The Sun. — London, England, 1855-06-13 00:00:00

- 11 1'SNEY MARKET AND VOIIIMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLooK. Th e Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday c losed very tamely, but the prices of last week were fully sustained. The sales were estimated at 5,000 hale (2,000 of which were taken on speculation), .„„' l rnprising 3,000 American at various pri ces • 200 f'gYptian at 71d. to Bid., and 1,500 S ura t at 31d. i° Rd. per lb. The Railway Share Market opened ' l ' l l a dull feeling, but closed at a slight improve- Tnent. In their report upon the state of the fruit trade a t Liverpo o l, M essrs . H oug ht on an d L evy remar k tha.t "There is now but very little of any description of ,;:ling on th e mar k e t , an d t h at i s held for extreme rates. Th at a further advance will take place is only reasonable 10 anticipate, as the market hitherto has never bad such a healthy appearance. The whole stock now will not te ach 600 tons, one-third of which is low fruit, so that at the present rate of clearances there is not three consumption left, and there is no prospect of n Y additional supplies of importance until next season's l' ° P. Several pa rce l s h ave b een t a k e n from this for the cndon market, which was first to advance. The clear l'T)el3 there are now at the rate of 1,100 tons a month, and the w h o l e stoc k i s reduced to 2 , 100 t ons, aga i nst ' OO O at this period last year," , The O ver l and is expected in London on u riday next. Thy:, advices appear to be extremely l a vourable wit.'n regard to trade in India. F reights to, A-ustralia are looking up, and there r a r ,go..Kl number of passengers offering. p a 'F:e affair of Messrs. Strahan, Paul, Paul, and s, appears to be worse the more it is inquired i . , : ; t e• 'e Of course, a great deal is mere hearsay, but quarters the assetsare put down as low as lb the pound. Although the connections of the k ( e )e 'le were not very extended, the parties wh o Pt accounts were of wealth and respectability, ja cl had, in some instances, large balances. It rumoured that one nobleman of known - 0;0 1 habits had as much as 40,0001. deposited. to rtai e l y a failure like this will give a great blow it lit,e°l4fidence, and we are not surprised at the 16; A t ,"° ll 3 rumours which it has already excited. 16 ko u'rlY officers will suffer severely, especially by the St. .a aa P l Page of Messrs. Halford, who are in fact the . 3 1 , 4: 1 0o parties as Strahan, Paul, and Co. The Lou- 4 114 tot ti a l '"d Westminster Bank intend to open a branch st. e Premises occupied bystopped firm. R. yatiftt ' e rates for bills of exchange were steady here 20 erd alo y afternoon—upon Paris, 25 32i to 35 ; th er " Amsterdam, 11 19f to 19k. On Hamburg 4*; Tri,, Was a slight decline, to 13 61 ; and on 50 fey : -e tc', to 12 20 to 24. These quotations are all 40 90 days' paper. 25 Th 4,, e Whole of the gold by the Australian ship /5 . * e irnar has b een p urc h ase d for the Continent, as 25 ag most of th a t by th e Baltic steamer from . 4/ 2, w York Th e • St. ag a • English Stock Market has been very dull -4. 1 120 ' 4 2 but th e quo t a ti ons are ma i n tained. The 50 Itibl'ltY is now renewed as to whether the Bank i t; lar t r - reerrow lower its rate of discount, but see- .; gh ti , i at such a measure might long since have been ro ti ot 7Pated from the glut of bullion, and yet has 20 opi ti :en carried out, it is difficult now to give an 4e car .,. 11 .• Perhaps the Bank may prefer still to buy Bt T hr Consols have been 914 to 92. The New a' dti ef , Per Cent s . h ave b een 921 1, and the Re- te 209 v, Annuities 92i to 921. Bank Stock is worth if Are a ," ° 2 101. Exchequer Bills are 13s. to 17s. . The O mn i um i s a t 5 p rem . The New They for 30 y ears b r ings 16/. 2 wi th market for Foreign Securities is quiet but 2 Itej li t Particular alteration in the quotations. 5 Oe at ' e a.e hav e r i sen t o 21/, and Peruvian 3 perS the •t° 481 and 491. Spanish Bonds are steady, b e& Per Cents. being 38i to 38k, and the New dealt 184. Russian 41 per Cents have been c D a ," e 'II at 891. Turkish Bonds are fiat, at 821 h /1 1 ,`• Bonds are nominal. kt• " followin are the nominal prices of foreign ech a g a f Aa k 2 Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 71; Mexi- At t .wq to 21 i Peruvian, 68 to 70; ditto Three -e nte., 48 to 50 ; Portuguese Four per Cen t s. , tli t ,'° 46 ' • Russian Five per Cents., 99 to 101 ; Pour-and-a-Half per Cents., 89 to 91 ; Diet New Deferred, 181 to 18i ; Ditto 3 per .1)4 4 384 to 384 ; Ditto Certificates, 3/ to 4 ; h .. ° Passive, 4 to 41. 14 41 'ilway Shares opened with rather a weak ap isq''aece, but have become firmer since, and, in T hee eases, the prices exceed those of yesterday. foreign lines are somewhat heavy, and the Indian and Canadian rather lower. b a rring Shares are dull, and also the Bank, but toa of Australia are at an improvement. Au5%,44,14 %,44,14 t%l Palac Agricultural Shares are lower, and also e. sk FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. (From the Orscial List. em a k 5 . .. BnyinA.. 4ime APet' ~° cl t • • • rm c; eb t. Reduced Annuities ..... ... 9 24 A i 4 ett l igt Consols Annuities A POT Cent. Annuities bi ,' 4 nuities Expire sth Jan. 1060 3 15-16 i , bi t t ‘'. 30 Years, Expire 10th ' Oct., 1859 3 11-16 i 41 :14i ' 0 30 Years, Expire sth April, 1883 16i h 4 /lends, £lOOO . . t,Zt_to, under 171000 26 04 1 7, Is Is or Account, 10th July 9li 2 1 2 kWto r e , i 'equer Rills ?Pl. 2d. 4000 ' 17 13 18 13 10 14 tt 00 • • ..... • 0110 PO 17 13 17 10 1 i )3t e i kll lO 14 4 trite ' r Bonds 1858, 3i per Cent. lOOl 4 e ) , •' RICE - "JOE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. ki h er ti l"_ 3 23er Cent. kr'NZll„ Bonds, 3 per Cent. din- Bonds, 41 per Cent. 1i...1 k , , ' 2 89 t-tr,, l , „Bonds, 5 per Cent. . ....... 014 0 ,"'°Rele. 3 per Cent 3Bi i 'R'ki a t t New Deferred, 3 per Cent. b ~'°ndo, 6 per cent B2l 3 a 'z teb . , vidends on the above payable in London. 46 -40ge, 2A per Cent. 12 Gull 64i THREE O'CLOCK. bitt " 0 Account, 10th July 91i. 2 x d STATE OF TRADE. MANCHESTER, Jane 12. hag been very little business in 7arns, spinners t;"l", i Ftler prices than buyers are willing to give. b e n t this has been the quietest market this year. I , llll teZ t i ll Yarn and cloth the absence of business is attr tyliee4 eattc'tha want of confidence in the maintenance of t th e e eight to which they have been forced up teeent speculations in cotton. Were manufac con- 4 de r d eb liged to have sold to-day they must have 1 4 1„ ). vit 4 et. least 3d. per piece . on the prices charged this 1 . 4 ,,i e5. for shirtings, and in proportion for some other °tip M anufacturers have now a more pressing instea ikd In4 intaini rites at present rates than, a ;4 Al l: !Y had :few p weeks ago. While many of them g t th„ Leeks o f cotton on hand, w hi c h th e y h a d b o ught fror,i- to rates existing a few months back, they could t;Nti e ,•;, ° u ndersell l ess fortunate competitors who were isri agoods fro m th e raw ma terial more recently sin hat e such and hence great irregularity 4 ed n e d ; but noww m t a h r at Leh stocks are pretty much Zliecil:leadifferent feeling is likely to guide them.. The ts tt Cl ne e le, that a more general disposition exists to b ' 4 3 , DZl'eduction , and short time, so long talked . of, i t e .. e esei tx : f h Ly , be . co m ' e a reality. There is a more serious Zo':es , f LhlB course spoken . of. It is said that there of - c rugh cotton in the king to last until the i t ,iN te b e e r tf , , , ber at the full rate of crsumption, and in n ll have come freely p t i, s the the new crop of cotton t,. tivs 'uarket as well as the surplus of the old, and to 4l' B , expected to be more depressed. With )!' t ed halation of production , several firms are . re t4t‘io:;„-aving already commenced short time without N,:4314p, .Ohs general concert on the part of the trade. Pt- Th e ° " 11 Slagg and Co. report of the cloth market Ott ,market fur goods continues in much the same dent t} : aat week If there is any change at all, it is Cl eor 7 3 het week, on the part of the buyers not to N t tn e rn. l o _ ll they are obliged to do a t t pr ent rates has f business more 11 , 44:t e a . "e tnriacrked, an . d the amou n n () the same as last „ e ' but al.': erx2emeacluinnlx°lnreagllar.- bbpi 4 tO rs . George Fra e ser, g Son, and Co. say—" The sad considerably epressed to-day. Both 4lc to ta l c fac manufacturers , Y in many instances, are tDs J . e lower prices. une 1 2. —The demand for cloth has to-day 4 ,, t1 d a .,, e d, and an average amount of business for a k `,,e bpd Inarket has been done. The country clothiers I'4 the employed than they were a short time ago, ?et er g aspect of the trade is of a 'cheerfl cha -411 b iz . e l leth eneral ress ders and dyer.F, too, are working u nearly ---..-__—_•. - _ _ 4 ' 4te t Op a k ri) t at —GLD.—The quotation of . gold at Paris is 41„,Rii4,11,3," (according to the last tariff), which, at the ' 4 k, i ,•r-tint price of 3/. 17s. 10:i i d. per ounce for stand -4itotll-I,ariao4siv.reosnari exchange of 25 . 17 ; and, the exchange h 25•121„ it follows that ( 1, 1r, , i IR abo '4 -!-d_ l ii B on at short - dearer in Paris - than in Lop !2, t y aecitvLa from cent. rainburg, the price of gold is m`411):%/oark. which, at at the English Mint Prieneexof -I:'4t,r; 1/ ark, per ounce for standard gold, give.s u a r __ ,Iti, 2 , °f 1 3'6 • and, the exchange at Hamburg _ . °, 1 ,! vtl• 1 , 41 at .hort ' be' 1 - /13 . 5 - it follows that gold is U 41 t'ltl r s l: 4t ; dtarer in th- Ham4urg than in London. The el ) O ih,'` , " e lmn';'.o at New York on London for bills o')it e 3,Y B al ht ' 1101 p r cent. • and, the par of ex- Vo l t . (; ; et • we L Siaglandper cent. ; and, the par of cx ee England and America being 109 23-40 e,tlt‘,.it follows that the exchange is , nominally 0'67 ' t e f or . b i ll favour of England • and, after making allow ti4 e -4 P I difference of interest,. Of PNR en , rges of transport and gro l f L rate leaves a small profit on the importation t 4 .1e, c : °41 the United States. 4:Ny -I%*--MARYLEBONE CRICKET CLUB THE i: Pl ettd °l.' SUSSEE.—This annual match wa y s . corn.n rtoli °4 Monday, and terminated last evening i t 4. 4 a . 8, 1 ,., , ~ , 2 s d e 7s by 16 runs. i. 1111 t °I S" .Score : _.-S a saex,.lst t% 0 „ v . , 4 ,, . innings, 94. I arylebone, Ist innings, uta izazulgs, 94. SHARE iTHIS RAIL wAn. it. 100 A.bordeen....... , V, 4, Imbg. Nottng. Bost. and Basta. Junet... 0 all 1131 fast & Ballymen.4. 3i all Birming. Wolverh i. ;tour Valley ...., 1 2.N Birkenhd. Lance.. ;Sr Cheshire Junct , 7} all Do. Chesh. ts Birk , - £5O and £25 Cons. t 19 Do., X 20.... ........ all Myth &Tyne origina £25 (issd. at £45 L 100 Bristol and Exeter 100 t 'Jai edoniau. .......... , ) 61s. Carmarthen and Car digan 1 all Chester dt Holyhead. ) all Cork and Bandon ) all Cork, Black, 4 Pass ) 16 Cornwall 1 1i Orieff Junction I 15 Dublin&BelfastJunc i ail Dundee Perthesko 'leen Junction ..... 1 all Do. New, ...,..,...... , ~ 1.00 East Anglian .. 1 All Eastern Counties.... 100 Eastern Union, A Stock ...... , ...... . 104 De., B. Stock 8 Do., New A....... . 100 ?;',ast Lancashire 106 Edinburgh dc glaagom all Edinb. and Peebles., 100 Edin. Prth 4 Dundee 1 wo r th 4 Clyde June, all Furness all Do. Extension 1.00 Glasgow &S. Weste: ~ 100 great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock 1 00 Do., B. Stock 1)0 Gt. Sth. &West.(lre. ) 100 great Western 101 , D,. Stour Val Rail Gua. Stk all Irish South-Eastert: all Lancaster & Carlisle 1 , 11 Do., Thirds 7 Do, New Thirds 100 Lancash. an &Yorks! , 4 Do., Wet. Riding I.l'n . all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt all London & Blackwal 100 Lond. Bright &S. Cot 100 Lond. and N. Westn • .16 Do. Fifths 5i Do.lo/. 5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths 100 London andS. Westn. 174 Do., £5O 38' Do., £4O all Lndrdrry&Coleraint all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 ganch.ShefA Linde all Do. 4 Shares, No. l 425. 1)o., Man. & Lin. Un, 100 Midland 100 Do. Birmng. &Derby all MicUd. G. West. (Ire.) all Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & Carlisle 23i Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd 8 Newry &Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoinf St, St: and Rostrevor 100 Norfolk 3 Northn.Connties Un 100 North British all North Devon, No. 1 all Do., No. 2 all Do., A Deferred all Do., B Guaranteed 100 N. Eastern—Berwiel , 20 Do. do. Extension 13 Do.do. G.N.E. Puroli all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York 111 North London ~ . all !Do. New XlO _ LO 10 10 h NAtS.Wstrn.,Hamp stead, and City Jn.. 174 North Staffordshire.. all North Western....... all N. &S. Westrn. June. 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley. and Leicester.. 00 Oxford, Worcester,Sz Wolverhampton 8 Portsmouth JO Scottish Central ,'Y) !Scottish Midland .. 00 Shropshire Union a 1 South Devon 4 . w t Soatli Eastern all 'South Wal ©B I'. I S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dtm 5 Do.. t 4 Staines, Wok. &Wok a 1 Stockton tt Stc.lkton & flutlepl 00 Taff Vale . 9 Do. £lO shares. IDo. Pref., No. 1.. 21illiames Haven Dock and Railway Ulverstone & Lancs. all Vale Neath... all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limeri.dE all West Cornwall 5 West End of London and Crystal Palace all West London. 171 s.! Wimbledn & Croydon FOREIGN. 8i - 2i - 2i - 1 2} 2i, - 364 104 - 251 34 9i - 24i 34 - bk 41 19 20 66 - 68 95 - 97 41 - - P P 5- 51 3i - 4 3, 3 23i - 24 100 - 102 112 - 115 115 - 120 104 - 106 23i - 24 113 - 118 = Ti wi p 1 - lip 7 2i 3 p 5 2 - 3 51 - 61 iii :: ii 13 - 13k] - 9 29 -294 p 48 50 42 44 ro P 23i 24i 21 22 1 9 —9i 21 - 3 p - pm 3i 4 d 9 pl is --- fia BANKS. 84 - 86 67 69 i d par - 4 - 5 1) •• 17i 1 8 i 20i —21 i par P ui - iii , 37i -38 i ••• ..m. ". 42 ii 74 --- 76 8 -- 9 Ise wi ~, 21 p all 4 10 103. Antwerp&Rod ,rdam Belgian Eastn. June Bezi era to Graissessae Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Serip Demerara Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France . Do. New East Indian, g. 5 p.c Do. By ' . ..ension D 0,4 p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible Po. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of CanadaA is Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of Franca: Gt. Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent Do. New 5 per cent Do. Extensions...... Do. do Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Gt. Westernof Canad Shares Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 . Do. do., '76, p. '60.. Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Bask Luca► & Pistoja 5 p.c . prof Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Mediterran. Madras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. New Namur d; Liege (wit' interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D 0.201. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelines guar. 3$ p. c. & red. at 221/. dur. 68 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bde Ow. B. & A.ms. She. NorwegianTrunkPrer ' Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds ..... Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen... ParisCaen dt Cherbrg Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Henn... Do. 5i p. cent. Pref. Schub Southern of France.. St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 54 per c. Pref Western of France Wept. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand JOINT-STOI all 3,itstrA.tasia ....... all British Colonial Bank and Loan Company all British N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 4 Chrtd. Buk. of India, 10 i . a . ....... .......... 25 Colonial ................ 20 Commercial of Lond. all English Scottish and Australian Chart.... all bond. Chart. Bk. of Australia • 5 Ditto New 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond. & Weptininster 35 National Provincial of England,,,,,,, 10 Do. New, 22? 2 National of Ireland all New South Wales all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. Now 1 Royal Australn.Bkg (#lld Imp Co all South Australia ail Union of Australia.. 1)o. New 14 Union of London kw. tO 5 18 1 2 all 13 RKETS GAL 'AYS. Closing Prices this day. 21 - 25 413 - 4j - Si 13 -12 i 15i - 16; 8 6 - 76, 90 - 92 - 04, 14i - 15 9 - 11 ~. - ...0 16 12 - 12 32 - 36 23 - 25 77 - 79 - 60 8 -- 9 19 - 2 70 - 72 93 - 54 76 - 78 26 8 lOt 103 68 69 59 - 61 76 80 8 - 10 8 10 82 821 - 104 103 i .93i - 104 P t #l3 $ I I 84i —85 i: 8 i 7 6 di 274 28. Si ,-- 74 - 41 - 46 9 - 7 li - 2 i'a = 6' 3i 32 75A —76 i 6i 6 • 3t 3i 14 1 , 4 51i 52 2 48 50 d Par Ad 4 - 1 d par, 28 - 30 100 103 68 70 47 -- 49 14 - 15 626 —63 i 28 296 3 1 2d par - 40 20 2 . 3h - 43. 22 - 24 T et* gaqineAN don, this day. TILE SUN, .E,ONDC , , WE-DINESDAY EVENING, JUNE 13, lB 5. would be stopped at an earlier hour; so that, in fact, such a step 'would in reality be to inflict a penalty on the woeimen. (Rear.) By our Sabbath, from 12 o'clock en Saturday night till 12 o'clock on Sunday night, we restricted a great many useful things. That was not the original Sabbath) which commenced at -sunset of one day, and ended at sunset of the next day, and there fore die considered we did much mischief by our modern reading of the Sabbath. This bill fixed upon trading exclusively, leaving out amusements and work entirely, and that was a point which the Sab batarian legislators shrunk from touching. To interfere 'vith work would affect our great clubs and coteries ' • it would interf ere w i t h the cook., and footmen, and but lers, and carriages of the aristocracy ; and he thought that to stop short of the legislation that would affect those was a pitiful and sordid hypocrisy. (Hear.) Mr. KER SEYMER wished the house would go into committee on this bill. He was not a Sabbatarian, but be was not prepared to give up the Lord's-day as a day of rest. Although Sunday was a day of rest it -hould be also the Lord's -day. The hon. gentleman (Mr. Massey) said there was little trading on Sundays in Mary lebone ; he (Mr. Seymer) wished the hon. member had accompanied him last Sunday to Houndsditch. He went purposely to see that district, and the amount of Sunday trading there was very extensive ; and not only trading, but a public meeting was placarded to petition against this bill. He did not see many people sign the petition, for he believed it would be highly inconvenient for most of the people he saw there to state their names and residences. (Laughter.) He thought that all that had taken place on the discussion of this bill showed in the strongest way the necessity for the adoption of the pre sent bill. Sir J. SHELLEY supported the bill, because be be ieved that its provisions were likely to produce the best esults, and the health of the working classes would be insured. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE deprecated the course that had been pursued with respect to this bill, and he objected to it on the ground that it ought to be introduced by the Government. He looked at the measure as a cowardly attempt on the part of the promoters of the oill to effect that of which they would be ashamed if personally appealed to. Mr. WILKINSON concurred with the hon. member for Finsbury that this measure ought to be taken up by the Government, sight of in th e bill. and hop e d that that would n o t b e l ost Sir G. GREY said that the bill, in fact, ought to be adopted by the house ; he would, therefore, support the Hill and oppose the amendment. Mr. MAGUIRE supported the amendment, pre ferring, as he did, the testimony of Sir R. Mayne to that of the policeman, whom the hon. gentleman opposite en eou itered in the course of his tour arid whose experience he had so graphically described. He was as anxious as icy member of the house that the Lotei's-day should er kept holy—(hear, he4o—and no persons were more so than the Roman Catholic members of the house that such should be the case, but there was an overpowering necessity on the part of the poorer classes of society, and it was consequently unfair that coercion should be orought to bear upon, them. Re agreed with Sir R. Mayne in thinking that the question was one which must be left to the decision of public Jpinion, which would adjust it much better than by legislation. On that account he should support the amendment. Sir J. WALMSLEY said he objected to the bill on principle. He thought that the upper classes of society ought to set those below them a better example in keep ing the Sabbath. Lord R. GROSVENOR, in reply to the right hon. member for Leicester, said that he had not undertaken the bill at the desire of the upper classes all, but that he had taken it up at the solicitation of the inhabitants of the metropolis generally, consisting chiefly of !.he lower classes, upon the prayer of a nu merously signed petition. With regard to the upper classes setting a better example, he had obtained some , tatistics with regard to the number 'of carriages and horses passing through Hyde -park on Saturday and Sunday last. On the former day he found there were 1,936 one-horse carriages, 2,199 two and core horse carriages, and 1,740 saddle horses. On the following day there were 1,698 one-horse carriages, but hose aboveone had dwindled to 854, and thesaddle-horse to 413, whilst on the Sunday there were 1,228 ()Irani cruses and 2,047 cabs passing under the Wellington-arch at Hyde -park. He therefore thought there was nothing to complain of in the example set by the class to which he had the honour to belong. After a few words from J. HEYWORTH and Mr. BAR ROW, The house divided in the question that the Speaker cow leave the chair, rhea the numbers were— Ayes Noes.. :11wgicto,u - 114,114, ft i f ''M s t tiff - • %„,„. date 1,425 calves, and he pig-market 900 pigs. Lairage is, provided for 3,009 bullocks and 8,160 sheep. There are four depots for hay, and slaughter-house accommodation to a considerable extent. There are five public-houses — the Black Bull, the Lion, the Lamb, the White Horse, and the Butchers' Arms. There are also nearly completed two large hotels, with shops underneath the principal rooms. Between these Mr. B. Edgington, the eminent tent builder and rick-cloth manufacturer, erected a spacious marquee, capable of accommodating 1,709 persons. This tent, which was 16) feet long by 80 feet wide, was most tastefully fitted up both externally and internally, the flags of England, France, and Turkey being most artisti cally displayed. At the west end of the tent a dais was erected, on which was a very elegant chair of state, where his Royal Highness Prince Albert (who at all times evinces so much interest in the promotion of agriculture) received the Corporation address. The importance of the event was commemorated in that liberal and magnificent style for which the Corporation of London are so justly celebrated. The Corporation very wisely deciding that the ceremony should be conducted in the presence of those for whose immediate benefit the markets have been erected, sent invitations to upwards of a thou• sand persons connected with the breeding and feeding of cattle, butchers, dealers, and others. Precisely at 12 o'clock the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Sir F. Moon (who looked remarkably well after his recent visit to Paris), accompanied by the City Remembrancer, the Sheriffs, the Recorder, Aldermen, Common Council men, and other officers connected with the Corporation, arrived on the ground and was enthusiastically received, and proceeded to examine the arrangements of the day, of which he expressed himself highly satisfied. With that punctuality for which the It )yal family are so noted, his Royal Highness, accompanied with his suite, arrived at the north-west entrance gate of the Market, at one o'clock, where he was met by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, H. L. Taylor, Esq., the Chairman of the Committee, the various members of the Committee, and other gentlemen, and was received most enthusiastically by the numerous concourse assembled, the band playing the National Anthem. The Lord Mayor then entered his Royal Highness's car riage, and accompanied him round the extensive grounds, the slaughter-houses, &c., which were examined by his Royal Highness, wso expressed his admiration at the admirable manner in which the whole had been arranged and carried out. The survey of the vast area and inspection of the various buildings occupied his Royal Highness nearly an hour, it being two o'clock before he returned to the pavilion. On entering the pavilion, his Royal Highness was again enthusiastically cheered, and was conducted to the dais, whore the town-clerk read, in the presence of the Lord Mayor and the civic functionaries, the following address to his Royal Highness : TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT, &C. " May it please your Royal Highness,--We, her Ma jesty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Lord Mayor, Alder men, and Commissioners of the City of London, in Common Council assembled, desire, by the warmest expression of our gratitude, to testify to your Royal Highness the value which we attribute to your gracious presence on this occa sion. " The proceedings of this day are of deep interest and importance to the great community of the metropolis and to the country at large. " These costly and extensive works have been under taken by the Corporation of the City of London, in defe rence to the suggestions of the national Legislature, and under a strong sense of the responsibility accompanying the powers and the means confided to them by their fellow citizens. " If the transfer of the City Metropolitan Market to the new and spacious locality shall be successful, it will not only have removed all ground of complaint arising from, , the character of its ancient site, but will also have confer red essential benefit on the population of this vast capital, as well as on those important branches of our national in dustry which are concerned in supplying with food the increasing masses of its inhabitants, and the countless numbers who frequent it. " In the happiness and prosperity of all classes of her Majesty's subjects, your Royal Highness has always evinced the warmest and most active interest, and we know no thing more likely to secure success to this great undertak ing than the sanction and encouragement afforded in its inauguration by the illustrious Consort of the Queen. " We, therefore, humbly rejoice in the opportunity thus given us of welcoming your Royal Highness on this spot, of expressing our heartfelt gratitude for your Royal High ness's attendance, and of manifesting anew our affectionate and respectful attachment to the person and family of the beloved Sovereign of these realms." His ROYAL HIGHNESS replied in the following terms : " My Lord Mayor and gentlemen, accept the expression of my hearty thanks for your kind welcome and for the gratifying assurance of your loyal and affectionate attach ment to the Queen and her family. " I have been much pleased by the opportunity which your kind invitation has afforded me of seeing and ad miring this great work which you this day °pea to the public—a work which not only deserves admiration in itself on account of the exoellence of the arrangements and the magnificence of the design, but which will t trustbe found eminently conducive to the comfort and health of the city of London. " That its success will be commensurate with the spirit in which it has been undertaken and carried out, I cannot doubt. A certain dislocation of habits and interests must inevitably attend the removal of the great city mar ket on the site it has occupied for so many centuries, and thin may possibly retard for the moment the fullest development of the undertaking. But any opposition arising from such causes will soon cease, and the farmers will doubtless soon learn to appreciate the boon thus conferred upon them by the landed corporation in the increased facility which will be afforded to them for the transaction of their business, and the comparative security with which they will be enabled to bring up and display their valuable stock in this Great New Cattle Market.' His Royal Highness and suite then partook of an ele gant cold collation (supplied by Messrs. Staples, of the Albion, in their usual excellent style). The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided, and was sup ported on his right by Prince Albert, and among the dis tinguished company present were—Sir George Grey, Home Secretary, Sir Corne wall Lewis, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Marquis of Abercorn, Marquis of Breadal bane, Earl Spencer, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Belgian, Bavarian, Sicilian, American, and Prussian Ministers, 'Viscount Monck, Viscount Duncannon, Rear-Admiral Berkeley, Duke of Newcastle, Marquis of Salisbury, Mar quis of Westminster, Earl of Macclesfield, Earl of Yar borough, Lord Redesdale, Lord Berners, Lord Southamp ton, Lord Feversham, Lord Portman, Lord Wenlock, &c. The LORD MAYOR, in appropriate language, proposed the "health of the Queen,"—(cheers) —followed by that of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and the other members of the Royal family. (Applause.) His ROYAL HIGHNESS, in rising to acknowledge the toast, was again most enthusiastically received. He said-- My Lord Mayor and gentlemen,—For the very kind and flattering manner in which you have received this toast I most sincerely thank you. I assure you it has given me great pleasure at being able to accept the kind invitation of the Lord Mayor, and to be present at the opening of this splendid and useful work (cheers), and I beg to assure you that the oftener the Lord Mayor will invite me to similar ceremonies the better I shall be pleased. (Renewed cheers.) Such works can only be undertaken by public bodies and carried out with success by public spirit —(loud oheers)—and I hail the present instance as an earnest of your (the Corporation's) determination to ac cept the duties which your position has imposed on you, and as success in all things depends on the manner in which it is undertaken and carried out, I beg to propose " the health of the Lord Mayor and Corporation of London." (Cheers.) His Royal Highness and the other distinguished visitors then retired, and the proceedings terminated. The weather, which at the commencement of the day was rather unpropitious, as the morning advanced cleared off, and the sun, which shone out at intervals, continued to do so till the termination of the proceedings. During the morning the bands of the boys of the Cale donian Asylum, the boys from Chelsea Hospital, and the Foundling Society were in attendance, and played various Airs and pieces of music in a very masterly manner. The proceedings terminated aboat five minutes to three o'clock. SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. HAMPTON RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) STAND PLATE. Cranbourne Bandead ... Mary Ann . Seven ran. CLAREMONT STAKES. Sugarcane. Tharnes Ditton Bul Bul 'Dace ran. HURST PLATE. Spinaway Usurer Miss Hatch... . . _ ____ Six ran. SURREY AND MIDDLESEX STAKES. Dead heat with Rodo Meli and Cock Pheasant. DECIDING HEAT. Cock Pheasant Rodo•Meli Wiekfield Six ran. NEWTON HANDICAP. sto 2 agst Louvat (taken.) NEWTON RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.), OLBORNE PARK STAKES. Tilly Fisherman Seven ran. GOLD CUP. Lurley Saucebox Five ran. TRIAL HANDICAP. Virtuous Billy Richardson Eight ran. SELLING PLATE. Cockspur Young Hack MA KERFIELD HANDICAP. Comfort syren ADDITIONAL SCRATCHINGS FOR THE LIVERPOOL CUP. Master Tom, Dr. O'Toole, Exile of Erin, St. Michael, Gamekeeper, Marc Antony, Rylstone, Diana, Penitent, Lady Palmerston, Master Johnny, Alston, General Pic ton, and Atharstone. TRAINERS' STAKES. Patience, Victory, Phoenix, and Atherstone have paid forfeit. MPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. The Severn Valley Railway Bill, and the Somerset Central Railway Bill were read a third time and passed PETITIONS. Petitions were presented (4) by Sir J. Walmsley from the metropolis generally, and from Woolwich, against the Sunday Beer Bill ; also a petition from Leicester, praying for amendment of the Poor-law Bill, so as to give local control ; by Lord Stanley, from Colchester, praying that steps may be taken for the restoration of peace ; by Mr. Palmer, from Berkshire, against the Sunday Trading Bill, and one against the endowment of Maynooth ; by Mr. Pellatt, 12 petitions from Dis senting congregations in favour of the Marriages Bill. SUNDAY TRADING (METROPOLIS) BILL. On the order of the day for the house_going into com mittee on this bill, Mr. T. DIINCOMBE presented a large number of petitions from various parts of the metropolis against the bill, complaining that the bill is a gross attack on the liberty of the working classes. Mr. WILKINSON also presented a number of peti tions from Lambeth with the same prayer, and one in favour of it. Lord R. GROSVENOR then presented several peti tions from the Tower Hamlets, Finsbury, and West minster, in favour of the bill. Lord R !GROSVENOR then appealed to the hon. member for Newport (Mr. Massey) to postpone his amendment (that the house go into committee on the bill that day three months), as he should have proposed that amendment on the second reading. Mr. MASSEY regretted that he bad omitted to pro pose his amendment at the second reading of the bill, for he believed it to be a bill unjust, iniquitous, and mis chievous in principle, and one which he felt bound to oppose in every stage of its progress. He contended that the bill, besides being bad in principle, was partial in application, for it would affect only the metropolis, leaving entirely untouched the great hives of manufacturing industry in the large towns, where the habits and manners of the people were pretty similar to those of the working classes of the metropolis. (Hear.) Besides, he contended there was not any trading on Sunday in the metropolis calling for such a measure. A man might walk through the heart of London—from the Bank of England along Cheapside, Fleet-street, the Strand, and go on to Hyde Park Corner without seeing any shops open or any trading. (Hear.) The same remark would apply to the other great line of thorough fare—Oxford-street. (Hear.) He had himself gone through many of the more humble streets on a Sunday to ob serve what sort of trading was going on there, and it was true he found some shops open. But what were they? They were small milk shops, bakers, lollipop shops, and such as contributed to the necessities or comforts of the working classes—(hear)—and to call that a desecration of the Sabbath was the grossest exaggeration. (Hear, hear.) He thought such legislation as this bill belonged to an age gone by ; he thought those matters ought to be left entirely to the judgment of individuals them selves. (Hear.) If the bill were passed, the observ ance of the Sabbath wouli not be advanced an incb, nor, indeed, did the promoters of the bill themselves pat it on that footing. There were thousands of poor coster mongers, and others of that class, who rose on the Sun day morning without perhaps a meal in their wretched dwellings, and were they to starve ? It was said, too, that why should not the working classes purchase their provisions on the , Saturday ; but it was well known that thousands of honest working men, who did not frequent public.houses, who occupied but one or two rooms, and were they to be compelled to keep their food for four-and-twenty hours in a close, and often unhealthy atm - fsphere ! If they were, he considered teat would not be the way to promote either the self-respect or the health or habits of those industrious classes. (Hear.) Hs contended that, even in those localities where Sunday traffic most prevailed, the traffic was over at a compara tively early hour—say by 11 o'clock in the morning. The hon. member for Westminster (Sir J. Shelley) expressed dissent, but be (Mr. Massey) knew that in those districts the trading was so sensibly dimi nished by one o'clock that there was no re munerative reason to induce the tradesmen to keep their shops open after that hour. (Hear.) Was any gen tleman in the house prepared to bring in a bill to fix the time on which a master should pay his servants ? He believed the day for such legislation as that had long since passed away; yet it was well known the workmen did not receive their wages till late on Saturday nights, and such a bill as this would probably compel the labouring classes to resort to a " tick" system or a " truck" sys tem, which would be most injurious. The hon. member then referred to the evidence given by Sir Richard Mayne before the Lords' Committee on Sunday trading, who stated that though the trading was on the increase, the observance of the Sabbath was at the same time more and more kept up, and he also stated that the enforcement of the prevention of Sunday trading was a matter of the greatest difficulty. Such legislation as this was calculated to drive the working classes to the low gin shops, on the windows of one of which he lately saw an invitation to the people to come in and "get drunk for a penny ; dead drunk for twopence; and clean straw to get sober upon for nothing." He would not trespass further on the house, but would conclude by saying the bill was unjust in principle and partial in cha racter—that it was uncalled for, and that it would be much better to leave such subjects to the self-respect of the workirg classes, which, he thanked G o d, was d a il y increasing, as was also their knowledge and intelligence, and therefore he thought it much better to desist from any legislation on this subject. He therefore moved an amendment that the house should go into committee on the bill on that day three months. Majority The Speaker accordiigly left the chair, and the house resolved itself into a co mm itt ee upon the bill. Mr. W. J. FOX proposed to add to the bill a proviso that all persons of the Jewish persuasion should be exempt from all the restrictionsimposed by the bill. He affirmed that the bill if enforced upon them would be a penalty upon them not only for their race, but also for their re ligion ; and he trusted the house would excuse his 4peaking in their behalf, when it was borne in mind that they could not speak for themselves. (Hear, hear.) After a few words fron Mr. LLOYD DAVIS, The proviso was negatived without a division. Clauses 1 to 3 were then agreed to after a short dis cussion upon each. On clause 4, Mr. CHAMBERS reeved that the words "in cases of emergency or charity be inserted, urging that there were cases in which it might be necessary to take excep tion to the provisions of the act. Mr. DUNCOMBE described the act as a bungling piece of legislation altogether, and was by no means the proper course to take to subvert the act of Charles IL The clause was afterwards agreed to, amended as pro posed. Upin clause 4 being proposeA, a short discussion took place. The object of the clause was, that no trading should take place before nine in the morning of Sunday, or after one of the same day. Several divisions took place upon amendments that were proposed to this clause, all of which ended in the defeat of the amendments and the adoption of the ori ginal clause. In clause 5, which provided that there should be no hawking or crying of newspapers or any sale of them after 10,o'clock on the Sabbath some discussion took place. Mr. R. SPOONER thought that no newspaper should be allowed to be sold after a, certain hour on Sunday, and moved as an amendment that the words nine be in serted in the clause instead of ten. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE considered that all metric- Cm should be taken off the sale of newspapers on Sunday. Their sale was in his opinion essential for the benefit of society as it at present existed. Upon a division taking place on Mr. Spooner's amendment, the original motion was carried by a majo rityof 116. Mr. 0. DITNCOMBE then moved, as a further amendment, that instead of ten o'clock in the morning the provision§ of the clause should be ten o'clock in the evening, thereby giving liberty to all parties to sell newspapers the whole of Sunday. The committee divided on the amendment, which was lost by a majority of 93. The ChaimAn then reported progress, and the house adjourned. INAUGURATION OP THE METROPO LITAN CATTLE MARKET (THIS DAY). VISIT OF PRINCE ALBERT. Sir G. GREY, her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Home Department, having issued his notice in accordance with the terms of the Metropolitan Cattle Market bill, passed in 1851, for the opening of this market and slaughter-houses cn Friday next, the 15th, to-day was ap pointed for the inaugural ceremony. Smithfield, as a market for the sale of cattle and horses, has ceased to exist—has become one of the byegones of the age, but the historical associations connected with the spot are so great, that whilst it has been shorn of this portion of its notoriety, the stirring events of past ages connected with it are too indelibly marked on the memory ever to be forgotten. Although Smithfield has been used as a market from time immemorial, the first traces of a charter connected with it are only to be found in the year 1327, is the first year of the reign of Edward 111., and the extent of the market, so far as it can be ascertained, was 4 acres, 2 roods, and 35 perches. As the population of this great city increased, and the requirements of more extensive market accommo dation were needed, the Corporation of London made ad ditions, at their own expense, by the purchase of property adjoining, until it became that vast area we now have it, extending over G acres and 15 perches, and even noir too small for the growing wants of the metropolis. The movement originated for the removal of a cattle market from the centre of so large a place as modern London is a matter of history, and so notorious as not to require recapitulation on the present occasion. The Legislature in August.lBsl, passed the act for the erection of these markets, on which a committee was appointed by the Corporation of the city of London, H. L. Taylor, Esq., being appointed chairman, with powers to select a site most suitable for the purposes of a market on an ex tensive scale. After much time and atte; tion, the com• mittee selected Copenhagen-fields, in the neighbOurhood of Islington, and situate between that place and Camden town, as the best that could be found, which they recom mended to Mr. Walpole, the then Secretary of State, for his approval, and whose consent was obtained July 29, 1852. The markets, which extend over au area of 75 acres of ground were, on the assent of the Secretary of State being so obtained, immediately commenced under the superin tendence o f the city architect,J. B. Bunning, Esq., F. a gentleman of known reputation, and whose abilities eminently fitted him for the efficient discharge of such onerous duties as the works in question naturally imposed, and the whole of the works have been constructed since the above period. Thesite of the new market proper is an equal-sided rectangle, having a fall from the west corner to the south , east,and north corners, and includes an area of about 15 acres, of which one acre is devoted to the pig market, and an equal area to the calf market. In the centre of the market aro erected shops and banking-houses, over which is a lofty clock tower, not yet completed, but which, when finished, will have a market bell. Accommodation is pro vided fur 34,')80 sheep in 1,749 pens, with a reserve for considerable extension; and 13,23! feet of rail, for the tying of 6,616 bullocks, The calf market will accornmo• Lord STANLEY said he felt bound to give his sup port to the bill. The honourable member who had just sat down drew a very pathetic picture of a poor man being obliged to keep his food for 24 hours in his room ; but had the honourable gentleman read the bill? Why the third clause provided that any article of food, meat, poultry, &c., may he sold on Sundays up to the hour of nine o'clock. (Hear.) Aa to the objdction of the hon. member that this bill would affect only the metropolis, there was nothing unusual in that; it was quite customary to legis late for the metropolis; on a separate scale from the country, and, in fact, there was at this moment a bill before the house for the local manage ment of the metropolis, which would not at all affect the country. (Hear.) He, therefore, considered the hon. member had not made out any case against the bill. Mr. W. J. FOX said he knew the metropolis now for a period of nearly fifty years, anci he believed that the inhabitants of the working order had increased in knowledge, self-respect, and civi'ising influences in that time to a most extraordinary extent, and he be lieved such legislation as this bill proposed was utterly uncalled for. As to the absence of necessity for making purchases on Sunday, why, if workmen received their wages at an earlier hour on Saturday than now their work one-sided limitation of her naval forces in the Black Sea. But while declaring such an engagement to be an infringe ment on the rights of Sovereignty of the Emperor, th Plenipotentiaries of Russia hese not beforehand declined to examine every proposition relating to the principle of li mitation, and th e y concurred that a stipulation of this nature would not be an infringement upon honour, from the moment that it became the result of a mutual agree ! meat betwe su the contracting parties. " With the view of removing this difficulty, ono of the French Ple nipotentiaries, who no longer assists at our de liberations, has pointed out a scheme which I am happy to reproduce, because it records the sentiments of modera tion which stamped his instructions. " A mutual agreement between the Plenipotentiaries of Russia and the Sublime Nita on tae basis of a balance of their respective forces and the subsequent annexation to the general treaty of an arrangement signed by them on this subject, were proposed by ee. p eon y proper means of conc i l i a ting a lland all require ments.o de Jehuys as a interests "This course, dictated as it appears to us by an idea eminently conciliatory, seemed at the same time to be the practical application of a happy expressio n of the British Plenipotentiary, who v.lso is no longer with us . "In the eyes of England ( so he expressed himself) the best conditions, and the only ones which were admissible, would be those which, while being the most conformable to the honour of Russia, should at the same time be suffi cient for the security ofEarope, and for preventing a re turn of such complications as that which it is now a ques tion of . patting an end to. " It is, therefore, this idea (the honour of which belongs to the French Cabinet), which has served as a basis to the project that I am about to read, and which, while it is perfectly honourable for all pal ties, unites, in our eyes, all the elements of a satisfactory solution of the third gua rantee." After this preface he read the project, of which a copy is hereto annexed. Having finished reading it, he concluded by thus expressing himself : Austria, I am authorised to declare, would see in the acceptance of this outline the complete bases of an effec tual and honourable solution for all parties. Al ways faith ful to the engagements which she has contracted with her allies, faithful to the principles which she has Lid down, but being in a position apart from the hostile action which sepa rates the otherpartiesrepresented here, she has considered ita sacred duty imposed upon herby herexceptionalposition, to exhaust all means for obtaining a triumph of those princi ples, at the same time putting an end, if possible, to the calamities of a war which has already cost so many noble victims. It is with these feelings that Austria presents this proposition, and recommends it to the serious and friendly consideration as well of her allies as of the Court of Russia." Baron Bourqueney said that as Count Buol's proposition had for its basis a principle so repeatedly and peremp torily rejected by the Pleuipotentiaries of Russia, it was for them to speak first on this subject. The Earl of Westmoreland stated that he came to the Conference in pursuance of the invitation of the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs, but that he finds himself in the same position in which he was placed at the last meeting when he declared that his instructions were ex hausted. Prince Gortchakoff, whilst contesting the opinion of Baron Bourqueney that the proposition of Count Buol rests on a principle which has been categorically rejected by the Russian Plenipotentiaries, begs the Plenipotentiary of France to be so good as to speak first. B iron Bourqueney then stated, that as he is pressed to express his opinion, he finds himself compelled to recur to the peremptory and reiterated refusal of the Plenipoten tiaries of Russia to agree to the reduction of their naval forces by treaty, or on a basis discussed in Conference. This refusal had of course left traces and exercised a de cided influence on the instructions with which his Govern ment supplied him with reference to the Conference which would be called by the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Austria, for the purpose of making known the means of reconciliation to which he had declared he would devote himself. As the project proposed by Count Buol does not completely fulfil the conditions which his former instruc tions point out, he must for his own part declare that the mission of the Conference is exhausted. Prince Gortschakoff stated, that after the declarations which he has just heard, the Conferences for peace have de facto ceased. He would, therefore, have a right to remain perfectly silent, since to enter into particulars would only be to discuss bases which in the opinion of Austria are complete, whilst the Allies consider them insufficient. But he does not wish to take advanage of this right. As the Aastrian propositions have already been considered by the Cabinets of Paris and London, he will also make his Court acquainted with them, reserving for his Court a free and full estimation of them. Nevertheless, be swill express his personal opinion, as a mark of respect for the Cabinet which has taken so much pains in preparing the project in question. In analysing it he asserted, in the first place, that this project does not rest on the principle which the Plipoten tiari©s of Russia have invariably rejected, and will always reject. Proceeding then to the different articles, he had nothing to object to in the principle laid down in the first. As to the second, the gist of it lies in the direct under standing between the Plenipotentiaries of Russia and the Sublime Porte, with regard to the counterpoise of ther respective naval forces. He does not reject such a jcombination, maintaining, however, that fixing the number of those forces regards the two Powers directly interested, and that the rights of sove reignty of either would be infringed if other Powers wished to dictate to them on this subject. He agrees to article 3. He finds that articles 4 and 5 are based upon article 2 of the Russian counterproject, which left his highness the Sultan sovereign judge of the question of deciding whe ther it would be, or not, compatible with his interests ex ceptionally to open the straits. In conclusion, he finds in the general principles of Count Dues project, the bases of a possible solution of the third guarantee. M. de Titoff participates in the opinion of his colleague ; and without having anything to add to the personal con siderations put forward by the letter, he associates him self fully with his official declaration of his wish to submit the plan of arrangement proposed by the Austrian Minister for Forei g n Aff.sire to the examination and decision of his Court. Aali Pasha declares that the project of a direct under standing between the Sublime Porteand Russia was based, as were all the other systems discussed within the Confer ence, upon the principle of limitation. The reiterated and categorical rejection of this principle on the part of the Plenipotentiaries of Russia having led to the abandon ment of every plan of this nature, his colleague and himself did not consider that they should call for instructions of their Court on this same project; and they are, conse quently, in the same position as the Plenipotentiaries of France and Great Britain. Aarif Effendi concurred in this view. Baron Prokesch maintains that the Plenipotentiaries of Russia do not absolutely reject the principle of limitation —that their objections apply rather to the form under which it could be applied. The Plenipotentiaries of Rus sia having declared themselves ready to submit the Aus trian proposition to their Court, he expresses the hope that the Plenipotentiaries of France and Great Britain will do as much on their side. The Plenipotentiaries of France and Groat Britain de cline to bind themselves on this subject. Count Buol, while seeing with satisfaction that the Plenipotentiaries of Russia will submit his proposition to their Courts, thinks he need not answer the observations made upon it by Prince Gortchakoff, since he himself only attached to them the value of personal impressions. He adds that he is, moreover, too just not to acknowledge that the declarations of the Plenipotentiaries of France and Great Britain rendered it in fact difficult for Prince Gortehakoff o enter into a deeper discussion. He finally declaresthat the Plenipotentiaries of the maritime Powers having them• selves declared the Conferences to be closed, have relieved him from a painful duty, the accomplishment of which would have been imposed on him by his position. Whilst thanking the Plenipotentiaries for having assembled at his invitation to bring the Conferences to a suitable conclu sion, he declares that Austria has no further proposition to make ; that she will, nevertheless, be always ready, espe cially if it were in the interest of peace, to transmit to the belligerent Powers the overtures which one or the other of them might have occasion to address to him. Baron Bourquency again resumes, in order to define the respective positions. He maintains that after all that had passed in the Conferences, his Government had perfectly the right of considering every project founde I on the principle of limitation as decidedly rejected by the Pleni potentiaries of Russia ; it could n ot , consequently,introd nee a contrary proviso in the instructions with which it had furnished its Plenipotentiaries for a closing Conference. It has been confirmed in this conviction by the circular of Count Nesselrode, giving an opinion on the whole beating of the conferences, and au th or i s i ng from that moment the belief that the Cabinet of St. Petersburg itself consider them as closed. He finally observes to Prince Gortschakoff that the Austrian project is founded on the principle of li mitation in its strictest expression. The Earl of Westmoreland declares that after the catego rical rejection of the principle of limitation, his Government no longer saw any advantage in continuing the delibera tions. It considered the preceding Conferences as closed. His full powers being exhausted, he had nothing more to say, except that he will submit to the consideration of his Government the protocol of this day's Conference. Prince Gortschakoff, in answer to M. de Bourg ueuey, e gain maintains that both in and out of the Conferences, and at all times when the question was mooted, he had constantly declared that all limitation of forces which might be sought to be imposed on Russia would be regarded by her Plenipotentiaries as an infringement on the sovereign rights of their master, and an insurmountable obstable to peace ; that he had invariably remained faithful to this principle, and that he again establishes it in this closing Conference; that, moreover, he challenges the members of the Conference who have the protocols in their hands, and more particularly the plenipotentiary of France, to find in those acts a single principle or a single word which is not in accordance with that which he now affirms ; that Count Buol having said in his introductory discourse that the Cabinet of Vienna had applied itself to find a solution equally honourable for all parties, he has only gathered and admitted from the second Article the idea which alone is of a nature to offer a basis of negotiation for Powers who respect themselves, that is to say, the combination to carry out a counterpoise of forces by the direct under standing and the mutual consent of the parties interested. Baron Bourqueney observes to him, that it is neverthe less indisputable that the proposition made by M. Drouyn de Lhuys in the eleventh Conference, to the effect " that the Plenipotentiaries of Russia and the Porte should come to some understanding with each other, in the presence of the Conference, on basis of count er p o i s o f th e ir r es p ec ti ve forces, which basis should be recor ded in an ar rangemen t which they should mutually sign, and which, annexed to the Treaty, should have the same value and the same force," had been rejected. Prince Gortchakoff reminds M. de Bourqueney that he will find in the Protocol of the sitting to which he refers the proof that his objections did not bent* on the idea it self a direct u ,derstanding,, but on the method so little feasible in which it was proposed to carry it out. After some observations of Prince Gortchakoff, made with a view of modifyingjthe iinpressi,pn produced on Baron Bourqueney by the circular of the Chancellor of the Em pire of Russia, the meeting was broken up. (Signed) BeOL-SCHAIJENSQTEOT; CIiA.KOF F. PROKESCH-OSTEN. BOURQUENEY. TITOFF. W ESTMORLAND. AALI. AABIP Inclosure. Annex to Protocol No. 14. (Translation. ) Article 1. The High Contracting Parties wishing that the Sublime Porte should participate in the advantages of the system established by public law between the diffe rent States of Europe, engage themselves severally to re spect the independence and territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire, ,marantee together the strict observance of this engaPementb, and will in consequence consider every act or event which should be of a nature to infringe on it as a questson of European interest. If a misuudentandiDg the Porte 12} 631 8 71 1032 31 3 1031 41 M 51 743 5 501. 1 31?2, 75i 6 28i 8 s i t 9k 913 i i 23 i i i 1051 5 23,E 114 43 . , 2i 7 81 4 I 5 PAPER RELATING TO THE NEGOTIATION AT VIENNA ON THE EASTERN QUESTION, (Translation.) Present : For Austria— Count Buol - Schauenstein, and Baron Prokesch-Osten; For France— Baron Borqueney ; For Great Britain— The Earl of Westmorland; For Russia— Prince Gortschakoff, and M. de Titoff ; For Turkey— Anil Pasha, and Av.rif Effendi. Count Buol opened the meeting by the following words : "In the twelfth Conference I had the honour to expres the opinion that the modes of solution calculated to carry completely into effect the third guarantee were not ex hausted, and I claimed especially for Austria the task uf looking for means of accommodation. " We have devoted ourselves to the accomplishment of this task with a zeal proportioned to the importance of the interests at stake. I have drawn from our preceding deli berations the elements of the solution of which I am about to submit to the consideration of the Conference. In re flecting upon those deliberations, I was convinced that various principles, admitted on all sides, might be con sidered as beyond discussion. Those principles are— "l. To connect more completely the existence of the Ottoman Empire with the European equilibrium. "2. To establish a just balance of the naval forces of the two States bordering on the Black Sea. "3. To give a new confirmation to the rule of closing the Straits ' • reserving always to the Sublime Porto the right of calling for the fleets of her allies, whenever she might consider herself menaced. " These bases being obtained from the negotiation, what is the obstacle which has prevented a perfect agreement on the whole of the third guarantee ? "The principal difilculty,•l should say the only one, rests lithe refusal of Russia to impose upon herself by Treaty a OFFICIAL DESPATCHES PROM PUB ED MARSHAL LORD RAGLAN. ( From a supplement to Tuesday's Gazette.) WAR-DEPARTMENT, JUNE 13. Lord Panmure has this day received four despatches and their enclosures, of which the following are copies, addressed to his lordship by Field-Marshal the Lord Raglan, G.C.B. : Before Sebastopol, May 29, 1855. Aty Lord,—Sir Ed mun d Lyons's telegraphic despatch of the 25th, which was forwarded from hence on the morn ing of the 27th, and one from me that immediately fol lowed, will have informed your lordship that the Allied expedition to Kertch reached its destination on the morning of th e 2 4th, and the troops having landed with out delay, and the war steamers drawing little water having pushed on towards Kertch and Enikali, that all the objects in c ontemplation were accomplished in twenty four hours without any resistance on the part of the enemy, who blew up the fortifications on both sides of the passage and retired, thus leavin g us masters of the Sea of Azov, to be speedily occupied b y a flotilla. French and English I have now the honour to lay before you a copy of the report ofLientanant-General Sir G. Brown, commanding the allied troops, and in congr atulating your lordship, c , your o w p h e i l c a l l on u d , o I m h o a s v t e cordially , est egr e at satisfacti on i n drawing on the complete success of the attention to the promptitude w ith which the disembarka tion was effected, to the efficient measures taken by the Lieutenant-General to ensure his position and attain the objects in view, and to the just tribute which he pays in his interesting narrative to the judicious arrangements of Admiral Bruat and Sir E. Lyons, and to the zeal and energy displayed by the officers and men of the Allied fleets in carrying them out under their vigilant superin tendence, as well as to the cordial co-operation and assist ance of General Dantemarre, commanding the French di vision, and Reschid Pasha, commanding the Turkish troops. . - I have not received any farther advicas from Sir G. Brown and Sir E, Lyons. Nothing material has occurred in front of the new posi tion taken up by the Allies on the morning of the 25th. The enemy have made no movement from the high ground towards the advance, but they have displayed a consider able force to-day on the Inkerman heights. Convoys continue to arrive on the north side of Sebas topol. I enclose a return of casualties to, the 27th instant. A further portion of the Sardinian Contingent has arrived, under General La Marmora's brother, the details of which I have not yet received.—l have, &c., RAGLAN. The Lord Panmure, &c., &e. Enclosure 1. Yeni Kali, May 25, 1855. My dear Lord Raglan,—The expedition to this place so far has proved entirely successful, and we have got pos session of all we proposed without striking a blow, and almost without firing a shot. On leaving the anchorage off Sebastopol, on the 22d, the night became so foggy that the fleet made but little progress towards its destination, but the whole of the ships and • steamers reached the rendezvous, four leagues off Cape Takli, soon after daylight on the morning of the 24th, when it was s eedily determined p. to run at once in for the sp o t a t w hich, as your lordship aware, it was originally proposed to disembark, and which is a fine smooth bay, round a low point running out immediately under the village of Kazatch Bouroun. The water in the straits is so shallow that large ships cannot ascend higher than about three miles from this spot, but the steamers and vessels in which the whole of the British infantry and artillery were embarked, could get at least a mile nearer to it. All the vessels got as high up as the depth of the water would permit, and came to an anchor about eleven, when the English and French troops began to get into the boats, and small steamers, which were assigned to them, towed them to the shore, and the gun-boats and small war steamers were stationed to scour the beach, and protect the disembarkation. Although we had observed some six or eight pieces of light artillery following us along the shore, no opposition was made to the disembarkation, and the first of the troops rerched the shore at ten o'clock, which, as soon as • they were formed, were pushed on to occupy the village on the rising ground bordericg the marshy plain, on which they landed for the purpose of covering the re mainder of the disembarkation. As they were the most nu merous, and as your lordship had done so on a former oc casion, I placed the French on the right and the British troops on the left, intending to hold the Turkish Contin gent in „reserve. Soon after the disembarkation had commenced, several loud explosions were heard, and it was soon discovered that the enemy had blown up the magazines of all his batteries on Cape St. Paul, and was retiring by the road leading to Theodocia or Kaffa. It therefore became exceedingly desirable that I should advance to occupy the ridge of which the cape is the continua tion ; but as only a few of the Turkish troops bad got landed, and but little of the artillery, I codtented myself by requesting General Dantemarre to patrol to the cape and towards Kertch, and took up the best position I could find sor the security of the troops, and the protection of the disembarkation of all the necessary material and horses during the night, juPt before dark—which, in an open steppe, where we were exposed to the attacks of cavalry, was an operatien of some difficulty. In the course of the evening, several more loud explo sions were heard, and it was soon discovered that he had also blown up and abandoned the whole of his works here, and along the coast between Ois and Kertch, and spiked all the guns. He had also set fire to and destroyed same large corn magazines in Kertch, as well as two steam ers in the harbour ; and the Cossacks, as usual, burnt all the forage and farm-houses in their way. As soon as the batteries on Cape St. Paul were aban doned, or soon before, some of the smaller war steamers were enabled to round Cape Ackbouroun, and enter the Bay of Bertch, when they engaged and endeavoured to cut off some of the enemy's steamers attempting to escape into the Sea of Azoff. They succeeded, I believe, in capturing a small one, but the other two managed to get through. The disembarkation of horses, guns, and materiel went on during the whole night, under the zealous and active superintendence of Rear-Admiral Houston Stewart and Captain Sir Thomas Palley ; but, with all this, there was a good deal to be done at daylight this morning, and I was ultimatelp compelled to proceed with only three of the guns of the Turkish Contingent, and without any of their offic !r.' horses. Under the circumstances, bowaver, I considered it im perative to proceed, and the whole force marched off their ground at six this morning —the French in contiguous columns, followed by their artillery ; the British in echelons of columns, covering their flank, and their own artillery apd baggage ; and the Turkish troops in continuous columns of battalions, covering the rear of the whole, until they approached the precincts of Kertch, when the whole of the troops broke into an ordinary column of route. The town of Kertch is clean, ancrremarkably well built, and the troops passed through it with the greatest regularity and without the slightest disorder ; subsequently the day became exces sively hot, and the march being a long one, the men suf fered greatly from fatigue and want of water, which was only to be found as occasional wells. We managed to get in here, however, by 1 o'clock, where we were soon after visited by tho thee Admirals, and found a large aqua (lion of small steame's and gun-boats, ready to proceed into the Sea of Azof, under the command of Capt. Lyons, of the Miranda. The result of these operations,lbesides the opening of the passage into that sea, and the destruction of the enemy's works, has been the capture of upwards of fifty of his guns, many of them of the largest calibre and the bast con struction ; and if the enterprise has from circumstances not added greatly to the glory of her Majesty's arms ,it has, as already stated, so far been attended by complete success. . That success, however, is mainly to be attributed to the judicious arrangements of Admirals Bruat and Sir E. Lyons, and to their indefatigable attention in carrying them out, as well as to the able and willing assistance they have received from the captains and other officers of the French and British navy under their respective corn. man& ; nor must I omit to mention the invariable and willing assistance I have on all occasions received in the course of this service from General Dantemarre, c ow _ manding the French Division, and from Reschid Pash a , oommanding the Sultan's troops. I omitted to state that, in passing through Kertch this morning, observing that an iron foundry there had been employed in the manufacture of shot and sh e ll s, as well :1 in casting Minh') bullets, I caused it t o b e destroyed, with all its new and expensive machinery.—Yours, G. BROWN. Field-Marshal Lord Raglan, G.C.8., &c., &e., &c. Attempts are maki ng b ________„..... y the Customs department to compel the waterside patrol force to wear gilt crowns in the front of their caps. 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Pc. street;oax Oxford-street; d s.7Ct - , s r2h t el r pu c e, i Pall-mall-East m alye3ak:sl dl pi ; 6, Edward-street, Per .nat and one of the Contracting Powers, these t wo States, be. fore ha v i ng recourse to the employment of force, should place the other Powers in a position to prevent the ez tremity by pa c ifi c means . Art. 2. The Russian Plenipotentiaries, and th- ose of the Sublime Porte, will propose by common agreement to the Conference the equal amount of the effective naval forces which the two sea bordering Powers will keep up in the Black Sea, and which shall not exceed the actual number of Russian ships afloat in that sea. The arrangement which they shall have made between themselves in this respect shall form an integral part of the General Trealiy. There shall likewise be inserted in the Treaty the means upon which the same Ple nipotentiaries shall have agreed, with the view of cont ro lli ng the exact and consttait obser vance of the stipulations of the present Article. Art. 3. The rule of closing the Straits of the Bosphorus and Dardanelles, sanctioned by the Treaty of July 13, 1841, shall remain in force, with the exceptions stipulated in the following Article. Art. 4. Each of the Contracting Parties which has no establishment in the Black Sea shall be authorised by a fir man of his Highness to send into and to station in that sea two frigates or ships of less force. At. 5. In case (which God forbid !) the Sultan should be threatened with an attack, he reserves to himself the right of opening the Straits to all the naval forces of his allies. • of rob. bi' err f e d , he ' pa ble of ii's 5 5 5 20 20i 100 204 100 20 20 20 33i 10 20 100 100 100 20 20 50 50 10(1 100 20 50 20 25 13 hi 0 14i I 51 i 37i 8