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THEATRE ROYAL DRURY-LANE.- Lessee, Mr. E. T. SHITIL—TO-MORROW MORNING, March 8, GRIND N.I.TIONAL DE KONSTRATION in AID of a FUND Or clic support of the WIVES and CHILDREN of the SOLDIERS who have been sent as an expeditionary force on loreigu service. The Lessee has placed the Theatre, free of ex pense., for a Pperformanen of the Tragedy of VIRGINIUS, in which Mr. O. V. BROOKE (who on this occasion gives his services gratuitously) will appear, under the immediate patronage and spe cial desire of the Lord Mayor, the Saeriffs, and civic authorities, and the following illustrious patronesses, who have signified their inten tion of attending on this occasion : Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge. Her Royal lii.ihness the Princess Mary of Cambridge. The Lady Mayoress. Her Grace the Duchess of Hamilton. Her Grace the Duchess of Beaufort. Her Grace the Duchess of Montrose. Her Grace the Duchess of Somerset. • Her Grace the Duchess of Inverness. The Most Noble the Marchioness of Aylesbury. The Most Noble the Marchioness of Blandford. The Right Hon. the Countess of Chesterfield. The Right Hon. the Countess of Kinnoull. The Right Hon. the Countess of Glengall. rue Right Hon. the Countess of Besborongh. The Right Hon. the Countess of Derby. The Right lion. the Countess of She'burne. The Right Hon. the Countess of Wilton. The Right Hon. the Countess of Desert. The Right Hon. the Countess of Donaughmore. The Right Hon. the Vis eountese Palmerston. The Right lion. the Viscountess Maidstone. The Right lion. the Viscountess Newport. Lady Sophia Deveaux. Lady Colville. Lady Raglan. The lion. airs. Anson. 31 rs. Disraeli. Mrs. J. Stanley, Ito. By kind permission of the Colonel and Ofillera, the Band of the Royal Household Cavalry will be present. flee foilowirt4 Galaxy of Talent have volunteere i their services to the La ly Patronesses for this occasion : —1IA,1:11113 Favanti, Misses Stanobach, Poole, Feather stone, and Cicely Mott, firs. A. N. Froisham, Mr. St. Alban, and the celebrated Distils s'a'nity, with their Sae Horn/. The Orches tra and Chorus will be augmented f this grand occasion. The Lord Mayor, with his usual Madness an 1 generosity, has con sented to act as treasurer, and to whom subscriptions may b 3 sent. The entire receipts to be forwarded to the Lord Mayor and Lady Patronesses. to form a public fond for the above purpose. Doors open at halt-east one, and commence at two o'clock precisely.—Sub scriptioni received by the Commercial Bank of Lotion, Henrietta street. The Lessee also begs leave to inform the nobility and gentry that this Theatre will be placed at the disposal of the Lady Patronesses for a Faitley Fair, or Bazaar, on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. Apr i l le, 13, and 14, on which occasion the entire Pit will be covered over for their accommodation; and all articles intended to be for warded as a present for this national purpose, will bo entered in a book, with names and addresses of donors. THEATRE ROYAL DRITRY LINE. Lessee, Mr. E. T. Smith. The Last Week but Three of Mr. G. V. BROOKE'S Engagement previous to his sailing for California and Australia. THI3 EVENING, MARCH 7, Will be performed THE VENDETTX; or, The Corsican Br). them Tile principal characters by Messrs. G. V. Brooke and T. Mead. To conclude with MIDAS. The principal character by Miss Featherstone. THEATRE ROYAL, EIAYMA.RICET. Under the management of Mr. Bnekatone. TLIIS' EVENING, Mute!' 7, Will be performed a new comic drama, called R XNEL A GIL Characters by Messrs. Yandenhott W. Farren, Buckstone, Tilbury, and Rogers; Miss Reynolds, Mrs. Fitzwilliam, &e. To be followed by THE HOPE OF THE FAMILY. Character by Messrs. Chippendale, Compton, and Backstone ; Mrs. Fitzwilliam, Miss E. Grey, &c. To conclude with MRS. WHITE. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE. OXFORD-STREET. Under the Managemant of Mr. CILUILES SEAN. THIS EVENING, MARCH 7, Will be performed THE RIVALS. Characters by Messrs. W. Lacy, Harley, Meadows, J. Vining, Mellon, and Addison ; Mrs. Winstanley, Mrs. W. Lacy, Miss Heath, and Miss C. Leclercq. After which will be presented the new Grand CHRISTMAS PAN TOMIME, entitled HARLEQUIN AND THE MILLER AND HIS MEN; or, King Salaanandar and the Fairy of the Azure Lake. Harlequin, Mr. Corina.ct ; Clown, Mr. Huline; Pantaloon, Mr. Paulo; and Columb.ne, Miss Desborough. LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Vestris TIES EVENING. MARCII 7, Will be parformekt A BAEFIELOR OF ARTS. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Baker; Miss F. Hughes. After which, the original Fairy E•ctravaganza, called ONCE UPON A TIME THERE WERE TWO. KINGI4. Characters by Messrs. Roxby, F. Matthews, and Eland; Madame Vestris, Misses St. George, Eglanton, Mason, Martindale, Ells, Wadhain, and oote. To conclude with PATTMR VERSUS CLATTER. Principal character by Mr. Charles Mathews. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Pro2rletor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, MARCH 7, Will be presented the highly Popular New Nautical Arelo-drama id five tableaux, with new scenery, the Sea of Ice, &c., new dresses and appointments, called TUE TEIIRST OF GOLD; or, TRW LOST SHIP AND VIE IVILD FLOWER OF MEXICO. Principal characters by Messrs. B. Webster, Keeley, Paul Bedford, Madame Celeste, &c. To conclude, with THE SERIOI74 FAMILY. Characters by Messrs. D. Webster, Leigh Murray. Porsche, and Keeley ; Mrs, L. 3turray, 3flAcs Woolgar, Fanny Maskell, and Laidlaw, and Mrs. Keeley. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. A. Wigan. THIS EVENING, Msacu 7, Will be performed TO OBLIGE BENSON. Supported by Messrs. Emery, Robson, and Leslie ; Mrs. Stirling and Miss Wyndham. To be followed.by PLOT AND PASSION. Principal characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, P. Robson, Emery, Leslie, Whits, Franks. and 11. Ccoper ; Miss E. Turner, and Mrs. Stirling. After which, THE BENGAL TIGER. Principal characters by Messrs. Alfred Wigan, and F. Robson ; and Mrs. Wigan and Miss Marston. STRAND THEATRE. So:o Lessee, Mr. F. W. Allcroft.—Directress, Miss Rebecca Isaacs THIS EVENING, MAUR 7, Will be performed THE HEART OF AN IRISHMAN. Princi pal characters by Messrs. G. Hodson, Herbert, and Miss Noel. Followed by the ANONYMOUS LETTER. After which, THE WATERMAN. Tha principal character by Miss G. Hodson. To conclude•with THE CORKONIAN BROTHERS. Paddy and Thn Mulligan (the Brothers), Mr. G. Hodson. Stalls, 55.; Bang, 34 . .; Pit, Pr. td; Gallery, 6d.; Private Boxes, IL Its. 6d., io be had of Mr. Aileron, 15, New Bond-street. ASTLEY'S EUROPE'S NATIOSAL AMPHITHEATRE. Lessee and Manager, Mr. William Cooke. THIS EVENING, Miami 7, And during the week, will he presented the new, grand, and romantic spectacle entitled THE WOOD AA N'S HORSE; or, The False Knight—the Woodmin's Horse by the pet steed, Beauty, expressly trained by Mr. William Cooke. After which, Scenes of the ARENA. To conclude with the Domestic Drama of THE WHITE FARM, Boz-oftice open from E:even till Four. Stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. 'rats DAY —Moining 2 min.after 7 1 Evening 25 min.aft. 7 To-Moaaow—Mo r ni ng 58 m i n . a f ter 7 I Evening 37 min.aft. 8 THE WEATHER.—S oyrica, Miicu 7. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 44 —highest since noon yesterday. 36 —lowest this morning and during the night. 47—this day at noon. BARONETEg, 30'18. WIND, S.W.—Moderate breeze. Morning, hazy— afternoon, sunshine. • ) t * NE.' <l4, LONDON, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1854. The Financial Statement just delivered in the Rouse of Commons is in some parts eminently satisfactory, but there is, unfortunately, an alloy which materially detracts from the gratification we might otherwise experience. We should in deed rejoice at finding such powerful corroboration of the principle on which we have so frequently insisted, viz., that reductions of taxation do not lead to corresponding or proportionate reductions in the revenue as that afforded by the excess of the receipts over the estimates, which amounted to no less than 1,035,0001., another strong illus tration of the buoyancy of our national resources. A nearly equal sum, or 1,012,0001., also appeared on the credit side of the national balance sh eet— money saved by the economical management of the money allocated by Parliament for the year's expenditure. Here, then, was an unexpected wind fall of 2 , 0 47,000/., a vary nice nest egg with which to begin operatiois for the approaching sear. But, unfortunately, there was a serious item on the opposite side of the ledger. The move ment for the conversion of certain portions of the public debt had proved a complete failure, result ing in a loss of about 800,0001. sterling, and strippi ng the xachequer of the handsome balances which would have been so peculiarly valuable at an emerge ncy like the present. We may possibly * have to bor row equal sums at an expense very far exceeding the be ne fi ts derived from the i r use . And for all this, the n a ti on gains some 15,0001. per annum, taken from the incomes of persons who confided in the prescience of the Financial Minister ; and thereby lost about 15 per cent. of their entire capital. But even that large amount by no means represents the total losses occasioned by the tampering of the Right Hon. Gentleman with the public debt. The interest of money was increased, and monetary accommo dation restricted, serious difficulties imposed on our merchants, traders, and manufacturers, while landholders and shareholders of every species of stock saw their property depreciated some ten or twelve per cent. It is true that a great portion of that depreciation was occasioned by the unwar rantable conduct of the AUTOCRAT — conduct that has already cost us, or is estimated to cost us, within a short time, more than four and a half millions of direct expenditure, and which has indirectly occasioned damage to a much larger amount by the depreciation of every description of property. But the evil was materially en hanced, ao far as the indirect losses by depreciation were concerned, by the imprudent dealing ,g Mr. GLADSTONE with the public funds. ' ' ' It may be said that lie could not have possibly foreseen that the CZAR would have persisted in his' unjust and impolitic aggression with such unpa ralleled perversity, or that he should so obstinately and unwisely have refused to avail himself of the numerous loop-holes allowed for him to slip out of and evade the consequences of the formidable blunder he had committed. Bat even at the time when Mr. GLADSTONE brought forward his propo sition, the cloud in the East was distinctly per ceptible, and it required no extraordinary degree of political foresight to see that extensive specula tive experiments should have been avoided at such a time. The loss has entirely arisen from Mr. GLADSTONE's ambition to found a high financial reputation at the very commencement of his career in that important de. partment, and he must not be chary of his labour in attempting to repair the damage he has created. I After taking into account the saving of expen diture and the excess of income over the estimates already referred to, the Chancellor of tke Ex chequer calculated that he would be obliged to discover new sources from whence no less that' 2,810,0001. might be obtained, the additional war expenditure (according to present estimates) being 4,506,0001. The Right Honourable Gentle man very judiciously refuses to retrace our foot steps by the re-imposition of indirect taxes which have been abolished or reduced. He is too well acquainted with the state of public opinion' on fiscal matters to venture on such a proposition. He could, therefore, only obtain the necessary sum by borrowing, or resorting to increased direct taxation. He has selected, and, in the present stage of the: case, perhaps not unwisely, the latter branch of the alternative, thinking that in the first instance, at least, we should endeavour to defray the expenditure our selves rather than cast any portion of it on pos terity. We do not say that he is wrong in so doing. For the present we abstain from expressing an opinion on that part of the case, but this we will say, that if he is now right, he was decidedly wrong in his conversion project, when at a time of profound peace, and when the nation was in the enjoyment of almost unexampled prosperity, he endeavoured to effect a temporary saving of interest at the expense of that very posterit y about which he is now so solicitous, coolly increasing by the flourish of a pen the nominal capital of the debt no les3 than ten per cent., all of which would eventually have to be liquidated at par. How the admirers of the Right Honourable Gentleman can reconcile the two projects, or henceforward vindicate his consistency, is more than we can even guess. We, therefore, leave the arduous task to those who are willing to undertake it. The mode by which he contemplates raising the additional sum is by DOUBLING THE INCOME TAX ! ! Doubling it, with all its glaring inconsistencies and intolerable grievances flourishing in unabated strength. Yes, the Income Tax, the days of which were numbered, as we fondly imagined— at least such of us as believed the flattering pro mises of the Right Hon. Gentleman. We our selves never indulged in such brilliant but decep tive visions. And now it is to be doubled, and that without modification or amendment of any kind. Our gloomy vaticinations have been thus too speedily verified ; and we have received un exceptionable evidence that in any emergency the Income Tax is the first source of revenue that will be resorted to. We do not regret that it should be so. On the contrary, we have invariably main tained that a fairly-apportioned income tax, judi ciously discriminating between permanent and temporary, and also between fixed and precarious income, is the most expedient, as it is' unques tionably the most equitable mode of replenishing the national exchequer. Our objections were not against the impost, but against the glaring injus tice of the assessment that charged all kinds of income at the same rate, without regard to its duration or fluctuating chiracter. Advantage was taken of the pledge that it was to be 'allowed to expire in seven years to obtain its renewal for the prolonged period without modification. In vain we warned our representatives of the dodge —in vain we called on the people to speak out temperately, but firmly, and to insist upon the immediate discontinuance of the fiscal atrocity. A detachment of "Marines" could not have exhibited greater credence. It was really an affecting instance of credulity. They swallowed everything which the ABERDEEN organ, with its various Gladstonite followers of the Fourth Estate, chose blandly to put forward. Our salu tary cautions were received as if they had fallen from another CASSANDRA; and we ourselves are obliged to regret the melancholy facts that establish, beyond the possibility of doubt, the accuracy of our predictions. There is, however, " balm in Gilead ;" the ad dition to the tax is only asked for a single half year. Unfortunately, the present case, for the exigencies of the nation, " brooks not of delay." If we feel the full weight of the burden, we may console ourselves with the thought that Parlia ment must be appealed to before it can again be demanded by the urgent collector at our doors. That is certainly a great comfort, and there is another also. The Right Honourable Gentle man, who manifestly has peculiar sources of in formation, not available to the community in general, manifestly Indoks forward to a speedy ces sation of hostilities, and a belief that the four and a half millions will cover the entire expense of the war. This affords a cheering prospect, and will materially improve thefeeling on the Stock Exchange—a matter at which the -Right Ho n . Gentleman doubtless arrived, as he may thereby, in some degree, diminish the losses arising from his abortive operation of last year. Indeed, the present may be energetically termed " THE STOCK EXCHANGE BUDGET ;" for if it had been framed solely to meet the views of the money-dealers, it could not do so more effectually. It is to be regretted that not a single word was uttered on the all-important subject of economising our stock of the precious metals ; releasing some portion uselessly stored up in the vaults at Threadneedle-street--as uselessly, in deed, as if it still remained buried in the bowels of the Ural mountains, or were luring new emi grants, to the " digging' of Australia or California, or of rendering some of that now in daily use avail able for our foreign transactions by a substitution of small notes abundantly secured for the sovereigns that are constantly changing hands: On this all important subject he preserved' a total' and un broken silence. We yield our full and -unmiti gated approbation to the plan respecting the stamp duties on bills of exchange, rendering foreign bills equally liable with inland. It is nearly that put forward by Mr. PACE, to which we have already directed attention. The Right Hon. Gentleman thinks that this change may occasion a present loss of about 100,0001., but that eventually the receipts may be nearly equal to those levied under the present system. He need not, however, think so humbly of the project. We distinctly, delibe rately, and advisedly assert that, in place of loss, large profits will result from the equitable change, and that in this, again, it will be found that " honesty is the best policy !" Another masterly State paper has recently been penned by M. DROUYN DE L'Huvs, and officially published in the columns of the Moniteur, in the name of the French Imperial Government. It is an epitome of the whole of the arguments com prised in a recent and memorable correspondence. The monstrous mis statements of the CZAR are therein again exposted and refuted beyond the possibility of misapprehension. Referring to the disingenuous manner in which the Russian AUTO CRAT is endeavouring to prove that throughout these occurrences he has been the victim of a systematic and preconceived hostility, the French Minister contents himself with observing, It is not my voice, it is that of Europe, that replies that never did an imprudent and haughty policy meet in any age with calmer ad versaries." It is true. ' True, indeed, to an eater nt we have sometimes thought absolutely deploy. able. " Calmer Adversaries" surely man. never had than the Emperor STieso- I" has had, frog n first to last...adversairi;es who have perrjtte4 him cropp the for,l)4l4eu r el4rKe9; of the Pruth, to '00044 the twid isrovinees cif Moldo-Walrachia, to ravage the Ukiiicisus, tQ mas sacre the unfortunate Turks at Sinope, and to threaten, any time these last twelve months, an advance upon the city of Constantinople. Calmer ? Could adversaries be calmer in any quarrel, than those who have tolerated so long these monstrous and most unjustifiable acts of aggression ? Meet ing the assailant, of the Ottoman Empire up to the last moment with no more formidable weapons than those wielded by an effete diplomacy ! ,Meet ing him, not with grapeshot and cannon-balls, not with sword and bayonet, but with Notes, and projects, and quiet little drafts of agreement; and most pacific and conciliatory, though utterly futile and abortive, attempts at negotiation ! Happily the carnival time has passed by for our ambassadors and plenipotentiaries. We are no longer to be restricted to the amusement of pelting each other with the sugar plums of diplomacy—the comfits of official etiquette—the paper pellets of modern statesmanship. The grim game of war is to be played instead of the miserable pastime which ended the other day, in anything but child's play, in that terrible Sinope catastrophe. War is at last to begin in earnest -- a war for •he payment of the expenses of which France i s o raise a loan of two hundred and fifty millions of francs, 10,000,0001., and for th e li qu i3ation of which England was asked last evening :ill the House of Commons to consent to an increase Of the Income Tax during the next half-year, from 7d. to lop., (Yielding an increase of 3,307,000/.) ae ,"ordiug to the ingenious Budget for the year ?.$54-5, prepared by her MAJESTY'S Chancellor of ti Exchequer. Upon that war, indeed, we are now' adventuring with ,a perfect accord and enthusiasm tiNlong Frenchmen. and Englishmen. ' Yesterday, another of the distinguished sur vivors of the last war,.the last war of the gian% the war carried on by all the nations of Europe in succession, and at length combined, against NAPOLEON, passed away from the public scene in the person - of the Marquis of LONDONDERRY. Be tween the date of his birth in 1778, and of his denth on the 6th March, 1854=a long career was developed, of eminence in arms, and skill in diploma p— of public s integrity and private munifi cence -- a career which has now been ab ruptly corapileted, though not without leav ing behind tho brave soldier who is gone the memory of an ';honourable reputation. It is by a curious and not altogether unaffecting coincidence that this sarvivor (until to-day) of the last war, after the lapse of the principal portion of half a century of European quietude, disap pears' from amongst us on the eve of another gigantic struggle amongst the great races of Chris tendom. It is worthy of note, moreover, that whereas in the previous contest England and France opposed each other with implacable ani mosity, as the chief among the belligerents, those two countries are now firmly allied as the opponents of Russian Barbarism, and as the champions of European Civilisation. At the commencement of this new contest it is impossible, with all our regard to its vital portance and its vast magnitude—it is impossible, we say, even at this supreme moment, not to pause with considerable emotion before the death bed of that gallant veteran, whose fame for prowess was won at the point of his keen sword as Sir CHARLES STEWART, and whose civic enterprise and magnanimity have been so frequently attested since his elevation to the Earldom of Vane and his earlier succession to the peerage as Marquis of LONDONDERRY. His tory has already long since recorded the deeds of daring which marked, by many a notable passage of arms, the track of Sir CHARLES STEWART over the battle-fields of the Peninsula. Recognised ever since then as among the most dashing of our cavalry officers, he achieved the privilege of that distinction at Ba;dajoz, Busaco, Fuentes-d'Onor, and Talavera, by,a display of personal heroism subsequently rewarded at different, but some Of them, it is true, protracted intervals, with the ribbons And badges of many orders of knighthood, including the highest grade of the order of the Bath, and a portion of the insignia of the Garter worn dur ing so many years by the late Duke Of WELLING TON. The deceased nobleman, it is still remem bered, did good service to England during the last war, as well by his diplomacy as by his prowess—not the least of his successes in the former instance being his adroit triumph at a moment of singular emergency over the wiles and trickeries of BERNADOTTE. Superiors though the late Lord LONDONDERRY unquestionably may have had elsewhere, as in the Senate or the Council Chamber a braver soldier never bestrOde his war horse. His heart true as the steel that clanked in his scabbard. It was one, more over—we all remember that—sensitive to every dictate of magnanimity. No one has lost the recollection of hiS generous appeal, sesterill years since, to the late KING of the FRENCH in behalf of Louis NAPOLEON, then a prisoner in the Fortress of Ham. Neither has any one forgotten his more recent intercesion with. the reigning EM PEROR of the FRENCH with a view to effect, as was indeed ultimately thereby accomplished the libera tion from the Chateau at Amboise of the heroic Emir ABD -EL .KADER. Incidents—those—which must henceforth be touchingly associated with the memory of CHARLES WILLIAM, Earl VANE and Marquis of LONDONDERRY. Peace to the gentle heart ! Honour to as brave a soldier as ever fought under the banners of England, or drew his sword in the name of his country and his Sovereign ! DRURY LANE TREATRE. GRAND MORNING PERFORMANCE. At the morning performance to be given here to-morrow in aid of the fund for the support of the wives and chil dren now on their way to the East, the play of Virginius will, by special desire, be substituted for the Corsican Brothers• As we stated a few days ago, the lessee has placed the theatre at the disposal of the managers of the fund free of expense, and Mr. G. V. Brooke will render his services on the occasion gratuitously. The IJord Mayor, the Sheriffs, and other civic authorities, under whose pa tronage the demonstration takes place, ' are 'to attend in state ; and we may mention that in order to increase the attractions, the'colonel and officers of the( Royal Household Cavalry have given permission to their band to be present; and Madame Favanti, Miss Stabbach, Miss Poole, Mrs. Alexander Newton, Miss Featherstone, and the Distin family_ have volunteered Itheir assistance. The praise worthy object to which the , proceeds are to be devoted is alone, we hope, in the present state of affairs sufficient to draw together a large concourse of those who have so en-. thusiastically cheered our departing wadies; but when we consider the interesting and almostunnprecedenti3d nature of the entertainments, we have no doubt the house will be overflowing to-morrow, and the coffers of the' treasurer. likewise. CABIN= COUNCIL.—A Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, Downing-street, yesterday afternoon. The Ministers present were the Earl of Aberdeen, .Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Vii. count Palmerston ; the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke,of ' Newcastle the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Janice Graham, Sir - Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth, The Council sat two hours and half MANSION HOUSE.—A grand dinner was given at the Mansion House last evening, in the !Egyptian Hall . ; covers were laid far 125. Among the; guests were H. Brown, Esq., M,P., Mr. Pugh, M.P., and Mrs. P_ u g h, H. B. Coles, E sq ., M.P., an d Mrs. Coles, George War ner, Esq., M.P., and Mrs. Warner, Mr. and Mr. W. C. Plowden, Colonel and Mrs. Chatterton, Dr. Reid, and Mrs. Reid, Mr. S. Hare, Mr.: M‘Garrett, Dr. Daniel, Mr. Frith, Captain and Mrs. Astbridge, Mr. and the Misses Curling, Mr. Golding, Major Barnard, Captain Jay, Mr. A. F. Chamberlayne, Mr. and Mrs. W. James, Mr. Alderman Hunter, Mr. Alderman Moon, Mr. Alderman and Mrs. Finnis, Mr. Deputy Unwin and Mrs. Unwin, Mr. Deputy Christie and Mrs. and Miss Christie, Mr. Deputy and Mrs. Archer, Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Hall, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Valiance, Mr. and Mrs. Perkins, Mr. and Mrs. John Clark, Mr. and Mrs. Venables, Mr. and Mrs. Vile, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond, Mr. and Mrs. Rathbone, Mr. R. N. Phillips, Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Rose, Mr. and Mrs. Aitchison, &c! RUSSIAN PRODUCE.—The markets for Russian pro duce continue to experience extensive movements, and hemp yesterday.advanced 31. per ton. On Saturday 471. was accepted, and yesterday 501. was offered. FALL IN THE. PRICE OF BREAD.—Yesterday another fall in the price of the 41b. loaf of one-halfpenny took place. The bakers at the west-end and other parts of the metropolis (what are called first-rate bakers), now charge for the best wheaten bread 104 d. and lid., second-rate, 9d. to 9/d. ' • and some only 84d., weighed on delivery. Good wholesome bread in the populated districts of Whitechapel, Spitalfields, the Borough, Westminster, Tottenhanvoeurt-road, may be pro. cured for ed. the loaf. EVENING, MARCH 7, 1854. THE SUN, LONDO: DEATH - of the M. 4. 7 . . RQUIS of-LONDONDERRY. • - - Inexorable death has removed another of the few remain ing men whose lives illustrato the most brilliant epoch of our history. On Thursday last the Marquis of Londonderry, who had only recently recovered from the effects of an accident, serious.at his age, was walking down Piccadilly, apparently in his usual health. Yesterday, his earthly career had closed. Few public men have occupied a more honourable posi tion than that which, notwithstanding the .occasional sneer of an opponent, has, by common assent, been assigned to Charles Stewart, third Marquis of Londonderry. At a very early age he entered that branch of the service of his country in which he was destined to acquire eminent distinction, and during lie hottest period of our struggle with the prodigious 'power of Napoleon, he shone as one of the most brilliant and daring officers of the British army. It would be superfluous to recount the almost innumerable instances of gallantry exhi bited by Sir Charles Stewart during the Peninsular campaigns. His history is, in fact, a portion of the military history of our country ; and when the lapse of time shall have awarded to each his due meed of praise, no name, we venture to nay, will be more honoured by those who can appreciate unostentatious bravery when combiied with the humanity and generosity which complete the character of a good and gallant soldier. By his military contemporaries the marquis has always been regarded as the beau ideal of a dashing cavalry officer, and his ; title to that distinction has been proved on many a hard-fought field. During the most active period of his career his talents as a military diploma tist were frequently made available at the most critical junctures by the groat Captain, for whom, all through his life, and in every vicissitude of party and personal relations, he continued to cherish and to express an affectionate re verence. At a subsequent period Lord Londonderry repre sented his Sovereign as Minister Plenipotentiary at the Courts of Berlin and Vienna, where he acquitted himself of the high charge entrusted to him with so much tact and ability as to render important services to Great Britain, at the same time that he secured the personal friendship and esteem of the highest . personages at the Courts to which he was accredited. In 1814, Sir Charles. Stewart (who had married, 10 years previously, Lady Catherine Bligh, daughter of the third Earl of Darnley) was, in recognition of his distinguished services, called to the peerage of the United Kingdom, by the title of Baron Stewart. His lordship's first wife h av i ng di e d i n 1812, he married, secondly, in 1819, Lady Francess Anne, only daughter of Sir Harry Vane Tempest, by' Anne; Countess of Antrim.. The immense possessions to which this lady was heiress, together with the fact of her being a ward in Chan cery, attracted, at the time, a great degree of public interest. The responsibilities devolved upon Lord .Londonderry by the management of the property of his bride, embracing a consider able portion of the county 'of Durham, and including some of the most important coal , mines in the country, opened a new field for the exercise. of energies-vrhieb the cessation of war had thrown into temporary inaction. His lordship applied himself with a vigorous activity, which formed one of his characteristics, to the development of the vast resources of the estates; and. iu this sphere of exertion exhibited an en terprise and sound judgment, the fruits of which will be per manently enjoyed by his successors. Among the great works of improvement which Lord Londonden7 planned and carried out to completion was the construction of Seaham Harbour, an un dertaking almost unprecedented as au instance of private enterprise, arid justly accounted amongst the wonders of engi neering achievements. The successful completion of this harbour elicited from the late Sir Robert Peel, on the occasion of its opening in 1847, a graceful tribute to the wise and un selfish courage of the mind which had conceived it. Sir Robert said : " in the district where he addressed them, they knew more than he could tell them of the noble marquis's public and pri vate virtues, but he must be allowed to remark that not even the calamity which had befallen hi m fi ve years s i nce, when his neighbouring mansion was razed to the ground by fire, had deterred him from the prosecution of that great work, the successful completion of which they had now the pleasure of witnessing. The poet had described undertakings of this character as ' Imperial works, and worthy kings.' _ _ What, then, should t l lley say of works like these, when under taken by a private individual? He hoped the noble marquis would ultimately reap the. just reward of his labours. Under any circumstances it could not fail to prOve a proud reflec tion to his lordship ; and Lady Londonderry, at the close of life, that they had appropriated their property so as to be the founders of a port ou the eastern coast of England ; that they had added to the maritime strength of the country, and the employment and industry of its inhabitants ; and that they had established every institution connected with the well-being of the people, provided for their religious worship, administered consolation in sickness and suffering, and re membered all those moral obligations which the possession of property imposed." An the calamitous death of his elder brother, the second marquis— better known to history as Viscount Castlereagh— the late peer succeeded' to the Irish honours of his family. In 1823, his lordship was ' crea.tdd Earl Vane and Viscount &Islam in the British peerage, with reniainder to his issue by his second wife. Without referring to the circumstances attending his ap pointment to, and relinquishment of, the embassy to St. Petersburg, during Sir Robert Peel's short-lived Administra tion, in 1834-5, it will bemuflicient to observe as connected with the political part taken...by Lord Londonderry, that his conduct was generally that of a moderate and independent Conservative. Few men have more freely indulged in the expression of uncompromising opinions upon any subject with respect to which conviction was fairly awakened, and, • at the same time, so generally succeeded in avoiding the in curral of personal enmity. Indeed, personal enemies his lord ship had none. His thorough goodness of heart was evidenced by so many acts of kindness and liberality, that those who knew him best respected and loved him most. The affection entertained for him by his immediate relatives, and by all who came within the sphere of domestic and personal cor respondence, was of a warmth which attested his sterling .qualities of temper and disposition. Among his leading im pulses was a chivalrous and devoted attachment to the memory, of his brother, whose character, 'when assailed by ignorance, thoughtlessnOss, or =Betty, he spared no eff or t to vindicate from misrepresentation. This feeling was . con spicuously manifested in one of the latest acts of his, life— the publication of the " Correspondence. and Despatches of Lord Castlereagh," a work which takes rank as one of the mut valuable contributions to the political history of Europe. The marquis was z Khight of the Garter, and amongst the other honours conferred on him by his own, and by foreign Sovereigns, was that of the highest grade of the Order, of the Bath—the St. George of Russia, the Black and Red Eagles of Prussia, the Tower and Sword of Portugal, the Sword of Sweden, (ice. His lordship was a General in the army, and Colonel of the 2d Life Guards, in his connection with which regiment he felt much pride and interest. His lordship died from the effects of a sudden attack of influenza, which proved too severe for a constitution already weakened by long service and the natural decay of age. His death was free from pain, and his last moments were solaced by the presence of nearly all the members of the family—in cluding his youngest daughter, and his sister, the wife of the General Commanding-in-Chief. In the titles of Earl Vane, and Viscount Seaham, and iu the English estates, the marquis is succeeded by his second son ; and in his other titles, and a portion of the Irish pro- perty, by his eldest son, Viscount Castlereagh-now Marquis of Londonderry; The Marquis of Londonderry is dead. It was not destined that a man who had seen so, much service during the last war should see the commencement of the hostilities in which Eng land is at present . involved. Lord Londonderry was among the now not very numerous survivors of our last great contest with continental Europe. He entered the Simi) , as an ensign in the year 1794, and saw some service in the unfortunate expedition to Holland, during the course of which he received a severe wound. During the whole course of the Peniasular opera tions there was no more gallant cavalry officer thin Charles Stewart. He was among the last to quit the beach at Corunua. .During the subsequent campaigns we find his name honourably mentioned at Talavera, Busaco, Fuentes D'Onor ' and Badajoz. It was not, however, only on th e field of battle, where he ever displayed the qualities of a fearless and accomplished soldier, that the Marquis of Londonderry earned honourable distinction. He camwespfsroamf ourlim a e lli. Onetoestime e ngaged in important missions to the instance may be recorded in which his personal courage and resolution rendered essential ser vice to the common cause. He was specially charged with the supervision of Bernadotte, the Swedish King, who had armed his troops by help of subsidies from ,Eng land, and was at the time wavering in his allegiance. No intercession less energetic than that of Sir Charles Stewart would have been effective to retain him in the path of duty. The secret history of the time exists to show what laud of remonstrance the English Envoy found it necessary to employ at so critical a moment as that which preceded the great battle of Leipsie. With all this, it was never pretended that the Marquis of, Londonderry possessed the qualities of a great military commander. He was as fearless a soldier as ever drew sword, and as undaunted in battle. But it cannot be said that, either as a diplomatist or states man, the deceased nobleman will leave behind him any great sante. The position of his brother, and the greatness of the country"which he represented, were enough to. add dignity to his diplomatic services, and what can be said with truth is, that there never was a braver soldier in the British army than the Charles Stewart whose death it is our duty this day to announce,— Times. MATH OP TIM BISHOP OP SALISBURY. An illness, as severe as it was sudden, has term inated in the death of this respected prelate, in the 63d year of his age, and after occupying the see of Salisbury for a period of 14 years. This melancholy event, whibh was perfectly unanticipated until within 4$ hours preeeding . its occur rence, happened about 6 o'elock yesterday evening. On the previous Monday his lordship presided at a meeting of the Church Missionary Society, held in Salisbury, and enter tained a party of the clergy to dinner at the palace. On the day following he proceeded to Portsmouth to witness the embarkation of troops for the ,Bast, and while so doing, caught a violent cold, which, supervening on a morbid condition of the liver, induced constipation and a complete derangement of the biliary functions, resulting in black jaundice, and terminating in death. EXPLOSION AND LOSS OF LIFE AT COTON'S FIREWORK MANUFACTORY.—Yesterday evening, between 6 and 7 o'clock, an explosion took place at the firework menu-. factory of Mr. Coton, in the angle of Charles-street and Elizabeth-place, Westminster-road, by which the pre mises were set on fire and destroyed, and the lives of Mr. Coton and three other persons sacrificed. Mrs. Coton, her sister-in-law, and two children were fortu nately extricated from the building without suffering much injury, having been at the moment of the explosion in the basement floor. The great quantity of fireworks of all sorts in the-premises did not all explode at the same moment, but continual explosions lasted for some time, to the terror of the neighbourhood, the rockets, Roman lights, &c., being discharged in all directions, an d driving back on all sides the mob assembled to witness thb scene. The firemen from the different stations were quickly in attendance, and immense volumes of water were poured upon the flames. It was, however, with great difficulty, from the combustible nature of the con tents of the place, that the fire was at length extin guished. The cause of this fatal conflagration is not known. Mr. Coton and a boy had gone to the top floor of the manufactory for the purpose of papering some fireworks almost immediately before the explosion took place. DEPARTURES FOR AUSTRALII.—The departures from the port of London for the Australian colonies during the week show in increase. They have comprised alto ('ether 11 vessels, six to Sydney, with an aggregate urden of 3,122 tons ; three to Port Philip, with an aggregate burden of 1,986 tons ; one to New Zealand of 529 tons ; and one to Hobart Town of 379 tons. Their total capacity was, consequently, 6,016 tons. The rates of freight are well supported, and exhibit a further ten dency to improvement. 1. et. JR v, LATEST FOREIGN NEWS. THE WAR IN THE EAST. The Gazette de la Baltique announces that the Russian Government has prohibited the exportation of corn and breadstuffis by the Black Sea and the Sea of Azoff. The Austrian Government, it is said, has sent to the Cabinet of Berlin the treaty entered into between Eng land and France, as well as the modifications it proposes to introduce into it , with a view to an understanding with those two Powers. General Coronini, Commander-in-Chief of the army of observation on the Servian frontier, has changed his head-quarters from Temesvar to Semlin. A letter from Krajova, of Feb. 24, says the Russians still maintain the defensive. There is as yet no indica tion of an intention to attack Kalafat. On the 2d inst., the two tourers appointed to convey the ultimatum of France and England to St. Petersburg passed through Berlin. A telegraphic despatch from Constantinople, of Feb. 20, states that a camp of 30,000 is forming at Odessa, and considerable additions are being made to the forti fications at Sebastopol. On the occasion of the disturbances which have just broken out in Epirus, the secretary of the Lo r d Hi g h Commission er o f the lonian Islands has addressed the following, circular to the English functionaries. It is dated Corfu, 20th ult. : " Sir-----Your letter of this day alludes to possible eventuali ties against which it is more diilicult to guard by means of special instructions than to remedy by the acquaintance of localities with their general interests, of which your good sense is the best judge. His Excellency, consequently, can only repeat to you that you must not do or allow anything of a nature to compromise the good faith of England and throw doubts on the policy of the Queen, conformably to the decla rations made by her Majesty's Ministers in Parliament, and by the representative of England at Constantinople. Her Majesty, in accord with her allies, has guaranteed the integ rity of the Ottoman Empire, without thinking that this gua rantee is incompatible with the civil and administrative privi leges which the Queen, in complete conformity of views with the other Christian Powers, wishes to see extended to all Chris tians who live wider the domination of Turkey, privileges which his Excellency doubts not will be placed by the allied Powers under the protection of Europe. Your duty, sir, like that of the Lord High Commissioner, is to convince the authorities of your island, as well as the most peaceable inhabitants, that the movement which has so unfortunately commenced in Greece, is certainly calculated to remove all hope of amelioration in the condition of the Greek po pulation of Turkey, by impelling them into a barbar ous struggle of a nature to endanger themselves, their fami lies, and their property, without the slightest chance of success, since no one can imagine that the treaties and decla rations of the Great Cabinets of Europe can depend on com mittees at Athens, the acts of which are assuredly not ad mitted by any established government. Yon will, therefore, sir, call the attention of the public to the fact that the representatives of the Four Great Powers a t Ath ens h ave supported the p r ot es t 'of the Minister of Turkey against the invasion of the Ottoman territory by a band of adven turers, for the most part subjects of Greece, and without the pretence of any difference having arisen between the Sublime Porto and Greece ; and you must endeavour to prove that this collective proceeding of the ministers of the Governments friendly to the Ottoman Porte is to bo considered as au inti mation to the Government of King Otho that it will be,made re sponsible for acts contrary to all international laws. ,You will also make known that the Diamond frigate has been sent to take part in the defence of Prevesa in case that town should be attacked ; that the French steamer Promethee has been sent to Corfu to collect information as to the real state of things; that 22 regiments are on the point of embarking in England for the Mediterranean ; and that the Lord High Commissioner, notwithstanding his desire to avoid any pretext for conflict in the island, will nevertheless not allow any attack to be made on the policy proclaimed by her Majesty in that protected state, and which is placed Under the exclusive control of her Majesty. If, then, meetings should be formed with the view of supporting the movement iu Epirus, or if attempts should be made by armed men to quit these islands, you must take measures for causing the persons compromised in any stay to be placed under arrest until new orders. In the event of emissaries being sent with the view of exciting the popu lations by means of incendiary publications, and iu the event of persons visiting the lonian territory without any avowed cause, or with suspicions intentions, these persons must bo requested to leave without delay, and they must be placed under the surveillance of the police until their departure, as has already been done at Corfu on two occasions. A rigorous surveillance must be exercised over the known chiefs of the Movement, and an exact account of their acts must be given to the police, leaving to the Lord High Commissioner the decision of the measures to be taken for remedying the evil by the exercise of the high powers with which he is invested. The instructions contained in my pre ceding circular relative to passports must be strictly observed. I must, besides, inform you that his Excellency is persuaded that a firm tone on your part joined to conciliatory language, and the employment of the means already indicated, combined with observations in which you will cause it to be understood that any person who may support the present movement will injure the veritable interests of peace, will probably produce more effect in maintaining tranquillity and preventing disorder than any appearance of sympathy for ideas, which on account of the present situation of the East aro incompatible with the engagements taken by the Queen and with the policy of Europe,, which are your sole guides." According to accounts from Trieste of the Ist, a body of Montenegrins, who had entered Albania without the knowledge of the Government of Montenegro, hiul been driven back, after losing 300 men. A. letter from Orsova of the 20th ult., in the Press of Vienna, says :—" The judicial i nves ti gat i on i nto the revolt f Albania is to be conducted at Widdin. Some arrests connected with this affair have been made in Bulgaria. Letters from Cattaro state that collisions have taken place between the Turks and the Montene grins on the frontier of the latter. This is, however, given only as a rumour, and is not guaranteed." A letter from Vienna states that the subscription for the new loan of 50 millions of florins will be opened ou the 7th, and closed on the 17th inst. The sinking fund for this loan will be by annuities of 1 and 1,4 per cent. for 50 years ; and each year there will be a drawing by lottery to cancel bonds. The loan is to be subscribed for in the Austrian dominions alone. A Berlin letter of the 3d says :—" In a recent meet ing of the Society of the National Bank, of which the Prince of Prussia is the protector, his royal highness, addressing the president, General de Malesgewski, said, Sooner or lat er c i rcums t ances w i ll arrive which will render it necessary for the army to respond to the appeal of the King. The object of this establishment will then be clear to every good patriot, and the soldier will rush to the combat, knowing that the King and the people will not forget him.' " Baron de Brunow, the ex-ambassador of Russia, has fixed his residence at Darmstadt: The Journal de Pranefort has the following from Vienna :—" Some German and English journals have stated that Klapka, Caeca, and other refugees, had em braced Islamism in order that they might be employed in the Turkish army. The Suabian Mercury, however, states that it has seen a letter' from Klapka, writ ten in the beginning of February, and can assert that Klapka and Czecz have not - abjured their faith, and that they have no employment in the Turkish army, and have lost all hope of having any. So long as Austria shall remain the friend of Turkey, or even maintain a neutral attitude, the Hungarian emigrants have little chance of being employed by the Porte in the military service." THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON AND THE EMPEROR NICHOLAS. The following circular bas been issued by the Mini ster of Foreign Affairs to the diplomatic agents of the Emperor : " Paris, March 5, 1854. " Sir,—You are now cognisant of the answer of the Em peror Nicholas to the letter of his Imperial Malady, and you have also read the manifesto which the former Sovereign has just addressed to his people. The publication of these two documents has destroyed the last hopes which might have been placed upon the wisdom of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg ; and that same hand which had acquired honour by the firmness with which it had offered support to Europe, shaken to its foundation, now opens the way to passions and chances. The Government of the Emperor is deeply afflicted at the inutility of its efforts and the ill-success of its mode ration : but, on the eve of the great struggle, which he has not desired, and which the patriotism of the French nation will enable him to assist, ho feels it necessary once more to disavow responsibility for results, and to place the whole weight of it upon that Power which will have to account for those results to history and to God. Important considera tions of propriety, I know, render my task difficult; but I shall fulfil it with the certainty that I am not saying one word which is not dictated by my conscience. "In addressing the Emperor of Russia in terms hi which the utmost conciliation was united with the most noble frank ness, his Imperial Majesty was desirous of. chairing the ques tion of all the obscurities which kept the world in suspense between peace and war e and endeavoured so to arrange it that there might be no offence against the dignity of any one, Instead of acting upon a similar principle, and accepting the friendly hand which was held out to him, the Emperor Nicholas preferred to recur to facts upon which public opi nion had definitively decided, and to represent himself as having had to contend, from the commencement of a crisis provoked by his Government, with a preconceived and sys tematic system of hostility which was fatally calculated to bring about that state of things which has arrived. It is not m y voice, sir, it is that of Europe, which replies that never at any period did an imprudent policy meet with adversaries More calm or more patient in their resistance to designs which their judgment condemned, and which considerations of pri mary importance compelled them to resist. ".I will not go back to past events, upon which such full light has beeu thrown ; but I must once more repeat, that it is no longer allowable to assimilate the dispute respecting the privileges of the Latins in the Holy Land with the' claim now put forward, That question was arranged from the very commencement of the visit of Prince Meuschikoff to Constantinople, and it is the Claim which that Ambas sador raised upon one point when he had obtained satisfac tion upon another which has roused the whole world, and inspired all the Cabinets with the same sentiment of precau tion and the same desire for conciliation. " Is it necessary to enumerate all the attempts, the failure of which is only attributable to an invincible obstinacy ? Nobody is ignorant of them, and there is not any one who is not aware that if decisive demonstrations were made during the progress of negoti a ti ons , e ach of those demon strations was preceded by an aggressive act on the part of Russia. "I will only recall to recollection the fact that if the French squadron at the end of March anchored in the Bay of Salamis, it was because since the month of January there had boon au immense assemblage of troops in Bessarabia. It the naval forces of Franco and England approached the Dardanelles, where they only arrived at the end of June, it was because a Russian army had been encamped on the banks of the Pruth, and because the resolution to cross that river had been taken, and had been officially announced since the 31st of May. If At a later period our fleets were at Constantinople, it was be cause cannon resounded on the Danube ; and, in short, if they entered the Black Sea, it was becs.uso, contrary to the promise of acting on the defensive, Russian vessels had loft Sebastopol to destroy the Turkish vessels at anchor in the port of Sinope. Every step which we took, in concurrence with England, in the East, had peace for its object, ar i d we did not desire to interfere between the belli gerent par. ties. Every day, however, on the contrary, Russia advanced openly towards war. Assuredly, if there were two powers whose antecedents and whose recent relations rendered likely that they should be indulgent to Russ. ions abortive to our movements in a dispute which threatened involve Franco and Great Britain in a conflict with incuso empire , 19 e 1959 to 0100 powoni T o ry u.. • iw. A 111014 had i -;e:4;!:11.4:.vpti;t1.4. I)ONLASTER RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) TRIAL SAXES. Snowdon Dunhill •. 4 F;ve ran. SHEFFIELD AND BOTHEEHAM PLATE. Ptolethy M .6-66.. 1 Nina ran. HOPE!' UL STAKES. Lady Palmerston _ . Twenty ran. DONCASTER STEEPLECHASE. Bourton Clansman paid for both the Doncaster and Wetherby Steeplechases. MONEY MARKET AND COMMZRCIAL INTILLIGENCE. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated at 5,000 to 6,000 bales, including 1,000 for export and on speculation. The market closed steadily at previous rates. The sales com prised 60 Pernam andMaranham at 61d. to 6frd., 50 Bahia at 61d, 100 Egyptian at 51d. to 7id., 500. Surat at 31d. to 40., and the remainder American. The Railway Share Market opened heavy, but closed rather firmer. It is stated by Messrs. Smith and Charles, in referring to the sugar trade i•—‘ , There are no letters - to-day from. . Petersburg. Since our last advices on Friday our market has advanced ; the Emperor's manifesto being regarded as a' final close to the question of peace or war." As an additional evidence of the state" or feeling here, we mention that hemp has advanced 31. per ton since Satur day, clean is now quoted 50s. Accounts from the cattle fair of Luxemburgh ate that the number was large of most animals. li nr ,s were in demand at higher prices, no doubt ari s ing from the requirements of the European armies. -- • The Danish e-rovernment has abolished the Light and Pilot dues I,Nayable hitherto at Kiel upon Transatlantic ships an‘ft their cargoes: The steamer Magdalena has arrived, but her letters will not be in town until to-morrow. The Budget has engrossed almost exclusive at tention this morning, but is of so simple a cha racter that very little room is left apparently for dis cussion and conjecture as to results. It seems positive, that the Chancellor of the Exchequer can, by means of the surplus in hand, the issue of floating debt to the amount of 1,750,0001., and an increased income tax, make the receipts meet the expenditure, save those extraordinary expenses to which the war will give rise, and which defurevious calculation. A large addition to theincome Tax is not very agree able ; but a retrograde 'movement in our commer cial system, just as we have- lightened the duties upon impo rts to something like a rational standard, would be still more regretable. Among the minor changes, one of importance to the mercantile com munity is the imposition of a stamp upon bills of exchange, whether drawn in this country or abroad. This will be only just, and will relieve innocent holders of all risk. A decision in the Court of Chancery is recorded in this morning's papers, and is important to the Stock Exchange, since it appears to reverse a judg ment given only a feci days since by Lord Camp bell, and restores the old understanding that foreign stocks or English securities (not being pub lic funds) can be purchased for a given day, or, as it is commonly termed; for " account." Years since, there were decisions in this. sense, and we were much surprised when Lord Campbell's judg ment seemed to bring all time bargains under the act of George 11. • , As many of the jobbers yesterday predicted, there has been an improvement in the funds upon its becoming known that no loan will at present be required. We can hardly conceive, however, that prices will' rise to any extent while the war is in progress. Consols have been 91 to 911 for transfer, and 91 to 91g. for account. Exchequer Bills are 13s. to 18s., and Exit India Bonds 4s. to 9s. prem. South Sea Stock has been done at 115. Bank Stock has' not been hither than 2181: • The foreign stocks have been a little firmer, but very q uiet; Mexican Bonds have realised • 2 41 to an advance owing to the arrival of the Magda lena. Chilian 6 per Cents. have been at 103, and Brazilian small stock is at 99. Spanish 3 per Cents. have reeled 361 4 ; Dutch 2i. per Cents. have been marked 641. Railway shares have recovered a little, and are in some instances about 10s. better than yesterday. This corresponds with the improvement in English securities. The chief business has been in Caledo nian, Great Northern, North Western, and York and North Midland. Foreign shares are all ne glected. The current prices for the Jamaica mines, not officially quoted, are as follows Metcalfe, par to # premium ' Sue River, 4 dis. count to par ; Post Royal, 1 to 1 premium. In the Mines and Banks there is very little doing, and the Miscellaneous Shares are generally quiet. BRITISH- FUNDS TRIS'DAY.—CLOSING PRICES, (From tkc Official Irk.) Business done. Bank-Stock .—. .. .............. ...... 2lBk 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities. • shut 92' 3 per Cent: Consols Annuities 9li 1 New 31 per Cent. Annuities 9 2l' f 3 Lone Annuities, Expire stliJan.; 1860 5f 5-16 3-16 Ditto '3O (Years, Expire 10th Cet., 1859 4 15.16 5 Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 5 India Bonds, 21000 ............ Ditto, under £ lOOO 9 P South Sea Stock Consols for Account 16th March • Exchequer Bills, Id. £IOOO 2500 18 p Small PRICE ,OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Brvilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto Small .• 99 Chilton Bonds, 6 per Cent . Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent ~...- Egnador Bonds ifexioan 3 per Cent Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto for the Account. ~ B9 ITi 9 Ditto 44. per Cent B3 Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent ' 3e4 i i Spanish Nov Deferred, 3 per Cent. l7l Venezuela Bonds, 3i • - Nut. - Ditto Deferred, 1 per Cent ll Dividends on the above payable in London. Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gull 55.1 Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates THREE O'CLOCK. 'Coniola , • • ----- 91f Ditto March Account .,. ;,,..., 91f WEST INDIA MAILS. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, TUESDAY MORNINU. The Royal mail steamship Magdalena, Captain George Abbott, arrived this morning, with the West India, Pa cific, and Mexican mails, in charge of Lieutenant Wil kinson, R.N., Admiralty agent. During the latter I) art of her voyage the Magdalena had encountered a continu ance of strong gales from the eastward • the ship rolling greatly, and shipping great quantities of water. The latest dates are :—Tampico, Feb. 2d ; Vera Cruz, sth ; Greytown, sth ; Nassau, 16th ; Chagres, Bth ; Havannah, 11th ; St. Thomas, 18 th ; Jamaica, 11th ; Barbadoes, 12th. She brings 78 passengers, and on freight specie value $2,680,769 ; also for account of the Mexican dividends, $66,558 ; gold and gold dust, $27,500 ; platina, value $46,767. The cargo consists of cochineal, jalap, quinine, sar saparilla, &c. From Jamaica we have dates to the Ilth ult. The island was healthy, and the existence of cholera is denied. The House of Assembly was still in session, and had agreed to the Responsible Government Bill, which would soon, therefore, be under the consideration of the Coun cil. The deficiency of revenue during the "dead-lock" was ascertained to be about 120,0001. This the Assem bly proposed to meet' by the issue of half that amount of Exchequer Bills, bearing 6 per cent, interest, and half in island cheques. In the Jamaica markets the high price of all descriptions of imported goods con tinued to check the operations of trade. Supplies were ample. Sugars were accumulating at Kingston, and holders were unable to realise in consequence of the con tinued scarcity of tonnage, and there was no pimento in the market, The cholera was subsiding in the islands, where it has lately teen committing ravages. The Pacific steam-ship Lima arrived at Panama on the 4th of February, with dates from Valparaiso Jan. 15, Callao 24th, and Guayaquil 30th. The Valparaiso markets had slightly improved. From Lima, we learn that Glias had but little chance of success against the present Government, unless Gene ral Belzu, with the Bolivian invading army, should effect a junction with him. H.M. frigate President had arrived at Valparaiso. The advices from the Darien exploring party are more favourable, and good progress was being made. The party was in good health. The Panama Star says that a party of 250 officers and men, which left the United States brig Cyaue for the interior on the 16th of January, had not been heard of up to the 25th. Another party had been sent in search of them, and it was supposed they had reached the Pacific side. By way of Callao we have Australian dates to the 14th Nov., but the news is not later than direct advices pre - iously received. t..a:c.~v... Austria. You know, sir, that the principles by which ° are actuated aro known, and that Europe, constituted a 5 O l jury, has pronoun ce d a solemn verdict upon pr e t e nsions , t acts of which no apol og y, h owever hi g h t h e sou r ce whoa' may emanate, can now change the character. Thus the pute is not between France and England, ,assisting the PO,: and Russia—it is between R uss i a an d every St a t e w hi c h bp respect for what is right, and whose opinion and whose rat rest must compel it to support the good cause. " I therefore confidently contrast the unanimity of ~t l ij great Cabinets with that app ea l t o th e sew llsetions of I ', addressed directly to a Sovereign who had just t ask/ honourable and powful e&rt at conoiliation. The whole duct of the Emperor Napoleon sufficiently attests that, if r o t be proud of the inheritance of glory left him by the ILO' his race, he has neglected 'nothing in order to render WI ' 4 ; cession to the throne a pledge of the peace and tranquillity °' the world. " I will only say one word, sir, of the manifesto in his Majesty the Emperor Nicholas announces to his Peq the resolutions he has taken. Our epoch, however troub 1 : 0 11 had at least been exempt from one of the evils which Is afflicted the world in former days—l mean the warm of l giou. Now, however, au echo of thane disastrous thl o made to resound in the ears of the Russian people. Thol o au affectation of opposing the cross to the crescent, m and appeal is made to fanaticis for that support which c '1- 4 on be obtained f r o m reason . F rance and England nee d defend themselves from the imputation made against 06' ; They do not support Islamism against the orthodox Gr!: 10 laith. They go to prote t ct the Ottoman Empire 14 4 ' 1 the ambitious covetousness of Russia. They go there v 0,,, the conviction that the presence of their, armies Turkey will destroy the prejudices, already JO cl weakened, which still 'Separate the different classes of 1, subjects of the Sublime Porte, and which cannot resuscitated unless the appeal sent from St. Petersburg, ",1 provoking hatred of race an d a revo l u ti onary explosion, !10„%!1 paralyse the generous intentions of the Sultan, Abd-ul. hieo?, 4 For us, Sir, we seriously believe that by giving our suer to Turkey we shall be of more use to the Christian faith O f ,: the Government which u ses it as an i ns t rument to advance ,‘ii, temporal ambition. Rus s ia i s t oo o bli v i ous, i u the rsproac'o she makes against others, that she is far from exercioing . „ her own empire, iu referenc e t o th e sec t s not professing v, dominant faith, a tol er a nce equa l t o th at to which the Sul)lifr Porte has a good right to lay honourable claim ; and that if t li o s j were to display less apparent zeal for the Greek religion bey , her frontiers, and more charity towards the Catholic religio°:; home, she would better obey the law of Christ, Which 611' pompously invokes. " Receive, &e q . " DROUTN Ds LIIUTII, FRANCE. . Prince Lu c i en : Bonaparte, has. left P ar i s f or Italy , 00 a special mission from the French Government. The Emperor of Russia has written a litter to the Princess Mathilde, daughter of Prince JerOme 13 ° °' parte, and wife of th e R uss i an Prince Demidoff, 0 whom she is separated, recommending her to make, of her influence over th e op i nions of the Emperor r4°, poloon in ord e r to avoid the horror of • a needless 10 : , ; As to himself, h e d ec l ares t h at i f justice be not his demands, he is perfectly determined to maintain struggle. Yesterday the Government presented to the Le•- ture a decree, authorising the contraction of a loan 10,400,0001. for the first expenses 9f the war, under sue form and conditions .aa, might be suitable. (This W received with acclamations.) The Moniteur publishes a very long report from t b ; Governor-General o f Al ger i a to the Minister of War(), the recent milit ar y operat i ons i n the Algerian - Saba n It says that those operations are now terminated, 0 , that they have led t o " th e a ddi tion to the denomioat io' of France of an immense territory and fails pOpulatio l ?; in the midst of which the indefatigable enemy of 0 1 , French, Mohammed ben Abdallah, had established, ci d , to the extrem e li m it s o f t h e Algerian Sahara, the b:ar of his hostiliti es ." "Thi s agitator, " it adds, •` having seen his most devoted and bravest lieutensu tj o i Ben Nacer ben Chora, of the Larbaa, and Telfif o the Ouled Nayls, fall at his s id e f or the defence of cause, has fled, deserted by almost all his parties no, „ wards the fro n ti er of Tullio, abando n i ng to our dise',,; tion, and leavi ng us to place under the protection a 0-0 flag al 1 the towns and tribes he had armed against 0 ;j The Governor-General declares that the results obtain exceed his sanguine expectations, and that ho belie! ' they will produce "a new era of tranquillity for Algeria." The Minister of Marine has just issued orders f at all officers of th e navy now on leave of abs ence t o rin .;r immediately t o th e i r respective ports . No fresh leave ° absence will be granted for: longer than three moet.,l and those only to officers who have be en f or a t 10 '" twelve months on active service. There are now fitting out in the port of Roc hefort, to form part of the third squadron, the Virginie, the steam , corvette, Gassendi ; and two smaller steanle''' the Lucifer, and the Megere. The Bourse was heavy yesterday, with scarcely 1. business doing. The speculat ors appeare d .to b e t, willing to commence any new operations u a til the "" tentions of the Aust r i an an d P russian Governments s r. more clearly developed. ---_,.. SPAIN.' •••44611'4 The Madrid Gaz e tt e o f t h e let annotiLee ( t-be well ) of despat c h es f rom t h e Captain-General of`Navar-rat dated the 25th u lt., announc i ng that the military inset gents of the Cordova regiment, after being repulsed s r the bridge of Berdun, had crossed the river D eg Savierragay, and proceeded towards Enib run,-.with the evident intention of escaping into France. He adds til" he had sent more t roops after them ; also that the porn , lation in all partS of the department continued calm. The Herald° notices with satisfaction the ill-eucc i of the insu rrec ti on at Saragossa, and considers it a pr o of the con fid ence entertained in the Government. „A' announces that th e G overnment candidate . had succeea' in triumphing over a coalition of Moderates and fr u a ; gressists at Seville. "On the whole," it says, " Government, strong by the support of ! the people, a 0 establish public order on a firm basis, and lead us t (3 situation i n w hi c h we shall be an object of envy #0 Europe." The Nacion and the Tribune had been seized. The Gazette states that the Spanish Consul at J3° deaux had informed the Government, under date the 2 ult., that M. J ose d e l a Concha had arrived under *„ assumed name in that city, but had made himself know" to the Prefe c t ; an d h a d waited on the Consul to prestart him with a written-paper, setting forth his motives 10 ,. emigrating, and hi s d es i re to regulate his new posit ion and his stay in France. • The carnival was very gay. The news from the Pt °. vinces continued to be satisfactory. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(TIII3 DAl') LONDON, March 7.—Wind thin d a y at ifoo'n, N. W'' cloudy. LIVERPOOL, March 6 .—Arrived--Charles Cooper, fr° 4 New Orle ans . S a il e d —Arcola, for New York ; Lukkerland, Melbourne ; Jacob Yon Chief, Galatz ; Ot: stellation, and Von Widmann, Now York ; C a ll e nue- Boston ; Perseverance, St. John's, N.B. DUNDALK, March 4.—The Holyhead Trader, in beatil oat on the 3d M arc h, got on the ground below Soldio Point, and must discharge her ballast to get off. PARIS, March 6.—The Clara. Josephine, from Nanto Cardiff, which was stranded at Banville on the 18th Feb., has been floated off, and.towed into Cherbourg. COPENHAGEN, 'Feb. 28.—The Superior, of St oc kholl from Lisbon to th e B a lti c, l ost anchors and ,chains °,l Skovshoved, during a gale on the 26th of February, has been put on shore in the Roads. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) COLONIAL. SIIGAR.—The market is very firm, Foreign is in dein at full rates, with a small. supply. Yellow Havannali 364 to 395. Refined is brisk ; low to fine• grocery '0 3 ,5 45s to 48 s 6d. Th e quantity of British plant a ti on lazia,t, last week a t th e E ast and West India Docks was 609 bb: 217 tierce s an d 122 b arrels, there were taken for home CO"' gumption 1,070 hhda 60 tierces and 259 b arre l s. The sv-yaago in the same places is 2,829 hhds 811 tierces and 3 ' barrels. COFFEE.—Thore is a moderate demand for native, Wi t great firmness, goo d ord 'being 47 s Csi• to 48s per 07 " Other sorts are d u ll . RUll.—Tho quantity landed last week at the Rut st West Indi a D oc k s was 268 puns and 69 bldg. There , taken for home consumption 45 puns and 5 hhde, and ported 44 p uns and 89 hhds. The stock in the same pig' is 4,888 puns and 61i Mids. ibl / Ricz.—Maims, 2,836 bags offered by auction were sold at 13s 6d for good pinky. COTTON', —This article is held for previous rates. TEA. —There is no alteration, and not much doing. TALLOW.--The deliveries off' on contract 'on the first 4 :: this month only influenced the market fora day, which there has been so strong a' determination to 1 2 °' tallow i n p rospec t o f hi gher prices, that there has b° o s very little offered, foid receivers are making arrangemoF,,, for holding the tallow on the spot, whilst the trade, anew „ to buy tallow for autumn delivery, and turning their 04 tention to the purchase of tallow for summur months. Z e !,l quotations are :—On the spot, ets ; April and May, 6417 60s to 58s ed Scni,-› May and June, 65s ; - June and July, 65s °7 l , 575. Town tallow v. A A m ust er r i a ea lia n n 6 s 3 h 3 e 6d ep,. 6 T 3s a i l 6d ow i e tf o , s, 6d net cash. Palm oil, 46s 6d to 47s ; cocoa nut oil, Cochi n ' 51s to 52s ; Ceylon, 508 to 50s ed. HAY MARiETS SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 31 Os to 5/ 5a ; slag: ditto, 4/ Os to 6 1 N; and str aw , 1/ 151 to 21 2a per 10 0 ' A moderate supply, and a steady demand. CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow h ay, 31 3s to 5/ 58 ; ctarot ditto, 4/ N to 61 Os ; and straw, 1/ 16s to 21 4s :per W as Supply good, and trado tolerably firm. -- WHITECHAPEL.-31eadow ha, 36.4 a to 51 Si; clof, ditto, 4/ Os to 61 6 s ; and strawy, 1/ 12s to 2/ 24 per 10 0 " Trade steady, BIRTIIS. e. • r ' ••• OF A SON. On the 4th i ns t ., at 12, Lower Berkeley-street, Portnisr square, the wife of Joseph Laurie, Esq., M.D. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 4th inst,, at rlolmwoed Parsonage, th e wit . ° 9 1 the Rev. Edmunll D. Wickham. MARRIED. 0 1 1 the 3d inst. at Lewisham, Kent, George Frederit youngest sou o f George Frederick Cousins, Esq., of Bunk of England, to Charlotte Heath, fourth survill oli ,: daughter of" the late Henry F e t c h, E sq ., o f th e ar°' - ' Blackheath, and 69, Floot-street. DIED. On the 4th inst., at 67, C a d ogan -pl ace, S ara h, Tr& .1 William Hay, Esq., C. 8., Commissioner of Police. On the sth inst., at 2, Stanhope-street, Hyde-park-in dens, Sarah, eldest daughter of the late James fi.lieripw' Esq., of Sunbury, Middlesex, in her 90th year. LONDON: Printed and Published by MURDO YOll2Ol of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. i 1 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in 1. 1 0? 11 " l i t i r Aliadlesox,lxosclay, Kaicia 7, IS% re, ": deny no p shall of th bloc': by n 'cast, the di id the, this forcii least quest Spec i motit Prop . of Oc for tt the o by 8' sng of One flrmii Regu ing of L' Th, Tebru -bet w( Port, inciui Weigh To: must above horn( Swan Wood Horse Blue dilly ; Eagle street The to an 3 the el dude (whic Wholi Cheat 8' The I The Ma Thy The Ire] No Ad' -wher, By Instal 1,000 been A N SU m i occur Ra necte °Mee Color Th teals. for tt atten but a sYste COUII In( nnpa mad( 0 ing an( eve pro oft