The Sun. — London, England, 1856-05-05 00:00:00

4. 5 S 5 0 5 8 4 4 8 20 0 0 -a a r• The rted• ; do. 70i; ton. Tr 77,1 rel iv ? , .rzr R VI 0 5 N AND C °MAI RCIAL, INTELLIGENCE, CITY, Two o'CLocR The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed quietly, but steadily at the current rates of Friday. The sales were 6,000 bales, (500 for emport and 1,000 on speculation), comprising in addition to American, 90 Pernam and Maranham, Gid. to 7d. ; 100 Bahia, Gfd. to Gid ; and 1,500 Surat, 40. to 42d. per lb. The Railway Share Market closed at a decline of to per cent. on the quota tions of Friday. The commercial intelligence received to-day from New York by the steamer Washington notices the arrival at that port of the George Law with nearly a million and a half of dollars in gold from Cali fornia. The export of the precious metals to Europe during the week ending April 12 wets limited, viz., 6,850 dollars, but according to the weekly official returns of the City Banks, notwith standing the heavy receipts from San Francisco, the stock of specie, continued to diminish. Thus the latestreturnscompleted for the week ending the 12th Wt. show a decline in this department of $755,000. The other items of the statement when compared with those of the previous week are unfavourable, an increase of 878,000 dollars having taken place on the loans and discounts. The market for Public Securities was dull, the peace news received out by the Baltic, from England, having been somewhat anticipated. At a meeting of the Commissioners of Emigration, it was stated that the arrivals this year had been 10,823 persons against 18,966 at the same period of 1855. The Statesman has arrived off the Scilly Islands from Geelong with 14,198 ounces of gold, valued at 56,7921., but her advices have been anticipated by the last overland mail. The Ellenborough, from New South Wales, is also announced, but she is not supposed to have any gold on board. At the close of last week the Havre cotton mar ket continued quiet, without any sensible change in prices. About 1,100 bales were sold by public auction, and realised from 88f. 50c. per 50 kilos. to 93f. for ordinary very ordinary Louisiana, which was favourable for the purchasers. The quotations of New Orleans are for very ordinary 95f., low ditto 89f., and very low ditto 82f. The sales of the week for all sorts comprised 8,609 bales, and the arrivals were 10,745 bales. The stock on hand on the 2d inst. amounted to 96,372 bales, against 68,726 bales at the corresponding period last year. The quantity of cotton arrived at Havre from the United States during the four months of the pre lent year was 31,457 bales, against 56,721 bales in 1855 ; and the number of vessels from Havre 27 during both periods. Now that peace is concludad, and the prospects of an abundant harvest aro evident throughout Prance, it is anticipated that the prohibition against the distillation of spirit from grain in that country will be rescinded this summer. This pos sible contingency, and that of a plenteous vintage, has affected the principal spirit markets. At Bor deaux, Languedoc brandy of 86 deg. is now 143 f. per hectolitre ; and fine beetroot spirit, first quality, 90 deg. strength, 106 f., being a decline of about 2f. per hectolitre ; and contracts for June are effected at 103 f. Wines are not much in request, and average from 450 f. to 460 f. per tun for ordinary qualities ; and inferior kinds, at public auction, realise from 325 fr. to 375 fr., such as Fromm. The Money Market on Saturday was very tight, in consequence of the liquidation of the large mass of commercial bills which then fell due, the 4th being Sunday. Although in several instances some embarrassment was felt no failure of im portance was announced. The English Stock Market is rather buoyant this Morning, in consequence of the increased disposi tion on the part of the public to make investments, and the belief now confidently expressed that the financial ,statement, to ho published on the 19th inst., will be of a more favourable character than was at first anticipated, also tends to impart firmness to quotations. The expectation that only a small loan will be required has been strengthened by the statement that of the 4,998,000/. voted for army services this year, not More than 20,747,0001. will be necessary in conse quence of the return to peace. The inference is that the other estimates will be similarly reduced. The Funds this morning opened at an advance f Per Cent., which has been fully maintained. Con sols for money have been 92 to 93 and, for ac account (the Bt,h inst.) 921 to 93, while for June the value is 93i The New 3 per Cents. are 92 to 92k, and the Reduced, 91i Bank Stock is 1 per cent. higher, viz., 211 to 2111. The March Exchequer Bills are par, amd the June ditto, Bs. to 4s. discount. India Bonds are 101 -, . to ss. discount. _ Foreign Securities are generally firmer, but the business done has not been extensive. Mexican Bonds have advanced to 221 Spanish Deferred to 24k, and Turkish 6 per Cents. to 978. Vene zuela Bonds are marked 28i, ditto Deferred 121. Grenada New Active 18, and ditto Deferred 6. There have been dealings in Austrian 5 per Cents. at 84, and in Dutch Certificates at 93i to 94. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Mexican, 221,1 ; Peruvian, 77 9 ; Ditto 3 per Cents., 54 6 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 48 50 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 104 6 ; Ditto 4i per Cents., 94 6 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 441 ; Ditto De ferred, 241 5 ; Ditto Certificates, 5 ; Ditto Pas sive, 6i 7i. Railway Shares are all at improved prices, but the market continues quiet. Great Western, Brighton, South-Western, and North-Eastern Berwick are ss. to . 10s. better. The Foreign and Colonial Shares are very dull. _ _ Banking Shares are firmer, and Australian Agri• cultural have risen 10s. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES, From tlit Obicial List. , _ . finglne. , done. Bank Stock 3 per Ueut. Redlf.ced A.nunitis. . 3 per Cent Consols Annuities New 3 per Oent. Annuities : Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1660..... =-- .. Ditto 31) Years, expire sth April, 1885... 17_1- 16 . . India Stock India Bonds, £lOOO ........ ... ....... . 5 d Ditto, under 21000 5 10 d Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, 21d. March. June. £1000 I £5OO 'mall Ditto Bonds, 1858, 3i per Cont.. 971 Ditto, 1359 PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Grenada New Active, 21 per Cent. Ditto Deferred 6l .. Mexican 3 per Cent Ditto Account Russian Bonds, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent — Ditto 4. per Cent. Bp inikl Bowls, :3 per Cent ••• .." Ditto Few Deferred, 3 per Cent. . Ditto Account 94i 5 Ditto Passive Turkish Bonds, 6 p‘r cent 97 i Ditto Account Vffliezuela Bonds, 41 per Cent Ditto Deferred, 1. per Cent. . .... . 0tvt,,,,0,1,. 0, t • e above • . TAhla in 1.0311013. Austrian Bonds, 10 Gull., £, 5 per Cont. 84 Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent., 12 Guilders Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificate .„; 94 3 x d THREE O'CLOCK. 92h 3 . 921 3 Consols for Money Ditto Account (May b) RETIREMFNT OF MR. F. R. WERT, M.P.--Mr. F. R. West, M.P., has issued an address to the burgesses o; the Denbigh boroughs, in which he states that the state of his health renders it incumbent upon him to abstain from seeking, at a future election, the honour of again becoming their representative.— Carnarvon Herald. Tua LONGFORD ELECTION. — The nomination is fixed for the 13th inst. The Hon. King Harman is expected to stand in the Conservative interest. Mr. George Hecry Hughes, ex-Solicitor-General, is gone to L•ing ford to try his fortune once more. Alderman Reynolds has been there before him, but the opinion here is bis honour will not go to the poll. Mr. Harman has a rea sonable chance of success, for the people in the county Longford have no especial regard for mere place bunters. The election for a member of Parliament for Chelten ham is about to take place immediately. Mr. Grenville Berkeley having accepted a oommissionership of Cus toms, which causes an unexpected vacancy in the re presentation of the borough. A meeting of Liberals in the Berkeley interest was held yesterday afternoon at the George Hotel, when the fact of the present member's 'retirement was communicated to his friends, and at which it was resolved to bring forward Capt. F. William, son of Admiral Berkeley, as Mr. G. Berkeley's successor. A Conservative candidate is expected. The nomination is fixed for Wednesday.-014eItenham Looker-on. )3 22 3 [3 : 254 is 3 " 3, 379 i s 425 25 364 5, 338 ) 3 425 3, 465 3 3 05 ;A 5 " Fs 508 mcy. —........ 01 Lau et, ou Earkot cwt; 6g. FOREIGN. 10 all kr twer ce..l-tott rd in sa - 8;`; 83 B 40 40 Do. sp. c. Ob lgs. con. in Sh. at par till '64 pnr - 2 p 20 10 Ardennes 66 - 7 6 all sebrian Rivatn. Sum 2 10 14 Resiers to Graissoiss 3 6 - 4 18 46 ilombay, Baroda, an 17:antral Tmlia.l4••ri 1/ - 11. 18 all Do. - 17, a t Demerara 10 11 Dutch Rhenish lf - I p tO all Eastern of France 20 19 no. New - 20 all East Indian, g. 5 p 24 - 23) 21. p 15 Do. rar' , ensinT, 224 - 2 221 103 all D0.41p.c.8nd5.,'57 LOU all Do. do. do., '6W, cl , . 20 16 Geelong kt Melbourne guar. 5 per c. nt. - 20 all Do., Lon. allot., do. • 25 226 Gil. Tkof CanadaA is -1 11 95 I'l 25 A.l Do. ..................... 3.4 15 141 15 100 90 Do. Cert. of Doben. con. into Stk. till do '6.. 65 75 - 75 80 100 all Do. Comp. Cp. c. , 2%1 all G 14 et: IndianCettral of France c 1 2% p 231 26 14 Great Luxerabour Constituted Share-6i 6a 6i 4 all Do. Obligations... 31 34 31 20 11 Do.re-is. forftd. S h. - 51 20? all Gt.WesternofCanada 26i / gimes .......... 26i - 20! 5i Do. Now .. 3 - 3iP 9 i 100 all Do. lids., payable's7, with option till '55.. 99 - 101 100 all Do. do., '62. p.'56 .. 100 - iO3 100 all Do. do., '76, p. 'BO.. 125 - 130 1.00 all Dc,. do., '73, without op ti on lOB 109 204 all Hamilton Toront- 25 - 26 100 all Do. 6 per cent. - 128 20 17 Lake Conet. Basl• - 20 all LIMIT and Turnhout ~, 41 Lucca is Pist. sp. c.p - Prn 10 16 Lyons and GCueva 12 - 121 20 14 Lyons dc NtArliterr.• - t 0 all gadraF , guar. 4 p.c 191 - 20/ 20 20 10 Do. New 0., sp. c 1/ - 1i 20 10 Do. 44 p. c. Exten - 1p 31 all Maria Antonia „, ••• 10 all Do. do. Ne* - ••• 20 all Namur es Liege (wit) interest) 7 - 71 10 all Do. (eit interest) 6 - 6i 16 all Northern of France 431 - 444 44/ 4 4 20 all D0.20/.Shs 124 121 Do. 20). 3 p. c Bde 10 all NorwegianTrunkPre •- 9 20 all Paris and Lyons 576 - 58 57/ i 10 all Ditto Bonds . ..... - 10 all Paris and Orleans 55 - 57 10 5 Rome and Frascati sli Royal Danish l9l - 20. 5 all RoyalSwld _ - 4 all Do. Obligations sfl all Sambre and Mouse lli - 12 11i 12 lir all Do. 5 p. cent. Pref. 94 - 1,4 2 0 5 Scinde, guar. sp. c 2 - 21 20 all Do. 213 all Southern of Franco.. ptr 20 16 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A).. 8 e.!! West Flanders , 4} - 5 10 all Do g A TY>r c. Pref 20 18 w. &N. W. of ffrstno 36 - 366 20 41 West. of Switzerland ... - •• • 6 all Wiesbaden ... - 20 all Zealand • - ••• JoMP-STOCIC BANKS. 0 11 AnNtra.ifi,n..., 25 5 Bank of Egypt 100 50 Bank of London - 65 40 ,p ,cr. col. tik.& (4n. C j 0 a l iritish N. American 1 i -.- .. 25 5 Chartd. Bank of Aso, p 20 4 (Tort& Bnk. of India, 100 50. City . 63 - 65 611 100 20 . tr .. a . lia, & China ... _ ...4 • . - •.. 17i - 181' 3 - 2 o Commercial of Lond. , : „. . 20 .1.11 Bng.Scot.Stttus.Cht. 'l5l 16a' 20 all Loud. Chart. Bk. of 50 20 14.-Idon and Conn' T., ... - • • 32 i i I°° 2o 25 5 a t. : A i l t un t us o : ra N al I ct 10( 50 Ln(l.&E.Bnkg.Corp par - 2 . 13 50 10 London -Joint Stock . - 100 10 London and Paris 4 - 2a l 100 20 Lund. St Westminstei ... - ... 47 100 AN National Pro.of Eng ... - ... 20 10 Do. Now 50 22 National of Irelsud ... - •• • 20 911 New South %Ta10n.... 41 - 43 ' 421 25 all Oriental Bank )f rlorrovAintt. 4l - 43 20 5 Ottoman Bank i .- Ipsl 6 100 50 Royal British 4Olll •.- 25 all -;' ,. .nth kustralia , ... -- 25 ‘ll union a Anatr;lia... 69 - 71 70 1 1)44 ' Wev; ............ 71 8 6 50 10 iitlion , f Lou io n , ... ~,. ... 27i i i 100 3 Western Bk of Lond 4i -,'-') 3i' l 16A 5. STARE MARKETS. (rBIS DAY.) RAILWAYS. RAILWAY'S. Closing Prices this day 4a(i Thvitn. Jund 3elfast qinning. Nirolverh tour Va11ey..... Lanesh. Clisshiro Janet • Cho2ll. & Birk., £5O and 225 Cons Do., .220 tlyth &Tyneorigina .£25 (issd.. at 445 tristol and Exetor... tir.rrn. and Cardigan Chester ds Holyhead. ' i(srk and Bandon._ - Cork, Black, Parm Cornwall Do. A Do_. 13 Da!in&BelfastJunc. for. P. cd Ab- , . Jne, East A.l4llan Eastern Counties Ininla, A. Btl B, Stuve... Do., New A....., East Kent ttst Lancashire `dinburgh dz Masgo , Minh. and Peebles :diu.Prt - h afnird. _ & Clyde Jun • Furness Do. Extension. Glasoow &S. WPsf Great N. of Scotind :.treat Northern Do., A. Stock...., Do., B. Stock Sth. &West; Ire , heat Western Do. Stour Val Rai Gua. Stk (rich South-Easter r,aneaster & CarHsi, Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds,,,,,, ~ .Aneasti.anditorksi ) 3, WEL Ritling Tit 0115 . 6 g. &South , t London & Blackwell Loud. Bright & S.Cst. fond. and N. West? Do. Fifths D0.101.3h..M&8 C Do. Eignths London and S. Westr ••• Do., £4,0 .. Lgtdiadrry& Col erair: Lndndrry. & Ennislt If mach Lineln Man. & Lin. Urn Metropolitan Midland i.)o.ilirmng.&Derh taidlci.G.West.(lre rlalf Shares \ 7 2.wcasne & CarHsi , Nwpt.Aberg. Newry & Zrnnislriilor Newry Warrenpoin. and Rostrovor. Cortlm.Countics Tin North British ..... Nth. Devon Rail. & Dock Stock . ?0., A Stock .. )0., B Stock ....... Do., B (Guarantee N. Eastern—Beradr Do. do. Extension Dodo. (4.N. E. l'urch Do. Leads Do.. York North London - &S. Wstrn., Ham - stead , and City Jn.. North Staffordshir North Western N.& S. West rn. June Nuneaton, flinckle , 4nd Leicester ox., Wore., r Wolv. ;-'ortsmonth Scottish Central Scottish Mid lar td •Thropshire Urdon South Devon Sonth Eastern sionth Wales Vrksh. & Riv. Dui no St.s.ines,Wck. 1 , 17/o Stockton & Darll Atou 6t finrtlep' Taff Vale Do. Prof., No. I "r , ‘qmes Hay. D.& R. Ulverstone & Law; Vole o; Ncath... Watorfa. & Kil!tontt W2terforl [Amor ct West Cornwall. 'West 11114 of Lond ,, n and Crystal Palace Do. A Do. B West London iWimbled.n & Croydon, 25i - 26. 83 9 163 - 17 15 - 16 12i -- 13; 87 -8) 691 GO 15 - 16 .•• '..... ... ••• .... .. .. ...- ... 16; ri• 9i 10' 33 23 - 25 76 - 78 60 - 62 27i : 28 88 - 92 7 - 8 95 - 96 79 - 81 :25 127 .02 104 61i 624 67 - 70 6i 64;' 5 64 88t 88; 7 - 101 103 1001- 101 a - i) iy 94 - 95 ... ... d ... ...d - i' 4 74i - 74! 43 - 45 ... ...I. 13 -13 f 53 - 55 - 34 ... 35 77i -78 i 6f - 544 3/ —34 d, 15) - 16 55 56 85 -- 90 6 - 5i -t;.; 104 10 26 - 28 'O3 105 75 - 77 45 14 15 71 - 72 71 73 4 - 2 - 9 - 7 36 371 „ - 19 -- 20 4i 5 6A 7 6 8 14 5 sn) 6 - Business done yesterday 5 5 20 10 61/ i 24 11 100 f 101 j 2 94i 5 41 28.} 8 i 9 74 1 44i 78 15 71 81 n 71.i71) i THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1856, LINK'S 7 .;')I.WED kT PIKED RANTAII3. listloYaWo. Leasla Compans, Cionfm rzilep this d 53. !! 1 .4141158 yester tay Bedford and B; et ch ley fin elrinarush. Clydesdalo•Te. Col. Stour Vy. Sud. and Hal. E. Lin.,pc E. Un. li, Sh. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New,..—. Glstr.& Dn. Pr 11 tipl. Dk. & Railway Condon & N. We. L. &N. W. E. Un. E. C 95 - 97 94 - 98 E. Count. Osldonian. 11 - 13 132 - 134 4.f ... 4i Ut. Wesp, Yk. New. & Berw. Y. & N M Do Do La 2 166 lull & Solby 1)o. Share-J. Do. d Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do.Preforence Lon., TH., & S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. t; per et. Bxtn and Matlock Middlosbro' & Rodeur all all 10.0 100 Easter, 13i 110 115 'eto & Co. Norfolk , Do , •• .'" •• • & Midi& Stekton & Darlingt. 6fidland.. 4 .- 2! Midld.l3radfd Newmarket Bury E. G.spc N.& Eet.s p. c. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fi xeds p c Prest. Do. t edam. A Hoye tn.& Hit. Sher. Rotl I an Goole g. 5 p.c. Shrews. &Her S. Staffordsla Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do 93 - 94 En. Coun. E. Count. i $n 56 --- 58 L. &N.W. 45 - 47 at Northt, Lancash& Yorksh. T. Brassey M. MClean Stockt. & Darlinat D 0...... ltWestn. 132 - 124 - 8 3- 2i(l 3i -32 i "omrst 113 j erased. THE MILITARY BO ;IRD OF INQUIRY. (This Day.) The Board re-assembled at the usual hour. The proceedings of the Court c mimenced this morn ing with the examination of Mr. Filder, the Commis sary-General, at tha request of Mr. Cruickshank, relative to his being placed under arrest. Mr. Filder said that he perfectly well remembered Mr. Cruickshank being placed under arrest, and he forwarded to Lord Raglan a request from Mr. Cruick shank that an inquiry might be instituted into his con duct. Lord Raglan refused an inquiry, on the ground that it was inexpedient to do so, but never expressed to him (Mr. Filder) any disapprobation of Mr. Cruick shank's conduct. If his Lordship had expressed his disapprobatio❑ of Mr. Cruickshank's conduct he (Mr. Filder) must have known it. Lord Lucan said he wrote a letter to the Adjutant- General stating he ha I placed Mr. Cruickshank under arrest, to which he received an answer with his own letter containing Lord Raglan's remarks on Mr. Cruick shank's conduct. That letter, with the other, was again returned to the Adjutant-General's Dapartment in the Crimea, and he hoped the Court would ask for its production. Mr. Cruickshank said he had already applied for the production of the letter Lucan surmised was in existence. The subject dropped. Sir B. Airey then resumed his case, and asked for the production of Col. Mackenzie's evidence taken in the Crimea by the Commissioners. Col. Tulloch said it had already been produced, and then proceeded to defend his statements made on a former occasion as to the mode adopted by the Commis sioners in the Crimea in taking the evidence of the va rious witnesses. He almitted striking out of Colonel Wetherali's evidence some marginal notes that officer had placed on it, because they did not bear on the ques- tions the Commissioners had put to him. After striking them out he again sent the evidence to Col. Wetherall. The minutes produced were in the same state as when they were sent the last time to Col. Wetherall for ap proval, and returned by him. Sir R, Airey read the-whole of the evidence given by C Tulloch relative to the manner the Commissioners took the evidence of the military witnesses in the Crimea, and submitted the minute to them far correction and signature, to insure accuracy, which he said was at vari ance with the facto, since the minutes produced showed erasures had been made in them. Col. Tulloch could not assent to the term "erasure." The portions of evidence complained of were not obli terated, but merely crossed over. The witnesses, or any other person, could easily read what was marked out. ' Sir R. Aircy asked OA. Tulloch why he took upon himself to alter the evidence of Col. Wetherell ? Col. Tulloch said he was not certain that he made the alterations alluded to. The reason for its being► done was that it was at variance with the actual issue of win ter coats, as shown by the official returns. Sir R. Airey—Then I collect from that you did it to " square the account" with evidence taken elsewhere. Colonel Tulloch--I don't say that. Colonel Wetherell was then re-examined by Sir R. Airey—The blue-book did not contain the whole of the evidence he gave before the Commissioners in the Crimea, and portions had been omitted without his authority. The MS. in Col. Tulloch's handwriting, with certain portions crossed out, was the evidence he gave in the Crimea, and he considered the omissions important parts of his evidence. The printed evidenoe was not a faith full report of his evidence. He thought the commis sioners were not justified in animadverting in the strong terms they had on the Quartermaster-General's depart. ment, and had they analysed the returns he felt confident they would not have done so. The report stated that but 460 watch-coats had been issued and drawn up to a certain period, when in point of fact there had been 1,061 issued and drawn as stated in the omitted portions of his evidence. The books were pro duced on his examination for hi4ovvn reference, but be did not remember whether Colonel fulloch examined them. After h© had left the Crime.' he'was!attachedjto the Turk ish Contingent, and was stationed 12 miles from Cons' an tinople When the Commissioners returned to that place. It they had wished to have examined him further they could have done so easily. Col. Wetherall proceeded to point out the other defective portions of the Com- miesioners' report relative to the actual supply of rugs, blankets, &c. The rep rt stated that in Decern btr a vessel arrived with sufficient blankets to provide every man with a third blanket, but they were not issued. It was true the vessel arrived at the time named with sufficient blankets, but from the smallness of the bar. boor of Balaklava, and the difficulties to contend with, she was unable to commence unloading till the Bth Jan. By that time a number of buffalo robes and sheep skin coats had arrived, and as a matter of choice which should be distributed amongst the men, buffa lo robes were decided on and issued. It would have been absurd to have issued blankets in addition, because there were no means of transport for stores that had been previously issued. Col. Wetherall then entered into the details of the delays that occurred in the issue of stores, and the men not getting them from the want of means of transport, to show that. the Quartermaster-General's department was not to blame. In many instances the issue was in advance of the wants of the army. Sir R. Airey said that the Quartermaster• General had no power as to the actual issue of stores, but merely the power of appointment. In reply to a question from Colonel Tulluch, Colonel Wetherall said he should have thought that an officer of Colonel Tulloeh's standing would have known the Quartermaster-General had nothing to do with issuing, but that ho had only to make the orders for issuing. Coluner Tulloch asked why the Quartermaster-General used the word issue in his return ? __— Colonel Wethera I said he explained it in his evidence, and it was in that purtion which the Commissioners had By Col. Tulloch—Although his' evidence was taken jointly with Col. Gordon's, ho considered it was compe tent for him to give the explanation which the Commis sioners had struck out of his evidence. Col. Tulloch did not inform him that he had sent his evidence to Col. Gorden. At that time he had left the Crimea. Col. Gordon made no communication to him on the subject. The whole of the suppressed evidence related to rugs and blankets on which the Commissioners had comma. nicated. Col. Tulloch—How do you account for Col. Gordon not communicating with you about yoUr evidence ? Colonel Wetherall—You had better ask him that. The witness then retired. Sir R. Airey, in answer to a question from the board, said there was no actual want of stores. The Court adjourned for the usnat — time ; and, on their re-assembling, The Judge-Ad v ocate-General, addressing Dr. Balfour, medical officer of the asylum, who has been in attendance each day with Col. Tullocb, asked him if it was true Col. Tulloch had been obliged to leave the Court from ill health ? Dr. Balfour said he bad. Re bad been very ill for soma days, and he visited him so late as 10 o'clock last night. It was much against his wish that Col. Tulloch attended to-day. He found himself so ill that he waQ unahle during the morning's proceedings to properly attend to the evidence. In answer to questions from the Judge-Advocate General, Col. Wetherall stated that he gave a notifica tion of the arrival of extra stores to the commanding officers, and that they were to draw their respective portions as soon as they received information from the Commissariat department that they were ready for delivery. Numerous delays occurred in sending for them from the defective state of the regiments and the ordinary siege duties they had to perform. [The manner in which Col. Wetherall answered the few questions put to him by Col. Tulloch was the most flippant and abrupt possible, and did not fail to make an unfavourable impression on the auditory. A slight hiss or two escaped from some persohs in the body of the hall, and bad it not been out of respect to the Board they would have expressed in an unmistalable manner their indignation at the conduct of the witness.] Sir R. Airey then called Mr. Commissary-General Filder and examined him with reference to the great difficulty there was experienced at Balaklava in obtain ing artificers ' and also of timber and tools in sheltering the troops. It arose from the demand being so much greater than the supply from Constantinople. After some further evidence from Colonel Mackenzie in support of the Quarterrnaster•General's department, The Court adjourned at four o'clock. The Bourse Gazette of Bsrlin says :—" The Russian Government has appoint3d M. Wasyli to be member of the commission charged with the re-organisation of the Danubian Principli; les, That diplomatist, who ha. already filled diplomatic functions in the principalities and in the East, is of Greek origin, and perfectly con versant with the questions with which the commission is to occupy itself." COMMITTAL FOR CHILD MURDER.—A woman named Eliza Davis, aged 27, bas just been committed to the Hereford county prison for trial at the next assizas, the charge of the wilful murder of her child, aged four months, by throwing it into a well at the village of Kingsland, in that county. THE MAILS—SOUTHAMPTON, May 4.—The Peninsular and Oriental Company's sere w•steancier Ava, Capt. Field, sailed this morning for Gibraltar, Malta, and Alexandria, with the India, China, and Mediterranean mails, 45 par sengers, 2,395 boxes of specie for India, Straits, and China, value 644,7091; 155., and for Malta and Alexan dria 1,4611.—t0tal 646,171 1 . 10s.—and a full general cargo. This is the largest amount of specie ever shipped on board either of this company's steam ships. Among the passengers are Lieut.-Gen. Sir Patrick Grant, Com mander-in-Chief of the Madras army ; Col. Haines, Hon. G. Edwards, Capt. B. Ford, Major Jackso n , and Lieut. Pearse. The Tagus, Capt. Weeks , with the next out ward Peninsular mails, leaves on the 7th inst. The United States' mail steamship Fulton, Capt. Wotton, will sail from Havre and Southampton on Wednesday next for New York with the French and English mails, pas iengers, and cargos LITERATURE. John _Halifax, Gentleman.. By the Author of the " Head of the Family," "Olive," &c. 3 vols. Hurst and Blackett. In taking a retrospective glance at the many and various novels that have appeared from time to time, how few there are which the reader can desire to reperuse. However amused or edified at the commencement, further acquaintance is not wished for. This peculiarity is reserved for those standard novels, " few and far between," which at once charm the taste and arrest the attention. Of such a class is pre-eminently the work before us. It is not addressed to the volatile who would wile away an idle hour, to the lover of pleasure who desires the records of an ephemeral existence, bright and transitory, brilliantly sketched, and fancifully illustrated. The world described here is that of real life, neither confined to humble limits, nor bounded by high circles, but real, earnest, actual existence. The hero of the story is, as is described in the title-page, of good birth, and as is further declared in the motto— " And thus he bore, without abuse, The grand old name of gentleman." Nevertheless, John Halifax had a hard life, although he early met with material assistance in the honest though rough Abel Fletcher. There is something strange, yet pleasing, in the quaint s i m pli c it y o f the early part of the narrative. The sequestered town, the quiet life that the unfortunate Phineas led in the midst of noise, was peculiar, and seemed of itself to set him apart from the great human family of workers so active and employed beside of him. The friendship formed between the two youths so different to observers, yet so alike to themselves in sympathy and affection, rivalled any of the ancient bonds of brotherly union and attach ment. It was of the greatest benefit to John, in his arduous career, to have ever ready an attentive and kind companion. &tut out from the active pursuits of his station, Phineas had to enact the passive in the journey of life. In his long and faithful course, it was often allowed to hint to be of the utmost service to those around him. "They also serve who only stand and wait," might be said of him, for he was always intont on some one of the circle of his friends to do them service, or, at least, afford them some solace. John Halifax was of that bright and shining race who ,cannot be held back from taking a high place in the world ; if they do not always gain riches or rank, they are sure to reach au eminence in their own sphere. When their life is over, none feels as if they had not lived, in one way or another ! they must " affect the mind of their generation." The early accidents of his exist , ence are not those likely to attract or captivate, and he feels that himself. Although truly grateful to the kind helper in his difficulty, his feelings revolted at the trade in which he was employed. His was not a spirit to repine uselessly, when he saw his duty, and he soon raised himself above his work. Real talent can never 'be alto- gether wasted; though from circumstance or mis management it is not applied to the highest pur poses, or allowed to perform all it might. So with John Halifax. In a short time the poor starving boy lie found in the street was the soul of Abel Fletcher's establishment ; his intelligence and fore sight preserved his property when the experienced and trusted hands failed. The scene of the riots is very effectively described ; nothing but determi nation could have saved the property and even the life of the master, who, although just, was stern and inflexible. In such an emergency a daring and energetic character like John's was sure to be of service. The starving wretches saw they could not frighten him, but they felt also that he pitied them. It was true that he did not trust to the might of armed associates, or the cunning of stra tegems, when in the midnight hour he stood before the assailants outside the house. It was carrying out a higher precept than any worldly wisdom ever fashioned when he gave food to those who au hour before were ready to take his life. It may seem incongruous to follow . so practical a hero through the more ideal or shadowy paths of exist ence ; but romance does not consist in the position so much as in the person. Still, it was not in the actual place of his business that anything pleasing could be met with. In consequence of the illness of Phineas, the sou of his employer, John Halifax, accompanied him into the country. Rose Cottage, as their new home was called, was a beautiful place, and situated in a spot well oalculated to please one coming out from cities. At the time that the friends arrived the cottage contained other tenants, Mr. March and his daughter, both of whom had hoer) connected with the story before, but who were as strangers to the new corners. At first a few formal salutations were exchanged, and the inter course might never have progressed but for the sudden illness of Mr. March. John Halifax ren dered great service to the daughter in distress, and they thus became acquainted in those dark days of life, that more than years of sunshine can unfold the character and display the disposition. " Our dead," as John Halifax termed it, was consigned to the dust, and the little cottage, so lately gay and happy, was turned into the house of mourning. The succeeding scenes aro powerfully and touch- ingly described. The agoni , endured by the proud nature is vividly brought before us. Ursula March is a fine characCer, not so attractive at first sight as she gains afterwards by her genuine and straight forward manner. In the strength that was not all of earth, the troubled. but steadfast aspirant had put down his rebellious thoughts and banished the tempter from his side. Yet although the con queror in the hardest of battles, that with self, he was not at rest. He could not command the flesh ;0 obey as he ruled his spirit. The excitement and annoyance occasioned an illness that threatened his life. In the time when the strong are laid low the weak are often known to act with foresight, and energy, unknown to their brave friends in the days of health. What John Halifax would have shrunk from, Phineas Fletcher hesitated not to perform. After many and tedious difficulties and delays, the opinions and prejudices of the world were put aside, and Ursula became the wife of John Halifax. The real interest of the story then begins. Theirs was not the union of the fairy tale, where they lived happily ever afterwards, nor the usual cere monial that at the conclusion of romances removes the hero and heroine out of the pale of the reader's concern from that time forth. The principles that animated and informed their thoughts and actions, were those that increase in importance as th©y approach the meridian, and brighten in glory as they are near to the sunset of life. Hence the diary of John Halifax, in youth, would have been a sketch one and an outline. He is that we do not wish to lose sight of. Perhaps the most pleasing part of the story is that of the early years of their married life, the ten years that were the life of Muriel. The first grief was their first-born child being born blind. Yet after a time this affliction was not so heavy, for the little Muriel was like an angel of peace in the house. She was especially her father's favourite, and he ever regarded her with a trem bling tenderness, as if he felt she was lent—not given. Death had no terrors for the child, her happiest hours were spent in " talking with angels," as she called playing on a harp, that was never touched but by her, that stood in some deserted room. They were desirous that she, who could never witness the horrors of mortality, should only regard death "as a calm sleep, and a joyful waking in another country, the glories of which eye had not seen, nor ear heard." The best idea of heaven to her was where all should behold as well as know, and this was expressed on her tomb. "Muriel Joy Halifax,"—" Whereas I was blind, now I see." John Halifax never was the same after her loss ; for some years after he seemed to stand still, as it were, iu his course. The stirring plans, the lofty pur poses that had hitherto made him so animated were not actually dead, but sleeping fora time. " Sleep ing, beyond the power of any human voice to waken them, under the daisies of a child's grave." The links of the story are dropped for some years, when they are resumed—the children are children no longer, and the parents are beyond middle age —only one is the same, the, memory of the living Muriel in all her human childhood. " Her image seemed perpetually among us, it crept through the house at dusk ; in winter firelight it sat smiling in dim corners ; in spring mornings it moved about the garden-borders with tiny soft footsteps, neither seen nor heard. The others grew up—would be men and women shortly—hut the one child that was not' remained to us always a child." A fresh source of interest is unfolded in the rising generation, and the new troubles that befall the Halifax family are shown to us with the graphic force, and truth-like style, of the preceding passages. The same sympathy cannot be felt for the children as for the parents ; but that would not be desirable,• as they are only attendant on their fortunes. The impetuous Guy is not exactly like his father or mother, but a blended representation of them both. Edwin is more calm and composed than any of his family, but he seems cast into the shade by the side of the more striking qualities of his brother. The heroine of the second story is very different to Ursula in her youth, and does not contrast fa vourably by her remembrance.: It was a hard trial for that devoted mother to see her house divided against itself by one whom she did not really care for, and who was uncongenial to her. The trust in which Jelin Halifax reposed did not forsake him, and he and his house were still preserved, although it never could be again what it had been ' —a spot where brethren dwelt together in unity. Death had come into the house and taken away the dearest treasure it conta ined ; b ut it had come in mercy, and left peace b ehind it ;now division and discord reigned paramount. 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It was fated that this happy, hopeful youth, the pride of his mother, the expec tation of his father, should be a perpetual blight to the course of their latter life. He was to return after two years' absence, when his brother's mar riage would have removed the awkwardness of his position at home, but on that day other tidings came. He had fallen into evil company abroad, and in consequence of a quarrel had to hasten to America. This was another blow to his parents ; and they had to resign themselves, instead of rejoic ing at his return, to the prospect of a long exile. By degrees the first sorrow faded and theygrew calmer. John Halifax seemed to pass over the stirring cares and excitement of his business life back to the days of his youth. He had a reason for coin ! posing himself from unnecessary strife, that the ' others knew not of. They were trusting to yet more tranquil time for the future ; he was looking back on the past as those only look who expect no future below. " Happy, happy time—suushiny summer, peaceful winter, we marked neither as they passed ; but now we hold both in a sacredness inexpressible, a foretaste of that land where there is neither summer nor winter, neither days nor years." The calm was broken by a new distress concerning their wanderer. Guy was to have re turned, but no news could be obtained of the vessel in which Le had sailed. A season of dreary watch ing followed, during which the mother's health failed entirely. At last, without any warning, the absent return e d, th e l os t was f oun d. H e did not come to a home of peace, however, for the strength of Ursula had been too severely taxed for her to rally. It was while contemplating this awful fact. and wondering how it was that her husband did not see it, that Phineas was informed by her hus band that his only fear was lest he should go first himself. It is not possible to exaggerate the agony thus caused to the faithful friend, who had looked up to him as to a superior spirit all his life, and who had always hoped to meet his kindness till the last. John Halifax saw that he had supposed truly that such intelligence would darken his friend's course, and that he had done wisely in withholding the news while possible. It would have cast a shade over what had been a happy time. He endeavoured, not to console him, but rouse him. " Phineas, we have known one another these forty years, Is our love, our faith so small that either of us, for himself or his brother, need be afraid of death ?" It was well that the secret had been disclosed, for it was soon after this that one evening, as the friends sat to gether, watching the sun set, as was their usual custom, the "Master called away His faithful ser vant while he slept." This last conversation with his long-tried companion and attached friend had not been without avail, and Phineas Fletcher could be calm, even while he gazed upon the corpse of him who had been everything to him in life, and whose death left him alone, in the sad evening of existence, to mourn over one who had been the only sunshine its morning had ever known, and whose protecting streagth and gentle kindneas had been as the shadow of a rock in the burden and heat of the day. "Farewell John ! Farewell my more than hrother ! It is but for a little while." The sacred tie of friendship was tried by the last test, and the affection that, notwitstauding so:no clouds and tempests, was indelibly impressed on the character of the family, underwent what is here termed the " crowning consecration." It is this solemnity and sadness, that redeems the narra tive, from being fanciful or imaginary in its feelings and sentiments. The brilliancy of the hues of romance are surpassed by the light of reason, and the illuminated scroll of the ideal is put aside, for a record with the superscription and sign manual of reality. In the page of life unfolded before us half appears in shade and half in sun ; there is nothing morbid nor exaggerated in sorrow or joy, but the aim and end of human efforts are made to appear iu a natural light. Whatever inotives may influence or inspire it is not possible that miracles can be effected, and so after his long life of toil, and his many plans for the future, John Halifax did not find all smooth and straight forward. This idea is explained elsewhere by the same author as " the toiling of spirit against flesh, the sort of work which, if anything could be counted acceptable, will 'be so counted when, thank God, the long day of life with all its labour is over for eternity." In the present instance this struggle is in a humble sphere of society, although John Hali fax rises comparatively high by his exertions at a later period, but the principle is not for one class or rank. The high sense of honour, the stern spirit of self control, the kind heart, the daring nature, were all displayed in his character, and the same qualities and attributes would have rendered him, iu a higher station, a bulwark to his country in the hour of need, and a glory to her annals in the records of history. The foun dations once laid of the pure and perfect, the structure must be strong and lasting ; in the build ings not made with hands, which are designed in the spirit and fashioned by the actions, the result is the same. The formation of the character is a work which has no limits, it is an endeavour that can never be fully appreciated, and it contains results of which no one can estimate the importance. Hence it is not a mean or trivial subject brought under notice, that of a noble nature fighting its upward and onward way, from the snares of adver sity, through the curse of prosperity, to the van tage-ground that commands respect and admira tion. If the delineation of the grand in character, the glorious in action, the tender in feeling, the pure in heart, can confer merit, and bestow emi nonce on a production, this ono must take its place among the standard, and the excellent. It appeals to the mind of the reader, in language that is ren dered sublime by the eloquence of truth, and that worships the beautiful in the homage it pays to virtue. It presents characters iu its chronicles who are powerful to instruct and edify. If they succeed, it is in a cause for which men will not give them honour ; and if they fail they know that their efforts were not directed in vain, as they were planned in the spirit of heroism, and their mission was to benefit themselves, by being a bless ing to others. The Transcaucasian Campaign, of the Turkish Army under Omer Pasha. A Personal Narra tive. By Laurence Oliphant. Blackwood and Sous. The author of this timely narrative of a rather memorable episode in the late confused and dis astrous war between the Allies and Russia—is really indefatigable. Indefatigable both as an author, and as a traveller. Ho writes evidently currente calamo—and that, moreover, in a different sensefromtheoneordinarilyattachedtotheoldschool phrase—in a twofold sense. Precisely as the moon has a double motion (though Mr. Jelinger Symons either can't or won't see it) revolving round the sun all the while it is waltzing about the earth with its face ever earthwards, as befits the cour tesy of so faithful a satellite [thereby producing obvi ously, and by necessity, out of those same two movements an inevitable revolution upon its own axis]—precisely, we say, as the moon has this wonder ful double motion about the sun and about the earth, and consequently (because of its faithfulness to the sun and its fickleness to the earth, about its own axis—precisely we say as the moon has this twofold motion, so has the industrious grey goose quill of Mr. Laurence Oliphant, a twofold agility, flying over the paper as the wielder of it flies hither and thither over sea and land. Currente ealamo therefore—with a duplex significance writes the author of the " Journey to Nepaul," of the " Russian Shores of the Euxine," of " Minnesota and the Far West," and, " last but not least" of all, of this timely personal narrative of the "Trans caucasian campaign of the Turkish army under Omer Pacha." Timely—appearing as it has done just after the laying of the papers relative to the Defence and Capitulation of Kars before Parliament, and just before the com mencement of the debates now agitating the House of Commons, consequent upon the somewhat memorable motion of the honourable member for Enniskillen. The value of this im portant volume, appearing as it does at a p singularly opportune, lies mainly in the e d so period circum stance that it is penned by an eye-witness of the various notable occurrences recounted in it. Au eye-witness, too, as sagacious in judg ment vigilant in observation as the late Civil and as Secretary and Superintendent-General o f In Tian Affairs in Canada—a literary traveller who has latterly as sumed a high place as an a uthority among Roving Eneiishmen in an age w hich has given birth to a Kinglake a Lavard, a Ruxton, a Walpole, and a Warburton ! a.O Very accept . e, theref ore, we say at once, is this personal inarrative, by Mr. L aurcnco Oliphant, o f the Transcaucasian eamp a i,.. 4u of the Turkish Army, going forth too ]ate to p r event the Fall of K ars, and arriv ing on ly in time to witm.si from afar off the lamentable catastrophe of its Capitulation ! A sa d, woeful, deplorable tale—the tale of mismanage ment here told with a pen of inexorable truth ! The greatest crime a mong a ll th e great cr i mes , making up th e gr i e f of our remembrance o f t h e Russian war—the war begun so tardily and closed so precipitately ! The conflict commenced in con fusion, and terminated in confusion worse con founded ! Kars—the one word of remorse to that laborious . and, up to this point, eminently success ful, gifted, and energetic public servant, Stratford C inniug, first Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, dur ing fifteen years past her Britannic Majesty's Am bassador at Constantinople. Fortunately, during these memorable fifteen years past, English Envoy Extraordinary to the Ottoman Porte—fortu nately, we say, until this miserable and irre parable incident of the abandonment of Kars to its evil fate--a fate which by a little reasonable 100 10+ all 100 100 1100 100 1(W) 100 tof, ton Tx) too 1(1' 1.00 .1(1 IE9 all 100 2.11 100 100 100 100 100 100 all aU I} 1 all 49 6 St. 25 1 P 2t Pm Pm 12i f 9j I MINES. precaution might so readily have been avoided, thereby sparing a handful of brave men the anguish of a series of appalling, and doubly appalling, be cause entirely futile sufferings : saving the heroic Williams from the heart-breaking anxieties of a siege destined, after all, to end so very deplorably with a capitulation. Kars—there is the " vanish ing point" in the historic and tragic picture drawn with a masterly hand, in a few bold touches by that Minasi of travelled litterateurs, Mr. Laurence Oliphant. The pen-and-ink sketches comprised within the fifteen chapters constituting our author's latest production, are further embellished, it may be remarked, than by the vivid light and the sombre shade thrown upon them alternately by the poig nancy of his regrets, and the liveliness of his ima gination. Illustrated as the really pictorial letter. press is by the graphic peucillings of Omer Pasha's own Artist-Companion, Llerr Zuther—partly wood cuts, partly tinted lithographs. 'Woodcuts com prising a vignette profile of the great Turkish Generalissimo, an accurate limning of an Abkhasian Buffalo Cart, an outline view of Capt. Dymock's (grave, and a characteristic portraiture of Mr. Oliphant's Circassian servant, Hadji Mustapha. Lithographs numbering amongst them the frontispiece delineative of the Battle of Ingour, a representation of the Head-quarters of Omer Pasha near the Skeniscal, a full page like- DO i 3 of HAIM(' Bey, otherwise Prince Michael of Abkhasia, and the picturesque commemoration of au interview which took place between Omar Paella and a Circassian Lady at the Choloni Head quarters. Besides all which, there are useful adddi tions to these same arti s tic adornments of the volume under review, in the form of a plan of the action on, and of the Passage of, the Ingour by the Turks, under Omer Pacha, on the Gth November, 1855 ; as well as a comprehensive Map of the Trans caucasian Provinces—from Kars to Kertch, and from Derbend to Sinope. Starting from Sebasto pol, our author-traveller sets forth with his reader in the first of these fifteen chapters of animated de scription, by way of Kertch and Yenikale. There they—writer and reader—wend their way to Anipa, and SO onward by way of Circassia further and further into those memorable and pic turesque regions of the Caucasus. Arrived at Soukhoum Kaleh, we are introduced to Hahmid Bey. Arrived at Trebizoud, we renew our ac quaintance with Omer Pacha. Thence it was that the Turkish Csnimander-in-Chief proceeded to Bstourn, there to await the arrival of his troops according'to the plait duly organised with a view to their ultimate, but alas ! tardy concentration. Reading Mr. Oliphant's narrative we come in no way surprised upon the record by him of Omer Pasha's bitterly expressed complaints against Mar shal (then General) Pelissier, for refusing to comply with his (Omer Pacha's) proposal to conduct a Turk ish army into Asia as early as the 15th July instead of two months later, namely, the middle of Sep tember ! Not his, not Omer Pacha's was the fault of the Turkish expedition being rendered nu gatory by its dilatoriness Not his, not Lord Strat ford's the crime exclusively of leaving Kars then, and so far, indeed, consistently to the last, un aided till the fatal hour had struck for its inevitable capitulation. The fault of the delay as to the ad vance of the Turkish army across the Euxine was (in truth be it said) not Omer Pasha's, BUT Mar shal Pelissier's ! The crime of reserving all assist ance from the devoted garrison of Kars was (in simple justice be it added) not so much Lord Strat ford de Reicliffe's As ---t hat of Her Britannic Ma jesty's Government. Reflection only helps to convince us of this more and more implicitly and c nfidently. A shameless Cabinet at home is willing enough we perceive to make a stalking horse of a petu laut and irritable, but until nova hardworking and fur the most part an eminently successful ambassador. It were a cruelty, however, for the Eugli h publie to shut their eyes after the last fifteen years' me morable and honourable sojourn of Len! Stratford de Redcliffe in the exquisitely delicate and in some respects the wonderfully perilous post (diplomati c dly speaking) of Ambassador at Constantinople, and so shutting their eyes to those five lustres of an illustrious career, to consent hastily, and with out all due deliberation, to treat an eminent ser vant of the Crown and of the Country (such as Lord Stratford has proved himself to be until th date of this toretehed affair about Ears) as a bur riedly selected scapegoat, upon which to wreak vengeance for the aggravated sins of a most crimi nal Administration. As dispassionate observers of the powers that be, and of the things that are, WC say—Beware ! We say at least after these last fifteen years of his diplomatic career, as her Majesty's representative at the Ottoman Porte—let us hear Lord Stratford's own defence before pronouncing judgment upon him definitively! It is his due. He has earned a right to this much by the sagacity and the patriotism he has displayed hitherto. As far as appearances go at present he has unquestionably in a political sense acted most criminally iuleaving Kars to its fate and in turning a cleat ear so long to the earnest supplications for aid addressed through him to the British Govern ment at home by the heroic General Williams. Apparently we say Lord Stratford in regard to Kars and its devoted garrison has acted most cri minally. But before judging him—let us hear at any rate what it is he has to say in his own justifi cation Nine hundred and ninety-nine times he has acted nobly—if (even supposing everything to be proved as facts at present seem to threaten they will be proved by an inevitable deduction) if on the thousandth occasion lie has acted basely—must the 1 outnumber, and outweigh, and eclipse, and annihilate the 999 ? It is a question, this, we can not but think worthy at least of some brief conside ration ! Particularly—when in other things we all of us know perfectly well that higher powers than this ambassador have acted in regard to the late war most basely, most infamously, most treacher ously. Therefore we say—Beware ! Be not pre cipitate in pronouncing condemnation I Hear what the British Envoy to the Ottoman Porto has to say in extenuation of his own conduct in regard to Kars and its garrison ! Remember the grievou shortcomings in other matters of our great Government Depertnieuts ! Above all, con sider for a moineut—(and this is the crown ing or culminating reflection forced upon us by recent events, anti recently published docu ments bearing in any way upon these recent events, in regard to the War, and in regard to the Peace, including ameng these same documents, writings as widely diversified in their general character as Mr. Oliphant's last volume, and the long-winded Treaty of Peace concocted article by article at the Paris Conferences !]—Above all, we say, consider, just for one moment consider, whether a deep game may not have been played in all these late lamentable transactions? Whether (among other things) Kars, after all, may not have been wilfully and criminally abandoned to the evil destiny of Capitulation—for the purpose of enabling Russia thereby to have in it a loophole for escape with apparent " honour ?" For—examining this fatal and ignominious Treaty it is a glaringly undeniable fact that Kars is the one " set off" for Russia to whatever partial successes were achieved by the Allies elsewhere. England and France, and Turkey, and Sardinia will give up to Russia— Sebastopol (as much at least as we have got of it) and Kertch, and Belaklava, and Eupatoria ! Rus sia will give up to Turkey for the sake of these, and in the name of England, and France, and Turkey aforesaid, and Sardinia—what ?—Kens ! There is the balance of the compromise ! The peculiarity of it is at any rate most—suspicious 31119 it not after all have been pre-arranged ! In other eveqls, and as we have already so expressed it, not plain yara, m.a h im K the aud bluntly, our and own directly h e r oi heroic w t ithepurpose,Williams, mst andth y y l sacrificed ! devoted and chivalrous g arrison of Kars, ha ve been wilfully and mo st heinous THE “PEICE SERMONS" YESTERDAt r. Yesterday, in all the churches of the metropolis thanksgiving sermons were preached, in obedience to the Itoyal command, for the peace which has just been concluded. In all the Dissenting chapels as well ser mons of a similar kind were preached, not because the Government set the day apart for the purpose, but be cause their ministers thought the conclusion of peace was an Occasion on which it was fitting to refer to the events of the last two years. There was one point on which, so far as we have heard, there was a unanimous concurrence of opinion among the metropolitan ministers of religion. We allude to the evils of war, and the ab stract desirableness of peace ; but not a few expressed their apprehensions that the peace which has been con cluded will not prove permanent. We have not epaee to publish any of the numerous reports of the sermon■ delivered yesterday which have been sent to us.-- Morning Advertiser. SEIZURE OF UNSTAMPED PAPER.—A large quantity of paper has just been seized by the supervisors of Ethe x cise for Doncaster and Barnsley , at various ja rs f neighbourhood of those towns, in consequence of . the ma terial having been sent out from the paper mill of Messrs. Syrningt on and Pegg, of Gickh ill, without the usual signature and stamp denoting that the duty had been paid. The penalties to which the firm are liable amount to upwards of 1,0 001 . , the y having supplied un stamped paper to , a considerable n umber of tradesmen. The article was ;enerally of an inferior character, and sold for cash on' .y. THE BAND I g THE REOENTS-PARK.—The first ap pearance of the band in this park took place yesterday (Sunday), and en, no thousands of persons of all classes continued from 3 o'clock until past 5 to pour into the park, and at lent th there must have been at least 10,000 persons in atteEd suss. The baud was seated in a tem porary orchestra , and during the three hours that they delighted the a uthence with their music not a single word in oppositi on was heard, and everything passed off with the greater/ t satisfaction. By permission of Sir B. Hall a large pr.'s ilion has been erected in this park for the sale of refrefA 'aments. r tiro ward rm 0, little vheat been were n the /l and, l uali- Seve• n fi r : tivo ; )rtei; re 10 trade or to )ncY. to 804 !, 24.• Li '916 week :n the 185 4 , ~923 ; rigs' . -- 5 9:- --- Fig S ' 7 , k oti Nasts 3 con loa I per and fro in Scot; elan" nb3r, I ttori pricei iliged or, or apply right, t last . Fit ,2v; t On ,de- R. d• 3 10 4 2 4 8 5 0 4 8 with very' eek's busi• aro From trno, From 1 : to find 10.4 ; Il to hog eery and ittle ! 01 2' Cs 7151 901 S 8 532 004 100 i 29 1 100 100 100 36 100 100 211 as 100 100 3, all 3 all all lli i sF t2 t. '45