The Sun. — London, England, 1856-05-05 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed quietly, but steadily at the current rates of Friday. The sales were 6,000 bales, _(500 for export and 1,000 on speculation), comprising in addition to American, 90 Pernam and Maranham, 64c1. to 7d. ; 100 Bahia, 63d. to 6id ; and 1,500 Surat, 41.1. to 4/d. per lb. The Railway Share Marke closed at a decline of to per cent. on the quota , tions of Friday. The commercial intelligence received to-day from New York by the steamer Washington notices the arrival at that port of the George Law with nearly a million and a half of dollars in gold from Cali fornia. The export of the precious metals to Europa during the week ending April 12 was limited, viz., 0,850 dollars, but according to the weekly official returns of the City Banks, notwith standing the heavy receipts from San Francisco, the stock of specie continued to diminish. Thus the latest returns completed for the week ending the 12th ult. show a decline i n this department of $755,000. The other items of the statement when compared with those of the previous week are unfavourable, an increase of 878,000 dollars having taken place on the loans and discounts. The market for Public Securities was dull, the peace news received out by the Baltic, from England, having been somewhat anticipated. At a meeting of the Commissioners of Emigration, it was stated that the arrivals this year had been 10,823 persons against 18,966 at the same period of 1855. The Statesman has arrived off the Scilly Islands from Geelong with 14,198 ounces of gold, valued at 56,792/., but her advices have been anticipated by the last overland mail. The Ellenborough, from New South Wales, is also announced, but she is not supposed to have any gold on board. At the close of last week the Havre cotton mar ket continued quiet, without any sensible change in prices. About 1,100 bales were sold by public auction, and realised from 88f. 50c. per 50 kilos. to 93f. for ordinary very ordinary Louisiana, which was favourable for the purchasers. The quotations of New Orleans are for very ordinary 95f., low 'ditto 89f., and very low ditto 82f. The sales of the week for all sorts comprised 8,609 bales, and the arrivals were 10,745 bales. The stock on hand on the 2d inst. amounted to 96,372 bales, against 68,726 bales at the corresponding period last year. The quantity of cotton arrived at Havre from the United States during the four months of the pre sent year was 31,457 bales, against 56,721 bales in 1855 ; and the number of vessels from Havre 27 during both periods. Now that peace is concluded, and the prospects of an abundant harvest are evident throughout France, it is anticipated that the prohibition against the distillation of spirit from grain in that country will be rescinded this summer. This pos. sible contingency, and that of a plenteous vintage, has affected the principal spirit markets. At B dean; Languedoc brandy of 86 deg. is now 143 f. per hectolitre ; and fine beetroot spirit, first quality, 90 deg. strength, 106 f., being a decline of about 2f. per hectolitre ; and contracts for June are effected at 103 f. Wines are not much in request, and average from 450 f. to 460 f. per tun for ordinary qualities ; and inferior kinds, at public auction, realise from 325 fr. to 375 fr., such as Fronsara. The Money Market on Saturday was very tight, in consequence of the liquidation of the large mass of commercial bills which then fell due, the 4th being Sunday. Although in several instances some embarrassment was felt no failure of im portance was announced. The English Stock Market is rather buoyant this morning, in consequence of the increased disposi tion on the part of the public to make investments, and the belief now confidently expressed that the financial statement, to be published on the 19th inst., will be of a more favourable character than was at first anticipated, also tends to impart firmness to quotations. The expectation that only a small loan will be required has been strengthened by the statement that of the 34,908,0001. voted for army services this year, not more than 20,747,0001. will be necessary in conse quence of the return to peace. The inference is that the other estimates will be similarly reduced. The Funds this morning opened at an advance per Cent., which has been fully maintained. Con sols for money have been 92; to 93 and, for ac account (the Bth inst.) 921 to 93, while for June the value is 93i The New 3 per Cents. are 92 to 924, and the Reduced, 1. Bank Stock is 1 per cent. higher, viz., 211 to 2111. The March Exchequer Bills are par, aid the June ditto, Bs. to 49. discount. India Bonds are 103. to ss. discount. Foreign Securities are generally firmer, but the business done has not been extensive. Mexican Bonds have advanced to 221 I, Spanish Deferred to 24i, and Turkish 6 per Cents. to 97 1 3. Vene zuela Bonds are marked 281, ditto Deferred 12k. Grenada New Active 18, and ditto Deferred 61. There have been dealings in Austrian 5 per Cents. at 84, and in Dutch Certificates at 931 to 94. IR The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Mexican, 2244 ; Peruvian, 77 9 ; Ditto 3 per Cents., 54 6 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48 50 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 104 6 ; Ditto 41 per Cents., 94 6 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 441 sg. ; Ditto De ferred, 24 5 ; Ditto Certificates, 51 ; Ditto Pas sive, 6i 7i. Railway Shares are all at improved prices, but the market continues quiet. Great Western, Brighton, South-Western, and North-Eastern Berwick are ss. to Ds. better. The Foreign and Colonial Shares are very dull. Banking Shares are firmer, and Australian Agri. cultural have risen 10s. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT (IN , ' 'CLOCK. (From the OP:la! (tn...n,. done , Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Redteed Annuitie5............. 91i 8 per Cent Consols Annuities New 3 per Cent. Annuities ..... . 92i 2 Long Annuities, expire 50 Jan. 1860... Ditto 30 Years, expire sth April, 1885 l7 1-16 India. Bonds, .ClOOO ........ . _ _ _ SHARE MARKETS. TuiS UAL) RAILWAYS. Closing Prices Saturday Bnainesa done yesterday. 25i 26 4 4; 821 9 16i - 15i 16, 12f -- 13; 88 -- • . 59i 60 15i 16, . • •• -"'"' ~ 16; 9 10 33 35 23 - 25 76 - 78 60 - 62 27i - 28, 88 - 92 7 - 8 94i 95 • 79 _BO [2.5 . 127 LO2 1 .04 61. 61/ :6 58 69 72 6 7i 5 64 871 884 6 7 101 103 } 100} - 1001 d PI d * 4 94i 9541 • • • ''''' lillf 27i 23i 73i - 74 42 - 44 13 -13 A 53 - 55 3i - 3t' 34i . 771 - 781 61 51,, 3/ - 3f l 5 16 55 56 87 91 ylO IC3 3 , 1.4 61 60, 51 64 104 101 26 - 28 03 105 75 - 77 45 '7 14 15 70i - 714 71 - 73 4 - 2 9 7 :36 37 1 1 12 19i - 201 4i 5 6i 7i 6 8 14 - 2# 5 - 5iP - 7 ON. 20 5 30 Is 8 8t par 2 p 6 6.tt , 2 2I• 33 4 r i - 1. 41j - 42 ?,0 .C.lO - .23 1 22i - 2ti .. -- ... .94 1.5 i 161 74 76 85 fv; 10 10i , 211 -22 t 61 7 1 31 - 3 23 9911220 1 5 1 1 2705 log 109 25 26 124 -- 128 .... • • pt.' 12 12i 101 ••= 2O 11 par 7 - 7i 5i - 6] 43,± - 44 1.2 i L 2: Ditto, under 11.000 5 10 d Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, 20d. March. June. £1000 £5OO — I 8 d gmall Ditto Bonds, 1858, 30 per Cent. 971 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO• K Grenada New Active, 1i per Cent. Ditto Deferred 6l Mexican 3 per Cent Ditte Account Russian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent — Ditto 4. per Cent. Spews) Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cetit. Ditto Account Turkish Bonds, 6 per cent Ditto Account 97a Venezuela Bonds, 41 per Cert 2BO Ditto Deferred, 10 per Cent. .... o'' r' above • avghle 1r 14,nArn, Austrian Bonds, 10 Gun., £, 5 per Cent. 84 Dutch Exchange, 20 per Cent., 12 Guilders Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificate 4IIARTER PAST TWO. Consols for Money 92i 93 Ditto Account (June) ,.. 93f )0 ! 6 20 8 - 9 571 - ii - Ei RETIREMFNT OF Ma. F. R. WEST, M.P.—Mr. F. R West, M.P., has issued an address to the burgesses o the Denbigh boroughs, in which he states that the state of his health renders it incumbent upon him to abstain from seeking, at a future election, the honour of again becoming their representative.— Carnervon Herald. THE LONGFORD ELECTION.--The nomination is fixed for the 13th inst. The Hon. King Harman is expected to stand in the Conservative interest. Mr. George Henry Hughes, ex-Solicitor•General, is gone to L..ng ford to try his fortune once more. Alderman Reynolds has been there bef,re him, but the opinion here is his honour will not go to the poll. Mr. Harman has a rea sonable chance of success, for the people in the county Longford have no especial regard for mere place hunters. The election for a member of Parliament for Chelten ham is about to take place immediately. Mr. Grenville Berkeley having accepted a commissionership of Cus toms, which causes an unexpee ted vacancy in the re presentation of the borough. A meeting of Liberals in the Berkeley interest was held yesterday afternoon at the George Hotel, when the fact of the present member's retirement was communicated to his friends and'at which it was resolved to bring for ward Capt. F. William, son of Admiral Berkeley, as Mr. G. Berkeley's successor. A Conservative candidate is expected. The nomination is fixed for Wedneslay,—ClocucMorn Looker-on. 1 is 2a llt - 12 9i - 2 - 2A •.. ... ." - pm ii 2 6 36 = 36, xiL a. ~,,A , VA. uexein (:onapan - THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 5. Clo.in Saturday. 7111Ret3 yeatar !ay for the upward cl firm gb ery litUe of wheat has bean uce were es wore barley► .apeseed, of flour. e and by 311 a yell la allow ,uyere an o f home le. to 29. ly on the demand► 3e quali ,. 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Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West. are Great Western Do. Stour Val Ral Qua. Stk.. Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lsncash. andYorkFa Do., Wst. Riding tTn. Liv.Crioy.&Sonthrt London & Rlackwal] Load. Bright & S.Cst. Loud, and N. Westn. Do. Fifths D0.101.dh.„M&8.,.( Do. Eighth 5.......... London andS. Westn. Do., £s') Do., £4 , 1 Lndndrry& Col erai. Lndndrrr. & Ennisk , Mancb.Shef.& Lind Mau. & Lin. Tit Metropolitan Midland ..... : )o. Birmng.&Derl.y , KW& (3. West.(lre. Do. Half Shares__ Newcastle & Carlisl , Nwpt.Aberg. &He: Newry & Enniskille • Newry Warrenpoin• and Rostrevor. Norfolk lgorthn.Counties Tin North Britislo Nth Dev.m Rail. & Dock Stock ...... , A Stock • o , B Stock ..... Do., )1 B G.tarautth , N. Eastern—Berwi. , 'o. do. Extension , •.N.N. furs, Do Leeds ,1).. York. North ton , ;- , ;s Wstrn., flan/ - vtosa, and elity iortl, Statiordq! North Western. „ N SS. West rn.Jur . b , nneaton, and Leicester la., Wore.. .‘,/ Wolv r rs ......_ S;vottish C.`entra , i± , rnosiiire I T ! I`3,ntil Devon Soatt‘ Eastern....,... S.nith Wales 4. Vrksh. Qr Ri v. 1 or, 100 100 100 130 100 100 10 all 14 4i Sta , nos,WA Stockton k Darn :kton ds flartleT. , TL vale Pref., No. Ir'nmos Flay. D.& R linverstone dt Lanom 'Vale of Neath :Waterfd. & Kilkenn Waterford&Limer , c ► West Cornwall ;West End of London and Crystal Palace . Do. A Do. B. , West London WimblednitCroydor FOR. ,twAr Rott r4l , rn Do. 5 p. c. Oblgs. c on. in Sh. atpar till '64 Ardennes , eigi Kagu. Jung; leziers to Oral sEosix Bombay, Raroda, an (I , mtral India.B.ri Do. Demerara .. . rbitot , Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New Bast Indian, g. 5 p r )0. 11 13 0 ;engin ,, D 0.4 p.c.Bnds.,' s 7 In. .90. du. d• Gee'ong v. Melbourne guar. 5 per c nt. . Do., Lon. allot., do. I Gd. Tk of CanadaAp• Dc. .................... Do. Cert. of Deben. con. into Stk. till'6 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do Gt. Central of leran Gt. Indian Peninsin Great Luxembour Constituted Shan, Do. Do. re-is. orftd. Sb (fit. WeHtern (Isnot , t share. • ........ all '4 9.11 14 Do. New ........... Do. iris., payable'V with option till '55.. Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. Dc. do., '73, without option liamilton !it Toront 7)0. a per cent. hake Onnwt Lierre and Turnhout Lucca Pist. sp. c.p Lyons and Genovb Lyons & Madrar , guar. 4 p.c Do. New 0., sp. c. Do. 4i p. c. Eaten Maria Autonit Do. do. New Namur 4 Lim. (wit' ‘ll 17 all , nterest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. IDo.2ol.Shs Do. 207. 3 p. o Bdr (fmy.B.dxAms.She. NorwerianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans. Rome and Frascati Royal Danish Do. Obligations Sambre and Manse D o . 5A p• oent Pref. Scinde, guar. 5 p. c. Do Southern of France St. indrew's and Quebec (A) . West Flanders .. Do CA per c. Prof W. &N. W. of wrancr West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden ... Zealand 10INT-BTOCK BANKS. 0 11 AnnrAt,,, 25 5 Bank of Egypt ip 5i 100 50 Bank of London 63 65 40 Al lir'. Col. lA.& tn. C. 50 al , itriti*b N. American 25 5 Chart& Rank of Asia 20 4 Clhrtd. Buk. of India, Australia. & China 100 50 City 1.00 25 Colon'al 100 20 Commercial of Loud _ 20 .11 14;fig.900t.&A.tis.Cht l5l . 164 24) all Loud. Mart. Bk. of Australis l7 18 2G 5 Ditto New 3 2 d 1 5 ( 0 x) 50 20 L lV .,t on E a x nd lik Co g. n c r or y p e: pa .. r . 32 i 2p 50 IC: London Tnint. Si.o6 • .. 100 10 London and Paris ^ 2 d LOU 20 Loud. estminster 1.00 3. National Pro.of Eng ." 20 10 Do. New ........... •••• • 50 n National of Ireland 20 all New South Wales, 4l 43 2 5 An Oriental Bank '4 , 4•140reti.,n 4l 43 20 5 Ottoman Bank P SI 1 00 n Royal British ..... ••• 25 - stralin ••"' nnion of Anstrslia 69 - 71 TO 4. Do New 6 8 i 50 10 union f l io n,to n • :4 , 271 11 3 Wotan Bk of Lon. London le N. Welt. t.&N.W. Calodon... E. Un. E. C... Wt. NrVl,. E. Count. Caldoniau. 95 - 97 94 - 98 11 - 13 132 134 41 ••• -... Gt. Vrestr Yk. New. & Rorw. Y. St N M Do.. Do IR = the all All 10.) 1.03 Is. Eastert IPeto & Co. fit = iii lib its Norfolk Do b.& N. W & Midld Stekton & Darlingt. Midland-1 En. Coun. E. Count. Do . .1 Do L. &N. W Qt Northn Laneash & Yorksh. T. Brassey M. MClean Stockt. & Darlingt Do I(4tWeatn. 2f - 2f 92 94 in 56 58 45 - 47 133 - 135 31 -- 21,1 31 32 = 61.1 i 100101 i 24 941 5 41 28 .1 74 i 78 71 el lli i 8 1 i 61 j 3j 26 i 9 11i 12 iLedford and Bletchley ... Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Col. Stour Vy. Slid. and Hal. E. !dn. ct. pc E. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New...... Glstr.dr Dn. Fr Dk. & Railway.... Hull & Selby Do. Sham. Do. Shares. Lon.& Greens, Do. Preference Lon., TU., & Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Batn. and Matlock Middlesbro' & ' Redcar. Id.Brailfo Newmarket Bury E. G.spc N.& Est.sp.e. Do. 6 nor et. Do. Fixeds p e Prest. Do. Shn. A Roystn.& Mt. Shef.Roth an ' Goole g. 5 p. c . Shrews. &ll er S. Staffordsh Wear Valloygr 6 per cent Do Wiltseonirst PREFERENCE SHARES. St.l 100 Aberdeen ll4 117 St. 100 Do. No. 2,7 p. 113 116 St. 100 Do. Debentures B4 90 £5 all •IlythandTyno lOper a. pref. (issd. at 501' ... Si. 1.00 Brim. & Ex- 4 ILc- St 94 - 96 20 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares - St. 100 Caledonian £lO 96 - 98 15 all 'Maas. &110. Gn. 51 pc 15 - 17 91 all Do. do. Prof. No. 2: - '4 all Do. do. Pref. No. 2 - 44 all Cork 4Bandonslp.c - 44 ali Duu.Prth Abera 5l - 64 10 2 /11. Anglian Cls. A Sh. - St. 100 Do. do. Cls. B6p. e. 107 - 112 St. 100 Do. do Cis. C7p. c. 97 - 102 60 i all Eas•Co • Ex.spc No. p pm 61 all Do. No. 2 - p Pm 10 all Do. New 6p.0. St 124 - 12/ 121 1 tO all Nast Hu. ' G. 6p. c. 5 all De. 51. , 10 per cent. - 10 all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. - zit. all Do. do. 4 per cent - St. 101 . East Lanca-1.6 p. cts - - all ". qr W . work. J. sth , -1 - 10 1 Edin. & Gl. 5 p.c. sh. - it. 100 eld. Prth.&Duu.4p.e 69 - 71 20 all Furness St. 10. Glas. &5.W.G.5 p 0 ▪ 1.00 { Great Northn. 5p t• 116 - 118 117 St. 100 Do. sp. c. Redeem at 10 p. c. prem. 108 - 110 it. 100 10. 4A p. c. lOl - 103 121 7/ De. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red. lt sp. c. . 1 , 0 all It N. of Scot. Ist Pre 91 - 104 it. 100 'lt. S. 'SW. (Ireland: ... 20 11 Do. 4por o. Pref. S - 50 6 }t. W.(O. , r,Fl.Exspc 6 - 8A St. 100 )o. con. red. 4i p.c. 95 - 97 95 St. 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c 89 - 91 4. 100 Do. irred. 4p. C. ... 88 - 90 it. 100 Do. sp. c. red. pref 98 • 100 10 all Do. do. do. ... - 8 all Do. Rirm, Prof. 311... 94 -10 1 0 all Do. Chester 8 p.c. P.S 161 - 17/ 10 all Do. do. sp. c. d 0... 10 - 10/ St 105, Do. Birm. Gna. Stk 73 -75 361 all Do. Ches. Gua. Sh.. 191 - 20/ 1.3 i all Do. do. do ~ 9 4- - 104 M al Do. do. do l4l - 15 t 16 6 an. & York. F. EV - d ;t. 10r )0. 6p. c. Stock . '36 136 it. lon `on. &I-trigh. G. 5 p., It. 100 )o. Pref., sp.c. SI . It 100 New Guar.6 p. e 135 - 140 t. 100 Do. do. 5 per cent - I'. ilti ',on, &N. W., Cov. ds vuneaton 5 p. ct St 101) on.& S. W. 7 per ct - ...p .2 • al • udy. & color. ISh [2A a• r.ondy. & Ennis. S• • - St. 10 L.. New,lo/ 6 4' ''o. £6 1 - I . L 2 farypt.&Carl.4p o ... 12/ all )0.41 per cent . L2: l 10 »D it. I(X; lid. Consol.6 1()P )0. Con.Br.P:r. Elp( P 5 - 137 it. 100 Do. 41 p. c. Pref. 5 95 - 97 951 1.61 all Do. Pref. 4iper cet 87 - 89 5 all Do. 51. Prcf. 4p. c. - it. 100 Ditto L.& H. Pref. Si - 881 Lo an &c., pr. •.• - ••• f 5 p. c. red. 5 p.c. pm. 10 all Norfolk Debenture St. 100 Do. Pref. 5p.0. St St. 100 Do. 5 p.c. Eat - St. 100 De. 51per ct.prof - St. 100 'Do.Way.Val. 6p. c . - k. 100 North British l o2' -104 103 It. 100 IN. E. Berw, 4 p.c P 92 -94 l 7 7 Do. de. do 54 - 51 10 13 IDo beeds 6 p.c .No.! .21 9 D. do. Quarters ... - :5 10 Do,Yorkll.& Pnr 1 id ;0 all North Staffordshire. It. 100 , W 1511 p , 98 - 10) .0 9 Do R. Pref. 101. Sh. - all Scot. Cent. ,New Prl• - pm 5 all 'South Devon l4l - 154 0 14 IDo. fixed, 4l per con , - 1.6 all S. Eastern (Readi , k, &nn.) of £1 Os, 6d. 234 - 23/ t. 100 Do. 4i per cent... 98 - 100 t. 100 Do. Fixed 41 p c sh. 91 - 10 t. 100 S Wales Gua. 4p. a. all D 4 do. 41 p. c.... - O all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. - 5 all Qtock • & Dar. ,5p c. -. 5 15 Do. do. dr) 14 2ip 21 all ' Stock. & H artl. g. F p. a. till .July 1, '5" 5 41 IWatertd.Bt, Kilk.6 pc' 2$ - 244 B±l . 25 to .0.6 MINES. 1 all tgua. Fria •.. 1 all knglo Au9trla. Gold , Anglo Californian A 20 7 kustralian 1 14 1 all kustralian Cordiller • - 1 ill Ave Mari a •• ••• 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of co , sll rileanar. trati & Coa 20 14 British Iron 4 6 35 2(34 Irazilianlmp.(issue,' at £5 pm.) - 3i 10 all 10. Cocaes Cuiab 2i 3 20 15 Do, St. Johr Del Re , 24 26 1 4 Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica__ 1p 40 all Cobra Copp er 62 C 4 5 1 Colonial Gold .. . - St. all Copper Min. Of Rap 30 35 25 all no. Pref. 74 p. ow , 25 27 1€ Copiapo l7 19 2 14 Fortuna — id 20 all IlencxB.l l4 —l6 1 all .t. Nu 41 all circat. Poirtootb 1 14 5 all Gt Wheal Vor United 1 4d 1 all Liberty ...... ...... 1 3 all Linares. ............. 74 —7i x d 5 11 Lusitanian .... .......... 1' all Ntariquita 1 all New Granada ......... I all Nouveau Monde_ Pontgi.Sil.& Le. Min. 114 124 114 5 Port Philip — 1 1 all Quartz Rock ....... $ 50 all Rhymney Iron 2l 23 15 all Do. New 6 - g 30 1314 Santiago de Cuba. 2—34 2i 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co. 2. 3 'I aIJ 4outh A 1 all Do. Scrip Do. 10 per cent Pref 44 Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. 21 21 Vo 9Cm Croft.-- ...... . in all United Mexican 3l 4 all Waller f2s , Ar ivit e on si hti• M a riposa......,, isti:ff. 0 MISCELLANEOUS. 25 25 10 ktustraltan A gricnlt. 30 _ 32 ~,, 1( l a r l e l nA..uoso'za.elpn.., R oyal ....ramk 117nalyil 111 1.0 all Rerlin Water Works 5i 4 l 0 ,0 ,irit. American Land . _ 100 42 °amid& 4O 1.1 . 1 5 141 i 1 Illi 'lv ] . : lilt St. 100 Do. 6p. c. Feb & Aug 199 i 1100 St. 100 Do. 6p•c• M" & B °l' 4lo9 i 1100 5 all i lrystal Palace.. 3 3} 5 all Do. 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Scrip 10 al I), H a zistered _ 15 5 ['rad& L. °NIL Can .... 100 2 Bi Vas Dlemen'a Laud 16 _ 16 1 'to V . Ato,6p.g , JaniaillX s tw 1... • THE MILITARY BOARD OF INQUIRY. (This Day.) The Board re-assembled at the usual hour. The proceedings of the Court commenced this morn ing with the examination of Mr. Filder, the Commis sary-General, at the reque4t of Mr. Cruickshank, relative to his being placed under arrest. Mr. Filder said that he perfectly well remembered Mr. Cruickshank being placed under arrest, and be forwarded to Lord Raglan a request from Mr. Cruick shank that an inquiry might be instituted into his con duct. Lord Raglan refused an inquiry, on the ground that it was inexpedient to do so, but never expressed to him (Mr. Filder) any disapprobation of Mr. Cruick shank's conduct. If his Lordship had expressed his disapprobation of Mr. Cruickshank's conduct he (Mr. Filder) must have known it. Lord Lucan said he wrote a letter to the Adjutant- General stating he had placed Mr. Cruickshank under arrest, to which he received an answer with his ow❑ letter containing Lord Raglan's remarks on Mr. Crnick shank's conduct. That letter, with the other, was again returned to the Adjutant-General's Department in the Crimea, and he hoped the Court would ask for its production. Mr. Cruickshank said he had already applied for the production of the letter Lord Lucan surmised was in existence. The subject dropped. Sir R. Airey then resumed his case, and asked for the production of Col. Mackenzie's evidence taken is the Crimea by the Commissioners. Col. Tulloch said it had already been produced, and then proceeded to defend his statements made on a former occasion as to the mode adopted by the Commis sioners in the Crimea in taking the evidence of the va rious witnesses. He admitted striking out of Colonel Wetherall's evidence some marginal notes that officer bad placed on it, because they did not bear on the ques tions the Commissioners had put to him. After striking them out he again sent the evidence to Col. Wetherell. The minutes produced were in the same state as when they were sent the last time to Col. Wetherell for ap proval, and returned by him. Sir 11, Airey read the whole of the evidence given by C.)l. Tulloch relative to the manner the Commissioner; took the evidence of the military witnesses in the Crimea, and submitted the minutes to them for correction and signature, to insure accuracy, which he said was at vari ance with the facts, since the minutes produced showed erasures had been made in them. Col. Tulloch could not assent to the term "erasure." The portions of evidence complained of were not obli terated, but merely crossed over. The witnesses, or any other person, could easily read what was marked out. __. _ Sir B. Airey asked Col. Tulloch why he took upon himself to alter the evidence of Col. 'Vetherall ? Col. Tulloch said he was not certain that he made the alterations alluded to. The reason for its being done was that it was at variance with thA -c ter coats, as shown by tho otlicial returms. Sir R. Airey—Then I collect from that you did it to "square the account" with evidence taken elsewhere. Colonel Tulloch—l don't say that. Colonel Wetherall was then re-examined by Sir R. Airey—The blue-book did not contain the whole of the evidence he gave before the Commissioners in the Criraea, and portions had been omitted without his authority. The MS. in Col. Tulloch's handwriting, with certain portions crossed out, was the evidence he gave in the Crimea, and he considered the omissions important parts of his evidence. The printed evidence was not a faith full report of his evidence. Re thought the commis sioners were not justified in animadverting in the strong terms they had on the Quarterina iter-General's depart- went, and had they analysed the returns he felt confident they would not have done so. The report stated that but 460 watch•coats had been issued and drawn up to a certain period, when in point of fact there had been 1,061 issued and drawn as stated in the omitted portions of his evidenos. The books were pro• duced on his examination for his own reference, but he did not remember whether Colonel Tulloch examined them. After he had left the Crimea he wasiattachedlto the Turk ish Contingent, and was stationed 12 miles from Constan tinople when the Commissioners returned to that place. If they had wished to bave examined him farther they could have done so easily. Col. Wetherall proceeded to point out the other defective portions of the Com- missioners' report relative to the actual supply of rugs, blankets, &c. [We will give the conclusisn in our last edition.] His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge will pre side over the festival of the year of the Royal Literary Fund, on Wednesday next, at the Freemasons' Tavern. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing•street. The Ministers pre sent were—Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Secretary Labouchere, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Puke of Argyll, and the Right Hon. M. T. Ba.ineF. The Council sat two hours. The Bourse Gazette of B•'rlin says :—" The Russian Government has appointed M. Wasyli to be member of the commission charged with the re-organisatioa of the Danubian Principslimies. That diplomatist, who has already filled diplomatic functions in the principalities and in the East, is of Greek origin, and perfectly con versant with the questions with which the commission is to occupy itself." COMMITTAL FOR CHILD MURDER.—A woman named Eliza Davis, aged 27, has just been committed to the Hereford county prison for trial at the next assizes, on the charge of the wilful murder of her child, aged four month, by throwing it into a well at the village of Kingsland, in that county. THE MAILS— SOUTHAMPTON, May 4.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's screw-steamer Ava, Capt. Field, sailed this morning for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria, with the India, China, and Mediterranean mails, 45 par. sengers, 2,395 boxes of specie for India, Straits, and Chiaa, value 644,7091. 155., and for Malta and Alexan dria 1,4611.—t0tal 646,1711. 10e.—and a full general car g o. This is the lareest amo un t o f specie ever shipp e d on board either of this company's steam ships. Among the passengers are Lieut.-Gen. Sir Patrick Grant, Com mander-in-Chief of the Madras army ; Col. Haines, lion. G. Edwards, Capt. B. Ford, Major Jackson, and Lieut. Pearse. The Tagus, Capt. Weeks, with the next out ward Peninsular mails, leaves on the 7th inst. The United States' mail steam-ship Fulton, Capt. Wotton, will sail from Havre and Southampton on Wednesday next for New York with the French and English mails, passengers, and cargo. The Lord Chancellor has appointed the Rev. C. E. Hall to the rectory of Shire-Newton, county of Mon mouth. The vicarage of Wardley, county of Rutland, has been conferred by the Lord Chancellor upon the Rev. C. R. Newmarcb. The vicarage of St. Michael's Derby, in the gift of the Lord Chancellor, has been given to the Rev. J. Erskine Clarke. The Lord Chan cellor has presented the Rev. J. Maddy to the vicarage of Down Hatherley, county of Gloucester. The vicar age of Stokeewith-Sorne, county of Warwick, has been given to the Rev. Robert Arrowsmith by the Lord Chancellor. The Queen has appointed the Rev. Y. Pettet to the perpetual curacy of St. Jude's, Birmingham. Mr. Coghlan M. Mg - lardy is appointed to be third class clerk in the Director-General's Department, of the Admiralty, at Somerset-house. Captain R. B. Wat son, C. 8., is appointed to be Naval Aide-de-Camp to the Queen. COVENT GARDEN THEATRE.—A meeting of the ren ters of the late theatre at Covent-garden was held on Saturday at Mr. Robins's rooms, in the Piaaza, for the purpose of considering their present position. Mr. Sur man (the representative of the proprietors) stated that since the last meeting of the renters and proprietors, about two months since, the Duke of Bedford had brought an action of ejectment to recover possession of the site of Covent-garden Theatre, and early in this present week his grace would, no doubt, re-enter upon the ground, and, consequent upon that event, the proprietors and renters will become divested of all interest in the theatre and the ground. The proprietors had no means of re-building the theatre, and had stated their intention of surrendering their leases, Of course they could not expect the duke to remain quiet under these circum stances. Mr. Surman thought the duke had acted libe rally in giving up the fi ve qua rt ers ' rent due to him. DIRECT TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION BETWEENLON DON AND ST. PETERSBURG.—Since the re-establishment of commercial relations between Great Britain and Russia, the Electric and Inter natio nal Telegraph Com pany have received despatches direct from St. Peters. burg, within a second of their leaving th a t cap i tal ; the length of wire being about 1,700 miles. The medium by which the messages were conveyed in the printing telegraph, and simultaneously with the necessary touch of the finger on the instrument at the Lothbury or Strand stations in London. This is the greatest telegraphic feat yet achieved through the medium of the submarine wires, and indicates the progressive and rapid extension of instantaneous communication. The direct transmis sion of messages between London and the other princi pal continental cities is now a matter of daily occur rence. THE MURDER OF MISS HINDS.—The Anglo-Celt says :—" The death warrants for the execution of Dunne and Murphy have arrived, and persons are employed every day for the last week arranging and painting the scaffold in front of the gaol , upon which th e y are to make their ignominious exit. It is probable, however, that there will be no execution on the 16th, as it must take a longer time than lies between this day and that to have the motion in error in the case of Dunne de cided; and the identification of Murphy being essential in the conviction of Dunne, the former must be held over for the purpose, if the latter is to have a new trial. The afidavits in the case have been made, and counsel for the prisoner are confident that the point raised by them is a very good one and must prevail. We have heard on the most reliable authority it is intended to urge the matter to the furthest, even to the House of Lords, if thie be necessary,'; LITERATURE. Jahn Halifax, Gentleman. By the Author of the " Head of the Family," "Olive," 47c. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. In taking a retrospective glance at the many and various novels that have appeared from time to time, how few there are which the reader can desire to reperuse. However amused or edified at the commencement, further acquaintance is not wished for. This peculiarity is reserved for those standard novels, " few and far between," which at once charm the taste and arrest the attention. Of such a class is pre-eminently the work before us. It is not addressed to the volatile who would wile away an idle hour, to the lover of pleasure who desires the records of an ephemeral existence, bright and transitory, brilliantly sketched, and fancifully illustrated. The world described here is that of real life, neither confined to humble limits, nor bounded by high circles, but real, earnest, actual existence. The hero of the story is, as is described in the title-page, of good birth, and as is further declared in the motto— " And thus he bore, without abuse, The grand old name of gentleman." Nevertheless, John Halifax had a hard life, although he early met with material assistance in the honest though rough Abel Fletcher. There is something strange, yet pleasing, in the qu a i n t s i mp li c i ty of the early part of th narrative. The sequestered town, the quiet life that the unfortunate Phineas led in the midst of noise, was peculiar, and seemed of itself to set him apart from the great human family of workers so active and employed beside of him. The friendship formed between the two youths so different to observers, yet so alike to themselves in sympathy and affection, rivalled any of the ancient bonds of brotherly union and attach ment. It was of the greatest benefit to John, in his arduous career, to have ever ready an attentive and kind companion. Shut out from the active pursuits of his station, Phineas had to enact the passive in the journey of life. In his long and faithful course, it was often allowed to hint to be of the utmost service to those around him. " They also serve who only stand and wait," might be said of him, for he was always intent on some one of the circle of his friends to do them service, or, at least, afford them some solace. John Halifax was of that bright and shining race who cannot be held back from taking a high place in the world ; if they do not always gain riches or rank, they are sure to reach an eminence in their own sphere. When their life is over, none feels as if they had not lived, in one way or another ! they must " affect the mind of their generation." The early accidents of his exist ence are not those likely to attract or captivate, and he feels that himself. Although truly grateful to the kind helper in his difficulty, his feelings revolted at the trade in which he was employed. His was not a spirit to repine uselessly, when he saw his duty, and he soon raised himself above his work. Real talent can never be alto gether wasted ; though from circumstance or mis management it is not applied to the highest pur poses, or allowed to nerfore, Tni o a it g, „ jfi , d ULU in.antax. In a short time the poor starving boy he found in the street was the soul of Abel Fletcher's establishment; his intelligence and fore sight preserved his property when the experienced and trusted hands failed. The scene of the riots is very effectively described ; nothing but determi nation could have saved the property and even the life of the master, who, although just, was stern and inflexible. In such an emergency a daring and energetic character like John's was sure to be of service. The starving wretches saw they could not frighten him, but they felt also that he pitied them. It was true that he did not trust to the might of armed associates, or the cunning of stra tegems, when in the midnight hour he stood before the assailants outside the house. It was carrying out a higher precept than any worldly wisdom ever fashioned when he gave food to those who au hour before were ready to take his life. It may seem incongruous to follow so practical a hero through the more ideal or shadowy paths of exist ence ; but romance does not consist in the position so much as in the person. Still, it was not in the actual place of his business that anything pleasing could be met with. In consequence of the illnes4 of Phineas, the son of his employer, John Halifax, accompanied him into the country. Bose Cottage, as their new home was called, was a beautiful place, and situated in a spot well calculated to please one coming out from cities. At the time that the friends arrived the cottage contained other tenants, Mr. March and his daughter, both of whom had been connected with the story before, but who were as strangers to the new comers. At first a few formal salutations were exchanged, and the inter course might never have progressed but for the sudden illness of Mr. March. John Halifax ren dered groat service to the daughter in distress, and they thus became acquainted in those dark days of life, that more than years of sunshine can unfold the character and display the disposition. " Our dead," as John Halifax termed it, was consigned to the dust, and the little cottage, so lately gay and happy, was turned into the house of mourning. The succeeding scenes are powerfully and touch ingly described. The agony endured by the proud nature is vividly brought before us. Ursula March is a fine character, not so attractive at first sight as she gains afterwardsC by her genuine and straight forward manner. In the strength that was not all of earth, the troubled but steadfast aspirant had put down his rebellious thoughts and banished the tempter from his side. Yet although the con queror in the hardest of battles, that with self, he was not at rest. He could not command the flesh to obey as he ruled his spirit. The excitement and annoyance occasioned an illness that threatened his life. In the time when the strong aro laid low the weak are often known to act with foresight, and energy, unknown to their brave friends in the days of health. What John Halifax would have shrunk from, Phineas Fletcher hesitated not to perform. After many and tedious difficulties and delays, the opinions and prejudices of the world were put aside, and Ursula became the wife of John Halifax. The real interest of the story then begins. Theirs was not the union of the fairy tale, where they lived happily ever afterwards, nor the usual cere monial that at the conclusion of romances removes the hero and heroine out of the pale of the reader's concern from that time forth. The principles that animated and informed their thoughts and actions, were those that increase in importance as they approach the meridian, and brighten in glory as they are near to the sunset of life. Hence the diary of John Halifax, in youth, would have been a sketch and an outline. He is ono that we do not wish to lose sight of. Perhaps the, most pleasing . part of the story is that of the early years of their married life, the ten years that were the life of Muriel. The first brief was their first-born child being born blind. Yet after a time this affliction was not so heavy, for the little Muriel was like an angel of peace in the house. She was especially her father's favourite, and he ever regarded her with a trem bling tenderness, as if he felt she was l en t— no t given. Death had: no terrors for the child, her happiest hours were spent in " talking with angels," as she called playing on a harp, that was never touched but by her, that stood in some deserted room. They were desirous that she, who could never witness the horrors of mortality, should only regard death "as a calm sleep, and a joyful waking in another country, the glories of which eye had not seen, nor ear heard." The best idea of heaven to her was where all should behold as well as know, and this was expressed on her tomb. " Muriel Joy Halifax,"—'' Whereas I was blind, now I see." John Halifax never was the same after her loss ; for some years after he seemed to stand still, as it were, in his course. The stirring plans, the lofty pur poses that had hitherto made him so animated were not actually dead, but sleeping fora time. " Sleep ing, beyond the power of any human voice to waken them, under the daisies of a child's grave." The links of the story are dropped for some years, when they are resumed—the children are children no longer, and the parents are beyond middle age —only one is the same, the memory of the living Muriel in all her human childhood. " Her image seemed perpetually among us, it crept through the house at dusk ; in winter firelight it sat smilin g in dim corners ; in spring mornings it moved about the garden-borders with tiny soft footsteps, neither seen nor heard. The others grew up—would be men and women shortly—but the one child that ' was not' remained to us always a child." A fresh source of interest is unfolded in the rising generation, and the new troubles that befall the Halifax family are shown to us with the graphic force, and truth-like style, of the preceding passages. The same sympathy cannot be felt for the children as for the parents ; but that would not be desirable, as they are only attendant on their fortunes. The impetuous Guy is not exactly like his father or mother, but a blended representation of them both. Edwin is more calm and composed than auy of his family, but he seems cast into the shade by tho side of the more striking qualities of his brother. The heroine of the second story is very different to Ursula in her youth, and does not contrast fa vourably by her remembrance. It was a hard trial for that devoted mother to see her house divided against itself by one whom she did not really care for, and who was uncongenial to her. The trust in which John Halifax reposed did not forsake him, and he and his house were still preserved, although it never could bo again what it had been —a spot where brethren dwelt together in unity. Death had come into the house and taken away the dearest treasure it contained ; but it had come in mercy, and left peace behind it ; now division and discord reigned paramount. " Alas ! darker and darker had the bitter truth forced itself upon us t h at ne ith e r joy nor afilictioa would ever And 1 8 5 6. us a family again." It was fated that this happy, hopeful youth, the pride of his mother, the expec tation of his father, should be a perpetual blight to the course of their latter life. He was to return after two years' absence, when his brother's mar riage would have removed the awkwardness of his position at home, but on that day other tidings came. He had fallen into evil company abroad, and in consequence of a quarrel had to hasten to America. This was another blow to his parents ; and they had to resign themselves, instead of rejoic ing at his return, to the prospect of a long exile. By degrees the first sorrow faded and theygrew calmer. John Halifax seemed to pass over the stirring cares and excitement of his business life back to the days of his youth. He had a reason for com posing himself from unnecessary strife, that the others knew not of. They were trusting to yet more tranquil time for the future ; he was looking back on the past as those only look who expect no future below. "Happy, happy time—sunshiny summer, peaceful winter, we marked neither as they passed ; but now we hold both in a sacredness inexpressible, a foretaste of that land where there is neither summer nor winter, neither days nor years." The calm was broken by a new distress concerning their wanderer. Guy was to have re turned, but no news could be obtained of the vessel in which he had sailed. A season of dreary watch ing followed, during which the mother's health failed entirely. At last, without any warning, the absent returned, the lost was found. He did not come to a home of peace, however, for the strength of Ursula had been too severely taxed for her to rally. It was while contemplating this awful fact. and wondering how it was that her husband did not see it, that Phineas was informed by her hus band that his only fear was lest he should go first himself. It is not possible to exaggerate the agony thus caused to the faithful friend, who had looked up to him as to a superior spirit all his life, and who had always hoped to meet his kindness till the last. John Halifax saw that he had supposed truly that such intelligence would darken his friend's course, and that he had done wisely in withholding the news while possible. It would have cast a shade over what had been a happy time. He endeavoured, not to console him, but rouse him. "Phineas, we have known ono another these forty years, Is our love, our faith so small that either of us, for himself or his brother, need be afraid of death ?" It was - well that the secret had been disclosed, for it was soon after this that one evening, as the friends sat to gether, watching the sun set, as was their usual custom, the "Master called away His faithful ser vant while he slept." This last conversation with his long-tried companion and attached friend had not been without avail, and Phineas Fletcher could be calm, even while he gazed upon the corpse of him who had been everything to him in life, and whose death left him alone, in the sad evening of existence, to mourn over one who had been the only sunshine its morning had ever known, and whose protecting strength and gentle kindness had been as the shadow of a rock in the burden and het o o !ii f th il e AIL er"i Ma a afre — Aile." The sacred tie of friendship was tried by the last test, and the affection that, notwitstanding some clouds and tempests, was indelibly impressed on the character of the family, underwent what is here termed the " crowning consecration." It is this solemnity and sadness, that redeems the narra tive, from being fanciful or imaginary in its feelings and sentiments. The brilliancy of the hues of romance are surpassed by the light of reason, and the illuminated scroll of the ideal is put aside, for a record with the superscription and sign manual of reality. In the page of life unfolded before us half appears in shade and half in sun ; there is nothing morbid nor exaggerated in sorrow or joy, but the aim and end of human efforts are made to appear in a natural light. Whatever motives may influence or inspire it is not possible that miracles can be effected, and so after his long life of toil, and his many plans for the future, John Halifax did not find all smooth and straight forward. This idea is explained elsewhere by the same author as " the toiling of spirit against flesh, the sort of work which, if anything could be counted acceptable, will be so counted when, thank God, the long day of life with all its labour is over for eternity." In the present instance this struggle is in a humble sphere of society, although John Hali fax rises comparatively high by his exertions at a later period, but the principle is not for one class or rank. The high sense of honour, the stern spirit of self-control, the kind heart, the daring nature, were all displayed in his character, and the same qualities and attributes would have rendered him, in a higher station, a bulwark to his country in the hour of need, and a glory to her annals in the records of history. The foun dations once laid of the pure and perfect, the structure must be strong and lasting ; in the build ings not made with hands, which are designed in the spirit and fashioned by the actions, the result is the same. The formation of the character is a work which has no limits, it is an endeavour that can never be fully appreciated, and it contains results of which no one can estimate the importance. Hence it is not a mean or trivial subject brought under notice, that of a noble nature fighting its upward and onward way, from the snares of adver sity, through the curse of prosperity, to the van tage-ground that commands respect and admira tion. If the delineation of the grand in character, the glorious in action, the tender in feeling, the pure in heart, can confer merit, and bestow emi nence on a production, this one must take its place among the standard, and the excellent. It appeals to the mind of the reader, in language that is ren dered sublime by the eloquence of truth, and that worships the beautiful in the homage it pays to virtue. It presents characters in its chronicles who are powerful to instruct and edify. If they succeed, it is in a cause for which men will not give them honour ; and if they fail they know that their efforts were not directed in vain, as they were planned in the spirit of heroism, and their mission was to benefit themselves, by being a bless ing to others. The Transcaucasian Campaign, of the Turkish Army under Omer Pasha. A Personal Narra tive. By Laurence Oliphant. Blackwood and Sons. The author of this timely narrative of a rather memorable episode in the late confused aud dis astrous war between the Allies and Russia—is really indefatigable. Indefatigable both as an author, and as a traveller. He writes evidently currente calamo—and that, moreover, in a different sense from the one ordinarilyattached to the old school phrase—in a twofold sense. Precisely as the moon has a double motion (though Mr. Jeliuger Symons either can't or won't see it) revolving round the sun all the while it is waltzing about the earth with its face ever earthwards, as befits the cour tesy of so faithful a satellite [thereby producing obvi ously, and by necessity, out of those same two movements an inevitable revolution upon its own axis] —precisely, we say, as the moon has this wonder ful double motion about the sun and about the earth, and consequently (because of its faithfulness to the sun and its fickleness to the earth, about its own axis—precisely we say as the moon has this twofold motion, so has the industrious grey goose quill of Mr. Laurence Oliphant, a twofold agility, flying over the paper as the wielder of it flies hither and thither over sea and land. Currente calamo therefore—with a duplex significance writes the author of the " Journey to Nepaul," of the " Russian Shores of the Euxine," of "Minnesota and the Far West," and, " last but not least" of all, of this timely personal narrative of the " Trans caucasian campaign of the Turkish army under Omer Pacha." Timely—appearing as it has done just after the laying of the papers relative to the Defence and Capitulation of Kars before Parliament, and just before the com mencement of the debates now agitating the House of Commons, consequent upon the somewhat memorable motion of the honourable member for Enniskillen. The value of this im portant volume, appearing as it does at a period so singularly opportune, lies mainly in the circum stance that it is penned by an eyewitness of the various notable occurrences recounted in it. Au eye-witness, too, as sagacious in judgment and as vigilant in observation as the late Civil Secretary and Superintendent-General of Indian Affairs i n Canada—a literary traveller who has latterly as sumed a high place as an authority among Ro v i ng Englishmen in anage which has given birth t o a Kinglake, a Lazard, a Ruston, a Walpole, and a Warburton ! Very acceptable, therefore, we say a t once, is this personal narrative, by M r . L aurence Oliphant, of the Transcaucasian Campaign of the Turkish Army, going forth too late to prevent the Fall of Kars, and arriv ing only in time to witness from afar off the lamentable catastrophe of its Capitulation ! A sad, woeful, deplorable tale—the tale of mismanage ment here told with a pen of inexorable truth ! The greatest crime among all the great crimes, making up the grief of our remembrance of the Russian war—the war begun so tardily and closed so precipitately The conflict commenced in con '. fusion, and terminated in confusion worso con founded ! Kars—the ono word of remorse to that laborious and, up to this point, eminently success ful, gifted, and energetic public servant, Stratford. Canning, first Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, dur ing fifteen years past her Britannic Majesty's Am bassador at Constantinople. Fortunately, during these memorable fifteen years past, English Envoy Extraordinary to the Ottoman Porte—fortu nately, we say, until this miserable and irre i parable incident of the li t t l e of Kars I to its evil fate—v, fete which by P reesonablo _ _____.................... 1 precaution might so readily have been avoided, thereby sparing a handful of brave men the anguish of a series of appalling, and doubly app a lli ng, be cause entirely futile suffering s : saving the heroic Williams from the heart-breakin g anxieties of a siege destined, after all, to end so very deplorably with a capitulation. Kars—there is the " vanish ing point" in the historic and tragic picture drawn with a masterly hand, iu a few bold touches by that Miami of travelled litterateurc, Mr. Laurence Oliphant. The pen-and-ink sketches comprised within the fifteen chapters constituting our author's latest production, are further embellished, it may be remarked, than by the vivid light and the sombre shade thrown upon them alternately by the poig nancy of his regrets, and the liveliness of his ima gination. Illustrated as the really pictorial letter.. press is by the graphic peucillin gs of Omer Pasha's own Artist-Companion, fierr Zuther—partly wood cuts, partly tinted lithographs. Woodcuts com prising a vignette profile of the great alaTmuorieckis,hB Generalissimo, an a ccura t e li mn i ng of an bkhasian Buffalo Cart, an outli ne v i ew of Capt. ny Grave, and a characteristic portraiture of M. Oliphant's Circassian servant, Hadji Mustapha. Lithographs numbering amongst them the frontispiece delineative of the Battle of Ingour, a representation of the Head-quarters of Omer Pasha near the Skeniscal, a full page like ness of Hamid Boy, otherwise Prince Michael of Abkhasia, and the picturesque commemoration of an interview which took place between Omar Pacha and a Circassian Lady at the Choloni Read quarters. Besides all which, there are useful adddi tions to thesesame artistic adornments of the volume under review, in the form of a plan of the action on, and of the Passage of, the Ingour by the Turks, under Omer Pacha, on the Gth November, 1855 ; as well as a comprehensive Map of the Trans caucasian Provinces —from Kars to Kertch, and from Derbend to Sinope. Starting from Sebasto pol, our author-traveller sets forth with his reader in the first of these fifteen chapters of animated de scription, by way of Kertch and Yenikale. There they—writer and reader—wend their way to Anapa, and so onward by way of Circassia further and further into those memorable and pic turesque regions of th e C aucasus. Arrived at Soukhoum aleh, we are introduced to Hahmid Bey. Arrived at Trebizond, we renew our ac quaintance with Omer Pacha. Thence it was that the Turkish Commander-in-Chief proceeded to Batoum, there to await the arrival of his troops according to the plan duly organised with a view to their ultimate, but alas ! tardy concentration. Reading Mr. Oliphant's narrative we come in no way surprised upon the record by him of Omer Pacha's bitterly expressed complaints against Mar shal (then General) Pelissier, for refusing to comply with his (Omer Pacha's) proposal to conduct a Turk ish army into Asia as early as the 15th July instead of two months later, namely, the middle of Sep.. tember ! Not his, not Omer Pacha's was the fault of the Turkish expedition being , r , e in. nd l e a r s e t d , In nu gatory by its dilatoriness ! Not his, not Lord Strat ford's the crime exclusively of leaving Kars then, , • , , 7tlcl i ed till the fatal hour had struck for 't' capitulation. The fault of the o e t s y zi,s B ,knenisaada vance of the Turkish army across the Euxine was (in truth be it said) not Omer Pasha's, BIT Mar shal Pelissier's ! The crime of reserving all assist ance from the devoted garrison of Kars was (in simple justice be it added) not so much Lord Strat ford de Redcliffe's As—that of Her Britannic Ma jesty's Government. Reflection only helps to convince us of this more and more implicitly and confidently. A shameless Cabinet at home is willing enough we percei ve to make a stalking horse of a petu lant and irritable, but until nowa . hardworking and for the most part an emi nen tly successfulambassador. It were a cruelty, however, for the English public to shut their eyes after the last fifteen years' me morable and honourable sojourn of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe in the exquisitely delicate and in some respects the wonderfully perilous post (diplomati cally speaking) of Ambassador at Constantinople, and so shutting their eyes to those five lustres of an illustrious career, to consent hastily, and with out all duo deliberation, to treat an eminent ser vant of the Crown and of the Country (such as Lord Stratford has proved himself to be until the date of this wretched affair about Kars) as a hur riedly selected scapegoat, upon which to wreak vengeance for the aggravated sins of a most crimi nal Administration. As dispassionate observers of the powers that be, and of the things that are, we say—Beware ! We say at lea St— after these last fifteen years of his diplomatic career, as her Majesty's representative at the Ottoman Porte—let us hear Lord Stratford's own defence before pronouncing judgment upon him definitively! It is his due. He has earned a right to this much by the sagacity and the patriotism he has displayed hitherto. As far as appearances go at present he has unquestionably in a political sense acted most criminally inleaving Kars to its fate and in turning a deaf ear so long to the earnest supplications for aid addressed through him to the British Govern ment at home by the heroic General Williams. Apparently we say Lord Stratford in regard to Kars and its devoted garrison has acted most cri minally. But before judging him—lot us hear at any rate what it is he has to say in his own justifi cation Nine hundred and ninety-nine times he has acted nobly—if (oven supposing everything to be proved as facts at present seem to threaten they will be proved by an inevitable deduction) if on the thousandth occasion lie has acted basely —must the 1 outnumber, and outweigh, and eclipse, and annihilate the 999 ? It is a question, this, we can not but think worthy at least of some brief conside ration ! Particularly—when in other things we alt of us know perfectly well that higher powers than this ambassador have acted in regard to the late war most basely, most infamously, most treacher ously. Therefore wo say—Beware ! Be not pre cipitate in pronouncing condemnation ! Hear what the British Envoy to the Ottoman Porte has to say in extenuation of his own conduct in regard to Kars and its garrison ! Remember the grievou shortcomings in other matters of our great Government Departments ! Above all, con sider for a moment—(and this is the crown ing or culminating reflection forced upon us by recent events, aria recently published docu ments bearing in any way upon these recent events, in regard to the War, and in regard to the Peace, including among these same documents, writings as widely diversified in their general character as Mr. Oliphant's last volume, and the long-winded Treaty of Peace concocted article by article at the Paris Conferences !]—Above all, we say, consider, just for one mement consider, whether a deep game may not have been played in all these late lamentable transactions? Whether (among other things) Kars, after all, may not have been wilfully and criminally abandoned to the evil destiny of Capitulation—for the purpose of enabling Russia thereby to have in it a loophole for escape with apparent " honour ?" For—examining this fatal and ignominious Treaty it is a glaringly undeniable fact that Kars is the one " set off" for Russia to whatever partial successes were achieved by the Allies elsewhere. England and France, and Turkey, and Sardinia will give up to Russia— Sebastopol (as much at least as we have got of it) and Kertch, and Balaklava, and Eupatoria ! Rus sia will give up to Turkey for the sake of these, and in the name of England, and France, and Turkey aforesaid, and Sardinia—what ?—linits I There i is the balance of the compromise ! The peculiarity of it is at any rate most—suspicious ! In other., May it not t a after nd a a s l we l h a h v a e ve been alreadyp re-arrangedo s l I expressed it, plainly, Williams, bluntly, and directly tothe purpose, may they not Kars and our own heroic i sa o c f rifi K ce a d rs' ? have been wilfully and most garrisonios usly devoted and chivalrouseh THE "PEACE SERMONS" YESTERDA T. yesterday, in all the churches of the metropolis thanksgiving sermons were preached, in obedience to the Royal command, for the peace which has just been concluded. In all th e Di ssent i ng chapels as well ser mons of a similar kind were preached, not because the Government set the day apart for the purpose, but be cause their ministers thought the conclusion of peace was an occasion on which it was fitting to refer to the events of the last two years. There was one point on which, so far as we have heard, there was a unanimous concurrence of opinion among the metropolitan ministers of religion. We allude to the evils of war, and the ab stract desirableness of peace; but not a few expressed their apprehensions that the peace which has been con cluded will not prove permanent. We have not space to publish any of the numerous reports of the sermons delivered yesterday which have been sent to us. — Morning Advertiser. SEIZURE OF UNSTAMPED PAPER.—A large quantity of paper has just been seized by the supervisors of Ex cise for Doncaster and Barnsley, at various places in the neighbourhood of those towns, in consequence of the material having been sent out from the paper mill of Messrs. Symington and Pegg, of Gickhill, without th e usual signature and stamp denoting that the d u ty h a d been paid. The penalties to which t he firm are liable amount to upwards of 1,0001., they having sup p li e d un stamped paper to a considerable number of tradesmen. The article was generally of an inferior character, and sold for cash only. THE BAND IN THE BEGENT'S-PATIR.—The first ap pearance of the band in this park took place - yesterday (Sunday), and some thousands of persons of all classes continued from 3 o'clock until past 5 - to puur into the park, and at length there must have been at least 10,000 persons in attendance. The band was seated in a tem porary orchestra, and during the three hours that they delighted the audience with their music not a single word in opposition was heard, and everything passed off with the greatest satisfaction. By permission of Sir B. Hall a large pavilion has been erected is this puk or the sale of refreshment'. 1131