, who was a gentleman with whom he was on the most friendly terms. The hon. gentleman then proceeded to state the case of the petitioner, from which it appeared that in the year 1856, Ali Moorad, one of the Ameers of Scinde, having been as he thought unjustly deprived of his property, came to England to procure justice, and in the course of proimeding he came into contact with Mr. Butt. After certain conversations, it was alleged by the petitioner that Mr. Butt, for a sum of 5,0001., agreed to advocate the claims of the Ameer, but in the event of his having to go to India he was to have 5,0001. more, making in all 10,000/. He should prove by witnesses that Mr. Butt had received from Ali Moorad two sums of 3001. and 1,5001. in prosecution of the first part of the agreement. Mr. Coffey, examined by Mr. Roebuck, said—ln 1856 I was in Scinde, in the oapacity of postmaster-general, at a salary of 1,0001., and was induced to give that office up in consequence of certain representations from Ali Moorad that I should be well remunerated, and that if he regained his position I should have a sum of 3,0001. per annum. I received 5001. from Ali Moorad before I left India, and some small sums afterwards I was introduced to Mr. Butt by my brother, and had interview about presenting his highness's petition, but at that time there was nothing mentioned about money. Some days afterwards I had a conversation with Mr. Butt, who told me ho was not a very rich man, and as he would have to incur great expense, witheut the Ameer would assist him he could not prosecute the petition with effect. This I told to the Ameer, who directed me to inform Mr. Butt that if be gained a restitution of his property he would give him 5,0001 This occurred in 1856. The next arrangement was in July, 1857. After a good deal of correspondence with the Indian Board, it was understood that a despatch would be sent out directing the authorities in Scinde to inquire into the case, and that, as Mr. Butt would require to go to India to wind up the whole of the affairs, and as he could not give up all his business here, the 5,0001 was doubled ; and it was finally understood that the despatch was sent out. The purport of the despatch was, that the authorities in Scinde should examine into the case. The despatch, however, was never sent out I recollect, in July, 1857, a letter being shown me by Mr. Butt, who bad, I understood, written to Mr. Vernon ' Smith. The letter was to the effect that Government would feel embarrassed if Mr. Butt brought on his pro- Posed motion. In July I recollect Mr. Butt wanting a sum of money ; in the event of his not receiving, it he would be compelled to leave London for Dublin. After some convereation with the Ameer, I got a blank cheque, and, by direction of the Ameer, the sum filled in was 3001. by the Ameer, and it was crossed to Mr. Butt. The witness was under examination when the repor left. CRIMINAL OOURT.—(This Day.) OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) MATE ROBBBRT. Two women, named S:nith and Elliot, were indicted for stealing a quantity of silver plate, the property of a gentleman named Clanohy. Mr. Orridge appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Cooper defended the prisoner Elliot. The learned comm.' having stated the case to the jury, called Police-constable Wrefard, 94 (City), who said—l was on duty near Cutler-street, on the evening of the 9th of February, and shortly before nine o'clock I there saw the prisoner Elliot ; and from information I received I pursued and took her into custody. She was in com pany with Elliot. Baker, City policeman 635, said—On the 9th of Feb. I saw the prisoners, in company with a man, come out of a court in Cutler -street. On Smith seeing me she ran into the Clothes Exchange. I pursued her, and took ber into custody, and in her possession I found the bundle of plate (produced). I asked her where she had got the property, and she said she had picked it up in a street the name of which she could not tell. Mrs. Bowyer, the female searcher at the Bishopsgate street station-house, said—On the person of Smith I found a silv tr mustard spoon, the property of t h e pro secutor. Nothi ng was found on Elliot. Emily S a l mon am cook in the service of Mr. Clanchy, o f C ampden-hill-road, K e nsington. On the 9th Februa r y, a b out 8 o'clock in the morning, I disco vered that my master ' s house had been entere d d ur i ng the night and ro bb ed. The first thing I noticed was the table cover, which had been removed, and the area door was wide open. I immediately went to the cupboard, to look if the plate was safe, but found it had all been taken away. I have known the prisoner Smith for about six weeks. Previous to the robbery she used to wash- my dreveg. The plate was safe at 10 o'clock in the evening previous to the robbery. A pawnbroker identified Smith as the person who pawned some of the property. Mr. Clanchy identified the plate as his property. Mr. Cooper addressed the jury for Elliot, and con. tended that there was no evidence against her. She had unfortunately met the other prisoner when she had the property in her possession, but that was al. Smith, who was undefended, said she found the plate lying in the road. She picked it up and afterwards met Elliot. After a short c onversation it was resolved to pawn it, but ultimately she thought it best to keep the property to see if a reward was offered for it. As they were in the neighbourhood of the Clothes Exchange two men pushed against them and nude the plate in the bundle rattle, and because they refused to sell them the property they gave information to the police, and they were immediately afterward s t a k en into custo d y . The Recorder having summed up, The jury found the prisoner S m i t h gu i lty, an d ac quitted Elliot. The Recorder sentenced Smith to 18 months' im prisonment, with hard labour. -___ NEW COURT. Sergeant twpario:eccenutions, pied the whole of the morning p oss essed the slightest interest. none of which mho C o i m n m b o e n a ri n g MARKET laW B .--(Thia Day.) HAY AIARRETS. ---- SMITHFIELD.—Meadow. hay, 21 103 to 3/ 15s; clover, 31 103 to 41 15s; and straw, 1/ 3s to 11 81 per load. A moderate supply, and a heavy demand. CUMBERLAND. — Meadow hay, 21 lOs to 3! 15s ; clover, 3/ 103 to 41 18s; and straw, 11 48 to 11 8s per load. Trivia dull. WHITOIIAPEL.-3feadow hay, 2i 10s to 31 15s; clover. 3/. 10s to 41 15s ; and straw, 1/ 3s to 1/ 8s por load A slow inquiry, at late rates. supply tolerably good. COLONIAL. SUGAR—There has been a steady market for most dc soriptions, and, for the better qualities, full rates are cur rent. In the refined market a rather active business has been done, and for the finer descripitiona fully late quota tions are realised. TEA—The market has been firm but not acti ve . Com mon Congous are q uoted 13dper lb. COFFEE —There is very little business doing, as large quantities are announced for p u bli c sale to-morrow. Good qualities of Plantation Ceylon were at a slight advance. Ruse.--There have been but few in qu i r i es, an d sa l es a re limited. Very little alteration can be reported in prices. SALTPETRE.— A moder ate business bas been transacted, but prices have in most instances slightly receded. iALLotv.— There is searesly . auy ,Jus,ness doing, aLd quotations are rather flat. P.Y.C., on the spot, 52s Od 53s ; March, 52s 6d to 52s 9d ; April and June, 52s 6d ; and last three months, 51. t 6d per cwt. THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS. 1 (From the Daily News.) Those who yesterday evening crowded the gallery of the House of Commons, in the hope of hearing from Lord Palmerston some explanatory statement as to the recent resignation, were doomed to dis appointment. The late Prime Minister, rising amid the silent expectation of an unusually thronged and excited audience, simply announced, what every one of his hearers already knew, that he and his colleagues had, on Saturday, placed their resigna tions in the hands of the Queen ; that her Majesty had accepted them ; and that Lord Derby was then engaged in the construction of a Ministry. Under these circumstances, his lordship moved the adjournment of the house to Friday next. For the present this is all that can be known with cer tainty regarding one of the most singularly rapid and unexpected devolutions of power which the annals of Parliamentary history can furnish. Be tween this and mat Friday the whisperers and the mystery-mongers will have it all their own way. Every day, every hour, will witness the flight of a fresh brood of political canards from those prolific breeding-grounds of Pall-mall and St. James's. Those who take delight in this species of amuse ment will be diligently supplied with all the excite ment that can be derived from large lists of Cabinet Ministers and Under-Secretaries—which duly re present the hopes of the interested, the guesses of the ingenious —the private information of the " best authorities"—everything, in short, but the facts of the case. In this last trifling respect there is a high probability of failure, for the simple reason that no facts exist. The impossibility of seeing the Channel fleet, " because it's not in sight," has been acquiesced in by many generations of playgoers as a somewhat unanswerable inference ; it would be cruel to apply the same strict reasoning to the im patient spectators in the great political theatre, or to argue that when no appointments have yet been made their positive announcement must be re garded as premature. It is pleasanter, till we are driven upon facts, to amuse ourselves with fancies, and to allow the rumour of the morning to be au thoritative till it is supplanted by the report of the afternoon—doomed in its turn to be knocked down by the undoubted intelligence of the night. Lord Derby is engaged in constructing a Govern ment. So much is certain ; and we aro well satis fied that it should be so. Without affecting to assign places for the colleagues to whom he may be expected to apply, it may safely be presumed that he will hardly succeed in finding a President of the Board of Control more incapable than Mr. Vernon Smith ; an Attorney-General more ignorant of constitutional, criminal or international law than Sir Richard Bethell ; or a Privy Seal more eminent for all that should not distinguish a British Peer, than the most noble Ulick John De-Burgh, Mar quis of Clanricarde. That many difficulties immi nently beset Lord Derby—that many more are looming ahead of him is sufficiently obvious to all; it will be for himself and his friends to determine whether they can muster the requisite courage to oppose them. With regard to the Conspi racy Bill, that is doomed by the indignant judg ment of the country. The Chief Justice of England emphatically denounced last night, in the House of Lords, the dootrine—reported to have been advanced by the late Attorney-General— " that foreigners are able to do in this country that which our own subjects are unable to do, and that what would be a crime in natural-born British sub jects is a matter of impunity in foreigners." Lord Cranworth could only defend his late colleague on the hypothesis that it was impossible he could have said what he was reported to say. It is sufficient for Lord Derby's purpose that, according to the preponderating balance of legal opinion, our own ems are adequate for all reasonable purposes of punishment. This is all that an English Minister ought to want. This is where he should take his md. Let our own old laws be put to the proof ; f on trial, and iu the deliberate judgment of the fifteen Judges, they are found to be inadequate, a case for altering them will have arisen. Till then, let them stand firm and unshaken. Such is the position which the country expects to see taken on this Conspiracy Bill by any Minister who now undertakes the responsibilities of office. With regard to the India Bill, another of the suppose.] s.umbling-blocks of the now Administration, the difficulty is surely more imaginary than real. It would be an exaggeration .to pretend that the feelings of the country on this point is to be com pared with that deep and vehement torrent of suspicion, and alarm, and anger, which has just swept away, in the apparent plenitude of his power, one of the most personally popular of recent Minis ters. But this arises in a great measure from tie remoteness and the intricacy of the subject, not from any intelligent conviction in favour of the Palmerstoniaa Bill. The country is by degrees awakening to a sense of the danger likely to arise from introducing into India a Horse-Guards army, instead of a working army, and handing over the civil patronage from the picked men of the middle classes to the younger sons of the aristocracy. It is conceivable enough that an expectant House of Commons, at the bidding of a reckless Minister, should eagerly lend itself to a scheme which would make Parliamentary services and political jobbing a recognised title to the official spoils of India. But it does not follow that the country at large would entertain this project with enthusiasm, or even regard it with equanimity. It will be a per fectly safe and popular course for any Minister, to postpone all legislation for India until the existing mutiny is finally suppressed, and to no Minister would that task be so easy as to Lord Derby. The assumption by Lord Derby, at this crisis, of the functions of Government would on many grounds be anything but a detriment to the Liberal party. That party has long been in a false posi tion. It has allied itself to a leader whose influence was insidiously but surely leading it astray. What ever else the leader of English Liberal ism may have or want, there is ono quality the possession of which is absolutely indispensable. He must be profoundly , penetrated by a just value for the peculiar charac teristics of English freedom. He must know and feel how it is, and why it is, that England is at this day the freest nation in the world ;—not an American democracy, rough-ridden by a majority —not a " Liberty-Equality-and-Fraternity" Uto pia, expiating months of ararehy by years of bon dage ; but a stately, firm, and ordered temple of freedom, whose foundations are ancient law, whose has-stone is personal right, within whose precincts free speech and tree thought are native ; where foreign spies and a foreign police have no place ; with which a foreign despot date not inter meddle. The man trained up in the traditi ens of this liberty, till its teachings have become an in stinct is the natural leader of the great Liberal party of England. Lord Palmerston is emphatically not such a man. In a day of universal reaction—a period when, by the grace of bayonets, despots are the dynasty of Europe—Lord Palmerston has shown himself devoid of that just sense of the in estimable value of our island liberties which is the prime requisite of an Eriglish Minister. TI English Nation has felt this—the English House of Commons has felt this—let Pall mull and 'Change-alley say what they will, this is why Lord Palmerston has fallen. It would be a deep misfortune—a misfortune which we will not contemplate as a possibility—if Lord Palmerston, from any failure of other ministerial combina- tions, should be speedily recalled to power. _lt would be damaging; to the honour of 'England— it might, we sincerely believe, be dangerous to the constitutional liberties of England—if Lord Pal merston, being such as recent events hare shown him to be, could be brought back as the inevitable and indispensable First Minister of the British Empire. Surely we are not so poor in public men that it has come to this ! A Derby Ministry is not, for its own sake, what the country would desire ; but it would be immeasurably preferable to a Pal merston recall. There are many other alternatives to look to, and it may be confidently anticipated that this would be the last resort of embarrassed politicians, as it would undoubtedly be the worst. We are not yet so nearly reduced to the political level of our allies across the Channel that we must necessarily look for political salvation from one man alone. The devotees of Palmerston the First cannot yet venture on the " tyrant's plea" of ne cessity, which his flatterers put forward in support of Napoleon 111. (From the Morning Advertiser.) The decision of the House of Commons on Friday night may prove, in the end, an event of historical importance for all Europe. At any rate, it is en incidentifraught with the greatest consequences for our own public affairs. It is an emphatic assertion of the national dignity of England. It is a denial, to all foreign Powers, of the right they so haughtily claim of interfering in matters English. And it is an indignant protest against the anti-English policy of those at home who intended making us succumb to the threats of an alien despot. Viewed in this bn a ec n ea d sm a uisi it dt a eo g r e dw w wh h elj e cl r hf o ot w rh e ae light, the " Vote on the Second Reading of the Conspiracy Bill" becomes vested with a paramount interest. Init., we have a turning point in ourforeign as well wain our home policy—alandmark, as it were, from whence to review the course that has been pur suedcan chalk out our policy for a coming time. Such mbeoimnge f n o tt r h e t o h nc e a last stehei t few may circumstances m a n ro a s t a ; House came to its significant vote. The wording of the amendment of the Member for Ashton, as our readers are aware, was not such as to render it literally tantamount to a rejection of the bill. It was rather an expression of "regret" that Miaistera should so far have for• OPLiIONS OF THE FRENCH PRESS. The absorbing question of the day, the Minis terial crisis in England, engrosses the attention of the Paris journals. The Moniteur of yesterday publishes a full report of the debate in the House of Commons on Friday. It thus announces the result : "A member of the English Parliament, Mr. Gibson, on 'the second readino• of the bill to Sup press conspiracies formed in 'England, presented an amendment, which we publish elsewhere. This amendment, which, however, in no manner what ever implies th 3 rejection of the bill, was adopted by 234 votes against 215." The Constitutionnel, in the course of an article on the subject, refers in the following terms to the publication in the Moniteur of Count Walewski's despatch, which was repeatedly alluded to in the course of the. late debate : "The publication in theMoiliteur of the despatch addressed on the 2uthJanuary by Count Walewaki to Count de Persigny was the object of certain ob servations difficult to account for. The 3loniteu r certainly had the undoubted right to reproduce this document on the morrow of the day that it had been laid before the house by Lord Palmerston, without waiting for the receipt in Paris of the Lou don journals with an English translation of the text , . It was advisable that the French journals should not incur the risk of altering the highly im portant terms of this despatch by a double transla tion. This precaution of the llioniteur is justi- ' tied by a saccnd fact which we will now mention. The diplomatic documents emanating from the French government are distinguished by a rare quality ; they are always drawn up in the clearest and most precise terms. N e vertheless, a spethaker in the house sought to discov er in a phrase of is despatch an accusation directed against England, who was re presented as raisingpoli tical assassination to the dig nity of a doctrine.. Bad faith is displayed in this method of torturing a text which clearly declared that England had unfortunadely become the refuge of the chiefs of a party which, in fact, raises a doc trine out of political assassination." The Pays maintains that the Anglo-French alliance is about the vicissitudes of a minister or a cabinet ;—it says : " Lord Palmerston, in spite of his advanced age, has displayed of late years, in the direction o f th e political affairs of his coutury, the rarest gifts of a statesman. The minister who entered public life by receiving from Lord Castler. agh the post of Secretary of War at the hottest period of the struggle between England and Imperial France, had thrown off all his old prejudices and there collections of his younger days and his great sagacity, embracing the true interests of England and of Europe, had led him to become the most persevering and the most able defender of the French alliance. Is it for this that Lord Palmer ston has fallen ? Are we to interpret his fall as a check to the alliance ? We do not believe this. The alliance looses in the noble lord a superior mind and a tried devotion ; but this alliance rises superior to persons or to individual will ; it repre sentso the new interests of civilisation, antwlancid not believe that a single party oxide that has not inscribed the French alliance at the 1 head of its programme." 1 ' The next observation of our contemporary is less meritorious : " Had the late hour not prevented the continua tion of the debate, we have no doubt that the bill would have been adopted by a strong majority." The Patric c3ntains the following sensible re marks on the exaggerated article of the Morning Post which attributed to the majority that voted in favour of the amendment the intention of menacing France " The Post goes a great deal too far in its opinion. We conceive that this ardent defender of Lord Pal merston should be severe towards the triumphant coalition, but we cannot look at the consequences of this vote in such very gloomy colours. The ad versaries of Lord Palmerston have chosen a 'bad field for their victory ; this is their greatest fault. They have defeated him on a question, or rather about a question, which they not only repudiate, but on which they must themselves seek to triumph." The following is from the Presse:— " Those who have followed with attention. the current of the discussion in Parliament, as also in the press and out of doors, will attribute this vote to two different motives. The spirit of opposi tion, the desire of giving a check to Ministers, figure largely in this decision ; but it would be unjust not to record a certain sentiment of pride and national susceptibility, which is easily aroused in England." The Union says : We have always believed, and we still believe, that, in the present state of Europe, a Ministerial crisis in England is an event of gravity, the sole appearance of which is of a nature to excite the most serious attention of political men." The Cocrrier d. Paris exclaims : " For the honour of England we are happy to dwell on the regrets expressed by the London press at the vote on the amendment of Mr. Milner Gibson." LIBEL ON TETE EMPEROR OF TEE FRENCH. INCITEMENT TO ASSASSINATION. At the Bow-street Police-court, yesterday, Mr. Bodkin, counsel to the Treasury, attended to eon duct a prosecution against Edward Truelove, a well-dressed, middle-aged man, describ e d as a book seller, who was charged with having " unlawfully written and published a false, malicious, scanda lous, and seditious libel concerning his Majesty the Emperor of the French, with the view to In cite divers persons to assassinate his said Majesty." Mr. Bodkin appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Sleigh for the defence. The warrant having been read by Mr. Burnaby, the chief clerk, Mr. Bodkin said—Sir, this is a case in which the Government have thought proper to in terfere. The defendant is the publisher - of a pamphlet, whether be is the author or no I cannot say, but it purports to be written by "W. E. Adams," and published by defendant, at 240, Strand, at the price of id. It is of a character which I cannot but designate as atrocious. It advocates the props iety of assassination, and in terms, not indeed direct, but not to be misunder stood, applies this doctrine to the Emperor Of the French. I do not wish to be the party to give any unnecessary publicity to so scandalous a pub lication, and as you have already seen the pamph let I do not think it necessary to read it. now. Unless a remand is applied for on the other side, I shall ask you to commit the prisoner for trial at once. The learned counsel then called Frederic Williamson, wbo deposed—l am a de- tective officer. I went on Saturday to the house of the defendant, at 240, Strand, where he carri-s on business as a bookseller. I saw him and pur chased one of these pamphlets. (Witness hers produced a pamphlet in eight pages, entitled " Tyrannicide : Is it Justifiable ?" By IV. E. Adams. Edward Truelove, 240, Strand.) They were ld. each. This being the csse for the pr:)secu' ion, Mr. Sleigh said—Sir, I am enlyj est instructed in this case, and have had no opportunity of reading the pamphlet through ; but I cannot help saying, I look with very considerable alarm on such proceed ings on the part of the Government. We are told that this is a libel on the Emperor of the French, advocating his asawsination, but I am.prepared to •ay--- Mr. Henry—lf you have not read, Mr. Sleigh, had you not better take time to do so ? I have no objection to wait while you read it. Mr.- Sleigh—l have not lr.d time to read. it all, but I have looked through every page,. and I challenze any one to show me where the Emperor of the French is named. I cannot help expressing alarm at this interference ; a man's shop being entered, and himself brought up in custody, for a publication which does not contain any reflection on any human being. I submit with considerable confidence that this is not a libel. The learned counsel proceeded to say that if the magistrate thought it was a libel, the defendant ought to have time to prepare his defence. In that case he shoul apply for a remand—defendant to be admitted to bail. He observed that defendant was not asked by the officer whether he knew what the pamphlet contained. This was different from the case of Pel tier, which was a personal libel Mr. Henry—So is this. There is no doubt about it. Mr. Bodkin—lt is not neeenary that the nam• should be mentione I. Mr. Henry—There is internal evidence as clear as possible showing to whom it alludes. Mr. Bodkin—To my friend's application for time I shall not object, nor to the admission of defendant to bail in the usual amounts ; but I must ask my friend to do Government the justice to remember that if it was their design to be harsh they might have indicted the defendant at once. Mr. Henry—That was the course adopted in Peltier's case. Mr. Bodkin—lt is the usual course, but as a constitutional jealousy of that mode of proceeding has arisen, it was thought right to a iopt the course which has been taken, in order that if there was anything to be preferred in his favour, he might have a full opportunity of advancing it. Mr. Sleigh could not adopt the suggestion that Government bad acted with leniency in the matter. They might have taken out a summons instead of a warrant. Mr. Bodkin—We are going to have a new Go vernuieut ; but I hope no Government will know its duty so badly as to take that course in such a case. Defendant was then reniande 1, being admitted to bail in two sureties of 401., and his own recog nisance for 1001. Mr. Sleigh asked his worship to fix .a lower amount of bail-201. for instance—as defendant was but a humble tradesman, but Mr. Henry de clined, and in the course of an hour bail to the amount fixed was provided, and defendant was set at liberty. COMPETITIVE EXAMINATION. WAR-OFFICE, not 22. Sir B. Hawes presents his complements to the Editor of The Sun, and begs to transmit to him the enclosed list of successful candidates at the late competitive exa. mination for admission to the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, held at Burlington-house, from the lath to the 29th January : Places Ages of Education, Marks William . 18 King's C o ll ege S chool 5468 John Char N n Emersones o e f s e A a r n d d a Pi g de l ac i tke .. a. ..: . 1S Maris c h . C o l l. 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