The Sun. — London, England, 1856-03-10 00:00:00

y direction, ,his nothing defeat. It ;dared war re was no Itical affairs :led by the tatters had and more !led under )een princi - s it usually the year lit r Paraguay rate extent. in flour and nt. Freights been large. freely mount hale days. mited scale, ast advice& 14 per cent. eted, at 28d. discovered 'esent war, ►tions with town under iu order to • steamers• aformed is le Prokeseh ra the right adds the I, and the for a suit -3d between „ ' , " r and Sonlou- Dorei nicao the 18th of )uslv u pelt d Santiago !sperate en , and 24th reyha, San e 1-laytia.no above 1,50 0 tly retreated Lat had set could come signally de ' country to er army of %nwhile the r, began to le suddenly ~000 Dori• unexpected be 24th of nearly the territorfr icing above trine is in a pretenders ,e with him -der of Mr. iortsmoutho 3t. it a month 3ristol and 3r out ward y there till )ring tides, of to have rday morn in aground day, will, ight, if not r, at least, htol Steam itained by ion's Point The occur .lts, to the Id seem to their cora iardly ere- VER.—Tbe on FlidaY njury, she ) be hoped 04 at Nel nisbaps as f a month• Lion of the iix are the point Jri the last itish terri ble forests 1 Dr. Gib +" also in dependent stercourse I , may be ; but all insignifi s ; and of s hopeful. forests.-- 'ests—the rked the s in need —Friend i election ccurs the ; some 22 :spatehed imea. A soldiers -d of the mal-ad dest folly of moo. and ear- L to war tinst the then the te, a bold 'Solution ce or as te, from 3d sailed e glories t shortly the cli arrange- I, in all country, t• share kerroar. then in ;o shame m y brio our bro eat hos tels the sde tut. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The Liverpool Cetton Market on Saturday closed with a tame though steady feeling, and prices were the same as on Friday. The sales were estimated a t 7,000 bales, 1,000 of which were taken for ex- Port. In addition to Americans, 160 Pernam and Maranham, at 6id. to 7d. ; 40 Bahia, 61d. ; 700 ?Zptian, 61d. to 7d. ; and 500 Surat, 4id. to 4id. Per lb. The Railway Share Market was firm, and prices were a shade dearer than on Friday. Accounts from Belgium contain the Government returns of the imports of grain and flour during the month of February. During that period the items were as follows :—Wheat, 3,578,213 kilos. ; qe)175,888 kilos. ; oats, 278,012 kilos. ; barley, 1 ) 6 37,857 kilos. ; and flour, 237,728 kilos. From the Ist January, 1856, the quantities imported were :—.Wheat 15,987,667 kilos ; rye, 1,234,617 kilogrammes ; oats, 1,201,000 kilos. ; barley, 6 ) 0 82,303 kilos., and flour, 919,728 kilos. At the el ltrepot of Antwerp the stock on hand at the close 4f February amounted to 7,959,380 kilos. of wheat, 3 ) 8 70,01.4 kilos. of rye, 915,216 kilos. of flour, and 3 43,933 kilos. of buck wheat. These items show that the import trade of grain throughout Belgium 4 18 .° 1 1 the increase ; but as there is a lar g e propor tion transmitted by railway to the neighbouring states, the home consumption of foreign grain is hot mu c h greater than during the same period in 1855. At Havre the Cotton Market continues quiet, w ith firmness in prices. The arrivals from America L it e increasing. Ordinary New Orleans is 92f. per kilos., and inferior sorts from 82f. to 87f. The Mock on hand on the 7th inst ant was 58,932 -L 7 10 e, of all sorts, against 71,918 bales in ..865. • Up to that date, from the Ist Janu itt3r) the quantity imported from the United s tates amounted to 78,941 hales, and in the corre. ° Pending period of 1855, 29,894 bales. the telegraph from Vienna it is announced that " French Railway Company has obtained a con reiort for continuing the Austria n lines on to telin. This has had the effect of a d v ancin g their shares 10 florins on the Bourse. The directors of the East Anglian Railway Com pany have issued their report, which states the Merest for the half-year, on the B Stock, will be at the rate of 6 per cent., and on the C Stock 2r.18 t. 4 per cent. per annum. The shares have "II this account slightly improved. During the fortnight ending Saturday last the 11. East India Company had draw n bil ' s on the th ree Presidencies to the amout of 159,0691. Is. 6d. The following bre the Railway Calls advertised al becoming due during the present month : xei • Company. Date. Call. Amount. 1 1 ,..,g1aft Eastern Junction 13 ... £ 0 10 0... £21,250 V i uPort 10... 110 0... 9,750 h atch R hen i sh 31... 3 0 0... 19.368 i t qat Indi an E x t ens i on 1... 5 0 0 ... 7 50 000 i d% and Redcar, New 251 1... 3 0 0... 2,160 Total -0802,000 The corn trade is inactive to-day, and in prices lelT little change has taken place. T he Funds are exceedingly quiet i n the absence of 44 Y important political intelligence from Paris. T O morrow being account day, the dealers are . 4811 Y occupied with the necessary a rran g ements, a nd the se c h ec k speculation. Money continues in ac tive j demand, and the charge for carry in g over s still to a. per cent. Consols for money opened ." about 91 1 1 , but have since been 91i which A cre t. the l a t e st prices current on Saturday. Fo r t :e l Bth proximo they are about 92 to 1. The pram. Exchequer Bills are ls. prem., and the New Scrip is 1k to / prem. The transactions recorded in the Foreign Stock 41 ea arket have been circumscribed. Turkish 6 per are 96 to 961, which is about per cent. :cline, but the Guaranteed have risen to 10 N . 4. S panish 3 per Cents. are heavy at 4 3 , but the New ilD eferred ( r are firmer—viz., 24 to 2 , 0. Mexican are 41 1 at 201 I, Cuba 7 per Cents. at 101, and Dutch Asr Cents. at 95. t The following are the nominal prices of Foreign ,_tocks:—Gr e nada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 71 ; 41 • 201 ; Peruvian, 79 81 ; ditto 3 per 'lsttto., 56 58 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 47 4/ ; Itussißn 5 per Cents., 101 103 ; ditto 41 p er , ents., 92 94 ; S pan ish 3 per Cents., 42 1 3 i ; dit to De ferred, 23; 23 ; ditto Certificates, 44 5 ; ditto •rassive, GI A. /'or Railway Shares there is an inanimate mar it, and prices are flatter. Eastern Cou nties and Gr eat Northern are weaker, but most of the other ii 4 R are without alteration. F oreign Mining Shares are dull, Banks steady, l : Miscellaneous Shares attract very little atten ht. Canada Land, after the recent advance , 4 ° o dropped 4/. to 51. 11141111 SH FUNDS THIS DAY ,V 1 () CLOCK, r Prom the Official Lig. neat..... done. 91i II I , L q r rent rio n solo Annviitio9 'e Annuities, expire sth Tan. 1860 r jlit o 30 Years, exp i re sth Jan., 1860... 3/ -41 . .n r account bat( ) Scrip i lequer S cr ip c 11 . p z "tettner Rills, 24d. • £ lann ••••• •• • E 590 4 '`'‘l! D itto P bitto Advertised • tto Bo n d s , , 58, 3i per Cent 93 i 0 i .1 lITCI4I OF FOREIGN 'FUNDS AT ONE O'CLO. 1 (1141)a -. b ,end s , 6 per Cent — if "Itto 7 per Cent. (Matanza and Sabanilla) 101 • ' 1 3 per Cent — Ditto:„, Account .... ' Di tto Bonds, 3 per Cent 1 3 1 . 4 ° New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 1. 1 ,tlto Passive Di tto Account Bonds, 6 per cent — ' l to Account 95A 6 '"tto New Scrip 4 per Cent look i _ Dividends on the above oft-ottolo in T.ondon. —4Ol Exchange, 24 per Cont., 12 Gull ... D '_ -... 4 per Cont. Certificates QUARTER PAST TWO. 914 91a ......... 92 92i Crn INOIR lle • • bitto Account (April) ... LLOYD'S SHIPPING.--(This Day. ZLo bbN. March 10.—Wind this day at noon, N. breeze ORTemount,March9.—Wind N. W.—Arrived—H. l 4f. S. e•lt, from Devonport ; Alps (s. tpt.), Queenstown ; N6 4 l l l ingen (s. tpt.) Malta ; H.M.Str. Dragon, Bristol, S i ;`" „ 1 ` gnu-boat in tow, Sailed—Simla (s. tpt,), for tnampton. fr,,,,4llTmonni, March 9.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Emma, T o g :, Newcast)e, for Constantinople, towed round from ;uay to repair. eo c i± i 'mou'rx, March 9.—Wind E.—Arrived—John Han ‘, from New Orleans, for Havre ; Catbarina Hermann, taZ . all a• Off the port—Boland, from Batavia, for Bre ilourntZeuTH, March 9.—Sailed—Victoria (s,), for Mel- St Col s• March S.—Wind N.N.E. — Sailed —Garland, for Jcthn,R, N.B. lia" 1 : 0 1 , , March 9.—The Alphonsone Estelle, of Nantes. oth: great portion of her deck blown up and received 4 Ninag e by an explosion of gas. The Thomas, of cif -1 i mm Newport, for Limerick, has come in with loss pLlZajualit and other damage, from collision with the Rio t6a. O ff the Nash. RRPOoL, March 9.—The Clan Gregor, from Calcutta , 8 Port, which was on shore , on the sth Feb., on b:_ B , O Y Point, has been assisted off and into the Princess Basin.' The steam-tug Iron King, sent out on the e n March in search of the Effort, from Charente, a.ban %.°4 at sea, has retnrned without any tidings of her. ffo'AIMOUTII, March 9.—The barque Norway of London, hout_Shiels, for Genoa, which put ashore on the 6th inst., t i n e got off, after throwing over a considerable por • or her cars). RZ I c iLLY. Marc go h ( 7. coal —Wind Arrived.—Minatro, from t e Video, for Liverpool ; James, Berbice ; Joseph Ifl o '", Mobil e ; W anderer, D emerara . Off th e port— , u utain Wave, from Charleston, for Havre. (PER ELEOTRTO TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Arriv ed. —_South-Western, steamer. from Jersey. A f o r Sunderla n d; Arthur the Great, -A s t ralia. Clara, BY SUBMARINE ANb BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) Wind \ T „„ GRAVESEND, Monday, 9.52 e.m. Ar r iy - d • 'lf • ; fine; tide, five hours' ebb. , •—l3ee, from Antwerp. 11 ". Electric Flash, for Cape Coast Castle. Wind „„ 0 . DEAL, Monday, 9.21 a.m. • moderate. tl4lvlnrooL, March 8. —The British and North Arne icau mail steam-ship Persia, Judkins commander, sailed t ence to-day on her second voyage to New York. She I:3B.‘ci 105 1 Passengers on board and a large cargo. Before i'"g, Captain Judkins, whose opinion is of great 457eht, e xpressed a belief that the Pacific has been a t r "" ‘ 1 1 3 " among the ice, and that she will probably thig have reported her own safety at New York. ND TO rears tbat 0 )ire of HaYt 'me, having ,ers both by provisional 6 years Sou" tana in the otiations of o the medal" - a mission to ;his mission, taking sof he had soli• cret manner Lem by sur he attention t•ae-Prinuer big Imperial on of the Re• ,fter by Sou• ,~., SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices I,st:urday tboraue. • • •1. Wottug. Bost ,apt Easto. Junct... all R3lfast ftz I:allymena. al' arming. Wolverh Stour Valley LanoaL Cheshire Junct all fo. & Birk. £5O and £25 Cons 19 Do., £2O-- ....... all Ilytka IL Tyne origiun £25 (ised. at £4l 100 iristol and Exeter 1 1 00 ;sledonian . 61 e. • :arm, and Cardigan all ;heater & Flolyheao. all ;ark and Bandon all lork, Black, & Pee -18 TnArall all Do. A 8 Do. B 11i ' ...!rie I' Junction 4o ;) e liin&BelfastJunc. all :Inn. P. & Al , . , . Joe. 100 East Anglian all Eastern Counties. 100 -',,,st. - inion. A St} 10 0 9 A., B. Stools 84 Do., New A 10 East Kent 100 6ast Lancashire ..... 100 Edinburgh&Glasgo all Minh.. and Peebles 100 Edin.Prth &Durk. 9 , orth & Clyde Jun all Furness. all Do. Extension 100 Inasgow &S. West,. all Great N. of Scotlnd. 100 roat Northern._ 100 Do., A. Stock .... ~ . , . 1 00 D . Do., B. 5t0ck..... , . 130 ;3t. Sth. &West.are . 100 .neat Western 100 Do. Stour Val. Rai: Una. Stk. . all Irish South-Easkerr. all r"ncs.gter & Carlisle l.ii Do., Thirds 8 Do. New Thirds 100 Lancash.andYorksh i Da., Wst. Riding Un all Liv.Crsby.&Southrt all London & Blackwall 100 Loud. Bright & S.Ctt. 100 Lond. and N. West, 16 Do. Fifths 53 D0.101.5h.,M&8,. C 21 De. Eighths . . .100 London and S. Westr. all Do., £5O all tDo., £4O all I",ndndrry&Colerain all Ludndr7.& Enniml , 19U Manch.SherA , Linel , 525. Do., Man. A. Lin. Un 1 Metropolitan 100 idland 100 Do. Birmng. & Derb all klidld. G. We st. (I ra all o. Half Shares mll . eweastle& Carlisl• all Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrf 83 Newry &Enniskille , all Newry Warrenpoin and Rostrevor . 100 I Norfolk 33 Northn.CountiesUn 100 North British .... . Nth Down /tail. & 100 Deck Stock 100 ' to., A Stock .. all ' to., B Stock all Do., 3 B Guarantee 100 N.Eastern—Berwie 213. Do. do. Extension ~. 15 Do.do. G.N.E. ?uroh all De. Leeds , 100 Do. York , 100 North London ...., 3t Is N.&S.Wstrn.,Flam; - stead, and City Jo.. 73 North Statrordshir .. al North Western—. , all ' 4. ti , „ S. Westrn. June ' Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester IXI ')x, Wore., & Wolv, 8 'ortmniouth . 100 Scottish Central, ta 1 Scottish Midland I • 100 ,oropshire Ui iin all south Devon . I v' iouth Eastern 100 zouth Wales 1 I , ) i. Yrksh. & Riv. Du 3 i - .« -~ 8 - 8i 15 - 14 14 - 9 - 87 - 57i - 121 - ... - ••• ..'". ... "'"'' ... - • O• '''' 74 .- 124 94 - 22 -- 86 - 91 ... 85 - 87 6 - 92 - 93 78 - 80 120 - 122 103 - 105 60/ 611 55 60 73 - 76 I 6i 74 - 7 83i 83i 7 sl 99 100 993 100 id part d - par' 923 - 93 i 25 -25 - I id 69i 70 11. 43 ~. `" 1 - 13 ri - 33 34 3 Z I 30i 31,.! 76 - 77_ 1 - 6 d, 15i - )6 52 53 86 w• 90 di 64 oi = lea 24 - 26 04 106 74 - 76 46 - 48 124 In 66 - 67 71 -- 73 4 - 14 '4 36 18 - 19 34 --- 44 6i - 7i 570 16 1 &Woi. a I Stockton & Darli 16 ,tu:kt‘n & Hartlep 1 l'afr Vale K 1 Pref., No. 1 22 I r , rnes Hay. D.& R. I . ,llverstone & LanoP sll Vale of Neath.... all :Waterfd. & Kilkenn, all Waterford&Limeri all ;West Cornwall. all West End of Londor I and Crystal Palace . all I Do. A 3 I Do. B , all West London all Wimbledn&Croydori FOREIGN. n 8 ld 1 P 31 —41 f. 1 I P ..• ••• 1 is 38 12 —l4 , 211 221 211 0— 21t see ---. •• • 11:id 126 13? 67 69 77 - 7 9 5' - 6 2ot 21 - 61 31 - 3i 25i - /6 3 - 3il 99 - 100 113 - 122 117 - 122 LOT 109 24; - 25 115 - 120 ii - 'li;Ti 19i - 2 - 51 5f - ilk 7i -- 49# - FO - 19 - 91 : 9i 'II - it woo .". • • • ...... • 4 36 .... 4 A - • •• ...... 184 - A utwer pal 1 tott r 40 Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. in Sli. at par till '6 4 10 Ardennes ........... 4 koigian Jurn. 14 I lieliera to Ora• as'se.• licTni r boy, , Flarodo, an Control India.Scri. all Do. a ll Oonacrart. 11 f)ntel , Rhenish._ .111 !Eastern of France 13 Do. New ill 17,as't Indian, g. 5 p. F 7 tension all Do:4 - ? 1 p.e.8nd5.,'57 ag no. do. do.. '64, 16 Gee ong a Melborn me guar. 5 per c ut.. all Do., Lou. allot., do. 22 tifld . Tk of CanadaA it 4 _ _ 9) Do. Cert. of Deben. con. into Stk. till'6•' e Do. Comp. 6p. c., do 14 Gt. Coutrai of Fran. , Jail Gt. Indian Peninsni. 14 Great Lnxembonr. Constituted Share All Do. Oblizationg... 11 Do. re-is. forftd. Sh.l all Gt. Western o f Oanaa! a Sib arm' sil Do. New U all lIDs. Bds., payable's7, I with option till '55., 0 all Do. do., '62, p.'66 0 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O all D. do., '73, without option 0 , all Hamilton & Toront-i 0 All Do. 6 per cent. I ;0 17 Lake Conat. & Baal- A all Liorre and Turnhout' 5 all Lucca & Fist. sp. c.p hi 16 Lyons and Geneva . 20 14 I Lyons & Mnditerrar r all WadraF, pa-. 4 p.c 20 10 Do. New de., 5 20 5 Do. p. c. Exten Al. all Maria Antonia ~. In all Do. do. Now 1,0 all Namur & Liege Interest) ............ Do. (ox interact) Northern of France. D 0.201. Sim Do. 207. 3 p. a Bdr (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs NorwegianTrunkPre Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans . Rome and Frascati Royal Danish goyalSwedish Do. Obligations .... Sambre and Mouse... Do. 5 # p. cent. Prof, Seinde, guar. 5 p. c !() I all Le, I all i 0 all .0 1 all 40 all 10 all 10 5 .10 t%li 5 all 4 all ,O 1 all o 1 q.ll ,t 0 all Do Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) „. West Flanders Do 5A per c. Pref., W. & N. W. of Pratte( West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden ... Zealand Sil ell .0 all 6 all all JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 0 all kustralasia, 100 50 Bank of London 40 all tri. Col. Rk.&Ln. C 50 all 3ritiab N. American 25 5 Ohartd. Bank of Asir id par 20 4 Thrtd. Bnk. of India, &nstralia, Jk China 1d par 100 50 City • 63 -- 65 100 25 Colonial • 100 20 Commercial of Loud ..„ 20 all Fing.Soot.kkna.Cht• 16 —l7 20 all Loud. Chaet. Bk. of Australia l6 17 20 5 Ditto New 4 50 20 London and County — 35 4i 100 50 no.&B.Bnkg.Corp. par 2p 50 10 ndon Joint Stock. 100 10 oadoa and Paris—. 1i d 100 20 Loud. & Westminster 44i 100 35 National Pro.of Bng ••• ••• 20 10 Do. New — 50 22. National of Ireland — •• • 20 all ew South Wales 37 3 9 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation 4l -- 43 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 10 all i)o. Now ••• 5 1 R. &us B ,k-4o Im Co ••• 100 50 Royal British ••• •.• 25 all :oath Australia 3B 40 25 all Anion of Australia 7l - 7 S 3 2t Do. Now 1 10 Union f Lou donPY M,„ Bustaees done this day. ii2s At. St. 20 5 13 ?ft 9 1 I 32 3 120 / 104 i 4 61} 1. 79( 1i i 41 62 52 k I 81' 76i 6 14} 15i 66} 111 i I 14 Id 9 3 6} 39!' 12 THE SUN LONDON MONDAY EVENING MARCH 10. 1856. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) WARWIC 4h .IPaie.l RitrLovAri; L'utidZig I OMpailS, C °dna rrl Saturday Busin :ss this lay. CORN EXCHANGE. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.) ITANDICAT OF TEN SOVS. One Mile. Sir R. Trenehard There was very little business doing in wheat in tho leading country markets held on Saturday. Prices, how ever, were decidedly firmer than in the early part of the week. Fine barley realised full quotations, but all other articles met a dull inquiry. London tz' N. Wo , t. &N. W. Seven ran. ARRIVED.--Roping Betsy, Abbot, PeHaler, Freedom, and Prince of Orange. ICaledon... E. Un. C E. Count. aldoniza. Most of the continental markets continue dull and drooping, although the hupplies of grain have been very moilerate. The American markets have been without ani- SPORTING NOTES. mation WISHES ABOUT WARWICK. Do t. tii esti - Yk. Now. St Berw. Y.,1/4N The arrivals of English grain up to our market, last week, were moderate. From abroad we received 18,714 qrs. of wheat, 2,071 oats, 5,150 beaus, 171 tares, 140 flan dry seeds, 210 sacks and 5,072 barrels of flour. The arrivals cf English wheat fresh up to our market to-day, coastwise and by land carriage, were but moderate, and for the most part in very middling condition. Al though the show of samples of both red and white was by no means extensive, the demand for most kiads was by no means brisk ; yet the whole of the supply changed hands at ls to 2s per quarter above last Monday's prices. There was a full average supply of foreign wheat in the market. Really fine samples were held fimly, at very full prices. In low and middling kinds next to nothing was doing, at last week's currency. Floating cargoes of grain were dull, but not cheaper. We bad a good demand for malting barley—the show of which was limited—at an advance in the quotations of is. per quarter. Grinding and distilling sorts were firm, and and heavy request, at the 6u 3s ite al a t s d wa e s a i r n a last o a 4 st er w at e e ek. supply, late decline in value. Before these remarks meet the reader's eye the play w',ll have commenced at Warwick, and the first act will be nearly concluded. The brief observations on the sport, which were published:in The Sun of Saturday last, will serve as a sort of prelude, indicative of the stirring business about to take place. Abruptly dropping awk. ward metaphor, however, I will resume my discussion of the probabilities. The character of the events ap' pointed for decision is not sufficiently important to ren der it necessary that any opinion I may advance should be supported by elaborate arguments. For the Great Warwick Handicap the field is likely to be limited. Fulbeck's performance at Nottingham has placed an additional slbs on his weight, but the in creased impost is not likely to militate considerably against his chance. The horse has thickened most im provingly, and he may yet prove that his party were not over-sanguine when they supported him so confidently last year at Chelmsford and at Goodwood. Little Davie is not over-weighted; he is a game little horse, and lately Edwin Parr has developed Isis racing powers to a sir_ prising extent. Notwithstanding the popular belief which exists relative to the staying ability of The Flat terer, yet should this horse be " wanted " he will cer. tainly run well. I, however, fancy, his "good time" will be deferred until a later period of the year. Veteran, the defeated and disgraced favourite for the Cambridge_ shire, has been most leniently treated by the handicapper, and if he be kept for another purpose besides that of "eating his head off," he ought on this occasion to posses a chance of repaying his owner for his winter's hay and corn. 'Without extending my remarks to the other animals in the list of acceptances, I shall "jump at a conclusion" by stating my opinion that the race will be between Easton Do Peto & Co We were fairly supplied with oats, which moved off slowly, at last week's fall in the quotations. Beans were somewhat firmer than on Monday last ; but no advance took place in prices. We had a fair inquiry for peas, at full quotations. The flour trade was rather inactive, at last week's cur rency. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex IL Kent. Red •• new 55 . s to 703 Ditto.. •• .... old —a Ditto, White new 58s 74s Ditto.. • • .... old —s —s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old —s -3 Ditto new •• 54s Cis Kys—Old • • • —8 —s New .• •• •• 443 4731 Barley—Grinding ••• •• 293 32a Malting . • • •• 31a 3431 Chevalier•—• • • 363 40s Mslt—Suffolk and No rfolk •• •• •• .• .. • . 70a 76s Brown ; •• •• • • •• 63s 663 King3tonandWare 741 75s Malt—Chevalier .... 76$ to —s Oats Yorkshire and Lineolnsk.,Peed 22s 233 Potato .. . ... .• .• 24s 23 Yo ugh al and Cork Black. .• •• •• 19s 228 Cork,White.•• •• 2ls 25s Scotch, Feed. •• .. 26s 30s Beans—Tick ......... 32s 363 Pigeons 353 41s Peas—Grey .......... 3ls 35s Maple . .......... 31s 37s White........... 38s 401 Boilers .........42s 43- Flour—Town-made... 61s 63, Suffolk .......... 47s —s Stooktn & Norfolk 46s 475 FULBECK AND VETERAN. For the Handicap Plate I shall stand Romeo, Flageolet, and Englamer°. Ben Land is invariably "formidable " at Warwick. His Odiham is whispered about as being a "good thing" for the Grand Annual Steeplechase. I shall be inclined to select Minerva and Sandboy for the Hurdle Race. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The imports of foreign stock into London last week were very moderate—the total supply being only 629 head. In the corresponding week in 1855 we received 303 ; in 1851, 2,014 ; in 1853, 2,654 ;in 1852, 1,678 ; in 1851, 2,233 ; and in 1850, 1,679 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WENN,. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Rotterdam... 3l ... ... 34 ••• Calais — •. • 20 Oporto El arliugen Antwerp — ... By Tuesday night's post from Leamington I will for. ward "something short about Salisbury." A FRESH MAN. ROYAL IIVSTI7'UTION OF GREAT ... - BRITAIN. 8 ... 9 0 ... WEEKLY EVENING MEETING. Sir BENJAMIN COLLINS BRODIE, Bart., D.C.L., F.R.S., Total 477 ... 152 ... The yearly comparison of woekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 1855 2OO 108 1a54 Bl7 1,066 181 1853 551 1,831 ... 282 1852 169 1;297 212 1851 442 1,495 186 1: A very moderate supply of foreign stock was on offer in to-day's market. The show of Irish stock was confined to 41 beasts and a few pigs. Compared with Mcnday last, the supply of hnmo•fed beasts was very moderate ; but their general quality was good. For all breeds we had rather an active demand, at an advance in the quotations realised on Monday last of 21 per Sibs. The best sorts realised 4s 81 per 81bs, and a good clearance was effected. From Norfolk. Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 1,900 Scots and short horns ; from other parts of England, 220 of various breeds ; and, from Scotland, 500 horned and polled Scots, chiefly by railway. With sheep we were tolerably well supplied, and most breeds came to hand in fair condition. Prime Downs sold readily, at an improvement in the quotations of 2d per 81bs. Other breeds were less active, yet, in some instances, prices had an upward tendency. The best old Downs realised 5s par Sibs. The best clipped sheep produced 4s 2d per 81bs. The few lambs in the market changed hands freely, on higher terms—the top figure being 7s 2d per Sibs. Calves—the supply of which was very limited—sold steadily, at an improvement in value of 2d per 81bs. The best calves wore worth 5s BLI per 81bs. Thorn was very little inquiry for pigs, at last week's quotations. Pe! Mtn to sink the offal& t. tCO ,t 100 5 all 100 5 all ft. 1100 ft. 'Loo 5 0.11 i 0 all 5 all L 2): all 2 all tl all St. 101 Bt 100 St. 100 5 all it. WO 3} 54 50 all 10 all SO all /5 all 1.2 . 4 all St. L.O 25 !Si 10 all th! all 25 all St., LOO 100 ';t.1100 St. 1100 A. I 1.00 94 - 96 94 - 11 - 13 ii 7. - . ii 1.6 _lis 13 - iFi 234 - 244 1074 -112 i 2i--2 bi. 92 P - in 55 57 .. --' -•• 132 - 131 - 7.1 32- : 4 3 83 85 orfolk. 8,4. W. ay Midid. I.Stekton ac Darl!ngt. , Midland.. in. Conn. Count. !D0 D0 ... ..... L. & N.W Do GtNorthn Lancash Yorksh. T. Brassor Pti.MClsan 9 1 ; .w a c r k l e in t :t nli PREFERENCE sflAitßs Aberdeen 1)0. N 0.2, 7 o 0.. Do. Debentures ii a. 6 Birth audTyn , Opel c. prof. (issd. At 50/ Brie. & X. 4 p.,c. St Do. 4 p. c. Shares ... ')aledonian £lO . -- V 4 96 -98 15 -16 i Ches.ftHo.Gn.s3 pc Do. do. Pref. No. 2. Do. do. Pref. No. 2.. Cork dx - Bandonsip.c Dutt.Prth .4z Aber. J : 4 1. Anglian Cis. A Sh. Do. do. Cis. 13 6 p. c. Do. do Cis. C 7p. c. gas. Co. Ex, 5 pc No. ••• , - 61 - 6i ••• - 95 - 100 70 - 80 - 12 -12 i Do. No. 2 Do; New 6 p. c. St East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 51., 10 per cent Do. I.ot. Debentr.Sb. Do. do. 4 per cent East Lancash. 6 p.ds Yorlr. J. sth , & Gl. 5 p.c. sh si;d Prtth&Dun.4p.c Furness ss -- 70 a s. & S. W. 0.5 p. c i kircat Northn. 5 p. Do. 5 p. c. &Acorn at 10 p. c. prom. tii - .117 107 - 109 101 -- 103 Do. 4 p„ e De. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red at 5 p. c. Gt.N. of Scot. lot Pre Gt. S.W.(lreland Do. 4 per (3. Prof. S lt. W.(13. kll.l7xspc Do. con. red. 4. p.c. 09. con. red. 4 p. a, Do. irred. 4p. c. . 9i - 61 - 94 82 - 84 84 - 96 • 100 Do. 5 p. c. red. prof Do. de. dl. Do. Birm. Pref. 3h Do. Chester 8 p. c. P.S De. do. 5 p. c. do Do. Birm. Gua. Stk Do. Ches. Gan. Sh. Do. do. do Do. do. do ...... ran. &York. F. £2 Do. 6 p. c. Stock hon. &Brigh. G. 5 p.c. Do. Pref., 5 p. o. St. Do. New Guar.6 p. c Do. do. 5 por cent Lon. &N. W., Coy. 47 Nuneaton 5 p. ct Lon. & S.W. '7 per ct Low - 13%k Color. Sh Londy. & Ennis. St A.A.& Do. £6 Aarypt.&Carl.4 p o Du. 4. per cent..... 9/ -10 i 16i - 1 7 10 181 70 - 72 19 -20 - 10 - 1 4t 144 1 - 33 135 ••• ''''''' N. 94 .•• i* = .1. ••• 4 I ••• ••• ..;p 112 134 91 96 1 d 4 46 Do Consol .6 p.e r:lt Do. Con. Br. r. r. flpr Do. 4 3 / 4 p. s. Pref. Do. Pref. ddi per ce• Do. 51. Pref. 4 p. c. ; Ditto L. & A. Pref. S ,New., Aber., &c., pr. 5 p. c. red. 5 p c. !Norfolk Debeavart. Pref. 4 p. c. St ok ,Do. 5 p. c. Ext...... 'Do. 5 3 / 4 por ct. prof., Do. Way. Val. 5 p c North British N. B. Bsrw, 4 p.c P Do. do. do Do Leeds 6 p.c v.N o. I Do. do. Quarters Do. York S. Poi. North Staffordshire, Ox,Wo. NLW.IEI i pc I Do R . Pref. 101. Sh. ,Scot. Cent. ,Now Pre South Devon Do. fixed, 43 per con - S. (Readim Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d, I Do. 41 per sent Do. Fixed 41 p c oh, 3. Wales Gna. 4 p. s, Do do. 4 3 / 4 p. 0.... I S.Y . orksh.4p.e.Guar Stock & Dar. , 5 p. c Do. do. do (Stock. & Barth g. I p. 4. till July 1, '56 !Watery'. & Kilk.6 pc 100 100 100 all all all }... - ... 99 - 101 90 - 92 5 - 5i ••• • •. .. i .• 1 d •• • -- ... iii --: iii 22/ - 9 3 : 05 - 97 9i - 9i ... .... V, 'I 1 ip ... .m.... ••• 26 •-• 21' MINES. 1 all A.gna Fria ......... •.. - •• • 1 all Anglo Austrin. Gold ... - ... 10s - all Anglo Californian .:. 20 6i Australian i 1 au A.nstra.lian Cordiller.• ... - .. 1 all Ave Maria - ... 1 all Baden (Gcl.Duchy of ... - ... 59 all Bleenar. Iron & Coa ... - •• • 20 114 British Iron 3 5 35 26 Brazilianlmp.(issuee at 25 pm.) - 2 30 all Do. Cacaos & Culabn 1/ - 20 15 D c o o ..S o t i .J j o a l ra ir ai D ca ol .. R .. e . : 26 -_ 28 27 6 1 i Clarendon Cons. Min 43 all 'ohm Copper 66 -69 68 5 1 .iolonial Gold St. all lopper Min. of Eng 36 - 40 25 all o. Prof. 74 p. eon , 26 - 27 . 1€ Copiapo . 2O - 22 2 14 Fortuna id 20 all • ncial l4 -16 1 all Gt.,NuggetVeinlteg 1 - 0 41 all Great Polgooth .... 11 -21 5 all t Wheal Vor United 1 • id 1 all Liberty •... 3 all Linares. - 71 5 1 11 Lusitauian - i 1 1 all Ntariquita i - i 1 all New Granada t - i h . i 1 all Nouveau blonde 110 all Pontgi•Sil.& Le. Min. 12 - 14 5 1 Port Philip - - 1 1 all Quarts Rock 50 all Rhymney Iron l9 - 21 15 all Do. Now 6 - 8 30 13.? Santiago de Cuba. 21 - 31 3 ~. 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co 31 - 31 1 all South Australian.. 1 - 1 all Do. Scrip. . . - i 1 Do. 10 per oent Prof ... - ... ... 4 4 Tam. S. &L. Min. Co. ... - ... 10 i 9 fin Croft ... 4 - 41 28i all United Mexican ...... 38 -- 4 1 all Waller 1 all West Mariposa ..... - i I 12s Worthing Mining of Australia ... - ... 1 all Yuba • - ••• MISCELLANEOUS. 25 19 Australian Agricult. 25 26 le ill A.ustraln. Royal Mail 10 all Berlin Water Works 6/ 74 50 :0 Brit. American Land 47 50 100 .12! Canada 140 CO 143 6 qt. , r 0 (I.Go.6p.c.Jan&;aly 1084 - 1094 109 St. 100 Do. 6 p.a. Feb & Aug 106 103 St. 100 Do. 6p.c. Mar & Sept as 111. 0 ail I.lrysta/ Palace 2l 21 24 5 all Do. Preference 5 4 All Crystal Pal.of France 2 1 0 134 Eastern Iron Ore rnn Steam .. 5 all En. &Aug Cop Sm CQ 1 1 25 all Electric Telegraph l9l 204 1 all Electric Teleg. o f Ir. ••• 5 all Gen. Iron Sc 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. 18 all General Screw Steam 20 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar 4 all Lend. Gen. Omnibus. 31 - - 4 4 20 10 Magdalena St. Navl.; 10 all Nlediteran. Elec. Tel. 8 10 10 9 41exicau&S.Americn. 51 6 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel • „ 10 5 Netherlands Land._ 1 4 10 all Do. Do. 5 2 Do. 8 pePissatld 1 id 11 100 80 New B. & N.S. Land 18 22 1 all N. B. Australasian_ 20 15 Nrtb.ofEuropoSteam -- 1 all Oriental Gas l4 1 1 1 2s. Do. " New Shares" . . Pra f) all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. 2 4 21 50 all Peninsnls.r& Oriental —,„ 644 50 10 Do. New 2 all Portland Iron Co •.. ••• 100 •60 Royal Mail Steam ••• ••• ••• 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest. 14 — 1/ 1i 1 Ditto New. — iP 25 all South Austral.land 35 36 al: Submar. Tel. Scrip,.. / 1 20 all Do. Registered. — 1 15 5 • Trust& L.Co.U.Can. 100 281 Van Diemen's Land 14 18i PEN m T e Cio.6r,q.JAnkNy „, Zu Vice-President, in the Chair. MR. FARADAY, D.C.L., F.R.S., ON CERTAIN MAGNETIC ACTIONS AND AFFECTIONS. All bodies subject to magnetic induction, when placed iu the ordinary magnetic field between the poles of a mag net, are affected ; paramagnetic bodies tend to pass bodily from weaker to stronger places of force, and dia magnetic bodies from stronger to weaker places of force. If the bodies are elongated, then those that are para magnetic set along the lines of force, and those that are diamagnetic across them : but if these bodies have a spherical form, are amorphous, and are perfectly free from magnetic charge, they have no tendency to set in a par ticular direction. Nevertheless, there are bodies of both classes, which being crystalline, have the power of set ting when a single crystal is wrought into the form of a sphere, and these are called mane-crystals ; t&ir num ber is increasing continually ; carbonate of lime, bismuth, tourmaline, &c., are of this nature. Bodies which, being magnetic, set, because they are elongated, are greatly in fluenced in the force of the set by the nature of the me dium surrounding them, and to such an extent that they not merely vary in their force from the maximum to nothing, but will often set axially in ono medium, and equatorially in another. Yet the Fame bodies, if league crystallic and formed into spheres, though they set well in the magnetic field, will set with the same force what ever the change in the media about them, and are perfectly freed from the influence of the latter. Thu% if a crystal of bismuth formed into a sphere, or a vertical cylinder, has, when suspended, its magne-crystallic axis horizontal, and if the various media about it, from saturated solu tion of sulphate of iron up to phosphorus, through air, water, alcohol, oil, be changed one for another, no alte ration in the amount of torsion force required to displace the magne-crystal will occur, provided the force of the magnet be constant, notwithstanding that the list of media includes highly paramagnetic and diamagnetic bodies ; and in such cases the measurement of the power of set is relieved from a multitude of interfering cir cumstances existing in other cases, and that power which is dependent upon the internal structure and condition of the substance is proved to be, at the same tempera ture, always the same. A consequence of inagne-crystallic structure is that the same body is more paramagnetic, or more diamagnetic in one direction than in another ; and, therefore, it fol lows that though such a crystal may have no variation in set-force, produced by change of the surrounding me dium, it rimy have a variation produced in the absolute force of attraction or repulsion ; even up to the I»iet of being attracted in one position and repelled in another, though no change in form, or in the surrounding me dium, or in the force of the magnet, or in the nature of the body itself, be made; hut simply a change in the di. rection of the structure. This was shown by a crystal of the red forro-prussiate of potassa, which, being coated carefully with wax, was suspended from the arm of a tot sion balance, so that it dipped into a solution of preto sulphate of iron occupying the magnetic field.* When the magne-cryetallic axis was parallel to the lines of force the crystal was attracted by the magnetic pole, when it was perpendicular to the lines of force the crystal was repelled ; acting like a paramagnetic and diamagnetic in turns. No magne•crystal has yet been found having such a relation to a sacuuin, or t) carbonic acid (its meg netic equivalent) ; calcareous spar is nearly coincident with such a medium, and shows different degrees of force in the two directions, but is always a little on the diamag netic side. Calcareous spar having a trace of iron lots been found very nearly up to the desired point ; on the para magnetic side ; and as these preserve the full magne-crys trdlic relation of the two directions, there is no reason to suppose that a crystal may not be found which may not be paramagnetic in one direction, and diamagnetic in another, in respect of space as zero. There is every reason to beiieve that the general mae netic relations of a magne-crystal are the same with those of the same substance in the amorphous state, and that the circumstances which influence one influence the other to the same degree. la that case, the magnetic affections of a body might be ascertained by the exami nation of the magne-crystallic affections ; thus the effect of heat upon bismuth, tourmaline, &c., might be exa mined by the set of the crystals, and with so much the greater advantage that short globular forms could be used, perfectly free from the magnetic influence of the surrounding media required as temperature baths, and requiring no displacement of these media with the mo tion of the crystal. So crystals et bismuth, tourmaline, carbonate of iron, and other bodies, were suspended in baths of oil, water, &e,, the temperature gradually raised and lowered, and the torsion force of the set for each force of 200 at 20 deg. F. was reduced to a force of 70 at 300 deg., and the diminution of force appeared to be nearly equal in all parts of the scale for an equal number of degrees. A piece of amorphous bismuth, compressed in one direction, gave nearly the same amount and de gree of change for the same alteration of temperaterc ; leading us to the persuasion that the whole magnetic force of bismuth as a diamagnetic body would suffer little change. A crystal of tourmaline, which at 0 deg. had a setting force of 540, when raised to 300 degrees, had a setting force of only 270 ; the loss of force was progressive, being greater at lower than at high temperatures ; for a change from 0 deg. to 30 deg. caused aloes of force equal to 50, whilst a change from 270 deg. to 300 deg. caused a loos of only 20. Carbonate of iren suffered a like change ; at 0 deg. the force was 1,140, at 300 deg. it was only 415 ; at the lower temperature the loss for 30 deg. was 120 loss of force, at the upper it was only 34, In all these and in many other cases, both with para magnetic and diamagnetic bodies, the magne-crpstallic differences diminished with the elevation of tempera ture ; and therefore it may be considered probable that the actual magnetic force changed in the same direction. But on extending the results to iron, nickel, and cobalt, employing these metals as very small prisms associated with copper cubes to give them weight, it was found that another result occurred. Iron, whether at the tempera `Aire of 30 deg. or 300 deg., or any intermediate degree, underwent no change of force ; it remained at 300, which was the expression for the piece employed under the circumstances. We know that at higher temperatures it loses power, and that at a bright red it is almost desti tut3 of inductive magnetic force. A piece of nickel, which at 95 deg. bad a setting power of 300, when raised to 285 deg., had a power of only 220, so that it had lost a thirtieth part of its force; at the heat of boiling oil it is known to lose nearly all its force, being unable then to affect a magnetic needle. Cobalt, on the other band, requires a far higher temperature tha n iron t o remove its magnetic character, a heat near that of melting copper being necessary. As to lower tempera tures it was found that au elevation from 70 deg. to 300 deg. caused an absolute increase of the magnetic force from 293 to 333 . It is evident , therefore, that there is a certain temperature, or range of temperature above 300 deg., at which the magnetic force of cobalt is a maxi mum ; and that elevation above, or depression below, that temperature cans, s a diminution of the force. The case is probably the same for iron, its maximum magne tic force occurring at temperatures between 0 dec. and 300 deg. If nickel is subjected to the same cenoitions of a maximum, then that state must come on at tempera. tares below 0 deg.; and it may be further remarked, that as the maximum condit ions occur in the following order for ascending temperatures, nickel, iron, cob Lit, such also is the same order for the temperatures at which they lose their high and distinctive magnetic place among metals. * 2 volumes of saturated solutiou, at 65 deg, 1. volume of water, e. d. s. d. 5. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 2to 3 4,PrimeSouthdown 4 8 5 0 decend quality.... 3 6 3 luiLarge erso. calves 4 2 5 0 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 4 ( Prime small do 5 2 5 8 Prime Scots, dm. 4 6 4 8 1 Large hogs Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 8 (Small porkers 343c0il d quality ...3 10 4 21Suckling calves 22 0 29 0 Prime erse.-wiled.4 4 4 6/Quarter old pigs 21 0 :8 TOTAL lIIMPLT. mum( SUPPLY. Beasts ..••••............ 3,757 t 8ea5ta.................. . 18 iheop ..•..21,741 Sheep .. .• •• • • ...... Calves'.• •••••••• • • •• • • .. ............ •• 27 Pigs •• •• •• •• •• •••• 505 Pigs.••• .• •• A statoment and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, ou Monday, March 12, 1855, and in the Metropolitan Market this day, Monday, March 10, 185(i. Per Slbs, to sink the offals. March 12, 1855. iMarchlo,'s6 s. d. s. d. d. a. d. Coarse and inferior beists ..• 3 4 to 3 613 2to 3 4 Second quality ditto 3 8 4 p 6 310 Prime large oxen ... ... 4 6 4 84 0 4 4 Prime Scots, &c 410 5 011 6 4 8 Coarse and inferior sheep 3 6 3 103 4 3 8 Second quality ditto .„ 4 0 4 4 . 3 10 4 2 Prime coarse woolled ditto 4 6 4 1014 4 4 6 Prime Southdown ditto 5 0 6 2'4 8 5 0 Lambs ..• 0 0 0 o‘p 0 0 0 Large coarse calves 4 2 4 8 1 4 2 5 0 Prime small ditto 410 5 415 2 5 8 Large hogs ... ... 3 0 4 0 1 3 6 4 2 Neat small porkers ... 4 2 4 4 1 4 4 410 Beasts._ 1,951 3,757 Sheep ... ... 17,560 21,740 Calves ... .•., ••• ..• ••• .•• 43 35 505 Symms ON SALT:, March 13, 1854.-13 casts, 4,305; sheer, 20,320; calves, 102; pigs, 385. March 14, 1853. Beasts, 4,206; sheep, 16,410; calves, 164 ; pigs, 215. NEWCIATE AND LEADENHALL. We are fairly, though not to say heavily, supplied with both town and country-killed meat. Geßerally speaking, the demand is steady, as follows : Per Sibs by the carcase. a. d. s. d. 1 s. d. s. d. Reef, interior 210 3 0 i Mutt.m, Inferior 210 3 0 Do., middling 3 2 3 6 / Do., middling ..... 3 2 3 6 Do. prime large 3 8 3 Pi . Do., prime 3 8 4 2 De , do. small...A 0 4 2 1 Veal 3 8 4 10 Pork, large 323 10 , Pork, small ........ 40 4 8 BOROUGH HOP. Large supplies of bops continue on sale in our market. With the exception of the finest qualities being in mode rate request, at full prices, the trash, generally is heavy, at barely the late fall in valie. Last week's imports were 51 bales from Hamburg, and 114 from Rotterdam. Mid and East Kent pockets, 3/ Os to 61 10s per cwt ; Weald of Keats, 3l Os to 51 Os. ; Sussex, 21 16s to 41 103. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Since Monday last fall average supplies of potatoes have coma to hand, coastwise and by railway. Generally speak ing, the demand is heavy, as follows : York Regents, bOs to Vs ; Kent and Essex, do., 703 to 803 ; Scotch do., 603 to 70s ; do. cups, 459 to 50s ; middlings, 403 to 455; Lincolns, 103 to 6J3; blues, 50s to 60s per ton. WOOL. The public sales of colonial wool have been brought to a close. The prices realised during their progress showed an advance in the quotations of from 2d to as much as 5d per lb. The demand by private contract, is firm, at very full prices. The imports, last week, were only 27 bales from Alexandria, 41 from Hamburg, and 20 from Ostend. The following are the current rates of English wool : Down tegs, is lAd to is 3d ; half-bred hoggets, ls 2cl to is 3d ; do. wethers, is 1d to is 2d ; Kent, fleeces, is 2d to is 2td; combing skin, lld to is 2d ; Down ewes, is 2d to Is 3,1; Leicester fleeces, ls to ls 11d; flannel wool, is ld to ls ; blanket wool, 9,1 tols Icl per lb. SEEDS. We have a moderate demand for linseed and cakes, at fully lsst week's currency. In other seeds a limited busi ness is doing. Turnip,Brhite, per bush. 223 to 25$ i Swede .• •• • • .... —3 —s Wrists. rd, Brown • • •... 14s 249 /bite, now •• .• Ss I rares,Winter,new....7s Od Ss Oil Canary, per quarter 503 62, Rye grass.. ••••• .. .. 24s 30, Clover•Re4Eng . (cwt.) 76' S6' White • • ...... 801 1053 foreign Red.. •• .. 653 7 l White•• .. 743 9St Trefoil. now.. •• .• 403 . _ Carraway (new).• .• .. 428 44s Coriander •• •• 25s 30s llcmpseed,per quarter 54s 60s Linseed, Eng.'iowing.. —8 s Crushing •.••...• 64s 68s Baltic •• •• •• —3 —s Odessa •• .• •• •• •• —5 LinseedCalta, pr. ton— . English .. ...13i Os 13' 5s Fei.eign,per ton 121 Os 13110 b ,Rape Cakes. pr ton 61 143 7 , 59 Rapeseed, New, pr qr., 818 90s TALLOW. Since our last report only n moderate business has been transacted in tallow, and pricos have shown a disposition to give way. To-day, P.Y.C., on the spot, ia quoted at 57s Gd per cwt. Town tallow, 51.8 nett cash ; rough fat, 2s 10d. 1852. ►353. 1851. 18t. , 5. 1656. Stock this day • • • • Price of Y. C •... Delivery last week .. Ditto from June 1.... Arrivals last week.. Ditto from Junel.... Price of Town • • .. • • 46,8491 3 , ;,369 36.369 :36, 3d to , 41s Od 64s 04to I 363 91 te —s Od —s 01 2,495 1 2,235 1,354 90,249 i 82, 786 836 81, 937514 100,664 78,577 93,484 38s 91 45s 9d 164 , 91 36,079 23,123 493 31 to 57s 6d —s Od to —q Od 1,234 1,073 65,454 I 87,568 • 707 470 65,531 64,149 50s Od 1 834 Gd TER TRIAL OF WILLIAM PALMER.-It i 9 understood that the trial of Wm. Palmer, of Rugeley, will be fixed for the May Session at the Central Criminal Court, wader the new Criminal Bill, which will shortly become an act of buliAmont. t. 100 .24 1 74 10 all It. 100 It. 1100 It. 'lOO tt. 100 It. 100 LO alI 8 all 10 all 10 all St 100 ?6'all 13k, all ,6 6 10c. pt. 100 pt. 100 St 1100 t WO It 1 .00 11 1 2 all 12 all 12 10 imo t. r ,6^ all 5 all h . 100 10 all 1 10 mti U.llOO It. TOO ;t. 100 St. 100 It. 100 ;t. 100 L 7 7 :5 - 1 10 st.ll(kl )sl all t 5 1 all 98 7i i LITE RATURE Little Dorrit. No. IV. By Charles Dickens. " Oh, ain't it d'licious !"—as the cake and the wine to Maggy--to us, this new number of Little Dorrit, by Charles Dickens ! As full of "good things" as the cake ;, as ripe, and mellow, and warming to the heart's core, as the wine ! It in roduces us, this fourth glorious number, to—we L't know how many new and delightful charac- I. It carries us, in the twelfth chapter, down .0 " Bleeding Heart - Yard." It makes us ac quainted, in the thirteenth, with everything (upon that head) "Patriarchal." It allows us in the fourteenth, with the tears in our eyes, to make an invisible "other" at "Little Dorrit's Party." Blessings on the genial heart that beats through all, upon the kindly humour, upon the gentle na ture, upon the earnest feeling, upon the abound ng, animated, exhilarating, inexhaustible imagina - t .on . tern, Bleeding Heart Yard and Plornish the Plasterer, both of thew, go even far beyond our expectations. Bleeding Heart Yard—over whose gateway Daniel Doyce's factory was " often heavily beating like a bleeding heart of iron, with the clink of metal upon metal !"—with its " one little golden grain of poet ry"sparkling in the earthiest and coarsest sand that filled the hour-glass of its ill-to-do and toiline. population : to wit, its cherished legend of the love-lorn song with the woful burden—" Bleeding Heart, Bleeding Heart, bleeding away !"—itself (that is the Yard), " all abundantly garnished with light children nursing heavy ones !"—and so on, through its many most striking and wonderfully truthful characteristics. Plornish, also, living in it, hard by "a limo-splashed gateway, in a corner" where be kept " a ladder and a barrel or two"—Plornish, " smooth-checked, fresh-coloured, sandy-whiskered," about thirty, "long in the legs, yielding at thi3 knees, foolish in the face, flannel-jacketted, lime-whitened !" As his Missus saith 7-." This is Plornish, sir.' Plornish; - who lifts his eldest child (aged four) upon his knee, that he may have " the moral support of talking to a stranger over his head !"—who picks a bit of lime out of his whisker, " and, putting it between his lips, turns it with his tongue like a sugarplum"—talkingl tautologically throughout, and vowing " it 'll be ekally .i pleasure and a it 'll be ekally a pleasure and a —" until finding himself unable to balance his sentence after two efforts, be wisely drops it And Mrs. Plornish, 'too—what a portrait hers is! Opening the door, with a child in her arms, and with her unoccupied hand hastily arranging the upper part of her dress —of whom and of whose casual doings in this par ticular, writes the nature-observing historian of Little Dorcit, " this was Mrs. Plornish, and this natural action was the action of Mrs. Plornish during a large part of her waking existence !" How exquisite are the slight but all-suflicient profile touches, " bringing out" to the very life the like ness of the homely matron—wife of the humble plasterer—" hushing the baby from side to side " as she talks to Arthur Clennam—" laying her chin upon the little hand as it tried to disarrange the gown again"—" feigning to bite the fingers of the little hand as she kissed it !" A sweet and charm ing picture—that—of a mother in the humbler classes ! Then, there are the other characters in troduced—all of them wondrously now, but each of them (already) wondrously familiar. Old Christopher Casby, owner of that load ! "looking so very large because it shone so much" —" so very bumpy in the head [that head !], so grey, so slow, so quiet, so impassionate," that— " Patriarch was the word for him !" Viewed in his juvenile portrait as Master Christopher Casby, aged ten—sitting in it ("on one of his own legs) upon a bank of violets "—or viewed in his ancient reality as old Christopher Casby—seated in his arm-chair with his feet in list shoes, and his list shoes on the rug, and his thumbs slowly revolving over one an other—what a broadly-handled, minutely-finished, richly-coloured, marvellously-actual life-portrait that is ! Himself, with his smooth face, having "a bloom upon it like ripe wall fruit," with his long grey hair at the sides and back of—that head ! shinin g " like floss silk or spun glass," and " look ing so benevolent because it was never cut with his elephantine form habited in a long wide skirted bottle-green coat and a bottle-green pair of trowsers and a bottle-green waistcoat—in regard to all which, saith Boa, drily—" the Patriarchs were not dressed in bottle-green broad cloth and yet his clothes looked patriarchal 1" Christopher Casby's conversation, too—reminding one somehow of what Sam Weller once upon a time said to the gorgeous flunky in sky blue, "Sir, I likes your conwersa tion—it's werry pretty." Christopher talking at these moments in little vapid repetitions, with his hands crossed before him, speaking softly the while, "with his head on one sitie and a gentle smile, as if he had something in his thoughts, too sweetly profound to be put into words." Nay, more, "as if he denied himself the pleasure of uttering it, lest he should soar too high; and his meekness there fore preferred to be unmeaning." And' Flora Casby also, his daughter, daughter of Christopher, offspring of " that head"—a surprising Minerva, `Joni of an unwieldy Jove in bottle-green broad- cloth ! Flora—Arthur Clennam's old flame— whom lie had left a Id) , and found a peony—who, " always tall, had grown to be very broadtoo, and short of breath"—who had once seemed so enchant ing, but now proved so diffuse and silly—chattering without any regard to punctuation, indulging in no longer stops thati commas, and even in those very sparingly—Flora, stout, rod, simpering, short winded, "as to me you know"—(she confesses as much herself with a little scream)—" oh ! I am dreadful !" And so she is, iu sooth—yet with a kindly touch of human tenderness through all, through her giggles, .and her breadth, and her short wind, and her general " red-facedness." But —Pancks ! The little black energetic Tug, that takes that lumbering, selfish, drifting old Booby of a Christopher Casby, in tow—Pancks, the quick, eager, short, dark man who comes into the room with so • much " way" upon him and greets Arthur ClennauL with a " lialloa !" Who while Cleunam explains his being there— " holds his breath and looks at him." Here he is. L•Jok at him! PANCKS. " He was dressed in black, and rusty iron grey ; had jot black beads of eyes ; a scrubby little black chin ; wiry black hair striking out from his head in prongs, like forks or hair-pins ; audo. complexion that was very dingy by nature, or very dirty by art, or a compound of mature and art. He had dirty hands and dirty broken nails, and looked as if ha had been in the coals ; he was in a perspi ration, and snorted and sniffed and puffed and blew, like little labouring steam-engine." Cheek by jowl with whom, at Christopher Casby's dinner-table, is a companion personage, the like of whom we don't any where remember in all the long, wide. range of humorous literature. Ob sery e MR. F.'S AUNT. " This was an amazing little old woman, with a face like a staring wooden doll too cheap for expression, and a stiff yellow wig perched unevenly on the top of her head, as if the child who owned the doll had driven a tack through it any where, so that it only got fastened on. Another remark able thing in this little oil woman was, that the same child seemed to have damaged her face in two or three places with some blunt instrument in the nature of a spoon ; her countenance, and particularly the tip of her nose, present ing the phenomena of several dints, generally answering to the bowl of that article. A further remarkable thing in this little old woman was, that she had no name but Mr. F's Aunt. • • • • • • . • . The major characteristics discoverable by the stranger in Mr. F's Aunt, were extreme severity and grim tacitur nity; sometimes interrupted by a propensity to offer re marks, in a deep warning voice, which, being totally un ()ailed for by anything said by anybody, and traceable to no association of ideas, c mfounded and terrified the mind. Mr. F's Aunt may have thrown in these observations on some system of her own, and it may have been ingenious, or even subtle; but the key to it was wanted." So—in the middle of a neatly-served and well cooked dinner of soup, soles, shrimp-sauce, and potatoes—to begin with—Mr. F's Aunt, after re garding the company for ten minutes with a male volent gaze, delivers the following fearful remark— " When we lived at Henley, Barnes's g ander was stole by tinkers." So, too, when the dinner is well over —finishing with mutton, a steak, and an apple-pie " (nothing in the remotest way; con nected with ganders)" —this same Mr. F. s Auut " strikes again into t he conversation like a clock, without consulting anybody," with—" The monu ment, near London -bridge, was put up arter the Great Fire of London, and the Great Fire of Lon don was not th e fire in which your uncle George's workshops was burned down." Until Arthur Clennam (and no wonder) becomes absolutely frightened by these sepulchral proclamations, and Mr. F.'s aunt winds all up with the Solomonic sentiment " I hate a fool I" to whi c h s h e imparts so extrem ely inj ur i ous and personal a c haracter, by levelling it straight at the visitor's head that it becomes necessary to lead her from the room ! [The subject, by the way, of one of Plii2s hap piest illustrations -- giving us The Tug, The Patriarch, the simpering Fiera, and that staring wooden doll with the face " teo a() ip for expres sion," that wonderful inventor of the system with out a key, " Mr. F. a Aunt''—all of them delight fully, inimitably.] As for the list, sad, charming, beautiful chapter in the fourteenth number of Little Dorrit, we can scarcely as yet, of course, appreciate its full significance. That, be sure, in all good time, will duly appear in the dim, sorrow ful hereafter ! It hints already, we cannot b ut believe and fear—the fi nal death of de ar exquisite Little Dorrit—a homelier, older, yet scarcely less child-like, or less poetic al creation than the angel-heroine of the dear " Old Curi osity Shop"—a Little • Nell, sot of the rural roads, on the village gree n, or the. ivy-man tleti church, but of the sordid, squa lid, intry, proud lady, Mrs. Montgomery (Mrs. Poynter), to whom he is about to married. The son, whom he be- lieves to be dead, be shocked to learn from Ripstone, who he terms his evil genie., is still alive. The proud nabob shrinks from the thought of meeting his neglected child—the fruit of his ignoble marriage—and believing that Ripstone means to expose him, he tr es to get him out of the way by causing him to be arrested for a bill whiah he has passed to Mrs: Montgomery. Tom, how ever, contrives to turn the tablei on his enemies, and • raises a hearty laugh against the lady by intercepting a wig which had been sent by her hairdresser. At the same time he manages to unite C ara Fielding (Hiss Swanhorough), the ward of Hill Cooley, to Barton (Mr. Villisre), a yourg surgeon, who turns out to be the son of the nabob, whom the kind-hearted Ripstone had brought up and educated after he had been deserted by his father. Of the acting of the different artistes engaged in the performance we must speak in the highest terms of praise. The Tom Ripstone of Mr. Buckstone was the most perfect embodiment of good humour itis possibleto imagine —in a word, his acting of the part was perfection. Three new scenes, viz., the parlour of a vil:a in Derbyshire, the gardens before the villag: the park and coun try mansion of the parvenu Cooley, were capital speci mens of the scene-painter's art. The comedy was rs ceived a ith the most enthusia,t:c applause, and at the fall of the curtain there was a general call for Mr. Back stone, who came forward and announced the piece for repetition every evening. The house was fully and fashionably attended. ELEXIIORE'S BENEFIT.- -The celebrated pantomimist, FiLxinore. who filled the rule of Clown in the panto mime of " Henry the Eighth" during the late season at Covent-g:lrden tapes his benefit at the Lyceum on Wed nesday evening next. He is so well known and appro. • eated that the house is certain to be well attended. Mr. Andersen will appear in " Black-eyed Susan," and the beneficiaire has secured the services of a host of vocal and terpsichorean talent. SURREY THEATRE.—The melodrama of "The Sailor of France" has been produced with great success at this theatre during the last week. Mr. Shepherd personates the French tar with a fine perception of the real fun of the character. Miss Seyton, a debutante from the pro. viuces, promises to be a valuable addition to the com pany. Altogether the piece is very effective. The services of Mons. Jullien have been secured by Messrs. Cramer, Belle, and Co., of Regent-street, for a series of musical performances in which the great master of the baton may display his energies to advantage. The same firm have also entered into an engagement with M. and Male. Gassier, and with Mr. Swift, the new tenor. That charming singer, Mme. Gassier, will appear in London, on the operatic stage, after an absence of several. months, next Thursday evening, for the benefit of Mr. Loder, in the ever-pleasing "La Sonnambula." • MARYLEBONIS THEATRE.—This pretty little theatre will commence its summer season under a new manage ment, and with a choice company, selected from, the members of the Theatres Royal Drury-lane, Lyuegm, Charles nd r. Sadler's-wells, Edinburgh, Hull , &c. Amon g the. stare engaged, we have heard the names of M Mathews, Mr. Barry Sullivan. Miss Fitzpatrick, and Mrs. J. W. Wallack, mentioned. The new lessee, Mr. E. Seaman, has placed the acting and stage management in the able hands of Mr. Edward Stirling. Among young musical and theatrical artistes about to rise on the horizon (not, in truth, before they are wanted), wo hear of a younger Miss Keeley, from whom we are. bidden to expect good things. THE DuAlrA. IN AUSTRALIA.—Catherino Hayes has become so great a favourite With the Melbourne people that her announced departure has brought forth an ad dress to the lady, numerously and respectably signed, in which she is earnestly requeSted to continue for some time longer her operatic performaricea in that town. G. V. Brooke has appeared for the first time in the character of Richard the Thir 1, at (.;aoppin's Olympic, where the play was revived at some cost, and with much care, last November. The house was crowded on the occasion, and at the fall of the curtain there was a general call for Mr. Brooke. Shylock is, however, considered by the Australian public as his very best impersonation. COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.—Tire ruins of this vast building were yesterday visited by many thousands of persons, and the police had an office of difficulty in preserving the crowd from accident. The demolition of the walls has now commenced, and in a very few days the lofty outline of the theatre will be brought down to the level of the adjoining houses. FIRE AT DRURY-LANE THEATRE. —On Friday after ' noon great altrul w as created among the servants of Drury-lane Theatre in consequence of the discovery of a smouldering fire in the " flies" of the stage. With Ilittle difficulty the flames were soon arrested without causing any material mischief. Mr. Braidwood, the su perintendent of the fire brigade, was immediately sent for by Mr. Smith, the lessee, and on his arrival at the ' theatre a strict inquiry was instituted into the cause of the fire. It was eventually traced to have resulted from wadding in an ignited state, discharged from a gun fired in the course of the performance of the pantomime the P rev'ous evening falling into one of th e b eams i n th e flied, and the timber hein,cT eiceedingly dry it quickly ignited, and from its proximity with the scenery, &c. , its early discovery is con s idered most fortunate. A few hours later and Old Di tzry would have met the fate of Covent-garden. Neither the theatre nor its contents are insured. LONDON THUATRES DESTROYED Ey Film—Drury. lane, 1672 and 1809 ; her Majesty's, 1789 ; Pantheon, , 1792 ; Astley, 1794, 1303, and 1841 ; surrey (Circus), ' 1 1805 ; Covent-garden, 1808 and 1856 • Royalty, 1820 English Opera House, 1830 ; Argyll Rooms, leV Olympia 1849 ; Pavilion, 106. ► " stony-hearted" streets of London ! Bless ing 3 on the shade of Little Dorrit, whe ther she live or die and ou the large and gentle heart of the great writer whose wizard pen is now conjuring up her small sweet shape so deftly, daintily, magically into existence 1 What a picture it is that wondrous picture of the Landon streets at night with the stray drunkards reeling home, and the woman still more astray, who, besides being neither ugly nor wicked-look 7 in', was yet young—" Far too young to be there, Heaven knows !"—and the gas lamps shining in the silent highways and byeways of that vast and awful city, and over all—God's holy starlight far away ! A wonderful picture—and this, remember, in the self-same number of Little Dorrit which introduces us to Plornish the Plas terer, and to Patriarchal Christopher Casby, and to the little snorting Tug Pancks, and to poor silly, red-faced Flora, and, best of all, to that pre posterous little old woman, Mr. F.'s Aunt, with her wig askew, and her irrelevant proclamations ! And which, besides being peopled with these more prominent characters, makes us casually acquainted—with , a laugh in our sleeves or one fairly roared. outright—with minor personages of a subordinate kind incidentally " touched in" with a few master-touches in the back-ground, such for example as the gentleman up the stable-yard yon- I der, the "gentleman with tight drab legs, a rather old hat, a little hooked stick, and a blue necker chief "—one Captain Maroon, of Gloucestershire. Or again, that nameless old fellow in the crowd, a little later on, who stood "shaking his head, inviting conversation," and having found listeners at last, folded his arms and declaimed to his heart's relief and indignation against " them Mails I" This latter incident occurring, be it observed, in the course of the episode which brings Arthur Clennam suddenly upon poor John Baptist Cavaletto, run over by a coach and borne away, bleeding, upon a litter to one of_the great London Hospitals. There we leave him under the care of a clever, good-natured house-surgeon (who manipulates the case to admiration upon its first arrival) ; there, we repeat, we leave the poor fellow befriended by Arthur Clennam, and no longer, let us hope, shaking his forefinger with a back-handed shake in the air, and a despair ing "Ah ! Altro, Altro !" As for Arthur Clennam himself—the hero of the story—though we can't, even yet, quite catch the distinguishing fea tures of his good, noble, manly face, we take him into our heart, together with the small, child-like form of Little Dorrit, and love him, and love them both—thoroughly ! The AA Journal for March is rich :like its pre decessor in pictorial illustrations and high-class contributions towards the progress of art. _Chief among the former are an engraving of Hensel's picture of " Miriam," by Bourne. Another of Cuyps " Troopers," by Hackett, both pictures in the Royal Collection, together with an engraving from .Schwanthaler's groupe, known as " The Woodman." Among the latter may be noted " Studies from Life," by W. Mulready, R.A., and " Suggestions of Subject to the Student in Art," by an Old Traveller. " The British Artist," illus trated by Charles Robert Leslie, R.A., whose genius supplies the subjects of several pleasing en gravings on a minor scale. The Merchant's Magazine contains, among a variety of matter calculated to be of service to the important class to which it is addressed, a judicious and well-timed article on " The Changes in the Laws of Partnership." THEATRICAL NEWS• DRURY LINE.—The production of Mr. Stirling Coyao'a comedy, which was in rehearsal at Drury-lane, has boe s zi postponed in consequence of the close of the dramatic . . ,season at Easter being near at hand. It will be brought forward on the re-opening of the theatre next autumn, with Mr. Charles Ma thews in the principal character. lIAY3INRKET THEATRE.—An original three-act comedy eutitled " The Evil Genius," from the pen of Bayle Bernard, Esq., was produced here on Saturday evening with the most decided success. It is an interesting, well. written play, admirably acted throughout, and will prove a decided " hit " for the indefatigable lessee—a circum. stance that will afford great pleasure to the whole of his admirers. The following is an outline of the plot :— A certain Mr. Hill Cooley (Chippendale), a man of very humble origin, having amassed a fortune in the East Indies, returns to his native land to spendit. Previon4 to leaving England he had married a servant girl by whom he had a son, and believing that the boy is dead, and that all recollection of him has passed away, he is induced to settle in Derbyshire. However, one of his old acquaint ances turns up in the person (4Tomj.i.ipstorta (.14, Bock. stone), who, being in possession of the knowledge, finds that Cooley is in a oate or great anxiety lest the circum. stance should come to the knowledge of a certain 2l 21} i 1001 x d