The Sun. — London, England, 1855-09-17 00:00:00

qlti3 4 ; '()W° • 57 8 , oa 32, 6 ;5 ° 609 34 1 10 'N y - PK ET IL. AND 001 YINIERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLootc. eh he Live r p oo l C o tt on M ar k e t on Saturday closed t av ilY, and prices of all descriptions were mil. an ged. The Pacific's advices arrived after busi e;sB hours. Th e sa l es we re 7,000 bales, 1,000 for P e rt) but none on speculation. In addition to 4 11/eri can (of which about 4 , 000 bales were sold ) , th e 61 4 e ales comprised 160 Pernam and Maranham, t a ct t ° 7td. ; 50 Bahia, 6d. ; 100 Egyptian, 61d. ; kt : ,500 Surat, 4td. to sid. per lb. The trans lis°lla in Railway Shares were considerab le, at a rl 'gii h t declin e i n p r i ces . e New York accounts state that the grain -4ri c ets at the latest dates were heavy and flour "4 ofti, cheaper. According to the last weekly return to 48 City Banks there was a falling off in the dis hilTrißte, o f 167,634, but the specie was diminished ti titi 4s . The arrivals of specie from California, A -ll g the week, had amounted to about $200,000. 1 ,„ -c eennts from the Baltic state that Russia is 115 -uat ing beweeu Denmark and the United States the Sound Duties question, and that she had h ell assurances to the Goveinment at Copen - Z e ll that under no circumstances would the h il eri can Cabinet take any offensive proceedings t ikl e the Eastern War lasts. If a satisfactory per pt; out arrangement cannot be effected, a pro- Lsal arrangement will be entered into. d o e Saxon Government is using great efforts to )1 7s. the h an dl oom weavers from their pursuits, ti kv ell are so little remunerative at the present t k i ar id foster pauperism and discontent. Advan has been taken in this respect of the expe kik' gained in Belgium, and it is hoped th at in k i t the weavers will have been taught ot her T ia ° da of earning a livelihood. The import tariff upon various articles of con liPtion is about to be lowered in Holland. p a t er be said at present that there is any ease in the money market, and the dis tothtCht hankers allow at the rate of 3-1 per cent. for ti t :) . at three days. To Paris, the gold exporta )as a speculation, is no longer profitable, but cl kl ' re mittances for our army and for grain pur kicl e in the East are likely to c ontinue. e r these circumstances some anxiety is felt Ikketehing the future course of the Bank of Eng i' t 0 which, in some measure, the Bank of k i i ce is expected to respond, since fur the flour k its, recently in the London market there s i 4 4 ,", ° 0 a balance due to us from Paris. The E 4 4i 'iber of English at the Exhibition partly neu tikaze this, as in the aggregate their expenditure 1( t te t be considerable, but the English exhibitors Mmeusing liberal orders from French and foreign Tries. e English Funds continue depressed, and there ik ti e gain been a full supply of money stock ; con tll,4a , en tly prices are about I lower. T o- m orrow lti stalment on the Omnium is due, and this has k re ef fect, a lth oug h we may assume that part is to : c c I lY paid in advance. Consols have been 90 i t, i zt for transfer, and 90i to 12 for account. 4 0 'quer Bills are is. to 55., and East India T here is 2os. premium. India Stock is at 230. 11 rather more firmness in Turkish Bonds, lil t per Cents. having ranged from 91 to 91i, and ik2 e lv• Scrip from to - 1 2 -- premium. French Scrip fl premium, which is a slight advance. Spanish 19; e are at fuller quotations, the Threes bein g it l b lialid the Passive 5 and Peruvian Bonds c : . e avY at 77 to 78. The other securities are 19 0 a 1 ) and Mexican are called only 21a owin g 4 of the unsettled state of the republic. it following are the nominal prices of foreign l e V e : :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 18 to 20 ; 21i- to 21i ; Peruvian, 77 to 79 ; ditto ee , Per Cents., 57 to 59 ; Portuguese Four per et) 43 to 45 ; Russian Five per Cents., 98 to 4ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents. , 89 to 91 ; 11 ish N ew Deferred, 19 to 20 ; ditto Three fit Cents., 38,1 to 39 ; ditto Certificates, 4 to 41 ; I l assive, 4i to 43. i h ile railway meetings announced are the follow kikt., Company. Date. Place. Ap,i 'teen .lit4 lll les Nu a ti E aster n Janction t er Sept. 25, Glasgow. . and Holyhead Sept. 20 . Sr Counties Il hl l lrgh and Glasgow Sept. 18, Glasgow. i4) 4 .`4)uth Eastern Sept. 26, Dublin. I)tiptd^es and Newton Sept. 19, Llanidloes. d °Merry and Euniskilen Sept. 26, Coleman-st. 1 / 4 tt Ceti t lI t it ?t t 11 1 1 Central b ' aci bil e idland Jun ction Durham tl,l k i , Railway Share Market has been lower in k ee t to nearly every English line, and there is 14 n disposition to sell than buy, although real 41 ' lll are not pressing much upon the market. k i er3 nia,n, Great Northern, Great Western, Mid cp. and North Western have been principally It in. The Foreign Shares are generally cheaper, It td ttd irig Sambre and Meuse, Antwerp and Rot aba, and the French companies. The Mining Shares are heavy, Joint-stock Banks t it ll t the same, and the Land Shares about the 4411 15E1 FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CL( ' " (Prom the Ogoiost t ot Buqiness duo N h . l. C ent.duced Annuitiag Nil, eent. Consols Annuities . 91 I N I : , stock t), l , 4 Honda, £lOOO 20 ' "i Zor A ccoun t, 12th October 9OA. le bequer. Bills, 2# d. 2d. 1 4000 . .4:5 00 k t e1 %1931 l7 I 7 1 '" - Auer Bonds 1853, 3i per Cent.... 100} Ditto 1359, PP ... 1001 V ICEP th , OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK „ 6.;;'). an Bonds, 4L Cant . ..... 77 , 41 )1 ,-40 for the Aelonnt 7B li g sb Bowls, 3 per Cent — ,itto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. ,i, uito 'lA,.tpassive 5l 5 b.`th Bond s 6 per cent — Ditt o for the' account .. " 0 New S c rip, 4 per Cent. L Dividends on the above payable in London. b , 14. o, Routes, 3 per Cent. "W , Scrip 2nd Loan of 1855 .... - .... 21 C ~o ns o l s Ditto for tlio Act ouut HALP.P.AST T IW. f3N ~O$ - nr to,„ V i t"oN, Sept. 17.—Wind this day at noon, S.E. , ) with dull weather. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) A AN SIOJTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. 411.,, ved—City of Limerick (s.), from Dublin ; Betsy, lik i p"„`" ; Dove, Teignmouth ; Argyll (s.), Carentan ; Al- Ittle,-, e1 (8.), Havre ; William Bremshawe, Quebec ; Lapoule li,,'arolinda, Cherbourg. .t4ooe(l—Atalanta (s ), for Havre ; City of Limerick (s.), NrC °ll .; William and George, Sunderland; Alarm, New ; Alster (s.), Portsmouth; Comet, Madeira. LIVERPOOL, Monday Morning. A 11 14 S.E. N ., t toi h t t ved.—Otsconthe, Enoch Train, and Martin Luther, bo l a , Orleans • John Currier, Mobile ; Orient, New l a , Islander, P . ;ince Edward's Island; David Brown, 4 1 ,%7, 4 3',LA1ice Raymond, Cobija, ; Mary Ismay, Buenos W. H. Wharton, Galveston ; Sea Flower and 4 ‘o lt h - mlui Kira , : Mobile ; Express, Miramichi ; Janet Kid t44-41:41d John Howell, Quebc; Water Kelpie, San l:4" Y 1,4 13 -- ti baniel Webster, from Boston ; Tippoo Saib, Ak j'ah.cenix, Antigua ; 0 Dear, Honduras ; Alliance, QUEENSTOWN, Sept• 14. t h ld, qa a :tved.—Cbarlotte, from Mauritius ; Kurrany, Pa Off . liMi — Pden, from Honduras. e lk—Arab, for Hamburg. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY•) 1 (BY BIIBMA3INE AND Burrlsn TELrGRAPI3.) IVi,, GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.35 a.m. -b- ; tide five hours' ebb; cloudy. , (1 -I vld, MlL—James Holmes, from Barbadoes ; Bri ?da; Laura, Demerara ; Cato, Nevis ; Palmyra, Srri; k i l ?di 17th.—Prince Albert, from Guernsey. lfith.—Koh-i-Noor, for the Cape of Good Hope 'Led, 17th. —Gl a di a t or , f o r Sydney. DEAL, Sept. 17, 10.24 a.m. it Iv . „P ?„( I _,N.E. ; light. Asr_ -4 " --- -9.rthur from Torre Vecchia, for Memel; Ne. i .,` 4 eri ) . -4 ", i ndon, for Port-Philip ; Lydia, Venice, for Lo.n laria y Julia, Cadiz, for London ; Glenbervie, fo r t a ' h °, for London • Jarrow (s.s. tpt. No. 2S), London, erirnea ; H.M.Str. Calcutta, Sheerness, for the , 1 _1' 0 2, (1 ; Virginia, Cuba, for Antwerp. "Ict ---° q tow.—Lady Octavia, from Bombay for I , oa* I , . 4 40 IA 5 2s , .1 sos THE StN i LONDON, MONDAY EVEN LNG, SEPTEMBER 17 1855 SHARE M ARKET S. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. Closing Priem Saturday. 25i 26 4 di ••• """ 7L- 8 14i - 14 14 - 1 5 9 8 87 - ell - 62 11 - 13 8 - 10 i -- ,i.' 6i - 7 121 - 131 -. •-• 71 -• 7 3 52 -- 54 91 - 17 - 19 ! ... _, /2 - 74 S 6 - s'7 70 - 72 1 , 3 --- 100 - 102 55i • 66,; 72 - 75 Gi - 76 61 - 771 - 78 6;1 95 91 14 + I.d id 1 83,1- 846 8 7 . 5i4 231 - 24 7r- 84 66i - 67 39 - 41 •N .p .. 12 - 10 li - 2} :ii - 6 26i 27i - - 7 - - 4q 47i 91 - 93 i - 6 i i 6 - 6i 24 - 26 t6i ---- 111 78 SO 41 4 3 2 13 58i 591 31 -- 32 5 3 2(1 pay 33 - 35 194 20, 3 - 4' 21 - 23 5 - 7 4 2d 9} - 91 1 1 - i- i i 1 - 1.11) :174 - 33 114 -121 23} - 23 - 2 7k : 7~, 16 3 / 4 17 64 6 6 93 95 51 6 3! 5 $ par - iP par iP 31 - 4 , 21 - OA 24 - 24 100 - 102 114 - 116 115 - 117 107 108 231. - 24 114 - 116 •N - •• dls .7i— S; 19 . 2 1 1 0 7 9 2 - 3 5 - 5 1; - •• 36 121 12 9 47i - 48 p 47 - 49 50 - 52 2q, 27, 20 - 21 2k - li(t 8i - 1 - lr - pm 31 - 4 12 -13 pl ... --- ..• 18 -- 19 lIAILTuaP. a. I 11., 100 1 , 4 8i- a I .111 41) 41 I %9? ni l all vt! all 1100 .0 (31s. 50 al_ ";0 rJI 20 all 20 16 to I,i r. , 0 45 25 all 25 all St. 100 :0 zll Flt. 100 St. 100 1 25 8 St. 100 St. 100 10 all St. 1.00 10 9 50 all 20 all [OO St. 100 St. 1.00 St. 100 'lt. 1)1' 3t. 100 ? ,, t. 100 12 all all 1.4 • 161 7 St. 100 3 AI all all St. 100 St 100 20 .16 10 5 1.2)5 2?, Sit. 100 50 I. 4'4 25 all 25 all St. 100 2% all g2s Sts. St. WO Bt. WO 15 I all !F 23;', o K) all st. Ito° R. 100 . £ all L 6 all 8 All 8 all 100 !ri 20 15 13 50 all it. 100 .0 all 0 :V 1, 0 1 i7r 0 all .0 t. ► +u3 :0 1 , )0 it. ta) 3t. 100 10 al !O 115 ....... g. Nottng. Bost. 4and Eastn. Junct... !itelfast & T!allymen.. Binning. fltour Valley Birk .411 d. Lanai- Cheshire Junet Do. Chesh. & £5O and 225 COW. Do., k. 20 Myth li,Tynsorigina £25 (issd. at £.ll. Bristol and Exeter... Caledonian. ..„ Carmarthen and Car digan Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon,., Cork, Black, Zs Paws Cornwal l Wel' Junction Pin,)lin&BelfastJunc Dundee Perthdx.A.b,, kleen Junction Do. N ,, r East Eastern Counties astern Union, A Stock - ..... Do., B. Stoe Do., New A. East Lancashire . Edinburgh & Glasgo". Edinb. and Peeblos... Edin.Pr &purAt- , Forth & Clyde Ju- Furness Do. Extension.. Glasgow &S. Wester; Cireat Northern Do., A. Stock I Do., B. Stock t. Sth. &Weat. II re lreat Western • Stour Val. Ra Gua. Stk Irish South-Easter?`. Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds, f A ncasli.,mlYork ,-,, • Ix 4. Riding TJn. Liv:Crs &Southpt London tt Blackwal' Gond. Bright &S.Cst. Loud. and N. West, Do. Fifths Do.lo/.5h.,M&8.. , C Do. Eighths London andS. West), Do., £5O Do., £4O Lndndrry& Coleraine Lndndrry. & Enn.sll. Manch.Shef.& Lineln Do. 1. Shares, No. 1 Do., Man. & Lin. Un, Midland Do. Birmng. &Derby Midld. (3, West. (Ire, Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Nwpt.Aberg. &Tide" Newry &Enniskiller Newry Warrenpoint and ROBtreVOT Norfolk Northn.Connties tin North British North Devon, No. I Do., No. 2 A Deferred • B Guaxantoe.l N. Eastern—Berwiek Do. do. Extension Do.do. (I.N.E, Pure)) o. Leeds Do. York North London ~ Do. Now LlO N.&S.V7strn.,ll-arar.- :4) 25 4. 100 .0 9 15 21i stead, and City in North Staffordsliit ,, North Western K. & S. Westrn.Jutw Nuneaton, Hinckley and. Leicester.. 'Oxford, Worcestar,& Wolverhampton Portsmouth Sc,,..,idsh Central Scottish Midland Siiropsl tire Umen South Devon ........ . South Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. Riv. Du, Do Staines, Wok. &Wol , Stockton & Dar StoAton CAS lir.rtlepl Taff Vale Do. £lO Filarc2 . Do. Pref., No. Thames Haven Dock sncl Railway ... tTlverstone & Lanes all Vale of Neath all Wsterfl. & Kilkcauso all Waterford&Limer'i all West Cornwall. 5 West End of London and Crystal Palace all West London ...... all ,Wimbledn&Crey,l,,, xll Antwerp&Rott 'ram 4 Bolgirm Eastn. June. 10 Boziers to Graissegsa., „ - 41 Bombay., Bare da , a nd Central all Demerara 10 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France 10 Do. New ,111 East Indian, g. 5p c. 10 Do. Ey',ensior , . all Do. 41 p. c. Wis., pay '57, convertible all Po. do. do., '59, do ad. Tk of Canada.A is MI I Do. St. Lawrence _ Atlantic do. 70 To. Cert. of Deben , con. into Stk. till '62 all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. 10 Gt. Centralof Frau ,. all Gt. Indian Peninsula guar. 5 per cent. 1 Do. Nev 5 per cent 2 Po. Extensions.., all / Do. do 13 Great Luxembonr Constituted Shares all Do. Obligations I all Gt.Western of Canad 200' 100 20 20 16 20 ti. 100 100 100 20 Australis.... 5 Ditto Now... ~c~ ~~ic};v. Shares all Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55.. all Do. do., '62, p.'56... all Do. do., '76, p. '60... all Dc. do., '73, without option all Hamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 por cent. 14 Lake Const. & Basle all Lucca & Pistoj asp. c prof 10 Lyons and Geneva 14 Lyons & Mediterran all Madras 10 Do. New 11A Maria Antonia Do. do. Now all Namur & Liege /wit?, interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all D 0.201. Shs.late Char loroi and Erquelines guar. 3R p. c. & red. at 221. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854.... all Do 201. 3 p. c 13ds (fmy.B.4 Ams.Shs.' all NorwegianTrunkPre 16 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans.... all Paris and Rouen 15 parisCaen & Cherbrg. ail Rouen and Havre , all Royal Danish 3 Royal Swedish all Sambre and Mouse... all Do. 5i p. cont. Pref. 2s. Sciade .................. all Southern of Franoe.. 16 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) r. l _l West Flanders all Do 5A per c. Prof 18 Western of France 16 West. of Switzerland all Wiosbaden all Zealand all knstra Fritish Colonial Bank and Loan Company all N. American 5 Ihartd. Bank of Asia 4 Jhrtd. Br.k. of India, Australia, & China )l 30 City . 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lond all English Snottish and Australian Chart.... all Loud. Chart. Bk. of 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond. P, Wedminstel 35 National Provincial of England 10 Do. New 22,', National di Ireland all New South Wales all Oriental Bank of Corporation 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 Royal Australn.Bkg ,k Gold Imp Co all iontil Australia all union of Australia 2 Do. New 14 `Union 9t 1490 w„,, 66i 5i 6 46i i 9i i JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 93 6 - 4 70 d par die 54 -- 56 p 17 -17 i 20 -- 200 d 35 40 • •• •-• • .. 35 - 36 42 - 52 - 54 • .• .... •••• 39 3 / 4 40 71 73 8 - 9 cto BIUSIIISS6 dons Si;. this day. St, meemor.a••••••••saMMlMMS 25 St. 4 i ex d I st. 25 1 1 614 1 I S' 50 SC , I d 25 Patd. l Rinwats, Lcasir.4 losing Pricer Business CompanF Saturday. this day. ..mammo 50 all Bedford and London & Bletchley N. West. • St. 100 Buckghamsh. L.&N.W. 95 97 5t.1.00 ClydesdaleJc. Calodon 100 102 25 24 1 Col. Stour Vy. E. Un. Sud. and Hal. E. C ll 12 St. 100 E. Lin. g. 6 pc. Gt. Nrti 135 167 St. Glas. Barr. & Caldonian. Neils. Direct St. 100 Do. New Do — 25 all Glstr.da Dn. Fr Gt. West 27 29 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Vic. New. Railway & Berw. ••. 50 all Hull & Selby Y. &NM. 105 107 25 all Do. Shares. Do ..• 12 all Do. l Shares. Do • ••• 12 . !: all Lon.&Greenw . Easter l2i — l3 20 all Do.Preferenro ".4 10 all Lon., Til., &S. Pato &Co. 110 120 St. 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Norfolk ll9 122 St. LOO Do. 6 per ct. Do 5 all Manch. Bxtn. L.& N.W • and Matlock & Midld 2a —2i 50 all Stckton & Redear. ... . . Darlingt. ••• St. 100 Midld.Bradfd. Midland 9l :43 92 6i 5} Newmarket Bury Exton... En. Coun.P ra 50 all N.& Es t. 5 p.c. E. Coun t . 57 59 57i ,O all Do. 6 per ct. D 0... 5C all Do. Fixeds p? Do 25 all Brest. & Wyre L. &N.W SaanSalt 124 all Do. Shrs. ADo — ••• St. I'o Roystn.&Hit. GtNorthr. la) 131 25 !8$ Shef.Roth.and Lancash & Gooleg.s p.c. Yorksh. 10 all Shrews.&Her T.Bmssey 8i i 2 9A S. Staffordsb. M.MC lean -- 211 50 all - WearValleygr Stockt. & 6 per cent... Darlingt 25 all Do Do 3l 32 311 St. 100 tWiltsV,o-mrst iltWeetn 9O 92 70 i ...____. Elt. 123; St. ;ON 25 55i i 6 76j i j 24 93 6, 6 # 10 964 St. 92i 2 St. PREFERENCE SHARES. ICO Aberdeen 100 Do. N 0.2, 7 p. C. all BlythandTyno 10p ea c. pref. (issd. gt 50/ 100 Brio. & Ex. 4p. c. 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyheo. , ! Guar. 5A per cent all Do. do. Prof. No. 2 all Do. do. Prof. No. 2 all Cork ezßandens t ip.c all Dun.Prth Aher.i 2 E. Anglian Cls. ASh 100 Do. do. Cis. B6p. c 100 Do. do Cis. C7p. c all Eastern Counties Ex- St. 20 St. 15 msion, 5 p. c. No. 1 all Do. No. 2 . all Do. New 6 r . C. St all East Un., G. 6 p. c. all Do. 51., 10 Der cent. all o. 1. Debentr.Sh. all Do. do. 4 per cent 100 4.ast tancash. 6p. ets all til.&W. York. J. sths 100 4 Prth.&Dun.4p.c all FurneQs 10'1 qlap. &S. W. G. 5 P.C 100 great Northn. sp. C 100 o. sp. c. Redeem.; A ID 10-p. c. prom... 100 i)o. 4,i p. o 7 o. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red 10 St. 20 50 t5p.c.pm...• all (R.N. of Scot. Ist Pre 'lOO Ct. W. (Ireland) 9 i Do. 4per c. Pref. 6 Gt. Westn. (Becks I Haut: Ex. 5 p. c) 100 Do.con. red. 4i p.c 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c 100 ; Do. irred. 4p.c. all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh all Do. Chester Bp. c.P.S all Do. do. 5 p. c. do 100 ; Do. Binn. Qua. Stk all Do. Ches. Gua. Sh all Do. do. do all Do. do. do 6 Lan. &York. F. £2l 100 Do. 6 p. c. Stack 100 Lou.ScErigh. G.sp.r. 100 Do. Pref., sp, c. St. 100 Do. New Suar.6 p. c. ;100 Do. do. 5 per cent 100 Lon.BLN. W., Ccv. di • Nuneaton 5 p. et 5 Lon. &S. W. C0n.31, - All Lowly. & Color. Sh. Lowly: & Eunis.4 SI; a'l Shot, & Lin 10 8 25 to ..• 92 - 94 6 :: I& 3 - 4 5 - •.• - .•• g - - r 12t - 131 5; - 62 - 116 108 - 110 102 104 - 10 IP ... .... ... 6 - 61 95 - 97 80 - 85 66 - 88 91 - 101 16i - 17 10 10i 70 -72 19 -20 9 - 10 14 -15 id 136 138 a•• ..... ... •• • ".. 00, 12i - 13 i - iP 36 -13 S 97 - 99 41 - 9 - 1(0 92 - 91 3; - 4 i ici 101 - 106 14 id - par 23i - 24 100 - 102 16 = 18 2ir ... 3 _ ..id , 2 i - 6 - ••• • • - 4 - - a 6 3 / 4 - 7 6 4i - 5 6 23- 3 27 - 29 - #1) 6:3 - 67 33 3c, 25 - 27 18 - 20 ••• - ••• - it) 13 -15 I - A 21 - 3 7 - _ g - - ... - ... I - i 15 - 16 k - 21 - 23 6 - 8 3i - 4 3 - 31; 1= 1 toe '"'"' .. - • - Now, £lO.. 4A Do. Xt3 all Aarypt .34 Carl. 4 p all au. 4i per cent 10 Do 1.00 ;lid. Consol.6 p.e.St LOO Do. Consol. Bristol PArni. 6 per cont.. 100 'Do. 4 p. c. Pref. St 111 Do. Pref. 4 ,pc,r cen all Do. 5/. Pr: f. 4 p. c.. IWO Ditto Leicester and Hitellan Pref. St. all INorfolk Detenture 100 iDo.Praf. 4p. c. Stoc 00 'Do. 5 p.c. Fat 100 Do. 5 per et. pref I 'loo Via.v. Val. sp. c 100 North British 'lOO N. E. Berw, 4 p.c P 5 Do. do. do 13 Do Leeds° p.c 9 Da. do. Quarters 4' 1.0 Do. Yor k -11.4- s. PT; r. all North Staffordshire.. 100 Oxford, Worcester, a Wolverh.Xls, qp.r 7 Do R. Pref. 101. Sh. all Scot. Cent. ,New Pre all South Devon 1i Do. 0..xed,44 percent all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d, 'lOO IDo. 4. per cent all IS. Wales Gua. 4 p. c. all !Do, do. 4i p. c.... all 'S.YorlKsh.4p.c.Guar. all Stock. & Dar. ,5 p. c. 15 iDo. do. do„ all {Stock. to Hard. g. p. c. till July 1, 4 INV aterfd. &Kilk.6pc Agna Fria •• Anglo Austral.. Gold Anglo Californian Australian Australian Cordillera Ave Maria Baden (Gd. Duchy of) Blmnarvon Iron and Coal British Iron Brazilianlmp.(issued at &:,5 pm.) Do. Cocacs Et Cuiab Do. St. John Del Roy Carson's C;•epk Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica Cobro Copper Colonial Gold Copper lain. of Ear Do. Prof. 7i p. Copiapo. English and Austin Copper Smeltg Fortuna General Gt.Nugg etVeinßeg, Groat Polgooth . Liberty .......... (Linares.. Do. B Lusitanian Mariquita New Granada New Linares Min* and Smelting C 0.... Nouveau Monde Pontgibaud Save) Lead Min. & Smelt Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymney Iron Do. New Santiago de Cuba South A.ustzalian Tin Croft. ....... United Mexican Waller West Mariposa..,,.,, Wortliing Mining of Australia Yuba.. DIINES. THIS DAYS NEWS LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) BANKRUPTCY COURT. (Bofore Air. Commissioner Holroyd.) IN RE T. L. COMBS. This was a meeting for certificate. The bankrupt was described as of Lambeth-walk, baker. The balance-sheet commenced March 2, 1854, and ended May 26, 1855, and showed-debtor to creditors, 6141. 131. 4d. ; do. holding security. 1,0161. 6s. Bd. ; creditors to be paid in full, 191. Bs. id. ; liabilities, 61. Os. ; profits on trading, 1431. 2s. 7d. Creditor by cash banded to official assignee, 400/. ; cash at bankers, 41. se. 7d. ; good debts, 1/. 9a. ; property, 185/. 13s. 11d.; do. in hands of creditors, 3871. 14s. Bd. ; liabilities, 61. 9s. sd. ; losses, 131. 14s. 3d. ; trade charges, 4801. 9s. Bd. ; house and personal expenses, 1361. ss. sd. ; interest, 481. 16s. 2d. ; repairs, 791. 9s. 11d. ; law costs, 231. 2s. ; deficiency, 171. 2s. Mr. Chidley appeared for the bankrupt, who obtained his certificate. IN RE JOSEPH HA/OLDEN. This was a meeting for last examination. The bank rupt was described as of Webb-street, Southwark, and Three Oak-lane, Horsleydown, bricklayer and plasterer. The balance-sheet commenced June, 1854, and ended June, 1855, and showed debtor to creditor, 5781. 183. 11d. ; do., holding mortgages, 3391. 133. 6d. ; profits, 5741. 16s. Bd. ; surplus, 2441. 13s. 11d. ; cre ditor by good debts, 3781. lls. 2d. ; doubtful, 1231- 15s. lid. ; property given up, 481. ; excepted articles' 203. ; property mortgaged, 4001; losses, 1641. 7s. 2d. ; trade expenses, 3531. Bs. 9d.; house and personal ex penses, 2501. Mr. Corner appeared for the bankrupt. The bankrupt passed without opposition. CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.) The September session of the above court was opened this morning by the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Right Hon. the Recorder, Alderman Farebrother, Hun ter, Sir R. W. Carden, and Kennedy, Sir H. Mug geridge and Sir C. D. Crosley, the Sheriffs, Messrs. Ferrer and A. Crosley, the under- Sheriffs, &c. It appears by the first edition of the calendar that there are at present 74 prisoners for trial. The Recorder, in his charge to the grand jury, said that although the number of prisoners entered in the calendar was not greater than usual, yet he regretted to say that these were a great many very serious cases to be disposed of, and that there were two charges of mur • der among them. There was also one most remarkable cage of commercial fraud, which had attracted a great deal of public attention. At the last session he had oc casion to call the attention of the then grand jury to an other case of a very extraordinary character, and of the same description, and at that time he observed that it appeared to be one of a series of frauds affecting, in a most important degree, the commercial character of the country- The present case was one of even a more serious kind. The parties accused were three persons named Straban, Paul, and Bates, who were the members of one of the oldest, if not the oldest, banking firms in the me tropolis, and who, up to the time of these transactions, filled a high position, and enjoyed the utmost credit, and carried on a most extensive and important banking business. The offence with which they were charged was that of having appropriated to their own use cer tain foreign securities that had been entrusted to them by Dr. Griffith, one of their customers, for security, to a very large amount, and upon which they appear to have raised very large sums of money. A special act of Par liament was passed to meet a case of this description, by which it was enacted that if any broker, agent, at torney, or other person, should misappropriate any chattel or valuable security intrusted to him for safe custody the offence was destined to amount to mis demeanour, and subjected the party committing it to a certain amount of punishment affixed by the act of Par liament. It appeared to him upon reading the deposi tions that, although possibly some question might ulti mately arise with regard to the share taken by each of the partners in the transaction, or whether they were all equally liable, the grand jury would do well not to trouble themselves with any of these matters ; but if it should be made out to their satisfaction that the securities were deposited with the defendants, and that they were afterwards supplied to their own purposes, they would be justified in at once finding the bill, and all the matters to which he had referred would then undergo full irquiry before the judge and a petty jury. He would also observe that it was within his knowledge that a suggestion had been made that the prisoners had, by a subsequent statement made by them before the ma gistrate, in which, in point of fact, they actually admitted the dishonesty of their conduct, escaped from the con sequences by this admission of their guilt ; and he thought it right to state that, although by one of the clauses of the act in question, it was declared that a person should not be liable for any acts of this descrip tion when, under any compulsory process, he made a full disclosure of his proceedings, he was not prepared to say that this applied to the present case, and the grand jury ought not to take the fact at all under their consideration. The learned Recorder concluded by stating that he should be very slow in coming to the conclusion that the law could be so perverted, and the evident intention of the statute so defeated, as it would certainly be if a statement of this description were to be held to have the effect of shielding persons guilty of such an offence f.-om punishment. The grand jury then retired. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS D.Y. MANSION-HOUSE. His lordship was occupied a considerable time this morning in disposing of charges of pocket-picking of the ordinary character, in each case committing the offenders to 21 days' imprisonment. GUILD HALL. VIOLENT ASSAULT. —J ohn Wrench, and William Stanner were charged before Alderman Farncombe with a violent assault upon John Clambert, Poppin's court, Fleet-street. The complainant stated he was at Blackfriars'-bridge yesterday afternoon, when the prisoners came np to him, and, without saying a word, commenced " bon neting." He remonstrated with them, when Stanner struck him a violent blow, which blackened his eye. He ran across the bridge, both the prisoners following and beating him. The two policemen who took the prisoners into cus tody, spoke of their violent conduct, and that they both struck and kicked the policemen, on their interfering to protect the complainant. They were both drunk. Wrench was committed for 14 days, and Stanner 7 days. BOW-STREET. Iple ROBBERY OF 1001.—This morning Frederick Ra Barrell, formerly clerk in the employ of Messrs. Wood head, of James-street, Adelphi, was placed at the bar in accordance with remand, charged with stealing one hundred pounds. It will be recollected that the prisoner was a few days ago brought up at this court charged with stealing the sum of one hundred pounds, the property of Messrs. Woodhead, navy agents, of James-street, Adelphi, and that he was a confidential clerk in their employ, and received a salr.ry to the amount of 1501. per annum. A few weeks ago, under the plea of illness, he absented himself from his employment, and during that absence, as it continued for a considerable time, the books kept by him were examined, when it was discovered that a cheque for 197/., the amount of which had been received by him, was entered as one of only 97/. Mr. E. W. Stanley, cashier to Messrs. Coutts, bankers in the Strand, stated that Messrs. Woodhead kept an account at their house. On the 27th of July a cheque for 1971. drawn by the firm was presented by the prisoner and paid to him. He received thirty Si. notes and the rest in cash fur the cheque. Henry Smith, a detective policeman, stated that he had traced the two notes produced to have been paid away by the prisoner. The notes in question formed a portion of those received by the prisoner at Coutts' bank in payment for the cheque. He believed on a future occasion he should be able to produoe further evidence if time wore allowed him. Mr. Mullins, who appeared for the prosecution, said that, owing to the absence of Mr. Young, one of the firm, he must ask for a remand till a future day. Mr. Lewis, on the part of the prisoner, bad no objec tion to the remand, but he did hope that his worship would indulge the prisoner by accepting bail, namely, two sureties of 1501. each for his future appearance. Mr. Henry stated that that was the first time he had ever heard the amount of bail to be accepted for a pri soner suggested by a solicitor. Mr. Lewis apologised for doing anything out of the usual course. His only object in mentioning the sum be bad done was to induce his worship to name a small amount. At the same time, if the bail he bad mentioned was ac t ceptiri he was prepared with it, and he proposed giving 24 hours' notice, in order that due inquiry should be made. The Magistrate refused the application. The case was one in which bail ought not to be accepted. ANOTHER GOLD WATCH FANCIER.—A young man who refused his address, was charged with stealing a gold watch, the property of Mr. Bettel. From the evidence of the prosecutor it appeared that on Saturday last he was in the pit of the Lyceum Theatre, and as soon as the performance had terminated he was pressing to leave the house. The prisoner was be fore him in the crowd, and having received a push from behind, he (witness) looked round to see the cause, and then he heard something snap, and shortly after wards perceived his watch-guard hanging loose and broken. He immediately collared the prisoner, and accused him of stealing the watch, but he (the prisoner) said he must be mistakes, as the watch was behind him. The prisoner then threw the watch over the witness's head, and it was eventually restored to the owner by a person who heard Mr. Bettel charge the prisoner with stealing it, and who saw the man throw it over the pro secutor's shoulder. The prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge. The Magistrate said that the utmost punishment the law allowed him to inflict by the late act was six months' imprisonment, but as the account the prisoner gave o himself, namely, that he had lived about the streets or seven years, he thought some inquiries ought to be made about him. He should therefore remand him until Friday, in order to let the police see him, as that punishment would not be sufficient if he was a known thief. NUMBER OF _RUSSIAN SHIPS DESTROYED AT SEBASTOPOL. It may not be uninteresting at the present moment to give a statement of the Russian fleet at Sebastopol previous to the invasion of the Crimea by the allies. It consisted of the following ships : SHIPS OP THE LINE. GUNS. Twelve Apostles l2O Paris Three Saints Grand Duke Constantine Tladimir Sviotoslaw Rostislaw B4 Selaphoel Three Hierarchies Tro• Sviatitalia Varna Gabriel B4 Empress Maria Tschesme B4 FRIGATES. Cagul Koulefgi Kavarna Medea CORVETTES AND BRIGS. 60 60 60 60 Calypso Pylade lB Ptolemy Theses" . . Eneas SMALLER VESSELS.—The Neareh, Sreilla, Orlanda, Drolik, Ziabiaka, Lastorga, Smaglaga, 11 transports, and 64 gun-boats. STEAMERS, 12-6 large and 6 small. Among the first are the Vladimir, Bessarabia, and Gronsnostetz, which were remarkable for their power and the range of their guns. In all, 108 sail, mounting 2,200 guns. The existence of this imposing fleet continually threatened Turkey. Created at an immense cost, it has been destroyed with out having achieved anything from the time of its build ing, but the disgraceful murder of 4,000 Turks at Sinope. Admiral Nachimoff, who commanded on that occasiou, is dead. Never did ships meet with a more ignominious end—sunk by their commanders, without the glory of a fight I—the admiral killed, with an unenviable reputa tion attached to his memory !—the craws shot down whilst working the guns of Sebastopol !—this is a terri ble blow for " Holy Russia I" We were told some time since that the vessels under water had been embalmed with pitch and tar, with a view of fishing them out again some day. If, therefore, it was considered by the enemy worth while to float them, the same rule applies to the allies, and we may yet see a Russian man•of war at Portsmouth. We shall find the guns in the defensive works of Sebastopol, so that, with the exception of a few pairs of spurs, which Russian naval officers are reported to wear, we might rig up a complete Muscovite craft," despite the sacrifices made to prevent us getting hold of a trophy. PARIS THEAT.RICALS. A new comedy, by MM. Paul Foucher and Regnier, is announced as ready for representation at the Francais. Tne succeeding novelty is to be a three-act comedy in prose from the pen of M. de Beauplan. Previous to appearing in the new comedy La Joconde, already spoken of, Mine. Piessy is to appear in Le Misanthrope and other characters of the ancient repertoire. The ThAtre-Italien is now occupied by hosts of workmen, restoring and decorating the interior anew for the opening on the let October. Among the en gagements made since our last is that of Mlle. de Roissi, formerly, we believe, of the Grand-Opera, who has since been singing with remarkable success in Italy. The opening opera is to be "Mose," the representation of which will doubtless be aaended by its renowned com poser. M. Calzado is still adding to the strength of his company, of which high expectations are formed. We hope to give the names complete next week. The Odeon opens for the season this evening with a new drama, by Mme. G. Sand. Arnal and Numa have returned to their posts at the Vari4t6s, where new pieces are in preparation for both these excellent comedians. At the Porte St. Martin "Paris " continues to at!ract nightly crowds. A new drama, by M. S6jour, " Cesar Borgia,'' is in rehearsal. The principal character by Mme. Guyon, but is likely to be retarded a considerable time by the attractions of the present 'piece. Another novelty, written by M. Premaray (of La Patric), stands in a similar category. Its title is "La Boulangere a des Ems." M. Arnault, director of the Hippodrome, has given notice that all wounded soldiers from the Crimea are to have gratuitous admission to that equestrian theatre every Wednesday. The battle pieces here we may re mark continue highly successful. M. Mario and Mme. Grisi are expected in Paris in the course of the ensuing week. Mme. Viardot is also immediately expected after a fatiguing but most prosper ous campaign, having sung the entire season at the Italian Opera in London, since at the Great Musical Festivals, and lastly in Dublin, where she bad the greatest success in Verdi's Opera of "II Trovatore." Mme. Ristori, who acted for the last time in the Italians in Paris on Saturday, was engaged to perform at Havre on Monday and Wednesday, where her performance was so enthusiastically received, that she was in a manner forced to give a third representation. Her characters were Mirra and Maria Stuarda. Intelligence has been received of the safe arrival of Mlle. Rachel and the dramatic 'company directed by her brother, M. Raphael, at New York, after a plea eant passage of eleven days. A design had been enter tained to gut up one of those demonstrations, so common on such occasions in that city, but the intention was very properly given up on the intimation of the respect able portion of the press, that the day for such silly ex hibitions, which deceived nobody and were paid for by parties interested in these speculations, bad gone by. Mlle. Rachel was announced to appear in "Horace" on the 3d of the present month. . Mr. Charles Braha,m has been engaged at the Italian Opera, Lisbon, as primp tenore assoluto. Mr. Howard Paul, an American dramatist and come dian, is in Paris, looking up paraphernalia for a new en tertainment he is about to produce in England. The Cologne Choral Society, consisting of 70 mem bers, whose concerts wore so eminently successful at the Hanover-square Rooms last year, are about to give 12 concerts in Paris, under the auspices of Mr. Mitchell, who has just been honoured with the permission of the Ministro d'Etat that the first concert shall be given at the Salle de Conservatoire during the present week. THE LYCEUM THEATRE.--50 great has been Mr. Anderson's success, that it has attracted the attention and excited the curiosity of all who take an interest in dexterous sleight-of-hand. Nearly all the professional celebrities of London have been to see him. He has brought together a large and fashionable company throughout the week. DRURY-LANE THEATRE.—The Acts and Galatea of Handel was revived on Saturday night, and met with a very satisfictory reception. The first performance of the serenata at this theatre during the sovereignty of Mr. Macready will not be forgotten, nor also the im mense eclat which awainted the scenic embellishments of Mr. Stanfield. The traditions left of this event, of such lustrous celebrity iu the annals of the house, have not been overlooked by the present management, and, as far as opportunity admitted, they have been resorted to as authorities for the stage preparation. In Miss Fanny Hnddart we have as good a representatiue of the love-sick Acis as we could desire, the music, though written for a tenor, being still analogously suited to her voice, the fine coneralto tones of which are heard to great advantage in "Love in her eyes," and "And love sounds the alarm." Mr. Hamilton Braham is the Polyphemus, and Miss Escott the Galatea. The sere nate was announced for repetition by Mr. Stammers every night during the remainder of the season. BANK OF FRANCE.—The returns of the Bank of France for the past month present very unfavourable results, and show that the reaction on the Bourse would have been much more severe if the cautious course had been pnrsued of contracting the amount of notes in circulation in proportion to the drain of specie. In the latter there has been a falling off of 2,000,000/. ; and as, with the exception of a slight recovery in the previous return, owing to the effect of the payments on the loan, there has been a steady decline for the last five months, the total diminution since the drain commenced has now reached the sum of 6,000,000/. In the face of this the note circulation in the present return exhibits an increase of 1,300,000/. With regard to the other items, the chief variations are a decrease of 1,300,000/. in the discounts, and of 300,000/. in the advances on stocks and shares. The Treasury account has been reduced 5,000,000/., and the private deposits 450,000/. Looking at the existing state of the exchanges and the large shipments of specie to the army, whic h will still continue,it seems probable that, unless some decided turn should soon take place, the Sauk will be obliged to raio ito rate of dipootuit. LETTER FROM - SIR CHARLES NAPIER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIR,—I have laid before the public my case up to our departure from Kiel, by which it will be ob served that no stone was left unturned by me to show the Admiralty that they had misinterpreted my letters entirely ; but the injury was done, and they were determined not to undo it. They pro bably thought I should be obliged to submit ; but I was just as determined as they were not to sub mit to injustice, and to bide my time till Ireturned to England. When we lay at Kiel the squadron was reduced to six sail of the line, and the Captain of the fleet removed—a very unusual course—it, however, showed the "animus." Shortly after his removal a vacancy took place in the representation of Mary lebone. I asked by telegraph to b e a ll owe d t o c ome home on leave, which was refused ; but I might vacate my command. This I determined not to do, but to wait patiently till I came home s and make one more effort to explain my conduct either in writing or in person. On the Wellington's arrival at Spithead I ol tained the Commander-in-Chief's leave to proceed to town, and was certainly not received in a very gracious manner by the First Lord of the Admi ralty. I was asked to sit down with that insolent sneer on his countenance so well known in Parlia ment, which did not presage any change of opinion; he told me he would hear what I should say ; but would make no reply. He did hear what I had to say, and I spoke to him as plainly as an officer be. fore his chief could do ; and I only regretted that respect, not for him, but for his office, prevented me using the language his conduct deserved. After having spoken my mind I retired, and proceeded to Portsmouth, where I found an order to haul down my flag, which produced the correspondence which I now transmit to you for insertion. It will be seen that there is some repetition, but it was impossible to avoid it. I have the honour to remain, Your obedient servant, CHAS. NAPIER. Merchistoun Hall, Sept. 14, 1855. SIR CHARGES NA .PIER-SIR JAMES GRAHAM-THE A DMIRALT Y. We resume the correspondence between Sir Charles Napier and the Admiralty, together with a letter to the Duke of Newcastle from the gallant Admiral. The chief features in the correspondence which we publish to-day are the details of the cir cumstance under which Sir Charles Napier ceased to be Commander-in-Chief of the Baltic fleet, and the demand which he immediately and energeti cally made to be tried by a Court-martial, on find ing that his conduct as Commander-in-Chief had thus been, by implication, censured. It will be observed that there are occasionally repetitions in the facts, and even in the expressions emplo3 ed, but that is an unavoidable necessity in a corres pondence of this nature. In all official communi cations there must be great precision, and conse quent repetition, in tLe phraseology used. No. XXIV. [Extract.] On the 26th September the Admira:ty wrote as follows, signed by Sir James Graham and Captain Peter Richards : We have approved your orders for sending Lome the Cumberland and Ajax ; but the withdrawal of the French fleet renders any further immediate diminution of the strength of your line-of-battle ships inexpedient • and the sailing ships, and even the two three-deckers, must be detained till the last moment consistent with their safety. [I did detain them till the last moment, and then was reproved for sending them home, though I did nut want them.—C.N.] An autumn cruise by the Russian fleet in the Baltic, when the British fleet had abandoned it, would bring dishonour on our arms. "At all hazards " so great an evil must be averted ; and you will remember that in former wars, when the power of steam was unknown, a squadron of British line-of-battle ships has maintained the blockade in the Baltic till the end of November. [The Baltic and the Gulf of Finland are very different, —C. N.] • And on the 22d December, signed by Admiral Dundas and Mr. Cowper : No. XXV. The Baltic fleet, on its return to port, being now dispersed in different harbours of Great Britain, and several of the ships which composed this fleet being under orders for service in the Black Sea and Mediterranean, you are hereby required and directed to strike your flag and come on shore. To Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., Vice- Admiral of the Blue, &c. No. XXVI. [Copy.] Merehistoun Hall, Horndean, Dec. 25, 1854. Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of their lordships' orders, directing me to strike my flag ; and with reference to the same I request their lordships will inform me whether I am to consider that my command is at an end.—l have the honour, &c., (Signed) CHAS. NAPIER, Vice-Admiral. The Secretary of the Admiralty. They wrote on 2Gth December : No. XXVII. With reference to your letier of yesterday's date, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to acquaint you that the order which you have received, agreeably to custom, to strike your Flag, and come on shore, is always the ter mination of a Flag-officer's command ; and I am directed by my Lords to take this opportunity to express to you the sense their Lordships entertain of your exertions during the period of your ser vice in command of the Baltic Fleet.—l am, Sir, your very obedient, humble servant, W. A. B. HAMILTON. Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K.C.8., Merchistoun. _ _ The following is a document of special import ance, and will hereafter be frequently and particu larly referred to in Parliament, as adverting to the first adverse act of the Admiralty, namely, that of dismissing Sir Charles Napier from the command of the Baltic Fleet. No. XXVIII. Merchistoun, Horndean, Jan. 2, 1855. Sir,—l have to acknowledge your letter of the 26th of December, acquainting me that the order which I have received, agreeably to custom, to strike my flag and come on shore, is always the termination of an officer's command, and adding that you are directed by my Lords to take this opportunity to express to me the sense they enter tain of my exertions during the period of my ser vice in command of the Baltic Fleet. I regret that their Lordships should not have taken the opportunity of the dispersion of the Baltic Fleet to recognise in any manner the services of the several admirals, officers, and ships' companies, lately under my command. lam not aware that their services were inferior to those of the admirals, officers, and ships' companies of the French fleet during the period of our acting together, and they were ex tended over a much longer period of time—for their Lordships know that the British fleet was sent to the Baltic at a very inclement season, long before it was joined by the French squadron, and that it remained in the Baltic far into another very incle ment season, long after the French squadron had gone home—yet while the French Emperor, in his Speech to the Chambers, pays a just tribute to his fleet, as well as to his army, for their devotion and discipline iu the North, as well as in the South, and records a success in the Baltic, in which the fleet under my command participated, the Queen was not advised to advert in her Spee ch to Parlia -1 ment to the services of her Baltic Fleet, nor do their Lordships now notice them. It would have been gratifying to me, certainly, to have been di rected, on hauling down my flag, to communicate to all those lately under my command their " Lordships' " satisfaction with their conduct. I took to the Baltic a fleet, splendid and magni ficent no doubt in the size of the vessels of which it was composed ; but their Lordships cannot be ig norant of the defects, in the composition and quality of the crews hastily put on board. That fleet was not manned like the fleets of Lord Nelson and Lord St. Vincent, nor, with the exception of a few shipswhich had been off Lisbon, wa s it then fit to go ' into action • but I brought back a flee . t really crews mag nificent, not iu vessels only, b h i4 o r;i ne p . erf T e c h t e i s n e (without which vessels a gunnery, in seamanship, en r d e in results were obtaine d b y the unremitting of the officers, and t hrou g h the willing obedience of itg exertions the seamen, many of whom had necessarily been schare ie co mpelled to serve on their return fro d m . foreign or a sta tions, when they had expected their long run on shore on leave. I consider the country to be greatly indebted to those officers, and to those seamen, and it w ou ld, i n deed, be a subject of regret to me to think that on account of any dissatisfaction their lordships m ay entertain with respect to any part of my con duct, they should abstain from signifying to the admirals, officers, and seamen of the late Baltic fl e et their grateful sense of their se rv i ces . 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As long as we have a superior fleet in the Baltic, we protect the shores of England from insult and desolation, our commerce from ruin • we retain Sweden and Denmark in their neutrality. Behind that fleet there is nothing ; no naval, no military reserve at home to defend our coasts ; no fortifications, adequate . to protect our ports, if at any time, through any disaster arising out of a most dangerous and little known navigation, or out of the accidents of treacherous and tempestuous weather, or out of an attack on forts, which, with. whatever caution and judgment it might •be con ducted, and whatever more or less of success might attend it, must be expected to result in the trip. pling of many Of the ships engaged, our Baltic fleet should, under circumstances of great temporary disadvantage, be brought into action with the very powerful fleet of the enemy, and in that action should sustain defeat, in three weeks from that time a Russian fleet, full of troops, might be on our coasts, and even as the Dutch once were on the Thames. _ _ _ I did not think, and I do not think, that for any chances of success which wore ever within my reach I should have been justified in incurring that risk. I afforded the enemy frequent opportunities of en gaging the fleet in open sea. There I knew that the chances of war were equal, and that even if not fully successful (but I justly expected full suc cess), I must so cripple the enemy's . fleet as to make it incapable of further enterprise. These opportunities of equal battle the enemy declined, and many I gave them of unequal battle they de clined also. I did not think myself justified in engaging, with such means as I had at my disposal, forts first, and a fleet afterwards ; and it was not so easy, choose a fine d a y a t th e en d o f O c t o ber, when the as their lordships seemed to think, to Cronstadt fleet would be frozen up, and Sweaborg open. And I say d e lib era t e l y, th a t Ido not think that anything short of a reasonable expectation of complete success, not aga i nst t h e f orts on ly, but against the fleet within th em, wou ld j us tif y an at tack by ships, upon such forts as those at Swea borg ; and so thought the French admiral, whom. their lordships have necessarily included in their censure. And had the marshal of France not sailed with his army, he also must have been included in their dissatisfaction, that Sweaborg was not at tacked before he sailed. I never would, _under pressure from without, and against my own better judgment, advise an attack upon forts like that which lately failed at Sebastopol. If their lordships should be of opinion that with the means at our disposal we ought to have made an attack on Sweaborg, it is for them to test the correctness of their opinion by submitting my conduct, for not advising it, to the judgment of a court-martial. I repeat, that it would be most gratifying to me there to explain and justify all my proceedings ; and I can truly say that, on re flection, I am more satisfied with myself for having resisted the instigations I received, to do what I felt to be wrong, than for the various measures in which I succeeded, and for which I had their lord ships' approbation.—l have the honour to be, Sir, your obedient, humble servant, _ _ CHAS. NAPIER, Vice-Admiral. To the Secretary of the Admiralty. The letter which follows is from the Admiralty, and is an answer to the above. It will be seen that it takes no notice of the demand of the gallant Admiral for a court-martial on his conduct. Nc. XXIX. Admiralty, an. 8,.1855. I am commanded by my Lord; Commissioners of the Admiralty to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the sth instant. _ Their lordships awarded to the officers and men serving under your command at the capture of Bomarsund such promotion and rewards as your statement of their services seemed to merit, con sidering that the operation was a combined oue, in which the French army, as well as the French fleet, bore a conspicuous part. The approbation of the Board has been notified to Captain Watson, and to the officers and seamen under his immediate command, for the bold and successful manner in which they maintained the blockade of the Gulf of Finland, in the presence of a superior force of the enemy, long after the commencement of severe frost, when the fleet under your orders had retired to Kiel. I am to add that their lordships have already expressed to you their sense of your exertions during your late command in the Baltic, and no censure has been conveyed on any point requiring further investigation.—l am, Sir, your most obedient ser- vaut, W. A. B. HAMILTON. Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Napier, K C.B. Finding that he applied in vain to the Admiralty for a court-martial on himself, Sir Charles, with a manliness and regard for his own character which exceed all praise, made application to the Duke of Newcastle, then Minister of War. [No. XXX.] MERCHISTOUN, HORNDEAN, Jan. 5, 1555. My Lord Duke,—NVhen I went to the Baltic I was under your Grace's orders, and I carried them out, iu conjunction with my colleagues, to the best of my ability, and my conduct was much approved of by the Government up to the fall of Bomarsund. I concurred with the French Admiral, the Mar shal of France, and the French General of En gineers, in repudiating the plan of General Jones for attacking Sweaborg, which, if carried into exe cution, would have ended in inevitable disaster, worse even than Sebastopol. The French General was made a Marshal of France ; the French Vice-Admiral, a full Admiral ; Brigadier Jones, a Major-General ; and I have been censured, deprived of my command, and obliged to ask for a court-martial to justify my con duct. Is this justice my Lord Duke ?—I have the honour to remain, your Grace's obedient servant, CHAS. NAPIER, Vice-Admiral. To his Grace the Duke of Newcastle. THE BRAEMAR, GATHERING. The annual gathering of the Highland clans for the exhibitio❑ of athletic games took place at Mar Castle, on Thursday, in the presence of the Queen and Court from Balmoral. From an early hour in the morning the clansmen were seen mustering in groups, and large numbers of pedes trians and sightseers had gathered in the village of Castleton before nine o'clock. The Forbes Highlanders had left Strathdon, under the leadership of Sir Charles Forbes, of Invernan, on Wednesday afternoon, and marched to Balmoral, where they encamped on the G reen terrace, between the new castle and the Dee. Here they presented a very picturesqe group, and being fine, stalwart Highlanders, dressed in full Highland cos tume, they had a very characteristic appearance. The night was wet and cold, yet they started fresh and hearty for the gathering on Thursday morning, marched to the ground to the music of the bagpipes, and carrying the banners of the clan. About one o'clock the Farquharsan and Duff Highlanders, under the Farqu harsons and Duffs, as their chiefs, marched from Castle ton, and took position in front of the old castle of Mar, the whole forming three sides of a square, within which the games were to come off. A large number of spec tators filled up the lines, and a fine display of the prin cipal families of Mar, with a few strangers from England, was presented on the castle-terrace. A carpeting of the Farquharson tartan was laid on the green platform of the terrace slope, and sofas placed for her Majesty, the Prit el, and the Royal family. The weather was very fine;‘ and the scene was of the grandest character. The castle stands in the centre of a n open plain, through whic h the ri From the summit of the battlements, and ver D e eog to the winds. south, yon see a perpendicular mass of granite rouck t w it wins ith cliffs overhanging,, scre ened by gigantic mot , of Castleton Is seen among which appear th e g ra y peaks of Lochnagar. Looking to the west , the village r nestling in a sheltered s p ot, and beyond Glen Tilt.on f d it you look u p the pass which co nducts to the Towards the north Ben Mac Dhui, with a portion of it s highest slope yet covered with snow, rises above other giants of the Cairngorm range, and sweeps round to the east. Deer forests face the lower slopes of this araphi. theatre, on the foreground of which stands the mansion of Invercauld. Ab o ut 2 o'clock the g ames com menced, and consisted of the usual variety of throwing the eg h e acpi foot,et r b , e p u ma t lo t l i r n we g h t i li ch e t e t f n h g. cheering. e r a e aT t t h hse a si a s t r o eT n uh e ue , syt (queenss s u i n w g edl t lr h ok e vue c o a w b t on e r thathaen d te ha r es a ty c l par ticularlyh described. i e nn at o'clock, and was re ceived with enthusiasti Td the es s Prince gecai m ues t l ph o re o 01 Stuarti.cee d e d feual tartan, r o i all r a e n p s d e r e n s w e e e e n r u t e f the Queen, and the dancing. e was especially attractive. aruiditt Hei spirits, t r ierhrisp , Majesty and e The sword dance was the rand feat of the day. Ima g ine two broadsword s l a id ona spring platform at right angles. Imagine half-a-dozen athletic Highlanders foot ing a systematic step to the music of the bagpipe, every step touchi ng the apex of an angle ; imagine this done, and the angle danced over from apex to apex for a quay. ter of an hour or 20 minutes, and the swords never once touched, and you have the sword dance, which carried off the first prize. The Queen and Court remained for about an hour and a-half, and then returned to Balmoral amid the renewed cheers of the people. In the evening there was a grand ball as usual in the Castle of Mar. It was attended by the Farquharsons and other distinguished families of the district, and kept up to an early hour in the morning. TUB RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT READING.—Mrs. Nor ton died late on Fiday night, making the fifth death occasioned by this catastrophe. The remaining patients in the hospital are all progressing favourablyexcept Fer guson, the stoker of the pilot engine, whose case is pro pounced very dangerous. 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