The Sun. — London, England, 1855-03-31 00:00:00

T - • r) K 1" ,=l4, (1,4' T L CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. he cotton market at Liverpool yesterday ruled (1,,r• Uplands realised 51d., Mobile 51d., and : 411 , 8 sid. per lb. The sales during the week 1 1 " 8- °een large, amounting to 83,000 bales. The tl'e Mark e t was fi rm , an d p r i ces t en d e d u pwards. 4 14 7Pectation concerning a satisfactory issue to V ienna conferences is still far from sanguine in eantile circles connected with Russia. Our St. a m i eraburg advices are to the 22d inst. Exchange, 7 1 ; prices n om i na l f or tallow. The following is I " the circular o Messrs. Smith and Sons Obtain the cordial co-operation of Austria the 17 1 i; have consented to abandon their original condition I L! destructionof Sebastopol. Their demands—re ca, therefore, to the minimum—have been for ti, t4 monient, at least, refused by the representa of P-ussia. What are the probabilities that Emperor Alexander will consent to terms which hiPpresentatives had no power to acquiesce in We r3'-- . the conduct of P r ussia indicat e s the foregonec asion Had Russia intended to consent, Prussia 4 411 ( 1 have been present at the Vienna Conference. CYthing were wanting to render the reasoning com ee~, it will be found in the speech of the Emperor j 4 7sader to the Guards, the report of which is given 44`aainvalide Busse, which reached us this morning. :read to them the last words of the late Emperor 4 4 doe to the enemies of Russia,' Alexander and all 11. officers exclaimed, 'God's will be done,' signing 1 4 '7 4 selves w i th th e s i gn o f t h e cross . H e th en wen t 3 l a3 , —` In your devotion to the memory of my fa , find the happy guarantee that we will not cede one e° the enemy ; let us protect our beloved Russia ; ?a all serve h er t o th e l as t d rop o f our bl oo d.' " 4 4 1 : the advices from Chili is a very interesting raent of the progress of mining. One party 4 48 J-he mining districts continue inexhaustible, and ki Products are constantly increasing ; new discoveries Oantinua.lly being made, giving employment to hun of workmen. The value-of bullion capoi tea from 1 4 11 . 14 P0 during 1854 is estimated at $7,371,610, being 6 111 evease on the previous year of $1,971,514. In the p 4 2 1 0f Chili the prospect of a fine harvest was very T ing." L t he accumulation of specie in the Bank of Eng has been even more rapid than might have expected, except that under this head it has noted that a good proportion of the bullion iTrred from abroad was being paid into the Bank. l,r as can be at present perceived, the tendency the precious metals will be to flow towards this L l l l 7, but we have now to look for its exporta *:4 new directions that will act as a counter ° and check the accumulation. The million must be presently remitted to Sardinia ; with the navigation opening in the United Lrap and at Hamburg and other ports, will be grain and produce coming in. 1;:?!_ activity, however, will thereby be im- CV to trade generally, a positive gain 4 result as contrasted with the mere gof money. The contraction of business 1 4 , ~le perceptible everywhere, and we can account Il so Like smaller discounts and loans at the Bank, as th e ". in the weekly return before us, made up to 4 4. 2 4 th inst. The amount to the credit of the 0 1 1:intent was much increased, but we are so Z dividend ti me th a t it s hould be much greater. A...pared with the previous week, the changes are °ll ows "Alva circulation 1/11Dio Increase 73,760 14,921,646 et Increase 720,403 3,649,414 ...... k it e Increase 11 1 e Deposits Sher Increase ger Deposits 5,097 5,539,467 461,624 11,146,540 Decrease. 'ell-Day and other Bills r a _ Decrease '''reriam en t Securities 9,322 825,583 56,109 11,581,067 o„ l4 ecrease Crer Securities 2,818 14,279,061 1 ) . Decrease 242,535 motes unemployed 9,129,110 I,‘ Increase 633,145 ki4: 4 4. °.re Was, yesterday afternoon, no change of mo k„"2/ithe rates at which bills of exchange were ne- F i Zed here u p on th e p r i nc ip a l Continental cities. d a :.! 4 ) 90 days, was done at 25 40 to 45, Amster atll. 19k to 191, Hamburg at 13 7 to 71, and s Zate at 12 28 t o 32. he shipments of silver direct from London old the we e k h ave b een 306,024 ounces, and of a 50 ounces, all to the continent. tosee letters by the overland mail are now in of delivery. There appears to have been no pro -cement in th e im p or t markets of either Ual aZl!a. or Bomb a y, b ut i n A ustra li a t ra d e w as dill nving, notwithstanding the excessive supplies complained of. Many goods have been sent tek. The English Securities are steady, and with ether more business doing for money. The v er y !pourable B an k return serves to maintain the !srket. Consols have been 92 to 93 for transfer, i!LI 94 to 93i for account. Exchequer Bills re been at 6 s . t o 9 s . prem i um , an d the Bonds '".„ . ve been mark e d 99i. titled Stocks ar e d u ll. M ex i can B on ds have titled 20k, and Peruvian 70. Grenada Deferred 'tre been at 6'l. Turkish Bonds have improved to and 81. Dutch 2 per Cents. have been 62g. kt:he following are the nominal prices of foreign ks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6k to 6i ; Mexi: 20.4 to 201 ; Peruvian, 70 to 71; ditto Three F e r Cents., 49 to 51 ex div. ; Portuguese Four per tlitfit., 42 to 44; Russian Five per Cents., 99 to 101; Four.an.d-a-Half . per Cents., 89 to 91 ; b o Ttis},t New Deferred, 18k to 181 ; ditto Three C i ,Pents., 36/ to 37i ; ditto Certificates, 5 to s i; "•,,‘° Passive, 4i r to 4. For Railway Shares there is very little inquiry, dt Prices a.re nevertheless supported. The bar rB have been principally in Great Western, 11: 111 -Western, and Midland. The East Indian Os hav e boen rather higher, and Antwerp and erdam art, a shade higher. i ning Shares are about the same. United J o i eau have again been done as high as 7. The Ot Stock Bank Sharer have been steady. Crystal 4 'see are up 1. 4171 511 FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. (Prom the Official List. ) a Busines. drm , 14 - -r Cent. Consols Antveit'ies 92i 3 21 3 2i 3 OZ 2 i per Cent. Annuiti es ia .for Account, April 93 , 3 /4 21 3 'Chequer Bills, 'lid. Ql000 . 4.1500 14 6 134 1all 'egner Bonds 1858, 34 per Cent. 99i Ditto 1859, ~ tl„, - PRICE OF FOR EION FUNDS TH IS DAY. I LI per Ct. (Matanzas & Sabanilla Bonds) 971 i it e Z€Ls. Bonds, Deferrod A a 3 per Cent. Ditto 4 for the Account . 2 Ol Dan Bonds, 42 per t:lent. 1 4 Bonds, 6 per cent ;'tto for the Account.... ... ....... ..... —4 tu Small e _ Dividendg on the abovL' payable in London. pIZ). Bonds 4i per Cent. ex'. 25 fr 94 to itt:change, 24 per Cent. . 1 .2 Gu11..... 62a 4 por Cont. Certifieates THREE O'CLOCK. Consols Ditto, April Account ........ 93 ZLOYD'S SHIPPING-(Ti IS DAY.) --...---- k.I IO ITDON, March 31.—Wind and weather this day at ";',N N.E. ; light breeze, and hazy weather. FiC,..41,11011TH, March 30.—Wind, E. Sailed—Alice, from ~rhemas. Off Port—Eleanor from New York. lirliftmOUTH, March 30.—Wind,' S.W. Arrived—Mary te r r all, from the Mauritius ; Cressy, Manilla and Cape I ,` - 'lled Hope ; Germania . (s.), Woolwich, for the Crimea. (eINzANCE, March 29.—Wind, E.S.E. Arrived—Corse 1 4 1s etch war-steamer), on a cruise, and sailed for Ply ra,;4l-AxsEa, March 30.—Wind, N.E. Sailed—Frederico, 4 ,„kadeirs. 0/11ELDS, March 29.—Wind, N.E. Arrived— Athena, . ° , l l l . Taganrog. Sailed—Nestor, for Constantinople. i t 'ItILL, March 3J.—Wind, N.W.' Sailed—John, for 111trw. 0-VERPOOL, March 30.—The Tepula sailed from St. IZ 4 sLes, Newfoundland, on the 30th of December, for don, and has not since been heard of. diGHOIII , 7, March 23.—The Industry, from Liverpool, ved here yesterday, making 4 inches of water per hour, Ong struck on a sunken rock or wreck twice in the NUB of Bonifacio, March 17. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. find, E.N.E. 04x trived—Electrio. from Calcutta ; Joseph Howe, New h• r iterts ; August, Ghent ; J. N. Cushing, Havre ; Oden , ''° l l(baras. 14 4 ikocl—Manuel Montt, for Valparaiso ; Camalau, for rill.; Queen of the West, Messina. QU ENSTOWN, March 29. S.S.E. Arrived—George Robinson, from Paraiba. N 'DUBLI, March 30. lad, W. 'ailed—Jenny Lind, for Barbadoo. ' • (BY SUBMARINE AND BAIVISM TELEGRAM) GRAVESEND, Saturday, 10.6 a.m. A Wind, E. ; tide, two hours flood ; weather, fine. 4..rrived, 30th—Flora Muir, from Foochow. oArrivecl, 31—Soho (s.), from Havro ; Albion (a.), ; Belgium (s.), Ostend.; Peri, St. Michael's; Deo mlla, Calcutta ; Bowes, Dantzic ; Geelong, Madras. 31—Julia, for Adelaide ; Flecha (a.), Ghent ; Fr y et (e.), Niel]. Dieppe ; Neptune (s.), Havre; West "64 18.11 d (3.), Kampen. DEAL, Saturday, 9.30 a.zn. 1 W m ind, NE • fine.ueen, from Calcutta, for London ; Alice 1 4 42, London, for Li verpool ; Golden Gate, London , for 'lgsealsa ; Gertrude, London, for Aden. Memans c` T 1 A RE MARKETS. A B.A.ILWAY B. RAILWAYS. Aberdeen.. Ambg. Nottng Bost. and Eastn. B-31fast k rallymena Birming. Welverh..!, Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and 2 - 25 Cons. Do., X2O Blyth &Tyneoriginal £25 (isal. at £45, Bristol and Emetcr... Caledonian Carmarthen and Car digan Chester (Sr Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall Crieff Junction Dublin&BelfastJnnc Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction Do. Now East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A _ Stock De., B, Stock Do., New A East Lancashire.,, Edinburgh& Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles... Edin. Prth &Dundee Forth & Clyde Jun-. Furness Do. Extension..... ... Glasgow & S. Weston Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. all. &West.(lre ) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk Irish South-Eastern. Immeaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Ld.ncash.andYorksli Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un Liv.Crsby.&Soutlipt London & Blackwal , Loud. Bright & S.Crt Lord. and N. Westn. Do. Fifths Do.lol. Sh.,M&B.„( Do. Eighths London andS. Westn Do., £5O Do., £4O Lndndrry& Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Shef & Line' , Do, No. 1 Do., Man. & Lin. Un Midland 1)o. Birrun g. &Derby Midld. G. West. (Ire, ) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Newmkt.BuryEx ten. Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoini and Rostrevor Norfolk . Northn.Counties Un North British.., North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed N. Eastern—Berwiel, Do. do. Extension Do.do, G.N. E. Parch. Do. Leeds Do. York North London Do. New £lO N. &S. Wstrn. ,Hamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire I North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Portsmouth Scottish Central Scottish Midland ihrewsby. ds Herefd Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales 3. Yrksh. Qa Riv. Dm Do itaines, Wok. &W' 3tookton Ia Davi: Stcnkten do Hartlepi Taff Vale Do. £lO shares. Do. Pref., No. Thames Haven Doel , and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limeriek West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace West London . Wimbledn & Croydon Antwerp&Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. June Beziers to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Serip Central of Italy Demerara Dijon andßesancon Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian Do. EyLonsion Do. 4 p. c. Bds., pay. '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do eird Tk of CanadaA is. Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cort. of Deben , con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of Franc• Gt. Indian Peninsula Do. New 5 per cent. Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Gt. Western of Canad , Shares Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p..'60 Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Conet. & Basle Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p. c prof Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Mediterran. Madras Do. New Nlaria Antonia Do. do. New Namur & Liege (wit] interest) Do. (ox interest) Northern of France D 0.201. Shs.late Char• loroi and Erquelines guar. 33 p. C. & red. at 221. dnr. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854.... Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds. (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs. ) NorwegianTrunkPrel Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans.... Paris and Rouen... • • • ParisCaen & Cherlirg. Rouen and Havre.— Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Manse Do. 5i p. cent. Pref. Southern of France. St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) , West Flanders Do 5 per c. Pref Western of France Wept. of Switzerland WiJsbEulen Zealand JOINT-STOi Australasia British Colonial Bank and Loan Company British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Buk. of India, Australia, & China 5 Colonial !O Commercial of Lond 8 English Scottish and Australian al Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia 5 Ditto New London and County 'London Joint Stock , Lond. & Weptrainstei National Provincia: of England Do. New National of Ireland Now South Waleß Oriental Bank of Corporation Provincial of Irelain Do. New Royal Australu.Bkg. 8,-, Gobi Imp Co '.oath Australia Union a Australia 110. New Union Of London ‘, , !Closing Prices this day. 20i - 21 4i-. 44 3i - 2i 5A - 6i 30 - 32 21 - 23 72 74 56 58 2d par 20 21 68 - 70 83 - 89 72 - 74 123 - 125 91 -93 651 65i 69 - 61 70 - 73 6- 7 t 6 - 7 76i -76 i :.. ...a 7,1 8 4 97 99 991 _lid id d 1 •; 82 84 8i 8 1 7i 24i —24 i 8 Sa 69i - 70 41 - 43 11 - 9 1i - 2 48 - 50 3$ 3; 28i 29i 71A 724 71 4 12 134- 484 49 . 49 50 d par id i 41 6 64 1. d rar 29 - 30 98 - 100 62 - 64 3G - 38 4i - 5 16t 16i 4 - 5 22 - 24 5 - 6 ••• .•• 6 - 7 FOREIGN. Bi 8i 13i -12 i 16 -- 17 74 6id 88 - E 0 62i -62 i 12i -13 i 6 - 8 14i - 1N 11i - 11$ 45 - 47 ' 12i - 601 614 27:k- 28i 4 - 2 2 - 1 8& - 8 4 - 2 - 21 par I p P 2 - 34 -35 6 - 2- 2 p 1 - 1 • • •• 9 - • 8 91. 8i 49 —51 d 89 -- 91 2 -- 2ip jP IP 21 -- 2 21 -- 2 17] -- 18 96 -- 98 96 -- 98 100 -- 102 93 95 19i 98 --100 - 2 - ••• ••• par ip li lip 6k - 6 iii : iii Ili 12 8 - 9 22 -221 p) 47 49 40 42 Pro 22 22 ld Par i lid 8i sa ••• .•'' ••• ... PM .• ••• 3i - 4 iii = 19 BANNS• 80 - 82 f . d = i.O 3 —2O 20 21 i d iP 33 - 35 39 - 41 37 -- 39 65 - 67 7i - 81 Business dons this day. THE SUN, LONDON, SATU'RDAY EVENING, MARC'H 31, 18156; LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. - P 6l O b h• *I, SI 1 ,, 4, (i) •=l. , gr 4 ti 3 Ok.rl „is„ MINING INTELLIGENCE. ..al:.i'rLY~~ !' , -` - ,...17.g Conlpaub. this day. :1;;:m 1 .11Cia tilts day. (Prom the Mining Journal of this day.) In dividend mines there has been a good business doing this week, and prices have decidedly improved. Bassets have been in demand at 5401. to 5501. ; South Frances, 3501. ; Rosewarne, 1501. to 1601. ; Great Devon Consols, 3701. to 375/. ; North Basset, 171. to 181. ; United Mines, 2151. to 2201. ; Vale of To wy, 12s. 6d. to 15s. ; Alfred Consols, 141. ; North Buller, 31. ss. to 31. 10s. ; Eaglebrook, 201. ; Wheal Kitty (Lelant), 101. to 101. 10s. ; Sortridge Consols firm, at 21. 15s. to 21. 17s. 6d. ; Great Alfred, 181. to 191. ; West Provi dence, 161. to 171. Rosewarne, on Tuesday, declared its first dividend of 31. per share. MINES WIIIOH HAVE SOLD ORE.-Brynford Hall, Cae- Gynon, Camborne Consols, Carrack Dews, Dyfngwns, Eaglebrook, Ecat Polgooth, East Wheal Rose, Great Wheal Alfred, Herwood United, Ivybridge, Leeds, Town Consols, North Buller, Sortridge Consols, South Crenver, Vale of Towy, Wendron Consols, Wheal Kitty (Uny Lelant), Wheat Zion, Yeoland Consols. The Gold Mining Share Market has continued flat throughout the week, and although many transactions were effected yesterday, they were generally at reduced rates. SETY OFFICE, o'Clock. The Anglo-Californian Gold Mining Company have advices to the 13th Feb. The rain had enabled Sir H. Huntley to re-commence crushing for a few hours each day, and the result, so far as the agent was able to re port, was very satisfactory. The Irish Consols Mining Company have convened a meeting for the 10th April next, when it is expected a resolution will be proposed to wind it up. STATE OF TRADE. (From, the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, March 30.—We are closing the week with much complaining on the part of manufacturers, as to the very bad state of their trade. Printing cloths of most widths and kinds are extremely flat, stocks are increasing, and whatever is sold leaves a considerable loss ; only in certain light and narrow makes has there been a little increase of sales. Madapollams, jacconets, T cloths, and 9.Bth shirtings are in about an equally satisfactory condition with printing cloths. Long cloths are duller than they were, and do not command the same prices. The better domestics, though steady in price, are inanimate. The yarn' market is perfectly firm at Tuesday's prices. BRADFORD, March 29.—Wool—The business doing in combing wool is still very limited, and the supply of good bright-haired and Midland Counties very small, which checks the demand. Of light-haired wools, there is a better supply and less demand. LEICESTER, March 30.—The continued cold weather retards the spring demand ; and the want of American orders, which are usually given out at this period of the year, operate most prejudicial upon business. WOOLLEN TRADE. (Front the Leeds Mercury of this day.) LEEDS, March 30.—There has been no alteration in the state of the woollen market this week. HUDDERSFIELD, March 27.—We have nothing to re port as favourable of the market to-day. Neither in the cloth-hall, nor warehouses, nor wool shops was there anything doing corresponding with the season. ROCHDALE, March 26. —There was ne change with respect to price, but the market appeared to assume a more cheerful aspect than it had done for several weeks. HALIFAX, March 24.—There is no material alteration since our last report of the piece and yarn markets, though prices continue to show greater firmness. MURDER BY STARVATION IN NEWINOTON WORKHOUSE.-EXTRAORDINARY CASE. For some time past considerable sensation has existed in the neighbourhood of the workhouse of St. Mary, Newington, in •onsequence of a rumour that one of the pauper inmates of that establishment, a female about 22 years of age, had wilfully caused the death of her own offspring by starvation. These circumstances becoming known to Mr. Thomas Cook, the summoning officer for the district, he imme diately communicated with W. Carter, Esq., the coroner for East Surrey, who issued a warrant for an inquest, and which was held yesterday morning in the board room of the workhouse. The first witness examined was Ann Halford, a pauper inmate and one of the nurses. She deposed that the de ceased was about three months old, and was the illegiti mate child of a woman named Sturges. The woman. Sturges was an inmate of what was called the "Infant's Ward" for about a month, and during that period she repeatedly refused to suckle the infant, or attend to it in any way, and used to beat it with great violence. It consequently wasted away, and witness accordingly gave information to Mr. Lownd, the medical officer, who told her to feed it, but she refused to do so. The mother was afterwards charged at the police court with neglect-. ing the deceased, and the witness then fed it with arrow root, boiled milk, and sopped bread, but she died on. Saturday last. When she (witness) went to request the mother to suckle the child, she refused, and said " she wished the little devil was dead." Witness had no doubt Sturges wished the child to die, as she several times ad - - iff'd; Elticrh3 - e"Wiaufd not fad it,—as'irririttred ter own of to die. Sarah Hollyoak corroborated the above evidence. Mr. G. H. Lownd, the medical officer of the work house, said that he had made a pest mortent examination, and found the body almost bloodless. He was of opinion that death had been accelerated by want of proper nourishment, which had been withheld from the child by its mother. After a short consultation the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful Murder against Sarah Sturges, otherwise Ann S turges." JUNIOR 'UNITED SERVICE CLUB—FIRST STONE OF NEW HOUSE LAID.—The first stone of the new club house in Regent-street, Waterloo-place, was laid on Thursday last by the Right Hon. the Earl of Orkney, assisted by the committee and numerous members of the club. THE LATH GBN. SIR CHARLES JAMES NAFIER.—At a meeting of the executive committee of the Napier Testi monial, held on Saturday, at the United Service Mu seum, Whitehall, and presided over by the Earl of Ellenborough, it was resolved that the design of Mr. George G. Adams-, for a statue in memorial of the above distinguished officer, should be selected. The statue, to be executed by Mr. Adams, will be of bronze, twelve feet in height, and will be placed on a granite pedestal eighteen feet in height. It will be erectld in the metropolis. Tin- AMERICAN 'MAIM—The next mails from the United States to this country will be conveyed by the American steam-ship Nashville, Captain Berry, which was advertised to leave N ew York at noon on the 21st instant, and may, consequently, be expected to arrive in the- Mersey on Sunday next. The Nashville harbeen chartered for the trip by the Collins Company, to relieve their steamer, the Pacific, which, we believe, requires some repairs. THE AUSTRALIAN COLONIES.—" Further papers" re specting the alterations in the constitutions of the Aus tralian colonies were yesterday presented to Parlia ment in continuation of papers presented last July, August, and December. Those before us refer solely to Van Diemen's Land, and a correspondence between the Lieutenant-Governor, Sir W. Denison, and the Colonial-office, in the year 1854, on the subject of the responsible government of that colony. Sir W. Denison expressed his views at length in a confidential despatch dated February 4, 1854, and in November of that year forwarded to the Colonial-office an act to establish new electoral districts in Van Diemen's Land, and to increase the number of members of its Le gislative Council, and another act for the establishment of a Parliament and the granting of a Civil List to her Majesty. By this act, the Legislative Council and the Assembly were, with the governor, to be collectively styled " The Parliament" of Van Diemen's Land. The Council was to consist of 15 members, to be elected by freeholders of 501. a-year, and persons qualified by education ; the members to go out in rotation, five at the end of every three years. The House of Assem bly would consist of 30 members elected by the occu pants of 101. houses, by persons receiving a salary of 1001. a-year, and persons supposed to belong to the educated classes. The Assembly to be elected quinquennially. The Civil List was to be 15,3001. a year, and a reserve of 15,0001. was to be made for public worship. Sir G. Grey, in a despatch of the 3d of August last, bad inti mated to Sir W. Denison that her Majesty's Government was disposed to grant to the people of Van Diemen's Land the same privileges that had been offered to other Australian colonies, and that, provided the Legislative Council was so constituted as to possess the respect and confidence of the community, and less directly liable to popular impulse than the Assembly, the nomination of the Council by the Crown would not be insisted on by the Home Government. BRUTAL ASSAULT.—BARNSTAPLE, Thursday.—The magistrates of this town were engaged a long time yesterday afternoon in inquiring into a most savage and unprovoked assault by a gentleman, named Barnard, living on his property at Ilfracombe, upon Mr. Morgan, a most' respectable surgeon of this town. It will be re membered that about a week since Tire Sun contained a report of a case tried at the Exeter assizes, in which a girl named Eliza Boucher, who had been living as a servant with Mr. Barnard, was indicted for the murder of her two children. On that occasion Mr. Morgan was called as a witness, and he mentioned something which the girl had told him as to her master's conduct towards her. At this Mr. Barnard seems to have been annoyed ; and ac cordingly on Friday last he gave a boy 6d. to go to Mr. Morgan, and tell him to come to the North-walk, near this town, to a person who bad broken his arm. Mr. Morgan accordingly proceeded there, and on his ar rival Mr. Barnard walked up behind him, and struck him many heavy blows on his head and shoulders with a hunting whip. Mr. Barnard was also accom panied by a bloodhound, which, it is said, prevented some persons who were standing near from interfer ing. After he had received considerable injuries Mr. Morgan contrived to escape to a neighbouring house, and his wounds were afterwards attended to by another surgeon. A warrant was on the next day issued by the magistrates, and Mr. Barnard was apprehended in Lon don, from which place he was brought here by the super intendent of police. On his arrival at the station a vast crowd assembled, and hooted at him, so that it was found necessary to take precautionary measures for his safety. Subsequently he was taken before the magis trates, and committed for trial at the sessions, bail being taken—himself in 1001., and two sureties in a similar amount. The case bas caused 'considerable excitement here, all 100 18a ' 9i all Bedford and Blelchley Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc . Col. Stour Vy. Sad. and Hal. E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Glas. Barr. &. Neils. Direct Do. New...... ?lstr.(St Dn.Fi 'lrtlpl. Dk. Railway Hull & Selby Po. 4Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lon., Til., & S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. fanch. Bxtn. and Matlock ilLfiddlesbrol & Redcar. . tLidld.Bradfd Northern any' Easternsp. e. Do. 6 per ct. Do. Fixeds p c Prest. & Wyr- Do. Shares. jtoystn.S Hit. hef.Rothanc. Gooleg.s p.c. S. Staffordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do Lawton & N. West. L.&N.W. Caledon.„ F. Tha. & Gt.Nrthr. Oaldonia.n. Do Gt. Westi, Yk. New. & Berw. Y. &NM, Do. Do S. Easton Do 6 - 98 1.7 - 99 Peto & Co. Norfolk.. L.&N.W. & Andld. Stckton Darliugt. 11fidland.. 134 - 136 104 -1á 12i -- 13 23 -- 24 101 --. llf IE. Count Do Do L. &N.W &Ln&Yl Do 1 ViTilts&gomrst 2i - 2f Gt Northp Lancash& Yorksh. g.3lClean tockt. & Darlingt D 0.. . IGitwestn. 90 = 57 - i 9 fio = 0 • .• "" •• 2i 2• d 31i -32 i 89 - 91 321 2 PREFERENCE SHARES. St. 100 Aberdeen XIO2 105 St. 100 Do. N 0.2, 7p. 90 92 25 30 Myth and Tyne 10 per ••• c. prof. (issd. at 500 St. 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p. o. St. 92 91 20 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares ... St. 100 Caledonian £lO 95 —97 961 15 all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 51 per cent 9s all Do. do. Pref. No. 2 — 21 all Do. do. Pref. No. 2 — 64 all Cork &Bandonslp.c 2 4d 64 all Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction 6i all Eastern Counties Ex tension, sp. c. No. 1 I pm 6i all Do. No. 2 P Pin 10 all Do. Now 6 r . c. St. 12 —l3 20 all Eastern Union, Gar. per cent 5 all Do. 5/. 10 ner cent ... 10 all D o . 101. Debentr.Sh- bt. all Do. do. 4 per cent ... St. 100 East Lancash. 6 p.ets — 5 all East and West York shire June. Fifths ... St. all EdinbPrth.&Dundee 4 per cent. St. 100 Glasgow &S.Weetern Guar. 5 per cent . . m xd St. 100 Great Northn. sp. c ll4 116 1141 St. 100 Do. sp. a. 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Invest. 14 11 1 i Ditto New S u o l u wa th ai .L . ‘ . u T s e t l r e a g l i .. a L p a h n d Al i a —__ 1 76 25 1 a al l l l s 1 alt Po. ile.,-igt orPa 20 5 Trust & Loai Co. of Upper Canada , ... v... ... L lOO . 281 Van Diemands Land' 13 -1 2 i ,100 RUSSIA. The following despatch, addressed to the Danish Minister in St. Petersbsrg, to whom the protection of British interests in Russia has been confided, will be read with surprise and indignation in Eng land. It is dated St. Pet3rsburg, 21st Feb., and has reference to the documents handed to the Rus sian Government by the Danish Minister, contain ing the depositions taken it a species of court mar tial before Sebastopol witi regard to the cruelties practised by Russian sailers on their wounded prisoners :-- "Monsieur le Baron,—Previous to the receipt of the fitter, with which you honoured me on the 4th instant, Prince Menschikoff had made the Imperial Cabinet aware of the steps taken by Lori Raglan and General Canrobert after the battle of Inkerman. " In reply to that communication, the Commander-in- Chief, Prince Menschikoff, had declared that an un armed enemy is and always will be under the protection of the Russian flag. " This principle requires neither comment nor con firmation. Whilst referring to it, M. le Baron, I feel called upon to remark, that if soldiers of the enemy may unfortunately have oa the Feld of battle become the sacrifice of isolated ac-,s of craelty, information that has subsequently reached us has brought to our know ledge a grave circumstance, which it is of importance to record. " We have, in fact, learned, that on the day of Inker mann, English soldiers that were supposed wounded and disabled, raised themselves from the ground and fired upon our troops as they passed by them in their attack on the enemy. " Our soldiers, wounded by bullets corning from hands they believed disarmed, may have thus allowed them selves in the heat of action to be carried away by a bloody revenge. " Humanity blames this most undoubtedly ; but they are in some degree provoked to it by an enemy whom they certainly could not look on as unarmed, since he still continued to make a murderous use of his weapons. " The fortune of war is subjected to laws, which must be upheld. Among them is one that deserves to be men tioned here. That one—namely, that an enemy is not at liberty to make use of his weapons at the moment of laying them down for the purpose of killing those who are giving him quarter. it is with great regret that we have heard the instance of an English officer quoted, who, after having handed over his sword to a Russian sub-officer with one Land, s:-iot him with a pistol, aimed quite close to him, with the other. " Whilst acts of this nature serve to characterise the fury of the struggle, they at the same time suffice to ex plain the sad consequences which it has brought in its train. " If you read through again, with attention, the mi nutes appended to your letter of the 4th inst., you will observe that, in the majority of tle cases mentioned, the retaliation of the English soldiers was a bloody one. Far removed from all proneness to co]tention and revenge, we confine ourselves to drawing the conclusion that it would be desirable for both armies that a strict obser vance of the laws of humanity on the field of battle should be introduced. " Prince Menschikoff has on his part hastened to fulfil the duties in this respect that the authority of his com mand, and the express will of the Emperor, impose upon him. " We reckon with equal confidence on the honourable sentiments of the commanders of the English army. "I do not hesitate, M. le Baron, to express to you this confidence, and return you herewith the documents which you had the goodness to communicate to me. I have not failed to bring them to the knowledge of Prince Menschikoff, and to request him to take the evidence containe , l therein into serious consider ation, in order that he might contribute with all his power to confer on the present struggle the cha racter of moderation, from which two nations that re spect themselves should never depart, even though in volved in a conflict, to which we should be happy to put an end, if conciliatory views on the part of the Go vernment of her Britannic Majesty corresponded to our own. Receive the assurances, &c." The above version of the Russian despatch, con tained in the Hamburger Correspondent, has no signature attached to it. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAL) COVENT 'GARDEN. We had a slow sale for boa fruit and vegetables, as follows : Fnurr.—Pine apples, English, 7s to 10s per lb ; apricots, Os to Os per doz. ; hot-house grapes, 6s Od to 10s Od per lb -; foreign ditto, 10d to is 8d ; melons, Os Oct to Os each peaches, Os Od to Os ; nectarines, Os Od to Os per dozen ; apples, 5s Od to 12s Od per bushel ; pears, 7s Od to 10s Oct per half sieve • Orleans plum s an d green gages Os to ' Os Oct per punnet • ditto, Os to Os 9d, an d common pl ums , 3s o.t to Os Od per half sieve ;cherries , Otha Js per pound ; '9sn 10 8 1% nigl4 o l6leAraibitt2.l l / 4 —per 100; fit- Os to Os per lb. ; walnuts, Od is Od per 100; figs, is Od to 28 6d per Ib.. VEGETABLE °u.—Savvy cabbarg, 9d to is 6d per dozen; red ditto, 2s to 3s Od per dozen 2 • French beans, 3s Oct to 4s Od per 100 • brocoli, is 2d to 3s Od per bundle ; potatoes, 85s to 1 30 s per ton ; vegetable marrow, Od each ; peas, Os Od to Os Od per buslK; broad beans, 9d to is per half sieve ; turnips, 2d to 4d per bunch ; carrots, 5d tc. 6d per bunch ; cucumbers, is 3d to 2s 6d each • garlic, 6d to Os 8d per peund ; spinach, 2s Oct to 3s Oa per sieve ; anions, 31 Oct to 4s Od per bush. ; Spanish ditto, is to 3s per doz. ; leeks , ' 3d to 4d per bunch • shallots, 4d to 6d ; horse-raddish, 2s Od to 4p Od per bundle ; parsley, 3d to Od per bunch ; celery, Os 10d to is 6d per bunch ; endive, is Gd to 3s per score ; beet, is 3d to 2s per doz. ; parsnips, Os 6 G to is ld per dozen • small salad, 3d to Od per punnet ; mushrooms., is 6d to 2;6c1 per pottle ; artichokes, 4a to 6s per doz. ; cabbage lettuces, Is Gd to 2s per score ; sorrel, Gd to is per half sieve ; radishes 9d to is per dozer hands ; tomatoes, 3s Oct to 4s Od per half sieve 2 • chillies, is to is 6d per 100; Brussels sprouts, is Od to i s Od per half sieve ; capsicums, is to 2s per 100. ; rhubarb, 8d to Is 4d per bundle ; seal kail, Os 9d to is Gd per punnet ; asparagus, 5s to 9s per 100. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL. Turkeys, 4s 6d to 7s 01; Geese, 6s Od to 7s Od each; Ducks, 2s 6d to 2 s 9 d ; tame Rabbits Os Od to Os Od; wild do., is to is 6d each; Pigeons , 9s to 12s per doz. ; large Surrey Fowls, Os OA to Os Od ; middling, 2s Od to 3s Od ; Chickens, is Oil to 2s 3,1 ; Capons, 3s Gd to 4s 6d ; Hares 2s Od to 3s Gd.; Grouse, 2s 061 to 2s 3d each ; Partridges, is 9,1 to 2s 0,1; Pheasants, 35 6d to 3s 9d; Leveret-, 2s Od to 2s 6d ; Roasting Pigs, 4s Od to 7s Od ; Guinea Fowls, 3s Od to 3 s 6 d each. Osterid fresh butter, lls Gd to 12s Gd, and English lls Gd to 15s Od per dozen lbs. English Eggs, 93 Od to 108 Od; Trench ditto, 6s 0d to 7s Od per 120. NEWPORT. Beef from 35 Gd to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 6d ; veal, 35 8d to 4s 4d ; pork, 3s 6d to 4s Gd per Slbs. WHITECIRPEL. Beef, 3s 2d to 48 4d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; veal, 3s 6d to 4s 4d; pork, 3s Od to 4s 4cl per Blbs. by the carcase. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 2s 6d to 15s ; Brills, is Od to 53 each; Salmon, 2s Od to 2s 6d per lb ; Cod Fish, 2s ed to I.os each ; Soles, 3d to 1s Gd per pair; Eels, 8d to 1s Od per lb ; Lobsters, 6d to 2s 6d ; Crabs, 6d. to 2s 6(1; Whitings, 3s 011 to 8s per doz. ; Common Oysters, 16s to 20s ; Natives, 50s to Os per bsh; Mackerel, Os per 100; Smelts, is Od to 2s Od per doz.; Skate, 6d to Od per lb; Shrimps, is 6(1 to 2s 6d per gallon; Bloaters, is Od to Is 6d per doz. ; Fresh Herrings, 5s Od to Os per 100. ; Scotch di, Gd; Sprats, 84 Od to Os Od per bushel ; Doreys, is Od to 7s each ; Haddock s, 4s to 1.2 s per doz. ; Pike 6d. ; Sturgeoi, 6(1 per lb ; Pr awns, 2s 6d to 3s; Mullets, is to is 63 ; Flame, 4d to is each ; Halibut, 6d per lb ; Flounders, is to is td per dozen. BREAD. The prices of wheatenbread in the m etropolis are froze 9id to 10c1; of honsehdd ditto, 8d to 9d per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS, Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 34d to 3id :641b to 721 h, to 3id ; 721 b to 801 b, rid to 4d ; 801 b .to 881 b, 4d to Od ; 881 b to 961 b, 4d to 4il ; 961 b to 1011 b, Od to Od ; 104 to 1121 b Oct to Od ; upvarls, Od to 03 ; Horse hides, 5s 63 to Os Od ; calf skins, iglit, 2s Od to 3s: Od ; ditto, full, 6s Od to Os Od ; polled %haep, 7s Oct to 7s Gd ; gents, 5s 9d to Gs 9cl ; Half-breds, 5s Od to 62 9et ; Downs, 4s 6d to 5s 6d ; Shearlings, lld co is Oct. HAY MARKETS. SanTarrELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 411 15s Od ; clover ditto, 3/ Os to 5/ 159; Lnd straw, 1/ 3s Go 1/ 8s per load. A moderate supply ands sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND. Metdow hay, 2/ 188 to 4/ 16s ; cloves ditto, 3/ Os to 5/ 15s ; 3,nd straw, 1/ 4s to. 1/ 103 per load. Supply tolerably good, and trade firm. WHITEOHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15g to 41158; clover ditto, 3/ Os to 6/ Os; and straw, 1/ 3s to 1/ 9s per load. Both hay and straw sold slowly, at our quotations. BROMPTON HOSPlTAl.—Yesterday a meeting of the governors of the Hospital for Consuna , a don and Diseases of the Chest was held for the purpose of increasing the medical staff by the elecdon of two as sistant physicians, An eastern wing, completing the original design of the building, has just been finished arid furnished, and as the beds are thereby increased from 90 to 230 it has been found necessary to make an addition to the ordinary number of medical officsrs. Several names were entered as candidates, and at the conclusion of the poll, Dr. Pollock and Dr. Smithwere declared elected. MADAME TIISSAUD'S EXHIBITION.—Among the latest additions to this poptlar exhibition are the portrait models of the Emperor and Empress of Austria, the former being in the drass of an Austrian General, and the latter in a splendid court dress, composed of the finest white lace, and decorated with magnificent dia monds. The model of the Empress has been taken from a bust lately executsd by the court sculptor, and is con sidered an admirable likeness. No doubt both figures will become highly attractive during the holidays, and excite much curios ty in the visitors, from their high position and the prominent part likely to be taken by the Austrian court. THE WATERLOO SCHOONER.— A Calais fishing smack, belonging to a mar. named Lelong, put into Boulogne sur-Mer, two days ago, to land six English sailors, whom it had picked up in a small boat at sea.. The men de clared that they were the crew of the Waterloo schooner, of 205 tons, which had been run down on her way from Medoc to Holland, by a large vessel. The schooner, they added, foundered so fast that they had only just time to jump into the boat in which they were found. 50 25 12 121 20 891 xd 64 i i 100 991 15/ 83} 21 70 691 SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. THE MISMANAGEMENT OF THE WAIL. (From the Times of this day.) The last official accounts from the Crimea happily confirm the previous statements, that the rigour of the winter is already past, that the health and condition of the allied armies are improving, that supplies of all kinds are abundant, and that Lord Raglan and General Canrobert have under their command an effective army of at least 100,000 men, inured to the perils of war by the hardships they have surmounted, aid ready to execute with the utmost gallantry any operations in which they may be engaged. Thus far, our confidence in the strength of the allied forces and in their ability to enter upon a fresh campaign is revived ; but, on the other hand, we are led to consider with increasing solicitude the nature of the enterprise they are carrying on, and the apparent absence of that vigour and promptitude of command which is indispen sable to success. What are the strategical plans of the gene rals commanding these armies ? What are the prospects of bringing to a prosperous result the operations of the siege ? What means are they prepared to adopt in order to encoun ter and defeat the vast and varied resources which the enemy, vith indefatigable eaergy and treat skill, is ready to turn igainst us I To these questions we may be told that no answer can be given until we learn the results of the resolutions taken by the last council of war. But we cannot shut our eyes to the fact that no indication has yet been given of any connected system of action, that the invention and originality of resource displayed in this Siege have hitherto been altogether on the side of the Rus sians, and that some considerable portion of an interval of time which is absolutely irretrievable and invaluable to the Allied armies has already escaped without a single blow being struck. Let us first consider this state of things with reference to the siege, properly so called, of Sebastopol. It is known, from the attack made by the French on the night of the 23d of February, and from the despatch of General Canrobert of the 17th of March, that the Russians have succeeded in estab lishing themselves in positions between our own lines and the original outworks of the town. The General speaks of "an attack directed on the 14th of March against a first line of Russian ambuscades at the parallel opened before the hillock .on which the Russians have established their new work in front of the Malakhoff Tower." This hillock or mamelon, .which is, we 'believe, the same known by our men as Gor don's-hill, has now become one of the principal objects of the French attack, but no impression has yet been made upon it, although it effectually protects the Malakhoff Tower behind it. In fact, in this extraordinary siege the common order of things is inverted, for, instead of the besieging army working up to the walls of the tows by r ogu i ar preaches, in this case we find the besieged garrison throw ing out fresh works which bring them closer to our lines, and, the space between the two antagonists is progressively nar rowed, not by our drawing nearer to the works of the enemy, but by the enemy advancing his works to meet ours. Hence the frequent postponements and difiappointments of the hope that our fire would shortly open on some important front of the place. On the other hand, it appears that one battery, built by the French, but armed and manned by British troops, has been,pushed forward so as to command a portion of the great harbour, and one of the Russian steamers of war, the Gromonossetz, has been sunk by our fire. From the extreme proximity of the outposts, which are in some places within 200 yards, a constant fire is kept up by riflemen stationed in pits for shelter, and the hand-to-hand combats of the French with the garrison are frequent and murderous. This is a state of things which cannot continue much longer ; and, whether the plan of the assault be persevered in or abandoned, nothing is to be gained by a more protracted delay of that fire for which such vast and laborious preparations have been made. The next step in the operations must depend on the result of the general bombardment ; but until that point is decided no thing else will be attempted. Let that be tried, since every thing is in readiness for it ; but, should the result prove less complete than was at one time anticipated by the engineers of the army, a totally different plan of operations must be resorted to. As the season is now returned at which an army in the Crimea can take the field, we look with far greater confidence to a judicious and enterprising plan of strategical movements than to a persistence in the siege. The whole coast of the Crimea is open to the conveyance of troops to any point by the steam fleet. The distances from one place to another are inconsiderable. The Turks, under Omer Pacha, already hold one strong position on the flank of the Russians at Eupatoria. Another corps d'arnyee might operate with the utmost facility on their rear from Kaffa. to Kara-su ; and we are wholly . unable to conceive the grounds on which an army capable of conquering any force that can be brought to meet in the field should remain penned up in au intrenched camp which is literally beleaguered by the enemy. That of all positions the least advantage eus and the most insecure. For, even if we suppose that Sebastopol itself fell under our bombardment, - until we have beaten the Russian army in the field we should be unable to hold our conquest, and might be exposed to at tack from the 'hole force of the enemy outside the walls.. There is reason to believe that the 2d division of the Russian army, under General Paniutin, is already on its march south of Perekop, and it is impossible to doubt that large reinforce ments are on their way. The vital question for us is whether the allied Generals can anticipate their arrival, and employ with effect those short but decisive moments which mark the opening of this campaign. Public opinion and the energy of this nation were net un duly excited last autumn to urge upon the Government the ' necessity of reinforcing the army after the battle of Inkorman, and of supplying those numerous deficiencies which had mani fested themselves in every branch of the service. The subse quent debates in Parliament, and the disclosures before the Committee of Inquiry, have most fully ratified that appeal. We do not flatter ourselves that public opinion can either dis cern or direct with unerring sagacity the complicated move ments of an army, depending, as they do, on a thousand causes which are only known to the officers command ing on the spot. But this consideration reduces the whole question to one of confidence in those officers. The soldiers have, by common consent, done their work nobly. They held the unarmed redoubt at Inkerman against a myriad foes, they laboured through the winter in the trenches. and the xettkrning_enrine..fipisthe..EUXivoZil, for the generals of the Allied armies to direct this energy to victory. They cannot expect to remain where they are. "They cannot expect to succeed in' any operation of import ance by confining themselves within an intrenched camp. 'Nay, the very soil around the camp and the ports, infected ;by the continued presence of so large a body of men and the sad remains below its surface, will drive us off as summer advances with its pestilential exhalations. A stationary in vasion, and a siege in which the besiegers are more completely invested than the garrison, are contradictions' in terms, and every day we lose at this crisis will increase our difficulties - hereafter. The situation in which the generals now find themselves is precisely that which they had to anticipate throughout the winter, and they ought therefore to be pre pared to meet it. Their aforesight, their vigour, and their :resources are now upon their trial, and we cannot entirely conceal our apprehensions that the same apathy or irresolu tion which left the army throughout the winter to struggl e against incalculable evils may defer till it be too late those movements in the field which alone hold out a fair prospect of ultimate success. STATE OP PUBLIC AFFAIRS. ( From the Morning Herald of this day. ) Lord Ellenborough's review last night of the war policy of the last and present Government, and of our position with reference to the great question of the age, was marked by that originality and power, and that command of the subject, which he commonly brings to every discussion. "We had at the commencement of this war," observed the noble lord, with striking force, "an indulgent Parliament and an enthu siastic peeple ; we have now a discontented people and an in quiring Parliament ;" and with consummate ability he indi cated the causes which have induced this unhappy change, and indicated with merciless distinctaess the authors of our national calamities and embarrassments. We shall not follow Lord Ellenborough in his bill of indict xnent—it is drawn up with a completeness which renders comment superfluous—and if there be ono fact more generally understood and recognised than another, it is, that under existing management things must go from bad to worse, if the state of affairs at home and abroad admits of degrees England has never been engaged in a war in which the people took from the first so great an interest as this ; from the first it has been popular, and notwithstanding the sacri fices, the losses, and the management, popular it contines to be. No Ministry ever undertook the conduct of a war under auspices more favourable than the first Coalition. They had the hearty support of Parliament and of the country; they lad no factious difficulties to surmout—their course was clear before them—at least as clear as any course can be to clouded or warped intellects; they had ample time to obtain the fullest information of the nature of the undertaking they were about to engage in, and of the enemy they were about to encounter; they slighted their opportunities—they have made shipwreck of a splendid expedition, and have bequeathed its remains to be the sport of their presumptuous successors. The Parliament that was indulgent has naturally become in quiring—the popular enthusiasm has naturally changed to moody discontent, Lord Ellenborough complained of the length of the adjourn ment, and contrasted its duration with the trifling amount of public business transacted since the commencement of the session. His lordship seems to forget, however, that Lord li Palmerston's Government is essenti a lly a Government on suf ferance ; that every species of shift and manoeuvre is resorted to, in order to prolong its precarious and shambling exist ence. Anything to gain time. The chapter of accidents is the chapter of their -existence ; and, in the present aspect of Europe a zreat many events may be pressed into sixteen days. They have taken seven or eight clvo of grace, and few will be found to deny that they stood in frightful need of them. There is one portion of Lord Ellenborongles speech which we confess disagreeably surprises us. It is that which treats of the purpose of the expedition to the Crimea, and its pro bable results. Our space does not permit us on this occasion to traverse fully his lordship's opinions on this subject, but we shall take an early opportunity of referring to them at length. Lord Ellenborough is of opinion that the invasion of the Crimea was from first to last a mistake ; that the allies will never take Sebastopol ; that, even if they did, its posses sion would be impossible, and the razing of it absurd, with out an army of 100,000 men to occupy the isthmus and keep the passes to the eastward. We answer, if Sebastopol be not razed, the Russian supremacy in the Black Sea is undis turbed, and if undisturbed, we have gone to war and lost an army literally for nothing. The maintenance of Sebastopol as a great naval arsenal is essential to the extension of Rus sian power in the south—once reduced and dismantled, a small force would easily prevent its reconstruction. Russia knows this well, and therefore she makes a deadly stand against the besieging armies. No man of Lord Ellenborough's abilities can take up any view of a subject without investing it with interest, if not with importance ; but we are quite satisfied that Isis reasoning in this matter is fallacious, or that it can only be maintained by denying ab initio the acknow edg ed object of our enterprise. THE VIENNA CONFERENCES. (Freon the Daily News of this day.) According to our most recent communications from Vienna, Lord John Russell is understood to see little or no prosp ec t of and to expect to be in England b y the 14th peace We may add that some of the most s i ncere of April. a t present, a nd in timate allies of Ministers express no regret a t this state of affairs, but, on the contrary, freely expres s their conviction that any peace made now would be precarious and uncertain. Respecting the course that will be p ur oied by Russia little doubt seems to be felt in any quarter. How Austria will act is a mere puzzling inquiry. M . D ro nyn do l'Huys—at least so says the .Ifoniteur—is to p ro ceed immediately to Vienna. On the other hand, we learnkom a reliable source that Count Nesselrode is already o n 1,1, way to that capital. When it is deemed indispensabl e that the diplomatic champions of France and Russia s bould have a personal rencontre iu the lists at Vienna, matters may be said to look serious. Russia must entertain a strong conviction that the wavering faith of Austria is assailable ; France that its precious ally requires to be narrowly watched. The ready concession by Russia of those points which most affect the personal interests of Aus tria, and the confidence with whieh Russia leaves the garri sons of Poland to be occupied principally by its Asiatic troops, had already pointed to the same conclusion. nut, whatever COUTOO Austria may see fit to adopt, the war fsK4 ALY 4' Ar -z,,, ; ‘ ,2- 41,--.-'•' * • b . ..... ; t3 r _ .... 1- -_-' `\l 7 sq ii'v... l eo( ez, *fr t. 4 ... •", ,-.. ~ It:i.v". • Aip, , • *."). - '4lP ' must go on until Russia gives a sufficient guarantee fik 45 _Ma., security and - tranquillity of Europe. And with reference Pk Al ' this consideration, it cannot be too often repeated that nothing short of the dismantling and cession of Sebastopol by Russia can be accepted as a guarantee. The allegation that if Russia consents to the diminution of its naval force in the Black Sea, Sebastobol may be left standing, cannot bear examination. Sebastopol is of no use to Russia except for the purpose of aggression, Unless Russia is allowed to maintain a powerful fleet in the harbour of Sebastopol, that fortress can afford no protection to Odessa or the harbours in the Sea of Azoff. As a safe Asylum for any fleet that Russia ma! have constructed in secresy -in the docks of Nicolaieff and, smuggled into Sebastopol, that fortress is a permanent menace not only to Constantinople, but to the corn. merce and navigation of the Danube. So long as the Crimea, with Sebastopol at its south-western angle, is held by Russia, that power commands the Black Sea. Sebastopol in the hands of the Czars must necessarily be in the Euxine what Algiers in the hands of the Deys was in the Mediterranean. Thelleets of the Algerines were repeatedly swept from the seas by the navies of France and England—amendment for the future was solemnly promised by the reigning Dey after every such infliction—and yet the Algerines were never brought to abandon their piratical courses permanently, un til France took Algiers into its own hands. In like manner Russia, after every defeat inflicted upon it by the European Powers, will promise to desist from its ambitious scheme of making the Euxine a Russian lake, and annexing all the ter. ritories that surround it; but until the Crimea has been wrested from Russia, that project will be resumed as soon as time has alleviated the smart of chastisement. Delenda est Carthago. Sebastopol must come down, and the Russians must be driven out of the Crimea, aotwith standing the strenuous efforts of the English and the Euro pean aristocracy to avert that catastrophe. And these ob.. jects are not to be attained by pounding away at the south side of Sebastopol only. Everything that can be learned of the natural and artificial strength of that stronghold in creases the certainty that it can never be taken until it is completely invested—and it cannot be completely invested until the Crimea has been cleared of the Russian army that now keeps the field there. The language held upon this sub ject by Sir De Lacy Evans in the ROAM of Commons last night is as weighty as it is true. The gallant General told the House that the best way to wage war successfully is to concentrate our forces upon one point, instead of scattering them over remote and isolated localities ; that the real struggle with Russia will take place in the Euxine, and that the greater part of our forces ought to be directed thither ; that recruits for the army before Sebastopol, and steamers of light draught and gun-boats for the Sea of Azoff ought to be sent off without delay. If Ministers listen to this advice from an iible and experienced veteran, and act upon it with intelli gence and promptitude, they may yet redeem their short comings; if not, they may rest assured that any Government who conclude a peace, before Sebastopol has been wrested from Russia and dismantled, may make up their minds to =dame the heaviest penalties an indignant nation can inflict upon them. APPEAL OF THE HOLY SYNOD TO THE RUsslAld NATION. The following is the appeal noticed yesterday in The Sun as having been issued by the Ecclesiastical Synod styling itself "Thrice Holy," and which is directed by an aide-de-camp of the Russian Emperor. The appeal was published ten days since at St. Petersburg, and is to be placed, therefore, to the account of the new go vernment In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Amen. Through the grace, gift, and power communicated by the supreme head, our Lord and God Jesus Christ, the thrice Holy Synod of all the Russias appeals to the faithful and pious chil dren of the Russian orthodox church. May the Lord of the Church, our Saviour Jesus . Christ, and the spirit of grace that dwells in it, the distributor of the spirit, the" Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whomthe whole family in heaven and on earth is named (Ephes. iii., 15), God glorified in the Holy Trinity, bless you, we ll-b e l ov d children of the church, for your holy and pious sentiments of religious zeal, for your devotion to the throne of the Czars, and foryour love of our orthodox native country, sentiments that you have manifested on all occasions during the present contest. He will remember all your sacrifices for religion, the throne, and the country. (Psalm xx., 3.) You know how unjust is this war waged against your coun try, because the great Czar and Emperor Nicholas Pavlovitch, of happy, worthy, glorious, and eternal memory, in the name of his sacred duty as defender of orthodoxy, required of the Ottoman Porte to re-establish the abused rights of the holy orthodox Eastern church, and to deliver our co-religionists from their terrible sufferings. You know also that, to the astonishment of all, the enemieS of the crass of Christ found a support from the two Western Powers, who, assuming the name of Christians, and having been in no respect offended by Russia, have with rage brought • fire and sword to its territory. . . Their legions, like those of infidels, have insulted the sacred thin g s of our religion. It was Holy Saturday, and those most sacred hours, con secrated to prayers on the sepulchre itself of the Lord, which they selected for attacking Odessa—that city defended by God. 'Again they rushed like sacrilegious wretches against the peaceful convent of Solovetzk. They demolished the tem -plea of God situated defenceless on the coast. They have not been ashamed to pillage and destroy the property of unfor tunate unarmed inhabitants. But, by the will of God, the great and strong defender of truth and justice, the crimes of our enemies have not profited them ; and in their frequent reverses, in the terrible tempests of the Black Sea which have enguiphed their vessels, in the mortal maladies that have decimated their armies, the action of the puissant hand of the Lord fighting for us has been visible. Notwithstanding all this the enemies, irritated by the loss of their armies, are collecting others more formidable ; they seek to extend their unjust alliance, and are preparing them selves for fresh hostilities against the Russian territory. The safety of Russia requires her to augment her defence by means of a temporary levy en mane._ —ValUe 111941 new struggles. Le Lord's anointed now clwellinz in ell Main sseritiees,to Russia has not provoked the contest, she was called to it. Let the Lord's will be done ! God is against the aggressor ! We hope and believe that he who said, " I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it" (Matt. xvi. 18), is now fighting for his holy church ; he will defend and save it. We hope and believe that He, in whose hand is the heart of kings (Proverbs xxi. 1) will himself guide, for the good of his church, the heart of the pious autocrat, our Czar and Emperor of all the Russias, Alexander, Nicolaievitch, that He will lend him his succour, that He will defend him and bless his undertakings. • Wo hope and believe that He wbe fixes the bounds of earthly kingdoms, and who has chosen the empire of Russia for establishing in it the centre of His church, will pro. nounce His judgment against all them that lay their hands on his inheritance. (Jerem. xii. 11.) Full of this faith and hope, dearly beloved children of the church and the country, hasten to execute your present, your sacred mission. Be not terrified on account of your enemies ; remember your Lord, who is great and terrible; with tho faith you have in Him, arm and fight for your brethren. (Nehem. iv. 14.) " Urged on by cupidity, they wilt invade your dwellings, but we arm to save our souls and our laws, and the Lord himself will scatter their forces before you." (Matthew iii, 20, 22.) Otir God will fight for us" (Nehem. iv., 20) within the limits even of our own country. Orthodox Russians, the church is menaced with sacrilegious deeds on the part of our enemies. So long as a breath of life shall remain to you, you will not allow the mother of your souls, the pledge of your salvation, the guardian of your religion, of that religion which alone can save, and without which no one will see the divine kingdom, to be insulted. Your ancestors, commanded' by Prince Demetrius Donskol, of glorious memory, watered with their blood the land of Russia, wrested from a foreign yoke ; under the orders of Minim' and Pojarski, As) , saved our holy religion and legitimate throne ; your fathers, led by Alexander the Well-Beloved, defended their country against innumerable foreign forces. Now that a similar act presents itself to you, you will not fail to shoW yourselves worthy of your ancestors and fathers. It is in yon, men of the nobility, it is in the sublime expres sion of your sentiments before the monarch—it is in your solemn vows to offer up as sacrifices to God, the Czar, and the country, all your property, and even your lives, that we see with joy the sempiternal spirit of the old orthodox Rus sian nobility. May the blessing of the Most High permit you to fulfil your duty, and may your new exploits at the head of the Russian army testify, in the sight of the nations, that the spirit of Pojarski is your hereditary quality. It is in you, citizen class, devoted from time immemorial to religion and the Czar, and always ready to make sacrifices in behalf of the country, that the spirit of Minima resides, the spirit of strength and zeal, according to the law of our fore fathers in the holy cause of God. Inhabitants of the plains and hamlets, you who are arming for the defence of the church,. the throne, and our native land, oppose to those impious legions your powerful Russian breasts, in which beat hearts devoted to the faith of your ancestors, and the orthodox autocrat. But, while preparing for the combat, put above all things your trust in God, who gives invincible strength to those who execute his will, and remember that , a hat most terrifies our enemies is your holy religion, your pure conscience, your obedience to the supreme authority as to God himself, to your masters and chiefs as if they were your fathers. It is in that obedience, so agree able to God, that all the strength of the Russian Empire dwells. Fathers and mothers, you have before your eyes a sub lime example in the august imperial family. The Grand Dukes, blessed by their august parents, hastened to repair to the field of battle for your personal defence, for the de fence of your religion and families. Is it for you to hesi tate uow in sending your children at the demand of the Czar I Lead them thither yourselves. Say to them Children, place yourselves there for the defence of , bur common mother, the divine church ; and for our foster mother, the Russian soil ; your parents here below bless you, and the church will pray for you. Our heavenly Father Himself will give you a supernatural strength for accomplishing your holy mission." Pastors of souls, spiritual fathers of the defenders of th church and the throne, by your prayers and suppli ca tions at all times (Eph. vi. 18), watch sedulously over your flocks ; strengthen them by the omnipotence of the divine word; inspire them with the conviction that the ptzvsee spirit ntw which ic a h n a ncient war against the Prin ce o f D arkness , the still worketh on the children of di eo Dedienee. (Eph. 22.) In girding on the armou r o f pod, according to the words of the apostle, gird up equal) , the souls confided to your care with the strength, oith, and hope in the mercy of `the Lord. sol O em rt n ho o d e o e x asi ß o ri a .as, we call down on all of y ou on th i s well pleasing to God, th e bl ess i ng of the God of the s trong, the protection of the Queen of Heaven, and the sarPorb of all the saints, our intercessors with God. Detwo;011, Almighty God ! is east a look of compassion on vie well-beloved children of the church. To Thee they we up their souls and hearts, and from Thee alone they ex pect their salvation. Take under Thy protection the most pious autocrat, our Czar and Emperor of all the Russias, Alexander Nicolaievitch ; imbue him with Thy force, glary, and honour ; crown with success both him and his Christian armies. Behold, Lord, the sincere sacrifices offered up to Thee by the.children of Thy church, who are ready to die for the glorifying of Thy holy name ; cover with Thy pro tection the defenders of the Holy Religion ; recei ve th em from the field of battle into Thy eternal kingdom, and admit them into number of the blessed martyrs ! Deign, lastly, to grant safety to the Russian empire, that has always remained faithful to Thee, and grant it Thy assistance and grace. May tho orthodox church and all its children join us in our prayers, and repeat with us witk their months and hearts : "In Thee, 0 Lord, have I trusted, let me never be con founded," LIVERPOOL, March 30.—1 n consequence of the United States' mail steamer Pacific being detained in-New York for repairs, the fine American steamer Nashville, Captain Berry, has been appointed to take her place in the voyage from this port on the 7th of April. 4 4 '`. ‘ • was the the the aye I of six W. , as. the w zs. ig, 0. 3ce rig by by Sir I I 25 St. 20 St 25 2s 3t 20 20 10 10 St. 10 St. 25 20 20 50 20 17i 20 20 20 20 20 20 100 20 20 20 20 33i 20 10 20 20 100 10 5 60 iPaid. 100 8 100' 100 all 100 all all 100 100 100 16 211. all 141 s. 88 1 i 124 451 611 ;71 8i st I 221 1 111 6 1 4