The Sun. — London, England, 1855-01-12 00:00:00

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Tbl . A 1, A Aza: CCV-IMERCIAL J. VT 'fr,LIGILIr CiTY, TWO o'CLOCIIt Ile sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estininted at from 7,000 to 8,000 bales, including I'°€/0 American and 300 Surat taken for export 4114 011 specelation. Tile, market closed with less aniniation, but equally firm. The sues comprised !4 5° , ° , Egyptian at 5Rd. to 9d., 'd - 00 Surat at aid. to "V.) 100 S ea Isl a nd at 111,1. to is. 7d., and the renaainder American. Railway Shares were firm. 4-11 increased business has been transacted in °le nial prod uce th i s week. Of sugar large quan tities have been offered publicly, and a great deal e been t a k en in. Manilla has declined Gd. per j : t. Coffee h as ruled firm and for tea there has 11 a bett er , 1 ° demand from the trade. Russian Plee h ave improved i n consequence o f th e an 1111cenient that th e Bl ac k S ea por t s are t o b e blockaded after the Ist of next month. Cotton has th ee n rath er firmer. Rice has been dull, owing to ( i c e dec line in grain. A large business has been T i le in ir on at higher prices. 1 ,12 1 ,e Position. of the iron trad e i n F rance i s some -I)°' Peculiar, and the effort of the Emperor to highg about a more liberal system of trading is ca liti J co mmendable, seeing the ne cess ity f or grea t to ' °i t in these matters, and for the protection It - e ? c d for so many years. The whole matter is by , e xplain e d i n the following remarks, condensed Jou rnal Jere D eporar ebat y from an article published in the ' s t, s 11 tr f, o el „°, ( lays since an occurrence t oo k p l ace w hi c h s h ows veet o ,' sdle de cree of Nov. 3, 1853, for the reduction of the 4141 de on iron was necessary for the public interest, *ere tocoerate in its teneur, and h ow entirely without basis I ° s ei t r, S tePs which have been taken to demand the re tht°, ° ,t the duty. The promises made by the ironmasters krgi i tl,"ay companies were not fulfilled, although they ,aeth e i,n_lre been almost punctually. These engagements `°ete - g - aePt, the railways were unable, for want of rails, itiffatjlete their lines, and the public interest was in Souther is was the positi on o f b o th th e N orthern ,7,stittiolrn Railways. The Govern men t th en d e t erm i ned 'Nec ad 'sa some companies to import foreign rails at Lco a nd variabl e d u ti es , accor di ng to the situat ion o f it tblih ill „ ri Panies. The basis on w hi c h the duty has been ; 4 , e l Was this :—The duty to be such that foreign e - 4.Fr a w bk a in France, should cost exactly the same as those French Make according to the bargains then existing th e the railway companies and the ironmasters. kiy a ,2 duties fixed conformably to this rule have not in Ilett;,;' exceeded 74 frs. the 1,000 kilos. (equal to 60s. dtte,„7, Whilst the lowest have been 60 frs. Therefore, p at e from 60 to 74 frs. at most would be amply suffi llasaktit" guarantee to the French ironmasters in their „ 4 ( l tl l , l3 °§ition not only the maintenance of their make tkia,. - ,,, ta ,°noPoly of their home market, but even very 41 1N a - ,`l'a en._ the bargains unfulfilled with the railway .14 0 ,7; but the decree of Nov., 1853, fixed the duties eNetelt 13 2frs. until Ist of Jan., 1835, and at 110frs. 10. 4 t I lat date, the reduction now being almost one-half. e il :e7, ie ,nee ' Nvithreeard to the Northern and Southern tr e tt shows' that the decree, instead of sacri aTh for t e 4- nuniast s offers them the most complete seen ith,4l.ta,tariff :iro, established . by this decree, was Ole, importation . of foreige iron before the Ist Oty a' ° O5 , was impossible, and even after that date d h t44 °4 _ . ntful. It is necessary, however, to bear in f e e lspe,29 , e of . the first requirements of France for the t ic { ki tt i` c T of its industry is cheap iron, whether it . be . tb e k 4. 11 ;_". 1 ral purposes, for manufactures, or naviga. hi pike of iron is an obstacle to the agricul- Ohe,ennfacturing, and commercial interests. It may ttZtaZil that th e i ncreased rates of duty was annano he legislati on of the French monarchy. Under regiete, iron in all conditions, forged, cast, and § 6 11,47 Paid more than very moderate duties, and e l it % .e,epublic and the first Empire it was the same; th e ss ll ;i . n bars under Napoleon I. was 44 frs.. The rise d Croy e ,1 58 en iron was one of the most unwise steps of •''teentof the restoration, and the law which t4e"6l3lllti andyetwhen this Iv a , 3 dated December, 1814 ; Oi l ° , 4 44°1 , 080d, on the 20th August of the same ear, G o ; I llbe r o e f t of Finance, in presenting the Bill to t the t o 4°1'14414 Deputies, took great care to statethathe k o „ e jnsi e i hoped .to be able . in the next session se l Vse 'e successive reduction." But how as this 44 5c. 5 f e n reearded The law of 1814 fixed the duty .4;0P144e11d November, 1853, it was 206 frs. The it the 1 11 1 the duties to the level of those adopted eatrel Iticitta'Llneire would not overthrow the metal- Voeillaue e „.'tr3r of the French, and put France in dep th tutla,,,geign countries for its stock of iron, but toa nd V to create vast establishments in the if coast o ta In Aveyron alone there is enough coal Pagli a r t net:; 4 l •°_ supply 103 blast furnacers, which, nee pi - E i ° k nes, wcb .,q the dimensions of some of the kek e L c' , is at 'Lid be sufficient to make the whole of the er eoG only- t h e resent consumed. France would thou / re lA c i e the a quantity at present made, but evr ea tw en ice , ta atlip. bet a t at "t; and, in justification of his aroaeued lent ta illio a li " ten s e Nellt. 15 years ago England prod ce trie a . 3 . bile the present production exceed s s three eirh„reTn!l that the make of iron pr . ogresse _th lod e The Dialps article of general utility is at a low Federapl o ? a nd Putting in work of iron offers almost stilt"he e at t. the working classes of the trade, 15 t th e Una* th ee fo s ot %it s of w ,„_ _ 1' all other branches . of ind t u a s t t e ry o . f ke y ard t ! ,, f'o if those of peace this a that wlfeht. lee k] d al . % 7. The national work, new then, 4 41 0 ' and wh ich . 1 , ic we take the liberty to recom adi lili o : f the FrevniChbe i but to return to the secular tsraa i n t i o s t t zt i o e n j; e Cheap pros p i e r r o it a y 411- b l eia - e lkilt l°aL as neceass'amrlead of reuses as chew y bread. s 11. ° Iluer this head, yesterday, extracts were given A 14 the report which the committee of Anglo at 4t a ll Bondholders presented . to the meeting, t o that hour the proceedings had only just il lt ‘get leed, and we were unable to communicate 14 - 7, 1 11 t viz., that the report was n o t a d o pt e d, Ne 4 at the chairmaniof the comm itt ee M r. NNThornton—declared the meeting adjourned t,,kpie it entered upon extraneous matters. The ,Tee l , 44 tion of this is exceedingly simple. The ebt" 4l : l Government reduced the interest on its aAli , rut two years since, and in thi s th e E ng li s h hrt, generally acquiesced, being totally un at hete the time that arrangements had . been Zi:‘,l,iYoduce into the London and Pa t ri d s rnnatro rli g `Z, Ta oo_ol. of Home Debt couver t e rau i sac_ 4 4 -. 401 Os, Such an unprecedented I ' ? 1 °l ulling in fact, to the taking of alvn_ bleit loan d of course had an immediate and (la ma 1)0"%h , - gting result for the property of the for I lwed re9rters, and whatever arguments may kry li ty ) e.,lther as to the expediency or the ?, compromise, it is impossible for a re t Person to avoid coming Ito one c irell° ari o 'arnely, that if Foreign Governments tbot b ,"l, l4) th e Red to create debt ad /ibitum, and to tervti,_`' e 1 bends in the European market as thocan had been contracted in the ordi loa,,-"Wliojll') there is an end of all security to Th a 4v c subscribed to open and legitimate Ilai l ;,,Year s - Probable exhaustion of the guano, after froth" Probable it most important that an un t, 0, • . 14. 0 ,„'_bte d a. "' sinking fund shall be created, since, %P e ; et oft ils guano ceases, there is but a poor thented ultp Cle, interest being paid. The committee . ivit-4r. Thornton have appreciated this .m tie '11(.1 there is not the slightest doubt that, Nies. ° 0 1)t ai kt G ov , PPurt of the bondholders and of the . 4 ce erc oaent they would have succeeded in it 4el rity , % I tch b e tt er terms, and certainly ampler I ng Willm an the meeting y e st er d a y ex p re ssed t he "as a g t o, accept. Whether that meet- f the, real I ,."'ir exponent of the opinion o No b ' 4 Ve at 14°1ders, who, whatever may be fet i) ; is a , ille ot, seldom attend on these occa- Nef r , t ° action tn matt er for grave doubt, and probably for NO . to appoint Ut certainly it appears a suicidal - ‘leR eaa a ee epl a new committee having upon it For ], J interested in the home debt, andto he re 1 ;; ( . 1:, t hanks to the Peruvian Government et•A"fitie aat -l ic its utmost to injure the holders of e debt ! If the home debt were brought ve: to e „r(lr °t her foreign debt, and sold as such, AtePreb, L a teful the proceediu , s, the committee kt b",_IY not have felt itself called upon to gel s e.ottiLt te cognising a just principle, they are, 4 1 3 wi at Ise th at be expected to apply to the Stook eat o4 „L. the home bonds be quoted, and this per ks, 'W e ' ll °Y have resolutely determined not to fai r e etit, w w ; 1 1 not say that lower terms than ten ay e glin,r 4 „ ° , l-14 1 not have been accepted, with a fro th is "Lee that such would be carried out ; be e tll 4 th e gp o aran tee, with the gentle pressure now, ,ecur ed. r e'gn Office, no doubt could have o,aw ev . The Position of the bondholders okrZglitt ee hr) is evidently complicated. The old 1 , 4;,Y With qae not been legally dissolved, and will kit not r e 1 a number of bona fide holders who t r tee, 0 Presented at themeeting. The new Com- Nitellei4tted i v il it , t he, other hand, are very likely to be Feina the °Y the Peruvian Envoy, because it ;lb 'uterest of his Government to recognise ak4,..b,are:let _thy en comes the question, Will the Stock i 4 7!le L l ~._Bultify its former acts and annul its ei r w ile ti jute . , that a home debt shall not be dealt B,,,llattanc'elierted into sterling bonds, under such eon.4e,u as those which distinguish the pre 1414Tnellt4 4 - 11 , Parties interested in the loans of t or 41 1 a ge e the • Spanish American Governments fops '8 to immense importance of this matter, ,tru: 4oo , any future appeal to the British eobaiprilGie;oT: aid under similar circumstances, ever 6 erati oo Tic be once conceded that for a c re, ,Y o lio such bonds may be introduced here, fo;nthuesttifeel ,satisfied. that our ForeiguS.e ,teit g deaf me being will be fully justified in it beear. Thus for the present the affair 01°,i_ln,the hands of the bondholders ; and k4',l peee isa rs a tY their business rather than ours, it co tnro 3 , do more than explain the position i tl4 qe kbt, q .nlcate what may occur. As to the n 01 7 ,4 is the buyers who have taken it at or ree ,t ? and whether hereafter it be cut finaurgTed depends as much upon political 411 1 1 ( : ° dire e t o ' e r i s events. to that ° f the Sciude Railway Company eee t ti arant ee atibneinEiast India Company have agreed qoubt nth© ea . t mum rate of interest of 5 per °lice. Partie s as was anticipated ; and no Ther e is 4 have the option of paying up at he "Y market for Public Securi- .01 ties, and the supply of money stock increases. This is due not alone to the decline at Paris and the doubts thrown upon the prospects of peace, but likewise to the impression that the amount of bullion in the Bank of England, according to tho return in this evening's Gazcit, will be again smaller. The reported defeat of a Turkish detach ment in the Danubian principalities has an effect also upon a market previously drooping, and it is not the interest of our great capitalists to give any support until they have obtained their allotments in the French loan. Consols have been 911 to 91i for transfer, and 91i to 92 for account, they are now 914 The New 3 per Cents. have realised 911 to 921. Exchequer Bills bring 4s. to 7s. prem. Bank Stock is firm at 2101. In the Foreign Market Peruvian Bonds have been firm at 71. The parties advocating an imme diate compromise, regardless of adequate security for its being carried out, will doubtless prove suc cessful in one point—viz., the temporary enhance ment of the market values, and a further rise is not, therefore, improbable. Spanish Threes have been done at 38. The Turkish Bonds have realised 751 to 76. Russian Five per Cents. have been done as high as par. Equador are steady at 4. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5, to 6; Mexi can, 211 to 21g ; Peruvian, 70 to 72 ; Ditto 3 per Cents., 50 to 52 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 41 to 43 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 100 to 102 ; Ditto 41 per Cents., 89 to 91 ; Spanish New Deferred, 18 to 19; Ditto 3 per Cents., 37/ to 381 ; Ditto Certifi cates, 5 to 51 ; Ditto Passive, 4i to 41. There is a heavy market for Railway Shares, and the general decline in prices is to 1 per cent. The lines most dealt in are Great Western, Lan cashire and Yorkshire, South-Western, and Mid land. The French shares are without much alter ation. The aggregate dealings in Mines, Banks, and Land Shares are limited. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE OVIJO, From the Oficial List. ) Business done Bank Stock 210:4 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 914 1 Now 3 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 • 43 India Bonds, £lOOO .......... Ditto, under £lOOO l4 11 Console for Account, Bth February Exchequer Bills, lid. klOOO Small 4 7 £5OO Exchequer Bonds 1858, 31 per Cent. Ditto 1859, ~ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent lOO New Bmz''ianßends, 1829 & 39, 5 per Cent. 91 Equador Bonds Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cent. 7l rortuguese Bones, 5 per Cent., Con. 1811 Ditto 4 per Cent fzussian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. St lOO Russian Bonds, 41 per Cent B9l d Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 3B Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent Turkish Scrip, paid up in full Ditto for the Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent. 12 GuP — Ditto 4 Der Cene. Certificates..... HALP-PAST TWO. Consols Ditto, February Accvint 912 'IARKET N t4 7 8--(T 111,5 DA Y. CORN EXCRANGE. The present week's arrivals of English wheat, coastwise and by land carriage, have been but moderate, and the show of samples, to-day, was small. The demand, how ever, for all kinds was in a very i nac ti ve s t a t e, an d th e quotations were almost nominal. Foreign wheat—the show of which was but moderate—sold heavily, but w e have no actual decline to notice in the currencies. Float ing cargoes commanded very little attention. The show of barley was not extensive • yet the trans actions in that article were trifling, at barely Monday's fall. Tbere was very little doing in malt, the prices of which were again lower. The inquiry for oats was dull, and the quotations were barely supported. Beans, peas, and flour were very dull, ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. English .. Irish .. .. Foreign .. Wheat. i Barley. 1,210 3,540 3,240 , Malt. Oats. Flour. 2,530 1,390 2 720 1,320 1 3,950 1200 sks. 850 brls. SMITHFIELD. To-day's market was well supplied with beasts. For all breeds we had a very inactive demand, at barely Mon day's decliae in the quotations. The numbers of sheep were fery moderate, yet the sale for them was dull, at unaltered currencies. Calves— the supply of which was small—moved off slowly, at barely late rates. in pigs very little was doing, on former terms. Milch cows were very dull, at from 141. to 191. each, including their small calf. Per Sibs to sink the offais. s. d. s. d.) a. d. s d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 2to 3 41PrimeSonthdown 410 5 0 i Second qua li ty.... 3 63 10 Large ergo. calves 44 5 0 Prime large amen 4 0 4 4 Prime small d 0... 5 2 5 6 Prime ScoLs, &c. 4 6 4 8 Large hogs 3 0 310 Infer:or SbCO,3 ...3 4 , 3 6 Small porkors 4 0 4 4 %cord. qualiLv ...3 8 4 2 Smalingcalves ..20 0 28 0 Prime crse•-wlled.4 4 4 SlQuarter old pigs 20 A 26 0 TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLE'. Beasts .....• .... ...... .• 1,1101 Sheep .......... • .. • . .• .. 3,300 1 Calyas .......... ••.•• • .. 210 Pigs .......... ——..•• .• 310 Beasts . 2GO Sheep 770 Calves... •• .• •• .••• .• Pigs•••• • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Each kind of meat met a dull sale, as follows : Per 81bs by the cameo. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 3 0 3 2 Do., middling 3 4 3 6 Do., primo large 3 8 3 10 Do., do. small 4 0 4 4 Pork, large 3 0 4 0 . s. d. s. d. Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 6 Do., middlinn , 3 8 310 Do., prime 4 0 4 4 Veal 4 0 5 0 Pork, small 4 2 4 4 BOROUGH HOP. Thera is rather more business doing in our market, and in some instances prices havo an upward tendency. This week's imports are 76 bales from Antwerp, 18 from Rot terdam, and 193 from Hamburg. New Mid and East Kent pockets, 141 03 to 211 Os ; Weald of Kent ditto, 141 Os to 16/ Os ; Sussex ditto, 14/ lOs to 151 10s per cwt. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—Thero have been moderate dealings in West India at firm rates. Barlsadoes at auction sold at 31e to 31s for low to mid yellow, at 31s 61 to 37s for good mid to good, and 37s Gd for fine. Grenada realised 29s to 30s for brown, crystalised Demerara 32s to 40s Gd for low to fine, and Jamaica 29s to 323 Gd per cwt. Madras went at high prices early in the week, viz., at 24s Gd to 30s for brown, 303 61 to 35s 6d for yellow, and at 36s to 37s Gil for fine, but mid and good native brown has since been taken in at 26s to 263 61 per cwt, the offers being 3d per cwt lower. Ma dras good and fine grocery brought 37s to 395, but native receded to 23s Gd to 26s Gd for brown. Penang was taken freely at 26s Gd to 29s for brown, and at 35s to 361 for low white. Foreign—Manilla has been Gd per cwt. cheaper. Clayed sold at 28s 6d to 29s 61, but sound was taken in at 293 Gil to 30a 6d for mid and good current clayad. Mid and good bright grocery was taken in at 33 s 61 to 36s Gd • but low soft to fine grocery sold at 31s Gd to 5Ss. Porto Rico brought 32s to 39s for low to very fine bright grocery. Refined brown lumps have been 42s Gd per cwt. COFFEE,—The market has ruled quiet. Plantation Ceylon has realised 55s to 59s Gd for low mid mixed to good mid, 55s Gil to 60s Gd for low mid to good mid colory, 79s to 81s for good marks, 50s to 54s for good to f fine ord, 35s 61 to 52s for triage, 40s to 54s for triage and ord, and 51s to 66s Gd for peaberry. Native Ceylon has brought 45s 61 to 45s 9d for common to good ord. Costa Rica sold at 50s to 55a for good to fine ord. RlCE.—Benza,lhas been heavy, and is lower ; good mid sold at lls to 14s 6d ; ord, heated, lls. Carolina was taken in at 28s to 35s for mid to fine American dressed. SPlCES.—Pimento has been steady, mid and good mid at 545. Cassia Vera has been .cheaper, but Cassia Lignea at full rates. Malabar pepper has been Sd cheaper. Mace has been at full rates, viz., is lid Or lb, for slightly mouldy. Nutmegs have ruled steady, and cinnamon realised is 2d for seconds, and is to is id for thirds. TEA.—The market is firm, at 10d per lb for the useful sorts, and th• trade buy steadily. COCHINEAL.--This article has been steady. Honduras silvers went at 3s 2d to 3s 10d, and black ord to fair at 3s 7d to 4s 3d per lb. SALTPETRE.—Very little has been done. Bengal was taken in at 25s Gd to 263 for 7i to 71 per cent., at 25s for 8i per cent., and at 23s for ill to 13,i per cent, refraction. TALLOW. - The market has reacted, P.Y.C. being now 59s to 59s Gd per cwt. on the spot. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Jan. 12.—Wind this day at Noon, E. ; light easterly airs, and dull, hazy weather. RAMSGATE, Jan. 11.—Wind, E. Sailed—Emily, for Mogadore ; Carl Johanna, La Guayra. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 11.—Wind, E. Sailed—Sultana, for Sydney, N.S.W. ; Gipsy Queen, Melbourne. FALMOUTH, Jan. 11.—Wind, E. Arrived—Hermdal, from Rio Janeiro. Sailed—Token, for Cape Coast Castle ; Charlotte, Tampico ; Amicitia, Jamaica ; Waterwitch, Mogadore. fonTsmounc, Jan. 11.—Wind, E. to E.N.E. Sailed— Chapmans, for Cannanare ; Salns, West Indies; Marley Hill (s s), Crimea ; H.M.S. Dragon, Eastward. HULL, Jan. 11.—Wind, W. Sailed—Harriet Wade, for Adelaide, S.A. TORBAY, Jan. 10. —Wind, E. Sailed—Reliance, for the South Seas ; Rosenoath, California ; Thos. Snook, Bahia. Off Port—Helena and Olga, from Porto Cabello, for Ham burgh ; Anna Margaretha, Batavia, for Anisterdam. NEWPORT, Jan. 1 1.—Arrived—The Abeona, from St. Thomas. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 1 0.—Wind, calm. Arrived—Esk, from Manilla. Sailed—Williams (s), for Sydney. WATERFORD, Jan, 1 0.—Wind, W. Arrived—Thistle, from Quebec. (BY SUBIIIIIINE `ND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday, 9.51 a.m. Wind, W. tide, two hours' ebb ; hazy. Arrived, Jan. 11: Tradesman, from Marseilles. Arrived, Jan. 12—City of Hamburgh (s), from Ham burgh ; Ellen, Gijon; Queely Shiel, St. Michael's; Tene riffo, Patras. Sailed—John Philips, for New Zealand. DEAL, Friday, 9.22 a.m, Wind. N. ; very light—thick fog. NO arrivals. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 12, 1855. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) --, t ›- RAILWAYS. Ram.riirs. !Closing Prices yesterdv Byeinexi &one this day. Aber Been. Nottng. Bost and Eastu. Junet... ?lelfast & Ballymena. ginning. \Volverh & Stour Valley Birkeulid. Lanesit Cheshire Juliet Do. Chuh. Birk.„ £5O and 1 , .;25 Cons.' 'Do., £20... .11.371;1.1 &Tyr swigina . .225 (issd. at £45; Bristol and Exe Caledonian Carmarthen and Car digan Ch ester a frol.yheati Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, Jt Pass Cornwall Crieff J unet' on Dublin&BelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Do. New East Anlian. Eastern bounties Eastern 'Union, Stock Do., B. Stock iDo., Nev A East Lancashire Edirbur,gb & Glasgov, &limb. and Peebles... Edin. Pith & Dunde, Forth & Clyde June. 'Glasgow & S. Western Grea No - : thern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Nth. &West.(lre ; great Wes ,ern Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua.. Stk Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster & Carlisl^ Do., Thirds Do. Ne 9 Thirds Lancasb oiksh Do., Fi fLlis Dl., Wst. R:dingUn LivCrsby.S.:SonthpL London & Blackwal Lond.BriF,P , 3 t & S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westu • Do. Fifths Do.l 5b.,1 4- &13... , Do. Eighths London and S. `Vesta Do., £3O Do., £4O rmeln drry& Coleraine, f,ndndrry. & Ennisk Vanch & Lineh , Do., ran. & Lin. tin Midland )o. Birmn g. & Derk 'Maid . C 7, Wes Do, Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle. Newinkt.BrtryExteu. Nwp LA berg. & Eirfd Nfewry & EnniskilleD Newry Warrennoiui and Rostrevor iorfolk .. . 4orthn.CortuL'es Ur North 8ri',10... North Devon., No. 1 Do., No. 2 )0., i .E Deer red Do., 6 B Guarantee, V. Eastern—Berwiel Do. do. ExLeus , ou )o.eo. C.N. El Parch Do. Leeds Do. York NiorLh Lone ou Do. Ne v $lO :..&,S.Wstra.,TlP,Tap steao, and City Szaa"ordshiro., N - orth Western .., & S. Westrn. June, Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester........ Ox 'ord, Worcester, !, Wolverhampton ?ortsmouth ,cottish Central„ IScottishMidlano.. threwsby. Jt BereAl. -Shropshire Un'on Do. A B, paid up at per co:i , South Devou South Eastern South Wales .. Vrksh. Ss Riv. Du] Do 3tainos,\Vo l 7. &Wo'. tockton Darliu , tockton Ea Hartlepl Taff Vale Do. 41.0 shares Jo. Pre., No. 1 Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale o? Neath Wateild. & Kilkenny Wate2rorcl&Liraeriel. West Cornwall. 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Co. N. B. Australasian... Nrtb.olEuropeSteam Peel Rr. Ld. & Mina Peninsular& Oriental Do. Portlad Iron Co' Royal Mail Steam ... Scot. Austral. Invest. South Austral.Lan4 übmar. Telegraph.; Do. Registered........ VA n bi,,n),Oß L tr:,• 1 f 35 --36 ••• - ••• ii : 2ia Ithi psa 11061 - 1071 L 2l - 3 fi ..• • i - 1 ii = ii ti 2 - s*, 61. - f 63 1/ - 2 - 3 'l - - 1 1 - 12 x a MORE COMFORTS. - The Royal Yacht squadron schooner Fairy arrived at Malta, on (3hristmas-day, after a fine run of 13 days 8 hours, On the 26th she took on oranges, lemonis, and onions, and then proceeded with a fair wind f or 13 a l a kl ava . board a quantity of Two SIDES TO A STOET.—We have: just bean favoured with the sight of two letters from the Crimea, dated Christmas-day, one from a sergeant i n the 42d. He feels no want of clothing or provisions. The other is from a private in the Royal Marines, who says :—" Tell my mother that I have spent a comfortable Christmas on shore. We are all in hopes of having our New Year's dinner in barracks in Sebastopol, as it is getting very cold up here. Tell my mother that I am well, and quite comfortable ashore, along with the soldiers of all descriptions. Dear Brother, we hncl a beautiful sight last Tuesday ; there was a large powder magazine, be longing to the Russians, which blew up a large fort, and about 200 or 300 Russians with it. What a sight it was to see pieces of gun-carriages, besides soldiers flying up in the air. Our men gav e th ree c h eers , which the Russianns did not like." • SCOTTISH ENTERTAINMENT.—Last evening Mr. A. Fairbairn and the Misses Bennett gave an entertainment of a very attractive nature, at the Horns Assembly Rooms, Kennington. It consisted of Scottish anecdotes very humourosly related, and Scottish music very beautifully sung. The entertainmen t was divided into two parts, the first of which comp r i se d many we ll k nown and favourite compositions, and the manner in which Mr. Fairbairn gave us" Corn Ri gs are B onn i e " was capital, and richly merited the applause it received. Miss M. A. Bennett also gave us " A Highland Lad my Love was Born" to such perfecttion that it was unanimously re-demanded. She com plied with the en core, but substituted another old favourite, "Gin a body Kiss a Body," and it was only from a consideration of the length of the programme that this song did not share the fate of the preceding one. The feaftro of the part, however, was the celebrated duet "Caller Herrin'," and the imitation of the cry of the Newhaven fishwife, by Miss E. Bennett, was excellent. Though we have not heard the old old cry for a long time, it came fami liar to us as household words. The second part was as well selected as the first, and was received with as great enthusiasm. A new song composed by Mr. Fair bairn, entitled " The Old Saucy British Flag," was sung by him, and created quite a furore. We have not the slightest doubt that it will become a " first favourite." To all these who have been delighted by the warblings of poor Wilson—and who has not—we say go and h ear Mr. Fairbairn ;he is his legit imate successor. • • lEONMASTERS' QUARTERLY MEETINGS —BIRMINGHAM, Thursday.—The ironmasters meeting yesterday was fully attended. The hall and committee-rooms were during the day crowded. Such houses as Barrows and Hall (the producers of what is called marked iron) were understood to be firm, but, taken generally, the price of iron was reduced 405. per ton. Bars are therefore at about 9/. The concluding meeting will be held at Dud ley on Saturday; but there is no reliance to b e pl ace d upon prices fixed at quarterly meetings ; th e y ar e eventually settled by ne cessity. A con s id era bl e deman d for manufactured iron exists, but the North American call, which used to be very considerable, is restricted and uncertain. So soon as the American trade improved, our exports across the Atlantic may be expected to be better in proportion. THE PRICE OF FOOD AT SERASTOPOL.—We read in a letter from a sub-officer of the French Engineers before Sebastopol :—" I will give you an idea of the manner in which we live. If we wish to procure anything be yond the ordinary rations, we must pay 2f. a litre. for wine, 70c, the kilogramme for haricots, 90c. the kilo. Va. potatoes, 4f, a kilo. for sugar, lf. for a wax candle. As for other things, they are beyond reason. As to our kitchen, it is a kind of but built with dry stones and covered with our camp sacks. It is so low that we can scarcely stand upright in it, and it is here that we have all our recreations and our gossip. The rain comes through the roof as through a sieve, and in the morn ing the place is like a swamp. Fortunately, we eat well, are young and in good health, and have bomb proof patience." AT TEMPTED ASSASSINATION. — An attempt was made a few evenings since to assassinate Mr. Thomas Goold, while returning to the residence of his brother, Mr. Wil ,am Goold, of Rockfort. He was fired at while passing a grove, and the asstssin was so close to him hat A pert= Of the wadding struck hiru in the face. LIT BRATUBB. The Englishwoman, iii Russia. By a Lady. Murray._ The authoress of this work having resided in Russia for ten years is evidently qualified to g i ve a description of the people. She remark s that the generality of travellers take the steamer to St. Pe tersburg, and from thence proceed to Moscow, an d thou return home, having seen only the surface of things and having seen, the writer asserts, all that is civilised in the empire. ghe takes a most un favourable view of Russian progress and civilisa tion, though undoubtedly her statements are cor rect. The log-huts of the peasants, we are told, are very little better than the wigwams of the Red Indians. The inhabitants live much in the same manner as they did centuries before the reign of Peter the Great, and have not made " a single for ward step in the march of intellect." It would, indeed, be wonderful if they did make progress under such a despotism. While the authoress was staying at Archangel a deaf and dumb gentleman paid the town a visit ; he was furnished with letters of introduction, and was well received by the society of the place. He was able to read many languages, and his agreeable manners and mis fortune made him a general favourite. Two or three times the writer was struck with an expression of intelligence in his face, when a conversation was going on behind his back. Some time after she heard the truth. He was a government spy I A general officer visited another province in which she was staying. His rank gave him access to the best houses, and he was sure to be met with at any grand entertain meitt. He also was a spy. This system of living under a perpetual espionage, under which a casual expression is often severely punished, gives a con straint and hypocrisy to their manners, besides limiting the conversation of people of sense to scan dal of their neighbours and remarks on dress. These, it appears, are tie favourite topics in high life, for no one can tell what subject of more gene ral interest may not give offence. Some of their regulations are most absurd, and load to serious consequences. One is that if a man should see an other lying murdered on the ground, and should give information to the authorities, he will be him self retained till some trace of the assassin is found. Another still more ridiculous, is that everything must be done by the agency of the police. If a man falls through the ice he must be left in the water till the police arrive, and the same in any other accident. A servant one day hurls , him self ; one of his companions entered and saw him strugglin g , but could not cut th e cord. He ran to fetch the authorities who, by the time they arrived, found a corpse. The police, however, do not bear a very good cha racter. Two anecdotes are related of murders committed by them ; in one instance for the sake of the victim's dress, and the other case, i which was that of a poor servant girl sent on an errand, for the sake of the silver rouble with which she was entrusted. The poor serfs are cruelly ill used. Ladies of high rank and polished manners think nothing of boxing their servants' ears for a very trifling error. On one occasion the authoress was going to accompany a Polish lady to the opera, and while waiting for her in an adjoining room she heard an altercation going on between mistress and maid, which finished with a loud crash. Soon the lady made her appearance with a smiling coun tenance, but it subsequently appeare d t h at, hav i ng scolded her maid and being rudely answered, she had knocked her down with a chair with so much violence that two of her front teeth were broken. The indignation of the Russians was very great at the conduct of the Western Powers ; the English they regard with especial hatred. The authoress found the manners of her most intimate friends change perceptibly after the declaration of war. The exaggeration and misrepresentations of the Russian reports are almost incredible. The writer was at St. Petersburg at the time, and read the proclamation of the Emperor announcing the astounding fact that the Allied Fleets, mounting 350 cannon, bad fired for twelve hours on the town, killing only four men, and that the people were so well behaved they did not let the tremendous can nonading interrupt their devotions. Added to which they are told that the fleet was at too great a distance to be within range of the battery guns ; that the English ships retired with great damage, though how this was, when the balls could not reach them, he does not say. Among the many volumes of Russian travels, and works of description recently published, few have equalled the present in the interest and variety of the details, which, while rendering full justice to the good qualities which develope them solves under such unfavourable auspices, affords a full view of the blighting and degrading effent of such a government. The writer's long intimacy with Russians, and the opportunity she had, in a ten years' sojourn in the country, to observe the different grades of society and their customs and progress, enable her to invest her work with' an air of reality, and her most extraordinary anecdotes with an appearance of truth. The thorough insight which it gives - into Russian domestic life renders it as valuable as a work of information, as the amount and variety of anecdotes and incidents makes it in a high degree interesting and enter taining. Anti-slavery Recollections. By Sir George Stephen. Hatchard. These recollections are written in a series of letters addressed to Mrs. Beecher Stowe, at her re quest. The author does not profess to offer a his tory of negro emancipation, but merely to afford a brief account of the religious principle on which the agitation was conducted, and the rapid success of that agitation, with a few sketches of the prin cipal agents in the work. It has been the author's object to avoid an offensive tone, and to render justice to the memory of many distinguished abo litionists, and to some of the survivors whose feel ings had been hurt by the misappropriation of anti-slavery credit. There are seventeen letters, giving a concise account of the management of the affairs, and the little volume is dedicated to Lord Brougham. Studies from Nature. By Dr. Hermann Massins. Translated by C. Boiler. Chapman and Hall. This pleasing and instructive volume will be sure to chasm all lovers of Nature, although the circle of its descriptions is restricted to Germany. The forest trees of Northern Germany are fully described in the first part. In the second the characteristics of birds are delineated. The frog and other creatures subsequently appear. The most curious and interesting details are given of all their peculiarities. The author is evidently an accom plished scholar as well as an experienced na turalist. There are numerous quotations from the classic authors and authorities of various lan guages. The notes at the end of the volume are, as the translator justly observes, not the least in teresting part of the book. " They are full of the quaintest information—old customs, long-forgotten rhymes, droll stories, classical allusions ; but all is given so pleasantly that orudito learning seems rather to be a mere wile and a pastime than asso ciated, as we are accustomed to fancy, with dry stady and grave pedantic mien. Never did schoolmau, never surely did German professor, read to us texts from mouldy volumes and ancient chronicles with so cheery a voice." The volume is ornamented with woodcuts, and will form a most elegant and attractive gift-book for the present season. Talpa ; or, The Chronicles of a Clay Farm. By diancios Wren Hoskyns. Lovell Reeve. This is a third and cheaper edition of this well known and successful little work, whose object is best explained by its motto " Ridentem dicere verism." Written in a lively and interesting man ner, it contains muchinformation on agricultural points, such as the best methods of draining, fenc ing, the application of lime to the soil, (h. It is dedicated to the readers and contributors of the Gardener's Chronicle and Agricultural Gazette, " in the lope and belief that agricultural thought may be candid, and even speculative, yet hus bandry not the less practical." The different ex periments and improvements tried by the author will prove both useful and interesting to those similarly occupied. FREEMASONS' GIRLS SCHOOL.--The quarterly meet ing of the governors of this school was held at the school-house, Wandsworth-common, yesterday ; Mr. Barnes in the chair. The minutes of the various sub committees having been submitted to the meeting and received, a proposition was brought forward for putting the school under the supervision of the Government in spectors ; but the motion was rejected, upon the ground that the Freemasons bad always, and ought always to keep their charities distinct from all extraneous inter ference. Eight vacancies will occur in the school in April, to fill which there are eight candidates ; but it is to be feared that one cannot be admitted on account of her health. The court stands adjourned until the 15th March, to consider certain alterati ons i n th e by e -l aws. The Government notification that the Russian ports in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff are intended to be blockaded on the Ist of February next has a singular ap pearance, after the announcement made in the House of Lords on the 22d December that the strictest orders for a blockade had been sent out two months previously, and that no doubt was entertained of its having been effi ciently carried out. Notwithstanding all the variable statements hitherto made, some reliance is entertained that this new order is really to be enforced ; and the , markets for Russian produce yesterday were rather 1 firmer, although they are still affected by the possi- I bility of peace. • RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LO ;DON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST. The progressive increase of traffic on this railway during the last few years has produced a corresponding increa: e in the exteneive works at the Brighton termi nus. Several new shops have been built ; and there is still further call for an extenriou of the works, which will be carried out as soon as sufficient space can be procured. In 1547 the company were paying about 7001. per week for wages ; now they are paying more than double that amount, the number of workmen exceeding 1,00. All the carriages and the locomotive engines are manufactured in Brighton ; and we are assured by p ersons competent to form an opinion, that the Brighton works can compete with any engine manufactory in England or any other country. Sonic of the best workmen hi England are employed there. Dur ing the past year 10 new engines have been built, and it is expected that the number to be finished this year will far exceed that of last year. In addition to the 10 new engines, the company have increased their stock by add ing two of the largest engines in England on any narrow gauge, namely, the Europa and the Oreste s , which were manufactured by Messrs. Sharp and Company, a n d are worked principally in the conveyance of coals and chalk. Some hundreds of tons of chalk have been removed from the hill near the cutting, for the purpose of obtaining more space, and a vast quantity continues to be conveyed to the various statio ns , th e company h aving signified to the agriculturists that they may have as much as they please at a mere nominal charge. The company have a very large wharf at Deptford ; and they are about to fill up the Deptford Viaduct with chalk from the Brigh ton cutting. Latterly there has been a great improvement in the second class carriages, cushioned seats and backs being introduced, and they are also much more commodious than the old pent-up second class carriages, which latter we hope to see shortly brought entirely into disuse. They are fast disappearing from the line, and the second class carriages will in future have an air of comfort about them that they bad not till lately possessed. It is the intention of the company to cover the whole of the third class carriages. Even in the first class carriages a con siderable improvement has been shown by the space between the seats. In connection with the Brighton Railway Com pany steam packets run between Newhaven and Dieppe. From London to Paris this is much the shortest route ; and a great number of persons avail themselves of the time saved on this line. The only drawback to a much more extended amount of traffic is the sea voyage, to which many travellers have an aversion. But in tolerably fine weather the water is crossed in about five or six hours by first class packets, and a more delighted aquatic trip it is hardly possible to conceive. From Dieppe to Paris, a railway is laid down the whole distance. Other packets in connection with the company run between Newhaven and the Channel Islands ; but during the dull winter months they are discontinued. That the railway has been, and is, of in calculable advantage to the town cannot be disputed ; and we trust that a good understanding will always be kept up between the inhabitants and the company, which must necessarily be of advantage to both, for the interest of the one is the interest of the other. It is matter for congratulation that no accident of any serious character has occurred during the past year through the negli gence of the company's servants. We believe it will be generally admitted that the Brighton line is in first-rate working order, and we trust it will ever continue so. There is one interesting feature connected with these railway works, and that is the library, which is supplied with above 2,000 volumes. In this establishment the men and apprentices have an opportunity of learning writing, arithmetic, and drawing ; each Saturday even ing a concert takes place for their recreation ; and, since the opening of this library, the entertainments afforded by the company, by means of an instrumental band and a stringed band, &c., have had the effect of weaning many a man from the low and more grovelling attractions of the beer-shop. The subscription is low, only ls. ld. per quarter. The Great Western Company, we believe, started the idea of forming a library for the workmen, and we un derstand that there are only a few stations where the example has been followed. The branch railway to East Grimstead is in a very for ward state, and is expected to be opened in March next. The Brighton Company have recently built a new screw steamer, to run between Newcastle and Deptford, and have given it the name of the Samuel Laing, in honour of their chairman. It had euly made three voy ages when the Government, desirous of obtaining all the screw steamers possible, have purchased it.— Brighton Gazette. DEATH OF LORD ROBERTSON. (From the Caledonian Mercury of Thursday.) - - We record with infinite sorrow the death of Lord Robertson, which took place yesterday about 11 o'clock a.m., at his house in Drummond-place. Yesterday morning he rose in his usual health, which, however, of late, has not been good—breakfasted as usual, and re ceived by post and read a letter from his son, the gallant Captain of her Majesty's Fourth Regiment of Foot, re cently mentioned in Lord Raglan's despatches, and pro moted fur distinguished services in the Crimea. Shortly before 11 o'clock, a friend who has also a son before Sebastopol, and who had also received a letter, called for the purpose of giving and receiving intelligence, willed' they were actually engaged in doing, when his lordship fell back in his chair, and instantaneously ex pired. His disease was supposed to be connected with the vessels of the heart. Lord Robertson was born in February, 1793, and bad consequently nearly completed his 62d year. He was the son of the late Mr. James Robertson, a mos t re spectable and hi g hly emp l oyed writer to thes net o this city. He became a member of the Faculty of Ad vocates in 1815—a Depute-Advocate in 1834—Dean of the Faculty of Advocates, in room of the present Lord Wood, in 1342—and was promoted to the bench on the retirement of the prosent Lord Meadowbank in 1843. This is a somewhat meagre record of the life of a man of genius, for such Lord Robertson,assurediy was ; and yet we fear that after the present generation has passed away, it is all or nearly all that will remain. By the present generation in Scotland there was no man more generally, perhaps so generally, known. For about a quarter of a century after he came to the bar, there were few Juries either in the Criminal or Civil Courts of Session—few members of the various successive Reverend Assemblies of the Church of Scotland, and few, indeed, of his fellow-citizens of LlM burgh,—who were not familiar with his manly eloquence, replete with sound sense, and relieved by never-failing sallies of irresistible glee. And there was, and there still is, a class of his admirers—we mean his personal friends, —now afflicted with profdund grief for his loss, to whom the memories of his intercourse will ever seem the sun niest in their calendar. But after all these shall have disappeared,—afterjuries shall have gone to judgment, --and reverend assemblies to one still more august, and the citizens of this city shall have become citizens of another,--and the mourning friends shall be mourned for in their turn,—there will be no memorial left on earth sufficiently characteristic of this remarkable man. The genius of Patrick Robertson lay in acute percep tion and instantaneous illustration. The false of no kind or species could ever be palmed upon him for the true, — no gilding could hide the tinsel, no tarnish could conceal the gold ; and while he was a merciless denunciator of pretence in all its moods and genders, be was at the same time a profound worshipper of excellence. Those who knew him well know his reverence for Shakspere, whose works he had almost committed to memory; while those who knew him neither well nor wisely, were prone to imagine that the broad grin or the bitter caricature were incompatible with the purest admiration of all that was truly great. The conclusions, almost intuitive, at which he arrived ; apparently without effort, he could com municate and express in conversation so felicitous, as almost to partake of the marvellous. None who ever heard him with the understanding ear can ever forget the charm, or expect ever to listen to its like again. This was genius, felt, acknowledged, and appreciated by those whose good fortune it was to be there ;—the genius of conversation,—evanescent indeed—leaving no written or substantial record—only a fleeting wake of applauding murmurs and approving memories ; but not the less akin in its universal application to that of the great Eng lish master who was ever uppermost in his love. It could only have been by means of some photographic process, unhappily as yet unknown, that a record of the genius Patrick Robertson could have been handed down to posterity ; to repeat him were as i m po ss ibl e , near ly, as to forget him ; and, deeply as his loss will be deplored, it is greatly enhanced by the consideration that so much that was worthy of a place in the archives of time should have passed irretrievably away. Lord Robertson, whose death it is our painful duty to record, has been the twelfth judge who has died within , Lord Anderson, the last four years. Lord Jeffrey died in the end of erndnFanullerton, Lord C ock- January, 1850, and was followed by Lord Moncreiff, Lord Lord J .Tk u la st e i k e e e t2 G zi e e n , er L a oa oy D ie u , n L di o • burn, Lord Medwyn, Lord Cuningharoe, Lord Ruther furd, and Lord Robertson now completes the sad cata logue, containing as distinguished names as ever adorned the be❑ch of this or any other country. • NEW ROUTM BETWEEN DUBLIN AND LONDON.—The rupture twelve months since of the arrangement between the City of Dublin Steam-packet Company and the Chester and Holyhead and North-Western Companies, by the English managers, has led to an important arrangement between. the Great Western Company and the Dublin Packet Company, for the " through book ing " of passengers and go6ds between Paddington and Dublin, via Oxford, Shrewsbury, and Birkenhead. By these means passengers can book throughout at reduced fares on three days every week ; but in the season the accommodation will be daily. This master-stroke of competition-policy will give the public additional facili ties, and open up a new and interesting land route. The Custom-house list of port wines exported from Oporto during the past year has been received, from which it appears that the total quantity was 39,252 pipes, being a decrease of 16,559 pipes from that of 1853. The principal shippers were Sandemad and Co., 4,050 pipes ; Cockburn and Co. ' 2,395 ; Marti nez an d C o ., 2,392 ; J. D. H arr i s , 2,329 ; Graham and Co. ' 1,804 ; Gilley and Co., 1,768 ; H un t an d C o ., 1 , 582 ; Morgan and Co., 1,148 ; Redpath and Co., 1,056 ; Bruno, Silva, and Co., 1,006 ; all others figured under 1,000 pipes. The quantities to each country were as follows :—To Great Eiitain, 33,831 pipes, against 46,834 in 1853 ; Brazil, 1,274 ; Canada, 952 ; Hamburg, 814 ; Australia, 639, against 2,521 in 1853 ; Sweden, 444 ; Denmark, * 426 ; United States, 326 ; Portuguese possessions, 245 ; Newfoundland, 182 ; Bremen, 64 ; Prussia, 80 ; France, 15 ; Holland, 10, all 3t 8 2s. all all all 10 118 11 91 i 1231 63i 9 84 GO ex arra 74-1 5 4i 1011 f 161 16 li dis 105 x d 107 z d 2i 3 THE NEGOTIATIONS FOR PEACE. With reference to the negotiations at Vienna, the Inclependance, Beige, a journal notorious for its Russian leanings, remarks :—" It would seem that the negotiations about to open are not to interrupt the progress of hostilitieS in the Crimea. On the contrary, the Western Powers appear determined to push them with increased vigour ; and this, in our opinion, constitutes the danger of the situation; this is the circumstance most likely to compromise the result of these negotiations." It scarcely required this acknowledgment from a Russian organ to con vince the public of the wisdom of the resolution adopted by the Western Powers not to intermit for a moment their warlike operations in the Crimea. The charge of squadrons and thunder of artillery in front of Sebastopol will not be heard at Vienna; the delicate nerves of the diplomatists assembled in that capital will not be disturbed by the din of war, or their deliberations interrupted. But the Russian Minister will have a powerful motive for cutting short his rigmarole speeches and protocols, when he knows that every minute he spins outby them enables the Allies to work additional havoc in the Muscovite ranks. The Russian Government and its partisans flattered themselves that they had gained an important point when they once more entangled France and England in negotiations ; but their hopes begin to abate since they have seen that these powers can fight and negotiate at the same time. Undoubtedly their resolution so to do " constitutes the danger of the situation ;" but the danger is all for Russia, not for the cause of na tional independence and European tranquillity. The groan wrung from the Russian organ in the Belgian press, by the bellicose propensities of the Western Powers, betrays the arriere-pensie with which Russia has consented to entertain proposals for peace on the basis of the Four Points. Russia still hopes to gain back by diplomacy what it has lost by arms. There is only one way of meeting and foiling its finesse ; and that is to propose, in brief and explicit terms, such conditions of peace as will give lasting security to Europe against Mus covite aggression, and to call upon the Russian Government to accept or decline them without Niggling or chaffering. The Czar ought to be told in plain unequivocal language—" Remonstrance is in vain ; you must do so and so, or the war goes on." On this head the weighty words with which an article on " The Conduct of the War," in the new number of the Quarterly Review, is wound up, will be endorsed by the great body of the nation : " Just as these sheets were being printed off, we received the intelligence that Russia had accepted the Four Points. If our article had been written with a knowledge of this circumstance, we should have endeavoured to enforce the same views wo have already expressed, and should not the less have urged the propriety of some change in the Cabi net. We believe indeed that there will be greater need than ever for vigilance and firmness. Wo dread the diplo macy of Russia mere than her arms. We are apprehensive that her submission is a device for detaching Austria from the alliance, and for paralysing our preparations for the next campaign. Hostilities, it is affirmed, are not to be interrupted ; but we are alarmed lest the Government should repeat their former errors, and, lulled into false security by the negotiations, should relax in their efforts to provide armaments against the spring. Any such sus pension in our efforts would be the height of folly and false economy. The mere pecuniary cost of preparing for war is vastly less than that of war itself, and should Russia really yield to our demands, it will only be because wo hold ourselves in readiness to exact what she refuses. In igaorau,:e of the guarantees that will be asked of her, and the amount of the indemnity which will be required for the expenditure we have incurred, we can give no opinion upon the conditions of peace proposed by our ministers. We trusted them to provide for the contingencies of war, and found ourselves deceived. If, taking advantage of the secresy with which the negotiations must be conducted, they should again disappoint the reasonable expectations of the public, and assent to inadequate terms, they will not, we venture to predict, be able to withst a nd th e s t orm of reprobation whi c h is justly due to men who, through weakness and incapacity, have betrayed their country." In this warning one important condition to be exacted from the Czar is touched upon—" the amount of the indemnity which will be required for the expenditure we have incurred." It is not to be endured that the people of France and England should ultimately pay the expenses of a war forced upon them by the arrogant injustice of the Russian Autocrat. Compelling him to refund our outlay out of his own exchequer will be an act of simple jus tice, and at the same time our best guarantee against a repetition of the offence. To allow him to escape without this mulct would be, on the part of our Government, false generosity. It would be to affect being generous at the expense of their own people. It would bo to fine the innocent and let the criminal escape scot-free. Russia ought, by every principle of law and equity, ulti timately to bear the whole expenses of the war. The cession of the Crimea is as much a sine qua non as the payment of an indemnity by Russia ; and the cession of the Aland Isles as the cession of the Crimea. It is taking too narrow a view of the causes and objects of the war to confine our at tention exclusively to the diminution of the power of Russia in the Black Sea. England, at least, has a more direct and immediate interest in the diminution of the power of Russia in the Baltic. We have a trade to make in the Euxine, but we have a trade to lose in the Baltic. Had not the breaking out of the war cut short the operations required to effect that purpose, Bomar sund would have been made as formidable a fortress as Sebastopol ; and assuredly it will be made so, if Russia is allowed to retain possession of it. Were Bomarsund made the Sebastopol of the Baltic, it would constantly threaten Stockholm in exactly the same way that the latter does Constantinople. Sebastopol, with a strong Russian fleet, made for a time a Russian lake of the Black Sea ; Bomarsund, with a strong Russian fleet, would in like manner make a Russian lake of the Baltic. These pen feathers—the Aland Isles and the Crimea—must be plucked from the northern and southern wings of the Russian eagle, or that insatiate bird of prey will soon be flying about again, as mischievous and as great a nuisance as ever. We do not say that the three conditions we have enumerated above are all that can or ought to be extracted from Russia, but our Government should be satisfied with nothing short of them.—Daily News. LORD PAN.3IURE AND MR. BRIGHT. At the annual meeting of the Edinburgh Bible Society, the chairman, Lord Panmure, adverting to Mr. Bright's speech at Rochdale, said : "There was one country which was not to be disco vered within the report ; and that country was one where he feared not only religious but civil liberty was nipped in the bud, and whence every disposition was shown to nip, and curtail, and extinguish liberty wher ever it was to be found in the world, and that country was the one with which they were at present unfortunately at war. It was that country which once cherished and which once admitted the Scriptures, but which now sedulously prevented the Bible in the Russian tongue from being placed within the reach of the Ruseian people. When Alexander was Emperor of Russia, he showed a certain countenance to the labours of the Br!. tish and Foreign Bible Society. lie established a Bible Society, he even permitted the Bible to be translated into Russ ; and when he died, a largo edition of that Bible so translated existed. His successor, the present Emperor, it was true, allowed that edition to bo ex hausted in the country, but since that time he had per mitted no further translation to be struck off, and no further circulation of the Bible in the tongue of his countrymen, and he had done all lie could to confine them to that Church which was called the Greek Church, and which looked up to him as its father and its God. Now, he (Lord Panmure) would not have touched so prominently upon that paint, bad he not seen it as serted at a Bible Society meeting at Rochdale (by Mr. Bright) that the present Emperor of Russia was fr' °nay to the circulation of th e S cr i p t ures. H e had taken some little pains, through his esteemed friend Mr. Robert Haldane, the secretary of the society, to ascertain that fact; and lie was assured that what he had now stated was the simple truth. lib knew that a portion of the Russian subjects—the Fins, or the inhabitants of Fin land, and the German Lutherans—had the means of access to the Scriptures in their own tongue ; but that was part of the conditions which they made when they yielded up their country to their conqueror, and there was no credit, in his opinion, for a man keeping faith with those whom he had enslaved. (Applause.) But if he wanted any more or any greater proof of the enmity of Russia to the truth as it was in the Gospel, he had nothing more to do than to refer to the treatment by that country of the Moravian settlement in the land where the war was now being carried on. They no doubt all remembered the emigration which took place from Germany of a large body of Moravians to the Cri mea for two purposes—the one to establish a settlement and to cultivate the ground, and to turn what was then a desert into the means of supporting creditably Christian community ; and the other to disseminate the Word of God amongst the Kalmne Tartars, and to convert them to Christianity. How long did that work go on ? For some years prosperously. God smiled upon and blessed the efforts of the Moravians, said they made many converts, and saved many souls amongst the benighted Kalmucs ; but the 'moment the harvest began to thicken, and the sheaves to stand somewhat crowded, in stepped the Greek Church with their Empe ror, and said, We don't object to your converting th e se Balmucs to Christianity, but we must be allowed to select the Christianity for you, and we hold it as our sovereign will and pleasure that we permit no conver sion to that Christianity and form of religion which you profess, but to that which i s th e o ld one, an d w hi ch i s to be found in the bosom of the Greek Church.' The bosom of the Greek Church I Why, the Greek Church was no better to these Moravian missionaries than the Church in which these Tartars already were. It was a false Church ; and they therefore took no further pains to make converts ; and the consequence bad been that, through the treatment of that Church and the ukase of their Emperor, the Moravians go on cultivating the soil, and enjoying amongst themselves the privileges which they carried with them, but their work of conver sion was at an end, and their labours to civilise and Christianise these Tartars bad been utterly annihilated. 81 2e 20 20 10 10 20 St. St. 6.' St. 10 St. 25 50 50 20 20 100 17 all all Ills. 20 50 20 25 all al, 2, 944 616 i 844 i 69 8/ 76 i 14 121 531 4 59i i 5 10 St. St. 5 100 100 100 00 'CO 20 12 i 25 20 15 2C 20 20 10