The Sun. — London, England, 1855-09-21 00:00:00

_ attackva ; all lot I notF sl it aPa w,) 4 ection ; to rise e3 • n the the na u ' , e s uwir 2i4 t he sc° l— it to z ziNL" ws 0 4ONEY .MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The demand for cotton in Liverpool yesterday was limited, and barely reached 4,000 bales, in small lots to the trade ; prices were unaltered from Wednesday. Railway Shares were dull, but at fuller prices. The Colonial Produce Markets have been quieter (l uring the present week, but this is rather the re- I l uit of a disinclination on the part of holders to 'ring forward supplies than a falling off in the de nland. Sugar has been 6d. per cwt. dearer in souse cases, but importers of this article, as well as °I coffe e , which has ruled firm, have offered 4 ,Paringly, in anticipation of higher prices, owing to th e limited stocks. Rice has ruled dull, and spices have been generally somewhat dearer. Tea L Public sale went irregularly. Common congou 18 , 81d. per lb. Cochineal has been taken in at a bout previous values. Tallow has been heavy, , r and saltpetre in rather improved demand. The f ollowing are the comparative imports of sugar at 4 _ s ortie of the chief markets of Europe, from Jan. 1 ‘u end of Aug., and stocks Ist Sept.:— Tons. Tone. Tons. 1855. 1854. 1853. %eat Britain—Colonial... 181,234 205,53 G 181,926 11 Foreign ... 70,936 114,910 66,856 Total Great Britain 252,170 320,446 248,782 Hamburg`Bremen • 21,750 30,000 15,500 b.' tnen 7,300 9,286 7,100 qolland 79,250 86,750 78,500 kitvverp Total STOCKS. Tons. Tons. Tons. 1855. 1854. 1853. %eat Britain—Colonial .. 54,010 60,859 53,918 Foreign ... 25,248 93,829 52,072 b . To To tal Great Britain 79,2 5 8 15 4 ,6 8 8 105, 9 90 garnburg bYelnen golland 11,300 21,000 16,750 kltvierp Total 96,538 196,588 132,242 n Of the dried fruit trade Messrs. Witherby and C. state :—" From the high price at which it was `eown that the new fruit had opened at Cephalonia and Patras, a corresponding one was to be expected h ere—it opened on the 17th inst. at 116 s. The nt arrival last year took place at Liverpool on 4 11th October, when the price - opened at 755., market within a fortnight obtained buyers from this ~_l 4Bi rket at 80s. to 85s. The first arrival at this tg/t was on Ist November, and was sold at 80s. Ze had then a stock of 5,000 tons in London ; Qiist this season on the above steamer's arrival, 1 7 ) had less than 1,000 tons of all sorts, good and ra. The clearances for consumption from Ist to h ave inst.. notwithstanding the advanced prices, ~:re exceeded 376 tons against 160 tons in the nesponding weeks of September, 1854, and again s t 330 tons in the month of August last. `I The quality of the new fruit is satisfactory, with le es indication ofblight than in that of last year's t t eP. It has reached us at least three weeks It cluer than usual, and therefore somewhat before th e h autumnal demand sets in. The importers, I,°_wever, are firm at 1165., at which sales have 7 1 1 made. A small cargo per Northern steamer nea sold afloat last week for this port. Before the te l'i fruit appeared a further decided movement eurred in 1851 and 1854 fruit, and at higher tees. A portion of the purchases seems to have t h _ell made on provincial account, induced by ac re.l necessity from deficiencies of stock. The mar ht has been free from the speculative operations I ch were the deceptive characteristics in the Pa advance in 1853, when, at Michaelmas, we het the winter demand with a stock of 6,500 tons. e total crop of 1855, including such as is fit only lOr distillation, will not reach 6,000 tons." ii i kessrs. D. Bell, Son, and Co. report that during 8 Past week there has been an almost entire ab ee of business in American securities. The fol :,,ing are the quotations, which are mostly no -441 Redeemable. Per ent. STATE SECURITIES. 11::-.K1 States 6 per Cent. 80nd5...1867-1868...105 107 tZllttted States 6 per Cent. Bonds 1868...106 108 etl ds 6 per C er en c t e . n ( t St i e 3 r o l n in d g s Bonds) 1 1 :74....1g 1.1 8 5 Zlyland 5 Per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) ... 92i 93i I)7, s B achnsette 5 per Cent. (Sterl. Bonds) ... 103 105 Luilaylvania 5 per Cent. Stock Cil„ sylvania 5 per Cent. Bonds Carolina 5 per Cent. Bonds 83 84 I,3aring's) 1858-1868... 97 08 5 per Cent. (Sterling Bonds) ...1888... 85 86 "mil' 6 per Cent. Bonds 1886... 88i 89i k CITY SECURITIES. k • treal 6 per Cent. Bonds 1856-1865... 83 85 ," Orleans 6 per Cent.. Stock 1883... 80 82 "t4burgh 6 per Cent. Stock 1869-1883. 76 78 RAILROAD BONDS. 448 Central 7 per Cent. let Mortgage, 1 4 , 1 0 t Convertible 1875... 77 78 itois Central 7 per Cent. Freeland k i ds 1860... 79 81 eh ri igan Central Bp. Cent., no Mort. _1860._ 96 97 kily York Central 7p. Cent., Convert 1864... 95 97 vf York Central 6 per Cent., not N,2 ll vertible 1833... 82 84 York and Erie 7 per Cent. Ist Mort. e!P 1867...100 102 York and Erie 7 per Cent. 3d Mort 41ge 188 3... 86 87 York and Erie 7 p. Cent. Convertible-1862.-80 81 FaradX ork an d E r i e 7 p er C e nt. Sinking • 1875... 81 44, a 7 per Cent., Ist Mortgage (Ster- A k tl g Bonds) 1859-186 1... 96 97 l' t ,„_" k baa 7 per Cent. Bonds '1864... 96 „lusylvania Central 6 p. Cent., lstMort 1880... 91 92 )ele suspension of Messrs. Mare and Co., of Celtwall, has excited no surprise, as there has tr, e n a large mass of their bills floating for some t i `,_ ti and onerous terms of discount have been paid them. The taking of such numerous con qts is the cause, as an immense capital is required I Wages alone ; and it is not in all cases that these Otracts prove remunerative. The liabilities, Cted at 70,0001., are not so large as they would 1 . ,e been some time back. appears that there is some mistake in the cienient as to the Bank of France having yester- V . advanced its rate of discount to 5 per cent. Pleasure only applies, we ,are told, to loans n stocks and shares, and we trust will check e excessive speculation at Paris. • 1 , 4 '• new Russian loan is about to be brought for rat Amsterdam. the English Stook Market there is scarcely ) 1 business doing, and quotations are * lower than et,rda T , principally owing to this inactivity. o /ia • t o els have been 90 to 901 for transfer, and 914 1 )1 , 4 1,_f0r time. One circumstance that deters buyers * e ~ ?ably, is that, upon a previous occasion this to Z) when a rally occurred, the Bank It," was reported to be selling, although V!ittot be positively asserted that he sold for the 14:_k of England. Exchequer Bills are par to 4s. Vrt,., and India Bonds 15s. prem. Exchequer !k t 14 : 31 8 have realised * discount to prem. The 'erae quietude of the market may be due 4 4 ,1)art to many of the Hebrew members d ing absented themselves, as to-morrow is the b ay of atonement," and observed very strictly. k,',?reign securities are little more than nominal, )1 0 41 Pited have been the transactions. Mexican tt4 l l are 21f, and Spanish Deferred 19k, being l ti 3 Y. Turkish 6 per Cents.. have been 91* to t, t il 'i_th e Scrip i s par t o 1 prem . D u t c h 4 per VS. are 961. Brazilian Small Bonds realise 102. )Ip 4 fte Railway Share Market has been rather . k ta l c er. The principal lines dealt in have been 1 4 &ern Counties, North-Western, Midland, and ot7,eashire and Yorkshire. The Great Western ' l , ti `jatiada are in request at rather fuller rates. 1 110 1 shares are heavy. 4 0 i," Foreign Mines there is nothing doing, and C o lt Stock Banks are nominal, but the Canada tki" any 'e Shares have risen again 31. to 41 . Crys -I,falace are lower. kt4_ 4l following are the nominal prices of foreign :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 71 ; 10 pan, 76 to 78 ; ditto Three per Cents., 5 7 44,2. ; Portuguese Four per Cents., 4 3 to 45 ; k„- r an. Five per Cents., 97 to 99 ; ditto Four biea-lialf per Cents., 86 to 88 ; Spanish New tt a P"'ed, 19/ to 19i*; ditto Three per Cents., 38 ; ditto Certificates, 4i to 5k ; ditto Passive, ttlS- 18 FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLD 4 ( Prom the Official List. ) I hr n • nusincib done 11 / 4 11, -ant. Consols Annuities 9Ol 90 ol i tllondo, £lOOO 01 °, under £ lOOO l5 EJ I for Account, 12th October 9Ol 4L (., ile nor Bills, 21d. i 2d. 1060 . par 4 p par 4 p kso o tita 4 1 1 1 all par 4 p par 4 p b e luer B on d s 1858, 3i per Cent....... 991 1004 1 1 , itt o 1859, ~ ••• 991 1001 ti'qot OF lii tli , FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. I t hi t in Bonds 5 per Cent. . _ 4 eft " Small kt ii • a 3 per Cent. Ir "b BO ads, It itt o xs, 3 per Cent — lik i k New Deferred, 3 per Cent. ti t b - Bonds, 6 per cent — ‘ ,l\ itt k o tor the account New Scrip, 4 per Cent. "ti ,s t t T:lv,dends on the alloye payable in London. l itt o A ehange, 2i per Cent. 12 Uil — 4 por Cent . Ce rtifieates .. t 96.} HALP-PAST TWO. t?Ilsol s 90 I I itt 0 :_ fe tho Account 9Ol i 1114 4 I THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1855 SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Ambg. Nottng. Bost, andtastn. Junet... Belfast & EallymenA. Birming. )rh & Stour Valley Birk,Atha. Lancal.. d Cheshire Junet Do. Clic3ll. & Birk., £5O and 1!25 Cone. Do., £2O Rlyth &Tyne origina' £25 (issd. at .£45; Bristol and Exeter Caledonian .s. Carmarthen and Car digan L. Chester dr Holyhead .11 Cork and Bandon al Cork, Black, & Pass 6 Cornwall ioff Junction Duolin &Belfast June Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction Do. N.A , East A.1,-glian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A Stock . 0 Ds., B. Stoet . Do., New A . East Lancashire F,dinburghtiL Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Pith Ss Dundee North & Clyde Jn , Furness. Do. Extension Glasgow St S. Western Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre ) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rail Qua. Stk.. [rish South-Eastern. Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Laneash andYorksh Di., W 4. Riding Un. Liv.Crit y.&Soutb.pt London Blackwall Lend. Bright & S.Cst. Loud, and N. Westn. Do. Fifths Do.lo/.5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths London andS. Westn Do., £5O Do., £4O. Lndudrry& Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Sh et. & Lincln Do. # Shares, No. l Do., Man. & Lin. Un Midland Do.l3irmng. &Derby Midid. G. West. (Ira, ) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoini and Rostrevor Norfolk Northn.Countieo Un, North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No, 2 Do., A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed N. Eastern—Berwick Do. do. Extension Do.do. G.N.E. Purek to. Leeds Do. York (North L0nd0n...., Do. New £lO.. N.&S.Wstrn.,Harep ' stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester Oxford, Woreester,d& Wolverhampton Portsmouth Se. La sh Central,,, Scottish Midland ~, Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. do Riv. Due Do. Staines, Wok. &Wok Stockton & Darlin' Stc2kton iSs Hrirtlepl Taff Valo Do. £lO shares. Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Haven Dock and Railway Ulverstone & Lancs Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny ViraterforddtLimeriek West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace West London. IWimbledn & Croydon Olostnr Prices yesterday. 24 - 7.6 3i - 413, .» - .., 7i - 7i 16 -l5 14 - 15 9 -. 8 87 - 89 61i - 61 12 - 13 - 10 • •• --- • .• 5 -- 4 6i - 7 12i 13, 9t 10 ... ~ ...4 .. 70 - 72 48 - 51 9i - 9i 16 - 18 ••• . 72 -' 74 86i - 71 - 73 123 - Pis LOO - 102 561 - 57 50 • 65 72 15 63 740 6t 77 773 96 98 92i 93 ltsd id I 1 83 E 4 86i 750 23} - 24 7 .- 8 66 - - G. 33 - 40 12 - 14 li - 21 46 -- 48 25i 69 - 70 - 71 44 - 4 12 - 13 46 -47 94 - 98 71 - 7. 5t - 64 24 - 26 LOB 110 78 80 42 44 12 - 13 58 59 31i 323 5 3 2d par 33 - 35 ••• "". 19i 29 : il 3 - 4 19 - 21 5 - 7 4 2d FOREIGN. Antwerp &Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. June Beziors to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Scrip Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian, g. 5 p. c. Do. Extension Do. 46 p. c. Eds., pay '57, convertible Do. do, do., '59, do ad. Tk of CanadaA is Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of France Gt. Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent Do. New 5 per cent Do. Extensions Do. do Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Gt. Western of CanadA Shares . . Do. This., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O D. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 por cent. Lake Const. & Basle Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c pref Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Moditorran Madras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. New Namur & Liege (with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D 0.201. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelinee guar. 3R p. c. & red. at 22P. dur. SS yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. a Bde (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs. NorwegianTrunkPre' Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen ParisCaen &Cherbrg Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse_ Do. 5.i p. cent. Pref Scinde Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A),„ West Flanders Do 5i per c. Pref Western of France., Wept. of Switzerland' Wiesbaden Zealand JOINT-STOI Australasia British Colonial Bank and Loan Company British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China , City Colonial 30 25 20 an Commercial of Lond.l English Scottish and Australian Chart Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australis 5 Ditto New all all 2 10 London and County London Joint Stock., Loud. & Weetminstor. National Provincial of England Do. Now National of Ireland New South Wales Oriental Bank of CorporAtion r'rovincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn.Ekg Sk Gold Imp Co lmonth Australia Union of Australia Do. Now Union of Load ~._ 9 - 9} 2f --, 2 2 - 1 i - li - 1 1 3 36i - 37 94 - 10 A 23 - 231 1 -1/ • ell ..... No •• - ••• 8 - 16 17 63 - 65 1 92 - 94 4i - 5 , 5 i - s i. P 4P - 4° 2 --3 i 24i -24 i 99 - 101 115 - 117 116 - 119 107 • 108 23} - 2 1 113 - 116 'ai. 6 - 7 19A - 20 p 1 __ lip 7 9 2 - 3 5-54 5 - 33 - 854 12 -12 i 8 . 4 o 45. -46 p 46 - 48 ... -- pm 20 - 21 2 - 8 - 8i - lip •.. pm 3i - 4i ii - Ii pi ". - ••• 18 - 19 BANKS. 91 -- 93 68 70 i d par i d idia 55 - 57 p ••• ''''' ... 17 -17 i 19! 20 d 38 40 •M ~ M 35 = 42 - 43 52 - 54 ... ....... so. 40 - 41 70 - 72 8 - 9 •.. ~7 w Business done this day. LINES , EASED T FIXED KENTALS Rh-UM kTS Lewslng Con panE losing Prtee. yesterday. PREFE [Johann 15 N. We At. L. &N. W. Caledon... E. Un. & E. C Gt.Nrthn. 08.1clonian.1 Do Gt. V'estil Yk. New. & Berw. Y. &N M Do S. Easter Do 1 Peto & Co. Norfolk Do L.& N. W & Midi 1. Stekton Darliugt. En. Coun. E. Count. D 0... L. &N. W &LnkYk Do Gt Northu Laucash & Yorksh. Brassoyl LMClcan Stockt. & Darlingt Do rltWeetn. 95 - 97 100 - 102 Fr - ii • • • ''''. 105 - 107 12i -- 13 23 -- 94 110 -- 115 ""' . 21 - 2i 91 - S 3 56 _- it 130 - 134 8* 81 21 2fd , 30 3 / 4 - 31 3 / 4 90 - 92 ,ENCE SHARES. Aberdeen.. Do. N 0.2, 7 p, BlythandTyne c. pref. (issd. Bris. & Ex. 4 p. Do. 4 p. c. She Caledonian £lO . Chester & Holylicar Guar. 5i per cent Do. do. Pref. No. 2 , Do. do. Pref. No. 2.. Cork ckßandons?ip.c. Dun.Prth .dr Aber.J. E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do. do. Cls. B 6 p. c. Do. do Cls. C 7 p. c. Eastern Counties Ex -1 tension, 5 P.C. No.l Do. No. 2 . Do. New 6 p. C. St East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 51, 10 per cent. Do. 101. Delientr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent East Lancash.6 p. ets E. &W. York. J. sths Ed Prth.&Dun.4p.e Furness rilas. & S. W. 0.5 p.c Great Northn. 5 p. e Do. 5 p. c. Redeem. ; at 10 p. c. prem... Do, 4 ; 1 ,• p. c Do. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red at 5 p. c. pm... Gt.N. of Scot. 1 stPre Gt. S. •!.IW. (Ireland) Do. 4per c. Prof. St Gt. Westn. (Barks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c) Do. con. red. 4. p.c Do. con. red. 4 p. c Do. irred. 4p.c. Do. Birm, Pref. Sh Do. Chester 8 p. c.P.S Do. do. 5 p. c. do Do. Birm, Gua. Stk Do. Ches. Gua. Sh.„ Do, do. do Do. do. do Lan. &York. F. 1:2 1 . Do. 6p. c. Stock ‘ Lon. & Brigh. G. 5 p.c Do. Pref., 5 p. C. St Do. New Guar.6 p. c Do. do. 5 per cent Lon.&N. W., Coy. Nuneaton 5 p. et Lon.& S. W. Con.3db Londy. & Calor. Sh. Londy. & Ennis. Sh. Van., Shef., & Lin., New. £lO Do. £6 NiatTpt.&Carl.4p Do. 4i per cent Do Consol.6 p.c.St Do. Consol. Bristol A. J Birm. 6 per cent 100 Do. 4i p. c. Pref. St 11' Do. Pref. 4i per cow all Do. 51. Pref. 4 p. c 100 Ditto Leicester and Hitchon Pref. St all Norfolk Detentuve 100 Do. Pref. 4p. c. Stool 100 Do. sp. c. Ext 100 Do. 5i per ct.pref 100 Do. Way. Val. 5 p. a 100 North British 100 N. E. Berw, 4 p.e. P 5 Do. do. do 13 Do Leeds 6 p.o 9 De. do. Quarters 4S 10 D o„York H. &S. Pun all North Staffordshire.. 100 Oxford, Worcester, A Wolverh.£ls, 6 p.c 7 Do R. Prof. 101. Sh. all Scot. Cent. ,New Pre: all South Devon 1i Do. fixed, 4!1 per cent all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 'lOO Do. 4a per cent all S. Wales Gua. 4p. c all Do. do. 4. p. c all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. all Stock . & Dar, ,5 p. c. 15 Do. do. do. all Stock. & Hard. g. p. c. till July 1, '56 4 W etericl. & Kilk. 6p c •.• - .•• 92 - 94 99 - 101 • •• ''''. ••• 3 - 4 - 61. ••• - ••• 12 10/P 53 - 62 kil -116 107 - 109 101 103 - 10 6 -- sa 95 -- 97 80 -- 85 66 -- 88 9 -- 101 16i -- 17 10 -10 i 70 -- 72 18i -- 19.4 91 -- 91 14 -- 141 - 136 - 138 ••• ..... ... ••• ....... Siwe ••• ~... ... 12/ - 13 i - I, 135 - 137 97 - 99 - ; 41 - 4i 96 - 100 91 - 93 31 - 3j -- ~a 101 - 103 13i —14 i id Par 231 231 100 102 .• • -- .•. 16 -18 fi 2 iipl 3 2Ad MINES. 1 all Agna Fria ~, 6 1 all Anglo Austrin. Gold 10s. all Anglo Californian 6 20 6 Australian — 11 a 1 all Australian Cordillera 1 all Ave Maria — 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) 1 50 all Blionarvon Iron and Coal . 20 14 British Iron 46 56 35 26 Brazilianlmp.(issued at 1:5 pm.) 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiab 34 31 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 27 —29 1 6 Carson's Creek •—•• • 1 Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica A to all Cobra Copper 63 67 5 1 Colonial Gold — A St. all Copper Min. of Eng 3 3 36 25 all Do. Pref. 71 p. cent 25 27 ... le Copiapo 5 all English and Austin Copper Smeltg Co ~, 2 1 Fortuna —3P 20 all General l3 —l5 1 all Gt.Nugg etVeinßeg — 4 41 all Great Polgooth 1 all Liberty $ 3 all Linares. 7 8 1 ... all B 2 - 31 p 5 1 Lusitanian l6 2 p 1 all Mariquita 1 all Now Granada 1 all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co 1 all Nouveau Monde 6; 20 all Pontgibeud Silver Lead Min. & Smelt. 15 16 5 1. Port Philip * 1 all Quartz Rock — 50 all Rhymney Iron 2l 23 15 all Do. New 6 8 30 12/ Santiago de Cuba-- 41 5 1 all South Australian $ 10 71 Tin Croft 3l 31 286 all United Mexican 3 31 1 all Waller 4 1 all West Mariposa. 1 f 12s. Worthing Mining of Australia 1 all Yuba MISCELLANEOUS. 25 171 Australian A gricult. 29 30 ie all AusLraln. Royal Mail 10 7 Berlin Water Works 2 —11 d 50 40 Brit. American Land 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co — 100 321 Canada 159 163 170 St. 100 Canada Gov. 6p. et. Jan. ana Jaly 112 i 1131 1131 121 5 all Crysta! Palace 21 2 24 5 5 Do. Preference s— 5/ 5 1 4 all Crystal Pal. of Franca 1 # Duston Iron Ore 20 11 Eastern Steam 25 23 Electric Telegraph l7l 184 1 all Electric Teleg. of Ir — 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat — 18 all General Screw Steam 20 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig • • 10 all Mediteran. Elec, Tel 8 10 10 9 Mezican&S.America. 6 61 10 21, Do. Now 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 5 Netherlands Land 1 1 4 2 1 N. S. W. Coal &Inter Steam Navigat. Co — 1 all N. B. Australasian $ 20 15 Nrth. of EuropeSteara 1 all Oriental Gas 1 11 i) all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl 24 - 2# 50 all Peninsular& Oriental 671 50 10 Do. New . . 14 1 2 all Portland Iron Co l/ 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. 11 1# 1 1 Ditto New I OP 25 all South Australaiand 351 —36 A 1 all Submar. Tel. Scrip — 1 all Do. Registered — 1 5 Trust& L. Co.U.Oan 1001 0 , Van Diemen'a Lam) t l4 15 110pei at 501, c. St. Business this say. THIS DAY'S NEWS LAW INTELLIGENCE.- (TR IS DAY.) COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Before Mr. Commissioner liolroyd.) IN RE G. P. JOHNSTONE. Tuffs was a meeting for certificate. The bankrupt was described as a draper and general dealer, of St. Ives, 'Huntingdonshire. The balance-sheet commenced January, 1852, and ended June, 1855, and showed--Debtor to creditors, 1,1591. 13s. 4d. ; ditto holding security, 4701. ls. 3d. ; surplus, 461. 2s. 7d. ; profits on the drapery business, 7621. ss. ; commission account, 591. 12s. 3d. ; salary from post office (subject to deductions), 1831. 16s. Credit: by good debts, 1391. 4s. sd. ; bad, 29/. 2s. 41. ; lia bilities, 1171. 2s. ; property given up, 2921. 10s. lid. ; property held by creditors, 1781. 9s. 3d. ; excepted articles, 291. ; trade expenses, 922/. 4s. 4d. ; house and personal expenses, 599/. 35.; law charger, 32/. 11s. 9d.; interest and discount, 731. Os. 6d. ; losses•, 3751.25. 4d. The bankrupt obtained his certificate. IN RE ERASMUS SYMONDS. This was a meeting for certificate. The ban was described as a merchant, of Great Bell-alley, ko 4 7 gate-street. The balance-sheet commenced January, 1854, arid ended May, 1855, and showed-Debtor to credito . rs, , 495/. 7s. id.; ditto holding security, 125/. 3s. 3d.; lia bilities, 4,929/. 12s. 3d.; profits, 260/. ls. 4d.; assumed surplus, 725/. 12s. 10d.; creditor by doubtful debts, 748/. Os. Bd.; bad, 261/. 6s. 9(.1.; property, 30/. ls. 6d.; ex cepted articles, 20/.; property held bycreditors,loB/. 3s. 4d.; liabilities, as per contra, 4,929/. 12s. 3d. ; losses, in cluding bad debts, 284/. 33. 5d.; trade expenses, 2181. 7s. 6d. ; house and personal expenses, 1921. 15s. 7d. The, liabilities and losses were entered in the accounts as arising from acceptances given by the bankrupt, for which ho received no consideration, for the benefit of a Manchester house, for which he was London agent, at a salary of 150/. The bankrupt was opposed. He was supportel 'by Mr. Lawrence. The bankrupt, however, obtained his certificate. ATTEMPTED MURDER AND SUICIDE IN SNOW-BILL.-(THIS DAY.) A diabolical attempt at murder was perpetrated this morning by a man named George Mulley, a porter, in Newgate-market, on a female with whom he cohabited at 10, Cock-court, Snow-hill, after which he attempted self-destruction by swallowing a quantity of laudanum: . The unfortunate woman is about 26 years of age, and has resided with Mulley, who is a widower, for some years, assisting to get a living for him, herself, and his three children, aged nine, seven, and four years, by selling fruit on the steps of the Giltspur-street Compter, and previous to her connection with her paramour was much respected for the steadiness of her conduct and industrious habits. It appears, so far as we can at present ascertain from the inquiries we have made, that the unfortunate woman and Mulley had a quarrel last . night, which for a time subsided, but was renewed about one o'clock this morning, and continued until seven o'clock, when he committed the act, which has jeopardised the life of the female. Immediately after the infliction of the wounds she ran into the street, bleeding profusely, and was met by Acting Police-ser geant Piercy, No. 10. He asked her what was the mat ter, and she replied her husband had cut her throat. The police-sergeant seeing the state she was in took her to Thirtholomew's Hospital, and handed her over to the care of the house-surgeon, who promptly attended to her wounds. Mulley was taken into custody by police•constable 260, and removed to the Smithfield station•house, and on his way thither he admitted to .the policeman he had attempted the life of the unfortunate woman, and that he did it with a clasp knife. The police returned to the residence of the prisoner, and made a strick search, but have not been able to find the instrument with which the act was committed. The woman still lies in a precarious condition in Bar tholomew's Hospital. Great fears are entertained for her recovery, the wounds being of so serious and dan gerous a character. EXAMINATION OF THE PRISONER. This day, about 1 o'clock, the prisoner, George Mulley, described as of 36 years of age, was placed at the bar at the Guildhall Police-station, before Alderman Humphery, charged with attempting the murder of Ellen Mulley, 26 years of age. The prisoner, when placed at the bar appeared to be labouring under much mental suffering, and had to be supported by the police, and afterwards accommodated with a seat. The first witness which was examined was police constable 260, John Richards, who deposed that the prisoner was an occasional porter in Newgate-market, and resided at 10, Cock-court. Shortly after seven o'clock this morning I heard a cry of murder proceeding from the direction of Cock-court. I went up the court and saw a woman rush out of No. 10 covered with blood. I took hold of her and had her conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital. I went into the room occupied by the prisoner on the ground-floor, and saw him sitting on the bed undressed. Three chil dren, of the ages of nine, seven, and four years, were in the room with him. I asked him who com mitted the act ? He said, "I did it." I desired him t 5 dress himself, and took him to the station-house, and searched him there, but found nothing on him. I re turned to the prisoner's room, and, with Sergeant Piercy, searched the room, but could not find any instrument by which the assault was committed. I have known the female some time. She is not the prisoner's wife. The children are by another woman to whom he was married, but now dead. Mr. Alderman Humphery—llow long has this wo: man lived with the prisoner ? Witness—l don't know. Mr. Jones, from the 'West London Union, said the prisoner was admitted into the union in August last, with his three children. He then described himself as, a widower. Charles Piercy, police-serjeant 10, deposed—l was pas sing through King -street about 20 minutes past 7 o'clock. I there met the last witness with a woman bleeding from a wound in the neck, and other small ones, apparently done with a knife. One wound extended from the left ear, half-way round the neck across the throat. There was another wound over the eye and others about the face. He corroborated the last witness. In searching the premises I found a phial bottle, marked laudanum, in a hole in the floor, and on his person another marked the same. The prisoner, after he was in custody, was found to have a wound in the head, and was taken to the hospital to have it dressed. At the station-house he was cautioned by the inspector, who asked him " Where was the knife I" He replied, " I don't know where it is." A certificate was handed in from the house-surgeon of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, starting the female bad re ceived a large incised wound ha the neck, with some smaller ones on the shoulders, and contusions on the face. The prisoner, who buried his Tam in a handkerchief, shook his head when asked by the Alderman if he had any question to put to the witness, and said " No:" The eldest child of the prisoner, a little girl, about 9 years of age, was next examined, but not on oath. She said that she was awoke,this morning by her father and mother fighting. She saw her mother going away ; her father having cut her with a knife. Never saw them fight with knives before. Springate, thesgaoler, said he , had known the woman for 10 years. She was a very quiet, well-conducted person. The prisoner was remanded for a week. THE FOREIGN LEGION. —They Labrador steam-frigate, which anchored in Ajaccio Roads on the 10th, left on the following day for the Crimea, having on board 400 men belonging to the 85th of the line and the Foreign Legion. EXTENSIVE DEFALCATIONS IN CHESTER.—On Satur (l4 morning tho citizens of Chester were startled by hearing a report that Mr. John. Moah, the Government receiver of Inland Revenue, wan a defaulter in his ac counts to the extent of 4,0001..., and that he had been apprehended on the previous evening by a detective officer from London. The report was fully confirmed in the course of the day. At the Police-court, Mr. T. Earwaker, of, the solicitors' do.partment of the Inland Revenue, appeared to conduct •the prosecution, and Mr. Hostage to defend the accused. At the outset, Mr. Hostage applied for a private hearing of the case. The Mayor was averse to this step, but as Mr. Earwaker, for the prosecution, did not oppose the application, the Bench, consented. It was understood that the result of these preliminary proceedings -would be `a) remand to Saturday next, when the examination will be in public. The nature of the case is simply this:—Mr. Moah's books are perfectly correct, and s:btt'w a balance of nearly 5,0001., which ought to be in his hands. When applied to 'die proper time for payme it of this large sum he inti mated that he had no money• in hand s and that he had spent it. The prosecution NW' is then commenced. DBSPATCH FROM GENERAL SIMPSON. (From a Supplement to Tues:lay's Gazette.) • WAR DEPARTMENT, SEPT. 21. Lord Panmure has this day, received a despatch and its Enclosures, of which. the 'following are copies, addressed to his Lordship by General Simpson. Before Sebastopol, September 8. , My Lord,—At daylight on the sth inst., the batteries of the allied armies opened a steady and continuous fire against the enemy's works. 1i During the night one of. the vessels, supposed to be a frigate, stationed on the north 'side of the harbour, was set on fire by, it is believed, a shell from a French battery 'in their right attack.. The firing, during the 6th; 7th, and up to the preSent moment, has continued uninterrupted, and but feebly responded to by the Rus sians. Another frigate was discovered yeiterday afternoon to be on fire, and has been entirely destroyed. From the length of time it continued burning it is supposed to have contained stores. - About eleven o'clock last night a heavy explosion took place, but I haye not as yet been able to ascertain in which part of the enemy's works' I beg to enclose the list of casdaltieS to the 6th inst. I have, &c., . JAMES SIMPSON, General Conitnanding. 4 -.,T119 LorePanmure, &c. &c.;&c: 4. • • . p - • THE BRITISH - ASSOCIATION. CONCLUDING GENERAL MEETING. he concluding general meeting of the association took place yesterday at three o'clock in the City Hall. His Grace the Duke of Argyll presided, and gave a re capitulation of the most important subjects discussed in the various sections. He then resigned the chair to Sirlt. Murchison, having to leave town early in the afternoon. Sir B. MurtcnisoN called on Professor Phillips, who gave an enumeration of the various important communi cations received by the Association during its sitting. The total attendance had been 2,140, and the total re -ceipts. 2,314/., of which 5001. had been given to - the Kew Observatory, and the rest to members who had during 'the session been directed to carry on experiments and draw up reports. Ho stated that the numbers of papers received by the various sections bad been as follows : A 55, B 62, C 46, D 76, E 36, F 41, G 42—total, 347 ; and on Thuisday, in all,the sections, there had been discussed 44 papers, on Friday 58, on Saturday 36, on Monday 58, and on Tuesday 93, and on Wednes day 58. Sir R. MURCHISON congratulated the Association on the perhaps unprecedented success of this meeting, and returned its warmest thanks to the magistrates atid in habitants of Glasgow, the members of the University, and the local office-bearers. He then adjourned the meeting to Cheltenham in August, 1856. The meeting then separated, the organ playing the National Anthem. MARKET NEWS.--L(THIS DIY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Since Monday the receipts of English wheat have been moderate, and the supply put up to-day was limited. However, several of Monday's unsold samples Were in the market. For most kinds we had a fair demand at about stationary prices. The imports of foreign wheat have amounted to 5,450 • quarters. Holders were very firm, but the business doing was but moderate at Monday's currency. Floating cargoes were firm. The barley trade was toler ably active at very full prices. In. the value of malt no change took place. • We were very moderately supplied with oats, which moved. off steadily at very full prices • Beans, peas, and flour as on Monday. Wheat. 2,223 ARRIVALS THIS USK. Barley. ( Malt. Oats. Flour. 770 1 1,80) - 570 English .. rich 3,710 Foreign! 5,450 i 530 i -- i 3,310 i br 810sells it METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. We were tolerably well, though not to say heavily, sup plied with beasts to-day. All kinds sold slowly at a de cline in the quotations paid on Monday of 2d per 81bs. The highest figure was 4s 8d per 81bs. Althdugh the num bers of sheep were limited, the mutton trade was rather inactive at about stationary prices. The primest calves moved off steadily at full currencies • but inferior qualities met a dull inquiry at barely late rates. Pigs were in fair supply, and moderate request at full quotations. Mulch cows ruled heavy at from 141. to 19/. each, includ ing their small calf. Per Sibs to sink the offal& s. d. s. d.l s. d. s d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 6 PrimoSouthdown 4 8 5 0 Second quality.... 3 8 4 OlLarge crso. calves 310 4 4 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 4 , Prime small do 4 6 b 0 Prime Scots, &c. 4 6_ 4 8 Large hogs Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 6 Small porkers 4 0 4 6 Second quality ...3 8 4 o:Suckling calves 22 0 30 0 Prime crse.-wlled.4 2 4 G Quarter old pigs 22 0 £8 0 FOREIGN SUPPLY. TOTAL SUPPLY. i Beasts ........... ....... 1,080 , Beasts ............ •• ••.. • 200 Sheep ••••....•••........ 9,800 Calves ..... 440 Sheep .................... COO Ca1ve5.................... 300 ergs •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •••• 500 Pigg•••• • • " - • • " • • • NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The demand for each kind of meat was in a sluggish state, as follows : Per 81138 by the carcase. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 3 0 3 4 Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6 Do"-, middling 3 6 3 8 Do., middling 3 8 4 0 Dn., prime largo .3 10 4 0 . Do., prime 4 2 4 6 Do,, do. small ....4 2 4 4 j Veal..., 3 6 4 8 Furk, large 3 6 4 2 1 Pork, small 4 4 4 8 BORO UG4H-HOP. We have a large supply of new hops on sale here, and a steady business ii doing in them, as follows :—Sussex and Weald of Kent, 415 s to 4/ 163 ; Kent and Farnhams, 41 lOs to 61 Os. The hops continue to come down well, and the duty is freely backed at 300,0001. COLONIAL. TEA.—At the public sales fine greens realised full prices, but the low qualities were rather heavy. SUGAR. —West India has obtained full prices, with a fair inquiry ; Barbadoes has advanced 6d par cwt, low grey to fine yellow selling at 42s 6.1 to 46s Gd per cwt ; Demerara crystalised brought 45s Gd to 48s. East India—Bengal is 6d dearer for white Benares ; Cassipore has been sold at 46s to 495, mid yellowish to good white Benares at 44s 6(1 to 465, and good to fine yellow Mauritius kind at 44s Gd to 46s ; Native Dladras was taken in at 39s 6d and Penang at 39s to 41s 6d ; Mauritius brought full rates, viz. , 38s to 42s Gd for low greyish to fine white grocery, and 45s to 48s for crystalised mid to fine. Foreign—Havana was taken in at 41s 6d to 43s for brown low to fine, duty 13s 9d, and 43s to 47s for yellow to very fine, dutylss ; goad to fine yellow, however, has since been sold at 44s Gd to 47s ; Porto Rico went at 43s for low grey up to 46s Gd for fine bright grocery ; Muscovado Manilla realised, privately, 37s ; white Bahia brought 44s per cwt ; St. Croix brought 44s Gd to 46s Gd for mid to good grocery ; Cuba Musco vado heavy brown, 43s to 465. COFFEE.—Plantation Coylon has been at higher prices; low mid to good bold coloury has obtained 61s Gd to 72s ; , mid coloury, 63s to 65s G.l y, 68s to 73s •, and 'triage,;s2s 6d to 56s ; Native ha s been at 51s for good ord; Mocha f. fine ord brownish brought Sls to 82s. 4 - RICE.—The market has been dull; good mid white Bengal has been taken in at 15s 6d, and good and fine white at 17s Gd. SPlCES.—Ginger has been steady, and Jamaica small and dark to good bold sold at 50s to 120 s, and some rough mouldy African at 23s Gd to 24s per cwt. PIMENTO went at sicl to Sid for good mid, and good Penang white pepper was taken in at Bd, and Penang black at s'd for mid dusty, but Singapore good mid black realised 5d to 51d. SALTPETRE. — There has has s beenoldst a rather steadily, 47s for mid red. d. Bengal 41 to 2 per cont. refraction b rou g ht 42s 6d ; 61 per cent., 37s to 37s 6d ; *IO A to 12 p er cent., 37s to 37s 6d ; and 81 per cent., 3 95. C ull. P.Y.C. is 57s on the TALLOW.—This a l i r t t t i l e e l e h h a s a s b e b e e n e n d o d GREEN FRIIIT.—The market is bare of all kinds. Lemons sustain their price, the stock being light. Some boxes of grapes have been received by the Tagus steamer from Lis bon ; the quality is better than was expected, and were sold by Keeling and Hunt at public sale, and realised a high figure. Foreign nuts dull, the demand now being for fresh grown, which are abundant, both in England and Holland, the supplies from the latter being extensive. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-{THIS DI Y.) LONDON, Sept. 21.—Wind this day at noon, S.W.; light airs and fine clear weather. . - PORTSMOUTH, Sept. 20.--Wind S:W.—Arrived.—Kine, from Madras ; H.M.S. Diligence, eastward. PLYMOUTH, Sept. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Dora, from Prince Edward's Island. Sailed—Hydaspes (s.), for the Crimea. • DOVER, Sept. 21.—Wind calm.—Off the port—Mari anne, from Baltimore for Bremen ; Solo, from Gothen burg for7the Cape of Good Hope. DARTMOUTii, Sept. 20.—The Edward Protheroo, hence to Newport, put back to-day with loss of bulwarks, stan chions, rails, stern timbers, and other damage, from colli siOrl with a screw-steamer last night off the Start. Ho'utuEen, Sept. 20.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Jessie Miller, from St. Mary's, N.S. DrtoGHEDA., Sept. 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Crimea, from St„, John's, N.B. WARREN POINT, Sept. 19.—Wind Crescent, from St. John's, N.B. HARTLEPOOL, Sept. 20.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived — Celeste, from Quebec. AUCKLAND, N.Z., April s.—The Star of the East has been wrecked in proceeding to sea from Raissard Heads. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Friday Morning. Arrived—Alliance (s.), from Havre ; City of Limerick (s.), London ; Caroline, Swansea. Sailed—Maria and Despatch, for Portsmouth ; Ouze, Zephyr, and Teaser, London. LIVERPOOL, Friday Morning. Wind S. Arrived—Endymion, from Calcutta. Off—Shamrock, for St. John's, New Brunswick. Sailed—Africa, for New Orleans ; Calhoun, New York QUEENBTOWN, Sept. 19. Wind, S.W. Arrived—Betsey and Bella Kato, from Montevideo ; Comely, Lochiel, Colonist, and Cornelia, Callao. DUBtJN, Sept. 20. Wind W. Arrived—Wanderer, from Trinidad. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday, 9,37 a.m. Wind calm, tide ono and a half hour's ebb, weather fine • • Arrived —George anti Lucy, from Callao; Glory, Ha. vauna Hopo, Gibraltar. 25 St. 20 It. 100 474 38 all 100 all 82a. 100 100 100 3i 100 Rif i sel Bedford end Biel abloy Buckgharash. Clydesdale Jc. ' Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. E. Lin. g. 6 pc. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direet Do. New Glstr. & Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon. & Green'? Do. Preference Lou., Til., & S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per et. Manch. %tn and Matlock Middles;ao' & Redcar Midld.Bradfd Newmarket Bury Exten N.& Est.s p. e Do. 6 rer et. Do. Fix,. 'Npe Prest. & R ill) Do. Shrs. A Roystn.& Shot Roth_and Goole g. 5 p. c. Shrews. &Her. S. Staffordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent... Do. Wilti&gomrst 771 7 96 92# i 2 83i 3 100 5 100 all 10 St. 20 50 100 100 100 too too 100 5 all ell all 4il all all 101 100 100 60 12 121 10 12 1241 12;: St. 8i 25 10 1.0.6 'Do.. Do.. PM pm 101 i SPIRIT OF THE *PUBLIC JOURNALS. (Prom the Timis of this day.) The arrival of the official despatches containing, the reports of the Allied Oerierals on the glorious, events of the Bth and 9th 'Of September has been delayed somewhat longer than had at first been anticipated;ibecause although 'they were sent off on ; the 11th ,its, the Telegraph, steamer, which is one of the swiftest vessels in the navy, yet, owing to the state of the weather, or to som. other reason, that ship did not reach Marseilles till yesterday morning, and the despatches cannot reach London before Saturday morning. , The communications transmitted . by the Indus, :Which brought the mail of the 9th from Balaklava,''iire of inferior interest, for, owing to the state of the weather, that vessel appears to have had no communication with the shore after noon on the Bth, when the assault had not actually taken place, and she therefore brings no details of the destruction of that vast fortress which had defied for nearly a year the confederate armies of the Western Powers. . We learn, however, ,by a telegraphic despatch from , Marshal Pelissier, that, although the actual occupation of the town by a portion of the Allied forces has never been formally stated to have taken place, and we do not know in what order it was effected, yet ' that the whole of the arsenals and works must now .have been minutely visited by the Anglo-French Commission pointed to draw up, the inventory of our trophies of war. It seems that no less than 4,000 cannon, .50,000 cannon balls, powder, grapeshot, and many other stores of: war were still found un injured and in great abundance.. The immense supplies of , the arsenal' of Sebastopol were, there fore, not exhausted even after this terrific and pro longed struggle ; and as long as men could be found• to renew the shattered or dismounted guns and to repair the works the resistance of the town continued. Down to the very last Sebastopol con tained nearly ten times. the number of cannon which had been placed in the batteries of the be siegers—a fact which is not surprising when it is remembered that the fleet alone mounted more than 1,000 guns, and that everything had certainly been prepared by the Emperor Nicholas in Sebas topol for a final attack on the Ottoman empire. It must always be remembered that these warlike stores accumulated in the Crimea could have been brought there for no other purpose than an ag gressive war on Turkey. The probability of a com bined attack by sea and land upon the Crimea itself seems never to have occurred to the Russian Government, but against a maritime attack only they were fully provided. The marine forts of Sebastopol served to cover a huge mine, destined one day to spread devastation over the East ; and it 'was while he was slowly and laboriously com pleting these 'preparations that the Emperor Nicho las claimed the especial confidence of Europe as the protector of established institutions, the champion of order, and the friend of peace. The docks, it seems, remain—a magnificent work, due to the engineering abilities of Colonel Upton, which was only finished in 1853 2 -after haying 'cost enormous sums to the Imperial Government ; indeed, as a great portion of these works is excavated out of the solid rock, and the remainder lined with the hardest cement, the destruction of then' is no easy under taking. After having provided for the armament of the forts, which will be occupied by the Allies for the defence of the place, the greater portion of these trophies will doubtless be removed in trans ports to the dockyards and arsenals of the Allied Powers, to prevent the possibility of their falling hereafter into the hands of the enemy. We pre sume that, in conformity with precedent, the prize and booty of this vast capture will ,be distributed to the army and navy of the Allied Powers, in agree ment with the arrangements previously taken with the French Government, her Majesty having re served to herself the distribution of booty .to the British troops upon any conjoint expedition of the sea and land forces. And certainly if the value cf the spoil turns out to be considerable, it most justly belongs to the gallant soldiers of both armies and to the combined fleets which have participated in the capture. The Emperor of Russia has not hesitated to acknowledge, in an order of the day addressed to the Imperial army, the magnitude of the ,blow which has struck the defences of the empire ; but he has attempted to lessen the humiliation in flicted on his arms by a tribute, not certainly un deserved, to the unhappy victims of his father's policy. We have at all times really admitted the skill and perseverance with which the Russian troops raised a formidable sytem of fortifications round an undefended town, and continued with great tenacity to maintain the advantages of their position. Their artillery was also well served, and the efforts made to bring up fresh troops to the scene of action were extraordinary. Here, how ever, the consideration' we are willing to express for a brave enemy ceases. We do not think that the conduct of the garrison of Sebastopol entitles them to rank with the soldiers who at Pultowa defeated the Swedish infantry, which was then the best in Europe, or with that army which in 1812 disputed the honours of the Borodino to the last gasp against the genius of Napoleon and the legions of France. The present. Russian army has on no one occasion daring the present war measured itself successfully against any part of the Allied forces. The battles of the Alma; the Inkerman, and of the Tchernaya were all won by the manifest supe riority of our troops ; and even on the two occa sions when our attacks upon the redoubts of Sebas topol were ,cot altogether successful we were re pulsed entirely by the superior cross-fire Of the enemy's batteries. When, therefore, the Empe ror asserts that his troops " beat the enemy, o r died with 'indomitable courage, and without a thought of surrendering," we are constrained to reply that they did not beat the enemy on any fair trial of strength ; that they retreated beaten, though not routed, from three pitched engagements ; and that, though they did not surrender Sebastopol, they evacuated it, and left not only " blood-stained ruins," but the spoils of an enormous arsenal in the possession. of the enemy. The time is long since past when the enemies of the Czar were to be swept away by the breath of his nostrils, and we do not find in this production of the reigning monarch any expression which rises above a dignified resignation to an in evitable calamity. We learn, however, by the last accounts from Berlin, that the Emperor has already renounced his intended journey to Warsaw, and that he will shortly proceed with the Grand Dukes to Moscow, and thence to the governments more immediately contiguous to the seat of war. There seems, as far as we can judge from the very faint indications which reach us, to be something irresolute and weak in the• character of the present Autocrat. Had he seized the conditions of peace offered him at Vienna, he would have saved Seb as t opo l an d have placed us in a very awkward predicament. Yet his Generals ought to have foreseen that the place could not hold out more than four months, and that the increasing hold of the Allies on the coast of the Crimea was of all things the most fatal to the " territorial integrity" o f Russia. He con tinued the struggle, however, not from confidence in the result, but from the want , of courage to ter minate it, Even now it may be doubted whether his'Government has really grasped the onerous and embarrassing inheritance to which he was suddenly called, and it is not. improbable that his position may become a dangerous one. It has certainly become an unfortunate one, for when called upon to mount the throne he was condemned by no fault of his own to witness within a few months the destruction of his greatest southern fortress and of the Black Sea fleet, while Sweaborg was bombarded and. Cronstadt threatened within sight of the gar dens of Peterhof. An Emperor of Russia cannot afford to lose the reptta.tion of invincible power within his own dominiOni. A Government resting on force alone perishes •in the presence of superior force, and we' question whether the patriotic en thusiasm of , the Russian nation will be roused by the reverses they have sustained in the Crimea. In 1812 the case was different ; the whole empire was iii4is.ded : .Holy Moscow was taken and burnt ; the population. rose pto axis et focis to drive out the French. But the Crimea is a distant dependency ; hundreds of miles of steppe nmst be crossed to get there ; the coast is in the hands of the enemy ; and no effort will shake off the army of occupation from that spot until Russia thinks proper to submit to the terms of peace which we have a right to demand ( From the Times of this day.) into Want of water is what we should fear in any ad vance from Eupatoria. From this even the upplies Rus sians suffer ; and yet they have a line, eighty years old, from the Belbec in the south, straight almost as the crow flies, to Tchongar-bridge, leading Russia by Perekop. Along this line are occasional wells. At Bakshi-Sergi and Simpheropol they are gushing abundant ; the Salghir river, moreover, 0 waste, that indispensable requisite of human life. But the enemy suffers along that line for want of Water, and what towns he meets have risen on th as children of the fountain. The g spring has been the parent of the city. There, first a halt, then a habitation, then a collection of stationary . dwellings ; a town, a fortress, a periodical en campment, an establishment and splendid buildings. On the other hand, the Tch of water for man and beast. Beyon d ernaya yields plenty beyond that the Saloiiir• The Russians quitted it is the Belbec; Sebastopol because they could not stay in it. It was no strategic movement in any profounder sense _ panic is strategic. The Bay of inkerman hissed with descending shells ; a few . of theta; nay, one of them, falling . ou, the new raft bridge-which spanned'that bay, would have defi nitively• intercepted the garrison's retreat, and. i would have brought Prince Gortschakoff to Paris. iile 'went *off: while' lie ceitild. As . to his being now , ` , `,.in 'A batter position*" than that out of - which ho has been driven, just dook at-his position. Either the Sievernaya, the, Star Fort and its helpmates, have sufficient provisions:to , keep Jor a rrn his crOwclO'd. battalionN . or they haveenot. If the pro - visions do not exist, PianseGortschakoff c on ti nues still further the fine strategic movement of which we gave heard so much ; and if those forts possess the necessary victuals for his army, he could not, even then, do better than.to pack every knapsack, and load every - Mule, making the utmost of his time. He ought still to retreat. .:We wish him no worse , fate. than to be submissive, in this ;crisis, to the pride of his . Czar and :country, and to immo late to the vain chimera of an untenable prestige the 'remnants of a gallant and much-enduring 'army. For, suppose an advance of, the Allies upon Mackenzie's Heights: These heights cannot be so difficult to capture as . the Malakhoff Works. General Liprandi is not capable, alone, of resisting the Allies, His is the left wing, of the Russian army, which is in a' most curious' position. The centre is at Old Inkerman, the right is in the Star Fort and Sievernaya, under - Prince Gortschakoff, who is, besides,.Commander-in-Chief. The whole force looks eastwards. It is not the game otPrince G'ortschakofflo leave GeneralLiprandi to face us single-handed. At all events, it is not the interest of the Russian army to do this. The north forts need not be attacked at all, much less do they need to be invested, in order to be taken. Any advance on General Liprandi draws out the whole strength of what was lately the garrison of Sebastopol from Fort Constantine and the Sievernaya ; otherwise that garrison is cut off, and General Liprandi's position is forced besides. In this operation the Allied troops have plenty of water. In an advance from Eupatoria there would be a scarcity of that great necessary. We understand that there are some wells beyond the Tchernaya. Moreover, it is but one great rush from that river to the Belbec ; and then it is the enemy's turn to be solicitous. He has a line of road prepared since Catherine's time, and amply , provided with water. But a sort of insane pride seems to be at work in the Russian head-quarters. The tribes and populations of Asia are asking, " Is it possible that Sebastopol has been taken from the Czar ?" The reply is negative. Prince Gortscha koff has gone from the south aide to the north side. That is all. if this be true, we shall have that Prince in Paris or London before long. But suppose he attacks the Allied army on the Tcherna.ya ? His garrison is now like a rat in a hole ; nothing is too desperate for them. In fact, desperation is become their only hope: Well, in that case, we confidently believe that General Pelis sier's and General SimPson's despatch of detach ments to the north-west will not' have so weakened our lines between Inkerman and Tehorgoun that we cannot hold theta. Our troops and the French troops have lately been amusing themselves with a variety of re sources. In the worst and hardest times of the now terminated siege we had a theatre on the heights of Otar, and we had horse-rlices in front of Tchoulion. The shells of the enemy occasionally disturbed the performances of that hazardous stage, and abridged the runs on that daring race-course. But a force which could presume thus to solace itself ought not to 'let an already beaten and de moralised enemy to escape out of its hand, either •by the astuteness which is an old and well-known characteristic in our opponent, or by the despera tion with which a ruinous position may inspire him. ADVANCE IN THE BANK JUTE OF DISCOUNT. ,1 Although there was no general expectation of a fur ther advance in the Bank rate of discount yesterday, there was sufficient uncertainty upon the point to cause the breaking up of the Court to be waited for with in terest. The demand at the Bank during the past week is supposed to have been as heavy as during the two pre ceding weeks,, in which it was found necessary to resort to a rise, and but for the circumstance that much of it was believed to be caused by the caution of the discount houses in refusing large transactions while there might be a prospect of a further immediate change, as well as by the desire of the p u bli c t o prov id e themselves against such a, contingency, there would have been ground to entertain the probability of a fresli movement. Whe ther it will yet have to be resorted to must still depend in a great degree upon the state of the corn-market, the arrivals from Australia, and the course which the Go vernment may pursue regarding the instalments on the Turkish loan. Since the first advance in the rate, a fortnight back, not only has the expectation of large receipts from Australia been disappointed, but a sudden and, as the tendency. to re-action has since shown, a rather unwarrantable rise in the corn-market has been witnessed, which Las stimulated, the transmission of about 400,0001. to the Danube and elsewhere for the pur chase of wheat, and which will also have the effect, when the news reaches New York, of hastening the substitu tion of flour for gold in the future shipments from Ame rica. As the amount overdue from Australia is at least 800,0001., we have here a total of 1,200,000/. which, but for peculiar and imp ro b a bl e events, would be at this moment in the Bank coffers, and which would have brought their stock of bullion to a point in exces of the average of the past year. Another of its effects also would have been to have prevented the idea of a scarcity of money getting to that height which in itself begets scarcity. Hence the surprise felt at the rapid and continuous nature of the change just witnessed is easily 'accounted for, together with the fact that neither the almost unprecedented occurrence of an advance in two consecutive weeks, nor the early pos sibility of an additional one, has produced any disturbing effect upon the trade or credit of the country. Even in the Stock-Exchange, where the current of speculation has recently. been on the adverse side, the fluctuation has been comparatively unimportant ; and there is, con sequently, full reason to believe that the estimate already expressed of the healthy condition of almost all departments of industry will be fully borne out, and that the movements lately witnessed, notwithstanding their intensity, are of an exceptional and in many re spects of a purely accidental character. The Bank of France yesterday increased their rata of discount from 4 per cent., at which it had stood since the 12th of May, 1854, to 5 per cent. A. similar in crease has been made in the rate for advances on stocks and shares. This measure was fully expected, a decrease of about 5,000,000/. having occurred in their stock of bullion since the rate was fixed on the previous occasion. It was then about 16,400,000/ , and in the return pub lished last Saturday it was 11,550,000/. As the move ments of the Bank of France are to the extent of one per cent. at a time, they are usually delayed for a longer period than those of the Bank of England ; but, even making allowance for that, the present step may be considered to have been made with less promptitude than was desirable. Unlike what has been witnessed on the London Stock-Exchange, the ardour of specu lation has been maintained on the Paris Bourse to a considerable extent throughout the war, and the various undertakings fostered by the Credit Mobilier have for some time assumed proportions which were certain to lead to a revulsion. At the same time the .general commerce of France, like that of England, is believed to be in a healthy state, and there is, consequently, among the mercantile houses of Paris no apprehension of any serious interval di distrust or disaster. The immediate e ff ec t o f th e increase of dies count will'be towards a r ev i va l o f th e deinatiglifQr gold from this side, and it will therefore -Operate as a direct inducement for the Bank o f England to raise their r ate to a similar amount. of the large ship building For some days past the acceptances but it was hoped Black wall;:bave ' been lying over unpaid, be from hour to hour that an arrangement might hasmadebeen &rip IA Messrs. C. J. - 3 t l a a n r c e es and C . 0., of . d erstood that a meeting of the disappointed, and it is understood held t 1 will be o-morrow,when a creditors of the house to. onour them. This anticipation, however, balance-sheet will he submitted, together 'best to secure their important w or k s from being interrupted. Notwithstanding the great ex tent of with such pro posals as may seens Mare and Co., an impres sion s liabilities, apart f rom their debts to pritate connections for ad v anc es , which are un t d ers t oo d to be very heavy, are not much beyond 70,000/. of the firm'having become entertainedthe business .that Messrs.he embarrassed has ex- The fact c i te d u niversal surprise, since they have enjoyed for many years orders and eontraoti of a gigantic and most profitable description, not only from the large steam companies, but also from other quarters, and especially of late from the Government. The establishment is still going on, the workmen havin g up to the present time been regularly paid, and it will be very satisfactory if the accounts about to be presented should show that the existing difficulty arises mainly from a lock•up of capi tal, and is such as to allow the works, under proper :u -pervision, to be continued without interruption.—Tinics' City Article. CAPTURE OP A N OTORIOUS T HlEF. —Th roug h th e ac 0/Ay of Mr. lleddington, a detective officer on the Mid land Railway, a notorious thief, named William Attey, has just been captured, after having committed innume rable depredations throughout England, particularly on the different lines of railway. There are already 15 cases of robbery against him, and several other c h arges are in the course of investigation. CLOSE OF THE SALMON FISHING.—The salmon fisbings in the rivers north of Tweed closed on Friday last. In the Spey, owing to the very severe frost, the month of February was all but lost to the fishers and proprietors, and during the rest of the season the take of salmon altogether was considerably under last year. The grilse fishing was fully equal to that of last year. Towards the close, the rod fishing became very proOuctive. In the Findhorn, the fishing, though backward at the com mencement, was, before the close, most productive, and this river has this season fully sustained its former high character as a good salmon river. The Deveron has this season fished remarkably well ; the grilse have been plentiful, giving promise of a good salmon fishing next season. The Ness has also improved. The Dee and Don have fished pretty well, particularly in the early part of the season. The sea-fisbings have also yielded fair average,—Banffshire Journal. 53 0 b• re 812 s 9 100 21i St. 10 St. 25 20 50 20 .-.0- 10 5 20 18 100 100 1 20 5 5 5 20 8i 10 20 20 100 100 100 20 10 4i all 1 2 all 13 10 14 all 10 1311 all all 2s. all 57 61 66i 6 33 5i 5 111 k 94 3 ex d 1111