The Sun. — London, England, 1855-03-15 00:00:00

MONEY RKET ~idi7 Af Ell° IA L INT ELLIG.EIV CE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. .Tbe cott on mar k e t a t Li verpoo l yes t er d ay was B W ltheut much alteration. The sales amounted to bales (of which 1,000 were for export, and I..)vvu on speculation) including 300 Pernam and m aranharn, at 50. to 6/d. ; 500 Egyptian, at Sed- to 9id , ; 8 00 S urat, at 3d. to 4 g d. ; an d 80 a Isla n d s at Is. to 2s. 6 d . per lb . R a il way shares were active, and improved to per cent. geuerally. The Budget with which we are to be presented aft er East er i s muc h spo k en o f , an d t h e f o ll ow i ng enaarks from the Balikers' Circular deserve atten tion 4 .." We co ns id er t h at th e cus t omary p l an o f l eav i ng th e 1.:411141 statement to be made by the Chancellor cif the i l' lc hecliier, without any regard to time or its provisions, t ;g s ° l lld be preceded by a periodical report, detailing all re fi nancial movements of the Government during the ti r ,_imis year, which sh o uld be publicly print e d, bearing ° signature of the Finance Minister. In the same, or a separate document might be given the financial changes bl eessary to preserve the public credit, or to meet the de 4.cis of th e St ate i n th e ensu i ng year . Th e a d vantages `erived from such a course would be very great to the ... et lUrnercial co mmun ity, w h o , un d er t ne p re s en t sy s t em , 7 .. s kept i n a state of suspense as to what new schemes d r e to be p ropose d , or what changes are to be made. If e country be compelled, at any time, to meet an extra ili t usild upon it s resources , it wou ld b e far b e tt e r that it 041 d be k nown a t once th an concea l e d un d er th e ke b r eq of Ministerial routine. ra in . Ir e uee, this respect, sets us an example that taight with advantage imitate, by the perio -4:1 Publication of a report on the state of her finances, t y, s Pendently of the budget periodically laid before cae G overnment. Whereas we are kept in a state of trance and suspense for months, not knowing what 4,,, 1 ! schemes may be introduced through the financial ou - ` 4 :Kle of some new Chancellor ~f the Exchequer, who, ii atbl 7, may be completely ignorant of the 'duties 4d _ull devolve -upon him. It the plan we propose were oPted at the commencement of every session, there i b L ul d be something tangible for the country to deal with, ' - ' 4l of that mysterious custom, which at present th neeals the financial position of the Government from }pen Public. There may be periods when Ministers (' be allo we d a certain degree of discretion in tt exercise of their power ; but the finances a country like this ought to be placed before 4 14 i:cleat as early as possible in the year, in a 04 r and com p re h ens i ve f orm . H ere w ou ld b e at 4 11 materials for a debate, which would give h ouse an opportunity of preparicg for the ,„ "mssion on every point of importance, instead of hay htto listen to a speech of five hours duration, from the tle luau who presides over this department, unpre- NI with any reply. *4 is impossible to examine our system of finance to „ out coming to the conclusion that the Minister who v etrol s its operations is encumbered with duties that I : a gut to have no connection with his office. These re kyal...ku are applied to no particular individual; but to a e t ' l3l which kis gradually been introduced into the 41,5:11tive Government of this country, and by which tll de and genius are sacrificed to political intrigue." I v English Funds have been extremely quiet, -t h " With a firmer ton mds e under the impression that pLiews of Russia, as a matter of policy, are really if e re• The opening of the conferences at Vienna I ° Pens now a field for expectation, and we may t many vague reports. The news that the g t : ' 3 f Sebastopol was in flames has attracted some r e , 'lion. Consols have been 93 to 931 for trans and 931 to for account, being now 93g. I ndia Stock has been firm at 227. Exchequer 1 1 / 4. 'aPe been quoted Gs. to 95., and India Bonds V : ' 1 48. premium. to l Poreign. Stock Market is rather livelier, in 4Qierice of the settlement of the half-monthly and t• Mexican Bonds have been steady at 20, kark . ‘ 3 ruvian at 70. Sardinian Stock has been 3 6# s tlasi, being firm. Spanish Threes have been lie l L an d the Deferred 18i, which are barely pre lates, although the financial plans of M. 00 . 1 . 48 4 , 1 :1ave been preliminarily adopted by the N et , by a large majority. Turkish Bonds have 6 - , ° 80 and 801. French Scrip has been at 51 „ e t erulum. Dutch 24 per Cents. have been T he ' following are the nominal prices of foreign :_.Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6 ; Mexi -24 to 20i ; Peruvian, 70 to 71 ; ditto Three Ceuta., 50 to 51; Portuguese Four per Cents., t o 44; was:Psi/au Five per Cents., 99 to 101 ; Four-and-arHalf per Cents., 89 to 91 ; _ New Deferred, 18k to 18,3 ; ditto Three Cents., 364 to 37 ; ditto Certificates, 4i to 5 ; Passive, 4 to 41-. The last week's railway receipts ascertained up Ns day are in round figures as under : Western 1- Western Western - ...... .. 'Eastern ioto 'Na l l, n 0 0t 17 av 1 4 . •.5 b y a -"e'l t 0 80 a 0 t 4 , A t prer u i n of, The • itoe-401:olloN " tah" t,' 2 4 to opi cents., . to 44 ; , itt o pour b. Wish Ne 'bio• lit Cents., Passiv O r The la s t 'l 4 thi g d ay )0, II the , at weste, 0 1 , It ti t h - Weste , ..... , d 4 e-ta.tex V u °niati . t at North 0 6 4 0 4 4 t, 51 aire a ore 4-taste] ,0* Rai] , 041 - :a.ble, ,sttilvrindin k t g e• PI ;4 *e li) at 4:tiaik, p rottii; I)teTiot N 4l4j ug Il lisee 1 1.0 ' 417 311 0 1 0 Of 04 0 44 4 13t °ek 0 ,0 Ok t i :;011 dm 1 ,14 ,N oL ) ,11 1(14 10 01 k v : l 7,2r A wit 4 , itOlaer il l itio ut ( T 0 0°. A 4 ,11 44411 "' ~,ioto l, kin k : rk, 10 . tki 3 Nk t to fn?! 1855. 1854. £21,762 £19,832 53,641 48,177 11,335 14,680 ... 9,667 11,461 ". 24,510 25,172 ~.. 13,153 13,614 9,8.58 9,727 orthern 19,502 18,030 're and Y or k s ni re "th 'i n Eastern 27,145 27,076 The r Railway Share Market has been rather 'abl e) this being the day for delivering shares 1/ 1 4 ding up the account. The movement in is not uniform, but generally it is of no mag- Foreign shares have been more animated. and Rotterdam are in more request. The French, and English lines are mostly at Avious rates. Shares are quiet, and also the Banks. mulee llaneous have been dull. FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. &on the Ugctal List.) Business done t• Consols Annaities 227 - , £lOOO ,tinder £lOOO ll 1 4 / 4447 A.ccomit, April 93i i 40 00 ter Bills, 2id. 1 6 _ 4 00 -'l4ll 69 Or FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO K li onds, 5 per Cent lOl/ ie‘ .° Per Cent. - 1 t14 441114 :40r th e Account 2oi I li. • 4 Bonds, 44 per Cent. 7O !it ti o t :Te l , s 3 6 pe P :C r e C n e t nt— ..... ..... . cow Deferred, 3 per Cent lB4' C ommittee Cort. of Coup. not fun. 4A p c , 44i tta . 11 °Ildn, per cent 794 80 p c t to 'or the Account BOl 8J / tlell the on the above payable in Lonaob ‘11,411t0 antes, 3 per Cent. — Ili tto 4erip A b ango, 24 per Cent. 1 5 6 6 P % b Cent. Certificates 2 Gui 1..... 94/ HALF-PA ST TWO. C 0n5015...., D itto. April Account 440 rD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) Q 3 a. 1,150 i 1 4.6 , 1 11 March 15.—Wind and weather this day at south-easterly breeze, and cloudy weather. 1 4, 3 11 04 40 11TH, March 14.—Wind, S.E. Arrived—Her c i t tu niPsMajestic, from Sheerness ; Bull-dog, Dragon , 0 ai,`° ,, , from Devonport. Sailed—Victor Emanuel ‘1414 4 War-steamer), for Marseilles. 4), 11„.Tri, March 14.—Wind, S. Arrived—Wilhel: Utt ''' B ', from Manilla ; Cuba, Paraiba ; Sarah, Buenos tb4 ; 1141 . M ~ k Ei t . a . ,-arch 14.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Ross, '. 14 1▪ 41 % ° 13 32e, N.B. Sailed—Emily, for Barbadoes. D a b r, March 14.—Wind, W. Arrived—Johanne, Ot• t o ha, for St. Thomas; Keepsake, Workington, 44 'e tAVit ) , cittilit, r , ivi it i r 4 l l ll % March 13.—Arrived--Amy, from Africa, ••• 13,, o with damage. 1 4" , March 6.—The Tancred, from Shields to tl rg, was stranded near the Old Skaw yesterday. f. (PEX ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) s• LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning. 114 :e v , ° 4 -- Leickhardt, from Calcutta ; Blue Jay, St. t'11 ‘ 4 4 '1 1 0 e....i Alice, St. Michael's. 7, Lalla Rookh, from j rze a l y l,. fro m 3ah . 6 4 N, 1.;- -Il randywine, for New Orleans ; Puffin, Africa ; . At , 44 r A e r a c t h grit f a r i o n m oCardenasCrimea. Q cEENSTOWN, March 13. tty ''. II IIARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 10.12 A.M. ; tide, last hours' flood ; we:ether, fine. ytt 4 ..„Atareh 15—Elizabeth, from Guernsey ; Nile, f. 4 11 Not!h7, 4 tliampton, New York ; Sea Queen, Manilla ; 'tb 4 ; Caps Coast Castle ; Diamond, St. Do ' 7 . 1 4 41 4 Thompson, Savannah; Earl of Auckland W ilberforce (s.), for Antwerp. L A 4 4 (I, DEAL, Thursday, 9.52 a.m. I ; light and fine. `44,n'avku`-'4,eahire, fr om C a llao, for Leith ; Ann Thomp- V• I TA, for London ; Albatross2Calcutta, for Lon- NI ar, New York, for London ; Her Majesty's N i N--..W.„":(un the river, westward. zu latxt Allen, for Surinam ; and Cygnet, for ; MO 20 50 20 25 SHARE MARKETS. (TitlB DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. ,Aberdeen . lAtubg. Nottng. Bost and Eastn. Belfast & Ballymena. Binning. Wolverh Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lanesh di Cheshire Junct Do. Chesil. dr Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £20... Myth & Tyn a origina £25 (ism& at £45 Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Catmartlien and Car digan Chester ea Holyhea.i Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Faso Cornwall Crieff Junction !Dundee Perth &Ai), Teen Junction Do. New East Eastern Counties Eastern Union, Stock ....... De., B Stock Do., New A East Lancashire__ Edinburgh di Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles. . Edin. Prth dL Duna( e 7 ortb St Clyde Jun Furness Do. Extension Glasgow &S. Wester', Great Northern Do., A. 5t0ck...... Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre. Great WQsteru , Do. Stour Val. Rai' Gua. Stk Trish South-Easter, Lancaster & Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Laneash.andYorkst. Do., eiftlis [b. i Wst. Riding lin Liv.ersby.&Southpt London & Blackwal Lond. Bright & S.G.t Lond. and N. Westi, Do. Fifths D0.101.5h.,M&8 Do. Eighths ,onclou and S. West, £.si) Do., £4O. Lndudrry& Col orain Lndndrry. & Ennisk. & Do. She No. ] Kau. & Lin. Un ffidland &Derb) ltidld. 0. %Vogt. (Ire. ) Do. Half Shares . \Towcastle & Carlisle . Nownik t. Bury Eaten. Nwpt. Aherg & Hrf Newry & Enniskille, ?every Warrenpoini and Rostrevor Norfolk . NTorthn.Conntios Un North British North Devon, No. I Do., No. 2 +o., A A Deferred Do., 6 B Guarani. d N. Eastern-13erwie i. Do. do. Extension G.N.E. Pure), Do. Leeds Do. York North London Do. Now .£lO. &S.Wstrn., Hami stead, anti City Jn. orth Staffordshire. forth Western , „ J. & S. Westrn. Junt: Vuneatou, Hinkle , -tnd Leicester....... )xford, Worcester, S.. Wolverhampton `ortsmouth ;enttisli Central ~ I ficottibh Midland ihrewsby. & floral Shropshire Union 'mutt' Devon soatL Eastern south Wales & Riv. Dm tainos, Wok. ALWoI. Stockton Dull-, vado 1:)o. £lO klares. 7)o. Prof., No. 1 Citamcs Raven Doc': and RAilway Vale of Noath ..... Water fl. & Kilkenny , Vaterford&Limer , I West Cornwall Nest End of Loudon: and Crystal Palace.. West London IVinibledn & Croydon IClosing Pricci i yesteriay. 20i 214 4i - 4i - 8i 13 12,3 16 17 6Ld 90 - 1.2 63i - C4l 12 = 13 i - 2 5i - 6,3/4 14 - 15 114 - 2$ ;-f 20 -. 22 72 73 56 53 2d par 2u • 2s 70 - 72 89 - 72 - 73 26 128 90 92 64i - 65} 53 - CO 72 - 74 5 - 7 5 7 7 7 • 774 7/ - 8 97 - 99/ - 100.1 - 1 - 85 - 86 8 7A 7A - tit 3 24 2 , 4 7i - 13 891 -69 i - 43 1179 24 48 - 60 k 29 ... 30 7 9 14 - 1 5 7 72 73 7 34 124 12; 49i —50 i 49 0 d /Yu i$ 5 1 6 1 d ar 29 - 30 [OO - 1(2 64 - 66 46 48 GO 62 28i - 29 4 - 2 2 - 1 37 - 39 4 - 4:1 6/ 164 4 22 - 4 5i - G . : 7 FOREIGN. ~ Meigian Eastu. Juuv tozierS to Graissessac lombay, Es.roda, and Centiallndia.Serii Central of Italy Demerara Dijon Anil lieFancon. I ►ut& Rhenish , Eastern of France Do. Now East Indian Do. Ey;ension Do. 4i p. C. 13ds., pay '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk cc C...nadaA Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben„l con. into Stk. till '63 l)o. Comp. 6 p. c., do. L.l. Central of Franc, Ot. Indian Peninsula )o. New 5 per cent Great Luxembourw Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Gt:West;rnofeanad Shares Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do : 6 per cent. Lake Cont.s & Basle Lucca do Pistoj a 5 p.c. pref.., _ _ _ . Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Mediterran Madras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. New Namur & Liege (wits interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France D o .201. Slls.late Char leroi and Erquelines guar. 3 p. c. & red. at 22M. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bdp. (fmy. B.& Ams. Shs.) NorwegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen... . ParisCacn & Cherbrg. Rouen and Havre r.oyal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse Do. 5.! . .; p. cent. Prof Southern of France St. A ndrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 52} per c. Pref Western of France_ West. of Switzerland Nieshadeo , (Zealand - I JOINT-S' Australasia British Colonial Bank and Loan Company British N. American Chartd, Bank of Asia Chrtd. link. of India, Australia, & China Colonial Commercial of Loud Fmglial Scottish and, Australian Lond. Chart. Bk. 01 Australi Ditto London a! 1 C London Joint Stock.. Loud. & WeArninster (National Provincial' of England Do. New 'National of Ireland New South Wales Oriental Bank of Corporation Provincial of Ireland Do. New Australn.Bkg Gold linp Co South Australia kJuion Jf Australia Do. New ...... "Unifra of LoPdoli 7 8 1 - 1$ 3 - 3 k - i fr 2 - 1 33 - 331 5 - 2, - 2ip 11 - 4 9 - 8 9i 47 49 . 1 87 89 2i• A RP par ip 2i. -- 3 2i -- 3 17i -- 18 96 -- 98 95 - 97 101 -. 103 92 94 19 - 20 98 100 ... di. li —21 p id i— li ipp 61 - 7i iii - 34/ 12} 12, R) 94 21i - 22 p 47 49 39 41 - pin 21 ld - par 2 lid 7i Ci ... - pm .• --- ••• 3i - 4 - 6 -- 76 ig - iaf BANKS. 82 - 84 Id : i'',l 2i - 21 2011 - ip .. - ... ..• A : = i o 39 - 41 38 -- 40 64 - 66 7 9 Ai .1. ........ •1111 Business done this day. 10 22, allail 64f i i 8S x d 751 i i id 971 8 100 1 69 1 i i a 291 k Pin THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY RYEN'ING, MARCH lb, LINES I4BASED , T FIXED EtEN'iALS. ARMY BEFORE SEBASTOPOL COM- Leasing , :tosine Prices Mistress bhr. raid. RATLWATIP. compans. yesterday this day. 50 all Bedford and London & Blotchley N. West. St. 1.00 Bnckghamsh. L.&N.W. 5 97 St. 100 ClydesdaleJc. Cal. '''on 7 99 25 24 Col. Stour Vy. 3. Un. Sud. and EC. . E. St. 100 E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Gt.Nrtlin. 134 136 St. all Glas. Barr. & Caldonian. Neils. Direct ••• St. all Do. New. Do 25 all Glstr.dc Dn. Gt. Wesu 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. E Ik. New. Railway.... & Berw. 50 all [lull & Selby Y. &NM , 104 106 25 all Do. Shares. Do 12i all Do. Shares. Do — •.• 12i all Lon.&Greenv S. Easter 121 134 20 all Do.Prefcrene, Do 23 —24 10 all Lon., Til., & S Peto &Co. 101 114 St. 100 • Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Morfolk — St. ittO Do. 6 per et. ••• ••• 5 all Manch. Bxtn L.&N.W and Matloel & Midld. 2 -21 50 all %tiddlecbro' 8 Staten & Redcar. Darlingt. l 0( all 4idld.Bradfd Midland 9O 92 50 all northern an Easternsp.c. E. Count. 57 59 50 all Do. 6 per et. D 0... • • ••• r"? all Do. Fixeds p Do •• ••• 25 all Brest. & Wyr, L. &N.W & Ln& Y 1 12i all Do. A Shares. Do — St. 100 Roystn.&llit. GtNortht 130 133 25 183 Shcf•Roth an , Lancash Goole g. 5 p.c. Yorksh. 12 9i S. Staffordsh. 51.MClear 2i 2 (.1 50 all WearValleygt Stockt. & 6 per cent... Darlingt 25 all Do loo 3l 32 RI. 100 Wiltskr,omrst GtWestn 9O 92 MI2'TEE - (THIS DAY.) - The inqu4.32vas reaumel this morning at the usual hour. The public were as usual numerous . ; but a great and much needed improvement has been made in their ad mission ; the doors being thrown open some time pre viously to the hour. Much inconvenience has been thereby remedied, and the fearful crush into the room at thelast moment avoided, The confusion occasioned by the former practice of not throwing open the doors until Vie proceedings were about to commence render4d-Aii very difficult for the members of the press to catch Ail was said for several minutes. The Earl of Lucan was the first witness called, and was examined by the Chairman. He stated that he commandel the cavalry division, and-arrived at Scutari in May last. There was gi eat facilitifor landing horses at Kululee, so that no preparatiodin particular for their: disembarkation was needed. ; The horses were supplied. with plenty of forage, except hay, Ailst there. The". Commissary was frequently changed*. Thy Counnissarie. were very inexperienced, and tWO of them were young gentlemen from the Treasury. The Chairman—When did you start from Vttijot I Lord Lucan—The cavalry were- only partially em barked at Kululee—those which were not were kept on boar.), and the others were re-embarked. He arrived at Varna in June. A t Varna, there was always great diffi culty in getting their forage supply. They were en camped about two wiles from the town. He thought his men had fresh meat the whole time. The men suffered from cholera to a fearful ex tent. On the 22d of July they changed their position, and moved three miles further up the country, where the cholera became very virulent indeed. To all appearance it ought to have been the healthiest spot in the country. The 4th Dragoons lost ten per cent. of their men. PREFERENCE SHARES. The Chairman—When did you embark for the Crimea? Lord Lucan—The embarkation of the Light Brigade commenced on the 31st for the Crimea. About the 18th he had written to Lord Raglan, asking him to send home for reinforcements, as he had lost at that time nearly 150 men. In reply, Lord Raglan informed him Viat he would apply for the men, but not for the horses. The troops disembarked at Old Fort on the 16th September. The weather had changed very much about thin time, and a heavy surf was break ing on the shore, and it became a question whether the cavalry could land there admirably—and he received orders to proceed to Eupatoria to land. Iu an hour after this determination was come to, the weather calmed and the disembarkation was commenced. There were, however, several casualties in consequence of the boats being very unfitted for the operation. Chairman—When you arrived at Balaklava where did you take up your first encampment ? Lord Lucan—We took up our position in front of the town. Chairman—What was the strength of your division then! Lord Dican—About 1,100 horses. During the passage fearful sickness broke out amongst the men, and be could not state the number of dismounted horses on bis arrival. Under his immediate command 4 regi ments ; and at the battle of the Alma he had something under 600 sabres and lances. Lost no men in that engagt ment. Though there were plenty of forage stores he could never get a supply of more than was necessary for one day —so that they lived from baud to mouth. There was not sufficient barley on shore, and he did not recollect one occasion when any hay was served until very late in October. He had frequently to send his own dragoons to the ships to fetch barley—because the Commissary did not send it up. The horses deteriorated in condi tion from the time they,left Constantinople until withia a month of his leaving. Ho had great difficulty in keep ing the horses in condition at all during the heat of summer and the cold of winter, but he was quite srtisfied they suffered from want of forage. He was highly dis satisfied with his commissaries, wholwere totally incom petent to their duties. He had a letter in his possession addressed to the Quartermaster-General, a letter dated the 29th of September, complaining of the commissary department. That officer etas the proper person to complain to, and he presumed he could lay the matter. before the Commissary-General and urge him to a better performance of his duty. His lordship here read the letter referred to, in which he very strongly complained of the short supply of food and forage to his division, and stated that he had re monstrated in vain with the Commissary-General Filder. Mr. Ellice—Hail your lt,raship occasion to repeat those complaints ? _ _ Lord Luc an—Constantly. His letter-book was full of Chairman--Was the evil remedied ? Lord Lucan—Oh dear no ! He did not recollect whether he received any reply to that letter; if he did it was in his letter-book. Indeed he scarcely ever got a reply to any of his communications. By Sir John Peking ton—During all the winter months he never received any forage in advance from the ships. At the desire of the chairman the noble lord here read another letter addressed to the Quartermaster-General referring to the pressing want of rations, and especially forage. Chairman —What was the tenour of the replies you re ceived. Did they admit the justice of your complaints Lord Lucan — Undoubtedly. They could not deny that ; but the inconvenience was never altered. Examination continued by the Chairman—He had had to complain of the supply of provisions to his own division, it was true—but as far as the army generally was concerned, no army, he believed, was ever, on the whole, better fed. That remark, however, applied to Bulgaria. Tile supply was not so regular in the Crimea. They had fresh meat up to the sth of November, but subsequently to that date it was nearly always salt. In the Crimea his men suffered very much in their feet for the want of boots and shoes, and their clothing got thin and scanty ; but in the middle of Dec. fresh clothing began to be eerved out. Amongst other articles was a jacket which was very warm and comfort able. .On the 18th October he requested Lord Raglan's permission to send seine of his non-commissioned officers for certain articles which th e men requ i re d ; but they did not get any, in cons equence o f C a ptain Christie being unable to find them a passage until after the storm. They then proceeded and fulfilled their mis sion, but then they found that Admiral Boxer could not send them back, and consequently they did not return for a month. This occasioned the mea much unnecessary suffering and hardship. The Chairman— Did you complain respecting this ? Lord Lucan replied that he did not, for he thought there would be no use in it. By Mr. Layard—He had inspected the French cavalry. They had depots of forage until lately, when they bad to go to Kainiesh Bay for it. They were short of forage at the end of January. Mr. Layard—Did you hear what was the reason of that I Lord Lucan—Tbey complained that it arose from the fact that the English Commissary -General did not fulfil his engagement in repaying theta the forage they had lent to ur. When he first went to Balaklava there were stacks of hay there, which were made use of. Mr. Layard—Were nose bags, clothing, and similar conveniences supplied to the cavalry for the use of the horses ? Lord Lucan replied that in these respects the difficul ties he had to encounter were continual, as not hi ng of the kind could be got. A vast quantity of forage was wasted from the fact of there being no nose bags, and the horses, of course, materially suffered from the want of clothing and exposure. He did not think the cavalry ought to be dependent upon their own exertions for for age when-beyond three miles of the stores. When en camped on the heights from the 14th day of Novem ber, the heavy brigade drew the whole of their forage. The horses suffered much from that kind of . work, and especially from being kept waiting at Bala klava, in consequence of the men being unable to find forage. The town was three miles and a half from their position. The division horses were only employed at first in fetching up ammunition and forage--but at one time every available horse was called into requisition to o trry provisions to the front of the Camp. Mr. Layard—Can you t .11 the committee what was the effective strength of your division in men and horses about the beginning of October. Lord Luean—Toe heavy brigade had on th e Bth Oc t )ber, 884 horses fit for duty,and 23 si c k or lame. The Light Brigade lad a bout 1,000 h orses ; b u t th a t brigale was very sickly. Mr. Layard—Can you inform, the committee what effective force you bad on the Ist January ? Lord Lucan—l had 1,153 horses, including both bri gales. Ho lost 1,100 horses between those periods. A number were killed in the action at Balaklava, and others he considered were sacrificed to overwork and short forage. He represented to Lord Raglan the pro priety of obtaining baggage mules from Asia Minor. In reply to Mr. Layard, his lordship said he had ad dressed a letter to the Adjutant-General on the subject, and, at the request of the same gentleman, he proceeded to read it, In this communication the noble lord cony A berdeon Do. No. 2, 7 p. c * Rlyth and Tyne 10 p er c. pref. (issd. at 501) Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO e'bester & Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Cork &Bandonsp.c Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. 1 Do. No. 2 Do. New 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 p.cts East and West York shire June. Fifths Edinb Prth. &Dundee 4 per cent. 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Australasian . 1 20 121 Nrth.ofEuropeSteam all Peel Er. Ld. & Mine. 21 -- 3 50 all Poninsular& Oriental 5T 59 50 all Do. Do. ..- ...p 2 all Portland Iron Co ll 2 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest 1.3 11 1 1 Ditto New 1— 25 all South Austral. Land 3. i 4 —36 i 1 all Submar. Telegraph — a ll ito v igtnrwl 20 5 Tr.st tit Loan Co. of Upper Canada 100,284 Van rdemand s Land ro •••. ••• L.%„,i 7 , -. De all all li all 40i 1 1 them. 1888 plained of the great logs el cavalry horses by being sub: jected to cemmissariat tran9pnrt duty ; and suggested that baggage-ponies might be obtained in Asia Minor at per head, as a more economical as well as proper and more efficient mangement. Ile concluded by ex pressing a hope that his division would be relieved from this onerous and destructive duty. Mr. Layard—Was any reply returned to that letter ? Lord Lucan—No ; none whatever. Before he left Varna the whole of the depot had been broken up, and there was not a baggage-horse to be found ; but where they were sent to he had not the slightest idea. If any awed in the Crimea they soon died or were stolen. uld not say whether the baggage horses and • .Ozhich did come from time to time were marked 100414iikommissariat mark or not. ;ISit.:l.;ard—Under whose supervision wa; this por tion of the - transport train ? Lord Lucan— He believed they were under the di rection of a Mr. Smith, one of the commissaries. [LEFT SITTING.] BANK 617 EAGLAAA-(PRIS DAY.) ....-.... - This day the half -yearly court, according to the 12th 'bye-law of the corporation, was held fur the purpose of considering of a divideni. The el &r Tai taken by JOHN GELLIBRAND HUBBARD, The accounts stated that the net profits of the half-year ending the 23th of February last Were 600,2221. 12 , . making the amount of the rest on that day, 3,600,254/. 4r. 10d., and, that, after providing a dividend of 4 per cent., the rest would be 3,018,134/, 4s. 10d. The Court of Direction, therefore, proposed, " That a dividend of 4 per cent. be made of interest and profit for the half-year, free of income tax." This proposition having been put to the meeting, was carried unanimously. The meeting was then informed that the dividend warrants would be delivered and paid on Saturday, the 7th of April. The other routine business having been transacted, .he Court adjourned. THE LATE FIRE AND LOSS OF FOUR LIVES IN MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY) This morning, at ten o'clock, Mr. Wakley resumed the adjourned inquiry in the Marylebone Workhouse, touching the deaths of the four unfortunate persons who perished in the conflagration which took place on Wed nesday night, the 7th inst., under circumstances already detailed in The Sun. The jury, acting under a recom mendation from the Coroner, returned a verdict to the effect, that there was no evidence to prove how the fire originated ; at the same time adding, that there was great blame attachable to some person or persons for not giving the alarm to the unfortunate residents of the pre mises when the fire was first discovered. General de Marquenal has been appointed to the command of the Ist brigade of the Ist division of the army of reserve at Constantinople. ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.—The } , resent session corn menced on the 12th December, and the number of public acts passed in the period is six. The screw steam-ship Indian, Captain M`Master, sailed from the Mersey yesterday from Balaklava, with cavalry and ordnance stores. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND COMPANY.—At a meeting of this company, held yesterday, Mr. J. Cbattley presiding, the report and accounts were unanimously adopted. Mrs. Morris, who, it will be recollected, was charged with an extraordinary act of forgery in Herts, was to have been tried at the assizes for that county, but the prosecutor did not appear, and his recognisauces were estreated. MAILS FOR THIS BRAZILS.—Tho steam-ship Consti tution, Captain Cobb (late of the Swordfish), will leave Liverpool for the west coast of South America on Satur day morning, at 10 o'clock. She w ill call at Rio Janeiro, for which port ft, be takes a mail. Letters posted in Lon don on Friday evening, and Liverpool on Saturday up to 8 a.m. will be in time. Notwithstanding the statement in the Moniteur, some doubts still are expressed as to the opening of the Ex hibition. From a very good source we learn that the opening will positively take place on the Ist of May. A despatch from Behobia states that the bridge over the Bidassoa, between France and Spain, had been car ried off by the inundation of the river. Letters from the French head-quarters, dated 27th February, state that the Russians were throwing up formidable works of defence at various points, and that they had sunk two more ships at the entrance to the port of Sebastopol. They feared an assault, and were making every preparation to meet it. It was said that they were establishing a battery (,f heavy mortars at Kaniara, from which they hoped to throw shells into Balaklava. The Electoral Committee of the Society for Liberating Religion from State Patronage and Control has at length been organised, and S 7 tinuel Morley, Esq., has consented to be its chairman. The work a the commite, will be to prepare the way for a huge accession to the senatorial strength of the society at the next general election. --. Nonconformist. TUE COLOSSEUM, REGENT'S PARK.—Yesterday this place of amusement was offered for sale under the ham mcr by Messrs. Winstanley, at the mart, by order d th, Court of Chancery, to reinibur,4e the in ,rtgage thereon. The building is held under the Crown for tii) year a ground rent of 2631. per annum. The auctioneer stated that the property, including the erection of the building, hal cost the different owners about 200,0001 , but tin only offer was 20,0001., which being below the reserved price the property was declared bought in. THE MARTLEBONE EXTRAMURAL CEMETERY. —On Tuesday the ceremony of consecrating the Extramural Cemetery for the parish of Marylebone, situate at Finch ley, was performed by the Bishop of London, in the presence of the lion. and Rev. J. T. Pelham, the rector, and a number of the clergy, members of the public boards, and influential ratepayers. The St. Marylebons Extramural Cemetery is situate at the East-end, in the parish of Finchley, and is in extent about 26 acres. LLOYD'S PATRIOTIC FUND.—The committee of the fund established in 1803, and known as Lloyd's Patri otic Fund, have notified that, in consequence of the sub scriptions under the Royal Patriotic Fund being limited to the relief of widows and orphans of those dying in active service during the present war, they have resolved to apply the means remaining in their hands to other classes of sufferers. They will therefore give gratuities to soldiers, seamen, and marines disabled from wounds, and discharged the service in consequence, and also to such relatives (not widows or orphans) as depended for support on those killed in action. The total held by the committee is valued at about BE,OOO/., subject to the payment of some annuities amounting to 1,6001. per annum. They have also certain rights of nomination to the Royal Naval Asylum and Schools. According to a notice in last night's Gazette, relating to the system for granting pastoral leases in Australia, established by the order in Council of the oth of March, 1547, the Governor of the colony of Victoria is hence forth to have the power of fixing at his discretion the money rent to be paid for suck leases in that colony, or for the renewal of them. This measure is, of course, to have no effect on contracts already in existence. TIIE MYSTERY.—By our advises from the Cape we learn that the little lugger Mystery, of 16 tons, had made the passage from Penzance to Simon's Bay in 60 days, and had proceeded thence to Table Bay, where she took in stores and a mail, and had departed for Mel bourne. When leaving Simon's Bay she beat out without making a tack, and all the vessels in the bay dipped their ensigns in honour of the adventurous little barque. She sailed for Melbourne on the 24th of January. THE MONEY MARKET.--It is remarked that the signs beginning to be observable if greater confidence in the money market are not likely to be counteracted by such revelations as are obtained in connection with the various commercial failures now announced from time to time in the provinces and elsewhere. Although during the last six months uneasiness has been con stantly occasioned by isolated suspensions, which were feared as the precursors of more extensive mischief, it is srtisfactory to find not only that nothing has thus far warranted a belief in any really unsound state of the commerce of the country, but that out of such disasters as have occurred it is scarcely possible to pick more than two or three which can be attributed to any causes that could affect the legitimate trader. Last week a couple of cases were announced in Birmingham, where, after the system of accommodation bills bad been car ried to its utmost stretch, the parties stopped respec tively for 60,0001. and 90,000/., the assets in one instance being estimated at 6s. Bd., and in the other at 2s. in the pound. In London the same thing has been noticeable, and among recent stoppages has been one . of a firm for 100,0001., who are shown only a few months back to have entered into enormous speculations without a shilling of capital at their command. In the Bankruptcy Court yesterday there was also a case in which liabilities on Liverpool accommodation bills were shown for 40,500/., while the direct debts were 2,200/., and the estimated assets 1,200/. The difficulties at Liverpool a few months back were almost all of the same character, although on a mere distinguished scale. Looking therefore at the fact that none of these thing - 4 are to be attributed to a pressure which can be supposed to have arisen either from the war or any other recent cause, since in each case the accommodation pap , r system was of of I stand ing, ar4d those who have once begun that practice are 'learned sooner or laser, there is ne reason to suppose that the field of fair ceterprise hes susteined any irreme diable damage, but rather that there is ground for con gratulation at events having cut short the progress of those who with every day's continuance in business would merely have increased the amount for which they were finally to fall.--Tii,ics. The New Zurich Gazette states that the com mission formed by the committee of the people to examine as to whether a charge of high treason ought not to be brought against the principal authors of the disturbances in the canton of Ticino has just denounced to the Council of State the names of MM. Stoppani, o f Ponte Polari, of Moriote, Airoldi, of I Lugano, Franzoni, of Locarno, and Advocate Cat • tames, of Fordo. LzrivA4t:VD - 4'. Nature and human Nature. 2 vols. BV the author of " Sam Slick, the Clockmaker." Hurst and Blackett. The introduction to the present work is nothing less than the account of a conversation between Judge Halliburton, the Squire of Halifaxjand his old friend Sam Slick, the clockmaker of Connecti cut. As Sam himself calls it, " a dish of chat." As any less genuine Yankee might say, a regular comfoozle, one in - Which the principal interlocutor pays out his yarny talk in sections or instalments— though, when he comes to only the second of these, he cries out encouragingly to the Squire, "Now, don't go off at a h a lf- coc k , nervous lik e : I am not like the black preacher that had forty-eleven divi sions !" At the outset of the first of these two volumes, at the beginning of the first chapter (en titled " A. Surprise"), " Thinks I to myself," thinks the Squire, " that can be no one else than Sam Slick, the clockmaker." Neither is the merry-eyed eaves-dropser mistaken, for no- sooner has the stranger outside inquired of the servant whether his master is in—declining to give his own name on the plea that it is such an everlastiu' leng one (adding "I don't think you could carry it in all to wunst, and I don't want it broke in two,") than he is overheard calling out, in unmistakeable lingo, to the " help," " Come, don't stand starin' there in the track—you might get run over. Don't you hear the engine coming ? Shunt off now !" and the like. Happily, there is no mistake at all about it. We don't need to " ask about and find Out" whether it be the Mr. Slick in propria per sonce—the veritable Simon Pure stands before us, actually, bodily, substantially, grasping us, the reader, fairly by the hand —or, what is much the hsaomst in e,ou h rimbosseif_wi ttheaXhor—one really and truly a de lightful, inexhaustible, incorrigiblewittyge nia , Mr. quaint, Justice Halliburton. The preliminary pages of this new production of the eccentric genius of the Clockmaker, entreat us rather earnestly not to confuse in our own minds, blending the two into a sort of Siamese-identity, —Sam Slick and Judge Halliburton. Just as before now the public has been told not to associate Byron too intimately with his Laras, and Conrads, and Childe Harold, or to identify Bulwor now with Pel ham, and now again with Ernest Maltravers. Well —we try, obediently and complacently enough in the present instance—but we can't for the life of us dissociate a quality which has come long sines to be, like the old French revolution—one and indivisible. We inevitably and instantly re cognise Beverley in Captain Absolute, what ever Mrs. Malaprop may say to the contrary, nevertheless, notwithstanding. Howbeit, we waive the matter for once, though° under protest, and, in compliance with our author's entreaty, accept the book composedly as not his own but another's, as a work edited by him, not written under his own hand, or at his own dictation. We endeavour, therefore, as much as possible, to forget the judi cial Squire Halliburton, and to remember only his queer, old, fantastic intimate Sam Slick, the clock maker, of Slickville, down in Connecticut. Several years have gone by since be first ap peared before us—with those grotesque creases about his mouth and that odd twinkle in his eye. How he has made us laugh since then—as Lord Foppington might say, " Stale my vitals, con sdmedly !" As he himself would express A— llow lie has set us and the crowd off " a tee bee fing ! What with his " Sayings and Doings," his "Wise Saws and Modern Instances," his "Rule and Misrule," his " Traits of American Humour," his " Byeways, BackwoOds, and Prairies," and, above all, his earliest and richest drolleries iu the original account of himself, and his opinions as the genuine Slickville clockmaker—we might fain imagine the rogue had left not another shale of a laugh in our diaphragm. That it is not so, how ever, we have here before us ample proof in vo lumes not one jot less truly than the liveliest of their predecessors, both hearty and humorous. As such we proclaim them to be without a mo ment's hesitation. Yet, the popular applause of Sam Slick must by no means be accepted as par taking of the decorous "Hear, hear," of the House of Commons—rather, let us say, of the sounds that welcomed the sallies of Yorick at the royal table of Denmark—not occasional cheers and plaudits, but prolonged, prevailing, and sometimes boisterous guffaws, and uproarious cachinations. Sam's tutelary deity, we take it, can be no other than Momus. His heraldric device (we say it in compliment, not derision) might be best expressed by a grin through a horse-collar. His aptest motto that gay Miltonian couplet : "Sport that wrinkled care derides, And laughter holding both his sides ! " Not less than any one of his best-going pendu lums, Sam Slick is—a Wag. He appears before us now, not a doit diminished in his store of fun, in his wealth of blithe wisdom, iu his superabundant possession of all the worthier resources of merriment. Ho opens his well-stocked ierip-of-frolic as of old, and with an open hand icatters jokes like largess over the heads of the multitude. And, reading his jotting B-down, let us acknowledge it at once, has about it all the exhila ration of a scramble. Look at the Yankee-jester is he comes before us anew—bent on handing the latest pages of his diary to his Nova Scotian ac quaintance Squire, or Justice Halliburton. Sain, we are informed by the latter, has " worn well," his step being " as elastic and springy as ever." Nay, we readily enough recognise all this ourselves. We observe that " the lines in his face are some what deeper"—the supplementary crowsfeet im parting, moreover, a merrier sparkle, if possible, than ever to his glance—aml that " a few straggling grey hairs" are the only other traces left by Time, the scanty siftings of the frosts of the earlier autumn of life sprinkled seasonably in preparation for the severer winter of age. Mr. Slick's manner way have improved somewhat by his intercourse with the great world—yet we are rejoiced to remark that his conversation has lost none of its more de lightful peculiarities of phraseology. We don't feel in the least astonished when the Squire tells us confidentially that his old friend enlivened the dinner chat with anecdotes that were often too much for the gravity of the servant, " who once or twice left the room to avoid explosive outbreaks of laughter." Sam, as a practical joker, is evidently incurable. Witness his preposterous story about the bushwackers of Causeau, and their eight hun dred hackmetacks ! The Clockmaker has evidently clinched more firmly than ever some of his more home-driven prejudices. He insists on the Squire retaining all the scores in his Diary—the faithful concession to which demand is evidenced by the plentiful scattering of italicised passages in the letterpress. " No—no," quoth Sam, when he is arguing the point with his editor, "put them Italics in—they show there is truth at the bottom—l like it, for it's what I call sense on the short-cards." And accordingly the Italics aro retained, in spite of their looking, as Mr. Slick himself acknowledges that they do look—" consaited." The consequence of which is, we detect in these two volumes alone— let us say it—scores of scores ! Even Sam can't with any decency quarrel with the pun by reason of its transparency, remembering as we do his pert little jest about Baron Lionel Rothschild—" Droll boy Rothey, for though he comes from the land of ffam he don't eat pork." Let it not be overlooked by the way that the editerial Nova Scotian is coaxed into compliance with Sam Slick's wishes about italicising and the like by a little flattery, or as we should say in the more familiar vernacular—just the merest spice of flummery. " Ali Slick," says the Squire cunningly, " how skilled you are in soft sawder I" " Dod drot that word soft sawder," cries Sam, " I wish I had never invented it." However he contrives to palaver the Squire into obedience, palaver him he does effec tually both in reference to his pet italics and in regard to his favourite outbursts of Brag, the genuine Brag of Yankeedoodledum ! Anent which subject, that is to say in the aforesaid matter of brag, thus saith the Clockmaker : " There are two kinds of boastin', Squire, active and passive. The former belongs exclusively to my countrymen, and the latter to the British. A Yan kee openly asserts and loudly proclaims his supe riority. John Bull feels and looks it. He don't give utterance to this conviction. He takes it for granted all the world knows and admits it, and he is so thoroughly persuaded of it himself, that, to use his own favourite phrase, lie don't care a fig if folks don't admit it. His vanity, therefore, has a sublimity in it. He thinks, as the Italians say, that when Nature formed him she broke the mould.' There never was, never can, never will be another like him. His boastin', therefore, is passive. Ho shows it, and acts it ; but h e d on ' t proclaim it. He condescends and is gracious, pa tronises and talks down to you. Let my boaetin' :done, therefore, Squire, if you please." And we have it consequently, and that moreover in abund ance. Brag —scores—do w 'least talk—sat i re—‘e i t— humour—ridiculousness : Sam Slick is still SAM Slick to the last, down to the very end of the chap ter—and as such, not in epite of all this, but because of all this, by reason of his prejudices as well as by reason of his fun, lie retains full ceminand of our applause, of our laughter, and of our admiration. Opening the first volume of "Nature and Human Nature," or as we wonder the work was not more correctly designated both on the title - p a g e and throw advertisement, " Natur' and Human Natue "—watch the rogue (p. 61) " unlocking (p. 89) depicting " a crit ter woman's wit heart e a t i r i t ca ; i " s a s l e l e h id virtues and d that o n e " vice new ahye hear him learn Gaelic him (p. 122 ) describing y -" or at another moment (p. 2 01) be tt • inrirltl to us coming the celebrant of "fiddling, and dauciug 10 4 4 fistt4a 44• • lOW Vil• 44* • • ;•TitPL44. * button-hole," and now again 26.4) giving us the "plural of moose." Turning over the second volume, have we not equal caus e f o r " stripping ivory " over the Yankee yarns of the Slickville Clockmaker? Whether by deputy or not, ho is (p. 169) " holding up the mirror," or (p. 206) "belaying the bundle of sticks," whether ho is (p. 259) making lunar observations, that is to say, commenting on " the honeymoon," or serving up, duly spiced to the palate of his readers (p. 290), a. wonderful " dish of clams," or, finally, whether the said reader peers with him (p. 322) into the " De vil's Hole," or paddles with him (p. 347) across the " Cucumber Lake." Doubtless just to tickle our zest for these descriptions, more provokingly than could well be done otherwise, Sam Slick threatens us with the half declaration that the present is pro. bably his last appearance. We don't believe it ; or, shall we say more candidly, we won't believe it. The assurance is too unpalatable to be swal lowed without a wry face. Besides, we have heard the same tale so often from - others, and ha 'e iu many an instance rejoiced to see it falsified by th 3 future triumphantly. Did not Sir Edward threateu us in like manner when he recounted, with that g -r -geous and many-tinted crayon of his, the history of the "Last of the Barons," telling us that it was, in all likelihood, the last of his romances ? And has he not, thanks to his genius, his industry, and veritably, let us add, too, his comprehensive bere• volence—has he not since then giv:,n to the world his weird "Lucretia," his epic " Harold," his ex quisite " Caxtons," and that novel of novels, "My Novel," rarest and noblest among his many and varied masterpieces. Not that we would quite predict a future like this to Sam Slick the Clock. maker. No—but that in the threat held forth in. terrorein by Sam, we are fain to recognise only the sheet and the scooped turnip of a mereMake-Believe Goblin of Disfavour. Besides, Sam himself, at tile very moment of starting, lets out his project of making the tour of the States some of these days with his friend the Squire—to what end we should like to know if not for the production of another outpouring of the italics of Slickville, the down east talk of Connecticut, and the unmistakeable brag of Yankeedoodledum ? So be it. The sooner the hypothetical work is set about in real earnest, the better for Sam Slick's readers—more especially now that their appetites have been so effectually whetted Anew by the zes t, fl avour , an d piquancy imparted by the rip en i ng warmth of our author's humour to this latest, an'd not least, succulent fruit of his geieius—"Natur', and Human Natur'." Association for Promoting Improvement in the Dwellings and Domestic Condition of Agricul tural Labourers in Scotland. The directors of this newly-formed association have issued their first annual report; from which we gather that the association is in a good working condition, having a fair balance in hand, and being supported by a number of the most influential Scottish landowners, as well as by many indivi duals distinguished for philanthropy. The objects of the association are such as cannot fail to commend it to the good wishes of the pub lic ; and the statement made in the regulations, " that, in order to be really useful, the association must be practical, not speculative ; cautious, not obtrusive, tends to inspire confidence in the ma nagement, and well-founded hope of these most important objects being duly promoted. The first step taken, viz., the establishment of a central office in Edinburgh, where plans and specifications, me• dels and specimens of fittings for cottages, are to be deposited for inspection, and where applications mad• be made by members desiring information or advice in regard to either the erection or the im provement of the dwellings for their labourers, appears to us a very judicious one, and, coupled with the engagement of an active secretary and an intelligent architect, speaks well for the business talents of the directors. The want of more than one sleeping apartment in cottages—that crying evil—is met, we are happy to peiceive, by a funda mental rule of the association. A few practical hints on cottage-building, with engraved plates, and a generl.l specification—by W. Jowler, the so ciety's architect—are appended to the report, to both of which we invite the attention of all in terested in the moral and social elevation of the Scottish agricultural labourer. The Bulgarian, the TitYk, and' the German.. By A. A. Paton. Longman, Brown, Green, and Long-man. A.readable little book of travelling adventure, intended as a sequel to " Servia, the Youngest Member of the European Family," by the same author. Mr. Paton regards Austria and Turkey as the two local counterpoises to Russian ambition, and considers it to be "as clear as daylight" that all other substitutes such as the re-establishment of Poland by Polish emigration, a Byzantine Empire, arc., arc bubble schemes—nay, more pro-Russian, because anti-Turkish and anti Austrian. It is further his opinion that Hungary has nothing good to hope from Kossuth, and that Lord Aberdeen was as thoroughly British a minister as ever sat in our Cabinet. It is impossible to deny Mr. Paton the posse:;sion of dramatic power, and a capacity for lively chit-chat, The Unspcakab'c. Clarke and Beeton. An attempt to pronounce on " The Unspeakable" can hardly titil to suggest at the first blush the no tion either of compliance with a rigorous exaction, or the performance of a Samaritan-like act of charity. Neither of these notions, however, is warranted, in the present instance, by facts— " The Unspeakable" presenting no difficulty to the reviewer. It is a clever narrative—just shcrt of an autobiography, we are told—of the life and adveu ' tures of a stammerer, and how the hero acquired the habit of stammering, what scrapes he got into through it; who and what he applied to to be freed from it, and to whom ho was indebted for a cure, we do not feel called upon, in common fairness, to state. Suffice it to say, the story is romantic, many of the incidents aro very amusing, and a few almost tragic, while the inevitable inference to be deducted is as consolatory to stammerers as the experience of " The Unspeakable" in search of a cure is valuable and instructive. Railway Collisions Prevented. By Alfred Ogan. G. J. Pope. This pamphlet contains an account of the rise and progress of steam power and of railways ; of the causes of accidents upon railways ; and of the plan of magnetic railway signals, the invention of Mr. Tyers, by means of which it is found by expe rience collisions may effectually be prevented. It is dedicated to Captain R. H. Barlow, the general manager of the South-Eastern Railway, to whose penetration and practical knowledge the applica tion of the ordinary electric telegraph to record the transit of a train is due, and who has always shown a laudable anxiety to protect the lives and persons of passengers, and the property of the company. Journal of the Statistical Society of London. John ___.... William Parker. The March part of this journal conveys, like its predecessors, a large amount of valuable informa tion on subjects of considerable importance. The Journal of Agriculture. William Blackwood and Sons. This periodical fully maintains its high character as an agricultural journal. Not the least interest ing and valuable portion of its contents are " The Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland." The .Military Forces and Institutions of Great Britain and Ireland. By Byerly Thomson, Esq. Smith, Elder, and Co. A work interesting to the non-professional, as well as the professional, reader, and especially s o at the present time. It presents a comprehensive and succinct account "of all matters relating to the military and civil constitution, administration, and. government of the military services of Great Bri tain ; and, also, of the laws relating to the army, the marines, the militia, and the various corps of volunteers." 11i y Life ; oi, the Autobiog ra h py of a - Village Curate. By Eliza R. Rowe. Henry Vizetelly. An interesting record, in an autobiographical form, of the life of a zealous and learned village parson, under wh ose roof the author pleasantly and profitably p asse d a portion of her early years. Maephair s Edinburgh Ecclesiastical Journal a a i Ltd Literary Review. Edinburgh : Miles 14"1 to An average specimen of the class a serials which it sense,on c b h e a lo ra n c g t s e . ri A se l d llon by g co ntents tsshcroe shrewd o i o d s f :dug of the War." the " inquiry regarding the for 1855. By D r . The _Historical Pocket Annual ladtsl:Cisot.isioortsewill b quency readily appreciated by all who take an interest ir e i The valueßoefnigt e c e o . :F T : ,i r it, i it ' l i te v i lo n . l e i ‘ r vo a ot r r. notable persons, he duringt o l l i e e o g f el l ' i ' i ‘ t r t a u l r: l it t- ts o t i l .' ir ou, ?; liout the w N i v ii r i l i ' t. i. here tire The most noticeable occurrences of a public nature f ast year are set down, besides an account of the ab stracts of impcnantState papers, war, and an obituary of 'rotaforming a desirable o'Byritc's Naar/ A • stop :::::: l a t' i c t t .1 0 ?• ,. 1855. Piper, and official lists, 11, arid Spence. a Diurnal A salt water book, comprehensive, and every thing in it to the purpose. 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