The Sun. — London, England, 1854-09-13 00:00:00

MONEY MARK E AND ()OM MET CIA L INT ELLIG !'NC E. CITY, TNN 0 o'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 5,000 bales. The market closed but steadily, with prices of all kinds un changed. The sales comprised 200 Egyptian at 6(1. to 71d., 40 Sea Island at ls. Oid. to ls. ld., and the remainder nearly all American. Railway Shares were firm and steady. The steamer Arctic has arrived off Liverpool, with 1,130,705 dollars in specie, and dates three days later, viz., to Sept. 2d, inclusive. The stock market was again very depressed, after a rally. *which occurred on the 29th ult. The Erie Rail road Company appears to be in great embarrass ment. One writer states : " Air. Vanderbilt has loaned the Erie company his endorsement on $400,000 of its paper of short date, for which he has received a mortgage on the entire rolling Property of the road. Everythilg in the shape of a loco motive, freight and passenger car, has been pledged for the above-named sum, instead of $600,000 as at first proposed. Of th e $4OO, 000 raised by mortgaging the move able property of the company, $300,000 will be paid out to-morrow for interest then due on the bonds. This leaves but a small amount for other purposes. It would be well enough for the company to appropriate the balance to the Payment of wages due labourers along the line of the road. We are informed that along the Delaware di vision labourers have, been paid,only up to the Ist of July. ...Wages due for June were not paid until a week or two ago. July and August are now due. This is a pretty position for, the Erie Railroad Company to be in. The president, no doubt, receives his salary of $lO,OOO per annum as soon as due, and all the other officers with enormous salaries, the same, while the poor labourer, whose credit at the nearest store depends entirely upon his prospective pay, is put off month after month, until he can get no more pork and bread upon his promises to pay when the company pays him. These may be con sidered trifling matters, but a shrewd stockholder will be able to draw correct inferences from even such trifles, and govern himself a cordingly." There were appearances of rain in 'New York State at the latest date. From Mexico it is stated that Villareal, the aecond in command to General Alvarez, had died of his wounds. Venezuela is stated to be still in a very disturbed condition. Honduras had been visited by swarms of locusts. The accounts from Brazil by the Great Western steamer represent business as being dull at Rio. The market report from Buenos Ayres is likewise unsatisfactory. The arrangements by which the remainder of the Exchequer Bonds are to be issued appear to be so far judicious that they widen the probable sphere of circulation by reducing the separate "amounts of the Bonds:ln the instruction given it is provided that the bonds and certificates attached thereto s hall . provided to the amount of 900,0001. in bonds of • 1,0001. each, 530,0001. in bonds of 500/. each, 300,0001. in bonds of 2001. ea cll, and 270,0001. in bonds of 1001. ea ch. This will give 2,700 bonds of the lowest denomination, and any one acquainted with Stock Ex c h ange matters w i ll apprec i ate t h e conve nience of thi s p l an, an d understand t h e pro b a bi l i ty o the s ecur i t i es being taken up by parties who other wise would no t i nvest i n them. The b onds of the larger amounts will, at the same time, be useful to bankers and others. On the face of each bond the intimation will appear that the capital is to be paid °ff at par on the Bth May, 1858, the interest being at the rate of 3i per cent. per annum. The inte rest may be received by any one holding the an nexed ce r tifi cates, of which a form i s g i ven, stat i ng th the borrower is entitled to a half-year's divi dend. Thus, a bond of 1,000/. will bear a Coupon o f 1 7 1 . 10s. for the half-year ; one of 5001. Will yield 81. 15 s . ; one of 2001., 31. 10s. ; one of 1001. V. 15s. This is quite a new feature in connection with English securities, and we have not the slightest doubt that at no very distant date t hey will, as we have always contended, be made fre ely available for the purpose of remittances. 'itherto Dutch and other foreign Coupons have Passed from hand to hand in the same way, and been found very acceptable, although they could never be as serviceable as a bond payable at Par within a given date, being subject to greater fluctuation in the different markets. The A and the. B series will now be in circulation, authority having been given to the cashier of the Bank of Zngland to receive the same from the Comptroller- General of her Majesty's Exchequer. Having ap- Proved of the experiment of issuing Exchequer Bonds from the moment it was first announced, and having, in fact, joined with the practical men in the suggestion that some such course should be tal&en, we feel an especial pleasure in the success which has attended the attempt, notwithstanding the bitter opposition manifested by disappointed speculators, who were particularly solicitous that there should be a further addition to the funded debt of the country. This has been settling day in the Stock Market, and it would appear that the Account is decidedly Bullish. The " continuation " has been as much as 4 to per cent. on Consols, which, after being n for transfer, fell to 95k though now again 95 11 i• The prices for October have been 95i -g, and S o iTlee 9 5g- Exchequer-bills have realised 6s. to v's-, and India Bonds 6s. prem. The Bonds of 1859 have been done at par. East India Stock has been done at 225. The arrival of about 280,000/. in specie this morning will afford acceptably means for the next instalment upon the Turkish Loan ; and the change of wind will no doubt bring for ward several Australian ships that must be off the Coast The Foreign Stock Market continues very quiet. Russian 5 per Cents. are 872 to 88, 1 2 - being lower, a nd Spanish Bonds are flatter, the 3 per Cents. at 37 1, the New Deferred at 18 and the Passive at 4 an d 4i. Brazilian 5 per Cents. are quoted 102, and Dutch 4 per Cents. 94g. The Turkish Scrip opened at 51, but has subsequently been as low as si. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 to 6i ; Mexican, 244 to 25 ; Peruvian, 70 to 72 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 51 to 53 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 98 to 100 ; ditto 4 i per Cents., 88 to 90 ; Spanish New Deferred, 313 to 18i ; ditto 3 per Cents., 37f to 384 ; ditto, Certificates, 54 to 51 ; ditto, Passive, 4 to 44. This is " making up" day in the Railway Share Market, and the business done is chiefly in refer ence to the settlement of the Account to-morrow. The movement in prices is not uniform, but the tendency generally is towards a decline. The Foreign lines aro very dull. In Mining, Banking, and the miscellaneous Shares dealings are unimportant. 50 50 20 20 25 St. 20 Bt. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. ( Front the Ot.cial List. ) Business done. 3 per Cent: Consols Annuities 9 sli Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4i India Stoe,k India Bonds, £lOOO ...... 6 p Consols for Account 17th Oct. Exchequer Bills, 24d. £l000 £5OO 9 G Small 9 6 Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3,i per Cent, — Ditto 1859, ~ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent lO2 S ardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent BB} 7i 8 SPauish Bonds, 3 per Cent 37i Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. lB Ditto Passive (Converted) Turkish Scrip Dutch Dividends on the above payable in Lo n d on . ttch Exchange, 21 per Cent. 12 Guil -- Ditto 4 per Cont. Certifieates HALIVAST PTO. Conn°la Ditto October Account TEE CANADIAN ASSEMBLY was to meet at Quebec on the sth September for the despatch of business, and the reciprocity treaty would have to be assented to in Canad a and the other prlvinces before it can come into operation. As remarked by General Cass, this treaty " terminates all existing differences between the United States and Great Britain, and leads to the hope that the COonly w eats between them will be a generous rivalry in all that constitutes the true progress of nations." AT ARMING FIRE AT CLERKENWELL.—Yesterday after "' n, between the hours of one and two, a fire broke 01 t on the premises of Messrs. Elston and Sons, watch dial manufacturer; carrying on business at 42, Myddel ton-street Clerkenwell. The envines of the parish, three of the London Brigade, and that of the West of England Office, were soon in attendance, and the fire Was eventually extinguished, but not until considerable image was done. The sufferers were insured in the 2tclutiage Fire ace. ii 2sl St. 2i 25 50 St. 10 St. 25 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENTNG, SEPTEMBER' 13, 1854, S HARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. !Closing Prices yesterday. Business done this day. RAILWAYS. ) Aberdeen iz Ambg. Nottng. Bost and Eastn. Janet 6 , „ Ballymena Birming. Wolverh. Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Janet Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £20.............. illyth & Tyne original £25 (issd. at .£45) Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Car marthen and Car digan . Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall Crieff Junction Dublin &BelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Aber Teen Junction Do. New East Anglian....„ Eastern Counties , `,astern Union, A Stock De., B. Stock Do., New A East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin.Prtb &Dundee Forth & Clyde June. Glasgow &S. Westore ,Great Northern Do., A. Stock... Do., B. Stock.., &West.(lre ) Great Western Do. Stour Val. Rol. Gua. Stk Irish South-Eastern:. Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds ,Do. New Thirds Laneash. and Y orit st, Do., Fifths D 3., Wst. Riding IT I: Liv. Crs by.&Soutlipt London & Black wai Loud. Bright & S.Cst, Loud. and N. West', Do. Fifths Do.lol. Sh.,M&B Do. Eighths I London andS. Westi, Do., £5O Do., £4 , ) Lndudrry&Coleraiii, Lududrry. & Ennisk. Aanch.Shef. & Linclu Do., Man. & Lin. Un idiand ..o. Birmug. & Derto Ntidld. G. West. (Iri ) 00. Half Shares Newcastle & Ne wmkt. Bury Exteu.l Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd.l Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevur.. Yorfelk Northn.Counties Un worth British North Devon, No. 1. Do., No. 2 !)0., A Deferred 1 Do., B Guarant. , o , + N. Eastern—Berwick Do. do. Extension do. C. N. E. Parch. Do. Leads Do. York North London.. Do. New £lO S.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp ' stead, and City Jn ' North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester , )xford, Worcester,& Wolverhampton Portsmouth licottisli Central Scottish Midland ihrewsby. & Hera,' Shropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& paid up at per 4outh Devon South Eastern south Wales Yrksh. di Riv. Dui C7J , :Nines, Wok. &Wol, Stockton & Darliug. itoekton & Hartlepl raft' Vale Do. £lO shares Do. Pref., No. 1 Climes Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath.. Watera & Kilkenny ' Waterford&Limeriel I West Cornwall. West End of London and Crystal Palace.. West Loudon. Nimbledn &Croydor 22 - 22, 4i - 5i 9 -- 93 lli--10i ii 17 -- 18 7 -- 6di 95 - 97 67 - 67 15i - 16, 10 - 12' • . id 71 - 7i 17 - 18 12 - 12 70 - 72 63 - 65 24 - 25 68 - 70 89 - 90 71 - 73 24 - .127 93A - 944. 741 75 75 - 78 -6 - 88 10 - 12 t 10 - .2 75} - 76 5 -- •• • - •.. u I 105 - 107 [o4k 105 i 1 p r 854 864 9 81 7 ci 25~ 26~ 72 - 721 42 - 44 d par 8 6 .. 2a 2j 5i - 64 48 - 50 34 ~. 35 8 10 1 61 71 77A —78 i 33 51 d - 15 156 56 -- 57 54 56 1 p 4d it , 4 3i , 6 74 par 1 p 34 - 36 96 - 98 64 - 66 74 - 8 36 - ! 13A —. 14t 67/ 68! 334 2/ 1 pal 33 - 35 . • •• - 3 8 / 1 19 44 - 5 24 - 26 - isi 4 7- ii FOREIGN. A ntw erp&Rotterdsun Belgian Eastn. June. Beziers to Graineasac Bombay, 13aroda, and. Central India,Seri: Central of Italy Demerara Dijon and Besancon Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New East Indian Do- Extension Do. 4i p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible Do: do. do., '59, do Gd. Juliet. of France Gd. Tk of ClanadaA is. Do. do Do. St. Lawrence & Atlantic do. all Do. Cert, of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. 1.0 Gt. Central of France all Gt. Indian Peninsula 1 Do. New 5 per cent. all Gt. Western of Canada Shares all Do. Bds., payable's7 t with option till '55 all Do. do., '62, p. '56 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O all Do. do., '73, without option all qamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 8 Lia.ko Const. & Basle all hucea & Pistoj a 5 p.c pref 10 great Luxembourg) Constituted Shares i)o. Obligations Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Mediterran Aadras I Do. New Aaria Antonili Do, do. Now . Nfelbourne Dk. & Ry Namur & Liege (with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France D 0.201. Shs.late Char leroi and Erquelines guar. 31 p. c. & red. at 22i/. dur. 8S yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 Do. 201. 3 p. c (fmy. B. dt Ams. Shs. ) NorwegianTrunkPref Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans.... Paris and Rouen ParisCaen (St CherbrE Rouen and llavre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse Do. 5i p. cent. Pref Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) , West Flanders Do 6i per c. Pref Western of France_ West. of Switzerland, Wiesbaden ...... Zealand JOINT-STQ astraiasia British Colonial Bank and Loau Company 13rithdi N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China Colonial Commercial of Loud 1 English Scottish and Australian Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia London and County.. London Joint Stock.. Loud. & Westminster National Provincial of England Do. New National of Ireland: Now South Wales Oriental Bank 01 Corporation. Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australu.Bkg 4k Gold Imp Co South Australia Union of Australia Do. New Mon of lonclon, „, sl_ l 7i 3i 3 # d id—ip - 21 - 2 P 32 2i 3p id par .‘• .P! 6 - 7 - 6 8 - 6d iP A iP 171 18. 2d par 1 d 1p 4 ld -- pat ld par . 2 4 ... dis 2i - 3 3 - 31 - lip par }p 7 - 7i 34 I: iii 121 • 12 8 - 9 191 -193 p 49 51 38 49 pm 23 —23 i par Ip d 8 —Si ..• - pm •• 1 - 1, 1s- 1.7. BANKS. 84i - 8541 i = i'd ii = ii 21 d 21i 22 39 - 41 43 - 45 43 - 45 74 67 6Si i - - 8 !!! Business this Usu. DONCASTER RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) £lOO PLATE. Rataplan ...... . Sy vagee Early Bird .... LATEST BETTING. ST. LEGER. 6to 4 agst Boiardo). 7to 2 agst the Trapper. THE MEDITERRANEAN. (BY ELECTRICTELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING. By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's Steam-ship Caudia, Captain Field, we have dates from Gibraltar, Sept. 5 ; Cadiz, Gth; Lisbon, 9th; Vigo, 10th. The Candia had no communication with Oporto, in consequence of a dense fog. She brings 73 passengers and a large cargo of almonds, grapes, figs, onions, &c., and 25 packages specie. Queen Christina and the Duke of Rianzares, accompanied by General Garrigo, landed at the Arsenal at Lisbon, at 4 o'clock on the morning of the 9th. They proceeded immediately by the Royal carriages to the Spanish Embassy, where a guard of honour had been stationed. At Gibraltar exchange on London was quoted at 52i ; Spanish pillared dollars, 14c. prem. The cholera was on the decrease at Cadiz, but the deaths had amounted to 20 per diem. PORTUGAL. SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY, SEPT. 12. The Great Western brings us Lisbon letters and papers of the Bth inst. The Queen Mother Chris tina of Spain had been telegraphed as having ar rived at Vendas Novas, and at the time our corre spondent closed his letter the carriages were wait ing her landing at Lisbon. She was on her way across the Tagus from Aidea Galega, and was ex pected to stay a day or two at the Spanish Mini ster's, M. Alcala Galliano, previous to her depar ture for France, but whether by the Candia, via Southampton, or by an expected French steamer did not appear certain. The King Regent had sent for the Ministers to hold a conference at Cintra, both in respect to Queen Christina's visit to Lisbon, and the Oporto affair of the supposed attempt at abduction to pro mote a wealthy marriage for the Duke of Saldan ha's only son. The Oporto accounts which had reached Lisbon upon this subject were very con tradictory ; but they were very annoying to the Duke and his Administration. A Royal decree has been signed, granting to the islands of St. Thomas and Principe the same Cus tom-house regulations for foreign trade as had been given to St. Vincent and Mozambique. The Lisbon exchange for three months w as a t 54f to k on London : but a greater abund ance o f mailbills per was G expected Western. ctedafterthe delivery of the Brazil COURT CIRCULAR. OSBORNE, SEPT. 12. Baron de Geradorff and the Earl of Clarendon ar- rived from London yesterday afternoon, and had audi- ences of the Queen. Baron de Gersdorff delivered a letter announcing the death of the late King of Saxony, and returned the In signia of the Order of the Garter worn by his late Sove reign. The party at dinner included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Frances Bruce, Baroness do Speth, Baron de Geradorff, and the Earl of Clarendon. The Queen will hold a: Privy Council this day (Wed nesday) at Buckingham Palace. Despatches were received at the Colonial -office yes terday from the Governors of the North American Pro vinces, and from the Governor of Helligcland. The Queen will hold a Privy Council this day (Wed nesday), at Buckingham Palace. _ _ His Excellency Don Antonio Gonzalez, the newly appointed Spanish Minister, has arrived at 44, Portland place, whither the residence of the Legation has been removed from Mansfield-street. The Marquis and Marchioness of Breadatbane are en tertaining a distinguished company at Elack Mount Forest House. Viscount and Viscountess Villiers have arrived in Eng land, from the continent, and have joined the party assembled at Sir Robert Peel's, at Drayton Manor. Dr. Karl, who has been for many years director of the theatre of Leopoldstadt, a secondary house at Vienna, has just died, leaving a fortune of about 2,000,000 florins (5,200,000 francs). He has left legacies to the perfor• mere who mostly contributed to the prosperity of the theatre. MARKET NEIVS-=(TITIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. There was a very limited show of both old and new Eng lish wheat in to-day's market. For most kinds there was a very moderate demand, at Monday's improvement in, the quotations. Very little foreign wheat has arrived this week, yet the supply of foreign was rather extensive. Sales progressed slowly, nevertheless, pikes were well supported. Barley was dull in sale, but not cheaper. We had a dull inquiry for malt, yet no change took place in the quotations. - The oat trade was very firm, and prices were well sup- ported in every instance. Beans and peas were dull in sale. A fair business was doing in flour. The top price of the best town-made was 50s. per 281bs. ARRIVALS THIS WEER. Barley. I Malt. Oats. J,580 20 300 —3,81 V Wheat. 880 English .. Irish .... Foreign Flour. 670 300sks —brlS 1,930 i 550 BOROUGH HOP. We continue to have a fair demand for all kinds of hops, at full prices. Duty 60,0001 to 65,0001. A WHITECHAPEL. Each kind of meat sold slowly, at the following prices : —Beef, 3s 2d to 4s 6d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 8d ; lamb, 4s Od to 5s 0d; veal, 3 8 Od t o 4s 2d; pork, 3s 4d to 4s 8d per 81bs. by the carcase. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (Prom the London New Pricc Current of yesterday.) SUGAR.—The market is dull at about previous rates. Brown lumps 42s Gd, and 'rrrocery 43s to 495. Havannah yellow, N o . 13, so ld at 223 for a cargo for Bristol, and ou the spot white is 30s. Tho quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 3,273 hhds 402 tierces 1,530 for home consumpti on 1 ,089 hhds 112 tierces 468 barrels. The stock in the sam e p l aces is 1,491 hhds 2,423 tierces 4,892 barrels. barrels. There were taken COFFEE.—This article is steady. Native Ceylon has been sold at 15s for ord. TEA.—The market is dull at former quotations. Rum,—The quantity landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1,095 puns 111 hhds. There were taken for home consumption 141 puns 21 hhds, an d ex ported 122 puns 214 hhds. Th e stock in the same places is 10,403 puns 2,446 hhds. There has boon a fair demand at a slight advance. RICE.—At auction 2,932 bags Bengal partly sold at 10s Gd for broken, and at lls to 12s 6d for mid to fine being 103 4.A per cwt. Y has be en so ld a t 10 3 3d t o rather sAL SALTPETRE.—The firmer. inquiry s been good and 2,500 bags of Bengal have been sold at 26s t o 27a, for ord Ili to fine 24 lbs refraction. OlLS.—Linseed oil met with a slow sale at 32s Gd to 32s 9d on the spot. Rape oil has been quiet at 42s for brown, 44s 6d for pale, which is under the quotations of the pre vious week. gullY held a t 45 s t o 45 s o . -n sperm little doing in th i oil Ground a n e face of the y publi fic sales of to - day ; but small ut and rin G Gin golly parcels of good quality have not bean obtainable under 1071. Pale Seal has sold at the recent advanc e of 411. 10s, and now 421. are demanded. Cod of which there is very little here is now being dealt out at 411. 10s. to 421., being a further advance. Forced salesof Cocoa to the extent of about 300 tons have been made at 49s for C oc h in and Ceylon eve , and about d 3d advance on these rates has been paid. Ceylon, 48s 3d. Cochin is held for 50s to 50s 3il, and in hogsheads 51s per cwt. Palm has been very little dealt in, but the currency cash, but the market subsequently has imp r has not materially altered. TALLow.—There has been a reluctance to operate, and prices have again declined. First sort P.Y. candle on th e spot selling at 64s 3 d to Gis Gd f o r old ; new 64 8 t o 65 5, and delivery 6,53. Home melted is 61s cash. A sm a ll part only of 177 casks Australia n in auction sold at Gl s to 65s 6d for mutton ; 20 casks old Russian candle 648 Gd to 65a 3d, 0 ditto soap tallow 593 Gd to 60s. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) Wind, (11w5U.s3311.wAit.17RtEisdANeTEN:DfoEuENruDnh,00lurviEe,BAderiniethTsBa,E0a::01,0Gug1:0ye.P.43H.2.132. Arri I.—Leon,‘ from erravelines ; Comet, Jers;eycitNye,%of• tunu Nantes; Lulea, Jamaica; Patricia, J ama i ca. r Sailed.—Alar, steamer, for Dunkirk ; Sir John C am ,. bell, Port Phillip; Belgium, steamer, Ostend ; D er z w ' ci Broders, Copenhagen ; Seine, steamer, Rotteram, steamer, Dunkirk. DEAL, Wednesday, 10.25 A.M. Wind, W.S.W.; cloudy. Anchored.—Her Majesty's ship Algiers, from Sheerness; Sandford, London, for Demerara. Passed.—Sir John Rae Reid, from St. Kitt's • Maria, St. Vincent ; Mary Ann Folliot, Callao—all for London ; Bosphorus, Newcastle, for Cadiz; Juno, Amsterdam, for westward. The following curious advertisment has just appeared in the Limerick Chronicle :—" An extensive landed pro prietor on the banks of the Shannon will make a wa'er of 5001. that he has the handsomest wife, the handsomest nine children, and the handsomest estates in Ireland. Application to be made to J. F. J. G,, Eyre's Hotel Glin, county Limeric4, .A.tziguxt 30." , RETURN OF SIR CHARLES NAPIER PROM THE BALTIC. It is reported, and seems to be believed, that Admiral Sir Charles Napier may be shortly expected in this country on his return from the Baltic. His arrival would, of course, imply that operations in that quarter are at end for the year, and that our fleet will soon find its way to England for the winter. We must needs ex press an anxious hope that the rumour in question may not bb true, for such a resolution on the part of our authorities would, we think, be unnecessary, ill-timed, and calculated both to damage the cause of the Allies and serve that of the Russians. The only reason which could compel the return of the fleet from the waters which it now commands would be the approach of the winter season. As the Baltic ports at such times are sealed up by ice, and the blockade of the Russian gulfs is effectually maintained by the natural operation of the climate, it would be clearly superfluous to add any artificial barriers to those already provided, even if it were possible for a squadron to keep the sea at such periods of the year. Exactly, in short, as there was a time before which it was unnecessary that the Baltic should bo guarded by an allied squadron, so there is a time beyond which it will be unnecessary that this guard should be continued, but that time has certainly not yet arrived. The period at which, upon an average, the closure of the Neva may be expected, is, as we recently explained, two months distant, and, even if preparations for the return of the fleet were commenced somewhat earlier, it is clear that four or five weeks must still remain available for active operations. How, indeed, are we to reconcile the two facts that, while in the Black Sea the work of the war is just com mencing, in the Baltic it should just be terminated ? If enough remains of the autumn to permit the siege of Sebastopol to be attempted, must not enough remain to allow. of some further enterprise in the north ? We consider that this cessation of operations would he ill-timed, because everything at present suggests a contrary course. We have have just learnt our strength and the enemy his weakness ; the Allies have been en couraged, and the Russians disheartened. After believ ing somewhat too implicitly in the imputed strength of granite fortifications, we have just seen this persuasion demolished by the test of experiment. The stone forts on which Russia relies have been shown to be no match for the floating batteries which represent the power of England and France. If the Edinburgh at 500 yards in even broadsides can knock a breach in the towers of Bomarsund, why should not Admiral Chads have an opportunity of performing the same feat at Fort Alex ander on the south side of the island of Cronstadt ? In a contest which was a trial of strength between offensive and defensive systems, that of the defence has proved the weaker, and nothing, therefore, could seem more impolitic than that the assailants should at this very con juncture relinquish the advantages obtained. The fall of Bomarsund appeared to open to the allied squadrons .411 the strongholds of the Russian gulfs, and it is clear from the despatch of General Baraguay d'Hilliers that the result wee actually regarded in this light. Where, then, can be the wisdom of foregoing a superiority thus established at the moment when it might be turned to erood account ? Surely, if it has been found that we can destroy granite forts without risk of getting our ships awkwardly crippled, we might as well pursue the advan tage as long as the season will permit. What, too, we may ask, if operations are to be thus prematurely closed, was the object of proceeding lately with such urgency in the equipment and despatch of gun-boats for special service in the Baltic waters ? Every body observed that the chief risk encountered in the re cent proceedings was that of grounding i❑ the shallows, while the chief advantage experienced by our forces was in the superior range of our artillery. By a judicious application of these lessons we have constructed vessels with offensive powers of a most: ormidable character, vessels drawing obly very little water, and yet armed with guns of enormous calibre and prodigious range. One piece of ordnance capable of throwing a heavy shot nearly four miles has already reached the fleet, and, though this may seem of DO great moment, it should be remembered that a single 10-inch gun, well placed and worked, had no inconsiderable share in the destruction of Bomarsund. But there is time enough, we presume, before the end of this month, to reinforce the fleet with some of the gun-boat flotilla, and there would then still remain another month available for putting their powers in requisition. Why stop short at the fall of Bomarsund, with such fair opportunities left for successful progress ? We are now exactly at that conjuncture of affairs when success would produce its greatest fruits, and when anything like evidence of weakness would be attended with peculiar disadvantage. Hitherto the war, though certainly productive of humiliation to Russia, has not been distinguished by any brilliant action on the part of the Allies. We have driven the Czar to seek shelter be hind his fortifications, but we have not attacked him in his position ; and, if our forces are too strong for him, his defences have been too strong for us: The conse• quence has been a temporising and uncertain policy in quarters where a more decided success would probably have brought about a cordial alliance, and these unde sirable results are only too likely to be confirmed by proceedings which would appear to leave the field in the possession of our enemies. We have learnt exactly what to anticipate from the policy of the Russian Government. If our fleet retires from the Baltic be fore the season is actually closed and while time and opportunity still remain for action, the Russians will instantly sally out into the seas thus conveni ently' vacated, will reoccupy the Aland Isles, hoist their flag on the ruins of Bomarsund, parade their vessels along the coasts of Sweden and Denmark, and then issue a swaggering manifesto to the world, setting forth the ignominious retreat of allied the squadrons with nothing accomplished, the triumphant resistance of the Imperial forces against infinitely superior numbers, and the final ascendancy of the Czar in the waters of the Baltic. This will probably be the issue of the campaign, and, however false such representations may be, appearances will not be wanting to, lend a plausibility to the story. A very small thing makes a victory in the Invalide Busse. We are quite aware that the first condition of opera tions in the Baltic was the preservation of the fleet from such injury as would destroy its efficiency ; nor have we been slow to inculcate on our countrymen the expediency of acquiescing in the solid advantages of a blockade in stead of tempting fortune by speculative enterprises, promising no commensurate returns. To these views we steadily adhere ; but it is impossible to deny that the capture of Bomarsund considerably enlarged the field of judicious action. It was thought that guns could not destroy granite, whereas it is now proved that granite cannot resist guns. It has certainly not yet been ascer tained how far the wooden walls of our three-deckers may be relied upon in a cannonade exposing them to the full fire of land fortifications, nor is it necessary to bring this question to any violent issue. Our artillery is so superior to that of our enemies that we may carry on our attacks without staking too much on the trial, and, as long as these means of offence remain in our power, it appears to us exceedingly impolitic to abandon the field. That our fleets will have done good work by blockading the Russian squadrons, paralysing Russian trade, and bringing themselves safe home again, is cer tainly true, but this is all the more reason for depriving the enemy of the smallest pretext for disparaging the results of the campaign. Sweaborg or Cronstadt, and not Spithead, should now be the destination of Sir Charles Napier.—Times. THE LIBERTY OFFRANCEA STUMBLING STONE TO THE EASTERN DESPOTS. monarchs look upon England and its constitution as , nuisances which they have no hopes of removing and must endure. English Ministers are rather apt to pre sume on their knowledge of this, and fancy that a chronic, inactive grudge of this kind bodes them no harm. But the Eastern despots look upon the liberty of France as a new stumblingstone in their way, which can be removed, and their hatred of it is as active as it is relentless. They are anxious to subvert the present dynasty of France, because it is of revolutionary origin, because it professes to reign in virtue of the people's choice, and because 'it is, therefore, by its mere existence, a standing protest against the legitimacy of the titles by which they claim to occupy their thrones. Knowing this, the Emperor of the French knows that though there may be occasional truces, and even alliances, between th e English Government and t.l2e old despotisms, he has no such intervals of peace to expect ; that so long as these Governments exist he must sleep with his arms under his pillow, and keep his powder dry. This is another reason why French dis trust of the equivocal conduct of Austria should be pro claimed earlier and with less reserve than English. These considerations afford good ground for hope that the sentiments of the two great Western Allies on this score are the same, and that England is only behind France in expressing distrust of Austria, not of enter taining it. The two great Western Powers of Europe have nothing to fear from the enmity of the Eastern despots ; but they have much to dread from their friend ship. The entire, unreserved confidence of France and England, and their distrust and defiance of all other powers, present just now the only secu r ity f or t h e future of both and of all civilised Europe.—Daily News. THE WAR.-THE VIENNA. PROPOSALS'. The Czar refuses the new Vienna proposals, and Aus tria declines to accept the refusal as a casus belli. Aus tria continues satisfied with her position of "perfect neu trality." At any rate she will wait for the capture of Sebastopol—or the Greek kalends. Such is the course which, after eighteen months spent in negotiation, the chivalrous young Emperor of Austria has decided on pursuing. A morning contemporary who has steadfastly supported the policy of the Austrian Go vernment, under the most trying circumstances, is much astonished and chagrined at a result which every one whose knowledge of the empire extended beyond the su burbs of Vienna perceived to be highly probable, if not inevitable. For, however much the foreign interests of Austria may be endangered by the admission of Russia, her domestic policy essentially depends upon Russian support. No one who was not blinded by Austrian as surances, or Austrian prejudices, could for a moment have believed that .the Cabinet of Vienna would declare war against that of St. Petersburg, at a time when an essentially Russian policy was still pursued towftrds Croatia and Hungary. The Times informs us that the active operations of war have been delayed for so many months for the sake of obtaining the concurrence of Austria ; and our contem porary admits that the expedition to Sebastopol could have been undertaken with at least an equal prospect of success at the commencement of the campaign instead of its conclusion. To Austrian diplomacy, therefore, we are indebted for the irreparable losses we have sustained by the delay of our army at Gallipoli and Varna. We must thank our neutral ally for the cruel ravages com mitted by disease in our camp, and for the additional sacrifices which will be occasioned whenever Sebastopol is attacked, in consequence of the preparations that Rus sia has made during the last six months for our recep tion there. There are, indeed, some persons who believe that the retreat of the Russians has been occasioned by the threatened hostility of Austria ; but they should remem ber that the Russian army retreated before the Austrians advanced, and that when the Russian troops halted the Austrians halted also. The retirement of the Russians, and the occupation of Wallachia by the Austrians, bears every appearance of having been concerted between Count Buol and his brother-in-law, Count Meyendorff. For, in the first place, the Russians have not, as we now know from authority, anything to dread in the way of hostility from the occupying army ; and in the second, the latter are playing to admiration the game of the Russians themselves, by forcing on the reluctant Wal lachians Prince Stirbey, a man devoid of energy and destitute of popularity, instead of the able and patriotic General Maghero, who had been called to the post by the unanimous voice of his countrymen, and whose ap pointment had received theapp rova l o f the Porte. Of course the Czar had nothing to say to Count Buol's propositions. Why should he ? Why should be con sent to tear up existing treaties, the price of a century's policy and war, unless absolutely compelled ? What excuse would he have to offer, after all his braggadocio ? Why, he dares not now do it, unless beaten. And we have not gone the way to beat him. We have avoided his armies in the field, and have not sought them in their fortresses. A single month has sufficed to destroy the illusions respecting the strength of granite batteries and the value of the Austrian alliance. These delusions have followed to the same limbo the opinion so decisively pronounced previously to the commencement of the war, that the first shot fired would be the signal for the destruction of Turkey. And we are happy to find in some admirable letters which are now appearing in the Times respecting the various Christian races of Greece and Roumelia, full confirmation of the opinion which, opposition to our contemporary, we from the first ventured to express, namely, that the project of forming a Byzantine Empire, based on Greek nationality, to re place the sway of the Sultan at Constantinople, was a scheme almost as chimerical and absurd as it undoubt edly was perfidious and revolutionary_ A. passage in the Afottiteur of last week has escaped our contemporaries. It gave, extracted from an Eng lish paper, descriptions of Kars and Erzeroum, and added that such accounts were more than usually into• resting, as it was the intention of the allied Governments to occupy those towns by Anglo-French troops. Though this was not in the official part of the Moniteur, it im plied the belief of the editor of the journal that Anglo- French troops were going into Asia. We do not know if such an event is rendered more or less likely by the unfavourable news of the battle which has reached us this week. No doubt Kars and Erzeroum might by this time have been secure. Enough might easily have been done to prevent the possibility of Russian conquest. Twenty or thirty thousand Anglo- French would have expelled the Russians from Georgia. But it has been the rule of the present war to sacrifice everything to small and secondary aims, as if great ones were beyond our spirit and grasp. We fortified Gallipoli when we ought to have attacked Sebastopol, and we take Bomarsund when we should have bom barded Cronstadt. Under cover of preparing for the capture of Sebasto pol, we have tarried for months at Varna, and the re sult is a greater loss than we could have suffered in action, without any result whatever. No doubt it was Austria's hope from the first to occupy the Principalities without incurring the actual hostility of Russia. But since the latter has zeturned a defiant answer to Count Buol's proposals this may have become less certain, and who knows but that Marshal St. Arnaud may not even yet, notwithstanding his order of the day and the em barkations already begun, find himself under the sup posed necessity of recommending that the bulk of the army should be kept near the Danube, in order to pre vent Austria from being crushed ? Austrian neutrality is an expensive thing. It is now six weeks and upwards since the first an nouncement that the flower of the Anglo-French army was to proceed to Sebastopol. The Russians, we may be sure, have not lost those six weeks. We know that a Russian steamer which got out of Sebastopol looked in at Odessa, as if for experiment, and returned safely to the fortified harbour. The blockade had been relaxed for the purpose of bringing the army to Sebas topol. We have not yet accomplished that design, and we have dens what we could to enable the Russians to baffle our attempt at its accomplishment. Grave imputations have this week been levelled at the naval commanners. It has been asserted that the ad minds in the Baltic and the Black Sea have not done all that even their orders enjoined or would have em powered them to do. This statement, from a journal known to receive ministerial communications, the naval commanders must meet as they can. The same journal could not find words of reprobation strong enotigh when Lords Clanricarde and Dudley Stuart criticised the movements of the fleets, It was so ungenerous to attack the absent commanders. And when those members of the houses of Parliament declared that their censure was directed against the ministry and not against the admi ral, the indignation of the Times was by no means en tirely appeased. Now, however, we are told by the same authority that these brave officers have not done all that was expected of them. We must observe, how ever, on their behalf, that the declaration accords strangely ill with the positive assurance from the same quarter that Ithe effective prosecution of the war was suspended until the concurrence of Austria could be se cured. It will be poor encouragement to men burdened with such heavy responsibility as that which weighs upon Sir Charles Napier and Aprniral Dundas, if they are to a_ e made the scape - goat s of delud ed diplomatists.— Examiner. It appears, at first view, rather anomalous that the earliest intimation or indications of what the Western Powers really think or have made up their minds to do in the Eastern question should all along have proceeded from that one of the two allies who seems the least amenable to popular opinion. In England the adminis tration hold their places durante bone plaeito of the repre sentatives of the people, and are exposed to their inter rogations. In France the Emperor holds all but des potic power. Yet the pithy despatches of M. Drouyn de l'Huys were published for the edification of our neigh bours on the other side of the Channel, long before our ministers would speak out ; and now the Government organs in the French press are beginning to speak (covertly, it is true, but still quite intelligibly) of Austria in the terms it deserves, while Englishmen have no means afforded them of discovering whether or not their ministers are still determined, on all occasions, to " wait for the Austrians." A little reflection, however, suffices to solve the seemingly puzzling problem. In France public opinion is in reality as omnipotent as it is in England ; although Frenchmen, tired of the aimless and endless brawls of political I'rondeurs, are contented at present to acquiesce in a form of government which affords public opinion no legitimate recognised organ of expression. The Emperor of the French has the good sense to see this : he knows that his absolute power is absolute only so long as it does not run directly counter to popular sentiment and opinions ; he knows that popular dislike of any course he may pursue, " having no tongue to speak," will of necessity first vent itself in action ; and he wisely seeks to prevent this, and to carry the popular will with him as he proceeds, by volun tarily submitting to it early explanations. On the con trary, English Ministers, knowing that sooner or later they must be brought to book, put off the evil day as long as they can ; and Englishmen, satisfied that they possess the means of compelling Ministers to render an A day or two ago two little boys were walking along account when they will, slumber on in this pleasing con- the High-street at Windsor, when, moved by a sudden sciousness of power, without exercising it. The cir- impulse, one of them, whom we shall call Tom Jones, cumstance, too, that Ministers can be peremptorily in- remarked to his companion, in an interrogative form— terrogated only a certain season of the year—while Par- "Don't you remember ?" His companion, whom we liament is in session—renders it more difficult to extract may designate as little Joseph Andrews, in real or af information from them at any other time. Of late there- fected ignorance of the circumstances to which his friend l a e m lister, e i n t t S o o f t w o h th a p e p ol 3 n t t h e h d e , fore, the attention of the English public has been more ! referred, simply replied—" I have no recollection what frequently turned to Paris than to London, when on the , e ver !" Now, by a stran A g or e dni c n o tt i ha n en ci tfi d i‘r e mi n , watch for intimations of what the Allied Powers real p ly . , that Major l a n j t o u r in M ar a i x e u s 'e w ll h a o n a d d of h appened Maxwell to give b e him unusual tway.e mind pinchi D n ci i d ? t o h f the conscienceDthi(ei candid darkndi il think and intend to do. This habit rests on the assume tion that the professions of entire unanimity made by the two Governments are really sincere ; and this tolerably well warranted. cloud of sullenness obscure the Assumption is at present English Ministers know that the English people, , WAlister ? We know no wrath. It seems strange o t f h fi .e c y ers were that truly of moved to though they may be gulled for a time,. cannot permit- 1 nently be kept in the leading-strings of the Eastern' honourable corps should thus allo • • despot ; the Emperor of the French knows that . between , the bettor of them without A their passions to get him and the old aristocracy of Europe there is a gulf 1 Perry—and he was but adequate cause. Young both Governments, a lad —was deeply placed which he cannot pass over ; , turning upon thosewho ha d to blares for French and English, are bound by the necessity of personal brutelit butthe made him the subject of their nature to thwart and oppose the living re- 1 Adjutant were ' •y, sensitive Major and choleric t• tives of the Holy Alliance. Their coquet• ' justified in turning upon Masters Jones presen a and been as , tine; with Austria has, therefore, false and Andrews for verbal jocularity. Conscience sonic times lends astring insincere as the coquetting of that antiquated flirt with into an ' them. The affectation of mutual confidence and gym- that undauntedthein insult. Now, it does seem a little hard to us thy has been carried nearly to its utmost limits, and , to mete 0 witnesses of the 46th should be able pa . the mask must soon be removed on both sides. Of this ' civilian'sand obtain out Horse Guards' justice to others . impending necessity the Emperor of the French has na- Windsor justice for themselves. Let the bench of tonally become sooner aware than have the English Mi- ' b, — magistrates—or whoever the authorities may constitute themselves a Court-Martial in the case of nistry. The E n g lish Government and nation, tho ugh Masters Jones and Andrews, who have, understand, - nece ssarily antagonistic to the vital principles of East- been_ we n the police or the Provost-marshal, and cot about their proceedings there despotism h ave been s o lon g es tablished that wrongfully handed into the custody there are no hopes of putting them down; the absolute With of e With the fixed determination of giTillg geom Maxwell ___ " NON MI RIOORDO." • iand M'Alister a month a-pieoe at the treadmill, what. ever may happen. It would be proper, in the first place, we should conceive, to constitute them prison ers , and con aid erMasters Jone s an d A n d re wsas prosecutors. The good of the street service at Windsor requires the substitu• tion. When this has been effected, Master Jones may be allowed to p rove hi s case b y t h e evidence of Master Andrews, and vice vend. The questions should be few and simple. Master Andrews might be asked—" Do you upon any occasion remember that Master Jones put to you, in the High-street of Windsor, the foll ow i ng question, "Do you r emem b er ?' " M aster Andrew's might then reply—"l have not the slightest recollection whatever." It would be then proper to invoke the testi mony of a few by-standers—the peculiar intimates and associates of the two friends, who would of course, like them, "have no recollection whatever." Let the next question to these witnesses be as to character :—"From your knowledge of Master Jones, should you say that he was a young person in the habit of poking fun at the passers-by in the public streets ?" The stereotyped re ply for each and all of the witnesses might run some thing as follows :—" From my knowledge of Master Jones, I am able state with great confidence to this honourable Court that he never thought of such a thing. If he has a defect, it is that of over-seriousness and too anxious attendance at the Sunday school. When some bad boys endeavoured to teach him the words of the popular air known as ' Pop goes the Weasel,' it is a fact that Master Jones couldn't be brought to do it to any other tune than that of the `Evening Hymn,' wh en they wos suddenly conwerted.' " Question from the Court—" Can you inform us, Master Andrews, why the youn g gentlemen of Windsor appear to have taken a p prejudice against the two prisoners ?" Answer from Master Andrews,—" On account of their forward and behaviour." In dealing with the evidence tfrorttehs to the defen ce , it w ill on l y b e ne cessary for the magic a remember that their great care must be to pre vent the prisoners from calling any witness who could be of the slightest use to them ; or, if such an one should by inadvertence be introduced, the nuisance must be forthwith abated, by informing him that his testimony was not wanted. The Court had just made up their minds only to receive evidence for the period which began to run from five minutes later than the occurrence of the fact to which the troublesome wit ness could depose. When the bystanders are got rid of, there can be no great hesitation in recording a foregone conclusion :—" Major Maxwell and Adjutant M'Alister are found guilty of offence charged namely, of having been jocularly addressed, but not otherwise, and are sentenced accordingly to a month a-pieceat t h the f t tread mill, e h a:l i r mill, with recommendation to mercy onaccoun t size." This finding must then be sent up to Lord Har dinge, and will be soon returned with the note of that military Minos :—" Approved, but Major M axwe ll , allowed the use of slippers and flannel waistcoats while on the wheel, in consideration of his age and rheuma tism." Such would be a specimen of pure Horse Guards' justice. But we cannot with a good heart indulge in mere joking over the honour and character of the British officer. Lord Hardinge has chosen his path ; let him see where it will end. He may be acquainted with the temper of the British soldier, but he knows little indeed of the temper of the British people if he presumes that he has heard the last of the scandalous business of Mr. Perry. Can he or anybody be surprised that the officers of the 46th have become the objects of the gibes and jeers of the passers-by ? Certainly we do not commend those who violate or provoke to a violation of the public peace. Could we suppose that any words of ours would be effective to that end, we would entreat the young women and little boys at Windsor to desist, and leave the officers of the 46th to the enjoyment of their own success and the position they have made for themselves. But we know well, in a case of this kintl, that remon strance is utterly unavailing, even when the parties are in the right ; what must it be when they are so pal. pably in the wrong ? Lord Hardinge cannot direct Colonel Garrett to turn the bayonets of her !Majesty's 46th regiment of infantry against the muffin boys and orange girls of Windsor. We presume that to crown the whole proceeding with a street massacre would be a measure somewhat too strong even for the authorities at the Horse Guards. Well, then, what is to be done I Supposing, as in the case of the two officers who seized the little boys the other day, they persist in the plan of handing offenders over to the civil authorities? A seemly spectacle it will be that the Queen's officers should at any hour of the day be seen chasing the little varlets about the streets of Windsor amid shouts of "Do yon remember ?" " I have no recollection whatever." Be sides, every trial will be duly reported, and each case will serve as a fresh stimulus to public indignation. If the officers of the 46th have recourse to open violence, one blow will bring on another ; there will be a general row—murder most probably, and Calcraft at the end of the whole transaction. Lord Hardinge must remember that every civil magistrate, every police-officer, and every man, woman, and child in the Queen's dominions, with the exception of a few attached to the ruling mili tary clique, look upon the conduct of the officers—not of the men, who, we believe, have behaved in an exem plary manner—of this regiment with just indignation ; so they have but little assistance or sympathy to expect, save what must be given them by the strictness of the law. The opinion, if not the hand, of every Englishman is against them. The only course really to be adopted with this notorious regiment—we are speaking only of the officers—is to keep them closely in barracks until they can be smuggled off to the East. From the intel ligence we publish this day we foresee the probable occur rence of events which all men would be anxious to avoid. We call Lord Hardinge's attention to the matter while it is yet time, and before the blood of any of the Queen 's subjects has been shed. In the present frame of the public mind at Windsor a collision between the soldiers and the people is far indeed from being an improbable event, and the cdnsequences of such collisions in the pro vinces we have had to record even within the last few days.—Tirees. DREADFUL MURDER OF AN ENGLISH LADY AND GENTLEMAN IN GREECE. ATHENS, Sept. I.—Great sensation has been caused here on receipt of intelligence from Negropont, that Mr. Henry Leeves and his wife have both been mur dered in their house in the village of Castaniotiza, of which village and a considerable extent of land he was the proprietor. All that is known here at present is, that the crime was perpetrated on Sunday, the 28th ult.; that a forcible entry of the house was effectod ; that Mr. Leeves attempted resistance, and wounded one of the assassins, but was overpowered, and that after the double murder a quantity of silver plate was carried off. Mr. Leeves was about 30 years of age, son of a former chaplain to the British mission at Athens, and married about 18 mouths since a young lady whose family reside at Manchester, who a few months since gave birth to a child, respecting the fate of which nothing is stated. It appears that Mr. Leeves held the appointment of British consular agent, or vice-consul, at Negropont: 'Mr. Wyse, British Minister at Athens, on receiving official intelligence of this shocking affair, instantly took steps towards instituting the most searching in quiry, with the view, if possible, of discovering the murderers and bringing them to justice. Immediate orders were sent to the Pirinus, to the commander of her Majesty's war-steamer Medina, to get up her steam and proceed to Negropont ; and Mr. Merlin, British vice consul at Athens, and Mr. Locock, attache to the British mission, were directed to proceed in the Medina with the Greek authorities, to make the most rigid investi gations on the spot. They left the Piraeus yesterday. The Rev. Dr. Hill, chaplain to the British mission, voluntarily accompanied the expedition, as he had been intimately acquainted with the deceased, and thought he might be of use in protecting the in fant, should it have escaped the fate of its parents. e C i h s ar p le4 t K po e n a e n d , until the 25th of the month, when a new drama is to be opening of of t h t e he indisposition Princess's T of h 3 ea f tt r thc O r n e p r esented, with Mr. Ryder in the principal character. After superintending its production, Mr. Kean will ab stain from his artistic duties for a month. A meeting of the Adelphi company is appointe d for Monda y next, and the season will commence on t hat da y w eek. At Sadler's Wells, Shakspere's play of Pericles is in rehear sal, having, we suppose, undergone various alterations from the original text—if ttsical Transcript. FATAL ACCIDENT AT MARGATE.—An inquest was held at the Town-hall on Monday before Mr. J. G. Thompson, on the body of William Haydon, a ticket porter. It appeared that the deceased was occasionally employed as a night constable, and was on duty on Friday night week on the Fort. At about two o'clock in the morning of Saturday a communication was received at the station-house, in consequence of which one of the men was immediately despatched to the spot indicated under the cliff, when hefound the deceased quite dead. No proof could be produced of the cause of the accident, but the supposition was th a t d eceased, who was a particularly shrewd man, having h a d hi s attent i on drawn to the spot near the camera obscura by some noise, and thinking that some one was on the move, ap proached too near the edge of the cliff and fell over. One of the coastguardmen had a nlrrow escape, as he bad but just passed the spot, and he has since been very iii from the fright he received. The jury returned a verdict ~ That the deceased died from a fall from the cliff." He was a young man of sober and industrious habits, and leaves a widow and four young children. A sub scription has been set on foot to relieve their wants. — South Eastern Gazette. ACTIVITY IN THEDOCKYARD.— In spite of the advanced priee of ti m b er, the hands of t h e s hipbuilders sse ls have been of this port have been excee di ng l y f u ll. Many yve have been no lase These were—the Lady, built a n d repa i re d thi s se ason. There than thre e l aunc he s this week. smack, belonging to • Turks Mr. Way, of Portland ; a nd a new and beautifully-built smack, tak e n o n the stocks for the purpose of lengthen ing, by Messrs. V a liance ; schooner, called theMsyrtie, which was launched on Satur• nes slip.— Weymouth. Paper. day morning from Be a CRICKET.—The match of the United All England Eleven V. Tw two of Scotland was commenced at Edinburgh on Monday. At the end of the first d ay ' s play the ore , s t o od thus : —Scotland, first innings, 139• England , - s, score one wicket down. . CATHEDRAL RESTORATIONS.—In the report of the corn• inis on the cathedral and collegiate chur c h es, i t i s thatstated at Canterbury the north-west, or Lanfrano's Tower, has been rebuilt, at a cost of 25,000/ ., and a gradual restoration of the whole fabric, exterior and in tenor, has been in progress from 1823 to the present time. 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Bristol & 6 per cent—. Do. Pref. 41 per ccul Norfolk Debenture Do. Prof. 4 p. c. Stool, Do. 5 p. c. Eat Do. 5i per et. prof Do. War. - Val. 5 p. C North British Y. E. Berw, 4 p.a. P Do. do. do Do. Leeds 6 p.c . No.l Do. do. Quarters '4S Do. York. .SCi. P r. North Staffordshire Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh.Zls, 6 p.c. scot. Cent. , New Pref Do. 5 per cent 'south Devon Ds. fixed, 4 per cent 3. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os, 6d. Do. 4i per cent 3.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar 3. Wales Gus.. 4 p. e Do. do. 4 p. e.... Stockt'on and Dar lington, 4 per cent Do. do. do. Stockton and Hartle. 20 20 20 25 pool, guar. 5 p. c. till Ist July, 1856 Watorfd.&Kilk.6p.c. aau Anglell ll g 0 MINES. } Au i ? iC ' r a t f r o l r n n . G ian o . l . d . v . 1011 s. all 20 6 Australian l4 —l4 1 all Australian Cordillera - 1 all Australian Freehold 1 all Ave Maria — 1 all Baden (Gd.Dachy of, 50 all Blwintrvon Iron and Coal••• •.. 20 13.5 British Iron 8 35 Ai Brazilianlmp.(issued at Vi pm 34 3 i 30 all Do. Comes & Cularia 1 24 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 26 —2B 1 2 , Carsons's Creek 1 Clarendon Cons. Min. Co. of Jamaica — 40 all Cobre Copper 42 44 5 1 Colonial Gold — St. all Copper MM. of Eng. 52 51 25 all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent. 1 3 p ... 16 Copiapo ll 12 5 all Euglisu and Austin. Copper Smeltg. Co. 1.4 2 2 / Fortuna iP 20 all General. 1 all Ga.NuggetVeinßeg. 3 d all Great Polgooth . — 1 1 all Liberty ik 3 all Linares S ... 9 1 all Aariquita ........ 14) 9 Nlexican&S.Americn. 6 1 all Now Granada 8 1 all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co — 1 all Nouveau Monde 4 20 all Pontgiband Silver Lead Min. & Smelt. 154 164 5 1 Port Philip 1 all Quartz Rock . 50 all Rhymney Iron 26 28 15 all Do. New 8 9 30 11i Santiago do Cuba 44 5 1 all South Australian 10 74 Pin Croft 28 all United Mexican 34 —3/ 1 all Waller 1 all West Mariposa 1 121 Worthing Mining of Australia 1 all Yuba ••• ••• MISCELLANEOUS 5 all Aubin Coal and Iron 25 174 Australian Agricult. 43 20 6 Australsn.Pcifie.Mail 10 all Australia. Royal Mail 10 4 Berlin Water Works 50 40 Brit. American Land 65 --70 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Sir and Reduction Co 100 324 Canada 9B 103 . St. 100 Canada GOT. Q p. ct. "Jan. and July lO9 110 5 all Crystal Palace 3 34 3 4 all Crystal Pal. of France ••• 20 5 Eastern Steam ••• 25 20 ElectricTelegraph(A) 164 174 1 all Electric Teleg. of Ir. 15 14 Gon. Steam Navigat. 20 all General Screw Steam 20 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar „. 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig. 10 all slediteran. Elec. Tel. 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 5 Netherlands Land — 14 2 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter. Steam Navigat. Co. 1 all N. B. Australasian 20 124 Nrth.ofEuropeSteam 5 all Peel Er. Ld. & Minrl. 4 41 50 all Peninsular& Oriental „, 50 40 Do. • Do. ••• ...p 2 all Portland Iron Co 2 26xd 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 1 nll Scot. Austral. Invest. 2 2jxcl 25 all South Austral. Land 37 39 1 all Submar. Telegraph.. 1 1 all Do. 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