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

In as the numum who will [at three b y. f 1 tains the i n Cowl" from St. m e yen- Training ,loyd, of has sent ving for g about L., Berlin, a which ie Court declara ee of the rt on the s thus : g "poet, i them to ;man in of peace. Austria all Pr°: 3pe d that also join ,r's king but t 4) P r to ell , ' anY 3 _,„ 13- Westei'' rinth conolu ?elopcm" .eek Go' o 1 tul LO v ih irks art" , av Ale% - Greeko )f Mal• be tom argon ° ji areas. ; Malta. age out ived en airs du e welcome don ge' r ith the wenhlg• For Cell las nOr Is bay* 1 , taken , •ked for 1, appear rkation :ast, the it ships 8 were thole of horses, Ire than• which' ig °nail rn. u een'a c hapel ce Was n g by t ie d on s from • that ' 3, Bth • 31)- non a ,dtlCed C . It; e rson* hapely • pathY em' cconi ersons- n the) Lobed, )rt to 1d ths' which s vi o s ly to ed by essels Arhite ort in• ,y a ge, to v- nble,-. tioN art, ;ipal W ith: the' Lax ; ; 301 - a nd ; iu 711: 1 Y o ay 4 a A d oh 7,ert supply the wants of the service, the internal ad- Ministration of the squadrons, and the instruction °,f numerous recruits and young horses," and that " re-establishment of the sixth squadron of re giments, suppressed in 1834 for pecuniary reasons, Is. indispensable to procure a proper organisation 'froth the cava l ry, so t h at i t may rea dily be changed 11 ;°M a peace to a war footing, and meet all even tualities." The decree accordingly enacts that " a ,!ixth squadron shall be formed in each of the fifty -ll:tree regiments of cavalry in which there are at pre sent only five"—the said squadron to have the same number of o ffi cers an d non - co mmissioned officers as , _Riose at present existing. We read i n th e Moniteur : _ "Seve ra l f oreign j ourna l s h ave p re tended that the French cabinet, in accord with that of London, 4 ! , s addressed a summons to Prussia with the view . 1) I constraining that power (de mettre cette puissance demeure) to abandon its neutrality. We have ' ll 2 need to say that this rumour is both devoid of 4,11 foundation and all p ro bability. It was not at 4 " moment at whi c h Prussia in signing the last act of the conference of Vienna, had adhered anew the p r i nc i ples procla i me d b y the maritime powers ;that her intentions could be placed in doubt. The rrman cabinets are perfectly enlightened as to 1410 chara c t er an d v i ews o f th e policy which France a nd England are a b o ut to combat. The identity uxinterest s guarantees sufficiently the community of action." 1 . The St. L ou i s , s hip o f the line of 90 guns, was 7 6 ,; 3 1 1 1 ched a t B rest on T ue sday. The operation, of la c h Perfectly succeeded, took place in presence Pereur rge crowd, who raised cries of " Vive l'Em ,LN'altlik Pasha took leave of the Emperor, and de parted for the East yesterday evening. 34 : 1 - 11 Imperial decree appoints General Morris, Mber of the committee of cavalry, to the com- East ) of the division of cavalry of the army of the o( 7) and General Ney, Duke of Elchingen, to the a. lnand of the 3d brigade of cavalry of the same The Ist and 2d brigades are under the cora , of G enera l d'All onv ille and Cassignolles. f The Moniteur publishes a report to the Emperor 111 M. Marine, Minister of Public Works, setting hrth the advantages of the amalgamation which zr, taken place between the Strasburg Railway i tilose of Basle and of Wisemburg, and that Ther has been agreed to between the Lyons line T that f rom Dijon to Besancon and Belfort. , report concludes by recommending his Majesty 11,..ti1e his approbation to these arrangements. -0 Imperial decrees follow, carrying out the sug -fleVons of the report. )3 0 rifts maintained themselves yesterday on the 1111 , e• The Three per Cents. closed at 63f. 45c. toe end of the month ; the Four-and-a- Half per cents.o, at 90f. ; and the New Loan at 64f. 20c. ; 6j ie außßailway Shares 1,047 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 837 f. & L; Havre, 410 f. ; dreat Northern, 736 f. 25c. ; I:l b urg, 728 f. 75c. ; New Shares, 532 f. 50c.; t o — ' l ) .,_ to Lyons, 802 f. 50c. ; Lyons to the Medi -47,11ean, 662 f. 50c. ; Western of France, 555 f. ; „rueaux to Cette, 505 f.; Great Central of France, ', 4 - 1 . 25c. ; Lyons to Geneva, 422 f. 50c. ; Bank of wedit Moliilier, 498 f. 75c. tbirb Mutton. YORK RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) FIXING DUTCHMAN'S HANDICAP V irago Ivan.. .... .7.44dardecken Eight ran. EGLINTON STAKES. .1 .. 2 .. 3 114 Per 1 Six ran. LONDESBOROI CUP, Itelena 1 Seventeen ran. LATEST BETTING. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 10 to 9 agst Boiardo (taken). 3to 1 agst Ruby (taken). , 7to 1 agst Middlesex (taken). 15 to 1 agst Champagne (offered). 20 to 1 agst Marble Hill (taken). CHESTER CUP. ' „, apt Peggy, t eget Lough Bawu. DERBY. 9-to 2 agst Autocrat. • 614 , 1 agst Dervish (taken to 3001.). 33 to 1 agst Neville (taken). s,, 33 to 1 agst Canute ktaken). • A r ' l 6 MEETING. - 7 - .` (TUESDAY, APRIL 25.) , (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.) SCURRY STAKES of 5 Sovs. :! .., ord of the Isles Eight ran. • SWEEPSTAKES of 5 Sovs. One mile and a half. pleton 04. Nine ran. litan ,- ; i4 H as E io ß e MAJESTY'S PLATE. Two miles. rbinger, c by Tearaway, Hunting Horn, Ariadne, a, c by Crozier, Chaseaway, and Louisa also ran. of MADRID STAKES. New Rathbone Post. 3rfac "mon 7st 4lb 1 Paddy Heffran, Wild Irish Girl, Lightning, Ossefrage, ZTeter-to Joanna c, Mag on the Wing, Tidy, Mangerton, ( 4e, Rejected, and Singaway colt also ran. `;_. LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.) LONDON, April 27.—There is at length a change in the rather. The win.t is now from the e stward, with - a ttl i °lndy weather. There has been a very sli g ht fall of l ' - ' ll . —The Calcutta, Boston to London, which was on shore near Barrington,Bth inat., was afloat on the 12th, lll2ta.kjirloghn s but littlewater, and would return to B o ston or p ° PhOvER, April 26.—Pons Allie , fr om London, for ort F PLyIIOUTH April 2G.—Wind, N. Arrived—Geelong, Atom London, for Melbourne. Sailed — Bucha nte, Afr i ca ; es Taylor, Ceylon. tart by ELM' April 27.—(Per Elec. Tel.)—The Carlos (Russian Fin rd barque), from Lisbon to Finland, has been towed 14° namoaze this morning, having beea captured off the 's steamer Avon. :147',ORTsmouTH, April 26.—Wind, N.E. Arrived —H.M.'s • ° Tisk - , from Halifax . do. Alecto, Sierra Leone. uTHWOLD, April 26.—A number of deals, battens, and boards, marked "R. S.—S. S.—S. H.," also part of a t °l3 deck, with a bell attached, marked " Albertin a, thenborg, 1840," have come in shore, supposed from a vessel wrecked on the Crossing Sand. `'DvIZS, April 26.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—tibla, from Shields for Newport, to stop a leak. OPP gALCOMBE.—Panic, from China. A -°.&I26IOI:JTH, April 26.—Wind, N.E. strong breezes. nived—Constance, from Moulmein, and sailed for Lon mot' • Bloomer, Callao and Cork ; Lion, Buenos Ayres ; ;Topic, Jamaica ; Glen Huntley, Gothenburg for Mel bourne, to stop a leak. A schooner of about 140 tons, Painted black, was passed 21st ult. in 43 N. 18 W., dis- Masted and abandoned ; also a large ship, dismasted and abandoned, 27th March, in 41 N. 14 W. Off Port—Black "wall, from Port Phillip ; Princess Royal, Batavia for hamburg ; Ernest Borkdman, New York, and sailed for Rotterdam ; Asphalon Enpatoria. SIIMIRILLAND, April 23.—Win 1, N.N.W. Sailed — Phce. ix, for Calcutta ; Kspper, do. • Anna, Aden ; Re ftilegeo: 1N"- - York ; Niger, Quebec ; Arethusa, do. ; Corin , do. ; Empress 1 T d.. ; Hartlepool, do. ; Exchange, do. ' ; a y , SWANBRA, April 26.—Wi n d, N.E. Arrived—United, f rom coquimbo. F a i le d—Goleonda, for St. Jago de Cuba. CHM ;TIANSAND, April 22.—The Christian, from Hor sens to Leith, has put in le co ak n 3; b a i n ri c e l d must discharge. WispY, April 20.—The side of this i4land, 14th inst., steering East fleets Passed the .. g N.E. No Russian April 24.—The Pomona, arrived here from aee ships of war have bean ob served. is said to have recei ve d considerable damage r Llc a r an i ( C i K , in the ice, an d reports the weath er to h ave been very bois terous—that the Violet, of Hull, an d t h e Feliz, ofraser burgh, have been lost, with all hands, except part of a boat's crew belonging to the latter vessel. Some doubts exist as to the safety of the Agostina, of Peterhead, and it is feared that other losses have taken place. The Ger- Mania, of Hull, lost three whale boats and three of her crew on her outward r oma ge to Greenland. JERSEY, April 25.—Sailed —Asia, for Trinidad. GIBRALTAR, April 17.--The Genoa (s. s.), from Li ve . pool, which arrived here 10th inst., is detained with damage to her screw, and discharging to repair. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) r.ot S int a zi a i l t e i Newo Sailed —Mermaid, : York. L I VERPOOL, Thursday, 10 . 30 a.m. Wind W.S.W., moderate, and rain in g . Arrived—Shamrock (s), from Havre . Mermaid, for Melbourne. , There are no accounts to the present tim e of the steamer now 11. days out, with the mails of the 15th inst. (13V SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 10.40 a.m. Wind W.N.W. ; cl o udy, with rain ; tide, quarter ebb. Arrived, 26th—Nadischa, Russian prize, from the Bal tic; Aina, Russian pr Jamaica from the Baltic ; Norwar tz, f rom, Wismar ; Blanche, ; Baron Osy, steam er, Antwerp ; Triton, steamer, Calais ; Earl of Auckland, steamer, Rotterdam. S ailed —William Jolliffe, steamer, for Calais. DEAL, Thursday, 9.45 a.m. Wind, W.S.W., fresh and cloudy. P ass.ed—Spirit of the North, from Cacutta for London ; Tallentire, from Magaltan for London ; I Villisneria fr ota Cape of Good Hope, London ; Larne, from Callao, for Leith • Susanna, from London, for Nassau ; Queen of the South, from St. Michael's, for orders. An chored —Rubicon, No. 38 transport, from London, ' Malta. or Malta ; Nos. 37 and 39 transports, from London, for Remains--Admiral Zoutman, for Port Phillip. hav e A nemone lies in the same state. 75 railway irons e been l an d ed t hi s morning, and it is e x p ec t e d s he will 11 of off this high water, and towed into Ramsgate, with about 30 tons of iron remaining on board. 2111 rreaCh Sit jWit ill Flight, Procoodlog to tiao Downs. t. , I wP, THE OVERLA2I) MAIL. By the arrival of the Overland Mail we have re ceived our private letters and correspondence from Bombay to the 28th March, and Hong-Kong 11th March. INDIA. BOMBAY, March 28.—There is news, from Bur mah down to the 4th inst., but it contains nothing of any importance. The King of Ava is reported to be dead, but the report requires confirmation. If true, it will bring to the throne the brother, who has always been the leader of the war party in that country. A new station, called Thayel Mew, and intended to be the frontier station for our troops, has been commenced. Throughout the entire country the most profound peace exists, and boats go the whole length of the Irrawaddy, from Ran goon to Meanday, with the most perfect security. No news of any sort has been received from Ca bool since the last mail left, so I am unable either to confirm or contradict the report given in my last respecting Dost Mahomed having sent a friendly message to Major Edwardes at Peshawur. From Persia no annoyance may be looked for to wards India. The Governor-General has received an assurance from the Shah, through the English charge d'affairs at Teheran, that, in the event of a war between Russia and Turkey, he will maintain a strict neutrality. Throughout India—both in the B]riti3h provinces and in the native States—the most profound peace and tranquillity exist. The elec tric telegraph is making gigantic strides all over the country. Messages are already being sent from Benares to Agra, from Sepree to Agra, and from Bombay to Malligum. Before the rains set in, we shall be able to communicate via Agra, between Bombay and Calcutta, including all the towns on the Ganges, and the various stations on the great North-West road. Should the Governor-General be at Simla, it is expected, in June next, he will be able to have the news from England communicated to him (by means of the electric telegraph, from Bombay to Agra, and thence by express to Simla) in forty-eight hours after the mail reaches the Western presidency. A year ago it would have taken about twelve days to accomplish. Colonel Outram left Bombay on the 17th inst., and took charge of his office at Baroda on the 21st. His old enemy, the far-famed Nursoo Punt, died at Ahmedabad on the 19th inst. Another person, whose name has often been before the public in connection with Baroda matters, died a short time ago—l mean the Hindoo lady, Joitabhae Seltani, who was plundered by the rascals who were about the Guicowar. Throughout Guzerat the greatest possible interest is being evinced by all classes, both European and native, respecting the Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway Company. If the scheme is carried out, it will certainly do a vast deal of good to the country. It is proposed, I hear, to strike off the new line to Callian, a town about 35 miles from Bombay, and to which the Great Indian Peninsular line runs already. From Callian the line is to run along the coast to Surat, and from Surat to Broach, Jumbooseea, Dholerah, and the very heart of the cotton districts. It is tohave tramways as feeders on the right and left. From a gentleman who has great experience in the cotton trade of Western India, I hear that this railway would bring to Bombay about ten times the quantity of cotton we get now, and would also bring into cultivation vast tracts of land which are at present lost to any purpose whatever. At present, also, there being no carriage but by sea from Surat to Bombay, great quantities of cotton which arrive at the former port after the rains set in have to be kept there until the opening of the season, a period of at least four months. The con- , sequence, of course, is a great loss of interest upon money thus employed, and a total cessation of the cotton trade for some time previous to the rains. This is moreover particularly inconvenient to the native merchants, whose commercial year ends at the Dewallie festival, a period some short time after the monsoon. Should we have railway communi cation between this and Surat, cotton can be brought down at all times of the year to Bombay. This will, in point of fact, just add four months to the Indian trading year, and accelerate by the same time the return upon all money laid out in cotton speculation. ' I hear that the Bombay, Baroda, and Central Indian Railway will not go further to the north-west than Ahmedabad, and that the task of opening out the communication with Berar, Indore, Candeish, and so on to Agra, will be left to those , who were first in the field, the Great Indian Penin sula Company. This is but fair. The new com pany should not be allowed to cut the ground from under the old, who, as the pioneers of railway mat ters in India, are certainly entitled to every pro tection at the hands of Government. Our present Governor takes the greatest possible interest in railway matters, and although he has barely been three months in the country, has foundtime to make three inspections of the different lines by which it is proposed to ascend the Ghauts from the Concan to the Deccan. This, too, his lordship has managed to do at a season when the heat makes a residence in tents by no means pleasant. Lord Elphinstone seems to be a very hard-working, practical man of business. He spares neither himself nor his subor dinates at the desk. I hear that he has deter mined to recommend that the extension lines of th. Great Indian Peninsula be carried on forthwith from Callian to the foot of the Bore Ghaut, and from the top of the Ghaut towards Poonah. The Hoolie holidays, of which we were in the midst when I last wrote, are now over ; the hot weather has commenced in earnest, and the supply of water in Bombay is failing very fast indeed. The want of rain at the end of last monsoon is now be ginning to be felt, both here and over the whol e country. Grain, rice, and provisions of all sorts are very dear indeed—some 25 per cent. more so than at this time last year. Lord F. Fitzclarence has just issued an order which has given the greatest possible satisfaction to those concerned ; it directs that all officers, non-commissioned officers, and sol diers belonging to the Hon. Company's European Corps (Artillery and Infantry) in this Presidency, shall in future wear the moustache. To men serv ing in a tropical climate the boon is a very great one indeed. Another order which his lordship has just issued, reducing the number of drills, has also given great satisfaction in the Bombay army. Lord Frederick has certainly done more good in the army of this presidency than any general'officer who has yet been a mon g st us. By perseverance and firmness he seems to have inspired all the offi cers of the several corps under his command with a love of their profession, and a great desire to ac quire every kind of military knowledge. His military school at Poono, and his drill depot at the same station, will certainly prove the most substan tial benefits to the army of Western India. They might serve as examples to any country in the world. Mr. Luard has resigned the Company's civil service. He applied to the local Government to re-employ him, but it appears that the orders of the Court were imperative, and that the autho rities here had not the power to restore him without a further reference to England. The whole affair has made a great stir in this presi dency, and it will no doubt prove interesting to many old Indians at home. I should, however, tell you that there has for some time past appeared a series of the most atrocious libels upon Mr. Goldsmid, the present acting chief Secretary to Government, and one of the most able men who ever came to India in the Company's service. The launch of the Honourable Company's steam frigate Assaye took place on the 15th instant, by moonlight. It was a very grand sight indeed. Our a wor thy commodore, Sir H enr y Leeke, gave grand ball in the dockyard on the occasion, at which all the members of the Bombay society, from the Governor downwards, were present. There is no improvement in the commercial mar kets since my last. F rei g ht is falling. The recent shipping arrivals have checked the advance taking place in freight. Tonnage may now be had to Liverpool at V. to 4/. ss. ; to London, at 5/. 10s. ; and China, Rs. 23 per candy. Exchange on ngland has been steady at 2s. Id. for the best credits, at six months' sight ; and 2s. Oid. to 2s. lid. for bills secured by shipping documents. 'Err. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. REPORT ON THE STATE OF THE BOMBAY MARKETS, FROM Tla g E 14TH MARCH TO THE 27TH MARCH, 1854 . During thepast fo t r h t e nig ß ht aza o a u r r money money m h a a r s ket b h ee a n verycontinued s scarce among th e Shroffg, and the effect is s G h o7e n rnn i i n ent our The latter are n u i tte f r o l r y Securities, cotations all l f Inland Exchanges and neglectedaof w a h n i d ch sea a r r e e ely low sa e l r e . - and Rs. 105 for . i.en f e ori able at 99 to 4 per cent. Company's paper, Oriental Bank Corporation, paper. The quotations are 30 per cent. premium o n n 2k i 6 b l a y f 0 Bankr Commercial, Shares, andBs for 42 to 44 per cent, for A f g o r r a tn ß i inqrluuirryinfgor t g h o e od l s a . s a t t prices rather there shares. During o b se ee la n st a qu b o e t tt e e d r . i h e a tb s Grey long cloth, 36 yds. 40 in. —Since our last an ad vance of from 1 to 3 ans. has take • 9lbs. cloth, with good inquiry ; on n 9 plane on the 8 to s. and upwards there is no change, with but little inquiry ; 45 in. 101bs. are scarce and wanted. Grey T cloth continues much the same as last re ported. Grey domestics are at present not in request ; a few sales have been forced in most instances at a reduction of 1 to 2 ans• under the average of last season's prices. The above rem arks do not apply to short widths, 24 to 26 in. which maintain their former value. Grey Cambrics, 24 yards 54 in. seem scarce ; no sales are reported. Grey printer, 30 yards 24 in. a re wanted ; 21 to 51b. a re saleable at IR. 14 annas to Rs. 10 annas. Grey Madopollams continue steady as laAre st re acme in ported. CrroY JAcconets.—s picks flcl upwards THE SUN, LONDON, TTUU'RSDAY EVENING, APRIL 27, 1854. first hands, and continue saleable as formerly reported. 40 to 45 in. Rs. 11 to 2 Rs. 3 annas. Grey mulls in request, and saleable at 1 Rs. 14 annas to Rs. 21. Grey Twills.—At present quite neglected. Bleached Shirting and Madapollams.—The lower qua lities of the former in request, and worth Rs. 31 to Rs. 4/, and the latter Rs. 2 to 21 ; for the higher qualities there is no inquiry. Turkey red prints, 28 yards, Rs. 7 to 8, dull, with little inquiry. No sales reported. Dyed Cambrics 28 yards.—There has been little or no inquiry of late for these pods—no sales are reported —they are worth at present from Rs. 21 to Rs. 4. Dye Mulls.—Nothing appears doing. Black and White Prints.-28 yards worth Rs. 3 annas 6 to Rs. 31. Mule twist.—ln little request, but few orders from the interior coming forward, and as the season advances dealers show less inclination to purchase. Turkey red yarns in request, and saleable, Orange yarns in little request, stocks heavy in first hands. Nos. 30 to 60 saleable from Rs. 9 ans. Bto Rs. 11 ans. 4. Metals.—Since last report there has been a better inquiry for metals, with the exception of copper, which has declined from Rs. 2 to 3. Linseed, 3 Rs. 12 ans. per cwt. Pepper.—Butcol, 65 Rs. to 85 Rs. 6 ans. ; do., Mala bar, Rs. 80 to 81. Coffee.—Mocha, 8 Rs. 12 ans. to Rs. 9. Cotton.—Since the arrival of the last China Mail, most purchases have been made by natives at an advance of from 12 ans. to 1 rupee on former quotations ; a de , cline has since taken place. Hemp.—Rs. 30 to 45 per candy, in request. Wool, Rs. 100 to 145. Freights have slightly receded since last quoted, owing to the recent arrivals from Australia, and to the anxiety still existing for shipping to China ; the decline has been but little, and we quote the rate of the day at ' 4/. to 4/. ss. per ton to Liverpool, and 4/. 10s. to Lon don, and Rs. 23 to 24 per candy to China. Exchange—Since last report has had an upward ten ' dency, the rates of the day are 2s. ld. per rupee for credits at six months' sight, and 2s. 11d. to 2s. 11d. for bills secured by documents. SHARE AIAiI,KETS. (THIS DAY.) Shr.' Paid. RAILWATO. Less Wednesday.ingloloeusPrices Business Compass. this day. •••••••••••• ••••••••••••• ........ ...••• •••••• ..............,, ............. .......................... 50 all Bedford and London &' • Bletchley.... N. West. .• St. 100 Buckghamsh: L&N.W. 93 95 93 50 all ClydesdaleJc. Caledon 95 _ 97 St. 1.00 E. Lincolngr. •••••• 6 per cent. Gt.Nrtlin. _ 25 • all las. -EMT. & Caidoulan. • - , • •• ... Neils. Diree • " - ... \ 25 all Do. New ... Do 25 all Olstr.&Dn.Fr G. Westn _ _ ... 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New. Railway & Berw. .._. 50 all Hull & Selby Y. &Mild 102 101 25 all Do. A Shares: Do 'sl —52 12 all Do. i Shares. Do 25 — 26 13i all Lon.&Greenw S. Eastern 12k —13 i 20 all Do. Preference Do 2l -- 23 20 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Norfolk ... ... 20 LOO Do. 6 per ct. .... . 6i all Manch. Bata. L.&N.W and Matlock & Midld. 2 . 1 -- 2i 50 all Middlesbro' & Stcktou & Redcar. Dariingt. ... ••• 100 all. Midld.Bradfd Midland B9 --- 90 1 50 all Northern and Easternsp.c. E. Count. 54 56 50 410. Do. 6 per ct. D 0... ...... ... -- ... 50 all Do. Fixeds pe Do ,. ... 25 all Prest. &Wyre L. &N.W &Ln&Yk ... ad 12i, 12 Do. i Shares. Do • _— ad St. 100 Roystn.Sallit. GtNorthn ... _ St. 100 Do.Shepth.St Do ..• -- ... 25 181 Shef.Roth.aod Laneash& Goole g. 5 p.c. Yorksh. ••• 12 9i '-. Staffordsh. M.DlClean , 3 2id . 50 all WearValleygr Stockt. & 6 per cent... Darlingt. 25 all Do. Do... ii i 6 ' St. 100 Wilts&Somrst GtWestn. 90 -- 92 BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices' Wednesday. Busin this esa da do y. ne , Sr: CHINA. (From the Overland Friend of China.) The latest newspaper to hand from Peking is of a date equivalent to our 14th of January, nearly a fortnight before the commencement of the New Year of the old dynasty. In a memorial in it, from the Censor Yungpaou, inspector of the central part of the city, setting forth the want of discipline in the military preparations for defence of the capital, and the distressed condition to which the inhabi tants were recluCed, it is incidentally mentioned that (in confirmation of what we have before re ported) at that date the rebel camp was only 70 miles distant ; the Imperialist military command ers were not agreed in their views, and had not succeeded in any plan for exterminating the rebels. From Nanking, the southern capital, we have no other intelligence than the report that the Tartar General Heang-yung was at last about to vacate the position he had tried to maintain between it and Chin Keang, and that a desperate and final attempt would be made to retake Shanghai. The authorities at Fou-chau have been obliged to give up their endeavours to subdue rebellious parties in the country adjacent, and are now look ing carefully to their own entrenchments. The Emperor's uncle, the Viceroy, was preparing for a trip to Shingkina, in Manchouria, to which place, as we mentioned some time ago, the Emperor Hien fung has directed the revenue to be forwarded. About Canton matters remain quiet, though the authorities are now convinced their day is fast ap proaching. The winter, favourable for the insurgent south erns, unused to severe cold, has been of extraordi nary mildness. The ice crop about Shanghai is a complete failure, and, singular circumstance, it will be necessary for foreign residents to import a cargo of the luxury from America. The Imperialists are trying to prevent teas and silk from reaching Shanghai where, although their Custom-house is formally acknowledged, the chances of their obtaining duties are doubtful. As many as 5,000 packages of green teas are said to be detained at no great distance from the port. Quotations for hysons, gunpowders, and imperials have advanced fully three taels. CANTON MARKET—MARcH 9, 1854. Teas.—Black—Of congous, se ttlements have been made of 20 shops at 17 . 5 to 21.5 taels for kaysows and oopacks, 16.5 and 20.5 taels for hohnams and monings, and 15 to 16 taels for hohows ; stock 85 chops. Souchong, 13 chops sold at 18 and 25 taels for cargo to good, 27 and 32 taels for superior ; stock 50 chops. Caper, 300 half-chests sold at 15 taels ; stock 600 boxes. Flowery pkoe, 1,500 chests sold at 20 to 23 taels for cargo and 30 to 36 taels for superior ; stock 800 chests new and 700 old. Orange pekoe, 1,500 half-chests sold at 16 to 18 taels ; no stock. Ning yongs and oolongs, 16,000 half-chests sold, namely-10,000 ning yongs at 1 22 to 25 taels for cargo to good, 4,000 ankoi at 14 to 15 taels, and 2,000 powchongs at 15.5 to 19 taels ; stock of all kinds, 50,000 half-chests. Green.--The present stock is estimated at 25,000 half chests. The settlements since our last are—of hyson, 4,000 packages at 25 to 29 taels for cargo, 32 to 42 taels for superior to fine. Young hyson, 8,000 at 26 to 32 taels for good cargo, and 35 to 45 taels for superior to fine. Hyson skin, 4,500, at 15 to 17 taels for cargo to good, and 19 t(3,24 taels for superior to fine. Twankay, 2,500, at 20 to 22 taels for good cargo, and 24 to 28 taels for superior to fine. Imperial and gun powder, 4,000, at 30 to 33 taels and 33 to 36 taels for good cargo, and 35 to 40 to 38 to 43 taels for superior good. Canton Teas.-800 half-chests Congou sold at 17 to 20 taels for good. Young Hyson, 3,000 half-chest at 14 to 16 taels for cargo to good. Gunpowder, equal to 3,000 half-chests at 14 to 20 taels for cargo to superior. Scented Orange Pekoe, 1,500 boxes at 22 to 26 ta els for superior. Caper, 1000 boxes at 17 to 20 taels for good cargo to superior. Raw Silk.—But little of Nanking in market. Tsatlee 3955, Sewhing 3305, Taysaam 3505, Loongkong 3255, Kumchuck re-reeled 3455. Exchange and Bullion. —On London, 4.11, and little doing. On India Co.'s accepted 233 to 234 Rs. Syce 31 to 4 per cent. prem. Gold, $2l 40 per tael. Freights.—Tonnage scarce, and much wanted. For Great Britain, 6/. 10s. to 71. To the United States, • $22 to $24. To California, $3O to $35. SHANGHAI MARKET—MARcu 2. 5 There have been but small transactions, and the deli- 7 veries are very trifling, at rates slight l y im p roved since 6i the holidays. Holders are not offering their stocks, an ticipating a still further advance. 6 Teas.—Black—Congous, the settlements are estimated 10 at 20 chops, leaving unsold about 10,000 p k g s. We 20 have no change to note in prices. Ordinary to fair, 11 5 a 114 taels, hobo w kinds 12 a 131 taels, Ning Chong 14 10 a 17 taels—very few offering. St. Green.—The few chops which have been offered have 5 brought extreme prices, and nothing of clean quality can be bought except at an advance of 10 per cent. The 5 stock is about 5,000 pkgs., chiefly low grade skins. 2,000 to 3,000 pkgs of fair Twankay quality are said to St. be on the way hither. Raw Silk.—But few bales have found buyers since our St. last. The only deliveries have been in fulfilment of co n- tracts, and few parcels remain on hand for sale. The 10 silk-men being unwilling to submit to a reduction in 10 price, are keeping back supplies, and the stock in the 6 i silk country intended for this market is reported as very considerable. 20 Exchanges and Bullion.—On London, since the last 50 mail's departure, the transactions have been small. The rate 5s 7d was maintained for some time, and we hear of St. a small amount of Bank bills being sold as high as 5s Bd. St. Sycee, $l2l per 10 0 taels. Gold , $ 175 to $ 177 for St. 9.7.3 taels. St. Freights.—To England, nominally, 81. To the United 20 States, $2O to $2l. Tonnage to both places not to be 12, • had, and much wanted. The Aristides gets equivalent st; • to 101. for Halifax, her charter having been taken over at a considerable profit. St. 22 i —2 3 i 4j 4a ~. ... 7i 8 i 14 —l2 dis 15 17 8 7 d 89 - 91 52i - 53 13i 14§ 8 10 ii = ii 7 - 8 -- iii :: i*2 30 - 34 24 - 26 58 - 60 54 - 56 ..... ii - ii 58 62 85 86 74 r 76 119 - 121 89 91 721 - 72 85 87 - 10 - -120 10 - 12 p 60 -8 : -- 12 -- 12§ 7i -- 8i Par 97 98 951 - 961 lid -- lid d I 1 -- d 76i -77 i 12it 10 -- 9 d 19 - 20 58 -58 i 33 - 35 l fd— id 6 4di 6 - 8 44 - 47 31 3iu 30 ... 31 50 64 Par iP 6/ - 6gct 7# 7t 28 - 30 84 86 52 - 54 50 - 52 50 -- 52 3i -- 24( 13 -- 15 64 74 10 -- 4 -- 3id 13 15 58 59 34 3 / 4 4 2d 1 5 27 - 30 • •• ••• . 21 - 31 17 18 4 - 5 21 a 23 b 7 91 5i qd 45 -- 46 MINES all A.gua 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 o all Blaenarvon Ir. &Coal all British Austria. Gold 13. gritish Iron 24 Brazilianlmp.(issued at £5 pm all Do. Cocaes & Cu* 15 Do. St. John Del Re A Carson's Creek Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica all Cobre Copper 1 Colonial Gold 15 Copiapo all Copper Min. of Eng all Do. Pref. 7. p. cent all English and Austria Copper Smeltg. Co all General all Great Nugget Vein all Do. Registered all Great Polgooth all Liberty all Linares all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co all Mariquita 9 Alexican&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 10i Santiago de Cuba , all Routh Australian 7 Tin Croft all United Mexican...., all Waller all West Granada all West Mariposa ... 12s. Worthing Mining o' Australia....... all I Yuba FOREYi 9 Antwerp&Rotterdana 3 Belgian Eastn. Juno. 8 Beziers to Graisse 2s. Bombay, Baroda, an Central India, Scrip Central of Italy all Charleroi & Erquain all Demerara 14 [Dijon and Besancon. g iDiitch Rhenish.... all (East Indian 2 Do. Extension all G\ t. Indian Peninsula 10 Gd. Junet. of France 10 Grd. mink of Canada 30 Do. Debentures ....... all Do. do 10 Gt. Central of France all Gt.Westernof Canada Shares Do. Bonds (Ist is.)'s7 154 Hamilton & Toronto all Do. 6 per cent. 5 Lake Const. & Bathe all Lucca & Pistoj a 5 p.c pref 15 Luxembourg 10 Do. (Railway) 2 Do. Prof • 3 Do. (Canal) 5 Do. 6p. at. pref...,... 8 Lyons and Geneva.... 12 Lyons 4 Mediterran 10 Madras 55i Maria Antonia all Do. do. New 2 Melbourne Dk. & all Namur & Liege (with interest) all Do. (ex interest).._ all Northern of Prince., Do. 20/. 3 p. c Bds. all (fmy. B. 41 Aras. Is.: all NorwegianTrtmkPre 10 Paris and Ly0n5...... all Ditto Bonds all Paris and Orleans.... all Paris and R0uen....... all Paris and Strasbour 10 ParisCaen & Cherbrg. 10i Quebec & Richmond all Rouen and Havre...... 12 Royal Danish 2 Royal 5wedi5h..... .... all Sambre and Meuse... 6 Do. 54 p. cent. Pref. 6 Southern of France.. 8 St. Andrew's and Quebee (A) all West Flanders ........ all Do 51 1 per c. Fret_ 10 Western of Franca—. 7 West. of Switzerland 2 Wiesbaden 15 Zealand IdISC: all A.nbin Coal and Iron 17i Australian Agrie ult. 14 Australsn.Pcific.Mail 8 Australn. Royal Mail 4 Berlin Water Works 40 Brit. American Lan 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co. 32i Canada 5 Crystal Palace 4 Do. New 2 Crystal Pal. of France 3 Eastern Steam 20 ElectritTelegraph(A) all Do. (B) 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir 14 Gen. Steam Navigat 18 General Screw Steam 7i Irish Beetroot 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. & Minrl. all Peninsular & Oriental 35 Do. Do. all Portland Iron Co 60 Royal Mail Steam all Scot. Austral. Invest. 25 South Austral. Land all Submar. Telegraph.. all Do. Registered 28i Van Diemen's Land 2 11 3 1 d 1 2 1 - 10 6 - 4 - 5 14 - 2 28 -30 * 39 41 i 11 10 12 50 60 2 4n 1/ - 21 ... - ... I - 1 1 - li 10-11 G - 6i 15 17 1 29 31 8 10 3 4 _ 3 3 —d, • - .# ,^ ~ . :GN. 4 —3ld an 1 -- 1 5 4d - IP , .. - ... , • .-.-• • • • 4 3Vd Zip 1 - a P ...a 10 5 d - 41 -- 31 al 21.4 - 22 9 - 11 -10 p 8 -10 p ... - dis - 5 3 ---- _ 1 d, 3i 2 d - 7 - is 6 i - 7. 297 - 29 8 9 in 11 12/5. 43xd 32 —34 281 -28 i • Pm ... - • **i :--- is .ii - 8 ••• ...". ... --- pm 4 la —2ipad d 3 -- ... --' 6- :GUS _ ia 3 / 4 iii . -. ... 75 - 80 61 - 6t 16 -7 - - 18 ••• --- •• 1 - 3• i - 1 ••• '''''' I —dl, ,•• - ••• i - iP if 2Axcl 34 36 I 1 -11 MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) MEAT MARKETS. NEWGITE AND LEADENIIALL.—The general demand ruled steady at this market to-day, as follows : Beef, from 3s Od to 4 s Od ; Mutton , 3 s 4 d to 48 4d Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 8d ; Veal, 38 6d to 5s Od ; Pork, 3s 4d to 4s 8d per 81bs, by the carcase. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. — Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 5/ Os ; clover ditto, 3/ 15s to 61 Os ; and straw, 1/ 16s to 2/ 2/1 per load. A moderate supply, and a sluggish demand. CIIMBERLAND.—Meadow hay, 2/ 15s to 5/ 5s ; r load. c lover ditto, 3/ 153 to 6/ Os; and straw, 1117 s to 2/ 3 s p Trade rather dull. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow hay, 2 / 12 s to Si Os ; clover ditto, 3/ 15s to 6/ Os ; and straw, 1 / 16s to 2/ 28 per load. Supply good, and trade dull. AVERAGES OF GRAIN. The weekly averages of grain have not been issued to-day. SOUTHAMPTON, Wednesday.—The United States mail steam-ship Washington, Captain E. M. Fitch, sailed to day for New York, taking the usual semi-weekly Ame rican mails, about 250 passengers, a full cargo of more than 600 tons of German, Swiss, French, and British merchandise, shipped from Bremen, Havre, and Southampton. The new American steam-ship Union, of 2,000 tons and 600 horse-power, has been chartered in New York to run during the present season upon the Southampton, Havre, and New York mail line, i n con junction with the stearri-ship Franklin. Th e R oya l mail steam-ship Atrato, with the homeward West India, Mexican, and Pacific mails, is expecte to reach South ampton on Sunday or Monday next d . The Plata will leave on Tuesday, the 2d proximo, with the mails for the same quarter. 10s. 1 10 20 !Paid. LOO (Aberdeen.., 0 8 &lag. Nottng. Bost. and Eastn. 0 all Belfast & Ballymena. 3 , 1 all Birming. Wolverh. Stour Valley ... . . . I 28 Birkenhd. Lanesh. & Cheshire Junet 74 all Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. 2 184 Do., £2O. 5 30 Blyth &Tyne original; £25 (issd. at £45)1 It. 100 Bristol and Exeter It. 100 Caledonian all Chester & Helyhead.l all Cork and Bandon... all Cork, Black, lc Pass 1 12 Cornwall Crieff Junction 45 Dublin&BelfastJunc all Dundee Pertheaber deen Junction all Do. New all [East Anglian all 'Do., (£lB E & all lEaste'rn Counties.. all Eastern Union, A l Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 8i Do., New A 100 East Lancashire 1100 lEdinburgh& Glasgow N l ist Edinb. and Peebles... .00 Edin. Pith &Dundee 1 Forth & Clyde June. .00 lasgow &S. Westorn 100 Great Northern Stk, 100 Do., A. Stock 100 Do., B. Stock 100 Gt. Sth. &West.are, 100 Great Western 12 Irish South -FA -stern all Lancaster & Carlisle 11 Do., Thirds 2 Do. New Thirds 100 Lancash.mlYorksh 18 Do., Fifths 114 D o., Wst. Riding Un all Leeds Northern all Liv.Crsby.&Southpt all London & Blackwall 8i Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. 100 Loud. Bright & S.Cst. 100 Lond. and N. Westn. 12 Do. Fifths i 1D0:101.5h.,31/c13...C 1 2i Do. Eighths 100 4 LondonandS. Westn. 426 Do., .£5O 34 Do., £4O all 1 dndrry& Coleraine all Lndndrry. & Ennisk. 100 Manch.Shef.& Lincln 46 Do., Man. & Lin. Un 100 Midland 100 Do. Birmng. & Derby 47A Midid. G. West. (Ire.) 176 Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & Carlisle 100 Newmarket 56 Do., Bury Extension 176 Nwpt.Aberg. 76 Newry &Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoint and Rostrevor 100 Norfolk 36 Northn.Counties Un 100 North British 16 North Devon, No. 1. all Do., No. 2 all Do., 6 A Deferred g I 0., 6 B Guaranteed all North London 56 Do. New £lO I.t 1, N.&S.Wstrn.,Hamp stead, and City Jn 176 North Staffordshire all North Western 10 N. &S. Westrn. June. 1 Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester .00 Oxford, Worcester, k - Wolverhampton 2/ 2s Portsmouth 100 •••• ottish Central 100 "cottishMidland 100 Shrewsbury &Biamg 100 Do. L. &N. Western Guaranteed Stook 10 Zhrewsby. & flerefd all Shrewsby. & Chester (N. W. MM ; all Do. Halves,2 o all Do. Oswestry 6i Shropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& D,fully paid up at per cent all South Devon 100 South Eastern all South Wales 15 S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun 5 Do 2l 2s Staines,Wok. &Wok all Stockton & Darling. 16 stockton & Hartlepl , 100 Taff Vale 8 Do. £lO shares. 100 Do. Pref., No. 1 21 shames Haven Dock and Railway 17 Vale of Neath all Waterfd. & Kilkenny I all Waterford&Limerick 16 West Cornwall 1 West End of London and Crystal Palace all West London. 51s. Wimbledn & Croydon' •. 100 YorkNewctl.&Berw. 5 20 Do. Extensions 5 131 Do. G.N.E. Purchase b. 100 York &N. Miclland PREFERENCE SHARES, PUBLIC DEPARTMENTS.—Mr. Ewart has a notice of B , t ,'' e t c o t t in h q at ui h re e h w u il w l forth itshysmteornveufforexaanaseinleacttiucnornur motion on the order book of the House of Commons to ''''' t m h i e t t e e f r e 50 other test of efficiency may be adopted, or further ex- 121, tended, in the case of appointments and promotion of stated i c andidates for the different departments of the public 12 se rvice. T so ll in E e C o l f TY th .— e Itvfas papers 2 10 a incorrectlyfTewllledaLyAsTEagOumNißus ROBBERY that, in the case of Day, who was committed upon the 12 charge of stealing the purse of a lady in an omnibus, Sir R. W. Carden said he would accept bail for the prisoner. E, On the day after the committal of Day, Sir R. W. Car- St. den declared on the bench that he never for a moment St. entertained a thought of accepting bail in such a case. THE STOCKPORT STRlKE.—Several rather serious tu- 16i mu lts have already arisen ou t of the strike at Stockport, 10 and the police have had to interfere for the protection of St. such of the work p eo p le as have chosen to acce p t the St. St. t er ms offered by t he em p lo y ers. At three of t h e lar g est mills—Messr s . Eskri gg e and Co.'s, in Heaton-lane, and St. Mr. C. Howard's and Messrs. Marshall's, in Portwood 20 _in place of their full complement of thousands, only st, about 120 in the aggregate are working ; yet, few as the " knobstrcks '' arc (to use the current phrase), the turn- 15 outs have assembled each dinner hour and evening in • ii front of the mills to watch them out and to intimidate 8 them. On Monday night the conduct of one of the 10 turnouts was so violent that the police apprehended him, and he has since been committed to prison. On Tuesday 125 night much larger crowds assembled, and in front of 10 Messrs. Eskrigge and Co.'s mill, in Heaton lane, a 1.0 ( riotous mob proceeded to assaults upon the workpeople, which induced the police again to interfere. Mr. Brown, St. the chief constable, had sent Sergeant Walters and six 20 police constables to pi otect the workpeople on leaving 25 the mill, and this force found it necessary to seize two of „,,, the most active of the mob, who were at once conveyed -4') to the Lockups. The police were fo llowed and stoned, 12 but resolutely did their duty ; and on their return they apprehAded a third m an in the aet of throwing stones. 5 The riotous multitude were discouraged by these ex. St amples of the way they might expect to be dealt with, and soon afterwards began to disperse. The prevalent 17 opinion is, however, that more serious riots will yet 25 I, follow. . 1:1 Ll.OO Aberdeen 1100 Do. No. 2, p. c. 30 Blyth and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issd. at 504 60 Bris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4 p. c. Shares 100 Caledonian £lO all ester & Holyhead Guar. 54 per cent 6i ork &Bandonsip.c all nndee Perth &Aber- deep Junction ii = 96 all EastAngliau (£3103) 6 per cent all frDo. (X 5) 7 per cent 2 Do. (£7l7s) 7p. c all Eastern Counties Ex- 6 -6/ f 4 - 44 tension, 5 p. c. No.l all Do. No. 2 . all Do. New 6 p. c. St. all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent all Do. 51., 10 per cent. all Do. 101. Debentr.Sh -100 East Lancash.6 p. cts. all East and West York shire June. Pref.., all EdinbPrth.&Dundee 5i per cent. too Glasgow &S. Western Guar. 5 per cent 100 Great Northn. sp. c NO Do. 5 p. c. Redeem , at 10 p. c. prem 10 Do. 4 p. c. Scrip 6 Gt.N. of Scot. Ist Pref all Gt. Southn.&Westm. (Ireland) Eighths)... 5 Do. 4 per c. Pref. Sh. 6 Gt. Westn. (Berke - • i - API P 12 - 1 23 - 24 ••• ..."" "''''' 3 -31 .zd Ilia —ll2 I 1 -91 101 - 106 9i Hants Ex. 5 p. c)... 100 Do . cov. red. 4i p. o. 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c. i . F. 20 :1:1000630 Leeds London s.d . p r Pref., e fa. 0.d6n7.dkp54. C. c. 0. Brighton 100 Do. 6p. c. Steck ' p. 9 Do. Quarters, 1848._ Guaranteed 5 p. c St. an Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 100 Do. New Guar.6 p. c 100 Lon. &N. W., Coy. di Nuneaton 5 London &S. Western Con. Thirds. . . A all LondonderrySiColer. A Shares ,7 6 8 xd 94 96 87 89 88 90 lld 128 IS2 all Condy. & Ennis. Sb. all Man., Shef., & Lin., Shares, No. 1. all Do. New, £lO 4? Do. £6 all Niarypt.& Carl. 4 p.c all Do. 4i per cent 10A Do 100" Nfld. Consol.6 p.c.St 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & IZirni. 6 per cent 5 Do. Pref. •q per cent 6 Norfolk Debenture .. 100, Do. Pref. 4 p. c. Stock 100 Do. sp. c. Eat....... 100 Do. 5 per ct.pref.... 100 Do. Way. Val. sp. c. 100 North British ......... all North Staffordshire.. 100 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh.£ls,6 p.c. 15 Do all Scot. Cent. , New Pref all Shrews. S.; Birm.N.G. all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min), 8 p.c. 10 Do. 5 per cent all South Devon . , De. fixed, , 4 per cent all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. 100 Do. 4 ipor cent all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar. all Stockton and Dar lington, 4 per cent. 5 Do. do. do. all Stockton and Hartle pool, guar. 5 p. C. till lst July, 1856 3 Waterfil.&Kilk. 6 p.c. 1.00 York, Neweastle,and Berwick,4 p.c. Pref. 85 3} li P 23 300 20 - 1 so a 5 Do .. .................... ,0 York&N.MidlandH, and S. Purch. ... ~a 25 25 18 20 St. 191 14 50 20 20 10 St. 20 20 10 10 20 20 50 20 90 531 3 86i 74i 96 n 58 1 i per cent 59 8i 2 -ti p 5 81 - 4 --* 1 10 1 1 20 20 20 20 20 25 100 100 20 20, 20 dis 10 5 5 10 20 20 20 641 I 7:3iii 20 10 20 40 20' 20 5 20 15 20 20 20 RANDAL LESLIE'S NEW WORK. The Right Honoiirable Benjamin Disraeli, M.P. A Literary and Political Biography. Addressed to the New Generation. Second Edition. Richard Bentley. Whether is it despicable—we .would place this cause, with implicit confidence as to the nature of the verdict, before a jury selected from the first chance foot-passengers one might happen to meet any day at Charing-cross— whether is it despic able to stab another man's effigy through the me dium of an ingenious satire upon the title-page of which your own name, as its author, is boldly and manfully emblazoned, or to stab another man him self, not his effigy, but the man himself, through the medium of a most elaborate, a most malignant, and a most scurrilous invective,—an invective given to the world, moreover, under the dastardly, cut throat, crape -mask of the anonymous, written less with ink than with vitriol, not so much with the pen as with the poignard, a literary performance, in fact, partaking less of the character of a Biography than a deliberate attempt at assassination ? A question—this—which has been forced upon us by a consideration, firstly of the charge directed against Mr. Disraeli by his many nameless assail ants ; and secondly, of the manner in which those nameless assailants have preferred their accusation. It has been maintained by the enemies of the right hon. gentleman the ex-Chancellor of the Exchequer, these, his secret and masked anta gonists, that he has, both as an orator and as a novelist, rendered himself in the manner already specified peculiarly amenable to the authority, to the laws, to the punishments of the censorship. It has been insisted by these remarkable moralists, that Mr. Disraeli, both in his fictions and in his speeches, has betrayed au extraordinary dereliction of duty, a perfectly wonderful and altogether incom prehensible obliquity of judgment ; and this espe cially in the former, by assailing several of his ac t u al contemporaries under the shadowy hut easily recognisable form of imaginary personages. It has been asserted by these astute and most subtle discriminators between right and wrong, in the conduct of a politician and a man of letters, that in the career of the right honourable gentleman the member for Buckinghamshire there has been something peculiarly dastardly in his mode of deal ing blows about him, both as a romance writer and as a debater in Parliament. In explanation or justi fication of these formidable charges directed against Mr. Disraeli, there have been poured out of the press in rapid succession, and in overwhelming numbers, treatises, and epistles, and essays, and criticisms—in fact, every imaginable species of paper pellet that could be discharged from the culverins and pop-guns of literature, from , a carefully-elaborated review in a Quarterly to a slashing leader in a morning newspaper, from a " thin, acid pamphlet" to a big book, like the book before us, pretending to be a sort of ante humous Biography. Now, between the assailants and the assailed there is, as our first sentence has already indicated, this very glaring and remarkable difference : Mr. Disraeli writes, as he speaks, in propria persona, avowedly, boldly, and manfully in his own charao ter—Mr. Disraeli's censors, on the contrary, as saulting him and his reputation, whether through volume, or pamphlet, or review, or newspaper, all of them, anonymously ! Which of the two, there fore, let us ask again, is in truth the dastardly politician and man of letters—Mr. Disraeli or one of Mr. Disraeli's assailants ? We leave the solu tion of that very transparent problem to the com mon sense of any man in the three kingdoms who can contrive to consider the matter, only for five minutes, dispassionately. It need scarcely be observed in these columns that with Mr. Disraeli's political opinions upon many most important subjects we have no particle of sympathy whatsoever. His persevering advo cacy of the Protectionist principles we were op posed to from first to last diametrically. As Free traders from deliberate conviction, as amongst the earliest advocates of the Free-trade system, as amongst the journalists who from the outset de manded its adoption not by halves, but entirely and thoroughly, we regarded Mr. Disraeli's perti nacity in defending, down to the very last, the obso lete scheme of the monopolists, as a species of abso lute infatuation. True, the Country Party, as such, has at length been broken up and by common consent we have all agreed to abandon henceforth every remembrance of the stormy struggles long maintained between the opponents of the corn laws, and the advocates of the same corn laws, the agriculturists. During the continuance of the struggle, however, both in regard to the Protectionists and in regard to Mr. Disraeli as one , of the conspicuous leaders of the Protectionists, we were always outspoken in our opposition. Precisely in the same manlier that we aro nowadays amongst the most earnest of Mr. Disraeli's antagonists in his character as an avowed enemy of further reform in Parliament. It is per fectly obvious, therefore, that we cannot in any way be viewed as amongst the number of his par tisans. Nevertheless opposed to him, diametrically opposed to him as we have been so often upon matters of vital importance, socially and politically speaking, opposed to him repeatedly as we are at this present period, opposed to him as we fear we may be very frequently hereafter—we cannot assuredly, on that account, remain blind to the variety or splendour of his abilities, any more than, as hero-worshippers in the nobler sense applied to that phrase by Mr. Carlyle, we can remain indifferent to the curious spectacle of the rise and development of his reputa tion. Mr. Bounderby was not one jot more a "self made-man" than the ox-Chancellor of the Exchequer. In Mr. Disraeli we recognise an intellectual athlete who has striven for the prize on the legislative arena, and not seldom successfully, with many notable, some of them historical, competitors—the political gladiators of a generation. Himself the son of a poor scholar, we find him, without any extraneous aid, without the prestige of an uni versity education, without advantages either of birth or connexions, but instead of all this, encum bered with the manifest disadvantages of a Jewish name and a Jewish extraction—winning Fame, winning Power, rising to considerable eminence both in the Senate and in Literature, admitted while yet in the ripeness of his manhood to the councils of his Sovereign, the recognised chief of a great Party, and as such, in fact, at this moment in the House of Commons, the Leader of her Miss jesty's Opposition. Signs—these--if such signs there ever have been, of more than common capa city, of more than usual energy, of more than ordi nary skill, daring, and perseverance. Without this combination of capacity, of energy, of skill, of daring, and of perseverance, Benjamin Disraeli would never have attained his present elevation among his contemporaries. Faults he has, some of them grave faults—but who amongst us is unblemished ? Mistakes he falls into every now and then, and among these mistakes some of them very grievous ones sometimes—but what man has passed well through the summer of his life without having occasionally tripped and blundered. He has told us himself that the Press is his only escutcheon. But it is an escutcheon, at least, un flawed by a bar sinister—with a dint, it may be, gained here and there in the conflict, but without being anywhere blurred by one of those indelible stains which are the "damning blots" on the blazonry. Without some better and nobler quali ties than those conceded to him by his concealed calumniators, he could sc arcel y have attained the popularity of which he cannot be derived b y p the deadliest hatred of his opponents. Other wise how would it be possible to account for the enthusiasm of his ovation in . the Acade mic Theatre at Oxford, at the period of Lord Derby's installation ? Adventurers of dastardly a n d sinister repute are not usually the favourit es o f those not wholly depraved children of alma mater, the undergraduates. No—there must, perforce, be something more remarkable here than the diatribes directed against Mr. Disraeli by the mob of his lurking detractors would lead the public to conjec ture. Otherwise the object of their affected scorn, and the theme of their scurrilities, and the subject of t h e i r sustained and malignant vituperation, could never, we repeat, have risen to his present elevation in the Senate and in Literature. Other wise, the student, and the son of a student, could never have won go brilliantly for himself the privilege of leading a powerful section of the Legislature, or of himself representing iu it the county for whi c h J o h n H amp d en sat of old—that of Buckingham. Otherwise, again, the popular novelist, the writer whose love stories and romances-of-chivalry are littered about the bookstalls of the railway stations with the fictions of Scott, and Bulwer, and Dickens, could scarcely have won at the same time with his literary repu tation the political glory and power of aiding in the equipoise of parties in the House of Commons, as the acknowledged leader of the Legislative forces opposed to those of the Government. Distinguished, however, amongst the ablest of his contemporaries by these strongly contrasting evidences of his ability, Mr. Disraeli is scarcely less distinguished among them all by the variety and virulence of his anonymous vituperators. It has long been thus—ever since, in fact, the novelist began to have readers and the orator to obtain the ear of the Commons House of Parliament. Un assisted by birth or patronage, the right hon. gentle man has, throughout his career, from the first hour of his setting out on the road of fortune, foun d it necessary to advance towards the attainment of the twin reputation of letters and statesmanship, through the perpetually recurring dangers of an implacable and ferocious ambuscade. Poisoned shafts have fallen about by the way—pointless and unfeathered. There have been continual gleams of the blunt stiletto, and incessant flashes of the unloaded blunderbuss. Perhaps these anony mcius attacks were never more numerous, certainly they were never more violent, or more inveterate, more violent in language, or more inveterate in hostility, than they were recently during the win ter of 1853-1854, immediately prior to the re assembling of the Legislature. The Government hacks were industrious, every one of them, in be spattering the leader of the Opposition. Not a weapon at command but was turned against the common enemy—the archfoe of a rather deli cately:situated Administration. The Mons Meg o f Printing-house-square thundered at him of a morn ing. And before nightfall there was an echoing discharge from the little Colt's Revolver of the Treasury. No epithets, as applied to Mr. Disraeli, were too coarse for his vilifiers. Decorum had no part in the arrangement of their vocabulary. The Times decently likened the statesman to a "bawd." The Chronicle as decently spoke of his descending to a " detested grave." One might have fancied at moments that party spirit had become so far degraded as to seek expression for its malignity in the language of the brothel and in the phrenzy of the hell. Judginc , from the fury of the attack, directed against the Leader of the Opposition dur ing the interval which elapsed between the proro gation and the reassembling of the Legislature, there must have been a wonderful dread as to the force of his anticipated onslaught upon the Government. The supporters of the Govern ment, as was justly said at the time, were cry ing out before they were hurt ! At length— after all these reiterated personalities in journals, and magazines, and pamphlets, and quarterlies— the hydra of invective sprouted another head, bigger than all its predecessors put together. It was no longer a column of abuse, or half-a-dozen octavo pages of vituperation. It was a huge volume extending to 646 of these octavo pages—a volume embellished with the name of the assailed, " The scarcely Right we Honourableneed Be a hi cld a , lni w il ith D o ie ut rae t li h ' at M of .P the i but, assailant—" A Literary and Political Bi • ography," and this, too, "Addressed to the New Generation." of Blackwood at once d u bb e d the authorthe work Randal Leslie. And as the performance of Randal Leslie we at once accept it. In every syllable it is worthy of him. It is worthy of him in its concep tion as well as in its execution. It is clever to a certain extent ; it is laboriously compiled ; it is elaborately arranged ; it is scurrilous to the last degree ; it is by turns pert and then insolent ; it is, besides all this, flippant and affected—affected even to pedantry, and flip pant to impertinence, throughout. Unfortu nately for its writer, indeed, he contrives in al most every page to reveal not only the spite of Randal Leslie, but the priggishness of Barnes New come. So that the performance altogether might have been absolutely revolting from its ferocity, but that, from its ignorance, it became simply ridicu lous. Closing this volume of envenomed personality, and turning back to the title-page, one is almost surprised to find that Curll is not the publisher, or that Holywell-street is not the locality from which it makes its appearance. It was observed only the other day by a reviewer in the Quarterly, when speaking of Laurence Sterne, that his wit was frequently nothing better than the phosphorescence of corruption. It might so be remarked of whatever ability may be discovered in this corrupt and corrupting performance. It has about it the taint of decomposition. It is utterly without that soul of books—a noble purpose. En gendered by the heat of a most despicable animosity, it conies forth at once still-born and an abortion. The beginning of its exist ence was only the commencement of its decay. So will it ever be with those detestable and dastardly assaults of the hidden traducer upon the reputation of a living contemporary—be the stab given with the cutlass of the venal critic, or the dagger-of-lath of the hireling pamphleteer. What says Pope in his " Prologue to the Satires ?" Why [sic. verbatim et literatind, that " Ne'er one sprig of laurel graced these ribalds, From slashing Bentley down to piddling Tibbalds !" No—rather, in lieu of that, a whole forest of birch. Rather than the rustling bay-garland, the jingling cap-and-bells. And so, borrowing a phrase from Bob Sawyer, who talked of quaffing malt liquor in its "native pewter," let us toss this preposterous volume from us with a laugh into its native waste paper basket. Alexander Pope's " Imitations of Horace Prologuo to the Satires—line 163. METRO£OLITIN GOSSIP,—LONDON, Saturday Evening. —Perhaps it is only proper that men of shuttle•cock opinions should be the sport of the winds in popular caprice ; and accordingly the Cabinet, who have been sitting in Council several hours this evening, have been estimated throughout the day with very varying degrees of appreciation. Since symptoms of negative success, if one may say so, have begun to be apparent on the side of Russia, the Czar has been advancing in the good graces of our commercial patriots ; and now that it is no longer so certain as it lately seemed to be that Omer Pasha was going to make mincemeat of the Moseovites, the Sultan is descending in the scale of the same cos: mopolitan philosophers, who measure all merit by pro sperity. Hence the luggishness of our Black Sea sailors is made light of by men who would be explosively indignant were it self-evident that the autocrat was going to be doubled up in the ignoble manner the Unadorned One once proposed to dispose of the house of Romanoff aid all belonging to them. Undoubtedly the Premier is not censured so freely as he was, notwithstanding the unexpected scathings of Wednesday's Thunderer on the procrastinators in the pugnacity line ; and, somehow, a notion seems to be springing up that Aberdeen, after all, has been considerably further north than was at first supposed, and that he will have the world one of these days his way of thinking as to the wickedness of the war, and the consequent wisdom of John Bright. Some strange tales are in circulation about the real, or imputed real reasons of his lordship's reluctance in beginning the fight, and in pursuing it as he ought to do. The mode of getting at these supposed reasons is by a very circum locutary process of induction ; but such as it is said to be here it is :-- Among the frequenters of Argyle-house and known personal partisans of the premier is the member for County Tyrone, Lord Claude Hamilton, brother of Prince Albert's groom of the stole, the Marquis of Aber corn. Lord Claude, in addition to the tolerably notori ous Kremlin predilections of his family, has lately been loud-tongued in private society, and not altogether mute in public, in censuring the quarrel with Russia as a tempting of Providence, an impiety, a desecration of Christianity on behalf of Mahoramedism, and an every thing that is anything but what it ought to be. Now, it is inferred, with what justic e y ou are just as good a judge as anybody else, that Lord Claude's opinions are not merely his own, but his brother's ; that his brother's are Albert's, and that Albert's are Aberdeen's. The Premier is reported by some of his Scotch cousins to have in him a considerable spice of the old Caledonian Calvanistic predestinarian, being in that respect a to lerable Turk ; he thinks, as many of the Osmanlis them selves are said to do, that the period of the Porte's po litical presence in Europe has arrived at a full stop ; that it is all up with the Ottoman ; and that, whether it is or not, it would be an uncorking of all the vials of celestial wrath seriously to assist such sons of perdition against a crowned Christian, who makes the cross his emblem, and the delivery of the faithful from the thral dom of the infidel his battle-cry. This being so, if so it be, adepts in the science of seeing into a mill-stone have no difficulty in discerning a clue to the creep-mousey e as t o eß n r d ,u u sc e shi t aa o nr af in ntdh reality, i Ct with a b t i h neae and , da e rt s h p e ex e c e o i c a tu l h l t y ei vr e w h, h ah e l fa n p pb t y h e n e s affinity very to be m halfinmini ster, and. alliance. --L iverpool Albion. A MAN POISONED 13‘1 HIS WlFE.—Scarcely have the circumstances of the brutal child murder at Milford Derbyshir e , su b s id e d, th an t h e county has been again, thrown into considerable excitement by the poisoning of a husb an d b y hi s w if e, at Hardstaff, in the same county. The facts of the case may be gleaned from the following narrative :—About six weeks ago a man named James Cutts, residing at Hardstaff, and by trade a bricklayer, was taken ill with a fever, from which he had recovered, and during the time of his illness his wife was continually quarreling with him. On Tuesday week she made a pudding for dinner, of which he partook heartily. In the afternoon he wee seized with vomiting and complained of great acidity on his stomach. He gradually grew worse, and on Wed nesday he died. After his death his relatives and friends applied to see him ; but the wife refused to allow them. On the day that she had been making the pudding, the deceased's two girls, about 10 and 11 years old, observed Mrs. Cutts put something from a paper, which was on a box in the room, in the pudding ; but they were 11(4 aware what it was. They happened, by accident, to tell the circumstance to the deceased's brother, who made in quiries and ascertained that the stuff contained in the paper was arsenic. The deceased had been buried before these cire comstances were brought to light. He communicated with a Mr. Makorzie, the surgeon, and other persons who advised him to inquire into the matter. The coro ner having been made acquainted with the nature of the case, he ordered the exhuination of the body, which had been interred in the .Ault liticknall church, and a pose mo rim examination of the same, which was performed by two medical men. The contents of the stomach were ex tracted and analysed, and arsenic was clearly proved to be in the stomach. The coron cr, Mr. C. S. B. Busby, held an inquest on the body at Clay-cross on Monday, when the evidence of the medical men :mil others was taken, but as it was deemed advisable to examine other witnesses, and have a more minute analysis, the inquest was adjourned. Mr. Makorzie, the medical gentleman who had attended the deceased in his illness, had not visited him from the time he partook of the pudding up to the period of hie death, as he was then almost convalescent. The deceased and his wife had not lived agreeable for some time past, as he suspected she had formed an improper intimacy with other moll. The deceased was thirty-three years of age, and the father of six children. The case hail , . excited great interest in that part of the county. 5 a in Tres vice "ye bat to MI M