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

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO o'CLOCK. 1 hr, 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 W i d. ; 70 Bahia, at 6gd. ; 100 Egyptian, at sid. 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. St. In reviewing the state of the Manchester market 20 for the month just closed, Messrs. M‘Nair, Green- St. how, and Irving mention that the business done St. has been satisfactory under all the circumstances. 25 No short time has been generally established, but St: a few factories are working only from sunrise to 10 sunset. The demand for the country trade is un- t . important. The market, although good compara- st. tively, has nevertheless been depressed, the war, St. the high price of provisions, and the demand for money being against it. A little has been done in st. East India shirtings and yarns. Both goods and St. yarns have been at irregular prices. In the Shipping Gazette and Sydney General 2 . ' Trade List, of Sept. 18 , received b y the overland sgi mail, a statement is given which requires no corn- 19i 163 ment. It is as follows: St. " The barque Prince Regent arrived at Port Adelaide 14 on the 29th August last, after a trying and seriously 20 protracted voyage of 179 days from London and 163 11i from Gravesend. The length of the voyage is attribut. St. able to the fact of her being improperly supplied with St. water and provisions, through the culpable negligence or 20 parsimony of the agents. During the last three 10 weeks the passengers and c r ew have been obli g e d to Id! drink bottled [porter (part of the cargo), the water being 50 all gone. In consequence of the privations and short 40 supply of provisions to which they had been subjected, 25 six of the crew bad died of scurvy, and thirteen more 25 are either quite disabled or in a very sickly condition St. so that the efficient seamen are only five in number ' and 8 1 2 s Captain Jago himself is quite an invalid, suffering from St. rheumatism and exhaustion of st ren g th, the results of St. privation, anxiety, insufficient nourishment , a nd the ;>g want of a surgeon on board." 100 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 91i and 92 for money, but not at more than 911 for account. There have been sales of New 3 per Cents. as low as 89a, 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/ ft. 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. Tho Turkish Scrip was better at the opening, being 7i discount, but it has sunk again upon renewed sales to 8t 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 l a calculated to relieve all furthe r surmise and 50 anxiety. Spanish 3 per Cents. have been 371, E and the New Deferred 18. Mexican Bonds have 20 been heavy at 21k. Brazilian small stock is at 97k. 25 Russian 5 per Cents. are at 951. Dutch 21 per St. Cents. are at 60,i I. 10 The following are the nominal prices of Foreign 75' Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 51 to 5i Mexi can, 20 to 21k ; Peruvian, 67 to 69 ; ditto Z:t 3 per Cents., 47 to 49 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 'l6 40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto 20 4i per Cents., 85 to 87 ; Spanish New Deferred, ••• 18 to 18-i ; ditto 3 per Cents., 37 to 38 ; ditto 20 Certificates, 5t051 ; ditto Passive, to 41. 10 The Railway Share Market has been steady, and with moderate transactions in Lancashire and Yorkshire,Plidland,'Grea t Northern, and Brighton. .05 The Foreign lines aro firmer. . 20 The Foreign Mines have been at former rates 20 generally, the Joint Stock Banks aro dull, and in Australian Agricultural Shares there has been a 1 2 - 7 0 ? rally. Peel River are flatter. South Australian 20 Shares are better. 20 20 BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES. 120 ( Front the Obicial List.) I 100 Business done Rank Stock 209 3 per Cent. Reduced Annui ties .... ......... 3 per Cent. Corsets Annu i t ies 9li 2 1 3 / 4 fl 3 / 4 New 3 per Cent. Annuities 5 per Cent. Annuities ll7 233 India. Stock Consols for /Account Exchequer Bills, 20. 21000 — 3 6 2500 3 6 3 6 Small Exchequer Bonds 1858, 3 3 / 4 per Cont. 992 Ditto 1859, ~ PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent — Ditto Small . ... ... 9 7 3 /4 Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 2lh Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £St 9 5 3 /4 Spanish Bowls, 3 per Cent • 371 Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent lB Turkish Scrip 6 per cent — Ditto for the Account 7l 81 8 d Venezuela Bonds, 3 3 / 4 per Cent. tiividends on the above payarlo in London. Dutch Exchange, 2 3 / 4 per Cen::. 12 Guil 6O i Ditto 4 Der cent. vertilleates 100 20 i 25 25 25 THREE O'CLOCK Consols Ditty, A ccoimit THE TURKISH LOAN. The following communication has been addressed by 20 the contractors of the Turkish Loan to the committee of the Stock Exchange, on the full completion of all the 20 formalities connecte d with its ne g otiation. As its amount 16 is 3,000,0 001 ., and t he firman, in accordance with the 20 original notification, authorises 5,000,0001., a farther 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 20 hitherto been authorised to entertain for the additional issue is 90 per cent., and that there has been no intima- 1( 2( Lion of any intention to reduce it : 4( ;The contractors deem it right to com municate to tho 2( Committee of the Stock Exchange that the underme n- 2( boned e documents, appertaining to the negotiation of the 1 Turkish Loan have been deposited in the Bank of Eng- 21 land, under Sons, notaries pu blic , duly signed by Messrs. Venn and 2 , G. 3usurus. the Turk* in the presence of his Excellency mid, mr. J. H. Palmer,sh Ambassador, the Baron de Gold- 2 , Durand : P Mr. J. N. Black, and Mr. P. 1 "1. The firman, dated 2 Messrs. 1854, authorising the 2 negotiation of the loan by srs. Black and Durand for five millions sterling, with the approval of the Ottoman Ambassadors at the Courts of London_a and Paris. " 2. The instructions to Messrs. Black and Durand from the Ottoman Government at Constantinople, dated the , edge the 4 10th of June, 1854, authorisipongrthoenmof til, „ l ,o ribute payable gene ral revenues of Turkey and a by the Pasha of Egypt, amounting to 30 as security for th o due p a y ment of the principal piastres, and in- , t ere st of the loan t o be contracted. _ " 3. The contract for three millions of the loan made with the Baron de Goldsmid and Mr. J. H. Palmer, dated 24th of August , 1854, duly executed by all th e persons above mentioned. 00 "4. The imperial firman, dated October 3, n assi gn . l , 25 1,333,33 3 pillar dollars annually of the tribute above - men: 20 tinned, in conformity with the instructions given to , 00 Messrs. Black and Durand for the negotiation of the 1 1 00 whole loan." 20 --- THE WEATHER IN THE NORTH.—Winter seems now 20 fairly set in here. For two weeks past the weather has been very wet and cold ; but on Thursday evening last 50 snow commenced to fall, which continued at intervals 50 during Friday. Ou r streets were completely covered, a° and on the neighbo urin g hills it fell to a considerable -1-`" depth.—Brechin 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 Mendelssohn's trio in C minor, which was capitally per formed by Mr. Sterndale Bennett, Herr Ernst, and. Lucas. The other instrurnentalisms consisted of piano forte solos by Mr. Bennett, who was in excellent vein and finger; violin solos by Herr Ernst; one of Beethoven's sonatas for pianoforte and violin • and a clarionet fanta al by Prank Mori, executed by' Mr. Lazarus. Miss Dolby Mpg With her usuallyg lily cultivated tad% _ _ SIIARE MARKETS. (TUIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. I(liosing Prices this day Paid.l 100 Aberdeen 81 Ambg. Nottniy, Bost and Eastn. Junet... all Belfast & Ballymena. all Binning. Wolverh. Stour Va11ey........ 29 Birkeuhd. Lanesh. Cheshire Junct all Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. 19 Do., X2O. . 30 Blyth & Tyne origma £25 (issd. at .£4s' 100 Bristol and Exeter... 100 Ca1ed0nian............ 21s. Carmarthen and Car digan all Chester & Holyhead all Cork and Bandon all Cork, Black, & Pass 16 Cornwall 1? Crieff Junction 45 I hiblin &Belfast,Juric all Dundee Porthdabcr deco Junction all Do. New LOO East Anglian all Eastern Counties 100 Eastern Union, A Stock 100 De., B. Stock Do., New A 100 East Lancashire 100 Edinburgh& Glasgow 9 Edinb. and Peebles 100 Edin. PAU &Dundee 1 Forth & Clyde Junc.l 100 Glasgow &S. Westorn i 100 Great Northern 100 Do., A. Stock J.OO Do., B. Stock iOO t. Sth. &West.(lre ) 100 Great Western 100 Do. Stour Val. Raill Gua. Stk all Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisle 14i Do., Thirds 4 Do. New Thirds 100 Lancash.andYorksh 19,1 Do., Fifths 11 D,., Wst. Riding Un all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt all London & Blackwal 100 Lond. Bright &S.Cst 100 Loud, and N. Westn. 12 Do. Fifths 1 Do.lol. Sh.,M&B.„( 2i Do. Eighths 100 London and S. Westn 4D, Do., £5O 34 Do., £4O all Lncindrry& Coleraint all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.Shef.& Lineln 44 Do., Man. & Lin. Un 100 Midland XOO Do. Birmng. & Derl:l all Xidld. G. West. (Ire, )1 223_ Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & Carlisle ,Newmkt.BuryExten 19A Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd 8 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoini and hostrevor 100 Norfolk 3 Northn.ConntiesUn 100 North British all 4 North Devon, No. 1 all Do., No. 2 all Do., A Deferred all Do., B Guarantee(' 1 100 N. Eastern—Berwick; ) 20 Do. do. Extension 13 Do.do. G.N.E. Purch. all Do. Leeds 100 Do. York all North London 8 Do. New £lO I/ le N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp stead, and City Jn 171 North Staffordshire all North Western.. all N. &S. Westrn. June. 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley and Leicester .00 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 6 Portsmouth LOO Scottish Central 1.00 Scottish Midland all ihrewsby. dL Berefd all Shropshiro Union Do. A, B, C,& paid up at p©r cent all South Devon 1.00 South Eastern all South Wales 15 5. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun 5 Do 8 itaines, Wok &Wok all 'tockton & Darling. 16'f Stockton lit Hartlopl WO Taff Vale 9 Do. £lO shares. 100 Do. Pref., No. 1 21 Thames Haven Dock and R tilway all Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkennt all Waterford&Limerici 18 West Cornwall 3 West End of London and. Crystal Palace all West London Ills.lWimblodn&Croydou! all Xntworp&Rottordana 3 Belgian Eastn. June. 8 Beziors to Graissossac 2i. I Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Scrip Central of Italy all Demerara► 14 Non andßesaucon 10 [hitch 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. Juliet. of France 121 Gd.TkofCanadaAis. all Do. do all Do. St. Lawrence Si Atlantic do all Do. Cert. of Deben., con. into Stk. till '63 all Do. Comp. 6p. c., do. 10 Gt. Central of France all Gt. Indian Peninsula 1 Do. New 5 per cent. all Gt.Westernof Canada Shares ... all Do. Bds., payable's7, with option till '55 all Do. do., '62, p. '56 all Do. do., '76, p. '6O all Do. do., '73, without option all Lianalton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 11 Lake Const. & Basle all Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c. prof 12 Great Luxembourg Constituted Shares all Do. Obligations 10 Lyons and Geneva 12 Lyons & Mediterran. 163 Madras I Do. New 31; Maria Antonia 111 Do. do. NA . 2 Melbourne Dk. &Ry all Namur & Liege (with interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France all Do .20/. Slis.late Char leroi and Erquelines guar. 3g p. c. & red. at 22 y. dur. 88 yrs.l from IJan. 1854 all Do. 201. 3 p. e Bdr. (fmy.B.&Ams.Slis.) all NorwegianTrunkPrei 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 Mouse all Do. 51. p. cent. Pref 10 southern of France. 14 St. •Andrew's and Quebec (A) all West Flanders I all Do 5)I per c. Pref I 10 Western of France ) 16 West. of Switzerland 5 all Wiesbaden ) 20 Zealand JOINT•STO 1 all Anstra asia all British Colonial Bank and Loan Company all British N. American 5 Chart& Bank of Asia 2 Chrtd. Bak. of India, Australia, St, China 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Loud 16 English Scottish and' Australian... all ILond. Chart. Bk. 01 Australia 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond. & Westminster 35 National Provincial of England 10 Do. New 22A National of Ireland all New South Wales.. all Oriental Dank of CorporAtion 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 Royal Australu.Bkg, & Gold Imp Co , all ,South Australia all I Union of Australia... 2L Do. New 10 U 111914 of London..„, Business done I 50 this day. 191 I 19 - 20 4 - 4i 71- 8 13 11 d -16 i -17 i 7 6 93 - 50i - 60 - 10 - 12 5 - 4 - 74 141 - 16 11 111 .. ... 67 - 69 52 - 54 19A - 24 87 - 88 73 - 75 123 - 125 87 - 83 691 69i 67 - 69 70 -- 80 6 -- 8 6 - 8p! 6 761 --5t } -- " 1 104 106 97i 98} id— id i . d 79 80 10 • 9id 9 8 201 -21 i 6Gi 67i 38 - 40 • 4 -d, 114 -- 9i , 2 -- 2 48-- 50 3 - k 30i 10 if 64 1 7 72 —k 74 7 6i , 4i 4 12t 131 50 51 52 54 —' p Ix 4i —43 d 61 61 29 - 31 90 - 92 60 - 62 7i - 8} 43 - 45 li - 13 57 - 58 29 - 30 - }~ 34 - 36 3 - 17 18 4}- 4; 20 - `2 6 - 7 .•, 6 - 7 FOREIGN. 6 - 6i 4 - 4 - 3 id-ip • •• ... - 3 3 / 4 - ••• ''''' ••• ... 30k -30 i I - 3 I id pal "g 7 d 84 7A 9 84 10 91 d iP iP par ip 16; -- 17; is ip lid • Id 2 d par par -- 2p ~ dis 31 4 2e, —2& i a ip , d- - ip ••• •. • ,•• ''' •' 6i - 7 33 - 33; 12i - 12 - - 94 17i -181 p 44 46 86 38 pm 20 21 Ld par 21 lid 7i pm 4 - 5 I,' i:41:: 3.. i BANKS. ... --- ••• id—id 31 - 22 - 22 • •• ''.. 35 = 40 36 - 41 - 43 67 - 69 F - 20 20 20 20 20 50 20 25 LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Compans Closing Prices this day. rata. RAILWATP; all Bedford and Bletchley 100 Buckghamsh. 100 elydesdaleJc. 1.00 E. Lincoln gr. 4 6 per cent. ' all Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct all Do. New all Glstrot Dn. Fr all llrtlpl. Dk. & Railway all Hull & Selby all Do. Shares. all Do. d Shares. all Lon.&Greenw all Do. Preference all Lon.,Til., &S., 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cont. tOO Do. 6 per ct. all Ntanch. Bxtn and Matlock ,Nliddlesbre' & Rcdcar all Ntidld.Bradfd :dl Northern and, Easternsp.c. all Do. 6 per ct. all Do. Fiscds pc all l'rest. & Wyre all Do. 2 Shares. WO iloystn.k Hit. 18e Shef.Roth.and Gooleg.s P.C. 9. 4 , S. Staffordsh. all WearValleygr 6 per cent... 100 1'11 I RD'oilts&gomrst Loudon & N. West. L. &N. W. Caledon... rCt.Nrthn. aldonian. Do 1 Gt. Westn Yk. New. & Derw. Y. &Nhicl Do Do S. Eastern Do Peto & Co Norfolk. 14.& N. W. ,Stekton Darlingt. E. Count Do • Do' L. &N. W &Lntak Do, Gt Northn Unleash & Yorksh. A.MCleau tockt. Darlingt ItWestn ... oi _ 100 99 - 101 134 - 136 a = ion ji - liii 23 - 24 3.0. - 11- 21 - 2i ••• 92 - 57 - 59 i 34 - fie •• 2i [2 • d ..• - ••• 30 - 31 00 - 92 PREFERENCE SHARES. 100 lA.berdeen 100 Do. No. 2, 7 p• c 30 ElythandTynelOper c. pref. (issd. at 50/) 100 Bris. &Ex. 4p. e. St. 5 Do. 4 p. c. Shares 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent.., all Do. do. Prof. N.. 2., all Do. do. Pref. No. 2., all Cork &Bandonsip.c , all Dundee Perth &Aber• all IBeen Junction ..... EastAnglian (X 3 10s, 6 per cent all Do. (£5) 7 per cent 2 Do. (X 7 17s) 7P. c all Eastern Counties Ex . tension, sp. c. No. 1 all Do. No. 2 ......... all Do. New 6 p. c. st. all Eastern Union, Seri Guar. 6 per cent all Do. 51., 10 per cent all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh all Do. do. 4 per cent 100 East Lancash. 6p. ets all East and West York-, shire June. Fifths all EdinbPrth.&Dundee 4 per cent. 1.00 Glasgow & S.Western Guar. 5 per cent 1.00 Great Northn. sp. c 100 Do. sp. c. Redeem., at 10p. c. prem. .00 Do. 4i p. c 8 Gt.N. of Scot. let Prof all Gt. Southn. &Westm. (Ireland) Eighths)... 7 Do. 4 por c. Pref. St. 6 Gt. Westn. (Berk; St Hants Ex. 5 p. c)... LOO Do. con. red. 4i p.c. LOO Do. con. red. 4p. c. LOO Do. irred. 4p.e. all Do. Birm. Pref. Sh all Do. Chester Bp. c.P.S all Di. 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. £2O WO Do. 6p. c. Stock 100 London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. C 100 Do. Prof., sp. c. St 100 Do, New Guar.6 P.C 100 Lon.&N. W., Cot. & Nuneaton 5 p. ct. 5 London &S. Western Con. Thirds all Londonderry& Color i Shares - all Lowly. & Ennis. 4 Sh. all )fan., Shof.„ & Lin., 4 Shares, No. 1 all Do. Now, £lO 4 Do. £6 all Nlarypt .&Carl.4 p c all Du. 4? per cent IW, Do - WO . Aid. Consol.6 p.c.St 100 Do. Consol. Bristol bi Birni. 6 per cent 1 11 Do. Pref. 4A per cent 10 Norfolk Debenture . 100 Do. Pref. 4p. c. Stock 100 Do. sp. c. Est MO Do. 51 per ct. prof._ 100 Do. Way. Val. sp. e. .00 North British ICO N. E. Item, 4 p.c. P 5 Do. do. do 13 Do. Leeds 6 p.c .. Ne. I 9 Do. do. Quarters 48 to Do. York H. &4. Pur. all North Staffordshire HX) Oxford, Worcester, & Wolvcrh. £l5, flo.c. all Scot. Cent. , New Prot 10 Do. 5 per cent all South Doyon 14 Do. fixed, 4i per cent all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 4A per cent all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar all S Wales Gua. 4p. c 16 Do. do. 44 p. c.... all Stockton and Dar lington, 5 per cent 5 Do. do. do. all Stockton and Hartle pool, guar. 5 p. c. till Ist July, 1856 , 4 Waterfd.kKilk.6p.c. 98 - 102 92 - 98 6 = ii 51 - 61 1 — iP 12t t 22 24 s. ••• 20 100 i I 35 Si I St. 25 30 20 1 Business this day. 501 10St 50 50 ' 25 52i I 12 I 50 73 4 124 St. 87 St. 25 'TI 70i 1 2; 1041 5 41 98i 71 $ 21k 201 110 5 67i 6t 7 ht. St, 481 9 St. 31 I 10 6; 73i 2i 50i 1 xd l5O 58 7 i I 25 20 20 20 25 134 13 60 -- 65 ...xd l .13 115 .06 - 108 99 - 101 6-64 96 -- 98 90 -- 92 92 -- 94 10 -- 11 16 -- 17 10 -- 101 71 -- 73 18 -- 19 9 -- 91 131 -- 141 1t -- id 134 136 ••• ...." MI 2j- 3i) 10i -- 11 i -- iP .34 136 lh id fp7 -90 104 - 106 101 - 103 83 - 91 4 - Si .. ... 1 id‘ 100 - 108 12 - i 3 - 14 par 22} -22 i 15 18 • -,..• Pld i '2 MINES. all A.gua Fria . . all Anglo Austrin. Gold all Anglo Californian 6 Australian all Australian Cordillera all Australian Freehold. all Ave Maria . all Baden (Gd.Dachy of)' all Bl9enarvon Iron and Coal .3.5 British Iron -5 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm all Do. Cocacs & Cuiada 15 Do. St. John Donley Carsons's Cm (lc 0 Clarendon 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 clo Fortuna all General all Gt.NuggetVeinßeg. 4 Great Polgooth . all Liberty all Linares all Niariquita 9 Hexican&S.Americn. all New Granada all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co.._ all Nouveau Monde all Pontgiband Silver Lead MM. & Smelt. 1 Port Philip all Quartz Rock all Rbymney Iron all Do. New 11i Santiago de Cuba all South Australian 7A Tin Croft... all United Mexican all Waller all West Mariposa 12s. Worthing Mining of Australia all Yuba MIS I all Aubin Coal and Iron 176 Australian Agricult. 4 Australsn.Pcific.Mail all Australia. Royal Mail 51 Berlin Water Works 40 Brit. American Land 1 Brit. dt Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co 323 Canada 100 Canada Gov. 6 p. ct Jau. and July 1 all Crystal Palace all Crystal Pal. of France 5 Eastern Stcam 21 ElectricTelegraph(A) all Electric Teleg. of Ir. 14 Gen. Steam Navigat all General Screw Steam 10 Irish Beetroot Sugar 10 Magdalena St. Navig. all Mediterau. Elec. Tel all Nat. Pat. Steam Fue 5 Netherlands Land._ 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter. Steam Navigat. Co. all N. B. Australasian... 12? ! Nrth.ofEuropeSteam all Peel Er. Ld. & Marl. all Peninsular& Oriental 45 Do. Do. all Portland Iron Co 60 Royal Mail Steam all Scot. Austral. Invest. all South Austral. Land a ll Submo.r. Telegraph.. all Do. Registered. Tom pioupie pluid - 11 -:11 - A 5 - 7 64 - 74 24 - 3 4 - 2 32 - 34 - 45 - 47 50 -51 1 - 3 P 14 - 16 1 1 2 - ig 'i -=1 ••• 9i - g 15i - 16 23 - 25 6 - 1 4l 11 - 1 4 1 - 3 2i - 8 ... • ... ...... •i ••• - • • • 34 - 36 ii =-- ia ili = liii _C9 - 109; 21 - 2i is i 7 ~ - ~~ .. i ..... •• • - i 2A - 3 2 - 2i 13- 33 1 4 1 lAla i pm i 1091 21 i 161 i 2 i 654 4i 60i THE MEETING OF PARLIAMENT, We understand that the following letter has been addressed to those members of the House of Commons who usually support the Government : " Council Office, Nov. 28, 1854. " Sir,—The meeting of Parliament having been fixed for Tuesday, the 12th of December, on account of urgent".public business, I earnestly request your attend. ance on that day. " I have the honour to be your faithful servant, " J. RUSSELL." MONEY ORDER OFFICES. General Post-office, December, 1854. On the Ist December minor money order offices will be opened at the undermentioned planes in Scotland : Head Office (when the Office itself is not a Head Office). Lanark. Ayr. Stirling. County. Carluke Daltnellington ... Ayr ... Kippen On the Ist December the undermentioned major money order offices in Ireland will be reduced to minor offices : Head Office (when County. the Office itself is r not a Head Office). Glemarre An Larne. Holly wood Don Belfast. Loughgall Lowtherstowu ... Fermanagh Enniskillen. Raphoo • Donegal The post-office at \Vooler, formerly under Belford, is now a sub-office to Alnwick. 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, Nov. 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 premises, enters also in a book all the work done and sums paid him. " Caa, 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, ArBIN CHAPPIIII. "Thomas Keogh, Esq., Inland Revenue, Somerset-ouse." "Inland Revenue, Somerset-house, London, Nev. 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 tat receipt stamps are required in both the cases therein submitted.—l am, sir, your obedient ser vant, " THOMAS KBOGII. " Mr. Aubin Chappuis." MAICKET NEWS-(THIS 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 meals 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. The demand ruled heavy, at a decline of quite 6d. per quarter. Beans, peas, and flour commanded very little attention. Wheat. 2,180 ♦AAIYALY TlllB WEER. Barley. Malt. 4,460 3,210 Knglish .. Irish •• •• Foreign .. Oats. Flour. 2,310 t , 730 7,190 9,220 , 470 acks, 700 brla, 4,540 1 2,1-70 cRnifINAL COURT—(THIS DAY.) OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron Alderson.) 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 the judgment of the Court. The learned judge said it was a very bad offence, and he sentenced the prisoner to be transported for fifteen years. NEW COURT. (Before the Recorder.) THE PLATE ROBBERY AT SIR HYDE PARKER'S. Isaac Hart, a JIM, clothes dealer, was indicted for receiving a quantity of stolen plate, valued at 2401., the property of General Eden, well knowing it to have been stolen. Mr. Bodkin prosecuted, and Mr. P.trry 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 fa►nily.were from their town residence in Onslow-squaro, and he stole the whole of the plate, being aided in the act by Crossley, to whose house all the plate was taken. 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 plate - was taken from General Eden's. Not any of the plate bad been recovered. The jury had not returned their verdict when we went to press. 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. Mulch cows were very dull, at from 14/. to IV. each ; including their small calf. Per Bibs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 Bto 3 10 Second quality—. 4 0 4 4 Prime large oxen 4 6 410 Prime Scots, &c. 5 0 5 2 Inferior Sheep ...3 8 310 Seem', quality ...4 0 4 2 Prime crsc.-wiled.4 4 4 8 s. d. s d. Prime Southdown 410 5 0 Large erse. calves 4 2 5 • Prime small d 0... 5 2 5 6 Large hogs 3 4 4 4 Small porkers 4 $ 5 0 'uckliugcalves ..22 0 29 0 uarter old pigs 24 0 28 0 TOTAL SUPPLY. FOBEIGN SUPPLY. Beit.6lB ..•• • • 1,030 Sheep , • • 3,740 CHlyas .• ••• • • .•.• • • 232 piss .• •• •• •• •• •• •••• 394 Beasts • • • • 0 • • • Sheep ........ ...... . 360 Calves.••• •. P1g5............ LEADENHALL. ti the trade ruled less active the carcase. S. 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 NEWGATE AND The supplies were good, a as follows : Per Sibs by s. d. s. d. Beef, inforior 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 BOROUGH 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, 15/ 108 to 211 Os ; Weald of Kent ditto, 151 Os to 16110 s; Sussex ditto, 14114 s to 15110 s per cwt. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DIY.) LONDON, Dec. I.—Wind this day at Noon, W. ; fresh breeze, with fine weather. BAMSGATE, Nov. 30.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Ora, from Newcastle, for Malaga; Conference, Swansea, for Havre, leak. SHEERNESS, Nov. 30.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Con stantia, from Sundswall, assisted in with loss of anchors and chains. PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 30.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived— Cumberland (151, steam-transport), from London, for the Black Sea. S.W. Arrived—Tho r , PLYMOUTH Nov. 30.—Wind, - vr from Monte Video; Princess Royal, Q . uebec ; Emab, Mar tinique, for Falmouth; William and Edward, Cardiff, for Lisbon. FALMOUTH, Nov. 30.—Wind, W. Arrived—Amanda, from _Rio de Janeiro ; Quest, from Alexandria. Sailed— E. D. T., for Loudon ; David and Martha, do. OFF DOVER, Nov. 30.—Archimedes, from Charente Essex (s), London, for the Westward. COWES, Nov. 30.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Arthur, from Memel. Sailed—Lisetto, for Hamburgh. BRIDGWATER, Nov. 30.—Arrivod—Clifton Hall, from Quebec ; Providence,Dantzic. OFF THE N ORTH FORELAND, Nov. 30.—Alcido, from Youghal, with loss of anchor and chain. BRISTOL, Nov. 30.—Wind, S.W. Arrived —Zenobia, from Lisb on ; James Dalry, Africa ; Stedfast, do. ; Chal lenge, Prince Edward's Island ; Creole, Newfoundland. GLOUCESTER, Nov. 29.—Arrived —X. Y. Z., from Que bec ; Heinrich, Antwerp. MILFORD, Nov. 30.—Wind, W Arrived—Naomi, from Swansea, for Rio Janeiro. LOWESTOFT, Nov. 30.—The Alliance, of St. Yeast, grounded this afternoon on the Holm Srnd, and remains. SUNDERLAND, Nov. 30.—Wind, W.S .W. Arrived— Robert Watson, from Quebec ; Hope, Miramichi. SHIELDS, 9.—Wind, W. Arrived—Helios, from Quebec. Nov.* HULL, Nov. 30.—Wind, W.N.W. Arrived—Sylph, from Memel ' • Seagull (s), Rotterdam ; Ocean Q ueen (s), do. S a il e d —Marip Christina, for Naples ; Humber (s), Konigsberg. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAM.) LIVERPOOL, Friday, 10.18 a.m. Wind, N.N.W. ; fresh. Arrived—Cazandria, from Miramichi ; Egbertns, Dant sic ' • Dolores, St. Michael's ; Centurion, New York ; Wash ington, New York; Evangeline, New Orleans; Lotty Leigh,. Africa ; White Mouse, Faro ; Express, Honduras ; White Star, St. John's, New Brunswick. Off—Margaret Deane, Maceio ; Windsor Castle, Quebec. BEAUMARIS, Dec. 1. Put in.—The barques Infanta and Tudor. DUBLIN, Nov. 30. Arrived.—Mary Anne Newett and Angela, from Prince Edward's Island. QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 30. Arrived.—Keepsake, '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, C.D., Port Neuf ; Mahon, Memel ; Hedvig 'Tads, Umea ; Maria, Leghorn ; J. Black, Memel ; In gram, Denia ; Eden, Bombay ; Jane, St. Michael's ; Joseph Earle, Quebec; Batavier, steamer, Rotterdam. Arrived, Dec. I.—Columbine, steamer, from Rotterdam; Countess of Lonsdale, Hamburg ; Gotherborg, steamer, Plainer°. DEAL, Friday, 9 a.m. Wind, W.N.W. ; moderate, and fine. Anchored.—Danish schooner Fieles, from Newcastle ff Messina. An American ship, supposed the Hendrick Hudson, weighing for the river, having anchored during the night The following 11 regiments of militia will be imma,i ately called out for permanent service :—The Cornwall Rangers, the North Gloucester, the South Gloucester, the Hereford, the West Kent, the North Lincoln, the West Norfolk, the 3d Staffordshire, the Ist Surrey, the 2 d War wick, and the Montgomery regiments. With the regi ments already doing garrison duty, and those which we some days since stated were to be called out, the total number of militia regiments on service will b e 61 . W e have reason to believe that it is not intended, nor in deed, owing to the condition of most of the remaining regiments, is it possible, materially to increase their number. MEETING AT MANCHESTER OF THE FRIENDS 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 Athenaeum. The room in which the meeting took place was profusely decorated with the flags of England, Francs, Turkey, and Poland. Mr. ABSOLOY WATKIA 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- ,e to the Poles, but he was of opinion that our Go vernment would have acted more wisely if they had raised Poland and Hungary, instead of waiting for Austria. After an address from M. Labentowica, a Polish re fuge% M. ZARMOREME; 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 en muse, 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 publio meeting was held in the Lecture-room, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, on Wednesday evening, "to com memorate the Polish Revolntion of 1830, and to give unmistakeable expression to the opinion and resolution of the people of Newcastle and Gateshead in rapport of the immediate restoration of Poland's independence." Mr. William Cook, of Gateshead, presided. The room was densely crowded in every part. On Wednesday last, the Poles in Brussels' celebrated the anniversary of 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. TSB 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 capacity for further active employment. In fact, the act " knoweth him not" unless Le can comply with the one essential condition that he shall be 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 gees on paying his contributions" for five-and forty years, when, although arrived at the mature age of 05, he is still tolerably bale 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 his 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 ? Nire 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 pnt this case for the sake of illustrating the injustice of the odious Superannuation Act, without for one moment believing that any official employe will really be subjected to its provisions for the lengthened period referred to. On the contrary, our firm convic tion is that it must be soou erased from the statute-book, and vanish to that limbo where many a piece of ill- j udged legislation has gone before. So long, however, as it retains its rapacious hold on the public service, whose 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, ho 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 be 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 negligence of others, he had his remedy at law, and exemplary damages were given as a sort of salve for his broken limbs ; while, if owing to the same negli gence' he had the misfortune to lose his life , t he law al lowed no remedy. Lord Campbell's Act; however, as railway companies know to their cost, has set this nat 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 hint, 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 I 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 f ew 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 or , as this LIVERPOOL, 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 pn 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 1,2001. As the council have no funds they may possibly raise it on security of the borough rate, or a few speculative persons uaay pur• okaeo it Di I II profitable inveetnaeut. 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 hne, 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 regiments. The 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 4Sth Regiment, at present in Tynemouth garrison and iu Sunderland barracks, have 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 Wednes lay 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 ii;th 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 aocepted 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 'timber 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 Cleokheaton, Heckraondwicke, aid neighbourhood, for no less than 30,000 heavy blankets for the array in the Crimea. The whole were to bo ready in the short space of 14 days. DUBLIN, No►. 30.—Volunteering from the English militia regitaents into tbe 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 Express. The Cunard 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. INDIA-RUBBER BLANKETS iron TIM TBooll.—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 season 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 Castle, Kerry, and com manded the Grenadier company of his regiment. The British Queen screw steamer, which arrived at Falmouth on Tuesday, short of fuel, on her voyage frora 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 lsry, 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 Ind been 15 days from Gibraltar, having expended her coal and met with ad verse winds and weather. FRENCH UNIFORMS.—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 qual fv. 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 Chasseurs 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 jourrier du Havre of the 28th ult —" The splendid English steamer New York came into harbour today 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 Crimea." We read in the Message?. de Bayonne of the 28th ul —" 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 ciated for the last three years by our population, marched out of the town crying, 'To Sebastopol!' 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 ten 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." THZ "ENTENTE CORDIALE " AT GEELONG.—A. French phalanx marched in the procession of the inhabitants of Geelong, when On the 15th of August last they went out to meet Sir Charles Hotham the new Lieutenant- Governorof Victoria. M. Prceschel, a leading French esicent, in an address issued a few days 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 Briti s h b anner , as it d oes a t this moment in other lands, and thus, in pod and sincere friendship, unite in saluting the representative of her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain. SUICIDE BY STRYCHNIICE.—On Tuesday, at the Bell Hotel, Bristol, Mr. Henry S. Parker, an innkeeper, re siding in Birmingham, terminated his 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 c ircumstances. Yesterday (Wednesday) afternoon an inquest was held upon the body before Mr. J. B. Grindon, the city coro ner, and a respectable jury, and a verdict of "Temporary insanity " was returned. A SHOAL OF WHALES IN THA RIVER.—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 shoal 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 the town and Tilbury Fort. They proceeded up as far as off Rosherville, then reversed their course, having come in contact with two steamers coining d own 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 b e from 8 to 10 feet in l e n gth , 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 watermen and fishermen averred, had never before been obse r v e d. One of the largest of them, from his plunges out of and on the surface of the water and the constant lashing of his tail after one of the steamers passed through the shoal, was supposed to have been struck by one of the steamer's paddles. He, however, contrived to overtake his companions, and, followed by a couple of boats that put off, he joined them, and all took their departure ' dna the river. PUBLIC OPINION IN ENGLAND. (From. the Siecle.) The spectacle which England now presents will, we think, remain in history as a lesson full of force and authority for the conduct of States. Look at that coun try, which has been said to be only one of ahopkeers ; it enjoys liberty, and that which has made it so great as a commercial nation has the privilege of suddenly renderp ing it as heroic and chivalrous . as a ballad of the old clans. It would appear that the heart of every English man has only one wish, and that an ardent one—victory, complete victory. The war cry of the Greys and Ennis killens comes forth from every breast. The journals 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 more than powder ; they breathe forth thesnost undaunted patriotism : they are almost as overpowering as the charges of Scarlett and of Lord Cardigan. It may be comprehended in reading them that it is not only the English Govern ment that makes war-- it is the nation—artisans, manu facturers, great lords, and princes, all are engaged in the same intoxication of combats. The hurrah for Old England nowhere meets a dissentient voice. E ven th e Stock Exchange of London, that famous- speculative Bourse, appears to think, at the hour of quoting its Con , sots, of the number of millions of rentes fighting at the head of the English troops in the 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 iliutration 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 troops, and fresh supplies of money wanted ? The English Government 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 ; she must triumph. Sales populi Su prema less / What strength this unanimity gives to a Government; instead of having to stimulate, it has only to direct and moderate. 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. WO have said that this oountry 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 critielsing 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 I 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 I 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 ! 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 notavow it Why should they be less celebrated ? TheFren ch 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 sacred 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. How 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, aid 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 min chief ; it has been desired that it should lose its sound ing voice, its prestige similar to the eclat of the sun, its quos ego forming and arresting storms. The journalist-- formerly the man of the moment and of enthusiassa—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 rev i 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 ? 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. THE BATTLE OF INKERMAN. (Front the Debate.) The battle of Inkermarin. and the grave conse quences which a success of the Russian army might have had fur the siege of Sebastopol appear to us to merit serious rtfiections. We have no need to recApi- Lnlate the details of this terrible affair ; we have already riven them at length, with all their picturesque features, from English and French letters flora 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 in a bloody 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 men. They attempted nothing less than to cause the raising of the siege of Sebastopol—such was the formal order of the Czar, and the plan was for a moment on 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 siege, 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 nobl e emu l a ti on an d t h e per f ect frater nity in arms which prevails between them, appear to have rendered them invincible. The Debats goes on to state that the plan of the Rus sians, which, it says, was prepared by the 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 . o 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 liatnieli. The Debats then says that in execu tion of this plan the height to the right of the English 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 : " 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 got possession of it, hastened to place in battery 42 guns, which did so muc h h arm t o our allies. We doubt not that since the battle the English have properly for tified this important height. When we blame the neg ligence of their engineers in this respect, on account of the grave consequences which it bad, and which might have become still snore fatal, our blame is far less severe than that of the English themselves. Oar readers may remember the bitter complaints made on this subject by who appears well t v l e te rse c d or in re n sp n o li n t d ar e y nt o post necessary 'flea for our safety,' said he, 'we had only a weak re poefrattihoens o perations —`ln a a of defence, in spite of and no su ffi cient w ork. of d of the reiterated representations Genera l Lacy Evans. We did not give a blow with a p ick-axe, nor remo ve a s h o velful) of earth — it was ooasidered unneces sary. heavy responsibility weighs on those whose in •• difference caused them to d i sdain to take precautions which would have preserved so many precious lives, which ware sacrificed to preserve ns from a great disas ter. Entrenchments in the field have an importance and utility which every one understands ; but ix order to fulfil their object they must present to the enemy an obstacle no less difficult to take by escalade than to knock down by cannon. A good plan, well flanked and well adapted to the ground, does not suffice ; the para pets must be strong, the fosses d eep, an d the 'orgs of the works solidly palissaded. When a detachment 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 open field will take to flight, or will succumb in despair, because a fortified h . 1 • post, on Vt. le lit had the right to 'mount, failed it at. the moment of combat. The moral effect produced by such things should be take* into serious consideration by the Generals, whose troops have to de fend field fortifications destined to protect oamps in the rear. lf 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 redoubts of Ealablava in the affair of the 25th October, and a second example of it was seen during the first few hours of the battle of hkerman." * Many persons suppose that the name of Inkerman is a Gemini' word, but it is in reality a Titrkisk ono, and signifies lower town. CONSECRATION OF Two BISHOPS. — 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 ill the pariah ciairch of St, ALarls 4461wthe I :Id. ` 771 8 Pf i THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER l, 1854. 108.1 20 101J3 1041 106 100} 10 71 1 35 i 33 a