The Sun. — London, England, 1854-12-23 00:00:00

she Emperor of Russia will not allow in any dominion of his Own . (Hear, hear.) We know that, during the reign of the present Emperor of Russia, the circulation of the Bible, which was so much promoted by the Emperor Alexander, haeteen stopped ; so that if the hon. member for the West Riding were to have his way, and the Em peror of Russia, whose acts the hon. gentleman seems always ready to palliate, were to bnallowed to.pursue his desigps unchecked, you would,. perhaps, see Christian wor ship in St. Sophia ; but you would also see a varnish of civilisation, which would bejfar worse than barbarism. I have said that this war,;was cawed, not for any speculative object, but because there , was VI aggression of the Emperor of Russia against his neighbour. The,. hon.'member for Manchester; ire a letter which he has circulated, not being able to justify such a fact as that the.. Emperor of BUM& sent note to Constantinople, andsaid, " Sign the note I dictate, or your territories will be occupied in eight days"—the honnember, finding - it> difficult mat ter altogether' to justify, says thatmy noble friend and I were just as bad; t for we sent a fleet toAthens, witha menace to bombard it. That not exactly the truth. ea The fact is, that some English,: subjects in Greece senthut been injured in their propertmesnd our to Athens to institute a blockade and trad e interrt e p e t t good. But until the pecuniary losses of our;seebjects were ma de f._lean)l as to bombardment it was never thought o have made these remarksfbecause't Le i l o n n b: i r n for ye th ry e West Riding, at the beginnineeof thhi3shsirins •rneele observations fair and temperate speech, I must say as to the nature of the war , an d the reasous,why he cannot concur is it. That queetion and others will come meler wiehed . to do ou the present discussion hereafter. All occasion was, to point out that Tel e roust be some secu ritiesand, let me say, 13Ving stated at the end for peace; en the first night of the session, wile' of the discussion with Austria, I were the villi°hna3v:ff2fd treaty that I did not deceive '- think ttg en h e o r n al se Pr iv ° them on that occasion—that I (lid not overstate those provisions. If I had done so, I should have been justly Charged with attempting to mislead ; but I made no at tempt to ...see an exaggerated notion of the provisions of th a t treaty. But in stating this, I must now repeat that T oy belief is, that although not contained in the literal terms of the treaty, Austria will find that as we do not propose to diminish the territories of Russia—as we propose to leave her a great and powerful nation, and only seek for securities which are as necessary for Austria as they are for England and France—(hear, hear)—in order to obtain a durable peace, that unless Russia shall consent to such terms—to such fair and moderate terms as it will b 3 our duty to Propose whenever the Minister of the Emperor of Russia shall declare that he is desirous to enter into negotiations —I feel convinced that if those terms are not accepted by the Emperor of Russia, that if he is of opinion that that great scheme which was begun in the reign of Catherine, if not before—that great scheme which is to end in adding Turkey to the dominions of Russia, must be persevered in —if he is of that opinion we shall, before the commence ment of the next campaign, have the alliance of Austria with us in a defensive and Offensive treaty. (Hear, hear.) I state to you that Austria is not literally bound to any such course, but I think she is morally bound by the sti pulations into which she has entered. I have always been of opinion that we might be obliged to have a long and protracted war unless Austria was a party with us in that war; but r do believe that if Austria joins we shall have, before long, the accession of Prussia, and we shall be in a position to say that the war will not be protracted, end that it will be ended by a satisfactory, durable, and ho nourable peace. (Hear, hear.) I could not avoid making these explanations. I have nothing to add on the subject of the bill now before the house. I have not heard any new arguments to night. It has been successfully de fended; and I believe that, before long, it will be admitted to be a useful and efficient measure. Sir J. PAKINGTON said he was surprised that the Go vernment had delayed to so late a period to offer any reply to the able and striking speech of the hon. member for the West Riding. He did Rot intend on the present occasion to enter into the questions which had been raised by the hon. member for the West Riding; but they were ques tions which, at some more fitting season, must be discussed, And submitted to the decision of the house. But the noble lord had referred to his Russian despatches, and he (Sir J. Pakington) could not pass that subject by without ex pressing his dissent from the views-of the noble lord, and repeating the opinion which he had always entertained, that those despatches of the noble lord had tended in a great degree to mislead the Emperor of Russia with regard to the real temper and intentions of the British Govern ment, and thereby had been one cause of the war in which we were engaged. The noble lord had alluded very briefly to the bill which was now before the house, but he had seed that honourable members on his (Sir J. Pakington s) side of the house objected to the employment of foreign troops. The noble lord was mistaken on that point. Their objection was not to the employment of foreign soldiers, for we were at present fighting side by side with foreigners—(hear, hear)—but it was to the employment of mere mercenaries, who, without any interest in the struggle, were to be hired by this country to fight its battles in the Crimea. What had fallen from the noble lord on this bill had not, in his (Sir J. Pakington's) opinion, affected in any degree that great triumph in debate and argument which had distinguished the oppo sition to the proposal of the Government. Th© noble lord had taken with him a reluctant majority into the lobby ; hut, in point of argument, the victory of those who dis liked the measure was signal and complete. (Hear.) He could not allow this debate to close without expressing, his extreme regret for the painful and unfair position in which the Opposition had been placed by the Government in reference to this question. They had come up to this short session willing and anxious to give the Government their wort. loft Let . t ane the re the house remember that when the late was prospect of a war, but from the hen: , when the C oalition Government came into power, the d anger lucre I front day t day, and from the manner in which th e n time:. were conducted by the Government, the ec , watry had. been , involved in this dreadful struggle with the great empire of Russia. They (the opposition) had no desire to interpose in the conduct of the war further than was necessary for the safety of the country. Alt parties acknowledged that it was essential to strengthen the military force of the country. They were willing to do so, and they came ex pecting that the Government would propo , e sumo plan in which they could concur without difficulty or hesitat:o . l. Put during this short session the Government had submit ted measures so objectionable, so ill prepared, that they bid found themselves in this ,lilwalm.t.—either that they must, however unwillingly, oppose thr Executive, or aban don a duty which they 0 .vent t their country by support ing measures to which they objected. They had with rc lectance, hut in the exercise of a strict Parliamentary right, criticised the measures of the Government, and for doing this they had been charged with faction. He though , that a most unjust charge. But the noble lord the Presi dent of the Council had iinpatejr to the right Iron member for Bnekinehamshire that he gloated over the prospect ,f disaster. The house must n o t su pp ose th a t ho (eir J. Pakington) but any intention of defending his right hon. friend from Bud] a charge. He would no more etaideicead to defend him from that charge than his right le n. hien I would condescend to notice it, but he must complain that such language should be used in the house. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord in making this charge, which was not one of error or political inis.ake ' but of baseness and of disloyalty to the Que e n, h a d exceeded the fair limits of debate. (Hear, hem., hear.) But what must they think of a cause which required such advocacy ? It reminded him of the' advice which was given to young lame ere when they bad nothing to say—to abuse the plaintiff's atteruey. He would now refer to the previ sions of the bill. In the commencement of July her Ma jesty's Government determined to attack Sebastopol—they determined to change the character of the war—to make it offensive in s t ea d o f d e f ens i ve. H e di d not say whether their decision was wise or unwise; but surely it was the duty of the Government to take every means to ensure the success of that attack. A great deal had been made of a passage in the speech of the Duke of Welliz t g a ton upon the Militia Bill, because th e no bl e duke, in t (defeat to the fact that, i n th e P eninsula, a considerable portion portion of the British armies had consisted of persons not British-born subjects. But what was the tendency of the opinion as expressed in that passage? First, that if they wished to have an army of reserve, they must organise it in time ; secondly, the extreme importance of a military force. And the noble duke alluded, in distinct terms, to its value, as exhibited by the conduct of the new Harm verian Militia at the battle of Waterloo. It seemed to him (Sir J. Pakington) to be one of the strongest passages that could be quoted to show the want of prudence on the part of the present Government. Did they begin in time to organise the militia? Did they avail themselves of that valuable force, the militia? (Hear, hoar.) He had no hesitation in expressing his opinion that, if, in last July, when they determined to attack Sebastopol, they had aoted upon the principle thus laid down, and embodied tl e militia then, and taken steps to organise it in time, the house Would never have been asked to pass this most objec tionable measure. (Hear, hear.) What had the noble lord said be presumed, in explanation of this want of prepare tinn? He had told the house the other night, with what he thought ho might call a fatal candour, that the Govern ment had had made a mistake, anti that they had under rated the strength of Sebastopol. The conutrymight well ask whether the Government which nisi() Buell a mistake was fie to conduct a great war like the present. (Hear.) There had been many mistakes made during the last six niQuthse-soave serious ; some had been accidental, from the novelty of their position, of whi c h th ey (th e O ppos i- Con)* had taken no notice, and had refrained from criti cising. lint was the mistake as to the strength of Sebas topol one without excuse ? He could not apply the word mistake to such an error; he called it a dangerous error, for which the Government must be held responsible. 'What was the conduct of the Government ? They did not know its position, and therefore could not interfere to give advice. The Government acted upon their own responsi bility ; they concluded the session ; they dispersed —one to the sea-side—another to Scotland, and the war was left to take its course, and the expedition was to go on as it best could. Sad was the delusion, not of the people, but of theeGovernmcut. The people were watchful and anxious, and, as time wore on, that anxiety increased to alarm ; but the delusion of the Government continued through August, September, October, until, at last, the events of October opened their eyes. (Hear, hear.) When the battles of Balaklava and I nkerrnan had been fought—when our attack upon Sebastopol had failed—when the batteries had not pre:duced the effect expected—when Government suddenly fo‘nd themselves in th e p os iti on o f h av i ng b rought affairs blm_.rewant of ordinary precaution and care—to the very v aTt of discomfiture and destruction—when these disco yrZl,23,leleeen made—as the Government had been impro _4l`4"lat.per outset, so they were precipitate in the sequel It wee plant Fe Was sninmoned with the greatest haste. ment before ci that th ey h a d no i ntent i on to meet Parlia- Deeember, eut i . i :a ttese—they had proro gue d it till th e 14 t h denly it Was summoned before the clay to which it had t rorogried. Let the house and the Government remark having assembled Parliament lete in December, there"l'az nothing for it to do but to register the bills of the were three bills to be brenght°fuo". (Hear, hear.) There volunteer fur for b e e i elein i e w sre a 4 t e l e — ; 0 the to Fo e r n e a ig b n le E th ri e . militia to discussed but b a ut th to irt w l, h w ic h h i h eh e listment Bill then before t stioneld volunteer to occu r' heel been announced, but little di to enable the wished briefly to refer, vi w z . ,,. c t_he erra t nean i Govern meat to send regiments _ .t hi h E l a fjo e , r i e t r t h l t a y i t t t s:p v . : " ::1 11; s i , the - garrisons in the be more' unwise to occupy w l I:l7aglnatir: sons . arentirely‘uyphooiwnerhitt.thhihe: militia bodies, because, hell, l - . propose, they was essential tel°teulGdernvoetrribieneTtit3l':rtnil? scat e at at respect Co the troops in those garrisons, and that shortest notice. But he had further tocompl a i n Got-erne:lent, that they had prepare,l t he se lto resortmess es with 1 so little care, that they had been oblige(Go Government's lat e opponents for advice. Many of the . . the Oppopitiou e supporters had found it necessary to join upon the present measure; and, indeed , he could not bets ter describe them than us political tree lancers of England who were ready to enlist under any banner, and to wear any uniform. (Hear.) But the present measure having been shaped by the Opposition iu such a manner as to carry out the intentions of the Government, was it . a bill -- -whiah,they were ituti fi ed in adopting? the impes felt . c , Ability of adding anything new to the arguments whi ch hail been already used ; but he felt himself bound to state his concurrence with them, and to declare his opinion that the Government had taken an unfortunate course in hav ing proposed a measure so repugnant to the feelings of the nation—(hear)—and humiliating to our pride as English men ; a measure, as he believed, immoral in its tendency, and one which could only have this effect, to lower us in the eyes of Europe, and g ive to all European Powers a false, and mistaken, and dangerous idea, that the country was so weak that it could not raise troops to defend itself. He also objected to the way in which it had been brought forward, so as to avoid discussion. It ought to have been introduced into her Majesty's Speech, but the Government was afraid of its influence upon the people. In vain had it been asked, where the men were to be obtained; how they were to be officered ? but to these, and many other inquiries, no answer had been given. The precedents of the noble lord at the head of the Government bad alto gether failed. That of the employment of German troops in the American war, and many others, had warned them of what they ought to avoid, rather than of what they ought to follow. But the great argument, which the Secretary at War had employed upon every occasion, was the necessity of the case. He believed there was the strongest necessity to avoid such a measure; but the Government could show to him its necessity, he would be very glad to vote in favour of it, however objectionable it might be. But he denied the necessity, and the Government had alto gether. failed to establish it. (Hear, hear.) If there was any consideration from which they might derive solace under the privations of this war, it was in the gratification they must all derive from the burst of loyalty which the people had given forth. It was proved that the British heart was sound, and never did the people come forward oore nobly than at the present time. He believed that fern the, moment war was declared, the Horse Guards had been applied to by every military man auxiou to share the fatigues and honours of the campaign. The recruiting, too, had gone on with vigour. He had received a letter from Liverpool, a day or two ago, in which it is said that the number of applicants for enlistment were so great that they could not be enrolled. But had the Government availed themselves of the means at their command ? If they had, how was it that up to this time the Irish militia was not embodied ? Was the British militia even ern ' bodied? Why had not the Government embodied them? (Hear, hear.) He believed that if the Government felt any pressure for soldiers for immediate service, there was ' no quarter to which they could better turn than to the Irish constabulary force. (Hear.) They were well dis ciplined and fit for immediate service. He had heard that there would be no difficulty in forming two brigades of infantry from the Irish constabulary force. Even now, by embodying the militia, they could collect a force which they might soon send to the Crimea. Did the difficulty, then, turn on what the Government said it did—viz., the I want of disciplined troops for the East ? He asserted that it was possible to collect a sufficient force from the Irish constabulary and English militia. That might be done in as short a space of time as in which they would get their mercenaries ready ; for he agreed with an hon. friend who had spoken, that in a very short period an English force might be sent to the Crimea. Assuming that they had as many men under this bill aslhey wanted, another question remained behind whether, when they had got the men, they could trust them? (Hear, hear.) They must remember that the Emperor of Russia would fight us, not only with steel and with iron, but with gold. If they bought the interest of men in the way pro posed, was there no fear that their services might be bought again ? (Cheers.) They would not buy the hearts of such men. (Cheers.) They must recollect, too, that they had invaded the Russian land, that they had invaded Russian homes, and had, indeed, excited feelings in Russian hearts similar to those which had enabled the Russians to repel Napoleon from Moscow. There was no doubt, then, that the forces they would bring against us- could only be met with like forces—men devoted to their country. (Hear.) Let them not place reliance in the mercenary soldier they had engaged. Let them remember what the Duke of Wellington said of mercenary troops in the Peninsula. He was forced to leave a large body at Lisbon, for fear, he said, they would desert him. Let them mind they had not to leave a large body of these mercenaries at Balaklava. Better, then, to have Englishmen on whom they could rely. He could not help hoping that Parliament would reject the bill. He could not help hoping, too, if Govern ment carried the bill they would carry it out cautiously; but if Government were determined to employ such men, those on that side of the house would, at least, have the consolation of having raised their voices against a measure so derogatory to our national honour. (Cheers.) Mr. BRIGHT said he did not rise to make a speech at that time of the night, but the noble lord had chosen to get up at a late hour—which, by the way, was a convenient plan with him when he did not wish anything he uttered to be answered—cries of " no, no"—but the noble lord took the opportunity of misunderstanding, as he (Mr. Bright) supposed he must not say misrepresenting several opinions of his hon. friend the member for the West Riding. The noble lord said that his friend desired to spread a system of propagandism over the country, but what his friend had said was exactly the contrary. (Hear, hear.) The next mirrepresentation was that his friend had struck in for a status quo. But what the honourable gentleman really bad said was again quite the con trary. He said that he started from the position where we were at the present moment, and referred to certain assertions of the noble lord respecting proposals from Rus sia, and which he (Mr. Bright) supposed would, in future, form perhaps the " Four Points." He could not tell how the noble lord could make the mistake had he listened at tentively to the speech of his hon. friend. Then his friend had spoken to the observations of the noble lord about the condition of Turkey. They had, over and over again, re ferred to a monstrous statement of the right hon. member for Tiverton. But what did the noble lord do? Why, what he (lir. Bright) would be ashamed to do. (Cries of oh, oh.) It was all very well for hon. gentlemen who came down there to cheer a Minister—(Hear, hear from the Opposition beaches)—to object ; but there was not a , man on those benches who alit not know that th e no bl e lord was wrong when be said that the Turks hail impyovea to much in the last '2O years. Was it not a confusion of the noble lord's of Muesuhnen with Christian ? It was not the Torles but limo Onristians who hod improved. Was there a gentleman in that house who was not aware of the fact that the Ottoman dominions—called an empire—were gradually dying out? anti he was convinced that the two nations who had combined to set it on its legs would find it more difficult than they had imagined. (11...ar, hear.) Why, what did their own office; s say ? (The lion. gentle man read a letter in which it was recorninen.led,that the Turks should be employed in mending the roads, an , l trusted the "brutes" would not be sent to the Crimea.) He had, too, seen a letter from an ()Meer of distinguished character, in which it was said that half the inert out in the East did not know for what they were fighting;, and the other half prayed they were not fighting for the Turks. The only sign of vigour they had exhibited was that in the hour of danger. They mimed an army for their defence, 1 which was now almost destroyed by the conduct of Govern reent. Another impeovernont in their condition was that they hail lately taken to wear trousers, but as to their commerce or their industry, no such thing really existed. There were now tivog,reat empires leagued for the support of Turkey, anti it was rumoured that there was to be a third. Rut how stood the case ? Turkey now . wanted money, but but could not get it under 8 or 9 per cent. But Russia was an empire, against which three empires—if Turkey were one—were at war; and it was said that a fourth was to join them; and yet the Russian funds attained on 'Change the sane price as the stock of the London and 1 North-Western Railway. What was it Government had undertaken to do ? To set up the Turkish empire, nu undertaking in which they must of necessity fail. They hid themselves pressed the Sultan to enter iuto the con test, to carry on which he was now forced to mortgage his Egyptian revenues, and that, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer could tell the house, was tantamount to a dis memberment of his dominions. So far with respect to the arguments of the noble lord. He would now like to know what the noble lord saw so worthy in the Greeks, who had i a eu charged falsely, he believed, with setting fire to n Val a, and whom it had been thought necessary to have removed from Ba.laklavi? Why were attempts made to create dislike to the Greeks here, if the Greeks, as the noble lord alleged, were Turks? The fact was, that he was himself destroying that Turkey which he professed to defend, and smothering it in his embrace. The forcible language of the Ti»zes newspaper in reference to the com mencement of the war was sure to be realised. That jour nal had stated that whatever else might be the result of t (wil li i,rol e ioigit w lhed a ,tl r )b,e t a h an i l s was certain, that at the conclusion there he, n 1 i hartic Enur beeno manyp e. 0 tTh writtenhe l e . s n f o o b ab l ay e fi himlord n o t (Mr. e l a r a sy d I d oe t which tTeru rwk eh h yi e c to answer. (Laughter.) The noble lord had referred t• what he (Mr. Bright) had said about the Don Pacifico affair; but the noble lord must know that he referred to the despatch of Count Nesselrode to Baron Brunn" w, in which he charged England with pursuing an isolated policy, and considering her own will as right. He had now to state of that affair, that had it not been con ducted with more temper and more good sense than the iitte6tion of the Holy Places had been, there might have been a war on it, and it was a question on which Russia might fairly have gone to war with England. The noble lord again misrepresented his hon. friend. His hon. friend had said—and he appealed to every gentleman in the house if it was not so—that in the present war Aus tria and Prussia had a stronger interest than England, and that he did not see why terms which Austria considered safe to herself should be refused by this country and by France. Now he (Mr. Bright) was prepared to show that there had not been a single thing in the course of the nego tiations that Austria or Franco agreed to, that the Govern ment of the noble lord did not refuse, and he (Mr. Bright) should therefore consider that it alone was responsible for the war. He would not go so minutely into circumstances, hut should content himself with the mention of two facts. The one was, that when the French Ambassador had re ceived the instructions of the Emperor of the French not to take on himself the responsibility of pressing the Porte to refuse the Vienna note, the English Government, through Lord Stratford de Redcliffe, secured its rejection. The other fact was, that when, in September last year, terms of agreement had been drawn up at Ohnutz, and that the Emperor of the French urged their acceptance on Tur key, Lord Clarendon wrote a letter, in no statesmanlike spirit, but in a contemptuous tone of expression, that he would have nothing more to do in regard to the Vienna note. On the truth of both these facts, he was ready to stake his reputation. Be the policy so pursued right or wrong, it was one adopted solely by the Government of this country. If that were true how could it be that Aus tria could engage in war for objects beyond those which she had contemplated? or that the Emperor of the French would battle for objects beyond those with which he was satisfied in September of last year? There was another despatch which had never as yet been published in this country, but had lately appeared in a St. Petersburg paper, from which it had been copied in Paris, in which the Em peror of the French urged on Russia to accept the Vienna note, on the ground that it did not differ in sense from the original propositions of Prince Menschikoff. The do spatch said further —" The French Government s . ubrnit it to the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, with the hope they will find its sense differs in nothing from the sense of the propositions presented by Prince Menschikoff, and that it gives satisfaction in all the essential parts of it. demands. The slight variation in the form of it will not be observed by the mass of the people either in Russia or in Turkey." It also stated that, in the eyes of the mass, it would have all tho significance which the Cabinet of St. Petersburg wished to give it, and the Emperor Nicholas would appear to them always as the powerful protector of their religions faith. This despatch was similar to the termsof the Vienna . og e 'wfwas peace,r with itthi note. and up to that moment neither the Government of France, nor the Government of this country, had ever denied for a single instant the justice of a claine , on the part of the Russian Government . as against that of Turkey. And then they turned against their own note, and said there was that house, he "elusive ; a different construction put upon it. The whole of that statement w and if he (Mr. Bright) were not in they were maki vrould give it a harsher term. He maintained ng war against a Government which had accepted their own terms for the pm-p m , of . Government„ that they d we w re it a h t the w a : further terms from the y r were - a t least b o os to exact no they an e a w n h d om h hous e, e stated this onl than such as might give that security which was at first believed to be necessary. But if they carried on a war for vengeance, for conquest, or for the purposes of the Go vernment at horns—as many a war had been carried on— they would be guilty of a heavy crime in the eyes alike of God and man. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord (Lord J. Russell) spoke very confidently that evening ; but a consi derable portion of the speech was not very satisfactory to him (Mr. Bright) hoping, as he did, for a speedy termination to the war. The noble lord would be acting a more states manlike part if, in making his speeches, he abstained from those trifling but irritating charges which he was constantly bringing against the Russian Government, such as their prohibiting the sale of Bibles, and other matters of a similar character. But, what said the right hon. gentleman, the President of the Board of Control, to the Government of our ally ? Did not that right hon. gentleman thank God that our ally could not gag oar newspapers? (Hear.) All this showed a littleness on the part of the statesmen of this country, when vast interests hung upon every word they uttered ; and, might be, that tens of thousands of our countrymen might be hurried to an untimely grave if the noble lord made one false step in the position in which he was now placed. (Hear, hear.) During the time the late terrible calamities were happening, he (the lion. gen tleman) had been given to understand there was not a Cabinet meeting. The noble lord (Lord John Russell) was making a speech in Cumberland and another ie Brad ford, descanting upon the decline of empires; and after wards he delivered a speech at Bristol in favour of a new history of England. If such a history were impartially written, he (Mr. Bright.) knew not how the hoble lord's conduct for the last few mouths would show. (Laughter.) The noble lord, the member for Tiverton, was about the a lane time making a speech to the Hampshire peasantry, which overthrew the New Testament, and disturbed the very foundations of morality. (Laughter.) When he looked at the hon. gentlemen upon the Treasury benches, and considered all that their policy had brought about within the last twelve months, he scarcely dared trust himself to speak of them either in or out of their presence. lion, gentlemen knew what they had lert in that house. He (Mr. Bright) met the late hon. and gallant member for the borough of From, (Colonel Boyle) a short time before that gallant officer went out, at the shop of Mr. Westerton the bookseller, near Hyde-park-corner. He asked him whether he was going out to the Crimea, and the gallant member replied that he was afraid he should. Not afraid in the sense of personal fear—(hear)—but with a look and tone that he (the hon. member) should never forget, the gallant colonel said, " It is no light matter for a man who has got a wife and five little children." Well, that gallai:d, officer had found a grave; his wife was a widow, and his children orphans. (Hear.) Now, let them take that hon. and gallant member who bad sat on the opposite aide of the house, the late Col. Blair. Who would not recollect his frank, manly, and ingenuous countenance. (Hear.) He doubted whether any man on either side of the house was more capable than that gallant colonel to engage the good-will and affection of all. (Hear, hear.) But the place that knew him would know him no more for ever. (Hear.) He (Ur. Bright) had specified but two gallant officers ; but there were 100 officers who had been killed in battle or died of their wounds; there were 40 who h ,d died of disease, and more than 200 had been wounded more or less severely ; and every post brought them the narra tive of some one or more death. "There had been a ter ribly destructive war for the officers. They had been, as he (the hon. member) would have been expected them to be, first in valour as in place—(hear, hear)- and they had consequently suffered more in proportion than the common 1 soldiers of the army. Well, then, this spread sorrow over the whole country. He (Mr. Bright) was at the bar of the other house of Parliament when the vote of thanks to the army was moved, and there were many ladies in the galleries, three-fourths of whom were in the deepest mourning. Was this nothing? In every village there were cottages to be found in which sorrow had entered, and entered, he (the hon. gentleman) believed, through the policy of her Majesty's Government, which might have been avoided. No ono supposed that the Govern ment wanted to spread a pall of sorrow over the land ; but the least one would expect would be this—that, when such questions as the present were discussed, they would be discussed with a becoming gravity and a sense of those terrible consequences which might come to individuals and to the nation. He recollected the late Sir R. Peel, upon the occasion of some anticipated rupture with the United States, and he (Ur. Bright) could not forget the gravity of the countenance of that right hen. baronet, and the solemnity of his tone. He recollected even the way in which the right hon. baronet walked up to his seat in the house, and there was a general feeling at the time that he was !weighed down by a sense of the deep responsibility which rested upon him. (Hear, hear, and cheers.) Was that the case with the present Government? Was buffonery at the Reform Club be fitting a matter of this nature? Was the flippant style of speech from that (the Treasury) bench becoming states men and Christian men on a great subject of this para mount importance ? It was very easy for the noble lord, the member for Tiverton, to tell him (Mr. Bright) that he was against war under any circumstances, and that if an enemy landed on our shores he would make a calculation whether it would be cheaper to take the enemy in or drive him out, and that, therefore, his opinion was not worthy of acceptance either by Parliament or the country. Don't let the noble lord suppose that he (Mr. Bright) was for a moment afraid of discussing this question upon the noble lord's own principles. He (Mr. Bright) understood the blue books as well as tho noble lord ; and after reading them from beginning to end, ho said, and he said it with as much confidence as he ever spoke anything, that this war could not be justified out of these negotiations, and impartial history would teach that conclusion to our pos terity if we did not now comprehend it. He was not, and never pretended to be a statesman. That character was so tainted and equivocal in these days, that he was not sure that a pure and honourable ambition would aspire to it. He had not enjoyed, like the noble lords down there, the emoluments and advantages of office for 30 years ; he had not set his sails to every passing breeze ; he was a plain and simple citizen, sent to that house by one of the first constituencies in the empire, and his opinions might, therefore. be the opinions of very ma n y ou t o f d oors , and consonant with the tiros totes-oats of !1.....' .... ..1.....1 Ulu. there. Let it not be said that he stood alone in the con demnation of the war, and of this incapable and giddy Ailinini , tration. But if ho were alone, and if his voice were the solitary voice that was heard amid the din of war and the clamour of a venal press, ho should have the consolation which he had that night, and which he trusted might rest wills him to the last moment of his existence — a priceless consolation—that no word of his had ever tended to promote the sluandering of his country's trea sure or the spilling of his country's blood. (Cheers.) The house then divided — For the third reading Against it . 173 135 Majority for the third reading '... 38 The bill was then read a third time. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then moved to substitute the following clause for clause 2 : " Provided always, that the men serving under this act shall not be employed in the United Kingdom except for the purpose of being trained, arrayed, and formed into regiments, battalions, or corps for foreign service, and except such bodies of reserve as may be kept in the United Kingdom, and which shall be kept and used solely for the purpose of training and arraying recruits, and for supplying vacancies in such regi ments, battalions, or corps ; and the men serving under this act shall not be billetted or quartered on any person or per sons ; and that there shall not be within the United Kingdom mere in the whole than ten thousand men serving under this 1 act at any one time." ! The Earl of MARCH was at a loss to understand how in the event of there being cavalry amongst these foreign troops, and it being desirable to transfer them from the • barracks (say of Dorchester) to the place of embarkation, it would be possible to get them to that place without bil• leting them on the road. Mr. S. HERBERT said that no such difficulty could arise, as it was not in the interior but on the coast that tho foreign troops would be trained. Mr. MILES was not at all satisfied with the answer, I and feared it would be impossible to avoid the billet. . The SOLICITOR-GENERAL explained that in case hotel accommodation were required for these troops, it would ho sought as in the ease of civilians, but not by way of billet. Col. SIBTHORP renowed his protestation against the whole bill, and wished to know whe was to protect the ft:). male virtue of the country if these foreigners were to be lot loose? (Laughter.) Oh, how he wished that he had the training of the Government, and though he would find them an awkward squad, he would make them do their duty. (Laughter.) The clause was read a second time. On the question that it be read a third time, - - - - - - - The Earl of MARCH repeated his objection, and declared his conviction that unless some assurance were given that the barracks should be within one day's march of the coast, it would be impossible to avoid the billet. Mr. S. HERBERT said that the existence of railways rendered any such assurance unnecessary. There was no barrack that, in these times, was two days' march from a seaport. Mr. BANKES approved of the clause. The clause was agreed to. Mr. L. KING moved that the following clause be added to the bill : " No officer serving under this act, when reduced, shalt be entitled to receive half-pay; provided, nevertheless, that when any such officer shall be rendered incapable of military service by wounds or infirmities contracted while dischafging his military duty during the period of his continuing to serve as such officer under the provisions of this act, then and in such case it shall be lawful for her Majesty to make such pro vision for such officer as she shall think proper and necessary, so that such provision shall in no case exceed the half-pay of the rank in the British service similar to that which such offi cer shall have held at the time of his becoming so incapable as aforesaid." Lord J. RUSSELL said the Government would have no objection to the clause being added, as it was the same as in the former bill. The clause was then read and agreed to. Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE proposed to add the following proviso to clause 4 :—Provided always, and bo it enacted, that at least one-third of the officers of the said 10,000 men shall be British subjects, and that none of the said 10,000 men shall remain in this kingdom above one year from the time when they shall be enlisted under the pro visions of this act. Mr. S. HERBERT objected to the proviso being intro duced. Nothing could be more inconvenient than to add such a clause, and he should therefore oppose it. Mr. F. SCOTT thought the proposition of the hon. and learned member a reasonable one. He would suggest to the Government that, as these men would probably be Spaniards, Gentians, Piedmontese, and others, it would be ' well to engage interpreters. Strangers were ordered to withdraw, but no division took place. The proviso was then negatived. Mr. PARKE moved, as an amendment to the sth clause " That this act shall continue in force until the end of the next session of Parliament, or until one year after the rati fication of a definitive treaty of peace, if such treaty shall have been sooner concluded ; provided that the expiration of this act shall in no way affect the service of each foreigner who shall have enlisted before this act shall ex pire." He trusted the Government would not object to the clause. Mr. S. HERBERT did not think his hon. friend saw the effect of this amendment. The Government could not assent to it. • The amendment was negatived without a division. The bill was then passed. Lord J. RUSSELL wished that the house should meet at two o'clock to-morrow (this day). This was assented to. The Common Law Procedure (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. SHERIFFS' COURT (SCOTLAND) BILL. Mr. COWAN moved an address for a return of litigated cases in the sheriff courts of Scotland, commenced subse quently to the let day of November, 1832, and finally de cided prior to the let day of November, 1853, with the sums _and _taxed ft/Tenses decerned for.therein; similar return as io cases commenced, subsequently to the Ist 45.7 of THE SUN, LON DON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 23, 1854. November, 1853, and finally decided prior to the let day of November, 1851 ; return of the number of oases sent to proof between the Ist day of November, 1852, and the let clay of November, 1853, in which such proof was concluded within that period ; showing the time occu- --; pied by such proof in each case, and the sums paid to coin missioners for taking the same ; similar return for the period between the Ist day of November, 1853, and the Ist day of November, 1854; return of the number of cri minal cases before the sheriff courts of Scotland in which St the panels pleaded guilty, for the period between the Ist 1 2 j day of November, 1852, and the lst day of November, 1853, and the sums charged and paid in' Exchequer on 60 account of witnesses in such eases ; and similar return for 13; the period between the Ist day of November, 1853, and ' the Ist day of November, 1854. 31 FAIRS AND MARKETS (IRELAND) BILL. Sir J. YOUNG obtained leave to introduce a bill for 27 the regulation of fairs and markets in Ireland. The house adjourned at 10 minutes to two o'clock until 22 two o'clock this day. 25 PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF CONDIONS.-DEC. 22. ENLISTMENT OF FOREIGNERS EMT, Order for Third Reading read ; Motion made, and Question proposed, " That the Bill be now read the third time :" Amendment proposed, to leave out the word " now," and at the end of the Question to add the words "upon this day six months :"—Question put, " That the word now' stand part of the question :"—The House divided ; Ayes, 173 ; Noes, 135. AYES.-173. A'Court, C. Goodman, Sir G. Mowatt, F. Acton, J. Gordon, A. Mu!grave, Earl of Adair, 11. Gower, P. O'Brien, P. Anderson, Sir J. Grace, 0. O'Brien, J. Atherton, W. Graham, Sir J. O'Connell, I). Ba'nes, Bt. Hon. M. Green, Capt John O'Connell, J. Baring, Sir F. Greene, Thomas 0-borne, It. Barnes, T. Gregson, S. Owen, Sir J. Berkeley, lion. H Grenfell, Chas. Paget, Lord A. Bothell, Sir R. Grey, Sir G. Palmerston, Visct. Biggs, W. Grey, R. Paxton, Sir J. Blackett, J. F. B. Grosvenor, Ld. R. Pechell, Sir U. Bonham-Carter, J. Hall, Sir B. Peel, F. Brady, J. llankey, T. Peel, Col. J. Bramston, T. W. Harcourt, G. Pellatt, A. Brocklehurst J. Hardinge, Hon. C. Perry, Sir T. Brockman, E.D. Basile, Alex. Philipps, J. Brotherton, J. Herbert, S. Phillimore, R. J. Pruce, Lord E. Hervey, Lord A. Phinn, P. Cardwell, E. Heywood, J. Pilkington, J. Caulfield, Col. J. nogg, Sir J. W. Pinney, IV. Chambers, T. Howard, C. Price, Sir R. Cheetham, J. Howard, Lord Price, W. Clay, Sir W., Bt. Hughes, W. Reed, J. Clinton, Lord R. Mutchins, E. Ricardo, 0. Cockburn, Sir A. J. E. Hutt, W. Mchsrdson, J. r.loffin, W. Ingham, R. Robartes, T. Cogan, W. H. F. Jackson, W. Russell, Lord J. Jollier, R. P. Jermyn, Earl Russell, F. C. Cowan, C. Keating, R. Russell, F. W. Cowper, W. F. Keogh, IV. 31 Ileir, John Davie, Sir H. It. F. Kershaw, J. Sawle, C. Dent, .1 King, P. Scholefield, W. Dive' t, E. Kinnaird, A. Scrope, G. Drtnlinrig, Vis. Labouchere,lll.Hon.H Seltly, F. !mite, Sir J. Laing, S. Szally, V. Duncan, G. Lang ton, li. G. Seymour, H. Ebrington, Viscount Lee, W. Seymour, W. Elcho, Lord Lindsay, W. Srymour, W. D. Ellice, E. Locke, J. Smith, J. A. Elliot, J. Loveden, P. Smith, R. Fsmonde• J. Lowe, R. Steel, J. Euston, Earl ' Luce, T. Thornely, T. Ewart, W. Mackinnon, W. A. Walter, J. Fagan, W. Mangles, R. D. Warner, E. Fellden, M. Manners, Lord G. Watson, W. Marjoribanks, D. Whitbread, S. J. Martin, J. Wickham, 11. W. Fitzgerald, Ferguson,Ferguson, Col. Sir J. Massey, W. Wilkinson, W. Fitz Gerald, J. Matheson, Sir J. Williams. W. Fitzroy, Hon. H. Milligan, R. Wilson, J Forster, C. Mills, T. Wood, Sir C. Forster, J. Milner, W. Wrightson, W. Fortescue, C. Milnes, It. Wyvil, M. Fox, W. Mitchell, T. Young, Sir J. Freestun, Col. Molesworth, Sir W. French, F. Mon creiff, J. Freshfleld, J. Monsen, W. Gladstone, W. Mostyn, E. WOES—I 33. Alexander, J. Gibson, T North, Col. J. Arbuthnott, Gen. Graha.m,;Lord W. Oakes, J. Archdall, M. Grogan, Edward i'acke, C Ball, E. Guinness, R. P.ekington, Sir J. Bankes, Rt Hon G. Hadfield, G. Parker, R. Baring, T. Hall, Gen. J. l'hillimore, J. G. Bennet, Capt P. Hamilton, G. A. Holt, P. Bentinck, G. Hamilton, J. H. Sandars, G. Beresford, Rt. Hn. W. Ilaubury,Capt II C Scott, F. Boldero, Col. 11. G. Harcourt- Col. F. Se y mer, H. Booker, T. W. Henley, J. Shirley, E. Bright, J. Herbert, Sir T. Sibthorp, Col. Buller, Sir J. Hilyard, R. C. Smijth, Sir W. Bunbury, Capt. W. Hotham, Lord Smith, J. B. Burghley, Lord. Hudson, G. Smith, Abel Butt, 0. Hume, W. Spooner, It. Butt, I. Jolliffe, Sir W. Stanhope. J. Cecil, Lord R. Kelly. Sir F. Stanley, Lord Chambers. M. Kendall. N. Stuart, W. Chelsea, Viscount Kennedy T. Shirt, li. Christopher, Robt. A. Kerrison, Sir E. Swlit, R. Clinton, Lord C. P.P. Kin.', J. Tollemache, J. Cobbett, J. M. Knightley, It. Tyler, Sir G. Cobbold, J. C. Knox, Col. B. W. Tyrell, Sir J. Cobden, R. Knox, W. S. Vance, J. Cocks, T. S. Lacon, Sir E. Vernon, J. Coles, H. B. Lani. ton, W. Villiers, F. Conolly, T. Laurie, J. Vyvyan, Sir R. Corry, H. T. L. Lennox, Lord A. F. Vyse, Capt. 11. Deedes, W. Lenn3X, Lot d XI. Waddington, D. Hering, Sir E. Lockhart, W. Walcott, Admiral Disraeli. B. Lytton, Sir G. Walpole, S. Drax, J. Macartney, G. Walsh, Sir J. Duncontbe,Hon. A. Macgregor, Jas. Welby, Sir G. Duncombe, Hon.W. MacMahon, P. Whiteside. J. Dunne, Col. Maddock, Sir T. H. Wu i tinore, 11. Egerton, W. Malins, It. Williams, T. Egerton, E. March, Earl of Willoughby, Sir H. Evelyn, W. 34 eu x, Sir H. Wynd ham.:G en. Farnham, E. Miles, W. Wyndham, li. Ferrer. J. Michell, Dr. W. Yorke, E Floyer, J. . Montgomery, H. Follett.l3. •Nowbray. J. I Forester,4. Naas, Lord Frewen, C. Napier, 3, Gaskell, J. - Newdegate, C ........, J. aqual. CI. TELLERS, ritlyter, W. Berkeley, G. TELLERS Taylor, col. PAIRS. Against. Lord Elmley Sir J. Trollops Mr. Knatchbull Mr. Leslie Colonel Lowther Captain Laffan Captain Lowther 1., - )rd Galway Lord Bective Mr. Mundy Lord Newport Hon. IL Liddell Mr. S. Child Mr. Tomline Mr. Lase°lles Mr. J. Johnstone Sir Gore Booth Mr. Davison Mr. Long Mr. Dupre Mr. Irton Sir G. Forster Lord Barrington Major Maxwell Sir W. Codrington Mr. Dod Lord Ossulstod Mr. H. Liddell, jun. Sir F. Thesiger Mr. Octavius Morgan Lord Lovaine Lord Edwin Hill Mr. H. Waddington Mr. John Ball Mr. Wynne Mr. Clive Lord Barnard Lord Granby Mr. Greaves Mr. Buck Mr. Compton Mr. Gwyn Mr. Forbes Mr. Tudway Mr. Palmer Colonel Gilpin Sir George Berkeley Sir F. Geach Lord H. Beutinek. Mr. Mullings Sir J. Duckworth Sir E. Hayes Mr. Bateson Sir Graham Montgomery Captain Gladstone Lord Newark Mr. Robertson Mr. Baldock Mr. B. Moore Sir J. R. Carnac Mr. Muntz Major Somerset Colonel Herbert Lord Claud Hamilton For. Mr. Macaulay Mr. Scobell Mr. W. Windham Mr. J. Duff Mr. Portman Lord Uxbridge Mr. C. Cavendish Mr. P. Urquhart Mr. Corbally Lord Waterpark Mr. Thornhill Mr. G. Vernon Mr. J. L. Ricardo Mr. S. Wortley Mr. G. Cavendish Mr. Fergus Mr. Bland Mr. Langston Mr. Ellice, jun. Lord Dalrymple Mr. Marshall Sir W. Somerville Sir J. Vivian Mr. Stirling Mr. Heneage Mr. Rice Sir J. Johnstono Lord Mouck Mr. Keating() Mr. Rumbold Mr. Roebuck Colonel Tynto Mr. Foley Mr. Seymour Fitzgerald Mr. 0. Stanley Mr. Sheridan Mr, Heard Lord Goderich Lord Emlyn Mr. Strutt General Buckley Mr. Mackie Mr. Beaumont Sir F. Lewis Sir R. Ferguson Mr. Brand Mr. 'ramrod Mr. S. Adair Lord Grosvenor Mr. Bass Sir G. Strickland Mr. Rich Mr. H. Vivian Mr. Glyn Mr. Raikes Currie Mr. Pigott Mr. North Mr. Bouverie Mr. Thompson ,of Aberdeen Mr. Brown, of Lancashire Mr. M. 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Closing Prices this day. London N. West. 1 4 .&N.W. Caledon... Cal(lonian , Gt. Vcostnl New. & norm. V. StNM( I Do Do 3. Easton) D 0.. . reto & Co gorfolk. L.& N. IV. dr, Miclld. itekton Darliugt. E. Count. Do Do L. &N.W [ s7,Ln&Yli Tio 95 - 100 98 - 100 130 - 135 103 : iiii 13 - 13 23 - 24 11 - 11 2fi -2/ 91 - 93 57 - 59 iio li 60 - 65 ... _ ora l .13 115 107 - 109 99 - 101 6 -- 6A 9t -- 96 89 -- 91 91 -- 93 91 -- 101 16 -- 17 10 —lOl 71 -- 73 181 -- 191 9i -- 91 131 -- 141 -- id 133 135 •• • ''.. ... 2a— 3I 111 - lli i - iP t 33 - 135 It - 1(1 - 90 104 - 103 100 - 102 90 - 92 3 - 3i •• ----ici ••., 1 111 - 113 11 13 id par 22 22 95 1 —100 i 15 18 ••• ••• ,id ip 2i - 1 : Business this day. Paidd itAILWATO. all Bedford and Bletchloy 100 Buckghamsh. 100 CilydesdaleJc. 100 E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cont. all Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct all Do. New . all Glstr.ez Dn.Fr all llrtlpl. Dk. & Railway all Bull & Selby all Do. A Shares. all Do. Shares. all Lon.&, Greenw all Do.Preferenec all Lon,,Til.,&S, 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. . MO Do. 6 per et. all Nianch. Bxtn and Matlocl , all Nliddlesbre' & Redear all llidld.Bradfd all Northern an+' Easternsp.e. all .Do. 6 per et. all Do. Fixeds p all ['rest. &Wyrt all Do. shares. 100 18i ihef.lloth an(; Goole g. 5 p.c. 9?, S. Staffordsh. all Wear Valleygi 6 per cent all IDo 1.00 Wilts&fl'onirst GtNorthr Lancashik Yorksh. 6.1.3.1C1ean Stockt. & Darlingt ltWcstn. PREFERENCE SHARES. 2 —2. d 30 - 31 92 - 94 97 - 100 ii -- 96 si 64 I- 1'; - PI 12i - 131 St. 100 Aberdeen ,100 Do. No. 2, 7 p 30 DlythanclTyno c. pref. (issd. LOO Bris. & Ex. 4p. 5 Do. 4p. c. Sha 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhea( Guar. 54 per cent all Do. do. Pref. No. 2 all Do. do. Pref. No. 2 all Cork &Banclonsip.c, all Dundee Perth &Aber deep Junction all EastAnglian (£3los, 6 per cent all Do. (X 5) 7 per cent 2 Do. (£7l7x) 7p. c. all Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. 1 4 all Do. No. 2 all Do. New 6 r . c. St. all Eastern Union, Scili Guar. 6 per cent ... all Do. 5/., 10 ner cent. all Do. 10i. Def)entr.Sh all Do. do. 4 per cent.. 100 East Lancash. 6 p.ets. all East and West York-1 shire June. Fifths all EdinbPrth.&Dunde , 4 per cent. 100 Glasgow & S.Western Guar. 5 per cent 100 Great Northn. sp. c 100 Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem 100 Do. 41 p. c 84 Gt.N. of Scot. lst Prei all Gt. Southn.&Westm. (Ireland) Eighths) 7 Do. 4 per c. Pr2f. St 6 Gt. Westn. (Barks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c) 100 Do. con. red. 4i p.c. 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c. 100 Do. irrcd. 4p.c. all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh all Do. Chester Bp. c.P.S all Da. do. 5 p. c. do 100 Do. Birm. Gua. Stk all Do. Ches. Gua. Stk, all Do. do. do all Do. do. do 6 Lan. & York, F. £2' 100 Do. 6 p. c. Stock 100 I London and Bright° , Guaranteed 5 p. c 100 1)o. Pref., sp.c. St 00 Do. New Guar.6 p. c 01) Lon. &N. W., Coy. di Nuneaton 5 p. ct... 5 London &S. Western Con. Thirds all Londonderry& Color Shares 9.11 Londy. & all Ilan., Sher., & Lin. Shares, No. 1. ... all Do. New, £lO 4? Do. .£6 all ‘l"arypt.&Carl.4p c all Do. 4A per cent 10i Do 100 Aid. Consol.6 p.c.St. LOC Do. Consol. Bristol Z. Birin. 6 per cent.... Ili 'Jo. Pref. 4A per MD' 10 )Torrolk Debenture . 100 Do. Pref. 4p. c. Stool 100 Do. sp. c. Ext , 100 Do. sipor ct. pref , 100 Do.*Way. Val. sp. a. CO gortitßritish ICO E. Berw, 4 p.c. P. 5 Do„ do de. 13 Do. Leeds 6 p.c 0.1 9 Do. do. Quarters 4S 10 Do. York it. & r. all north Staffordshire 100 )xford, Worcester, & Wolverh.£ls, 6(°.c all ' , cot. Cent. ,New Prel 10 Do. 5 per cent all South Devon 14 )0. fixed, 4i per cent all 3. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 4 pm cent all 4.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar all 3 Wales Gua. 4p. c all Do. do. , 4 p. c..., all 4tockton and Dar lington, 5 per cent 5 Po. do. do, all Stockton and Hartle pool, guar. 5 p. c. till Ist July, 185? 4 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. lOper at 5001 . c. St.l 20 124 25 20 St. 20 20 20 25 MINES. i - 1 - g i a i i 5 7 6 7 2i 3 li ii 30 32 h - i Ld par 46 48 $ $ 50 55 par 2 p 14 16 1 li par 4p 14 16 h - I 8 ... 9 $ - A 7 - 7A i - i 15 - 16 - P 23 - 25 6 - 8 3 1 - 1 - 14 1 - 2 2 - 3 - A - A 'SOUS ii - 2. 37 ii --- ii ... .-- ... ioo —lO5 109 i - 13 3i - 3i' 17 - 18. 4 -ii 1 = i 2z 2 • 2 - 24 61 -- 63 3 - 39 - I - 1 11 i =,••• 221 all Agua Fria . . all Anglo Austrin. Gold all Anglo Californian 6 Australian all Australian Cordillera all Australian Freehold all Ave Maria all Baden (Gd.Dnehy of, all Blxnarvon Iron and Coal 13.5 British Iron 5 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm all Do. Cocacs & Culada 15 Do. St. John Del Rey C•arsons's Creqk Clarcnd , m Cons. Min Co. of Jamaica • all Cobro Copper 1 Colonial Gold. all Copper Min. of Eng all Do. Pref. 7i p. cent 16 Copiapo all English and Austin Copper Smeltg Co Fortuna all General.. all Gt.NuggetVeinßeg 4 Great Polgooth all Liberty all Linares all Nlariquita 9 Ilexican&S.Amerien all New Granada all 'New Linares Minim and Smelting Co all 'Nouveau Monde all Pontgiband. Silver Lead MM. & Smelt 1 Port Philip all Quartz Rock all Rhymney Iron all Do. New 11 Santiago do Cuba all South Australian Tin Croft... all United Mexican all Waller all West Mariposa 12s. Wortking Mining o' Australia all Yuba lIIISCELLA ' all kubin Coal and Iron 17i lustralian Agricult. 4 kustralsn .Pe ific. Mai all lustraln. 'Royal Mai' 40 5? 2 B Be ri r t l . in A W m a e t r e ic r a W n o il e Land' 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co 32i Canada ......... ...... . 100 Canada Gov. § P. t Jan. and July all Crystal all , Crystal ol P P a a l l . a o e f e Frane 5 Eastern Steam all 2l. Electric c Te l eb o - x i. p o h f c r A ) 14 Gen. Steam Navigat a ll General Screw Stea n E g i le " 10 frish Beetroot Sup, 10 Magdalena St. N av i g. all Mediteran. Elec. Tel., all Nat. Pat. Steam Fue' 5 Netherlands Land.,. 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter: Steam Navigat. Co. all N. B. Australasian 121 Nrth.ofEnropeSteam all Peel Er. Ld. & Minrl. all Peninsular& Oriental 45 Do. Do. all Portland Iron Co 60 !loyal Mail Steam all Scot. Austral. Invest all South Austral. Land all .übmar. Telegraph all Do. Registered. 2.5 q Van Diemon'a LAO 25 St. 20 St. 1= 3! 281 20 20 10 10 20 20 6 20 601 i 111 i 894 90 60i ex arrs 73 2i 107 1001 it li 83i i 5 10 St. 5 42; 6g 9i 9 Pr N 14 17 ;443- qi i tiOn 4 , 4447 f + SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock. lALY. Letters from Rome of the 15th mention that a despatch had been received there the day previous from the War-office in Paris, ordering the depar ture of a battery of the Bth Regiment of Artillery which has been for some time in garrison in that city, and at the same time of a regiment of Dra goons. The half of that force was ordered to march on the 20th, and the remainder on the 22d. They are to go by laud, and it is only when they shall have marched some distance that their destination will be communicated to them. It is supposed that they are to enter the Austrian territory, and thence to proceed to the Danubian Principalities. I men tioned some days since, on the authority of a letter from Lyons, that a brigade of cavalry of that city and a considerable body of infantry were expected soon to take the same route. ALTI,R.ITION IV ME MAIL SERVICE TO PENANG, SINGAPORE, AND CHINA. General Post-office, Dec., 1854. The mails from Penang, Singapore, and China, will in future be forwarded once a month only, instead of twice a month ; and the packet service, which hitherto has not extended beyond Hong Kong, will be carried on to Shanghai. The mails for the above places intended to be de spatched by the route of Southampton, will be made up in London on the morning of the 4th of every month (commencing in January), and those via Marseilles on the evening of the 9th of every month. When, however, the 4th of the months falls on Sunday, the mails via Southampton will be made up in London on the previous evening, and when the 9th of the months fills on a Sunday, the mails via Marseilles will be made up on the evening of the following day. ROWLAND HILL, Secretary. STATE OF TRADE. ( From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, Dec. 22.—There is hardly any notice able change in our market as compared with Tuesday last. The Greek merchants continue to purchase yarns and goods suitable for their markets ; the producers are consequently well supplied with contracts, in many cases for some weeks to come, and prices are maintained at the highest point. For South America some business is in progress. The advices from India have given no impulse to the demand for that quarter, which, there fore, remains languid. The Germans and the Dutch are buying cautiously and for i mme di a t e d e li very , as their customers watch very closely the declining tendency which has latterly characterised our market and that of Liverpool. On the whole, the balance of influences is rather on the side of increased quietness. LEICESTER, Dec. 21.—The approach of Christmas finds the workmen better employed in all branches of our trade, except the straight down kinds in the middle gauges, the circular frames interfering considerably with this sort. The yarn market is firm, with a fair business doing. Notwithstanding the long depression which has so long continued in the Bradford and Yorkshire mar kets, wools have remained firm, and are now looking upwards. We hear of 28s. per ton being given for first-rate tanners' lots. NOTTINGHAM, Dec. 21.—The lace and hosiery trades are as inactive as is usually the case at this season, and until Christmas is turned it would be unreasonable to expect a change for the better. A fair spring trade is looked for, which may reasonably be expected. WOOLLEN TRADE. ( From the Leeds Mercury of this day.) LEEDS, Dec. 23.—As is usual at this period of the year, the woollen markets have been very flat this week. The trade in the warehouses was very quiet during the early part of the week, but since Wednesday several of the principal London buyers hare made their appear ance and caused considerable bustle and animation, but hitherto, we believe, they have not purchased much, a 5 they allege they are merely on the look out for some" thing jobbish, or below the market. HUDDERSFIELD, Dec. 19.—The market to-day was a little more animated in the warehouses than oa man)" preceding weeks, a larger number of buyers being in at tendance. In the cloth-hall, however, we have Tio im provement to report. Additi ona l gloom has been cast over this district from the untoward events in Auotralia, in which several large houses are involved. BRADFORD.—Things are as dull and dispirited as they can be, and it is hardly to be expected that a change for the better will take place at this season. Yarns—There is more inquiry, but the prices are such as deter spinners from producing. With the limited production, however, higher prices must soon be realised. Pieces—Opera tions are limited, and the supply is only equal to the de mand. A manufacturer of moreens has succumbed to the pressure of the times, for that branch of the trade is a very profitless one. H;Linuc, Dec. 16.—Webave had rather less activity in the piece market to-day than last week. In yan l9 we have no alteration to notice- COUNTRY MARKETS. LIVER , POOL-DEC. 22. We had a small attendance of millers and dealers and there was a mutual indifference business, as re gards wheat and flour, between buyers and sellers. Prices remain much the same as on Tuesday. Indian corn com manded the most attention, and was 3d to 6d per quarter dearer. Oatmeal the turn higher. No change in the value of oats, or any other article of the trade. WAKEFIELD—DE C. 22. We have a large supply of wheat, and fair of other groin, to this day's mark e t. Th e w h eat trade is very slow, an d to effect sales a decline of is per qr. has to be submitted to Barley meets a dull sale, at rather under last week's prices. Beans, oats, and shelling move off slowly at former rates. EXETER—DEc. 22. CORN.—In our market wheat may bo quoted from Ds Od to 03 Od. Malting barley, 4s Od to 4s 3d ; grinding do., Os 0(1 to Os Od. Oats, 3s Od to 3s 4d. Beans, Os Od to 03 Od. Peas, 52s Od to GOs Od. FLOUR. —Fine, 55s Od to Us Od ; seconds, 53s Od to 54 5 Od per sack. CATTLE.—Prime beef, lOs Gd per score ; cows and calyes 121. to 16/. ; butchers' calves, Nd to 7d per lb., rearing calves 00s to 00s each. Sheep, 51(1 to 50. Lambs, Od to Od per lb. Store hogs, large size, 00s to 50s each ; 20s to 32s ; small, Os to 00s. Rough fat, sid per lb. Pork carcases from Os 01 to Us Od per score. INVERNESS.—DEC. 19. CORN.--Wheat, white, per qr., 61s Od to 71s Od. Bar ley, chevalier, 31s Od to ;i2s 0(1; ditto, common, 30s Od to 31s OA. Oats, 20s Od to 30s 0.1. MEAL.—Oatmeal, per imp. boll 24s Gd to 25s Od ; ditto second, 003 Od t o O s Od ; barleymeal, 15s Od to Os 0,1 ! peasemeal, 16s 8d to Os Od ; bran, per stone, Os Bcl to 9d • Ist flour, per 2801 b, hOs Od to 56s Od ; 2(1 ditto, 46s Od to 00s Od ; oatmoal, best, per st. of 141 b imperial 2s 6 1 , to Os Od ; ditt o secon d , Os Od to Os Od; barleymeal Is 61 to 003 0,1 ; peasemeal, i s 8d t o O s 0(1; Ist flour, 3s Od cash • 3s 6(1 credit ; 2(1 ditto, 2s 6d cash, 2s 9€l credit. BRISTOL SUGAR—DEc. 22. The market has been dull, the sales being confined to a fow hundred hogsheads of West India. For refined goods we still exp er i ence a moderate demand, and the currencies of this day se'unight are maintained. COAL MARK Prices of Coal per ton at t. 17.-DEC. 22, ;be close of the market, Wallsend, ke. Kidd 11 s. d. 18 0 ir,den Main 20 0 Braddyll 2 ,1 6 south Hetton 21 3 Stewart's 2l 6 rees 2l rVhitw•rth l9 Cowpen lB 0 s. d. H Istiug's Hartley l7 6 Raveusworth Hartley l7 6 Taufield Moor l7 0 ranfield Moor Butes 17 3 Wylam 19 ( Wallsend, &c. Marton Lawson lB C 17 6 COURSE OF EXCH Ditto, three months .. 1 Il Rotterdam 111 1 1 1 15 7 7 i :t i r t i Antwerp rn t o s n s t e sa i s r.g. ..• 2 1 2 3 5 5 . 3 3 % 11 /! Paris.-- • • .• .• 25 12% Ditto, three months .. 25 37 Marseilles ....... • B • . • .• 25 37% ourdeaux N'r ankfort-on- a i ne •.. 11778 Berlin .• .• •• Vienna ** "'• .• •• .• 12 50 Trieste •••• „„ 12 50 Petersburg •• •• • • •• 353/,, Madrid •.••••••• .• •• 50% Cadiz .• • • .• • Seville . 50 1 A Barcelona •• .• ANGE.-YESTZEDAY. Gibraltar .• •• •• •• Lc gtorn , 3O GO Genoa •• •• 2.5 57)4 llilan .• • • • • •• ••• •• Venice .......• • • ...... • Naples 43 Palermo ..... •• 131 Messina . Lisbon ...... .• •• 536 Oporto ......... ••••• •• 53 % Rio Janeiro ...... •• •• • • Buenos Ayres....., •• • • New York, GO days' sight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULIICN, FEB OZ. Foreign Cola in Bars £3 17 9 Portugal Cold Coin .. 0 0 0 Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0 .;'• - iw Dollars 0 0 0 Silver In bars . . 0 5 1% BIRTIIS. OF A SON. On the 18th inst., at St. Michael's-on-Wyre, the wife of the Rev. Wm. Hornby. .OP A DAUGHTER. On the 3d inst., at 14, Clifford-street, Bond-street, the wife of Dr. Gneneau de Mussy. MARRIED. On tho 21st inst., at the parish church, Whitby, Henry Power, Esq., F.R.C.S., son of Major Francis Power, late of the 35th Regt., to Ann. youngest daughter of the late Thomas Simpson, Esq., of Meadowfield House, Whitby. On the 21st inst., at Chorlev, James Vaughan, Esq., of the Middle Temple, and of Glocester-terrace , Hyde paik, to Joanna Russell, younger daughter of Richard Stnethurst, Esq., of Duxbury Park, in the county of Lan caster. DIED. - On the 28th ult., in Scutari Hospital, Josiah HolforJ, Lieutenant 2Ah Regt. wood, Hampshire, Commander John T r ? te n y b l o t . 2 N ls . i o n f s t t . h , e a t m 6 a 9 g , a S z l i 7 e n s s m t r a c r e e t h , aged 81. LONDON : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, St r and, Printer, at Th e Sun Office, No. 1 12, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the count,' of Aliddltees. Oli*dge.DOlinAliex 23, 114 13t 2 1 20 50 20 25 1001 81 4 21i 1 30 20 1 1 40 5 St. 25 110 i 34 I