The Sun. — London, England, 1856-04-28 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANZ, Lessee, *Nit. K. T. Smith. ENGLISH OPERA. THIS EVENING will be ilroduccd LUCIA DI LuLtERMOOR. To con_lude with THE YANKEE HOUSEKEEPER. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYVA.REF.T. radar the Management of Mr. Bucket One. THIS EVENING, THE EVIL GENIUS. Followed by EL GA.MBITAMO ; or, The Mexican Goldseeker. Xa which PEREA. NENA and the Spanish Dancers will appear. After which, Gat ISIIA~V , BAGSFIA.W, AND BRADSHAW. To conclude with THE POSTMAN'S KNOCK. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFOTtD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CuanvEs SEAN. THIS EVENING, For the Benefit of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rean. THE VICTOR VANQUISHED. To conclude with THE WINTER'S TALE. Principal characters by Mr. and Ars. C. Yean. ROYAL THEATRE ADELPEIL Propriator and Manager, Mr. B. Webster. Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING. LIKE AND UNLIKE. gown. B. Webster, Wright, P. Raiford, C. Selby, Garden Madame Celeste, Miss Wyndham. After which, URGENT PRIVATE AFFAIRS. To conclude with HOW'S TOUR UNCLE ? ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager. Mr. Alfred Wigan. THIS EVENING STILL WATERS RUN DEEP. After which will be produced a New and douhly-moral, though ocessively old, Melodramatic Fairy Extravaganza, entitled TFIE DISCREET PRINCESS; or, the Three Glass Distaffs. which Messrs. Emery, F. Robson, H. Cooper, Miss Marston, end Miss Maskell will appear. ROYAL SURREY THEATRE. Lessees, Means. Shepherd and Creswtek. THIS EVENING, Will be performed a new Drama, entitled HOW WE LIVE IN THE WORLD OF LONDON. Followed by SARAH'S YOUNG MAN. To conclude with THE TWO POI: I'S. ASTLEY'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. Wra. Cooke. THIS EVENING, The Grand Spectacle, Lord Byron's MAZE PP A. and the WILD ITORSE,in which the whole of Mr. W. Cooke's highly-trained lwrses will appear. After which, the EQUE'STRIAN SCENES in the CIRCLE. Miss Kate Cooke en her mil-white charger, Snowdrop, in her elegant Act of Mgnege de la Haute Ecole. To conclude with ENGLAND'S HARVEST HOME and NATIO NAL STEEPLECHASE. Immense preparations are in progress for Whit-Monday. Box-office open fr)m E ev..n ti'l Fon'. Sta4e Manager, Mr. W. West. Equestrian Director, Mr. W. Co )ke, jun. EMMA STANLEY'S "SEVEN AGES OF WOMA.N.". Evening performances as xsual, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays ; And Fridays, at It o'clock. Admission—Back Seats, Is.; Centre Seats, 25.; Stalls, 3s. SAINT MARTIN'S HALL, Long-acre. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDaE. Tan DAY—Morn. 2 min. aft. 7—Evening 44 niin.aft. 7 T 1-MoßßOw—,Morn. 25 min. aft. 8 —Evening 12 lain. aft. 9 THE WEATHER—SUN OFFICE, APRIL 27. THERMOMETER, IN THE SFIADR. 61—highest since noon yesterday. 46 —lowest this morning and during the night. 45 —this day at noon, BAROIRTZR, 29'47. WIND, N.E.—Fresh, with very dull, rainy weather. It rained heavily this morning, and indeed all day up to nightfall. APRIL 28. 4B—highest since noon yesterday. 44—lowest this morning and during the night. 51 —this day at noon. 3AROM ersu-29 65—rising. • WIND, N.N.E.— Light, with fine, sunshiny, cold weather. " 31.131 0 f(031 LONDON, MONDAY, APRIL 28, 1856. "The Precious Treaty" has been duly ratified in all its details. At three p.m. yesterday, a day later than the time limited by the Plenipoten tiaries, the Peace ' was formally confirmed, and will this day be officially communicated to the Senate and Legislative Body. We may assume that it will also be announced in both Houses of Parliament, and that the terms which, with the exception of four missing Articles, were on Wed nesday published in the daily journals, will 'at length be made known to the Hereditary and Representative branches of the Legislature. Even of those articles the substance has already been ascertained, so that the intelligence will have lost the charm of novelty ; and, as we already stated, those who should have been the first to obtain authentic information will be the last to receive it. It is for the parties themselves to show whether they will tamely submit to this gross and unwarrantable insult ? Whether they will assent to this abdication of their constitu tional functions, or manifest the well-founded in• dignation which such an unwarrantable coarse has eminently merited ? We may now refer to the missing Articles, having already noticed the other points. They are not, we regret to say, of such a nature as to create exultation in English hearts, or to enable the Chancellor of the Exchequer to afford relief to the overburdened tax-payers, by modify ing or reducing the Income Tax, or striking off some of the impolitic and onerous additions to the indirect taxation of the country. They do not give the• slightest hint respecting. a Russia in demnity for the expenses of the War, even to the extent of paying for the expenses of the Naval Review, or even the miserable and parsimonious arrangements made for the entertainment of Noble Lords and Honourable Gentlemen. The 'Ts. 6d. a head contracted to be paid to the purveyor will not come from the Russian Treasury, or the 8,0001. to be expended (without the assent of the guardians of the public purse) for the quasi re joicings--" rejoicings !" GOD save the mark—for the most lame and impotent conclusion of the War. N., the pocket as well as the pride and substantial power of Russia has been carefully preserved. Poor JOHN BULL has to pay for all, and his only gain in this truly German arraigement . is "his un• diminished power and resources !" The Treaty is silent on this essential point, and the People •are therefore comparatively indifferent on the other matters contained in that which they feel will be at best neither more nor less than an armed truce of brief duration. The substance of the missing Articles, 5 to 8, are asserted at Berlin, where the national anxiety to obtain full information is apparently more thought of than in England, to be as follows—. Vi :- 64 An amnesty for compromised subjects (01 Russia ?). " The admission of the Ottoman Porte into the Concert of European States. " The guarantee of the independence and in tegrity of the Ottoman empire. " In differences between the Putt° and the other contracting Power (Russia ?), should the other Powers intervene, an additional article pro vides that the D trdanelles shill not be closed for ships introducing troops." These are well enough in their way ; but we should like to know what guarantee there will be for the bona fides of the so-called amnesty. Will the victims who have already been torn from their homes and families, and banished to the in hospitable interior, be restored to their afflicted f r i ends, w ith ample compeesation for their suffer ings t Will those who have perished on the scaffold or by the fusillade, who have writhed beneath the , knout, be restored to life or health ? How can it be ascertained that there is a real amnesty, while parties may -be executed or expatriated by thou sands and tens of thousands, without any cause being assigned for the punishment ? It is ob vious that there can be no adequate security for these unfortunate persons, who may have bitter cause to deplore their intercourse with the troops or seamen of the Allied Powers. It was thoroughly understood that the Ottoman Empire was to be admitted into the European system and its independence and integrity guaranteed. There is, therefore, nothing in these provisions to render the Treaty more satisfactory, and the stipulation that in caseof differences between . the Porte and Russia the Dardanelles might be opened for the admis sion of vessels bearing troops, was one that could not possibly have been overlooked by any per sons assuming the diplomatic character. We must, thereforelperforca content ourselves as we best can with the inauspicious termination of what was once deemed a just and honourable war, and swallow our respective leeks with what appe tite we may, and as few wry faces as possible under the infelicitous circumstances. Parliament has still one chance of redeeming its own reputation—but it is its last. The " light cloud is already passing from the face of the moon," and those who neglect this opportunity will have a heavy account to render to their dis appointed constituents when answering for the manner in which they have acted in their respec tive stewardships, and seeking a renewal of the trusts which they have deliberately violated. Now that: the War has terminated, that the ratifications have been duly exchanged, and the rejoicings (0 for Peace are about to be celebrated by the German party, there can no longer be any pretext for withholding a stringent and rigid in vestigation into the causes that led to the sacri fice of so many thousands of lives and so many millions of money. The whole of the gross mis management that prevented the glorious victories obtained by the allied troops from being actively followed up to their legitimate results may now be disclosed without any possible "injury to our arms " arising from the publication. Secrecy now can only be observed for the purpose of screening the wrong-doers from well-merited obloquy, or maintaining a highly objectionable and defective "system " unimpaired. It cannot lea for the interests of the People that the grave delinquencies which occurred should be hushed up, or the serious mistakes committed by those placed in authority concealel It signifies little whether those errors arose from incapacity or from even more objectionable causes. It is essential to the welfare and security of the nation that we should profit by the dearly-bought experience of the past, ,f,to as to guard against similar mistakes for the future. No spurious sentimentality should be allowed to prevail—no arguments that, now that the matter has terminated, we should avoid anything that may lead to unpleasant inquiries or cause additional indignation to excite, or rankle in, the public mind. It is the privilege of the people that they should know not only the truth, hut the whole truth ; that they should learn through what influences incapable Generals were appointed to vitally important com mands, and what were the nature of the instruc tions they received ; whether they were to spare Sebastopol as Odessa was spared, and merely to make hostile demonstrations, which, like the wooden cannon of the Chinese, might terrify their opponents. All these are matters that must now be ascertained beyond the possibility of dispute or difficulty, so that Parliament and the people may be prepared to act energetically and decisively on the information so obtained. Everything tends t) prove the accuracy of that repeatedly asserted in these columns, that if the advice of poor General OATUCART, himself one of the victims to its disregard, had been taken, and the Alma followed up by an immediate onslaugh t on Sebastopol, while its garrison was panic stricken and down-hearted, we should have gained a victory, and the Russian stronghold would have fallen into our hands almost without resistance. We have the unequivocal testimony of Rus3ian officers, who witnessed our extraordinary and in explicable apathy, on the point. The unexcep- tionable evidence thus obtained corroborates and confirms the views of some of our most effi , Aent officers, of all indeed ctpsble of forming a sound judgment on the point. Sebastopol WA3 regarded as untenable. It contained brit few troops, who were dispirited and demoralised, prepared to yield at the first onslaught, if not at the first summons. Our negligence and apathy, the free ac3ess allowed to the uottlurn forts—which enab!ed then to throw in troops and supplies aul to erect fresh defences—occasioned the protracted siege, the fearful mortality and suffering among the Allied troops, the enormous outlay of money, and the preservation of the Crimea itself to the enemy. A daring activity on the part of the Allies might have led to the complete submission of the CZAR— to an honourable and satisfactory peace, not like the thing that has been improvidently agreed on. We fear, however, that instructions from home paralysed the energies of our commanders, such as they were that the deliberations of the ABERDEEN-COBURG Government, which derived its inspiration from unconstitutional and anti-Engliali sources, was the chief cause of the terrible mistake or treason ! Lord RAGLAN was compelled to act as a drag on the Allies, to prevent the glorious consummation that could S 3 easily be achieved. Valuable time was wasted in the diluted operations about Balaklava, and the tardy opening of the trenches, there being no attempt made to cut off or even impede the communica- tions between the beleaguered fortress and the relieving army. The dash was wanting that would have insured success. The Russians took advantage of the unexpected loophole for escape —their spirits were elevated, while those of the Allies were proportionately depressed. The Austrian occupation of the Principalities—the re- fusal to permit the Turkish troops to march through the Turkish territory, gave the required opportunities, of which the enemy did not hesi tate to avail themselves. Hence the mischief that followed. We trust, however, that Parlia- went will, even at the eleventh hour, be true to itself, and adopt decisive means to trace these enormous evils to their sourco and origin. A powerful journal, which can argue well, b u t, unfortunately, equally well foi any side, has lately been returning to a Peelite view of the present Peace. It presses strongly several oft reiterated arguments —arguments not the worse for that were they really valid, and, did they not, many of them, tell with equal force the other way. For instance, the favourite one of Windsor Castle and the Tuileries, against humiliation of Russia - -sometimes defined as needless humiliation ; it is urged that treaties which rankle in the bosom of a nation soon right themselves ; and the ex ample of France is adduced, where, after all the wars to exclude the dynasty Of NAPOLEON, a'' NAPOLEON is now the absolute lord of the nation. 13# the) revly ia obvious. To deprive a , conquering country of ill-gotten territory is not a humiliation in the ordinary sense of the word. What cannot be held with honour, it is no humilia tion to lose. The thief who has broken into our house and taken our plate is in no ordinary sense of the word humiliated merely by being compelled to re turn it. That is regarded as simple justice, and the humiliation begins with the penal servitude and a prison. To have compelled the restitution of Poland, and of all Bessarabia for instance, would have been no humiliation. Had Russia been brought to the slightest sense of justice she would have proffered restitution. The error was twofold, first in assuming that such an aggressor ought not to be humiliated ; next, to applying that word to compulsory restitution of stolen ter ritory. Then, as to the example of Prance. Had we attempted to overthrow the Romanoff dynasty, not a very likely thing, since we also are the sub jects of a purely German dynasty, it were reason.. able to expect that " all the Russias " would make it a ll point of honour to restore the expatriated family to their throne. The illustration, how ever, tells altogether against the argument it is quoted to support. France has acquiesced in being stripped of all her European conquests— Italy, Spain, Belgium —even the Rhenish pro vinces—everything wrongly gotten she quietly leaves, and some of it in worse hands that her own, too. Russia, also, should be conscious that Poland, Bessarabia, Finland, arc., are not lawfully hers. Had the illegality of the thefts been pro claimed by Europe, had she been required to sur render all at the peril of Eoglish gun-boats and a Polish invasion, she was not in a condition to 1 struggle on, and she would never have dared to repeat a theft for which she had been tried and convicted. No, there were other reasons which decided the Courts of Paris and London to leave Russia all her stolen territory. -It was not that they could not have compelled its surrender, not that they feared it would ever revert to the aggressor, but that despots trembled lest nations, unrepresented now by crowned heads, should regain their rights. The down-trodden countries are but countries. No exiled despot claims any of the Thrones. How different would have been the tone had each of these nationalities banished or beheaded some counterpart of the BOURBONS, aAPSBI7RGS, or STUARTS. There is another entirely one-sided argument put forward. "No peace ought to rankle in the bosom of any of the parties to it," and " it ought to be one which all sides are concerned in main taining." Suppose we accept the argument— who then are the parties to the peace ? who, all sides concerned in it ? Are the Royal families who met by deputy at Paris the sole parties ? Were they there as individuals, or as the repre sentatives of their respective peoples ? If the former, then they were bat a wicked conspiracy against Europe—if the latter, the inquiry arises whether their subjects are ALL concerned in maintaining this peace. We doubt that truth must choose the more unpleasing side of the dilemma. That, in fact, the oue thought way that from the Atlantic to the Caspian ; from the Baltic to the Adriatic no people should dare " to peep, or mutter, or move the wing." Diplomacy talked not of suppression, ipsissimis verbis, but it well knew how to arrange so that every despot should be pledged by his own necessities to sym pathise with the necessities of his neighbour des pot. Had Russia been made honest she would have sought her revenge by making others honest. Had she been compelled to give Poland its rights her agents would have reminded Hungarians of KOSSITTIt and Italy of MAzzINT, and Russia, with all the oppressed for her allies, would not be the party asking for peace. The result is this plain o ne , th a t f u ll y h a lf t h e peoples of Europe have no concern w h a t ever i n maintaining this peace. Humiliation is tenderly warded off from a guilty CZAR, but as carefully perpetuated for his innocent victims. Poland is still to be before all Europe script of her nobles, of her franchises, of her independent adwinistrAtion, of her national existence itself ; no ignominy is too great for her, but the least, too much for her oppressor. It is a Peace of Potentates, not of peoples ; a Peace to subjugate the millions to the few, to humiliate liberty and to corroborate tyranny. We are told that had Russia beeti ren dered harmless we should soon miss her. No doubt we should ;----lout, —miss her in the C. 11133 of European order ! and we are told this by an English journal of reputation ! Englishmen who remember the order restored in Hungary, in Ger many, and the Principalities in 1849 ; the order for which the Pruth was crossed to bestow that Rusiian blessing on Turkey—Englishmen who re member the order e3t Colished in Poland by Ni caoLks in 1833—will surely blush that such sentiments should enter the news-rooms of the continent in their own tongue. ARRIVAL OF THE RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY OF PEACE. (From the London Gazette Extraordinary.) FOREIGN OFFICE, APRIL 28. The Honourable William Stuart, First Attache to ber Majesty's Embassy at Paris, arrived this morning at the Foreign-office, being the bearer of the Ratification by their Majesties the Emperor of Austria, the Emperor of the French, the King of Prussia, the Emperor of all the Russias, the King of Sardinia, and the Sultan, of the definitivo Treaty for the restoration of Peace, and for the maintenance of the integrity and inde pendence of the Ottoman Empire, which was signed at Paris on the 30th of March last. MEETING OF MINIS PERIALISTS. Lord Palmerston on Saturday summoned a meeting of his adherents and of those who give him a qualified support in the House of Commons, for the purpose of discussing the course to be pursued this evening on the motion of Mr. Whiteside relative to the fall. of Kars. The meeting accordingly took place this day at one o'clock, at the residence of the noble viscount in Picca dilly, and w.;,s very numerous: y attended. In the event of the motion being carried, it is expected that the noble viscount will either dissolve the present Parliament or resign —the former being the most likely course to be adopted. The proceedings were strictly private. MEETING OF CONSERVATIVES. A meeting of the C mserva.tiva party also took place to-day at the residence of Lord Derby, in St. James's square. The attendance was very numerous. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, D awning-strtet. The Ministers pre sent were—Viicount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Marquis of Lansdowne, Earl Granville, the Earl of Harrowby, Sir G. Grey, the Earl of Clarendon, Mr. Sec retary Labouchere, Lard Panmure, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon. Vernon Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right lion. M. T. Baines, and the Duke of Argyll. The Council sat three hours and three-quarters. The Sultan Abdul-Medjid has just entered on his 34th year, having been born on the 23d of April, 1823. It is said that Turkey will be represented at the ap proaching coronation of the Emperor Alexander, by Reechid Pacha. Cunt Morny's suite at Moscow will be exceedingly numerous, the sum of a million having, it is said, been placed at his disposal to derray the expense. Viscount Palmerston will give a grand full-dress ban quet on her Majesty's birth-day, bat her ladyship's Saturday reunione will be discontinued this season, in consequence of the sudden and lamented death of her eldest son Lord Cowper. Lady Panmure, widow of William, late Lord Pan more, who died in 1852, was married on Saturd a y l as t to M r . P ower, one of the Queen's foreign servic e mes sengers. Th e marriage, which was solemnised at Fulham church, was quite private. Her ladyship and Mr. Power left town shortly after tide ceremony for Paris fora few weeks. LATEST NEWS. RATIFICATION OF THE TREATY OF PEACE. PARIS, SUNDAY. At three o'clock this day a solemn sitting of the Congress took place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, under the presidency of Count Walewski, for the purpose of exchanging the ratifications of the Treaty of Paris. Austria, was represented by Baron Hub ier ; France, by Count Walewski and Baron Bour queney ; Great Britain, by Lord Cowley ; Prus sia, by Baron de Hatzfeld ; Russia, by Count Orloff and Baron Brunow ; Sardinia, by Count Villamarina ; and Turkey, by Aali Paella and Mehemed Deremil Bey. The Plenipotentiaries drew up a proees verbal of the exchange of the ratifications, and all the members present affixed their signatures to the document. The treaty will be communicated to-morrow to the Senate and the Corps Legislatif, and published in the Moniteur on Tuesday. BERLIN, SUNDAY, APRIL 27. The Dresden Journal publishes the entire text of the Treaty of Peace, including Articles 5 to 8, not hitherto published. The substance of these articles is :—.. "An amnesty for compromised subjects (o: Russia ). "The admission of the Ottoman Porte into the concert of European States. "The guarantee of the independence and in tegrity of the Ottoman empire. "In differences between the Porte and the other contracting Power (Russia ?), should the other Powers intervene, an additional article pro vides that the Dardanelles shall not be closed for ships introducing troops." TRIESTE, SUNDAY, We learn from Beyrout, under date of the 14th, that the whole of the Naplowz country is in a state of insurrection, in consequence of the re ported murder of a Turkish mendicant by an English missionary. The foreign Consulates had been pillaged ; the Prussian Consul killed. MARSEILLES, APRIL 26. The Thabor has arrived, with intelligence from Constantinople to the 17th instant. The Trident and Jemappes had taken on board 4,000 men whose period of service had expired. Marshal Pelissier had paid a visit to General Luders, who return it on the 14th, when the Marshal entertained him at a dejeuner, where the greatest cordiality prevailed. The Commander-in-Chief of the Russian army was present at the races and at the theatrical per. formance. Commerce had resumed its activity, to a cer tain extent, at Kamiesh and B.Llaklava. A regulation of the intercourse between the Russians and the Allies had been established, as well as a system of passes. The permissions for three days' leave of absence were reserved as a recompence for the troops. The subscription of 45,000,000 of francs, for cutting through the Isthmus of Suez, had been completed in three days. THE OVERLAND MAIL. Despatches from India, Australia, and China, in anticipation of the Overland Mail, have reached us. They bear dates—Calcutt a' March 22 ; Bom bay, April 2 ; Australi a , F e b. 17 ; and China, March 15. We append extracts : (From the Bombay Times of April 2.) SIIMMARY.—The opening. of the hot weather is a period of the year proverbial for its barrenness of intelligence. Coming on us this season after a year of unusual dearth, March proves literally newaless, affording us the single comfort, that no news is good news for the state and that we can never b e worse off for a commodity of intelligence than at present. The Sonthal insurrection is not only com pletely quieted, but the malcontents, lately spread ing terror through the district 4, are quietly, and of their own freewill, earning their bread as railway labourers, improving the country they lately ra vaged. Oude continues as tranquil and orderly as any of the oldest provinces of the empire, and the organisation for the new administration off affairs is all but completed. From the characters of many of the new employes, an impression has got abroad, that more weight has been given to hints and re commendations from home in filling up vacancies than to the views of the Chief Commissioner. If Sir James Outram is to be held responsible for the good government of the province the absolute no mination of his employes is indispensable ; until the curse of patronage is removed from India, the efficient administration of affairs is imp ssibe. A doctor has been placed at the head of the Post-office department; a civilian, to whom educa tion is as strange as astrology, is director of Pub. lie Instruction. Even under circumstances of which these are specimens, we have no doubt that Oude will thrive, though it seems strange that we, who make mis-government the plea of extin guishing a dynasty, should make the concern of ap pointments take precedence of that of the good of the people. The late King has got as far as °awn pore, on his way, it is said, to England, without the most remote chance of securing one atom of public sympathy. The agitation in Parliament against annexation is received with ridicule and contempt in India, for of the hundreds of petitions prepared annually at each of the presidencies, we have ninety-nine against the tyranny of native princes for one against the miscondut of the British Government, and no occasion is ever let slip, by educated natives, of proclaiming the vast superiority of English to indigenous rule. Our Punjaub mountain frontier continues infested with robbersand murderers, but there has been no outburst of the mountaineers in force for many months past, and on the whole we have throughout the year been enjoying as much tranquillityas could perhaps under the circumstances be looked for. The alarm that our new acquisitions in Burmah would prove a burden on the empire has been dispelled by the publication of the balance-sheet of Pegu. In the third year of our possession, with a defective popu lation and its resources undeveloped, we find an expenditure of 170,0001, a-year, and an income of 226,0001. ' • or if we deduct extraordinary expendi ture, and accept only net receipts, we have a balance in favour of 10,0001. a-year. The revenue during the past year has risen by a quarter of a million sterling, while the expenditure has but little advanced, and already the province, which it was feared might prove ruinous, yields a contribu tion of 100,0001. a-year to the general resources of the state, or nearly 10 per cent, on the gross charges of the war. Rangoon has been visited by on e o f those unintelligible panics which seem occasionally to afflict all native communities. A rumour was spread abroad that a number of Malays were in the town securing human victims for slaughter. No man would stir out after nightfall, or per mit his children to move out of his sight. Some clever scoundrels, aware of the popular belief, turned it into money. Men were seized after dusk to be carried before the Deputy Com missioner. Of course long before they reached the court a douceur procured the release of the victim. Several of these men have been arrested, and will be brought to trial.—Prome has been utterly de stroyed by fire. It broke out about noon on the 25th of February, and in less than four hours consumed the entire town. Over a space of some 300,000 square yards nothing but ruins are to be seen. The place contained few brick houses, and will be readily rebuilt, but the loss of property must be very great. The principal sufferers are of . 1 ; course the merchants. AS uz the fire at Rangoon) the Burmese lent no assistance in putting out the flames.—During the past fortnight we have had three arrivals from the Persian Gulf, the latest being the Victoria steamer from Bushire on the 20th of March. Everything was quiet and peaceable, the English residents being treated. with the most marked respect by G wernmeat. It was rumoured that the Ambassador's flag had, under some provisionalarraugement with the Consul, been rehoisted at Teheran, and that Mr. Murray might very possibly be requested by the Shah to return. In place of proceeding to Mussool, near Bagdad, in Turkish Arabia, as originallyproposed, he had gone north-westward to Tabreez, remaining within the Persian dominions. Everything continues uncer tain in reference to the occupation of Herat and the state of matters in Affghanistan. The treaties of 1854, which have been published, show that we are in - no way bound to assist Dost Mahomed unless in so far as it meets our conveniency. Tie most pro found tranquillity continues to reign throughout Bt . iiislandia.—Our rail way operations are proceed ing rapidly.—The Madras Railway is expected t) be opened for traffic to Arcot, a distance of 70 miles, in the month of July. The location for a couple of cotton factories, completed or about to be commenced, has been fixed beside a ridge of basalt, where water for their steam engines is least likely to be found, where these is neither railway nor shipping port, nor any single recommendation save that the ground belongs to partners; Along the other side of the island four miles away, all these requisites prevailed in perfection. We give the matter prominent notice, because should the pre sent projects fail through ignorance and jobbery, it must by no means be assumed that prosperous cotton factories are incapable of being established amongst us, were such principles acted on as a Lancashire man would take for his guidance. The Governor-General and governors local are at the seats of Government. Our money market has not improved during the fortnight, and all descriptions of securities are dull of sale. Little business has been done in imports, and prices generally have not yet advanced. Freights are firm. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. REPORT OF THE BOMBAY MARKET, FROM THE 19TH MARCH TO IST APRIL The Overland Mail (;f the 26th February was received at Bombay, per the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Pottinger, on the 24th of March. Our money market during the fortnight has shown no symptoms of improvement. IMPORTS.—Although during the past fortnight there has been an active demand for grey goods, transactions have not been extensive, as prices have not advanced sufficiently to induce holders to give way. EXPORTS. —Cotton Wool—Prices have improved since the arrival of last mail, and new supplies from the dis tricts are now coming forward freely. EXCHANGE. —The mail steamer having brought 30 Lacs in silver, buyers got frightened, and best bills were done as low as 2s. lgd. ; after a few days the demand slackened and to al credits went at 2s. 2d. to 21 1., and documents at 23. 21d. to 23. 21d., and the rate at this date has an advancing tendency. Court's bills on Bengal are rupees 98g. 60 days' sight on China, rupees 218. 30 days' sight on Madras, rupees 99. Freights are firm, and we now quote 4/. 7s. 6d. p ton for cotton, and for oil seeds 4/. 15s. per ton. CHINA. We have received. the Overland Friend of China of the 15th March. It cobtains no additional news to what has already appeared in the telegraphic de spatch. The fire at Hong Kong took place on the 23d Fe6i nary. 80 houses were destroyed (the value es7imated at $100,000). Seven persons lost their lives. We tike the following from the Overland Friend of hina : •`Tne currency change at Shanghai seems to be beset with unexpected difficulties. Tne Chinese bankers have refused to take Mexican dollars, or to give money•orders them. Tne Taontae is trying to accommodate this difficulty, hut it is very doubtful if he will succeed. It is asserted that only one foreign firm tried to keep the b mks in Mexicali dollars, and that that one bad to give it up_ " We are sorry to have to rep'rt that the firm of Nye, Brothers, and Co,, of Canton, ha, been compelled to s paytn ,nt. Theis liabilities are, we hear, very heavy —t i, sa►id a, m xch as $1,50j,000. Of the means they have of meeting those liabilities we are not as yet in a Do-ition to give any authentic information." EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, Arr.n 20. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pert arrived here yesterday with the London mail of the 10th of April, which was thus brought to Alexandria in eight days, and, as there will Le no delay at Suez, this mail will have been transmitted to India in a shorter time than any preceding mil. Her Majesty's steam surveying-vessel T;irtarus is here, and is in the first instatice to make an ac- curate survey of the coast of Egypt. The report on the coast of Damietta and Tineb, where the projected Suez Canal is to join the Mediterranean, will tend much to assist the public in England to come to a conclusion with regard to the practica bility of the canal across the isthmus. A new Governor-General of the Dutch. East In dies (General Pa.hud) has jest passed through Egypt on his way to his post. On the 18th be had au official interview with Said Pasha, whom he pre set) tel with the insignia and decorations of some Dutch order, for what object it is not known, and Said Pasha did not seem to appreciate the honour imposed upon him. After making a portion of the embankments for the line of railway between Alexandria and Mare otis, Said Pasha seems to have abandoned the idea of completing this work. The works connected with the deepening of the Mahmoodieh Canal were commenced on the Bth inst., with about 100,000 labourers, and it is ex pected that it will be completed by the beginning of May, when the canal wilt be again navigable, and the trade of Alexandria will resume its wonted ac tivity, as since last January little or no produce, except cotton, has been brought down from the in terior, and the vessels in the harbour have found great difficulty in completing their cargoes. The Pasha has already deepened the important canal of Drmanour, which feeds the Mahmoodieh canal at low Nile, and is making, or has ordered to he made, several good roads in the interior, connecting the principal towns, all of which will eventually be very beneficial to the country. 4isl3ighness has also ordered a light-house to be erected at Suez, the lantern to be brought out from England, which will be of very great advantage to the steamers on arr i v i ng at Suez by night. Trade in Alexandria is very dull, the only com mercial transactions being contracts for wheat', de liverable in August or September next, and some sales of cotton, which is . hrought down by railway and on camels' backs. Exchange onlondon, 99i piastres the £ sterling. FRANCE. The Moniteur of yesterday (Sunday) contains the monthly returns of trade awl navigation for tl • month ended 31st March. The total of customs duties paid during the month of March of the pre sent year i5,14,382,224f. against 15,149,671 f. paid during March, 1855. The total paid during the first quarter of the present year is 38,518,400 f. against 3 8,358,628 f. paid (luring the first quarter of 1855. In the course of the first quarter of the present year 4,950 vessels, with an aggregate ton nage of 796,356, were entered inwards in the French ports ; the number entered inwards in the corresponding quarter of 1855 was 4,337 vessels, with an aggregate tonnage of 655,342. The num ber entered outwards in the first quarter of the pre sent year was 3,193 vessels, with an aggregate ton nage of 537,966; the number entered outwards in the corresponding quarter of 1855 was 2,778 ves sels, with an aggregate tonnage of 428,524. The Moniteur also announces that Count Cavour bad an audience of the Emperor on Saturday, the 26th inst. The Mo - niteur of Saturday contains the following highly -important circular, dated April 24, ad dressed to the prefects by the Minister of the In terior : Monsieur le Preet —On the occasion of a recent dis cussion on the diStributions of voting bulletins in matters of municipal elections, doubts were thrown, in a general manner, on the free and bona fide practice of universal suffrage. This fundamental principle of our institutions should not be the object of any doubt or equivocation. The desire of the Emperor is that universal suffrage shall be perfectly free, and moreover that every one shall be well aware of it. I therefore consider it my duty to remind you of the simple and precise rules which, con formably to law and jurisprudence, constitute our public law on this point. According to Art. 10 of the law of July.l6, 1850, during the twenty days which precede the election, the circulars and political programmes, signed by the candidates, may, atter having been depo sited at the office of the Procureur Imperial, be potted up and distributed without any authorisation being required. The voting bulletin, bearing the name of the candi , late, is a natural annex to his circular, and may be freely distributed with it. Any candidateship, avowed by him who is the object of it, is thus at perfect liberty to make itself known, and to distribute to the electors the material means of making their choice known. But this exception to the general law on the distribution of written or printed papers is only admitted in favour of candidate hips the reality of which is guaranteed, and the responsibility publicly accepted by the signed circu lar of tile candidate. It does not apply to anonymous distributions of voting bulletins, and does not blindly permit the hawking about of names which, frequently published without the consent, or even at times in spite of the legal incapacity, of those who bear them, may become the occasion of a disturbance or a public outrage. Fa IlUch clietributions the 00213194 le!w murals its API pliextion, and an authorisation must be demanded. But, as the President of the, Council of State declared in the name of the Government at a late sitting of the legisla tive body, you must, in deciding on such demands, give the greatest latitude to every citizen. You will not for get that the prohibition must be rAro and exceptional, and founded on the danger of public outrage and distur bance, and must never be an indirect favour for the bene fit of a candidateship which may be preferred. These rules, Monsieur le Prefet, are simple, and secure the fullest liberty to univer sa l su ff rage . he will of the Em peror is, that it shall be practised in good faith.—Ac cept, &c., BILLAULT. SPORTING NOTES. FROM NE WAIARKET. Not a scrap of trustworthy. information is to be picked up. Opinions on the Two Thousand are divided. Some people say that Yellow Jack can't lose, some that Porto Rico's success is a certainty, and others that Faz zoletto will come in alone. Be those contradictory statements as they may, and, notwithstanding the de termined opposition which the horse has encountered, I am fully prepared to see either YELLOW JACK or MILTON the winner. The latter has not broken down, and people who have seen him entertain a good opinion of his chance. I can't "stand " John Seott's huge overgrown dromedary of a horse; still the animal has a host of ad ; mirers. A refreshing rain has fallen, and the turf is in splendid condition. The town ig, however, very dull, and down to my present writing few visitors have arrived. I am perforce obliged to cat my communication short, because an accident has compelled me to delay writing until within a very few minutes of the time when my parcel must be despatched. A FRESM MAN, Newmarket, Monday Morning. TATTERSALL'S.—SATURDAY. TWO THOUSAND. 2to 1 agst Yellow Jack (offered) sto 2 agst Porto Rico (taken) 7to 2 agst Fazzoletto (taken) Bto 1 agst Bird-in-Hand (taken) 12 to 1 agst Milton (taken and offered) 1000 tb 60 agst The Prince (taken) 20 to 1 ng,t Etapat (taken) 20 to 1 agat Brother to Bird-on-the-Wing (off ) 60 to 50 about Porto Rico and Fazzoletto coupled (taken) CHESTER CUP. S to 1 apt Imogene (taken) 10 to 1 agst Yorkhhire Grey (taken) 10 to 1 agst One Act Oaken) 12 to 1 agst Yellow Jack (taken) 14 to 1 apt Hospitality (taken) • THE DERBY. 9 to 4 agst Wentworth (taken) 6to 1 agst Catmobie (7 to 1 taken) 10 to 1 agst Ellington (offered) 12 to 1 ag,t Artillery (taken) 15 to 1 agat Porto Rico (16 to 1 also laid) 20 to 1 agst Rogerthorpe (taken) 25,t0 1 agst Fly-by-Night (taken and offered) 40 to 1 agst Newington (taken) 1000 to 10 agst Sir Tatton (taken) THE PEACE REJOICINGS: The preparations for the fireworks in Hyde-park, the Green-park, and the Victoria-park, are now completed. The buildings are each severally 200 feet long; and sixty feet high. The fireworks are in an advanced state of preparation, and could on an emergency be completed in a day or two. On the part of the Government fire works. Will be provided of a similar character as those it. London for Edinburgh and Dublin, and it is expected that many of the principal cities in the kingdom wit embrace the opportunity to give vent to their joy at the return of peace. With respect to the fireworks in the metropolis, the discharge of rockets from Primrose hill i! expected to be the most effective. Above 20.000 will h.. discharged at once. Some of the pieces and bouquet , will be of a most splendid description, several of the!: being sixty feet high. In the House of Commons it wa, stated that the cost would not exceed 8,000/. ; but considering the extent of the preparations, it is v!_r, questionable whether this sum will cover the outlay. On Saturday ._ a meeting was held of the lessees and managers of the London theatres, to take into considera tion the position in which the various metropolitan. theatres Aotild be placed, with reference to the general rejoicings, and public entertainments, which will take place, it is expected, on the anniversary of her Majesty's birthday, in the month of May next. There were pri - sent Mr. Benjamin Webster, of the Adelphi ; Mr. Buckstone, of the Haymarket ; Mr. Cooke, of.Astley'e; Maws. Shepherd and Creswick, of the Surrey Me-srs, Johnson and Nelson Lee, of the City of London ; Mr, Towers, of the Victoria ; Mr. Conquest, of the Grecian ; Mr. Payne, of the Strand ; Mr. Lane, of the Britannia ; Mr. James, of the Queen's ; Mr. A. Wigan, of Vie Olympic; and Mr. E. T. Smith, of Drury-lane. In the course of a very animated and earnest conversation en the subject, it was suggested that the theatres should b, thrown open to the public gratuitously; and a depuet tion of the gentlemen present was appointed to wait or Sir G. Grey, and learn his sentiments on the matter. THE LONDON AND SOUTH- WESTERN RAIL WAY.--TILE LATE NAVAL RE VIEW. We have deferred for a le;days, until the disappointed and excited parties had so far calmed down as to be ac cessible to reason and fact, making any reference to the events of Wednesday last in connection with the Lon don aLd South Western Railway Company. Never was a Fublic company more unjustly blamed. That the official did not do all that could have been wished is perfectly true, and for this great reason—that it was utterly irn ' possible. It was not within the mechanical capabilities of the company to whisk myriads of passengers down the line and back again with the cilerity ancr comfort which these holiday travellers most unreasonably seemed to expect, The company, under ail the circumstances, deserve commendation, instead of censure, for the wonders they accomplished. Let it never be forgotten, that they conducted the unprecedented traffic of that day, not only without the loss of a single life, but without any accident. whatever. I Snrely that was a Marvellous and most meritorious thing, considering the hurry-aad con fusion which prevailed. It an engine broke down, and consequently delayed the train, and other trains behind it, that, assuredly, should not be made a matter of corn• plaint against the officials. It is an accident of frequent occurrence on ill the leading lines in the kingdom. Arid yet, in this case, it has been spoken of as if it were something criminal on the part of the South-Western Company. The public view the matter in its proper light. They concur with us in the expression cf their wonder, that so enormous an amount of traffic should have been managed at all, and especially that it should have been done without one solitary accident. —Morning A dvertiser. _ _ [The aisappointed and therefore exasperated parties forget that special trains loaded with early passengers for the review were running since Saturday, so that it was totally impossible for all these, the accumulation of four days to return in one, and yet they expected it-I The miracle is that so many goi back.—ED. SUN.] COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. On Saturday a special Court was called for the pur pose of considering the propriety of preparing an address to the members of both Houses of Parliament in con formity with the resolutions agreed to by the Court on the 11th inst. Deputy HALE said it would be in the recollection of many members that on the 11th of April the Court 1-ad agreed to certain resolutions (the resolutions proposed by Mr. H. Wellington Valiance), up'n which a petition to the House of COMMODE; had been founded ; but on that occasion, by some extraordinary and unaccountable omis— sion, no committee or body of gentlemen had been ap pointed to communicate with the law officers of the Court for the purpose of carrying the resolutions ?rito effect, and presenting the petition to Parliament. The law officers of the corporation were therefore standing comparatively still, as far as the Court was concerned, instead of being in a position to oppose the second read ing of the bill. He had therefore asked the Lord Mayor to call a special Court, in order that steps might be im mediately taken to organise or appoint a committee to carry the resolutions of the Court into effect. They all knew the character of the bill ; it was an act of sp tion ; it took from them a vast portion of their dignity and income, and it was a measure which required their, most strenuous opposition. (Hear, hear.) He there fore moved— _ "That a committee be appointed to prepare an ad dress to the members of both HOUSOS of Parliament set ting forth the grounds on which this corporation feels in duty bound to offee its strongest opposition to the second reading of the bill entitled A Bill for•the Better Regu lation of the Corporation of London,' and to 'conduct any proceedings that may be required to prevent the future progress of the same, and to report from time to time to this Court." The motion, which was seconded by Mr. BLAKE, led to a long and rather acrimonious discussion, in the course of which the bill was denounced in strong terms. An amendment was suggested, but the Lord MAYOR decided that it could not be put. Upon a division, the numbers were— For the motion • 56 •• ••• Against it ... ••• ••• 8 Majority ... ••• 43 A committee, consisting of three aldermen and 15 cominonerg was then appointed to carry into effect the object of the motion. MERITORIOUS MASTERS IN THE NAVY.—We are glad to have the opportunity of publishing the names of cer tain masters and second-masters in the navy, honourably mentioned in despatches Since the commencement of the late . war with Russia. They aro- as follows :—Mr. Robert C. Allen Mr. John J. Ball, Mr. George H. Blakey, Mr. Frederick J. 0. Evans, Mr. DanielM'D. Jago, Mr. James H. Lawrence, Mr. Jabez Learn, Mr. Wm. Long, Mr. Henry A. Moriarty, Mr. Frederick W. Rea, Mr. James Roche, Mr. George B. F. Swain, Mr. Edward J, H. Tucker, and Mr. George William'', Six of th en officers hays been inomoted t • ----- -- - MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. The leading country mlrkets held on Saturday were but naodsrately supplied with both wheat and barley; whilst the trade for those articles ruled steady, at very full priaes• All other grain sold slowly ; but flour commanded extreme rates. The French markets have become firmer for wheat Oa flour; but the business doing in the Baltic ports for shtp. merit, to England is limited. The arrivals of English grain up to our market, lest week, were limited. From abroad, we received 6 , 720 quarters of wheat, 1,536 barley, 9,614 oats, 22 beans, 6 5 tares, 160 linseed, 707 sundry seeds, 1,423 sacks and 5,336 barrels of flour. Fresh up to-day, the arrivals of English wheat, coast wise and by land carriage, were moderate, bat in fair avenge condition. There was a decided improvement in the demand for all kinds. The Essex wheats moved off freely, at is per quarter above the quotations realised on Monday lost. For Kent samples the demand was not quite so active, yet a fair clearance was effected, and prices Were the turn against buyers. We were fairly supplied with foreign wheat, but a largo quantity of it was of low quality. A full averagebusiliess was transacted in that grain, at prices fully equal to those realised on this day week. Floating cargoes were in better request, but not dearer. The supply of both English and foreign barley was small. Although there was less activity in the trade than for come time past, late rates were well supported. Malt sold steadily, and the best samples were worth 801 per quarter. The show of oats was less extensive. Good sound corn changed hands freely, at full quota• tions. Low parcels supported former terms. Beans and peas were in moderate supply and fair re quest, at last week's prices. The flour trade was steady, and country marks were the turn dearer. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red ••.• new 55s to 68a Ditt0........ old —8 —a Ditto, White new 60s 75s Ditt0........ old —s —s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old —s Ditto new • • • • • • 56s 61s aye —Old ............ —a —s New ......•• •• •• 45s 47s Barley—Grinding..... 30s 33s Malting . •• •• 324 3.is . • 403 45s MVt—Suffolk and Nor folk • • • • • • • • • • • • 74s 78e grown .• 63s 66s Kingston and Ware 75s 78s Ilan—Chevalier •• 785 to SOS Oats Yorkshire and Lineolush., Feed 228 245 Potato •• •• 248 293 Youghal and Cork 20s 225 Cork, White 21s 25s Scotch, Feed. 268 30% Beans—Tick ...'...... 338 371 Pigeons ags 425 Peas—Grey 32s 36% Maple ••••••• •• •• 358 381 White........... 398 421 Boilers ••••• • •• • • 438 465 Flour—Town -made... 638 655 Suffolk •• 468 509 Stooktn & Norfolk 46s 505 METROPOLITAN CATTLE" MARKET. The imports of foreign stock still continue on a ♦ery limited scale. Last week they were only 431 head. In the corresponding week in 1855 we received 1,213 ; in 1854, 1,104; in 1853, 3,550; in 1852, 1,944; in 1851, 1,647 ; ani in 1850, 1,360 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 9 ..- From Rotterdam._ Calais ... Flarliugen kntwerp — .., Elamburgh — „, 160 - ••• ... '''` ... 31 ... - - ... -"" 160 Total—. 180 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1855 7OB ... 168 367 1854 539 244 ... 319 2 1853 902 2,124 ... 474 48 1852 324 992 535 • 5 1851 442 ... 772 ... ..„ 73 1850 3BB ... 607 308 A very limited supply of foreign stock was on sale in to• day's market, both as to number and quality. From our own grazing districts, as well as from Scot land, we received a full average supply of beasts fresh up this morning, and the general weight and condition of all kinds were very prime. Although the attendance of buyers was tolerably good, the beef trade ruled heavy, and prices gave way, compared with. Monday last, from 2d. to 4d. per Sibs. _ The arrivals from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cam• bridgesbire amounted to 2,40 i Scots and shorthorns; from other parts of England, 300 of various breeds; from Ireland, 86 oxen; and from Scotland, 750 Scuts, almost wholly polled. _ There was a decided increase in the supply of sheep, and most breeds came to hand in good condition. The mutton trade was not quite so brisk as on Monday last, yet that day's improvement in value was supported. The best Downs, in the wool, were worth 55. Bd. ; out of the wool, ss. 2d. per 81b.t. About 10,000 sheep were shown. The arrival of lambs was moderate ; those from-tae Isle 3f Wight being 250 head. The lamb trade was heavy, at a reduction in the quotations of fully 4d. per 81bs. The top quotation was Os. Bd. per Blbs. Calves, the supply of which was very moderate, moved )11 slowly, at last week's quotations. The best veal realised ss. 83. per 81bs. We had a very dull sale for pigs, at barely stationary prices. Per Bibs to sink the offal'. s. d. a.. d.l s. d. s.. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 2to 3 6,'PrimeSouthdown 5 4 5- 8 3econd quality.... 3 8 3 10iLarge crse. calves 4 2 5 0 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 4 ( Prime small d 0... 5 2 5 8 Prime Scots, &e. 4 6 4 B [ Large hogs 3 4 4 2 inferior Sheep ...4 G 4 4;Small porkers ... 4 4 4 8 3econd quality ...4 6 " 4 10 Suckling calves.. 22 0 29 0 erizae crse.-wlled.s 0 5 2/Quarter old pigs.2l 0 27 0 Lamb, Os Od to 7s 2d. TOTAL SUPPLY. I FOREIGN SUPPLY. 3east9 4.152 t 8ea5t5.........,......... 259 • -;nee.p and lambs •..... —19,600 ( Sheep 50 Calves ..•...•.. 105 1 Calves..•• •• •• •••• ........ 73 . , . A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on ifouday, April 30, 1855, and in the Metropolitan Market this day, Mouil nril.2S, 1 grifj. Per 81bs, to sink the offals. April 30, 1855. Apri128, , 15C6 s. d. s. d. s. d. s. 0 0 Coarse and inferior beasts ... 3 4 to 3 6i3 2to 3 4 Se JO nd quality ditto ... 3 8 4 4 8 318 Prime large oxen ... ... 4 6 4 B'4 0 4 4 Prime Scots, cite ... 410 5 0 4 6 4 0 Coarse and inferior sheep 3 6. 3 3 1 0 4 2 Sacond quality ditto 310 4 0 4 6 418 Prime coarse woolled ditto 4 2 4 4 5 0 5 8 Prime Southdown ditto 4 8 5 0 , 5 4 5 0 Lambs . 5 4 7 0,5 8 6 8 Ltrge coarse ca l ves 4 0 4 6;4 2 5 2 Prime small ditto ... 4 8 5 015 2 5 8 large hogs ... ... 3 0 4 o'3 4 4 2 goat small porkers 4 2 4 4 4 4 4 0 Beasts.., 4,112 4,18 5 Sheep 24,260 19,609 Calves... 153 10 Pigs ..." 355 29 SUPPLIES ON SALB, May 1, 1854.—Beasts, 4,668; sheep and lambs, 25,020; calves, 21q • pigs, 295. L May 2, 185 Beasts, 4,301; sheep and lambs, 21,300; calves, 228 ; pigs, 310. NEWGATX AND LEADENHALL. These markets aro but moderately supplied with both town and country killed meat. Generally speaking the demand is steady, as follows : Per Sibs by the carcase. 0. 4. s. d. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 210 3 0! Mutton, Inferior . 3 6 310 Do., middling 3 2 3 6 Do., middling 4 9 4 2 Do. prime large.. 3 8 4 0 Do., prime 4 4 6 De. , do. small ....4 2 4 4 1 Veal 3 10 5 0 Pak, large .3 2 3 10 Pork, small 4 0 4 8 Lamb, 5s 2d to es 4d. BOROUGH HOP. Medium kinds of hops, though in good supply, move oft . steadily, and prices have an upward tendency. In other hops only a moderate business is doing. Last week's im ports were DO bales from Rotterdam, and 55 from Hambro'. Mid and East Kent pockets, 4/ O to 61 Os per ow t; Weald of bents, 3110 s to 5/ Os. ; Sussex, 31 Os to 41 15s. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. We have received only moderate supplies of potatoes, coastwise and by railway, since our last report. The de mand for all kinds is in a sluggish state, as follows :—York Regents, 80s to 95s ; Scotch do., 60s to 75s ; do. cups, 503 to 655; Middlings, 30s to 408; Lincolns, 6 s to 110 s; blues, 60s to 70s ; Kent and Essex, 653 to 85s per ton. WOOL. Last week's imports of wool were only 2 bales from Ant werp, 69 from Ilatnbro,' 56 from the Cape, and 337 from Algoa Bay. Although over 40,000 bales will be offered at the approaching sales, the demand by private contract con tinues very firm, and prices generally are well supported. The following are the current rates of English wool : Down tegs, is 3d to is 4 , 1 ; do. ewes, is 2d to Is 41; half bred hoggets, is 2d to is 31 ; do. wethers, is ld to is 2d ; Kent fleeces, mixed hog and ewes, is 21 to is 3M; combinc , skin, is to is 31; flannel wool, is t o is d; blanket wool, 101 to is Riper lb. SEEDS. •All agricultural seeds continue very dull in sale, and prices are rather drooping. Linseed is heavy, and large parcels are declared for public sale. Calcutta, 48s to 50s; Bombay-, 52s to 533 per quarter. A moderate demand for cakes at late quotations. • rarnlp,White,por bush. 220 to 25e , Swede .......... —s 'klutz rd, Brown ...... 14s 24 , White, now.. • • .. Ms 11 rates, Winter, new....7e Od 8s Od Canary, per quarter • • 583 62s tye grass • • -• • • • • • • • • 243 sos Cloyer,RedEng.(ewt.) 658 80s White • • • • .... • • 703 90.1 Foreign Red...... Go, 70. White.... 70s 90e Trefoil, new•• •• .• •• •• 408 46, Carraway •• 44, 501 Coriander.. • 26s 28s • liempseed, per quarter Us 58s Linseed, Eng. Sowing.. 669 —8 Crashing •• .. 60, 629 Baltic .. • • ...• —3 —5 Odessa .......... —s —5 Linseed Cate, pr. ton— English .. lll lls 12? Os Foreign, per ton 111 Os 12' Os Rape Cakes, pr ton 6/ 10, 7/ 58 Rapeseed, New, pr qr., 88s 90s TALLOW. Since Monday last the demand for Tallow, both on the spot and forward ;delivery, has been by no means exten sive. Prices, hovvever, have ruled steady. To-day, P.YO., on the spot, is selling at 47s per cwt. Town Tallow, 48 nett cash. Rough fat, 2s 8l per 8 lbs. 1854. , 1855. 11856. Stock this day .. • • Price of Y. C .• • • 42,996 1 25,108 31,102) 31.700 18,593 383 Od to 47s 6d 64s Od co !•48 31 to 47s Od —s 01 to —s Od --s Od 154 s 63 ;to —s Od 930 2,256 784 1,890 1,897 98,730 i 98,0 4 1 89,741 78,227 . 99,544 1,083 1,408 1,082 958 411 105,192 , 8,255 1100018 73,927 71,595 383 03 1 49+33 ! 644 91 560 6d 503 6d Delivery last week .—. Ditto from June 1.... Arrivals last week.. Ditto from Junel.... Pecs of Town THE NAVAL REVIEW.—The High Sheriff of Suffolk (Mr. A. Arcedeckne) chartered a steam-vessel, the Iberia, for the purpose of conveying parties to the naval review. The fare was fixed at 21. 2s. per bead, and a surplus of 501. was derived from the speculation. It is proposed tp appropriate thOiTal W 1941 charitable par• pow. NDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 2 Bl 1856. 11 A 134 3i 23i Cei BR: 3 pc 3 p, N” , Nov Lon