The Sun. — London, England, 1856-01-10 00:00:00

HIGH IVATER. AT LONDON BRIDGE. Pm DAY—Morn. 41 min. aft. 3—Evening 48 min. aft. 3 J" -MORROW—Morn. 11 min. aft. e —Evening 31 min. aft. 4 whether it can possibly be classified under that important head. The Times, however, so far from agreeing with "Mercator," that the nation is so hopelessly poor, tells us (when discussing an other subject) that it possesses boundless wealth, and, indeed, the fact has been established beyond the possibility of doubt, inasmuch as the lowest estimate that has been formed of the real wealth of the country amounts to at least Five Thousand Millions sterling 1 while the whole of its bullion scarcely exceeds one hundredth part of the ~- :r , . , ~ ~~- THE SU N, TO ARRIVE THE SAME EVENING, supplied to any STATION on the EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY, Carriage Free, by CLAYTON and SON, general Newspaper and Advertising Agents, 265, Strand, London. WINCANTON, SOMERSET.—To be LET, the o:d established and well accustomed Inn called the BEAR INN. in Wincanton, with the Offices attached, and good spacious Garden adjoining, now occupied by Mr. Thomas Grist, who Ii declining business. Possession may be had at Lady-day next. The property may be viewed at any time, and all particulars ob tained of Messrs. Messiter, solicitors, Wincanton, dated 9th January, 1356. THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE. Lessee. Mr. E. T. Smith. Tlll3 EVENING, TIIE GREAT GUN TRICK. After which, HEY DIDDLE DIDDLE; or, Harlequin ICing Nonsense and the Seven Ages of 3fan. THEATRE ROYAL, II AVMARKET. Under the Management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, SUE STOOPS TO CONQUER. After which the Now Comic Christmas Pantomime, entitled TETE: BUTTERFLY'S BALL AND THE GRASSHOPPER'S FE AST ; or, Harlequin and the Genius of the Spring. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Calm= UAL THIS EVENING, THE MULETEER OF TOLEDO. Characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, Harley, Everett, Raymond, and Cooke ; Miss C. Leclercq, Mr 3. W. Daly, and Mho Murray. After which, HARLEQUIN' AND THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE ; or, the Fairy Paradisa and Hanky Panky, the Enchanter. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Milian • Pantaloon, Mr. Paula; and Columhlne, Miss Caroline Adams. TRRATILE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING. DOMESTIC ECONOMY. After which, URGENE PRIVATE AFFAIRS. To conclude with JACK AND THE BEAN STALK; or, rfarlequin and Mother Goose at Home Again. In which 31e4srs. J. Bland, P. Bedford, Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham, and Miss E. Arden will appear. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Messrs. Shepherd and Creswiek. TIIIS EVENING PARIS IN 1792. To conclude with A PRINCE OF PEARLS ; or, Harlequin and lane Shore. ROYAL STRAND THEATRE. trnler the direction of Mr; Payne. THIS EVENING, THE HOLLY TREE INN. After which, HOW IS IT DONE? To conclude with HARLEQUIN BLACK-EYED SUE ; or, All In the Downs and Davy Jones's Locker. R)Y AL OLY NIPIC THENTRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Alfred Wigan. TIIIE EVENING. THE JE kLOITS WIFE. Characters by Messrs. A. Wig in, G. Vining,, Emery, Leslie, Dan vers, Mrs. Stirling, and Miss Marston, After which will be produced a New and doubly-moral, though excessively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE DISCREET PRINCESS; o^, the Three Glass Distaffs. In which Messrs. Emory, F. Robson, 11. Cooper, Miss Mareto and Miss Maskell will appear. ASTLET3 ROYAL. AMPIIITHEATFM. Lessee and Manacer, Mr. Wm. Cooks. THIS EVENING, The popular awl interesting Spectacle de Roman, called ROIK WOOD; er, TURPIN'S RIDE t• YORK. Wondrous adventures, narrow escapes, leap of a eve-barred gate, death of the mare Black Bess ! After which the SCENES In the ARENA. To conclude with a Grand F,rynestrian Comic Pantomime, called HARI.FQTJEN AND ST. GEORGE AND THE DRAGON, or the Seven Champions •f Cliristendom. Itni.ottlee open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Cooke. Jun. THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, JAN.IO. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 43 htghest since noon yesterday. 39 —lowest this morning and during the night. 41--this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.45. WIND, N.E.—Fresh, with fine, cold, onnalliny weather. AI - ~~~ _ .~ ,§3lll, LONDON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1856. " Mercator" is again in the field. The " high financial authority" has once more rushed into print. We rejoice that it is so, partly because it shows that there is terror in the bullionist ranks, and that the principles of the Act of 1844 are generally impugned, and in great danger of being overruled when so doughty a champion conde scends to buckle on his armour and descend into the arena ; but chiefly because we are thereby enabled to obtain materials wherewith to confute him out of his own mouth, aad to expose the in consistency of his arguments. A great name is occasionally a very potent weapon. The public are disposed to believe that there must be very cogent reasons for the obstinate adhesion of " a high financial authority" to a law which has already totally failed in attaining the objects for which it was enacted, and which, so far from maintaining the currency at the same intrinsic value as it professes to do, had, within a few years—we - might almost say a few months--led to more violent alternations, more sudden and in jurious fluctuations in the value of money than had occurred during the preceding century and a quarter. When, however, the grounds for these opinions are put forward, they will only prevail according to their actual value. The mystery which disposes the 01 70XXot to invest them with extraordinary weight is dispelled, and the ques tion may be discussed on its real merits—albeit a wealthy Nobleman, reputed to be worth some 0,000,000/. or 7,000,0001. sterling, has taken up the cudi,rels in defence of a favourite hobby. The letters of " Mercator," alias Lord OVER STONE, the putative parent of the defective monetary code, will therefore be welcomed by all real Currency Reformers, who only desire a calm and attentive consideration for the all - important I topic, confident that truth will eventually prevail, and a system really beneficial to the country be ultimately adopted. The general apathy and ignorance is what they have most to fear, and these can only 100 obviated by bringin g f orward the leading supporters of the bullionist theories in support of their doctrines, when it will clearly appear that there are as many, and as serious dif ferences between them, as the Times asserts there are between the different sections of Monetary Re formers. Some weeks since " Mercator•" declared that " the trade or commerce of a country are carried on, not by means of its paper money, or its cir culation, but by means of its Capital," and en deavoured to show that all the existing distress, or difficulty, was ascribable to the want of that "Capital." We thou pointed out the nature of his mistake—the fallacy that pervaded his entire argument ; that it was, in fact, a total misappre liension of the real nature of "Capital" which he limited to bullion, which formed at best but a very small proportion thereof, even supposing that the gold which is discharging the functions of currency can really be termed " Capital." That which can be regarded as an article of mer chandise unquestionably is so, but where it is taken as the measure and representative of other commodities, where it is merely circulating from hand to hand, in the form of yellow counters or tokens, many experienced persons have doubted amount. " Mercator" now apparently drops the " capi tal" argument, which could not, indeed, bear dis cussion, more especially when the organ of his party had so authoritatively pronounced against him. There is in his present letter a " manifest departure," as lawyers term it, from the grounds formerly relied on, which, in the days of special demurrers, would have been fatal to the more recent production. He new tells us that, "to obtain for the public the profit arising from the issue of 14,000,0001. of notes not represented by gold in deposit, con sistently with the maintenance of a circulation in all other respects the same as a metallic circula tion, was the object of the Bill !"—adding, " Except in this one respect, it did not undertake to secure any advantages to the public beyond those which would arise from a purely metallic circulation. The fluctuations of amount, and the consequent pressure, whether convenient or inconvenient, which would occur under a metallic circulation, were left unaffected by the Bill of 1844!" This is, indeed, taking new ground. The old positions being found untenable are formally abandoned—just as Prince GORTSCHAKOFF eva cuated the South Side of Sebastopol. The Times, oe. the 26th of October, told us that " the doc trine of Sir ROBERT PEEL simply was, that no currency could be considered perfect which would not at all times, and under all circumstances, maintain the same intrinsic value." That was the object of his Bill crede the Times—" To obtain for the public the profit arising from the issue of 14,000,0001. of notes not represented by gold in deposit," according to Lord OVERSTONE. Which of these " high financial authorities" are to be credited ? When doctors differ so widely, the public may surely be excused from pinning its faith on either ' are the last in the world to differ from Mr. COB DEN on this point. If she higgle with the Allies about the number of her Black Sea fleet, it is not in the least because she would not double it at any time she liked in the teeth of any treaty, but because she would not yet confess herself vanquished. Our inference, however, from the faithlessness of Russia, is that we would ask no terms of her whatever. We would take them. We are as consistent on our side as Mr. COBDEN on his ; and, but for his mischief-making and that of his peace friends while in office, we should have been far nearer taking our own terms. WheA Mr. COBDEN has had to sell his calicoes to a customer whose word or bond he could not take, he well knew the remedy. He took money or ample security before he closed his bargain. He acted on the same principle as if his person were in danger ; and as nations are but a multiplication of indivi duals they must act on the same common-sense principles. It was the unpractical setting aside of common sense for aristocratical and dynastic diplomacy, and branding common sense . as " vi sionary," which has done all the mischief. Had Lord ABERDEEN begun the War with the avowal that now " material guarantees," not parchment treaties, mast be taken from Russia ; had our naval and military arrangements been from the first directed to that prudent aim, those guarantees would now have been in our hands, or on the verge of being so. Instead of this, as General EVANS told us, we sent out our troops as for parade rather than for war ; and, as Sir CHARLES NAPIER told us only yesterday, the Government were not serious in their efforts to cripple Russia either in 1854 or 1855. Instead of this Lord JOHN delivered himself on behalf of his colleagues of that blood-dyed dogma, that we did not want to diminish the territories of Russia. He and his were ever hankering after terms, paper terms, with Russia. What an encouragement to the ruthless, reckless, aggressor to accept battle ! She was to lose nothing if he did ! Suppose we had demanded, after the invasion of the pro vinces, Bessarabia ; after Sinope, the Crimea ; if that were resisted, Poland. This would have been treating Russia according to the facts and realities of the case. Again, accepting as partially true that we in jure her trade at a greater cost to ourselves, and that even were the sea-port fortresses destroyed or occupied by our troops, we should leave open a vast overland trade through Prussia, this only points to that course on which we " visionaries" have insisted from the beginning—making Po land the seat of War. The political and military advantages of an advance on Poland from the provinces and Bessarabia on one side, and the Baltic •u the other, we have repeatedly pointed out. Mr. COBDEN, in effect, points out the fiscal military advantage ; it would deprive Russia of her chief remaining trade and source of revenue. We thank Mr. COBDEN for teaching us that truth. We had not distinctly stated it before. We now urge the emancipating invasion of Poland, not only as the reparation of a wrong the greatest in modern history, not only to provide a bulwark against Russia of very different quality to Mr. COBDEN'S German one—Germany a bulwark against Russia ! !—Not only as an accession of patriot soldiers, worth all the foreign legions put together ten times over, but also as the most efficient attack on the Exchequer of Russia. Indeed truth is the same, look at it on which side I you will ; and whether, therefore, you look on the Polish alliance as a question of right, of policy, of generalship, of recruits for the War, or of finance, it will appear transparently advanta geous. Saxe-Coburg Gotha and its agents may wince ; but men as different as PERSIGNY and DROUYN DE L'HHUYS, COBDEN and KOSSUTH, have, intentionally or unintentionally, told the same truth. The question of a speedily-finished war and a permanent peace is, in fact, the question whether the Allies shall raise the banner of the WHITE EAGLE. The profits on the 14,000,0001. may be taken at 420,0001. per annum, and, large as it is, can it be taken as anything approaching to an equiva lent for the intense suffering, the paralysing of trade, and the ruin occasioned to so many persons, by the over-stringent regulations of the Act ? We unhesitatingly answer in the negative, and we believe that there is not a single person of the industrious classes throughout the length and breadth of the land who will not affirm and pa-echo our denial. Besides, if the profits on an issue of 14,000,0001. was desirable, why would not the profits on double that amount be far more acceptable ? Why should the sum thus arbitrarily selected be rigidly adhered to when experience has proved it, under a variety of circumstances, utterly in adequate to the wants and exigencies of the country ? With 22,000,000/. of notes issued, not repre sented by gold in deposit, we cannot have a ‘,.purely metallic circulation." Nor, indeed, was it ever supposed that the trade and commerce of the country could be carried on with such a cur rency. No one has even hitherto put forward such a suggestion. The cloven-foot, however, is now permitted to peep forth, and the ulti mate object of the bullionists is clearly de veloped. Let the industrious classes con sider the consequences of such a proceeding, which will ruin them, but more than double the wealth of the Moneyocracy—of that wealth real ised with paper facilities, and now sought to be enjoyed with nothing but gold ; the ladder by which they achieved their fortunes being kicked down to prevent others equally meritorious from attaining a similar eminence. But for the perverse use which will be made of Mr. COBDEN'S long pamphlet at St. Petersburg, Ber lin, and Vienna, we should be glad of its publica tion. At home it can de no harm ; the response of commercial Glasgow to the statesman-like views of Lord ELGIN have but just evinced the feelings of the British public, under all the taxation and discount terrors of the hour. The same dogged determination to make his opinion prevail, which enabled him to conquer the landlords, sustains him now, but in vain. He is off the rails of commercial profit and loss. On that line he was a first-rate conductor ; but he has only one conception for calico, corn, foreign policy. We cannot trust him in the latter. A great man in his own way Mr. COBDEN, no doubt —very great atiManchester ; but even lie must ad mit the old truth, that non omnes possumus omnia ; and we beg his pardon, but he must admit its equally old application also, tie Sutor ultra erepidam We have for the present only time or space to notice one other point in "Mercator's" letter. After drawing a vivid picture of the state of affairs which existed in 1825 and 1837 (under the Act of 1819, be it remembered), he says : " To prevent the recurrence of this state of things the Bill of 1844 was passed. The uninterrupted continuance of confidence and credit during a continuous drain of gold ; the expansion of bank ing accommodation in the face of decreasing trea sure, the only safe measure of that accommoda tion ; the exhaustion of the bullion reserve, unaccompanied by any protective measure ; the imminent danger of final insolvency by the Bank; the discreditable expedients necessary to obviate this danger ; the sudden, severe, and universal alarm and pressure must not be permitted again to return. Non solam a calamitate, sed calami tatis meta, defendendwn est. Such was the wise and manly decision of the public, and for this purpose the provisions of the Bill of 1844 were resorted to." The address of Mr. STEPHENSON on taking the chair for the first time since his election as Presi dent of the Institution of Civil Engineers is one of those productions which ought to be in the hands of every intelligent British citizen, the sub ject being one of great national interest and im portance, and that gentleman an authority of the first class on it. British railways ! What a tri umph of enterprise—what an accession to national strength—what a girder to national stability— what a stimulus to commerce—what a vehicle for mercantile operations—what pleasures and ad vantages to the population do not these words suggest. Mr. STEPHENSON OR such a subject, a gentleman whose reputation as a civil engineer is more than European, Mr. STEPHENSON, M.P., whose gifted father, stepping from the obscurity of a coal mine, by the force of character and native genius worked his way gradually upwards to such engineering eminence, and to such distinction among his fellow-citizens, that his son is proud to shadow himself beneath his laurels, and counts it not the least of his honours to bear a name associated with those of our great national bene factors, and that will ever operate as a talisman to quicken native talent to a sense of its com manding powers and stimulate it to indomitable energy and perseverance in their development, was sure to be worth listening to, and to present a lost of facts, with which it must be to the profit of the community to be acquainted. Let us pick up a few here and there from the address, and com mend them and it to the notice of our readers. directly, and upwards of 40,000 collaterally, in all 140,000 men ; representing, with their wives and children, 1 in 50 of the entire population de pendent upon railways. The c3als (two million tons) consumed by the engines almost equal the whole amount exported to foreign countries, and one-half the annual consumption of Landon. Twenty thousand tons of iron require to be re placed annually. Twenty-six millions of sleepers yearly perish, and to supply their place 300,000 trees are annually felled—a number which cannot be grown on much less than 5,000 acres of forest land. In 1854, one hundred and eleven millions of passengers were conveyed along the lines, each passenger travelling an average of 12 miles. To convey 300,000 passengers a day 12 miles each, by the old system, 10,000 coaches and 120,000 horses would be required ! The re ceipts of the railways in 1854 amounted to twenty millions two hundred and fifteen thousand pounds sterling. The postal facilities afforded by railways are such that but for their existence Mr. R. HILL'S plan could not be carried out. Every Friday night when the " weeklies" are transmitted eight or ten vans are required for Post-office bags on the North-Western Railway, and the use of these vans implies at least the employment of fourteen or fifteen mail-coaches to Birmingham, involving a cost which could never have been sustained by a penny postage. Not unjustly did Mr. STEPHEN SON remark—" They (the railways) were the great engines for the diffusion of knowledge." Next comes the electric telegraph—" that offspring and indispensable companion of railways," which so much increases the obligations of the public to railway enterprise. No fewer than 7,200 miles of " silent highway" or telegraph, or 36,000 miles of wire, are in use, worked by 3,000 people, and flashing a million of public messages annually on ward, with the speed of lightning, to all parts of the kingdom, to the great benefit of the mercantile body, the increase of commerce, and the quicken ing and promotion of friendly feeling in the com munity. In conclusion, what a triumph of science these railways are ! What astounding results do they not present. One in fifty of the population, dependent on them for support. Their receipts amounting to half the revenue of the State. The traffic, carried on by them, carried on at a saving, as compared with other modes of conveyance, of 40 millions a-year. The time saved by them, to 111 millions of passen ge rs per annum, calculating an hour the less on every journey, averaging 12 miles in length, equal to 38,000 years in the life of man, and the money thus saved, 8 hours a day's work, at an average of 3s. per day, to 2,000,0001. a-year. Nor is this all : everywhere railways are equalising and increasing the value of land, by adding to the fertility of the poorer soils, by means of manure, and by facilitating the conveyance of the general produce to the best markets — everywhere stimulating enterprise, and lending their powerful aid to the extension of trade, every where quickeningithought, and opening out a pro spect to energy and intelligence. Centralisation ! The network of our railways, for us ! It has been repeatedly asked, what is the object for which the continued occupation by Austria of the Danubian Principalities is still tolerated ? It certainly does not conduce to the welfare or hap piness of the unfortunate population, who have been thereby placed under a military despotism, far more onerous even than that of Russia itself. Nor is it, in any degree beneficial to the great cause for which the Allied Powers have found themselves reluctantly compelled to unsheath their swords. Already we have sustained serious loss by the refusal of the occupiers to permit the Turkish troops to operate on the SULTAN'S terri tory. The battles of Balaklava and Inkerman were thereby occasioned ; and although these for midable attacks were so completely defeated by the invincible courage of the troops, we are certainly not indebted to Austrian sympathy or good-will for those important results. By the Treaty of the 2d December a recurrence of a similar evil was prevented. But when on the failure of the negotiations founded thereon, and the breaking up of the Conferences at Vienna, Austria refused to carry out her deliberate and solemn undertaking, and to main tain a profound neutrality, she had no longer a locus standi or right to keep a single Austrian soldier in the Turkish territory. Here, then, is another object of the Act, briefly "to avoid panics." We are to guard not only against calamity, but from the fear of calamity. Now what does the Times say ?—(see Times, 26th October, 1855.) " Sir ROBERT PEEL could foresee the natural operation of the act, but he could not foresee the insane terror which the misapprehension of its possible consequences would occasion. That it was the terror of the Act, and not its operation, that required to be palliated was shown by the fact that the moment this terror was removed every man found himself at ease t" Here, then, we find that it created the very evil it was in tended to obviate. And there is abundant evi dence in the Report of theLords'Committee, and in the evidence on which it was founded, to show that such was the real state of affairs. What, then, is to be done on this all-im portant subject ? It is one which should clearly be brought under the consideration of the Council of War about to sit in the French metropolis, to know whether anything useful to the Allied cause can arise from the posi tion thus held by the Austrians . And also whether any and what steps can be taken to ob viate the evils which they so unadvisedly per mitted to arise by the Austrian occupation. These are points of vast importance, under existing circumstances, as well as under those which may naturally arise during the future progress of the War. The intentions of Austria will soon be clearly developed. The Allied Powers will see how she will act under the rejection of the so-called ultimatum. If she be prepared to take an active part at the eleventh hour, and to visit on Russia the legitimate consequences of her per verse obstinacy—well ! In such oase there may be some plausible excuse (although, as we conceive, not a valid one) offered for her remaining is possession. But if not, she should be invited to evacuate forthwith the territories of a neighbour with whom she pro fesses to be at peace, and where the presence of her troops is neither desired by, nor beneficial te e the SOVEREIGN, his people, or his Allies. The rumour relative to the death of Lady Ellen borough is untrue. Thus, then, we find one of Lord OVERSTONE'S objects totally inadequate—the other absolutely unfound e d! W e s h a ll h ave more t o sa y on th e subject; but for the present we leave the cham pion of the Bank Charter to digest these unques tionable facts as best ho may. 1 We admit ono or two of Mr. COBDEN'S most important positions, but if invested, as he figures hitnielf to be, with ministerial responsibility, our inferences would be the reverse of his. We ad mit that " terms of peace" with Russia are of very little consequence. We admit that from the days of PETER and CATHERINBI she has never kept any terms at all, even when most favourable toherself and of her own imposing. Her occupation of the Crimea, for ins tan ce, was in point blank contra vention of a treatywithTurkey, that "the Tartars should remain free and independent, dependent only upon GOD, like the other nations which en joy self-government." Russia wryer yet made a treaty to be kept. Why, even that of Vienna she has grossly broken by stopping up the Danube, by incorporating Poland, and by handing over Cracow to Austria. Terms, therefore, with such a Power are nothing but ithe index of her position for the moment. They show how far her cunning has the advantage of her pride. That is all. Lord PALME.RSTON and LOUIS NAPOLEON The Railways of Great Britain and Ireland, which spread like a network over the kingdom, have reached the extent of 8,054 miles completed, thus exceeding in length the ten chief rivers of Europe. To prepare the way, more than 50 miles of solid earth or rock have been bored, and earth works of surpassing magnitude have been con structed. The cost of these lines has been 286,000,000/ ., equal to one-third of the national debt. Ei g ht y millions of train miles run annually along them, and as their working stock they count 5,000 engines, and 150,000 vehicles ! These same engines, let us add, set in a straight lino, would reach from London to Chatham, and the vehicles from London to Aberdeen ! The various companies employ 90,400 officers and servants Another gun-boat was launched at Wigram's yard, Northam, near Southampton, yesterday. CRYSTAL PALA()); JAN. 9 ONE SHILLING DAY.' Admissions on payment, 311 ; ditto by season tickets, 61 ; total visitors, 372. THE CHEAP PRESS.—The Olteltenham, Observer, a re cently-established cheap periodical, published at three halfpence, closed its career on. Wednesday last. It is said that Marshal PeLissier has officially notified to the Constantinople paperv, that henceforward no mention whatever is to be made of the movements of French troops ; and even the list of arrivals of steamers with troops and ammunition is to be discontinued. — Malta Times. Tun MAILS.—LimPooL, Jan. 9.—The British and North American mail steamer Africa sailed hence today for New York, with 42 paslcngers, a large and valu able cargo of dry goods, and the mail, which, by a re turn to former arrangements, will now be despatched on the SAturday of every week, and on the Wednesday of every other week. URGENT PRIVATS AFFAIRS. --We perceive by the latest general orders that the folllowing officers leave 'the Crimea on " urgent private airstirs" :—Captain Chantuer, 77th Regiment ; Captain J.. 13.. Boyd, 17th Regiment ; Lieut.-Colonel Strange Ray,. Artillery; Major Knox, 21st Regiment ; Major Connolly, D.A.A.G. ; Captain Rosser, A.D.C., 10th Hussars ; Captain Slade, A.D.O , let Dragoon Guards; Captain Thursby, A.D.C., 9th Regiment ; and Lieut.-Genera:l. Sir .T. Yorke Scarlett. DUBLIN, Jan. 9.—A deputation from Galway, headed by Mr. M. J. Blake, M.P., :aid Mr. O'Flaherty, M.P., waited yesterday on Mr. Ilx rsman, Chief Secretary, on the subject of constructing a harbour of refuge at Galway, chiefly with the aid of convict labour. Mr. liorsman went very fully into the matter, and pro mised that he would give it particular attention. GUARES FOR THE SEAT OP WAR.—Orders have been issued to hold in readiness tor embarkation 800 disci plined men of the household itzfantry—viz., 300 for the 3d battalion of the Grenadiers, 250 for the let battalion of the Coldstrearns, and 250 for the 3d battalion of the Scots Fusilier Guards. These drafts will proceed by the first opportunity to join the reserve at Malta, from whence a sitnil.„r number will be Bent to join the service companie in the Crimea. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1856. THE RUGELEY ALLEGED POISONINGS. Our attention has been called to some of the many unfounded reports in circulation in this case, and which, as they tend to keep the pub lic mind in a state of excitement, and are calcu lated to act in a way prejudicial to the accused, we think it right to give publicity to the follow ing, which may be relied on as authentic :—The reports in general circulation that Palmer had insured his wife's life for the sum of 13,000/. is not true—the stun being 8,0001., and it appears that such assurance was effected to cover the value of Palmer's interest in property at Stafford, worth about 3001. per ann um, which property on the death of Mrs. Palmer would revert to another family. In this case, therefore, Palmer had a bona fide pe cuniary interest in hiawife's life, and that assurance appears therefore to have been properly and fairly made to cover the loss which her decease would and did occasion. • We are also assured that many of the other reports in general circula tion are destitute of truth. The story about the late Lord George Bentinck seems to have no foundation whatever, as it appears that at the time of his lordship's death Palmer was scarcely known on the Turf, and certainly had no betting transactions with his lordship. The rumour as to the supposed sudden and mysterious death of the late Colonel Brooke, Palmer's father-in-law, is even more groundless, as it would seem that Palmer did not know the Colonel, who died while Palmer was a mere youth. Another report seems to have gained general credence—viz., that Palmer had, in reality, no medical qualification. We are assured that Palmer passed through the regular course of study and duties at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and that the records of Apothecaries' Hall and of the Royal College of Surgeons will testify as to the full medical qualifications possessed by the ac cused. With these and many other similar re ports in circulation we feel that we are only doing right in directing the public atten tion to the facts now stated ; and as the pri soner has had no opportunity of explaining any of the numerous charges laid at his door, we think it will be well if these reports be received with great caution by the public, as an act only of justice to the accused, until he has the oppor tunity of meeting and answering them. The charges in themselves are fearful enough to hear, and we think there is a spirit in Englishmen which desires that no man shall be unduly prejudiced till he be placed on his trial, and justice dealt out with an even-handed measure. THE COUNCIL OF WAR IN PARIS. CALMS, WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. The steam-ship Vivid has just arrived here, hay. ing on board his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, Admiral Lyons, and Major-General Airey eu route to Paris, to be present at the Coun cil of War to be held in that capital on or about the llth instant. On the illustrious party leaving the vessel they were received by E. W. Bonham, Esq., her Bri tannic Majesty's Consul here, and the Deputy Mayor of Calais. After a short stay of about ten minutes his Royal ilighness and the other distinguished indi viduals took their departure for Paris, a special train having been ordered by the Emperor to be in readiness to receive his Royal Highness and his fellow-travellers. A telegraphic despatch has been received announc ing the E afe arrival of the illustrious party in the French metropolis. On his Royal Highness leaving the railway car riage he entered one of the Imperial carriages that had been awaiting the arrival of the train, and proceeded to the Tuileries, where he was most cordially received by the Emperor and Empress. General La Marmora and several other members of the Council have also arrived in Paris. The gallant General is stopping at Meurice's hotel. THE PEACE PROPOSALS. The iliclependance Beige gives the following as the text of the propositions submitted to Russia by Count Esterhazy " I. DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES. "Complete abolition of the Russian — Protectorate. The Danubian Principalities shall receive an organisa tion conformable to their wishes, to their wants, to their interests, and this new organisation, respecting which the population itself will be consulted, shall be recog nised by the contracting Powers and sanctioned by the Sultan as emanating front his sovereign initiative. No state shall be able, under any pretext whatever, under any form of protectorate, to interfere in the question of the internal administration of the Principalities ; they shall adopt a definitive permanent system demanded by their geographical position, and no impediment can be trade to their fortifying, in the interest of their safety, in such manner as they may deem advisable, their terri tory against foreign aggression. " In exchange for the strong places and territories oc cupied by the allied armies, Russia consents to a ratifi cation of her frontier with Turkey in Europe. It would commence in the vicinity of Chotym, follow the line of the mountains, which extend in a south•easterly direc tion, and terminate at lake Sasik. The line (trace) shall be definitively regulated by the general treaty, and the conceded territory would return to the Principalit - les and to the suzerainty of the Porte. "11. DANUBE. "The freedom of the Danube and of its mouths shall be efficaciously assured by European institutions, in which the contracting Powers shall be equally re presented, except the particular positions of the lords of the soil on the banks (des riverains), which shall be regulated upon the principles established by the Act of the Congress of Vienna as regards the navigation of rivers. Each of the contracting Powers shall have the right to keep one or two small vessels stationed at the mouths of the river, destined to assure the execution of the regulations relative to the freedom of the Danube. " 111. NEUTR A LIZ ATION OF T a t B LACK SEA. "This sea shall be open to merchant vessels—closed to war navies (marines militaires ) Consequently, no naval military arsenals shall be created or maintained there. The protection of the commercial and maritime interests of all nations shall be assured in the respective ports of the Black Sea by the establishment of institu tions conformable to international law, and tothe customs sanctioned in such matte's. The two Powers which hold the coast engage themselves to maintain only the number of light vessels of a fixed force, necessary fir their coast service. This convention, concluded separately between these ;two Powers, shall form part as an annex of the general treaty alter receiving the approval of the contracting parties. This separate convention cannot be annulled or modified without the consent of the sig nataries of the general treaty. The closing of the Straits will admit the exception applicable to the stationary vessels mentioned in the preceding article. " IV. CHRISTIAN SUBJECTS OF THE PORTE. "The immunities of the Rayah subjects of the Porte shall be religiously preserved, without infringement on the independence and dignity of the Sultan crown. As deliberations are taking place between Austria, France, Great Britain, and the Sublime Porte to assure to the Chris tian subjects of the Sultan their religious and political rights, Russia shall be invited, when peace is wade, to associate herself thereto. "V. "The belligerent, Powers reserve to themselves the right which appertains to them of producinr, in an Euro pean interest special conditions over and above the four guarantees." THE STATUE OF CHARLES THE FIRST AT CHAFING-CROS3. For some time past it bad been noticed that the statue of King Charles the First, at Charing-cross, was evi' dently becoming very insecure upon the pedestal, and, in consequence, it was examined by several competent persons, who at once pronounced it to be so ; but not until the repairs were commenced was the danger in which this ancient monument stood fully discovered. ft was then determined that the statue should be raised, and its immense weight rendered it necessary to sur . round it with scaffolding of great strength, for the pur pose of supporting it during the progress of the works. Messrs. Wardell and Baker, of Millbank-row, were en trusted to effect the requisite alterations, and a granite plinth was placed immediately beneath the feet of the horse, on the top of the pedestal, thus raising the whole figure one inch above the original elevation. While this was being effected, it was found that a portion of the bronze statue itself bad become impaired by exposure, and that it was only kept erect and prevented from fall ing by an iron bolt of the thickness of only half an inch by three-sixteenths of an inch (which was considerably corroded) inserted into the near hind leg of the horse. This portion has been thoroughly strengthened, as well as some others, by Mr. Thomas Potter, of South Mol ton-street, who has also attached new spurs to the heels of the royal figure, and a bridle to the horse. Although the addition to the height of the statue is not great, yet its appearance from Parliament-street is greatly im proved, without altering the general eontour of this well known equestrian statue. JENNY LIND AT CANTERBURY.—Arrangements are in progress for securing the services of the Swedish Night ingale (Jenny Lind), now Madame Goldschmidt, for a night in our city, the sum agreed on being 200/.—Can terbury Gazette. LATEST NEWS. THE WAR IN ASIA. HAMBURG, WEDNESDAY, JAN. 9. A despatch from St. Petersburg, dated yester , day, Tuesday, the Bth inst., says : Omer Pasha has fallen back on Redout-Kaleh. His troops suffer much from the inclemency of the season. Our (the Russian) detachments harass his rear as much as possible. The Danish Government, in a circular addressed to the various European States, renews the decla- ration in virtue of which it persists in continuing its position as a neutral Power, and declines to admit that it is bound in any way by the treaty concluded on the 21st of November between Sweden and the Western Powers. The Vienna Military Gazette learns from its correspondent at Redout-Kaleh that the Turks there are unable to communicate with Soukum Kaleh by land. A private letter has just been received from Vienna, emanating from an excellent source, states positively that the acceptance or rejection by Russia of the Austrian propositions depends a great deal, if not entirely, on Prussia. FRANCE. PARIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING. The following despatches have been received here to-day : BERLIN, Jan. B.—Letters from Odessa have reached St. Petersburg, announcing extraordinary cold, and that the roadsteads of Odessa, Taganrog, Marianpol, Rostoff, and all the mouths of rivers, are entirely frozen. Generals Osten-Sacken, Liprandi, and Kotzebue had arrived at Odessa to hold a council of war. BERLIN, Jan. 8, Evening.—Very favourable hopes are entertained hero as regards an understanding between Prussia and Austria, respecting the mode of treating the peace question at St. Petersburg and at the Frankfort Diet. M. de Fonton, Russian Ambassador at Hanover, is to replace at St. Petersburg M. La,denski, whose de mise has recently taken place. MADRID, Jan. B.—Yesterday some drunken soldiers, occupying the post at the Palace of the Cortes, raised seditious cries. Marshal Espartero re-established order, and the rioters were arrested. On al: other points tran quillity remains unbroken. The Minister of War has received the following letter from Marshal Pelissier "Head-quarters at Sebastopol, Dec. 28. "Monsieur le Marechal—l have the honour of you of a fresh surprise executed by the volunteers of General d'Autemarre's division, on the night of the 26th. Being informed that a post of 80 infantry of the Smolensk regiment, with 20 Don Cossacks, was established on the inamelon situated about 500 metres from the Cardonne-Bell, General d'Autemarre authorised Lieut.. Colonel Lacretelle to attempt to surprise this post with the two companies of skirmishers attached to our advanced posts. The slip pery state of the ground from the frost, which interfered with the march of the men, often proved an obstacle ; but notwithstanding this, the operation succeeded ; 13 of the Russian infantry were killed on the spot by the bayonet in attempting to defend themselves, and 18 others were made prisoners. As to the Cossacks, they had fallen back the evediog before on Rokloz, and only two remained at this advanced post. These were taken with their horses by our men, who, moreover, brought back thirty muskets. The captain, who commanded the post, was killed. We had no one either killed or wounded. Captains Pichon and Nehlich directed this surprise with their usual vigour and intelligence ; they are loud in the praise of their troops." The Debats contains, in an article on the mission of Count Valentine Esterhazy to St. Petersburg, the following account of the state of political feel ing in that capital. : " M. de Nesselrode appears to incline towards a paci fic solution, whilst the Privy Counsellor Seniavine, member of the Senate, the most importa n t p ersonage i n the Ministry o f For e i gn Affairs after the Minister, is for the prosecution of the war. The strength of the war party is that this party includes some of the greatest names of the ancient Muscovite nobility, whilst the nobles of the German provinces incline towards peace. Moreover, the war party is seconded by the clergy. At Moscow general opinion is in favour of war, as likewise in the provinces ; at St. Petersburg pacific opinions rule in society, but are less favourably received by the population. The Empress-mother desires the termination of the war, and never misses an opportu nity of recommending peace ; the reigning Empress ra ther inclines to war ; the Emperor is undecided, and appears to fear the responsibility which awaits him on either side." We may here mention that, in the opinion of the Debats, the reported failure of the mission en trusted to Count Esterhazy must be considered, at least, as premature. The Emperor has decided that troops which have returned from the Crimea shall be allowed seats at a certain number of representations at the Grand Opera. The first of these performances will take place on Saturday next, when Jovita will be given, with the overture to the Muette, and a cantata sung by Gueymard. The non-commissioned officers and soldiers are to be seated in the pit and the amphitheatre stalls, whilst the orchestra stalls will be reserved for the officers. BOURSE, JAN. 9, Two o'clock.—A fall of in the English Consols has produced an unfavourable feeling in the market, and all securities were again offered. A report that the despatches from St. Petersburg announced a probable negative answer of the Russian Cabinet to the propositions of peace added to the heaviness. Threes have varied from 63f. sc. to 62f. 85c. All the other Securities have been quoted with a decline on yesterday's prices. BOURSE, Jan. 9.—The following are the last quo tations : Cash. ft. C. End of Month. 4i per Cents 9l —f. -c. 3 per Cents 6 70 63 New Loan 63 65 Bank Shares 3170 Roman Crsdi t Alobilier 1230 A.ustrian Belgian Fives 9l4— Spanish Throes Piadmontesa B6 Home Debt RAILWAYS-FOB CASH. Orbmns lll6 25 Western 745 Northern Lyons ,.....1100 New Ditto 737 50 nediterranean Grand Central 560 Loons Geneva 662 50 Teste ... 6OO Cette 662 50 Austrian Corn. 712 50 THE WAR IN THE CAUCASUS. TURKISH CAMP, ZIEWIE, MINGRELIA, is . Tov. 26. News has come in that Mouravieff has issued a proclamation to the Mahomedan population of the frontier Asiatic provinces, warning them to beware of the unholy alliance which Turkey has formed with the Western Powers, and pointing to th e pre sent occupation of Constantinople as a reason why they should mistrust the professions of the allies ' • at the same time, he assures th em of the sincerity of Russia and the honest protection which she will ever afford to her M ussulman subjects. Thi s p i ece of diplomacy has, it is said, produced a consider able effect in those quarters for which it was more especially intended. NOVEMBER 28. The day before yesterday three more spies were shot by order of Omer Pasha. One of them was the adopted son of Said Bey (Prince Dimitri), who is a near relation of Prince Michael of Abasia, and a Major-General in the Russian army. A. letter si g ned by Schamyl h as b een rece i ve d b y O mer Pasha, informing him that he has closed the Rus sian communications by the Pass of Derbend ; as this is the road principally used by the Russians for reinforcing their Transcausian army in winter, this manoeuvre on the part of Schamyl, if it has been thoroughly effected, is of the utmost import ance. We have pushed our reconnaissances as far as the Sceniscal, a large tributary of the Rhion, distant about 15 miles from this. In the course of one of these expeditions a party of our cavalry fell in with some Cossacks, whom they succeeded in surrounding, killing one and making two prisoners; one of these has, however, since died of his wounds. The Russians were perceived in force upon the opposite bank of the river, but upon the approach of our troops they disappeared, and are supposed definitively to have abandoned the position. RUSSIA. The Ryalide Russe,,oftheist of January, pub ishes an extract from Prince Gortschakoff's diary of operations from the sth to the 16th of December. It says— _ _ _ " in this space of time nothing particular has occurred in the Crimea, except some reconnoissances and outpost skirmishes. " Thus, to ascertain as far as possible the posi tion and works of the enemy on the south side of Sebastopol, a sloop and three boats, under the com mand of Lieut. Dolgoff, were sent on the night between the sth and 6th December towards the South Bay. (This bay separates the town from the Karabelnaia.) " That bold officer, leaving the boats which brought him between the Paul battery and the Woronzoff-roads and quay, landed near the crane, accompanied by Ensign Oskolkoff, Quartermaster Stepanoff, and the pilot Mixhailoff. Thence he ad vanced as far as the docks ; but at a short distance from the wood-yard he came upon a corps de garde of the enemy sitting round a fire, whereupon he returned to the sloop. Another attempt to land at the centre of the bridge of the South Bay also failed. " After these two attempts, our men took the direction of the New Admiralty, and lauded near the Marson Carenage. They came upon a sentinel, whom Quarter-master Stepanoff felled to the ground, but a general alarm was spread among the enemy, and they were compelled to beat a re treat. They limited themselves to a reconnoissance of the side of the bay. Despite the darkness they were enabled to ascertain that the Allies occupy the Old Admiralty with considerable forces, as also the houses and contiguous magazines. From the shouts of the sentinels it was ascertained that the shore of the South Bsy is guarded by the English." A letter from St. Petersburg of Dec. 30, i 1 the Presse, says :—" The grand military deliberations have now terminated, and a part of the o-enerals who took part in them have either l e ft th e Russian capital or are on the point of doing so. It is generally believed here that next year the principal events of the war will take place not in the Crimea, but in this neighbourhood. As to Finland, the most competentjudges consider i t impossible tobedefended against a determined attempt at landing on the part of the Allies ; but such an attempt is con sidered exceedingly improbable. Still, the greatest attention is being displayed in fortifying the whole of the northern coast of the Gulf of Finland. The official military journal publishes a judgment just passed on Capt. Suzin, of the Staff, ex-inspector of the military hospital of Kowno. He has been degraded from the rank of noble, and condemned to serve as a private soldier, for making away with the public money, as well as with sums belonging to private individuals." SPAIN. The Madrid journals of 3d have arrived. A royal ordonnance grants the exequatur to Count Ratte-Menton, as French Consul-General in Sa vannah. The Cortes have already voted 127 laws. The Grand Central Company of France had notified that it completely accepts the conditions laid down by the Government and the Committee of the Cor tes for the execution of the railway from Madrid. to Saragossa. The laying down of the rails on the railway between Albacete and Almansa had been commenced. In the Cortes, on the 3d, the budget of the presidency of the Council of Ministers was brought forward, and it was announced that Mar shal Espartero, President of the Council, had de clared to the committee that, owing to the nume rous burdens on the Treasury, he would not ac cept the sum which it was proposed to allow him for expenses for receptions. The budget was, how ever, voted with a giant for that purpose. The Paris correspondent of the Independance mentions a rumour that the Emperor Napoleon will command in person one of the armies to act against Russia in the ensuing spring. The King of Prussia, on the Gth, came in from Potsdam to Berlin, and paid a visit to the Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburg and the Grand Duchess Catherine Michoulowna, who are for the present staying at the Russian legation. The King of Bavaria lately went to visit a splen did cafe opened at Munich, and complimented the proprietor on the manner in which the establish ment had been ornamented. The Count de Flandre (says the Emancipation of Brussels) is to remain about a fortnight in Eng land. The Duke of Beaufort was received at a private audience on Monday by King Leopold, at Lacken. Prince and the Princess Henry of the Nether lands have just left Coblentz, on board a Rhine steamer, for Rotterdam. The Borsenhalle of Hamburg publishes a de spatch announcing that M. Fontes, Finance Minis ter of Portugal, hai concluded a loan in Paris of 1,500,0001 r. " The Government of the United States," says the Monitcur, " has arranged one' of the claims raised by the capture of certain French merchant vessels by the customs' authorities of St. Francisco in the couxse of 1849 and 1850. An indemnity has been glcanted by the American treasury to M. Chedeville, one of the skippers of the Abeille, for the goods which he had placed on board. This amount has been remitted by the department of Foreign Affairs to the home authorities, in order to be distributed to the proper parties." THE AUSTRIAN PEACE PROPOSITIONS ( Prom the Journal des Debats of yesterday.) Our correspondents at Berlin lead us to believe that the interposition of Austria took place differently from what is generally supposed. According to them, it is the Cabinet of Berlin which first made new efforts at St. Petersburg - to prepare the re-establishment of peace, and which first ii isisted on the opportuneness of a resumption of diplomat is relations, suspended since the 4th June. These measiares of the Prussian Government are stated to have beei i taken at the beginning of November—that is, two mon the after the occupation of the south part of Sebastopol by the Allied Powers. The Court of Prussia (says one of them) was much struck by the incompar able v;gour 'of the blows struck by the armies of France, England, ts nd Sardinia, and by the eclat of their triumphs. As soon as military operations were sus pended by the severity of the weather, the King of Prussia sent pressing instructions to Baron de Werther, his minister at St. Petersburg, to see Count de Nessel rode without delay, and to recommend the Russian Go vernment to lend itself to the attempts which might be made, at Paris or London, to obtain by non-official me diation the opening of new conferences. The King did not offer himself as mediator—be admitted that he was not qualified for the office, on account of the special position which had been made for him ; neither did he think that the part of mediator would suit Austria, she being the ally of the Western Powers. But,' said M. de Manteuffel, in the name of the King, there are in Germany states which would not be suspected like Prussia, or interested like Austria, and whose voice mi g ht, consequent l y, b e listened to ; Bavaria and Saxony, for example, could easily come to an urederstanding with Prussia and Austria, and could speak in the name of all Germany.' M. de Werther accordingly battened to see M. de Nessel rode, but only obtained an unsatisfactory reply ; the Russian unThister intimating that the state of excitement in which the partisans of war in all Russia were would render it impossible to speak of negotiations so long as the allied armies should occupy a single point of Russian territory. The attempt of King Frederick William accordingly failed. But it was not kept so secret that it was not known at Vienna, and the Austrian court re solved to take a frmer and more precise initiative, by applying to its Allies of the 2d of December. This it cpuld do all the better from its having in the conferences of Vienna proposed a plan of arrangement inspired by a strong desire of conciliation, and which M. de Buol nresested in the sitting of the 4th June, las perfectly honourable for all parties, and as uniting, in his evf s, all the elements of a satisfactory solution !' The Viennese Cabinet accordingly again took up the project of the 4th June ; developed e ms of its dispositions ; added others, which were th e consequence o f th e vic tor:es obtained by the armies and the fleets of the Allied Powers 3 and the whole were submitted to the Cabinets of Paris and London, with an offer, after their approval of them, to propose to the Emperer Alexander to accept them, and to declare that they expressed the formal opinioa of Austria. Austria at the same time proposed to present the new project at St. Petersburg as a sort of ultimatum, which, if it were rejected, might be followed by 'the respective recalls of the Ministers of the two Governments and by a rupture of diplomatic relations. The project of M. de Buol was accepted at Paris awl London ; but it was not returned until after haviag undergone several modifications, of which M. de Buol approved." LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONTON, Jan. 10.—Wind this day at noon, E.N.E.; fresh breeze and fine. PORTISMOUTII, Jan. 9.—Wind N.E. to E.—Arrived.— J am 9,—The Maria Louisa, from Clyde (e. tpt.), from the Crimea.. struck the RAMSC=ATE,London, for Card'..iff, which came in here very leaky on the Bth inet , was launched jari. off the p in a ( t i en E t .N sli . p E. t_o.d A a r y ri , gateway nier, and damaged her port bow. (s.), Crimea, for Dept. E.N.E.— Arrived—Jessie i n n y t e P r r , o f g o r r e ss PLYMOUTH, New Zealand; Autilla, fMo.rdF.arlsaleire,fir—omwPosetnnia San Frazeisco. PILL, Jan. 9.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Sir Harry Smith, for Mobile. SWAN Sun, Jan. 9.—Wind E. — Sailed—Mary Adelia, for St. Thomas. sLroo, Jan. B.—The Delta, of and from Liverpool for this port, was wrecked on the Seal Rock, in this bay, on the night of the 6th inst., ; crew and part of materials saved. - STOCKTON, Jan. 9.—Wind N.E.—Arrived—Richard and Harriet, from Callao ; Symmetry, Quebec. BELFAST. Jan. B.—The Fruiterer, of Dundee, and the Fetteresso Castle, of Fraserburg, were in contact yesterday off the 3fu.11 of Cantyre, and both received considerable damage and have put in here to repair. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Thursday Morning. Wind N.E. Arrived—G. A. Flopley, from Charleston. Sailed—City of Brooklyn, for New York. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 8. Wind N.E. Arrived—Messenger, from Alexandria ; Jane, Jersey. Sailed—Midas, for Antwerp ; C. H. Brockleman, Bre men • Thersia, Am s t er d am • Choice, Hambu rg; C anvass Back, Marseilles; Die Breit', Antwerp. Wind E Arriyed—Burden, from Copenhagen. KINQSTOWN, Jan. 9. (BY BIIBMABINEAND BRITISH TELEGRAM) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 9.52 a.m. Wind N.E. ; tide, flrst hour's flood ; strong, and cloudy. Arrived—Norma (s.), from Malta; Anna Maria, Lands crona • Endymion, Danzig ; Wausbrout, Konigsberg. Sailed—Foxhound, for Trieste. MO: CON The Li With a dc seriptions Bowed, fi per lb. lo' little chat export,an nary and 51cl to 7i( Islands, 9 was stead prices. The la official st New Yor 1855. Th dollars, ai receipts o tars, and lars. Th Bards the for the at rally ver3 Accoun mention i uncertain Capitalist Ments, az to operate Was begi] short tim Pressed s rise. o n are weali Cents. 64 Bank o f further ci if any sto rate to Per Cer 4i t stook material Fren c h F heaviness 2f. 50e. ti Shares at Frankfor news of ii Accour. 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