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

MONEY MARKET COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'Cnocit. In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday there was an active demand, and the supply was limited. The sales were estimated at 30,000 bales, and consisted of about 2,000 export and 5,000 specu lation (American). 1,500 Pernam and Maranham, at 6gd. to 70. ; 1,500 Bahia, 61d. to 61d. ; 800 Egyptian, 61d. to Bd. ; 2,000 Surats, 41d. to 5d.; and 200 Sea Islands, 10d. to 191 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 fe,s - ctrlble effect of the reduction Of the rate of discount by the Bank of France. There is not much disposition, however, to enter eagerly into commercial operations. The high prices of raw materials for 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 fro m St. Petersburg state that the old Muscovite Party, who have been agitating for the adoption of th e national costume to the detriment of French fashions, have not succeeded in their efforts. The retail traders in Paris complain of a sensible dimi nution in the amount of sales during March this Year, compared with last season ; but this was not to b e 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 io 'lonics, among which are the Anglesea, with 10 51,319 ozs., and the Statesman, with 14,198 ozs., 2 5 5 Making a total of about 262,0681. Besides these, St. arrivals of specie are expected from other quarters. 4IU 12 ' The balance of trade is still against New York, B t . and heavy remittances are looked forward to with St. confidence. The settlement of the accounts in 22 Shares and Foreign Securities has created a good 100 demand for money at the Stock Exchange, where g full terms have been paid for accommodation. 20 The prices of most of the English Securities are st rather flatter, in consequence of the demand for 50 Money, the rumour of an unfavourable Bank re- it. tu rn on Friday next, and the expectation that a St. new loan will soon be announced. The final in- St. stalment on the last financial operation is not LI Payable until the 24th inst., and many deem it st . very improable that another loan will immediately 25 be taken. The numerous arran g ements that will 5,51 have to be made for the conclusion of peace, and at. the great expense which m ust necessarily be in- T O. curred, induce others to assume that a replenish racist of the Exchequer must at once be effected. 2(1 Consols for money have been 921 to 93 for money, and 931 f for account, being about 1 per cent. lower ban at the close of business yesterday. There have been dealings in the New Three per Cents. at 921 and in the Reduced Annuities at 914 92. The Five per Cents. are marked 114. Bank Stock has recovered the flatness of yesterday, being 2121, 213, and 214. The March Exchequer Bill are ls. to 4s. premium, and the Bonds have been 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 the 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 ha would tak e 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 th e 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 98a 4, and the 4 per Cents. are 1011 for money. Russian 4 , 1 1 per Cents. are heavy, being 91i. Mexi can have risen to 23 premium. Active Bonds are 771, and the Grenada New Active are 22. There 103 have been transactions in Brazilian 5 per Cents. at X2O 1001, Do. New, 18 43 , at 100, and in Chilian 6 per 20 Cents. at 68i. 25 10 The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 71 1 ; Mexi- tOC Can, 22i 221; Peruvian, 79 80 ; ditto 3 per Cents., to 64 5 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 49 50 ; Russian 5 2( Per Cents., 104 106 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 94 96. 2( For English Railway Shares th e re is an inactive market, and in the quotations there is very little variation to record. Chester and Holyhead, 24 2 i Great Northern, North-Eastern, and South Wales are firmer. The French Lines are buoyant, and I 2 ) 1 in the other foreign undertakings there is no mate rial alteration. This is "pay day" in the Share LO to Market. 10 A moderate business has been done in Bank 2 Shares at previous prices. te BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. I 20 ( Prom the oXcial List. ) 5 8n0n... done. Bank Stock . ... . 213 12A 14 3 pet Cent. Reduced Annuities 9li 2 1i 3 per Cent. Console Annuities 93 2i New 3 per Cent. Annuities 5 par Cent. Annuities ll4 Lon g Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 Ditto 30 Yeats, expire sth April, 1885 l6 15-16 Console for Account Exchequer Hills, 2id• March. June 21 000 4 Ippar 3 pl 4 — d E5OO — Small • ••• Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cent — Ditto, 1859 PRIOES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. lO O 3 /4 a d Ditto New,1843 Chilian Bonds, 3 per Cent Gii Grenada Now Active, per Cent. LlANiewa 3 per Cent — 23 Ditto Account Peruvian Bonds 4. per Cent . — Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1622, .1.: 5t.... - Ditto 4i per Cent. Ditto Small . 95/ Sp nl'l. Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account 24a Turkio, Bonds, 6 per ceut .................... Ditto Account ............ - al Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account .. Divt,;,,,,ift on the above , .ysble in London, Equador Peruvian Dollar Bonds, 4i p. C. 5 9 THREE O'CLOCK, . 93k Consol4, money Ditto Account Play 8) PALMER'S CASE.—It is the intention of Mr. John 4 _ 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. It BOILER EXPLOSION IN GLASGOW.—On Friday even- It ing, about half past 6 o'c'ock, the boiler in the Clyde Grain Mills, Commercial-road, exploded with a fearful crash. The boiler was blown to atoms, and the boiler house completely demolished. The south gable was thrown down, bringing 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 1 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 satisfy the medical gentlemen who were pre ei.t aS to the cause of death. A portion of the intestines and stomach was deposited in jars and sealed by Dr. Monckton, and on Saturday t ken by Mr Bergen, of the county constabulary, to Dr. Taylor, at Guy's Hoe. pital, for analysation. On the c)inp!e%,ion of Dr. Taylor's investigation, the inquest will be resumed. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. !Paid . ' Ren.wAys. Closing Prices this day 1001 A.mbg. Wottng. Boat and Eastn. Jana— all 331 fast & Ballymena. all , iirming. Wolvorh & Stour 'Valley • Lii Sirk o slid. Lanesh. & Cheshire Junct all '.)o. Cheah. de Birk. £5O and £25 Cons 19 Do., £2O all glytia &Tyne origina £25 (lead. at £45 . 100 Bristol and Exeter... 100 Jaledonian 61a. Cann. and Cardigan all ;heater & Holyhead all (.lork and Bandon all work, Black, & Pass 18 Cornwall all Do. A 8 Do. B 1h Crie I' Junction 45 Dalin&BelfastJune. all Dun. P. & A1)0”.. Jne. 100 East Anglian , all Eastern Counties.. 100 Best. Union, A HU 100 De., B. Stock 8. 1 Do New A. ..... 0 • 10 East Kent 100 ::ast Lancashire 100 Edinburgh & (Ilasge all Edinb. and Peebles 100 Edin. Prth &Duna., 9 Forth & Clyde Jun •. all ?unless all Do. Extension 100 Glasgow &S. Wost..,• all Great N. of Scotlnd. 100 great Northern 'lOO Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 1 1)(l :It. Sth. &Wost.(lre 100 qreat Western 100 ')o. Stour Val. Gina. Stk .. all [rich South-Eastern. all , ancAster & Carlisl , 1.4 P Do., Thirds 8 Do. New Thirds 100 Lancash.n.ndYorksi - Do., Wet. Riding Un all Liv.CrEiny.&Southni all London & Blackwall 100 lend. Bright & S.Cst. 100 [And. and N. West], 16 Do. Fifths 5i }Do.IOI. UDo. Eighths.. 1001 London and S. Wear , all I Do., £5O. all Do., £4O. all Lndmirry&Colorain all tandndrrr. & Mantel . 100 Slanch.Shot.& Lincln Us. Do., Man. & Lin. Uc 1 (etrop oli tan 100 Ifidland 100 Jo. Birmng. &Derl, all 'ttidld. G. West. (Ire.) all Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & Carlisle all Nwpt.Abcrg. & Hrti 83 Newry &Enniskille; all Nowry Warreupoini and Rostrevor. 100 Norfolk 1 3i lorthn.Counties Un 100 worth British Nth Devon Rail. & 100 Dock Stock • 100 /0., A Stock all 1)o., B Stock ..... all Do., B Guarantee 100 DT. Eastern—Bcr wic 214 Do. do. Extension 15 De.do. G.N.E. 'tura all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York 100 North London 311 E &S.Wetrn.,llam , - stead, and City Jn.. 17i North Str.frordshire.. all North Western all N. &S. Wostrn.Junc. I Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester........ 110 Dx, Wore.. & Wolv. 8 i'ortsmouth 100 ?sottish Central „. 100 Scottishßidland 100 iiropshiro Union all ionth Devon 110 •ionth Eastern 100 -loath Wales Yrksh. 4 Riv. Du!! 5 Do 16 ttnine,,W( k. &Wok all Stockton & Darli 16: , tolkten & Hnrtlep PX) f'aff Vale • 100 "10. Prt.f., No. 1 22 ; 1 1: Imes Hay. D.& B. Ulverstone & Lane., all Vale ni Neath.... all Waterfd. & Kilkc an; all ,Waterford&Limer'c' all West Cornwall. all 'West End of London and Crystal Palace all Do. A .. 3 Do. B all West London all Wimbledn & Croydon 111 iaturt!r par iiett rd 40 Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. in Sli. atpar till'64 10 Ardennes ••• ;11 sclgian Erg tn. Junc 14 r,ziers toGraimessa 44 ilombay,Barotla,an central India.Seri all Do. all Demerara 11 11)utch Rhenish all Eastern of France 13 Do. New %ll at Indian, g. 5 I). e 15 Dc. Estension.. all D0.4p.c.8nd5.,'57 a , l Do. do. do., '69, dr. 16 Gee'ong ki Melbouine p guar. 5 er all Do., Lon. allot., do. 22 Pd. Tk of CanadaA is *II' Do. .................... 9D Do. Cert. of Dam. con. into Stk. till'6: all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do 14 Gt. Cchtral of France all ca. Indian Peuinsulf. 14 Great Luxembonn Constituted Shares all Do. . 11 Do. re-is. forftd. Sh. all Gt.WesternofCanaea Shares 5i Do. Now all Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55.. 111 Do. do., '62, p.'56... all Do. do., '76, p. '60... all Do. do., '73, without option all Hamilton Bt Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 17 Lake Conet. 8t BasP all Lierre and Turnhout all Lucca & Pist. sp. c.p 16 Lyons and Genova 14 Lyons dr Moditerran all irradrai4, guar. 4 p.c 10 Do. New ,- 0., 5 p. c 0 I 10 Do. qp. c. Eaten Il• all .0 all :0 I 1111 Maria Antonia Do. do. New gamnr & Liegs (wits interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France Do.llol.She. Do. 20/. 3 p. c BdP (finy.B.&Ams.She. NorwegianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons - Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Rome and Frascati Ti 0y al Danish Do. Obligations ,unbre and Mouse Do. 5i p. cent. Pref Sciudo, guar. 5 p. c !() all [6 all !CI all 10 all 20 all 40 all 10 all 10 5 20 all 5 all 4 all 20 all 10 all 20 5 20 all 20 all 20 16 D 0... Southern of France.. St. Andrew's and Quebec (A).. West Flanders Do 5 per c. Pref & N. W. of Franot West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden .. 8? el 10 all 20 18 20 all 6 all 20 all Zealand 0 11 15 5 LOC , 50 10 Ali 26:1 27i 4 - 41 •N . ~~' •. 84 - 9 17i - 18,1 15A lei 12 131 84 - 61 - 61 16 - - 17 • •• m." ... 17 - 18 9i 3 - 1 38 21 - 26 76 - 78 61 - 63 29 - 30 88 - 92 - 71 94 - 95 78 - 80 .23 -126 03 - 641 70 - 6 - 7 p 6A 88i - 89 74 74 103 - 101 1014 - 101; par - A p 1 par - 4 pi 4 94 - 95 • •• .."'' NI ... - 29 - 29} - 74i - 75 13 - 45 *to """ •• • 2 15. 54 - 56 31 - 3vl 341 ... 351 7j 9 31_ 3 15i - 161 56 57 88 - 92 6i 6d 6 6.4 10 101 27i -28 i .04 - ICG 74 - 76 47 - 4 9 15 - 72i - 74 71 - 73 4 - 2 - 4 37 ... 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New ••••••••••••• "Ilion (if London .... Western Bk of Loni 92 -- t-4 11 - li 63 - 65 • •• ... ••• --.••• f •••••lp ... - ... 41 64 - 66 •w `.. ••• 10:16, 3 -- 2 74 d • •• .... ••• par 2p •• ---- •• 3i -- 20, 11. ... .• • • • 40 - 42 43 4 11 -- 1 ) 7. 72 --;; 8} ..• ••• ;;T: Business done this day. 5 5 20 10 20 5 20 18 20 20 '2O 20 000 * THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 15. 1856. Spirit of the Public Journals. ~La~2.stfa►Y~~ Lem'. Compans Ci..llm this day. BEliii itala this lay. (From the Times of this day.) No one is able to say exactly and confidently why the report of the Crimean Commissioners has itself heels 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 have been taken as conclusive. We are not, however, concerned with the measures by which 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 sult,—it is, that the men in command in the Crimea aro 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 tredesman calling for orders. There were no carpenters or labourers—no sailcloth, or scantling, or ropes, or good tools. They were wholly neglected. What could they 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 mast not expect to fare much better than Cossacks, and indeed will probably have to do what the Cossacks have to do. The English nob'etnan 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 rnchandter, 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 Crimea 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 thing. 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 Lucan, and to Colo nels Douglas, Doherty, and Low, who were examieed 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 difficulty appears, no doubt his Lordship will make his complaints heard, though whether he will keep the Commander-in-Chief fully acquainted with the condition of his horses and men is net quite so certain. Colonel 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. He 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 teen 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 excuse given is the want of a sufficient supply of tools, though any labourer knows, as Mr. Galton 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 proper materials. He could not say, and cannot now say, whether it is likely that assistance, in men or materials, could have been ob'ained from the fleet. He only supposes that if sailors had been paid for the work their services might have been procured. As this supposition comes out elsewhere, and as it is evident the British sailor is in the eyes of the British soldier a sort of marine navvy, procurable for any service on the o )ndition, 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, nut of fellow-servants, but of independent 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 months of December and January, even though he lost 100 hot see out of 143 in three months. Now, we should be, very sorry to spoil the romance of war, especially that of the most romantic branch of the service—the cavalry regiments. But 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 ingly 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 examined as to the proper steps to be taken in those emergencies that are certain to occur in war. War does not consist exclusively of sword exercise, or even of manoeuvres, still less of charges without any mareauvring. Indeed, in all ages, the best generals have been quite as remark. able for their diligence, promptness, and dexterity in feeding man and horse as in handling them when fed. Cat=ar, whom even Lord 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 artifice, 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 \con quered the world, in spite of his disadvantage in being by birth the first gentleman in Rome. Notwithstand ing the immunities of his position, he condescended to be, like all other great generals, a professional soldier ; and he learned his art as regularly as the Stephensons, the Brunelle and the Bras.seys of this age have learnt the art of making railways. There appears to be no doubt that both the Russians and the French consider war a profession, and not mere good company and horse manehip. We must do as they do, unless we would be beaten ; and beaten we certainly shall be most cruelly, unless we commit our bravo soldiers to the care of men who can do something more than charge the enemy's guns and let the survivors perish for want of the most • ordinary care. ( Prom the Times of this clay.) The bill of the war will probably never be presented to the British public in a separate form. It is, however, ' a very natural subject of curiosity, and something like an approximation can be obtained. Our public expen diture, under ordinary circumaauces, is very uniform, and there is no great difficulty in assigning any ex cess to its proper causes. ILnce 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 50,000,0001., which bad become as much the figure of our e,ta blishnient as a gentlemen's 5,0001. or 10,0001. a-year. In the financial year just ended it has been 88,429,3451., is round numbers, 40,000,0001. more than in peace. At all events, we may eertaiuly say that we spent last year 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 cline in the year ended March 31, 1856, as stated in the return, was 22,723,8541., although the increased Income tax and other war taxes had produced about 15,000,0001. Adding thus what we did pay out of the taxes to what we did not, the result is near 38,000,0001. To meet the excess we contracted in the course of the year two new loans,the ftxmer for 16,000,0001. the latter 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 fur 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 10,000,0001. 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 bat few of our readers will derive comfort from the re flection that the war just 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 aro 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 I This is a consideration, of course, of little weight when honour is in question, for honour knows no price ; hut 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 choose our line, whether proud and provoca tive, or modest and pacific. War is the most costly of all amusements, and no doubt 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 ruirr.d. 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 ti very much less than in the last yea r of the last war, when the country was not half so w ealth y as it now is ; ' when there was not a tithe of the machinery, no railways, and when even the soil was not half so pro luctive. We should have been well able to carry on the war ten or 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, r the cost of which only falls on those who have sure I means the .losses of which only fall on some families, Bedford and Blotchley Buckghauish. - Clydesdale Jo. Col. Stour Vy. Sad. and Hal. E. Liu. P.B pc E. Hu. H. Sh. Glaa. Barr. Sr Neils. Direct Do. New._ Olstr4 Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. Railway Hall & Salby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon. & Greenv, Do. Preferewe Lon: , Til., St S. Lowostoft gr. 4 per cont. 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Scrip... — l l 20 all i).). liewißterea. 1 15 5 1' rust Sa L. Co. U. Can. •••• DO I 2 8 i Pa,, Dialopu'o T. lO 16 I V.Go.6p.e.Jan&July „. 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 bat few persons had assembled in the Hall, and the interest excited, con. sidering the manner in which the City had been placarded and 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 in 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 valued privileges." His Lordship said he was no patty to calling this meeting, but he must say that 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 au April fool's measure. (Hear and laughter.) This measure had 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 been administered 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 qualities 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 obstacles that appeared to stand in their way, and was it for that that they were to be swept away ? (Hear, hear.) The hon. gentleman then proceeded to remark on the statement that had been put forth, that this was a moderate measure, but he looked upon it as the moderation of the housebreaker, who, after taking your plate and properky, considered he had acted moderate in leaving you in posses sion of your lives. (Hear.) He (Mr. Lawrence) looked upon this measure as one 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 France that the march of des potism became easy, and the result they had 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, and he left him to choose which horn of the dilemma he would select. (Hear.) The lion. 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 accomplished, would entail a rate of from 2s. to 2s. 61. per pound to discharge the expenses of their law courts and other expenses. (Hear, 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 intact. If this measure be universally resisted by the Livery the Government would not dare to persist in it. (Hear.) He moved the following resolution :—" That the bill introduced into the Houle of Commons purporting to be for the better regulation of the Corparati on, al though professing to abolish such customs and privileges only as are injurious to trade, it ignores the whole body of the L ivery and a destruction of its privileges an ex tinction of its municipal existence, and is other wise subve reive 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• lotion. The LORD MAYOR having put the resolution, Mr. BENNOCII 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 di: tasteful to the meeting, and it was with great difficulty he could obtain a hearing, and the Lord Mayor had to interfere to request the Livery to hear patiently what each speaker had to advance. The hon. 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 body as being a sham, from the manner 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 128,000 Lie revenue of the Corporation amounted to 400,000/. per annum, a.:,cl 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 600,0001., 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 Om , poration. He considered this measure too moderate, it should have gone further and ilitimated how the large funds of the corporation should in future be administered. He looked upon the fact of the Lord Mayor beingelected by 96 instead of the whole livery as a disgrace and a shame, and that the election of the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs should be by the citizens of London and not by the Aldermen and Common Council. Ile considered the present corporation a concentrated essence of cor ruption requiring to be scattered and turned into a wide expanded area of liberty. He concluded by proposing a resolution to the effect that the present measure was a wise and moderate one, and that this meeting would use its influence to insure its becoming a law. (Uproar.) Mr. BATESeAN seconded the amendment amidst great uproar. He said he was inclined to imagine that the conduct of the livery that day in refusing to hear both sides of the question was affording an argument for the abolition of the Common Hall, one of the provisions of the present bill. The hon. gentleman at some length, and amidst much interruption, supported the bill as one likely to do away with that which had hitherto pre vented the free progress of the citizens, and that by abolishing the tax on coal, throwing open the brokery trade, &c , &e., London would become a freer City than it had ever been. Mr. Alderman SIDNEY supported the amendment. He said that 70 of the clauses of this bill might be passed over as objectionable, but the remaining 16 clauses were hateful, and such that no man understanding the liberties of our common land could recognise or agree with. Speaking of the magistracy of London, the hon. gentleman said that they were more independent than the stipendiary magistrates of the metropolis, who were under the control of the Goverment, and were lectured often by the Chief Commissioner of Police, who was in frequent communication with the Home Secretary. Tile hon. gentleman then entered into many of the ob jectionable details of the bill, and defended the present system of administering the funds of the Corporation. Neither property nor individuals were so lightly taxed in any other part of the kingdom as in London. No doubt the mananement of the funds of the Corporation might be improved ; but he did not think that a sufficient cause for the Government, unsolicited, to deal with 111,0001. . of the Corporation fund.. The resolution was ultimately agreed to, as were the following resolutions, and also a petition embodying the sentiments of the livery present on the bill :—. "That, by sweeping away the long established r i g ht s of the Livery, and transferring the functions of that very numerous body to a small number of p ersons, a princi. ple is obviously at variance with the true spirit of re- form. "That the Livery are fully alive to the desirabl eness o f reforming all abuses, anti would gladly lend their aid to any scheme of reform really woriby of that designation ; but they can only consider the present bill as one of in considerate changes, needlessly and injuriously inter fering with 1 ng established and valuable institutions ; the right use of the powers of the Livery never having been impeached, and it being indisputable that great services have been rendered by them to the country. "That this Common Hall approves of the proceeding of the Committee of Liverymen, appointed at a meeting at the Guildhall Coffee House, held on the 9th day of April, and hereby requests the said Committee to con tinue to act on their behalf, and to add such member of the Livery to their number as they may, from time to time, deem advisable. "That the petition now re ad be adopted and signed by the Livery, and presented by Mr. Masterman to the House of Commons, and that all the members of the City be requested to support its prayer." Thanks were voted to the Lord Mayor and the Livery separated. COMMENCEMENT OF EASTER TERM.— Easter term com menced to-day, and, as is usual on such occasions, the judges breakfasted with the Lord Chancellor at his lordship's residence in Upper Brook -street. The com rany 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 re,pective courts. Nothing of import ante took place in any of the courts up to the hour of our going to press,. 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 3linister 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 , went. Sa the matter rests ; and thus for the hour a ministerial crisis and a dissolution have been deferred, but that is all. The terms of Mr. Baillie's motion were sufficiently ex plicit. That the conduct cf 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 compromise the honour• of the nation." It is no wonder that Lord Palmerston shrunk from meeting this resolution. Had it been debated, and pressed to a division, Ministers would have either been defeated, or left in so narrow a majority as ;,o 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 nister 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 all the subject, we are still of opinion that the American Government Lave failed to make good against our representative or officials the charge of infringement of the municipal law of the States. In fact, the opinions both of Mr. Marcy and Mr. C. Cushing on this matter conflict with that of one of the judges 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 beer made oil', the Govern ment of this country still stand convicted of having, by an obstinate persistefice in a stupid, needless, and inef fective policy, placed the relations of this country will. 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 loses 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 avails 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 0 sited States who chose to cross the St. Lawrence ? The Go vernment of Washington became incensed, for tsey 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 I So menacing has become the language or the American Government and Senate, that our rulers 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 guage 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, and of supplying 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 motion. 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 we 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. THE SPECIAL COMMISSION. Another of the assassins of Miss Hinds has been made amenable to justice. Yesterday evening, after two days' trial, Thos. 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•of?sce this day Mr. James M. Knighting was brought up charged with having corn witted 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, stockbroker, and stated that Mr. H. M. Jones, of Hampstead, was anxious to dispose of 156 preference shares in the Great Southern and West ern Railway, and that, inasmuch as his residence was at some periods uncertain, he wished to appoint Mr. John J. Ryan, of the Lunacy-office, as his ageilt. In acorn d- ance with this direction a deed of transfer from Mr. Jones to Mr. Ryan was made out in Mr. Corbett's office and forwarded to the Great Southern and Western Rail way office, from which it was returned with the signatures of Mr. Jones as transferor and of Mr. Ryan as accepted of the 156 shares. In accordance with fur ther directions, the shares were sold by Mr. Corbett, and paid to Mr. Ryan in four cheques—one on the Bank of Ireland, and 3 on another firm. Mr. Jones now attended and deposed that he had never signed the transfer, and that he 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 en two charges ; but 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 case of crossed checks, under the bill now i❑ 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 iu conflict with the law ; consequently the law is to be changed 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 (nly to or through one specific class of bearers—bankers. Thus the banking class, whose memLers have been in the habit of either recognising or ignoring such restrictions across draughts, sometimes capriciously, but always un systematically, 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 able to restrict such payment to the banker of the payee ; cr the holder of an open check, fearing to lose it, desires to make it unavail able except through his own banker. May not these desiderata be obtained under such regulations as the following ? "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 th a t i n the capacity of drawees the y will exercise an 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 receive r o f th e m one is y identified as responsible through his own agent cr banker ; w hereas 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, &c., "J. A. FRANILIN." ARRIVALS OF SPECIE.—Tho specie by the Atrato from the West Indies consists of 86,650/. gold and 42,3501. silver, snaking a total of 129,000/. Ad• vices by the Brazilian mail state that the Blacl wall, from Port Phillip, left Pernambuco on the 14th of March for London. This vessel has 87,281 ounces of gold, valued at 350,000/. The Victoria, from Adelaide, also sailed on the same 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. 611 16/ 76i ri s 2! 1241 103 i 4 3 641 Si P'n sn 98i 111 1031 3 2i I 1011 Si St li 95 4 5i 291 I 8 741 5i 62' 55 1 SI 35 i 56 1 i i 28A 1 si S 15 a a 171 851 6 si i I 251 i 6 x a sg t i LIT RE. 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, ono 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 them after that horrid Mother Clennam, and those abominable Flintwinchs. About whom and whose doings the iiitr( ductory chapter of the present instalment is exclusively occupied. "Mrs. Flintwinch has an. other Dream" is itstitle—and the dream rec4uniedi is as usual, ghost-like and goose-fleshy, as befits the horrible old tumble-down city-house on the crum bling crutches Mistress Affery sitting in the ki;;;:fti3n the while—and " them two clever ones" (Jeremiah, of the " cut-down aspect," and she of the wheel-chair and the impious balance-sheet with 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" zeucevy here behind in the dark room, and " three or fear quick beats like a rapid step," and the SCia:33 as of au " awful hand" upon her shoulder I The dei:criptiou 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 thew mysteries will be discov( rable some fine day or goblin night, by means of Mrs. Flintwinch afore said. Enough of them, however; and turn we now to the new-comers, 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 I not for Little Dorrit as one might have anticipated, but for—Pet, otherwise Minnie Meagles. Love gradually shining out upon us, brightly, freshly, beautifully—as only a master-hand could describe it with such an infinite delicacy and novel tenderness "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 Clennam 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 I 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 one 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 crust !" Among the singular household gods, the incongru ous laces and penates of his little cottage-home at Twickenham, Mr. Meagles flourishes, together with Madame, and Pat, and Tattycoram, assisted by two blooming parlour-maids, a couple of dingy men Ovhen there is a little grander company than usual), and a delightful old lady known as Mrs. the cook and housekeeper. Here comes, on the Sunday, to join the banquetting of Doyce C:enuaru—and spoil it the objectionable Cowan and his hardly less objectionable dog. And after these, in full dinner time, comes the " little grander company" already hinted at in parenthesis —;ia wit, the " poor little dull young Barnacle," with whom we are already well acquainted— Cilr.ronce Barnacle, son of the great Tite Barnacle, and, nf: such, nephew of Lord Decimus, and ha7ing as his grand-aunt on the mother's side no one less important and magnificent —than--Lady Stiltstalking It is our friend of tho eyeglass 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 !" boing in effect for the moment quite disconcerted. Then hiE eye-glass—during the dinner—what a la byrinth of difficulties he 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 one 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," and all this through a nameless dread that Arthur Clennam is by some artful device coming round to that point of wanting to know, you know ! How delicious, too, is the satire conveyed through the acc,iunt of the unconscious toadea.ing of honest Mr. Meagles in the presence of the - nephew of Lord Decimus, the grand nephew of Lady Stiltstalking, the sou of the important Tite B. of the Circumlo cution-office, the great ass, that poor dull little Barnacle ! In his perfectly uninteresting company Mr. Meagles 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 6 ' 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 !" 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 e ye a fallen Cherub that had found it necessary to take to akilt !" "F , :c..tn the portal thus decorated, one Sunday after ca;ly dinner of baked viands, Young John issued forth en his usual Sunday errand ; not empty-handed, 'e:lt with his offering of cigars. He was neatly attired in a plum-coloured coat, with as large a collar of black velvet as his figure could carry ; a silken waistcoat, be dcz.,,kcd with golden sprigs ; a chaste neck-kerchief much in ragas at that day, representing a preserve of lilac phea-ants on a buff ground ; pantaloons so highly deco ratnd wish side-stripes, that each leg was a three-stringed lute ; and a bat of state, very high and hard. When the Chivery perceived that in addition to these aficrnments her John carried a pair of white kid gloves, slid a cane like a little finger-post, surmounted by an ivory har..d 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 wa s at hom e at the time, that she thought she kaaw which way the wind blew." Visiting the Father of the Marshalsea, with his ac custonad offering of cigars, Young John learns that Amy has gone for a solitary walk on South wark Bridge, whither he 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 mo.de him re spectable ! " His delicacy prompts him to ask Little Dorrit if he may put a question to her 9—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 man—addiitg, "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 it, 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 Copperfield. 4c. I During the war nearly all the gunpowder ga d as many of the troops as could be spared were withdrawn from Canada. The movements of men and ammunition toward that province, which are now in progress, are simply th e consequence of the necessity of replacing them, and in dicate no hostile feeling towards the United States expectation of war in that quarter. 111 FOR: :GN. 73 i 14) t 61 i MI