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in a large Jy situate ttachE d to This L5O to 200 )e off or at ;ion would nnfortablo the Bos fit of this at Malta, rred from change of those in ive service pleasure, He takes its evening horns, and Paris yes ct that the Ichor early had taken lebastopol. AL LIED LA. at this time tagnitude to tiler man in: slow him in. tilitary com.- ie undergoes ;cupied, 1:1,0t works, and -my, but in Ld in visiting ;ly to subor aly military ;ter-gene/IJ, ht, the cor e despatches aprive him m to the re 3. So over t serious de and he wno T. Notwit h profession Al pr to peaca l )attle fields . ie had wi tin very anxio u:3 6 close, ancl lilt of it, ti ye partici' the mean ' th the eh* his inqub appreciai to nil style .0 1 the worlsit ; ry his grit ayed ix ell' n the saw e firms us i 0 Lst the Rui along 0 le e a portion of ie garrisol 3 0 r places vri q ian; shad la old out fi e latter e time th 3t tion of tl 1 0 uite equ 31 hough t: he artiller operatic" Is 3xperiee,coy nd fortafl -- 3 of defence} Paella were' he Govern-- ;y the arm' untry lost ; y, that the to recover , however, cation, and to act for TARI. kpril 20. . A of Con-' ‘c *L. " . with the criminal law in the most confused manner, lar and 11 , 1 could tto it. The delTils .f thP bile not only imperfect, but aiisolutely impracticable, and IL would do more injury than good if it were passed. The whole subject of the right of woman, and the law of divorce, was now under the consideration of a commis sion, and the time was approaching when the legisla- shr. ture would be called upon t o deal with it in a large and comprehensive spirit. Mr. M. CHAMBERS thought cases might arise or th whe ere a husband would be ent itled to compensation f loss of his wife, for instance he might have had a family by her, and it was only right that he should receive something for the loss of his wife's jointure. He, therefore, agreed with the proposal for uniting the fine to the Crown, with compensation to the injured husband. He also approved of the provision for giving the wife power to appear on the trial as it often happened that she was sacrificed by an arrangement between the husband and the accused party. Mr. BOWYER replied, after which the house divided when there appeared, For the second reading ............... Against it ........................... Majority ........................... The bill was consequently thrown out. DECLARATIONS BILL. Mr. A. PELLATT moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to allow parties who en tertained conscientious objections to taking an oath to substitute a solemn declaration. The ATTORNEY GENERAL opposed the bill, de claring that the oath should only be dispensed with at the discretion of the court, and not as this bill proposed upon the mere statement of the party clainiing the ex emption. Mr. HADFIELD supported the bill, but Mr. DRUM- MoND opposed it. The house then divid ed, when there appeared — For the second read in g 37 Against it lB6 —99 Majority The bill was consequently thrown out. CARLISLE CANONRIES BILL. Mr. FERGUSON moved the second reading of this bill, the object of which was to suppress one of the four Carlisle canonries, and apply the revenues to the aug mentation of the four incumbencies of the town. Mr. GOULBURN opposed the bill, and moved that it be read a second time this day six months. Mr. J. G. PHILLIMORE highly approved of the motive which had induced the hon. member to bring forward this bill, but at the same time in the existing state of the law, and considering that the whole subject was now being investigated by a commission, he could not support the second reading. Mr. T. CHAMBERS supported the bill, as one founded on justice. The Marquis of BLANDFORD admitted the evil to which the bill referred, but could not concur in the re medy to be applied to it. The incumbencies of Carlisle was miserably endowed, but there were ample means in the Church for augmenting their incomes without going to the extreme measure of this bill, which was to sus pend the next cannonry that fell vacant. Mr. COWPER said the subject of this bill was now under the consideration of the Capitular Estates Com missioners, and it would, therefore, be unwise to ' 4O - Sia" th rb 5 %1 '7.04.*43.V4,-‘t4,o4‘4+ si ;,.p oo on Th.: A.. , ,icttio side of the Bosphorus, has been fixed upon as the litad-onarceis of the English expeditionary army. A large body of the troops have already arrived, but nevertheless it has been determined that a considerable number shall remain at Gallipoli. The regiments which have been left at Gallipoli are the 28th and the 50th regiments of the line, the 60 th Ri fles, the 93d High landers, and two companies of Eng ineers. These troops will remain in the straits of the Dar danelles, along with the bulk of the French army. Atter having visited the camps at Gallipoli and Boulahir, I was anxious to see the first establish ment of the English troops on the Asiatic coast. I trust acknowledge that the sight has taken me with surprise and admiration. No power in Europe pos sesses an establishment of this kind in so vast a scale, or , I w ill venture to say, better calculated for the p rese rvation of the health and comfort of the troops. These immense barracks were built by an Italian architect, a bout seven years ago. The y form a nearly regular triangle ; and at the four a r nica th e r e are very lofty tower s, built in the , u nental style, which give the w hole structure an Bobby Imposing appearance. Th e rooms are of moderate Chorus a!ze, and each will accommodate from sixty to eighty men. They are well aired, and all commu nicate with corridors which are nearly twenty feet Wide. The communications with the outer world are by large and commodious staircases, which like the rest of the building, are always kept neat and c lean. Near each room there are small stovesmade of . iron, for the purpose of enab lin g the En g lish sol diers to prepare their coffee and tea. The great kitchens are in the interior of the court. They have recently been cased with marble and granite slabs, which give them the appearance of the kitchens 9f some powerful monarch rather than those A intended for the supply of troop s. I will venture to say that the most aristocratic club in London cannot show anything half so magnificent. While 4 was visiting this establishment the 88th regiment of the line arrived, and took possession of the prin cipal floor of one of the pavilions. The place sup- Plies the regiment with ample accommodation, of the best kind, and without the slig htest crowdin g . This, enormous barrack can easily co ntain 12,000 European troops. At the present moment it is 2ccupied by the 33 d, 44 th , 47th, 49th, and ?7th regiments of English infantry of the line, and by a battalion of Turkish infantry. No one here can know the plans which the allied generals will lay down for their approaching cam paign, and it is probable that none will be defini tively settled till the arrival of Lord Raglan ; but the opinion among the Turks is, that it would be easier for them to supply a European army of 10 0,000 men with provisions, if that army were established under the protection of the guns of Varna, or in the entrenched camps of Dewna, Prawadi, and Shumla, than to furnish p rovisions for an army of not more than half that strength, anceuvring on Adrianople and the eastern side of the Balkans. It is known that ono of the great objects the Russians had in taking possession of the 11 )obrudscha was to enable them to p rocure pro visions, and by occupying the different branches of the Danube, to supply their armies, notwith standing the presence of our fleets. A few days ago they succeeded in getting a great number of trans ports, laden with all sorts of provisions and ammunition, conveyed from Odessa and into the Danube by the Kilia and Sulina mouths. This was 'lone without our fleets knowing anything about the matter. The transports were towed by steam ers, and the passage from Odessa to the mouths of the Danube was accomplished in one night. This process can be repeated, and no doubt will be- The fleets are at present somewhere in the neigh bourhood of Odessa, and we are here lookin g out With the utmost interest for the result of their visit to that important place. The belief is that the place will be bombarded, and the shipping de stroyed ; and certainly this is what ought to be done ; for although the wanton destruction of pro perty without any object but that of injuring the enemy is not to be approved of, this is not the case at Odessa. It is from Odessa that the Russian troop s will obtain their surest supplies, and the only way of cutting them off effectually is by de stroying the magazines, as well as the shipping, great and small. Lord Raglan, the commander-in chief of the English army is expected to arrive here this day. The French commander-in-chief, Marshal de St. Arnaud will arrive, it is said, before the end of the month. The Duke of Cambridge and Prince Napoleon are also expected without delay. The Sultan has ordered superb residences to be prepared for the Duke of Cambridge and Prince Napoleon. General Bosquet , who has gone to Shumla and Varna, has not yet returned. General D'Allonville, the commander of the cavalry of the French auxiliary army, left here to-day for Gallipoli. He had the honour of being received by the Sultan and tho Ministers, who gave him assurances that the French army would find a considerable number of horses at Smyrna and on the coast of Asia, fit for the French cavalry. It is thought that as soon as the generals in chief of the allied armies shall have arrived, active operations will commense on an extensive scale, with, it is hoped, the important results looked forward to with so much impatience both in England and France. SUN OFFICE, Seven, o'Clock. NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOUS. D.M. Pelham Margaretta HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES Durindana 50 SOV. SWEEPSTAKES. A.F. Epaminondas Spinaway Four ran. 501. SELLING PLATE. . 49 . 121 -72 Eight ran. HANDICAP PLATE. Poodle Nervous Garforth MATCH. Economy IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT• HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : Horsmonden and Marden Roads, South Shields Roads, National Assurance and In vestment Association, New , and Carlisle Railway, and South ptaf fordshire Railway Bills. PETITIONS. Several petitions were presented from Scotland for and against the Lord Advocate's Education Bill. Mr. FREWIN presented petitions from Sussex and other places against dog carts. A large number of petitions were presented against the opening of public houses on Sundays. Mr. PHINN, Mr. HEYWOOD, and other hon. members presented petitions in favour of the admission of Dis senters to the Universities. Mr. PIGOTT presented a petition from the grand jury of Reading Quarter Sessions, and another from the magistrates of the same borough in favour of the estab lishment of reformatory schools. PUNISHMENT OF DEATH. Mr. EWART gave notice that on the 30th instant he should move the abolition of the punishment of death. MORTM AIN BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, Mr. BOWYER said the principle of the bill was sound, and he had no doubt that when they were amended in committee the provisions would be satisfac tory to the Roman Catholics, who did not wish to be dealt with in matters of legislation upon any ex ceptional or exclusive principle. (Hear, hear.) He suggested that the bill should be referred to a select committee, not with the view of obstructing its progress, but for the purpose of placing it in such a shape as should make it do justice to all the great charity interests of the country. The leading principle involved in the bill was simply that families should not be disinherited for the sake of founding charities ; but it required much caution in framing provisions to carry out that principle, and that caution could only be secured In a select committee. Mr. WHITESIDE complimented the hon. and learned member for Newcastle, upon the skill and ability with which he had framed this bill, and expressed a hope that its principle would be extended to Ireland, where provi sions could be enforced by the Charitable Trusts Board. Mr. COLLIER reminded the house that the subject of this bill had already been investigated by two select committees, and since the bill was the result of their labours, he trusted the suggestion of Mr. Bowyer would not be adopted, as it must inevitably have the effect of defeating legislation this session. Mr. HUME concurred with Mr. Whiteside in think ing that this bill should be extended to Ireland, while 'he hoped that it would be made to embrace Scotland also. Mr. EITZGERALD remarked that the charitable system of Ireland was well established and worked well, and since the extension of the bill to Ireland, would have the effect of destroying that system that it would be un wise to allow Mr. Whiteside's views to prevail. Mr. HADFIELD was opposed to the principle of endowment, believing that they were the source of great corruption. If a man left money for charitable pur poses, he should for his own sake require it to be spent speedily, and not hoarded up to foster and encourage abuse. Mr. HEADLAM, who had charge of the bill, did not think it would be prudent either to refer the bill to a select committee or to extend its provisions to Ireland. Ireland should be reserved for a second bill. The bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed this day week. COUNTY COURT EXTENSION ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This bill was passed through committee. CRIMINAL CONVERSATION BILL. Mr. BOWYER moved the second reading of this bill, which he observed was dividedinto two parts. In the first place, it abolished the right of a husband to recover damages, and made criminal conversation a finable offence, while in the second place it gave the fallen wife the right of being heard and represented by counsel on the trial of the party accused of debauching her. If the house felt so disposed, he should be ready in com mittee to alter the provisions of the bill, and to make criminal conversation an in dictable offence, punishable by fine and imprisonment, or with imprisonment only, but be confessed he preferred the bill as it now stood, and therefore he had moved its second reading, leaving that question, as well as the right of the husbaled to compensation for any circumstantial damage ho may have suffered from the loss of his wife, to be dealt with i n committee. He might be blamed for not having en grafted the question of divorce upon this bill, but he thought that was a subject sufficiently extensive to be dealt with by a separate measure, and that was his rea son for omitting it. Mr. COLLIER said it appeared to him that after carefully considering the provisions of this bill, it was not desirable to proceed with it further, and he should therefore move that it be read a second time that day six months. It occurred to him that, instead of pre venting the offence of adultery, it would rather encou rage it, for it so mixed up the civil with the criminal law that a husband would be deterred from bringing his action for criminal conviction, because he could get no benefit from it. Either they must leave the law as it stands, or they must make adultery a punishable mis demeanour ; but if they agreed to adopt the latter course, then the woman as well as the ma n should ' be liable to punishment, while the parties should be left for prosecution in the same manner as any in dictable offender. The bill was full of anomalies ; it declared that the wife should be heard without declaring how, and provided that in some cases the defendant should be entitled to costs, reminding him of the well known incident, where Mr. Erskine made such an im pression on the jury in defending a case of trim. con. that they gave the defendant 5001. damages. This latter principle was unknown to the English law, but his great objection to the bill was that it proposed to make adultery an indictable offence, by a sort of side wind, and as he thought that defect could not be remedied in dom mittee, he had no alternative but to move the amend ment which he had already mentioned. Mr. CRAUFURD admitted that the bill was base at d u pon principles unknow n to jurisprudence, but 'th was no reason why it should not be adopted if it met the wants of society. Most of the cases of bigamy brought before the Courts were attributable to our de fective law o f divorce, and regretted that this bill did not go the length of declaring that when a case of crim. con. was made out, the judge should have power there and then to pronounce a divorce. Mr. WHITESIDE should prefer making adultery an indictable offence, to adopting the principle contained in the bill, which viewed it neither as a civil nor a criminal light. Mr. D. SEYMOUR supported the bill, and argued that it was a monstrous thing that a man should be allowed to traffic in the shame and ignominy of his wife. It would be much better to allow the offender to be punished by fine at the discretion of the Court, than to permit the enormity of the offence to be estimated by a jury who were liable to be acted upon by the eloquence of counsel, and that was why he supported the bill. M. PHINN totally and entirely dissented to this bill, though at the same time he was equally opposed to the existing system. He objected most strongly to the mixture of civil and criminal procedure of this bill as it would be found most inoperative. For instance, suppose this case, a woman had a settlement for her own separate use of 1,0001. a-year, and she went away with a paramour, now would not that 1,0001. a-year be devoted to paying the fine of the offender. Again, suppose the offender could not pay the fine what was to be done with him, was he to remain in prison for ever, as this bill seemed to suggest, if so it would be most unjust. The fact was this bill was greatly defective, and though he admitted the evil of the present system he could not consent to remedy them piece M meal. r. FITZGERALD readily allowed that the bill was imperfect in its provisions ; but it affirmed the principle that it was wrong to allow a man to traffic in the shame of his wife, and he should support the second reading w ith the view of seeing whether in committee they couldb not get rid of that anomalous state of things. At the same time, however, he would much rather make critn. con. an offence punishable rather by imprisonment than by fine. Y-GENERAL admitted the law of Th e ATTORNE divorce and crim. con. required great reform, and that women were entitled to greater redress in such matters than the existing law afforded them ; but he objected to any bit by bit legislation on the subject. He insisted that before they deprived the husband of his right to pecuniary compensation for the l o o d ss of obtaining a di of his wife they vorce must g ive him a cheap and simple me which this bill did not do, but it mixed the oiTil law up pass it. Mr. HOWARD supported the bill. The house then divided, when there appeared, For the second reading Against it B7-8 The bill was accordingly thrown out. CONVENTUAL AND MONASTIC INSTI TUTIONS. The adjourned debate on the nomination of this com mittee was resumed by Mr. DIGBY SEYMOUR, who proposed to post pone the further nomination of the committee on con ventual and monastic institutions, until leave is ob tained to bring in a bill to amend the act 56 Geo. 3, c.lOO, for more effectually securing the liberty of the subject. The hon. and learned gentleman argued that if this law was amended so as to enable strangers to obtain an habeas corpus where persons were supposed to be detained in these institutions, there would be no necessity for this committee With an amendment in the law to that effect, the com mon law would be quite sufficient and quite strong enough to relieve persons who were unjustly or improperly confined in monastic or conventual institutions. For his part he did not think any men dment of caws was necessary, as strang ers could apply in suchs, but at all events there was no necessity for any special legislation, a mere extension of the Habeas Act, in the shape of a declaratory measure, would be amply suffi cient, and therefore he was induced to move this amend ment. Mr. HORSMAN s aid the angry m anner in which both sides were debating this question was derogatory to the character of the house, and therefore suggested that the original motion should be abandoned. Mr. NEWDEGATE rose to object to this, but iit being a quarter to six, the debate was again adjourned. The other orders were then disposed of and the house adjourned shortly before six o'clock. STATE OF TRADE. THE GREEK INSURRECTION. ATHENS, April 26.—The Greek insurgents have been defeated between Janina and Prevesa, with the loss of 100 killed, 120 prisoners, 4 guns, and 60 barrels of powder. Grivas has been defeated at Metzovo, and has fled to Thessaly with 16 men. Disunion prevails among the commanders, and despondency in filo revolutionary committees. DALMATIA, April 26.—The Pasha of Mostar, in the Herzegovina, has raised the Landsturm against the Montenegrins. RATIFICATION OF THE ATJSTRO-PRIJS SIAN TREATY. According to a telegraphic despatch, the ratifi cations of the Austrian -Prussian treaty were exchanged at Berlin yesterday (Tuesday). It will be fully communicated to the Western Powers. General Hess goes on a special mission to Frank fort, to negotiate the adhesion of the Germanic C - ‘onfederation. SWEDEN AND NORWAY. Th 4 Norway papers state that subscription lists are circulating at Norrland and Westbotten, in Sweden, for-the formation of a volunteer corps to defend the frontier against Russia, in case of war. Other accounts from private sources state that Sweden and Norway are making warlike prepara tions. Sixty waggons of ammunition for artillery and infantry have been sent to Gothland, through liarlskrona from Christiansand. The Diet, it is. true, has presented an address of thanks, on account of the declaration of neutrality, but the old Swedish warlike spirit peeps here and there forth, and the people make no secret of their feelings on the subject. They Want Finland back, and not to have their trade in terfered with, as it may chance to suit the caprice of Russia. The Czar is not blind to the danger that threatens him from Scandinavia, and is send ing Russian and Polish masses of troopsto Finland, while at the same time he , has withdrawn the militia of the country and its riflemen into the heart of llussia. The Russian troops now in Finland are estimated at 50,000 men. The quarantine laws are suspended at the different ports likely to be touched at by the fleets. The harbour dues levied on foreign ships are also abolished, in so far as men of war are concerned. FRANCE. A letter gives the following details of the Roland which, owing to the boisterous weather, was obliged to put in at Zante "The crew were for 36 hours in the water. Prince Napoleon sustained better than any one the fatigues of the sea. lie landed incognito, and dined with the French Consul, M. de Chambrun, and after dinner visited the port. Notwithstanding his incognito, he was saluted with 21 guns. The Roland was to leave at midnight if the wind calmed down. " All the Greek isles are said to be in a state of the greatest excitement and agitation. Volunteers leave the island even before the eyes of the English garrison at Zante, which only consists of 600 men, and what cannot be prevented must be endured. The head-quarters of in surrec ti on is at Patras. The fortress of Arta holds out, but the town is in the power of the insurgents. Two steamers are on the coast of Greece. The Christophe Colomb stea m -frigate corvette met, on 24th ult., off Cape St. Angelo, the steam- Roland, with Prince Napoleon on board. His Imperial Highness was in excellent health. The Patrie has received accounts from the Danu bian provinces, stating that the Russian army in the Dobrudscha bad suspended its march, in con sequence of orders from Marshal Paskewitsch. Large bodies of troops continue to march in the direction of Toulon for embarkation for the Levant. Lieut.-Colonel Pajol, chief of the staff of the first division of infantry of the army of Paris, has been appointed thief of the staff of the division of cavalry of the army of the East. Colonel Merle de Labrugiere de Laveaucoupet, secretary of the com mittee of cavalry, has been appointed his successor as chief of the staff of the first division of infantry of the army of Paris, but he is to retain his secre taryship. Prices were very steady to-day on the Bourse. The Three per Cents. closed at 64f. 40c. for the end of the month ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 911. 10c. ; and the New Loan at 65f. 20c. LONDON AND SOUTH-BA.BTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic r e. t2 ll ll for the week ending April 29, 1854 £15,414 2 7 Corresponding week lest year 12,395 10 4 boron ialB64milis..., ................ 53,018 12 3 THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY 'EVENING, MAY 3, 1854. SHARE MARKETS. (I.IIIS DAY.) J,lif, iiaLLLWAid , BRITISH RAILWAYS. 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LO2 -104 51 - 52 25 - 26 12 - 13 21 -23 2i - 2i = 54 - 56 ad xd .•. --- • i;(1 28 - 29 90 - 92 lfi - lfi I P d 10 t = 1 4 5 14 2 29 —3l —4d' 39 41 10 12 50 60xd 2 4U li - 2} I - 1 1 - I.i 10 - 11 •• - •• 6 - i 5i - 6 i - 1 i - i 15 - 17 i lix i n 29 31 8 10 3 4 a 13 2 4 I I(1 PI i BANKS. 72 - 74 . - ••• id 1i 1 d 5 4 dl 3 - 2 d' 30i 42 W. 44 36 - 38 67 - 69 6i - 7i I Paid.' RAILWAYS. 19 14 50 20 50 40 25 25 20 20 10 10 ( From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MANCHESTER, May 2.—We learn from the American advices that the increasing receipts of cotton at the in terior entrepots and at the shipping ports (at the latter the deficiency being reduced to 573,402 bales), combined with the state of things on this side the Atlantic, was causing a further declirre in prices. The steamer left New York on the 19th ult., and on that day the price of middling cotton was telegraphed as low as 74 cents per lb. from New Orleans on the previous day (the 18th). This marks a great reduction since thecounts com mencement of the downward tendency. These ac have rendered the Lives pool market dull, and given buyers a small advantage, chiefly in the prices of leafy cotton and of middling and lower qualities. Our own market has felt the influence of these circumstances, and of the now very decided interruption of the trade carried on by the Greek houses, as well as of that dimi nished ease in the money market which has been latterly experienced. Buyers have shown increased caution, and - the business of the day has been inconsiderable both in yarns and goods at lirge ; while buyers find a slight ad vantage in prices, at least among such producers as are 1( less favoifrably situated than others in regard to orders. On the whole, the bias of prices is somewhat against 20 2C spinners and manufacture rs, and small actual concessions are made in some articles, more perhaps in yarns than in goods. In 6 4 and 66- ree d cloths, there is rather more io purchasing by the printers, for the American houses. rb Domestics and T cloths, whic h are ver y cheap, continue 20' firm ; and India and China goods, being well bought up, 20 particularly the latter, remain steady in value. 20 The decline of the support fund to a very small amount 20 last week, is causing a greatly accelerated return of the 5 operatives to work, on the masters' terms, at Preston ; 20 and at Stockport a large p ro p ortion of the weavers (one- 2° 5 half at least) have yield ed to the reduction, and the other 10 c lasses of bands are doing the same, with the exception 100 20 of the mule spinners and th e self-actor minders. 20. HALIFAX, April 29.—N0 department of the worsted trade has undergone any alteration for the better. There is scarcely any inquiry for pieces, and our piece hall presents a very dull appearance. The demand for 100' yarns continues much below the power of production, 20 5 and the spinners ere prop ortionatel y contracting their operations. The wool market is quiet, at late rates. ROCHDALE, May I.—There is not the least improve ment in the flannel market to report to-day. The mer chants show no desire to purchase at the present time at any price. In wool there is little or nothing doing, the • manufactureas keep out of the market, and prefer work ing up the stocks they may have on hand to purchasing at present. HUDDERSFIELD, May 2.—Rather more business has been transacted in the market to-day in seasonable goods for the home markets, and a few parcels of new patterns have been looked out by some of the dirport houses. Business during the past week has been very dull with both woollen merchants and wool staplers. .00 Aberdeen . 81 Ambg. Nottng. Bost and Bastn. Junct all Belfast & Ballymena all Birming. Wolverh. & Stour Valley 28 Birkenhd. Lanesh. & Cheshire Junct all Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. 184 Do., £2O. 30 Blyth &Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45) 100 Bristol and Exeter... 100 Caledonian all Chester & Holyhead. all Cork and Bandon... all Cork, Black, & Pass 12 Cornwall i Crieff Junction 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc all Dundee Perth&Aber dean Junction all Do. New ...... ... all East Anglian.... all Do., (£lB E & H)..... all Eastern Counties . all Eastern Union, .A' Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 8 Do., New A 100 East Lancashire 100 Edinburgh & Glasgow 66 Edinb. and Peebles 100 Edin.Prtb &Dundee 1 Forth & Clyde June. 100 Gl a sgow &S. Western 100 Great Northern Stk. 100 Do., A. Stock \ 100 Do., B. Stock ... . 100 Gt. Sth. &West.(lro ) 100 Great Western 12 Irish South - Easter n all Lancaster & Carlisle 11! Do., Thirds 2 Do. New Thirds .... 100 Lancash.andYorksh. 186 Do., Fifths 11. i Do., Wet. Riding Un. all Leeds Northern all Liv.Crsby.&Soutlipt all London & Blackwall Si Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. 100 Loud. Bright & S.Cst. 100 Loud, and N. Westn. 12 Do. Fifths 1 Do.lo/.Sh.,M&B 0 2. Do. Eighths 100 London and S. Westn 4.21 Do., £5O 34 Do., £4O a ll pLnndrry& Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Aanch.Shef.& Lincln 4A Do., Man. & Lin. Un 100 Midland 100 00. Birmng. &Derby 47 Aidld. G. West. (Ire.) 176 Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & Carlisle. 100 Newmarket 63 Do., Bury Extension 174 Nwpt.Aberg. &Hrfd 71 Newry & Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor. 100 Norfolk 3i Northn.Counties Un. 100 North British . . ..... . . 16 North Devon, No. 1. all Do., No. 2 . . ..... .. Do., A Deferred . . 8 D 6 0., A B Guaranteed all North London ........ 1 6i Do. New £lO it li, N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp stead, and City Jn 17 North Staffordshire all North Western 10 .& S. Westrn. Juno. 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester 100 Oxford, Worcester,& Wolverhampton 2/ 2s Portsmouth too Scottish Central 100 Scottish Midland 100 Shrewsbury &Blinn. 100 Do. L. &N. Western Guaranteed St ask 10 Shrewsby. & Heeefd 1 a ll Shrewsby. & Chester (N. W. Min , 1 all Do. Halveso. a all Do. Oswestry ' 64 Shropshire Union . ... - Do. A, B, C,&D,fulfy paid up at per cent i a ll South Devon 100 South Eastern a ll South Wales 15 S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun 5 Do.. 21 2s St a ines,Wok. &Wok all Stockton & Darling. lei "tockton & Hartlepl 100 Taff Vale 8 De. £lO shares. LOO 10. Pref., No. 1 21 Thames Haven Dock and Railway... 17 Vale of Neath all Waterfd. ,SD Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick 16 West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace all West London. 51s. Wimbledn & Croydon 100 York Newctl.&l3erw. 20 Do. Extensions 13. Do. G.N.E. Purchase 1100 York ST, N. Midland FOREIGN. 3 A.Boult37l.tn June. 9Rotte rd n am e. 8 Beziers to Graissessac 2s. Bombay, Baroda, an Central ludia,Scrip ... Central of Italy all Charleroi & Erqueliu all Demerara 14 Dijon and Besancon 8 Dutch Rhenish all East Indian 2 Do. Exteasion all Gt. Indian Peninsula 10 Gd. Janet. of France 10 Grd. Trunk of Canada 30 Do. Debentures all Do. do 10 Gt. Central of France all Gt. Western of Canada Shares \ ... Do. Bands ( Ist is.)'s7 151 Hamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 5 Lake Coust. & Basle all 'Lucca & Pistoja 5 p.c. pref ~ 15 Luxembourg 10 Do. (Railway) 2 Do. Pref 3 Do. (Canal) 5 Do. 6p. et. pref S Lyons and Geneva 12 Lyons & Mediterran 10 Madras 33 Maria Antonia all Do. do. Now 2 Melbourne Dk. & Ry. all Namur & Liege (with interest) all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds all (fmy.B.&Ams.Slis all NorwegianTrunkPre 10 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bonds .. all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen all Paris and Strasbou 10 ParisCaen&Cherbrg 10i Quebec & Richmond all Rouen and Havre 12 Royal Danish 2 Royal Swedish all Sambre and Meuse 6 Do. 54 p. cent. Pref 6 Southern of France 8 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) all West Flanders I all Do 54 per c. ?ref I 10 Western of France ) 7 West. of Switzerland ) 2 Wiesbaden • ) 15 Zealand 10 20 20 20 4i —Rd an 6 - 5 4d Id ill' .• • - i t - 24 !cl tP .. —...d g ._-. 6d i i : 3 i -d 21 22 9 llp lap 8 —lop ~ - • • • .. dis 4i 3 5 24 1 -- li ii iial i ::-. id • •-••• • ~. ....." • 6 - 7 iii 1= ..9 - ti -: 9 . Z.n ni - 12 b, a 13 29 32 - 31 - 291 - • pm ... - ..i --:- i - it - 81 ••• ..'.. ... - pm 4 d "ii —2ipad d 3 - • • • .. 6 5d ." 1 EISCELLANBOUS all Aubin Coal and Iron 17i Australian Agricult. 14 Australsn.Pcific.Mail 8 A.ustraln. Royal Mail 4 Berlin Water Works 40 Brit. American Land 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co 32 Canada 5 Crystal Palace 4 Do. New... ....... 2 Crystal Pal. of France 3 Eastern Steam 20 Electrit Teleg,ra,ph(A) all Do. (B) 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir. 14 Gen. Steam Navigat. 18 General Serow Steatel 71, Irish Beet•oot Sugar 10 Magdalena St. Navig. all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 3 Netherlands Land.... 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter. Steam Navigat. Co. all N. B. Australasian... Do. New .............. 10 Nrth.ofEuropeSteam all Peel Rr. Ld. & ► all Peninsular & Oriental ) 35 Do. Do. all Portland Iron Co ) 60 Royal Mail Steam ... L all Scot. Austral. Invest. I 5 25 South Austral. Land 1 all Submar. Telegraph.. 1 all Do. Registered 0 28,1 Van Diemen's Land 37 - 38 137 ... - ... 15 • •• - 11! - ... 75 - 80 6§ - si 1 • .. ••• ,• .-.. ... ••• - ••• 16 - 18 .• ....... ••• 1 - 3 i 7 I i— I a •• • • ••• - ..• i - iP 2* - 34 - 31 _ A ; INDIA AND CHINA MAILS - - - SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING.—The Colombo has just arrived with the heavy portion of the India and China mails, and has made the quickest passage ever known. She left Alexandria April 19th, Malta 23d, Gibraltar 28th. At Gibraltar the Echinga arrived on the 27th with a troop of the Bth Hussars on board. The Sovereign steam transport, arrived on the 26th at 1 Gibraltar with commissariat officers and stores for Gallipoli. rrhe Trent and Golden Fleece transport steamers passed by Gibraltar, going to the westward, on the 28th. April 24, off the island of Pantalaria, 145 miles from Malta, the Colombo passed two English tran sports, No 6 and 11, in company with a large fleet of 100 sail, including many French transports. Ou May 1, she passed No. 45 transport barque. She a lso passed a French corvette with upwards of 20 French transports under convoy. April 30, off Cape Finisterre, she exchanged co : lours O with a large French frigate standing to the 1 south. n the 30th she also passed the Himalaya. TIYDE-PARK IMPROVEMENTS.—The large plot of glade on which the Great Exhibition building stood, and ex tending from that point to Kensington, is no longer available for equestrian exercise, as was formerly the case ; it has been entirely enclosed. In order to com pensate the riders in the fashionable ride known as Rotten-row, for the loss of this portion of the park, and to make more room for the numbers which frequent this spot at this season of the year, the ride has been widened and solar„ to a very considerable extent, the entire distance from Albert gate to Kensington. To effect this a portion of the enclosure has ic been bad to the in t ride, including several fine trees, whheing now he centre of the ride, present a very pleasing appearance, and add to th e rural character of the place. A noble ride is thus formed for equestrians of nearly two miles in length, in a straight line from Hyde Park-corner to Kensington-gate. There are other improvements in this favorite park, which show care and attention on the . part of the authorities ; one of which is inside the Mar ble-arch, where a large plot of uneven and barren ' ground, caused by the alterations in that locality, has been enclosed, and now presents a green and pleasing appearance. GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAlLWAY.—Traffic re. turn for the week ending April 29, 1854 £5,208 8 1 fjorresponding week last year 4,577 4 10 Inorame la 1834 ........................... A3l 3 3 25 20 10 10 .1 ~ 2 3 91 53 14! 10 T.,,nsirt7 COinpaus. London & N. West. L.&N.W. Caledon... all Bedford and Bletchley.... 100 Bnckghamsh. all ClydesdaleJe. 100 E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. all Glos. Barr. & Neils. Direct all Do. New...... all Glstr.& Dn. Fr all HrtlpL Dk. & Railway ..... all Hull & Selby all Do. Shares. all Do. Shares. all Lon.&Greenw all Do. Preference 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. LOO Do. 6 per ct. all Manch. Bxtn and Matlock all Middlesbro' & Redcar all Midld.Bradfd all Northern and Easternsp.c. -Q. Do. 6 per ct. all Do. Fixeds p e all Prest. & Wyre IGt.Nrthn. I Coldonian. D 0......... Gt. West) Yk. New. & Berw. Y. &NM 'D0......... D 0......... S. Eastern IDo ........ INorfolk.. L.& N. W. & Midld. Staton & Darlingt. Midland.. E. Couni D 0... Do 12 Do. 6 Shares. 100 Roystn.asHit. 100 Do. Shepth. St 18t Shef.Roth.and Goole g. 6 p.c. 9 S. Stafford b. all Wear Valleygr 6 per cent... all I Do 100 Wilts&Somrst L. & N.W &Ln&Yk Do Gt Northn D 0... Lancash Yorksh. 11.5{Clean Stockt. Darlingt. 1 10 1 1 lartWestn MINES all Agua Fria all Anglo Austria. Gold all Anglo Californian 2 Australasian 6 Australian all Australian Cordillera all Australian Freehold all Ave Maria all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) all Blaenarvon Ir. & Coal all British Austria. Gold 13.5 British Iron 24 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pus all Do. Cocaes & Cu* ' 15 Do. St. John Del Rey Carson's Creek Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica all Cobro Copper 1 Colonial Gold 15 Copiapo all Copper Min. of Eng all Do. Pref. 7i p. cent all English and Anstrin Copper Smeltg. Co. all General all Great Nugget Vein... all Do. Registered all Great Polgooth all Liberty all Linares all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co all Mariquita 9 Mexican&S.Americn all New Granada all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co all Nouveau Monde all Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. & Smelt., 1 Port Philip all Quartz Rock all Rhymney Iron 15 Do. New 10 ,Santiago de Cuba all ?oath Australian 7 Tin Croft all United Mexican all Waller all West Granada all West Mariposa 12s. Worthing Mining of Australia...—. all Yuba JOINT-S' all ttustralasia all British Colonial Bank and Loan Company all British N. American 5 Chartd. Bauk of Asia 2 Chrtd. Unk. of India, Australia, & China 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Lend 12 English Scottish and Australian 15 Loud. Chart. Bk. oi Australia 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond. & Westminster 35 National Provincial of England 10 Do. New 22 National of Ireland all New South Wales all Oriental Bank of Corporation. 5 Do. New 25 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 Royal Austmln.Bkg & Gold Imp Co all South Australia all Union of Australia 2i Do. New 10 Union of London Business done I St. 50 thls daY• 23 i 90 5 31 1 1 12i I 861 6 120 731 2f 87 101 13 101 1 601 a I 30 981 7i 961 1 6 20 1 101 1 58i i 120 2 3Oi i 1 20 10H 100 100 per cent. 20 50 50 100 100 20 50 20 25 d i, I 10 0 65 I 5 I °_ MARLBOROUGII-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) A LADY PICKPOCKET.—Ann Thomas, a respectable looking young woman, with a child in her arms, was brought before Mr. Hardwicke, charged with stealing a purse, containing 2/. 10s. in gold and sundry papers, the property of Mrs. Margaret Wilson, of No. 6, Rose terrace, Stoke Newington. George Lewis, an ill-looking man, was also charged with being concerned in the above theft. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutrix, and a lady named Ousey, a friend of hers, that yesterday afternoon they were walking along Oxford-street very slowly, when the prisoner came between them, and pro secutrix felt her hand drawn away from the pocket of her dress. Witness put her hand to her pocket, and im mediately missed her purse, containing 2/. 10s. in gold and sundry memorandums. She looked around for a police man, and while doing so the prisoner went into a shop close by. Witness not seeing a constable, also went into the same shop to inquire what was best to be done, and the prisoner observing her in conversation with some of the shcpwomen, ran out of the shop and crossed over the street into Queen-street. Prosecutor followed her and traced her into a closet in a stable-yard, the door of which prisoner had shut. Prosecutor held the door and called for assistance, when two men came up, and one of them fetched a constable, into whose charge prisoner was given. When the prisoner found herself in custody she fell down on her knees, and said she was innocent of taking the purse, and that if she let her go, she would give her all she possessed. Prisoner then pulled out a gold watch and chain and two brooches, which she gave to witness, who handed them to the constable. To prove the male prisoner's connection with the female prisoner in the robbery, Mr. F. Gibson, 89, Ox ford-street, laceman, stated that he saw the female pri soner come into his shop and heard her ask to look at some bonnets. Shortly afterwards two ladies came in, one of whom was the prosecutrix. The latter complained that the female prisoner had stolen her purse, and while they were talking the woman ran out of the shop, fol lowed by prosecutrix and her friend. The female pri soner was subsequently lodged in the station. In the course of an hour after the male prisoner and another man came into the shop, and the pri soner asked if they had a straw hat that would fit hire, witness replied in the negative, and he then saw the purse produced placed on the counter by which of the men he could not' say. Witness took it up and opened it, and from its contents he was persuaded that it was the one stolen from Mrs. Wilson. The prisoner, on being questioned, denied all knowledge as to how the purse came there ; but witness, having his suspicions, followed him and the other man into the street, and on meeting with a constable he gave the prisoner into cus tody. The other man made his escape. The prisoners, who denied all knowledge of each other, were remanded for a week. THE WAR. —PORTSMOUTH, May 3.—The Fox, 42, Capt. Tarleton, has arrived from the East Indies, and has gone on to the Downs and Sheerness, her crew going to the Baltic. DISTRESSING DIFFICULTIES.—WhiIe Dr. Chalmers was busily engaged one forenoon in his study, a man entered, who at once propitiated him under the provoca tion of an unexpected interruption, by telling him that he had called under great distress of mind. " Sit down, sir ; be good enough to be seated," said Dr. Chalmers, turning eagerly and full of interest from his w riting•table. The visitor explained to him that he was troubled with doubts about the divine origin of the Christian religion ; and being kindly questioned as to what those were, ho gave, among others, what is said in the Bible about Mel chisedek being without father and without mother, &c. Patiently and anxiously Dr. Chalmers sought to clear away each successive difficulty as it was stated. E . xpre!s!lig himself as if greatly relieved in mind, and imagu2ing that he had gained his end—" Doctor," said the visitor, " I am in great want of a little money at present, and. perhaps you could help me in that way." At once the object of his visit was seen. A perfc.t, tor t on e in dignation burst upon the deceiver, driving him in very quiet: retreat from the study to the street_ door, these words escaping him among others—" Not a penny, sir ! not a penny ! I t ' s too bad ! it' s too bad ! And to haul in your hypocrisy upon the shoulders of Mel chisedek !"—Memoir' of Dr. Chalmers. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.— At an early hour yesterday morning the premises of Mr. Bussey, cork cutter, &c' ' Blackman-street, S o uthwark, were discovered to be on fire, and it was found i mposs ible to subdue the flames till the greater portion of the premises were destroyed. The adjoining h ouses, severally in the occu p ation of Mr . Hendry and Mr. Brook, one as a public-house, and the I other a tallow-chandlers, were also ve r y seriously damaged. li f 51 i NEWMARKET RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPB.) ARRIVED.—Virago, Miss Worthington, and anothiv of J. B. Day's. LATEST BETTING. ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS. 6to 4on Virago. 3to 1 agst any other. CHESTER CUP. 14 to 1 agst Peggy. 16 to 1 agst Aldford. 20 to 1 agst Baalbec. 40 to 1 agst Jack Frost (taken). DERBY. 9 to 2 agst Autocrat. 7to 1 agst Dervish. 20 to 1 agst Andover. 25 to 1 agst Canute. Even on King Torn agst Autocrat. SPORTING NOTES. RUBY THE ROARER. The race for the Two Thousand was uninteresting and unimportant. The curiosity, however, whi c h th e appear ance and performance of Ruby excited redeem e d it, per haps, from utter insignificance. The mystery which at tached to this horse has been now dispelled, and it is pro bable that the good easypublic, ()raven his fondest partisans, will never " stand" him again. Ruby is not a gem of the first water, but a worthless counterfeit and a sham. He seems to be an unmitigated impostor, and has his parallel only in the Lightfoots and Lapidists of the turf. He is an "old boy" with many infirmities, touched in the wind, and, it is said, slightly shaky in the legs. Like the York shireman's filly Aurora, he's a roarer too. His mouth was examined in duo course this morning, and a properly-attested certificate of his ago was posted in the subscription-room. No sooner was it put up, h . owever, than some mad wag converted the " 3 years only" into " 13 years only," and this merry jest excited much amusement and badinage. Other incidents sustained curiousity re specting Ruby. The " call" that was made upon a certain trainer, who had betted seven " monkeys" against him to stake, was unanswered. After much discussion and'con sultation, the taker of the odds expressed a determination to "hold the bet ;" but whether he changed this resolution before the race, I am not in a position to state. The race resulted in the signal defeat of the favourites, the first and second horses belonging to the outside divi sion. No third horse was placed. Champagne and Boi ardo finished close together behind Middlesex, the former being slightly in advance. Hermit, the winner, is a nice looking horse, but somewhat " peacocky" in appearance. He was admirably ridden by Alfred Day. I wish I could apply this remark to Champagne and his rider. Boiardo ran a thoroughly game horse, but his defeat somewhat dis couraged Dervish's Derby backers. Ruby cantered in last but one ! The success of Hermit was fortunate for the "fielders." Mr. Davis was not, however, a winner of more than a few pounds, although he stood sixteen hundred against Boiardo. I heard him declare, indeed, that the balance in his favour would be scarcely a " poney," but he would have won all his money had Middlesex pulled through. The prophets were out in their calculations, and they who " followed them" doubtless found the profits all loss. Some uncertainty still exists as to the starting of Virago for the One Thousand on Thursday. Should she run she will meet a formidable antagonist in the representative of John Scott's stable, for which Sortie will perhaps do battle. 1 For the 100 Sovs. Sweepstakes, D. M. , I shall " s tand " Champagne. The meeting of Middlesex, Champagne, and Boiardo will impart peculiar interest to the race for the Newmar ket Stakes. Taking their running to-day as a criterion as to their ability, I shall expect them to pass the winning chair in the order in which I have set down their names. A FRESH MAN. Newmarket, Tuesday Night. MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The show of English wheat in to-day's market was very limited ; yet the demand for all kinds was in a depressed state, at barely Monday's prices. Upwards of 31,000 quarters of foreign wheat having come fresh to hand, that grain ruled exceedingly dull, and largo parcels were easier to purchase. Floating cargoes were much neglected. The barley trade was heavy, on former terms. The value of malt was almost nominal. We were well supplied with oats, in which a good busi ness was doing, at full quotations. Beans were quite as dear as on Monday ; but peas and flour met a dull inquiry. ARRIVkLii TlllB WEAL \ \ Wheat. Barley. M alt. Enc, , lish .. 350 1160 Irish .• • • Foreign .. 31,350 4,980 Oats. Flour. 260 639 7,110 4,540 4,2905 ks 6,h60brl WHITECHAPEL. Tho general demand ruled steady, at fnll quotations. Beef from 3s 2d to 4s 2d ; mutton, 38 41 to 4s 8d ; lamb, 5s 6d to 6s 8d ; veal, 4s Od to 5s 4d ; pork, 39 4d to 4s 8d per Sibs by the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. A full average business is doing in most kinds of hops, and last week's prices are well supported. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY. The following letter has been received at Lloyd's this morning from their agent at St. Ives, Cornwall, dated May 1, but there is too much reason to believe that the state ment of the person referred to is a gross fabrication : " Gaston Tongue, the second mate of the brig Ville de Marseille, has landed here, and reports his having escaped by swimming from a Russian frigate which had taken his vessel about 20 leagues from Cardiff, having first hoisted English and afterwards French colours. The master and part of the crew tried to escape in the boat, and were fired into, when the master and three men were killed. He reports the frigate to have gone into the other channel. I have forwarded him to the French Consul at Penzance. (Signed) " LLOYD'S AGENT." LONDON, May 3.—Wind this day at Noon, S. ; light breeze, and fine, but cloudy. OFF DOVER, May 2.—Nelson, from Mobile, for Bremen. PLYMOUTH, May 3.—Arrived—Forerunner (s s), from Africa, with 2,002 ounces of gold. OSTEND, April 30.—The Resoe (Riso), Swedish brig, from Stockholm to Lisbon, timber laden and derelict, was picked up at Sea by a French fishing smack, and towed on shore on the Flemish coast, W. of Fumes and the Panne, April 20, where she now lies stranded. The cargo is expected to be saved, but the vessel lost. PARIS, May 3.—The Josephine (French sloop), of Cher bourg, from Bordeaux to Hamburg, with wine, &c., was driven 26th April on a rock in the East pass at Roscuff, but was got off the same day, apparently without much damage, after lightening, and has been brought into Roscuff. BELFAST, May I.—The Scotland, from Liverpool to Mo bile, came into the Lough this morning, having received much damage forward, from having been in collision on on the 17th April, in lat. 45 N., long. about 20 W., with the Oolbert, of and for Havre, from Calcutta, with a gene ral cargo, all the crew of which vessel, with one exception, succeeded in getting on board the Scotland, the latter will be towed up for repairs GIBRALTAR, April 28.—A large ship, supposed to be the Echunga (transport), anchored at the other side of this Bay, April 26, and came over to this bay to-day. It blew a very heavy gale at S.E., April 27, when a Spanish brig and French barque were stranded at Algeciras. The Ariro (Austrian ship) bound to New York, was in grt danger near the Green , Island, but rode out the gale i ea in safety. ROTTERDAM, May I.—An English schooner was totally lost on the Oaster, 28th April. The attempts of the life and other boats to rescue the crew were fruitless. Nothing but an empty boat and some broken spars have been picked up. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Wednesday, 10.45 a.m. Wind SW., moderate and fine. Her Majesty's steamer Prometheus arrived here yester day afternoon. Arrived—Niagara (s), from Malta. Off the Port—Alsa Comet, Jon Davis, and Empire State (ship). Emigrant (barque), Garland (brig), and Science (schooner). (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) G RA VESEND, Wednesday, 1 0.15 a.m. Wind S.W., tide last hours' ebb ; weather, fine. Arrived, May 2—Codrington, from Antigua ; Spray, Macon ; Caractacus, Penang. - 3d — Providence, from Caen ; Johanna Margretha, Oporto ; Rehoboth, Volo ; Caroline Henrietta, Rostock ; Ocean, Guernsey. Sailed —The usual Continental steamers. DEAL, Wednesday, 9.24 a.m. Wind W.S.W., fine. Passed—Phantom, from New York ; Mary Gillespie, f rom westward ; Lockinger , Geelong —all for London. A n chored —Maria Key, from L on d on, f or Rio Janeiro ; Relampago, from London, for Havannah ; Azorian, from London, for Gibraltar. Put pack—Eliza Hunter, from London, for Launceston. 89 90 2k 2 721 3 Li RB. The Newcomes. Nos. VT., VII., and VIII. By W. M. Thackeray. Nearly half Mr. Thackeray's new serial has now been published. It has continued throughout, up to the last page issued from the press, inclusively, more than simply readable—fraught in a great measure with an attractive power little less than what might be actually termed, without extrava gance, a sort of fascination. The secret of this is easily discoverable. It arises, in the first place, out of the charm of the writer's style —a style so easy, so voluble, so tender in its evidences of sen sibility, and yet so masculine in its vigour of ex pression, and in the abounding ease of its command of language. Apart from the alluring manner of the novelist, at least as much apart from it as that is possible under the circumstances—seeing that the character grows up into life out of that mannerism, as the flower and fruit grow out of the juices throbbing in the stalk and in the leaves there is thus creation of the story, the best, the truest, the noblest, the man liest, the most loveable, and in every respect the most thoroughly admirable among all the ficti tious beings called into existence by the magic pen of Thackeray. It is quite unnecessary to add who this is, to any one who has read the new monthly book—in the familiar yellow covers first rendered , objects of interest by the wit and wisdom of "Vanity Faihaver"—the in n t a i rit t i e v d e , tsoellddoumndfaerilstltieo command dp ourof Mr. Arthur Pendennis of the Pall Mall Gazette. To those who have not read the eight numbers which have already appeared, it would be idle simply to mention the name of Colonel Newcome— Colonel Thomas Newcome. Without reading the work themselves, they could never guess the charm that has come to be associated with the mere name of this imaginary character. Colonel Newcome does honour to Mr. Thackeray's heart as well as to his imagination. A nature more noble or more gentle, more manly or more childlike, we do not remember to have seen anywhere delineated in the whole range of literature. It is a companion picture to Sir Roger de Coverley. Without Colonel New come, we don't know what the new story from the hand of Mr. Thackeray would have done for attrac tions sufficient to secure its extended reputation— even with all the charms of that style which, as we admiration. For with the exception of glorious ol d introduced ed By a lia m there i 11, the tale I s e c scarcely all ly tolerable.remains s charac teri r Brian is an empty-headed, cold-blooded banker-baronet. Tiobsonand his wife are vulgar beyond endurance. Barnesis a prig. Clive—for all his handsome face, we are compelled to say it, is somewhat of that horrid genus, though for venturing to avow this we should expect to be cut by Mr. Pendennis, if we enjoyed the honour of his acquaintance. Ethel, too, has grown to be a kind . o f beautiful-boguy in polite society, if we may judge from the last account given by our author of her affrighting supercilious ness. What can be more detestable or more con temptible than the silhouette snipped by these re morseless scissors, the miserably life-like pen and ink sketch of the Rev. Charles lioneyman ? What except the revoltingly truthful portrait of little Rosy's mother, that smiling mass of deceit and affecta tion? As for the storyitself—it is one almost entirely without incidents. Unless one can dignify with the title of incidents rides in the Park, and visits to Brighton, and dinners, and luncheons, and evening parties. But no—besides these there is one other incident recorded in the number before us, the incident, in fact, which closes the instal ment last published. Colonel Newcome takes his departure from England to return to Hindostan. With that departure still vividly in our minds, like a home-grief, we throw the number aside with real regret and disappointment. A War S.n•g. By Dr. Ptolemy Paul. Gay and Company. A tinted title-page, showing The Betsy Jane " finishing off'' The Menschikoff—[the former a British ship of 40 gulls, and the latter a Russian 74 gun man-of-war : both vessels, it is scarcely necessary to observe, purely fanciful built, so to speak, in the dockyard of the writer's fancy, and afterwards launched from the artist's ima gination]—is not by any means the only attrac tive peculiarity of this curious and certainly very original publication. It is a war song appropriate to the time, the words written by Mr. Sydney Yondys, and the music composed by Dr. Ptolemy Paul. As to the young poet himself, his first dramatic work, " The Roman"—a work abounding with power and replete with promise, a power we were amongst the first to recognise, and a pro mise which we then expressed ourselves sanguine would be ultimately fulfilled—constitutes, we con ceive, his best and happiest introduction to the notice of the community. As to the musician, he comes before the public under the auspices of the writer, whose verses have here supplied him with inspiration. Together they have chaunted the triumph of an imaginary English frigate over a Russian seventy-four—a warlike day-dream, which, before many weeks have elapsed, may, in more than one instance, both in the Baltic and in the Euxine, vefy probably be realised. The song appears most appropriately—at the precise period when we are all of us listening eagerly for the first reverberations of those maritime victories which are now confi dently anticipated. Its accompaniment closes rather grandly, certainly most effectively, with the distant sound, floating across the waters, of the national melody of " Rule Britannia." THE MARRIAGE OF THE EMPEROR 01 AUSTRIA. The following (copied from Galiplani's Messenger) are some details of the ceremony of the marriage of the Em. peror of Austria with the Duchess Elizabeth : " The church was fitted up with rich hangings, the part near the altar being hung with crimson velvet and gold, and the other part with tapestry, representing subjects of Austrian history. Rich carpets covered the floor, and the church was lit up with 100 large bistros and 10 , 000 wax lights. Over the high altar was placed a rich canopy of crimson velvet, embroidered with gold, and in front were placed prie-dieux' of white velvet and gold, for the bride and bridegroom. At the left of the altar was erected a magnificent throne for their reception before the ceremony was to begin. The clergy were ranged close to the altar at each side, and the nave was reserved for the Court, the great dignitaries of the empire, the generals and superior officers, the diplomatic corps, and the persons invited. The marriage took place in the evening ; and at six o'clock nearly all the various personages who were to be present had taken their places, presenting a coup d'sit of great m agnificence. The Imperial cortege did not leave the palace until half past seven. It was opened by the great officer of the Court, and the representatives of all the great families of the em pire in the richest costumes, in magnificent equipages ; then came the Imperial pages ; and after them the Arch dukes ; the Archduke of Tuscany and his sons ; the Duke Maximilian of Bavaria ; then the Emperor, wearing the uniform of an Austrian Field-Marshal, with the grand cordon of the Order of St. Hubert of Bavaria, escorted by his aides-de-camp ; after him came the bride, accompanied by the Archduchess Sophia, and having the Duchess Louisa of Bavaria on her left, and the Imperial Princesses. The bride wore a white satin dress, embroidered with gold and silver, a long train, and a rich lace veil ; on her head was a rich diadem of diamonds, presented to her by the Arch duchess Sophia who had herself worn it at her marriage, and in her girdle was a bouquet of natural roses. The ladies of the court, in the richest dresses, closed the procession. The arrival of the Emperor at the church was announced by a flourish of trumpets and cymbals. The Prince Arch bishop of Vienna, who officiated, received tho Imperial couple. The archbishop, accompanied by his clergy, then led the way to the altar, and after all had taken their seats, the bride and bridegroom being on the throne, the religious ceremony commenced. The Emperor and the Duchess then placed themselves on the' prie-dieux,' and after the Archbishbp had pronounced a short address, frompl aced taking who a presented themeachthem gother's finger. They then held each other by the hand, and the Archbishop pronounced the nuptial benediction. At the moment (eight o'clock) salvos of artillery were fired from the bastions, military music sounded a flourish, and all the bells sent forth a joyful peal. Their Majesties then rose and quitted the church, the cortege withdrawing in the same order that they had come, with this difference that the Emperor and the Empress returhod to the Palace side by side." A grand dinner was given at the Court of Vienna on the 26th ult. on the occasion of the marriage of the Emperor. More than SOO guests were present. In the evening the Emperor and the Empress went to the theatre. Their Majesties were received by the audience with the warmest enthusiasm. The Emperor was dressed in the uniform of a Field-Marshal with the grand cordon of the Order of St. Hubert. Her Majesty wore a dress of white silk sparkling with diamonds. COAST OF AFRICA. AP. PLYMOUTH, Wednesday Morning. Th© mail steamer Forerunner, Captain Barnwell, has just arrived. Her dates are—Fernando Po, March 25 ; Old Calabar, 27th ; Lagos, 30th ; Cape Coast Castle, April 4th ; Monrovia, Bth ; Sierra Leone, 12th ; Gambia, 16th ; Teneriffe, 21st ; Madeira, 23d. Her cargo consists of 2,000 ounces of gold, beeswax, gum, cainw ood, palm oil, (ST. She brings eight passengers, including Mr. Mur ray, D.A.C.G., from Cape Coast, and Dr. Dani e l, staff-surgeon , from S ier ra Leone. Her mails are in charge of Lieut. C. Bolton. Her Majesty's ship accountlv increasing, watorlvlt eh and mail all Arab was at La g os. The United States fri g ate C on stitution and the British bri g Brilliant were at Madeira.sqt u e i a e l: a t. er sNouoAlet Lagos tradeof the a s time due. AUSTRALASIAN COAL COMPANY.—The shareholders o_ the Australasian Coal Company at a meeting yesterday gave an illustration of the prevalent disposition to sus pend all new enterprises during the war, by unanimously adopting a recommendation of the board to dissolve the undertaking. Although the report in relation to the property for which an arrangement had been concluded was favourable, it is doubted whether in the existing position of affairs in New South Wales, coupled with the high price of labour, the proposed collieries can bo brought into profitable competition with those already in operation. The amount received on the shares issued at 11. was ti 7,620/., the remainder having been reserved for the colony, but not appropriated. The general ex penses incurred have reached 3,4701., but through a fa vourable employment of the capital the interest obtained has reduced the sum to I,BSOI. The funds in hand will therefore allow a return of 19s. in the pound, which the h gAUSTRALASIAN PACIFIC STEAM COMPANY.—A meet directors intend to make with all possible despatch f or I this company took place yesterday, when it was giving the shareholders, at the same time, a full from further liability. After this distributiona balance formally agreed to wind up. The sale of three vessels subsequent eon- to a French steam company has been completed for of about 2001. will be left to meet any tothe en- 170,0001., and the directors have intimated that they tingent liabilities. Notice has been g gineer and his assistant of the terminationiveu of their en- intend to make a first repayment of 51. per share in June. gagements, and the person from . whoin the property was The number of shares in the company is 12,500 of 201. taken has a ff orded every facility for cancelling the eac ui h, u pon ia which xpected hasshow been a pparofit.id, and the ultimate liqdae to contract. :7; P.M? 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