The Sun. — London, England, 1855-02-26 00:00:00

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' RV 4 I°' I' 4, tbe OP/ darg h s ootJ P i oc il frfl lw S?'`' h ,(fr t co,pa tor oof e t be ir 1° ibe I foo: e0 w 0)0 ijerneof 4 .0 . 0 01 o f gr'' - o f ' ec,o 4 ~bo boo. tt, , ,1 1 ,. ‘ th elf be rg itfr ljrr q ecO itioa . st iP°3 ; t t pOe t o ° 6 per other, Dip'lo ao ro f J t de ft bit o o f tfoo,oti .1 ool r 't *ll Li la 0 9 b'oF 0 0 0 - b ut off 0 0 ' i° f,4 4 vs ,telY to ' 6 OO t‘ r c v d oti i vi ; i ,e,/ s ilo° ot ,la o etif r t 61. 11 °P p s i hi t oi d c° , ' 4 0' tto io.o° p it " ,esp co , e , ; 1 1 0 A oto ll o py it ° ,1 1 01 0 10 o d i‘ to w oo'ebr;:ti 6 0 ‘1 Ol 13 03" e A 4 9 tl /e iC ) / c r ber e e :to t io # l3 ,o t t er 44 113te e ffeo beaa o tol ° ,o t a h t oo P` p et 0 50 if did bi i l l l 9 ail t) I b bto e s ; c3 rg o tt° ( 0 1. ha f 5 0 0 14 po ot er 11, ° boa ait Do l g'r: c f cos ,t b 0 1 ers' t . pg .0 , e d P N d , of I). A P` i e , 4 1 e "1e o‘. Ic li . , v, t . os e py' 4 , 0 0, 4 Do op i, '" I to o d ` , 0 c 4 ,15 . :0 Ju i ce j 7 001 , 0.ti e ti, . s s 0 " to t Ai !::;1 ovteY o them' f .0 1 ) v jef v, 's l a °„ cur 1 , to A O 0 • )," tie' j encl ° aot th eir he fi; It , d both' itk4 y NI A .KET xPC COMM:BBC/A L INT r Lid 'E. CITY, !Ivo o'CLOCK. ,tioseThde cotton market at Liverpool on Saturday amounted a 5 heavy appearance. The sales Mai t ° ,000 bales, all to the trade, coin lAA !g 100 Pernam and Maranham, at 54ci. to 6jd., 104.LgYptian at sd. to eid., and 500 Surat at 3d. is Ra per lb. There was no perceptible change Toy d w ay Shares, an d th e mar k e t c l os ed with a Ti e nt ! appearan ce . i nie eting of Mexi can B on dholders is now Isiii e ee l . l eld, and th e repor t ma d e b y th e i r c9rn- O A , la of a dis courag i ng, though very i nteresting, The Mexican Government has disre- Q l e e . all its engagements, and its so-called teut i , la l, agency here lends itself in the fullest ex ' C eo tne behests of its employers. 4 t _ t ints from Madrid state that the rains which • 44 411 " in Madrid have been so heavy as to in v ery ft all communi ca ti on . Th e t reasur y was s till cap c °l r, and th e 4 , 000 l a b ourers emp l oye d on th e of i say , aa tion of the river Ebro were much in arrears efa an es from Od essa state that since the middle tint, 11 erY there have passed by Perekop to &- of P2l 12 b atta li ons of infantry and 6 batter i es t erY, and that 2 new regiments of cavalry reached P ere k op f rom K er t c h an d A ra b a t. Ato c ree supplies o f ca ttl e ant i s h ee p had arrived tag magazines esp ec i a ll y from Bessara bi a . I n P o l an d, A ' 4 gazines of pr ov i s i ons are being formed. w ar ~rsanifesto, issued at St. Petersburg, declares tli at "g a inst Sardinia, but allows the subjects of the l a P w c 'sver to rem a i n in Russia by complying with 8. Fr om Brazil there are accounts of Jan. 20. The rrt trade in Rio was dull, Exchange 27i to 28d. lel: 1 °1111 th from Holland state that the navy is hoe n „ ar gelY increased. The budget gives the net Th at 46,608 , 60 7 fl or i ns f or 1855. t lthe 4oliv ere i n States will be largely represente d l e Paris E x hibi t i on. P russ i a t a k es as muc h T h as all the other German Powers together. Plauta,,eanet, from Sydney, has arrived at 4 44 °1 4 11 . As she left on the 25th October her Th e b lv, ill not be s o lat e as those already to hand. T t iv:izabeth, from Australia, is in the Downs. ilnglish Fund s con ti nue re markably steady, ,4# 4 I,'" Prospect of th e Ministry being completed • iloet t given rise to any speculation. Consols teei nh ler, 91 to 91* f or t rans fer, and 91* to for t qtt "ing the same prices as ou Saturday. The ‘ei ti Per Cent s , h ave b een 91i to and the tk; l . ce d 11 t o 1 1 . Exchequer Bills are 6s. to e kti e ß lll ,_juna and' the Bonds have been 99 i 3. ore "'wk is no m i na l. ttle t Securities have been inactive, but the NZ u naltered. Mexican have , been 21 , and kts n " 44 Def erre d 50. R uss i an 4i per Cents. Quoted 87, and Dutch 2 per Cents. 64. Threes have been dealt in at 36. Turkish Th e h ave realis e d 75i t o 76k. kto44 following are the nominal prices of foreign 2 1 'Grenada D e f erre d Bonds, 5 to 6 ; Men atit es',l ° 21 1; Peruvian, 701 to 71-it ; ditto Three • t 457;., 50 to 51 , Portuguese Four per Cents., lotto, ; Russia.. Five per Cents., 98 to 100 ; kisiZtr - and-a-Half per Cents., 87 to 89 ; oh evr Deferred, 17i to 18 ; ditto Three • 6to 36i ; ditto Certificates, 41-to 4i; ,I,T,ll,3" s „ive, 4 to 4i. 4 "waY meetings announced are the fol -44'1,111 , z eouipany. Date. Place. and Bost. Feb. 28, Nottingham. an d botttil. Ghent Mar. 3, Brussels. t t „ . • County Down bsiZ t Ok o r e • & Ches. Juno Feb. 28, Birkenhea d.. esj4i:in b , t• And Stour Val. Feb. 26, Birmingham. N4l. . Feb. 28 , Blackburn. 41i • Glasgow. kt ,ltud I];urnbartons Feb. 28, /44 P'llolyhead cp./471(10o Mar. 7, Euston Station. Mar. 7, London Tavern. 11 4 041 . "Chan Feb. 28, Cork. 11 4 1, 11 . 4 1 t . ....... . Akip s %T a r Lirxist Junction Feb. 28, Dublin. be k ; t kogheda Mar. 1, Dublin. Feb. 26, Dublin. b - 'n 411 44 ‘ 7 1 1;,. ttnis Wickl o iallen Feb. 27, Dundalk. Feb. 27, Grinstead. Feb. 27, King's-cross. „ P leet:lli ph% Feb. 27, London Tavern. fl 'PeS & Dundee Feb. 28, Edinburgh. t "lk i 'lto' &o. Ci r ts e : t2l. o ett bonr n, t g Feb. 24, Brussels. Feb. 28, Albion Tavern. 4 44 1 3 46, e 11tii a tuicti n CeSshirikkl Carli o sle Mar. 7. Liverpool. thtalld Yorkshire 4'o l , O, and Halifax Mar' 1 (0 4 liZ u7 ' Southport Feb. 2 8, 1 .. South-Western Mar. e. 2 Waterloo ol S . tat ion. ° ae Ba d 8. ityts Me diterranean . Mar. 20, Paris. A ct„; Shell. and Line. Apr. 4, Manchester. f elt s z k e - 1 14 1% Feb. 28, London Tavern. klti lh i 3 l4 A ker k and H ref Feb. 28, London Tavern.. Y W arro u n - ;Thos e trev Feb. 28 Liverpool. , 44 Devon von Feb. 28, Office. Feb. 28, London Tavern. LAtii Western O 4ll tl St Germain xu s • Mar. 1, Paris. 4 s .k te Feb. 28, Groat George-street 01) te*B and Quebec t '" Me b '%411 - 5 3 . use Feb. 26, Parliament. 1 , 4 0 1411 1,‘N w "O ft ' o 2 1 7 5 , , p P ß a l ri y lio n li tT h o o n n se . Hotel. 4 4 4,,t Tavern.avern. v ta oz% ".. F$ Feb. 28, Neath. Ref i t " 4 e.t , .Lilin er i e k Feb. 27, Waterford. Ir eo 24,1 1 10 4 m ,_Vir e ,i t . - of 4 4 ... ... nrie7 4l of b tL ate .... .... Pal Feb, 28, Albion Tavern. r anee The IC' har b i 111 ( 1 Fur. June Feb. 27, 3, Guildhall-becli.ngs .46 "tu CrCroydo nFe). 27, Fend3lB '' Il dueo tl • in rch :-... "ri ug are the railway ‘ ‘ calls • t 4 tra l Date due. Call. Amount. °N arthe* 1..:£2 0 0...X60,000 ralp . a nd Cardigan ... 4tic Rod eniasula of Portugal 17... 2 0 0... 80 , 000 414 Co ilar d° l7l , Pref. Si. ...12... 1 0 0... 2000 . kidle ti t° ll4 tance and Basle ...22.. . 3 0 0... 72,000 4 . 2 k, i s :Y and Redcar, New ettb k i t 'ed at 41. prem pet Extens i on 54 ' 0 6 0 75 --m4 eY .. (Yu 7. .. 110 0... 15,000 Pro Portion call e d by foreign corn of 3 is 152,0001, but the holdinggi English proprietors are not known t T heb Total called in 1855 £4,201,332 ti gti t i ea - ai lw aY Share Market has been flatter, and itr 0 er3 have been chiefly engaged in carrying ORl l t is a rranging to settle the account. On `iNh °ll stock the " contango" is very high, being per cent. On Great Western, and 46 We stern, there is a trifling ba.ckwardation. Fot().ohial lines maintain their price. 4 /1 4 4 i t , e1 ( 1 11 Mines are dull, the Banks at full rates a ka , L eril aild, Crystal Palace heavy, and La nd - ° o llt the same. I 'UNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. (Prom the OtXcial List. £283,675 3atit ' k Bu:iness done $ he t ( kit . 215 eat s " A $ 1 t -C e • educed Annuities 9l ,tl t , Ilt n t,0 h ,... p e ,:,..,s , eneols Annuities 9l 1 t e '%hoa h ' il .elat. Annuities t i4 . °4 lt e ,,,es, Expire sth Jan., 1800 -16 a $4,,,,,' 4-ecount, Bth March 9l.f # * Nij" Bills, 4.1. Ei 9 G rc l „ ii 4 000000000000000000000000 4 . , ti tt '''. ............... . 7 4 , e , ................... .6 4 3 ale gt 6 . 4f lrertised. k, I) i o ll onds 1858, ',3i per Cent. 994 2 I'L l ca ll t4',., OF FOEIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. •41,1 Per Cent. , Ditto4llll ‘ 3 ° M B , 4ii per Cent. 7 _ g""ti 4h t per Cent ......... ....... ............. 50 1' 15 t 4 ,1 4 % Li° n ,, (ll, , 4i per Cent B7 i I;kial a Bads, 3 per Cent 36 ' l 4 O f' - ' °ll,l s, 6 per cent 76 5i D 14 ' the Account 76h i Itto lyidench, a b ove payable in London. v t,,,_ on-the , ` 4 O I " 44 ge, 2i per Cent. 12 Gull 6l nor Cent. Certificates .... TIIREE O'CLOCK Consol s •• ................. . ..... .91 i f 4 Q. Marcia Account .. ...............91i Pp, RECRUITING DEPARTMENT. s L 'la r 'o - 1.1.1 0 • . 41 til(lt re7riulicnlgreduelaprarintrFirenotr:a—ndum has been issued t, " Horse Guards, Feb. 15, 1855. _ " MEMOR Ie AND General Commanding-in 44trietf, th t l ec i r n e a t t a ance at o l f a t r l Secretary V has consented to an arran4e- Sr t ,,, ls Y which soldiers who have purchased their dis irritlii'llh°B: obta,ined free discharge . by indulgence, and . of qUently re-enlist within two years after their te' shall be allowed to reckon their former ser wardB pension, which indulgence, however, re is . 4 DPIy . to men who have re-enlisted, or may t al ter th e 31 st December, 1554. 'al . i. k i "etions h ave been g i ven f or a ltering the Royal a 9 °m accordingly cc rn nand of the General Commanding-in-Chief. G. A. WETLIE/tILL, A.Ur h 7h4 1 ' ITeLIAN OPERA.—,.e.tr er — a se cession of one H F has remwe his gage t th ?qr. GI err --ye for the ormes Royal Italian Opera.. en Mat ,l,Presurne been arranged a l'amiable be not u V_ n/ P t re . s ' sai a :i v o e and the artist. The subscribers i t - utti lit „var his with displeasure. I , t 'z're "etto lf nt , -- THE PETREL BY FIRE.—A letter li rl lcti orl ia : in Algeria of the 12th, announces the de qt,i, in that port by fire of the British . steamer .. 14 1) , ( 40 ) 3 : T le ll with hay for the army in the Crimea. t. "at -°ll 's RUSSELL AND THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON. )1 1 41 t wr;°ble lord is reported to have conversed for some t;'4l`ie Iln t he Emperor, and one phrase he is said to ' l 3 , of is in everybody's mouth in Paris : hi ° , ll ot ° ,,, r , Majesty is decided on going to the Crimea,. I .4.lito4What business I have at Vienna, for my pis -411011 cage become useless, if not null. SHARE MARKETS. (Thlo DAY.' RAILWAYS , :',AI !MAY,. lel/Name Prices *4O gaging.. non•. this day. 19 . 204 4i 4i 84 - 9 13 - 124 16 - 17 60, 93 - 95 621 -62 i 1 l3; 3 -- 2 6 - 7 134 - 14,1, 11 111 29 •- 31 20 - 22 72 -• 74 55 57. 2d par 191 20!, 70 - 72 89 - 90 70 - 72 26 - 128 90 -92 65 -65 i 60 = 62 70 - 75 - 7 6 7 74i - 6 4 ••• .... •• •C Si I 96 98 99i 100,11 id ed id I 1 85i 861 8 7 74 6i 23 -23 A 7 i - SA 6si 69 41 - 43 •••• •••' •. par i 1 11 9 li - 2i 50 - 52 31 3}, 28 .. 29 8 10 -- 73 74 6A, 4 - 31 12 50i .1 NZ) -- par A c i 4i 4 5 6 d 29 - 31 99 -- 101 64 66 45 - 47 12 -13 r 5q 591 29 - 30 38 ---- 40 3 - 3A 16 17 3s-'4 25 - ' 5 5 - 6] 6 - - 7 Abtfr ieell 1.00 12A x. 6 all .3i all t7ii all t 19 IS 30 3t. 100 4. 100 .0 21s. 0 all 0 16 .0 1 ;5 I all '2O All Rt 100 1.1 tot, 1100' L 6 14i L6l 4 k. 100 L 94 all L 4 11i .1i all It. 100 It. 100 l 0 I 5 i 0 ' 42! LO 34 .0,5 all M. 100 :5 all 2s 1 100 ft. 100 :5 I 2`.2.2;, Ambg. Nottng. Bow and Eastu. Junet... Belfast & Ballymena. Birming. Wolverh Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Juliet Do. Chesh. & Birk. > I £5O and £25 Com , . IDo., ...... Iyth &Tyn; origina £25 (issd. at £45. Bristol and Exeter 1 Caledonian. Caimarthen and Car digan :;pester & Holyhead Jork and Bandon._ c'ork, Black, dt Pas• Cornwall `tieff Junction )übl i it dtßelfastj . Dundee Perth &Abe teen Junction Do. New. ...... Fast Anglian.... Eastern Counties..... 'ilastern Union, ,\ Stock B Stock Do., New A. 17.ast Lancashire ' Minburgh dt Glasgow Kdinb. and Peebles.. Edin. Prth & Dund6u . l & Clyde June.l Furness . Do. Extension lUlasgow &S. Wester, ;treat Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Sth. &West. (Ire. ',treat Western Do. Stour Val. Rai Gun. Stk Irish South-Easterz, riancaster & CarHsi( Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancash. andYorkal Do., Fifths Do., Wet. Riding LTD Liv.Crsby.&Southpt London & Blackwal Loud. Bright & S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westu. Do. Fifths Do.lol.Sb ~M&B._ Do. Eighths London and S. Westu Do., £5O Do., £4O l.ndudrry& Col erain imdndrry. & Ennisk. Aanch.Shef.& Lincli Do. 4 Shares, No. )0., Man. & Lin. Un. Widland )o. Birmng. &Derb; 'CM& G. West. are Do. Half Shares 6- 5i 21i Newcastle & Carlish lewmkt. Bur7Extev STwpt.Aberg. &Hrf , Jewry & Enniskille' iewry Warrenpoin and Rostrevor l i iorfolk sTorthn.Cotuaties UT, 'forth British 'forth Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 , 0., A Deferred Do., B Guarant.-t d sT.Eastern—Berwie' , o. do. Extension do. G. N. E. Punt !)o. Leeds It. I !Ol.; )o. York ;t. 114) It. 100' .6 all .6 all 8 2 .11 8 all 5 I 20 15" 13 L 0 all 10 :3.- 1 'forth London Do. New .£lO I.ALS. Wstru.,llam , stead, and City Jn. north Staffordshire. North Western 4 .& S. Westrn. Jun , Nuneaton, Hinck 1 , ~,nd Leicester.. L.O all 10 4. I St. 100 St. I 0 all St. 00 T. ) tli St. 1% Oxford, Worcester, Wolverhampton ;'ortsmouth 4cottish Central Scottish Midland , tirewsby. & liereff; iqrflpshire Union ionth Devon ioatl. Eastern South Wales Yrksh. & Riv. Dui 70 'stainos,Wok Wo, Stockton fir Darn!, itc Alton do Hartlep' Paff Vale Do. £lO shares NfttEg f it.b i leoS bar and Roilwav Vale of Noath ..... Waterf L k Kilkenn3 ‘JVaterford&Limerkl West Cornwall. West End of London and Crystal Palace West London Wimbledn & Croydon 12 a 4. Plc LO 9 it , '29,, ~ A ) all N:1 au .0 141 s. LO I all 5 0 10 0 2s. lil all FOREIGN. Antwerp&Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. June. Beziers to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Scrip Central of Italy Demerara Dijon and Besancon Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian Do. Extension Do. 4. p. c. Bds., pay. '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Tk of Canada A is Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. e., do. Gt. Central of Franc , Gt. Indian Peninsula Do. New 5 per cent. (Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations. Gt. Western of Canad Shares Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O . De. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Basle Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c. pref _ . Lyons and Geneva , Lyons di Mediterran \tiaras Do. New /aria Antonia Do. do. Now Namur & Liege (witl interest) Do. (ox interest) Northern of France. D o .20/. Shs.latc Char leroi and Erquelines guar. 3$ p. c. & red. at 2W. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bdr. (fmy.B. & A.ms. Sim ) NorwegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds . Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen... ParisCaen & Cherbrg. Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish iambre and Meuse Do. p. cent. Pref Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 5A per c. Pref.: Western of France West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand JOINT-Si Australasia British Colonial Bank and Loan Company 11 I British N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia Clirtd. Buk. of India, Australia, & China '25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lond 18 English Scottish anil Australian all Lond. Chas i. Bk. of Australia 5 Ditto New 20 London aL d County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond. & Westminster 35 National Provinciat of England 10 Do. New • 22 ? ; INational of Ireland all Now South Wales all lOriental Bank of Corporation 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 Royal Auntraln.Bkg (4ohl Imp Co all South Australia al; Union of Australia Do. New 10 Union of Loudon ~ 19i 20 6i - 6i 1 - li 4 - 31 par I P - P 2i -21 • 32i 5 -.6, 1 - 1p . ."" ••• • •'' • • • par ip par ip 3 2i 2fi 17 —l7 95 97 95 97 99 - 10. 92 94 2 d - par 97 -- 100 ••• ..- ••, ii ••• 16 - 2 p d Ci - 7 ~3 - 33: 12 - 12 R -9! 201 - 21 p 45 47 39 41 pro 72 22 ld ar 21 .—p lid 7h 8 ••• '''.. - pm - ii =I 'i 6 - 7p ... -- ii i = iii 80 -- 82 ••• • • 1 d -- i • d '..... ••• 2i 2id 19 d 1 201 36 - 38 33 - 35 37 - 39 38 40 61 - 66 7 - 9 N• O all :5 15 i 5 all IQ all 9 10 5 all 1 4 all !06 all !O 10 !O 12 !O 16 !O 10 LO all zo all 0 I all 6 all :0 I all .0 I all ;0, 1 20 5 1 3 _J I all Bil all LO I all 6 all D all 50 al 25 20 THE NUN', LONDON MONDAY EVENING rEBRUAIt V 20, 1056. M!NES. - MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) ' INDIAN HEROES. • 1 all Agna Fria . 1 all. Anglo Austrin. Gold . ••• 102. All auglo Californian ' 20 6 Australian 1 1 all Australian Cordillera ... 1 all Australian Freehold. ... 1 all •Ave Maria — 1 all Baden (Gd.Dachy of) -- 50 all Blmnarvon Iron and Coal 20 13.5 British Iron 4 6 35 251 Brazilianlmp.(issned at £5 pm ll 21 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiaba 1 11 20 15 1 Do. St. John Del Rey 28 —3O 1 1 Carson's Creek 1 1 Clarendon Cons. Min • Co. of Jamaica — id 40 all Cobre Copper 46 48 5 1 Colonial Gold — St. all Copper Min. of Eng 4l 50 25 all Do. Pref. 7/ p. cent ld 1 o ... 16 Copiapo ... . .. 5 all English and Austin Copper Sineltg 1 2 / Fortuna $ zci 20 all General. 1 all 3t.NuggetVoinßeg. 1 4 all Great Polgooth. — ••• 1 all Liberty - 3 all Linares 7 71 5 1 Lusitauian sd Id 1 all Aariquita. 1 - all New Granada d 1 all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co . 1 all Nouveau Monde K 20 all Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. & Smelt 15 16 5 1 Port Philip — I 1 all Quartz Rock 50 all Ithyraney Iron l9 21 15 all Do. New 5 6 30 11/ Santiago de Cuba 3l 4 . 1 all South Australian I 11 10 71 Tin Croft 1 2 281 all United Mexican 2l 21 1 all Waller — I 1 all West Mariposa.. 1 12s. Worthing Mining of Australia 1 all Yuba • ••• MISCELLANEOUS. 25 171 Australian Agricult. 201 301 20 . . Australsn .Pcific. 10 all Australn. Royal Mail 10 51 Berlin Water Works 3 —21 d 50 40 Brit. American Land 60 65 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co . . LOO 321 Canada ll9 121 St. 100 Canada Gov. 6p. et. Jan. and July 1971 1071 1071 5 all Crystal Palace — 21 21 4 all Crystal Pal.of France 1 / Duston Tron Ore 20 5 Eastern Steam — 25 22 ElectricTelegraph(A) 15 16 1 all Electric Teleg. of Ir. 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. 20 all General Screw Steam 151 / 20 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig. 10 all Mediteran. Elec. Tel. 10 9 Mexicau&S.Amerien. 6 61 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel „ 10 5 Netherlands Land I 11 2 1 N. S. W. Coal &Inter Steam Navigat. Co. 1 all N. B. Australasian — 20 121 Nrth. of EuropeSte.ant all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. 21 -- 21 2$ 53 all Peninsular& Oriental 53 55 s') all Do. Do. .. 2 all Portland Iron Co ll 21 100 60 Royal Mail Steana'63 65 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. 1$ 11 'll 1 1 Ditto New I 25 all South Austral. Land :'4l —35 i 1 all Submar. Telegraph.. 1 -- • 1 a l t), Regi. t ered 1 -- 1 20 5 Tr"st & Loan Co. of Upper Canada.., 100 98A Van Diemand s Land 1 . 2/ 131 The country markets held on Saturday were fairly sup plied with wheat, in which only a limited business was transacted, at drooping prices. The barley trade was heavy, and malt was much neglected. Oats, beans, peas, and flour were very dull. The usual answer given to any appeal for the consoli dation of the Indian and the Queen's services is, "Name your men." If British India is so prolific in crops of heroes, it cannot be very difficult to furnish the public with the names of a few officers whose past achievements can readily enough be inquired into and appreciated. If we could not do better, we would accept the challenge as delivered, and would undertake, from our past ex perience of military operations in British India, and from our knowledge of the condition of the Indian army list, to furnish in the space of half an hour a treble and qua druple list of officers who have proved themselves com petent for situations of higlr command. We care not what arm of the service it may regard—Artillery, Cavalry, Infantry—the Transport or the Commissariat departments—we have in British India officers who have spent their lives in successfully practising the duties of each. We apprehend, however, that were we to adopt such a course, and to publish a list of names compara tively unknown—to their greater shame—to English men at home, we should fail in producing the result we most desire. We prefer the simpler and more effective system of bringing now ore name, and now another, before the notice of the public, lest the merit of any one should be obscured, as it were, by the .. combined services of his brother officers. Among the names of Indian officers those of Outram and Ed wardes are perhaps the most conspicuous in England ; how many Englishmen who are presumed to have attended to the course of public affairs have even heard of the services of Brigadier William Mayne ? And yet in the military records of any nation there is scarce men tion to be found of any officer more daring in execution, more uniform in !success. With small means he has achieved great results. Nor has his ability simply been displayed in placing squadrons in the field and heading their impetuous charge, amidst the wild hurrahs of the troopers and the stern circumstances of battle. The officer of whom we speak has not only fought well himself—he has not only shown others how to fight well —but he has proved himself to be possessed of that strange and unusual power of bending the wills of wild tribes and nations into subordination to his own. In the Queen's service, as at present cribbed and confined, it would be in vain to seek for evidence of such qualities. What can a❑ officer do who is proved by no higher or deal than that of presiding over a recruiting party at Ballymacrush, or of aiding the civil power on some torrid islet in the sugarless Antilles ? We entreat of all officers who wear the Queen's uniform to believe that when we seek for a consolidation between the Royal and the Indian services their interests are as much at stake as those of their gallant brethren and companions in arms. The history of this young officer—for a young man he is still—reads more like a page out of the romance of war than a dry record of services actually performed as a mere matter of course. Ensign Mayne, of the 37th Na tive Infantry, lost no time in displaying what manner of man he was so far back as 1839 at Jellalabad. Again and again he was thanked by the officers under whose immediate eye he fought, now for infantry, and now for cavalry service. As civilians, net very pro foundly versed in military tactics, we have a kind of weakness for an officer who is uniformly successful, and such an officer was Ensign or Lieutenant William Mayne throughout the Affghan war. For four years-1839-40- 41-42—his fame increased. "It is only," writes Sir Jasper Nicholls, "in such a region, and with such an enemy, that it can fall to the lot of a subaltern officer to distinguish himself so often, and it redounded greatly to Captain Mayne's honour that he seized every opportunity which presented itself, and. contributed so often to the success of our arms." Lords Ellenborough, and Har dingo, and Dalhousie, and the Indian Generals, in what ever other respect they may differ, at least agree in a hearty recognition of the services of this most efficient officer. Finally, we find him placed in 1851, despite of his youth, despite of the absence of any claims save those of his merits, in command of the Nizam's Horse, "said to be the finest body of native cavalry in India." In this responsible situation—called upon, as it were, to make war on his own account, and to exercise his judg ment upon every detail of military operations, and upon their effective combination, we find him over and over again successful in all his undertakings, and receiving the thanks of residents and of the Governor-General in Council. Now, if our friends who are disposed to deal cavalierly with our recommendations of Indian officers seek for particulars and names, here is one name for them—that of Brigadier William Mayne. Up to this point he appears to have walked in the steps of Clive and Arthur Wellesley. Let him have a trial.—Times. In the Continental markets there has been rather more business doing in wheat for spring shipment. The latest advices from New York are to the effect that very little business was doing in flour on English account. Very little English grain came fresh to hand last week. The arrivals from abroad were only 1,196 quarters t f wheat, 380 barley, 500 oats, 10 beans, 14 peas, 67 tares, 604 linseed, 381 rapeseed, 45 sundry seeds, and 127 sacks of flour. A very limited supply of English wheat was receited fresh up to our market to-dity. Although the show of samples of both red and white was limited, there was no inclination shown on the part of buyers to purchase, aris ing from the stoppage of most of the mills, and the dif• culties of nal, igation. The few sales effected in fine wheats were at prices about equal to those obtained last week. Low and inferior parcels were very dull, and, is some in stances, the quotations were rather easier. _ The show of foreign wheat ex granary was limited, and there were no fresh samples on offer. Most descriptions met a dull inquiry, yet we have scarcely any change to notice in the quotations. Floating cargoes were dull, but not cheaper. There was a slow inquiry for all kinds of barley ; the supply was limited—on former terms. The malt trade was depressed, and in some instances prices rather lower. We had a moderate inquiry for oats, the prices of which were well supported. Beans moved off heavily, at barely stationary figures. The sale for peas was dull, on former terms. We had very little business doing in flour, at late rates. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red •• .• new 61 s to 783 Ditto • • old 65s 72a UM°, White new 76s 81s Ditt0........ old 78s 848 Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old 66s 78a Ditto new .• •• •• 66s 78s Bye—Old •• •• •• •• •• • • —3 New . •. •• •••• •• 42s 44s Barley—Grinding .• • 29s 31a Malting ••••• •• 32s :43 1 Chevalier•• •• • •• 35s 368 stalt—Saffolkand Nor folk.. Brown .•• . •• 58s COs Kingston and Ware Gas 70s Malt—Chevalier •• .• 71s to 72s Oats Yorkshire and Lincolnsk..Feed 26s 28s Potato ......• 281 iW rough* and Cork Black. •• .. 25s 29s Cork,White ..... 26s 30s Scotch,Feed.•.•. 28s 31s Beans—Tick ......... 37s 393 Pigeons .... 431 46s Peas—Grey..•. 335 37s Map1e........... 398 42s White........... 39s 425 Boilers •• 425 44s Flour—Town-made... 65s 73s Suffolk .......... 545 60s Btocktn & Norfolk 53s S4s SMITHFIELD. In consequence of the great severity of the weather, scarcely any foreign stock arrived in tho port of London last week—the total supply being only 289 head. In the corresponding week in 1854 w• received 2,775; in 1853, 3,590 ; in 1852, 1,824 ; in 1851, 1,994 ; in 1850, 1,228; in 1849, 2, 616 ; and in 1848, 1,020 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WINE. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. rigs. . ... 110 ... - ... .00)28, LLOYD'S SIIIPPIIVG-(THIS DI 1. LONDON, Feb. 26.—Wind and weather this day at noon, N.B. ; light breeze, and dull, hazy weather. The thaw has been very rapid during the last 36 hours; and the weather is now very mild. The river is almost en tirely free from ice. DOVER, Feb. 25. The Scud, of and for London, was stranded near the Potter C. G. station, has since bilged, and it is expected will become a total wrack. FALMOUTH, Feb. 25.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Ame rica Packet, from Moulmein, for Hamburgh ; Elizabeth, Buenos Ayres, for Antwerp ; King William , Mazatlan , for Antwerp ; Westbrook, Moulmein, with part of cargo thrown overboard. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 25.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Sir T. Gresham, from Calcutta ; Pl.intagenet, Sydney, with 2,000 oz. of gold. Sailed—Candace (s.s.), for the Coast of Africa ; and a large fleet of the outward bound. D..--”uounr, Feb. 25.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived— Her Majesty's snip,. , , „ George, Malta ; Calcutta, Plymouth ; and A i rigl ; Mira Clie westward. The Result, from China to London, put in here yesterday, leaky, and she touched the ground in com ing in. HOLYHEAD, Feb. 25.—The Wave, from London to Liverpool, has put into the Old Harbour, leaky, having struck on a sunken rock in Caernarvon Bay during a fog. (rm.. rameTivic TELEGRAVIL) LIVERPOOL, Monday, 11.5 a.m. Wind, IL Arrived—Queen of the Isles, from St. Michael's ; F. P. Sage, New York; Northern Belle, New Orleans; Coosa Wattee, Savannah ; Jno. Bayonet, Charleston ; Arabian, Prince Edward's Island ; Lady Elizabeth, China. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 24. Wind, S. Arrived—lnn Livingston, from Algiers ; Nugget, Prince Edward's Island ; Ada Mary, West Coast of Africa; Viking, Alexandria; Amity, Salonica. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.13 a.m. Wind, W.S.W. ; tide, 1a hour's ebb ; weather, hazy and moderate. Arrived, 25th—Esmond Waburnen, from Egmond ; Medemblik, Seville; Welcome, Rouen; King Philip, Bois. ton ; Spirit of the Age, Shanghai. DEAL, Monday, 9.30 s.m. Wind, N.W. ; light. with thick fog. Passed, 25th—American Congress, from New York, for London. Anchored—Agnes Taylor, from Demerara, for London ; Argo, Catania, for Ipswich ; Richard Alsop, from New York for Antwerp ; Merchantman, Bombay, for London. DRURY-LANE TREATRIL—This evening the long-pro mised opera by Meyerbeer, entitled L'Etoile de Nord, will be performed for the first time. The arrangements for the representation of the opera are of the most ex tensive character, and, in addition to the celebrated Jenny Baur, Mr. H. Drayton and Mr. Leffler have been engaged. The chorus has been augmented to upwards of eighty voice-e and a like increase has been made to the orchestra. The appointments are, it is said, of the most elegant description, and everything that the most lavish expenditure could procure has been done to give due effect to this celebrated dramatic opera. Some idea may be formed of the splendour of the scenery, dresses, and other etc.'s, from the fact that upwards of a thou sand pounds have been expended in order to give gran deur to the work. Renowned as Old Drury has ever been for spectacle, this opera bids fair to outrival all previous productions. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—This evening the fascinating Perea Nena again appears at "the little theatree in hthas e ' Haymarket," in two new ballets. Mr. alsr, secured Spanish b the services allet, ofm aSenormay b e AplraordcuosceDdiaizn, first-rate that the style. Report speaks very highly of the two ballets announced for representation this evening, viz., The Bull Fighter, and a Gallician Pet'. CARLISLE, FEB. 23.—THE MURDER AT LLMPLUON. —Thomas Munroe, miner, aged 18, imperfectly in- structed, was indicted for the wilful murder of Isaac Turner, at Lamplugh, on the 4th November last. The trial has already lasted two days, and on Saturday when the poet left, the jury had not returned their verdict. MELANCHOLY DEATH OF AN OFFICER.—Major C. Colville Young, of the Royal Horse Artillery, just re turned from the Crimea en route from Turkey to the Isle of Wight, where his wife and family reside, was killed on Saturday morning by falling from the top storey front window of one of the bedrooms of the Fountain Hotel, High-street, Plymouth. An inquest was held, and the jury, after a short consultation, found that the deceased was killed by accidentally falling from a window. SOUTH AMERICAN MAILS.--LISBON, Feb. 19.—The Portuguese steamer Dona Maria, 11. arrived here on Saturday. Ad'vices from Rio de Janeiro state that the stock of coffee had been very much reduced by shipments for Europe ; but large supplies were expected upon the cessation of the heavy rains which bad stopped the tran sit. At Bahia Burgers were very firm and even scarce. At Pernambuco, sugar receipts bad been heavy. A letter from Helsingfors, in the Borsenhalle of Ham burg, says :—" In a speech delivered by General de Berg, the new Governor of Finland, at a grand dinner given in his honour by the town, was the following phrase :---‘ Gentlemen, my return within your walls does not announce to you any favourable change in circum ' stances ; it proves, on the contrary, that the trials to which you (were subjected last year, are likely to be renewed.'" Accounts have reached the French Government of the total destruction of a transport in the Black Sea, laden with troops and ammunition. The ship is said to have foundered, and every soul on board, amounting to 700 persons, perished. FATAL ACCIDENT IN ST. JAMES'S rast:e.--Yesterday a lad named John Harper, 25, Tower-street, Seven Dials, who, in spite of cautions to the contrary, was amusing himself with two companions close to a channel which had been made for the water fowl in St. James's-park, near the island facing the Horse Guards, slipped off the edge of the ice into deep water. The other lads ran away, saying nothing to the Humane Society's men, so that the accident was not discovered for seine time after wards, and when the lad was at length taken from the water life was extinct. Tim PATRIOTIC FUND.--The subscription to this fund obtained in the city of York and the neighbour li )od amounts to nearly 3,0001. The list will be closed on Wednesday next. The sum collected at Rotherham in aid of the same object is 1,1001. At Nether Pepple ton, Yorkshire, 22/. 15s. 6d. has been subscribed. The inhabitants of the parish of Tottenham have most libe rally contributed towards this fund. The total amount forwarded to head-quarters en Thursday last amounted to 5451. 15s. The sum subscribed in the borough of Leicester to this fund now amounts to 2,619/. ' • the sum for the same object from th e count y is upwards of 600 e. LIT E 1 AT Lives of the Queens of Scotland. By Agnes Strickland. Vol. V. Blackwood. Our authoress, in this latest instalment of her new historic composition, has narrated, and that, moreover, with all befitting pathos and solemnity, some among the more tragic and roman tic incidents in the reign of perhaps the most beau tiful, as she was certainly the most unfortunate, of Princesses. Happily for the fair fame of Mary Queen of Scots, the memory of that otherwise luckless monarch has found at last s not unworthy celebrant in Agnes Strickland. From the earlier chapters of the biography here continued we had anticipated largely as to the success of even this tardy investigation. The expectations we then formed are not only in a great measure already realised, but in several particulars very considerably surpassed. Notwithstanding the lapse of three centuries since the period when the events recounted by Miss Strickland originally transpired—notwithstanding the difficulties in the way of research, which have necessarily, from the mere circumstance of that protracted interval, be come at once wonderfully , expanded, strengthened, and multiplied—notwithstanding the accumulation of authoritative influence upon the heads of old partisan writers, who have all the while, so to speak, been ripening and mellowing into classics, as in - the instance of the renowned Buchanan— the gentle hand of a candid woman, armed with the Pen of Truth, that weapon keener and more pointed than the mythic Sword of Justice, has hero swept calumny after calumny into nothingness, and vindicated from many a foul slur and evil imputation one of the fairest of her sex, as she was indubitably one of the unhappiest of sovereigns. It was admirably said of Mr. Macaulay by a contemporary critic and annalist, no less eminent than Sir Archibald Alison, that his genius, as revealed through the initial volumes of his Con tinuation to Hume and Smollett, proved him to have been called rather to the Bar than to the Bench of History. Not thus has it been with Miss Strickland. Her writings, on the contrary, breathe rather of the summing up of a judicial authority, than of the subtle and wire drawn sophistries of a special pleader. It is the blend ing thus in her narratives of an alluring lucidity and a most persuasive frankness, which has won for her the guerdon of her really enviable and distin guished reputation. The honours gained by her " Lives of the Queens of England" are now being at once confirmed and enhanced by those inevitably arising out of her " Lives of the Queens of Scotland" —the pendant of its more ambitious predecessor—its kindred sequel, or rather fitting companion. As in the earlier of those remarkable productions, the elaborately-drawn biography of Queen Eliza beth was the portion to which the surrounding narrative became necessarily subordinated—so has it come to pass, no less necessarily, in the pre sent undertaking, the very heart, and jewel, and dominant charm of which is the memoir penned by our authoress with equal care and discrimi nation, the narrative of the existence and suffer ings of Elizabeth's Scottish cousin and rival, and one who, though in all else her rival, was in every thing but genius her peerless contemporary. The volume here submitted to our consideration pos sesses more than the attractions usually inseparable from any ordinary record of the life of Mary Queen of Scots, especially of that portion of her most sor rowful career which involves the recital of the more romantic, and yet, at the same time, more homely, because purely home-drawn, of her misfortunes. Continually, throughout the narrative, we are, as so repeatedly happens with us in the perusal of the writings of our authoress, reminded, again and yet again, of her favourite motto from Beaumont, that motto which has come at last to be perma nently emblazoned upon her literary escutcheon— " The treasures of antiquity laid up In old historic scrolls I opened." Treasures of mouldering parchment, and scarcely legible manuscript, which, on passing into the hands of Miss Strickland, have become transformed either into amulets of extenuation, or into talismans of complete and triumphant vindication. Let the dozen chapters comprised in this fifth volume of the " Lives of the Queens of Scotland" be taken in testimony : and, judiciously examined, we doubt not but that they will be accepted readily enough as corroborative to the full of our somewhat earnest but entirely merited panegyric. Within the compass of these twelve additional chap innteithel ifirranhy of Mary Stuart how many of the history" have been recoulatf-r-fatrauge, eventful touchingly I From the melancholy date of lying ill at Jedburgh, when she, awfully, prepares for death, and when at her unlooked-for convales cence her attendants bring for her parched lips the solace of divers cooling citrons and pomegranates— to the yet more melancholy period of her incar ceration in Lochleven Castle, whore sue is in humanly insulted by Lady Douglas almost on the first instant of her arrival, and whore for so many months the young Queen was left to pine among the petty splendours of her prison—at night under the shadow of her green velvet bed with the stitched taffety counterpane—by day under the gloomier shade of her regal canopy or crimson satin cloth-of estate. Throughout the chequered alternation of the vicissitudes comprised in the interval between which occurrences—the arrival at Jedburgh and the arrival at Lochleven—the reader has perpe tually looming before his imagination the on coming passage of eighteen dreadful years of imprisonment over the head of the unfor tunate Queen of Scots within the princely palace walls of the fatal Fotheringay. Tracing the career of Mary Stuart from her royal assize at Jedburgh ' up to the time of her sorrowful domestication in the Castle of Lochleven, her historian, and, as we have already intimated, her sympathising and suc cessful vindicator from the calumnies of so many traducer; and chief among all from those of the unpitying and unscrupulous Buchanan, relates the pathetic fluctuation of the young Queen's joys and griefs, her fleeting happiness and her prolonged sufferings. Whoever may question the practica bility in Mary Stuart's regard of any vindication as successful as that which we have already de clared Agnes Strickland's to be—let them turn wonderingly to the noteworthy pages of this simple, eloquent, veracious, and, above all, most womanly biography. They will there learn, doubtless for the first time, the truth as to the horrid murder of Darnley, and further on, likewise, in reference to the yet more horrid marriage with Bothwell. They will at last be enabled to appreciate more accurately than 1 hitherto the merits of the former in spite of his many weaknesses, no less than the double-dyed ruffianism of the latter, a ruffianism befitting less a Scottish Thane than a Tyrolese Brigand. They —the readers of Miss Strickland, who have hitherto dreamed over the "criminality" of Mary Queen of Scots—may see fit thereafter to muse only with pitying tenderness over the recollection of her unparalleled and appalling miseries. The gentler evidences of her affectionate nature will then be borne sometimes at least extenuatively in the Lis tonic student's remembrance. Her fondness for the gay and graceful stripling—the beloved Darnley, will be found to contrast somewhat strikingly with her repugnance for the dreaded and detested Both well. Let our readers, we say, examine this tragic and remarkable narrative for themselves. They will find the work eminently repay the time requisite for its minute investigation. And what attractive scenes and incidents to scrutinise, under the guidance of one as frank and impartia). as Agnes Strickland ! The midnight catastrophe at the Provost's house, in Kirk-of-Field I The Masked Ball in the pala tial Abbey of Holyrood 1 Mary glittering in jewels in the dance, and the beloved Darnley stark dead in the orchard, under the gloom of the suburban garden wall—his fur pelisse by his side, the ruins of the fated dwelling strewn around in the grim chaos caused by the explosion of gunpowder. The melancholy particulars of the murder of Darn ley have been preserved to us with singular com pleteness. A rathersurprising eircu mstan y c e e a w rs h h ei a i l i ,e t is remembered that nea rl y three hundred now elapsed since the date of this appalling catas trophe. It was about midnight, between Sunday the 9th and Monday the 10th of February, in the year o f Grace, 156 7, that the conspiracy against the life of the young King Consort of Scotland wa s consummated, and that, moreover, with inci dents of peculiar atrocity—incidents both by way o f preliminary and accompaniment. Upon the morning of the day thus deplorably terminated for Darnley by a death of violence, we are informed that " he heard mass devoutly" in his temporary residence at the Provost's house in Kirk-of-Field. Scarcely recovered from his severe illness, the youthful prince appears to have marked the pro gress of his gradual approach towards convalescence by a course of devotional exercises designated in his Church a "retreat," after the manner of devout Catholics. It was very possibly the knowledge of this religious fervour on the part of Darnley, coming as it did with the then notorious fact of his perfect reconciliation with the Queen—which incited the rebel Lairds to precipitate their design for the sud den removal of the King Consort of Scotland. They were doubtless goaded on to the commission of this dark crime there and then by the reflection that not only were Queen Mary and King Henry enthusiastic votaries of Catholicism, but that the education of their infant son in the tenets of their own creed would in all likelihood be insured by the accession of fresh zeal to the softened heart e of Darnley, by the revival of his influencc%o forcetlm imagination of Mary, and by the animating r of their mutual tenderness. For all which reasons the gunpowder plot against the " Papist" father of THB WEATHER. A rapid thaw, with a south-westerly wind, was hailed by thousands of industrious classes in the metropolis last Saturday morning. Labourers were at once set to work to demolish the ice in the basins of the several docks in the Thames in order, if possible, to get the ships clear. The break up of the ice in the river, where it is fast above bridge, and in the various creeks, is much dreaded along the shores. All the shipping have hauled in from the centre of the river, clue° in to shore, and will in a great measure avoid ci th n Ewsgs_tliat will be thoroughfares has dies= 0 S t ht hours. n a ur meared within the last forty-eig and last ""-- —" - hours, again c ic a e rr w ie h d ic d h o h w a n d . ac A cu c r o g n ui s a id te e d ra i b u le night, about nine o'clock. The subjoined correspondence shows that the thaw is general, and the relief which it will give to hundreds of thousands of labourers and arti sans,the upon whom the frost had enforced idleness, may be regarded as a national benefit. MANCHESTER, SHNDAY.—The long frost began to break up at Manchester on Friday night under the influ ence of a westerly wind, which continded the whole of Saturday. On Saturday evening there was a fall of snow, followed by moderately heavy rain for some hours, but this morning the wind had veered round to the east, with a heavy fog. SOUTHAMPTON, SUNDAY. —The severe weather has been entirely broken up at Southampton. Large quan tities of rain fell here on Saturday night. All the snow and a great portion of the ice have disappeared. To-day the wind is south-west. ',moron, SUNDAY.—The unusually severe weather with which we have been visited during the last fort night, in some degree moderated yesterday. The wind suddenly shifted to the south, and a rapid thaw of the large masses of snow followed, which continued until about five o'clock in the afternoon, when a heavy fall of sleet and rain took place. Later there was another fall of snow, covering the ground to the depth of several inches ; but in a brief period the influence of the atmos phere, which acted mildly, soon reduced it. The weather here may now be said to be broken. NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE, SATCTRDAY EVENING.—A de cided thaw has set in, with rain, and the snow is gradu ally disappearing. The mayor hal issued a notice pro hibiting persons from crossing the Tyne on the ice—a practice which has become dangerous. LEEDS, FEB. 24.—A change of wind to south-west took place this morning, accompapied by a mild breeze and a rapid thaw, which in a few hours carried away the snow. DUBLIN, FEB. 24.—The thaw has returned this morn ing, with a prospect of finally predominating. As an instance of the late severity of the weather, it is stated that the famished sea-birds accepted food from persons standing at the Liffey wall, in the same way as the tame water-fowl in the pond of St. James's-park. PARIS, SATURDAY.--The thaw has continued all day yesterday at Paris and in the neighbourhood. The roads all round the capital are in a dreadful state, and the communications will be for some (lays very difficult. Most of the principal thoroughfares of Paris Lase been tolerably well cleared of the snow, but the state of the smaller streets is terrible, from the mixture of melted snow and mud. The thermometer re mains several degrees above freezing point. For three days, previous to the commencement of the thaw, the port of Calais presented a curious spectacle, such - as has not been seen for the last 80 years. The severe cold had frozen the entrance of the port, and the north-easterly winds which have prevailed since the frost set in drove an immense quantity of ice on the beach. The force of the waves each day carried up and left at high water mark large masses of ice, some of them weighing at least 6,000 kilog. A number of persons have come in from the country to Calais on purpose to see this curious phenomenon. ELECTION INTELLIGENCE. CARDIGANSHIRE BOROUGHS. The nomination came off very quiet on Thursday ; indeed, the appointment of the day was only known to a few, there being no notice given of it in any of the local newspapers. The candidates were Mr. John Lloyd Davies, on the Conservative side, and Mr. J. Evans, Q.C., and late member for Haverfordwest, in the Liberal interest. The election took place at Cardigan. The show of hands was in favour of Mr. Davies, and a poll was demanded for Mr. Evans. CLOSE OF THE POLL.—FRIDAY. Lloyd Davies Evans . 293 . 286 Majority for Davies By this election a vote is gained to the Conservative party, Mr. Pryse Loveden, the late member, having been a Liberal. SWANSEA. The nomination of a candidate to represent this borough, in the room of the late Mr. Vivian, is fixed for to-morrow (Tuesday.) THE BARNSTAPLE ELECTION• • On Saturday, the committee re-assembled ; Mr. J. M. Butt in the chair. After Mr. Guiness had been examined, The Chairman said he bad to state, for the informa tion of counsel, that the committee were unanimously of opinion that the evidence that had been given on the part of the petitioner had not establi , bed the want of qualification on the part of Mr. Guinness, the sitting member. Mr. Serjeant Kinglake said they would proceed with the other parts of the case on Monday. Mr. Slade applied to the committee to consider if this was not a fit case for them to give coststo Mr. Guinness. The Chairman having consulted his colleagues, said that it was not a case in which costs should be given. The committee then adjourned until to-day. Contracts for the supply of hay for the troops at Malta 35,5 " have been taken from the connniFsariat department by 55, 3d. Mr. George Pye, of Exeter, who had similar contracts to 555 6d not long since for the army in the Crimea. At present 1,565 he has 10 tons daily pressed and packed sent b a y wa a y ni f a o c r h e i m ne . 62,797 216 for the purpose, and this quantity is 62,308 barkation at Plymouth. About 00 men are daily em -5G 3 ployed in preparing the hay. 62 i } 29 2O 201 73 89/ 71 70 127 65k f I 74i i 971 i 7 1001 971 1001 68i 9 73 4 51 501 12& f i 59 • 29j 171 i 17 27i 7 39i 40i From Ostend Harlingen Total... 169 ... 120 ... The yearly comparison of wookly imports is as under : Beasts. Sheep. 1854 BB9 1,621 1853 5Ol ... 2,824 1852 566 .” 998 1851 447 1,438 ", 1850 4 9 635 1819 644 1,869 Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 250 15 - 250 15 - ... 257 ... 3 206 3 154 - 162 Scarcely any foreign stock was here to-day. The arrivals of beasts from our own grazing districts fresh up this morning were very moderate as to number, and there was a slight falling off in their general quality compared with some previous weeks. Although the at tendance of buyers was by no means numerous, the beef trade was somewhat active, at an advance in the quota tions obtained on Monday last of 2d per 81bs. The highest ' and 'Cambridgeshi re , we received figure was 4s. 10d. per 8113 s. F e r id Norfolk,2p3ooScots S u ff s o i l d k , Es s e z shorthorns; from oth er p ar t s o f England, 300 of various breeds ; and from S co tl an d, c hi e fl y by r.,ilway, 230 horned an d po l led Scots. v o e nl There was only a moderate supply of beasts on sale, and we observed a material decline in their weight and condi tion. On the whole, the mutton trade was tolerably firm, but we have no change to notice in prices. Very few calves were brought forward, yet the veal trade was heavy, at barely last week's currency. Pigs, the supply of which was small, moved off slowly, on former terms. Per Elbe to sink the offals. N. d. s. d.l s. d. s d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 6'PrimeSouthdovrn 410 S 0 irriniela-fgeeu 4 4 2 Lar g e crse. calves 4 2 4 8 P r ime Scots, 'dm. 4 8 4lt Large hogs l Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 8 Small porkers 4 2 4 4 Second quality ...3 10 4 2jSuelling calves-22 028 0 Prime crse.-wiled.4 4 4 Nuarter old pigs 20 0 25 0 1 POREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts . . calves .••• •• •• •• •......._ 41 J i Calres...... ........ 25 A. statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, Feb. 27,1854, and this day, Monday, Feb. 26,1855. Per 81bs, to sink the offals. TOTAL OTJPPLI. Feb. 27, 1854. Feb. 26,1855. s. d. s. d. s. U. s. d Coarse and inferior beasts ... 3 2to 3 43 4to 3 6 Second quality ditto 3 6 3 83 8 4 2 Prime large oxen 310 4 2,4 4 4 6 Prime Scots, dm 4 4 4 6 4 8 410 Coarse and inferior sheep 3 0 3 413 4 3 Second quality ditto ... 3 R 4 23 10 4 2 Prime coarse woolled ditto 4 4 4 6!4 4 4 8 Prime Southdown ditto 4 8 5 04 10 5 0 Lambs ... 0 0 0 o io 0 4I Largo coarse calves 4 6 5 2 4 2 4 8 Prime small ditto... 4 4 5 8;4 10 5 4 Large hogs 3 0 4 2'3 0 4 0 Neat small porkers „. 4 4 410 4 3 4 4 Beasts... 4,463 2,901 Sheep 21,870 19,880 102 41 340 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Feb. 28, 1853.—Beasts, 3,704; sheep, 16,760; calves, 64; pigs, 260. March 1, 1852.—Boasts, 4,144; sheep, 20,870; calves, 141; pigs, 350. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. There has been a falling off in the arrivals of country killeil since our last report, and the supply on offer to-day, slaughtered in the metropolis, was very moderate. The general demand, however, was in a sluggish state, as follows : Per Blbs by the carcase. s. d. s. d . Beef, interior 3 0 a 4 Do., middling 3 4 3 6 Do., prime largo .3 8 3 10 Do., do. small ....4 0 4 4 Pork, large .3 0 3 8 N. d. e. cl. Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 4 Do., middling 3 6 3 8 Do., prime 3 10 4 4 Veal 3 10 4 10 Pork, cmall 3 10 4 4 BOROUGH HOP. There has boon no addition to the supply of foreign hops. Fine English qualities are very scarce, and quite as dear as last week. Inferior parcels are neglected, but not cheaper. Mid and East Kent pockets, 141 10s to 211 Os per cwt. ; Weald of Kent ditt o , 14 1 to 161 ; Sussex ditto, 14/ Os to 15/. ; American ditto (in bond), 71 to 9/. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Our markets continue to be moderately supplied with all kinds of potatoes. There is a slight improvement in the trade as follows :--York Regents, 105 s to 120 s; Kent and Essex, 1003 to 110 s ; Scotch do. 95s to 105 s ; reds, 80e to ON; middling, tons to 75 5; bl ues, , 7ss to sss; Li nc olus, 05s to 110 s, per . WOOL. The public sales are progressing somewhat steadily, con sidering the unfavourable advises from the manufacturini, districts, yet prices almost generally show a decline of ld per lb., compared with the previous series. The following quotations have been realised : — A.natralian—clean sheep's, is ld to le 10d; scoured, le 4d to 2s 2d; handwashed, is 4d to is Bil • clothing, is 7id to is lld snow white, is N ew 6d to 2s ld. f Zealand—clea n sheep's, is 3d to is 61d; combing le 60 to is 7d ; snow white, le 3d to is Td ; scoured, is 4d to le 7d. Van Diemen's Land—slipe, is to is 34d; clean sheep's, Is 2d t o Is 8d ; grease, 8.9. to 10d. Port Philip—clean sheep's is 5d to 2s Od ; lambs', is 7d to 2s 3 t id. Adelaide—handwashed sheep's, is &I to is 9d ; scoured , ls 5d to is 9d ; y ear li ng, I a 1 ) 1d. Cape— handwashed sheep's Is I.P. to is 4d ; other ki nds, 8d to is per lb. Several lar g e parcels of East India and foreign an been disposed of, at prices varying from 2d to 10d per lb. The private market is exceedingly heavy, and prices We have no imports. to are with di ffi culty supported. notice. The following a re the current rates o f E ng li sh woo l : lid to is ld ; short-shor n sorts, 9d to i s 3d ; C om bing skins, Down and fleeces, is Od to is Oid ; ewes fleeces, is to is 03d we ther fleeces, le to la id ; Down t oga , lld t o is ; combing fleeces, is to is ; half-bred hoggs, is Od to is Oid ; Leicester fleeces, 11d to is Od ; Kent fleeces, is Od to la Old ; flannel woo l, is Od to is 2d ; b lanket wool, 7d to is per lb. DS. There has been a moderate i at full prices. Otherwise, ill( 'furnlp•White,per bush. 228 to 254 Swede .• • • •• .• •• —8 —s Mustard, Brown" .• .• 12s 14, White, new •• •• .• 89 rires,Winter, now .. • . I I s 01d...... •• 98 101 Canary, per quarter 448 54 26s Rye uTass— •• 228 , Cloyer,RedEng. (cwt.) 50S 64, White •• •• hOg F ore ign lied.. • • .. 469 61, White•• •• 541 75 Trefoil, new.. •• •• 248 29• inquiry for linseed and cakes, Le trade is nearly suspended. - - Carrawfty 44, 468 Coriander 163 ISs Ilempseed, per quarter bis 5Gs ILinseed, Eng.iowing•• 72s 755 Crushing ••• • • • 661 70s Baltic _• • --s Odessa .......... 644 €Ss Linseed Cake, pr. ton— English . 121 Oa 13 Os Foreign,per ton 11! Os 12 108 Rape Cakes, pr ton 610. , 6 103 Rapeseed, New,prlat 33 'lok 35 Cs TALLOW. Our market is steady, and wo have very littlo change to notice i❑ prices. p.Y.C. on the spot, 55s 3d to 55s 6tl per cwt. Town tallow, 51s 6d, net cash. Rough fat, 3s. por Blbs. ►551. 1853. 1854. Stock this day 41,115 " 37s9dto Price of Y. C Od Delivery last week • . 1, 576 Ditto from June 1.... 75,095 Arrivals last week.. Ditto from Junel.... 91,692 Price Of Town."... 393 6cl 151,226 3Gs t , d Ito 36.3 d. 36.955 j 36,979 44s 3d w 633 Od •0 443 fid —s Od 2,681 2,059 1,644 85,594 78,790 78,782 1,122 689 1,671 100,286 75,127 92,446 38$ 91 453 91 633 60 James, was thereupon brought to a store 414 ii cessful climax than the similar conspiracy subse quently contrived against the latter prince when, thirty-eight years afterwards, wearing the united crowns of Scotland and England, scarcely less in his august position as the representative of the blended Stuart and Tudor dynasties than in his paramount character as an " Orthodox Protestant Sovereign." So wondrously had the wheel re volved—the rotating spokes and tire of the wheel of Fortune—between the occasion of those two grim conspiracies—the Gunpowder Plot of Guy Fawkes and the Gunpowder Plot of James Both well. The former avoided by the son ! The latter accomplished against the father The first of these conspiracies successfully directed, in 1567, against the King Consort of Scotland because of his being a Roman Catholic—the second unsuccessfully directed, in 1605, against the King Regnant of the - United Kingdoms because of his being a Protes tant. So that the treasonous fanaticism of Fawkes might be regarded as an attempted Nemesis in 105 for the atrocity perpetrated in 1567 at Robert Bal four's house iu Kirk-of-Field ! On the morning of the date of that earlier catastrophe the victim, as we have seen, had "heard mass devoutly." Towards the evening of the same day (Sunday), about seven of the clock, the royal invalid was visited in his temporary residence by Mary, who there assembled iu her husband's sick chamber the great nobles of the realm, for the purpose of affordni him congra tulation on his recovery by the homage of an im promptu court or sma ll rece pti on . During the very time when Mary and her nobles were actually assembled in converse in ale chamber of Darnley, the infamous Earl of Bothwell with his " ruffianrou t;" was actually causing gunpowder to be conveyed to the Queen's apartment on the ground floor of the same house from his own rooms in the palace of Holy-- rood. The explosive dust being carried thence to its destination in a trunk and a leathern mail, there to be strewn furtively about the floor under the rushes. Unconscious of all these hideous prepara- tions, Mary, who had left a state " four o'clock supper" at the Bishop of Argyll's for the purpose of visiting her invalid spouse, remained with Darn ley until nearly eleven, although pledged to go that night to a masked ball in the palace of Holy rood, on the occasion of the wedding of Sebastian Paiges and Margaret Carwood, the fair bride being one of the Queen's peculiar favourites. Remain ing with her husband as long as she could under those circumstances, Mary parted from him at last, but most reluctantly; as she did so drawing from her finger a valuable ring and placing it on his as a pledge of her affection. Mary thus retiring from Darnley, says their latest historian, " kissed and embraced him with endearing words of leave taking, and promises that she would soon return to visit him again : and so they parted, to meet in life no more !" An hour or tw o after midnight came the explosion. The whole structure was a shattered mass of ruins—" dung into dross," so cording to the quaint language of the Privy Coun cil. And yet when the locality was searched by the Royal Guards, under the orders of their cap tain, James Stuart of Ochiltree—the body of Darn ley was discovered unmutilated and even unsinged eighty yards from the ruins, under a tree in a neigh bouring orchard—clad only in his night shirt, though near him lay his fur pelisse and pautouffies. Every thing indicating, indeed, that'the unfortunate King, alarmed from his sleep before the powder ignited, had, " with the instinctive caution of an invalid dreading an exposure to the cold night air," snatched up his garments, fled into the darkness from his assassin, being thereupon pursued and strangled in the orchard, while the dwelling from which he had escaped was whirling into fragments from the de tonation of the gunpowder. According to Moretta, the Savoyard Ambassador, certain women servants, roused from sleep in their apartments adjoining the garden, overheard the King cry out patheti cally —" Ah ! my kinsmen (fratelli miei) have mercy on me, for the love of Him who had :mercy on us all !"—showing him to have been surprised, and surprised, moreover, by those (Miss Strickland suggests " Morton, or Morton's deputy, Douglas") having ties of consanguinity. So perished miser ably, on that fatal 10th of February, in the year of our Lord 1507, stripped and strangled in the orchard at Kirk-of-Field, the young Prince, who had only attained his twentieth birthday in the preceding December—Darnley, of whose personal aspect our fair annalist (and well may Miss Strick ' land be so designated with more than a compli mentary significance) has thus written Nature had endowed him with a complexion so fine, and a line of features so perfect, that but for his tower ing height, the haughty carriage of his head, and a scornful curl of the lip and nostril, his beauty fjr - p i l u tti e r se ffi_ w b n e e e r n e u f too tii delicate volume a t c o h a a ra in ct o e r r e .'' R e impor tant theme, however, than even the alluring graces of Darnley referring, th a t i s , t o the long questioned innocence or criminality of Mary in regard to the murder of her hus band, Miss S4icl,:ban. here nr. 411 Itai (Jut:, WiLLIJ VAR, --bouckxo absurdity of the ghastly imputations thrown upon the unhappy Queen of Scots by her malignant censurers, Buchanan and others, who would have had us to conclude from their daring, but utterly irreconcilable declarations, that she was an accom- plice in that infamous deed of assassination. Miss Strickland here clearly demonstrates the in nocence of Mary in regard to the murder of Darnley—as clearly, indeed, as she after wards reveals to us the despair of the luckless Queen at the period of her forcednuptials with the " brutal ruffian" Bothwell. In allusion to the former event, what says Monsieur Clernault, then French Envoy at the Court of liolyrood ? He says—" The fact being communicated to the poor Queen, we can scarcely think what distress and agony it has thrown her into !" In reference to the latter calamity—the forced marriage with Bothwell what says Du Croc ? Why, that Mary declared to him the day after that unnatural espousal, the espousal by Darnley's widow of the murderer of Darnley—Du Croc, we say, tells us that the day after those nup tials Mary declared to him in the presence of Both well, " that he (Du Croc) must not be surprised if he saw her sorrowful, for she could not rejoice, nor ever should again "—adding—" All she desired was death !" Nay more, do we not learn from " Teulet's Collections," that the next day (two days after her nuptials) when alone in her cabinet with Bothwell, she was heard by those in her privy chamber to scream and threaten self-destruc tion ? And has not the Captain of her Guard, Arthur Erskine, corroborated this explicitly enough by averring " that she called for a knife to stab herself, or else,' said she, I shall drown myself.' " We know not indeed which is the more heartrend ing picture here presented to our imagination— Mary stunned into profound woe by the sudden murder of Darnley, or Mary maddened into despair on the morrow of her hated union with the remorse less Bothwell. Contrast, indeed, for an instant the two heroes in this terrible tragedy—Darnley and Bothwell. Darnley, whom Mary loved so ten derly, in spite of all his faults, and slights, and weaknesses, to whom in the will, written in the anticipation of her speedy dissolution, she left so lovingly the ring of their betrothal, or, rather, of their first, private espousal, and from whom she parted so reluctantly with lover-like kisses and embraces but an hour or so before his dis mal assassination. Bothwell to compare with Darnley ! " Hyperion to a Satyr!" The tra ducers of Mary never calculated 'probabilities when, in defiance of all the proven facts here brought together by the research and industry of Miss Strickland, they strove to lure pos terity into the belief that for the ruffian Earl, the future Duke of Orkney, Mary Stuart abandoned to his midnight murderers the winning and princely stripling, Henry, the Lord. Darnley, the youthful spouse of her heart, who at twenty ceased, as we have seen, by strangula tion, and not by the explosion of powder in Kirk of-Field, to be Lord of her Life not less than King Consort of Scotland. Of the manly beauty of Darnley there is evidence enough before us in the charming profile of his handsome face prefixed to the present volume as its frontispiece. Confronting which we observe a scarcely less attractive engraving iu the graceful vignette delineative of Queen Mary's forced abdication, wherein the artist has effectively depicted what Sir Walter„had long since nervously expressed— " Haggard Lindsay's iron eye That saw fair Mary weep in vain." Happy, We cannot but again observe, thrice happy, indeed, has it been for tho memory of Mary Stuart, some time Queen of Scots, that the truthful, vigor ous, and uncompromising pen of Agnes Strickland has undertaken to relato the calamitous history of that loveliest and most forlorn of our insular sove reigns. Ma. MOFFATT, M.P.—«'e r egret to learn that th e hon. member for Ashburton s still confined to hi s h ouse by indispo , ition.— Westcrn T imes. Na'.' WAREHOUSES IN MANCHES TE.II.—Amongst the splendid new p il e s of warehouses which have sprung up in Mancheiter is one, in place of some old buildings ' recently burnt down, for a wholesale house in the home trade. This warehouse forms a bl oc k o f masonry occu pying the entire arca between two streets, and it is 300 feet long by 75 feet wide. The cost of erection has been about 11,0001. A still larger warehouse for a nother firm in the g enera l tra d e is just commencing in Portland-street, one of the estimates for which was 45,0001. It will be 300 feet long by 90 feet wide, and 95 feet extreme height. It is to have four floors besides the basement, so that it will have a total avail able area for goods of nearly 135,000 square feet. It is estimated to require from 60,000 to 70,000 cubic feet of ti m b er t o su pply the internal fittings of wood work alone. lit all 5 I all 20 50 20 25 ili i 81 i G4i 4 St