The Sun. — London, England, 1854-05-06 00:00:00

THEATRE itOTA.L DRURY LANZ. Lessee, air. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, MAT 6, WM be performed DER FRBI-CIIITTL Characters by Madame Clezadori, and morn°. .4edlaaek ; Herr Reichardt, and Herr Formes. Followed by a BALLET DIVERTISSEMENT. prices—Stalls, 7s; Drees Circle, 58.; Boxes, 3s ; Pit, 2a.; Gallery, ; and Private Boxes, One, Two, Three and Four Guineas. The Tka-office open daily from Ten till Six, where places may be secured. Private Boxes and Stalls to be had of Messrs. Leader and post, 63, New Bond-street. THE &TEE ROYAL HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Ruckstone. THIS EVENING, MAT 6, To be followed by the new comic drama, called RANELAGII. Characters by Messrs. Vandenhoff, W. Farren, Bnckstone, Tilbury, Sad Rogers; Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Fitxwilliam, Sze. After which, the entirely new and original extravaganza, entitled MR. BICKSTONE'S VOYAGE ROUND THE GLOBE (IN LEI CESTER-SQUARE), written by J. R. Flambe, Esq. Principal diameters by Mr. Bnckstone, Mr. W. Farren, Mr. Clark, Mr. J. Marshall, Mr. H. Marshall; Mrs. Fltzwilliana, Mrs. Caulfield, Miss Z. Grey, Miss Lydia Thompson, Miss Laura Morris, and Miss Featherstone. Followed by WILLIXIND AND HYS DINAH. Supported by Mears. Bnckstone and Corri ; Miss Louisa Howard, Mrs. Fltawil iam, and Mrs. Caulfield. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET. Under the Management of Mr. Cns.az.zs KNAX. THIS EVENING, MAT 6, WM be performed THE MARRIED UNMARRIED. Characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, Ryder, and Cathcart; and Misses Heath and hurray. Followed by FAUST AND MARGUERITE. Characters by Messrs. C. Kean and David Fisher Mrs. Winstacley and Miss C. Lcclercq. After which, AWAY WITS MEL ANCIIOLY. Characters by Messrs. Meadows, D. Fisher, and Saker ; and Misses Murray and Daly. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPIU. Prophetes s , Mr. B. Webster. —Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, MAY 6, Will be performed TWO LOVES AND A LIFE. Supported b y Messrs. C. Seiby, Leigh Murray, Benjamin Webster, Keeley, and 0. Smith; Miss Woolgar an.l Madame Celeste. Followed by TIIE 110ITATA.CEIE MOVEMENT. Principal cha racters by Keeley. Mo. Smith, Keeley, and Pausal); Mrs. Keeley, and Miss Ma After which, THE OVERL IND JOURNEY TO CONATANTI NOPLE, AA UNDERTAKEN BY LORD BATEMAN. WITH INTEREATING PARTICULARS OF TdE FAIR AOPIIIA.. LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestals. THIS EVENING, Max 6, will be presented SERVE RIM HIGH C. Characters ny Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Roxby ; Mrs. Mel:ort, and Miss To be followed by GIVE A DOG AN ILL NAIIE. Principal characters by Messrs. C. Mathews and F. Matthews. ,titer which, NUMBER ONE ROUND THE CORNER. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING. MAY 6, Will be performed THE HAPPIEST OAY OF MY LIFE. Cha racters by Messrs. F. Robson, J. H Waite, Leslie, and Vincent; Chatterley, Miss P. Horton, aril Miss Nlarston. Aft,r which, THE HAPPY MAN. characters by Messrs. Har wood Cooper, White, River, Franks, and 11. Wigan; Miss E. 'Pur a& and MiFs Dormer. To be followed by CO ORLIGE BENSON. Supported by Messrs. E nery, Robson, and Leslie; Mrs. Stirling and Miss Wyndham. STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lessee Mr. F. W. Alicroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs, _ _ THIS EVENING, MAX 6, THE THREE TURKISH RAZOR GRINDERS. To be followed by PAUL, PRY. After which, SUMMER FLO tVERS, in which the French Ballet Troupe will appear. To conclude with PIGEONWIDDY'S PERILS. stalls, 55.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, Is. 641; Gallery, ; Private Boxes, Al tie. 6d.. to be had of Mr. Allcroft. 15, New Bond-street. ASTLEY'S EC".tOPE'S NATIONAL, AMPHITHEATRE:. Lessee and %tanager. Mr. William Cooke. THIS EVENING, MAY 6, Will be presented the new grand Nautical and Equestrian spec tacle, embodying n wel and extraordinary efncts (wri•ten by Mr. Nelson Lee), entitled A TALE OF Titit SPA.II6II WAR.; or, The Horse of the Wreck. Th horses expressly trained by Mr. W. Cooke. Followed by an entire change of the Scenes of the CIRCLE, intro ducing Miss Kate Cooke, Miss Emily Cooke, Mr. Alfred Cooke, Miss and Master Gee, and the most talented Equestrian an i Artistes in Earope. Mae. Blanche, the celebrated Continental Artlqe, on the TIGHT nom 24R . BRIGGS IN HIS PLEASTME 3 OF HORSE-KEEPING. Box-oflice open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tim DAY —Morning 57 min.after 7 I Evening 41 min.aft. 8 roafolutow—Morning 20 min.after 9 1 Evening 0 min.aft 10 THE WEI.THEII.--Sus OFFICA, MAY 6. THERY.IOHETER, IN THE SHADE. 61—highest s',nee noon yesterday. 45 —lowest this morning and during the night. 56 —this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29.68—falling. WIND. S. to S.S.W.—Light breeze, with dull, cloudy weather, inclining to rain. e . c.c ,-0, A ... ks--,_'. _ Z — b ~.. —..-- ~.. LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 6, 1854. It appears to be a conspicuous characteristic of the policy of her MAJESTY'S Government that it should insinuate itself into any course of proceed ing by a series of changes exquisitely graduated. There is nothing, that is to say, bold or brilliant in its proceedings. It does nothing that can sur prise the public into enthusiasm—absolutely no thing that can by possibility captivate the admiration of the community. Does it resolve upon entering upon the most just and honourable war ever thrust upon a great nation by the crimes of a lawless adversary ? It does so not with a decision in any way befitting either the dignity of the Crown or the glory of the Empire, but by a succession of diplomatic manoeuvres, bringing the country by slow, by agonisingly slow degrees to a position of at first dubious, but ultimately indubitable, hostility. Is this just, aid honourable, and popular war accepted as an unavoidable neces sity by the unanimous approval of the population ? • The Ministry contrive to drive slowly in, like a wedge in some machine of torture, the gradually increasing demands of the supplies requisite for the liquidation of the debts incurred by the fitting out of our military and maritime expeditions. Instead of repelling the flagitious and unjusti fiable aggressions of the AUTOCRAT at once by a commanding display of determination ! Instead of candidly coming to the nation forthwith for funds in every way sufficient for meeting, without further delay, the earlier difficulties of our warlike expenditure ! It has not been after this fashion that matters have been conducted across the hannel. There—while Ministers in England were reprobating the notion of any necessity arising for a rupture with the CZAR, while the Earl of ABERDEEN was persisting in the security of peace and in the integrity of the designs of the AUTOCRAT—M. DROITYN DB L'HUTE was publishing, from time to time, in the columns of the Monitewr, those masterly state papers which were nothing less than a sequence of dignified protests against the craft and criminality of the Russian Cabinet, protests penned by the French Minister for Foreign Affairs in the name of the Imperial Government. Then, again, as to the war funds, the conduct of the Emperor NAPOLEON'S ad ministration has been not one jot less magnanimous. No insinuation there of the monetary wedge of torture. But a manly appeal, in the first instance, to the patriotism of the population. Nobody will have yet forgotten how that appeal was responded to, by the proferred contribution of nearly double the proposed loan of 2 50,000,000 francs. How is it here with ourselves ? Why, the moneys needed for this extraordinary expenditure, instead of being acquired by a grand, and prompt, and becoming appeal to the patriotism of the commu nity, is being squeezed out in driblets by an intol erable arrangement of the Chancellor of the Ex chequer. First of all, the country is en couraged with the statem en t t h at no loan whatever will be required-- and then out s neaks, a week or two after war d s, that pro jest of the E xche q uer-bonds, am ounting, to all intents and purposes, to the very loan which the nation had been before assured would be unnecesaarY• • Additional supplies are asked from the House of Commons by the Secretary-at- War and by the First Lord of the Admiralty, and soon after these enlarged estimates for the army and navy are granted with an unstinting hand by the paying branch of the Legislature, further supplies are demanded as supplies that are supplementary. And so, bit by bit, million by million, the wherewithal for the carrying on the war against the Russian AUTOCRAT is being doled out by the people of England. Not • that this is i n an y manner owing to niggardliness on the part of our population. But that the Government is lacking in courage and in decision, now in regard to the war funds, just as it had previously been in regard to the war itself, when it was " pottering" over the arrangement of the Blue Books afterwards laid before Parliament, ~ instead of attending to bolder proceedings than those protracted and abortive negotiations. We are still in the rut of this gradual Ministerial de scent from the possible good to the actual evil — in a monetary sense. We weft op maviug on- wards or rather downwards—until the declara tion of war—for upwards of a year, diplomatically. We are doing the same thing now, we repeat, pecuniarily. The blame rested before exclusively with the foreign, as it threatens to rest now in a great measure with the financial, department of the ABERDEEN Government. There should be an end at last to the long, slow, apparently inter minable agony of popular doubts and uncertainties. The country should be enabled at length to form some conjecture, some proximate guess, at the very least, as to the nature of the monetary position of the State at the present emergency. With the Three per Cent. Consols still fluctuating between 87 and 88 ; with the coin and bullion deposits in the Bank of England reduced to between 12,000,0001. and 1 3,000,0001. ; with little more than 800,0001.. of the first series of Mr. GLADSTONE'S Exchequer Bonds bid for, the series to be paid off in 18'58 ; and with no tenders at all made for the otLer two—it becomes more than ever important that the country should learn as speedily as possible the situation it has arrived at. Let us hope that some faint prospect as to the future may be opened up through the pro mised financial statement of Monday evening. Time enough it were clearly explained to England how the war with Russia is really to be carried on, by what number of troops, and with what amount of expenditure. Were this honestly done, without further hesitation, the community might give not mrJrely cold tolera tion but cordial and earnest support to her MAJESTY'S Government. Last night the Suppleraental Estimates for the Navy, Army, and OrdniAnce were presented to the House of Commons, and promptly and unanimously sanctioned. The "Littte bills" were at once accepted, even without pausing to inquire how or in what manner the necessary funds were to be obtained for discharging the new liabilities. Mr. GLADSTONE'S previous operations had not been such as to war rant unlimited confidence in his financial infalli bility. He had needlessly made away wit h 8,004,000/. of the public funds in paying off at par certain annuities, the principal whereof could never be demanded, and which at the time of pay ment would, but for the engagements he had con tracted, have only been worth 871. for every 1001. Stock. By this brilliant operation he not merely deliberately squandered at least a million of money, but he involved himself in an undignified squabble with the Directors of the Bank of Eng land highly unbecoming his position as financial representative or agent of the British Govern ment, and also occasioned very serious injury to the commercial, trading, and manufacturing interests. The only shadow of excuse offered, the only benefit obtained, being, as stated by the GLAD STONE organ, that it was very useful as " a financial demonstration" (!) When at last driven into borrowing money to replace a portion of the debt which, although bearing interest at the rate of 3 per cent. sterling per annum only, he had thought proper to pay off at par, he finds it difficult, if not impossible, to obtain even two millions sterling on securities paying 41. 3s. 10d. per cent., although the extraordinary advantages belonging to the new form were considered by himself as being equivalent to from 10 to 16 per cent. on the amount of dividend ! Indeed, it would have disgracefully failed but for the sub scription of the South Sea Company for half a million, and for the dashing operations of the Cervine flock, who actually victimised the right lion. gentleman as freely as if lie had been the schem ing projector of a bubble company. As, however, these daring stags were unable to obtain the half crown, or 1-Bth premium on the bargain which they had anticipated, we must await with some curiosity the day appointed for the payment of the first instalment. It will then be seen whether the right hon. gentleman did not commit another grievous oversight. The French Minister of Finance offered his stock at a fixed price, and required a deposit of 10 per cent. from every ap plicant. The Englinh Minister hoped to get a few shillings per cent. more than he would have been willing to accept, and for the sake of that paltry attempt to get a trifle beyond the real value, he exposes himself to the chance of failure— and such a failure! How galling must be a defeat from such a quarter. Mr. GLADSTONE may exclaim, with the dying lion, "Alas, how grievous it is to suffer insults even from the brave and valiant ! but to be spurned by so base a creature as this is who is the disgrace of nature, is worse than dying ten thousand deaths !" But, although these matters would have more than justified the adjournment of the newly re quired supplies until after Budget No. 3 had been opened, the chosen representatives of the people acted judiciously and honourably in at once pledging themselves to provide the means of satisfying the necessary expenditure. However disgusted with the - vacillation and temporising that occasioned the war, and with the bungling that has so greatly complicated our financial affairs, we feel in common with every man worthy of the name of Briton, that it is a just and necessary war—a war that must be car ried on with vigour and energy—a war in which the - United. Kingdom, in common with its faithful ally France, must put forth all its power. In its presence, fighting side by side with its gallant legions, we cannot fail or hold back. There is not a particle of ill feeling in the noble emulation in which the Western Powers have engaged ; but in the friendly competition to do their devoir against the common foe, it wculd have inflicted an indelible stain on the national escutcheon to have hesitated for a moment. The supplies were, therefore, freely granted ; but, as a new liability has thus been undertaken, it will be essential to criticise with more than ordinary caution the mode by which it is intended to pro vide the necessary funds. The chief demands were brought forward by Sir JAMES GRAHAM, who asked for and obtained on behalf of the Navy 4,553,7311., of which by far the largest portion was for the transport of horses and troops, No less than 3,096,7001. was on this account, which could not properly be charged to our " wooden walls," but should ra ther have fallen under another head. In accord ance, however, with the red-tape system of mysti fication that has so long prevailed, it is charged to naval account. The first item under this head was 2,610,200/. for freight of transports on monthly pay, including steam-vessels, or for the purchase of the same. This sum, it appears, covers the hire of eight new steam-vessels, and 86 sailing transports, of which 75 were freighted with cavalry. There are other charges connected with this head for conveyance of troops, rations, &0., the whole amount reaching 3,096,7001., as we have already stated. The remaining portion of this demand is 1,457,0311., nominally for the effective naval service, of which 220,0001. is for a year's wages of 5,000 additional seamen to be raised, and 110,0001. for pay for 5,000 seamen already voted for only six months. There are other incidental charges for victuals and medicines, 47,0001. for additional wages to artificers at home, 160,0001. for fuel for steam-vessels, 252,6741. for purchase and repair of steam-machinery, and 244,6571. for purchase of steam-vessels, gun boats, & c . Th ere i s one c h arge i nc l u d e d un d er this head which will occasion a mournful feeling throughout the entire country-80,0001. to pro vide for the balance of pay due to the represen tatives of the officers and crews of the Erebus and Terror up to the 31st March - last, when their names were struck off the effective force of the Navy. As to the Army and Ordnance, it is sufficient to say that a vote of 3 00,000/. was taken for the former, which provides for an addition of 14,799 to the effective force, a portion only of 40,000 intended to be raised, and for the latter 742,1321.; all of which sums were, as we have stated, freely and willingly granted without a division, The families of the Duke of Buccleuch, the Marquis of Lothian, Lord Clinton, the Earl of Home, the Earl of Courtown, Lord Douglas, the Earl of Romney, &c., are placed in mourning in consequence of the lamented death of the Marchioness Dowager of Queensberry, daughter of the third Duke of Buccleuch and Queens berry, and widow of Charles, fifth Marquis of Queens berry, S.T. - THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1854. MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK The sales of cotton at Liverpool 3 esterday were estimated at 6,000 bales. The market closed heavily, without change in prices. Railway shares were flat. Messrs. Smith and Charles give the following as the latest information :—" St. Petersburg]; 27th ult.—Exchange 341 d. to 34id. 200 casks on the spot at 122 to 124 Rs. for transmission to Memel. Also, at Moscow, 200 casks for August at 110 to 112 Rs. No tallow had reached Memel by the last advices." The position of the Bank of England does not improve, and some measures for protecting the reserve of notes • becomes increasingly necessary. Whether an advance in the rate of discount would best accomplish this it is not our purpose just now to discuss. We simply call attention to the fact, that the Bank loses its bullion, and has to trench upon the notes in its " till." The Government ac count improved a little. In the discounts there was a further increase, and the loans upon Govern ment Securities ware reduced, or otherwise, as ap pears more probable, the Bank was a seller. The balances of private depositors were curtailed, an other indication of the demand for money. Com pared with last week, the changes are as follow : Active circulation £22,247,320 Decrease. 22 875 Bullion Decrease 398,167 Rest Increase 5,730 Public Deposits Increase 2,018,493 250,770 Other Deposits Decrease Seven-Day and other Bills Decrease 62,103 Government Securities 13,080,679 Decrea,se 268,388 Other Securities 14,438,192 Increase Notes unemployed 3,941,140 Decrease 350,675 Some observations upon the currency and the Bank of England, contained in the Circular to Bankers, are very apposite at this juncture. The writer observes : " The nation has for 30 years submitted to have its monetary system restricted within very narrow limits, while the opposite policy has been pursued with com merce. And so long as peace was preserved, and com merce was confined within very narrow bounds ; the effect would not so soon, he shown. But now we have entered upon a war with a Power that has within itself immense resources in material wealth, and extended our export trade some 40 millions per annum since our present monetary system was introduced, we cannot see how, without some very material alteration takes place, that we can possibly meet the exigencies of war, and sustain, at the same time, oar commercial en gagements. Nor can we look upon the regula tion of our circulating medium by the quantity of gold retained in the coffers of the Bank under such circumstances, without feeling astonishment at the per tinacity with which some parties adhere to the delusion. That the Bank itself can long support it we cannot be lieve ; for although the directors have passed over another week without raising the rate of discount, in consideration, we presume, of the scheme of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, that is the only step they can have recourse to, or to sell securities, unless the drain of the precious metal shall cease, of which there is not the slightest probability ; for not only are the prin cipal arrivals immediately exported from this country to the Continent, but the high prices of the principal necessaries of life, and the advanced price of labour, prevent the Bank from increasing its metallic resources from the internal circulation of the country. Various attempts have been made to show that there can be no danger apprehended from the posi tion in which the Bank is placed by the war ; and it is highly probable that no conviction of this will be felt until some financial calamity overtakes the Government or the Bank itself, and suddenly prostrate the commer cial interests of the nation." There was rather more firmness yesterday after noon in the rates for Bills of Exchange upon the principal Continental cities, and on Trieste there was a decided advance. The amount of specie on board the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's - vessel Sim'a, is 80,7101., principally for China. The amount of gold exported from London direct during the week to Thursday last was 1,425 ounces and 921., and of silver 154,679 ounces, all to the Continent. The official returns relating to trade and naviga tion for the month and three months, ending April 5, 1854 have been issued. From these it app.a.rs that the total declared value of exports for the month was 10,042,7541., being au increase of 2,155,5211., comparedwith those of the like month in 1853. The increase is perceptible in beer and. ale, coals and cull:a, cotton manufactures, earthen ware, haberdashery, and millinery, hardware, and cutlery, linen manufactures, linen yarn, machinery, metals, wool and woollen manufacturers. There was a falling off in silk manufactures and cotton yarn. _ _ The importations of the principal articles were larger for the month, as respects oxen and bulls, cocoa, coffee, wheat, barley, oats, flax, currants, raisins, guano, palm oil, rice, saltpetre, pimento, rum, sugar, wine, and tea. There was a diminu tion in sheep, flour, cochineal, indigo, hemp, pro visions, nutmegs, pepper, brandy, and cotton wool. The shipping accounts exhibit an increase in the amount of tonnage employed in the foreign trade of the United Kingdom for the month of 84, 652 tons for the entries inwards, and an increase of 189,024 tons for the clearances outwards. In the coasting trade for the month, the vessels employed show a decrease of 60,694 tons for the entries inwards, and of 41,028 tons for the clearances outwards. The stock market has been dull this morning, with uneven prices. Consols were 871 -a, and have since been 87* I. The confirmation of the news from Odessa has inspired a lively feeling of satisfac tion, but the " additional estimates" necessarily have an unfavourable influence. Bank Stock is steady at 202 to 205. Exchequer Bills continue at 23. discount to 2s. premium, and India Bonds are 10s. to 15s. discount. The New 31 per Cents, have been 87 to 87i. . . Foreign Securities are inactive. Russian 41 per Cents. have been done at 80. Mexican Bonds are heavy at 23k. Peruvian 3 per Cents. are at 44. Brazilian Small Stock is quoted 95. Railway Shares opened rather firmer, but are feebler since. The Mining Share Market is about the same, and the Banks and miscellaneous are supported. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. (Prom the Official List.) _ Business done. Bank Stock ... 202 5 .3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 864 i i 3 per Cent Consols Annuities 873 A 4 New 3i per Cent. Annuities B7 i 7 Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., !C6O India Bonds, £lOOO ...... Consols for Account 11th May BTi a i I Exchequer Bills, 2d. el000 Small 2 p PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. "razilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 95 Grenada Bonds, Deferred Mexican 3 per Cent. Peruvian 3 per Cent. tiussian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St Ditto 4A per Cent BO Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 36a Venezuela Bonds, 3} per Cent. ...... Ditto Deferred, 1 per Cent ll Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 (Gi1..... 58 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates TWO O'CLOCK. Consols B7l Ditto May Account . B7l The Lords of the Treasury have just issued instruc tions to the Custom-house authorities that all packages imported from abroad containing specimens for the Trade Museum forming by the Society of Arts under the sanction of the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 shall be sent direct to the Vuseum in charge of an officer of Customs, and be examined there and delivered duty free. We are happy to hear that the Archbishop of York is recovering gradually from the serious attack of in fluenza which has confined him to his bed for the last fortnight, and ever since his return to his house in Bel grave-square. _ ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Last evening the performance of French plays was honoured with the presence of her Majesty the Queen, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Charlemont, the Hon. Miss Cavendish, Lord De Tabley, Colonel Bouverie, and Hon. Colonel de Ros. There were also present his Excellency the French Ambassador, the Countess Walewski, and suite ; his Excellency the Turkish Am bassador, Madame Musurus, and suite ; the Sardinian Minister, the Duke and Duchess of Hamilton, Mar chioness of Ailesbury, Lady Beauclerk, Lady De Dun stanville, Lady Webster, Lord and Lady Ossulston, Mrs. Packe Reading, the Earl of Wilton, Lord Gran ville, Count Cariiini, Sir Alexander Bannerman, Mr. Norman Macdonald, &o. APOTHECARIES'-HALL.— 'The following are the names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certifi cates to practise, on Thursday, May 4 :—Silvanus Jones Morris, Barmouth, North Wales ; Robert Heelis Thomas Nelson Edwards, Mattishall, Norfolk ; Samuel Mullings Sible, Hedingharn, Essex. AUSTRIANS AND HIINGARIANS.—By a recent letter from Constantinople, it appears that a soiree given by General Paraguay d'Hiliiers, the Hungarian General KlaPka Was an invited guest, and that as soon as he entered the room, all the Austrians present, the corps dipkomatipc included, went away. LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. THE WAR. THE ATTACK ON ODESSA. The despatch received by the Government yes terday from Belgrade containing details of the ope rations against Odessa, will be found in our Par liamentary report. The Mo - niteur of this day (Saturday) publishes an official despatch from the French admiral of the attack of the fleets. On the 22d of April, eight frigates, three French and five English, opened their fire at six a.m. Twelve moles and batteries replied by a brisk fire. The firing continued till five p.m. The battery of the mole was set on fire, a powder magazine blown up, and fifteen vessels either burnt or sunk. The marine establishments were on fire, and much damaged by shells. The merchant port was re spected: Various vessels came out ; amongst others the only two French ones there. This despatch is dated Ville-de-Paris, Odessa April 25. A nearly similar despatch is published to-day by the Times. It was as follows : On the 211 ult. 12 steam-vessels of the combined fleet commenced the bombardment of the military port of Odessa. In a few hours they had destroyed the fortifica tions, the batteries, and the military magazines of the Russians. Two powder magazines of the enemy blew up during the action, and 12 ships of war were sunk. The commercial harbour was spared, and the merchant ships in it escaped destruction. The loss of the allies only amounted to five killed and ten wounded. The whole of the combined fleet has sailed. from Odessa for Sebastopol, and 13 Russian ships laden with munitions of war, have been taken. The commander of the British squadron off Odessa is said to have promised that the Austrian vessel which was burned during the bombardment should be paid for. The magazines, near the water, containing the property of the foreign merchants, were not injured. The fleet consisted of 24 vessels, which during the bombardment were drawn up in three lines of eight ships each. Only one of these divisions fired. About 8,000 Russians are guarding the Sulina mouth of the Danube, where two re doubts and four batteries have been constructed. On the 18th of April English and French cruizers were continually iu sight. GALLIPOLI, April 26.—The Golden Ago and the Kangaroo, with two regiments of the Guards, have arrived here and passed on to Constan tinople. BUCHAREST, May 2.—The Turks have issued a very tranquillising proclamation. None are to be prosecuted for political opinions. Every one is to continue his usual occupations, and it is promised that everything shall be paid for. Three thousand kilogrammes of rice are to be distributed to the poor. The Bishop of Krajova goes to meet the Turks at the head of a deputation. Since this morninf , there is a report of the eva cuation of Great Wallachia. In Odessa it was reported on the 28th that the Russian fleet left Sebastopol on the 24th or 25th. BERLIN, Friday.—The resignation of General Bonin, Minister of War, has been accepted. Count Waldersee, Commander of the Federal Garrison at Frankfort, is to be his successor. The Wanderer of Vienna says A letter from Odessa, 24th ult., states that the bombard ment has produced great terror among the inhabi tants ; they had emigrated en masse, and the town was almost deserted. We are assured that several foreign consuls went on board the English or French vessels. Admiral Dundas has declared that an indemnity will be paid for the Austrian vessel burned in the port. On the 23d and 24th the bombardment did not continue, but the in habitants feared that it would be recommenced. The blockading squadron consists of 24 vessels placed in three lines, eight in each. It was only the vessels of the first line which fired. The warehouses situated on the port, and belonging to European commerce did not receive any damage. The English and French gunners aimed admirably, and only hit the houses and warehouses of Rus sians. We are assured that a combat took place on the 9th between an English vessel and a Russian corvette." In an article on the Czar's last impudent procla mation the Constitutionnel says :—" Before the naval campaign, which is now commencing, shall have terminated, Russia will have lost in a few weeks the fruit of more than a century of persever ing efforts, gigantic labours, and immense sacri fices. The fortresses which she has raised at such great expense on the coasts of the Baltic and the Black Sea will fall to the ground—set on fire and demolished ; and the fleets which she has formed by dint of patience, money, time, tyranny, and skill will vanish—burnt and annihilated by the fire of the allied squadrons of France and England." The Ost Dcutche Post communicates a letter from Constantinople, which professes to give the substance of au official report from Omer Pacha to the Minister of War, of date the Bth ult. Omer intimates that he has assembled a force of 70,000 men at Shumla, urges the Government to hasten up reinforcements to him, not t o ena bl e hi m t o commence aggressive operati ons i mme di ate l y, b ut to form a reserve ; and concludes by stating that if his requests are complied with he would be in a condition to give battle to the Russians as far as numbers are concerned, declaring at the same time that he would not- take such a s t ep un til V arna and Kustendje, with all the i n t erme di a t e por t s, were occupied by the auxili ary E uropean f orces, and the Russians threatened in the rear by the concentration of a strong naval force at the mouth of the Sulina. A letter from Vienna, of the 29th ult., states that a rumour was prevalent there that the Rus sians had raised the siege of Silistria. On the other hand, recent letters from the banks of the Danube declare that the Russians were still investing the town, but they had ceased their fire on it. win the sympathy and re-assure the sinking cou rage of its subjects : " ST. PETERSBURG, April 14.--The European press had paid a legitimate tribute of eulogy to the liberal manner in which the Ottoman Government has acted towards the Russian merchant flag, by abstaining from exercising towards it, dui ing a given period after the declaration of war, that severity which is authorised by maritime law. " We learn that England, which boasts of propagating liberal doctrines in Turkey, has not felt bound to follow the example of her disciples in this respect. The allure ment of gain appears to have been too strong to allow her to imitate the example of the Turks. The English cruisers, in their impatience to realise gain, set to work immediately upon the receipt of the declaration of war, to capture our merchant vessels, and to do this with the greater ease, they make use of a stratagem which con sists of hoisting the Russian flag or that of a neutral power. " The following are a few of the facts which have come to our knowledge : "On the 31st of March (0.5.), at break of day, and in sight of Sebastopol, although at a considerable distance from the port, a war steamer was seen with Austrian colours flying. Two Russian barques were sailing at the same moment for Eupatorie. The steamer succeeded in cutting off one of these, took it in tow, and running up Englis colours steamed away with the prize; the other escaped. The alarm being given, two Russian frigates, followed shortly afterwards by two steamers, gave chase to the enemy, who, however, was too distant to allow our vessels much chance of success. Nevertheless, they continued the chase obstinately and obliged the enemy to abandon the vessel. The crew of the latter, with the exception of one man, who had hidden himself in the hold, was taken on board the enemy's steamer. " Some cannon shots, the first fired by the English, were exchanged during the chase. " On the 27th of March, the Dutch vessel, the Jo hannes, met between the islands of Gothland and Oesel, five English steamers, one of them carrying Russian colours. The Johannes was visited, and the captain learned from the English that they had already captured a Russian vessel. On the 30th of March a Finnish ves sel, the Alma, met near to Dagerort two steam-frigates, one of which approaching the vessel, run up Russian colours. The frigate lowered a boat, and afterwards replaced the Russian by the English flag. The vessel, however, was fortunate, and was allowed to pi oceed after having been searched. "On the 3d of April two steamers without flags ap proached the roadstead of Libau; as they did not answer the signals that were made, it is believed that they be longed to the enemy. " One of them had been seen before carrying Swedish colours. " The house of Shroder, at Riga, received, by despatches, the news that one of their ships—the In dustry—having a cargo of salt, was captured coming out of Memel, and sent away in charge of an English officer and sailors, whilst the Russian crew was transferred on board the captors. Since that time, three other vessels belonging to the same house have been captured: " We think it a duty to bring these lacts before the public, and to warn navigators to be on their guard against the use which English cruisers are making of the Russian flag and that of neutral powers, in order the more easily to get possession of Russian vessels." A. letter from the Baltic, of the 25th ult., in the Moniteur says :—" The thaw of the Neva is ex pected in two days. The ice has already broken up in the Gulf, at a little distance from Cronstadt, which will be very probably accessible at the end of the month. The approach of hostilities is strongly felt at St. Petersburg, and measures are being taken with a view to dangers which are profoundly ap prehended, though denied. Four batter:es have just been established at the entrance of the Neva. The metallic reserve of the fortress was sent eight days ago to Moscow. From the 27th, the com mand of the town will be divided between four military governors, and the state of siege will be applied in all its vigour. Many persons are leaving for the interior of the country. The departure of the Emperor for Peterhoff, where the Court was to have gone on the 27th, is adjourned. His Majesty is in such ill health that he had been obliged to countermand twice a review which he had intended to pass. The displeasure (meconten tement) caused by the policy of. Austria was every day expressed more openly. It had been affirmed in some salons that the Government was preparing to place that power, by an ultimatum, under the necessity of pronouncing for or against it. But at bottom, it is with a sentiment of sadness, more in conformity with the gravity of the circumstances, that the attitude taken by the Cabinet of Vienna and the signature of the protocol of Vienna, which has cemented the understanding of Germany with the Western Powers, has been seen at St. Petersburg." THE BALTIC. A letter from Hamburg states that two Norwe gian vessels of war have passed the Sound, and ex presses a belief that Sweden may shortly join the Western Powers openly against Russia. The writer observes that Sir Charles Napier can land a large force, if required, the French squadron will furnish another large corps, and the Swedes have 10,000 soldiers disposable, and can readily double that number. He then proceeds to argue that the fleets might land a very formidable force to aid in the attack on any point of the Russian coast. Another Hamburg letter says :—" About fifty vessels at Baltic Port were preparing to enter Revel which has become clear of ice, when they received notice from the chief military commandant that the entrance into that port was interdicted to them. The consuls of six neutral nations having assem bled, collectively addressed a protest against the measure of the military governor, but which he could not take upon himself to revoke. He, how ever, immediately sent off a courier to St. Peters burg to point out the real state of things to the government, and the decision is waited for with great anxiety." VIE BLACK SEA. The genuine feeling of the Black Sea fleet may be gathered from the following extract of a private letter addressed to a relative at home : " MONDAY, April 10.— Yesterday came the news of the declaration of war. Our skipper called the hands aft, and made a little sptech. 'My lads, war is de clared between France and England on the one hand, and Russia en the other. It will be necessary now to be very strict in discipline, both for the preservation of our country and the preservation of our lives. F rom this time we b eg i n a f res h. Captain Rogers, sweep all names from the black list and the report, if you please. Now, my lads, if you will stick by me, I will do the same by you ; so, God save the Queen, and three cheers for her.' Such cheers--three such earnest roars of manly strength, determined purpose, and eager dell ht at the news, I ne ver h ear d f rom 800 lips before. Well, next the flag-ship took it up ; but they manned the rig ging, so that their cheers were better heard. One fellow stood upright on the main trtiek. Ship after ship fol lowed suit, each exhibiting some antic and dangerous ebullitions of joy like this, down to the very smallest steamer, It was a sight worth looking at. The French gave no demonstration of this kind. Their habit is to have grand speeches about la France,' 'la gloire, pereur !' and then for each to embrace and kiss his neigh. boor, in a funny little extacy of delight. This seems childish, but they don't fight the worse. They are trumps. " We have as fine a set of fellows for a crew as ever floated. We have a ship that friends like to look at. Our first broadside will be composed of 16 Moorsom shells, two of which, well planted, would sink a ship instanter; and from the upper deck, either 13 more 32's or a trifling shower of grape and canister—both disagreeable in their way. Further, ourfiret address to an enemy is invariably three such oompliments in the space of a minute and a half. So you may rest easy, I think. I do, &c." ST. PETERSBURG. The followingeit;act 7 fromihe semi-official de partment of the St. Petersburg Join nal of the 14th of April i s a n amus i ng s p e cimen of the whin ing tone and mendacious statements which the Russian Government is driven to adopt in order to PRUSSIA. The Pays says :—lt is certain that Russia is dis posed to grant to Prussian commerce by land, some important advantages. It must, however, be considered that it is much more in her own favour than for the benfit of Prussia that Russia acts on this occasion. All her ports are blockaded by the Anglo-French fleets ; and she seeks to open for herself more or less considerable markets on the continent, and political views which may be readly explained, lead her to address herself by preference to Prussia. Will these propositions be accepted by the latter power? There is reasontodoubt it. Prussia has no need of a treaty to see Russia, before a long , time shall have elapsed, completely at her discre tion in a commercial and economical point of view. On the day when the Russian ports and navy shall have been destroyed by our fleets, and when Rus sia shall have become simply a continental power, it is evidently Prussia and the Zollverein which will benefit by that state of things, and will occupy the first rank in transactions with Russia. But now, and in a state of war in which she may soon find herself engaged, Prussia has every interest in a commercial point of view to unite herself with the West, rather than with Russia. ITALY. The Corriere Mercantile of Genoa, of the let, announces that the Duchess Regent of Parma has revoked the decree laying under sequestration the property of those persons who, in 1848, were ap pointed to govern the State provisionally. This she declares to be an act of justice. In consequence of this measure, Counts Cantelli, Castagnol, San vitali, and Advocate Ferdinando Maestri have been reinstated in the full possession of their property. Professor Pellegrini, who was one of the persons contemplated in the decree, is dead. The same journal states that the Piedmontese Minister of Marine had addressed a circular to the chambers of Commerce, informing them of the measures taken by it for the protection of the in terests of Piedmontese subjects at Odessa. The Russian Government having offered Austrian, Prussian, Swedish, Dutch, Belgian, and Neapo litan merchants the reimbursement of the moneys paid for such corn as could not be exported, on condition of its being delivered over to the Russian administration, the Piedmontese Government, which was not contemplated in the said measure, has claimed the benefit thereof for Sardinian sub jects, and caused a note on the subject to be de livered to Ba-on Meyendorff, the Russian Ambas sador at Vienna, there being no Russian diploma tist accredited to the Court of Turin. BELGIUM. The Moniteur Beige of yesterday contains the following circular to the procureurs-general of the Courts of Appeal, and the procureurs du Roi of the Tribunals of First Instance : " Gentlemen—l have the honour to call your at tention to the notice inserted in the Moniteur Belge of the 25th of April, by the department of Foreign Affairs, and to invite you to prosecute all persons subject to the laws of the kingdom who may fit out privateers, or take part in privateering, or who may do acts contrary to the duties of neutrality. " Cs. FAIDER, Minister of Justice." SPAIN. Accounts from Madrid are of the 30th ult. The Queen bad granted the exequatur to M. Antonio Peliu y Lafont, as Consul of Hanover at Santander, and authorised M. Jose Alonzo Ber mudez to act as Vice-Consul of England at Huelva. The family of General Concha had left for Bordeaux. _ _ _ It being Sunday, the Bourse remained closed BANE OF FRANCE.—The next monthly returns from the Bank of France are expected to show a further re markable increase in the stock of gold. The time now taken for coinage at the Paris Mint is 46 days, and the amount in hand is estimated at little short of 2,000,0001. FOREIGN RA TES OF EXCHANGE.—The last accounts from the Paris Bourse show a further improvement of more . than a quarter per cent. At Vienna there has not been much alteration, but the tendency is wain unfavour able, and the quotation on London is 1326, while gold is 40i. and silver at 37 per cent, premium. The rates of exchange from Paris show a slight improvement, and only a very small sum was taken from the Bank yester day for remittance. From Amsterdam and Hamburg also the quotations are better. At the latter place money is plentiful at 2f per cent., and numerous parcels of smuggled gold are arriving from Russia. About a dozen small failures had just occurred among the speculators at the Bourse. INCAUTIOUS USE OF FIRE-ARMS.—On Wednesday evening a young married lady, residing at Everton, near Liverpool, died from the shock she received about a month previously from the conduct of a youth, about 14, who, on the 2d of April, fired a pistol at another youth of 17. The youths were inmates of the lady's house. It appears that on the latter day, while the elder of the two youths was tying his shoes, stooping for that pur pose on the stairs of the lobby, the younger one walked from the parlour into the lobby with a loaded pistol in his hand, and probably to gratify a mad frolic by frightening his companion and the inmates of the house, discharged the pistol in the lobby iu the direction of the elder youth, by which the latter had the narrowest pos sible escape with his life, as the ball in its passage grazed his hair close to the forehead. The youth, it appeared, only suffered from alarm and agitation, but the lady, who was enciente, became very ill, and died on Wednes day last, the cause of death being, as her medical atten dants state, the shock given by the occurrence in ques tion to her nervous system. RUSSIAN VESSELS AT RIO JANEIRO.—A correspond ent at Rio Janeiro, writing on the 29th of March, says : —" We have had a curious occurrence here in connec tion with the war. A Russian schooner hoisted anchor in Rio Bay on Sunday morning, soon after the arrival of the Lusitania. In an instant steam was begun to be got up in the English war brig Rifleman, and before the schooner could clear the fort at the mouth of the bay the brig had followed and passed her, and taken up her sta tion outside, waiting to secure her. The whole place was on the qui vive ; but the schooner dropped anchor at the fort, and after lying a short time there came back into the ordinary anchorage grpund, and is now 'for sale.' This is a Government vessel or small burden. She could not fight the other without certainty of being sunk, so the captain will turn his vessel into cash. It has created great excitement among the trazilians. Another Russian ves sel was sold a week ago.—Liverpool Mercury. MURDER AT CHELSEA.—Much sensation was created at Chelsea yesterday, by the discovery of the body of a child under circumstances which leave little doubt but that a brutal and atrocious murder has been committed. The circumstances, as far as the reporter was enabled to glean, of the case are as follows :—A young married female, whose name did not transpire, but who for some years had been separated from her husband, who subsequently emigrated to America, lodged for the last three years at 13, Evans's-buildings, George-street, Sloane-street, but about three weeks ago she suddenly left her lodgings. The interior of the house being in a dilapidated condition, the landlord set about having it put in thorough repair, and yesterday when the work men were engaged at the apartment lately occupied by the before-mentioned female, they observed that the flooring near the hearth-stone had been on more than lone occasion taken up, and this aroused their curiosity to see if anything was deposited under the flooring, when, upon lifting up the boards, they were horrified at discovering the body of an infant, much shrunk, but, with the exception of the face, which was partly eaten away by rats, quite perfect. On turning over the body, it was evident that before it was placed in the position in which it was found, it had been subjected to the ac tion of fire, which would fully account for the shrunken appearance of the corpse generally. Having commu nicated the discovery to Mr. Green, the summoning officer for the district, that officer had the remains con veyed to the dead-house. to await an inquest. Although every inquiry and search was made for the young wo man who had occupied the room in which the body was found, no clue could be gained of her up to last evening, but as she is well known in the neighbourhood, there is every probability of the police discovering her residence before many days have passed. TEIE CIVIL SERVICE.—Mr. Elliott, Chief Clerk to the Master-General of the Ordnance, has been appointed Assistant -Secretary ; Mr. John R. Godley, of the Irish Income -tax-office, has been appointed a Special Com missioner in London, vice Dickens ; Mr. Edward Hyde, Inspector of Taxes, Belfast, has been appointed Chief Manager in the Special Commissioners' Department, Ireland ; Mr. H. Thorn, Surveyor of Taxes, Padding ton, has been appointed Inspector of Taxes for the Dublin district, vice Batterton ; Mr.F.Tarleton, Surveyor of Taxes, Brixton, has been appointed Inspector of Taxes for the Belfast District, vice Hyde ; Mr. George Phillips, Assistant-Surveyor of Taxes, has been ap pointed Surveyor of Taxes for the Kingston District; Mr. Edward Augustus Bond, Egerton Librarian, has been appointed under-keeper of the manuscripts at the British Museum, vice Holmes, deceased ; Mr. Richard Holmes has been appointed an assistant, vice Bond, pro moted ; Captain Gambier, governor of Dartmoor Prison, has been transferred to the Governorship of Portsmouth Prison, vice Captain Knight, employed on a commission in Ireland ; Mr. Morrish, Deputy-Governor of Dart moor, has been appointed to the Governorship of Dart moor Prison, vice Captain Gambier • Captain Forlong , Deputy-Governor of the Defence hulk, at Woolwich, has been transferred to the Deputy-Governorship of Dartmoor Prison, vice Mr. Morrish ; Captain Keyt has been appointed Deputy-Governor of the Defence hulk, vice Captain Forlong. Irish Constabulary—Appoint ments from depot to out-stations : Mr. Holmes has been appointed Sub-inspector at Antrim ; Mr. Fitzgerald has been appointed Sub-inspector at Gort ; Mr. Royse has been appointed Sub-inspector a t Abbe y leix ; Mr. O'Connell has been appointed Sub-inspector at Clan morns ; Mr. Sub-inspector at Castleluar, has been ap pointed Depot Adjutant, vice Fleming, removed from depot toloberciirry,—Oivit Service Gauge. GREECE. The following circular has been addressed by the Governor of Samos to the foreign Consuls " Bases, April 13.—1 have the honour of informing you that An armed band, from Greece, and composed of Greeks and Samiot emigrants, landed secretly on the 9th on one of the promontories of the island, and' pro ceeded with the banner of the insurrection displayed to Marathocampo, with the culpable design of inducing the inhabitants to rise against the legitimate authority of the Sultan, my sovereign master. The people, responding to my hopes, perceived the disloyalty of these proceedings, and did not he,itate au instant to offer their active co operation in pursuing the rebels, thus giving a new tes timony of their der, tAnesi to the Imperial throne. The rebels, having lost all hope of succeeding, quitted the country in haste, at the moment when a body of troops which I sent to seize them was on the point of coming up with them. In informing you of these facts, I re• quest you to tranquillise the inhabitants of the island who are under your protection, and to calm the appre hensions which they may entertain. Accept, &c., "CONOMONOS." MALTA. MALTA, May 2.—The Ist Royals, the 28th, and a detachment of the 19th have arrived, with General Campbell. The San Spiridoui, from Ant werp, with 229 cases of guns on board for the Greek insurgents, has been seized at Malta. On the 29th the Andes arrived here in eight days and a half, with the Ist Regiment on board. On the voyage a fire broke out, and 60,000 cartridges were thrown overboard. FRANCE. The desire of both the English and French Go vernments is to narrow the theatre of military operations by every means in their power, and to force the enemy into such a position as that a blow may be struck which shall hasten the period of their termination. So much time has already been lost, and the financial and commercial interests of Europe have so much suffered, that they are de termined to direct their utmost efforts to that end. The object of the Emperor of Russia is to extend the theatre of hostilities, to get up insurrections in various parts so as to divert attention, to completely annihilate commerce and industry, and to exhaust, by prolonging the struggle, the resources both of England and France. Such is his policy, while that of the Western Powers is, if possible, to finish the war in one campaign. There is little doubt that Austria is seriously injured by the impedi ments to the navigation of the Danube, and the principal object of the allies is to clear the lower river as speedily as possible. The Empress, who has taken great interest in the fate of Giraud, the man who was buried in the well at Ecully, has granted to him a pension of 600 fr. a-year. A letter from Augsburg, Ist, states that on that day the railway was opened to the public as far as Ulm, so that an uninterrupted line now exists be tween Munich and Paris, Calais and Havre. We read in the Moniteur " The war into which France has been forced by the intolerable pretensions of Russia, gives rise to the most marked manifestations, and all the nation testifies its confidence in the policy of the Emperor. We have seen the great bodies of the state vote, so to speak, by acclama tion, the loan of 250,000,000 francs, required to pay the expenses of the war. No sooner was this vote known than the population hastened to offer to the Treasury a sum of 467,000,000 f. The different corps of the army solicit the honour of going to the East to renew the old glory of France, to defend her dignity, and the interests of civilised Europe. In all parts of the territory levies of men are being made with the greatest facility. The clergy take part in this manifestation. Whilst the army is preparing for combat, it calls down on it the blessings of God, and causes pious and patriotic lan guage to be heard in all dioceses." In corroboration of this assertion, the itioniteur proceeds to make quotations from recent pastoral letters of the Cardinal Archbishop of Lyons, the Archbishop of Paris, and the Bishops of Moulins, Agen, Bailey, Nantes, Troyes, and Amiens. The Russian who, it was stated, in our last im pression, had been arrested by the police at his residence in Paris, appears to be a Count Lazzaroff. Although the commissary of police and his agents used the greatest courtesy in the execution of their duty, he got into a violent rage, used the most in sulting language, and threatened to kill the first man who should dare to enter his apartment. He was at length taken by force, and, after under going an examination at the Prefecture, was sent td the prison Maas MAnsErtf.til, Friankr,—The name of the Eng lish merchant ship which has been plundered, and had its crew massacred off Andros, is the Har riette. Marshal St. Arnaud has arrived at Malta. MARSEILLES May I.—The Comm ander-General, Fo Y, gave his farewell dinner yesterday to all the military and naval authorities at Toulon. The steam store-ship Brandon sailed y esterday evening with troops for Gallipoli. The Veloce and Pordrix le - f p t i on , S a a n tu a r fi da v y e withthe sth battali on of Chasseurs hed c omp anies o f the 7th Regiment of the lino, for Constantinople. The Bourse yesterday was very firm. The Teree per Cents. closed at 65f. 25c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-aalf per Cents. at 91f. 30c. ; and. the New Loan at 65f. 15c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,057 f. 50c.; Rouen, 855 f. ; Havre, 415 f. ; Great Northern, 747 f. 50c. ; Strasburg, 717 f. 50c: ; New Shares, 555 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 827 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 675 E ; Western of France, 570 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 505 f. ; Great Central of France,' 406 f. 25c. ; Lyons to Geneva, 425 ; Bank of Cr6dit Mobilier, 516 f. 25c. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen, attended by the Hon. Flora Macdonald an Colonel Bouverie, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess a Glocester yesterday afternoon at Glocester•house. Prince Albert accompanied by the Prince of Wales, and attended by Captain the Hon. Dudley do Ros, rode on horse back in the forenoon. His Royal Highness presided in the afternoon at a meeting of the Commission for Promoting and Encouraging the Fine Arts in the rebuilding the Palace of Westminster. The Prince arrived at the New Palace soon after 3 o'clock, attended by his Equerry in Waiting. The Commissioners present were,—the Marquis of Lenslowne, Viscount Cannixtg, the Right Hon. the Speaker, Viscount Mahon, Sir R. IL Inglis, Bart., and Mr. Benjamin Hawes. Sir Charles L. Eastlake, the Secretary, attended. The meeting broke up at a quarter before five o'clock. The Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday. Her Majesty, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert took a drive in open landau and four in the afternoon. Colonel Bouverie and Captain the Hon. Dudley de Ros attended on horseback. The Queen and Prince Albert, attended by the Countess of Charlemout, the Hon. Caroline Cavendish, Lord de Tabley, Colonel Bouverie, and Captain the Hon. Dudley de Roe, honoured the performance of French plays with their pre sence in the evening. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday at Gloucester house, Piccadilly. ASSAM COMPANY. At a meeting of the Assam Company held yesterday the dividend declared was 5 per cent., and the report and ac counts were unanimously adopted. The chairman (Sir William Baynes, Bart.) stated that the progress made both in the production of tea and in extending the culti vation was satisfactory, and that the directors entertained confidence in the successful result of future operations. In answer to questions, it was mentioned that the absence of a profitnnd loss account was occasioned through the dif ficul' y of calculating the precise items, owing to the sales of the two seasons' produce running one into the other. In order, however, to meet the wishes of the shareholders, a statement will in future be prepared, though in part based only upon estimate. At the termination of the proceed ings special votes of thanks were passed to the directors, and their annual allowance was increased from 4001. to bOO/. Annexed is an abstract of the report : " The directors have gratification in presenting a report of the state and prospects of the Assam Company, which they believe cannot fail to be satisfactory. The report of the su perintendent furnishes the details of the state of the plant and establishment in Assam, and the directors refer to that report as evidence of the judgment and ability displayed by the present superintendent, Mr. Williamson, in the manage ment of the concern. In that document it will be observed, that the difficulty of obtaining labour, to which the director drew attention on a, former occasion, as being, in their opi nion, the greatest obstacle to the rapid extension of the un dertaking still continues to exist ; but, although reasonable , expectations cannot be entertainad that the concern is capable of very rapid extension, the directors doubt not that the shareholders will consider the progress made during the last two years satisfactory, and that they will feel that every possible effort is being made by the local board and the chief superintendent to meet and overcome a difficulty the im portance of which they fully appreciate. It is, moreover, encouraging to find that, in the opinion of the superintend ent, the present area of cultivation is capable of producing 750,0001 b. of tea. From the statements furnished it appears that the area of productive cultivation in 1852, comprised 1,337 poorahs, which was increased in the past season, by the addition of 239 poorahs of seedling gardens, which had become of au age to be plucked, to 1,576 poorahs, and that by a like addition, the productive area of the current season amouutsito 1,815 poorahs, from which the crops of 1854 will be gathered. It will also be remarked that during the' past season 310 poorahs have been cleared and sown (being 60 more than had been estimated), so that the total area of cultivation is now 2,116 poorahs of land. The crop of tea manufactured in the past season amounts to 366,6871 b., showing an increase of 95,2611 b. over that of the pro vious year, and 65,2611 b. more than the estimate con tained in our last report. The produce of 1852 has all been: sold, except 12,3371 b. now in warehouse, and has realised. 25,9301., giving ls. Hid. per lb. net; and, in continuation of a statement contained in the last report, as tending to show the satisfactory progress of the undertaking, the direc tors desire to call attent ou to the following figures, showing the sums and the average prices realised by the sale of pro duce from 1847 to 1852 inclusive :—The crop of 1847 pro duced 9,7281. net, and ls. 4d. per lb. ; 1848 produced. 2,5521. net, and is 5 1-16 d. per lb. ; 1849 produced 1 , ;,628/. net, and ls. 6 13-16 d. per lb. ; 1850 produced 18,1531. net, and Is. t; 2-16 d. per lb. ; 1851 produced 22,151/. net, and ls. 84d. per lb.; and that of 1852 pro duced 25,9301, net, and ls. 1141. per lb. The produce of 1853, if sold at ls. 10d. per lb. net, will give 33,611/, Look ing back to the brief period of a few years, when the pro spects of the company were so gloomy that the value of the shares was reduced to all but nothing, it is pleasing to find that such has been the improvement in its management and. prospects as to enable the directors to recommend a divi dend of U. per cent. on the paid up capital, and, further, to find that the shares are fast recovering their value in the market." THE WOOLLEN TRADE. (From the Leeds Mercury of this day.) LEEDS, May s.—The markets have been dull and sluggish this week. Both on Saturday and Tuesday there was only a very slender attendance of merchants in the cloth-halls, and. the transactions were limited ; prices are without any vari ation, and stocks remain without any material alteration. As many of the manufacturers are mostly employed in making to order, their productions are delivered direct at. the warehouses instead of accumulating in stock. The trade in the warehouses continues without any notice able change. There is a moderate business doing for the home market, and there is also part doing by some of the shipping houses for the East India, China, and South Ameri can trade, On the whole, considering the circumstances of the country—the war, with all its attendant anxieties and evils—the scarcity, and consequent dearness of money, and the high price of provisions—we believe there is quite as large a business doing in the wo lien trade as most persons calcu late upon, and consequently we hear very little comp'aining. HUDDERSFIELD May 2.—The market here still continues very flat, though given in as being rather an improvement upon the preceding week. There were few buyers in at tendance. The goods most in demand are middling fancy goods and black doeskins. Those for shipping, of low qua lity, are a drug, and stocks are rapidly increasing in the cloth-hall. Wool remains unchanged. BRADFORD.—The sales of wool are by no means extensive, and the supply coming to market is limited. The stock of deep grown fleece wool and sorts are not abundant, and. the downward tendency of this class is abated. There is: greater plenty of skin wool of all kinds, as there is also of down, half-bred, and other fine wools. But there is little inquiry for them, although there is a greater desire to clear out prior to the new clip coming to market. Yarns — This branch of business is exceedingly discouraging. It is unremunerative to those engaged in it, and large quantities of machinery are entirely idle, and others only partially em ployed throughout the district. Pieces—Nothing new to report. The quantity of goods manufactured is diminished weekly, as the prices offered are ruinous. Unless there is some decided change for the better ere long, the result must be disastrous. MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Mining Journal of this day.) One or two descriptions of shares have been sought after this week, and amongst them West Bassets have risen to 181.. per share (6000ths), and few sellers to be found even at this. high premium. A highly satisfactory report was presented to. the meeting, and a dividend of 6,0001., or 11. per share, will,. it is said, be made in about four months. Upon the whole,. there is more business doing, and we expect a better state oft things when the market has bee,me even more weeded. At... East Rose, the lode has been cut good in the 160, and caused an inquiry for shares. In the Bullion Market,—Dollars, ss. Oil per oz. Bar gold, if containing above 20 dwts. of silver per pound, 775.. 100. per oz. standard ; ditto, without silver, 775. 90. Bar silver, ss. rid. per oz. standard ; ditto, holding 5 grs. of gold, ss. 18d. Columbian Doubloons, 775. 3d. to 775. 6d. per oz. The Gold Mining Share Market has experienced no reaction for the better during the week. Shares remained exceedingly flat and du 1, few inquiries being made ; the New Granada. shares have been somewhat firmer, which, with the Agua are about the only ones in which business has been done, the latter having continued at a premium. Nouveau Monde hi us been exceedingly low ; the Quartz Rock and Mariquiti havy, continued at a discount ; and the Colonial Gold has reache par. Metcalfes have been firmer, and Port Royals and Penin sulars have been steady at quotations. We have scarcely an y news from Australia or California, although the arrivals hay re been extensive. The demand for gold for remittances h: is been brisk during the week, and for the Continent, in part i cular, remains unabated. In Miscellaneous Shares the market has been generany steady. Iu Iron and Coal Companies during the week the mark at has remained very flat. The only transaction we have to no tice is with regard to British Irtui, which have been done at 6. LLOYD'S SHIPPEVO-(THIS DAY.) LONDON. May 6 —Wind tins day at Noon, S. ; light breeze, and cloudy. FALMOUTH, May s.—Sailed—Thomas Snooks, for Cape) Coast Castle. Off Port—Patrice, from Batavia, and sailed for Amsterdam ; Polar Star, Melbourne, and Cape of Good Hope ; Gilbert Munro, for London. OFF PORTLAND. —Marquis of Londonderry, Shanghai. JERSEY, May 4.—Wind, S.W. Sailed—Nameless, for _Labrador ; Belus, do. ; Nerida, New York. SWANSEA, May s. —Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Richard sou, from Coquimbo. DUBLIN, May 4.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Max/ Ellen, from Barbadoes. KINGSTON, May 4.—Arrived—Abeona, Whampos. CORK, May 4. Wind, S.W. Arrived—Messenger, from St. John's, N.B. ; Jessie Mitchell, Bada ; Pacific, Kertab ; Novo A lriana, Coquimbo. QUEENSTOWN, May 4.—Wind, variable. Arrived- - ' Noma ' from New Orleans, and not the Norman, as re' ported yesterday. Sailed—Sprite, : for Newfoundland. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Saturday, 11 a.m.. Wind S.W., fresh breeze and fine. Arrived—Kirby, from Para ; Leavant, Maracaibo ; Cor' morant, from Rotterdam. Off P or t—London, from Arracan ; Siberia, St. John's, New Brunswick. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday, 10 3.11 2 . Wind S.W. ; tide, 21 hours ebb ; fine. Arrived, May s—Vere, from Jamaica. May 6—Clara Sharp, from Antigua; Joseph, and Jul'' lee, from Guernsey ; Palmyra, Barbadoes ; John and Jane, Brussels ; Belgium (s), Ostend ; Tiger, Hamburg. Sailed, May s—Cornelia Hendrika, for Sydney ; Jupiter, Gottenborg. DEAL, Saturday, 9.12 say. Wind S.W., light and fine. Passed—Kate, from Sydney, for London; Devonshire, from Mauritius, for Lond on ; Lotus, from Barbados , for London. DUNDALK AND ENNISKILLEN EAILWAL—On Thurs day several of the directors, including Captain Jocelyn, Mr. G o ldi n g, Mr. J. Byrne, and Mr; Mayne ; accompanied by Mr. Jackson, secretary, and Mr. J. 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