The Sun. — London, England, 1854-11-28 00:00:00

AIONEV MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE., CITY, TW 0 O'CLOCK, Shr. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 7,000 bales, including 500 American and 500 Surat taken for export. The market St closed with a downward tendency, and, as com pared with Friday's rates, prices of American and 50 Surat may be quoted 1-16 d. per lb. lower, and all 13 other sorts in favour of buyers. The sales corn- 31 prised 5,000 American, 350 Pernam and Maran- 27 ham, at sd. to 6d. ; 300 Egyptian, at 50. to 91d. ; and 1,500 Surat, at 20. to 41d. per lb. 22 25 Railway Shares were dull, at lower prices. The letters and papers by the Overland Mail St, from India and Australia are in course of delivery. St. The circumstance of Parliament being called 10 together as early as the 12th proximo sets our City 50 financiers at work to surmise or suggest the means 50 of replenishing the Imperial Exchequer, and if one 20 half the expedients that appear feasible were at- 20 tempted to be put in practice we should indeed 5100 have " confusion worse confounded." There are 25 one or two plans, however, so comprehensible that they take precedence of all others. In the first 25 place, a new loan in 3 per Cent. stock, according 2 S o ' to the good old fashion, is what every tyro in finance Bt . can understand, and what ono-half the speculators in the funds would desire. An increased supply St. of Consols would bring business, and ena ble the 25 time dealers to buy and sell on a larger scale,and s s t t : with le,s risk than at present, for it is found 10 that the amount of floating stock in the mar- St. ket is perfectly inconsiderable compared to 10 what it was many years since , lar g e corpora- St. tions and trusts having ab sorbed nearly S. St. all that could be got, and at almost any price, St while the annual accumulation of wealth in the St. country has increased the holdings of private capi- St. talists and annuitants. It may be readily supposed St. that, under such circumstances, and with Consols 2 at 91, there would be no difficulty in raising 10 or 15g 20 millions sterling within a few days ; and if our 16i Government were not above imitating the recent 16i example of France, double or treble that amount St. oould be raised with facility. As the loan would Pi be essentially for patriotic purposes, we can see no it reasonable objection to an appeal to the public, Il i and the opening of subscription books would afford st. the best possible test of the money market, and st. give the Chancellor of the Exchequer the chance 20 of obtaining higher terms than if one or two 10 firms took the contract, and had their own IS2t! profit and commission to realise at his expense. 50 Admitting, however, that a loan is resorted 40 t), there are other improveme nts in the pro- 25 cess which would be very de sirable for the 2sst. public interest. The great permanent or con- Bt2l solidated debt of this country has been incurred St. under most onerous and inconvenient restrictions. st. Incurred, indeed, as if the express object were to 50 saddle all generations with the liability , and. to 1 2 defeat any attempt on the part of the Government 6) to take advantage of an easy money market in 25 reducing the rate of interest. The success of every 50 financial operation mainly depends upon the 20 promptitude, vigour, and courage with which it is st. carried out, and an imperfect plan, boldly carried 50 out, may prove more advantageous than a scheme St. of intrinsic excellence badly executed. The great 16 desideratum in effecting any new loan should be to 16 insure its convertibility in the event of the na tional finances becoming so elastic as we may st. reasonably hope they will in more auspicious times. 25 To be compelled to give twelve months' notice of 25 an intended reduction in the interest upon 50 Consols is tantamount to an invitati on to t the holders, and especially the larger capi- 10 talists, to seek by every possible means 10 to defeat that intention. Nor can we blame the parties concerned, however we may desire to 20 deprive them of the power in any future contracts. 10 Supposing a loan contracted, it should be corn- 10 petent for the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being to reduce the interest without the St. slightest previous intimation, the rights of the holder being always adequately respected by the 20 option of receiving back par, or in nine cases out of gt,.. ten, more than he ever paid. This brings us also io to another and not less important part of the gees- 6A tion, viz., whether it be preferable to borrow at a ...- high or a low rate of interest. Our own predilection is in favour of the more liberal, as being ulti- r St. mately the more economical, course. Consols at 50 91 pay rather over 3i, but allowance has to 20 be made . for the accrued dividend, and if 20 the Government requ ires 15 or 20 millions star- 25 ling it might be expedient at once to offer 3i or 31 per cent., so as to obtain 1001. or more in cash s t. for every hundred of liability incurred. There is 10 still another, and, with many, a favourite expe- St. client. In a short time a large amount of fermi- 25 nable annuities falls in, relieving the Treasury of 20 a considerable annual payment of interest, and 20 rendering the creation of new annuities of the so same class both necessary and. facile. The amount 20 to which these could be placed, however, might -- not meet the full present requirements of tht Go- 20 vernnient, although there is nothing to be slid to against raising a portion of the total by opening subscription books for new terminable annuities. One-half the persons of small means scarcely know of the existence of such securities, and would 105 gladly invest in them. The Chancellor of the 20 Exchequer has evidently a choice of means, but 20 fresh taxation, it is feared, must accompany any one of them. • 17 •• Although it was natural that public securities 20 should decline with Parliament about to assemble, 20 and new burdens impending, the necessity of this 20 course has been too long appreciated for the official 20 announcement to occasion any violent oscillation, 20 and the hope is generally expressed that we shall l z o '- o ' not delay our financial measures until the Conti nental Governments have cleared the market 100 of its surplus cash. If the Chancellor of the 20 Exchequer should simply ask the power, 25 and not forthwith use it , he will undoubtedly 155 make a great mistake. Consols have been 01 to and since 911 to for transfer and ac- 100 count, the market looking better within the last hour. Exchequer Bills have been marked 3s. to 100 65., and East India Bonds 11s. premium. The 2 9 New 3 per Cents. have been 89,1 to Bank , g Stock has been a shade better, viz., 209 to 210 k. 20 In the Foreign Market there has been more sellers. Turkish Scrip has declined to 7k and 81. 100 discount. Mexican Bonds have been 21i to 3. Brazilian Old Bonds have been quoted 96. Rus- . 1 1-0 0 0 0 sian 5 per Cents. have been done at 961- to 1, and to o Sardinian at 86k. Spanish Deferred have been 20, at 18g. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign 1 - 0 2 Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 51)- . to 54 ; Mexi can, 2la to 21ft ; Peruvian, 67 to 69 ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 47 to 49 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 20 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 94 to 96 ; ditto, 41 per Cents., 85 to 87 ; Spanish New Deferred 4 181 to 18k ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 372 to 381; ditto, 20 Certificates, 5i to 5a ; ditto, Passive, 4i to 41. 20 For Railway Shares the prices have been to E per cent. lower generally, but there has not been a 331 large business don e at this decline. The Foreign 10' Sh a res are dull. 20 For the Joint - St ock Bank Shares the quotations 20 are rather feebler. 20 The Miscellaneous and Mining Shares are heavy. 16 20 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES, ( From the Of icial List.) rtwiness done Bank Stock . 21.0i 9 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ............. 891 3 per Cont. Consols Annuities ............. 91i 1 New 3 per Cent. Annuities 893 4 I,OI F Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4 5-16 t ulttc 30 Years, E xPue • 10th Oct., 1859 4 1-16 India Bonds, XlOOO Ditto, under £lOOO ll 7 Consols for Accountl Exchequer Bill s 20 1 1000 all ........ ................. 3 6 E xc hequer Bonds 1858, 34 per Cent. — Ditto 1E59, PRICE OF FORBIGN " F 99 Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. FUNDS THIS DAY. Mexican 3 per Cent. ...................................... 9 2 6 13 A Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Ceal . S trdinian Bonds, 5 per Cent ........ .. 96 b Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent B6i Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent ...•„• 18i Ditto Passive (Converted) Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 5l p Turkish Scrip 6 per cent Ditto for the Account 7, 1 a 74 st Dividends on th e above payable in Lond on. Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil Ditto 4 ner uent. u ortifieates THREE 0 CLOCK 20 10 20 20 Consols .................................. 913 Ditte, A ceo,3 nt ......... REPRESENTATION OF MARYLEBONE.—On Saturday It meeting of electors of Marylebone took place at the Moreton Arms, Kentish-town, Mr. R. Hewlett in the chair, at which a resolution was passed, to the effect 50, that Lord Ebrington should be requested to make a a statement of his po litical opinions , with a view to his 100 nom i n ation for the borough. A letter was written to his lordship, enclosing a copy of the resolution. Yes terday, at a meeting of the representative vestry of St. Pancras, at the Vestry-hall, the resolution passed at the meeting on Saturday, was brought under discussion. 100 Some of the speakers objected to the nomination of Lord Ebrington, and urged that wh ile that noble lord was acting with the Poor Law Board he had insulted the 12 people of England. The meeting was not attended with any result. The names of several gen tlemen have been 25 mentioned as probable candidates, amo n g others these of 25 Mr. B. Oliveira, Mr. G. Grote, and Mr. .innaird, Y but 5 0 zotrupg seems yet eettled. 20 50 20 25 SE ARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) RRTTISH ICAILWAYS. Paid.l RAILTrATe. 1 0losing Prices this day. 19 - 20 .00 I Aberdeen.. I Ambg. Nottng. Bost and Eastn. Junet... all Belfast & Ballymena. all firming. Wolverh. Stour Valley ... . .. 29i Birkcnhd. Lanesh. do - Cheshire Junet all Do. Chesh. dt Birk., £5O and £25 Cons., 19 Do., £20... 30 Myth &Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45), 100 Bristol and Exeter... 100 Ca1ed0nian............ 21s. Carmarthen and Car di(andtillolyhead Chesterall all Cork and Bandon.., all Cork, Black, & Pass. 16 Carnwlll Orloff Junctiou 45 Dublinallelfastiune , all bandeoPerth&Aber 4 - 4t 8 1 113 103 d 17 18 7 6 .•• - ••• 94 - 93 59 -54 - 11 10 - 11 n -- i (leen Junction all Do. New 100 Fast Anglian ' all Eastern Counties 100 Eastern Union, A Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 86 Do., Now A 100 East Lancashire 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 96 Edinb. and Peebles 100 Ed.in.Prth &Dundee 1 Forth St Clyde June. 100 Glasgow& S. Western 100 Great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. 5t0ck........ 100 Sth. &Wcst.(lre.) 1.00 'Great Western 100 Do. Stour Vol. Rail - 7 11 - 15, 11 - 11, 32 - 34 20 - 22 Gua. Stk all Irish South-Eastern all fAneaster & Carlisle 14 Do., Thirds 4 Do. Now Thirds 100 Laneash.andYorksh 1.91 Do., Fifths 114 Do., Wst. Riding Un 1 all Liv.Crsby.&Southiat all London & Blackwal 100 Lond. Bright k S.Cst 100 Lond. and N. Westn. 12 Do. Fifths 1 D0.101.5h.,M&8 i Do. Eighths 100 London and& Wostn 42i Do., £5O . 34 Do. £4O all Ltandrry& Col erai u all Lndndrry. be Ennisk • 100 danch.Shef.& Lineln 67 - 69 5 - U i6i 71 104 98 id 4d 1k 18i 1104 - 69 88 106 934 d - 8 ~ 201 —21 s 4A Do., Man. & Lin. Un. .00 Midland .00 Do. Birmn g. & Derby all Midld. G. West. Om ) 226 Do. Half Shares 1.11 Newcastle & darlisle Newmkt.BuryExten 19), Nvrpt.Aberg.&Hrfd S Newry &Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoint 67 - 670 38 - 40 764 4d 10 9i 2 -2, and Rostrevor LOO Norfolk 3 No rthn.Counties Un LOO North British , all! North Devon, No. 1 all Do., No. 2 . all Do., A Deferred all Do., B Guaranteed LOO N. Eastern—Berwiek 20 Do. do. Extension 13 Do.do. G.N.E. Pura. all Do. Leeds LOO Do. York all North London 8 j Do. New £lO Li is N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp • - 47 49 31 ah 31i ... 32i g 10 - 74 - - 75 6 -6;: 4 - 34 ,, - 131 51 -- 52 52 - •-•-• stead, and City Jn.. id IT 41 4:d 6t 65 id—ip 17 North Staffordtihiro., all North Western all N. &S. Westrn. June 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester LOO Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 6 Portsmouth LOO Scottish Central . LOO Scottish Midland all Shrewsby. & rlerefd all Shropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& D,full3 paid up at per con all South Devon 100 South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dur 5 Do 8 Staincs,Wok. &Wok all Atoekton & Darling. 16 Stockton & Hartlepl. 1.00 Taff Vale 9 Do. £lO shares. 1.00 Do. Prof., No. 1 21 Thames Haven Doe], 29 - 31 and Railway all Valo of Ncath all Watered. & Kilkcnn3 all Waterford&Limeriei 18 West Cornwall. 3 West End of London and Crystal Palace.. all West Loudon Ills. Wimbledn & Croydon 91 - 93 60 - 62 71 - Si 43 - 45 i - - 14 57 - 58 29 - 30 i— i d in = k 3 - 17 18 4} - 4 22 - ^4 6 - 7 • - •• - 7 FOREIGN. all A ntworp&Rotterdaml 3h Belgian Eastn. June. S Beziors to Graissosnac 2s. Bombay, Baroda, and Centi;;llnclia,Serip Central of Italy - all Demerara._ 14 Dijon andliesancon 10 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France 10 Do. New all East Indian 2 Do. Extension all Do. 4 p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible...: all Do. do. do., '59, do 10 Gd. Janet. of France 12l Gd. Tk of Cans.daA is. all Do. do all Do. St. I►wrenco Atlantic do. ......... all Do. Ccrt. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. 10 Gt. Central of France all Gt. Indian Peninsula 1 Do. New 5 per cent. all Gt. Western of Canada Shares all Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55., all Do. do., '62, p. '56... all Do. do., '76, p. '60.., all Do. do., '73, without 15 11i k 61 7i 53 75 4 13i 131 50 121 i 13 43} 3 58 74 8 29a 6 4 3 d d— A p - P 3 - 3.} 30 -30 i 2A id par ~. 4 "m• ... .• 8 - 7 ti Si - 'lt g 7d 9 8,1 par ttP a iP par iP 17 -18 id fp' option.. all Hamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 11 Lake Const. & Basle all Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c prof 12 Great Luxembou Constituted Shares all Do. Obligations 6 1 30i lid - id 1 d par par 2p ... dis 31 - 2 - 21- a - tp 10 Lyons and Geneva.. 12 Lyons & Mediterran 16i Madras 2 Do. New 31i Maria Antonia all Do. do. New 2 Melbourne Dk. & Ry, all Namur & Liege (with interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all D 0.201. Shs.late Char• leroi and Erqueline2 guar. 3 a p. e. & red. at 221. dur. 88 yrs.' from 1 Jan. 1854.... all Do. 201. 3 p. e Mr. (fmy.B.& Ams. She ) all NorwegianTrunkPrel 14 Paris and Lyons , all Ditto Bonds ... all Paris and Orleans... all Paris and Rouen..... 10 ParisCaeu & Cherbrg all Rouen and Havre.... 20 Royal Danish 3 Royal Swedish all Sambre and Meuse all Do. 5i p. cent. Prel 10 Southern of France, 14 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) all West Flanders all Do 5i per c. Pref 10 Western of France in West. of Switzerland all Wiesbaden I 20 Zealand ... -.... ta-tP ••• .... • ••• ''''' JOINT-S' 6} - 7 ••• ••• .33 --- 33! 12*-- 12'! 84 -- 9A 18 -- 180 45 47 36 38 —• Pm 20 y. 21 Id par 21 lid 8i 8 a ll Australasia .....' .. _... . all ritish Colonial Bank and Loan Company all British N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 2 Chricl. Bnk. of India, Australia, Sc, China 25 Colonial ................ 20 Commercial of Lond. 16 English Scottish and. o h ... id—id .. 3 2idl Australian all Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond. & Westminster 35 National Provincial of England 10 Do. Now 22 2 National of Ireland all Now South Wales all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. Now 231 - 24 35 = ifi 3 8 - 40 1 Royal Australn.Bkg. & Gold Imp Co._ all , outh Australia all Union of Australia.:: Do. New 10 Union of Low :toms", 42 - 44 70 - 72 8 - 9 , ~..., ft C irh, 87i - 123 - 87 - 69 67 - 69 70 - 70 - sloe """ ... - pm ••• .... 3i - 41 -51 p es• ''. f6l BANKS. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1854. LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.) LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS, UNFAIR CHARGES MADE BY THE NORTII-EASTERN RAILWAY COM PANY. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Shr Paid. RAILWAYS L ea sing Cloglna Prices Baldness Compans. this day. this day. 50 all Bedford and London & Bletchloy N. West. ... St. 100 Buckghamsh. L.&N.W. 95 100 St. 100 ClydesdaleJc. Calodon 99 101 St. 100 E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cont. ;Gt.Nrthn. 134 136 25 all Glas. Barr. & Caldonian. Neils. Direct 25 all Do. New, Do — ••• 25 all Glstr.dt Dn.Fr Gt. Westn 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New. Railway & Berw. •.. 50 all Hull & Selby Y. &Mid 104 106 25 all Do. :4 Shares. Do . • ••• 12i all so. Shares. .Do — 12i all Lon.&Grocnw S. Eastern 13 136 20 all Do. Preference Do 23 —24 10 all Lon., Til., S. Pete &Co ll 111' St. 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Norfolk ... St. iOO Do. 6 per ct. N all 'Ala,nch. Than. L.& N. W and Matlock & Midid 23 -2i 50 all lliddlesbro' & Stckton & Rcdcar Darlingt. 101 all Nlidld.Bradfd Midland.. 93 95 50 all Northern and Easternsp.c. E. Count. 58 60 50 all Do. 6 per ct. o ••• ••• si) all Do. Fixedsp. Do' 25 all Prest. & Wyre L. &N.W. &Ln&Yk ..„ 12+ all Do. Shares, Do • ••• St. 100 Roystn,k Hit. GtNorthn 134 136 25 18$ Shef•Roth Lancash& Gooleg.s p.c. Yorksh. 12 9i S. Stallordsh. 1 f.3lClean 2 —11 d 50 all Wear Vallem itoekt. & 6 per cent... Darlingt 25 all Do 0......... 30 31 St. 100 Wilts&Bornrst tWestn•____9(2o THE QUEEN V. NEWTON-THE ALLEYNE CASE AGAIN. This was an idictment for perjury arising out of the endless Alleyne case. The defendant was an attorney at law, and the alleged perjury was said to have been committed in connection with the Alleyne conspiracy. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sirt,—The above company are wanting to enforce a charge of 3s. per day for demurrage, which they can not charge unless by " agreement," and should any per sons so far forget themselves as to agree, this is the way it would operate in my case. The company commence their date on the arrival of the waggon at Normanton, loaded, and again when arriving there empty. The person using the waggon having no check against the railway officers entering false dates—take it at the quickest possible despatch to and from, thus : Normanton June. Wichnor June. Great Bridge. Before the jury were sworn, Mr. Powell, who appeared for the prosecution, said Captain Kennedy, the principal witness, was absent in India, and he was therefore unable to offer any evi dence in the matter. Lord Campbell expressed some dissatisfaction at this announcement, and peremptorily directed that the jury should be sworn. for for N. E. Railway Midland Railway S. Staf. Railway Arrd. hero Nov. 1 Arrd. here Nov. 2 Ar. here Nov. 3. This having been done, Mr. Powell repeated his former observation, that he was not in a position to offer any evidence in the case. Lord Oampbell—Gentlemen of the jury, no evidence having been offered in support of this indictment, it will be your duty to acquit the defendant ; but I must say circumstances have come to my knowledge judicially, which convince me that it is essential for the safety of her Majesty's subjects that some legislative enactment should Ole place to prevent the perversion of justice by preferring indictments for conspiracy. The jury then returned a verdict of not guilty. Mr. James, on behalf of the defendant, stated that his client had been no party to any compromise in this case. On the contrary, he was quite ready to meet the charge, and all his witnesses were in attendance. Empty, Nov. 6 Empty, Nov. 5 - Unloaded, Nov. 4. Five days occupied under the quickest despatch, four days allowed—thus securing 3s. for one day in every trip over and above the illegal charge of ls. 6d. per ton for waggon hire—and under the present system of ma nagement they will take good care the waggon earnsv in every trip 9s. or 12s. demurrage, and this when agreed to is an account over which the colliery owner or merchant has not the least control, because although he unloaded the waggon immediately on arrival, he is made responsible for detention in transit. The Railway Consolidation Act, 1845, with clearing-house regulations, makes this demurrage a charge made by one railway company upon the other for detaining the waggon ; the clearing-house being a disinterested party, and having full particulars of dates of arrival and departure of each waggon, to and from each company, they can show in all cases which railway company has detained the waggon. By their regulation they debit the railway company detaining the waggon 3s. per day. I think all reasonable persons will say this is only fair, because, if not adopted, ono railway company, not being honest to its neighbour, might de tain the rolling stock and use it with their local traffic. The North-Eastern Railway Company have unloaded 16 waggons of, my coke, and refused to forward it unless the owner of coke works will agree to the railway oom pany charging him with demurrage. It is possible, and very probable, that the waggon may be detained, as I have pointed out, and in such cases, under " agree ment," the coke works owner or the merchant would be debited with 3s. per day on this account, over which he had no control, and to meet this charge it would take more than the profit in the trade. I refuse to comply, and my trade is stopped in consequence. I ask the shareholders, the directors, and the public, is this a fair and honourable way of managing the railway / lam at all times willing to pay any correct demand made against me, but to be charged with an account over which I have not the least control is what I will never sub mit So. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. SLATER ♦. CHILDREN-BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. This was an action brought to recover compensation in damages fora breach of promise of marriage, to which the defendant had pleaded denying the promise. The parties moved in a respectable sphere of life, the plaintiff being a milliner and dressmaker, and the defendant a retired tradesman, residing at Tonbridge. Mr. Edwin James and Mr. Honeyraan appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Serjeant Wilkins, with whom was Mr. Duncan, for the defendant. The jury having been sworn, • Mr. Serjeant Wilkins said the parties had consented to take a verdict for 501. A verdict for that amount was accordingly returned by the jury, without the details of the case being gone into. I have since tke first opening of the railway brought a large traffic upon it by every honest endeavour in my power. I wish to continue to do so ; but the trickery, and jobbing, and tortuous courses of some of the ma nagers is doing everything to prevent me. These officers are well known to me, and I have no desire to name them, or do them any injury. If the shareholders examine the particulars of their railway accounts I think they would discover that which would place Mr. George Hudson's doings entirely in the shade. I trust that your inserting this will cause the share holders to enforce fair dealing towards all who wish to use the railway, and at once do away with all jobbing officers who are oppressing the poor and corrupting the rich. Illegal wealth, obtained by trickey management, will de no good to any one. I ask for fair usage and no favour.—l am, sir, yours obediently, WILLIAM OXLADE. York, Nov. 27, 1854. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Commissioners Evans, Fonblanque, and Holroyd sat, bat the whole of the cases were for audits and dividends, and not of the slightest interest. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before the Reoorder.) EMBEZZLEMENT BY A RAILWAY CLZRK. Robert Kersey, a clerk upon the Eastern Counties Railway, surrendered to take his trial for having em bezzled two sixpences, the property of the company, his masters. Mr. Ballantine prosecuted, and Mr. Parry defended. It appeared that the prisoner was a clerk occasionally engaged to take the place of the inspectors and ticket collectors when they took holidays. Upon the 19th of October the prisoner was so employed at the Barking road station of the North Woolwich Junction of the Eastern Counties Railway. At this station all the tickets to and from London upon this line are collected, and if any passenger starts from that station, the ticket is issued and paid for as at •any other station, but almost directly upon the party getting into the carriage, the ticket is retaken, and it became the duty of the clerk engaged as prisoner was to return the tickets so collected by him to one of the inspectors, to be forwarded to the audit office at the close of the day. The prisoner was upon one period of the day seen to take the fare for two first-class passengers, 6d. each, and afterwards not to return the two tickets so issued, by which the compacy alleged that he had embezzled the sums paid for them. The cross-examination elicited that the accounts were very loosely kept at this point of the line. Mr. Parry commented at some length upon that fact, and said that the case was too much in doubt for a jury to convict his client, who had been for years a servant of the company, and bore an excellent character, UNFAIR MANAGEMENT OF THE NORM. EASTERN RAILWAY. SP THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. BlR,—Some time ago I wished to purchase a few stacks of hay, and under the system of managing the above railway I was compelled to apply to the goods-office, Newcastle, to be informed the charge that would be made for the use of the railway conveying the hay to my order, and the reply was-255. per ton. Under this charge I would not purchase the hay. A. more favoured buyer applied for a rate for hay for the same and a further distance, and one was granted his!' at 20s. the railuray waggon load—say 35 to 40 cwts. This person bought the hay. I ask, is there any jobbery in this management for which the shareholders pay 500/. per year I If I can obtain some shares before the shareholders next meeting I will attend to hear what the directors report. The management of this railway is likely to prove that two blacks can make one white, provided, in all cases, that the first black is more honourable and much the fairest. A great deal of uproar and misrepresentation was made about the errors of the Railway King, who has now become Poor Mr. George Hudson, by honour ably giving up his property to meet the claims made against him, aid this much-abused man did more pub lie good in one year than his successors have dono since they dethroned him. I think if the merchants and the public compel the shareholders to return all charges made above what is allowed by the act there will be a considerable amount to refund. Your inserting this Will much oblige,—Yours, obediently, Thirsk, Nov., 1854. A HAY BUYER. P.S.—lf an abstract of the company's act was posted up at each station, showing the toll authorised to be taken for the use of the rail way in large letters, white, on a black bettrd, or black, on a white board, the unfair charges would be more difficult to impose. The Recorder having summed up, The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. TIIE RUSSIAN ARMY OF THE DANUBE, The Corriere Italiano of Vienna has the follovr• ing from Bucharest, of the 14th :-- "The numerous reinforcements sent the Russian army of the Danube to that of the Crimea have sensibly weakened Prince Gertschakoff. In spite of the troops sent him from Poland and from the interior of Russia, his army, which, although very superior in number, had been obliged to give way before the forces of the Sultan, is now reduced to one-half its former num ber. Fearing to be attacked at any moment, he is col lecting together all his available forces, and has ceased completely to send reinforcements to the Crimea, notwithstanding the pressing request of Prince Men schikoff. He leas done wisely, for be will soon have to contend with an army of 60,000 men and 160 pieces of cannon. And even that number is not all, these forces being merely the men whom Omer Pacha is con centrating on the frontier of Bessarabia, from Busco te Fokschani. Another army, of nearly as great a number, remains un d er I s mail Pacha. It is im possible to depict the joy of those who are going through this place to the frontier ; one would say that they were going to a banquet rather than to a battle. The generalissimo, however, neglects nothing; he is collecting on various points stores of pro visions ; the whole line of the Danube has been placed in a state of defen ce ; an d th e f or tifications of Silistria , Giurgevo, and Rassova have been completed, on the plans of Colonel Dieu. The reserve is coming from Sebumla, to occupy the places of the Danube, and is replaced by recruits." The Rev. W. Hobson, late curate of Portsmouth Church, who is appointed one of the chaplains to the forces in the East, has not gone out in the Royal Albert, but awaits a passage in the Charity, hired transport. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 27.—Amongst the passengers to the Peninsula by the Iberia were Mr. Oliveira, M.P., and Mrs. Oliveira. It is understood that the hon. mem ber is about to visit the various wine districts in the Mediterranean, as he has recently done those of France, to ascertain the effect of the vine disease, the stocks of wines, capability of increased produce, and reciprocal re duction of duties, as bearing upon the proposition Mr. Myelin is to bring forward on the meeting of Parliament for a reduction of the wine duties. THE RECENT ATTEMPTS AT INCENDIARIEM IN MAN CHESlER.—Yesterday a man named Benjamin sellers was brought before the magistrates at Manchester, charged with attempting to set fire to some warehouses. About three o'clock on Sunday afternoon a police-officer saw the prisoner issue from behind a block of warehouses with a ball of burning cotton waste in his hands. As soon as he saw the officer, the prisoner attempted to extinguish the fire, but he was at once taken into cus tody, and the waste found in a burning state. The magistrates remanded the prisoner until a further inves tigation is made. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT MANCHESTER.—At a late hour on Saturday evening a very destructive fire broke out at the railway station, London-road, Manchester, which is occupied jointly by the London and North-Western, and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Rail. ways. It originated in the cashier's office of the Man. chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire line, and before it could be subdued, had extended to the various offices of the London and North-Western. The rooms occu pied by the Sheffield Company, which were burnt, con sisted of the engineer and clerks' offices, and the draw ing office, the accountants' and clerks' offices. The offices of the manager and the secretary were saved. The cashier's, goods manager's, and stationery offices, be longing to the London and North-Western, were all burnt. The damage, which is very considerable, has not been ascertained. FIRE AT READING.—On Saturday a fire took place at Reading, which caused the destruction of property, to a large amount. The fire commenced at tie warehouses of Mr. Wriet, a coal merchant, in Queta's-road, and communicated to the warehouse of Mr. Samuel Biggs, jun., a builder. Thnleadworks of Messrs. Clark, which contained property to the value of 3,0001. also caught fire. The principal workshops of Mr. Biggs were con sumed, and the damage done altogether is estimated at several' thousand pounds. All Mr. Biggs's premises were insured, but there is only a partial insurance on the works of Messrs. Clark. There are now no less than eight seats in the House of Commons vacant ; seven of them by the deaths of their former occupants. Abingdon was vacated by Lord Norrey's succession to the peerage ; Marylebone, by Lord Dudley Stuart's death ; Bedford, by the decease of Mr. H. Stuart ; Coventry, by that of Mr. Geach ; East Gloucestershire, by Sr Michael Hicks Beach's death ; Fermanagh, by that of Sir Arthur Brooke ; An trim, by by Colonel Pakenhant's death at Inkerman ; and Ar, that of Col. Hunter Blair, also killed at Inkermaa. THE CHAIR OF AGRICULTURE.—Professor Wilson has accepted the appointment to this chair, but on his repre sentation that it would be unadvisable to commence the course of lectures this session, the delegates, at a meeting held on Thursday, agreed to acquiesce in his views, and to rescind the resolution formerly come to by them upon that point. Mr. Wilson will, however, be formally in stalled as professor in the beginning of the year, and will, durin the Highland Societys meetings hers abou that period deliver a few lectures' ia his class-room gra t tuitously.—Scotsman. APOTHECARIES TO THE FORCES. —In consequence of the large number of applications for these appointments at the office of the Army Medical Department, we have been requested to publish the following official memo randum :—" It is understood that apothecaries to the forces will be selected from the dispensers of medicines who are already employed with tie army in the East." We may add, that dispensers of medicines have the same pay and rations as assistant -surgeons, and wear a plain uniform. They undergo an examination at the office of the department, and are generally selected from those who have testimonials of ability as dispensers from re spectable druggists.—Medical Times. Tim RUSSIAN PRISONERS AT LEWES.--Three of the Russian officers who were on parole in this town and three of the privates who were in the war prison took their departure on Friday afternoon for London, en route for Russia, in exchange for English prisoners captured by the enemy. The officers who have taken their de parture aro Captain Von Essen, Captain Snellman, and Lieutenant Pischulin, of the Imperial Horse Artillery, who were taken at Bomarsund. A few days since one of the officers on parole purchased one of Colt's revolvers o f a gunsmith in the town, and he subsequently received an order for about a dozen more, but before executing it he consulted a legal gentleman, and declined to s upply them. These circumstances became noised abroad in the town, and eventually reached he the ears of the local repre sentatives of the Government ; t r esult of which was that inquiries were instituted as to the purchase r, and that having been ascertained, the weapon was de manded from lainl and taken. THE ME.ETING OF PARLIAMENT, - (Front the Times.) The replace of the regiments of the line on Mediter ranean service by the Militia is not the only object of the early meeting of Parliament. It must have occurred sometimes to everybody who has thought about it, that with preparations continually increasing to a larger and still larger scale, the resources of the Exchequer must be almost exhausted. That, in fact, is the case, and Government must want money. It is, not a result wholly unforeseen, for the Chancellor of the Exche quer did not profess to provide for the expenses of the war till next February, and, had the war taken the turn that was generally anticipated at the date of his budget—viz., a campaign in the Danubian Principali ties, with the contingency of a Torres Vedras on the Balkan and a defence of Constantinople, undoubtedly Parliament would have been asked for money. It was only the long period of inaction at Gallipoli and Varna, and the subsequent delay in the !anding of the expedition in the Crimea, that led the public to cherish the delusion that we were not likely to exceed the an nual income. That delusion has passed away, it may be said with scarcely a murmur, so entirely has the whole mind of the nation been absorbed in the fortunes of the war, in the fate of the allied armies, and in the thousand rivate incidents that sadden and adorn the international struggle. Yes, all the reveries of economists, all the hopes of financiers, all the pictures of universal peace, all the estimates of extinguished debts and overflowing exchequers have melted away, and we suddenly find ourselves thrown back to the period of the early Revo lutionary War, when we were slowly opening our minds to the immensity and costliness of the conflict before us. War, we are all now fully aware, means money. The public is urging more men, more steamers, quicker and more frequent communications, better artillery, better small arms, better housing, better clothing, demonstra tions on the Danube, the destruction of Odessa, the occupation of Perekop, the conquest of the Crimea, and the precipitation of the Austrian difficulty. Every day brings us the most costly suggestions, and Government I hardly keeps up with the fertility of the projectors. Wrought iron steam batteries, mortars of prodigious calibre, rifled guns, and other devices for sudden, vast, and secret destruction, employ the attention of the Ad miralty, the Ordnance-office, and the Woolwich en gineers. The deep soul and the mighty intellect of the nation is turned to war. Nor is this any matter of surprise. The time has passed for weighing the merits of the question, and we are finally and irrevocably com mitted to the part we have chosen. Nothing remains for a great nation but to do its utmost, and, so thoroughly is that the feeling of all classes, that we doubt if there are fifty men among us who would not gladly en dure a large amount of private loss and inconvenience, and who would not indeed forego much advantage and enjoyment if by so doing they might secure the success of the British arms and the just chastisement of the fee. Since, then, we have all made up our minds to pay heavily for the war, there arises the question as to the form and method of that payment. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has done his utmost to confine the ex pense to the income, and even when compelled to obtain a larger amount of ready money than the taxes would yield, he tried to obtain it by a new system of Exchequer bends, redeemable after periods of a few years. It is no discredit to Mr. Gladstone's ingenuity, and tells much for his sanguine hopes of peace, that his plans have had but imperfect success, and that operations of a much more definite and ordinary character are now required to meet the increased and increasing expenses of the war. These are immense. The hire of private steamers has been estimated at 3,000,0001. a year, be sides those which Government is buying or building. The hire of sailing transports is another vast item. The strength of the army is half as much again as it was. The navy is equally augmented. New arms are de manded in every branch of the service, and for these new ammunition and other stores are required. The cost of completing, embodying, and mobilising the militia will amount to several millions a year. Then we have had to feed, and to arm, and shall probably have to clothe, to house, and to convey our Turkish allies. We are forbidden to mention "subsidies," because they are too likely. If we add up these main expenses we shall soon see that the day has arrived for a bolder finance than the nation would have borne so late as last spring. We must have either increased war taxes, as, for example, a 10 per cent. income tax, or a loan. Tne sudden meeting of Parliament so long before the expiration of the financial year points to the latter expedient, and the public are probably quite pre pared for an addition of five or even ten millions to the funded debt. For our part, we believe it the best policy to carry on the war without any regard to expense, and, if the hope of keeping within our income leads to crippled armaments, to languid counsels, and dilatory operations, we have ne hesitation in advising that we at once give up the fiction of immediate payment, and draw on posterity. The next generation is as much con cerned as ourselves in the result of the present war, and it will not thank us for a h erita g e of cheap shame. Glory, freedom, power, and rank among nations are as fair objects of expenditure as house and land, and it is as reasonable to encroach on the public stock of material goods for the independence, security, and elevation of our race as for the improvement of our cities, roads, mansions, parks, churches, and other ornaments and acquisitions of peace. During the last war there was a strong party of finan ciers in favour of terminable annuities instead of the per petual incubus which constitutes the main portion of the national debt. The plan was adopted to some ex tent, and we are now about to realise its advantages in the approaching spontaneous cessation, so to speak, of a large portio❑ of the annual dividends. The quiet way in which the national debt of the United States has dwindled to a mere trifle is another testimony in favour of the system, and the Chancellor of the Fxchequer has shown a decided leaning to it in his late comprehen sive, though undeveloped, plan for commuting the Three per Cents. Should he now come before Parliament with the project of a loan, we shall possibly have the question of terminable annui ties once snore discussed, where it has often hewn before. We believe the solution to be rather in prac tice than in theory. Borrowers will always get money on the easiest terms within their reach, and if better terms are to be obtained for perpetual than for termi nable annuities that will probably settle the question without much reference to the supposed moral difference of the two methods. Still it is an open question, aod after the very little way the country has made in paying off its debt during the long peace, it is reasonable to conclude that the effect of perpetual annuities is bad on the public mind, tending to make it acquiesce too readily in a burden which seems to have become one of the permanent institutions of the country. Fortunately there never was a time when we could so easily stand a large addition either to our annual taxes or to our na tional debt, whichever course the Legislature may think fit to choose. MR. DISRAELI ON A WAR LOAN. (Front The San of May 6, 1854.) Mr. DISRAELI said—Sir, there is one point so remark able, so anomalous, in the speech which the noble lord has just addressed to us, that I cannot help briefly advert ing to it. I complained that the Government anticipated unnecessarily by a month the making their financial state• menu, the result of which is, that they offered to the house a deluding estimate and a deceptive budget. (Loud cheers fro the Opposition bench es .) Now that was the :2 1 point of whicL I complained ; and the consequence i s, that within eight iC. eeks of their statement being made, and within four weeks .oly if the date by custom had been followed, when it nee,l. to have been made—we are called up to vote a sum of n: arly 6,000,0001. in the shape of a supplementary budget. Bat how does the noble lord account for this circumstance : What is his vindication for the conduct of the minisiZr 1 I con fess I listened with no little surprise as with evident self-complacency the noble lord substantiated mY case. The noble lord says, " The right hon. gentleman forgets this important circumstance, that between the financial statement and the p resent time a great event occurred —namely, the declaration of war." But I say the Chancellor of the Exchequer ought to have made his financial statement as usual after the d t lapse of the financial year. And when, however, dihis declaration of war take place I The end of the financial year was the sth of April • and the (Lan cell of the Exchequer, following the usual course, might have made his statement on the 10th of the month. But the declaration of war was not made until the 27th of March, and that proves the great expediency of not hating been premature in his statement. Surely, the Minister who at the beginning of March called, in the most formal manner, the attention of Parliament to the state of the finances, ought to have had a tolerable anticipation of what was going to happen in a month. So there were irresistible reasons why the financial state meet should have been made at the usual time, and why we should not have been placed in the situation in which we are, and why the Minister should have had an opportunity of putting a comprehensive and ve racious statement before the country. And that was the reason alleged by the noble lord to account for this unreasonable, this strange departure from usual custom. Why, the Chancellor of the Exche quer wanted to get 3,000,0001. of money, and he could not get it unless he made a proposition at the be , ginning of the month of March ; so that at the beginning of the month of March the attention of Parliament -- with war impending according to the general confidence of the country—and according to the repeated declara tionst and warnings of the Ministers themselves —the tention of Parliament was formally called to the finances esti of the country ; our resources and burdens :f e o r r what mated for a great and impending truggle--li en uer should, reason? That the Chancellor of the F_sx Was there by calling into play a vast and decehptiveeearrne.clachinery, be able to get 3,000,000/. at the end of offered y_ o on benches.) ever such a peddling vindication ff o red for the conduct of a minister ! (Cheers from theoooop I. P b adopting such Why, if he could have got 10,00 ii , t the y country in a al course—if he could haveud strong position —if he o co l hapve availed himself of a dtresources of the country and the general sympathy the confidence of Parliamen , and had raised alarge loaner made a.,rrhatungi moats for any emergency or any difficulties g e eet him I could understand the argument of that the nobleml lord. (Renewed cheering on the opposition benches.) Butthatsuchanuprecedentedcourse, realising such contemptible results, should be resorted to that before eight weeks have elapsed since the announcement of your budget, you are obliged to come forward with a supplementary estimate for such an amount—is, to my mind, a course of conduct the most surprising I have ever beard of. (Loud cheers on the opposition benches.) Lord J. RUSSELL said—The right hon. gentleman says ithat 3,000,000/. of money is a very small sum. Now, it ap pears to me, sir, that no financial Minister that we have had since the enactment of the income tax, in introducing that tax, ever thought it an immaterial circumstance to ..., PREFERENCE SHARES. 100 Aberdeen ' 100 Do. No. 2, 7 p. c..., 30 Blyth and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issd. at 500 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4 p. c. Shares 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead 98 - 102 92 - 96 95 - 97 Guar. 5i per cent., all Do. do. Pref. No. 2, --- . all Do. do. Pref. No. 2.. all Cork &Bandonsip.e, all Dundee Perth &Aber• deou Junction all EastAnglian (£3108; hi - 61 6 per cent all Do. (£5) 7 per cent 2 Do. V 7 170 7p. c all Eastern CountiertEx: tension, 5 p. c. No. ] all Do. No. 2 . .......... . all Do. New 6 p. 43. St all Eastern Union, Seri; - 13 - r - 13 i 22 - 24 Guar. 6 per cent all Do. 5i., 10 Der cent. all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh all Do. do. 4 per cent... 00 East Lancash.6 p.cts. all East and West York shire June. 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Registered. — 1 Q 28„• i r _s4 Dielala'a 40 13 -14 MABILKT VE Ws-(1'111.S DA - SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 4/ 15s ; clover ditto, 3/ Os to 6/ N ; and straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 12s per load. A fair average supply and a steady demand. ConmuLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 17s to 5 / Os ; clover ditto, 3t Os to 6/ O s; an d straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 14s per load. Trade rather dull. WHITECHAPE,L.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 41 15s; clover ditto, 3/ Os to 6/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 6s to 1112 s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DI Y.) LONDON, Nov. 28.—Wind this day at Noon, W.S.W. ; light breeze, with hazy weather. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 27. Wind. N.W. Arrived—Ma nilla (steam - transport, 142), from London, and left for the Black Sea. Sailed—H.M.S. Brisk, for the Pacific ; Chas. Brooke, Jamaica ; Pelian, Sunderland. SOUTHAMPTON, Nov. 27.—Wind, N.W. Arrived— Devonshire (e), from Dublin, and left for L ondon ; Ecli p se, London. Sailed —Iberia (a), from Gibraltar. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 27.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived—War burton, from Priace Edward's Island; Elizabeth, Para, for Dordt ; Railway, London, for St. Michael's. Sailed— Active, for Melbourne Frederick VII. , A ntwer p; Non. Pareil:London ; Ir ene , do. P • Nerthninberland, do. FALMOUTH, Nov. 27.—Wind, N.B. Arrived—E. D. T., from Maulmein ; Emily, Cork ; Ondine (o), Dublin , and left for London. Sailed—Minnet, for tort Philip ; Bin dostan, A n t werp ; Morrison, do. Off Port—Caroline, from Quebec, for Sunderland ; Buchanan, Alexandria ; Westmoreland, Bahia. Dovnn, Nov. 27.—Wind, N. Arrived—Carl, frog Porto Rico. Orr THE NORTH FORELAND, Nov. 27.—Athol, from London, for Akyab. HARTLEPOOL, Nov. 27.—Wind, S.W. Arrived — Jane and Ann, from Hamburgh. Sailed—Calandrine, Malta. WHITEHAVEN, Nov. 25.—Wind, S. Arrived—Antigna Packet, from Mirarnichi. FWZIETWOOD, Nov. 27.—Arrived Cleopatra, from quebec. 1 SHIELDS, Nov. 27.—The Model (schooner), from Fowey, whilst towing into harbour this morning, grounded, in cow sequence of thick weather, on the edge of the Herd Sand, and remains; sea moderate. PLYMOUTH GREAT WESTERN DOCKS.—An extraor dinary general meeting of this company is to be held at Plymouth en Wednesday next, for the purpose of consi dering whether any means can be devised for proceeding with the important measure of deepening the outer har bour, and to decide en the expediency of applying to Parliament in the ensuing session for an act to enlarge the existing powers of the company. The directors, in their report set out by stating that the works that they proposed, in November, 1851, to undertake, would be all completed within the estimates. These works com prise a floating dock about 13 acres in area, having gates capable of admitting the largest ♦essels, and with wharfage about three-quarters of a mile in length. 'Within the basin will be a graving deck 330 feet is length. In the progress of the works both Mr. Brunel and the directors have come to the conclusion that it is a matter of regret that the harbour does not possess, be tween Millbay Pier and the Floating Dock, a sufficient area of deep water for the full accommodation of the large class of steamers now in use. While executing the present works the contractors have laid across the bay a dam, which has proved so efficient that the engi neer has suggested that the whole of this outer basin should be deepened se that large vessels may be afloat at low water. While this dam remains the work may be done, but once removed it cannot be done hereafter ; and the meeting will be held to consider whether an en deavour should be made to obtain the necessary capital. If the shareholders should agree on the propriety •f making the attempt to form this outer basin, the capital that the directors would endeavour to raise will be 100,0001., by the creation of the new stock, bearing a priority in payment of dividend over all the e26.lting shares of the company. Business done 1 50 this day. 191 15 St, 4 1 25 50 25 1 20 94i 10 59i St 69i .1 i i 125 70 I 2i 2 1 1 I El: sack 154. 5 7i 20i 1 5 10 67 6i 7} bt• St. 48i 9 32i 7 8 dli I 20 iii 40i i 38 i 49i 71i 2345 " • . ~ . ... -_• . , , bring forward the subject very early inAtill ysar.: That is -- n the view which the Minister has takep. 4;•; Absinth.. , r ° ' • ject, and when it is proposed to doublel4+llo4ol 11ti thi . & same argument applies. The house will n bill: , think . , . ; it strange that the statem en t was madittlie i . n'entii of : y March because only a diff erence o f 3, WWI. 'wait thereby affected. Now, what is 3,000,000/JI The tight: hon. gentleman seems to me to be talking of a sum or-- about half-a-crown, and seems to say what does such a sum signify to the Exchequer. If, however, the right hon. gentleman thinks so lightly of 3,000,0001., I must say it is pretty evident that he is no longer Chancellor of the Exchequer. THE NEWS OF THE VICTORY IN BUCHAREST. We have received from Bucharest a copy of the bulletins issued there by Count Coronini upon re ceipt of intelligence of the battle of Inkerman. The form and aspect under which the Austrian General chose to present the news to the Walla chia!' nation are worthy of notice. SEWS FROM SEBASTOPOL, UNDEIL DATE OP NOV. 6, 1554, A great battle was fought yesterday ; the Russian army, which had received considerable reinforcements from the so-called army of the Danubian Principalities, and was moreover encouraged by the presence of the Grand Dukes Michael and Nicholas, attacked the right wing of the English army. After an obstinate struggle, lasting from the morning to the afternoon, the English army, joined by the division of General Bosquet, suc ceeded in repulsing the enemy with enormous loss, sup posed to be from eight to ten thousand men left dead on the field of battle, and a very large number of prisoners in their hands. During the battle General Forey had to repel a violent sortie of the garrison from Sebastopol. The French troops, energetically led on by their general, drove the enemy back into the place inflicting on him a Ines of more than a thousand men. The conduct of the allied troops in the presence of an enemy four times at least superior to them in numbers has been admirable. The victory was hard won, but brilliant. We have to regret serious losses, the details of which have not arrived. The siege contiaues with a ♦igour that has not flagged for an instant. GLAND REVIEW OF THE NEW IMPERIAL GUARD. ___ PARIS, MONDAY EVENING--The first review of the new Imperial Guard by the Emperor took place this day in the garden of the Tuileries, in the Plaoe de la Ooncorde, and up the grand avenue of the Champs Elys6es. The enthusiasm displayed both by the troops and the spectators was immense, and never, per haps, were the cheers given to the Emperor more sincere. This magnificent body! of men, alike re markable for their personal appearance and for sh e beauty and richness of their military equipments, a s . sembled on this occasion for the first time in public. Th e weather being uncommonly fine, the crowd of persons present was immense. The infantry occupied the gar den of the Tuileries, and part of the Place beyond it, whilst the artillery and cavalry occupied the Champs Elysees. About one o'clock his Majesty mounted his horse in the court of the Carrousel, accompanied by Marshals Magnan and Valliant, and a great number of general officers. The escort of the Emperor was formed by the Cent Gardes in full uniform, which in richness is no way inferior to the body guards of the Sovereigns of France in the time of the Monarchy. The Empe ror rode one of his favourite chargers, which was richly caparisoned with the housings presented to his Majesty by the Sultan. After passing along the lines of troops, the Emperor returned, and placed himself in front of the Pavillon d'Horloge, on the balcony of which were the Empress, attended by the ladies of the household, and accompanied by several illustrious personages, among whom was Lord Palmerston. The troops then filed off before the Emperor, who was hailed with load cries of " Vive l'Empereur 1" by the men, which were loudly taken up and repeated by the immense crowd of persons assembled. It .was an imposing sight so see these fins troops move past in close column as if they were but a single man, and it is certain that this military display at a mo ment when the pubiio mind is turned to the theatre of real war, and full of the heroic deeds of the Allied armies, producep considerable excitement among mili tary and civilians, which was given expression in loud and frespient acclamations. The defiling began at half past 1, and closed at half-past 2, when the troops quitted the ground for their respective quarters. But at four o'clock crowds still filled the passages leading to the Tuilieries, and the topic of conversation among them was the splendid appearance of the new Imperial Guard. I must not omit mentioning that many of the specta tors appeared to take the dashing young guardsman, who accompanied the cortege, for no less a personage than Lord Palmerston, who is said to have figured in a militia or lord lieutenant's uniform among the Generals close to the Emperor. The mistake about the young guardsman however was general, and the people would have it that it was his lordship. They have a tradition that Lord Palmerston was once Secretary at-War, and now holds a military command somewhere, and, out of compliment to his lordship, they selected the most dashing, best-looking, and. most brilliantly equipped foreign officer for him, The mistake is not a serious one, and I suppose Lord Palmerston will not break up the alliance on that account. THE GRAND DUKE UON.sTANTINES ORDER OF THE DAY. The Invalide Russe of St. Petersburg of the 18th publishes the following order of the day from the Grand Duke Constantine, the head of the Ministry of the Marine, and bearing the date of " Gatshina, Nov. 15" : " Admiral Prince Menschikoff, in informing the Em peror of the conduct of the men belonging to the fleet of the Black Sea, in defence of Sebastopol, says, amongst other things : It is a sacred duty for me to make your Majesty acquainted with the exemplary self-denial and the invincible valour of the crews of the fleet. Neither their daily losses, nor the fatiguing ser vice of the bastions, nor the batteries raised by the enemy just before them, nor the incessant roar of artil lery, which night and day shakes the earth—nothing has been able to induce them to abandon their service for a single instant. On the contrary, it would seem that everything contributes to increase their zeal, and they rivalise with each other in their courage in defend ing Sebastopol, so dear to their hearts.' The 'Emperor has deigned to reply to Prince Menschikoff in the following words :—I am happy to learn the heroic intrepidity of our incomparable sailors, those uncon querable defenders of Sebastopol. God will rep compense their acts of courage, unexampled up to the present time. Knowing my sailors of the Black Sea since 1828, having been then ocular witness of their high feats, and seeing that nothing was impos sible for them, I was fully convinced that these intrepid warriors would always shew themselves the same, both by land and sea. Tell them that their old acquaintance, who has always esteemed them, is proud of their conduct, and thanks them all as a loving father would his darling children. Transmit to them these words in your order of the day. I have directed my aide-de-camp, Prince Galitzin, to pass in review all the crews, and to transmit to each my salu tation and my thanks.' In transmitting with the utmost joy to the Baltic fleet the paternal language of the Em peror to our comrades of the Black Sea, l am convinced that all the nen of the Baltic fleet will hail them with g ratitude, and that when t he hour shall arrive far then to fight against the enemies of our orthodox country, its cre ws will provethattlaeyofwoeruerwborortthhyeros of iia arms s la o r f tehne couragement, and worthy Black Sea. " CONSTANTINE." GENERAL ORDER. HORSE GUARDS, 23d Nov., 1854, Her Majesty has been pleased to approve of the fol lowing regulations being established, in order to carry into effect the provisions of the Royal warrant of the 6th of October, 1854, by which the rank of fall colonel is to be given to lieutenant-colonels who have served in the actual command of regiments, or in other situations, for the periods therein specified, viz. :- 1. Actual command of a regiment. 2. Second lieutenant-colonel of a regiment. 3. Major and lientenant•colonel, or major in the Household Oavalry. 4. Mounted officer of the Foot Guards. 5. Assistants adjutant-genera L 5. Assistants quartermaster -general. 6. Military secretary (or73.37tiataryntszrislittaaryry) setcorestuaroyh where there shall be no goennaersatlaotiffiono.ers as are exercising the supreme command e th d, e p n e o ri p od or o ti f o ac n t o u f al th s e er t v im ice e passedon leave of absence s b i t e u i n a i n the hr ee severalyears gtiofliixs"ineaams d • action, or from health, 3rrye: d cevre the in „ por t of a medical board, waweihelilocubhneatanollowed to b k a o l n as serv i ce, except absence on contracted by service with an army in the field, which other cases, the absence of the ofheer before he In all when each case will be separately considered. must be duly when by has co mpleted the three years required will be tleduoted, so that the officer shall have actually served that time be fore be be promoted to the rank of colonel. • Captains and lieutenant-colonels of the Foot Guards, promoted as such, prior to the 20th of Jugs, 1854, after haying held that rank for six years, will obtain the rank of full colonel, without refereace to duties regimentally performed. An equerry to the Sovereign will obtain the rank of lieutenant-colonel, for six years. Officers who obtained the rank of colonel prior to the 20th of June, 1854, will continue to be exempted from the duties of field officers ; but colonels promoted on and subsequent to that day, will be included in the roster of field officers, until after five years from the dates of their commissions as colonel. By command of the Right nom General Viscount ilardinge, Commanding-in-Chief. G. A. WETHERALL, Deputy-Adjetant-General. PRODUCE MAIiESTII.—The weekly reviews from the Amsterdam and Rotterdam produce markets mention that no material alteration had occurred in businThe ess, and that prices con tinued to be well supported. for only new feature was a tem p orar y export demand rice. N EW PRUSSIAN STATE LOAN.—The " Seehandlung" has issued the pr os p ectus of a new state loan of 15,000,000 thalers at repayable within 40 years, and to be isawsi at par.