The Sun. — London, England, 1854-02-08 00:00:00

Bressan t Df ground )mmeneed r the sun- t of the 853, pre- Dr, to the Ad on the cret at the mr years, It then rked man- Never at [ufactures, is greater le months the Bank ciency of of corn to e metallic ucrease in odified the Formerly f pieces of e Central ;old demi vo metals :ensors of egularity cted, and ;Illations detailed it losses [arias for receipts b in 1853 ley were re than it says, Int arises c ; thus, Letre was the pre francs, ng letter ueral of sent to )n of the 'standing o not, I festing to 3d. It is and my lew year. terpreter .ies, and towards courage, I should ) go and n. May already to share ful admi- it. For od have MBON. Spain, the hal- Tointed the first -as in an King. on the the 2d, 3n. director 844, at ded the •evolted Factory. [a Cou ister of ribunal leen re. )rt that 6ised to e being from n Lom ng pro- Lore, on a, that Is Van Rear ik, 60, , have of the i there Lged in during at they to the %gainst Inivers )s were it that hrown Y AND '. on a rantee igs be. riginal in the a war- )n any Dodd ant of ;ht to nt, as !ction. cpense )f the wider- he de- With A Dot ,aking iscuss IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS--(THIS DAY.) The SPBAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. NEW MEMBE R. Sir W. iILiTHCOTE took the oaths and his seat for University of Oxford, in the room of Sir H. R. Inglis, Bart., resigned. The hon. bart. was introduced by the Chancellor of the Exchequer and _M r. Sotheron. NEW BILLS. The Irish Fisheries' Bill, the Registration of Medical Practitioners' Bill, and the Coasting Trade Bill were brought in and read a first time. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a second time, and ordered to be committed :—Amboaga.te, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction. Railway (Amend ment of Acts, &c.) ; Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston, and Eastern Junction Rail way (Extension into Nottingham, &c.); Ambergate, Nottingham, and Bos ton, and Eastern Junction Railway (Working Arrange ments with Great Northern Railway) ; Birkenhead Dock Company ; Brighton, Cuckfield, &c. Roads ; Chesterfield Market ; Darlingt,on and Barnard Castle Railway ; Glasgow Waterworks ; Harrow Waterworks ; Havering, Dagenham, &c. Sewers ; Imperial Gas Company ; Kingswood Roads ; Kirby Lonsdale, Kendal, and Milo thorpe Road ; Lan cashire and Yorkshire, East Lancashire, and Man chester and Southport Railway Companies ; Madras Railway Company ; North and South Western Junc tion Railway ; North Metropolinan Railway ; North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway ; Port Gordon Har bour; Shipley Waterworks ; South Staffordshire Rail way ; Stockton and Darlington Railway ; Sydenham and Farnborough Railway ; Thames Improvement ; Wadsley and Langset Road ; Waveney Valley Drainage ; Wellington Docks (Southwark) ; Whittle Dean Water works ; Bowling Waterworks ; Bradford Waterworks. •- METROPOLITAN (DEPTFORD PUMPING STATIONS) SEWERS. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. WILLIAMS objected to the second reading, as the existing Commissioners of Sewers, who were the pro moters of the bill, had not the confidence of the rate payers, while the Secretary of State for the Home De partment had already announced his intention to bring in a general measure for reorganising the board upon a new principle. The object of this bill was to authorise the construction of a main sewer from Battersea Fields to Deptford Creek, at a cost of 700,0001., but the house should be told that some time ago a much better scheme was proposed and approved of by the most eminent en gineers of the day, for constructing a sewer from Vauxhall to Woolwich marshes, at a cost of only 241,0001., which had been abandoned through the Opposition of the existing commission. Under these Circumstances he should move that the second reading be postponed until this day week with the view of ascertaining whether the Government were pre• pared to give a pledge that the provision of the bill should not be enforced until the new commission was appointed. Mr. FITZROY said the object of the bill was to en able the Sewers Commission to purchase land at Dept ford which, under any circumstances, would be required for the sewerage of the metropolis, no matter what scheme might ultimately be adopted, and no good purpose would be secured by Parliament postponing the second reading. After a few words from Mr. A. PELLATT, the amend- ment was withdrawn, and the bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. PETITIONS. Mr. ROEBUCK presented a petition from a Fire office, praying for a reduction of the duty on Fire In surances. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. Mr. BLAND wished to ask the Secretary for Ireland, Whether it be the intention of the Government, in the proposed measure for transferring jurisdiction from leclesiastical to Civil Courts, to include those in Ireland. Sir J. YOUNG replied in the affirmative. MR. HUDSON. Mr. HUDSON threw himself on the indulgence of the house while he made some explanations in reply to to the charges which were made against hi►n last night. He complained that the honourable member for Fins bury bad been wanting in courtesy, in not having given him notice of his intention to adopt the charge which the Times had so freely made against him, or no amoun t of personal inconvenience should have prevented him from being present. As it was, he was detained in the country on business of a publ►c character, or he should have been present in his seat last night, and he hoped this preliminary explanation would sufficiently account for his absence. (Cheers.) The hon. member for Finsbury accused him with having attempted to corrupt members of the house; and the Times newspaper had repeatedly done the same thing ; but, like all the charges which that newspaper had from time to time preferred against him, it was either utterly without founda tion, or admitted of an exp:anation which could in no way reflect dishonourably upon himself. It was true that some things which the hon member read from a report of the proceeding in the Court of Chan cery gave a colouring to the charge, but had the hon. member taken the trouble at the time he was making the accusation, to read to the house the letter which his solicitors addressed to the editor of the Times on the subject, it would have been seen that the newspaper report gave quite a different com plexion to his affidavit to what it really bore. But the hon. member, not content with having made this charge about corrupting members of the house, ventured to talk of his having been compelled to disgorge a large Bum of money. Now, although it was true that, by the decision of the Court of Chancery, he was required to refund money which he declared upon his honour he had never received ; yet though this decision placed him legally in the wrong, it would ultimately turn out that all through the transaction he had been morally right. It was fortunate for him, therefore, that there was still an appeal to a higher tribunal against that decision. Nevertheless, he courted the inquiry which the hon. member asked for—nay, he called upon the house to trace his history from the cradle up to the present time, and if they found anything in it which was un- worthy of a gentleman and a man of honour, he would at once take leave of his seat in Parliament, so conscious was he of having pursued a strictly honourable and straightforward course throughout his whole career. (Hear, hear.) It had been his good fortune once to bask in the sunshine of public favour as it was now his ill fate to suffer under the stigma of Misapprehension and misrepresentations ; but, perhaps, when he and the hon. member for Finsbury were alike removed to another and, he hoped, a better world, posterity would do him the justice of admitting that at least one portion of his life ,had been well and usefully spent in the promotion of works of great public utility. (Hear, hear.) If his 'past conduct had been actuated by a mercenary motive, he could have found plenty of opportunities for amassing vast wealth without resorting to the vile and scandalous means that were im puted to him ; but on all occasions, he was rejoiced to say, he had resisted temptation, and refused to receive shares on public grounds which others had freely accepted, and for which now no blame whatever was attributed to t hem. (Hear.) But enough—strong in the conviction that though now he was pronounced t o be le gally wrong, he had yet always been morally right. He left the house to deal with this charge against him in the manner sug gested by the hon. gentleman ; and thanking them would themfur the a tt ent i on wh i ch t h ey h a d given him, conclude by promising, that, w h en ever the inquiry the fullest heshouldbe quiteready(Haraned7iballeingrlo meet The it to possible extent. • h on• memb er , w h o was o ccasionally moved to tears, then resumed his seat, and the subject dropped. SAVINGS BANK RETURNS. On the motion of Mr. BROTHERTON the following re turns were ordered • " Returns of the total number of deposit accounts open in savings banks in more names than one on the 20th day of November, 1852, and the total amount as the credit of Inch accounts ; distinguishing the accounts opened before the 20th day of November, 1844, from those opened since that date : Showing, year by year, in totals for each year, when such accounts were first opened, and the total amount then placed at their credit : And, showing the distribution of such accounts, on the 20th day of November, 1852, into the several classes set forth in the classification for the annual return to the 20th day of November 1851: and, the like returns for the year ended the 20th day of November 1853. 2. Address for return from each Savings Bank in Eng land and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland, containing, in columns, the names of the officers, their respective salaries said other allowances, if any the amo un t o f secur it y eac h ; gives ; the numbers of accounts remaini ng open • the total amount owingto depositors; the total amount invested ' with the commissioners for the reduction of the National Debt , the rat e o f interest paid to deposit ors on the various amounts ' of deposit and the average rate of interest on all accounts, and the t o t a l amo unt of the separate surp l us fund, on the 28th day of November, 1852 ; the rate pe r centum per annum on the capital of the bank for the expenses of management; the annual number of receipts from depositors; the an nual number of payments ; the average amount of re ceipts ; the average amount of payments ; the number and amount of annuities granted; the annual expenses of management, i n clusive of all payment s an d salaries, for the year ended the 20th day of November, 1852 ; also the day or days and the number of hours in theweek on w hi ch lae banks are open for the deposit and withdrawal of monies : And, like return for the year ended the 20th d ay e ' November 1853." ASSESSED TAXES ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This bill was considered as amended, and ordered to be read a third time - to-morrow. The other orders were then disposed of, and the house l'clloused at oue o'clock. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 8, 1854. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Aberdeen mbg Nottng. Bost. and Eastn. Junet... Belfast & Ballymena. Birmiug. Wolverh & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Laucsh Cheshire Junct Closing Prices this day. 20 - 204 5 - 51 8 - 9 13 —ll dial 27 22 25 Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., ....... Blyth & Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45) Bristol and Exeter... Caledonian Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon... Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall Cricif Junction Dublin&BelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Aber - de cn Junction Do. New East Anglian.... 1 15 - 17 - 94 - 96 521 - 53 15 - 16 13 - 14 50 50 20 20 44 - 46 - 25 25 18 20 St. . -- ..• 44 154 Do., (I'lB E & H)... Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A Stock Do., B. Stock 134. - 38 - 42 26 - 28 Do., Now A, (East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Prth. &Dundee .:orth & Clyde June. k.;," lasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk. Do., A. Stock 'Do., B. Stock. ....... Gt. Sth. &West.(lre.) Great Western Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. , New Thirds Lancash. andYorksh Do., Fifths D 3. , Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby.&Southpt London & Blackwall Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. Loud. Bright & S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westu. Do. Fifths D o JO/ Sh. , M&8...0 Do. Eighths London and S. Westn. Do., £5O Do., £4O Lndudrry& Col eraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Aanch.Shef. & Liucln Do., Man. & Lin. Un. Midland Do. Birmng. & Derby Midi& G. West. (Ire.) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle. Newmarket . Do. , Bury Extension. Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd. Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warreupoint and Rostrevor. Norfolk .... Northn.Counties Un. North British North Devon, No. 1. Do., No. 2 ............ Do., A Deferred... Do., B Guaranteed ,North London IDo. New £lO N. &S.Wstrn. ,Hamp-1 64 - 66 61. - 63 202 - 21 - 86i gi4 65 67 1 128 - 130 99 - 101 82i - 83 50 j 16i 161 St.' 19' 93'- 96 . 13 -14 p 12 i -13 g 65 -- 65: 7 -- StA, 13 - ii 7i -- 8 par -- p 95i -96 A 1031 - 1031 par -- 4 p par 4 $ d 81 -- 82 93 -- 80 103 -- 9Ad 50 40 25 25 8/ 281 100 424 34 all Gi 25 50 20 20 20 10 10 1.00 ,100 476 17 too 53 174 all 100 3 100 I all , 1 4 L/ h stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westru. June Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Portsmouth 20 St. St. St. St. 2/ 2s 100 100 100 100 Scottish Central Scottish Midland.. Shrewsbury & Bi i mg. Do. L. & N. Western Guaranteed Si ce.k... Shrewsby. & Herd& Shrewsby. & Chester (N. W. Min ; Do. Haves,. 6. Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& D,fully paid up at per cent South Devou South Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun Do.. 26f 13A 20 20 2,/ 2s all • 163 100 8 [OO 20 Staines, Wok. &Wok Stockton & Darling.l Stockton & Hartlop' Taff Vale Do. £lO shares Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerieli West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace • West London 22 - 23 62i - 63 36 - 38 55 1 4 d par' 5 3 / 4 5 d 2t 3 6 8 47 50 31 3id 32 ... 33 8 10 16 - 24 - 53 - 56 6 5d 8 8i 34 - 36 20 20 50 20 Wimbledn & Croydon York Newctl.&Berw., Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midlaud 90 92 54 - 56 55 - 60 55 GO 2i -24 d 14 - 16 7 - 8 10 - 12 38 - 3t1,1 Business done this day. 20i 4 i 20 9:51 531 2i 3/ 13a 64i 5 87 6i 6 7i 65 45i 100/_ 83f3 i 2a pm 65, 6 5i 7i 961 i i 6 xd 103 f 4 34 12 821 li 221 i i i 63i 2t 3 32i 3 2i 11g x d 14 - 16604 - 32$ - 3 - 1 1 - 5 ii :: 33 20 25 100 100 20 20! EX) 20 10 20 40 • • ----. .. 2i - 3 15 16 s#-- 5i 24 - 26 ... - 6 -.7 68 6 8 --- 'lid 4 1 3VI 48 - - 49 Gll 60i 68 9 81 8 12i 1! 48. i LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. 7 3 8 2a. Leasing Compans, London & N. West. L.&N.W. Caledon... Closing Prices till> day. 99 - 101 50 - 52 Cit.Nrthn. Caldonian. 139 - 141 Do Gt. Westn Yk. New. Berw. Y.&Nbfd Do Do 3. Eastern Do 30 - 32 108 - 110 54 - 55 27 - 28 - 13} 24 - 25 2/ - 3 93 100 20 174 20 20 20 20 all all all all 59 - 61 138 - 14 - ! 138 - 142 tintwerp&Rotterdam, Belgian Eastn. June. Beziers to Graissessae Bombay, Baroda, and _ _ Central ludia,Scrip Central of Italy Charleroi& Erquelin Demerara Dijon and Besancon Dutch Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Grd. Trunk of Canada Do. Debentures Do. do • Gt. Central of France Gt. We stern of Canada Shares Do. Bonds (Ist is.)'s7' Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Basle, Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c pref Luxembourg Do. (Railway) Do. Pref Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. et. pref Iyons and Geneva [.Sons & Mediterran. Madras Hari% Antonia Do. 6. New Aelbotrne Dk. & By Namur is Liege (with) 2t :: i 30i -- 314 96 - 98 3 2 d 1 4 4 3d par i p. 34 - 2t - 34 p - P t 7-- - - lid' 2 1 d Business this day. 44i 4 5 i i i -1 - i..,i dis 7 8 4i 51 11 —1/ 1 id ... --. i ... - d - i.P interest) - Do. (es interest) Northern cf. France , Do. 201. 3 ?. c Bds (fmy. B. & Ans. Shs.; NorwegianTruakPre. Paris and Lyom I Ditto Bonds 7i - 8 294 7- - - ioi 74 -- 8 12i -121 p Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbouzg ParisCaen & Cherbrg. Quebec dr Richmond Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse Do. .3i p. cent. Pref Southern of France St. Andrew's and 41 —43 37 —39 2811 288 m 3 p ld 17 18 ld par d 8 8i Quebec (A) West Flanders Do. 54 per c. Pref Western of France West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand MIN ... - ... ... - pm 3 - 44 d 2 4 3 4 I ) ni T iid 221 i SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCHESTER-YESTERDAY. Although m e can boast of good attendance at the rooms, speculatio❑ is still dull, and the only changes we have to notice are the improved positions of Half-and- Half for the Great National, Newminster for the Chester Cup, and Aquila for the Great Northern. Autocrat for the Derby was freely supported at 9 to 2 ; 4 to 1 being the highest offer at the close. DERBY STEEPLECHASE. 4to 1 agst Victress (taken). 4to 1 agst Daphne (taken). 4to 1 agst Diana (taken). sto 1 agst Carrig (taken). LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 7to 1 agst Miss Mowbray (offered). 9to 1 agst Half-and Half (taken). 10 to 1 agst Bourton (taken). 16 to 1 agst La Gazza Ladra (taken). 20 to 1 agst Peter Simple (taken). 40 to 1 agst Simple Peter (taken). GREAT NORTHERN HANDICAP. 1000 to 100 agst Aquila (taken). METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 14 to 1 agst Royalist (taken to 25L) 20 to 1 agst Annie Sutherland (offered). CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst Star of Surrey (offered). 25 to 1 agst Newmit.ster (taken). 30 to 1 agst Peggy (taken.) 30 to 1 agst Nabob (taken). 40 to 1 agst Sandhurst (taken). 40 to 1 agst Talfourd (taken). 50 to 1 agst Dr. O'Toole (taken). 50 to 1 agst Black Doctor (taken). 50 to 1 agst Joe Miller (taken). 50 to 1 agst Barrel (taken). 63 to 1 agst Baalbec (taken). 66 to 1 agst Brother to L►ttle Swift (taken). 66 to 1 agst Ammonia (taken). 500 to 5 agst Nelly ktaken.) 100 even on the three year olds. DERBY. 4i to 1 agst Autocrat (taken). 13 to 1 agst Dervish (taken). 1000 to 20 agst Marley Hill (taken). HARROW STEEPLECHASES—FEB. 15. WEIGHTS for the GREAT METROPOLITAN.—Forfeits to be declared by the 9th Feb. et lb' at lb Ploughboy ll 4 Jupiter Carrig. ll 1 Pontiff General Sam Hood lO 9 Gulnare Diana lO 8 Robin H00d......... 9 2 Victress Colonel Sir Philip Topsy Geraldine Columbine 9 7 White Mouse 8 3 HANDICAP for the HURDLE RACE. at lb et lb Alp lO 10 Friendless Boy 9 8 The Hero Sir Philip Edward of York ... 10 3 Old Rake Gulnare Wee Mickey 9 10 The Selling Steeplechase close on the 16th inst. End Selling Hurdle Race will HEALTH OF LONDON DURINO THE WEEK. (From the Registrar-General's Report.) The Registrar-General reports that the number of deaths registered in London, in the week that ended on Saturday last, was 1,204, and shows a small increase on those of the two previous weeks. In the ten corre sponding weeks of the years 1844-53, the average num ber was 1,091, which, with a correction for increase of population, becomes 1,200. The actual result of last week agrees very closely with the calculated amount. While diseases of the respiratory organs have de clined, those of the zymotic class have increased. Deaths referred to the latter (viz., epidemics) were 263 last week, which is more than the corrected average by 19. looping-cough is still fatal, and carried off 78 children ; the mortality of croup is unusual, the deaths from it having risen to 17 ; diarrhoea numbers 31. Only one death from cholera was registered, it occurred on Jan. 28, on board the ship Emma, of Union-stairs, Wapping. The deceased was a carpenter, aged 65 years, and the cause of death is certified, •' diarrhoea (three days), cholera (24 hours)." This disease, which unhappily has kept its ground in various parts of the island, notwithstanding the sharp frosts of winter, has almost disappeared from London—however brief the respite may be. In the last week in 1853, 10 deaths from cholera were registered ; in 5 weeks of the current year the whole number has been only 6. Last week the births of 857 boys and 798 girls, in all 1,655 children, were registered in London. In the nine corresponding weeks of the years 1845.53 the ave rage number was 1,470. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.958 inches. The reading of the barometer decreased from 29.98 in. at the beginning of the week to 29.70 in. by 1011. a.m. on the 29th ; increased to 30.09 in. by 9 h. a.m. on the 31st; decreased to 29.82 in. by 8 h. a.m. on the Ist February, increased to 30.22 in. by 9 h. a.m. on the 3d ; and decreased to 29.73 in. by the end of the week. The mean temperature of the week was 42 deg., which is 4.3 der , . above the average of the same week in 38 years. The excess of mean daily temperature was 5.8 deg. on Sunday, 11.8 deg. 6n Monday, 11.3 deg. on Tuesday, 7.9 deg. on Wednesday, only 0.4 deg. on Thursday. Oii the last two days the mean temperature was below the average. The mean dew-point temperature was 39.3 deg. The temperature of the water Gf the Thames rose to 46 deg. and upwards on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The wind, which blew from the south-west on the first four days, afterwards changed to north. RUSSIAN CIVILISATION AND TURKISH B RBA.RIs.2II.—MAT_ERIAL GUARAN TEES AGAINST THE FORiiER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. common, doubtless, with thousands of your country readers, I have been looking, as each morning's Sun has appeared, for the dawn of some light on the Russian question. I have looked in vain. Blue books may reveal a little more verbal boldness than we had expected ; and the husband of our beloved Sovereign may be quite cleared of all overt and unconstitutional interference with foreign matters ; and we may believe that the evil does not exceed the inevitable consequences of our throne being connected by family ties with Conti nental despots, courts, and armies. Prussia and Austria may now present a phase of greater self respect to wane but too soon into the darkness of Russian influence ; and this seems to be all. Even our fleets, which were to be so polite to the Rus sian flag in the Black Sea, while they protected that of the Turks, have quite posed us by their return to B6ycos. But worst of all, sir, is the unpardonable folly, or cowardice, if it be not mere Coutineirtalism, which has made to Russia the offer of "renewing the old treaties"—that is, of the status qao ante Lenin; and which, having done this, does not even demand of the Czar a prompt categorical answer to this shamefully indul gent offer as Prince Menschikoff did of the Sultan to his shanelessly insulting and rapacious ultima tum. I quite agree with your remark on Monday, that "the time for diplomatic negotiation has gone by, and that the period of action has arrived." Mr. Cobden is fond of extolling the civilisation of Russia and the barbarism of Turkey. If super stition be civilisation, no doubt the believers in God and the Czar (or in the Czar and God) can successfully contend for the palm with the simple believers in God and the Prophet. It manufac tories managed by foreigners, and upheld by tariffs alone, be Mr. Cobden's Russian civilisation-- although his political life has been spent in convincing Englishmen that it was feudalism and barbarism in his native land why, Russia can beat Turkey in that too. If also it be civilisation to decrease imports and to block up the mouths of ti,e finest rivers in Europe, there again Russia has decidedly the upper hand ; since our trade with her has diminished, and that of Turkey almost doubled in the last few years. And while the Turks did rake away the mud from the mouths of the Danube and kept open traffic for ships of all nations with some of the most produc tive countries in Europe, Russia was only civil enough to promise to do it, but, as usual, civilised enough to bresk her promise ; and all to compel ships to go to Odessa, a port which land produce can only reach in carts, instead of loading direct from the granaries of the Danube and its numerous tributaries. But this reainds me, sir, of one of the most villanous conditions of the status quo ante bellum, as it is termed. One of your weekly contempora ries, pretty well disposed to bepraise the Ministry too, published, cn the 24th of December, an article headed "Russian hostility to Commerce," " the Navigation of the Danube." But for its length I should be tempted to ask insertion for it in your columns. The cream of its " extracts from recent travellers," &c., is this. By the treaty of 1829, Russia obtained possession of the three mouths of the Danube ; by a treaty with Austria, in 1810, in defiance of the treaty of Vienna (1815), sle ob!ained power to levy a tax on all vessels enteriig by the Sulina mouth, in consi deration of whiih tax she was to keep it open. Also by the treaty of 1829 she obtained power to establish a quarantine, not only at the mouth of the river, but between the northern and southern shores of the Turkish portion of it, i.e, between Bulgaria and Moldo-Wallachia. English, or rather European, apathy and Tarkish weakness, at that time, enabled this fraudulent power to succeed in these highly civilised demands. The purpose soon became manifest, The Sulina mouth was yearly more and more blocked up with the mud of Rus sian cililisation, the Turks having been so bar barous as to clear it away easily. But the mud of Russian quarantine appears to be infinitely worse than the river mud. Travellers are stopped for several days together, and merchandise taxed again and again by Russia in passing from the north to the south side, and, vice versa, of the river, where it flows through the Turkish dominions. Vessels clearing at Liverpool or London for the Danubian ports have to pay enormous fees to the Russian consul here, often amounting to 1001. a cargo, if they wished to be saved a 40 days' quarantine at Odessa, or a sixty-five days' one at Galatz. The quarantine regulations are so barbarous as almost to surpass belief—and what with mud and quarantine together, Russian civilisation has made it needful to tranship cargoes into lighters, exclusively Russian, at a cost frequently of 3001. a cargo, and made the freight from Galatz at the entrance of the Danube more than double that from Odessa. What with harassing vexations, fees, charges, and mud, Russia is doing her utter most to destroy the trade of the great Austrian, Hungarian, and Turkish river, and to transfer it all to Odessa. Very properly did the Ministerialist journal demand, on the 24th of December, that no renewal of treaties shall take place which does not deprive Russia, " not only of her right to establish a quarantine on the mouth of the Danube, but of all control over its mouth." Probably Mr. Cobden sees, in all we h ave j us t a d verted to, the zeal of Russia for commerce. I can see i n it on l y Russian cunning in robbing other countries of their trade, and their free trade too. In my judgment, sir, the Cabinets of England and France will be dis graced, while commerce has a history, if they do not secure the Danube for the world, and the adjoin ing provinces for the free trade of the Turkish tariff. I cannot comprehend how free trade be comes barbarism because of the difference of lati tude and longitude between the Thames and the Danube. One word more. As you have justly said, action, is now the thing. We have sent Russia an ulti matum ; one in which we hope the Danube is meant to be included. Now, Russia has taught us how she thinks ultimatums are best enforced. She has adopted her old plan of taking a " material guaran tee ;" why should we not do the same ? Odessa would be some use ; Sebastopol, I suppose, in a military sense, more. We have made a demand on the great Robber, in the name of European inde pendence, to quit the provinces and to let the Danube alone. He delays an answer. He sends questions and Orloffs to gain time. Let us give him the answer ; let French and English fleets, and troops also if necessary, seize and occupy his Black Sea fortresses, with the .ntimation, too, that, if all be not settled before, we shall want a little further guarantee in the Baltic when the ice melts. He cannot complain of this as war. " Oh, no !" we should loudly reply, we hold these places only as ' material guarantees,' till you accept our most righteous ultimatum, that of restor ing the stolen territories. You have your self announced that . taking material guarantees is not war ; and, further, if we enlist a few Russian gunners, and make them work the guns against your own troops, it will be nothing more belli gerent than your forcing the Wallachian militia to serve against their masters." Really, sir, I can not see why we have not better right to take a guarantee that a thief shall restore stolen goods than Nicholas has to take one that he ihay be allowed to steal them with impunity.—l am, Sir, yours respectfully, C. SUPPOSED ATTEMPT TO BREAK INTO WINDSOR CASTLE. Next t o sett i ng the Thames on fire, a burglarious en-. trance into Windsor Castle would appear to be the most impossible thing to effe h c a t, s and yet there is every reason to believe the at ag te te m ,th p e t reliable authority, that Col. been made. It is stated, on \vin(s t ot h r e terminus Hon. AA. O N. the . H ood, South- Western o f Albert, Cumberland arr iv • el o d d Clerk-marshal hasvve to H.R.H. Prince thesou South Western :eg s t o e train about midnight on monday. Railway wr herl some at the thr ef foot years ot o f n a Railway station private carriage thbye r w o a a s d erected, w as made Slope s to the Castle. the entrance being immediately waiting room. This road i s used only site membersthe Queen's Re3al family and by gentlemen attaychedt of th e to the Royal household. On leaving the train last Monday Col. Hood proceeded by the Slopes, as the nearest night, to the castle, and was not a little surprised e t a o rest way ter in his walk seven or eight men with theirfblackened and their feet snuffled, if he !night judge by a t e r noiseless character of their movements. The ft - e au ans fled at the approach of the hon. and gallant gentleman, and have not since been heard of. On inquiry, it appeared that the suspected burglars were observed by the sen tinel on duty at the corner of the Prince of Wales's Tower (on the basement of which is the gold pantry), and that be, looking down from the Terrace, threatened to fire upon them. To this they replied, that if he at tempted to fire, or give the alarm, they would blow his brains out. The hostile parley had proceeded thus far, when Colonel Hood entered by the lodge-gate in Rat chet-lane, and the burglars doubtless supposed that he was at the head of a party sent to capture them. This will account for their precipitate flight and subsequent escape. On the arrival of Colonel Hood at the castle the police were ordered to patrol the Slopes for the re mainder of the night, but they could detect nothing likely to excite suspicion, or serve as a clue to the ap prehension of the guilty parties. The affair has created a great sensation in Windsor, and will cause the palace to be guarded more strictly than ever, especially after nightfall. CONVEYANCE Or TROOPS.—It is understood that four vessels originally taken up by the Government to con vey troops from Ireland.to Malta, and thence to the West Indies, have since been taken up on monthly char ters, so that they may be available to proceed to any Poiat on the shorteatnOtice. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Feb. S.—Wind this day at Noon, W. ; fresh breeze, and cloudy. It has been extremely fine weather all the morning, but there is now rather a change for the worse. RAMSGATE, Fob. 7.—The Norna, of Uloaberg, from Lis bon to Doobeck, with salt was totally lost on the Gocktwin Sands this morning during thick weather ; crew saved.= Arrived—Fier de Maria, from London, for Bilboa ; An netta Catherina, Grimsby, for St. John's, Porto Rico. CowEs, Feb. S.W., strong breeze, and squally. Arrived—Doctor liarrip, from Newcastle, for New York. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 7.—Arrived—Orynthia, from Middles borough, for Cape de Verds—crew mutinous ; Sea Adven ture, Buenos Ayres, for Falmouth, with decks swept, boats, bulwarks, stauncheons, foremast, bowsprit, &c., carried away, having been struck by heavy seas on the 20th Jan. Sailed—Taymouth Castle, for Adelaide, S.A. ; Jane, Azores. • PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 7.—Wind, W. to N.W. A::ived— Ithone, from Antwerp, for New York. Sailed—H.M.'s it. Cyclops, for the Mediterranean. Off Port—Margaret, from Sunderland, for Rio. FALMOUTH, Feb. 6.-- - A cask of rum, marked on one end " L'Uniono," and on the other "Randor," was picked up 4th Feb., nine miles S.S.E. of the Lizard ; another, without mark or number, was picked up yesterday nine miles S.S.S. of the, Manacles. 7. Wind west. Arrived.— Ambrosius, Rio Janeiro for Hamburg; Bertha, Pernam buco ; .I)ionysia, Mayaguez ; Favourite, Taganrog for Limerick ; Mary Young, Taganrog ; Ramon, Havana ; Sultana, Oran. The Jenny Lind (schooner), of Jersey, from Lagima to Liverpool, was abandoned in a damaged state on the 17th Jan., in lat. 44. N., long. 20. W.; crew saved, by the St. John (barque), of Slasgow, from hence to Savannah, and subsequently transferred to the Ramon, from Havana, arrived here. DUNBAR, Feb. 6.—The William (brig), of London, from Claektuannan, having sprung a leak, lost sails, and other wise became unmanageable, came on shore this morning, about four miles to the eastward of this port—subsequently got off, and is now at anch o r c l ose t o th e s h ore, very l ea k y, with assistance at the pumps. BEAUMARIS, Feb. 6.—Arrived—Gulnare, from Liver pool, fur Africa ; Penningham, do., for Rio Janeiro. STORNAWAY, Feb. 3.—The Bligh, from Limerick, was totally lost on the west side of of Harris, on the 30th Jan. —crew saved. A ship's name-board, marked " Maddocks, of Liverpool," with several pieces of wreck and a quantity of deals have been cast ashore on the west side of this island within the last few days. SCILLY, Feb. 6.—Arrived—Minerva, from London, for St. Michael's' VirrGToN, Feb. 6.—The William (smack), of Wigton, from Whitehaven, grounded on the 4th, in this bay, and when getting under weigh next tide broke her chain, and beat on to high water-mark, where she remains. BOSTON, Jan. 23.—The Singapore (ship), of and from New York to Antwerp, which was abandoned 30th Dec., vfr H 'it u li ds f o or n e , a w n a d s in ni passe d n :o p i g ? , 15th n J t an. mastsi l g a o t n . 0 4 , N b y . , the . 11 66 a n W d i . k , arrived at New York, which vessel also passed 16th Jan., in lat. 4I N., lon. 68 W., a wreck, apparently a brig water logged, with foremast and bowsprit standing, and top of house above water. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOI., Wednesday, 10 A.M. Wind, W.N.W. ; moderato gale. Arrived. Virgo, from Catania.; Winchester, from Mobile, with loss of rudder, having been ashore in Bottle Bay. Off the Port.— John Barbour, ship. The Manhattan, frym New York, dragged her anchors in the river and went ashore off the King's pier-head, but was afterwards assisted off by steam-tugs. QUEENSTOWN, Feb. 6. Wind W. Arrived—Alert, from St. Domingo, with loss of spars, sails, &c. ; Malzonio, Alexandria ; Salama, Jaffa, Tralee. Sailed —Jenny, Liverpool. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Wednesday, 9.47 a.m. Wind N.W., fine, and fresh.; tide high water. Arrived—Baron Martin, from Havre; Peter Frau, Ud derwall ; Vivid, Ostend ; Crescent, Guernsey ; Rhine, (s.), Antwerp ; Vesta, (s.), Oporto. Sailed—Lotus, for Barbadoes ; Quito, Sydney ; Point, Jamaica. DEAL, Wednesday, 9.35 a.m. Wind N.W., fresh. Passed—Lady Louise, from Callao, for London ; Balla rat, from westward, for London; Eva, St. Kitt% for London. At Anchor—Nymph (schooner). The disinasted schooner Rock Scorpion has proceeded to Rye harbour in tow of a steamer. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) r i b e pit t I ht, T 011 —dpid SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock. DERBY RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) UNION HUNT STAKES. Escape Newman Noggs Six ran. MIDLAND STEEPLECHASE. Trout . ---- Spring Victress Eight ran. Won by a length and half. ITALY. TURIN, FEB. 4. The strong majority gained by the Ministry in the recent elections has just borne its firstfruits in the Senate. The bill regulating the conscription, in which the clauses defining the privileges of the clergy to exemption from military service were the first cause of disagreement between the Ministry 'and the Upper House, was passed yesterday by a majority of 58 to 12. This result has been brought about by a compromise, which satisfies the Liberal opinion out of doors, and the now more manageable prejudices of the Senate. It has been resolved that exemptions from service shall only extend to such of the candidates for holy orders as shall be named by the bishops, on the average number of the last tin years. This measure had become abso lutely necessary, as, in consequence of the exemp tion from the conscription enjoyed by the clergy, the number of idle people crowding into the con vents, especially in the island of Sardinia, was out of all proportion to the spiritual wants of the country. The proceedings of the Senate on this occasion afford a reasonable expectation of greater harmony in future between that body and the Ministry. As I led you to expect, poor Silvio Pellico has gone to his last account. He expired peacefully, and with Christian resignation, on the night of the 31st January. He was horn at Saluzzo, in Pied mont, in 1788 ; but, on the completion of his studies, removed to Milan, where he entered the family of Count Luigi Porro, a gentleman well known in England, in the capacity of tutor. He there published the tragedy of Francesca da Ri mini ; and subsequently became editor of the first Liberal paper in Italy, the Conciliatore. In Oct. 1820, he was arrested, with many of the best men of Lombardy, on the suspicion of being a Carbo naro, and, as you know, was imprisoned :n the Spielberg. There he remained in confinement until 1830, when he returned to this country, and published the account of his sufferings, "Le Mie Prigioni," which provoked such universal sym pathy for him and his fellow-sufferers. Had the Emperor Francis foreseen the wonderful effect pro duced by this work, poor Silvio Pellico would in all probability have ended his days at Spielberg. His Imperial Majesty used to evince the sense of the mistake by the bitterness with which he always men tioned him as "quell' ipocritino." Since his liberation he never took any part in politics ; but in 1843 Gio berti dedicated to him the first great work of the Italian movement, "11 Primato. ' Great sweetness rather than energy was the distinguishing charac teristic of Pellico's life. _ _ The contemptible Government of Tuscany is be ginning to lose what little sense it had, in its alarm at the prospect of the present European crisis. Its last act has been to expel Signor Piraino, a Sicilian gentleman of property, and of moderate opinions, who had taken refuge in Florence after the disaster of 1849, and resided undisturbed until this time. On inquiring the grounds for his summary expul sion, he was informed that he paid too frequent visits to Lord Minto, who, as you may know, is spending the winter at Florence with his family, but living in the most retired manner. It was well known that all Lord Minto's movements were watched by the Tuscan police ; but it was scarcely expected that drinking taa with him would be con verted into a crime against the State. CORN EXCHANGE. The supply of English wheat in to-day's market was chiefly the refuse of Monday, and in very inferior quality. The attendance of buyers was small, and the demand ruled heavy, at Monday's decline in prices. The show of foreign wheat was tolerably good. Holders were ready sellers at the dcpres,ion noticed on Monday ; but the business doin g was very li m i te d . Floating cargoes were dull, and lower to purchase. There was scarcely any inquiry for barley, the value of which was almost nominal. Malt was offering on easier terms. Beans, peas, and flour were dull, at late rates. ARRIVAL% THIS \VEER. i Barley. 1 1 9 1;1 0 1t 0 . 1 , flats s,io 1 Flour. 840 Wheat. English .. Irish •• • • Foreign .. 1,010 17,070 brl WIIITECHAPEL. The general demand ruled heavy to-day, as follows :-- Beef from 3s 2d to 4s 2s ; mutton, 3s 6a to As 8d ; veal, Od to 5s Od ; pork, 3s 4d to 4s I.od per B.llas by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. About an average business is doing in our market to-day, at full Kim PREFERENCE SHARES. St. 100 therdeen St. 100 Do. No. 2 ,7 P. c. • 25 30 Myth and Tyne lOper c. pref. (issd. at 500 St. 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. .. '" 20 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares • St. WO Jaledonian £lO. 101 15 all ,pester & Holyhead Guar. Si per cent 63 63 Jork &Bandon s 4p.c ...xd 64 all 'Dundee Perth &Aber- .• deen Junction 6 36' all East Anglian (X3los) 6 per cent 3B 33 5 all Do. (X 5) 7 PQr cent 4 4 g 74 2 Do. (£7 17s) 7p. c 63 all ..astern Counties Ex- P tension, sp. c. No.l I . 6 2 all Do. No. 2 lip 1 pm 3 __ 11 10 all Do. New 6 p. C. St. 13: le P p m 20 all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent 5 all Do. 51., 10 pet cent. ••• 22 10. all Do. 10. Debentr•S'a • • St. 100 East Lancash.6 r. eta••• 5 all East and West York- .•. shire Junc. Pref... 5 all EdiubPrth.&Du ndee ••• 56 per cent. St. 100 Glasgow &S.Western Guar. 5 per cent . St. 100 N o rthn. sp. c. 119 121 St. too Do. sp. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem... 109 111 10 10 Do. 46 p. c. Scr i p 1106 10 10 6 Gt.N. of Scot. I s t Pref P 63 all ;t, Southu. &Westin. •• • (Ireland) Eighths) 8 20 4 Do. 4 per c. Pref. Sh 50 6 Gt. Westn. (Berke & •• Hants Ex. sp. c) 66 7 St. 100 Do. coy. red. 46 p.c 96 -- 9 8 ,., 7 St. 100 Do. con. red. 4 p. c. 90 95 7 ui St. 100 Do. irred. 4p. c 93 95 16 6 Lau. &York. F. £2O 6d par 5 zd St. 100 Do. 6p. c. Stock 20 13 Leeds N. 6p. c. No. l xd 12? 9 Do. Quarters, 1848 — St: 100 London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c . . St. 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St. 50 all Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 St. 100 Do. New Guar.6 p. c. ••• St. 100 Lon. &N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton. . 50 5 London &S. Wesiern Con. Thirds ... ... 2 3 / 4 3 126 all Londonderry& 6 Shares — 126 all Londy. &,Ennis.6Sh l2/ —12 i 25 all Kan., Shef., & Lin , 3 Shares, No. 1. Ei 10 all Do. New, £lO 6, 4 6 Do. £6 par p 126 all garypt & Carl. 4 p.c. •• • •• • 12 all Do. 46 per cent — 124 106 Do — St. 100 Consol.6 p.c.St. .• • ••• St. 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent 137 139 138 16i 5 Do. Pref. 46 per cent 13 id 10 6 Norfolk Debenture . ••• St. 100 Do. Pref. 4p. c. Stock —• • • St. 100 Do. 5 p. c. Eat ••• ••• St. 100 Do. 56 per et.pref •• • ••• St. 100 Do. Way. Val. sp. c. •• • —• • • St. 100 North British 20 all North Staffordshire ..• —• • • St. 100 Oxford, Worcester, & 101 100 • Wolyerh.£ls, 6 p.c. 99 15 15 Do p - ipn. 15i t 84 all ''cot. Cent. , New Prof 10 . 8 all shrews. & Birin.N.G. 9j 10 all ,ihrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min), 8 p.c. 16 166 10 10 Do. 5 per cent 9 103 25 all South Devon l2 —l4 10 13 Do. fixed, 46 per cent 3d r 1.0 (i all S. Eastern (lleadin• Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d 221 2 3 4 St. LOO Do. 44pei cent. 20 all 3.Yorksh.4p.e.Guar. 17 - _ l9 25 all Stockton and Dar lington, 4 per cent. ..• • 25 5 Do. do. do. ... •• • 121 all Stockton and Hartl3- pool, guar. 5 p. c. till Ist July, 1851 .‘• • • 5 3 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.e. 13 1 " St. 100 York, Newcastle,and Bcrwick,4p.c.Pref. 94 97 95 17 SDo 3 43 25 10 York&N.Midlandll and $. Purch d-• id 91 St. St. all all all all all 13.5 24 30 20 1 1 all 15 A Agua Fria Auglo Austria. Gold A.nlo Californian s tralasiau Australian A.ustraliau Cordillera I.ustralian Freehold Ave Maria !laden (Gd. Duel* , of, Blunarvon Ir. & Coal itish Austrin. Gold ritish Iron . Brazilian Imp. (issued at £5 pm • 1 Do. Cocacs & Cunt( a! Do. St. John Del Rey ;arson's Creek all all all all 1 10 1 1 21areudon Con. Mn.'. Co. of Jamaica Cobre Copper colonial GoY Copiapo opper Miu. of Eng Do. Prof. 74 p. cent English and Austrin Copper Smel tg.Co General Great Nugget Vein... Do. Registered Great Polgooth Liberty Linares bond.&Californ.Gole Quartz Crush. Co Ilariquita Aexican&S.Amelicn New Granada New Linares Mining and Smelting Co Nouveau Monde Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. & Smelt Port Philip quartz Rock Rhymuey Iron Do. New iantiago de Cuba )uth Australian Tin Croft United Mexican Waller West Granada West Mariposa vVorthing Mining 01 Australia Yuba I 1p d pal Pa — P 14 r d 24 di - id 6 - 9 11 4- d 7 —91 d 5 6 li 2i 28 —3O I— i d 43 45 par— 4 p 124 134 65 70 4 6 p 2 2i 14 16xd id -- It 11 - li i - 4d 10 11 end 4 P' 17 19 d P 28 30xd 8 10 4 5 41 —51 d 31 id d d 29k 9 3 - - i d JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia 76 78 77i 40 all British Colonial Bank and Loan Company 50 all British N. American . 25 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 1 d 100 25 Jolonial — ••• 100 20 Jommercial of Lond — 20 10 English Scottish and Australian 2l lid 20 15 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia id P 50 20 London and County 50 10 London Joint Stock ... 25 ex d& b 100 20 Loud. & Westminster 100 35 National Provincial of England — ••• 20 10 Do. New — . . 50 2V National of Ireland — 20 all' New South Wales— 42 44 43i 25 all jriental Bank of Corporation. 45 47 25 5 Do. New . .•. 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 10 all Do. New 5 1 Royal Australn•Bkg & Gold Imp Co 25 all south Australia — 39 25 all Union of Australia 66 68xd 68 7 x d ...2l Do. New 50 10 s Union of London MISCELLANEOUS 5 all Aubin Coal and Iron 25 1 . 4 Australian Agrieult. 40 —42 ad 41 x d 20 14 tustralsn•Pcific•Mail 10 8 Australis. Royal Mail 10 Berlin Water Works 50 384 Brit. American Land 70 75 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co 100 32t Canada 75 go 5 5 crystal Palace l— 1 p6} 6 5 4 Do. New ......—••••••• 1— 1 p 4 2 Crystal Pal. of France 20 3 Eastern Steam — 25 20 ElectritTelegraph(A) 16 18 25 all Do. (B) l6 18 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir. 15 14 /en. Steam Navigat. 27 20 18 3eueral Screw Steam 2Q 72 Irish Beetroot Sugar 20 10 Magdalena Navig. 1 all Vat. Pat. Steam Fuei 10 3 Netherland s Laud._ 3 2 d 2 1 V. S. W. Coal el. Inter. Steam Navigat. Co •• • 1 all V. B. Australasian... id I P 1 i_)o. New — •• • 20 10 irth.ofEuropeStern •.. 5 all Peel Er. Ld. 'Mi nr l. id pa] 44 5 50 all Peninsular& Orieuta, -- ••• 62 50 30 Do. 2 all P o rtland Iron Co ... —•• • x d 100 60 .loyal Mail Steam •.; 1 all Scot. Mistral. Invest lh I PP 25 25 south Austral• Lani 36 38 1 e.ll Submar. Telegraph.. id I' all Do. Registered. hd P 100 2% Van Diemen's Land 13 —l4 13i The number of acres under cultivation with oats in Scotland is 1,250,000 acres, three times the quantity of that under culture with the other cereal crops. RAILWAY.. 3edford and . Bletchley.... Buckgliamsh Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New...... Glstr.dt Dn. Fr tirtlpl. Dk. & Railway dull & Selby Do. A Shares. Do. 4 Shares. Lon..& Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Nfanch. Bxtn and Matloci; & Redear Niidld.Bradfd. Northern and Easternsp.e. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds p ?rest. &Wyrt Do. A Shares. iloysin.& Hit. Do. Shepth. St ihef.lioth.a! , ( Gooleg.s p.c. 3. Staflordsh. Wear Valleygi 6 per cent Do Wilts&Somrsl \•orfolk Lk, N. W. & qcktou & Darliugt. E. Count . Do Do L. & N.W. &Ln&Yli, lt North" Oo LalleaShS: Yorksh. Vl.MClean, 3tockt. Darliugt )o ItWestn FOREIGN. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, FEB. 4 Zymotic Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases Diseases of the Brain. Nerves and Senses Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration 214 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. Malformations 3 Premature Birth and Debility 4O Atrophy Old Age Sudden l3 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 2B Causes not specified . 260 • 29 . 173 123 55 1,204 Deat► in tht DEATHS PROM ALL CAUSES . Population Enumerated. Deaths in corre sponding week 16 , .1. - of 1663. Week West Districts North Districts 490,396 Central Districts 393,256 East Districts 485,522 219 South Districts ...,.. 616,635 Totals Males Females 1,011 1,204 619 585 BIRTHS IN TEE WEEK. Males Females.. Total . 1,6 EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF BILLS OF EXCHANGE BY A FRENCHMAN.—At the Manchester Police-court yester day, a man who gave the name of Louis Montagnard, and who said he was son of a French merchant in Lon don, was charged with having stolen bills of exchange and other property, valued at nearly 10,0001. lie went into the Queen's Hotel in the City, on Saturday evening, and remain e d there for about two hours, de.speak ing broken English, but not having any ver y we ll fined object in view. After be was supposed to be gone, a Mr. Garneau, a Canadian merchant, who was stay ing at the hotel, went up to his bed-room and found a man about the size of M on t a gnard ' and wearin g apartment. He moustache as he did, just coming He asked him what he was doing there, and the man said he was seeking his room, the number of which he had forgotten. Mr. Garneau went down stairs and informed the housekeeper, who went with him at once and searched the room, and they found that a port manteau had been cut o p e n, and a bill of exchang e f or 1 , 0 00/., a set of shirt studs, a purse containing American money, and other property, was abstracted. Th e man had then left the house. Information was given to the police, and Mayberry and Mack, two of the most active of the detective force, were set upon the search, and on Sunday n n ight they succeeded in apprehending Montag nerd tag ner d (without his moustache), as he was t a ki ng a train for Preston. When they came to search him they found upon him the bill of exchange lost by Mr. Garneau, and bills of exchange amounting in the whole to 7,5001., w hich had been stole n f rom the p ortmanteau of Mr . the Chamberlain, anoth er gentleman w ho w Iteen's, who disco vere d on Sunday m a o s rn st ' ay g in t g hat his portmanteau had b een cut open. Other portmanteaus had been cut op en i n other bed-rooms, - and property . stolen from th em. I t was proved that on Saturday night the prisoner purchased a suit of clothes from Mr. Levi, outfitter, of Mark e t- s t ree t, and p aid for them with a 20-dollar note —no d ou bt part ' of the property taken from Mr. Garnea.u's , purse. Nearly all the property lost has been recovered, most of it having been found on the man when apprehended at the railway station. The prisoner was committed for trial at the sessions. , COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-:—The course of exchange at New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 10 per cent., and, the par of exchange between England and America being 109 23.40 per cent. ; it follows that the exchange is nominally (Pp per cent. agai ns t Eng land ; but, after making allowance for charges of tpins port and difference of interest, the present rate leaves no profit on the transmission of gold either way between the two countries. OXFORD UNIVERSITY ELECTION. RETURN" OF SIR W. HEATHCOTE. Yesterday a convocation was held, in the Convocation House, Oxford, for the purpose of electing a burgess to represent the University in Parliament, in the place of Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Bert. At 12 o'clock the Vice-Chan cellor appeared, attended by the Proctor.,, the Warden of New College, the Warden of Wadham Col:ege, the Pro vost of Oriel College, the Warden of All Souls, the Prin cipal of New Inn Hall, a considerable number of the chief men of the University, and a few undergraduates and strangers, about 60 in number altogether. The proceedings commenced by the Vice-Chancellor opening the convocation, and stating the object of the meeting. The Registrar, E. W. Bowden, Esq., then read the precept for proceeding to election, after which the oath was administtred to the Vice-Chancellor, as returning officer, and the Registrar then read the usual statutes against bribery and corruption. The Warden of New College next addressed the house in Latin, and said that he should be unwilling to delay even for a momeut the business for which they were as ,embled had not the mention of the name of Sir Robert Harry Inglis, which all members of the 'University held in honour, and now heard spoken with regret, affected his mind with peculiar emotion, as it brought back to him the recollection of one whom, from the time when he sat next to him in the school of Winchester College. he had always regarded, and always should re:.2;artl, with feelings of affec tion, as a man of the highest excellence of character, distin guished fur his lore and patronage of literature, science, and ert, and for his faithful and unwearied devotion, as a mem ber of parliament, to the welfare of the university, the church, and the coun t ry . (A pp l ause. ) bcareely,headded;had the report been ci rcu l a t e d th a t thi s respec t e d burgess of the was a b out to retire, when he was agreeably sur prised to hear that many persons who were looking out for a fit person to succeed to the vacancy, had fixed their eyes on another gentleman, whom also he had knowlisfro . Pl h is earliest years. It was generally felt that the interests of the University, particularly in these times, required that her representative should be a man of high chamfer; ability, and exi erience. The conviction entertained by his friends that these qualities were to be found in an eminent degree in Sir 'William Heathcote had become general ; and although it could not be expected that he should at once satisfy all the electors in every point, there was good ground to hope that all would at length agree that as a man free from the entanglements of party, with pure sentiments on all matters of church and state, and held in high estima ion by those who formerly sat with him in Parliament, he would be able,to render good service to the University in her hour of trial by such counsels as should tend most effectually to avert from her all injury, and to extend her capacity of doing good to the present and all future generations. (Applause.) The War den concluded by nominating Sir Wm. Heathcote, Bart., of All Soul's College, D.C.L., as a fit and proper person to represent this University in Parliament. On the occasion of an election of a representative for the University, it is customary to dispense with the form of seconding the nomination. The Vice-Chancellor then in quired if any member of Convocation desired to put any other candidate in nomination. After a short pause, no other candidate being proposed, the Vice-Chancellor declared Sir W. Heathcote to be duly elected. The writ was then signed and sealed, after which the Vice-Chancellor dissolved the Convocation. The proceed ings—the whole of which, with the exception of reading the writ and bribery clauses were conducted in Latin— occupied about half an hour. Sir W. Heathcote was not present, as it is contrary to etiquette for a candidate to be on the spot or to take part in the proceedings. After the election has been notified i❑ au official manner, it is cus tomary for the newly-elected representative to call on the resident members of Convocation, and leave his card re turning thanks for the honour conferred on him. LUDLOW ELECTlON.—Yesterday the election of a mem ber cf Parliament for Ludlow, in the place of Robert Clive, Esq., who has vacated the seat in order to stand for the southern division of the county, took place at the Guildhall. The proceedings were of a very quiet and orderly character, and but few persons were present. James Davies, Esq., of Elm-lodge, proposed Lieut.-Col. the Hon. Percy Egerton Herbert, younger brother of the Earl Powis, as a fit and proper person to represent the borough in Parliament ; and Mr. Marston, druggist, seconded the nomination. No other candidate being proposed, the Mayor declared the Hon. P. E. Herbert duly elected. The member elect then addressed his con stituents, promising to support the Government in offer ing strenuous resistance to Russia. He hoped that in their new Reform Bill the Government would respect the rights and privileges of ancient cities and towns that have returned members to Parliament for many centuries. The hon. member concluded by referring to some sub jects of purely local interest. There was no "chairing" or public demonstration. NEWSPAPERS FOR TORKEY, GREECE, &O.—GENERAL POST -OFFICE, Jan., 1854.—Information has been re ceived from the Prussian Post-office, that newspapers, forwarded from the United Kingdom tc Greece, or to the lonian Islands, or to the under-mentioned places in Turkey, &c., in which Austrian post-offices have been established, viz., Beyrout, Botus.chany, Bucharest, Canea, Constantinople, Dardanelles, Galatz, Gallipoli, Ibriali, Jassy, Larnaca, Mytelene, Mostar, Rhodes, Rutschuk, Salonica, Sainsoun, Seres, Smyrna, Tenedos, Tchesme, I Trebizond, Tultcha, and Varna, cannot be transmitted throughPrussa, as newspapers, unless a postage of 11d. per half ounce be paid in advance, and further that a rate of Id. each must be prepaid upon newspapers ad dressed to other places in Turkey. The foregoing rates of postage must, therefore, be paid in future upon news papers for the places-mentioned. Particular attention is called to this regulation, as if newspapers are posted not so paid, they will he chargeable on delivery with the same p,stage as letters. THE OLINDA'S MATLS.—The following notice was issued by the Postmaster-General yesterday, viz.:—The trails for Brazil, which were despatched from Liverpool on the 25th ult., by the Olinda, steamer, have been re covered from the wreck of that vessel. The mail for Pernambuco was forwarded on' the Ist inst., by the Genevieve, ar.d the mail for Buenos Ayres on the 2d inst. by the Neptune. That for Lisbon will be des patched this day by the Peninsular mail packet, and the rest of the mails landed from the Olinda will be for warded on the 9th inst., by the mail packet Severn. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. —Among the papers recently laid before Parliament, by .command of her Majesty, the following are of importance :—A convention between her Majesty and the Free Hanseatic city of Hamburg for the establishment of an international copyright ; a treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation between her Majesty and the Republic of Paraguay, the chief articles of which have already appeared, and declara tions cachanged between the Governments of Great Britain and the Roman States, for securing 'na tional treatment to the vessels and commerce of the one country in the ports of the other. PRINTING PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS.—Yesterday, select committee, consisting of the Speaker, Mr. Strutt, Sir J. Young, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. T. Greene, Mr. Wil son, Mr. Beckett, Mr. Divett, Mr. Gaskell, Mr. Hume, Mr. V. Smith, and Mr. Sotheron, met for the first time, to consider all matters rela.tmg to the printing executed by order of the house, and for the purpose of selecting and arranging for printing the returns and papers pre sented. The stupendous blue book on the Hull bribery commission will, it is understood, engage their atten tion. Mexico.—Letters received from Mexico give further details of the treaty just concluded for the sale of the Mesilla Valley to the United States. The surrender of the territory has apparently excited no popular dissatis faction, since in its existing state it was worse than use less, the Indians having long made it one of their prin cipal retreats, whence they ravaged the surrounding country. Meanwhile, the cash to be received will, it is thought, establish Santa Anna so as to enable him to maintain his power for some years. The boundary limits between Mexico and America are now definitively settled. The Rio Bravo constitutes part of it, as formerly, but one league above the Paso del Norte a line is drawn south, with a westerly inclination to latitude 31 deg. It then follows that line to a small village called San L , )renzo, whence it ascends north, still with a westerly inclination, and joins the confluence of the Rio Gila with the Colorado. Lake Guzman is thus ceded to the United States, but no point upon the Gulf of California. The village of Paso del Norte still belongs to Mexico. - These advices also mention that an official report has been published by the 4exican Go vernment proving beyond a do u bt th e di scovery of gold " pl a cers" in five or six different rivers running through the State of Guerrero. The localities are said to agree with those described in the letter of Cortez to the Ring o f ipain as the spots from which gold was washed for Montezuma. REBUILDING OF DONCASTER PARISH C il —The n to r committee appointed f or superintending th U e lt rebuilding taplalyrisdhestcrhouyreedh, b w y h fi i r c e h , 0 n i t will the morningberme mof obferDte ed o , was cas the 28th of February, 1853, have accepted the tender of Mr. Janson, of Northampton, for the stone work of the new edifice, according to the plan of Mr. Gilbert Scott, of Spring -gardens, London, the contract for which i s 21,0001. Th e remainder of the work, exclusive of organ, bells, & e ., is estimated to cost about 10,000 t. more. Mr. W. H. Foreman, of Pippbrook-house, Dorking, Surrey, who is descended on the maternal side from an influen tial family formerly resident at Doncaster, has given directions for the construction, in the most elaborate style, and at his own cost, of a chapel on the south side of the chancel, in commemoration of his ancestors. This is in addition to the sum of 1,0001. contributed by Mr Foreman to the restoration fund. The subscriptions already received and promised to the committee amount to nearly 30,0001. It is intended, if possible, to lay the foundation stone of the new church on the 28th of this month, the anniversary of the day on which the late church was destroyed. PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is about 3 per mille discount (according to the last tariff), which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 104 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25;094 ; and, the exchange at Paris on London at short being 24'971, it follows that gold is about 0.48 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Ham burg the price of gold is 423 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for stan dard gold, gives an exchange of 13.4: ; ; and, the exchange at Hamburg on London at short being 13.21, it follows florins, that wold is 0 . 65 per cent. dearer in Hamburg than ir l London. THE COINAGE OF 1853.—There were coined at the l'Ai n t 3 in 1853, 10 597 933 so vereign 4 s :7s 2 2 ,7 s o ,7 e 9 r 6 tw ha o sixpences, reigns, no crowns or baif-crowns, 3,919,950 4,256,t88 shillings, 3,387,930 16,038 half twopences , and 7,920 silver pence (of these last two coins the sam e fourpences, 36,168 threepences, number is printed every year, for Maunday money, w e believe),' 1,021,440 pennies, 1,559,040 halfpence 1,023,628 farthings, and 955,224 halffarthinge. Th'i total value of the coinage of the year was 12,663,0001. the average of the Previou3 five ran wad o 1 a 4000,000 NG up, ind Ind 209 ida nd tio