The Sun. — London, England, 1854-12-01 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 6,000 bales, including 500 American taken for export. The market was heavy, and prices rather below the decline previously noticed. The sales comprised 5,000 American, 20 Pernam and Maranham, at 61d. ; 70 Bahia, at 6gd. ; 100 Egyptian, at 51d. to Bd. ; and 700 Surat, at 3d. to 4d. per lb. Railway Shares were dull. Colonial produce has been rather quiet this week, in the absence of speculative dealing, but prices have ruled steady. Sugar has been at nearly the previous rates, although some quantities have been higher. Coffee has declined principally as regards Ceylon and Plantation. Rice has been steady. Saltpetre has advanced. Some descriptions of spices are dearer. Tea is quiet, as well as tallow. Hemp and flax are in more request. Cotton is dull. Rum has improved, owing to another Go vernment contract being announced, and cocoa has risen. In reviewing the state of the Manchester market for the month just closed, Messrs. M'Nair, Green how, and Irving mention that the business done has been satisfactory under all the circumstances. No short time has been generally established, but a few factories are working only from sunrise to sunset. The demand for the country trade is un important. The market, although good compara tively, has nevertheless been depressed, the war, the high price of provisions, and the demand for money being against it. A little has been done in East India shirtings and yarns. Both goods and yarns have been at irregular prices. In the Shipping Gazette and Sydney General Trade List, of Sept. 18, received by the overland mail, a statement is given which requires no com ment. It is as follows _ _ _ _______ " The barque Prince Regent arrived at Port Adelaide on the 29th August last, after a trying and seriously protracted voyage of 179 days from London and 163 from Gravesend. The length of the voyage is attribut able to the fact of her being improperly supplied with water and provisions, through the culpable negligence or parsimony of the agents. During the last three weeks the passengers and crew have been obliged to drink bottled [porter (part of the cargo), the water being all gone. In consequence of the privations and short supply of provisions to which they had been subjected, six of the crew had died of scurvy, and thirteen more are either quite disabled or in a very sickly condition ; so that the efficient seamen are only five in number ' and Captain Jago himself is quite an invalid, suffering from rheumatism and exhaustion of strength, the results of privation, anxiety, insufficient nourishment, and the want of a sargeon on board." English Stocks have been higher this morning, and there have been further purchases for invest ment, which have caused the prices for transfer to be temporarily above those for account. Consols have been done at 911 and 92 for money, but not at more than 911 for account. There have been sales of New 3 per Cents. as low as 89-g, for the purpose of investing the proceeds in Consols, an operation that cannot yield a profit. With the news just received, however, that Aus tria has signed a very binding treaty with Prussia, quite opposed to the interests of the Allies, the funds are weaker at this moment, Con sols being 91-i- g. The floating debt has been again quoted 3s. to Gs. premium. East India Stock is marked 233. A bargain has been effected in the New 5 per Cent. Annuities, at 117. Foreign Securities have been inactive. The Turkish Scrip was better at the opening, being 71 discount, but it has sunk again upon renewed sales to 81 discount. The intimation given to the Stock Exchange, that the firmans authorising the loan, and the general appropriation of the revenues of the Ottoman Empire besides the special application of a portion of the Egyptian tribute, have been deposited in the Bank of England, is calculated to relieve all further surmise and anx i e ty. Spanish 3 per Cents. have been 372, and the New Deferred 18. Mexican Bonds have been heavy at 211. Brazilian small stock is at 971. Russian 5 per Cents. aro at 95i. Dutch 2/- per Cents. are at 60i; _ _ The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 51 to 5 ; Mexi can, 20 to 211 ; Peruvian, 67 to 69 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 47 to 49 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto 4i per Cents., 85 to 87 ; Spanish New Deferred, 18 to 18-k ; ditto 3 per Cents., 371 to 38 ; ditto Certificates, 5 to W . , ; ditto Passive, 4A- to 41. The Railway Share Market has been steady, and With moderate transactions in Lancashire and Yorkshire,Widland, Great Northern, and Brighton. The Foreign lines are firmer. The Foreign Mines have been at former rates generally, the Joint Stock Banks are dull, and in Australian Agricultural Shares there has been a rally. Peel River are flatter. South Australian Shares are better. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. I shr. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. 120 (From the Ofscial List.) 100 Business done 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities... 9O 89a 3 per Cent. Corsols Annuities 914 2 11 fi New 3 per Cent. Annuities 5 per Cent. Anny'ties. ll7 India Stock Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, 2id. 21000 "'3 6 2500 3 6 &nal , 3 6 Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3A per Cont. 99fi Ditto 1859, ~ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Small .. . Kexican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 2ll Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St 9SA Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 37t Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. lB Turkish Scrip 6 per cent. . . — Ditto for the Account Venezuela Bonds, 33 per Cent. - ..... Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 2A per Cent. 12 Guil Ditto 4 Der tent. uertifieates ..,.., HALF-PAST TWO. Consols Ditto, Account THE TURKISH LOAN. The following communication has been addressed by the contractors of the Turkish Loan to the committee of the Stock Exchange, on the full completion of all the formalities connected with its negotiation. As its amount is 3,000,0001., and the firman, in accordance with the original notification, 'authorises 5,000,0001., a further sum of 2,000,0001. may be contracted for whenever the Turkish Government may deem such a step desirable ; but it is understood / that the lowest price the agents have hitherto been authorised to entertain for the additional issue is 90 per cent., and that there has been no intima tion of any intention to reduce it :-- "The contractors deem it right to communicate to the tioncci C ommitteeof the Stock Exchange that the undermon- Turki , doc u ments , , appertaining to the negotiation of the Eng land, sull_Leoran, hhve bean deposited in the Bank of sons :l ris certificates duly signed by Messrs. Venn and C. M'usurus. the T urkish in the presence of his Excellency Mr. T. li, Palmer, Ambassador, the Baron de Gold amid,3llranu il Palmer, Mr. J. N. Black, and Mr. P. : "1. The Erman, dated June , 1854, authorising the ne gotiation of the loa n by Mes srs. Bl ac k an d D uran d for fi v e millions sterling, with th e London of the Ottoman on and Paris. Ambassadors at the Courts of "2. The instructions to Mess rs . Black and Durand from the Ottoman Government at them C o nsta ntinople, dated the 10th of Juno, 1854, authorising g to 30,(x tibute payable gene ral revenues of Turkey and a portion of )11,,redge the . 'POO piastres, by the Pasha of Egypt, amountin as security for the due payment of the principal and in iserestof the loan to be contracted. " 3. The contract for three millions of the loan datedan made with the Baron de G o l damid and Mr. J. u. Palmer, 24th of August, 1854, duly executed by all the p ersons above mentioned. "4. The imperial firman, dated October 3, assi,nin 1,333,333 pillar dollars an nuall y of the tribute abovOnaen . ' tioned, in conformity with the instructions given to Messrs. Black and Bused for the negotiation of the whole loan." THE WEATHER IN THE NORTH.—Winter seems now fairly set in here. For two weeks past the weather has been very wet and cold ; but on Thursday evening last snow c o m menced to fall, which continued at intervals during Friday. Our streets were completely covered, and on the neighbouring hills it fell to a considerable depth. —B /whin. Advertiser. MISS DOLBY.—The first of a pair of soirees musicales was given by this distinguished vocalist yesterday, at her residence in Hinde-street. The selection began with Meneelssohn's trio in C minor, which was capitally per formed by Mr. Sterndale Bennett, Herr Ernst, and Mr. Lucas. The other instrumentalisms consisted of piano forte solos by Mr. Bennett, who was in excellent vein and finger; violin solos by Heti:Ernst ; one of Beethoven' s sonatas for pianoforte and violin ; and a clarionet fanta iby Frank Mori, executed by Mr. Lazarus. Miss Dolby gang with her usually highly cu_ltiTated taste. SIIARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. Closing Prices yesterday. 19 - 20 4 - 4i 8 11 101 d 17 18 7 6 94 - 96 - 60 12 - 113 10 - 12 5 - 4. GI - 7# 14 - 15 11 - 114 67 - 69 52 - 54 19i -20 i 67 - 69 87k- 88 73 - 75 122 - 124 87 - 89 691 69i 67 - 69 ••• •• 70 - 80 • 6 - 8 6 - 8 7( - 71 6 - 7i S 101 106 984 98i id— id d 4d . 14 (I 79 80 10i • 94 9 8 20i - 214 66 67 38 - 40 4(1 di 104 94 ( 2 21 ;Ifi - 50 3g sk 30 ... 31 6 10 1 6i 7i 72 74 7 61 4i— 31(1 12i 134 50 51 52 54 —' p d qtr 4id 64 6.0 29 - 31 90 - 92 60 - 62 7i - 43 - 45 11 - 13 67A - 29 - 30 i i d 35 - 37 3 - 17 18 41 - 44 20 - ri 2 6 7 - 7 6 - 7 FOREIGN. 6 14 4 3 d id-ip P 3 d 3O 31 I . p par 8— 7 d Si 7t 8 7d 9 -- 84 d IP i,P par -- IP 16i -17 i ld 1p lid - id 2 d par par -- 2p ... dis 3i - 31 g # 2 a ip ... - ... id-iP 6i - 7 33,} - 33 12i -- iii -9; 18/ -181 p 45 47 36 38 —• pm 20 21 16 par 2f lid 71 —8 ••• ---- ••• ... - pm 3 3 / 4 - 4 by ••• ''''' •, 16} ---- lei BANKS. 79 - $1 I'd —4 d 31 - 2i(l 22i-23 PaWI RAILWATF. 100 Aberdeen.. 8 Ambg. Nottng Bost and Eastn. Janet... all Belfast & Ballymena. all Birming. Wolverh. S. Stour Valley 20 Birkcnhd. Lancsh. dt Cheshire Janet all Do. Chesh. dr Birk , £5O and £25 Cons 19 Do., £20... 30 Myth & Tyne origins - £25 (isscl. at £45, 100 Bristol and Exeter 100 Caledonian 21s. Carmarthen and Car digan all Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon all Cork, Black, & Pass 16 Cornwall 1 Crieff Junction 45 Dul4in&BelfastJuae all P undee Perth &Aber Been Junction all Do. New. ...... 100 East Anglian all Eastern Counties , 100 Eastern Union, A Stock 100 De., B. Stock 13:j Do., New A 100 East Lancashire 100 Edinburgh& Glasgo - a 91 Ediub. and Peebles 100 Edin. PA!) & Dundee 1 Forth & Clyde June. 100 Glasgow &S. Western 100 Great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock /100 Do., B. Stock Vxoo Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire ; 100 Great Western 100 Do. Stour Val. Rail Gua. Stk all Irish South-Ea.storn all Lancaster & Carlisle 10. Do., Thirds 4 Do. New Thirds 100 Lancash.andYorksh 19' ! Do., Fifths 114 Do., Wst. Riding Un all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt all London & Blackwal 100 Lond. Bright k S.Cst 100 Lond. and N. Westn. 12 Do. Fifths 1 Do.lo/.Sh.,M&B ( 2i Do. Eighths 100 London and S. Westn 42,3 Do., £5O 34 Do., £4O all Lndndrry& Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.Shef.&Lincln 41 Do., Man. & Lin. Un 100 Midland 100 Do. Birmng. &Derby all Midld. G. West. (Im) 22 i Do. Half Shares %1.1 Newcastle & Carlisle 54 Newmkt.BuryEuten Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd S Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor 100 Norfolk 3?, Northn.Connties Un 100 North British alli North Devon, No. 1 all Do., No. 2 all Do., A Deferred all Do., B Guaranteed 100 N. Eastern—Berwick 20 Do. do. Extension 13 Do.do. G.N.E. Parch. all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York all North London 8,4, Do. New £lO 121 E N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp stead, and City Ju 17? North Staffordshire all North Western.. all N. &S. Westrn. June. 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester 100 Oxford, Worcester,& Wolverhampton 6 l'ortsmouth 100 Scottish Central 100 Scottish Midland all Shrewsby. & 'brad all Shropshiro Union _ Do. A, B, C,& D,full: paid up at per eel, all South Devon 100 South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yrksh. do Riv. Due. 5 Do 8 Staines, Wok. &Wol all tockton & Darling. 16: Stockton & 100 . Taff Vale 9 Do. £lO shares. 100 Do. Pref., No. 1 21 Thames Haven Docl , and Railway all Vale of Ncath all Waterfd. & Kilkenn3 all Watcrford&Limerick 18 West Cornwall 3 West End of Loudon and Crystal Palace all West Loudon 111 s. Wimbledn& Croydon 20 St. St. 25 25 25 50 St. 50 172 20 20 20 20 100 20 25 25 25 all Antwerp&Rotterdam 3i Belgian Eastn. June. 8 Beziers to Graissessae 2s. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Serip Central of Italy all Demerara 14 Dijon and Besancon 10 Dutch Rhenish all Eastern of France 10 Do. New all East Indian 2 Do. Extension all Do. 44 p. c. Bds., pay '57, convertible all Do. do. do., '59, do 10 Gd. Junct. of France 12 Gd. Tk of CanadaA is. all Do. do all Do. St. Lawrence St Atlautic all Do. Cert. of ')en. — con. into Stk. till 'd all Do. Comp. 6p. c.,, do. 10 Gt. Central of France all Gt. Indian Peninsula 1 Do. Now 5 per cent. all Gt.Wostern 0.. Canada 20 10 20 20 Shares all Do. Bds., payablo's7, with option till '55 all Do. do., '62, p. '56 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O all Di. do., '73, without option all 1112niilten & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 11 Lake Const. & Basle all Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c. pref 12 Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares all Do. Obligations 10 Lyons and Geneva 12 Lyons & Mediterran 163 Madras 2 Do. NOW 31i Maria Antonia all Do. do. New 2 vtelbourne Dk. &Ry all T ~ raur & Liege (with 50 50 100 100 20 50 20 25 interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all D 0.201. Shs.lato Char leroi and Erquelincs guar. 3i p. c. & red. at 22A/. dur. 88 yrs. from 1 Jan. 1854 all Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds (froy.B.& Ams.Shs.) all NorwegianTrunkProf 14 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen 10 ParisCaen &Cherbrg all Rouen and Havre 20 Royal Danish 3 Royal Swedish all Sambre and Meuse._ all Do. 5A p. cent. Prof. 10 Southern of France 14 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A), all West Flanders all Do 5i per c. Pref 10 Western of France 16 West. of Switzerland all Wiesbaden 20 Zealand JOINT-STOP a ll Australasia all British Colonial Bank and Loan Company all British N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lond 16 English Scottish and Australian alllLoncl. Chart. Bk. of 37 - 44 9 8/ 50i 1 58 7 Australia 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 LOnd. & Westminster 35 National Provincial of England 10 Do. New 221 National of Ireland all Now South Wales all Oriental Bank of Corporation.. .. . ... . 25 Provincial of Ireland. all Do. New 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp Co _. all South Australia . - all Union of Australia 7O 72 21 Do. New 8 9 la Milo of L4ncl9l4 !tm = ••• -- ••• 35 - 40 Boineos done this day. 71 701 104 5 98i 7i II 211 671 6i 7 14 i LINES LEASED AT FIXED KENTALI3• RAILWAYS; Leasing Oompans. Closing Prices yesterday. Iledford and Blotchley Buckgb amsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln gr. 6 por cent. Glas. Barr. &' Neils. Direct Do. New Glstr.& Dn. Fr Dk. Railway Hull & Solby Do. Shares. Shares. Lon. St Greeuw Do. Preference Lon., Til., & S.' Lowestoft gr.l 4 per cent. ' Do. 6 per et. Manch. Bxtn.' and Matlock, Middlesbro' & Rcdcar. !VDdhl.Bradfcl Northern and Easternsp.e. Do. 6 per et. Do. Fixeds p Prest. & Wyre Do. a Shares. Shef. Roth.and Goole g. 5 p. c. S. Stafrordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 por cent... Do. Wilts&gomrst London N. West. L.&N.W. Caledon... c G ai t. ci N o rt nia hn i;. Do Gt. Westn Yk. Now. & torw. Y. &NM& Do Do S. Eastern Do 1 Peto & Co. INorfolk.. L.& N.W. & Midid. Stckton & Darlingt. E. Count Do L. &N.W &Ln&Yk Do Gt Northn Lancash & Yorksh. IK.l4Clean Stookt. & Darlingt ItWeetn. ••• - ••• 95 - 10 0 99 - 101 134 - 136 104 : 16.6 ii -13 i 23 - 24 11 - M 2f - 2i 93 - 95 57 - 59 134 = ii ii = lid io 31 90 92 PREFERENCE SHARES. Aberdeen Do. No. 2, 7 p. c. Blyth and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issd. at 501) Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Do. do. Pref. No. 2 Cork ikßatidons ip.c DuudeePerth &Aber deen Junction EastAnglian (£3los 6 per cent Do. (£5) 7 per cent Do. (.E7 17s) 7 p. c Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. 1 Do. No. 2 Do. New 6 p. c. St. Eastern Union, Seri Guar. 6 per cent... Do. 51., 10 Der cent. Do. 10. Debentr.Sh- Do. do. 4 per cent... East Lancash. 6 p.cts. East and West York shire June. Fifths Edinb Prth. &Dundee 4 per cent. Glasgow& S. Western Guar. 5 per cent Great Northn. 5 p. c Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem Do. 4 p.c. Gt. N. of Scot. Ist Prof Gt. Southn.&Westm. (Ireland) Eighths) Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. Gt. Westn. (Berks Hants Ex. 5 p. c) Do. con. red. 4 p.c Do. con. red. 4 p. c Dc,. irred. 4p.c. Do. Birm. Pref. Sh Do. Chester 8 p. c.P.S. Do. do. 5 p. e. do Do. Birm. Gua. Stk Do. Chcs. Gus. Stk Do. do. do Do. do. do ........ Lan: & York. F. £2O Do 6 p c. Stock London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St Do. New Guar.6 p. c Lon. &N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 p. et. London & S. Western Con. Thirds Londonderzy& Color Shares Londy.&Ennis.,iSh Man., Shef., & Lin , Sares, No.l. Do. New, £lO . Do. £6 ilarypt .& Cs.rl.4 p c Do. 4 per cent Do Consol.6 p.c.St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent I Do. Pref. per cent Norfolk Debenture Do. Pref. 4 p. c. Steck Do. 5 p.c. Est Do. 513 per ct.prof Do. Way. Val. 5 P.C North British E. Berw, 4 p.c. P Do. do. de. Do. Leeds 6 p.csNo.l Do. do. Quarters 4£ De .Y ork & Pur. North Staffordshire.. Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh. Xl5, 610. c. Scot. Cent. , New Fret Do. 5 per cent South Devon De. fixed, 4i per cent S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d, Do. 4i per cont i4.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar S Wales Gua. 4p. c, Do. de. 4i p. c Stockton and Dar. lington, 5 per cent Do. do. do. 'Stockton and Hartle- pool, guar. 5 till Ist July, Watorfd.&Kilk, P. c. 1856 ,6p.c. 98 - 102 92 -96 95 - 97 5/ - 64 i - i I' 6- 4 P 13 -13 i 22 - 24 60 - 65 ... .. ad' ,U 3 - 115 ,106 - 108 99 - 101 6-64 96 -- 98 90 -- 92 92 -- 94 10 -- 11 16 --'l7 10 -10 i 71 -- 73 18 -- 19 9 -- 9A 13i -14 i It -- id 135 137 • •• IN. 2i- 3pl 10} -- 11 i -- iP .35 - 137 - S 7 - 90 104 - 106 101 - 103 9a 92 31 - 8i ••• 1 id 107 -- 109 12 14 ia p ar 22i —22 i 15 : is ... ••• id iP „ 2 --. ••• 1 d Business this day. Pald. l MINES. A gua Fria .... Anglo Austrin. Gold Anglo Californian Australian Australian Cordillera Australian Freehold Ave Maria Badon (Gd.Dachy of) 1 Bloanarvon Iron and Coal British Iron. Brazilianlinp.(issued at £5 pm Do. Cocaos & Cniada Do. St. John Del Rey Carsons's Creek Clarendon Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica • Cobre Copper Colonial Gold Copper Min. of Eng. Do.Pref.7 p. cent Copiapo English and Austin Copper Smeltg Co Fortuna General Gt.NuggetVeinßeg Great Polgooth Liberty Linares. Mariquita Mexican&S. As orlon. New Granada New Linares Mining and Smelting Co Nouveau Monde Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. & Smelt Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymney Iron Do. New Santiago de Cuba South Australian Tin Croft United Mexican Waller West Mariposa Worthing Mining of Australia Yuba MISCEL] 11 Aubin Coal and Iron Australian Ag►ricult. ' 4 Australsn.Pcific.Mail ).11 Australn. Royal Mail 5 Berlin Water Works 40 Brit. American Land 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co.. 32 Canada J Canada Gov. 6 p. ct Jan. and July al Crystal Palace al Crystal Pal. of France 5 Eastern Steam 4 ;1 ElectricTelegraph(A) ill Electric Teleg. of Ir. 14 Gen. Steam Navigat., al General Screw Steam 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar' .0 Yfagdalena St. Navig. 11 Mediteran. Elec. Tel 11 Nat. Pat. Steam Fue3 5 Netherlands Land._ 1 N. S. W. Coal &Inter, Steam Navigat. Co 1 I all N. B. Australasian ,21 Nrth. o fEurope Steam al Peel Br. 14. & Minrl.' di Peninsular& Oriental Do. Do. 611 Portland Iron Co ;0 Royal Mail Steam ai Scot. Austral. Invest. Al South Austral. Land 1 1. Submar. Telegraph:. Do. Registered. Van Pionoi.4 411 d - • i ___ 1 i - 1 A - i ••. re 5 - 7 6i - 2 - 3 1 - 32 - 34 - 46 - 48 50 - 55 1 - 3 p 14 - 16 - - i - i ..• - •.• i - 1 8 3 / 4 ... 9i A - i 6i - 7 i - i ••• ••• 1 - 15i - 16, A - I 23 - 25 6 - S - 41 - - 3 2i_ 3 ••• -- ••• 33 - 35 ••• ...... ••• 2i 2d ••• - ••• 98 - 102 09 -109 i 2i - 2t is — i 7 1 = ii ••• -- ••• i - 4 ii = i" 2 - 21 1 31 a 3 4 3 i 1 i -- 1 10 au 2511 20 10 10 50 100 St. I LI 5 a , 4 al 20 25 2: 1 al 15 1. 20 al 20 11 20 11 10 al 20 1. 5 al 50 al 100 61 1 ni 25 a] i pm THE NEW STAMP ACT. A variety of communications continue to be received regarding the new Stamp Act, for which space cannot be afforded, but the subjoined correspondence refers to points of importance to all employers engaged in manu factures or trade : " 10, St. Mary-axe, Leadenhall-street, Nor. 27. "Sir,—Might I request your answer to the following questions relating to the new Stamp Act? " 1. My smith's account is kept in two books—one for him, one for me. On this latter he gives me each week a receipt for money paid him. " 2. My foreman carpenter, who works solely for me by contract on my promises, enters also in a book all the work done and sums paid him. " Can, in either case, the penny stamp be dispensed with, or does the act make the use of it obligatory? " Thanking you beforehand for the favour of a reply, I beg to subscribe myself " Your most obedient servant, " ABBIN CIiAPPUIS. "Thomas Keogh, Esq., Inland Revenue, Somerset-house." "Inland E,evenue, Somerset-house, London, Nov. 29. "Sir,—The Board having had before them your letter of the 27th inst., I am directed to acquaint you that they are of opinion that receipt stamps are required in both the cases therein submitted.—l am, sir, your obedient ser vant, "THOMAS KEOGH. " Mr. Aubin Chappuis." MARKET NE fVB--L(T1112 DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Very moderate supplies of English wheat have arrived this week, coastwise and by land carriage. The show of samples, to-day, was limited. Fine white qualities were in fair request, at Monday's currency ; but red met a dull inquiry, and the quotations were again rather easier. Foreign wheat—the supply of which was by no means extensive moved off slowly, at barely stationary prices. There was very little done in floating ,cargoes. We were fairly supplied with barley, which sold slowly and low parcels were easier to purchase. The inquiry for malt was inactive, at late currencies. We were well supplied with oats. Tho demand ruled heavy, at a decline of quite 6d. per quarter. Beans, peas, and flour commanded wily little attention. English .. Irish .... Foreign .. ARRITALS THIS WINK. Wheat. Barley. — llaTt.. Oats. i Flour. 2,180 4,460 3,210 2,310 i 730 7,190 4,510 2,170 9,220 ( 470se1s. 700 brls. SMITHFIELD. To-day's market was fairly supplied with beasts. Most breeds commanded a steady sale, and Monday's quotations were well supported—the best Scots being worth ss. 2d. per 8 lbs. The show of sheep was very moderate. The mutton trade, however, was in a sluggish state, at un altered currencies. Calves sold steadily, at full prices. The top figure was ss. 6d. per 81bs. In pigs, only a moderate business was transacted, at late rates. Milch cows were very dull, at from 141. to 191. each ; including their small calf. Per Bibs to sink the of ale. s. d. s. d. s. d. s d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 Bto3 10 PrimeSouthdown 410 5 0 Second quality.... 4 0 4 4 Large crse. calves 4 2 5 0 Prime large oxen 4 6 410 rime small d 0... 5 2 5 6 Primo Scots, dm 5 0 5 2 Largo hogs 3 4 4 4 Inferior Sheep ...3 8 310 Small porkers 4 $ 5 0 Second quality ...4 0 4 2 ucklingcalves ..22 0 29 0 Prime crse.-wlled.4 4 4 8 uarter old pigs 24 0 28 0 TOTAL SUPPLT. FOREIGN SUPPLY. 1,030 Beasts . •• •• . 360 BCastS •••••••••• •••••• Sheep .••••.••••••....... 3,740 CoWas •••••••••••• 252 Figs .•.• Sheep ..••••••.••••••••••• 520 Calves..•••• ••••••••••••i , 300 Plgs•••••••••• ****** • ***** NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies wore good, and the trade ruled less active as follows : Per Blbs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 3 4. 3 8 Do., middling 310 4 0 Do., prime large 4 2 4 4 Do., do. small 4 6 4 8 Pork, large 3 6 4 4 N. d. s. d. Mutton, Inferior 3 6 3 10 Do., middling 4 0 4 4 Do., prime 4 6 4 8 Veal 4 0 5 2 Pork, small 4 6 5 4 BORO UGH HOP. We continue to have a steady demand for fine hops, at full prices. Low and middling qualities are a slow sale. This week's imports are 86 bales from Ostend, 30 from Calais, 116 from Hamburg, 21 from Rotterdam, and 112 from Antwerp. Mid and East Kent pockets, 151 10s to 21/ Os; Weald of Kent ditto, 15/ Os to 16110 s; Sussex ditto, 14114 s to 15110 s per cwt. COLONIAL. Sudas.—A fair business has been done in British Plan. tation, but Barbadoes has been sold at 33s to 37s for mid to good yellow, and at 31s to 32s Gil for low. Demerara crystallised went at 33s 6d to 34s for brown, and at 31s 6d to 38s 6d for ord to good yellow. Mauritius realised 30s to 33s for low to mid yellow, and 26s 6d for ord to fine brown. Bengal mid to fine brought 33s to 395. Native Madras was heavy at 26s to 26s 6d‘ for ord brown. Fo reign —There has been a good demand for the lower kinds of Penanc , at Gd per cwt decline ; low to soft brown sold at 26s 6d to 28s Gd, and low mid soft yellow at 29s to 32a Gd. Havannah at auction was taken in at 31s 6d to 35s 6d for low to good yellow, but low greyish brown was sold at 30s 6d to 32s 6d, low yellow to good fiorettes at 32s 641 to 37s 6d, and washed at 31s to 37s 6d. A cargo of brown Bahia has found buyers at 19s Gd. Refined has advanced; brown lumps are 42s 6d, and grocery 43s to 49s per cwt. COFFEE.—Plantation Ceylon has been cheaper. At auc tion, mid to good went at 58s to 61s 6d, low mid at 56s to 575, flee ord small to f fine ord, at 53s to 53s Gd, good and fine of favourite marks at 63s to 75s Gd, low mid brown to good mid bold greyish at 54s to 60s , f fine ord at 53s to 545, triage at 35s Gd to 535 , and peaberry at Gis to 65s 6d. Native ord to g ood ord has been taken in at 45s Gd to 465. Rio at 43 86 d for ord and good ord, and Costa Rica at 52s to 54s per cwt. Jamaica brought 45s Gd to 495, for good ord to f fine ord pale and mixed. RlCE.—Cleaned Java has been taken in at 25s to 28s for mid. and good, aid Carolina at 318 to 33s for raid seconds. SPICES.—A large quantitity has been offered. White pepper sold steadily at Md to 9(1 for mid. and good Pe nang, and at 81d for mid. Madras • Long was taken in at 8d ; Cayenne went at 5d ; cultivated Madras ginger real ised 36s 6d to 39s 6d, and Pimento brought 54d to 53d for ord. and mid. coarse ; nutmegs are cheaper—Penang and Singapore obtained 3s 7d to 4s 9d for good and fine bold ; mane also declined, ord to good dark selling at is lid to 2s 3d, and fine at 2s 10d. Cloves went at Old to 10d for mid and good bold. Cassia Vera ord, dark and mouldy, realised 30s Gd to 355. SALTPETRE.—Higher rates have been current. Bom bay sold at 12s to 22s Gd for ord and low, 31i to 11 per cent refraction, and Bengal 12i to Bi, was taken in at 24s 6d to 255. Madras, lif per cent, brought 23s 6d for good color. TEA.—The market has been quiet. TALLOW.—This article has been dull. GREEN FRUIT.—The demand is good, and stock limited, contrary winds preventin ,, arrivals. The remainder of the cargo of oranges was sold at public per Electric Flash, sale, by Keeling and Hunt, and realised prices equal to those of last w ee k. The first ca rgo from St . Michael was taken freely by th e t ra d e. Arr i va l s o f Mess ina lemons are wanted. Nuts of all kinds sell well. LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DIY.) LONDON, Dec. I.—Wind this day at Noon, W. ; fresh breeze, with fine weather. RAMSGATE, Nov. 30.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Ora, from Newcastle, for Rialaga; Conference, Swansea, for Havre, leak. SHEHRNESS, Nov. 30.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Con - stantia, from Sundswall, assisted in with loss of anchors and chains. d PORTSMOUTH, No v . 30. ~- ,-,i n t W.S.W. Arrived— Cureberland (151, steam-transport), from London, for the Black Sea. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 30.—Wind, W. S.W. Arrived—Thor, frota Monte Video ; Princess Royal, Quebec ; Emab, Mar tiniquo, for Falmouth; William and Edward, Cardiff, for Lisbon. FALMOUTH, Nov. 30.—Wind, W. Arrived — Amanda, from Rio d e J ane i ro ; Quest, from Alexandria. Sailed— E. D. T., for London ; David and Martha, do. OFF DOVER, Nov. 30.—Archimedes, from Charento Essex (s), London, for the Westward. COWES, Nov. 3 0.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Arthur, from Memel. Sailed—Li se tte, for Hamburgh. BRIDGWATER, Nov. 30.—A rr i v ed—Clifton Hall, from Quebec ; Providence , Dan tz ic. OFF THE NORTH FORELAND, Nov. 30.—Alcido, from Youghal, with loss of anchor and chain. BRISTOL, Nov. 30.—Wind, S.W. Arrived —Zenobia, from Lisbon ; James Dalr Africa ; Stedfast, do. ; Chal lenge, P r i nce Edward's Is land; Creole, Newfoundland. GLOUCESTER, Nov. 29.—Arrived—X. Y. Z., from Que. bee • Heinri c h, A n t werp . MILFORD, Nov. 30.—Wind, W. Arrived—Naomi, from Swansea, for Rio Janeiro. HARTLEPOOL, Nov. 30.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Metta Catherina, from Schiodam. Sailed—lris, for Rio Janeiro ; Trifoleium, do. LOWESTOFT, Nov. 30.—The Alliance, of St. Vaast, grounded this afternoon on the Holm Srnd, and remains. SUNDERLAND, Nov. 30.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived— Robert Watson, from Quebec • Hope, Mirami c hi. SHIELDS, Nov. 29.—Wind, ?W. Arrived—Helios, from Quebec. HULL, Nov. 30.—Wind, W.N.W. Arrived—Sylph, from Memel ; Seagull (s), Rotterdam ; Ocean Queen (a), do. Sailed—Maria Christina, for Naples; Humber (s), Konigsberg. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) years. LIVERPOOL, Friday, 10.18 a . m . Wind, N.N.W. ; fresh. Arrived—Cazandria, from Miraniichi ; Egbertns, Dant sic ; Doloros, St. Michael's ; Centurion, New York; Wash ington, New York; Evangeline, New Orleans; Lotty Leigh, Africa ; White Mouse, Faro ; Ezpress, Honduras ; White Star, St. John's, New 3runswick, Off—Margaret Deane, Macau); Windsor Castle, Quebec. BEAUMARIS, Dec. 1. Put in.—The barques Infanta and Tudor. DUBLIN, Nov, 30. Arrived.—Mary Anne Nowett and Angela, from Prince Edward's Island. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 30. Arrived.—Keopsake, Urania, and Erin-go-Bragh, from Quebec. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday, 10.17 a.m. Wind, W.N.W. ; tide three-quarters flood ; weather fine. Arrived, Nov. 30.—Emil, from Malmo; Ethered, Que bec • Marcia,l C.D., Port Neuf ; Mahon, Mensal ; Hedvig Thilda, Umea ' • Maria, Leghorn ; J. Bl ac k , Memel ; In gram, Denia ; Eden, Bombay; Jane, Statichael's ; Joseph Earle, Quebec ; Batavier, steamer, Rotterdam. Arrived, Dec. I.—Columbine, steamer, from Rotterdam; Countess of Lonsdale, Hamburg; Gotherborg, steamer, Flsinore. DEAL, Friday, 9 a.m. Wind, W.N.W. ; moderste, and fine. Anchored.—Danish schooner Fieles, from Newcastle for Messina. American ship, supposed the Hendrick Hudson, weigking fot the rim, bliTiDg anchored during tho niat CRIMINAL COURT-(1711M DAY.) OLD COURT.. (Before Mr. Baron A:lderson.) Joseph Farrell, the Bank clerk who pleaded guilty at the last sessions to a charge of forging dividend warrants. and thereby defrauding the Bank of England of a large. sum of money, was placed at the bar to receive that judgment of the Court. The learned judge said it was a very bad offence, an& he sentenced the prishner to be transported for fifteen NEW COURT. (Before the Recorder.) THE PLATE ROBBERY AT SIR HYDE PARKER'S. Isaac Hart, a Jew clothes dealer, was indicted for receiving a quantity of stolen plate, ♦alued at 2401., the property of General Eden, won knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Bodkin prosecuted., and Mr. Parry and Mr Sleigh defended. The facts which have: been very recently before the public were these. At the last sittings of this Court two men were convicted of stealing plate, valued at above 6001., the joint property of Sir Hyde Parker and General Eden. The names of the prisoners were Baker and Crossley, the former was butler to Gen. Eden, and Crossley kept a beer shop in Bermondsey. Baker had been left in care of the plate when the family were from their town residence in Onslow-square, and he stole the whole of the plate, being aided ;in the act by Crossley, to whose house all the plate was Laken. After the conviction a son of the prisoner Crossley saw his father in jail and after then gave information to Sergeant Whitcher, to the effect that after the plate had been brought from Onslow square the present prisoner, who is a dealer in Petticoat lane, came to the house of the elder Crossley and there having weighed the plate paid for it, and made the younger Crossley carry it out after him to a cab which was in waiting under one of the dark arches of the rail way in Tooley-street, where the plate was put in and the prisoner drove off. This took place again when the second quantity of platel,was taken from General Eden's, Not any of the plate had been recovered. The jury had not returned their verdict when we went t. press. MEETING AT MANCHESTER OF THE FBIENDS OF POLAND. On Wednesday evening a soiree, " in commemoration of Poland's struggle for independence, in 1830, from un der Russian. oppression," was held at the Manchester Athenaum. The room in which the meeting took place was profusely decorated with the flags of England, France, Turkey, and Poland. Mr. ABSOLOM WATKIN presided, and in opening the proceedings referred to the loss which the Poles had sus tained by the death of Lord Dudley Stuart. The present contest with Russia could not be otherwise than favour able to the Poles, but he was of opinion that our Go vernment would have acted more wisely if they bad raised Poland and Hungary, instead of waiting for Austria. After an address from M. Labentowicz, a Polish re• fugee, M. ZARMORSICI, a student from Cracow, gave a sketch of the dismemberment of Poland. In referring to the present war, he stated that there were now 160,000 Poles compelled by Russia to fight against England and France ; but that if the Poles rose ea mane, these 160,000 would desert from the Russian army, and fight on our side. Several other addresses were delivered by Poles, in the vernacular tongue, and the proceedings were of a most animated character. A public meeting was held in the Lecture-room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Wednesday evening, " to com memorate the Polish Revolution of 1830, and to give unmistakeable expression to the opinion and resolution of the people cf Newcastle and Gateshead in sepport of the immediate restoration of Poland's indepondence." Mr. William Cook, of Gateshead, presided. The room was densely crowded i■ every part. On Wednesday last, the Poles in Brussels celebrated the anniversary •f their last great national struggle by attending a solemn-mass at the Church of Our Lady of Victory, to pray for the souls of those who died for the independence of their country, and to implore the bless ing of Heaven on the arms of France and England throughout the present war. THE CIVIL SERVICE SUPERANNUATION FUND. (From the Civil Service Gazette.) The imposition of a civil burden on the civil service can only be defended on the old freebootiug principle of the assumed right of the strong to oppress the weak, un less it can be shown that in the matter of superannuation allowances a sort of commercial transaction is entered into between the parties, and' that the person who makes what is termed his "contribution to the superan nuation fund" is entitled to and receives a full equivalent for his payments. What is this pretended equivalent ? In every case the health of the applicant for the retiring allowance is completely broken down, or the infirmities of age have come upon him before he can make his claim and send in the certificates which speak to his in capacity for further active employment. In fact, the act " knoweth him not" unless he can comply with the one essential condition that he shall bo shattered in health, or worn out, and nearly good for nothing. But let us take the most favourable case. A civil servant enters the service, we will suppose, at twenty, and goes on paying his "contributions" for five-and-forty years, when, although arrived at the mature age of 65, he is still tolerably hale and hearty, and, with a natural desire to retain his salary as long as he can, he continues at his post for three or four years more. He then, feel ing his health breaking, sends in kis papers, and finally settles down upon the reduced income which the Treasury allots him. How long can this retired civil servant expect to enjoy—if a man just bordering upon 70 years of age, suddenly withdrawn from his daily em ployment, can be said to enjoy anything—this pension, which is deemed the equivalent of his payments for nearly 60 years ? We should be glad if the Government calcu lator, Mr. Finlaison, or any gentleman who has paid attention to the subject, would tell us the value in years' purchase of a deferred annuity under such circumstances ; and also what relation it bears in money value to the long-continued payments of the civil servant, to say nothing of the great probability of his dying before ac quiring any interest in the pension. Of course, we pmt this case for the sake of illustrating ;he injustice of the odious Superannuation Act, without for one moment believing that any official employ" will really be subjected to its provisions for the lengthened period referred to. On the contrary, our firm onvic tion is that it must be soou erased from the statute-book, and vanish to that limbo where many a piece of ill judged legislation has gone before. So long, however, as it retains its rapacious hold on the public service, wjiose cause we advocate, we will use every fair argument to expose the moral wrong it perpetuates. In the pension, limited as its duration must of neces sity be, which the civil servant gets in exchange for his payments, he may esteem himself liberally and hand somely dealt with when he reflects upon what will be the result in case he happens to die while " in harness"—no matter whether his end be hastened by close application to his duties or not. He knows that in that event, after perhaps years of " contribution" to the mythic "fund,'" his equivalent will he simply nothing. He has belonged to a sort of Government tontine, in which, although the longest survivors get something, yet, strange to say, the nation at large gets the best part of the subscriptions. Time was when, if a man had the ill-luck to break his leg or his collar-bone by falling down an open cellar, or otherwise to sustain any bodily injury short of life, by the culpable negligenee of others, he had his remedy at law, and exemplary damages were given as a sort of salvia for his broken limbs • while, if owing to the same negli gence, he had the misfortune to lose his life, the law al lowed no remedy. Lord Campbell's Act, however, as railway companies know to their cost, has set this mat ter right; the limb is compensated for, but the life is still more valued, and the widow or other representative of the deceased stands in his place. The monstrous ano maly of the old law is precisely the principle of the Su perannuation Act. A civil servant loses his health, or from advancing years becomes good for little, and a pen sion is awarded to him, but if he lose his life while in the service, no matter from what cause, his widow and chil dren may appeal in vain to the Treasury sympathies, and fruitlessly point to the sum paid, often during a long series of years, by the husband and father who is no more ! Our columns have teemed with melancholy instances of this oppressive feature of the act. We trust we shall not wound the feelings of friends if we refer to another case, which, since it has recently happened under the immediate eye of the First Lord of the Treasury and the Chancellor of the Exchequer, will, we believe, have its weight 'with men of their known humanity and Christian feeling. We allude to the late Mr. E. J. Crafer, of the Treasury, a valuable public servant, who for several years filled the highly confidential post of private secre tary to the patronage Secretary of the Treasury. This gentleman a few weeks back fell a victim to the visita tion of cholera. He was taken from the active discharge of duties, and has lett a widow and eight young children to mourn his loss, who derive no advantage whatever from the fund. What arguments can answer such a case as this ? Lruntroot, Nov. 30.—The United States mail steamer Pacific, Nye, commander, took her departure for New York to-day at 6 a.m., with 173 passengers and the mails on board. THE STOWE ESTATES.—We hear that these estates are to come to the hammer in January next, the annual rental on the farms being about 10,0001. 500 trees in the gardens and park are condemned, and will soon be felled. The house property in the town will also be sold. The mayor and a deputation from the council have waited on Lord Chandos, at Wootton, to arrange about the purchase of the Town-hall and its appurte nances, when it was offered at 1,200/. As the council have no funds they may possibly raise it on security of the borough rate, or a few speculative persons may pur chase it aa a profitable investment! THE REINFORCEMENTS. The following information has been received in Dub lin : —Ten new regiments of the line will be asked for from Parliament. Amongst them will be the 3rd battalions of the Coldstream and Fusilier Guards, of the Rifle Brigade, and of the 60th (the depot of the latter now in Dublin). Three of these ten will be selected from the embodied militia who have volunteered. The remainder will be completely new regiments, to be added to the number in the army list. All the militia regiments will be embodied, and besides the three regiments to be in corporated into the line, other ten will be selected from amongst those who may volunteer for service at the Cape, and in Canada and in Australia, where they will relieve line reg i men t s. Th e Mediterranean garrisons will continue to be occupied by line regiments, who will constitute the reserve force. Upwards of 800 men have this week joined the three brigades of Guards from the Militia. Yesterday up wards of 200 were attested at the Horse Guards. The detachments of the 48th Regiment, at present in 'Tynemouth garrison and in Sunderland barracks, have I received instructions to be in readiness to proceed to the East. They are busily employed recruiting. The detachment of the 18th at "Windsor left on Wednesiay for Chatham ; and the detachments at the Wellington Barracks also left for Chatham, previous to the em barkation of the regiment for the East. The 16th Lancers are to give both men and horses to the 17th Lancers, in the Crimea. Major Elmhirst, 9th, is ordered from the depot at Tralee, to join with a second draft to that at Cork, to embark for the Crimea. One hundred of the 36th Regiment, at Bury, have accepted the invitation from the Horse Guards to join the 18th Royal Irish. The Cumberland, Captain Wallinger, hired transport, No. 151, arrived at Portsmouth yesterday from the Thames, to ship a number of the huts which have been constructed for the troops to winter in before Sebastopol. Within the past few days orders have been received at Cleckheaton, Heckosondwicke, and neighbourhood, for no less than 30,000 heavy blankets for the army in the Crimea. The whole were to bo ready in the short space of 14 days. DUBLIN, Nor. 30.—Volunteering from the English militia regiments into the line is going on briskly in Dublin at present. Not a day elapses without batches of men being attested at the different divisional police offices. Thirty-four active young fellows were enlisted yesterday at the College-street Office, and thirty-two the previous day.---Daily Empress. The Canard mail steamer Arabia, Captain Judkins, is being rapidly fitted up at Liverpool, and will sail thence about Monday next for Marseilles, where she will embark French troops for the Crimea. Twenty naval volunteers for her Majesty's screw steamer Cossack were forwarded from Liverpool to London on Wednes. day night. ek INDIA-RUBBER BLANKETS FOB TRH TROOPS.—The Government has given an extensive order to the proprie tors of the Bow-common India Rubber Steam Mills, to prepare a large supply of India-rubber blankets for the service of the troops in the East. This liberal order will be the means of giving employment to hundreds of per sons who would otherwise have been without work at this dull seas** of the year. The late Captain Bland, 57th, who fell mortally wounded at the battle of Inkerman, was son of Mr. James F. Bland, of Derryquin Caetle, Kerry, and com manded the Grenadier company of his regiment. The British Queea screw steamer, which arrived at Falmouth on Tuesday, short of fuel, on her voyage from Constantinople, Smyrna, Malta, and Gibraltar, and bound for Liverpool, has brought the following military officers as passengers :--Lieutenant and Adjutant Car dew, 19th Regiment, and Captain Bissett, 55th Regi ment, both wounded at Alma ; also the following who have invalided—Lieutenant Brooks and Lieutenant Sil lery, 30th Regiment ; Lieutenant Hickman, 50th Regi ment, and Lieutenant Young, of the Rifle Brigade; also Mr. Sharp, late second master of the Agamemnon, on promotion. The British Queen had been 15 days from Gibraltar, having expended her coal and met with ad verse winds and weather. FRENCH ITNivonms.—The uniform of the new Impe- rial. Guards of the Emperor Napoleon 111. is handsome and appropriate. The head-dress is the bear-skin cap, such as worn by the first Napoleon's Guard ; the coat dark blue, with breastpiece and facings scarlet. The cross-belts in the Gendarmerie are chrome yellow coloured, and in the Grenadiers white ; trousers light blue, with a black stripe for the former and a red piping for the latter. The cloth of which their clothes were made is fine, and of most excellent quality. The men themselves are picked from different regiments of the army for their size. In the four battalions of Voltigeurs of the Guard the coat is blue,, with white facings and breastpieces, and the shako is ornamented with a yellow feather. The uniform of a battalion of Cbasseurs of Vincennes of the Guard is coquettish in its neatness. The light little pointed shako is deco rated with a green plume made of cock's-tail feathers ; then a long jacket, which we cannot better describe than by comparing it to what ladies and milliners call a " polka." It reaches a few inches below the hip-bone, and the quasi skirt is open just above the hip on each side, permitting the stuff "to stick out," as may be seen exemplified any day in a " polka jacket." The shoulders are surmounted by green epaulettes, edged with yellow. The lower man is covered by the volumi nous Turkish trousers, of the same description as worn by the Zouaves, gathered in below the calf, from whence to the ankle is a yellow greave, and finally a white gaiter over the shoe. THE FRENCH REINFORCEMENTS. There are at this moment at Toulon three ships of the line and eight frigates filled with troops for the Crimea. At the ironworks of Conches, in the department of the Eure, an order for 10,000 shells and 50,000 small cannon balls is being executed with the greatest activity We read in the Courrier du Havre of the 28th ult. : —" The splendid English steamer New York came into harbour te-day to take on board stores and materiel for the army of the East. Among the different articles about to be embarked are 80 ambulance carriages and waggon train, which arrived by railway. The greatest activity prevails in the shipment of stores and materiel. The Petrel is to convey a great quantity of wooden shoes for our soldiers in the Crinsea." We read in the Messager de Bayonne of the 28th ult. : —" On Sunday morning the first column of the 35th Regiment of the line left Bayonne for the camp of Lyons. The brave soldiers of that regiment, whose excellent spirit and exact discipline have been appre elated for the last three years by our population, marched out of the town crying, To Sebastopol l' The day before our military authorities were directed by a telegraphic despatch to select from each company, among the best marksmen, ten volunteers, who are to be conveyed in five days by railway to Marseilles, and there immediately embarked for the Crimea, where they are to form a company of ' francs-tireurs.' To the appeal addressed to the tin volunteers the entire com panies responded. A great number of non-commissioned officers and corporals belonging to the depot battalion begged as a favour to be incorporated as common soldiers in the war battalions." THE "ENTENTE CORDIALE " AT GEELEING.—A. French phalanx marched in the procession of the inhabitants of Geelong, when on the 15th of August last they went ont to meet Sir Charles Hotham the new Lieutenant- Governor of Victoria. M. Prceschel, a leading French resident, in an address issued a fewdays before the event, had requested the attendance of his compatriots in order that the French flag might on this occasion float by the side of the British banner, as it does at this moment in other lands, and thus, in good and sincere friendship, unite in saluting the representative of her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain. SUICIDE BY STRYCHNINE.— On Tuesday, at the Bell Hotel, Brist o l, M r. Henry S. Parker, an innkeeper, re siding in Birmingh am , t erm i na t e d hi s life by the means of strychnine. The deceased was well known on the turf and in betting circles. It was understood that he had recently become much embarrassed in his circumstances. Yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon an inquest was held upon the body before Mr. J. B. Griudon, the city coro ner, and a respectable jury, and a verdict of "Temporary insanity " was returned. A SHOAL OF WHALES IN THE EITER.—Ab about 12 o'clock yesterday the people on the waterside and in the vessels lying off Gravesend were surprised by the ap pearance of a shoat of between 40 and 50 young whales, some of them apparently 30 or 40 feet in length, dis porting themselves in the middle of the river, between far the town and Tilbury F ort. They proceeded up as as off Rosherville, then reversed their course, having come in contact with two steamers coming down the river. They were of that class of whales called by the fishermen " finners"—a name, judging from the im mense dorsal fin, which, when they rose to the surface, appeared to be from 8 to 10 feet in length, most ap propriate to .them. The appearance of these "monsters of the deep " in the river so high up as Gravesend created the greatest surprise, as a similar one, as the watm and fishermen averred , h ad n e ve r before been observed.eren One of the largest of them, from his plunges out of and on the surface of the water and the consa throughnt lashing of oneo f the the his tail after one of the steamerspassed 2 shoal, was supposed to have been struck by steamer's paddles. He, however, contrived to overtake his companions, and, followed by a couple of beats that put off, he joined them, and all took their departure down the riser. * Many persons suppose that the name of Iskorman ie a German word, but it is in reality a Turkish oat, sad siguifies lower town. CONSECRATION or Two BlSHOPl3.—Yesterday morning Dr. Frederick Barker, of Jesus College, Cambridge, who has been appointed to the Bishopric of Sydney, and Dr. Vincent William Ryan, who has been appointed to the Bishopric of the Mauritius and its dependencies, were consecrated to their office in the pariah chnrcli of St. !fiery, Lambeth. PUBLIC OPINION IN ZNGLAND. (Front the Sieele.) The spectacle which England now PreSanta will, we think, remain in history as a lesson full of force and authority for the conduct of States. L sok at that coun try:, which has been said to be only one of shopkeers ;it enjoys liberty, and that which has made ' , it Se great as a commercial nation has the privilege of F ,uddenly render ing it as heroic and chivalrous as abs Iliad of the old clans. It would appear that the heart o f every English. man has only one wish, and thatanardj ir ti e t y o g ne a — nd Y E ict n o n r i y i.. , complete victo r y. Th e war cry of the killens comes forth from every breast. Th e jou rna l s are no longer simply daily papers recording the events of the morning or the evening; the writers have become poets. Their descriptions of battle smell of LISOY:11 than powder ; they breathe forth the most undaunted :patriotism : they are almost as ov / es - powering as the ch arges of Scarlett and of Lord Cardigan. It may be comprehended in reading theory, that it is not only the English Govern. ment that makes war—it is the natioui—artisans, menu bcturers, great lords, And princes, all are engaged in the same intoxication of combats. The hurrah for Old England nowhere meets a dissentient voice. Even the Stock Exchange of London, that famous speculative Bourse, appears to think, at the hour of quoting its Con sols, of the number if millions of rentes fighting at the head of the English troops in th.f. Crimea. It hails with a rise the devotedness of those. great lords who quit their estates, their luxury, their castles, and their clubs, to maintain intact the fortune and the star of Great Bri tain, and who wish that the aristocracy should remain in the illustration of death and sacrifice. There is not a dissentient voice ! Numerous and brave men have been lost and not acomplaint is heard ! Are reinforcements, fresh vessels , fresh troop s , an d f res h s upplies of money wanted ? The English f Jovernment is told to take them. It is not the tax-payer who gives them with regret ; it is England who offers them with her whole heart. Eng land is pledged,- sb e must triumph. Sales populi au- Prenza lox / What strength this unanimity gives to a Government; inr,tead of having to stimulate, it has only to direct and ry,oderate. For it there is no uneasiness for the future ; in presence of public opinion so powerful, and so enthusiastic, the Parliamentary powers cannot but second with all their force and all their votes the submis sion of the Government to the wishes of the country. W. have said that this country is free. When it decided for war, it took its decision with a full knowledge of its situ ation and of its resources. It replied in the affirmative when the first sacrifices were in contemplation, and it cannot use a negative when the last shall be asked for. If by chance some criticising and grumbling voices, as there must be in all regimes of liberty, should demand accounts, would not public opinion soon bring the ac cused towards the Capitol Is it not the free will of England which ferments in every mind, which inflames every one's courage , and which raises so hi g h th e great hurrah of battle, that the majestic noise of the spinning. jennies, and the long roar of the steam-engines are but as silence compared to it ? And then for the brave men who fall one against five, what a consolation there is For those who fight, what a support there is in this fer vent public opinion, the echo of which reaches as far as them ! In what dignified language it speaks •of their heroism ; to what sublimity it rises in celebrating their courage ; what a pedestal it erects for their devoted. ness I A man can die with joy when so honoured. More than once, we also, the organs of opinion in France, we could have wished to follow our soldiers on the fields of ' battle, to live on the glory which they acquired, and to identify ourselves by the grandeur of the poetry of our homage with all their efforts. They do not do less than the English ; they strikeand die like them, and like them they excite admiration. But why not avow it? Why should they be less celebrated ? The French press has not the warm accents, the acclamations of which resound on the other side the Channel ; the phrases of our writers have not the sawed flame which burns beneath the pen of their colleagues of the City. It is not, however, either the patriotism or the talent of the French press that must be accused for this. At other periods it has proved be fore history what it knew and what it could do. Row often has it been seen to animate all, and to incite all. When its voice, its true voice, the free eche of a free public opinion sounded either in the country or in the world, there was no other voice. There was even a time when it guarded the frontiers conjointly with the armies, and history can say that the enemy did not cross them. No ! We do not fear to make open avowal of the truth. Is not the right of speaking to the nation, of every day exciting it to disinterestedness and to glory, and of leav ing no repose to its love of honour, in a manner taken from us ? Are we not a little the pariahs of the law I Precautions are taken against the press by every means which surveillance can furnish. It has been wished that it should have no strength for what has been called mis chief ; it has been desired that it should lose its sound ing voice, its prestige similar to the éclat of the sun, its qu,os ego forming and arresting storms. The journalist— formerly the man of the moment and of enthusiasm—has become the man of reasoning and of tactics; his ink, formerly so burning, has been chilled ; his periods, in order to be irreproachable in the eye of the law, are to be carefully re vi se d an d correcte d — i n a word, we have been deprived of what was never theless our principal merit—that of thinking aloud and of writing what we thought. We do not complain, we do not recriminate ; but do not let public opinion in England and France be any longer compared I Let it not be any longer asked why, whilst Frenchmen and Englishmen fall side by side with the same heroism for the same cause, the praises resound louder at London than in Paris. If, when free the press is a critical power, is it not when free, also the consecration of sa crifices and of glory ? Look at England. TILE BATTLE OF INKERMAN4 (From the Dcbats.) The battle of Inkermann* and the grave conse quences which a success of the Russian army might have had for the siege of Sebastopol appear to us to merit serious reflections. We have no need to recapi tulate the details of this terrible affair ; we have already given them at length, with all their picturesque features, from English and French letters from the Crimea. We now leave aside the terrible scenes of fury between man and man, the butcheries with the bayonet which correspondents have taken pleasure in describing, and also the heaps of dead lying by thousands irr sOloody field. We feel the heart wrung by such pictures. But what can be said ? It is war ! We will, however, present the ensemble of the battle, and the special object of the at tack of the Russians executed by a mass of from 60,000 to 70,000 'Neu. They attempted nothing less than to cause the raising of the siege of Sebastepol—such was the formal order of the Czar, and the plan was for a moment en the point of succeeding. The English, only 8,000 in number at first, heroically sacrificed themselves to the salvation of the great operation of the liege, and the French battalions hastening to the scene of carnage decided by their impetuous attack the victory prepared by the admirable solidity of the English troops. The combination of the qualities peculiar to the soldiers of each nation, the noble emulation and the perfect frater nity in arms which prevails between them, appear to have rendered them invincible. The Debuts goes oh to state that the plan of the Rus sians, which, it says, was prepared by tie Emperor Ni cholas himself, was to take the height to the right of the English, then to descend like a torrent •n the siege works, to cut off the communications of the besiegers with Balaklava, and t• take in reverse the line of circumvallation, whilst General Liprandi, advancing by the road of Balaklava, should make a junction with the assailants. If, it says, this great and able manoeuvre had succeeded, the combined army, attacked in the rear, would have been forced to abandon the siege -works, and to fight Its way through the enemy's army to reach Balaklava and the Bay of Kamiels. The Debuts then says that in execu tion of this plan the height to the right of the Englisk became the key of the position ; and after briefly de scribing the terrible combats which were sustained for the possession of it, it shows that a great fault was com mitted in not having that height properly fortified. It then proceeds :7_ "In giving this general view of the battle of Inker man, we have desired to show that the strategic key of the great Russian operation was the height neglected by the English on the plateau of which the Russians, when they get possession of it, hastened to place in battery 42 guns, which did so much harm to our allies. Wedoubt not that since the battle the English have properly for tified this imp or t ant h eight. When we bl ame the on neg ligence of thei r eng i neers i n thi s re spect, account of the grave co nsequences w hi c h it had, and leswhich m igh t have becom e s till more fatal, ou r bla me ame Oast that et the English themsivO i s s readersfarrasevere may remember the bitter complaints made on t his sub j ect the Times, who appears we the correspondent of weak for our safety,' said he , re doubt, and no sufficient by versed in military operationsr work of defence, in spite vt:av e I h n ad a Pn e n a l i y tia a n ns of General de Lacy Evans. We did not g of the reiterated representat io ns blow with spick-age, nor weighs on those whose in sary. Heavy resp on to disdain to take precautio ns remove a shovelful) o s f i e i k v a i e l r i t t h y —it was considered mamma. difference caused them to preserve us from a great discs. which would have preserve d so many precious lives, which were sa crificed Entrenchments in the field have an importance utility which every one understands ; but in. order fulfil their object they must present to the enemy an to obstacle no less difficult to take by escalade than to and ter. knock dowa by cannon. A good plan, well flanked aid well adapted to the ground, does not suffice ; the para. pets must be strong, the fosses deep, and the gorges of the works solidly palissaded. When a detaohment is placed in an entrenchment, it naturally calculates on that support. If the entrenchment be easily escaladed, the detachment which would have bravely fought in the opea field will take to flight, or will Rummell. in despair, because a fortified post, on whichit had the right to count, failed it at the moment of combat. The moral effect produced by such things should be taken into serious consideration by the Generals, whose troops have to de fend field fortifications destined to protect camps in the rear. If such works be not constructed in such a way as to cause perfect security, they have only an illusory value. This was seen by the example of the incomplete redolbts of Balaklava in the affair of the 25th October, and a second example of it was seen during the first few hours of the battle of Inkerman." 5 10 St. St. 5 12 12i 121 St. St. THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEIVII3ER 1854. 50 25 12A 12/ 20 all all all all all all all 100 all 100 8 all 1100 100 100 all all 26i 13 20 16 124 124 25 all 1.0?, 100 100 8A 10 25 10 20 20 20 25 10s. 20 all all all all all 15 40 5 St. 25 106 1001 35 i 2 i