The Sun. — London, England, 1854-02-27 00:00:00

THEATRE ROYAL DRURY LANE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. THIS EVENING, FEB. 27, Will be performed THE VENDETTA. Principal characters by Messrs. G. V. Brooke and T. Mead. To be followed by THE BEGGAR'S OPERA. Ch aracters by Mr. A. Younge, Mrs. Selby, Miss M. Stanley, and Kiss Feather stone. THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Under the management of Mr. Buckstone. THIS EVENING, FEB. 27, Will be performed GUY MANNERING. Characters by Messrs. Elliott Galer, W. Farren, Compton, Rogers, Howe, Clark, Corri, and Culienford; Miss Cushman, 31iss Julia Harland, and 'Mrs. L. S. Buckingham. After which, the Grand CHRISTMAS PANTOMI Ildr.E, called HARLEQUIN AND THE THREE BEARS; or, Little Silverhair and the Fairies. Columbine, Miss M. Brown ; Harlequin, Mr. J. Marshall; Pantaloon, Mr. W. A. Barnes; Clown, Mr. 1L Marshall ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-ST BEET. Under the Management of Mr. Cneaus KE tar. THIS EVENING, FEB. 27, Will be performed RICHARD THE THIRD. Principal charac ter by Mr. C. Kean. After which will be presented the new Grand CHRISTMAS PAN rOMIME, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE MILLER AND HIS MEN; or, King Salamandar and the Fairy of the Azure Lake. Harlequin, Mr. Cormack ; Clown, Mr. Huline ; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; and Columbine, Miss Desborough. LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestrig. THIS EVENING, FEB. 27, Will be performed A BACHELOR OF ARTS. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Baker; Miss F. Hughes. After which, the original Fairy Extravaganza, called ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WERE TWO KINGS. Principal cha racters by Mr. Roxby and Madame Vestris. To conclude with PATTER VERSUS CLATTER. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor. Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, FEB. 27, Will be presented the highly Popular New Nautical Melo-drama in five tableaux, with new scenery, the Sea of Ice, &c., new dresses and appointments, called THE THIRST OF GOLD; or, THE LOST SHIP AND THE WILD FLOWER OF MEXICO. 'Principal characters by Messrs. B. Webster, Keeley, Paul Bedford, Madame Celeste, &c. To conclude with THE SERIOIT3 FAMILY. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING. FEB. 27, Will be performed PLOT AND PASSION. Principal characters by Mr. F. Robson and Mrs. Stirling. After which, THE BENGAL TIGER. Principal characters by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, and F. Robson ; and Mrs. Wigan and Miss Marston. To conclude with THE LOTTERY TICKET. Characters by Messrs. Emery, Vincent, and F. Robson; and Miss E. Turner. STRAND THEATRE. Sole Lasses, Mr. F. W. Alicroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs. THIS EVENING, FEB. 27, WM be presented (7th tiroe) "NO IRISH NEED APPLY." After which, MIDAS. To be followed by THE TWO GREGORIES. To conclude with THE CORKONIAN BROTHERS. Stalls, 55.; Boxes, 35.; Pit, la. 6d; Gallery, ; Private Boxes, 11. I Is. 6d., to be had of Mr. Allcrott, 15, New Bond-street. ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIONAL AMPHITHEITRE. Lessee awl Manager, Mr. Willisra Cooke. Positively THE LAST NIGHT of THE PERFORMING ELE PHANTS. Triumphant success of the New Spectacle. Last 5 Nights of the Pantomime. THIS EVENING, FEB. 27, (And during the week, Wednesday excepted) till new, grand, and romantic spectacle entitled THE WOODMAN'S HORSE; or, The False Knight—the Woodman's Horse by the pet steed, Beauty, expressly trained by Mr. William Cooke succeeded by (on Mon day only) the astounding performances of the ELEPHANTS. After which Scenes of the ARENA. To col:elude with the Comic Panto mime of BILLY [.;UT lON'S JOURNEY TO BRENTFORD ; or, Harlequin and the Ladies' Favourite. Box-office open from Eleven till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. FITGEI WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. T Its DAY —Morning 2 min.after 2 1 Evening 2-1 min.aft. 2 To•Monaow—Morning 47 unin.after 2 1 Evening 8 min.aft. 3 THE WEATHER.— UN OFFICE, FEB. 26. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 53 —highest since noon yesterday. 38 —lowest this morning and during the_night. 49—this day at noon. BAROURTER, 30'60. WIND, N.W.—Fresh breeze, and fine weather. FEBRUARY 27. 51— highest sinco noon yesterday. 38 —lowest this morning and during the night. 50—this day, at noon. BAROMETER, 30'13. WIND, variable W.S.W. to S.W.—Fine, sunshiny weather. rs, .`•••• • 4 . "=, Alll, LONDON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1854. We are by no means disposed to linger over the reminiscences of the past, or to speculate too curiously on the probable consequences that would have followed a different line of policy from that, in the first instance, adopted by her MAJESTY'S Go vernment. We are quite willing to let bygones be bygones. So long as the vigour and resolu tion be displayed which the magnitude of the emergency so imperatively demands, and so long as the spirit evinced in the recent speeches of Lords CLARENDON, PALMERSTON, and JOHN RUSSELL be fairly and unequivocally maintained, so long will we afford our most strenuous assist ance to those who, even at the eleventh hour, are endeavouring to vindicate the honour and to advance the interests of Great Britain. We look not, then, to the events of last year, but rather, as Lord CLARENDON demanded, " to the condition in which we now stand, and to the prospects that are before us !" But we believe it to be an indispens able duty to examine more closely the probable results of the war than the Noble Secretary for Foreign Affairs was prepared to do, and to indi cate to the Government the feelings and wishes of the overwhelming majority of the people, and the nature and extent of the requisitions which must be satisfied before the sword which we have been compelled reluctantly to draw can be again restored to the scabbard. It may not be convenient for Ministers to dis cuss in either branch of the Legislature the im portant question of " What is to be the result of the war ?" But it is exceedingly desirable that the independent journals should enter into that consideration, and investigate the matter in all its varied aspects. Thus will the chosen advisers of her MAJESTY know what is expected at their hands. Thus will they know how to frame mea sures tending towards the attainment of those objects, and thus will they know how far they may rely upon the support of the nation, and be enabled clearly to discern the course which they must pursue, if they hope to obtain the great reward of the labours of the statesman—the re spect and admiration of a grateful country. Lord CLAnENDON has himself vindicated the ne cessity for turning the war into which we have been forced by the unparalleled insolence and aggression of the adversary, to good account. He has unequivocally acknowledged that clouds have long been hovering in the political horizon, that "we are approaching, or already embarked in, that great question which has long been fore seen, and long postponed by all the able and clear sighted statesmen of Europe I" and that " as we are forced into it, not by our own consent, it ought to be settled once for all ! " The position and power of Rugsia it was that gave cause for these serious and well-founded ap prehensions—that made all the able and clear sighted statesmen of Europe clearly distinguish the approaching storm ; and if we are to do that "which is necessary for the future tranquillity and security of Europe"-zrif we are " to take soli d guar t an ees that Europe may not again be dep r i ved of the great blessings of peace"—we must effectually reduce the strength of " the sin g le man -holding, despotic Power, and irres ponsible for the exercise of it over many millions of People !" The very principle of despotism—the imperious and uncontrolled Will of an individual—is indeed as irreconcileable With the welfare and safety of other nations as it i s of his own kingdom. The voice of public opi n i o a person. He n has n o i n fl uence w ith such ag grandisement, without b • Pursues a course of self- mug restrained by any of the motives that affect ordinary men. A species of insanity, or m onomania in duces him to think that he is elevat e d above the level of humani t y , and little i nferior even to the DEITY. The very p rinci p le of autocracy s h ou ld therefore be annihil ated, or at least the p ower for mischief of those by whom it is wiel ded impaired and crippled, if we desir e to obtain an y adequ a t e security for a permanent and lasting peace. How, then, can that great desideratum be achieved ? How can we most effectually prevent Russia from again despoiling her neighbours and enriching herself at the expense of those who have the misfortune to be placed in such dangerous proximity ? Simply by com pelling her to disgorge the plunder of past ages, and to restore to the lawful owners the usurped or conquered territories, and to abolish the unwarrantable privileges which she has ex torted from the fears or weakness of other Powers. For a long series of years she has been extending her territories on every side, encroaching on and basely robbing those whom she has pretended to guard and protect. She has more than quadrupled her population, by incorporating other nations that come within her rapacious clutches. Poland long-suffering, deeply-in jured, but noble Poland—is but one of many victims. The countries which once consti tuted the barrier of Christendom against Mahometan invasion has been ruthlessly sacrificed, and partitioned among those whom it formerly protected from invasion. But, restored by the strong right arms and indomitable spirits of its children, it will, Phoenix-like, arise from its ashes, and assume a prominent and important position in the scale of nations. Finland, too, must be restored to its former connexion with Sweden, and the hardy race by which it is inhabited induced to return to their ancient allegiance. The dominions on the Baltic and the Gulf of Finland, all of which have been forcibly or fraudulently obtained, since the acces sion of PETER the GREAT, must be taken away. Russia has endeavoured to transform the Baltic into a Russian lake. She must no longer be allowed to retain the power she has so grossly abused, but be kept within her original limits, with her only northern ports on the Frozen Ocean. Cronstadt, Riga, and Reval must be restored, with the Baltic provinces in which they are situate, to their lawful owners, and Russia be contented to carry on a peaceful commerce by permission of those owners, and to have Archangel as of yore her only port for naval armaments. With the restoration of Finland, Livonia, and Esthonia, East Bothnia, and Aland to Sweden, and the resuscitation of Poland in all its inte grity, matters will be tolerably well arranged in the Baltic, and towards Austria and Prussia the usurper will have retraced his footsteps the seven hundred miles he has advanced, and by which he is now enabled to threaten these king doms with invasion at any moment. So far for the west and south-west. But on the south itself even more will have to be accomplished. Russia has not only advanced her frontiers on the side of Turkey, but also of Persia. She has formed establishments on the Euxine, the Caspian, and the Sea of Azoff and Aral, to which she has no manner of right. She has seized on Podolia and Bessarabia, passing first the Bug and then the Dneister, as she has more recently done the Pruth (in each instance incorporating the plundered provinces), and as she yet hopes to pass the Danube, and to accomplish the destruction of Turkey in Europe. She has also taken possession of the Crimea and all the territories on the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff, which PETER bad, by the treaty of Falksen, ex pressly agreed to surrender, binding herself to maintain no navy in the Sea of Azoff. She has, however, not only violated that treaty, but has taken possession of Georgia, and the fertile plains abutting on the Caspian, on which she formerly possessed but some barren and unproductive steppes. She also, as far as practicable, appro priated the Caucasian territory, invading the noble and unconquerable Circassians, pushing her encroachments on the southern banks of the Phasis and the Araxes. After a successful con test she assumed the exclusive use of the Caspian by the suppression of the Persian Flag on its waters. All these robberies she has achieved, while she has also not only got possession of the Sulina Mouths of the Danube, but contrived to render the Eux . ine a mare clausum, seriously im peding the navigation of that noble river, and preventing the British Navy from protecting the commerce of Britain in the Black Sea. These unfounded claims can no longer be al lowed. How can we, claiming the sovereignty of the ocean, sanction the existence of a mare clan,- sum ? It cannot, it must not, and it shall not be to lerated. The various treaties entered into have been annulled by the war. Be it our care to see that they are not re-established, and that the pre tended protectorate of Servia, Wallachia, and Moldavia shall be peremptorily repudiated. Let us do these things, and compress Russia nearly, if not altogether, within her ancient limits, and we shall be amply recompensed for the exertions we are making and are about to make, and the an noyance and injury we have already sustained or may hereafter sustain ; for we shall have laid the foundations of a permanent, a lasting, and an honourable peace—a peace that will not speedily be again wantonly and flagitiously violated, and we shall have done more than was ever hitherto effected by any nation of the globe to promote the happiness and prosperity of the entire civi lised world. We are at war. The preparations for the con flict are perceptible on every side. All is bustle and activity in the dockyards and at the several recruiting stations—everywhere, in fact, where the personnel or materiel of war can be obtained. But while exhibiting extraordinary energy in these matters, we are wilfully neglecting one of the most important particulars—one which is in dispensable in the event of a protracted struggle. Money has been truly termed "the sinews of war," for without it nothing can be effected. The best drilled army will be practically useless without its miraculous influence. Experienced veterans will be little better than undisciplined hordes without its potent aid. It is, indeed, the true ALADDIN'S lamp, the wand of the magician, that endues the possessor with almost supernatural at tributes, that enables him to convey troops in any direction, and to create diversions most favourable to himself and prejudicial to his adver saries. The gold of England has during for mer wars, perhaps, been even more efficient than her arms in promoting and enforcing the policy which she was desirous of carrying out. In the present instance, the AUTOCRAT is for tunately but scantily furnished with this indis pensable instrument. Notwithstanding the mag nitude of his dominions and the countless myriads of barbarians that own his sway, he is compara tively poor in money matters. If his exchequer were proportioned to the other resources of his em pire we might look to a long continuance of hos tilities, and a fearful struggle before peace could again be restored, and the sword be laid aside for the ploughshare. It is the poverty, and not the will, of NICHOLAS that must lead to his speedy submission, and compel him to make ample retri bution for his unwarranted and unwarrantable aggressions, and his pertinacious and insulting persistance in the original injury. He has, how ever, clearly foreseen the difficulty in which he is in volved, and is straining every nerve to repair the de ficiency of which he is so painfully conscious. One of the most obviousmeanshaslong since been adopted. Even while negotiations were still going forward, and while the diplomatists were disputing about sentences, and hair-splitting and quibbling about forms of expression, NICHOLAS had given instruc tions for the issue of no less than sixty mil lions of inconvertible paper roubles, which, being issued on the authority and credit of the Empire, would be available for internal cir culation in the country, and render the entire supply of specie available for the support of the troops. Fas est ab hoste doceri. Why should we not profit by the lesson thus taught by our opponent ? Why should we pause until circumstances render a Bank Restriction Act inevitable, when our bullion is drawn away to supply the exigencies of the Northern despot ? Let us keep the money now stored up in the coffers of the Bank for the use of our friends rather than of our adversaries, and assist with our gold France and Turkey, and not Russia. A most just and salutary proclamation has been issued, forbidding the ex portation of the munitions of war, and very pro perly including steam machinery among the pro hibited articles. But why do we pause there, why do we leave matters in such a state, that the most important of all these mu nitions may be carried off openly, while the CZAR is ridiculing the fatuity that sacrifices the inestimable advantages we possess, and provides for wants that could not elsewhere be supplied ? Ile may well sneer at constitutional principles, when they lead to such results as his frigates being repaired in the public dockyards THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, PEBRUARY 27, 1854. of a country with which he is on the eve of war— where he has new vessels in course of construction in many private yards throughout the Kingdom, and where not only machinery and coals for his steam-fleet, but even gunpowder for his cannon, and pay for his Cossacks, are all to be obtained in England. We have now at length stopped many of these supplies. Two large ope rations for the delivery of gunpowder have, we are told, been "happily disconcerted," and the stores intended for the destruction of our soldiers and sailors have been seized. But nothing is done about the most important of all, and Russian agents are at this moment actively engaged in drawing bullion from the Bank, and achieving the double purpose of inj urin g our trade and commerce by the means on which it flourishes, and replenishing the attenuated purse of the AUTOCRAT at our ex pense, so as to enable him to persist in his aggres sion and gratify his insane pride, although at the cost of thousands and tens of thousands of human lives. If we desire to show that we are in ear nest—if we wish to inflict the heaviest blow and greatest discouragement to the Northern Despot, we will forthwith suspend cash payments, and issue a National Note for domestic circulation. Such a decisive step, involving the sacrifice of our most cherished prejudice, would afford stronger evidence of our sincerity and determination, and do more to discourage the Russians than if we doubled our naval preparations, and sent twice the number of men to support our ancient ally. It may be said that there is as yet no necessity for such step, that there are still more than six teen millions and a quarter of bullion lying idle and unproductive in the cellars at Threadneedle street. Granted. Then let us make that money available for the war, by the issue of a sufficient number of notes ; let us dispense with the use of sovereigns in the every-day transactions of life by providing an adequate amount of 1/. notes, which in Scotland and Ireland already are, and in this country speedily will be, greatly pre ferred to gold. By these means twenty, aye, thirty millions of specie may be obtained without injury. The loan required by our faithful and efficient ally may be advanced. We may send the whole or any part of 8,000,000 sterling to France, and also afford the pecuniary aid sought by Turkey. All may be done without the slightest inconvenience if we only take time by the forelock, and do early in 1854 that which we may be compelled to resort to in 1855, when all the mischief is done, and when our coffers are drained to the utmost. Now that they are overflow ing we can maintain our credits though suspending cash payments ; but it will be very different when our means are exhausted, and we are, indeed, insol vent, so far as bullion is concerned. Our esteemed correspondent, Mr. HAMER STANSFELD, has recently through our columns directed the public attention to this all-important subject. With a slight modification of the salu tary proposition put forward by the talented Secretary of the Treasury, before he became a Member of the Administration ; he suggests the issue of 30,000,0001. of one-pound notes guaran teed by the nation, and therefore offering not only the same, but even better security to the holders than the public debt. We say better, inasmuch as these notes would be available for the payment of taxes and for every transaction of life, which Consols are not, under present regulations. The plan is a good one, whether we are at peace or at war. It would provide for the expenses of the latter without difficulty, while, on the restoration of tranquillity, it would, as Mr. STANSFELD truly remarks, " enable the country to get quit of the taxes on knowledge, and to liberate commerce still further." MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were estimated at 6,000 bales, of which 800 American and 200 Surat were taken for export and on specu lation. The market was tame but steady at pre vious rates. The sales comprised 5000 American, 280 Pernam and Maranham at 60. to Bd., 250 Bahia at 61d., 500 Surat at 3d. to 4-id., and 300 Egyptian at 6ld. to 81d. per lb. Railway Shares were very firm. The case of the steamer Demerara, wrecked in getting out of the river at Bristol, came on for trial this morning, and a verdict was taken by consent in favour of the plaintiffs. The remaining assur ance, about 9001., will be paid by Messrs. Richard Thornton, and another party interested. There have, by other insurers, been already 39,0001. paid. Accounts from Vienna of late date mention that a loan was seriously talked of. The amount was stated at 50,000,000 florins in a 5 per cent. stock. Foreign capitalists would not be solicited to join, the whole amount being expected to be taken in Germany. The Prussian Budget for 1854 has been sub mitted to the Chambers. The year's receipts are put down at 107,990,069 dollars, an increase of nearly 8,500,000 dollars compared with the pre vious week. The expenses are estimated at an in crease in several departments, and especially in the army, owing to the dearness of provisions and fodder. At Stockholm the royal proposals for a credit of 2,500,000 crowns, about 5 million francs, for the purpose of preparing for armed neutrality, has been laid before the Chambers. The Danish and Swedish Governments have been informed by England and France that the com bined fleets will shortly pass through the Sound. The advices from NeNv York notice a dull and drooping stock market. The amount of bullion exported during the week ending Feb. 10 was 14,000 dols. There was a good demand for foreign manufactures at buoyant prices, British and Con tinental dress goods being most in request. The Cotton market was quiet. Freights to Liverpool were firm, but very little was doing. Flour was in moderate inquiry, at rising quotations. The Californian News states that the farming interest had suffered severely from want of rain. Mining was much improved, owing to a fall of rain, prior to which, however, operations were almost at a stand. Some rich diggings had been discovered, and a silver mine was said to have been opened in Monterey county. The markets were quiet. South Pacific accounts vid New York, mention that on the 15th December the new tariff received the sanction of Government at Chili, and would be in operation on the Ist of February. It had decreed that bills be drawn on the Chilian agency in London in favour of the Minister in France for the sum of 3,689 dols. to be employed in pur chasing a chemical apparatus for the colleges of Santiago and Coquimbo. The British barque Colinda had put into Valdivia with 260 emigrants from Vancouver's Island, the crew and passengers in a state of mutiny. Captain Mills, it is said, commenced proceedings against the passengers for compelling him to put into Valdivia against his will. The Court decided, however, that the charges were not sustained. A bottomry bond was wanted to allow of the vessel pursuing her voyage. The markets at Valparaiso were very inactive. There has been a very dull market for English Stocks this morning, and the Cabinet Council or meeting of Ministers which took place yesterday at the Earl of Clarendon's has excited some attention and curiosity. Among the rumours are that Lord Palmerston is to be Minister of War, Sir James Graham Secretary for the Home Department, and the Right Hon. Mr. Sydney Herbert First Lord of the Admiralty. The accounts from - Austria are still regarded as satisfactory, but the probability of several new loans here and on the Continent has a natural ten dency to keep down prices. The Turkish loan is not yet abandoned. Consols have been 914 to 94 for Transfer, but not higher than 94 and 914 for Account. The New 3i per Cents. have realised 924 to 93i, and the 3 per Cents. 914 to 92/. Ex chequer Bills are 188. to 215., and. East India Bonds Bs. to 12s. premium. Foreign Stocks have ruled rather heavy, and Russian Five per Cents. have declin©d to 96 and 95. Sardinian Bonds have been quiet at 83. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 594. Mexi can Stock has been 24g, . Grenada Deferred 6i, and Brazilian New 914. The political crisis in Spain has caused a further decline to 394 and 38i in the Three per Cents. This is making-up day preparatory to the settle ment of the share account to-morrow, and prices are fluctuating for the English railways, being scarcely up to the highest point of Saturday. The principal transactions hays been in Midland, Cale donian, Great Northern, and South Eastern. French shares are about the same. The following are the "calls" due in March : Date due. Call. Shares *Antwerp and Rotterdamo 24 £1 0 50,000, Bideford Extension *Central of Switzerland *Central Peninsula of Portugal *Lake Constance and Basle l3 3 0 72,000 Lancashire and Yorkshire Fifths Middlesbro' and Redcar, New, 251. 1 3 0 54,000 North London, New, 101. Peebles Shrews. & Ches., 5 p cent. Red. Pref 4 2 0 15,228 £466,047 Total called in 1854.. £3,353,473 * The proportion called by foreign companies is 202,0001., but the holdings of English proprietors are not known. The railway meetings announced are the fol lowing : Company. Date. Place, &c. Ambergate, . Cc Feb. 28, London Tavern. Belfast and County Down Feb. 28, Belfast. Blackburn Charleroi and Erquelines Cork and Waterford Feb. 28, London Tavern. Dublin and Drogheda East Kent Edinburgh and Glasgow Mar. 7, Glasgow. Glasgow and South-Western Mar. 8, Glasgow. Graissessac and Beziers Mar. 14, Paris. Hampstead Junction Feb. 28, Euston Station Lancaster and Carlisle Mar. 3, Liverpool. Liverpool, Crosby, and South Feb.. 28, Liverpool. London and South-Western Feb. 27, 34, York-road. Loughar Feb. 28. Lowestoft Manch., Buxton, and Matlock Mar. 2, Derby. Maria Antonia Newmarket Newry an& Enniskillen.... Feb. 28, Guildhall Coffe eho • North and S. Wstrn June Feb. 28, Euston Station. North Devon Feb. 27, London Tavern. North Metz opolitan Feb. 28, Office. North-Western Feb. 27, Leeds. St. Andrew's& Quebec (CL A) Feb. 28, 26, Parliament-st. Severn Valley South Devon Feb. 28, Plymouth. South Eastern Mar. 16, Bridgehouse Hotel South Wales Feb. 28, Paddington. South Yorkshire Waterford and Kilkenny West Cornwall Feb. 28, 28,Throgmorton-at West London Mar. 4, London Tavern. Wimbledon and Croydon Mar. 3, Fendall's Hotel. Worcester and Hereford Feb. 28, EustoniStation. The current prices for the Jamaica Mines not officially quoted are as follow :—Metcalfe, par to premium ; Sue River, 4 discount to par ; Port R' oyal, to premium. The Gold Mine shares have been dull, except the Anglo-Californian, in which there have been a few transactions. The Australian Bank shares are in more request, and in the Land Companies a fair business is doing. BRI TISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES (Prom the Oficial List.) Easiness done. Bank Stock 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9 21 1 24 21i 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9l i $ gim New 34 per Cent. Annuities 934 i 3 2t Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 180 54 India Stock for Account....... 240 India Bonds, £lOOO 8 12 p Ditto, under £lOOO 8 12 p Consols for Account 16th March Exchequer Bills, Bills, ld. £lOOO ... lB 21 18 p £5OO lB 21 pj Small lB 21 - __ P , PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto New, 1852, 4A per Cent 912 Grenada Bonds, Deferred Mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. St 96 5 Russian Bonds, 4i per Cent B3 4 Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.. ...... Ditto for the Account Bl Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent lBl 18 Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 33 ' Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Guil Ditto 4 per Cont. Certificates .. THREE u s. 'CLOCK. Consols 9l Ditto Diarch Account 9IA LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. RUSSIA AND TURKEY. A telegraphic despatch from LSt. Petersburg, bringing news as late as the 15th inst., says : Prince Paskewitsch is appointed to the supreme command over the Danubian army. Orders have been forwarded to the Russian fleet neither to seek nor to avoid a collision with the allied fleets. A note published on Friday morning by the Journal des Debats confirms the news as to the improved state of feeling between the Austrian Government and the English and French Cabinets. The intelligence of the change of feeling manifested by Austria reached the Cabinet of the Tuileries by despatches from M. de Bourqueney, which arrived on the 18th and 19th inst. It remains, however, to be seen whether Austria will confine her dis approbation of the Czar's proceedings merely to private remonstrances, or whether she will agree to take active measures against the aggressor in conjunction with the Allied Powers. It appears certain that Austria has received guarantees for the safety of her Hungarian and Italian possessions from France and England. It is also stated that a letter has been received either from the Prussian Minister for Foreign Af fairs by the French Minister, or from the King himself by the Emperor, making a similar declara tion to that of Austria. The letter is described as stating that, notwithstanding the friendly ties which united the Courts of Berlin and St. Peters burg, it was undeniable that the Emperor of Russia was completely in the wrong, and that Prussia would act with the allies when and wheresoever it may be necessary. There was a rumour in Paris on Saturday that the Cabinet of Vienna had declared that, if neces sary, it will send an Austrian force to Constan tinople to co-operate with the Anglo-French expe dition. see your way, and to avoid treading upon those unfortunate quadrupeds which lie snoring in the street, and upon which it is not pleasant to tread. FRANCE. The loan is not yet concluded, but the negotia tions are going on with great activity. The Minis ter of the Finances is understood to have rejected the propositions made by Messrs. de Rothschild, Baring, and Hottinguer, and it is said that the Credit 111obilier is once more in the field. At the Bourse it was confidently stated that the whole of the negotiations relative to the loan were suspended in consequence of the great difference between the offers sent in by the bankers, and the terms pro posed by the Minister of Finances, and that that Minister, finding that he could not bring the bankers to better terms, had determined to nego tiate the loan by public tender. It was added that the Government proposed to give Three per Cent. Stock at 69f., but that the bankers refused to take it at more than 65f. A pamphlet, containing the diplomatic corre spondence and other official documents relative to the Eastern question, has just been published by the authority and order of the French Government. It was printed at the Imperial press, and . many thousand copies were struck off, which have been already distributed in Paris and forwarded for the same purpose to the departments, in order that the nation at large may have full knowledge of all that has occurred. A " historical notice" is prefixed, and another notice appended as the conclusion. The first document is the letter of the Emperor to the Czar. The "Monniteur of yesterday (Sunday) publishes the following letter from Prince Napoleon to the Emperor : " Sire,—At a moment when war is about to be com menced, I pray your Majesty to allow me to join the expedition now preparing. I ask for no important com mand, no distinguishing title. That post will seem the most honourable in my eyes which will bring me nearest to the enemy. The uniform which lam so proud to wear imposes duties which I shall be delighted to fulfil, and I desire to earn the high grade which your affection and my position have given me. When the nation arms, your Majesty will, I hope, think my place is amidst the soldiers ; and I pray you to permit me to fall into their ranks, to sustain the honour and right of France. " NAPOLEON." The Moniteur also announces the equipment of a third naval squadron of 10 ships of the line, 14 frigates, 5 corvettes, sailing vessels and steamers, under the orders of Admiral Parseval-Duchesnes. The Moniteur likewise publishes a decree pro hibiting the exportation of arms, ammunition, machinery, warlike stores, Arm. This announcement speaks volumes of itself as to the energetic mode in which the French Govern ment is preparing to carry on the war. In a few days France will have three fleets at sea—the Black Sea fleet, under the command of Admiral Hamelin ; the Brest fleet, which has recently gone round from that port to Toulon and the other Mediterranean ports for the purpose of embarking the expedi tionary :rmy, and convoying it to its destination in the neighbourhood of Constantinople ; and lastly, the fleet now announced under the command. of Admiral Parseval Deschenes, of which the desti nation is not yet published, but which it may safely be stated is to be sent into the Baltic. In the same journal there appears a circular of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, indicating to French diplomatic and consular agents that they are to protect English subjects and. English com merce as if they were French. The India Mail left Marseilles for Paris at seven o'clock on Saturday evening. In a report to the Emperor, M. Ducos, Minister of Marine, says—" Your Majesty desired me to prepare a third squadron. Your Majesty's orders are executed." The subjoined is the despatch to M. de Castel. bajac, recalling him from St. Petersburg : " Paris', Feb. 6. " General—l have the honour to transmit to you, by order of the Emperor, the instructions which the tenor of my last despatches may have led you to expect. The responsive note addressed to me by M. de Kisseleff, and which you will find enclosed, attributes to his departure motives which place the Government of his Imperial Ma jesty under the necessity of not prolonging the sojourn of his representative at St. Petersburg. You will, therefore, on the receipt of this despatch, concert mea sures with Sir H. Seymour to hand to Count de Nessel rode a note which, confining yourself to alleging the de parture of the Russian minister, you will demand your passports. The personnel of the Russian embassy fol lowing its chief, the secretaries and attaches of your mission will also quit St. Petersburg with you. You will confine yourself, as M. de Kisseleff has done here for M. d'Ebeling, the consul-general, to presenting to Count de Nesselrode M. de Castellon, who will remain, until further orders, charged with the interests of our commerce and of our countrymen. DROUYN DE LHDYS." The levy of 80,000 men announce d i n t h e Mo niteur of Friday, together with the previous levies, makes in all an addition to the French army of upwards of 200,000 men within the last two months. All the efforts of the Government, and of the heads of the manufacturing establishments had not been able to prevent a very considerable num ber of working men from feting on Friday, the 24th of February, the anniversary of the revolution of 1848, by abstaining from all kinds of work, and walking about in the Place de la Bastille. From ten in the morning a vast number of blouses continued to flock to the spot, some with crowns of everlasting in their hands, and others merely walking about. No military force was to be seen, but a large posse of police agents in plain clothes prevented any one from ap proaching the column of July. Every person who thought fit to come forward with a crown in his hand was arrested, and every one uttering a cry or making a gesture that appeared to the police liable to objection was sure to be taken into custody. The persons arrested were taken to the little guard-house on the Place between the column and the canal. When the small building was full, a picket of gendarmes took them off to some other large place of confinement. Hisses were generally uttered when any one was arrested. The troops, it is said, were held in readiness to act should there be the slightest appearance of distur bance. The number of persons arrested amounted to up wards of 200, and among them were not Republi cans, but some Legitimists of the upper ranks of society. On Saturday morning a considerable num ber of the persons arrested on the Place de la Bas tille and at the Porte St. Martin, in the act of de positing crowns and forming processions, were set at liberty. In the departments, and especially in the Department du Nord, a great number of pro clamations had been seized, signed by the refugees in London, and addressed to the French army, calling on the troops to revolt against the Govern ment. The chairmen of the different clubs of Paris of note, such as the Jockey Club, the Cercle des Etrangers, &c., had been called to the Ministry of the Interior, and ordered not to permit any discussions or conversations of a political charac ter to take place in their rooms. M. de Lamennais, who had entered into conva lescence, has, in consequence of making too free with himself in going out, again fell ill, and is not expected to recover. In his opening message to the Legislative Corps, it is said that the Emperor will congratulate the country on the honourable and cordial under standing between France and England, and will declare that in the war with Russia there is no thought of conquest or revolution—" Point de conquetes—point de revolution." It appears that there is a plan on foot of detach ing from 30,000 to 40,000 men of the expeditionary armies, and sending them to the Crimea, where they would attack Sebastopol by land, while the fleets attacked it by sea. A despatch from Vienna, received on Saturday evening, fully confirms the adhesion of the Govern ment of Austria to the policy of England and France. The tendency of the Bourse to recover from the panic of Monday last was very marked. The news from London encouraged the idea that an alliance with Austria and Prussia was probable. A good many purchases were made to close accounts for the end of the month n ow near a t h an d , an d t h ese operations of course aided the rising movement. The rente, which opened strong at 67f. 40c., a rise of 40c., was carried up to 67f. 65c., by a false re port that Consols had risen per cent. after twelve o'clock on Saturday. When the second official quo tation was p os t e d, an d it appeare d th a t th e rise was only there was a reaction, but the closing, price was still 35c. higher than on Friday. A fur ther rise of from 2f. to 7f. brought most of the lines up to the point at which they stood .beforweasthine heavy fall of Monday last. Credit Mobl Ile demand at a rise of 5f., it being thoughtt r hat this company would bid for the loan. Bank of France rose sf. SPAIN. The news arriving from Spain is assuming a very serious aspect. The account given by the telegra phic despatch from Bayonne, announcing an insur rection at Saragossa, diminishes the real gravity of the state of affairs in that city. It appears that the insurgent battalion, instead of having been driven from Saragossa, merely left the place for the purpose of joining some other regiments, which are also in insurrection. If the insurrection should spread, it is probable that the Queen will be forced to call in the aid of Marshal Narvaez. So critical does the posii,iett of o.ppea,i, Una the French and English Governments have had the subject undo consideratio4 a 5 to what was to bo done in the event of the Queen being dethroned. The hopes of the Carlists have once more revived, and they affirm that France would support the Count de Montemolin in preference either to a Montpensier, a ißraganza, or any other candidate. The following telegraphic despatch reached Paris yesterday (Sunday) " Madrid, Feb. 22. " The whole of Spain is declared in a state of siege. " The Ministers of Queen Isabella assume a firm at titude. " Numerous arrests ha re taken place at Madrid among the members of the Opposition. A letter of the 20th from Madrid says, the minis try and local authorities are at this moment rival ing in zeal for the execution o f embellishments in the capital. In a few days the demolition of seve ral old houses near the Puerta o l d Sol, and on tine Plaza de Santa Anna is to be proceeded to. The works for bringing potable water into Madrid are being carried on. In a short time Madrid will present the appearance of a first rate capital. The adjudication of the railway from Malaga to Al uno dovar, 30 leagues in length, with a branch line from Cordova to Seville, is to take place to-day. It is believed that M. Salamanca will obtain the con cession. Queen Christina proposed to give a grand I►all on the 24th inst., at which it was expected tl hat their Majesties would be present. M. Salamanca had been declared the contractor for the execution of the railway from Malaga to Almodovar. M. Larios, of Malaoa, had propofwd to construct the road for 4,000,000 reals the league. M. Salamanca proposed to execute it for 3,999,900 reals per league, and his offer was accepted. The Three per Cents. were done on the 21st at 37i ; Deferred, 191. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen took a drive in an open carriage and four early on Saturday, accompanied by the Princesses Helena and Louisa, and attended by the Hon. Eleanor Stanley and Major-General Buckley. Her Majesty called at Gloucester Honse, Piccadilly, to make inquiry after the health of the Duchess of Gloucester. Prince Albert rode on horseback on Saturday fore noon, attended by Colonel Wylde. In the afternoon his Royal Highness visited the Royal Panopticon of Science and Art in L e i cester•square. . _ The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred visited the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's Park on Saturday. The Earl of Aberdeen had an audience of her Majesty on Saturday, at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty had a dinner party on Saturday at Buck ingham Palace. The company included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Newcastle, the Sardinian Minister, Marquis d'Azeglio, the Portu guese Minister and Countess Lavradio, the Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, Earl Spencer, Lady Fanny Howard, the Baroness de Speth, Viscount and Viscoun tess Emlyn, the Right Hon. Sir William and Lady Molesworth, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Right Hon. E. Strutt, Sir George Cooper, Rear- Admiral M. F. R. Berkeley, and Colonel Airey. The Queen's private band attended in the Palace after dinner and played the following compositions : Overture, "Macbeth" . Chelard. Scene, "Le Prophe te" Fantasie, Souvenirs d'Angleterre Hardy. Her Majesty, his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Duchess of Kent, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, attended divine service in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace yesterday morning. The Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting and the domestic household were also present. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester con tinues ill, but passed a better night on Saturday night. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited her Royal Highness yesterday: Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary also paid a visit to the Royal Duchess yesterday, at Glouces ter House. The Duchess d'Aumale and the Princess de Salerno visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent on Sa turday, at Clarence House, St. James's. Lord Raglan left town on Saturday evening for Paris. A deputation respecting agricultural statistics, headed by Mr. Masterman, M.P., had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Solicitor-General had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer, at his official residence in Downing-street, on Saturday. Despatches were received from the Governor of Gibrah tar at the Colonial Office on Saturday, and despatches were forwarded the same day to the Governor. Despatches were sent to the Governor of New Zealand on Saturday, FASHIONABLE PARTIES. VISCOUNT AND VISCOUNTESS PALMERSTON. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston entertained a distinguished party of guests at dinner, on Saturday evening, at their mansion, Carlton-gardens. Later in the evening her ladyship had an assembly, which was honoured with the attendance of a select circle of the corps dipl.matique and the leading members of the beau monde now in town. THE SPEAKER'S BANQUET. On Saturday evening the Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Commons gave his third parliamentary banquet this season, at his mansion, Eaton-square. The guests upon this occasion were Lord Harry Vane, Vis count Castlerosse, Lord Robert Grosvenor, th e Hon. Captain C. S. Hardinge, the Hon. H. T. Liddell, the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, the Right Hon. Sir Francis Baring, the Right Hon. Vernon Smith, the Right Hon. J. Stuart Wortley, Sir William Heathcote, Sir John Yarde Buller, Sir Robert Ferguson, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Sir George Tyler, Mr. Thomas B ar i ng , Mr. Lotus, Wigram, Mr. R oundell Palmer, Mr. Ver non Harcourt, Mr. Robert Palmer, Mr. Greene, Mr. Drummond, Mr. Sotheron, Mr. Bonham Carter, Mr. Osman Ricardo, Mr. Monsell, Mr. Lefroy (secretary), and Mr. Garnier (chaplain.) The following hon. members were prevented attending through indisposition :—Lord Seymour, Mr. Maucalay, Mr. Bramston, Mr. Tufnell, and Mr. Alderman Thompson. The following were also prevented, being out of town —Lord Lovaine, Mr. Wilson Patten, and Mr. Tatton Egerton. • _ LORD JOHN RUSSELL. Lord John Russell entertained :ciistinguished party of members of the House of Commons at a banquet, at his lordship's mansion, Chesham•place. The Duke and Duchess of Somerset had a small dinner party at Park-lane on Saturday evening. The guests included the Countess of Inverness, the Lady Georgina Fane, Mr. Dundas, and Mr. Babbage. The Countess of Clarendon has cards out for an as sembly at her ladyship's mansion, in Bruton-street, on Thursday evening next, _ The Earl of Derby has issued cards for a banquet at St. James's-square on Wednesday next. The Viscount and Viscountess Eirdyn and their youth ful family have arrived in Tylney-street from Golden Grove, near Carmarthen. The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of Com mons will hold his first parliamentary levee this season on Saturday, March 11, and the second on Saturday, March 18, both at ten o'clock. DEATH OF SIR HENRY PEYTON, BART.—The Oxford Chronicle announces the death of Sir H. Peyton, which event took place on Friday last, the 24th instant, at Bicester. The venerable baronet had been for a long time past seriously indisposed. INSURRECTION IN GREECE. A telegraphic despatch, dated Vienna, yesterday (Sunday) evening, says :—The insurgents have taken the citadel of Arta. Prevesa is also reported to have been taken by them. An insurrection has broken out at Grybos, in Negropont, equal in gravity to that in Albania. Two Greek generals and several staff officers have joined the insurgents. The Greek Government dreads an extensive deser tion of its soldiery. Precautionary measures have been taken. The following is the sense of a most important article in the Oesterreichische Correspondent of yesterday (Sunday) :—" The latest news leaves no doubt that the insurrection ,on the frontiers of Greece is extending. This is to be lamented, as it adds to the complication of the Oriental ques tion. The Greek insurrection, if not checked in time, may become dangerous to the conserva tive interests of Europe. When tho official organ of the French Government condemns insurrection ary movents in general, and that above-mentioned in particular, it has the perfect approval of Austria. " The sentiments expressed in the Moniteur apply to all cases and to all the phases which this ill-omened Oriental question may pass through." The Ost Deutsche Post of Feb. 21 remarks :-- "That it is notorious that an insurrection has broken out of late on the Greek frontier of Turkey and in Epi rus. It is a rising, they add, of the Greek Christians against Turkey, but taking an extended view of it, it seems likely to amount eventually to an insurrection of the whole Greek population against their Turkish supe riors, and hence it is of the utmost importance, not only as regards the position of Turkey to Russia, but in gene ral reference to the whole crisis. We feel it our duty, therefore, to publish the following important document as to be origin and commencement of this movement : " PROCLAMATION. " We, the undersigned inhabitants and clergy of Radobitsi, in the province of Arta, sighing under the iron yoke of ruinous taxation which the barbarous Otto man conquerors, incapable of any sort of culture or civi lisation, are pleased to lay upon us, again resume the struggle of 1821, and swear by the Almighty and our sacred Fatherland, that we will, in no case and under no pretence, lay aside our arms until we have obtained our liberty. At the outset of this struggle we hope to arouse the sympathy, as well of our brethren the free Hellenians, as also of those who, like ourselves, are groaning under the yoke of Ottoman oppression ; and that they will again grasp their arms, and resume the sacred struggle of 1821, and do battle for our faith and our fatherland, and for the attainment of our inalienable rights. " g Our cause is holy, our strife is just, and every one who but glances at the weight of the oppression we have endured, and considers the rights of nations, will have no word to say on behalf of our ruthless oppressors, or in vindication of the planting of the Crescent, as sup planting the interests of the Cross, on the roofs of our beautiful churches, Szc.' " Numerous arrests of political emissaries have been made in Hungary and Transylvania. The prisoners have been brought to Vienna. Baron Meyendorff has complained to Count Buol of the anti-Russian articles in the Lloyd. The Czar•is again making paper money. By an ukase of the 17th instant addressed to the directing senate, he orders the issue of six new series of credit notes, each of three millions of silver roubles (75 millions of francs.) So great is the press for men in Russia, that sol diers who had served for 25 years and been dis charged, are again called out and forced to march immediately. Advices from Constantinople, of the 13th Feb., state that General Sir John Burgoyne, two English lieutenants of En g i neers , an d a F renc h colonel, with an adjutant, arrived at the Turkish capital, on board the Caradoc. On the 11th they visited the Dardanelles, to inspect the fortifications. A treaty has been concluded between the Porte and France and England relative to future negoti ations with Russia. The Sheik-ul-Islam has ad vanced 10 0,000,000 piasters to the Porte, and ex pressed his willingness to make further sacrifices. One English and two French officers has been ap pointed to actual commands in the Danubian army. General Guyon h as b een appointed Chief of the Engineering Staff of the Armenian army. A letter from Constantinople, of the 9th, says : —Yesterday a council was held at the Porte. Great anxiety is felt here about Kalafat. How long this Oriental question is to last it is difficult to say ;it seems interminable. Commerce suffers from it, not only here, but everywhere. Down right war could not be much worse than the present state of uncertainty. All commercial enterprise and speculation are checked, and no one can say one day what the next may bring. Lord Stratford de Redcliffe has quite recovered from his late slight indisposition. Whilst every post from the East is eagerly awaited in London and Paris, and all Europe is anxiously directing it gaze towards Turkey, Con stantinople, the capital of the Ottoman empire, is in the enjoyment of the most uninteresting quiet. The Turks take things very cooly. This is the carnival. The French and English ambassadors, and the family of one wealthy banker, entertain, and they do it very well and very hand somely. The hotels have weekly masked balls— rather melancholy assemblages, to which you pur chase your entrance at so many piastres a head. The ceremony of dancing is gone through strictly selon les regles, and with the observance of rather frigid etiquette. The women are all masked, but do not seem t o k now th e a d van t age o f th a t dis guise. The gentlemen are almost all unmasked. There is, howev er , a spr i n kli ng o f ma l e dominoes, who hover about in a mysterious manner. They are by some supposed to be husbands ; they do not dance. There are also masked balls at the theatre. A Turkish woman was caught there last week, in a domino. Her husband had some suspicions, which turned out true. She had gone to the Giaour ball. Half a dozen of the cavasses (policemen) who haunt that building (they have the entrance to the theatre free, and sometimes form the bulk of the audience) escorted her out, and she was marched home in tears and distress by her angry husband. Going out at night in winter at Constantinople— that is to say, in the Christian suburbs (for no European enters the Turkish city after nightfall) is not an agreeable occupation. You must neces sarily be armed with three things—a pair of overall boots, reaching to the knee, to trudge through the mud in ; a paper lantern with an inch or two of candle in it - and a stick for the dogs—the latter may also be used as a private lamp -post, by hanging your lantern on it. Thus equipped, you stumble through dingy lanes, and up steep alleys, until you find your destination. The ladies go in sedan-chairs, carried by two stout hamals, and preceded by either a servant or cavass, with a huge lantern boasting of three candles, to clear the way. Carriages are very seldom used at night, the streets being so crooked, steep, and narrow. Though Constantinople possesses a motley Frank population of a very doubtful character, people are not robbed very often. One does not hear of every thing that occurs. About six weeks ago an En glish officer was knocked down, and his watch and purse taken from him ; and now and then, every month or so, you hear of somebody baying been stabbed. The principal use of carrying a lantern at night is not so much for personal safety as to HOLLAND. The Minister of War at the Hague has: presented to the Chambers a bill for an addition to the wax budget of a million of florins, for repairs: of fortifi cations and other objects of defence. DENMARK AND SWEDEN. A letter from Stockholm of the 16th says —" The secret committee of the Diet, which has hela 1. several sittings, has, it is said, been a u th or i se d by the King to make known to the Diet that the Oovern ment has received satisfactory replies on the subject of the declaration of neutrality from Auslria and Prussia ; also from France and England. As to :Russia, although she recognises the neutrality of De nmark, she makes difficulties with respect to that of S weden, although it is based on the same principles. Diplo matic negotiations are being continued, in of der to maintain the resolution taken by the King ; but it is impossible to make them known at this moment. It has been notified to the committee that the King intends to demand from the States a credit for taking measures rendered necessary by the decla ration of neutrality. The conduct of Russia is judged with severity even by those who do not be lieve that she desires to destroy the good under standing which exists between Sweden and Den mark." Another letter says :—"Nothing is ret known with respect to the placing of the whole , Swedish army on a war footin?, - -whether that m assure be adopted or not will depend on the sum i\rhich the Diet may grant. Up to this moment the Govern ment seems disposed to oonfine itself to sending some regiments to Gothland, and to reimforcing the garrisons of the maritime towns, and of the parts of the coasts which are the most interested in maintaining neutrality." We read in a letter from Christiana of the 14th : —" There is a question of arming before the spring 2 frigates, 3 corvettes, and a central dirision of the fleet." EGYPT. - - - - A telegraphic despatch from Alegandria, dated Feb. 18, states that a revolt has tyken place in Upper Egypt, and the population of Abyssinia is in arms. STRETFORD RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC' TELEGRAPIL) ARRIVALS FOR THIS DAY'S RACES. MANCHESTER STEEPLECHASE..—OId Rake, Theodine, Frederic, The Duchess, Farmer, Escape, Braggadocia, and Luke the Labourer. STRETFORD STEEPLECHASE.—Counteag, Linnet, Royal Blue, Diana, Smilax, Locomotive, and Take Notice. The races commence at half-past two. LIVERPOOL RACES. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ARRIVALS UP TO LAST NIGHT. Cockcrow, La Gazza Ladra, Kilquade, Burnt 'Sienna, Labyrinth, Come-away, Crabby, Andromache, and Yewtic. MALTON.—The filly by lago, out of Belle Dame (3 yrs), leaves here for Liverpool. CRIMINAL COURT-(THIS DAY), The February sessions of the Central Criminal Court was opened this day at two o'clock by the Righ Hon. the Lord Mayor, the Right Hon. the Recorder, Alder men Sir J. Duke, Moon, and Sir R. W. Carden, Mr. Sheriff Wire, Mr. Under-Sheriff Anderton, Sze. The first edition of the calendar contains the names of 115 prisoners. On the charge to the grand jury, the Recorder said that, although there were some serious cases in the calendar, they did not appear to him to present any diffi culties in point of law ; and therefore he should not de ter them from the performance of their duties by making any observations relating to them. His lordship then observed upon the absence of charges involving personal violence, and he at the same time said that the only class of offence which appeared on the increase vas that of uttering and making counterfeit coin—no leso than 35 persons out of the whole number contained in the calen dar being charged with that offence. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. - DAY.) SUSPECTED ROBBERY. William Devine, a lad about 18 years of age, wart placed at the bar before Mr. Hardwicke, charged with having a valuable shawl in his possession, supposed to have been stolen. Police-constable Joy, 187 C, stated that on Sunday night, about twelve o'clock, he met the prisoner in Jermyn-street, who asked him the way to Saffron-hill. Seeing that he had a lady's shawl round his neck, wit ness asked him where he got it from, and, with some con fusion, prisoner replied that he had been to a meeting round the corner, that his wife and him had a few words, when she tore his neck tie from his neck, and he then laid hold of her shawl and ran away with it. Witness not believing that tale took him to the station-hou se , where on searching him he found his neck-tie secreted round his body. Witness subsequently ascertained that a lady had met with an accident a short time before he met the prisoner, at the corner of Jermyn-street, and she had lost a shawl similar to the one found in priso ner's possession, and he therefore wished to have him remanded in order to procure the attendance of the lady. Prisoner was then remanded. CABINET COUNCIL—A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, on Saturday. The Ministers present were—the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Lord Chancellor, the Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat two hours. ARRIVAL OF THE CHANNEL FLEET.—It was reported at Portsmouth last night that the Channel Squadron, had arrived off t u h n e de l r sle th o e f Wcomigthnta,nfrdomot Admiral Corr y , SECOND INSTALMENT OF TROOPS FOR TURXICY.—We have every reason to believe that the following regiments are under orders to prepare for their departure to the Mediterranean :—The Ist Foot (Royal Regiment), the 7th Royal Fusiliers, the 19th Foot, th e 23d Royal Welsh Fusiliers, the 88th (Connaught Rangers), and the 95th Foot. The Bth Hussars and 17th Lancers are likewise under or ders.—United Service Gazette. SEMI-OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS,—The only condi tion annexed to the free pardon so graciously granted by the Queen to Mr. Smith O'Brien, is the usual one of not returning within her Majesty's dominions. Indeed, for the present, a return to Ireland could not be considered desirable to himself. It is stated by his friends that he will probably join his family in France, where they have been residing for some time past. A free pardon will also be probably extended to Messrs. Martin and O'Doherty, who were convicted some time before Messrs. O'Brien, and O'Donoh ue , for the minor offence of sedi tious publi ca ti ons, and who were sentenced to a limited period of transportation, the greater part of which has already expired. It is not probable that any further indulgence will be granted to the other convicts, who have committed a second offence against the law by escaping from their sentence. The resignation of his place by the Hon. Colonel C. A. Gordon is entirely caused by his anxiety to accompany his regiment, the Grenadier Guards, into active service. His appointment as an extra groom-in-waiting is honorary, and without any emolument attached ; and to be regarded in no other light than as a compliment to his long and intimate ser vice in the household of the Prince.—Observer. THE GUARDS AND POWDER MONIKEYS.-Six sergeants of the Coldstream and Foot Guards, by order of the War-office, attended at the Royal Laboratory depart ment on Tuesday last, to go through a course of instruc tion to make Minie rifle cartridges. Boys, of the greatest Ca,t“ s;ir .:ac count; of ;le day, and they returned again to London to do duty.— ICI/WA Mercury. 1.44., tti The rather steadily more in beans a trade w On t been ra cha the 15t1 per bar] Then lams vei inquiry Thert oats. The I were on There tillotati4 Ditto... 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