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- THE ROYAL ArADEJIY. art. The whole scene is suffused with the nocturnal spieiidoUr—tile are: oy it—at.d 1.r.4,116 across the sea that broad flood of the glory of the moon beams, which we remember one of our most popular liv ing writers has said, very beautifully, appeared to him in the day dreams of his childhood, to be the veritable pathway up to heaven. One can hear, in imagination, on that calm summer night in Provence, under the walls of that grey old castle, in the midst of the lustre of that divine moonlight, mingled with the sound of the surges not far off, and with the rippling strings of the lyre played in accompaniment to the war song, the grand, vibrant, sonorous tones of the voice of Bertrand de Boru, chaunting to the winds of night his triumph as a trop badour. In (403) " The Last Sleep of Argyll," by E. M. 'Ward, we have an affecting historical incident, realised with all the vividness of reality. This picture, we learn from the catalogue, is one of a series painted for the Commons' corridor, by order of the Royal Com missioners. It is a work in every respect worthy of its destination ; and cannot fail, we believe, materially to enhance Mr. Ward's already high but still rising reputa tion. Unlike the majority of his productions of a similar character—such, for example, as his representation of the " Execution of Montrose," or of "Napoleon signing his divorce from Josephine," or of "Louis XVI. and his Family in the Temple," or of "Charlotte Corday on her way to the Scaffold," wherein Robespierre, Danton, and Desmoulins were portrayed as almost within arm's length of the "Angel of Assassination "—unlike those paintings, in all of which so many contrasting figures were introduced, the production contributed to the Royal Academy Exhibition for the present season by Mr. Ward contains only three figures altogether—the form of the recumbent Argyll, that of the gaoler, and that of the renegade privy councillor. The incident is taken from a passage in Macaulay's "History of Eng- • land"—a touching incident here, most pathetically treated. Sir Edwin Landseer contents himself with two contributions to the gallery—one (360) being an , other of his inimitable dog-portraits, "Dandle Dinmont, the favourite old Skye terrier of her Majesty the Queen," and the other, the more important work of the two (63), a large painting representing " Royal Sports on Hill and Loch," a picture in which the Queen, the Prince Consort, the Prince of Wales, and Viscountess Jocelyn are cleverly introduced. Prince Albert is assist ing her Majesty out of a boat— both gazing at the same time with evident satisfaction at the pile of slaughtered deer in the foreground, the heir apparent on a pony to the left, and the Viscountess unobtrusively in the background. Aithough Clarkson Stanfield has three other pictures in the collection, (315) will be regarded as the only one of an importance worthy of his reputation—a wonderful glimpse of snowy moun tain scenery, being a view of the " Pic du Midi d'Ossau,' in the Pyrenees. Mr. Webster indulges his many admirers with three pictures—all of them small—but one of them (85), "The Villager's Offering," capital as a limning of rustic childhood. Mr. Roberts has contrived to be almost as industrious as ever, though the loveliest of his Venetian scenes cannot compensate for the lack of another of his marvellous interior views of cathedral architecture. Mr. Jones preserves to himself his pre eminence as a battle painter by his inspiriting memento (13) of the victory of Hyderabad. There is another of those luscious sunrises of mingled crimson and gloom, in (34) " The Departure of Ulysses from Ithaca," which Mr. Danby paints as with the pencil of the Magician of the Landscape. For all the picture tells us to the contrary, however, the hero of it might be the father of Gulliver quite as well as the father of Tele machus. The happiest product this year of the easel of Mr. tr wins, is (79) " A Cabin in a Vineyard," a charm ing view, brought from the land of the grape, not a hundred miles, we fancy, from Bordeaux. A graceful embellishment to one of the daintiest passages in the most delicately elaborated of all the poems of Pope, is given, we are rejoiced to observe, by Mr. Leslie, in (192) his well-selected scene from the " Rape of the Lock." Sir Plume is the very perfection of empty headed foppishness, precisely the man in all the world to be— Immediately after her Majesty's visit to the Royal Academy on Friday afternoon, we were amongst the earliest of those who passed slowly round the three prin cipal rooms of the Exhibition. As a reward for our punc tuality in attendance, we were enabled to obtain some thing better than a merely casual glimpse of the paintings arranged the day rntngedalong the walls --a rather unusual advantage of " private view," when hats, elbows, and bonnets ordinarily occupy afterwards the chief share of our remembrance. It is perhaps not unworthy of re mark just now, when the evidences of loyal enthusiasm possess a more than customary interest, that the Queen, both on arriving and returning, was greeted on the 28th 'natant by the assembled crowd with acclamations. Her Ma jesty and his Royal I.lighness the Prince Consort were accompanied on the occasion by the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and by two or three of the Younger children. During the stay of the royal family within the walls of the National Gallery, the concourse outside appeared to watch with peculiar sati-faction the seven state carriages and the scarlet and gold liveries in attendance. Directly after the Sovereign had taken her departure, we ascended the staircase, and were rewarded, as already intimated, with a leisurely, and what Tight be ca ll e d w i t h more reason th an usual, a really 'private view" of the present year's collection. Scarcely any one had arrived at the time of our entrance, but Prior to our taking leave of it, the gallery had become tolerably well crowded with the privileged throng accus tomed to assemble on this annual occasion of the private view of the Royal Academy—a throng including most of the celebrities of the day, whether members of the aristocracy or members of the republic of literature— the vernal paradise of the tuft-hunter or the hero- Wor shipper where he may have the delight of rubbing ib v with eminent statesmen, authors, peers, and aca demicians. 86th season of 1854 b r i n gs the Royal Academy to its 'uth exhibition. So that it has long since passed its grand climacteric. It has survived even the three ;c ore years an d ten a ll otte d on th e average to humanity. It has advanced yet further, and has coma to be more tha n an octogenarian. It is interesting to glance back, s iren for a few hurried moments across the interval of °f those eighty-six years, from 1854 to 1768, from the Present date of its existence to that of its original insti tau t, 0 °• Curiously enough it is the precise interval occupie d "Y the life of the recently deceased Marquis of Anglesey. W hen that veteran was born in 1768, the Royal Academy Wa s just th en esta bli s h e d. H e expires, now, in 18 54 , the i° years an d h onours , almost simultaneously with th e openi ng o f the academy ' s e i g hty- s ixth exhibition. At c former date, namely, in the year of our Lord 1768, th e French Revolution had not commenced. It was not .ar 'rom the ev e o f it s breaking out. The last great Eu r f of its war was, therefore, fast approaching the verge "" its dread beginning. At this moment the nations are somewhat similarly, nay, yet more perilously, situated. " te this still more memorable year of our Lord 1854, the Preli minary sound s of another great European war are 4lre a(l9 becoming audible—only under rather different "cumstances —thanks be to God, under rather different t 0 each ! Not with England and France opposed e ach other in deadly animosity, but with a cordial 'nuns established between their people and their Govern )3lellts• Not a war in defence of the " right divine," e t .absolutism of tyranny, of " legitimacy" not ar , a wa r of conquest or of spoliation, but a war ainst despotism, against autocracy, in behalf of go weak, in defence of truth, in vindication of justice, 14 t the tripl e cause o f p eace , f re edom, and civilisation. 1 i s a wond er f u l con t ras t altogether, that presented by th °°toparison of these two notable dates in the history ` the Roy a l A ca d em y, 1768 and 1854, the date of its g li ndation and the date of its eighty-sixth anniversary. ew many brilliant triumphs of the brush and of the chisel have been achieved by its more illustrious disciples b etween the time when Sir Joshua Reynolds held and that When Sir Charles Eastlake holds the distinction of its Presidency ! How many noble reputations have been made within its walls between the epochs when Oliver Goldsmith anti when Henry Hallam enjoyed the hono rary title of the Academy's Professor of Ancient History ---between thEi marvellously contrasting, though after a ll not such very widely separated, dates when Dr. J ohnson and zvhen Mr. Macaulay occupied the Aca demy's chair-of the Professorship of Ancient Literature ! k retrospective glance like this, we cannot but feel kssured, will be , regarded as not altogether invaluable, because we rest ;satisfied that among the majority of the more reflective Pt will be found, especially at this pre sent moment, in many important particulars, altogether Wo nderfully suggestive. Art flourishes ii a the midst of War. The truth has 's en often almost miraculously illustrated. Amongst o ur neighb ours, di ( I no t D a vid rise into celebrity as an hist orical p v ainter, first of all through the civil agonies of ° Rei gn of Terror, an d t h en a f terwar d s th roug h all tiic e sanguinary gloi ies of the empire ? It was the same th ear lY about th e sa .me time with the sister art of Sculp ture fan me was contemporaneous with that or Napoleon. Art, we repeat, flourishes in the midst of t, • Ristory has declared this, experience has proved rai l' even i n the c Imatinental lands which have been rava ged by th e arm i, is o f the belligerents. How much m° re securely therefo re in those countries which, by their f` s cigr a l ) ical position , are secluded for the most part e r x °- ' calamities of th at appalling character ! As, for P 41,,1,TPie, in our ow n " snug little island," where, as on I"eri.a3' af ternoon, the .monarch could saunter throug h the tol d . e s of her Academy of Arts, at the period when her pos 'era are being clasp ttched to the Turkish frontiers to op -11,1.5 the advancing honles of the northern Autocrat, while () ""e 111 , 1 1 ! ilt Y fleets have k,yone forth into the Baltic an d . ` / •Enxine, to fight, side by side with those of an te, the battle of civith3ation. th l4°°lg- ing nearer home t •han to France and Italy— e fatherland of David an d CanoVa—we certainly find fi til ia °ll gst ourselves at the pi resent day, that whether art f VI -ri b Bhe s in the midst of ivar or not, the rumours of 5 at any rate failed to affect it in any eon o n°llB Inpaunbnliecr view within The collection now Z e l e ci e d to the walls of the Royal fa,tor amy affords proof of th is, proof in every way satis 'tie . 3% The season of 1854 play in this respect, indeed, t 17 411 the average of its recent predecessors. The I , r e- o ' 4 3' of this is shown abundantly among the 1,531 to ß rk m B of art, in painting and sculpture, here arranged ref et sr for exhibition. Especially is this the case in rem-tlee to a cons id era bl e protportion of the 628 mor e , 4 lonl -i L ab le or more highly favoured pictur es dis p osed diet.'le wall s o f th e th ree principal apartments. few : of these, perhaps half a dozen of them, are I 41 44 1 g u ißhecl by th e ir extraordinary merit scarcely les s ? Y their am biti ous chara eter. Several ot hers Itiqe-1 b y the pr a i se d ue t o uncomm on excellence. A con theeburt le number secure approval by their evidences of 51 1: 1 41" °11 of skill, ability, and application. The re st are lo; "3' abo ve, or are on a level with , or are a little be the ti ll edi " ri tY. Altogether, therefore, we repeat that 1 / 4 ? ° h -e ction f or th e season of 185-4, the 86th Annual the a-ipti°4 of the Royal Academy, may compete with tr: - raie of its recent predecessors. say 011eStionably the most attractive, perhaps we should it (37 ' 4 : Most arresting, picture in the w hole exhibition Pre by Daniel Maclise—an enormous painting re '" Strongbow's Marriage with th e Princess r ogl: t he bride being the daughter of Dermot MacMur- Plac e ' ; le g of Leinster, and the marriage ceremony tak in g s ad, ll t he battle-field immediately after the terrible asia th eec asfu) siege of the city of Waterford. Gigantic the van e canvass, it is for the most part crowded with ektr ao 4 : l °llB groups introduced, and every portion of this nisl l ,, r (i ' ill arY picture, moreover, appears to have been nor m : - with the utmost degree o elaboration—an ela *ha"' indeed, kindred in its minuteness with that 4 4. delineated every petal of the May blossoms in o M ' a i tb eliBe 's " Alfred in the Camp of the Danes," VD e lv i . " that again which defined every individual /4 W e :: 11 . 18 " Caxton's Workshop" in the sanctuary of tb, -rainstea. The principal personages in the centre 44 Rt er Pain ting are arranged with admirable effect—an e Pathos depicted on the visage of the defeated th e : I ' 6 ; lovelin ess i n th e f orm of the bride, valour in fueed~ed and knightly figure of the bridegroom. Con- Whil e us aPs of th e d ea d an d d y i ng litter the foreground , Viti e ; .11 the rear and high up along the adjacent awn tho a the Melee of still contending belligerents fills up or tiatioulple measure o f th e compos iti on . A single exami i„, n, ho wever attentive, of this daring work o f ar t, ep .. ciatiotrso altogeth er i na d equa t e f or it s co mplete appre sPieqo .uMr. Maclise's large picture occupies a con notables place i n th e "Middle Room, " an d t wo o ther eaqern Painting. ^onfront each other—one on the the la ebt. other on the western wall of the same apart ( 352 ) "The Song of the Troubadours," by N ur. yolk. we recognise the genius of that gifted poet, whose hand has so often before commanded fate adm iration—co n juring up with equal facility the ll qu i 3r of the h o l y h ome o f J o b , and the grim tragedy of streets revealed by the lurid light of the brazier lo mon Eagl e d ur i ng th e Pi ag ue of London. Mr. 1 15 i le has seldom revealed greater o r e we e r al t e h d an o i n t s t i , d h t 'l e lk° • production in which he bashe p v re Ye eo battl ements of the Castle of Haute-Fort, inu Pro the seashore, the heroic for m o f B ertrand de th:the warrior-bard of the 12th centu r y, c h aunting in moonlight one of those g lori ous me t r i ca l romances— va i ar songs o f th e T rou b a d ours. N ever before on can- L 'ave we seen such moonlight ! It is a triumph oh of amber snuff-box justly vain, And the nice conduct of a clouded cane." We venture to predict a wide popularity for Mr. Frank Stone's (258) version of "The Old, Old Story," whenever it shall be reproduced in an engraving. It i s delicious. According to Mr. Charles Dickens " the old, old story" is Death, judging from his account of little Paul Dombey's departure. According to Mr. Frank Stone, " the old, old story " is Love —if we may guess from that coy maiden listening, half fluttered, half-delighted, to the whispered nonsense of the comely young fisherman. In (330) every one will recognise at the first glance the delightful mannerism of Mr. Frost—his chef d'auvre for 1854 being a group sym bolical of " Chastity," as suggested by an allegoric pas sage of exquisite beauty occurring in Milton's masque of " Comus." Mr. Goodall has had recourse to a more modern poet for inspiration. A couplet in Mr. Rogers' "Pleasures of Memory" exactly depicts the central charm of his admirable picture of (50) " The Swing"— round which we have watched the observant faces of the urchins wondering at the little lassie as she " Soared in the swing half pleased, and half afraid, Thro' sister elms that waved their summer shade." From Mr. Goodall this season we are compelled to con tent ourselves with this one production. Somewhat tantalising ! But then—how many are altogether absent from the gallery this year among our more eminent artist-con temporaries ! Mr. Mulready, as usual, has nothing— resting, as he well may at last, upon the ample laurels of his reputation. Neither has Mr. Dyce anything. Nor has Mr. Herbert. Nor has Mr. Elmore. And we believe we might, with a little trouble, still further extend the list of the defaulters among the academicians. Conspicuous, however, among all the more notable painters who contribute nothing whatever to the collection of 1854--conspicuous, although only an associate—is Mr. Millais, the leader of the pre-Raphael ites. His absence, for once, from among the number of competitors for public applause, is sincerely to be regretted. For of late his unquestionably high genius has revealed the progress of a manifest and remarkable development. The school, or rather the revival-of-the school, of which he may be regarded as the chief origi nator, and as certainly the principal champion and ornament—is but indifferently represented even by a gifted disciple like Mr. Hunt, the most notable among all the disciples of Mr. Millais—from the former of whom we have this year (337) " The Awakened Con science," and (508) "The Light of the World," each in ( its way astonishingly clever, but both wonderfully ex travagant. Although an academician, Mr. Cope, by the way, has, particularly of late, shown himself some thing of a pre-Raphaelite. In testimony of which we have simply to refer to (217) "The Friends," and to (84) " Baby's Turn"—the latter especially fraught with the graces of truth and tenderness. Several humorous pictures of more than common merit shine out through all the surrounding seriousness of the collection. Pre-eminent among these we would at once place (157) " Life at the Sea Side," by Mr. Frith —an elaborate representation of the gaieties and oddities of a watering place, pencilled with much of the fun of Hood, and with some of the wisdom of Hogarth. Im mediately after this exceedingly clever performance, come the companion paintings of Mr. Solomon.-(314) "First Class : the Meeting," and (361) " Second Class : the Parting"—the last mentioned, however, mingling some what of the pensive also with the broadly humorous. As illustrative of the manners and customs of England in this age of railroads, love, and adventure, Mr. Solo mon's twin pictures of First and Second Class are drolly and delightfully characteristic. Several attractive works of a somewhat less pretentious description than those already mentioned deserve, however, to be here especially particularised. The visitor will not fail to remark with interest the quaint little sketch (9) of " Cinderella," by George Cruikshank—in which the crickets, and the rats, and the pumpkin figure very prominently. There is some humour too in (176) "Dr. Johnson at Cave's the publisher," by H. Wallis—at least in the supercilious expression of the serving -maid, who brings the plate of meat behind the screen to the poor thread bare scholar. Considerable sweetness of expression is brown into the faces of the tiny toddling "Children in the Wood," (344) painted by J. Sant, with colours taken from the palette of the Pre-Raphaelite. We can not but recognise at a glance, moreover, in (390) " The Lady Emily" of G. Landseer, abundant promise both in skill of hand and in liveliness of imagination, The thought is taken from the " White Doe of Rvlstone." We shall look for still bette things from the young artist when he goes in quest of his theme elsewhere than to the rhythmical feebleness of Wordsworth. A smile will, we doubt not, be provoked from the lips of the majority of observers by R. Hannah's representa tion (426) of "The Countess of Nithsdale Petitioning George 1.," —a picture distinguished by its preposter ously grotesque exaggeration. Of landscapes, this year, there are but few in the Royal Academy's collection deserving of any particular commendation. Messrs. Lee and Cooper, however, still labour together in such wise as to command every now and then our cordial and unaffected admiration. As, for example, in (362) that lovely perspective of the bough-canopied road with the flock of sheep scattered about it in shadow and sunshine. Mr. Redgrave, in (212) "An Old English Homestead," " Like sportive deer they coursed about, And shouted as they ran— Turning to mirth all things of earth, As only boyhood can ; But the Usher sat remote from all, A. melancholy man." • delights our eye with a truly national landscape, as in 02u ) :le Cii ~ 1 La, a, v,it;l a giia,pk; ul Lite sylvan solitude of " The Mid-wood Shade." A curious effect of watery air is produced by Mr. Creswick in (302) " The Pass ing Cloud," one of the most notable works in this de partment of the exhibition. Another of Mr. Anthony's microscopic delineations of foliage (420), " Nature's Mirror," cannet by possibility be overlooked. In portraits the Gallery is for the present season pe culiarly rich—in portraits, we mean, of superior excel lence. The most commendable among all which are un questionably two very noble paintings from the master-hand of F. Grant, the academician (69) "Mr. Macaulay," and (193) a full length of " Lord John Russell." Both are wonderfully life like, and hit off exactly the character, or the intellectual personality as it may be termed, of the two distinguished statesmen. There are two other historical portraits, as they may be called, which will be recognised by many as having been already exhibited elsewhere in the galle ries of popular printsellers--(14) " His Imperial Majesty Napoleon III.," by J. G. Middleton—a surprisingly good likeness ; and (247) " Nelson meditating in the Cabin of the Victory, previously to the Battle of Tra falgar," a picture some months since mentioned by our selves in these columns eulogistically. Personages of various note will be recognised in effigy in all parts of the collection. Here (74) " Viscount Gough," by Grant, in the dress worn by the noble veteran in his battles in Hindostan. Here (133) the "Duchess of Argyll and the Marquis of Lorn," by W. S. Herrick—neither mother nor son, however, in this latter picture, painted very pleasingly. There (206) "Lord Dufferin in his robes as a Peer, ":a production of considerable merit by A. Schyfer, although marred in some measure by the hardness of Pre-Raphaelism. There, again (372), the brave old "Earl of Dundonald," by W. Ross. Yonder H. Wei gall's recollection (381) of the "Duke of Wellington," and, not far from it, T. N. Joy's well-known portraiture of the gallant Sir Charles Napier, the Baltic Commander in-Chief. Several others might be particularised in de served terms of commendation. But among the many meritorious portraits of private individuals scattered through the collection, an especial word of praise is com manded for itself by (321) the exceedingly clever "Portrait of a Lady," by T. Brigstock, an artist of already advanced, but still advancing, reputation. It may not be forgotten that it was to the brush of Mr. Brigstock the public were indebted for that remarkable full-length painting of Cardinal Wiseman, robed in his scarlet vesture, which a season or two back arrested such general observation. The present work from the same hand reveals in several particulars an evid6nt advance in the artist's already recognised skill as a portrait painter. Without any know ledge whatever of the original, it is obvious at a glance that the picture has the peculiar merit of a vraisem blance. Another portrait revealing particular ability in the artist is (198) that of the Rev. E. Hearn, by E. Kaulbach—a work of art full of thoughtful expression and intellectual individuality. There are numerous other heads hardly less ingeniously pencilled, several of them, as, for instance, the portraits of "Dr. Forbes Wins low" (128), of "Colonel Sabine" (182), and of the late " Viscount Beresford" (125), depicting men of celebrity in various departments or professions. A cursory glance is all we have yet been enabled to take at the numerous contributions to the collection of sculpture arranged in the downstairs apartment. It is difficult, however, to pass over without allusion in this division of the exhibition, to the exquisite bronze relievi by Matthew Noble— (1398 and 1400)—illustrative of the "Bridge of Sighs" and of the "Dream of Eugene Aram," portions of the now famous monument on the eve of being erected over the grave of Thomas Hood in Kensal-green Cemetery. The former of these emi nently beautiful works. of art is expressive in every graceful line and swell of the metal of the pathos of the poor poet's stanza : V;' , 7iY 7 .f SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) 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Pref., No. 1 Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Closing Prices Saturday. 22i -23 i 4 - 41 20 20 50 20 7i 8 14 —l2 ail; 15 17 8 7 d 89 - 91 53i - 54 134 - 144 8 10 ii. = ii 7 - 8 15 . - 16 12 - 14 30 - 34 24 - 26 58 - - 60 53 - 55 Business done Saturday. 90 53 i i 15,E 12 1 i :: 24 58 62 86i 87 75 119 --12176 89 - 91 724. 73 85 87 10 12 o 10 1 . 2 p 80 i ^ 60i 8 7i(t ]i 12, 8 8 . 1 Par p 97 984 96 - 964 lid lid id— la 764 —77 i 13 4 —124 i 10 9 d 19 - 20 581 - 58i' 33 - 35 1 .. . i . . d- d 6 -. 4 dl 6 8 45 47 31 340 30 ... 31 50 - 54 ii - gP - 601 74 - 7I 28 - 30 k 86 51 - 53 50 - 52 50 -- 53 34 -- 240 13 -- 15 10 - It - 4 -- 3id 13 - 15 59 -59 i 34i - 35 4 - - 5 --. 31 . ..• .. --. .. 2i- 3,1 17 18 4 - 5 21 ; ; 23 Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Linieriek West Cornwall West End of London and Crystal Palace West London. all 51a. 100 20 13 ;100 59 i 554 86j 75 120 19i 72i i g 6O ii _~ , 98 0 1 96 1 i 771 19i 583 1 10 1 1 50 50 100 100 per cent. Wimbledn & Croydon York Newctl.&Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland THE CANADA WORKS, BIRKENHEAD. '*6 - -i 64 65 91 Bict 5t 4id 45 -- 46 The Canada Works are a thing of magic, in the rapi dity with which they have been constructed and brought into active operation. Here it is that Messrs. Brassey, Jackson, Peto, and Betts, the contractors for the Grand Trunk Railway of Canada, are constructing their plant and materials for carrying on that great undertaking. The premises are very extensive and as complete as pos sible. The main building is 900 feet in length by 36 feet in width, and there are also other erections. The yard encloses a long water basin, where coals and other neces sary stores are landed at the very spot where they are waited. Besides this, the line of railway is carried from the docks to all parts of the yard. The establishment is divided into two distinct compartments ; one for the manufacture of locomotives, waggons, carriages, and plant, and the other for the construction of bridges ; for all the large bridges on the Canada Railway are to be tubular ; and one of them, over the St. Lawrence, will be a mile and three-quarters in length, throwing into the shade all previous attempts at tubing, the famous Britannia Bridge included. The general management of the Canada Works is in the hands of Mr. Harrison, a gentleman of great experience in such matters ; and the " bridge department" is superintended by Mr. Evans, who brings equal ability to the performance of his duties. The main building is, of course, divided into separate compartments, the principal of which is the fitting, turn ing, and erecting shop, a noble room, 300 feet long. There is, also, the boiler-makers' shop, the smithy (with 22 furnaces), the brass-moulders' and copper-smiths' shop, the pattern-makers' shop, the cast-iron foundry, the warehouse, the store, and other smaller " shops. ' The bridge department includes two shops"—the smithy and the plating-room. Spacious offices, and a suitable house for the "foreman's " residence, stand detached from the other buildings. There is, also, sta bling for a number of horses employed in " out-door " work. The premises include an eating-room and a read ing -room, for the use of the artisans employed. The locomotives and their tenders are entirely con structed at these works, as also all the castings, mould ings, and forging—in fact, all the iron-work—for the carriages and waggons of the Grand Trunk Railway ; but the wood-work and fitting-up of the latter are, for very obvious reasons, effected in Canada, principally at Montreal. Two large stationary high pressure engines, of 30-horse power each, supply the motive power to the numerous slotting, planeing, punch ing machines, steam hammers, and other me chanical contrivances for assisting the labour of h a ndicraftsmen. These machines are constructed by Whitworth and Naysmith, of Manchester, Shank, of Johnston, near Glasgow. The locomotives are constructed ten at a time, and the first batch of ten are now drawing towards completion—five of them for passenger and the other five for goods traffic. It is expected that steam will be up, and the first five of these ready for delivery at their destination by the end of May. It will be in teresting to many to state that the Grand Trunk Rail way of Canada is on neither the " broad" nor the " nar row gauge principle. The Canadian gauge 5 feet 6 inches. The contractors have bought a large vessel to be employed solely nd fitted in conveyingttedso a s th t o g e locomotive e vgaret andstowagecar riage work acros s the Atlantic, and he r 'tween decks are being opened up and for such heavy freight. She can lay alongside the yard, where there it a powerful crane that will hoist her car goes t extent of the operations carr i e d on at the Canada Works, it ma y be somewha t premature to of the on b u o l a t r i d ina as e they are completed. speak just now, but the number of men employed now is upwards of 300, and every week additional hands aro being taken on until the maximum of 600 is reached. 6 The monthlyot s,oooexpendi ture.and Ile wages of the mechanics range fro m 28 s to 3 4s per week in th w e a a g v e - s era an average being eing 31s. d. isnow upwards when the works are in full operation, it will be more than double that amount, or at the rate of 1 20,0001. per annum—all, or nearly all, of which will be spent amongst the shopkeepers of Birkenhead. It is calculated that the works are capable of turning out 40 locomotives, with their tenders, in the course of a year, which, at the mo derate estimate of 2,5001. for each locomotive (they are very large and powerful ones), gives 100,0001. per annum for the work of that department alone. The carriage, bridge, and miscellaneous plant work will probably reach double that amount, and thus wo have 300,0001. worth of work turned out yearly from the Canada Works alone. The people of Canada have thus the assurance that their great railway will be completed as speedily as possible, for all bands are working over-time, and the machinery is kept going night and day.—Liverpool Journal. 5 10 St. 5 St. 20 12 St. all 15 i 6 Xgua Fria ~ PREFERENCE SHARES. !Aberdeen.. 100 5 .00 all Do. No. 2, p. c. Blyth and Tyne 10 per c. pref. (issd. at 500 Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares Caledonian £lO 10 25 10 1.0.6 Chester & Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent ) Cork &Bandonsip.c I Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction EastAnglian (£3los) 6 per cent o. ( x 5) 7 per cent Do. (£7l7s) 7 p. c Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do. No. 2 . Do. New 6 p. c. St. Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent Do. 51., 10 per cont. Do. 101. Debentr.Sh- East Lancash. 6 p. cts. East and West York shire June. Pref... Edinb Prth. &Dundee per cent. Glasgow & S. Western Guar. 5 per cent Great Northn. 5 p. c Do. 5 p. c. Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem. .. Do. 4,1 p. c. Scrip Gt.N. of Scot. Ist Pref Gt. Southn. &Westin. (Ireland) Eighths) Do. 4 per c. Pref. Sh, Gt. Wcstn. (Berks & Hants Ex. 5 p. c) Do. cov. red. 4# p.c Do. con. red. 4 p. c Do. irred. 4 p. c Lan. & York. F. £2O Do. 6 p. c. Stock Leeds N. 6 p. c. No.l Do. Quarters, 1848 London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. Do. Convertible, 5 p.l c.,1852 Do. New Guar.6 p. Lon. &N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton all all 100 all London & S. Western Con, Thirds Londonderry& Coler i Shares - Londy. &Ennis.i Sh Sian,, Shef., & Lin. i Shares, No, 1. Do. New, £lO IDo. £6.. 6farypt.& Carl.4p.c, Do. 4i per cent Do Consol.6 p.c.St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Jlirm. 6 per cent Do. Pref. 4i per cent Norfolk Debenture Do. Pref. 4 p. c. Stock Do. 5 p. c. Eat 100 1100 100 100 all 100 Do. 5i per ct.pref Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c North British North Staffordshire Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh.£ls, 6 p.c Do Scot. Cent. , New Pref Shrews. &Biim.N.G. Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min), 8 p.c. Do. 5 per cent South Devon, D. fixed, 4A per cent S. Eastern (Readin Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 4Aper cent. S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar Stockton and Dar- lington, 4 per cent Do. do. do, Stockton and Hartle- pool, guar. 5 p. c. till Ist July, 1856 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. York, Newcastle:and' Len - vick,4 p.c. Pre 94 -- .96 6 -- 61 24- -- 3i -- 4 - p 12 2 -- 12i P 23 -- 24 94 - 9G 8 - 8i 15i -- 164 94 -- 10 11 -- 13 ... - i P 22; - 23 98 - 100 15 -- 20 = i-d 1 Do.. Vork&N.Midlandli, and S. Purch 87 92 31 3i 1# id 5 34 9 a 60 59 1331 2 11 die 95 4 Anglo Austen. Gold Anglo Californian Australasian Australian Australian Cordillera Australian Freehold Ave Maria Baden (Gd. Duchy el) Blaonarvon Ir. & Coal ("sritish Austrin. Gold . British Iron Brazilianlmp.(iisued at £5 pm • Do. Cocaes & Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Carson's Creek Clarendon Con. Min Co. of Jamaica_ Cobre Copper Colonial Gold Copiapo Copper Min. of Eng Do. Pref. 7h p. cent English and Austrin Copper Smeltg. Co. General Great Nugget Vein Do. Registered Great Polgooth Liberty Linares Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co 11fariquita Mexican&S.Amelien New Granada New Linares Mining and Smelting Co Nouveau Monde Pontgibaud Silver Lead Min. it Smelt Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymney Iron Do. New 18 Id= 1p 1— - d 1 2 8 10 4 - 5 - 2 29 - 31 - $ 39 - 41 I f - li 10 -12 50 -60 2 - 4p all all 15 10i all li - 21 1 - 1 - if 10 1 - 11 Santiago de Cuba Fouth Australian Tin Croft United Mexican Waller West Granada West Mariposa Worthing Mining 01 6 - 7 i - i 15 17 Par in 29 31 8 10 3 4 2 4 21 31 d 20 50 20 25 all all all all 12a. Australia , Yuba i . = I'd :_- .~ - PORED 721 4 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING-. MAZY' 1, 1854. 10 9 Antwerp&Rotterdam 4 —34 d xn xin 5 3 Belgian Eastn. June. A 1 20 8 Beziers to Gmissessac, 5 4cl d2O 2s. Bombay, Baroda, an Central India,Scrip ... —i p pm . ... Central of Italy 20 all Charleroi & Erquelin ... ... Hi all Demerara 20 14 Dijon and Besancon ... p 20 8 Dutch Rhenish. 44 3id 20 all East Indian lt —24 p 20 2 Do. Extension 1 A d 5 all Gt. Indian Peninsula 1 i p 20 10 Gd. Junct. of France ... ... 25 10 rd. Trunk of Canada . — d 100 30 10. Debentures .B d d 24 100 all Do. do — ... 20 10 Gt. Central of France 41 3 d 204 all Gt.WestornofCanada Shares . ... ... Do. Bonds (Ist is.ys7 9 -- 11 204 154 Hamilton & Toronto i —lp 100 all Do. 6 per cent. 20 5 Lake Const. & Basle ..,, 5 all 'Lucca &Pistoja 5 p.c pref 20 15 Luxembourg 4i 5 10 10 Do. (Railway) 2A 3 5 2 Do. Pref 1 - —1/ 5 3 Do. (Canal) i 1 10 5 Do. 6p. et. pref li —11 d 20 8 Lyons and Geneva 20 12 Lyons & Mediterran 20 10 Madras i -- d 33i 33i Maria Antonia 10 all Do. do. New 20 2 Melbourne Dk. &Ry ,,, ... 20 all Namur & Liege (with interest) 6i 7.} 20 all Do. (ex interest) — ... 16 all Northern of France 29A 30 293. Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds 20 all (fmy. B. dr Ams. She.) . ... 10 all NorwegianTrunkPref 8 9 an 20 10 Paris and Lyons l2 1249 40 all Ditto Bonds 10 all Paris and Orleans 4l 43xd x a 20 all Paris and R0uen...... 32 —34 20 all Paris and Strasbourg 29 - - 294 291 i 20 10 ParisCaen & Cherbrg. ... .... ,pm 104 101 Quebec & Richmond .., —. ... 20 all Rouen and Havre,.... 20 12 Royal Danish 2 id 5 2 Royal Swedish . d 20 all Sambre and Meuse._ 71 —8/ 8 . . 6 Do. 54 p. cent. Pref. — 20 6 Southern of Fran ce .. , — pm 20 8 St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) — ... 8i all West Flanders .- . . 10 all Do 54. per c. Pref ... —.d 20 10 Western of France._ li —24001 x d 10 7 West. of Switzerland — d 20 2 Wiesbaden — , 20 15 Zealand MISCELLANEOUS 5 all Aubin Coal and Iron ... ... 25 174 1 Australian Agricult. 37 38 20 14 Anstralsn.Pcific.Mail ... ... 10 8 Australn. Royal Mail .., ... 10 4 Berlin Water Work s ... ... 50 40 Brit. American Land ... .., 5 1 Brit. & Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Co ... ... 100 32 Canada 75 80 5 5 Crystal Palace 6a 6J- 6i / 5 4 Do. New ... - ... 4 2 Crystal Pal. of France .., ... 20 3 Eastern Steam — _. 25 20 EleetritTelograph(A) 16 18 25 all Do. (B) — ... 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir ... ... 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat ... ... 20 18 General Scre w Steam ... 20 '4 Irish Beet roo t S ugar ... —....... 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig. ... 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ... ... , 10 3 Netherlands Land 1 3 1 2 1 N. S. W. Coal & Inter Steam Navigat. Co „ 1 all N. B. Australasian,., i 1 -T 1 A Do. New — ... 20 10 Nrth. ofEuropoSteam . , 5 all Peel Rr. Ld. & Minrl. 1 i - d 4/ / 50 all Peninsular& Oriental .., ,„ 50 35 Do. 2 all Portland Iron Co 4 -- 61 3 100 60 Royal Mail Steam , ~ 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest'. 21 2Axd x d 25 25 South Austral. Land 31 36 1 all Submar. Telegraph i 1 1 all Do. Registered 100 28 t Van Diemen's Land 10 —ll DREADFUL COLLISION AND Loss OF 180 LIVES IN THE BRITISH CHANNEL.—PORTSMOUTH, Saturday.— The Bremen bark Favourite, Capt. Hoegman, with 180 passengers on board, which sailed on the 23d inst. from Bremen for Baltimore, came into collision yesterday morning, at two o'clock, off the Start, with the Ameri can bark Hesper, of Newburyport, Capt. J ones , f rom Charleston for Antwerp. The Favourite was struck on the starboard bow, and cut down to the water's edge, her foremost at the same time going by the board. The captain, mate, and four of the crew got on board the American during the collision, leaving the unfortunate passengers to their sad and untimely fate. The Fa vourite is supposed to have gone down instantly, with 180 human beings, as nothing could be seen of her at daylight. Some of the crew were supposed to have got into a boat, but nothing has been seen or heard of them. The American sustained some damage, but proceeded on her voyage. The captain, mate, and men that escaped were brought on shore by the Agenora, pilot-boat, and placed under the direction of Mr. Vandenbergh, the Bremen consul at this port. JUSTICE TO WOMEN.—Surely there is work wanting to be done in the marital code of England ! Surely there are wrongs to be redressed and reforms to be made that have gone too long unmade ! Surely . we have here a righteous quarrel with the laws—more righteous than many that have excited louder cries. Justice to women. No fanciful rights, no unreal advantages, n o propos• terous escape from wottianly duty for the restless, loud, and vain • no mingling of women with the broils of political life, nor opening to them of careers which nature herself has pronounced them incapable of following ; no high-flown assertion of equality i n kind but simple justice. The recognition of their indi viduality as wives, the recognition of their natural right as mothers, the permission to them to live by their own honourable industry, untaxed by the legal right and moral wrong of any man to claim as his own that for which he has not wrought—reaping where he has n o t sown, and gathering where he has not strewn. Justice to women. This is what the phrase means ; this is where the thing is truly wanted ; here is an example of the great injustice done to them, and of their maltreat ment under the eyes of a whole nation, by the law.— Dickens's Household Words. 1852. 1851. 1850. 1853. I 1854. Stock of Ir this --1 day c.: .. • • ..... 26,471 1 31,476 i 42,996 25,108 34,192 Price ti Us 9d 38s (id •.0:363 Od to 47s 6d 48 Od to ' ry last week .. 1,738 893 930 z 256 784 Ditto from June 1 .... 89,605 1 87750 98,730 98,081 89,741 , Arrivals last wee k.. 54 1 610 1,083 1,408 1,082 Dittofrom June 1.... 93,675 96,711 , 105,192: 82,561 100,618 Price of Town ...... 383 Od ••• 393 Gd I 383 Od 49s 3d , 64s 9d SCOTTISH HOSPITAL.—On Friday a special general meeting of this corporation was held in Crane-court, for the election of pensioners. Mr. W. Kirk, one of the governors of the corporation, presided. There were fifteen vacancies, twelve of the first class, and three of the second. Three scrutineers were appointed, and a ballot took place at three o'clock. The meeting having been summoned for the purpose of filling up the vacancies in the list of pensioners, no other business was transacted. 1110.0. 1.1. talk as it own btaLlk of tile A. ms the ~e ab le en the Duke, D f that _pro apPre° rty at rsua de or the n thin Baro n )f the c abled. Lich it , with °wars , •estore g it . 14 der to before callg e ' YlOlll4 of th e Iready ot o f tuv seyerstl 30, td /1 05 ite is r oula A 3 - 3i 111 -- lir 105 - 107 9i - 9i 7:4 8 ..- ad 64 7 94 96 87 89 88 90 Id pay 128 132 ... -- .... 21 - 21 1)1 4 i Et id 91 par 129 131 11 lid JOINT-STOCK BANKS. !Australasia British Colonial Bank and Loan Company British N. American Chartd. Bank of Asia Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China Colonial Commercial of Lend English Scottish and Australian Loud. Chart. Bk. of) Australia 20 10 20 35 London and County.. London Joint Stock.. Lond. & Westminster National Provincial of England Do. New National of Ireland New South Wales l Oriental Bank of Corporation. 5 IDo. New 10 22i all all Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn. Bkg. & Gold Imp Co , South Australia Union of Australia Do. New Union of London__ all all 24 10 72 - 74 i id li lid 5 4 d, 3 2d . 43 = 45 36 - 38 65 - 67 6i - 7,i . MABK.ET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The supplies of wheat on sale in the country markets held on Saturday were somewhat on the increase. For all kinds the demand ruled heavy, at a decline in the quota tions of from is to 2s per quarter. In barley, very little was doing on easier terms. Oats, beans, and peas, sup ported former currencies ; but flour was dull, and easier to purchase. The continental markets have been rather inactive for most articles. In the United States, the trade has been excited, and a considerable advance in the value of wheat nd flour has taken place. Up to our market, last week, the receipts of English grain were very moderate. From abroad, we received 52,047 quarters of wheat, 7,058 barley, 38,563 oats, 530 beans, 71 peas, 69 tares, 382 linseed, 857 rapeseed, 2,725 sacks, and 6,405 barrels of flour. The arrivals of English wheat fresh up to our market, this morning, were on a very moderate scale, and there was very little addition to the supply of that grain by land carriage. The show of samples of both red and white was limited ; nevertheless, the demand for all descriptions was in a very inactive state. In some instances, prices were a shade lower on this day se'nnight ; and the amount of business doing was limited. For forward delivery, scarcely a transaction took place. We were heavily supplied with all kinds of foreig n wheat. The inquiry for all descriptions was confined to immediate wants, and low and middling parcels were lower to purchase. The arrival of floating cargoes off the coast continues good. The show of both English and foreign barley was season ably large. Although the business doing in that grain was comparatively small, no actual decline took place in prices. The transactions in malt were devoid of interest. In prices we have no change to notice. With oats we were well supplied. Sales progressed steadily, at full quotations. Beans were in short supply and good request, at an ad vance of ls. per quarter. Peas and floor sold heavily, at barely stationary prices. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Red .• .. new 74s to 84a Ditt0............ old 76s B7s Ditto, White new 76s ' 88s Ditt0........ old 76s 90s Norfolk and Lin coln, Red, old 74s 84s Ditto new •• 74s 84s Rye—Old ............ sls 52s New .• •• 50a 51s . Barley—Grinding ..... 36s 38a Malting ......... 39s als Chevalier.. • • • • . 42s 44s italt—Einfolkand Nor folk•• •• •• •• 66s 71s Brown 60s 62s KingstonandWare 73s 75s Malt—Chevalier •• 75s to 76? 'Oats Yorkshire and Lineslnsh.,Feed 30s 341 Potato .. 32s 36s Youghal and Cork Black..• •• .. 30s 33s Cork,White.•..• 29s 35s Scotch,Feod. •• .. 34s 36s Beans—Tick ..... .... 45s 54s Pigeons .... 49s 66s Peas—Gpey .......... 44s 48s Map1e........... 48s 53s White........... 56s 62s Boilers .......... 56s 683 Flour—Town-made... 68s 70s Suffolk •......... 603 64s Stoats & Norfolk 60s 66s SMITHFIELD. Last week's imports of foreign stock into London were decidedly on the increase, the total supply being only 1,104 head. In the corresponding week in 1853 we re ceived 3,550 ; in 1852, 1,944 ; in 1851, 1,647 ; in 1850, 1,360 ; in 1849, 1,211; in 1848, 1,090; and in 1847, 1,241 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEEK. From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. Hamburgh 153 ... 40 Rotterdam B2 154 Harlingen 204 30 ... Ostend Amsterdam Bordeaux Dordt Antwerp - ... 192 ... 20 ... - - ..• Total,. 244 ... - ... 319 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 1853 9OB 2,124 ... 1 474 43 1852 3BO ... 992 22 535 ... 5 1851 443 772 ... 11 348 .., 73 1850 338 007 2 303 ... 1849 252 750 ... 239 ... The show of foreign stock in to-days market was mode rately good, both as to number and quality. From our own grazing districts the receipts of beasts fresh up to-day were rather extensive, and in excellent condition. Still. however, the demand for all breeds ruled steady, at Friday's advance in the quotations of 2d per 81bs. The primest Scots sold readily at 43 6d per 81bs, and a good clearance was effected. The receipts of beasts from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire amounted to 2,200 Scots and short-horns ' • from other parts of England, 700 o f var i ous b ree d s ; and from Scotland, 700 horned and polled Scots. With sheep we were well supplied. Although the de mand for that description of stock was by no means so active as on Friday, when prices advanced 2d per 81bs, sales progressed steadily, at full value. The highest value of the best old Downs in the wool was 5s 2d per Blbs. Lambs, the supply of which was seasonably extensive, were tolerably firm, at full currencies —viz., 58 6d to 7s per 81bs. There was a full average business doing in calves, at last week's currency. The primest veal was worth 5s 8d per 81bs. We had a slow sale for pigs, on former terms. Per 81bs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 2to 3 4 rime Southdown 5 0 5 2 Second quality.... 3 6 3 8 Large crse. calves 4 6 5 2 Prime large oxen 3 1 10 4 2 *me small d 0... 5 4 5 S Prime Scots, die. 4 4 4 6 Large hogs 3 0 4 2 Inferior Sheep ...3 8 310 Small porkers 4 4 4 8 Second quality ...4 0 4 6 Sucklingcalves ..22 0 29 0 Prime crse.-wlled.4 8 410 Quarter old pigs 21 0 27 0 Lambs ss 6d to 7s Od. FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts ......... Sheep .......•• •• .. • 25,020 Sheep ..•• • .. 470 Calves ...........• .. •... 216 Calves, • • Pigs ....................295 Pig 5................ ...... A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market, on, Monday, May 2, 1853, and this day, Monday, May 1, 1854. Per 81bs, to sink the offals. May 2, 1854. IMay 1, 1853 s. d. s. d.lB. d. s. d Coarse and inferior beasts ... ... 3 oto 3 23 2to 3 4 Second quality ditto ... ... ... 3 4 3 6;3 6 3 8 Prime large oxen ... ... ... ... 3 8 3103 10 4 2 Prime Scots, 'Sze ... ... ... ... 4 0 4 2`4 4 4 6 Coarse and inferior sheep ... ... 4 0 4 2 3 S 310 Second quality ditto ... ... ... 4 4 4 84 0 4 6 Prime coarse woolled ditto ... ... 410 5 0,4 8 410 Prime Southdown ditto ... .. 5 2 5 4 5 0 5 2 Lambs ... ... ... ... ... ... 5 0 6 o's 6 7 0 Large coarse calves ... ... ... 3 6 4 24 6 5 2 Prime small ditto ... ... ... ... 4 4 4 8 1 5 4 5 8 Large hogs ... ... ... ... ... 3 0 3 6'3 0 4 2 Neat small porkers ~. ... ... 3 8 4 4 , 4 4 4 8 Beasts... ... ~. ... ... 4,303 1 4,663 Sheep ... ... ... ... ... 24,300 1 25,020 Calves._ ... ... ... ... ... 228 I 216 Pigs ... .. . ... ... ~.310 1 295 SUPPLIES ON SALE, May 3, 1852.—Beasts, 3,974 ; sheep and lambs, 23,940; calves, 226; pigs, 350. May 5, 1851.—Beasts, 3,974 ; sheep and lambs, 25,460 ; calves, 233; pigs, 360. TOTAL SUPPLY. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Since our last report very moderate supplies of each kind of meat have been offer in these markets. The general de mand is steady, and prices are well supported in every instance. Per Sibs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 3 0 3 4 Do., middliug 3 6 3 8 Do., prima large 3 8 3 10 Do., do. small 3lO 4 0 Pork, large 3 4 4 2 Lamb. s. d. s. d. Mutton, Inferior 3 4 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 4 2 Do., prime 4 4 4 6 Veal 4 0 5 4 Pork, small 4 4 4 8 5s 4d to 6s 10d BOROUGH HOP. We continue to have a moderate inquiry for most kinds of hops, the supply of 'which is limited, at late rates. Last week's imports were 11 balsa from Antwerp. The quo tations are—Mid and East Kent pockets, 61. 10s to 121. Os ; Weald of Kent, 6/. Os to 7/. Os ; Sussex, rd. 12s to 61. 103 per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Since Monday last the arrivals of potatoes, coastwise and by land carriage, have been on a very moderate scale. The supply to-day is small, and a steady business is doing, as follows :—York Regents, 120 s to 155 s ; Kent and Essex ditto, 120 s to 150 ; Scotch ditto, 105 s to 120 s ; ditto cups, 100 to 110 s ; Irish whites, 100 s ; foreign, 90s to 100 s per ton. WOOL. We have again to report a very dull sale for all kinds of English wool. To effect large transactions, lower rates must be submitted to. Foreign and colonial parcels are heavy, and almost nominal in value. Last week's imports were 117 bags from Hamburgh, and 1,300 bales from Hobart Town. SEEDS. There has been less business in linseed since our last report, and prices have ruled somewhat easier. Bombay has sold at from 68s to 70s ; Odessa, 64s to 68 s u Petersburgh, 66 s to 68s p er q uarter. Cake s are firm: and d quite as dear as last advised. carnle,white,Per bush. 22s to 249 Swede ...... • • 22s 24s ki rares,Winter, new.... 9s Od 9s 6 d ns wh tard i , te R , Old • • •• • • • • 7s Od 8s Od Canary, per quarter •. 48s 548 Rye grass • • •••• • • • • 24 s 28s Clover, Red Eng . (Cwt.) 58e 64s White • s4s 84s ! Foreign Red.. •• • . 52s 64s' White.. • • 62s 90s Trefoil, new 263 334 Carraway .......• •• .. 43i 46s Coriander...• .• .• 173 18s Rempseed, per quarter 4(s 4 4s Linseed, Eng. Sowing.. 703 74s Crushing .... •• •• 663 68s Baltic .• .• 663 68s Odessa .......... 643 68s Linseed Cake, pr. ton— English .. . 10/ Os 11( 103 Foreign, per ton 9/ 5s 111 108 Rape Cakes, pr ton 6115 s 715 s Itapeseed,New,prlst 3110 s 33; Os TALLOW. Oar market is in a very depressed state, and prices are still drooping. P.Y.C. on tho spot is quoted at 645, and for forward delivery 65s to 66s tier cwt. Town tallow is 62s per cwt. net cash. Rough fat, 3s 5d per 8 lbs. Ettirb Übttion. NEWMARKET• RACES. • (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH) MATCH.—Nathan beat Assault gelding. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES. T.Y.C. Testy Lady Flora Five ran. SWEEPSTAKES OF 200 SOPS. Lady Bird Mias Charlotte Four ran. 501. PLATE. Ariosto Captain Flash ..1 •...........• 2 2 Four ran. SWEEPSTAKES of 60 Sovs. Three ran. Scythian ....... Weathercock . AUSTRALIA. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 29.—8 y the Royal Mail steam-ship Atrato we have received, via Panama, accounts from Melbourne to the 3d of February, being a few days later than were received by the last overland mail. In the Legislative Council of Victoria on the let of February a bill for the extension of the fran chise to the diggers was introduced by the Colonial Secretary. The New Constitution Bill had also been considered, and a report on the Ovens Mining Company Incorporation Bill presented to the House. The attention of 'the colonists was principally directed to the means of defending Melbourne and Port Philip from an attack by Russian cruisers in the event of war, and the Melbourne papers were chiefly occupied with discussions upon the subject. It was proposed to raise a militia, to fit out gun boats, and to arm small steamers with Congreve rocket batteries, for the de s t ruc ti on of any hostile naval force that might approach the Australian shores. With regard to the wreck of the Marco Polo, the following letter appears in the Argus from the com mander of that ship : " The Marco Polo has been lightened of all her pas• sengers and luggage, and a lighter is to-day taking off the small portion of cargo she has on board. The greater portion of her water (say 90 tons) has been started and pumped out. Her top hamper has been sent down, and it is confidently expected by Captain Ferguson (who has been giving valuable assistance to me) that she will be towed off to-morrow. The crew have worked most cheerfully, only four having left the ship, which they did the first night the vessel went on shore. The injury to the windlass is so slight that it was in use yesterday. The vessel has made no water since being on shore, and does not show the slightest appearance of being in- jured by straining or otherwise. Her false keel has not suffered at all." A. subsequent announcement in the same paper says : "It is gratifying to he enabled to announce that thii celebrated vessel has been rescued from what appeared inevitable destruction. A despatch was received from her by Messrs. J. B. Were, Kent, and Co., Lloyd's agents, on Monday, and Mr. Were immediately pro• ceeded down with additional assistance, and, under the able and judicious directions of Captain Ferguson, the harbour-master, at 4 o'clock yesterday morning the ves sel was hove off and brought up into Hobson's Bay about mid-day." There was nothing new from the mines. The correspondent of the Argus, writing from Bendigo, says of the rich discoveries at Bryant's Ledge : "These:diggings are now pretty well understood here, and, if some of the exaggerated statements have been shorn of their brilliancy by the discovery of the truth, on the other hand, it is pretty certain that on these ranges a gold field has been discovered which, in respect to ex tent and richness, will take rank among the recognised gold fields of Victoria, and that is saying a good deal. From authentic information I believe that there are about 6,000 or 7,000 people at work there, and 20 gul lies have been opened, in all of which gold has been found. There are numerous other gullies untried, re sembling those which are in work, and there is every likelihood that the gold deposits will be found to extend over a considerable tract of country. The gullies are deeper, and the adjacent hills steeper and higher than those on the Bendigo. I have not heal dof any main creek or stream of water, but the gullies tend towards the Loddon. The holes are about 16 or 20 feet deep in general, but in some places not more than 4 or 5 feet. The washing-stuff is pretty thick, being frequently 18 inches, and in some claims the diggers wash the whole height of the drive. One hole has been sunk to a depth of 60 or 70 feet, by a party of Germans, but want of funds compelled them to abandon it. They went through the first bottom, and finding, as it is said, a deposit of gravel beneath it, they were induced to persevere so long as they were able. In some of the gullies the gold deposit is found in a narrow gutter a few feet wide. Those who hit upon this channel get washing-stuff which pays very well—as much as three ounces to the load in many cases. It is expected that some very good hill-sinking will be found, as many of the hills there have similar deposits of pebbles and cemented clays and gravel to those which are found ou some of the hills at Forest Creek and on the White Hills here. The richest part yet struck is the flat which was first opened. Num bers continue to pour into the diggings, but many have left, not seeing any probability of working the ground with much profit in the present dry weather. It is their intention, however, to return when the rainy season has set in. Water is very scarce. There is hardly any for washing, and the nearest extensive supply is at the Loddon some eight miles off." Gold was quoted 3/. 16s. 9d., with a fair business doing. Cash price for flour—firsts, 351. per 2,0001 b. ; seconds, 321. At I\l'lvor flour was 50/. a-ton. The import markets were generally un changed. From New South Wales and Adelaide we have no later accounts. MORE RUSSIAN PRIZES. PonTsmourn, Saturday.—The revenue cutter Active, Lieutenant John J. C. Tracey, R.N., commanding, brought into Spithead at noon to-day as a prize, the Russian barque Fyra Broder (Four Brothers), of 400 tons, and 14 men, hound from Hieres for Nystad, laden with salt. She sailed on the 25th of March, and was boarded and captured at 1 p.m on the 27th inst., Hast ings, bearing S. W. 15 miles. She was taken this evening to the Thames by her captors. . DOVER, Sunday Evening•.—Another Russian prize was brought into Dover Harbour yesterday afternoon by the Lion revenue cruiser, Capt. Wm. Pearn. It is a schooner, the Johannes, Capt, Szotnan, of Burgo, laden with salt on Russian account. The capture was made off Folkestone. Positive intelligence has been received that one, if not two Russian ships, are hovering about in the Channel. Great exertions are consequently being made to effect the capture of one or both of these vessels. LLOYD'S SHIPPLYG-(THIS DA Y. ) N, May I.—Wind this d a y a t N oon, Westerly ; breeze,light pO and dull, cloudy weather. The Mercury has fallen considerably, and is now at 29 (Rain). PORTSMOUTH, April 30.—Wind, W.S.W., blowing hard. Arrived—Helen, from Mauhnein ; A r i a d ne, Dantzic. Off Port—Katherine P. Forbes, from Singapore ; - Wellington, Portland Bay.—The Agenoria, No. 18, pilot-boat, of this port, landed here yesterday the captain, mate, carpenter, and three seamen, part of the crew of the Bremen ship Favourite, from Bremen for Baltimore, with emigrants (186 in number), which had been in contact yesterday with the American barque Hesper, of Newbury Port, from Charleston for Antwerp, the Start bearing N.E. about 14 miles ; the Favourite, it is supposed, shortly after sunk. The Hesper proceeded in charge of a pilot, with bows stove, cutwater carried away, and with loss of jibboom and foretop-gallantinast.—The Fyra, Broder, from Hyeres, for Nystad, laden with salt, was captured, April 27, 15 miles S.W. of Hastings, by H.M.'s revenue steamer Active, and was brought in here yesterday, and then proceeded to the Eastward. DOVER, April 30.—Wind, S.W. to W. Arrived—En deavour, from Oran, with loss of anchor and chain, and sailed for London ; Nicolaus, Jamaica, with damage, hav ing been in contact ; Garland, Newcastle, for Constan tinople, with damage, baying been in contact —The Johannes (Russian schooner), from Cadiz to Elsinore, with salt, was brought iu here yesterday in prize to Lion, C.H.C. SOUTHAMPTON, April 29.—The Commerce, of London, laden with coals, was fallen in with 24th April, in let. 44 N. long. 34 W. abandoned, but with her hull in good order, and making no water, by the Atralto (s.), arrived here. ROTTERDAM, April 24.—The Whitby, from Newcastle, with loss of mainmast and foretopmast, has been assisted into Goeree by the Glen Albyn (s.) The Noord, from Ba roicfk . and Hull, from Ba tavia to this port, was lost on the Banyard yesterday after noon ; crew saved. SCARBOROUGH, April 28.—The Comet (sloop) , o f W hitby, with stone, being in a leaky state, was ran a s ho r e in Foley Bay, and has since become a wreck; crew saved by the life-boat. tNewcastle HARWICH, - Gwo Good lith a nt ea en rg t (oslooof bricks glass, sank off Cromer ou the 28th April ; crew pi c k e d up in a boat by the Active ( smack), of Londo n , and lauded here. London, The (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Monday, 10.30 a . m . Wind W. fresh breeze, and flue. Arrived—Ann, from Maranhain ; Eton, Alexandria; Colon, Melehiere, and Adolphus, from Odessa; City of Manchester (s), Philadelphia. Off Port—Charlotte of Derby, Chesterholme, Christina, Jane, and Rolina, all inwar d bound. Wiltonwood, .00l (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) DEAL, Mon day, 10.10 11. M. Wind W.S.W., fresh, with thick rain. Passed—Caractacus, from Penang ; Flora M`Donsdd, Callao—both for London. Con- glish , in a. c the ; d to luny Eng be to -" A dis ts of have rnor ;fish land lan - the had- E hi i his r ing sr ad 'or he he d. HI at h s ~. '-- -:_. ...~~.