The Sun. — London, England, 1854-03-24 00:00:00

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Letters from Constantinople state that the tri partite treaty between the Porte and England and France was signed on the 12th at Constantinople. From Beyrout, March 6, we learn that the French steamer Serieuse was missing. It is not certain, says the Times Paris correspon dent, writing yesterday at 6 p.m., that the formal reply of the Emperor of Russia to the Anglo- French ultimatum has as yet been received here. What that answer will be, however, is not doubted. It does nof much matter after all whether the an swer has been received or not, as the silence of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg beyond the time allowed for a, reply will be considered as a refusal, and it is pro))able that the Governments are quite as well avirere of the nature of it as if they already had it in their possession. The end of this month will probably be the legal period of the opening of hos ti'lities. The Black Sea will be practicable about the 15th April, and serious operations on a large scale can scarcely commence before that period, un lcss the season become advanced earlier than usual. GERMAN POWERS. The Paris correspondent of the Morning Chro teiolc, in his letter dated yesterday, says :—" I 'understand that on the 15th of the present month couriers were sent off simultaneously from Paris and London, calling upon Austria to join England and France in carrying into execution against Russia the protocol agreed to some time ago by the representatives of the four Powers at Vienna. Yesterday the French Government received de spatches from Vienna, with the answer of the Austrian Government. It appears that the Aus trian Government declares that it is ready to sign all the protocols which guarantee the indepen dence and integrity of Turkey, but it refuses to accept any engagement binding itself to act ; and reserves to itself full liberty to do whatever it may consider advisable in the interests of Ger many. This is nearly the same answer as that used by Prussia ; and it is to be feared that at "Vienna Russia triumphs as she has done at Berlin. M. Thouvenel, the director in the Department of Foreign Affairs, has gone to Vienna, and the object of his journey, it is said, is to support the call made on Austria by the French Government. M. Thou- Tenel is expected back in a few days. Letters were received in Paris yesterday, from Berlin, which state that the Prussian Government is greatly alarmed at the popular demonstrations which are in course of organisation in the north of Prussia, for the purpose of welcoming the English and Turkish fleets on their arrival in the Baltic, and of forcing the Prussian Government to take part in the war against Russia. Despatches from Vienna of the 20th, mention that on that day M. Meyendorff, Russian minister at that court, had an audience of the Austrian Em peror, by special request, immediately on the re turn of the latter from Munich. It is asserted that at this interview the Russian minister preferred claims upon Austria of a very important character. THE GREEK INSURRECTION. Advices from the Albanian frontier state that Zavellas has been pr.claimed commander-in-chief of the insurgents. Suli and nearly all the southern maritime districts of Albania have risen. ____ The insurrection extends from one end of the Pindus mountains to the other. From Corfu, March 18, we learn that the lonian Parliament has been prorogued for six months. The exportation of grain has been prohibited. THE BALTIC. A letter dated Kiel, March 19, says the pro bability is that the English fleet will not come precisely to the harbour there, but in the roadstead of Friedrichsart, a small town near the Baltic, with a tolerably strong fortress. During the last revo lutionary war that fortress, as well as the territory on the opposite side, was held by the Schleswig- Holsteiners, whilst the Danish and Russian war steamers were cruising off the mouth of the gulf which runs into Kiel harbour. It is probable that that will be also the main position of the British squadron, particularly if the weather remains favourable. The harbour, however, of Kiel is ample and commodious enough for the entire squadron, and the depth of Water is in many parts from 23 to 36, and even 47 feet. The harbour, moreover, is only two German miles from the Baltic. The forthcoming arrival a the British fleet is the all-engrossing topic of conversation in this town. Numerous persons have arrived to-day from Ham burg by railway, in order to see our blue jackets, and a flag staff is hung out of the tower of St. Ni cholas's church, ready to be hoisted to the top the moment the squadron is perceived. The garrison, now 250 strong, is to be increased by 400 more troops from Jutland, in order, as they say, to en able the authorities to do honour to the British fleet, but possibly also with the view of better main taining public order. The population of Kiel, in cluding the suburbs, is between 15,000 and 16,000. AfterAltona, the capital of Holstein, it is the largest town in that duchy. In Hamburg the good citizens are making prepa rations to give Admiral Napier a brilliant recep tion, in the event of his being induced to pay a visit to that city. From Copenhagen we learn that on the 16th inst. the Speakers of the two Houses repaired to the Palace of Frederiksborg, for the purpose of communicating the address adopted nearly unani mously in each Chamber. Rotwitt, the Speaker of the Lower House, read the document. His Majesty replied that, still holding fast the procla mation of Jan. 28, 1852, he would carefully con sider what steps might now be most useful to the country, and form his resolution accordingly. The Speakers then remained to dine with his Majesty. Numberless reports were afterwards circulated of partial or total changes in the Cabinet, but none had taken place. The King may pos sibly refuse altogether to make any concession to the will and rights of the nation as legally expressed, and may proceed to abolish the Con stitution without further delay. Foreseeing this danger, the Upper House has suddenly and at the last moment adopted a small alteration in the bud get, so that this bill will have to be sent back again to the Lower House for further consideration. The Parliament cannot be dissolved until this measure has been finally adopted—that is, for a week or two, as circumstances may require. As the communication this year between the Swedish mainland and the island of Gothland is a matter of the last importance, the King has ordered a twice-weekly post to be established for the whole of the summer and autumn. A pilot near Westervik, on the Swedish east coast, dis covered by the tube three large men-of-war, which he supposed to be Russians, sailing two or three Swedish miles from Oro. They turned out to sea again, the ice being still hard all along the coast, so that no harbour can be approached. The forces which will shortly be thrown into Gothland amount to 3,000 men, and 9,000 militia ; total amount of guns, 40. The whole of the Swedish army, about 80,000, will be made disposable. An equally additional number can be raised if required. The Grand Duke Constantine, after having exa mined all the military and naval establishments in and near Helsingfors, and been present at a great ball given by the governor, has returned to St. Petersburg. The news in the Flemish papers is, as might be expected, more and more meagre every day. The reported offer to England to subsidise 30,000 Swedish troops in Finland appears not yet to have reached that country. Two English naval officers have been spending some days in Frederikstadt, at the mouth of the Christiania, Fjord. Assisted by four pilots, they have been taking soundings in the. West-Ely, and have fixed upon a secure bay at Lereu, where thirty ships of the line can comfortably be accommo dated. It was here that the Russian man-of-war Borodino lay, some years back. The fortress of Kronan, near Gothenburg, is to be fully armed, and is to receive a garrison of some hundred men ; the same will also take place at Waxholm, near Stockholm. It is reported that the station se lected by the French for their fleet in Norway is the harbour of Bergen. The whole of the western side of the Russian empire, that is, the whole line which is exposed to an enemy's attack, has been put under martial law. And an immense sweep it is on the map, from Archangel in the north to Bessarabia in the south, the whole of Poland being included merely as a parenthesis, and as a province. By the assistance of Heaven, this is the last time Poland will be so treated ; its hour is at hand. Well, the same thing is the case with Finland. An Imperial rescript of a dozen lines has at one blow annihilated all law in that duchy, declared the whole land in a state of siege, and proclaimed the governor-general to be invested with absolute and dictatorial powers. THE WAR ON THE DANUBE . A letter from Shumla, dated March 5, says In the night between the Ist and 2d March the Russians attacked, with a considerable force, the battery placed by Omer Pasha at Podbashi, in order to check the passage of the Russian vessels on the Danube. Four companies of Turks were immediately ordered to attack them by Ibrahim Pasha, serving under the orders of Mustapha Pasha, who commands the right wing of the Turkish army in the Dobrudscha. The object of the Russians was to spike the cannon and destroy the works, but in this they were hin dered by the vivacity of the Turkish attack, so that after half an hour's engagement they were all obliged to take to take to their heels on board the ships, in order to avoid being driven into the Danube. In this affair the Turkish loss was 10 killed and 13 wounded. 80 Russian dead bodies were found in the morning, and as many were drowned. The Russian loss must have ex ceeded 100. At Sistow an insignificant affair had taken place. The Russians having attempted to make themselves masters of an island were repulsed, the Turks hav ing lost one man ; the Russian loss also small. THE WAR IN ASIA. The following is from the Times correspondent, dated Erzeroum, Feb. 12 : " After a most tedious and difficult journey of 11 days, owing to the accumulation of snow, and the bad state of what they call roads, but which are mere constantly varying tracks, I arrived here the day before yesterday. I left Trebizond with Major Bonfanti, an intelligent young American in the Turkish service, at 11 a.m. of the 31st of January, with five horses and two gentlemen who joined us, also with five, mak ing ten, the Caterjee having agreed to take me to Erzeroum in eight days, Inshalla," please God.' Kair-eddin Pasha, the Minister of Police at Constantinople, proceeding to Anatolia on a special mission of inquiry into military and civil affairs (to whom I was introduced the day after my arrival at Trebi zond, and who asked me to join his party), preceded us by three hours. From tne number of his attendants and fol lowers we thought it better to keep a day in his rear, fearful of coming badly off for accommodation and pro visions in the khans and villages in which he would stop. Our route was at first southerly, crossing a high hill, and then descending into valleysr well cultivated, with cattle grazing in extensive meadows, the soil being of a black peaty colour. After a six hours' ride (about 22 miles), we arrived at Jevislich, a very small village, at 6 p.m., our baggage an hour later. The khan and the few houses were nearly akl occupied by the Pasha and his suite and attendants, two Polish Generals being in the number of the former, one named General Brianski, or Asian Pasha (the Lion), and the other General Besciauonski, or Schahin Pasha (the Eagle), for every European in the Turkish service is obliged to adopt a Turkish name. On the road we overtook a caravan of 200 horses, carrying bales of Manchester cotton goods, two large bales to each horse ; these cotton cloths are all white, and when they arrive at Teheran are there stamped in various colours, and passed into the Russian dominions as of Persian manufacture. " Feb. I.—We started at eight a.m., the baggage an hour earlier, and in about two hours came to the first layer of snow and some small glaciers, the country and scenery being very like that of Switzerland, passing occasionally through forests of beech and fir, with the river Dayermendere on our left, and arrived at Yelkeopee at half-past 2 in a snow storm, which compelled us to stop. " - Feb. 2.—Started at half-past 7, passing through a forest of firs and splendid beech trees for about an hour, always as cending, the snow becoming deeper, and the cold increasing. Thermoter 8 deg. Fahrenheit. About 10 came to one of the highest and most difficult mountains we shall have to pass. It was without a tree or a shrub—the snow occasionally up to the horses' girths; the half-disclosed track made by the caravans (mostly Persian) was the only mode by which we could make our way. At places where the snow was thin the ice lay under, and we were obliged to dismout andilead our horses with the greatest care, notwithstand ing which we had several falls, and the track leading by chasms several hundred feet deep rendered our course most dangerous. We saw several horses from a leading caravan, fall over, and the remains of several poor animals were lying down in the gorges, on which vultures and crows were prey ing. At a khan we encountered the harem of Abdi Pasha, the deposed Pasha of Kars ; and about an hour after the Pa sha himself and his suite, on his way to Constantinople. Ar rived at Ardasser at 4 p.m., having for the two previous hours skirted the river of the same name." The writer then gives a daily account of the events of his journey, which chiefly relates to the difficulty of travelling over the snow-clad country, and the wretched accommoda tion of the khans or inns. We give only the following : " Thursday, Feb. 9.—lt had snowed in the night, but, not withstanding the Bey's advice, we determined to proceed, so at 9 a.m. we started, having the ammunition caravans in ad vance to track and clear the way over the Raias-dah, or White Mountain, which in the usual winter months takes three hours to cross ; but this day we were nearly five hours in doing it, forcing our way at times through snow above the horses backs, slipping and falling in all direc tions, the wind blowing the drift into our faces ; my eyes be came much inflamed. About 2 p.m., debouched upon an im mense plain, about two miles broad, backed by hills, and extending for three-and-a-half hours' ride to Baicheek, which we reached at half-past 5. Found three Persian caravans here, two on their way to Erzeroum, the other to Trebi zond, amounting to upwards of 800 horses, which had been stopping for two days, having lost several men and horses in the snow. Bodies of the latter we often saw along our route, half devoured by birds andjackalls. This passage of caravans is the chief support of the inhabitants of the villages, most of them dividing their single ground rooms into two portions, one fourth, a little raised, for travellers, and the remainder for cattle, which are invariably fed with barley and chopped straw. No bedding is made for them; they stand and lie down on their own dry pulverized dung. Wood is scarce in this part of the country, and dried cowdung is used as a substitute. " Friday, Feb. 10.—Having allowed the Erzeroum Persian caravans of more than 500 horses, and our ammunition one of 200, to move off to form a track, we started at eight a.m. Our route was over one continued plain, covered with snow five and six feet deep, in which, from a thick drift, we often deviated from the right course. Occasionally, when the sun shone out and dispersed the thick mist, the scene on looking back (for we generally kept well ahead) was curious and animated ; nearly 800 horses, loaded with goods and bag gage of all kinds, each horse keeping a short dis tance from the preceding one, and men being between every ten or twelve, shouting and hallooing to make them move on, lengthened the winding line to such a degree, that at one period when the atmosphere was quite clear I calculated it to be full three miles in extent. At length at half-past two we reached Erzeroum, after a tedious and hazardous journey of 11 days, sometimes performed (with post horses and baggage) in five or six days, in bad weather in eight, and rarely extending to the time we were compelled to take ; but this is the worst month for travelling in these elevated and sterile regions, February having the collected snow of the three preceding months, still falling, and without any chance of a thaw till the end of next month. Haireddin Pasha, with all his efforts and the aid rendered him, ar rived only two days before us. Erzeroum is at present full of infantry, 10,000 in number ; and, as they occupy all the khans and public buildings, we found the greatest difficulty in procuring a small room to rest our wearied limbs in. I was frostbitten in my fingers and one side of my face, and with difficulty, after half-an-heur's rubbing, was circulation restored ; the skin of my face all blistered, and my eyes so inflamed and painful that it is with difficulty I have been able to pen this scrawl. So intense is the cold at and near Kars that day and night sentries are frequently frozen to death at their posts. There has been no news of any in terest from Kars for some time past, the communication being nearly stopped, and nothing is expected to take place till the spring. General Guyon, is, however, hard at work, organizing and disciplining that portion of the army intrusted to him with the greatest zeal and activity. He is named Koorschid Pasha, or Pasha of the Sun. The last ac counts, to the 4th, brought in last night, state that there are many sick. " Erzeroum is 6,200 feet above the level of the sea, and (as the crow flies) 180 miles from Trebizond, but we must have zigzagged at least 220, passing nearly the whole way along the sierra mountains, and not across them." FRANCE. It was reported yesterday in Paris in diplomatic circles that the Momiteur will publish a despatch from General de Castelbajac, giving an account of the overtures made by Russia to France by the Emperor Nicholas, similar to those made by that monarch to Sir Hamilton Seymour, and now so fully exposed in the last papers laid before Par liament. We give in extenso the article published in the Moniteur upon the " Secret Correspondence" with Russia, published by the English Government : " We have published the documents respecting the overtures made to the English Government by Russia during the first portion of last year. The views of the latter Power are now confirmed by official proofs emanating from the Russian Chancellerie, and from the private Cabinet of the Emperor Nicholas, and it is now sufficiently demonstrated that the French Government was justified in characterising the demonstrations made under the pretext of protecting the sanctuaries of Palestine as de signs dangerous for Turkey and for Europe. It is now known with what precision of language the English Cabinet refused to join with Russia in any attempt to make a partition of the Ottoman empire, and it is not necessary for us to indicate whi c h o f the two Govern ments has the advantage in this correspondence. If there be in the propositions thus repudiated by England Proofs of excessive hardihood, there are also instances of forgetfulness which will excite surprise. Thu Emperor of Russia remodels the map of Europe without mention ing Prussia, and without taking any account of Austria. It has been seen in what terms that Sovereign replies to the expressions ofastonishment which the silence preserved respecting the latter Power inspired the English Ministry. It has indeed been asked what part Austria could take when Russia appropriates to herself Moldavia, Walla chia, Bulgaria, and Servia. Equal attention has been paid to what concerns Greece, to which country the Emperor Nicholas interdicts not only the restoration of the Byzantine empire, but 'all extension of territory calculated to render it a powerful empire.' " As to the Government of the Emperor Napoleon, there is but one observation to make upon the studied endeavour of Russia to leave it out of the question in her plans of territorial remodification—which is, that Russia came back to the French Government after having failed in London, and that France in her turn had to decline advances more or less direct, which are not without re semblance to those which were first made to England." The marriage of Prince Joachim Murat with the Princess Wagram, grand-daughter of Marshal Ber thier, was celebrated yesterday in the Chapel of the Tuilleries, in presence of the Emperor and Empress, Princes Jerome and Napoleon, Princess Mathilde, and the Grand Duchess of Baden. The ceremony was performed by the Bishop of Nancy, Chaplain of the Palace. At the Bourse the Turkish l oan was spoken of as about to be negotiated by a London banking house. The amount to be taken was said to be 57 millions of francs, 6 per cent., at 85, reimbur sable in fifteen yearly payments. The Three per Cents. opened yesterday at 64f. 90c., and fell to 64f. 50c., the closing price for the end of the month. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 90f. 80c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 1,076 f. 25c. ; Rouen, 850 f. ; Havre, 442 f. 50c. ; Great Northern, 725 f. ;. Strasburg, 705 f. ; New shares, 537 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 800 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 658 f. 75c. ; Western of France, 577 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux to Cette, 520 f. ; Great Cen tral of France, 415 f. ; Lyons to Geneva, 435 f. ; Bank of Credit Mobilier, 535 f SPAIN. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 18th inst. A Cabinet Council was held the evening before, under the presidency of the Queen ; but it does not appear that any important resolution was adopted at it. The Marquis de Miraflores had left for Seville. M. Isturitz was daily expected. The Three per Cents. were done at 35 ; the New Three per Cents., at 18.60 ; the Debt of the Firs Class, at 8.10 ; and that of the Second, at 4.30. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) SHARE MARK .ETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH A.A.ILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Cloak:it Prices Beninese dotte esy to:da.T. this day. THE SUN, LON'DON, FRIDAY ITVENING, MARCH 24, 1854. I Paid.' Leasing Compans. Closing Prices yesterday. Business this day. CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to this morning's market, coastwise and by land carriage, wore very mode rate; but there was several of Monday's unsold samples on offer. Owing to the immense imports of foreign, the de mand for all kinds of wheat of home produce was heavy in the extreme. To have effected sales is to 2s per quarter less money must have been accepted. Foreign wheat, the show of which was large, ruled ex cessively dull, and most kinds were offering at a further decline of 2s per quarter. Floating cargoes were quite neglected. We had a dull inquiry for barley, at is per quarter less money. Malt was offering at is per quarter decline. The oat trade was heavy, at 6d to is per quarter below Monday's rates. In beans, peas, and flour next to nothing was doing. Wheat. 1,220 ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Barley. I Malt. I Oats. I Flour. 3,790 / 7,680 1,710 I 1,056 2,820 78,640 Englien .. Irish .. Foreign .. 90,290 I 19,4710 SMITHFIELD. 30 eke 2,670 brl The supply of beasts in to-day's market was extensive, and in but middling condition. On the whole, the demand for most breeds ruled steady, at Monday's advance in the quotations. We were but moderately supplied with sheep, which moved off steadily, at full prices. Lambs were in good request at 5s 4d to 6s 10c1 per 81bs. The sale for calves was steady, at late rates. In pigs very little was doing. Mulch cows moved off slow including their small calf. Per Slbs to ail s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 6 Second quality.... 3 8 310 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 4 Prime Scots, &c. 4 6 4 8 1 Inferior Sheep ...3 6 3 8 Second quality ...3 10 4 5 Prime crse.-wiled.4 6 4 8 ly, at from 141. to 191. each, ik the offals TOTAL SIMPLY. Beasts .. •..... ...... 1,240 Sheep .• .•• .. • • •• .....• .. 3,100 Calves .. • • .. •• .......... 180 NEWGATE ANI The general demand ruled at very full prices. Per Blbs by s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 3 0 3 4 Do., middling 3 6 3 8 Do., prima large 3 10 4 0 Do., do. small 4 2 4 4 Pork, large 3 4 4 2 s. d. s. d. Prime Southdown 410 5 0 Large crse. calves 4 6 5 2 Prime small d 0... 5 4 5 8 Large hogs 3 0 4 2 Small porkers 4 4 4 8 Suckliugcalves ..22 0 29 0 Quarter old pigs 21 0 27 0 FOZEIGIN SUPPLY. Beasts • • ....... ........ . 310 Ca1ve5.................... 110 ) LEADENHALL. steady. at this market to-day, the carcase. s. d. s. d. Mutton, Inferior 3 2 3 4 Do., middling 3 6 4 0 Do., prime 4 2 4 4 Veal 4 0 5 4 Pork, small 4 4 4 8 BOROUGH HOP. Our market is tolerably steady, for most kinds of hops, the show of which is but moderate, and prices are well supported. This week's imports are 45 bales from Hambro'. Mid and East Kent pockets, 6/. 10s to 121. Os ; Weald of Kent ditto, 61. Os to 71. Os ; Sussex ditto, W. 12s to 61. 103 per cwt. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market for West India has been dull, and reduced prices have been accepted. Barbadoes low to fine grocery realised 33s Gd to 40s, and heavy 32s 6d to 335, being lower. East India has declined 6d per cwt. Mauri tius good and very fine yellow brought 35s 6d to 37s 6d, low to mid 33s 6d to 355, good and fine brown 30s to 335, ord 28s to 295, crystalised low to fine yellow 36s 6d to 395. Privately, a cargo afloat sold at 34s 6d. Bengal went 6d cheaper, viz, very good white Benares at 30s, damp at 31s to 34s Gd, , mid was taken in at 33s to 345. Soft Madras was taken in at 28s to 29s 6d for brown to low yellow, and good yellow sold at 32s.—Foreign--Floating cargoes of Brazil have been inquired for. Pernambuco has been taken ip at 31s 6d to 32s 6d for mid and good brown, and Ma nilla at auction met with no offers. Havannah was taken in for sound at 34s to 36s Gd, but washed brought 32s 6d to 35s for mid brown to mid greyish yellow. COFFEE.—Native Ceylon has been at about 46s to 46s 6d. Plantation has been dull; fine fine ord sold at 55s 6d, fine fine ord and low mid at 53s to 56s 6d, low mid and mid at 55s 6d to 595, good mid at 603 6d, mid and good mid bold colony at 56s to 58s 6d, triage at 43s to 50s, and pea berry at 59s to 66s 6d per cwt. Good waste taken in at 70s to 755. Mocha was taken in at 65s for mid, and at 60s for bold triage ; good ord Bahia sold at 47s to 49s per cwt. CoooA.—Trinidad has been taken in at 34s to 37s for mid and good red, and at 31s to 33s 6d for ord and good ord grey. Grenada partly sold at 30s to 32s 6d for ord grey to mid red. RlCE.—This article is lower : Bengal declined 3d per cwt., good bold yellowish dusty selling at 13s 3d, and mid and good mid 12s to 13s Od.. Madras good pinky realised 12s 3d, and damaged 6s 6d to lls 6d. SPICES.- Singapore mace is lower, mid blood wormy selling at 2s 4d, and mid dark at 2s 6d per lb. African ginger is 6d cheaper, ord and mid rough brought 20s 6d to 22s 6d, and damaged 18s 6d to 225. Nutmegs receded ld per lb ; Singapore realised 2s 8d to 2s 9d for mid bold brown, and 2s 2d to 2s 4d for ord small and shrivelled. Pepper is firm. COTTON.—This article has been at steady rates, but not active. TEA.—The market is heavy. Ord to good oid Congon is about is to is id, mid is ld to is 2d, good ord to mid Souchong is ld to is 2d, good ord Hyson 104 d to is, mid to good mid do 2s to 2s 4d, and Gunpowder is 6d to 3s 6d. SALTPETRE.—This article keeps steady. Bengal has been taken in at 12s to 13s for mid and good mid. The business done is limited. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. on the spot is up to 66s per cwt. HEMP.—Russian clean has touched 681. and 70/. GREEN FRUIT.—The demand for oranges, both in Lon don and at the outports continue good, and this combined with limited arrivals, tends to sustain the prices, three cargoes of St. Michael, sold by Keeling and Hunt, at pub lic sale, went freely at the advanced figure obtained of late. Seville Sours scarce, Lemons improved 2s per case. A better inquiry for nuts, but the high price asked checks all speculation in the article. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, March 24.—Wind this day at Noon, N.N.E. ; strong breeze, and cloudy weather. FALMOUTH, March 23.—Wind, E., moderate. Arrived —Sarah Prinsep, from Rio Grande, for Liverpool ; Ceres, Dram. PORTSMOUTH, March 23.—Wind. E.N.E. Sailed—Earl of Shaftesbury, for Malta. DOVER, March 23.—Arrived—H.M.S. Boscawin, for the Baltic. PLYMOUTH, March 23.—Wind, S.W. Sailed—War Hawk, for London. BRISTOL, March 23.—Wind, N.E. Sailed—Glenelg, for Demerara ; Ann, Alicante ; Phillyra, do. ; Maria, Barbadoes. LOWESTOFT, March 23.—Wind, N.N.E. Arrived— H.M.S. Lightning. SCILLY, March 21.—Arrived—Anne, from Marseilles, for London ; Gazelle, St. Domingo, for Hamburgh. ELSINORE, March 20- A n E ng li s h war steamer (paddle wheel) arrived from the North Sea yesterday afternoon, and passed through the Sound ; she was barque rigged. WEXFORD, March 21.—The Star, from Liverpool to Waterford, laden with salt, came ashore on the rocks East of Camsore Point last night, is full of water, her hull covered at high tide, and she is likely to go to pieces on the first change of wind in a southerly direction; the ma terials are expected to be saved. SHIELDS, March 22.—The Britannia has been stranded near Carril, in a bad position, and was covered at high water ; crew supposed to be drowned. LYMINGTON, March 22.—Tbe Bull, from Poole to Ports mouth, ran on the mud, waterlogged. BRIDLINGTON, March 22.—There have been picked up in this neighbourhood a quantity of small wood, apparently cabin ceiling, and some deck plank ; the stern of a boat, a writing-case, broken ; a bible, written inside o f w hi c h is, " This book belongs to the barque Josephine of Wisbeach ;" a Wesleyan hymn-book, Robert Grain of Lynn supposed written in it, the book scarcely wet ; and 11b. of candles ; but no bodies or vessel. In the writing desk are the in dentures of three boys, all dated 15th Jan., 1854, each bound for five years, and to have 45/. each. Names : James Moss, Francis Dalmella, and Alfred Blandford. Bound to Robert Hogg Buckham ; Charles Collis, 314, Buckingham-street, Middlesex, broker. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LivEnrooz, Friday, 10 a.m. Wind, N.E. ; moderate, and fine Arrived—Star, from Buenos Ayres and Queenstown, with loss of foremast, &c. ; Sidney and Jane, Malta. QUEENSTOWN, March 22. Wind, variable and calm. - Arrived—Amazon, from London, for Bermuda, with convicts ; Gleam, Leghorn, for Liverpool ; Saucy 'Jack, Arcirossan, for Marseilles ; Exhibition, Fowey, for Liver pool. Sailed—Canada, for New York ; Eliza Keith, Cadiz. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Friday, 9.55 a.m. Arrived, 23d—Fredrika Christiana, from Fohr ; Hertia, Sunderland. Arrived, 24th— Superb, from Uddewalla ; Jeanette and Mary, Stettin ; Wilhelmina, Hamburgh ; Emanuel, Copen hagen ; , Adonis (s), Bremen. Sailed—Elbe '65, — for iii;mbur g h ; Earl of 3fulgrave, Galatz ; Alipore, Malta ; Deslandes, West Coast of Africa. THE LATE FIRE IN FLEET - STREET.—Yesterday after noon Mr. Payne, the city coroner, resumed, at the Por tugal Hotel, Fleet-street, the inquiry respecting the circumstances attending the fire which destroyed the premises of Mr. Hall, beershop-keeper, 158, Fleet-street, on the 28th of February last. Several witnesses were examined, and the inquiry lasted nearly five hours, but the evidence did not substantiate a charge against any one. The jury found a verdict, that `The premises, No. 158, Fleet-street, were wilfully set on fire, but there is not sufficient evidence to show by whom." NORRIS'S RAILWAY-CHAIR PATENT.--The mighty and elaborate railway system is likely to obtain an accession of strength and value from application of Mr. Norris's patent chair, which guarantees the most perfect con tinuity to the metals, without disturbing the necessary provision for their expansion. With the desire of sti mulating and satisfying the laudable curiosity of scien tific men, several series of experiments have been made on the permanent way at Walsall, South Staffordshire, with the most unqualified success. The process, although by description apparently complicated and technical, is in practice simple and economical ; and it is far from improbable that it will find its beneficial way over most of our new lines of rail, as well as upon those whose repairs are needed. There is nothing in the practice that prevents its ready adaptation to any exist ing railway, and there are in it so many obvious advan tages, that it may be fairly ranked as one of the boldest practical agencies towards a successfully secure develop ment of our railway economy.--ilforang.papfre Aberdeen . Ambg Nottng. Bost and Eastn. Junct Belfast & Ballymena Birming. Wolverh. & Stour Valley ...... . Birkenhd. Lancsb. Cheshire Juliet Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £20........ Blyth &Tyne original . ' £25 (issd. at £45) Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon , Cork, Black, & Pass. 20 - 22 4i - • •• ....". • 8 - 9 12 -10 14 - 18 - - 91 1352 i - - 144 9 . 11 ... --' • C 1 ° - i r e n ff wl Junction Dublin&BelfastJunc Dundee Perth&Aber dem Junction Do. New East Anglian Do., (.£lB E ei; H) Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A Stock Do., B. Stock 0., New A....., East Lancashire ••• .....-' • 'z = ii 7i - 8 7- i 6 36 - 40 24 - 26 58 - 60 55 - 57 Edinburg] & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Prth. & Dundee Forth & Clyde June. Glasgow & S. Western] Great Northern Stk. Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre.) Great Western Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds 21 87 88 73 75 119 - 121 86 - 90 74 - 74, 88 - 91 . 11 -12 u 11 - 12 p 6O - 614 7 i -- 70 !Do. New Thirds. Lancash. andYorksh Do., Fifths DD. Wst. Riding Um Leeds Northern ••• - ••• 12 - 12 Liv. Crsby.&Southpt London & Blackwall Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. Loud. Bright & S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westn. Do. Fifths 7 71 Par p 96 —9B 96 -96 i ld— id Pa r r 1 76 77 12 11 it 10 9 d Do.lo/.5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths London and S. Westn. Do., £5O Do., £4O •Lnudrry& Coleraine • Lndndrry & Ennisk. _ _ Manch.Shef.& Lineln Do., Man. & Lin. Un Midland 20 - 21 56i - 57 29 - 30 Do. Birmng. & Derby Midid. G. West. (Ira.) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmarket Do. , Bury Extension. Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd. Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor. Norfolk X5l _ d d 2 —2; 6 8 43 46 3# 3id 29 ... 30 8 10 Northn.Counties Un North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., 1- A Deferred ) Do., B Guaranteed i l North London 64 - -7 4 50 - 54 - iP Do. New XlO N. &S. Wstrn. ,Hamp stead, and Oity Jn., North Staffordshire , North Western 6f 6f d 7 74 N. & S. Westrn. June, Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester ..... . Oxford, Worcester,k Wolverhampton „ Portsmouth 27 - 29 Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury dr Bir mg Do. L. dr N. Western Guaranteed St tek.„. Shrewsby. do Herefd. Shrewsby. dt Chester (N. W. Min ;.. Do. Halves,l b Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& D,fully paid up at per cent South Devou South Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun 87 89 53 - 55 57 - 59 65 -- 60 3 -- 2d 154 -- 1 6 7t -- 8 41 1 -- 14 3i 14 -- 13 15 59 60 33 34 3 id 5 Do Staines, Wok &W ok Stockton & Darling. Stockton & liartlepl. Taff Vale . Do. £lO shame. Do. Pref., No. Thames Haven Dock ii = lo and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West West End of London and Crystal Palace West London 144 153 43 - 5 '24 26 .6 all 51s. 100 20 6 - 7 Wimbledn & Croydon York Newctl.&Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase' York & N. Midland 61 62 9.f - 9 5 - 44 -- 45 61 60i lot i i 44i 31 PREFERENCE SHARES. St. 100 Aberdeen St. 100 Do. No. 2,7 p. c. 25 30 Blythaud Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issd. at 501) St. 100 Brie. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 20 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares St. 100 Caledonian £lO 95 •98 15 all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 54 per cent 64 64 Cork &Bandons4p.c 64 all DundeoPerth &Aber deen Junction 36 all EastAnglian (£3los) 6 per cent 3 i 3 5 all Do. (X 5) 7 per cent 4 4i 7 - 2 Do. (.£7 17s) 7p. c 6'i all Eastern Counties Ex tension, sp. c, No. 1 .5 631 all Do. No. 2 . P Pm 10 all Do. New 6 p. c. St. 12i —l3 ix d P Pm 20 all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent .. . 23 24 5 all Do. 51., 10 per cent. 10 all Do. 101. Dabentr.Sh st. 100 East Lancash.6 p. cts. 5 all East and West York shire June. Pref... „. 5 all EdinbPrth.&Dunclee 56 per cent. St. 100 Glasgow& S.Western Guar. 5 per cent..., St. 100 Groat Northn. sp. c. 110 ad St. 100 Do. s p. c. Redeem., d at 10 p. c. prem... 100 105 10 10 Do. 46 p.c. Scrip—. 9g _ 9/ d 10 6 (R.N. of Scot. Ist Pre 64 all Gt, Southn.&Westm. (Ireland) Eighths) 7 8 20 4 Do. 4 per c. Pref. Sh 50 6 Gt. Westn. (Berke & Hants Ex. sp. c) 64 7 St. 100 Do. coy. red. 46 p.c 96 98 St. 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c 9O -- 95 St. 100 Dr, irred. 4p. c 9l —_ 93 16 6 Lan. &York. F. £2 l Id St. 100 Do. 6p. c. Stock 20 13 Leeds N. 6 p. c. No.l 126 9 Do. Qua:ters, 1848 • St. 100 London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c . . St. 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. Si. 50 all Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 St. 100 Do. NevrGuar.6 p. c St. 100 Lon. &N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton 50 5 London &S. Western Con. Thirds 24 —2l 74 7 124 all Londonderry& Color Shares 126 all Londy. &Ennis.6Sh. 114 25 all Man., Shef., & Lin., Shares, No. 1. ... 6 7 10 all Do. New, £lO 9 -- 94 6 4', Do. £6 — bra 123 all Marypt.&Carl.4 p.c 12., all Do. 46 per cent ••• 12. 106 Do ••• St. 100 Mid. Consol.6 p.c.St. St. 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Rirm. 6 per cent 133 135 164 5 Do. Pref. 44 per cent 1k id 10 6 Norfolk Debent ure St. No Do. Pref. 4p. c. Stock ... xd St. 100 Do. 5 p.c. Eat • xd St. 100 Do. 56perct.pref _ x 4 St. 100 Do. Way. Val. sp. c — ad St. 100 North British 20 all North Staffordshire St. 100 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh.£ls, 6 p.c. 95 100 15 15 Do —...p 84 all Scot. Cent. ,New Pref ) 8 all Shrews. &Birm.N.G. 9 —lO 10 all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min), 8 p.c. 164 17 , 10 10 Do. 5 per cent lO 104 25 all South Devon ll —l3 10 L De. fixed, 46 per cent id 1 1.0.6 all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 224 234 23j St. 100 Do. 46per cent. — 20 all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. 17 —l9 25 all Stockton and Dar lington, 4 per cent. 25 5 Do. do. do. • 124 all Stockton and Hartle- < • pool, guar. 5 p. c. , till Ist July, 1856 5 3 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. 2 1 St. 100 York, Newcastle,and Berwick,4 p.c. Pref. 85 90 17 5 Do 3l 3i 25 10 York&N. Midland H. aid 6, Pura ...... ld 2):1 1 4i zd LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. RAILWAYS. 3edford and Bletchley.... Bnckghamsh Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct Do. New , Glstr.& Dn. Fr &Cpl. Dk. Railway Hull & Selby Do. i Shares. Do. 4 Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per ct. Bstn. and Matlock Midcllesbro' & Redcar Niidld.Bradfd Northern and Easternsp.c. Do. 6 per ct. Do. Fixeds p e Prest. & Wyre Do. Shares. Roystn.lz Do. Sh ep th. St Shef. Roth an d Goole g. 5 p.c. S. Staftordsh. Wear Valleygi 6 per cent Do Wilts&Somrst Agua Fria Austrin. Gold Anglo Californian Australasian . Australian Australian Cordillera Australian Freehold Ave Maria Baden (Gd. Duchy of) Blaenarvon Ir. & Coal aritish Austrin. Gold British Iron Brazilian Imp. (issued at £5 pm Do. Cocaes & Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Carson's Creek Clarendon Con. Min Co. of Jamaica._ Cobre Copper Colonial Gold Copiapo Copper Min. of Eng , Do. Pref. 7i p. cent English and Austrin Copper Smeltg. Co General Great Nugget Vein Do. Registered Great Polgooth Liberty Linares Load. &Californ . Gold Quartz Crush. Co Mariquita Mexican&S.Americn New Granada New Linares Mining and Smelting Co Nouveau Monde . Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. do Smelt. Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymney Iron Do. New Santiago de Cuba South Australian rin Croft United Mexican Waller West Granada West Mariposa Worthing Mining of Australia ..... all IYuba all all 15 10i all all all all all 12s. 3 8 2s. PORED Antwerp&Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. June. Beziers to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda, and _ _ Central India,gcrip Central of Italy Charleroi & Erquelin Demerara 12 10 33i all Dijon and Besancon Dutch Rhenish . East Indian Do. Extension Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Grd. Trunk of Canada Do. Debentures Do. do Gt. Central of France Gt. Western of Canada Shares Do. Bonds (Ist is.)'s7 Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Basle Lucca & Pistoja 5 p. c pref Luxembourg Do. (Railway) Do. Pref. Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. et. pref Lyons and Geneva Lyons 6; Mediterran Madras Maria Antonia Do. do. New . Melbourne Dk. & Ry Namur & Liege (with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France ' Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs.) NorwegianTrnnkPref Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds . ...... . Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg ParisCaen & Cherbrg Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and Meuse Do. 5i p. cent. Pref Southern of France St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) West Flanders Do 54 per c. Pref Western of France West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealand JOINT-E' ! Australasia IBlitish Colonial Bank and Loan Company British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China Colonial Commercial of Lond English Scottish ane Australian Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia London and County London Joint Stock Lond. & Westminster National Provincial of England Do. New National of Ireland New South Wales Oriental Bank f Corporation Do. New ... ... . Provincial of Ireland Do. New . . .. . ... Royal Auetraln.Bkg & Gold Imp Co South Australia Union of Australia Do. New .-.- Union of London Aubin Coal and Iron Australian Agricult. Australsn . Pc ifi e . Mail Australu. Royal Mail Berlin Water Works Brit. American Land Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co Canada Crystal Palace po. Now Crystal Pal. of France Eastern Steam Electrit Telegraph(A) Do. (B) Electric Teleg. of Ir Gen. Steam Navigat General Screw Steam Irish Beetzoot Sugar Magdalena St. Navig. Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel Netherlands Land N. S. W. Coal & Inter Steam Navigat. Co N. B. Australasian Do. New 34 2i Nrth. of Europe Steam Peel Br. I.d. & Minrl. Peninsular & Oriental, Do. Do. Portland Iron Co Royal Mail Steam Scot. Austral. Invest. South Austral. Land Submar : Telegraph Do. Registered Van Diemen's Land 5i i z new Si i DEPARTURE OF THE UNITED STATES MAIL.—The steam-ship Baltic sailed yesterday at 4 a.m. from the Mersey for New York, under the command of Capt. Briggs, with the usual mails, 72 passengers, and a l arge aavaluablo cargo of worchbudile oa treight. London & N. West. L. &N. W. Caledon... Gt.Nrthn. Caldonian.l Do Gt. Westn Yk. New. & Berw. Y. & N2id Do D 0.. . S. Eastern' Do Norfolk.. L.& N. W. Midld. Staton & Darlingt. Midland.. E. Count. D 0... L. StN.W &Ln&Yk Do GtNorthn D 0....... Lancash& Yorksh. H.MClean 3tockt. & Darlingt. I GtWestn. MINES. 93 - 95 48 - 50 ii Io too 102 50 52 25 26 13 —13 i 241 255 ..• -... . 24 2ixd oi = ii 55 - 57 xd xd ii :: ifi„ 27 - 29 93 -- 95 ii - 4 - 4 - 1 - ii - 1 - ' - J A - 16 - i - 7 - 4 - 5 l - 2 31 -33 f I- I i 39 - 48 i - 1i 10 - 12 50 - 60 2 - 4 11 - 21 1 11 d 121 54 -- 6 i - i 1 1,5 17 d 1i 1 11) 29 -- 8 10 3 " 43 - 3 d •" _••• "7171 - 34 d 3gd id P ii --- 41 2 - 2tp I= i P _a . 5 3d 4 - 213 -22 i 7 - 9p 14 - -lip 8 14 ... die 6 6i 3} 4 1 11 1 1 1i 3 2 d 1 id 7 - 74 iii -: ii 74 - 83 11i - 12 p 42 -44 33 - 35 27j -28 h - -• Pm ld par ... d 7i 8 ••• -pm **l - 34. - - 6 = i'd BANKS. 73 - 75 ••• -- •• 2 ld li ld 4i 3id 2 lid 38 L 40 44 - 46 •• • • • 62 - 64 - 6i MOUS 34 : : 36 74 : i ii = 65 6t -6., 17, -18 i ••• 1 - 3 ••• - ix& I _ i .a. I - iP - - 11 36 P 34 1 -- ... - ••• p' I a 2 lf #d 1100 100 all all all 60 50 20 20 100 83 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 50 20 lli 10 2 2 100 42 34 all all I , 100 100 - 100 47 17 all 100 171 7i all 100 3i 100 all 51 it le 17, all 10 1 2/ 2s 100 100 100 100 812a1 64 25 50 20 20 20 10 10 26i 131 20 20 12/ 2sl 164, 100 8 100 20 20 20 50 20 40 39 iig I 86i 7 6 7i 73 118 88 741 1 31 6 N i Pt ri i 96 4 96 5 6 lot la i 75a 6 5} 19/ 201 56i i i 441 101 IP 59i IDo.. 7 311 TREATIES BETWEEN RUSSIA AND TUAKEY. to political and territorial treaties between Russia " and Turkey have not been easily accessible to the Eng lish public. Genies of the chief of them have now been Dreg ented to Parliament by the Government, and p zed. 'I, he claim of Russia to a right of surveillance in refe r emue to the Christian religion and its churches in Turkey r ests on the first treaty in this collection, the treaty "of p errdetual peace and friendship," concluded between t; io se two Powers at Kutschouc-Kainardji, upon the ri it bank of the Danube. in July, 1774. This treaty se ti Sled the then boundary between the two countries, le. a' ring Bessarabia to Turkey ; and " the two empires eed to annihilate and leave in an eternal obli vi a: i ail the previous treaties between them." By A .rt icle VII., "the Sublime Porte promised to protect co su stantly the Christian religion and its churches ; and it .1 dso allowed the Ministers of the Imperial Court of R Cassia to make upon all occasions representations, as w ell in favour of the new church at Constantinople, of w hich mention was to be made in Article XI V., as on half of its officiating ministers, promising to take such re presentations into due consideration, as being made by a, sr , nfidential functionary of a neighbouring and sincerely fri, s4ndly power." By Article XIV., "after the manner of ti other powers, permission was given to the High Cc' rt of Russia, in addition to the chapel built in the Mitt . ster's residence, to erect in one of the quarters of Ga latA, in the street called Bey Oglu, a public church of the Gnu k ritual, which should always be under the protec tioi e of the Ministers of that empire, and secure from all coe r cion and outrage." By Article VIII., Russian sul •j ects were to have full liberty to visit Jerusalem, and no c ontribution or tax was to be exacted from these pil; ;1 ims and travellers ; "but they were to be provided wit h such passports and firmans as were given to the sul tji cts of the other friendly Powers." By Article X 1 T.H., Russia restored the islands of the Archipelago to the Sublime Porte, "and the Sublime Porte on its pm r promised to observe religiously, with respect to the inhabitants of these islands, the amnesty stipulated in .rticle I. ; and th a t th e Christian religion should not , be exposed to the least oppression any more than its c hurches, and that no obstacle should be opposed to the e rection or repair of them, and also that the officiat ing a ainister should neither be oppressed nor insulted." kiter some intervening treaties came the treaty of Ad ria nople in 1829, again stipulating for " perpetual pea co between the two empires. This treaty " con firn Le, 1 all the treaties which had been concluded at dif ferent epochs between the two empires," except as there by as )dified. It contains no new provision on the sub ject o.f religion or of Russian interference, except in rela tion to Moldavia and Wallachia. Those provinces stand on ; peculiar footing, and form a special case. The Port ;a had received them back by the treaty of Kut sell( ttic-Kainardji upon conditions set forth in Article XV L, one of which ran thus :—" The Porte like wis( t permits that, according as the circumstances of then .e two principalities may require, the Ministers of the imperial Court of Russia resident at Constantinople mat r remonstrate in their favour, and promises to listen to t bein with all the attention which is due to friendly and respected Powers." These principalities had been the subject of further treaties at Jassy in 1792, and at But,Barest in 1812 ; and this treaty of Adrianople in 182 9, speaking of these provinces, states that "Russia had . guaranteed their prosperity." The treaty of Balta.- Lir Iran, in 1849, recognised Russia as a protecting Power in I relation to these principalities. 1 ,n reference to the Straits, we may mention that in the convention signed at London in 1841, by the Minis ters .of Russia, Austria, Great Britain, France, Prussia, and. Turkey, after reciting " that the Five Powers had res olv ed to comply with the invitation of the Sultan, iu order to record in common, by a formal act, their una nin sons determination to conform to the ancient rub ; of the Ottoman empire, according to which the pas sage of the Straits of the Dardanelles and the Bos phorus is always to be closed to foreign ships of was so long as the Porte is at peace," the Sultan dee) tares that he is firmly resolved to maintain that prin ple, "and that so long as the Porte is at peace he will adn sit no foreign ship of war into the Straits ;" and the five powers engage to reh:ect this his determination, and :to conform themselves to this principle, it being under stood that the Sultan reserved his accustomed right to deliver firmans of passage for light vessels under flag of was which should be employed as usual in the ser vice o; f the missions of foreign powers. TILE COSSACK'S ADDRESS TO HIS HORSE. W e have been favoured with the following spirited translation of one of Beranger's most bril liant odes. Even when written, it was not. so ap propriate as now to the actual position of affairs:-- My noble courser of the waste, true friend to bold Cossack, Impatient still for pillage, intrepid to attack, Fly where the northern trumpet sounds along the Polar heath, Aad lend beneath thy rider's form to-day new wings to Death. No ,gold adorns thy saddle, no jewels deck thy rein ; But o,old and gems enrich the foe, and valour all shall gain. Then, weigh aloud with martial pride, my courser wild and fleet ; And trat uple nations in the dust, and Kings beneath thy feet. Peace flies the earth, and, flying, to me thy reins has flung ; Old Europe's ramparts crumble down, her portals wide are swung. Pour forth before my greedy hand the wealth her vaults enclose, And rest thee in the classic haunts where arts e'en yet re pose. Twice halt thou laved thy gory flank within the rebel Seine ; R e tarn, return, my courser, and drink her waves again. Then neigh, &c., Besieges? as in some mighty fort by subjects oft betrayed, The king, the noble, and the priest, all cry to me for aid— Oh ! save ;is from our people's hand, and leave us tyrants still, And we will bo thy slaves Cossack, the puppets of thy will; And I have taken up my lance to do the thing they spoke, And cross and sceptre shall go down before that lance be broke. Then neigh, &c. I saw boside our bivouac a giant's shadowy form ; Beneath his gaze the watch-fire paled, his accents hushed the storm. " My reign begins anew," he cried, and o'er his phantom crest He waved his battle-axe on high and pointed to the West. Oh well I knew the royal Hun, the chief of deathless sway, Thy son, 0 Attila, am I ; thy mandate I obey. Then neigh, &c. The glories that o'er Europe's brow their paling radiance bend, The learning that adorns her sons, but aids not to defend, Engulfed within the cloud of dust that from thy hoofs is cast, Shall vanish blank and recordless, the present with the past. Efface the shrines where nations keel—efface the kingly throne— Laws, manners, memories, all efface—and be the wreck our own. ... Then, neigh aloud with martial pride, my courser wild and fleet ; And trample nations in the dust, and Kings beneath thy feet. BANKING BET URNS. The returns of circulation of the Irish and Scotch banks for the four weeks ending the 18th of February, 1854, when added together, give the following as the average weekly circulation of these banks during the past month, viz. : Average circulation of the Irish banks £6,794,706 Average circulation of the Scotch banks 3,974,109 Average circulation during the past month £10,768,815 On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the several banks, as given in the Banking Almanac, the following appears to be the state of the circulation : The Irish banks are above their fixed issue... £440,212 Tho Scotch banks aro above their fixed issue 886,900 Total above fixed issue £1,327,112 The amounts of gold and silver held at the head offices of the several banks during the past month have been as follows : Gold and silver held by the Irish banks £2,099,277 Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks 1,455,585 Total of gold and silver held £3,554,862 These returns, combined with the average circulation of the Bank of England for the same period, show an increase of 466,6691. in the circulation of notes in Eng land, and an increase of 697,6291. in the circulation of the United Kingdom, when compared with the month ending the 21st of January ; and, as compared with the month ending the 19th of February, 1853, the above returns show a decrease of 96,3201. in the circulation of notes in England, and an increase of 1,461,0721. in the circulation of the United Kingdom. The average stock of bullion held by the Bank of England in both departments during the month ending the 18th of February was 16,226,6841., being an increase of 264,3421. as compared with the previous month, and a decrease of 2,388,472/. when compared with the same period last year. The stock of specie held by the Scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 18th of February was 3,554,8621., being an increase of 115,9441. as compared with the previous return, and an increase of 848,8851. when compared with the corresponding period last year. BANK OF ENGLAND. - - _ 1854.—The following is the house list of Governors and Directors of the Bank of England for the year en suing, viz.:— FOR GOVERNORS. John Gellibrand Hubbard, Esq., Governor. Thomas Matthias Weguelin, Deputy-Governor. FOR DIRECTORS. Thomas Baring, Esq. Henry :Lancelot Holland, Henry Wollaston Blake, Esq. Esq. Thomas Newman Hunt, Esq. Edward Henry Chapman, Charles Frederick Huth, Esq. Esq. Robert Wigram Crawford, Alfred Latham, Esq. Esq. George Lyall, Esq. William Cotton, Esq. Thomas Masterman, Esq. Benjamin Buck Greene, Esq. Alexander Matheson, Esq. Henry Hucks Gibbs, Esq. James Morris, Esq. Thomson Hankey, jun.,Esq. George W ar d e N orman, Esq. John Oliver Hanson, Esq. John Horsley Palmer, Esq. John Benjamin Heath, Esq. Henry James Prescott, Esq. Kirkman Daniel Hodgson, Thomas Ch ar l es S m i th, Esq. Esq. 1 raucis Wilson, Esq. The Election for a Governor and Deputy-Governor will be held at the Bank on Tuesday, the 4th April, and for Directors on Wednesday, the sth April, from 10 o'clock in the forenoon till 4 in the afternoon. n a d PREPARATIONS FOR WA: li: The employment of the electric telegraph in connec tion with the military operations of the allied armies in the East is said to have been suggested by the Electric Telegraph Company, and to be under.the serious consi deration of the authorities both here and in France.:'• It cannot be doubted that most important - advantages would be gained by the use of such an agent, where time and the earliest intelligence and the facilities for rapidly concentrating troops upon particular points are all. of such immense consequence. We should be indeed in excusable if we did not supplement the bravery and'dis cipline of our soldiers by all the aids that modern science and the resources of the country place within our reach. Of these the electric telegraph is certainly one of 'the most powerful, and, if turned to full account, it may ex ercise almost as decisive au influence over the fortunes of a campaign as the screw steamer in our fleets. The Blues are i nc l u d e d i n t h e di v i sion of cavalry to be placed under the Earl of Lucan's command. His lordship has appointed the Hon. Mr. Charteris, of the 92d Highlanders, Captain Walker, of the 7th Dragoon Guards, and Lord Bingham, of the Coldstream Guards, his Aides-de-Camp. PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 23. Now that the greater portion of the fleet for the North Sea has been sent on its mission there is but little doing here to need remark. The Caesar, 91 ; Prince Regent, 90 ; St. George, 120 ; D es p erate, 8 ; and Gorgon, 6, are at Spithead ; the two latter only wait ing orders to proceed, and the former awaiting men .for sea service. In the harbour and docks we have only the Hecla, 6, completing her crew, and the Penelope, 16, refitting. These are all the movements now in progress. The crew Of the Penelope will be paid off to-morrow ; but, although we have not heard of any stress bei ng l a id upon th em , as was th e case with the crew of the Thetis, we believe the whole of her fin e an d highly efficient company are reserved for further service after they have had a fortnight's run. No one would think this the chief naval 'arsenal in the country on the eve of war, to look upon the placid inanition which ap pears everywh ere to reign. We have no continual booming of great guns from Spithead, no van-loads of seamen pouring into the town by every train, or brought in by steam tenders —no continual stream of victualling lighters, powder an d gun-hogs, watering vessels, and such like now, keeping up a n i ght an d d ay tra ffi c be tween the harbour and the roadstead—all is quiet, not to say dull, after our late excitement. The officers and crew of h PL e Y M OUT H, Meilen 23. r Majesty's screw steam vessel Conflict, 8, Captain J. Foote, were paid wages yesterday, and she is appointed to leave to-day for Spit head. The crew of the screw steam-ship James Watt, 91, Captain the Hon. George Elliot, were yesterday turned over to her from the hulk, and got up topgallant yards, and bent sails. On Saturday, the 25th, she will proceed to the Eddystone to try her engines and rate of speed at the measured mile. The frigate Phoebe, 50, sister ship to the Indefati gable, will be launched from this dockyard on the 12th of April, after which she will be fitted with a screw propeller. At 3 o'clock this morning a large screw steam-ship, supposed to be a man-of-war, with painted ports, having her three topgallantmasts struct, and a red light on the bowsprithead, was seen off the Bolt, under steam only, proceeding slowly up Channel against a strong east wind. The Royal William, 120, Captain John Kingeome is to be equipped for sea. WOOLWICH, MARCH 23. APPOINTMENTS. Commander Oliver J. Jones (1849), to the Hannibal, 91, screw steam-ship, at Woolwich. Clerk-in-Charge John Tornkins (1848), from the Saturn, at Pembroke, to the Janus steam-sloop at Woolwich. Assistant-Surgeon A.. R. R. Preston (1846), recently serving in the London, 90, to the Hannibal, 91, screw steam-ship at Woolwich. _ _ _ Second-Master Graham H. Hills (1848), from the St. Vincent guard-ship in ordinary, to the James Watt, 91, screw steam-ship, at Devonport. Master's -Assistant John T. Gowland, to the Archer, 14, screw steam-corvette, at Woolwich. The Palmerston horse transport-ship, carrying the pendant of Lieutenant and Agent Thomas James, R.N. and the Alipore and John Masterman horse transport ships, having Captain Paynter's field battery on board, were taken out of the basin at Woolwich yesterday evening, and moored down the river, opposite the Royal Arsenal. The band of the Royal Artillery arrived in the dockyard in the afternoon, and played while the ships were getting out of the basin. The wives of the soldiers and thousands of the inhabitants of the town were in the dockyard, and the cheering and counter-cheering kept up was most enthusiastic. The vessels left the Royal Arsenal this evening for Malta. DUBLIN, MARCH 24. Yesterday (Tuesday) morning a troop of the sth Dragoon Guards, which had been for some time sta tioned in Clonmel, marched out on their way to Cork, where they are to embark for active service in the East. They were greeted on passing the Infantry Barracks with three hearty cheers from their military brethren, and were accompanied out of the town by a large crowd of civilians of all classes, who cheered them on their way after the true Tipperary fashion. The sth (or Old "Green Horse") is believed to be one of the best disci plined cavalry corps in the Queen's service. Major- General Cochrane, commanding this district, made his inspection of the 63.1 (West Suffolk) Regiment yester day, preparatory to its embarkation for the seat of war. A troop of the 3d Dragoon Guards arrived here from Longford yesterday, under the command of Captain E. H. Turton, and are quartered in the Royal Barracks. THE ARMY. The following circular has just been issued, and shows the great rise in the price of forage within the last six months. The average rise in England being equal to an allowance of sd. per day, in North Britain to the same amount, in Wales to Bd., and in Ireland to 4d.:— " War-office, March 17. " Sir,—l am directed by the Secretary -at-War to annex for your information and guidance a statement of the daily rates of allowance to general and other staff officers of in fantry regiments, in lieu of forage for the horses required to be kept by them for the public service, for the half-year from the Ist of October, 1853, to the 31st of March, 1854, agreeably to which the charge for forage will be allowed. " I am to add, that if a charge at a different rate has been already made the same should be corrected according to the said statement.—l have, &c., "To Officer C omman di ng —R eg i men t at" B, HA Home."WES. Statement of the Daily Rai Forage for the period frot the 31st of March, 1854. GREAT BRITAIN. I 6tea of Allowance in lieu of in the lit of October, 1853, to Counties. Rate of Allowance, s. d. Berks Chester 2 4 Devon 2 0 Dorset Essex 2 4 Gloucester Hants 2 4 Kent 2 4 Lancaster 2 0 Leicester Middlesex Monmouth Norfolk 2 2 Northampton 2 2 Northumberland Nottingham Somerset Suffolk 2 3 Surrey Sussex Warwick 2 1 Wilts Worcester York 1 11 Wales North Britain 2 2 The counties in which IRELAND. Rate of Allowance. s. d. Antrim 1 9 Armagh 1 Carlow 1 7 8 Cavan Clare 2 0 Cork 1 9 Donegal Down 1 8 Dublin 1 8 Fermanagh Galway Kerry Kildare 1 9 Kilkenny 1 7 King's County 1 S Leitrim Limerick 1 8 Londonderry Longford 1 6 Louth Mayo 1 9 Meath Monaghan Queen's County 1 8 Roscommon 1 5 Sligo Tipperary 1 8 Tyrone 1 8 Waterford 1 7 Westmeath ............ 1 8 Wexford ............... 1 8 Wicklow Counties. there are no con- tracts 2 2 Jersey Guernsey 2 4 THE CANADA COMPANY.—A meeting of the Ca antadeaa: Company took place yesterday, Mr. C. Franks presi din when the annual statement was unanimously aa The progress made in the sales of land is announc .p t t have been most satisfactory , while the system of 1 • o ng has also proved extremely advantageous. The u exclusive of the addit iona l value of the unsosld"Plausndf beyond its worth as originally estimat e d , i s 556 B'2 4l , and the amount of outstanding deb en t urers to the J ;l et of December is 85,2001. With regard to the 645,'234 acres of land, the remaining propertyofnt.hcee ofco m go p s . n 4 y d s . it is stated that , although valued at the per acre, the estimate formed from an ins pec tion in 1 8 47, the directors believe that much better t erms on the average can now be secured. Taking into consideration the rates at which sal es h ave lately been effected„ and making allowance for the inferior and undrained loca tion, they consider 20s. per acre w ill ultimately b e realized. The ra pid developmentof the province through the increased f ac iliti es of communication continues un checked, and in the Huron district so great has been the competition to obtain favourable selections that the settlers are known to have paid high rates of interest to complete their purchases. It was suggested that, as a lengthened period had elapsed since the last survey, it would not be impolitic to take measures for arriving at an accurate estimate of the value of the property, a question to which the directors promised to give attention. ARRIVAL OF 326 VESSELS IN THE THAMES.--..y es . terday and on Wednesday, 396 vessels of all classes were entered inwards at the Custom-house. Of these 132 are from foreign ports, principally in the north of Europe, 110 colliers, and 84 coasters. This last number includes the Irish and Scotch steam-boats. Upwards of 700 Thisvesse e ls xt h ra a o v r e di a n r a ri l l y v e d i n i fi n in eht of e riversh i pping since a t Saturday r d la is unprecedented, and is accounted for in consequence of the prevailing no rth and north-easterl y winds . It has had, however, a very beneficial effect in the neighbour hood of the docks and wharves, as there is scarcely a man out of employment who is willing to work. The docks and wharves are crowded with shipping, and the river is nearly impassable from the Tower to the Lower Pool. Accounts from the western ports state that a very large fleet of homeward bound ships are detained in the Chaps of the Channel owing to adverse winds. ISE. N. man , and most have rning which ty be rd in peror Era from The Lmeg, f '. 20i 100 20i 50 '5O 100 100 all all all all all 100 30 20 1 1 1 10 1 1 30 1 10 288 1 20 10 20 35 20 50 20 25 aA all 2i 10 ••• 1 i ) I• - 44 3 ..