The Sun. — London, England, 1854-12-30 00:00:00

0031 M ER VIA T. 11 4 . 1 'PELL CITY, TVi 0 o'CLOCK: The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 6,000 bales. The market was quiet, but steady at previous rates. Railway Shares were rather firmer. The position of the Bank of England during the week to the 23d inst.•was iu mest respects " simi lar to that shown by the return of the correspond ing period of 1853, when the demand for money increased as usual towards the end of the year. We have now, however, an addition to the private deposits, which was not observable in the state ment made at this time last year, and which can only be explained upon the supposition that after the recent failures in the United States, and the partial distrust that prevails here as the result of the late suspensions, parties deem it wise to keep a good balance at their bankers. The addition to the bullion is very satisfactory under the circumstances, but we hare no idea that it will continue now the Freich loan is brought out, and the receipt of bullion from America is, temporarily at least, suspended. The amount to the credit of the Government increases, but it would have to receive a much greater addition ere it could be pronounced sufficient, without ex traneous aid, to meet all the demands upon the country. From the nature of things, however, we may assume that large sums .are paid away in satisfaction of war expenses, without remaining long in the Bank, and that, according to the defi ciency bill plan, many changes in this item may be but for a day. Compared with the previous week the changes were as iollows Active circulation Increase Bullion Increase Rest £19,125,445 86,380 14,137,104 108,225 3,140,652 8,618 6,560,414 Increase Public Deposits Increase Other Deposits Increase Seven-Day and other Bills Decrease Government Securities Increase Other Securities 524,739 10,009,957 299,445 938,622 54,490 11,609,583 44,346 14,581,403 Increase Notes unemployed Increase 712,116 8,352,740 21,960 On the 24th December, 1853, the amount of bul lion in the Bank of England was 15,819,0411., con sequently the sum at present held must be consi dered large after nine months of active warfare. The public deposits " tell a tale," having been 11,157,7241. at this time last year, or 4,597,3101. more than at present. The other securities are about 2,000,0001. less now than in December last, explicable by the dulness of trade, &c. The active circulation of notes payable on demand has dimi nished 1,684,7101. There was a decline yesterday afternoon in the rate of exchange on Paris to 25 27i to 30 for 90 days' paper, but Hamburg was firmer at 13 5i to bi, Trieste was 12 37 to 45, and Amsterdam 11 171 to 17k, being the same as previously. The shipments of gold direct from London dur ing the week to Thursday last were 2,999 ounces, and of silver 202,584 ounces. The Funds are inanimate and without buoyancy, for although the Bank return is good, the deluge of complaints from the Crimea is dispiriting. Consols have been 91k and are now 94 f. Ex chequer Bills realise 4s. to 75., and. India Bonds 12s. premium. Foreign Securities are mostly nominal. The Turkish Stock keeps up at 75i Mexican is firmer at 21. Dutch 4 per Cents. have been 91 to 91k. The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6 ; Mexi can, 20i to 21 ; Peruvian, 69 to 71 ; Ditto 3 per Cents., 48 to 50 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 41 to 43 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 97 to 99 ; Ditto 44 per Cents., 87 to 89 ; Spanish New Deferred, 181 to 18f ; Ditto 3 per Cents., 38± to 38i ; Ditto Certifi cates. 5 to 5i ; Ditto Passive, 4i to 41. For Railway Ohara there has been a tolerably firm market, and with moderate tran....abi.i.“,_but_ prices are not generally higher. The Great Northern Shares are in request, and the A stock is dearer. Foreign Shares are about the same. The Colonial Mining Market is dull. The Joint Stock Banks are steady. Crystal Palace maintains its price. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOC K (From the Wicial List. ) Business done 3 per Cent. Cor solo Annuities India Bonds, £lOOO Consols for Account, 10th January Exchequer Bills, 2/d. £lOOO y. 7 4 115 C ICI Small 74 PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS Air ONE O'CLOCK Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 2l. Turkish Scrip, paid up in full Ditto for the Account 751 / Dividends on the above payable in London. Datch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil — Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certifieates...... 9ll fWO VOLOCK. Consols Ditto, January Account .... ..... 91i i THE FRENCH IW ALGERIA. The French Minister of War has received the following report from the Governor-General ad interim of Algeria : " Algeria, Dec. 15. "Monsieur le Mar6chal,—By the mail of the 10th I addressed to your Excellency a statement of the poli tical situation of Algeria. That situation has since im proved, and we are everywhere in the way of progress. The following is a hasty sketch of affairs. I yes terday gave the investiture to the Cheik of the Ka byle tribe of the Beni Raten, which is an important fact. The measure, by which, on the 15th November last, by order of the Governor-General, hands were laid throughout the whole of Algeria, from the frontier of Tunis to that of Morocco, on all the men belonging to that tribe who were travelling on our territory, was per fectly successful. These mountaineers, who are the richest of the Jurjura, immediately comprehended that the prolongation of this measure was for them equivalent to a regular blockade ; that it would destroy their commerce ; and that the fall of that commerce would lead to that of the political influ ence which they exercised in the Upper Sebaou. They therefore immediately demanded to treat, and notwith standing their pretensions, I firmly maintained the con ditions imposed by General Randon in his spring cam paign. The questions of taxes and hostages were settled without dispute ; in a ward, they accept a situation similar to that of the other Kabyle tribes who have submitted to our authority. All was decided on in one morning, and yesterday they swore on the Koran to fulfil their promises, and I gave the burnous to their Caids. While things are thus improved on that part of the Tell our affairs in the south are going on satisfactorily. On the Bth Col. Desvanx was occupied in regulating the organisation of Tuggurt, the possession of which has been already made known to your Excellency. At Ouargla our success has exceeded our hopes. Captain Colomb, who arrived in that oasis with a simple escort of spahis and the goum of our khalifat, Si-Hamza was re ceived by a public fete, but he boldly interrupted these demonstrations, and in the midst of the people, who were stupified with astonishment, he reproached Ben Bahia, the caid of Negonea, with having had relations with the cherif, and ordered him to point out his accom plices. Ben Bahi a hesitated, but Capt. C o l om b se ized on 20 of the principal inhabitants of the town as hostages, enforced the payment in advance of four-fift hs of the tax, replaced Ben Babia by his brother, restored the autho rity of Si Goubir in all the oasis of Ouangla, and after leaving with that chief the means of maintaining his po sition, retired with our khahfat, Si Hamza, who was sur prised and overjoyed at the display of so much energy and so much confidence in our strength. The restoration of our power at Ouargla, and 'he submission of Tuggurt give us an excellent attitude in the South ; never have we yet ruled wader such conditions asfar as the southern limits indicated by Nature for our Algeria. Beyond that our influence can only reach by means of commer cial relations, and commercial interest will connect us with those parts without our having to occupy ourselves with them. They are too distant to serve as the basis of operations for the agitators of the Sahara. You thus see, Monsieur le Marechal, that the political situation of the country is good, and we have reason to congratulate ourselves on it.—Accept, &c., " PeLisstita." MONl4`ii MARKET SHARE MARKETS MINING INTELLIGENCE. ( From the Mining Journal of this day. ) The Mining Market has varied but little during the week ; generally speaking, shares are flat, though a few enquiries are made for Bullers, East Basset, West Bas set, and Clijah and Wentworth. Bassets are firm at 550/. ; Buller, 570/. to 5901. ; Devon Consols, 3801. ; Clijah and Wentworth, 141, to 141. lea. ; Eat Basset, 201. ; tiny, 4/. to 41. 104, ; North Ba sset, 191. to 201. ; Sortridge Console, 11. 153. to 21. ; South Tawars are better, at 61. 15s. to 7/. 54. ; Alfred Consols, 1 7 1 . s s. to 171. 15s. ; West Alfred Consols, 191. to 211. ; Great Al fredo, 301. to 31/. ; West Basset, 30/. to 311. 12 St. 50 40 81201 100 100 all all 100 a 1 i 11 17 all all 20 20 10 10 St. 10 St. 25 20 all 1118. 20i 100 20 20 20 20 20 33h , -.<J 21. 1;,.til Vi Closing Prices yesterday. RAILRATO. St. 12i 50 50 20 20 100 19t all all 100, 100 100 100 - 100 all 224 21. 8 all Aberdeen Ambg. Wottng. Bost and FaAn. Junet . Buifast Ballyrucaa. Birming. Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsli. a Cheshire Juliet Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., .220 Blyth kTynvoriginal 1:25 (issd. at £45) Bristol and Exeter ! Caledonian Carmarthen and Car digan Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall Crieff Junction Dublin &Belfast June Dundee Perth &Aber deco Junction Do. New East Anglian Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A Stock Ps., B. Stock Do., New A East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Pr Lb & Dundee Forth & Clyde June. Glasgow &S. Western Oreat Northern Do., A. Stock iDo., ;3. Stock Sth. t 'l.TWest.(lre.) Treat Wee:. - ern Do. Stour Val. Rail, Gua. Stk Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancash. andYorksh Do., Fifths Do., Wet. Riding Uu Liv.Crsby.&Southpt London & Blackwar Loud. Bright kS.Cst. I Lond. and N. Westn. Do. Fifths Do.lo/. Sh.,M&B ( Do. Eighths London andS. Westn Do., £5O Do., £4O Lndndrry& Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennirsk. Manch.Shef.& Lincin Do., Man. & Lin. Uu Midland o. Birmng. & Derby %Md. G. West. (Ire.) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newink tßury Eaten 'Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Norfolk Northn.Counties Un North British North Devon, No. I Do., No. 2 no., 1 A Deferred 'Do., B Guaranteed N. Eastern—Berwick Do. do. Extension Dodo. G. N. E. Purch. Do. Leeds Do. York North London Do. New £lO N. &S.Wstrn.,Hamp stead, and City Jn North Stafrordshin North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester Oxford, Worcester,& Wolverhampton ?ortsmouth Scottish Central Scottish Midland hrowsby. & H erefd. Shropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& paid up at per c.':) SOuth Devon South Eastern South Wales Yrksh. (St Riv. Duni Do Staines, Wok. &Wok lockton & Darling. Stockton & llartlepl Taff' Vale Do. £lO shares. Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Haven Dock and Railway \Vistaed. &Tiilk - W.171Y Waterford&Limerick West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace West London. Wimbledn & Croydon 20 - 20, 4i - 5 ••• 8 -8, 13 - - 12 16 - 17 7 - 6 92 - 94 60i - 61 13i - 14 9 - 11 ••• ''' • 1 4 -. 3 - 7 13i -- 14, 11 28 - 30 20 - 22 71 - 72 54 - 56 iii = ib, 67 - 69 90i - 91, 78 - 80 123 - 124 89 -91 691 70 58 - 62 72 - 77 6 - 8 6 - 8 7n - 73 i 51 - 61.1 8 i 106 108 100 i 101 td 1, d 834 —84 A 9 8 11 9 Bdi 241 - 25, 68i 69, 41 - 42 - 04 -- * d 10i -- -- 21 49 - 51 31 34 31 ... 32 8 10 14 1i 64 —7; 74 75 6i of 4 4 124 121 52 53 52 par ip P 44 4fd 6 64 is-4P 31 - 32 98 , e 8 61 63 8 Sip 45 47 12 - 14 581 - 59} 28 - 29 i - = 4 d 35 37 ,e• ........ •• 3 - 3i 20 - 22' 6 - 7 I = f FOREIGN. all 33 8 26. Antworp&Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. Juno Bezicrs to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Scrip Central of Italy Demerara Dijon and Besancon Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian Do. Extension Do. 4.3 p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Juliet. of France Gd. Tk of CanadaA is. Do. do Do. St. Lawrence k AtlauVc do. Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of France Gt. Indian Peninsula Do. New 5 per cent. Gt. Western of Cana,d • Shares Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 De. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per crnt. Lake Cont. & Basle Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c prof Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Lyons and Genova Lyons & MacMorran Madras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. New . jNlelbourne Dk. & Ry. Namur & Liege (with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France. D 0.201. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelines guar. 3$ p. c. & red. at 2211,dur._88 yrs. all all all 10 from - 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds (fmy.B.dt Ams. Shs.) NorwegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen._ ParisCaen do Cherbrg Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse._ Do. 54 p. cent. Pref. Southern of France ' St. Andrew's and Quebec (A), Wed Flanders Do 5} per c. Prof , W es tern of Franee 1 West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand Australasia ........... . British Colonial Bank and Loan Company British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia IChrtd. Buk. of India, o A I o u n a i & China Commercial of Lund. English Scottish and Australian Lon& Chart.. Bk of Australia London and County London Joint Stock Lend. & Westminster National Provincial of England 20 10 20 35 Do. New National of Ireland , New South Walei , Oriental Bank of Corporation. I Provincial of Irelaza Nuw Royal Australn.Bkg. & Gold Imp Co South Australia ...... of Australia : Do. New ilit.ton of L0ad0u..,.. all all 2 6i - 61 lk - li ... id -hp 3/ -3/ d 3O --31 4i -- 5 4 -- l ip par -- ip - 8 - 7 9 -- 7d 10 8d t i p p par ip 16 17} .ii --: i.p. 2 d • par 2 d par 2 d. -- par die 2i 2 1 1 24 2t iP l'a : Ca 6i - 7 iii = U 124 -12 i R 4 - 94 - 181 - 19} 44 -- 46 36 -- 38 - pm 20i -21 i P 2t -- l i B 7 * -- 7i ••• - ••• ... - pm 3i - 4 4 i - 511) 16i - 17 i JOINT-STOCK BANKS. --- I • • ... d --- i• d 31 2id 21i - 22 35 - . 4 37 --. 39 41 -- 4 3 68 - 70 8 --- 10 tHE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1864 Bushoegs done this day. 'ES LEASE: iZALLWAII; Comp Ans. Bedford and Blotchley ... Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. }. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. map. Barr. Neils Direct Now, Gistr.& Dn. Fr [TWO. Dk. & Railway Bull & Selby Do. 4 Shares. Do. Shares. Lon. & Greenw London & N. West. L.&N.W. ,Caledon... Gt.Nrthn. clablonian. 3 4 Vrestn Yk. New. 86 tem. Y. St Nltid, Do I Do Fs. Eastern Do Do. Preference Lon., Til. , & S. Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Ranch. Bxtu ' and Matlock giddlosbro' & Redcar Peto & Co. INorfolk.. ••• '''' [L.& N. W. & Midid. tekton & Darlingt. !Aid land.. Nficli.d.Bradfd Northern and Easternsp.e., Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds p e Prest. & Wyre E. Count Do ,Do L. & N. W &Ln&Yk Do at Northn Lancash & Yorksh. r D .DfClean tockt. & arlingt. Do. A Shares. , Roystn.& Hit. Shef. Roth.and Goole g. 5 p.c. S. Staflordsh. I Wear Valleygr 6 per cent... Do Wilts&Oomrst ItWestn. PREFERENCE SHARES. 97 - 100 94 - 96 ... ..... • • • if - 61 P p 12i -- 13 60 - 65 113 -- 115 108 - 110 99 - 101 sd - 101 - 17 -10 i - 73 -19 i -9/ - 14. - id 136 24- 3 i:. lli - 12 i - iP 133 —l5 ld ST - 90 KNI 106 100 io2 90 92 3 3i •• --- ••• 1 id 111 - 113 12 14 id Par 22} —22 j 95 100 15 18 ..• ••• Id iP •2i . . I 2 0 • d 1 , 95 - 100 98 - 100 130 - 135 104 - 106 13 -13 i 23 - 24 11 -11 i 21 - 2; 92 - 94 - 59 130 - 135 •.. --- ... 2i 2 d ••• ••• 30i -; 31i 91 - 93 Closiie i'Tlc,•s yesterday. this Uily. SPORTING. NOTES, ROUSE, BROTHERS, ROUSE. The Christmas festivities over, turfites are beginning, to stir themselves and prepare for active business. Attention is now steadily directed towards the future, and the rising prospects of sport are eagerly watched. Clerks of courses are not idle, but are working ener getically, and with a generous spirit of emulation to procure nominations for the stakes advertised to close on Tuesday next—a day fraught with no little interest and anxiety to race officials. That the entries for the leading events will show some slight diminution in numerical strength is expected ; still the shortcomings will not be sufficiently marked to cause uneasiness. The promoters *f steeplechases seem little dis couraged by the uninterrupted series of failures which have distinguished the current season. They are preparing their programmes with a steady deter mination to - render them attractive. The new year's sports will be inaugurated at Manchester on Mon day, but the ceremony promises to be dull and uninte resting. The events to be decided are three —the Man chester Steeplechase, the Stretford Steeplechase, and the Railway Plate. Nine horses only have accepted for the first•mentioned race, and four for the second l Still, perhaps amusement enough will be afforded to the Man cheater holyday-folk, who are the main supporters of the gathering. An attempt is about to be made to get up a day's sport at Croydon, but unless the business be con ducted on an improved system, I entertain but slender expectations of the ultimate popularity of the under taking. The managers of the Oundle meeting are actively employed. Their promises are fair enough, and if report be true the sport will bs ample, and of a superior character. They have strong assurances of patronage from many of the oldest and staunchest supporters of steeplechases. Still, so many ani mals are being reserved for the Grand National Steeplechase that a probability exists that the fields will be somewhat insignificant. I have great pleasure in recording the liberality and patriotism which have been displayed in the principal training establishments, the members of which from the head lad down to the smallest stable boy, from the housemaid to the scuttery girl, have each contributed their mite in aid of the fund for the relief of the soldiers' wives and families. The Danebury Stable, following the example so worthily set at New market, sent twenty-two pound s seventeen shil lings and sixpence, John Day, Alfred Day and Wal ter Day heading the list with a contribution of 51. each. John Scott has contributed 10/. himself, the aggregate amount collected at his stable being twenty-five pounds ten shillings. By the way, Mr. Scott has been feeding and entertaining the poor of his locality right royaly, and in a style worthy of the good old times. A correspondent to a weekly paper bas been indus triously calculating the amount of forfeits due from owners and nominators of different horses for stakes during the season '53-'52. From his statement, it ap pears that the names of upwards of 700 horses are down on the list, and that the total amount of forfeits due is eleven thousand five hundred and thirty.five pounds I This announcement strikingly indicates the vast pecu niary interests involved in horse-racing. Some changes —at present not particularly marked or significant—have been made in the Derby betting. Next week I will enter into a discussion of the preten sions of the leading favourites. Dec. 30. A FRESH MAN. ARKIIT NEWS -O'lllS DAY.) COVENT GARDEN. The supplies continue seasonably good, and the demand is steady, as follows : FRUIT.—Pine apples, English, 5s to 7s 6,1 per lb; apricots, Os to Os per doz. ; hot-house grapes, 5s Od to 9s Od per lb ; foreign ditto, 10d to is 8d ; melons, Os Od to OA each peaches, Os Od to Os ; nectarines, Os Od to Os per dozen ; apples, 4s Od to 12s Od per bushel • pears, 2s Od to 6s Od per half s i eve; Orleans plums and green gages Os to Os Od per punnet ; ditto, Os to Os Od, and common plums, 3s 0 I to Os Od per half sieve ; cherries, Od to Os per pound ; lemons, Gd t o i s per doz.; oranges, 4s Od to lOs per 100; fil berts, 93s per 100 lbs ; cobnuts, 180 s to Os; almonds, Os to Os per lb. ; walnuts, Od to Od per 100; figs, is Od to 2s 6d per lb, VEGETABLIM.—Savoy cabbages, 6(1 to is Od per dozen ; rod ditto, 2s Od to 4s per dozen ; French beans, Os Od to Os per h a lf s i eve ; b rocoli, 6d to is 4d per bundle ; potatoes, 100 s to 130 s per ton ; vegetable marrow, Od each ; peas, Os Od to Os Od per bush.; broad beans, 9d to is per half sieve ; turnips, 10 to 2P per bunch; carrots, 2id to 6dper bunch ; cucumbers, is 6d to 2s each ; garlic, Os 6d to Os 8d per peund ; spinach, le 3d to is 9d per sieve ; onions, 2s Gd to 4s Od 'per bush. ; Spanish ditto, is to 3s per doz. ; leeks, 2d to Od per b unc h ; shallots, 4d to 8d ; horse-radish, 2s Od to 5s Od per bundle ; parsley, 2d to 3d per bunch ; celery, 9d t. 1. as bunch ; endive, 9d to is Od per score ; beet, Gd to is 3d per doz.; parsnips, 2s s po Od sprouts, radishesrtaio o se r s( arti chok es, o p e r c d Ot s ho i d t e °B o l v gP eose2rsr;3l3,e punn et d chillies, n.e6 r nes; h l p er 2 l h a lsa6lfintds doz. o l e l l e t s ;o v e t;m 6i ic l mssas c p b a la l a f s oo e : tmh;assil lettuces,Od i 6 rw s f scli 0 0 e 9: 2 °4 1 a s ; per 100. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Turkeys, 4s Gd to 16s Od ; Geese, 4s Gd to 8s Od each Ducks, 2s Od to 3s Od ; tame Rabbits, Os Od. to Os Od; wild do., is to 2s Od each ; Pigeons, 8s to 10s per doz. ; large Surrey Fowls, Os Od to Os Od ; middling, 2s Od is 3s 6d ; Chickens, is 9d to 2s 6d ; Capons, 3s 6d to 6s Od ; Hares 3s Gd to 4s Od ; Grouse, 2s Od to 2s 3d each ; Partridges, is 8d to 2s Od ; Pheasants, 3s 6d to 4s Od ; Leverets, 2s 6d to 3s 6d each. Ostend fresh butter, 11 s to 12s Gd, and English ns 6d to Ms 611 per dozen lbs. English Eggs, 10s Od to Us Od; French ditto, 7s Od to 8s Od per 120. NEWPORT. Beef from 38 4d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3a 10d to 4e Ed; Teal, 4s Od to 5s 2d ; pork, 38 4d to 4s 8d per 81b8. WHITECFIA.PEL. Beef, 3s 2d to 4s 8d ; mutton, 3s 6cl to 4s 8(1; veal, 4s 4:1 to 5s 4(1; pork, 3s Od to 4s 6d per 81bs. by the 'areas,. B ILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 2s 6d to 15s ; Brills, 2s Gd to 7s each; Salmon, Os Od to Os per lb; Cod Fish, 2s Gd to 15s each ; Soles, 3d to 2s Gd per pair; Eels, 8d to 1801 per lb; Lobsters, 6d to 2s 6d; Crabs, 6d to 2s 3d; Whitings, 3s to 12s per doz.; Common Oysters, lOs to 16s • Natives, 405 to LOs per bsh; Macker e l, Od to Od each ; 'Smelts, is to 3s Gd per doz.; Skate, 6d to Os per lb; Shrimps, is 6d to 2s 6d per gallon; Bloaters, is Gd to 2s Od per doz. ; Fresh Herrings, 6d Od to Ss per 100. ; Scotch do., 6d; Sprats, 25 (id to 5s Od per bushel ; Doreys, 2s 6d to 14a each ; Haddocks, Ss to 20s per doz. ; Pike 6d ; Sturgeon, Gd per lb ; Prawns, 24 6d to 3s. The prices o f wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 10d to 11d; of household ditto, Bid. to 90. per 41b loaf. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 30 to 30; 641 b to 721 b, to 0(1 ; 721 b to 801 b, 30 to 3id ; 801 b to 881 b, 3d to 4d ; 381 b to 961 b, 40 to 41(1; 961 b to 1041 b, 40 to 40 ; 104 t o 1121 b 5d to Od ; upwards, 5d to Od ; orse hides, 5s 6d to Os Od ; calf skins, !ight, 2s Od to 3s 0d ; ditto, fail, 6s 6cl to Os Od ; polled shaep, 6s Od to 7s 6d ; Kents, 5s Od to Os Od ; Half-breds 5s Od to 6s Od ; D owns , 3 s 94.1 to 4s 9d ; L am b s, 03 Od 'to Os Od. E.A.Y MARKETS. iitt SIIITRIFIELD. — Meadow h a y, 21 15 s t o 41 15s Oil ; clover 31 Os to 5115 s ; and straw, 11 2s to 11 98 por load. Supply moderate, and trade rather dull. OznautuL&ND.—Meadow hay, 31 N to 51 0a; clover ditto, 3' Os to 5/ 14 ; and straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ lOs por load. Both hay and straw were in moderate request, at our quotations. WIIITECILMEL.—Meadow hay, 2115 s to 41 14s ; clover ditto, 31 Os to 51 17s; and straw, 11 2s to 1/ 9a per load. A. moderate supply and a sluggish demand. LLOYD'S SinpRING--(THIS DAY.) -ow LONDON, Dec. 30.—Wind this day at Noon, S. ; light airs, and hazy. PORTSMOUTH, Dec. 29.—Wind, W.N.W. Sailed— Louisa, for Callao • Sylphide, Crimea. DARTMOUTH, Dec. 29.—Wind, W. Sailed—Camilla for St. John's ; Martha Jane, Cape of Good Hope. , SHRRRNRSS, Dec. 28.—The Iris, of Plymouth, from London, has be en ass i s t e d i n very l ea ky, a ft er b e i ng on shore. Feradouria, Dec. 29.—Wind, W. Arrived—Pearl, from Quebec, for Swansea. Off Port—Mary Sines, for Liverpool. PLYMOUTH, Dec. 29.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived—Re gular, from Havre, for New York ; Hooghly, London, for Adelaide, S.A. Sailed—Th e Adelaide (transport), f or Ba laklava. DOVER, Dec. 29.—Wind, N. to W. Sailed—Malvina, for St. Croix. COWES, Dec. 29.—Wind, W. Arrived—Budg e t, from Laguna. GLOUCESTER, Dec. 29.—Arrived—South Durham, from Tatmagouche. MILFORD, Dec. 29.—Wind, Arrived—Mary, from Quebec. SHIELDS, Dec. 22.--Wind, W. Sailed--Mary Sharp, for Havannak. CARDIGAN, Dec. 29 —The Francis, which grounded at Newport (Pemb.), on the 26th instant, has discharged her cargo, much damaged. NEWPORT, Dec. 29.—Sailed—Swea, for St. Thomas. PORTLAND ROADS, Deo. 28.—Sailed—Dunsandle, for San Francisco. CARDIFF, Doc. 29.—Wind, W. Sailed—Kelvin, for New Orleans ; Lavinia, Rio Janeiro. JERsmr, Dec.2B. —Arrived.--Lady Maxwell, from Gaspe; Alliance, do. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Wind, S.W. LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. ; moder a t e . Arrived_ moderate. Laws on , f rom C oqu i m b o ; V o l an t , N ew Orlean s ; Santa Cruz, Bilboa ; Isabella, Buenos Ayres ; Jane, Mobile ; Emulous, Demerara. Off Port—Boomerang, from Callao. Sailed—United States steamer Baltic, for New York. Wind, IsT calm. QUEENSTOWN, Deo. 28. I Arrived—N ew York, packet, from Quebec ; Indus, from quique ; Crescent City, Callao, for Bristol. Sailed—Blanch, for Melbourne. DEPLORABLE STATE OF 0 UE,AII‘I)T. (From the Times.) Are we, or are we not, to publish the letters that pour in from the Crimea? The question no longer concerns the graphic narratives of " Our Own Correspondent,' for in this respect, just now, thanks to some amisble eccentricity of the post, we are rather behindhanni. The question now concerns letters long and many, some ori ginal, from sergeants and privates, some copied by fair and anxious hands, from officers of all ranks in tie army, from old colonels to youthful lieutenants—fron everybody, i❑ fact, excepting only the members of that faithful cordon that surrounds each general. Tw3 months ago we could not have seen the letter of m officer containing some trifling reflections on the inei table mishaps of an army on the march or in the fieli without being laid under the most solemn obligations not to publish it, or at least to disguise the source of our information. Now the whole army rushes into print. Parents, wives, brothers, the whole family circle, as if they no longer cared for promotion, and had forgotten the Horse Guards, urge us to publish, and tell the whole truth. It is life that is now uppermost in their thoughts—life, ex cepting only that a still sadder alternative than even death will occasionally obtrude itself. It is possible to purchase life by disgrace, but there is not a soldier's wife or parent in this country who would not rather hear of his death, even by famine, by cholera, or at his post in the trenches, than that the honour of England had been compromised, and this vast human sacrifice wholly thrown away. While such, however, are the thoughts that distract half the noble and gentle households of this country, no wonder that reserve and the fear of official anger are cast aside, and we are entreated to publish each miser able narrative scrawled in the camp before Sebastopol. If we do so, it is the necessity of our position to let our comments follow the course of our intelligence, and not to cling to old hopes or idle conventionalities when we are confronted by the stern realities of the ease, as re lated in our own columns. We can take no other basis than authentic intelligence, and hundreds of letters tell, in uniform language, the almost total disorganisation of our army in the Crimea, and its awful jeopardy, not from the Russians, but from an enemy nearer home —its own utter mismanagement. If we closed our columns and refused to publish a single let ter from the Crimea, it would only be to give greater weight to the letters that fill the columns of our contemporaries, and which they are obliged to pub lish, even though in the very same page a silly leader, written with the flippancy of an ill-conditioned school boy, affects to snake light of our "exaggerations." It can no longer be doubted, or even denied, that the expedition to the Crimea is in a state of entire disorgani sation. All attempts to deny it only end in admitting the fact, and all excuses only throw the blame from one department to another. There is net a single thing re quisite to the efficiency of an army, excepting only the personal courage of officers and men, that is not gone almost beyond the reach of remedy. At the last date the army was on half rations ; some regiments were two days without food ; the soldiers, and even most of the officers, were miserably ill-clad and ill-shod ; still without any sufficient protection from the rain overhead and the pool underfoot; they lived in perpetual water and damp ; there was no drainage, and the whole camp was a sea of mud and filth, the hospital marquees being surrounded by the worst nuisances. There was still no road from the port at Balaklava. Three or four thousand horses had pe rished from hunger, exposure, and overwork, and the remaining few were reduced to mere skeletons ; several regiments had been draughted off to do the duty of beasts of burden, in carrying food and other supplies from the port to the camp ; the winter clothing that had arrived at Balaklava could nct be distributed, t.imply because there were not the means of conveying it to the camp ; the mortality was certainly not less than GO a-day, while the number daily sent to tke hospitals and not expected to resume service during the winter was very much greater ; there was a want of guns, of mortars, of shot, of shells, of fuel, of materials to make huts—of every thing whatever necessary not merely tq offensive or de fensive operations, but to mere existence ; and the army was disappearing or only sustained by daily reinforce ments, not because it was in the face of an enemy, but simply, as it would be in the heart of a desert, for want of all things by which life is supported. We cannot glance over the letters before us with out discovering more and more deficiencies. As for the soldiers, poor fellows 1 they know their own wants, and that is all they can tell. The officers either look for death in the face, and resolve to-ntay on, or escape home on some pretence or other, sick -e- Ira, pray io the greatest courage and skill. The medical officer;, no ill judges, were predicting that two•thirds of the army would perish before March. Everybody of any energy or sense was sinking, not into apathy or inertness, but into despair. Meanwhile, Lord Raglan had scarcely been seen since the Battle of Inkerman. There was a general belief that he did not know the state of things, that he felt himself wholly unequal to amend it, and that he accordingly kept out of sight of the ills he could n't remove. Unfortunately for the credit of those in command, but fortunately for truth and the eventual interests of this country, there existed the means of ascertaining how far this frightful disorder was inseparable from the design of the expedition, the situation of the army, and the cli mate, and how far it was the result of mismanagement. There was the French army, nearly twice in number, hard by. Here all was different. The men were still well fed and well looking, not the skeletons and scare crows to which our own countrymen have dwindled ; they were well clothed, sad retained even some smart ness of uniform, while our soldiers were creeping about with haybands round their feet, and in greatcoats that scarce held together ; their huts were generally up and weather-tight ; they had plenty of food, with the com mand even of luxuries; they had a sufficiency of waggons and ambulances, with great abundance of mules in good condition ; they could lend mea to make a road for us, having completed a hard road from their own harbour before the bad weather sets in. The contrast pre vailed throughout every department, and was brought home to the British soldier in the most painful manner. Thus it was with something be tween admiration and disgust that the British army, which had not seen anything more than the anatomy of a horse for many a day, and which was obliged to harness 40 to drag up one gun, saw the am bulance mules lent us by the French for the conveyance of the sick as well fed and strong as the day they were landed at Gallipoli. Wherever the British come across the French it is to witness the same mortifying con trast, and it is, impossible not to draw the conclu sion that the French are an army, and the British are not. In all domestic and civil affairs we pride ourselves on our organisation, order, neatness, comfort, and abun dance of all the materials of health and strength. Is the scale of war we are found utterly wanting in these things. It is impossible to check the process of reason ing which refers to the fault of system a difference so marked and so disgraceful. The British soldier can not but perceive that the Frenchman is commanded by officers who understand their profession, and, what is more, feel a paramount interest in the condition of the common soldiet ; whereas this cannot be the case in his own army. But what is to be done 2 Tho answer, of course, in some quarters is " Nothing." There are indeed people, and they not without patriotism, who would rather the expedition were wholly unsuccessful, and that the Bri tish Isles sank under the ocean, than that one iota of the official system of patronage, of seniority, and of all that semblance of order that has kept up the illusion of military strength through a profound peace of forty years, should be rudely swept away or reformed. There are people who would think it a less unhappy consum mation of affairs that the Commander-in-Chief and his staff should survive alone on the heights of Sebastopol, decorated, ennobled, duly named in despatch after de spatch, and ready to return home to enjoy pensions and honours, amid the bones of fifty thousand British sol diers, than that the equanimity of office and the good humour of society should be disturbed by a single recall, or a new appointment over the heads of those now in command. These people, of course, assume that success is no test of energy and skill, or that energy and skill are of no importance in the conduct of an army, which in war, as in pima, is only a Government organ for tlie advancement of the aristocracy and the support of tie Ministry for the time being. Wo protest most solemrly against this view of our army, or any other view, excspt the simplest possible one,—that an army is an organ 'or the defence of a• country against its enemies, and iho maintenance of its interests and honour, and should, at every reasonable cost of money and of feeling, be made as effective as possible. We will not admit that that which has been mist continue to be, or that the present working of the army in its higher ranks has at all justi fied its management for the last 40 years, even though the name of the Great Duke be cited in favour of it. No. If the wreck of the army, if the honour of our country, if the gi . eat cause at stake, if the position of the British empire, are to be saved, it must be by throwing over board, without a day's delay, all scruples of personal friendship, of official punctilio, of aristocratic feeling and A courtly subservience, and immediately putting experi• ence, ability, energy, and merit, even in their roughest' MEMORANDUM ON THE BATTLS OP , • forms, in the eonduet. :in{l t 7N j t fc_r than th,:t o in;; wi..olecommon weal, fur with its down fall every other must Sink to a common destruction. So no reason can be given, and no excuse will be admitted, against immediately superseding in their commands those who have proved themselves unable to be incap able of performing the duties to which favour, seniority, or mistake has advanced them. After all, it is no dis grace to a man that he does,not possess the genius of a Wellington or even of a bill. ' But it is a crime in a War Minister to permit an officer to remain for a single day in the nominal discharge of duties the neglect of which has brought a great and victorious army to the verge of ruin. (Front the Morning Herald.) We learn from numerous communications by the last mail from the army that the account of the battle of Inkerman contained in Lord Raglan's public despatch has excited strong feelings of sur prise and dissatisfaction among_en important part of the forces engaged in that memorable action. The accounts already received from many other sources have already enabled the Ministers of the Crown in Parliament, and the public throughout Europe, to do full justice to the heroic achieve- Meats of the brigade of the Guards on that day ; but, in order to remove all uncertainty as to the conduct of these gallant troops, we publish the following authentic account of the position and movements of the Guards in the battle, which will effectually remove the erroneous impression that any part of the Brigade were " obliged to retire" in the course of the action : "The Brigade of Guards were the first on the scene of action on the right, and in advance of the Second Di ' vision, and not the Light Division, as might be inferred from the latter being mentioned first in the official de 'Patch- The Grenadier and Scots Fusilier Guards, upon the first alarm being given by the advanced pickets of 's the S econd Division, fell in, and marched off without a moment delay towards the extreme right of the Second Division. The Grenadiers led the advance, the Fusi liers following. These two regiments—one in support of the other, neither of them being at that time above 400 strong—immediatelyndtliviasdiovna,ncaenddinpferrocnetivoefdththeat align ment of the se the Russians had just taken possession of a sandbag bat tery, out of which they had driven a small picket of the 55th Regiment. The Grenadiers came down to the charge and drove the Russians out. So quickly had the advance of the Guards been effected that the Gre nadiers succeeded in driving the Rusedan s ou t o f thi s small work, which was 700 yards in front of the right of the Second Division alignment, before that division had been able to send any troops to supp ort its owa picket. Having reached the battery, and cle ared it of the Russians, the centre of the Grenadiers oempied it, while their right and left flanks were thrown b ack nearly at right angles, so as to line the ridge of th e long projecting tongue of land at the extremity of which the sandbag battery was erected. The Soots Fusiliers continued the line on the left of the Grenadiers, their left also thrown back towards, but not meeting, the right of the Second Division. These two regiments, and subse quently the Coldatreame, now commenced an action against almost overwhelming numbers of the enemy, who were at one time trying to turn the right, at another the left flank of the Guards, and constantly sending up fresh troops to drop before the iron line opposed to them. "The official despatch states that the Brigade of Guards went to the front and took up most important ground on the right of the Second Division ; it was, in fad, 700 yards in its front. It is also stated that powerful columns of infantry attacked with vigour the Brigade of Guards ; yet, notwithstanding this and the acknow ledged importance of the position, no reinforcement came up to the assistance of these two weak battalions. The Russians, finding they made no impression on the front of the Guards, attempted to turn their right flank, and came up the hill in a large mass to the right rear of the Grenadiers. To prevent this the Grenadiers withdrew about 50 or 100 yards, so as to keep the enemy in their front, and at that moment the Coldstream Guards made their appearance on the field ; and the Grenadiers feeling that they bad a support, extended a little to their proper right, and charged the enemy clear of the sand- bag battery a second time, also driving them,away from the side of the hill up which they had come to turn the right flank. The Grenadiers and Fusiliers now took up their position as before ; the Coldstreaeis formed line in co-itinuation of the left of the Fusiliers ; the 20th Regiment also formed line to their left again ; but still this ling did not touch the Second Division position. It was now about half-past 9 a.m. The hottest fire was kept up against the repeated attacks of the advancing cJlunms. The ammunition already began to fail ; the mon made use of that of their dead and wounled com rades, and in some instances of that of dead and wounded Russians. A fresh surply at last came up from the rear, which enabled the men to keep up this unequal contest for three more hours, not a man of the brigade quitting ranks but by oi der, to reinforce sometimes the right, sometimes the left, accJrding to where the Rus sians appeared most numerous. During this prolonged and determined attack, part of the Fourth Division arrived from the right rear, and, keeping on the side of the hill on the extreme right of the Brigade of guards, commenced a manoeuvre to 'outflank the Russian left. Part of the Brigade of Guards joined in this • move. ment ; the remainder, much reduced by casualties and the advance on the right, as above described, continued to maintain themselves in their former position, with the right of the Grenadiers resting on the battery. Again the ammunition was beginning to fail, many fire• locks would not go off, and were exchanged for others on the field. The Russians at last advanced in very great force against the centre of the English position, in front of which the Brigade of Guards were considerably ad vanced, and the enemy for a time succeeded in forcing it. The Coldstreams, seeing this movement, and seeing that their left flank would be turned, faced their men fours left,' and continued in a parallel line with the Russians till they reached the Second Division align ment, toifewed by part of the Fusiliers, where they both halted and fronted. "The Grenadiers, now only 100 strong, with their two colours, and the right flank of the Fusiliers, not seeing the advance of the Russians against the centre of the position, in consequence of the thick brushwood that interposed and the undulating nature of the ground, continued to maintain themselves against the everve• peated attacks of the Russian divisions opposed to them, notwithstanding the increasing failure of their ammuni tion. It was now about half-past 12. The brigade had been uninterruptedly under fire for between five and six hours, when the Russians having advanced in great force towards the centre of the English position, the left of that attack brought their right shoulders forward, and were seen coming down upon the rear of the small remnant of the Grenadiers and few Fusiliers. Thus circumstanced, those men who still had any ammunition were ordered to fire to the front, while the remainder charged through the advancing line that was coming down upon them in rear, broke it, arid, with their colours in safety, took up their posi tion on the extreme right of the position, not in rear of (as has been stated), but in line with parts of several regiments of the Second Division, which were then in a breastwork in front of the Second division encampment. It was not till a few minutes later—that is, at about half-past 12 or 1 o'clock—that the French regiments for the first time came up to that part of the field where the Brigade of Guards had been for six hours. Men of different regiments of the line were during the whole morning most gallantly fight ing in the ranks with the Brigade of Guards, but only two or three companies of the line, as reinforce ments, came up to or near the sandbag battery to assist in keeping possession of it during the whole day. The Guards were now soon served out with fresh ammunition, and were again ready to meet the enemy as soon as their services might be required. After remaining in the breastwork abovementioned about an hour, they were ordered by the Duke of Cambridge to unite with the remainder of the brigade (that had advanced with the Fourth Divi-ion to outflank the Russian left), and which was now in the centre of the Second Division encampment. This was done, and the brigade lay down in line rear of the bat. teries, against which the Russians opened, for above an hour more, a heavy fire from large field pieces. The brigade while in this position lest several more men. About 3 p.m. the firing ceased ; the troops mar c h e d t o their respective encampments at half-past three ; and the Russians, having withdrawn all their artillery, Were seen retiring in considerable disorder across the valley of the • Tehernaya, leaving 7,000 or 8,000 killed and wounded on the field ; some say 10,000." In our article of Friday vindicating Lord Raglan's conduct upon certain points against the attacks of the Times, and the perhaps equally injurious defence of the Globe, we mentioned that there were matters upon which his lordship's conduct was really open to censure, and that we should point these out, though without unneces sary bitterness. One of the circumstances from which our unlucky but glorious soldiers have suffered most in the Eastern ex pedition has been the utter recklessness and favouritism with which the officers appointed to staff situations have been seleeted. Our readers are well aware that to the hard-working regimental officer an appointment to a staff situation is an object of the most intense ambition, as being almost the only opening by which he can make his way to distinction and honour. These appointments, we need hardly say, are left al most entirely in the hands of the officers of the line, when their duties are to be performed in India, at the Cape, China, or other remote and barbarous localities, which have been the ordinary theatres of our wars for about 40 years gone by. From this it results that by the officers of the line is monopolised almost the entire experience of the army in the performance of staff duties. Notwithstanding this, when the war broke out nearer home, and that staff appointments became objects of ambition to those who had never bad an occasion or op portunity of acquiring a knowledge of the duties required in such positions, the experienced officers of the hard workbag line were in a great degree set aside, and the posts in question were bestowed with a disregard to knowledge and fitness on the part of the authorities which the public can hardly be expected to credit. Now we beg to disclaim, in the most explicit man ner, any wish or intention to join in the vulgar cry which has often been raised against the household troops. Further than that, we should wish to see mat ters managed in such a way as would not expose them to unmerited—as far as they are individually concerned —unpopularity, and that the army in general should not suffer by any preference shown to them. In one word, we concede that finer, nobler, bolder, or better soldiers than the Guards and their officers do not exist upon the face of the earth ; but that, in the ordi nary course of events, it is simply a matter of impossi bility that the latter should or could have acquired a knowledge of staff duties in the field. Now, from the duties devolving upon them, the pro per selection of the staff is of more importance to the army than that of any other class ; and although we are quite aware that every man must begin at some time, we maintain that they ought invariably to begin in subordinate situations, and that men should not be chosen to fill important situations from family connec tions, or from the mere fact of their having filled offices in the Horse Gus.rds of a nature requiring for their per formance more the merits of a civilian than those of a soldier. This is, as we have said, a matter involving the safety of the army and the honour of the country, and requires in ehe selections for those posts more t'ian any other, to be guide l by the merits of the candidates, /and by their merits alone. Now, bearing in mind what we have said of the prima facie diffioulty, not to say impossibility, of certain classe acquiring the fi , ;1(1 practice necessary for the perform ance of those dudes, we shall merely say that Lord Rag lan's personal staff, consisting of six individuals, was cotnposed of three guardsmen, one peer, and two honourables. Again, we protest against its being snrposed that we object to anything in this except the almost necessary want of apprenticeship implied in the selection. The duties may have been right well per formed ; but we merely state that the probabilities at first sight were against it. Of course what we may say of the household troops must apply to the cavalry reg,i ments which do not ordinarily serve in the colonies. We do not wish to go through the list ; but any old soldier, going over the names of the general and per sonal staff of the army, will agree with us, that through the entire staff the selections were made more with consideration for private and public favour and affection than with an enlightened view to the safety anal well-being of the army. No proof of this can be more convincing than the fact, easily ascertained, of the number of appointments in the expedition given to gentlemen who had been long enjoying easy berths in the Horse Guards and War-office, and who were so permitted to appropriate the choice posts both in peace and war. Again, we beg to assure our readers ;.. ebeectlng to, And that _wa have no motive but o public one in referring to it. Our readers will hardly believe that officers who had served several campaigns abroad, and were perfectly conversant with field duties, were refused employment upon the plausible grounds that "it was necessary to give others a chance of learning their duties." This miight be very well if only applied to the very eubordi mete ranks, but was utterly inapplicable to the higher posts, where experience m us t b e acqu i re d at the expense of and by means of injury stiffered by the army in ge neTal. As a proof of the necessity of employing per sons who have acquired a practical knowledge of their profession, we shall take the example of the utter de struction of the Light Brigade, not only by means of the fatal charge at Balaklava, but by what we must call the most astounding mismanagement after that event. We do not wish to mention names in the reference to this unhappy event ; but our readers must recollect that an order was given by one staff officer—conveyed by an other—received by a third—and that the result was the moat useless massacre, among many such, of British troops recorded in our military annals. With reference to this we shall only further remark, that so utterly ignorant did all parties appear to be of the nature of their duties, that the officer who carried the order absolutely headed the operation which a major general was conducting, and was killed far in advance of the brigade. Now, this officer's absolute duty was to return to the general from whom he brought the order, and report the delivery and execution of the in structions with which he had been entrusted. We can fancy General Picton's face had any subordi nate officer thus acted in connection with his division. Upon this matter we shall not dwell further than to remark that it showed a general ignorance of staff duties. The charge was bad enough, but what are we to say to what followed ? Immediately after the fatal day of the 25th the re mains of the brigade were ordered up from the neigh bourhood of Balaklava., and placed in the rear of the siege works, at a distance of several miles from the post. The commissary represented to the authority, that when the roads became broken up it would be physically impossible to supply the horses with forage. No notice was taken of his remonstrance. The horses were brought up, and left exposed, not only to hardship—standing up to their knees in slush with out any shelter, but to starvation. The commissary was right, and for several days the unfortunate horses were supplied with 31b of oats or barley per diem, which as the nose-bags were worn out, and frequent requisitions for new ones had never been attended to, the men were obliged to lay on the muddy ground before the horses, when, of course, the half of even this scanty allowance was of necessity buried in the mud, and lost. The natural consequences ensued—the poor horses were starved, died in dozens r. , .t their pickets, and, in fact, were reduced to such a state that the survivors absolutely ate the hair off the ribs of their dead comrades. This looks like exaggeration, but is a literal authenticated fact, and was entirely owing to staff ignorance or neglect. THE GERMAN . STATES AND THE WAR. A Prussian ministerial paper givos the text of the documents by which Bavaria, Wurtemberg, and .Donmark effected their adhesion to the supple mentary article of the Austro-Prussian treaty of April 20th. The language held in the name of these states is instructive : BAVARIA'S VOTE.—Considering the dangers of the political situation of Europe, guided byithe earnest wish to guarantee the interests of Germany by strict unity, and looking to the intentions of Austria and Prussia as great European powers, intentions known by means of the confidential reports we have received from them, the royal Government of Bavaria votes for the proposed resolution of the Diet. WURTEMBERG'S Vont.—ln consequence of the state of European relations becoming more and more threaten. ing, and guided by the conviction that the guarantee of German interests is endangered for the future, and that the union of all the Germanic federal states is indispen sable, Wurteinberg votes for the proposition. DENMARK'S VOTE.—His Majesty the King, ardently desiring the speedy re-establishment of European peace; has deigned to order his ambassador, in so far as th e a d. ditional article agreed upon on the 26th ult, between the most high courts of Vienna and Berlin is concerned, to express again how highly his Majesty appreciates the joint and uninterrupted efforts made by the two great powers for guaranteeinit the common interest of Ger. many and for opening to the belligerent powers the avenues to peace. The ambassador is further authorised by order of the King, referring to the declaration made during the sitting of August 3, 1854, to vote in the name of Holstein-Lauenburg for th e adhesion of the Diet to the new additional article, as also for ace Bpting the pro posed resolution respecting which au understanding has been come to. In roferenoe to the qualifioations necessary for the perfor►nance of staff duties, an officer who has been himself for 20 years employed, and has ably performed his duties in that department, has given us the following list. Thestaff officer, to be efficient should beacquainted with— Field fortification. Duties of infantry. Duties of cavalry. Duties of artillery. . He should be a good horseman. Understand military sketchiug. He should be acquainted with, at least, two foreign lan guages, and should have a general knowledge of military history. We should like to know how many officers ou the staff of the army of the Crimea have been selected with reference to any of the above acquirements, and we fear we should be obliged to make answer, in the words of the able and efficient solder whom we have quoted above, that the majority of them do not know a bastion from the Tower of Babel. We find that we have again reached our limit for the day, and that 111 shall be obli g ed to recur once again to the p a i n f u l cons i deration of how much of the sufferings of the soldiers are due to radical errors in the organisation o f th e exped i tion, and how much of them might have been prevented by the most ordinary precaution and foresight. THE /Jim SE RVlCE.—Registrar -General's Depart ment, Scotlaud ; Mr. John Stewart has been appointed chief clerk in the Registrar-General's office, Edinburgh, under the recent act for the Registration of Births, Deaths, and Marriages in Scotland. Customs : Mr. W. C. Maclean, controller at Dover, has been promoted to be collector at Truro. Mr. J. Bull, collector and land ing -surveyor at Rye, has been promoted to be controller and landing-surveyor at Dover. Mr. W. A. Gent, con troller at Barnstaple, has been promoted to be collector and landing-surveyor at Rye. Mr. J. H. Davidson , sub-collector at Ramsay, Isle of Man, has been pro• meted to be controller &0., at Wesport. Mr. Robert Hicks, clerk at Grimsby, has been appointed to be sub collector at Ramsay, Isle of Man. Mr. E. Cullen has been appointed clerk for general business in London. Mr. C. Fogdeu has been appointed clerk for general business in London. Mr. J. A. Stebbin has been ap pointed clerk to the inspector-general of imports and ex ports in London.—Civil Service Gazette. STATE OF TRADE. NOTTINGHAM, Dec. 29.—This having been holiday week, most of the warehouses have been closed. In the hosiery and lace trades there is as much doing as is usual at this season. The hosiery trade is expected to take a turn for the better in consequence of the United States tariff being altered in favour of this production, and which conies into operation on the let of January. BRADFORD, Dec. 29.—Wool—There is no improve. ment in the demand for wool. Thu prices sought in the country act as a drawback to its coming freely to mar ket. Yarns—This being a holiday market, the quan tity of yarns spun has been very trifling ; there is no inducement to increase the supply, and this ca n on l y be effected by higher prices becoming current. Pi eces— There is no change since our last, but the general opinion augurs more favourably for the co m i ng year. The stocks of goods were never , during the l as t twenty . years, known to be anything like so sm a ll. L EI CESTER, Dec. 29.—This being a holid a y wee k, manufacturers are employed in taking stock and prepa rations for the coming year. 61 i 911 / 124 69j1 60i ex arra 107 1001 li 21 2 a ' all 100 18$ 9i all Aberdeen Do. No. 2, 7 p. 0 Birth and Tyne lOper c. pref. (issd. at 50/) Bris. & Ex. 4 p. e. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyheai Guar. 5i per cent.. Do. do. Pref. No. 2., Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Cork &Bandousip.e, Dundee Perth deen Junction EastAnglian (£3los) 6 per cent Do. (X 5) 7 per cent Do. (£7l7s) 7 p. c Eastern Counties Ex tension,s p. s. No. 1) Do. No. 2 Do. New 6 p. c. SU Eastern Union, Scrip' Guar. 6 per cent Do. 51., 10 ner cent; Do. 101. Debentr.Sh- Do. do. 4 per cent... East Lancash. 6 p.cts. East and West York- shire Juno. Fifths EdinbPrth.&Dundee 4 per cent. Glasgow & S. Western Guar. 5 per cent Great Northn. 5 p. c Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem. Do. 4i p.c Gt. N. of Scot. Ist Prof Gt. Southn.&Westm. (Ireland) Eighths) Do. 4 per C. Pref. St Gt. Westn. (Berks & , Hants Ex. 5 p. c) Do con. red. 4i p.c Do. con. red. 4 p. c Do. irred. Ip.c. Do. Birm Pref. Sh Do. Chester 8 p. c.P.S Ds. do. 5 p. c. do Do. Birm. Gua. Stk Do. Ches. Gua. Stk De. do. do Do. do. do .... ....... Lan. & York. F. £2O Do. 6 p. c. Stock ... 'London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. a... Do. Prof., 5 p. c. St. Do. New Guar.6 p. c. Lon. &N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 p. ct... London & S. Western Con. Thirds. Londonderry& Coler Shares Londy. & Ennis. Sh Han. Shef., & Lin., Shares, No. 1 Do. New, £lO Do. £6 Ifarypt.&Carl.4p a Du. 4i per coat Do Consol.6 p.c.St. Do. Cousol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per 0biit.... 1 Do. Pref. 41per cent Norfolk Debenture Do. Pref. 4 p. o. Steck Do. 54 per ct. pref , Do. Way. Val. 5 p. a Nortk British N. E. Eterw, 4.1. c. P. , Do. do. Do. Leeds 6 p.c Do. do. Quarters 48 De.York l l.& S. Per. North Staffordshire Oxford, Worcester, Wolverh.Xls, 61%0.1 Scot. Cent., New Fret' Do. 5 per cent South Devon De. fixed, 41 per cent , 3. Eastern (Reading l Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 4i per cent '4.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar S Wales Gua. 4p. c Do. de. 4 1 p c 'Stockton and Dar• lington, 5 per cent. Do. do. do. Stockton and Hartle- pool, guar. 5 p. C. till Ist July, 1856, Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.e. 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