The Sun. — London, England, 1854-01-23 00:00:00

THE TUSCAN MINING COMPANY. Capital 4 ~ 000/., in 20 000 -hares of 21. each. Deposit 10s. per Share. This company has be , nfitrmed for the purpose of working and de veloping an extensive mineral property situate etween Certalde and Voltt,rra, in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, where deposits of rich copy tsr ore of a remarkab:e character have recently been discovered. he promoters of this undertaking having satisfied themselves of thci existence of the mineral at several points, commenced the execu tion of workings, under the direction of Professor Haupt, the con srfiting Mining Engineer of the Tuscan Goverment, to prove the lialue of the pi operty, and having extracted a considerable quantity cf ores of different quallties, have now laid open a mine which pro mises toyield brilliant results, A sample of the ore that is now in the course of raising has arrived in this country, and been assayed by Mr. John Mitchell, who certifies to Its yielding 36 per cent. of pare copper, and other metals as specified in the subjoined certificate. During the construction of the galleries, several lodes or courses of the mineral have been discovered, which present most favourable appearances ; and it is confidently anticipated that, with a judicious expenditure of capital under English management, very large returns till be obtained. The country is known to be rich in mineral wealth, and there remain abundant indications of large and important work ings having been carried on during the thee of the Romans. The mineral rights acquired by this company extend over a terri tory of nearly 20 square miles, the portion in the Niccoli. Estate being held in perpetuity, and that in the Commune of St. Gemignano e Montalone for the term of 100 years, without royalty or tribute of any kind ; and further, the company possess the right of purchasing the mill called of Gradmso, situate in the very centre of the metalliferous district, should it be required for smelting purposes. for a price pro portioned to the rent it may be produc ng at the period of its transfer to the company. The works already executed, and the whole of the timber, ma terials, and mining utensils at present in use at the works, together with the stock of mineral, of all classes, at present raised, are in cluded in the cession to the company. The property is most advantageously situated within four miles of the Central Railway of Tuscany, which runs from Certaldo to Leghorn, a distance of about 50 miles, and possesses an abundance water-power for all purposes from the C asciano stre ams. The cession of this important property has been obtain e d upon very advantageous terms, the consider ation being 5,000 p a id- up shares of the company and 2,5001. in cash. The direction will consist of directors of the Peninsular and Iberian Mining Companies, under whose auspices the present company has been organised. Further application to be made to Messrs. Eykin Brothers, 22, Change-alley; the Secretary, Mr. J. H. Koch, 44, Lombard -street; or to Messrs. Em. Fenzi and Co., Bankers and agents to the Corn pany, In Florence. COPY OF CERTIFICATE. City School of Chemistry and Assay-Office, 1, Sun. street, Bishopsgate-street, Jan. 17th, 1854. This is to c ertify i t n h s t I have examined a sample marked Parcel p, and Copper, 36 per cent. Silver, 2oz. ldwt. 14grS. nnd it conta } Gold, 16dwts. Bg rs . Per ton of 20cwts. Iron Arsenic Antimony Manganese Traces only. Cobalt Nickel Zinc - Signed) JOHN' MITCHELL, F.C.S. THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, JAN. 23, Will be presented paur.A. LAZARR ); or, The Ladrone's Daagh tr. Characters by Messrs. G. Bennett, G. Wild, Lee, Belton, and T. Mead ; and Miss Featherstone. To conclude with KING HUMMINGTOP ; or, Harlequin and the Land of Toys. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Bnokatone. THIS EVENING, JAIL 23, Will be performed FAZIO. Characters by Messrs. Rosters, Howe and Chippendale; Miss Cushman, Mrs. L. S. Buckingham, and Miss Hollingsworth. After which, the Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMIME, called HARLEQUIN AND THE THREE BEAR <; or, Little Silverhair and the Fairies. Columbine, Miss M. Brown ; Harlequin, Mr. J. Marshall: Pantaloon, Mr. W. A. Barnes; Clown, Mr. 11. Marshall. I &OVAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. CHASM/LB KEAN. THIS EVENING, Jag. 23, Will be performed Lord Byron's Tragedy of SARDANAPALITS. After which will be presented the new Grand CHRIST NI AS PAN TOMIME, entitled HIRLEQUIN AN') THE MILLER AND HIS MEN; or, King SaLunandar and the Fairy of the Azure Lake. Harlequin, Mr. Cormaex ; Clown, Mr. Huline ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; and Columbine, Miss Desborough. LYC EU SI THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris. THIS EVENING, JAN. 23, Will be performed A BACHELOR OF ARrs. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Baker; Miss F. Hughes. After which, the original Fairy Extravaganza, called ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WERE TWO KINGS. Principal cha racters by Mr. Wright and Madame Vestris. To conclude with PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, JAN. 23, Will be presented the highly Popular New Nautical Melo-drama, hi five taoleaax, with new scenery, the Sea of Ice, &c., new dresses and appointments, called THE THIRST OF GOLD; or, THE LOST SHIP AND THE WILD FLOWER OF MEXICO. Principal characters by Messrs. B. Webster, Keeley, Paul Bedford, 0. Selby, Parselie, Marsden, &c. ; Madame Celeste, Mrs. Leigh Murray, Miss F. Maskell, &c. To be followed by the popular and entirely New Grand Specta cular legendary Christmas piece, in two acts, with new scenery, dresses, machinery, and appointments, called NUMBER NIP, or THE RPIRIT BRIDE. Principal characters by Madame Celeste, Mrs. Keeley, Miss Woolgar, Miss M. Keeley, Miss Cuthbert, Miss C. Harding; Messrs. Paul Bedford, J. Rogers, Romer, G. Lee, &c. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, JAN. 23, Will be performed THE FIRST NIGHT. Characters by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, Leslie, Lindon, Harwood Cooper, and Vincent ; Miss I'. Horton, and Miss Wyndham. To be followed by THE CAMP AT THE OLYMPIC. Charac ters by Messrs. A. Wigan, F. Robson, Morton, and Galli ; Mes dames A. Wigan, Stirling, P. Horton, Chatterley, Bse. Followed by THE WANDERING MINSTREL. STRAND TIIEATRE. Sole Lessee, Mr. F. N. Allcroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIS EVENING, JAN. 23, Will be performed DER FR EISCHUrz. Principal character, Ming Rebecca Isaacs. To be followed by TEIE VIRGINIAN MUMMY. Afte , which, a new grand Comic Christmas Pantomime entitled R ►ICLEQUEN AND KINSI NUMB A.CKER ; or, The World of Toys. Clown, by he inimitable Flesmore ; Harlequin, Mr. Bologna ; Pantaloon, Mr. Griffiths ; Columbine, Miss Goward. Stalls, 53.; Boxes, 3s. ; Pitt, ls.; Gallery, rid.; Private Boxes 1/. ls., to be had of Mr. Allcroft, 15, New Bond-street. ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. First Appearance of Miss KATE COOKE since her return from the Continent. The Theatre nightly crowded to overflowing attests its matchless attractions. In consequence of the overdow to all parts of the Theatre o n Thursday, Jan. 19, in order to meet the numerous disappointments of parties who could not obtain places on the occasion, another GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE (and positi ely the Last) will take plate on TIIURSDAY NEXT, Jan. 26, when the triple Entertainment of the Pantomime, Scenes of the Arena (in whi h Allss Kate Cook will appear), and the wondrous Performing Ele phants will be given. To commence at Two o'clock. Immediate application for places at the Boa-office is absolutely necessary to secure them. THIS EVENING, JAN. 23, (And during the week) To commence with the Grand Chinese Spectacle, THE WISE ELEPHANTS OF THE EAST, or THE MAGIC GONG, in which Mr. William Cooke's extraordinary Pra'ned Elephants appear. Followed by a Rache'ehe Routine of Scenes of Eque3trian;sm in THE ARENA, supported by the Elite of Europe's Equestrian Artistes. Concluding with Mr. W. Cooke's immensely successful COMIC PANTOMIME. written expressly for this Theatre, by Mr. 11mom LEE, entitled BILLY BUT CON'S JOURNEY TO BRENTFORD ; or, Harlequin and the Ladles' Favourite. New scenery, dresses, decorations, and appointments, magnificent Car of Industry, &c. Harlequin, Mr. H. Hemmings ; Columbine, Mdlle. Christine; Pantaloon, Mr. Lehman; and Two Clowns, Mr. C. Adams and Mr. Croueste ; Sprites, Masters Gee and Bradbury. Rox-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts Day —Morning 55 min.after 7 I Evening 27 min.aft. 8 To-Mozaow—Morning 4 min.after 9 Evening 40 min.aft. THE WEATHER.—Surr Oman, JAN. 22. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 52—highest since noon yesterday. 40—lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 30°14. WIND, S.W—Light airs, and fine, sunshiny weather. JANUARY 23. o—highest since noon yesterday. 41—lowest this morning and during the night. 49—this day, at noon. • BAROMETER, 30.18. WIND, S.S.W.—Light breeze, and fine. mild weather. L 4 7,,-24.0. %1 1 • AttiN vf, 1 47 -) )-344,-vo LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, 1854 Everything, it will n ow b e clearly observed, threatens the commencement of a general war, and that almost immediately. The indications of this come pouring in upon us simultaneously from St. Petersburg and from Constantinople. There cannot any longer be an instant' s d ou b t that the military preparations made by the Cz AR have throughout been conducted upon a scale of unusual magnitude, and those preparation s are still continued without pause, while orders have been recently despatched from the Imperial Councils of the AUTOCRAT for the speedy passage of the Danube by the army under Prince GORTSCHA KOFF. Meanwhile the maritime exer tions of Russia have been, and are still, of an ex tent and continuousnes s quite extraordinary. Con siderable numbers of the Russian seamen have been conveyed overland from the Baltic to the Euxinc, and have thus swelled the resources a l rea dy collected together in Sebastopol. Under these circumstances, are we still to hear of the carrying out of those craven orders by the combined fleets under Admirals Dtainss and HAMELIN ? Are we still to hear of Russian ship s of war being politely saluted and nothing more by their antagonists—of anything like a collision being at all cost sedulously avoided—of our, acting towards the Muscovites (if attacked by them) simply on the defensive ? It is in credible. The whole country is unanimously against any such policy on the part of the Government. Very recently we pointed out the decisive tone in which the Edinburgh has recently spoken as to the absolute and imperative necessity of a war vrith:Russia being carried out, if once ad ventured upon, by a concentration against the enemy of all our energy, of all our daring, of all our warlike resources, both military and maritime. We may now refer no less pointedly to the precisely similar ardour with which within the last few hours the old Tory Quarterly has at length re-echoed the sentiments of her old Whig contemporary. The whole country, we repeat, is unanimous, all parties are unanimous—Whigs, Tories, Radicals, every one —upon this point, as opposed to the hesitating and timorous policy hitherto persisted in by the Coalition. The inauguration of Sir EDWARD BurwEn LYTTON, as Honorary President of the Associated Societies of the University of Edinburgh, on Wednesday evening, afforded him another oppor tunity of delivering one of those masterly ora tions by which he has already, at intervals, evidenced the scope of his genius through utter ances attesting at 'once his capacity as a profound thinker, and his eloquence as a skilled and accom plished rhetorician. Everything combined to invest the occasion of this remarkable Address with an interest peculiarly calculated to captivate the popular imagination. It was the welcome by Scotland of one of the most illustrious of living Englishmen. It was the organisation upon a new basis of those learned societies—including the Dialectic, Diagnostic, Scots-law, and Hunterian Medical—which were instituted many years back for the cultivation of oratory, science, and literature. It was an occasion, moreover, upon which were assembled together, in honour of the first-elected President of the Association, many among the most distinguished representatives of the intel lectual power of the age, of its comprehensive erudition, and of its ripened scholarship. Sir EDWARD evinced, from the first word to the last, his appreciation of the importance attached to the incident of his inauguration. He revealed a per fect sense, on his own part, of the value of that incident as another bond of sympathy, drawing yet more closely together the fellowship of enthu siasm between educated Scotchmen and educated Englishmen. He betrayed this salutary con sciousness, we repeat, throughout the whole of his harangue, rendering it especially conspicuous in the exordium and the peroration. In the ex ordium by those genial and unstinted panegyrics on the mental glories of the land in whose capital he was speaking, as well as by the fervent and graceful tributes of admiration offered by him to the more notable among his Scotch contemporaries. In the peroration by that adroit reference to the nationality of his hearers, in which he blended by a master-touch the severity of re proof with the suavity of compliment. It could not but be interesting to those who listened to BULWER LYTTON on Wednesday— children for the most part of that " land of brown heath"—to hear from his lips the avowal : " The first poets who charmed me from play in the half holidays of school were CAMPBELL and SCOTT— the first historians who clothed, for me, with life, the shadows of the past, were ROBERTSON and Hum E—the first philosopher, who, by the grace of his attractive style, lured me on to the analysis of the human mind, was DITGALD STEWART—and the first novel that I bought with my own money and hid under my pillow, was the `Roderick Random' of SMOLLETT." Neither could they have hearkened without some emotion to that catalogue of their living celebrities, in the enumeration of which Sir EDWARD directed marked attention to the " vigorous and rushing verse" of AYTOUN, to the "wide repute" of PILLANs, to the "comprehen sive science" of HAMILTON, to the union of " all that is tender and graceful with all that is hardy and masculine" in the exquisite intellect of I'VmsoN, and, " last but not least," to the integrity and independence of MACAULAY, to his luminous genius and his scholastic attainments. Referring to the close not less earnestly than to the opening of the Address, we would especially revert to the consummate skill with which Sir E. B. LYTTON reminded his auditors as the sons of Scotland that, while demanding with their ac customed energy whatever they might consider to be equal rights, they would be untrue to their own glory as a nation, if they did not feel instinctively that the veritable majesty of Scotland needs neither the pomp of courts nor the blazoning of heraldry. "What though Hulyrood be desolate," he exclaimed, " what though no king holds revel in its halls ? —the empire of Scotland has but extended its range : and, blended with England, under the daughter of your ancient kings, peoples the Aus tralian wilds that lay beyond the chart of COLUM BUS, and rules over the Indian realms that eluded the grasp of ALEXANDER." Adding, while at the close of his remark he pointed to a banner sus pended opposite--" That Empire does not suffice for you : it may decay, it may perish. More grand is the domain you have won over human thought, and identified with the eternal progress of intellect and freedom. From the charter of that domain no ceremonial can displace the im pression of your seal—in the van of that progress no blazon can flaunt before that old lion of Scotland." It is not, however, by these graceful and eloquent allusions to all that is noblest, and truest, and loveliest in the devotion of every enlightened Scot to the soil and the history of his fatherland, that the speech delivered by Sir BULWER LYTTON on Wednesday last, in the Queen-street Hall, at Edinburgh, is alone, or even, by any means, the most remarkable. It is rather by those interme diate portions of it, lying between its opening and its conclusion—the pith and substance of the ora tion—in which the orator took so ample and gor geous a survey of the prominent glories of ancien tli terature. Itwas in that comprehensive glance down the long perspective of the classic past—from which the speaker drew forth that masterly resume of the literary achievements of antiquity. Before enter ing upon the consideration of this ample theme, bewildering, indeed, from its amplitude, Sir E. B. LYTTON endeavoured to impress upon the youth of Scotland the imperative necessity of com bining the twin duties of observation and inquiry—bearing in mind that " the instincts of the infant are the primary duties of the student" remembering that " a man will always be eminent according to the vigilance with which he observes and the acuteness with which he inquires." Reminding them of that de claration of Dr. ARNOLD, that " the difference be tween one boy and another was not so much in talent as in energy," and declaring for his own part, " I am no believer in genius without labour, but I do believe that labour, judiciously and con tinuously applied, becomes genius in itself "—Sir EDWARD urgently impressed upon the young student, whether of science or of literature, the absolute need of perseverance. And " perse verance," said he with an admirable felicity of expression, "is energy made habitual." Not less exquisitely epigrammatic, by the way, were those sentences in which, a little later on, he spoke of Moral Philosophy as the hand-maid of Divinity, and as the sister of Jurisprudence. Subsequently came that magnificent survey of classical litera ture, of which we have already spoken in terms of deserved and unaffected admiration. A sur vey, in which, " looking down the abyss of ages," the Pcet recognised by an intuitive subtlety of perception that the apparent repose of classic art was none other than a mere effect of distance. [After the lapse of two thousand years, he argued, "if we do not see all the play of the waves it is because we do not stand on the beach."] A sur vey in which the Philosopher beheld along the marge of Paganism the dim adumbration of the approaching Christianity. [" When we look from ARISTOTLE to his great master PLATO," said BULWER LYTTON, "it i s as if we looked from Nature up to Nature's Gon."] A survey in which the Orator di asbrurncde-s ing materials for the display of all the resources TILE STJN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JAN VARY 23, 185 4. of his genius as a rhetorician. Such are among a few of the impressions produced by. this. memo, rable inaugurative Address of Sir E. B. LYTTON, as Honorary President of the Associated Societies of the University of Edinburgh. Manchester plainly is not, and none of us ought to be, tired of the Education Question. Tlie late census report, and numerous particular reports, assure us of the astonishing illiteracy of the poorer classes. Mr. HORACE MANN, of the Census Office; Dr. HOOK, the active Vicar of Leeds; Mr. VANDER KIST, town missionary of the metropolitan suburb of Camberwell ; Mr. LOGAN, in the same employ ment at the busy manufacturing town of Bradford, in Yorkshire ; the Registrar of Births and Mar riages testifying to the number of crosses in lieu of names, which appear in his records ; indeed every person who in some official capacity, or from purely benevolent inquiries, is entitled to be lis tened to, tells one and the same tale ; the melan choly one, that, after the immense efforts which have been made, our lower classes are still most deplorably uneducated. Whether, then, the views of the intelligent and benevolent gentlemen who met at Manchester on the 18th be right or wrong, they are most certainly right on the main point, that something more needs to be done than is now doing ; indeed a great deal more. This first point, after all Mr. BAINEs' most creditable statistics, we think must be regarded as settled. Another point is surely-clear also, that religious zeal has retarded as well as promoted education. To Dissenters, we must, with Lord BROUGHA M, give the credit of commencing the work of educating the poor, and of carrying it on by Sunday schools, until they aroused the Church to educate also in self defence. Hence, undesignedly, a double evil per vaded all ; education became a sectarian work, the knowledge useful for this world became merely the inducement 'to learn a creed supposed to be indispensable to salvation in the next, or too often a bribe to swell the numbers of the denomination which bestowed it ; and not only did education become sectarian, but the sectarian element de pressed the catholic and national element. The instruction in the knowledge which all equally re quire to raise them the first step above animal existence, and to qualify them to be members of civilised society, could not interest these educators equally with the knowledge peculiar to their own denomination, and which might qualify them to be members of the sect. We wish not to be un derstood as writing in censure ; we thoroughly respect the conscious motives of the greater part of the Religious Educationists, but we must think they have not opened their eyes sufficiently. Honestly zealous to propagate through school in struction what they deemed religious truth, they have overlooked this plain fact, that their first zeal should have been to make their pupils rational, thinking, active-minded creatures; and their next, to plant religious principles in ground where they could strike lasting root, and not be withered al most immediately k because there was no depth of earth." Nothing but superstition can ever be for long the religion of the grossly ignorant. Where Christianity does not educate, it will soon be lost in essence, if not in name ; in idolatry of priestly power, even if it banish idols of wood and stone ; and where superstition does not follow, stolid apathy towards any form of religion is the ordi nary concomitant of mental vacuity. This, in deed, according to the best testimony, is the pre dominant charaCteristic of the 5,000,000 persons, the 1,000,000 families, not connected with and not attending any religious worship whatever. We have no doubt at all that had our religious educators been as zealous to furnish the minds of the populace with thorough elementary secular knowledge, above all to communicate it in a way to rouse the children's mental faculties, as they have been to impart religious knowledge, the result would have been widely different. The Manchester gentlemen propose to meet the case by a plan of which the leading features are -Ist. That local rates shall be levied and admini stered by local authorities. 2d. That in the ordinary school hours religion shall not be a part of the instruction given. Though, if the building has been erected by voluntary contributions inwhole or in part, religious instruction may be given in hours specially appropriated to it. One would think tkis plan must have special attractions for zealous Sabbatarians. It would leave them free, as is generally the case in Scotland, to appropriate the Sunday School instruction to religious knowledge exclusively. The Voluntaries also are largely pro pitiated. In the first place, as it is taxation for religious teaching only which they object to on principle, the taxation will not be for religious teaching at all, but merely to remove a mental nuisance as mischievous surely as any attacked by a Health of Towns Act. Again, rates levied by the majority of ratepayers on themselves, and administered by officers of their own selection, and for objects in which all can participate, and by whose attainment all are benefited, is the nearest possible approach to voluntaryism itself. The Political Economists, too, may well be conciliated; for strongly as they object to training people to rely on Governmental aid for what they can do themselves, they must own that if local levy ing and management of highway rates, light ing rates, water rates, &c., is rather doing our own work than letting Government do it for us, it must be doing our own work when we lay rates for schools and man age them by our own officers. We confess to great jealousy of any proposition like Lord JOHN'S last year, to remove the ratepayers' money from their own control, and to place it virtually in Government hands. The old English and municipal principle must be carried out to the let ter, of putting the whole thing in the hands of those by whose money it is supported. If this be done, it ceases, in fact, to be Government educa tion, in the current sense of the phrase. It is the education of the people by the people. To make it more complete, and to induce the poorest to send their children to the school, if only from the low motive of getting something for their money, the proposed School Rate might be made imperative on all but pauper families. It would tend, in addition, to elevate their relation to the schools, and to increase their interest in their efficiency, and would probably not be so much, or by a little good management need never ex ceed what the better part of the poor now pay in school pence. The chief objectors to this plan can be but of two classes ;—either those who persist in believ ing it to be impossible to teach lessons in writing, reading, and arithmetic, with some geography and history in one hour of the day, and in religion at another ; or who think it indispensable that the schoolmaster should do what tens of thousands of ministers are paid to do as their sole work, or what parents can best of all do at home; or those who, professing zeal for education, are incurably determined to mean by it youthful proselytism. For the latter there is no help. The Church Catechism, the Assembly's Catechism, or some Dissenting Catechism, are to them the Alpha and the Omega of education. As to all other books, with the exception of One, their view probably coincides in substance with that of the Mahome tans who burnt the Alexandrian Library,—the volumes of which were pronounced useless if not contained in the Koran, pernicious if opposed to it. The former class of objectors, though toler ably stiff for their formula, should not, we think, object to what is asked ; that is, a fair trial in a few towns, to whom permission should be legally given to make the experiment, if a reasonable majority of the rate-payers wish it. A few years trial in a few places could do no great harm. No more is asked. And after it had been made we might all, perhaps, be wiser than we are. We should have either a beacon or a model. The Voluntaries have been tried and have done nobly. The advocates of State grants have been tried and done nobly too ; but they have both left a vast field untilled. The Public School Associa tion say, "Let us try our hands on it,"—and we reply, " With all o ur h ear t s, an d ma y y our t r i a l be successful." ARRIVALS OF SPECIE.—The arrivals of specie during the week have been large —namely, 640,0001., of which one-half was silver. The exports are estimated at nearly 400,0001., of which about one-third was silver. MONEY MARKET AND COMMEiWIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were estimated at 5,000 bales, all to the trade. The market closed steadily, without alteration in prices. The sales comprised 4,500 American ; 200 Bahia, at fild. ; 200 Egyptian at, bid. to 8d ; and 70 Sea Islands, at ls. 3d. to ls. Bd. per lb. Railway shares were firmer. The corn trade is steady to-day, at last Monday's rates. A feeling of the deepest regret has been expres sed at the loss of the ship Tayleur, off Lambay Island, with 675 emigrants on board, of whom only 230 were saved. She was bound from Liverpool to Melbourne. BRITISH MINES.—This day the market wears a more favourable aspect than for the last few days. Steady inquiries exist for Alfred Consols at 26 ex div. ; Bullers, 1,100 ; Bassets, 650 655; Uniteds, 200 210 ; Seton, 20G ; Wheal Edward, 3± ; North Pool, 200 205 ; Batvahs, 110 ; Combmartins, 45., 4s. Gd., 55., and 6s. Gd. ; Treweathers, 4i ; East Russells, 6 ; Devon and Courtney, K 1 ; East Bo soms, 1 ; Poltimores, 1 ; Sortridge Consols, 255. 30s. ; Wheal Lions, 31 1 ; Mixon Great Con sols, 1 ; and Great Tregune Consols, 31 1. The current prices for the Jamaica Mines not officially quoted, are this morning, as follows : Jamaica, par to premium ; Metcalf; g. to pre mium ; Sue River, discount to par ; Port Royal, to premium, The report issued by the Port-Philip and Colo nial Gold Mining Company, preparatory to their meeting of to-morrow, is as fair a statement as we have yet seen from any similar undertaking, however the shareholders may be disappointed that up to the present time there are no practical results in the shape of a dividend. The managers of the company have endeavoured to make available every source of income, whether by gold buying, smelt ing and assaying, or the working of a mineral lease, but there has been such delay by the Colonial Go vernment in granting the latter, that the company's operations in that direction can scarcely be said to have commenced. The balance-sheet shows to the debit of the Melbourne establishment, 55,1561; gold, 34,3411. These sums represent the amount of the com pany's outlay from the first, in sending out the two expeditions ; cost of materials and stores; purchase of the store at Forest Creek ; cost of house and land at Melbourne ; transporting the miners, &c., up the country; salaries and wages, and other ex penses ; and the amount invested in the business of gold buying. When the directors shall receive the accounts to the end of the past year, they will be enabled to give a full account of this expenditure. In the meantime, the following may be stated as the property remaining in the colony on the 30th September last : Cash in the Bank and at Bendigo £16,581 4 1 Land buildings, &e Stores remaining on hand 11,115 0 0 Assay Office 865 0 3 Mining Materials 4,000 0 0 Provisions, Cattle, &c 4,635 0 0 £47,814 0 1 The property in England is given as follows : X. s. d. Cash at the Banker's on 31st Dec. 1853 Loans on Securities 1,380 10 3 11,594 8 4 12,974 18 7 The directors of the Caledonian Railway have issued a circular promising full explanations, at a fitting opportunity, to the pamphlet published by one of their number, and impugning their arrange ments with other companies. The railway meetings announced are the follow ing :—_ Company. Date. Place. Cork and Bandon . Great Sn. and Wn. Ireland Feb. 25, Dublin. Llanelly Railway and Dock Jan. 30, London Tavern. London and South-Western Feb. 16. London, Brighton, & S. Coast Jan. 26, Bridge-house-hote North Staffordshire Paris and Rouen Jan. 31, Paris. Great agitation has prevailed again in the Eng_ lish stock market, and the quotations have been considerably depressed relatively to what has occurred of late, when they have stood so firm. The decline is 1 per cent upon Saturday's rates. Consols have been 90s and 91, and are now 90 to . The news from Russia, although still unauthen ticated, is so like what we may expect, that public securities fall by anticipation. The New 31 per Cents, have been 911 to 92, and the Three per Cents. 91L and since 901. Exchequer Bills have been Gs. to 10s. premium, and India Bonds par. South Sea Stock is quiet at 115. Foreign Securities have been lower, owing to the decline in the English funds. Mexican Bonds have dropped to 23 and 22i, and Spanish are heavy at 401 for the Three per Cents. The political crisis at Madrid is calculated to excite uneasiness, several Generals having been exiled, and the Finance Minister reinstated. The Certificates have been at 31 to 41 per cent. Russian Stock is down 1 per cent., being at 107 for the 5 per cents. The 41 per Cents, have fallen to 90 and 88. Dutch 2i per Cents. bring 61k. The Railway Share Market has been fully 1 per cent. lower, all round, and the sales have been general in London and North-Western, Caledonian, Midland, and the principal lines. French shares have fallen about 1/. each, which is equal to nearly 5 per cent. The reaction at Paris has been very severe. Gold Mine Shares have been a little flattqr, but without any important change. The Australian Bank Shares have been 1/. to 2/. cheaper, and the Australian have fallen about V. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( Prom the Official List. ) Business done. 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities . 001 11 90$ 3 per Cent, Consols Annuities 9Ol 1 i 90 New 31 per Cent. Annuities 921 1a 2 16 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4 15-16 India Bonds, £lOOO ... Ditto, under £lOOO 4 p South Sea Old Annuities Consols for Account 15th Feb. 9oi 1 91 f, 90 Exchequer Bills, ld. 21000 Small 7 10 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent...... . ••• ••• ••• ••• 87i Danish Bond s , 1825 , 3 per C on t Ditto 5 per Cent Mexican 3 per Cent. Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £St lO7 Ditto 4i per Cent 9O 88 Ditto Small Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent B7 61 ipanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 404 Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 4l 3i 41 p c Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Guil Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates HALF-PAST TWO. Consols 9O 4 ODEssA..—The Odessa dates are to the 9th of January. It was known at that period that the combined fleets were in the Black Sea, and the news had at first created much alarm, but the markets subsequently recovered, and even the rate of exchange showed no alteration. Ships continued to arrive in large numbers, and freights were rapidly falling. According to a teleraphic despatch received by a city firm, a Russian merchant ship, which had arrived at the mouth of the Bosphorrs with a cargo of wheat on her way to France, had been ordered back by the French Admiral. BRUSSELS.—Letters from Brussels state that an im mediate advance in the rate of discount is expected to be announced by the National Bank of Belgium. Up to the present time it has been as low as 2 per cent., while the ordinary terms of discount with private esta blishments have been 14 per cent. DEPARTURE OF THE AMERICAN MAILS.--At on e o'clock p.m. on Saturday, the British and North American Royal Mail steamship Arabia, Captain C. 11. E. Jud kins, after undergoing considerable repairs, sailed from the Mersey for Boston and Halifax, with the usual mails for the Western Continent ; about FO passengers and a very large and valuable cargo of merchandise on freight. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT VICTORIA ARCHERY TAVERN, HYDE-PARK -SQUARE.—This morning, at half-past three o'clock, a fire, attended with great loss of property, broke out at Mr. T. C. Rennison's Victoria Archery Tavern, near Hyde-park-square. The police on duty discovered the smoke issuing from the back part of the premises, and instantly raised an alarm, but it was with some difficulty that the inmates effected a safe re treat. So strong a hold had the fire obtained, that the back of the premises was shortly in one mass of flames, and they were not subdued until the back room ground floor, staircase second floor, and roof were destroyed. Contents insured in the Royal Exchange. The cause of the fire unknown, 4.41,E5T FOREIGN NEWS. RUSSIA. AND TURKEY. REPLY OF THE CZAR TO THE VIENNA - PROPOSITIONS. It will be seen from the subjoined, which is positively stated to form part of the next Russian declaration on the Eastern question, that the Czar has completely rejected the project last concocted at Vienna. The anticipated rupture between him and England and France is confirmed by this docu ment, and henceforth, therefore, all mediation on behalf of the Porte by those two Powers will be of no avail whatever : " The Vienna propositions, besides being incom patible with the Emperor's dignity, only serve to divert attention from the real question at issue between Russia and the Porte, and they are, there fore, unconditionally rejected. " To prove, however, that he is still inclined to treat, the Emperor has appointed Prince Gortscha koff his Plenipotentiary ; and to him the Porte has to apply whenever it is inclined to negotiate. Such a step on the part of the Porte will, however, be useless should it act under the erroneous impres sion that the Emperor will depart from any condi tion laid down by Prince Menschikoff. " Any Plenipotentiary by the Porte must be pro vided with a firman, in which it is specified that the Porte, considering the present difference to be ex clusively between Russia and itself, acknowledges that it must be settled between those two Powers alone." The above may be taken to be a prelude to a formal declaration of war by Russia against Eng land and France, if indeed it does not itself partake of that character, when we couple with it the en trance of the combined fleets into the Black Sea, which the Emperor is always said to have considered would be a cases belli. THE SULTAN'S REPLY TO THE NOTE OF THE FOUR POWERS. The following is the translation of the reply of the Sublime Porte to the collective note of the Four Powers : "His Majesty the Sultan has perused with at tention the British Ambassador's note of Dec. 12, respecting the bases proposed for a treaty of peace, and identical with those of his colleagues, the re presentatives of France, Austria, and Prussia, sent in collectively on the same day, and it results therefrom that his Majesty the Emperor of Russia manifests pacific intentions. " The Sublime Porte has waged war solely in its own defence—in defence of its sacred rights and sovereignty—and as there is nothing to affect them in this proposa i l, it has been deemed expedient to adopt it with a view to the restoration of peace— his Imperial Majesty, moreover, being actuated in this circumstance by the highest consideration for his august allies, by an ardent desire of conformin g to their wishes, and by implicit faith in their councils. " Accordingly, on resuming the negotiations, the first point to establish will be the evacuation of the Principalities within the shortest possible delay ; and the second, the renewal of the treaties, to which the Sublime Porte assents, in deference to the advice of the Allied Powers, and in the unde viating spirit of moderation by which it has been guided throughout in these transactions. " With regard to the religious privileges and im munities of the various non-Mussulman commu nions, subject to the Ottoman Government, these have been accorded in ancient times by the illus trious ancestors of his Imperial Majesty, and re confirmed by himself in virtue of a hatti-sheriff recently emanated to that effect. These grants and franchises, moreover, the Sublime Porte has been ever anxious to maintain—and will maintain perpetually—as has been long since solemnly pro claimed to all Europe by the promulgation of the Tanzimat. Moreover, should any one of those com munions possess ad van:ages unenjoyed by the others, and these desire to participate therein—the Otto man Government, animated by sentiments of jus tice and impartiality, will never refuse to dispense equal rights and equal privileges to all. Neither can there be the slightest objection to notify the sincerity and loyalty of these intentions to every Government in Europe, and to furnish each—and necessarily the cabinet of St. Petersburg—with a copy of the aforesaid firmans. 1 ' The project of settlement, concerning the mea sures required to complete the decision relative to the Holy Places, will be accepted definitively. " Hence, the Sublime Porte is ready to conclude a treaty of peace, in the manner traced out by its august allies—and consents, accordingly, to ap point a plenipotentiary, who, with a Russian plenipotentiary, will finally regulate this affair, and settle the terms of an armistice, in any neutral town at the choice of the Allied Powers—as soon as intelligence is received that the Court of St. Petersburg has acquiesced in these decisions. " In consequence of the many and various rela tions existing between Turkey and the European states, the Sublime Porte considers itself in every respect entitled to be admitted as a member of the European federation, and conformably with this situation it will be requisite to confirm and complete the treaty of 1841, and this result. It awaits with entire confidence in the good offices and solicitude of the great powers. " Forty days ought to suffice to make known the decision of the Russian Cabinet, and the Sublime Porte solicits its august allies to direct their atten tion to that object. "Finally, with a view of insuring to all classes of his subjects the blessings of justice and security, his Majesty the Sultan is most anxious to see in full vigour the enactments of the Tanzimat—and to introduce into all departments of state the re quisite reforms and ameliorations—and to this end, has deigned to issue orders for considering and completing that most important object. This cir cumstance I feel most happy to announce, and it will afford, no doubt, the highest satisfaction to the friends and well-wishers of the Ottoman, em pire. (Signed) " MUST.,tt.PHA RESCHID. "Rbiulevel, 30, 1270." DEPARTURE OF THE FLEETS FROM CONSTANTINOPLE. At 11 o'clock in the morning of the sth inst. ; the whole of the Anglo-French fleet was out of sight of Constantinople, as was also the Turkish convoy, consisting of five frigates and six tran sports. The Porte continued its armaments. In addition to the reinforcements despatched to Batoum by the above convoy, six battalions of infantry and two companies of artillery w as s h or tly . _ to be despatched to Kars. For two or three days previous to the day on which the fleet started every preparation was made. The steamers lighted their fires, the ships of the line loosened their sails, and signals were exchanged from one squadron to the other, but the weather was so bad, the current so rapid, and the wind from the N.E. blew in such heavy gusts, that the two ad mirals hesitated, and postponed the intended move ment. At length, on the morning of the 3d the wind veered round to the S.W., and the entrance to the Black Sea was free. At daylight an order was given to get under weigh. A large crowd had assembled on the shore of Therapia to witness the magnificent spectacle. Eighteen powerful frigates were seen getting up their steam at the same time ; small sailing vessels were gliding along between the larger ships, and the latter weighed their anchors, made fast to - the steamers, which were to take them in tow, and loosened their sails, and in a short time a general movement was visible. Later in the day, however, the wind again lulled, and it was not un til the following day that the whole of the fleets, which consist of 33 vessels, of which 15 are of the line, had all entered the Black Sea. A correspondent of the Pays says :—" The Henri IV. was the first to start in tow of a frigate, and proudly passed along with every sail set. The others followed, each as they were ready, and as the French fleet was at anchor in advance of the English, it had the apparent honour of leading the van. But when the English line-of-battle ship the Queen, bearing the flag of Admiral Lyons, got under weigh without waiting to be taken in tow, and dashed into the Bosphorus with all the preci sion and rapidity of a steamer, a shout was raised on the shore iu applause of the admirable way in which she was handled." The French and English Ambassadors at Con stantinople communicated to the Porte the in structions sent to them relative to the manner in whiCh the combined fleets would have to act in the Black Sea. These instructions en join them, it is said, " to accompany the Turkish vessels, and to protect them, on condition that these latter do not re move more than four miles from the coasts of the Turkish territory. Should the Russians attack the Turkish vessels within that distance, the combined fleets will be justified in at once bringing them to action." The represe n t a ti ves o f A ustr i a and Prussia made extraordinary efforts to prevent, or even to retard, the entry of the fleets. They declared that they would remain altogether unconnected with that course of proceeding; and when at last they found that all their persuasions and efforts were in vain, they handed to the Porte, to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, and to General Baraguay d'Hilliers, a written communication, in whiCh they repeated their declaration that they intended to remain com pletely strangers to the act about to be accomplished before them. The general, in reading the docu ment, replied, it is said, rather laconically, to the effect that, " the communication just made was not of a nature to change, in any respect, the course which the fleets were on the point of adopting, and that they were, in fact, executing to the letter the instructions received from their Governments at home." As to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, it is alleged he refused even to hear the note of M. de Bruck and De Wildenbruck read. TIC WAR ON THE DANUBE. Letters from Krajova, dated the 14th January, mention that since the 10th the Turks had not quitted Kalafat and the neighbouring villages, while the Russians had not made any new movement. The garrison of Krajova, which marched on the 7th for the Danube, had returned on the 10th, without having taken part in any of the combats. The whole corps of General Aurep was concen trated in Lesser Wallachia, and it was believed that Prince Gortschakoff had established his head quarters at Pojana. The Hospodars .of Moldavia and Wallachia had refused the pension which the Czar had offered them, and protest against the Russian usurpation. • Early on the morning of the 12th of January General Englehardt, with a corps of 2,000 men, crossed the Danube from Galatz, in steamers, and burst two Turkish villages. Five battalions had embarked to cross the river and to support him. The spot where the Russians crossed lies between Matschin and Isaktcha. They had erected en trenchments on the right bank. Up to eight o'clock on the evening of the 12th, not a shot had been heard in intimation that the Turks had attacked the invaders. At Reni, on the left bank of the Pruth, at its junction with the Danube, the Russians had made a speedy passage, and had entrenched themselves there. The latest advices from Lesser Wallachia left Prince Gortschakoff at Krajova, employed in con centrating his forces at Radovan, prior to a grand attack on Kalafat. Advices from Orsova, of the 21st inst., published by the Fremden-Blatt, state that the Russians had crossed the Danube near Silistria, and occupied the same. . We learn from Bucharest, date Jan. 19, that an encounter took place on the 13th. The Turks at tacked two companies of Russian Guards on the island opposite Ibraila, and tried to cover the attack by the guns of Matschin. The Turks were repulsed from the island. The Russians were repulsed from Matschin, without much loss. Five hundred men had already been enrolled at Bucharest in the Russian volunteer corps. - The Porte still urges the publication of the fir man relieving Servia from a Russian protectorate, and insists on the Hospodar declaring in favour of Turkey. ST. PETERSBURG. Advices from St. Petersburg, of the 12th inst., state that the issue of assignats for thirty millions of roubles is intended to cover war expenses. The organisation of reserve battalions had been ordered. Half the Invalides are called in for garrison ser. vice. The Patrie has the following : _ " It appears certain that a courier arrived at Vienna on the 16th from St. Petersburg, bearer of a communi cation from the Russian Government 'on the subject of the notification of the entrance of the fleets. " This communication is reported not to be the defi nitive reply ; the entrance of the fleets is not, it is said, declared a case of war, but regarded as of a nature pro bably to lead to conflicts and consequently as likely to lead to &declaration of war. " The Note, moreover, it is said, demonstrates that there is no analogy between the occupation of the Danubian Principalities by the Russian troops and that of the Black Sea by the combined squadrons. " The Danubian Principalities, the Note is reported to say, were occupied becausel an infringement upon the rights of Russia was attempted, whilst neither France nor England have had reason to complain of an attempt of that nature on the side of tho Russian Go vernment." THE BLACK SEA. Letters from Odessa, of the 10th, announce that no English or French man-of-war had as yet ap peared before the harbour, and that all merchant vessels of these two nations were making prepara tions to leave Odessa. A Russian-official communication was published at Trieste on Friday last by the central natal authorities. All vessels carrying ammunitions of war, and stopped by Russian cruizers in th►e Black Sea, will be regarded and treated as good prizes, whether belonging to a hostile or neutral Power or nation. The Oesterreichische Correspondenz declares that the report that the Austrian and Prussian Ambas sadors at Constantinople had protested aginst the entry of the French and British fleets into the Black Sea was incorrect, but that those Ambassa dors bad sent a notification to Redschid Pasha to the effect that the step taken by France and Eng land went beyond the agreement entered into by the Four Powers on the 12th of December. The Debats, in giving from its Constantlnople correspondent an account of the entrance of the fleets, says : " As soon as the fleets had entered they made sail to the eastward, and it is supposed that they were about to visit all the coast of Turkish Asia Minor, Heraclea, Sinope, Samsoun, Trebizond, Batoum, &c., in order to drive off the Russian vessels which, whatever may have been said to the contrary, have been lately seen on those coasts. After having made this tour of inspection, it is supposed that the fleets will proceed to the west ward, and show themselves at Varna on the coast of Europe, and they will stop there for some time before they again return to the Bosphorus. This intended plan of campaign must, however, be subordinate to the hypo thesis of no fresh event happening to necessitate the presence of the fleets on other points. At the time that the fleets stood away to the eastward they were joined by a Turkish division composed of five steam-frigates, having transports in tow with troops and military stores on board. This division has received orders to keep under the protection of the combined fleets. The re inforcements which are on board are intended for the army of Asia, and particularly for the garrisons of Ba toum and Chefketil, which are threatened by the enemy. The latter fort, which was captured by the Turks at the commencement of hostilities, is now in great need of pro visions and stores. Although it has hitherto victoriously repulsed all the attempts which the Russians have made to retake it, it has lost a part of its garrison in these combats and consumed a great part of its provisions and ammunition. Open as it now is on the land side, in consequence of the reverses which the Turkish army of Asia has met with, and deprived of all hope of assistance on that side, it waits with impatience for the arrival of the reinforcements which have been promised it by sea. In consequence of these circumstances, some doubt may be entertained as to the correctness of the report that the Turkish vessels have received orders not to quit the protection of the combined squadrons. With the plan of campaign which is attributed to the latter, it is not probable that they can soon show them ' selves on the coast of Batoum, and it is very urgent for the Turks to arrive there as soon as possible. On the contrary, a fleet of 33 vessels, however well commanded and well managed it may be, cannot very rapidly per form the distance of 250 leagues which separates the Bosphorus from Batoum, particularly when it is pro posed to visit different points of the coast, and when it has also to contend with the bad weather and the dangers of the Black Sea. It results, from these facts, that there remains somethin g yet unexplained of the in tended mov emen t s b o th of one and the other. The Pays, alluding to the statement that the combined fleets are to be under the command of Admiral Hamelin, says : " Much- has been said about the respective situation of the two fleets as far as regards the command. This situa tion is very simple. On ordinary occasions each squadron retain its independence. In case of an action, the command in chief belongs by right to the officer senior in rank. If we are well informed, Admiral Hamelin is seven years the senior in rank to Admiral Dundas, and if the squadrons are to engage the Rus s i an fl eet, it is the French flag that will have the honour of directing the blows." EXPECTED RANDUPTURE AU BETWEEN TURKEY It appears that discussions have arisen between the Austrian and Turkish Governments on several points, which, in the present temper of both par ties, are likely to lead to a grave misunder standing. On the one hand, the Turkish Go vernment complains of the rather too evident partiality of Austria for Russia, her pretended neutrality, while, hand, Austria complains of the Turkey of the Austrian refugees. A signal p: of the little confidence existin g between the tw o Governments is giv en by the fact that both are at the present moment making preparations to stop th e communications bet ween th e country now the sea", of war and Austria, and vice versa. Austria pro" fesses to feel alarm at the correspondence which 0 3 1 take place between the refugees and their parasol' s in Hungary, while Turkey fears that informatio n may be conveyed to Prince Gortschakoff, through t Austria, as to the positi on , f orce, an d p l an s e' Omer Pacha. It appears that the position of Omer Pacha begins, in front of the overwhelming force brought against him by R uss i a , t o b e t h e caus e of considerable uneasiness to the friends of Turkel' and it is said that so great is the alarm of the Oft toman Government, that it has instructed its AO bassadors in Paris and London to ask the English and French Gov ernmen t s t o sen d out a corp s t e auxiliaries forth w ith, f oun di ng th e d eman d on Of perilous position of Omer Pacha. At the Turkish Embassy in Paris, no one seems to doubt that war—a general war—is at hand, but they continu e to complain of th e h es it a ti ons b o th o f France and England. The manner in which the position of Omer Pac l36 fs becoming critical appears to be this :—The a t ' rival of the troops under General Osten Sacke r had more • than turned the balance in numb against the Turkish force. Within five or ad weeks from the pr es e n t ti me , th e arr i va l of t fourth corps d'armee, said to be 80,000 strong, wf, render Prince Gortsch a k o ff infinitely more poweriw in numerical force than the army of Omer Paces' . The passage of the D anu b e wou ld then become easy mattr, and a march on Constantinople VI, impossible, notwithstandi ng th e presence o f ° fleets in the Black Sea. WARLIKE ADDRESS TO THE CREW OF H.M.S. THETIS, AT PORTSMOUTH. The Thetis, Captain Kuper, C. 8., arrived a j Spithead on Saturday morning, from Plymouth. 1 At one p.m., the Fire Queen, tender to Victor; Master Comma n d er F. W . P au l , arrived along the Thetis, with R ear -Ad m i ral Dundas, C. 8., one of the Lords of the Admiralty, who quickly cat on board the Thetis, up on w hi c h " all hands" wed piped on the quarter-de c k. I n a f ew minutes Av miral Dundas appeared, and thus addressed tho assembled crew : "My men,—l have come down, by request c ,; the Board of Admiralty, t o ma k e k nown t o Y° , that we are on the eve of a war , an d th a t I c', with Russia. My object, therefore, in addressin , you by desire of their lordships i s t o p re p ar e Yeo for such event ; and I am sure th a t you lI A / receive this announcement as b ecomes Englishoei, and British sailors. It is my duty to inform Y ° , that the country cannot di s p ense w ith your se' „ vices, however hard it may a pp ear a ft er your havi.ll, : been away for so long a p er i o d ; ye t th e ex i ge nci of the service must be paramount to all other 0 . 3 i siderations. Instead, therefore, of your being P i o off, you will all be paid down. You shall hal % a few weeks' run, after whi c h I f ee l assure d will,act as British seamen ever have done in Lt l lid, e fence of their country. I t rus t y ou w ill rece,l t, this communication in it s r i g ht an d proper 1 and I make this k nown t o you th us ear l y t o 1 3 '; 1 1 vent any feelings o f di sappo i n t men t . I 11% earnestly to hope that the evil may yet pass o °, l r i but we must be prepared for any and every a l " gency. Pipe down. " The admiral shortly a ft er re t urne d on b oar d ill ° Fire Queen, and came into harbour. FRANCE. It was reported on Saturday, in Paris, that de Kisseleff, the Russian Ambassador had recei c ,4 his letter of recal that morning ; but the rel 3 °, wanted confirmation. It is said that should til Russian Ambassadors in Paris and Londono obliged to quite their respective Courts, they s o retire to the Hague, w h ere they will wait for 1 0, ther orders. It is also said that M. de Kie L ei t e o , after an interview w ith L ou i s N apo l eon on To d day, withdrew from the Bank of France the DI" which has long b een d epos it e d th ere i n the 11,. of the Russian G overnment . It i s sa id that amount withdrawn is 38,000,000 f. For the last three days the Emperor NaP °lB° ' has been confined to the apartments of the 0 , press. He is suffering f rom r h euma ti sm i n the °Io 12 Another revolution has taken pl ace i n the I.tl newspaper. Within the last two d ays th e e dit° oo staff has all been dismissed, in consequence complaints of the Government as to the mew' which the paper has been conducted. cl Usually, in other times, the anniversary January 21, on which day Louis XVI. was ° /0 cuted, as the occasion of a man if es t a tion ° f , Legitimist character. The Quotidienne was ac' d totaled to appear encircled with a deep line t o mourning, and the Union. Monarchique, the Gl e tl de France, and the U n i vers , at last brew' of forth some expressions of regret ; but this 11e none of the Legitimist journals allude even a to motely to the death o f th e martyred King to the rights of his family. Should any one , L 95 what this change is to be attributed, it may 11 . ° 11 ,i0 plied, to a mot d'ordre given by the Legi tl tbo leaders of the fusion, who are unwilling to rtni„ot risk of annoying the m em b ers o f th e 0r1e7 4 1 , party, by appearing to put f orwar d t o o pr.v h t , nently the martyrdom of the King by divine r i fr'et' The usual service for the deati was, however , 'oa formed on the 21st in the expiatory chapel, a' o cli end of the Rue d'Anjou St. H onor e. The at' 0 4 auce of Legitimists was considerable ; but it r de remarked that whereas in former years the g i ! av el meuble lent black hangings to d ress up the e'S for the occasion, this year the Minister of ba refused to allow any such accommodation ,„ afforded. r ofi The Bourse was ext reme ly ag it a t e d yeste,ooo and a further serio us f a ll t oo k p l ace i n the prloo public securities, although great efforts were it to support the mark e t b y ca ll s ma d e on the el,;-010,4 lators for the fall t o d e li ver s t oc k to a large aul"6B, Three per Cents. opened at 70f., and fell t o ol° 90c. They closed at 69f. f or th e en d o f the I°, 4.; The Four-and-a-Half per C en t s . c l ose d at 071,;0fq Orleans Railway shares, 1,055 f .; R ouen , Havre, 445 f. ; Great N or th ern , 762 f.; Pari'coli' Strasburg, 730 f.; Paris and Lyons , 825 f. ;,P: o cei to the Mediterranean, 655 f .; Western of -"it•o, 595 f.; Bordeaux and Cette, 560 f.; Great Ce n o lt ai' 460 f.; Lyons to Geneva, 475 f. ; Shares of the of Credit Mobilier, 635 f. SPAIN. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 16th ifl; tb", The Cabinet m e t th e even i ng b e f ore, under be; presidency of the Q ueen , w h o , it appears, ga ve be ' adhesion to all the measures submitted 17 approbation. A po The French G enera l C a lli er h a d l eft for BIL c to participat e i n th e l a b ours of the eomraitr,he pointed to fi x th e boundary line between •E' and Spain. Af ia We have al so rece i ve d letters from IVl 3 '' the 17th inst. f 0 i t Cabinet Councils had b een o f l a t e very a tl ; It was evident that the Government was aifrol i " take some decisive measures. The removtA o f the capital of several hi g h personages was tauT i ot M. Mon had l e ft th e d ay b efore for A-licigfjtui to offer his h o m ages t o t h e w id ow o f Philippe. His friends condemned his jour l3 o' a moment when his presence in Madrid was pensable. 10 1 The Provincial Deputations are convo the Ist February. M. Antonio Maria Segovia, a distingefel writer, lately appointed Consul of Spain Lo Orleans, had left Madrid for that destination. OP The Three per Cents. were done at 3 9 1 ;00 New Three per Cents. at 20/ ; the Debt of the class, at Ba, and that of the second at 4/. Oa' THOM'S IRISH ALMANAC AND DI TORY FOR 1854. 1, e Let no one say Irish enterprise is dead, vi'all ,e°: c 4 E m erald Isle" can boast o f th e annua l tion of such a work as Mr. Thom's Direct e i io': e among serials of its class it will yield t ° , ll ,iy,:i g the'three kingdoms, for the extent, v 31 . 70 - value of its information, unless, indeed, "; c tor d f monstrous tome, the London Post-office - 1) ,! .- which increases in size with the growtu e streets and population. In the edition fort h ~,rovo sent year, we find several very important irTr to meats and additions, which cannot but ad d N~ already well-earned reputation of the boo' 1 $ 19 0 Thorn is evidently no t one o f t h ose individ;h 3 o t,° rest content with a single successful achiev el f te he s the contrary, his past good fortune only i r he efl to renewed exertions, and, in truth, this ' 5 t p° f way in which a man, depending on popular suP 0 11 l i es v can, in our age of rapid progress, bed hope of keeping ahead of other competl' e the contents of the volume, it would, o f Cours e 'Ahli i l fiCl.ll tin the compas s o f thi s no ti ce t o conveY 9l3 . 7 tx. h like a faint idea. It will be enough t° t t 00 here may be found not only everything d ail . , reasonably be expected in an almanac 311 u fet 0 j, tory, but a great deal other most useful 1 . 13 - zl it i e o , tion, relating both to Ireland and th e t he e l f , Kingdom. We would especially mention t ira p , o 4 borate abstracts which are given of the mos t tant Parliamentary and official documea,b, s e B tot e a", on the state of the two countries. To I' d oot tics of Ireland a considerable space is The work consists of nearly 1,300 large an d o thivy printed pages , and in point of typ ography is left to be desired. notwithstanding on the other L( ► use made by A signal proof anal ship pass sury ing ; in to S.E. sons, 7flooll into from 4t tinct quar prep; ,c, being passe on de prey( been brok, did ktruc the turn( seng( , - i - ' when foren orate: “rj was 1 that • 110 j child child to] She taro Th Rent chion the I and ( Barol Herb Th durin sition Marc] don Overt Morgi 08. S. ...,.. w alz Select Galop He play e Ovt Soli Th, day. 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