The Sun. — London, England, 1855-02-26 00:00:00

T ES. TE EPLECIIA SS he long an d eageril Les will be able fort° nt. They viill Aintree, on rridg, originally APP°'°,o, !9th inst., beigl3., •ement has, hoire.7olo ion, and an 0 114 was prernat arw plead a justific, ed upon so gadde3.. :n making tbe a has unscrupolol. rinced an u nfairly tiler meeting'. • co uld warrant "";;0 his own ne,tui ha d finally eet:i lir already twicer-# , eat h er , and 000_4 e considerably ar; ting. The fields, it" ifi ca nt, few bole!, ie legitimate is for many dar 1• 0 w hich hag taliett f Lady Tattoo, auji etermine the pr°'''or ie a bsence o f al to egrees of preelyi I aminfornteo ig frost, been nablofro 3e , and that tbef This fact induceLo chance of old 10193; we good things !es I shall n°l ol lll g them can 0 ,es. rr ot ith which .14010 NATIONAL 0 the confidence, ,0 Is, it is said, TeLof 7lbs of hira, _5O ,thy became `,"--0 )f those rumor )vernents io ;• but "01' oor numerous tban..oo cern ed, la the m ld, lik old tbeavi fe p et." oil uss Settle% y 01 vortby, it 01 011t e s chance look% 100 On faVOtireble 010 sufficient to tel l deration. Pe;fortl, Lions of Tret6 ectatiens of 0, i ted by 140.;01101; . 11 ias been Ist Walter 001't ,'S chances PQ t ir o" ,ned with 0° j o r . 41. Still, Ile 00,f, s, and that 01, inforMatidevestei6 ve a, Lki n be P .- 11V 00 al. SIO l e 01 ° a_ a l foo p ti I ase to of Or o p discorer,owail 00/ )dness 0' 0 40 s chance ° s od.. . 6 0 .vaiably iterd have 800 Reportsli,tlf, been recei,%o4o°l eit they ar'.ovli NeedWeirefoolf pieced that n is now P „ bo y Na Grand tilloill attract 101 d-al-gader, troi i n , and Bor,reiljd a der, y the wg.-;,,e, [risk Divi°lo :covering' , nt. T he r Aely 9 horse s in idecid,, e r eally ill beit A " )11 is call s eargobroo • b P n per a 40 jos' tha t the 2140 I have riders 010 a st lb 11 6 s,DO''' 11 6 11 4 oteen. 11 ,00ltet' 10 12 .</f 10 10 10 5 P. 3 1 10 4 10 4 p ol e 1 0 4 PbrP, 104 Ale 10 0 19 0 L be . o 9 910 40 9 8 11. 1j 9 6 1 6 1, 19 9 4 e t ' s ) 9 0 ; I,Or 0 , and, star 0,, esel9 i n an ar.ipai fir Lye 01:1131 0.0601 ,f the aheloor,, T h e n the .001:#' ,he cios io.. r e t , r eooo g ues u.., : r „ oi, ~ faith w oo ij 11 not b e the E „woo r 0 04 1-el la tie Soient i r pies °l l Y fy 0P,61 J.lolr teoU6' 0 ria s per r circles e p io 4 d will ta l; . c oll g eop l e oreVai l t: A that tm blArlis9 much be t Jo Ji Wh et ' i% Or am, e et-.„i the ° o t [ash 1 3- 0 091' e bt SE S. AP 9 ' 6 ,0 1 01 114° a ' l ' 1 oak s fli f) (TO Y V, )00 c0rf,„.,1 CO* ;tar [0 ,,,, the -.1,1 ,, 0 sir Olier terele Ole Ce.rJelt ,115065' toils g of 5 5 , A 131111-°]cir the grlPf til° fat/ igbtoe9t.o.,ro 000 Jo, Or ltt..el, v.O 08 Croei us that` 1 V 10 . 00 flit ye tnst the 0,-3 of ed 000 ov 1 ao rid ~ I tIP )ersorl, an ato ;co nother, $l3. 001' ,i if 10 ° X) ciestro., ,_ ii,i o no to !voljefifte I not be 14„e boole) ut if a bil,, 0 it ro ocoP '4Ol du l y t o , co o t i duty to re.eto lo j shootiog '11,6 beirl a would o_,,wiisbiorer oaaleil.fteP'orDie Po; po,ssiog toPeAOO, h a 090Pswijo ero, of A bole. A. ev; A under elle" ott 'r,, and if tbe 03100 find 1, bill, /' Oa tliatioo tO be brospeto ere was 00° 1,), , ad that the I ' b ti) n3anner la liPo of 3a effected bi filo per o into At t':„ svf to- ,c. lid not see ~ 03 ij btedly by 00,9: oil,' ciorges vviPo-vitq; of suootio , us bodily borerY, aviidertd it D es` tli y , Le larceol!' 'or ci . t ee eof great leall°,o .., sou accogeor7.,o Vi that there oaie, to of bAliiigiv OP, ':reets, and 9,:„ fey h be boa tel."rj to ise. ` that regopoi' to say that I°,o tbe, sad tbtit it life l e :rotectioo of '' , o trt :!ed jut° this c° ‘o ac uncloubtedif h'e coe i ld deal vv,itb t"of tile ,bro Maui toter', le of bad ebetej bY be corroDerjeet 009 , (ld that, 0"601 0 , 1 heir follyte. nire' old be 3Pq 4, , 7, il• AND commEB,CIAL INTELLIGENCE. The CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. _vle' L. d c w ,,tph market at Liverpool on Saturday N a t e p? a heavy appearance. The sales Ngio o . l ° 5 ,000 bales, all to the trade, com im rernara and Maranham, at sid. to 60., !o Egyptian 4 at sd. to 6d and 500 Surat at 3d. kIC Per lb. There ." !I ilsi a , , ere was no perceptible change heill ja "ares, and the market closed with a tieeppearance. I N ho d, ti ng of Mexican Bondholders is now 7ttee ~, and . the report made by their cora lsteltarndiscouraging, though very interesting, 1: 4 1'4d all The Mexican Government has disre- L sti a l a its engagements, and its so-called Otto th e i et .icY here lends itself in the fullest ex econtt_enehests of its employers. 1 4 ./2 fall e :p'om Madrid state that the rains wkich ON kit 4 Madrid have been so heavy'hs to in toi,, ,a ' p ealnunication. The treasury was still tilliaatio and the 4,000 labourers employed on the Pay . 110 f the river Ebro were much in arrears Ai& t i k/ ia l f rorta Odessa state that since the middle tiNpoct2ithere have passed by Perekop to Se i ittal battalions of infantry and 6 batteries i. ery I, IN ~f_, ,and that 2 new regiments of cavalry oit t :a faeb ti ed Perekop from Kertch and Arabat. 11 -Pplies of cattle and sheep had arrived l tt,„ , 3 pecially from Bessarabia. In Poland, g. es of provisions are being formed. it 4t 0, issued at St. Petersburg, declares d • • but 11 i p oll , ar inia, a ows the subjects of itil-ki.erto remain in Russia by complying with tok - r , Nt israzil there L tad_ . are accounts of Jan. 20. The 4141 44t ..,.in Rio was dull, Exchange 27i- to 28d. 14 .114 ° ,2 I.roin Holland state that the navy is ItitiorY increased. The budget gives the net . 40 ,-, - i'1e6,608,607 florins for 1855. 0 /cBr_ein States will be largely represented 44 1 17,,Exhibition. Prussia takes as much X, 4 111: - ..,Ito other German Powers together. IN.Litaganet, from Sydney, has arrived at VII% nthAs she left on the 25th October her il a be so late as those already to hand. flitt o ,,„_,, from Australia, is in the Downs. h:" 811 Funds continue remarkably steady, Llstr prey of the Ministry being completed Z l - 1 / 4 , ea g l o t i en rise to any speculation. Consols t l iqt ) L . . -.• to 911 for transfer, asd 911 to i for 0 4 11 g the same prices as on Saturday. The N - 9 ,9ents. have been 91a to i, and the O . to -1-. Exchequer Bills are 6s. to )41t21? and the Bonds have been 99i g. is nominal. Z!su,,,?,ecurities have been inactive, but the N3itered. Mexican have been 21, and tliktea Deferred 50. Russian 41 per Cents. 41 1 6_ 87 ) and Dutch 21 per Cents. 61k. k ve `was have been dealt in at 36. Turkish Voll ob , r .ealised 751 to 76±. V..c l lig are the nominal prices of foreign 14 2 41 4, : i hada Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6 ; Mexi ti ` - q - ; Peruvian, 701 to 71-i-; ditto Three 43. , to 51 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., .) " li kilou ' r n . Ussian Five per Cents., 98 to 100 ; k zi-,, a ild-a-Half per Cents., 87 to 89 ; o,tl ', lt Deferred, 17k to 18 ; ditto Three h 4 , 14 26 to 361 ; ditto Certificates, 41 to 4±; I. 4ii v _e, 4 to 4 i l- . 1 1(...; w aY meetings announced are the fol kktnN-n. Date. Place. 7 414 41 kilda L aTici Bost. -,,. Feb. 23 Nottingham. , 1 ,Y 11 ,. , 1e, 0 G hent -• M• ar. 3, Brussels. e., i ii , l 4la, llll ,tY Down Feb. 23, Belfast. 41. ,11, 0 11. • °, Ches. Juno Feb. 2S, Birkenhead. N l n. ' llll d Stour Val. Feb. 26, Birmingham. ~,r, l o. ‘ ' ," a •• :. ,.. . . . Feb. 28Blackburn. ' 411 4 -' ulna .. *** 28, Glawrow N l : l l4 4°l Thead a °us Feb.* ' • Mar. 7, Euston Station. 4, 1 0 44 % Mar. 7, London Tavern. e ., ... 41 441 Feb. 28, Cork. I\iiZkkh,l'Ciielp.' **** Junction Feb. 23, Truro. h;as . t F• eb. 2S, Dublin. 4at Z 4 Vgllnsla tt444,1444..Feb. 26, Dublin. Dundalk. . %lc iskillen Feb.. 27, Grinstead. '4114 1 64 th e N 114 Feb. 27, King's-cross. I si lto p eli ett e l k ~ . . L . N 4 7 4 ,4 4 43: 5ze Dundee Feb.E 2B, Edinburgh. Feb. 26, Preston. Fi 4 p 4 ,,.11' 1 b , e ll 4tr a . Feb. 24, Brussels. N e4 , : iti tt : 2 l er4 "••• q t , t44l a ll ,: .. : • kid noti on C arlisl k j4 0 1 4 44 1.0 Y orkshire • Mar. 7, Liverpool. ktc ; :•., )oso 4 o s u h t i h re po . r t Mar. 2 7 8 , , Manchester. l - 04 3 , ~.." llalifax Mar. 2, Leeds. 4t h - Weetern Mar. 1, Waterloo Station. ji,;,iii , Rh e l rl :anean i nia ..,.. 7". Line Apr. 4, Manchester. ~.,,.. \ I, lS ) l 4 4er g . an dii .;;;;i . Feb. 28, London Tavern. Feb. 28, London 'Tavern. NSP k ttiniskillen etht,,, ‘trip. & Roetrcv. Feb. 28, Liverpool. 1.1t14 1 / I , u tt" . . ~._ . Feb. 28, London Tavern. kNc.` 4 41 14, 1 y 41411,; retain Qr, ''... 4 0t7k5 1414 V Quebec „ Feb. 28, 26, Parliament-st to L kii, l . tta, kop t t l tX,ll Li4 lo :ol'N_ ....... Feb. 27, Plymouth . t'6 % ,,`‘17‘ 1 ._". , y 41e",,,, 1ilii,' , ... i e s i t ett l: dea lee,: .. •:: .......... Feb. 27, London Tavern. Feb. 28, London Tavern. It o js4d , 4 114,.. Feb. 28, Neath. es s•trak ''tta Brick Feb. 27, Waterford. rt es s Feb. 24, Fakenh:irn. 1 4 4 , Nt te eliob ,'... .. . Ii • I flo - '"O' -.. . eb, 28 Albion Tavern. t 14 1: 4 ll tile Mar. 5, Paris. f,, 4 % a c t Pur. Juno Feb. 27, 3, Guild'hall-bdings 11 ‘,"10w.;,," Croydon k!4,14,4':•• 'R. are the railway " calls " due in I t 6 ttl 4 Date due. Call. Amount. %Psni: l4 Cardigan ... 1...£2 0 0...£60,000 \No:',,tk i( ria of Portugal 17... 2 0 0... 80,000 ils t 'llst ", Pref. Si. ...12... 1 0 0 , ... 2,000 t 4, . 15 4 0 ,44 ce and B as l e ...22... 3 0 0... 72,000 kik::4:et t 4 tl a a r idll l. p ed r e e a ra r, New sk,4tk 1... 3 0 0... 54,000 Xten s i on ................ . 7... 1 10 0... 15,000 \ , NPort; ti le s • lon called by foreign com -9,1„1 15 2,0001., but the holdings 0, ' I * proprietors are not known itti ii, otal called in 1355 £4,291,332 lAN l ay Share Market has been flatter, and ° I . ar , l ave been chiefly engaged iu carrying i 4 fi C'nging to settle the account. On I , lk Nj o ' 3 ek the c , contango" is very high, being 6' . :l'V e j Per cent. On Great Westeria, and kY e ,lor i C e r, ll , there is a trifling backwardation. i h iti ' l , l 'illes maintain their price. s m d em 'hes are dull, the Banks at full rates kt1::1) 0 -411 d, Crystal Palace heavy, and Land lit the same. B it 'lb lt rI TDS THIS DAY AT ONE OPOLO, ( GN I -Prom the 011icial List. t'l) i 94 t :lleq Bu , ineas done h.. 0 'leed A.nnuities 9IA a ,W i t !ot r A pi nTilties . 9ll 1 917 i i i t tzpire l s l t c h s Jan., 18e0 -16 : ke t c ount, Bth March ,- 91 i C 1„,... .' .. ........ . . 2id.. ......... 14 (f... 9 G 7 4 NlO, ii:ertised 7 4 ; 4 1 , 0 10 418 1858, 3i per Cent. 99, i q t t i l the t ° I IEIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOIK . 0 0 , 4143 11,4ent. , Q s, q per Cent. — 0 ji?4,l . 4nlia,B eut 'N per Cent ''e I to ' ' Per Cont 3G tae'6 lt per cen t 76 5a qNtpitit Recount 76,1 i 1 , 1 4 ( 1 8 on the above payable in London. i n Ilgo' 1 21 c per Cent. 12 Gull 614 e ll% Obrtifieates . jo ts b• 41 011 HALF-PA.ST TWO. Itt o ~...................................... 91 1,- 1,11. xarch A econnt 1 14 t iii - -- I tO kth t otiove CritUITING DEPARTMENT. tr e i nZ circular memorandum hay' 'been issued tlaiting department : " Horse Guards, Feb. 15, 1855. £283,675 ittt'l tb he " MEMORANDUM. tt n etance of the General Coannaanding-in- Whi, e l , te tazy at War has consented .te an arrange t",44,4 01; 4 '. 2 o!diers who have purchased their dis gal.,4cie:alwed a free discharge by hid ulgence, and tki e f l a tlY re -enlist within two ye:ars after their kt ili ) 4 t o hi c h i all be allowed to reckon their former ter 4Pril P e nsion, which indulgence., however, is ), I, 4 l ait er to raen who have re-enlistod, or may re- T i P al l t ) 4 ti o , he 3 1st December, 1854. tj cam o -8 li ave been given for altering the Royal i Viely. a nd of the General Commanaing-in-Chief. 1 1 k1 1 {11- A , "G. A. `NETHER ILL, A.G." k'Stkt it ), k‘'.. i41011,1t. OPERA.—After a secession of one 41. err Formes has renewed, his engage -04, Ar e GYe for the Royal Italian Opera. Mat `ll I\ ll o ha ve been arranged l' amiable be " n ' Th 'es • •subscribers ki rt t ar t sari° and the artist. lh.e 4.t.tll4llAte, his v. ith displewure E °P THE PETREL . BY FT RE.—A letter 5 11 . 14 Al • 0 14 th, geria of the 12th, announces the de t,?l;i)adft) wit a Pert by fire of the British steamer ki +4 % J o h hay fur the army in the Crimea. die nyibi Rtiss E IN ) l ora LL AND THE LM PE NAPOLEON. jf 4 )4. 1 th e -V 5 reported to have con versed for some 1 5 1 0 , e e ' - 'elperor, and one pliraioe he is said to Yot: 4 t tiL e of is in everybody's mouth in Paris : ‘l, l :te Nv rtY is decided on going to the Crimea, I vtll4 eb.usinesa I have at Vienna, for my mis -4u a ca,se become useless, if;o:ot null." • ir A : H. ? • ' 4-0 ctii.lS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. AbardeeL. Aibg. Nc.ttng. Bost andßastn. .funct Bel fast & Ballymena Birminff. Wolveith. & I - ;Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junet Do. Chesil. cat Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £20... ....... Blyth & Tyn 5 origina £25 (issd. at £45, Bristol and Exeter Ca1ed0nian............ Carmarthen and Car digan Chester Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, dr Pass Cornwall Crieff Junction Dublin dißelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Do. Now East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A Stock .. . De., B Stock Do., New East Lancashire Edinburgh de Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin.Prth &Dundee Forth & Clyde Junc. Furness . Do. Extension Glasgow &S. Western Great Northern Do., A. 5t0ck.... . .. Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre.) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk.. Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancash. andYorksh Do., Fifths DD. Wst. Riding Un Liv:Crsby.&Southptl London & Blackwal Loud. Bright & S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westn. Do. Fifths Do.lo/.Sh.,M&B Do. Eighths London andS. Westn Do., £5O Do., £4O. Lndndrry& Coleraine' Ludndrry. & Ennisk. ganch.Shef.& Do. Shares, No. 1 Do., Man. & Lin. Un Midland Do. Birmng. &Derb 1 Aidld. G. West. (Ire, ) Do. Hale Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmkt.BuryExten, Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoini and Rostrevor Norfolk Northn.Connties Uri North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 A Deferred ' Do., 6 B Guaranteed N. Eastern—Berwicl, Do. do. Extension Do.do. G.N.E. Parch Do. Leeds Do. York North London Do. New £lO N. &S. Wstrn ,llamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester klxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Portsmouth Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsby. & Herefd. Shropshire Union ... South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dui Do.. staines,Wok. &Wok Stockton t Darliu Stc2kton & Hartlepi Paff Vale Do. £lO shares. Do. Pref., No. 1.... Thames Haven Doel and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenn3 Waterford&Limeriel, West Cornwall I West End of London and Crystal Palace West London Wimbledn &Croydon' l elosint Prices Saturday. 191 20i 4i - 4i 8i- 9 13 -12 i 16 - 17 74- 93 - 95 61i - 62} i'i 7 l'a 3 - 2 6 - 7 13 - 144 114 - 114 29 31 20 - 22 72 74 55 57 2d par 19 2Cq ... - 70 - 72 89 - 90 70 - 72 i 26 - 128 90 - 92 65 - 65} 60 - 62 74a • 74a 51 5 8 4 96 98 99i —100. E id id 1 • 85. 86 8 7d, 71 611 23 -23 i 7i - Si C 8 1 69 41 - 43 par 4 p 11 —9, 21 50 - 52 3i 3i 28 ... 29 8 10 66 74 7z— 744 6 4 121 12 5 O -- r)1, 50 52 par 4 — 4\ 6d -61)1 29 - 31 99 - 101 64 - 66 45 - 47 12 13 5S 594 29 - 30 33 = 40 ••• •.• 3 - 3 4 16 17 34 - 4 23 - '25 54 - 6i 6 - 7 FOREIGN. Antwerp&Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. June Beziers to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Scrip Central of Italy Demerara Dijon and Besancon Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian Do, Extension Do. 4 p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of CAnada.A. is. Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert. o; Deben„ con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of France Gt. Indian Peninsula Do. New 5 per cent. Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Gt. Western of Canad Shares Do. Bds., payables/, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Dn. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 por cent. all all 11 all Lake (ionst. & Basle Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c. p ref Lyons and Geneva ... +ayons & Mediterran Niadras 0 Do. NOV Aaria Antonia Do. do. New NTarnur do Liege (witl interest) Do. (ox interest) 'northern of France. D 0.20/. Slis.lato Char leroi and Erquelint* gnAr. 3 p. c. & red at 22, 1 ,/. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854.... Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds. (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.) NorwogiauTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Ditto Bowls . . Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen... . "arisCaon & Chorbrg. Rouen and ll.a.vro Royal Danish Royal Swedish z;anibre and Mouse Do. 5i p. cent. Pref Southern of France =4. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 5A per c. Western of France West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand JOINT-STD Australasia British Colonial Bank and Loan Company British N. Aniorican Chartd. Bank of Asia Bnk. of India, Australia, & China Colonial Commercial of Lond English Scottish and Australian Loud.. Chart. Bk. Australia Ditto New. London - . 1 . County. London Joirt Stock. Loud. Sr, Westminster National Provincia ' of England Do. New National of Ireland Wow South Wales Oriental Bank of Corporation Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Aurtraln.Bkg, & Gold Imp Co , South Australia , 'Union of Australia Do. Now Ullipu Of 14911dpa 6i 1 - 4 - par A p P —2/ (i 32a —32 a 5. 6x 1 1a 11) ... - ...d lit par ip par IP 3 2i 21 17 —l7i 95 97 95 97 99 10] 92 94 1 2 d par! 97 100 ••• die li 2 p - 6i 7 7 iia 3:ia 1.2 - 12 - 20i - 21Ip 45 47 39 41 - pw 22 22 ld - par 2 - lid 7i 8 ••• "". ••• .•• - pm 3i - 31 d q 7i iii -iii BANKS. 80 -- 82 ••• -- •• ld—i•d 2i'— 21d 19d iP i -- 20/ - 36 38 34 -:- 36 36 - 38 ••• .•• 38 - 40 63 - 65 7 - 9 11. .4:: P.• Bus!nags done this day. 191 20 25 St. 20 St. 25 8128 20 20 10 10 BE. 10 St. 25 20 20 50 10 5 20 20 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING-, FEBRUARY 26, 1855. 7,1T7k7 S -4TiJJ INDIAN HEROES. The country markets held on Saturday were fairly sup plied with wheat, in which only a limited business was transacted, at drooping prices. The barley trade was heavy, and malt was much neglected. Oats, beans, peas, and flour were very dull. The usual answer given to any appeal for the consuli t dation of the Indian and the Queen's services is, " Name I your men." If British India is so prolific in crops of heroes, it cannot be very difficult to furnish the public with the names of a few officers whose past achievements can readily enough be inquired into and appreciated. If we could not do better, we would accept the challenge as delivered, and would undertake, from our past ex perience of military operations in British India, and from our knowledge of the condition of the Indian army list, to furnish in the space of half an hour a treble and qua drupie list of officers who have proved themselves com petent for situations, of high command. We care not what arm of the service it may regard—Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry—the Transport or the Commissariat departments—we have in British India officers who have spent their lives in successfully practising the duties of each. We apprehend, however, that were we to adopt such a course, and to publish a list of names compara tively unknown—to their greater shame—to English men at home, we should fail in producing the result we most desire. We prefer the simpler and more effective system of bringing now one name, and now another, before the notice of the public, lest the merit of any one should be obscured, as it were, by the combined services of his brother officers. Among the names of Indian officers those of Outram and Ed wardes are perhaps the most conspicuous in England ; how many Englishmen who are presumed to have attended to the course of public affairs have even heard of the services of Brigadier William Mayne ? And yet in the military records of any nation there is scarce men tion to be found of any officer more daring in execution, mere uniform in [success. With small means he has achieved great results. Nor has his ability simply been displayed in placing squadrons in the field and heading their impetuous charge, amidst the wild hurrahs of the troopers and the stern circumstances of battle. The officer of whom we speak has not only fought well himself—he has not only shown others how to fight well —but he has proved himself to be possessed of that strange and unusual power of bending the wills of wild tribes and nations into subordination to his own. In the Queen's service, as at present cribbed and confined, it would be in vain to seek for evidence of such qualities. What can an officer do who is proved by no higher or deal than that of presiding over a recruiting party at Ballymacrush, or of aiding the civil power on some torrid islet in the sugarless Antilles ? 'We entreat of all officers who wear the Queen's uniform to believe that when we seek for a consolidation between the Royal and the Indian services their interests are as much at stake as those of theirgallant brethren and companions in arms. The history of this young officer—for a young man he is still—reads more like a page out of the romance of war than a dry record of services actually performed as a mere matter of course. Ensign Mayne, of the 37th N2l - Infantry, lost no time in displaying what manner of man he was so far back as 1839 at Jellalabad. Again and again he was thanked by the officers under whose immediate eye he fought, now for infantry, and now for cavalry service. As civilians, not very pro foundly versed in military tactics, we have a kind of weakness for an officer who is uniformly successful, and such an officer was Ensign or Lieutenant William Mayne throughout the Affghan war. For four years-1839-40- 41-42—his fame increased. "It is only," writes Sir Jasper Nicholls, "in such a region, and with such an enemy . , that it can fall to the lot of a subaltern officer to distinguish himself so often, and it redounded greatly to Captain Wayne's honour that he seized every opportunity which presented itself, and contributed so often to the success of our arms." Lords Ellenborough, and liar dingo, and Dalhousie, and the Indian Generals, in what ever other respect they may differ, at least agree in a hearty recognition of the services of this most efficient officer. Finally, we find bins placed in 1851, despite of his youth, despite of the absence of any olaims save those of his merits, in command of the Nizam's Horse, "said to be the finest body of native cavalry in India." In this responsible situation—called upon, as it were, to make war on his own account, and to exercise his judg• ment upon every detail of military operations, and upon their effective combination, we find him over and over again successful in all his undertakings, and receiving the thanks of residents and of the Governor-General in Council. Now, if our friends who are disposed to dud cavalierly with our recommendations of Indian officers seek for particulars and names, here is ono name for them—that of Brigadier William Mayne. Up to this point he appears to have walked in the steps of Clive and Arthur Wellesley. Met him have a trial.—Times. In the Continental markets there has been rather more business doing in wheat for spring shipment. The latest advices from New York are to the effect that very little busine , s was doing in flour on English account. Very little English grain came fresh to hand last week. The arrivals from abroad were only 1,196 quarters of wheat, 380 barley, 500 oats, 10 beans, 11 peas, 67 tares, 604 linseed, 381 rapeseed, 45 sundry seeds, and 127 sacks of flour. A very limited supply of English wheat was received fresh up to our market to-day. Although the show of samples of both red and white was limited, there was no inclination shown on the part of buyers to purchase, aris ing from the stoppage of most of the mills, and the diffi culties of navigation. The few sales effected in fine wheats were at prices about equal to those obtained last week. Low and inferior parcels were very dull, and, ill some in stances, the quotations wore rather easier. The show of foreign wheat ex granary was limited, and there were no fresh samples on offer. Most descriptions met a dull jug/dry, yet wo have scarcely any change to notice in the quotations. Floating cargoes wore dull, but not cheaper. There was a slow inquiry for all kinds of barley ; the supply was limited—on former terms. The malt trado was depressed, and in some instances prices rather lower. We had a moderate inquiry for oats, the prices of which wero well supported. Beans moved off heavily, at barely stationary figures. The sale for peas was dull, on former terms. We had very little business doing in flour, at late rates. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Prhsat—Essex & Kent, Red new 61s to 703 Ditt0............ old 65s 723 &sato, White uew 76a 81s Ditt0•....... old 78s 84s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old 66s 783 Ditto new •• •• •• 66s 785 Rye—Old —s —s New 428 44s Barley—Grinding... -. 29s 31a ktalting ......... 32s 348 Chevalier.• ... 353 36s Slalt—SafrolkandNor folk•• •• •• 62s 67s Brown... •• .• ........ sds GOs Kingston and Wary 68s 70s Malt—Chevalier • • .• 71s to 72e (Outs Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feed 263 28s Potato. 283 30 Youghni and Cork Black. •.• . • . 25s 29s Cork, White .•. .. 26s 30s SeotCh,Feed..... 28s 315 Beans—Tick ......... 375 39s Pigeons ...... .... 43s 468 Peas—Grey .......... 83s 37s Maple ........... 39s 42s White........... 39s 42s Boilers •...42s 44s Flour—Town-made... 65s 73s Suffolk .......... 54s 60s Btooktn & Norfolk 53s 54s SMITHFIELD. In consequence of the great severity of the weather, scarcely any foreign stock arrived in the port of London last week—the total supply being only 289 head. In the corresponding week in 1854 we received 2,775 ; in 1853, 3,590 ; in 1852, 1,824 ; in 1851, 1,994 ; in 1850, 1,228; in 1849, 2,616 ; and in 1848, 1,020 head. TALLOW. Agua Fria Anglo Austrin. Gold Anglo Californian Australian Australian Cordillera Australian Freehold Ave Maria 13adeu (Gd.Dnehy of) Blxnarvon Iron and Coal .. British Iron. Brazilianlmp. (issued at £5 pm Do. Cocaes & CuiabA Do. St. John Del Rey Cv.rsons's Cil'c9kk Clarendon Con& Min. co. of Jamaica Cobre Copper Colonial Gold [1 Copper Min. of Eng. [1 Do. Pref. 7i p. cent, 6 Copiapo ....... [1 English and Austin. Copper &lung Co. Fortuna El General.. Gt.NuggetVeinßeg. ,Great Polgooth . Liberty Linares.. Lusitanian Niariquita New Granada New Linares Mining and Smelting Co Nouveau Monde Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. & Smelt Port Philip Quartz Rock Ritymney Iron Do. Now Santiago de Cuba ' South Australian Tin Croft United Mexican Waller West Mariposa Worthing Miuing of Australia Yuba.. ;~ ... ~ - 1 i . ----- i 4 - 4 - 6 - 1 1 -1 2 A 28 -30 - - 46 - 43 - - 50 1&1 - 1 p 17 - 19 - 141 -16 i 7 8 i a id d I - i s - 111 - 151 19 - 21 5 - 6 3i - 4 i - li 1 - 2 2i - 2i I- STATE OF TRADE. ( From the Manchester Guardian of Saturday.) MANCHESTER, Feb. 23.—We are unable to report the slightest improvement in any department of our market since Tuesday ; all circumstances, in fact, both commer cial and political, combine still further to diminish peo ple's confidence and increase their caution. The entire transactions of the week have been on the most inconsider able scale, and the prices accepted by sellers have been rather below those of last week. Low as these are, no body ventures to speculate in any degree, or to make any purchases at all exceeding the requirements of the day. BRADFORD, Feb. 2.--The colonial wool sales in Lon don have opened with more animation, and maintained a degree of firmness not warranted by the state of the worsted trade, still each night's sale is well attended by buyers. In English of all kinds here there is a still greater degree of dullness manifested than has been since last clip, and as the quantity consuming is net more than one-third at this period last year, there is nothing to induce, but everything to de ter, buyers from purchasing more than for day-by-day consumption ; and with such driblets as the sales now represent prices cannot be maintained. Noils and braes are not plentiful, consequently cemtnand rela tively good prices. LEICESTER, Feb. 22.—The Government orders which have supported a considerable branch of our trade for so long a time being nearly all completed, has produced much greater depression in our market this week, and thrown many more operatives out of employ ; we cannot report any improvement in the general demand. Manu facturers are acting cautiously. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DI Y.) LONDON, Feb. 2G.—Wind and weather this day at noon, N.E. ; light breeze, and dull, hazy weather. The thaw has been very rapid during the last 36 hours; and the weather is now very mild. The river is almost en tirely free from ice. DOVER, Feb. 2Z,1. Tho Scud, of and for London, was stranded near the Potter C. G. station, has since bilged, and it is expected will become a total wreck. FALIIOUTH, Feb. 25.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Arae rice Packet, from Maulmain, for Hamburgh ; Elizabeth, Buenos Ayres, for Antwerp ; King William, Mazatlan, ' for Antwerp • Westbrook, Maulmain, with part of cargo thrown overboard. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 25.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Sir T. Gresham, from Calcutta ; Pltsntagenet, Sydney, with 2,000 oz. of gold. Sailed—Candaca (s.s.), for the Coast of Africa ; and a large fleet of the outward bound. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 25.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived— Her Majesty's ships Britannia, from the Black Sea; St. George, Malta • Calcutta, Plymouth ; and A r i e l, f rom th e westward. The Result, from China to London, put in here yes'erday, leaky, and sho touched the ground in cow ing in. _ HOLYHEAD, Feb. 25.—The Wave, from London to Liverpool, has put into the Old Harbour, leaky, bavi, g struck on a sunken rock in Caernarvon Bay dining a fog. (PEE. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Monday, 11.5 a.m. Wind, E. Arrived—Queen of the Isles, from St. Michael's ; F. P. Sage, New York; Northern Belle, New Orleans; Coosa Wattee, Savannah ; Jno. Ltavenel, Charleston ; Arabian, Prince Edward's Island ; Lady Elizabeth, China. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 24. Wind, S. Arrived—Ann Livingston, from Algiers ; Nugget, Prince Edward's Island • Ada Vary, West Coast of Africa; Viking, Alexandria; Amity, &lollies. D v BRITISHESEND . 3s T o E n L a E a sa y B o A 1 0 P .%) a ra (BY SUBMARINE G A R N A Wind, W.S.W. ; tide, 1?: ! hour's ebb ; weather, hazy and moderate. Arrived, 25th—Esmond Waburnen, from Egmoud ; Seeille; Age, s elehhaoamneg,ll. Rouen DEAL, Monday, 9.30 a.m. ; King Phili p , B es . la ton ed ; einb Spi llc r i iiof the A Wind, N.W. ; light. with thick fog. - - Passed, nth—American Congress, from New York, for London. Anchored—Agnes Taylor, from Demerara, for London ; Argo, Catania, for Ipswich ; Richard Also p , from New York for Antwerp ; Merchantman, Bombay, for London. DRURY-LINE THEATRE.—This evening the long-pro mised opera by Meyerbeer, entitled L'Etoile de Nord, will be performed for the first time. The arrangements for the representation of the opera are of the most ex tensive character, and, in addition to the celebrated Jenny Baur, Mr. li. Drayton and Mr. Leffler have been engaged. The chorus ha 3 been augmented to upwards of eighty voice, and a like increase has been made to the orchestra. The appointments are, it is said, of the most elegant description, and everything that the most lavish expenditure could procure has been done to give due effect t.) this celebrated dramatic opera. Some idea may be formed of the splendour of the scenery, dresses, and other etc.'s, from the fact that upwards of a thou sand pounds have been expended in order give gran deur to the work. Renowned as Old Drury has ever been for spectacle, this opera bids fair to outrival all previous productions. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—This evening - the fascinating Perea Nena again appears at " the little theatre in the Ilapaia,rket," in two new ballets. Mr. Buckstone has also secured the services of Senor Marcus Diaz, in order that the Spanish ballets may be produced in first-rate style. Report speaks very highly of the two ballets announced for representation this evening, viz., The Bull Fighter, and a Gallician Ft CARLISLE, FEB. 23.—THE MURDER AT LAMPLUGH. —Thomas Munroe, miner, aced 18, imperfectly in• structed, was indicted for the wilful murder of Isaac Turner, at Lamplugh, on the 4th November last. The trial has already lasted two days, and on Saturday when the post left, the jury had not returned their verdict. MELANCIIOLY DEATH OF AN OFFICER.—Major C. Colville Young, of the Royal Horse Artillery, just re turned from the Crimea en route from Turkey to the Isle of Wight, whero his wife and family reside, was killed on Saturday morning by falling from the top storey front window of one of the bedrooms of the Fountain Hotel, High-street, Plymouth. Au inquest was held, and the jury, after a short consultation, found that the deceased was killed by accidentally falling from a window. SOUTH AMERICAN MAILS.—LIsRoN, Feb. 19.—The Portuguese steamer Don.t Maria, 11. arrived here on Saturday. Advices from Rio de Janeiro state that the Brock of coffee had been very much reduced by shipments for Europe ; but large supplies were expected upon the cessation of the heavy rains which hal stopped the tran sit. At Bahia surgars were very firm and even scarce. At Pernambuco, sugar receipts had been heavy. A letter from Helsingfors, in the Borsenhalle of Ham burg, says :—" In a speech delivered by General de Barg, the new Governor of Finland, at a grand dinner given in his honour by the town, was the following phrase :—` Gentlemen, my return within your walls does not announce to you any favourable change in circum stances ; it proves, on the contrary, that the trials to which you ;were subjected last year, are likely to be renewed.'" Accounts have reached the French Government of the total destruction of a transport in the Black Sea, laden with troops and ammunition.. The ship is said to have foundered, and every soul on board, amounting to 700 persons, perished. FATAL ACCIDENT IN ST. JAMES'S•PARE—Yesterday lad named John Harper, 25, Tower-street, Seven Dials, who, in spite of cautions to the contrary, was amusing himself with two companions close to a channel which had been made for the water fowl in St. James's-park, near the island facing the Horse Guards, slipped off the edge of the ice into deep wat , r. The other lads ran away, saying nothing to the Humane Society's men, so that the accident was not discovered for some time after wards, and when the lad was at length taken from the water life was extinct. TLIE PATRIOTIC FIIND.—The subscription to this fund obtained in the city of York and the neighbour md amounts to nearly 3,0001. The list will be closed on Wednesday next. The sum collected at Rotherham in aid of the same object is 1,1001. At Nether Popple ton, Yorkshire, 221. 15s. 6d. has been subscribed. The inhabitants of the parish of Tottenhasa have most libe rally contributed towards this fund. The total amount forwarded to head-quarters en Thursday last amounted to 5451. 15s. The sum subscribed in the borough o f Leicester to this fund now amounts to 2,619/. ; the sum for the same object from the county is upwards of MI, THE WEATHER. A rapid thaw, with a sonth-westerly wind, was hailed by thousands of the industrious classes in the metropolis last Saturday morning. Labourers were at once set to work to demolish the ice in the basins of the several docks in the Thames in order, if possible, to get the ships clear. The break up of the ice in the river, where it is fast above bridge, and in the various creeks, is much dreaded along the shores. All the shipping have ladled in from the centre of the river, close in to shore, and will in a great measure avoid the masses that will be carried down. A considttrable quantity of the snow and ice which had acountulated in the thoroughfares has dis appeared within' the last forty-eight hours. On Satur day night rain fell for two or three hours, and again last night, about nine o'clock. The subjoined correspondence shows that the, thaw is gerveral, and the relief which it will give to hundreds of thousands of labourers and arti sans, upon whom the frost . had enforced idleness, may be regarded as a national benefit. MANCHESTER, SIINDAI.- —The long frost began to break up at Manchester on Friday night under the influ ence of a westerly wind, Which continued the whole of Saturday. On Saturday evening there was a fall of snow, followed by moder ately heavy rain for some hours, but this morning the wind had veered round to the east, with a heavy fog. SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY. The severe weather has been entirely broken up ;s:t Southampton. Large quan tities of rain fell here on ,iatartlay night. All the snow and a great portion of tote ice hare disappeared. To-day the wind is south-west. LIVERPOOL, SUNDAY. - --The unusually severe weather with which we have bet ni visited during the last fort night, in some degree m• o derated yesterday. The wind suddenly shifted to the noutb, and a rapid thaw of the large masses of snow f allowed, which continued until about five o'clock in the, afternoon, when a heavy fall of sleet and rain took place,. Later there was another fall of snow, covering the ground to the depth of several inches ; but in a brief p, ;ri od the influence of the atmos phere, which acted mildl y„ soon reduced it. The weather here may now be said to be broken. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, SATURDAY EVENING.—A de cided thaw has set in, N . . rith rain, and the snow is gradu ally disappearing. The mayor has issued a notice pro hibiting persona from c rot .sing the Tyno on the ice—a practice which has beco me dangerous. LEEDS, FEB. 24.—A change of wind to south-west took place this morning. :accompanied by a mild breeze and a rapid thaw, which: in a few hours carried away the snow. DUBLIN, FEB. 24.—Ti v ) thaw has returned this morn ing, with a prospect of finally predominating. As an instance of the late sevc ity of the weather, it is stated that the famished sea-bi Is accepted food from persons standing at the Liffey tall, in the same way as the tame water-fowl in the p ind of St. James's-park. PARIS, SATURDAY.—T h e thaw has continued all day yesterday at Paris and in the neighbourhood. The roads all round the cap i tal are in a dreadful state, and the communicatioi u ; will be for some days very difficult. Most of the principal thoroughfares of Paris have seen tolerabl y well cleared of the snow, but the state of the striall. er streets is terrible, from the mixture of melted snow aat d mud. The thermometer re mains several degrees ab oye freezing point. For three days, previous to the corn in encement of the thaw, the port of Calais presented a curiio us spectacle, such as has not been seen for the last 8 0 years. The severe cold had frozen the entrance of tit( port, and the north-easterly winds which have pre - r .ilcd since the frost set in drove an immense quant it yof ice on the beach. The force of the waves each y carried up and left at high water mark large masses 43 f ice, some of them weighing at least 6,000 kilog. A ir umber of persons have come in from the country to Calais on purpose to see this curious phenomenon. ELECTION I .NTELLIGENCE. ,~- CARDIGANSI I IRE BOROUGHS. Tho nomination came ioff very quiet on Thursday ; indeed, the appointment e 0 the day was only known to a few, there being no noticts given of it in any of the local newspapers. The candid: rtes were Mr. John Lloyd Davies, on the Conserv3l Ave side, and Mr. J. EV:1114, Q.C., and late member for Haverfordwest, in the Libeial interest. The election tc , c k place at Cardigan. The show of hands ova s in favour of Mr. Davies, and a poll was demanded for k tr. Evans. CLOSE OF This POLL.—FRIDAY. Lloyd Davies Evans Majority 14 )1 Davies By this election avo )is gained to the Conservative party, Mr. Pryse Lovt Iclen, the late member, having been a Liberal. SW , r4kNSEA. The nomination of r s candidate to represent this borough, in the room of th e late Mr. Vivian, is fixed for to-morrow (Tuesday.) THE BARNSI' 7 .4.PLE ELECTION. On Saturday, the corm iiittee re-assembled ; Mr. J. M Butt in the chair. After Mr. Guiness had. been examined, The Chairman said he' had to state, for the informa tion of counsel, that the committee were unanimously of opinion that the evidei t ze that had been given on the part of the petitioner ha, i net established the want of qualification on the parti of lir. Guinness, the sitting member. Mr. Serjeant Kinglak a said they would proceed With the other parts of the cas n on Monday. Mr. Slade applied to t b e committee to consider if this was not a fit case for the. I t to give costs to Mr. Guinness. The Chains-lan having c onsulted his colleagues, said that it was not a case in ihich costs should be given. The committee then ac'i , ourned until to-day. Contracts for the suppll of hay for the troops at Malta have been taken from flat t commissariat department by Mr. George Pye, of Emei ,er, who bad similar contracts not long since for the 2ri ay in the Crimea. At presebt he has 10 tons daily pr sad and packed by a machine for the purpose, and tl ; quantity is sent away for em barkation at Plymouth. About GO men are daily em ployed in preparing the b ay. 30 20 1 1 65i i I 97i i 7 1001 97i 1216 27i 7 39a 40i i 13.5 25 all all lli all all all all 12a. From Ostend ..., — Harlingen 169 ... The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1854 BB9 1,621 ... 250 15 1853 5Ol 2,824 ... 250 ... 15 1852 566 998 ... 257 -... 3 T0ta1.... 169 .. 1851 447 ..: 1,438 -. 1850 439 635 ... 1g49 644 1,869 -. - .., 206 ... - ... 154 ... - ... 162 ... Scarcely any foreign stock was here to-day. The arrivals of beasts from our own grazing districts fresh up this morning were very moderate as to nu►ubor, and there was a slight falling off in their general quality compared with some previous weeks. Although the at tendance of buyers was by no means numerous, the beef trade was somewhat active, at an advance in the quota tions obtained on Monday last of 2d per Sibs. The highest figure was 4s. 10d. per Slbs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 2,300 Scots aid shorthorns; from other parts of England, 300 of various breeds ; aid from Scotland, chiefly by railway, 230 horned and polled Scots. There was only a moderate supply of beasts on sale, and we observed a material decline in their weight and condi tion. On the whole, the mutton trade was tolerably firm, but we have no change to notice in prices. Very few calves wore brought forward, yet the veal trade was heavy, at barely last week's currency. Pigs, the supply of which was mall, moved off slowly, on former terms. Per Blbs to sink tho offals. s. d. b. d.' Inferior Beasts.... 3 4 to 3 6 Second quality.... 3 8 4 2 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 4 10 Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 8 Second quality ...3 10 4 2. Prime crse.-wlled.4 4 4 8,, s. d. s d. rimeSouthdown 410 G 0 Large crse. calves 4 2 4 8 Prime small d 0... 410 5 4 Large hogs 3 0 4 0 Small porkers 4 2 4 4 waling calves.. 22 0 28 0 9uartar oil raga 20 0 25 0 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts ..... •• • • •• •• ••.. • TOTAL BUPPLT. Besets . . Sheep .• • .... •• • ... •. •• .19,980 Calves 4 1 Pigs .. A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, Feb. 27,1854, and this day, Monday, Fob. 26,1855. Per 81bs, to sink the offals. Feb. 27,1854. s. d. s. dji Coarse and inferior beasts 3 2to 3 4 1 : Second quality ditto 3 6 3 Prime large oxen 310 4 2 Prime Scots, die 4 4 4 6 IMPORTS KiTO LONDON LAST WEEK. Beasts. sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. \Feb,26,1855, s. d. ,3 4to 8 4 4 ;14 8 Coarse and inferior sheep ... ... 3 0 3 4 3 8 Second quality ditto ... ... ... 3 6 4 2 4 2 Prime coarse wooded ditto ... ... 4 4 4 6 4 8 Prime Southdown ditto ... ... 4 8 5 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 A 0 1 Large coarse calves ... ... ... 4 6 5 2 4 8 Prime small ditto ... ... ... ... 4 4 5 81 5 4 Large hogs ... ... ... ... ... 3 0 4 21 4 0 Neat small porkers ... ... „. 4 4 410 4 4 Beasts... ... ... ... ... 4,463 2,901 Sheep •” ••• ... ... 21,870 19,880 Calves.— ... ... ... ... .., 102 41 Pigs 340 Scrums ox SALK, Feb. 28, 1 853. —Beasts, 3,704; sheep, 16,760; calves, 64; pigs, 260. March 1, 1852.—Bcast s , 4,,44; sheep, 20,870; calves, 141; pigs, 350. s. d 3 6 4 2 4 6 4 10 13 4 3 10 4 4 14 10 1 0 4 2 i 4 10 13 0 14 2 NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. There has boon a falling off in the arrivals of country killed meat since our last report, and the supply on offer to-day, slaughtered in the metropolis, was very moderate. The general demand, however, was in a sluggish state, as follows Per Blbs by tb e eneaw. s. d. s. d. 0. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 3 0 3 4 Mutton Inferior 3 2 3 4 Do., middling 3 4 3 6 D o., m i ddling 3 6 3 8 Do., prime largo 3 8 3 10 i Do., p r i me 3 10 4 4 Do., do. small .... 4 0 4 4 1 Veal 3 10 4 10 Pork, largo 303 8; Perk, small 310 4 4 BOROVGIT HOP. There has been no addition to th e supp l y o f foreign hops. Fine English qualities are v er y scarce, an d qui t e a cheaper. Mid and East Ke ut pock e t P, 141 10 s t o 21/ O s per w Weald.of Kent d i t to, 14/ to HI; Sussex ditto, 1410 s to 15 /.; American ditt o (i n bond), 7/ to 9/. s d e ear t as .; last week. Inferior parcels ar e neg l ec t e d , b u t not BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Oar markets continuo to be moderately supplied with all kinds of potatoes. There is a slight improvement in the trade as f ollows :—York Reg,ents. 105 s to 120 s; Kent and Essex , 100 s to 110 s ; Sco tch do., 95s to 105 s ; reds, 80s to 90s; middling, 65s to 7 5 5; Li Lies, 75s to 85s; Lineolns, 95s to 110 s, par ton. WOOL. The public sales are progressing somewhat steadily, con sidering the unfavourab l e a dvices from th e manufacturing districts, yet prices almost generally show a decline of id per lb., compared w ith tho p revio us , eries. The following s , 7d;gnow sli w ee h p i ' t % quotations have been realised :—Australian—clean sheep's, is ld to is 10d ; scoured, is 4d to 2s 2d ; handwashed, white, is 3d to le id ; s 30 to is Gad; is 4d to is 8d ; clothing, is 7.id to is lid • snow white, ls scoured, is 4d to is 7d. Van Diemen 's Land—slipe, is lid to is 341; clean sheep's, Is 2d to is 8d ; grease, Bid to - 10(1. Port Philip—clean sheep's Is m to 28 Od ; lambs', c 6 o d in ti b ) i 2 n s g 1 t i l . s New 6: to Zealand—clean i is 7d to 2s 3 . ,. i 3 a . Adelaido—bandwasbed sheen's, is 8d to is 9d ; scou red, is 5d to is 9(1; yearli ng' 1 4 i l d. Cape _ handwasbed sheep's is 1,3,d to is 4d ; other hinds, 8d to is per lb. Several large parcels of East India and foreign u 2d t have been disposed of , at p rices v ary in g f rom , o , „, u per lb. The private ma rket is exceedingly lieavy,anci I prices are with difficulty supported. We have no imports to sorts, 9d to is 3d ; notice. c l izro g n h o t r r: s t h e o s r o wool : n Cmf English _ Down and fleeces, is O d to is O i d ; e wes fleeces, is to is 0,;(1 ; wether fleeces, is t o is id ; Do wn tegs, lid to is ; o Th b e i u following g skin s, lid ars to theies combing fleeces, is to is OAd; half-bred h oggs, is Od to is OAd ; Leicester fleeces, lid to is Od ; Kent fleece s , is Od to is 04d ; flannel wool, is to is 2d ; blanket wool, 7d to is per lb, SEEDS. There has been a modorate i at full prices. Otherwise, th Turnip,White, per bush. 228 to 25s Swede .......... —s — 8 Mustard, Brown ...... 12s l4s White, new • 8s 1 08 Tares,Winter, new.. • • lis 12s Old ...... • • 93 103 Canary, per quarter • 443 54s Rye grass.. • .. • • 22s 2 6 s Clover,RedEng. (cwt.) 50s 643 White • • • • ...... 50s 753 Foreign Red...... 463 603 White .• .• 54s 753 Trefoil, new........ •• 243 293 inquiry fer linseed and cakes, it) trade is nearly suspended. Carraway..... • 448 46s C0riander............ 163 18s Hempseed, per quarter 1,41 1.6 s Linseed, E ng.:iovving.. 72s 75s Crushing 66$ 70. Baltic —3 —s Odessa .. • 68. Linseed Cake, pr. ton— , English •.. 121 Os 13 Os Foreign, per ton 11/ Os 121 108 Rape Cakes, pr ton 610* 6' 105 Rapeseed, Nevo,prlst 33:10,t 3510 s Our market is steady, and we have very little change to notice in prices. P.Y.C. on the spot, 55s 3d to 55s 6d per cwt. Town tallow, 51s Gd, net cash. Rough fat, 3s. per 81bs. 1854. 1853. Tit 2. 1851 . 1 13 3 7 8 ', 9 0 1 4 to Stock this day ...... 41,115 — r,1,22 6 36,95G .-.- 3 --- 6,979 Price of Y. C .... . -1 :d od o Delivery last week .. 1,5i6 2,68 1 2,059 1,644 Ditto from June 1.... 75,095 85,59 1 78,790 78 , 78 2 Arrivals last week.. 1,12 2 680 1 , 671 Ditto from Junel.... 91,692 100,28 6 75,127 92,446 t 03 6 3 56 4 0 3 ad i 4 4 41 41 31 6d - A) 63 -s Pcice of Town.... •• 394 6.1 1 383 9i 453 94 635 6d 1855. 35,511 55s 3d to 55s 6d 1,865 62,797 216 62,308 063 61 LIT BRATUBE. Lives of the queens_ of . ficotL!,td. By Agnes Stricklaii(l. Vol: V. Blackwood. Our authoress, in this latest instalment of her new historic composition, has narrated, and that, moreover, with all befitting pathos and solemnity, some among the more tragic and roman tic incidents in the reign of perhaps the most beau tiful, as she was certainly the most unfortunate, of Princesses. Happily for the fair fame of Mary Queen of Scots, the memory of that otherwise luckless monarch has found at last a not unworthy celebrant in Agnes Strickland. From the earlier chapters of the biography here continued we had anticipated largely as to the success of even this tardy investigation. The expectations we then formed are not only in a great measure already realised, but in several particulars very considerably surpassed. Notwithstanding the lapse of three centuries since the period when the events recounted by Miss Strickland originally transpired--enotwithstanding the difficulties in the way of research, which have necessarily, from the mere circumstance of that protracted interval, be come at once wonderfully expanded, strengthened, and multiplied—notwithstanding the accumulation of authoritative influence upon the heads of old partisan writers, who have all the while, so to speak, been ripening and mellowing into classics, as in the instance of the renowned Buchanan— the gentle hand of a candid woman, armed with the Pon of Truth, that weapon keener and more pointed than the mythic Sword of Justice, has here swept calumny after calumny into nothingness, and vindicated from many a foul slur and evil imputation one of the fairest of her sex, as she was indubitably one of the unhappiest of sovereigns. It was admirably said of Mr. Macaulay by a contemporary critic and annalist, no less eminent than Sir Archibald Alison, that his genius, as revealed through the initial volumes of his Con tinuation to Hume and Smollett, proved him to have been called rather to the Bar than to the Bench of History. Not thus has it been with Miss Strickland. Her writings, on the contrary, breathe rather of the summing up of a judicial authority, than of the subtle and wire drawn sophistries of a special pleader. It is the blend ing thus in her narratives of an alluring lucidity and a most persuasive frankness, which has won for her the guerdon of her really enviable and distin guished reputation. The honours gained by her " Lives of the Queens of England" are now being at one* confirmed and enhanced by those inevitably arising out of her " Lives of the Queens of Scotland." —th.e pendant of its more ambitious predecessor—its kindred sequel, or rather fitting companion. As in the earlier of those remarkable productions, the elaborately-drawn biography of Queen Eliza beth was the portion to which the surrounding narrative became necessarily subordinated—so has it come to pass, no less necessarily, in the pre sent undertaking, the very heart, and jewel, and dominant charm of which is the memoir penned by our authoress with equal care and discrimi nation, the narrative of the existence and suffer ings of Elizabeth's Scottish cousin and rival, and one who, though in all else her rival, was in every thing but genius her peerless contemporary. The volume here submitted to our consideration pos sesses more than the attractions usually inseparable fro ne any ordinary record of the life of Mary Queen of ;Scots, especially of that portion of her most sor rowful career which involves the recital of the more romantic, and yet, at the same time, more homely, booause purely home-drawn, of her misfortunes. Co - atinually, throughout the narrative, we are, as so repeatedly happens with us in the perusal of the - writings of our authoress, reminded, again and. yet again, of her favourite motto from Beaumont, that motto which has come at last to be perma nently emblazoned upon her literary escutcheon— " The treasures of antiquity laid up In old historic scrolls I opened." Teeasures of mouldering parchment, and scarcely legible manuscript, which, on passing into the h ands of Miss Strickland, have become transformed either into amulets of extenuation, or into talismans of complete and triumphant vindication. Let the dozen chapters comprised in this fifth volume of the " Lives of the Queens of Scotland" be taken in testimony : and, judiciously examined, we doubt not but that they will be accepted readily enough as corroborative to the full of our somewhat earnest but entirely merited panegyric. Withinthecompass of these twelve additional chap- 1, ten of the biography of Mary Stuart how many of the mare moving calamities of her " strange, eventful history" have been recounted—and recounted how touchingly ! From the melancholy date of her lying ill at Jedburgh, when she, awfully, prepares foie death, and when at her unlooked-for convales cence her attendants bring for her parched lips the solace of divers cooling citrons and pomegranates— to the yet more melancholy period of her incar ceration in Lochleven Castle, where she is in humanly insulted by Lady Douglas almost on the fast instant of her arrival, and where for so many months the young Queen was left to pine among tho petty splendours of her prison —at night under the shadow of her green velvet bed with the stitched taffety counterpane—by day under the gloomier shade of her regal canopy or crimson satin cloth-of estate. Throughout the chequered alternation of the vicissitudes comprised in the interval between which occurrences—the arrival at Jedburgh and the arrival at Lochleven—the reader has perpe tually looming before his imagination the on coming passage of eighteen dreadful years of imprisonment over the head of the unfor tunate Queen of Scots within the princely palace walls of the fatal Fotheringay. Tracing the career of Mary Stuart from her royal assize at Jedburgh up to the time of her sorrowful domestication in the Castle of Lochleven, her historian, and, as we have already intimated, her sympathising and suc cessful vindicator from the calumnies of so many traducers, and chief among all from those of the unpitying and unscrupulous Buchanan, relates the pathetic fluctuation of the young Queen's joys and griefs, her fleeting happiness and her prolonged sufferings. Whoever may question the practica bility in Mary Stuart's regard of any vindication as successful as that which we have already de clared Agnes Strickland's to be—let them turn wonderingly to the noteworthy pages of this simple, eloquent, -veracious, and, above all, most womanly biography. They will there learn, doubtless for the first time, the truth as to the horrid murder of Darnley, and further on, likewise, in reference to the yet more horrid marriage with Bothwell. They will at last be enabled to appreciate more accurately than hitherto the merits of the former iu spite of his many weaknesses, no less than the double-dyed ruffianism of the latter, a ruffianism befitting less a Scottish Thane than a Tyrolese Brigand. They —the readers of Miss Strickland, who have hitherto dreamed over the " criminality" of Mary Queen of Scots—may see fit thereafter to muse only with pitying tenderness over the recollection of her unparalleled and appalling miseries. The gentler evidences of her affectionate nature will then be borne sometimes at least extenuatively in the his toric student's remembrance. Her fondness for the gay and graceful stripling—the beloved Darnley, will be found to contrast somewhat strikingly with her repugnance for the dreaded and detested Both well. Let our readers, we say, examine this tragic and remarkable narrative for themselves. They will find the work eminently repay the time requisite for its minute investigation. And what attractive scenes and incidents to scrutinise, under the guidance of one as frank and impartial as Agnes Strickland The midnight catastrophe at the Provost's house, in Kirk-of-Field ! The Masked Ball in the pala tial Abbey of Holyrood ! Mary glittering in jewels in the dance, and the beloved Darnley stark dead in the orchard, under the gloom of the suburban garden wall—his fur pelisse by his side, the ruins of the fated dwelling strewn around in the grim chaos caused by the explosion of gunpowder. The melancholy particulars of the murder of Darn ley have been preserved to us with singular com pleteness. A rathersurprising circumstance when it is remembered that nearly three hundred years have now elapsed since the date of this appalling catas trophe. It was about midnight, between Sunday the 9th and Monday the 10th of February, in the y ea r of Grace, 1567, that the conspiracy against the life of the young King Consort of Scotland was - consummated, and that, moreover, with inci dents of peculiar atrocity —incidents both by way of preliminary and. accompaniment. Upon the morning of the day thus deplorably terminated for Darnley by a death of violence, we are informed that " he heard mass devoutly" in his temporary residence at the Provost's house in Kirk-of-Field. Scarcely recovered from his severe illness, the youthful prince appears to have marked the pro gress of his g-radualapproach towards convalescence by a course of devotional exercises designated in his Church a "retreat," after the manner of devout Catholics. It was very possibly the k.newledge of thisreligious fervour on the part of Darnley, coming as it did with the then notorious fact of his perfect reconciliation with the Queen—which incited the rebel Lairds to precipitate their design for the sud den removal of the King Consort of Scotland. They were doubtless goaded on to the commission of this dark crime there and then by the reflection that not only were Queen Mary and King Henry enthusiastic votaries of Catholicism, but that the education of their infant son in the tenets of their own creed would in all likelihood be insured by the accession of fresh zeal to the softened heart of Darnley, by the revival of his influence over the imagination of Mary, and by the animating force of their mutual tenderness. For all which reasons the gunpowder plot against the " Papist" father of : • :••;:3: l Ade y!' • James, was thereupon brought to a Moi*.*e as.'-s 3 sia,‘"j e cessful , climax than the similar conspira4liti* 4 l2.s,Ts',: 4 14;24 quently contrived against the latter prineessdiens thirty-eight years afterwards, wearing the e 4 4.le ss ae i -.„:„: 7 crowns of Scotland and England, scarcely lb - - •=s his august position as the representative of Me e blended Stuart and Tudor dynasties than in his sze paramount character as an " Orthodox Protestant Sovereign." So wondrously had the wheel re volved—the rotating spokes and tire of the wheel of Fortune—between the occasion of those two grim conspiracies—the Gunpowder Plot of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot of James Both well. The former avoided by the son ! The latter accomplished against the father ! The first of these conspiracies successfully directed, in 1567, against the King Consort of Scotland because of his being a Roman Catholic—the second unsuccessfully directed, in 1605, against the King Regnant of the United Kingdoms because of his being a Protes tant. So that the treasonous fanaticism of Fawkes might be regarded as an attempted Nemesis in 1605 for the atrocity perpetrated in 1567 at Robert Bal four's house in Kirk-of-Field ! On the morning of the date of that earlier catastrophe the victim, as we have seen, had "heard mass devoutly." Towards the evening of the same day (Sunday), about seven of the clock, the royal invalid was visited in his temporary residence by Mary, who there assembled in her husband's sick chamber the great nobles of the realm, for the purpose of affording him congra tulation on his recovery by the homage of an im promptu court or small reception. During the very time when Mary and her nobles were actually assembled in converse in the chamber of Darnley, the infamous Earl ofßo thwell with his ‘‘ruffianrout" was actually causing gunpowder to be conveyed to the Queen's apartment on the ground floor of the same house from his own rooms in the palace- of Holy rood. The explosive dust being carried thence to its destination in a trunk and a leathern mail, there to be strewn furtively about the floor under the rushes. Unconscious of all these hideous prepara tions, Mary, who had left a state "four o'clock supper" at the Bishop of Argyll's for the purpose of visiting her invalid spouse, remained with Darn ley until nearly eleven, although pledged to go that night to a masked ball in the palace of Holy rood, on the occasion of the wedding of Sebastian Paiges and Margaret Carwood, the fair bride being one of the Queen's peculiar favourites. Remain ing with her husband as long as she could under those circumstances, Mary parted from him at last, but most reluctantly; as she did so drawing from her finger a valuable ring and placing it on his as a pledge of her affection. Mary thus retiring from Darnley, says their latest historian, " kissed and embraced him with endearing words of leave taking, and promises that she would soon return to visit him again and so they parted, to meet in life no more !" An hour or two after midnight came the - explosion. The whole structure was a shattered mass of ruins—" dung into dross," ac cording to the quaint language of the Privy Coun cil. And yet when the locality was searched by the Royal Guards, under the orders of their cap tain, James Stuart of Ochiltree—the body of Darn ley was discovered unmutilated and even unsinged eighty yards from the ruins, under a tree in a neigh bouring orchard—clad only in his night shirt, though near him lay his fur pelisse and pantouffies. Every thing indicating, indeed, that:the unfortunate King, alarmed from his sleep before the powder ignited, had, " with the instinctive caution of an invalid dreading an exposure to the cold night air," snatched up his garments, fled into the darkness from his assassin, being thereupon pursued and strangled in the orchard, while the dwelling from which he had. escaped was whirling into fragments from the de tonation of the gunpowder. According to Moretta, the Savoyard Ambassador, certain women servants, roused from sleep in their apartments adjoining the garden, overheard the King cry out patheti cally —" Ah ! my kinsmen (fratelli miei) have mercy on me, for the love of Him who had mercy onus all !"—showing him to have been surprised, and surprised, moreover, by those (Miss Strickland suggests " Morton, or Morton's deputy, Douglas") having ties of consanguinity. So perished miser ably, on_that fatal 10th of February, in the year of our Lord 1567, stripped and strangled in the orchard at Kirk-of-Field, the young Prince, who had only attained his twentieth birthday in the preceding December—Darnley, of whose personal aspect our fair annalist (and well may Miss Strick land be so designated with more than a compli mentary significance) has thus written :—" Nature had endowed him. with a complexion so fine, and a lice of features so perfect, that but for his tower ing height, the haughty carriage of his head, and a scornful 'curl of the lip and nostril, his beauty would have been of too delicate a character." Re ferring elsewhere in this volume to a more impor tant theme, however, than even the alluring graces of Darnley referring, that is, to the long questioned innocence or criminality of Mary in regard to the murder of her hus band, Miss Strickland here proves, beyond all further doubt, to our thinking, the absolute absurdity of the ghastly imputations thrown upon the unhappy Queen of Scots by her malignant censurers, Buchanan and others, who would have had us to conclude from their daring, but utterly irreconcilable declarations, that she was an accom plice in -that infamous deed of assassination. Miss Strickland here clearly demonstrates the in nocence of Mary iu regard to the murder of Darnley—as clearly, indeed, - as she after wards reveals to us the despair of the luckless Queen at the period of her forcednuptials with the " brutal ruffian" Bothwell. In allusion to the former event, what says Monsieur Clernault, then French Envoy at the Court of Holyrood ? He says—" The fact being communicated to the poor Queen, we can scarcely think what distress - and agony it has thrown her into !" In reference to the latter calamity—the forced marriage with Bothwell what says Du Croc ? Why, that Mary declared to him the day after that unnatural espousal, the espousal by Darnley's widow of the murderer of Darnley—Du Croc, we seas, tells us that the day after those nup tials Mary declared to him in, the presence of Both well, " that he (Du Croc) must not be surprised if he saw her sorrowful, for she could not rejoice, nor ever should again"—adding—"All she desired was death !" Nay more, do we not learn from " Teulet's Collections," that the next day(two days after her nuptials) when alone in her cabinet with Bothwell, she was heard by those in her privy chamber to scream and threaten self-destruc tion ? And has not the Captain of her Guard, Arthur Erskine, corroborated this explicitly enough by averring " that she called for a knife to stab herself, or else,' said she, shall drown myself.' " We know not indeed which is the more heartrend ing picture here presented to our imagination— Mary stunned into profound woe by the sudden ' murder of Darnley, or Mary maddened into despair on the morrow of her hated union with the remorse less Bothwell. Contrast, indeed, for an instant the two heroes in this terrible tragedy—Darnley and Bothwell. Darnley, whom Mary loved so ten derly, in spite of all his faults, and slights, and weaknesses, to whom in the will, written in the anticipation of her speedy dissolution, she left so lovingly the ring of their betrothal, or, rather, of their first, private espousal, and from whom she parted so reluctantly with lover-like kisses and embraces but an hour or so before his dis mal assassination. Bothwell to compare with Darnley ! " Hyperion to a Satyr!" The tra ducers of Mary never calculated probabilities when, in defiance of all the proven facts here brought together by the research and. industry of Miss Strickland, they strove to lure pos terity into the belief that for the ruffian Earl, the future . Duke of Orkney, Mary Stuart abandoned to his midnight murderers the winning and princely stripling, Henry, the Lord. Darnley, the youthful spouse of her heart, who at twenty ceased, as we have seen, by strangula tion and not by the explosion of powder in Kirk of-Field, to be Lord of her Life not less than King Consort of Scotland. Of the manly beauty of Darnley there is evidence enough before us in the charming profile of his handsome face prefixed to the present volume as its frontispiece. Confronting • which we observe a scarcely less attractive engraving in the graceful vignette delineative of Queen Mary's forced abdication, wherein the artist has effectively depicted what Sir Walter had long since nervously expressed— -- Haggard Lindsay's iron eye That saw fair Mary weep in vain.,, • Happy, we cannot but again observe, thrice happy, indeed, has it been for the memory of Mary Stuart, some time Queen of Soots, that the truthful, vigor ous, and uncompromising pen of Agnes Strickland has undertaken to relate the calamitous history of that loveliest and most forlorn of our insular sove reigns. MR. A.IOITATT, M.P.—We regret to learn that the hon. member for Ashburton is still confined t o hi s h ouse by indispAtion.— Western. T i mes. NEW WAREHOUSES IN MANCHaSTER.—Amongst the splendid new piles of warehouses which have sprung up in Manchester is one, in place of some old buildings recently burnt down, for a wholesale house in the home trade. This warehouse forms a block of masonry occa pying the entire area between two streets, and it is 300 feet long by 75 feet wide. The cost of erection has been about 11,000/. A still larger warehouse for (.tnether firm i n th e genera l t ra d e i s just c o mmencing in Portland -street, one of the estimates for which was 45,000/. It will be 300 feet long by 90 feet wide, and 95 feet extreme height. It is to have four floors besides the basement, so that it will Lave a total avail able area for goods of nearly 135,000 square feet. It ' is estimated to require from 60,000 to 70,000 cubic feet of timber to supply the internal fittings of wood work alone. 20 100 20 all 100 all 100 100 8. 1 , 100 100 1.00 LOO ell 22:21 all 1.00 all all ,3, LOO 21 all all all ,141 s, 20 20 6 20 20 50 50 100 100 20 10 20 35 20 50 20 25 62 i 29 20i 73 74i 681 9 73 4 17i i 6ii 4 8i