The Sun. — London, England, 1854-07-15 00:00:00

seeded, accompanied by the officers before men tioned, on board the Queen Hortense, for a visit to the British Commodore, the Hon. W. F. Grey, on board the Hannibal, 91. He subsequently sailed round the fleet, and landed at the pier. His Majesty walked unattended through the crowd, and was loudly cheered. The Emperor left Calais for Paris yesterday afternoon at four o'clock. The Emperor arrived in Paris last night at eleven o'clock. The Emperor visited the British ships of war yesterday, and was received with all possible honour. It would appear from the following, which is contained in another communication, that the Emperor had some-difficulty in reaching the fleet : —At 12.40 the Emperor embarked on board the Reine Hortense ; at 2 p.m. the yacht was approach ing the English squadron ; at 2.8 the squadron saluted, shortly after the Emperor got into the barge, and struggled againt a WSW full wind and tide, for 20 rainuths ; at 2.50 the Emperor desired the Fire Queen to stop and take them in tow ; the Corse, French corvette, was also hailed, and took the Royal barge in tow to the commodore's ship. On board at 3.3 and saluted ; a heavy sea going. Marshal Vaillant fell partly into the sea, and was pulled out. The Moniteur of to-day (Saturday) announces the I lockade of Cronstadt, St. Petersburg, and the ports of the Gulf of Finland. EMBARKATION OF FRENCH TROOPS AT CALAIS FOR THE BALTIC. On the whole of Thursday the troops kept streaming into Calais from various quarters, and, with all the alacrity of their nation, proceeded to locate themselves in their allotted quarters. The fine battering train, all brass guns, lumbered sullenly along towards the quay, in order to be as near as possible to the point of embarka tion. Neither men nor horses were in such high condition as ours on a review day at Woolwich, but both looked rough and ready, fit for business, and formed together as imposing and warlike a procession as the greatest military critic could desire. The far-famed Chasseurs de Vincennes (two battalions) made for the ramparts, and en camped themselves under the trees with the rapidity of magic. The utility of the new French tent was here made perceptible. This primi tive mansion is composed simply of six long Pieces of canvass, with buttons and button holes at the edges of each, to form the junction. Each soldier carries a piece nicely folded up on the top of his knapsack, where it forms little or no encumbrance, and when the camp is to be pitched he Unfolds his share, buttons it on to his comrade's Piece, and so on until six are firmly joined together. One or two light boughs cut without ceremony wherever they offer themselves from the neighbour ing trees complete the preparations, and in a few minutes six valiant heroes of the grand army are lying at full length comfortably smoking in their extemporised pavilion. It must be admitted that the ceiling is not of a very high pitch, being not More than four feet from the ground at its greatest Point of elevation, but then the men are of low stature, and have a wonderful facility of making themselves at home at the shortest possible notice, and under the most apparently hostile combina nation of circumstances. The agile Chasseurs were not an hour on the ramparts, when their canvas ,city stood in regular streets, their short Roman looking swords hung festooned picturesquely round the trunks of the trees, the vivandiere plied her "lorry calling, and young conscripts of irrepressible Musical tendencies were volunteering lyric effu sions, more remarkable for their length and body of sound than their melody. Some of the Seniors affectionately polished their carabines, and explained to the wondering fair ones who stood around the mode in which the sight was to be fixed in order to kill respectively at three hundred, five hundred, or a thousand metres, and everywhere there were present the life, bustle, and details of a camp, looking as n a t ura l an d matter-of-course as if they had been six months in existence. At the end of the rampart stands the Phare, from the top of which similar operations might be seen going on in the glacis, where the third regiment of the line were also making their domestic arrangements. Within the town similar bustle was perceptible, the cafes were all crowded, and the proprietors of the tables d'hote were obliged to exercise more than their usual ingenuity in providing anything like presentable substitutes for beef andmutton. There was a famine of bread, as an immense order had been given for the s oldi er s, but the prevailing good humour smoothed every difficulty, and the people eat, drank, chatted, smoked, and sang until an un usually l a t e h our i n th e even i ng. S o ear l y as fi ve clock yesterday (Friday) morning the shipping Of the guns and other material commenced. The , r l nfa_ntry marched down to the quay, and piled their lielocks, which were immediately taken on b oa rd th e,, tenders. General B aragu ay d'Hilli ers , sur rounded by a numerous staff of officers, superin tended th e s hi pment, an d a ll was life ustle, and activity. T he publ i c were k ept a t a distance by a Military cordon, kept in their usual free and easy antler by a very scanty number of pleasant little reach soldiers. These coiiipact little bundles of I. 3 „ e i . rve and muscle could not keep still at their posts single moment, but assumed all sorts of un --utary attitudes—played tricks on each other, a nd jok e d an d l aug h e d w ith th e by s t an d e rs. Amidst ad these crowds of soldiers constantly filling the str eets and qua y s , morn i ng , no o n, and night, at a ti me, i too when military discipline was somewhat re axed, and everybody was bidding farewell to , ii _verybody e l se, one str i k i ng an d most va l ua bl e ' 4 et must be record e d t o th e h onour o f th e F renc h a rty,, and th a t i s , th at not a s i ngle drunken sol 'l was seen in the streets, nor a single infraction the peace committed by e ith er so ldi er or c i v ili an . Consul The of France at Valparaiso has sent an ac count of a t err ibl e ga l e of wind which took place there on the night of the 6th May and the follow ing day, and caused considerable damage. Thr e e Chilian ves se l s wen t to the bottom, eight went ashor e , nine wer e muc h injured, and twenty boats Were ashed to pi eces . Six French vessels were in the road s t ea d, b ut not one of them ffl injury : th ese vessels are the Grand u Co e n r d e e d , a t n h y e Ville do Tonneins, the Callao, the Union, the Cal cutta, and the Alcibiade. It has already been stated that Bou Maza had received per m i ss i on f rom the Emperor Napoleon to offer his servi ces t o th e Sultan in the war against Russia, and that the Emperor had generously announced his intention to defray the expenses fo tile outfit. The Porte having accepted the offer in Beu Maza . , and appointed him aCirsca_isia, to a command of he is to leave Villers-Cotterets where he , been residing for some time, for his post on -13:10nday next. -ANIC OF FRANCE.—The following was the debt or and creditor account of the Bank of France, made up to Thursday, July 13 : Cash and ingots CR. Cash at the branch banks BBills ills due y esterday to be paid to-day becoming due in Pari s, of which 52,529,272 f. 98c. are from the branch bank 5........... ................. B ills in the 131 : anch banks Advances on coin and in g ots Do• in the branch banks 1)0 - on public securities of France Do• in the branch banks Do • on railway securities Do. in the branch banks Do. to the State by treaty of June 30, Rentes o ; the reserve fund Rente s of disposable funds lintel and furniture of the Bank Real property of branch b Exp enses of administration anks Sundries ....... Fr. c. 2 76,951,700 41 174,989,103 605,069 95 118,869,839 54 156,687,780 -- 828,100 -- 1,330,533 -- 18,961,636 10 6,574,150 -- 39,651,400 -- 12,621,970 -- 65,000,000 - 10,000,000 -- 55,447,573 97 4,000,000 -- 3,764,198 -- 77,927 41 1,135,739 96 947,496,721 34 Capital 91,250,000 Reserve fund ............................. 12,980,750 14 Reserve inainobilibre Do. of branch banks 134,178,975 -- 5,913,634 54 Do. to order (Post bilLs) Bills pay currentigh Account -of Treasury Creditor 68,177,950 78 Various ac counts -current 111,035,595 70 no• b ranc h banks 31,993,053 3,558,175 D ividend s t o be paid Discount, interest, and expenses 9,922,068 5 Commi ss i on on deposits Re-di scounts of th e last half-year Overdu e bill s 916,188 68 1- Sundri es 111,057 72 5,318,553 43 DE. 947,496,721 34 Certified by the Governor of the Bank of France, Count D'ARGOUT. reserve ha s From these returns it app ears th a t th e me t a lli c de clined 2A millions in Paris and 14 millions in the branch banks. The discount accom modation has diminished 15 millions in Paris and millions in the de partments. The advances on public securities remain with very little altera tion either in P ar i s or in the depa rtments. Advances on railway shares and bonds have increased 3,4 - Millions in Paris, and declined of a million in the provinces. The advance to the State by the treaty of June 30, 1848, has been reduced from 70 mil lions to 65 millions, and the advance to the Go vernment of 30 millions on treasury bonds has disappeared from these returns altogether. On the side of the liabilities, the notes in circulation have increased in Paris 201 millions, and have diminished in the provinces 2.i millions. The Credit account of the Treasury has declined 171 1544 9114 Ulm of priyate haye off 601 millions in Paris, and 21- millions in the branch banks. The whole amount of the metallic reserve is at present 451 millions to 601 millions of notes iz circulation. The Three per Cents. closed yesterday at 70f. 80c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a- Half per Cents. closed at 97f. 50c. ; and the New Loan, at 71f. sc. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,145 f. ; Rouen, 1,020 f. ; Havre, 572 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 810 f. ; Strasburg, 773 f. 75c. ; New Shares, 617 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 925 f. ; Lyons to the Me diterranean, 830 f. ; Western of France, 637 f. 50c.!; Bordeaux and Cette, 595 f. ; Great Central of France, 490 f. ; Lyons and Geneva, 502 f. 50c. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 685 f. SPAIN. THE SPANISH INSURRECTION. The Gazette of the 9th contains the following, under the head of " Ministry of War :" " According to the last despatches of the Captain- Generals perfect tranquillity prevails in the provinces. The division of operation, at the head of which is the Minister of War, left Tembleque yesterday morning in pursuit of the rebels. Their advanced guard had pro ceeded to Miguelturra, and Ciudad Real, where the autho rities and the inhabitants prepared for a vigorous defence were waiting for them ; but even before ascertaining the disposition of the town, the rebels retired without com bat on Alrnagro ; and at the date of the last despatches they were wandering in the villages in the neighbour hood of that town." THE OVERLAND MAIL. (By Submarine and European Telegraph.) MARSEILLES, FRIDAY, JULY 14. The India mail left here at one o'clock this afternoon. The cholera is very bad here ; there wore 106 deaths yesterday, and to-day there is no diminution. THE BRAZILS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, SATURDAY MORNING. By the Royal Mail steam-ship Severn we have dates from Buenos Ayres June 2d ; Monte Video, sth ; Rio de Janeiro, 14th ; Bahia, 18th ; Pernam buco, 21st ; St. Vincent, 30th ; Teneriffe, July 6th ; Madeira, 7th ; Lisbon 11th. The Severn brings specie, value 42,0001. ster ling ; diamonds, value 8001. She landed 81 pas sengers at Lisbon, and brings 112 to Southampton. Rear-Admiral Henderson, C. 8., late Com mander-in-Chief on the coast of Brazil, embarked by the Severn, but died on the 12th inst., and his remains have been brought home. Among the passengers is Captain-General Concha and suite, who embarked at Teneriffe by the Severn in consequence of the news of the insurrection in Spain having reached that island. His departure was very opportune, for on arriving at Madeira it was found a steamer had sailed the day previously, ordering the General to be conveyed to Manilla. AMERICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday morning.—The United States mail steamer Union has arrived off Cowes, en route to Havre, bringing dates from New York to the Ist inst. The Europa arrived out on the 30th ult. The Gadsden treaty with Mexico was ratified at Washington on the 30th ult., and a cheque for $7,000,000 on the United States Treasury was im mediately handed over to the Mexican Minister. Cholera was prevailinc , in several of the interior towns of Kentucky aneMissouri. In the New York markets increased shipments of breadstuffs were making to Liverpool at former rates in freight. Cotton was steady. Fair to good br;nds of flour were unchanged, while inferior qualities were lower. Wheat showed a tendency to decline, and corn fell two to three cents. per bushel. In the stock-market there was no change of con sequence. Exchange on London, 1091 to 109 i ; Paris, sf. 11c. to sf. 13c. Discount, 11 to 15 per cent. COMES, ISLE OF WIGHT.-July 14. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) SOMETHING LIKE BUSINESS.—The National Freehold Land Society, in 1852, purchased Gurnard Farm, near West Cowes, for 3,4701. ; it contained 143 acres, and was subject to quit-rents of 201. 18s. 9d. per annum. They have this day sold 75 acres that were not suitable for building purposes, to Robert White, Esq., of North wood-park, Cowes, for 2,5001., subject to the whole of the above quit-rents, reserving 68 acres, beautifully situated for villas, commanding views of this island, the island of Purbeck, Hurst Castle, the New Forest, and Southampton water, and, indeed, almost the entire ex tent of the Solent—at a cost to the society of 9701., little more than 141. per acre, for some of the most beautifully-situated building land in the Isle of Wight ! ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.-•lit the general meeting of the members, this day, a quorum could not be formed. The election of new members was, therefore, obliged to be adjourned. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, July 15.—Wind this day at Noon, Westerly ; light airs, and cloudy at times. RAMSGATE, July 14.—The Advance, of and from Lon don to Cork, has put into harbour to-day with her limbers choked, and will most likely have to discharge a large por tion of her cargo. PORTSMOUTH, July 14.—Wind, W. Awed—Mason Martha, from Lulea. Saile d—Cit y of Norwich (s), for Baro Sound ' • Jason (s s), Southamp ton ; Mar g aret Evans, New York; Than, Eastward. SOUTHAMPTON, July IC—Arrived —Severn (s), from the Brazils. OFF DOVER, July 14.—Arrived —Progress, from Genoa, for Newcastle. COWES, July 14.—Wind, W. Arrived —Corporal Trim, from Havannah ; J. C. Humphreys, do. ; Caroline C. Dow, do. Off Port—Union (s), from Now York, for Bremen. FALMOUTH, July 14.—Wind, W. Arrived—Juliana, from Rio Grande ; Neptune, Alexandretta ; Ardina, Tar ragona ; Chase, Matanzas ; Henrietta, Genoa. Off Port — War Hawk, from Malta. PLYMOUTH, July 14.—Wind, S.W. Arrived--Sultana Selina, from Rio Grande, and proceeded for Bristol ; Australia, London, for Melbourne. Sailed—Lyra (store ship), for Malta. BRISTOL, July 14.—Wind, W.N.W. Arrived—Ajax, from Trinidad; Industrious, Barbadoes ; British Queen, Quebec. HARTLEPOOL, July 13.—Wind, W.S.W. Sailed— Johanna Christina, for Singapore ; General Belgrano, Suez ; Stain's Castle, Bahia ; Zodiacus, St. Thomas. HARWICH, July 13.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Nornen, from Salonica, for Ipswich. SUNDERLAND, July 14.—Wind, S. Sailed—St. Jacob,. for Quebec. SHIELDS, July 14.—Wind, W.S.W. Sailed—Auxiliar, for Aden ; Eblana, Rio Janeiro ; Bertha, Algiers ; Emma, do. ; Rose Either, do. ; Eliza, Malta. LOWESTOFT, July 14.—The Protheroe, of and from Gales for the northward, which grounded on the New come Sand yesterday, got off without assistance, and pro ceeded. YARMOUTH, July 14.—The Despatch (schooner), of and from Rye for Dundee, took the ground this afternoon on the North Spit, off this harbour ; she has taken assistance and is expected off without damage next tide. MALAGA, July s.—The Libau (s.), from Bordeaux to Constantinople, and the Danish brig Cecilie, from Mar seilles to Falmouth—the former with a general cargo and specie on board, and the latter laden with wheat—were in contact about 30 miles off this port, and both vessels foundered ; crews saved, and landed here. The Catharine Hodges, from Marseilles to Liverpool, has put in here leaky, making 12 inches water per hour, but it is expected that she will be enabled to stop the leak without dis chaT ging. (13T ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Saturday, 10 a.m. Wind W.N.W., and very fine. Arrived—Ellen, from Demerara; Coquette, Alexandria; Infacible, Venice; Mary, Licata; Auguste, Ghent. Off the Port—Rubin and John Buchanan. . (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday, 11.20 A.M. Wind S.W., tide four hours ebb, cloudy. Arrived, 14th.—Queen, (s.), from Bremen. Arrived 15th.—Aloxander ' from Pernambuco ; Pion eer, (s.), Hamburg; Love, J erse y ; Enchanter, Port Philip. Sailed—Tongataboo, for Port Phillip ; Kate, Constan tinople ; Holland, Ostend ; John Bunyan, Cape of Good Hope ; Lydia, Copenhagen. DEAL, Saturday, 9.30 a.m. Wind, S.S.W., fresh and cloudy. Pasaed.—H. Hawksey, from Pugwaah to London; Jo hanna Hepner, New York to London; War Hawk, Malta to London. Anchored—Pasha, London to Demerara. Put Back and Anchored—Titania, from Isle of Wight, with damage, having been in collision with the brig Mar mion, and lost starboard anchor and 45 fathoms of chain cable and several spars. Passed Dungeness, I3th—Matilda, from Matanzas, for London ; Esperanz, Port Arenas, London ; Martha, Bre men ; Wieland, Bremen .; Mary, Copenhagen ; Louisa Maria, Antwerp. CHOLERA IN FRANCE.—MERSEILLES, July 14.—The cholera is very bad here ; there were 106 deaths yester day, and to-day there is no diminution. RUSSIAN GOVERNMENT SECURITIES.-Yesterday a bill in the House of Commons, bearing the names of Lord Dudley Stuart, Mr. Isaac Butt, and Mr. Montague Chambers, was printed, to render any dealing with se curities issued during the pre sen t war b e t ween R uss i a and England by the Russian Government a misde meanour. It is recited that it is expedient to prevent as much as possible the Russian Government from raising funds for the purpose of prosecuting the war which it at present carries on against this country, and therefore it is proposed to prohibit the dealing in Rus sian debentures, loans, stock, scrip, or other securities, otherwise the parties to be deemed guilty of a misde meanour, and liable to be imprisoned for a term of not less than three months, and to pay a fine at the discre tioh of the court, THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1854. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. 'Closing Prices this day. Business done this day. Aberdeen Arnbg. Nottng. Bost and Eastn. Junct Belfast & Ballymena Birming. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Juliet Do. Chesh. & £5O and 225 Cons. Do., £20.. . Rlyth & Tyne original £25 (issd. at 245, Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon... Cork, Black, & Pass. Cornwall Crieff Junction Dublin&BelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Do. New East Anglian Do., (XlB E & Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A Stock De., B. Stock IDo., New A. East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Prth & Dunelee Forth & Clyde June. Glasgow&S. Western Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre.) Great Western Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle ~ Do Thirds Do. New Thirds__ Lancash.anclYorksh Do., Fifths a.; Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby.&Soutlipt London & Blackwal, Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond. Bright & S. est. Loud, and N. Westn. Do. Fifths Do.lo/. 5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths London and S. Westn. Do., £5O Do., £4O Lndndrry& Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk, Vlanch.Shef.& Lincln Do., Man. & Lin. lin Midland Do. Birmng. & Derby ;riidld. G. West. (Ire.) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmarket `Do., Bury Extension. Nwpt.Aberg.&Hrfd 1 Newry &Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Norfolk Northu.Connties Un North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A Deferred Do., i B Guarauteeo North London 'Do. New £lO.. 111;, 20 20 10 10 2/ 2s 100 100 100 100 20 20 20 25 N. &S. Wstrn , Hamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester St. 10 St. 25 121251 16! ; 100 Oxford, Worcester,&: Wolverhampton Portsmouth Scottish Central Scottish Midland all 81s. 100 20 130 ,100 Shrewsbury & Bi Do. L. & N. Western Guaranteed Stack_ Shrewsby. dt Ilerefd. Shrewsby. & CI ester (N. W. Mn;, Do. Halves,l G. Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& D,fully paid up at per ceut 1 South M3VOII South Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. (St My. Dun Do Staines, Wok. &Wok Stockton & Darling Stockton & Hartlepl. Taff Vale . Do. £lO shares. Do. Pref., No. 1... Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Waterftl. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerlek West Cornwall. West End of London and Crystal Palace West London Wimbledn & Croydon York Newetl.&Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase 'York& N. Midland per cent. 14 63 4k FOREIGN. 1.0 ' all Antwerp&Rotterdam 3i Sid 5 3 Belgian Eastn. June. / 20 8 Beziers to Graisseseac 3i 3 d 20 2s. Bombay, Baroda, and Central Inclia,Scrip 1 d—ip ... Central of Italy — 20 all Charleroi & E rque li n ••• all Demerara 20 14 Dijon andßcsancon p 20 9 Dutch Rhenish 34 3 d 20 all East Indian 1 2 p 20 2 Do. Extension . 5 all Gt. Indian Peninsula I p 20 10 Gd. Junct. of France 25 10 Grd. Trunk of Canada 5 d 100 40 Do. Debentures si —41 d [OO all Do. do 20 10 Gt. Central of France id —# d 201 all Gt. poB. l hß il a e chr s lei t ds e s r . n . s f t ea is 7:5h; 18. . 18 . p 1 2 . 00 . 6 i 06 ii c t p o 20 all Do. oenur nTst. s,t o . 7 7r . 5 all Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c. dis prof ............. 20 15 Luxembourg — 10 10 Do. (Railway) ••• ••• 5 2 Do.Prcf — ••• 5 3 Do. (Canal) ••• d 10 5 Do. 6p. ct. pref ••• 20 '0 Lyons and Geneva 20 12 Lyons & Mcditerran — 20 13 Madras id —4 P 333 331, Maria Antonia 10 all Do. do. New 2e 2 Melbourne Dlc. &Ry — 20 all Namur & Liege (with interest) 7§ 8 20 all Do. (ex interest) — 16 all Northern of France 331 33 . 4 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bdp. 20 all (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs. )• 10 all NorwegianTrunkPref 9 20 10 Paris and Lyons l7k 17ip 311 40 all Ditto Bonds . ...... 10 all Paris and Orleans 45 47 46 20 all Paris and Rouen 39 41 20 all Paris and Strasbourg 304 31i 31f 20 10 ParisCaen & Cherbrg. —• pm 104 10j Quebec & Richmond 20 all Rouen and Havre 22 —23 20 15 Royal Danish ld 1p 5 2 Royal Swedish — a 20 all Sambre and Meuse •81 9 6 Do. si• p. cent. Pref. 20 6 Southern of France —pm 20 8 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) . ••• 81 all West Flanders •3l 44 10 all Do 5i pe r c . P re f — d 20 10 Western of France 5 6 p 10 7 West. of Switzerland 20 2 Wiesbaden ...... 20 15 Zealand . ••••• ••• ••• 4i —31 d OTHER BUSINESS DONE. JOINT STOCK BANKS.—Oriental Bank Corporation, 47; Union of Australia, 73i 24 3 2. LINES LEASED.—East Lincoln, guaranteed, 6 per cent., 135 i London and Greenwich, 13k ; London, Tilbury, and Southend, 11. PREFERENCE SHARES.—Caledonian 10/., 951 ; Manch., b (Readingurmyisaen Shef., and Lincoln New 10/., 9; do. 61., 4i; Midland Con solidated pref. 46 per cent., 1* 1; North British, 1044 ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, s l o 0 u 8 th ; E S a h s r t e e w rn s , - ), pe 2 r 3a c . ent.,. MA to 4 ; —Australian Agricultural, 464; Canada Government 6 per cent., 1074; Crystal Palace, 5 4151 ; Do. New B shares, 3. fi ; South Australian Investment Co., 2i ii. ........--...-,.......---,—.--...... Chester,AL A n N n E u i o Annuities), i esss. LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST RAILWAY. The board of directors having had the accounts for the past half-year submitted to them, have decided upon recommending the payment of a dividend for the half year of 2/. Gs. per cent, on the consolidated stock of the company. Sia CHARLES NAPIER ON DECK.—We have been fa voured with the subjoined extract from a letter, dated Helsingfors, June 21, written by a young gentleman, a native of this town, and a gallant " middy" on board the Duke of Wellington.—" Sir Charles Napier is evi dently eager for the fray ;' he paces the deck like a caged lion, with a sou'-wester hat on his head, and his trousers tucked up to the knees, taking snuff immoder ately, which, I am told by old sailors, is a sign of some thing being in the wind."—Sivanse.ct Herald. ABOLITION OF THE CITY STREET-TOLLS.-011 Thurs. day, at the meeting of the Court of Common Council, Mr. Gilpin gave notice of a motion for the abolition of the street-tolls at the end of the year. 23i 24 5 -5/ 9 - 10 11i --104 d 17 -- 18 7 -- 6d 97 - 99 631 -63 i 15i 164 11 . 13 id p.ar.. 7 - 8 17 . -i: 13i -- 13$ 36 -- 40 28 -- 30 64 - 66 60 - 62 ii -1" . 26 66 68 91 92 75 77 L 25 - 127 96 - 98 79i - 80 89 91 11 13 u 11 —l3 i. 661 674 6i 64 el lE' -- in. •• • 8i - •8i 108 199 104 - .ZO4l par— I P par p 82i —83 a 9 8 d 8 7d le ."..' ••• 21 - 22 66 66i 38 - 40 IS .." • • • is .... solo . .." O. 6i 6 d 2 24 6 8 50 52 34 34d 33 ... 34 ,• ••• •• • • 52 551 Pa'- P 41 4d' 7j ld 1 p 31 - 33 92 94 5g 60 68 - 72 68 - 72 2i - 2 18 20 9 10 14 15 3i —34 d 13 - 15 63 Cl 35 - 36 4 - - 5 ii __ ii 3i - 19 194 4 - 23 25 6 61 i . = i' 73 74 7 6id 4i 3id 54 55 73 i 13i 541 btrb Wtittions SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock. ALGERIA. The French Government has received a long re port from the Governor-General of Algeria, giving an account of an attack made upon the Beni- Hidgers, a powerful tribe, having 1,200 muskets, and who had with them in this affair some other tribes. The French troops met with a desperate resistance, and were, fram the nature of the ground occupied by the enemy, obliged to act with great caution; but they are stated to have been success ful, and to have killed 80 of the enemy. The loss on the French side in killed was 5 soldiers, and 53 were wounded, among whom were three officers. In a subsequent affair the Kabyles were defeated, but the French had a captain and three men killed and 40 wounded. After these two actions several of the tribes offered their submission. STATE OF TRADE. (Prom the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, July 11, —The want of animation in our market last week has increased to a general dul ness in the present week. Both the foreign and home buyers of yarns and goods have held more markedly aloof from business, which has consequently been incon siderable. As regards prices, it is found that those pro ducers who were previously asking rather more than what could be obtained are willing to concede the dif ference : but that any further giving way than this is partial ; yet ail are freer sellers than before, and this of course gives the buyer a slight practical advantage, which, in the medium and lower counts of yarns, may be stated at id. per lb., while in goods it is hardly quotable. The absence of any material stocks of goods and yarns (except in the fine counts of the latter), and the degree in which producers at large are under contract, is sufficient to prevent anything like an anxiety to sell. The Liverpool market is still dull, and buyers have a better choice ; but it is only inferior cotton of any de nomination that is quoted lower. BRADFORD, July 13.—This has been a week of com parative inactivity in amount of wool sales. Yarns.— There is nothing in the slightest degree improved in this branch of the trade. The prices sought for wool render the avocation one attended with great loss to those who pursue it; for yarns are only commanding a price that barely covers the cost of tops, leaving the entire expenses of spinning minus. Pieces—This has been a week of sad disaster, there hav ing been not less than six failures ; the principal of which arises from the continued wearing away by fall of stock, and the ruinous prices at which goods are markets el i ng, g LEICESTER, compared ,ther ejst tulty w o t 3 h m. — t o h rA e e cost fit e t d o r e n p f ce ro ee l d i i u nag c e t . h ex e is y ts ar i n n a t :d e wool trades. THE WOOLLEY TRADE. (Front the Leeds Mercury of this day.) LEEDS, July 14.—We have no change to report in the state of the woollen trade this week. Th e markets have been of a steady character, and a fair ave rage business was done in both the cloth halls on Saturday as well as on Tuesday. There have been several buyers in the town this week, both from Lon don and other parts of the country ; there has conse quently been a fair steady business done in the ware houses for the home trade. The shipping houses are also doing a little for the Canada market. HUDDERSFIELD, July 11.—The market to-day w as rather an improvement upon last week, and there ap. pears to have been a few better market days in succes sion. Much business continues to be done to order, and in the warehouses it may be said that the market is con tinuous from day to day. Prices firm and unchanged. HALIFAX, July B.—We cannot record any alteration in the piece market this week. In yarns there has been a tolerable amount of business done, on slightly better terms for the spinners. Th e woo l trade exhibits little or no change since our last report. MARKET NE W,5-(THIS DAY). COVENT GARDEN. The supplies on sale to-day were very extensive, yet the demand ruled active, as follows : FRUIT.--Pino apples, English, Od to 8s Od. each ; hot-hous e grapes, 2s to 4s; foreign ditto, is 6d to 3 s Od per lb ; pe ac h es an d nectarines, 4s Od to 10 8 Od per d ozen ; melons, Is 6d to 5s each ; strawberries, 2d to 6d per pottle • raspberries, 2d to 6d per pottle ; gooseberries, 2s Od to 3s Od ; •currants, 3s Od to 4s 6d per half sieve ; cherrie s , 2d to Os 8d per lb. ; lemons, 9d to 2s ; oranges, 8s Od to 14s per 100; almonds, 2s to 3s per lb. ; Barcelona nuts, 24s per bush. VEG ETABLES.—Cabbages, 9d to is 2d per dozen ; greens. 9d to is 9d per dozen bunches ; French beans, 9d to is 6d per 100 ; cauliflowers, is 6d to 3s 6d per doz. ; new potatoes, 5s to 8s per cwt.; asparagus, 2s to 5s per bund.; peas, 2s 6d to 5s per bush. ; broad beans, is 6d to 2s per half sieve ; turnips, 4d to 7d per bunch ; carrots, 6cl to 9d per bunch; cucumbers, 1p to 8d each; garlic, 8d to is Od per pcutvl ; spinach, i s Od to is 6d per sieve ; spring onions, 2d to 8d per bunch ; Spanish ditto, is to 3s per doz. ; leeks, 2d to 3d per bunch ; shall o t s , 6d t o 8d : horse-raddish, 2s Od to 4s Od per bundle ; parsley, id to 2d per bunch ; rhubarb, Os 2d to Os 4d par bundle ; endive, 2s to 3s Od per score ; beet, 6d to is each ; parsnips, is Od to 2s Od per dozen ; small salad, 2d to 3d per punnet; mushrooms, Is to 2s Od per pottle ; artichokes, 3d to 6d each ; cos lettuces. 6d to 10d per score; sorrel, 6d to ,la per half sieve ; radishes ad to Od per dozen hands. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Turkey poults, Os to Os ; Goslings, 5s to 6s 6d each ; Duck lings, 2s 6,1 to 3s 6d; tame Rabbits, is to is 9d; wild do , is to is 9d ; Guinea Fowls, Os to Os Od ; Pigeons, 5d to 8d each; Surrey Fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto Chickens, Os Od to Os Od; barn-door Fowls, 2s Od to 3s 6d per couple; Capons, 4s WI to 5s Od ; Chickens, is 9d to 3s per couple. Leverets, 38 to 4s Od each. Ostend fresh butter, 11s Od to 12s 6d, and English lls 6d to 14s 6d per dozen lbs. English Eggs, 7s Od to 8s Od; French ditto, 5s Od to Os 611 per 120. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 2s 6d. to 15s ; Brills, is to 7s Od each; Salmon 8d to is Oct per lb; Cod Fish, 3s to 6s Od each; Soles, 3d to is 6d per pair ; Eels, 8d to is per lb ; Lobsters, 6d to 2s Od ; Crabs, Gd to 2s Od ; Whitings, 3s Od to Os per doz.; Common Oysters, lOs to 16s ; Natives, Os Od to Os per bsh; Mackerel, 30s to 00s per 100; Smelts, is 6d to 2s prdoz.; Skate, Gd to Oct per lb; Shrimps, is Gd to 2s Gd per gallon; Bloaters, is Gd to 2s Od per doz. ; Fresh Herrings, 8s Od to Os Od per 100 ; Haddocks, 5s to 12a per doz. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are frors 91d to 10id; of household ditto, 8d to 9d per 41b loaf. NEWPORT. Beef from 3s 8d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s Bcl to 4s 10d ; lamb, 4s 10d to 5s 10d ; veal, 3s Gd to 4s 8d ; pork, 3s 10d 5s Od per Blbs. WkITECHAPEL. Beef, from 35 4d to 43 ; mutton, 3s Gd to 43 8d ; lamb, 4s 8d to 5s 8d; veal, 3s Gd to 4s &l; pork, 35 4d to Is 10d per 81bs. by the carcase. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b 3d to 3id; 641 b to 721 b, to 31 3Ad; 721 b to 801 b, 3A to 3id ; 801 b to 881 b, 3id to 44 ; 8811; to 961 b, 4d toj Od; 961 b to 1041 b, Od to Od ; 1041 b to 1121 b Od to Od. Horse hidos, Gs Gd to Os Od; calf skins, light, 2s Od to 3s Od; ditto full, 5s to to Os Od; polled sheep, Os Od to Os Od; Kent ' s, Os Od to Os Ocl; Half-breds, Os Od to Os Od ; Downs, 45 Od to Gs Od ; Lambs, 2s Od to 2s 10d; Shearlings, is 2d to is sd. HAY MARKETS. SXUTFIFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ 8s to / Os ; clover ditto, 318 s to 61 Os ; and straw, 1/ 14s to 21 Os per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 21 lOs to 51 Os ; clover ditto,_,3l 8s to 5/ 15s; and stravr, 1114 s t o 21 Os per load. Both and straw moved off s lowly, at our quotations. WHITECHAPAL.—Meado w h ay, 21 83 to 5/ 0s; clover ditto, 31 lOs to 61 Os ; and straw, 1/ 1 5s to 21 Os per load. Supply tolerably good , and trade dull. MINING INTELLIGENCE. (Front the Mining Journal of th,i.3 day.) The market for mining shares has been more active this week, and a fair average amount of business trans acted in various dividend and speculative shares. After the meeting of Sortridge Consols the shares rose to 505., and a great many purchases were made at 47s 6d. to 50s. The market, however, has not been sustained, and the present price is quoted at 425. 6d. to 455. North Bassets have been largely dealt in, and the price rose from 161. to 181., and left off at 171. to 1 7/. 10s. - West Bassets have reached 301. to 321. ; Devon Great Con- Tehid sols, 4001. to 4051. ; West Seton, 2301. to 2 50/. ; West ; 11 e T e e l w B e l t . htao, ; Alfred Consols, 261. to 271. 10s. ; South Tamar 10/. ss. Wheal to 10/. 10s. ; Bedford United, 91. to 91. ss. ; E ast Gun. nis Lake, 1/. to 1/. 2s. Gd. ; Herodscombe, 17s. Gd. • Venton, 21. to 21. 2s. 6d. ; Uny, 51. to 6/. ; Quail and , y, Harriet, 7s. 6d. to 10s. ; Trelawny, 451. 2 W l. en to tw 2 o f. rt i h o , s. 9/.. w lO e s si tPorolv°idl'e During the week shares have changed hand s i n t h e following : ar i , n South DIVIDEND MlNES.—Alfred Consols, Altgoed Consols,' a Bedford United, Botallack, Bryntail , Castle, Condur row, Devon Great Consols Dolcoath, East Wh eal Mar gpaor w e t ;i , G A o f e n r a iry e n n , a N , o G r t r h e a w t P h o e l g i B o o assetth, 11 , s e r o o u d t s h f o T o a t m , ligst on Wheal Frances, Tamar Consols, Tincroft, Trehane, Tre lyon Consols, Treviskey, Trewetha, West Providence, Wheal Basset, Wheal Boller, Wheal Golden, Wheal James, Wheal Jane, Wheal Lovel, Wheal Mary A nn, Wheal Owles, Wheal Trela,wny, Wheal Tremayne, Dhurode, General Mining Company for Ireland, Ken mare, Lackamore, Mining Company of Ireland, Wick low. MINES WHICH HAVE SOLD OnE.—Altarnum Consols, Beacon, Bell and Lanarth, Birch, Tor, Bodmin, Boiling Well, Boringdon, Carbona, Carvannall, Cas tle Dinas, Clara, Clijah and Wentworth, Craig wen, Darren, Dyfngwm, Eaglebrook, East Alfred, East Bass e t, E a st Gunnis Lake, East Tamar, E ast Wheal :Russell, East Wheal Vor, Fee Donald, Great Bryn, Great Cowarch, Great, Crinnis, Great Hewas, Great Sheba, Great Wheal Baddern, Great Wheal Vor, Molland, North Wheal Robert, Orsedd, Polgear, Pohl more, Sortridge, South Bog, Trannack, Treb urgo t Tre now, Tyn-y-Berth, West lfred, West Basset, West Seton, Wheal Franco, Wheal Harriett, Wh. H e l en Wheal Tehidy, Wheal Uny, Wheal Venton, Y oo i an d Consols, Wyndham Consols, &c. There is still no improvement* to be noticed in the Gold Mining Share-market, and we have only to record that the most accredited descriptions are now at a dis count, without exception ; while those less in favour are scarcely saleable, even at nominal prices. .RECOMMENDATION TO OPEN THE CRYSTAL PALACE ON SUNDAYS. REPORT OF THE PARLIAMENTARY COM MITTEE ON PUBLIC -HOUSES. Tho select committee of the House of Commons appointed to examine into the system under which public-houses, coffee houses, and other places of public entertainment are now regulated, have agreed to their report and laid it before the house. The committee, referring to the e.,viclence which they have taken, notice the great advantage which had been derived by the public of Dublin from the opening on Sundays of the grounds of the Zooliogcal Society, in the Phoenix Park, at a charge of one penny for admission. Further on the committee say- -" A working man living in the neighbourhood of the Crystal Palace, states that there is great drunkenness on Sunday night in the public-houses at Norwood ; a great number of people corns down to see the building during the Sunday and stop at the public-houses, where they get intoxicated, and make a great disturbance during the evening. This is precisely what in the neighbour hood of Chatsworth used to happen during the period the grounds remained closed, and from his experience on that occasion, Sir Joseph Paxton apprehends persons going to see the Crystal Palace would in the first place be too tired by their exertions iu going round it to have any inducement to go to the public-houses to drink. Their wish would be to take recreation and see the beautiful objects which the place contains ; and when they had been there several hours, he does not think there would be a tendency to stop and drink. " The prevention to the admission of the public to the Crystal Palace on Sunday arises from the act of George 11., which prohibits money from being taken for admission to any I place whatever on the Sunday; the act is evaded at several music saloons, tea gardens; die., by the sale of refreshment tickets being made to cover a nominally free admission. "Your committee cannot but remark upon the impolicy of suffering the continuance of a law which is preventive only to those who will not stoop to devices for its evasion, and who, from the excellence of their object and the superiority of their position should, of all others, be exempt from re strictions. The inconsistency that suffers the singing saloons of Manchester and Liverpool, and Cremorne and the Eagle Tavern gardens to be open on the Sunday, and shuts in the face of all but the proprietors, and those who have free ad mission, to the gardens of the Zoological Society, and the vast and varied school of secular instruction provided within the grounds and building of the Crystal Palace, is too glaring for continuance. There can be but few who will contend that it better becomes a Christian observance of the Sunday that people should be congregated, drunken and brawling, outside the Crystal Palace, than that they should be en gaged in the contemplation of the thousand beautiful and thought-exciting objects within its walls. But there are other places of public instruction, the complete closing of which throughout Sunday seems to your committee less excusable. The National Gallery, the British and Geological Museums, the exhibitions at Marl borough and Gore House, are paid for by the nation ; there is not au individual, however poor, that in the consumption of taxed products does not contribute his quota to the sup port of these institutions, and it therefore does not seem to your committee a policy that admits of defence that these places should be closed upon the only day that it is possible for the majority of the population to visit them without seri, ous loss. It is seldom possible for working men, or any con siderable part of the fully employed population, to visit the National Gallery, the British Museum, or other national in stitutions, unless at the cost, to them a serious one, of a day's wages. " It is, however, objected that to have the several national and other exhibitions open on the Sunday must of necessity deprive the servants of those establishments of their day of rest. Your committee are by no means satisfied that this need be the case : there are numbers of persons who, if it were open to them, would gladly, at a moderate remunera tion, volunteer their services for the Sunday after two o'clock, the hour at which it is proposed that all such places shall be opened ; and your committee are not aware of any serious difficulty in the way of a register of persons so willing to serve being kept at the several institutions, or of their attend ing for a time as probationers, i n order to make themselves thoroughly conversant with the requisite duties, and it would not oven be needful that the same persons should attend on consecutive Sundays." Tho report generally reviews the licensing systeni, and the following are the RESOLUTIONS OF THE COMMITTEE. No intoxicating drinks to be sold without license. Licenses to be issued by magistrates at sessions held for that purpose. There shall be one uniform license for the sale of intoxi cating drinks, that shall be open to all. Persons obtaining licenses shall be bound, and the sureties shall be bound, for their due observance of the law. The lowest amount to be paid for a license in rstral parishes and small towns, shall be 61. in towns of 5,000 in habitants; and not exceeding 10,000, the license to be 81., and so on, but in no case to exceed 301. Inspectors of public-houses to be appointed, to report upon the condition and conduct of such houses. Coffee shops, temperance hotels, and shell fish shops, to be required to be licensed, and visited and reported upon in the same manner. The license to bo issued for 21. That, with the exception of from 1 to 2 in the day, and from 6 to 9 in the evening, public houses be closed on Sun days ; and on week days from 11 to 4 a.m. That it is expedient that places of rational recreation and instruction, now closed, should be opened to the public on Sunday afternoons, at the hour of two o'clock, and that so far as any such places are now closed by the operation of the law, such laws should - be so far amended as to enable the Lord Chamberlain, or other competent authority, to deter mine what places should be permitted to be so opened, and for what length of time. That the several laws relating to the regulation of licensing of beer-shops and public-houses, and places of entertainment, and the several provisions of the Police and Excise Acts ap plying thereto, should be consolidated and made in accord ance with these resolutions. TEE "COURT"-EOUS SPY! (From the Daily Noes.) If any sober Danish soldier, at the time of Alfred's. visit to the Danish camp, had proposed to his drunken chieftain the summary ejection of the fascinating harpist, he would probably have been knocked on the head for his pains. He would, at least, have been called a low bred personage, one who could not understand the claims of hospitality, or recognise the indubitable merit of It good fellow. Nevertheless, every note on Alfred's harp was the death-toll to the hopes of the revellers. While his fingers were en gage d hi s eyes were open, and the knowlege that he obtained, says the legend, contributed to ruin the Danes. It was thought impossible that so boon a companion could he a traitor, so Alfred took the measure of his enemies, and made such peculiar use of it that he crushed them all. There is an enemy in the camp in England: He may certainly be very harmless, but he is a Russian. He may be all that his friends say of him, but nothing can wash away the Russian taint; and while England and Russia are waging deadly war, we want no Russians walking about our streets of London, and becomi ng ac quainted with m an y thi ngs w h ich the Czar would be glad to hear. Is the Czar famous for his courteous treatment of Englishmen in his dominions ? Does he not, in vio lation of contracts, try to detain English engineers in his country, fearful that they should publish reports of what they had seen ? Has he not refused even to exchange English prison ers , for th e same cause ? We do not wish to copy his brutalities, but we wish politely to decline having Russians amongst us. Count Pahlen is a Rus sian subject, and if he had the good taste of a gentleman he would have taken his departure long ago. Yet at a time when the vessels of the two countries have orders to sink, burn, and destroy each other, he is jaun tily mixing with English society, where secrets of State, which are ever oozing out, are sure to appear first. He gets a Cabinet Minister to introduce him to one of the best attended of our clubs. It is idle to say that he has not the opportunity of acquiring, by these means, much knowledge that the open and declared foes of England would be glad to learn. But, even if this were not the case, Englishmen have several remembrances of the way in which the Russian Emperor and his generals have treated English subjects. Lord Malmesbury spoke of the spirit of chivalry and Christianity displayed by General Osten-Sacken and his " most amiable wife" on behalf of the English made prisoners at Odessa. Why did he not enlarge on the spirit of " chivalry and Chris tianity" manifested in the way that those prisoners were captured ? How very chivalrous and very Christian to attack a stranded and utterly helpless ship with red-hot balls ! How chivalric and Christianlike the " victory" of Sinope ! There are a few other incidents of the war, which we may say has only commenced, which incline Englishmen to be rather sore when they see a Russian nobleman diving into the recesses of society here, on his way to St. Petersburg. The public opinion is ex pressed rather warmly, and then Lord Granville comes forward with what he considers an " explanation" of the affair, and the Russian advocate in the press bullies those who have manifested a distaste to the company of a Mus covite. What does Lord Granville's defence amount to ? Count Pahlen, he says, is a highly respectable Russian nobleman, greatly esteemed by many distinguished persons in the country. He might say the same of half the Russian noblemen who have ever been introduced into English society. Lord Aberdeen would say as much of Nicholas himself. Lord Malmesbury did say as much and more of Osten-Sacken. Count Pahlen is possibly an interest ing personage, but he is a Russian. But Lord Gran ville tells us with a sneer he did not introduce Count Pahlen into English society. At the time of his lord ship's birth the Count was the intimate friend of his lordship's father, of the Duk e o f W e lli ngton, L or d Grey, and of others. So again, it may be said, were a host of Russian noblemen now alive ; but they are not the less bound by their allegiance to their Sovereign to consider themselves enemies to the English now. But this has nothing to do with the case. The true question is, did Lord Granville's father, or the Duke of Wellington, or Lord Grey, ever make it their business to strew flowers in the path of the natives of other countries with whom their own country was at war? There is very little doubt that the Queen, in the exercise of the rites of hos pitality, gave the Emperor of Russia a hearty welcome when lie carne over here. This, however, does not pre vent her preparing for him a " warns welcome" of a dif ferent nature, should he ever venture out of the o t which, at pres en t, appear hermetically sealed. P r 8 Count Pahlen, when ho returns to his own country, will, it is presumed, have an audience of his own Sove reign. From all that we know of Nicholas, have we any right to suppose that the Emperor will be delicate in putting on the screw to obtain whatever news it may have been the Count's lot to gain while in England ? The Czar is a despot, and Count Pahlen is the Czar's property. Count Pahlen is not a free man. He is the subject of an Autocrat, and must do the Autocrat's will. The Count can scarcely wish, moreover, to keep back any information likely to be of service to his own coun try, and injurious to ours. If he refused to tell all he may learn, he knows very well that the road to Siberia is open day and night for noblemen and others who do not exactly agree with the Czar, and this knowledge would assuredly induce him to comply with the Czar's wishes to the utmost of his ability. If he has any eyes, while in England he will use them. If the information he acquires by this means be of use to the Czar, it will be certain to he reported. It is, then, to say the least of it, a grossly indelicate Procedure on the part of a "Cabinet Minister" to appear publicly patronising Count Pahlen in the way which Lord Granville has done. The whole House of Peers (Peers, as a rule, sympathising with despotisms) may come forward and give the Count a good character ; but this will not do away with the indiscretion of a Cabinet Minister's publicly receiving and associating with a nobleman from an enemy's country. Count Pahlen himself is a sharer in the obloquy whieh must attach to such indelicacy. If it was necessary that he should come here at all, be should have done it quietly and with out ostentation. His noble friends would have acted more consistently themselves, and better for him had they told him to remain quiet, and not parade himself inso lently before the eyes of the English people. We have gone to war sorelyfagainst our wishes, but yielding to the inevitable exigencies of the case. Now we are engaged in war, we accept the heavy responsibilities which it im poses upon us without reluctance indeed, but with a feeling of solemnity. The death of thousands, and utter dissipation of immense resources, are not matters to be lightly treated. It is an insult to England that subjects of the very nation which has imposed this responsibility upon us should be allowed to walk from club to club, from soirée to soirée, as if there was no reality in the fear• ful contest that is raging. It is more than probable that half-a-dozen Count Pahlens would never be able to do us ranch harm, but that is no reason why we should be in sulted by his presence hero. We don't want him or the Russians in England until their Czar and proprietor has been made honest, and an honourable peace has been secured. We shall be very willing to shake hands with the Russians after their Autocrat has been well set down as he ought to be, but, till then, let them keep their distance. The Times, which sees nothing but evil in the fact of French and English dining together to celebrate their alliance, has not a word to say against English and Russian noblemen performing the dearest rites of friendship in time of war. The good sense of Englishmen will detect the absurdity in either case, and insist upon the absence of hostile noblemen, who have all the opportunities (if not the will) to beoome spies. (From, the Morning Herald.) The question connected with Count Pahlen cannot be got rid of so easily as some of our contemporaries appear to imagine. We earnestly hope that Mr. Butt will vin dicate his character for sincerity by asking the opinion of the House of Commons upon that question ; but whether he does or not, the Times may restassured that the public will not be satisfied with the very dexterous raillery by which our contemporary attempts to avert attention from the true point. To talk of this case as ono involving any question of civilising the w=ages of war is absurd. The question is this, and this only :—Are we to allow the subject of a hostile power to come into this country, not for the pur pose of residing in this country as a, refugee from his own Government, but with the avowed intention of returning to his own nation in a few weeks? Lord Granville has asserted for Russia the unlimitud right of sending any number of agents into this country. If Count Nicholas Pahlen can come without any licence from the Govern ment—any other Russian nobleman is equally at liberty to come. If Lord Granville may domicile one Russian nobleman in his house, any other British gentleman is at liberty to invite over any Russian friendt issue, e m he may happen to know. The true question repeat, is this—whether Russia is at liberty a to send we any agents she nominally at war leas ewit hintos R this country while this nation is 1 With reference to Count Pahlen himself, great im con t'tu•lf, it is, we think, of high importance from any considerations o c h e f° n that l t q h u a e t s h t i i o s n ad is m raised. irers in tional question at issue sh f o t u h ld e p b e e r k ee e n p a t l p e e h r a fe r c a t e l t y er di e s f ti t n h ct e lis.not, than, we Suppose Count individual in iw N h i o o s h e nl i ae nst p an a the Russia he is the enemy of England. The House of Lords de ß sc u ri e b s e ia h a i e m a . s not a traitor to *sts exalt his character higher his panegyrists the more do presume, returning to e they establish the case that he is an unfit guest of an English Minister. A high-minded subject of the Czar is now our bitter enemy—the more high-minded he is the more bitter is his enmity, and all the eulogiums that were so largely heaped upon Count Pahlen on Thursday night tended, in truth, to establish that he ought not to be suffered to be here. But, let us say—and it is well that the truth should be known —that the whole truth of the case was blinked in the House of Lords. Not a single noble lord ventured to allude to the fact stated by Mr. Butt in the House of Commons—that Count Nicholas Pahlen is the brother of a gentleman who was the Russian Am bassador at Paris, and who is at this moment holding official rank at St. Petersburg. This fact at once dis poses of all the sentimental cant that has been talked. As none of the friends of Count Pahlen have denied it, it is admitted. It is, indeed, toe notorious to be denied. 'We ask of the English people to weigh this fact, and to remember that a Minister of Queen Victoria has had domiciled in his house the brother of the Minister of Nicholas. The impulse of every one will ba to ask the ques tion, whether Lord Granville has deserted the Queen, or Count Pahlen abandoned the Emperor of Russia ! One or other of these things seems necessary to have happened. If Queen Victoria and Nicholas be really and in good earnest at war, it seems very difficult to be lieve that the true rninister.of the one and the true sub ject of the other could live very comfortably under one roof. The relationship of Count Nicholas Pahlen to a high Banjul Minihter wail A ;natter not considered worthy of .......m...... • inotice in the House of Lords. Another incident in Count Pahlen's history appears equally to have been overlooked. He has not come here from Madeira; he has spent, if we are not misinformed, the last four months in Madrid. '- ' Now we know that it is the general belief that Russian agents have been engaged in getting up recent disturb. ances in Spain. It is, at least, a singular coincidence, that this very same Count Nicholas Pahlen has been in ' Spain exactly at the time when Russian agency is said to have been in mischievous activity there, and comes to England when all the mischief that could be done in Spain has been done. This is a fact easily capable of ascertainment. Has Count Nicholas Pahlen been any time in Spain 1 If it be true, as we are assured it is, then comes the startling question, why has this been"conceal e d from or suppressed by his friends in the House of Lords. Lord Granville distinctly stated that " he came here not from the Con tinent of Europe, but from Madeira." Now, if it turns out that be came here, from Madrid, the very place where Russian intrigues are said to have been most active of late—the suspicion, strong enough in the bare fact—be comes doubly so when we find that in Lord Granvill e ' s apology the fact of the visit to Madrid is altogether sup pressed. Not one word has been said in the House of Lords in consistent with the allegation that Count Pahlen mune here charged with a secret mission. Lord Aberdeen de; Hied that he brought any mission "to him ! 1" Nobody ever asserted that he did. Lord Aberdeen is not one of those upon whom Russia throws away a special embassy. Russia is quite sure of him already. If Count Pahlen he an emissary cb' Russia, it is not upon friends of forty years' standing that his mission is intended to have effect. Let us ask why, if there be no object concealed be neath this Russian's visit, he has not himself so stated t Nothing could have been easier than for Count Pahlen to have given his host, Lord Granville, either a verbal or a written assurance that his mission to England was wholly on his own private business, and entirely uncon nected with politics ? He has not done so. More than this, Lord Granville has not ventured to tell the House of Lords that he asked his guest for any such assurance. In what position, then, does the matter stand? A dis tinguished Russian nobleman, connected with a family high in the Imperial favour, arrives in London. One of the Queen's Ministers immediately asks him to his house. He does so without any explanation as to the object of his visit. He does more. Lord Granville vouches. for him'at a club of English gentlemen as a fit person to mix with them in their most unguarded moments of social intercourse. Those who will believe, after this, that Lord Granville is really sincere in making war upon the country and the Sovereign of Count Nicholas Pahlen have a credulity that we may admire, but cannot envy. Men may talk of precedents as they please ; but never before in Brit ish history did an English Minister receive into . his home as his honoured guest - the subject of a Sovereign at war with England, who came here with the avowed intention of returning to the country which claims his allegiance, and, therefore, his hostility to ours. _ But, we say, at all events let two facts be Bleared up. Is it true that the elder brother of Count Nicholas Pahlen is the distinguished diplomatist who some time since represented Russia at the French court ? Is it true that he has come to England, not from Madeira, but from Madrid / The general principle is, indeed, untouched by these facts. That principle is simply this—that Russia ought not to be permitted to send agents into this country at her pleasure. If Earl Granville has done nothing wrong in his treatment of Count Pahlen we know not where the permission is to stop. No one will certainly be able to say that it is without precedent if next week we dis cover that Prince Menschikoff is a visitor in the house of Lord Aberdeen. TILE TWO NAPOLEONS ; OR, FIFTY THE METROPOLITAN BRIDGES. We have just received an early copy of the report submitted to the House by the Select Committee on Metropolitan Bridges : " Your committee have examined witnesses, with a view to discharging the duty entrusted to them, and have, in the first place, directed their attention to the state and condition of the several metropolitan bridges. With re spect to these, they have to report that, with two excep tions, namely, Blackfriars and Westminster, the whole of the metropolitan bridges are in a satisfactory and durable condition. Southwark, Waterloo, and Vauxhall bridges, Charing-cross foot bridge, are toll bridges, in the hands of private companies. Asto Blackfriars-bridge, the evidence brought before your committee leaves no doubt as to its being in an unsatisfactory state ; and the Court of Common Council has approved of a proposal for removing the pre sent structure, and replacing it by a new bridge. Your committee do not consider it within their province to re port on the condition of Westminster-bridge, as a contract for pulling it down and rebuilding it has actually been entered into. " With regard to the adequacy of the present bridges in the metropolis to accommodate the existing traffic, your committee have examined numerous witnesses, whose opinion they consider valuable as connected with the bridges ; and they report that the present accommodation is insufficient ; that there is every probability of this defi ciency being still further felt, and that it is necessary to adopt measures to mitigate the evil. To meet this end se veral schemes have been submitted to your committee : Ist, It is proposed to open free of tolls those bridges which are at present private property. 2ndly, To increase the width, and consequently the convenience, of some of the existing bridges. 3dly. To enlarge and improve the approaches to them. 4thly. To make the Thames Tunnel available for traffic. sthly. To construct a tubular iron superway, so as to connect the most important points in the metropolis; and, lastly, to build additional bridges. " After a careful consideration of the evidence which has been brought before them, your committee con sider that the expediency of removing the present tolls, on the different bridges between Staines and London bridge, is established. They find that, by the pre sent system, the traffic is diverted from the direct route ; and in consequence the open thoroughfares are choked, and rendered at times almost impassable, by the collection of merchandise and passenger traffic, which would disperse and spread itself if there were more channels of escape provided. This inconvenience is especially felt at London bridge, where not only delay but even danger is incurred by the concentration of traffic on one spot, owing not only to the ordinary London traffic, but to the additional traffic produced by the neighbouring railway termini. Similar inconvenience is felt at Westminster-bridge ; and your committee are of opinion that in both instances it would bo materially diminished if the intermediate toll bridges wore thrown open to the public. The evidence with re spect to the bridges from Vauxhall to Staines establishes the fact that by the present tolls not only is the public in convenienced, local trade impeded, and the accommodation diminished, but that the burden of the tax falls most heavily upon those who are least able to bear it. " Your committee are of opinion that, although it may become necessary, owing to the ever-increasing traffic of the metropolis, to build additional bridges, it will be better, in the first instance, to ascertain the effect of throwing the present toll bridges open to the public, provided they can be obtained on reasonable terms. " Upon the question as to whether additional bridges are required, your committee have examined Mr. Bennoch, Mr. Tite, Mr. Page, Mr. M`Lean, and other competent witnesses. These witnesses agree in the necessity of pro viding further means of communication across the river. " The sites proposed by them are -Ist. Tower-hill, below London-bridge. 2ndly. St. Paul's. 3dly. Charing•cross. 4thly. Horseferry-road. " Without entering into the comparative merits of these several propositions, your committee are of opinion that the bridges opposite Charing-cross and St. Paul's will become speedily necessary, especially should the negotia tion with the proprietors of the toll-paying bridges prove abortive. " With regard to the best mode of providing for the purchase, and the future maintenance and increase of the bridge accommodation, your committee are decidedly of opinion that a rate to be levied over the whole of the dis trict to be benefited by the proposed alterations is at once the most just and the most simple plan to be adopted." THE RIFF PIRATES.—ADMIBALTT, July 12, 1854. — Sir,—With reference to the recent acts of piracy which have been committed on the Riff coast, I am commanded by my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to ac quaint you, for the information of the committee for managing the affairs of Lloyd's, that her Majesty's steam-sloop Prometheus has been again despatched to that coast.—(Signed) R. B. OSBORNE. Captain G. A. Halstead, R.N., Secretary, Lloyd's. HERTFORD, JULY 13.—CROWN COURT.--M. Ysquierdo a Spaniard, was placed at the bar to take his trial for the wilful murder of George Seeles. It will be remembered that at the Spring Assizes the prisoner was charged with the same offence, but in consequence of his refusal to answer any questions that were put to him, or to plead to the indictment, a jury was empannelled to try the question whether he was wilfully mute or mute by the visitation of God, which decided that !re was wilfully mute. In consequence of the prisoner a giving no a u _ swer to the question whether he would wish to be tried by a jury composed of Englishmen and foreigners, or not, the trial took place before a jury of Englishmen. The jury returned a verdict of guilty. Mr. Justice Erle directed that he should at once be called up for judgment, and the decision of the jury was explained to him by the interpreters, and he was asked in the usual form whether he had anything to urge why sentence of prisoner made should not be p assed upon him. The made no answer , and did not betray the slightesritseomneor tion when the sentence was pronounced. He left the bar without uttering a word, 62/1 31) 4 31 13 ii 89 74 7 79 81 9i 651 6 i 81 107 i 9 1031 , 3 4i 65i 6t 134 i YEARS SINGE. Exactly half a century since an Emperor, in the first blush of unparalleled triumphs, stood OR the heights of Boulogne, and reviewed a vast armament that cost him years of preparation. He saw around him an extensive encampment, including every arm of warfare, ready to march anywhere at a moment's notice. Below, in the Lianne, and in various fishing ports up and down the coast, lay a flotilla of innumerable small boats, the crews of which were trained to embark and land again, with many thousand soldiers, in fifteen or twenty minutes. Rewards and honours were distributed on that field of hope- imperial bulletins and decrees were dated from heights that were to be known to fame ; a pompous pillar was commenced, and orations were continually made with the never-failing point that Albion was in sight, and two or three hours were sufficient to carry an army over the narrow strait that inter vened. It was true that whenever the skies them selves did not interpose a sufficient obstacle, there were seen far off amid the sunny waves certain dark , spots that showed who were masters of the sea. It was true that many centuries before another Emperor had stood on those heights, gazed at the wall of cliffs stretching along the northern horizon, claimed a triumph, and gone back to Rome. Nevertheless, Napoleon only left that s p o t for the easier work of subduing the whole continent to the alliance of France. His legions marched from Bou logne to Austerlitz. Though diverted from his object, he never gave it up. He was proclaimed Emperor within sight of this island. This was the better part of his empire still to be won, and the new world to be wept for. In order to inflame, not only the ambition, but the animosity of his soldiers, England was traduced as the last stronghold of a tyrannical aristocracy ; as the oppressor of her own people, and of all other nations, and the sole remaining obstacle to the progress of an empire that was destined to overspread and to civilise the world. The presence of so vast and determined an armament within sight and sound of our shores was anything but agreeable or softening to our feelings. It took all our faith in England and all our contempt of armadas to make life tolerable in those days ; and it is no wonder if we carried our national hatred of Napoleon Bonaparte somewhat beyond the bounds of dignity or reason, when we know that ho was actually looking at US for months together, and waiting only the pleasure of the winds and waves to ravage our territory, destroy our Government, and reduce us to a province of his empire. The mind of nations ever runs upon precedents, and if ever such a scene has occurred to the recollection, or its recurrence been thought possible, it was wily as a slavish repetition of what had once been. Within a very few years, more than once, a species of panic has arisen at the bare possibility of a similar armament, for which neither the power nor the will was wanting, and which had Paris, oi. n ,o w . re t nc h toy e n. cf a oe s nu s i tr s r t ha a ot n eu c ri e ts o fmr f oi s gm t h e tt a i l m ber t i n o bridge gdow n neighbouringot h v e er the Chan aprmroviy n fim eei. " There was no lack of motive. Louis Philippe had it popularity to retain, Louis Napoleon a relative to avenge a family to establish, and a defeat to repair. If thpre never was any immediate concern, it was because there was no navy or means of embarkation on the spot. Time certainly has brought round the old pageant, and fulfilled these dreams, rather earlier than wont, and this day we actually see a French Emperor, of the family of Napoleon, superintending at Calais the embarkation of an army collected at Boulogne. Here is the very thing so often imagined. Such a thing, indeed, would have been thought impossible ten years ago ; only too likely and too formidable three years ago. Yet historical pre cedents, like dreams, are sometimes to be interpreted by the rule of contraries, and Fate seems to amuse her self with a species of antithesis which carries out the whole resemblance except in the most important par ticular. The army which Napoleon 111. embarks this day is not designed against these shores, but against our com mon enemy, Russia ; the place of the famous fl ot illa are more supplied by British ships, and the two nations t _ _ more unanimous in their wish and more firmlyaliied than for centuries before. Had any one vent ured to wouldpredict such a have boen c o o o n n c s u u r r r e e d 7e no b t u s t o s Even a novelist, it much fur fe y : t r s ag improba bilityhe as for its utter incongruity. they are. The writer of fables may would have been remakri k se d w , il i d s e b st ou in n v d e to nti o o b n s t e o rv k e e t e h p e na ture of things, and in per sons or things as isihoenesptiametoirnogulsikaendmtehne; sheepbu t then brav h e e . minutrsotdnuocte make lions So it - would have been said that an Anglo-Gallivan ex pedition against Russia is not only certain not to occur —it has not even veri-similitude, or the colou r of t ru th. It has not even the requisites of m e l o d rama , an d i s and th e too grotesque for the stage. At least this is a lesson to those who reckon too closely on the analogy of the past. The past, we are told, is the clue to the future, and the wisest prophet is he that best read s th e page of history. That, doubtless, is true ; but th en i t must also be remembered that With Heaven nothi ng is impossible, yet everything harmoni ous, and that the liuk that binds the future to the put is not the mere recurrence of events. With this exam ple before us we need despair of no reconciliation, we need fear no overweening ambition of empire, however so far unchecked. We no more believe that it is in the power of any one empire to conquer the world, than that the ocean will be permitted to overrun the land. No power en earth can stand the union so signally and so unexpectedly illustrated this day. What may be dbn• in the Baltic on the arrival of this new force it is not for us to conjecture. But we do not doubt that a boundary will be imposed to the most encroaching and absorbing empire of modern times, and that the selfish policy which aimed at the dominion of Europe will receive the rebuke it deserves. Pushed too far, too confidently, and with too little reserve, it has taught the two great Poirers of Western Europe to forget their animosities, and to seek glory in an amicable rather than in a jealous cam petition. With a great identity of races, and still more of interests, no good reason can be given why England and France should not make common cause for c enturies to come. All their qu arre l s h ave hith er to been histr o _ . al and accidental, on ques tio ns o f dynasty a nd re ligi o n. Ever since the d a y th a t we wer e expelled from h l f!oil British squad of France, from that very Calais where ron this day receives a French es the C hannel to the interest of sovereigns on both rid es with the foment mutual jealousies, and to intrigue for The motives these crimes dis affectedin one another's realms. expedition, i t has been crimes have now ceased, and with them the crimes too may now be forgotten ; nor can any reaso n now be as signed why England and France shou ld not find itt unanimity that strength and dignity their rulers once sought in dreams of mutual subjugation. —Times, THAMES NATIONAL REGATTA.—Owing to the fixture of this regatta for the 25th, 20th, and 27th ult. clashing with the great meeting at Goodwood, the Thames Na tional Committee have determined upon a postponement to the Bth, 9th, and 10th of August. This would have been done some time since, but a difficulty arose from the fact of the Manchester and Salford Regatta being fixed for the only days to which the Thames National could be put off. This is now obviated by the former being delayed, and hence advantage has been taken to change the latter to a more convenient time. Eittrief will now be opektill 24 Aug ta t. . t 81281 64 25 50 20 2i 100 42i 34 all all 100 50 40 25 25 100 - 100 47 17 all 100