The Sun. — London, England, 1855-03-08 00:00:00

'MA itKET ij ARE MARKETS. AND (l:liI6 DAY.) 01. A L INT ELL raEN CITY, T 0 o'CLOC 6rket at Liverpool yesterday was of American rose id. per lb., and sales amounted to 8,000 bales, rere for export, and 1,000 on spe ng 110 Pernam and IVlaranham at Egyptian at to 9td., 1,000 d.) 40 Sea Islands at Is. to 2s. 'way Share Market closed with an r. Qtir. 4.II,WATi. Aberdeen....:.,-:,... 100 . liottng. Bog! anti Eastn. Junc;t.. all Be7fast & Ballymena all Birming. liVolverh. Stour Valley . , .... . Birkenh.d. Lancsli. d Clieshre Juliet all Do. Chesh. & £5O and £:25 Cony. 19 Do., 30 Blytli &Tyn origina £25 (isscl. at £45 100 Bristol and Exeter 100 Caledonian . 21s. Carmarthen and Car digun all Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon all Cork, Black, & Paz -16 Cornwall •• lA Orloff Junction 'Dnblinaßelfast.lnue. all DundeePertladniby 205 - ••• •••••• 8 - 13 - 12 16 - 17, illaatnnce that the Admirals in the leclared the mouths of the Danube Ide, the hope is entertained that corn will be brought away from rails, as no less than 80 ships, dg on the average about 1,500 !ere at those places when the let -1 Which have been addressed to a the Shropshire Banking Company, frauds of two of their late,officials than double the original capital, aid it is fortunate that the directors wealthy as to provide the requi irrying on the business of the corn-. roprietors at large contribute upon shares, 51. paid counting as 81. It learn that some property has been the delinquents, otherwise the loss greater * Stock Market busiiiess has been e settlement of the account has ''' l Y occupied the attention- of the 'barge for " carrying over" has '6 per cent. Consols -opened at 'kr, and have since been as low as ' r to prices, which were 93 I g have t e 93 i. The settlement of the doubt chiefly occasioned this, but a 11 ,e funds, a nd an adverse altera 3nauges at Vi enna , is advised by Vienna, and acts upon our ,market, Prehension that some unfavourable -4 Known there. The manifesto of , '°wever, might be 'sufficient to ex -I.cm after the previous rise, since. Vs not that the document reads ~4 111 Y. contend, however, that it ,'n, highly indiscreet in the Czar, 3 ' 11 13 feelings, to depart from a tone ! e4 re popularity with his own sub er the Allies less exacting in their e largest sale of Consols this morn 'UM., by a broker wbo usually news. The e q Reduced Three . per ' e n en 92i to 93g. Bank Stock has 11 -6, since at 2141 Exchuer ' 3 .)'anAl and India Bonds . 10s. to 13s. dean Junetin all Do. New ...... ....•.. 100 East Anglian—. all Eastorn Counties 100 Eastern Union, 25 St. 20 St ..• ••• 90 - 64 - 64 ii : la - 2 5i - 61 ;14 are rather heavy, but with prices : 4. 4 ,s Yesterday. The Turkish Bonds 79 and 791. Mexican Stock is at .la , ll at 701 ex. dividend. Equador "Os and Grenada Deferred at 51. 'ell 85g. Spanish New Deferred lg are the nominal prices of foreign 1 1 44 % Def erre d Bonds, 5 to 6 ; j ; Peruvian, 70 to 71 ; ditto Three to 51; Portuguese Four per Cents. , 4 1 ,i' 4 ut Five per Cents., 99 to 101 ; Defe rred per Cents., 89 to 91 ; efe rred, 18 to 18A ; dittO Three C} to "`" ; ditto Certificates, 41- to 5 ; 4 4. t v ii*e ers o f th e Luxembourg Railway tt t q W4 ely recommended that the pay -I.;°_,llt of capital should be discon -141, ; 1101 ple is so objectionable that it is ae ij li te g to was not long since aban.- thi l '`‘, l lce of the shers them ' ' lll4 ject, the new directors report •• - 11 - 29 20 - 100 De., B 5t0ck..... .. 8a Do., New A. 100 East Lancashire 100 Edinburgh & Glasgov all Ediub. and Peebles. lid) Edba. PrlL & Duna, e 1 & Clyde Jun , all Furness .. all. Do. Extension..... ... 100 Glasgow &S. Weston 100 (Treat Northern . 1(X) Do., A. Stock 'IX) Do., B. Stock JO ')t. OVest.c-Ir, 100 Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rai: -- 31 72 74 58 2d par 2) 2L .. - 70 - 72 90 - 91 72 - 7 4 127 - IYB 91 '2 64i 65} 53 -,- CO Gtta. Stk all. Irish Sonth-East;m• 111 I.:imeaster & Carl i4'[ 4i Do., Thirds 4 Do. New Thirds Hst'l Laneash.andYoilk all Do., I , iiths ...... 11 D 3., WBt. 11. I!nttiz all Liv.Crsby.&Sout.lif t all Loudon &. Blackwal 100 Loid. 100 Loud. and N. WeAn 16 Do. lift }s 5i 2S Do. Eighths 100 L on don andS. Westi; 42 Do., .R 513 .......... . 34 Do., £4O .......... all Liidutlrry& - . Col °rain E Lndu.drry. Enule.[l: . 139 Manch .Slief & Litt& all Do. Slitsze No. 3' Do., Man. & Lin.. Un. 100 Midland [OO .JO. Dirtnng. &Derl:: all Widld. G. West. (h [ ; 22i Do. Half Shares ..... . all Newcastle & Carlisle. 53 Newtukt.RaryExten, 21:3 Nwpt.Aberg. &, Hrfd , Newry & all Newry Warrenpoin•• and Rostrovor 72 . 3 74 5 - . 7 77 774 ..; J 8• -- 8 h 74 98 - 100 99 100 id id 1 d 851 8 73 - 6t 41 I 241 24i 7i Sts 14i lli i .00 Norfolk 3 Northu.Counties Un. DO North British all North Devon, No. I all Do., No. 2 all )0., 1- A Deferred all Do., B Guaranteed 100 N. Eastern—Berwick 20 Do. do. Extension 13 Do.do, G.N.E. Pnrch all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York a.ll North London all Do. New LID 3 N.O.Wstrn.,llamp. stead, and City Jn.. 17? North Staffordshire all North Western all N. &S. Westrn. June. I Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester.. 'OO - Word, Worcester,& Wolverhampton 8 Portsmouth . 4cottisl Central 'OO Scottish Midland ... all ittrewsby. Ilerecd 00 ihropshireUnion ill -louth Devon 110 loath Eastern 11 ;anti' Wales 15 Yrksh. & Itiv. Dm 89 - 691 ID - t • 4 e h lecond exceptional point or item of 4iti t „t respectfully to protest againstits 4a t , "d• It is evident that the unexpended lei t ,l ll l will be barely su ffi cient, if they are ''ete and stoc k the railway and it would Ot t o . t" continue a payment railway of capital for 1 Th . lt al all bere quired to be expended on ii on ty e therefo r r e e earnestly recommend you authorising the board to discontinu h e —wrest o n the shares, and to take such boedfui *f a n y are needful—to legalise mee. lit of the interest on the land debt or obli "Val:1y, stands on very different grounds. • and it must be paid, and it can only be opening of the line to Namur at no distant jell funds for that p ur pose, Without continu m to press on the capital account." - eek's railway receipts ascertained up re in round figures as under : aF 1L - 9 - ii eo Si 3A 29 ... 30 g 10 64 7 i 73 .. 74 7 44 31 124 494 -- 504 49 10 d par 20 20 10 10 St. 10 St. 35 65 i 4/ id 4 t 54 6 i 1d r ar 1855. 1854. £21,729 £19,690 48,767 49,519 10,492 11,742 8,209 10,295 22,82 24,877 12,011 13,058 •••.. *qt.". '''''''''''''''''''' 9,948 9,763 Lattil7,9l7 18,762 'er 4 Y orkshire 24.452 25,863 j 5 Share market has been quiet, but har:c ) es fairly maintained on the whol e. , da l ; are held. steadily, and the Scinde as high as i to 4 premium. loan Mine Shares are rather flat. A rrn i• There have been one o r two Rua p • oa. L i t 11" , I „a.nk Shares are very quiet. The t „.„ - _,'"a have been dealt in at A d iscount. '""t Oriental Steam are about 10s. .......................... ... """ •- 30 - 31 5.} 14 86 -- 99 -- 101 64 - C 6 - 48 121 - 60. 61 28 - 29 - 2 2 -- 1 N 00 •. 1.2 4aines,Wok &Wol. a I itockton fit Darlin 16 itt.lkton & liartlepl ts? Vali Vale... 9 - )c). £lO shares (00 Do. Pref., No. 1 21i rhames Haven Doel: and R:lllway . all Vale of Neath ..... • all Waterf 1. & Kilkenn, all 'Vaterford&Limeri 1 18 West Cornwall.-- 3 Jest End of Londoi and Crystal Palace. all West London 1416. Wimbledn & Croydon - 244 i 69i i i - 7 to 5 20 20 FOREIGN 4.1 161 4i 5 all Auvw., - pet riotterdam 3i Belgian Eastn. June. 10 Beziers to GraiSSOSSOC 2s. Bombay, Baroda,aml Central ludia.Serip Central of Italy ...... 13 61 2SI - 1 4 - par i P all Demerara ........... 14 Dijon and I3esancon 10 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France 10 Do. New all East Indian 10 Do. Eyl,ension ..., all Do. 41 p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible all Do. do. do., '59, do 15 Gd. Tk of CanadAA is 1, ll Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. all Do. Cert. of Debon., con. into Stk.. till '6:3, a ll Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do, 10 Gt. C3utral of Fiane , all Gt. Indian Peninfail;, 1 Do. New 5 per cent 12 Great Luxerabotm. Constituted Shares 1 all D o . Obligations , k 1 all Clt.WeE , tern of Canad FQ N u S THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. 10025 ( N% the Oficia/ Li tt. ) 25 Dmqinsssdone .. 216 141 to tm ", e u ....... 933 24 3a a fin Annuitici . 93 - 21 0 ......... .... shut 9 3 $ Y ea. ,:.*xpire sth ~ Isro 4g 5-16 .e 3 oo E n xpire 10th Oct., 1859 4 3- 16 k ‘is t r e &low " 13 10 tr. g„F'jult, April -On 2,1 31 3 2i(t. ....... 5 8 ................................. . 5 8 ....... — Axis ......................... • ,1608, P SIO9OE 99 FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY Bo t s t l s 6 Per Cent . 103 A - 3li 4, 44 - . n.... , Delo eCt . . 3i 4 32i -- 33 i 6i - 2 -2. p, - 1 Shares all Do. llds., payable's7, with option till '55 all Do. do., '62, p. '56 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O all Dn. do,, '73, without option all ilarailton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 11 Lake Cone,. & Basle all Lucca & ITitoj a 5 p.c. ... 51 20 $ 1 1% 11 1 4 % 41 .. pr Cent. Se, t4 4 Per e Cent. Bs- 61 6 eae, " Per Cent 36s. ke t Z e ferred 3 per Cent.. I BA e uti r, 6 per C en t .... • ............ . ......... •• 7 I 9 'eatj' s on the above payable in London. 8 . 3 per Ceut. . ........ 2A per Cent. 12 Gnil 6 2 i THREE O'CLOCK. bit °l '. ....... . ................. 921 3 4.9 X ......... 9 3 i k ho . kti 15,,f 3 . - -Southampton, March 7.—The.P,,esint-. I 'Lental Company's steam-ship Madrid, Cap t. thi s afternoon with the usual ma'il;for 10 Lisbon, Cadiz, and Gibraltar. She has 2 , ; 141 4 rat-class passengers, five second, and ene 40 °ll freight specie value 43,431/..75. 20 0 4 • 11 : 4,90 0/ •, Lisbon, 17,801/. 7s. 6d.; and Cadiz, qi it tl i a full general cargo. The Indus, Captain 20 0 B Yal 'ue India and China mails, is hourly expected. - 1) . Mail Company's steam-ship Avon will leave 20 'razilian mails on the 9th inet. The Greatails 2(l e lA ° due with the homeward portion of these w m ash. 10 4 ' ‘i it t'll e; The United States' mail steam-ship " wll4 ll' a in Cavendy, is expected on Saturday with 20 leti.,ro'irtnightly American mails. e rll DEATH OF CAPTAIN JOHNSON, SUPERIN- 4 3 .1 ' tt/ Z L •erd. ONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILW,IT. 2 ._ 1 , 1 of i nformation wall i transmitted to the Euston t. 0 '' B 41 411 appalling accident at the Warrington s 20_ fzi Previous day (Tuesday), by which Captain 20 20 11 1 .,, er intendent of police on the line for the last V•tlf e i rt — t with a frightful death. It appeared that tt tv. unate d ecease d had been engaged supeein -1.:.% transit of a troop of Artillery from Lohn -40 11 , 4 , ei l° 1 , er l: 10 01, where they were to start for te. 40 t ,oßt - f ," eo, just as the train was starting from the: . - 7 „ "ktri a -11 station, the deceased endeavoured to regain ep while it was in motion ; when, missing h . 20 1 14 , 1 ) o.m ue , fell down between the platform and t o h"stid 4efore the latter cculd be brought toa leo - fier , I „ . tlie ha less man was crushed in awful 100 ! t hBf, ri e Was p speedily extricated, but only to s h u i r i - . 20 ) 44 1t1 i4 -41101 accident a few minutes. Captain J? _ _ 11 ' 411141 respected, 20 not only by a large circle • b aso y n , i t} , 3 an " Whwhomhe, was acqualn connect d , in ut l his official - -4 4 „;' ) ▪ 1 4 * 11 14 t e4 t 1 4 11 14 ti n_ Ams AT BRIG_H G TO ,i N n .-- , On the Ist instant, 100 el t h t u th e -&r ,.. 78 were d foundations for the 100 on the Round Hill- ' t% t ,„ 4 t% at Brighton,belonging to the members of 20 sNil' e tvati Society,discovered an urn, 50 es, ve band th ey cen • pottery. t --43rna nOa being examined it was 20_ 6 0 4 u d e tam benes, which had been burnt before . be- 25 at Posited m -4 k , • The y urn stands nine inches high, and I 100 ee k st , 11 kih riu _es broad. No lid could he found, but that 2p e "lv e i t ,'Qhged to the urn is certain, from the fact 1 g Stl 4 ttl t ll 'ade brass hinge, ingood preservation, was • '44 (') an I:ltiquities were , 110 i, 25 00i e e do • "ome Roman uelood. It 23 1 41i b, f g out in the immediate noga o " 41 11Z . ° 111 the character of the land that a Roman kquerly taleted in the looalit7. 150 6 = ''A 8 i 47 49 87 89 14 la di) par id) - 3 2 - 3 17 - 18 95 -- 97 81 100 - - 102 92 94 2 d par 97 -- 100 ... - prof 10 Lyons and Geneva 12 Lyons & Meditorran 16 Aadras 10 . Do. NOW . 11A Ytaria Antonia all Do. do. Now all N'ainur di Liege (witb interest)..... all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of Frame all D0.20/.Shs.late Char leroi and Erquclinet guar. 3 p. e. & red. at 22 tl. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854.... all ho. 201. 3p. e Bds (frly.l3.&Ams.Slia.: ill Norwe.stianTrunkPre 16 Paris alla Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen... . 10 l'arisCaen&Cherbrg all Pollen and Havre.... 20 Royal Danish 3 ttoyalSwedish all .s'arnbre and Mouse all Do. 5t p. cent. Prei 14 'louthern of France, 16 Andrew's and Quebec (A) all .Vest Flanders all Do 5h per c. Pref 16 Western of France_ Wost. of Switzerland all %rvicsbaden . all _Zealand 2'; 4 d par la ib .•• ...''. 61 - -7 33 - 34. 12 -- RA -- 211 - TOT - NT-ST(3i ail A astratobt, all British Colonial Bfka and Loan Company all British N. Aryacricar 5 Chartd. Bank of Asir. 2 Chrtd. Bitk. of India., A u stralia, & China 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Loud. 1.8 English. Scottish And Ativtralinn all Go . nd ' .. Cr, — art. Bk. cY Australia. 5 Ditto New 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 .Lond. & Westminstel 35 National Pro vineis. of England 10 Do. Now 22., National of Ireland all New South Walt:s a ll Oriental Bank of C0rp0rati0n.......... 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New .............. . 1 ]loyal kistraln.lAg. & Cield. Imp Co—. I.li \:lwitli Ar Arn.lll, _.... al': Union J 1 kastrai,... 2; Do. Now •••.•......... , 10 Union of London .... li n sine, ;one I st. this day. St. I '4 t;i 09A I 6?, .001 100 100 10 St. St. St. 73i 4 3i 3 io St. 26' 491 50 13 17i .1 i I 93 2 RAILWATE., CiNting Prices this d.sy. 47 - 40 - 21i - 1(1 n - 3 ~ THE SUIS, tioN DON THURSDAY EV EN 1 •-• G, YI A EtChl 8 1855 ti P r To JOURNALS. ARAIY BEFORE SaASTOPOL COM MITTEE --(T.II1S DAY.) Lansing Compacts I(Mug Prices this day Mist: ess this day- The inquiry was resumed at 12 o'clock. to-day, and the space allotted to the public was again crowded. General Bentinck was recalled, but his re-examination had l reference to matters on which ho touched yesterday, 50 London N. Vi7c,t L &N.W. I.Un.& - 97 7 - 99 95a 61 rn d did not disclose any additional facts of particular in t cfrest. He mentioned, however, that the tools of the pio r ours were inferior, and that some of the clothing of tho . - ... Gt.Nrtltn. Icialdonian 134 - 136 ( cards was bad and - was not sent out. Mr. Vaux, surgeon of the Harbinger, was then called — He stated that the Harbinger, belonging to the General IScrew Navigation Company, was chartered by the Govern ment as a transport. On the 24th November, the vessel Do Wes:3 Vk. Now erw. Y. &Ng Do.. L a : 166 was despatched in a hurry to Constantinople for vege tables. On opening some of the bags of vegetables ho found that they were in a state of decay. They were sup: S. nasteri ni plied through the commissariat by contract. These were condemned, and others wore supplied. They arrived in the Crimea in two days, when they reported their arrival to Capt. Christie, and he reliresen'aed it to the conond sary. They anchored " fore and aft" of the harbour — that was north and south—and began to discharge their cargo in about five days. A great part of it when discharged was bad. The vegetables, of course, were of a perishable nature. They were a fort night in discharging their cargo. Other vessels were a a much longer time. Whilst there he observed the condi tion of the horses, which was very distressing, as the poor creatures seemed almost starving. He also saw the sol diers, and they were verr j ragged and dirty. As to the in valids, they were very much emaciated and low. The sick sent on booed the Harbinger fur passage home had beds or mattresses to lie ur;on, and they only lost six coming home. Application was made at Balaklava for sago and such light food Par the invalids, but there was nothing but rice to be got. The effect of eating unwholesome food in such a cli nes:V.6 as the Crimea, if repeated, would certainly result in claarrheea. There was a great scarcity of horses, and even Afieers could not obtain them, although the Jason was in heabour with a cargo of 500 horses, and the captain bad onade repeated applications to get r.d of them. He did r not know who had charge of the hospital at Constantinople. They wore there about nine days, taking in cargo. Ad miral Boxer had clamp of the _harbour. They had great difficulty in loading the ship, is consequence of the bad state of the weather. He did not know how much the Government were paying for the Harbinger per day. Dshe was engaged as a transport vessel she was not ning at the sea tithe m more than one-third of her time. She left England laden with powder, shot, shell, and a heavy siege train. Oa her second trip from England she had gold for the commissariat and powder, bat he did not think she had a full cargo. - She returned from Scutari laden with sick. They • were placed at Balaklava by the harbour master. At all events he supposed so. The way the cargo was landed was by means of a catamaran or kind of raft., Mr. Filler was in charge of the commissariat at Balaklava at that time. Before a vessel could be unloaded orders would have to come from him and Captain Christie, who would repeat them to the commander of the ship. Whilst the Harbinger was is harbour she was used for a portion of the time as a flag-ship for Captain Christie and staff. When the soldiers came on board to fetch vegetables there were some receipts given, but after a while the vegetables became quite bad, and he recommended that the cargo should be discharged to preserve the health of the '. vessel. These receipts *e re not always passed; sometimes so ldiers would come. and take what t hey liked. mach imp e d e d i n There was no depot for hay at Balaklava when he was there. In bad weather t he town was dreadfull y dirt y an d c muddy, onsego e a n n o d e . the T h t e r r a e n transports no cases of very scurvy on bo ar d his s wore vessel. That was a malady likely to arise from the use of salt food. Knowing the locality, ho should say that it would be most unhealthy when the warm weather com menced, in consequence of the improper burial-ground, the absence of tides in the sea, and the filthy condition of the beach. He thought the diseases most likely to super vene were typhus fever and' cholera. A pplications we re made to the Commiss ar y for p ro per food for the sick on board th e Harbinger, but without effe c t , oanraderthteoir eactoenrstitthuetiohnasrbsouuffrerweads icnonvceoynesdto them by eclnence. Th e • Capt. Christie's Flag-lieutenant. The vessel lay close in shore. He presumed that the vegetables which were taken 1 from the ship reached the camp. He counted on one oc casion 45 transport-ships in the harbour. On the day of the storm he should say there were many more than 25 in harbour. Capt. Christie was on board before the vege tables were discharged, and must have known the state of the vegetables. Representations to the effect that they were getting decayed was sent to the commissary over and over again. Pcto & Co. Norfolk. L.& N. V. & Miclld ackton & Darliugt. 2 -- go 92 E. Couu Do 57 - 59 L. SzN.W &LuBtYl Do. ... . .. fltNortir Lai:war/I& Yorksh. 11./IClctu itockt. & Darliugt Do. ltWestn. ... - •• fio -- 133 ..• 2d 2 d ..• - • • • 31 - 32 91 - 93 (LEFT BITTING.) FIRE AND LOSS OF FOUR LIVES. (THIS DAY.) This morning between 12 and 1 o'clock, a fire broke out in the house of Mr. Henry Lawford, architect and designer, No. 2, Clipstone-street, Portland-road, Mary lebeise, which was not subdued before four lives had been Eacrificed, and others injured. The house in pie, tion was in the joint occupation of five families, the members of which were soundly sleeping, when the con stable on duty first perceived the indichtion or fire, and immediately raised an alarm. Before, however, he could awaken the inmates, the flames had taken possession of the staircase, and made escape impossible ; under these circumstances the inmates made for the windows, threw up the sashes, and commenced calling loudly for help. in a few minutes the Royal Society's escape, at the Portland-road, came to their assistance, but the heat was so intense, and the smoke so strong, that every person in thel house Was nearly suffocated. The engines of the London Fire Brigade from Wells-street, King-street, and Crown-street quickly arrived,'and with a plentiful supply of water got t.) work in an admirable manner under the direction of Mr. Paul Gerard and Mr. G. Staples. The Royal Society!ti conductor at once ascended his machine, and succeeded in rescuing Mrs. Sheas and Mrs: Baker from the second floor windows. He again ascended to the third floor, when he was met with a sheet of fire, and was compelled to make a pre cipitate retreat, to prevent being burnt 0 death. Mr. Lawford and Mrs. Whitaker, with two children on the first floor, being r escued b y jumping out. As soon as th e ru i n s were sufficiently cool, Messrs. G er ard and Staples, the firemen, wen t in search of the p e rsons who were known to have; perished, when therimainsof Miss Kelso were found burnt to a cinder on the third floor front, and the remains of Mrs. Hayward and two of her daughters, also burnt to a cinder, on the third floor back. Shells having been procured from Marylebone workhouse the bodies were removed there, and infermation• forwarded to Mr. Wakley, the coroner, of the melancholy occur rence. The following is Mr. James Braidwood's official report : Mr. Henry. Lawfor.l, stationer, No. 2, Clipstonc street, Portland-road, shop and parlour buret out, E tai case deAtroye,!, roof off, fora lives lost—insured in SUZY. No. 1, Mr. John. Freucb, upholsterer, considerably damaged. Mr. Henry Roberto, tailor, damaged by fire and water. raid. KAILWA'!• all :3edford aad Bletclihy .o►o Buck ghansb. L eo Clydesdale Je 24 Col. Stour Yy Bud. and Hal LOO E. Lincuin Sr; 6 per cent. all as. Barr. & Neils. Direct all no. N0w...... all Olstr.4 Dn.Fl Dk. & Xll Hull & Selby ' all Do. Shares. all Do. Shares. all Lon.&Greenv all Do.Preferene , all Lon.,Til.,&S 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. WO Do. 6 per et. all lianch,Thrtn and Matlocl all Aiddleibro' Recicv nal Aidld.Bralfi all Ntorthern an Easternsp.). all Do. 6 per et. all Do. Fixeds p all Prest. &Wyrt all Do. Shares. 100 aoystn.l Hit Shef.Roth an Goole g. 5 p.e 92 3. Staffordsh. all Wearlialleyg, 6 per cent., all Do IWO Wilts&gomrst PREFERENCE SHARES. 100 Iberdeou JO- Do. N 0.2, 7p. c 3 0 !Myth and Tyne 10 par c. prof. (issd. at 500 100 Eris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares 100 Chlocloniau £lO all 'll , ester & Holyhead Guar. 51 per cent._ all do, Prof. No. 2 sll Do. do. Pref. No. 2 all fjork & Eandous All DundeePorth ckAbei deen Junction all !astern Counties; Ex tension' 5 p. c. No. 1 all Do. NO. 2 ........ all Do. New 6 r. a. Si;. all gastern Union., Gar. per cent • all Do. 57,., 10 per cent• all Do. 10/. Debentr.Sta- all Do. do. 4 per cent WO East Lancash. 6 'Lets. all East and West York ' shire June. Fifths all EdinbPrth.Br,D and , 4 per cent. [OO Glasgow & &Wester' Guar. 5 per cent : 1.00 Great Nortlin. sp. e. 100 Do. sp. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem. .00 Do. 4y p. c all Do. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red ... -- at, 5 p. c: all Gt.N. of Scot. lst Pre all Gt. Southn. &Westm (Ireland) Eighths).. 8 Do. 4 per C. Prat St 6 Gt. Westu. (Barks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c).. .00 'Do. con. red. 4i p.c. .00 Do. con: red. 4p. c .00 Do. irred. 4p.c. all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh.. all Do.Cnester Bp. E.P.S. all Do. do. 5 p. c. do.. 1.00 Do. Birm. Gua. Stk all Do. Ches. Gus. Sh., all Do. do. d 0.., ........ . all Do. do. d 0........ 6 Lan. & York. F. £2l 100 Do. 6p. c. Stock .. 100 London and Brighte , Guaranteed 5 p. e . 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St. 100 Do. New Guar.6 p. c. 1100 Lon. &N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 p. ct 5 London &S. Wcsterri Con. Thirds all Londonderry& Color Shares all Londy. & Ennis. all Ilan., Slid., & Lin New, £lO 4. Do. £6 all Varypt .&Carl.4 p c all Do. 4i per cent 10i Do 100 Aid. Cousol .6 p.c.St.' LOG Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.... 11 Do. Pref. 41 per con' 10 Norfolk Debenture . 100 Do. Pref. 4p. e. Stool. 100 Do. sp. a. Est 100 Do. 54 per ct. prof. 100 Do. Way. Val. sp. c. 'OO North British 100 N. E. Berw, 4 p.c. P. 5 Do. do. do 13 Do. Leeds 6 p.e E.No 11 Do. do. Quarters 48 10 Do. York & Par. all North Staffordshire.. 10,) Oxford, Worcester, & • Wolverh.£ls.6 n.c all 'loot. Cent. ,New Pre' all South Devon Do. fixed, 4?,: per cent' all S. Eastern (Ileadiugl Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. all S Wales Gus,. 4p. c. all Do. do. 4i p. c.... all S.Vorksh.4p.c.Guar: , a ll Stockton and Dar lington, 5 per cent 11 Do. do. do. all Stockton and Hartle pool, guar. 5 p. a. till Ist July, 1856 20 20 20 25 1 I all 1 all O s . all 20 6 1 all 1 an 1 all 1 all 50 all 10 113.5 ;5 25 30 1 all 1 Xll 5 1 all 15 all 5I all ••• A.gua Fria ... A n glo Austrin. Gold A.nglo Californian Austrellan A.ustrali an Cordillera Vasty - L:l%n Freehold. Ave Maria . &den (Gd.Daelay of) 131Eenarvon Iron and Coal British Iron Brazilianlmp.(issued at pm Do. Coeaes & Cuiab Do. St. John Del Rey C:,rsons's CreA Clarendon Cons. Min, Co. of Jalnaie£l , Cobre Copper Colonial Gold Copper Min. of Eng. Do. Pref. 7 !! P. ceut. Copiapo ........... English and Austin. Copper Smeltg Co. Fortuna General Gt.NuggetVoinßeg. 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Cauada -. ...... Canada Gov. 6 p. et Jan. and July Crystal Palace Crystal Pal. of France. Duston Iron Ore Eastern Steam ElectricTelegraph(A) Electric Teleg. of Ir., Gen. Steam Navigat.' General Screw Stca.na Irish Bcet:oot Suga; Magdalena St. Navi; ; ;. Mediteran. Elec. Tel. MexiCalikS.Araerien. Nat. Pat. Steam Fu& Netherlands land—, N. S. W. Coal Fa Inter, steam Navigs.t. Co N. B. Auxtralasian Nrth. of EnropeSteam Peel Rr. Penin..sular& Oriental Do. Do. Portland Iron Co Royal Mail SLeam Scot. Austral. Invest. Ditto New. ............ South .A.ustral.l.:and Submar. Tel Tr st Loan Co. o Upper Canada...... Van Diemand s Lane g :NE BIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Ks OF BRITISH COBS up from the Returns Of the In,pectorg In the different Cities and Towns In England and Waled per imperial Quarter. GRAIN SOLD 1 BEANS. 1 PEAS. 68, 61 303 11,1 253 31 , 4 1 101 i 423 21 I 393 91 253 lld 425 FwoiriztAh:ol:l4i week E s s e A i n t :d E r a j' . d . V ; L I : o c A h A a T a s E , :8 1 :5 1 .5: 1 :td re. ; Oats, iB l 7 , LAST T ; WHEAT. TIIE SIX WEEKS' AVER A GE. p jawxy, 1 OATS. Elm I BEANS. PEAS. 1 W t3 : 43 E , E 8 K 3 . ; Beane, 81 ) 431 51 406 111 7,425; Peas, 1,817 quarters. " w l h i e d at Ql , IT B 3 O AI ,4 SB O TI 2 I : I'd 'IS Barley, 0175,101 MEAT MARKETS. NENCGA.TE AND LEADENUALL.—Ait;ir average business was transacted, at full p rices. Beef, from 3s 4d to 4s 64 ; Mutton, 3s 2d to 45 6 d ; Veal , 3 s 8d to 4s 84 ; Pork, 3s Od to 45 4d per Blbs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, March 7.—The supply of stock in to-day's 7.—To-day's market was firm, as fol lows was only moderate, and the general demand ruled firm on rather higher terms. Beef, from 3s 64 to 4s I,d ; 44t04s 8d ;Mutton, 3s 64 to 4E, 10d; Mutton, 3s td to Od ; Veal, 4s Od to 4s 104 ; Pork, Ss 44 to 4s 44 per Sibs, to sink the offals. Veal, 3s 84 to 4s 8d ; Pork, 3s 6d to 41 4d per Blbs. Quarter old Store Pigs, 20s to 25s each. lONEVB°:M—FILRODf: Miroamrch3s HAY MARKETS. SMlTfirlELD.—Meadow hay, 21 14s to 4/ 15s Ocl ; clover ditto, 3/ Oa to 5/ 15s ; and straw, V Ss to 1/ 8 3 per load. A full average supply and a sluggish demand, CUMBERLAND. Meadow hay, 2/ 16s to 4/ ss' c l over ditto, 3/ Os to 5/ 12s ; and straw, 1/ 43 to It 9s per load. Trade steady. WIIITECHAPRL.—Meadow hay,.2/ Iss to 4/ 14s; clover ditto, 3/ Os to 5/ 17s; and straw, 11 3s to 1/ lOs per load. A dull trade. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) Arrived— e - LONDON, March S.—Wind and weather this day at noon, N.E.; malerate breeze, and fine weather. PLYMOUTH, March 7.—Wind, S.E. Arrived—Brant, from Batavia ; Odessa, Demerara. Off Port—Matilda C bo e aTs ' Wattenbach, from Calcutta. FALMOUTH, • March 7.—Wind, S.E. from Rio Janeiro, for Hamburg h, with loss decks swept, and one man washed overboard, having been struck by a heavy sea; ROW3IIaI3, Aux el —ayes; Duchess of Leinster, Jacmel. MILFORD, March 7.—Wind, S.E. Arrived—Mysore, from Newport, for Constantinople, with decks swept, ono 1 man washed overboard, and three disabled. TORBAY, March 7.—Wind, E.S.E. Arrived—Lebanon ' from Ilarbor Grace, with damage from stress of weather. SWANSBA, March 6.—Wind, N.W.• Sailed—Anna, for 1 Balaklava. GUBRNSEY, March G.—Wind, N. for Havannah. YARMOUTIL—SailedAriel, for Melbour LETIH, March Sailed—Tyrer,7.— Sailed,-Adelaide, ne. .A.ri ived —Bucephalus, from Callao. for Valparaiso : Lane, St. John's, N.B. Qu!!.ENsTowN, March 6.—Wind, S.S.E. Arrived — Alfred, fro: a the Mauritius ; Elgin, Honduras; Warrior, Newport, for St..Thomas', leaky. WATERFORD, March 6.—Wind, W.N.W. Arrived— Hermine M. Elizabeth, from Batavia. DUBLIN, March 7.—The Eleanor, of Workington, struck on the Mesh Bank this morning, an d foundered crew picked up by the Ocean (9.). The Wellington, of Whitehp.vcli, has foundered , after striking ; crew saved. COPENHAGEN, March 1. — The Mathilda, Comelia, and Aurora, with wheat—the Fano° and Mnrg,arelha, with . barley—all for Leith ; the Irene and Maria, with wheat, for London—are lying at Rorvieg, on mount of the ice. 5 10 bt. St. 5 89 11i I 3 2i 9 , 21ip 49 42 Pro 22 par lid 8i Pia 4 - 7 3i - - 181 BANICS ~ -- ... I._. .d i — d •• • • 24 - 21 21. 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And, it common fame say true, there lack not among its mem bers some who are by no means indisposed to lend their assistance towards furnishing such a pretext. It., there fore, behoves the members who are honestly anxious to push on the inquiry till some practically useful result is obtained, to be wary in their proceedings. • The people of England have demanded the inquiry, not for the purposesof exposing the folly orCulpability of individuals, and inflicting an unprofitable vengeance upon them, but for the pUrpose of ascertaining the causes of the suffering to which our • soldiers have been sub jected, with a view to devise means for averting the re elm-mice of similar calamities. Perhops it was scarcely necessary to this end to waste ,three whole days in try ing to establish the fact that the troops have suffered very much, and suffered mainly from defective arrange meats. So much has been admitted even by that favou rite of fortune (or of the Horse Guards), General Bentinck, who yesterday endeavoured to paint everything en beam, and at last contrived to wriggle for the time out of the embarrassing cross-examination of Mr. Layard on the courtly plea that he wished to attend the Queen's levee. Geoerel Bentinek admitted that typhus and fever prevailed among his men ; mud they were too weak to carry their own, knapsacks ; that only half the number of medical- officers were attached to his brigade that ought t have i been ; that the troops were not properly supplied' with medicines ; that he lest the Crimea before the bad weather set in, but . that even by that time the clothing of the men was worn out, and no fr;sh supplies had . been received ; that the winter clothing for the soldieti" was it; Constantinople .by the end of August, but did not reach Balaklava till December ; and so forth. The accounts of the suffer ings of the troops, ao.l of the inaffequate provisions made for their sustenance, comfort, and health, given by Mr. Dundas, General Evans, Captain Wriotesley, and others, are still stronger. It is established—indeed, it has never been denied—that our troops have been sub jected to great and unnecessary suffering, and that the system, more than any individual's, is . to blame; For this the history of the Peninsular campaigns ought to have prepared us. During the last two or three years Wel lington took the control of the entire commisasriat and conveyance arrangements into his own heeds. This could only be because be found the homeadministeation ineom petent to the charge, although the country had then been twenty years at war. There NA as no inconvenient Parliament in those days, and yet the administrative Go vernment was as inefficient as now. Forty years have made no change in its inefficiency. It is the 83 stem that is to blame, and if Mr.. Roebuck's committee really de sires to make itself of any use—the only way in which it can conciliate that popular support which is required to uphold it against the and inachinatious of men in office and their tools—it will,' without further loss of time, set to work in a business-like manner to trace the ,evils in the Crimea to the fauntainhead in the home ad sainistration. The valuable practical speech delivered Ly Sir Joseph Paxton, on Monday last, in the Committee on the Ord nance Estimates, may indicate to the committee the manner in which they ought to go to work. Mr. Mon sell had claimed great credit fur Government, on account of the energy with which they have set about the con struction of the camp at Aldershot. Sir Joseph, by a simple business estithate of the time and labour that will be required to complete the works, and of the time al lowed in the Government tenders, demonstrated that Government really does not understand the business it has taken in hand, and is consequently incompetent to execute it. Now, with regard to the Crimea, it is clear that the troops have been decimated by disease ; it is clear that food, medicine, clothing, shelter from the weather, were not supplied to - them, and hence the dis ease. Government will, of course, make an ostentatious parade of the items of food, medicine, clothing, comforts, and huts, which they have collected and transmitted to the East. But let each of their spacious vague state ments be examined in detail after the Paxton fashion. Let the committee begin, for example, with the huts, and inquire when they were ordered ?—when they were shipped is to whom were the manifests of the ships in which they were embarked transmitted with orders to receive and forward them ?—who was charged with the land transport and the erection of the huts ?—and so on. Let a similar course of inquiry be instituted with regard to the winter clothing of the troops, the medical stoles, the proviiions, the "green coffee" and other "comforts." Let the time when each article was ordered be ascer tained, sad what care was taken to insure its timely arrival at its proper destination. • Let the pro,4-ress of each article be traced from the warehouses of the con tractors to its ultimate destination—or to Varna or the bottom of the Black Sea, let-wherever it was last heard of. If a close, searching, well-directed, minute inquiry of this kind is instituted with regard to every article for which the country has paid, and for want of which our soldiers have perished, a ease of gross ignorance, care lessness, or jobbing, will be established against every de ea, tment of the home administration, for which the coun try, after all that has been .said on the subject, is not pre pared. If the committee honestly take up this line, they cannot fail to prove the deficiencies of the home depart ments—where the real source of all the evils complained of isto be sought--and to indicate measures for their anaer.d mint. If they institute such an inquiry as is her.; re corninended, confine themselves strictly to it, and follow it up from day to day,' they will, on the one hand, escape all danger of exciting the susceptibilities of our Allies—the buggaboo with which Government seeks to scare them from inquiry—and will enlist all the business feeling of the country on their side. They will thus strengthen themselves for promoting useful and neces sary reforms of our administrative system in a tempe rate spirit, and with perfect safety. If they do not honestly and steadily follow out this course, they will furnish a pretext for their own dissolution ; will help. to conceal, not to expose, abuses ; and will leave the people no alternative but to seek for redress by more rough and more dangerous means. - -** his evidence that a thousand men could have made a road in ten Jals L and that the army was destroyed for the want •if it ; but no member of this sapient committee thought g•roper to a.sk_whoe duty it was to make the road, c: ti) see that it was made. These are thelnatters of fact -w!eicli sliculd.'engaii * their attention, and these' are the la pses which it will be, the duty of the for meetings of the towns to consider and acid with. The Tines has now at last found what were the real and °Alicia' causes Of the destruction of our army, every one of which we denounced at the proper time, and every one of which .was bol.tered up by eur'contempo rary as trifling or of no importance. In vain we pointed out, in Al, nil and May last, that a body of infantry lauded on a bare sea coast, - withont artillery, with very little cavalry, without a commissariat, baggage train, medical ambulance. or cattle for the conveyance of any of these, even if theypossesseJ them—however it might be considered fit for garrison duty ; could never be viewed as. or act in the character of au army. All remon strance against these things was calic4l in those da , :s " croaking," but bitterly ha,vii mit unfortunate soldiers paid for our advice being under-rated. Our contemporary new t 3,!ki a great deal of nonsense about the misfortunes of the army being occasioned. the want of a scientific staff, but although we yield to none in the wish for the proper training of cur staff officers, we must insitt that it was want of common sense, if not deliberate error, which occasioned all our misfortunes. What scientific knowledge was' necessary to order 30,000 or 40,000 pairs - Of boots and a sufficiency of warm clothing to be shipped from England at tho, end of Angust or beginning of Septembei, when the expedi tion to the Crimea was determined on ? Surely common sense might have told even the Duke of NewcasVe that wherever the army, wintered these things would be wanted. Common sense might have told the Govern ment at home that reinforceoients would be required if the war was to be carried on, and that an army of re- _serve should be stationed in the Meliterranean ; and yet the Coalition sent no reinforcements till Novemb,r, and then sent the unfortunate men to perish in their summer clothing, while Lord Palmerston, fur fear the supplies of troops, which 'were evidently necessary, should bo at the disposal of Government, - obAinately and peremptorily reflised to embody the militia. These are a fe-v of the things which Mr. Roebucl: ; s comraittee ehould investigate, and these are the matters which the forthcoming meetings must insist shall be probed to the very bottom. TilE ART-UNION OF GLASGOW: • . . . Yesterday afternoon we availed ourselves Of the polite invitation of Mr. Eidson t) inspect, at. 121, Pall-in.:II, the prize paintings to be distributed amongst the meth ben of the Art-Union of G`asgow, in July next. They, consist, at present, of one hundred and eleven pictures, the maj rity of which are pßintecl in oil colours, and some of them are perfect gems of art. As most of the pic tures have been publicly exhibited we are net called upon. to ontor int) the merits or demerits of them, and we shall here only refer to a few of the most strik ing amongst them. 'First and foremost then the eye of the visitor is attracted by a wanting by Sant, entitled " Watchirg the Combat ;" iteon , ists of the ce Saxon maidens watching from an aperture in tie rocks the struggle going on between their countryn,i and the Danish invader... The picture, although in an unfinished state, is an exceedi sgly beaut ful ore,- thou t h there are portions to which we object. We have no doubt but that an opportunity will occur to enable us to pronounce judgment on it in a finished state. " Musi dore," by Frost, is one of•his most exquisite productions; and •` &inset," by Branwhite, is another firit painting. The rays of the declining sun passing through the clump of trees to the left seem actually to warm you as you gaze upon them. "An Irish Cabin Door," by Dean, is a perfect, picture. "Mending Tapestry," by D. Pasinore, remarkable for the filling up of the back ground, Lilt it will be greatly improved when the extreme whiteness of the maiden's dress is mellowed down by time. " Flowers," by 111 is Meutrie, also deserves special commendation, and the frame only dispels the delusion that they are not reality. We were informed that the collection is still incom plete, as a number of pictures from Edinburgh are still expected. The exhibition will open to the public to morrow, and to those who visit it we drop the hint that the subscription list is still open. Like the Art-Union of London, the subscription is one guinea, which can be paid in the room ; or at the office of Mr. G.• Grant, 66, Gracechurch-street, DR. %AIM'S MUSEUM. Last evening we were`favoured with a private view of 1 this exhibition on its removal from Piccadilly to No. 4, Coventry-street. To the numerous preparations and models for which the iniveurn is celebrated others have been added, reflecting great credit on the 1 berality al d skill of the proprietor. Some of the models Pre highly artistic productions, and the entire exhibition is arrang(d in a satisfactory manner. Lectures will be delivered, we understand, as usual, by Dr. 'Sexton, whose ability as a lecturer is generally recognised. To the student of anatomy, of physiology and ethnology, to the me n \ hers of the malical profession and others, a visit to the museum cannot fail to be highly interesting and in structve. . . EL EOTION INTELLIGENCE. ATIILONE. DUBLIN, Wednesda;. 2 fhfsaa; . Mr. Keogh, who has accepted the office of Attorney-Gerersl for Ir.-.tland, was re-elected for Athlone. Mr. Keogh was proposed by the Catholic Bishop of Elphin. DIIDJ.,EY. (Prom the Morning Herald of this day.) We see that the active and stirring men of Newcastle• upon-Tyne;. who were the first of the townsmen o: England to see through the enormous fraud of the Coalition dealings ,between Turkey and Russia, are de termined not to slack their hand because the sign of the firm has been changed, and a new set of directors hay e put their names to the programme. The men of Newcastle are quite right—there is no change in the policy or the conduct of the war. The envoy of the new Palmerston Government—he who clung to Aberdeen to the very last moment that he could, consistently with not entirely losing his Whig following —has been sent to Vienna to conduct the negotiations for peace, with the aid of the very men who concoetA the Vienna note for the purpose of selling their ally to the Russians. Surely the same men will do the same thing again. What the Vienna Conference meets for we are at a loss to divine, unless it be to give fresh opportunities of " neglect argil delay," and again play over the tragic farce of postponing the preparations for war—waiting oppor tunity, as we pointed out a hundred times over, in the I vain hope that protoCols would wake cannon unnecessary. Even Lord J. Russell must be aware that neither he nor any one else will be permitted by the people of this country to make peace 23 long as one stone of Sehae topol rests upon another, or so long as the Ru 'Bien:ll,g waves upon the men-of-war now sheltered by its batteries. The supremacy of the world is now at stake upon the events which may take place in the Crimea within the next three months, for Russia, if she gives up her arsenal and " permanent menace" in the Black Sea, sinks back at once into a mere Asiatic power ; and if France and Eng land consent to her retaining possession of it in its pre sent condition of harbour and fortress they must prepare to fight over again the battle, probably separately, which they are now waging conjointly. Russia, let her rulers be whom they may, cannot make peace upon any terms that would sacrifice it, and were any English Minister base enough to allow of its continued existence the oldest men in Britain might ex pect to live long enough to see the scaffold once more erected on Tower-hill. We would point out to the meetings which we have no doubt will spring up at the summons of the men of Newcastle, that the great basis upon which they rested their hopes of punishment for the past, and remedy for the future, misconduct of the war and sacrifice of our armies, is in process of decay already, short as its exist ence has been.. Mr. Roebuck's committee is not succeeding. Lord Palmerston has taken his meas ures well, and as he could not kill it, he hal poisoned its constitution. He has adopted the plan which worked so well in Ireland during the prevalence of the murder-system and has placed Government " booteaters " am on g the jury, with the consent of their liberal, or weak chairman ; while the flippant shallowness of Mr. Layard, who should be in the witness-box, and not en the inquest, is overlaying the proceedings by long-winded examinations as to de tails, when he should be examining into facts and causes. Take as an example the state of the cavalry. It is conceded that the horses were starved. Surely the next questions would, or rather should be, why, and by whom ? Then it would come out that they were moved by a cer tain staff officer 7 miles from their forage, in spite of the remonstrances of the commissary, and kept there till they died at their picket-posts, with no food but 34 lb. of musky barley per diem, laid on the ground or mud before them, because there were no nose-bags. These facts might be easily brought out, and it ought to be the duty of the committee to ascertain by who they were done. But no ; the examining members and the Government papers—Globe and Morning Post—think it of more con sequence to ascertain if tbe horses -really did se eat o we n e e another's tails. Now , seeing that the hors r starved, we do not think this feet of any very great im portance ; but as it has been raised, we shall take the liberty of setting it at rest by quoting the letter of one of the best officers in the Light 'Mole, dated at the tune the remnant that was left were permitted to get down to Balaklava, if they could—Dec. 10 . : " This small portion (311 b. of oats), which did not gene rally reach us till after dark, was obliged to be put upon the mud before the poor brutes, and the half of it was generally to t. There they stayed till the horses eat the hair off each other's tails ; and when a horse dropped dead in the lines the other horses would eat the hair off each (.1 . the dead horse's sides. I have seem them do this fifty times." Perhaps, after this, the Morning Post will acknow ledge that horses may, as it facetiously calls it, turn carniverous. Surely the object of the committee should be to ascer• tain by whom these things were done. Take another example, Sir Do Lacy Ems says in The election for this borough, appointed by the re turning officer to take place yesterday, has been post poned till to-day (Thursday). The influence of Lord Ward, which is considered paramount, has prevailed, and all opposing candidates are understood to have with drawn. RAILWAY TRAFFIC RETURNS. GREAT NORTHERN RAIL NVAT.—Traffic return for the week ending Feb. 25,i,1855 £17,917 4 3 Corresponding week last year 18,762 5 3 CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD HAILNYAY.—Traffic return for the week ending March 4, 1855 £4,038 14 2 c.orresponding week last year - 3,880 2 6 Increata is 1355 LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAlLWAY.—Traffic re turn for the week ending March 4,1855 £17,928 7 6 Corresponding week last year 19,003 11 10 GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—Traftio re turn for the week ending March 3,'1855 £4,92 2. 9 10 Corresponding week last year 4,521 12 4 Increase in 1355 £lOO 17 TIIE PUBLIC ITEALTII AND NUISANCES ROIIOVAL BILLS.--Yesterday an influential and numerously at tended public meeting of manufacturers and others was held at the London Tavern, Bishepsgate-street, to cm cert such steps as might he deemed advisable to oppose the objectionable clauses of the Public Health Bill, 1855, and Nuisances Removal Bill, now before Parliament. THE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE COALWHIPPERS.—The committee, who received . subscriptions for the coalwhip pers of the port of London during the frost, request us, on the part of the men, to return thanks to the bankers, brewers, and others, so liberally contributed to alle viate the sufferings of nearly 6,000 persons. The sum of 7861. 15s. ad. was subscribed. This money was promptly distributed, under the direction of the oomintttee, in bread, meat, coals, &c.,. and is. each to 1,3 33 men. THE CHANNEL MAIL SERVICE.—The following steam packets io a carry 'the mails between Dover, Calais, and Ostend :—Empress (L'lmperatrice), 308 tons, 100-horse power, new vessel; Queen (La Reine), 308 tons,loo-horse power, new vessel; Ondine, 280 tons, 70-horse power ; Violet, 300 tons, 128-horse power ; Onyx, 300 tons, 121-horse power ; Dover, 260 tons, 108-horse. power. The two filet are new vessels, and have made the most rapid passages. The Empress brought Lord Clarendon from Boulogne to Dover on Sunday last in 1 hour and 41 minutes ; the Queen took the mail and 40 passengers to Calais on Monday night in 86 minutes, These two vessels run between Dover and Calais, making one pas sage to and froth daily. The Onyx and Violet run be tween Dover and Ostend alternate weeks. The Dover and Ostend mail service is performed only thrice a week by the English packets ; the Belgian Government steamers run the alternate days ; but an offer has been lately made to the Belgians t o absorb their portion ( . f the service into the English and French mail service under the Fame management, by which it is estimated the Belgians would save from 6,000/. to 8,0001. per an. num. The arrangements of the company provide that one steam-paoket shall be kept always ready at Calais, and one always ready at Dover, for immediate special service. VALUE OF GROUND IN THE CITY.—Some [land in Finch-lane, opposite the Australasian Bank, recently let on a building lease by the Merchant Taylors Company, produced about 151. a foot as ground-rent, the depth being about 70 feet. The new buildings on the south, side of Cornhill, recently erected by Messrs. Savory and the County Fire-office, are subject to a ground-rent of 1,2001. per annum. The frontage is about 54 feet, and the depth about 80 feet, and, calculating as in former cases, the cost,per acre amounts to 4 7 0 , 0001 . Agaile— the block of buildings called " Royal Exchange-build ings," occupying an area of from 4,000 to 5,000 feet, produces a grass rental of 10,0001. a year. Travelling westward to New Cannon-street, a piece of land oppo site d arpebr about tdut produces c e f4e, t st r 015 a, obnsoogfultei. about a t adjoining a r 4.Bo63u p fgioe t kp, i eol t rhrdb6fieraorelaii ,d superficial, which,:aactheen o S btr. ospee t tn . 3.el street P et eTtl a otyheo u t :eel ground a s arrdr , tosrp,rue c ans o pitend n hungc t errth a alcol i -thilL r u i aa i laontl ng 11, k to he n however,o belongingrt he t v t o e corner tmustr rd issaoyuoudr,-rNevuht of 1 ichl7. o p o o o r l. t says has been recently let at a a par annum. The superficial area of this piece is about 1,600 feet, and calculating the grouad-rent at 30 years' purcha,se,ewe find its value i s at the rate of 840,0001. p er acre ! Much has been written about the value of the triangular plot of land between New Cannon-street and St. Paul's. The area of this plot is 6,270 feet, and we understand a p ositive offer has been made to take it at a ground-rent of 2,000/. a-year,- whieh produce, at 30 years' purchase , the sum named e (60,0001.) lasing at .the late of 420,000/. an ace.. lv n eed scarcely give any addi tional exam p les to the prove enor mous value to which la nd in the city of Lond 1 en las arrived.--T4 o -Maack". • .. —__...--,Frpr ' i._:. ,-.._::, rlv-k:•\, THE NEGOTIATIONS AT VILCAW...L ---, -,---.r•:. , :: : - ..,w , x t er-A V 6 ' A letter from Vienna of the 3d, in the Cy(i)i.4t104..i.-"WAI tionnel, says:— ' ~. _. ZA:# :,- : "b_....„,_ " - Baron de 'Bourqnoney, it is known, receive nearly a week back :his . full powers for ti - C..von-,rAe:e...........„.., ferences about to open. The Emperor Napoleon: .. ! has not adjoined to him' any other plenipotentiary. Austria and Great Britain had, however, expressed the desire to have one named, if only as a matter of form, inasmuch as the other great powers were to be represented in the Congress each by two preni- : j1:- . - potentiaries. But as soon as it was understood . - how flattering such an exception was for Baron de Bourqueney, and that it was made by the express order of his Sovereign, every one hastened toap- et plaud it. The instructions-which accompany the powers sent to _Baron de Bourqueney are t it is stated from Paris, preciselyllie same as those of Lord John Russell. The Cabinets of France and England have desired to prove thereby once more their perfect understandinzin O - TeryThing that con cerns the arrangements for peace, not only as re gards principles, but also as to questions of detail. These instructions are, it is said, very simple.' - T- 4 . They leave to the conscientious appreciation of the French and English plenipotentiaries to ascertain and decide whether or not Russia is animated with the sincere desire to effect an honourable ancr solid peace. It is not - necessary to state that the protocol of the 28th December last, setting forth the interpretation of the four guarantees,' is to . serve as a touchstone for ascertaining the sincerity of the pacific protestations of Russia. If the plenipotentiaries of the Western. Powers acquire the conviction that Raissiait diplo macy desires to elude .the guarantees exacted by the allies of 24 December, they are to cut short an idle discussion and declare the negotiations closed. It was this second alternative which before the death of the Emperor Nicholas appeao:ed the most probable, to which Lord. Palmerston rocently alluded, when he said in the House of Commons that the absence of Lerd. John Russell would not. be of long duration. The Cabinet of Berlin having neither adhered to the treaty of 21 December, nor even accepted the protocol of 28th December, as proposed by the Cabinet of the Tuileries, to pre pare the way for its entrance into the Congress, the instructions of the English and French Plenipoben tiaries set forth that `the conferences shall open apart from and without the 'co-operation of Prus sia,' France and England being firmly resolved not t accord to that Power any participation in the reg,tilations of peace, ' until it shall have placed itself, with respect to the four guarantees, on the same hue as time parties to the treaty of alliance of the 21 December.' This declaration was, it is said, made to General Wedell, by order of the Emperor of the French, in such peremptory terms, that the general deemed it indispensable to go to Berlin to inform King Frederick William of the : veritable state of things." ~a~ .g.: l .0 - let, DEATH OF TEE NIGnOLAS. ( From the Assemblee Nationale.) The sensation produced by the death of the Em peror Nicholas has been immense. In stating this fact we wish to explain the meaning of it. Must we admit this impression 'which has been so gene ral and so deep to be a kind of barbarous joy at witnessing the fall of a formidable enemy ? Such an interpretation would be insulting to the country. France has more generosity in her character ; she has been frequently engaged in struggles against formidable adversaries, and she has never been seen animated by sentiments which would be so little worthy of her character. In combating her enemies she has always known how to render them justice, and her energy has never less ened her sense of equity. There is not, therefore, in the deep sensa tion produced by the death of the Emperor Nicholas any explosion of hateful passion ; it is explained by a very different feeling—a sincere desire for peace. When the Emperor Nicholas was seen to disappear so suddenly from the political stage, it was thought that with him would tall the principal obstacle to a general pacification, so much did he appear to be the . only cause of the great conflict which now disturbs Europe. The hope of peace has been suddenly awakened with extraordinary vivacity, as might have been seen by what occured at the Bourse on the day when this great news took Paris by surprise,. On this occasion, the Bourse has been really the mirror of public opinion, and there is nothing asto nishing in it. Formerly that building was a theatre' reserved to a small number of speculators, andto some high financial powers; now it is open to every one. France is no longer only a landed proprietor; she is a holder of public stock. Every one finds himself interested in the public funds, and their movements at certain hours are the faithful indications of pub lic opinion. By the great and sudden rise of Satur day last, a unanimous feeling was manifesteft , ..► namely, the desire arid the hope of peace.,- This s entiment was everywhere visible. : The eent . of • the 2d March, the death of the Emperor • Nicholas,,has brought to light what was in men's minds.; • ' w Statesmen, political parties, manufacturers, trs,.des• men, fuudholders, workmen—all wi:kh the Emma frankness, raised a cry of -hope and desir.3 fc,r „T m ace. How far will that unanimous expectatio tt 7 bt- satis fied or deceived ? But if some obstacles:' Air) peace seem to disappear, do not others arise , in their -- place ? Under what conditions will • the new Emperor, Alexander the Second, fie& himself placed as much towards his own people as towards Europe.? Can or will the Powers engaget.'l in this great conflict with Russia relax anything, in , the. rigour of their original conditions ? We do not pre, i tend by conjectures to anticipate the knowlage of ' •' • facts ; we only wish at present to point out pre- cisely the true meaning and the moral part of the c . , deep emotion which has been caused throughout Europe by the death of the Emperor Nicholas, an event which at the same time terminates one phase of the Eastern question an d commences another. - • (From the Union.) The reign which 'has just commenced , modiftes without transforming, .softells without completely removing, the situation of Russia towards Europe.. It allows us to see chanties of pacification which. did"- not before exist, but it would be a strangeillu.siOn to believe in great facilities for peace in presence of the serious obstacles which exist, as, for instance, the question of Sebastopol. Europe knows ,it -as well as we do, and it is for that reattou, that the journals which are supposer.l.-tr.. best express the ideas of the gnat Cabiuels :lire far from sharing in the hopes at first conceived in the less I official world of speculation. As to the feelings of i the German poweis we shall no tspak of them. Their policy, which before was not 'very clear, does not appear to be now much plainer in consequence of the death of the Emperor Nicholls.. However this may be, they are about to have an ppportunity of expressing their views in the conferences of . Vienna. Until then we shall not prejudge the question, but shall wait patiently, without giving way to conjectures, which may be only so many acts of rashness. PLYMOUTH, March 7.—Tbe Conqueror; new screw steam-ship, of 100 guns, and 800 horsepo wer, is ,to launched at this port the first sp rin g tiies 11:L3/ay. ANOTHER STEAM-BOAT COLLISION AT' BRISTOIi.— BRISTOL (FILL), March G.— A collision took place in. former, from Hayle, arrived this morning?, and, owing Kingroari to-day with the Quee n and steamers.; ,The V) a de&ie fog, was brought to anchor there ; the latteri - coining from Newport (and which should also have, bees . detained), ran into the . Queen, striking her amidships, and nearly cut her down to the water's edge ; the also sustained extensive damag e, but above water.. Th e passengers describe the shoc as terrific, though no material accident occurred to any one beyond. theirighte Both steamers have proceeded to the basin. No vessel t a o bl t e he to fog b . e taken from the basin, or steamer o owing THE RUMOUR OF AN APPROACHING- Dr.stiourriON.--.- -In consequence of the mysterious rumen:v.ln, circula tion at the Clubs and elsewhere, implying hat the Go• vernment were greatly erabairassed by Mr.. Roebuck's committee of inquiry, and contemplated dissolution, several of the supporters of Lord Palmersto n h o i s t e d ,tawaidthtahlaltbut Mr. Hayter, his official in.: seriously on some inform ation as to the facts. &Tamer to these inqui rie s, ea e r, h u y nde a rs s cretaurtothe Treasury, we thority, protested, first, that the Government entertain no apprehensions as to the disclosures of witnesses be.. fore the committee of inquiry ; and, secendly, that the Emperor of the French has iradi no rep" resentatiow in regard to that committee. With respect to the continued vacancies in aoveral of the subordinate appoiatinent the assurance is conveyed that there is no diffiouttyOU the part of the Government in filling them up, an4 , ;t4lat the, delay has arisen from the desire of Lord-Paln ViennieritOna to await the return of Lord John Russell f roth before completing these rirrangentents.--Norning 4c l r• vertiller. . , -1 , 1 an OF Gsumit'loa DEATH OF LIEUTENANT J,OIINFO lieutenant of 1802, ilosmaL.—This gallant vetar_a_ni ears 4 commissioned is dead,' .having been only . 43 1 7, coin y manded the Thresher, officer, during which Lai:le the pvace, and was en gaged gun brig, from 1807 till et o f services in the Channel gag during that time on a vale y : in 1809 when h and North Sea, parton y e -engaged , a division o f the Boulog ne flotilla nearly 40 iti numberi for seven hours, sinking three, driving six of the number on shore and seventeen into Boulogne. lie was also inthe Wateli eren e xpedition. This officer's servieee,.and:ths neglect with which he has been treated, afford a remark able contrast to the late promotions of the Clads and , Blumfields and Co., and say very little for thiParginnent in favour of artily promotion being acsimilated , O. o*in the navy. If Lieutenant Dornford had been in the a rmy, instead of the navy, he would have been a gendral offiecr, despite the "purchase system." e l ind'i"ertais naval officers who have served in•the Baltic and Black Seas during the last 12 months bad.been in die arnay (some in command), they alen would have been promoted notwithstanding the " p u rchase system." The death of Lieutenant Dornford gives a resident officer's appei t et... 4, meat to Admiralty pa tronage: 1, - `1 8 8h 1081 3i 58i 8 fi i