The Sun. — London, England, 1855-01-17 00:00:00

ssessed of . 5 on on v rill,c „is ut the 1321 d, L d it suc c° , o d vext pow , cee er i s i ' d i t ser e is we 01 f etter di e t euterta ins e e , Laic) t+ • tic Qn o adinil l rear , Tor el I be reini c 9 ; 'said Oldd b made u 'his e vo ld an sft , nalh a ,d sea, a li to r is vrou ld a This lc ; or France'is is ' to repro' ntellionc° tell cli° 0 4 ions, for a reP re aebe fr og _4l sof dal )r , t . c o to the Per, tip •, t op t ot seen ° th, hick' Dareh VI ilea, 00 Ibr :•ora k. , ibis , eti iveu and m ho the ITIAJt CbP' . the the ItOt t lirl3' r o ost t B ' O t taslY A't r Ce -1 :he ,„ $ co' e s I. " c thsi rw ) ilis o .d it., CO th t"°' t to dit o re ge nu the th, s ts"4 6; el $ prim e eno ent tor ani t o to ssisa r od on2o 1 00 11 .1 t , ars °'; ° l l rl t :e nic,4 haf el s l l/.14 10 iditioo 10, inoPl e, of the °ouditio° the ,.. 4 Led 0 . .. g .P 'es ipg, tit we as of g r g icVe f3s [.9. tO P c ? 11 0 o p 411 the stre• the t oo' ds,Au s ,ger ito 10 'll 110 ' or s be e d ~ o_ tot io), to s tate 0005100 he ax e fird f gre. 0 01 rie d frO 3 it is Le d ott f Repeal Le g°l3 J ,;eol ,A d ti A f ot ori t 1 12 T cen ts' detv to be tO ef c e ij 1 , 0 i 5 +l3g l ) .1 te , Dat - - it te adY• The artillery of the fortresses is to kit:;i:etaiallpldeted. The artillery officers of the 6th ke y of the Landwehr, which is in Silesia, have out, and companies ' destined to serve it,rtiqesses are to be formed from the regiments r k kin li erY of that corps. It is said that a similar kei lt re is to be adopted in other Prussian regi -3 of artillery." Letterstli kt froth. Warsaw of the G,th announce . dice n g l ish and French subjects still in the hy e d, °l Russia are being dismissed and con ,iert u3' force to the Austrian and Prussian fron btof Til eY were p r i nc i pally employed i n manu -0.. E fforts are b e i ng made to replace them van s and G ermans. ' l e i' 1 %4 tier from Berlin says :_cc The treaty of . corn thA iet:4en Turkey and Zollverein terminates qpoW4,,Alarch next, and in the present position Ile the matters it has been determined to co d n : itati uetrea,ty for a limited period without mo lett e •lcA z , r frora Belgrade, dated 4th January, says: Pasha h as been definitively appoined 4 teat °rer to of th e c i tadel. His father, Yzzet Pasha, Yall ina• Azis Pasha, though a very man 4 is one of the most rising mon in A MERICA. (Pr ELECTRIC TEL ~,, Livp, 44 . - 4 11 , 1 3 004 WEDNESDAY, 10.30 A.M. ith t kYal I n , % ci vic Mail steamer America has arrived, ;,, r( to 4 1 58 from Boston to the 3d and from Now i c 4. l le A t i a e 2 d inst. Nv t, ilt ie arrived at New York on the Ist 2. 4 ) 11 14. i f .gr a g a ° ,- interest has occurred in Congress. 0 o° il lo%.f gi e advices from Washington contain ZAd 4 abandoned his conciliatory . Spanish ,„70, 0 "Is surrender to the war coalition of the 4il,s . eat t Zestie r , ; the result is that, on behalf of the Vit a „! S ecretary of State is preparing an extra hostNortillage to Congress upon the United States' extra ' `Vain of a decisive and belligerent cha kelit Itit k It i kttj a Q Y expedition had received the Govern f 111 N: 4 , -0-ilder and McKenna, one of the oldest 4 e N 4 8,,_, had suspended. eezi l Ltlk Webster arrived at New Orleans on r. ' it California dates to the Bth De -04 1116),. t l'kb, tlls2 37l ll iP Star of the West left San Juan re ' c er New York, with $700,000 in t f 1141 0 elle :: fr ont California is wholly unimportant. V t i t e three British men-of-war in the port W i l t.: 4 114. 4 d been captured on Lake Nicaragua. ,th R4°4 a dvices from Mexico to the 1 , i 1 4, 1 t t ta Anna bad been elected President by . nr k b ;' t druous vote. Further victories over N tl . 4 4 11; 11 „ I ts had been rumoured, and it was said d h. of 'biLAlvarez had approached within 18 ro,c fit ea r city. (10 0 the B hip Star of the West arrived at New ,4 '41 11 ' ii, 2d, from California, having 625,885 Vet, ecie on freight. A N . `I Was about to be formed near San t 1 / 4 t q t - .tad ,4 to i h occurred in a cabinet manufactory at kveliela"volving a loss of 40,000/. tide lil ac ~ ,e h Y Market of New York was without any 'lltot r ble t a l' a nge. Stocks had advanced, and con kVA, .10 4. " had been effected. Exchange was p; - ( 6 1. .4" 10 8 per cent. ; bills on France, 5.20 k e llt hail Ttiti.,4itieC advanced 25c. per barrel. Wheat ~,b k tft .4 'e the advance last noted. Mo nn li nite c r . I z , change in cotton ; the demand I) tee:', l , bale s 'ile receipts showed a decrease of / 4 4c agye - 4 c 4 the year, as compared with the N fr , s ei ß l atj . q14,,,1' i 11 ) . cotton was taken to Liverpool at .% cot ton to London, flour, 2s. per barrel ; (311 ic• per lb. T.g. E '*-----,- p h The j . B ENCH EXHIBITION. o to , li i roa, e b i ,„, ', R ; Th e r u g t (ti ll i b ta Debats has a long article on the 100 „ ) ;'. r Yatal I D ,' t tnal Exhibition. It says : ltbi• " lulb ltorl;` 4l aeo at London received from its t pal °f of the i % , ll eetive value of nearly 45,000,000 f., ' 14 0' 4 " in t - C,: 4 c i i inoor s d .E ia i m s ond. We think that t killi .o 4 spa . ees, although some °a of of ex°lls, will receive a more considerable iN tt kid ~P r°P ertY as the. enthusiasm appears It t4 a %ra,, ,'re general than in 1851. The exhibi- Ntip„ ',en riches u k to the majority of our otie, ? , rill ceriai n i "w e n grand and curious Ita ciao ',e n it must a 3rh admitted a that there are few k er 41 klidiere the preductions of foreign industry ° O it 4 c ' t wn than in France. Our foreign c0rn c01144,4 amounted to 34 milliards, out of which tp eetac 1 N i ,N ":Ption of foreign manufactured products iltai, 1 4 4 4 i n ' °r 63 millions. This appears scarcely lit 4rt, a country the exportation of which in ski t he I Ns exceeds one milliard. Such is, neyerthe- VI t o e 'le. It is true that foreign manufactured tki,, but e amount of 389 millions came into the Ipliiri,itlge,il:3tifi, only in 1 / 4ti, ' k tr , out of that amount 326 millions leave . as transitu. There is nothing y our customs' tariffs exclude the tlltit,f°reign ma nufactures namely, cotton and l i °7 ° goods, with ' ; eakin , of other impor \Nilo es . Out ef the above utl)'' ' 63' mentioned millions , i i l l t titl h . s are furnished to us by only three countries 4 ., ... 4 G er i --9 ngland 14, and Switzerland 13 ; and the VI 04 i rrn anY Only supplies three million. As pro- I NN aser for hy produce, it is probable that if we 1 1 1 ketZtie et e „we should export more. Thii state of l it i k li a i r "nerefore, remain definitive or stationary. eq l s tre tia l e s klY Modified many systems ; it will pursue ` I S, te tt . : I task, and the Universal Exhibition of '' I 'te 1111 14 1 ) 1113 ' °no of the events the best calculated to kkai,al tendency of our day as regards corn .l,l dual N ‘ll taq'ta, ll ., ov „, ›%ci, .}aR IRENE AT NEW YO R E.—The Irene Ta t e "gel York from Havre, on the 28th ult., with ~q:- .` . had 14 deaths Ind two births on the tileVeNt FRlGATESeapt h mlleN AURORA AND DwINA.—Ac. Zij,,Vto t, s titta of the sth of December state that tl )e `le h l 4 ,lates the Aurora and Dwina had been tail f 4 ros,, e a ',,,Sibined English and French squadron. •k ;1 i t Zteo which we only notice because t t „ltei l ,`qt ea , 7 gaining urrericy in London are ear 'l'l4 ''sf a l' It might be proved that they are a t k i n ili N p f- " ; 1 4 news, 'which, for a time, circulated in IV l sf a 7 44` 4 Y News. N ie l' 't °ln AN ENGLISH REGIMENT.—The con s, tile tail k - tti, - i4 d .' c q army is the sum total of the courage t ltt, at ) ,, 411 of, l ,vidual soldiers bring with them to i 40„ 1 "PolOpi a "uat which they derive from it. When I ta t „, 4 ,tth,S tot' in the same square:—" See," said a tli',`, )44, cgi' i s who had mistaken me for one of his t t h ka - , 1 4e il:',l:re is but . one face in that whole regi ill kt A 'tee, there (pointing to the English) every sol kkhly 4t 0 phis own."—Notes and Queries. I ; 'i Ni4 t4tI 4 4O IWIESB OF MAI:MAGI. —One of these o, t e tk. - Sej v . - Z trial s is shortly expected to come off, a eop ls, a l se: llt leinan, of high standing in Sunderland, ile a iitl'l ) ,lsa r ved with a writ by a fair lady of N . e - d :'P ~,Itb'er damages at 500/. Serjeant Wilkins is 41'447 he "neglected one ;" and the letters that itt l . ri `eti e ;( ee,.,: 49 ssn them, when produced, will be pro (l,i; st1 1 ; 11 IC° mirth, containing, as we understand, t ---P , ih'„ ll some of the leading town-councillors •:',°Szi - ‘kf e ,, - i l St one time were opposed to the defen- Il e s p las kin ii i st/ Times. l A r A th, ~It t Re , teOPE RY oii , 1,0701. 024' THE RAILWAY. IP t. "O/ - ` 4l V ed l6 Y the Midland train from Forfar to Ar'd l 4l.l sd a ,, ll(l 7o/N, ay night, lost a bank cheque for Slh - er f..; 4 14 •In notes. The following day a search 44 4 re ed a "‘tioia the line for it, and on approaching E° Ned tits th '''s stoker of one of the passenger trains ht o',lgis t i l ,," t ig at the head of the ilatform that :r ec a im th'''lntion and on going back he found the 41:' 1 0 kl'il' A i o 7l .44 ll 4 B . rolled together, and lyingin a gutter. kt ~,, d a 14) 4 1 / 4 zser. tt o ` 4 4 /I J II ag o i l lct ROBBERY.—The Bishop cf Lincoln 0 4 4 C e lt N -:I the foundation-stone of a new church . O a otti o ° tts. In the cavity of the foendation- Odi ag, t sday j°lltaining a number of coins was placed. 41% 14 . 0, - '„Pere c r 4 t ,_' ° l2 the workmen going early to labour, IC I Sit;° tw o t hat the smith's. shop had been broken e a l1 1:1; t ion i t er °'irbars taken therefrom. On further 1 1 1 4.11 i tubber /81??4 discovered that the crowbar had been ttle tti osa lt was lan? forcing the stone at the back of the 4 t° 4 3'.• Atte 14 by the Bishop of Lincoln a few days t. i,i iii e ra had r the stone had been raised by the bars, N I) the,. P r ePped it up by placing a plank against ~ t i. J Urok e 1 i '. 4t o 4 e Coi ns the glass and took the bottle con ttetips boT t 0 away. 1 1 .4 4 , 8 of o b t ! ,IVA CATJLA.Y.—MacauIay, being lately 1 , 4 lo '' Poet, a'l°lng information respecting eighteenth t tl (l t i loPif o rota Yth:sAirobaterial for . his new volumes, took it)tet:ltilt,ol,l4, °iris he any to Whitechapel, and bought a of a singing boy. Happening to g a b le t wlti l a sir reached Teaehed home again, he perceived the til l this- ~;e °f young friends, was keeping close dst p "' gra ve e I not given you your price, sir," ' io' ll i: e osr,' , T a n's indignant remonstrance. " All lit , ll / 11 o ,:-egi o to .o n s the response, " we're only waiting Il t :• il t l' c 4 Nt Bl g• T " 14 Pe " Mille .- 0, 1 , 4t 4lB he quotation of gold at Paris is k h e , th e - ID . count (according to the last tariff), ti, p''r at a 'Tglish Mint price of 31. 17s. 10 d. per t' the gold, gives an exchange of 25.141 ; IYr,kr. ,it "Re at Paris on London at short being In I, fBll° ws th at t he 4l 44 - ' ar ia tha, * geld is about 0.68 per cent. tt 4 rir ,? , th e pry , 11 .. in L . ondon. By advises from tiN al ;lsh Au nt '_e r. ot gold is 423 per mark, which, at f a l,t h _ gold, giv _P Me of 3/. 17s. 10id. per ounce for .. t , i o et i a „,,,_ es an exchange of 13.31 ; and, the ex -044,4 ill s L th at nugooldurg:An Londo n at short being 13.31, it te 4 .,e,, °Mie n ueu per cent. dearer in Hamburg St 'on for bills ne course of exchange at New York k il o aed , °r bills at 60 days' • • ek,,,sri ea 13 .the par of sight is about 108 per bllt'atige is 109 2 T ( ebange between England and ,litt, after s eoitinaii 810 per cent., it follows that the 0 4 tthrstice Makin allowance 1.58 per cent, against England ; thanes for charges of transport and to,;me t ra - •nterest 'ntri 41 erni s i , e present rate leaves no profit 4 . 3 ° ll of gold either way between the two s. 1 Z 4 , 4, NIONEY MARKEI AND C 031 MERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were were estimated at from 6,000 bales, including 1,000 American taken for export. The market closed very firmly, but with less animation. The sales comprised 5,0G0 American, 150 Pernam and Maranham at skd. to 7d., 70 Bahia at sd. to 6d., 200 Egyptian at 51d. to Bd., and 500 Surat at 3d. to 44d. per lb. Railway Shares were firm. The advices from New York, just telegraphed from Liverpool, give the rate of exchange on Lon don about the same, but it would appear that busi ness was improving. Accounts from Vienna state that the monetary Congress there had broken up without coming to any decision, and it is supposed that the difficulty in the way of bringing about a uniform metallic currency for all Germany is considered insuperable. _ _ The Bavarian Government has demanded from the Chambers a credit to cover the expenses and eventualities which have arisen and may arise out of the present war, and mobilising the army. The report of the directors of the London and Westminster Baal:, to the proprietors, this day, at their half-yearly meeting, John Lewis Ricardo, Esq., in the chair, was as follows : " The directors have the pleasure to report that— after making provision for all bad and doubtful debts— paying the Income Tax—setting apart 2,0001. towards the new buildings in Lothbury and Bloomsbury—and presenting a gratuity of ten per cent, on their salaries to all the officers of the establishment—the net profits of the Bank for the last half-year amount to 75,318/. 10s,, which, added to 13,9001. 19s. rid., unappropriated from the profits of the preceding half-year, make a total of 89,219/. 9s. sd. " Out of this sum the directors have allowed interest on the rest or surplus fund, at the rate of 5 per cent., and they now declare a dividend to the shareholders at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, and also a bonus of 5 per cent, upon the paid-up capital. "After these payments are made, there is a balance of 2,9541. 2s. 5d., which has been transferred to the rest or surplus fund. "The directors who go out by rotation are John Gar ratt Cattley, Esq., James Dennis De Vitre, Esq., and George Hanson, Esq.—all of whom, being eligible, offer themselves for re-election." To proprietors for paid-up capital £1,000,000 0 0 To amount due by the bank on deposits, circular notes, &c.... 7,177,244 19 10 To rest or surplus fund 125,307 1 6 To balance of profit and loss account 13,900 19 5 To net profits of the past half-year 75,318 10 0 £8,391,771 10 9 By Government Stock, Exchequer Bills, and India Bonds £1,451,074 13 1 By other securities, including bills dis counted, loans to customers, &c... By cash in hand 6,246,387 4 4 694,309 13 4 £8,391,771 10 9 PROFIT AND LOSS. Dr. To total expenditure of the six establish ments, including rent, taxes, salaries, stationery, &c., with a gratuity of ten per cent. on their salaries to the officers of the establishment To amount set apart towards the now bui'd ings in Lothbury and Bloomsbury To payment of the dividend now declared, at the rate of six per cent, per annum, for the last half-year on the paid up capital of 1,000,0001. To bonus of five per cent. on the capital To rest or surplus fund : Amount on Jan.lst, 1854 £125,307 1 6 Interest on do. at 5 per 2;000 0 0 _ Cent Balance of profit and loss 6,265 7 0 account - 2,954 2 5 134,52 G 10 11 £241,552 15 1 By rest or surplus fund ' v £125,207 1 6 By balance of profit and loss account on the 13,900 19 5 30th June, 1854 By gross profits of the last half-year, after paying the income tax, and making pro vision for all bad. and doubtful debts 102,344 14 2 £241,552 15 1 The report was adopted, and a vote of thanks was passed to the directors, and to Mr. Gilbart and the officers of the establishment. Yesterday firm rates were current for bills of cxohaugo, and after the recent heavy remittances to Paris, it is probable the quotation for paper upon that city will improve. Drafts at 90 days were negotiated at 25 27-i to 30 ; Hamburg waq done at 13 51. to 51 ; Amsterdam at 11 17f to 1 ; and Trieste at 12 28 to 36. The English Funds• are remarkably firm, and there is a rise of per cent., although the business doing is extremely limited. Consols have been 92 to 921 for transfer, and 921 -a for account. The high prices of the French loan are the principal cause. The New 3 per Cents. have been 92i to 92, and the Reduced 92 to 1. Exchequer Bills are 4s. to 75., and India Bonds 11s. premium. There is scarcely any business to record in Foreign Stocks, and the quotations, therefore, are for the most part nominal. Russian 4-i per Cents. are firm at 90 g to 91. Brazilian Small Bonds are marked 99, and Turkish Bonds are at fuller rates, viz., 77 to 771. The last instalment, 15 per cent. upon the second series of the loan, was paid yes terday. _ . The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6 ; Mexi can, 21i to 21g ; Peruvian, 70 to 72 ; Ditto 3 per Cents., 50 to 52 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 41 to 43 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 100 to 102 ; Ditto 41 per Cents,, 89 to 91 ; Spanish New Deferred, 18i to 184; Ditto 3 per Cents., 37i to 38 ; Ditto Certifi cates, 5 to 5} ; Ditto Passive, 4i to 4i. The dealings in English Railway Shares are of a limited character, but there is more firmness in the prices. The improvement is most apparent in Great Northern, North-Western, Midland and South-Eastern. In the Foreign lines there is no material alteration. Mining Shares are neglected, the Banks are firm, and the miscellaneous undertakings inactive. Crystal Palace are flatter. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. from the Oficial List. Business done dank Stock 2ll 8 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92k / 2 3 per Cont. Consols Annuities 921 2 / i New 3 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities Expire sth Jan., 1860 ndia Bonds, 21000 Consols for Account, Bthysbruary Exchequer Bills, 24d. £l000 Small 4 7 2500 4 7 Exchequer Bondi 1858, 34 per Cent. 993 Ditto 1859, „ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Small .. 99 Equador Bonds %texican 3 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 4i per Cent rarkish Bonds 77 d I.,o , dends on the above payable in London. D itch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Gull ®Ditto 4 uer Cent. Certificates ...... 92i THREE O'CLOCK. "onsols 928 Ditto, February Account ....... 921 THE ROYAL WEST INDIA. MAIL STEAMER Avox arrived at Southampton yesterday, from Portsmouth, where she has landed invalids from the Crimea. Capt. Ellison, the commander, has brought home the highest testimonials from the Admiralty authorities in the Black Sea and Mediterranean as to the services which the Avon has rendered to the Government, by the speed and punctuality with which she has done whatever she was engaged to perform. THE VACANCY ON THE SCOTTISH BENOIL—We have heard it asserted that the Peel policy of taking the best man, whether Whig or Tory—certainly not followed in the later appointments—is actually about to be tried for once, but whether from necessity or choice we cannot say. At the same time, the rumour in the Parliament House strongly points to the elevation of Mr. Thomas Mackenzie, so lately appointed Solicitor•General. :— Edinburgh: Post. NINETY RUSSIANS CAUGHT IN A TRAP.— The Russians made a sortie against the French advanced works on the night of the 28th, with the intention of spiking the guns in the battery. They advanced stealthily, and managed to get into a portion of the covered way, but not without being observed by the French troops who were guarding the works, and who acted very coolly and deliberately on the occasion. The Russian force consisted of about eighty men and nine or ten officers. They had not been long within the entrench ments when it become bewildered as to the proper line of direction which was to conduct them to the battery in question. In the meantime, while they were seeking to extricate themselves from the difficulty in which they had entangled themselves, the French covering force had divid ed itself into two parties, each of which was quietly extending itself in such a man ner as to surround then'. This the latter succeeded in doing completely, so that the Russians at last, caught in a net as it were, had no alternative but to deliver themselves as prisoners without offering the least - re sistance. Not a shot watt fired on the occasion, THE STINT, LONDON, W 2 MAST YENING; JANVARY 17,_ legs, )HARE MARKETS. (THISDA Y.) RAILWAYS._ RAILWA/ N. Closing Prices this day. 30 —20 a 44 41 8i - 81 13 12 d 16 - 17 8 - 7 94 - 9G Gl -63 i .13i - 14 9 - 11 ..• --- .• 4 - 3. - 14i - 153 11 - 114 28 - 32 20 - 22 73 -- 75 57 -- 59 2d -- par 194 -- 20] 68 - 70 91 - 914 76 - 77 124 - 125 90 - 92 6si —68 i 60 - 62 74 - 78 7 - 90 7 - 9 75 - 764 5 - 8 8} 107 108 102 1024 par p par 6 p 83i 844 184 • "1 1 8 T 254 - 26 70i - 71 41i -42 i id— p 11 8 d —2/ 49 - 51 3i U 4 31i ... 32 8 10 11 6i 7i 77 78 6 —51 d 4#— 3 13 13 54 55 62 54 par ip id API 4 4i 6t 321 - 96 - 9S 60 - 62 8- 9 p 45 - 47 12 14 60 -60 i 28i - 296 ... - i .. i t 35 - 37 3 - 3i 16 17 3.- 4 20 - `2 5i - 6i s• = f Basinags done this day. Aberdeen.. Aaibg. Nottng Bost and Eastn. Junct... Belfast & Ballymena. Birming. Wolverh. & Stour Valley ...... 2 Birkenhd. Lancsh. di Cheshire Junct ,Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O Blyth & Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45, Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Carmarthen and Car digan Chester & llolyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall Cricif Junction Dublin &BelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Do. New East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A Stock De., B. Stock Do., New A East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Prt h & Dundee Forth & Clyde June. Glasgow& S. Western Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre.) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk.. Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. Nees Thirds Lancash. andYorksh Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un LivCrsby.&Southpt London & Blackwal Lond. Bright & S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westn. Do. Fifths Do.lo/. Sh.,M&B ' Do. Eighths London and S. Westn Do., £5O Do., £4O Lndndrry& Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Shef.& Uncle Do., Man. & Lin. Un Midland Do. Birmng. & Derby Midld. G. West. (Ire, ) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmkt.BuryExten Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoini and Rostrevor Norfolk Northu.Counties Un North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed N. Eastern—Berwick Do. do. Extension Dodo. G.N.E. Purch. Do. Leeds ......... Do. York North London Do. New £lO N. &S. Wstrn. ,Hamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshir ,, , North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Portsmouth Scottish Central Scottish Midland hrewsby. & Herefd Shropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& paid up at per c south bayou Sosth Eastern south Wales -3. Yrksh. dz Riv. Dui Do itaines, Wok &Wok tockton & Darlin.: 4,cAton & Hartlepl. Pail' Vali). Do. £lO shares.. Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Haven Doel , and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenn:l Waterford&Limerielr West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace West London Wimbledn &Croydo: FOREIGN. 7 l a 11 . ~:.d d-ip 31 P d 32 -- 32* 6 -- 6 1 -- lip iP 8 - 7 ii - 74 11 10d 89 91 IP lip 151 - 101 100 93 96, 2 41. par 97 100 die 21 31/ 21 a d lip lid = Ca 7 - 7i iii = iii 12i -- 13 84 - 9A 214 - 21ip 46 48 39 41 Pm 21 22 id 4P 8 1 8i ••• - pm Si - 44 d Si eiP ii —ls BANKB. 78 -- SO l'd = d • 31 2ict 21 —21 ii 84 - 38 37 - 39 ••• 39 -- 41 66 - 68 8 - 10 E.. • Ow Antwerp&Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. June. Beziers to Graissessae Bombay, Banda, and Central India,Scrip Central of Italy Demerara Dijon and Besancon.. Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France . Do. New East Indian Do. Extension p. c. Bds., pay. '57, convertible - Do. do. do., '59, do Od. Junet. of France Gd . Tk of Canadak is. Do. do Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Deben , con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of France Gt. Indian Peninsula Do. New 5 per cent. Gt. Western of Canad Shares Do. Bds., payables 7 with option till '55. Do. do., '62, p. '56 . Ds. do., '76, p. '60.. De. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto, Do. 6 per cent. Lake Cont. & Basle Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c. prof _ Great Luxembourg Constituted Sharps Do. Obligations Lyons and Genova Lyons & Mediterran Madras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. New iMelbourne Dk. do Ry Namur & Liege (with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D 0.201. Shs.late Char leroi and Ercixelines guar. 3i p. c. & red. at 221. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 , Do. 201. 3 p. s Bde. (fmy.B.drAms.Shs.) NorwegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans.... Paris and R0uen...... ParisCaen & Cherbrg Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse._ Do. 54 p. cent. Pref. Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) , West Flanders Do 5i per c. 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Cent. , New Pre. Do. 5 per cent south Devon .• ••• 1 id 114 - 116 Da. fixed, 44 per cent S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of .-C1 Os. 6d.1 Do. 4. per cent sh.4p.e.Guar I S Wales Gua. 4p. c Do. de. 4 p. c Stockton and Dar -1 12 14 - par' 23 24 97 -- g 9 15 1.8 lington, 6 per cent Do. do. do. Stockton and Hartle pool, guar. 5 p. c. till Ist July, 1856 Watorfd.&Kilk.6p.c. id -- el) MISCELLANEOUS _ 5 all Aubin Coal and Iran 25 17 Australian A gricult. 33 —_ 33 . 20 4 Australsn.Pcifle.Mai § 10 all Anstraln. 'Royal 10 51 Berlin Water Works 2i 50 40 Brit. American Land 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co. 100 32i Canada 104 106 ••• St. 100 Canada Gov. 6 p. ct x Jau. and July 5 all Crystal Palace 1 4 (.:9 1171 107 x d 4 all Crystal Pal. of France 3 2i •• 20 5 Eastern Steam 25 21 ElectricTelegraphW i. 2 18 . 1 all Electric Teleg. of Ir. 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. ••• 20 all General Screw Steam • ••• 20 10 Irish Beetroot Sugal :•• 13 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig ••• 10 all Mediteran. Elec. Tc ..• ••• 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fue ..• ••• 10 5 Netherlands Land.. ••• 2 IN.S. W. Coal &Inter — l 4 Steam Navigat. Cu, ••• 1 all N. B. Australasian._ 20 12. Nrth.ofEuropeSteam b all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. 21 2 3 50 all Peninsular& Oriental 50 all Do. Do. xd 2 all Portland Iron Co 2 100 60 Royal Mail Steam ... 60 1 nIl Scot. Austral. Invest. 11 622 25 all South kustral•Lam 35 —36 1 all ..übmar. Telegraph. 1 1 all C o. Registered — 1 100 v L. "' I li • 121 ni LLOYD'S SHIPPIN 'GL-(THIS DA Y.) the north-eastward, orliTceaWstiwnadrdt,hwisithdafYrosit and snow. at Noon, strong breeze L N f r ° o x ' m h PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 16.—Wind , N. Arrived—Oc ean Queen, from London, and sailed for New York. Th e Bourse d'Anvers, from Antwerp to Havannah and the Maria (a), Belfast to London, were in collision yesterday off Beachy-head ; the former has been towed in here by the latter, leaky, and cut down to the water's e d ge . RAMSGATE, Jan. 16.—The Livingston is a total wreck ; crew saved. CowEs, Jan. 16.—Wind, N. Sailed—Balder, for Ade laide, S.A. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 16.—Wind, N.E. laTind—Colonist, from Soderhason, for Melbourne. Off Port —The Alert (Danish barque), from Copenhagen, for Vera Cruz. LOWESTOFT, Jan. 16.—The Eugene, of Calais f o r New castle, is on shore here, but will probably be go ' t off if the weather moderates. ,. WAnRENPOINT, Jan. 15. - -The Amelia Raymond (brig), from Bordeaux to the Clyde, was stranded yesterday morning half-a-mile N.B. of Dunclrum-bar ; the vessel re mains on shore. CORK, Jan. 15 —Wind, B.S. Arrived—Doris, from Mazagan. LIMSRICK, Jan. 15.—Wind, N.E. Arri ve d_ Diadsm, from St. John's, N.B. - (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Wednesday Mo 'no% Wind, E. Arrived—Niaria Culatie, from San Sebastian ; Thais° Bordeaux. QulinNsTowic, Jan. 15. Wind, E. Arrived—Albatross, from Alexandria; Angelit a , Pillau. (Br SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELRGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 10.25 A.M. Wind, E.N.E. ; tide, three hours flood; s now. Arrived, Jan. 16—Sultana, from Jersey ; Specimen, Seville. Jan. 17—Adonis (s), from Flartingen. Sailed—Alecto, for Horton Bay. DEAL, Wednesday, 9.20 a.m. _ Wind. E.S.E. ; strong. Passed last night— Jassy, from London, for St. Helena. , vat ) tr ltlf ti trzi, -r.1.4 „„a SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock. AUSTRIA. Our latest advices from Vienna state :—Though the news of the re-entrance of the Russians into the Dobrudscha can hardly be called official its correctness cannot be doubted. It is uncertain whether 10,000 or 15,000 Russians have crossed the river, and no one seems to know how many Turks have been put to the sword. According to one account Tultcha has been taken by the Rus sians ; according to another, not only Tultcha bu t Matschiu has fallen into their hands. The Rus sian Government is extremely desirous that hosti lities should be suspended while the negotiations for peace are going on, in order if possible to save Sebastopol from its impending fate, and it flatters itself that the present unexpected inroad into the so imperfectly defended Dobrudscha will induce the Allies to consent to an armistice. The Russians are astute, but they have probably deceived theni selves in this matter. Placed as the Austrians now are in Wallachia, the Dobrudscha, is a kind of military mousetrap, and the Russians dare not venture beyond its entrance. Since the treaty of December was signed, the Cossacks have repeatedly made forays on the right bank of the Pruth, that is in Moldavia, and Count Coronini, the Austrian Commander in that province, who possesses his Majesty's confidence, and is a thorough soldier, reported the circumstance to Vienna, instead of taking the law into his own hands, as would have been the case if the treaty had been fulfilled to the letter. THE FOLEY-PLACE TRAGEDY. ADJOURNED INQUEST.-(THIS DAY.) This morning, at ten o'clock, Mr. Wakley resumed (at the Board-room of the Middlesex Hospital) the ad journed inquest open the body of Mr. Lambert, who was murdered on the morning of Sunday, the 7th of January, at his residence in Foley-place, by Luigi Bara nelli, now an inmate of this hospital. The first witness called was Mr. Chambers Vigars, one of the house surgeons of the Middlesex Hospital. He said, I have a patient named Baranelli under my care in Latham's ward. When I was first called to him, upon Sunday week, he was quite'sensible, and had a wound in the right cheek. It had been made by a bullet. The skin was blackened round where the wound was, and the hair had boen singed. Coroner—What state is he in now ? Mr. Vigars—lle is in a state tending to recovery. Coroner—ls he in a state to make any acknowledg ment of what has taken place, or to bear the excitement which might be caused from the present inquiry being proceeded with. Mr. Vigars—He is composed now, but scarcely in a fit state to bear any excitement. He has been delirious until within the last three days. Coroner—Would you advise that any examination should now take place ? Mr. Vigarz—No ; certainly not. Coroner—Can you say when he is likely to be in a fit state for this inquiry to be proceeded with ? Mr. Vigars—l cannot with any degree of certainty. I should say not by this day week. Mr. Burford Norman, the medical gentleman in air tendance upon the woman, who passes by the name of Lambert, was next called in and examined as to her con dition. He said that he was called to the house in Foley-place upon the morning of the murder, and there saw a woman who passed as Mrs. Lambert. She had a wound through the right fore-arm, and a corresponding one in the chest—both caused by a pistol-bullet, which had passed into her body. This gentleman then went on to detail the condition his patieht was in ; showing, that although there were symptoms of her recovery, she was wholly incapable of bearing the excitement of say exam i nation. After some remarks from the coroner, the inquiry was again adjourned. Although every inquiry has been made by the police, and particularly-by the detective, Smith, all at tempts to discover the right name of the Woman lambert or her connections has proved unavailing, and the same with regard to the woman Williamson, who, it is said, and with some apparent degree of truth, is enciente by the mur derer. With the exception of the woman 'Williamson no one has called to see the murderer. Several Italians have been making inquiries, but nonq seem to be at all acquainted with him, and from what was told to our reporter this day by two foreigners who were having a comrnuuication'with the police, it would appear that, excepting the child which has been alluded to as being at nurse down in Kent, the unhappy man has not any relative or friends in this country. MARLBOROUGH-STREffT-(THIS DAY.) DARING WATCII ROBESET.—EIiza M'Donald, a wo man of the town, was brought before Mr. Bingbam, charged with stealing a silver watch, the property of Moses Dingle, carpenter, 6S, High-street, Marylebone. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutor that about 11 o'clock last night he was proceeding along Coventry-street, when the prisoner, who was in com pany with other women, placed herself suddenly in front of him, and, before he was aware of her intentions, she threw.her arms round him and broke his watch from the guard chain and ran off. As soon as he recovered from his surprise he went in pursuit, calling out " Stop thief,'' and at the corner of Windmill-street he came up with her and detained her until a constable arrived, when he gave her in charge. Cross, 197 C, heard the cry of police, and, on going to the corner of Windmill-street, he saw the prosecutor struggling with the prisoner, whom he accused of steal ing his watch. Witness conveyed her to the station, where she was searched, but nothing found upon her. The prosecutor was the worse for liquor at the time, and prisoner, when she ran off, no doubt passed the watch to some of her companions. The prisoner, who denied the charge, was remanded until Monday next. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. To•day's market was very moderately supplied with English wheat. For all kinds we had a dull incrairy, at Monday's currency. Foreign wheat, the show of which was by no moans extensive, was dull, but we have no change to notice in its value. Floating cargoes were mostly held above the views of buyers. ihe barley trade was in a depressed state, yet we „Ilave no further decline to notice in prices. Malt =et a dull sale, at barely late rates. Oats, beans, peas, and flour moved off slowly, and the quotations were with difficulty supported. EngUAh .. Irish •• • • Foreign .. TVHY HAS SEBASTOPOL NOT BEEN TAKEN ? TO THE EDITOR OF THE CALEDONIAN MERCURY. Sir,—The Emperor of the French, Louis Napoleon, in his speech a short time ago to the Legislative Assembly stated that France has atthis momentan army of 581,000 soldiers. A question here naturally suggests itself to every one who reads this speech—" 581,000 soldiers be longing to our ally ! How does it happen that Sebas topol has not been taken long ago, and what occasion has England to engage twenty or thirty thousand Ger mans to enable the allies to make head against the Rus sians ?" When we were about to engage in the present war, one of the great arguments continually advanced by the warlike party in the country against the peace party wets this :—" France is the first military power of Europe, England is the greatest naval power, and, in addition to that, the richest—disposing of an almost unlimited amount of capital. England and France united, nothing can resist them. Russia will soon be obliged to sue for mercy," _ _ Without the alliance of France we should never have dreamed of attacking Russia. But with such all alhanee —always supposing that France would put Mali her whole strength, in the same manner as we should —we had every right to believe, as Sir James Graham said, that the war would be sharp and short ; would in effect be ended in a single campaign by the capture of Sebas topol, and the destruction of the whole of the Russian fleet in the Black Sea. This might easily have been ac complished last summer, as I shall now proceed to show. France, as I have already stated, is the first military power in Europe. She has at present, and had during the whole of last year, 581,000 men under arms, perhaps—taking all their qualities together—the first soldiers in the world, far superior to the Russians, and equalled only by the English. But this is not all. France can at any time double the number of her standing army, and that without a new conscription— simply by a decree of the Emperor. I shall point out how this is done. The young men, when they are se lected by ballot for the conscription, are engaged for 8 years. But before they have run out their term of eight years, a number of them, though not the whole, are al ways sent home at the end of 3 or 4 years, under the obligation, however, to return to their colours at any time during the period of their engagement, when re quired to do so by the Government. Thus, there is always in France a number of soldiers perfectly disciplined, independent of the standing army, ready to be called into activity at a moment's warning whenever the Government thinks fit. The army which the Emperor of the French could dispose of during the whole of last year, and which he can command at the present time, is above a million of men. In the speech of Louis Napoleon already referred to, it is stated that the conscription of this year is to consist of 140,000 re cruits, the same as last year. But this new levy is not to increase the existing army—that is positively declared in the Emperor's speech—but only to keep up the army to its old staidard, by supplying the place of those who have completed their time, or are allowed to return to their homes, previous to their legal service being finished. The real army of France, then, is above a million of men, perfectly dis c ipli ne d an d war li ke, and which it only requires a sufficient command of money and the will of one man to bring into active employment. Bonaparte, the first Emperor, never had an army equal to it, even when he marched 700,000 men across Germany and Po land into the very heart of Russia. I ask once more then, how it happens that with the complete command of the sea, an unlimited command of capital, and a million of soldiers at the disposal of one of the allies, '3ebastopol is not taken—how it happens that at the Battle of the Alma the English army of 27,000 was supported only by 22,000 French—how at Inkerman the English army had to contend against the most terrible odds—one against 7 —and that the only assistance afforded them was by 6000 French 3 and how, in fine, at the present moment our poor soldiers are so overtasked in defending their batteries, 'that they aro dying by hundreds a-day, by disease brought on principally by over fatigue and ex posure in the trenches, arising from the smallness of their number in proportion to the task assigned to them As this must appear strange to those who place im plicit reliance on the French alliance, and who believe that the French Emperor is as anxious to bring the war to a rapid conclusion as is the Government of this coun try, and that he is as willing to make as great sacrifices for that end, we have sent from Britain every soldier, sailor, and ship, which we could possibly command. We have called out our militia, and we have even passed a bill for the enlistment of foreign soldiers. France, on the other hand, has an army of 450,000 men under arms at home, of which 100,000 are absolutely idle in camp at Boulogne, and she has only about 60,000 in the Crimeaand 60,000 in Algeria. 100,000, or even 50,000 of these home troops would have secured the conquest of Sebastopol almost without a battle. At the battle of Alma, 50,000 additional French troops would have enabled the Allies, after the victory, to have marched directly upon Sebastopol, to have completely invested it, to have cut off the supplies, and to have forced it to surrender at discretion. And even after the battle of the Alma, bad a new French army been sent to the Crimea, for instance half the troops at the camp of Bou logne, during the time that the Emperor of Russia was sending his reinforcements for the defencd of Sebastopol, the place would have been taken by this time. And at present, if the French Emperor would only send 50,000 men to co-operate with the Turks at Eupatoria, and to march against Sebastopol from the north, the place would not hold out for a month. Sebastopol, I repeat, would have been taken lung ago had the French Emperor determined to take it, and will be taken only when Louis Napoleon has made up his mind to take it ; that is to say, has made np his mind to send sufficient forces to take it. Without this determination on the part of the French Emperor, all our exertions with our regulars, our militia, and our foreign legion will be absolutely useless. And as soon as this determination is come to by Louis Napoleon, a sufficiency of French soldiers will ho sent without our requiring the slightest aid from Germany or Switzer land. The foreign enlistment bill has thus been utterly useless in every point of view. Sir Archibald Alison in a speech, and Sir Howard Douglas in a pamphlet, have pointed out, as I have done, that the attack on Sebastopol has failed altoge ther from the want of a sufficient number of men on the part of the assailants. Indeed this is evident to every one. But those gentlemen—ultra-Tories both of them— have thrown the whole blkine of this upon the Govern ment of Lord Aberdeen. The Government should have sent out more troops—the Whigs have allowed the mi litary establishments of the country to fall too low, &c. Such are the reasons assigned by those two opponents of the Government for the failure of the expedition. But not the slightest censure is hinted against Louis Napoleon, who, even since his coup d'etat, by which all liberty has been put down in France, has been taken under the special patronage of the Tories. Now, though I consider that the chief blame must be attributed to the French Emperor, who had plenty of troops at his command, and who did not send them, yet our Administration must be regarded as in some degree in fault in not having forced the French Emperor to send to the Crimea the necessary forces. For instance, last summer Ministers should have decidedly said to the French Emperor, " Send off, from your camp at Bou logne, at least 50,000 additional men, which are neces sary to insure the success of the expedition, or we shall withdraw altogether from the alliance and give up the war, and we shall inform Europe, and especially France, of our reasons for so doing. England is quite willing to pay her full share of the expense of those additional men and will furnish the ships necessary for the transport. But we cannot consent to exhaust all our means, and our ally lie by and not do the same." Such should have been the tone adopted by the Government of this coun try, and had Ministers acted in this way Louis Napo. leon would not have dared to refuse to send the neces sary reinforcements ; for he knows well that public opi nion in France, especially the opinion of the army, would have accused him of compromising the national honour ; and this the French Emperor—despot as he is —could not brave with impunity. Put Ministers have conducted themselves in a most weak and vacillating manner towards Louis Napoleon. They have allowed him to do just as he pleased. He has completely outwitted them, and even the press of Eng land has played into his hands. While the most virulent Attacks have been made by the press against our Cabinet —principally for not sending out more troops, when they had no more to send, not the slightest comment by any paper whatever has ever been advanced against the Em peror of the French. So that Louis Napoleon actually imagines he may do just as he pleases with the English, and that whatever he does the whole nation is ready to appplaud. About the period that the battle of the Alma was fought', the French Emperor was amusing himself at Boulogne commanding at sham-fights, delivered by the great army assembled there. Every one recollects how on one occasion 50,000 men marched u p the hill to attack the town, where there they were encountered by 50,000 other troops, commanded by the Emperor in person. Of course the assailants were defeated and is called. W e ll, as it obliged to retreat, and Lou is Napoleon covered himself with glory in this petite guerre, this took place at the very time when our expedition to the Crimea was failing from the want of sufficient forces. I was then at Paris myself, and I can vouch for this, that in almost every French society w h ere peop l e cou ld conver se without being overheard by th e sp i es o f th e police, the utmost ridicule was th rown upon th e Em peror. Every one said, why are these men not sent out to the Crimea to terminate at once the war by a decisive victory I Are our soldiers, at a crisis like the present, to be kept at home to serve as toys and amusement to Louis Napoleon ? Such was the feeling in France at this time, and with such a feeling existing in that country our Government only required to make a sufficiently firm representation to compel, in a manner, the Emperor to send to the Crimea forces sufficient to have insured, before the com mencement of winter, the capture of Sebastopol. The press of France, ever since the coup d'aut, has been muzzled, and, of course, no French paper dared to speak out. The press of England, however, might have done something. But instead of pointing out the im policy of retaining so large a force in France at such a jucture, the limes, the Herald, the Citron &c.—the London journals are read very generally in Paris—could hardly find words to express their admiration of Louis Napoleon, and their columns were filled up with gor geous descriptions of the magnificent reviews and sham fights presided over by the Emperor. The conduct and motives of Louis Napoleon, in not having pushed, as he ought to have done, the war in the Crimea, will -require some explanation, in order to be fully understood. Having passed the last eight months in France--during the whole time of the campaign in the Crimea—and having , conversed during this period with a number of lute'''. 50 161 St. 8! 2el 20 I St.l St. 10 6A St. 10 St. 25 all 3 8 2s. 10 5 20 20 176 20 20 20 all 10 12 all all 10 22A all all all all 11i 11 91i xn 76i 125 68i i 75f i 6 1 81 8 16 102 f i i 5 li 844 4 100 ' 5 100 all all all all all 77i 144 9 MI 60 29. k 124 124 25 44' all all 10 ,100 too 10, 10 St. St. 100 100 100 100 00 100 25 10 1.0.6 63 321 213 ex int. 6 1 I 11 i I Pm i 5415 1013 115 14i ARRIVALS THIS WEER. Wheat. Barley. 1,023 4,310 4,59) BOROUGI Most kinds of hops are in prices. Malt. i Oats. i Flour. 5,230 1 2,680 1 . 750 100 I 4,750 1 950 sks. : HOP. moderate request, at full WHITECHAPEL. Each kind of meat sold steadily to-day, as follows —Beef, 3s Od to 4s 2d ; mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4d ; veal, Od to 5a Od; pork, 3s Od to 4s 4d per Eilbs. by the *amaze. THB FRBNCH Loart.—The advices from Paris yester day confirm the statement of the applications for the loan having reached a total of about 80,000,0001. sterling. They also mention that the small subscriptions, for 500 f. Rentes and under, exceed the whole 20,000,0001. to be allotted, and that the large capitalists will get nothing. SHOCKING ACCIDENT.—On the Bth instant David Henry Jones, a clerk in the office of the general ma nager of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway Com pany, at the London-road station, Manchester, while attempting to jump upon an engine that was in motion, taking out the 11.30 a.m. train to Hull, missed his footiag, and his right foot, slipping down upon the near rail, was crushed by one of the wheels. He was holding on by the handrail of the engine, and his cri es induced the driver to stop as soon as possible. Jones, who was only 17 years of age, had been sent to the engine-driver with letters to be taken to Hull, and had attempted, against the rules of the company to ride up to the office-door at the end of the station, when Ire met with this sad accident. The greatest attention was paid to him, and he was taken down to the Royal Infirmary, where, at the request of the railway manager, Dr. Har rison, medical attendant of the company, and Mr. Smith, surgeon, of Mosley-street, went to consult with the surgeons of the institution as to the best steps to be taken in the case. All these gentlemen were of opinion that it was necessary to amputate the forepart of the foot, but the youth's parents, who were sent for as early as possible, refused to allow the operation, and insisted upon taking him hom e that they might consult a surgeon of their own. The result was, that he was put under the care of the present representative of the once cele brated "Oldfield-lane doctor," in whose skill the humbler classes have always had great faith. The foot was not taken off, and at first appeared to go on well, bet on Thursday morning last mortification had commenced, and the leg had to be amputated a little below the knee. The operation proved too severe a trial for him in his then exhausted state, and he died at an early hour yes • terday morning. gent Frenchmen upon the subject—military men well as others—l think I shall be able to give you the key to the conduct of the Emperor of the French, but must reserve this for another letter.--I am, &c., ATTOUN. 89, Heriot-row, Edinburgh, January 10, 1855. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, JAN. 16. The following arrangements have been made by agree ment between the authorities of New College and those of Winchester School, relative to the examination - and admission of candidates desiring to be placed on the foundation of the latter institution. At the annual election in July an examination, differ ing in difficulty, for boys between 10 and 12 and boys between 12 and 15 years of age, will be held at Winches ter, for thepurpose of supplying the vacancies among the scholars that may occur within the year following. The first examination will be held in July next. It is not recommended that boys who have not yet reached their 10th or have passed their 15th birthday should present themselves as candidates. Candidates for admission as founder's kinsmen will be examined with the other candidates, and the two best will, if properly qualified, be elected, and their names placed at the top of the roll for admission. The names of all candidates must be ant in to J. D. Walford, Esq,. College-street, Winchester, on or before the Ist of June in each year, and with the names must be sent the following papers :-1. A certifi cate of baptism, with the figures therein, if any, written also in words by the attesting minister. 2. A cer tificate of character, specifying the length of time to which it applies, from the schoolmaster .or tutor under whom the candidate has been last placed. 3. Adeclara tion, signed by one of the parents of the candidate, or; if both parents be dead, by the person best qualified to give the necessary evidence. Forms of the declaration will be supplied on application to Mr. Walford. The subjects of examination will be the following :- 1. Elementary Religious Knowledge. 2. English Dicta tion. 3. Arithmetic (the younger class of boys in the first four rules). 4. Latin Composition, verse and prose. 5. Construing and Parsing, in Greek and Latin. The books for examination will be such as are usually read in classical schools. The grammars used are, "Grceaz Grammaticce Rudimenta, Oxford, Clarendon press;" and King Edward Vl.'s Latin Grammar. The principle on which candidates will be arranged on the roll will be their proficiency as exhibited in the exa mination, their character, and the circumstances of their families, as far as is made known to the electors. CAMBRIDGE, JAN. 16. The following will be the subjects for the Previous Examination in the last week of the Lent Term, 1856 : " 1. The Gospel of St. Matthew. " 2. Paley's Evidences. " 3. The Old Testament History. " 4. The Perste of iEschylus. " 5. The first book of Cicero's Tusculan Disputatious. " 6. The Elements of Euclid, books I. and 11., and Arithmetic." VOLUNTARY THEOLOGICAL EXAMINATION IN NEXT MICHAELMAS TERM. On Thursday, the 11th of October next, and the suc ceeding days, there will be an examination in the follow ing subjects "The Greek Testament "The Octavius of Minucius Felix, from chapter 32 to the end; " Ecclesiastical History ; " The Articles of Religion ; and " The Liturgy of the Church of England ;" which examination will be open to all students who have at any time been admitted ad respondendunt qucrstioni ; or who can produce certificates from the Regius Professor of Civil Law or his deputy of having performed the exer cises required for the degree of Bachelor of that faculty. The names of those students who shall pass this exa mination to the satisfaction of the examiners will bo published in alphabetical order, and registered in the usual manner. Immediately after this examination there will be an examination in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew for suck students as, having undergone the former exami nation, shall offer themselves for this ; and the names of the persons who, having passed the former, shall pass this examination to the satisfaction of the examiners, will be published also aad registered in the manner already described. _ _ Persons desirous of presenting themselves at these examinations must signify their intention of so doing on or before the Ist of October next, by a letter addressed to the Regius Professor of Divinity, the Margaret Pro fessor of Divinity, and the Norrisian Professor of Divinity. REFORM IN TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLIN. DUBLIN, TUESDAY MORNING. _ _ There will be the unusual number of 19 scholar ships open for competition at the ensuing Trinity Term examination. Of these, according to the new arrangement, four "non-foundation scholarships" may by superior answering be obtained by Roman Ca tholics or Dissenters of any denomination. Had this concession, trifling as it may appear, been made come half-dozen years earlier, it is probable that the zealots of both parties in Ireland would have been deprived of " a cry," and that a world of invective against the "Godless Colleges" would have been lost to all gene rations, present and future. Nevertheless, it is equally probable that, but for the establishment of the Queen's Colleges, A lma Mater would not even at this late period have dreamt of the relaxation of an old and iron-bound statute, by which all who refused to subscribe to the 39 Articles were debaired from the petty advantages of a scholarship, with its accompanying salary of IS/. per an num, chambers, and daily rations at 4 p.m, RUSSIAN MILITARY MOVEMENT• By way of Hamburg, we have advices from St. Petersburg of the 10th inst.:— General Siewers, who commanded the first corps d'amee had arrived at the capital from his head-quarters at Radom, and left again on the Bth for Mittau. General Siewers is charged by the 'Emperor to organise a new army, called the " Baltic army," the troops which were formerly posted between Riga and Cronstadthaving been ordered to the Polish frontier. The bead-quarters of the Baltic army will be at Mittau. General Muriavieff, recently appointed Commander in•Chief of the Russian forces in Asia, passed through Moscow on the 7th, to assume his command. Two divisions of the corps d'armee under General Paniutin are advancing by forced marches on Odessa, taking the road through Bessarabia. ,These troops are to reinforce the Russians in the Crimea. The second brigade of the Cuirassiers of the Guards, under General Tumanski, are quartered at Warsaw, and in the neighbourhood of that city. General Essen, with the picked regiment of the so-called Chevaliers Gerdes, is at Siadlia. INQUEST OF THE LATE SIR GEORGE WOMENVELL.--. Yesterday, Mr. Bedford, the coroner, held an inquest to inquire into the circumstances attending the death of Sir George Wombwell, whose sudden death on Sunday morning last, has already been reported in our columns. The medical evidence showed that the deceased had died from disease of the heart, and the jury returned ss verdict accordingly. THE EAST INDIA RAILWAY.—The East India Railway Company are stated to have paid into the treasury at the India-house, up to the end of last week, 780,0001. out of the 1,500,0001. required by the 15th of February. To-morrow they will pay about 600,0001. more, the recent call having been promptly met, while that for February has in numerous cases been anticipated. Many shareholders, also, have paid up in full. UNITED SERVICE INSTITUTION.—AIa evening meeting of the members will be held this evening, when Captain J. C. Hoseason, R.N., will offer some remarks on the following subjects :-1. The three routes to Australia ; 2. The value of the commercial steam-marine in the con veyance of cavalry, infantry, baggage, and munitions of war ; 3. The incalculable value of steam as a motive power in the saving of time in war ; 4. On the handling of steamers on a lee-shore and in stormy weather. The several arguments will be illustrated by diagrams and models on a large scale. These remarks will be fol lowed by a discussion, in which members are invited to take part. METROPOLITAN CONVALESCENT INSTITUTION.--Yes terday the half-yearly meeting of this charity (instituted building u e e l ir d ledy a in t ign the ve c i ffi cn hg c a e bi , re. e S n a T c f k oh v ue i n l r l d e e p- too or r t e s e ms t aa P ltl dcactnahodati anotherconvalescents)l h — e h A o a d r d i founded, and was comp l e t e d i n M ar ch last, for the re ception of 120 inmates, at an outlay of 12,0001. About 1,400 poor people had been benefitted by the institution since its opening, and as the applications for admission were becoming more and more numerous, it would shortly bo necessary to have a larger building. In nine months of the year 1854, 872 persons had been admitted, being 354 males and 518 females, of whom 624 had been discharged cured and 195 improved, while others had left from various causes, and 18 still remained in the institution. The receipts had amounted to 5,7891. lls. 9d., and the expenditure to 5,2891. 7s. 6d., leaving in band a balance of 5001. 4s. 3d. THE INIQUITY OP TRADE.—A local journal observes : "Tho Lancet is still prosecuting its just and uncompro mising crusade against the fraudulent dealers in the food of the people. A first volume of its proceedings, edited by Dr. Hassall, has just appeared. There is matter for both indignation and congratulation in its pages; many necessaries of life' being anything but what they are called, and others, so far from established notions, arc pure and undefiled. The manufactured fluid vinegar is proved to be in the most part poisonously impregnated, and out of some 23 samples, only seven were pronou uced free from adidteration. In this honourable minority Mr. Joseph Underwood, of Nor wich, stauds with e first ; a fact which cannot be othe r than flattering to his townsmen and their kinsmen in London, where: this gentlem an has likewise a business locale. The a wticle Farinaceous Food is a most amusing piece c f Barnumism. The Teas and Coffees — excepting most of those in canisters—exhibit a cheering aspect of hurt= nature, and the whole class of spices— al beit,soine that are ground—iilikewise unexceptionable. In too many rof•pects the poor appear to suffer the most from aduhteration, and it may be difficult to tell exactly where t ,he fraud originates, hnt the vendor is not in such cases Is •ee from blame while firms of such mag nitude and dire et connections with foreign producing countries as tl lose of Travers, Sons, and etbeys, offer facilities to the lattmblest dealer to possese lumself . of a stock unqu t e s t ionably genuine. Water and. its im purities tak e u p a large portion of the book, aud each chapter is illu 3 t sa ted by microscopical representations of , the genuine a ri doles and their spurious compounds." pPaid.l 100 19 1,14 100 42i1 • 100 - , alll all all all 100 20 It iF all all all 18 3 1 all 111 e, 20i 100 20 20 20 20 20 33i 20 50 20 25 63 2i 26 58 70} 8 13i i 33k 97i 62 2i i 61 2 31 43 i