The Sun. — London, England, 1854-02-20 00:00:00

rection among [ly confirmed. It Russian in aordinary de ! that Austria proceedings. ustria during y were com- Tor Nicholas. tate that the Transports Is were con ,stablisbed to of 25,000 or u establish a 3(1, announce progressing. . rom Europe. great. The Lis. etter from a Sated " Tur- having left rugh I learn distract and • have been .11 along my nothing but ing 30 miles Widdin the I-quarters of the good for e of an affair e Coustanti s letter can sews ; but I in examin its present her a more akai ; while ead flat, the high ridge, field of the ;now having , everything the regular battalion of pm the field is being the under the he Moslem vatches the stria. The opes of the every house mostly Tosk trab clothes h has now fustanella, for winter issian great e bodies of 3s the Pruth ?asha keeps )le, for per nation that meum and Pasha was, hose of the he suppres- I just been we conduct ;Must a far n Giurgevo curious to .nd Egypt, Lich trouble aluable and are become finites intel iultan, and ig, with six ts, as if all L had been ttery is in I the whole 'land point [mice witk au above secures the Im the east )attery did )nitza, and strong po frcm it on short and rantine on cross with 6 complete tents have , the want 3r the first ly contri- ' siege. the green it no signs t on occa of Ahmed tree fresh the latter. the river, imated at Lre in and toff, and ral Aurep watched, Aural po g the mid- Shumla, Force may Ler Pasha r room to )egiuning to the islands. houses r • The ad con-. occupa e fulfil raperor for its iat his of the a new 311, and, an in -0 artil -1 regi [iners, Lneers, 3. The or 40 Abbas tainly a war Id by ar- The LChed ,!4.. I❑ Istria )rted left, Medjid is the key of all, so that the new fortifica tions of Silistria may be compared to a bracelet, of of which Silistria is the jewel, and Fort Abdul- Medjid the clasp—the two being connected by the minor forts forming a semicircle on each side. These new forts on the plain are placed with strict reference to the bastions of the town and their rayon. All, with the exception of Abd-ul-Medjid, have been constructed within the last six months, several with block houses of solid stone masonry and all with deep fosses and drawbridges. FRANCE. The first of the fancy balls so long announced came off on Saturday night at the Tuileries. It is described as being very splendid. The Emperor appeared in the uniform of a Colonel of the com pany of the Garde du Corps, which is in course of organisation. The Empress wore the costume of an Albanian lady, and looked admirable in it. Vely Pasha, the Ottoman Ambassador, was b abited in the gorgeous and imposing costume of a Turkish Pasha of the olden time. His turban of the richest cashmere, the tunic covered all over with gold embroidery, the rich pelisse lined with fur as delicate as the most delicate down, and the diamond-hilted poinard, and scimitar, were truly characteristic. The Em peror spoke for some time with the Pasha, and said, among other things, that he hoped he was satisfied with him as he was about to send 10,000 turbans to Turkey—alluding, no doubt, to the Zouaves. The Ambassador replied, that he was most gratified at the sympathy and co-operation of France ; that the 10,000 his Majesty spoke of would be receive with enthusiasm by the Turkish people and army, and that whether they appeared in tur bans or not, and whatever was the uniform they wore, they would be received in Turkey as French men. The other costumes were varied and rich. The Emperor and Empress entered the salle des mcsrechaux at nine o'clock, immediately after which the ball was opened with a quadrille, in which all the ladies were dressed as heathen goddesses, the leader being the Princess Mathilde as Juno. One of the ladies in this quadrille was the beautiful Countess Potocka, to whom Louis Napoleon paid his addresses, many years ago, when a refugee in Switzerland. She was splendidly attired as Diana, her corsage being of silver scale armour, the quiver for the arrows also in silver, and the belt by which the quiver was attached to the shoulder of the fair wearer being richly studded with brilliants estimated at upwards of three millions of francs. Immediately after the quadrille, Marshal Magnan, at the head of all the French generals present, the whole of whom were dressed in the costume of the Garde Francaise of the time of Louis XV., filed off before the Em peror and Empress. The second quadrille was led off by the Countess Maleret, one of the dames critonneur of the Empress. The third quadrille was a military one, being called "De la per mission de dix heures," in reference to the well known engravings from which the costumes were taken. The fourth quadrille was composed of Hungarian and Polish costumes, and was led off by the Comtesse Tascher de la Pageiie. The Ministers were all dressed in the austere costume of Ministers of the time of Henry IV. Lord Cowley was in a magnificent dress of white satin, said to be the costume of a Knight of the Bath. It was remarked that both the Emperor and Empress were particular in their attentions to M. Hubner, the Austrian Minis ter, and that their Majesties continued for a con siderable time in earnest conversation with him. The supper was laid out in the theatre of the Palace, fitted up for the occasion ; it was beautitulty deco rated, and the coup dVil on entering from the ball room was beyond description fine. The rarest shrubs and flowers were everywhere in profusion, and gave the appearance of one of the enchanted gardens we read of in romance. The party did not separate till near four o'clock. General M'Mahon, who has been in Paris for some weeks past, is preparing to leave, and will probable take a command in the expeditionary force to Turkey. Several officers of the staff accompany him to Toulon. It is said that the long-talked-of modification of the French Ministry will be carried but as soon as war shall have been positively proclaimed. A war like manifesto isabout to be published, but it is not quite determined whether it shall be in the shape of an address to the Legislative Corps on its open ing, or as a proclamation to be published in the Moniteur. It is now stated and upon apparently good foun dation, that the visit of the Duke and Duchess of Brabant to Paris is abandoned, or at least post poned. It appears that the parties concerned feel some alarm at the idea of allowing au Archduchess of Austria to visit Paris. It is now reported that it is the King of the Belgians himself who will come to Paris. Some wags had got up the report on Saturday that no less a personage than Prince Menschikoff had arrived in Paris. personage the Bourse the rumour was so current that some people actually believed it, but it at length was discovered that the Prince Menschikoff in question was not the bully of Con stantinople, but a much more harmless animal, the bceuf gras, who is to perambulate the streets of Paris on Tuesday, and who has been called Prince Menschikoff by the facetious farmer who had the honour of rearing him. When the true version of the story came out the capitalists who speculated pour la hausse on the news of Prince Menschikofrs arrival, hastened to liquidate their accounts. Orders, it is understood, have been sent from the War-office to the military authorities in the de partments that all soldiers or officers belonging to the army of Africa who are now in France on leave ofabsonce shall forthwithjoin their respective corps. In official quarters the nomination of Prince Napoleon to be Commander-in-Chief of the expe dition to Constantinople, is considered very pro bable. It appears that active negotiations are going on between the Government and the Paris bankers for a loan. There are three candidates in the field. It is probable that ultimately the house of Roths child will be the contractors. The Council of State has at present submitted to it for examination, amongst other matters, bills to the following effect—to open an extraordinary credit of 672,984 fr to the Minister of Finance from the budget of 1854 ; to open a credit of 4,338,744 fr. to the Minister of the Interior, for the establishment of telegraphic lines ; to allow the town of Meaux to borrow 30,000 f. destined to enable the mayor to reduce the price of bread in favour of the poor ; to authorise the city of Orleans to borrow 120,000 f. for the same purpose ; to per mit the acceptance of au annual sum of 2,500 f. left by Mlle. Couturier to the poor children of the Ist arrondissement of Paris, also of a legacy of 354,000 f., bequeathed by the same person, to the poor children of Paris generally ; likewise several bills of a local character. Count Branicki, a rich Polish refugee, long re sident in France, has obtained grand letters of na turalisation from the Government, and been ap pointFd a senator. Count Branicki, who was at one time one of th e a id es -d e - camp o f th e E mperor Nicholas, is a m an o f enormous wea lth , an d h as contributed largely to many of the principal in dustrial enterprises in F rance . H e was f orce d t o leave Russia on account of his liberal opinions. The report was current on Saturday afternoon that the Emperor Nicholas had sent stringent orders to his fleet to attack, at all risks, any Turkish vessels navigating the Black Sea. It is to this that the fall in the Metalliques at Vienna is attributed. The Bourse was firm on Saturday, with little business. It was mentioned by persons generally well informed that a great banking house had con tracted to supply the Government with 150,000,000 f. at 3 per cent., at 62f. 50c. The Three per Cents. opened at 68f., fell to 671. 7 0 c., and closed at 67f. 85c. for the end of the month. The F our-and- a - Half per Cents. closed at 97f. 45c. ; Orleans Rail way Shares, 1,078 f. 75c. ; Rouen, 890 f. ; Havre, 445 f. ; Great Northern, 740 f. ; Paris and Stras burg, 722 f. 50c. ; ditto, New, 570 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 822 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 655 f. ; Western of France, 580 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 538 f. 75c. ; Great Central, 440 f. ; Lyons and Genev a , 455 f. ; Shares of the Bank of Credit Mobilier, 617 f. 50c. SPAIN. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 14th inst. The Herald() states that there was no truth in the report that the Government intended to re organize the Royal Council. The Queen had ordered that the measures adopted in the capital, for the relief of the indigent and labouring classes, should be extended to all the districts of the kingdom in which a scarcity of provisions was experienced. The war steamer Leon, having on hoard the Marquis del Duero, arrived at the port of Santa Crnz, of Teneriffe, from Cadiz, on th e 3d . i nst. The Prince and Princess of J oinvill e who accom panied Queen Marie Ame lie on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Montpensier, at Seville, intended to make a tour through Andalusia. They were to leave Seville on the 9th for Cordova, and to pro ceed from thence to Granada, Malaga, dr e . Being anxious to know the country, they were to perform the greatest part of the journey on horseback. The Three per Cents. were done at 37 7 ,A ; th e New Three per Cents., at 19i ; the Debt of the First Class, at 8 ; led that of the Second at 44-. A telegraphic despatch from Madrid of the 15th, announces that the Gazette of that day publishes a, Royal decree, ordering the names of General Josh de la Concha and of General O'Donnell to be §truok off the list of the-Spanish army COURT CIRCULAR, The Queen held a Privy Council at 3 o'clock on Satur day afternoon at Buckingham Palace. It was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert ; Earl Granville, Lord President ; the Duke of Argyll, Lord Privy Seal ; the Earl of Aberdeen, First Lord of the Treasury ; Vis count Palmerston, Secretary of State for the Home De partment ; the Earl of Clarendon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ; the Duke of Newcastle, Secretary of State for the Gdonies ; the Right Hon. W. E. Glad stone, Chancellor of the Exchequer ; Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty ; Sir Charles Wood, Presi dent of the Board of Control ; the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Secretary at War ; the Marquis of Breadal bane, Lord Chamberlain ; and the Marquis of Abercorn, Groom of the Stole to the Prince. At the Council a proclamation was ordered to be is sued, prohibiting the exportation of arms, ammunition, gunpowder, military and naval stores, and machinery available for war. The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. The Queen gave audiences to Sir James Graham, the Earl of Aberdeen, Earl Granville, and the Duke of Newcastle. The Court was attended by the Earl of Mulgrave, Treasurer of the Household ; Lord Ernest Bruce, Vice- Chamberlain ; the Marquis of Londonderry, Gold Stick in Waiting ; the Marquis of Ormonde, Lord in Waiting; and Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood, Groom in Waiting. Prince Albert presided on Saturday morning at a meeting of the Governors of the Wellington College. His Royal Highness arrived at the New Palace of West minster at 11 o'clock, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. A. N. Hood. The other Governors present were his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, the Earl of Derby, Viscount Hardinge, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir James Hogg, and the Rev. R. Gleig. The Hon. W. P. Talbot, Hon. Secretary, was present at the meeting. The Rev. William Moseley was in attendance. The meeting separated at a quarter past two o'clock. The Prince of Wales and Prince Alfred, attended by Mr. Gibbs, visited the Duchess of Cambridge on Friday at her residence in St. James's Palace. The Queen had a dinner party on Saturday, at Buck ingham Palace. The company included his Royal High ness the Duke of Cambridge, the Austrian Minister and Countess Colloredo, the Earl and Countess of Harrow by, the Earl of Ellenborough, Lord John Russell, Lord George Lennox, the Bishop of London and Mrs. Bloom field, Lord and Lady Stanley of Alderley, Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, Colonel the Hon. A. and Mrs. Gordon, Captain the Hon. J. Denman, and Lord W. Paulet. The Queen and Prince Albert, the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the domestic house hold, attended Divine service yesterday morning in the private chapel at Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald Wellesley officiated Sir John Bowring, Governor of Hong Kong and Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China, left town on Saturday afternoon for Southampton, en route co the seat of his government. Mr. Roche, M.P., had an interview with the Earl of Aberdeen on Saturday, at his official residence in Downing-street. The Solicitor-General had an interview with the Chan cellor of the Exchequer at his official residence in Down ing -street, on Saturday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Saturday at the Council-office. The appeal from Ben gal, "The East India Company v. Nawab Jaffier Hos sein," part heard, was concluded. The lords present were the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, the Lords Justices Knight Bruce and Turner, and Sir E. Ryan. THE SPEAKER'S DINNER.—The Speaker gaVe his second Parliamentary dinner on Saturday. The follow ing were present :—The Right Hon. B. Disraeli, Vis count Mandeville, the Hon. Lord John Manners, Lord Stanley, the Right Hon. Lord Naas, the Right Hon. Viscount Newport, the Right Hon. Lord Claude Ha milton, the Right Hon. Spencer H. Walpole, the Right Hon. Sir John Pakington, the Right Hon. J. NV. Henley, the Right Hon. A. Cristopher, the Right Honourable C. C. Forrester, the Right Hon. George Bankes, the Right Hon. Sir John Troliope, the Right Hon. J. Napier, the Hon. Captain Duncombe, Sir William Jolliffe, Sir Thomas Herbert, Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Mr. Bateson, Mr. Stafford, Colonel Dunne, Colonel Taylor, Mr. G. A. Hamilton, Mr. Cumming Bruce, and Mr. Henry Baillie. The Marquis of Chan dos, General Sir G. Berkeley, K.C.8., Mr. Beresford, and Lord Henry Lennox were prevented through indis position from attending. HOW TO OBTAIN £20,000,000 FOR CARRYING ON THE WAR, WITHOUT INCREASING THE BURDENS OP THE COUNTRY BY FRESH TAXES OR LOANS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE MUN. SIR,—It appears to me that now is the time when the plan proposed by Mr. James Wilson, M.P., in the Economist of 1847, and republished in his work on " Cui rency, Capital, and Banking," may, with one im portant alteration, be adopted with great advantage to the country. We are on the eve of war,—money must be found for carrying it on,—to raise it by loan would be to make it dearer when commerce is already suffering by its being too high— to raise it by fresh taxes would be put ing ad ditional weight on the springs of industry and checking our onward course of commercial prosperity.—our flood tide would be converted into an ebb tide. This may be averted in a great degree by adopting in part Mr. Wil son's plan. He proposed to issue through the Bank of England, or some separate department of issue, thirty millions of one pound notes in exchange for thirty millions of sovereigns, depo'iting ten millions of sove reigns and twenty millions of Government Stock as a guarantee at once for their convertibility and safety. Let the plan be so far altered as to substi tute the national guarantee for the actual deposit of Government Stock, and the country will obtain twenty millions with the least derangement to its commercial and financial transactions. For a defence of the sound ness of the principles on which Mr. Wilson's plan is based, I refer to his able and convincing arguments on the subject. There is a prejudice in England against the use of one pound notes, but it is a prejudice and nothing else, arising from the discredit into which the one pound notes of the country bankers fell in the panic of 1825, and which panic was stopped by an issue of one pound notes (accidentally found) by the Bank of England. In Scotland they actually prefer one pound notes to gold, and it is no uncommon occur' ence for a traveller on ten dering gold for payment of his bill at an hotel to be asked for notes. And surely if the public can place such confidence in the notes of a joint-stock company, they will not have less confidence in notes which the nation guarantees. There is naturally and properly a jealousy against en trusting the Government with the power of i , suimg paper money, a power that has in almost every instance been abused ; but in the mode .recommended the power of issue is limited—the operation cannot be repeated or extended. The very purpose for which the money so raised would in a great degree be probably expended, in payments abroad for the use of the army, would obviate the only objection to which Mr. Wilson's plan in ordinary times might be open ; for although, as he justly observes, it would not add a shilling to the circulation, as circulation adjusts itself to the requirements of trade—yet it would increase the capital of the country, and tend to raise prices ; whereas by its expenditure abroad, this derange ment wouH be avoided. Should the war be happily averted, the same plan judiciously gnd gradually adopted, would enable the country to get quit of the taxes on knowledge, and to liberate commerce still further. If you can find room for the foregoing, you will oblige, Sir, yours sincerely, HAMER STANSFELD. The Grange, Burley, near Otley, 15th Feb., 1854. RAILWAY MEETINGS AND DIVIDENDS. The railway meetings of the week have not been nu merous, but they present some points of interest. The dividend of the South-Western, at the rate of 5 per cent., has teen confirmed, and the traffic shows improvement. The directors of the Great Western Company recommend a dividend of 2 per cent. for the half-year, leaving a ba lance of 19,964/. to be carried forward ; but the meeting has been temporarily adjourned, .to ascertain the result of an attempt to settle differences with the London and North-Western. The dividend of the London and North-Western will be at the rate of 5 per cent., the balance to be carried to the credit of the next half-year being 86,0311. The York and North Midland dividend is to be at the rate of 3 per cent., with a surplus balance of 2,1441. The company have agreed to accept from Mr. Hudson 51,0001., in satisfaction of the judgment recently obtained for 71,462/. ; 21,0001. is to be paid next month, and the balance, with interest at 4 per cent., in three annual instalments, secure d by mortgage. The dividend declared at the meeting of the Hull and Selby Company has been 21. 9s. 6d. per 50/. share, and in proportion upon the other descriptions. The Glocester and Dean Forest dividend is at the rate of 4 per cent., under the termo of the lease concluded with the Great Western Company. Th e report of the East Indian Railway has been adopted, and the works, it appears, are being prosecuted with vigour. Arrangements have been made under which, in proportion as the proprietors may from time to time avail themselves of the privilege of subscribing, the extension capital is henceforth to be raised by shares paid up in full, and entitled at once to the 44 per cent. guaranteed by the East India Company. The dividend of the Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston lino is to bo at the rate of 21 per cent. The directors of the Ox ford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway have an nouced a dividend at the rate of 31 per cent. on the pre ferential stock. The dividend of the Bristol and Exeter Company, according to the accounts, will be at the rate of 5 per cent. At the meeting of the _Dublin and Bel fast Junction Company a dividend of 5 per cent. was agreed to, the balance carried forward being 8,9001. It is stated that the earnings of the South-Eastern Com pany will allow a distribution equal to the rate of 4 per cent. per annum. The division of the North London Company is 255. per share, and the revenue of the line continues to increase. The Great Northern dividend is to be at the rate of 23,- per cent, for the half-year, leaving a surplus balance of 3,940/. The dividend of the Eastern Counties Company is announced as 7s. per share, the balance to be carried forward reaching 2,716 e. THE SUN, LONDON, 'MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1854. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Considerable inactivity prevailed in the demand for wheat in the country markets held on Saturday, notwith stading that the supplies on offer were but moderate. All spring corn—th 3 receipts of which were on the increase— moved off heavily, and the currencies had a downward tendency. The near continental markets have been dull for wheat and other grain, on easier terms. Large shipments of wheat and flour are being made from France and Belgium to this country. The last accounts from New York are to the effect that both wheat and flour were rather easier. The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week wore very moderate. From abroad we received 17,533 quarters of wheat, 4,306 of barley, 3,193 oats, 8,040 beans, 170 peas, 212 tares, '36 linseed, 1,048 rape seed, 40mustard seed, 465 sundry seeds ; 7,952 brls and 100 sacks of flour• The quantity of English wheat received fresh up to our market to-clay, coastwise, was very moderate, and in middling condition. By land carriage, the supply was small, and the show of samples was, consequently, limited. Notwithstanding that the news from Russia is very war like, and that we had a fair number of country millers in attendance, the demand for most kinds of wheat of home produce was in a sluggish state, at last Monday's prices. For farwar.l delivery, so little was doing that the quota tions were almost nominal. The shew of foreign wheat, fresh as well as the granary, was good. The business doing in most kinds was compara tively limited. In the general quotations, however, no material change took place. Floating cargoes of wheat was held at full prices. Since Monday last, 40 vessels have been reported at Falmouth laden with grain. We were well supplied with both English and foreign barley. The demand for it was heavy, at last Monday's decline in prices. There was a large quantity of malt on show, for which the inquiry was heavy, at barely stationary prices. We had rather more doing in oats, the value of which was well supported. Beans were very dull, and ls. per qr. dearer than on this day se'nnight. Peas were heavy, and the turn lower. The flour trade was dull, and inferior parcels were easier to purchase. CURRENCY PER IMP ERIA.L EASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red •• •• new is. to 85a Ditto • . • • old 7is 863 Ditto, White new 76s 90s Ditt0........ old 80s 91s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old 74s 86s Ottto new • • • • • • 74s 86, Rye—Old .... •• .. • • 51s 52s New ........ • • •• 503 51s Barley—Grinding .• • • • 358 395; \felting .•••••• 40s 44s 'Thevalier • • • • • 458 470' Walt—Suffolk and Nor folk • • • • • • .• 66s 71s Brown .• • • • • • • • 603 62s Kinrston and Ware 73e 75s (Outs .. • • 75s to 76s pats YOT4shir. and Line°lush., Feed 28s 32• Potato ...... 31s 34s Youghal and Cork 81ack....... 28s 30s Cork, White ... .. 27s 33s Scotch, Feed. •• •. 32s 358 Beans—Tick ......• •• 43s 51s Pige0n5.......... 47' 61s Peas—Grey ..•• •..... 44s 48s Map1e........... 47s 5,s •• -. •. 58s 64s Boilers ••••• •• 60s Gss Flour—Town-made... 70s 75s Suffolk • •• •••• Gq.‘ GBs Stoektu Norfolk 62s 72a SMITHFIELD. The imports of foreign stock into London last week were on the average—viz., 3,84 head. During the corresponding period of 1853, we received 3,617; in 1852, 1,899; 1851, 2,229 ; in 1850, 979 ; in 1849, 1,976 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEER. Lambs. From Beasts. Sheep. Harlingen 561 ... 25 ... New iep l7 ... 163 ... Elamburgh 29 ... 139 ... ... Antwerp l2 ... 1 , 10 ... Rotterdam 392 ... 1,900 ... Calves. Pigs 16 ... 2 16 ... 3 ... 20 ... 439 ... 491 Total ... 1,011 ... 2,327 .. The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 1R53 ...... 465 ... 2,842 ... ... 289 ... 9 1852 430 ... 1,260 ... ... 200 ... 9 1851 475 ... 1,488 ... ... 263 ... 7 1850 358 ... 324 287 1849 493 ... 1,287 ... ... 185 " Owing to the strong gales of Saturday, several steamers laden with stock have not made their appearance, conse quently the show of foreign beasts, sheep, and calves here to-day was limited. From our own grazing districts the receipts of beasts fresh up this morning were very moderate but in fair ave rage condition. The attendance of buyers being good, the beef trade ruled brisk, at an advance in the prices obtained on Monday last of 2,1 per Blbs, and a good clearance was effected. The primest Scots were worth 4s 10d per 81bs. There were received from Norfolk, Suffolk, &c. 2,200 Scots and short horns • from other parts of England, 500 of various breeds ; and from Scotland, 370 horned and polled Scots. With sheep we were seasonably well supplied. For all breeds the sale was heavy in the extreme, and the curren cies gave way 2d per 81bs. The primest old Downs sold at 5s per 81bs. Shorn sheep went at about 8d per 81bs below those in the wool. Very few calves were on offer. The veal trade ruled in active at last week's currency. The highest price was 5s 4d per 81bs. Pigs were in moderate supply, and sluggish request, on former terms. Per Slbs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d,j Inferior Beasts—.. 3 6to 3 1 Second quality.... 3 10 4 0 Prime large oxen 4 2 4 6 Prime Scots, &c. 4 S 4 10' Inferior Sheep ...3 0 3 4, Second quality ...3 6 4 2, Prime crse.-wllcd.4 4 4 6 s. d. s. d 'Prime Southdow n 4 8 5 0 I 'Large crse. calves 4 2 4 8 ; Prime small d 0... 410 5 4 ) Large hogs 3 0 4 2 Small porkers 4, 4 410 ;,Suckliug calves ..22 0 29 0 ;Quarter old pigs 21 0 27 0 FOREIGN SUPPLY. 20 20 10 10 261 134 20 20 20 20 50 20 5 10 St. 5 SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. !Paid, 1100 RAILWAYS. Aberdeen. A.n.thg. Nottng. Bost. and Eastn. Belfast & Ballymena. Birming. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lanesh. dz , Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £20.. ... Blyth & Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45) Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester do Holyhead, Cork and Bandon Cork, Black, & Pass, Cornwall Crieff Junction Dublin&BelfastJunc. Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction...... . Do. New ...... ........ 25 25 18 20 St. East Anglian.... Do. , (£lB E dr. 11) Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A Stock ) Do., B. 5t0ck...... ... Do., New A. East Lancashire. Edinburgh& Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Prth. &Dundee Forth & Clyde June. Glasgow &S. Western Great Northern Stk. Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West.(lre.) Great Western Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Laneash.andYorksh. Do., Fifths D 3. Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv. Crsby.&Southpt Loudon & Blackwall Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond. Bright &S.Cst. Lond. and N. Westu. Do. Fifths Do.lo/. Sh.,M&B 0 Do. Eighths London and.% Westu Do., £5O Do., £4O Li iudrry& Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Shef.& Linde Do., Man. & Liu. Un Midland Do. Birmng. & Derby Aidld. G. West.(lre.) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmarket Do., Bury Extension Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor Norfolk Northn.Counties Uu North British North Devon, No. 1 Do., No. 2 Do., A Deferred Do., A B Guaranteed North London .. iDo. New XlO • 50 16i 16i St. 812s1 LOO 176 114 all all all 2 LOO 42, :34 all N. &S.Wstrn.,Hamp• stead, and City Ju., North Staffordshire.. North Western N. & S. Westru. June. Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester Oxford, Worcestel,l .Wol . trorhamptou ,„. Portsmouth .. 2/ 2s 100 100 100 100 Scottish Central ~.... SeottishMidland...... Shrewsbury & Biimg. o. L. & N. Western Guaranteed St cek... rewsby. & Bereft' _ __ msbi."dr Ghosted pr. W. Min Do. Halves,i s , DO. Oswesti7 - Shropshire Union o. A, B, C,& D,fully paid up at per cent South Devou South Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. & Itiv. Dun Do 21 26 all 16 100 Staines, Wok. &Wok Stockton & Darling. Stockton & Hartlep! Taff Vale Do. £lO shares Do. Prof., No. 1 Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath 17 all all 14 'Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limeriek West C6ruwall. ...... . West End of London and Crystal Palace West London all 51s. 100 20 134 100- Wimbledn & Croydon YorkNevictl.&Berw.l Do. Extefigions Do: G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midlaud...l' Closing Prices this day. 20 204 4i oi 8 - 9 12 —lO dial 16 la 64 —54 d 96 - 98 531 -53 i 15 - 16 13 - 134 in :16 7t - 8.1 •4 e i 1 i 1: ii 4 .. . ....... .. . 65 - 67 62 - 64 21 = ii 91 92 76 78 12 9 - 131 9 9 - 101 811 - 82 ••• - . 92 - 95 12 i - 13§p 12 - 65 i - 13 66 p 1 -- 13 . - se— ar p 97 103; 104 6 p g d 80 -- 82 9 -- 8 d 10A -- 9Ad 224 ;A 62 - 63 36 - 38 55 57 I d par 5 —44 d 2i 3 6 - 8 47 - 50 31 30 32 33 8 101 li - 4 6i - 7 53 - 55 i - i 6 sid 8 8 33 - 35 89 91 55 - 56 55 - 60 55 60 3 2id 15 17 11 -- 13 3i 3icl A 16 62i —62 i 33 3:4 2 d par 1 5 30 -- 2i - 3 15i 154 5 1 - 5 i 24 - 26 6 - 7 ... - ... 6 - 7 68a 66 . , 8 - 744 1 44 3 d 48} -49 a PREFERENCE SHARES. 'Aberdeen Do. No. 2, 7 p. c. Blyth and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issd. at 50/) Bris. & Ex. 4 p. C. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares 99 lOl ... -.... ... 3 - 3i 4 - 4A 1 - 1- 14r 2,24 23 • 2i - 3i L 9 __jl ,O 9 - 111 P 8 - 64 - 7 97 --99 90 95 --- 137 - 139 3- 'is 6 79 9 99 par p. 137 139 11 id 16 1 ..0 St. St St Business done this day. 53j g 131 i [.0.6 91 2i 78 9 6 7 130 994 8242 15i 66 51 6i 5i 104 13i 8k k 96i 6 IQ3. 4 3g 100 -- 102 i - ipm' 9i - 10" 23 2i 32 i It xd 62 a 2 i 6 /1 i 69 121 4918 23 I 16 16' 10 12 14 to-fir 23i 24 j• 7 = 19 10 20 20 20 die ... --- • 101 d 94 97 3i 4 7- id BO 1 20 35 1 10 1 1 all all all all all 13.5 24a all 15 i all all 15 10i,' all all all all 12a. 7 3 8 2s. Agua Fria Anglo Austrin. Gold Anglo Californian Australasian Australian Australian Cordillera' Australian Freehold Ave Maria Baden (Gd. Duchy of) Blaenarvon Ir. & Coal isritish Austrin. Gold British Iron . Brazilianlmp-.(issued at £5 pm Do. Cocaes di Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Carson's Creek Clarendon Con. Min Co. of Jamaica Cobre Copper Colonial Gold Copiapo Copper Min. of Eng Do. Pref. 74 p. cent English and Austrin Copper Smeltg . Co General Great Nugget Vein Do. Registered Great Polgooth Liberty Linares Lond.dtCaliforu.Gold Quartz Crush. Co Aariquita Aexican&S.Amerien Yew Granada New Linares Mining' and Smelting Co Nouveau Monde Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. dt Smelt Port Philip Quartz Rock Ellymney Iron Do. New (Santiago de Cuba ... south Australian Tin Croft United Mexican,,, Waller West Granada West Mariposa Worthing Mining of Australia I Yuba FOR: 1 -p, id— id id d p 1 2i g gd gd 9 —1 1 id d 7 9xd 5 6 1 21 28 30 g— e d 42 44xd par— R p 11 13 60 70 4 6p, 1i 2/ 15 15 d par 3 d 10i —11 i 64—s, dl par p 17 19 ad P 28 30 8 10 4A a 4 5 3 3i d d ~ --- ~ al IGN. A.ntwerp &Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. June Beziers to Graissessac Bombay, Baroda, and Central In dia,Serip Central of Italy Charleroi& Erqueliu Demerara Dijon and Besancon Dutch Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Grd. Trunk of Canada Do. Debentures Do. do Gt. Central of France Gt. Western of Canada Shares Do. Bonds (Ist is.)'s7 Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent. Lake Const. & Basle Lucca & Pistoja 5 p. c pref Luxembourg Do. (Railway) Do. Pref 3d 1 4 3d par i p .... P 3 - 2d 2i 3 p 2 2i - P Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. et. prof Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Mediterran IMadras Maria Antonia Do. do. New . Melbourne Bk. & Ry Namur & Liege (with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds (fmy. B. & Ams. Shs.) NorwegianPrunkPref Paris and Lyons Ditto Bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg ParisCaen & Cherbrg Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre Royal Danish Royal Swedish Sambre and. Meuse... Do. 5 p. cent. Pref. Southern of France.. St. Andrew's and "ii :: ii 2 2i d ~ 1 - 1 P . dis 7 7i 4i 5 1 li 1 1 id Quebec (A) West Flaudat 5 1 i 21k 1 16 i 74 7 d- i-pl 74 - 7i i,' . 4 - 29 74 - 8' 12 -124 p 7; 28i 9 81 22 * i 42 —44 35 —37 xd 28 -- 284 pm 3 —. 1 d r7i —18 i id par d 7 81 28 a i - -pm all Do. 5 per c. Prof 10 Western of France 5 West. of Switzerland 2 Wiesbaden 15 Zealand 3i - 24, -3 i 5 - 4 il LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Fob. 20.—1 t continued to blow very heavily on Saturday night and part of yesterday, with the wind from the Northward, and a hard frost ; but to-day at noon the wind is from the S.W., with a light breeze, and their has been a drizzling rain during the morning. RAMSGATE, Feb. I).—The Mary (brig), of South Shields, was totally lost this morning, near the Sunk Sands ; crew saved. Arrived—Eva Johanna, from London, and sailed for Geelong, having been supplied with an anchor and chain ; Vansittart, London, towed in with loss of anchors and chains. DOVER, Feb. 19.—Wind, N., strong. Arrived—Gem, from Sunderland, for Charente, with loss of anchor and chain ; Patriot, Hull, with loss of foreyard and other damage. Put hack—Diligence, for London, with loss of anchor and chain ' • Star, Cork, with damage. MARGATE, Feb. 19.—Wind, W.N.W. Arrived—Cal liope, from Madras, had slipped from an anchor and chain in Margato Roads ; Feronia, Messina, supplied with anchor and chain. _ — FALMOUTH, Feb. 19.—Wind, N., moderate. Arrived —Ceres, from Monte Video, for Hamburgh ; Frode, Rio Janeiro. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 19.—Wind, N. to N.W., hard gale. Arrived—H.M.S. Resistance, from Port Royal. YARMOUTH, Feb. 19.—1 t has blown a hard gale here yesterday and to-day at N. by W., but is now more mode rate. The roads are full of vessels. The Essex (barque), of London, was totally lost on the Scroby Sand yesterday, with her crew. _ _ _ HARTLEPOOL, Feb. 18.—The Sarah Ann, of Sunderland, which was sunk on the bar, Jan. 6, has been raised and brought iu here. It has blown a heavy gale to-day from the Northward, and several vessels have been obliged to slip from their anchors and run for the Tees. BRIDLINGTON, Feb. 19.—1 t has blown a strong gale from N. to N.N.W. since the 17th. The Ebenezer, of and fram Mahlon for Hartlepool, has been assisted in hero, with loss of bowsprit from being in contact with a schooner, with blue-painted ports and figurehead ; the master, mate, and two seamen got on board the latter, which sustained little damage, having stood out to sea. WRITSTABLE, Feb. 19.—The Rangoon, from Ceylon to Loudon, lost anchors and cables in the Prince's Channel, during the gale last night, and is ashore on the main at Herne Bay, with three feet water in her hold, having struck heavily in drifting over the Pan Sand ; anchors and cab'es have been sent to her from hence. ILFRACOMBE, Feb. 17.—The Eleanor had discharged a cargo of calm at Combmartin, when a ;;ale at N.N.W. sprung up, which caused a heavy sea, and she was soon a total wreck. CROMEI4 Feb. 19.—After a very heavy gale yesterday, the wind is now moderating. A vessel, supposed to be a schooner, foundered off here last night ; her masts are visible about a mile from the land, heels upward ; light spars, hatches, a boat, and a piece of quarter board marked " Eagle, Gainsborongh," have washed ashore. WISBEACH, Feb. 19.—1 t has blown a severe gale on this coast, during the 17th and 18th inst., accompanied with snow and hail. The Magnet, hence to Seaham, put back with loss of three anchors and chain, and had to run on shore last night, but was assisted off to-day, after striking heavily. LYNN, Feb. 19.—The Rose, of and for Berwick, from Hnll, with guano and linseed cakes, went ashore last night, off Hunstanton ; she will become a wreck if the sea con tinues ; crew saved. The True Friends, of this port, coal laden, was wrecked yesterday afternoon on the Royn Sand, Lynn Deeps ; crew waived here. PARIS, Feb. 16.—The Robuste, of Dieppe, from Aig sur-Mer to Bordeaux, sunk at the mouth of Gironde, on the night of 4th and sth of February ; all hands lost. SYDNEY, N.S.W.—The Auckland (cutter), bound to Mato.bana, was wrecked on the Island of Moakau, near Cape Colville, 3d Sept.; crew saved. (ar ELECTRIC TELEGRAM.) LIVERPOOL, Monday, 10.30 a.m. Wind, W. ; moderate and raining. Arrived—City of Glasgow (s. s - .), from Philadelphia; Shamrock (s.), from Havre ; Glanmire, from Surinam. The W. V. Kent, for Philadelphia, has put back leaky, having struck on the bar of Victoria Channel. Some kegs of gunpowder and " shooks" are washing ashore near New Brighton, supposed from some vessel thct has gone to pieces during the late gale. The Cherokee, ashore on Dove Point, lies perfectly up right, and is not making any water. It is not known what vessel the rum that has washed ashore near Now Brighton belonged to. BEAUMARIS, Feb. 19. Put in.—The brig Derwent, from Workington for Dub lin, with loss of sails, bulwarks, and one man overboard; the brig Fisher, from Harrington for Dublin, wind bound ; and the Ann Kenny, from St. John's, N. 8., for Liverpool. HOLYHEAD, Feb. 19. The barque Penninghame, ashore on Salt Island, is likely to be got off if the weather holds fine. (BY SUBHARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.3 a.m. Wind, S.W., tide three quarters' ebb, cloudy. Feb. 19.—Arrived—S. Rulda, from Stravanger. Feb. 20.—Arrived—Brilliant, from liddewalla ; Lady Cecilia, from Berdianski. Sailed—Empress, for Cape of Good Hope ; Trafalgar, for Adelaide. DEAL, Monday, 9.24 a.m. Wind. W., light and hazy. Passed. —Plantagenet, from Sydney ; Joseph Shepherd, Bombay ; Tryphena, St. Michael's ; Duncan, Leghorn ; Abyssinia (barque), westward ; Virginia, Callao ; Lusi tania, Oporto ; Anna Kimball, Calcutta ; Balmoral, China all for London. .Anchored—Charles Sprague, from London, for Cardiff. Sailed-:-Alieo Maude, Euphrates, Circassian, Alert, Tar tar, Superior, City of Lincoln, Alexandrina Maude, Maggie, and Calliope, with the whole of the homeward bound, fez. the river; Lord Charles Bentinck, for Valparaiso ;Thomas Henry, for Barbakes, THE ORDNANCE ESTIMATES. The aggregate of the votes to be proposed for the ser vice of the current year is 3,845,8781., and as the total voted for 1853-4 was 3,053,5671., the net increase is 792,311/. On the votes for the effective service, which are eight in number, the increase is 792,0801., the totals being respectively 3,674,4321. and 2,882,3521. The pro posed vote for the non-effective service is 171,446, and this sum exceeds the amount of last year by only 2311. In the former class, six votes were augmented, some of them very largely, while two are slightly reduced. We subjoin the particulars, premising that the first and seventh heads are by far the most important :- 1. PAY, ALLOWANCES, AND CONTINGENCIES FOR 19,266 OFFICERS, NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS, AND MEN, COMPOSING THE SEVERAL ORDNANCE MILITARY CORPS. —The amount which will be asked for the ser vice of the current year is 902,817/., which exceeds by 95,3101. the corresponding vote for 1853.4 (807,507/.). The total number of officers and men is raised from 17,598 to 19,266, and the increase is divided between the Royal Regiment of Artillery, the number of which is to be 15,013 instead of 13,855, and the Sappers and Miners, whose strength is to be 2,640, instead of 2,200. The amount of pay is consequently increased by nearly 70,000/., and the charge for the recruiting service is raised from 20,000/. tl nearly double that amount. Other additions of less magnitude make up the total in crease of 95,0001., but it may be observed that the item entitled "movement of troops" remains almost at last year's amount. - 2. COMMISSARIAT AND BARRACK SUPPLIES, &c.—The proposed amount for the current year is 557,176/., while that voted for 1853-4 was only 373,217/. ; so that the increase is nearly 210,0001., or about 50 per cent. on the former grant. The details show that this variation is due in a very great measure to the rise in the price of necessaries. Forage enters for about 240,0001., instead of 160,000 r. ; coals for 74,0001., instead of 54,00.01. ; and paillasse straw, for barracks, is estimated at 10,4361., in stead of 6,571/. An increase of 120,0001. is accounted for under these and similar heads :—Barrack supplies, at home and abroad, will, it is expected, cost 125,7211., instead of 57,8291., the amount which was last year pro vided for ; and the permanent staff of the militia, for which no vote was taken last year, now appears in the estimates, with 7,3441. as the sum which will be required. 3. ORDNANCE-OFFICE.—The vote is almost exactly the same as that which was taken last year, but there is a trifling diminution, the amounts being 73,7191. and 73,9691. Under this head are included the salaries of the Master-General, Surveyor-Genes-al, &c., and those of the clerks belonging to the Board, the total number of the recipients being 185. 4. ORDNANCE ESTABLISHMENTS.—The amount pro posed is 281,6454, which is 10,012/ less than that granted last year. The establishments in the United Kingdom are nearly fifty in number, of which those at Woolwich and at the Tower are by far the largest. Neither of these is much increased, and the total charge for this is 53,641/. In the colonies there are about the same number of sta tions as at home, and the total estimate is 40,4011. For barrack establishments in the United Kingdom the pro posed vote is 73,8141, and for those in the colonies 64,3531. To these sums 28,727 must be added as the pay of clerks of the works, &c., in the United King • dom, besides, 20,709/., designed for the saute purpose in the colonies ; and these items make up the total which has been mentioned. There is no variation worth notice in any of the particulars. 5. - WAGEs.:--The amount proposed is 162,3341., which exceeds by 20,8971. the amount granted last year. • The only change in the Home Establishment which need be mentioned is, that several departments at Woolwich re quire increased grants—the votefor the laboratory being 28,1271., instead of 16,016 ; and that for the carriage department 47,5611., instead of 39,230. In the Colonial branch there is a reduction of about 3,0001., occasioned ' mainly by the non-appearance of a vote for two canals in Canada, which was taken last year. The recapitula tion gives us, as the total wages of establishments in the United Kingdom, 142,215, and as the total of the same in the colonies, 20,119/. 6. ORDNANCE STORES FOR LAND AND SEA SERVICE.— The proposed vote is 639,5521., and that of last year was 371,6971. ;so that the increase is 267,855. The items are but few, and the most important among them may be mentioned. For the supply and repair of small arms, 161,4001., instead of 135,800/. ; machinery and build ings for the manufacture of small arms, 100,0001., in stead of nil ; supply o f i ron or d nance, s h ot, shells, &c., 33,3191 instead of 31,1.61 ; saltpetre for the Tower esta blishment, 16,1631. ; gunpowder for Woolwich, 16,500/.; and miscellaneous stores for the former 24,975—f0r the latter, 150,7841. The aggregate of the Ordnance stores for the two establishments which have been mentioned is estimated at 285,805/., instead of 148,286/., the amount voted last year. There is also an increase from 10,7001. to 15,8631. in the provision made for materials for packing freight, and carriage of arms, stores, and other miscellaneous expenses. 7. WORKS, BUILDINGS, AND REPAIRS.—The vote pro posed for the current year is 902,8211. ; and that taken last year having been 695,6551., the increase is 207,1661. so that, considering the large augmentation under this head, this is the vote most deserving of analysis. New fortifications at home are estimated at 217,5241., and repairs to those already existing at 22,8971. In these items there has been no great alteration ; but for civil buildings at home it is proposed to take 103,0471., in stead of 18,966/., and for barracks at home, 238,7211., instead of 171,0921. In the charge for these three classes of buildings abroad, there is very little variation. Passing to details, we find that the items exceeding 10,000/. are, for the defences of Dover and the coast of Kent, 30,0001.; for the improvement of the fortifications of Guernsey and Alderney, 61,7501. :for now barracks at Davenport, 25,000!.; for the fort at Gosport, 12,0001.; for improving the artillery practice at Woolwich, 85,0001.; and for the purchase of laud at Aldersbott for a camp, 100,0001. Neither of the two latter itemi appeared last year, and it is somewhat singular to find the very necessary training just mentioned included under the head "civil buildings"—which, by this addi tion of 85,0001., are made to enter for 103,047/., instead of being placed at 18,047/., and thus showing no in crease on last year. The total required for fortifications abroad, including repairs, is about 60,0001., and the only large items are 12,000/., in addition to 90,8000/. already expended in the defences of Malta; 15,000/. for the improvement of the defences of Fort George in the Mauritius ; and 12,981/. towards the construction of a new barrack at Fort Needham, near Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is, of course, needless to institute a minute coin parison between the details of this vote in different years, because the works undertaken are of great Mag nitude, and the proportion to be accompanied in any particular period must always be matter of discretion ; but we shall, under present circumstances, do well to accelerate our progress, and the total increase is by no means extravagant. 8. SCIENTIFIC BRANCII.—Under this head the amount of expense proposed is 154.3681., and the increase over last year i 527,155/. It is intended that 117,2001., instead of 92,0001., should be taken to wards the completion of the survey of counties, and the trigonometrical survey now carrying on in. Great Britain and Ireland ; nor can there be any object of the kind in which money may be more usefully expended. The Royal Military Academy is provided for under this vote, and the total allowed for its expenses is 26,2181. Other less costly establish. ments raise the total to the sum which has been men tioned, but the variation above noticed is the only one of any magnitude. 9. ORDNANCE NON-EFFECTIVE SERVICES, MILITARY AND CIVIL.—The proposed vote amounts to 171,4461., and the ekeess over that of last year is 231/. The num ber of military superannuated, among whom are included 306 widows in receipt of pensions, is 1,096, and the sum to be apportioned among them is 104,0541. The civil superannuations and pensions provide for 295 superannu ated and reduced civil officers, 388 artificers and labour ers, and 193 widows, making a total of 876, and the pro portion of the vote allotted to them is 65,417/. The total addition which will at present be made to the charges on our national revenue by the intended increase in our forces will be clearly shown by the fol lowing summaries, which present the aggregates of the estimates for the current year, and for its predecessor. The totals of charge for the two periods are : 1854-5 1853-4 Increase. Navy £7,487,948 £6,285,493 £1,202,455 Army Ordnance 3,845,878 3,053,567 792,311 £17,621,312 £15,364,076 £2,257,236 and the effective strength of each service in the two years will stand as follows :- 1854-5. 1853-4. Increase. Navy (including marines) Ar m y 112,977 102,283 10,694 Ordnance Prudence in past years enables us to enter on a war without requiring any vast addition, in the first instance, to our national burdens ; and it will be well that, until further demands become necessary, the wealth of the public should fructify in the pockets of its possessors. But no one will be surprised if larger votes should before long be asked for, and there can be very few who will not cheerfully submit to any sacrifices which, in so righte ous a cause, may be required at their hands. THE GOLD MANIA.—We were present on Thursday at the Windsor works, in the City-road, where the Ame rican Gold-crushing and Amalgamating Machine is at present exhibiting. The place was at times crowded by persons of wealth and. distinction, and we remarked several ladies of title amongst those interested in the workings of the patent. Ten tons of quartz from a Welch mine had been selected by first class assayists— Johnson and Co., of Hatton-garden, as we understood— and this being divided into two portions, the one was submitted to the powers of Berdan's discovery, the other being tried elsewhere by another process. The conclu sions are to be sent in sealed covers to a committee chosen for the purpose, and to be made public imme diately afterwards. Berdan's machine appeared fully impressed with the importance of its task and the con sequences which hung upon the results ; for there was a gravity and dignity in the action of the immense balls which contrasted singularly with the hopping and skit tish movement whieh we have observed upon other occasions where its duties were light, in consequence of the insignificance of -the weight of ore thrown to its merciless operations. The result of the examination of the out-pensioners of Greenwich, in the second Portsmouth district, under the command of Captain Wilson, staff officer, shows 43 fit for sea service, 144 fit for Coast-guard duty, and. 159 . 1 it for duty in the feet in ordinary —total, 347: T-bere-weie litirla unfit for further active service 237. The first Portsmouth, the Southampton, and the Brighton dis tricts were included in the inspection, but their reaplta are not yet ascertained, TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts .. • ••• • • . • 3,710 Sheep. •• • ••• • . • • 20,S I 0 • Calves .. • • 2R 8ea5t5•........ ..•• -•.. • 27 ..••:••••••••• •• •• ••' statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold iu Smithfield Cattle Market, on Monday, Feb. 21, 1853, and this day, Monday, Feb. 20, 1854. Por 81bs, to sink the otl'als. Feb. 21, 1853. Feb. 20,1854 s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d Coarse and inferior beasts ... 3 oto 3 2 3 6to 3 8 Second quality ditto ... ... 3 4 3 63 10 4 0 Prime largo oxen ... 3 8 210 4 2 4 6 Prime Scots, &c 4 0 4 2 4 8 4 0 Coarse and inferior sheep 310 4 0 3 0 3 4 Second quality ditto ... 4 2 4 6 3 6 4 2 Prime coarse woolled ditto ... 4 8 410 4 4 4 6 Prime Southdown ditto ... ... 5 0 5 2 4 8 5 0 Large coarse calves ... ... 3 2 4 2 4 2 4 8 Prime small ditto ... 4 4 4 8 4 10 5 4 Large hogs ... ... 210 3 2 3 0 4 2 Neat small porkers ... 3 8 4 0 4 4 Boasts 3,804 Sheep ... 17,270 Calves... ... ... 130 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Feb. 23, 1852.—Beasts, 4,094 ; sheep, 21,740 ; calves, 219; pigs, 32'). Feb. 24, 1851.—Boasts, 3,713 ; sheep, 19,000; calves, 70 ; pigs, 295. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of both town and country-killed meat on offer in to-day's markets were seaso , ably extensive. On the whole a good business was transacted on the following torins k;laledouian £lO Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5} per cent Cork &Bandons4 p.c Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction EastAuglian. (I:310s) 6 per cent Do: (X 5) 7 per cent. Do. (X 7 17s) 7 p. c. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No. 1 no. No. 2 Do. New 6 p. c. St Eastern Union, Seri' , Guar. 6 per cent Do. 51., 10 per cent. Do. 101. Debentr.Sh. East Lancash. 6 p. cts. East and West York• all all 100 all all all 10 100 100 shire June. Prof... Edinh Prth. &Dundee 54 per cent. ...... Glasgow & S.Western Guar. 5. per cent.... Great Northn. 5 p. c. Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. Do. 44 p. c. Scrip Gt N. Scot. Ist Pref Gt, South% &Westm. (Ireland) Eighths)... Do. 4 per c. Prof. Sh. Gt. Westn. (Berke & Hants Ex. 5 p. c)... Do. cov. red. 4 p.c. Do. con. red. 4 p. C. Do. irred. 4 p. C.... Lan. &York. F. £2O Do. 6 p. c. Stock ..• Leeds N. 6 p. c. No.l Do. Quarters, 18t8... London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. IDo. Convertible, 5 p. c., 1852............... Do. New Guar.6 P. c. Lon. &N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton ............ London & S. Western Con. Third 5.......... Londonderry& Color. Shares .......... •• • Londy. & Ennis. Sb. Shef., & 'An., Shares, No. 1. ... Do. New, £lO ...... Do. £6 ................ . Nfarypt .& Carl. 4 p. c. Do. 43 . per cent..... 1001 100 100 100 100 all 100 15 all all all Do — 'Aid. Consol.6 Do. Consol. Bristol & lingtou, 4 per cent. Do. do. do 'Stockton and Hartle• Birm. 6 per cent Do. Pref. 4i per cent Norfolk Debenture Do. Pref. 4 p. c. Stock Do. 5 p. c. Eat Do. 5i per ct. pref Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c North British ..... North Staffordshire Oxford, Worcester, Et Wolverh. Xl5, 6 p.c. Do Scot. Cent. , New Pref Shrews. & Birm.N.G. Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min), 8 p.c. Do. 5 per cent South Devon D®. fixed, 4 A per cent S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 611., Do. 40er cent. 3.Yorksh,4p.c.Guar Stockton and Dar- pool, guar. 5 p. C. till Ist July, 1856 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. York Newcastle ,and Berwick ,4 p.c. Pref,l Do York&N. Midland II and S. Pura MINES, Per Blbs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 3 0 3 2 Mutton, Inferior 3 0 3 Do., middling...„ 6 3 4 3 8 Do., middling 3 8 4 9 ~ Do., prime large .3 10 4 0 Do., prime 4 4 4 8 Do., do. small ....4 0 4 2 , Veal 4 0 5 Pork, large 3 4 4 2 Pork, small 4 4 5- 0 BOROUGH HOP. The show of samples continues moderate. In prices very little change has taken place. The imports last week were 20 hales from Hamburgh, 415 from Ostend, 3 from Oporto, and 32 from Antwerp. The following are the quotations : 21id and East Kent pockets, 11/. 5s to 15L 15s ; Weald of Kent ditto, 9/. Os to 111. Os ; Sussex ditto, 71. 16s to 91. ; and foreign, 61. 15s to 8/. 8s per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. These markets are well supplied with potatoes, chiefly per railway. Last week's imports were 210 tons from Rotterdam, 5 bags from Rostock, 2 tons from Waterford, 7 from Limerick, 11 from Dublin, and 250 from Belfast. A steady business is doing at these market to-day, as follows : —Kent and Essex Regents. 140 s to 150 s ; Scotch ditto, 120 s to 130 s ; ditto cups, 100 s to 120 s ; foreign, 110 s to 120 s per ton. WOOL. The public sales of colonial wool continue to be well at tended. Since our last report nearly the whole of the par cels have changed hands. The following are the highest and lowest prices :---Port Philip—Clean sheep's, is 4d to l.s 10(1 ; pieces, lld to is 5d ' • broken, is 2d to is 4id; hoggetts, is 8d to is 10d. Hobart Town—Clean sheep's, is 4d to is 8d ; lambs', is 7d to 2s 2d ; damaged sheep's, is 6d to is 71 d ; grease, 8d to 10d ; pieces, 10d to is 4d ; fleece and scoured, is 4d to is 8d ; skin, lld to is 2d. New Zealand—Hoggetts, is 6d to is 8d ; clean sheep's, is 4d to is 8d ' • mixed, is 1d to is 4d. Algoa Bay— Scoured sheep's, is 2d to is 7d ; grease, &c., 7d to is 3d. Sydney—Picklock, is 6d to is 9d ; clean sheep's, is Gd to is 10d ; damaged, is 4d to is Gd ; combing, is Gd to is 10d. ; grease, &c., 8d to is. Adelaide--Clean sheep's, is 2d to 6d ;, lambs, is 4d to is 9d per lb. Several par cels of foriegn have realised 4d to is 8d per lb. Last week's imports were 47 bales from Antwerp, 188 from the Cape, 672 from Port Philip, 210 from Hamburgh, 578 from Alexandria, 7 from Naples, 24 from Leghorn, and 250 from Odessa. SEEDS. Clover is in fair request, at full prices. Spring tares are firm, and quite as dear as last week. Linseed is steady, at extreme rates. Cakes command full quotations. rurnlp,White, per bush. 224 to 24. Swede .. 228 253 Vinstard, 8r0wn...... 124 14ot White, new....., 14s 16. r tre9,Winter, n0w.... 8s Od 98 nd Spring • • • • .... Os Od l s Od Canary, per quarter . 543 60e Rye grass.. .. -• 288 34s Clover, Red Eng. (ewt.) 56; 683 White .. • • ... •• 54s 803 Foreign Red..-- 564 72,4 White.. •• 61. 96 , Trefoil, new.. 28, 353 Carraway...... ••• • .. 42- 48s Coriander • •• • • 173 189 }lempseed, per quarter 42s 44s Linseed, Eng.Aowing— 59. 63s Crushing ••••• • • • 55s 58s Baltic ...... •• .. 50s 55s Odessa .. •• .• •• •• 518 57s Linseed Cake, pr. ton— English .. . 9/ lOs 11' Os Foreign,por ton 9709 11/ 108 Rape Cakes, pr ton 6/ 10s 710 s Itgpeseed,New, pr Ist 30 32 Rs TALLOW. Our market is very dull, and prices are about is per cwt., lower than on Monday last. To-day P.Y.C. on tho spot, 62s per cwt. For forward delivery very little is doing•. Town taliow, 61s 0,1 per cwt. net cash. Rough fat, 3s 4d per Sibs. 185151 . 1853 'SS4. Stock this day 0 4 ,1 ,14 . 7 , .42,991 .52.785 33.335 31.952 Priw. of Y. C. .... t ' 0 6 3 3 7:1 (1 id 30' % "dO (iY3 5 Z; (l 6 , l lc to 4- 0 '5 0 ,0 0 1 d 6 ( 2, 0 4 4 11 0 1 d t Delivery last week •. ; 1,744 ,911 ; 2 48 ' 0 2,014 1,480 Ditto from Jane ! 72,839 a 74,519. 82,913 76,740 77,135. Arrivals last week.. 156 1,111 1.003 275 Dittofrom June 1.... 87,515 91,692 99,164 74,447 90,7;5 !rice of TOWn 6 6 6 •• 386.64 Qd j 463 6d 638 34 LITERATURE. Electoral Facts, from, 1832 to 1853. Second Edition. By Charles R. Dod. Whittaker and Co. It is simply justice to the public at large, as well as to the compiler of this very admirable digest of electoral facts, that we should at the present mo ment commend the volume most earnestly to the attention of the general community. An ample guarantee of the accuracy of the work is discover able, of course, on the instant, in Mr. Dod's firmly established and widely-extended reputation. His " Parliamentary Companion" has long since come to be regarded as the vale mecum of every one con nected, directly or indirectly, with the Legislature. Dod in this way is as well known as Hansard in reference to all that has to do with the two great rival Rouges under the roof-beams of the national palace at Westminster. His " Peerage,' Baronet age, Knightage," &c., must be regarded also as another and a most remarkable token of Mr. Dod's industry, of his vigilance, and of his perseverance. Not one of his compilations, however, can be consi dered to have revealed these qualities more obviously or more satisfactorily than the one to which we would here especially direct the attention of the mass of electors throughout the 'United Kingdom. Accept able at all times to the politician, it cannot fail to be peculiarly so at the present moment, when the whole framework of our representation appears to be on the eve of changes as various as they are comprehensive. It will be observed from the very title of the volume that it comprises a survey of electoral facts extending over a pe riod of twenty-three years—over those twenty three years intervening between the New Reform Bill of 1854 and the Old Reform Bill of 1831. A familiar acquaintance with the pages of the work satisfies us that the facts are therein, in truth, " impartially stated," as the title-page promises, and that the compilation constitutes, indeed, a " complete" Political Gazeteer. It comprises, in a compact and condensed form, all the infor mation that could reasonably be desired in reference to eac►i candidate, and to each con stituency., It specifies in regard to tho latter, for exam ple, besides' its ' lo cal position, the prevailing - influence, the number of the registered electors, the annual, value of the real property paying income tax, the amount of the assessed taxes, the principal trades, the more noted mem bers, the more remarkable contests, the extent of the population, and, together with these suggestive and important fragments of intelligence, gives the polls for the last twenty years at every place re turning a member to Parliament. Altogether the work is in its way a statistical masterpiece, such as cannot but be peculiarly welcome to every indivi dual interested to a greater or less degree in the general scheme of our system of representation. Criticisms. By the Rev. John W. Lester Third edition: Longman and Company. Criticisms these are by a man of refined taste, of tender sensibility, and of most graceful imagination. third edition having appeared in 1853 of a work of this particular character, published originally not further back than 1847, must be regarded as a circumstance sufficiently indicative at once of its excellence and of its popularity. Otherwise two in troductory editions would not have been so speedily exhausted, especially in an age when • the col lected writings of Macaulay, and Alison, and Car lyle, and Rogers, and Wilson, and Stephens, and Jeffrey, and Macintosh have rendered the public naturally somewhat fastidious in this peculiar de partment of literature. A period when it is rather more difficult for the critic to satisfy his reader's judgment than in the days when. Malone, and Bryant, and Tyrwhitt awarded the bay or the birch to -the competitors for the poetic crown of immor tality. If there be any one among the critics of the present day with whose style that of Mr. Les ter might be brought into comparison, it would probably be that of his distinguished northern con temporary, the Rev. George Gilfillan—to whose first volume we had the gratification of according an ear nest welcome before his name was generally known, certainly before he himself could have had any con jecture whatever of the rapid growth of his now extended reputation. Nevertheless, while there is something kindred in the florid style of the Rev. John Lester and that of the Rev. George Gilfillan, the former is very far indeed from lacking in originality. He is no servile imitator. He speaks not as an echo, but out of the fulness of his own heart. Indeed the date of the original edition of this charming volume of "Criticisms" must be taken in proof that its writer, who, though he may probably have drunk in with rapture the eloquence of the earlier series of " Literary Portraits," shortly before putting pen to paper in the composition of these graceful tributes of admiration—was at the same time gifted with a nianner peculiarly his own, and with a judgment distinguished by its indepen dence. Otherwise, let us add once more, the book could never have run through so many editions, it could never have won for itself so many admirers, it could never have secured for its author the advantages of his present imquestionable popularity, it could never have induced more thaU some half-dozen journalists who might happen to be personal friends of • the author (which, by the way, we are not—we may, perhaps, bo permitted to observe, unfortu nately) to adventure thus upon the apparent .anomaly of reviewing a reviewer The in cumbent of Ashton Hayes, Cheshire, for as' such we find the writer designated upon his very title page, we must commend at once as the most genial of critics—judging of him, at least, from these selected " Criticisms." He has chosen, in fact, for consideration those only whose effusions have awakened in his heart sympathetic emotions of joy or sorrow—and - all the while he has been advancing to a holier mission than might be implied by any such occupations advancing, that is to say, towards the time when he should more seriously and more exclusively minister in the temple of Religion. As he himself expresses it —" We have plucked a few flowers, sunbeamed, while on 'our way to the temple of the Holiest. [blossoms of praise which he has scattered around him with no unstinting hand among the throng of his favourite contemporaries], and ever and anon has arisen a wish [he confesses to us] that they might not fade." Let us echo his aspiration—" May the desire be realised." It were scarcely possible ' in deed, to feel churlishly towards the author while turning over the pages of these generous criti cisms. He himself, so gentle in his treatment , of others, commands some cordiality of appreciation. He has his crotchets, of course, like most of us. He has his own peculiar views and opinions about our current - literature. Frequently, no doubt, we:are, therefore, forced to differ from him—todiffer 'from hun ,in tr Uth, sometimes diametrically. Never theless, we do so—simply, and Without the smallest sense of irritation. For in no instance have we found Mr., Lester perversely or annoyingly dogmatical. He expresses his sentiments with earnestness—that he could not help doing, think ing, and feeling, and believing as he does not by halves, but thoroughly. Yet, when we most dis 'sent from his notions of things, we never even then find ourselves goaded into any harsh antagonism. Ho thinks, and feels, and believes, we say, not by halves, but thoroughly. Speaking of Philip Bailey, he regards his " Festus " as " essentially the p o em of the age "—the italics bein ca g narol hi tyhl s eer, o , w h a craemllsemilibmer. colossal. Speaking s o p f ea T ki h n o g mas of t erm s him " magnificent. His eclecticism leads him to love variously the beauties associated with the names of Keats and Wordsworth, of Cowper and Coleridge, of Heber and. Hazlitt, of Croly and Carrington. Amon g th e dii minores of the poesy of the day, too, he can squander appropriate sen tences of co mmendation—panegyrising whatever lie regards as meritorious in the writings of Heraud, and Hervey, and a u th ors o f t h at description. What is particularly noteworthy, moreover, in this volume, is the circumstance that Mr. Lester speaks with all his heart and soul, in terms of unrestricted and unaffected eulogium, of yOung poets who are but just rising into the sunshine of reputation. Conspicuous among these are two—James Arton and Sydney Yendys—of whose initial volumes we ourselves spoke at the period of their 'ori ginal appearance in words of praise calculated, let us hope, to prove incentives to their energy during the process of their intellectual development. Re ferring in a particular manner to the former, Mr. Lester proffers the meed of his eulogium to "the young critic of "Excelsior," and the young bard of " The Enthusiast." At different times he speaks of Mr. Orton as a " true genius," as " a fine gene rous genius," as "a tr ue and lofty genius"—add ing, with reason, of his " Enthusiast, or the Stray ing Angel," that it is " a poem of much beauty, sweetness, and melody." Closing his tribute, more over, with the gentle aspiration (one we may repeat also, as admirers, in like manner, of both Mr. Orton's " Excelsior" and " En thusiast ") , that on his home and hearth might fall Sunlight ! Numerous other writers are passed under review by Mr. Lester, in company with those already mentioned. It may be observed, cursorily, that among these are Alford, and flair, anti Davis, and Irving, and Pollok, and Wolfe, and Tighe, and Atherstone--while in treating upon all of whose writings, Mr. Lester contrives to cull many and many as a flower of grace and beauty he advances along the path of criticism--.not d wa i s rugged, but with him ever picturesque. . DRATR OF LORD NETTERVILLE.--This nobleman died at his residence, Pembroke-plac e, Dublin, on Monday last. By his demise without issue the title becomes extinct. ~ t. _~ ~, `li; ,:>:~ 'r ~~ ~P ,~~, the g