The Sun. — London, England, 1855-02-21 00:00:00

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Smith.— Reduced Prices as usual.— A Morning Performance every Wednesday. at Two o'clock. ----- - - TO-MORROW EVENING, Fzs. 22, Will be perform t ed THE BRIDE OF LUDGATE. After which, THE WRITING ON THE SHUTTERS. To conclude with the Pantomime of JACK AND JILL. THEATRE ROYAL R.AY2EIRKMT. Under the management of Mr. Buckstone. TO-MORROW EVENING, FEB. 22, Will be performed the Tragedy of ROMEO AND JULIET. Romeo, Mi-s Cushman ; Juliet, Miss Swanborough. Followed by the new grand Christmas Pantomime, entitled LITTLE 80-PEEP; or, Harlequin and the Girl who Lost her Sheep. Little 80-Peep, Miss L. Thompson ; Harlequin, Mr. Chanino ; Pantaloon, Mr. W. Barnes; Clown, Mr. Appleby ; Columbine, Misi M. Brown. ;OYAL PRUSICESS'S TfIEATIZE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHARLES KEAN. TO MORROW EVENING, FEB. 22, Will be presented the original adaptation of Casimir Delavigne's Historical Play, entitled LOUIS THE ELEVENTH. Principal character by Mr. C. Kean. After which will be produced a New Grand Christmas Pantomime. entitled, HARLEQUIN BLUE-BEARD; or, The Great Bashaw. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Heinle ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo ; and Columbine, Miss Desborough. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. TO-MORROW EVENING, FEB. 22, Will be performed AGGRAVATING SAM. Principal character by Mr. C. Mathews. To be followed by (first time) a new Comic Drama, called TOO MUCH OF A GOOD THING. After which will be produced the new and original Fairy Extra vaganza, entitled PRINCE PRETTYPET and THE BUTTERFLY. Box-office open from 10 until G. Sole agent for Private Boxes. Mr. Allcroft, 15, New-Bond-street. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIII. Proprietor. Mr. B. Webstor.--Directreas, Madame Celeste. TO-MORROW EVENING, FEB. 22, trill be perfbrrned a n , .w and riginal Drama, preceded by a Pro logue, and called JANET PRIDE. To he fol'owed by THE UNKNOWN' AND THE BAYADERE. Characters by 1iC831"5. P. Bedford and G. Lee ; Misses Woolgar and Keeley, and Mdlles. Maraquita and renoni. t/OYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Mstnagcr, Mr. A. Wigan. TO-MORROW EVi - ;ICING, Fru. 22, Will he presented the new Cornedietta, called TIT FOE, TAT, in which Messrs. P. Robsc,n, A. Wigan, and Miss Maskell will app:ar. Followed by A LUCKY FRIDAY. Ater which, a new Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE YELLOW DWARF AN D THE KING CF THE GOLD MINES. Characters by %f r. F. Robson, Miss Julia St. George, Misi E. Ormonde, Miss Marston, Miss Bromley, and Mrs. Fitzallari. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and :liana: Tr, lir. Wm. Cooke. THIS EVENING, 106th time, the BATTLE of the ALMA ! to which will shortly be added, the Battles of Balaklava and of Inkenna )4. After which, the Brilliant SCENES of EQUITATION in the CIRCLE. To conclude with (the last week) the Grand Comic Pantomime called GULLIVER and the LILLIPUTLINs ; or, Harlequin and Britannia. On FRIDAY, a FP.EE BENEFIT in aid of the " Times' " Fund for the Relief of the Sick and wounded Soldiers. Box-office open from Eleven till Fcur. Stage Manager, Mr. W West. Acting Manger, Yr. W. :11. Cooke. Equestrian Director Ur. W. Cooke, jun. ItOYAL `?TEAN) Under the direction of Miss IZebecca Isaacs. THIS EVENING A MUSICAL and GENERAL ENTERTAINMENT, introducing the French Chanteurs Montagnards. A CONCERT. Professor Tanner and his Trained Troupe of Animals. Illustrations of the War. Dissolving Views, &c., &c. HIGH WATER AT LONDON FRIDO? , I). A y —Mornmg 6 rei , .after 5 I Evening 24 rabLaft. 5 To-lb:allow—Morning 45 min.after 5 1 Evening 3 min.aft. 6 !BE WEATHER.—Sap 0/1101, Feb. 21. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 36—highest since noon yesterday. 26—lowest this morning and during the night. 31—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 29'92—rising again. WIND, N.N.W.—Light, AV ith hazy, frosty weather. ;-=" - e gt; LONDON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1855. Mr. COLLIER has on many occasions rendered important services to the country. Never, how ever, did he introduce a subject of deeper inte rest than when, last night, he directed attention to the state of our trade with Russia, and the grave mistakes committed by the " Elder DROMIO" at the commencement of the War, and strove in the mildest manner to elicit the intentions of the younger twin, so as to obviate the necessity of a more decided resolution. The moderation of the Hon. Gentleman should be duly appreciated. The castigation was administered with regret. It was given rather in sorrow than in anger—the act of a faithful but outraged friend, not of a vengeful adversary. If, therefore, even at the eleventh hour, there be any manifestations of improvement—if even a promise be given 'to amend the obnoxious practice and inaugurate a sounder policy, the Hon. Gentleman will rest contented. He is willing to proclaim an act of amnesty if we only profit by former errors, and show a just appreciation of the painful though salutary lesson taught to us at so high a price. The time-honoured apophthegm informs us that " once bought is better than twice taught." Our experience extends to both points ; and, if we are not prepared to profit either by instruction or loss, there should be an absolute change of ma nagement—the introduction of a mere judicious system, where the lessons of the past may guide the operations of the future. The " Ministerial mouthpiece " on the question —Mr. CARDWELL--was certainly not sufficiently explicit or candid in the expression of his inten tions. He may mean what is right, but he must show more earnestness of intention, more energy of conduct, before we can place confidence in his measures. Hitherto they have totally failed, and they have probably tempted Prussia, by the op portunities offered, into the course which has been so injurious to this eountiY, anc s° prejudicial to her own position as one of the leading European Powers. We practically offered a bribe to induce her to prolong hostilities by avoiding the decided action that would speedily bring Russia to a due sense of her situation, and induce the CZAR to swallow his leek with all due humiliation. These are not opinions put on to suit the fashion of the d a y. we have long held these, aye, and urged them. Nearly twelve months since we pointed out that the only way in which we could hope to terminate the untoward state of affairs then existing was, by making the evils incidental to war as painfully perceptible as practicable, by making the hostilities forced on us bring with them their own fearful consequenc es to those wi th whom we wey , en gaged. We then enunciated the principle, w hi ch has since been established beyond the possibility of dispute, that it " was not by the destruction of men so much as by cutting off the supplies that we could hope to bring the AUTOCRAT to reason." He might easily find new conscripts— men pressed into his ranks, and compelled to fight under a flag they detested, in a cause tiley abhorred. But he has no such moans of maintaining Russian trade—of compell ing foreign merchants to bring in their capital, for the purpose of advancing his interests, and supplying him with the sinews of war to use, pro bably, against their own countrymen. We still assert the propriety of the doctrine which we pro mulgated in the latter eud of March or beginning of April in last year, namely, " that the destruc tion of commerce • 14 better than, the destruction - THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 2l, 1855. of life, even if those lives belonged only to our 1 adversaries, and that none of our own gallant de fenders were involved in similar danger." Having nearly eleven months since given ex pression to such views, it must now be manifest how fully we concur with the Honourable and Learned Gentleman the Member for Plymouth, how earnestly we desire the suppression of that phase of " Germanism" that offered the tempting bribe for Prussian neutrality. Mr. CARDWELL indulges in a considerable amount of self-gratu lation as to the degree of pressure inflicted on the enemy with so small an injury to our own commerce. We fear, however, that the balance will be found on the other side of the books — that the injury and annoyance has been to our selves, without any corresponding damages to our opponents. The views of Mr. COT.LIER are so just —so important, too, at the present crisis— that they must receive the further consideration, both from Parliament and the country, to which they are so eminently entitled. If there be one quality which more than any other distinguishes the speeches of Lord STANLEY it is that of fairness. He seems unable to sink to the partisan, and, while by no means wanting in strong attachment to his more important con clusions, his advocacy of them is moderated by what will ever produce moderation, the habit of mastering both sides of a case. His Lordship is neither a doubter, who can only arrive at the re suit that mush may be said on both sides, nor a one-sided believer, who sees nothing at all in the arguments of the opposing party. We must think that one who shows so well-balanced a mind, and whose tendency is so markedly in favour of pro gress, will become a working statesman in due time, and one who will be largely trusted. Eng land yet leans on her aristocracy for guidance, and they have but to show qualities worthy of her confidence to retain the reins in their own hands. To take, for instance, in his very able speech delivered the other day to his constituents at Lynn, and which occupied several columns in The Sun of Monday, the domestic subjects of Education and Church Rates. No two topics have been more fertile of contention of late years; none have been more embittered by the partisan zeal of a large number of those on whom his political party has leaned for support, both at the polling booth, and in the House of Commons. Yet there is no pandering to that party, but, on the contrary, a strong tendency to the most liberal and enlightened views. He is decidedly in ad vance of Lord JOHN RUSSELL on both questions. On that of Education ho rejoices in the yearly approximation of parties, and is well pleased that between the proposals of Lord JOHN RUSSELL and Sir JOHN PAKINGTON there should be no ilia ' portant difference. While deeming it practically impossible in rural districts to dispense with the aid of the clergyman, he will not listen for a mo ment to any compulsory attendance on the reli gious teaching, nor to the withholding secular instruction from those who refuse the religious part ; at least in any schools which touch public money of any kind. He is also decidedly in fa your of local or self-government, would deprive the Committee of Privy Council of its present irresponsibility, and make it directly amenable to Parliament. Again, on the question of Church Rates, he holds language which may well make the Whig- Liberals blush. Not only does he advocate total abolition, and that as a matter of justice and right, but he does so with a statesmanlike view to the near future. Lord JOHN RUSSELL taunted him last session with the remark, that his A nti- Church Rate arguments led to voluntaryism. Lord STANLEY is not the man to have overlooked that fact, or to shrink from avowing it. He acknow ledges the difficulties which may at first occur in some rural districts, but is confident they will soon vanish, while he regards the termination of so many religious battles as an abundant compen sation ; but, adds his Lordship, " I think the change doubly important, not only on account of the intrinsic merits of the cause, but because it will a f ford us the first trial, the first practical ex periment, of that principle of self-support in reli gious matters which—whether we like it or no— whether we approve it or no—whether we think it the. best possible system or no—seems likely, perhaps, certain in the inevitable progress of public events, to be the principle of the next generation." (Hear, hear, and applause.) Every reader, whatever his views on Church Rates, must admire the manly independence of one with Lord STANLEY'S political connexions asserting such views as these. For ourselves we endorse them entirely ; we , are thoroughly tired of the finality men, i whether Tories or Whigs ; and congratulate the nation on finding in the ranks of the former rising statesmen who are putting the Sexagena rians among the latter and their understrappers to shame. It is one of our most hopeful omens. If younger Conservatives begin to look on ecclesi astical and other questions in a national and not a party view, if they aim to take the lead and to govern by abolishing monopoly and privilege, and removing all artificial disabilities, then they will be the men who must come into power. The people are now utterly sick of the old party names, and nothing will avail to secure their sup port abut being honestly ready to do their work ; and all Lord STANLEY'S popular views carry on the face of them the evidence of careful examina tion and thorough conviction. On the War and Peace matters though ,ve might find ground for some considerable difference of opi nion, yet our general observation equally applies, that his remarks are characterised by great fair ness. Indeed he excuses but too much the errors and mismanagement of the Cabinet to which he was politically opposed. We may, per haps, from his position allow him to look with leniency on aristocracy in the army, but we must beg him, thorough-going thinker as he is, to settle clearly in his mind whether the rule should or should net be laid down and stringently carried out, making promotion dependent on merit and qualification only. We can hardly doubt the conclusion he will come to, and as little the good service his decision would do. Two popular do mestic questions are just now all but brought to a satisfactory termination, in great part, we believe, through the %.course he has taken. We do not think the system of Boffin the command of our poor soldiers to wealthy incompetency could long survive a decided speech or letter from the Heir of the House of DERBY. Chemists inform us that certain substances may be dissolved and recombined, the elements re maining the same, but the physical properties of the new compound becoming entirely different—. bland nutriment changing, it may be, into a drastic medicine. All England is but too willing to hope for such a result from the separation and re-union of the parts composing the late Cabinet ; she must, however, see the altered working quickly, or she will not believe in the magic change. We cannot profess to feel at ease as yet. We would not be impatient, but hitherto we see nothing done which strikes at the root of the acknowledged evils. The s ingle War Secretary, with a PEEL instead of a LAYARD, is but a very imperfect he gi"ing ; and as yet we hear nothing of ground b • 'mg broken a n d th e t renc h es opene d aga i ns t th e i gnorance, wilf u l office:lei:n and self-conceit of the innumerable who snubbed our patriotic merchanss.znwde boards and delayed every order of the poor Duke o victim, more of their hea rtle sssTl'mtill he became the - villainy than of any fault of his own. We want some sign, some unmistakeable proof that ever y o ffi cial i n every department, be he the kinsman. of a Peer or the sou of some important M.P.'s best local support er , i s suspended upon his efficienc y and good y be haviour. We want evidence that Sir Cnaitems TREVELYAN, or any other Sir CHARLES, will never be imposed on again by his subordinates, but that every mismanaged shipment, er other piece of business, will bring substantial penalti es up ou the head of some responsible delinquent. We have hundreds of men of business who would so order - • every practical department of Government that the blame would always fall on the right shoulders, and that it would be the interest of none who owned a pair of shoulders to have the blame rest ing on them. The commissions to the Crimea are to us evi dence rather of identity than of difference be tween the New Cabinet and the old one. They spring of course from its Whig section. Whigs. and Commissions must go together. We must think Lord PALMERSTON wholly failed to meet Mr. LArARD'S remarks on Monday night. Com missioners were sent out to inquire where no in quiry was needed, and double authority originated where the grand necessity is, one compe tent authority. The Commander-in-Chief and the Commissary-General need nothing but superce ssion. Both are too aged for actual service, and the ap pointment of younger and competent men in their places is the thing needed to reassure both army and nation. Both of them have utterly failed— worse the thing cannot be, let others try their hands. The same principle applies to numbers of worthy old gentlemen in the Crimea. Then, again, there is Lord JOHN RUSSELL, Germanism and Poland. We want some reason able ground of hope that Saxe Coburg is not to be as powerful at the New Vienna Conference as England, and that his Lordship is not gone to ask very moderate things in the Black Sea, and to leave Poland incorporated with Russia. He must see that his countrymen understand the business as well as he does. Bath has followed Bridge water in asserting the necessity of a free Poland to a secure peace. Lord JOHN will appear but a very small statesman a few years hence, much as he is now bepraised, if he leave Russia master of Warsaw, and of a strong line of inland Sebasto pols, threatening all Germany and Europe. For ourselves we have little hope from such a devotee to Austria as Lord JOHN RUSSELL. The Minis ter who could tolerate the Russian suppression of Hungarian liberties to please Austria, who could put her into the Principalities, who could for her sake refuse a Polish legion, and even keep Turkey from forming one, and who could see our army dying before Sebastopol rather than hoist on the trenches the Polish flag, who could allow her to drive political refugees out of Wallachia, and could crown all by wishing Russia to retain all her stolen territories—such a statesman► is not one from whom we can hope for a peace worthy of the Allies, or worthy of England's sufferings. We want some niinimurn demands specified. LATEST NEWS. VIENNA, TUESDAY EVENING, FEB. 20. The Imperial Palace on the Hradschin, at Prague, has been burning since an early hour this morning. The ex-Emperor and Empress are in safety. The reigning Emperor has sent Prince Charles Lichtenstein, the Lord High Steward, to their Majesties. BERLIN, TUESDAY, FEB. 20. The Borenshalle states that the Russian Govern ment has ordered a forced loan and fourfold re quisitions for provisions. Every " hide" of land in Poland is to pay 15 roubles. The Preussische Correspondenz explains that the arming of the militia in Russia is a defensive measure, not opposed in character to the peace conferences at Vienna. The Emperor in his mani festo states that a continuance of bloodshed is contrary to his wishes. We have received the Moniteur of yesterday. It does not contain any political or local news of interest. Under date of Jassy, January 21, it states that it was expected. that the electric telegraph would shortly be completed between Jassy and Czerno witz, Vienna and Galatz. The following telegraphic despatches are given in the foreign journals : ST. PETERSBURG. Two new measures have been taken by the Go vernment simultaneously with the ukase decreeing a levy of the militia. The first is a fresh appeal for subscriptions and voluntary offerings. The second orders a forced extraordinary contribution throughout the extent of the Russian empire. BERLIN, Fzs. 19. A despatch, of the date of the Ist inst., from the Austrian Government to that of Bavaria, for mally announces that Austria considers the estab lishment on a war footing of the Federal contin gents as a preparatory measure to their mobiliza tion, the proposal for which will be renewed. HAMBURG, FEB. 20. The Second Danish Clamber not admitting the constitutional legality of a Grand Council common to both parts of the kingdom, rejected yesterday the credit demanded to cover the ex penses of that body. AUSTRIA. The Emperor Francis Joseph has addressed the following note to the Minister of the Interior, the Baron von Bach. It is a proof of the noble cha racter of his Majesty, and will therefore be read with interest : " Dear Baron von Bach—lt has come to my know ledge that it is intended to celebrate the approaching event, so full of hope and joy to me and my people, by public illuminations and other festivities. lam com pletely convinced of the deep sympathy of my loyal sub jects on this occasion, but the dearness of the necessaries of life leads me to wish that the money proposed to be expended in festivities may be rather disposed of for the benefit of the poor and suffering ; for in works of bene ♦olence I shall recognise the most beautiful and con vincing expressions of the love and loyalty of my sub jects. You will make known this my wish. ' Vienna, Feb. 15." " FRANCIS JOSEPH. PRUSSIA. The following is the text of the despatch ad dressed under date of the 30th of January by M. de Manteuffel to M. d'Arnim, Prtusian, Ambassador at Vienna : "Your Excellency will have been made acquainted by the newspapers with a confidential despatch, addressed by Count Buol, under date of the 14th of January, at the same time as the official circular communicated to us, to all, or at least to some of the Imperial agents in Germany. "It is scarcely necessary to observe that that commu nication of the Imperial Austrian Cabinet was not ad dressed to us, but we are the less permitted to doubt the authenticity of its contents, as we learn them from diplomatic quarters, as it was forwarded at the same time to the Western Powers, and the French legations in Germany received orders to act in the sense of those instructions. "As this document, as I have already observed, has not been communicated to us by the Austrian Cabinet, I feel myself relieved from the painful task of making any overture to your Excellency on the subject. It is useless to dwell upon the impression which it must have produced here, and, I may add, in all Germany. His Majesty the King, our master, will not allow him self, despite the sad and surprising symptoms, to be shaken in the conviction recently communicated to the Federal Assembly—namely, that the fundamental dis position of the federal act secures a sufficient guarantee for its maintenance—a guarantee which does not want strengthening by private assurances, and which no se ductions could seriously compromise. " MANTEUFFEL." RUSSIA. The following is a copy of the manifesto just issued by the Czar, an extract of which we pub lished on Monday : " We, by the Grace of God, Nicholas 1., Emperor and Autocrat of All the Russia, &c., make known— " Our loyal and beloved subjects well know how ardently we desired and desire to obtain, without force of arms and without farthereffusion of blood, theend we have constantly proposed ; namely, to defend the rights of our co-religionists, indeed those of Christianity throughout the East. Th at w i sh is known to all who have i mpart i a ll y watched th e march of events, and the i nvaria b le tendency of W our acts. e remain, as ever , s t ra nger to e very other 'm tivetban thi s, and to any other view in the matter off tith and conscience. Faithful to these principles we an ; nounced our assent to the opening of negotiations with - the Western Powers, who had formed with the Otto man Government a hostile alliance against us. We believe that our moderation and justice entitled us to expect from them the same sincerity and disinterested intentions. We have not yet lost hope of a restoration of that peace which is so desirable and so valuable to the whole Christian world. However, in the face of the forces they themselves have gathered, other preparations ore making for the struggle against us, which, despite pending negotiations, are not suspended, nay, daily acquire more vast proportions. We are constrained to think that the increase of means which God has given us to defend our/ native country will oppose an impassable barrier to hostile attempts against Russia, to projects threatening her security and great ness. We fulfil the first of our duties, by invoking the support of the Almighty, with entire faith in His grace, and full confidence in the love of cur subjects, animated by the same feelings of devotion to our creed, to our orthodox Church, and to our dear country. We, therefore, address this new appeal to all classes of our subjects, ordaining that the formation of the general arming of the ipopulation of the Empire be proceeded with. "More than once have we experienced painful trials. Yet, menaced Russia always found her salvation in her humble reliance on Meaven, in the ties uniting the Sove reign to his beloved subjects ; and, as formerly, so it will be now. God, who reads hearts, blesses your intention, and will grant you his aid. " NICHOLAS. "Given at St. Petersburg, Jan. 29 (Feb. 9), 1855." TURKEY. ANGLO-OTTOMAN CONTINGENT. CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. B.—A military conven tion has been signed by Lord Redcliffo and by the Grand Vizier and Ministor for Foreign Affairs on the part of the Turkish Government, providing that the Ottoman troops at present in the Crimea are to be placed under the orders of Marshal Lord Raglan, and in the pay of the British Government. This most excellent measure will it is to be hoped, be attended with the best resui.ts. We have not as yet learned the whole detail s of this transaction, but from a good source th following information in respect to the principall clauses has been received. 1. Anglo-Ottoman con ti ngen t i s un The er ined, numberus and of will depend d e p en d on circumstan ces . 2. The Osman;ee costum e to remain without variation. 3. The pay to be. the same as that of the British troops. 4. Full libert . 7 of conscience, and in all relating to the exercise of religious worship. 5. British officers may be incorporated in this force. The mr_ortality in our hospital during the month of January has been awful, amounting to 1,600. Dr. Gumming has, within these last couple of days, been entrusted with the chief direction of that establishment. I have not yet made his ac quaintance ; but from all I can learn he is a man of ability and experience, and quite disposed to listen to any useful suggestion relative to the peculiar conditions of this climate. FRANCE. A letter dated Paris, yesterday, 6 p.m., con tains the following " Of the Emperor's departure for the Crimea— still the all-engrossing topic of the day —not much more can be said than that everything is ready, men, horses, railroad, and steamer. The same dates, or rather the same variation of dates, as before, the 22d, the 25th, and the 26th. It is thought probable that if his Majesty goes, the Turkish Am bassador, who, as you are already aware, has been recalled, purposes accompanying him to Constanti nople. Notwithstanding all these appearances I should not yet say that the journey is irrevocably decided. The minds of the Ministers are not made up on the point, and I doubt whether that of the Emperor is. It is superfluous to say, that with the exception of some of the Republican party, the same disapprobation is expressed in public and private. The Emperor seems convinced that the only obstacle to the re establishment of peace is Sebastopol ; that if it were taken or destroyed the rest would be easy enough ; and he is under the impression that -his presence with the army would be sufficient for the purpose. It would perhaps be worth the journey if the fall of Sebastopol necessarily followed the arrival of the Emperor before its walls, and there is no doubt that the prospect of peace would be considerably ad vanced thereby. But such a result is by no means one of absolute certainty, and the consequences of a failure it is hardly necessary to allude to. It has been represented to the Emperor by more than one diplomatic person, that his appearance before Se bastopol at the moment of the opening of the Conference at Vienna would greatly complicate the negotiations, and place the Allied Powers in a disagreeable and even difficult position. Two or three days more will enlighten us a good deal on the subject. In the meantime, tho ppinion is, as I. have already observed; almost unanimous in con demning such a step." BOURSE, FEB. 20.—CLOSING PRICES. Cash. fr. c. End of Month. .1 , , per Cents 94 90 91f. 9Jc. 3 per Cents 65 90 i 5 90 Credit Mobilier 723 75 Roman Credit Fon cier — Austrian Belgian Fives ...... .. Spanish Threes — riedmontese B3 90 Home Debt 304 RAILWAYS—FOR CASH. fr. c. fr. c. Orleans 1,167 50 Lyons , 1013 75 Western 652 50 Rouen Cette 591 25 Strasburg Mediterranean 892 50 Havre 550 Northern .. THE MEDITERRANEAN. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY, MIDNIGHT. By the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Com pany's ship Euxine, Captain Weeks, just arrived, we have dates from Alexandria to February 5, Malta, 9th, and Gibraltar 15th of February. She brings 90 passengers and a cargo consisting of 225 bales of silk, 113 bales of flax, besides oranges, plants, dates, and general merchandise. The Euxine reports the Iberia to have left Gib raltar on the 10th inst. During her homeward voyage the Euxine spoke on the 9th inst. the bark Boslander, on th• 13th the Ottoman off Malaga, on the 15th the transport steam-ship Severn entering Gibraltar, and on the same day the screw steamer Croesus. The screw steam transport Snowdon, from Ports mouth, with navvies for Balaklava, arrived at Gibraltar on the 9th inst. On her voyage she bore down on the Adventure, from Dartmouth, having on board the shipwrecked crew of the•Van sittart, of South Shields, from Newport, with coals, bound to Constantinople, which foundered off Cape Finigterre on the 2d. They were in an exhausted state, having worked at the pumps for 10 days. The Lady Jocelyn from Southampton, with huts for the French army in the East, arrived at Gib raltar on the oth. The transport ship London arrived at Gibraltar from Constantinople on the 10th in ballast. The steam transport Whitley Park left Gibraltar for the East on the 10th. The British steamer Enniskillen, with the Corio lanus in tow, with wooden huts for the French army, left on the same day. The Scamander, from Havre, with provisions, &c., for the French army, passed to the eastward on the 11th. The steam-transport War Cloud, with wooden huts for the British army, left Gibraltar for Bala klava on the 12th. _ Tho Cluster, for Balaklava, with huts, arrived on the 11th. . . Our correspondent at Gibraltar, in his letter dated the 14th of February, says ' " Since Sunday last the weather has bees very rough, and rain has fallen in torrents. There are above 11 inches snore than the average quantum for the season. There was a heavy storm, with thunder and lightning, on the 13th. Owing to the gale, the men, women, and children of the 39th Regiment were not to embark in the London till further orders." Exchanges at Gibraltar, 51i for bills on London at 90 days ; on Paris, sf. 42c. THE TEMPERATURE IN THE MIDLAND COUNTIES. A correspondent, writing from Worcestershire, says : " Being a subscriber to The Sun, I find you register the thermometer at 11 deg. on Blackheath on Wednes day last. lam induced to send you the lowest point by Six's thermometer for a few nights in the Midland counties. The thermometer was placed on the south front of a greenhouse : " Friday, Feb. 16... 7 deg.-95 deg. below freezing. ~ 17... 2 „ —29 i „ ft „ 18... 81 „ —23 i ~ SP ~ ~ 19... 22 „ —lO if ff CRYSTAL PALACE, FEB. 20.—SHILLING DAL—Ad mission at the doors, 712 ; admission by season tickets, 334 ; total, 1,046. INLAND BOOK POST.—GENERAL POST-OFFICE, Feb., 1855.—0 n and after the Ist of March nest the following alterations will be made in the regulations of the inland book-post :—lf a book packet be found to contain any enclosure which is sealed, or otherwise closed against inspection, or any letter, whether sealed or not, the letter, or other enclosure, will be taken out and forwarded to the address on the packet, charged with full postage as an unpaid letter, together with an additional rate of 6d., the remainder of the packet, if duly pre-paid, being for warded as heretofore. 2. If a packet be not sufficiently pre-paid, according to its weight, but nevertheless bear stamps to the amount of 6d, it will not, as heretofore, heenrni. 'l;a'ilo to I'l, letter rite of p• but will lip forwarded charged with the deficient book postage, and an addition of 6d.—Rowland Hill, secretary. _ VIONEY MA it KE T AND 00.141VIERCIAL INTETZIGENCE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK The cotton market at Liverpool, yesterday, was heavy again. The sales amounted to 4,000 bales (500 of which were taken for export), comprising 200 Pernam and Maranham at 51d. to 7d., 200 Egyptian at sd. to ad., and 400 Surat at 3 i ld. to 3-id., per lb. Railway Shares were very inactive. The public sales of tea are going off very heavily. Some of the common congou has been sold as low as 9d. per lb. The indigo auctions have progressed well, at fully October rates, and good Kurpah has been 2d. to 3d. per lb. dearer. Up to last evening, 8,469 chests had passed. The extraordinary lino of argument adopted by Mr. Cardwell, in reply last evening to the speech of Mr. Collier, who moved for returns elucidatory of the course of the trade of Russia during the past year, is the subject of comment among all prac tical men ; but, we may state at the outset, that it surprises no ono who has watched events and taken cognizance of the past proceedings of our Government. The present policy is, in fact, "all of a piece," with that half-and-half truckling system, which has cost us thousands of lives and millions of money without producing any definite results. The question which every disinterested merchant asks is, " Are we at war, or are we not 1" If at war, why not strain every nerve to cripple our enemy, if only in common justice to those who fight our battles and supply the means ; if at peace, why blockade at all ? According to the reasoning of last night, it would be easy to prove that all we are doing is worse than useless, since honourable mem bers give it as their opinion that, for the benefit of consumers in France and England, the indirect trade had better be permitted. It would be easy to show the utter fallacy of such assertions, even in reference to this part of the subject, for substi tutes would long since have been made temporarily available if any one had really believed in the stop page of the Russian trade. As to the assertions about the profit upon the exports of tallow, hemp, & - c., to Egland being only 950,0001., and the total value 7,000,0001., there is not a practical man who would hesitate.to give it a positive contradiction. Accounts from Vienna state that a great fall had taken place in the price of the Northern railroad Shares, no less than 25 per cent. in two days, under the impression that the new French Com pany had power to make a line almost parallel to the Northern. 'When this was ascertained to be incorrect, a rally occurred of 13 per cent., making the actual decline 8 per cent. Yesterday afternoon the quotations of the foreign exchanges were firm. Paris, 90 days, was at 25 321 to 35, Amsterdam at 11 171 to 18, Hamburgh at 13 5 to 6k, and Trieste at 12 48 to 54. Public Securities have improved since the com mencement of business, in consequence of the pub lication of an outline of the treaty which Prussia is stated to he about to make with the Western Powers. The Manifesto of the Emperor of Russia is likewise considered to be much more pacific in its tone. Consols have been 90/ to 911 for trans fer, and 90:4 to 91f for account. The New 3 per Cents. have been 911 to 91/, and the Reduced 91 to 9l I. Exchequer Bills have been nominally 6s. to 9s. premium. India Bonds are 12s. premium. In Foreign Stocks scarcely anything is doing. Turkish Bonds realise 75k, French 41 per Cents. are 66 50, with the Exchange at 25 5, Dutch 21 per Cents. are 611. Brazilian Old Bonds have realised 1001. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6 ; Mexi can, 201 to 21 ; Peruvian, 69 to 71; ditto Three per Cents., 49 to 51 ; Portuguese Four per Cents., 41 to 43 ; Russian Five per Cents., 98 to 100 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 87 to 89 ; Spanish New Deferred, 17i to 18 ; ditto Three per Cents., 36 to 36k; ditto Certificates, 4i to 5; ditto Passive, 4 to 41, Railway Shares have been very dull, but they keep firm. In the Colonial lines there have been a few transactions at previous rates. Mining Shares are flat. English and Australian copper ore lower, and St. John del Rey have declined The Joint-Stock Banks are slightly in favour o: buyers. The Land Shares have been heavy. FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'ULOt (Front the Official List. Bwdness none 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities OlB g 3 per Cont. Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4 5-16 India Bonds, £lOOO .......... Consols for Account, Bth March 9l 90i 1,1 exchequer Bills, 24d. 21000 Ditto Advertised PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 100:3 Curkish Bonds, per cent — Ditto for the Account 751 Dividends on the above payable in London. French Rentes, 46 per Cent. 66f. 50e. ex.25L sc. Ditto Scrip Oaten Exchange, 26 per Cent. 12 Gull msols HALF•PA ST TWO. 91 Ditto, Marcia Account MARKET IVEIVS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. As the navigation of the Thames is now almost wholly suspended—it Jbeing impossible to land cargoes even when arrived—there was no business doing in wheat here to day. Prices were, therefore, nominal. All kidds of spring corn, as well asflour, were excessively heavy and nominal in price. Wheat. ARRIVALS THIS WERE. I Barley. ( M alt. I 330 I ...... English .. Irish .... Foreign .. Oats. 2,251 Flour. 1,010 1,190 BOROUGH 1101'. Fine hops are very scarce, and quite as dear as last week. Inferior parcels are dull, but not cheaper. WHITECHAPEL. The trade was dull, as follows :—Beef, 3s Od to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4d; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; pork, 3s OJ to 4s 4d per 81bs. by the carcass. SHARE MARK ETS. t I Paid. 100 1.06 86 100 too 1.(40 3 100 all all 13 b all 141 s. 16A 10 3L yll all 20 10 20 35 10 22 all all (Th DAY.) ItAILWAYS. all .1: 10 inwilimmeinnaftlNlNl LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Feb. 21.—Wind and weather this clay at noon, light and variable airs from N. to S.W., and dull weather. It is now very much milder than on any day for the last five weeks. The Vansittart: of South Shields, from Newport, for Constantinople, foundered off Cape Finisterre, 7th inst ; crew saved by the Adventure, from Dartmouth ' • spoken by the Snowdon (s.s. tr a nsp or t), f rom Portsmouth to Bala klav a, which arrived at Gibraltar on the 9th inst. DEAL, Feb. 20.—The brig on shore en the Goodwin Sands is the Richard Reynolds, of Newcastle; she has been taken into Ramsgate with serious damage, and with six feet of water in her hold. She was abandoned by the master and crew previously to her floating off, when a part of the crew returned on board. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 20.—Wind, E. Arrived—H.M.S. Cruiser, from the eastward; ditto Conflict, Leith; Con stantine, London, for Adelaide. Sailed—H.M.S. Nankin, for the Cape and East Indies ; Timandra, Bala,klava. HARWICH, Feb. 20.—The Woodman, of and from New castle, for London, was wrecked on the Shipwash Sand this morning ; crew arrived here. YARMOUTH, Feb. 20.—The Wanderer (barque), of New castle, for Constantin•ple, has put in here leaky ; she will take extra hands, and proceed to Harwich. SUNDERLAND, Feb. 20.—Wind, E. Sailed—Cambria, for St. Thomas. LOWESTOFT, Feb. 20.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived—Lord Althorp, from London, for Shields, leaky. ILFRACOMBE, Feb. 20.—Some of the yards and masts of the Victory, which was on shore near Glenthorne, have coma on shore. LIVERPOOL; Feb. 20.—The Corinthian, for Algos. Bay, which was run down by the Pacific (s.), has been brought into the Princes' Dock. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 19.—Wind, E, Arrived—Patter son (s.), from the Clyde, and sailed for Sydney, N.S.W. Sailed—Blanch, for Savannah. GREAT NORTEERN RAILWAY.—The directors' report for the half-year ending Dec. 31, 1854, states that, " after payment of the fixed charges and the several classes of preference dividends, the balance from revenue available for dividend on the ordinary stock, and on the B and A stocks, is 138,2861. 17s. 6d., being a sum suffi cient to pay the following dividend, viz. :—on the ori ginal stock, at the rate of 5i per cent per annurn, being 21. 17s. 6d. for the half-year ;on the B stock, 31. ss. per cent. for the halfloar, and en the A stock 21. 10s. per cent. for the half-year ; and the directors recommend that these rates of dividend be paid, which will leave the small balance of 381. ss. lid, to be carried to the next account. The dividend for the whole year of 1854 will thia htive, been-47. 5-. p- c Gl. per cent. on the B stock, and 21. 10e. per cent. on the A. stock." • FOR: Antwerp&Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. Juno. Beziors to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda, and Central India. Scrip Central of Italy Demerara Dijon and 13esancon Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian Do. Extension Do. 4i p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible tia 6i 1 4 par 4 p 2 2f . 311 - 321 5 - 8. 1 lii - 1 Do: 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 Franet. Gt. Indian Peninsula Do. New 5 per cent. Great Luxembourg 87 8 par jp par Constituted Shares Do. Obligations _ 23 - 23 - 171 - 17 Gt. Western of Canad Shares Do. Bds., payahle's7 with option till '55. Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O D. do., '73, without option 95 - 97 95 - 97 99 -• 101 Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 por c,nt. 93 95 2d par 97 100, Lake Cont. & Basle Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c. prof Lyons and Geneva .. Lyons 4 Moditerran. Madras ... di, 1 lip lid—id i i Do. Now Maria Antonia Do. do. New . Namur & Liege (wit] interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D 0.201. Shs.late Char leroi and Erqueliues guar. 3$ p. c. & red. at 22y. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds (fmy. B. dg Ams. Shs.) NorwegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans.... Paris and Rouen.— ParisCaen dg Cherbrg Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse_ Do. 5i p. cent. Pref. Southern of France_ St. Andrew's and 61 - 71 33/ -33 i 12 -- gi 9 1 20A 20ip 4 . 6 39 41 21 p 22i ld par 2 7 i 8 ••• " ••• ... "pm Quebec (A) %Vest Flanders Do 54 per c. Pref Western of France._ West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand 3i - 31 6. -61 p iii -: lai JOINT-STO Australasia British Colonial Bank, and Loan Company British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & Chin; Colonial Commercial of Lond 1 English Scottish and Australian 'Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia Ditto New. London and County London Joint Stock.: Lond. & Westminsteri National Provincial, of England Do. New National of Ireland Now South Wales ' Oriental Bank of 1 Corporation Provincial of Ireland Do. New (Royal Australn.Bkg. & Gold Imp Co lAnuth A r stralia Do. New Union. of London ~,,i BANKS. Si -- 83 I'd = i'li 2i -- 2icl 19/ -- 20/ d iP 35/ -- 36/ 20k 41 34 = 36 37 - 39 ••• ••• 38 - 40 63 - 65 7 - 9 = 111 63,i 213 i I WE RitAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAT.) The SPEAK U took the chair at two o'clocic. ' PRIVATE BILLS. The following bills were read a'second time gleton Inclosu-re, Gateshead and Hezharn-roads, Bridge, Limerick and CaAleconnell Railway, WI Valley and Bridgend Railways, London Necropolis all National IVlAuspleum, Maryport and Carlisle Rol l Newcastle-under-Lyrne Gas, Waterford and Vraeri" Railway. NEW WRIT. Mr. HAYTER moved for the issue of a new writor tbo the election of a member to serve in parliament for borough of Swansea, in the room of the late Mr. Vi vi/ deceased. BARNSTAPLE ELECTION COMMTTTEE.,OO The hon. members aointed upon this ccolloilb, pp came up to the table an were duly sworn-- viz'' g p v . Marquis of Blandfo r d, L or d L ova ine, Mr. DawbY ""' mour, Mr. Gr. M. Butt, and Mr. Harmer. NUISANCES REMOVAL AND -DISEASES PREVENTION ACTS AMENDMENT 331-t f L ij i is On the ord e r of the d a y f or th e sec ond reading °' bill, Sir B. HALL observed that, on that octrasino would be mor e c onven i en t, and would tAnu 00' save discussion, if be b r i e fly' stated the al ter i „ 0 which he proposed i n thi s bill. Previoo s „ T er the introduction of this bill he bad had some ° 0 ration with his right h on , f r i en d, th e Lord A ol° „ , is as to the alterations b e i n t en d e d to introolulos the bill, and the Lord Advocate was of oPini (7 , ° , o o the bill (night not in its present form, and with °° .:',l; big modification to apply to Scotland ; and also 14 ' 0 0 honourable friend the Secretary for Ireland rel at i ve application to that country, and, i n accorda nc lo the suggestions of his honou ra bl e friend, al l ai dd b° to Ireland at present cont a i ne d i n th e bill w ° ti olf struck out, and the bill would therefore on l y Wee! to England and Wales. W i th regar d to th e jodio : of the measure they were twofold—the one! that that of general application, and the other OP " es oni.r• cation . under special and peculiar circutos t r,,, c orp° s , s With respect to the first, it could apply for 3" p l at of nuisances removal in England and Wale; iision° the second point of vie w some of its , a lltau c '• would only be put in f orce un d er suc h cire' - ep ido" as arose during the past year—h e mean t a ll visitation. (LEFT SPEAKING.) DBURY-LA NE THEATRE. The present week ends the successful care et t ltb o o agnificen t pant omime a t thi s th eatre . Net t; o j o i e ll - din: finished in attraction, but it is withd7 ena b,::. Mr. Smith to introduce other n p i ayge ksg world. Such liberality on t] lessee we ,sre sure will he duly appreeis,tel that the stmeess that has attended his p l ease an d gratify will continue tl labours of one 7ho spares neither expea to secure the suppe rt of the public. For our juvenile friends we drop the folio' Thursday (to-morrow) the last morning the pantomime takes place, so those visiting the theatre on am! of these occasit " Stand not upon the order of g But go at once." HAYMARKET TREAT Saturday evening next teririnates the Miss Cushman at this theatre. To-moist for the last time as Romeo, the rem being fixed for the representation of ing, in which she will sustain the Merrilees ; and we have no doubt admirers of ttae acting of this lady yri large numbers on eact; of the occasion stone, ever on the alert for attractions, b: another engagement with the celebrated S Senora Perea Nena ; and we are given that this fascinating danseuse, attended new corps, will apprar at, this theatre on We also hear that the talented lessee has novelties in preparation ; and, from out," we anticipate a rich treat shortly. to observe on our last visit that the theatt receive that patronage which the exertiot of Mr. Buckstone so justly entitle him to, ~"' 401 Tee i 4 Lo 4' e hl art kal. ARA tz Ltd p A , 11le 4itt i 4 tt lit t, as; 14::: ,, - lel trawl! e°'o, the G';yi.e, rove of t o • ,; , 14, 1 1 .i, he p3r l t root t , f,t l : 4 , )cl, and 7 10 ',,t) 0 ittl °4 4:,, p ot e A t he ,441 :i 8 ;0 rei lfn' o [o l4 *h. 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L ! ellor °ceir, '.‘,4■411' •les 1 ' li' , 1 %1 14 til a nd ,1 , t v , Il i Apo- 0 , i , Y , h,' last ef it e p i jil l° , tlit,,tl4 ~,Yt,lt' Aye. Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bost and Eastu. Junet Belfast & Ballymena Binning. We lverh. jßtour Vallt y ' Birkenhd. I ancsh. d; Cheshire hunt Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £20.. . Rlyth & Ty ns original £25 (ised. at £45) Bristol and Exeter Wedouian Catmarthen and Car digan Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall Jrieff Junction Dublin &BelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Do. New East Anglian Eastern Countim..... Eastern Union, A Stock Do., B Stock Do., New A !Closing Priees yesterday- 19i - 4b . — 4i 8 9 13 16 17 74 — bad - - g - P 5 61i - 62,E ii i 7 :13:7 ••• --- ••• 3 - 2 6 - 7 134 - 14 11 4 - 11. 29 -• 31 20 - 22 72 74 15 2d -- par„ 193 70 - 72 88. - 82 70 - 72 126 - 128 90 - 42 65 -65 i 60 - 62 72 - 77 7 - 9. 7 • 9 741 •-•• 74i - 5 •• • ..... ••• (I - Rh 96 98 94 —100 t id - id 1 85i —36 i, 8 • 7 ti I 23 - 7"3 7 i - 69 . 691, 41 - 43 par t p 11. 9 1 24 50 - 52 3i 3A 28 ~. 29 8 10 6,1 7 73 74 61 6AI. 4i 34 12t —12 it 504 • 51t 51 53 Par __4 Ad 413 - 61 6d e, 29 41 99 101 64 - 66 45 - 47 124 13 5 S 59 284 - 29 3 3i 16 17 31 4 23 - 25 5 6i 6 - 7 ••• '''' aGN. Fast Lancashire I?,dinburgb & Glasgow .Ll:dinb. and Peebles. , .. Edin. Pith &Dundee 4 'orth & Clyde June. Furness. Do. Extension........ 'Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. SzWest.(lre.) Groat Western Do. Stour Val. Rail _ Gua. Stk Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Laneash.andYorksh Do., Fifths I Do., Wst. Riding Uu Liv.Crsby.&Southpt London & Blackwal Loud. Bright & S.Cst Lond. and, N. Weatu Do. Fifths Do.lo/. Sh., M&8... Do. Eighths London and S. Westin 'Do., £5O Do., £4O Unndrry& Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Sh ef.& Line') Do. Shares, No. 1 Do., Dian. & Lin. Un. Widland Do. Birmng. & Derb (idld. G. West. (Ire, Do. Half Shares . Newcastle & Carlisle. Newmkt.Bary Elden. Nwpt.Aberg. &HIV Newry & Enniskillin Newry Warrenpoini and Rostrevor., Norfolk. !Corthn.Counties Un !siorth British...:.... North Devon, No. I I Do., No. 2 A Deferred Do., B Guarantt.cd N: Eastern—Berwiel, Do. do. Extension Do.do. G.N.E. Parch Do. Leeds Do. York North London Do. New LID N.&S.Wstrn.,l-Tamp- stead, and City Jn. North Staffordshire. North Western NT. & S. Westrn. Jr:nu guneaton, Hinckley and Leicester )xford, Worcesterot2 Wolverhampton Portsmouth , teottisk Central Scottish Midland ihrowsby. dr Herd 3hropshire Union 4 ,onth Devon 3oatl Eastern South WaleB • YrkSh. dr. Riv. Dra 4 tainos, Wok. &W(0 Stockton tz. Darit:. itclkton & Hartlepi Taff Vale Do. £lO shares. Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Haven Doe , and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenn Waterford&Limen , West Cornwall. West End of London and Crystal Palace West London Wimbledn & Croydon lio , dnev. dons this day. 89 81 741 i I 97 i 1001 THE METROPOLITAff RAI Appended to the published report of t' the Great Northern Railway, this y Pre' dL.I. sbarehold ers at the ordinary half-y c arlY at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street, contemplated railway bearing the above judicious step could hardly bare been l'As' merits and demerits of the plan are t obvious that few will have any difficult. ; them. For the gratiGitiOn of such of our r' not have seen it, we may as well state tbai ~ line is to counmence at Paddingt7n AV Post-office. Thus at the outset 't y ing a with the Great Western, besides -4r "clistano reinating i n a station at no i ,-ea t th i s et Marble-arch, Hyde-park. Leafing it count, the first on the line will be c on gers from the Edgewar e - roa d Oxford &c. &c. The second and third will be °Pr from the various localities adjace n ," rh , and east ends of Regent's-park. be situated a short distance bey o ll"' ham-court and Hampstead roads, will communicate by a short branch W it Western at its terminus at Euston-squa re' with the North-London. The sixth wi l l cross, opposite to, but not in iininediate with, the terminus of the Great-Northern , will be in Clerkenwell, parallel with abou Gray's-inn-lane. The eighth in the Tic; field, adjacent to the lower part of Holh4 and final station will be the Pest-offc ( acquainted with the topography of tondo' by means of this line a connection will bi the Great-Western, North-Western, aivd Cr' railways, which will be of vast advantaM besides which the facilities for locomotion City passengers will be considerable, and sirable nature. Once completed the line to a good deal of omnibes:tyranny and i CABINET CouNcIL.--A Cabinet Counci. the Foreign-office, Downing-street, yesterd The Ministers present were Viscount Pt Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the D the Marquis of Lansdownv, Sir George of Clarendon, Lord Panmure, the Chance chequer, Str James Graham, Sir Chari William Molesworth, Viscount Canning, of Carlisle. The Council sat two hours. The Countess Walevvska gave a ball, I-- op the residence of the French Embassy , """ House. oe tt j el: THE RUSSIAN 'DUTCH LoAN. —A return isS.,;iy day shows that the sums paid and applie d „," t ed year 1854 on account of the Russian' y „ 6009 amounted to 768,7501 interest, and to 250) 00 a cipal, thereby reducing; the balance due 0 ,, 11 0, January last from 15,500,0001 to 15,250,0e{ j 4,5 BENEVOLENCE OF HER MAJESTY.—Her e i r jt Queen has, among her many acts of libera,i'7;o l ,ir nificence, just given 1001. towards the erect ° OA/ school for the children of mechanics, artisan°, class of labourers in and near Windsor. ftild" THE FIRST LIFE GUARDS.—The officers °, O X regiment (past an present) gave a cornPl ilij A del v i quet last evening, at Grillion's Hotel, ivine,Yr street, to their old and esteemed compat";o Colonel the Hon. James Macdonald, tie n'ol A return from the Crimea. r 8 MEETING OF CONSERVATIVEM , —A r 1 ,4 A the members of the Conservative party tr,Li "Der'itrio terday afternoon, at the residence of Lor°,„,:for;Ori Lordship addressed them at length, mina' r edti l the steps he had taken when lately empovr e , foiog - r y Government, and explaining his intervie%ledi4l / Palmerston. Resolutions were passed) r bo ot°' pf party to act in vigorous concert in the fo r t yo o ik ceedings in Parliament. f tl O , 4 0 * The dividend agreed to at a meeting , 19 ", TO° a l r". and Blackwall Railway Company yesterat d e., f i p a share, making for the year 6s. 6d. per " A ; 'P a% b. l4 ° . profit available for dividend was 21,948 4 . „ - ‘ r or cussion took place as to the payment of je c- te 13 ° I allowed, but it was not thought advisable "- extent. ,T P aisTorl,` The report of the directors of the Eat - p/ 0 2 Y;1,0 Company, read at the meeting of yesterela.Y.'oo tsp The sum of 1,767,98 E/. had been pai d 0 1 ore tij 60 India treasury, being 267,9881. 19s. 7cl. lid of required. eta' cs 1094 STRAND THEATRE.—A. new comee- e oe ,4 Friends, is to be produced at this theatr e t he oF , o next. It is by a well-known autho r t uel fll ,A Tor world. ~g 4 0 t THE BIRDS AND THE SEVERE WICA----13;01 • tis e i t s d mediate neighbourhood of Penzance, esl l° ,: v riet q., and extending quite to the Land's-end, io°!;e010. of various birds, both land and Ovate en g and migratory, have resorted, having 01 Pi c ? stinctively to these more southern clim e ' eve r ': es I ' t eer 6 p selves of the chances of procuring 6 - I ci iffe• re of subsistence. This is the reason d the Se a d and other wading birds—swans, geese,:aund i 0 . 041 0 1 .0 species of the duck family—are o f v or t e „cl winters in the southern districts,_ t he o _, IP4 Most of the duck tribe live and fool _' 11 " o thei,;:t4l4 regions ; some are more Arctic ti' L ' are tbe4 lo 0 01 , those found in the more Arctic regic' ns rotta 1 0 . 6 eider r o the fewest in their visits southward., , swan, bean goose, white-fronted g" se _ s esuP, e d vet scoter, long-tailed duck, g olden e e n ts tribu' . . of eli e ,e more rare than other ducks that ar e teal, te al, 6 ' oo o oo southward, such as the mallard, widge e d re at ql,O beg s , tufted duck, and so me others. d teal bi' d a °cl' ; an e c e oe of ducks and mallards, widgeon, venal t " Ora, 13° brought to Penzance market, and 8 e doc ks to eeP,re 6huveilers, pucnarci,, and a few seau l P d str ang° oo o , :f o r, golden eye has made itsappearance, Wild e l ves A ip pintail ducks have been offered for sN e vor d, on e ' re observed flying over Penzance, w e i o uous ly _ber t ocl Among the land birds the most con!Piargootne'ol,itsiferi ferent species rf the thrush family • el ed, dP A .e:e/ mountain finch have been captur te.L' Golden plovers have been tolersiblY P oo r P t ea andthe d a i r is T r r o t r .. t_o have corn w b a e i naarzeagtue.larly '; d 25 St. 20 St. 8 261 100 20 5 20 20i 100 20 20 50 50 100 100 25 25 50 St. St. 10 St. 25 L 0 5 20 20 20 50 20 25 _