The Sun. — London, England, 1855-01-12 00:00:00

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'A, .1-‘ ls 'j l a ;y'S shiP ;0 po rt. 11 ,the latter' in Astleh o : ;rigade, Lamar a. board Lt, uke of illness 0, i n the fie 1 n m G rait s ti o re T. e v ,re le islan d rd of h° l3 Oa rse illes b/di Englan d e ipec_te a 1 0 .own. aily eg e° is also will be res t 2 o lair dept: 11" in ths,o tat the 9 te prolonged[es that 5) ig here. o f )eror in rters of a inSt• sack it count); GteneY s ff a notoed a great Of t ill 4 11011 0 e %, t o deliv e a Gous 11, tanbY °I t 001 esei l to pr CO T to the h statesuio silCllios TOOPS in the —II !TS DA B .) 'CIL -t Justi ce d —r i ro AND "5 ivir. A by or iOuld r4 , 0 ,t obo og i , 027 i ., for met* IPA' share t tt ! Bl ed t ilt ' w 1,0 and „, of °l d - u t • oge o h p- s r tio - acific a tbi g d i v fi d the done wade beyond ~eteato fits'l/00 r rtl" to :to w s"-- „ t 0 the 11°- 1 1110• 14 1 -5, 7 - , - ..1 rt.:* AND p - r f " rf A"' 71 E. ' CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. e j i le sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were I , Z at ed at from 7,000 to 8,000 bales, including t 447 American and 300 Surat taken for expel . Ili • Pnecbulattion. The market closed with less '11 : 1 : 1 h 8 o sflnt, 3 11 equally firm. The sales comprised i•ctgYptian at sd. to 9J., 700 Surat at 3id. to remai nder Sea Island at ltd. to ls. 7d., and the 'gilder American. Railway Shares were firm. 4 increased business has been 0 010 • transacted in etiesllihal produce this week. Of sugar large quan 4, ate been offe re d p u blicly, and a great deal bee ere taken in. Manilla has declined Gd. per c b e , °free has ru l e d fi rm, an d f or t e a there has tita g i a better demand from th© trade. Russian net s h ave impr ove d i n conseque nce of the an leZteent that the Black Sea ports are to be t cl ed afte r th e I s t of nex t mon th . C o tt on h as 11 r ather fi rmer. R i ce has b een d u ll , ow i ng t o d° decline in grain. A large business has been Ten iron a t hi gher pr i ces. Wh at Position of the iron trade in France is some } Peculiar, and the effort of the Emperor to is o lge? a bout a snore liberal system of trading eseee' c° , ln reendable, seeing the necessity.for great N' e 4l , in these matters, and for tho protection . eel for so many years. The whole matter i d s i j Y o ut aeel e P t ia te i ne lle p ci er i a n r t y he following remarks condensed from an article published in the z‘ acti dee Debate :- 110 ,,rr I,ll'„ldaYs since an occurrence took place which shows `Att oth ,..' "r decree of Nov. 3, 1853, for the reduction of the ki ll tan,l re d to on iron was necessary for the public . interest,. *e r , t - ,, , , erste in its tenour, and how entirely without basis li t„'Yi,.ll 2 . l,, a ,Ps which have ' been taken to demand the re -I'.l4sTrii"Eks duty. The promises made by the ironmasters te Zile e - "waY companies were not fulfilled, although h 4 .tliei,, l 's been almost punctually. These engagements y :.4 0 , 1 Z,'IsPt, the railways were unable, for want of rails,. 'lttereLe their lines, and the public interest was in talk - a. This was the position of both the Northern .d k lslith,Tl e rn• Railways. The Government then . determine Geed -l 'as some companies to import foreign rails . at f Bch 411 c 1 variable duties, according to the situation o h%gslAcillt'llAties. The basis on which the duty has been tt' l l! O tt was this :-The duty to be such that foreign if lv , - 1 4 ili France should cost exactly the same as . those A ..,4 r e; c4 „lliake, Cording to the bargains then existing '"i e h - u° railwayac companies and the ironmasters. ke,t,n-etliltiCi fixed conformably to this rule have not in ,i ll tte3 ezceeded. 74 frs. the 1,000 kilos. (equal to 60s. itieee 'whilst the lowest have been 60 frs. Therefore, fa „ 4 4t 0 41 60 to 74 frs. at most would be amply su . - tteteiii" ettarantee to the French ironmasters in their I 'iti l Position not only the maintenance of their m ve l r D: ba p, °4o poly of their home market,. but even .l a y p u - Ns on the bargains unfulfilled with ths railwayes ~,t 4t ro- 144 .6 ; but the decree of Nov., 1853, fixed the n ie V. L t k a t " 132 fro. until Ist . of Jan., 1855, and at 110frs. t" ; 'e date, the reduction now being almost one-half. ; 1 1 :If eiear xv s ith regard to the Northern and Southern h a that the decree, inAead of sacri- Z t /A t f iro nua Y aste c r7 offers them the most complete secu 011th-,t,,riffon iron, as established by this decree, was ii-Nt-ii‘as ilnpoytation of foreign iroqbefore the Ist m ibl an even after that ate kittit:Pth4tit°llbtfulv.fasllt i p s e necessary, d however, to bear in I tiop, e ne of the first requirements of France for the tilttrr:„, °ll t ( I ) , f its industry is cheap iron, whether it . be ti,:', Th s ,".t al purposes, for manufactures, or naviga lie'4l4 nlgh price of iron is an obstacle to tha a_grimcualy , obb!4ufacturing, and commercial interests. It . no. th4tioted that the increased rates of duty was an_l o n der e 04 ,!! , 1 the legislation of the French monarchy. u 14, 44 ,,1 le ; regime iron in all conditions, forged, cast, and 4 1 41 41 1 %7 Paid ' more than very moderate duties, and ' 4 s „ ( let 3 .,,'•?Public and the first Empire it was the same; t l h e 'oe 4,iiii!_oars.under Napoleon I. was 44 frs. The rise jeer 4 0v e.-' °II iren was one of t t h . e most unwise steps of ees ii 4 . l: aent of the Restora ion, and the law which t, A ka - „Is dated December, 1314 ; and yet when this Cis ki ee,_ t eloosed, on the 20th August of the same year, to%" n al zli t- ,7 { ,t,0f Finlnce in presenting the Bill to the ve , t iltnea 4- 'epntie ' s, took great care to state that the D r ,Z i aai l a tit Uoped .to be d hie in the next session at i tt :ma t L teti '' re ße a ce l es c r T re e u a tion." • But how has this The law e of 1811 fixed the duty li tif n ik a t oPiLkidgilf €. November, 1853, it was 206 frs. The 1 - ' er th -"exit the •9 to the level of those adopted i tir gioal 4'4 ' I ' dutia ld not overthrow the metal bletiekdrylaipoifre w 'ePend a the ou French, and put France in ssae.°4 4 r • countries for its stock of iron, but ae. rath e , . 43 _ . eig line ;!_ il eilts. Q e d to n create vast establishments in the it r e ," r t ore i" , Aveyron alone there is enough coal t t ,listrn e t ei (1 _ supply 100 blast . furnacers, which, I* ati°4 ones °I the dimensions of some of the tp - Z e W . hi c i; i t ' s W_;3lild be suffieient to make the whole of the '" Present consumed. France would then (4th Ja e :. n i, 4 , 11 h Q . - ' 'ue qUantity at present made, but even twice Itoti.e/r4ll,btiii-rat°:l" and, in justification of this argument, eicei4. w hatt ' le years ago England produced lent on .0118 ' uetlaepresent production exceeds . three to!i i 4 l B . It is thus that the make of iron progresses in the Pliee. leVvhere this article of general utility is at a low 14 b 4 d efit i ettlakin g ' 9214 Putting in work of iron offers almost ' t ee , at the ruPloyment to the workinc , classes of' the trade, 'or ti, same time for all other branches of industry. mils e a . rts of war and for those of peace this new state of o till ) . t Will prove a benefit. The national work, o t r h e e m:ua. bleed ° decree that which we take the liberty t di ced I lnd Which will be but to return to c th e e ap secular try.- iron is a Niclii! of the French administratio e n n . er _h / ie11.b 1( . 41 almost as necessary to the F sa prosperity ana eeing of masses as cheap bread. ' n der i this head :v y .c es h te day, extracts were given the r committee of Anglo- P be the report _ _hi ers leellan Bondhold presented s to the meeting, '4) e at that hour the proceedings 'had only just ll l Vaanced, and we were unable to communicate akiNult--viz., that the report was not adopted, ki d t hat the chairmantof the committee Mr. t ah at aThornton—declared the meeting adjourned eeei!le it entered upon extraneous matters. The PtVtillation of this is exceedingly simple. The debts „i ‘ Government reduced the interest on its Nclit n ' un nt two years since, and in this the English a hre -r ' generally acquiesced, being totally un- N I bi .at the time that arrangements had . been l e , tl - ''',eita_troduca into_ the London and Paris mar- Nit, `V,OOOI. of Home Debt converted into e`'%:i.l 45011dg. Such an unpreeedented transac- Z' le 4 e l4 ll °l -inting, in fact, to the taking of a i lilt cIC -- • of course had an immediate and of the te tii4 e taa ging result for the property may 4 0 114 el'e tl , e ditors, and whatever arguments expediency or the ~ rale, either as to the exPe • for '43' impart,' Dither compromise, it is impossible ce t 7 a . e 'lls • t al person to avoid . coining Ito one e 4 i re t ° b i : - ,, ---1 1 m lv, that if Foreign Governments t - 1 1 4 : 11 bete t a , s ll.o ev a ed e to - crFatedebt ad libitum, and to ee r ti gle th g e e,ir bonds in the European market as thj tn a , a loan had been contracted in the ordi ;e use r, there is an. end of all security to a , • the e u 3 1° - ' 1 Wh ' l :V s b cribed to open and legitimate 11 41* y.Probable exhaustion of the guano, after kt ,), i _ , renders ''''lali -a ts it most important that an me e ur ge sinking fund shall be created; since, 1 14°8 1C t t li ci d ay the guano ceases, there is but a poor (1 - 1 3 Poie t - a °f the interest being paid. The committee e,'lfacelte" by Mr. Thornton have appreciated this 0 4 1 3' ' and there is not the slightest doubt that, -t itisl i t- , e support of the bondholders and of the qtaird ‘e•e verercient they would have succeeded in z se eiiiii t g 'zilch better terms, cod certainly ampleer. '416 1( 1 ' than the meeting yesterday expressdlN upWilling. to accept. Whether that meet theof t "as a fair exponent of the opinion real holders, who, whatever may be l'i° ''s ti'veBtme nt, seldom attend on these occa ftline) ' 4 a matter for grave doubt, and probably for Pnhe e acti on ; but certainly it appears a suicidal it Partt°, a PPoint a new co -mate° having upo d n to Nsle-e,.ePly interested in the home debt, an ' ° r ha t ee °f thanks to the Peruvian Government , t hel, - n ,;, 1:1 .g done its utmost to injure the holders lieret"nnate debt ! If the home debt were brought 4 °Wee - ' 0 a ny other foreign debt, and sold as such, Wee-leer distasteful the proceedings, the committeeto inte Probably not have felt itself called upon re at . e r fere I 3 but recognising a just principle, they a.., e.ei a , 4 t, not to be expected to apply to the Stock_this fakeago that the home bonds be quoted, and beal te ` eati cm they have resolutely determined not ten • Per r ;" We will not say that lower terms thaiet a fai r "eat would not have been accepted, with 44(1 g th il a tante° that such would be carried out ; he el la guarantee, with the gentle been the pressure Foreign Office, no doubt could have s il e „, secured. The position of the bondhol holders Qo') however, is evidently complicated. The o ear e lll . l _ llit .tee has not been legally dissolved, and will We re hot wi th it a number of bona fide holders _w om ho . not represented at therneeting. The now ii mitts tre et e, on the other hand, are very likely to be .t eec t " e d with by the Peruvian Envoy, because . 1 th e 8 the interest of his Government to recognis k e , E ac h; but then comes the question, Will the Stec ?xcell a . n e g + c stultify it s f ormer ac t s an d annu l it s e An l e i e-- rule, that a h ome d e bt s h a ll no t he dealt l' _, r e e l. , co nverted into sterling bonds, under such i le cinnetattee, as those which distinguish the pre celletiecas° ? All parties interested in the loans of ixt e,,,t te ,,, ,i. "'ill or Spanish American Governments an d. 0,3 the inamense importance of this matter, C , ,,,,' a% to ally future appeal to the British iel r nanent for aid under similar circumstances, consider '"° principle be once conceded that for a everation such bonds may be introduced here, Y one must feel satisfied that our Foreign SF cret,r f tar Y or the time being will be fully justified_ i . n . must a deaf ear. Thus for the present the affair ktat be left in the hands of the leendholders ; and as it ig i g ..._ obviously their business rather than ours,.. it ae`enneeessa.ry to do more than explain the position li e °. to core.raunica.te what may occur. As to the to Ine Debt, it is the buyers who have taken it at downown risk, and whether hereafter it be cut ..n or xecognised depends as much upon political 43 poil fillaileill The _. , events. atl_directors of the Scinde Railway Company e o il°ll nee that the East India Company have agreed c ent, a minimum, rate of interest of 5 per doubt on the capital, as was anticipated ; and no Parties will have the option of paying up at °lace. Ther e is A very heavy market for Public Securi- ties, and the supply of money stock increases. This i r due not :dune to the decline at Phis and the doubts thrown upon the prospects of peace, but likewise to the impression that the amount of bullion in the Bank of England, according to the evening'sreturn in this Gazeit3, will b again smaller. The reported defeat of a Turkish detach ment in the Danubian principalities has an effect also upon a market previously drooping, and it is not the interest of our great capitalists to give any support until they have obtained their allotments in the French lean. Consols have been 91 to 91i for transfer, and 91i to 92 for account, they are now 91 The New 3 per Cents. have realised 914 to 92i. Exchequer Bills bring 4s. to 7s. prem. Bank Stock is firm at 2102. In the Foreign Market Peruvian Bonds have been firm at 71. The parties advocating an imme diate compromise, regardless of adequate security for its being, carried out, will doubtless prove suc cessful in one point—viz., the temporary enhance ment of the market values, and a further rise is not, therefore, improbable. Spanish Threes have been done at 38. The Turkish Bonds have realised 75i to 76. Russian Five per Cents. have been done as high as par. Equador are steady at 4. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6; Mexi can, 21i to 21g ; Peruvian, 70 to 72 ; Ditto 3 per Cents., 50 to 52 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 41 to 43 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 109 to 102 • Ditto 41 per Cents., 89 to 91 ; Spanish New Deferred, 181 to 19 ; Ditto 3 per Cents., 37i to 381 ; Ditto Certifi cates, 5 to 51 ; Ditto Passive, 4i to 4g. There is a heavy market for Railway Shares, and the general decline in prices is to per cent. The lines most dealt in are Great Western, Lan cashire and Yorkshire, South-Western, and Mid land. The French shares are without much alter ation. The aggregate dealings in Mines, Banks, and Land Shares are limited. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOo: (From the Official List. ) Business done Bank Stock ... 2lot 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities... 9 lfiiiii II per Cent. Console Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 , 4 India Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO l4 11 Consols for Account, Bth February Exchequer Bills, 2id. 21000 V. 4 7 47 Small 2500 Exchequer Bonds 1858, 32 per Cent. •— • Ditto 1859, pp PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent lOO New Brazilianßends, 1829 & 39, 5 per Cent. 91 Equador Bonds Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. 7l Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent,, Con. 1811 Ditto 4 per Cent Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St lOO Russian Bonds, 41 per Cent 894 x d Spanish Beads, 3 par Cent 3B Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent lB ruricish Scrip, paid up in full Ditto for the Account 761 5} 6 5.1 Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent. 12 Guil — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates....~ HALF-PAST TWO. eensols 9li Ditto, February Acc rent ...... ..• .913 I MARKET NE PV,S--(THIS DA Yw CORN EXCHANGE. The present week's arrivals of Englieh wheat, coastwise and by laud carriage, have been but moderate, and the show of samples, to-day, was small. The demand, how ever, for all kinds was in a very inactive state, and the quotations were: almost nominal. Foreign wheat—the show of which was but moderate--sold heavily, but w e have no actual decline to notice in the currencies. Float ing cargoes commanded very little attention. The show of barley was not extensive ; yet the trans actions in that article were trifling, at barely Monday's fall. There was ♦erytittle doing in malt, the prices of which were again lower. The inquiry for oats was dull, and the quotations were barely supported. Beans, peas, and flour were ♦ery dull, Wheat. 1,210 ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Barley. Malt. 3,540 i 2,530 English .. Irish .• • • STI ARE MARKETS. THIS DAY.) Foreign .. 3,24) Itz% ILWAY B. Paid. RAILWAYS. .GO , Nrifog. Nottng. Bost Cifoqing Prices yesterday ; 20 -20 i 4i - 5 andElstn all Belfast & 111 i4irr ping. Wolverh. & Stour Valley 29l liirkenhcl. Lanesh. _ . 8 - 8i Cheshire Junct all Do. Chesil. Ez Birk 4 £5O and £25 Cons. 19 Do., £20..... 30 Blyth &Ty - n?. original £25 (issd. at £45) 100 Bristol and Exeter 100 Caledonian. 21s. Carmarthen and Car 13 12 d 16 - 17 8 - 7 93 - 95 61- 621 digan ... i 0 all Chester & Holyhead O all Cork and Bandon O all Cork, Black, & Pass O 16 Cornwall iji - 14. 9 - 11 Orloff Junction 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc. all Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction , all Do. New ...... , 20 20 10 10 •.• ••• ! 4 - 3 61- 74 .00 East Anglian all Eastern Counties 00 Eastern Union, A Basins:a Mont Si this day. ;1,. tlOO :5 I 30 a. I too t. 1100 5 all F all all ri.l all 3i all 5 all 7i 2 6i all 944 ii 61f i 21 Vs all .0 . all !O all 5 all 10 all it. all It. 100 5 all 5 I all 58 - 62 14i - 15 11 - 111 Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 8 Do., New A 100 East Lancashire 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 96 Edinb. and Peebles 100 Edin.Prth &Dundee 1 Forth & Clyde June. 100 Glasgow &S. Western 100 Great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. 5t0ck...... ... ~.00 Gt. Sth. &West.(lre.), 100 Great Western 100 Do. Stour Val. Rail 28 - 32 22 • - 24 72 -- 74 56 -- 58 2d -- par 19i -20 i 68 -- 70 90i - 91 - 77 -- 78 123 -- 124 90 -- 92 69 -69 i 58 -- 62 Gua. Stk all Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisle 14i Do., Thirds 4 Do. New Thirds 100 Lancash.andlrorksh 19. Do., Fifths 114 D o., Wst. Riding Un all Li v. Crsby. &Southpt all London & Blackwal 100 Lond. Bright & S.Cst. 100 Lond. and N. West') • 12 Do. Fifths 1 Do.lol. Sh. 2 Do. Eighths [ lOO London andS. Westn V?, Do., £5O 34 Do., £40.. all Lndnclrry& Coleraine all I aidndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Aanch.Shef. & Lincln 4 1.0., Man. & Lin. Um. 100 Midland 100 , )o. & Derby all Vfidld. G. West. (Ire) 22; Li o. Half Shares .111 Newcastle & Carlisle. l i 5i Xewmkt.BuryExten. 21. , qwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd. l 8 \Tewry & Enniskillen all N . owry Warrenpoini 74 - 78 T - 9. 7 - 9 75 - 75 5t - 5 8 8i 106 108 1011 102 d par d par! d l 84 85 8 i • 70 8 7<: 24 - 25 69 69i 41i - 4.2 id par 10 9 " 2 2h and Rostrevor 100 Norfolk 33,1 ortlin.Counties Un 100 1:;orth British :..;Torth Devon, No. 1 , all)o., No. 2 all i)o., 6 A Deferred all Do., 6 B Guaranteeo 100 N. Eastern—Berwick 20 Do. do. Extension 13 o. do. G.N.E. Purch all Do. Leads LOO Do. York ll North London 8 Do. New £lO 1/ 1: N'.&S.Wstrn.,llamp stead, and City Jn 17 ? gorth Staffordshire all North Western all N. &S. Westrn. June 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley, 49 - 51 3;1 2A 31i ... 32A 8 10 and Leicester. .00 Oxford, Worcester, & - Wolverhampton 6 Portsmouth 00 Scottish Central ,„,.. LOO Scottish Midland all , ihrewsby. & Rerefd. ihropshire Union • • Do. A, B, C.& D,full: paid up at per . tll South Devon 00 South Eastern II youth Wales 5 .3. Yrksh. & Riv. Dur 5 Do 8 sitaines,lN ok. &Wok 11 tockton & Darling 3tc?,kton & Hartlepl. 100 raff Vale... 9 Do. £lO shares. 100 Do. Pref., No. 1 21 Thames Haven Dock and R•tilway all Valo of Ncath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limeriek 18 West Cornwall 3 West End of London and Crystal Palace all West Loudon 111 s. Wimbledn &Croydon, GA -- 7i 76 -- 77 6/ --.. 5. 41 -- 12i -- 13/ 53i -- 52 -- 5 4 par -- ip 4( 1 , r' 41 -- 51 -- 61 id—ip 32i - 96 - 98 61 - 63 8 - 45 - 47 Oats. t Flonr. 6, 1,390 1 720 ... 1,320 I 3,960 12.00 sks. 60 850 brls. St. 12 - 14 59 - 60 28i - 29 76 i 14 121. 53i 4 M. 100 10 8i 6 all !O I 7 i 0 6 ft. 100 ft. 100 It. 100 8 all [0 all 1.0 all It. 100 [3l . all !,0 all L 6 6 It. 100 It. 100 h. 100 h. 100 ft. 100 2i all ;5 all ... -- ..,ad' 114 116 .0 all 6 44 1.2 i all L 2. all L2A 10?, t. 100 ft. 100 20 20 20 25 i- i ( 36 - 38 16 - 1 3 71 3g - 4 20 - 22 5i - 6i ; all .0 10 15 all 0 11 0.6 all 59 i 114 i 109 - 111 ,100 - 102 It. 100 !O all !CI all ,?,0 all ?,5 all 6 64 95 97 90 92 92 93 10 —loi 16 —l7 10 $72 —74 94 18 91 i —19 i 13i —1,4 a id 135 -- 137 10 5 2,0 20 all Antwerp&Rotterdam 3 Belgian Ea.stn. June. 8 Boilers to Graissessac 2s. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India.Scripl 6 •-: 7 74 li la .." •••( d— i p Contral of Italy ail .i)craerara 14 Dijon and Besancon.. 10 (Dutch Rhenish - P 3/ -3i (i 31 32t 4i - - - 2 iP all Eastern of France 10 Do. New all East Indian. 2 Do. Extension all Do. 4 p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible all Do. do. do., '59, do 10 Ga. Janet. of France 12. Gd. Tk of Canada.A. is. all Do. do all Do. St. Lawrence Sz„ ''". • ••• rii -- GO 8 - 7 Atlantic do. all Do. Cert. of Deben , con. into Stk. till '63 all 1, ')o. Comp. 6p. c., do. 10 tt. Central of France all t. Indian Peninsula 1 New 5 per cent. all , t.Western of Canad 10 90 - 92 1 - lip - iP • .. ••• Shares all Do. Bds., payablo's7, with option till '55 all Do. do., '62, p. '56 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O all Do. do., '73, without option all ilaniilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 11 Lake Cumt. & Basle all Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c prof 12 Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares all Do. Obligations 0 Lyons and Geneva 12 Lyons & Mediterran 16 Madras 1 2 tiDo. New 16 -16 i • ''''" ••• k -7- ip. 96 1001 2 d par 06 100, ... ~ dip 3 3i 21 3 i d lip fia : i**(l 3t Maria Antonia •111 Do. do. Now 2 qclbourne Dk. &By all Namur & Liege (witi interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of Franco all D o .20/. 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I. - 0 9 i i 111 - 113 113 h ',5 5 L2? 2 all li a ... - 31 - THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1855. LITERATURE. The Englishwoman , iii Russia. By a Lady. Murray. The authoress of this work having resided in Russia for ten years is evidently qualified to give a description of the people. She remarks that the generality of travellers take the steamer to St. Pe tersburg, and from thence proceed to Moscow, and then return home, having seen only the surface of things, and having seen, the writer asserts, all that is civilised in the empire. ghe takes a most un favourable view of Russian progress and civilisa tion, though undoubtedly her statements are cor rect. The log-huts of the peasants, we are told, are very little better than the wigwams of the Red Indians. The inhabitants live much in the same manner as they did centuries before the reign of Peter the Great, and have not made " a single for ward step in the march of intellect." It would, indeed, be wonderful if they did make progress under such a despotism. While the authoress was staying at Archangel a deaf and dumb gentleman paid the town a visit ; he was furnished with letters of introduction, and was well received by the society of the place. He was able to read many languages, and his agreeable manners and mis fortune made him a general favourite. Two or three times the writer was struck with an expression of intelligence in his face, when a conversation was going on behind his back. Some time after she heard the truth. He was a government spy ! A general officer visited another province in which she was staying. His rank gave him access to the best houses, and he was sure to be met with at any grand entertain ment. He also was a spy. This system of living under a perpetual espionage, under which a casual expression is often severely punished, gives a con straint and hypocrisy to their manners, besides limiting the conversation of people of sense to scan dal of their neighbours and remarks on dress. These, it appears, are tie favourite topics in high life, for no one can tell what subject of more gene ral interest may not give offence. Some of their regulations are most absurd, and lead to serious consequences. One is that if a man should see an other lying murdered on the ground, and should give information to the authorities, he will be him self retained till some trace of the assassin is found. Another still more ridiculous, is that everything must be done by the agency of the police. If a man falls through the ice he must be left in the water till the police arrive, and the same in any other accident. A servant one day hung him self ; one of his companions entered and saw him struggling, but could not cut the cord. He ran to fetch the authorities who, by the time they arrived, found a corpse. The police, however, do not bear a very good cha racter. Two anecdotes are related of murders committed by them ; in one instance for the sake of the victim's dress, and the other case, which was that of a poor servant girl sent on an errand, for the sake of the silver rouble with which she was entrusted. The poor serfs are cruelly ill used. Ladies of high rank and polished manners think nothing of boxing their servants' ears for a very trifling error. On one occasion the authoress was going to accompany a Polish lady to the opera, and while waiting for her in an adjoining room she heard an altercation going on between mistress and maid, which finished with a loud crash. Soon the lady made her appearance with a smiling coun tenance, but it subsequently appeared that, having scolded her maid and being rudely answered, she had knocked her down with a chair with so much violence that two of her front tenth wore broken. The indignation of the Russians was very great at the conduct of the Western Powers ; the English they regard with especial hatred. The authoress found the manners of her most intimate friends change perceptibly after the declaration of war. The exaggeration and misrepresentations of the Russian reports are almost incredible. The writer was at St. Petersburg at the time, and read the proclamation of the Emperor announcing the astounding fact that the Allied Fleets, mounting 350 cannon, had fired for twelve hours on the town, killing only four men, and that the people were so well behaved they did not let the tremendous can nonading interrupt their devotions. Added to which they are told that the fleet was at too great a distance to be within range of the battery guns ; that the English ships retired with great damage, though how this was, when the balls could not reach them, he does not say. Among the many volumes of Russian travels, and works of description recently published, few have equalled the present in the interest and variety of the details, which, while rendering full justice to the good qualities which develops them solves under such unfavourable auspices, affords a full view of the blighting and degrading effect of such a government. The writer's long intimacy with Russians, and the opportunity she had, in a ten years' sojourn in the country, to observe the different grades of society and their customs and progress, enable her to invest her work with an air of reality, and her most extraordinary anecdotes with an appearance of truth. The thorough insight which it gives into Russian domestic life renders it as valuable as a work of information, as the amount and variety of anecdotes and incidents makes it in a high degree interesting and enter taining. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST. I The progressive increase of traffic on this railway during the last few years has produced a corresponding increase in the extensive works at the Brighton termi nus. Several new shops have been built ; and there is still further call for an extension of the works, which will be carried out as soon as sufficient space can be procured. In 1847 the company were paying about 7001. per week for wages ; now they are paying more than double th a t amoun t, th e n umber of workmen exceeding I,oog. All the carriages and the locomotive engines are manufactured in Brighton ; and we are assures by person s compe t en t t o f orm an o pinion, that the Brighton . works can compe t e w ith an y e ngine manufactory in England o r any ot h er coun t ry. S ome o f the best workmen in England are employed there. Dur ing the past year 10 new engines have been built, and it is expected that the number to be finished this year will far exceed that of last year. In additi on t o t h e 10 new engines, the company have increased their stock by add ing two of the largest engines in England on any narrow gauge, namely, the Europa and the Orestes, which were manufactured by Messrs. Sharp and Company, an d are worked principally is the conveyance of coals and chalk. Some hundreds of tons of chalk have been removed from the hill near the cutting, for the purpose of obtaining more space, and a vast quantity continues to be conveyed to the various stations, the company having signified to the agriculturists that they may have as much as they please at a mere nominal charge. The company have a very large wharf at Deptford ; and they are about to fill up the Deptford Viaduct with chalk from the Brigh ton cutting. Latterly there has been a great improvement in the second class carriages, cushioned seats and backs being introduced, and they are also much more eommodious than the old pent-up second class carriages, which latter we hope to see shortly brought entirely into disuse. They are fast disappearing from the line, and the second class carriages will in future have an air of comfort about them that they had not till lately possessed. it is the intention of the compa n y t o cover th e w h o l e o f the third class carriages. Even in the first Blass carriages a con siderable improvement has been shown by the space between the seats. THE NEGOTIATIONS Pole pgAcg . R . , Iv\ g IC‘ With reference to the negotiations at 'tienna, the Independance Beige, a journal notorious for its Russian leanings, remarks :—" It would seem that the negotiations about to open are not to interrupt the progress of hostilities in the Crimea. On the contrary, the Western Powers appear determined to push them with increased vigour ; and this, in our opinion, constitutes the danger of the situation; this is the circumstance most likely to compromise the result of these negotiations." It scarcely required. this acknowledgment from a Russian organ to con.. ♦ince the public of the wisdom of the resolution adopted by the Western Powers not to intermit for a moment their warlike operations in the Crimea. The charge of squadrons and thunder of artillery in front of Sebastopol will not be heard at Vienna; the delicate nerves of the diplomatists assembled in. that capital will not be disturbed by the din of war, or their deliberations interrupted. But the Russian In connection with the Brighton Railway Com pany steam packets run between Newhaven and Dieppe. From London to Paris this is much the shortest route ; and a great number of persons avail themselves of the time saved on this line. The only drawback to a much more extended amount of traffic is the sea voyage, to which many travellers have an aversion. But in tolerably fine weather the water is crossed in about five or six hours by first class packets, and a more delighted aquatic trip it is hardly posgible to conceive. From Dieppe to Paris, a railway is laid down the whole distance. Other packets in connection with the company run between Newhaven and the Channel Islands ; but during the dull winter months they are discontinued. That the railway has been, and is, of in calculable advantage to the town cannot be disputed; and we trust that a good understanding will always be kept up between the inhabitants and the company, which must necessarily be of advantage to both, for the interest of the one is the interest of the other. It is matter for congratulation that no accident of any serious character has occurred during the past year through the negli gence of the company's servants. We believe it will be generally admitted that the Brighton line is in first-rate working order, and we trust it will ever continue so. There is one interesting feature connected with these railway works, and that is the library, which is supplied with above 2,000 volumes. In this establishment the men and apprentices have an opportunity of learning writing, arithmetic, and drawing ; each Saturday even ing a concert takes place for their recreation ; and, since the opening of this library, the entertainments afforded by the company, by means of an instrumental band and a stringed band, &c., have had the effect of weaning many aman from the low and more grovelling attractions of the beer-shop. The subscription is low, only is. ld. per quarter. The Great Western Company, we believe, started the _ _ idea of forming a library for the workmen, and we en d erstand that there are only a few stations where the e:nuiiplo has been followed. Tha branch railway to East Grinstead is in a very for ward state, and is expected to be opened in March next. The Brighton Company have recently built a new screw steamer, to run between Newcastle and Deptford, p.n.d have given it the name of the Samuel Laing, in honour of their chairman. It had only made three voy ages when the Government, desirous of obtaining all tike screw steamers possible, have purchased it.— Brighton Gazette. DEATH OF LORD .ROBERTSON. Minister will have a powerful motive for cutting short his rigmarole speeches and protocols, when he knows that every minute he spins out by them enables the Allies to work additional havoc in the► Muscovite ranks. The Russian Government and its partisans flattered themselves that they had gained an important point when they once more entangled France and England in negotiations ; but their hopes begin to abate since they have seen that these powers can fight and negotiate at the same time. Undoubtedly their resolution so to dcr constitutes the danger of the situation ;" but the danger is all for Russia, not for the cause of na tional independence and European tranquillity. The groan wrung from the Russian organ in the Belgian press, by the bellicose propensities of the Western Powers, betrays the arricre-pensea with which Russia has consented to entertain proposals for peace on the basis of the Four Points. Russia still hopes to gain back by diplomacy what it has lost by arms. There is only one way of meeting (From the Caledonian Mercury of Thursday.) We record with infinite sorrow the death of Lord Robertson, which took place yesterday about 11 o'clock a.m., at his house in Drummond-place. Yesterday morning he rose in his usual health, which, however, of late, has not been good—breakfasted as usual, and re ceived by post and read a letter from his son, the gallant Captain of her Majesty's Fourth Regiment of Foot, re cently mentioned in Lord Raglan's despatches, and pro moted for distinguished services in the Crimea. Shortly before 11 o'clock, a friend who has also a eon before Sebastopol, and who had also received a letter, called for the purpose of giving and receiving intelligence, which they were actually engaged in doing, when his lordship fell back in his chair, and instantaneously ex pired. His disease was supposed to be connected with the vessels of the heart. Lord Robertson was born in February, 1793, and had consequently nearly Compl e t e d hi s 62d year. He was the son of the late Mr. James Robertson, a most re spectable and highly employed writer to the Signet of this city. He became a member of the Faculty of Ad vocates in 1815—a Depute-Advocate in 1834—Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, in room of the present Lord Wood, in 1842—and was promoted to the bench on the retirement of the prosent Lord Aleadowbank in 1843. This is a somewhat meagre record of the life of a man of genius, for such Lord Robertson assuredly was ; and yet we fear that after the present generation has passed away, it is all or nearly all that will remain. By the present generation in Scotland there was no man more generally, perhaps so generally, known. For about a quarter of a century after he came to the bar, there were few Juries either in the Criminal or Civil Courts of Session—few members of the various successive • Reverend Assemblies of the Church of Scotland, and few, indeed, of his fellow-citizens of Edin burgh,—who were not familiar with his manly eloquence, replete with sound sense, and relieved by never-failing sallies of irresistible glee. And there was, and there still is, a class of his admirers—we mean his personal friends, —now afflicted with profound grief for his loss, to whom and foiling its finesse ; and that is to propose, in brief and explicit terms, such conditions of peace as will give lasting security to Europe against Mus covite aggression, and to call upon the Russian Government to accept or decline them without higgling or chaffering. The Czar ought to be told in plain unequivocal language—" Remonstrance is in vain ; you must do so and so, or the war goes on." On this head the weighty words with which an article on " The Conduct of the War," in the new number of the Q u a r t er ly Review, is wound up, will be endorsed by the great body of the nation : " Just as these sheets were being printed off, we received the intelligence that Russia had accepted the Four Points. If our article had been written with a knowledge of this circumstance, we should have endeavoured to enforce the same views we have already expressed, and should not the less have urged the propriety of some change in the Cabi net. We believe indeed that there will be greater need than ever for vigilance and firmness. We dread the diplo macy of Russia more than her arms. We are apprehensive that her submission is a device for detaching Austria from the alliance, and for paralysing our preparations for the next campaign. Hostilities, it is affirmed, are not to be interrupted ; but we are alarmed lest the Government should repeat their former errors, and, lulled into false security by the negotiations, should relax in their efforts to provide armaments against the spring. Any such sus pension in our efforts would be the height of folly and false economy. The more pecuniary cost of preparing for war is vastly less than that of war itself, and should Russia really yield to our demands, it will only be because we hold ourselves in readiness to exact what she refuses. In ignorance of the guarantees that will be asked of her, and the amount of the indemnity which will be required for the expenditure wo have incurred, we can give no opinion upon the conditions of peace proposed by our ministers. We trusted them to provide for the contingencies of war, and found ourselves deceived. If, taking advantage of the secresy with which the negotiations must be conducted, they should again disappoint the reasonable expectations of the public, and assent to inadequate terms, they will not, we venture to predict, be able to withstand the storm of reprobation which is justly due to men who, through weakness and incapacity, have betrayed their country." In this warning one important condition to be exacted from the Czar is touched upon—" the amount of the indemnity which will be required for the expenditure we have incurred." It is not to be endured that the people of France and England should ultimately pay the expenses of a war forced upon them by the arrogant injustice of the Russian Autocrat. Compelling him to refund our outlay out of his own exchequer will be an act of simple jus tice, and at the same time our best guarantee against a repetition of the offence. To allow him to escape without this mulct would be, on the part of our Government, false generosity. It would be to affect being generous at the expense of their own people. It would be to fine the innocent and let the criminal escape scot-free. Russia ought, by every principle of law and equity, ulti timately to bear the whole expenses of the war. The cession of the Crimea is as much a sine qua nom as the payment of an indemnity by Russia ; and the cession of the Aland Isles as the cession of the Crimea. It is taking too narrow a view of the causes and objects of the war to confine our at tention exclusively to the diminution of the power of Russia in the Black Sea. England, at least, has a more direct and immediate interest in the diminution of the power of Russia in the Baltic. We have a trade to make in the Euxine, but wo have a trade to lose in the Baltic. Had not the breaking out of the- war cut short the operations required to effect that purpose, Bomar sund would have been made as formidable a fortress as Sebastopol ; and assuredly it will be made so, if Russia is allowed to retain possession of it. Were Bomarsund made the Sebastopol of the Baltic, it would constantly threaten Stockholm in exactly the same way that the tatter does Constantinople. Sebastopol, with a strong Russian fleet, made for a time a Russian lake of the Black Sea ; Bomarsund, with a strong Russian fleet, would in like manner make a Russian lake of the Baltic. These pen feathers—the Aland Isles and the Crimea—must be plucked from the northern and southern wings of the Russian eagle, or that insatiate bird of prey will soon be flying about again, as mischievous and as great a nuisance as ever. We do not say that the three conditions we have enumerated above are all that can or ought to be extracted from Russia, but our Government should be satisfied with nothing short of them.—Daily News. the memories of his intercourse will ever seem the sun niest in their calendar. But after all these shall have disappeared,—afterjuries shall have gone to judgment, --and reverend assemblies to one still more august, and • the citizens of this city shall have become citizens of another,—and the mourning friends shall be mourned for in their turn,—there will be no memorial left on earth sufficiently characteristic of this remarkable man. The genius of Patrick Robertson lay in acute percep tion and instantaneous illustration. The false of no kind or species could ever be palmed upon him for the true, — no gilding could hide the tinsel, no tarnish could conceal the gold ; and while he was a merciless denunciator of pretence in all its moods and genders, he was at the same time a profound worshipper of excellence. Those who knew him well know his reverence for Shakspere, whose works ho had almost committed to memory; while those who knew him neither well nor wisely, were prone to imagine that the broad grin or the bitter caricature were incompatible with the purest admiration of all that was truly great. The conclusions, almost intuitive, at which he arrived ; apparently without effort, he could com municate and express ih conversation so felicitous, as almost to partake of the marvellous. None who ever heard him with the understanding ear can ever forget the charm, or expect ever to listen to its like again. This was genius, felt, acknowledged, and appreciated by those whose good fortune it was to be there ;—the genius of conversation,—evanescent indeed—leaving no written or substantial record—only a fleeting wake of applauding murmurs and approving memories ; but not the less akin in its universal application to that of the great Eng. lish master who was ever uppermost in his love. It could only have been by means of some photographic process, unhappily as yet unknown, that a record of the genius Patrick Robertson could have been handed down to posterity ; to repeat him were as impossible, nearly, as to forget him ; and, deeply as his loss will be deplored, it is greatly enhanced by the consideration that so much that was worthy of a place in the archives of time should have passed irretrievably away. Lord Robertson, whose death it is our painful d u t y t o record, has been the twelfth judge who ha s di e d w i th i n the last ' four years. Lord Jeffrey died in the end of January, 1850, a nd was followed by Lord M oncre iff, Lord Mackenzie, Lord Dundrennan, Lord Anderson, Lord Justice-General Boyle, Lord Fullerton, Lord C ock burn, Lord Medwyn, Lord Cuningliame, Lord Ruther ford, and Lord Robertson now completes the sad cata logue, co ntaining as disti ngu i s h e d names as ever a d orne d the bench of this or any other country. NEW ROUTE BETWEEN DUBLIN AND LONDON.—The rupture twelve months since of the arrangement between the City of Dublin Steam-packet Company and the Chester and Holyhead and North-Western Companies, by the English managers, has led to an important arrangement between the Great Western Company and the Dublin Packet Company, for the " through book ing " of passengers and goods between Paddington and Dublin, via Oxford, Shrewsbury, and Birkenhead. By these means passengers can book throughout at reduced fares on three days every week ; but in the season the accommodation will be daily. This master-stroke of competition-policy will give the public additional facili ties, and open up a new and interesting land route. The Custom-house list of port wines exported from Oporto during the past year has been received, from which it appears that the total quantity was 39,252 pipes, being a decrease of 16,559 pipes from that of 1853. The principal shippers were Sandemad and Co., 4,050 pipes ; Cockburn and Co., 2,395 ; Martinez and Co., 2,392 ; J. D. Harris, 2,329 ; Graham and Co., 1,804 ; Offiey and Co., 1,768 ; Hunt and Co., 1,582 ; Morgan and Co., 1,148 ; Redpath and Co., 1,056 ; Bruno, Silva, and Co., 1,006 ; all others figured under 1,000 pipes. Tho quantities to each country were as follows :—To Great Britain, 33,831 pipes, against 46,834 in 1853 ; Brazil, 1,274 ; Canada, 952 ; Hamburg, 814 ; Australia, 639, against 2,521 in 1853 ; Sweden, 444 ; Denmark, 426 ; United States, 326 ; Portuguese possessions, 245 ; Newfoundland, 182 ; Bremon, 64 ; Prussia, 30 ; F rance, 15 ; 11911 an d; 10. SMITHFIELD. To-day's market was well supplied with beasts. For all breeds we hail a very inactive demand, at barely Mon day's decline in the quotations. The numbers of sheep were very moderate, yet the sale for them was dull, at unaltered currencies. Calves— the aupply of whioli wAs sinall--moved off slowly, at barely late rates. In pigs very little was doing, on former terms. Mulch cows were very dull, at from 141. to 191. each including their small calf. Per Slbs to sink the offais. s. d. s. d.' Inferior Beasts.... 3 2to 3 4 Second quality.... 3 6 3 10, Prime large oxen 4 0 4 4 Primo Scots, &c. 4 6 4 8 Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 6 Second quality ...3 3 4 2 Prime crse.-wlled.4 4 4 8 s. d. s d. PrimeSonthdown 4 10 5 0 Large erse. calves 4 4 5 0 Prime small d 0... 5 2 5 6 Large hogs 3 0 310 Small porkers 4 0 4 4 I Sucklingcalves —2O 0 28 0 f Quarter old pigs 20 0 26 0 TOTAL SUPPLr. Beasts .. • . •. .. .. .. .. . . 1,110 Slice'' , •• • •• • • • • • • .. • • .. 3,300 Call'as •••••• • • • • • • ••.• .. 210 Pigs •• •• ...•••.•.• •• •• •• 310 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts.... Sheep .................... 770 Calves •• •• ...• .• •• •• •• 200 Pigs .• •• •• •• •• .• ..... • --- NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Each kind of meat met a dull sale, as follows :-- Per Blbs by the eareasa. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 3 0 3 2 Do., middling 3 4 3 6 Do., prime largo 3 8 3 10 Do., do. small 4 0 4 4 Pork, large - 3 0 4 0 d. s. d. 17 Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6 20' Do., middling 3 8 310 20 Do., prime 4 0 4 4 20 Veal 4 0 5 0 20 Pork, small 4 2 4 4 I 20 . 1 20 BORO UGH HOP. There is rather more business doing in our market, and 100 in some instances prices have an upward tendency. This 0 week's imports are 76 bales from Antwerp, 18 from Rot- „`Y. terdam, and 193 from Hamburg. New Mid and East Kent ‘;'` pockets, 141 Os to 211 Os ; Weald of Kent ditto, 141 Os to 161 Os ; Sussex ditto, 111 lOs to 151 10 s per cwt. 25 COLONIAL. SUGAR.—There have been moderate dealings in West India at firm rates. Barlsadoes at auction sold at 31s to 34s for low to mid yellow, at 31s Gd to 37s for good mid to good, and 37s Gd for fine. Grenada realised 29s to 30s for brown, crystalised Demerara 32s to 40s 6d for low to fine, and Jamaica 29s to 323 Gd per cwt. Madras went at high prices early in the week, viz., at 24s Gd to 30s for brown, 303 Gd to 355 Gd for yellow, and at 36s to 37s 6d for fine, but mid and good native brown has since been taken in at 26s to 2Gs (leper cwt, the offers being 3d per cwt lower. Ma dras good and fine grocery brought 37s to 393, but native I receded to 23s Gd to 26s Gd for brown. Penang was taken freely at 263 Gd to 29s for brown, and at 33s to 36s for low white. Foreign—Manilla has been Gd per cwt. cheaper. Clayed sold at 28s Gd to 29s Gd, but sound was taken in at 29e Gd to 30. s (id for mid and good current clayed. Mid and goad bright grocery was taken in at 33 3 Gd to 36s Gd • but *. low soft to fine grocery sold at 3 1 s Gd to 535, Porto Rico brought 32s to 39a for low to very fine bright grocery. Refined brown lumps have been 42s Gd per cwt. COFFEE,—The market has ruled quiet. Plantation Ceylon has realised 55s to 59s Gd for low mid mixed to good mid, 55s Gd to 60a Gd for low mid to good mid colory, 79s to 81s for good marks, 50s to 54s for good to f fine ord, 35a Gil to 52s for triage, 40s to 54s for triage and ord, and 54s to 66s Gd for peaherry. Native Ceylon has brought 455 6(1 to 45s 9d for common tb good ord. Costa Rica sold at 55s to 55s for good to fine ord. RlCE.—Bengal has been heavy, and is lower ' • good mid sold at 14s to 14s Gd; ord, heated, lls. Carolina was taken in at 28s to 35s for mid to fine American dressed. SPlCES.—Pimento has been steady, mid and good mid at 545. Cassia Vera has been cheaper, but Cassia Lignea at full rates. Malabar pepper has been 8d cheaper. Mace has been at full rates, viz., is lid per lb, for slightly mouldy. Nutmegs have ruled steady, and cinnamon realised 18 2d for seconds, and is to is 1d for thirds. TEA.—The market is firm, at 101 per lb for the useful sorts, and the trade buy steadily. COCHINEAL.--This articlo has been steady. Honduras silvers went at 3s 2d to 3s 10d, and black ord to fair at . 3s 7d to 4s 3d per lb. SALTPETRE. — Very little has been done. Bengal was taken in at 25s Gd to 263 for 7 to 71 per cent., at 25s for 8i per cent., and at 23s for 11. to 13 per cent. refraction. TALLOW. — The market has reacted, P.Y.C. being now 593 to 59s 6d per c wt. on the spot. LLOYD'S SHIPPIN-(THIS DAY. LONDON, Jan. 12.—Wind this day at Noon, E. ; light easterly airs, and dull, hazy weather. RAMSGATE, Jan. 11.—Wind, E. Sailed—Emily, for Mo_gadoro ; Carl Johanna, La Guayra. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 11.—Wind, E. Sailed—Sultana, for Sydney, N.S.W. ; Gipsy Queen, Melbourne. FALMOUTH, Jan. 11.—Wind, E. Arrived—Hermdal, from Rio Janeiro. Sailed—Token, for Cape Coast Castle ; Charlotte, Tampico ; Amicitia, Jamaica ; Watersvitch, Mogadore. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 11.—Wind, E. to E.N.E. Sailed— Chapmana, for Cannanare ; Salus, Wed Indies ; Marley Hill (s s), Crimea ; H.M.S. Dragon, Eastward. HULL, Jan. 11.—Wind, W. Sailed—Harriet Wade, for Adelaide, S.A. TORBAY, Jan. 10.—Wind, E. Sailed—Reliance, for the South Seas ; Roseneath, California ; Thos. Snook, Bahia. Off Port—Helena and Olga, from Porto Cabello, for Ham burgh ; Anna Margaretha, Batavia, for Amsterdam. NEWPORT, Jan. 11.—Arrived—The Abeona, from St. Thomas. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 10.—Wind, calm. Arrived—Esk, from Manila. Sailed—Williams (s), for Sydney. WATERFORD, Jan. 10.—Wind, W. Arrived—Thistle, from Quebec. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday, 9.51 a.m. Wind, W. ; tide, two hours' ebb ; hazy. Arrived, Jan. 11 — Trades man, from Mars eilles. Arrived, Jan. 12 — City of Hamburgh (s), from Ham , burgh ; Ellen, Gijon ; Queely Shiol, St. Mich ae l' s ; T ene rifle, Patras. Sailed—John Philips, for New Zealand. DEAL, Friday, 9.22 a.m, Wind, N. ; Tory light—thick fog. No arrivals. FOREIGN. Si - 6p ii is JOINT-STOCK BINKS. 78 -- 80 lustralasia British Colonial Bank and Loau Company British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Ahstralia, & China Colonial Commercial of Lond English Scottish and Australian Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia London and County London Joint Stock Load. & Westminster National Provinci of England Do. New .............. National o: Ireland New So ath Wales Oriental Bank of Corpoi ation. Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal A ustraln.Birg & Gold Imp Co South AolLvalia, ,Union of Australia Do. New 6alou 9: Loadora.•... ' i'd i. 71 31 - 201 -21 i ii - 38 36 - 33 39 -- 41 GG Os 8 -- 10 PREFERENCE SHARES. i Abcrtie , n iDo. :N0.2, 7 11,-c. Blyth and ty - n3lO peri c. pref. (issd. at 501), Eris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Hol;head Guar. 5A per cent Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Cork &BandonsAp.c Dundee Perth &Abel deeu Junction EastAnglian (£3losl 6 per cent .; Do. (.£5) 7 per cent. Do. (£7l7s) 7 p. c. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. 1 Do. No. 2 . Do. New 6 r. C. 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Bristol Si Birm. 6 per cent Do. Pref. 46 per cent Norfolk Debenture Do. Pref. 4 p. c. Stool , I Do. 5 p.c. Est Do. 56 per et .pref Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c Nortli British N. E. Berw, 4 p.c. P Do. do. d 0.... .....• Do. Leeds 6 p.c .No. l Do. do. Quarters 48 Do. York El s. Pur. l North Staffordshire Oxford, Worcester, S: Wolverh. Xl5, 61n.c. scot. Cent., New Prot Do. 5 per cent South Devon Dm. fixed, 4i percent 'S. Eastern (Reading nn.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 46 per cent S.Yerksh.tp.c.Guar S Wales Gu,. 4p. c. Do. do. 46 p. c. Stockton and Dar- lington, 6 per cent Do. do. do. Stockton and Hartle pool, guar. 5 p. C. till Ist July, 1856 Watorfd.&Kilk.6p.c. - 101 20 02 95 - 91 51 - 61 12i -12 i 12 - 14 par' 221 —22 i 95 100 15 18 id -- iP 9i 2id Anti-slavery Recollections. By Sir George Stephen liatchara. These recollections are written in a series of letters addressed to Mrs. Beecher Stowe, at her re quest.• The author does not profess to offer a his tory. of negro emancipation, but merely to afford a brief account of the religious principle on which the agitation was conducted, and the rapid success of that agitation, with a few sketches of the prin cipal agents in the work. It has been the author's object to avoid an offensive tone, and to render justice to the memory of many distinguished abo litionists, and to some of the survivors whose feel ings had been hurt by the misappropriation of anti-slavery credit. There are seventeen letters, giving a concise account of the management of the affairs, and the little volume is dedicated to Lord Brougham. Studies from _Nature. By Dr. Hermann Massing. Translated by C. Boner. Chapman and Hall. This pleasing and instructive volume will be sure to charm all lovers of Nature, although the circle of its descriptions is restricted to Germany. The forest trees of :Northern Germany are fully described in the firut part. In the second the characteristics of birds aro delineated. The frog and other creatures subsequently appear. The most curious and interesting details are given of all their peculiarities. The author is evidently an accom plished scholar as well as an experienced na turalist. There are numerous quotations from the classic authors a:ad authorities of various lan guages. The notes a t the end of the volume are, as the translator just)ly observes, not the least in teresting part of the book. " They are full of the quail test information —old customs , long-forgotten rhymes, droll stories, classical allusions ; but all is given so pleasantly that erudite learning seems rather to be a mere wi lo and a pastime than asso ciated, as we aro accustomed to fancy, with dry study and grave pedantic mien. Never did schoolman, never surely did German professor, read to us texts from mouldy volumes and ancient chronicles with so clioery a voice." The volume is ornamented with woodcuts, and will form a most elegant and attractive gift-book for the present season. Talpa ; or, The Chronicles of a Clay Farm. By Chandos Wren Hoskyns. Lovell Reeve. This is a third and cheaper edition of this well known and successful little work, whose object is best explained by its motto " _Modem, dicere verum.' Written in a lively and interesting-man ner, it contains much information on agricultural points, such as the best methods of draining, fenc ing, the application of lime to the soil, &c. It is dedicated to the readers and. contributors of the Gardener's Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, " in the hope and belief that agricultural thought may be candid, and even speculative, yet hus bandry not the less practical." The different ex periments and improvements tried by the author will prove both useful and interesting to those similarly occupied. FREEMASONS' GIRLS SeHooL.---The quarterly meet ing of the governors of this school was held at the school-house, Wandsworth•con u nov, yesterday ; Mr. Barnes in the chair. The m inutes of the various sub committees having been submitted to the meeting mi d received, a proposition was brought forward for putting the school under the supervision of the Government in spectors ; but the m otion was rejected, upon the ground that the Freemasons had always, and ought always to keep their charities distinct from all extraneous inter ference. Eight vacancies will occur in the school in April, to fill which there are eight candidates ; but it is t o be feared - that one cannot be admitted on account of her health. The court stands adjourned until the 15th March, to consider certain alterations in the bye-laws. The Government notification that the Russian ports in the Black Sea and the Seitof Azoff are intended to be blockaded on the Ist of February next has a singular ap pearance, after the announcement made in the House of Lords on the 22d December that the strictest orders for a blockade had been sent out two months previously, and that no doubt was entertained of its having been effi ciently carried out. Notwithstanding all the variable statements hitherto made, some reliance is entertained that this new order is really to be enforced ; and the markets for Russian produce yesterday were rather firmer, although they are etill affected by the possi bility of peace. 111 11 ' I 721 I 2' 913 SI 123 3 / 4 li 631 9 81 Si 60 ex errs ni 54i I Si 1011 f 841 i 1 2' 69 8/ 1 Si I Si 51 4 MISCELLANEOUS 5 all Aubin Coal and Iron ... •.. 25 171 s Australian Agricult P 5 36 20 4 A.ustralsn.Pcific.MaY 10 all Australn. Royal Mai ... 10 5 Berlin Water Works 21 —21 a 50 40 Brit. American Land 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co ... 100 32} Canada 104 106 105 x a St. 1.00 Canada Gov. 6 p. ct Jan. and July 106 - 1071 107 d 5 all Crystal Palace 2 3 2t 3 4 all Crystal Pal. of France 20 5 Eastern Steam 25 21 ElootrioTelegTaph(&) .177 -- 1$ 1 all Electrio Toleg. of Ir. 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. ." 20 all General Screw Steam _. .—13 i 20 10 Trish Beetroot Sugal 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig 10 all Mediteran. Elec. Tel „. 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuo' ••• 10 5 Netherlands Land — 11 2 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter Steam Navigat. Co. 1 all N. B. Australasian 1 1 20 12 Nrth.ofEuropeSteam all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. 2i 21 50 all Peninsular& Oriental d 50 all Do. Do. ...p 2 all Portland Iron Co 2 -- 2i 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 61 63 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest, 1 1 2 25 all South Austral.Lan s 36 —37 1 all tubmar. Telegraph. 1 all Registered.,,,,,. 1 100 nioint Lind 11 12 MORE COMFORTS. - The Royal Yacht squadron schooner Fairy arrived at Malta, on Christmas-day, after a fine run of 13 days 8 hours. On the 26th she took on board a quantity of oranges, lemons, and onions, and them proceeded with a fair wind for B alaklava. Two SIDES TO A STORY. --We Lave just been favoured with the sight of two letters from the Crimea, dated Christmas-day„one from a sergeant in the 42d. He feels no want of clothing or provisions. The other is from a private in the Royal Marines, who says :—" Tell ay mother that I have spent a comfortable Christman on shore. We are all in hopes of having our New Year's dinner in barracks in Sebastopol, as it is getting very cold up here. Tell my mother that I am well, and quite comfo. table ashore, along with the soldiers of all descriptions. Dear Brother, we had a beautiful sight last Tuesday ; there was a large powder magazine, be longing to the Russians, which blew up a large fort, and about 200 or 300 Russians with it. What a sight it was to see pieces of gun-carriages, besides soldiers, flying np in the air. Our men gave three cheers, which the Russianns did not like." SCOTTISH ENTERTAIYMENT.—Last evening Mr. A. Fairbairn and the Misses Bennett gave an entertainment of a very attractive nature, at the Horns Assembly Rooms, Kennington. It consisted of Scottish anecdotes very humourosly related, and Scottish music very beautifully sung. The entertainment was divided into two parts, the first of which comprised many well known and favourite compositions, and the manner in which Mr. Fairbairn gave us " Corn Rigs are Bonnie" was capital, and richly merited the applause _it received. Miss M. A. Bennett also gave us " A Highland Lad my Love was Born" to such perfection that it was unanimously re-demanded. She complied with the en core, but substituted another old favourite, " Gin a body Kiss a Body," and it was only from a consideration of the length of the programme that this song did not share the fate of the preceding one. The feature of the part, however, was the celebrated duet "Caller Herrin'," and the imitation of the cry of the Newhaven fishwife, by Miss E. Bennett , wa s ex cellent. Though we have not heard the old old cry for a long time, it came fami liar to us as household words. The second part was as well selected as the first, and was received with as great enthusiasm. A new song composed by Mr. Fair bairn, entitled " The Old Saucy British Flag," was sung by him, and created quite a furore. We have not the slightest doubt that it will become a "first favourite." To all those who have been delighted by the warblings of poor Wilson—and who has not—we say go and hear Mr. Fairbairn ; he is his legitimate successor. IRONMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETINGS.—BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.—The ironmasters' meeting yesterday was fully attended. The hall and committee-rooms were during the day crowded. Such houses as Barrows and Hall (the producers of what is called marked ironYwere understood to be firm, but, taken generally, the price of iron was reduced 40s. per ton. Bars are therefore at about 91. The concluding meeting will be held at Dud ley on Saturday; but tkere is no reliance to be placed - upon prices fixed at quarterly meetings ; they are _ eventually settled by necessity. A considerable demand for manufactured iron exists, but the North American call, which used to be very considerable, is restricted and uncertain. So soon as the American trade improved, our exports across the Atlantic may be expected to be better in proportion. THE PRICE OF FOOD AT SEBASTOPOL.—We read in a letter from a sub-officer of the French Engineers before Sebastopol :—" I will give you an idea of the manner in which we live. If we wish to procure anything be yond the ordinary rations, we must pay 2f. a litre. for wine, 70c. the kilogramme for haricots, 900. the kilo. for potatoes, 4f. a kilo. for sugar, lf. for a wax candle. As for other things, they are beyond reason. As to our kitchen, it is a kind of hut built with dry stones and covered with our camp sacks. It is so low that we can scarcely stand upright in it, and it is here that we have all our recreations and our gossip. The rain comes through the roof as through a sieve, and in the morn and in good health, an d h ave bomb ing the place is like a swam p - Fortunately , we eat well, are young proof patience." ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION.-' Aii attemnt was made a few evenings since to assassinate Mr. Tfiomas Goold, while returning to the residence of his brother, Mr. William Goold, of Reckfort. He was fired at while pas3ing a grove, and the assassin was so close to him that a portion of the wadding struck him in the face. z . : 12 41,11 , 7, 72 7, kr/4g ~r==~' LORD PANMURE AND MR. BRIGHT. At the annual meeting of the Edinburgh Bible Society, the chairman, Lord Paumure, adverting to Mr. Bright's speech at Rochdale, said : " There was one country which was not to be disco vered within the report ; and that country was one where he feared not only religious but civil liberty was nipped in the bud, and whence every disposition was shown to nip, and curtail, and extinguish liberty wher ever it was to be found in the world, and that country was the one with which they were at present unfortunately at war. It was that country which once cherished and which once admitted the Scriptures, but which now sedulously prevented the Bible in the Russian tongue from being placed within the reach of the Russian people. When Alexander was Emperor of Russia, he showed a cartain countenance to the labours of the Brie tish and Foreign Bible Society. He established a Bible Society, he even permitted the Bible to be translated into Russ ; and when he died, a large edition of that Bible so translated existed. His successor, the present Emperor, it was true, allowed that edition to be ex hausted in the country, but since that time he had per mitted no further translation to be struck off, and no further circulation of the Bible in the tongue of his countrymen, and he had done all he could to confine them to that Church which was called the Greek Church, and which looked up to him as its father and its God. Now, he (Lord Panmure) would not have touched so prominently upon that point, had he not seen it as serted at a Bible Society meeting at Rochdale (by Mr. Bright) that the present Emperor of Russia was feendly to the circulation of the Scriptures. Ile had taken some little pains, through his esteemed friend Mr. Robert Haldane, the secretary of the society, to ascertain that fact ; and he was assured that what he had now stated was the simple truth. He knew that a portion of the Russian subjects—the Fins, or the inhabitants of Fin land, and the German Lutherans—had the means of access to the Scriptures in their own tongue ; but that was part of the conditions which they made when they yielded up their country to their conqueror, and there was no credit, in his opinion, for a man keeping faith with those whom he had enslaved. (Applause.) But if he wanted any more or any greater proof of the enmity of Russia to the truth as it was in the Gospel, he had nothing more to do than to refer to the treatment by that country of the Moravian settlement in the land where the war was now being carried on. They no doubt all remembered the emigration which took place from Germany of a large body of Moravians to the Cri mea for two purposes—the one to establish a settlement and to cultivate the ground, and to turn what was then a desert into the means of supporting creditatly a Christian community ; and the other to disseminate the Word of God amongst the Kalmuc Tart ars, and to convert them to Christianity. - How long did that work go on ? For some years prosperously. God smiled upon and blessed the efforts of the Moravians, and they made many converts, and saved many souls amongst the benighted Kalmucs ; but the !moment the harvest began to thicken, and the sheaves to stand somewhat crowded, in steppe' the Greek Church with their Fiftped ror, and said, ' We dont object to y our conver ti ng th ese Kalmucs to Christianity, but we must be allowed to select the Christianity for you, and we hold it as our sovereign will and pleasure that we permit no conver sion to that Christianity and form of religion which you profess, but to that which i s the old one, an d which is to be found in the b osom o f th e G ree k Church.' The bosom of the Greek Church I Why, the Greek Church was no better to these Moravian missionaries than the Church in which these Tartars already were. It was a false Church ; and they therefore took no further pains to make converts ; and the consequence had been that, through the treatment of that Church and the ukase of their Emperor, the Moravians go on cultivating the soil, and enjoying amongst themselves the privileges which they carried with them, but their work of conver sion was at an end, and their labours to civilise and Christianise these Tartars bad been utterly annihilated. ---,,