The Sun. — London, England, 1856-01-22 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET ANb COMMERCIAL INTET,T.TGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocit. The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed very firmly, and there was a good supply, at last week's rates. The sales were 10,000 bales (3,000 on speculation), comprising 600 Egyptian, at 54d. to 7 d. ; and 2,500 Surat, at 3d. to 411. per lb. The Railway Share Market ruled quiet in the early part of the day, but closed with an active appearance, at a considerable advance on Satur day's quotations. Letters from the manufacturing districts men tion that the trade of Leeds continued steady, and an active demand prevailed. The prospects of this branch of business were considered good, and the holders were confident of an early improvement. The Manchester market has been favourably influ enced by the recent intelligence from Vienna, but Owing to the advanced prices asked purchases are limited. When the pacific news of last week reached Havre it created considefable activity in the cotton market. Stocks on hand, which were beginning to accumulate rather heavily, were sought after With avidity, at improved prices. On Thursday the upward movement commenced with a sale of 2,900 bales, at about 3fr. 75c. average. On Friday the market was, if anything, more animated, and the sales that day were estimated at 4,800 bales, independent of private bargains entered into with holders of cargoes on board ships in the harbour, Which was not less than 5,000 bales ; thus making a total of sales in two da3s of 12,700 bales. The closing price was about 4 .francs per 2 kilos. The market for- grain, on the contrary, was unfa vourably affected. All kinds of grain from the Baltic and Black Sea declined, on an average, 2f. Per sack. The trade of this port generally is im proving, especially with America ; and in this re spect it stands to France what Liverpool is to Eng land. In the adjacent provinces, .towards the in terior, the number of cotton mills are increasing, and there in every likelihood of their soon being independent of imported cotton fabrics. Accounts from Antwerp continue to state that trade is buoyant, and there is every appearance, from the mildness of the season, that navigation Will not be further impeded by ice this sea-on. Sugar is at about its usual price, and parcels of re lied have been sold at a slight improvement. Coffee is in demand for internal trade. Cotton has advanced under the influence of the peace news, and large sales have taken place in American of all sorts. Wool is also in demand, at improved rates, for Buenos Ayres, Russian, and African. importations of Australian wool from England are frequent, and prices firmly maintained. On the Antwerp Bourse, after the late news, there was great buoyancy in the value of all securities, but the rise was not to the extent on other Continental Bourses, neither has the reaction been so great, so that the state of affairs here is probably more Steady than on any Bourse in Europe. No material variation has occurred in the Eng lish Stock Market ; and although at one period some flatness was produced by speculative sales th e market has since become firmer. The dealers are operating cautiously, and the amount of busi ness transacted is consequently Jess exten sive. Investments are being freely made by the public, and Consols for money, after having declined to 891 are now marked 896. Per the 7th proximo the prices have fluctuated from 891 and 89i 90, the present values being 90 sellers. The Exchequer Bills have advanced to 4s. dis. and par. Bank Stock is rather flatter, be ing 2081. The New 3 per Cents. have been and the Reduced 89/ to 901. The 5 per Cent. Annuities are at 113, and the New 30 Years' Annuity is 16g. The Foreign Stock Market again presents a quick appearance, but the quotations are exceedingly fitte. Turkish 6 per Cents. have recovered about per cent. of the depression that was noticed yes terday evening, being 88i to 881. The New Scrip °Pened at 11, and has since been 1 to 01 discount. Spanish 3 per Cents. have risen to 401, and the Deferred to 221. Sardinian 5 per Cents. rose, namely to 87A. Danish 5 per Cents. ruled firm at 103 1- French 3 per Cents. are quoted at 68, with the exchange 25 30. The following are the nominal prices oT Foreign S tocks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 7 ; Mexican, 20 ; Peruvian, 76 78 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 53 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 46 48 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 100 102 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 90 92 ; Spanish 3 Per Cents., 391 40i ; ditto Deferred, 221 23; ditto Certificates, 4-i 5 ; ditto Passive, 61 61. There is rather an active market for Railway S ecurities, and the quotations have as improved tendency. Great Western, North-Western, South- Western, and several others are 4 per cent. higher. Prench lines are steady, at full prices. Paris and 1 -4Yons have risen to 47. In Mining, Banking, and Miscellaneous Shares 'very few bargains have been recorded. gARITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICES. From tilt Orcia/ , rtn.,nes• done. sank Stock ,i Per Cent. Red%ced Annuities... B9Z 90 891 90} t Per Cent Consols Annuities . "."' a per Cent. Annuities . Per Cent. Annuities ll3 L ong Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860... 31 9-1 6 Ditto 39 Years, expire sth Jan., 1860 3l .„ Ditto 30 Years, expire sth ApriT, 1885 l6i 13141 k Honda. £lOOO . . . par Ditto under 21000 %nsols , for Account B9 ip j a 90 89j 90 Exchequer Bills, 2d. £lOOO . ... ...... 4 d par 4 die 8500 mall PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Danish Bonds, 3 per Cent., 1825 . Ditto 5 per Cent . lO3l irilia.d or Bonds Grenada New Active, 13 per Cent. Ditto Deferred - 6 i Mexican 3 per Cent. ......... Ditto Account Peruvian Bonds, 43 per Cent. ..... Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1822, £ St — Ditto 4. per Cent Ditto Small Budinian Bon Zs, 5 per Cent. SpAnien Roads, 3 per Cent Ditto Account Ditto New Dcferred.3 per Cent. Ditto Account .. - Ttirkixti Bonds, 6 per;c out — Ditto for the A ecountl BB 4 s i 1 9 Ditto New Scrip, 4 tar Cent. Ditto Account -• ••• .•. 1i 01 1 01 d Dividends on the above payable in London . French Renter, 3 per Cent. THREE O'CLOCK. C )nsols (money) Ditto for Account Feb. 7 ........... .. 90 20i 77f MARKET NEW►6.--(This Day.) RAY MARKETS. Eimrrinnwo.—litoadow hay, 4/ 54 to 6/ 04 : clover ditto, 4i 15s to 6/ 18s ; and straw. 11 54 Od to 1/ 104 Od per 10.2. d. -9. fair average supply, and a moderate demand. V•IIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 4/ 44 to 6/ 64. clover do., 41 12s to 6/ 15s ; and straw, 1G 58 to 1/ 108 per load. Trs tie steady. 1 STRITACHAPRL.—Meadow hay. 41 54 to 6 1 Os; clover 4 0%, 41 153 to 71 Os ; and straw. 11 5s to 1/ 104 per load. 4uTply tolerably good, and trade firm. COLONIAL. Is.—The market has ruled more active, and a good _bush less has been done, at rather improved rates. Col:n -ei-4i Cougoll 91,1 per lb. %./.11.—in improved market has prevailed for both colom l and foreign, and several large parcels have changed Lends ::at higher vices. There has been an active demand for re, kned, and sellers demand more enhanced rates than those or arrent last week. Coy / 'EL—Native Ceylon has experienced a brisk de ; a few parcels are offering at rats. 526 6d per cwt. -rim:it:it ion has also realised fuller e Fine quality Socha la as been enquired for at previous rates, but little lies been done in lower qualities. ,‘aen TALL° w.—The market has been dull, the demand having von r limited. P.Y.C. oa the spot, 593 6d to 60 3; and 4 5 Aft AN,lree mouths. the Bri t ish Empire, Capt. Vaughan (late the Demi ,-;f44), has \I 'rived a t Q ueens t own w ith a cargo consisting u pwards 41 4,000 tons of guano, the largest cargo ever the orted i a ono Ship- It will be remembered this was ship ti in tro b aol WS:II ashore in the Bristol river two or three damage.and *As said to have sustained irreparable ake• var ;ten• OW, Dga' I not and aim]. and 3eiv the tern, opo. ,r it nde Vi'Cr a nd nch, ers. lity, vie lore I be )1211 her I we lust MO 8116, duo. gala the bed tate veil) the in- are. Ye d osi• was ; has a, SESSIONB—(This Day.) (Before P. E. Johnson, E• q., and a Bench of Magistrates.) ROBBERY AT EPSOM RACES.—EXTRAORDINARY CASE. —Joseph. Bonivard, 23, was indicted for stealinz a gold watch and chain from the person of William Morrison, at Epsom. M. Parry, with Mr. Thomson, instructed by Mr. Solomon, defended the prisoner. Michael Haydon, a detettive officer of the City police, stated that in May, 1853, he was at Epsom racecourse, when he saw the prisoner and several other suspicious persons. lie watched them, and saw the prisoner ap proach Mr. Morristn, put his hand in his waistcoat pocket, and withdraw his watch. Witness immediately seized hold of the prisoner's arm, when he dropped the watch on the ground and attempted to get away. He, however, picked up the watch, and banded the prisoner over to another constable, who conveyed him before a magistrate, and he was committed for trial. He was then sent under the care of a constable to Horsemonger lane gaol ; but on the way he contrived to escape, and nothing more was seen of him until the 30th of last month, when he was seen in Wandsworth and given into custody. Mr. William Morrison, a retired solicitor, residing at Brighton, said, that on the Derby-day, in May, 1853, he was on Epsom Race Course when he missed a watch from his waistcoat pocket. The watch produced was the one he missed. It was not his property, but had been lent him by Mr. Dewey, a watchmaker of Maddox street, in lieu of one he had to repair for him. Mr. Devey, was called and he identified the watch as the one he had lent to the prosecutor. Mr. Parry, in an eloquent address to the jury con tended that there must be a mistake on the part of the prosecutor, inasmuch as his client had not been at Epsom for some years. Since 1353 he had been in America, and had just come to England to fetch his mother and relations, and while making the necessary preparations be was taken into custody on the present charge. _ _ _ The jury found him guilty and recommended him to mercy. - - - - A. former conviction was proved against him, but as it was clearly shown that the prisoner had reformed his character in America, and intended to have conveyed his family there, Mr. Johnson sentenced him only to four months hard labour at Wandsworth. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, Jan. 21.—Wind this day at noon, N.E.• moderate breeze and cloudy. POOLE, Jan. 21.—Wind S.—The Wyke Regis has been towed in from the Isle of Wight, with loss of bow sprit and much damage to larboard bow and side, from contact off Hunteliffe, on the 16th inst., with the brig Suirrel, of Whitby. JERSEY, Jan. 20.—Wind S.—Arrived—Ship Amelia, from . Sailed—Ariel, for Pernambuco. PILL, —N I Jan. 21.—Wind N.E.—Sailed—Venus, for V' De merara ; Sarah Charlotte, Jamaica ; .Agamemnon, New Orleans. HULL, Jan. 20.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrived—Dauntless, from Bombay. GRIMSBY, Jan. 21.—Wind N.E., strong—Arrived— Coronation from Sunderland, for Ipswich, leaky. GUERNSEY, Jan. 21.—The St. George, from Sunderland to Morlaix, in entering the roadstead on the 18th inst., struck on the White Rock and remains on her beam ends. Her masts have been taken out and it is hoped she would float today. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday Morning. Arrived—Despatch, (s.), from Jersey. Sailed—Wonder, (s.), for Jersey; Edward and Mary, Jersey ; Alliance, (s.), Havre. Tho steam-transport Severn is leaving the docks for Cork. LIVERPOOL, Tuesday llonsing. , Wiud E. Arrived—Lavinia, from Cassabianca. Off—Sappho, from Paraiba. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 20. Wind E.S.E. Arrived—Bideford, from Syra ; Robert Whiteway, Val paraiso ; star, Callao; Duke of Eronte, 111 ulmeia HOLYHEAD, Jan. 21. Wind N.E. Put in—Europa, from Alicante; Mary Louisa, Palermo; Flora Denial, Perna►nbuco. DUBLIN, Jan. 21. Wind E.N.E. Arrived—Admiral G. V. Marden, from Amsterdam ; Avon, St. John's, New Brunswick; Invoice, Marseilles. BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10.40 a.m. Wind N.N.; tide, 1s hour's flood ; cloudy. Arrived, Jan. 21. Union, from Buenos Ayres; Free dom, Messina ; Britannia, Tavira • Clin, Lisbon. Sailed.—Oscur, for Const an ti nop l e - Boyne, Bombay. DEAL, Tuesday, 10.16 a.m. Wind N.E. by N., moderate. Passed—Sir John Easthope (s.s. tpt. 152), from London, for tile Crimea; Reliance, London, for Boston; Lyra, Lon don, for Barbadoes ; Kurrajong, London, for Algoa Bay ; iitangerton (s.s.), London, for Limerick; Talmo Fal mouth, for Hamburg. Sailed.—H.M.'s gun-boats Adele, Cleopatra, British Empire, and Walousta. A LADY, A GENTLEMAN, AND A GOOSE ! A RAILWAY ROMANCE. A singular affair occurred on the Wear Valley Rail way (Durham), the other day. A gentleman from Bir mingham found himself seated in a first-class carriage, his vis-a-vis, and the only other passenger in that com partment of the carriage being a blooming lady, answer ing to the alliterative description of "fat, fair, and forty." The train had scarcely moved 100 yards from the station before) the lady suddenly leaped from her seat, and exclaimed to the other passenger, " How dare you, sir? What do you mean ?" The gentleman, astonished, replied that "he did not understand ; he had done nothing to harm her." Again and again she sprang from her seat in apparent terror and rage, and declared with vehemence that her neighbour was a " villain, and she would have him taken into custody at the next sta- tion." The gentleman protested his innocence, and asked what he had done ; but the eccentric lady still kept leap ing from her seat, raving against his treatment, till the gentleman decided that she was mad, and resolved on the arrival of the train at the next station to give her into custody. As her eccentricity did not atate, nor her rage either, he, on the arrival of the train at one of the sta tions, was about to carry his resolution into action, when she suddenly sprang to the door and screamed out "Guard I" at the top of her voice, and presently collected not only the guard, but a crowd of people around her. She then commenced her accusation in words, both loud and deep, protesting that the gentleman had im. properly pinched her legs, and the gentleman, horrified at the charge, protesting, with equal vehemence, his perfect innocence. At this juncture, when matters looked serious for the gentleman, the guard happened to recollect that he had placed a basket under the seat of the carriage containing a live goose ; and, pulling it out, the mystery was explained, the bird being the criminal, and having caused the lady's fears and the gentleman'- apprehensions. This explanation wag re ceived with perfect good humour and satisfaction by the parties concerned, and the train renewed its journey amid the convulsive laughter and applause of the as• sembled multitude. IRELAND. Tin ACCEPTANCE OF THE PEACE PROPOSAL , . A letter from Vienna of the 17th, in the Consti tutionnel, after giving an account of the acceptance of the Austrian propositions by Russia, proceeds as follows : " The ilea that the Russian Cabinet, in acquiescing so promptly in the conditions of loeitce laid down by the Allies of the 2il Dec., cars be animated by an arrie.re pence, cannot be a single instant adMitted by any one that has the slightest acquaintance with diplomatic af fairs. It was theßusaian Government itself which directly notified to Count Esterhazy that it accepted purely and simply the propositions of Austria to serve as prelimi naries of peace. From that moment the acceptance of Russia was irrevocably accomplished. It now only re mains for the Allies to give to their representatives the full powers necessary to proceed to the signature of the preliminaries of peace coejointly with, the representa tive of the Czar. The signature of the preliminaries is, at bottom, ouly a simple formality, inasmuch as it may take place without the slightest discussion, and without eugaging in any way a negotiation on such or such a basis of peace. But the Austrian propositions will be transcribed and recorded word for word in a special protocol, which will be signed by all the plenipoten tiaries. You perceive, therefore, that the preliminaries which are about to be signed do not resemble the memorandum of the .98th of December. Whilst the e latter only served as a basis for negotiations, the preli minaries are the result of a negotiation terminated. Nor must the preliminaries of peace be confounded with the instrument of peace—that is, the public treaty which is to consecrate the mutual obligations arising from the propositions contained in the signed act of the prelimi naries. As the general arid definitive treaty of peace is only the development and solemn sanction of the pre liminaries, it is not necessary to say that it neither can nor ought to contain anything which will change the sense or bearing of them. In a word, the preliminaries, as they have been accepted by Russia, must justly be con sidered as the keystone of the new edifice of peace. The signature of preliminaries of pea ce is always followed by an arrnstice and the suspension of hostilities. This truce may be either general or special. In the former case it applies to ail hostilities in all, places, and has in its effects the importance of a temporary peace. By the fact of Russia having accepted the Austrian ultimatum purely and simply, the truce which is about to be established between her and the Western Powers can not be anything else than a general armistice. During the armistice, negotiations destined to settle the stipu lations, which in accordance with the signed prelimi naries must be comprised in the general treaty or in strument of peace, will take place. When Lucre than two Powers are principal parties in a war, they, by stipulating the cessation of hostilities, agree at the same time to convoke a congress charged to conclude defini tive peace. The congress is almost always held in a place different from that in which the preliminaries of peace have been signed. Now, as the preliminaries between Russia and the allies are probably about to be signed, and the armistice settled by the conferences of Vienna, the choice of a place which will be best for the future congress will have to be proceeded to. The rule heretofore followed has been to select for the con gress either a town situated in a neutral State, or the capital or other town of the Power which, by its efforts and sacrifices, most contributed to the accomplishment of the common undertaking. The choice of a neutral town is certainly preferable when there is an intervention of mediating Po Piers, as in the Congresses of Munster, Niineguen, Ryswick, and Teschen. But in the present ease, from which all mediation is virtually excluded, it seems to me that mothing would be more natural than to choose the c ipitat of France, according to the same system which caused to be chosen the capital of Austria for the Congress of 1815, and to be convoked at subse quent periods in the Austrian territory the Congresses of Troppau, Laybac hi, and Verona.' THE PBOSPECT OF PEACE. ( Frani the Examiner.) What an inexhaus 'Able theme is the vanity of human wishes. Juvenal tells how hard it is to distinguish what is to Le de,ired, and tha t compliant gods ruin man by grant ing his prayers. With. the telsgraphic tidings of Russia's unconditional accepta nes of the Austrian proposals the funds went up 3 percent. Are the gentlemen of the Stock Exchange the rare, tl,te gifted exceptions to the fallibi lity of judgment which the Roman satirist illustrated ? Have they alone of mortal men the art of distinguishing what is, and what is not, for our good ! Does dealing in money confer this profound pcnetration ? Are we to look upon the rise and fall of that market as indi cations as unerring as those of the barometer? Or should we rather regard it as the foolometer which Syd ney Smith proposed for the regulation of our judgment x c e o h n a ti n •a g r e i e f s o . lk ‘ s V u h p o w c ona u n l y d ci t u a e k s e . t tb i hy o e n to , hp e ei x nr c iu e ol p ne t oo p if e ta r li h v i )'e i ta d s :S"lt s oc e ce l k li o n Er g out or buying in, and yet they are supposed to be oracular on the fortunes of nations Should the prospect of peace at the present juncture be a matter of hope or fear? Would it be a name, or a rea lity, a true state, or a mask ? There are things which cannot be refused, and which _can as little be trusted. The Trojan question of the Greek horse has many ♦arieties. It id very possible that Russia is sincerely desirous of an end of the war, ilawhich she finds herself overmatched. But if so ' we may bs sure that she proposes to herself a revenge for her pre.sent mortification. Her pear was not ripe. Her wa 7 .policy was a mistake. Her strength was the exaggerate repute of her strength, whi.:th has been dissipated by She has been beaten in every encounter but one, 1 ter fleets have been shut up to rot, or destroyed, and her territory has been occupied by the invading Allies. It was not by force of arms that she made horse f what s b e is, and by relying on force of arms ske would soon unit aloe herself. Her success has been thri.n;la other instal meats than the sword. In the arts of intrigue and coil option she is matchless. Germany even now under he r influences shows with what consum mate craft she can •II hid herself into the places of influ ence in foreign eta ti 3s. If she throws down her arms, it is to resume this • winning game. Much prestige she has lost, but much istill remains to her, which a prolon gation of the cone; st would dissipate. It is her best policy to save what she can, and to resume the net of her intrigues all ov , Jr the world. Peace is the cover for this work. In pea( te it has made its advances, and in peace again it will', pursue its serpent-like way. Tne time may then col Ito when recourse to arms to consum• mate wrong mays Lot be so premature as it has been on this occasion. _ The first aim widl of course be to break up the alliance which defeated the' r scheme of Nicholas. Russia will use all the arts and dew ces in which she is so skilled to die unite France and 17 agland. Her business will be to sow jealousies and culti .ate distrust. She will bid any price for French favour. he would offer France a partition of Prussia, servile as .it has been to her, as she offered Eng land a share of the l'urkieh spoii. Her clearly-:raced part is mischief-maker (d Europe. She has four scores of re venge to settle, ant 1 eathroihnent must be the means to the malignant end. It must be the f' cult of the Western Powers if she we may be told, for they have their own safety .. aind have only to hold together to Bdiefteithidesoewmnatindasi- ms. This is true, bet not assuring ; for nations, like and ividuals, have their moments of evil teraiptation and wea . knees. But b e th e re sult what it my it will be the undo' lune of Europe for many a day to have to keep watch and ward against this insidious foe. We know her purp; mes, they.are all as distinctly mapped out as be . c s tolen tet Titories, and we know how inflexibly she holds ; to her ends, however she may change her means, a id thereforespeace with her is but war in disguise. But vi e may be nuked what is our drift. Are we for war wit.] lout end r? No, but for war with an end—war with an end i'.itrnishing the securities forpeace. If Russia makes all the tto ,ncessions required peace cannot be refused; but let titers be no mistake about the treacherous character of the peat e that we have to lay our account with. For of this we ma I be assured, that Russia does not make sudden and la I go concessions without along-sighted calculation, to req rite herself, and compass her objects by other means a ban open war. Her c anduct in yielding what she so lately refused cannot 1 to recognised . with any frank and honest purpose. Her pc) , Hers are strained, but not broken. She has not suffered enough to be cured of her ambition, and con tent to be permitted to live within he r ill- go tt en bounds. She hat ; been baffled in her designs, but not crippled in her fore :es ; and her mortifications are enough to inflame the sof nit of revenge, not sufficient to produce contrition and i e z'orrnation. In a word, the snake is only scotched. Han. is the type of the Muscovite policy. The flag of p: lice marshals the way into an ambuscade. D. Iceit we shall find somewhere : it may be in the negotiations as before ; if not it is reserved for the rela tions 'that will follow. Do not let us be dupes ; let not our c sedulity rise with the stocks in the fool's paradise of th b int,ney market. If we cannot help the turn of event; e if we must accept one form of hostilities instead of an', titer more frank and less dangerous, let us at least under t 'lnd what we have to do with, and be on our guard ,ccordmgly. The play of Who's the Dupe will not , soon played out ; and if there be peace, it will only t rn d the first act of the drama, and many intricate p aswa , re s will precede the denouement giving the triumph Badly-conducted cause. Yet n o thi n g i s more tcoerit'a° b certain in the event of peace, than that the lesson ' preacl to d throughout the country will be confidence in Russia. Wo shall be told to forget. Russia will re inern'eer, TUN SUM LONDONO TITENDA.Y EVENINet t Ja,NUAlty gs, 144§. FALL IN THE GRAMMA/MEM As might have been expected the prospect of peace has had the natural effect upon the Irish corn-markets, and already there has been a seri ous fall in the prices of all kinds of grain. In some instauces the recent conti nental intelligence created a panic among the dealers, and sales upon any terms could hardly be realised. A few extracts from the notes of the leading country mar kets will show the state of feeling : " Cons, Jan. 19.—1 n the corn trade in this city there was an utter cessation of business during the day. At the corn-market yesterday morning business was com pletely checked. Wheat fell 45., and oats and barley 2s. per barrel. There was scarcely any purchases made, and seller', in most instances, stored their corn. "LIMERICK, Jan. 18.—In the grain-market this morn ing, in consequence of the intelligence received yester day, no grain was purchased, with a very partial excep tion, up to 12 o'clock, the buyers awaiting news either in confirmation of or in contradiction to peace by mag netic telegraph. A large quantity of grain appeared in market, but the greater portion of it remained unsold. The quotations for oats; show a decline of from 130. to 100. per stone from Tuesday's prices. Barley, which lately sold at 174., was disposed of at 13d. per stone ; and i n re d w h ea t we noticed a considerable decline, althou g h ver y littl e except an odd load appeared in market. This sudden change in the prices of grain has created much sensation, and large quantities were brought back to th e country unso ld.' In all descriptions of business a great d u l ness —i n d ee d, we ma y a dd, a par tial paralysis —prevail s; while the utmost excitement prevails among all cl asses o f t h e c i t i zens —th e h um bl er classes, in particular,V being o ver j o y e d a t the prospects of a speedy peace. " BELFAST, Jan. 20.—. The corn trade, which had been receding .for severel d ays past, has got a fi na l bar rier placed on its operations by the report of peace. We were prepared for a change iu value and a lessened dis position to purchase, butcertainly could not have anti pated that, even were It certain that all o ur anticipa tions of the cessation of war were fully realised, there should have been such a complete stagnation of trade in breadettiffs.” 4i GALWAY, Jan. 20.--The market this day was un usually large, and abundantly supplied with grain. lip to a late hour few or no sales of any consequence had taken place, both buyers and sellers being utterly puzzled as to prices, caused by the news of Russia hav ing accepted the peace propositions submitted to her. Atter two o'clock some stocks began to cha nge b an d s slowly, but at considerable reductions. Sellers are still holding on, and purchasers are timid. The fact is, we are threatened, with all the reaction of peace p r i ces, without any certainty of peace itself In wheat th ere in . was a reduction of ls. 6 d. per cwt. ; oats . a fall of ld. per stone ; and in barley a decline of ls. bd. per barrel." FINANCES OP VICTORIA.—The revenuo returns of Vic toria for the year ending Sept. 30 have been published. It appears that the total receipts from all sources were 3,384,997/. Deducting from this onelialf the land fund, eay 470,0001., there would remain 2,914,0001. available for the ordinary expenditure of 1855. For the year 1854 the amount was only 2,640,0001. NEW gOALIt DUTIFIS ON WOOL 121 - POliTtD INTO FRANCE. Yesterday's Moniteur contains a degree fixing as follows the scale of customs duties payable on wool imported into France ; the amounts stated are the duty on 100 kilogrammes : Wool 3 imported by sea.—ln grease (en suint, or pelades a la chaux), common qualities, in French ships, from countries out of Europe, sf. ; in the Fame from elsewhere, 10f. ;in foreign vessels, 15f. For fine quali ties, sf. to be added to each of the foregoing three classi fications. Washed wools imported by sea.—Common, in French ships, from countries out of Europe, 10f, ; from else where, 20f. ; in foreign ships, 25f. Fine qualities, in French ships, from countries out of Europe, 22f. 50a. ; from elsewhere, 32f. 50c. ; in foreign ships, 37f. 50e. Wools imported by land.—From contiguous countries the same duties as wool imported in French ships ; from countries not contiguous, the same duties as on wool imported in foreign shipping. Wools worth :it most lf. 100. when in grease, and 3f. when washed, per kilogramme, will alone be considered as common wools. The decrees of May 10, 1854, and April 14, 1355, re lative to the tariff on wools, are and remain unrepealed. In case of dispute between the custom-house autho rities and the parties liable to the said wool duties, the sworn commissioners of the Government will decide in conformity with the regulations laid down i❑ the 19th article of the law of July 27, 1822. The premiums or bounties accorded to the exportation of woollen yarns and tissues are fixed in the following manner : Yarns of pure wool, if scoured : Common, from 21. to 4f. 50c. a kilog. inclusively 40 Middling, from above 4f. 50c. to Of. 50c. inclusively 70 Fine, from above Of. 50c. a kilog. inclusively lOO If not scoured : Common, from lf. 60c. to 31. 60c. a kilog. incl 32 Middling, from above 3f. 60c. to 51. 20c. a kilog.incl 56 Fine, from above sf. 20c. a kilog. inclusively BO Fine threads of wool and silk, containing at least 85 per cent, of wool Threads of wool and solk fIO9R, or other substances containing at least one half wool Tissues, felts, hosiery, and light goods of pure wool : Cloths and kerseymeres, similar tissues and felts : Common, from 4f. to 9f. a kilog. inclusively 7O Middling, from above 91. to 18f. a kilog. inclusively 105 Fine, from above 18f. a kilog. inclusively Light Tissues : Common, from 3f. to Bf. a kilog. inclusively Middling, from 81. to 15f. a kilog. inclusively B5 Fine, from above 15f. a kilog. inclusively Blanketing. and Swauskin : Commcn, from 2f. 50c. to 6f. 50c.akilog. inclusively 45 Middlink, from above 61. 50c. to 10f. a kilog. inclu sively Fine, from above 10f. a kilog. inclusively Oriental Hosiery : Common, from 10t. to 15f. a kilog. inclusively l2O Middling, from above 15f. to 25f. a kilog. inclusively 135 Fine, from above 25f. a kilog. inclusively Ordinary hosiery, fine tapestry, light goods, and carpeting of pure wool : Common, from 3f. to Sf. a kilog. inclusively Fin*, from above Bf. a kilog. inclusively lOO Tissues mixed with wool and other materials : Tissues of cotton or of goat's hair or camel's hair, with or without the addition of silk, where the wool forms more than half of the mixture, and worth at least 3f. a kilogramme .... Tissues of cotton only, the wool not forming more than the half and worth at least 2f. 50c. a kilog. 25 Tissues of wool and silk containing at least 75 per cent. of wool Tissues of wool and silk floss containing at least 6f) per cent, of wool 35 Shawls.—As the tissues of which they consist with addition, for figured shawls, of 30 per cent. if the figur ing covers at least a quarter of the surface of the tissue, and of 60 per cent., if it extends over at least three fourths of this surface, per 100 kilog. Ready made Artioks of clothing (the set of 25 kilog. at the least).—As the tissues of which they consist, making a deduction on account of linings and all ma terials used in the making, but which have no right to the bounty. General Regulation.—The export bounty will only be allowed ou yarn and tissues of wool, pure or mixed, of which the quantities shall call for the awarding of these said bounties to the amount of 18f. at least. _ _ Provisional Regulation.—The bounties awarded above shall nut be applicable until six mouths after the date of the present decree. Penalties with regard to the Bounties.—With respect to drawback and bounties, the penalties announced by the articles 1 (section II.) of the law of July 5, 1836 ; 10, of the law of May 6, 1844 ; 4 and 5, of the law of June 11, 1845, shall be enforced hereafter in every case, where the sworn commissioners of the government shall have found inaccuracy in the declaretions, even when no official report or conservative deed should have been previously drawn up by the Custom-house agents. Nevertheless, when yarns and tissues of wool, pure or mixed, are to be sent as exports, no penalty is to be in flicted when the reductions pronounced by the sworn comaiisaioners or the government shall not lower by more than one class the products the bounty on which is calculated on the weight combined with the value, or when the decisions of the said sworn commissioners shall not show that no bounty at all is due. ATROCIOUS MURDER OF A WOMAN. LivEnron, Jan. 21.—This morning, about half-past 6 o'clock, an atrocious murder was committed in Wolf e st rset, Toxteth-park, by a man named John Williams, alias John Ferguson, alias John Fake, his victim being a woman named Sarah Drummond. The prisoner, whose real name is said to be John Fer gmlon, and who has been long known to the police as a thief and the associate of thieves, went this morning at a te,s , minutes past 6 o'clock, along with the female, to the Authin Castle public-house, in Prince William-street, where they had some ale, and went away. In about 10 minute s aftforwards, the prisoner returned, and said to a man mucked Thomas, " I've cut your wife's— throat," an assert:on which, in the sequel, proved only too true. It appears that Ferguson has cohabited with the wo man Drummond for the last 12 months or better, and that prior to her going to live with the prisoner, in whose mothar's house they both resided, she had lived with the man Thomas,bywhom she had two children. After leaving the Ruthin Castle public-house they went to the prisoner's mother's, where they had some slight altercation, when the prisoner suddenly drew a knife across the woman's throat, inflicting so frightful a wound as to occasion her death in a few minutes. The mother of the prisoner states that when her son and the deceased came in .rhe was in bed and heard some angry wards between them, when she suddenly heard the deceased utter a gurgling sort of sound, as if some thing was in her mouth, and the prisoner said, " Come now, Sal, I'll take thee to the hospital," and they both h-It the house. On getting up the mother saw a large track of blood on the floor and over the threshold of the house, No. 87, Prince William-street, where she lived. Thomas Ryecroft, who resides in Edward-street off Wolfe-street, heard a woman shriek about half-past G this morning, and going in the direction indicated by the sound, he found thi) deceased lying on the footway, with her throat cut, and blood flowing profusely from the wound. _ _ _ _ . Police-inspector Creston had his attention called to a cry of murder in Wolfe-street, and on going forward, found the deceased lying on the footway, and quite dead. 111‘Culloch, the detective officer, after a considerable search, discovered on a dust-heap, a clasp pocket-knife, which was afterwards.; identified ay belonging to the pri soner. It was completely covered wish blood, and no doubt can be entertained that this was the instrument with which the fatal wound was inflicted. The murderer was secured immediately on his stating to the man Thomas that he had cut the poor woman's throat. After he had been conveyed to Bridewell it was discovered that the prisoner had endeavoured to commit suicide by cutting his own throat, and that in his attempt to do so, he inflicted a consiaerable, though not a dan gerous, wound on the right side of his neck. He is a dirty, insignificant-looking wretch, of very low stature and forbidding aspect, and presents altogether a contemptible appearance. As already stated, he is well known to the police as a person of very bad character, and it is believed that the immediate cause of quarrel between him and his wretched victim was an opinion which be entertained that she had betrayed some of his companions into the hands of the police. Three of these companions, named respectively Thomas Garnett, John 11`Bryde, and Robert Roberts, the two first-named being ticket-of-leave men, were this morning committed for trial on a charge of burglary ; and it is rumoured that they were apprehended in conseque nce o f i n f orma ti on given by the deceased. One of tile female companions fif the deceased states distinctly that several days since Drummond said to the prisoner in her hearing, that she would have " them snitched soon." T o w hi c h t h e prisoner replied, "If she did he would cut her throat." The prisoner was brought before the magistrates, at the police court, this forenoon, when the case was heard in a merely formal way, and he was remanded t o a bid e the result of a coroner's inquest, which is fixed to take place to-morrow. A SUSPICIOUS VESSEL.—ST. HELENA, Nov. 22.—The Dido (Brown), which arrived here yesterday from Hon deklip Bay, C a pe of G oo d Hope, bound to Swan sea , re. . Tar RK A LOAD THROUGH ST. JAMES'S - PA .—On Satur. ports that on the second day after leaving Hotidelaip day ~aee - sever al of the residents in the immediate vici• outer roads, being then in about lat. 29 S., she , vas nit , ' o f It. James's-park, including Lord Monteagle, Mr. obased and fired at by a large frigate mounting abou t6O Plaweq, _ Mfr. Keating, M.P., M r . A therton, M.P., Mr. guns. The Dido hoisted the Acwrican ensign, Yvhem Whateles, r, Q.C., Mr. Turner, Mr. Tomlinson, Mr. Tus the frigate kept away after a large ship to the westward V t i n , m,.. 1 ,avie, and Mr. Radcliffe , had an interview by and thick weather coming on nothing could be seen, but:. / a,epointme 'nt with Sir . Geo. Grey at the Rome-office, re the report of cannon was distinctly heard. lative to th e contemplated road across the enclosure of THE ATTEMPT TO POISON A WIFE.—NEWCASTLE-Or f•• St. James' irpork. Mr. Beating stat ed in detail, on the TYNE, Jan, 18.—Thomas Robson who was remand 5.1 part of the gontlemen present, the strong objections on Monday by the magistrates at the Manor poll , ;c- entertain , yl by - the inhabitants in the neighbourhood and court in this town, on a charge of having attempted to the publit i e generally to any encroachment upon the poison his wife, was brought up again to-day, wl ten \ enclosure. of the park. Sir Geo. Grey said, that the Jane Temperley gave her evid e nce, showing amo Live necessity for increased accommodation to the public for this atrocious act. She stated that s he was 27 y ear s I caused h' , the present inconvenient approach to the of age, and resided in the village of Acomb, near flex. park thrc .ugh the Stable-yard bad engaged the at ham. She knew the prisoner by th e name o f Wi iliam tention c f the Government ; that several plans had Wilson. She became acquainted with him about J u ly, been sun Bested at different times, including that to p and continued to keep his company until the fire t wee k which re'ierence had been made, in order to obviate the in November. He aid his addre s se s t o b et b er inconvenience complained of, but that up to the presen sweethe a rt, and expressed a wish to marry 1 p e r g e time no Van had been decided on ; that there would be represented himself as an unmarried man. Hie w if e full opportunity given fur the discussion of those plans , came to Acomb, and the acquaintance then She had no more interviews with him aftand ample time for objecting to any of them ; and that the preparation of the plans did not imply any foregone came to Acomb. The prisoner was commi ' l. 11." wife. 1 c inclusion on the part of the Government. The geutle ;tea for tria at the assizes, charged with administering to bis wife with a view to kill her, sugar of lead withdrew broke off. INSTITUTION OF CITIIi ENGINEERS. At a meeting of this society, Mr. Robert Stephenson, M.P., president, iu the chair, The paper read was, "On the relative proportions of the top, bottom, and middle webs of Iron Girders and Tubes," by gr. J. M. 'Heppe!, M. Inst. C.E. The object of the paper was the inveatigation of the forces to be re sisted by the, middle webs of girdere. • I'he first part of the , inquiry had reference to the cese of a plat of metal, subjected to the action of various direct forces, some . compressile and others tensile— simul taneously applied to it, in 'different directions, and it was shown that these might always be resolved into two principal resultants, which were in var:ably at right angles to each other, and by which the applied forces, however numerous, might be con ceived to be replaced—the condition of the plate being absolutely the same, whether considered as subject to the forces originally applied, or to their two principal resultants. The next point was the consideration of the. condition of a rectangular plate, he d in equilibrium by lateral forces, applied in couples uniformly distributed along its sides, and it wasshown that in this case also there were two principal resultants, one tensile and the other compreseile ; that these two were of equal tensity at right angles to each other, and at angles of 43 deee with the ap- ' plied forces. Moreover that their intensity was exactly equalto that of thebo f a applied girder exposed t eralfcr to ces a . It l w o s d howngiven ivtheiatt the middle point, was exactly in the condition of the plate last con sidered, and a rule for the computation of loads of its thickness was arrived at. Other cases of the distribu tion of loads, both fixed and movable, were then consi dered, and rules for the corresponding thickness deduced. The effect of the horizontal strains to which the middle web was subject was then considered, and an investiga tion was made of the magnitude and direction of the re sultants, arising from their composition with the dia gonal forces before considered. Finally the increase to be made in the thickness of the middle web, beyond that already arrived at, in order to enable it to deal with these horizontal and diagonal strains, together, was investigated, and a rule was deduced for its definite determination. The results arrived at were briefly these :—Four different cases of distribution of the load being considered, and in the first instance the horizon tal forces being left out of consideration, and the thick• nesses determined with reference, to the diagonal forces only. These four cases were :-1. That in which the load was fixed and central ; 2. That in which a load concentrated on a point moved along from one end of the beam to the other—as the case of a concentrated rolling lea.] ; 3. That in which the load was fixed and uniformly distributed ; 4. That in which a load uniformly distributed was drawn 'on from one end, or that of a distributed rolling load. It was then shown that in order to enable the middle web to deal with the diagonal strains, its thickness should be determined by the following methods:— In the first case, the fixed central load, by waking; it of uniform thick ness, and such that its horizontal section was. equal in area to the central vertical sections. In the other three cases, the thickness 'of the middle web, at the extremities, was twice that determined as above. In all of them it diminished towards the centre, but in each case accord ing to a different law. In the second care—the concen trated rolling load—the thickness varies as the distance from the more remote extremity. In the third case—the distributed fixed load—the thickness varied as the distance from the centre. In the fourth case—the distributed roll ing load—the thickness varied as the square of the dis tance from the more remote extremity. The cases of combinations of these kinds of loads was then considered, and it was shown that by dividing the central sec tion into portions, proportioned to the amount of each kind, and thence determining the thicknesses from the middle web for each kind, according to its own law—the sums of the thicknesses so determined would give those necessary for dealing with the com pound load. The effect of the horizontal forces was next considered, and two ca- es were taken—first, that in which the section of the beam diminished from the centre towards the extremities, in the ratio of the rectangle of the segments of the length—in which else the horizontal forces were constant, or nearly so, throughout. In this case it was shown that the thicknesses as before deter mined, with reference to the diagonal forces alone, should be trebled, in order to at them to resist the re sultants arising from their composition with the horizon tal forces ; and, as in all beams where anv variation what ever was made iu the vertical section, it did or should ap proximate to the above law. It was considered that this rule should be taken as applicable to the beams or variable section. For beams of uniform section, it was shown that the thickness of the middle web should be such, that the horizontal section should be three times the vertical area. The stiffening of the sides was then considered. It was argued that as the efficiency of stiffening must, in some way, depend on the amount of area, compared with the amount of support applied to it, it might reasonably be supposed to be proportion ate to a line which would form a web to the rectified periphery—a rectangle equal to the area to be supported —which line (borrowing a phrase from hydraulics) might be called " its mean radius." Reasons were then ad duced for believing that stiffening pieces might with safety be so distributed as to leave the mean radius of the included epaces equal to seventy times the thick ness of the plate, although in most early structures it would be found to be much less than what would result from such a calculation. - It was announced that the following paper would be read at the meeting of Tuesday, January 22d, " On the past and present Condition of the River Thames," by Mr. H. Robinson, Assoc. Inst. C.E., PEERAGES FOR LIFE. Most of our readers have, no doubt, observed in the Gazette the announcement that the Queen has been pleased to raise the Right HOll. Sir James Parke to the dignity of a baron of the United Kingdom, for the term of his natural life, by the style of Baron Wensleydale. The unusual wording of this patent, though it has as yet attracted but little attention, betokens an important novelty in the exercise of the Queen's prerogative. It is, in fact, the creation of a peerage for life, without, as hitherto, a remainder to the belts male of the body. The dignity will therefore become extinct on the death of Lord Wensleydale, in the event of his leaving male issue. There can be no doubt that in thus limiting the dignity her Majesty has only exercised her prero gative according to precedent, though we have to look back many centuries for such a precedent. Lord Coke says that the King may create a man or woman noble for life, but not for years, because it might go to executors or admiuistratois ; and he gives as an instance that Richard 11. created Robert de Vere Mar quis of Dublin for life. Again, Henry IV. created Thomas Beaufort, Earl of Dorset, Duke of Exeter with• out any limitation, from which Dogdale concludes that he was only tenant for life of that dignity. Henry VI. created Sir John Cornwall, who was married to one of the Plantagenets, Baron Fannon fur life ; and in later times James I. created Lady Margaret Compton, who was mother of Buckiugham, Countess of Buckingham for her life. In more recent times there are several in stances of dignities granted to a person for life with a remainder over ; the latest, we believe, is that of the Marquis of Londonderry, viho was created Earl Vane for life, with remainder to the issue of his second wife. Of the law on the subject, therefore, there can be no doubt. To a mac of Lord Wensleydale's age, and without a son to inherit the title, it can signify little whether the peerage be granted to him in the usual manner or not, for the probabilities would be strongly in favour of its being extinct in any case ; but, viewed as a precedent, this creation may assume a far more important aspect, and we theref 're presume that it is not without mature deliberation that her Majesty's Ministers have recom mended to her this exercise of her prerogative. In the event of the precedent being followed op it is worth while to consider what will be its effect on the august body which it relates to. The hereditary transmission of dignities has hitherto been considered one of the dearest privileges of the House of Peers, and will, doubtless, not be discontinued in future creations without a remonstrance from that body. it is at once coeval with and the excuse for pri mogeniture and all those family arrangements by which the wealth of the family is centred in the eldest son. Indeed property is an essential qualification to an here ditary Upper House, and so much so that no one can doubt that the House of Lords would cease to exist if its members were to lose their reputation for wealth, and the influence which they derive from it. In feudal times this was a matter of more iinportance even than now, and dignities were not mere:y personal distinctions, but annexed to lande, so that in parting with the lands the feudal baron parted with the dignities that appertained to them. Thus we read of a certain Brian Baron Fitzeouut, in the year 1141, whose two son , , being lepers, and be and his wife betaking themselves to a religious course of life, the king seized on his barony, and thereby extinguished the dignity ; and, again, an unfortunate Duke of Bedford was deprived of his title in Henry VlL's time on ac count of his poverty. But, as these modes of extin guishing peerages have fallen into abeyance, there arises this difficulty—that, in creating a peer, the country must either give au apanage suitable to the title, as it has in many cases done, or else its choice must he limited either to men of fortune large enough to endow a peerage for their successor, or to men who are not likely, from the circumstances of their age, to leave an heir to the title. Henceforward there need be no such difficulty, and the only danger we can foresee to the Rouse of Peers is that the peers for life—of whom , necessarily, a large number may be appointed—will be considered the more honourable and influential part of the house be all who do not think that qualities of mind are hereditary as well as rank and wealth. It may per haps result that it will be necessary for the house to invent some mode of weeding itself of some of its more useless members—its ifiibeeilli's and mattectie se jets —by treating them, it may be, in the same way that the Lisle and Scotch peers were treated at the un i on of , those kingdoms. There is no measure which is more likely to raise the influence of the upper hou-e in the questions of the da - y, or to restore the equilibrium which a further extension of the suffrage in the elections for the lower house is likely to disturb. QUEER DECISION. -At Castle Eden, the other day, in au assault cas e, the Rev. Mr. Park, inannouncing the decision of the bench, addressed the defendant in the to :lowing manner :—As the assault is not proved we will dismiss the case on your paying the costs, but if you refuse to do so, then we shall fine you for the as sault !—Darlingtoit and Stockton Times. Naval and Military Intelligence. A Malta letter, iof the 16th inst., communicates the fol owing naval and military movements : "Her Majesty's steam-transport Buffalo arrived from Gibraltar on the 9th, and left for Balaklava on the 12th. 'Tile Thames steam•transport arrived from Portsmouth on the 9th, bringing Majors Adams and Talbot, Captain Diezelsky, 9 other officers and 230 non-commissioned officers and privates of the 2 , 1 . and: - 34 Regiments of the Foreign Legion ; Capt. M`Genery,- Lients. Cator and Murphy ; Cornet Bend, and 198 non-commissioned officers and privates of the Land Transport Corps ; Dr. Doherty, Dr. Smith, Surgeon Connell, the Rev. C. T. Hort, and Mr. Hamilton Geary. She left for Balaklava on the 10th, conveying, likewise, Dr. Blake, 55th ; As sistant-Surgeon Gibanet, and 15 non-commissioned offi cers and privates of various regiments. " The Imperador steam-transport, with four horses and stores, and having on board Lieut.-Col. Cameron,- Major von Radowitz, 34 other officers, and 811 non-com ruissioned officers and privates of the 3d Regiment of the • Foreign Legion, left for Scutari on the 9th. "The Arabia sailing transport left for Balaklava on the 9th. "The Madagascar steam-transport arrived from Barce lona on the 10th, and left for CJustautinople on the 11th. " tier Majesty's steam-transport Assistance arrived from Valencia on the 13th. " Her Majesty's steam line-of-battle-ship Hannibal, bearing the flag of Rear-Admiral Sir Houston Stewart, K C. 8., and the St. Jean d'Acre, arrived from Corfu on the 12th, in company with the Sidon steam-frigate, from the same port, and the Terrible steam-frigate, from the Pirtens. " Her Majesty's steam-corvette arrived from Syra and the Pirwus on the 14th. " The Resolute and the Lord Raglan steam-transports arrived on the 9th from Constantinople, the former bringing Dr. Dees for Malta, Mr. Smith fur Gibraltar, and Majors Briggs and Wroineberger, Captain and Mrs. Brown, Dr. Burch, and the Rev. and Mrs. Campbell. The Lord Raglan left for Deptford on the 20th. " The Holyrood steam-transport arrived from Con stantinople on the 9th, and left on the 10th for Genoa. The Resolute left for Spithead on the 12th. "The Foyle steam-transport arrived from Constanti nople on the 12th, and left the same day for Spithead. " The Hope steam-transport arrived on the 13th, and OD the same day the Golden Queen steam-transport, both from Constantinople. "The Bahiana steam-transport arrived from Balaklava on the 14th, bringing for Malta Captain Drought, 50th ; Major Lewis, 3d ; Major Creay, Land Transport Corps; Quartermaster Make, 68th Lieut. Chanters, 57th ; Capt. Gamble, 4th, and Mr. Campbell ; and for England Quartermaster Joyce, Dr. Gilbor, 89th ; Rev. Mr. Gil borne, Lieut. Johnstone, 89th ; Major Armstrong, Lieut, March, R.M., Lieut. Lyons, Captain Pigott, Lieut.- Colonel Seagram, 17th ; Lieut. Lord Carrick, Grena dier Guards ; Capt. Percy, 9th ; Col. Fardella, Land Transport Corps ; Dr. Atkin, Assistant Commissary- General Sundy, Rev. H. P. Wright, Surgeon Doyle, Messrs. Conway, Hail, Parr, and Taylor, 5 serjeants and 7 privates, R.M., 9 officers' servants, 1 blacksmith, 7 men of the Army Works Corps, 1 private of the 44th, 1 artilleryman and 1 seaman. " The Radius and Jane Morrison sailing transports arrived on the 14th from Constantinople. " The Esseri Hairi Ottoman war steamer • arrived on the 15th from Tripoli, after landing there a regiment of Albanians to reinforce the garrison. "The Peninsula steam-transport left on the 9th for Spithead. " The Herefordshire sailing transport left on the 10th for Gibraltar, and on the 12th the East Anglian screw steam►-transport for the same port. " Her 'Majesty's stearn-transport Urgent left for Eng land on the 12th, and the Algiers screw ehip-of-the-line for Plymouth, on the 12th. "Her Majest)'s steam-sloop Triton arrived on the Bth from Corfu and Zante. " The Alms, Peninsular and Oriental Campany's steam-eacket, arrived,from Alexandria on the 9th with the heavy India maile, and lett for Southampton on the 10th, having on board Col. aid Mrs. Baldock, Col. Mil- Major Mears, Lieuts. Downing and Warrand, Dr. Webb, and Surgeon Rolfe. " The Vectis, belonging to the same company, which arrived from Alexandria on the night of the Bth, brought among other passengers for Malta Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis,' Bart., returning, front Bombay ; Lieutenants Clark, Gordon, Hickman, and M`Naughton, Captains Brace and Sweet, Dr. Chohnely, and the Rev. T. Smith, and left fur Marseilles late on the same night. g' The Vatican, French postal steam-packet, left for the ports of Italy and Marseilles on the 10th. "The Lebanon steamer arrived from Alexandria on the Och, with wheat and cotton, and left for .Liverpool on the 10th. "The British Queen steamer arrived on the 10th from Smyrna, anddeft for Liverpool on the 11th. "The schoonet-yacht. St. Ursula sailed on the 10th for Alexandria. " The schooner-yacht Maria arrivel on the 12th from Syracuse. "The African steamer, from Liverpool, arrived on the 14th, after a very boist?rous passage, and leaves for Syra and Constantinople oa the 16th. She brings, pas senger, Captain Lyons. "The Sardinian steamer Conte di Cavour, in the French transport service, left on the 10th for Constan tinople. " The Carmel, French postal steamer, arrived on the Bth from Constantinople, Smyrna, and Syra, bringing, among other passengers for Malta, Captains Lindsay and Troll, and, for Marseilles, Captain Colborne, Cap tain Pitman, Captain Forbes, Captain Whithead, Lieut. Beetham, General Smith, and 123 French military in valids, and 11 seamen. This vessel left for Marseilles on the 96." The screw steam block-ship Exmouth, 90, Captain H. V. Hall, went from Hamoaze into Plymouth Sauna on Saturday. The screw steam-ship Euryalus, 50, Capt. Ramsay, was placed in the basin-dock at Devonport on Saturday. The screw steam-frigate Cossack, 20, Captain J. if. Cockburn, having been refitted, was placed in her sail ing moorings in Hamoaze on Saturday. The steam block-frigate Forth is appointed to be taken out of dock at Devonport and masted to-day. The frigate Cambria is ordered to be fitted. at Devon- port as a rocket-ship. The sailing-transport Bucephalus, No. 127, Captain Pepercorn, arrived on Sunday morning at Woolwich with trophies from Belaklava, which port she left on the 13th of Nov., having been 9 weeks on her voyage home. She had to beat up against contrary winds the whole dis tance, until reaching the Channel. The passengers in the Bucephalus were, Major Lukin, R.A., one serjeant, and 24 non-commissioned officers and privates of the Royal Artillery, in charge of the cargo, which consisted of siege and field pieces of various sizes, and mortars, rocket tubes, limbers, and ammunition carliagee, as well as seven bells taken from Sebastopol after the surrender of the place. Although the voyage of the Bucephalus was an un usually long one, there did not occur a single cage of sickness on board, with the exception of a gunner of the Artillery, who at the time of his embarkation was suffer ing from diarrhoea and ague. These gallant men were landed at the Arsenal-wharf, Woolwich, yesterday morn ing, where the band of the corps assembled to esc , rt them to the barracks. The landing-place and gates were crowded with spectators awl friends, and the men were received with hearty cheers. Major Lukin and his breve comrades in arms were all decorated with one or more medals at their breasts, and distinguished them selves at Alma, Belaklava. and Inkerman. Lieutenant Surname, 4Sth Regiment, arrived at Woolwich yesterday morning. in charge of 17 invalided gunners, and one non-commissioned officer of the Royal Artillery, being a portion of thelso invalids of the various regiments which came home from Constantinople by the transport Ripon. Immediately on arrival at head-quar ters, they were marched to the garrison hospital in de tachments, and were medically inspected previously to being admitted to barracks. The screw-transport No. 151, Cumberland, arrived off Woolwich Arsenal on Sunday, and is to discharge her cargo of returned stores, shot, &c., from the East. A number of schooners and other craft have:airived at Woolwich Arsenal-wharf since Saturday, and are dis charging large cargoes of shot from the Scotch foun dries. Great activity continues to prevail in the whole of the departments there. The building of the paper factory is progressing rapidly, and it has received a portion of the machinery. The non-commissioned officers and soon of the 57th Regt. subscribed their working-pay from Oct., 1854, to Feb., 1855, to create a fund for the benefit of the widows and orphans of soldiers of the regiment who died in the Crimea. In pursuance of this kind and considerate act, we are requested to announce that the widows whose names follow may each receive 31 . on a pp lication o th e officer commanding the depot of the 57th Foot at irr Barracks:—Mrs. Currant, Mrs. Ky le, Mrs. Rya . n, M l3 rs. Greening, Mrs. Dray, Mrs. Donnelly, Mrs. Nell, Mrs. Hanna, Mrs. Bryan, Mrs. Hodges, Mrs. Kemplin, Mrs. Chipley, and Mrs. Sanderson. A warrant has been issued from the office of the Di re ctor-General stating that the pay of all acting as sistant -surgeons, which has hitherto been 10s. a -d ay , i s to be increased to 11s. 6d., and that the order for the sum of 401., which was to have been given t o eac h at the end of two y ears' service, is forthwith t o b e cance ll ed, in consideratio n of such increased pay. By the former warrant the 401. was only to have been given to such as had R eseed some of their time in foreign service, but tte present warrant made no distinction. it is the intention of the authorities of the War De partmerit to raise a company of the Royal Sappers and Miners and equip them as d r i vers f or th e serv i ce o f that corps when in the field, so that when any movement takes place the whole of the stores belonging to that branch of the serv i ce , suc h as th e p on t o on bridges and !ritrenching tools, may be conveyed with them, it hav ing been found, when the troops landed in the Crimea, that horses and carriages could not be obtained for that purpose. To make preparation for this additional force the Artillery stables on the north side of the barracks at Chatham will undergo great alterations. Messrs. Palmer Brothers, iron shipbuilders at Jarrow, on the Tyne, are engaged in building a floating battery, of exactly similar dimensions-and form to that building by Mr. Napier, of Glasgow. Mr. Clark, of the Elswiek Foundry, Newcastle-on- Tyne, -tome time ago received an order for the construc tion of long-range mortars, one of which has just beri completer?. The inner diameter is 13 inches, and its weight five tons. Capt. J. Buckley, late Berrackmaster of Devonport, has joined at Chatham, and will commence his duties from this date as Berrackmaster at such station. The following appointments were made yesterday at he Admiralty : The annexed Lieutenants have been appointed to the command of gun-boats :—Lieut. H. B. Woollcombe to the Whiting ; Lieut. C. G. Nelson, to the Forward ; Lieut, IL L. Round, to the relter ; Lieut. W. F. Lee, G - hopper /I to O ran • . . StAO9l, to the Tortoise ; Rev. C. T. Comber, Chaplain, to the Centurion ; Rev. E. H. Fothcrgill, Chaplain, to the Imperieuso ; Rev. E. B. Barnes, Chaplain, to the Retri bution Rev. F. Gibbens, Chaplain, to the Havanhah ; the Rev. C. B. Haslewood, Chaplain, to the Pearl,; J. H. Bond, Naval Instructor, to the Cre s sy ; Alfreel,Tur mine, Naval Instructor, to the Centurion son, Acting Clerk, to the Exmouth. - - THE MILITIA. About 20 men of the North Durham Regiment •f Militia, now stationed at Burnley, have volunteered into the 15th Hussars, a troop of which vocUpies "the lams barracks with thS militia. THE AMERICAN ARCTIC EXPEDITION. - Sir Elward Belcher appears to have been somewhat premature, as far as order of publication is concerned. is giving the title of the " Last of the Arctic :Voyages " to 'his two recent volumes. Dr. Rine's eery; "r;miaikkable expedition up Smith's Sound will, no joiiht furnish . an , other tale of romantic adventure and hardship io these iey'regions. It will he remembered that, iu the summer of 1852 Cmunander Ingletield, having failed iu dis covering any traces of Sir John Franklin io Wolsteu hohne Sound, and seeing the water before him clear of ice, made a bold dash np Smith's Sound. On the 27th of August, at noon, the Isabel had reached 78 deg. 28 min. N. At this point this enterprising young officer could discern no obstacle to his northerly progress — nothing was before him but loose ice. A contrary breeze, however, which soon freshened up into a contrary gale, sprang up, and the Isabel was fairly driven to the south ward.- We note these facts the more particularly as these very waters were the scene of Dr. Kane's recent exploits in the United States' brig Advance. That gen tleman left New' York on the 30th of May, 1850, and on the 7th of August of the same year passed the head• land of Smith's Sound. He penetrated beyond the highest point attained by Captain Inglefield, and the same spectacle was presented to his eye which his-pre decessor bad beheld. Open water was before him. Dr. Kane might have used the very language em ployed by Captain Inglefield on the former occasion to express his own feelings. "I involuntarily ex claimed," wrote Captain Inglefield on entering the Sound, " that thin must lead to the great Polynia of the Russians, and as the eye streamed forward into the clear expanse of apparently open water, which now occupied from seven to eight points of the compass due north of our position, I could not but admit to my mind that a great sea was beyond." Dr. Kane's onward progress was, however, retarded by a bolt of heavy stream ice, followed by a,drifting pack. His object, of course, was to push through the pack, but at 78 deg. 45 min. the drifting ice caught the brig, and drove her on to the Greenland ceast. By great efforts, on the 29th of August he regained his former position, and then started with boat and sledge to select a fitting sp for a winter encampment. The adventurers reached a cape 1,100 feet in height, and from this spot gazed around them upon the awful solitudes of the Polar Sea. There was a dark glacier, which terminated the view on the Green land side. Huge *bergs were driving hither and thither in the channel, a bile far, far away to the northward, a frozen sea, like the sea Which Parry travelled upon dur ing his advance from Spitzbergen, was all that could be seen. At a spot called Rensellaer Harbour, amid a group of rocky islets, the brig was frozen in, and imme diately parties were despatched in various directions. In this way the Greenland coast was followed northerly and easterly for 125 miles, when all thought of further discovery for that season was stopped by the disappear ance of the -un. : For 120 days the luminary remained be'ow the horizon; and the adventurers were left to the unutterable dreariness of an Arctic winter. The nature and extent of the hard6hips to which they were exposed may be inferred from a fe b of the scientific phenomena mentioned by Dr. Kane. The mean tempe rature of the spot selected for the winter encampment appeared to he 20 deg. lower than the mean temperature of Melville Island, and we know the terrible intensity of the cold at that place. The lowest point registered on the thermometers was 70 deg. of Fahrenheit, and that was in February. Chloroform froze, essential oils be came solid and liquid, and on the 24th of Feb., writes Dr. Kane, " chlorlc ether was congealed, for the first time, by natural temperature." It is satisfactory to find that the great curse of Arctic navieation- as it was in former days the curse of navigation generally—the scurvy, was by these adventurers entirely conquered. This, however, was replacer' by a particular type of seasinodic disease which appears to have occasioned great suffering and annoyance. The dogs were attacked, and no fewer . than 57 of these useful animals perished with every symptom of hydrophobia. Extreme cold had produced the effect:of extreme heat. The winter, how ever, was passed in one fashion or another, and with returning spring travelling , parties were arranged, and expeditions organised. The most important of thes e was pushed - forward in -7 1E6' . nnitherly direction. The result is noted by Doctor Kane in the following words " Open water washed the shores of the channel, and terminated in a sea, the heavy surf of which checked all further progress." The furthest point attained was a cape in lat. 81 deg. 22 min. N., and long. 65 deg. 35 min. W. Parry's fberthest point when he conducted his memorable sledge-boat expedition from Spitzbergn was 82 deg. 40-Min. 23 sec. N., in long. 19 deg. 25 min. E. No succe. , sor on the path of. Arctic adventure has yet snatched his chaplet from the brow of that great navigator. Parry is still the champion of the North. It was gracefully done on the part of Dr. Kane, that he named the most distant mountain which they could discern wtth their instruments after Sir E. Parry. This mountain lies, by estimate, in lat. 82 deg. SO min. N., and was only discerned, not visited. Winter after winter, passed away in such occupations, and it was not until the summer of 1354 that Dr. Kane finally determined upen retracing his steps. It was necessary to abandon the good ship which had so long been their home, and on thee 6th of August in the year 1854 the voyagers reachedlhe Danish settlement of Uperuavik, 83 days after leaving their shirr. - Such appear to be, in as succinct a form as we can give them, the principal facts of this remarkable expedition, in which great dan gers were confronted with singular courage, great hard ships endured with unflinching fortitude, and great suc cess achieved by a combination of all the qualities which have distinguished the most daring among Arctic voya gers. If we are next to say what advantage has resulted to the world from this achievement, we are com pelled to say that the result does not appear commen surate with the dangers incurred. The voyage was, however, undertaken, like so many others, for the purpose of seeking for traces of Sir .T. Franklin and his ill-fated companions. We now know that they are not to be looked for in this or in any other direction. Dr. Kane, however, was as ignorant as the rest?! of the world upon this point when he threw himself into the ice upon his philanthropic errand. All honour to him, thenj for his caurage and perseverance' It was no fault of his that he was not the roan destined to discover the melancholy relics which have at length changed con• jecture into certainty as far as Franklin is concerned. If we look at the result of the expedition from other points of view, we confess ourselves wholly unable to discover what advantage will result to the world from the confir mation of Capt. Inglefield's discoveries up Smith Sound. Scientific men, who make such pursuits their business, may, no doubt, be able to indicate some slight advan tages to the hydrographer and natural philosopher as the consequence of Dr. Kaa'a voyage ; but are these at all sufficient to eounterbalance the risks incurred and the perils run by men of such hardihood and note ? How are we benefited if at a future day we even receive plenary proof that there is a Polar Sea within 60 deg. N. ? If it exists, can it he navigated ? Hitherto all attempts to penetrate its secrets have just sufficed to bring the ex plorers upon the fringes of t'lis hypothetical sea. One adventurer may advance a few minutes more north than his predecessors, but what then ? All we know as .cer tainty is, that within the circle of SO deg. N. there is a region which, under no appreciable circumstances, cum ever be turned to account by man. It ma y contain a little more rock, or a little more water, but water and rock in such latitudes aro alike useless to the human GOVERNMENT CARE OF LITERARY MEN. the Queen, t o appo i nt and bestow Go- Let those whose duty it is, in the name of her gra ns on men w h o h ave d eserve d we ll o f i i h : e ru i ns r in c e o ln u atj n e t ; r t y eY" , s r i( !juice—let them triumph, carouse, and . be merry— Joseph Hayd n di e d on Thursday night, and 251. per annum is saved l If, in his physical pain, his anguish, misery, and destitution, he could have been brought to learn bow gratefUl the coantry was for his eerviees—how it appreciated his energetic exertions— how it rewarded his long suffei big, toil, and trouble— he must have had a happy reflection before he breathed his last. If his family around him, who have been, we are told, literally starving, could have made him compl- • head how their future welfare was ensured by the pen sion of is 4d per day, his heavy heart must truly have been cheered, and his care for their fate lightened. And this is the reward of general usefulness in England — a laud boasting, right and left, far and near, of its free in stitutions, its growing wealth, its unswerving liberty and liberality. The staunch, stiff, true disciples and children of J ohu Bull turn up their virtuous noses at the lightness, vivacity, and what they are pleased to call immorality of our French neighbours and Allies, but we can d e fy them to point out a single instance in which a man who has passed an honourable career in the pursuit of lite. rature and art has in France bee n left in his misery to starve and die. If literary nain see that the Government , and the country care not a jot for their suffering, why do they not render themselves independent of such i u . gratitude, by forming an inetitution or society, which might afford relief to the dietreef , ed and indigent We heard a good deal at one time of th e dramatic perform ances,, p ro vincial and metropo litan of a body of gentle menguild of literature and art ; a considerable w sideirsablel'to amountofestablii 4 s money l was realised, but of what has become of that atnount the public is not informed, If the project cannot be cat feed out, why not employ the money j udiciously to relieve Kuck' ae that of the a'JCIVII unfortunate man. If teas such as those of Joseph Haydn's death be the fruits of our civilisation and intel ligence, by all means let us go back a century—to a ti m e when, if there was more vice amongst the, higher classes, which we doubt, there were fewer false pretestations of virtue, and less cant of charity.-- Stenclttg Tinted. An order arrived at Chatham yesterday from the Horse Guards that the whcle of the men of the depot of the 12. th Regiment under 1, years' service are to Lei Inspected, previously to their embarkation for ..kustraliv b. to join the head-quarters of their corps. ,'~.