The Sun. — London, England, 1854-10-24 00:00:00

h h • hi ~ 4 .. ; C0111.:11Kial I L /IV TELL I E.N CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 7,000 bales, including 1,000 American taken for expert and on speculation. The market closed heavily, with prices of all kinds unchanged. The sales comprised 5,750 American, 180 Pernam and Maranham at Gid. to 6;d., 300 Bahia at bid. to 6id., 100 Egyptian at bid. to Bd., 700 Surat at 3d. to 4id., and 80 Sea Island at Is. 21 to 2s. per lb. Railway Shares were flat, at lower prices. The arrivals of ships in the Thames during the last two days have comprised 71 vessels from foreign parts, and 5 from Ireland, besides 3 colliers. The following particulars of the Russia trade, are furnished by Messrs. Smith and Charles : "The only public announcement of interest with re spect to the suppression of the overland trade, which has been made since our last circular was written, occurs in the leading article of an evening newspaper of the 200 : The measure which our own Government has had under consideration to check the objectionable trade which Prus-Ia has permitted Russia to carry on through a pretended neutrality has been a substantial proof to the Government of Prussia that she could no longer trifle with us.'" The heavy expenditure to which the country is now subjected by the unavoidable expenses of the war, and the possibility of the Chancellor of the Exchequer having to raise fresh means ere long, causes those who look to the future, before enter ing upon new financial arrangements, to discuss with interest the means that may be pursued. The experiment of a bonded debt falling due at stated periods has now been fairly tested, and, to the extent of six millions sterling, may be pronounced successful, but whether a further issue of four or five millions early next year would be absorbed is the controversial point. Seeing the continuous drain upon the Government re sources which even a successful war must occa sion, further borrowing in one shape or other prior 12 to the commencement of the Baltic operations 50 , would appear indispensable, for we dismiss alto - 1 - ` -; " gather the idea of fresh taxation, especially with the st. prospect offood maintaining its enhanced price until 19, the grain trade is released from the artificial fetters 14 imposed by the belligerent powers. Next as to the 20 power of the money market to take more Exchequer U. Bonds, we should incline to augur favourably, the st, non-creation of Government Stock by means of 20 loans having thrown into other channels the great 10 corporations as well as private capitalists having 12 surplus cash periodically to invest. The prejudice a . in favour of national securities will cause them, `47; in whatever shape they may be issued, to 25 obtain a preference comparatively to the shares 25 of public companies, and now Exchequer Bonds St. are understood, the way is, in a manner, 812 s paved for them. There is another part St: of the war and money question, however, which 50 may be regarded as of the greatest importance, 25 viz., the Currency. Just now, and although money 1 00 is temporarily easier, the discount of best paper J; being obtainable at 41 per cent., the bullion in the Bank of England is much lower than it should be 20 to meet all the requirements of the 1844 Act, con sidering the large amount of gold imported, and the fact that the precious metal leaves this country almost as fast as it arrives, has a significance that cannot be disregarded. Tne following extract from the Bankers' Circular gives a view of the subject that seems to be just and well timed. The wi iter observes as a sequel to some considerations connected with the policy of the Bank during the last war : "It is therefore of vital importance to inquire into the system of finance by which the present war has to bo conducted. Mr. Gladstone, like Mr. Pitt, has been compelled to rely chiefly upon the Bank of England, and he has intimated his intention of making the present generation pay for the war. There would be no objec tion to this principle if Mr. Gladstone had to deal with a monetary system such as existed in Mr. Pitt's time ; but the whole system has been thoroughly changed. Mr. Gladstone ha.s to deal with a fixed money circulation, bequeathed by the late Sir Robert Peel, to the extent of 31,000,0001. sterling ; and which can only deviate from that amount to the ex tent of the surplus of gold held by the Bank over 14,000,0001. By a reference to this source of money circulation for the convenience of the public during tie past two years we shall be able to form an opinion of the future prospects of our ability to meet the exigen cies of war out of the annual revenue. In the week ending the 10th July, 1852, the surplus amount of coin and bullion in the issue department of the Bank above 14,000,0001. of notes issued upon the debt due to" the Bank was 21,878,765 e., making the total power to issue notes 35,878,7651. " Ou the 31st of December last the surplus amount of 'bullion and coin in the issue department of the Bank had fallen to 15,180,0301., reducing the total power of issue to 29,180,0801. "The returns of the Bank to October the 7tb, 1854, show the surplus of bullion and coin held in the issue department to be 12,350,0301., giving to the Bank the power of issuing notes to the extent of 26,350,0301. Thus we find that the power of the Bank to issue notes at these three periods, and the actual ] circulation, stand as follows Power of Issue. Actual Circulation. "3uly 10tb, 1852 35,878,765 23,379,975 December 31st, 1853 29,180,080 20,077,860 October 7th, 1854 26,350,330 19,959,015 10 5 Decrease 20 or, or, 27 per cent, 15 per cent. "If attention be directed to the Revenue Returns -17 i which were published last week, it will be seen that the 20 increase is of a most insignificant character ; and even 20 that increase is not derived from those sources which can 20 be relied upon. The decrease of 509,4071. in the Cue- 20 toms during the 6 months ended October 10, is a very 20 serious item to place against 77, 8971 . increase. And it 20 is very doubtful whether the Property Tax , f r o m which 100 this increase is principally derived, can be extended, 100 without materially diminishing other branches of the 20 revenue. Mr. Gladstone's surplus is a very scanty sum 2„ to place against the cost of a war conducted on the 25 scale on which it has been commenced. And unless the 25 Government take measures to support the commerce and trade of the country upon more extended views, we must 100 _be prepared for a further decrease in the ordinary sources Ico of revenue. 20 The funds are heavier this morning, and the 5 business doing is small, except in New 3k per 5 1 Cents., which have been rather presse d for sale, 20., and have ranged from 93i to tl-. Consols have no been 94a to for transfer, and 94i for account. Money is easy, and Exchequer Bills are up to 55. 100 and Bs. premium. Bank Stock is worth 212. 100 Rather more activity is observable in the LOO Foreign Stock Market, though unattended by any 20' important variation in prices. Mexican stock is 100 heavy at 23. Spanish Deferred at 181, but the 20 Passive Bonds are supported•at 4i. Portuguese 5 Bonds are marked 431-. Equador Bonds 3i to 3/. Grenada Active 16, and the Deferred 51. Venezuela 20 Bonds are 22, and the Deferred 9. Turkish Scrip 4 is rather higher, being 2ft There has been a bar- 20 gain in Belgian 41 per Cents. at 92-1. Dutch 21 20 per Cents. are firmer at 61 to 61i, but the 4 per 20 Cents. weaker at 94 to 91. 20 The following are the nominal prices of foreign 10' stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 51 to 6 ; Mexi- 2 can, 23 to 23k ; Peruvian, 71 to 73 ; ditto, 20 3 per Cents., 51 to 53 ; Portuguese 4 per C.2nts., 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per C ents., 95 to 97 ; ditto,2 (11 4i per Cents., 84 to 86 ; Spanish New Deferred, 20 18i to .184 ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 37i to 38 ; ditto, Certificates, 5 to 51 ; ditto, Passive, 4i- to 51. The Railway Share Market has shown symptoms of weakness to-day, which has induced rather more 20 business. The principal dealings are in North- 20 Western, Midland, North British, and North- 10 Eastern. The foreign lines are dull, but nomi- 20 nally steady. 40 There have been a few dealings in Mining, Bank- 20 ing, and miscellaneo us un d er t a ki n g s but mostly at 20 20 previous quotations. 20 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES (Prom the Oeicial List.) Bank Stock 212 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 3 per Cent Consols Annuities 94 934 a $ New 3 per Cent. Annuities 93 Long Annu iti e s, Expire sth Jan., 18no 4 5-16 Ditto 30 ears, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4 Y India 13onds, £lOOO ........•......... ..... Ditto, under £ lOOO ll p Consols for Account 14th Nov. Exchequer Bills, 24d. 8 5 £lOOO ......................... 2500 .......................................... 8 5 Small ......................................... 5 8 Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3 per Cent. ...... 99 Ditt• 1859, ~ ..... PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY, Austrian Bonds, 5 per ...... .....•••• 8 6 1 Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent . 99 31 Equador Bonds ............................... Grenada Bonds, 11 1 . per Cent .......... 16 Grenada Bonds, Deferred .................... 51 Mexican :1 per Cent. . .................. Ditto for the Account .......... Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent ............... Ditto, 5 per Ct., Con. 1841 ............... ,±O4 Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. St Ditto for the Account Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent lBl Ditto Passive (Converted) ............ Turkish Scrip 6 per cent Venezuela Bonds, 3i per Cent. .... Ditto Deferred, 1 per Cent T)lvidends on the shove payable in London. Belgian Bonds 4i per Cent. ex. 25 fr Dutch Exchange, `24 per Cent. 12 Guil 61$ 1 F?itto 4 per Cent. Certifieates.. THR.EI OTLOCIL ~ 944 23 a 110 20 2J Console rr rP 1 F 14 - .0„ T CIS DAY. ) rt;,ll:lSti ItAILW A Pald.l ItAticrAis. Closing Prices this day. .00 I Aberdeen ....... .... 7 8,1 Amlig. Nottng. Bost and Eastu. Junct.. all Belfast & Ballymena. all Binning. Wolverh. 'itonr Valley Birkenhd. Laucsh. Cheshire Juliet all IDo. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. 19 Do., £20... ....... 30 fllyth &Tyne origina: £25 (issd. at £45. 100 Bristol and Exeter.. 100 Caledonian. 21s. Cal martlieu and Car aigan . . all Chester dt Holyhead . all Cork and Bandon._ all Cork, Black, dt Pass• 16 Cornwall 14 Crieff Junction 45 Dublin &Belfastaue all Dundee Perth 4.A.ber- (leen Junction all Do. New MO East Anglian all Eastern Counties 00 Eastern Union, A Stock 100 De., B. Stock 86 Do., New A. MO East Lancashire MO Edinburgh. & Glasgow 96 Ediub. and Peebles .00 Edin.Prth &Dundee, 1 Forth & Clyde June. MO Glasgow &S. Western .00 Great Northern MO Do., A. Stock MO Do., B. Stock .00 , Gt. Sth. gtWest.(lre ), .00 Great Western LOO Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk all Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisle 14i, Do., Thirds 4 Do. New Thirds [OO Lancash.andYorksh 19: . ! Do., Fifths 114 D)., Wst. Riding Un all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt all London & Black wal 100 Land. Bright & S.Cst [OO Lond. and N. Westu. 12 Do. Fifths 1 D0.101.5h.,M&8... 2 Do. Eighths .00 London andS. Westn. 42: Do., £5O. 34 Do., £49 all Lanlndrry& Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. LOO Aanch.Shef.& Litwin 11 Do., Man. & Lin. Un 100 Midland 100 Jo. Birmn g. &Derby all NM& G. West. (Ira.) 22 4 Do. Half Shares 311 Newcastle k . Carlisle 5 ,Newinkt.BuryExten 19 Nwpt.Aborg. &lira S'Jowly & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoint and hostrevor...... 10 , Torfolk _ 3i Nortlin.CountiesUn. 100 North British all North Devon, No. 1. all Do., No. 2 all .0., A Deferred all Do., t i B Guaraut , e , r NT. Eastern—Berwick 20 Do. do. Extension ~ 13 )o.do. Purch. all De. Le - ds WO Do. York North London 8 Do. New 1310 1/ is N.&S.Wstru.,Hainp stead, and City Jn., 17: North Staffordshire all' North Western all N. &S, WeBti.n. June 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester........ .00 ( )xford, Worcester,Si l'irolverlianipton 4 rt sm o ut h .00 Scottish Central ' Scottish Midland all inrewsby. di Del efd ad ihropehire Union )n, A, 11, C,B D,fult paid up at per all v,uth Devon 1.0() youth Eastern all South Wales 15 4. I rksh. do Riv. Dui 5 1)o 8 itaincs, Wok &Wol; all Stockton Darlia% IQ.I 4tocktou & Hartley,' faff Vale 9 Do. £lO shares. 9O Do. Pref., No. 1 21 Thames Havim Doel and Railway all Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & KilkennN all Waterford&Limerick 1S West Cornwall. 3 West End of London awl Crystal Palace all West London 111 s. Wimbledn & Croydoi FOR all Antwerp&Rotterdam 3 Belgian Eastn. June. 8 Beziors to Graissessac 2s. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Scrip ... Central of Italy all Demerara --- .. 14 Dijon and Besancon 9 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France 10 Do. New all East Indian 2 Do- Extension all Do. 4 p. c. Bd.s., pay. '57, convertible all Do. do. do., '59, do 10 Gd. Juuct. of France 121 Gd. Tk of Canad.i.A is. all Do. do all IDo. St. Lawrence & Atlantis do. all Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stir. till '63 all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. 10 Gt. Central of Prance all Ot. Indtan Peninsula 1 Do. New 5 per cent.' all Gt. Western of Cana& Shares ... all Do. Wis., payable's7, with option till '55 all Do. do., p. 56 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O . all Do. do., '73, without I option all Hamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 11 Lake Conat. & Basle all Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.e prof 12 Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares all Do. Obligations 0 Lyons and Geneva 12 Lyons & Mediterran 16, I,ladras 2 Do. NOW 31.-t, Maria Antonia all Do. do. New 2 Melbourne Dk. & Ry. all Namur & Liege (with interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all Do .20/. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquaines gnAr. 3 p. c. & rect. at 22/. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854.... all Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds. (fray.B.&Ams.Shs.) all NorwegianTrunkPrel 14 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen._ 10 ParisCaen & Cherbrg all Rouen and Havre 20 Royal Danish 3 Royal Swedish all Sambre and Mouse all Do. 5i p. cent. Pref 10 Southern of France_ 14 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) all West Flanders all Do 51 per c. 10 Western of France 1.; West. of Switzerlanii all Wiesbaden ......... 20 Zealand 41 - 92 43 - 67 - 69 7i - Si 21 - 22 4i - 4i - 8i L] j 10 - 18 6 - 98 - 97 59/ - 591 14 - 15 10 - 12 o•• "'. ••• - 2 u 6i - 11 114 66 - 68 - 57 23 893, --90 L 76 - 77 124 - 126 90 - 92 70i 71 69 - 71 78 - - 5i - 103 100 d 81 9 8i - 105 101 , P' P 82 8 7 23 -23 i 64i 69 40 - 42 d Si 51 -- 4 8 50 3i ah 33i 24 g 10 - 11 - 71 75i - 764 6 i - 34 , i. 14 -14 53 53 - 55 - 1 p - iP -4, 6i - 7 id-iP 32 - 34 94 - 96 60 - 62 7i - gi 46 - 48 13 - 14 62 -1 F2i 32i - 33 •.• • i .• i d 35 - 37 3 3i 18 19 41 4 23 - fes 6 7 6 - F 7 - - 3-c, a— i P - P 3 -2i 33i -33 i 3 P id— id ... r ; 71 6 i‘ 7i - 61 9 7d 9 74 iP A an 18, 3 1 -199 - Id par p 2 dip 4i - 41 1 - lip ... - .. ia-ip 7i - 8 35# : 3G; 12i -- 13 9 - 10 221 - 22 48 60 23 40 pna 22 par 1p 2 lid 81 ••• ..... i 7---- ... -- all I A.ustra la ............ all 113ritieh Colonial Bank and Loan Company all British N. Amoriean 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 2 ',.;hrtd. Bnk. of India,. Australia, & China' 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lona 16 English Scottish and Australiau.. all 'Cond. e'rart. Bk. o: Australia 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 hood. & Westminster 35 National Provincial of Euglaud 10 100. New 22 SAioual of Ireland. all New South Wales... all Oriental Bank of Corporation 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 !loyal Australn.ftg, At (Job) Imp Co all iontli Australia all Union of Australia 2? be. New UlliOß of Loudon, ... -pm 4 a' Gi 7F j 16 - 17 .TOINT-STOCK BANKS. -- 80 4 d par 30 - 32 -23 d 22 223 Business done thLe day. 25 St. St. 20 20 10 10 St. 10 St. 25 20 20 50 20 20 50 20 25 THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24 5 1854, T,TNTS LEA.374D 4T IFTXED RENTALS, ak AXILWAYB. Compans. 1, ,, J4; nces this day. all jacdford and Matchley 100 Buckghameh 100 Clydesdale Jc 100 E. Lincoln gr 6 per cant. all 4:1,111s. Barr. St' Neils. Dirac,. all Do. New all sUlstr.ez Dn. Fr all !!Irtipl. llk. & Railway all Hull & Selby all Do. Shares. all Po. t Shares. all Lon.&Greenw all ( I)o.Preferen,;(2 all Lon.,Til.,&S. 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. tOO Do. 6 per et. all Aanch. Batn and Matlock, all Ndiddleubro' & Redcar all Ai,lld.Bradfd all Northern an,' ii,ondon & N. West. It.Nrthn. aldoniaa. Do Gt. Westu Yk. New. & Berw. Y.&NAid Do Do 13. Easteru 1 Pete & Cc STorfolk.. L.& N. W. k Midld. Stckton & , Darlingt. Midland.. Easternsp.e.' all Do. Fi per et. all Do. Fixecls p all Prost. & Wyre E. Cola. Do Do L. kN.W &Ln&Yk all Do. t• Shares. Roystn.k Hit. 18$ Shef.Roth a-6 Goole g. 5 p.c. 91 S. Staffordsb. all WearValleygr Gt Northo Lancash & Yorksh. A.MCleao qockt. Darlingt D 0......... 6 per eeni, all 1 Do 100 I Wilts&Somrst I(4tWestn. 4.1100 Aberdeen 100 'Do. No. 2, 7 p. c 30 'Blyth and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issd. atsol) 100 Brix. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares 1 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5 per cent all De. do. Pref. No. 2 all De. de. Pref. No. L all Cork drßandonshp.el all Dundee Perth &Aber Been Junction all EastAnglian (£31014 6 per cent all Do. (.£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 r. c. St. all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent... all Do. 51., 10 per cent. all Do. 1111. Dcbentr.Sh all Do. de. 4 per cent... 100 East Lancash. 6p. ets. all East and West York shire June. Fifths all Edinb Pith. &Dundee -4 per cent. 100 Gla.sgow&S.Western. Guar. 5 per cent. 100 Great Northu. sp. c. 100 Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem... 100 Do. 4:1,- - p. c. Gt.N. of Scot. 1 st Pref all Gt. Soutlin.diWestna. (Ireland) Eighths) 7 Do. 4 per c. Pref. St 6 Gt. Wean. (Becks k, Hants Ex. 5 p. c) 100 Do. con. red. 4. p.e 1 100 Do. eon. red 4p. c 100 D. irred. 4 p.c. all Do. Ilirm Pref. 613 311 Dc Chester Bp. all Do. de. 6 p. 0. do_ ,1 , 0 Do. Bina. Gua. Stk. all De. Ches. Gua. Stk. all Do. do. d• all Do. d• ...... •• • 6 Lau. &York. F. £2O 100 Do. 6 p. c. Stock 100 London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. • 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St 100 Do. New Guar.6 p. c. 100 Loia.&N. W., Coy. it Nuneaton 5 p. ct. 5 London &S. Westeri• Con. Thirds all LondoudetTy& Color Shares 311 Londy. & all %lan., & Lin. Shares, No. 1. ... all Do. New, £lO .24 al] larypt.& Carl. 4 p • 2;, all Du. 4i per cent _.2J 104 Do St. 100 ‘licl.Consol.6p.c.St. St. .100 Do. Consol. Bristol & 6 per cent.... 111 Do. Pref. 4i per cent 10 Norfolk Dobenture 100 Do. Pref. 4p. c. Stock' 100 Do. 5 p.c. Ext 100 Do. 5 per et. ' 100 Do. Way. Val. 5 p.c 100 North British 160 N. E. Berw, 4 p.c. P 5 Do. do. de 13 Do. Leeds 6 p.c.Nc 1 9 Ds. do. Quarters '4B 10 Dii.York N. k Per. all North Staffordshire_ 100 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolyerh.Xls,6 p.c. all Scot. Cent. ,New Pret 10 Do. 5 per cent all South Devon 1 .)e. fixed, 4i per cent all S. Eastern (Reading) Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d 100 Do. 4. pel cent all S.Yorksh.4p.e.Guar all S Wales Gila. 4p. s 16 Do. (lc 4} p. c.... all Stockton and • Dar lington, 4 per cent 5 Do. do. do. all Stockton and Hartle pool, guar. 6 p. c.' till Ist July, 1856, 4 kVaterf(l.&Kilk.6p.e. - 100 99 - 101 136 - 138 102 - 104 61 - 52 25 -25 i 13 - 134 23 - 2431 111 - 111 2i - 21 92 - 94 5$ - CO 13G : 138 ii = ii. 30 - 31 93 - 93 PREFERENCE SHARES. 96 - 93 • • • ~ - = 1 ~"I --- 13 —13 a 22 24 • • • . ..". 116 108 - 110 99 - 101 6 -6). 93 - 100 90 - 92 93 - 95 103 - 11 163 - 173 10 103 71 - 73 183 - 193 91 - 01 14 - 1• id 138 140 ••• ".'. ••• 2b 6 pl le 12 ilt .1 - 138 140 , 1 id - 90 104 - 106 92 - 94 3i - 31 .. ---- ••• 1 id 112 - 114 23 - 99 - 17 - this day. . `~ Eft SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) CAMBRIDGESHIRE STAKES. SCH ERZ 1 RATTLE . 2 SPEED THE PLOUGH 3 Nineteen ran. Won by a head. Scherz objected to ou account of age. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Nicotine . Orson ... Ten ran. £5O PLATE. High Priest Ilex Thirteen ran. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES Pumicestone Grimalkin SWEEPSTAKES. Vaultress Robert HANDICAP PLATE. Candlewick . Reiver Hungerford •••• • • • Eight ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS. Cimicina Six ran. LATEST BETTING. CAMBRIDGESHIRE. 3to 1 agst Rattle. sto 1 agst Orinoco. 12 to 1 agst Little Harry. 12 to 1 agst Nancy. 12 to 1 agst Sellers. 12 to 1 agst Quince. 20 to 1 agst Vinder. 25 to 1 agst Little David. 25 to 1 agst Prime Minister. 25 to 1 agst Speed the Plough. :3 to 1 agst Octavia. 50 to 1 agst Helena. 50 to 1 agst Hervine. 50 to 1 agst Gamelad. 12 to 1 agst Oaborne's Lot. Scratched—Champagne. DERBY. 12 to 1 agst Greculus Esuriens. 12 to 1 agst Lord of the Isles. .... 1 I THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) FOREIGN-OFFICE, OCT- 23. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Robert Duncan as Consul at Newport for the King of Hanover. ADMIRALTY, Ocr. 21. Corps of Royal Marines —Brevet-Major John Fraser to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice William Jolliffa to retired full-pay ; First Lieutenant Fervor Bonnyeastle Gritton to be Captain, vice Fraser, promoted ; Second Lieutenant Jeliuger Henry Symons to be First Lieutenant, vice Grit ton, promoted. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORD LIEUTENANTS. County of Bute—James Frederick Dudley Crichton Stuart, Lieutenant and Captain in her Majesty's Grenadier Guards, and one of the Deputy Lieutenants in and for the said county, to be Vice-Lieutenant, Oct. 20. Dumfriesshire, Roxburghshire, and Selkirkshire Militia —George Walker, Esq., to be Captain, Oct. 14. Royal Sherwood Foresters or Nottinghamshire Regiment of Militia—Theodore Henry Dory, Esq., late of the 10th Royal Hussars, to be Captain ; Robert Napoleon Surplice, Gent., to be Ensign. 2d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia—John Henry Ellis Ridley, Captain of the 2d Regiment of the Royal Surrey Militia, to be Major. Oct. 16. 2d or Edmonton Royal Rifle Regiment of Middlesex Militia—First Lieutenant Algernon Edward West to be Captain, vice Tufnell, deceased, Oct. 17. Royal South Gloncester Light Infantry Itergiment of Militia—Lieutenant William James Holt to b e Captain, vice Pyrke, resigned ; Ensign James Anthony, Gardner to be Lieutenant, vice Holt, promoted, Oct. 2L West Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavakry—Allen Dowdesviell Graham, Gent, tobe Cornet, vice Inv erarity ,re signed, Oct. 11; Richard Russell Sewell, Gent., to be Cor net, vice Slade, resigned, Oct. 16. BANKRUPTS. Robert Andrews, corn merchant, Braintree, Le surren der, Nov. 7 and Dec. 7, at one, at the Court. of Bank ruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Reed, Ironmonger-lane. Thomas Nutter, brewer, Cambridge, Oct. 31 and Dec. 18, at one, at the Court dßankruptcy. Penne:ll, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers ; Baddekyn, Lerman-street, and King, Cambridge. Henry John Nash, woollen warehouseman, Crown-court, Cheapside, Oct. 31 and Dec. 13, at twelve, at the , Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhsall-cham bars ; J. and J. W. Linklater, Sise-lane, and Itylis, Red Cross-street. Isadore Berstein, sometimes called Joseph :Bernstein, commission agent and merchant, Liverpool, Nov - . 7 and 8, at eleven, at the Liverpool Di s trict Court. i r jezenove, official assignee, Liverpool; Evan.; and Sons, Liverpool. John Hawkins wad Robert Needham, t a ble kniiife manu facturers, Sheffield, Nov. 4 an d D ec . 9 , at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Brewin, official assignee, Sheffield; Feruell, Sheffield. George Setterfield, grocer, Q ueen - s treet, Ipswich , Oct. 31, at half-past one the Court of ,and Dec. 13, at half-past t w rive, at Bankruptcy. Offi c i a l assignee, Ninholson, Basinghall-street ; Nicholl s an d D o yle, Yerulasu-build ings, Gray's-inn ; Jennings, Ipswich. Wna. Duukley, groc e r, Daventry, Northampt onshire, Nov. 4, at one, and D ec . 13, at half-past slaves', at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assigne e, Basing hall-street; Austen a nd D e G ex, Gray's-inn; B a rton and Son, Daventry. Edward Kegg, coal deal er , Liverpool, Nov. 3,, and 30, at eleven, at the Liv er p oo l Di s t r i c t Court. Tattier, offi cial assignee, Liverpo o l ; .Stoekley and Thompson , Liver pool. Richard Forshaw, mac hi ne ma k er , Li ver pooT-, Nov. 7 and 28, akeleven, at th e Li verpoo l District Cour b. Caro nove, official assigne e , Li verpoo l ; Breusnor, Liv expool. Joseph Smith an d R a l p h Si mpson, i ron f o und( is's, Burn ley, Lancashire, Nov. 9 and 30, at twelve, at the Manches ter District Court. Heruaman, official assignee, Illaneht 3 " ter; Slater, Manchester. John Fanwood, brass candlestick man ufactnrer' Bir mingham, Nov. 3, an d N ev. 3 0, at ha lf- pa st to n, at. the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Hawkes, Birmingham. Abraham Davis, hardw a r eman , T o ttenham -court - road , Oct. 31, at half-p as t one, and Nov. 30, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lee, official assignee, Alder manbury ; Braham, Furniv a l' a -i nn . William Gri mwoo d Still , glass merc h an t, Wellclose square, Nov. 2, a t h a lf- past one, and Dec . 7, at twelve, at the Court of B an k rup t cy. Bell, official ass i gn ee ) , Coleman street-buildings ; Wilson, Gresham-street. William Brodrick Mitcalfe, horse-dealer, Taulation-place, Regent's-park, Nov. 9, at half-past eleven, and Dec. 11, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, Coleina n-street buildings, official assignee ; Hillyor and Fensvic k, Fen church-street. Francis Humphrey Spanton, i nn k ee per, Norwit 1, Nov. 7, at half-past t we l ve, and Dec'. 7, at two, at the , Cour t of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basingh.a 11-street; Lawrence, Plews, and 'Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers ; At kinson, Norwich. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Ebenezer Davidson, ship and insurance broke* Meith Francis Jardine, wino merchant, Edinburgh. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of thin day. &MAIL—The market is quiet, with limited sales by auction. Refined is without change. Brown Paraiba, a cargo landed was soldat about 2 s per cwt. The' quantity of British plantation landed last week at the Rasta ud West India Docks was 1,004 hhds 136 tierces 151 br is, there were taken for home consumption 1,518 hhds 20 .6 tierces 602 brls. The stock in the same places is 20,7.84 hhds, 2,931 tierces, 5,395 brie. COFFEE.—The market has been quiet but fir= :at 46s 3d to 46a 6d for good ord Native Ceylon. RIDE. —A large business transacted in Ilea ne d Patna. For the home trade fully 2,000 bags sold at 18 a (.6d to 21s. A good enquiry made to-day, bet the advanced ra tee asked have checked sales ; about 5,000 bags on the s•Jot sold, Bengal ord to good lis 9d to 15a 6d and ord Diringa at 12s 6d. RUM.—The quantity landed last week at th ,o East and West India Docks was 1,438 puns 152 hhds, there were taken for home consumption 239 puns 32 hhcls, and ex ported 89 puns 299 Mids. Tho stock in the sam o places is 13,292 puns 2,242 hhds. SALTPETRE is dull at auction 545 bags Bengal sold at 22s to 23s 6d for low 1.5., 1 to 8i per cent. refract COTTON.—Tho market is quiet. TEAS—The market is quiet at 100 to 10Id fir common sound congou. HEMP.—Moro is doing, and at firm rates. Pe4 ersbur,sh clean of good quality 621. 10s to 631. per ton. TALLOW.— On Saturday our market was sterol y, at 67s 6d to 67s 9d for new, 67s for old, and 67 s t o (a 3d for forward deliveries. We had advices from St. Petersburg to the 14th inst. 300 casks bought at 103 to 106 rs. Dis patched overland from the commencement of Ulm season, 63,421, against 86,249 shipped from St. Poterslocrg. To day the market has been very inactive. It cannot be quoted higher or lower than on Saturday :for for ward deliveries ; and not a transaction Ibis taken place, and it would be difficult to skr whether there is more disposition to sell than to buy, or vi versa. On the spot we are 67s 6d to 9d, according to q , us lity, for new, and 67a to 678 3d for old Y.C. The Smit:afi old mar ke t report gives the number about equal to 11%st year, with a rise of 2d per stone on beef, as compared'. •with last week, while it describes the q ualit y as very inferior." Cocoa nut oil, Ceylon, 50s ; Cochin, 51s to Ms .Gd; Lin seed oil, 375, on the spot ; Palm oil, 45s Gd to eas. Snal's,. —The market is firm, and the sales fro-day are 200 on the spit at 241. 10s, sad 50 tons for arrival at 241. 15s per ton. btoN.—Scotch Pig is dull at 80s 3d to 80s Gd. .for mixed N.e. Wm—Linseed is rather dull, and there aro= Wien uo the spot at 37s 6d. Rape is not so active, brown 47e 64, and pale 50s fid to 51s. Cocoa Nut is steady at 51s for Cochin, and 49s fid to 54s for Ceylon. Palm has sold to a good extent at firm rates ; good and fine 47s to 494 per cwt. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.- 7 -This DAY. Amsterdam 11 1614 (ibrattar . Ditto, three months .. 11 18 LE.gborn ............•• 30 47% Botterdam .. 11 18 Genoa .......... 25 10 Antwerp .............. 25 37 Milan : •• ...... • • Brussels .... ........ 25 37 1 / Venice ........ •• liamburgh .......... 13 6 Naples .. . . 43 1 ,E Altona ..•• ............ Palermo ........•• .... 198% Paris •• 25 12% Messina ... ... 123% Ditto, three months .. 25 37% Lisbon ...... ..•• b 3 Marseille i ............. 25 37$f, Oporto 53% Bourdeaux . •• •• •• •• J ane i ro ..... ....... Fr ankfat- on- B aims •• .. 118% !Buenos Ayres.... • . .. ................ !New York,6o days' sight Vienna ..........•• .... 12 10 IPhiladelphia -- Trie5te................ 12 15 PRICES OF =talcs, PER OZ. Petersburg Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 Madrid ............... 50 Portugal Gold Coin 0 0 0 Cadiz •• •• •• •• •• Barcelona ............ New Dollars ...... 0 0 0 Seville. •• • ......... 'Silver in bars . . 0 0 0 THE FA .I(KLIN. ANOTHER SNIP AND HER CREW IN DANGER. Collinson and his crew are yet among the ice. Are they to be abahc:oned—to be left, as Franklin and his companions were, the victims of searches tardily tided, carried on with implicit deference to official super ciliousness, and amid discreditable jealousies and squab bling on the part of those employed 7 In discussing this question the recent intelligence supplied by Dr. Rae has, therefore, a practical interest. It ought te be critically examined, and also with a view to detect the errors which have frustrated the searches after Franklin's ex.- pedition. This scrutiny ought to be conducted with caution, modesty, and passion, but also with the most fearless frankness. With regard, then, to the probability of the story. Let us leave out of view at first the corroborative testimony of the articles procured from the Esqiii reanx. Without them the story rests entirely upon the evidence of Esquimaux, and, moreover, of Esquimaux who knew it only from the report of others. The re ports daily received from the seat of war show how easily even civilised and educated men can distort tho truth, and work up incomplete oral communications into adventurous romances. Much more must this be the case among men of a limited range of ideas and an im perfectly 'developed language. The accounts received from the Esquimaux may be a combination of reports of shipwrecked men met on the ice, with reminiscences of the sufferings of Dr. Richardson's party on their overland return. But the articles bearing the name and crest of Franklin and the initials of several of- his companions prove that some of them must have been met with by Esquimaux, the range of whose migrations is known. That they were met to the west of Boothia Felix, between the northern extremity of that penin sula and the mainland of America, seems certain. The details of their horrible fate may be received with more or less of scepticism, but there ap pear no reasonable grounds of doubt that it has a sub stantial basis of truth. It follows from this conclusion that Franklin and his companions had been compelled to abandon their ships, and that they perished in an at tempt to reach the Hudson's Bay settlements. The next cotestion that suggests itself is, when and where were they obliged to abandon their ships! In what year did they tread their weary pilgrimage across the ice ? From what point did they start on that journey to the tomb! According to Dr. Rae, the Esquimaux state that the party of _white men who perished was met in the spring four years ago, that is in 1850. None of the Esquimaux met by Dr. Rae had the ej esseen the white men ; theirs is mere hearsay testi . Besides, without characters to record their dates, their statements about time are little to be relied upon. The four years could only be received -as an approximation to the truth. But here an extraneous record comes to our assistance. It was in 1850 that the traces of Franklin's party were first discovered at Cape Riley. No traces of them have been discovered further to the noril or fur ther west. The story of the Esquimaux is, that the white men intimated they had lost their ship in the ice. From these facts we feel inclined to infer that Franklin's expedition never got far up Wellington Strait ; that they had, near its mouth, or in attempting to proceed west ward, been embedded in the ice ; that they had clung to their ships till their provisions began to fail,. and then commenced their dreary journey to the southward, fur they were in want of provisions when met by the Esqui inaux. The date of these events cannot be later than 1850, when the solitary traces of the party were found at Cape Riley and Beechey Island. They may have happened as late as 1849, for to that time, according to letters from Franklin, he thought his provisions might be stretched out. With these few mementoes it may now be allowed to associate a report which created some sen sation at the time, but was soon forgotten. We allude to the reports of two ships having been seen in 1851 on a field of ice, by the captain of a vessel sailing from Ire land to the St. Lawrence. The reports of the Esquimau', the traces found at the entry of Wellington Strait, the report of two ships seen on an ice-field nearly in the latitude of Newfoundland— these are scanty data whereon to build a history of the fate of Franklin's expedition. And yet they seem to point irresistibly to the conclusion that so late as 1849 or 1850 Franklin, with the remains of his crew, abandoned their vessels somewhere to the south-west of the entry I of Wellington Straits, struggled across the ice to the shore of America near the mouth of the Great Fish River, and there perished through hunger. They appear to have been struggling onward after the search for them had begun. They would seem to have been at no great distance from some of those in search of them. To what are we to attribute the entire failure of the searching expeditions ? We are disposed to attri- Lute it mainly to three causes. In the first place, the expedition seat out in IS4S, under Sir Jarnes Ross, was not peremptorily instructed to took first at the point traces of the missing ships and crews where most likely to be found. Sir John Franklin had explicitly declared to more than one individual, be fore ho left England, that he intended to proceed up Wellington Straits. It was at the mouth of Wellington ' Straits that the only traces of him found by Europeans wire met with. Had the expedition of 1848 proceedbd first to Wellington Straits, Franklin and his companions might have been fallen in with. In the second place, after it lad been shown to be ... . probable that Wellington Straits were the most likely locality to find traces of Franklin, all the vessels fitted out by various parties crowded thither—confinel their researches exclusively to them. Instead of trying to spread themselves over the seas south, west, and north of the inlet, they all rushed into it. Lastly, the proposals of Dr. King, Dr. M'Cormick, and Dr. Rae to explore the shores and seas to the south of the line of research pursued by the naval expeditions were systematically pooh-poohed. The circumstance that Franklin and. his crews, having lost their ships, might be struggling over the ice to the south was wilfully and sys tematically ignored. Yet the statements which Dr. Ran has collected from tho'Esquimaux and the articles he has picked up among them make it certain that an overland boat expedition descending the first river, had it been sent out in time, would in all probability have saved a►t least a remnant of the crews. To what have these errors been owing ? In the first place, to the tardiness of the permanent Admiralty offi cials in instituting the search. In the second place, to their obstinate and exclusive preference of large and costly naval expeditia,ps, which placed the distribution of patronage in their hands, and their discouragement of less pretentious expeditions, which would not thus have gratified their jobbing propensities or vanity. In the third place, to that pedantry which would not even listen with courtesy to any but profes sional advice—meaning by professional not even nauti cal opinion in the widest acceptation of the term, but the opinion of mere fighting nauticals. What is now known shows that, in the controversies of the last seven years the landsmen have been nearer the mark than the sailors—the sailors of the merchant service than the officers of the Royal Navy. But the favourit ism of the Admiralty—its permanent officials—entrusted the research almost exclusively to the officers of the Royal Navy, listened only to their proposals, reserved for them all honour and emoluments. Thus have the permanent officials of the Admiralty prevented Franklin from being saved. His blood, and the blood of his brave companions, is on their heads Is the fate of Collinson and his crew to be left in the hands of such men ? Are they to be abandoned without one effort more ? Or is the task of seeking for them to be entrusted to the miners of the loss4of Franklin ! Daily Nem. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow bay, 2/ 10s to 4/ 10s ; clover litto, 41 4s to 61 Cs ; and straw, 1/ 6s to 11 12s per load. Supply moderate and trado rather dull. UUMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2112 s to 41 12s; clover ditto, 41 Os to 51 15s; and straw, 118 s to 11 14s per load. Both hay and straw moved off slowly, al; our quotations. WELITECHAFEL.—Meadow hay, 2110 s to 4t 103; clover ditto, 41 Os to 6/ Os ; and straw, 1/ 68 to 1112 s per load. Trade steady. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS . DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before the Recorder.) John Judge, 38, porter, and a respectably-dressed tan named Taylor, were indicted, Judge for stealing a num ber of pieces of carpeting, the property of Messrs. Sim cox, George, and Price, the masters of Judge, and Tay lor for receiving the same, knowing them to have been stolen. _ _ _ _ Mr. Robinson and Mr. Sleigh prosecuted, and Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Ballantine defended Taylor. _ _ . It appeared that the prosecutors are carpet dealers in Newgate-street, and, from some information which had been given, two City detectives, named Packmans and Mark Bull, watched Judge from the prosecutors' pre- mises, and saw that he was ♦ery bulky about the body. After following him for some time, they saw Judge go into the shop of Taylor, who keeps a marine store in Wilton-street, Cripplegate. The officers, after walking outside the shop for a short time, went in and asked Judge what he was doing there. Judge, who was at that time in the act of fastening up his trousers, said he came to buy a door knob. They then said that they were officers, and had come to take Judge into custody for having stolen some carpeting from his employers. Judge denied having brought any. They then questioned Taylor, who said he had not bought any cypeting, or had any in his shop. They then went round behind a heap of rags, where he had been standing, and there found a piece, which was subsequently recognised by prosecutors as being similar to some which they had missed from their stock. A. number of witnesses were called, who gave Taylor a very good character. The Jury, after some deliberation, said they could not agree without retiring. His lordship then directed that they should be locked up ; and they•had net returned into court when we went to press. MARLBOROUGH-ST.RNET.-(THIS DAY.) ASSAULT ON 1 BARONET. Joseph May, a carman, was placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham, charged with assaulting Sir Belford Wil son, K.C.8., 130, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, under the following circumstances : Sir Belford Wilson stated that about half-past four yesterday afternoon he was driving with his wife and child down Park-lane, when the prisoner, whe was driv ing a timber waggon with three horses, passed him. In passing complainant, the defendant's centre horse made a snap and tried to bite kis (complainant's) horse. Witness flourished his whip, with a view of diverting the horse front his purpose, and had no sooner passed than he felt a blow of a whip over his shoulders, which also struck his wife and child. Witness immediately stopped and taxed the defendant with the offence, when he (defendant) became exceedingly insolent and abusive. Complainant then directed his groom to fetch a constable, upon whose arrival defendant was given in charge. _ _ William Good, groom in the service of Sir Belford Wilson, proved seeing the defendant with his Leavy cart-whip strike Sir Belford over the shoulder intention ally. Defendant, in answer to the charge, expressed his sorrow, and humbly apologised to Sir Belford for his conduct. Sir Belford Wilson said, had defendant apologised on the instant he should not have given him in charge. Mr. Bingham fined defendant 205., or ten days. THE HOP DUTY. Au account of the duty on hops of the growth of the year 1854, distinguishing the districts, and the old from the new duty : DieTBIcTS. DUTY. g. s. d. Barnstaple Canterbury Cornwall Derby Essex 2 3/ Gloucester 2 1 Grantham 7 2 Hants 4,910 11 6i Hereford Isle of Wight Lincoln Reading Roehester 29,163 14 3 Sheffield Stourbridge . Suffolk .. , urrey Sussex Wales Middle 8 8 31 Worcester 2,661 9 11 86,499 8 41 2. e. d. Old duty et 1 12-20 d. per lb. 47,369 910 4-2() New duty at 8-20 d. per lb. 35,012 471 16-20 Additional duty of 5 per cent. per Act 3 Viet., cap. 17 86,499 8 4i L. S. JAYNE, A. C. G. Inland Revenue Office, Somerset-house, Oct. 24, 1854. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Sin,—You will greatly oblige by inserting Sir E. Bul , wer Lytton's letter in your next paper.—Yours truly, Oct. 24, 1854. GEORGE ROUTLEDGE. 2, Farringdon-street, Oct. 23, 1854. G. Roitledge and Co. have great satisfaction in laying before the public the following - letter from Sir Ed and Bulwer Lytton, which, it will be seen, entirely contra dicts the assertion put forward by Messrs. S. Low and Co., that the agreement existing between their house and that eminent author has been rescinded : " linabworth, Oct. 21, 1854. "Dear sir,— I was as much surprised as yourself by the paragraph in the Publishers' Circular. Certainly, there has never been, on either side, a suggestion to rescind our engagement, nor the least hesitation on your part, as to the fulfilment of the contract you have hitherto carried out with equal liberality and honour. You say truly that the circulation of the popular edition of my works is equal to the expeetationa formed when we discussed the sub ject. And it affords me sincere pleasure to learn that you see no cause to apprehend that the ultimate results will leave you a loser by your spirited reliance en the increase of the reading public, and the steady and progressive de mand for cheap literature which is so distinguishing au attribute of our age. " Yours truly, " E. BULWEU LYTTON. " G. Routledge, Esq., 2, Farringdon-stret, City." SUNKEN SHIPS AT SEBASTOPOL. TO THE EDITOR 01 TER SUN. Sir,—l noticed in your journal of Friday last that Mr. Lane, the " diver," was about to proceed under orders from the Admiralty to assist in raising the sunken ships at Sebastopol. No doubt a very judicious measure. I hare had some talk with 11 Sr. who is now here and who has also had considerable experience in work ing under water. He is well known as having destroyed the Boyne at Spithead, raised the Pincher, man-of-war, sunk at the Sheers, and the Syrian, with a full cargo, at Gravesend. He has no doubt as to the practicability of raising the ships, after lightening them of their guns and shot, by the aid of the line-of-battle-ships and their chain cables. As no time should be lost, and there is no doubt the Russians will make work for both these gen tlemen, your insertion of tiais will probably attract the attention of those yo urs re the matter in band. obliged, A CONSTANT READER. Cowes, Oct. 22. THII EMEtr AND SANGAROO.—The Australasian Pacific Mail Steam Company have sold their two remaining steam ships, the Etueu and Kangaroo, and it is there fore expected the affairs of the undertaking' will be speedily wound up. PORT OB LONDON.—The departures from the port of London for the Australian colonies during the past week have comprised two vessels only —one, for Sydney, of 341 tons, the other, for Portland Bay, of 833 tons. The rates of freight continuo to exhibit great depression. MoNIT ISIIIKET.—The supply of money yesterday out of doors was abundant, and there was great ease in the discount market. Confidence was also increased by further considerable arrivals of gold from Australia and New York, together with announcements of larger sums on the way. The speculative and remarkable movement in the grain market, however, which has sent up prices to the highest point attained before the harvest, coun teracted these advantageous influences. BANE FAILUBIL—The stoppage was announced yes terday of the small country bank of Messrs. Lemon and Co., of Brentwood. It was established in 1834, and consisted of two partners, whose chief business was that of general shopkeepers, their banking transactions being altogether insignificant. TIIII.H O P Lon/cwt.-00e gentleman in. Hereford shire will realise 8,0001. by the sale of this year's growth of hops, while numbers of other hop growers there have not a hop to sell.-111qule6one Journal. 12 20 10 St, 95i 5 91 i i i 89i 90 i 761 71 7 91 901 St. WI k 25 701 2i 2i 6; 104 i 100/ 16 5 73 33} 10 20 68 i i a I St. St. 10 1 st, St. 331 10 6. 76 I 51 14 St. St. 14 I St. 53i i 8 10 13} 113 2, 33 St, St, St, 7i xd 1 50 G 24 I 25 321 IA 20 S t. 15 82 100 101 71i 20 20 20 25 173 i i I 5 _ I 1 .9 181 19 40 41$ St. 25 23i I Coil 1 all Anglo Austrin. Gold ... MINES. 1 all Agus Fria ..... ...... 4 16 1 _ 10s. all Anglo Californian i .--- I . 20 6 Australian 1 1 1 all Australian Cordillera . - . 1 all Australian Freehold. I . -- i 1 all Ave Maria . .. 1 all Baden (Gd• Duchy of r 4 a 50 all Blamarvon Iron and • Coal 20 13.5 British Iron .• ... 74 84 35 .4?, Brazilianlmp.(issued at 1:5 pm 24 31 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiwia 1. 2 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 28 —3O 29 1 1 i t Clarencl • Cons. Mix Co. of Jamaica • •.• ••• 40 all Cobre Copper 5 1 Colonial Gold i i St. all Copper Min. of Eng. 62 65 25 all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent. 2 4 p ... 16 Copiapo ' 5 all English and Austin. Copper Smeltg no 11 —it 2 i Fortuna i— ip 14 20 all General. 1 all Gt.NuggetVoinßeg. • 4 i 3E all Great Polgooth 1 all Liberty . . ••• 3 all Linares 24 ... 94 1 all Vfariguita i - 4 4 10 9 Aexican&S.Americr. it 7 1 all New Granada d i 1 all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co ... . 1 all Nouveau lionde i i 29 all Pontgiba.ud Silver Lead Min. & Smelt. 15 16 5 1 Port Philip — 1 all Quartz Rock 1 t t 50 all Ithyraney Iron 2 —2.. t 15 all Do. New 6 8 30 ii Santiago de Cuba 5 54 1 a ll South Australian.._. i I 10 74 Tin Croft .. . 284 all United Mexican B— 34 1 all Waller 4 -- 1 all West Maripo s a a 1 12s. Worthing Mining of Australia 1 all Yuba ••• ••• \ MISCELLANEOUS ---____ 75a1l Kubin Coal and Iron ... ..• 25 17 t tustralian A gricult. 40 42 404 20 6 Australsn•Pcific.Mai: ... ... 10 all A ns traln. Royal Ma il ... ... - 10 5 B er li n Water Works ... . . 50 40 Brit. American Lam •65 70 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. an d Reduction Co.. ... ... 100 321, C a nada ................. 98 103 St. 100 Canada Gov. 6 p. et. J a n. and July . llO 111 5 all Crystal Palace .•....•. 24 34 34 3 4 all rys t a l Pal. of France ... ... 20 5 Eastern Steam . .. n. all2o 2ceZiiceTTeeleleggra...ponAr) l .! -- 16 .. 16 15 L 4 Gen. Ste am Navigat ... ... 20 all General S crew Steal : ... ... 13 i 20 10 Irish B eetroot Sup. ... ... 20 10 Nlagdidena it. Navig. ... _ ... 10 all Nieditera n . Elee.*Tel. ... _ ... 1 all Nat. Pat . Steam Fuel ... ... 10 5 Netherland s Laud a it, 2 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter. Steam Nasigat. Co ... . 1 all N. B. Australasian... 1 4 20 12?. Nrtb.ofEuropeStean) ... - ... all' Peel Rr. lA. & Miarl. en 41 a ll Peninsular & Oriental ... ..8. 594 , 50 5, ) 45 Do. 2 all Portland Iron Co 2— 24 100 60 .Loyal Mail Steam ... 1 all :scot. A ustral. Invest 2 24 25 all ,South Austral• Land 35 37 I all pubmar. Telegraph 4_ 1 1 . 1 all Do. Registered. i -.• 1 1 COa 23., Vi4l Dlemea's Line 124 -. 13 1u 4 1 pm i 13} 109} 10l 100 98i 9i 8j 14 par 23i 101 19 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DI Y. ) LONDON, Oct. 24.—Wind We day at Noon, S.W. ; moderate breeze, and fine, clear weather. PORTSMOUTH, Oct. 23.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Pion, from Quebec ; William, do. ; Maize, do. ; Martha, Con stantinople; Biroline, Yenglaal ; Actress, de. Sailed — Morayshire, for the Black Sea; N.M.S. Swallow, do. PLTMOUTH, Oct. 23.—Wind, W.N.W Arrived—Cas telian Maid, from Labrador ; Adolph, Buenos Ayres ; Persian, Belize. FALMOUTH, Oct. 23.—Wind, fresh. Arrived—Juliana, front Rio Janeiro ; Adriatic, London, for Cardiff and New Orleans ; Duke of Cornwall (s), from. Dublin, and left for London ; Manathan, Bristol, for Philadelphia, master and one man washed overboard, with loss of jibboem, &o. ; Ids, Mauritius. Sailed—Queen of the Chase, for Terceira.; Amphitrite, Ostend. COWES, Oct. 23.—Wind, W. Arrived Margaret, from Callao. BRISTOL, Oct. 23.—Wind, W. Arrived —Majestic , from Tobago ; Lone Star, New Orleans ; British America, Qtebec ; Swan, do. ; Lady Seymour, do. ; Jenny Lind, Newfoundland. SHEERNESS, Oct. 23.—Wind, Arrived—Ho velius, from Dantzio. DOVER, Oct. 23.—Wind, W. Arrired—HYgo a, from Krageroe, for St: Valery. Arrived —Tagus SOUTHAMPTON, Out. 23.—Wind, (8), from Gibraltar, &c. (PER ELECTEIO TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Tuesday, 10.15 a.m Wind W. moderate, and frosty . Arrived — Star of the East, from Honduras • H e li os , Now Orleans ; Susan , Singapore; William Patten, Rich mond ; Jonge Lueus, Beyrout. Off the port—Arabian (s), from Alexandria ; Sea Gull, and Propoutis. Sailed—Admiral (s), for Havre ; Ranger (a), Rotterdam; Culloden, Bombay. (EY RUBHARINE AND EIROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 9.52 a.m. ; tide last hour's ebb ; fine. Arrived, Oct. 23.—Levant, from Hamburg ; Rover, Guornsey, Arrived, Oct. 24.—Fyneoord, from * Rotterdam • Light ning, Guernsey ; Lady Bl aney, Callao ; Helena, 'Konigs berg ; Medora, Memel. DBAL, Tuesday, 9.40 a.m, Wind—W.N.W., fine. Passed off Dungeness.—Eva, from Sydney ; William Grewett, St. Lawrence ; Prince Arthur, Hudson Bay ; Lavinia, Moulmein ; Queen, Calcutta; Angie, Buenos Ayres; William Forthinghato, Calcutta—all for London. Anchored.—Corcielia, for Cardiff; Vulcan, St. Domingo; Spirit, St. Michael's ; True Briton, No. 114 transport, Plymouth---all from London. --~; Turkey ; its history and Progress. From the Journals and Correspondence 'of Sir. James Por ter. Continued to the present time by his grandson, Sir George Larpent. 2 vols. Hurst and Blackett. This work commences with a memoir of Sir James Porter, who was British Ambassador at the Porte from 1747 to 1762, where he made himself thoroughly acquainted with the national character, customs, and prejudices. He was subsequently appointed Minister at Brussels. The papers which he left, containing his observations on Turkey as it was a century ago, have been incorporated in the first volume of this work ; and though some por tions are manifestly inappropriate to the present condition of Turkish affairs, it has been justly thought best to present them entire, that the reader might be able to form a comparison with the exist ing state of Turkey as described in the second vo lume. The remarkable changes which have re cently taken place are thus clearly shown, and the enlightenment of the people and the gradual pro gress of reform made evident. A brief account of Turkish history is given, sufficient to acquaint the reader with the main facts ; but the principal por tion of the work is cccupied in endeavouring - to give a just idea of the country itself, and the pecu liarities and characteristics of its inhabitants. Of the first volume it is sufficient to say that it serves chiefly as a landmark to show how far the nation has advanced from that time, though the descrip tions it gives of the natural features of the country are of course equally applicable to the present day. It is the second volume that contains the inform*. tion now most eagerly sought for, namely, a full account of the legislature, the progress of educa tion, the financial system, the military and naval establishments, and the social condition of the Turks. It also presents us with a sketch of the career of the most eminent men of the present day. The account of Reschid. Pasha is very interesting. Amidst the general disorder on the death of Sultan Mahmud, when the empire was left with " the Sultan dead, the army annihilated in the course of a few hours at Nisib, and the fleet carried into a hostile port by their own Capudan Pacha," Reschid Pacha, who had been absent on a diplo matic visit to Paris, returned to Constantinople : " As a thorough statesman, he clearly perceived that the first condition for the future existence of Turkey was the restoration of that unity which had rendered the empire so strong during the earlier period of its career. In his opinion the only possibility of regenera. tion lay iu the amelioration of the principles of Go vernment, and their assimilation to an European and constitutional model. To carry this into effect, the first step was to reconcile the Christian subjects of the Porte, by making such concessions as would insure them against the arbitrary proceedings of the Osmanli, and by giving them a guarantee that these concessions would be maintained. " To Reschid Pacha the Ottoman empire is indebted for the organic law of equality, tolerance, and personal freedom aid security, for the abolition of mercantile monopolies, for the establishment of sanitary regulations, for the tuemission of the provinces, for the concentration of political power, for the advantageous stipulations of 1840 with the great Cabinets of Europe, and for the com mercial treaties which have bees concluded with most of the foreign States." In his political career he has met with many vicissitudes ; but since 1847 he has been continually in office, first as Grand Vizir, and subsequently as Minister of Foreign Affairs. The former office, however, does not appear to be a very enviable dignity, for though his power is very great, so also is his responsibility. He is the supreme chief of the administration ; nothing is presented for the sanc tion of the Sultan except through him ; he presides over the Privy Council ; appoints to a majority of the offices, and commands the army ; but his posi tion is full of danger. "He is accountable both to the Sovereign and the people for the acts of injustice which lie commits, for the unfortunate result of his administration, for the extortions which he does set repress ; he is accountable, above all, for the unex pected dearness of provisions, for too frequent fires, and for the defeats of the armies. All the snider- ZIT 88. 77%1 tunes of the Sultan are attributed to him. The sword continually suspended over his head strikes him whether lie displease the people or disoblige the Sultan." A full account is given of the Turkish army and navy, the military administration and establishments. The natural resourcea of the coun- try are described as offering the greatest advantages to the enterprising capitalist. The mining ad vantages appear to be great, though the natives want energy or capital to avail themselves of them. The favourable contrast afforded by the present state of the empire to the descrip tion given of it by Sir James Porter cannot fail to strike the least observing. The apathy, self conceit, and prejudice then general appear most discouraging ; but if we turn to the narrative of the present time, we find a wonderful enlighten ment and awakening. The author of the second volume, Sir George Larpent, is hopeful as to the future of the Turks. He says : " A. snare comparison of the condition of Turkey in 1839 and in 1554, will show how much has been already done. We do not pretend to deny that much is still left for quieter times ; but we may accept the present ame lioration as a very valuable instalment of the great work. If the Allied Powers only recognise the duties which have devolved upon them through their interference in the present war, we may fully anticipate that Turkey will eventually become a great and prosperous country. The raw material is ready to hand, and by skilful manipulation can be rendered most valuable ; but it will be a work of time. Many will turn back with disgust from the task : but whenever our Government once per ceives the importance of Turkey—not merely as a Euro pean necessity, for the purpose of maintaining the balance of power—but as a country, which presents the finest field for religious and commercial enterprise, we feel assured that the labour bestowed will be abundantly repaid. "Those writers who have represented the Turks as utterly effete, and as only encamped in Europe, natur ally ignore any hope of regeneration ; but such is not the case. " Turkey was not a corpse, but a body paralysed : it revived as soon as the enlightenment of the present gene ration recalled it to life, and the rare aed interesting spectacle is presented of a country having totally altered its political condition in the short space of sixteen years, through the spirited and patriotic exertions of a few in divieuals, while that salutary change promises to be per manent, because the system will be continued by the pupils and imitators of those few eminent Statesmen, each of whom is surrounded by a chosen baud of disci ples brought up in their principles." And, again, after giving an account of the pub. lie schools, he observes : Stateet i a ins ‘ t ‘ i ß tu y tio r n a ' is • ing by z education iwhe t r o e th i e t r i a s nk no o t f a y existence ;by correcting all it possesses that - is of a p c u re b a li t c in dangerous and exclusive character, and, more than all, by summoning females to participate is the benefits of an intellectual life, Turkey would be drawn from the isolation and individualism by which her strength is exhausted, and the way would be paved for her social regeneration, which is the erowning work of her political transformation. Education would effect the ruin of the old Mussulman fanaticism, which has lost its strength, but •by substituting for it patriotism, hitherto unknown to the Mussulman peoples, accus tomed as they are to form a collection of individuals rather than a people, a sect rather than a nation. In exchange for the faith which it destroys, it would give them a country. It would do more : by the establish ment of universities, where students of different fai th and creed, collected from the most distant points of the empire, would live in the unity of discipline and instruc tion, it would eause a hearty amity between generations till new isolated by their enmity or their pride, and would thus prepare the reign of that great national unity, for which the Turkish administration, policy, and Legislature are striving." appended to the first volume, It consists of a journal, kept Sir James by We must not omit to ment ion a curious and. valuable paper which is Porter, of the negotiations between Austria and Prussia in the time o f Frederick the Great a nd Maria Theresa. It is in no way connected with the rest of the work, but as Sir James Porter was persoAally employed in these diplomatic great transact i ons , and as his narrative, w hi c h has the record eco nt docu sid not nd considervoluan importaie relates been hitherto u n p ublished, is p os sessetiof assistantm him selfe in terestnt . justified dti to the vat appen dix ep e , e 0 h ildsi e ittxto e irn d ti tooc i g edito r student—a comp ara tive such o t of f f thethe war,and contains a ver y use f u l. Turkish Empire. Among all the numerous work s w hi c h have appeared onTur key, its hist ory, i ts inhabitant chronologyte progress s, its environs, its past and its future, since the discussion of " The Turkish Question," few possess the value of the present volumes. Most of those storks have been superficial in their character, seeking rather to entertain than to instruct. The volumes before us are not of this description. To those who desire au amusing book of travels they offer no attrac tions. It is to those who desire to analyse the constitution of the empire, to read the history o f the future i n th e anna l s o f the past, to gain a tho rough acquaintance with all the peculiarities of the social system, both as they were and as they are, that it is calculated to afford every assistance in acquiring a -complete and authentic knowledge of Turkish history and progress. THE LATE LIEUT. SINGER—This artillery °dicer, wiio lost his lite in collision between a French and an English steamer in the Sea of MarLnora, was a son of the Bishop of Meath. This young officer bad highly dist.inguisbed himself in the Kaffir war, and had s erved in several actions. He returned to Ireland at the beginning of the present year, and was immediately o ffered by Sir H. the . D. Rose, as a mark of approbation,an appoinment in k ' Horse Artillery. On th• declaration of war he volun teered fur servic e in the East, and in consequence of hie previous high character his application was granted, and , a preference given him above his seniors in years and I standing. Lieut . Singer was but 26 years of age. PP - ißrh..~~ _.._ ;lON. 6 i t ~~7`~