The Sun. — London, England, 1855-05-21 00:00:00

U E 11. ET liCri AI.. .iNT !IL IN CITY, Two o'CnocE. T he Cott on M arket at Liverpoo l , on S atur d ay, ei k inds with an upward tendency, an d pr i ces o f a ll In ds were extreme. The sales were estimated : t 2 0,000 b ales (2,000 of which were taken for jor rt ) and 8,000 on s p ec ulati o n),' comprising 5 Pern am and Maranham, at 61d. to 67d. ; t ()° E gyptian, at 61d. to 8(1. ; 8,000 Surat, at 3id. 1i ) 3. 4 1€ 1 .; and 150 Sea Islands at ls. to Is. 7d. per at The Railway Share Market was very active, all advance of to 1 per cent. on Friday's rates. T I in e ra ilway meetingi announced are the follow- ear l:nary Company. Date. Place. ellest e de e and Cardigan May 2,3, Park-st., estin. r and Holyhead May 24, Euston-squaie. cor.(litto ditto ero Yotighil tast i ° •N and High Peak gre cnacolushiro May 25, King's-cross. G re Z t LT"rther n wester n of Canada sijk Y Junction I,, ee 4anY and Great S. & W May 29, London. 14,44' tra d , Halifax May 25, Bradford. Blackwali 1.4 11 , 1 : 4 and .. IC rorth-Western May 28, Eus.on l -station. kai leh tl eet ri South-Western M,y 31, bi stro ter, ti Sheff anti Line. May 25, Wa Manchester. teroo Station. May 23. London Tavern. .... ••• 31 ; 3 , 25. Derby. I te l t e 3; ••• •• • 7 .. ***************** May 8, Great George-street fBt 3lB A - e a and ******* n May 26, 15. A., St. Helen'b-pl. (CI n ' r evia and Quebec, I;e 4i sae A) °f Ne ath June 7, Parliament-street. aterf V e4t. t-,°r(lane Rilkenny May 29, 17, 9-racecburch-st. V eete - ' ef Lon.&CrystalPal May 26, Albion Tavern. ra of Switzerland May 28, Lausanne. eat Planders exeit:re from Birmingham state that considerable ereent p reva il ed last wee k i n t h e i ron di s t r i c t s :i llaec luence of the failure of Messrs. Thomas the: -es and Son o f W es t Bromwich, and the fur- Owi- Prob able disasters which it will occaNion. • tr n e t o the assertion that the Dudley and West -sij' it ieh Bank would lose heavily by the suspen there Was a run upon it, which being fully and Tbi til v i)tl Y sustained, confidence was soon restored. Aria 1 j o int-stock concern having a wealthy pro etarordi • The reserve fund is sufficient to meet all pa r a , 11 7 Contin genc i es, an d t h e no t e i ssues are com litil4lY Small. Messrs. Davies an 1 Sons' liabi atid2 Variously estimated between 200,0001. Ala The meeting of creditors will take ce day rith ace°llnts from New York are satisfactory , retu ard to the Stock market. From the Banks largeli last completed, we learn that there was a la,i7em er ease in th e it ems o f s pecie and discounts, The n ithilta nding the heavy shipments of the former. t o b ;141ifornia steamers, however, were expected r egularlymet l a g lar g e a ccounts of the precious Ita F , 8. During the week ending May 4 there th e ,71 e xcess of exports over imports to 41 er e h a11 : of 348,701 dollars. The shipments of tit„ 4 l l - euise thus far hail been limited, owing prin- Re a b o to the s h ort supply of breadstuffs at the tro pe r d markets. The reports of the growing I 0 d w ere cheering, anti agriculture is stated to be 1 4t ala in advance of what it was at the same time Year. f ro ,t ie "ii n James B a i nes h as arr i ve d in 69 days —elhe utile, having left March 12, but at the lh'err m°l writing the letters had not been de - Ac ed : She has 160;0001. in gold . on board. bot t e °lint s from St. Pet e rsburg state that it was h ew that Count Nesselrode had resigned. A 4 4 0 .:, ere tarY of State, Count Tolestoi, had d, be d e ic i i i aot,;l-Led in the Foreign Department, but tl VeN44lerfere with the Count. The Russi a n Go freinnat merit liar again allowed the free export of corn bl O ,l to Sweden, but with the . ex 4 1 : , le this will probably be of no avail. Iter, l ees from . Turin assert that the Italian States Ait alarmed at the equivocal . attitude of a h t- : 4 in respect to the Eastern question. thi s English Stock Market has been very firm 40% 4141 1in 1 although with rather less business t 4 :1 1 } ) 1 ; . f The accounts from the Crimea appearing is at t . °lirable act, with the abundance of money, i r ,tertl' i ll% support. Consols have been at 9u4 to 'Z' a . Xe. lA : t .., e t and account, and are now about 904 -4. Pr - ;:, Qe Bs'r t r emts. have been 89a to and the pre e , - , ; 14 11. is Exchequer Bills are to 7s. I ,e Orn n i ur d has risen to 2 an't - ; 1' India The 3, ) years'. annuity is at 16i to 1 %,. 14-a- good e k is at 229. '74 e d lii Tor al of business has again . been tran- S am all4 1 , 14.1 Bonds, which li , ve improved to M exican stock is better, being 214 g . ha va l l a been q u o ted 88. Russian 5 pe per Thr ee : " e etdellt in at 98, being firm. ,h Spa nn at 1 8 i' ar e fiat a t 37i, and th e N-w Deferred he f I' 4 * batch 4 per Cents. are 92i. g are the nominal prices of foreign 1 11 ' 21 to 247 :11 ; Peruvian, 67 to 69 ; ditto Three 4 la da Deferred Bonds 6 to 4 . ; Mexi jCents t c' 43 to 49 ; P or t uguese F ou r per Cents., 1811,4 Four.;ittissian Five per Cents., 98 to 10 0 ; d i sh and- a - Ha.lf per Cents., 87 to 89 ; It 3 , 7 e w Deferred, IE4 to 18i ; Ditto 3 per t° t° ; Ditto Certificates, 4 to 44 ; T he 4"l", 37 - to irt) teark 8 4 gt pr ov . et f or it ig an railway shares opened with an t. Li ,Pearance, but has been rather flatter l li eta are everal, instances, however, the principal a ar e , a .: 3li gh as on Saturday. The Canadian It ot e e lL et, and the Indian likewise. Antwerp , 66 4 4. rd atti are supported. Eastern of France eli , th tßet add ar es are neglected ; banks firm, with a t a lli oia of a n• te in London an d V6stminster, and N'haga are quiet. and the misc e llaneous under qUiet. Crystal Polace . are weaker. Rl ll3B , FUNDS Tlll5 DA Y ON ' t h ._"° l •C ee 'rnm c , ,?,r, at. Ite dliced 'Pte 0[1,4", ,011 etli * Pe tit. U NISOIfi A A"l ! it . i" 893 r As _ 89A ItiZ t ta P•xr n ii n „ it sr, r*** - ;••';' - It oet . '▪ ears, Expire sth April, 188i' 16i t/24,1' ``• ................... .... , eeennt, 30th May 9Ol !iii;' .. Zed P . L' s e tol4 .... ••• - -4 7 'l4' P ORE AT ) VE 3 per „. IGN FUNDS ji 11 044 Cent. ........ . 211 a 0, 4i: 44 13 0 18 22, 5 per Cent. £St- 98 ll h " 8 . 5 Per Cent. t° ' 44 ' 3 Per C b efe Cent 374 ly e i halv e., l led, 3 per Cent lB4 ~Ijl l lll Itt o e'etia,„ 6 e ' , tut. of Coup. not fun 4 k llc e a r th e ' lie l e tcent 784 8 i f le4d s , 3 i Per Cent ••••••-• ei ' re(l l l 4 per C t st et eh vi a , nd. en 134 "etzi, ken 's on the above payable to PI lan 'a 4t , 1) ,..4,, 4: 2 , , Per Cent per Cent, ex. 25 fr Per Cent.. Ex. 25 fr 9li Per 4 - ri :I,IIL 61 Cant. Certideates . 924 jP IB OIB HALF•PAST 7' it O. 14°. '''Account';.' 9 0 0 I 1)1'147-1, SURREY TILHATEE ' Ohl . h MR. C RESWICK'S BENEFIT. Ntrll.-vetlittg, the performances ,at this ever-attractive e g°llit.,- are for the benefit of Mr. Creswick, o ne h ti ett -'taleseees, The bill of fare is excellent. addi ttt„,lht 0 : the services of Miss Fitzpatrick—one ln of ho te 114sl tlifj-I)llll3'ished aCtres4es of the % Illl'illtable Flexmore and day—we h ova t ma.la,ne Aur.e, w .L .h e o a 11 1, q4 c/ 1 , i4 4 Petit ballet divertis-ement, entitled i), 4 tittn That the how , e will be a bumper there cannotil t ' l l 11114. The fre neuters of the Surrey Theatre Whit' 1 - %44 11 , 4 he deli',lttecid to hear that on and after ii ot i ir. ,- '1 th: the leS.t.t.s have been Rga n f irtunato in i e 40 1 - 1• 8 :: vi "' of the celebraied Fl,xdicre and 5 adame the reltaintler of the season. rU Jo 1.0 • -11.1 k ---------- 14 14 ' 14 p t OP SEBASTOPOL.—\Ir. Burford will s pro : 1,,, 1 t 'e a riday next, in his large rot►,nda, ',Due i t e . r e k i . ,4 4 Y4t 1 ::::1 7 of Sebastopol, cotopri-ii,g 41,:t0 44 0 , ncampments, the attac k h fields of fi l (q4. L i r the combined fleets, but also t 9, . auti. o n f ot th ' e thl a Y lli t ed th.:4N4„4l,t,lava, and Inkerman. and the enlire h t-4te with '`' • . •errs public ti production of t . ti,s I '' 4'll tb " ; 11 " . c"nt►t-v T ' will no doubt e look Ot t ~ho t 0 ,4reat anxiety to h i t li ir Iti ,) n'Y on acC , unt of the e fame l interest. r i. l.t ett%,„"nig historic& awl natura of the artist, 'it4 ll ll ar—'4L PALACH — On S ►turday, ding to accor to ti1t:.11.,1 ,-;l4"ntmern‘nt the Palace wa. thrown open 0 ,. 2,nNI"; the usual ► eerne °t, 0 te,,te1,.1 of the 5. i mont. In ""eqn o 201 fee of the other da i. y ri s ee t: 414 "4 • ' P • Y o f viuom 1 ) r went to the Waling, 44415 i0u at thy doom. }I ARE MAR (THIS DAY., RACCWA gAILWAIi eriCry aturday. 20 ,1 kberdeen.... .... , ... N mbg. Nottng. And gastn. Juno. Belfast & Ballymena Birming. Wolverh Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lanes!_. Cheshire Junet D. Chesh. & £5O and £25 C i Do., £20..._ iyth & Tyn s origins £25 (issd. at £4 sristol and Exeter.. 43 4i 8 8 14 - 13 9 - 85 - E 7 63 - 634 f:!9.ledonian. ....... Clamartlien and Ca . digan ileester Holybe, Cork and Bandon Ic'ork, Black, di Pa • 7.rieff Junction 18 - 7 - 1 - DundeoPerth&A',. 5 - 4 5A -- cA 0. N05Y..... iTAst An cian 11 -i. 114 U. E:l9ttrn Conntioe.. F.?..storn Union, A Stock •., B Stook_ Po., New A..... r; t st trancashire 3 - 23 74 - - 57 brugh (ilas, Edinb. and Peeble., Pith di. Dund ortb & Clyde Jun• l'urness 18 - .19 ,o. Extension...,, Glasgow &s . West, RS - 70 9! - 021 79 80 1 I'l4 6 35 7 ';reUt Northern Do., A. Stook._ D0.,-B. Stock.„,„, Gt. Sth.StWest.(lre Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rai Gua. Stk.. 6614 South-Eastorr i.aucaster & Carl i s Do., Thirds Do. Now Thirds L.dacash. andYoriK Do., 'Net. Riding Un Li v .Craby.&Southpt London & Black wal 61 -7.; 6 - 8 6 8 'B4 43 •••• 8 09 • 100 Ico4, A 8 1 A 84; 1 84 7411 '8 7 ,"1 r,ond. Bright & S.Cst Loud. and N. Westr: t )0. Fifths )0: 10/. Sh. M&B.. CI ;0. Eighths mndon and& West! Do., .£5; , Do., £49 I dub idrry& Col erain !.urinrirry.& Ennist ec, Lin,' Do. Shares, No. , 4r. • Man. T. Midland 25 - 95 8 - 9 701 71, 41 Jo Birmng. IDer West.(lll , )ri. Half Shares N'c,weastie wpt. Aberg. Ennisk v,swry 10 8 ,1 .ad itostrevor. Norfolir. qorthn.Countias North British 21 . 1 , 30A . 4 orth No 1 )o.. No. 2 n.,s A Defer, Guam, Eastern—BerAii . do. 141xtensigri, .do. .1)o. Le As , o. Vork *e* 'Riorth Do. New Wstrn. , I end, and r'lit3 .T , rtle Western.„ „„ 3 - 4 - 0i ,41 - 31 -3/ 149 - 50 - 50 d 51 5 lit - .1 - a . _ . Bt S. WHvtrn,.T ,,, • tinneaton, Hinck :rid Leicester.. xford, Woreest.• , , Wolverltamptou ; 'ortemouth - 4,lottielq Central 28 - - 30 IScottiab Midland ,;trepsliire [Timor ~ , ;9ntli Devon .‘. , 371i1.. Eastern .;oath Wales sz. Vrksh. dr Riv. 5:7 22 - 61 62 S -• 29 5 - 3 3 1 ;:taiiies, Wok. lk W. tockton nark :kton ti Hartle - 1) Taff Vale .. Do. £lO sharek..... Pref., Ni.! 1 Karen Pr and Railway Vale or Neath..., lgi 31 - 43 Watcrf I. & Waterfor I&Limor , West Cornwall West End of Londcl , and Crystal Palace. West London Wimbledn &Crori,, - 7 ' - 8 5i - Si FOR. EIGN. A atwer p 1-cod , rdarn 7 gian Eaf Jon 4!. feziers toGraisaeasa.• Bombay, Baroda, an , l Central India.Scril , Central of It ply ...... I)emerara ........... )utcl , !eni sh Eastern of Frances ,1 Do. New East Indian, g. 5 p. c. Do. 1)o. p. C. Bds., pa? '57, convertible..... Do. do. do., '59, do . Gd. Tk of Cana , laA is Do. St. Lawrence Atlantic do. ........ Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till 'f'l Do. Comp 6p. c., do Gt. Central of Frau • gUar. 5 per cent.— P' . . Now 5 per cent. • Po. Extensions...—. Great Luxembouril Constituted Shares Do. Obligations ..... Gt. Western of Oanad Shares .... • • flu. lids., payable';" with option till '55., Do. do., '62, P. '56.. Do. do., '76; p. Du. do., '73, without option Hamilton & TorCyto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & 13a- i Locos Sa Pistoja 51. prof Lyons and Genus: Lyons dt Maditerr., Niadras Do. New Maria Antonia 1)0. do. New Namur & Liege (wit' interest).... •••••• Do. (ex interest) Northern of Franc( Dot 201. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelines l guar. 3$ p. c. & red. at 222/. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854.... 1)o. Wt. 3 p. c Bds (fray. R. & Am s. ;41F. NorwegiauTrunkPre' Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds . Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen... , 'arisCaeu & Cherbrg. Rouen and Havre Loyal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Mann._ De. 5i p. cent. Prof, Sc Southern of France. St. Andrew's any Quebec (Al. West Flanders Do 5? per c. Pref Western of France_ West. of gwitzerlani liT;ssbader•. Zealand .TOINT-STOI • 4,41r*,_ ....... „tiahColonial Rant. and Loan Company ;i•itiiti N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia Cited. Buk. of India, kastralia, & China Colonial ................ (low aercial of Loud. -'-cottiah awl lustlean Chart Lona. CI tart. W. of A.ustr,.l i 'itto New Lon:lon and County London Joint Stock Load. 85 WeFtrainster INational Provincial of England Do, New Nationa of Ireland New South Walett Oriental Bank a Corporation. Provincial of Ireland Do. Now Royal Australn.likg & 0 . .1 , 1 Tmp Co South Australia „.. Union of Austr9.lK,. , New tUlliCsl4 of London I - - 3 ~' ~ ; - 1i - 333 3 3 $ 241 25 2i 3i' i 7 6 17i - ' 18i 1 _ i .: ;) , f - D? 14 - 2 2i - : i 20 - 21 99 101 104 107 109 too 102 214 - 22. 107 LO9 - 5 2 3 6 - '5 35 3 13 . 251 201,p1 4 56 - 46 39 ._ 41 22 23 d 2 14' 1 8 - 2 Put 4 d 6 p g - i.'-t BANKS• d par id 17 18 20 • 21 id par .. -- • • 32 -- 34 40 - 42 70 - 72 7 9 ... Z:r. this day. 21 i 20i 2 4g i 63 i i 25 St. 20 all '4f 7 ot) 100 . 1L; 9 all 10 2s, 3.11 14 nli 75 i 41 92 la 2i 96 67/ 61 78 a 1(1 1011 83/ 41 . 5. 1 i a 71i i 1 29 SA THE SUN; LONDONI MONDAY EIriENING MAY 21, 1855, LINES I,EASED T FTRET.)*RENTA LITEIAT - ÜBE. RAILWAYS; Leasiiv Company umm. Pri‘k' Satur lay. ess this day. War Waits. . By Gerald Masaey. „..DaVid Bogue. We are disappointed. It is at once matter of surprise and regret to us that better lyrics of battle than those before - us should not have emanated from theyoung and gifted writer of the " Ballad of Babe Christabbl." We will not say that they have been penned too rapidly—for poet can scarcely dash his thoughts on paper with sufficient swift ness,. however glib his rhythm or swift his skill in penmanship. Poetry being in truth not merely a "faculty divine,"..but so to speak - a species of "di vine fury," a " celestial madness, an cestrum, an afflatus. Wherefore (let us repeat it), we will not say that these " War - Waits " , have been penned t oo rap idly. But we will ven ture to observe that they hare been printed with too much precipitation. At least some pause, however brief, is advisable between composition and publication; At least there should be some moderate interval before even the most "unpre meditated verse" be permitted to make its public appearance. It may be extravagant to insist upon the nine years recommended by Aristotle. Nature herself points the moral of rational delay by those nine months intervening between conception and delivery. Miraculous gourds, it is true, may be grown in a single night, but apart from an actual miracle ; a lusus waturce, a genuine phe nomenon, There is usually, we all know,- a certain lapse of time between the seed and the sprout, between the bud and blossom, between the burgeoning and the e ffl orescense . As in Nature, so should it be in Poetry ; unless, indeed, one aims at the producing of a mere abortion instead of a matured offspring of the intellect—a nine days' wonder instead of a full-grown and perfected crea tion, endowed with a vitality calculated to render its existence prolonged, at any rate, if not abso lutely perennial. As with every other general rule there are in this one also, as a matterof course, extra ordinary exceptions. Exceptions no leas extraordi nary, however, in the records of literature than that marvel of classic theogony which 'relates how in an instant Minerva, fully armed, and resplendent with all the attributes of her divinity, sprang into being from the brain of Jove. The birth of a Pallas of Letters is very far, nevertheless, from being an incident of particularly frequent occur rence. Poets, equally with lesser mortals, would do. well to take a hint from that Psalm of Profes sor Longfellow's which recommends how we slibidd, all of us alike— Bedford rind Rletehley Buckglrtmeb. Clydesdale .T. . Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. B. Ldneulng.i. i per cent Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct ,Do. New Olstr.& Dn. Fr I Irtlpl. Railway London N. W • L. &N. W. CAI E. Un. & - (9 9 - 101 rl , NT rt Caldonian, 134 !`'6 Irt. Wes 'k. Ne, & Ben\ V. &N ti Do.: 1 . 0 . 6 - 108 Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.&Greenw no, Preference Lon.,Til.,&S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. 1)o. 6 per et. Msnch. Bxtn. and Matlock IMiddlosbro' & Rwlear. ...... 'Nfidld.Bradf Newmarket Bury Exton Northern any' Eastern 51). r • Do. 6 ptir ct. Do. Fixeds p Vrest. & Wyic S. East,. PAW sze, - 13 - 24 - 17 NLlrfolk D 0..... Li.tiv N. W "itck tor, Parlin;e. gidland . - - 5 'En. Couu. par p E. Count 59 & N V►". De. Stirs. A lloystn.& Hit. Shef. Roth an , : fool e g . 5 /3. c Shrews. &Her S. Statlordsh Wear Valleygr per cent Do 'l.firilts&goriarst at Nortl Lancash 14,1 Yorks": T. Brassey 11101 e,, Stock t. Darlingt 130 •-- 133 71 - 32A 90 -- 92 GtWet to PREFERENCE SHARES Aberdeen 100 - 102 87 - 89 Do. N 0.2, 7 p. c... • ayth and Tyne 1 0 pet C. pref. Ossd. at 50/, & Ex. 4 p. c. De. 1 p. c. Shares aledonian C.lO 91 - 93 98 -100 ' , ester & 11°17110,0 .guar. f..ri per cent_._ )o. do. Pref. No. 2.. Do. do. Pref. No. 2.. clerk &P.andonsip. one. Prth & A I , er. J. 'l. Anglian Op. ASh Do. do. C s. B 6 p. c. Do. do. Cis. C 7 p. c. ?Astern Mantle* Ez tension, 5 p. c. No. Do. No. 2 . ')o. New 6 r . c. Bi Plast Un., G. 6 p. c ho.. 51., 10 nor cent. 00. 10/. Delientr.Sl . Do. do. 4 per cent toincash. fi p. .& W. Vol+ . J. sths -`,l. Prth.&Dun.4p.c. Fu•rie , s Has. &5.W.G.5 p.c clreat Northn. 5 p. c. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prom. p. Do 5 p.c. Scrip, Red. 2} - 3i " Learn to labour awl to wait." It should be here remarked, no doubt, , if only in simple fairness, that Gerald Massey propitiates criticism at the outset, in a few lines called the " Author's Note," prefixed to his " War Waits," where he observes—" These rough-and-ready war rhymes can scarcely be looked upon as poetic fruit maturely ripened, but rather as windfalls, shook down in this wild blast of War." Mere windfalls in reality they undoubtedly prove to be, windfalls whirled down prematurely—crude, and bruised, and soiled with all imaginable disfigurements. Not as with those autumnal droppings of fruit celebrated by Alfred Tennyson, where he talks, in "In Memoriam," of the sudden gust that "Round the garden swept, And tutni)led half the mellowing pears." Here—as Napoleon used to say—the pear was not ripe. A mat er of regret to us, looking, as we will confess we did, for better " War Waits" than these at the hands of the author of " Babe Christabel." Mr. Massey writes with shrewd sarcasm at the beginning of his little bro chore of " Waits" —" I dedicate them to the memory of John Bright, who fell so recently and so gloriously fighting the battles of the enemy." Nevertheless, grievously in the wrong, as we be lieve the honourable gentleman to be in his views in reference to this righteous war against the Russian Autocrat, we very much qu , stion whe ther the tone adopted by the young lyrist in these bellicose effusions, can be regarded as in any way calehlated to alter the perverse opinions entertained in this matter by the member for the city of Manchester. They " breathe throughout the veritable lust, and madness, and intoxication of battle. Such an exul tant passion for the were animal frenzy of fighting as might not unreasonably be reprobated by the most lax professors ofbelief in the benign principles and dogmas of Christianity. Take "The Fifth of November at Inkermau" for example : and hear Mr. Massey rejoicing at the overthrow of the Rus sians as— " Still'on they came with face of flame, and storm and shot and •Up ! up ! like heaven scalers, as we hurled them back to Hell." Adding a little further on— " And at a bound and with a sound that madly cried to kill, The Lion of Old England leapt like lightninc , from the hill. And there be stood superb, taro' all that Sabbath of the Sword, And there he slew, with a terrible scorn, - his hunters horde on her le." Immediately afterwards, our enemies come in for rather strong words, and the missiles flying about for rather peculiar epithets.—Ex. gr. " All Ilea seemed bursting on us, as the yelling demons came— - 1 g - 4 ?, )3 - 58 - 62 116 - 118 11) -- 111 101 - 163 45 p. c. pm • It. N. of scot. Ist Pr. It. R. & W. (In la lid Do. 4per c. rh. Westu.. (Berk s '.Tanta Ex. 5 p. c). no. con. red. 4i p.,•. Do. con. red. 4 p." Do. irred. 4p.c. Do. firm Pref Sh Do. 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Cent.,New Pr, south I )evon 1)o, fixed, 44 per cen S. Eastern (Readi .: inn.) of £1 Its. Id Do. 4i per cent S Wales Gu...4 13. 0 Do. 10. 44 p. c.... 4.. Yorksb.4p.e.nuar Stock. & Dar., 5 p c Po. do. do Stock. & Hart% g. r. e. till July 1, 'SA W ~te, fd. Bc, Kilk.6 p ci - 87 04 - 1(6 99 - 101 91 93 3.1 -- 3i - The red-Triouthed cannon's fury tongues lickt all the hills aflame ! And whistling shell, and sneering shot with devilish glee went past, Like fiendish feet and laughter hurrying down the battle blast." Further on the hideous delight in butchery generated by cozr bat inflames our author's imagi nation to such a degree that, scanning the Sea of Battle with his mind's eye, he cries out— " But as 'twere-River Plea4aunce did our fellows take that flood, With a royal throbbing in the pulse that beat voluptuous blood. The Guards went to the fight in grey, but now they're gory red, Christ save them, they're surrounded ! Leap your ramparts of the dead," &e. Surely all this is little better than wading, with a grin and a shriek of Holy Names, knee deep and splashed, and blackened, through the blood, and brains, and bowels of some Human Shamble-house. It is in precisely the same spirit Gerald Massey cele brates the glorious cavalry charge, led by the belted earl of the nineteenth century, on the famous field of " Balaklava "—remembering which, our poet 106 - 118 pas 121 - ?3 98 - 100 15 -- 17 " Victoria, Victori." 2 p 2I - IltU s rgS• 1 al. Agate •. 1 'dl Anglo Anstrin. Gold lOs. al Anglo Californian 6 20 6 Australian l/ 1 all Australian Cordillera ... 1 All Ave Maria - dl Baden (Gd.Dachy of) g ro 311 Blamarvon Iron and Coal . - 7 20 13 ' British Iron 4 - 6 Bra.zilianlmp.(issue ,l • at £5 pm.) 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiab 2 - 3 20. 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 31. •- 33 1 . Carson's Creek Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica to all Cobra Copper 54 - 56 5 1. Colonial Gold $ 40 it. all Copper Min. of En , 30 - Do. 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Scrip - 1 6 all 1 , , 1-te . vi.u.- red -. 20 5 Tr:st &L. Co. U. Can 1:0‘ ) 48/ Van Diumen's 1411(4 1.31 13 sings : " We weep not for the Heroes, whom we never more more shall see, [Rather weak, not to say somewhat inane and mawkish.] • We weep we were not with them in their ruddy revelry.' An expression smacking rather of the smacking lips of cannibalism. Yet one which is repeated with even a ghastlier relish in the verses "Alter Alma," where our soldiers are apostrophised as-- "Brave hearts, with noble feeling flusht In ripe and ruddy riot." In a similar strain, noreover, we find the following line in "Liberty's Bridal Wreath," put into the mouths of our veterans--- "We fought till our shirts grew red " as though they were in truth merely slaughter-men wallowing to the hips and shoulders in the san guinary filth of an abattoir ! Nay, in another of these same "War Waits," the one entitled "Before Sebastopol," we find our warriors represented not only as coatless but shirtless, and even stark naked, .as well as stark mad, in the midst of battle - " One thrilling shout for England, He Then nuked for the fight, men, Dash in like fire upon the foe, And God defend the right, men." Nevertheless Gerald Massey can, whenever he lists, sing sweetly and melodiously about the conflict ; as in that exquisite refrain about " Alma," where he writes— • " Let joy or_sorrew be in our camp, 'Tis an exultant story, How England's chosen ones went up Red Al.na!s hill to glory. Ah, Victory ! joyful Victory Like Love, thou bringest sorrow ; But, 0 ! for such an hour with thee, Who could not die to-morrow ?" Others among his refrains, however, are by no means as successful. Instance that one—. " Sing. 0 ! for a jubilant carouse Awaits us in our far land, When we shall thrust up conquering brows, And take our Country's Garland." To say little of the inelegant " thrust up," nothing can well be more weak or jarring than the italicised penultimate in the line preceding. N o thi ng, if we except perhaps a still more unfortunate penulti mate at page 18— Wil.l voice:4 Vail across the sea,— 'flay cry from litany a woe laud, — [Observe the inevitable awkwardness of the rhyme in its forced accentuation !] , Revenge ! remember Sinope ! Revecge ! remember Pola n d !" There is something very fine in th e s i mp li c i ty of the opening of " Ti e - Batcle Ma rc h" g lory to our England, As she rise, calm and gran d , With the ancient spirit in htr eyes,— The good Sword in her band !" But what possibly can Mr. Massey m ean by s a y i ng a little further on — may she sit down i' the gr een n ' t h e day, And sing her peaceful p sa l m !" What on earth is " the green o' the day ?" And what in the name of all our most authoritative grammarians from Ruddimau to Lindley Murray; what is the significance of those unhappy nouns dis torted into impossible yerl4,at pa.se I. lan d page 22 . Firstly— " And she banner the world up high." And secondly— • " 0, thou among the nations, for thy might shall yet be thorned." Something better than all this we had expected from Gerald Massey. Something better than this he had himself given us the right to anticipate from the author of the "Ballad of Babe Chris tabel." He will infallibly be himself among the most energetic to protest—when a little time shall have elapsed—that these raving " War Waits" are altogether unworthy of Aim as the lyrist of un questionably the largest promise in the—increasing and still increasing —crowd of our young Poetic Adventurers. The Story of the Legion of Honour. By W. Blanchard Jerrold. G. Routledge. A timely and otherwise very acceptable republi cation. " The Story of the I&gion of Honour" had already been told by Mr. W. B. Jerrold some what in the manner in which it is here related— its original appearance having been fragmentary through the columns of a morning contemporary. Collected together in the little volume before us, the chapters of the heroic tale have been not in considerably enhanced in value by numerous act• anions and emendations. The narrative is suffused from first to last with that roman tic interest which invests, as by a sort of necessity, everything relating to the marvellous history of the Emperor Napoleon the Great—that, career of miracles, beginning with the birth of the hero on the carpet embroidered with classic figures from the Iliad, to his death under the lurid glare of a comet, and in the midst of the roaring of a mighty hurricane. It will be remembered that when the unfortu nate Duke of Newcastle resigned the seals of the War Department to make way for his successor in the person of a gouty valitudinarian, he inti , mated the intention on the part of her Majesty's Ministers to create a new " Order of Merit," im-, plying by so many words, however, as he did so, that this Government order was proposed exclu sively as a military reward, and not broadly, and nobly, and magnanimously as a military and civil, recompence. Remarking this, Mr. Blanchard Jerrold has wisely recalled to, the recollection of the multitude, the glorious and inspiriting "Story of the Legion of Honour"—the star of Napoleon— the precious reward held out by the great conqueror alike to the drummer and the marshal, to the statesman and the manufacturer, to the admiral and the midshipman, to the prince and the pea sant. The writer relates succinctly, but most pic turesquely, the three chief incidents of this memo rable institution—its original creation—its solemn inauguration—its distribution to the grand army on the heights of Boulogne. Speaking of the last-mentioned occurrence as an eye-wit ness, what says the Duchess d'Abrantes ? " I saw him inspiring with . adoration the con scripts just snatched from their families, and while decorating the veterans with the rewards of former glory, inspiring their juniors with emu lation to reap fresh laurels"—(adding, as if with a foreknowledge that, in spite of Bourbon-Legitima tists and Orleans-intriguers, in spite of the banded kings of Europe and despicable traitors like Fouche and Talleyrand, there would inevitably come, sooner or later, the perpetuators of the heroic dynasty)— " Tile Empire was then proclaimed, and Napoleon the First reigned in France." Theideaof his glorious " Legion" had first been spoken of to a group of his friends (savans mostly, such as Denon and Arnault) on the evening of a Monday in the February of 1802, in one of the saloons of the First Consul's beautiful home of Malmaison. The project for the creation of the order was first read by Rcederer to the Council of State, on the 4th of May, follow ing: The project was carried on the 14th from the Senate to the Representatives. It was there upon formally accepted by both branches of the Legislature. Yet it was not actually carried into execution until two years later, namely, in the year rendered memorable by t he foundation of the Empire, and by Napoleon's double coronation at Paris and at Milan, as Rex et Imperator. Oil the 15th of July, 1804, the Legion of Honour was inaugurated by a grand religious and military ceremony under the dome cf the Invalides, where high mass was cele brated, the Cardinal Caprara officiating. On the 16th of August, Napoleon distributed his new order of merit to his veteran soldiers at Boulogne. Mr. Blanchard Jerrold relates, these more promi nent incidents in the auuals.of the. Legion with graphic ability, and crowns his narrative with a record. of the effects produced throughout France, and ultimately throughout Europe by the decoration. As a pendant to which his tory of Napoleon's imperial order of the Legion of Honour, the writer submits to public view, at the end of his little volume, sundry thoughts and suggestions as to the proposed new Order of Merit to be instituted in England. A nobler model for such an order could not posgthly be found than the Legion of Honour. The proposal that it should bear upon it the effigy of Victoria, just as the de coration of the Legion is emulazoned with that of Napoleon, is to say the least of it must reasonable. Nut so, surely, as Mr. W. Jerrold himself thinks, the notion of its being designated either the Order of the. Bee or the Order of King Alfred. The bee and the violet are the emblems of the Bonaparte just as the lily was that of the Bourbons. While to have the order decorated with the effigy of Queen Victoria, and yet at the same time tailed by the name of King Alfred, were, to say nothing more of it, assuredly rather incongruous. Why not have the Order of the Oak—% starn or cross having at its centre the effigy of its royal founder—and as its motto— Howbeit, as good MistressGlasse saith, " first catch your bare"—so may we leave ulterior arrangements like these until the necessity for the institution of some such comprehensive Order of Merit shall have been fairly admitted by her Majesty's Government. Thorney Flail ; a Story of au Old Family. By Holme Lee, author of " Maude Talbot." Smith and Elder. Although this story cannot be compared in inte rest or in power with its brilliant predecessor, it has distinctive features and characteristic energy which separate and set it apart from the common place and ordinary. The records of an old family have always a peculiar charm for the thoughtful. A. magic spell seems to attract there the attention and enchain there the interest where the great and glorious of other days have existed. .All of paltry or trivial appears to have passed away or never to have been in the spot which Time, the uprooter, has not effaced but rendered solemn by his flight, and which the destroying angel of death has made sacred in his passage, as from thence were removed those whose memories were not subject to decay or oblivion. It was with the homage great minds have ever yielded to their sway, and the knowledge of their influence on the noblest elements of our nature, that the mighty conqueror invoked the shade of ancient glories, and summoned the spirit of the past, when he exclaimed to his army in the Valley of the Nile, " Soldats du haut de ces pyratnides quaranta siecles vous coutemplent." Yet not only in what is grand and sublime do we suppose those who have gone before us to have had priority ; they have reigned paramount in all that can charm the eye, delight the sense, and fascinate the taste of man. As - was truly remarked by an author and orator of the • present day, "The past is embodied in the beautiful." It is this that renders its pre sence so alluring in fiction and entrancing in songt— that surrounds historical romance with so enduring a lustre, and flings over the twilight of fable and the fancies of tradition the rainbow hues of glory. In the present instance the story is concerning those who (although of good family) are in a me diocre position, and some, indeed, were of a humble and simple style. The narrative is retrospective, as is best suited to its tenour ; and the reminis cences are related by Grisell Randal, whose brother Hugh is the hero, and by whose courage and con stancy the stigma was removed from the anzrals of his race, and whose dream of youth was realised, when in manhood' he stood the possessor of the home of his forefathers. He began life the son of a watchmaker, without friends or fortune, and in maturity he had created for himself a position in regaining his hereditary domain, and became famous by resuming his ancestral rights. More difficult and laborious is the task of him who re makes and remoulds than of him who originates and designs. To retrace lost steps and trace back again the tide of fortune is as stupendous an ordeal as to conquer new 'kingdoms and discover new worlds. The career of Grisell, his sister , is not ot without its struggle's and sufferings. in the I ,v•id o feeling as his were in the woi 4.1 of Acta) her I Her life was devoted to others, and few appreciated as she deserved to be. H:r home as e t r l ex o . f troubles of all sorts—veiationi linen(r doctrines ing, and overwhelming. The too sterno..., 1 trines of her father drove away tlrotenledeasztaistohn in H e d r esp i : t i e r r , never to return to that light-hearted, 'returned to the Marian, gay and paterna atode, G •ell's heart. after having lived long with an aunt, only to bring there d e solation to Las ac l ed in an aw fu Th e unfortunate t pl o whom she was en position, for Hen .v r a y e L d Langley, y fresh young beauty gaged, was captivated t o f young Marian, and instantly remarked to Gri sell she and her sister were an apt representation of sunshine and sha de. A dangerous idea to creep into the miud , and take root iu the brain o f a man St. 100 20 5 St. 100 15 all I ti all ail 10 2 St. 10( St. 100 ` 4 t. 100 St. t 1((, fit. 12i 1.; 10 all St. 100 20 9 50 St. :10c St. 104 St. 10 , , 8 all 10 all 10 all St. 1 6'; all l3i all 2u ; all St. St. st. 12il t. i1(k) St, 100 St. 'lOO \ 5 all St. 1100 100 100 100 100 .00 100 100 lieu 100 i~0~• S. 25 tO 1.0 ti all all 11 all 171 21 20i 1 par pm 131 1 so circumstanced. As evil weeds did the thoughts grow up amid the flowers of hope in Grisell's ex istence, and cast their blighting influence on the summer of her heart. But it is in seasons of deep and utter misery like this that the true worth 6f noble characters appears, and the superiority of the spirit in its innate and integral majesty to all that can make the flesh weak is best developed and most fully seen. From the first moment when her sorrow overshadowed her she was equal to the, emergency. " Whither should Igo ? Not to any living being could I have told the wild thoughts Within me, so I wandered away. to Mother Nature. Over the fields ripening for. ,the harvest, through quiet woods I went." After hours of self-commu nion and reflection Grisell returned home in the still solemn twilight. the dim and ancient streets,''C m r "-Creeping p thoughtsi ng owl y wandered along dered aw have fromt suffer after myself all Iu those the past, F quaint °w short h a time we whose fronts were pencilled - by clear moonlight ismese touches, how many generation s had moaned through their brief hour and gone to their rest. In a few years my heart, which ached- so now, would be dust also—the little sum of my miseries would be ended." It is not th ose w h o give- way to their passions and indulge in the pomp and cir cumstance of woe who best display the force of their sentiments or the veracity of their attach tneut. It is when passion is surmounted by prin ciple, and grief is subdued by the adamantine chains of self-government and right feeling, that the fervent expression - of the heart's devotion is sublimed, exalted, . and made perfect— that " earthly love cloth then show likest Heaven's." Thus Grisell shone superior to Ater fate, and rose high and lofty in her calm self-command, and pure self-sacrifice to the lover who deserted and the sister who betrayed her. In her defeat so well sustained she was hap pier by far than in the victory so ignobly won. Her plans succeeded for their welfare, and one hour of peace and reconciliation was spent in the old home, by the family who were never to be re-united on earth. Some years afterwards they received a summons from the wanderers, for Mr. Langley and his bride had left England directly after the mar riage. Grisell and her aunt went to them. "We talked gaily of Little Sunshine's merry days, we wondered if we should find her changed, but neither of us could imagine a line to have fallen on her fair brow, or one rose-leaf to have faded from her bright cheek." The reality was very different from the vision. " Meeting but for one brief heart clasp on this side of eternity. Alas ! it was no longer Little Sunshine of the bright May morning who greeted us, but a faint rayless lingering on the hill-tops, dying in a still warm twiligt, with the roseate flush of love upon it. She opens her eyes and smiles, then closes them, and sinks softly to sleep. Oh, Little Sunshine ! to wake in this weary world never—never more." A brighter ray illu mined the life of Grisell when she returned from her sister's grave in foreign lands, to see her brother reinstate himself and family in the halls of their race. When first coming to London together, the enthusiastic Hugh pointed out to his sister where stood Thorney Hall, and whispered "Grisell, if there should ever be a Randal of Thorney again." " Dreams, brother Hugh, dreams," answered she. Years went by from the day when the pilgrims on life's highway left the proud place which had for generations belonged to those who owned their name. Again the brother and sister came that way, and Hugh now exclaimed, " Dreams, Grisell, dreams." The whole truth flashed into her mind at once. "Randal of Thorney, said I, yes, Randal of Thorney once more." The fruit of that day's harvest was not lost, though once it was threatened with de struction, and the brother and sister are left there together at last. Each had married, but had buried their partners ; and, to use Grisell's words, the windings in life's high road had made them once more fellow-travellers. Looking back from the eminence of years on the path they had trod there was much to be thankful for, many to la ment, and rich materials for thought. The pre vailing feeling was a holy calm, for the retrospect was softened by sorrow, and sanctified by affection. " Death is a true refiner. From our memory he purges away the dross of little faults, which in life wa perhaps saw with too quick an eye, leaving us nothing but the s ense o f vacancy an d the recollec tion of how good our lost ones were, and how we loved them." The same idea may illustrate the genius of the work, which is a chronicle and record of the mighty ones laid low, and the young ones early gathered. No scenes of the work-day world were to interest and awaken those who were for ever more informed that their day of action had gone by. " What remains was summed up long ago by a great king—all is vanity." Their existence was henceforth in the world within,. whose vital principle was kindled at the shrine of memory. Thus their present held communion with the dream- ,and of the past, whose golden vistas looked up to the spirit-home of the future. MR. LA YARD AND SIR J. GRAHAM. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIRES, Sir,—As the forms of the tlouse of Commons do not permit me to answer the speech ntade by Sir James Graham la4t night, I trust that I inly be excused in taking a somewhat unusual course, but, considering the grave charges brought against me, not, I hope, ari un becoming one, if I request you to insert the following statement in your columns. Sir Jatnes ora,haru said (T quote his words from the report in your journal) : Captin Curistie had served well and 'honourably, and was recommended to me as competent to fill the situation to which I appointed him. I believe that the first time any question was raised aboa his fitness, wa.., when the hon. member for Aylesbury referred to him in this house. . . My only fear i 4, that I have yielded some what too much to clamour with respect to this officer. I ordered an inquiry to be instituted, after the debate to which I have alluded, by the commander-in•chief on the naval station as to whether, in his opinion, Capt Christie had effectively and well discharged the duties of the post that had been assigned to him, Two faults, and only two, were alleged, to the best of my recollec lection in reference to the manner in w hi c h C a pt . Chris tie had performed bisduties. The first related to the dis cretion exercised by him with regard to the transp , rt outside the harbour of B tlaklava on the day of the stony, the 14th of November. The second question which arose, and one-to which the hon. member had alluded, was whe ther Capt. Christie bad not made a serious mistake with respect to ordering a portion of the Turkish troops which were conveyed - from Varna to the Crimea to come to Ba• laklava instead of to Eupatoria. Now, having received this answer to my inquiries, instead of handing over Captain Christie to the committee of which the hon ourable member for Aylesbury is a member, and over which the honourable and learned member for Sheffield presides, I thought it was more just upon the whole, arid infinitely better, to submit the conduct of a gallant offi,Aar to the cmistituted tribunal of his brother officers—(hear, hear)—who should investigate the charge and pronounce an opinion upon his professional conduct. This course I thought it better to adopt, rather than to subject Captain Christie to the ordeal to which I have referred." The speech in which I spoke of Captain Christie's age a of nd consequent i ncompetency to discharge the duties a.- signed to hi m was ma d e on the 19th February. On the 23d of the s ame mon th M r. Gladst the name of his c o ll eagues, M r. Sidneyone Ispeaking Herbertand Sir James Graham, who h a d j us t l e f t L or d P a l merston ' s Government because the Sebastopol Committee was to be appointed, while they bad been led to believe that Mr. Roebuck's motion on l y i n f erre d a vete of censure on Lord Aberdeen's Administration, thus allude •l to the cane of Captain Christie. I quote from Hansard : " I heard the hon. member for Aylesbury the other night state that, wh a t ever e l se might be obscure, it was quite clear that it had become the duty of the Govern ment at once to p rocee d t o the dismissal of Capt. Chris tie, the head of the transport service, on account of bi , inefficiency. Well now, how stands the case as regards Capt. Christie ? Let me point out the facts to the house, for they show that the Governrner t are beforehand with you in all cases which are at all clear. The hon. mem ber for Aylesbury said, and he made it a part of his case in attacking the Government, ' Why do you n ,t dismiss Capt. Christie ? Why do you not put him out of office?' Now, had Capt. Christie been put out of office ? He bad, then, already been dismissed by my right hon. friend near me (Sir J. Graham). But is that all ? Capt. Christie was on his way home ; he bad r ached Malta, when my right hon. friend, hearing that Capt. Christie had. been chargeable with mismanagement, sent to stop Capt. Christie and made him return to the East, in order that he might take his tr al by a court-martial, The hon. member said Capt. Christie had been guilty of misma nagement, and in that respect his opinions agreed with the presumptions of the case as it came before my right hon. friend. The Sebastopol Committee was nominated the same evening as and after Mr. Gladstone's speech. of dates, will thus prove bey ond q uestion :—ls . That ,fi , quot t rd, and A comparison of the two spee ches above so far from " the first question of Cap tain Caristie s t ness" having been raised by me, he had been dismissed c ‘ t 3 a . f rr re fi r a t t, he i nste g ad debate ' i,l. ChyhrSisitriej.am2e.s TGlbraAti,ainnstbefore f Capt ain l " l lTa i vir s )g Pt i k n e st n itu of tedari in- H q i u l ui in quit;}into o C.i h p o t,? l i a n d C d b o r n i: t s i o e's b c e o fo n r c e l u . Captain bhristie having been dismissed partly in consequence of a nything I had stated; the Govern. merit, of which Sir James Graham was a member claimed credit to themselves for hating ti . , so before I had drawn their attention jarn t: e G e i pt, ° ; ,t ' Christie ; aryl 4, that whereas Sir states he ordered Captain Christie to be thetl iaeldrisatbelletYlateuaii not hli in existence, court-m irtial in the Crimea, n) it t t r e ) e s: v v a : om gentleman 1 ny expelent ordeal of par.ing through hands • nfrorn the t n o o p r ol d C o om th m e it r te ig e 4 th h at on C . would be, at the time when he directed Captain Christie to be dismissed and his conduct to be investigated.ln my zeal for the p u bi c service, and with feelings of a very peculiar nature arising from the misery and ne glect which I had myself witnessed in the Crimea, I was led in the heat of debate into an inaccuracy on a subject ° o a f Mr. wbi Christie—u i could have no personal knowledge—the age naccuracr which, however uniin portant itself, I deeply regret, as it has been the cause of pain to an old and gallant officer now no more, and to his relatives and friends. In his anxiety to screen himself, and throw the odium of what has occurred upon me, Sir James Graham has riot hesitated to state calmly and deliberately that which he ought to have known of his own knowledge to be absolutely false. Against Captain Christie I had no personal feeling whatever. I knew him, and bad every reason to be lieve him to be an amiable, deserving, and gallant man. As to his fitness for his post I had formed an unfavour able opinion ; but to that opinion I'bad not given pub lic expression until after Sir James Graham had directed Captain Christie - to- be superseded. -If any injustice, therefore, has been-done to Captain Christie, it has been done by Sir James Graham, who sacrificed a public ser vant to what he terms public clamour. He alone is, consequently, answerable for the results. I am informed that Mrs. Boswell wrote more than one letter to me regarding her brother.- I can only say that I have no recollection of having received any com mnnication from her on the sutject, nor was I acquaint. ed with her name until Mr. Fergus mentioned it, after I had spoken last night. I truct that n o one w ill suppose me capanle of a want of' courtesy in a matter of this kind. I confidently leave this statement to the calm judg rnieenntt s a : n r d v a nt, A. H. yu justice of the public.—l am, LSiAr,yrrpo.be d9, Little Ryder-street, May 19. THE...NIGHT CONFLICT ON THE Ist, GENERAL CANT OBERT'S REPORT. The Moniteur contains the following report from General Canrobert, addressed to the Minister at War, and dated May 4: — Monsieur le Marechal—My telegraphic despatch of the 2d gave you the account of the taking by main force, and the occupation by our troops, of a work of counter approach which the enemy had raised in front of our left attacks. This work, which was of very considerable extent, was composed of trio broken lines, separated by an interval of 40 metres, and the extremities of which were supported by some natural obstacles of the ground. It was in communication with , the lunette of the Central morta rs , th e trench, the fi r e fraonndl whichitad been seriously o m u o s u l yn annoyedted wit h rßdausetibdoann by a our works. This advanced position was of very great importance to the enemy, as from it they could perhaps have destroyed one of our recently -completed batteries, as well as the works around it, and would have had a cross fire on our attacks on the Fiat Staff Bastion. It sians fwarom s therefore necessary for us to prevent the Rus shing themselves definitively in this place d'arraes, and an attack on it was resolved on, as soon as the works should have reached a height sufficient to protect us from the fire of the place, or at least should do so partially. According to orders received from me, General Pelis. sier prepared the general arrangements for the attack, the execution of which was confided to General de Salles, seconded by Generals Bazaine, de la Motterouge, and Rivet, and Lieut.-Colonel Raoult, Major of the trenches. 'At ten o'clock on the night of the Ist, at the moment when a very bright moonlight enabled a movement to be made in order, the troops, form e d i n t o t wo co l umns, left our parallels. The left columns,composed ofsix companies of the foreign legion (Ist Regt. Col. Vienot), eight com panies of the 43d, under Commandant Becquet de Son nay, and ten companies of the 79th, under Colonel Grenier, were ordered to turn the work by the right, which was defended by several battalions. These troops, which were led on by Gen. Bazaine with much skill and vigour, rushed on the enemy with an irresistible impe tuosity. Col. Vidnot also led on the foreign legion with remarkable gallantry. A ball has deprived the Emperor of this brave officer, who fell, sword in hand, at the head of his men. • The centre column, under General de la Motterouge, whose name has already-figured in the most honourable manner in the operations of the siege, was cot posed of two battalions of the 46th, under Colonel Gault. One of these battalions, once led on by the colonel himself, advanced without firing a shot on the frobt of the work, and resoliitely rushed on the enemy at the point of the bayonet. The other battalion, following close, imme diately crossed over the first inclosure, and the whole regiment then advanced on the second, which it carried with a courage of which its colonel set the highest ex ample. The 98th, 4a3arching in support of the 46th, rushed in its turn on the enemy, and gave btilliant proofs of valour under the orders of its colone►, de Brdgeot. The right .!olumn, formed of one company of the 9th battalion of Foot (Masseurs, under Capt. de Villermain, an officer of tried bravely, and two companies of the 42d, under Capt. ita,goo, carried the work on the left. The enemy, driven from every part, and pursued at the point of the bayonet, abandoned the work and re tired in disorder, strewing the ground with their slain, And leaving a number of prisoners and a quantity of arms in our possession. The loss of the Russians was very considerable. We took possession of the nine band - - mortars, which had been placed in position. As soon as the work was occupied, the engineers com menced operations to turn the parapets, in order to se cure the position from the fire of the town, and to unite it by a communication with our parallel in the rear. Thee works were executed in the manner agreed on be forehand, but under such a fire of artillery as certainly never before proceeded from any place. The officers Of engineers, and particularly Lieut.-Colonel Guerin, dis played a , coolness, an energy, and a skill, which were the admiration of all ; they were seconded with the 4reatest devotedness by ,he sub-officers, the sappers, and the workmen of the different corps, among whom those of the 14th Regiment of Infantry was specially pointed out to me. Scarcely had 'the Russians re-entered the place when the violent _ cann made which I have - before - ettudect te.- commenced frncr, every peinii;? the fortifications. The workmen, the troops, and• the treuches in the rear, re ceived a complete storm of projectiles of every kind ; but our artillery, Fkilfully directed by General Lebeuf, opened a fire from such batteries as could be brought to oear on the spot. Toe works were thug continued until daylight, when the enemy's work was definitively in our possession. At about three o'clock in the afternoon of the 2d, a Russian column of about 3,000 men made a sudden sortie on the work which we had taken from them, and the defences of which were still in an imperfect state. It was guarded by two companies of the 2d regiment of the foreign legion, one company of the 43d,, a weak bat talion of the 46th, and a still weaker one of the 98th. These battalions, which remained on duty during the day, had suffered severely in the combat of the pre ceding night. The assailants commenced by a sharp fire of musketry, and some of the most daring of them scaled the parapet and threw themselves into the work, where they were killed or taken prisoners. While the foreign legion, the 98th, and the 46th, ener getically commanded by Lieut.-Colonel Martineau Des• chesnez, were repulsing the enemy, two companies of the Ist regiment of voltigeurs of the Imperial Guard, who were in reserve in the second parallel, resolutely rushed forward, under the command of Capt. Genty, and threatened the right sank of the enemy. A company of the 10th battalion of foot chasseurs, and two companies of the 80th regiment of the line under Chef de Bataillon de Courson, joined i n thi s movement, which so nobly marked the debut of the Imperial Guard amongst us. A. battalion of the 43d, under Commandant Jeanningros, stepped another Russian column, which was endeavour• ing to descend from the Flagstaff Bastion. The artillery of the place supported the assailants by a continued fire, but our batteries opened in their turn, and, in the end, prevailed over the fire of the enemy. At length, after several vain and fruitless assault'', the Russians decided on making a retreat, which they effected, leaving the ground covered with tlitkr dead. This bril liant affair confirmed our possession of the work. Our losses in the 24 hours amounted to 11 officers killed, aniongst whom, in addition to Colonel Vienont, was Commandant Julien, of the 46th, an officer much dis tinguished iu the army for his bravery ; we bad in all 2Z officers wounded, and 158 men killed, and 600 wounded. A. short suspention'of hostilities, the conditions of which were previously agreed on between General Count Osten-Sacken, the Governor of Sebastopol, and myself, took place yesterday, in order to bury the dead. This double combat, of which I now furnish you wi n th . the details, is charac ter i se d i n th e m ost satisfactorya honourable manner by the qu a lities of ardour did they r and cope. d tuosity which are pe cu l iar t o our troops. Never give more striking pro o fs of courage._i owe particular With praise to the generals and superior charged the direction of these brilliant affairs,ffiers c orders of General Pelissier, prepared during the particularly to General de &lies, who, underi the wi th much skill and o clay in the night. precision the operation Which be a e i y ards r r e The sanitary stateof the troops .. is perfect in every itua ion influencen w T a h r i d s t oh ne successct the en b t a sr s pai i d t va of Bastion,c t e h d e u taw s noc at hsri n s e eps b r. lied • their s ergy is unequalled Accept,re,-pect t e e n! they well supplied with c e lx v er ß y o t ß h E in E g T .. excellentudnadc e:dsthoB LLOYD'S SHIPPING-{.THIS DA Y. m a y ir 2 s l , .... i ff h in a d zy and weather this day t.t noon, ; light a May 20.—Ocar, from iamburg, for Monte OFF Video. May 20.—Wind, S.E. Arrived —York. ondon, for , New York. Sailed—Riga, for Black m the Sea. ovvEs, May 20.—Wind, S.E. Arrived Marion, from Pot-au-Prince ; George Stookham, Trinidad de Cuba. LOIVDON, FALMOUTH, May 20.—Wind, E. Arrived—Euphosyne, from Rio Grande; Priscella, Sierra Leone; Helen and Frances, Havannah ; Marlborough, Honduras. Off Port PORTSMOUTH, —Goddess, from St. Kitt's. PLYMOUTH, May 20 —Wind, E.S.E. Arrived—Ame• rica, from New Weans ; Apurimal (Peruvian man-of-war steamer), London; Ltnt, do. do. SOUTHAMPTON, May 20 . — Arrived—Washington (Or from Bremen, for New York. SWANSEA, May 19 . —Wind, N.W. from (;üba. Arrived—Pawl, CLYDE, lay 19.—Wind S' A. Arrived—Kate Pane, John Anderson, from Trinidad. Saileti—LLord Warristonr. for Melbourne ; City .or Manchester, Calcutta; Kato Kearney, Singapore and Penang. - O'ER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind, N. Arriv e d-111illi a d es from .Alexandria ; Sisters , S evillo ; ' Ins, Li bon • John 'K uo x, Matanzas ; Sunderland, St, John's, N.B. QUEENSTOWN, May 19. Mary A. Webb, Wind, S. Arrivod—Anna Eliza , fr om Samsoon ; Alexandria; Alice, Havre. WATERFORD, May 19. Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Annette , from Hav re; Columbus Africa ; (BY SUBM.AULNE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 11 a.m. 21— Wi n d, N.E. ; tide low water ; wea th er d on d y . ews, from Dunkirl't ; *alb*. Blasiievetil,clllliraiyatian, RoNephstock. :tli 1715., 20A 00 20 50 50 100 100 20 sod 20,4 25 8/ 18i I 211 1