The Sun. — London, England, 1855-01-29 00:00:00

: „; s teril c l the rn to , of pro be from OODStall' ing „lie po loOn Sert /0 • Of stores arlu taY' ci ) e3erd froo2 tpe recounts ate that the 51; els 7e is a very p. who suff er el re losing nishes• a i s le _gg Sown t r„rdO [by rte re, the PO r a e r, tab re-es li shbe Seri' sal of t la w Will allth. bellio ll. ant at re t ip; est r°l 4 Before in.Chl ynauaers )llected thesp r articles 10 e servo /m ilts 1 13°1 70 0 as birch ° r veto. R u ssian ai e Britannia gb'ortho rlard to 3' 1 °,0 4 )ard the ING Pitl CBs' End o flloll ;f . 75C. 75 ..... 8% ....... . n......... Threes. Debt •• LsiL 104 09 5 .. . .... . 1 15 LT. . ........ LT • ....... 6 70 0 111 : _cg A ilyt te : o l ,oo, oJ ukes IN)°,,„ar T'colaief, t y oe hog Dp o of sn'l i o Pr. o i J udors, 0 0f.. and was _ockis, 'oral Osts;frooli, Ling the 0:4 ter from o tsti Zussiana to"" th execull:„ . h S tlPF ee r t tt e 4)050 b e oels ussians• " Vi re Sys „OVA, h a s eor, he Fed al ar footinte a soP, 3 r a jil2 tween Gale' of trian t he 'russia 011 / 07,; ex pert tins colv;dotia iat thio ei g f i ere() cM ° 11 .c y YP: 0 1 in. , hev mpectea _.1,0001 it of tbs it is W° l/ rit.Y o ▪ tria g 1 6, f• ora aul to # lot con t e ".95, til t ue an • accor d ' coming 43o , ~e re . P if il3 s ta,tes2„,do -r ri lou t , ro pe jr 3 et th tbst P 1 the y 47 0 0; )r ity, elodkeria cu se her le 23d 6511g 6 11t . 000 that 11. " of l ir iperOr 4 ,, 00 roe the tur: . 1 11 s overeign . vio negotoisilbeiii )able,the Ti rich are 0° a or l b.,. 0 0 rers, vr i ` e ctilleArr ,n reSP Aw,d , 4„ , ;;0 of e.xr r pv , )0,000 ° ( p-1 0 il e she io ),000 men terr Whell t be f ffif he fi e ets ° 0 10 0 11 Ty be ~.tev ie eSt s y )t fan's' f d riv.4 An for her ' ep otts ler is P r o fton ant i n orls with 0 0 r A 46,1 , -DAY, 1- i steata-fibif.;• XOOl 9sseng e o lo 8,8 45 . i t h e tot," • • k te," ne • n'el e ; - ;: CV ( ) n e tim' - a 01 „y, CA a u e p pli d i sritiful 1 3 eJ 0 4 , „f the oPj Sapp .yal . .l 4 3 Pl i tiO t i ce o 0 or e, dockr r tb (l I ° °3 2 'r t 1 _ )'1 0 114 , lon T h e 0 10 nage° • wile I', io exc e no t o for m° 6 ' e n ' t og • w orio l o d r ni„ 013 ,, t ';,,e rhen a" r e t .Ike4j, , the #. t ebe }o eeptte be j SA!4I 1 0. 01 Of 11 A OC* db i SSW rOI I F of; ......... 911 i i ( 11; it 1 , 1; Ti AND C{; ?i1 14; ISTELLIGEN( E. army, Two o'CLOCK. Th ere 1 , Pool as a heavy market for cotton . Liver !awo:Lll3lBleaPet°,llrrtcciaollaYee' • 'set ~c : but the variation in prices was The sales were estimated p at . 'uprising 4,000 American, 80 er 4: 1 1 . anci Ntaranhata at sfd to 6d., 20 Bahia at id,',_l°° rgYptian at sd. to Bd., and 800 Surat at cltliet i° 349 . The Railway Share market ruled itZlit,,,Cliancellor of the Exchequer has . stated his 1, 14 Lion to bring in, at au early period, a bill to ketikk,e further provision for the investment and tio ile , tit Y q the moneys received by the Commis the " r ° for the reduction of the National Debt from thi,,,,S4tillge Banks and Friendly Societies." •By will'lteciasure if passed, the Banks of England and of 414 have power to cancel certain amounts t.: Nail lave Debt, as appended, standing to the leek: athe Commissioners. In lieu of this re ,: Itill b ' 4°01 ( ) a " State deposit account No. 1, keed e u er , e4 ted s at the credit of which will be Qtte to 'i7l:'uusooo/., being two-thirds of the amount . ether -431Soings Banks and Friendly Societies t'l‘Tov., 1 854. On this fund interest at ter t o '' 3 Per cent• per annum will be paid quar to /sell (} see eeminissioners. They will have power 4tilt, Thtverhaettt Stocks if they deem it expedi 114eZCkitaissioners are to make up an annual the 4444% and if any d e fi c i ency appears so that 44111 0 thorn y w ill not mee t t h e li a bi lities, then lA'ei t lit t ' l- J ill be g i ven to augment the State De 41)0trowin the ' 1 ) or th e d ef i cit shall be defrayed out of 4 4,i_ g Produce th ereo f . E xchequer Bills 4 '1611 h e trade available. If, on the other , th ere , , s 4 -4° %nt d' a il t ne llid be &surplus, then an equivalent . the State Deposit Account or of Securi t, - 44 u 1,- '44 4 t .," - ' cancelled. The Treasury is empowered . 44041;4ehequer Bonds or Bills upon the appl . l l - 1 111,11,:stiail Commissioners, and the Treasury w lk. th '7 4 lt fie mo de of keeping the accounts at the ne°o::llgl44d. The Bank may make advances ‘ "40istioners on the credit of Exchequer liedt pit 'l state oasts of all the proceedings is to be l•itabe4e Parliament. On the 20th of last No -14414,,,:),,a, tc likg to the schedules, the Commis -116,7:g 10,085,834/. 7s. Id. ; in Consols, 1, 4 48 Z 6 . . 3 d. • in the Reduced Threes, L 4 - 711 4. 5 (1. ; ' in the New 3 per Cents., Lqiel t . ert hi l the Now 2f per Cents., 16,000,0001. ; i q IN R „,t e , t bonds, 5 8,0001.; in Exchequer Bills, ek tiel l 'n , 133. 3d. in cash at the Banks of Il it. f " kid Ireland. Itlie:o,ll°Wing is the statement alluded to above ilt) by - t Z till t of the securities held on 20th Nov., Otth,d4s l'oduction of the National Debt to Oties de eduction of Savings Banks and Friendly r i "et. ) n - be cancelled under the directions of 4 1. 1- i llt li t of the total capital sum of 10,085,834/. tz the e,., Three Per Centum Consolidated Innui 'oo/spit;il)4l BUM of 2,845,8341.75. Id. The t t6 l ll iti ; 81 - 1 - 14 of Reduced Three per Centum 4 441 4111 ;01 - ; 5 ) 67 4/. Cs. 2d. Out of the total 9ent tth , ' 19,335,310/. is. sd. New Three f )676,40/-,4nnuities the total capital sum o I: Nltil, -. ''''' scl. Total capital amount of Three 'q v q, "4 Per AI '11%6 9t,").;":111n1 Annuities to be cancelled -.‘ei 5., , 14 , -11, 4 if4 r ,„'es fr ok a ''*s. Bd. ' Zkikit ~,,Illsterdani state that the revenue 8 41 -.' 'zir : I°earlBs4 amounted to 58,223,184 11. 1.1 1 , 11 ° 4 447,7tate of 1,165,000 florins over I: rilekid% N -'''''et of letters sent through the l e-eaB in 181/"tfic last year was 14,183)723) 'eCOlitits fr ogee'l q 250 000 were forwarded. 4 . ei tt p c. ) , 4 great d etna -4 4 , 1 1411 rg mention that there had ll caPitalist ' I°l. I , Russian securities, the t lie d) how 3 'At largely. We are uo ere ever, up°4 what ground the pur •tilled rnacle ' b ut pr btl prevalence of p r obably ictifilcvaysieovvwsinat St.to 441(1ig, Bwedeu more pa !t is positivel y . „ ' 4 , i ,ti ti e the tetal%stated, not 'tina Offers of the Allies, will ' conjunction with Denmark, to pre-_ tentralit l knla Y* o °1. % on the 27th inst., the rate of ex the4 4 I, I 4t 1 "4 ° ll was 116 i per 10/. .Discounts in t cent. I ; t titi e ,T t s t vi dat e , most of the corn markets of i ttt il fr otit ~?ro ? dull. ep war ~.`- laald mention . m p u f thillitty isupleYed making military ,4mita.e4,4 w hich service they received extra t lia.peara ev 1 '41: were very zealous. p . - I\ LF . ; mail, 4 13 :. : :4 has arrived at loveri„?.,lllrne. .TI,Y?In. Sydney, and Nov. _ 12 4 mouth Yl ette l3 ,, l3 not so late as those by ,r‘art to b: s Zn n boa r a . % or e has, .probably,. a . g N l'al 0' •"'u 0 00/ 4-ker specie is stated . in one •e 'ee.„, klorev r ' R , ./ while at the office of tn - , ,, s • -.Leah. 10 - • • Company the 144 i ti 0rt r-e t gll'en a' '4 B 000 ounces and 12,500/., , Navigation n I lle I_, 0 sool_ fro m ou hiltrlittere froria°.Sydney. Il t %. the woritinrrainvibam are rather more more Ile Prime her e i s , how.tkflegveen e rally being ue rreg i ularity 141 (1e clu° ted by the s till .o m us firms ; but the c htra ct4 withhelvdaraind countermanded +,211.et have been given out, imparting an 7 Lot the market. ait,,,, be en a large business done in rr a l- i ? and the suspense as to future - ett t he ,urlruea , t h ll 4 ) e , s g r; a ll.l h a en ly t : is a check upon opera much anxiety also . about seeing the severity of the i 91 i ?teat (la ' te, January M. -Th e \ ," 3 11. for transfer, and 91i Consols so lfors th e . 1 1e 'ff 3 per Cents, have realised 91i ti. t o ted d 91. i to i. Exchequer r Stocit at 2 2 ITS. pre/ilium. East India __ . t'lreic,,,* zebequer Bonds have been 99i °" Narket Spanish securities have I ." hotw• th ' ' l, ll of standing the unfavourable 0. the revenue and the apprehendedbeen kilti th ~,,kaPish 3 per Cents. have bee n 1(41 the '''4"r Deferred 171 to I. Mimics. dealt 14'111sat 21 to k. Equador Bonds i t° 7 61 14 a -,, t 3 i to 4. Turkish Stock has ‘oltisii, -uuch 4 per Cents. are at 93. "h - ,1 414 tile nominal prices of foreign to 2444„,beferred Bonds, 5 to 6 ; Maxi- F;' ~5 0 t: 3 N •c i er uvian, 70 to 71; ditto Three ; t - tu ki i -- - , ; Portuguese Four per Cents., -14'44(1711. -I ' v e per Cents., 100 to 102 ; Itlt* 14-441 f P Cents., 89 to 91 ; :kek"? 3 4 - t erel ' r ed l e ' r i to 17k; ditto Three taiiv:4- ()t,„.364i;'dittio‘ Ce rtificates, -Ii to 4i ; "... ;-4) kleetizigs announced are the fol -41 Bet,t3Ncy. I tsbe ° 7 , ll •••• Date. Place. ‘,-.N.4111•11:71:-.1Ity:• tilli: Fob. 14, 1164, ••••, "'lid .11,,ine. Jan. 31, Hertford. L l7 o , n G do ra n c T ec a h v t; r r n ch . -st. 'hk',%.,".••••,..., "'fax Feb. .2 Leeds. ItighTitite•W''•••••• Jan. 31' London Tavern.. ' - ll', eAtern Feb, 15, Waterloo Station. '112t041".°44td Jan. 29, Brid ge -h ou s e H o t e l. .eif' ••• • • . an ItZ ICI Line. Feb. 7, Derby. setter.ll.ires.n... ..... • Feb. 15, Bishopsgate : etreet. ~,„- i -N i v . i . Jan. 30, Easton Station. .r 6,..... ........... Pb.e 21, London Tavern. • "refo4 .:* an. 31, Paris. A . "•• ... • -u eb• 7, Shrewsbury. ,4,.4). .Share s. .. Feb. 16, London Tavern. 174y: 5 4nt 11, the inquiry is moderate, 40 . 1.4 t „kid til_Laicrularly firm. To-morrow is yi, The pr ofrr " .,4B ran gements for " carrying so' h Ort 4v. ` l ,l3_ hl v ! . ? prices are mainly affected '0 :the West." been transactions in Cale f,.. - /tat e t•ri, North ~ 0 , ki r il l orth Western, Midland, 't 'llk e4 ti, ' 44 Weii i 1 1% 44 4 uz eum as in the minor under kt., (1 0 411 ~ urgh Shares are very firm. 4° tat cill iet. aulail lilies ars supported. kli Ci o r Yet 4 64 l'Tl4, B j- a o nti agu de Cuba are at the N s rib lo rio ace _ lout Stock - Banks hare been %re , , t 44 'al St e , na • l iPported, and Peninsu- N I a re higher. tt o. WI '' Ills D A , r - b 'l = .—CLOSING PRICES, t * Ile 3'1144 0 e Scial ii, c ► , 1 A. t : 0 44 44 A 0 41 - •• , •(4 4 1ol s l oinitia s Badness done tt t Illft,i 4 t. 4 4 nßities ... ......... ' 91 i i i o l ,tl, t z Illaiti„ ............ 9 131 i s i4 ,q, k i1a., 8, ,hntre sth , i; . :. ...... . ly .... 911 2 'k ti tlt. " . ... i'''Dir e sth j u a " I4e 4$ L5,u.. 140 ~ til. ieb„ ................ 225 t ifl tl etP9 ll lli, .......... 11 " 186°— 4 A N I ... a 4i c i . illary ............... 4 7 • ........ ..................... 4 7 Wtt7 40kla ieiii,..i. ...... . ....... . P ias9. 3 Pe r C e nt . .. ..... (j Np r bs% Op " ikl4o[l4l.Nl Llcis FOREIG N FUNDS THIS DAY. 14 De, •• ........................... 4 3 (01 't,:, l4.e a Il k t * .4 ... , ............... 21 14,;)441, ic' Dor Cent. ...... .... . ..... s6 5.} ‘, b, r _Pe_ r ent .e.. ................ ~17;1 I 1111 1t!,11°11,(144,167eerct ,e3eni)t . r Ce . t .......... 61 tto s'Si te. `'l the coat Pariti4:tri ........ N_ z!6roerltcitatit;trl.2..ti. uil .... A , 0 4 ...... ''' EE 0' CLOCE. 4i'tt4.: . • . . 271 R .. 91i .vo. kri;r): . :t ic " o . o . ti . n"t ............. A. „ _ , Ale-e-sre i, LLCUrTA, L f t,11i14114 coctii,ll` UT 11, vIP) 'v4'o'lll,i'r 'PP Cslikl diva Lkte ti or F. Blis d , ,3 fi kk , ( etICOOn 11° 0 illtelltir-4° ro lip 1 P 4 l It i , 4-ov. 12, ~,,J, h t rra ;t. Vinceo" of f,eri, i t iler dA t A " 011 01.,111,,,th: ( le overlso",a,7 ~, 4, -- th 'lces of Pi ii' t. 91,1 AOf 's a It, i Ili el s bout 30 09- 14 4 4 e lt >Assertge,-, ~ 4 4 . t ;rnor of Ne'leor, t ha I f lt 1 3 ,chels, 0%-fa of iittea,°rei,-. al yrettltbi e .it R iii, ",, d, who witill i,,,l'il,i' ell ~.,; ) s from tho 4 'k I, :ka. ' ?hilip, ill h i 1117 :% tki the be t :To been f el tios,cieeat,lt oral Sort ot , 0,111/1 ,tolll,'° 761 Boxer, fro' j 4, 211tirriii. !laving oil r 1 Q,, t 0 'lla - family , vii i° ) V4ta 211. Itt,;12:)50 , orB •F' Ith t° Copper )1i.., o ii _ at , 'l4 r. 1 st. re l tt Qii l 1‘1,4174 irveyod 1 1 ° Ilta. It I itt li !le 1 / 4 4 ?N ,3 / irie &fl d A, g' LI NI e ) 41 0 ,0 it t • W -.' Ind was i j a " 4 1 7t at tbe is'/'!, k a t , 1 e, , in lat. 5" P tI: t y 1 111). 4 P Lightl3iliq, ,forTllit):11;104 mailed fr°llolo' ~il4: 1(14q).11: s for Alit 01 ' clo i ti /... r 'rd 2 prevaiiew,o or ,04 tk4.•, I- Itilddillg e le t i 1%1 it:114116 otii, s. A 000. tl t or, At° doto 1 1 , 4 k 'e, id passepo ti: fic# i. ll r, ~... CleopatrAti v'Ai ittgdfitakft°4f Inoutb 6;014 .14 .0,,(1,,h'ii et o f bottl e ol ' OlPt,"%te 1 cre ~,, vi R , d b h r, the posh, 0::, ,th,,04.... i one 0%4, 4r4i,'Cilit 444%2% I before lc,i 0 ' ' Itt'ltir q numerous ..." i! ) jet 4 6 .. f o ' JO t ry 1 ity• a Y nder ess, moj 44 -o 308 miles" .06t; y i tic has expel° ot/ 'l4°Y.'44,hitt" 3is 72 ° Ai" ' . 4) Q '&411) 1"-°11thrtkt 1:17; rg • Sll R E M. AR, K E S, (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. Cllasing Pricc s this cl..y 20 - 20:3 4i = 4i si 8 13 - 12 16 17 8 7di 94 - fi6 62 - 62 12... - 13 .•• i - 3 ~ _ 2 -7, 14 - 15 10i - 11; 29 - 31 19 - 21 73 75 57 2d par 19. 20 68 - 70 90 - 91 73 - 75 125 - [27 90 - 92 66 - 67} 60 - 62 74 - 78 T - 9 7 - 9 75 - 75 t - 41 71 - 84 (J 5 - 107 .yoi 1014 4 d par: d - par 85 Si 741 8 7 2 4 24 : - 691 70, 41 - 43 id ii p It - 6 ii - 2} 48 - $0 3i 3i 30 8 i 3 0 1 1 1/ 64 75,1 76 6/ 4/ 121 13/ 53i 54: 52 par ap Ad I 4i 4i -6 —6; d 31i - 32 96 - 98 61 - 62 8 9 46 48 2 '4 119,i 28i - 29 _2_ .....1 I Paid.' Rt,lLviATr, 1 .00 Alerdeen....... !31 Ambg. Noting. Ben and Eastn. Juliet_ all Belfast & Ballymena. all I3irming. Wolverh. & Stour Valley ...... 293 Birkenhd. Lancsh. I Cheshire Junct all Do. Chesh. & Birk £5O and £25 Cons . 19 Do., £20......... 30 Blyth & Tyn 3 origin~ £25 (issd. at £45 .00 Bristol and Exeter 00 Caledonian 21s. Carmarthen and Car digan all Chester l Holyhead all Cork and Bandon_ all Cork, Black, & Pass 16 Cornwall 1 Crieff Junction 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc all Dundee Perth&Aber Been Junction all Do. Now 100 East Anglian all Eastern Counties 100 Eastern Union, A Stock .. 100 De., B. Stock 8a Do., New A ..... ~ .00 East Lancashire 00 Edinburgh & Glasgolk all Edinb: and Peebles 100 Edin. PAL & Dun.le, I 'orth & Clyde Jun& all Furness. all Do. Extension 100 Glasgow &S. Wester 100 • treat Northern ..... 100 Do., A. Stock 1 00 Do., B. Stock ..JO Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire. 100 Great Western [DO Do. Stour Val. Rai Gua. Stk all Irish South-Easter , all Lancaster & Curtis!, i 43 Do., Thirds 4 Do. New Thirds__ .00 Lancash. andYorksi all Do., Fifths 11 Do., Wst. Riding Un all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt all London & Blackwal .00 Loud. Bright & S.Cst .00 Loud. and N. Westu 16 Do. Fifths 53 Do.lo/.5h.,M&8... 21 Do. Eighths 100 London andS. Westn 421 Do., £5O 34 Do., £40.. all Lndndrry& Coleraine all Lndudrry. & Ennisk. 100 vtanch.Sh el.& "Lind, all Do. i Shares, No. 1 14 r)o., Alan. & Lin. Un 100 Midland 100 ' (o. Birmng. & Derby all Ifidld. G. West. (Ire,) 223 Do. Half Shares dl Newcastle & Carlisl, 5i Newmkt.BuryExten 213 Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrti 8 Newry & Enniskillar all Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor 100 Norfolk 33 Northn.Counties Un. [OO North British... • all North Devon, No. 1. all Do., No. 2 111 Do., 3 A Deferred all Do., 3 B Guaranteed iOO N. Eastern—Berwick 20 Do. do. Extension , 13 Do. do. G.N. E. Parch all Do. Leeds .00 Do. York all North London all Do. New £lO :3 is N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp. stead, and City Jn. 173 North Staffordshire. all North Western.., all N. &S. Westrn. June I Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester 100 Oxford, Woreester,S; Wolverhampton 8 Portsmouth 100 3cottish Contrail Scottish Midland all ihrewsby. 1i Ilereerl 00 ihropsh ire Union 11 South Devon 1)0 ioatk Eastern 11 outh Wale. I'- , 4. Yrksh. & Riv. Dui 5 Do. 12 ;taines, Wok &Wok a Stockton & Darlin Aton & Usirtlepi Mt , Caff Vale 9 Do., £lO ehares. (00 Do. Pref., No. 211 rhames Haven Docl and Railway all Vale of Neath all Watered. &Ki k eno: all Katerfordinimeri. I 18 Nest Cornwall__ 3 Arrest End of Londoi and Crystal Palace all West London 141 s. Wiinbled 11 & Croy,lo3 linainege done this day. 3i - 22 - 5# - FOREIGN. ntwe rp&Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. Jun. , . Beziors to Graissessae 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. 43 p. c. Bds., pay, '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of CanadaA. is Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Debon., con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of France Gt. Indian Peninsula Do. New 5 per cent. IGroat Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Gt.WestJrn of Canad Shares Do. Bda., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Ds. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Basle Lucca & Pistoj a 5 P.C. pref . Lyons and Cieneva Lyons & Mediterran, Niadras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. Now . Namur di Liege (with interest) Do. (ox interest) Northern of France. D 0.201. She.late Char leroi and Erqxelines guar. 3i p. c. & red. at 2211. dur. 83 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. a Bds (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.) NorwegianTrankPref Paris and Lyons I Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Ronan... ParisCaen 6r Cherbrg Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse.. Do. 54 p. cent. Pref. onthein of France.. it. Andrew's and Quebec (A) .., West Flanders., IDo 5); per c. Pref Western of France %Vest. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand JOINT-STOG all Australasia all British Colonial Bank and Loan Company all British N. American' 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lond 18 English Scottish and Australian all Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 5 ' Ditto New 20 i IJondon and County., 10 London Joint Stock 20 ILond. & Weetminstei 35 tNatioual Provinciall of England 10 Do. New 22: 1 , ,National of Ireland all INew South Walea 1 all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 25 Provincial of Ireland, all Do. Now 1 Royal Australn.DlE.g ' & Gold Imp Co all south Australi. all Union Jf Australia.: 2i Do. New 10 Union of London - 6i 1 - par — gyp P -2/ - 23/ - 1. - - it 8 - 7.;1 1) - 8 11 10(1 89 91 2 2i i. par 4p par ip 21 - 2i 21 - 2i 151 - 161 97 - 100; 93 95 2 d pal 97 100 ... dis , 11 lip lid —Id i 74 - 12i -12 i R 4 -9 4 214 - 21ip 4 - i 49 42 44 pw 2 . 2 i 24 id OP 21 lid 7i Si ... - pm 3 4 d B PI iii = iii :11 BANKS. 8J -- 82 ••• ...... ... Id : id 3/ - 2/1 21h - 22 25 St, 20 St 25 3/ 2P, 20 20 10 10 20 20 50 20 10 5 20 20 37 = 39 3T - 39 39 - 6 - 70 7 - 9 ... THE SUM LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 18 Lc.ising Compans. London & N. WcA. L. &N. W. 'lale , ion„ E. Un. E. C... . losing Price, th is day. 7 - 99 9 - 101 Gt. Nrthn. Caldonian. 133 - 135 Do i Gt. Wes:a Yk. Now ! & Berm. V. &NM Do 105 io S. E:tston Do Peto & Co. Norfolk.. & N. "%:. Midld. Stekton Darlingt. IE. Count. n 0......... L. & N.W &Ln&Yll Do CANorthr Lancash& Yorksh. '4.MClear '4tockt. & Darlingt Do 4tWeetn. 12 - 13 22A - 93/ 101 -11 i 2i - 21 S 2 -- 94 - 57 - 59 li2 : iii linsatt L this day. 2i 31 - 12 91 - 93 Ar IVB ii 7 ,S l -(TILTS DA 31i i RAILWATII, Fledford and Blotchley Buckgbamih. Clydesdale k Col. Stour Vy. Sad. and Hal. E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do, New-- Glstr.dt Dn. F] Ifrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Solby Do. Shares. Do. 4 Shares. Lon.&Green7 Do. Preferenef Lon., Til., & S Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per et. Manch. Bxtn and Matlocl Redcar. ...... Widld.Bradfd Northern am Easternsp.c. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds p Prest. & Wyr, Do. Shares. Roystn.kHit Sher. Roth ant Gooleg. 5 p. c 3. Staffordsb. Wear Valleygl 6 per cent.. Do. Wilts&gomrel Aberdeen Do. No. 2, 7 p. c Blyth and Tyne lOper c. pref. (issd. at 501) Brie. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO 'Theater & Holyhead Guar. 5i per cont._ r)o. do. Pref. No. 2 Do. do. Pref. Ne, 2 Cork &Banda u 5 p c Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. 1 Do. No. 2 , 199 190 Do. Now 6 r . c. St, Eastern Union, Gar. per cent Do. 51., 10 per cent Do. 10/. Debentr.Sh- Do. do. 4 per cent East Lancash. 6 pets East and West York shire June. Fifths EdinbPrth.&Dundee 4 per cent. Glasgow &S.Western Guar. 5 per cent Great Noahn. 5 p. C; Do. 5 p. c. Redeem, at 10 p. c. prom Do 4i p. •. _ _ iDo. 5 p. c. Scrip, Red, at 5 p. c. Pm G t.N. of Scot. Ist Pre Gt. Soutlin.&Westm. (Ireland) Eightlis).., Do. 4 per c. Pre. St Gt. Westn. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c)... Do, con. red. 4{ P.C. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Do ^ irred.4 p. c. Do. Birm. prof. Sh Do. Chester 8 p. e.P.S. De. do. 5 p. e. do Do. Birm. Gua. Stk Do. Ches. Gua. Do, do. do Do. do. do Lan. & York. F. £2O Do. 6 p. c. Stock London and Brightoi guaranteed 5 p. c... Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. Do. New Guar.6 p. c. Lon. &N. W., Coy. I Nuneaton 5 p. ct... Loudon & S. Wester Con. Thirds Londonderry;, Color Shares Lon dy. & Ennis. a Sh Man., Shef., & Lin. yew, £lO Do. Vi Nfarypt & Carl. 4 p )u. 4i per cent Do Consol.6 p.c St. )o. Consol. Bristol Birm. 6 per cent.... ')o. Pref. 43 per eon Verfolk Debenture Do. Prof. 4 p. c. Stoc Do. 5 . p. e. Eat I 0 0 .5 per et. prof:— Way. V,tl:s p. c ! , Torth British V. E. Perw, 4 p.c. l' Do. do. do: Do. Leeds 6 p.c Do. do. Quarters 4$ DcYork i, & r. North Staffordshire.. )xford, Worcester, Wolverh..E 15, 6 6.c scot. Cent., New Pre 'south Devon. 0.4. fixed, 4i per cent 3. Eastern (Readine Ann.) of £1 Os. Od. S Wales Qua. 4p. c. Do. 0.. 4i p. c.... 3.Yorksl.l.4p.c.Guarr- Stockton and Dar- lington, C per cent Do. do. do. Stockton and Hartle pool, guar. 5 p. c. till let July, 1856 PREFERENCE SHARES. LIT ERA T UR E. The Warden. By Anthony Trollope. 1 vol. Longman and Cc. This is a very clever and entertaining book, though its object is not very clear. The Warden is a Mr. Harding, a gentle, honourable, and esti mable clergyman, who has been appointed by his old friend, the Bishop of Barchester, to the war denship of an establishment called Hiram's Hospi tal. Twelve old men of the town of Barchester were, by the will of one John Hiram, entitled to be maintained, clothed, and lodged in the hospital. As, in the case of many similar bequests, the value of the property had greatly increased; and, though Mr. Harding on his appointment added twopence a day to the men's allowance, still a great discre pancy existed, the pensioners receiving each one shilling and sixpence a day, and the Warden 8001. a year. This being obviously unjust and wrong, J . ohn Bold, th e Reformer of . the town, took upon hthe awkward task of bringing A before the public. The task w as th e l ess i ncum b ent upon him as his father had been an old friend of the Warden, and he himself was much attached to the Warden's youngest daughter. His eldest daughter was the wife of the Archdeacon, the son of the Bishop, and this Archdeacon, who is one of the chief characters in the book, ruled the yielding Mr. Harding with a rod of iron. He, poor man, when suddenly awakened to the injustice and in security of his position, would gladly have resigned the disputed office at once, but Archdeacon Grantly convinced him, by high-sounding arguments, that such a course would be the sure mode of encouraging the Church's enemies, aid be deserting his post in the hour of danger. Poer Mr. Harding endured it for some time, but at length, driven desperate by two articles in a leading newspaper, he escaped the vigilance of the Archdeacon, rushed to London, and resigned his lucrative but most unenviable position. Bythis time, however, John Bold had consented to the entreaties of the fair Eleanor Harding, to aban don the cause, and so both sides left the matter where it was. The hospital is deserted and ne glected, the eld men die off and are not replaced, and the survivors find to their dismay, instead of each man having the hundred a year they had ex pected, they only lose the twopence a day Mr. Harding had given them. The ex-Warden retires to a quiet lodging, to the disgust of the Archdeacon, and his daughter becomes Mrs. Bold. This is the substance of the book, but it gives a faint idea of the keen observation, knowledge of life, and satiri cal sketches contained in it. Some well-known characters are introduced under very transparent disguises. Few will fail to recognise Carlyle and Dickens among them, and the graceful testi mony to the part the " twenty shilling num bers" have taken in the reformation of many great abuses, will be generally appreciated. Bar cheater' and its dignitaries are evidently in tended for portraits ; but the unsatisfactory point of the book is its having seemingly no object. If it was simply intended to exemplify the frequent misappropriation of such funds, and the inconsist ency of the guardians of such establishments being rich men, while keeping strictly to the letter of the will, and not either enlarging the number of recipients or increasing their allowance, the end would be easily attained. If, on the other hand, the author was opposed to innovations, he might easily have taken the other side and made out a mere favourable case for the delinquents, repre sented the danger of alterations, &c. But he does neither one nor the other, or rather he does both. He says that the old men had all that they wanted, were quite happy, and succeed, in giving the im pression that John Bold did a great deal of harm and no good by his meddling, while the injustice of the case is evident. With this exception, most readers will 'derive pleasure froth its perusal, from its lively satire, its clever delineation of character and sketches of real life. The Baltic : its Gates, Shores, and Cities ; with a notice of the White Sea. By the Rev. Thomas Milner, M.A., F.R.G.S. _Longman and Co. The interest with which, until the formal an nouncement of the return of our fleet from the icy waters of the Baltic, everything connected with that sea was regarded, is reviving, and likely by all accounts to reach its culminating point during the present year. The appearance, therefore, of the work before us is very opportune, while, irre spective of such a considerati on , it cannot but be welcomed as containing useful information respect. ing a region eminently deserving of attention, on account of its remarkable physical geography, active and important commerce, and historical and scien tific associations. As the author remarks—" Few parts of the *globe have a more unique natural cha racter, or can boast of such a catalogue of illustrious names connected with their shores." These furnish topics which are illustrated with much ability, and possess a permanent interest. The Microscope : its History, Construction, and Applications. By Jabez Hogg, 111.R.C.5. Tho volume before us is a familiar introduction to the use of the microscope and the study of mi croscopical science, awl the public is largely in debted to the anther for a work on the subject, so easily to be understood, so amusing and instructive. With considerable clearness and skill ho lays before the reader the history and co:ettruction, and paints out the various applications of this wonderful in strument, to which every department of art and science has in turn been indebted. Soma readers, enamoured of the subject, may deein the work too succinct, but we think the author has wisely re frained from composing too bulky a book, and has thereby added to its practical value by insuring its popularity. Every one, after reading it atten tively, will know hot► to use and manipulate the instrument, and few but will be better informed as to its scope and practical utility. Hardly less wonderful than the telescope, it is shown to carry equally indisputable proofs of skill, design, and infinite wisdom in creation. Books treating on subjects that do this deserve, despite a few faults, to be recommended to the public. Tho present volume is illustrated by no fewer than 500 en gravings. Pater familias and youngsters, think of that ! five hundred well-executed engravings in some 440 pages, exhibiting minute natural objects of all sorts, and some of the most curious con struction. Wo cordially recommend the volume to our readers. Some Memoirs of John Hampden, his Party, and his Times. By Lord Nugent. Chapman and' Hall. 1 third edition of these memoirs in which such brief omissions have been made as Lord Nugent contemplated, with a view, we are told, - to its ap pearance in its present form. Nothing of the strictly biographical portion of the work has been touched, but where the historical description too much encumbered or overlaid it, this has been slightly compressed with advantage, we agree with the editor is thinking, to the general effect of the narrative. The most interesting feature, however, of the present edition is a brief memoir of the deceased lord. Our readers do not require to be told how meritorious his lordship's memoirs of that illustrious patriot and model of English coun try gentlemen, Hampden, are. The general approval they have met with sufficiently demon strata z that. It is a book to which Englishmen should give an honourable place in their libraries, and refer to again and again. If it does not tell as much as could be desired of Hampden, it tells as much as was accessible, and without flattery, all redounding to his honour. Though not a great historian Lord Nugent was a faithful one, and the high integrity which characterised his life is equally observable in his work. His lordship was the second sou of the first Marquis of Buckingham, and was born at Kilmainham Hospital, Dublin, in 1789, during his father's viceroyalty. His title was derived from his mother, who, in childhood, was the playmate of Goldsmith, and played on the simple-minded poet and moralist the harmless practical joke attributed in the comedy of " She Stoops to Conquer" to Tony Lunipkin. Passing with some distinction through his undergraduate ship at Oxford he left it with the reputation, which he always maintained, of being a fair classical scholar. He sabeequently passed two years with the army, and, on his return, received the Uni versity degree of D.C.L., having previously de feated Lord Eldon and the Duke of Beaufort in contest for the Chancellorship of Oxford. The war of liberation excited his intense sympathy, and he rushed into print to commemorate the wrongs of Spain and Portugal, and to express his cordial admiration for the genius and exploits of the hero of Torres Vedras, Badajoz, and Salamanca, who, it is gratifying to be assured, cordially reciprocated his kindly feeling. On the death of his mother ho merged the name of Lord George Grenville in tie title by which he was afterwards known. Shortly after Mr. Porceval's death he was returned for Aylesbury, and in the S.Ttem her of 1813 ho was married to Anne Lucy, the second daughter of Lieutenant-General the Hon. Yore Poulet, to whom he was devotedly attached. It is not our intention to liarticularise his inih-;equent career — in general terms we may say of it, it was that of a conscientious and high-spirited Liberal, even in times when to be so was to be stigmatised with the most opprobrious terms, and to incur real danger. With the struggles of die Catholic body for emelt• oipation he warmly sympathised—the oppressed slava found in him a ready and constant champion, and Parliamentary Reform, and the removal of re ligious disabilties were greatly promoted by his strenuous exertions. To the last he was the friend of the oppressed, and the Hungarian exiles in this country found in him a liberal and steady friend. 5 5. iOf his appointment and retirement from the office of Lord Commissioner of the lonian Islands, we will only say whatever unpleasantness led to his resignation, the merit of having greatly improved the financial condition of these islands was indis putably his, and from his political opponents his entire conduct subsequently received ample vindi cation. His Parliamentary career, an interrupted one, was not brilliant, but he was respected by men of all opinions ' • he enjoy e d th e f r i en d s hi p o f th e illustriou s chiefs of the Whig party, and, according to Tim Bobns, "he had more good taste than any man in the House." He was the author of many eloquently-written pamphlets, but his great work was that before us. Taking advantage of some re pairs in the chancel of Hampden Church, he ob tained the permission of the Duke of Buckingham for such possible identification of Hampden's re mains as might clear up the question of the kind of hurt of which the illustrious patriot died • and he, with others believed, though h e afterwards' saw reason to change his opinion, that he had gazed on Hampden's remains. Subsequently ho had a monument erected by subscription to Hampden's memory, and next, we believe in these memoirs, testified the high veneration he entertained for it. On the 26th November his useful and highly honourable career came to an unexpected termina tion ; and of him we shall only say, in conclusion, a nobleman more manly, of higher integrity, more liberal-minded, humane and patriotic, has rarely, if ever, existed. 21 r orses and Bounds ; a Practical Treatise on their Management. By Scrutator. Routledge and Co. Who Scrutator is we d o no t pre t en d t o k now, while willingly concedi ng t o h im the merit of hav ing written a very readabl e an d i nstruct i ve b ook, on a subject peculiarly interestin g t o a l arge an d influential class of readers. Evidently an acute observer, ardently attached to the chase, and inte rested in all belonging to it, Scrutator has given the world the benefit of a thirty years' experience, and must be acknowledged " a master" of the vena torial art. Every detail of the stable and the kennel seems familiar to him, and the instructions he lays down for their management commend themselve s as being at once practical and judicious. He ex presses surprise that, considering the demand for well-bred horses, and their high price, the breeding of this kind of stock, as a system, has not been mor e genera ll y a d opte d b y agric ulturists, poiLts out mistakes made in the selection of brood mares, and asserts that purchasing inferior animals is bad economy. He then proceeds to show what conditions are required to secure a good stock and a healthy and efficient stable. His remarks on the breaking in and working of colts especially deserve attention. Tricks of dealers do not escape notice, and valuable hints are given to intending pur chasers. In short, all that can be expected in a popular and practical treatise on the management of horses and hounds will, so far as we can judge, be found in these pages, which are greatly en livened by original racy anecdotes, illustrative of the subject in hand. It may be interesting to add that the notion entertained by many that the in troduction of railways would have suspended or materially diminished the use of horses employed for draught purposes has proved erroneous ; the number of cabs and omnibuses plying to and from the railway stations having actually increased the demand ! In London, the increase, we are told, has been enormous. CORN EXCHANGE. The quantity of foreign wheat on offer was larger than for some time past. All descriptions met a very dill in quiry, at 2s. per qr. beneath last week's currency. Floating cargoes commanded very little attention, yet there were no sellers on lower terms. _- —. The show of barley was tolerably good, and the trade was in a very sluggisk state. In some iastanoes prices gave way le. per quarter. Malt met a dull sale, at barely late rates. We were very extensively sUpplied with foreign oats. The trade was heavy, at is per qr. less money. Beans, the show of which was good, were very dull, and is. to 2s. por qr. cheaper. The inquiry for peas washeavy, aid the quotations gave way ls. to 2s. per quarter. There was only a moderate sale for flour. In prices very Ale change took place. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex lc Kent, Red .... new 683 to 743 Ditt0...... „ „.. old 703 75a Ditto, White new 74s Bns Ditt0........ old 763 83s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old CBs 703 Ditto new •• •• .. 67s 70s Rye—Old ............ —8 —s New ............ 443 47s Barley—Grinding..... 303 333 ......... 32$ 343 Chevalier...... 36s 37s lialt--Suffolk and N0r f01k............ 62s 67s Brown 583 Os Kingston and Ware 68s 703 M alt — Chevalier .. •• 71s to 723 Oats Yorkshire and Lincolnak.,Feed 25s 27s Potato 2Bs 30s Youghs and Cork 81ack....... 255 29. Cork, White ..... 263 no Scotch, Feed. 28s 311 terin9—Tlsk •• •• 41s 451 Pigeons •• 45s 54s Peas—Grey .... 375 405 Maple •• .• 41s '43s White •• .. 46s 4ss Boilers ...47s Vs Flour—Town -nude... 683 73s Suffolk •••••• •• •• 543 603 6tocktn & Norfolk 133 14s• FIELD. SMITH The total imports of foreign stock into London last week in amounted to 1,407 head. In the corre s p ond i ng 1854 2,651; we in 1850, 4 received 1,89495;i; in 9 n 1 8 1 5 3 3 4 , 3; 1,50 21 3 9 in 1852 , 2 ,446 ; is 1851,; ; and in 184 8, 443 head. Frorn IMPOItTS INTO LONDON LAST ISTRY. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. r vat yet, rigs Antwerp — ... - •.. Calais Oporto Nieu Diep„..„ 30 ... Harlingen Rotterdam__ 102 ... 282 ... - 3J ... - 205 ... - -- ... 6 ~... -- —.... Total ... 819 ... 517 ••• 71 .. ._.. The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under :-- Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs, 1854 B6l ... 747 ••• ••• 275 ... ...... 1853 556 ~, 2,232 ... ••• 428 _ 1852 649 ... 1,477 ... •.. 321 .•. -- 1851 564 ... 1,912 ... •.. 350 ~ 1850 5l ... 200 ... •.. 203 ~„ _ 1549 369 ... 799 ... ••• 182 ..„ ___. T offoreign stock hero to-clay Was limited, a nd npo h o e sho r co w . . _ Compared with Monday last, the arrivals of beasts fresh up this morning from our own grazing districts were on the increase, yet the supply of that description of stock was by no morons extensive. Its quality, however, was prime ; indeed, there were scarcely any inferior beasts in the market. The at tendauce of buyers was tolerably good, yet th• beef trade was in a sluggi*h state, at Friday's de cline, in the quotations of 21 par 8110. Tho highest figure was 4s 101 per Sibs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire we received 2,000 Scots and short horns ; from other parts of England, 40) of various breeds; and from Scotland, 300 horned and polled Scots. For the time of the year about an average supply of sheep was on offer, in good condition. Oa the whole the mutton trado was firm, at prices fully equal to those ob tained on this day sa'nnight , .. The primest old Downs we.e worth quite 53 per 81bs. Calves—The supply of which was very limited—moved off steadily, at full quotation., viz., from 4.8 d to 6s per filbs. The pork trade was rather heavy. In price., however, no change took place. Per Sibs to sink the offal'. s. d. s. d.l s. d. s d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 ClPrimeSouthdown 4 10 0 Second quality.... 3 8 4 2 largo crse. calves 4 8 5 4 Prime large oxen 4 4 4 6 Prime small d 0... 5 6 6 0 Prime Scots, eze. 4 8 4 101 Large hogs 3 0 4 0 Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 81Sotall porkers 4 2 4 4 Second quality ...3 10 4 2,Bn.:7cling calves..2s 0 30 Prime crse.-wlled.4 4 4 BQuavter old pigs 20 I 26 0 TOTAL SUPPLY. possioN SUPPLY. Beasts. Burets .................• 4,175 sheep ) Shee; 759 Calves •• o• e• •••• Cal ye,s _•••••• • • • •• • • 530 2U5 I Pig 5.....:: A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fai stock exhibited and sold in Sinitht ield Cattle Mark e t, on Monday, Jan. 30,1854, and this day, m onday, _ 4,an. 29, 1855. Per 81ba, to sink the o ff als. Jan. 23, 18 54. Jan. 22,1855. S . d• S. d . s. d. s. d 3 4to 3 6 1 3 4to 3 6 3 , 8 3 111,3 8 4 2 4 0 4 44 4 4 6 4 6 4 84 8 410 3 2 3 6 1 ,3 4 3 8 3 8 4 4310 4 4 6 4 8:4 4 4 $ 410 6 24 16 5 0 0 0 0 110 Coarse and inferior beasts ... Second quality ditto ... Prime large oxen ... Prime Scots, dzc Coarse and inferior sheep Second quality ditto Prime coarse woolled ditto Prime Southdown ditto 0 4 g 5 ,f 6 6 Oj 0 4 2; 4 4 4 101 4,141 18,750 Large coarse calves Prime small ditto ... Large hogs ... Neat small porkers ... Beasts... ... Sheep ... Calves... ... o 0 0 14 8 5 4 1 5 6 6 0 30 4 0 1 4 2 4 4 4,275 18,670 Pigs ••• • •• • u • ... 214 205 SUPPLIES or SALE, Jan. 31, 180.—Beasts, 4,615 ; sheep, !7,720; calves, 23 6 ; pigs, 250 . February 2, 1852.—Boasts, 4,176; Sheep, 18,990; calves, 61 ; pigs, 280. - NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of each kind of m eat on sale in these markets continuo seasonably good. The trade is not to say brisk, yet last week's prices are supported. Per 81bs by the carcaw, s. d. s. d. ' Beef, inferior 3 2 3 4 Do., middling 3 6 3 8 Do., prime large 3 10 4 0 Do., do. small 4 2 4 4 Pork, large ,3 03 8 d. s. d. Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 4 0 Do., princ e , 4 2 4 4 Vea1...... 4 4 6 4 Pork, small 40 4 6 BOROUGH nor. hops into London amounted Ham burg, 532 from New y• L r a k s w s ,t 81 from ' siA3muptor bales we t from r of foreig n.pm Ostend, and 11 f rom Rotterdam. The amount of business doin g i n our market is very moderate, yet prices are supperted. N ew mid and E i a t s t t n K , l e 4 n l t i p o o e c t k e et i s il l o 4 e / ; new s Os to 2 n l e / s O e s z ; di -New Weald o f K en t ditto , 141 141 10s to 151 10s per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. We have no arrivals of potatoes to report either from the Continent or from Ireland. The receipts coastwise anA by land•carrine are very moderate, and th e d emand is steady, as follows :—Scotch Reds, 85s to lobs ; Scotch Regents, ICJ's to 115 s ; York Regents, Lincolnshire regents, 105 s to 120 s per ton. ke I JUN, Great inactivity prevailed in the demand for wheat in most of the country markets held on Saturday. In prices, however, no material change took place. The barley trade ruled dull, at barely stationary figures. In other kinds of oprri z r corn, as well as in flour, only a moderate business was doing. Mott of the Continental markets hare been rather dull for wheat and other articles, and prices have been with dif ficulty supported. High rates for both wheat and flour con tinue to reach us from New York. The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week were again moderate. Prom abroad we received 24,789 qrs. of wheat, 3,515 barley, 32,572 oats, 3,098 heaps, 3,630 peas, 1,618 tares, 42 linseed, 90 suadry seeds, and 870 sacks of flour. Fresh up to our market this morning the arrivals of English wheat, coastwise, were considerably in excess of the supply reported on this day se'nnlght, and wo had a fair quantity by land carriage. The show of samples of both red and white, especially of the former, were rather extensive, owing to which, the increase in the imports from abroad, and the moderato number of buyers in attendance, the trade was in a depressed state, at a decline in the quo tations paid on Monday last of from 3s to 4s per qr. At that decline much difficulty was experienced in effecting sales. WOOL. Ilk , change can As a considerable increase in the supply of Engli s h wool is expect, and as thefrom th districts ed are unfavourable , s e , the demand for a ll k in anufacturin g is of wool is very inactive. In prices, however no be noticed. Last week's imports were 250 !sales from the Cape, and 22 from Leghorn. The following are the current rates of English wool . Southdown hoggets, is Od to is 00 ; half-bred hoggs, I,'Od to is OP ; Southdown ewes, is Od to Os Od ; Rent fl eec es , is ld to is id ; Leicester fleeces, is Od to 18 Oid ; fl annel wool, is Od to is 14d ; blanket wool, 101 to la ed ; and combing skins, lid to is Od per lb. , SEEDS. There has been a slight improvement in the sale for lin seed, the prices for which are fairly supported. The sup ply of rapeseed is small, and held at extreme rat es. Canary is firm, but not dearer. In clover seed s• little is doing that the quotations are almost nominal. Cakes m ove off steadily, at full prices. Turntp,White, per bush. 22s to 25.. Swed• ,„ --9 Mustard, 8r0wn...... 12. 1 its ( C I l i o a e r r n f i a a p n w s ( 0 1 a e e Y d r • • , : p :e:r quarter: :: : . 4 t . i I Linsee d, Eng.iowing.. 72 s 75 , Crashing 66 , 701 ltaltic •• •• •• --8 —s Odessa ••••• • • • • • 64- 68i I Li n , c ed Clko, pr. ton—. White, new • • •... gs 10 , ires,Winter, new.... its 12- Old.• .......... .• 91 Canary, per quarter .. 52s 5. Rye zrass . • • .. • • ... 2s 26s Clorer, Recl Eth., . (cwt.) 50s GS • White ......... SOJ Foreign Red...... 461 )- I White—. 41s 75 24s 29.1 • English .. • .. 12/ 04 13 0, Foreign,per ton 11 Os 12 10s ',tape Cakes, pr tun 61 04 6 100 ItApesead,Newsprlst 33 13 , 35 Cs Trefoil, new..... TALLOW. Since Monday last our market has beon in an excited suite, and prices hare fluctuated to some extent. The highest quotation has been i9s 6kl, the lowest 553 6d per cwt. To-day, it has a rising tendency, 57s per cwt. being the price for now Y.C. Town tallow, 56s ne t Cash ; rough fat, 3s ld. ISM. 1853. Stock this day ......1 47.830 Price of y. c •• •• f .378 9,1 to —s OA Delivery last week .. 2,373 Ditto from June 1.... 64,524 Arrivals last week.. 570 Ditto from J nue 1 ...., 90,334 1 1854. 5 ,770 43,664 j 33,700 36 Pd 44s 9d. */)G3s Od •o Ito —s Od 455 3,1 Od 12,494 2,338 1,927 75,550 70,782 71,930 Price of T0wn...... 393 61 1855. 36,119 568 6d to —8 Od 2,108 11.i.00a 3,421 55,127 563 91 •io 2,254 379 9 - 5, - 78 7 3 73;868 118,315 399 6d 468 6d 643 9d 62 .3 6616 In 126 I n 8Q 17 74j 5f 5 1 106 1004 1001 14 S 4 21 I 704 70 691 K.111)0 ;t. jlOO it. I too it. 100 15 all )3 all all 61 all 61 all Q I all Q all [0 all .!0 all 5 all LO all t. all It. 100 5 all ;t. 100 ;t. goo t. LOO 2.3 I all .0 all all 0 8 co 6 >t. 100 8 all 10 all 10 all luo ?.6t ail 13, 1 , all all 6 6 t. 100 t. 100 R. 1100 ;t. 100 ;t. 100 12i! 9.11 all 6 I 4 2 all .21 10 It. 100 It. 100 30i 1 76 51 31i 2i 97i 59 4 ; 3 / 4 I all 5 all .0 ).6, all !O all !Co all ;CI all ;5 all 25 11 121 all THE COURT. —As at present arranged, her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, ac companied by the younger branches of the royal family, will take their departure from Windsor Castle on or about the 14th of next month for Buckingham Palace. A large meeting of the Derby party was held on Sa turday night, at Mr. Disraeli's residence, to consider how to take advantage of the present crisis. His Excellency the Ambassador of France and the Countess Walewska entertained a small circle at dinner' at Albert-gate House on Saturday, and among whom' were his Excellency the Austrian Minister and the Countess Colloredo, Viscount and Vicountess Palmer ston, &e. Miss Burdett Coutts has been staying on a visit during the past week, ab Oaklands, Hants, the residence of Lady Napier. On Friday Miss Coutts visited H.M.S. Duke of Wellington at Spithead, Admiral Sir Thomas Coch rane having placed his steam yacht at her disposal. The advices from Adelaide state the John Hullett had sailed for London with 25,000 sovereigns and a small quantity of gold, making a total of about 20,1001. It is stated to be not improbable that the Earl of Cardigan will be the new Inspector-General of Cavalry Tia Fox CLun—The first meeting of the Fox Club' this season took place on Saturday erening at Brooks's. Present—the Earl of Albemarle, the Earl of Ilchester, the Right Hon. Edward Ellice, M.P., Earl Fitzwilliani, the Earl of Yarborough, Lori Camoye, the Hon. G. W. Fitzwilliara, the Hon. Augustus Barrington, Lord Staf ford, Capt. Townshend, R.N., M.P., Mr. H. F. Ste phenson, Mr. Rowland Alston, the Hon. H. H. Duncan, the Right Hon. Dr. Lushington, Sir M. J. Cholmeley, Bart., M.P., Colonel Boldero, Mr. A. K. Stephenson, Sir A. K. Macdonald, Bart., the Earl of Leicester, Mr. E. A. Sanford, Viscount Milton, M.P., the Earl of Strafford, the Right Hon. Sir Robert Adair, Lord Say. and Sale, Viscount Ebrineton, M.P. DEPARTURE OF THB AMERICAN MAIM—LIVERPOOL, Saturday.—The United States mail steam-ship Atlantic, Captain James West, sailed from the Mersey this after noon for New York, with the usual mails for the United States, fifty passen7ers, and an average cargo of mer chandise on freight. Prior to her departure Messrs. Williner and Smith, of Liverpool, placed a large number of copies of the morning papers of this date, containing the important proceedings of last night in Parliament, on board, for the mess-room s of the Western Continent. In consequence partly of the pacific tone of the St. Petersburg advices and the delay in the Baltic blockade question, the price of tallow has declined during the week to 563. per cwt., being 3s. below the qnotatien of a few days back. The existing Ministerial crisis is causing injury and disappointment in trade, from its in terfereice not only with the expected settlement of the course to be pursued with regard to the overlaid traffic in Russian produce, but also from its being likely to retard the bill for the alteration of the law of partner ship. APOTHECARIES'-HALL. Names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thurs day, Jan. 25.—Robert Graham, Holly-cottage, Homer ton ; Charles Foster Gregory, Leigh, Tonbridge ; Samuel Summers, Stourbridge, Worcestershire ; Chas. Aldcroft Howard, York ; Alfred Joseph Lumby Hep. worth (army). MRS. GORE'S NEw NOVEL " MAMMON; OR, THE HARDSHIPS OF AN HEIRESS." —This book, taken as a picture gallery of modern life, is a very remarkable per formance. Such keenness of observation, brilliancy o f wit, and careful study of human character, have seldom been exhibited in a novel. Two or three of the sketches, such as that of the young roué of Crockford's dwindled into the worldly old beau, and the Nestor of political, sporting, and fashionable life, consulted by all parties, public and private, for the better regulation of their own lied the nation's affairs, and the retired Q.C., witty, wealthy, and wise, are masterly portraits. PUBLIC INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.—On Saturday, the Government balance-sheet presented to Parliament was published for the year ended the sth January inst. 1 In the year the income was 56,737,1321. 18s. and the expenditure 59,946,1921. 2s. Bd. ; showing an excess of expenditure of 3,209,0591. 4s. sd. The increased income tax produced in the year 7,456,025/. 2e. Bd. The ba lances in the Exchequer on the sth January, 1854, were 4,485,2291. 18s. 4d., and on the sth January inst. 0,015,6121. 18e. 6d, 21} x int. 6 i i 21} 5i 36j6 681 i 91 8i - 101 - 92 = ii • • • ...." • , 5i - 6 . i - 1 1 , I- i r 12j - 13 i 58 - 62 .ad a IN !109 - 111 100 - 102 i in es. ..... • •• 6 -- 6,1 94 -- f 96 88 -- SO 89 -- 91 9i -- 104 16 -16 A 9 71 - 73 19 -- 19? 9 i -- W -141 -14 i 1 -- id 136 138 ••• '"' •.• 21 - 8 12 - 12 a ip - 133 - 1(1 - 90 - 103 - 103 92 - 33, 101 i 0 - a .. •.. 1 id 72 zd 19. i 113 - 12 id 22i - 15 - id 14 par i pm pm 13 121 21 i TEE QUARTERLIES. The Quarterly Review. No. CXCI. The pleasantest article imaginable has been con tributed to the new number of the old Quarterly by Mr. Thackeray. The fact of the authorship was first intimated in that agreeable column of literary gossip which appears week after week in our intelligent contemporary, the Illustrated Lon don News. But without the aid of any such pre liminary announcement it would be difficult for a disceraing reader to mistake the hand from which the paper referred to, as the charm of the current number of the Quarterly, has emanated. It is from first to last altogether delightful. Genial, graceful, quaint, cordial, wise, and humorous. Through it the reviewer notifies to the world his complete ;ip preciation of the fun and frolic stored up as abun dantly as plums in a Christmas pudding—slice upon slice—in John Leech's " Pictures of Life and Character." The whole criticism, or rather pane gyric, constitutes a splendid and eminently well deserved tribute to the artist—facile princeps among the collaborate IGI'S of our merry little old r uncti. A gentleman (Mr. Punch we mean of course, not Mr. Leech) whilom as "raffish" as latterly he has become well-to-do and reputable —one in regard to whose transformation of late years from squalidness to respectability the analyst of Snobbism here ob serves—" Time was, if we remember Mr. P.'s his tory rightly, that he did not w ear sil k stockings nor Well-made clothes "—adding, with deliciou s comicality—" the little dorsal irregularity in his figure is almost an ornament now, so t.xcellent a tailor has he !" From which reforenco to the dorsal irregularity now become an ornament we might almost be induc e d f or a momen t to conjec ture that (wonderful to relate) the tailors of this pink and pattern of fine gentlemen—Mr. Charivari Punch—are no other after all than Messrs. E. Moses and Son, of Minories reputation. Conjec turing thus much at least from the only couplet we can acknowledge to have ever derived amusement from out of these abominable brochurettes slapped in the face of her Majesty's lieges through cab win dows at any hour, on any day, when emerging from the gateway of any railway terminus in the metropolis—the poetic spawn and literary fry issuing perpetually from the garrets of Seven Dials among effusions to be afterwards vended across the counters of Holywell-street. Perhaps the chinking rhyme of this same couplet may, as with us, have once upon a time caught the eye, and afterwards unconsciously lurked in the memory of Michae Angelo Titmarsh : to wit.— "Our fit is such that if you have a hump Your dress-coat will conceal the ugly bump." - - - However this may be, the biographer of Jeames is strictly in the right—" the little dorsal irregu larity" in the figure of Mr. Punch has long since, according to his own showing, become beautified and tailorised into au ornament. Yet more, as Mr. Thackeray tells us delectably through the grave old pages of the usually sedate and sometimes (as those can best relate who have smarted most severely under the leaded lash of its ponderous and inexorable criticism) the grim, old, buff-faced Tory Quarterly : "He (Mr. Punch) is combed, washed, neatly clothed, and perfectly presentable. He goes into the very best company ; he keeps a stud at Melton • he has a moor in Scotland; he rid es i n th e par k ; has his stall in the opera; is constantly dining eut at clubs and in private society, and goes every night in the season to balls and parties, where you see the most beautiful women possible. He is welcomed among his new friends the great, though, like the good old English gentleman of the song, he does not for get the small; he pats the heads of street boys and girls ; relishes the jokes of Jack the costermonger and Bob the dustman ; good-naturedly spies out Molly the cook flirting with policeman X, or Mary the nursemaid as she listens to the fascinating guardsman. " Beyond all this, he, the said Mr. Satirist Punch, has his well-selected gallery of pictures, " Pictures of Life and Character," the Will Hogarth contri buting to which gallery is none oth e r th an th e inimitable John Lech, whose astonishing deftness of pencil has been at length becomingly celebrated through an organ no less important than the Quar terly Review, by a critic no less distinguished than the Harry Fielding, and something better than the Harry Fielding of his day—William Makepeace Thackeray. In this most charming commentary on the " Pictures of Life and Character," selected from Mr. Punch's diversified collection, how exqui sitely does Mr. Thackeray discourse with the very driest, and yet, at the same time, the most refresh ing humour imaginable, upon the mere eminent among the .motley race of our genuine English caricaturists. Caricaturists, both literary and pic torial—now a Bunbury, and now a Pierce Egan_ passing in fantastic sequence under review—Gill ay,Woodward, and Rowl an d son, and so on tor and Lrown time, through the days when Planous (transparently enough, George IV., when Prince Regent) had thafasces born before him! In testimony of the general tone in which all this is penned by Mr. Thackeray, we cannot refrain from gratifying both ourselves and our readers by transferring into the columns of The Sun the subjoined tribute to our dear old friend George Cruikshank : "Among the veterans, tke old pictorial satirists, we have mentioned the same of one humorous designer, who is still alive and at work. Did we not see, by his own hand, his own portrait of his own famous face and whis kers in the Illustrated London News the other day ? There was a print in that paper of an assemblage of Teetotalers in Sadler's-wells Theatre, and we straightway rezognised the old Roman hand—the old Roman's of the time of Plancus—George Cruikshank's. There were the old bon nets and droll faces and shoes, and short trousers and figures of MO, sure enough. And there was George (who has taken to the water-doctrine, as all the world knows) handin some Teetetalleress over a plank to the table where the pledge was being administered. How often has George drawn that picture of Cruikshank ! Where haven't we '.een it? Hum fine it was facing the effigy of Mr. Ainsworth, iu Ainswortle's Magazine, when George illustrated that periodical. How grand and severe be stands in that deign in G. C.'s Omnibus, where he repi e cents himself tonged like St. Dunstan, and tweaking A wretch of a publisher by the nose ! The collectors of Geore's etchings—O, the charming etchings ; 0, the dear old German popular tales !—the capital ' Points of Hu mour,' the delightf u l ph reno l ogy an d scra p-books of the good times, our ti mes , Plancus's in fact !—the collectors of the Geor g i a n e t c hi ngs , we say, have at least a hundred pictures of the arti4. Why, we remember him in his favourite Hessian boots in Tom and Jerry' itself ; and in woodcuts as far back as the Queen's trial. He has rather deserted satire and comedy of late years, having turned his attention to the serious, and warlike, and sublime. Having confessed our age and prejudices, we prefer the comic and fanciful to the historic, romantic, and, at pre sent, didactic George. May respect and length of days and comfortable repose attend the brave, honest, kindly, pure minded artist, humourist, moralist. It was he who first broUght English pictorial humour and children acquainted. Our young people and their fathers and mothers owe bim many a pleasant hour and harmless laugh. Is there no way in which the country could acknowledge the long services and brave career of such a friend and- bene factor ?" How many thousands will not echo that last in quiry in the core of the hearts, whether old or young, which our glorious George has so often sunned with a sweet, and wise, and innocent laughter ! Another quotation we must give, not withstanding the length to which our remarks upon this wonderfully entertaining paper from the mas ter hand of Mr. Thackeray have already almost un consciously extended—a quotation honourable both to the artist and to the writer therein mentioned,. the artist Mr. Doyle, the writer Mr. Thackeray. The Paragraph will be found to be at once a tribute and a revelation—a tribute to Mr. Doyle and a revelation on the part of Mr. Thackeray. Listen ! Speakin g of the John Bullish prejudices for which Mr. Punch with all his liberality is yet so fre quently remarkable, the reviewer continues : " Against lawyers, beadles, bishops and clergy, and an. thorities, Mr. Punch is still rather bitter. At the time of the Papal Aggression he was prodigiously angry ; and one of the chief misfortunes which happened to him at that period was that, through the violent opinions which he expressed regarding the Roman catholic hierarchy, he lost the invaluable services, the graceful pen, the harmless wit, the charming fancy of Mr. Doyle. Another member of Mr. Punch's cabinet, the biographer of Jeames,' the author of the ' Snob Papers,' resigned his functions on account of Mr. Punch's assaults upon the present Emperor of the French nation, whose anger Jeames thought it was unpatriotic to arouse. Mr. Punch parted with these con tributors; he filled their places with others as good. The boys at the railroad station cried Punch just as cheerily, and sold just as many numbers after these events as be fore." Enough, however, both in the way of comment and quotation in reference to a masterpiece of comic criticism which all should read in the original for themselves a masterpiece constituting at one and the same time a feather in the cap of John Leech and a bee in the bonnet of each among his more coarse and even at moments revolting and licentious predecessors in a now happily bygone age of social and politi ca l car i catur i sts. Our comments upon this brief but remarkable paper from the pen of Mr. Thack eray h ave been so far lengthened, in spite of all our efforts at coneiseness, that we have left ours elves only room to speak of the other articles in the current number of the Quar terly in a manner the most curt, succinct, and pro. vokingly generalised. These remaining contribu tions are in number nine—and in merit some of them not easily calculable. As, for example, the essay on " Clerical Economics" and the treatise on " Atomic Chemistry"—yet more, perhaps, the two laborious disquisitions, one on " Fire Assurance," the other on "Provident Institutions"—but most of all the very masterly contributions referring here to tie "Conduct of the War," there to " The Campaign in the Crimea"— the last-mentioned with particular allusion to the glorious days of Alma, Balaklava, and Inkorman. AUSTRIA AND THE CONFEDERATION. The following is a translation of the secret de spatch of the Austrian Government, to the Stated of the German Confederation. It is dated Jan. 14 : (Confidential.) VIENNA, Jan. 14.—We may still consider the ad hesion cf Prussia to the alliance concluded by the treaty of the 2d of December as a probable eventuality, and for its part the Imperial Governtnent will always consider it a duty to do everthing in its power to put an end :(one way or another) to the differences which, to its regret, unhappily now exist between the two great German Powers. " if the hope of seeing Prussia adhere to the alliance should be realised, the complete and sincere concurrence of the t:vo Powers in their quality of German Federal Powers would thereby be aseurad. " Experience, however, bids us extend our provisions to the case that Prussia should attempt longer to per sist in Inr policy of indecision, and should even "attempt to act at Frankfort in a manner to thwart our proposi tions upon the necessity of the Confederation being pre pared for war. " In such case, the Imperial Government would only the more resolutely desire to pursue, with the support of the (Aber German Governments, the path traced by the Federal Constitution as regards the manner in this great question ought to be considered, and it would regard itself as neglecting one of the most sacred duties (.:f its mission in Go.rmany if it did not endeavour /time all things to attai n th a t the " 1 . 1 tare corn,:tltutional resolutions, and if, for It 4 own part, it was not perfectly ready to take upon itself the conse quences of those resoluttooe. " Therelcre at a moment when our confederates will have to &vide upon their participation in events per haps decisive for the destibies of Germany, we cannot besitalo io putting the question to them, confidentially, as to how they will act in the case of being resolved to go in aceerdoio e with 11P, 'multi a conformable eral n e il i t,u s F e . e l c .; v l e biY o . t. 1 cra!ea if, in tint case; they grapt kufiloieil stud if, itne,c);i:,fiodureooutro. ende:tvc:urN to obtain a solid :nil sure pcac.•.th should fail,. Tu - iy, in the most extreme eventuality, equally count upon their active co-operation. "'nie Imperial Court would, in such case, give the most solemn assurances to guarantee their territorial pos. sessii.ll 4 and position against every eventuality, and, moreover, to grant them their shares of advantages re sulting from the war in Froportion to the number of trips employed. In exchange, Austria must put the condition that a body of troops, to be determined upon, should b e a t once ma d e ready fr service, and claim that -- [here comes the name of the Government of the'. State addressed] shall express to his Majesty the Empe ror the confidence of placing, in case of appeal, the direction of their contingent under the superiorcommand of his Imperial Majesty. "We count upon a frank and candid reply, and it ' will give us great satisfaction to find that it responds to our wish, as that will have the effect of throwing light upon our relations with the German Governments, and of consolidating them especially with (name .of State), providin g th em w i th all tbegnarantees which the necessities this grave epoch demand. " You will please to make a confidential communica tion of this de , patch to `• Da Bum." LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DA Y.) LONDON, Jan. 29. —Wind and weather this day at noon, light northerly breeze, and dull frosty weather, with a very slight fall of snow. PORTAMOUTH, Jan. 28.—Wind, N.N.E. Sailed—Ca nadiau (a s), for the Crimea; Robert Dickson, Melbourne. FALMOUTH, Jan. 28.—Wind, N.E. Arrivod—Eugenia, from Calcutta ; Elizabstb, Rio Janeiro, for Hamburgh. RAMSGATE, Jan. 28.—The Mary and Sarah (brig), of Shields, to Bordeaux, has been brought in here leaky, having been on the Goodwin Sands during a thick fog. The Win. Carson (barque), of North Shields, for Mar seilles, got on the Kentish Knock, on the 26th, and was abandoned last n i g ht, w ith 9 f eet of water in her hold; crew landed here. WELLS, Jan. 28.—Her Majesty's stesmer Rosamond, from Cromarty to Devonport, has been on shore, but was got off with assistance, after throwing overboard some coal and discharging ammunition. DOVER, Jan. 28.—Wind, N. to E. Arrived—Marion, from Chli.tiansund, for Bilbos, much damaged, and very leaky, from - contact with the Recovery. DEAL, Jan. 28.—The Patmas (brig), of and from Sun derland, bound to Bordeaux, was abandoned on the 18th inst., in lat. 19, and long. 6 W., with 4 feet of water in . her hold, pumps choked ; master, mate, and two women drowned, and the remainder of the crew picked up by the Mary Black, arrived in the Downs. (PER, ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind, N.E Sailed—T_Tnion, for Ostend; Jupiter and Bowling, for Constantinople. Wind, N . QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 27. Aslived—Roma, from Monte Video ; Bellona, Salonica; Bucephalus, Callao; Lord ltiversdale, Now York; Eleven, Alexandria. Sailed—Boraza, for Amsterdam. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday Morning. tido, last four h ours ' fl ood ; hazy. Arrived, Wind, J l 7ll ; . 28—Sir E. Banks (a), from Calais ; Ma. tilda, Ifambargh ; Merina, Marseilles ; Mystery, Smyrna; W ave Queen, Palermo; Aurora, Messina ; Sophia, Se ville; Ewaranee, Tarragona. Arrived, 29—Isabella Jane, from Guernsey ; Rob Roy, Gothenburg; Omonicaa, Stralsund; Trine, Tddewalla ; Nicolino, Stockholm; Albion (s), Boulogne. DEAL, Monday, 9.29 a.m. Wind, W.N.Yir ; weather, very light, and hazy. Passed—Durham (s s, 179, transport), from London, for Constantinople; Ferdinand, from London, for Havre; Mermaid, Leghorn, for London ; Palestine, New York. for London. The Great Britain bas been ta4tii vp for the convey. mice of troops to the Crinier. theTrhiecii Unwts l4.t,k announces er o flt : r l d te i n e , a , t , h h o o f . h y s r. lo N o l 3 ill b ia e l e n n l a l r o o p s e ;. dent of Parie. He died at h:s residence, 'Zee St. Do min;q u e. We :;re requested to state that the com m itt e 3 for the reduction of the wine outtis i n the Cit y o f London, meetio:.; P Royal No. 2, ,yal Exfh ange - huildings, of which Mr. Ars,:ey, the eh:urinalt of the late House of Com m•nis Committee for talrin.7 evidence o n th e w i ne d u ti es , is eiminrao, !..as no conne,2t ion with Mr. Oliveira, M.P., „ r roceediugs on the same subject. The kindness with which the deputations f rom th e City committee were received, both by the Earl of Derby and subse quently by Mr. Gladaoce and the favourable mode in which the representation% Of the committee were viewed by the latter gentle t n al : convinced them that nothing but financial pressure ' prevented at the moment the serious consideration of the measure by Government. This object has, 'owing to the war, received additional weight. The Committee, still watchful of the object,' think the agitation of the measure in Parliament at present unwise and pernicious to its ultimate attainment, as well as to the interests of foe trade, 17 - 4 - 7 2/ f 21 161 i ~ Roo