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If the ammn tg their to Rus pon the I nega )y Lord regards )37 . both At the ived in rms. decree ivy was by the :es spe second 351 are Bourse , public 3 Three If. 40c., at 68f. ar-and is Rail , 430 f.; 720 f. 820 f. ; !entral, Lares of speaks ve and 'ranee, ;ration ; confi o form f mea marese itional Court 'Ares at Ber ) with at ely. Lrd to unce ?arrna. con- 7each- e 23d about I was iglish AIIE RICA. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ARRIVAL OF THE CANADA. LIVERPOOL, MONDAY, 10.30 A.M. By the Roya] mail steamer Canada we have advices from New York to the 17th, and Boston to the 18th instant. The Canada passed the steamer Niagara, for Boston, on the 21st, in lat. 45.40, long. 56.30 ; and on the 27th, in lat. 51, long. 21, passed the steamer Arabia, for Boston. The Canada experienced strong north-westerly gales after leaving Halifax, and on the 26th the weather was very violent, with thun der and lightning. She has brought 108 passengers and 232,539 dots. in specie on freight. The steamer Europa arriTed. at New York on the 16th inst. There is no news of importance from the United States. • The New York Stock-market was heavy and lower. Money in good demand, and easy, at 9 to 12 per test. for short class paper, and 7 per cent. on call. Exchange on London 109 to 109! i . Flour in good demand at an advance of 23 cents. per barrel. Wheat firm but unaltered. Indian corn, 2c. to 3c. per bushel easier. Cotton without material alteration. Scotch pig iron firm. Sales 150 tons, at $4O. In freights, no cLange. TILE STRIKE'S'. CONFERENCE AT THE SOCIETY OF ARTS. (THIS DAY.) A very crowded meeting was held this morning at the rooms of the Society of Arts, for the purpose of holding a conference on the question of "strikes and lock-outs." Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P., in the chair. There was a large attendance of the representatives of different branches of the various trades. Amongst those present were the Right Hon. Mr. Tuffnell, M.P., Mr. Hindley, M.P., Mr. Wilkinson, M.P., Mr. J. B. Smith, M.P., Mr. Sidney Smith, Mr. Daniel Whittle Harvey, Mr. Dillon (firm of Morrison, Dillon, and Co.), Mr. Ernest Jones, &c., &c. The noble lord, in opening the proceedings, said that privations and pains had been inflicted by these strikes on parties whose interests were identical with each other, and whose welfare was bound up one with another. (Cheers.) The only object the council had in issuing the invitations, which he was glad to see had been accepted by so many persons, was to promote peace and harmony between the employer and the employed. Oa the question of combinations, which stood first on the list, being read, as to whether they were objection- Able, or whether they were necessary, Mr. ERNEST JONES rose to move a resolution, but upon reading it, Mr. NEWTON (of the amalgamated engineers) rose to order. The noble CHAIRMAN declared the resolution not to be in conformity with the rules of the conference, and Mr. JONES said he considered the conduct of the Chairman unjust, and withdrew. There then ensued a lengthy discussion on the subject of strikes, in the course of which very different views were enunciated. The conference was addressed by working men as well as by masters. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Jan. 30.—• Wind this day at Noon, W. ; light sirs. . .._ RAMSGATE, Jan. 29.—Wind, W. by N. Arrived—Pe tra, from London, for Bilboa ; Louisa Henrietta, New castle, for Carthagena. Off Port -Caribbean, from Santa Martha, for Bremen—she has been supplied with an anchor and chain.—The Sea Queen, from London to Hong Kong, in entering the harbour yesterday, struck the East pier, Started starboard side and deck, is making water, and must discharge to repair. DEAL, Jan. 29.—The Ageneria (sloop), of Wisbeach, from Poole to Lee, with clay, sprung a leak to-day, off Beachy Head, an I was abandoned ; crew were taken on board the Diana (brig); for Southampton, and landed here. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 29.—Wind, W. Arrived—Tromso, for St. Übes, with loss of foretopmast head and jibboom. FALMOUTH, Jan. 29.—Wind, S.W., strong. Arrived— Britannia, from Rio Grande, with mainboom carried away, kc., and loss of bulwarks. Sailed—Electric Flash, for St. Michael's ; Florence, do. ; Rapid, Terceira. PLYMOUTH, Jan. 29.—Wind, S.W. The Adroit, from Parr to Liverpool, put in here this morning, having shipped at sea off the Dodman, which filled her decks, Stove the boat, &c., and washed one man overboard ; the Same vessel, two hours afterwards, came in contact with the Hope, of and from Fowey, 'and lost bulwarks, sail, atancheons, &c.—the Hope losing bulwarks, &c. GRIMSBY, Jan. 28.—The Two Brothers (smack), of and for Hull, was abandoned yesterday, after being in contact "with the Antelope (s), from Linn to London ; crew saved by the steamer, and landed here to-day. YeitmouTH, Jan. 27.—The John and Mary, of Ipswich, was abandoned at sea yesterday, having boen in contact With a brig ; crew saved. CROOKHAVEN, Jan. 27.—The Brothers, of Swansea, drove from her moorings is Ballydonegan Bay, where she had been lying to take in a quantity of copper ore for Swansea, during a. heavy gale on the 25th Jan., whilst the crew were on shore, and became a total wreck. SUNDERLAND, Jan. 28.—Wind, N.W. Sailed—Snow drop, for Havannah ; William Briggs, Carthagena. (ET ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Monday, 9.30 A.M. Wind N.W. ; strong breeze, and damp. - The steamer Canda, with New York advices to the 17th, was off Voel Nant at 8 o'clock. She will arrive about half-yast 10, Arrived—Margaret (s.), from Havre ; Jane and Esther, and Eleanor and Alice, Loudon. QUEENSTOWN ; JAN. 28. Wind, S.W., moderate. Arrived—James Stewart, from Pernambuco ; Eliza llorrison. Callao for London ; Napan Belle, Liverpool, Alexandria. Sailed—Mercury, for London. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 10 a.m. Wind, W., fine, ono hours' flood. Arrived—Lion (s), from Harlingen ; Magnet, Niow Dien; Lionno, Gravolines ; Queen (s), Harlingen. DEAL, Monday, 9.15 a.m. Wind, W., very fine. Passed —Sunbeam, from Callao, from London ; Old Pfickroy, Shanghai ; Sir John Rae Reid, St. Kitts, Lon don ; Nelsons Proctor, Venice. Anchored—Surge, from London to Hong-Kong, coming down. Sailed—Sierra Nevada, for the river ; American, for Southampton. PROSPECTS FOR EMIGRANTS TO CANADA. The Commissioners of Emigration, in their thirteenth report to Parliament, give the following extract from a despatch addressed to them by A. C. Buchannan, Esq., the emigration agent of the Government of Canada, sta tioned at Quebec, on the prospects of emigrants to Canada :—" The prospects and demands for labour are Most satisfactory. The immense railway system under taken by the provinces will greatly stimulate general Prosperity, involving, as it will, the introduction and expenditure of a large amount of capital, which will secure steady and profitable employment for the labour ing classes for several years to come ' • so that Canada never presented a favourable opening for the reception of all classes of her Majesty's subjects, or such others, as desire to seek a comfortable home. The demand for l abour of every kind is on the increase. The wages paid for unskilled labour are 4s. per day sterling." Mr. Yawke, the emigration agent for Western Canada, speaks in similar terms : " I have," he says, " conversed with Many intelligent persons on the subject, and they are of opinion that able-bodied, unskilled labourers will be able to command a dollar a day. Agricultural labourers Must either get equal wages, or the farmers will not be able to retain them in their service. As these extensive Works will not be completed for several years, and as such a large outlay of money will stimulate every other branch of business, I do not think it will be possible to Overstock the labour market for many years to come; in fact, the prospects before us are of the most cheering description, and capitalists, merchants, mechanics, farm servant s and common labourers , ma y safel y calculate on finding in Canada an abundant demand for skill, capital and labour, to a profitable, as well as to an almost un limited extent." The arrangements made by the Government of Canada for the reception and protection of emigrants on their arrival at Quebec contrast in a remarkable manner with the want of such arrangements at New York, and the other ports of the United States, to which emigrants are Conveyed from Europe. On the arrival of each emigrant s hip in the River St. Lawrence. she is boarded by the Medical officer of the Emigrant Hospital at Grosse Isle, situated a few miles below Quebec, and whenever disease prevails in a ship the emigrants are landed, and remain at th e hospital, at the expense of the Colonial Govern- Ment, until they aro cured. On the ship's arrival at Quebec, Mr. Buchannan, the Government agent of emi grants, proceeds at once on board, for it is his duty to advise and protect each emigrant on his arrival. He inquires into all complaints, and sees that the pro visions of the Passenger Act are strictly enforced. This he is enabled to do in a most effectual manner, as, under an arrangement sanctioned by the Com. Missioners of Emigration in Great Britain, when ever an emigrant vessel leaves any British port for Quebec, the emigration officer of th a t po r t fo r wa r ds to Mr. Buchannan, by mail steamer, a duplicate list of her Passengers, with their names, ages, sex, trade, &c. This list is usually received by him two or three weeks before the vessel reaches Quebec, so that he is not only fully Prepared for her arrival, but is furnished with every Particular which may be useful to him in protecting the e migrants. If just cause of complaint exist he institutes, under a very summary law of the province of Canada, legal proceedings against the master ; but so thoroughly are the value and efficiency of this officer felt, that within a very short period, subsequent to his appoint ment, it has very rarely been found necessary to take such proceedings. In cases where emigrants have ar rived without sufficient funds to take them to places Where employment is most abundant and remunerati ve , their i fares have been paid by Mr. Buchannan' out of the t om in his possession for the purpose. Emigr an t s "rn other than British ports experience precisely the la jue protection at the hands of Mr. Buchanan. In 1853 about one-sixth of the emigration to Canada was Ger -84 and Norwegian, COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, JAN. 28. The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Cambridge, Lord John Russell, the Right Hon. the Speaker and Mrs. Lefevre, the Lady-in- Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, Major the Hon. James Macdonald, Sir James Clark, and Mr. Gibbs. The band of the Ist Life Guards attended in the Castle during dinner, and played the following selection : March, " Sultan" Overture, " Ruy Blas" . Mondelssohn. Aria, " Martha' Walzer, " Emphehlungs-Briefo" Kaulich. Potpourri, "National and Operatic airs" Znlchner. Galop, " Signal" March, " Hamburgher Wallhalle" Herzog. . Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended in the evening, and played the following compositions : Overture, " Guillaume Tell" Canzone, " Rigoletto" Finale (third act.), " Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor" Otto Nicolai. The Duke of Catnbridg,e, Lord John Russell, and the Right Hon. the Speaker and Mrs. Lefevre, left the Castle to-day for London. The Earl of Aberdeen and Sir James and Lady Graham arrived at the Castle this afternoon on a visit to the Queen. Prince Albert, accompanied by the Duke of Cam bridge, went out shooting thi, morning, attended by Lord Rivers, Viscount Torrington, Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Major the Hon. James Macdonald. The dinner party this day included the Duchess of Kent, the Earl of Aberdeen, the Lady-in-Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Baroness de Speth, Col. the Hon. C. B. Phipps, Sir Jas. and Lady Graham, and Sir G. Couper. _ The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in attend ance during dinner, and performed the following pieces : Overture Mehul. Selection, " Le Prophete " Meyerbeer. Overture Adam. Selection, "Anna Bolena " Donizotti. Marien Quadrille Herfurth. The Queen's private band attended after dinner in the Castle, and played the following selection : Concert Overture (MS.) W. G. Cousins. Morceau D'Ensemble, " Marie " Herold. Selection, " Sinfonia Pastorale " Beethoven. JAN. 29. The Queen and Prince, the Prince of Wale., the Princess Royal, Princess Alice, and the Duchess of Kent, the ladies and gentlemen of the court, and the domestic household, attended divine service this morning in the Private Chapel of the Castle. The Earl of Aberdeen and Sir James and Lady Graham were also at the service. The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley officiated. Her Majesty will hold a Privy Council this (Monday) afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. A. Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon at the Foreign-office, Downing street. The ministers pre sent were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and Sir William Molesworth. The Council sat two hours and a half. A deputation from Kingston-upon-Thames, consisting of the Mayor of Kingston, Messrs. William Mercer, William Walter, Samuel Ranyard, William Clerk, and Robert Brown, had an interview on Saturday with Sir William Molesworth, at the Office of Public Works and Buildings, in Whitehall-place. Earl Granville, Lord President of the Privy Council, gave a grand dinner to the Cabinet Ministers and the Great Officers of State of the Queen's Household on Saturday, at his residence in Bruton-street. At the meeting, the roll of High Sheriffs for the counties of England and Wales for the present year was settled preparatory to its being submitted to the Queen in Council. The company present were Lord J. Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the lord Chancellor, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, the Earl of Clarendon, the Duke of Newcastle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, Sir Wm. Molesworth, Earl Spencer (Lord Steward), Mr. C. C. Greville and the Hon. William Bathurst, Clerks of the Privy Council. Lord John Russell arrived in town on Saturday morn ing from Windsor Castle. The Earl of Aberdeen left town on Saturday after noon, after the Cabinet Council, for Windsor Castle. The Queen and Prince, attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting, arrived at Buckingham Palace to-day about two o'clock ; and her Majesty will hold a Privy Council this afternoon for giving assent to the Royal Speech on the opening of Parliament, and will prick the roll of high sheriffs for the respective counties of England and Wales for the present year. To-morrow the Queen will open Parliament in person, and her Majesty is expected to return to Windsor in the afternoon of the same day (and not on Wednesday, as has been stated), after the important state ceremony. A succession of visitors is expected to arrive at the Castle during the latter part of the week. THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT. To-morrow the Queen will open Parliament in person, and in the usual state. Her Majesty's speech on that most eventful occasion will be in every respect worthy of the free Parliament of a great nation. Whilst la menting the unhappy circumstances forced upon Euro pean attention in a manner so violent and so needless, the Queen of this great country will utter no sentiment unworthy of her subjects or of herself. She will an nounce no halting or unworthy policy to Parliament, and she will appeal to her people—not unsuccessfully— for their full and cordial sustainment, to surmount the difficulties which her Government has not inaugurated, but which, on the other hand, they have done everything to avert, and which they are most fully prepared to meet and to overcome. On the very first day of the session the papers relating to the Eastern question will be laid on the table of both houses of Parliament, and an early discussion will be courted by the ministers them selves into the whole circumstances that have taken place_ since the last session. The whole question will be me£ in the fullest and frankest spirit on the ministerial side of the house. Without being in the secrets of the opposition, we believe we may state that no amendment will be moved to the address in either house. An early day, however, will be fixed by ministers themselves for the fullest discussion.—Observer. A. supplement to the Gazette of Friday night contains the following : Palace of Westminster, Lord Great Chamberlain's office, Jan. 27, 1854. All peeresses, on announcing their intention of being present on the occasion of the opening of Parliament, on Tuesday, the 31st instant, will have places reserved for them in the House of Lords, if the announcement be made at this office before five o'clock on Monday, the 30th inst. • Peers' eldest sons will have tickets for the Peers' eldest Sons' Box forwarded to them, upon a written or personal application at the office. No strangers can be admitted except by a ticket from the Lord Great Chamberlain. The doors will be opened at twelve o'clock. WILLOUGHBY DE ERESBY, G.C. THE MOVERS AND SECONDERS OF THE ADDRESS. The Earl of Carnarvon, who is to move the address in the House of Lords, has not long attained his majo rity, having been born in 1831. His father, who died in 1849, was a strong Protectionist, but never took a very ac ti v e part in public life, having been of a studious character. The Earl of Ducie, who seconds the address, is the son of the well-known Free Trade Peer, the late Earl Ducie. The present Earl, when Lord Moreton, sat in the House of Commons some time as member for Stroud, which he vacated last year on the death of his father, and his elevation to the peerage. Viscount Castlerosse, who will move the address in the Commons, is the member for the county of Kerry. Ile is the eldest son and heir apparent of the Earl of Kenmore, who is the owner of large possessions in that county. Mr. Thomson Hankey, the seconder, is member for Peterborough. lie is a partner in the well-known banking house in the City, and has been an active mem ber of the Society for the Reform of the Customs De partment. DEATH OF THE CITY COMPTROLLER. —The corpora tion of London have lost one of their officers, during the present inquiry, by the death of Mr. Thomas Saunders, the Comptroller of the Chamber, a gentleman well known in the benevolent world. Besides controlling the rents and revenues of the corporation, he was their conveyancing solicitor, his department embracing all the law business relating to the large property of the corpo ration, and the completion of the purchases for the new otreets to St, Faurti And clorkowell. THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 30, 1854, MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) SHARE MAIRKETS. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. (THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Shr. Paid. RAILWAYS. Leasing Closing Prices Business Compans. Saturday. this day. 50 all Bedford and London & Bletehley.... N. West St. 100 Buckgliamsh. L.&N.W. 99 101 50 all ClydesdaleJe. Caledon 50 —52 St. 100 E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Gt.Nrthn. 139 141 25 all Glas. Barr. & Caldonian. Neils. Direct ••• ••• 25 all Do. New...... Do 25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr Gt. Westn 30 32 100 all firtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New. Railway..... & Berw. 50 all Hull & Sely Y. &N kid 108 110 25 all Do. A Shares. Do 54 55 12A all Do. Shares. Do 261 271 - 131 all Lon.&Greenw S. Eastern 134 —l3lxd x d 20 all Do. Preference Do 241 251 20 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Norfolk — 20 WO Do. 6 per et. .. . 52 all blanch. Bxtu. and Matlock & Miclld. 21 3 50 all Middlesbro' & Stekton & Itedear Darlingt. 100 all Midld.Bradfd Midland.. 97 99 50 all Northern and Eastcrnsp.e. E. Count. 59 61 50 -.c. Do. 6 per et. Do . 50 all Do. Fixedsp h Do .•• 25 all ?rest. & Wyr( L. & N.W &Lui&Yk 121 12 Do. A ;Mares. Do 25 18F 1. 1100 00 8 G u3 t o. N . 138138 cash & Goole g . 5 p.c. Yorksh.• dis 12 9A 5. Staffordsh. A.MClean 21 11 50 all Wear Valleygi itockt. & 6 per cent... Darlingt. 25 all Do Do 3O 31 St. 100 Wilts&Somrs , GtWestn. 95 -- 97xd 95A The provincial markets held on Saturday wero mode rately supplied with wheat, in which only a limited busi ness was transacted, at about stationary prices. Barley, the show of which was good, moved off heavily, on easier terms. The oat trade was steady. In beans, peas, and flour, very little was doing. BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices Saturday. I St, Business done this day. 50 The continental markets have been tolerably firm for most sorts of grain, the supplies of which have been moderato. The last advices from New York state that both wheat and flour were rising in price. The arrivals of English grain up to our market, last week, were very moderate. From abroad, we received 9,963 quarters of wheat, 400 of bailey, 1,918 oats, 66 beans, 9,780 linseed, 1,029 rapeseed, 10 sundry seeds, 3,089 sacks, and 10,152 barrels of flour. The quantity of home-grown wheat received fresh up to-day, coastwise and by land carriage, was on a very moderate scale and in but middling condition. The show of samples of both red and white was, therefore, small. The attendance of town millers was tolerably good, but from distant parts it was limited. For all kinds of wheat of home produce the demand was in a very sluggish state. Fine parcels, however, were held at full prices ; but the value of other kinds was the turn in favour of buyers. We were tolerably well, but not to say extensively, sup plied with foreign wheat. The continental demand ap pears to have ceased for the present, and the amount of business doing for home consumption was limited, at barely last Monday's currency. Floating cargoes commanded very little attention, but • we have no decline to notice in prices. We had a very dull trade for barley—the supply of which was moderate—at a decline of from is to 2s per quarter. Malt was very dull, and lower to purchase. The supply was tolerably good. We were scantily supplied with oats. As dealers were looking forward to inward arrivals from Ireland, no ad vance took place in prices, with a moderate demand. Both beans and peas were in fair average supply, and sluggish request on former terms. LO I 7 5 3 ',OI 2s. The demand for flour was less active. In the quotations, no change took place. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red • • .. new 741 to 863 Ditto .• • • ........ old 80s 863 Oitto, White new 76s 92s Ditto ...• .... old 803 92s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old 74s 86s Ditto new .• 745 865 Rye—Old • • .• .• •• 51s 52s New • • • • • • ...... 503 51s Barley—Grinding ..... 35s 43s Malting ..• ...... 433 46s Chevalier...• • •• 473 49s Malt—Suffolk and Nor folk • • • • • • •••• • • 66s 71s Brown.•••••••••••••• 60s 62s KingstonandWare 73s 76s Malt—Chevalier •• 76s to 77s 'Oats Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feed 28s 32a Potato 328 343 Youghal and Cork Black. 28s 30s Cork, White ..... 27e 23s Scotch, Feed. 32s 35s Beans—Tick .•••. • • .. 448 52s Pigeons ...... 489 62s Peas—Grey ..••• • • • • • 44s 48s Maple. ••••• • • • • • 47s 52s • White .••• • • -• 58s 64s _ _ Boilers -• •• •• •• •• 60s 65s Flour—Town-mr de.— 705 75s Suffolk •• •• •• •• •• 645 685 Stockta Li, Norfolk 64s 72s SMITHFIELD. The imports of foreign stock into London last week were moderate —namely, 1,899 head. During the corresponding period of 1853, we received 3,219 ; in 1852, 2,446 • 1851, 2,651; in 1850 , 454 ; in 180, 1,350 ; and in 1848, 443 head. IMPOLTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Harlingen 579 ... New I dep ll2 ... Ostend — Antwerp l2 ... Rotterdam l5B ... Dunkirk 190 ... Calves. Pigs. 12 .. 16 ... 25 ... ... --. ... 24 ... 16 25 ~. - T0ta1.... 861 —. 747 ... - ... 275 ... 16 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under : Beasts. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1853 556 ... - 428 3 Sheep. 2,232 ....... 1852 640 ... 1,477 ... 1851 564 ._ 1,912 ". 1850 5l 200 -. 1849 369 ... 799 ▪ 321 • 350 • 203 ... ▪ 182 The show of foreign stock in to-day's market was limited, and, for the most part, in very middling condition. On the breaking up of the frost in Holland, very large imports may be anticipated from that quarter. With home-fed beasts we were rather scantily supplied, the numbers being considerably less than on Monday last. Although the at tendance of buyers was by no means large, the beef trade ruled steady, at, in most instances, an advance in the quo tations of 2d per 81b., and a good clearance was effected. The primest Scots realised 4d per 81b. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Esser, and Cambridgeshire, we received 1,800 Scots and short horns ; from other parts of England, 800 of various breeds ; and from Scotland, 330 horned and polled Scots. Nothwithstanding that the show of sheep was limited, the demand for that description of stock, arising from the large supplies of meat in Newgato and Leadenhall, was inactive. In prices, however, we have no change to notice. The primest old Downs sold at 5s 2d per Sib.; a few shear lings were brought forward. Scarcely any calves were on offer, hence prices were very irregular. A very superior calf was worth 6s per Slb. Pigs were in short supply and sluggish request, on for mer terms. Per Slbs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 4 to 3 6 Second quality.... 3 S 3 10 Prime large oxen 4 0 4 4 Primo Scots, &c. 4 6 4 8j Inferior Sheep 2 3 6I Second quality ...3 8 4 4j Prime crse.-wlled. 4 6 4 81 s. d. s. d. Prime Southdown 4 10 5 2 ILarge crse. calves 4 6 5 4 Prime small d 0... 5 6 6 0 Largo hogs 3 0 4 2 Small porkers 4 4 410 ISucklin,gcalves ..23 0 29 0 tQuarter old pigs 21 0 27 0 TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts ..•• •• 4,141 Sheep ...................18,7 5 0 Calves ..•• ..•• .• 64 Pigs ..•• ................ 2.4 A statement and comparison 01 stock exhibited and sold in Monday, Jan. 31, 1853, an 1854. Per 81bs, to si FOREIGN SUPPLY. 8ea5t5......... . • 949 Sheep ...... ....•• •• 35 ..... f the supplies and prices of fat I Smithfield Cattle Market, ou td this day, Monday, Jan. 30, ink the offals. Jan. 31, 1853. 'Jan. 30,1854 s. d. s. d. Is. d. s. d Coarse and inferior beasts ... 2 Bto 2 10 3 4to 3 6 Second quality ditto ... 3 0 3 2 3 8 310 Prime large oxen ... ..• 3 4 2 6 4 0 4 4 Prime Scots, &c 3 8 4 0 4 6 4 8 Coarse and inferior sheep ... 3 8 310 3 2 Second quality ditto ... 4 0 4 4 3 8 Prime coarse woolled ditto ... 4 6 4 8 4 6 Primo Southdown ditto ... 410 5 04 10 Large coarse calves ... 3 8 4 6 4 6 Prime small ditto ... 4 8 5 0 5 6 Large hogs 210 3 6 3 0 Neat small porkers ... 3 8 4 0 4 4 Beasts.., 4,615 Sheep ..; 17,720 Calves... 236 SUPPLIES ON SALE, Feb. 2, 1 852.—Boasts, 4,176; sheep, 18,990; calves, 161; pigs, 280. Feb. 3, ISsl.—Beasts, 3,892; sheep, 19,100; calves, 09 ; pigs, 295. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. For the time of year the markets continue to be well supplied with both town and country killed meat. On the whole the trade is steady, as follows : Per 81bs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 2 10 3 2 Do., middling 3 4 3 6 Do., prima large 3 8 3 10 Do., do. srnall 4 0 4 2 Pork, largo 3 4 4 2 Mutton, Inferior Do., middling Do., prime Veal s. d. s. d. 30 3 6 ~3 8 4 2 ..4 4 4 8 .3 10 5 2 ~4 4 5 0 Pork, small BOROUGH HOP. Our market is steady, at the annexed prices. Last week's imports were 74 bales from Ostend, and 349 from Antwerp. Mid and East Kent pockets, 11/. 5s to 151. 15s ; Weald of Kent ditto, 91. 5s to 11/. Os ; Sussex ditto, 81. Os to 9/. ; and foreign, 61. 15s to Si. 15s per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Very moderate supplies of potatoes have appeared on sale here since our last report. The imports have been only 11 bags from Rotterdam. Tho general demand ruled somewhat steady, and prices aro well supported, as follows :—Kent and Essex Regents, 160 s to 180 s; Scotch ditto, 140 s to 160 s; Scotch cups, 120 s to 140 s per ton. WOOL. Owing to the near approach of the public sales of colonial wool, our market is in a very inactive state. In prices, however, no change has taken place. Last week's imports were 43 bales from Gluckstadt, 59 from Trieste, 143 from Bombay, 17 from Spain, 208 from Sydney, 178 from Port Philip, and 360 from the Cape. SEEDS. Linseed is in good request at fully the late advan ce i n the quotations. Black Sea, on the spot, is worth 59s ; Bombay, 60s ; fine St. Petersburgh, 5Ss ; and Archangel, 48s per quarter. East India rape is held at 58s to 60s per quarter. Cakes are firm, bnt not dearer. All other articles are steady. rornip,White, per bush. 22s to 240 1 Swede ...• ...... 22s 255, slttsuird, 8r0wn...... 12s 148 White, new...... 148 163 1 Fares,Winter, new.... Ss Od 98 Od l Spring .......... Os Od s Od Canary, per quarter .. 543 608 Rye grass.. • .. ,• -28 s 845 Clover, Red Eng. (cwt.) 565 683' White ........ • . 51s 803 Foreign Red...... 5Gs 72:; White.... his 9 Gs Trefoil, new...... •• •• 28s 358 Carraway.. •• .. 42i 48s Coriander..• •• •• 173 18s liempseed, per quarter 423 44s Linseed, Eng. Sowing.. b9s Crushing •......• 55s 58 Baltic • • •..• 50s 55s Odessa .• •• • • 51s 57s Linseed Cake, pr. ton— English . 01 10s 11 r Os Foreign, per ton 910 s l os Rape Cakes, pr ton 01 103 71 Os Rapescod,New,prlst 3010 s 32101 TALLOW. The amount of business doing in our market is limited. Prices, however, are fairly supported. P. Y.C. on the spot is 63s per cwt. Town tallow, 62s 6cl per cwt. net cash. Rough fat, 3s 5d per 81bs. 1850. Stock this day Price of Y. C." .... Delivery last week Ditto from June I._ Arrivals last week.. Dittofrom June 1 Frio o( Town ..... • 1851. 1852. - - 43,374 4 7,830 56,770 3 , t's Od 37s 9d to 36s Od te l to 00:t Od 00s Od 00s Od 1,487 2.372 2,494 i 67,375 68,521 75,550 2,714 570 20 85,274 90,334 t 95,786 393 6d 394 Ed ! 394 6d 1853. 43,661 44s 9d to 45s Od I 2,338 70,782 2,254 73,818 , 460 6cl 39,700 i3s 0(1 to 00a Oct 1,927 71,930 379 88,315 645 94 Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bost, and Eastn. Junet.., Belfast & Ballymena. Birming. Wolverh. & Stour Valley _ Birkenhd. liancsh. Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £20..... Blyth & Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45) Bristol and Exeter... Caledonian 'Chester f.z Holyhead, Cork and Bandon._ !Cork, Black, & Pass Cornwall Crieff Junction Dubliu&BelfastJunc Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction Do. New East Aug'iau (XlB E & ll) Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A Stock Do., B. Stock 'Do., New A ...... 100 SAI 100 East Lancashire 50 40 25 25 812s' 10 261 13J 20 20 100 - 42?,- 34 all all 100 Edinburgh &Glasgon Edinb. and Peebles 1 Edin. Prth. & Dundee Forth & Clyde June. Glasgow &S. Western Great Northern Stk. Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock ....... . Gt. Sth . &West.(lre.) Great Western Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancash.andYorksh Do., Fifths Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern 21 2s 100 100 100 100 100' 8 100 20 Liv.Crsby.&Southpt London & Blackwall Lona. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond. Bright & S.Cst. rJond. and N. Westn. 1 Do. Fifths Do,lo/.Sh.,M&B 0 Do. Eighths London and S. Westn Do., £5O. Do., £4O Lndndrry& Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Vlanch.Shef.& Lineln )0., Man. & Lin. Un Midland Do. Birmng. & Derby Midld. G. West. (Ire.) Do. Half Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmarket Do., Bury Extension Nwpt.Aberg. & Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Ne wry Warrenpoint and Rogtrevor. . Norfolk Northn.Counties Un North British North Devon, No. 1. Do., No. 2 Do., ) 1 A Deferred Do., 13 B Guaranteed North London Do. New £lO N. &S.Wstrn. ,Hamp stead, and City Jo North Staffordshire North Western & S. Westrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton Portsmouth Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Bi i rag Do. L. & N. Western Guaranteed St stk._ Shrewsby. & Berefd Shrewsby. & Chester (N. W. Min ; Do. Halveso: Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union Do. A, B, C,& D,fully paid up at per cent South Devon South Eastern South Wales S. Yrksh. & Riv. Dun 20 1 1 Si 1001 1i Do Staines, Wok. &Wol Stockton & Darling. Stockton & Hartlepl. Taff Vale . Do. £lO shares Do, Pref., No. 1 Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limerickl West Cornwall. West End of London and Crystal Palace West London Pm I ii Wimbledn & Croydon York Newctl.&Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland PREFERENCE SHARES. .. St. 100 .berdeen.. ..• • •. St. 100 Do. No. 2,7 p. e. ... ... _ ... 25 30 BlythamiTyne 10 per c. pref. (issd. at 500 .., _- ... St. 100 Eris. & Ex. 4p. c. St. ... ... 20 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares ... ... _ ... St. 100 Caledonian £lO 99 • 101 15 all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 53 per cent ., , ~,ai l 64 6,i Cork &Bauclonslp.c .. ... 64 all Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction 31 all 1 4 .:astAnglian (£3los) 6 per cent 4 4i 5 all Do. (£5) 7 per cent 5 53 in . 2 Do. (£7l7s) 7p. c i— i p 6 all Eastern Counties Ex tension, sp. c. No. 1 1 lip 6i all Do. No. 2 pm 10 all Do. New 6 p. e. St. 13i —l4 14 20 all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent .. • • • ... 5 all Do. 51., 10 per cent. ... 10 all Do. 101. _• Debentr.Sh- ... _ :•• St. 100 East Lancash.6 p.cts. ... ...... ..." 5 all East and West York shire June. Pref ... _ 5 all EdiubPrth.&Dundee ... 5!. per cent. 2 St. 100 Glasgow &S.Western Gaar. 5 per cent _ ... St. 100 Great Northu. sp. c ll7 _ 119 St. 100 Do. sp. C. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem lOB 110 10 10 Do. 43 p. c. Scrip p _ .. p 10 10 6 Gt.N. of Scot. I st Prof ... _ 64 all Gt, Southn.&W estm. • (Ireland) Eighths) 8 __ 81 20 4 Do. 4 per c. Pref. S h . ... 50 6 Gt. Westn. (Berks & • Hants Ex. sp. c) Bi __ 7 St. 100 Do. cov. red. 43 P.c. 96 -__ 98 97 St. 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c. 90 ---- 95 St. 100 Do. irred. 4p. c , 94 ,6 xd 16 6 Lan. &York. F. £ 2O id Par St. 100 Do. 6p. c. Stock . 137 134 20 13 Leeds N. 6p. c. No. l ... -._. xd 12A 9 Do. Quarters, 1848._ ••• --.. St. 100 London and Brighton "' Guaranteed sp. c . . .., .__. .. St. 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St. ... ....... ... 50 all Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 • ..• St. 100 Do. New Guar. 6 p. c. ... -- , St. 100 Lon. &N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton 50 5 London &S. Western Con. Thirds ...... . 123 all Londonderry& 3 Shares •• .. 12 t i all Londy. & Ennis. 3 S . .] 25 all Alan., Shef., & Lin , i Shares, No. 1. 10 all Do. New, £lO 6 41 Do. £6 12. all' Ilarypt .&Carl.4 p.c p 1 12, all Do. 43 per cent ••• ••• 12, 101 Do ••• -- ..• St. 100 Aid. Consol.6 p.c.St ... ... • St. 100 Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent 139 139 163 5 Do. Pref. 41 per eon: 11 id 10 6 Norfolk Debenture .. ... —•• • St. 100 Do. Pre f. 4p. c. Stock ... •• . St. 100 Do. sp. c. Eat ••• ••• St. 100 Do. 53per ct.pref ••• ••• St. 100 Do. Way. Val. sp. c ... •.. St. 100 North British .. .. 20 all North Staffordshire ... —• • • St. 100 Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh.£ls, 6 p.c. 98 100 1 5 15 Do A A pin S all , 'cot. Cent., New Pry: ... .. 8 all ! Shrews. &I: i•uti.N.G. 93 —lO 10 all Shrewsl)y. & Chester ( No - ,..W. Hi v), 8 p.c. 16 16.1 R 10 10 Do. 5 per cent 9l 10:} 25 all South Devon ll —l3 10 14 Do. fixed, 4: per cent id I p 1.0.6 all S. Eastern (...teadin. a Aun.) of £1 Os. 6d. 221 - 23 St. 100 Do. 4 )er cent. 20 all S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar l7 —l9 25 all Stock Lon and Dar lington, 4 per cent. ... •• • 25 5 Do. do. do. ... •.. 123 all Stockton and Hartle pool, guar. 5 p. c. till Ist July, 1856 ...• •• • 5 3 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. li i d St. WO York, Newcastle,and Berwick,4 p.c. Pref. 93 96 17 5 Do 3i 4 25 10 York&N. Midland H. - and S, rurch id "" id , 12i I 12 I Si Go Is° 81 80t I 20 2, 61 I 21 11 Australasia British Colonial Bank and Loan Company British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India Australia, & China Colonial Commercial of Lond English Scottish and Australian Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia Loudon and County London Joint Stock Loud. & Westminster National Prov nci of England Do. New NaLional of Ireland New South Wales Oriental Bank of Corporation. Do. New Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn. B' & Gold Imp Co South Australia Union of Australia Do. New Union of L0nd0n..... 'A) 1 all 7 all all ;0 2 5 all o 10 SIR E. B. LYTTON AND PROGRESS. (From the Times.) With the enthusiasm of a poet and the eloquence of an orator, Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton describes to the people of Leeds the glories of our civilisation and the triumphs of our progress. The amusing novelist and brilliant essayist has recovered appa rently from the dream of Protection, and once more brought his heart and imagination into sympathy with the destinies of the great majority of his countrymen ; nay, with the fervour of a convert, he rushes into the contrary extreme, and devotes those powers which were lately dedicated to advo cate the aggrandisement of a class to proving that in our estimate of progress and civilization we are not sufficiently cosmopolitan. Civilisation, as we understand it, is, he remarks, still confined to the inhabitants of Western Europe and North Eastern America. Africa is still the haunt of savage bea s t s an d s till more savage men ; an d Asia remains now, as ever, the prey to stereo typed superstition and incorrigible despotisms. Nay, even those celebrated countries of the East—the cradles of ar t, o f l earn i ng , an d of progress—lie desolate under the hoof of pitiless oppression, and the very names which recal our schoolboy enthusiasm are barbarised into unintel lible jargon. The more contracted view of this case would represent our superiority over the nations of the East of just as a ma tt er o f exul tation, but the more and philanthropic view is undoubtedly that winch treats this inequality of advancement as a subject of humiliation, i ns t ea d o f triumph. If our civilisation had been deeper and more generally diffused among ourselves, it would have extended more widely among our neighbours, and, instead of congratulating ourselves that we are not as they are, we should have by this time made their state something more nearly ap proaching to our own. Neither can there be any doubt that we are heavy losers in every way by this retrograde civilisation. If Russia had more to lose, if she were more connected by commerce with the hierarchy of nations, she would be more careful of imperilling that prosperity of which she herself would be a participator. If she had any thing, however faintly, resembling a free press—if she had the slighest shadow of a democratic or even an aristocratic Assembly, where the acts of her Government might be criticised and the voice of truth and reason heard, however faintly and im perfectly—we should not see her embarked in this frantic crusade against the rights of man and the law and opinion of united Europe. - In the present most lamentable state of foreign affairs we are paying the penalty of Russian barbarism, of the ignorance of her clergy, the servility of her nobles, and the abject bondage and superstition of her people. But not only are we injured by the retro gade state of Russia, we are still more immediately damaged by the unfortunate condition of Turkey. The barbarism of Russia would be compara tively harmless if it were not by geographical position,—the accident which determines the destinies of half-civilised countries,—brought into contact with civilisation, in some respects in ferior even to its own. With a far superior soil and a far more hospitable climate, embracing the very finest countries of the earth, and com prising within the limits of one empire the heads of the navigation of the Persian Gulf, the Red Sea, and the Mediterranean, Turkey in these splendid territories exists in a lower state of poverty and desolation than they probably groaned under when Theseus or Hercules set forth to destroy monsters and protect oppressed innocence. The Greek instructed those whom he conquered, the Roman incorporated them till he was buried under the mass of his own acquisitions, and the Goth and the Vandal founded their own rude polity, and embraced the religion of the conquered. The Spaniard has been the missionary of Christianity, and the Englishman the planter of commerce. The Turk has taught nothing and established nothing. Thus the backward civilisation of Russia finds in its immediate proximity a civili sation more backward than its own, and the bar barous greed and wild ambition of the one country are provoked by the weakness and desolation of the other. At present the destiny of the East is intrusted to men of action, who must answer to us for the power committed to them, and bring to reason the overweening despotism of Russia, but, when this ruder process has been accomplished, the real difficulties of the question are only in their commencement. We cannot civilise Russia, we cannot teach a barbarous. people that the interests of nations are precisely measured by, and correlative with, their duties, and, if Turkey is to be left unimproved, the same causes which have prompted the present aggres sion will secure its renewal at the earliest possible opportunity. The only final cure of this deep seated political malady lies in the regeneration of Turkey. liVe cannot, we fear, afford to wait till the Christian inhabitants, thinly scattered as they are over the land, shall awake to a sense of their power and their rights. The iron of long ages of oppression has entered into their souls, and they cannot rise at once to the conception and the en joyment of freedom. The remedy for the existing state of things seems to lie, not so much in the transference of dominion froin the one race to the other, as in the introduction of some third element which may control and amalgamate them both. Turkey is a desolate land, and the appropriate remedy for such a state of desolation in Turkey, as elsewhere, seems to consist in colonization. Sup pose Turkey were at this moment a part of the Ame rican Union, who can doubt that her resources would be developed, her wilds peopled, and her cities filled with a peculiar kind of civilisation, and that a few years of such energetic administration would raise up a bulwark between the Pruth and the 2Egean which all the gold, and all the force, and all the diplomacy of Russia would be unable to pass ? In this direction we believe our efforts must be em ployed, if we mean to put an end to those endless enterprises which have disturbed the peace of Europe for the last hundred years. Let the Powers of Europe, when the one selfish aggressor has been repelled, demand from Turkey a system of law which shall give perfect social equality and freedom from arbitrary punishment and taxation to any Christian population which may settle in the land, and break through that miserable system which renders it almost impossible for a foreigner to have any interest in Turkish soil. Let them, in fact, remove all the obstacles which now pre vent Turkey from being the field for European colo nisation, and we are much mistaken if in a few years her fertile soil and delicious climate do not attract swarms of settlers utterly intractable to the overtures and cajoleries of Russia, and able to to defend by their valour and wisdom the lands Which they shall have cultivated and reclaimed by their industry. THE EASTERN QUESTION. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The Russian answer to the final proposals for peace may be hourly expected, unless it has been designedly delayed. A frank acceptance of the liberal terms offered by Turkey would, even at this moment, obviate the necessity for hostilities ; nor, in that case, would the presence of the allied fleets in the Black Sea cause any serious impediment to the renewal of friendly relations. The neutrality of which the Emperor Nicholas requires an assur ance would begin to exist from the moment at which the preliminaries of a Congress should have been arranged ; and it would then be unnecessary to institute any retrospective inquiry into the pre vious intentions of the Western Powers. Unfor tunately, however, there is little reason to hope for so simple and satisfactory a termination of the present crisis. Even Count Orloff's mission affords a sufficient indication of the determination of Russia to refuse the proposals of the Four Powers. It would not have been worth while to employ so important a personage for the mere purpose o c t on o - f veying the assent of his Court t o the projec pacification. If the acceptance of the terms o ffered by the Conference would render the discussuon as to the maritime armistice superfluous, it is evident, on the other hand, that no advantage can arise from engaging in this incidental controversy, until some progress has been made in the settlement of th e principal question. The fleets occupy the Bla c k Sea for the purp ose of protecting the Porte l a n gams any such attac k as that which resulted The curiosity of the ins disaster of Sinop e. Emperor as to their present destination may be satisfied by the consideration that, if the movement had taken place at an earlier period, Admiral Nachi moff and his squadron would have been cap tured or sunk before they could have returned to S e bastopol. If such a measure, or preparation for such a measure, be consistent with neutrality, then England and France may be held to be altogether n eutral between Russia and Turkey. The official questions which Baron BIIITIOW and M. de Kisse leff have been directed to ask may have been in tended for the purpose of gaining time • but the answer of th e a lli e d powers, as indicated by our Paris correspondent in his letter of Saturday even ing, will be so very far from agreeable to the Czar, that it may not improbably serve to precipitate a rupture, and lead to the withdrawal of the respec tive ambassadors from London and Paris—espe cially as the last accounts from St. Petersburg state that, in the absence of " satisfactory explanations," the Emperor had resolved upon extreme measures. It is worth remarking, however, that the Imperial inquiry respecting the intentions of the allied fleets involves the first diplomatic concession which has been made by Russia during the recent transac tions, The western powers have repeatedly been I Paid. 100 all 51s. 100 20 19i -- 20 4a 4i 8 - 9 12 --10 die' 16 18 6 5 d 92 - 91 51i -51 i 14 - 16 14 - 15 42 - 44 8 - 9 4~ - .4r 12 -13 P 38 - 42 21 - 28 61 - 63 60 - 62 io = ii 82§ gg 58 - 60 L 26 -- 128 98 -- 100 80i -- 814 89 93 11 13p 11 --- 12 612 62 7i 7sd 12 . -: ii 7i par 4 p 98 99 d 100. - , 101 d par d r 76 78 124 —11 id 10 9d 20i -- 21 601 - 61 33 - 35 53 55 d par 6 5d 2} 3 6 - 8I 45 - 47 , 3 3hd 31 ... 32 8 10 -2, 6i - 51. - 54 a 7t 8 1 d par 33 - 35 89 _ 91 54 - 56 55 - 60 55 60 2id 13 —.15 1 10 12 38 3d 13 - 15 59 - 60 31 - 32 3 - 2 4 - 5 28 - 31 ~ - ... 2i 15, 51 - 25 - 27 6 - 7 62 _, 63 94 8/ d 4i 44d 45 - - 46 45 1 20 xis 21 31 I fl FOREIGN. Antwerp&Rotterdam Belgian East'. June. 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Van Diemen 's Land rEOUS 40 - 42 6 7- i 75 - 80 - p, - ' 16 - 18 16 - 18 ••• 2 ld s P -.-- i i i, d 41 401 Isp 35 37 id P P 13 14 Lord and Lady Guernsey, who are passing the winter at Malta, return to this country at the end of the ensuing month. 51 all n 15 LO 10 5 2 5 3 LO 5 .),0 8 .0 - all ;0 2 O all ',O I all .6 I all !CI I all LO all .0 all 0 all !O all .04 10, ;0 all ;0 9 5 2 :0 1 6 Bil all LO all 9 I 15 1 all 1 all .os. 11 10 2 20 6 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 all 50 all 1 all 20 13.5 35 241 0 all 0 15 1 ii., 1 6 It. all 15 all 5 all .to all 2 all 2 all 3 all 1 all 3 all 1 all 1 all .0 9 1 all 1 all 1 all ',O all 5 1 1 all 30 all L 5 15 30 10i 1 all LO 7 :8A all 1 all 1 all 1 all 1 1 12s. 11 all LO i all 10 I all 0 all 5 5 K) I lo .10 222, O all ;5 all 15 5 )0 25 10 all 5 1 5 I all ;5 all i BANKS. 75 - 77 I d— fi d 3 2d - .•• - •.• 42 - 44 41 - 46 71 - 73 7 - 7i told that they are interfering in a matter which ex clusively concerns the principals in the quarrel ; yet it is now virtually admitted that they are enti tled to enforce an armistice, if only it is imposed impartially on both belligerents. The circumstance that it suits the immediate purpose of the aggressor to fight rather by land than by sea, cannot invali date the acknowledgment of a right on the part of the allies to intervene in the dispute. It appears that the agents and partisans of Rus sia in Paris have for some days past been making the most strenuous efforts, though without the slightest success, to separate the policy of France from that of Great Britain. It has, from the first, been a principal object of Russian diplomacy to detach the Allied Powers from each other, by an affectation of regarding their respective positions as essentially different. At the commencement of the dispute, it was urged that England was inte rested in supporting the cause associated with legi timate dynasties and with the so-called order of Europe. The controversy about the Holy Places was prominently put forward as the main occasion of the original rupture ; and it was not forgotten that the English ambassador had recommended the Porte to concede all the demands which Prince Menschikoff could devise in reference to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. At a later period, still more zealous exertions were made to win over the French Government to the side of usurpation. The Parisian organs of the Court of St. Petersburg vied with each other in shameless adulation of France, and in unprovoked animosity to England. ( From the Morning Herald.) The combined fleets have at last gone into the Black Sea to meet—Parliament ? Considering that Lord Stratford de Redcliffe announced to the offi cers and sailors of the fleet that they were entering the Exuine on a strictly pacific mission, we appeal to our readers, and ask what other possible con struction can be placed on the long-delayed and often-threatened movement ? Surely no man in his senses can deny that had it not been for the inevitable advent of that black Monday denomi nated the meetin g of Parliament the of ships anidnisEtrynglawnerde concerned might have remained, so far Franceaas o Ministry r until their keels grated on th e be in Beycos Bay, beef bones thrown overboard. We really do not think, notwith standing the pompous announcement of our con temporaries, that the positson of Lord Aberdeen's Cabinet is benefited in the slightest degree by the enforced advaice which the dread of having to render an account to the people of England has compelled them to direct. It is true that the flag of Great Britain now floats over waters in which her armed vessels have long been strangers ; but unless our armaments have gone there for purposes of real and determined action, our opinion is that they had much better have remained in the Bos phorus. It has been, and will continue to be, said, that their appearance in those hitherto forbidden seas will have the effect, by convincing the Czar that France and England are at last in earnest, of in ducing that potentate to listen to the propositions which have been forwarded to him within the last month, and so secure the establishment of peace. Supposing such to be really the case—a result in which we do not place the smallest confidence our selves—it will only have proved the truth of that doctrine which we have been urging for many weary months—that it was not by concession and prostration that the Autocrat was to be mollified. What, then, can have been the use of all the delay, all the disgrace, all the expense, all the disturbance of trade, which has fallen, thick, strong, and heavy upon England for the last eleven months ? We have said above that we do not believe that the Autocrat will yield in good faith to the demon stration we have made ; but should it prove that he does so, it becomes incontestable that the means which have proved effectual at the eleventh hour would have been equally, if not more, efficacious • had they been made use of at a far earlier stage of the dispute. Granting, however, that all the prog nostics of peace and amity which Ministers are in dulging in, for the purpose of persuading the Bri tith Parliament that unaccustomed halcyon days are to take the place of the usual storms which prevail in the Euxine, in what better position shall we find ourselves if peace be made on the basis of the propositions which have been lately forwarded. to St. Petersburgh than if we had miginallp ac cepted the ultimatum of Prince Menschikoff ? If we have read those propositions aright, it is " a mockery, a delusion, and a snare," to say that they differ in anything but the name from that once no torious but now forgotten document. THE TAYLEUR AND THB GREAT BRITAIN. ( From the Bristol Mirror of Jan. 28.) Our recent arguments in favour of building docks at the mouth of our river have, during the past week, re ceived additional force from the melancholy catastrophe which we have elsewhere recorded. It is not, in our opinion, going too far, to say that neither the Tayleur nor the Great Britain would, in all human probability, have been wrecked had they sailed from the Avon instead of the Mersey. Both were lost upon the Irish coast, the dangers of which they would have totally escaped had their point of departure been from hence. With the ocean before them, the severity of the gale would Dare been, comparatively, of little consequence, and we should not now have had to mourn the loss of hundreds of valuable lives, as well as the -less distressing, but still serious, destruction of property. The Tayleur, we learn, left Liverpool on Thursday week, and her captain intending to pass South of Ireland, directed his course down St. George's Channel ; but, from the violence of the wind and its unfavoi'rable direction, he was induced to go "north about "—in other words, to retrace his steps, and endeavour to pass to the north of Ireland. Driven, however, out of his course by the tempestuous state of the weather with a crew chiefly composed of Chinese and Lascars—many of whom did not understand a word of the English language—no one on board the ill-fated vessel appears to have had the least idea of their whereabouts, and the helmsman's as sertion that he saw land was either disregarded or dis believed, until the fact became evident, too late for remedy. The ordinary measures of precaution appear to have been executed with difficulty, or not at all ; three hours, it is stated, were consumed in taking in one sail ; and the crew refused to endanger their lives by going out on the yards. Until, however, a full in vestigation has taken place, we forbear to pronounce an opinion on this part of the matter ; but we are desirous of calling attention to the fact, that our steam-vessels are now built of so enormous a size, as to render Liver pool, in the opinion of nautical men, decidedly unsafe as a port of departure, owing to the risks which, in case of bad weather, must be encountered in the Irish Channel. Were further evidence needed on the above subject it would be found in the admirable report of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce, a document which reflects the highest credit on the committee of that body, and of which a brief abstract appears in our columns to-day. We have been more particularly struck with that part of the committee's report which relates to the great ad vantages of Bristol as a Government Emigration Port. On this head the Admiralty Engineer, Mr. Wm. [Bald, says : " I have throughout been struck by the fact that the subject of this investigation has been one of the greatest importance, so great indeed that I do not think the like of it has ever been brought before a public inquiry, or is likely to do so hereafter, concerning, as it does, the pros perity of a city, which, looking at its important geogra phical position, I do think ought to be the second port of the British empire. It is so well situated for a wide commerce approached by a fine, deep bed of water, opening to the borders of the Atlantic, and opening, as it does, a commun ication with all th e states of the Western world—with America and with the West of France, —having, too, such a channel of com munication, surrounded by an extensive, fertile and popu lous country, and surrounded, I may venture to add ' at an inconsiderable distance , b y mineral fields of greatira portance. Looking at all these things, it does certainly seem strange to me that Bristol has not risen in as great a proportion as other cities and places of less geographical importance have done. I will instance Liverpool. Liver pool is beset with difficulties : in ;the entrance to the M erse y there are shoals and shifting sandbanks, dangerous i e , : ia y s a t o ri l l o l e n n h e e lar;:vaaennandtnioodipstuer n e ci hnzdetrhwiene obstacles. the navigation hear, rro a c' unsurpassed n h s e i u :B r ps r i aa s fse t e l ad nbdy Channel eaansyy ow b to f i e it t fin h h na e e vt r i port. I b think, therefore, that under this and every other point of view, if the difficulties under which the port has been labouring can be removed in any way satisfactory to the citizens, and in a fair, just, and equitable manner, it will be very desirable, in order that the trade of the place may be restored and extended in a way proportioned to its important geographical position." Is it not almost time that these facts were recognise and acted on ? The above valuable evidence applies, o course, with greatly increased force to the vast steam ships which are now being constructed both for emigra tion, and also for that important branch of commerce, the American cotton trade. We also beg to direct the attention of our mercantile readers to a singular and significant confirmation of the views we last week expressed respecting the policy of the Great Western Company towards Bristol ;and Milford. On the very day on which those remarks were published, we learn by the London papers that it had been deter mined, at a special meeting of the Great Western, South Wales, and Waterford and Kilkenny Railway Directors, to build a number of powerful steamers to ply between Waterford and Milford ; thus intercepting, as it were, in its come one of the most valuable and important. branches of commerce yet remaining in Bristol, viz., the trade with Ireland. Surely, this will open the eyes of our merchants, and induce them, while there is yet time, to take some steps in their own behalf. Surely, this will convince them that the railway which they made, and which ought to be an important aid to their prosperity, is likely to be come, not a dead weight merely, but an active and powerful opponent. Unless some practical effort be made to cope with this new rival, the days of Bristol's commercial greatness are probably numbered. Those who desire to understand the outline of a scheme by which a valuable auxiliary to the Docks would be created, are requested to read the able and l uc i d speech of Mr. Adam Jack, at the meeting on Wednes day last, which will be found in our Supplement. Mr. Jack's suggestions are most valuable, in a local point of view, as well as in developing a means of preserving our extensive trade with South Wales. inces tpen- • ~_ '- 43 i 72 f