The Sun. — London, England, 1855-02-16 00:00:00

)rget wha t, Le Eugsiall re endured °l4.liop - r rq " i!, - v( E. ......, AND respecti n g' credul° lll ,l that In al now leW P 3 P2 cent • sTh, r hundre d n O. DO ell ion as Ir of Empre ss 3r al Grir i f the T i t ' ldre3genew 9er; e fellewZ .8 th at th e gain St le C°Untrals , o°- ,. ;y , in Pe2 f c ; tie CO' at 'A be t re fori lien, w ho; itural Pg p rr" riso 00 0 PP "1 ,0 0. r ' 'r ol4 o oleo is ne reis i ., d o u int l7 yet b t ,tion• pr o on t o-Innis!) ,cl. been 3D9 ii Pr i t::es er a / tO B- 00 0,1 ft:. lr re° 1 yv el° ° °S WIC o ,o i rl 40 1 4 0 1 o p 0 00 9 , 00 0 0 If° tbe,lierf. ,tp,o , ov-al 'IS Of " 'a A IiKET CITY, Tx“) o'C LOW, 1 1 1 k lit ttc 'n market at Liverpool yesterday was b a i: itea dY generally ; the sales amounted to g 5 ' (200 of which were for export), com 14)°°°, American at irregular prices, 300 4 ea al ilid• to Bicl., 500 Surat at 31. to 41d., 4 ) „, s 'and at ls. to is. Bd. per lb. Railway k, ..iedi, '4 04; ,,, heavy, 't Produce has been purchased to a more ezt e 1 : ilt nt this week. In sugar very little has litit t e ' b ut prices of most descriptions have l k, 1 1 , x ) 1 4 1 1 , 1 d Porto Rico has ruled at high values. 94 4 'e'en stead though quiet fur native, latio4 Ceylon 37.' liet b has been weaker. Spices Spi m e en much. inquired for, and rice has kta i 4 - ', somewhat firmer quotations. The ' L kl e ' e a have deferred their operations till 4 14 % 41 ") Which take place to-day. The klrei a ruli ng for ru m h ave c h ec ked d ea li ngs; B at a 11 411,ft ill prices, and indigo at auction has tleti o ad`ra.nce on the better kinds, though 1 4 1 1. B°ri s have d ec li ne d 2d. to 41. per lb. It . T l : l e i en heavy, but Russian hemp rather 31t has fluctuated, owing to the view J th e littli• Probable amount of future supplies. 1c tales o f co l on i a l an d ...foreign wool 11? 0 , it erday even i ng , an d h ave b een go ld. to ld. per lb. decline compared S leri es• thug statistics have been published 111 th s th regard to the total production 1 185 4 'Country, since its discovery to the ' The yield previously to the year •to have been 63,913,376 dollars, eats of the steamers show that in ! li d '54, 187,896,800 dollars in gold lied from San Francisco. To these 44 %a 4 l>out 6,433,197 d o ll a r s f or d e p os it s for coina ,, e at the branch mint, /) and 40,000,000 dollars, the pro `t held in the hands of passengers 111 . t Years. These items make a total 198,245,373 dollars. No account is j lltat ement of the amount of unco i ne d I.4aads of those engage d i n m i n i ng ope - Yl ug With agents or bankers, and the 4 , is estimated at fully 3,000,000 I k b"er imp or t an t om i ss i on a l so i s the 4 may hav e l e ft by sa ili ng vesse l s ; i there is an incompleteness in the !rote these and other causes, they are I°l ' f ing the proximate yield of gold. al China, Manilla, Calcutta, a n d u°tlt 8 53,000 dollars were exported in formation has been received of ' by fire, this morning, in the South k of th e G eneral Screw Company's 4 c1 t ,,, 1118 . At th e p resen t momen t t hi s de e ms peculiarly unfortunate, large ao Much wanted. 'of the Stock Exchange decided „ in n, upon a renewed application t 4l „kki p " L uat they could not entertain the ki tt l Nibl i - ..` 0 them for quoting the Domestic 011,4 14 the official list, as the Peruvian ma 11 % • this quotation a condition for 6 11 ot t kt• 'if for a O, k ing, fund on the foreign debt. 'llti " 4 ‘ 1 11; ).111°41etit to be inferred, however, , (1 ,t oiae ) ,, 114 a ' ts l thiA l Consented to withdraw this ‘''', c1 i p,7, 1 tF7 11 55 always stated he could not ' e *\:,,, , 9 • v ti tl ' a nge Committee would consent 11 : 4 l'leli.k‘NZ The would simply entertain e ° l ldi t ,'N't matter of usage and courtesy, 4 ,,_ 41:P4 g :he latent coerceion which 6 .41 h ere 40 3 A , and we have no doubt would ' ll 4l, l l' th 4 the home stock shall not be e i,, 4°4 le g„ k anner desired. We should '4 4 ). • -" the t ao " e lles Ayres Bonds to keep it t o -4 the • 44 4 Exchange, and with good t i l lds t y it 14terest thereon being regularly i tt ecei ve mo re valuable than the foreign 4.1k4 oott.Bea r cely anything. erof I noue heavy, and with less doing. kki,h. ci th e war estimates for 1855-6 hav ki4Ne • ! 41 'w' that altogotha r hAtwoan ttlittli lk nlllllOllB Sterling more will be needed 1 .91 2 541 ; 5, and probably with the extra kko6. 1 11 Ire t the excess will be nearly ‘41114 1 , ' The increased uaGn ' taxation already laid 4 fully in operation during last ki: Arelts't ‘ a portion of this, and borrow -I,k:v . flt % - 11 !eaorted to for the remainder. t ftt 4 „Z c l. Consols have been 901 to i Dr ' ' 't Ilej ' 4O l a for Account. Exchequer st e lea . 4 t nil l lll4 ` 'ti t ° 9s. and East India Bonds e • e ttii 4t i4 tl l ,;, l , 4 4 tiv 3 per Cents. have been NY 4t ‘ l 'attl. 90 1 to i. Bank Stock I n for e i 2 13 i , 4 • Needed ell rtiark to 2141. ' be . e t, Turkish Bonds have far- S i zna 5 itli a , 1 i to -R. Spanish Stock . is i s ....' 4B been at 86. Russian 5 9g 7 1 41 exican Stock is at 21, and Du tch 4 per Cents. are 92/ to , 4 , 4 , t h 0 e nominal prices of foreign Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6 ; Mexi -711°4; 70 to 71 ; ditto Three ; rortuguese Four per Cents., P ive per C e nt s ., 99 t o 101 ; li A 4 c - lia r per Ce n t s ., 88 t o 90 ; - " e tred, 17A to 17/ ; ditto Three 436 i; ditto Certificates, 41 to ; ‘,O 4i. ai"es are without m uc h c h ange . Me, but rather tend upwards. 13 h eavy, and also Great Northern, alla Luxembourg. t4 c l . Col on i a l Mines are nominal ; et ; and Crystal Palace about '""ala Royal Mail are a shade \ Ip vl4, IS t k,,, it nt it l i e S oni D c l i i.Y l .— zi C st L ) OSlNG PRICES. ib: t i s ,4._.... ' Btigineg. din, , ' l t,Os 11 '41 ' .. Z . .... .. .................. 213 1 14i 15 13 1 kl'ki , ll l '''llluiti 3s 9T iltii44ll4,...llltities 9oi , R A s`!Ill+(IL:e kr ' kloPto es sth Jan 1860 ... 4 5-16 % 4414 tiiB4lil;.rch i 5 15 90i B i ‘:ss.„,' -0. '....." .. L1)i11tti:V''.......... ....................... '..... 6 4 k4 0 1; , 14,0, • ii' .. .... . Cent. -- Nt 44;1, 9,99 \r lt4 4l 'g REIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Op, ct, , Cent lOl 100 q wik,N.1 , 829 di 39, 5 per Cent. 99 'fits-i • V2 , , , ,,i I kAl "11 I>er Cent. £St tii 9 ti tt4 \ ' tie" : • I. Cent ki, j'et Cent . kiNt/tst C°ll, - of C ..... .....4h p c or ceiat Coup. not fun. \(44141;:h1111,,t ................. .. tZ:tO, per C:ial l ye ex p . a37 ; ' s "e 4 l' L'm 92 4 %,e Der Cent. 12 Gull II . e., . 44 vr tlaeate i , . THREE O'CLOCK. '144,". ...... . 90$ It eh 4 con .. . ................ 90 11 ' ....__-- c nt ...... .. ... i °‘/ -------________ 0 4 , v , - ____________ ______ N3l 27 te COMMISSARIAT STAFF I— 2'llE CRIMEA. ' I CRI toil IN 27 .11:E AL,— . L I, ll lll , tl loi ti . , syt3lllll)l4Pe4rorootions in the Commissariat Staff I) .t k l o lt till t t ill l' , ll til l. l6 B4t3r-General T. Ramsay to be Corn -INZqlt yY4..torelltilliti3;:(jottnissary-General W. Drake to 1)4,14 ii4iitt4,:aaT-General. 1 \ 1 ' 1. 1 44 °A -"'eotti missary-General E. de Fon- As • %stain C • General. ' it t t.o 4l4 t4rtt r. . °rninissarY. Willau to t V A _ -4,..-ote missary-GeneralJ. :Jt, ta,'At6l. -"%ary•General ' t'ilLo-Abt-Or, • a. 1 E Uniacke to \likitt.,4 -,tre,i. -Trin atssary--enera R. is L0:414-Conam• 11 . T A.. • Itlittitlßa G 1 . tl 411ir I"arY tm il a e r r y a - I G . eneral R. Gardiner to tt'Nlatant, rY- enera . kkt, t t tattii Cout rn issary-General F. Watt to be et44litit4aPYGeneral ' .1 , 4 t. Q0 atit.n nit."°nlßiissa.r -General W. Power to 01404i:I -&sElary-GenerYal. OOt;Iltt "14-Cemmissary-General R. Coining to ithi':Ati,lilinlisma.ry-General. Nt,;,Atlltit!ta4lCorntnisEary-General V. Hawkins `1t•k14,14-;ll,4iat °,ll,llissary-Gerieral. f4.1Y•11-,j0rr14,,,'‘-Conlotissary-Genertl T. Geunn to 'ltt i , '4, iitt.,'Ntite,—,:t.°4rY-General. 141,01,1,c1it.c.”‘-,unatnissary-General C. Potgeiter \il'i trlt Mat.6l4lllli"arY-General. 11 ii: ,4431 th....,Lerk A. ,111 qkti4tV oneralCookesby to be Deputy-Assis. 4 114 e'k . Col quhoun to be Deputy- R4rY-General. 4 '%iolt ) 113 111 . , . e tgli b' is debate 10-, Nice Arc 1 the tres,tl ~ 4 ~, salt 'Ner, 't.l l 'til.a' . 1 wit id dNo‘o, a_ , 1 Ho rde ' s tp . ng ,, •, _ e .lerie he eiltslo 'llitot.St• 3 0113ide'",t1 , . "414 .113; IA oppo7, - q 4, nth ),eooreetlis . i. 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RIET,AAT. iALcr] _ 'An - 11)7 tfistg. 1303 i Anti - Ea.stu. 11:3•;;',..5 - 1; & V'olverh. Vartcy ...... mw LanoslL ...11:1 I) C'oes3ll. d.); hirk., .£.50 and 2&Conr, Do., £2O ... . • ez, 'Fyn or, Dna £23 (issd. at £45 aul Exeter.... Cajedonia.n. ...... ••• I Cal niartlien and Car digan Chester 1.. z Ifolyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, B7aok, & Pas, Cornw-li Orloff Junction I)nblin&BelfastJ:inc, DundeePerth&L ncr leen Junction Do. New. ...... East Anglian oastor2l Counties..... Fester: Union, ,A Stock_ Do., B Stuck, Do., New A. Lancashiro Edliuburgb & Glasgos Edinb. and Peebles... 'Min. PrLI do Dundee nrtli & Clyde Junk.. Furness ......... Do. Extension........ Glasgow&S. Westun (Irreat Northern , . 'Do., A. Stock.... Do., B. Stock...., Gt. St h. ;T,Wcte..f Gre:tt Western Stour Val. Rai; Gun. Stk Irish South-Easter - T ,iliCaßter & Cariiß:t Do., Thirds • Do. New Thirds L4ottas h. and Yo To., ifths I))., Wet. itidin,7l.ll, Liv.Crshy.ec,southllt, London & BlaAwa! flrigtit&S.G.4 ,iond. and N. WeAl. )o. Fifths Do. 10/. Sii., ?4&13 Do. Eighths I,ondo'a al ol S. Weoti . ••• no., .6'40 .. ind . n,;rry&f.'oleraint '.nd.pcirry.S4 Ennisk. tancle,tih t.& Lincl Do. 4 Shares, No, 11 VAIL& Lin. [Tu idlawl , o. llirmng. &Derl) ' Maid. G. West. ) r/o. Half Shares Nieweastle & N'e winkt-BuryExten. Nwpt.Aberg. & Hr 'iewry & Euniskillet. srewry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor .rorfolk NT,ortlia.Counties Un 'forth British...,... 'Z'orth Devon, No. I Do., No. 2 )0., A A Deferred Do.. Ii B Guaranty ed v. Eastern—Berwick Do. do. Extension Dodo. G. N. E. Parch Do. Leeds ......... Do. York north London Do. New £lO .&S.Wstrn. ,Hanap stead, and City Jn.. North Staffordshire.. - North Western.,. .... Y. & S. Westrn. June. Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester , )xford, Worcester,Sz Wolverba.mpton l'ortsmouth 4eottish Central I3cottish Midl and . ihrewsby. 6i Flerefd Thropshire Union -lonth Devon ...... .iontL Eastern ... . . ;out] Wales Yrksh. dr Ri v. Dm: i)o kainos, Wok dtWol: Stockton & Darlia itu:kton dF Hartlepl Calf Vale Do. £lO .haros. 90. Pref., No. 1. themes haven Doc" , and R-tilway Vale of Neath Waterfa. & Killtenm waterford&Limeri , k West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Pala es West London Winibledn&Croydonl Closing Prices this dv 19i -2O 4i - 8i - 9 12 - 11 • ICI - 71 - 93 - 95 611 - - 12i -131 3 - 2 7 13. - 11 11 - 11.# 29 31 19 - 21 72 74 57 2d par 19 ; 1 70 - 72 88 -8) 69 -- 71 26 - 128 90 - i;2 643 -- 65 60 -- 62 72 - 77 7 - 9 7 - 9 74 - 741 5i -- 5 .I •. ...G - 97 = 99 99i 100.1 I - id 1 - 85 - 86 8 7 1 , 7A 6A . . - 22/ 234 - 84 64 69 41 - 43 par i P 11 9 Jr— 24 50 - 52 3i 3i 23 ~. 29 3 . 10 1.4 6; 74 - 75 7 61 j (1 12i 12 50A --- 514,, 51 par 4d 48 4g -6 62 d —ip 30 - 32 100 - 102 64 - 66 45 - 47 )2i - 5Ri 48i 2£q - 29 40 3 - 3i 18 17 3- 4i 24 - 6 -- 6i c - 7i. FOREIGN. Antwel p&Rottordam Belgian Eastn. Juno. Beziers to Graissessae Bombay, Baroda,a.nd Central India.§erip Central of Italy, Demerara Dijon and Re.ancon ihitcl Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East 'lndian Do. Extension Do. 4i p. c. Bds., pay. '57, convertible Pb. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of Ca.nada A is Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of Franc, Gt. Indian Peninsuls Do. New 5 per cent. Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations. Gt.Wc3teruof Canad • ! Shares Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '60.. Do. do., '73, without optou [laudlton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent•. Lake Conat. & Basle Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c. pref Lyons and Geneva Lyons do Meditorran. Madras Do. New Karia Antonia Do. do. New Namur dz Liege (with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D 0.201. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelines guar. 3 p. c. & red. ' at 22 /..dur. 88 yrs from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 20Z. 3 p. c Bds (fmy. B. & Ams. NorwegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyona Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen... !)arisCacn & Cherbrg. Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse._ Do. 54 p. cent. Pref. Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do sis per c. Pref Western of France , West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand .TOINT-STOC: 1 usLTkiasla British Colonial Bank and Loan Company' British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asial Chrtd. Bnk. of India,l Australia, & China' Colonial Commercial of Lond English Scottish and Australian Loud. Chart. Bk. o: Australia Ditto New Loudoi crud County.. Loudon Joint Stock.. Loud. & Westininstei iNational Provincial, of England Do. New National of Ireland New South Wales— Orieutal Bank of Corporation. Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp Co South Australia Union of Australl:l„ 110. New Union of London .... - 1 - 14 4 - 34 par i i p -2.} P 31i -- 32 Si - 6i - 4 - IP 11 par ip par ip 2 2 24 174 18 94 95 95 97 1 99 101 93 95 2 d par 97 100, .. ais 1 . lip 1 4(1 i'id 61 - 74 iii = iii 12 --- 12 R - 9 20i -201 p 45 47 39 40 pm 21i 221 ld par 21 lid 7i 8 • •• ...... • •• ••• .... pm 3i - 31 6 - 6ip ft -18 K BANKS. 81 - 83 . • -'a 2i lid 20 21 par P 35 tt 3i - 36 37 - 39 38 40 •.• 64 - 66 7 -- 9 ... Pe • Basinees done this day. 25 St, 20 St all OJ all 00 12 50 81 2s 25 25 50 20 20 10 10 all 10 GB. 10 5 20 20 61 x d 881 694 70i 1271 65 4f 8i 8 97i 8 6k 99 100 2 f xd 35 xd 39 6545 847 _ 26 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY ENINq,___FEBRUAR Y 16 1855.: PREFERENCE SHARES. LAW INTELLIGENCE:.-(THIS DAT). SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC; JOURNALS. , 1 berdeen Do. No. 2, 7 p. C. BlythanclTyne 10 per c. pref. (iced. at 501) dris. & Ex. 4 p. e. St. Do. 4 p. c. narcs 99 - 101 90 - 92 COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. SECOND COURT. (Sittings at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice Wightman and a Common Jury.) FALSE I3fPRISONMENT-GREEN V. HUTCHINSON. This was an action to recover damages for false im prisonment. Mr. Sergeant Thomas and Mr. Sleigh were for the plaintiff, and Mr. %Youllett and Mr. M'Donald were for the defendant. MR.- ROEBUCK'S RESOLUTION. (From the Times of this day.) St. 20 St. 15 h -: Among all the political changes effected or in progress there is one thing that remains still unchanged, and that the House of Commons will immediately have to deal with. Mr. Roebuck's resolution having been car ried by the largest anti-Ministerial majority ever known in the House cannot be sidled out of, or conveniently forgotten or evaded. There it is, with the country be hind to back it up, and such a case for inquiry as there never was before. What is to be done with it ? In mir humble opinion, the best thine to he done with it is that simple, straightforward, and honest course, which will be most satisfactory to the country at large—tho appointment of an itnparfal committee, with the urgent recommendation to inquire to some practical and imme diate effect. The particular points on which the system has broken down are only too flagrant. Indeed, there is a spirit of impudence in the failure which dares public opinion to do its worst. It is possible, however, that the same who resisted Mr. Roebuck's motion the other night will do so again, either because it matters not to inquire into the shortcomings of dead men, as the ex t Premier and the ex-S.cretary at War may now be cun sidereal, or that sonic other course will answer the pur pose much better. Nothing is more natural than that Lord Palmerston, beginning an Administration in troublous times, and bayi ng hi s h an d s f ull of work, should desire to be relieved of a committee of inquiry, taking up everybody's time, and throwing the whole administration of war into a sort of twilight existence, between what it has been and what it is to be. Un happily, there is too much to be said against inquiries of a political colour. There is, for example, the cele brated Ceylon affair, which was permitted to draggle on through two sessions, and was eventually con cluded by every member of the committee voting true to his party, and the chairman deciding by a casting vote. In the present instance, indeed, the decision will not signify much, as it is rather a full exposure of the system that is wanted. That once made, there are so inany thousands of persons of all classes deeply, and now painfully interested, in our military system, that we rather look to the decision out of doors than in doors, and such a pressure as shall compel reform, in spite ofGovernment opposition and the House of Lords. Yet there is something to be said against proceeding by a Parharnentaey committee of inquiry when we know beforehand what its answer will be. If Government, therefore, has the wisdom and grace to propose a mixed commission of Lords and Commons, or any other really effective substitute for a committee, this will, at all events, be a iery natural mode of escape from a present perplexity, and the threatened farce of a merely partisan report. To such a compromise we shall feel no great objection, particularly as it is just possible the mixed commission might consist of men better adapted for the purpose than a committee of the House of Commons, composed either of second rate men or of men too much occupied with the duties of office. But an inquiry there ought to be, and an inquiry there assuredly will be. Old gentlemen, and young gentlemen who have consorted with old gentlemen till they are themselves even older and stupider, may talk as they like of the capture of Barlajoz or the retreat from Burgos ; but the country never will believe that it was the " regular thing" that a magnificent army should perish for want of food, clothing, covering, fuel, and other "shop goods," within six miles of a pert crowded with our ships full of these very things. It will insist on knowing the reason why some forty thou sand men successfully landed, and scarcely out of reach of our ships, from that day till they mi serably perished, or miserably survive, were con demned to all the tortures of Tantalus for seve ral months —to hunger within reach of food, end to freeze or rot within sight of clothing, covering, and fuel. Every town, every village, will demand in quiry, for the blood of these victims crieth from the ground. That inquiry, to be effectual and fair, met embrace the whole of the management of the war, if only because everybody and every class concerned in it is now throwing the responsibility on the rest of the system. At home they talk of Lord Raglan and the Staff; in the Crimea of the departments at home. Nay, at the very time when we hear a rumour that inquiry is to be stifled altogether, if possible, it also reaches us— from no sufficient source, indeed—that Lord Raglan and Generals Airey, Estcourt, and Lucan are already re called. The news is only too good to be true, but the bare existence of such a rumour shows how much the responsibility of these miseries rests, in common opinion, on the command in the Crimea, and how much justice demands that no man, no office, no institution, shall be spared at home. The inquiry, indeed, must, in the na ture of things, include what has been done in the Cri mea ; but every neglect, every absurd order, every mis carriage of supplies, every case of official stupidity, must be traced to its origin, in the official instructions, in the appointment of the officers, in the origin of the evil, to be found only at bogie. Inquiry is the only engine by which a people too proud and too free to tolerate the effective simplicity of despotism can obtain anything like a good management of their affairs. This is only what has been said a thousand times before—" Public opinion, or a despot." But public opinion cannot exist without inquiry ; and whatever resists inquiry, and claims the privilege of not being known or understood, is, in fact, a despotism, so far as it goes, and may go very far. The manner of the inquiry is, indeed, a minor affair. The tribunal that will do its work the best must De prererrea. To us it seems so serious, so portentous a matter, that inquiry should be resisted, and that an immense national calamity should still claim a certain privileged and inviolable character, that we are sure —such is our trust in the good sense and the' resolution of the British people,--tho choice lies between an inquiry of the usual constitutional character now, and one of the very un usual, and possibly unconstitutional character, before long. The results of a refusal are too plain. In the first instance, that refusal may or may not be submitted to with some show of patience ; but it will be felt to be due, and the people will hold Government awl the Legis lature deep in its debt. Only too soon there will in evitably be new disasters, the results of the same system, the same management, and the same thoroughly indo lent, i selfish, crabbed, unaccommodating spirit. Every 'fresh disaster will renew the demand for inquiry, arid suggest new forms and orders of a more searching, radi cal, not to say revolutionary character. Indeed, that is the long and the short of it. It is not the Duke of Newcastle, or Lord Raglan, or a few military gentlemen, who are the subject of this inquiry ; it is not merely the arm/ or departments at home ; it is not only the conduct and administration of the war,—nay, it is not a Go vernment, nor is it even a House of Commons. It is the ißritish constitution that is under trial. It is on trialinot before the British people alone, but before the whole'werld. Everywhere is it spoken against. It is ' the jest alike of our enemies and our Allies. Every Englishman who shows himself abroad is regarded as the representative of political stupidity and pretence. Winitis the value, they ask, of a constitution that can do n i othing, and which is no sooner fairly tried in the common. field of war than its best men are found pretridere to titles and professional rank they have no real claim ' to, and whose whole system is a miserably counterfeit ? That is the talk of camps ' and of 'capitals, and every day these reproaches are endiired we sink so much lower in the opinion of the world, and lose all solid strength in the great con tests of humanity. Will the nation be content thus to give, up the prize we have struggled for so long, and ,whiCh we fondly thought we h a d secure d—that o f being foreinost among the free, and all-powerful, not only in the field, nor yet on the ocean, which we call our own, but 'in .thegrander and nobler sphere of the free mind of man? 93 - 98 5 - 6.1 i - 1 ti - i 12 -13 The defendant pleaded not guilty, and that he had just reason for having given the plaintiff in charge. The proceedings arose out of the plaintiff having been given into custody by the defendant, a solicitor in Barnard's Inn, under these circumstances :—Plaintiff had been a baker at Wisbeacla, and came up to town to carry on business in partnership with a man named Bays, who, after some negotia tion, paid over about 801. Bays became bank rupt, and a person named Tyler, who is clerk to defend ant, after the bankruptcy, gave plaintiff into custody for having stolen 47 sacks of wheat. Upon this charge the defendant was locked up in the station all night, and, upon being taken before the magistrate, - was, at the request of the defendant, remanded for A week, and at the end of that time was dis charged ; upon which the defendant again gave him into custody for stealing a horSe, and also embezzling 361. upon this charge. The magistrate at the South wark Police-court, where the charge was preferred, held the defendant to answer the •charge at the Surrey Ses sions, where the grand jury ignored the bill upon which these proceedings were commenced. GO - 65 115 - i.i'' 109 - 111 1101 - 103 i - ip - OA 95 - 97 87 -8) 88 - 90 10 -10 i 16 - 164 10 IN 70 - 72 181 -19 i 91 - 9i 14 - 14} The case was proceeding when we went to press. 31,1 - 8 - 1 "!;:e WN—atILS DAY.: CORN EXCHANGE. A very limited supply of English wheat has been re ceived up to our market this week, coastwise and by land c..rriage. The show of samples here to-day was trifling ; yet, owing to the difficulties of navigation, the demand for, all kinds was very inactive. In prices scarcely any change took place. For foreign wheat, the show of which was moderate, there was very little inquiry, on former terms. Importers generally were firm. Malting barley was scarce, and quite as dear as on Mon day. Grinding and distilling sorts were heavy. The malt trade was dull, on former terms, e had a steady demand for oats, and fine corn was rather dear. 1 ^ id 133 135 n• - 3 i . - •.. Beans, peas, and flour commanded very little attention. ARRIVALS TOW WEER. Barley. Malt. 1,85) 1,180 12 -12 A g - in English .. Irish .. Foreign .. Wheat. 1,110 Oats. 1,970 150 25) Floqr. 430 920 ( 4 - 2 0 SMITHFIELD. 1:33 - 135 14 - Although the supply of beasts was very moderate, the demand for all kinds ruled heavy, at Monday's prices. There.was a slow sale for sheep, but we have no change to notice in their value. The show was rather on the increase. Calves, though in but moderato supply, were very d u ll, and per 81bs lower. In pigs, scarcely any business was doing. Mulch cows sold heavily, at from 141, to 191. each, in cluding their small calf. _ ($.7 - 89 104 - 103 101 - 103 90 - 92 3 - Per Sibs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d. s. d. a d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 6‘PrimeSouthdown 410 5 0 Second quality.... 3 8 4 2 1 Large crse. calves 4 0 4 8 Prime largo oxen 4 4 4 6 Prime small d 0... 410 5 4 Prime Scots, dr.c. 4 8 4 101arge hogs 3 0 4 0 Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 BlSmall porkers 4 2 4 4 Second quality ...3 10 4 2SuAling calves.. 24 0 29 0 Prime crse.-wlled.4 4 4 81Quarter old pigs 20 0 25 0 TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY. 1,040 Beasts •• •• •• •• •• ••.. • 90 ,•• -- ••• 1 Ad 112 - 114 12 14 id pai rteasts 23 - 24 . . Sheep ................... 8,450 1 Sheep ..•• •• •• .. •....... Calves ................ 87 Calves.. •• •• . •• •• ........ 15 —is' NEWGATE AND The trade ruled heavy, at supported. LE ADE/MALL. Id prices were with difficulty par -- 1p Por Blbs by the carcass. 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 0 3 8 5. d. a. d. Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 310 Do., prime 4 0 4 2 Veal 3 10 4 10 Pork, small 4 0 4 4 BOROUGH HOP. The imports of foreign hops this week are 110 bales from Ostend. Fine hops are very scarce, and quite as dear as last week. Other kinds, owing to the large quantities of foreign on offer, are very dull. Mid and East Kent pockets, 141 Os to 2110 a ; Weahi of Kent ditto, 141 to 16' ; Susses ditto, 141 Os to 1n1.; Yearlings ditto, 91 to 121; American ditto (in bond), 71 to 91 per cwt. COLONIAL. StlOAß.—There has been a dull but steady market for British Plantation this week. Barbadoes sold publicly at 36s to 37s Gd for good yellow, at 32. 64 to 35s 6d for low to mid, and at 28s 6d for foots. East India—Mauritius for distilling purposes has been in some request, and brown brought 24s Gd to 30% Gd, yellow 31s to 35s 6d, and refining 36s per cwt. Bengal realised 37s to 37s Gd, for white Bonares mid to good, 2 , 44 to 36s for damp. of Ben g al there have bean no public-sales. Foreign—Porto Theo, owing- to the scarcity of grocery sorts, has com manded high rates, viz., 38 8 to 40s for good and fin d bri g ht yellow g rocery, 34s G d to 378 6d for low mid and mid, 32s to 37. for grey, and 30s 7d to 32. for brown. Good brown Bahia went at 30s per cwt privately. Yellow Savannah sold at 30s to 335, yellow low to fine at 32s to 378 6d, and florettes were taken in at 37s 6cl to 395. Manilla mid to' good clayed brought 30s to 31s 6d per cwt. COFFEE—There has been less doing in Plantation Cey lon, and the prices have ruled heavy. At auction f fine ord small brought 52s to 545, low mid and mid pale greyish 55s to 58s, good colory 645, ord to good ord brownish 45s to 48s, triage 42s to 50s, and peaberry 53s to 60s per cwt. Native Ceylon has been steady at 45s 64 to 46s 6d for ord to good ord. At auction good and fine ord went at 3d to 6(1 decline, viz., at 48s 64 per cwt. In foreign the dealings have been very small. RlCE—There has been a good inquiry, and rather firmer prices have been current. Bengal mid to good has realised 13s 6d to 15s, low mid white afloat went at 13. landed. SPICES—The market has been very quiet. Calicut gin ger, at auction, sold to a limited extent at 29s for small, and at 37s for fair. . TEA—Dealings have bean cleferred till s the public sales commence, and the prices, therefore, have been almost nominal. Rum—The high rates askedlave checked buSiness. SALTPETRE—BengaI has been held fer full values, , ord 14i per cent. being taken in publicly at 225. Bombay ord and low brownish realised 198 6d per cwt for 1.7 i to 12,} per cent refraction. TALLOW—P.Y.C. is firm, at'SGs 64 per cwt on the spot. GREEN FRUlT—Several cargoes of oranges have been received from the Azores, three of, which, sold by Keeling and Hunt at public sale, went at an advance of 2. to 3s per box. The continued easterly wind keeps the market bare of stock. More enquiry exists fp- nuts. Seville sours ad vanced 5s per chest. Lemons without alteration. LLOYD'S SILIPPIIVG-(T1112 DAY.) LONDON, Feb. I.6.—Wind and weather this -day at noon, light easterly breeze, and sharp frost. During the night and this morning the Thermometer has registered 18 degrees of frost. FALMOUTH, Feb. 15.—The Feronia (barque), of this port, has received damage, and makes water. GRIMSBY, Feb. 15 . — Arrived - 13arriet, from Shields, for London, leaky ; Jessie Ann, do., for Lowertoft, leaky. DROGHEDA, Feb. 14.--The Anna, of this port, for Liverpool, is on shore on the South Bull, and must dis charge part of cargo to be got off; crew saved. OFF QUEENSTOWN. —Blanche, from Savannah, for Liverpool. CADIZ, Feb. 6.—The Icarus, of Liverpool, from Cardiff to Gib r altar, was driven on shore at e onel during a severe gale at S.S.fr., on the night of the 4th last. ; master and and three men saved ; the master's wife and five men drowned. The gale continues, with a tremendous , sea running, and it is feared both vessel and cargo will be totally lost. at the St. James's aidam amateur performance thecrimen Army Fund, has had a very successful result in every Nva 3', thanks to the ener getic The Theatre, laitne eu exertions of Messrs. rcedeckne and Markwell, who acted admirably—not only upon the stage, but in their capacities as honorary secretaries, - with .such effect that the sum of 67/A.Bs:4d:has been handed over to the committee of the fund. MANAGEMENT OF THE WAR.—lmmense and costly • stares have been provided and sent out from this coun try, but, somehow or other, they either' reach'their dea tination too late, or do not reach it all. It is notorious that a great number of beds haVing to be forwarded to the hospital at Scutari, a number of packages, unclaimed by any one, were found kicking about on the pier at Southampton, which, when examined, were- discovered to contain the legs of those beds' which had been shipped off some weeks before in a vessel from the' Thames: Now where such inbidents are the'iule, not the excep tion, there must be soniething Very rotten in the system which produces therm' Let us know what" the cause of this rottenness is. Is it that men have been Plnced in high office who do not know how to select prop e r agents or to keep them to work when appointed! Is it that the choice of agents by men in high office is hampered, and patronage directed into improper channels by dis-' honest influences? Are Ministers in the habit of appoint. ing incompetent agents on the recommendation of m em . bers of Parliament who vote for them? and are members of Parliament in the habit of recommending incompetent agents in order to bribe electors? Are tho younger'sons; the dependents and parasites of noble or influential families, placed in snug berths under Government without in quiry as to their capacity to discharge their duties The trial of the Mannings has not been forgotten.' It appeared on that trial that the murdered' man- . ---a silly and vicious fellow—had been made an officer in the Customs because he professed himself a.convert from the Romish Church ; and that his murderer had nearly gotten a similar appointment, because he married the ex-wait ing woman of a duchess. We have all heard hoW dock yard appointments have been jobbed in return for votes' at elections. Have private patronage of unworthy Ob jects, and political jobbery, been allowed equal weight in higher appointments connected with the management of the army These, and questions like these 'the country is determined to have deliberately asked sad explicitly answered ; and for this purpose it will insist upon the bona fide appointment of the committee which was moved for by Mr. Roebuck and granted by the House of Commons. Let Ministers endeavour to quash the eommittee and burke the inquiry at their peril. Let members . of the House of Commons, who have voted for both, "turn their backs upon themselves " and, undo their good work at their peril. The country—the great court of appeal in this case—is in no mood to be trifled rith.77-DallY /1 7 00. • (Prom tilt Morning Post of this day.) The House of Commons, by a majority so large and unusual as one hundred and fifty-seven, has appointed a committee of inquiry upon the conduct of the war and the state of the army engaged in the campaign in the East. In the usual course of business the next stage in the proceedings would be the nomination of members to be charged with its prosecution. That would be the first and immediate step which routine would suggest on the re-assembling of the house to-day. 'Will it, or ought it, to be taken! Whether it ought, depends upon the answer which that majority of the house who gave its voice with the ayes would truly return to the question, whether that vote was bone fide intended to involve an inquiry in the form, and under the conditions, apparent on the face of the motion : whether it will, depends upon Parliamentary chances, which we may consider when we have satisfactorily answered the first question which we have proposed for solution. Upon that point we feel no hesitation. We feel no difficulty in at once reply. ing in the negative ; and we refer with entire confidence to the speeches delivered by men of all parties in support of the ♦iew which we take of the intention and of the feeling of the house. There is, in point of fact, no doubt that the resolution appointing a committee of inquiry, whatever might have been the individual idea of Mr. Roebuck, was regarded by the entire remainder of those who took part in the discussion, and the division, by the minority as well as the majority, simply and exclusively, as a vote of censure upon the late Government, nomin ally upon that Government as a whole, but directed truly and• practically, personally and exceptionally, against Lord Aberdeen and the Duke of Newcastle. The motion has answered its real purpose. We may say the whole of its real purpose. In obedience to the spirit of the resolution, which was the result of its affir mation, those two Ministers have been removed from the councils of the Crown, and the Cabinet, in the direc tion of which they have so palpaby failed, has been re modellede--Lord Panmure replacing the one, and Lord Palmerston the other. There remains, .therefore, no purpose to pursue, and no object to seek, the attainment of which could, as far as we can see, be in any degree assisted by carrying the resolution of the house to any farther conclusion, unless, indeed, Parliament and the country are dissatisfied in limine with the Cabinet which Lord Palmerston has framed, and desire, by a ♦ote of anticipatory censure, as it were, to stop them before they can so -much no put their feet over the threshold of the departments of Government. Wo cannot believe that the house will -commit itself in the face of the country by as act so egregious and so un reasonable, or that it will, as a body, take upon itself the responsibility of stopping hastily and peremptorily the progress of that high and important policy which the now Government has so promptly and decidedly ini tiated, and of standing in the way of the completion of the measures so vigorously adopted for giving it imme diate action and instant effect. We do not believe that the House of Commons will be so unwise, so inconsi derote, or so regardless of the groat interests which would be jeopardised by any further interruption in the government of the country at this critical moment ; al though, bearing in mind the feeling that was exhibited, and the language that was used, during the existence of the °(' difficulty" which ensued upon the resignation of Lord Aberdeen, we shall not be surprised if an -attempt is made by a portion of the Majority who affirmed Mr. Roebucic's motion to induce upon the house an impres sion that they are committed to the immediate pursuit of the inquiry, and that they are bound by the vote which they have recorded to fit up and set to work, without a moment's delay, the unmanageable and slowly. revolving machinery of a committee. ( From the Daily News of this day.) Is Mr. Roebuck to have his committee ? Is the in quiry into the management of the war, voted by a ma jority of more than 2 to 1 of the Howe of Commons, to go on ? These as-a among the first questions that the country will expect to have answered by the Parliament which reacserablas this day. Either such inquiry is necessary and proper, or it is not. If it is necessary and proper. the House of Commons, by allot-fing it to drop, betray their constituents. If it is not necessary and proper now, it cannot have been so two weeks age, and the vote which dissolved a Cabinet and has kept public business in abeyance, must have . been a recklessly fac tious demonstration. Honourable members have placed themselves on the horns of this dilemma—ho w they are to get off is their concern, _ _ The objection to the prosecution of inquiry which is most insisted upon is, that it will be—inconvenient I Inconvenient to whom ? All culprits and delinquents, who are in danger of having their misdeeds exposed to the light of day, feel inquiry a very inconvenient thing; but is their convenience to be consulted, to the detri ment of the common weal ? Some inconvenience to the public there may be ; but nothing in comparison to the benefit that is to be derived from a searching investiga tion. It is clear that our Administrative Government, civil and military, has got into a lamentably inefficient condition. Reform is necessary, and the only legitimate instrument Gf reform is the great Council of the Nation —Pat - Han - writ. But how can Parliament reform our ad ministrative Government, if it does not begin by ascer taining where the defects lie ? To set to work to amend the machinery of executive government without previous inquiry, would be to run the risk of altering the sound parts, and leaving the rotten untouched. Mr. Sidney Herbert spoke very sensibly yesterday, at the nomination for South Wilts. He congratulated the country on the accession of Lord Palmerston to the Premiership. He congratulated it upon the appointment of Lead John Russell to conduct the negotiations at Vieana. Upon another blessing for which the country is at least equally thankful Mr. Sidney Herbert forgot to congratulate it—the removal of the Duke of New• castle and himself from the 'War-office. Mr. Sidney Herbert went on to remark that the only way to obtain an honourable and satisfactory peace was to carry on the war with vigour ; and that order to do this it would be necessary to make considerable improvements in our system of military administration. There is no thing, it is true, very novel or striking in such remarks, but they are an agreeable corrective to the puling tone in which Mr. Sampson Ricardo—who, like his great namesake, appears to hare an eye to the gates of the Treasure House—addressed the electors of Winds:T. The peace -at-any-price language of Mr. Ricardo was in deed rather ominous in the mouth of the chosen of the electors of Windsor--a borough in which the Court is all-powerful; and tha more resolute tone of Mr. Sidney Herbert was no more than was required to do away with its bad effect. The language of Mr. Sid ney Herbert is an apt illustration of the advantage to be gamed by bringing Ministers occasionally into contact with large constituencies. ' (From the Morning Herald of this day.) To-night we may presume that Lord Palmerston will give to the• House of Commons a statement of the negotiations which ended in placing him at the head of the Aberdeen Cabinet. We may possibly expect—and no doubt the country will expect—that statement to throw some light upon the refusal of the noble viscount to act with Lord Derby. The fact of the refusal is all that the country yet knows. The motive, and, indeed, the mode, of that refusal is left to Lord Palmerston himself to explain. It is just possible that Lord Palmerston may dismiss the whole question in one of those brief and apparently careless narratives in which he knows so well how to deal lightly with unpleasant topics. Nevertheless, the noble lord must feel that he has a step of deep responsi bility in assuming the guidance of the councils of Eng land in the present crisis, and one that demands from him a statement suited to its importance. It will not, we apprehend, be very easy for the Pre mier to explain upon what principle a Ministry con demned by the House of Commons, and resigning on the very ground of that condemnation, in a few days afterwards returned to office substantially unchanged. This is the course which Lord Palmerston has to justify. It must never be forgotten that to-night the Rouse of Commons will see arrayed upon the Treasury benches the very same Ministers whom, a fortnight ago, that house by an overwhelming majority condemned. The juggle of Lord Palmerston's premiership, for it is nothing more, has not altered the cbaracteror even improved the composition of the Cabinet. The exclusion of Lord John Russell has done much more to weaken the Ministry than ally changes that have been made have improved it ; and, unhappily, the appointment of Mr. Frederick Peel to the office into which he has been thrust establishes beyond doubt that the old influences still control both the Cabinet and the Premier. When to this we add the reported rejection of Lord Shaftesbury--a renort, let us say. which obtains almost universal credence—it is impossible not to see that at present, at least, Lord Palmerston is not the master of the Cabinet; but fias simply succeeded to the place, and with it to the policy, of Lord Aberdeen. • The first test of the noble lord will be the course he will take upon Mr. Roebuck's motion. If he ask of the house to rescind the resolution appointing a committee of inquiry it will be in so many words a confession that the Ministry now in office regard that vote as one le velled against themselvei. It will, no doubt, make all things plain and consistent. It will be the acknowledg ment that the Aberdeen Ministry retain place in defiance of that vote, and appeal to the House of Commons to complete the triumph of that Ministry by retracting the obnoxious resolution. From Mr. Roebuck the country will also expect to night the avowal that he intends to redeem the pledge which he has gives, that he would really prosecute the inquiry to which he has irretrievably committed the honour and dignity of the House of Commons. We do not doubt the courage and integrity of the member for Sheffield ; and therefore we feel confident that he will to-night fix an early day for the nomination of his com mittee. It will then be seen whether Lord Palmerston is so bound up with the Aberdeen faction that he will attempt to screen them from justice by asking the House of Commons to abandon an inquiry which they have already voted to be necessary for the public safety. A few hours must tell us all this. It is, in truth, use less to anticipate the interest of the proceedings of this evening by speculation which twelve hours hence may be proved erroneous. We shall, we confess, await with anxiety the inauguration of Lord Palmerston in his new position as Premier ; and from the proceedings of this evening we shall, we doubt not, be able to augur much, both as to the character of his Administration and the probable chances of its permanecne and success. THE OCTOGENARIANS OF THE ARMY. (Front the Times of this day.) All that we yet know of our present Government be yond its personnel, which bears so striking a resemblance to the last, is that it is pledged above all things to con duct the war with vigour, and to neglect no measures likely to contribute to its success. For the announce ment of its measures we must wait until this evening ; but, be those measures what they may, their vigour de pends upon the men to whom they are intrusted, and those men we have now before us. Strong measures in weak hands are like the club of Hercules in the hand of Omphale, less terrible than ridiculous, and vigour re quires vigorous men as well as valiant intention. The -attention of the public has been lately roused to the manner in which Governments are formed. A nation inexpressibly anxious for the existence of its only army is watching the way, while the privileged few who have a voice in such things put together the machine of Go vernment. On the present experiment more is undoubt edly at stake than the mere formation of a Ministry. All of those who make government their business are on their trial. Oversights and errors might on other occasions be mercifully dealt with, but now no excuse will be listened to for neglecting to put the best man into the highest office, and regarding the claims of wealth orfamilyabovo those of merit or capacity. Closely following on the ill advised and unpopular appointment of Mr. Peel to the Under-Secretaryship of War, we have to notice the elevation of Sir Francis Baring to the Chancellorship of the Duchy of Lancaster. We ought not to be un grateful to Sir Francis, for to the chronic deficit in which he contrived to involve us we owe the advent of Sir Robert Peel to power, and the consequent triumph of Free Trade. Yet even this service did nct prevent him from being set aside when the most distinguished men of the Free Trade party formed a coalition iu 182, and the country cannot but regard his return to office as a proof that the intellectual standard of the present Go vernment falls below that even of the last. If we turn from the appointments of Mr. Peel and Sir Francis Baring to matters more immediately relating to the war, we find equal reason for complaint. As we find in civil appointments a certain leaning to feebleness and mediocrity, so in military commands we find an equal tendency to a most extravagant appreciation of senility. On the 9th of May, 1854, her Majesty issued a commis sion to Lord Hardinge, Lord Grey, Lord Panmure, Lord Seaton, Mr. Sidney Herbert, and others, m eciting that she thought it expedient, looking at the advanced age of the great majority of the officers now in the upper ranks of her army, to inquire into the modes of promotion and retirement, with a view to the greater efficiency of the service. We find in the report Lord Raglai stating that, with the exception of Lord Lyne doch and Sir Thomas Picton, we had no General officers in command in the late war above 40 years of age. Time Duke of Wellington was a Major-General at 33, the Marquis of Anglesey at 34, Lord Dalhousie at 38, Lord Strafford at 36, Lord Hill at 33, Lord Beresford at 39, Sir George Murray at 40, Lord Cornbermere at 31, Lord Londonderry at 32. We have not space to insert the arguments by which the commission proved th e necessity of choosing commanders from an age in which mental or bodily vigour are not yet entire. The commissioners state the principle. Let the ap pointment of Lord Seaton, one of these very commis sioners, to the command of the army in Ire!and in his eightieth year, show how those three of them who are members of the Government—Lord Panmure, Lord B.ardinge, and Mr. Sidney Herbert—apply it. Our army is reduced to a mere skeletoa ; we have but a few thousand troops in Ireland, and those mostly raw and ' inexperienced. We have besides called out the MAI Militia, and for the training of these local and regular [ forces the most ceaseless care and activity are required. To disolargo these QIIOTQUA dUtitllis At A time, too, When it is above all things necessary, if we ever are to have Generals, to accustom younger hands to the truncheon of command, we rouse from the repose which his honoured age demands a veteran who commanded the crank regiment of the Peninsular war before either of the Generals to whom the Emperor Napoleon is con. tented to ictrust the welfare of his great army in the Crimea were born. It is irksome to speak in any other terms than those of respect of this time-honoured relic of another ago ; but the shame must fall upon those who drag Lord Seaton from well-earned repose and dignified retirement into the turmoil of active life. In the place of Sir De Lacy Evans, Lord Panraure has appointed the late Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth, General Simp son, to command the Second Division, an officer of whose private character we would speak with every re spect, but who is 64 years of age, of feeble health and constitution, and, in a word, a perfectly fit comrade for the two other Generals of Division we have just de spatched to the Crimea. In the East Indies we find General Somerset, who entered the service the same year as General Simpson, the year 1811, appointed to high command. Judging by these appointments, and by the maintenance of every existing incapacity in its present place, we fear we must look elsewhere for Minis terial vigour. Let us, then, turn to the Medical Department. It is presided over by Dr. Andrew Smith— a gentleman en feebled by age, and rendered irritable and nervous to a degree hardly compatible with_ the effective transaction. of business by long exposure to a tropical climate and the diseases which those climates produce. A faint rumour prevailed some days ago that this gentleman had been relieved from duties which lie has exercised in a inanner so little to the advantwee of our unfortunate army ; but the rumour died away, and Dra Andrew Smith sits as fast as ever. Dr. Lawson rules at Scutari, and Dr. Hall, though reproved in a General Order, still presides at Balaklava. But we have learnt something from their proceedings. We have came to distrust the efficiency of the Medical Department, and, as we have not vigour enough to reform it, we have, according to the present practice, called in the aid-of volunteers to repa'r the deficiency of the regular service. We are preparing the hospital at Smyrna, and, in order that that hospital may be indeed a place of refuge for the sick and wounded, we are about to place it under the care of civilians. The measure is a vigorous one, but who are the men ? The hospital at Smyrna, situated in a hot climate and a hall-civilised country, is to be placed. under the care of a medical gentleman 68 years of age I When we add that Admiral Boxer, " that anarch old," who has left everything intrusted to him at Constauti. noide in utter confusion, has been sent to Balaklava, order, if possible, to add another disturbing element to that hopeless chaos, we have said enough to show to what manner of men it is that the lives of our fellow subjects, the honour of our arms the safety of our homes —nay, the very existence of our country, are intrusted. It is vain for us to appeal to those who do these things against such cruel and wanton squandering of the best resources of the nation. Were they not in fatuated by a long course of power, which only shifted from one portion of their own narrow class to another, they would scarcely have chosen this moment at least for the exhibition of such wanton and short-sighted sel fishness. The instinct of self-preservation would have taught them better, but we solemnly ask the people of England whether they will suffer their countrymen to be thus sacrificed at the shrine of cruel apathy or help- less incapacity, and whether they will permit in these our days scandals and abuses to disgrace and ruin the public service from which the Tory Ministry of 50 years ago turned away with disgust, and which the iron Duke of Wellington, for a time at least, effectually trampled out and extinguished ? !Caledonian £lO. qhester & Holyhead Guar. 51 per cent... Do. do. Pref. No. 2.. 8 2 t 4 all all all all Do. do. Pref. No. 2.. Cork &liandons3p.C. DundeoPerth &Aber-. deco Junction T . .lastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No I Do. No. 2 5 19 bt. 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Worthing Mining of Australia ••• ••• 1 all Yuba ••• ••• DESTRUCTION OF THE STEAM-SHIP MAURITIUS BY FIRE. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY MORNING. The fine steam-ship, belonging to the General Screw Navigation Company, which was under going repairs in the large graving docks at this port previous to her again entering upon her duties' in connexion with the Government transport ser vice, was this morning totally destroyed by fire. About 5 o'clock a flare of light was seen issuing from the locality of the engine-room by one or two persons who happened to be near the ship, and im mediately an alarm was raised for the purpose of disturbing those on board, and likewise to procure assistance to at once prevent a serious conflagra tion. No sooner, however, were the men made ac quainted with the fact than all, with the exception of one, at once deserted the vessel. For some little time the 'fire appeared to confine itself to the centre of the ship, but before it was possi ble to procure the assistance of engines or other means to subdue the flames, the vessel seemed al most enveloped, symptoms of fire exhibiting itself nearly the whole range of the ship. Some slight attempts were made by one or two persons to save the boats and moveable gear, but hardly a man connected with the ship appeared willing to render the slightest assistance. The fire raged most rapidly, and it hav ing become known that about 6 cwt. of gunpowder remained on board, a terrific explosion was of course expected. As quickly as,possible water was let into the dock, the plugs from the bottom of the ship drawn, and up to this time (8 o'clock) the powder still remained. The cause of this lamentable occurrence, and the exact origin of the fire, is, we are sorry to add, firmly believed to be the work of an incendiary, it being known that great dissatisfaction and ill-feel ing has been exhibited by the seamen connected with the Mauritius since her return to this port from Portsmouth. SOUTHAMPTON, 10.30 A.M. The magazines of the Mauritius, containing about a quarter of a ton of powder, have just exploded, sending up fragments of the burning wreck a great distance into the air. Fortunately no da mage has been done of any consequence either to the dock, or to the ships surrounding. Great numbers of persons have crowded the docks to witness the spectacle, and, although the vessel was surrounded at the time of the explosion, we believe no injury was inflicted. •• The Mauritius may now be said to be totally de stroyed. Her bows remain but slightly injured, bgt before the fire can be got under there is little doubt that the entire ship, gear and all connected with her will be consumed or rendered almost valueless. THE ARMY ESTIMATES.—The army estimates for the financial year ending the 31st of March, 1856, amount to 13,721,1581., being an increase of 6,553,6721. upon the estimate for the present year. There being a de crease of 35,0001. in non-effective services, the increase under the head of effective is 6,589,001/. The effective services will cost 11,764,9211., of which 7,316,0001. is for the maintenance of the army (deducting the troops in India), 314,0001. for staff officers, 153,0001. for public departments, 17,7951. for the Royal Military College, 23,0001. for the Royal Military Asylum and Hibernian School, 88,0001. for volunteer corps, and 3,813,0001. for the militia. 97i x n Pm pm 12i 13 LIT EBATUBE. The Moslem and the Christian. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This work is translated from the Eastern original, which is from the pen of Sadyk Pasha. It appeared under the title of Kirdjali, which is the name of its hero, who is not a fictitious character, but one of those individuals that may be found in almost every history. Half kero and half bandit, his name forms one of those favourite topics for songs and legend that Robin Hood or Rob Roy have supplied in their own countries. The most extra ordinary tales of his valour, his daring, his won derful exploits and hair-breadth escapes are re lated, but the author avers that whatever is told of him in these volumes is merely a narrative of facts, collected among people who had personally known him. The scene is laid in those Danubian. Principalities which have lately been the scene of such stirring events ; but of course, from the epoch of the narrative, no reference is made to present occurrences. .1k describes the revolt of the Ser vians under Mdosch, and the endeavours of the Wallachs to throw off the Turkish dominion, and establish their independence. It forms an exciting narrative, and sustains the reader's interest. It is certainly impartial, for several Mussulmans appear to equal advantage with the Christians. The heroine, Sarah Michaela, is the daughter of a powerful Seraskier, and becomes the bride of Kird jali. Many extraordinary adventures occur to them, and the reader regrets when he arrives at the conclusion that it should be so tragical, though, according to the author's assertion, it agrees with the facts. The work is translated and revised by Colonel Lich Szyrma, who has already edited several similar works. He affixes an interesting sketch of the writer's life. Sadyk Pasha at this moment occupies a prominent position in the Turk ish army on the Danube, being the commander of the Turkish Cossacks. This corps consists of Chris tians; who are debarred, by the law of the Koran, from serving in the army. This prohibition, how evrx, Sadyk Pasha persua,ded the Porte to abro gate, and the regiment h av i ng di st i nguished itself a second is now being form e d. T hey consist of Bulgarians and other Christian volunteers from Servia and Wallachia; their officers are chiefly Poles. On their banner is the Crescent and the Cross, signifying that, in fighting for the Porte, they also fight for their own religious liberty, which the Sultan has guaranteed throughout his empire. Sadyk Pasha is a Pole by birth, and first distinguished himself in the Polish insurrection. He subsequently resided in France, where he pub lished several works, and where he became ac quainted with Prince Adam Czartoryski, who sent him as his confidential agent to Constantinople. here he succeeded well on his mission, and through his agency Servia wa3 preserved in loyalty to the Porte, which so enraged the Russians that their ambassador demanded his extradition as the Czar's subject. No resource was left him but to embrace Islamism, or fly. He chose the first; and: adopted the name of Sadyk Pasha, his former name having been Czaykowski. Copious notes are ap pended to each of the volumes, and whether front the intrinsic merit of the work, or from the inte rest attaching to the life of the author, or from the attention which those countries have lately excited, the lover of Oriental romance will not fail to be attracted and entertained. The Warhawk ; a Tale of the Sea. By Claudius Armstrong, author of the cc Two Midshipmen." 3 vols. Newby. _ _ _ This is an interesting story ; the plot is exceed ingly complicated, and at first rather difficult to understand ; but as the narrative proceeds the attention is riveted by the great skill and inge nuity displayed in the events. The nautical por tion of the work, above all, exhibits remarkable ability, and shows that the author is well acquainted. with the subject of which be treats. The last part of the third volume especially deserves notice, and the description of the race at sea between the cap tors and deliverers of the heroine, the beautiful ' Aleen, is intensely interesting and exciting. By s. skilful manoeuvre the pirates bad possessed them selves of the boat belonging to their pursuers, and thus gained a great advantage. However, not withstanding all these drawbacks, Gerald Gran ville contrived to come up witk them, as they reached a Dutch sloop belonging to one of their number; and although the turn of affairs was most threatening he leaped on board, followed by his brave companions. Considering the period at which these incidents are supposed to have oc curred, and the lawless state of society then exist ing, they are not improbable or exaggerated. Some of the characters are graphically described, and altogeth er a variety o scenes, personages, and. events is given to the reader. Most probably the. story will entertain many from its talent and spirit. Sr. VALENTINE'S DAY AT THE POST-OFFICE.—The total number of letters posted during St. Valentine's Day and stamped at the London district office, amounted to the u nprecedented number of 240,900, or a quarter of a million within one hundred, and this in the " London District" alone. Besides these there were about 10,000 "bye' letters and 100,000 at least destined for the pro vinces places beyond sea , w hi c h were t rans f erre d t o the Inland and Department. The grand total, therefore, reached 350,000. It is estimated that of this number, at least 140,000 were sacrificed to the fame of St. Valen tine, as about 100,000 is now the February daily ave rage. Taking the number posted on Valentine's Day and stamped at the Post-office during the day, as for warded to the reporter by the authorities, at 240,900 letters, we gather therefrom the following amusing- sta tistical facts. In the making of them, 502 reams o a p v a e p r e a r er w in o g u t ld he b p e ri u c s e e o d f t the 1 1 4 1e 0, o v o a o len at tin 4 e d s . would realise 1,0041. 4d. ; the height to which a pile would be 2,333/. 6s. Bd t . h , e • t i h m e m p b o e s r ta w ge as o l f aid the on 2 e 4O u ,9 p O on o would reach, supposing u e p ac ; h ti o 'e ne c 7f t the other at the rate of a dozen to the eighth of an inch, would be 209 feet 2 inches, or 7 feet 2 inches higher than the Monument at Fish-street-hill ; While the whole of if opened, allowing 18 miles and 243 Dover by the yards, w iis.e, o iad u r l tl . h l y e t x aos t e e faa n cr d h ;L i i s : ofarao ndistance d 00 If), Bt6o South-Eastern line of railway. PRICE Of SILVER.-The dollars brought by the last West India steamer have been disposed of at sogd. per ounce, being Id, above the price realised for the previous arrival, although transactions to a limited extent took plate at a higher rate at the end of the month. The bar silver has been sold at 014 d. per ounce, being a de• dine of id. ~'~iW;i all 3 1- 100 9 100 2I all al] all 141 s. 20 20 20 20 P 113.1 1:)0 3, WO' all all 16i 10 31A 10 22: 1 , all all all all 2 4 10- 741 f 28 9 74 13i 12i 15i i 20i 271 i 49i I .. ~! '