The Sun. — London, England, 1856-04-15 00:00:00

IVIONEY IWARKF,T AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday there was an active demand, and the supply was limited. The sales were estimated at 3i0,000 bales, and consisted of about 2,000 export and 5,000 specu lation (American). 1,500 Pernam and Maranham, at 60. to 71d. ; 1,500 Bahia, 61d. to bid. ; 800 Egyptian, bid. to Bd. ; 2,000 Surats, 4id. to 5d.; and 200 Sea Islands, 10d. to 193. per lb. The Railway Share Market was rather brisk, and there was an advance in prices. The weekly commercial reports from France state that trade has begun to show a little more activity, from the favourable effect of the reduction of the rate of discount by the Bank of France. There is not much disposition, however, to enter eagerly into commerciatoperations. The high prices of raw materials far manufactures is again a serious obstacle to the vigorous return of business. In Paris there continues to arrive numerous buyers from the provinces and foreign countries ; but they are reserved in their purchases, or they ask from the manufacturers reductions in prices which they are not disposed to concede. The best customers are those who buy on Russian account, and the Pari sian manufacturers have received important com missions during the week for that destination. It is expected also that this trade will increase if the Czar is induced to lower the present protective duties on manufactures, which amount to a complete prohibition on some articles. Letters - from St. Petersburg state that the old Muscovite party, who Dave been agitating for the adoption of the national costume to the detriment of French fashions, have not succeeded in their efforts. The retail traders in Paris oomph* of a sensible dimi nution in the amount of sales during March this year, compared with last season ; but this was not to be expected, on account of the Exhibition in 1855 having given an unusual impetus to business. The influx of the precious metals during the last two or three days is a favourable feature viewed in connection with the money market, which, how ever, remains in a stringent condition. Several vessels are daily expected from the Australian colonies, among which are the Anglesea, with 51,319 ozs., and the Statesman, with 14,198 ozs., making a total of about 262,068/. Besides these, arrivals of specie are expected from other quarters. The balance of trade is still against New York, and heavy remittances are looked forward to with confidence. The settlement of the accounts in Shares and Foreign Securities has created a good demand for money at the Stock Exchange, where full terms have been paid for accommodation. The prices of most of the English Securities are rather flatter, in consequence of the demand for money, the rumour of an unfavourable Bank re turn on Friday next, and the expectation that a new loan will soon be announced. The final in stalment on the last financial operation is not payable until the 24th inst., and many deem it very improable that another loan will immediately be taken. The numerous arrangements that will Lave to be made for the conclusion of peace, and the great expense which must necessarily be in curred, induce others to assume that a replenish ment of the Exchequer must at once be effected. Consols for money have been 94 to 93 for money, and 934 1 for account, being about 4 per cent. lower han at the close of business yesterday. There have been dealings in the New Three per Cents. at 924 and in the Reduced Annuities at 911 92. The Five per Cents. are marked 114. Bank Stock has recovered the flatness of yesterday, being 2124, 213, and 214. The March Exchequer Bill are Is. to 41. premium, and the Bonds have been 18 I. The favourable reception given by M. Musurus, he Turkish Minister, on Saturday last to the de putation which waited upon him for the purpose of obtaining the registration of 69 Guaran teed 4 per Cent. Bonds, has imparted confi dence to the holders of those securities. When Mr. Oliveira brought forward his motion upon the subject in the House of Commons, the Chancellor of the Exchequer intimated that the matter rested with the authorities of the Bank of England and the Ottoman Government. M. Musurus assured the deputation that he would take immediate steps to communicate with the Porte, as well as with the Governor of the Bank of England, upon the subject. If registration is permitted the value of the Bonds will of course be enhanced, and a greater security will be given to the holders. There is rather less firmness in the Foreign Stock Market, and the business done has been limited. Turkish 6 per Cents. have declined to 984 4, and the 4 per Cents. are 1014 for money. Russian 4i per Cents. are heavy, being 944. Mexi can have risen to 23 premium. Active Bonds are 774, and the Grenada New Active aro 22. There have been transactions in Brazilian 5 per Cents. at 1001, Do. New, 1843, at 100, and in Chilian 6 per Cents. at 581. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks ;—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 71 ; Mexi can, 224 221; Peruvian, 79 80 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 64 5 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 49 50 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 104 106 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 94 96. For English Railway Shares there is an inactive market., and in the quotations there is very little variation to record. Chester awl Holyhead, Great Northern, North-Eastern, and South Wales are firmer. The French Lines are buoyant, and in the other foreign undertakings there is no mate rial alteration. This is "pay day" in the Share Market. A moderate business hag been done in Bank Shares at previous prices. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT @NE O'CLOCK (Prom the Official List. ) IlnainA.• done. Bank Stock A pin Cent. Re(B4ced Annuities.~. 3 per Cent Consols Antmitioy 93 2f N'f,w l per Cent. Annuities - i 5 per Cent. Annuities ll4 Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 :ii Ditto 30 Yeats, expire sth April, 1885 l6 15.16 Consols or Account March. June. Exchequer Bills, 2.1 d. I £lOOO £5OO — Small — I Bar Ditto Bonds, 1855, 3i per Cent. — Ditto, 1359 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOt K Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cent. O O. Ditto New, 1813 1 Ciiilian Bonds, 3 per Cent G-i Grenada New Active, 1 per Cent. Iliszieso 3 per Cent Ditto Account Peruvian Bowls 4. per Cent ... Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1622, £St - Ditto 4;1 per Cent. biabil b isomds, 3 per cent — Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account 984 x d 'lurk, i.ii Rends, 6 For cent Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account loli Dividends on the above ;,ayable in London. lITWO O'CLOCK .....93k ~ 23 Consols, money Ditto Account (May 8) Shr. 412 e 10 5 5 20 10 PALMER'S CASE.—It is the intention of Mr. John Smith, of Birmingham, to move the Court of Queen's Bench to-morrow for the analysis by Dr. Taylor, for which he has already made a demand by letter and been refused, as well by Dr. Taylor himself as by the solici• tors to the Crown and the Home-office. BOILER EXPLOSION IN GLASGOW.—On Friday even- 1 ing, about half past 6 o'clock, the boiler in the Clyde Grain Mills, Commercial-road, exploded with a fearfa, crash. The boiler was blown to atoms, and the boiler ! house completely demolished. The south gable %RS thrown down„ brin4ing with: it a considerable part of the flooring and side walls. The engine man, who happened at the moment of the explosion to be in the boiler house, was killed on the spot, and one of the mill ers was buried beneath the shattered gable. 1 THE SUSPECTED POISONING AT BROWNHILLS, NEAR LICHFIELD —The postmortem examination of the body of Mr. John Ashman, whose remains were disinterred on Friday last, closed on the evening of that day, and did not sati4y the medical gentlemen who were pre e- t as to the ranee of death. A portion of the intestines and stomach was deposited in jars and sealed by Dr. Monck ton, and on Saturday t ken by Mr Bergen, of the county constabulary, to Dr. Taylor, at Guy's Hos pital, for analysation. On the c unple ion of Dr. Taylor's investigation, the inquest will be resumed. SHARE MARKETS. TT ' 1 A '1„ RAIL'S AS. Closing Prices yesterday 27A 4 4i •N ~ 83 - 9 17i -- 180 15i - 12i - 134 8 - 60i - C 1; :6} - 17 17 - 18 10 101 -• 38 24 - 26 76 - 78 61 - 63 29 - 30 88 - 92 6i- 74 94 - 95 78 - 80 123 - 125 104 - 106 61i 65 j 70 - 6 - 7 p - 64 89 -89 i, • •• .... 7 4 103 104 7 1014 - 102 par p par - I p, - 4 94 95 29 - 291 - 1 4 75 - 751 43 '45 •N • . fi - 16 54 - 56 34 - ST 314 354 78i - 791 5 4 - 3. - 3 i5l - 161 5G 57 83 - 92 6i 6 6 - 64 lot 10" 27 - 28 04 - 106 74 - 76 47 - 4 9 15 15i 72 -76 i 71 - 73 4 - 2 11 - it! 5 37 ~ - ... - 19.4 - 20 41 4/ - 61 6j - 7j -- ...d~ ••• - •••_ j , !Paid_! RAILWAYS. 100 a. 'vote on .. ... Noitrg. Beef and Rasta. all 3 fast iiallyroena all 3irming. Wolverh Stour Valley 'iirkethd. Lanosh & Chcsldre Janet__ all .)o. Cheth. & Birk. £5O and £25 CI , 19 Do., XSIO all --Myth &Tyusorigina £25 (issd. at £4 100 .3ristol and Exeter.. 100 Jaledonian. 618- Cairo. and Cardigaz' all Chester & Holyhead. all ':oak and Bandar._ all -fork, Black, & Pms 18 Cornwall all Do. A 8 Do. B 1. CfrieCE Junction 45 Publin&Belfastjune. all Dun. P. & Aber. Jnc. 100 East Axglian all Eastorn Counties.. 100 east. Union, A Stl 100 De., B. Stook 8i Do., New L....- 10 East Kent 100 'last Isaucashire 100 dint urgh & (3lasgo, all FAlinb. and Peebles 100 Edin.Prth &Dzurli• 9 '`orth & Clyde Jun all Furness all Do. Extension 100 Glasgow &S. West,- all Great N. of Scotlnd 100 ::rest Northern 100 Do., A. Stock 100 ')o., B. Stock 1)0 Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire ; 100 treat NlA:stern 100 Do. Stour Val, Rs' Gun. Sac all [risk South-Eastern all :...aneaster & Carlisle t 4; Do., Thirds 8 Do. Now Thirds__ 100 Lancash.andYorksi . 4 op., Wet. RidingUn all Liv.Craby.&Southrt all London & Blackwall 100 :..ond.Bright&S.Cst. 100 Lond. and N. Wostn 16 Do. Fifths 5i D0.101.5h.,M&8, 0 2 Do. Eighths,. ...... 100 London andS. Westr all Do., £5O. all Do., £4O all fndndrry&Colerain all '.ndndrxrr. &Ennisl , • 100 ktanch.Shef.&Linch.. 82s. Do., plan. k Lin. Up. 1 Nfetropolitan 100 Slidland ... 100 - )o.Birmng. &Dort , all Aidld. G. West. (Ire, all Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & Carlislt all Nwpt.Aberg. 8 We wry all Newry Warrenpoin and Rostrevor . 100 lorfolk 3i "Corthn.Conntios Un 100 'forth British 'rth Devon Rail & 100 Dock Stock 100 Do., A 5t0ck......., all 'to., B Stock all Do., B Gnarauto? 100 N.astern—Berwic 21,0 Do. do. Extension •, 15 Do. do. G.N. E. 'tura!, all Do. Leeds iOO Do. York 100 North London , 31 Is S.Watrn.,Ham • stead, and City forth StafTordshir.. all worth Western & S. Westrn. Juno I Inneaton, 'Thick's , ialtl Leicester..., 1)0 )x, Wore., & Wolv 8 'ortic - oouth 100 Scottish Central,,, 100 icottishMidland „, 100 4hropshire UL i)n al 4outh Devon 110 4onth Eastern 100 South Wales 15 ;. Yrksh. & Riv. Du 5 )0 16 ;ta'neQ,Wck. &Wo' all Stockton & Darli 16 'it zkten & Hartley 1)0 'aff Vale 100 )o, Pref., No. 22 n'.gillefl Rev. D.& R. Ulverstone & Lanes all Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all Waterford&Limeriei all West Cornwall. all West End of London and Crystal Palace.. all Do. A ........ 3 Do. B all West London. iWimblednlkCroydor FOREIGN. •11 tutwervaii.uti rd 40 Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. in Sli. at pax till '64 10 Ardennes all ielgian Eadn. June 14 Beziers to Graisyssa 4 llombay, Baroda, an Central India,Scril all Do. all 9einerara 11 i )atch Rhenish all F . .astern of France 13 1;o. New an fast Indian, g. 5 p.e 15 Do. fy.`,enE.i on .. all D 0.4 p.c.Bnds.,'s7 a'l Po. do. do.. '59, do 16 Cee.ong Melbounc guar. 5 per c nt. . A ll I Do., Lou. allot., do. 226 1 9 d. Tk of CanadaA • Do. ................... 9.1 Do. Cert. of Debon. con. into Stk. till '6 all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do 14 'it. Central of Franc( all (4t. Indian Peninsnl 14 Gnat Luxembour. Constitntod Share., 111 Do. Obligatione... 11 Do. re-is. forftd. Sb. All Dt.Westornof Cause a Shares ... .......... !O 5 Do. New 10 all Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 )0 all Do. do., '62, p. '56 )0 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O X) all Do. do., '73, without option 20? all Hamilton & Toronto DO al) Do. 6 per cent. ...... 20 17 Lake Const. & Basi• 20 all ILierre and Turnhout 5 all !L u cca Pist. sp. c.p 7.0 16 I Lyons and Geneva 20 14 I Lyons & Mediterran 20 all Aadras, gua 4 ± p.c 20 10 Do. New e 0., sp. 20 0 Do. 4i p. c. Exten all .0 all ►,(l sill Maria - Antonia „. Do. do. New ..... Namur & Llegr (wit Interest) 00. (ea interest) Sorthern of Franob Do.2ol.Shs. Do. 201. 3 p. c Bele (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs sTorwegianTrankPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Ponds Paris and Orleans Rome and Frascati Koval Danish Do. Obligations Sambre and Manse, Do. 5 p. cent. Pref Seiode, guar. 5 p. c .6 all 'A) %II .0 I all 40 all 10 411 10 5 5 all 4 all LO all to 5 !O 411 to all tO 16 Do liouthern of France, Rt. Andrew's MV Qnebee (A). `Nest Flanders Do 54 per c. Pref.. &N. W. of Franc. West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand 8' r.ll .0 !O IS !O all 6 all to all 4() 25 5 10( 50 40 ,11 50 11 25 5 SA - 9 par 2 I) 5 bit 2 2/1 1 - lii 1 - 401 1 - 41 12 -14 22 - 23 - 7 17 75 7 7 , 85. - ft6f, 6 - 6 i 21i - 224 GA - Gi 31 - 34 261 - 2 Ci 34 - 3 1 99 - 100 123 - 128 123 - 128 107 109 254 - 260 1 120 - 125 .•• -... • •• - ...‘1 12 - 13 20 - 21:0, - 2 P •• ..... • 7} - 71 -6, 41 - 41 12 - 12 - 10 51} - 55, 58 i 4 A 1 - g 141 - 14 ••• 11 24 ••• - P 126 5 ••• 4i - i 6 - 37 ••• ...... ... -- . . . Illml• JOINT-STOOK BANKS. lAcuitralmin (Rank of Egypt Bank of London . Bri. Col. Bk.&Ln. C. British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Buk. of India, Australia, it China City Colonial Commercial of Load ' Eng.Soot.AtAns.Cht Loud. Chart. Bk. o , Australia Ditto New Lendon and County Lna . &E. Bnk g. Corp London Joint Stock London and Paris Lond. & Westmiustel National Pro.of Eng Do. New National of Ireland. New South Wales,,,.. Oriental Bank of Corpora ti , •n Ottoman Bank Royal British =oath Anstralla Union of Australia • Do. Now • I* Tilinn of Lond on Western Bk of Loni 5 50 1.0 1.11 96 - 8 1$ -1! 63 - 65 ••• "" •. ... - ... i - 1 p 646 ---: ; • •• .... *se 16 16 - 174 1 3 - 2ti ••• ••• PaT ap 2 2,, ••• ••••• Iv • : .4 42A - 4 41 is lip, 72 76 8. 24 , Business done this day. 'LINES L 1 &S 1 AT FIXED -RENTALB. .M.:, . Lem•fl! lompan.. . rie(ifora.4na London & N. Wot. L.&N.W: Calodon... E. Un. & E. C 95 - 97 94 - 11 -- 13 iGt.ll - rti E. Count. Caldonie.u. 5 .•• .•• se, Wasta Yk. Now. & Berm/. Y. &NM 104 - 106 D 0..... . . Do S. Easton lit 2 I.Fi Pato & Co 110 - 115 Norfolk Do L.& N. W & Midi& Stckton & Darlingt. Afidland - 92 94 On 56 t 8 'En. Conn. (1. Count. Do .. Do L. & N.W Do • •• ,•• CitNorthi, (Awash& Yorksh. T,Brassoy M.NlCioan Stockt. & Darlingt no 14-1 7+ - al; 314 324 ItWootn. PREFS lENCE - 100 &bertloen 100 Do. N 0.% 7p. 100 Do. Delenturos I aythamdryne 10 pe . c. pref. (is d. atso2 ) 3ris. & Ex. 4P. c. Si 6 ' 00. 4 p. e. Shares.. 3t. !!..)0 Aledonian £lO if 3 - :,5 96 - 98 15t 161 ".•hos.3tHn.tln.s pe 9i a L I Do. do. Prof. No: 2. Li} Do. do. Prof. No. 2. r2ork dz Bandonsip.e El Eli Duu.Prth .f.s A her. J 2 1: • Auglian els ASh _ _ )0 Do. (14. Cls. 11 6p. )O Do. do Cis. C7p. c. 411 RS.P. spcNo. 195 - no I P - P 12/ - PM Pm .1 no. No. 2 61; Do. New 6 p. c. St .11 Seat Un., G. 6p. c .11 De. 51., 10 per cent 11 Do. 101. Debentr.Sh, )o. do. 4 per cent.. J &tit Lancash. 6p. cts ill ' l l. kW. York. J. 5111 F! 1 Edin. & Cl. 5 p.c. sh. )0 M Prth.&Dun.4p.e al Furness-- • •• 69 - 71. 11 as. SL S.W. G. 5 p. c Great Northn. 5 p. o. 1 )o. 5 p. c. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prom... 66 1 as 106 - 108 102 -- 104 ti 10j 0 D0.43p.c Do. 5 p. c. Scrip, Red %t 5 p. c. pm... 6'l lt.N.of Sca.l6t Pre 10 ()t. S. it W. (Ireland .1 Do. 4per c. Pr , f. S • 6 h. W.(l:.°T.H.Fxspc U) )o. con. led. 4 p.c. 10 39. eon. red. 4p. )0 no. irred. 4p. c. )0 Do. sp. c. red. pref 11 Do. do. do. 6 - 64 94 - 96 87 - 89 - 91 98 • 100 ,11 )o. firm. Pref. al Do. Chester Bp. c. 611 Do. do„ G 1:1_, C. do:. 9,4 - 10 161 - 171 10 - 10§ 74 -76 19t - 201 94 - 10 14/ - 151 k - 3G - 138 )4, Stk. di Do. Ches. Qua. Sh Do. do. do a Do. do. do 6 ban. & York. F. £2• It; Do. 6 p. c. Stack Y) - Am.& Bri g )). G. 5 p.c. K) Do. Prof, sp. e. St. iO r)o. Now Guar.6 p. c K) Do. do. 5 per cent . 1+: Lon.&N. W, Coy. tt leaton 5 p. et.. ••• N. [35 -- 140 ••• '''' 4.« 4) uu.& S.W. 7perct I 1 rndy . & Cole% ASh Lowly. & Ennio.3S!; LO L.,New,lC/ 4. Do. £6 .11 Irfaxypt .& Carl. 4 p 0 4i percent .2d 10 " i. 2 '1 Do 'Sid. Consol.6 .•a • •• i)o. Con.Br.l - sr. El pc tEt) Do. 4i p. c. Pref. S all Do. Pref. 4 pc.r cal all Do. 51. Pr 4. 4 p. c. WO Ditto L. & 11. Pref. S all I New., Abar., &c., pr. _ sp. c. red. 5 p.c. pm P 5 127 95 - 97 • .• ... }... - ill INLrfolk Deb acture 100 Do. Pref. 5 p. c. St ck TOO Do: 5 p. c. Ext LOO 00. 51 per et. pref 100 Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c 00 North Britich 1.00 'q. E. Berw, 4 p.c. P 1.03 -104 93 - 94 Fl 7 Do. do. do - 13 Do Leeds6p.e 9, Do. do. Quarters ... 10 Do. York 11. & "4. Pur all North Staffordshire. • • • - • • 1 - al Wo. p. 9A• Dolt Prof. 101. ,l 1 i Soot. Cent. ,New Pre .11 I 3outh Devon 97 - 99 I 5 - 151 Li Do. fixed,4i per con: Xll S. Eastern (Readink , Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d, )0 Do. Pi per cont )0 Do. Fixed 4i p c sh 231 -23 i 98 - 100 9i - 10 3. Walespica. - 4 p. c, ►ll Do. do. 4A p. c.:.. . ill S.Yorkslap.c.Guar. ill Atock.& Dar., sp. c. .5 Po. do. do & Hartl. g. b r. 0. till July 1,'5.6 tttond. & Kilk.6pc . . '. •••• . i •••• 21t 106 ••• 2i - 21,1 i - 1l li ... .... ... .• - ... 3 -- 5 2i - 3 3 - 3} 25 - 27 - IP C 4 - £6 34 38 26 28 17 19 14 —1 6 id 1 1 • id 7i - $ 10 - 12 A - 22 6 - 8 3 - 3i 2 - 3 # • - 3 4 - - 41 1.44 .• • ''''' sm. NEWMARKET RACES.—(This Day.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEG.RAPR.) £5O PLATE FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS o by Collingwood Apathy Six ran. RIDDLESWORTEI STAKES. Palmer beat Davernay. . LATEST BETTING. BURWELL STAKES. 11 to Bon Cannobie (taken). 4to 1 agst Cock of the North (taken) 10 to 1 agst any , other. CHESTER CU P. 8 to 1 agst Hospitality (taken) DERBY. sto 1 agst Cannobie (offered). 16 to 1 agst Fly-by-Night (offered). 50 to 1 agst Barbarian colt ()flared). LONDON CORPORATION REFORM BILL. Meeting This Day. A Common Hall of the Livery of the City of London was held this morning at the Guildhall, to take into consideration the provisions of Sir George Grey's bill, recently introduced into Parliament, for reforming the Corporation of the City of London. The meeting was called for 12 o'clock, but, in accordance with civic want of punctuality, the business did not commence until a quarter past 1 o'clock. At that hour but few persons had assembled in the Hall, and the interest excited, con. sidering the manner in which the City had been placarded anrl the subject to be discussed, was considerably less than might have been expected. 'the Lord Mayor pre sided, supported by the Sheriffs, Aldermen, and others connected with the Corporation. The LORD MAYOR, in opening the business of the meeting, said he had convened it iu consequence of a numerously-signed requisition to that effect, to take the sense of the Liverymen on this bill, which, in the words of the requisition, "strikes at the root of their ancient and ♦alued privileges." Uis Lordship said he was no party to calling this meeting,' but he must say tha`• whilst the proposed measure tended to widen the elec toral privileges of the Liverymen, it in other respects would totally annihilate those rights which many of them possessed. Mr. JAMES .LAWRENCE condemned the proposed bill as one that would abrogate the rights and privileges that the Livery had possessed for centuries. The day on which this bill was introduced into the House of Commons was very aptly named ,April fool's-day, and he trusted this would prove an April fool's measure. (Hear and laughter.) This measure bad been introduced in a speech that afforded no arguments on which to base the necessity of change. Sir George Grey admitted, on the occasion alluded to, that the funds' of the City had beenteliniaistered in a proper manner, and that the parties who had managed them had manifested zeal, energy, industry, and fidelity, and for the possession and discharge of those qualites the city of London was to be deprived of those rights and privileges which they had !so long enjoyed. The Livery had ever been true to freedom, when many. of its advocates had slunk back discouraged by the obetacles that appeared to stand in their way, and was it for that that they were to Lo swept away ? (Hear, hear.) The hon. gentleman then proceeded to teal:irk on the statement that had been put forth, that this was a mode rate measure, but he looked upon it as the nioderation of the housebreaker, who, after taking your plate and property, considered he had acted moderate in leaving you in posses sion of your lives. (Hear.) He (Mr. Lawrence) lcoked upon this measure as oaa of the movements of the Go vernment to obtain centralisation—(hear, hear)—and be deprived of their liberty of local action. It was by crush ing the Corporations of Fiance that the march of des potism became easy, and the result they bad all seen and knew. (Hear.) Sir G. Grey by this bill was open to the charge of deliberate falsehood, or a deficiency of common understanding, sled he left him to choose which horn of the dilemma he would select. (Hear.) The hon. gentleman, in a lengthened speech, contended that the 'Corporation needed no reform, and that one of the objects of the bill was to confiscate the, . funds of the Corporation, which, if accomp'ished, would entail a rata of from 2s. to 2e. 6J. per pound to discharge the expenses of their law courts and other expenses. (Rear, hear.) He asked the Livery to unite in adopting the petition that would be submitted to them for the protection of their . privileges, which they ought to hand down to their children in:;act. If this measure be universally resisted by the Livery the Government would not dare to persist in it. (Ifear.) He moved the following resolution :—" That the bill introduced into the Houie of Cominens purporting to be for the better regulation of the Corporati on, al though professing to ab dish such customs and privileges only as ars injurious to trade, it ignores the whole body of the L livery and a destruction of its privileges an ex tinction of its municipal existence, and is other wise subversive of the ancient rights, properties, and liberties of the Corporation and the Common Hall deter mined to give the most strenuous opposition to the passing of such a bill." (Cheers.) Sir JOHN :FINLEY in a short speech seconded the reso lution. The LORD MAYOR having put the resolution, Mr. BENNOCEI came forward to address the Livery, and was met with cheers and counter cheers. In the course of his address the remarks made by the hon. gen tleman were distasteful to the meeting, and it was with great difficulty he could obtain a bearing, and the Lord Mayor bad to interfere to request the Livery to hear patiently what each speaker had to advance. The bon, speaker proceeded to remark that the bill in question was not intended to destroy the Corporation, but was to remedy certain defects in the Corporation, and make it in harmony with the advanced spirit of the age. Instead of striking at their privileges, it would extend them, and rescue the character of that hotly as being a sham, from the nanner in which the affairs of the Corpora tion bad been conducted for the past 20 years; The City of London contained a population, of but 123,000 The revenue of the Corporation amounted to 400,0001. per annum, arid the cost of administration of these funds amounted to 114,0001. per annum, whilst Liverpool, with a population of 376,000, and an annual income of 600,000/., administered that fund at an expense under 3,0001. It was those immediately connected with the Corporation that desired to continue the present state of things. The hon. gentleman was continually inter rupted in the course of his address, which he said was a proof how much the Livery required reforma tion—not knowing how to act like Englishmen—fear ing to hear the real state of the working of the Cor poration. He considered this measure too moderate, but should have gone further. (The conclusion will be given in our last edition.) MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadowh ay, 41 Oa to 5/ 15s ; clover do., 4/ 5s to 6/ 15 s ; and straw, 11 4s to 11 9s p er load . Trade steady. ijumßEii,LAND.—Me4dow hay, 4/ 4s to 5/ 153; clover do., 4/ 8s to 6. 12s ; and s traw, 11 5s to 11 103 per load. A moderate supply and a fair demand. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 41 Os to Si 15s; clover do., 4/ 54 to 61 17 s ; and straw, It 48 to 11 8s per load. Trade rather dull. COLONIAL. TEA.—Mtich dullness is perceptible in the market, and purchasers are awaiting the issue of Thursday's sale before entering into any transactions of importance. SUGAR.—FuII rates have been asked for both colonial and foreign descriptions, but home dealers and shippers have not shown a disposition to purchL:se largely at the pre sent rates. There are large public sales advertised. COFFEE. —The demand has slightly improved, and better prices have been realised for both plantation and native. Ceylon. RICE.—A moderate business has been done, but prices have undergone no alteration. RUM.—The market continues steady, previous prices having been well supported. TALLOW.—A rather better demand has been experienced. The present rates are—P.Y.C. on the spot 48s to 48s 3d, last three months 48s 3d to 485 6d. COMMENCEMENT OF EASTER TERM. - -Easter term com menced to-day, and, as is usual on such occas i ons , th e judges breakfasted with the Lord Chancellor at his lordship's residence in Upper Brook -street. The com pany consisted of nearly the whole of the judges, and about thirty Queen's counsel. At a few minutes before two the judges arrived at Westminster-hall and pro ceeeded to their respective courts. Nothing of import ance took place in any of the courts up to the hour of our going to press. NEW SELLONITE ESTABLISHMENT.—The house and grounds known as the Priory in Bradford, Wilts, are about to be taken on a lung lease by some ladies in con nection with Miss Selion, of Plymoutb,i and others, bet ter known as the Sisters of Mercy, and it is their in tention to open an establishment similar in all respects to those already in existence at Plymouth and Bristol. Great alterations are intended to be made in the pre mises, and some new buildings added for the purpose of providing accommodation for the numerous members and pupils who are expected to reside there. Gas was first introduced into tha houses in Melbourne on the Ist of January. Thcre were great rejoicings on the occasicu. v.sua ............ AustrlA. Gob Californian \ustraliar t.nstraiisr. lye Maria, (Cd. Duchy ol 31.s3riar. Iron & Coo British Iron Brazil lulling p.(issuoi 4 sr? pm.) no. Cocaes & Culab Do.st.Johr Del Ra: Clarendon Coml. Min Co. of Jamaica , ICobro Copper Gold Copper Min. of Enc Do.. Pref. 7i p. cent (Jioputpo il'ortuna lt.NuggAVeiniteg eireat Polvnoth Gt Wheal \Tor Unite, Liberty Linares Lusitanian dariquits. low °rano da . ........ qouvean Monde Poutgl. Si 1 . & Le. Min ?ort Philip '.quartz Rock . ghyrnney Iron Do. New lantifs,zo de Cuba. Sort. Cons. Min. Co. :oath Do. Scrip Do. 10 per cent Pret [Tam. S. & L. Min. Co. Ciu Croft . Thitcd Vallor Vest Mariposa ',,Tortliing Mining 0, Australia 'iubs 124/ 103 i 4 641 St. st. a a l St. 10 St. 10 6;, • al 6: al 10 al t!.O al 6 al 10 al sc. It al it. 101 20 al St. 10 3t. 1( St. 11 it. 12 to a' St. 101 3►. 10 St. 10 4+,. 14 St. 10 10 al 8 al 0 I .%1 10 ‘' St 10 16f a 13t 20 a' A. I.' St IC ct . 1 1 ,C S . St tOi 1 ,2, I al 2! `AI .2fl qt. I qt. 1031 101/ i 711 5i 2g al 10 1 A.. al St. It .241 a: 61 i a 25i i d 113.E 1 LONDW TUESDAY. EVENING, - APRII; } 6. 1856. n1111 , !£ . 14f the Jai I Spirit of the Public Journals. (From the Times of this day.) No one is able to say exactly and confidently why the report of the Crimean Commissioners has itself been called in question, put on its trial, and exposed to all the chances that time, distance, bad memory, and good interest cannot fail to create against it. For whatever purpose the Commission was intended, the report might hare been taken as conclusive, We are not, however, concerned with the measures by which the higher powers, after'shelving that report for months, have exposed it to the risk of being finally discredited. We are not behind the scenes, where, evidently, there is some mystery. But whatever the intention, we are now sure of one re suite—it is, that the men in command in the Crimea are still what they are they believed to have been. Out of their own mouths they declare that they are still the men to lose any number of horses and , men, and every thing else committed to their charge. Nobody can doubt, indeed they do not wish us to doubt, that in the event of another war they-would do precisely what they did in the winter of 1854. They are perfectly sure they did all that could be expected from them. Indeed, what could they do ? There wasn't a good shop in the place—not a tradesman calling for orders. There were no carpenters or labourers—no sailcloth, or scantling, or ropes, or good tools. They were wholly neglected. What could rhey do in such a case? It has never occurred to these gentlemen that when a number of Englishmen go with their horses 3,000 miles from home, and land in a f 'reign country,_ for the express purpose of destroying, killing, and doing all kinds of mischief, they must ex pect to encounter some difficulties. If they go to fight Cossacks, they must not expect to fare much better than Cossacks, and indeed will probably have to do what the Cossacks have to de. The English nob'eman cannot carry-Grosvenor-square and Belgravia with him so far. He must bid adieu not only to his own well-conducted establishment, but even to the livery-stables ; to the c iruchandler, with his unfailing loads of hay and corn, and his quarterly bills ; to his excellent saddler, his clever farrier, and to the whole race that mi nister with such fidelity to the wants of a good customer.. Now, it might have been supposed that the experience of the Crithea would have impressed this lesson on our noble cavalry officers, and that, whatever the faults of the past, they would not be likely to repeat them. No such thine. It, unhappily, the present difficulty with America should ripen into a war, and 5,000 cavalry should be-sent to Canada, it is quite evident that Lord This and Lord That, and all the Honourable?, and their respective Staffs, would do precisely what their prede cessors did in the Crimea, and before the first winter was over we should hear that man and horse had suc cumbed, not to bullet or sabre, but to frost and snow, to want of shelter, clothing,-food, and all things, under cir cumstances where the rude British settler lives, -thrives, and is happy. Just suppose, in any future war, the stabling of a few hundred cavalry horses left to Lord Lueau, and to Colo nels Douglas, Doherty, and Low,' who were examined on Friday. Would they do otherwise than they did in the Crimea ? When. the Commissariat is left in the rear, when the means of transport gets rather short,-or any other ° difficultycomplaints board, appears, n o ledoubt whether h Lordshipe wlkeep willrmtih the s a Commander-inn-Chief horses mader and men is not - in- C hief folly so a with cert tihn. Colonel e of his Douglas, it appears from his own answers, will be very careful not to make a suggestion, or even set an exam ple, that' might be construed into a reflection upon the conduct of his superiors, lie cannot say whether men. could have been hired to erect shelter, or whether sea men and carpenters could have been obtained from the ships. With 108 men effective, and clear of all deMands, on the Ist of December, he took no steps for sheltering his troop-horses for several weeks—till January, it would appear from one answer. For this delay the chief °ices° given is the want of a sufficient supply of tools, though any labourer kno we, as Mr. Galtort has demonstrated, that on almost every soil, with almost any implement of iron, one man could make .an excavation sufficient to yield considerable shelter to himself or a horse in one day. Colonel Doherty believed they commenced hutting the horses about the latter end 'of January, and that for the whole of the two previous months the horses were standing at their pickets unprotected. For this he knows no remedy, and appears to know none even now in the probable emergency of there being no sailmaker, or timber merchant, or contractor at hand, with a good supply of the propsr materials. lie could not say, and cannot now say, whether it is likely that assistance, in men or materials, could have been obtained from the fleet. He only supposes that if sailors had been • Mid for the work their services might have been procured. As this supposition cornea out elsewhere, and as it is evident the British sailor is in the eyes of the British s ildier a sort of marine navvy, procurable for any service on the c 'edition, and only on the condition, of pay, it is worth inquiring how far that supposition is founded on truth, and whether the ,two services stand in the rela tion, not of fellow-servants, bet of independent allies, ready to help one another, not for love, but for money ; to do a day's work for a day's pay, The other officer examined on Friday, Lieutenant Colonel Low, seems to have been equally without resources during the mouths of December and January, even though •he lost - 100 horses out of 143 in three months. Now, we should be very sorry to spail the romance of par, especially that of the most romantic branch of the service —the cavalry regiments. Bat .we respectfully submit that if horses are necessary to it, and if a Dragoon without a horse is no longer a Dragoon, but-an exCeed inely awkward and useless animal, cavalry officers ought to be instructed in the art of preserving their horses. We submit that no officer should be intrusted with the : command of_ a single Dragoon till he has been examimd as to the proper steps to be taken in those emergencies that a••e certain to occur in war. War does not consist exclusively of sword exercise, or even of manoeuvre ,, , still less of charges without any manoeuvring. Indeed, in all ages, the best generals have been quite as remark able for their di;igence; promptness, and dexterity in feeding -man and horse as in handling them when fed. Cm-ar, whom even Lard Lucan would probably think something better than a clerk in the War-office, took special care of his commissariat, was a first-rate engi neer, disdained no aitifice, dismounted his cavalry, mounted his infantry, dug miles of trench, ran up earth works in a couple of hours, and made the same men foot soldiers, horse soldiers, "navvies," sailors, or whatever the occasion required. In this way it was that he non quered the world, in spite of his di-advantage in being by birth the first gentleman in Rome. Notwithstand ing the immunities of his p)sition, he condescended to be, like all other great generals, a professional soldier ; arid he learned his art as regularly as the Stephensons, the Brunels, and the Brasseys of this age have learnt the art of making railways. There appears to be to doubt that both the Russians and the' French consider war a profession, and not mere good company and horse manship: We must do as they do, unless we would be beaten ; and beaten we certainly shall be most cruelly, unless we commit our brave soldiers to the care of men who can do something more than charge the enemy's gum: and let the survivors perish for want of the most ordinary care. (Prong the Times of this day.) The hill of the war will kohably never be presented to the British public in a separate form. It is, however, a very netural subject of curiosity, and something like an approximation can be obtained. Our public expen diture, under ordinary clieumstances, is very unif orm , and there is no great difficulty in assigning any ex nem to its proper causes. Hence the quarterly ac count of the public income and balances in the Exchequer, which we publish to day, is a very intelligible document. Before the war our expendi ture was usually but little over 50,000,000/., which had become as much the figure of our e-ta blishment, as a Rentlemen's 5,000/. or 10,0001. a-year. In the financial year just ended it has been 88,429,3452., is round numbers, 40,000,0001. more than iu peace. At all events, wo may certainly say that w e s p en t l as t y ear 35,000,0001. more than we should have done but for that little freak of the Emperor Nicholas. This appears in another way. The excess of expenditure over in c )me in the year ended March 31, 1356,.as stated in the return, was 22,723,854/. although the increased Income tax end'other war taxes had: produced about 15,000,0001. A.ddino• thus what we did pay out of the taxes to what we dienot, the result i s near 33,000,000/. To meet the excess we contracted in the course of the year two new loans, the f6rmerfor 16,000,0001. thelatter far 5,000,0001., with certain powers or funding Exchequer-bills, to the amount of three millions more. The produce of all these operations, the last of which is far from exhausted, was 20,123,0001. The unfunded debt meanwhile has been increased by some millions. On the face of the table the "supply services" for the army, navy, ordnance, and votes of credit far the war come to about 52,000,0001. —a singular comment on the very recent proposition for reducing the cost of the national defences to 10,000,000/. We shall not be over the mark if we put our share in the costs of the Russian war during the year just ended at 35,000,0001. It is true that much of it was paid for the charges of the previous year, but it is equally true that much—very probably as much, remains to be paid for this year—that is, the year just ended. It is also to be considered that much we are now doing is for future use but few of our readers will derive comfort from the re flection that the warjust concluded will leave behind it an immense establishment, personal as well as material, to he kept up, to waste, or, still worse, to be found a use for. Thirty-five millions are certainly a very large sum to spend in bloodshed and destruction in the course of one twelvemonth. How many social wants might have been met, how many evils redressed, by half or a quarter of the money ! This is a consideration, of course, of little weight when honour is in question, for honour knows no price ; but it is a consideration when we are not actu ally on the eve of war, when we have still time to look about us, to clicotie uur line, whether proud and provoca tive, or modest and pacific. War is the most costly of all amusements, and no donbt Providence means it to be so ; for there are people, we had almost said nations, who would speedily exterminate all the earth besides, if they could do it cheaply. It is true we have not been riffled. On the 31st of last month the Chancellor of the Exchequer had a larger balance in hand than on the same day of the previous year, and powers of borrowing unexhausted. Were he now to announce a "clearing loan" of ten millions or so, he would probably obtain the money on very easy terms. Our expenditure has been very much less than in the last year of the last war, when the country was not half so wealthy as it now is ; when there was not a tithe of the machinery, no railways, and when even the soil was not half so productive. We should have been well able to carry on the war ten cr twenty years longer without any excessive pressure on our resources ; and, were money all, we could prosecute another such war with any nation that might compel us to the trial. But there is the danger of our wealth. The lighter elements of the nation are easily excited to war, the cost of which only falls on those who have sure means the losses of which only fall on some families, and the magnitude, splendour, - and extravagance of which are themselves, to many, its chief recommen dation. (From the Morning Herald of this day.) The Government has for the present escaped the con sequences of the motion of the member for Inverness ; but we trust that it is not the intention of Mr. Baillie to abandon his intention of calling the advisers of the Crown to account for their foreign enlistment policy. Lord Palmerston adroitly avoided the impending danger last night by pleading the absence of Lord Clarendon, and the necessity for the presence of the Foreign Minister before the papers relating to the subject of Mr. Baillie's motion could be laid before the house, and more espe cially the correspondence with the American Govern ment. So the matter rests ' • and thus for the hour a ministerial crisis and a dissolution have ben deferred, bat that is all. The terms of Mr. Beillie's motion were sufficiently ex plicit. That the conduct of Ministers of the Crown, in the matter of foreign enlistment, "in defiance of the laws of foreign countries, and in despite of public re monstrances, is inconsistent with the good faith and 'friendly conduct which ought to characterise all our relations with allied states ; and has tended to lower the dignity, to endanger the peace, and to compromiye the honour of the nation." It is no wonder that Lord Palmerston shrunk from meeting this resolution. lad it been debated, and pressed to a division, Ministers would have either been defeated, or left in so narrow a majority as to render the last alternative of a tottering Government inevitable. The result of our efforts at enlistment on the Conti nent were not calculated, it must be confessed, to raise the character of this country or Government throughout "Europe, or to conciliate the good-will of those nations with whom we are on terms at least of amity. In some instances our attempts to obtain recruits were promptly, if not contemptuously, defeated ; in others, as at Co. - logne, our officials were treated with insult ; but the effect of our policy in America has been - the most un fortunate, and has all but given rise to a most serious misunderstanding with the Government of the States. On this recruitment . question we have commented fre quently and fully, and in our remarks have endeavoured to do justice to the Foreign-office, as well as to our Mi niater at Washington, and to the British consuls said to have been implicated in the enlistment of American ci• tizens within the jurisdiction of the Union ; and having read all the documents and correspondence which have appeared en the subject, we are still of opinion that the American Government have failed to make good against our representative or ufficials the charge of infringement of the municipal law of the States. In fact, the opinion a' both of Mr. Marcy and Mr. C. Cushing ou this matter conflict with that of one of thejudges of the Supreme Court of the Union, sitting at Philadelphia. But admitting, as we have readily done, that the violation of the munici pal law of the States has not been made out, the Govern ment of this country still stand convicted of having, by an obstinate persistence in a stupid, needless, and inef fective policy, placed the relations of this country wish America in serious jeopardy, and even, in the terms of Mr. Baillie's resolution, "endangered the peace" of the two countries. • If we required troops to make up the losses occasioned by our bungling in the Crimea, where was that "national reserve" of which Lord Palmerston boasted so confidently ? Or if the militia was not avail able to the extent it .should have been, and it became necessary to look beyond our shores, why not go at once for a Canadian contingent, instead of establishing depots in Canada and other places in our North American colo nies, for the enlistment of the citizens of the United Stites who chose to cross the St. Lawrence ? The Go verntuent of Washington became incensed, for they saw that while we affected to respect the letter of the Ame• rican law, we were endeavouring to violate its spirit. And what is the consequence ? So menacing has become the language of the. American Government and Senate, that our ruiers have considered it advisable to be pre pared for the worst; and accordingly, as was announced exclusively in our columns yesterday, ten thousand troops are to proceed from the Crimea direct to Canada, under the command of Sir Richard Eyre. Some weeks ago we pressed the expediency of this movement as the best assurance against a surprise—as the best answer to the injurious lan guzige of the American Government. It will be also in the recollection of our readers that at the same time we directed attention to the necessity of strengthening the military positions of. St. John's and Montreal, of repair ing the fortifications of Quebec, aed of supplyiug the Canadian army with additional stores of ammunition. Our advice has been taken, in one respect, at least ; but the necessity for such preparation has been created, wan tonly created, by a Government that can only be taught wisdom by disaster, that cares nothing for the dignity of the country, and is only coerced into activity by the dread of a Parliamentary defeat. Yesterday a Ministerial contemporary held out the threat of a dissolution, in anticipation of an unfavourable result of Mr. Baillie's motior. The motive was obvious. Honourable gentlemen will sometimes vote for a go vernment they neither like nor respect rather than face their constituencies, and upon this fear our contem porary has endeavoured to practise. It is a far different case, however, when we give, as me have done so fre quently of late, our reasons for regarding a dissolution of Parliament as an event neither distant nor uncertain. Mr. Baillie's motion may or may not come on again, but other motions equally dangerous to an Administra tion without Parliamentary support must and will. The weakness of a Government begets unceasing hostility, and nothing has saved that which is named by the name of Palmerston but the toleration accorded during the progress of the war and the settlement of the peace. That toleration has come to an end. IRELAND. DUBLIN, MONDAY MORNING. TIIE SPECIAL COMMISSION. Another of the tt:sassins of Miss Hinds has been made a,inenable to juAice. Yehterday evening, after two day,' trial, Taos. Dunne, a respectable farmer, was found guilty. He and James Murphy were sentenced to be executed. Dunne was the chief plotter in the conspiracy to murder Miss Hinds, and it was in his house that the doom of the unhappy lady was sealed. THE RAILWAY FORGERIES. At the head police-office this day Mr. James M. Knighting was brought up charged with having com mitted another forgery of a transfer of railway shares. From the evidence it appeared that Mr. Knighting in June last called at the office of Mr. Robert Corbett, stuckhroker, and stated that Mr. 11. M. Jones, of Hampstead, was anxious to dispose of 156 preference shares in the Great Southern and West ern R.tilway, and that, inasmuch as hi 3 residence was at some periods uncrtain, he wished to appoint Mr. John J. Ryan, of the Lunacy-office, as his agent. In accoid. at,ce with this direction a deed of transfer from Mr. Jones to Mr. Ryao was made out in Mr. Corbett's office and forwarded to the Great Southern and Western Railway office, from which it was returned with the signatures of Mr. Jones as transferer and of Mr. Ryan as accepted of the 156 shares. Ia accordance with fur ther directions, the shares were sold by Mr. Corbett, and paid to Mr. Ryan in four cheques—one on the Batik of Ireland, and 3 on another fir.a. Mr. Jones now attended and deposed that he had never signed the transfer, and that h 3 was now the pro prietor of the shares originally allotted to him in the Great Southern and Western Railway. After a lengthened investigation the prisoner was committed for trial on two charges ; bat it is feared that forgeries to a far greater extent will yet be dis covered. CROSSED CHECKS. The subjoined letter furnishes a suggestion worthy of attention in connection with the apparently un satisfactory bill now in progress through Parlia ment relating to crossed checks : " Sir, —Permit me to inquire whether it is not war rantable so to construe the cue of crossed checks, under the bill now in progress for legalising them, as to secure more advantages than appear available on a superficial view. " Recent legal decisions have declared certain former practices, notwithstanding the force of custom, to be in conflict with the law ; consequently the law is to be el,auged so as to legalise the custom-- expressedly to the following extent :- - "Henceforward draughts to bearer, notwithstanding that they be unstamped, shall, if crossed, be payable only to or through one specific class of bearers—bankers. Thus the banking class; whose memlers has e been in the habit of either recognising or ignoring such restrictions across draughts, sometimes capriciously, but always un systematicaXy, will henceforward lose the option and incur an obligation to restrict payments of crossed checks to or through some banker. "But payers of money by check intermediately desire the still further protection of being a ble to restrict such payment to the banker of the payee, or the holder of s : n open check, fearing to loss it, desires to make it unava:l - able except through his own banker. May not these desiderata be obtained under such regulations as the following 1— "1. Let bankers, by concert, refuse to give credit for checks already crossed to other bankers, except by be coming responsible as towards all concerned. "2. In respect of more crossings than one let bankers concert and announce a regulation to the effect that in the capacity of drawees they will exercise au irresponsi ble option of refusing payment of such checks, either absolutely or otherwise than to such banker as they shall elect. " Under such regulations the receiver of the money is identified as responsible through his own agent or banker ; whereas the paying banker is absolved if he pay through some banker. " A facile mode of barring protests might be to print such regulations upon checks intended to be crossed. At present a crossed check can be again rendered an open one by being subscribed bank notes,' with the drawer's Initials. Caution is desirable, lest this useful power of revoking restrictions be taken away by the new bill. " Yours, &e., " J. A. FRANKLIN." AInUVALS OF SPECIE.—The specie by the Atrato from the West Indies consists of 86,6501. gold and 42,360/. silver, making a total of 129,0001. Ad vices by the Brazilian mail state that the Black. wall, from Port Phillip, left Pernambuco on the 14th of March for London. This vessel has 87,281 ounces of gold, valued at 350,0001. The Victoria, from Adelaide, also sailed on the Fame day. The An glesey and the Statesman, which left Melbourne on the 26th of January for London, are expected to bring an aggregate of 65,517 ounces of gold, valued at 262,0681., respective quantities being 51,319 and 14,198 ounces, IDo %11 ,a 1; 10) 100 40 6 St. 25 [0 28i 1 .11 11 zll t2s IeIISCELLANBOUB. 25 10 Australian Agricqlt. all kus 3 ,raln. Royal Mail [0 all Berlin Water Works 64 50 .40 American Land _ 'OO Canada, 140145 114) o.oo.tip.e. lan& ;ulylll 110 ; noi St. 100 Do. Gp. c. Feb & Aug !107 109 - St. 100 Do. 6p. c. Mar & Sept 'lO6 103 all (irysta) Palace 2s 5 all Do. Preference...,, sg 5p 4 a ll Cryatal Pater France .* 1 4 Duston Iron Ore 20 13 Eastern S team — ••• •• 5 a ll ti n . &Aus Cop Sm Co 1i St. 100 Electric Telegraph 92 91 1 all Electric. Teleg. of Jr Got* 5 all Gen. Iron Sc Collier • 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. 18 all General Screw Steam ' 4 all Loud. Gcn. Omnibus 34 33 20 10 Maga...lens St. Navig 10 all cditeran. Elec. Tel. 8 10 10 9 skexiettn&S.Americn. 51 61 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 5 Netherlands Land , 1 2 10 all Do. Do. 5 2 Do. 8 pePissatld 100 80 New B. & N.S. Land 18 22 1 all 3 , 1'. B. Australasian 4 _ 20 15 Nrtli.efEUrOpeStaaln 78 SO 1 all Oriental G as l4 )4 1 2s. Do. " NeW , Shares" all Peel Br. La.& Mimi. 21 si 50 all Peninsular& Oriental 50 10 Do. New ..... ... . 100 60 gayal Mail Steam 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. l4 1 1 A Ditto New 25 all South Austral:Lan d 39 Submar. Tel. Scrip...— 14 :=0 al , 0, Reyieterod ...... 14 I'i 5 rrust& L.Co.IJ.Can„ 100 1 24i rti.x.mn' , 3. And 154 164 V.Go.op.c.JAuSauly 400 j 'ES. .. .. LITERATURE. Little Dorrit. No. V. By Charles Dickens. There are two perfectly, new characters intro• duced in this fifth number of "Little Dorrit"--• Pet's Lover, one Harry Gowan, a sort of Steerforth in his way, and Amy's Lover, one Young John, which (as . Mrs. Gamp would say) his family name is Chivery ! Such capital portraitures as they are —each of them—both of them—Pet's Lover, and Amy's Lover—Harry Gowan and John Chivery It is such a relief, too, to get among theni!after that horrid Mother Clennam, and those abominable Flintwinchs. - About whom and whose doings the introductory chapter of the present instalment is exclusively occupied. "Mrs. Flintwinch has an other Dream" is its title—and the dream recounted is as usual, ghost-like and goose-fleshy, as befits the horrible old tumble-down city-house on the crum bling crutches 1 Mistress Affery sitting in the kitchen the while—and " them two clever ones" (Jeremiah, of the " cut-down aspect," and she of the wheel-chair and the impious balance-sheet a ith Providence), closetted upstairs in familiar consulta tion. Then it is that the ghostly visit comes to Mrs. Affery dozing before the kitchen grate, getting the kettle ready for tea—with " a sound of rustling" somewhere behind in the dark room, and " three or four quick beats like a rapid step," and the sense as of an " awful band" upon her shoulder The description of the old house is good—but that of the interview and consultation upstairs tedious to the last degree. All the glimmering intelligence to be gathered from it as yet, appears to be some dim, vague, indefinable intimation difficult to express in any way, to the effect that the clue to all these mysteries will be discoverable some fine day or goblin night, by means of Mrs. Flintwinch afore said. Enough of them, however, and turn we now to the new -comets, and their associates. First of all comes--" Nobody's Weakness"—can't you guess what that is ? Well, let us whisper— Love ! love growing up in the heart of good Arthur Clennam, for—No ! not for Little Dorrit as one might have anticipated, but for—Pet, otherwise Minnie Meagles. Love gradual:y shining out upon us, brightly, freshly, beautifully—as only a master-hand could describe it with such an infinite delicacy and novel tenderness I - "Nobody's weakness"—leading us as by the most natural sequence in the world to our acquaintance with " Nobody's Rival"—this Gowan already men tioned. The manner in which it all comes about is this—Daniel Doyce and Arthur Cleunam go down together on a visit to their common friend (in some particulars, be it said, their uncommon friend), bluff, hearty Mr. Meagles, in a pleasant little re treat of his, a sweet suburban cottage-residence at Twickenham. A pretty, queer sort of a dwelling, so stored with articles of the most miscellaneous kind, picked up by Mr. Meagles during the course of his continental excursions, that it seems, for all the world, like the abode, saith Boz, of " an ami able Corsair !" Fancy among these curiosities, "morsels of tesselated pavement from Hercula-, neum and Pompeii, like petrified mince veal ! And in the little picture-room " a few of the regu lar sticky old Saints, with sinews like whipcord, hair like Neptune's, wrinkles like tatooing, and with such coats of varnish that every holy personage served for a fly trap, and became what is now called in the vulgar tongue Catch-em-alive 0!" Imagine ono of these rareties of the fine arts, catalogued, "Sage, Reading"—" a specially oily old gentleman in a blanket, with . a swan's down tippet for a beard and a web of cracks all over him like rich pie ceust !" Among the singular household gods, the incongru ous la, es and penatcs of his little cottage-home at Twickenham, Mr. Meagles flourishes, together with Madame, and Pet, and Tattycoram, assisted by two blooming parlour-maids, a couple of dingy men (when there is a little raider company than usual), and a delightful old lady known as Mrs. Tickit the cook and housekeeper. Here comes, on the Sunday, to join the banquetting of Doyce and C:ennam—and spoil it— the objectionable Gowan and his hardly less objectionable dog. And after these, in full dinner time, comes the " little grander company" already hinted at in parenthesis —to wit, the "poor little dull young Barnacle," with whom we are already well - acquainted— Clarence Barnacle, son of the great Tite Barnacle, and, as such, nephew of Lord Decimus, and having as his grand-aunt on the mother's side no ono less important and magnificent —than—Lady Stiltstalking I It is our friend of the eye=glass in fact—" a great ass," as -Gowan tells us, " but one of the dearest and best fellows that ever lived." The "great ass" greets Clennam on his first coming among them all with an involun , tary—"Look here !—Upon my soul, you know I" being in effect for the moment quite disconcerted. Then his eye-glass—during the dinner—what a la byrinth of dill cultiesbe tumblesinto with it—getting it "into his soup, into his wine-glass, into Mrs. Meagles's plate," having it hanging down his back like a bell rope, and thence " disgracefully restored to his bosom by ono of the dingy men !" Growing, in fact, so enfeebled in intellect that he applies' " spoons to his eye, forks, and other foreign matters connected with the furniture of the dinner table, g and all this through a nameless dread that Arthur Ciennam is by some artful device coming round to that point of wanting to know, you know ! How delicious, too, is the satire conveyed througla the, acct;unt of tke ui.conscious toadea i g of honest Mr. Meagles in the p:eeuce of the nephew of Lord Decimus, the grand nephew of Ltuly Stiltstalking, the sou of the important Tite B. of the Circundo cution-office, the great ass, that poor dull little Barnacle ! In his perfectly uninteresting company Mr. Mangles becomes in effect what Mr. Albert Smith rather indefinitely, and yet somehow quite comprehensibly, des . gnates by the sesquipedalian word of circumslogdologised ! Until Young Bar nacle goes away at last in a cab " feebly smoking"—followed on foot by the objectionable Gowan, Nobody's (of course Nobody's) Rival, ac companied in his turn by the objectionable dog— there is no end to the wretched tuft-hunting. . . The next chapter (the xviiith.) decidedly the best chapter in the number, closing it indeed very ex quisitely—is all about " Little Dorrit's Lover"— Young John, family name Chivery. Whose father, the non-resident turnkey, hopes in the fulness of time " to leave him the inheritance of an, unstained key ! ' Who (the aforesaid Young John)—even in his boyhood, " when, youth is prone to wear its boots unlaced, and is, happily, uncon scious of digestive organs"—was wont to take cold in one eye at the key-hole of the great lock of the main door by dint of peeping at the queen of his soul " through that airy perspective I' Who now in his diminutive manhood still worships Little Dorrit at a distance behind the counter of the little tobacco-shop in Horsemonger-lane—the business of which establishment, we are told by the way, was altogether of too modest a character to support a life-size Highlander, maintaining in lieu of it " a little one on a bracket on the doorpost, who looked like a fallen Cherub that had found it necessary to take to a kilt !" " From the portal thus decorated, one Sunday after an early dinner of baked viands, Young John issued forth on his usual Sunday errand ;_ not empty-handed, but with his offering of cigars. He was neatly attired in a plum-coloured coat, with as largo a collar of black Velvet as his figure couM carry ; a silken waistcoat, be decked with golden F_Trigi ; a chaste neck-kerchief much in vogue at that day, representing a preserve of Liao phen, ants on a buff ground ; pantaloons so highly deco rated with side-stripes, that each leg was a three-stringed lute ; and a hat of state, very high and hard. Wheia the prudent Mrs. Chivery perceived that in addition to these adornments her John carried a pair of white kid gloves, and a cane like a little finger-post, surmonnted by an ivory hand marshalling him the way that he should go ; and when she saw him in this heavy marching order, turn the corner to the right ; she remarked to Mr. Chi very who was at home at the time, that she thought she knew which way the wind blew." Visiting the Father of the Marshalsea, with his'ac customed offering of cigars, Young John learns that Amy has gone for a solitary walk on South wark Bridge, whither ho follows her, and where they both come at last to a pathetic explanation. In the midst of the anguish of which, consequent upon the direct evasion of his suit by Little Dorrit, Little Dorrit's lover is thus spoken of by our novelist—" The mournfulness of his spirits and the gorgeousness of his appearance might have made him ridiculous, but that his delicacy made him re spectable ! " His delicacy prompts him to ask Little Dorrit if ho may put a question to her ?—the mo mentous question of course. To which Little Dor rit—" If you please, John Chivery—if you please, no." " Never, Miss Amy?" "No, if you please. Never." " Oh, Lord !" gasped Young John. The pathos of this simple ejaculation is something inde scribable. As also the result of Little Dorrit bidding him goodbye, hoping he will have a good wife one day and be a happy " I am sure you will deserve to be happy, and you will be, John." "As she held out her hand to him with these words, the heart that was under the waistcoat of sprigs—mere slopwork if the truth must be known—swelled to the size of the heart of a :gentleman ; and the poor common little fellow having no room to hold 2t, burst into tears." With that we close our notice of the fifth number of Little Dorrit—still let us hope destined to grow into a companion picture to that of our glorious , David Copperjield. During the war nearly all the gunpowder and as many of the troops as could be spared were withdrawn from Canada. The movements of men and ammunition towards that province, which are now in progress, are simply the consequence of the necessity of replacing them, and in• dicate no hostile feeling towards the United States expectation of war in t hat quarter. . vm re- OD the ken de uer Tith ,ter• the had pro rfel lase 5 Ult cry ult. a i he - 13 'i %r• 6 i i