The Sun. — London, England, 1855-12-24 00:00:00

x trbk. kon SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock. TATTERSALL'S.--(This Evening.) TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. sto 1 agst Yellow Jack (taken) DERBY. 850 to 100 agst Wentworth (taken) 10 to 1 agst Ellington (taken) 14 to 1 agst Yellow Jack (taken) 16 to 1 agst Rogerthorpe (taken) 20 to 1 agst Polmoodie (taken) NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—(This Day.) The following appointments have been made at the Admiralty this afternoon : LIEUTENANTS AND COMMANDERS. Edward Hardinge, to the Banterer. Viscount Gifford, to the Bustard. P. Saumarer, to the Carnatio. C. W. Martin, to the Bull Frog. PAYMASTER. G. F. Bateman, to the Brunswick. MONEY MARKET AID COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. Tke Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday eloped very firmly at full prices. The sales were 6,000 bales, comprising 80 Pernam and Maranham at 61d., 20 Bahia at 6d.,1550 Egyptian at sd. to 7d., and 500 Surat at 3ld. to 41d. per lb. The Rail way Share Market was steady at a slight advance on Friday's rates. The intelligence from America brought by the steamer Atlantic reports a continuance of large shipments of flour to Europe. The merchandise exported was composed chiefly of breadstuff.. To Havre alone flour and wheat to the value of about 280,000 dollars were sent during the week ending December 6. The value of imports in the same period was 1,670,402 dollars. The latest return of the City Banks shows a large increase in the loans and discounts, but the specie was augmented to nearly the same amount. The recent rise in the prices of sugar has given 9 fresh impetus to the manufacture of beet-root sugar in France, and the makers have taken pre cautions to have larger stocks on hand in the event of another sudden demand. The quantity in the different depots throughout the country had in *feased 1,247,034 kilogrammes on the Ist of this litonth from the former figures, and now there is 7,831,307 kilogrammes in store. This increase has prinoipally been deposited at Paris and Lille ; the depots of Douai and Valenciennes have very little less on hand than previously, but those of Arras gild Orleans are nearly exhausted. The consump tion of beet-root sugar throughout France, for the year ending November 30, 1855-6, was 38 million kilogrammes, showing au increase of 14 millions cver the previous year. There were 270 manu factories in operation, and 14 inactive at that date. The Foreign Bourses remain in a very dull state, aid prices of securities have a tendency to decline. At Paris the fall in the French funds on Saturday 'fru 25c. compared with those of the day previous, sad in Rsilway Shares there was a general decline of sf. to 10f. Shares of the Credit Mather were heavy, at a decline of 12f. 50c. At Vienna the state of affairs was feeble, and shares generally were falling, excepting in the New Bank of Credit, Which rose from 110 to 111. Money was again becoming dearer and exchanges rising ; on Lon don it was 10.47, and on Paris 127 g. According to information from Moscow it ap pears that the commerce of the city of Odessa is k completely annihilated. The inhabitants lament the deserted condition of this once flourishing city. Transactions of the smallest description for money are scarcely known, and it is in vain that the bank endeavours to keep up its credit by the issue Of a depreciated paper currency. Some rumours wkich have been circulated stating that the French Government intended to increase the duties on tobacco and other produce during the isasuing year have been oontradicted by the Paris journals as being entirely without foundation. The English Stook Market remains in an in animate condition, and a large number of the prin cipal operators are away from business. - Until the expiration of the Chrismas holidays the market will probably exhibit a languid appearance, unless some important political event occurs. There is some revival of the impression that the peace negociations will prove successful, owing to the intelligence received from Berlin and Vienna, but the quotations of the Funds have not improved in consequence. Consols opened at 881 , and are now 881 The New 3 per Cents. have been 89k `to 894, and the Reduced 881 1. Exchequer Bills are 7s. to 3s. discount. Foreign Stock are in several instances at merely - nominal quotations, but the market rules steady. ;Turkish 6 per Cents. have risen j per cent., viz., Ato 834 t, and the New Scrip is firmer, being 3 dis count. Mexican Stock is 191 to 19k, and Dutch 4 per Cents. are 94. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks Grenada Deferred Bonds, 64 to 7 • -Mexican, 191 to2o ; Peruvian, 7 4 to 7 6 ; ditt o Three per Cents., 52 to 54; Portuguese Four per ?Cents., 48 to 50 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ,ditto 44 per Cents., 88 to 911 ; Spanish Three per 'Cents., 40i to 401 ; ditto Deferred, 214 to ; ditto Certificates, 44 to 5 ; ditto Passive, 71 to t. In the quotations of some of the principal Rail :fray Shares, a slight improvement is apparent, but the transactions are limited. Brighton have ad vanced 55., and also North-Eastern, Berwick, Great Western f Canada are well supported, but the Foreign Lines have attracted scarcely any at tention. Mining Shares are quiet, and some of the Bank ing rule heavy. Canada Land are rather higher. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DIT.-CLOSING PRICES Prom tA► l itioi Lfr. All n done. • 3 per Cent. Rodttoed Annuities BBj j New 3 per Cent. Annuitiee j Oonsois for Account .. 88j j Etchequer Bills, 24d. £lOOO. £5OO , timall 3 7 Ditto Bonds, 1858, 34 per Cent 971 i 4 ft . 1859 ...... . 971 I i If PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Chilian Bonds, 0 per Cent 1024 Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, £ 5t.... Ditto 44 per Cent Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent — Ditto Account Ditto Yew Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto Passive Turkikh Bonds, 6 par cent — Ditto for the Account 8 34 i i Ditto New Scrip, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account 3 d Dividends on the above payable in London. Duteh Exchange, 21 per Cent., 12 Guil Ditto 4 per Cent. Cortifioatee 94 THREE O'CLOCK, Console Ditto Account Jan. 10 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This Day.) LONDON, Dec. 24.—Wind this day at noon, S.W., strong breeze, and fine clear weather. RAMSGATE, Deo. 23.—Arrived- - Shamrock, from Lon don, for the River Gambia. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 23.—Wind S. to S.W.—Arrived-- Janet Wilson, from gingspore, and proceeded for London ; H.M.S. Pyladee, Baltic ; Northumberland (s.s. tpt.) and Sir John Easthope (s.s. tpt. 152), Constantinople, &c.; H.M.S. Ariel, westward. RTL, Dec. 23.—The Elias Romer, of and from Sunder land, for Treport, came ashore early this morning and has gone to pieces ; crew saved. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Arrived. —Washington (s.), from Bremen ; Walter Hood and Norden, for Sydney and Alexandria, put in leaky; Alice and South• Western (L), Jersey ; Limerick Lass, Newport ; Argyll (5.), Carentan ; yacht Titania, Gibral tar. Sailed.—Cicely and Welthin, for Sunderland ; Mary Pope and Gipsy, Newport ; Sea-horse, Aberdeen ; Arbu tus, Llanelly ; Panther, Newcastle. LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. Wind W. Arrived.—Jason, from Danzig ; Minerva, B remen ; Pearl, Rotterdam ; Ocean, Stockholm ; Montrose, Rouen- Eclipse, .)stead ; Elizabeth Bibby, Bonny ' • Istria an d Cassuttereflas, Alexandria ; W. V. Kent , Charleston Alma, Bombay ; Golden Cross, New Orleans. Off. —23 ships. QUEENSTOWN, Deo. 22. Wind S. Arrived--Canton, from Quebec; Theresa, Rangoon ; Ellen and Margaret, Girgenti. 4 444,44 SHARE MARKET S. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAELWATi. Aberdeen.. Arabg. Nottng. Boet and Easta. Junet . l'ast Binning. Wolverh Stour Valk y Birl eand. Lanesh. t Cheshire Junet Do. Chesil. & Birk., £5O and £25 C, nF. Do., ..... gi r th & Tyne origitai £25 (issd. at Bristol and Exeter._ Ca1ed0nian.......... Cann. and Ca , digar Chester it Holylioa: , . Cork and Bandon. Cork, Black, & Pas. Cornwall De. A Do. B Ci ieff Junction Duulin&BelfastJunc Dun. P. & Aber. Jnc Do. Nitiv East Anglian Eastern Counties..,. East. Union, A st) Do., B. Sto.t Do., New A East Kent ...... East Lancashire Edinburgh& Glaego* Ediub. and Peebles.. Edin. Prth & Dundee Forth & Clyde Jr.' Furness. Do. Extension Glasgow & S. West ,,, Great N. of Scotia& ;Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. lzWtst.(lre ) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rail Gus. Stk Irish South-Eastern Lancaster tz Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancash.andYorksh {Do., Wet. Riding Un. TAY.Crsby.StSoutlipt London St Blaokwal Lond. Bright & S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westn. IDe. Fifths D0.101.13h.,,M&8...0 no. Ei g hths . London andS. Westn. Do., £5O Do., £48.. Lndndrry& Coleraine Lndndrry. k Ennisk. Manch.Shef. k Linda Do. Shares, No. I Do., Man. & Lin. Un Metropolitan Midland Do. Birning. at Derb3 Midld. G. West. (Iro. Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle , Nwpt. &berg. klrN Newry S 6 Enniskilleu Newry Warrenpoin , And Rostrevor Norfolk Northn.Conntles 1 I'n North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 !)0., A Deferred Do., B Gnarantee N. Eastern—Berwiei, Do, do. Extension ... Do.do.G.N.E. ?nroh Do. Leeds Do. York North London N ALS. Wstrn.,lfain , - ■tend, and City Jo,. North Sts.ffordshir.., North Western._ Y. b, S. Westrn. Juno Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leiccstor.. ...... ')x, Wore., it Wolv. rorts:aouth o.tish Central 3cottishltridland: : , h ropshiro Un - on ionth Devon South Eastern South Wales 9. Yrksh. 6s Riv. Dnr Do Staines, Wok &Wok tookton k Darli, Stockton & Hartlepl. Taff Vale ......... Do. Prof., No. 1 Thames Hay. D.& R. Ulverstone & Lance Vale of Neath %%terra. & Kilkenny Waterfora&Linerick Woet Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace Do. A Do. B West London Wimbledn k Croydon ialoahst pries this Qv. 22 . - 23 31 3i „ 7i ... 8 16 - 15 13 -• 14 9 - 79 --.81 551 - 65,3 11 12 bi 4i . —7, 11 - 12 1 27 - 29 17 -19 EA - 70 50 - 16 -17 A 80 - 815 7 88 -88 i 74 - 75 L2O -- 122 ,02 - 104 62i 53 62 54 70 - T 5 6 - 7 6 - 7t 77 - 771 6 1 8 1 94 96 9 Idl ol fk id $5 86 8 -- 74 64 6i "O oar 23 f si - 63 1 6 i 4 d 4 36 38 •N • w •"^ . 9i - 9/ / 11 43 28; . 29 ... ,~.. 67 - ss 84 -- Sri 44 , 1 114 .- 12 444 454 92 - 97 4f - 64 22 - 24 101 Ica 72 74 42 44 11 - 12 57 58 31. 3d 2d pa 33 $5 ••• .... •• 19 I°~ ... - ... 4-- 6 • •• .... ••• FOREIGN. Antwerpititott. , rdans Do. 5 p. e. Oblgs. con. in Sh. at par till 'B4 Ardennes Belgian Eastn. June hosiers to Grai mess& Bombay, Baroda, an'' Central India,Serli Do. Demerara, Dutob Rhenish Eastern of Franco Do. New East Indian, g. 5 p.c Do. ETtension Do. do. do., '59, do.. Gd. Tk of Caned aA i g Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic d 0..... ..... Do. Cert. of Debcn., con. into Stk. till '6:l Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Ceutral of Fran, Gt. Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent. .. Do. New 5 per cent Do. Extensions.... Great Luxemboure Constituted Shares Do. Obligations...... Ot.Westernof Caned Shares Do. New ..... Do. Ms. ' payable's7, with option till '55.. Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. 'io... Do. do., '73, witkont option .. ( Hamilton & Toro nt, Do. 6 por cent. Lake Contd. & Bask Limes and Turnhout Lyons and 00110'k Lyons & Mediterran Madras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. New Namur & Liege ( with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D o .201. Sits. 'Do. 20/. 3 p. o Bdr (fmy. B. di Arne. She. Norwegisn'frankPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds ..... ...• Paris and Orleaaa Paris and Roman... ParisCaen dt Cherbrg. Do Rona and Frascati Rouen and liarre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Do. Obligations Sambre and blouse., Do. 5 p. cent. Proi Scindo Do_ Southern of Francs I St. Andrew's and Quebec (A).„ West Flanders Do 5 per c. Pref Western of France Do .... Zealand JOINT-S' all 50 all all Anatralard& Bank of London Bri. Col. Bk.&Ln. C British N. American Chart& Bank of Asia Chrtd. Enk. of India, Australia, & Chi City 'Colonial. !O Commercial of Loud. LH Eng. Scot. & &us. Cht. ►ll Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia 5 Ditto Now L.c. , Adon and County Lnd &E. Bnk g. Corp London Joint Stock. Lond. & Westminster National Pro.ot Eng Do. New National of Ireland New South Wales Oriental Bank of Corporation. Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Anstraln.Bkg At Gr,pl Imp Co Royal British .nth Australia anion of Australia D' wow .......... 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Midld.Bradfd Newmarket Bury Eaten... NA; Eat.s p.c. Do. 6 per ct. Do. Fixeds p I Prost. & yte Do. Shre. A Roystn.& Hit. Sijef. Roth.and Gooleg.s p.c. Shrowe.ScHer. S. Staffordah. Wear Valloygr 6 per Do Wilts&Gomrst PREFE Abordoea Do. No.!, 7 p tilyth andTy 210 c. prof. (is!d.: 3rim. & Ex. 4 p, :Do. 4 p. o. ShE aledoaian £lO • ;hector & Holyhow . Guar. 6 per cent Jo. do. Pref. No. 2 Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Icierk 403andon5 ip.c Dun. Prth Aber. J Z. Anglian Cls . ASh, Do. do. Cls. B 6 p. e. .po. do Cls. C 7 p. c. ..astern Counties 13x• tension, 5 p. c. No )o. No. 2 . Do. Now 4 p. e. St. PA .t Un., G. 6 p. 0. )o. 51., 10 per cent . ,10. 161. Delsentr.Sh. no. do. 4 per cent ast Laneash. 6 pate &W. York. J. sthe 7 .4 Prth.&Dun.4p.o Furness 41as. &5.W.G.5 p.e. heat Northn. 5 p. c Do. 5 p. a. Rodeem. at 10 p. •. prom... Do. 4i p. o Do. 5 p. c. Scrip, Red 5 p. c. SoOt.lst Pre It. S. & W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per o. Prof. ? It. Westn. Perks AT - tants Ex . 5 p. c) eon. red. 44 p.c. con. red. 4 p. c. irred. 4p. C. Do. Binn. Pref. Sh Do. Chester 8 p. e.P.S. 1 0e. do. 5 p. e. do Do, Rhin. Gna. Stk Do. Ches. Cia. Sh Do. do. do Do. do, do %an. &York. F. £2 , IDo. 6 p. e. Stock ... Con. & Brigh. G. 5 p.c. Do. Pref., 5 p. a. St. ')o. Now Guar.6 p. e. Do. do. 5 per cont '.on.&N. W., COT. 1: Nuneaton S p. at t•on.& S, W. 7 per ct ',ondy. & Color. SL. Loudy, &Ennis., St,. \fan., Shot., & •n. Now, £lO Do. £6 1 - e.rypt .& Carl. 4 p )0. 43 per cent )o Consol.6 p.e.St Do. Consol. Bristol I Birm. 6 per cent. Do. 4i p. o. Pref. St Do. Prof. 4i per con Do. 5/. Pref. 4 p. c.. Ditto L. & H. Pref. St Norfolk Debenture . bo.Pref. 4 p. 4. Stoi• 1)o. 5 p.c. Est po. 5i per ct. pref Do. Way. Val. b p. o 'North British 'N. E. Berw, 4 p.c. P Do. do. do - Do Leeds 6 p.c :No. I Do. do. Quarters 4- Do.Yoi k S. For . North Staffordshire. )zford, Worcester, A Wolverh.Xls, 6 p.e , o R. Pref. 101. 9h. cot. Cent., New Pre lUth DOTOII o. fixed,4i per con . Batt= (Readlow Ann.) of £1 Oa. 6d. Do. 4i per cent Do. Fixed 4i p 0 eh S. Wales GUN. 4 p. o Do. do. 4. p. e..... S.Yorksii.4p.e.Guar. Stosk .& Dar. , 5 p. 0. Do. do. do Stock. & Hartl. g. 5 p. e. till July 1, '56 ;Watertd. & Kilk. 6 p c A. 4116. ?rut . Anglo luitrin. Gold Anglo Californian kustrolian Australian Cordillen. Aye Maris. Baden (Gd. Duchy of ,Bleenaryon Iroa and Coal ..,.. British Iron Brazilianlmp.(issue(l at £5 pm.) Do. C,ocaes At Culab Do. St. Johr Doi ROT Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica...... Ilobro Copper ...... .. )olonial G01d...... ..opper Min. of ➢ue o. Prof. 7i p. cent ';'opiapo .... ortnna . . leneral It.NuggetV , Anßeg. Treat Polrooth - • It lineal ♦er United Aberty iinares asitaniai tarigni is.. ..... law Granada . innvoan Xande 'ontgibaud &lye] Le" Min. & Smolt. `.Marts Philip , Rock ahymnoy Iron c). Now iantia.go de Cuba Month Australian all o. Scrip. . . Do. 10 per ..it Pref Croft United MeXICAII Waller West Mariposa Worthing Mining of Autry,lin Yrl MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Agrioultd Ansh - aln. Royal Kalil Berlin Water Works Brit. American Land Canada Canada. Gov. 6 p. et Jan. ana jaly Crystal Palace.. Do. Preference.. Crystal Pal. of Franc. Duston Iron Ore , Eastern Stoam all 24 all all Its. &Ana Cep Ere Co Electric Telegraph Electric Teleg. of Ir Goa. Iron Sc Collier Gen. Steam Navigat. General Screw Steam Irish Beetroot Fingal Magdalena St. Navig Mediteran. Elec. Tel. Mexioan&S.America. Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel Netherlands Land Do. Do. Do. 8 p a? iss at 1 d N. S. W. Coal & Inter. Steam Navlgat. Co. New B. & N. S. Land N. 11. Australasian Nrth. of Europe Sta ars Oriental Gas De. "New 'Shares" Peel Rr. 14. & Mbar'. Peninsular& Orients. Do. New Portland Iron Co Royal Mail Steam Scot. Austral. Invest Ditto New , Aoutb Austral-land Submar. Tel. Scrip.,. T)o. Retristered. Crust& L. Co.U. Can. Vol Diemeed Load - - 5 all 1 1 28 - 30 64 -71 47 - 50 185 -- 142 - 2 - 2i 4 - 41 - ik ii ao aa 8 - 10 5i - 8 .1. -- li 2 3 i die— per •N .... ••• i 2 I . •• i - li ii 7- iii li - ••. - 11 It 2 AP i 1 6 = 103 2 621 9t# 5f 93i 63} if 74i 4 i 81 15 - 16 ••• • •• '"'" • - ii ••• • •• • • ••• ".. i - 14 2 12/ 57 - 69 • .• i 3 115 .05 107 99 -- 101 par , 9 10 6 81 85 87 77 79 75 80 9f 151 9 16 f f 91 10 68 —64 17 18 SI 9 — id 13 11 1 13C 132 ... ... •.. '-'' 12i - 18 i - iP ... .., .31 - 138 91 - 93 - If 4 - 4i • •• 97 - 99 88 - 90 2i -3, •• ••• 1 id 92 - 94 13 - id 211 - 221 92 - 94 - 9.1 ••• ...... •• ..• .... •M P • •• 1r ••• -- .• 2i - 2. (From (he Daily News.) The public have not yet forgotten the exciting struggle which took place in the House of Commons on the 20th of July last. The House was invited by Ministers to agree to the preliminary resolutions sanctioning the Turkish Guaranteed Loan of five millions. The conditions of this financial operation had already been determined in a " Convention" concluded between the Governments of England, France, and Turkey. That the proposal would be supported by a majority of the Lower Howe was never doubted. Yet, through a skilful but unscru pulous manoeuvre of the Opposition, Ministers only escaped defeat upon this important question by a narrow majority of three. It was an anxious night for the Cabinet. Four or five times did Lord Palmer ston rise, in evident anxiety, to defend the Government proposal. His lordship's chief argument was, that Turkey was in immediate want. of the money, and that the most disastrous consequences would ensue to her army if pecuniary relief were delayed. Mark his words : But is it worth while, for the sake of that difference of opinion, to send the convention back to France and to Turkey to be remodelled—throwing back, allow me to say, at this time of the year, the assistance which this lean would afford to Turkey to an indefinite period ? For let us re member the time of year at which wo are discussing this matter. No change can be made without a fresh conven tion. That convention must go to Constantinople, and we must wait till it has been ratified, and must come back to Parliament for sanction and authority to carry it into effect. We are now in the middle of July. Is the house prepared to sit till that change has been made? Or will they insist upon it that no effect shall be given to the measure until the next session of Parliament, when it will be too late to afford to Turkey the assistance which we think we are bound in honour to afford her? Speaking against a proposal for altering the terms of the convention, his lordship, with increasing earnestness of tone, used still the same argument—that there was " no time" for a change of arrangements : If (he observed) we were talking in January, supposing it to be right, there might be time to do so ; negotiations might go on a treaty might be signed, the ratifications might bo exchanged, and there would be time for the con• vention to be submitted to parliament for its concurrence, and to be carried into execution ; but in the present state of the session, with the end of the session so nearly approah ing, that arrangement would practically postpone till the next session of Parliament any assistance to the Turkish Government, in the way of helping them to obtain a loan , and I have no hesitation in saying that that would be at tended with the most disastrous consequences in reg ar d t o military operations. (Cheers.) I declare to the right hou• y r e w q i u l r be e s for m ost th c e al maintenance gentleman (Mr. Walpole) and the house, th a t it is per fect conviction that if wo refuse to give to Turkeyl those additional d he it r i o a n r a m l the means which she consequences It was probably to weighty argument that Minis ters owed their escape from d e f eat upon the even i n g in this tons. question. Let us examine how far their acts have agreed with their words—how promptly they have applied to the pressing necessities of the Ottoman Army the funds authorised to be raised under Parliamentary guarantee. We will first adduce a few fact., to which we chal lenge contradicti on . Th ere i s a t 'the present moment lying in the Bank of England a sum of no less than 2,500,0001., out of the total of 4,0011,000/. already paid by the subscribers to the Turkish loan ; conse quently these loan funds have as yet been drawn upon to the extent of only 3,500, 000 /. for the service of the Ottoman Government. Of this sum of 1,500,000/ , 600,000/. was handed over to the Messrs. Rothschild, ill liquidation of advances previously made by that firm to the Porte, the Government of the Sultan having been driven to such dire straits for want of money that it actually could not wait for the guaranteed loan with its accompanying formalities. The original de. posit of 500,0001. on the new loan was paid into the Bank on the 22d of August, and, we admit, was promptly re! all all all all all all all all all $ll ►ll 13 All an all 12s 5 5. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING,_ DECEMBER 24. 1 Le.stni. Compan, London & N. Volt. &N. W. ;a10d0n...1 E. Un. E. C . Count. Criadoniun. ~3t. Rout Yk. New. Bcrw. Y. &NM Do.. baste 7 'eto k Co ,ENT. C Nam. r this day Norfolk Do L.& N. W & Stckton k Darlingt. En. Conn. 'E. Count. 1D0.., L.IzN.W. Git Northu Lancluth & Yorkist). T. Brassoy 111.24 Clean Stookt. & Darlingt Do !qtw, 92 - 94 94 - 93 .31 - 133 ••• '.... 08 - 105 12i - 13 6 1 -:iii, 21 - 26 33 - 91 Er ---- k ••• -... ••• 130 - lf3 .•• ••. .r - ••• 80 - 31 80 - F 2 B .toness this Jay ,SENT SHAH Eh. 10pci at 501 . c. St. 107 -- 104 - 90 - 92 92 - 91 1121 82 1 1051 61 li f di. t - 1 "i, = i ---. 6. 2 - 2i 2 - 3 27 29zdi id in 65 69 32 37 24 26 19 20 — id 16 - x d 661 d x d ad 8 41 0 II 4 4 i I LsBl 40 88 9i 110 .1 j 10 .21 ad Spirit of the Public Journals. (From the Times of this clay.) In justice to the Chairman of the Eastern Coun ties Railway we have waited for his reply to the charges of the investigating Committee. These charges were very serious, and reflected not merely on the discretion and vigilance, but also on the integrity and honour, of Mr. Waddington ; and they were supported by such a mass of evidence— by figures, by extracts, by dividends—that, how ever one might regret., no one could wonder that the meeting of the shareholders subsequently held should have exhibited the most ludicrous rage, should have treated their chairman with more than distrust—with indignant contumely—and should almost with one voice and one roar have deposed him from his office without even granting him a hearing. To some extent Mr. Waddington has himself to blame for this treatment. As we have already pointed out, whether from ignorance, from personal dislike to the members of the committee, or from any other cause, lie was as chary as possible of his information, and in his answers rang the changes on every mode of negation that the Eng lish language affords. Besides which, because he deemed that the week which elapsed between the publication of the report and the meeting of the shareholders was insufficient for him to prepare a full and detailed answer, he thought it right to abstain from any answer what ever beyond one of those simple negations in which he is so great an adept. At length he has published a full and elaborate reply, and we are bound to confess at once that he has not a little shaken our belief in the accuracy aid impartiality of the report which so seriously impeached his conduct. Right or wrong, there is no doubt that his answer is a most able document. It is much better written than the report of the committee, which, indeed, is defaced not only by obscurities of expression, but by strange gram matical blunders ; and, if subsequent investigation should sustain the facts urged by the chairman, he will not have much cause to complain of the clamour which has been raised against his manage ment. For the interest of railways in general, and for that of the Eastern Counties in particular, we sincerely hope that Mr. Waddington's statistics are correct, and that his case is half as good as he makes it out to be. At the same time we cannot suppose that the matter will rest with this reply of the chairman. Who is to be credited ? Here the chairman gives the lie direct to the committee, and they both quote no end of figures against each other, as rival theologians quote texts--wo, the on-lookers, not knowing which to believe. Statistics are not always to be relied on ; it has, indeed, al most passed into a proverb that there is nothing more false—" one foot in sea, and one on shore, to one thing constant never." Arithmetical figures are nearly as deceptive as rhetorical, and, with every desire to do Justice to Mr. Waddington, we cannot help reminding him that if the shareholders are at first more confused than convinced by his argu ments we cannot wonder. We, in our public capacity, have, of course, no means of reconciling or correct ing the statements and counter-statements of either party. Mr. Waddington seems to have held his peace before the Committee in order that now he might come out with an answer in greater force. It has been his policy not to fritter his defence in partial answers. He has concentrated all he has had to say into the focus of a single statement, and we shall be anxious to hear how the Committee of Investigation dispose of it. Into the private squabbles in which Mr. Wad dington suggests that the investigation originated it is not our purpose to enter. We should have au Augean stable to clean if we undertook to lay bare the secret springs of railway management— the petty motives, the party interests, the indivi dual ends that influence directors—at one time , induce them to make things pleasant, and at an other incite a refractory member to get up a com mittee of shareholders. It is enough if wo compare some of the results of Mr. Waddiugton's manage ment as stated by himself with the results as stated by the Committee of Investigation. And the first item we look to is very naturally the dividend. The Chairman has pointed out that during the four years of his management no less than 662,0001. has been divided among the share holders, or 160,0001. yearly, whereas in the year and a-half: before he entered upon office the whole sum disposable for dividend was 34,2091. In the accounts of the last half-year it will be remembered that the balance brought forward as divisible was 57,0001., and the committee published the startling fact that 36,0001. of this ought be de ducted as improperly charged to the credit of the company. Mr. Waddington goes over the separate items of this 36,0001., and disputes with some force the finding of the Committee. One of the items is " Sundries, 11,0001."—rather a large portion of the whole. The "sundries," says Mr. Waddington, aro principally made up of the sums claimed by Mr. Gooch as percentages, which sums the Com mittee hesitates to pay, and which were " not claimed when the half-yearly accounts were ren dered." For almost all the other items he has an answer that appears to be not less satisfactory. But what of the permanent way ? Could the last dividend of 65,0001. be justifiable when the engineer reports that a sum of 150,000'. is neces sary to place the permanent way in prof Jr repair In this respect, too, Mr. Waddington has stated much in his favour. If the railway has been so badly kept, he blames Mr. Ashcroft, the respon sible engineer, whose certificates he implicitly relied on and quotes from half-year to half-year. Ho further states, in reply to the charge that in 1855 the payment for renewal and repairs was only 3,2001. for 548 miles of railway, "We have not restricted the year's expenditure to 3,2001. for 548 miles of railway, as this report leads you to believe, although we have spent only 3,2001. upon that object this year out of revenue. The italics indicate the way in which the Committee have endeavoured to deceive you." The expen diture for the half-year was 22,0001. And of the 150,0001. recommended by the engineer, he shows that a third part is for the erection of new and permanent works, not contemplated when the line was made ; and that the remaining 100,0001. is to be spread over ten years. The instalment for the first year having been provided by the balance of last year, there was no reason why the expenditure required for the permanent way should interfere with the sum disposable for dividend. There is a strange contrariety between Chairman and Committee throughout. " Confusion becomes worse confounded" as we proceed. As to the stores department, Mr. Waddington denies that the loss has been 40,000/., or even 10,000/.—no, not the half of that ' • and as we go on it becomes small by degrees and beautifully less, till at last it becomes a mere nothing. Like Falstaff describing the men in buckram who attacked him—who were first two, then four, then seven, then nine, and at last eleven —Mr. Waddington di m i n i s h es ;he loss of the stores department very rapidly from 0,0001. to next to nothing ; and finally get s o ff by s aying that, be it great or small, he of all the directors is the least responsible for it. It is impossible to go into all the details. But let us pass on to Lowestoft Harbour, and recall the devout wish expressed by the Committee of Investigation that the sea would wash up sand enough to destroy it. Mr. Wadding ton makes out a very strong case in favour of the harbour ; indicates that the objections to Lowestoft have been urged in the interest of King's Lynn and the East Anglian Railway ; and puts forward figures which, if there is not some strange juggle, completely subvert the statements of the commit tee. " Lowestoft can only take the trade from Yarmouth," said the committee. The fact is that while the receipts between London and Lowestoft have been quadrupled in four years, those between London and Yarmouth, so far from suffering diminu tion, have been doubled, being 16,8001. in 1850, and 33,4001. in 1854. So far front involving the com pany in vast expense and loss, by some strange alchemy Mr. Waddington seems to prove the ex pense of the harbour to be trifling and the loss to be indefinite gain. And so with almost all the other counts of his indictment. He makes quick work with the Tilbury Railway, and shows what a bril liant manager he is. As for adding 1,250,0001. to the compatsy's capital account, it is true, he says; but why have not the committee given the per con tra? The company are now working 226 miles of railway more than when he entered upon the chair manship. " The fact is," he goes on, " the com mittee tell you that if theincrease were to continuo after the rate it has done since Mr. Waddington be came chairman in 1851, it would soon destroy the dividend.' I reply that, if your capital were in creased in the next five years in the same propor tion, and with the same results, the Eastern Counties Railway would pay 5 per cent. 1" Hero is something very strange. Either Mr. Wadding ton is possessed of singular confidence, or the com mittee of singular perversity. Who shall arbitrate between the two ? (From the Meriting Post of this day.) From Kars to Kutais there are about a hundred and eight English miles, as the crow flies ; but, practically, by such roadway as the country pos sesses, in good marching seasons, thedistance covers notless than a hundred and sixty. In short, it could not be safely reckoned at less t han eight days' march, even if no enemy obstructed the advance—if no ene my compelled manoeuvring, imposed circuits by occupying defiles, nor enforced swerves, halts, and concentrations, by menacing the flanks of the vari ous corps, and by imperilling the intervals between them. From Kars, again, to Erzeroum there are some hundred and fifteen English miles by the same aerial admeasurement, and the virtual fight ing distance exceeds the length of this bird's flight • by still greater over-proportion than in the case of the march from the Armenian frontier fort to the capital of Imeritia. In the mountains of Khora zan, among which the storied stream of the Araxes takes its rise, are piled up more than one formida ble defile, across which, when the great snow storms of Armenia have fallen, the hunter of the country could not make his way on foot, much less a corps of infantry. A r till er y an d h orse would be still more hopelessly detained to the west of those hoary sier ras, whose ridg e s, c l e ft an d sawn—herring-bone f ashion—by the few passes in question, intercept the sky-lino to the traveller or soldier gazing eastward. One road from Erzeroum to Olti winds eastward round the north-western roots of this great moun tain chain, which is the ancient Anti-Taurus, and the road in question is accompanied to its left a part of the way by the ascending banks of the Fuphrates, which thus derives its fountain not far from that of the Araxes—two famous rivers, which flow in a widely divergent, and, at first, directly opposite direct - on, but both of which claim the confines of old Cappadocia for their parent region. The road we have mentioned, keeping the low country—if any part of a country can be termed low the whole of which is a vast mountain table, two miles and a half above the Eux.ine—reaches Olti, having so threaded its csurse as to leave the Sultaun Dagh heights, of which we have been speaking, to the right hand, and a spur of the an cient Cragus, one of whose volcanoes was the " Chimera"—a vassal of Mount Taurus, further to the left. At Olti the road fails towards Kars, and is recovered by an oblique march of some difficulty south-east to Bardi, beyond which it is immedi ately necessary to climb a very steep mountain gorge ; and after this, when the deep snows are not on the ground, or the inundations intersecting the advance by their torrents, there is a fair direct road to Kars, fifty miles ahead. All this region runs parallel to Lake Van, the ancient Arsissa Pa lus, extending about a hundred miles south of it, and itself stretching its waters to seventy miles of length. Such is the best march between Erzeroum and Kars through Armenia Major. Its extreme difficulty at this time of year (when we remember the supineness of the Turkish General commanding at Erzeroum and the disorganisation of his troops) account for the fate of General Williams, and for the surrender of Kars. As to any help from Batouin, whore no troops lay, such help simply means help from the Crimea—help from the opposite shores of the Black sea. Now, at the time when a large de tachment, amounting to an expedition, might have been available for the relief of Kars, it was not yet known whether a grand attack could not be made, at Mackenzie's Heights, upon a force stronger and more important than General Mouravieff's. If such an attack (this, wo need scarcely say, was the obvious consideration at the critical poriod)—if such an attack could be made, it would be made, and investigation was indispensable to know whe ther the feasibility in question existed or not. It was then that those great reconnaissances were occurring in which it was necessary to make roads among mountains and ravines before taking each successive step. The descent upon Kinbourn, and the other simultaneous operations, were all sub sidiary parts of one great comprehensive plan, to the accomplishment of which it was necessary to ascertain what Marshal Pelissier was in the very act of ascertaining by his laborious exploring and re connoitring manoeuvres from the Tchernaya, Tchou liou, and Baidar, to the vicinity of Fakshi-Serai. But, however this may be, the lethargic succours from Erzeroum, on which General Williams had a less questionable right to count, did not set out till an Armenian winter rendered their progress over Armenian roads an idle mockery. We learn, more over, that General Mouravieff had seized the last passes by which the relieving force would have had to penetrate to Kars. Whether this force came by the Khorazan-road, leaving Toprak Kaleh, about twenty-five miles to the right, or by the still more northerly route of Olti, which we have described, it is evident that as both lines converge ultimately upon Bardi, to hold the passes in front of that vil lage would be to bar the further march of the Turks. The accounts are, as yet, rather vague, and we cannot say whether this was the position actually occupied by the detachments of the Rus sian chief. That position could not have been more distant than the immediate neighbourhood of Bardi, but might not have been half the way. In the opposite direction, to which we first ad verted, we find, as we have stated, that General Mouravieff could not safely reckon upon reaching Kutais with his main body under eight days of march. The exact date of Omer Pacha's last ex ploit is not given, but it must have been about the beginning of this month, or perhaps a day or two earlier. It could not well have been later than the 2d or 3d, since the intelligence announcing it is dated the sth from the Crimea. Omer Pacha had not learnt the fall of Kars when he made his last advance of forty miles, defeated the Russians, took Khoni, and brought his army actu ally before Kutais. Indeed, the respective catas trophes in Armenia and in Imeritia may, practi cally speaking, be termed contemporaneous. We shall look with anxious interest for Oin•r Pacha's movements on his ascertaining the important ad vantage gained by General Alouravieff, and the altered situation to which that advantage may lead. It is one consolation that, in such a Decem ber as now prevails in the Caucasus, General Mou ravieff can hardly be the messenger of his own sue cess. The Ottoman hero will have warning of his danger, if danger there be. From Kars to Gumri, from Gumri to Akhalzik, from Akhalzik to the Pass of Suram, the Russian General will move along a well-organised and, doubtless, well-supplied Russian line. From the Suram Gorge to Kutais, 50 miles remain. Mean while, suppose Prince Bebutoff have hurried all his disposable forces through Tiflis and Gori to the same Suram Pass, a considerable, if not large, army might, in three or four weeks from the fall of Kars, be ready to advance into Imeritia. At the moment when we write this there are probably greater collections of Russian troops in and about Suram than in any other spot of the Trans-Cauca sian provinces. But the same natural causes which rendered it so hard for the tardy succours of Erzeroum to advance for the rescue of Kars will affect the movements of even the most energetic commander ; and, unless Kutais have already yielded (which is a great deal too much to reckon on), wo expect that the real struggle will be de layed and adjourned till a more serene season looks down again upon the horrors of a great war. ► milted to Constantinople. But the British public will i scarcely credit the fact we now announce, that this sum of 500,000!., the first proceeds of the loan, did not ac tually reach the hands of the Turkish Government until the 28th of Nov. The Ottoman army being in a state of semi-starvation, and rendered quite ineffective for a7tive operations through a deficiency of clothing, food, and means of transport, was it necessary that more than three months should elapse before the officials of Eng land and France would relax their grasp upon this limited amount ? Since this 500,000!. was sent (and apart from the 600,000!, repaid to Messrs. Rothschild), the only further remittance made on account of loan is a sum of 400,000!., despatched in four separate amounts of 100,000!. each, in the first week of the present month. Probably the latter supply has as ere now reached Con stantinople ; but if its distribution• be retarded by diffi culties similar to those whieli prevailed in respect of the first half million, the Sultan's suffering soldiers may have yet to wait for some months before their wants are relieved. We have no hesitation in saying that this delay re. quires explanation. The objects involved are essentially important to the vigorous prosecution of the War. The British portion of the grand allied rimy of operation being numerically small, England is making great exer tions and sustaining enormous expense fur the enlist ment and equipment of me❑ drawn by the temptation of a high bounty and good pay from many parts of the Continent. Is she acting wisely in neglecting to minister to the wants of the Ottoman troops, who have given ad miring Europe such frequent and signal proofs of con stancy and courage ? Let an unprejudiced observer glance at the general military conduct of the Ottoman forc,s from the opening campaign of the war on the Danube down to the gallant action on the river Ingour and the heroic defence of Kars. Can he fail to come to the conclusion that these men, properly equipped and officered, will prove of the highest value in a protracted war ? Fighting for their country and faith against their hereditary foe, the motives stimulating these tried soldiers to deeds of endurance and gallantry must be much more powerful than those operating in the minds of our German and other hired recruits. In point of cheapness, too, the Turkish soldier is unrivalled. He wants no bounty, and will even fight without pay. Give him merely the coarsest clothing and food, and he will think himself comparatively well off. Yet these are the troops whom the British Government, though possessed of ample funds destined for the purpose, neglects to ren der effective. In our opinion, the fall of Kars, with all its future disastrous consequences, is i❑ a great measure traceable to this cruel negligence. Had Otner Pacha's army in Imeritia, or bad the other Ottoman force which attempted to relieve the besieged town by an advance from Erzeroum, been properly provided, especially with the means of transport, we should not have had to record the event which, at the close of the campaign, gilds the standard of Russia. It is suggested in some quarters that Government has been deterred from despatching the proceeds of the lsan to Constantinople by a fear of aggravating the disturbance of the money market. In corroboration of this view it is pointed out that the latest remittance of 400,0001. was not sent until some 300,0001. of newly imported gold fcund its way into the Bank. We cannot think that this motive, of itself, furnishes a sufficient ex planation. It would be far better that the instalments should be despatched as they become due, than that this obligation should hang menacingly over the monetary world, to occasion a postponement of future relief, or aggravation of future pressure. Merchants would infi nitely prefer to know the worst, so as to be enabled to make in advance the requisite cautious arrangements. Nothing disturbs the money market so much as uncer tainty. It is possible that a portion of the 2,500,0001. now lying in the Bank may be destined to pay for munitions of war for the Turkish Government. If so, why are not these supplies bought and sent out ? Ministers must know that the Ottoman army is in sore want of them. Our own belief, however, is, that the real cause ' of the delay in the distribution of the loan funds rests with the Commission at Constantinople, through whose hands the money passes. These Commissioners repre sent respectively England, France, and Turkey, and it is their duty to see that the money is applied to legiti mate objects. If what we hear he correct this commis• sion is a very incarnation of the spirit of obstruction. Between vexatious demands for all kinds of vouchers, and cavils as to what disbursements appertain to the ex traordinary or war expenditure of the Turkish Govern ment, as distinguished from its ordinary service, the members seem to have almost prevented the unfortunate and ill-used army from deriving any benefit whatever from the loan. Is the British Government equally strict in its supervision of the expenditure constantly going on nearer home ? The commissioners' obstructive tendencies, wo are given to understand, caused the shameful delay in the appoi tioument of the first 500,0001. No doubt these gentlemen are very important in their estimation, and have attained an exalted position in Turkish eyes, as the dispensers of an almost fabulous amount of wealth. But they will not aehieve success in their mission unless they condescend to dsfer to the unbusiness-like habits of the Turks. Many of the Ottoman officials may be rapacious and corrupt, but there is no need to regard them all as plunderers. We cannot help thinking that our ally is ill-treated in this respect. After all, it is Turkey that pays for the loan. England and France have merely lent their names, and will, we hope, never be called upon for any more substantial sacrifice in connection with the transaction. Lord Clarendon declared in the House of Lords, on the 3d of August, that there would be ample security for the repayment of the loan." By his own showing, therefore, Turkey has a perfect right to de mand that the money for which she pays interest be promptly and usefully administered. We trust Minis term all direct their attention to this very important subject, and take measures for the speedy distribution of the large sum which is at present deposited in the Bank, for the exclusive benefit of that favoured corporation. If a word of remonstrance and instruction be also for warded to the members of the commission at Constanti nople, we venture to anticipate that the deserving Otto man army will be materially benefitted, and the success of ❑ext year's campaign promoted in proportion. IRELAND. DUBLIN, SATURDAY. DISASTEOUS FIRE AT THE DUKE OF LEIN STEWS RESIDENCE AT CARTON. A fire of the most disastrous and destructive nature, an l which at one time thr atened utterly to destroy the whole of his Grace the Duke of Leinster's magnificent and greatly admired mansion at Carton, broke out at an early hour ye , teiday morning, but was providentially got under in time to save the principal portion of the building, and without any accident of a serious charac ter. The fire originated in the north-east tower or wing, which is completely destroyed. The family in the house at the time of the accident consisted of his grace, who had only returned from Dublin that evei,ing ; the duchess, who has been for a considerable time suffering from serious illness, and who for some time past has been confined to her bed ; his Grace's sister, Lady Kin naird, and her daughter, Mrs. Hope ; the duke's son-in law, Mr. Repton, M.P. for War,vicfr, and Lady Jane Repton ; the Hon. Captain Fitzgerald ; Lord Gerald Fitzgerald ; and Dr. Ferguson, of Maynooth, who has been sleeping in the house in attendance on the duchess. The family retired to bed as usual at an early hour, about 10 or 11 o'clock—everything being then in a state of the most apparent security. About 11 o'clock the housekeeper went thrcugh the house, ace a•ding to cus tom, and even into the room in which the fire is sup posed to have originated ; but there was not at that time the slightest appearance of any danger. The house consists of a main or centre building, and two wings or towers, and the one which was destroyed was on the left side of the mansion. It consisted of the organ-room and anteroom on the ground floor ; over these the Marchio ness of Kildare's sitting-room and two bed-rooms, file of which was occupied, at the time of the accident, by Captain Fitzgerald • and over these were two attics and two nurseries. All these rooms, with the exception of the sitting-room, were completely destroyed. Adjoining the organ-room, at either end, were the saloon and dining-room, two very beautiful rooms, which, although for a considerable period, in great danger, were niti mately preserved without the slightest injury. The organ, which was a great favourite of his grace, was a magnificent instrument, built by Messrs. Flight and Robson, of London, and put up by his grace soon after attaining his majority. From the lightness and dryness of its materials, and the quantity of woodwork in which it was imbedded, it formed a nucleus round which the fire raged with the greatest violence. The fire is sup posed to have originated from a hot-air flue in one of the upper rooms of this wing, and to have been smoul dering for some days, and was first discovered about ball past four o'clock in the morning. It appeared that the cook, who sleeps in that end of the house, was awakened about that hour by the noise of crackling wood, and having got up he discovered that the house was on fire, and immediately reported to his grace. T watchman of the premises discovered the fire at the moment—as omoment—as did also a country carman—and on once alarmed Mr. G ra dy, the house steward, who, at looking o u t, f oun d t k e e ntire wing in flames. ' The family were at this time all up, anti the alarm having been given, the two engines belonging to the house were got out at once, and the most active steps the town, s taken to stop the prog ress o f the ire. The alarm soon reached where the utmost anxiety was evinced to render as sistance, s ome hundreds of th t e e to o wn in a e n g d , country people carrying water, at once hurrying up to work h &c. In this respect too much engines, cannot be given to the surrounding gentry and the country people, but especially to the president and professors of the College of maynooth , who, on the very first alarm, at once sent off their engin e, together with their own trained men and labourer s, who arrived at the house about six o ' c l o ck, and who rendered very great service in ex tinguishing the fire. The president of the college, the Very Rev. Dr. Whit ehead, the Rev. Mr. Kernan, P.P., and nearly all the professors of the college, were also themselves in attendance rendering assistance, and, by their example, encouraging the people in their exertions, The Protestant rector of Maynooth, the Rev. Mr. Blacker, was also present. At the time the fire was discovered the wind was blowing with great violence from the S.E., driving the mass of flame and smoke across the centre of the house, thus increasing the (hanger of spreading the conflagration to a fearful extent, and also rendering it extremely difficult to attempt any practical measurer getting the flames nutlet-. The duke, however, an he members of his grace's family, showed an example of courage and self-possession that was most praiseworthy. When it was clearly ascer tained that the destroying element had only possessioß of the tower, the great object was to prevent it spr. ad ing to the other portions of the house, and in order effec tually to do this, his grace, accompanied by his cousin, , Captain Fitzgerald, and his son, Lord George Fitz gerald, got out on the roof about six o'clock, and with , their own 0 hands ripped off the slates, And then with hatchets cut away the joists and timbers con necting the roof of the centre of the house with that of the wing. The fire was at this time raging with its greatest virulence, the flames flying from room to room with fearful rapidity, and were it not for the immense thickness of the walls separating the wing from the main building there can be little doubt that the whole man. sion would have been consumed. Most fortunately the supply of water was very good, the beautiful fountain in front of the house yielding an almost never•failing sup ply, as did alto the tank on the roof of the main building, which was kept constant'y filled by the force pumps.. Notwithstanding this supply, and all the exertions that were being made, for a considerable time it was feared, from the intensity and fury of the flames and the violent state of the weather, that the fire could not be got under. Soon after eight o'clock, however, the wind fell off, and shortly afterwards the roof of the wing fell in with a loud crash. Fears were no longer entertained for the main portion of the house, and from nine o'clock the fire was gradually got under, and about twelve was com pletely subdued. Of this wing scarcely anything now stands but the four walls, the looms being nearly all gutted. Most providentially, notwithstandin g the falling of planks, burnt timbers, stones, slates, &c., only one acct• dent, and that not of a serious nature, occurred by the falling of a plank on the head of one of the labourers. His Grace of Leinster bad, however, it is said, some miraculous escapes. On one occasion, when exerting himself in the orga.x.room, he very narrowly escaped be ing smothered by the falling of some great plank of burnt timber. Although the fire did not reach beyond the left I wing, still considerable injury has been done to very valuable furniture in some of the rooms, which was mush injured by water. It is impossible at present to forms an estimate of the amount of injury done, which, how ever, must amount to several thousand pounds. Ths house and furniture was largely insured in six offices, He that the loss will not fall heavily on any, except, per haps, one in which it had only been a year or so insured. The total amount of the insurance was stated to be 53,0001. The very valuable paintings belonging to his grace were not collected in a gallery, but were scattered through the different rooms. They were all, with the exception of a few on the stairs, fortunately preserved. All the constabulary from the surrounding stations, under the command of Inspector Pilkiugton, were irns mediately in attendance, and were placed in the different rooms, galleries, and lawn, is 'barge of the property, which was all scattered about, where they remained all night. A committee of the directors of the Midland Great Western Railway having been sitting when the news arrived, directed all their spare men to be collected, and to proceed by special train, under the direction of Mr. Wilson, the chief engineer, at once to render whatever assistance they could. A train was in readiness and the men about to proceed, when the Marquis of Kildare, who had gone to Carton by special train in the morning, returned and said the fire had been subdued. Nothing could exceed the steady obedience and regu larity of all the servants and conatry people, to whom is in a great degree owing the preservation .of the house. Her grace the duchess was removed shortly after the breaking out of the fire, under the direction of Dr. Fergu son, to the residence of Mr. Toner, the head steward, where her grace at present is. Although greatly shocked her grace bore the sad event with great equanimity, and is much better than could be expected under the circum stances. CAPTAIN BUISB ON RAILWAY MANAGEMENT. A dinner was given on Friday evening at the Clarence Hotel, Manchester, in honour of Mr. Eborall, the gentral manager of the East Lancashire Railway, on the occasion of hia leaving the district to take the ma nagement of the South-Eastern Railway. Captain finish, the general manager of the London and North- Westtrn Railway, presided, and a large number of rail way directors and officers from all parts of the country were present. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the " Health of Mr. Eborall," adverted at considerable length to the position and policy of railway management. He said, however singular it might seem that so gigantic an instrument and so wide-spread a sestem as that of the railway in terest of Great Britain should be in its present state of depression and collapse, while the railway system of every other country, derived from this country, was ex tending and improving, the causes of this were palpable to every one. In a great commercial country like this, teeming with money and overflowing with the annual increase of its wealth, the railway system, starting into existence full blown, and far exceeding the anticipations of its -creators, elicited a spirit of excitement, of spe culation, and of almost wild delirium of extension, welch we were now only too ready to regret, but winch, at the time, no cue was powerful enough to withstand. Parliament, which ought to have stemmed the popular madness, first hounded on the commer cial enterprise of this country to a far greater and more rapid extension of railways than was prudent or expedient, and then, having excited competition as the only means of regulating the proceedings of these great corporations, stepped in and said, "Hav:ag granted competition, we can compel you now, under a sort of penal power, to assist each other to break each other's heads." (Cheers and laughter.) It was in vain that the older corporations lifted up their voice, and preached the doctrine that competition in railways was combination at a later period, and that where one line pail 5 per cent. it did not follow as an inevitable se quence that two lines through the same district would pay 2. per cent. each. Parliament flung the railway system broadcast upon the country, without any consi deration whatever, and left to railway managers and director?, the unhappy task of ( releavouring to pick out this tangled mass and to weave into something like a system the difficult and almost inextricable knot into which they had tied them. (Hear, hear.) Bat it was not in Englishmen to sit down contented with their arm. folded ; and, as it was useless to regret the past, let them consider how to retrieve the grand cardinal error which bad been made in this country, to rescue the wreck of this noble property, and reinstate it on something like a substantial basis. He, for one, had no hesitation or despair whatever of the railway system of Great Britain, it placed under proper management and judicious guidance. (Hear.) But, unless we steered a totally different course from that so fruitlessly pursued for years past, he feared we had not seen eho end of the min chic f. ro rescue railway property from its present condi lion lie looked to prudence and publicity—for he thought the more public the proceedings were to the shareholders, the greater the element of ecurity in railway property—but above all, to the returning good sense of directors and managers, in concentrating their energies rather for good than evil, and directing their efforts rather to be nefit and conciliate each ether than to snatch an undue advantage. (Hear, hear.) Railway managers had been too apt to forget this policy, but he confessed that in his railway career those parts to which he looked back with greatest satisfaction were those in which he had endea voured honestly, and he hoped to some extent success fully, to harmonise all the surrounding interests, and bring one great system of fusion into profitable and ac cordant action. (Cheers.) However much boards of directors might exert themselves to conduct and regu late railway undertakings, it was in a very great degree on the temper, moderation, and spirit with which rail way managers carried out their communications with each other that the prosperity of the railway system must depend. (Cheers.) Under the circumstances of his present position in the railway world, the railway manager must be a sort of rant axis of his kind, He 'oust, of course, be a man of general education and en larged views, and he must have address and manner, because he had to meet every class and description of men, from the peer to the peasant. - Unless he had a largo knowledge of human life, ho would not be able to cope with the difficult positions in which ho was frequently placed ; and he must have a grasp of wind that would look over small things and take li beral and comprehensive. He must have kindly views of neighbouring interests as well as his own ; and he must have long and earnestly studied his pro fession, both in its scientific and in its commercial part. It was a very difficult and very large study, and he believed the public at large were but little aware, a l n in x e je o t f y, ra a i n la c iay h , o o w f when they travelled att how much thought, esmoothlyti o attention, along a many aching heads, hadbeenh given to the provision of that accommodati on which tey enjoyed. The manager of a great trun k li n e must be aware of all the continuall y changingry, andaTting commercial and political circumstances of the cou ought to be continually studying them. He must have an iron constitution, health, and activity; for it Was no light task that railway managers undertook. Sleepless nights and anxious days, dry weather and wet, frost and snow, sun and sunshine, all were the same to the railway man ; there he must be. No pursuit re quired more imperatively that a man must have the power of regulating his temper ; and he would beseech the railway manager never to lose sight of the claims of his subordinates. (Hear.) He must be a man of regtilarity and punctuality, in the strictest sense ; and, finally, the two qualities on which he placed the greatest value were truthfulness and integrity. He believed immense mix. chief had been done to the railway interest, not by the want of common vulgar truth as between man and man, but by the aissence of that delicate perception of truthful ness, that horror of deceit, that repudiation of all chicanery, and the absence of anything approaching to trickery on the part of railway managers, which was so much to be desired. He would not merely piste, the value of integrity on the ground that it was the best policy, but on the higher ground that they were to en deavour to raise the moral character of the system with which they were connected, and to rescue, if possi ble, 300,000,0001. of propert y, employing B orne hun dreds of thous an d s o f men ; and they cou ld only do that by elevating their own conduct. (Cheers.) Mr. EBORALL responded, and several toasts were afterwards honoured. Von Pleas, President of th e Prussian Nobles, We l earn b y th e telegraph from Berli n ebamber of that b th f ePnce is dead. • OFFICIRS —Her THE QUEEN AND TH E CRIMEAN Ma jesty the Queen more is distinguished making isti n a g ucollection officers a ph e o n t g o a g g r e a a ph i i n c p or traits of the Crimean ca mpaign. Her Majesty's sympathy w i th w ounded soldiers is well known , as also is the hospi talitythler Cri and gracious attention shown to the officers who have returned to England on leave or otherwise. To this her Majesty has added the compliment of expressing a wish to have a photographic portrait taken for the royal portfolio. The artist who has been entrusted with the taking of the pictures is Mr. Alayall, the well-known photographer of Argyll-place, Regent -street. The molt recent addition to the royal collection is the portrait o Sir Colin Campbell. 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