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new commander-in-chief in Hindostan, had—the story has long since become a popular one—simply written as se three : " Sir Charles Napier, Sir Charles Napier, Sir Charles Napier." Well—we all know the rest—Sir Charles Napier went. He. went in spite of the animosity with which he was regarded by the Company's Government. He went not, as they had intended, with a de graded command, not shorn of his honours, but, as he would alone consent to go, namely, as one of the - Supreme Council, like all his predecessors. . He • expected war on his ar rival. Instead . of that he found peace. His energies were consequently directed, not to the conduct of a perilous campaign, but to the reorga nisation of the forces entrusted to his management. In these efforts he found himself—as ho had antici pated—everywhere thwarted by the petty spite and the miserable calumnies of his many,antago nists—of those who were his bitter and implacable foes, because he had never lent himself to connive at the meanness, the injustice, and the rapacity of the " Old Indian" system of misgovernment. So far the evil was, we repeat, only precisely as he had himself expected. But it went further than be could at one period have reasonably conjectured— it went further, inasmuch as events showed that awakened in England to be dissipated in Hindostan —that acknowledgment (p.151)—" Expecting war, I felt strong enough to override opposition when danger pressed. I found peace and a mean, malig nant jealousy, against which, when backed. by power, honourable service is of no avail." The veteran Captain adding briefly, but confidently, " Lo ! the proof." Yea, proof, indeed, (literally) with a vengeance. Proof damnatory of these heartless and implacable assailants of the late Commander-in- Chief of the British forces in Hindostan. Writing, as he did, the record of his wrongs, on the eve of his lamented demise, Sir Charles apier, never theless, infused into his narrative all the energy of youth, all the fervour of truth, all the ardour of enthusiasm. His style never displayed more ad-_ mirable or more soldierlike sententiousness than it has done, here, throughout this noble contribution to our Asiatic annals, in which the redemption of the fortress of Goviiidahur is thus strikingly cele brated : " Lieutenant-Colonel Bradford, an excellent officer of the Bengal Army, returning to the old provinces with the Ist Native Cava'ry, had accidentally encamped outside, and was on the parade of the 66th, when their shout of mutiny arose. Seeing the danger, he hasti'y rejoined his men, and led them dismounted towards the gate ; whereupon the guard, hearing the tramp of his approaching troops, ran with great tumult to close the portals, saying the cavalry shocid not enter. Their European officer remonstrated, was disregarded, and fin properly abandoned his post to make a report. At that mo ment Captain l‘Pllonald, a man of a different character, arrived, and rushed, sword in band, upon the mutineers. 'They shrank from the sweep of his weapon, and he, grasping the almost closed gate, drew it back just as Bradford came up with his men. Thus was the place saved." - - Or in which occurs this picturesque and startling d6cription of the heroic death of an A.ffreedee ".Some Affreedees had gathered on a sugar-loaf rock, terminating a spur from the precipitous hill§ on our flank. 1 Being close to the road, it barred progress, and the column halted. On the summit a warrior stood, like Fuzeli's pic- Awe of Satan, with legs wide apart and arms high in the air : raving a sword and shaking a shield, he shouted and defied us ! A young artillery officer—Maister, or Delano —laid his gun with a shell, and the flying death, whizzing through the air, burst at the moment it struck the brave Affreedee ! His head, his legs, his arms, flew like radii from a centre in the air, and a shout of exultation burst from the troops. The amusements of the battle-field are grim. • Condemn not that shout. Life was played fot in the rough ga,fue, and they who won naturally rejoiced. It is, however, a painful remembrance." Brilliant as this work is as a chapter of military history, it is yet more brilliant as a posthumous vindication. It is a volume worthy of having been penned by the Conqueror of Scinde, and not unworthy of having been edited by the annalist of the Peninsula. It reminds one of the trophies piled up over the honoured grave of a beloved and glo , rious warrior—the dinted breastplate, :the un sheathed sword, the spotless but broken plume, the banner riddled with bullets and blackened with gunpowder, and above all, the proud and un sullied escutcheon. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Fresh up to-day, the arrivals of English wheat, cost- Wise and by land carriage, were on a very moderate scsle. The show of samples was small, and the attendance of buyers by no means numerous. Oa the whole, a steady business was transacted in wheat of home 'produce, at prices fully equal to those obtained on Monday. • The imports of foreign wheat have amounted' to nearly 13,000 quarters. All descriptions moved off steadily, aid• in some instances the quotations were the turn in favour of sellers. . _ Floating cargoes were quite as dear as on Monday. We were seasonably well supplied with barley, for wha article the demand ruled steady, at full quotations There ,was rather more inquiry for malt, at the Me decline. About an average business was doing in oats, at bill currencies. _ Beans, peas, and flour realised former terms. The im poris of flour are large. English .. Irish .• •• Foreign .. Oats• I Florr 650 1,810 (1,670 1;,463 4,461 sks 20,7:0 brl COURT CIRCULAR. 100 8 1100 100 all all all 50 40 25 25 812x1 THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1854. SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices yesterday. Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bost and Eastn. Junet 20 -20 i 48 - 51 Belfast & Ballymena. Birming. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsh. (17 Cheshire Junet 8 - 9 11 9 disl Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £20............ ... Blyth &Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45) Bristol and Exeter... Caledonian Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon...' 17 19 Uci Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall Crieff Junction Dublin&BelfastJunc Dundee Perth &Aber decn Junction 94 -- 96 55 -- 55 15i -- 16 13 -- 13.1 45 - 46 Do. New East 74 - - 13t 5 - 134 ... - 65 - 67 60 - 61 Business done this day. 134 j a ..• ••• 93, 3 / 4 r 94§ 82 81 129 - 131. 99 - 101 82t - 834 94 34 4i 83 4, 4 2 130i.5. 30 92 95 12 I‘4p 12 13 p 67 674 6 -- 6idi 83 21 j 4 671 i 81 par 1 p - 97 04 - 105 P I d 81. 83 9 8d 10i 9id 96 7 104 f 5 4i 81i 2i 22 -- i..i 63 - 64 36 - 38 64 31 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. COUNTY COURTS. Lord BROUGHAM brought in a bill for the purpose of extending the operation of what is called the " optional clauses" in the County Courts Act, in order to extend the jurisdiction of these courts over all actions, irrespec tive of the amount in dispute, or the nature of the question involved. The bill was read a first time. UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. The Earl of DERBY desired to call the attention of their lordships and of the Government in particular to a short statement that he wished to make. He had no intention of doing this until to-day, and he did so in consequence of a conversation that had occurred last night in another place with reference to the university with which he had the honour of being connected. The question that he was about to put might influence the convocation to be held to-morrow ; he hoped, therefore, the noble lord would excuse the shortness of the notice he was obliged to give, inasmuch AS', if be were not to put his question this day, it would be impossible that any effect could be produced either by his (Earl Derby's) question or his lordship's answer. He had perceived that a declaration had been made by her Majesty's Go- vernment, that it was not their intention to advise her Majesty to assent to the petition that was to be sub- mitted to convocation with reference to the proposed alterations in the governing body of the university. Their lordships were aware that the only mode by which the Carojian statutes could be altered was by the special license of the Crown. To effect this a petition must be presented to the Crown, and, in the first place, this petition must have received the assent of the uni- versity at large ; by the university at large he meant— convocation, which included all the members of the university, whether they were resident or non-resident, above the rank of a master of arts. Convocation conse quently included all ranks, classes, and denominations, and therefore an expression of opinion coming from it must be taken, if anything could be taken, as an ex pression of the voice and opinion of the university. Shortly after the report of her Majesty's Commissioners had appeared—he would not say anything on the mode in which these commissioners had been appointed, or offer any opinion as to the ex parte evidence that had been submitted to them—but, shortly after the appear ance of the commissioners' report, her Majesty's Go vernment announced that they did not intend to pro ceed immediately upon it, as they were desirous to know in the first instance, the course the university was pre pared to take, and should therefore postpone any attempt at legislation until they received the opinion of the uni versity. The University of Oxford did not lose any time in taking into consideration the very important questions raised by the commissioners' report, for during the course of last year they considered the whole of these questions seriatim, and examined upon them viva voce, but chiefly by written statements of questions and answers, some of the most distinguished members of the university. . s Defects, Civil and Military, of the Indian Govern ment. By Lieutenant-General Sir Charles James , Napier. Edited by Lieutenant-General Sir W. F. P. Napier, K.C.B. Westerton. Minutes on the Resignation of the late General Sir Charles Napier of the Command of the Army in India. By F.M. the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Dalhousie, and General Sir Charles Napier, &c. Murray and Blackwood. Wellington and Napier. Comments by Lieutenant- General Sir W. Napier, K.C.8., and Captain Rathborne. A Supplement to "Indian Misgo vernment," by Lieutenant General Sir Charles James Napier, G.C.B. Westerton. A melancholy episode in the annals of our empire in Hindoatan will be found recorded in these three remarkable publications. It will be perceived from them how monstrous has been the ingratitude of - the - Company towards one of the most illustrious of those great Captains to whose prowess, whose ge nius, and whose sagacity its councils are more pe- Culiarly indebted for the glories of a vast territorial ag grandisement. It will be perceived from these deplor able pages—pages deplorable for their revelations of habitual mendacity and of systematic turpitude —that that most heinous ingratitude has extended • beyond the tomb in which the heroic victim of slander might be expected at last to repose iu tran • quillity. The holiest dictates of humanity have, in this manner, been flagrantly violated. The sanctity of the grave has been either forgotten or conternned. Revilings the most unseemly =have geed. heard in the midst of the awful stillness of the Death-place.. The ordinary principles of honour, the commonest sentiments of generosity, the cus mary impulses of truth, remorse, and magnanimity ' have been despised and discarded. After his de- Parture from amongst Ira, when his brave heart ••,Us ceased to beat,' when the last sigh has Passed from his lips,. when 'his eyes are closed for ever, and his voice is' silenced, and his hand nerveless and crumbling into dust—Sir Charles „ Napier ie dragged, as it were, from his coffin, and 'teli-aigned at the bar of histOry—there to have his character elaborately calumniated, his acts per- Tersely distorted, and the whole of his glorious' career blurred and clouded over by the most odious and the most despicable misrepresentations. There is something in all this so peculiarly de : testable, that we cannot but lift up our voice, without further delay, and in.na measured terms, against the accusers of the Conqueror of Scinde— eager for one, at least, among the organs of public opinion, to give utterance, however inadequately, to the general indignation. - During his lifetime Sir Charles Napier needed no on. to fight his battles, to confront his antago .nistseto refute their slanders, to repel their accu sations. After his death those duties have devolved upon a brother eminently qualified to undertake the 'office of vindicating that bright and lofty, but darkly outraged reputation. Even when many ears shall have elapsed—when the very names of his assailants shall have perished from the national recollection—when "The knight's bones are dust, And his good sword is rust" — these notable chapters exonerating Sir Charles Napier from the blame endeavoured to be cast upon him by the most ungenerous and implacable of his fees, will survive to attest the purity of his fame, While evidencing, at the same moment, the logic, the eloquence, and the affection of his champion after death—the historian of Scinde and of the vic tories won by British valour in the Peninsula. The vindication of Si,r Charles Napier from the calumnies of his antagonists had been marvellously facilitated, it must be remembered, by the comple tion., shortly before his demise, of his posthumous Work on " Indian Misgovernment." In that mas terly production the assailed ex-Commander-in- Chief of our army in Hindostan had himself consi dered the mistatements made by his enemies, and had refuted them categorically. He had therein himself analysed mast minutely the whole oftheir carefully elaborated scheme of mirepresentation. The manu script pages thus completed only, so to speak, at the instant when the pen fell from the grasp of the Conqueror and Administrator, had the ad vantage, however, of being revised by the annalist , of his Scindian Conquest and his Scindian Admin istration. The narrative, moreover, was rendered complete by the addition of a supplementary chap ter by its editor—the volume being introduced with this touching and effective DEDICATION. " The Author of this work is decd. The care of putting it through the press is mine. And to The People of England it is dedicated : Because it exhibits faction frustrating A great man's efforts to serve the public: And shows How surely the Directors of the E.I. Company Are proceeding - , in - The destruction of the great Empire Unwisely committed to their Misgovernment.. W. F. P. NAPIER, Lieutenant-General." Scarcely, however, had this remarkable publica tion made its appearance, when a diso-racefal and Ungenerous pamphlet was issued from the press by order of the Directors of the East India Company, in the name and on the authority of their collective Government. It is the second production specified at the head of this criticism—a pamphlet entitled " Minutes on the Resignation of the late General Sir Charles Napier of Command of the Army in India" a pamphlet giving to the world after the death of both parties a censure written upon Sir Charles Napier by the Duke of Welli l? gton. Remember (as Sir William Napier tells us) that this doubly posthumous censure is Literally nothing more nor less than " a memoran dum founded upon previous falsehood." It has already been answered by the brochure mentioned the third upon our list, crushingly and conclusively answered by that chapter, briefly, but significantly, entitled " Comments," but which its distinguished Miter has subsequently and yet more significantly deSignated " A Supplement" to Sir Charles Na pier's work on Indian Misgovernment. .Wherefore la these three productions, in this memorable volUme and in these two noteworthy pamphlets published.. since as additionally illustrative of its argument, the whole story is minutely given to the public in all its details—the narrative of the great wrongs perpetrated towards an illustrious man, wrongs originating in unaccountable prejudice, and in an altogether unparalleled 'ingratitude. The history of this deplorable episode in the annals of our empire in Hindostan, is thus recounted from a period long anterior to Sir Charles Napier's arri val at Calcutta to take command of the armies in India, to a time long subsequent to the date of his resignation. It shows that all the misunderstand ings .which occurred between those two occur rences, the misunderstandings which immediately followed Sir Charles Napier's arrival, and which ultimately necessitated his resignation, originated, as he himself has observed (p. 10), in the " silly phalitom" of his ambition,"which to the last haunted the mind of the GOiernor-General Loa Dalhousie. That such - a - spectral dread really existed in Lord Dalhousie's imagination was indicated at Simla dur ing the. very first interview that took place be tween the Governor-General and the new Com mander-in-Chief, in regard to which interview the latter himself has here stated (ibid) that " in ten mi nutee Ate (Lord Dalhousie) told me in. substance, nay tie words-were, that in letters from England he had been warned against my endeavouring to encroach upon his power, and had answered, he tcoul4 take damned good care r r ahawd not „ — laugufige, one might venture,to say, worthier of a tosspa than of a viceroy. It is scarcely necessary to remind-ourreaders of the peculiar circumstances ands ;'*hick Sir Charles Napier had been nomi nated; tia the co-nimand-in-chief of the British forces in Hiil4oSiall. It will be remembered that he was gunißtined from domestic repoSe to that position of supreme responsibility, not by political intrigue, or by ministerial caprice, or by the aid of Court favour", but by national acclamation.• The occa sion was,one of great anxiety. According to the latest accounts from the seat of war there had been a series of lamentable reverses. Everybody in England looked for aid then, at that mo me nt of extreme emergency, to the genius, and the prowess, and the sagacity, and the patriotism of One man, and that man, Sir Charles Napier— & warrior who had so recently shown his capacity. in Generalship by the almost miraculous completeness and rapidity of his conquest of Scinde —a statesman who had still more recently, and if possible, still more remarkably, demonstrated his skill assn administrator, through the marvels effected by his most efficient and tranquillising Govern ment. Everybody, we say, looked, as it were, in stinctively to him under the emergency. We our selves were the first to assert, in the column of this journal, in the leading columns of The Sun, the imperative necessity of nominating Sir Charles itapier,•and no other than Sir Charles Napier, to the supreme command of the British armies in HindoStaii. We did this before his name had been mentioned in connection with that command by any other of 'the newspapers. This requisition of the conqueror of Scinde spread at once, however, with the swiftness of an electric enthusiasm through the whole of our contemporaries. It was the demand of the time—the cry of a great necessity. All were unanimous. Saith Sir Charles Napier. himself (p. When the Duke of Wellington first told, me of it [meaning, of his appointment], I objected that my many enemies in India would mar its usefulness. He laughed at that, pressed the matter home, and concluded, thus : If you don't r, I must." Nay, the Duke, already when requested to write down three names among those Mug taceu would most recommend as the ,_ this swarm of miserable little covert antagonists found in the weakness, or the perversity, or the ignorance of the Go vernor-, reneral, Lord Dalhousie, the willing agent for the grati fication of their spiteful malevolence. Lord Dalhousie, we have seen, had courteously told Sir Charles Napier, as early as the occadon of their first interview at Simla; that " he would take damned good care" that ( he (Sir Charles) should never encroach upon his power as Governor-Gene ral of Hindostan. A delicate intimation, whiCh lie adopted every means to verify. In short—we ask the reader's pardon, but the phrase is not our own, it is that of:. the representative of her Britannic Majesty Lord Dalhousie took such "damned good care" to prevent the possibility of this dreaded encroachment, that he insulted Sir Charles Napier so very grossly, wantonly, and unjustifiably as to necessitate the course pursued by that heroic veteran, when he ; tendered his resi g nation as_ Commander-in-Chief--of our armies in ilindostan. How ? The tale of this great wrong is soon told. A mutinous. pirit manifested itself in 1849 through out no less than thirty Sepoy battalions, battalions which were either then marching towards,C or were actually-in, the Punjaub. The Governor-General (Lord Dalhousie) was at sea in quest of health— leaving the Commander-in-Chief (Sir Charles Napier) the highest in authority and in respor-i -bility in Hindostan. Now everybody at all ac quainted with the growth and character of our power over our Indian possessions is familiar with the fact, that the greatest of all evils to be dreaded to that power is the spread of a feeling of insubordi nation. A mutinous spirit among our Sepoy troops, wherever manifest, must, consequently, be met with vigour and promptitude. It was so manifested in 1849 in as many as thirty battalions. The Governor-General was, as we have remarked, away—he was actually at sea—and the Comman der-in-Chief was left alone, and was responsible, consequently, by his position for the preservation of the general tranquillity. Precisely at this criti cal juncture, a Government order (an order, by the way, merely locally applicable) threatened to be brought accidentally into operation—where ? Why, at one of the very places where the mutiny had come most plainly to light—namely, at Wuzzeera bad. It was an order peculiarly distasteful to the Sepoys, inasmuch as it tended to the diminu tion of their allowances. What happens there upon ? Brigadier Hearsey, dreading lest the operation of this inopportune order might prove disastrous under the circumstances, by fomenting the ill-will rife among the discontented battalions, addresses an anxious communication to his superior officer, Sir Walter Raleigh Gilbert, telling him plainly of his fears as to the conse quences. Sir Walter Gilbert coincides with the views of the matter taken by Brigadier Hearsey— coinciding in those views, the former transmits the letter to Colonel Grant, theAdjutant-General, and the latter officer, agreeing with Sir Walter Gilbert and Brigadier Hearsey, submits the whole question of the difficulty to the judgment and decision of Sir Charles Napier, as Commander-in-Chief. Re member that the peril of the time was one of great magnitude ! Remember that the Governor-Gene ral was, at the period, far away on the Indian Ocean ! Remember that the responsibility of the crisis rested wholly and exclusively upon Sir Charles Napier, in his capacity as Commander in-Chief ! Remember that the danger of allowing the order to come into operation at that pre- I cise moment was recognised and asserted by three distinguished and experienced officers in the Company's service—by Brigadier Hearsey, by Sir Walter Gilbert, and by Colonel Grant, the Adjutaut-General ! Remember, moreover {with this posthumous - 'Censure from the hands of his Grace, now at our elbow, as recently published by order of the Directors], especially and peculiarly remember, that Sir Charles Napier found at the time the following remarkable passage among the instructions of the Duke of Wellington :—" On a station so distant, and of such magnitude and po litical importance, you must necessarily act in a great measure from your own discretion." Sir Charles Napier did act upon his discretion. Is it asked in what manner? By suspend ing the perilous order which must otherwise have been brought into operation at a crisis of a really extraordinary character. The Com mander-in-Chief, at the same time, forthwith, namely, on the 20th of January, 1850, the date of the order of suspension, forwarded a report of the whole proceedings to the Supreme Government. Thereupon, when the mutiny had been effectually suppressed by this wise measure of precaution, Sir Charles Napier was insultingly reprimanded by Lord Dalhousie—the insult (mark this !) of the reprimand being directed by him (p. 170) against " a man of nearly twice his age, with ten times his experience and service." It is monstrous to assert, as was asserted by the Governor-General, that the Commander-in-Chief had, in the act alluded to, " cancelled a Govern ment regulation And introduced another." He had done nothing of the sort—he had merely suspended an order calculated to prove most dan gerous if permitted to come at that precise period into operation—he had simply suspended that dan gerous order until such time as he could contrive to communicate with the Supreme Government. That it was calculated to be perilous, if not at least delayed, was not only the opinion of Sir C. Napier himself, but also, as before remarked, of three distinguished officers in the service of the com pany—in the opinion (p. 66) of " the Brigadier com manding the station, of the General commanding the province, and of the Adjutant-General of the Com pany's army." Let it be borne in mind, moreover, that as recently as the 18th of that same month of January, Lord Dalhousie had written these words to the Commander-in-Chief (p. 185)—" Whenever anything may occur which requires or would be benefitad by the support of Government, that support will beunreservedly given." Such a thing did occur two days later, and that support was not only unreservedly refused, but Sir Charles Napier was even insultingly reprimanded. The Governor- General forgot his, fine promise at Kotree, and acted only in the 'spirit of his impertinent threat at Simla—his courteous threat on the occasion of their first interview, that he would. take " damned good care" that his authority should not be encroached upon by the new Commander-in-Chief. The truth is, That Sir Charles Napier was repri manded, as he himself says (p. 174), " because Lord Dalhousie was" personally jealous ! In tent to find fault, he petulantly, and with bad faith, seized what he 'thought a good opportunity, and made a mistake for his own character." Was A se not aofet ro badrtoshf the tfl f ht a Beh i t faith crisis do ? ef aav r s January h n ae s N r v o er m. the danger ang have any Tyo attempted, a w r a g y u e a s e , x .exagge rated the is simply preposterous, when we bear in mind that ptininie dse(ep,.a had 1 t 67) before theorderof suspension, mu tiniesoccurred ce i r n ab s a u d c , ce a s n si d on at at G ß o : i w nd ul , ghur. As to the Governor -General's paltry attempt to depreciate Sir Charles Napier by representing his g d h e t s f e r n o d ed d t a o n r g e e p r e — l t t h h e e j c o o u n r ci n u ey er t o o r P of es s li c a i w nd u e r h a a s' s a co ll n i insinuation thus scornfully and triumphantly (p. 168) : " Peshawur was the real point of danger, a nd his (Lord Dalhousie's) sneer, redolent of ignorance and bad feeling, coming from a man who had gone to sea at the moment of greatest peril, should have been suppressed." If, however, the Governor-General has failed to sup press his atrabilious sarcasm, the Commander-in- Chief did not fail to suppress promptly and.effec tually that mutinous spirit which was known to have infected thirty Sepoy battalions, and which, if it had not thus been dissipated or crushed out, must have threatened (p. 165) to involve a n army of 400,000 men in the most disastrous insubordination. This was effected by three ener getic acts, indicative to the whole body of actual or would-be mutineers of the determination of the then supreme head of the Executive, the Comman der-in-Chief. Those three acts—the suspen sion of the order consolidating the Sepoys' allowances—the disbandment of the 66th Regi ment for their attempt to'seize the fortress of Go vindghur—and the filling up of their vacant place in the line by making the Nusseree Goorka batta lion the 66th or Goorka regiment. Happily Sir Charles, was throughout impressed with the truth that " mutinies are not to be bound with red tape" (p. 153), that wholesome truth which he has since in so many words thus axiomatically enun ciated. It is a melancholy ouramary of hopes is view ith two After f, they killed end 17 Iced by united • their to the gna by I. He 'hick I rms of upon a i with ussian unless Rus below Esmai- they d for than I do widen From Rust• asked ccess, roved are in enge. en at .0 on ro to where Ichyl, ave a LITERA TUBE. The Queen had a dinner party on Wednesday at Buckingham Palace. The company included the Duchess of Sutherland, the Netherlands Minister (Baron Ben tinck), the Saxon Minister (Count Vitzthum), the Mar quis of Abercorn, the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, the Marquis and Marchioness of Stafford, the Lord Chief Justice Campbell and Lady Stratheden, the Right Hon. Henry Goulburn, the Right Hon. Sir John and Lady Pakington, and the Hon. Henry and Mrs. Fitzroy. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in at tendance in the Palace, and performed during dinner. Her Majesty's private band attended in the evening, and played the following selection : Overture, "Faniska" Duo, " Marco Spada" Auber. Terzetto, "La Villanella rapita" Mozart. The Earl of Clarendon had an audience of her Majesty yesterday. Prince Albert, attended by Colonel Wvlde, left Buck ingham Palace at eleven o'clock yesterday morning for the New Crystal Palace at Sydenham. His Royal Highness returned at two o'clock. The Duchess of Kent visited the Queen yesterday after her arrival in London from Frogmore. The Princess Royal and the Princess Alice took a drive in an open carriage and four yesterday forenoon. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the Lyceum Theatre with their presence last evening. The Royal suite consisted of the Marchioness of Ely, the Hon. Beatrice Byng, the Marquis of Ormonde, Major-General Buckley, and Colonel Wylde. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, Baroness de Speth, and Sir' George Couper, arrived at her residence, Clarence-house, St. James's, yesterday morning, from Frogmore. Her Royal Highness visited the Duchess of Gloucester in the aftevnoon at Gloucester-house. A deputation from the promoters of the Wellington Dock Company, and of merchants connected with the trade of the port of London, had an interview with the' Right Hon. E. Cardwell and Lord Stanley of Alderley, yesterday, .at the Board of Trade. The deputation con- Q1,,,t-od of Air. V. w. P,,Q..11, M.P., Mr J J. g,ind.r.:, Mr. Nehemiah Griffiths, Mr. Benjamin Cooke,•Mr. Ed. ward Hales, Mr. Thomas Nesbitt, Mr., M. H. Chayter, Mr. George Legg, and Mr. Thomas Dakin (promoters), . and Mr. Thomas Simson, Mr. Robert Hunter, Mr. Willis Coventry; Mr. Samuel Morris, and Mr. Henry Cristall (secretary pro tem.). A Aleputation from Barnsley, consisting of Messrs. Riehardson, Inns, Parker, and Mr. Peacock, .Clerk to the Local Board of Health, had an interview with the General Board of Health yesterday, at their office in Whitehall. The deputation was introduced by Mr. R. Cobden, M.P. The Committee of Privy Council for education had a meeting on Wednesday at the Council-office. Present — the Lord President, the Duke of Argyll, the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, and the Chancellor of tht Exchequer. The Rev. Dr. Barr, Moderator of General Assembly, the Rev. Dr. Cook, and Sir J. D. H. Elphinstone, - had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes terday at his official residence in Downing-street. A. deputation, consisting of the Earl of Erne, Sir R. G. Booth, M.P., Mr. G. A. Hamilton, M.P., Colonel Taylor, M.P., Mr. John Vance,, M.P., Mr. Edward Grogan, M.P., Mr. Tristram Kennedy, M.P., Colonel Duane, M.P., Mr. George Bowyer, M.P., Mr. John Greene, M.P., Mr. Samuel Bateson, Mr. Richard M. Fox, M.P., Sir John M`Neil, Mr. Macrory, and Lord Jocelyn had an interview on Wednesday with the Right Hon. E. Cardwell, and Lord Stanley of Alderley at the Board of Trade. Despatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial office to the Governor of the Cape of Good Elope and the Governors of the West Coast of Africa. The Judicial Committee of the Privy. Council sat yes terday in the Council Chamber. Dr. Lushington gave judgment in " Brettington v. Brettington " (Court of Arches), and Sir J. Patteson gave judgments in "the Queen v. PFice" (Ceylon), and "Hill v. the Queen" (Jamaica). The Lords present were the Chan cellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, Sir J. Patteson, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Sir E. Ryan. THE PARIS BOURSE.—The accounts from the Bourse yesterday showed an improvement of more than a half per cent. in the morning, from which there was a sub sequent reaction of more than a quarter per cent. From Vienna the quotations give no signs of recovery from the prevailing panic. THE DEFENCE OF TURKEY, &c. —A " British Officer " says :—" It is within my knowledge, from very detailed and scientific reports drawn up on the spot by British military officers ' and now in possession of Government, that, the. French officers now in Turkey are enabled to proceed at once to the localities in that country which ought to be strengthened and occupied, and in especial such as facilitate the defence of Constantinople and its immediate neighbourhood, the best mode of,. doing which may,be . said to• have been discovered by one of those officers. The passes of the Balkan, the country in advance and in rear of that chain, the fortifications, topography-,nay, every landing place in -the Crimea, and many"other very important localities on the shores of the Black Sea, have all been minutely examined and carefully described by British officers." NOTTINGHAM TRADE.—A.B we signified last 'week, a feeling of improvement has begun at length to be expe rienced in the lace trade. Something has been done by German purchasers, and we notice upon 'change :the representatives of some leading London houses who have also, we - understand, been purchasing. The tendency has also turned towards a demand for the lighter and finer description of goods, of itself an iuq on the low tone of feeling in our market. And as the spring advances, we have therefore no doubt that 'the prospects of the trade will expand with the season. In this hope, the manufacturers are beginning to turn their_ attention towards the production of superior classes of fancy goods appropriate to the turn which the demand seems to be taking. Hosiery exhibits' the same peculiar animation ; though limited chiefly to a hand-to-mouth supply ; still, enough to keep the trade in a reasonable state of activity. The absence- of all speculative transactions and restriction of husiness to the satisfying ofirnmediate wants, possibly receives some explanation from the following amongst other trade announcements in the New York papers, which havelately excited great surprise and remark on our exchange, and appear to have an explanatory bearing on the present and recent state of trade and the unusually cautious and limited extent of transactions :—ln the Morning Courier and New York- Inquirer of the 31st' ult., we read—" The dry goods auction sales have now com menced for the season. Messrs. Wilmerding, Hoguet, and Humbert opened with a large sale of hosiery, silk mite, and white goods of the importation of Messrs. Monis and Ayres. The catalogue comprised the largest quantity of these goods ever before offered at any one sale, and the gathering of city and country merchants was unusually large. The biddings were kept up with great spirit during the entire sale, which lasted four days, and the prices obtained, though in moot cases lower than those of private sales, "were on the whole well sustained ; and,. judging from the amount of duplicates disposed of, the, sellers must have been satisfied with the results as the best:the market-crildafford." Thi s unprece d en t e d m ode , of doing business cannot but visibly affect the ordinary course of the market, and we are not surprised at the observations which it has already called forth. Nor is this, we find, however extensive, a solitary instance of the kind, as in another New York journal we find a similar sale advertised for the 3d of February, of an enormous consignment of 120,000 dozen of hosiery.— , Nutting4arAilare Guardicfo: Do., (XIS E & H).. Eastern Counties.... Eastern Union, A Stock IDo., B. Stock Do., New A East Lancashire 'Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edin. Prth. & Dundee Forth & Clyde June. Glasgow sr, S. Western 'Great Northern Stk. / Do., A. Stock Do. , 8.. Stock ....... . _ Gt. Sth. &Wsst.(lre.) Great Western Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancash.andYorksh. Do., Fifths D 3., Wst. Riding Un. Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby.&Southpt London & Bla,ckwall Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. bond. Bright & S.Cst. bond. and N. Westn. Do. Fifths Do.lo/.5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths London and S. Westn Do., £5O Do., £4O Lnndrry& Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Nianch.Shef.& Lincln Do., Man. & Lin. Uu Kidland Do. Birnmg. &Derby %did. G. West. (Ire.) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmarket Do., Bury Extension. Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warreupoint and Rostrevor Norfolk Northn:Counties Un. North British North Devon, No. 1. Do., No. 2 . Do., A Deferred Do., . B Guaranteed North London ' Do. New £lO ; N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester.. Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Portsmouth Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Biimg Do. L. & N. Western Guaranteed St cek Shrowsby. & Berefd Shrewsby. & Chester (N. W. MM ; Do. Halves,. s Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& D,fully paid up at per cent South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun Do* Staines, Wok &Wok Stockton & Darling. Stockton & Hartlepl. Taff Vale • Do. £lO shares. Do. Prof.,- No. Thames Raven Dock, and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerick West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace West Loudon Wimbledu & Croydon York Newctl.B:l3erw. Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland 55 57 d— par 5 40 2t 3 6 8 47 50 3$ 30 324 ... 33i 8 10 1.4. - E 6A - '4 53 - 53 i - i 6 -- 8 - i 34 - 35 89 91 54 - 56 55 - 60 55 3 2d, 15 17' 7 i Si 11 13 3i 3Bd 11 16 62 63 331 7 34] 2 4 par 4 --- -5 io .17. 32 t 15i - 5i 24 - 26 6 - 7 ti - 7 691 704 7 4 41 4 aid 49 -- 50 The opinion of the hebdomadal board on several points, together with the whole of the evidence, was printed on the sth of December, just at the end of term, and before the commencement of the vacation. He hoped that some of their lordships had seen this evidence, which was contained in a thick Bvo. volume, in which he thought the whole question had been entered into in a most impar tial manner. This book was printed, as he had said, on the sth December, and on the 13th or 14th he (Earl Derby) re ceived a circular from the Secretary of State for the Home Department, in which it was stated that her Majesty's Government were desirous of ascertaining what measure the university contemplated as necessary for its altera tion and improvement, and the particular alterations that might be desired by the several colleges in which they would require the interposition of Parliament. He immediately acknowledged the receipt of this letter from the Home Secretary, giving the noble lord his (Earl Derby's) individual opinion, and expressing the hope that the measure introduced by the Government would be of such a character as to give great latitude to the free action of the university. The letter he had referred to stated that the Government were anxious to receive the information they required at this time, and hoped to give the greatest consideration to the demands that might be made by February. He received this letter either on the 13th or 14th of December, just at the close of term, and lost no time in transmitting it for the consideration of the hebdomadal board. On the 19th December he was officially communicated with, and forwarded, without delay, a letter from the hebdomadal board to the Secre tary of State for the Home Department, in which they promised, at the earliest opportunity, to take the required subjects into consideration. In January he (Earl Derby) received, either from the Vice-Chancellor or the colleges themselves, the various plans and modifications they were desirous of obtaining the assistance and co-opera tion of Parliament to introduce. The whole of these communications were transmitted for the information of the Secretary for the Home Department and her Majes ty's Government. As soon as was possible, the hebdo, madal board' met to* tonsider' that which was the ba sis of everything else—what alterations in the constitu tion of the university they should recommend to convo cation for the purpose of being sanctioned by her Ma. jesty's advisers. Had this matter been postponed their lordships would perceive that would have come to he last considered which ought to have been first. The decision of the hebomadal board was arrived at on Sa turday, the 11th of this month, and her Majesty's Go vernment bad expressed the hope that they would in February be able to take, the matter into consideration. He thought that their lordships would be of opinion that the hebdomadal board could not earlier have come to a decision than they did on questions involving such important changes, without giving to it an appearance of undue precipitancy. The Government having an nounced their measure for Monday, the 20th, he (the Earl of Derby) thought it was of the greatest importance that before this measure was submitted for considera tion the university should have an opportunity of ex pressing a free and unbiassed opinion on what altera tions they might deem advisable. Before the subject could be brought before the convocation it was neces sary that the hebdomadal board should promulge the petition they recommended, so that the members of con vocation might become acquainted with it ; and from the Friday, after the decision of the hebdomadal board had been arrived at, to the Monday, was the shortest notice that could be given. On the Monday, before he bad received a copy of the petition, he (the Earl of Derby) was called upon by a most eminent professor of the uni versity with whom he lad had no personal acquaintance for 40 years. He had already called on the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with whom he was on terms of inti macy, and he ated to hint that the object of his visit was to obtain a short postponement of the Govern ment measure, until the decision of convocation on the petition that was to be submitted to it from the hebdo madal board could be obtained. The Chancellor of the Exchequer consented to this reasonable request, and gave an intimation that the university should not be placed in any worse position than it then stood, in con sequence of their having, in giving notice, lost time iu communicating with Government. This gentleman had no power to make any stipulations with regard to pre vious communications ; and he (the Earl of Derby), being desirous that no concealment should be attributed to the university, took it upon himself to make the pro position, that, if the university petition was placed in his bands forthwith, that petition should 1.7 him, as Chancellor, be communicated to her Majesty a Govern ment, not as being the petition of the university, but as that of the hebdomadal board. He (the Earl of Derby) had asked for a week's postponement, in order that two or three days might elapse previous to giving notice to convocation, which was summoned at a week's notice, that expires to-morrow,' On Monday evening, at nine o'clock, the Vice-Chancellor-ealled on him and brought with him "the - petition, and he (the Earl of Derby) communicated with the Secretary of State for the Home Department on Tuesday morning. On the following Thursday, after he had retired from their lordships' house, he received a long letter from the Secretary of State for the Home Department, informing him he had taken into_consideration• the proposed' petition; and ex pressing regret that they were compelled to dissent from the scheme set down, and that her Majesty could not be advised to assent to it. lie felt compelled to notice—as lie had been careful in communicating with the Secre tary for the Home Department to abstain from asking any opinion either of approval or disapproval on the petition of the hebdomadal board—that this letter con tainedd objeCtions on the 'part of the Crown, not s tated in detail, but objecting to the plan generally. UPo"th following morning he forwarded to Oxfor d that a commu nication from the Government , an d he also wrote short answer to the noble lord the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Last Friday some theantdmquenestetioinn was taken into consideratio n, and . the foran of a petition were made ,but time -was then pressing, and it was necessary to promulgate that peti tion upon Friday, and to U _ give notice for its considera tion next Friday. board received the onsegnently, the hebdomadal i n timation of the dissent of her Ma jesty's Governmen t from their proposition, without any statement of their own .. views, upon the Friday morning on which it was necessary to promulgate their petition. it was, therefore, impossible to withd raw th e notice which had been given, and the petition had, to be promulgated in its then form. But the very ob ject which he bad had in view in asking for delay was, that convocation might be enabled to pass their opinion upon the merits of the plan upon their own independent sense of what was best for the interests of the university, and unbiassed by the assent or. dissent of the Govern ment. That object was now frustrated. At all events, if the Government thought fit, in the first instance, to intimate their dissent to what was proposed, and their intention to proceed with another measure, giving the convocation no power to frame a scheme of its own, he did not think it was too much to expect that they should have intimated what it was which they wished the uni versity to ask, and for which, if 'they did ask it, they would obtain the assent of the Government. At any rate, such a course would have preserved to the univer sity, at least, the appearance of independence of ac tion. (Hear, hear.) Convocation was now to decide to-morrow upon the petition which had been agreed to unanimously by the hebdomadal board, and they :were to go to the consideration of that question, to which they must say , "aye" or "no," , riot'with a know ledge of what the Government desired, but with the knowledge that, whatever they agreed to, would not re ceive the assent df the Government. He contended that that was not Mks fair way of putting the question before the university, or of obtaining the independent judgment of the university upon it. He did not suppose that such _ had been the objest of the Government; but certainly ARRIVAL% THIS WEEK. Barley. I Malt. 4,130 6,16 12,770 7,660 I Wheit. 1,860 SMITHFIELD. The supply of blasts here to-day being considerably on the increase compared with Friday last, the demand for that description of stock was in a sluggish state, and Mon day's prices were barely supported. Sheep, the number of which was seasonably good, moved off slowly at Monday's decline. The top figure was 55 per 8 lbs. Very few English calves were on sale ; but the supply of foreign was good. On the whole, the veal trade ruled dull ; but we have no ;hang° to notice in prices. In pigs very little was doing. Mitch cows sold heavily at from 141. to 191. each, in cluding their small calf. . . _ Per Sibs to sink the offals. s. d. B. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 4td 3 6 Setond quality.... 3 S 310 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 4, Prime Scots, &c. 4 6 410 Inferior Sheep ...3 2 3 61 Second quality ...$ 8 4 4 Prime crse.-wlied.4 6 4 s. d. s. d? PrimoSouthdown 410 5 0 (Large crse. calves 4 0 4 8 'Prime small d 0... 410 5 4 Large hogs 3 0 4 2 ISmall porkers 4 4 410 Sucklingcalves ..22 0 29 0 ;Quarter old pigs 21 0 26 0 TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts .. •• •• .. 1,170 iheep .•• •• •••• •• 3,200 valves . .......... • .. 230 FOREIGN SUPPLY. 8ea5t5.......... ........ . 440 Sheep '7OO Calves..... 190 Pigs•••• •. es •• ..... oe.••• NtWGATE AND Each kind of meat was in quotations :-- LEADEN - HAM request, at the following Per 81bs by s. d. s. d. ' •s. d.: s. d. Beef, inferior 3 0- 3 4 MuttOn, Inferior 3; 2 3 8 Do., middling 3 6 3 8 Do., middling . 310 4 2 Do., prime large 3 10 4 0 , Do., prime 4 4 4 8 Do., do. small ....4 2 4 4 1 Veal 310 5 0 Pork, large 3 4 4 2; Pork, small 4 4 5 0 he carcase. BOROUGH HOP. The business doing in our market is very limited. the large supplies of foreign hops pressing for sale operate against the value of home-grown qualities. This week's imports are 104 bales from Antwerp, and 403 from Ostand. Nliti and East Kent pockets, 01. Os to. 141. Os ; Weald of Kent ditto, 61. Os to 81. 8s ; Sussex ditto, 61. Os to 71. 15s ; and foreign, 5/. Os to 7/. Os per cwt. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market is firm, and West India has been in request, at about 6d advance. Jamaica, at auction, sold freely at 33s Gd to 34s Gd for brown and grey, and at 35s to 35s 6d for mid. Brown to good mid. grey Demerara brought 33s Od. to 35s Od ' • end mid. to good crystalised 36s Gd to 37s 6d per cwt. East India has been offered to a limited extent, being held for high prices. Bengal mid. to good dry grey realised 34s to 36s ; low yellow 32s to 33s ; and brown 29s 61 to 31s. Mauritius grey and brown were taken in above the value. Good brown date Khaur kind went at 29s 6d to 30s 6d per cwt. Ma dras fine brown found buyers at 29s 6cl. Penang has been in brisk inquiry, especially the refining sorts, and 6d advance has been obtained, viz.-29s 6d. to 33s 6d for low foxy to fine brown, and 34s to 35s 6d for low to good yellow. Havannah has commanded steady rates : mid brown to mid soft yellow selling at 33s to 37s ; and a parcel of yellow for exportation was taken at 37s for No. 14. Privately, No. 13 sold at 36s 6d per cwt. Cuba Mus covado brought firm values. Refined has been at full rates; brown lumps at 445, and grocery at 44s 6d to 50s per cwt. Manilla low and mid damp was taken in at 30s to 32s 6d. "COFFEE.—The quantity offered by auction has not been large, and the demand upon the whole has been limited. Native Ceylon has been obtainable at about 47s 6d for good ord, and a few sales have been made at that price, and superior brought 48s to 48s 6d. Mich& was held for advanced prices; being taken at 703 to 75s‘for mid to good brown clean garbled, and 65s for mixed peaberry. Good triage sold at 52s to 52s 6d. Good ord mixed Madras realised 46s per cwt. RlCE.—Rather low prices have been accepted. Madras at public sale brought 14s 6d but since has been taken in at 14s 6d to 15s for mid to good pinkey. Bengal was taken at 15s Gd for good bold, being the full value, but after wards it was sold at 15s 3d, or 3d decline. Carolina mid and good second quality sold to a small extent at 24s to 255. White Bengal afloat privately changed hands at 15s, quality guaranteed good mid. SPICES.—A good inquiry has existed, but not much has been brought forward publicly. Pimento has been active at about 4€l. per lb. advance, viz., at GAd. to 6gd. for mid and good. Batavia mace sold at 2s. Bd. for mid pale, being steady. Pepper has been in request, and Malabar has been 3d. per lb. dearer, good heavy shot having ob tained 5, 7 d. to 6id. per lb. at auction, and privately fair brown Penang sold at 5Ad. Cassia buds realised 18s. Gd. per cwt. for wild. mr.---Full quotations have been asked. Pine_Deme rara brought ss. 6d. in puns, and ss. Q. in Wade. Tho Government has taken.7s,ooo gallons more, but the price is not known. SALTPETRE.—A large business has been done at full prices, to 3d advance, 181 per cent. refraction selling at 355, and good and fine 363 to 36s 3d. English refined ad vanced to 39s 6d to 40s. _ _ COCHINEAL.—Honduras blacks have declined 4d to 6d, and silvers have been rather cheaper. COTTON.—At the public sales, a good deal was .with drawn, being seedy and inferior. . . TALLOW.--The market has been quieter. TEA.—At the public sales 13,642 packages passed, and about 4,500 sold, prices being rather heavy. GREEN FRIIIT.—A better feeling exists in the market, and prices of all descriptions of fruit improving. Two cargoes oranges from St. Michael sold by Keeling and Hunt, went at an advance of 3s to 4s per box. More inquiry for lemons. Seville sours scarce, and 58 per chest higher. The crop of oranges at St. Michael and T erce i ra h as su ff ere d from constant gales, and a quantity of fruit has been blown off the trees. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. LONDON, Feb. 24.—Wind this day at Noon, S.W. ; light breeze, and cloudy weather.---The Cleopatra has ar rived at Liverpool, from Australia, with 20,0000 z. of gold. SHEERNESS, Feb. 23.—The Hendrika Jantina, London to Amsterdam, has been towed in here, waterlogged and abandoned. DOVER, Feb. 23.—Wind, N. Arrived—B er th a' from Li ca ta; for Aberdeen, with damage to b u l war k s and leaky. O PTSMOUTH, Feb. 23.—Wind, N.N.W. to N. Sailed— H.M.S.A s l t e r d o t n is g a . , A Cowes.rrived— • —Wind, Brabant, Havannah ; Juno, for Australia ; H.M eNd .S e. (ofT Lynn), Bahia. Wind, N. Arrived—Undaunted, cl E rt a tein i. 7 l ,m i sG o o l ua : Tifa H ruto , z,mi,. F peis e bel b .ry2n . t3a1 2 17- 3 db . from Smyrna. OFF THE LIZARD, Feb. 22. —Virginia, from Manzanilla. BRISTOL, Feb. 23.—Wind. N.W. Arrived—African, from Africa ; Alchymist, Quebec ; Maxwell, Kertch. LOWESTOFT, Feb. 23. — Arrived—Brother s , from Whit stable, for northward, with loss of jibboom ; Teazer, Lon don, for Newcastle, with loss of canvas ; Jean Baptiste, Caen, far Hartlepool, with loss of two anchors and part of chain; Eagle (of Sunderland), with loss of anchor and chain. MUMBLES, Feb. 23.—Arrived—Esther Francis, Caldera. HULL, Feb. 23.—Wind, N.W.:- Arrived—Alarm, Ter ceira ; Bonita, do. ; Palmyra, Patras • Concordia, Rulcio bing.' Sailed—Aurora, Fredericia ; St. George, Green land. DARTMOUTH, Feb. 23 —Wind, N.N.W. Sailed—Laura, Geneva. Off Port—Emil, Rio Janeiro. . CORK, Feb. 22.—Wind, N. W. Arrived—Minerva, Mazagan • 'Wonder de Mendego, St. Mi c h ae l' s Mary Young, Taganrog. • „„ SHIELDS, Feb? 23.--Wind, W.N.W. Arrived—Catha rine Oxen, from Volparaiso; 'Renovati on , St. j o h ns . SalledChoice, for Havanuah. • BRIDGEWATER, Feb. 23.—The Trotter, of Gloucester, drove ashore at the mouth of the river, and is covered each tide. Part of her cargo (coals) is washed out of her. GRIMSBY, Feb. 23.—The Defiance, of Similerland, frOira Folkestone to Seaham, and the Lewiston (brig), of Hartle"- • pool, were in collision this morning about 8 miles N. E. of Hamburg Head, when the Defiance sunk ; her . crew .landed here to-day by the Lewiston.. The Jupiter (s.); which arrived in the .Reads last night, drove from her an chors during a hurricane on:Clee Ness, but came off .On the next flood without apparent damage.: ANTWERP Feb. 23..--The Leon, from St. Mei, was stranded inside the West Pier 11th Feb., and was got off about the 13th ; has been condemned, and will. be sold. HAMBURG; Feb. 21.—The Clio, arrived here from Mes sina, has landed the crew of the Emilie (Norwegian schr.), Martens, from Grangemouth to Antwerp, w h om she saved near Flemish Bank. • - AALESUND, Feb. 3. —Among the vessel s w hi c h went ashore in the night of the 31st Jan., was the Aurora; of and for .Fralerickshald, from London, in ballast; she has Ilost her rudder and received o ther dam age , and willtave. to be run aground to prevent her sinking. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Friday, 10.30 am S. Jago, V a l- Liffey, D ome - Wind, W.S.W. pa A ra rr is i o v ; ed s — pa J r . ta L n . , ABofngacrat,; fsraormah,Bßomonbnayy;; rara ; Manilla, Matanzas • Finland, Virgini a ; C onsu l , Now Orleans ; and Cleopatra (s.s.), from Australia. The Cleopatra sailed from Melbourne on the 14th of October. She has brought 20.000 ounces of gold. The Lady Franklin, for New York, has put back, with loss of bowsprit, cutwater, &O. Off Point Lynas—Lancashire, from Calcutta. (BY 'SUBMARINE AND aR v U E R S O E P N E D A , N Fr Y i E a L a y E RA P 1 01 R. 0 m Wind, W.S.W. ; tide, last hour's flood • fine. Arrived, 23d.—C a ble from Antwerp. Ath.—lndustry, from Antwerp ; Hope, Antwerp ; La Ponl, Cherbourg York Town, New York ; Irlam, Havannah ; Martha, Antwerp . ; West, Batavia ; Zephyr, Jersey. Sailed— Iron Gem, for Malta • Premier, Demerara ; Admiral de Ruyt er , Port Philip ; Forster, Grenada ; Ann Jane, Barbadoes. DEAL, Friday, 9 a.m , , • Wind, W. ; very fine, . . Passed—Bride, from Madras, for L o ndon; Maria. and Garcia. panish brig, westward, for London ; Norma,, 'New YOrk, for London ; Eleanor, Nassau, for London; ; Islam, Savannah, for London • Jupiter Gunill, Cherbourg, for London ; Torrent, Shangli ' ai; for Loudon ; Claro, Cal lao, for'Aberdeen. Sailed - L-Gleribervie, James .Tcu•ean, Harriet, Erving, Barbara, Cashmere, and Cherokee, with the whole of the homeward, bound. . • : ' - - Anchored—M arqu i s of Chandos, from London, for Fen :Pace: • ..- . FOREIGN. 10 7 Antwerp&Rotterdam 31 —3 d 5 3 Belgian Eastn. June. 1 li 20 8 Beziers toGraissessac 4A —31 d 20 2s. Bombay, Baroda, and Central India,Scrip par i p pm ... ... Central of Italy 20 all Charleroi& Erqueliu ... ... 171 all Demerara 20 14 Dkjon and Besancon ... p 20 8 Dutch Rhenish 3l 2id 20 all East Indian 2i :lip 20 2 Do, Extension — 5 all Gt. Indian Peninsula 1 i p 20 10 ad. Janet. of France . . . . 25 76 Grd. Trunk of Canada . 51 —4. d 100 30 Do. Debentures — ... 100 all Do. do — ... 20 8 Gt. Central of France 2i —2l d 20 ; i, all Gt .Westorn of Canada Shares I i P ... . . Do. Bonds (Ist is.)'s7 ... ... 201 1 . 51 Hamilton & Toronto it —1 p 100 all Do. 6 per cent. 20 5 Lake Const. & Basle ... ... 5 all Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c pref — dis 20 15 Luxembourg 6i 71 7 10 10 Do. (Railway) 4i 4t 5 2 Do. Pref 1 li 5 3 Do. (Canal) 1 lA 10 5 . Do. 6p. et. pref._ 1 id 20 8 Lyons and Geneva 20 12 Lyons & Mediterran .. 20 10 Madras i . d i p 331 33 Maria Antonia 10 all Do. do. New 20 2 Melbourne Dk. & Ry. ... ... 20 . all Namur & Liege (with ' interest) 20 all Do. 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Telegraph.. par i p T. all Do. Registered id lip ul a d T.- no '.2Bi Van Diel3lol% Land V —l4 . 100 - 42 34 all all 100 all 100 5! IL/ Isl 2/ 2s 100 100 100 100 all 15 5 2/ 2s all 100 . 8 100 20 17 all all 14 all 51s 100 20 no course could have been taken which would have been more effective for rendering it impossible for the uni versity to agree upon a petition for any scheme of re form, and thus for enabling the Government to say that, as the university could not agree, it had been necessary for the Government themselves to prepare a measure. Had it not been for the announcement which had been made by the Government, he should have been quite con tent to have left the question in the state iu which it stood. The hebdomadal board had made known what they were about to propose ; the convocation would have been asked whether they assented to it; the petition would have been decided upon by the independent voice of convoca tion, and it then would have rested with the Crown to have decided whether it would assent to the petition or not. At all events, we should have had the independent opinion of the university, and Parliament and the Go vernment would have been free to act upon that opinion. But the course which had now been taken rendered it necessary that he should put a question to thenoble earl at the head of the Government. The university, he believed, had not been &ow in their desire to meet the Wishes of the Government, and they had afforded to the Government every information which it was possible for them to give, both with regard to the university and the colleges. That information with regard to the colleges the Government had been in possession -of for nearly a month ; and they had also been informed that the main object of the university was 4 to obtain a permissive power to alter the three Carolian statutes. As the Government had thought fit to dissent from the pro posal which was about to be made to convocation, and by anticipation to condemn the scheme, he was entitled to ask if the Government would undertake, bc- fore giving publicity to their own scheme for any altera tion of the statutes of the university, to make an official communication to the university, so that the univer sity might, in an official and recognised manner, take such proposal into consideration, in order to see how far it would, in their opinion, conduce to the benefit of the university or would they leave it to the university to learn, for the first time, from the reports of what took place in Parliament, what the scheme of the Govern ment was for the regult.tion of the future government of the university, and for effecting a change in , all the in stitutions, habits, and mode of government of that body ti Was the noble earl prepared to state that, having disap proved of the measure which had been submitted to them in the first instance, the Government would communi cate to the university, previously to bringing it before Parliament, the measure which, in their opinion, should be introduced to effect these great changes ? The Earl of ABERDEEN was understood 'to reply that the Government would not pledge themselves offi cially to submit to the hebdomadal board the plan which they might think it desirable to propose for effecting an alteration in the constitution of the university, before submitting it to Parliament. At all events, he believed that it was not the present intention of the Government to do so. THE EXPEDITIONARY FORCE. The Earl of CARDIGAN was anxious to put a ques tion to her Majesty's Government on a subject of great importance, at least to the profession to which he be longed. He could assure the Government that he did not put it with any hostile feeling towards them with regard to the present posture of affairs in relation to peace or war ; for he thought they had acted' with the greatest prudence and wisdom in carrying on negotia tions till they came to the inevitable decision of pro ceeding with the greatest energy. (Hear, hear.) He had, however, seen with great surprise and regret a statement that her Majesty's Government did. not. intend to take advantage of the inventions and discoveries which art and science had lately brought to bear in this country, and were not going to send out every branch of the expedition to the seat of war by the aid of steam navigation. He had been informed that the horses were to be sent out in sailing vessels. Their lordships were aware that during the Peninsular war it west often a month before horses reached their destination ; and as the seat of the war, which was apparently about to take place, was about three times the distance of Spain, there was reason to fear that the voyage would, under unfavourable circumstances, occupy three months. k He knew it was said that it was impossible to find a sufficient number of steam-vessels to convey so many horses, but he thought this objection was not well founded. He had not the slightest doubt that a sufficient number of steam-vessels could be found ; and he was confident that neither the House of Commons nor the country would grudge the expense. He wished to ask the Government whether they did not intend to take advantage of the steam navigation of this country to send every branch of the proposed expedition to the seat of war in steam-vessels, instead of incurring the risk of danger and delay, which was incidental to sailing ships. The Duke of NEWCASTLE said the question which the noble earl had put was a very important one, and he could assure him that the subject to - which it had reference was one which had occupied the attention of the Government. He quite agreed with the noble earl that the country would not grudge any additional ex pense which might be involved in the transport of horses in steam-vessels. It was not from the expense, but from the flourishing condition of the steam navigation of the country, that the difficulty arose ; and though he could not assert that it was absolutely imposible to obtain the requisite number of steam-vessels, yet he believed it would be impracticable without entirely deranging the . postal arratigements of the country, which her Majesty's Government desired not to interfere with, unless a great emergency should arise. (Hear, hear.) When it was first determined to send an expedition to the Mediter ranean, among those with whom he put himself in con tact there were persons who assured him that he would find it absolutely impossible to transport so large a force as 12,000 men in steam-vessels, unless the ar rangements of the different companies were entirely deranged. That representation hail not proved cor rect. It was due to the companies that he should state that the difficulty, such as it was, had been overcome by the patriotic readiness which they bad all manifested to assist the Government. ((,heers.) H. knew that by the arrangements which had been made they had already been put to serious inconvenience, and he be lieved the' payment which they were to receive would by no means indemnify them. Inquiries had been made as to the practicability of obtaining a sufficient number of transports for the horses already ordered, namely, 1,500, without taking into account the additional num ber which in all probability would have to go out befell) low , ; and he was assured that it was totally imprac ticable. 'When the noble earl recollected that, besides the immense amount of space that was required by horses, a large proportion of the vessel was taken up by steam machinery, and that, besides the horses, it was necessary to carry a large amount of provender, and a large quantity of water, which was very bulky, he must see that the number of steam-vessels required would be very large indeed. He was afraid, therefore, that the suggestions of the noble earl could not be carried out ; but he thought the difficulty would be ob viated to a considerable extent • if a certain number of of steam-vessels were provided to take sailing vessels in tow in the event of the winds being adverse. (Hear, hear.) The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH said the difficulty of sending horses in steam-vessels was very great. He be lieved every horse would require ten toes, and if that were the fact 1,500 horses would of course require 15,000 tons. As regarded postal arrangements, he must say that however important they might be, the efficiency of the army was still more so. If there was not a suffi cient. number of cavalry, the expeditionary force must be chained to the shore—it would be quite incapable of acting in the interior. In considering this question, it must he recollected that steam vessels could make two or three trips while sailing vessels made one, and that a steam tonnage of 5,000 would serve the purpose, as . *ell as 15,000 tons in sailing vessels. He feared _it was not sufficiently considered that the task undertaken by her Majesty's Government and the government of France was one of enormous and unparalleled magnitude, and one which it was scarcely possible for any exertions on the part of the Government to effect. It was quite lm possible that the French Government should design to send less than 6,000 cavalry, besides which there must`he 3,000 artillerymen and 1,000 officers soeftdhetostaoffo. nsTtahnetrie. would be required 10 0 , 000 tons to n uople the horses necessary for e forces ; and they obtain n t to go ea n t s o o a f eo t ra u n n t s r p y o r w t h o e r r e itto r replace e h el thee h e e i m il orses possible w h e t n o withor h he o theysl ou lsdhonuoltdrebset wornsatisfied out could rift get the requisite steamnnaged le heshould hi mse lf - try to get it, because he believed efficiency of the force in a great degree depended upon it. . Lord DE ROS believed that, if sailing vessels were pro perly ventilated, horses might be conveyed in them , without sustaining any injury. THE TENANT-RIGHT BILLS. Lord BROUGHAM would suggest to the noble duke opposite that it was itupossible to proceed with the im portant hills respecting the law of landlord and tenant, which were on the paper that evening, as they had not yet been even delivered. He would recommend their postponement for the present. The Earl of WICKLOW said the bills were before Parliament ten months during the last session, and the reason why they did not pass was, that they came up from the other house at so late ayeriod. The AlLneitiisTf-CLANRICAII:DE deprecated haste in the progress of such measures; and joined in the re commendation of postponement. The Duke of NEWCASTLE was ready to accede to any demand for reasonable delay, but as they were now approaching the end of the first month of the session, it was desirable that, if the bills were to be referred to a committee up stairs, the second reading should not be delayed unnecessarily. It was the almost unanimous desire of their lordships in August last that the bills should be re-introduced as early as possible in the present session, and they now came before the house ipsusinti 4 verbis. Perhaps the best course would be to postpone them till neat week. The Earl of DONOLGIIIIORE and the Earl of MALMEI:I - concurred in this arrangement. Lord C.A.MPBELL thouelit it 1110 Et desirable that these bills should be carefully considered. He would intreat their lordships on both sides of the house most deliberately to consider where the line was to be drawn • between legislation mid contract. Let all be done that was practicable to improve the law of landlord and ten ant, and there were no doubt several particulars in which it might be greatly improved, but when they went beyond that, and tried legislation upon that which ought to be governed e ntirely by agreement between landlord and tenant, lie believed they would do mischief, and instead of benefiting tenants, very much deteriorate their condition. WE ST INDIA ISLAND& : . The Earl of DESA RT wished to put a queetion to the •:- . . noble duke (the Duke of Newcastle) of which he had given him notice. Their lordships were probably aware that the sreallerWest India Islands had been garrisoned by detachments from Jamaica and Barbado es, and that .the withdrawal of these detachments Ind lea, to A • ppr© from they ls on fen. 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