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

MONEY MARKET AND COMMEROIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK, The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 7,000 bales, including 500 American and 500 Surat taken for export. The market closed with a downward tendency, and, as com pared with Friday's rates, prices of American and Surat may be quoted 1-103. per lb. lower, and all other sorts in favour of buyers. The sales com prised 5,000 American, 350 Pernam and Maran ham, at s:,:td. to 62d. ; 300 Egyptian, at 5 1 ,d. to ; and 1,500 Surat, at 2:d. to 41d. per lb. Railway Shares were dull, at lower prices. The letters and papers by the Overland Mail from India and Australia are in course of delivery. The circumstance of Parliament being called together as early as the 12th proximo sets our City financiers at work to surmise or suggest the means of replenishing the Imperial Exchequer, and if one half the expedients that appear feasible were at tempted to be put in practice we should indeed have " confusion worse confounded." There are one or two plans, however, so comprehensible that they take precedence of all others. Iu the first place, a new loan in 3 per Cent. stock, according to the good old fashion, is what every tyro in finance can understand, and what one-half the speculators in the funds would desire. An increased supply of Consols would bring business, and enable the time dealers to buy and sell on a larger scale, and with less risk than at present, for it is found that the amount of floating stock in the mar ket is perfectly inconsiderable compared to what it was many years since, large corpora tions and trusts having absorbed nearly all that could be got, and at almost any price, while the annual accumulation of wealth in the country has increased the holdings of private capi talists and annuitants. It may be readily supposed that, under such circumstances, and with Consols at 91, there would be no difficulty in raising 10 or 20 millions sterling within a few days ; and if our Government were not above imitating the recent example of France, double or treble that amount could be raised with facility. As the loan would be essentially for patriotic purposes, we can see no reasonable objection to an appeal to the public, and the opening of subscription books would afford the best possible test of the money market, and give the Chancellor of the Exchequer the chance of obtaining higher terms than if one or two firms took the contract, and had their own profit and commission to realise at his expense. Admitting, however, that a loan is resorted to, there are other improvements in the pro cess which would be very desirable for the public interest. The great permanent or con solidated debt of this country has been incurred under most onerous and inconvenient restrictions. Incurred, indeed, as if the express object were to saddle all generations with the liability, and to defeat any attempt on the part of the Government to take advantage of an easy money market in reducing the rate of interest. The success of every financial operation mainly depends upon the promptitude, vigour, and courage with which it is carried out, and an imperfect plan, boldly carried out, may prove more advantageous than a scheme of intrinsic excellence badly executed. The great desideratum in effecting any new loan should be to insure its convertibility in the event of the na tional finances becoming so elastic as we may reasonably hope they will in more auspicious times. To be compelled to give twelve months' notice of an intended reduction in the interest upon Consols is tantamount to an invitation to the holders, and especially the larger capi talists, to seek by every possible means to defeat that intention. Nor can we blame the parties concerned, however we may desire to deprive them of the power in any future contracts. Supposing a loan contracted, it should be com petent for the Chancellor of the Exchequer for the time being to reduce the interest without the slightest previous intimation, the rights of the holder being always adequately respected by the option of receiving back par, or in nine cases out of ten, more than he ever paid. This brings us also to another and not less important part of the ques 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 mately the more' economical, course. Consols at 91 pay rather over 31-, but allowance has to be made for the accrued dividend, and if the Government requires 15 or 20 millions ster ling it might be expedient at once to offer 3i or ai per cent., so as to obtain 1001. or more in cash for every hundred of liability incurred. There is still another, and, with many, a favourite expe dient. In a short time a large amount of termi nable annuities falls in, relievinc , the Treasury of a considerable annual payment ° of interest, and rendering the creation of new annuities of the same class both necessary and facile. The amount to which these could be placed, however, might not meet the full present requirements of the Go vernment, although there is nothing to be said 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 gladly invest in them. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has evidently a choice of means, but fresh taxation, it is feared, must accompany any one of them. Although it was natural that public securities should decline with Parliament about to assenible, and new burdens impending, the necessity of this course has been too long appreciated for the official announcement to occasion any violent oscillation, and the hope is generally expressed that wo shall not delay our financial measures until the Conti nental Governments have cleared the market of its surplus cash. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer should simply ask the power, and not forthwith use it, he will undoubtedly make a great mistake. Conspls have been. 91 to 912, and since 91/ to 1 for transfer and ac count, the market looking better within the last hour. Exchequer Bills have been marked 3s. to 65., and East India Bonds lls. premium. The New 3 per Cents. have been 89g to Bank Stock has been a shade better, viz., 209 to 2101. In the Foreign Market there has been more sellers. Turkish Scrip has declined to 7i , and 8' discount. Mexican Bonds have been 21i to Brazilian Old Bonds have been quoted 96. Rus sian 5 per Cents. have been done at 96i to 1, and Sardinian at 86k. Spanish Deferred have been at 182. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5i to 5i ; Mexi can, 21i to 21i ; Peruvian, 67 to 69 ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 47 to 49 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 94 to 96 ; ditto, 4i per Cents., 85 to 87 ; Spanish New Deferred, 181 to 181 ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 371 to 38i; ditto, Certificates, 51 to si-; ditto, Passive, 4 to 41. For Railway Shares the prices have been to per cent. lower generally, but there has not been a large business done at this decline. The Foreign Shares are dull. For the Joint-Stock Bank Shares the quotations are rather feebler. The Miscellaneous and Mining Shares aro heavy. 20 10 12i St. 50 40 BRITISIE FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'cLocK. (Prom the ONcial List. ) En•iness done Rank Stock 2lOl 9 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities... . 89i $ 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9l i i$ 1 i i New 3 per Cent. Annuities Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 -1 6 8? Ditto 30 Years Expire 10th Oct 1859 4 1-16 India Bonds, xlOOO ., Ditto, under £lOOO ,• -- Consols for Account exchequer Bills, 21d, 91i 1 1 11000 Small 3 6 Exchequer Bonds 1858,Cont. 34 per C Ditto 1859, 210 PRIC E or FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK, Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Mexican 3 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ 5t..,, 96 S adinian Bonds, 5 per Cent... .... Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. m a Ditto Passive (Converted) Turkish Scrip 6 per cent — Ditto for the Account Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil 4 — Ditto 4 Der aunt. tdertifieates HALF-PAST TTVO. lsols .................................. 91i Ditto, Account ............ ....•••• •••-• 91 8128 25 25 50 St. 20 20 20 25 St. 10 St. 25 REPRESENTATION OF MARTLEBONE.—On Saturday a meeting of electors of Marylebone took place at the Moreton Arms, Kentish-town, Mr. B. Hewlett in the chair, at which a resolution was passed, to the effect that Lord Ebrington should be requested to make a statement of his political opinions, with a view to his nomination for the borough. A letter was written to his lordship, enclosing a copy of the resolution. NTes 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. Some of the speakers objected to the nomination of Lord Ebrington, and urged that while that noble lord was acting with the Poor Law Board he had insulted the people of England. The meeting was not attended with any result. The names of several gentlemen have been mentioned as probable candidates, among others these of Mr. B. Oliveira, Mr. G. Grote, and Mr, Kinnaird, but nothing seems yet settled, - SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWATV. Aberdeen.. Ambg. Nottng Bost. and Eastn. Jnnct... Belfast & Ballymena. Binning. Wolverh. Stour Valley Birkcnhd. Lancsh. Cheshire Junct Do. Chosh. es Birk. £5O and £25 Cons. Do., X20.._.. Blyth &Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45) Bristol and Exeter -. 4 Caledonian Carmarthen and Car digau Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall ! Crieff Junction • D übl i ti &BelfastJnuc pundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Do. New 'East Anglian Eastern Counties..„, Eastern Union, A Stock De., B. Stock Do.; New A East Lancashire Edinburgb Li Glasgow Ediub. and Peebles Edin.Pr66 &Dundee l Forth & Clyde June. Glasgow &S. Western Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock pt. SO. &West.(Tre ) "Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rait Gua. Stk Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds_ Lancash.andYorksh Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un Liv.Civby.&Southpt London & Blackwal Load. Bright & S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westn. Do. Fifths Do.lo/. Sh.,M&B ( Do. Eighths London and S. Westn Do., £5O Do., £4O Lndndrry& Coleraine Lndndrty. & Ennisk. Vaneh.Shef.& Lineln Do., Man. & Lin. Un Midland Do. Birmng. & Derby Nlidld. G. West. (Ire,) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmkt.BnryExten Nwpt.Abcrg. &llrfd Newry &Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor. Norfolk Northn.Counties Un North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed N. Eastern—Berwick Do. do. Extension Do.do. G.N.E. Parch. Do. Leeds Do. York North London Do. New £lO N.&S.Wstrn.jiamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June, Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Portsmouth ,sottish Central Scottish Midland ihrewsby. & Berefd. Shropshire Union „. Do. A, B, C,& paid up at per ecu South Devon South Eastern south Wales S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun Do.. 3taines,Wok &Wok qoekton & Darling.' Stockton d; liartlepl Pair Vale Do. £lO shares... Do. Prof., No. 1... Thames Haven Dock' and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Ki&nun) Waterford&Limerick West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace West London ,Wimbledn&CroydoL, !Closing Prices 1 yesterday. 19i - 20 4k- 4t 7/ 8 # 11i 10 , 1 d 17 18 7 6 94 - 9 1 '; 591 - GO 13 - 14 10 - lz 5 - 4 6/ - 7i 15 - 1G -11 i 32 - 34 22 - '24 67 - 69 53 - 55 iiii =-- ioi 67 - 69 88 - 89 74 - 76 123 - 125 87 -8) 69i 70i 67 - 69 70 - 75 6 -8, 6 - 8 7Ct 714 - 5i 71 . 8 i 104 —lO6 98i 99 id— id d 1 79 ! i i 114 • 9 8 21 - 22 67i 63 38 - 40 id --I d 10i 2 -- 2 47 49 3a 3; 4 32 ... 33 8 10 1/ —1/ 64 74 743 75,3 63 6 4 4 - 61 -- 13 52 53 65 3 —1 p 6/ 4R 4 64 3d— 3 p ... ~- ... 30 - 32 92 - 94 60 - 62 71 - Si 44 - 46 12 - 14' 58:3 - 59:1 29 - 30 ••• ••• 37 1011 ••• 34 - 4 17i 184 - 22- 7 i . : f FOREIGN. Antworp&Rottordam Belgian Eastn. June. Beziers to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda, and Central India. Scrip Central of Italy Demerara Dijon and Besancon Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian Do. Extension Do. 4q p. c. Bds., pay. '57, convertible Do. do. do., '59, do Gd. Junct. of France Gd..Tk.of CanadaA is. Dd. do Do. St. lAwrence & Atlantic do. Do. Cert. of Dcben., con. into Stk. till '63 Do. Comp. 6 p. c., do. Gt. Central of France Gt. Indian Peninsula Do. New 5 per cent. Gt. Western of Canada Shares . Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 Do. do., '62, p. '56 Do. do., '76, p. '6O Do. do., '73, without option Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Basle Lucca & Pistoja 5 p. c. pref Great Luxemboul Constituted Shares Do. Obligations Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Mediterran. Madras Do. New Maria Antonia Do. do. New Melbourne Dk. 6i Ry Namur 'St Liege (with interest) Do. (cx interest) Northern of France ID 0.201. Shs.late Char• leroi and Erquelines guar. 3 p. e. & rod. at 22y, dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854.... Do. 20/. 3 p. e Bdr. (fmy.B. & Ams. She.) 'NforWogianTrunkPrel Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orloans._ Paris and R0uen...... ParisCaen do Cherbrg. Rouen and Havre - Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse._ Do. 5i p. cent. Pref. Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 5 per C. Prof Western of France West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand 6 -6( li - q 4 - 3. d— i p .. 3a 3i d 30i 31 ii 3 P id par 8- 7 • 8 7d 9 81 par ip i - BP par ip 17 -18 p• • -- Ire. Id 1p lid .. id 1 d par par 2p dis 3i 4 2i 21- a -ip ... - .. id-i.p ••• -- .1 61 -7; 33 :33 12i 84 -- 94 I 18i -- 19 p 45 47 36 38 pm 20 21 ld par 21 lid 7i 8i eee ..... ... - pm • 3i - ••• ... 41 -51 p ••• ''''' ••• 161- 16i JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Australasia ;British Colonial Bank and Loan Company British N. American Chartcl. Bank of Asia Clu•td. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China Colonial Commercial of Loud English Scottish and Australian Loud. Chart. Bk. el Australia London and County London Joint Stock Loud. & Westminster National Provincial of England Do. New National of Ireland Now South Wales.„, Oriental Bank of Corporation Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn.Ekg. & Gold Imp Co south Australia Union of Australia Do. Now Union of Loudon SO -- 82 id—id 3 - 20 23i -- 24 35 - 40 33 - 40 ..• •.• 42 - 44 70 - 72 8 - 9 Buslams done this day. 100 all all 100 100 .00 42. 34 all THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 28, 1854. LINES LEASED AT PULED RENTALS. RAILWAY/4 Bedford and Bletchley Bnckghamsh. Clydesdale Je. E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Glas. Barr. ,S.c Neils. Direct Do. New...... Dn. Glstr.& D n. Fr artlpl. Dk. Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lon.& Grecuw Do. Preference Lon.,Til., & S. Lowestoft gr.' 4 per cent. Do. 6 per et. Ifauch. 13xtn and Matlock Iliddlesbro' Redear Nfidld.Bradfcl Northern and Easternsp.e. Do. 6 per et. 'Do. Fizeds p e Prest. 3i Wyre Do. Shares. Roystn.& Hit. Slief.Roth.and Goole g. 5 p. c. S. Staffordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent... Do Wilts&gonirst 95 - 100 99 - 101 135 - 137 iik -= 16'6 i r i - 134 23 - 24 11 - 11 21 - 2i 6 - ii 58 - GO ••• ••• 135 - 137 ii = lid 30 - 31 90 - 92 Lading Compans.l London & N. West. L.&N.W. Calotion._ Gt.Nrtlin. Caldonian. Gt. Westn Yk. New. & terw. Y. 8012.1 d Do Do a. Easton; Do Peto & Cu Norfolk. L.& N. W. & Midld. Stckton & Darlint. E. Count Do Do L. St N. W &Ln&Yk Do Qt Northn Lancaih Yorksh. MClean tockt. Darlingt ItWestn Closing Prices yesterday. PREFERENCE SHARES. 98 - 102 92 - 96 93 - 97 ... ..... ... Si - 6i - P - P 13 - 134 22 - 24 60 - 65 114 - 116 107 - 109 99 - 101 6-64 97 -- 99 90 -- 92 .92 -- 94 10 -- 11 16 -- 17 10 —10 i 71 -- 73 18 -- 19 9 -- 94 134 -- 144 11 -- id 135 137 ••• ..". ... 2i - 3 P 104 -- 11 i -- ip 135 137 11 1 id S 7 - 90 104 - 106 101 103 90 92 sJ 3i 'i ---- id 109 - 111 12' 14 id par 221 —22 i 16 -:1 ••• -- ••• id iP ••• -- ••. 2 I d LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(TILIS DAY.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. 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. 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 eri• dente in the matter. Lord Campbell expressed some dissatisfaction at this announcement, and peremptorily directed that the jury should be sworn. Tkis having been done, Mr. Powell repeated his former observation, that he was not in a position to offer amy evidence in the case. Lord Campbell—Gentlemen of the jury, no evidence having bee❑ offered in support of this indictment, it will be your duty to acquit the defendant ; but I must say circumstances have came to nay knowledge judicially, which convince me that it is essential for the safety of her Majesty's subjects that souse legislative enactment should take place to prevent tlte 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, be was quite ready to meet the charge, and all his witnesses were in attendance. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. SLATER Y. CHILDREN--BREACH OP PROMISE OP 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, lioneyraan appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr, Serjeant Wlilkins, 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 ♦erdict for that amount was accordingly returned by the jury, without the details of the case being gone into. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Commissioners Evans, Fonblanque, and llolroyd sat, but the whole of the cases were for audits and dividends, and not of the slightest interest. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAP.) OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) EMBEZZLEMENT BT ♦ RAILWAY CLERK. 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 aria 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 se issued, by which the company alleged that he bad 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 soma 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, The Recorder having summed up, The jury returned a verdict of not guilty. TIIE 4USSIAN ARMY OF TEE DANUBE. The Corriere Italiano of Vienna has the follov. ing from Bucharest, of the 14th : "The numerous reinforcements rent by the Russian army of the Danube to that of the Crimea have sensibly weakened Prince Gertschakoff. In spite of the troops sent hint from Poland and filom the interior of Rus,ia, his army, which, although very superior in number, had been obliged to give way before the forces of the Sultan, is new reduced to one-half its former num ber. Fearing to b e a tt ac k e d at any mom ent, he is col lecting together all his available forces, and has cease] completely to send reinforcements to the Crimea, notwithstanding the pressing request of Prince Men schikoff. He has done wisely, for he will soon have to contend with an army of 60,000 men an d 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 frostier of Bessarabia, from Busco to Fokschani. Another army, of nearly as great a number, remains under Ismail 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 t o a banquet rather than to a battle. The g enera li ss i mo, h oweve r, neglects nothing; he is colle c ti ng on various po i nts s t or es of pro visions ; the whole line of the Danube has been placed in a state of defence ; and the fortifications of Silistria, Giurgevo, and E assora hare been cemp l ote d, on th e plans of Colonel Di eu. The reserve is com i ng from a Schumla to occupy th e places of the Danu b e , andis replaced by recruits." MARKEV NEW, DAY.) SMITHFIELD.—Moadow ha, 2/ 15s to 4/ 1 5 s ; clover ditto, 31 08 to ,Oa • and straw, 1/ 6s to 1/ 12s per load. ay ) A fair average supply and a steady demand.CUMBERLAND.--Meadow hay, 2/ 17s to 5 / Os ; clover ditto, 3/ Os to 6/ O s ; and straw, 11 8s to 1 1 lts per load. Trade rather dull. WHITECHAPEL.—M ea d ow h ditto, 3/ Os to 61 ; and stra w , 1/ 6ss to 1/ 12s per load. Supply good, and t rade dell. 2/ 15e to 4/ 1 5 s; clover Os COLONIAL. SIIGAB.—The demand has boon moderate at about the previous rates. A cargo of yellow Havannah afloat has been sold at 21s 64 for Belgium, No. 10i quality being rather dearer. Pernam and Rio Grande are also dearer. The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 44 hhds and 5 barrels, there were taken for home consumption 1,362 hhds, 190 tierces, 623 barrels. The stook in the same places is 17,919 Ws, 2,613 tierces, 4,039 barrels, COFFEE.—Native Ceylons are quiet ; about 300 bags good quality have been sold. at 56s per cwt. RUM has remained quiet. The, quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 706 puns, 254 liLds. There were taken for home consumption 270 puns, 27 hhds ; and exported 73 puns, 38 hhds. The stock in the same pl aces is 12,016 puns, 2920.111dg. 1t Moro d eman d owing to tho duty beingtaken off iu Belgium, and ra th er stiffer rates are demanded ; about 3,000 bags Bengal hare been sold at 16s to 16s 9d for mid to good. • SALTPTITRII.—The market is quiet. At auction 3,319 bags Bengal were mostly taken in at 26s for 5 per cent, at 23s Gd to 24s for 101 to 12i-per cent refraction. SPICES. —Pepper 2,258 bags Singapore were taken in at 4?,(1 to 4id ; 230 Penang were also taken in at 4,id, and 120 lialabar sold at 4/d to 4id per lb. COTTON was dull, and there are no sales to report. TBA.—The market is quiet, pending the delivery of the Overland letters. TALLow.—P.Y.G, is dull at 65s for old, and 66s 3d to 665. Gd for new. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) . - LONDON, Nov. 28.—Wind this day at Noon, ; 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 (s), from Dublin, anti left for London ; Eclipse, London. Sailed—lberia (s), from Gibraltar. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 27.—Wind, N.N.W. Arrived—War burton, from Prince Edward's Island ; Elizabeth, Para, for Dordt ; RailwaY, London, for St. Michael's. Sailed — Active, for Melbourne; Frederick VII., Antwerp; Non pareil, London ; Irene, do. ; Northumberland, do. FALMOUTH, Nov. 27. —Wind, N.H. Arrived —E. D. T., from Manlmain ; Emily, Cork ; Ondine (s), Dublin, and left for London. Sailed—Minnut, fur Port Philip ; Hin dustan, Antwerp ; Morrison, do. Oil Port—Caroline, from Quebec, for Sunderland ; Buchanan, Alexandria ; Westinurulana, Bahia. Doviut, Nov. 27.—Wiud, N. Arrived—Carl, frun Porto Rico. Orr THE NORTH FORELAND, NOV. 2 1.—Athol, from London, for Alyab. HARTLEPOOL, Nov. 27.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Jano and Ann, from Hamburgh. Sailed—Calandline, Malta. WHITEHAVEN, Nov. 25.—Wind, S. Arrived—Antigua Packot, from Mirathielti. FLEETWOOD, Nov. 27.—Arrived Cleopatra, from Quebec. CARDIFF, Nov. 27.—The Colonel Smith (smack), of Caernarvon, from Montrose to Bristol, is on Ahoro on Coal hugh Point, about 15 miles west of this port; her bottom has been knocked in, and a great part of cargo lost, but a great past is expected to be saved. SHIELDS, Nov. 27.—The Model (schooner), from Fowey, whilst towing into harbour this morning, grounded, in con sequence of thick weather, on the edgo of the Herd Saud, and remains; BOA moderate. UNFAIR CHARGE'S MADE BY THE NORTII-EASTERN RAILWAY COM PANY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—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 coaimence 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 enterinc , false dates—take it at the quickest possible despatch to and from, thus : Normanton June. Wichnor June. Great Bridge. for for - N. E. Railway Midland Railway S. Staf. Railway Arrd. here Nov. 1 .Arrd. here Nov. 2 Ar. hero Nov. 3. Empty, Nov. G Empty, Nov. 5 Unloaded, Nov. 4. Five days occupied under the quickest despatch, four days allowed—thus securing 3e. for one day in every trip over and above the illegal charge of ls. CI per ton for waggon hire—and under the present system of ma nagement they will take good care the waggon earns hi' every trip 9s. or 12s. demurrage, and tins when agreed i t l o a is s n a o n t a t o h c e o u l e n a t ( t ) v c c o r n w t h b t e l c a a , u e o s e l I ie :a r t 3 l , l o o u w g n t e l r i o i ertuniel unloaded the waggon immediately on arrival, he is made ruponsible for detention in transit. The Railway Consolidation Act, 1845, with clearin4-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, one 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 com 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 to. I have since the 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 sone of the ma nagers is doing everything to prevent me. These officers aro 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 d• no good to any one. I ask for fair usage and no favour.—l aro, sir, yours obediently, WILLIAM OXLADE. York, Nor. 27, 1854. UNFAIR MANAGEMENT OF THE NORTII- EASTERN RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. 15in,—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 him at 20s. the railway waggon load—say 35 to 40 awts. This person bought the hay. I ask, is there any jobbery in this management for which the shareholders pay 5001. per year If I can obtain some shares before the shareholders next meeting I will attend to hear what the directors report. The raanagement 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 lic good in one year than his successors have done since they dethroned him. 1 think if the merchants and the public compel the shareholders to return all charges made above what is allowed by the act there will he a considerable amount to refund. Your inserting this will much oblige.—Yours, obediently, Thirsk, Nor., 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 he taken for the use of the railway in large letters, white, on a black beard, or black, on a white board, the unfair charges would be more difficult to impose. The Rev. W. Hobson, late curate of Portsmouth Church, who is appointed one of the chaplain,: to the forces in the East, has net gone out in the Royal Albert, but awaits a passne 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 ie 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. 0 iveira is to bring forward on the meeting of Parliament for a reduction of the wine duties. THE RECENT ATTEMPTS AT INCENDIARISM IN MAN CHESTER.—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. DESTRUCTIVR 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, bad extended to the various offices of the Loridon 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 the warehouses of Mr. Al'Ties, a coal merchant, in Queen's-road, and communicated to the warehouse of Mr. Samuel ' Biggs, i jun., a builder. The leadworks of Messrs. Clark, which contained property to the value of 3,0001. also caught fire. The principal workshops of Mr. Bi g gs were con sumed, aid the damage dons altogether is estimated at several thousand pounds. All Mr. Bigsss'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 Sir Michael Hicks Beach's death ; Fermanagh, by that of Sir Arthur Brooke ; Antrim, by Colonel Pakenham's death at Inkerman ; and Ayr, by that of Col. Hunter Blair, also killed at Inkerman. 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, during the Highland Society's meetings here about that period, deliver a few lectures ii his class-room gra tuitously.—Seotsman. 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 the army in the East." We may add, that dispensers of medicines have the same pay and iutions as assistant-surgeons, and wear a plain uniform. They undergo a n examination at the offi'.:le of the department, and are yenerally selected from those who have testimonials of ability as diTensers from re spectable druggists.—Medical Times. THE 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 to ,k their departure on Friday afternoon for Londe'', en route for Russia, in exchange for English prisoners captured by the enemy. The officers who have taken their de parture are Captain - Von Essen, Captain Snellman, and Lieutenant Piechuliii, 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 of a gunsmith in the town, and lie subsequently received an order for about a dozen more, but before executing it ho consulted a legal gentleman, and declined to supply them. These circumstances became noised abroad in the town, and eventually reached the e ears of f tho which local representatives o f the Government ; th resuof was that inquiries were instituted as to the purchaser, and that having been ascertained, the weapon was de. manded from him and taken. THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT. (Front the Tines.) 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 exhaustee. That, in fact, is the case, and Government must want money. It is not a result wholly unforeseen, fur 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 landing 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 bin; 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 private incidents that sadden and adorn the international struggle. Yes, all the reveries of economists, all the hopes of financier:, 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 inen, more steamers, quicker and more frequent communications, better artillery, better small arms, better housing„ better clothing, denionstre lions on the Danube, the destruction of Odessa, the occupation of Perekop, the conquest of the Crimea, and the precipitation of the Anstrian difficulty. Every day brings us the most costly suggestions, and Government 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 less 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 s 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 publio 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 no hesitation in advising that we at once give up the fiction of immediate payment, and draw en posterity. The next generation is as much con certed as ourselves in the result of the present war, and it will not thank us for a heritage of cheap shame. Gloryesfreedoni, 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 iu 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, se to speak, of a - - large portion of the annual dividends. The quiet way in which the national debt of the United States has dwindled to a mere trill is another teqtimony 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 more discussed where it has often been before. We believe the solution to be rather in plan tice than in theory. Borrowers will always get money on the easiest terms within their reach, and if better terms are to be obtained fur 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, and 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. (From The Sun of May 6, 18:i4.) Mr. DISRAELI said—Sir, there is one point so remark able, so anomalous, in the speech which the noble lorci. 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 ment, the result of which is, that they offered to the house a deluding estitnate and a deceptive budget. (Loud cheers from the Opposition benches.) Now that was the point of which I complained ; and the consequence is, that within eight weeks of their statement being made, and within four weeks only if the date by custom had been followed, when it need to have been made—we are called up to vote a sum of nearly 6,000,0001. in the shape of a supplementary budget. But how does the noble lord account for this circumstance ? What is his vindication for the conduct of the minister ? 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 lion, gentleman forgets this important circumstance, that hetween the financial statement and the present 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 lapse of the financial year. And when, however, did this declaration of war take place ? The end of the financial year was the tah of April • and the Chan 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 having 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 ment 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 3,000,000/. 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 coun t ry — an d accor di ng to the repeated declara tions tions and warnings of the Ministers themsel ves- 7 at tention of Parliament was formally called to the finatices of the counLry ; our resources and burdens were esti mated for a great and impending trugg i e— andfor wb t reason That the Chancellor of the Exchequer by calling into play a vast and deceptive maclancr) be e able to get 3,000,00 01 . at the e nd of the year. Was th ever such a peddling vindication offered for the co nduct ~:. of a minister ? (Cheers from Why, if he could have gut 10,0 the opposition bench ) 00,000/. by adopting su 11 h a, course—if he could have put availed himself of the country a s trong position — if he could , have the general sympathy arireseurces of the country and the confidence of farliametit, and had raised a large loan o r made arrangements fur any emergency or any difficulti es that might meet him loouh i. could understandithtehe opposition arluat tof the noble lord. (llenewc cheering oi benches.) Butt hatsued :mutwecedented course, r such contemptible results, should be resorted to—ao 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 heard of. (Loud cheers on the opposition, benches.) Lord J. RussEen said—The right hon, gentl emau says that 3,000,0001. of money is a very small sum. IVow, 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 au immaterial circumstance to bring forward the subject very early in the leak the view which the Finance Minister has talconjon ject, and when it is proposed to double the income tax,the same argument applies. The house will not, Ibelielre, think it strange that the statement was made idinfie'linstitli-of March because only a cLiferenco of 3,0 1 0'1- thereby affected. Now, what is 3 ,000,000/St Ine - riglitl,S. hon. gentleman seems to me to be talking of Ail C.; about half-a-crown, and seems to say what does such'' suns signify to the Excheyser. If, however, the sight hon. gentleman thinks so lightly of 3 , 0 00,000/., I must say it is pretty evident that he is no longer Chancellor of the Exchequer. _ THE NE [vs TIIE VICTORY IN BUCIIAREST. We have received from Bucharest a copy of the bulletins issued then) 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 th e Walla chiait nation ar9 worthy of notice. NEWS PROM SLI3A.STOPOL, DATL OF NOV. ti, 1554. I 1 great battle was fought yesterday ;. the Ilus'siati which lad received eolisitlerable reinforcements artily, • fro m the so-eal: e d army 01 the 1),"of Ibian Principalities, and -w as inoreuver eneo ura.;:ed by the presence the Grand Dukes Michael and Nicholas, attacked the right wing of tun English army. After an obstinate struggle, lasting born tile inorhing to the afternoon, the English army, joined by the division of Gederal 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 Furey 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 los; 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 iu 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 continues with a vigour that has not flagged for an instant. GRAND 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 Place de la Concorde, and up the grand avenue of the Champs Elysees. 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 the beauty and richness of their military equipments, as sembled on this occasion for the first time in public. The 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 awl 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 lumber of general officers. The escort of the Emperor was formed by the CentGardes 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'Elorloge, 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 loud cries of " Vive l'Empereur !" 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 fine 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 public 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 freeieent acclamations. The defiling began at half past 1, and closed at halt•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 guardmnar, , 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 Vsuppo,:e Lord Palmerston will nut break up the alliance on that account. ' THE GRAND DUKE COV , ST.INTiNE'S ORDER OF TIM DA Y. - The _TaxaUde Russe of St. Petersburg of the 18th publishes the following order of ttie day from the Grand Duke Constantine, the head of the Ministry of the Marine, and bearing the date of " Gatshiva, Nov. :15" : " Admiral Prince Monsehikoff, in informing the Em peror of the conduct of the men belonging to the fleet of the Black 6,ia, in defence of Sebastopol, says, amongst ether things :— 6 It is a sacred duty for me to make p)tir Majesty acquainted with the eeitplary self-denial and the invincible valour of the crews of the fleet. Neither their daily hisses, nor the fatiguing ser vice of the bastious, nor the batteries raised by the enemy just before them, nor the incessant r oar o f artil lery, which night and day shakes the earth—nothing has been able to induce them to abandon their service for a single instant. Ou 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 iEmperor has deigned to reply to Prince Menschikoff in the following words :—I am happy to learn the heroic iutrepidity of our incomparable sailors, those uncon querable defenders of Sebastopol. God will re compense their acts of courage, unexampled up to the present time. Knowing my sailors of the Black Sea since IS2B, having been then ocular witness of their high feats, aid. seeing that nothing was impos sible fur 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, arid thanks them all as a loving father would his darling children. Transmit to theta these words in your order of the day. I have directed my aide-de-camp, Prince Galitziu, 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 tine paternal language of the Em peror to our comrades of the Black Sea, I am convinced that all the men of the Baltic fleet will hail them with gratitude, and that when the hour shall arrive for them to fight against the enemies of our orthodox country, its crews will prove that they were worthy of a similar en couragement, and worthy of our brothers in arras of the Black Sea. " CONSTANTINE." GENERAL ORDER. HORSY GUARDS, 23d Nov., 1854. Her Majesty has been pleased to approvethe ofocarry fol lowing regulations being establi s h e d, u o into effect the provisio ns o f th e R oya l warrant o f t h e 6th of October, 1854, by which the rank of full 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 lieutenant colonel, or major in tho Household Cavalry. 4. Mounted officer of the Foot Guards. 5. Assistants adjutant-general. 5. Assistants quartermaster - gener al. 6. Military secretary (or assistant military secretary where there shall be no military secretary) to such general officers as are exercising the supreme command on a station. fixed as the period o f actual servi ce in Ittreseoy-eera:lssbiteuinagtions named, no portion of the time which an officer ma y have passed on leave of absence will be allowed to reckon as service, except absence on account of wounds received in action, or from ill-health, cov.tra.cted by service with an army in the field, which must be duly certified by the report of a medical board, when each case will be separately considered. In all other cases, the absence of the officer before he has completed the t hree y ears re q ui red will be deduoted, so that the officer shall have actually served that time be. fore ca h p e be tain s p a re n n d ao li t e ed ute to na t t l i i t e e r , n o i o ik of nels colonel.of the Foot Guards, promoted as such, prior to the 20th of June, 1854, after having held that rank for tax years, will o bt a i n t h e ran k of full colonel, without refereaco to duties regimentally perform( d. An equerry to the Sovereign «•ill obtain the rank of lieutenant•colonel, for six years. Officer , who obtainc.l the rank of colonel prior to the 201..11 of J nue, 185.1, wiq continue to be execoptwd from the duties of field oflict:rs • but colonels promote I on arid subsequent to that day, will be included in the ro,ter of field officers, until after fire years front the dates of their commissions as colonel. Dv command of the Right Hon. General Viscount Conunanding•t,i•CLief. G. A. WETHERALL, Deputy-Adjutant-General. Pr.oDucE MARKETS.—The weekly reviews from the Amsterdam and Rotterdana• produce markets mention that no material alteration bad occurred in business, and that prices continued t o be w ell supported. The only new feature was a temporary export demand for rice. NEW PRUSSIAN STATE Lo!.N.—The " Seebancllun " g has issued the prospectus of N•— new state loan of 15,000,000 dialers at 34, repajable within 40 years, and to be iosued at par. ~~:',, Business this day. 871 8 73 123 G 9 i 70 i i 201 1 67 61 7} 121 I 13 Aberdeen Do. No. 2, 7 p. c Blyth and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issel. at 500 Brie. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5} per cont.., De. do. Prof. No. 2., Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Cork &Bandonsp. c Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction EastAnglian (I:310s) 6 per cent Do. (X 5) 7 per cent Do. (£7l7s) 7 p. c Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. 1 Do. No. 2 Do, New 6 p. c. St. Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent... 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