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

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday was quiet, the sales reaching 7,000 bales, 1,000 bags for ex pOrt and speculation. The annual statement of the cotton trade was published, from which it ap pears that the stocks of all kinds are 428,870 bales against 551,340 last year. The Railway Share Market was very dull. The year just terminated has produced some important and extraordinary changes in the finan cial as well as the political condition of the country. At its commencement confidence in the future was generally expressed, and nothing transpired to indicate the unfavourable events which have occurred during the past six months. Money, which had been plentiful in January, February, and until August, then became scarcer, and the Bank of England Directors began the re strictive policy that subsequently gave rise to some alarm and considerable discussion. In September the effects of the war became more apparent than at any period previously since the commencement of hostilities ; the demand for discount accommo dation sensibly increased, trade continued dull, and all the usual symptoms of a panic were mani 7 fested. Indeed the singular depletion of the Bank of England stock of bullion, and the rapidity with which the rate of discount was put up, created general mis trust, and the belief was entertained in many quarters that a crisis, equal in severity to that of 1847-8, would have to be passed through. But, notwith standing the specie movement continued alarming, and that the Bank rate was advanced in October to 6 and '7 percent., a more settled feeling now prevails, and, however uncertain the future is ad mitted to be, the course of events is awaited with confidence. Although several failures, and of an important character, have been announced during the year, they can scarcely be said to represent the actual position of commerce, which, although much circumscribed, has throughout pre served a healthy appearance. The primary cause of suspension in some cases was the incautious trading to Australia, while in others the capital has not warranted the amount of business transacted. Unfortunately, however, in two instances the operations haveibeen of a fraudu lent character, and the punishment awarded to the delinquents will no doubt be a sufficient caution to those engaged in mercantile pursuits, and prevent the recurrence of such acts of dishonesty. The pay ment of the instalments periodically duo on the English, French, and Turkish Loans has from time to time exercised an unfavour able influence upon the Money Market, but as they are now nearly all subscribed capi talists and others aro now considering the proba bility of new financial operations at an early period. Although all classes of business men h4ve recently been subjected to great vicissitudes, as far as can at present be judged the financial events of 1856 will equal, if not exceed, in importance any that have transpired during the last half century. From the accounts of the past year presented by the Bank of England the following interesting par ticulars have been extracted :—ln January the bullion stood at about 12,162,4951., and then gra dually increased from that point to 18,169,000/. ; after which, during the effiux of bullion to the Con tinent, a progressive diminution occurred, which to the present period has not been entirely arrested. On the 24th November the total bullion in both de partments represented the sum of 11,139,0001., but n otwithstanding the restrictive measures adopted the account on the 22d Dec., the date of the latest return, had been further reduced to 10,981,0001. The advices received to-day from New York re present the Stock Market as being buoyant at the latest date. Breadstuffs were in limited demand, but cotton was more active. The English Stock Market has become exceed ingly weak, and the decline since the official close Yesterday has been about g per cent. Less confi dence is entertained in the successful issue of the peace negotiations, and those who recently bought are now operating in the contrary direction. Con sole have bee* 881 ± and 88 to 881. The Now 3 Per Cents, are 88i 1, and the Reduced 88 to 88k. Exchequer Bills are 2s. lower again, and it is stated that sales to the extent of 50,0001. have been effected. Foreign Securities are generally at lower rates, but very few transactions have been entered into. Turkish 6 per Cents. are per cent. lower, viz., 82 1 to 83. Spanish 3 per Cents. are quoted at 38 1 ex dividend, and the Certificates are 41. Equador Bonds are dull at 4i, and Dutch 21 per Cents. are 63 to 631 ex dividend. No dealing has taken place in the New Scrip, but the nominal quotation is depressed in consequence of the pay ment of the instalment to-day. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 7; Mexican, 191 20 ; Peruvian, 74 6 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 52 4; Poriliguese 4 per Cents., 48 60 ; Russian 5 per Cents'., 95 7 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 88 90 ; Spanish 8 per ellents., 40 ; ditto Deferred, 20! ; ditto Certificates, 4i ; date Passive, in. The ..gailway are Market presents no feature of interest, but in most cases lower quotations are current. The Eastern Counties, however, support yesterday' 's improvement. Foreign and Colonial lines are : ‘lmoat neglected, but Great Western of Canada rub ► steady. Mining, flanking, and Miscellaieous Shares are without any particular alteration. BRITISH FUlia)S THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES (Pvcrns the 056,11 Lizr. BUsine , done. 3 per Cont. Iteth.ced Annuitias Now 3 per Cent. Annuities India. Bonds, £lOOO . • Ditto, under 21000 7 d V•onsols i'or Account BBl 8 7/ Exchequer Bills, 2id. 21000 , . ••• •• , £5OO 8 small _ lO 6 PRICES OF FORE IGN FUNDS THIS DAY. I, :quador Bonds. Rexican 3 per Cent. Itussian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St Ditto 4. per Ceut Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cont. Spardsh Bonds, 3 per Cent Spani.h Committee Cert. of Cot'p. Dst fun 4i g p c Tnrkip.,h Bonds, 6 par cent Ditto for the Account -• 83 21 3,1 3 Dividends on the above na• 'able in London, Belgian, 21 per Cent., ex. 25 fra rte 5........ Ditto 4:1 per Cent.. ex. 25 francs 921 31 Dutch Exchange, 21 per Coat., I:2 Gail... 634 3 x THREE O'CLOCK. Con %oils Ditt.l for Account Jan. 10... B7i 8S x d CHILL) STEALING.—SINGULAR CAS?, In the 1/ tooth of October last two decently-dressed weinea acn ,stel a young girl, who had charge of a child, in • the Grassnaarket, and, giving her fourpence, asked her t ) purchase pears for them, promising to keep the child til .l she carne back. On her return, both women and child e 'ere gone, and nothing was heard of them till Monday lre ,t, when the child was foun d in a close of the Catio n gate ~ Her name is Agnes Blackie, and she is three year a of age, too young to g ive any account of th e Parties wh o carried her off, cr as to where she had beri. The police, however, have succeeded in apprehending two worn e , 1 who were implicated in the transaction, and they tell th s f o ll ow i ng s tory :—Some 1 8 months ago a girl named _ 4nn .I`,Plienzie, residing in Richmond-street, Parted with a young man with whom she had beet, for : 01, 5 time ti use acquainted, telling him that, on his re "rti from At tctralia, whither he was .r going, she would pres ent tun present him , with a child, of which he was the father. ed out that she was not in the interesting situa tion h e was 1 et 1 to believe she was ; but it would appear that e 6 0 had is formed him cf the birth of a child, and on his r re t ' u ''n to ' ..his country early in October, instead of ~ Lsi,ing 'Si "-1 ,__„. , I,n , at no such event had happened, she deter mined to takt : a child from the streets, and pass it off as her own. •A, ccordingly, her sister, Johanna Nl‘Kenzie, and a won +'arl named Ann Ross, undertook to get a child, apparently • ab out the age of 18 months, and they suc ceeded in t he : manner we have above described. Agnes Blackie, al tht .ugh double the necessary age, was very delicate, a nd looked tench younger than she was in reality ;an d 4 l 07 passed her off to the young man as Ilia child. T 1 1 % neighbours, however, knew how the matter reall , , ' stood ; and a quarrel havii,g taken place between thr ra and the I.l.‘Kenzies, they threatened to give inform. ,tic n to . the poli ce , w h ereupon the itremoves reovo( 3to L still ret a i n n kg ti ultb, wher e t h ey lived for some time, .e child. A week or two ago the young man enlist t id, at d went to a port in England to embark for the Ea 3'6. / le promised to marry M'Kenzie if she would fog! ,t )w I li • n ito the port in question and see him off. This t h e did and is probably married by this-time. The chili' I was no)i vY, and it was set adrift , a a swe 1 ,awe state .unnecess,-,r The crim e of child stealing, or plagi eir , ~ i s aca it al offence by the law of Scotland. — ~?eotsitta 71. P the ded A 0 were The loath, - town, Luck thing, and it to act It is )01 i ti ) Bri time. ips on ) men of the f salt- i sfac ;, aro result ;toed, s, and ever mt." ,f the Oct., D-day part irling If the with dged. Both ?,nan, pOr" in to cool )5s03- tateS , and 3h he Linty, local MAGAZINE DAY. Blackwood.—lnstead of another instalment of Mrs. Oliphant's charming romance of " Zaidee " concluded so very cleverly in the number of Maga for December—we have an introductory fragment, by a Peninsular Medalist, descriptive of " A Mili tary Adventure in the Pyrenees." Bulwer Lytton reposes on the laurels won by his glorious "Novel" of Novels. Margaret Oliphant pauses for a while after the close of her graceful " Romance " of Romances. We must content ourselves for the nonce, therefore, with these recollections of the Medalist of the Peninsula. They will be found amusing and replete, at any rate, with evidences of freshness and animation. Colonel Hamley almost might have penned Part One of this same " Military Adventure in the Pyrenees," but that his time has been too much engrossed of late, we should conjecture, by camp duties in the Crimea, varied by his alternate employ ment of the pen and pencil, as the historian and illustrator of the memorable Campaign before Sebastopol. -Besides, the style of the new contribution is not the style with which the readers of " Lady Lee's Widowhood" are by this time so pleasantly and intimately acquainted. The only resemblance, indeed, between the two compositions being traceable through the characteristics of fresh ness and animation already particularised. Sir Archibald might almost have written what may be termed in two senses of the phrase the Leading Article of Blackwood for January, the masterly monetary argument put forward in the shape of an elaborate treatise upon " The Gold-Screw and its Consequences." The present is not the fittest op portunity for the discussion of the vast theme in volved in this same elaborate treatise—a theme the importance, extent, variety, and magnitude of which we ourselves have had occasion so very often to illustrate in our own leading columns, in the hope that by thus perti naciously and conscientiously sustaining the discussion we may in the end be instrumental, as far at least as lies within our power, in bringing about, sooner or later, the long-desired, compre hensive, and, let us add, inevitable epoch of a grand monetary reorganisation. Judging from its ability and sagacity throughout, Mr. Warren might almost have written the earnest and argumentative chapter upon the subject of " The Inns of Court and the Bar of England." It lacks, however, much of that perspicacity of treatment and diver sity of apt and novel illustration for which the writings of the learned Recorder of Hull have long been so very remarkable. The only tokens of his hand, in truth, herein in any way discoverable are those already intimated—viz., those of a prevailing skill and shrewdness, shrewdness in deduction and skill in general arrangement. Something in real earnest has, by this time, become absolutely requi site for the better organisation of that wonderful system under which for the year last past, that of 1855, no less than 3,800 barristers have been care lessly brought together without auy systematic forethought or deliberate preparation—to what end ? To the end of the direct administration of justice in England—as Recorders, County Court Judges, Stipendiary Police Magistrates, Revising Barristers, and a great number of other pan judicial temporary or permanent functionaries — such, for example, as Masters and Commissioners. " To this body, moreover, are intrusted the lives, liberties, characters, and property of every member of the community, when questioned and endangered ; and through their intervention, as advocates, are adjusted disputes referred to the appropriate tribunal at home, 11.:1m every judicature throughout the wide-spread do- minions of the British Crown. Where, then, and how, is this formidable phalanx educated I—Nay, is it edu cated at all 1 By whom In - - - That "is the question." A difficulty of vital im portance, and one demanding a prompt and satis factory solution. A dialogue between Celsus, Irenmus, and Tlepoletuus—trots out one after another the principal champions of "The New Peace [at-any-price] Party "—Cobden, Bright,Elton, c um ccrteris paribus. Then follows soon atterwardsa brief but sufficient paper on " Lancashire Strikes," and a little further on an entertaining chapter descrip tive of " Wet Da.s at Bryn Cefn '—merging itself at last into a pleasant chat between Chase, Brown, Milberde, Denny, Lake, and Lawless. An article " On the State of the British Army" is the one which has chief reference this month to the all absorbing topic of the great war still raging between Russia and the Allies. Another contribution yet remains to be mentioned as among the contents of Blackwood's Magazine for January—the one upon the suggestive and twin topics of " Drinking and Smoking." An argument through which we are re joiced to observe that the writer is very far indeed from being an implacable enemy to the " divine weed," or an arch foe to all exhilarating beverages though opposed, of course, right earnestly, to an abuse of either, whether by the transformation of the human throat into litle better than a chimney for tobacco smoke, or a funnel for the pouring down of the means of sys tematic; intoxication. Temperance both in regard to drinking and smoking is of course very strongly incul cated ; but a manly protest is raised against the ab surd cry of certain crotchetty philanthropists who insist, forsooth, upon the necessity of universal ab stinence. It would never do, in truth, for Maga to heoome a champion of teetotalism—she who has so often gladdened our hearts at so many a glo rious symposium, under the rose, and the bush, and the bunch of grapes, in the immortal Noctes Ambrosiance. Dublin University.—" Balancing the Books : a Tale of New Year's Eve," is the introductory article of this number, and is interesting. It is a peculiarly appropriate one for the period of the New Year ; and it would be well if many followed the example here set of making more perfect the records placed on other tablets than those of worldly traffic. At first we are introduced to au old man and his clerk, who were arranging their accounts, and could not make all straight. The merchant was speaking to his confidential agent of a sum yearly hoarded by that belonged to his sister, whom he had sent away owing to a dispute about her marriage. The law gave him power to keep back her money if she married without his consent. The next scene is that of a woman wan dering at night in the street to find out some long forsaken place. The last chapter is called " The Lot set Right," in which Mary is received into her brother's house, to which she had wandered to make peace. Yet overjoyed as lie was to see her again pride prevented him agreeing to receive her husband. Sudd en ly the door opened, and the mer chant's wife introduced the injured brother-in-law, accompanied by a little girl, who ran up to the fierce man, and said with a sweet smile, " Are you my uncle Laurence that papa taught me to name in my prayers night and mornin g ?" The u nstudied artifices of childh oo d prevailed. " Out of the mouth of the babe has God ordained the strength that gave the vi c t ory ." A s th e long divided relatives , were reconcil e d, th e bells run; out a peal. " The old year had pass e d away, gone to be written up in God's register against the last day of accounting, when time itself shall be no more, and one bright entry. will appear under the head of that old year." " The Dramatic Writers of Ireland" is continued, and a long list is added to the collection of dramatists. " Love in Curl Papers" is the first part of a new tale, which pro mises to be amusing. At first we aro introduced to Paris in early morning, but afterwards a story is told of Germany, in which the adventures of one of the characters took place, and some interesting passages appear. In a quaint old village of the Rhine we are introduced to a philosopher and his daughter, and the story breaks off as they are forming plans for study or diversion on the arrival of some friends of the father's from Paris. "A Trio of .Ame rican Sailor Authors" presents to ou r notice Feni more Cooper, R. N. Dana, and Herman Melville, who have, it is averred, written nautical novels and narratives of the highest degree of excellence. It is said that the object is not to institute a com parison between the respective merits of our sea novelists and, their transatlantic contemporaries, but that it may be incidentally remarked that " America worthily rivals England in this depart ment of literature." " Leaves from the Portu guese Olive" contains au account of Rodriguez Lobo. There are various other articles of met it and interest to be met with—" The Twilight Musings of an Old Man," " Notes on New Books," c., which altogether produce a pleasing number :or the new year. Bentley's Miscellany.—Bentley's opens with a paper on the important topic " What we are all a bout." After taking a brief review of politi cal and literary affairs, the writer gives us a list of those which have passed away from us during the last twelve months. After alludinc , to the recent demise of the post of Memory, the writer ex claims— - " Within the last twelve months what a gap has been made in the memorable roll I The sagacious and indefatig able Truro—the earnest and philosophic Molesworth—the enterprising Parry—the warm-hearted and upright Inglis —the scientific De la Beebe the learned Gaisford—the re forming Hume—the harmonious Bishop—the financial 1 lierries —the diplomatic Adair—the poetical Stranvford, also a diplomatist, with Ellis and Ponsonby, his fellow labourers in the last-named category —the gifted Lockhart —Miss Ferrier, and Adam Ferguson, connected, too, with Walter Scott--Lord Robertson, the convivial judge—Lord Rutherford, his acute compeer—Miss Jtitford,and strong hearted Currer Bell—Colburn, the godfather to half the novels of the last half-contury — Sibthorp, the eccentric —the travelled Buckingham—Park, the stulptor—GurneY, the short-hand writer-0. Suiith, the preternatural— th, centenarian Routh—Black, of the Morning Chronicle the life-preserving Captain ?Hanby—'Archdeacon Hare — Jessie Lowers, the friend of Burna—tho injured Baron de /111 TYK 'LON DO N; TVEI OA. Y _EVEN' N .2.A.N.Z.A.E,Y 1. 1656. Bode—and a long file besides of titled names distinguished in all the pursuits of life. The war, of course, came in for the lion's share, in sweeping among those already illustrious; or, had fate permitted, those who would have been so : the gantle-hearted, courteous Raglan, the mirror of modern chivalry—the intrepid Torrens—the amiable Eslcourt— the untiring Markham—the bravo Adams—the gallant Campbell—the honest Boxer, and the unfortunate Christie, are amongst the most prominent of the heroes whom the bullet or the Crimean fever have forcibly taken from us Death, too, has been busy with great people, in the ranks of our allies, in the field, on the wave, in the Cabinet, in the private home : Hari spe —Bruat —Mackau—Della Mar more, who fought so well ; the painter Isabey—the states man Mole—the poste Micziewitz—the widow of Lavaletto --the wife of Ensile de Girardin— the brother of Victor Hugo—Count Bruhl, the antagonist of Philidor, the King of Chess—Rhosrew Pasha, that true type of the old Os manli—the chivalrous Duke of Genoa--and Adelaide of Sardinia, the early-lost wife of our noble Piedmoutese ally." - - - - Fogarty," a tale of 4, ;he Fighting Onety Oneth„ how the hero of the scrim mage thus closes his narrative —" Away I went ucith an army of a hundred and seventy-three thousand eight hundred men at my heels," followed by a string of most irritating asterisks ! Then in the exordium of " Barbazure" by G. P. R. Jeames—don't we all of us vividly call to mind that " It was (of course) upon one of those balmy evenings of November, which are only known in the valley of Languedoc, and among the mountains of Alsace, that two cavaliers might have been perceived"—and the rest and the rest ! So, too, with the remainder, were, they not each and all of them eminently delectable—those amazingly ridiculous imitations ? Such are the " nuts to crack" poured into the ample lap of the reading publicas from an inexhaustible cornucopia through the medium of this second volumwof Mr. Thacke ray's satirical and exhilarating Miscellanies. and accompanied by a rumbling. It was felt at Geelong 40 miles off in a straight line. Its direc tion appeared to be S.S.W. to N.N.E., but others think it was the other way. Those who have experienced earthquakes in New Zealand treated it very lightly; considering it very slight and quite incapable of doing any damage. Lola Montes is here ; she came last from San Francisco, and has appeared several times at the New Theatre Royal. She commenced with a drama, in five sections, rather than acts, contain ing the principal' bases in her own life. We had her as the danseuse—the countess—the exile—the politician—the traveller. The piece was not very attractive, and it dropped. It was not more suc cessful in Sydney. Afterwards she produced the tarantella dance, called, in order to enlighten the natives, the "spider's dance." The Argus pro nounced it "indecent," and the "respectables" wouldn't go. It is not unlikely that Lola may have overacted her part, but, without that, an ordinary ballet exhibition would take the uninitiated a little by surprise. There is a good deal of stage talent of various kinds in Melbourne just now. G. V. Brooke's over-forcible delineations of Shakospere satisfy our public. Miss Fanny Cathcart was his heroine, but she has been shut up by an in junction, in imitation of " Lumley v. Wagner" —probably to be followed by an action in imitation of " Lumley v. _Gye." In the opera line we are gaining great strength. We have Catherine Hayes and a native of Tasmania—Madame Caren dini, a lady with an exquisite voice, a fine ear, and good style and taste, and Coulon as basso, whose voice wants tone and volume, but who is an excellent musician and a good actor. There is also a tolerable tenor and another basso, a Mr. Gregg, with a better natural voice than Coulon, but infe rior in all respects. Numerous German street bands, some of them excellent, are also tending to improve our musical taste. Some six months singe some of your readers will recollect that a man named Garratt was captured in England, and sent out to the colony, charged as one of the men who "stuck up the Bank of Vic toria" as the phrase is here. There seems a proba bility that he will get off at last for want of evi dence. Two of his companions have been already convicted, chiefly on the evidence of an approver, one Quinn. This fellow has since gone to New Zealand, and the police have sent for him ; but he is not likely to come unless forced, inasmuch as before his departure lie did a little murder on his own account. If he comes back ib will most The editor's story of "The Spendthrift" continues with its usual liveliness of style. It chronicles the important event of the masquerade, and the ad ventures that befel the hero among masks and dominoes. An article which follows this is entitled " Falsehoods and Realities of the War," and gives some very interesting extracts from the work of an English lady, an officer's wife, who accompanied her husband to the Crimea. One of the chief features in the present numberis the commencement of an ela borate tale by Dudley Costello, entitled "The Dock Warrants." " The Man in the White Hat" is an instance of thief detection, which may be useful to railway travellers. A. notice of Browning's recant work, " Men and Women," gives it a careful cri ticism, and quite as much praise as it deserves. " The Old Year's Death" by Mary Monck, and " The Old and New Year" from the Danish, by Mrs. Bushby, are neither of them very striking. Indeed it would appear difficult for writers to pro duce anything original on such a time-worn sub ject. Benjamin Bobbin, though only a Bagman, must apparently have had more adventures than Baron Munchausen himself, to judge from the time it takes hiss to relate them. " Mow I grew into an Old Maid" is a very pleasing though melancholy domestic story, told with simplicity and feeling. Monkshood contributes a paper on " Lewes's Life and Works of Go3the," written with his usual talent. Among the remaining articles, we may mention one on " Damascus," that wonderful city which has successively formed part of the five great empires of ancient times, and which has out lived them all. Eastern Experiences. By Ada,m Steinmetz Kinnaird. Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans. A readable volume, narrating the experiences of a well-informed and enterprising traveller during a winter's tour in Egypt, Nubia, and the Holy Land. Setting out for the East in November, Mr. Kinnaird contrived to escape the infliction of an English winter, and for some two months to luxu riate to a certain extent' in the pleasures of boat ing up the Nile, and scouring the adjacent country in quest of the romantic and the antique, with .which it abounds, meeting occasionally on the way with amusing and stirring adventures, and obtain ing a tolerable insight into the habits and manners of the population. We say luxuriating to a certain extent, for Mr. Kinnaird's characteristic as a tra veller is a modified pugnacity, and what with vexatious and unmanageable dragomans, and more than a fair share of other disagreeables, his com bativeness appears to have been kept in almost constant play throughout the tour, to the dissipa tion of much romance and the prevention of not a little enjoyment. The pleasing, however, predo minates in the narrative, and we willingly follow, under the charm of an eastern clime, with its pic turesque scenes and primitive manners and cus toms, from Egypt to the Cataracts and back, after wardi to the Holy Land, with some curiosity to see what he will make of it. Of the result we can not speak vory favourably, what merit the de scriptions possess being to a large extent counter balanced by a hardness and levity which savour a good deal of affectation, ocusional glimpses of commendable feeling and good taste contributing to the impression. On the whole, however, the •book is a useful contribution to our stores of Eastern travel, and May judiciously be recom mended to intending tourists, as calculated to dull the edge of over-wrought expectation, without de terring them from the prosecution of their design. To those whose time for reading is limited, it is likely to prove acceptable, because of its fidelity and succinctness, while the pictures of life in the city, the village, the hareni, the bazaar, and the desert, lend it an attraction which few will be dis poed to resist. The descriptions of life in Cairo, and a startling adventure with a tribe of Bedouin Arabs, may be specially pointed out as likely to amuse and interest the reader. Colburn's United Service.—" The War in the East" is the subject of sundry well considered re marks. " Doubtless," says the writer, "we are about to pass through another period of peace agi tation, of negotiations of protocols, four or more points, and what not • but if France and Britain remain true to each other and themselves it will not be the wiles of Russia, the timidity and indecision of Austria, the inimical neutrality of Prussia, nor the perverse views of certain statesmen at home that can shake them in their determination to humble the pride of the enemy, and restore a due balance of power between the great States of Europe," The fall of Kars, it is subsequently re marked, " will doubtless stimulate the Allied Go vernments to combat the enemy in the Transcau casian regions, where indeed he is most vulnerable, and where British interests are so deeply con cerned. The propriety of the English and French armies having distinct fields of operation is again urged, and Asia is pointed out as the appropriate sphere for the former, and that to be occupied without any interference whatever with the plans of Omer Pasha. The question of " Ships v. Batteries" is again brought forward in a notice of a recent work, in which the author, a civilian, deals hard knocks on the prudence manifested by the English Admirals in the Baltic in keeping their ships from the assault of the enemy's batteries. The reviewer defends the policy pursued both by Napier and Dundas, and does his best to convict the author of ignorance of the subject. " Society at Pera since the Western Invasion" is graphically described in an entertaining paper, and the claims of the " Life-Boat" institution in this country are powerfully advocated in another. " Notes of Mi litary Science" are continued, and a brief but spirited account is given of " Courland, Livonia, and Esthonia," the Russo-Baltic provinces likely to become the scene of warlike operations during the spring. " The Battle of the Pyramids" is again described—this time from oral memoirs, oral tra ditions, and researches on the spot ; and the ques tion of " Military Savings Banks" is subsequently adverted to in a favourable notice. " Sketches of Mercenaries" are continued, and in the "Editor's Port folio" we find some strong but well-warranted remarks on the fall of Kars, together with a scrap of writing in defence of the proceedings of Prince Albert and the Duke of Cambridge in relation to the Guards' petition. They did quite right, we are told, and it would have been ungrateful iu them to do otherwise. Bosh ! likely be under an accusation and a warrant that will put his own life or liberty in peril, unless, indeed, the messengers find him hanged off already for a new crime committed in New Zealand. This course of crime and punishment is by no means uncommon among the men recommended as " eligible for private service," or for a ticket of leave, or a conditional pardon, by the Controller of convicts of Van Diemen's Laud. _ _ vv You will find an account iu some of the papers of " rumoured disturbances at Ballarat." It was a very trifling affair indeed, and was nothing more than the local police was able to Buppress, and that by persuasion rather than force. An attempt was made by some diggers to invade private property, reported to be auriferous, under an impression that they may go anywhere. The Government was pre pared to reinforce the police by a draught from Melbourne, but before they could move the first accounts were found to be exaggerated. In last night's Gazette the Legislative Council is again prorogued until the 6th of November, but not for the despatch of business. A further proro gation will, therefore, take place, but not for very long. We expect the new ,constitution by the August mail. Its chief use is that it gives the new Assembly power to carry out further reforms. It is very defective in many respects. It was passed by a Council, the representatives of which were elected when the population was about 70,000. As to the present population of 300,000, the old mem bers are mere nominees. The. fresh intelligence of our 230,000 " now chums" is not represented. It is only a few of the recently elected members who can be said to represent the new order of things. The following is the comparative quarterly state ment of gold produced in 1854.5 :-- Consumption. Its Causes, Prevention, and Cure. By Thomas Bartlett, M.I. Hippelyte Bailliere, Regent-street. apology' N o pysic physician," says the author, " need offer an to the h a epublic for printing his thoughts on a disease which is the most fatal of any in the climate in which be is a resident, provided they embody his sincere convicti on s after patient and earnes t study." We quite agree with him, as also in what follows: " Further, when he has reason to know that relief would be afforded by the adoption of a course, with the benefits of which he is ac quainted, and especially when it is opposed to the prevailing practice, the option of silence is no longer left him, as in such case it is his duty to make his opinions known, that the sufferings of humanity may be alleviated." And least of all, we would add, is an apology necessary, or could silence have been warranted when his work affords undeniable proof, as this does, of his competency to form opinions worth having. The book before us, in brief, is a sterling work on a most important subject, and we can confidently, recommend it to heads of families and others inte rested in the prevention or cure of consumption. Dr. Bartlett, it would appear, is no "raw" prac titioner, but ono who, under very favourable cir cumstances, has for many years directed a vigorous intellect to the observation and studyof this terrible disorder which has slain so many thousands of our best and fairest. To the question, "Is consump tion curable I" he returns a well-warranted an swer in the affirmative—provided the disease is not suffered to reach the later stages, or the ulce ration of the lungs is not, as is often the case, of an extensive nature. Many cases of failure he at tributes to non-persistence in the remedies pre scribed—diet, avoiding exposure to cold, &c., even more than physic. The causes and means of pre vention of consumption are forcibly pointed out, and many useful remarks and suggestions with regard to respiration, change of air, and desiderata in places of residence are given. Without, however, pledging ourselves to the accuracy of every opinion, we advise the reader to purchase the work, which, while likely to be of general service, the consumptively disposed will find a safe and exceedingly valuable guide. There is, so far as we can judge, no quackery in it. One thing we should remark—the author has found that the southern portion of New Holland or Australia affords the beat climate of all for recovery. - 1854. 1855. Ounces. °emcee. July ' 183,246 166,193 August September ... 176,310 253,113 .501,704 596,053 501,704 Increase on the quarter... 94,349 Increase on the year Number of persons arrived 2,108 Number that have lest 5OO Addition this week 1,606 and year 43,015 The escorts have brought from— a Mount Alexander and Bendigo 17,434 ounces. Thllarat, including Geelong 15,983 The Ovens Colburn's New Monthly.—The New Monthly opens with a geographical article descriptive of the Peninsula of Taman—the name which modern geographers have given to the group of islands be tween the Black Sea, the Straits of Kertch, the mouth of the Kuban, and the Sea of Azoff. This name was first bestowed upon it by the Turks. To those desirous of extending their kno xledge of these localities this article offers considerable information, though general readers may find it rather dry. It is followed by a tale, translated from the German, by Mrs. Bushby. It bears evident trace of being a translation, the German origin being very evident both in plot and style. as it does not come to a de cided conclusion, we presume the sequel will be given in the next. The next paper is on a more interesting subject. Founded on the recent edition of Samuel Butler's works, published in Mr. Bell'e series, it gives a brief sketch of the life and writings of the author of Hudibras. A paper on " Amateur Lectures" sets forth the advantages of lecturing, not only to the educated classes, but to the mechanics and labourers of manufacturing towns. It is rightly observed, that to such an audience reading is a task, and that a poor man will listen to a lec ture for the best part of an hour who would not read a boDk for half that time. An entertaining article is given on " The Fisheries on the West Coast of Ireland." Few readers are, perhaps, aware of the great supply of fish to be found along this coast. " Fourteen Kiilyheg herrings, in season, weigh one stone." Mr. Wade also observes that he has often known one canoe bring in three or four tons of ling in one season. The writer remarks, " It would make an alderman weep to hear that the turbot on the west coast of Ireland are so plenti ful that the fishermen often cut them up for bait for their long lines." The result of all these statistics is, that the supply is not equal to the demand, owing to the want of capital and the inadequate means employed. Surely there is an opening here for some adventurous individual with money and energy sufficient to carry out the requisite improve ments. The not very attractive or brilliant history of " Stoke Dotterell" is continued. The thirty fourth number of " Literary Leaflets" takes for its subject the memoirs of "James Montgomery; " All Soul's Eve" is the title of a pleasing domes tic story. G. W. Thornbury contributed some touching verses on the death of a little drum mer. The illustrations of the manners and cus toms of our forefathers is continued, and describes to us the coffee-houses and clubs of the days of Addison, Pope, Johnson, and Goldsmith. Maryborough Daisy Hill Avoca s:ass 1,420 616 AVlvor Amount this week 49,103, and year 1,528,732 Gold shipped in 1855 Per Promolga to Macao 105,000 Per Donald hi 'Ks,y to Liverpool Shipped to end of third quarter in 1855 *1,925,942 Ditto ditto ditto 1851 1,653,999 Increase over 1854 * Or 80 tons 4cwt 3qrs 201 b 2oz, at 805...27,713,76 8 . Exchange on London—Draughts against gold taken at par. Freight of gold, 41d. per ounce, delivered at the Bullion-office, Bank of England, London. Insu rance 21 per cent. The price during the week has been 765. 3d. to 765. 6d: There is one feature in all these returns which is very satisfactory, namely, that the earliest worked gold-fields, Bendigo and Ballarat, continue to yield undiminished quantities. AUSTRALIA. MELBOURNE, Sept. 20.—The Champion of the Seas, Wednesday oneof afternoon e ern ß o l o ak Ball line of ships, with the n c (the 26th), after a passage of 83 days. The has ea nof tof etia c n e e s w t s he death of Lord Raglan and the brought by the Champion of the Seasewu n the allies with cons id er abl e loss. This over our society which it will take some little time to obviate. But though it excites our sorrow and sympathy, it does not im rnepaslcsl it s t a gloom im pair our confidenCe in the final result. It is a slight abundantly repaired by the sti re arising from repeated vic tcohreycl: brave fellows who are fighting for their respective countries we cannot doubt. The Garrison amateurs--who, but t o t n h a the t it p willre by the way, per form admirably—give a performance this evening at the Theatre Royal for the benefit of the French widows and orphans. The theatre will be crowded to overflowing. The the newest gold field diggers of Mount Blackwood, 9 rich in auriferous quartz, are 1 now making a collection of specimens for the pur pose of transmitting it to the Emperor of the French. I wrote by the Rent on the 12th, but having written not long befor e , and the Donald M'Kay being then advertised to sail on the 30th, I did little more than transmit an account of the mar kets. I did, however, briefly touch on the differ ence which had arise n between the Legislative Council of Tasmania and Sir Henry Young's Go vernment, that is Sir Henry Young himself—for " L'Etat e'est M ot" is a maxim net yet exploded in these parts—on a Point of privilege, but involving the very existence of the Legislature as an indepen dent body. The officers of the Convict Department have - been publicly charged with gross peculations and Miscellanies : Prose and Terse. By W. M. various corrupt practices. A newspaper called the Tliackeray. Vol. 11. Bradbury and Evans. Daily News mad e i tself conspicuous by the constant It will be remembered that in the first volume ' reiteration of these charges for months. They of Mr. Thackeray's collected " Miscellanies" we were not merely general and sweeping charges of enjoyed the privilege of renewing our acquaintance , cor ruption, but specific cases were given with facts with "The Snob Papers" and " Cox's Diary," with; and dates. If fal se, they wore libels of the gross the hero of th e tt Fatal Boots" and " Major Gaha- i est kind. But they passed for a time unnoticed— gan," the fire-eater—to sa y no thi n g of our being ' no attempt being made by the accused to vindicate also enabled th ere by t o tr o ll o ver anew the famous their characters by the verdict of a jury. At length " Ballads" of M. A. Titmarsh, of Policeman X, Sir Fl en ry Young found himself compelled to insti and of the great M o l o ny o f Kilballymolony I Well, tute an inquiry. What passed no one knows, but the second volume, if that be possible, gives us fare the result was, that the officers were severely can yet more acceptable, delectable, and appetising ? It , sured, but not further molested. This did not introduces us again to the laughter-moving " some-1 satisfy the Legislature, and a select committee was time Footman in many genteel F a milies"—Charles ; appointed to inquire into the charge against the James Harrington Fit zro y y e llowplash I It re- Convict Department. Dr. Hampton, the control lives our intercourse with "Jeames of Buckley- ler, and a Mr. Benson, a surgeon, were summoned square," under the more refined cognomen of C. ,to give evidence. They refused to attend, and the Jeames De La Pluche, Esq., late in the employ of Speaker issued his warrant fer their apprehension. Sir George Flimsey, of the house of Flimsey, Did- , Hampton barricaded his house, and filled it with dler, and Flash. It places befor e us again, as convict constables, hut, finding that an overpower subject for grins and contemplation, " Character ing force could be commanded by the Council with- Sketches," such as those of the ren own ed Captain out any aid from the Government, he gave himself Rook and the celebrated Mr. Pi geon . It puts up, but still declined to attend. The Speaker was anew into our bands " Sketches in London," as served with a writ of habeas corpus to bring up the enthralling as those having reference to Love, to body of Dr. Hampton before the Supreme Court ; niendxhip, to Balls, to Dinners, to Tailoring, or , he applied for instructions , to the House, but, be r as those again descriptive of " The Benefits of fore any further Proceedings could be taken, the being a Fogy," and of "The Pleasures" of ditto, Governor went down to the House and prorogued ditto ! Besides which, are we not incalculably it until the 30th of October. indebted to Volume Two of Mr. Thackeiay's de- The question now is as to the power of the Conn lightful " Miscellanies," 'for those wonderful oil to enforce th ei r own process by commitment for " Novels by Eminent Hands," wh ich s o me eight ' contempt. The Council asserts its power ; the or ten seasons back astonished and delighted all Executive denies that they possess it, and seems Laudon, through the pages of its amusing chari- ' disposed to use force. On Monday morning, the vari Punch, presenting to us, as in mas q uerad e , 17th o f Se p tember, at 2.45 a.m., a shock of an such old favourites as "Sir E. L. B. L., Bart.," earthquake was felt in Melbourne of greater force and " Harry Rollicker," and G. P. R. Jeames, and duration than others which have been felt Esq.," & - c., and the immortal author of " Dukes here. There was one felt in 1846 strong enough and Dejeuners "as well as of " Marchiones s es and to alarm p eo p le. Two were felt in one da y some Milliners." How gloriously the George De Berne- , months since. Some say they felt a slight shock well" of Sir E. L. B. L., Bart., begun with—" In on the 10th inst., but it was only felt by a very the Morning of Life the Truthful wooed the Beau- few. This last, though in the night, roused every tiful, and their offspring was Love"—Morning, one ; doors and windows shook, in the case of Life, Truthful, Beautiful, and Love, all beginning loose wooden houses the knockers took to knock with capitals by way of significant personifi- ing au& sponte, the whole vibration lasted 35 cation I Again, who has forgotten in " Phil seconds, and was preceded by a rushing sound LITERATURE. CAUTION TO THE FILIBUSTERS. The President of the United States has issued the following proclamation : "CAUTION TO NICARAGUA FILIBUSTERS. " Whereas information has been received by me that sundry persons, citizens of the United States and ethers resident therein, are preparing, within the jurisdiction of the same, to enlist or enter themselves, or to hire or re tain others, to participate in military operations within the state of Nicaragua — "Now, therefore, I, Franklin Pierce, President of the United States, do warn all persons against connecting themselves with any such enterprise or undertaking, as being contrary to their duty as good citizens and to the laws of their country, and threatening to the peace lof the United States. "I do further admonish all persons who may depart from the United States, either single or in numbers, or ganised or unorganised, for any such ,purposv, that they will thereby cease to be entitled to the protection of this Government. "I exhort all good citizens to discountenance and prevent any such chsrepuTable and criminal undertaking as aforesaid, charging all officers, civil and military, having lawlel power in the premises, to exercise the same fer the purpose of mainta►ning the authority and enforcing the laws of the United States. "In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents. "Done at the city of Washington, the eighth day o December, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, and of the independence of the United States the eightieth. " FRANKLIN PIERCB. "By the President—W. L. Marcy, Secretary of State." MARKET NEWS.—(This Day). HAY MARKETS. surrHrrELD.—Meadow hay, 4/ 5s to Cl Os clover ditto, 4/ 15s to 6/ 18s; and straw, 1143 Od to if 9s Od per Traits steady Omtunti.aND.--Meadow hay, 4! 54 to 6/ Os; elover do., 4 15A to 6 , l's Awl straw. 1/ 54 to V 103 per loan. I moderate supply, and a fair demand. WHITECHAPRL.—Meakiow hay, 4i Os to 61 04; clover do.. 4 1, is to 7! Os ; and straw, 1/ 54 to li 104 per load. Supply moderate, and trade rather dull. Naval and Military Intelligence. The following is from a letter, dated Malta, Dec. 25 : "The Osprey screw-steamer has arrived front Lon don, bringing Colonel Paterson, Captain Faraday, the Rev. E. Verity, Messrs. Blelock, Boys, Calisher, O'Neil, Pepper, Pearse and family, Mrs. Lander, and Mrs. Ellis and son, and left for Constantinople and Balaklava on the 15th. " The Golconda, sailing transport, arrived en the 13th from Queenstown, bringing Captain Peel and Ensign Turner, let Roya s ; Captain Barrett and Lieutenant Thistlethwayte 33d ; Captain liebden and Ensign Wil s,)u. 50th ; Captain White, Lieutenant Daubeuey, and Ensign Pownall, 65th ; Ensign Fitzgibbon, 30th ; Lieu tenant Coen and Ensign, Dolmage, 49th ; Captain Car ter, and Lieutenant Roward, 62:1 ; Lieutenant Bing• ham, 90th ; Assistant-Surgeon Tippetts, and 558 non commissioned officers and privates of various regiments. "The Berwick steam-transport arrived from London and Plymouth on the 14th, bringing 227 labourers, and left on the 15th for Balaklava. "The Bahisna steam-transport, with stores from Dept ford, arrived on the 17th, and left for Balaklava on the 18th, conveying Colonel Paterson, Paymaster Faraday, the Rev. Mr. Verity, Major Browne, Assistant-Surgeon Tippetts, Mr. Blalock, Lieutenant Jeraghty, Dr. Downes, Mr. M'Gregor, 80 non-commissioned officers and pri vates, and 20 Maltese carters and muleteers. "The Europa steam-transport left for the Crimea on the 23d, with Mr. Wallace, clerk, and 65 men of the M.S.C., four women and eight children, 445 non-com missioned officers and privates of the Land Transport Corps ; Lieutenant-Colonel Macbeath, 38th ; Major M'Cormick, 18th ; Major Modgrass, 38th ; Capt. New port, 39th ; Surgeon King, Enh.igus Butler, 7th ; Fart mitt and Nicholls, 95th ; Lieutenants Rumbolt, 7th, and Collura, 28th. _ "Her Majesty's steam troop-'hip Urgent arrived on the 23d from Plymouth, bringing Captain Arbuckie, 57th ; Ensigns Seaton, Thackeray, and Webb, 28th ; Mr. Allen, wife, and three daughters ; and, for the Crimea, C,,lonel Holcombe, 13th; Major Ireland, Adju tant Jenkins, and 740 non-commissioned officers and privates of the Land Transport Corps ; Major Ambrose, 3(1 ; Captain Twysden, 55th ; Captain Butt, 79th ; Lieutenant Campbell, 48th ; Lieutenants Johnstone, 33d ; Lieutenants Brodigan and Hall, and Ensign Du cat, 28th ; Ensign Russell, 23 , 1; Ensign Tullock, Ist ; Ensign Brown, 48th ; Ensign Williams, 95th ; Staff Assistant Surgeons Hayward and Lizars, eight privates of different regiments, Lieutenants Rand and Stanton, R.N., and five seamen for the flaet ; Lieutenant Mar k.,ff and Ensign Flasseuko, Russian prisoners of war to be exchange-I at Odessa. "The Ottawa, atsam-transport, with clothing for the Turkish Contingent, bound to Kertch, arrived at Dun geness on the 23d. "The Holyrood, screw steam-transport, left with pro visions and stores for Constantinople on the 13th, con veying Lieuts. Mills and Shute, 57th ; Brocas, 68th ; Browne and Elliott, 33d ; Cross and Slieprird, 97th ; Ensigns Hales, Knox. Morgan, and Rogers, 19th ; Bloxmore, 23d ; and 10 officers' servants. " The steam-transport Sovereign, with provisions, left for Balaklava on the 15th, conveying Capt. Kelly, Lieuts. Bryant and Crawford, and Ensign Shaw, 18th ; Lieut. Roberts, 83d ; Lieut. Keppen, 48th ; Lieut. Worthington, 33d ; seven officers' servants, and one Maltese muleteer. " The Earl of Aberdeen steam-transport arrived from Balaklava on the 20th. She took her departure on the 12th for Spithead, on which day the Severn steam-trans port arrived from Balaklava. " Her Majesty's steam gun-boat Arrow arrived from Kazatch on the 12th, on which day the sailing-transport Bucephalus left for Spithead. " The aEtna left fur Gibraltar en the 18th, with 66 Spanish muleteers ; and on the same day, the Emu, for England ; the Kangaroo, for Barcelona ; and the Nor man, for Spithead. "The Black Boy steam-transport arrived from Con stantinople on the 17th. " The Hope steam-transport arrived from Constanti nople on the 17th ; took her departure for Spithead on the 23d. " The Golden Fleece steam-transport arrived from Constantinople on the 18th ; and, on the same day, the Victory steam-transport, with bombs and mortars, bring ing Captain Hackett, 28th, and Messrs. Dodds and Merrao. The Golden Fleece left for Gibraltar on the 18th. " The Blundell sailing-transport arrived from Con stantinople on the 15th, and ou the 20th, from the same port, the Prince Alfred sailing-transport. The Blundell sailed for England on the 19th. "The Ca.ndia steam-transport arrived from Constanti nople on the 23d, bringing Lieutenant-General the Heel/ J. Scarlett, commanding the cavalry force in the East. "The Arabia sailing transport arrived from Constan tinople on the 23d, and at the same time the Lancashire Witch sailing transport from the earns port.. " Her Majesty's screw steam-ship of the line Agatnem• non from Constantinople, and the Pirreus of Athens. " The Enterprise steamer arrived on the 10th from London with French Government stores, and left for Constantinople on the 12th. The Louqsor French postal steamer arrived from Marseilles ou the 16th, bringing, among other passen gers, Captain Murray, Dr. Van Eichtoff, 239 officers and privates of the French army, and three Sisters of Charity. She left the same afternoon. for Syra, Smyrna, and Constantinople, conveying likewise Capt. DAM stone and Capt. Garforth, who embarked at Malta. "The Carmel, French postal steam-packet, arrived from Marseilles on the 23d, and left for Syra, Smyrna, and Constantinople on the same day. "The Thabor, French postal steamer, arrived from Constantinople and Smyrna on the 11th. "The Columbian, steam-transport, in the French ser vice, arrived from Constantinople on the 18th, bringing Mr. Grant, Dr. Loanze, and 360 invalided officers, non commissioned officers and privates of the French army, and left for Marseilles on the 19th. " The Caire, French postal steam-packet, only arrived front Constantinople, Gallipoli, Smyrna, and Syra on the 22d. " The European, screw steam-transport, in the French service, with shells, and 834 officers, non•corrniasioned officers and privates, arrived from Kamiesh on the 24th, having in tow the American ship Ocean Herald, in the same service, with 441 more officers, non-commissioned officers, and privates ; both vessels left on the 25th for Marseilles. " The Indus, Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-packet, arrived from Southampton on the 15th ; and on the same day the Alhambra, steam-packet, be longing to the same company, from Marseilles, bringing the overland London mails of the 10th. " The Vatican French postal steamer arrived from Marseilles, and the continental ports of Italy and Sicily, on the 16th, bringing, among other passengers, Captain Elphinstone, Captain Garforth, and the Rev. J. IL Por ter. She left on her return voyage on the 21st. " The American screw steamer General Knox arrived on the 11th from Marseilles with a general cargo and 87 French artificers, and left for Constantinople and Kamiesh on the 12th. " The English schooner yacht Maria arrived from Dublin, Gibraltar, and Leghorn on the 22d. "The Leopard, Lynx, and Viper are at this moment signalled from the East, whence Sir Edmund Lyons is hourly looked for on his way to England, having re wired a telegraphic summons to attend the Council of War in England, leaving Sir Houston Stewart in com mand. This latter had arrived at Syra, on the way to Malta, where he received his recall." Vice-Admiral Sir T. Cochrane, K.C.8., struck his flag on board her Majesty's ship Victory, as Comman der-in-Chief of the Portsmouth station, last evening at sunset, his term of office having expired. This morning the flag (red at the fore) of Vice-Admiral Sir G. Francis Seymour, K.C.8., G.C.H., will be hoisted on board the same ship, on the accession of the latter officer to the post vacated by Sir T. Cochrane, whose "hauling (Iowa" promotion is expected to be conferred by the Admiralty on Lieut. Geo. Newcomen, first of the Victory, a lieu tenant of nearly 14 years' standing, and who was second officer in command of the squadron of honour equipped to attend upon the King of Sardinia on his Majesty's late visit to and departure from England. Sir T. Coch ratme's two first " flag " lieutenants (personal staff) were appointed prior to May last, on the 12th of which month the third (the Hon. Arthur Hay) was appointed. The latter officer leaves with his Admiral. The staff of Sir G. Seymour is Flag-Captain Hamond, son of Admiral of the Red Sir G. E. Hamond, G.C.B. ; Flag-Lieutenant Pechell, son of Rear-Admiral Sir G. B. Footled, M.P. ; and Paymaster Ashby, sa Secretary. The Prompt, screw steam transport, No. 168, Capt. Gray, arrived at Spithead yesterday from Constantinople and Malta. She brought no news, and only ballast as cargo. The bark Pearl, Capt. Hutchings, arrived at Spitbead yesterday from Bermuda, last from Cork with convicts, whose term of servitude is up. She landed 184 at Cork, and has now on board 64, and 10 invalids. The Great Britain stea m -t r ansport, Capt. Gray, went into Portsmouth harbour on Sunday a fternoon, arid yes terday morning landed her invalids at the dockyard, whence they proceeded to barrack quarters. His Imperial Majesty's screw steatn-corvette L'Ache ron, 8, from Martinique Nov. 23, for Brest, put into Dartmouth on Wednesday, short of fuel. Her equipage consists of Etat-Major Le Jeune, Lieutenant de Vats scan De Marteville, Euseigne Dupe, Docteur, et Trueil, Commissionnaire. She brings passengers from Mar tinique Alexandre, Capitaine d'Artillerie ; Marechal, Capraine d'Artillerie; and Cuquesnel, Capitaine d'lnfan eerie. The commander of the ship and Lieutenant De Marteville, with the two officers of artillery, paid a visit to Plymouth on Friday, and escorted by Mr. Driscoll, of time French Consulate, went to the Devonport dock yard, round which they were taken by Lieut. R.N., Director of Police. They then proceeded to the steam-yard at Keyhatn, where the works and ma chinery were shown them by Mr. Biddlecombe, Master- Attendant, and, like those of the dockyard, excited their surcrise and admiration. In the evening they went to the Plymouth Theatre, on entering which the orchestra played the French national air, and the audience rose simultaneously in all parts of the house. Commander Le Jenne and his friends left for Dartmouth on Saturday, expressing their gratification at the cour tesy and attention they had everywhere received. The corvette will leave for Blest when the weather changes. The screw steam-sloop Cruiser, 17, Commander the Hon. G. H. Douglas ; and the screw steam-ship Archer, 14, Captain E. Heathcote, from the Baltic, arrived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday morning. The paddle-wheel steam-sloopßulldog, 6, Commander . C. Gordon, went from Plymouth Sound into Ha moeze on Thursday. The Albion 90, Captain the Hon. J. R. Drummond, was towed from Plymouth Sound into Hamoaze on Thursday by the Confiauce and Zephyr steam-vessels. 11er crew are to be paid off, she having been in com mission upwards of five years. The screw ;Act= block-chip Rogue, Capt. W. Ramsay, C. 8., having had defects made good, was taken out o Keyham docks on Saturday. The launching of the frigate Liffey, building in No. 8 slip, Devenport dockyard, 13 postponed from the first week in January to the month of March. The contract for supplying the Royal William Victual ling-yard, Plymouth, with beef fur the use of the navy has been taken by Mr. J. England at 465. 2d. per cwt., being 9s. 7d. less than the previous year. The hired ship William Hammond, Capt. Edwards, with 205 convicts from P.:rtemouth and Portland, ar rived in Plymouth Sound on Saturday, and is appointed to embark 45 convicts from the Dartmoor prisons, and a guard of 15 pensioners, in addition to /5 already on board. She will probably sail to-morrow for Freemantle. The African mail steam-ship Gambia, Com. Bolt, did not leave Plymouth finally for the West Coast of Africa until Saturday morning. Stress of weather has compelled several vessels to take shelter at Plymouth. On Thursday the schooner Brunette, of Glasgow, Daniel Wal lace master, with Indian corn, for Cork or Falmouth, for orders, which left Constantinople on the 25th of Sept., arrived there in a very leaky state, with pumps choked, and the master and the crew nearly exhausted, having had for some days to bale the water out of the fore-peak to keep the vessel from sinking. On the same day tie Prussian brig Doris, of Barth, Capt. Kraeft, with coal from Cardiff for Malaga, pet in with loss of bulwarks. On Saturday the brig Volumnia, of Sunderland, Captain Strickland, with coal from Cardiff for Constantinople, and the brigantine Gipsy, of Bristol, Capt. Ayr, with sulphur and fruit from Aiessina for Falmouth, put into Plymouth. Both suffered at sea on the 26th Dec. ; the brig lost her mainmast and head sails ; the brigantine had her wheel, skylight, binnacle, &c., carried away. The following officers have obtained leave from Chatham :—C4nisians W. Meese, 26th ; J. F. Girardot, 431 ; T. Goff, 45th ; J. RebertSon, 60th ; R. Dawson, 75th ' • E. Codd, 99th ; Lieut. G. S. Coxon , 45 th ; En . sign G. E. Massy, sth ; nod W. 3. Kerapson, 99th Regiments. Capt. Dudley C. Hill, 40th Regiment, lately appointed Instructor ef the School of Mueketry at Templeinore, proceeded yesterday to that station. Sixty-six invalids arrived yeaterday from Portsmouth, the worst cases being taken into Brompton Hospital, the remainder to St. Mary's. The funeral of Ensign M`Donald, East India Coin. pany's Engineers, takes place to-day with military honours at Gillingham. None of the bodies of the other young gentlemen have been discovered, although 501. has been offered for the recovery of each. The Reyal Sappers and Miners are under orders to fall in at one o'clock this day to form the funeral party. Orders have been received at the head-quarters, Chat ham Division, Royal Marine Light Infantry, for 1 subal• tern, 1 sergeant, 2 corporals, and 46 privates to be in readiness to proceed to the Mediterranean station for the disposal of the naval Commander-in Chief. Second- Lieutenant Arthur Hill is under orders to proceed with this detachment ; the senior lieutenant, Wm. Stirling, being on court-martial duty. Colonel Eden, the commandant of Chatham garrison, issued an order yesterday stating that the several de partments will endeavour to carry out the intentions of the letter received from the Horse Guards for contri buting to the Nightingale Find.; DEATH OF ADMIRAL CURRY. Admiral Curry, C. 8., on the retired list, died at Me residence, Stoke, Devonport, on the evening of the 27th inst , aged 84. The following acc , ,unt of his sersioeo we take from " O'Byrne's Biography " Richard Curry, born in 1772, was son of the late Thee. Curry, Esq., of Gosport, Hants, for more than 20 years a zealous and active magistrate f. r that county, and cousin of the late Captain J. Faulkner, R.N. This officer entered the navy March 22, 1780, as captain's servant, on board the A.inphitrite, 24, Captain Robert Biggs, from which vessel he was discharged April 2, 1782. R.1.-embarking, Aug. 12, 1786, on board the Go liath, 74, Captain A. Dickson, guard-ship at Portsmouth, he afterwards served on the Mediterranean, Halifax, West India, and home stations, as midshipman and mas ter's mate in thePhaaton. 38. Capt. G. Dawson; Acuson, troopship, Lieutenant Giminander J. Hanwell ; Royal George, 100, and Barflenr, 98, flag ships of Hon. S. Bar rington and of Rear Admiral Faulknor ; Iphigenia, 32, Capt. P. Sinclair ; and Venus, of 38 guns and 192 men, commanded by his relative, Cant. J. Faulkner. While in the Iphigenia we find Mr. Corry, in February, 1793, conducting into port L'Elizabeth, the second privateer captured during the war ; and on his removal to the Venue, taking part, May 27 billowing, in a very severe action of two hours and a half (the third fought with the republicans at sea), which terminated in the separation of the combatants, after a loss to the British frigate of 2 killed and 20 wounded ; and to the Frenchman (the Se. millante, of 40 guns and 300 men) of 12 killed and 2$ wounded. Obtaining his first commission March 14, 1794, he soon accompanied Capt. Faulkr.or into the Diana, 38, and on Aug. 23 in the same year he witnessed the appa rent destruction, near the Penmarcks, by a squadron under Sir Edward Pellew, of the 36-gun frigate Volon taire and corvettes Espoir and Alert. After serv ing for three years and a half, latterly se first lieutenant, on hoard the Eannpareil, 80, flagship in the Channel of Lord Hugh Seymour, he was ultimately promoted, Nov. 30, 1793, to the command of the Fury. tnnb. In that vessel he appears to have taken a very conspicuous share in the expedition to Holland in 1799, during which he botubardeu a military past near the Helder Point—covered the landing of the army un der Sir Ralph Abercroinhy--- accompanied Vice-A.drairal Mitchell's flotilk to the Zuyder Zee—co-operated with Captain William Carthew in removing a large quantity of naval stores from Metiemblik, the dockyard at which place and two frigates were burnt ; and was the last but one to quit the Texel on its evacuation. On afterwards repairing to the Mediterranean, Capt. Curry, early in March, 1801, joined in the hostilities then commencing against the French in Egypt. After assisting at the de barkation of the troops he bombarded and reduced the Castle of Aboukir, in Bth of that month, by which event 12 guns and 190 of the enemy fell into the hands of the On 19th April, with a division of gun-boats under his orders, be further contributed to the surrender,, at the c'ose of a siege of three days, of the Castle ofJul lien, although defended by 15 pieces of canton and a garrison of nearly 400 men. Ascending the Nile, he subsequently, on 9th May, commanded a force of four fiats and three launches in an action of six hours with the enemy's forts at Ilatunanieb, the eventual capture of which, after occasioning the British a► loss of 4 wee killed and 7 wounded, cut Jr all communication between the French armies at Grand Cairo and Alexandria, secured the command of the Nile, and contributed in agreat degree to the anal expulsion of the enemy from the country. For these services Capt. Curry was presented by the Capita* Pacha with several pieces of rich silk stuff, embroidered with gold in 'rations patterns, and, as a mark of par tit:solar distinction, he received from the Grand Vizier a handsome pelisse of camel's hair lined with rich fur. On the capitulation of Grand Cairo, towards the elowof June, a few days previously to which he had constreeted a bridge for the passage of the army across the Nile, Captain Curry was sent in his cutter down the river with the intelligence to Lord Keith, then in Aboukir Bay. In consequence of the strong recommendations of which he was the bearer he was immediately ordered home with the despatches, aid on his arrival at the Ad. inirs.lty he was awarded the sum of 5001. uanally given on such occasions. Having rejoined the Fury in the Mediterranean, Captain Curry was soon, by commission dated Jan. 7, 1802, promoted to post rank, and ap pointed to the Tigre, of 74 guns, which ship he brought baize and paid off in October following. We afterwards find him assuming the successive command, April 13, 1803, of the Royal Sovereign, 100, attached to the fleet in the Channel ; April 30, 1805, of the Tribune, 32, eta tioned off Cherbourg ; and Jan. 23, 1806, aid Sept. 24, 1811, of the Roebuck, 44, and Solebay, 32, flag ships if Admiral Billy Douglas, Lord Gardner, and Robert Mar ray, comnaanders-in-chief at North Yarmouth, where Its remained until the peace of 1814. From May, 1830, May, 1833, he next, in the Caledonia, 120, Foudroyant, 80, and San Josef, 110, officiated as flag captain to Sir Manley Dixon, commander-in-chief at Plymouth. Sines his original proinotioa to flag rank, Jan. 10, 1337, he has been on half-pay. His present commission hear* date Nov. 9, 1846. "Admiral Curry, who received a gold medal for hie services in Egypt, was nominated a C.B. Sept. 26, 1831. He married, Jan. 18, 1804, Elizabeth, youngest daugh ter of D. Blachford, Esq., of Lower Tooting. Surrey, and has 11 children new living. One of his cone, Douglas, is a captain R.N. ; another, Robert Murray, first lieutenant R.M., commanded, while attached to the Thunderer, 84, a company at the storming of Sidon, and served at the siege of Acre in 1840." DEATH OF BURGEON ALEXANDER 00011 C. BURN. Surgeon Alexander Cockburn, seniority 1808 on the retired list, died at Edinburgh on the 20th inst. This officer had been for many years in charge of the sick quarters at Leith ; h e h a d seen muc h service, and had always enjoyed the friendship and confidence of sup.- flora, not only for his varied attainments as a profes sional man, but forbis unassuminv social qualities. Mr. Cockburn took a very lively interest in all that apper tained to the improvement of the position of the nse dical officers of the Royal navy, and congratulated himself upon living to see the day when the younger members of his profession were admitted into the service without going through the disgraceful ordeal to which he and his contemporaries were subjected ; at the same time, however, it was a matter of 'loop regret to him that, while the public money was squandered recklessly in ridiculous experiments, a sufficient su m was not set aside in order to induce men of education and high attainments to enter and remain in t he navy. It will be scarcely believed, but we will vouch for the fact, that the yearly payment made to the late Mr. Cockburn, so as to ensure his services in case of sickness am ongs t our naval forces at Leith, was not equal to that which would have been paid to an able•bodied porter in Lon don: We do not attribute blame for this to the present naval authorities. It was a legacy bequeathed to them by the Croker school. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—EtoIIowaY's Ointment and Pills for the cure of Ulcers and Cutaneous Diseases.r—The daughter of Mrs. Farlow, town carrier, resid.l.ng in Maiden-lane, Covent-garden, was afflicted for six years with ulcers on the right arm, and during that pt.riod she had the best medical advice that could be pro cured. but without deriving any beneficial result whatever r ; her health suffered, and her constitution became t a) Im paired that no hopes were entertained of a recovery.. 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Arrived.--John Fyfe, from Cn.lln,o ; Mimosa, Maud. tius ; Hermann, Athens ; Aristidoi,. Syra. DUBLIN, Doe. 31. Wind W.S. W. Arrived—Ahoona, from Syra ; Jane, Mazagan ; Spec! men, St. Michael ; Stephe❑ Huntley,. Alexandria. 0! SUBMARINE ANli IVRITIS; TRU:GRAPH, GRA.VESEND,, Tuesday, 9.45 a.m. Wind E.S.E.; tide, 2 hours' ebb; cloudy. Arrived, Dec. 31—Acorn, Juli a, and Marys, from Guernsey ; Belford, Nantes ; a' Eliz )etb, Palmas. DEAL, Tuesday, 9.31 a.m. _ .. Wind S. by W., moderate. Am:bored—Keit* from Quel,oc,.. for London. the )" of the ;fete for d it I in took I s or rail- •ain cted •ma• and ben- i the ,ntal :inch )rks, into ltity • the )erSt 'any, )er. area, its of of s )then coil' [mot table to its corir 3d Bp o f and have ;ards N. ~.