The Sun. — London, England, 1854-04-27 00:00:00

aids, 4lid cont;nue saleAbk as foli-aelly reported, THE OAT P.7A RTA N D _73IAT. i,, "ILPPIy. the wants of the service, the internal ad- Ministration of the squadrons, and the instruct ion 5 n umerous recruits and young horses," and that 'Lke re - establishment of the sixth squadron of re ceiveyd. our private letters and oy 11th ferorme ong Fitaents, suppressed in 1834 for pecuniary reasons, B the arrival of the Overland Mail correspondencewehav i ndispensable to procure a proper organisation fo r March. the cavalry, so that it may readily be changed from Bombay to the 28th March, and Hon„- a peace to a war footing, and meet all even tuai.3; , I m'es. The decree accordingly enacts that " a I to'squatlr on shall be formed in each of the fifty- Laree regiments of cavalry in which there are at pre tlent Only five" —the said squadron to have the same number of o ffi cers and non-commissioned officers as the' at p resent existing. We read in the Aloniteur Several f oreign j ournals have preten d e d that e French cabinet, in accord with that of London, addressed a summons to Prussia with the view of _ constraining that power (d e mettre cette puissance noa6ineure) to abandon its neutrality. We have .i. a e.ed to say that this rumour is both devoid of toundation and all probability. It was not at Act 0 0. at which Prussia in signing the last to the the conference of Vienna, had adhered anew that Principles proclaimed by the maritime powers (Tie her intentions could be placed in doubt. The th e rra an cabinets are perfectly enlightened as to ofd E ngland and views of the policy which France i ..rigland are about to combat. The identity of uterests guarantees sufficiently the community la ito ' lle St. Louis, ship of the line of 90 guns, was t hed Ithil a Brest on Tuesday. The operation, o f a T a Perfectly succee d e d , t oo k pl ace in presence pere ur i P Crowd, who raised cries of " Vive PEm :Nlarri ;1. d e Pasha t oo k l eave o f th e E m peror, and Zed for the East yesterday evening. ker a b Imperial decree appoints General Morris, t otto ,, e r of the comm i ttee o f cava l r y, to the cora taat' of the division of cavalry of the army of the co lt a nd General Ney, Duke of Elchingen, to the a tm al and of the 3d brigade of cavalry of the same 1 :i The Ist and 2d brigades are under the corn- T o 0 , 4 , 1 General d'Allonville and Cassignolles. frooletioaoniteur publishes a report to the Emperor forthl: Magne, Minister of Public Works, setting Las the advantages of the amalgamation which and Place between the Strasburg Railway Whidi has of Basle and of Wisemburg, and that had t i, -as been agreed to between the Lyons line Ther uat from Dijon to Besancon and Belfort. to tri e Nrt concludes by recommending his Majesty Tw o ° "/ 7 ,,, e Ills approbation to these arrangements. geati -I Perial decrees follow, carrying out the sug pre.ns of the report. Ito u Ice s maintained themselves yesterday on the for t, 148 1, e. The Three per Cents. closed at 63 f. 45 c. C eo+ - e end of the month ; the Four-and-a Half per pr l at 90 L ; and the New Loan at 64 f. 20 c. ; tiooesanBßailway Shares, 1,047 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 837 f. trarbriavre, 410 f. ; Great Northern, 730 f. 25c. ; Pari s , 4 11r g, , 728 f. 75c. ; New Shares, 532 f. 50c..; terr a , "() Lyons, 802 f. 50e. ; Lyons to the Medi torCeala, 662 f. 50c. ; Western of France, 555 f. ; 40if Lean, to Cette, 505 f.; Great Central of France, er eA •` s c. Lyons to Gneva, 422 f. 50c. ; Bank of 'lt Mobilier, 498 f. 75c. 40 to 45 io. Rs. 11 to 1 z 1i 3 annas. Grey mulls in request, and saleable at 1 Es. 14 annas to Rs. 21. i Grey Twills.—At present quite neglected. Bleached Shirting and Madapollarns.—The lower qua- -- lities of the former in request, and w orth Rs. 34 to Rs. 44, and the latter Rs. 2t021 ; for the higher qualities shr, there is no inquiry. Turkey red prints, 28 yards, Rs. 7to S, dull, with '— little inquiry. No sales reported. St Dyed Cambrics, 28 yards.—There has been little or 20 no inquiry of late for these goods—no sales are reported —they are worth at present from Rs. 21 to Rs. 4. 50 I)ye Nlulls.—Nothing appears doing. 13 Black and White Prints.-2 8 yards worth Rs. 3 annas 31 6 to Rs. 31. Mule twist.—ln little request, but few orders from the interior coming forward , a nd as the season advances 27 dealers show less inclination to purchase. 22 Turkey red yarns in request, and saleable. 25 Orange yarns in little request, stocks heavy in first hands. Nos. 30 to 60 saleable from Rs. 9 ans. Bto St Rs. 11 ans. 4. St Metals.—Since last report there has been a better 5( inquiry for metals, with the exception of copper, which 5( has declined from Rs. 2 to 3. , 2( Linseed, 3 Rs. 12 ans. per cwt. 2( Pepper.—Butcol, 65 Es. to 85 Rs. 6 ans. ; do., Mala: 1( bar, Rs. 80 to 81. 5( 21 Coffee.—Mocha, 8 Rs. 12 ans. to Rs. 9. Cotton.—Since the arrival of the last China Mail, 2I most purchases have been made by natives at an advance 2; of from 12 ans. to 1 rupee on former quotations ; a de- 1 . 1 cline has since taken place. 21 Hemp.—Rs. 30 to 45 per candy, in request. Wool, S Re. 100 to 145. Freights have slightly receded since last quoted, S owing to the recent arrivals from Australia, and to the 2 anxiety still existing for shipping to China ; the decline has been but little, and we quote the rate of the da y at T. 4/. to 41. ss. per ton to Liverpool, and 4/. 10s. to Lon- s don, and Rs. 23 to 24 per candy to China. 1 Exchange—Since last report has had an upward ten- S dency, the rates of the day are 2s. ld. per rupee for S credits at six months' sight, and 2s. lld. to 2s. 14d. for S bills secured by documents. . F. INDIA. BOMBAY, March 28.—There is news from Bur mah down to the 4th inst., but it contains nothing of any importance. The King of Ava is reported to be dead, but the report requires confirmation. If true, it will bring to the throne the brother, who has always been the leader of the war party in that country. A new station, called Thayel Mew, and intended to be the frontier station for our troops, has been commenced. Throughout the entire country the most profound peace exists, and boats go the whole length of the Irrawaddy, from Ran goon to Meanday, with the most perfect security. No news of any sort has been received from Ca bool since the last mail left, so I am unable either to confirm or contradict the report given in my last respecting Dost Mahomed having sent a friendly message to Major Edwardes at Peshawur. From Persia no annoyance may be looked for to wards India. The Governor-General has received an assurance from the Shah, through the English charge d'affairs at Teheran, that, in the event of a war between Russia and Turkey, be will maintain a strict neutrality. Throughout India—both in the British provinces and in the native States—the most profound peace and tranquillity exist. The elec tric telegraph is making gigantic strides all over the country. Messages are already being sent from Benares to Agra, from Sepree to Agra, and from Bombay to Malligum. Before the rains set in, we shall be able to communicate via Agra, between Bombay and Calcutta, including all the towns on the Ganges, and the various stations on the great North-West road. Should the Governor-General be at Simla, it is expected, in June next, he will be able to have the news from England communicated to him (by means of the electric telegraph, from Bombay to Agra, and thence by express to Simla) in forty-eight hours after the mail reaches the Western presidency. A year ago it would have taken about twelve days to accomplish. Colonel Outram left Bombay on the 17th inst., and took charge of his office at Baroda on the 21st. His old enemy, the far-famed Nursoo Punt, died at Ahmedabad on the 19th inst. Another person, whose name has often been before the public in connection with Baroda matters, died a short time ago—l mean the Hindoo lady, Joitabhae Seltani, who was plundered by the rascals who were about the Guicowar. Throughout Guzerat the greatest possible interest is being evinced by all classes, both European and native, respecting the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway Company. If the scheme is carried out, it will certainly do a vast deal of good to the country. It is proposed, I hear, to strike oft the new line to Callian, a town about 35 miles from Bombay, and to which the Great Indian ?eninsular line runs already. From Callian the line is to run along the coast to Surat, and from Surat to Broach, Jumbooseea, Dholerah, and the very heart of the cotton districts. It is to have tramways as feeders on the right and left. From a gentleman who has great experience in the cotton trade of Western India, 1 hear that this railway would bring to Bombay about ten times the ~ntity of cotton we get now, and would also bring into cultivation vast tracts of land which are at present lost to any purpose whatever. At present, also, there being no carriage but by sea from Surat to Bombay, great quantities of cotton which arrive at the former port after the rains set in have to be kept there until the opening of the season, a period of at least four months. The con sequence, of course, is a great loss of interest upon money thus employed, and a total cessation of the cotton trade for some time previous to the rains. This is moreover particularly inconvenient to the native merchants, whose commercial year ends at the Dewallie festival, a period some short time after the monsoon. Should we have railway communi cation between this and Surat, cotton can be brought down at all times of the year to Bombay. This will, in point of fac„t, just add four months to the Indian trading year, and accelerate by the game time the return upon all money laid out in cotton speculation. I hear that the Bombay, Baroda, and Central Indian Railway will not go further to the north-west than Ahmedabad, and that the task of opening out the communication with Berar, Indore, Candeish, and so on to Agra, will be left to those who were first in the field, the Great Indian Penin sula Company. This is but fair. The new com pany should not be allowed to cut the ground from under the old, who, as the pioneers of railway mat ters in India, are certainly entitled to every pro tection at the hands of Government. Our present Governor takes the greatest possible interest in railway matters, and although he has barely been three months in the country, has found time to make three inspections of the different lines by which it is proposed to ascend the Ghauts from the Concan to the Deccan. This, too, his lordship has managed to do at a season when the heat makes a residence in tents by no means pleasant. Lord Elphinstone seems to be a very hard-working, practical man of business. He spares neither himself nor his subor dinates at the desk. I hear that he has deter mined to recommend that the extension lines of the Great Indian Peninsula be carried on forthwith from Callian to the foot of th - Bore Ghaut, and from the top of the Ghaut towards Poonah. The Hoolie holidays, of which we were in the midst when I last wrote, are now over ; the hot weather has commenced in earnest, and the supply of water in Bombay is failing very fast indeed. The want of rain at the end of last monsoon is now be ginning to be felt, both here and over the whole country. Grain, rice, and provisions of all sorts are very dear indeed—some 25 per cent. more so than at this time last year. Lord F. Fitzclarence has just issued an order which has given the greatest possible satisfaction to those concerned ; it directs that all officers, non-commissioned officers, and sol diers belonging to the Hon. Company's European Corps (Artillery and Infantry) in this Presidency, shall in future wear the moustache. To men serv ing in a tropical climate the boon is a very great one indeed. Another order which his lordship has just issued, reducing the number of drills, has also given great satisfaction in the Bombay army. Lord Frederick has certainly done more good in the army of this presidency than any general officer who has yet been amongst us. By perseverance and firmness he seems to have inspired all the offi cers of the several corps under his command with a love of their profession, and a great desire to ac quire every kind of military knowledge. His military school at Poono, and his drill depot at the same station, will certainly prove the most substan tial benefits to the army of Western India. They might serve as examples to any country in the world. Mr. Luard has resigned the Company's civil service. He applied to the local Government to re-employ him, but it appears that the orders of the Court were imperative, and that the autho rities hero bad not the power to restore him without a further reference to England. The whole affair has made a great stir in this presi dency, and it will no doubt prove interesting to many old Indians at home. I should, however, tell you that there has for some time past appeared a series of the most atrocious libels upon Mr. Goldsmid, the present acting chief Secretary to Government, and one of the most able men who ever came to India in the Company's service. The launch of the Honourable Company's steam frigate Assaye took place on the 15th instan, O by moo nlight. It was a very grand sight indeed. t ur worthy commodore, Sir Henry Leeke, gave a grand ball in the dockyard on the occasion, at whicl all the members of the Bombay society, from the Governor downwards, were present. There is no improvement in the commercial mar kets since my last. Frei g ht is falling. The recent shipping arrivals have checked the advance taking place in freight. Tonnacre may now be had to Liverpool at 41. to 4/. ss. ;''to London, at 5/. 10s. ; and China, Rs. 23 per candy. Exchange on England has been steady at 2s. ld. for the best credits, at six months' sight ; and 2s. Old. to 2s. Ijd. for bills secured by shipping documents. CHINA. (Front the Overland Friend of China.) The latest newspaper to hand from Peking is of a date equivalent to our 14th of January, nearly a fortnight before the commencement of the New Year of the old dynasty. In a memorial in it, from the Censor Yungpaou, inspector of the central part of the city, setting forth the want of discipline in the military preparations for defence of the capital, and the distressed condition to which the inhabi tants were reduced, it is incidentally mentioned that (in confirmation of what we have before re ported) at that date the rebel camp was only 70 miles distant ; the Imperialist military command ers were not agreed in their views, and had not succeeded in any plan for exterminating the rebels. From Nanking, the southern capital, we have no other intelligence than the report that the Tartar General Heang-yung was at last about to vacate the position he had tried to maintain between it and Chin Keang, and that a desperate and final attempt would be made to retake Shanghai. The authorities at Fou-chau have been obliged to give up their endeavours to subdue rebellious parties in the country adjacent, and are now look ing carefully to their own entrenchments. The Emperor's uncle, the Viceroy, was preparing for a trip to Shingkiug, in Manchouria, to which place, as we mentioned some time ago, the Emperor Hien fung has directed the revenue to be forwarded. About Canton matters remain quiet, though the authorities are now convinced their day is fast ap proaching. The winter, favourable for the insurgent south erns, unused to severe cold, has been of extraordi nary mildness. The ice crop about Shanghai is a complete failure, and, singular circumstance, it will be necessary for foreign residents to import a cargo of the luxury from America. The Imperialists are trying to prevent teas and silk from reaching Shanghai, where, although their Custom-house is formally acknowledged, the chances of their obtaining duties are doubtful. As many as 5,000 packages of green teas are said to be detained at no great distance from the port. Quotations for hysons, gunpowders, and imperials have advanced fully three taels. PORK RACES. (THIS DAY.) o qu CBI' ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Virag o LYING DUTCHMAN'S HANDICAP. LATEST BETTING. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 10 to 9 agst Boiardo (taken). 3to 1 agst Ruby (taken). 7to 1 agst Middlesex (taken). 15 to 1 agst Champagne (offered). 20 to 1 agst Marble Hill (taken). CHESTER CUP. 20 to 1 agst Peggy. 25 to 1 agst Lough Bawn. DERBY. 9to 2 agst Autocrat. 6to 1 agst Dervish (taken to 3001.). 33 to 1 agst Neville (taken). 33 to 1 agst Canute (taken). CANTON MARKET—MARcH 9, 1854. Teas.—Black--Of congous, settlements have been made of 20 chops at 17.5 to 21.5 taels for kaysows and oopacks, 16.5 and 20.5 taels for hohnams and monings, and 15 to 16 taels for hohows ; stock 85 chops. Souchong, 13 chops sold at 18 and 25 taels for cargo to good, 27 and 32 taels for superior ; stock 50 chops. Caper, 300 half-chests sold at 15 taels ; stock 600 boxes. Flowery pkoe, 1,500 chests sold at 20 to 23 taels for cargo and 30 to 36 taels for superior ; stock 800 chests new and 700 old. Orange pekoe, 1,500 half-chests sold at 16 to 18 taels ;no stock. Ning yongs and oolongs, 16,000 half-chests sold, namely-10,000 ning yongs at 22 to 25 taels for cargo to good, 4,000 ankoi at 14 to 15 taels, and 2,000 powchongs at 15.5 to 19 taels ; stock of all kinds, 50,000 half-chests. Green.—The present stock is estimated at 25,000 half chests. The settlements since our last are—of hyson, 4,000 packages at 25 to 29 taels for cargo, 32 to 42 taels for superior to fine. Young hyson, 8,000 at 26 to 32 taels for good cargo, and 35 to 45 taels for superior to fine. Hyson skin, 4,500, at 15 to 17 taels for cargo to good, and 19 to 24 taels for superior to fine. Twankay, 2,500, at 20 to 22 taels for good cargo, and 24 to 28 taels for superior to fine. Imperial and gun powder, 4,000, at 30 to 33 taels and 33 to 36 taels for good cargo, and 35 to 40 to 33 to 43 taels for superior good. Canton Teas.-800 half-chests Congou sold at 17 to 20 taels for good. Young Ilyson, 3,000 half-chest at 14 to 16 taels for cargo to good. Gunpowder, equal to 3,000 half-chests at 14 to 20 taels for cargo to superior. Scented Orange Pekoe, 1,500 boxes at 22 to 26 taels for superior. Caper, 1,000 boxes at 17 to 20 taels for good cargo to superior. Raw Silk.—But little of Nanking in market. Tsatlee 3955. Sewhing 3305, Taysaam 3505, Loongkong 3255, Kumchuck re-reeled 3455. Exchange and Bullion. —On London, 4.11, and little doing. On India Co.'s accepted 233 to 234 Rs. Syce 31 to 4 per cent. prem. Gold, $2l 40 per tad. Freights.—Tonnage scarce, and much wanted. For Great Britain, 01. 10s. to 71. To the United States, $22 to $24. To California, $3O to $35. CURRAGH MEETING. (TUESDAY, APRIL 25.) (BP ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.) SCURRY STAKES of 5 Sovs. LOrd of the Isles ............................................. 1 Eight ran. SWEEPSTAKES of 5 Sovs. One mile and a half. l'itepleton Nine ran. 3 3. ER MAJESTY'S PLATE. Two miles. .I,a4inasloe b o - llarbin ger , c b y T earaw ay, Hunting Horn, Ariadne, salba, c by Crozier, Chaseaway, and Louisa also ran. 4,lsit Clas s o f M A D R I D S TAKES . N ew R a thb on e Post. ztos e , rotnon, 7st 41b 1 Paddy Heffran, Wild Irish Girl, Lightning, Ossefrage, e io ';er to Joanna c, Mag on the Wing, Tidy, Mangerton, 'se> Rejected, and Singaway colt also ran. LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.) 4401, 7 `of a n, D° l -'l,_ April 27.—There is at length a change in the clUnwme,r• The wine is now from the estwa,rd, with 41 ,,,, c1u dY weather. There has been a very slight fall of r si," l o ll l ,"the Calcutta, Boston to London, which was on t 4k e i, tie , ar Barrington, Bth inst., was afloat on the 12th, St r"g °lit little water, and would return to Boston or • ” o h ri , B Opp ,-, • uovER April 26.—Pons Mlle, from London, for " tt Phil' PLy m I P' frot a -° I JTH, April 26.—Wind, N. Arrived—Geelong , . 110 8 - ' 4ll don, for Melbourne. Sailed—Buchante, Afr ca , 4ea Taylor, Ceylon. ls p4 P r i L l 2 7.—(Per Elec. Tel.)—The Carlos (Russian Fin- Stsa-), from Lisbon to Finland, has been towed r„-'-i-anioaze this morning, having been captured off the by M.'s steamer Avon. St . i ri It IsMOUTH, April 26.—Wind, Arrived—H.M.'s ss, from Halifaki do. Alecto, Sierra Leone. I)l3ol,oeo.);o4seilT,bliiW:aogr:knle,aB4Ao,p,,r:il.26s.—.—As.nusm—besr . of il de ,, a , ls, battens, and also part of a O deck, with a bell attached, marked " Albertina, 54e1 wreck d shore, the ha C v r e os co sin m g e S i and. C ow een supposed from a gt do , Es, April 26.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Uhla, from 'oa for Newport, to stop a leak. p I ' S tLCOMBE.—Panic, from China. Ori,„ 4L „, II "TH, April 26.—Wind, N.E., strong breezes. "yo — Constance, from Moulmein, and sailed f o r Lon -11 ; Bloomer, Callao and Cork ; Lion, Buenos Ayres ; b t o ie) Jamaica • Glen Huntley, Gothenburg for Mel urge, to stop a ' leak. A schooner of about 140 tons, tilted black, was passed 21st ult. in 43 N. 18 W., die ba4tea and abandoned ; also a lare ship, dismasted and andoned, 27th March, in 41 N. 14 W. Off Port—Black pall, from Port Phillip ; Princess Royal, Batavia for Rotterdam ; Ernest Borkdman, New York, and sailed for tterdam ; Asphalon, Eupatoria. froSWANSEA April 26.--Wind, N.E. Arrived—United, ,1 3 , •1 Coquimbo. Sailed—Goleonda, for St. Jago de Cuba. kaIR ISTIANSAND, April 22.—The Christian, from Hor sens to Leith, has put in leaky and must discharge. ti r isen April 20.—The combined fleets passed the East of this Nand, 14th inst., steering N.E. No Russian s hips of war have been observed. I,, U NDERLAND, April 26.—ind, N.N.W. Sailed— ucenix, for Calcutta ; Kapper, do. ; Anna, Aden. ,• Re 11,ge, New York ; Niger, Quebec ; Arethusa, do. ; Corin -1,"10, do ; Empress, do. ; Tay, do. ; Hartlepool, do. ; , aChange, do. LiznwinK, April 24.—The Pomona, arrived here from Oreenland, is said to have received considerable damage in the ice, and reports the weather to have been very bois terous—that the Violet, of Hull, and the Feliz, of Fraser burgh, have been lost, with all hands, except part of a boat's crew belonging to the latter vessel. Some doubts exist as to the safety of the Agostina, of Peterhead, and it is feared that othe r l osses have taken place. The Ger mania, of Hull, lostthree to wha a le re b en o l a a t u s d a . nd three of her crow on her outward passa ge J ER sEy, 25.—S a iled —Asia for Trinidad. GIBRALTAR, April 17 . —The Genoa (s. s.), from Liver- Pool, w hi c h arrived here 10th inat.to risepdar. e i ta . ined with damage to her screw , and discharging SHANGHAI MARKET—MARCH 2. There have been but small transactions, and the dei. veries are very trifling, at rates slightly improved since the holidays. Holders are not offering their stocks, an ticipating a still further advance. Teas.—Black—Congous, the settlements are estimated at 20 chops, leaving unsold about 10,000 pkgs. We have no change to note in prices. Ordinary to fair, 11 a 111 taels, hohow kinds 12 a 13!2 taels, Ning Chong 14 a 17 taels—very few offering. Green.—The few chops which have been offered have brought extreme prices, and nothing of clean quality can be bought except at an advance of 10 per cent. The stock is about 5,000 pkgs., chiefly low grade skins. 2,000 to 3,000 pkgs of fair Twankay quality aro said to be on the way hither. Raw Silk.--But few bales have found buyers since our last. The only deliveries have been in fulfilment of con- St. tracts, and few parcels remain on hand for sale. The 10 silk-men being unwilling to submit to a reduction in 10 price, are keeping back supplies, and the stock in the 6; silk country intended for this market is reported as very considerable. 20 Exchanges and Bullion.—On London, since the last 50 mail's departure, the transactions have been small. The rate 5s 7d was maintained for so me time, and we hear of St. a small amount of Bank bills being sold as high as 5s Bd. St. Sycee, $l2l per 100 taels. Gol d, $ 175 to $ 177 for St. 16 9.7.3 taels. S Freights.—To England, nominally , 8/ . To the United 2t6 States, $2O to $2l. Tonnage to both places not to be 12 lad, and much wanted. The A ristides g ets e q uivalent s t : to 101. for Halifax, her charter having been taken over . 1 at a considerable profit. St. ili 50 (BY ELECTRIC TELEGR APH Th LEGRAurz L ro a c , 10.30 a.m. Wi nd w . s.w., moderate, and raiuing. Arrived—Shamrock (s), from H avre . Sailed—Mermaid, for Melbourne. There are no accounts to the present time of the steamer Atlantic, now 11 days ou t, with the mails of th e 15 th inst. l 'eru New York. (By suBIIARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) G RA VESEND, Thursday, 10.40 a.m. Wind W.N.W. ; c l ou dy, with rain ; tide, quarter ebb. Arrived, 26th—Nadischa, Russian prize, from i. the Bal tic ; Aina Russian prize, from the Baltn3; Is o t r e w a art e z r: aren a ' Wismar ; Blanche, Jamaica : Baron Osy, am A ntwerp; Triton, steamer, Calais ; E Earl of Auckland, l 'teamer Rotterdam. Sailed—William Jolliffe, spteEamALe,r,TfhourrCalais. 9.45 a.m. Wind W.S.W., fresh and cloudy. Passed —Sirit of the North from Calcu tta for London ; Tallentire, from Magaltan for London ; Villisneria Nichol, from Ca pe of Good Hope for London ; Larne , f rom Callao, for Leith ; Susanna, from London, for Nassau ; Queen of th e South, from St. Michael's, for orders. .. A nchored—Rubicon No. 38 transport, from London, ler Malta • Nos. 37' 39 transports,from London, for Malta. , and Remains—Admiral Zoutman, for Port Phillip. is The Anemone lies in the same state. 75 railway iron s t lve been landed this morning, and w it is expected she will got off this high water, and toed into R a msgate, with about 30 tons of iron remaining on board. The French fleet just in sight, proceeding to the Downs. 12/ PARTITRE OF THE MAILS FOR THE WEST COAST QF AFRIOA.—The African Mail Company's ship Bac chAnte Captain O'Dring, with mails for Madeira and the west coast of Africa, sailed on Tuesday afternoon. She also took out a full general cargo, 18 passengers, an d a large quantity of specie. This is the first trip of 'no Bacchante, and she bids fair to maintain the good character won by the other vessels of the line. This }311113, as are all belonging to this company, was des patched under tho direction of Mr. Waring, the inde• t4ti114141%, quit. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. Closing Prices) Wednesday. St. PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS.—Mr, Ewart has a notice of mo tion on the order book of the House of Commons to St. the effect that he will forthwith move for a select com- 50 mittee to inquire how far a system of examination or other test of efficiency may be adopted, or further ex- 12 tended, in the case of appointments and promotion of candidates for the different departments of the public 12 ser vice. 25 THE LATE OMNIBUS ROBBERY IN THE CITY. It was a few days ago incorrectl y stated in so m e of the papers 10 that, in the c ase of Da y , who was committed u p on the "• 6 c harge of stealing t he p urse of a lad y in an omnib us, Sir ....,,,, 12. - R. W. Carden said he would accept bail for the prisoner. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. On the day after the committal of Day, Sir R. W. Car- g den declared on the bench that he never for a moment St. REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE BOMBAY MARKETS, FROM entertained a thought of accepting bail in such a case. D THE 14TH MARCH TO THE 27TH MARCH, 1854. c v o e n ry tin s u e e n d rce du a ll m . oh l g n t t h h e e s ß h a r z o a ff a s r, a m n o d ne t y he THE STOCKPORT STRlKE.—Several rather serious tu- 16i During the past fortnight our money market has molts have already arisen out of the strike at Stockport, 10 and the police have had to interfere for the protection of St. Government Our quotations Securities , all of o f : Inland which shown in St. terms offered by the employers. At three of the largest St. The latter are utterly Messrs. Eskrigge and Co.'s, in Heaton - lane, land St. neglected scarcely sale- mills— n- ane, St. able at 99 to 991 for 4 and Mr. C. Howard's and Messrs. Marshall's, in Prt d o woo 20 Rs. 105 for S . per cent. Company's paper, .• of th •full corn I and , icor) paper. The notations are 30 —in place their p ement of thousands, only St• per cent. premium for Bombay q Bank Shares, 85 for about 120 in the aggregate are working ; yet, few as the Oriental Bank Corporation, 261 for Commercial,and 42 " knobsticks " are (to use the current phrase), the turn- 15 to 44 per cent , for Agra Bank shares. During the last fortnight there has been a better front of the mills to watch them out and to intimidate 8 inquiry for goods. at prices rather abov e those lastquoted . them. On Monday night the conduct of one of the 10 d Grey long cloth, 36 yds. 40 in.—Since cur last turnouts was so violent that the police apprehended him vance of from Ito 3 ans. h as t a k en p l ace „ as t t h a e n B a c : and he has since been committed to prison. On Tuesday'l 0 9lbs, cloth, with good inquiry ;on 9 tlbs. and upwardst night much larger crowds assembled, and in front of 25 there is no change, with but little inquiry ; 45 in. 101bs. Messrs. Eskrigge and Co.'s mill, in Heaton lane, a IV( are scarce and wanted. riotous mob proceeded to assaults upon the workpeople, . . lower. l ae andein. s Grey T cloth continue s muc h the same as last re. w hich induced the pol ice a g ain to interfere. Mr. Brown, St. W the chief constable, h a d sent Sergeant alters and six 20 ported. ' domestics are at present not in request ; a few police constables to protect the workpeople on l eaving 25 Grey i sales have been forced in most instances a t a reduction the mill, and this force found it necessary to seize two of the average of last season's • ho were at once cony under prices. the most active of the mob, w eyed 1 25 Of 1 to 2 anis. remarks do not apply to short widths, 24 to to the Lockups. Thep olice were followed and stoned, 12! The above their former value. on the' but resolutely did their duty ; and ,heir return they 26 in. which maintain . t of throwiner t Grey Cambrics, 24 yards 54 in, seem scarce ;no sal es apprehended a third man in tlie ac 0 s ones. 5 The riotous multitude were discouraged by these ex- St. are reported. ands 24 in. are wanted ; 2.1 to 511 3 am lof the way they might expect to be dealt with, p es Grey printer, 30 yar ° R 10 .rse and soon afterwards began to dispe . The prevalent 17 are saleable at IR. 14 annas to s. annas.. Grey Madopollams continue steady as last reported. opinion is, however, u 3 that inore ben() 4 t Toll yet 25 OM JACcoult4,-4 pi* Pa upWarcti ge gcarco in f o n im _ St. Buirinses d.oue I 50 lbw day. I St, THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1854. . .mov, • 114,13 , 171 m, . Shr. said, RAILWAYS. L e asing :;losing Prices Business Compans. Wednchday, this day. 50 all Bedford and London & Bletchley....i N. West , . St. 100 Buckghamsh. L.B;N.W. 93 95 93 50 all Clydesdale Jc. '.Juledon 95 97 St. 100 E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. 3t.Nrthn. 25 all Glas. Barr. & Caldonian. Neils. Direst ••• ••• 25 all Do. New...... Do 25 all elstr.&Dn.Fr Gt. Westn 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. &Yk. New. Railway & Berw. 50 all Hull & Selby Y. &NNW 112 104 25 all Do. A Shares. Do 5l —52 12# all Do. z Shares. Do 25 26 13i all Lon. Green S. Eastern 124 —13 i 20 all Do. Preference Do 2l —23 20 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Norfolk — ..• 20 100 Do. 6 per ct. _ 54 all Manch. Bxtn. L.&N.',.". and Matlock & Midld. 2h 21 • 50 all Middleabro' & Stckton & Redcar Darlingt. „. .•• 100 all Midld.Bradfd SLidland.. 89 90 50 all Northern and' Easternsp.c. E. Count. 54 56 50 .4.! Do. 6 per et. Do 50 all Do. Fixeds pe Do ••• 25 all Prest. &Wyrc &N.W &Ln&Yk xd 12 12 Do. A Shares. 3o xd St. 100 Roystn.&Hit. GtNorth St. 100 Do.Shepth.Si Jo 25 12 sa 1 9 1 Sh . esfta.Rfrootihzd M.MCloanLancash& 3 Goole g. 5 p.c. Yorksh. 50 all WearValleygr Stoekt. & 6 per cent... Darlingt. 25 all Do Do... — 29 St. 100 Wilts&Somrst GtWestn. 90 -- 92 MINES all Agua Fria all Anglo Austrin. Gold all Anglo Californian 2 Australasian 6 Australian all Australian Cordillera all Australian Freehold all Ave Maria all Bader (Gd. Duchy of) all Blaenaryon Ir. & Coal, all British Austrin. Goldl 13.5 British Iron 24i Brazilian Imp. (issued at X 5 - all Cocaes Cuiath 15 Do. St. John Del Rey ?Arson's Creek Clarendon Con. Min 1 Co. of Jamaica all Cobre Copper 1 Colonial Gold 15 Copiapo all Copper Min. of Eng all Do. Prof. 71 p. cent all English and Austria Copper Smeltg . Co. all General all Great Nugget Vein all Do. Registered all Great Polgooth all Liberty all Linares all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co all Mariquita 9 Nlexican&S.Amerien all New Granada all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co all Nouveau Monde all Pontgibaud Silver", Lead Min. & Smelt 1 Port Philip all Quara Rock all Rhymney Iron 15 Do. New 1O Santiago do Cuba all ''outh Australian 7 Tin Croft all United Mexican all Waller all West Granada all %Vest Mariposa 12s. Worthing Mining o Australia all Yuba FOREI 9 ( Belgian 3 Belgian Eastn. Juno. 8 Beziers to Graissessac 2s. Bombay, Baroda, and' Central ludia,Scrip Central of Italy all Charleroi & Erquelin all Demerara 14 Dijon andßesancon 8 Dutch Rhenish all East Indian 2 Do. Extension , all Gt. Indian Peninsula 10 Gd. Junct. of France 10 Grd. 'Prank of Canada 30 Do. Debentures all Do. do 10 Gt. Central of France all Gt.Westernof Canada Shares Du. Buds (Ist is.)'s7 15: Hamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 5 Lake Const. & Basle all Lucca & Pistoj asp. c. pref 15 Luxembourg 10 Do. (Railway) 2 Do. Prat Do. (Canal) 5 Do. 6p. ct.,..prof 8 Lyonsand Geneva 12 Lyons & Mediterran 10 `iadraa 33 Maria Antonia all Do. do. New 2 Melbourne Dk. &Ry all Namur & Liege (witl interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France.. Do. 201. 3 p. c all (finy.B.&Ams.Shs. ) all NorwegianTrunkPrc ii 10 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds . all Paris and Orleans._ all Paris and Rouen._ all Paris and Strasbour 10 ParisCaeu &Cherbrt 104 Quebec & Richmor all Rouen and Havre ; 12 Royal Dan'sh 2 Royal Swedish all Sambre and Meuse,., 6 Do. 54 p. cent. Pr ef.' 6 Southern of Franc. 8 St. Andrew's a:ad Quebec (A) all West Flanders all Do 5A per c. Pref.... 10 Western of France.,.., 7 West. of Switzerland 2 Wiesbaden 15 Zealand MIST 25 20 10 10 50 all Aubin Coal and Iron 17i' Australian AgTicult. 14 Australsn.Pcific.Mail 8 Australn. Royal Mail 4 Berlin Water Works 40 Brit. American Land 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co-.. 32i Canada 5 Crystal Pa , ace 4 Do. New.... ........ 2 Crystal Pal.of France, 3 Eastern Steam 15 20 20 20 20 Electrit Telegraph(A) all Do. (B) 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir. 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. 18 General Screw Steam 7} Irish Beetroot Sugar 10 Magdalena St. Navig. all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 3 Netherlands Land.... 1 N. S. W. Coal do Inter. Steam Navigat. Co. all N. B. Australasian._ i Do. New 10 Nrth.ofEuropoSteam all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. all Peninsular & Oriental 35 all Portland Iron CoD). 60 Royal Mai. Steam all Scot. Austrr' . Invest. 25 South Austral.Landi all Submar. Telegraph.. all Do. Registered 28A Van Diemen's Land MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) MEAT MARKETS. NEWCIATE AND LEADENHALL.—The general demand ruled steady at this market to-day, as follows : Beef, from 3s Od to 4s Od ; Mutton, 38 4d to 4s 4d ; Lamb, 58 4d to 6s 8 cl; the c a Veal, 3s 6 r to 53 Od ; Pork, 38 401 to 4s 8d per 81bs, rcase. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.--Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 5/ Os ; clover ditto, 3/ 15s to 61 Os ; and straw, 1116 s to 2/ 25 per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. C UMBERL AND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 51 58 ; clover ditto, 3115 s to Cl Os; and straw, 1/ 175 to 2/ 38 per load. Trade rather dull. WHITECH APEL.—Meadow hay, 2/ 12s to Si Os; clover ditto, 31 15s to 61 6.3 ; and straw, 1116 s to 21 2s per load. Supply good, awl trade dull. AVERAGES OF GRAIN. The weekly averages of grain have not been issued to-day. Wednesday.—The United States mail steam-ship Washington, Captain E. M. Fitch, sailed to day for New York, taking the usual semi-weekly Ame rican mails, about 250 passengers, and a full cargo of more than 600 tons of German, Swiss, French, and British merchandise, shipped from Bremen, Havre, and Southampton. The new American steam-ship Union, of 2,000 tons and 600 horse-power, has been chartered l in New York to run during the present season upon the Southampton, Havre, and New York mail line, in con junction with the steam-ship Franklin. The Royal mail steam-ship Atrato, with the homeward West India, Mexican, and Pacific mails, is expect to reach South ampton on Sunday or Monday neat t. The Plata will leave on Tuesday, the 2d proximo, with the mails for the same quarter. 2 Id— PI 1 d 1 2 I .7_ 4 * - 6 - li - 28 - i - 39 - 41 - 10 - 12 50 - 60 2 - 4 11 - 21 *i 1 i i , , to ii. - G - 6 - 15 - 17 1 - 29 - 31 8 - 10 3 - 4 =.. I 3 3i i d - i -- i Gl-N. 4 —3id xn 1 5 4d id P 1 a' P - 10 5 d 1 al 21 3 / 4 22 9 11 i lap 8 lop dis 5 4 2i 3 1 1 lid 3i 2,(1 ii— i'd • • • ••'' • ' - 29 := i6i 8 —9 xn lli -- 1215. 41. 43xd 32 —34 - 2 8 - pm - 7i - 8 - -- pm 4 d 13 —2ipxd d' ;; - - 6 - 5 al iSOUS 'Li ---- iiil 75 - 80 6g - 6i 16 -- 18 -.- .. 1 - 3. i - .. • --- • • • 1 --- ••• - ••. 1 - iP 2} - 34 - 36 - 1 - 1 1 _. RAN.DAL LESLIE'S NEW WORK. The Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli, ALP. A Literary and Political Biography. Addressed to the New Generation. Second Edition. Richard Bentley. Whether is it despicable—we would place this cause, with implicit confidence as to the nature of the verdict, before a jury selected from the first chance foot-passengers one might happen to meet any day at Charing-cross— whether is it despic able to stab another man's effigy through the me dium of an ingenious satire upon the title-page of which your own name, as its author, is boldly and manfully emblazoned, or to stab another man him self, not his effigy, but the man himself, through the medium of a most elaborate, a most malignant, and a most scurrilous invective,—an invective given to the world, moreover, under the dastardly, cut throat, crape-mask of the anonymous, Written less with ink than with vitriol, not so much with the pen as with the poignard, a literary performan ce , in fact, partaking less of the characte r o f a Biography than a deliberate attempt at assassination 2 A question—this—which has been forced upon us by a consideration, firstly of the charge directed against Mr. Disraeli by his many nameless assail ants ; and. secondly, of the manner in which those nameless assailants have preferred their accusation. It has been maintaine d b y th e enemies of the right hon. gentleman the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, these, his secret and masked anta gonists, that he has, both as an orator and as a ' novelist, rendered himself in the manner already specified peculiarly amenable to the authority, to the laws, to the punishments of the censorship. It has been insisted by these remarkable moralists, that Mr. Disraeli, both in his fictions and in his speeches, has betrayed an extraordinary dereliction of duty, a perfectly wonderful and altogether incom prehensible obliquity of judgment ; and this espe cially in the former, by assailing several of his actual contemporaries under the shadowy but I easily recognisable form of imaginary personages. It has been asserted by these astute and most subtle discriminators between right and wrong, in the conduct of a politician and a man of letters, that in the career of the right honourable gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire there has been something peculiarly dastardly in his mode of deal ing blows about him, both as a romance writer and as a debater in Parliament. In explanation or justi fication of these formidable charges directed against Mr. Disraeli, there have been poured out of the press in rapid succession, and in overwhelming numbers, treatises, and epistles, and essays, and criticisms—in fact, every imaginable species of paper pellet that could be discharged from the culverins and pop-guns of literature, from a carefully-elaborated review in a Quarterly to a slashing leader in a morning newspaper, from a "thin, acid pamphlet" to a big boo k, like the book before us, pretending to he a sort of ante humous Biography. Now, between the assailants and the assailed there is, as our first sentence has already indicated, this very glaring and remarkable difference : Mr. Disraeli writes, as he speaks, in propria persona, avowedly, boldly, and manfully in his own charac ter—Mr. Disraeli's censors, on the contrary, as saulting him and his reputation, whether through volume, or pamphlet, or review, or newspaper, all of them, anonymously Which of the two, there fore, let us ask again, is in truth the dastardly politician and man of letters—Mr. Disraeli or one of Mr. Disraeli's assailants ? We leave the solu tion of that very transparent problem to the com mon sense of any man in the three kingdoms who can contrive to consider the matter, only for five minutes, dispassionately. It need scarcely be observed in these columns that with Mr. Disraeli's political opinions upon many most important subjects we have no particle of sympathy whatsoever. His persevering advo cacy of the Protectionist principles we were op posed to from first to last diametrically. As Free traders from deliberate conviction, as amongst the earliest advocates of the Free-trade system, as amongst the journalists who from the outset de manded its adoption not by halves, but entirely and thoroughly, we regarded Mr. Disraeli's perti nacity in defending, down to the very last, the obso lete scheme of the monopolists, as a species of abso lute infatuation. True, the Country Party, as such, has at length been broken up and. by common consent we have all agreed to abandon henceforth every remembrance of the stormy struggles long maintained between the opponents of the corn laws, and the advocates of the manic , corn laws, the agriculturists. During the continuance of the struggle, however, both in regard to the Protectionists and in regard to Mr. Disraeli as one of the conspicuous leaders of the Protectionists, we were always outspoken in our opposition. Precisely in the same manner that we are nowadays amongst the most earnest of Mr. Disraeli's antagonists in his character as an avowed enemy of further reform in Parliament. It is per fectly obvious, therefore, that we cannot in any way be viewed as amongst the number of his par tisans. Nevertheless opposed to him, diametrically opposedto him as we have been so often upon matters of vital importance, socially and politically speaking, opposed to him repeatedly as we are at this present period, opposed to him as we fear we may be very frequently hereafter —we cannot assuredly, on that account, remain blind to the variety or splendour of his abilities, any more than, as hero-worshippers in the nobler sense applied to that phrase by Mr. Carlyle, we can remain indifferent to the curious spectacle of the rise and development of his reputa tion. Mr. Bounderby was not one jot more a " self made-man" than the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer. In Mr. Disraeli we recognise an intellectual athlete who has striven for the prize on the legislative arena, and not seldom successfully, with many notable, some of them historical, competitors—the political gladiators of a generation. Himself the son of a poor scholar, we find him, without any extraneous aid, without the prestige of an uni versity education, without advantages either of birth or connexions, but instead of all this, encum bered with the manifest disadvantages of a Jewish name and a Jewish extraction—winning Fame, winning Power, rising to considerable eminence both in the Senate and in Literature, admitted while yet in the ripeness of his manhood to the councils of his Sovereign, the recognised chief of a great Party, and as such, in fact, this moment, in the House of Commons, the Leader of her Ma jesty's Opposition. Signs—these—if such signs there ever have been, of more than common capa city, of more than usual energy, of more than ordi nary skill, daring, and perseverance. Without this combination of capacity, of energy, of skill, of daring, and of perseverance, Benjamin Disraeli would never have attained his present elevation among his contemporaries. Faults he has, some of them grave faults—but who amongst us is unblemished ? Mistakes he falls into every now and then, and among these mistakes some of them very grievous ones sometimes—but what man has passed well through the summer of his life without having occasionally tripped and blundered. He has told us himself that the Press is his only escutcheon. But it is an escutcheon, at least, un flawed by a bar sinister—with a dint, it may be, gained here and there in the conflict, but without being anywhere blurred by one of those indelible stains which are the " damning blots" on the blazonry. Without some bet ter and nobler quali ties than those conceded to him by his concealed calumniators, he could scarcely have attained the popularity of which he cannot be deprived by the deadliest hatred of his opponents. 0 her wise how would it be possible to account for the enthusiasm of his ovation in t h e of Acade- d mic Theatre at Ox ford, at the perioLor Derby's installation ? Adventurers of dastardly and s i n i s t e r repute are not usually thefavourites of those not wholly depraved children of alma mater, the undergraduates. No--there must, perforce, be something more remarkable here than the diatribes directed against Mr. Disraeli by the mob of his lurking detractors would lead the public to conjec ture. Otherwise the object of their affected scorn, an d the theme of their scurrilities, and the subject of their . sustained and malignant vituperation, could never, we repeat, have risen to his present elevation in the Senate and in Literature. Other wise, the student, and the sou of a student, could never have won so brilliantly for himself the privilege of leading a powerful section of the Legislature, or of himself representing in it the county for which John Hampden sat of old—that of Buckingham. Otherwise, again, the popular novelist, the writer whose love stories and romances-of-chivalry arc littered about the bookstalls of the railway stations with the fictions of Scott, and Bulwer, and Dickens, could scarcely have won at the same time with his literary repu tation the political glory and power of aiding in the equipoise of parties in the House of Commons, as the acknowledged leader of the Legislative forces opposed to those of the Government. Distinguished, however, amongst the ablest of his contemporaries by these strongly contrasting evidences of his ability, Mr. Disraeli is scarcely less distinguished among them all by the variety and virulence of his anonymous vituperators. It has long been thus—ever since, in fact, the novelist began to have readers and the orator to obtain the ear of the Commons House of Parliament. Un assisted by birth or patronage, the rig ht hon. gentle man has, throughout his career , from the first hour of his setting out on the road of fortune, found it necessary to advance towards the attainment of the twin reputation of letters and statesmanship, through the perpetually recurring dangers of an implacable and ferocious ambuscade. Poisoned shafts have fallen about by the way—pointless and unfeathered. There have been continual gleams of the blunt stiletto, and incessant flashes of the unloaded blunderbuss. Perhaps these anony: mous attacks were never more numerous, certainly they were never more violent, or more inveterate, more violent in language, or more inveterate in hostility, than they were recently during the win ter of 1853-1854, immediately prior to the re assembling of the Legislature. The Government hacks were industrious, every one of them, in be spattering the leader of the Opposition. Not a weapon at command but was turned against the common enemy—the ; archfoe of a rather deli catelyisituated Administration. The Mons Meg of Printing-house-square thundered at him of a morn ' ing. And before nightfall there was an echoing discharge from the little Colt's Revolver of the Treasury. No epithets, as applied to Mr. Disraeli, were too coarse for his - vilifiers. Decorum had no part in the arrangement of their vocabulary. The Times decently likened the statesman to a "bawd." The Chronicle as decently spoke of his descending to a " detested g rave." One might have fancied at moments that party spirit had become so far degraded as to seek expression for its malignity in the language of the brothel and in the phrenzy of the hell. Judging from the fury of the attack, directed against the Leader of the Opposition dur ing the interval which elapsed between the proro gation and the reassembling of the Legislature, there must have been a wonderful dread as to the force of his anticipated onslaught upon the Government. The supporters of the Govern ment, as was justly said at the time, were cry ing out before they were hurt ! At length— after all these reiterated personalities ix journals, and magazines, and pamphlets, and quarterlies — the hydra of invective sprouted another head, bigger than all its predecessors put together. It was no longer a column of abuse, or half-a-dozen octavo pages of vituperation. It was a huge volume extending to 646 of these octavo pages—a volume embellished with the name of the assailed, " The Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli, M.P ," but, we need scarce l y a dd , w i thout t h at of M.P.," assailant—" A Literary and Political Biography," and this, too, "Addressed to th e N ew Generation." Blackwood at once dubbed the author of the work Randal Leslie. And as the performance of Randal Leslie we at once accept it. In every syllable it is worthy of him. It is worthy of him in its concep tion as well as in its execution. It is clever to a certain extent ; it is laboriously compiled ; it is elaborately arranged ; it is scurrilous to the last degree ; it is by turns pert and then insolent ; it is, besides all this, flippant and affected—affected even to pedantry, and flip pant to impertinence, throughout. Unfortu nately for its writer, indeed, he contrives in al most every page to reveal not only the spite of Randal Leslie, but the priggishness of Barnes New come. So that the performance altogether might have been absolutely revolting from its ferocity, but that, from its ignorance, it became simply ridicu lous. Closing this volume of envenomed personality, and turning back to the title-page, one is almost surprised to find that Curll is not the publisher, or that Holywell-street is not the locality from which it makes its appearance. It was observed only the other day by a reviewer in the Quarterly, when speaking of Laurence Sterne, that his wit was frequently nothin g better than the ph os phorescence of corruption. It might so be remarked of whatever ability may be discovered in this corrupt and corrupting performance. It has about it the taint of decomposition. It is utterly without that soul of books—a noble purpose. En gendered by the heat of a most despicable animosity, it comes forth at once still-born and an abortion. The beginning of its exist ence was only the commencement of its decay. So will it ever be with those detestable and dastardly assaults of the hidden traducer upon the reputation of a living contemporary—be the stab given with the cutlass of the venal critic, or the dagger-of-lath of the hireling pamphleteer. What says Pope in his " Prologue to the Satires ?" Why [sic. verbatim , ct literatim], that " - Ne'er ono sprig of laurel graced these ribalds, From slashing Bentley down to piddling Tibbalds I" No—rather, in lieu of that, a whole forest of birch. Bather than the rustling bay-garland, the jingling cap-and-bells. And so, borrowing a phrase from Bob Sawyer, who talked. of quaffing malt liquor in its " native pewter," let us toss this preposterous volume from us with a laugh into its native waste paper basket. * Alexander Pope's " Imitations of Horace Prologue to the Satires—line 163. METROPOLITAN GOSSIP.— LONDON, Saturday Evening. —Perhaps it is only proper that men of shuttle-cock opinions should be the sport of the winds in popular caprice ; and accordingly the Cabinet, who have been sitting in Council several hours this evening, have been estimated throughout the day with very varying degrees of appreciation. Since symptoms of negative success, if one may say so, have begun to be apparent on the side of Russia, the Czar has been advancing in the good graces of our commercial patriots ; and now that it is no longer so certain as it lately seemed to be that Omer Pasha was going to make mincemeat of the Moscevites, the Sultan is descending in the scale of the same cos mopolitan philosophers, who measure all merit by pro sperity. Ifenee the sluggishness of our Black Sea sailors is made light of by men who would be explosively indignant were it self-evident that the autocrat was going to be doubled up in the ignoble manner the Unadorned One once proposed to dispose of the house of Romanoff and all belonging to them. Undoubtedly the Premier is not censured so freely as he was, notwithstanding the unexpected scathings of Wednesday's Thunderer on the procrastinators in the pugnacity line ; and, somehow, a notion seems to be springing up that Aberdeen, after all, has been considerably further north than was at first supposed, and that he will have the world one of these days his way of thinking as to the wickedness of the war, and the consequent wisdom of John Bright. Some strange tales are in circulation about the real, or imputed real reasons of his lordship's reluctance in beginning the fight, and in pursuing it as he ought to do. The mode of getting at these supposed reasons is by a very circum ' locutary process of induction ; but such as it is said to be here it is :-- Among the frequenters of Argyle-house and known personal partisans of the premier is the member for County Tyrone, Lord Claude Hamilton, brother of Prince Albert's groom of the stole, the Marquis of Aber corn. Lord Claude, in addition to the tolerably notori ous Kremlin predilections of his family, has lately been loud-tongued in private society, and not altogether mute in public, in censuring the quarrel with Russia as a tempting of Providence, an impiety, a desecration of Christianity on behalf of Mahonamedism, and an every thing that is anything but what it ought to be. Now, it is inferred, with what justice y ou are just as good a judge as anybody else, that Lord Claude S opinions are not merely his own, but his brother's ; that his brother's are Albert's, and that Albert's ar e Aberdeen's. The Premier is reported by some of his Scotch cousins to have in him a considerable spice of the old Caledonian Calvanistic predestinarian, being in that respect a to lerable Turk ; he thinks, as many of the Osmanlis them selves are said to do, that the period of the Porte's po litical presence in Europe has arrived at a full stop ; that it is all up with the Ottoman ; and that, whether it is or not, it would be an uncorking of all the vials of celestial wrath seriously to assist such sons of perdition against a crowned Christian, who makes the cross his emblem, and the dolivery of the faithful from the thral dom of the infidel his battle-cry. This being so, if so it be, a depts in the science of seeing into a mill-stone have no difficulty in discerning a clue to the creep-mousey conduct of the Cabinet, especially when the very mini ster, charged with the war executive, happens to be half a Russian in reality, and the other half by affinity and a N innct P oe o s ls o or t o he M bru H ta ns l W ch l i F ld E. alliance.--Liverpool Albion. have mf the rd —Scarcely excitementt l county by has h b e e p e o n i s o ag n i a n i g n sil e b O s n i s d i e d d ora t b h l a e ll of a husband by e,Hardstaff, in the same county. The facts of the case may be gleaned from the following narrative :—About six weeks ago a man named James Cutts, residing at Hardstaff, and by trade a bricklayer, was taken ill with a fever, from which ho had recovered, and during the time of Derbyshire,ct rArcoulSnislt his illness his wife was continually quarreling with him. On Tuesday week she made a pudding for dinner, of which he partook heartily. In the afternoon he was seized with vomiting and complained of great acidity on his stomach. He gradually grew worse, and on Wed nesday he died. After his death his relatives and friends applied to see him ' • but the wife refused to allow them. On the day that she had been making the pudding, the deceased's two girls, about 10 and 11 years old, observed Mrs. Cutts put something from a paper, which was on a box in the room, in the pudding ; but they were not aware what it was. They happened, by accident, to tell the circumstance to the deceased's brother, who made in quiries and ascertained that the stuff contained in the paper was arsenic. The deceased had been buried before these cir -1 cuaistances were brought to light. He communicated with a Mr. Makorzie, the surgeon, and other persons I who advised him to inquire into the matter. The coro ner having been made acquainted with the nature of the case, lie ordered the exhumation of the body, which had been interred in the Ault t Hucknall church, and a post mortere examination of the same, which was performed by two medical men. The contents of the stomach were ex tracted and analysed, and arsenic was clearly proved to be in the stomach. The corm: er, Mr. C. S. B. Busby, held an inquest on the body at Clay-cross on Monday, when the evidence of the medic e.l nien and others was taken, but as it was deemed advisable to examine other witnesses, and have a more minute analysis, the inquest was adjourned. Mr. Makorzie, the medical gentleman who had attended the deceased in his illness, had not visited him from the time he partook of the pudding up to the period of his death, as be was then almost convalescent. The deceased and his wife had not lived agreeable for some time past, as he suspected she had formed an improper intimacy with other men. The deceased was thirty-three years o f age, and the father of six children. The case has excited great interest in that part of the county. dug, ge art to ys. jatiOU parts uCIP With o the telot ;" soli' 1, an d , is 113 a rroY E , urt Cl" a, and 3 MA )over. ,d a reg ervic° 05% r hav e that ._~ :~-" Iraid.l RAILWAYS. 100 Aberdeen. 81 9inbg. Nottng. Bost and Eastn. Junct all Belfast & Ballymena all Birmiug. Wolverh. & Stour Valley 28 Birkenhd. Lanesh. & Cheshire Junct all Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. 18i Do.; £20..... ...... 30 Sly th & Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45) 100 3ristol and Exeter 100 Caledonian all Chester & Helyhead. all Cork and Bandon all Cork, Black, & Pass. 12 Cornwall 89 52; 134 8 19 14 50 20 45 I C IDD deepu n u o . I b e . f r Junction lai New e n eej & w: B ne. e . rt,. lf t. hi a . o. 5 42 7 . A. u . b e. n . . c r all all all East Anglian all 0., (£lB E & 11) all Eastern Counties all Eastern Union, A Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 86 Do., New A 1100 East Lancashire 100 dinburgi , & Glasgow 51 6 Edinb. and Peebles 100 Edin. Pah & Dundee 1 Forth & Clyde June. 1100 Glasgow &S. Western 1100 Great Northern Stk. , 100 Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 100 Gt. Sth. &Wost.(lre ) 100 Great Western 12 Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & Carlisle 11.1 Do., Thirds 2 Do. Thirds 100 Lancash.andYorksh. 186 Do., Fifths 114 Do. , Wst. Riding Un. all Leeds Northern all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt all London & Blackwall 8i Lend. Tilb. & Sthend. 100 Lond. Bright & S.Cst. 100 Lond. and N. Westn. 12 Do. Fifths 1 Do.lo/.5h.,111&8 0 2. Do. Eighths 100 London andS. Westn 426 Do., £5O 34 0., £4O all iLmndrry& Coleraine all Lmlndrry.& Ennisk. 100 fanch.S. , et & Lincln 44- Do., Man. & Lin. Un 00 Midland 100 Do. Birmng. & Derby 471 Midld. G. Wesc.(lrs.) 17 Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & Carlisle 100 Newmarket 5 Do., Bury Extension. 17. A Nwpt.Aberg. & arid. 1° j:3, all Newry Warrenpoint' NaeuwdrY & Enniskilleneßostvo I 100 Norfolk 31 Northn.Counties Ua. 100 N o rth British 16 North Devon, No. 1 . all Do., No. 2 all Do., 6 A Deferred 8 0., 1 B GuaranteeC all North London .. 5i Do. New £lO 111 is N.&S. Wstrn.,Hamp stead, and City Jn 17i North Staffordshire all North Western 10 N.& S. Westrn. June 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester.. 100 Oxford, Worcester,& Wolverhampton 21 2s Portsmouth 100 'cottish. Central 100 cottishMidland 100 Shrewsbury &Bii mg 100 Do. L. &N. Western Guaranteed Sleek 10 Zhrewsby. & Herefd. all Shrewsby. & Chester (N. W. Min all Do. Halves,i e. all Do. Oswestry 61 Shropshire Union : ... Do. A, B, C,&D,fuify paid up at per cent. all South Devon 1.00 South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yrksh. & Riv. Duni 5 Do / 2s Staines,Wok. & ,Jok l all Stockton & Darling. 16 Stockton aanndaa.yi & lia l l aly a. p r a t l a l e Palace.. ... .00 Taff Vale . 8 s. £lO shares. , LOO Do. Prep., No. J 21 Thames Haven Doc] 17 Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny all tVaterford&Limerick 16 West Cornwell. 1 Nest End of London'. all West London 51s. Wimbledn &Croydon' 100 YorkNewctl.&Berw. 20 Do. Extensions 136 Do. G.N.E. Purchase 100 York &N. Midland 8/ 2s 20 20 10 10 20 20 50 20 5 10 St. 5 100 Aberdeen...,, 100 Do. No. 2, p. c. 30 Birth and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issd. at 501) 100 Bris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4 p. 0. Shares 100 Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5. 3 / 4 per cent 64 Cork &Bandonslp.c. all Dundee Perth &Aber- 22i - 23 4i - 4i ... 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Redeem. . at 10 p. c. prem 10 Do. 44 p. e. Seize.... 6 Gt.N. o: Scot. 1s Prel all Gt. Southn.&Westm. (Ireland) Eighths)... 5 Do. 4 per C. Pref. Sh 6 Gt. Westn. (Berks & 100 H p a o nts cov Ex. red s . p. c)... 4i P.C. 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c. 100 Do. irrecl. 4p. c.... 6 Lan. & York. F. £2Ol 100 Do. 6 p. c. Stock . .1 13 Leeds N. 6p. c. N0..1 1 9 Do. Quarters ,1848... 100 Loudon and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p, c „, Iwo Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. all Do. Convertible, 5 p.' c., 1852 100 Do. New Guar.6 p. c 100 Lon. &N. W., Cov. di Nuneaton 5 London &S. Westerr Con. Thirds all Londonderry& Coler. Shares 21 - 4 - i - . - all Londy. it Ennis. Sh. all !Awl., SUL , & Lin., i Shares, No. 1. all Do. New, £lO 4: Do. £6 all' Nlarypt.&Carl.4 p.c all I Do. 4i per cent 101 . , Do :100- Aid. Consel.6 p.c.St. 'lOO Do. Consol. Bristol & Firm. 6 per cent.... 5 Do. Pref. 4i per cent 6 Norfolk Debenture.. 100 Do. Pref. 4 p. c. Stoci 100 Do. 5 p. c. Eat 100 Do.S per ez,.?ref WO Do. Way . 'Val. sp. c 100 North British . . a ll North Staffordshire... 100 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh.£ls,6 p.c. 15 Do all Scot. Cent., New Pref all Shrews. &Birm.N.G. all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Miu), 8 p.c. 10 Do. 5 per cent all South Devon . . Do. fixed, 4, 1 -, per cent all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 4 pet cent all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. all Stockton and Dar lington, 4 per cent. 5 Do. do. do. all Stockton and Hartle r 001, guar. 5 p. c. till Ist Jr' y, 1856 3 Waterfd.&Kilk. 6 p.c. 100 York, Neweastle,%nd Berwiok,4 p.c. Pref. 5 Do 10 York&N.Midlandll, and $. Pura 90 53t 3 86 i 74i - 6 ---- -ii 64 G 5 gt gid 5i 4d 45 46 1 PREFERENCE SHARES. 94 = .9G i -- i P ' 12 - - 1 i i) 23 - 24 3 -3i .ad no —ll2 LO4 - 106 94 - 9i i ~. 7 8 — xd 64 7 94 96 87 89 88 90 Id pa 12 - 8 - -1: .. ..... 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