The Sun. — London, England, 1854-11-17 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIG-ENCE. CITY, TVc 0 o'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 7,000 bales, including 1,000 American taken for export and on speculation. The market olosed heavily, and prices of all kinds have a down ward tendency. The decline at present is 1-161 to id. per lb. The sales comprised 5,850 American, 20 Pernam and Maranham at 6-al, 30 Bahia at 100 Egyptian at 62d. to 8-id., and 1,000 Surat at 211 d. to 31d. per lb. Railway Shares were heavy. 25 Colonial produce has been less active this week, but prices generally have undergone but little St. change. British plantation sugar has been firm. St. Porto Rico rather cheaper. Coffee has ruled dull, 10 at steady values. The public sales of tea have • 50 passed off without much variation, 4,000 packages 50 being sold. Spices have met with very little 20 attention. Pepper, however, went at fd. per lb. 20 advance. For rice the demand has been inactive, e(l3, and quotations are almost nominal. For rum '5 there has been but little inquiry. More has been done in saltpetre, and at enhanced rates. Tallow 25 has receded 6d. per cwt., although early in the St. 0 week full prices were current. St. There has been a good deal of controversy at Dundee respecting the Russian trade, but we are s t . glade to perceive, however individual interests 25 may stand in the way, that feelings of patriotism St. are likely to triumph. A letter that has appeared i S o t• in the Dundee Advertiser is so apposite, and has St. been quoted in London as so correctly stating the 10 case, that the following extracts will doubtless in- St. St. terest. The writer says : St. "Twelve months ago I was told by mon of the longest St. experience in Russian affairs that there would be no war, Et. that the Emperor dared not ' push things to extremities, St. because it would ruin the nobles who are dependent upon s t. the produce of their estates, and their ruin would prove the downfall of the Emperor Nicholas.' Twelve 12 months ago my friends who argued thus believed 50 what they said—they believed it to be true. The 165 Czar, however, did risk the war, and the moment 16 this was Cu fait accorapli down went exchange at St. St . - Petersburg, to 32d. the rouble, and my friends shook their 193 heads and spoke of an attack of ap o p lex y bein g hi g hl y 14. probable, or some such other malady personally disagreeable 20 to the Emperor. First we heard that the Emperor was terribly irritated, that he had sudden outbursts of passion, s t. then that he would see no one but So and So, then that he St. was ill, very ill, Sze., &c. In fact, on the first blush of 20 the thing after the declaration of war, and when the 10 exchange had suddenly declined, almost every one, who 12A knew anything at all about Russia, was talking and s t : arguing upon what ? Simply the Emperor's posi- 50 tion. Unhappily for our country, very soon after 4. appeared the Declaraion' of her Majesty in relation to 25 Russian trade. That Declaration I have always regarded 25 as the most fatal and suicidal mistake that has been St. made in the history of this war. It might have been poli- 812, tically necessary that the rights of neutrals should receive st. some sort of extra concession, and that certain admissions St. should be made as regarded them, butte allow the thing to 50 go so far as to encourage British capital (the withdrawal 25 of which had already produced a serious decline in the 1 . 00 value of the paper currency of Russia) to flow back again 6.) to the coffers of the Russian nobles was a most serious 2F mistake, and it is beginning to be so viewed. What was 50 the immediate result? Up jumped the Exchequer in St. 20 Petersburg to 37d., and a while later to 38d., and we have heard nothing since of the health of the Emperor. My friends, however, who were so certain about his Imperial Majesty's tactics before the declaration of war, and so anxious about his health before the ' Declaration' of her Majesty, have now, at this moment, a large quantity of Russian produce of " various kinds, on its weary way from St. Petersbarg to the Russian frontier and Prussian posts, and their anxiety for the safe arrival of this property, for which they have paid their money to the Russian nobles, makes them forget what they told me 12 months ago, as the result of long experience. Then they knew that the stop page of the trade (which was deemed a matter of course, if war should be declared) would be the downfall of the Czar ; but now they argue with our Government. You cannot stultify yourselves before the world, and if you would, you cannot stop the trade through Prussia ; it is impos sible,' and so forth. No matter that we know we aro propping up the Russian Government by this trade—that we are paying the Russian armies by giving a current value to the paper currency of the empire—we must have the goods we have bought, and so profitable is the trade, that we tell you ' You cannot stop it, besides w h ich, you :now that the goods are required here, and that this and that trade would languish without them.' There can bo no doubt that the latter part of the statement is unfortunately too true. We cannot have and enjoy the fall blessings of peace and at the same time be engaged in war. Tho ' Declara tion' of her Majesty was intended to ' mitigate' the horrors of war ; they were to be ' mitigated' by our traders supplying themselves with the produce of the enemy's country as in times of peace ; but the fact that this opera tion would go in two ways (by the direct payment of money, and by the consequent enhancement of the value of the paper currency) to strengthen the right arm of the enemy, was y ov , erlooked. The war is a peculiar ono : our real enem one man ; and the shortest way to brin g about a peace was, and is stil l, to g a g that one man. We were already on the highroad to this most desirable result, when the exchange in St. Petersburg was down to 32d., and, had not the Government of the country stepped forward with the fatal ' Declaration,' my belief is; that the exchange would have declined long before this to the point, rey friends, who were then friends to an early peace, were an ticipating when all eyes ware fixed on the Emperor, and fits of apoplexy and the like were talked of and appre hended." " One thing more I will add in proof of the position which I urge upon the consideration of your readers ; and it is a strong fact. By the late advicos from St. Peters burg, it appears that the Emperor has appointed a special commissioner to assist and facilitate the transport of goods to the Prussian frontier, by every means which the State can command ! Can env proof be greater than this, of the value he attaches to the trade ? No doubt the intima tions conveyed in several London journals of the probable feeling of our Government on the subject had reached him, and he adopts this measure in order to en courage British capitalists to go on with the trade; the result was equal to his anticipations; for we are further advised that large purchases of pro- , 1 duce were again made, and confidence , which w as fla g - 20 2 ging, had been restored. Let every one calmly c onsider 20 this subject, then, as bearing on an early termination of 20 the war. If measures were promptly adopted by our Go -20 Torment, we should, without doubt, obtain increase d 20 supplies of most of the Russian exports from other guar -20 ters, but although I think thus, I am not the less of opi -100 nion that decisive measures taken and acted upon vigo rously, would have so rapid an effect, that we should, by a little economy, find that we have already sufficient of all 4 these articles to supply all our wants until the termination o`2, of the war, for my information teaches me that the war 43 5 will be concluded far sooner by a catastrophe at St. Peters- ‘2.); burg, than by the destruction of Sebastopol, or even of " Cronstadt." 100 Accounts from the Baltic state that cold weather was setting in, and that merchant ships were not leo likely to leave the ports of Finland any longer, 20 under the apprehension that if they did so they 5 would be unable to get in again. 20, There. is a very depressed market again for public securities, and the sales for money continue. 100 Whether these are motived by politics, or arise from the arrangement for placing the additional 100 two millions of Exchequer Bonds, is somewhat 100 uncertain ; but the belief is still entertained that 100 the Savings Banks Commissioners intend to take 20 the third series of the Bends, amounting to 100 2,000,0001. Consols have been 92, and since 91i 20 to for transfer, while for account they have 5 varied from 92i to 911 Money is again in 20 request, and the Unfunded Debt has sunk to ss. and 2s. premium. East India Bonds have been 4 12s. premium. The New 3 per Cents. have been 20 ON, and are now 89i to 90. Nothing has been 20 done in Bank Stock. 20 Foreign Securities have been generally lower. 2 3 2 Peruvian 4 i per Cents , have been done at 661 to 1 . 0 67. Turkish Scrip has been down to 6,1 and 61 20 discount. In Spanish 3 per , Cents, there have 20 been several transactions at 37i to 381, and in the 0 , New Deferred at 181 to U. The Certificates have if been at 51. 2C The following are the nominal prices of foreign stocks:—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 51 to 5l ; Mexi can, 21U- to 21i ; Peruvian, 66 to 68 ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 47 to 49 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 2( 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto, 4 per Cents., 84 to 86 ; Spanish New Deferred, 11 14 to 18/ 2 ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 37i to 38 ; ditto, 21 Certificates, 53. to 5i ; ditto, Passive, 41to 5. 21 The Foreign Mining Shares have been dull, but 21 at about the previous rates. The Joint Stock Bank Shares have been in fair 21 request at nearly the previous rates. The Aus- 2 tralian Land Shares are quiet, and Crystal Palace 2 are supported. 1 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK (Front the Official List.) Business done 3 per Cent. Reduced ......... 904 a9O 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 92 1s a s New 3 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4 5-16 India Bonds, £lOOO Ditto, under £lOOO Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, 24d. 21000 w 3 5 2 p Small 6 p Exchequer Bonds 185 S, 36 per Cent. Ditto 1859, „ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK Peruvian Bonds, 46 per Cent. Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent BB Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 37i 84 8 Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent lB4 a Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun N p Turkish Scrip 6 per cent Ditto for the Account Dividends on the above payable in London. ETA LP-PAST TWO. 91S . 91 a 92 14 2a 11 Coisols Dittis, Account ... 1 GU DONCASTER FAIR.-At the Doncaster November fair, 25 held yesterday (Thursday), horses for the army were in great demand, at much better prices than are usually 100 offered. The number in the market, however, was small; 10 they were ncarlyall bought up. Good cart horses realised j 5 as much as 401. each. There was an excellent supply of , large suppl y of sheep beasts ; h e if ers so ld at 11/ . t o 141. each. There was a, 25 which were well sold up, at g ood 25 prices, h ogs fetching a§ much @Ai VA P er /I"di ► LO • 7 -31 SHARE MARKETS. (TIIIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. Paid.' itLWAY?. Closing Prices ycstcriay. Businogs done I 50 this day. 20 - 21 4 - 44 s si 11i 101 17 - 18 - 5i 95 - 9 7 59 -.69i 13 - 14 12i -- 131 - - 2 ti G 1 - 74 15 - 16 11i - 111 32 - 34 22 - 21 69 - 71 53 - 55 20, 3 / 4 -: 224 89 - 90 74 - 76 124 - 126 89 - 91 691 701 G 8 - 70 7$ - 82 -10 p 8 - 10 714 75 - 7i 8 i 104 105 98 99 1 1-d— par t d par 1 (I 791- 1)01 10t 911' I 9 d 22 - 23 67i GBl 39 - 41 dj loi 2 - 3$ 3 A 33i ... 33 ••• 1$ 6 3 / 4 75 76 6i 6'l 3$ Std 134 14 52 53 55 P 4€ l P 4$ 6:4 7 id—ip, 31 - 33 92 - 94 60 - 62 7i - 8} 45 - 47 12 - 14 59i - . 31!! I— i d 35 - 37 3 - 3i 18 19 41 - 22- 24 6 - 7 •.• .. 6 - 7 FOREIGN. id-ip sa ..• -.. 6 6 li 10 1— 3 d P Si 31 d 31i 324 3 3ip id— d • 7 6 d 74 64 g 7d 9 7d par ip it> par 4 p 17i 181 i = 1. 14 par P 1 -- 3p ~. dis 4 4i 21 3 par b ..• ••• la —ip 7 - 7 33 7- A 12i -- 13 9 - 10 191 - 20ip 45 47 237 39 Pm 21 Id par 21 lid 7i ••• - ••• ... - pm 4 a 5 6p 1 161 - 17 MO Aberdeen 86 Ambg. Nottng Bost and Eastn. all Belfast & Ballymena. all Birming. Wolvcrh. & Stour Va11ey........ 29 Birkenlid. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct all Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. 19 Do., £2O 30 fllyth &Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45) 100 Bristol and Exeter 100 Caledonian. '215. Caimarthen and Car all C d h i ft u e; . all Cork and Bandon_ all 'Cork, Black, & Pass. 16 Cornwall 14 Crieff Junction 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc all Dundee Perth&Aber deep Junction all Do. New 100 East Anglian .A.ll Eastern Counties 100 Eastern Union, A Stock . ... 100 Do., B. Stock 86 Do., New A ..... „, 100 East Lancashire 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 94 Ediub. and Peebles 100 Edin.Prth &Dundee 1 Forth & Clyde June. 100 Gllasgow &S. Western 100 Great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 100 "Gt. Sth. &West.(lre ) 100 Great Western 100 Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk all Irish South-Eastern. all Lancaster & Carlisle 14' Do., Thirds.. 4 Do. New Thirds 100 Laucash.andYorksh 196 Do., Fifths 111 Wst. Riding Un. all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt all London & Blaekwal 100 Loud. Bright & S.Cst. 100 Loud. and N. Westn. 12 Do. Fifths 1 D0.101.5h.,M&8... ( Do. Eighths 100 London andS. Westn 426 it 0., £5O. 34 0., £4O all Lndudrry& Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.Shef.&Lincln Do.,Man. &Lin. Un 100 Midland 100 Do. Birmng. & Derby all Midld.G.West.(lre.) 226 Do. Half Shares 911 Newcastle & 54 Newmkt.BuryExten. 19 Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd 8 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor 100 Norfolk 36 Northn.CountiesUn. 100 North British alli North Devon, No. 1. all Do., No. 2 all Do. 1 A Deferred all Do., B Guarantee ,l 100 N. Eastern—Berwick 20 Do. do. Extension 13 Do.do. G.N. E. Parch. all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York all North London 86 Do. New £lO 1/ le N.S,:,S.Wstrn.,llamp stead, and City Jn.. 176 North Staffordshire.. all North Western all N. &S. Westrn. June. 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester 100 Oxford, Worcester,& Wolverhampton .... 6 Portsmouth 100 Scottish Central 100 Scottish Midland all ihrowsby. & Ilerefd A all Shropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& paid up at per cen , all 3outh Devon 100 Aonth Eastern all south Wales 15 *. Yrksh. & Riv. Dur 5 Do 8 itaines,Wok &Wok all 'tockton & 163 Stockton & Hartlepl. 100 Taff Vale .. 9 Do. £lO shares. . 100 Do. Pref., No. 1. 21 Chimes Haven Dock and Railway all \ T ale of Neath I all Watcrfl. & Kilkenny I all Watcrford&Limeriek I 18 West Cornwall , 3 West End of London and Crystal Palace all West Loudon 111 s. Wimbledn &Croydon all Antworp&Rottordam 31 Belgian Eastu. June. S Beziers to Graissossac 2s. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Serip ... Central of Italy all Demerara 14 Dijon and Besancon 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, de 10 Ga. Junct. of France 12A `Gd. Tk of Canadal is. all' Do. do all Do. St. Lawrence R.: Atlantic do. all Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 all Do. Comp. 6p. e., do. 10 Gt. Central of France all Gt. Tridian Peninsula 1 Dr. N.vw 5 per cent. all Gt.W stern of Canada Shtir '9 all Do. B I+., payable's7, a )ptiou till '55 all li. d )., '62, p. '56 all 1 do., '76, p. all iDe. do., '73, without i option all Hamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per crnt. 11 Lake Cont. & Basle all Lucca Li Pistoj a 5 p.c. prof 12 Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares all Do. Obligations i 0 Lyons and Geneva 12 Lyons & Mediterrau. 16?, Madras 2 Do. New 31, Maria Antonia all Do. do. New 2 Melbourne Dk. & Ry. all Namur & Liege (with interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Nor ,hern of France all D 0.201. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelines guar. p. c. & red. at 22?,/. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 all Do. 201. 3 p. e (fmy . B. & Ams. Shs ) all NorwegianTrunkPref 14 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen 10 ParisCacn & Cherbrg. all Rouen and llavro 20 Royal Danish 3 Royal Swedish all Sambre and Meuse._ all Do. 5... j p. cent. Pref. 10 Soutbem of France 14 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) all West Flanders all Do 5 per c. Prof 10 Western of France 16 West. of Switzerland all Wiesbaden 20 Zealand JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Australasia British Colonial Bank _ and Loan Company British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China Colonial Commercial of Lond English Scottish and Australian Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia London and County London Joint Stock Loud. & Westminster National Provincial of England Do. New National of Ireland New South Wales Oriental Bank of Corporation Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Austral u. Bkg, k Gold Imp Co , South Australia Union of A.uatralia Do. New all all 2 Vai9U 9; 1411d931.. till 81 - 63 d par 1 Ili -- 2 d 24 - 25 38 - 40 ••• 43 - 45 71. - 73 8 - 9 = St. 50 20 20 St. 10 St. 25 20 20 50 20 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS RAILWAY!. Leasing Compans (Closing Prices yesterday. all I Redford and Blotchley 100 Buckghamsh. ICO Clydesdale Jc. 100 E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. all Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct all Do. New all Glstr.dt Dn. Fr all artlpl. Dk. & Railway all Hull & Selby all Do. Shares. all 10. Shares. all Lou. & Grcenw all Do.Prcference all Lon., Til., &S. 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. [OO Do. 6 per et. all Hanch. Bxtn. and Matlock all Aiddlesbro' & London & N. West. L.&N.W. I,aletion... Gt.Nrthn. Oaldonian. Do ......... Gt. Westo Yk. New. Se ]erw. Do S. Eastern Do Pete & Co. Norfolk.. 1", 8: N. W. & Midld. Stckton Darlingt. Itedear all Aidhl.Bradfel all Northern and Easternsp.c. all Do. 6 per ct. all Do. Fixeds p all Prost. Wyre E. Count !Do! L. &N.W &Ln&Yk Do all Do. A Shares. 100 Roystn.k Hit. 18 Shef.noth.and Gooleg. 5 p.c. 91 S. Staffordsh. all WearValleygr 6 per cent... Gt Northn Lancash Yorksh. .M.MClean Stockt. Et Darlingt D 0......... all I Do 100 Wiltskfr,"orerst 1 ntWestn . 100 Aberdeen 100 Do. No. 2, 7 p. c 30 Myth 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 Guar. 5i per coat all Do. do. Pref. No. 2 all Do. do. Pref. No. 2 all Cork &Banclonsip.c all Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction all EastAnglian (1:310s) 6 per cent all Do. (X 5) 7 per cent 2 Do. (X 7 17s) 7p. c all Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. 1 all Do. No. 2 all Do. New 6 p. c. St. all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent ... all Do. 51., 10 Der cent. all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh all Do. do. 4 per cent... 100 East Lancash.6 p.cts. all East and West York shire June. Fifths all EclinbPrth.&Dundee 4 per cent. 100 Glasgow &S.Western Guar. 5 per cent 1.00 Great Northn. sp. c 100 Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem. 100 Do. 4,!, p. c 84 Gt.N. of Scot. Ist Pref I all Gt. Southn.claVe: tra. (Ireland) Eighths) 7 Do. 4 per c. Pra. St 6 Gt. Westn. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c) 100 Do. con. red. 4# p.c 100 Do. con, red. 4p. c 100 Do. irred. 4p.c. all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh all Do. Chester Bp. o.P.S. all Do. do. 5 p. c. do 100 Do. Birm. Gua. Stk all Do. Ches. Gua. Stk . 1 3 all Do. 010. do all Do. do. do 6 Lan. & York. F. £2Ol 100 Do. 6p. c. Stock I 100 London and Brightca. Guaranteed 5 p. S 100 Do. Prof., sp. c. St. 100 Do. New Guar.6 p. c. 100 Lon.&N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton fi p. ct. 5 London &S. Western Con. Thirds all Londonderry& Color Shares 12 all Londy. & Ennis. Sh 604 60 I 25 all Han., Shef., & Shares, No. 1. all Do. New, £lO 42 Do. £6 all Harypt.& Carl. 4 p all Du. 4i per cent 101 Do 100 Hid. Consol.6 p.c.St 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent 11i Do. Pref. 4,i per cent •10 Norfolk Debenture .. 100 Do. Pref. 4p. c. Stock 100 Do. sp. c. Est 100 Do. 51 per ct pref 100 Do. Way. Val. sp. c 100 North British 100 N. E. Berw, 4 .?.c. P, 5 00. do. do 13 Do. Leech 6 p.c 9 Do. do. Quarters '4B 10 Do. York Fl. & -4. Pur. all North Staffordshire.. 1.03 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh.Xls, 6 p.c. all Scot. Cent. , New Prcf 10 Do. 5 per cent all South DON on De. fixed, 44 per cent all S. Eastern (Readinf Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 44 per cent all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar all S. Wales Gua. 4p. c 16 Do. do. , !.4 p. c ... all Stockton cud Dar lington, 4 per cent 5 Do. do. do. all Stockton and Hartle pool, guar. 5 p. c. till Ist July, 1856, 4 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. 691 170 25 68 St. 20 71 2i 6, 101 982 9t 68 St, St 2 I Si Si 49i St. 32i 10 6, ad I 50 12; 12A 12; St. *St. 8i 10 25 10 6f St. 20 20 20 25 68 - 100 99 - 101 136 - 138 163 51 - 52 25 - 256 13 - 136 23 - 24 111 -11 i 211 - 2i 94 y 5 = 53 - CO 136 = fii 2 lid, 30- 31 93 - 95 PREFERENCE SHARES. 98 - 102 92 - 96 96 - ii 5i - 6i I - lip i - 1 13 -13 i 22 - 24 65 - 71 lla 117 108 - 110 100 - 101 6 -- 6i 98 -- 100 90 -- 92 93 -- 95 10A -- 11 16 -17 A 10 - 10 72 -- 74 181 -19 A 91 -- 9i 14 -- 15 11 id 138 140 ••6 "'"' ... 2i - 3 p ii —11 A i eiP 138 140 1 id - tO 101 - 106 90 - 92 3i - 3i .. --- ••• 1 id 112 - 114 12 14 id par 22i 231 99 101 17 19 2 Id ' MINES. all Agua Fria ..... all Angle Austrin. Go7( 1 all Anglo Californian 6 Nuaralis,n all Australian Corc'' er all Australian Freehold all Ave Maria all Baden (Gd. Duchy all BlEenarvon Iron and Coal 1.3.5 British Iron 5 Brazilianlmp.(issuee at £5 pm all Do. Comes & Cuio.da 15 Do. St. John Del Rey I Carsons's Creek Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica • all Cobre Copper 1 Colonial Gold all Copper Min. of Eng. all Do. Pref. 7i p. cent. 16 Copiapo . all English and Austin. Copper Smeltg Goo Fortuna all General all Gt. NuggetVeinlteg. 4 Great Polgooth all Liberty all Linares. all Nfariquita. ........ ...••. 9 Mexican&S.Americu all Now Granada all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co , all Nouveau Mondo all Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. & Smelt • 1 Port Philip all Quartz Rock all Ithymney Iron all Do. New 11 Santiago do Cuba all South A.ustralian 7A Tin Croft ....... all United Mexican all Waller all West Mariposa 12s. Worthing Mining o, Australia all Yuba MIS all Aubin Coal and Iron) 17a Australian A gricult. 6 A.ustralsn.Peific.Mail all Australis. Royal Mail N Berlin Water Works 40 Brit. American Land 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co.. 32i Canada WO Canada Gov. 6 p. et Jan. and July all Crystal Palace all Crystal Pal. of France 5 Eastern Steam 21 ElectricTelegraph(A) all Electric Teleg. of Ir. 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. all General Screw Steam ' 10 Irish Beetroot Sugai 10 Magdalena St. Navig all laditeran. Elec. Tel all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 5 Netherlands Land—. 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter Steam Navigat. Co. all N. B. Australa:.:an... 121 Nrth. of EuropeS all Peel Rr. Ld. & Peninsular Oriental 45 Do. Do. all Portland Iron Co.._ 60 Royal Mail Steam all .cot. Austral. Invest. all South Austral. Land all Submar. Telegraph.. 8.11 Do. Registered Aig TAU Pe_l49D'S i - li • •• ••• ••• I 1 - $ 1 - 1 - i i" --: i 6h - 71 2} - 2t 14 -1i 30 - 82 i - i 46 - 46 60 - 65 2 - 4p 15 - 17 11 - 11 - i - i *i - .4 a A 61 71 i - A 15i -- 16 23 -- 25 6 - 3 11 - li 1 - 3 21 - 31 1 -- 1 IA - iO ii = *a i'i 7- - - 165 .10 - 111 21 - 3 is--i 7 i - 14 - ii- -- -- -- i ' i ••• •..p 2 - 1i - 2 35 - 37 - 1 - 01 Business this day. 20 10 594 St 11i I li 80 79 43 72 1h i pm 100 i MARKET NEWB-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The supply of English wheat received fresh up to our market to-day was limited, and the show of samples was small. The demand for all kinds, however, was in a very sluggish state, at almost nominal quotations. We were but moderately supplied with foreign wheat, iu which only a limited business was transacted, at Monday's currency. Scarcely any floating cargoes were offering. There was very little inquiry for barley at barely pre vious rates. In the value of malt no change took place. The arrivals of Irish oats being very extensive—upwards of 26,000 quarters—the oat trade ruled heavy, and prices were 6d. per quarter lower. Beans and peas met a very slow sale, on former terms. In the value of flour no change took place. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Barley. Malt. 3,740 4,030 I 560 1,43) 1:::0 Wheat. 2,110 English .. Irish .... Foreign .. Oats. t Flour. 1,13') 1,360 26,380 5,463 450scts. 43,0 brls. SMITHFIELD. Te-day's market was but moderately supplied with beasts. Although the demand for all kinds ruled inactive, Monday's prices wore well supported. The numbers of sheep were limited, yet the mutton trade was in a sluggish state, at unaltered currencies. Calves, the supply of which was small, sold readily, at full quotations. The top figure was 5s 2d per 81bs. We had a slow sale for pigs, yet prices were supported. Mulch cows, with their sina' each LI calf, sold at from 14/. to 191. Per Sibs to sli s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 6 Second quality.... 3 8 4 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4 8 5 0 Inferior Sheep ...3 4 3 6 Second quality ...3 8 3 10, Prime crse.-wlled.4 0 4 6 tk ths offals. s. d. s d. IPrimeSonthdown 4 8 5 0 Large crse. calves 310 4 6 Prime small d 0... 4 8 5 2 Large hogs 3 4 4 4 Small porkers 4 0 5 0 1 8,licklingcalves ..22 0 29 0 quarter old pigs 21 0 28 0 TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts .. •••• . . • • •• • • 1,072 Sheep •••••..•• • • .. • • •• 4,001 Calves .•••..••.. • • • • • • .. 310 Pigs ••••••a••• • • • • • • • • • • 396 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts •• •••• •• . • 400 Sheep ..•. •• •• . 6'42 Calves,..... •• •• 200 Pigs...• •••••• NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The general demand was in a sluggish state, at our quo tations. Per Sibs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. Beef, interior 3 2 3 4 Do., middling 3 6 3 S Do., prime largo 3 10 4 2 Do., do. small. 4 4 4 6 Pork, large 3 4 4 2 s. d. s. d. Mutton, Inferior 3 4 3 $ Do., middling 310 4 4 Do., prime 4 8 4 8 Veal 3 10 4 10 Pork, small 4 4 5 2 BOROUGH HOP. The demand for English hops is steady, at fully last week's pricos. Foreign qualities are slew in sale. The imports aro again extensive, viz., 22 bales from Havre, 291 from. Ostend, 1,119 from Hamburg, 802 from Antwerp, 18 from Calais, 169 from Rotterdam, and 41 from Ghent. Mid and East Kent pockets 151 106 to 211 Os ; Weald of Kent ditto, 15/ Os to 16110 s ; Susses ditto, 14/ 14s to 15! 15s per cwt. COLONIAL. SUGA.ll.—British plantation has been firm but quiet this week. Barbadoes sold at 33s to 37s 6d and at 31s to 31s 6d for low. Demerara crystalised went at 37s Gd to 40s, being full rates. East India—Mauritius has realised 29s to 30s. Bengal good brought 41s to 41s Gd per cwt. Foreign Havannah has found buyers at 37s to 39s for washed, at 33s 6d. to 37s for mid to good bright yellow, at 31s to 32s for brown, at 29s to 32s Gd for low to fine ditto, at 40s to 42s Gd for washed white, and at 37s to 38s for florettes. Porto Rico low to good brown sold at 29s Gd to 31s Gd, low to good grey at 31s to 35s 6d, low to good grocery at 321 to 37's, and fine at 37s 6d. to 39s per cwt. Caba low and very low soft pasty brown went at 28s to 28s 6d, Java at 28s 6d to 32s 8d for law to good brown, and at 33s 6d to 35s for low to good yellow. Brazil was taken in at 27. 61 to 30s for low tolood brown, and at 31s to 35s 61 for low to good yellow. Refined brown lumps have been quiet at 43s per cwt. COFFER. —Plantation Ceylon has been very little offered. At auction fine ord brownish brought 52s to 55s Gd, low mid to good mid colory 52s to 55s 6d, small 40s to 545, pea berry 58s to 695 Gd and triage 40s to Ms. Bahia has been taken in at 42s to 44s for good ord mixed. Jamaica sold at 46s to 49s 6d for good to fine ord pale, at 50s to as 6:1 for fine ord aid mid colory, at 52s to s for low mid colory, at 62s for good, at 77s for fine, aid at 31s Gd to 45s for triage. RAILWAY IN?ELLIQENCE. NAMUR AND LIEGE AND MONS AND MANAGE RAILWAYS. Yesterday a special general meeting of the proprietors was held at the London Tavern, Mr. Cary in the chair, for the following purposes :-1. To consider a conven tion provisionally entered into with the Great Northern Railway Company of France for leasing the Namur and Liege line. 2. To confirm the nomination of three di rectors to be resident in Belgium. 3. To fix the annual remuneration of the board of directors. The CHAIRMAN, after expressing his regret at the un avoidable absence of the chairman of the board, said it would be in the recollection of the proprietors that the last meeting was called partly for the purpose of amending the statutes. It was not till the 29th of October that the king signed the convention, and they now met for the first time under the amended sta. Wee. At the last meeting there was a long discussion with regard to the sum of two pounds per share due to a great many proprietors in respect of back interest on original shares. Since that time the directors had been to Paris for the purpose of inducing the Northern of France Railway Company to consent to make some alteration with regard to the rolling stock, which would enable them to meet the claim ; but he regretted to say that they failed. The financial condition of the conti nent had much changed since the convention was en tered into, and the directors of the other contracting company said it was immaterial to them whether it was carried out or not. As regarded the confirmation of the convention a copy of which had been sent to all the proprietors, he must observe, that on the Ist day of January next they would have to pay nearly 800,0001. ; and if payment were not made on that day, they would be placed in the dilemma of being at the mercy of the Banque Liegeoise on the one side, and of the Northern t o h f e F n r i a r n en ce m ß st a a i n l n w e a s y n C f o t m h p e a n n a y se r ho th t e ha o u th g e h r t . it U d n es d i e r r ab a l l e l that the convention should be confirmed at that meet ing. They had no ether means of meeting the deben tures. The convention was taken as read. In reply to a question, The CHAIRMAN said the sum of the convention was that they leased the Namur and Liege line for the whole term of the concession, for an annual rental of 40,0001. All but 12,000 of the debentures, which were for 121. each, had been already taken. He then moved a resolution confirming the convention. Mr. HARRISON seconded the resolution, and expressed his belief that it was the best bargain for the company that could be made under the circumstances. Mr. BARROW said, as a shareholder of many years standing, he felt great disappointment at the present state of affairs, and thought that a much better arrange ment might have been made if a different course had been pursued. The board ought to have submitted their difficulties to a general meeting of the shareholders, and should not have left everything till the middle of No vember, when they had no option but to accept the con vention nelens rolens. Assuming that the lease would be sanctioned, he hoped the dire ctors would make the best of a bad bargain by curtailing the expenses as much as possible in every department, in order that the share holders might at least receive the small pittance of 21 per cent., which they certainly could not do unless there were the strictest economy. (Hear.) The CHAIRMAN reminded the meeting that the con vention had been explained and discussed at a special meeting held last month. As to the expenses, it would be absurd to suppose that they would be as much for a line of twenty-one miles as they had been for sixty or seventy miles. The business of the company would in future be conducted in Belgium, and the name of Mr. Der "nceau, who would be a resident director in Bel gium, was a guar a ntee for the strictest economy. In reply to a question, The CHAIRMAN said the accounts showed that if the receipts of the Mons and Manage line went on at the prevent rate, there would be a net profit of 25,0001. a year. Out of that sum 12,0001. would have to be paid to the preference shareholders, and the remaining 1 3,0001., or about 21 per cent., would be divisible among the original shareholders. It was calculated that one or two thousand pounds would be added to the 25,0001. in the succeeding year. After some discussion, the resolution was put and carried. The CHAIRMAN explained that under the amended statutes there would be only four English directors, the remaining three directors would be Belgians, resi dent in Belgium. He then moved the nomination by the board of the three following directors to be resident in Belgium be confirmed ; Messrs. Jean Henri Demon . ceau, liyaciethe Richard Lamarche, and Alexander Poppe, Mr. PARRY seconded the motion. The CHAIRMAN, in reply to questions, said that the Belgian directors would form a committee of management, and that board meetings, at which the English directors would be present, would be held in Belgium to consider what had been done. Mr. BARROW urged upon the directors the desirable ness of holding meetings of the shareholders in future half -yearly. The CHAIRMAN intimated that the board had no objec tion to such an arrangement. Mr. WALEY thought it desirable that something defi nite should be stated from the chair with regard to the payment of the back interest due to the old shareholders. The CHAIRMAN said that subject had occupied much of the time of the board. They had endeavoured by every possible means to provide for the payment of 2/. ; but he was no t i n a pos i t i on to say that that sum would be paid. Th e di rec t ors saw the i r way, he thought, to anaytinm7ooetnoi fl., wwlha/si. which hn thens or ma b gw e r f ea o es r d e t ott to. 15th of April next. The annual remun era ti on of the i b nn o l a u r d d e of tr d a i v re al c r t i o n r g s was and t a fil l x l eTe o dph ther expenses. The meeting then separated. TAFF BARGOED. A line of railway is in contemplation, and thelict will be applied for next session for making a railway from the hamlet of Fforest (Glamorganshire) to Yuis Bargoed, whence two diverging lines will be rnade—one to Glvn Cynnon by a junction with the Llanealch branch of the Taff Vale Railway, and the other to terminute at Cefu by a junction With the Saute branch. REINFORCEMENTS FOR THE CRIMEA. Major Kelly, commanding the depot of the 34th Re giment in Plymouth Citadel, received orders yesterday afternoon to pick out 209 men, and hold himself in rea diness to take the route to the Black Sea. The depot consists of 350 men. 280 rank and file of the 38th depot, that had been stationed at Deal, left that place by early train yesterday morning, and proceeded to Southampton to embark for the Crimea. ROYAL ARTILLERY. A report is in circulation in Woolwich garrison that eleven additional companies will be on the way or have arrived at the seat of war before Christmas. Captain Broughton's company, 2d battalion, marched from the garrison at Woolwich yesterday, about three o'clock, p.m., headed by the band and drums and flutes of the regiment, to Roff's Wharf, where they crossed the river to the Essex side, and proceeded by the North Woolwich Railway to Euston-square, and thence by rail way to Liverpool, to embark at that port in the Europa, under orders to proceed at ones to Balaklava, the pre vious order to remain at Malta in the first instance having been countermanded. Captain Broughton's com pany has been sent out 150 strong, including all ranks. Captain Grayden's company, Ist battalion, expects to leave Woolwich about Monday next for Balaklava, and Captain Gibbons's 9-pounder field battery at Norwich, and Captain Smyth's 9-pounder field battery at Ipswich, with two other companies, are all expected to embark before the end of the present month for service in the Crimea. We understand the 10th Hussars, from India, will be immediately hastened on to the Crimea. This will bring seven effective troops, of eighty men each, equipped and horsed, on the scene of action. THE CAVALRY. The reinforcements which have been spoken of as about to be sent to our cavalry division in the Crimea, are not likely, as now appears, to leave England just at present. It is considered doubtful whether Lord Lucan could at this time muster 1,000 sabres, although his division nomikally consists of ten regiments. But we have at home, besides the household troops, four regiments of heavy and five of light dragoons, namely, the King's Dragoon Guards, Queen's Bays, and 3rd and 7th Dra. goon Guards, the 7th and 15th Hussars, the 3d Light Dragoons, the Carabineers, and the 16th Lancers. The difficsulty of finding transport accommodation is assigned as the reason for the delay which is to take place. The reinforcement is not to be effected by the despatch of regiments, but of draughts to be assigned to regiments in the Crimea most resembling those from which they are taken; dragoons to dragoons, lancers to lancers, and so on, until the regiments in the Crimea are raised to the war standard. With the exception of the King's Dragoon Guards, our cavalry regiments of the line consist of six troops of 45 men each, the regimental staff and officers making up the entire number to something over 300. Each cavalry regiment in the Crimea will, it is said, be made up to eight troops of 75 men each, or 600 in the whole, besides the regimental staff. AUGMENTATION OF THE FRENCH ARMY. A sixth company of the third battalion is to be immediately added to one hundred regiments of the line. A decree to this effect appeared in yesterday morning's lel oniter GALE OF WIND IN THE NORTH SEA. SHIELDS, Wednesday Night.—This morning a fearful gale of wind from the S.E. and E.S.E. broke upon this coast, and caused a tremendous sea outside. It came on with great violence and about 5 o'clock is the morn ing, but fortunately a fleet of at least 150 vessels from London and various ports of the north of Europe arrived safe in the harbour before that time. As the tide rose, however, another considerable fleet of vessels appeared in the offing, including several light ships, which would have gone into Seaham and Sunderland, but for the sad- den storm, and they all made a dash for the harbour. It was a beautiful sight to witness them rushing one after the other across the bar, and then, after a struggle, reach within the narrows in safety. The Pilot steam boat ran out to sea when the gale came on, with a number of pilots, and they were of great service in bringing strange vessels through the dangerous passage to Shields harbour. A considerable number of vessels had come in from see.,asi had passed through the crowded harbour without damage, when, aboutlo o'clock in the forenoon, as three schooners were entering the estuary of the Tyne, they all ran upon a reef of rocks on the north side, known as the Battery Rocks, and the sea made a complete breach over them. The Shields pilots launched their splendid lifeboats, which were soon manned with willing volunteers, and they were pulled down to the assistance of the seamen on board the schooners, who by this time had taken to the rigging. The sea, however, was breaking with such tremendous violence on the rocks, and over the stranded ships, that the boats could not approach them ; Manby's apparatus was sent from the Spanish Battery, and an attempt was made to fire rockets with a line to the ves sels. After several ineffectual attempts, a line was car ried on board of the innermost ship, and a stout warp with a cradle sent from the shore, aid some scores of seamen and boatmen plunged up to their middle in the Neater to assist in bringing the shipwrecked to land. It was an affair of some difficulty, however. The poor fellows on board the innermost schooner appeared to be so benumbed with cold, that for some time it was thought that they would be unable to take advantage of the assistance sent to them, and great anxiety was felt lest the vessels should go to pieces and drown them before they got to land, as the schooners appeared to be much twisted and knocked about by th e the sea, which leaped in fearful waves over their masts. However, after some little time two men got into the cradles, and, after a perilous passage from the vessel to the shore, being plunged into the sea and then lifted into the air, as the vessel tightened or slackened the warp, they were landed in safety. A sailor was ready with a bottle of spirits, and, after administering a dram to each as they were landed, the shipwrecked mariners were led to the Bath Hotel, or Mr. Carr's Tavern, at the Lew Lights, where dry clothing and comfortable refreshments were provided for them by the Shipwrecked Mariners' Society. The crews of the two innermost vessels, the Lively, of Lynn, laden with corn from that port to Sunderland, and the Napoleon 111., a Prussian brig in ballast from London, were thus safely landed in about two hours after the vessels ran on the rocks ; but the Kate Robertson, an American built schooner belonging to this pert, coal laden, which was putting back, having left the port on the previous day, lay fur ther out in the sea. Her erew made several attempts to float a cork fender across with a line, and the people ashore tried to make a communication with her from the shore by Manby's apparatus, but failed. At last, after three or four shots had been fired, a line was thrown over the vessel, and at about a quarter past 2 in the afternoon the last of her crew was landed, though in a very exhausted condition. The tide was falling while these operations were going forward, otherwise there seemed little prospect of saving the poor fellows. If the vessels had been stranded on a flood tide there would have been but slight chance of saving the crews. The vessels will become wrecks. Several ships got into the harbour after these vessels ran on to the rocks, and some light brigs have been observed to run by the bar to Leith Roads. The wea ther has somewhat moderated this evening, though the sea is still breaking with considerable violence outside. The Tyne is crowded with shipping, light and laden. TTNEYOUTII, Thursday (Noon).—There seems no pros pect of saving the three schooners ashore here ; one, the coal-laden schooner, has broken up. The sea is mode rating a little. SUNDERLAND, Thursday Afternoon.—The gale of yes terday has been much more severe here than at the mouth of the Tyne. Fifteen sail of ships are ashore between Roker and Whitburn Steele, north of the har bour, and nine or tea sail are aground unen the Potato Garth, inside the piers. It appears that, between 3 and 4 o'clock yesterday morning, the sea off Sunderland was illuminated with the lights of vessels running for the coal ports, and that about 100 sail made for the Wear ; but, as the gale came on and the wind got more to the eastward, about 50 of them ran for the Tyne, which they reached in safety. The other 50 sail, as the tide began to make, made for this port, and, as the sea had the' risen, many of them in taking the har bour ran with great violence against the north pier, sustaining considerable damage, and, as several vessels get athwart of each other inside, there was a serious lose of spars and bowsprits. All of the 60 vessels did not take the bar so well ; the 15 sail kept too far to the northward, and were stranded in Whitburn Bay. They ran ashore during the fore noon ; but fortunately the tide began to eleb about noon, and there was not much danger to the crews. The life boats were launched about 9 o'clock on the North Sands, and were manned with crews of pilots, sailors, and landsmen. Mr. Hodgson, a carver and gilder, a young man of great c oura g e, had the stroke oar of leading boat, and they first took off the crew of a little schooner, which went to pieces half au hour afterwards, and then made out to a large bark, the Calypso, of London, which was lying with both top masts carried away. They brought the men from off this vessel, and two other ships' companies were saved by Manby's apparatus. The other crews came ashore as the tide receded in the afternoon. The names of the vessels ashore cuticle are, the John Wesley, of Arundel ; the Coldstream, of Sunderland ; the Isabella, of Torquay ; the Belmont, of Sunderland ; the Jean Armide, a French lugger ; the Star, Conqueror, Auckland, and Independent, of Sunderland ; the Equiva lent, and four small schooners, w hose names have not b e en given. The stra nded vessels are in a good posi tion, and, as the weather has considerably moderated, it is anticipated most of them will be got off without any very serious damage. No lives have been lost. The vessels aground inside the harbour have net sustained =etch damage. AU,TRIA AND PRUSSIA The accounts given in the German journals of the neg ,tiations betw( en the Austrian and Prussian Go verninc-nts on the Eastern question are noticed at considerable length by two of our Paris contemporaries. It is difficult to arrive at anything like a positive con clusion from the contradictory statements that are made, but the balance of accounts seems to warrant a belief that if concessions have been made by either party, it is rather Austria than Prussia that has given way. Some of the German journals state, indeed, that if Austria has yielded something to Prussia it is because the latter power has declared that at her intercession Russia has offered to accept the four points of guaran tees laid down by the Western Powers as a sine qua 55071, of any negotiations fur peace. Others declare, and probably with some truth, that the utmost that the Russian Government has offered is to make the four points the object of negotiation, and not to accept them as a basis. (From, the Pays.) The German journals now announce w i t h more unanimity than ever the complete understanding come to between Austria and Prussia. The following is the way in which matters stand. It is known that, on the 22d October, Austria addressed to Prussia a categorical note, in which she mai n t a i ne d h er r i ght of isolated policy with regard to Russia, while expressing a desire for a common action of the two German powers in the deliberations of the Diet. The resolute tone of this noto, coinciding with the victorious progress of the Allies, ap pears to have made some impression on the Cabinet of Berlin, for its reply, which is dated the 31st ult., con tains, according to the Wnrtemburg Moniteur, specious conditions, which that journal sums up as follows :—"ln the first place, Prussia completely accedes to the four points of guarantee, butin the second place she adds as a condition that Austria shall not go beyond these four points, what ever may be the issue of the war. In the third place, mention is made of a proposition to be made in common to the Diet by Austria and Prussia, inviting the Confe deration to accede to the four points. The Germanic Confederation, Austria and Prussia, will then declare to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg that the acceptance of these bases is necessary for the re-establishment of a firm and durable peace in Europe. In the fourth place, the Con federation and Prussia will promise to assist Austria not only in case she should be attacked in her own territory, but also if such should take place in the principalities. In the fifth place, it speaks of the preparatory arrange ments to be made by the military commission of the Diet, in order to give proper force and efficacy to these resolutions." It will be seen that this reply is conceived with the object of uniting Austria and Germany to the Prussian policy. Clause 2 will suffice in ease of need to render the acceptance of it difficult. That clause states in fact as a condition the maintenance of the extreme limit of the four guarantees. Now Austria, following the exi gencies of the West, or we might rather say the law of events, has for a long time past gone beyond that limit. Her close alliance with France and England, although without the sanction of a special treaty, is written in all her protocols and all her acts. It may be remem bered with what eagerness the young Emperor congratu lated the two Governments on their first success in the Crimea, and the same eagerness was shown at Vienna to transmit to Paris a despatch confirmative of the battle of the sth inst. There is evidently between the three Cabi nets an identity of principles and of views which must sooner or later lead to a unity of action against the common enemy, r.nd for this reason it appears to us difficult for Austria to connect herself absolutely with Prussia within the circle of the four guarantees. But for this second clause the new protocol of Prussia would re alise an evident progress. The fact of an identical im pulse with regard to the Diet would determine the unanimous adhesion of the Confederation to the basis of the four guarantees. The whole of Germany in this im perious dilemma would rise up before the Czar, and de mand either the abandonment of his political and re ligious pretensions on the East er war. Thus laid down, the problem of the future would no longer appear doubtful. Even Prussia would find herself one day compelled by Muscovite obitinacv . to leave to the logic of events the care of determining tle definitive bases of future peace. The illusion, in fact, which is still cherished at Berlin, but which will be soon dispelled, is that the Czar wishes for peace, and that he is disposed to make concessions. This illusion has hitherto resisted the most convincing contrary proofs. It clings to family relations, which are skillfully worked on by Russian diplomacy. It has dictated innumerable attempts at mediation, and particularly the Prussian despatch of the 23d ult., which demanded from the Czar the adop tion of the four guarantees. These attempts have been unfortunate. Russia has always replied by evasive phrases or by lying promises, and she has not the less continued her military movements and her public acts of aggression. Will the despatch of the 23d ult. meet with a better reception ? It is thought perhaps at Ber lin, and several German journals have already pro claimed it, that Russia is ready to negotiate on the four bases. We must, however, be permitted to think that this is also a deceitful illusion, and that there may be in this apparent concession of Russia only a manoeuvre to sow the seeds of disunion between Austria and the Western Powers. (Front the Debats.) The Cabinets of Paris and London made known in their notes of the Bth August the four guarantees which they consider as indispensable for the re-establishment of good relations between Russia and Turkey ; without, it is true, prejudice to, and under the express reserve of, the special conditions under which each of them may wake peace with Russia. The Cabinet of Vienna made known these general conditions of guarantee to the Ca binet of St. Petersburg, and invited it to accept them, because a frank acceptance was the only chance which remained of coming to a general understanding. On its part, the Cabinet of Berlin associated itself to a certain extent with the proceedings of the Cabinet of Vienna. Austria now demands that the Germanic Diet shall completely adopt the four points, but Prussia op poses it. The Cabinet of Vienna does not believe itself sufficiently guaranteed against the enterprises of Russia —it foresees that it may find itself under the necessity of taking au active part in the war, if, for example, the armies of Russia should again penetrate into the Princi palities, or if they should not respect its territory. Be sides, Austria needs the re-establishment of peace, for the existing war imposes on her sacrifices which she cannot indefinitely support. Austria means, therefore, to remain at liberty to make war on Russia, if she thinks that her interests, which are those of Germany, prescribe it to her, and she demands that the war shall be sup ported by all Germany; and she demands, also, that the Diet shall at once acfnait that the situution is full of un, certainty, and that the eventualities foreseen may be rea lised. She demands, likewise, that in case the Diet shall decide on making war on Russia, it shall declare in ad vance that the war shall be common to Germany, and that she in any case shall be obliged to defend Austria. Prussia opposes this : in her opinion the war would not have any interest for Germany unless Russia were to invade the Principalities, or to take the initiative of an attack on Austria and on the territory of Austria ; if, en the contrary, Austria were to commence hostilities, Ger many, she thinks, ought not to intervene in the war. It has therefore been admitted, in the conferences at Berlin, that the discussion may be reduced to these two points :—ls the Germanic Diet to adopt the four con ditions of guarantee in such a way that they may be proposed to Russia, in the na►ee of Germany, as the bases of future negotiations ? Or, is the Diet to under- take to give its co-operation and support to Austria in all the cases under which war may break out between that Power and Russia, or to restrict her engagement to the sole case of war being excited by the enterprises of Russia in the Principalities, or even in the territory of Austria ? We believe that on the first point the Cabinet of Berlin has consented to the wishes ofAustria, provided the Cabinet of Vienna will consent to take the engagement of abstaining from any attack on Russia. Thus the four conditions of guarantee would be admitted by Prussia with the same signification as Austria has given them, the same effects and the same consequences ; and war would consequently not be possible between Russia on the one hand, Austria, Prussia, and Germany on the other, unless Russia were to excite it in the Principalities or on any point whatsoever of the Austrian territory. We believe that M. de Pfordten went from Berlin to Vienna with the mission of pro posing to the Austrian Government this result of the Conferences at Berlin, in order that, if accepted at Vienna, it may be made at an early period the object of a common communication to the Diet, which would be convoked to receive and deliberate on it. But will the Cabinet of Vienna accept these overtures ? will it consent to take the engagement demanded of it ? Some days ago this was more doubted in Q-ermany than believed in ; these who doubted relied on the reiterated decla rations of M. de Buol. It is true that those declara tions are very formal, and that M. Buol has eagerly seized every opportunity of renewing them, adding each time to the energy of his expressions. They rely also on the policy which Austria has followed towards Russia during the last four months ; a policy of neutrality in appearauce, but in reality very active, since it has con strained Russia to evacuate the Principalities, and to summon her armies behind the Pruth. Those on the contrary who anticipate the consent of Austria remark that her language is no longer the same, and that this change cannot be explained, except by the desire of pre ventingthe scission with which the persistance of Prussia menaces Germany. During the last few days this latter t opinion is i n p rogress t o j u dg e f ro m the newspapers ; but _ we have not y e t r eceived any direct information on the last resolution of the Court of Tienne. THE CZAR AND THE "FOUR POINTS.' ( From Galignani's Messenger.) Our readers will remember that when France and England brought forward the four points, they declared that they would not enter into any negotiations for peace, unless these points should be fully accepted be forehand, and that they reserved to themselves the right of adding new conditions according to the circum stances of the war. Whether events have been such as to place the allies in a position tthoatdemill fur therloac think that want a and large con cessions from Russi a may be a matter of opinion. There are m any persons wb o f foresight advantages, and caused haswouldtatheci ofm many yprecinus be prudent to make peace now, if Russia fully and unreservedly the four points.would, accept others, and they are far the more nu There are that, although much more mioitt havens, who think proper energy displayed at a r been done with per foresight, so as to keep proper time and with pro number of the Allied army the )3 , reinforcements the as to be numerically equal to Crimea in such a way ouperior in discipline, the Russians, as well as i COure, gel and skill. The power of the Allies has been already sufficiently shown to warrant their demanding much more than the four points ; and whatever difference there may be as to what has been done, there is none as to the means of the Allies to obtain brilliant and important result in another campaign.' There is nothing, however, as yet, of an authentic character to raise a question as to whether it would be prudent to demand only the feur points. The Emperor of Russia may have consented, with the view of giving an appear ance of satisfaction to Austria and with the hope of de taching her from the Western Powers, to make the four points the object of negotiation ; for this he would lose noting and would gain time. The neutrality of Ger many serves his purpose, and he will spare nothing in diplomacy to prolong it. Even the occupation of the principalities by Austria, which was at one time regarded as a grand point gained by the Western Powers, has turned to his advantage. It has enabled him to send large reinforcements to Sebastopol still leaving in Bessarabia a sufficient force to resist any attacks of the Turks, who have remained idle, when, by sending a large force to the Crimea, they might have hastened the fall of Sebastopol. It is impossible to es timate the advantage which the Czar has thus obtained. What was Bessarabia in comparison to Sebastopol ! Victorious in the Crimea, the loss of Bessarabia would have been scarcely felt, and its recapture would have been the work of a single campaign; for, however brave the Turks may be in defending fortresses, they cannot resist superior masses in the open field. It is not surprising that the Emperor of Russia should continue tot It e h n o a l b d l e o s u ht im e t s o t o c prolong he r a t te all his neutrality av ai a o bfforceGermany. in the Crimea, and he thinks probably, as many persons are forced to think, that the failure of the allies before Se bastopol would not be considered by the German Powers as a cause for mourning, as it would in their opinion afford them a plausible pretext for maintaining their neutrailty, and for urging the Western Powers to consent to a peace which would at the same time prevent them from making sacrifices for war, and procure for Russia snore favourable conditions of peace. THE PATRIOTIC FUND. CITY OP WESTMINSTER.— A meeting, convened by the High Bailiff ofyTeWshteeesedtcmhainster, in aid of the Patriotic a u i fund, d , took ong .a c place r e. ayirafwtearns taken oenat by the t M be artn ig 's h . Bailiff at two o'clock, at N% hich hour, although there were a considerable number of ladies in the galleries, very few persons occupied the body of the hall. On taking the chair the High Bailiff announced that, in consequence of the unfavourable state of the weather, and the receipt of letters from several noblemen expres sing regret at their inability to attend that day, the gen. tlemen assembled in the committee-room —amongst whom were the Earl of Aberdeen and the Bishop of London— had suggested the propriety of adjourning the meeting for a fortnight ; and it would be adjourned accordingly. One of the hon. members for Westminster (Sir John Shelley) was then present on the platform, but their other hon. and gallant member (Sir De Lacy Evans) was, as they knew, well employed at the head of one of the divisions of the British army in the Crimea—a posi tion in which he had highly distinguished himself. The meeting then adjourned. WAREHOUSEMEN AND CLERKS.—We learn by an ad. vertisement that on Monday evening the Lord Mayor will preside at a meeting of warehousemen and mercan tile clerks, to be held at the London Tavern, for the purpose of promoting the Patriotic Fund. We feel assured that the meeting will be successful, and that a good working cbmmittee will be appointed. CLAPHA.M.—A public] meeting was held in the Boys Parochial School-room, Clapham-common, on Wednes• day last, the,lith inst., Thomas Puckle, Esq., chairman of the Surrey quarter sessions held at Newington, in the chair, when, after a most feeling address by the chairman, it was resolved, " That the meeting heartily concurs with the designs of her Majesty's commission, and gladly embraces the opportunity it offers of testify. ing their loyalty and love to her person and throne, by cheerfully responding to the benevolent object it has in view ; and under a deep feeling of sympathy for the widows and orphans of these gallant men who have sacrificed their lives in the present war in the East, resolved, that a subscription be immediately opened, and a house-to-house collection made in the parish of Clapham in aid of the Patriotic Fund." SCOTLAND. —The Edinburgh subscription has now reached nearly 7,000/. ; that of Glasgow in less than a week was close on 16,0001. The inhabitants of Porto hello have sent 2021. to the treasurer of the Edinburgh fund. The Patriotic Fund list in Greenock commences with 1,2001,, including the vote of 1001. by the Corpo ration, the subscriptions of a few of the leading mercan tile firms, and some other gentlemen. A large meeting was held in Dundee on Monday. Provost Rough pre sided, and speeches were made by Lord Panmure, Vie coant Duncan, M.P., Mr. Duncan, M.P., &c. Lord Panmure, in the course of his speech, said :—However proud some may be of glory, I beg to say that I approve of the efforts made by her Majesty's Government up to the eleventh hour to preserve peace, even in the face of invectives from many of their friends ; and I further ap prove of the manner in which the war has been conducted since it has pleased Providence to suffer it 40 burst over our heads. We are carrying it on with resources far superior to those which our senators had any idea of when they cried down our naval and military establish ments as unfit for the exigencies of the country ; and we are carrying it on in such circumstances as, under Pro- vidence, shall not compel us to conclude a hollow peace. No one is more averse to war than I am—l join most , earnestly in the prayer " Scatter those that delight in war ;" but I say that, for the honour of our cnuntry and 0 for the stability and maintenance of the liberty of the world, we cannot have a patched-up peace—we cannot have a peace which would leave us as if Europe were slumbering like a volcano. That would be no peace at all, and I trust the war will be prosecuted until such a peace is obtained as will be alike lasting and honourable. IRELAND. DUBLIN, THURSDAY MORNING. ARRIVAL OF THE LORD-LIEUTENANT.—HiS Excellency the Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess of St. Germans, accompanied by Major Ponsonby, private secretary, ar rived in Kingstown Ffarbonr shortly before two o'clock yesterday, on board the Prince Arthur steamer. The Earl of Howth, aide-tle-canap in waiting, went on board, and congratulated their Excellencies on their arrival. On landing they wore received in the most cordial man ner by those congregated on the pier. Immediately on landing the viceregal party were welcomed by Mr. George Roe, who was received by his Excellency in the most cordial manner. The noble earl and his countess appeared in excellent spirits. The railway company, with their usual promptness, had a special engine in readiness, and in a few seconds the viceregal party stepped into the carriage provided for theta, and, ac companied by Mr. Roe and a few others, were whirled at a rapid rate to Dublin. THE PATRIOTIC FUND.—The following letter from Mr. Bernal Osborne, M.P., was read at a meeting held in Clonmel on Monday, for the purpose of forwarding the Patriotic Fund : " Newtown Abbey, Nov. 11. 1854. "My dear Sir,—l bcg to enclose you Lady Osborne's_ and my own contribution to the Patriotic Fund in this district, of which you have been appointed treasurer, viz.: —Twenty pounds from myself and five pounds from Lady Osborne. I should have sent you a larger contribution had I not been called on to subscribe to the fund now forming in England.—l am, dear sir, very faithfully yours, "RALPH OSBOENZ. " Wilson Kennedy, Esq., Clonmel." ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY'S AGRICULTURAL SHOW.— The annual show of farm produce ' promoted by the Royal Dublin Society, was opened yesterday for the inspection of the judges only, but will be opened to the public on Friday. The skow is unusually large, and the various specimens of produce are of the most splendid growth and description. GREAT LEINSTER FAIR AT NAVAN.--This important fair commenced yesterday, and was very numerousl y s upplied with black cattle and sheep o f a sup erior de scription. There were also a lar ge num b er o f pig s , but horses were not plenty, n e ith er were t h ey of a good class. Good prices were realised. DREADFUL EXPLOSION AND FIRE IN BELFAST.—The &fast Mercury of Wednesday contains the following :-- "This morning, about half-past two, we were startled by a load explosion which shook our office, and at first led us to fear that some extraordinary acoident had occurred to the place. Upon going out into High-street, however, the cause of alarm was soon explained. At the High-street corner of Caddell's-entry a gunshop, in which also we understand there were gunpowder and fireworks, was kept by Mrs. Nichell, and there the ex plosion had occurred. The effect was tremendous. The entire lower front of that and the premises adjoining, in the occupation of Mr. Owen Kerr, statiorr trhred wood news- agent, were completely blown out, a d work and other mate rials were scattered quite across the wide street to the Corn market. At this mo ment a most exciting and alarming scene was exhi. bited. A numbe r of p ersons occupying the first floor extending over the two shops having been startled from their beds, were seen at the windows, whilstevery moment the floors were expected to sink beneath them. Immedi mbyuasketry. repetition In of a ately after the explosion the fire burst out with mush fury, And the greatest alarm was caused minor explosions, like discharges of short time the fire brigade made their appearance, and applied their hose at first with little apparent effect ; but crash, so on after there was a tremendous the entire front of the houses tumbling down, and burying the burning materials. After this the fire gained little hem', and the engines continued to pla y muchupon the rui ns till a ll was ex tinguished. For a tim eanxiety was felt respecting the adjacent houses, but fo rtunately little further injury was done. This extraord i nary demand s th e most and really fearful catas tropheserious examination. It was perfectly frightful, in the centre of the town, to see such a cenfis.gration, accompanied by such a continued series of explosions as were enouh to deter persons from ap proaching th e p l ace. The remains of Mrs. Nichell were found in the course of the day in a dreadfully mangled state. Seve ra l e th er persons are seriously injured. Mr. Kerr was not injured." SPAIN.—The Jesuits ordered to leave the Basque Provinces have at length consented to take their depar ture ; they have accepted an asylum offered them by the Bishop of Bayonne, at Larressorre, on the French frontier. Tax SIIIMAN TBSTIMONIAL.—At the performance o " Judas Maccabeus," on Monday evening next, a testi monial will be presented to Mr. Surman, the conductor of the London Sacred Harmonic Society, as au acknow ledgment on the part of the members and subscribers of the zeal, energy, and ability he has displayed mince its formation, and the personal sacrifice he has made for the advancement of the society, and the cause of sacred mono THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1854, 4i i 63 . 1k k 40 5 St. 25 20 20 20 10 J.. Dus 72A 2 li I li I 2i i