The Sun. — London, England, 1855-10-06 00:00:00

report nly do e Am et Ali rpoint- Sultan iew he h such These ments, known would before, 3ri ti sh of its of a by Me ith Red )d there ►te man, dehemet rison for n. Me )y all the isha was le Porte binet, in became Powers ha deter st one of date the ;tor than ment re n a most I. Even British dl inter smireallY tainment Y.) ne of the es" is orr manner, render it nent, tbe of other r at Coln. lees not envier is • reasons were he the right (mid, aid lople. It he power matie eir• rseded, be mischief Of late s Turkish tonal di so dorm' 'able. 10 n Bel f, —at ;tats who far satis as, within o disavow at, by the Minister. I vote O f ratford to Er LEITII. t. come to 'rovost of brought on tw o been so.' I, and o• onbt that Iy before ost some on on the aims and therefore► crime 60 eseriptio o n, for the granted Hollows/ 'peed the The mas' kage, woe are exclv age. Fo! .ugs, it . 0 tly dion' ild in the ) occur ae, E:ffluvia t packag e senting vill of t he ation. P MO IN EY MA it ET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two y'CLoc The Liverpool cotton market, yesterday, under went no particular alteration. The sales amounted to 7,000 bales, of which 1,000 were taken on specu lation. Up:ands brought 51d., Mobile 70., and Orleans 6d. per lb. Railway Shares closed quietly at about previous quotations. There was a very active movement in the tallow market yesterday afternoon, and prices advanced rapidly, the trade having suffered their stocks to become much reduced, and speculators who had oversold having to buy back. It is not to corn, tallow, or public securities that the indefatigable Greeks confine their speculative attentions. Great disapprobation has arisen in those quarters where steady trade is more appre ciated than the fitful movements of excited mar kets, gainful to the lucky capitalist or gambler, but damaging to the consuming millions. It would be senseless to join in the hue and cry against that justifiable application of means which superior judg ment or information entitle every man to make ; but where the prices of any article are unfairly driven it is high time to enter a protest. We un derstand that, through the Greek houses, which are generally compactand reciprocal in their efforts, the foreign fruit market has been violently acted upon this week, the article of raisins having been forced up as much as 51. per ton, and experienced parties in the trade assure us that there is no suffi cient reason for this advance. It is bad enough . to have things bought up and monopolised at the place of growth, but to have them cleared off the market after their arrival here is both a disappoint ment and a privation. To measure the uigency of a financial difficulty there is nothing like figures, often decreed and frequently perverted though they be. In the leading columns of yesterday's SUrt, it was justly allowed that the advance in the Bank of England rate of discount to 5i per cent, was to a certain extent justified by the provisions of our currency laws, and in corroboration of this view we have but to take the balance-sheet of that institution made up for the week to the 29th ult. ; and which, we do not hesitate to declare is of such a character as to excite very lively apprehension, and to re mind us of what we witnessed in the memorable year of panic, when the Order in Council alone saved the Bank from suspension of payments. We do not go the length of asserting that we are to pass to the extreme limits of a similar order, be cause, taught by experience, the decisive mea sures necessary to arrest the evil will, it may be hoped, be adopted in good time ; but to suffer banks or bullion houses to come into the London market and buy the gold which we shall require ourselves, but which a law, suited only to the Medes and Persians, prevents our taking, even at a halfpenny per ounce beyond the fixed and Parliamentary value, is to co*rt embarrassment and wholesale depreciation of property. The favourite crotchet of forcing an export trade by artificial cheapness, or, in plainer terms, by levying on home capital and labour for the advantage of the foreign buyers, would be more than even impolitic at the present time, as the various markets abroad have scarcely recovered from the glut of former years, and ars but just returning to a healthy condition ; while it is notorious that our own colonies are still abun dantly supplied. But there is scarcely a dissen tient voice at this time as to the soundness of our general trade and its - entire innocence of having directly or indirectly brought us to the present crisis. The gold from Australia was offered to the Bank, but if the Dutch or Greek dealer bid a higher price for Russia, or the French merchant for Paris, no law binding our Bank to an arbitary value will prevent its com petitors sweeping off the whole amount. And so it will be with every succeeding arrival until the rate of discount overtops the profit on the remit tance. What the Bank of France is doing is not quite such a senseless operation as the Times would have the public believe, since there are various contrivances for deferring or graduating Payments, that may fritter them away, and leave us minus the gold in the end, by establishing and substituting in the interim some legitimate com mercial or financial indebtedness against us. This much is certain, that the aggregate wealth of the country becomes diminished by the process, and that although capital may be attracted to our shores by cheap goods and low-priced securities, it will be at a cost of as many shillings as it need, under a better system, have been pence in the pound. Returning to the Bank balance-sheet, it is impos sible to credit that for commercial purposes alone nearly one million five hundred thousand pounds More was in one week required from this establish ment. No, it was the foreign drain that brought forward such a host of borrowers, not simply in the shape of bullion exporters, but likewise of alarmed though non-speculative and sound traders, who fear to be suddenly deprived of their usual dis count facilities, and fear all the more be cause they cannot fathom the cause. Time will show how much longer this can be en dured, and the struggle which the Bank itself has to maintain can scarcely make it greatly enamoured of the act of ],844. Its rapid loss of notes as well as bullion in reserve tells its own tale—waut of means to meet an emergency, and want of confi dence to rely upon the vaunted self-acting prin ciple, which somehow or other always fail s w h en i t would be most useful. Compared with the pre vious week the changes are as follows : Active circulation Increase Bullion Decrease £20,172,685 764 250 12,938,928 329,679 3,670,125 Increase 12,918 Public Deposits 8,144,209 Decrease 245,683 Other Deposits Increase 171,078 Seven-Day and other Bills Increase.. 1,202 Government Securities 12,125,026 Decrease.... Other Securities 19,915,763 Increase 1,406,485 Notes unemployed 6,195,570 Decrease 1,091,245 Yesterday afternoon there was a further slight advance in the quotations for bills of exchange negotiated here upon all the principal continental cities. Paris, 90 days, was taken at 25 65 to 70, Hamburg a t 13 91 to Frankfort at 119 to Trieste at 11 30 to 34, and Amsterdam at 12 to 12 4. Rest The Marco Polo, from Australia, i s n o w 97 d a y s out, as she was to leave Melbourn e J u ly 21. Sh e will no doubt bring a considerable amount of gold. The steamer Africa is off Holyhead. The shipments of the precious metals during the week ending Thursday last comprised 58,800 ounces of silver, and 5,080 ounces of gold, all to the Continent. The English Funds have this morning been ex tremely depressed, and, compared even with the closing rates of yesterday,which were 87 ito 87k for Consols, there is a further reduction of tto per cent. The position of the Bank of England is of course the main cause of this, and there have been. large sales, both seal and speculative, by two or three brokers, one of whom has acted all alone, as is supposed, for the Bank of England. The price of Consols for money has been as low as 87 to 81 *) but has since rallied to 87i to 871. The November,ose prices h ave b een a b ou t 87i to 87, and they close at 87i t o 871. E xc h equer Bill s h ave co ntinued at Is. to ss. discount. In the Foreign Market there has been a further decline in Turkish Bonds, the 6 per Cents. being down to 82i. to 831, and the Scrip to 2/ to 21 dis count. Mexican have been flatter, and Buenos Ayres have declined to 53/. Brazilian small stock is at par. Spanish Threes have been marked 38 to 3 8±, being full rates, and Dutch 2k per Cents. have been quoted at 64 to 641. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :---Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20; Mexi can, 211 to 214 ; Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 74 to 76 ; ditto Three per Cents., 54 to 56; Portuguese Four per Cents., 43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 97 to 99 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 85 to 88 ; Spanish New Deferred, 19± to 191; ditto. Three per Cents., 37i to 381 ; ditto Certificates, 4.t to 4 ; ditto Passive, 4i to Railway Shares keep their ground better than might be expected, although certainly 1 to 4 per cent, down on the average. Lancashire and York shire are buoyant, and North-Eastern are higher. North-West ern are s t ea d y. Great Western of Canada are maintained. Northern of France are to lower. 1 Bank Shares are dull, at previous rates. SHARE MARKETS. :7 4 Nri) Xl,l'OA. (THIS DAY.) 4~:zYv~.e ps. (otrlpan: eft yester zo.,, , awss this ,iay. RAILWAYS. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT OINT t' rom, the Offirtal Litt. `.iodford and Met Jhley ilueka'namsb. Clydesdale .Te. Col. Stour Vy. Sod. and Hal. E. Un. H. Sh. Ulas. & Direct Do. New iTiouttou ' N. tiro t. L.&N.W. alio] au E. Un. IS; E. C E. Count. Caldonip.n. sitALlO4l% .InR Prices yesterday. 3 per C:::.t. Consols Annoitos ... Consol4 i'or Account, 12th October Ex iheqnor Bills, ,in 24t. I 21000 2500 timall • Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3i per Cent 9Bi Ditto 1359, -,, PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO ; Brazilian Bonds 5 per Cent. . — Ditto Small Buenos • \ ores Bonds, 6 per Cent 53/ Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent Bl , -quador Bonds M,ltieali 3 per Cent. ilrdinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. .. Bl ) Spanish Bowls, 3 per Cent 33 Ditto for the account 3 i Tarki,b P.,olids, i; p.r ceut Ditto for the account 824 n 2?, 3,1 Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. dcl3l, this day. 92 - 96 100 - 102 • herduen...— , Nez;trg. BGE; And Eastn. Junet... lel fast & Ballymena.. Virolverb iS ;tour Valley e rhd, T. ancet...s , Cl=lo i Junct...... 00. Cltesii. i Birk., £5O and 225 C ,, ns. f)o., £20... • .. , tyth &Tyn 5 origina £25 (iesd. at .. 4 24: Iristol and Exeter... ;aledonian t:larm. and Cardigan: itiester & Holyhc a: i 7; ork and Bandon.. jork., Black, &Past, 24 31 48 4 ... 44 71 16 - 15 Glstr.4 Dn. Fr Hrtlnt. Dk, tk Railway Gt. Wes.t Yk. New. nerve. Y. & NM Do ii = ie 14 t 5 9 - 8 Hull & Selby Do. Share;. Do. 'Shares. Lon.& Greenvr Do.Preferem.e Lon., Til., & S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per et. Bxte. and Matlook Middloslaro' & - 105 87 - 89 - 59, S. Easter 1)a 124 -- 13 23 -- /4 110 -- 115 Peto AL Co. 11 - 12 Norfolk„ Do L.& N. W &. Midi& Slekton. & D arl!ta gt Midland llivviend, on the above ;,ay.hip in Lon , nn - D itch Exchange, 2A per Ceut. 12 Gull 6 t I Dino 4 por Cent. Certifieates . 93.1- x d Consols TWO O'CLOCK. Ditto for t't, November t. ( ~ ount ..... 87g Cornwall Do. A Do. B Olieff Junction Duoiin&BelfastJunc )un. P. ds Abe , . &lc. Do. New East Al lian , Eastern Counties... East. Union, A. Sti Dot., B. Do., New A. East Kent itst Lancashire .... Edinburglads Glasgo , Edinb. and Peebles Exlin. Pr Lb & Dur orth Sz, Clyde Jr n Furness Do. Extension Glasgow& S. Wog , Great N. of Scotlnd. t=reat Northern Do A. Stock 2a 2i Redear Midi& Bra,lfd Newmarket Bury Exten N.& Est.s p.c. Do. 6 rer et. ' Do. Fixeds p Prest. 1 6 1)o. 6 . tihrs. A Roystn.Si Hit. Roth. and Gooleg.s p.c. Shrews. tz Her S. Staffordsh. Wear Va.li eygr per cent..; Do 5 - 4 61 v 7 90 - $.2 - OP 56 - 58 Eu. Coun. E. Count Do Do 12 - 13 91 - SPORTING NOTES. IL. GtNorthl; Lana:oh& Yorksh. T. Brassey kt.MOlean AtmAt. & Bari ingt ...... - . 130 - 134 - .70 49 - 51 9i - 164 - 17; 2i 314 85 s 0 =tW'9tn. 72 - 74 6# - 7 85 -- 66 - 68 %2 - 4 99 101 54 65 'OO Do., B. Stock 1)0 Ot. Sth. &West.arc 100 Great Western...... 1.00 Do. Stour Val Ra; Qua. Stk all Irish South-Ea.s:;er all Lancaster & Carlis 1411D0., Thirds 7 'Do. New Thirds 100 LAncash. I,ndYork4 , 1D,., t. all Liv.Crst y . &Soutl , l all London & Black wa' 100 Lond, Bright &S.O 100 Lend, and N. West 16 IDo. Fifths ...... 4%3.0/. Sh.,M&B. t 2; Do. Eighths lob London:m(lS. Went. it f Do., .5t.) ' , B Do., .£4O A.ll LnilnarryckColeraie , dl andndn ; ~. & Ente.ik • 00 , lanch.Sitef. Az Limb all •)o. Shares, No. I 425. Man. At Lin. Jia 1 Metropolitan........ . . _ 69 - 12 6 - 7 6 - 7r 75 - 75 - Gi 94 96 914 - 92 2f - '1;i0 - - 814 - S 2 9 - 84 8 74 22i -- '23 7 ,- 8 Yfidland Binnug. &Derb Aidld. G. West. Cre, ) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle, Nwpt.Aberg.&Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoiv 4,nd Rostrevor Norfolk Northn.Counties . North British.., North Devon, No. 1 10., No. 2 l)o., A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed N. Eastern—Berwick Do, do. Extension ~. Dodo. G.N.E. id 61 —64 A 36 33 • so ..... 12 - 14 ,F 6 251 . 26i 68 - 69 8i - 7i 5 - 4. 114 --• 12i 45 46 91 - 98 L' , o. Leeds Do. York North London .szs.Wstrn.,HainT , - stead, and City Jn.. North Staffordshir, North Western 'T.& S. Westrn.Jun, Nuneaton, Hinckley I,nd. Leicester.. )x, Wore., ti Wolv. o .cisli Central - icottish Midland ;hropshire Union ';out'n Devon Loath Eastern. Knuth Wales Yrksh. (It Riv. ii . - 7 i .. 5i - 5i 24 --: 26 101 —10 G 74 76 41 3 111 , 2i 56i 57 30 - 31 5 - 3 2d pal '.taino,, Wok. &Wolz tockton & itclkton & Hr.rtlep . rail' Vale Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Hay. P.& r. tilverstone & Lanes. Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenn\ Naterford&Limer,el West Cornwall West End. of Londoi and Crystal Palace.. Do. A ..... Do. B West London. Wimbledn & Croydol 33 - 35 ••• ...... 19 20 3 -- 4 19 - 21 5 - 7 4 -- 2d 2 --. 3 par p THE SUN, IVONDON. SATTTItIiAIr EVInNTING, OCTOBER 6,'14855 ex d A PRELUDE. Within the last five days many significant changes have been made in the betting in the Cesarewitch. Mus covite and Boer, on the strength of a reported unfavour able trial with Homily, have been driven completely out of the market, but it is not improbable that one of them will " come again." Mr. Sykes is in steady de mand,• albeit the movements of his party are still re garded with suspicion. Imogene's running at Chester has increased the upward tendency of Brother to Grey Tommy, while the performance of May Boy at Bedford has strengthened the hopes of Rob ill's partisans, de spite the " counteracting effect" of Saucebox's defeat at Kelso. Scythian will not, it is supposed, run, and Rob gill will therefore have the assistance of Wells. King Tom and Neville remain "firm" in the market. Not withstaning the generally expressed opinion that Crown Pigeon will be reserved for the Cambridgeshire, he is not without supporters for the Cesare witch in well-informed quarters, and the Newmarket folk declare that he is intended for the encounter of Tuesday next. Of the outside division, Black Swan Vindex, Lady Tatton, and Bolton are most talked about, whilst the Victoria-street division entertain ear nest expectations of Fulbeck. To-morrow I shall be located at Newmarket, whence I will despatch my "notes" as usual, and amidst the waifs and strays of information I may pick up at head-quarters, I may dis cover some trustworthy guide to the probable result of the race. The " Meetings of the week" require no comment. I may, however, refer to the remarkable fulfilment of my prediction relative to the result of the Chester Han- dicap. O❑ Monday last I wrote is under : " Calculating upon a start, I shall select Imogene and the Chicken to fill the foremost places, reserving John Osborne's intended' for a cockboat." Twelve ran, Imogene was first, the Chicken second, and Mr. John Osborne's Yorkshire Grey was third A FRESH MAN. October 6. Naval and Military Intelligence. The engines of the Conqueror, 120, at Devonport, were completed on Thursday, and the ship is now ready for commission. The Hamoaze lighter arrived at Plymouth on Wed nesday with a party of caulker; who have been em ployed in caulking the Repulse, 90, at Pembroke, which is ordered to Portsmouth. Her Majesty's steam•sloop Rosamond, 6, Commander Crofton, returned to Spithead yesterday from Plymouth, and is ordered to repair defects and prepare for sea again without delay. The receiving ship Hibernia was towed from Hamoazs into the Sound at Plymouth on Thursday, by the C, n fiance and Zephyr steamers, and commenced taking powder and shot on heard the same day. The steam-vessel Rosamond, having completed coal ing in Hamoaze, went into the Sound at Plymouth on Thursday, and will accompany the Hibernia to Malta. The crew of the Savannah bent sails at Devouport on Thursday. THE TRANSPORT SERVICE. Arrangement are being made between the Govern ment and the Royal Mail Company to engage for the Transport Service the paddle-wheel steamship Great Western, now lying at Southampton. It is expected that this vessel will be employed to convey about 300 navvies, together with their working implements, to Sebastopol. The steam transport Queen of the South still lies at Southampton, awaiting the arrival of her troops, &c. The Indiana steam transport left Portsmouth yester day, for Southampton. The sailing transport William Jackson went into Ports mouth harbour yesterday afternoon, to disembark her sick and wounded. The Edwin Fox sailing transport landed her sick and wounded at Portsmouth dockyard yesterday. The Walmer Castle transport, No. 117, arrived at Spit head yesterday morning from the East, with invalids. The fine two-decker sailing-ship Herefordshire, now lying at Southampton, has been taken up by Govern ment, for the conveyance of troops to the Crimea. QUICK PASSAGE. The new frigate-built clipper La Hogue, Captain Neatby, belonging to Messrs. Dunbar and Co., has made an unexampled passage down Channel . against contrary winds. She left Gravesend on Tuesday morn ing, passed the back of the Goodwin the same evening at 8 o'clock, and notwithstanding strong fresh breezes from south-west to south-south-west, anchored in Ply mouth Sound yesterday morning at 5 o'clock. She passed every other ship as if at anchor. La Hogue was built by Mr. Laing at Sunderland, registers 1,331 tons, and is the largest ship ever launched at that port. She is to leave Plymouth to-morrow morning for Sydney. There were no arrivals or departures of transports from Woolwich yesterday, but the H ape and the 13o russia passed down the river from Ereptford with stores for the East. The latter bas room for upwards of 2,000 tons measurement of freight. A draught of the 68th, consisting of 248 rank and file, with two captams, 10 subalterns, two sergeants, and 11 drummers, were expected to arrive in Cork on Thursday from Fermoy. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK. Mlles I Receipts. opened, ! NAME OF RAILWAY, 1855. I 1854. 1855. BRITISH. £ .£ 115 Aberdeen .... • • „ ..... 2,962 3,467 i 37% Belfast and Ballymena •• •• •• •• •• •• • • 724 875 17 1 Belfast and County Down...-. -•• .• _ - 82 I Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 2,383 2,341 26% Bolton, Blackburn, and West York •• • • - - 6,613 6,810 117 Bristol and Exeter •..... •••••• •• • • •• 18 91 Caledonian.... ......... .....„ ... ~, 11,942 12,029 9414 Chester and Holyhead.•• - •......... 6,028 6,494 6% Cork, Blackrock, and Passage •• •• •• 241 209 20 Cork and Bandon .. • • .............. 212 220 56 Dublin and Belfast Junction •... •• .• 949 1,154 63 Dublin and Drogheda • ..• .. ......... 1,l - 53 1,528 7s/ Dublin and Kingstown -•.•••• •• •• • • 1,327 1,527 16% Dundee and Arbroath -••• • •• - ...• 511 ' 399 31 ; Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 835 1,032 36 Dundalk and Enniskillen • •••• • • •• - - 68 East Ang1ian........ • . • ... • • • • • • • • •• 814 876 93 East Lancashire .............. - •... 6,148 6,212 417 i Eastern Counties and Norfolk.. •• . 23,019 24,203 . 1 Eastern Union •.• . • • .. • •• • • ••• • • . 3 142 Edinburgh and Glasgow • ............. - - 78 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee...... 3,179 3,479 6 Exeter and Crediton.. • • ...... ...... - - 22 Furness Railway •• • ••..•• .. • • ...• - - 183% Glasgow, and South-Western...... - 5,928 6,506 253 Great Northern and E. L........... 21,525 23,932 188 i Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5,594 6,184 3591 1 Great Western .. ••••• • • • •......... 24,617 29,392 25 1 Irish South Eastern ••••• • • • ........ - - 90 ~ Lancaster and Carlisle.. ••••- .. _ _ 6,212 6,673 27014 Lancashire and Y0rk5hire............ 2.1,466 21,478 - ! Leeds Northern .. ••..••• • •• • ....... - - 16g ! Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport.... - - 553 M 1 Loudon and North Western ... •. - _ 58,283 62,056 5 % ; London and Blackvrall•••• •• • ........ 1,594 1,475 181 i 16,819 18,340 London, Brighton, and South Coast.. 267 London and South Western. - ... - _ 14,495 16,503 CO Londonderry and Enniskillen ........ 516 651 ~,, • Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. - - IN Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 8,692 .9,809 Manchester and South Junction-- - 833 862 94 Nerrtthh...Bzh m ... :e ...... .... .......................... Maryport and Carlisle •• •• • • ........ 923 1,023 49 2 8 8 % _ Monkland s N B L oi d r l t a h n s dtaf r. :i .. d • sh . i .•••• • • • • .. .. .. . 29,922 31,550 126% y t . 37 e id w la cu nd ti G e r a e n at d W ea e r s l t i e sl r e n .. (l . r . i . s . h . ) . ... • . ....... 2,378 3,349 - - • • 7 1 8 49 % N - - 4,844 5,368 - - 1,045 1,003 29% Shrewsbury and . i ti • ire . ms . t . i i i i . ,i i . a . i .; •• :: ... :: 8212 Scottish Cent •• • • •• •• -•••••. •• 32 Scottish Midl ral nd • • ••• •• • • •• •• • • • • •• • • 2,505 2,873 15 - 02 1, - 557 48 Shrewsbury a n d 30 Shropshire Union . 2 230 2,892 57% South Dev0n....:.'."• •• •• •• •• .• .. 1,0 4 807 .. 289 South Eastern....... ' "•• •• •• .. - . '2,504 i 2,685 20.181 25,938 • oncaster, and •• Goole •• • ••• •• . . . • • • • . •• '• '• •• •• - 1967214 South South York.,Waies D 3 Taff Vale • • .• • • • ............. 6 •• •• • •: 2:190 2110 3,774 3,816 77 Waterford and Li•nerick - " " - • •• •• .. •• 900 1,017 2714 West Cornwall •• •• _ , ....... 677 658 12 Whitohaven Junction ........ ".S7 365 682 York and Newcast l e , an d Berev 7- • ckB; Yirk and North Midland & Leads.. - - FOREIGN. 571 4 Dutch Rhenish •••••••.•• •• •• • • •• •• _ - ..._ - 63 stontereau -n id 'Croce', -•• .. - 262 Lyons and Mediterranean •••.•• •• •. - 63 Namur and Lies.:e - • • • • • • - -• • • " •• - - 445 Northam of France • • .• • • •• • • ••• • " - - 617 Orleans and Central ..••••• • • • • • •• - - 240 Paris and LyOnS .. .•••••- - • • • • •• - 82 saris and Rouen. •• • • • •• •- •• •• - " - - 392 Paris and Strasburgh •• .• •••• •• •• • • _ 59 Rouen and Havre .• .... ...... •• • • • - - r 157 Western of 'ranee ....•• •• •• - - 157 FOREIGN. 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The mayor, town council, and inhahitants of Ilcnis.7 yesterday presented a congratulatory address to Lord Palmerston on his return to Broadlands. ' 'lt was originally intended to have presented the ad dress on Saturday la,t, but as the day turned out unfa vourable for any npen'air deMowiiration it was arranged that the presentation should be postponed until the wea ther was more auspicinus. In the early -part of yeste,r `day the rain.fell at intervals in copious showers, but to wards the afternoon the shorn) out, and the bells of the church rung a merry peal. The inhabitants of Romyey closed their shops at 12 o'clock, and all business was uspended. The streets of the town were gailY deCorated with the flags ofthe allied nations, and streamers . floated from every conspicuous point of view. Triumphal arches were constructed in the principal thoroUghfareS of the town, decorated with flowers and transparencies, bearing the motto, " Wel- Come,Pah:cterston, the friend'of liberty and peace." At half-past 2 o'clock, the mayor, accompanied by the town council and. principar.inhabitants of the place, walked in procession to Broadlands, and, preceded by a band with colours flying, escorted Lord and Lady Pal merston and the Hon. Miss Sullivan to the market place. The noble viscount's open carriage having been drawn up in front of a platform erected for the members of the council and their friends, the noble lord was repeated!) and enthusiastically che'erea. Silence being at length restored, Mr. FRANCIS TAYLOR; the mayor, advanced and - read the following address:- - " May it please your lordship,—We, the mayor, town council, and inhabitants of Romsey, ask permission to meet your lordship with our congratulatory welcome on yourre turn to your lordship's residence hero. Your lordship's an cestors were the constant benefactors of this town and neighbourhood ; and while we venture to claim your lord ship as a fellow-townsnil'in and as one of ourselves, we also record your lordship's continuance and extension of similar benevolence, codoined with that of your estimable and noble lady, the Viscountess Palmerston. " On the present occasion' we feel it to be our privilege and duty to address your lordship in your exalted-station, as the Prime Minister of England—a post which your lord ship was called to occupy at a moment of difficulty and emergency, and in a critical and almost unparalleled con juncture of affairs. We believe that your lordship's firm ness and decision, sustained by the voice and the sympathy of the people'of England, has tended greatly to produce the recent successful results of the allied armies in the re duction of the fortress of Sebastopol. " And we earnestly pray that your lordship's councils may be so guided that ultimately the blessing of an equit able and durable peace may issue from your lodship's ad ministration, and be accompanied with those civil and social rights secured to other nations, which shall place them beyond the reach of despotic power, and prove their best armament and their only true safeguard." (Cheers.) Lord PALOIERSTCPN, on rising to reply, was enthusi astically cheered. The noble lord (who spoke from his carriage) said—Mr. Mayor and Gentlemen, on behalf of Lady Palmerston and myself, I beg to return you our most cordial and sincere thanks for the kind reception which we have met with on this occasion upon our re turn to Rornsey. It would have been most gratifying to are to have been so received at any town in this great and mighty kingdom, but it must be peculiarly gratify ing to meet with such a reception in the place to which I am bound by so many ties of personal intercourse, of local interest, of long-established family connection : and I may be permitted to say, adverting to what ha just fallen from you, to which I am bound by community of office with those whom'l have now the honour ti see before me. The occasion which has assembled us together to exchange mutual corgratulatious is one, no donbt, of the most remarkable and important which has happened in late and recent times—l mean the capture of Sebasto pol. (Loud cheers.) It is an event of which all English men may be proud. (Cheers.) It is An event of which our allies—the French, the Sardinians, and the Turkish nation—may also . be proud.. (Hear, hear.) It is an event which must inspire joy and exultation in the breast of every generous free man on the surface of the globe. (Cheers.) We have been told, by the commander of the Russian array, that in evacuating the town of Sebasto pol, he left nothing to the allies but " blood-stained ruins ;" and, no doubt, as far As depended upon him— as far as time aliowed—as far as his means of destruc tion extended, it was his intention to leave nothing &se to the victorious enemy. But, although in retiring, he blew up fortified -works—n'tbough he exploded great magazines of powder—although ho destroyed everything that could be buried within the time allowed for his re maining stay, yet we know that, when the allies entered the town, they found among its blood-stained ruins no less than 4,000 pieces of cannon, an immense quantity of powder, all enormous amount of cannon balls and shells, and materials of various kinds, necessary for the prosecution of war. (Hear, hear.) Well, gentlemen, .what does that teach us on reflection ? Why, does it not show the vast im poi ta rice which. the Government of Rus sia attached to that stronghold of Russian power in the Black Sea ? (Cheers.) Why was that vast accumulation of warlike material made, more than could have been required for the most prolonged defence of the place ? Why was it that elements were there accumulated for supplying great armies anti for furnishing great fleets ? Why, it Was because they felt that in Sebastopol was the stronghold of their power in the East—that from that centre was to radiate .that intense and extensive power which was to lead them to the conquest of Con stantinople, and to lead them from that centre of empire to sway the destinies of Europe. (Great cheering.) Well, then, gentlemen, that, I think, affords a satisfac tory proof of the sound judgment which was exercised I by her Majesty's Government in directing against Se bastopol the great power of our army and navy in the Black Sea. (Hear, hear.) There were those, and some of them no mean judges either of international or of military naval affdrs-L-there were some, I say, who thought that we ought to have sent our armies 1 —I mean that England and France ought to have sent their armies —to the Continent, to scour the Principalities, invade Bessarabia, and pursue the vanquished and retreating Russian armies—for vanquished and retreating they must have been if our armies had landed and attacked them through the steppes and great wildernesses of Sauthern Russia. Why, if we had done so, what practical result would we have achieved equal to what we have accomplished in the capture of Sebastopol. True, if we had adopted that course, we would have defeated army after army, but army after army would have been replenished by the successive horde issuing from the north, and at last we should have found nothing but vast aid extensive plains from which we would have been compelled ultimately to retire, without having in our hands the pledge of future security. Well, then, gentlemen, we have heard much of the siege of Sebastopol, and of the gallant defence of the garrison which held that town; and yet I may be per mitted to say that, in the proper sense of the word, there has been so siege at all, and that Sebastopol has not been defended by any garrison. Why, a garrison means a com paratively small military force, which, shut up within the walls of a town or fortress, defends itself against a vastly superior army. A siege means an operation which is conducted by a superior force investing such a fortress, cutting off its communication with the rear, and, by ap proaches which are familiar to military men, at last make a breach in the defences, and then, by bringing superior numbers against the inferior amount of the garrison, over whelming them, as must be the case in so unequal a struggle. (Cheers.) But that which has happened in the Crimea has been a transaction of a totally different kind. The allied armies of England and France, assisted from the beginning by a portion of tl:e Turkish forces; assisted materially by the brave Sardinians—a body of troops worthy of admiration by all, for their discipline, their skill, their science, their good order, and their bravery— that allied army has for 12 months—l was going to say 12 long months, and long I must call them, although 12 months be a short period of historical time, yet it has been pregnant with so many vast events, that it must be long In occupying its page in the history of Europe—that allied army has during that period not been besieging a single town, or attacking a single garrison, but it has been fighting the entire military forces of the Russian Empire. (Loud cheers.) We have been contending not merely with an army in the Crimea, equal and some times superior to our own numbers, but I say it with out exaggeration, we have been contending with the en tire military resources of that vast military empire—an empire which devotes a great part of its revenues to the maintenance of an enormous standing army—an army which they call a million of men, but which may be set down at 600,000, or even 800,000 men. Well, gentle men, almost the whole, or the greater portion, of that force was set free from the Baltic to the Euxine by the neutral position of those Powers which border the Eu ropean frontier of Russia. Russia had nothing to fear from either Austria or Prussia ; she was therefore at liberty to send down to the Crimea and defend Sebasto pol, and drive our armies, as she vainly boasted she could do, into the sea. (Hear.) She had n othing to prevent her sending division after division —army after army—the garrison of Poland and the garrison of St. Petersburg—in fact, every man whom she could manage to feed at so distant a place. (flear.) She had no danger on her frontier to prevent her reinforcing the Crimean army, and replacing with new levies the losse3 she had sustaited in battle. (Hear, hear.) I say, therefore, our army has not conducted what is com monly called a siege—that it has not conquered what is properly called a garrison—but that we have been fighting in the Crimea a battle against the whole mili tary resources of Russia, the armies of Russia being en trenched in a position strong beyond measure by nature, strengthened by all the resources 'of art and all the c'on :trivances of skill arid science, and that in that twelve months' struggle deeds of valour : have been perfyrmcd by our troops—by the liiritish and Fr each troops —deeds of heroism which will live to the= memory of the latest posterity, and which will' do immortal honour to tln; people of the two countries. .Cheers.) It is, gentlemen, the fashion with , many to say' that war is the greatest of all calamities. Now, war undoubtedly is a great ca'amity, but there are evils greater than war. There' 'are the evils which spring froth the'sucCe.is of . gin-ping ambition, from triumphant violencgi and from wrong and misrule over men. ; Iu all , times, in all ages, and in all countries, those nations, which , have possessed the' qualities which dignify and adorn human nature, have felt that these evils were evils greater than war,-and 4 4 4 'have been prepared to encounter the calamities of'-war, however great they may, be, - rather than submit to the still greater evils which I have just pointed out to you. So it is with the-people of England.- So it is with our noble neighbours the people of France ; and I believe that if the nations of the Centinent were to detertnine the course which they were to pursue simply according to their own sentiments andleelings, there are countries which, are now resting on an inglorious neutrality that would join the alliance, and do honour to them and the cause: (Cheers.) Well, gentlemen, every war is, no doubt, a calamity ; but the course of the present war has brought its evils as little home to the people of this country as was possible consistently with the nature things. Our enemy has seen his arsenals in the Baltic flaming and blazing to' the sky. (Hear, bear.) Our enemy has seen that great fleet, nearly 28 or 30 sail of the line, for which , the revenues of the country weie squandered, and for which crews were conscribed, and, to nicks 'those crews efficient,'they were taught ing the icy rigours of winter to mount fictitious masts er, , cted in their barrack-Yard, and'to imagine they were climbing up the rigging of the fleet—(a laugh)—they have seen that fleet cooped up ignominiously in its harbours and its docks, not daring to face the Allied squadrons, which, allow me to say, never were superior in numbers to the Russians, however superior in other respects on which victory depends. (Cheers.) They have had the mortification of seeing that all that expenditure and trou hie was fruitless when the moment came in which a fleet might ever be useful. They have seen in the Baltic the humiliation attending that stateof things.. They have had their commerce crippled and greatly reduced. In the Back Sea they have seen a fleet which not long ago proudly swaggered over the waves of the Euxine, and whose most glorious achievement was the barbarous outrage of Siuope. (Ironical cheers.) They have seen that fleet, not captured in an open battle, or yiel.ling, after a brave resistance, to a superior force of antagonists, but sinking under the hand of its own commander, and leaving no thing but their topmastS sticking out of the water as marks of the degradation to which they have been sub ject. (Cheerii.) They have seen this great arsenal—this vast capital of which they were so proud, but of which they were so chary that no prying stranger was allowed to enter its walls, so that the only Englishman that has ever given any account of it was compelled to find his way within its gates disguised as a peasant and covered over in a cart full of hay—(a laugh)—they have seen, I , ay, this great arsenal, which they so studiously kept from the eyes of jealous strangers, exposed, not to the eyes, but to the possession, of an enemy, after having vainly endeavoured for twelve months to defend it. (Cheers.) Gentlemen, we . have no doubt, in many respects, felt the unavoidable pressure of war ; but those wild raging fires that have lit the arsenal of Russia have reduced themselves simply to those miti gated lights which accompany the evening rejoicings of a town, and the only noise of cannon which has echoed ►n our ears has not been the cannon that has shaken the walls of Sebastopol, but those occasional harmless die- charges which are the tokens of national rejoicing. (Cheers acid laughter.) Well, then, gentlemen, I trust and hope that a cause which has been so ably supported —a cause which is so nobly defended—must proSper in the end as it has prospered in the beginning ; and I may -ay there is hardly an instance •in history of an army whieh, in a . single campaign-L-for it is only, so far as we are concerned, a single campaign —has been attended with such great and important results. We are pre senting to the world one of the noblest spectacles which it is possible for nations to exhibit'. (Cheers.) Here are the two greatest nations of the world—l say it without vanity and without exaggeration, but without one par ticle of diminution—l say the English and French nations, which stand at the head of everything that dignifies humannature—(cheers)—are presenting to the world the noblest possible spectacle of two great people casting into the shade of oblivion all their former jealousies, rivalshipe, and extinct animosities, uniting for a purpose generous, and, so far as any sordid motives are concerned, utterly disinterested, looking for no trumpery profit or gain, terzitorial or otherwise, for themselves; but seeking simply to establish for them selves the liberties of the world in which they are so deeply interested on a solid and permanent foundation, making vast sacrifices, not wantonly for abstract prin ciple, but from a sound political view and consideration of things—l say these two nations present the noblest spectacle that the history of the world has ever, up to this day, exhibited. (Cheers.) For we have seen great combinations made for purposes of conquest ; but a com bination made for a purpose like this, so honourable to the two, has seldom, if ever, been witnessed in history. And we have seen the armies of two nations, which bad learned face to face in the battle-field to view each other with respect, fighting side by side, and knowing . more intimately the qualities of each ; and we have seen them change their feelings, and convert what was for merly respect into enthusiastic admiration. (Cheers.) Well, then, gentlemen, I say ill would it become any man in the situation which I have the honour to hold to talk of the future aid to advert to prospective measures; but this I think I am well warranted in saying—view• ing the manly and unflinching spirit which animates the people of this country—viewing the generous support which Parliament has given to the Government in every measure connected with the prosecution of the war— viewing the perfect good faith and undeviating con stancy of purpose which animates our great ally the Em peror of the French—viewing the sympathy which our cause excites among the people of every free country in the world, even in places where mistaken views of in• terests, ail think, lead their Governments to a different course—viewing also the justice of our cause, which en titles us to look for the protection of Providence on our exertions—Lsay, viewing all these things, Jam confident we may look to such a result of the contest in which we are engaged, as may place the future liberties of Europe —as may place the interests—the main and perma nent interests—of the countries which are now allied upon a sure, stable, and lasting foundation. (Loud cheers.) Gentlemen, I beg again to thank you for the great honour you have done me in the reception which we have this day received, and I again assure you that such testimonies coming from you, however they may belong mainly to the great event which we are called on to celebrate, I cannot refuse to accept as in some degree evincing friendly and kindly sentiments towards my lady and myself ; and I again cordially thank you for your respects, and I beg to wish you all prosperity both to yourselves and the town of 'Romsey. (Loud and prolonged cheering.) Dr. BEDDOBIE then proposed three cheers for Lady Palmerston, which were :heartily given, and her lady ship gracefully bowed her acknOWlecigments. Three cheers were also given for hie lordship ; and, on the mo tion of the rev. the vicar, the proceedings concluded with three cheers fOr the Queen. In the evening his lordship entertained the mayor and the members of the town council ot dinner, at his seat at Broadlands. (Pram' the Times of this day.) A: manly speech on the capture of Sebastopol, delivered • by Lord Palmerston to the inhabitants Romsey ,of_re mter,whom again o Premier, calls our attention to the conduct, of th e we have so often blamed, ,and at : the same time to that fraction of the community whocannot understand why we shOild now praise the poficyof oar. ancient . foe. The w ,th as that created by the in dependent and 'honest portion .ef the. press have no such 8 , and careless serious difficulty tc struggle' oy , their profligacy or conduct of• writers devoted to party . object s, of the degree in which they Pkin o r c e,_ meanness, the character of the fuPt!Ll9,-TI to which they ' belong. It, is difficult to elevate the feeling s of these per sons to a just appreciation of dignity f the of their callin g . £ ne w spaper , at least a c n o io c clern newspaper, is not a mere vehicle for party violen Pm' t y ambition, f or p u lli ng down one man o r setting up anoth er , f or gratifying piques and animosities, for providing w orn - out politicians with, a co mmodity o f good reputati ons , f or official intrigue or po litical jobbery. The daya are rap i dly passing away when any news paper ef . Character can afford to avow itself as'the untlinchin if, advocate of any party.or of any person —of an ything, in faCt, except that which ought to be the object o f all periodical' ai well as permanent writing—the truth, the *hole truth, and nothing but the truth. To give a true narrative of events, and to make on those events just, natural; and pertinent reflections, is all .to which We aspire, it being a matter tons of the purest in difference what partY, :what clique,,or what individual re putatkon may be d ama g e d or promoted by our faithful and fearless discharge of the duty we twdertake. Another habitual, baseness of eertain persons is the habit of imput ing to xis a desire to flatter the prosperous, and to trample on those in adversity. Thus, when we praised Mr. Glad stone's excelle n t budget andthe. admirable speech in which he proposed .it,•we were told we were parasites and syco• phants; and when we felt called upon to censure the ab surd and unpatriaticcourse which he has adopted with regard to the war, we were taunted with deserting in his adversity one whoni we had beslavered with our praise in his prosperity, a:a if it were in the power of Mr. Gladstone or orapy other Statesman of the day, to give or to w iI. holaTioin the Times that position which it owes to the Nye*. of the public, and,not to that of any p atron o r party. • ' ... ........ We have been* led to, this train o f refiedaon by observ illig that we have' been in'ade the objects of attack because • Q , wehsve feltet 'd* r so rend`er to gbrd Palmerston, onsthe caPteretef , Sebastopol, that meed of praise which, whether agreeable or not to certain of our contemporaries, or whether consis',ent or net with our former views of his character, is uequeseibunblY his dup. We are reminded and with Much •truth—tliet We objected to Lord Pdl 'Menton's treatment of Smite:eel with reference to Don Ya~itico; and we are told, therefore, it is the height of inconsistency to give him , credit for the firmness which he •has shown during reeeanteneiii"ditions, though it has un doubtedly led to tiW lats.:brilliant success of the allied arms. Now, if ceneietenviis tq be found , in always blam ing the same pertion, e wbether,les deserveblame or no, or praising the eauie le p e esspie e seith e eiessilee pertinacity, our conduct carries the proololVaconsisteney on the face of it ; but if, as we Tether aPpreheekeonsistency is adherence to truth, and nqt to pereee's,, Fe may have been perfectly ' right in censuring Lord'Patteeretbie's'Spenish and Greek policy, and in praisitig'hik conclitit. eVith regard to the war ; : and there -imetcerereiotetts:97sl4pkise that our censure ' , was occasioned; di - 061e wisessestee.'asiert, by any difficul ties in obtaining foreigninformation—difficulties of which the readers of the Times aateniot, we .flatter ourselves, very sensible, thepttle tm in Downing-street being as nothing compared to the flood of light thrown on .pa , ,sing events by, gut forelegn . correspondents—or our praise occasioned by the brighter prospects which seem to n dawn o Lerd Palintisfon's Goverment. To enter into irritating CorrespondenCii With the' Spanish Government, and thus to expose this country to the insult of a suspen sion of diplomatic relations with ouch a power as Spain, appeared to us au . un.c!iso..'aitalunisliess abuse of power, 'and in those opinions we sseernothing,to retract. To put in motion the mighty fleet of England against such a po tentate as the King ef Greece far Abe sake of enforcing fictitious and exaggerated claims, trumped up by our du bious fellow-subject Don PaCitipo,esppeared to us unwor thy of the man and the occasion,; and here, also, we are not disposed to recant. Neither do we deny that we have felt it necessiry, 'from time to time, to make remarks on the tendeney •of Lord' Palmerston to encourage *hat has been. well called the jargon of na tionalities, and. to foster movements which, when the critical ; time arrived, he was not prepared to support by eny strongerweepens than the expression of upavailing sympathy. -But ,wliats haven this to do with 'the conduct of Lord Palmerston in' the present war? For its commencement he is not, so faxas the public know, one Whit' more answerable than Mr. Gladstone, Sir J. Graham, Mr. Herbert, or any , of those who have lately edified us by panegyries on Russia, 'end under-estimates of our power and prospects; but, once engaged, how different has been his conduct, and hove much reason has this country to rejoice that in her extreme need she has found a Minister worthy of the crisis and of ':her 'own unshaken and un sweiving resolution 1 .One by ode those who began the war by their va.cillationi Mismanaged, it by their incapa city, and deserted it at its most z eritical moment, shrank from his side, and left him to struggle with such support as remained to him against .the, cppsequences of errors which he 'had not coin;nittearstiniiously aggravated, and increased by the •spoechea 'Of theii. 'authors, who, cowed 'out of the resolution they had prevititisly shown, were the loudest in denouncing their o wn policy, and the most strenu ous in counteracting their own measures. It is but bare justioe to say that at this period the country needed a man, and th..t it found in Lord Palmerston the man it needed. He adhered to the position Ite had taken up with unskrink ioeb firmness, and devot e d hi mse lf to t h e d i scharge of his duties and the support of his Ministry with an energy and industry which at. his period of 'Le were truly heroic and worthy of all praise and honour. By his untiring dili gence, by never leaiing the house, and being always ready and on the spot for every emergency, he preserved his Government from those reverses 'Which, under the more lukewarm and careless leadershipaSncird J. Russell, per petually befell the far stronger Administration of Lord Aberdeen, and, as the reward of this great physical and mental effort, he concluded the session with a Government effectually consolidated and restored in character. These things may be*disagreeable to certain of our con- temporaries, who habitually prostitute their pens to the purposes of faction or animosity. They may even come from us with something of the air of a constrained and unwelcome admission ; but they are the simple truth, and, as the truth most worthy to be spoken, both by us and by all who respect truth for its own sake, we have little reason to be ashamed of the impulse which prompts us to do fair and noble justice to an ancient adversary, or wish for that consistency which: would teach us to withhold well-merited praise because we have at other times felt it our duty to express equally well-merited centime. We sincerely be lieve thatdt will be . found that, one success is due very much to the general conviction that the power which its circulation places in the hands of individuals is not wil fully abused, and that the ptiblic receive from us, together wAh the best intelligence we can collect, the fairest and most honest comments which we are able to make. Nothing else could account for our undoubted influence among per sous of every phase and shadow of opinion, and nothing else could maintain for a single week the position to which the favour of the public has raised us. It is our wish, as it is our duty, to rise above personal and party feeling, and, so far as the ,iufirraities of .human nature permit, to present to our readers every day a fair and impartial chro nicle of the tittles in which they live. It is not for us to say how far we attain this object, but we are quite certain that we should attain it' no better by sacrificing our honest conviction's teC personal animosities, to party predilections, , to*..an* unmanly dread of the charge of inconsistency, or :a childish desire of the appearance of infallibility' Ines. *code wan are Journalists, not Popes. On the long and, eheckezed career of Lord Palmerston history of a more. deliberate and philosophies character than we pretend to write will pronounce its ver dict; bute i that verdict will not be as our contemporaries would have it —unmeasured praise or vndiscritninatiug blame. Such consistency befits neither the philosophical historian nor the honest journalist. Censure there will doubtless be on a policy often vigorous and patriotic, but also often irritating and dangerous —on a jealousy of France which endangered the peace of the world 'in 1810, and a restless desire to anticipate Russia in the East which in volved us in the Affghan insurrection in 1841. But history will pot fail also to ropord that, while England was plunged in domestic faction, aed patties were exclusively occupied with religious differences or economical heresies, there was one mast who faithfully and honestly watched over the des tinies of the empire, who; while others were sunk in sloth or blinded by meanness and subserviency, saw through the masked desigus of the Imperial robber, and sought by every means in his pow e r, i n season an d ou t of season, to coun teract them, until at last the opportunity tame and while others faint e d an d s h ran k b ac k , he accomplished the object of his life—the humiliation of Russia, and the deliverance of Europe from the swoop of that greedy vulture whose outstretched wings had so long darkeued.the sky over her head. MARKLT NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) COVENT GARDEN. There was a good business doing in to-day's market, as follows FRUIT.—Pine apples, English, 3s to 6s per lb; colonial do., is to 3s each • hot-house grapes, is 6d to 48 Od p er lb ; foreign ditto, Od Os ; melons, is 03 to 2s Gd each; ' ' peaches, is 6d to 6s • nectarines, is 6d to 4s per dozen; ' apples is Od. to 3s Od per half sieve ; pears, is Od to 3s per half sieve; Orleans plums and green gages is to 2s per punnet; ap:lcots, is Gd to 5s Od per doz.; common plumb, 5s 0 to 7s Od per sieve; cherries, Od to Od per pound; lemons, 4s to 8s Od per 100; oranges. 8s to lls per 100; f . berts, 6s to 9s per doz. lbs ; cobnuts, Os to Os ; almonds, Os to Os per lb. ; walnuts, 6d to 10d. per 100; figs, is to 2s Od per doz. ; strawberries, Od to Od per pottle ; goose berries, is Gd to 2s Od per half sieve ' • currants, 3s Od to 4s Od per half seive ; raspberries, 2d to Gd per pottle. VEGETABLES.—White cabbages, 6d to is 3d per dozen; red ditto, 2s to 5s Od per dozen ; French beans, is SI to 2s 0,1 per half sieve ; brocoli, Od per build. ; potatoes,! 40s to 90s per ton ; vegetable marrow, 4d to is per doz. ; peas, to 5s Od per bushel; broad beans, is Odto is 9d per half sieve ; turnips, 2d to 4d per bunch ; carrots, 4d to 6d per bunch ; cucumbers, Os 3d. to Os Gd each ; garlic, 6d to Os 8d per pound ; spinach, is Od to 2s Od per sieve; old onions, Os to Os per bushel ; new ditto, 2s Od to 4s per doz. bunches; leeks, 2s 6d to 4s per doz. bunches ; shallots, 4d to 6d horse-raddish, 2s Od to 4s Od per bundle ; parsley, 2d to 3d per bunch ; celery, is Od to is 3d per bunch ; endive, is :id to 2s 3d per score ; beet, is Od to 2s per doz.; parsnips, Os 6d to is Od per dozen; small salad, 2d to 3d per pt , iret ; mushroOms, is sel to is 9d per pottle • artichokes, 51 to 6s per doz. ; cabbage lettuces, Is to is 6d per score ; sorrel, 6d to is per half sieve ; radishes, is to is 3d per dozen hands • t oma t o es, Is to is 61 per punnet ; chillies, i s t o I s 64' per 100; Brussels to o ssel s s sprouts, is Od to 2s 00 per half sieve; capsicums, 2 per 100 ; walnuts pickling, 6d to is per 100; cauliflowers, 13 to Gs per doz. tan 07} NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Rabbits, Os Od t o 0 4 04; Turkeys, Os Od to Os 0(1; Geese, 58 Od to 78 6d each : Ducks, 28 Gd to 2s 9d ; tame Rabbits, wild do , ls to to Gd each ; Pigeons, 6d to 8d eac h ; large Surrey Fowls, Os Od to Os O d ; middling, 2s Od to 3s Od ; Chickens, 1s 9d to 2s 3d ; Capons, 3s 6,i to 4s 6d ; Hares 28 6d to 4s Od ; Grouse, 2s Od to 2s 3d each - Guinea Fowls, 2s Gd to 3s Od each. Ostend fresh b u tt er, 11; Gd to 128 6d, and Engl ish lls Od to I4R Oct per d ozen lb s . English Eggs, 88 Od to 98 Od ; French ditt o, 5 8 Od to 78 Od per 120. WHITECHAPEL. Beef, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 8d to 4s 6d ; veal, 3s 8d to 4810 d ; pork, 3s 10 to 5i 2d per 8113 s. by the carcase. NEWPORT. Beef from 3s Oil to 4s Cd ; mutton, 3a 8d to 4s 8d ; lamb, Os Od to Os ; veal, 3s 10d to 4a 10d; pork, 48 Od to 5s 2d per 81bs. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 2s 6d. to 25s Brills, 3s Od 10s each ; Salmon, 3 40 d to .is fid per lb ; 6od Fish, 2s Gd to 22s each ; Soles, 6d to 3s Od per pair; Eels, 8d to is Od per lb; Lobsters, 6d to 2s 6d ; Cr a b s, 6d t o 2 s 6d ; Whiti ngs, 3 s Od t o 12s per doz. ; Common Oysters, 1 . 2 s to 20s ' • Natives 50s to —s per bsh ; Mackerel, 50 s t o O s p er 100 ; Smelts, is Gd to Os Od per doz.; Skate, 6d, Od per ib; Shrimps, is 6d to 2s 6d per gallon,• Bloaters, is Od to 2s Od per doz. ; Fresh Herring s , 6 s 0(1 to 8s per 100. ; Scotch do., 6d; Sprats, 8s Od to Os Od per bushel ; Doreys, 2s Oti to lOs each; Haddocks, 6s to 12s per doz. ; Pike 6d ; Sturgeon, 6d per lb ;'Prawns; 6s Od to 7s; Mullets, 6d to is 6d ; Plaice, 4d to is each ; Halibut, 6d per lb ; Flounders, is to is Gd per dozen. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 10,id to 11d; of household ditto, 8:3(1 to 9ad per 41b loaf. BIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 5611) to 641 b, aid to Od ; 611 b to 721 b, to 4d ; 721 b to 801 b, 4d to 4id ; 801 b to 881 b, 4d to 44c1 gBlb to 961 b, 4id to 5d ; 961 b to 1041 b, 41(1 to 54d l t e o n , ts f ulls ~ 3 to 1121 b Od to Od; upwards, Od ; Horse hides, 6 0 1 - 1(1 to Olik ; di Od ; calf skins; li g ht, 2s Od to 3s Od s, Bs , 6d to Os Od ;. Polled 'Sheep, 3s Od ; to4s 6d ; it 2d to 3-, 8d ; Half-brads , 33 2d t o 3 s Down ; 2s 9d to 3s 2d ; Lambs, 28 9d to 4s 3d ; Shearlings, os Od to oa Od. HAY MARKETS. 4, 75 b s p ; •— an 3r d ea s ci tr ° a w w h , a l y t , Bs Od to 1/ 13s Qd per load. 3/ 15s to 6t Es ; clover ditto, 51 fr o i 1 6 71 A moderate supply and a steady M demand.,„, CUMBERLAND.—Meadow E/ D.—Meadow h ay, 3 117 s to 69; cloves do., 57 O s to• 129 : and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 14s per load. Supply good, and trade rather dull. 14 BITE° RAPTaL.—Meadow hay, 3/15s to 616 s ; cloves do., 5/ Os to 61 15s ; and straw, 11 8s to 11 14 , 1 Der load. Both hay and straw moved off slowly, at late rates. ME EXPLOSION OF FIREWORKS AT LIVERPOOL.—One of the sufferers by this unfortunate casualty, the boy Rankin, who was hart by the falli ng o f th e ruins, died at the Southern Hospital on Thursday night, a fter amputation of the broken leg h a d b e en effected. The inquest will be held on the body to-day (Satur Yesterday the other unfortunate persons wlio were jured were progressing favourably. 20 5 'LO 18 201 100 8i 10 20 20 20 100 100 100 2c) 20 50 100 5Q 10n 100 20 50 10 20 50 A. 1.1 •ilt 2. 13j a 3i i 1141 5 4i 331 i 10 25 tO 1.0.6 40 5 St. 25 100 ' all all all all all all all all 12i 32 t WO 1021 3/ 4