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

lierly direction) and this nothing If his defeat. IS d declared Or there was 13° i political affai rs nsettled by tb i e al matters b au able, and wore expected lod e ! has been pci",,, eI. ds, as it u sually [a of the year b"; For Paragu a y Have been vf,, t other warli k e proved, and the cpect such a r e , [arket had bee' luring the ive j , el doubloons, 3 of Governin a his resignati °9► lio handed of e a ; If War. thcoming e' e "' I,pprehension . t A. disagreem eu iiral Johnstoet 'on in Sou ° , e United States ars that a 01 ,1; Rio from i i `; taking in 003 ' 1 :1 Rear-Admi t a he stranger 13 :a nition, &c•, e, as well as '" e , from the M i r of therrumo r : false. In th vessels in u' e , .merican iinM e d being helief ou cific, where' It ,ussian flag. d that the ld the q uests olera had ne a n r i f there were r remaining' moderate e%t ell i xcept in flour. a ht , portant. Freig' e , have been lOg t , and freely 0 0 me amount 01 190 days. le , n a limited s ca )ur last advicet, [2 to 14 per el l , egotiated, at I .. 0 a has diseovv_ r le present a o ti a tions d e r known lin, L u c , iu order • war steara, in e' ,o, as infortne a ron de Prolo g h t insure the ri t g io e p s ," adds w oe 3ssful, and i t . .stria for a 8° 0 Settled betv/811 5." E AND TO hat 12 years t- - Empire of JP. ry i laytians, ha b 1 lisasters both to a provisif; I for 6 years in the Santana o f negotiation i x red to the I: 0 % 0 sent a missio:noe, I of this Info' d of taking I li, 6tions be ha d ° o )st secret ma n o r ng them by ° 3O Lsed the attest' Port-au'rrine.y6, 1 to his ImP e g r' r ivasion of the urs after by S° ti lert, and S 01 1 , 11; the Domi on the 18t 11 „ - , taneously ur ic ," and SantiA/` O , 4,1 desperate fo l 22d, and I, Neyba, 1 1 ,0 the Hay'",t i o ving above 1 / 7o t quently r etree e i in that bad n ° e L eans could ec'''" so signali9 dr d the countri o f 'nether aroll to meanwhile to over, began J e l)lJ longue sun° , :ely 4,000 P";,1 hud unexPee of on the O h o. LS ed nearly r own territol D., leaving a ttle. *0 oulouque r o rous p retell"! liapute with f 1( ' 1 murder 0 11 tbo at Portfolio° 2d inst. pth About a 121 ° aD een Bristol m her outl i ii ;el lay there.dth ]e spring t b l Bristol to 0 , yesterday 0)°, 1 ,4 Is ran agr ° "ol, this day, /v o t fortnight, 11 s t, `.y, or, at le l ' v i Bristol Ste`if I sustained Nelson's P I- . ;lid. The olb r i •espects, to "to would seed' rt of their 0 0 , t is hardly Of L RIVET?. oint os F" A beo iat injury , " e j is to be l e i. placed at es ach misbaP s o, Ice of a 1 10° he ivigation nf the Pbcenix ar e rio r son's-peiot "- st lniost the " r i. in British t er t$ iderable for!,),, vitbin Dr. bf l irests" A 115° „ 1 , ri indepenuv s e can intereo ur be There ; but 13 , too ineig v a 0 1 0, Deans bor,, the forestlbe he forests - lbe erworked e e d stands in 11 , cage. —!rend of an eleev ti " ° 0 lton occurs g r that solv e ; `,l Per despato il A, le Crimea.. ro allant soldl e a 0 8 sword of DM of ma l wickedest fo' lives of ra er3 r : rmly and ea r , seem to 11° e against %he When 1 : s o f e lt he, a „, h a reso lutio n ' advice or 3 0 7 6 Br I igatet r . le i n, and fa in the glerl` but 813°14 1 1 i 3ic of the ease arra o g e l i would, in try, his coin I va, to sbArs 5-- Ilikeriparti t was then ga le to S ballie a nd my bro. o f your br °. be great hos' a system t he ,r, made MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. The Liverpool Cetton Market on Saturday closed with a tame though steady feeling, and prices wore the same as on Friday. The sales were estimated at 7,000 bales, 1,000 of which were taken for ex port. In addition to Americans, 160 Pernam and Maranham, at 60. to 7d. ; 40 Bahia, 61d. ; 700 Egyptian, 61(1. to 7(1. ; and 500 Surat, 4d. to 4d. per lb. The Railway Sharo Market was firm, and prices were a shade dearer than on Friday. Accounts from Belgium contain the Government returns of the imports of graia and flour during the month of February. During that period the items were as follows :—Wheat, 3,578,213 kilos. ; qe, 175,888 kilos. ; oats, 278,012 kilos. ; barley, 1,637,857 kilos. ; and flour, 237,728 kilos. From the Ist January, 1856, the quantities imported were :—Wheat 15,987,667 kilos ; rye, 1,234,647 kilogrammes ; oats, 1,201,000 kilos. ; barley, 5 ,082,303 kilos., and flour, 919,728 kilos. At the entrepot of Antwerp the stock on hand at the close of February amounted to 7,959,380 kilos. of wheat, 3 ,870,914 kilos. of rye, 915,216 kilos. of flour, and 2 ,343,933 kilos. of buck wheat. These items show that the import trade of grain throughout Belgium is on the increase ; but as there is a large propor tion transmitted by railway to the neighbouring States, the home consumption of foreign grain is AEA much greater than during the same period in 1855. At Havre the Cotton Market continues quiet, 'with firmness in prices. The arrivals from America are increasing. Ordinary New Orleans is 92f. per 50 kilos., and inferior sorts from 82f. to 87f. The stock on band on the 7th instant was 58,932 bales, of all sorts, against 71,918 bales in 1855. Up to that date, from the Ist Janu ary, the quantity imported front the United states amounted to 78,941 bales, and in the corre sponding period of 1855, 29,894 bales. By telegraph from Vienna it is announced that the French Railway Company has obtained a con cession for continuing the Austrian lines on to Semlin. This has had the effect of advancing their shares 10 florins on the Bourse. The directors of the East Anglian Railway Com- Patty have issued their report, which states the interest for the half-year, on the B Stock, will be at the rate of 6 per cent., and on the C Stock 2 /. 184. 4 per cent. per annum. The shares have 0 11 this account slightly improved. During the fortnight ending Saturday last the ton. East India Company had drawn bills on the thre e Presidencies to the amout of 159,0691. ( c. ad. The following hre the. Railway Calls advertised as becoming due during the present month : Company. Date. ran. Amount. Ileigian Eastern Junction 13... 40 10 0... £21,250 ttridport 10... 110 0... 9,750 Dutch Rhenish 31... 3 0 0... 19,368 tut Indian Extension kid]. and Redcar, New 251 1... 3 0 0... 2,160 Total £802,000 The corn trade is inactive to-day, and in prices very little change has taken place. The Funds are exceedingly quiet in the absence of any important political intelligence from Paris. To -morrow being account day, the dealers are busily occupied with the necessary arrangements, and these check speculation. Money continues in active demand, and the charge for carrying over is still #to 13- per cent. Consols for money opened at about 91g 4, but have since been 9ii I, which 'were the latest prices current on Saturday. For the 18th proximo they are about 92 to 4. The Scrip is 1 j prem. Exchequer Bills are is. prem., and the New Scrip is 1 to Y prem. The transactions recorded in the Foreign Stock market have been circumscribed. Turkish 6 per Cents, are 96 to 96k, which is about per cent. decline, but the Guaranteed have risen to 1001 I. Spanish 3 per Cents. are heavy at 43, but the New Deferred are firmer—viz., 24 to 24k. Mexican are dull at 20i 1, Cuba 7 per Cents. at 101, and Dutch 4 per Cents. at 95. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 to 71 ; Mexican, 20i ; Peruvian, 79 81, ; ditto 3 per Cents., 56 58 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 47 49 ; Illissian 5 per Cents., 101 103 ; ditto 41 per Cents., Q 2 84 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 421 31 ; ditto Deferred, 23?4 23i ; ditto Certificates, 4i 5 ; ditto Passive, 6i A. For Railway Shares there is an inanimate mar ket, and prices are flatter. Eastern Counties and Great Northern are weaker, but most of the other hues are without alteration. Foreign Mining Shares are dull, Banks steady, and Miscellaneous Shares attract very little atten tion. Canada Land, after the recent advance, have dropped 4/. to W. tltinsFi FUNDS THIS DAY.-CLOSING PRICES. Prom the Oticial Lizt.) Rusin..- done. a ner C e nt Consols Annnities 9li 12] ,dew 3 per Cent. Annuities 921 l 'one• Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1S(0 Ditto 39 Years, expire sth Jan , 1860 3i eni.,,i s for Account , Ditto Scrip 4 'rehequer Scrip Exchequer Bills, 24d. £1000 £5OO 1 p Brnall . Ditto Advertised 2 d Ditto Bouds, 1858, 34 per Cent.. 93. I PEACES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. enba Bonds, 6 per Cent — Ditto 7 per Cent. (4atansa ani Sabanilla) 101 Pxpiarlor Bonds Orcuada Now Active, 1 per Cent. 43 'ican 3 per Cent Ditto Account . eirdi n i an Bouts, 5 per Cent. .. Ditto Account °Daman Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto Few Deferred, 3 per Cent. Ditto Passive 7 /Irkit.h Ponds, 6 per cent 96 Ditto Account 96i 6 i Ditto New Scrip 4 per Cent IOO,E i i - D'tnernela Bonds, 41 per Cent 29 Ditto Deferred, 10 per Cent. . lividends on toe above oavable in London. butch Exchange, 2i per Cent., 12 Gull 64 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates THREE O'CLOCK. Con gol., money 9ll Ditto Account, March 11 LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LowroN., March 10.—Wind this day at noon, N. fight breeze. PouTsmoUTH,March9. —Wind N.W.—Arrived—H.M.S. Hawk, from Devonport ; Alps (s. tpt.), Queenstown; Harlingen (s. tpt.) Malta ; H.M.Str. Dragon, Bristol, with 9. gun-boat in tow, Sailed—Simla (s. tpt,), for 40 ‘thanipton. DARTMOITTII, March 9.—Wind S.E.—Arrived—Emma, from Newcastle, for Constantinople, towed round from Torbay to repair. FALMOUTH, March 9.—Wind E.—Arrived—John Han cock, from New Orleans, for Havre ; Catharina Hermann, RaYana. Off the port—Roland, from Batavia, for Bre- Izen. PLYMOUTH March 9.—Sailed—Victoria (s,), for Mel out CORE, March B.—Wind N.N.E.—Sailed—Garland, for St. John's, N.B. CARDIFF, March 9.—The Alphonsone Estelle, of Nantes, "( 1 a great portion of her deck blown up and received other damage, by an explosion of gas. The Thomas, of e t her damage, by an explosion of gas. The Thomas, of ork, from Newport, for Limerick, has come in with loss nf Mainmast and other damage, from collision with the Rio Plata, off the Nash. LITREPooL, March 9.—The Clan Gregor, from Calcutta to this port, which was on shore, on the sth Feb., on Dock Point, has been assisted off and into the Princess - "nolc Basin. The steam-tug Iron Bing, sent oat on the 6th March in search of the Effort, from Charente, aban doned at sea, has returned without any tidings of her. f has Shiels, for Genoa, which put ashore on the 6th inst., " off' been got o after throwing over a considerable por tion of her cargo (coals). SCILLY. March 7. —wind E..— Arrived.—Minatro, from • nt e Video, for Liverpool ; James, Berbice •, Joseph ale, Mobile; Wanderer, Demerara. O ff t h e port— m°Utah). Way., from Charleston, for Havre. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Monday Morning. Arr ived.—South-Western, steamer. from Jersey. Sailed Australia. —C1 Bra, for Sunderland ; Arthur the Great, BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) Wind N, GRAVESEND, Monday, 9.52 a.m. Arrived. .Bee, ; fino; tide, five hours' ebb. from Antwerp. Sail ed.—Filectric Flash, for Cape Coast Castle. DEAL, Monday, 9.21 am. W ind N.W., moderate. JOINT-STOCK BANK& !O 11 k astral vti ?., 100 50 Bank of London 40 all Rri. Col. Bk • &Ln. C ,.. ~,. 50 all firitish N. American ... ... 25 5 Marta. Bank of Asia id par 20 4 Ch td. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China id par 100 50 City . - • 64 0 100 25 C,olon'al . --- ••• 100 20 Commercial of Loud . .__ 20 all Eng.9.cot.&A.ns.Cht l6 —l7 20 all Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia l6 17 20 5 Ditto New 4 3d 50 2O London and County ... ... 35 4} 3 100' 50 nct.SzE.Bnk g.Corp. par 2p 50 10 ndon Joint Stock. .. 100 10 London and Paris li --- i 100 20 Loud. & Westminster ... ... 44} 4 } 100 35 National Pro.of Eng ••• ... 20 10 Do. New ..... . ..• 50 22A, National of Ireland ... ... 20 all New South Wales 37 39 25 all Oriental Bank of 1 Corporation. 4l 43 100 25 l`mvincial of Ireland ..• -- ... 10 all Do. New K 1 R Aus B &Go Im Co ... ••• 100 50 Royal British • ••• 25 all :}oath Australia 3B 40 25 all . Union of Australia— 71 73 72} Do. Now 7l —... iii C5O 10 Union cf Lo don i n n , ~, _. -- IT ......, LINES LEASED AT FpEED RENTALS. iiAILWAYS; Bedford and Blot chley Buckghamsh. Clydesdale ie. Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. E. Lin. v. 6 pc E. Un. H. Sh. Alas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New...... Glstr.& Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway..... Hull & Selby Do. 4 Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lon.,Til., &S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Manch. Bxtn. and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redcar. Midld.Bradfd Newmarket Bury E. C.spe N.dt Est.s p. e. Do. 6 Per et. Do. Fixeds p Prest. At lA , Do. 6 Shrs. A Roystn.& Mt. Shef.Roth.and Gooleg.s p. c. Shrews. Atlier. S. Statiordsh. Wear Vail eygr 6 per cent._ Do Leastwz Compani, Wilts&,:7>orarst London Su N. We't. b. ta. W. E.Un.& E. C...... rit.Nrthn. n. Count. aldonian. Do t. Westr Yk. New. & Berw. Y. &N Eastorr Do Veto &Co rorfolk IL.&N.W & Midlci. r3tckton Darlingt. :n. Coun. Count, [Do.. Closing rd 30 a this cloy 24 - 96 94 - 11 - 13 4f ... 41 &N.W. ... .. IQ3 : IC$ is 23; - 24-4 105 - 110 2i - 2i 91 - 92 Do Gt Northnl Lancash & Yorksh. IT. Brassoy 1)1.31Cloan Stockt. & Darlingt Do P tP 5$ b 7 132 -- iii 'fltWostn. Busintsaa this day. lioti 11081 7/ - 7i •• :•• 32 - A 33 - 85 92 1 (I 57 51 PREFERENCE SHARES. St. 100 kherdeen ll2 - 116 St. 100 Do. N 0.2, 7p. c. . 112 - 116 St. 100 Do. Debentures 162 86 2.5 all Myth andTyn.:lo pm c. pref. (issd. a t 50 / - St. 100 Brig. & Ex, 4p.C. St 92 --94 20 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares ... -•• • St. 100 Caledonian £lO 96 - 98 95 74 i ~.. •• 15 all C , l es • Salo. On. 56 pc 154 --• 164 91 all Do. do. Pref. No. 2 ... --- ... 24 all Do. do. Pref. No. 2 ... - - 64 all Cork 6tßandons6p.c ... -- • - 34 , all Dun.Prth .tk Aber.J. 51 - 64 10 1 2 :.Anglian Clo.ASh. ... - • • St. WO Do. do, els. B6p. c. 95 - 100 St. 'lOO Do. do Cls. C7p. c. 70 •-• 80 6: . all gas.Co.Es,spcNo.l 4 11 , i Pm el% all Do. No. 2. - 4 pm 10 all Do. New 6p.c. St 12 - 124 12 20 all East lin. ' G. 6p. c. ... - - 5 all Do. 51., 10 por cent ... -- - 10 all Do. 1111. Debentr.Sl. ... - ... St. all Do. do. 4 per cent ... - ••• St. 100 East Lanca,qh. 6p. ets ... - 5 all F. kW. York. J. sthr ... - ..• 10 1 lidin. & Gl. 5 p.s. eh. ... - •• • :it. 100 id. Prth.&Dun.4p.c 63 - 70 20 all Furness - ••• St. ,100 (41as. & S.W. G. 5 p.c. - • St. 100 Great Northn. sp. c 115 - 117 116 St. 100 Do. sp. a. Redeem at 10 p. c. prom.. 1107 -7- 109 St. 100 Do. 46 p. e llOl - 103 121 74 Do. 5 p.c. Scrip, Red. at sp. c. pm... 10 all (R.N. ofScot. Istire 96 •- 10 St. 100 Gt. S. etW. (Ireland ... - ••• 20 11 Do. 4por c. Prof. S ... - ..• 50 6 Gt. W.(9. k,H.Exspc 6 - 64 St. 100 Do. con. red. 46 p.c, 92 - 94 93 St. jlOO D 9. con. red. 4p. c. 8 2 - 84 qt. 1 100 Do. irred. 4p. c. . 84 - 86 St. jlOO Do. sp. e. red. pref 95 • 101 15 all Do. is, is. ... - ... 8 all Do. Birm. Pref. 311 9l - 104 10 all Do. Chester Bp. c. P.S 16# - 17 10 all Do. do. sp.c. do lO - 191 St 100 Do. Birin. Qua. Stk 70 - 72 2Q all Do. Ches. Qua. Sh l9 - 2 0 134 . all Do, do'. do 9h - 10 20 al Do. do. do l4 t - 141 16 6 Lan. & York. F. £2 1 - 1 St. 106 Do. 6p. c. Stock - 135 St. 100 Lon.&Brigh. G. 5 p.c. ... - ... St. 10..1 Do. Pref., sp. o. St., .. - ... St. 10') Do. Now Guar.6 p. c ... - ... St 1.00 Do. do. 5 per cent . ... - ... t 1.00 Lon. &N. W., Cov. d Nuneaton sp. et ... - ... St 100 Lon.& S.W. 7 per et -..- •••1' 1.2 all Londy. & Color. .4 Sh ... - ... 124 • , 11 Londy. & Ennie.6 St ... - ... St. 10`, NE.,S.,Sz L.,N0w,10/ ... - ••• ti 4 1 Do. X 6 ........ ...... i - i 12: 1 , all Nfarypt •& Carl. 4 p c ... - ... 124 all Do. 44 por cent ••• - ••• 12! 10' Do St. 100 Aid. Consol.6 p,c,F't ... - St. 100 Do. Con.Br./or.6pc 1 1 2 - 134 134 St. PP 'Do. 46 p. s. Pref. S 91 - 96 164 all Do. Pref. 46per cc , 1 - i d a 5 all Do. 51. Pref. 4p. c. 4 - 41 St. 100 'Ditto L. &fl.?ref. S. . . - ~. 85 New., 1119 r., &c., pr. ... - ... 5 p. s. reel. 5 p c. pal. 10 all 10aui Norfolk DOl:enter, ... - ... St. 100 IDo.Pref. 4p.c. St ck .... - ... St. iOO I Do. 5 p.c. Est ... - ... St. 100 1D. , .). 56per ct.prof... ... - ... St. 100 IDo • Vitay. Val. 5 p. c - St. 100 ~ N orthßritish 9 .9 - 101 1004 100 St. 100 N. E. Bern, 4 p.o P 90 -92 904 1 17 7 iDo. do. de 5 - 5i 20 13 Do Leeds 6 p.c ••No.l ... - ... 126 9 I Do. do. Quarters ... .. - ... 25 10 1 Do • Yorkli. &S. Pir 1 - id 94 20 all NorthJ Staffordshire. .., - ... 1 St. 100 t - )x, w0..,:w HZ iip .•. - ... 189 • 10 96 Do R. Pref. 101. Sh. ... - ... lii all Scot. Cent. ,New Pre ... - ... 25 all pouth Devon 134 - 144 13/ 10 li IDo. fixed,44 per con' ... . ... 1.0. f all S. Eastern (Readin. - , Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 221 - 934 St. 100 ,Do. 44 per sent t6 - 98 St. 100 Ds. Fixed 44 pc eh 94 - 91 St. 100 S. Wales Gaa. 4p, c ... - ... 20 all I Do. do. 44 p. c.... ... - ... 92 20 all I S.YorkshAp.c.Guar. ... - ~ 25 all IStock.& Dar., sp. C. ... - .. 25 15 'Do. do. do. 1 - fp 126 all (Stock. & Hartl. g. 5 I p. e. till July 1,'56 ... - ... 6 44 rWatertd.& Kilk. 6p c 24 - 24 THE SUN LONDON MONDAY EVENING MARCH 10 1856. MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. There was very little business doing in wheat in the leading country markets held on Saturday. Prices, how ever, were decidedly firmer than in the early part of the week. Fine barley realised full quotations, but all other articles mot a dull inquiry. Most of the continental markets continue dull and drooping, although the supplies of grain have been very moderate. The American markets have been without ani- oration. The arrivals of English grain up to our market, last week, were moderate. From abroad we received 18,714 qrs. of wheat, 2,071 oats, 5,450 beaus, 171 tares, 140 sun dry seeds, 210 sacks and 5,072 barrels of flour. . . The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to our market to-day, coastwise and by land , carriage, wore but moderate, and for the most part in very middling condition. Al though the show of samples of both red and white was by no means extensive, the demand for most kinds was by no means brisk ; yet the whole of the supply changed hands at is to 2s per quarter above last Monday's prices. There was a full average supply of foreign wheat in the market. Really fine samples were held fimly, at very full prices. In low and middling kinds next to nothing was doing, at last week's currency. Floating cargoes of grain were dull, but not cheaper. We had a good demand for malting barley—the show of which was limited—at an advance in the quotations of ls. Jeer quarter. Grinding and distilling sorts were firm, and quite as dear as last week. Mialt was in moderate supply, and heavy request, at the late decline in value. We were fairly supplied with oats, which moved off slowly, at last week's fall in the quotations. Beans were somewhat firmer than on Monday last ; but no advance took place in prices. We had a fair inquiry for peas, at fall quotations. The flour trade was rather inactive, at last week's cur rency. CURRENCY PER 11l Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red •• .. now Ms to 708 Ditto.. •• .... old —s —a Ditto, White new 58a 72e Ditt0........ old —e —s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old —a —a Ditto new .•.... 54s 68s Rye—Old ............ —s —s New •• •• 44s 473 Barley—Grinding ••• •• 293 32a Malting .•• •• 31s 31e Chevalier...• • . 36s 40s hf3it—SaffolkandNor •• •• 70s 76s Brown .•• ............ 63s 643 KinrstonandWare 74s 75s PERIAL MEASURE. SPORTING NOTES. Malt—Chevalier .... 768 to —a Oats Yorkshire and Lincolnsb., Feed 22s 23s Potato •• •• 24s 288 Yonglial andeork Black. •—• • • 19s 22s WISHES ABOUT WARWICK. Cork, White ... • . 21s '253 Scotch, Feed... • • 263 303 Beans—Tick 32s 363 Pigeons 333 41s Peas—Grey .......... 31s 35s Maple .••••• • • • • • 34s 37s White........... as 403 Before these remarks meet the reader's eye the play w',ll have commenced at Warwick, and the first act will be nearly concluded. The brief observations on the sport, which were published:in Tlic Sun of Saturday last, will serve as a sort of prelude, indicative of the stirring business about to take place. Abruptly dropping awk ward metaphor, however, I will resume my discussion of the probabilities. The character of the events ap pointed for decision is not sufficiently important to ren der it necessary that any opinion I may advance should be supported by elaborate arguments. For the Great Warwick Handicap the field is likely to be limited. Fulbeck's performance at Nottingham has placed an additional slbs on his weight, but the in creased impost is not likely to militate considerably against his chanoe. The horse has thickened most iin proringly, and he may yet prove that his party were not over-sanguine when they supported him so confidently last year at Chelmsford and at Goodwood. Little Davie is not over-weighted; he is a game little horse, and lately Edwin Parr has developed is racing powers to a sup_ prising extent. Notwithstanding the popular belief which exists relative to the staying ability of The Flat. terer, yet should this horse be " wanted " be will cer tainly run well. I, however, fancy, his "good time" will be deferred until a later period of the year. Veteran, the defeated and disgraced favourite for the Cambridge. shire, has been most leniently treated by the handicapper, and if he be kept for another purpose besides that of "eating his head off," he ought on this occasion to possess a chance of repaying his owner for his winter's hay and corn. Without extending my remarks to the other animals in the list of acceptances, I shall "jump at a conclusion" by stating my opinion that the race will be between Boilers .• •• ...... 42s 43 Flour—Town-made... 610 63; Saffolk .......... 473 —s Stocktn & Norfolk 463 47s FULBECK AND VETERAN. For the Handicap Platel shall stand Romeo, Flageolet, and Englemere. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. Bea Land is invariably "formidable" at Warwick. His Odiham is whispered about as being a "good thing" for the Grand Annual Steeplechase. I shall be inclined to select Minerva and Sandboy for the Hurdle Race. By Tuesday night's post irom Leamington I will for ward "something short about Salisbury." The imports of foreign stock into London last woek were ♦ery moderate—the total supply being only 629 head. In the corresponding week in 1855 we received 30S ; in 1851, 2,014 ; in 1833, 2,60 ; in 1852, 1,678 ; in 1851, 2,233 ; and in 1850, 1,679 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WHIR. A FRESH MAN. ROYAL INSTITUTION OF GREAT BRITAIN. WEEKLY EVENING MEETING. Sir BENJAMIN COLLINS BRODIE, Bart., D.C.L., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. MR. FARADAY, D.C.L., F.R.S., ON CERTAIN MAGNETIC ACTIONS AND AFFECTIONS. All bodies subject to magnetic induction, when placed in the ordinary magnetic field between the poles of a mag net, are affected ; paramagnetic bodies tend to pass bodily from weaker to stronger places of force, and dia magnetic bodies from stronger to weaker pine/8 of force. If the bodies are elongated, then those that are para. magnetic set along the lines of force, and those that are diamagnetic across them : but if these bodies have a spherical form, are amorphous, and are perfectly free from magnetic charge, they have no tendency to set in a par ticular direction. Nevertheless, there are bodies of both classes, which being crystalline, have the power of set ting when a single crystal is wrought into the form of a sphere, and these are called magne-crystals ; their num ber is increasing continually ; carbonate of lime, bismuth, tourmaline, &c., are of this nature. Bodies which, being magnetic, set, because they aro elongated, are greatly in fluenced in the force of the set by the nature of the me dium surrounding them, and to such an extent that they not merely vary in their force from the maximum to nothing, but will often set axially in one medium, and equatorially in another. Yet the same bodies, if magne crysiallic and formed into spheres, though they set well in the magnetic field, will set with the same force what ever the change in the media about them, and are perfectly freed from the influence of the latter. Thus, if a crystal of bismuth formed into a ,sphere, or a vertical cylinder, has, when suspended, its magne-crystallio axis horizontal, and if the ♦arious media about it, from saturated solu- tion of sulphate of iron up to phosphorus, through air, water, alcohol, oil, be changed one for another, no alte ration in the amount of torsion force required to displace the magne-crystal will occur, provided the force of the magnet be constant, not withstanding that the list of media includes highly paramagnetic and diamagnetic bodies ; and in such cases the measurement of the power of set is relieved from a multitude of interfering cir- eatnstances existing in other cases, and that power which is dependent upon the internal structure and condition of the substance is proved to- be, at the same tempera• ture, always the same. A consequence of magne-crystallic structure is that the same body is more paramagnetic, or more diamagnetic in one direction than in another ; and, therefore, it fol lows that though such a crystal may have no variation in set-force, produced by change of the surrounding me dium, it may have a variation produced in the absolute force of attraction or repulsion ; even up to the point of being attracted in one position and repelled in another, though no change in form, or in the surrounding me dium, or in the force of the magnet, or in the stature of the body itself, be made; but simply a change in the di •rection of the structure. This was shown by a crystal of the red forro-prussiate of potassa, which, being coated carefully with wax, was suspended from the arm of a torsion balance, so that it dipped into a solution of proto sulphate of iron occupying the magnetic field.* When the inagne-crystallic axis was parallel to the lines of force the crystal was attracted by the magnetic pole, when it was perpendicular to the lines of force the crystal was repelled ; acting like a paramagnetic and diamagnetic in turns. No rnagne-crystal has yet been found having such a relation to a vacuum, or t) carbonic acid (its mag netic equivalent) ; calcareous spar is nearly coincident with such a medium, and shows different degrees of force in the two directions, but is always a little on the diamag netic side. Calcareous spai• having a trace of iron has been found ♦ery nearly up to the desired point s on the para magnetic side ; and as these preserve the full magne•crye tallic relation of the two directions, there is no reason to suppose that a crystal may not be found which may not be paramagnetic in one direction, and diamagnetic in another, in respect of space as zero. There is every reason to be.ieve that the general mag netic relations of a magne-crystal are the same with those of the same substance in the amorphous state, and that the circumstances which influence one influence the other to the same degree. In that case, the magnetic affections of a body might be ascertained by the exami nation of the rnagne-crystallic affections ; thus the effect of heat upon bismuth, tourmaline, &c., might be exa mined by the set of the crystals, and with so much the greater advantage that short globular forms could be used, perfectly free from the magnetic influence of the surrounding media required as temperature baths, and requiring no displacement of these media with the mo tion of the crystal. So crystals of bismuth, teurnialine, carbonate of iron, and other bodies, were suspended i❑ baths of oil, water, &c., the temperature gradually raised and lowered, and the torsiou force of the set for each force of 200 at 20 deg. F. was reduced to a force of 70 at 300 deg., and the diminution of force appeared to be nearly equal in all parts of the scale fo: an equal number of degrees. A piece of amorphous bismuth, compressed in ono direction, gave nearly the same amount and de gree of change for the same alteration of temperature ; leading us to the persuasion that the whole magnetic force of bismuth as a diamagnetic body would suffer little change. A crystal of tourmaline, which at 0 deg. had a setting force of 540, when raised to 300 degrees, had a setting force of only 270 ; the loss of force was progressive, being greater at lower than at high temperatures ; for a change from 0 deg. to 30 deg. caused a loss of force equal to 50, whilst a change from 270 deg. to 300 deg. caused a 10-s of only 20. Carbonate of iron snffered a like change ; at 0 deg. the force was 1,140, at 300 deg. it was only 415 ; at the lower temperature the loss for 30 deg. was 120 loss of force, at the upper it was only 34, In all these and in many other cases, both with para magnetic and diamagnetic bodies, the magne-crpstallio differences diminished with the elevation of tempera ture ; and therefore it may be considered probable that the actual magnetic forcelchanged in the same direction. Bet on extending the results to iron, nickel, and cobalt, employing these metals as very small prisms associated with copper cubes to give them weight, it was found that another result occurred. Iron, whether at the tempera ture of 30 deg. or 300 deg., or any intermediate degree, underwent no change of force ; it remained at 300, which was the expression for the piece employed under the circumstances. We know that at higher temperatures it loses power, and that at a bright red it is almost desti tute of inductive magnetic force. A piece of nickel, which at 95 deg. had a setting power of 300, when raised to 285 deg., had a power of only 220, so that it had lost a thirtieth part of its force; at the heat of boiling oil it is known to lose nearly all its force, being unable then to affect a magnetic needle. Cobalt, on the other band, requires a far higher temperature than iroa to remove its magnetic character, a heat near that of melting copper being necessary. As to lower tempera tures it was found that an elevation from 70 deg. to 300 deg. caused an absolate increase of the magnetic force from 293 to 333. It is evident, therefore, that there is a certain temperature, or range of temperature above 300 deg., at which the magnetic force of cobalt is a maxi mum ; and that elevation above, or depression below, that temperature causes a diminution of the force. The case is probably the same for iron, its maxiraum magne tic force occurring at temperatures between 0 deg. and 300 deg. If nickel is subjected to the same conditions of a maximum, then that state must come on at tempera tures below 0 deg.; and it may be further remarked, that as the maximum conditions occur in the following order for ascending temperatures, nickel, iron, cobalt, such also is the same order for the temperatures at which they lose their high and distinctive magnetic place among metals. " volume 3 of saturated solution, at 65 deg. F., mad 1 volume of water. LIVERPOOL, March 8.--The British and North Ame rican mail steam-ship Persia, Judkins commander, sailed hence to-day on her second voy a g e to N ew York. She had 105 passengers on board and a large cargo. Before sailing, Captain Judkins, whose opinion is of great weight, expressed a belief that the Pacific has been " froz©n up" among the ice, and that she will probably ere this have reported her own safety at New York, " stony-hearted" streets of London ! Bless __ - ing3 on the shade of Little Dorrit, who- Little Dorrit. No. IV. By Charles Dickens. ther she live or die and on the large "Oh, ain't it d'licious !"—as the cake and the and gentle heart of the great writer whose wino to Maggy—to us, this new number 'or tittlE — Wittial - pen is now conjuring up her small sweelk Dorrit, by Charles . Dickens ! As full of " good shape so deftly, daintily, magically into existence I things" as the cake ; as ripe, and mellow, an d What a picture it is that wondrous picture of the warming to the heart's core, - as the wine ! It in- London streets at night with the stray drunkards troduces us, this fourth glorious number, to—we , reeling , home, and the woman still more astray, don't know how many now and delightful charac- who, besides being neither ugly nor wicked-look. ters. It carries us, in the twelfth chapter, down ! ing, was yet young—" Far too young to be ther e , into " Bleeding Heart Yard." It makes us ac- Heaven knows !"—and the gas lamps shining in quainted, in the thirteenth, with everything (upon the silent highways and byeways of that vast that head) "Patriarchal." It allows us in the and awful city, and over all—God's holy fourteenth, with the tears in o ur e y es , t o make an starlight far away ! A wonderful picture--anir invisible "other" at "Little Dorrit's Party." this, remember, in the self-same number of Lit,t& Blessings on the genial heart that beats through Dorrit which introduces us to Plornish the P/as all, upon the kindly humour, upon the gentle na- terer, and to Patriarchal Christopher Casby, and ture, upon the earnest feeling, upon the abound- to the little snorting Tug Paucks, and to poor 'ng, animated, exhilarating, inexhaustible imagina- I silly, red-faced Flora, and, best of all, to that pre ion ! posterous little old woman, Mr. F.'s Aunt, with LITE R AT URE. Bleeding Heart Yard and Plornish the Plasterer, both of them, go even far beyond our expectations. Bleeding Heart Yard—over whose gateway Daniel Doyce's factory was " often heavily beating like a bleeding heart of iron, with the clink of metal upon metal !"—with its " one little golden grain of poetry" sparkling in the earthiest and coarsest sand that filled the hour-glass of its ill-to-do and toiling population : to wit, its cherished legend of the love-lorn song with the woful burden—" Bleeding Heart, Bleeding Heart, bleeding away !"—itself (that is the Yard), " all abundantly garnished with light children nursing heavy ones !"—and so on, through its many most striking and wonderfully truthful characteristics. Ploruish, also, living in it, hard by "a lime-splashed gateway, in a corner" where he kept "a ladder and a barrel or two"—Plorhisb, " smooth-cheek ed, fresh-coloured, sandy-whiskered," about thirty, "long in the legs, yielding at the knees, foolish in the face, flannel-jacketted, lime-whitened !" As his Missus saith—" This is Plornish, sir.' Plornish, who lifts his oldest child (aged four) upon his knee, that he may have " the moral support of talking to a stranger over his head I"—who picks a bit of lime out of his whisker, " and, putting it between his lips, turns it with his tongue like a sugarplum "—talking tautologically throughout, and vowing " it 'll be ekally a pleasure and a it 'll be ekally a pleasure and a —" until finding himself unable to balance his sentence after two efforts, he wisely drops it ! And Mrs. Plornish, too—what a portrait hers is! Opening the door, with a child in her arms, and with her unoccupied hand hastily arranging the upper part of her dress —of whom and of whose casual doings in this par ticular, writes the nature-observing historian of Little Dorrit, " this was Mrs. Plornish, and this natural action was the action of Mrs. Plornish during a large part of her waking existence !" How exquisite are the slight but all-sufficient profile touches, " bringing out" to the very life the like ness of the homely matron—wife of the humble plasterer—" hushing the baby from side to side " as she talks to Arthur Clennam—" laying her chin upon the little hand as it tried to disarrange the gown again"—" feigning to bite the fingers of the little hand as she kissed it !" A sweet and charm ing picture—that—of a mother in the humbler classes I Then, there are the other characters in troduced—all of them wondrously new, but each of them (already) wondrously familiar. Old Christopher Cashy, owner of that head ! "looking so very large because it shone so much" Ler wig askew, and her irrelevant proclamations And which, besides being peopled with these more prominent characters, makes us casually acquainted—with a laugh in our sleeves or one fairly roared outright—with minor personages of a subordinate kind incidentally " touched in " with a few master-touches in the back-ground, such for example as the gentleman up the stable-yard yon der, the " gentleman with fight drab legs, a rather old hat, a little hooked stick, and a blue necker chief "—one Captain Maroon, of Gloucestershire. Or again, that nameless old fellow in the crowd, a little later on, who stood "shaking his head, inviting, conversation," and having found listeners at last, folded his arms and declaimed to his heart's relief and indignation against " them Mails !" This latter incident occurring, be it observed, in the . course of the episode which brings Arthur Clennam suddenly upon poor John Baptist Cavaletto, run over by a coach and borne away, bleeding, upon a litter to one of the great London Hospitals. There we leave him under the care of a clever, good-natured house-surgeon (who manipulates the case to admiration upon its first arrival) ; there, we repeat, we leave the poor fellow befriended by Arthur Clennam, and no longer, let us hope, shaking his forefinger with a back-handed shako in the air, and a despair ing "Ah ! Altro, Altro !" As for Arthur Clennam himself—the hero of the story—though we can't, even yet, quite catch the distinguishing fea tures of his good, noble, manly face, we take him into our heart, together with the small, child-like form of Little Dorrit, and love him, and love them both—thoroughly The Ari Journal for March is rich [like its pre decessor in pictorial illustrations and high-class contributions towards the progress of art. Chi e f among the former are an engraving of Hensel's picture of " Miriam," by Bourne. Another of Cups " Troopers," by Hackett, both pictures in the Royal Collection, together with an engraving from Schwanthaler's groupe, known as " The Woodman." Among the latter may be noted " Studies from Life," by W. Multeady, R.A., and " Suggestions of Subject to the Student in Art," by an Old Traveller. " The British Artist," illus trated by Charles Robert Leslie, R.A., whose genius supplies the subjects of several pleasing en gravings on a minor scale. The Merchant's Magazine contains, among a variety of matter calculated to be of service to the important class to which it is addressed, a judicious and well-timed article on " The Changes in the Laws of Partnership." —" so very bumpy in the head [that head!], so grey, so slow, so quiet, so impassionate," that— " Patriarch was the word for him !" Viewed in his juvenile portrait as Master Christopher Casby, aged ten—sitting in it ("on one of his own legs) upon a bank of violets "—or viewed in his ancient reality as old Christopher Casby—seated in his arm-chair with his feet in list shoes, and his list shoes on the rug, and his thumbs slowly revolving over one an other—what a broadly-handled, minutely-finished, richly-coloured, marvellously-actual life-portrait that is ! Himself, with his smooth face, having "a bloom upon it like ripe wall fruit," with his long grey hair at the sides and back of—that head ! shining " like floss silk or spun glass," and " look ing so benevolent because it was never cut ;" with his elephantine Ram habited in a long wide skirted bottle-green coat and a bottle-green pair of trowsers and a bottle-green waistcoat—in regard to all which, saith Boa, drily—" the Patriarchs were not dressed in bottle-green broad cloth and yet his clothes looked patriarchal !" Christopher Casby's conversation, too—reminding one somehow of what Sam Weller once upon a time said to the gorgeous flunky in sky blue, "Sir, I likes your conwersa tion—it's werry pretty." Christopher talking at these moments in little vapid repetitions, with his hands crossed before him, speaking softly the while, " with his head on one side and a gentle smile, as if he had something in his thoughts, too sweetly profound to be put into words." Nay, more, "as if he denied himself the pleasure of uttering it, lest he should soar too high; and his meekness there fore preferred to be unmeaning." And Flora Canby also, his daughter, daughter of Christopher, offspring of " that head"—a surprising Minerva, born of an unwieldy Jove in bottle-green broad cloth ! Flora—Arthur Clennam's old flame— whom he had left a lily and found a peony—who, " always tall, had grown to be very broad too, and short of breath"—who had once seemed so enchant ing, but now proved so diffuse and silly—chattering without any regard to punctuation, indulging in no longer stops than cornin , ts, and even iu those very sparingly,---Flora, stout, reel, simpering, short winded, " as to me you know"—(she confesses as much herself with a little scream)—" oh 1 I am dreadful !" And so she is, in sooth—yet with a kindly touch of human tenderness through all, through her giggles, and her breadth, awl her short wind, and her general " rcd-facedness." But —Pancks 1 The little black energetic Tug, that takes that lumbering, selfish, drifting old Booby of a Christopher Casby, in tow—Pancks, the quick, eager, short, dark man who comes into the room with so much " way" upon him and greets Arthur Clennam with a " Halloo !" Who while Cleunam explains his being there—. " holds his breath and looks at him." Here he is. Look at him ! SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. Closing Prices is day RAUMATII. Aoerat;ou .. ~,,,,, .. Ambg. Nottng. Bost and Bastn. Junct Belfast & Ballymena inning. Wolyerh, & Stour Valley ..... ~. Birk oand. LancsL. & Cheshire Jnnct 00. Choph. dr Birk., £5O and 225 Cons Do., £20..... ....... Rlyth & Tyn s origins: £25 (ism'. at 45 riristcl and Exetor laledonian. arm. and Cardigan ester di Holyhead. pork and Bandon pork, Black, &Pass `Cornwall Do. A ,Ltoo all all 8 !1.00 Do. B Crie 'T Junction lin&BelfastJunc Dun. P. & Aher. Jnc East Anglian ' astern Counties.... 4 'ast. Union, A Sti I to., B. Stook 0., New A. East Kent East Lancashire E dint u rgh & Glasgo o Edinb. and Peeblos . Edin. Prth & D undo , Forth & Clyde Juni. Furness Do. Extension lasgow & S. West Great N. of Scotlnd. reat Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. kWest.are Great Western........ Po. Stour Val. lEta; l Gum. Stk Irish South-Easlon. Lancaster S.; Carlisle Do ', Thirds. E Do. New Thirds iLsncash.andYorksh Do., Wet. Riding Un Liv.Crsby.&Southpt London it Black Nialli 100 Lond. Bright & S.Cst. 100 Loud. and N. Woetn. 16 Do. Fifths 51 D0.101.8h.,Mk3...0 Do. Eighths.. 100 London andB. Woetn all Do., £5O all IDo., £4O all Lndndrrydi Colerain all Lrandrry. & Enntali 1 , )0 Maneh.Shef.& Linen g2s. Do., Man. & Lin. tin 1 Metropolitan... ..... 100 idland 100 Do. Birmng. & Der' , all Sidld. G. West. (Ire 1 all Do. Half Shares 5 5 20 10 +ll all R' all 100 21 'lOO 100 3, ls 26 - 27 4 - ... -• M• 8 - 8i 15 - 14 14 - 15 9 - 8 87 - 89 58 -58 i 12 - 13 .•• '"'''' •M 3 - 2 7i - 12t 131 - 94 32 - 34 22 - 24 71 - - 58 25i - 266 1 85 - 87 6i 7 92 - 93 77 - 79 114 -hi 103 - 105 on 611 15 60 72 - 75 1 6i - 74 831 83i 173 al. all • 1 7k - 7i 99 - 100 991 - 100 4d par id parl A A 921 - 93 25 • 25 - * Id G9i —70 i 11 43 , oweastle & Carlisle Nwpt.Aberg. & art' , Newry &Enniskillei Newry Warrenpoin and Rostrevor Norfolk Northn.Counties Ur, North British ~.., ~... , Nth Devon Rai'. k Dock Stock Do., A. Stock... Do., B Stock Do., i B Guarantee N. Eastern—Berwic' Do. do. Extension Do.do. O.N.E. ?uroh De. Leeds . Do. York North London ' N.&S.Wstrn.,Hami-• stead, and City Jn North Sts,ffordshir North Western...., ' N, & S. Wcstrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley, anEl Leicester.. Ox, Wore., .'4,-, Wolv. i'c,rtsmonth Scottish Central Scottish Midland ... Shropshire Ur i ,tt ~. South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. tlx Riv. Du: D. 11 - 13 11 53 34 s t d 29 31 76 - 77 61 • 6 d 41 16} —15 i 52 53 86 90 61 - 61(11 fl i : iiii Staines, Wok. &Wo Stockton & Darli Ater). Hnrtlep Taff Vale... Do. Pref., No. 'l'namos Hay. n.& R. l inverstone St Lant:E rule or Neatli ...... ,Wsterti. & Killen ; IWaterfordealmer: e l s. IWest Cornwall I West End of London and Crystal Palace Do. A 24 - 28 B nsiness done this day. 9 1 i 32 3 all 3 all ail Do. B . West London. iWimblodn & Croydon, 92 i 78 9 120 i 191 1041 4 61} 1 83i j 991 I !04 . 106 74 - 76 46 -- 48 12. 13i 1 66 67 71 - 73 4 - ' 11' - ij& --• 36 31 30} 18 -- 19 -- 44 764 6 14i 52 24i t 6 -- ii 121 66j 70 2 FOREIGN. 10 '.ll A.ntwerpeil). - stt ream 7i -8/ 8 40 40 Do. 5 p.c. Oblgs. con. in Sii.atpartill'6l 111 1 p 20 10 Ardennes 34 4 p 13/ 5 4- l .eigian le.a.,4tn. June 3i ' 20 14 finziers to Gra , t4B.Ofift 11 p 15 18 4. Bombay, Bar oda, an Clutrallndia,Scrit A p 18 all Do. 1.7! ail Demerara 20 11 Dutch Rhenish — 20 all Eastern of France 10 13 Do. N'ew l2 14., 20 All East Indian, g. 5 p 2li - 22 211 2 20 15 Do. ETLensio4 2li 2q 21i f 103 all D0.45p.e.8ud5.,'57 tut) 1.1 Do. do. do.. '1 . •••••• 20 16 Gee ong Melbou. Ike guar. 5 per c it. . „, 20 al Do., Lou. allot., de. ,•-•• 25 22A I Gd. Tk.of CanadaA is 12 —ll d 111 I i 11 25 tl Do. 100 9) Do. Cert. of Leber,. con. into Stk. till 69 71 100 all Do: Comp. 6p. c., do 79 81 20 14 Gt. Central of Fran 5r 6 20 all Gt. Indian Poninsnl ,, 20/ —2l 21 20/ 26 14 Groat Luxembouri. Constituted Share. 5g 51 51 1 4 all Do. Obligations... . 31 31, 31 20 11 Do. re-is. forftd. ah. 20 all Gt.Westernof Cartaea Shares 20: 2 N Do. New 3 i - 3IP 100 all Do. lids., payable's7, with option till '55.. 91 100 100 all Do. do., '62, p. '56... 117 122 100 all Do. do., '76, p. 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Pref. 20 5 ,Scinde, guar. sp. c 1 15 20 all Do 20 all Southern of France — pm 20 16 St. Andrew's and Quebec (it.) , Si r.ll West Flanders 3/ 41 10 all Do 5A per c. Prof 20 18 W. &N. W. of rranc( 34 35 20 all West. of Switzerland • 6 all Wiesbaden .. — 20 all Zealand MIN E:3. 1 all irrin ••• ••• 1 all I inglo Austen. Gold ... lOs all 'Anglo Californian 1 20 61 Australian , 1 1 all lustralian Cordille •• 1 all Ave Marir — ••• 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of ... ••• 50 all Blamar. Iron & Coa- . . ••• 20 14 British Iron 3 35 26 Braziliaaamp.(issue at Vi pm.) 30 all Do. Cocaes fsr Culab: 2 20 15 Dn. St. John Del 8.03 26 2 2/ 6t 4 5 1 I 1 Clarendon Cows. Min Co. of Jamaica p p 43 all :Cobre Copper ...... 66 69 83 5 1 k3olonial Gold — St. all Copper Min. of Eng 33 40 25 all fOo. Prof. 7 3 / 4 p. eon 26 27 ...i 1C Copiapo 2 1 f e'ortuna — id 20 all Genual l4 —l6 1 all Gt.NugrtVciußeg. 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NO 281 Vas Diemen's Land ut tn V o Cio,62 s ooTaniauly. 'l' m Sheep. From Beasts. ftotterclam...... 31 ... Calais - ... •perto Harlingen Antwerp Lambs. Calves. Pigs. ... 34 ... ... ... 90 ... - Total ... 477 ... ... ... 152 ... The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1855 2OO ... ... ... 108 ... 1854 317 ... 1,066 ... ... 131 ... - 1853 551 ... 1,831 ... ... 232 ... [852 lB9 ... 1,297 ... ... 212 ... 1851 442 ... 1,495 ... ... 188 ... 13 A very moderate supply of foreign stock was en offer in to-day's market. The show of Irish stock was confined to 41 beasts and a few pigs. Compared wick Monday last, the supply of hums•fed beasts was very moderate ; but their general quality was good. For all breeds we had rather an active demand, at an advance in the quotations realised on Monday last of 2d per Sibs. The best sorts realised 4s 8d per Sibs, and a good clearance was effected. From Norfolk. Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 1,930 Scots and short horns ; from other parts of Eeglaud, 220 of various breath ; and, from Scotland, 500 horned and polled Scots, chiefly by railway. With sheep we were tolerably well supplied, and most breeds came to hand in fair condition. Prime Downs sold readily, at an improvement in the quotations of 2d per 81bs. Other breeds were less active, yet, in some instances, prices had an upward tendency. The best old Downs realised 5s par Blbs. The best clipped sheep produced 4s 2d per 81bs. The few lambs in the market changed hands freely, on higher terms—the top figure being 74 2d per Subs. Calves—the supply of which was very limited—sold steadily, at as improvement in value of 2d per Sibs. The best calves were worth 5s 8d per 81bs. There was very little inquiry for pigs, at last week's quotations. Per Blbs to sink the offal*. e. d. Inferior Beaste....3 2to Second quality.... 3 6 Prime large oxen 4 0 Prime Scots, dm 4 6 Inferior Shoop ...3 4 Second quality ...3 10 Prime crse. -wiled. 4 4 s. d. I s. d. s. d. 3 4 PrimeSouthdown 4 8 5 0 3lu Largo cm. calves 4 2 6 0 4 4 (Prime small do 5 2 5 8 4 B i Largo hogs 3 8 Small porkers 4 4 410 4 2Suckling calvos 22 0 29 0 4 6,Quarterold pigs 21 0 28 0 1 FOREIGN 1117PPLT. neut.! 3,757 j Beasts...... •• ....•••••• • 184 sheep ••• •• ..•• •• —21,740 Shewo ..•• •• •• .• •• .• •••••• TOTAL SIMPLY. •••... 35 1 Calves..• • •• • • • • • • • • • • • • Pigs •• •• •• •• •••••••• •• 505 •• •• •• •• A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, March 12, 1855, and in the Metropolitan Market this day, Monday, March 10, I 556, Per 81hs, to sink the offals. March 12, 18.55.',Mareh10,'56 s. d. s. d. s. d. Coarse and inferior beasts ... 3 4 to 3 6,3 2to 3 4 Second quality ditto 3 8 4 =l3 6 310 Prime large ones 4 6 4 84 0 4 4 Prime Scots, 410 5 011 6 4 8 Coarse and inferior sheep ... ... 3 6 3 10 1 1 4 3 8 Second quality ditto 4 0 4 4,3 10 4 2 Prime coarse woolled ditto 4 6 4 10:1 4 4 6 Prime Southdown ditto .. 5 0 5 24 S 5 0 Lambs 0 0 0 010 0 0 0 Large coarse calves 4 2 4 814 2 5 0 Prime small ditto ... 410 5 4,5 2 5 8 Large hogs ... ... 3 0 4 03 6 4 2 Neat small porkers .„ ... 4 2 4 414 4 410 Boasts_ ... 3,984 3,757 Sheep ... 17,560 21,740 Calves... ... 43 35 Pigs ..................325 805 SUPPLIES ON S.sts, March 13, 1854.—Beasts, 4,395; sheer. 20,320; calves, 102; pigs, 335. March 14, 1853. Beasts, 4,206 ; sheep, 16,110; calves, 104 ; pigs, 215. NEWOATE AND LEA DENTIALL. We aro fairly, though not to say heavily, supplied with both town and country-killod meat. Generally speaking, the demand steady, as follows : P©r Sibs by tho carcase. s. d. s. d. Reef, inferior 210 3 0 Do., middling 3 2 3 6 Do. prima large 3 8 3 111 , do. small 4 0 4 2 Park, large .3 2 3 10 B. d. s. d. Mutton, inferior 2 le 3 0 Do., 3 2 3 6 Do., prime 3 8 4 2 Veal 3 8 4 10 Pork, mall 4 0 4 8 BOROITGII HOP. Largo supplies of hope centinue on sale in our market. With the exception of the finest qualities being in mode rate request, at foil prices, the trade generally is heavy, at barely the late fall in value,. Last week's imports were 5i bales from Hamburg, and 114 from Rotterdam. Mid and East Kent pockets, 3/ Os to 61 10s per cwt ; Weald of Kouts, 31 Oe to 5/ Os. ; gussex, 2/ Hs to 41 103. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Since Monday last full average supplies of potatoes have come to band, coastwise and by railway. Generally speak ing, the demand is heavy, as follows : York Regents, 80s to 15s ; Kent and Essex, do., 70s to 80s ; Scotch do., 60s to 70s ; do. cups, 45s to 50s ; middlings, 40a to 455; Lincolns, 50a to 60s; blues, 50s to 60s por ton. WOOL. The public sales of colonial wool have been brought to a close. The prices realised during their progress showed an advance in the quotations of from 2d to as much All 5d per lb. The demand by private contract is firm, at very full prices. The imports, last week, were only 27 bales from Alexandria, 41. from Hamburg, and 20 from Ostend. The following are the current rates of English wool : Down togs, is lid to 1830 ; half-bred hoggets, is 2d to is 3d ; do. wailers, is id to is 2d ; Kent, fleeces, is 2d to is 2kl; combing skin, lid to is 2d ; Down ewes, is 2d to Is 371: Leicester fleeces, is to is 10; flannel wool, is ld to is 21d ; blanket wool, 9d tols ld per lb. DS. We have a moderate deman fully lnst week's currency. I: ness is doing. id for linseed and cakes, at n other seeds a limited busi- TurnlP,Whito,per bush. 22s to 25si _ ,1 Swede ..•• Knstcrd, Brown.• •• 14s 24 1/hite, new •• • • .. Ss I Is ares,Wlnter, new.... 7s Od 13 Od Canary, per quarter 62, Rye grass• • •• .. •• 248 30s ClOTer,RedEng . (cwt.) 764 s 6; White .• •• 83s 105, Foreign Red.. •• 6q 7 ;,4 Whlte•• 74s 954, Trefoil. new.. •• •• •• 405 464; Carraway (new) ...... 42s 44s C0riander............ 2fia 30s Rempseed, per quarter 54s 60s Linseed, Eng.'iowing.. —a a Crushing •• •• •. 64s 6Ss Raltic .......... —s —a Odessa .......... —s —a Linseed Cake, pr. ton— Fnglish ...131 Os 131 Cs Foreign,por ton 12/ Os 13 , 10 s Rapo Cakes, pr ton GI 14s 71 5s 11.apesood, sew, pr qr., 89s 90s TALLOW. Since our last report only a moderate business has been transacted in tallow, and prices have shown a disposition to give way. To-day, P.Y.C., on the spot, is quoted at 57s 6d per cwt. Town tallow, 51s nett cash ; rough fat, 2e 10d. 1852. 1853. 1854. 3G.3G9 30.079 23,123 643 Od to 493 31 to 573 61 —s 0,1 —s Od to —3 01 1,354 1,233 1,073 81,514 65,454 87,568 937 707 470 93,484 65,531 64,149 64s 91 DOS 01 531 G 4, 1655. la~ti. Stock this day ....... Price of Y. C Delivery last week .. Ditto from June 1.... Arrivals last week.. Ditto from Junol Price of T0n...... 46,849 3,369 36a 3d tol 44s Od 36a 9d !te,-8 OC 2,495 2,235 90,249 82,836 780 78,577 45s 9d 100,664 38, 91 LIR TRIAL OP WILLIAM PILMSR.—It ie understood that the trial of Wm. Palmer, of Rugeley, will be fixed for the May Session at the Central Criminal Court, under the new Criminal Bill, which will shortly become an act of Parliament. riricEs. " He *as dressed in black, and ru3ty iron grey ; had jet black beads of eyes; a scrubby little black chin ; wiry black hair striking out from his head in prongs, like forks or hair-pins ; and a complexion that was very clingy by nature, or very dirty by art, or a compound of nature and art. He had dirty hands and dirty broken nails, and looked as if he bad been in the coals ; he was in a perspi ration, and snorted and sniffad and puffed and blew, like a little labouring steam-engine." Cheek by jowl with whom, at Christopher Casby's dinner-table, is a companion personage, the like of whom we don't any whore remember in all the long, wide range of humorous literature. Ob serve 1— MR. F.'S AUNT. " This was an amazing little old woman, with a face like a staring wooden doll too cheap fur expression, and a stiff yellow wig parched unevenly on the top of her head, as if the child who owned the doll had driven a tack through it anywhere, so that it only got fastened on. Another remark able thing in this little old woman was, that the same child seemed to have damaged her face in two or three places with some blunt instrument in the nature of a spoon ; her countenance, and particularly the tip of her nose, present ing the phenomena of several dints, generally answering to the bowl of that article. A further remarkable thing in this little old woman was, that she had no name but Mr. F'. Aunt. • • • • • • . • • The major characteristics discoverable by the stranger in Mr. F's Aunt, were extreme severity and grim tacitur nity; sometimes interrupted by a propensity to offer re marks, in a deep warning voice, which, being totally un called for by anything said by anybody,aud traceable to no association of ideas, c mfounded and terrified the mind. Mr. F's Aunt may have thrown in these observations on some system of her own, and it may have been ingenious, or even subtle; but the key to it was wanted." So—in the middle of a neatly-served and well cooked dinner of soup, soles, shrimp-sauce, and potatoes—to begin with—Mr: F's Aunt, after re- , garding the company for ten minutes with a male volent gaze, delivers the following fearful remark -poi • " When we lived at Henley, Barnes's gander was stole by tinkers." So, too, when the dinner is well over—finishing with mutton, a steak, and an apple-pie " (nothing in the remotest way con nected with ganders)"—this same Mr. - F.'s Aunt "strikes again, into the conversation like a clock, without consulting anybody," with—" The monu ment, near London -bridge, was put up arter the Great Fire of London, and the Great Fire of Lon don was not the fire in which your uncle George's workshops was burned down." Until Arthur Clennam (and no wonder) becomes absolutely frightened by these sepulchral proclamations, and Mr. F.'s aunt winds all up with the Solomonic sentiment " I hate a fool !' to which she imparts so extremely injurious and personal a character, by levelling it straight at the visitor's head that it becomes necessary to lead her from the room I [The subject, by the way, of one of Phiz's hap piest illustrations giving us The Tug, The Patriarch, the simpering Flora, and that staring wooden doll with the face " too cheap for expres sion," that wonderful inventor of the system with out a key, " Mr. F. a Aunt"—all of them delight fully, inimitably.] As for the last, sad, charming, beautiful chapter in the fourteenth number of Little Dorrit, we can scarcely as yet, of course, appreciate its full significanoe. That, be sure, iu all good time, will duly appear in the dim, sorrow ful hereafter ! It hints already, we cannot but believe and fear—the final death of dear exquisite Little Dorrit--a homelier, older, yet scarcely less child-like, or less poetical creation than the angel-heroine of the dear " Old Curi osity Shop"—a Little Nell, not of the rural roads, on the village green, or the ivy-man- Aled church, but of the sordid, squalid, miry, THEATRICAL NEWS. Dnußv-LANE.--The production of Mr. Stirling Coyne's comedy, which was in rehearsal at Drury-lane, has been postponed in consequence of the close of the drtimatio season at Easter being near at band. It will be brought forward on the re-opening of the theatre next autumn, with Mr. Charles Mathews in the principal character. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—An original three-act comedy entitled "The Evil Genius," from the pen of Bayle Bernard, Esq., was produced here on Saturday evening with the most decided success. It is an interesting, well written p'ar, admirably acted throughout, and will prove a decided "hit" for the indefatigable lessee—a circum ttance that will afford great pleasure to the whole of his admirer. The following i. an outline of the plot i—A. certain Mr. Hill Cooley (Chippendale), a man of very humble origin, having amassed a fortune in the East Indies, returns to his native land to spend it. Previous to leaving England he bad married a servant girl by whom he had a son, and believing that the boy is dead, and that all recollection of him has passed away, he is induced to settle is Derbyshire. However ' one of his old acquaint ances turns up in the person of Tum Ripetone (Mr. tuck atone), who, being in possession of the knowledge, finds that Co9ley is in a state of great anxiety lest the circus' stance should come to the knowledge of a certain proud lady, Mrs. Montgomery (Mrs. Poynter), to whom he is about to In married. The son, whom he be- lieves to be dear), be shocked to learn from Ripstone, who he terns his evil geeius,is still alive. The proud nabob shrinks from the thought of meeting his neglected child—the fruit of his ignoble marriage—and believing that Ripstone means to expose him, he Wee to get bim out of the way by cmisine; him to be arrested for a bill which he has passed to Mrs. Montgomery. Tom, how ever, contrives to turn the tables on his enemies, and raises a hearty laugh against the lady by intercepting wig which had been sent,. by her hairdr.sser. At the same time he manages to unite Clara Fielding (Miss Swanboroug'u), the ward of Hill Cooley, to Barton (Mr. Villiers), a young surgeon, who turns out to be the sou of the nabob, whom the kind-hearted Rip-tone had brought up and educated after he had been deserted by his father. Of the actiog of the different artistes engaged in the performance we roust speak in the highest terms of praise. The Tom Ripstone of Mr. Buckstone was the most perfect embodiment of good humour it is possible to ima eine —in a word, his acting of the part was perfection. Three new scenes, viz., the parlour of a villa in Derbyshire, the gardens before the village, and the park and coun- try mansion of the parvenu Cooley, were capital speci mens of the scene-painter's art. The comedy was re ceived with the most enthusiastic npplauso, and at the fall of the curtain there was a general call for Mr. Buck• stone, who came forward and announced the piece for repetition every evening. The house was fully and fashionably attended. FLEX/SORE'S BENEFIT.- -The celebrated paetominiiet. Flexinore, who filled the role of Clown in the panto mime of " Henry the Eighth" during the late season at Covent-garden takes his benefit at the Lyc_une on Wed nesday evening next. He is so well known and appre ciated that the house is certain to be well attended. Mr. Anderson will appear in " Black-eyed Susan," and the beneficiairs has secured theeervices of a host of vocal and terpsichorean talent. SURREY THEATRE.—The melodrama of "The Sailor of France" has been produced with great success at this theatre during the list week. Mr. Shepherd personates the French tar with a fine perception of the real fun of the character. Miss Seyton, a debutante from the pro vinces, promises to he a valuable addition to the com pany. Altogether the piece is very effective. . The services of Mons. Jullien have been secured by Messrs. Cramer, Beale, and Co., of Regent-street, for a series of musical performances in which the great master of the baton may display his energies to advantage. The same firm have also entered into an engagement with M. and Mme. Gassier, and with Mr. Swift, the new tenor. That charming singer, Mine. Gassier, will appear in London, on the operatic stage, after an absence of several months, next Thursday evening, for the benefit of Mr. Loder, in the ever-pleasing "La Soneambula.” MARYLEBONE THEATRE.—This pretty little theatre will commence its summer mason under a new manage ment, and with a choice company, selected from the members of the Theatres Royal Drury-lace, Lyceum, Sadler's-wells, Edinburgh, Hull, &c. Among the stars engaged, we have heard the names of Mr. Charles Mathews, Mr. Barry Sullivan, Miss Fitzpatrick, and Mrs. J. W. Wallack, mentioned. The new lessee, Mr. E. Seaman, has placed the acting and stage management in the able bands of Mr. Edward Stirling. Among young musical and theatrical artistes about to rise on the horizon (not, in truth, before they are wanted), we hear of a younger Miss Keeley, from whom we are bidden to expect good things. THE DRAMA IN AUSTRALii. — Catherine Hayes has become so great a favourite with the Melbourne people that ber announced departure has brought forth an ad dress to the lady, numerously and respectably signed, in which she is earnestly requested to continue for some time longer her operatic performances in that town. G. V. Brooke has appeared for the first time in the character of Richard the Third, at Coppin's Olympic, where the play was revived at some cost, and with much care, last November. The house was crowded on the occasion, and at the fall of the curtain there was a general call for Mr. Brooke. Shylock is, however, considered by the Australian public as his very best impersonation. COVENT- GARDEN THEATRE. —The ruins of this vast building were yesterday visited by many thousands of persons, and the police had an office of difficulty in preserving the crowd from accident. The demolition of the walls has now commenced, and in a very few days the lofty outline of the theatre will be brought down to the level of the adjoining houses. FIRE AT DEIIIIY-LANE THEATRE. —On Friday after noon great alarm was created among the servants of Drury•lane Theatre in consequence of the discovery of a smouldering fire in the " flies" of the stage. With little difficulty the flames were soon arrested without causing any material mischief. Mr. Braidwood, the su -1 perintendent of the fire brigade, was immediately sent 1 for by Mr. Smith, the lessee, and on his arrival at the theatre a strict inquiry was instituted into the cause of the fire. It was eventually traced to have resulted from wadding in an ignited state, discharged from a gun fired in the course of the performance of the pantomime the previous evening falling into one of the beams in the flies, and the timber being exceedingly dry it qu:ckly ignited, and from its proximity with the scenery, &c., its early discovery is considered most fortunate. A few hours later and Old Drury would have met de fate of Covent garden. Neither the theatre nor its contents are insured. LONDON THEATRES DESTROYED BY FIBS.--Drury lane, 1672 and 1809 ; her Majesty's, 1789 ; Pantheon, 1792 ; Astley, 1794, 1803, and 1841 ; Surrey (Circus), 1 1805 ; Covent-garden, 1808 and 1856 ; Royalty, 1826 I English Opera House, 1830 ; Argyll Rooms, 1880; Olympic 1849 ; Pavilion, 1856. ~.