The Sun. — London, England, 1854-01-23 00:00:00

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Isequence to the 130' 3! II d. anniversa d or XVI. w 3 „ 5 of ° Lnifestatiop. clf ienne Was a deep lin a f t4 • ,tque, the GA last bre of ; but this ife, dlude eve n atL 'ed. King 0 0,5 13 1 ‘ 0 any 0110 be i;t 3 : t it ruaY. t iot the Leg l o to e illincr to file f the 19r1 .rd too P. r .ioo by divin e h ow ever , 0: y chapelf; t te 6. The • t ble ; but years the g the e bof e ta ;s up f th tle mister to raodatiou 3,ted Yeetefice° a in the P' o , forts wer e f ool le on theei:a a large 69 and fell „, l ' o rit v ; id of the,,,,T. •sed at 91 ' 9 50 1 :1 Rouen , . 5 Al!:, 62f.; P 3 ' 1 0 07 3, 825 E ;woo?, tern of Great Celif, ares of the the undertt fore, ve wears, g 9 ',„ bmittea '" 6 for v'd ft e ¢r ft et7e en of from Wall 4 very 0 f re 'ot wasit ,boff.o removal, _ A of tal l° 7P was 0 111; 0 for A O , yvt .dov, 01 „ e s' !„ his drid was fo' d conv° - ; distingtl,'lol Spain, a' .1 astinatioa,, 00. at 39iV leiebt o f the at 41. ND -`1 A orli eli the dead, o r nnti al t P o ry, f Dire° „ A O or field t ° r r e tp lo t Lt, to t Ideed, fisi," rect 0 1 47 c0 , P );rowt' - ` P ion fo t re r ' e rtatt id but a u L boolca. is ;Io e pi ,. , ri l cL—i-'pv e e s alp in e li v 0 3 :it su pf; i f DPw. lave Of 3SS, npe tito f cours, )nvo3 T3/IY :ti l/b ., 4, to s,. 3 ;i t ofu'' t'airo r d nae —ll fo r 1 1 'll 3v ;Obi 011 i the ev' • the r 4- on 0 n upl? / 101 1149 "b e sri; me rits sto ,tl, , To th e e te' 's d ev self 0 1 __ A do ge rarilY" _..- ,Aoi:~` LOSS OF THE SHIP TAYLEUR. (BY ELECTRIC TELEG-RAPIL) LIVERPOOL, MONDAY MORNING. It is with the deepest regret that we have to announce the total loss of the magnificent new iron ship Tayleur, together with upwards of 400 of the passengers and several of the crew. The Tayleur sailed from the Mersey at noon on Thursday last, in tow of the steam-tug Victory, and was left by the steamer at 7 o'clock in the evening, about 6 miles E.S.E., off the Skerries. She had about 600 .passengers, and a crew in cluding officers, stewards, &c., numbering upwards of 55. " Stoaways " were also found after the steam-tug left. During the whole of Friday, and until the ship struck, the wind was from W.S.W. and S.W., and very little progress was made, and about noon on Saturday she struck on the " Nose" of Lambay Island, and soon sank. We are indebted to Thomas Kemp, one of the surviving passengers of the Tayleur, for the follow ing account of the catastrophe : "The Tayleur left Liverpool on Thursday, at noon, in tow of the steamer Victory, with a fine breeze from S. E. "She had on board as near as I could learn 670 per sons, including the crew. All went on well until about noon on Saturday. "At that time one of the passengers came running into my cabin, and said there was land on the lee bow. "I asked him how far off, he replied, that he believed from three to four miles. "I immediately went on deck, and saw the land dis tinctly, which appeared to me to be only about three quarters of a mile distant. " From the progress the ship was making towards the land, I saw there was no hope of escape, and I prepared for the worst. " The wind was blowing fresh from S.W., the ship being under topsails. As soon as it was known to the passengers that the land was so c'.ose they all crowded on deck, and caused such confusion that the crew were prevented from obeying any orders that might have been conveyed to them by the officers. " Both anchors were let go, but either the cables broke or the heavy sea caused them to drag, for they did not stay the progress of the ship, and she soon struck on a rock, which I afterwards learned was called the Nose' of Lambay Island. After striking she turned broadside on to the rock and many of the pas sengers jumped on shore. "She remained in this position only a few minutes, when she slid off, filled rapidly, and went down stern foremost, with only the top of her mast visible above water. "The survivors were mustered and counted, and it was found that there were about 250 saved; the number that perished will therefore be 420. "The captain and first and third mates are saved. "The second mate and surgeon, and his wife and child were drowned. Only three women and two children were saved. "The Tayleur was a new ship, of 2,200 tons register. She was built at Warrington, and commanded by Cap tain Noble." COURT CIRCULAR. WINDSOR, JAN. 21. The dinner party yesterday included the Duchess of Kent, the Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis and Mar chioness of Westminster, and Lady Agnes Grosvenor, the Lady in Waiting to the Duchess of Kent, the Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury, Viscount Canning, the Baroness de Speth, the Right Hon. Sidney and Mrs. Herbert, and Sir George Couper. The band of the Ist Life - Guards attended in the Castle during dinner and performed the following compo sitions : March, "Grosser" (opera der Trouba dour) Fesca. Overture, " Fest" Lortzing. Morgengebeth der Zigeuner (opera 5 H .R. H. the Duke of Caselda) Walzer, " Emphehlungs Brief e" Kaulich. Selection, " Les Martyrs" Galop Leutner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended and played the following selection : Overture. " Le Roi Etienne " Beethoven. Selection, " Haydee" Airs de La Peri" The whole of the visiting company left the Castle to day. The Queen walked in the grounds adjoining the Castle this morning. Prince Albert went out shooting, attended by Lord Rivers, Colonel the Hon. C. B. Phipps, and Col. Wylde. The Royal children took their accustomed exercise. Col. the Hon. Charles and Mrs. Grey and Mr. Gibbs had the honour of dining with her Majesty this day. The Queen's private band was in attendance after dinner in the Castle, and performed the following pieces : Overture, "Lo Cheval de Bronze" Auber. Concerto in Elflat (Op. 73), Pianoforte, Mr. W. G. Cusins Selection, " 0 beron " WI NDSOR, JAN. 22. The Queen and Prince, with the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal, and the Princess Alice, the ladies and gentlemen of the Court and the domestic household, attended divine service this morninz in the private chapel of the Castle. The Duchess of Kent was also nt the service. The Hon. and Rev. G. Wellesley officiated. The Rev. Frederick Temple had an interview with Viscount Palmerston, on Friday, at the Ilome-office. The Marquis of Lansdowne arrived in town on Satur day morning, to attend the Cabinet Council, from his seat, Bowood- park, Wilts. The Duke of Newcastle returned to town on Satur day, from 'Windsor Castle. CABINET COUNCIL. —A. Cabinet Council was held at the Foreign-office, on Saturday. The Ministers pre- Bent were the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke of Argyll, Viscoun t 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 four hours and a half. PARLIAMENT TO BE OPENED BY THE QUEEN. —The Queen is to come to town, as at present arranged, on Monday, the 30th instant, this day week, in order to open Parliament on the day following. On Monday a Privy Council will be held at Buckingham Palace. Her Majesty will return to Windsor on Wednesday, the day after the opening of the session. The court is expected to come to London for the season on Monday, Feb. 13. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge, and the Prino3ss Mary, have returned to Kew Cottage, from visiting the Marquis and Marchioness of Salisbury, at Hatfield House. The Earl of Yarborough has arrived in Arlington- Street, from Minto Hall. The Earl and Countess of Shaftesbury returned to Grosvenor-square on Saturday, from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle, for the season. Lord Worsley, accompanied by Captain Bathurst, has left Cairo on a tour in the territories of the Viceroy, and is not expected home until the advance of spring. The Right Hon. Sir Charles Wood, President of the Board of Control, has issued cards for a large dinner party, consisting of political friends, on Wednesday, in Chesham•place. Viscount and Viscountess Ponsonby arrived in town on Saturday, from visiting the Earl and Countess of Jersey, at Middleton Park, where the Hon. Captain and Lady Elizabeth Villiers were staying, oa a visit to their noble relatives. Her Highness the Princess of Hohenzollen Lig maringen, nearly related to the Duchess of Hamilton, has just entered the convent of Kinnshams, in Alsace, where the Princess intends to end her days. The Marchioness Dowager of Downshire, the Earl and Countess Amherst, the Earl of Powis, and the Ladies Herbert, and other families of distinction, have been placed in mourning by the death of the Hon. R. Clive, M.P., on Friday last, at Oakley-park, Ludlow. Lord and Lady Cosmo Russell are expected to leave town for Woburn Abbey at the end of next week, on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Bedford. The noble lord and her ladyship entertained at dinner, on Saturday last, at their residence in Chester-square, Lord and Lady John Russell, Mr. and Lady Georgiana Romilly, Lady Bachael Russell, Major BentinCli, &c. MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The Norwich Mercury of Saturday announces that Lord Suffield has become affianced to Miss Baring, daughter of the late Mr. Henry Baring, and grand-daughter of the late General Windham. LORD PANMIIRE. —The health of this esteemed noble man continues to improve. His recent attack of gout has been the most serious he ever had.—Perth. Consti tutional. The Duke of Hamilton is expected at his new man sion in Arlington-street, in order to be present at the dinner which will take place at the Earl of Derby s, on Monday, the 30th inst. THE LATE LORD PLUNKET.—The name of Mr. E. Berwick, the President of Queen's College, Galway and the grand-nephew of the late Henry Grattan), has been mentioned as that of Lord Plunket's biographer. THE RUSSIAN EMBASSY.—The personnel of the em bassy of the Czar, in Chesham-place, have been much engaged by the arrival and departure of couriers from and to St. Petersburg. A courier, charged with im portant despatches for Kisseleff, arrived at Paris on Friday, rid the railway from Strasbourg. The Earl of Clarendon, we believe, after the receipt of despatches from Sir H. Seymour on Friday, had an interview with Baron Bruno w. PROMOTION IN THE CIVIL, SERVICE.—ORDNANCE OFFICE, PALI . ..MALL-Mr. Joseph Wood, Chief Clerk in the Secretary's Department, to be Secretary to the Board, vice Butler, superannuated on 1,2001. per an num.—Civil Service Gazette. TURRET AND RusslA.—A deputation from the Peace Society has just left England for St. Petersburg to endeavour to induce the Czar to come to terms with Turkey. The deputation consists of Mr., Henry Pease, of Darlington, Mr. Joseph Sturge, of Birmingham, and a gentleman from Bristol whose name we have not heard. STONEY.—The Helen Bairdhas arrived from Sydney, whence she sailed on tha 30th of September, with imso =Go of golds Yalad at 65,0001. _ _ MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. Most of the provincial markets held on Saturday were steady for all kinds of home grown -wheats, the prices of which were well supported. Barley was in good supply. The transactions were confined to immediate wants, at barely previous rates. Oats were the turn dearer, but beans, peas, and flour commanded very little attention. The continental markets have ruled firm for all articles of grain. Advices from Odessa to the 9th instant stat e that the shipments of grain were progressing rapidly. The exports of flour and wheat from the United States continue on a very extensive scale. The arrivals of English grain up to our market last week were limited. The imports were 22,716 quarters of wheat, 320 barley, 1,070 oats, 17 peas, 1,999 linseed, 3,033 rape- seed, 660 sundry seeds, 260 sacks and 32,103 barrels of flour. _ . . _ _ Fresh up to this morning's market the arrivals of English wheat, coastwise, from Essex and Kent were moderate, and iu fair average condition. From the east coast next to nothing came to hand. The receipts by land carriage were far from extensive. The show of samples of both red and white was small, and the attendance of both town and country millers was limited. Factors almost generally demanded higher rates, but as the dealers refused to sub mit to any improvement, the demand may be considered rather inactive, and sales were concluded at last Monday's prices. Growers being very firm in their demands for forward delivery, very few transactions took place. We were well supplied with foreign wheat, especially with samples from America, the quality of which was very fine. About an average business was transacted, at prices equal to those obtained on this day se'nnight. Floating cargoes were held at very full quotations. A cargo of fine Marianople realized 80s. per quarter. There was a fair demand for fine barley, at full prices ; but low and middling kinds ruled dull, and rather in favour of buyers. Malt was in moderate supply, and fair request, at late rates. We had a short supply of oats on the market. The de mand for most kinds was steady, at, in some instances, an advance in the prices of Monday list of Gd. per quarter. Beans and peas were in fair supply, and moderate re quest, at last week's currency. The flour trade was steady. In prices no change took place. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex It Kent. Red •• new 74, to 863 Ditto • ........ old 80s 8 Ditto, White new 76s 92s Ditto • • • • .... old 80s 92s Norfolk and Lin ooln, Red, old 74s 86s Ditto new • • • . .• 74, 86s Rye—Old • • •• • • • • 51s 52s New • • • • • • .. • • 50s Ols Raley—Grinding . • • • . 37s 418 Malting • • .... .........4 478 Chevalier.. • • • .. 488 49s Walt—Suffolk and Nor folk.. • • • • 66s 71s Brown .•• 60 s 625 Kingston and Ware 73s 76s Malt—Chevalier • • .. 76s to 77s Oats Yorkshire and Lincolnsia., Feed 28s 32: Potato Yonghal and Cork Black. • • •—• 213 s 30s Cork, White ..• .. 27s 83s Scotch, Feed. •. .• 32s 35s Beans—Tick 445 52s Pige0n5.......... 48- 625 PoB.3—Gney .•.•• .• • • 44s 48s Maple . .••• • • • • 475 52s White... •• •• •• 58s 64s Boilers ••• •• ••• 60s 65s Flour—Town-me,de.•• 70s 75s Suffolk • •• •• 643 68s Stockta do Norfolk 645 725 SMITHFIELD. The imports of foreign stock into London last week were limited—namely, 1,996 head. During the corresponding period of 1853, we received 3,954 ; in 1852, 1,508 ; 1851, 2,668 ; in 1850, 1,077 ; in 1849, 851 ; and in 1848, 407 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEER. From Beasts. Harlingen 425 New iep 132 ... Ostend — Antwerp Vaardingen 210 ... Dunkirk.. Sheep. 333 ... ... 373 ... ... Lambs. Calves. Pigs. 12 ... 3 193 .- 17 ... 22 ~, •-•-• ..• T0ta1.... 797 1,007 -.-. 197 -. 25 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs. R 53 537 2,873 ... 539 ... 5 852. 289 1,031 281 851 410 . 1 , 918 850 231 ... 676 ... 849 159 616 - ... 297 ... - ... 170 ... For the time of year, the show of foreign stock in to-day's market was good, and in full average condition. The receipts of beasts fresh up from our own grazing districts were extensive, and there was a decided improve ment in their general weight. Owing to the mildness of the weather, and the large supplies of meat on offer in Newgate and Leadenhall, the beef trade ruled he ►vy, at a decline in the prices of Monday last of 2d per 81bs. The top figure for the best Scots was 4s 6d per 81bs. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire we received 1,900 Scots and short horns ; from the northern districts 720 short-horns ; and from Scotland 640 horned and polled Scots. Notwithstanding that the supply of sheep was limited the demand for that description of stock was in a sluggish state. In prices, however, no change took place. The best old Downs sold at 5s 2d per 81bs. Very few calves were on offer, awl the quotations of veal were very irregular. Inferior calves sold at 3s 10d to 4s 10d, prime ditto 5s to 5s 6d per 81bs. We had rather a dull sale for pigs, the supply of which was moderate, on former terms. Per Sibs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts.... 3 2 to 3 4 Second quality.... 3 6 3 8: Prime large oxen 3 10 4 2 Prime Scots, &c. 4 4 4 6 Inferior Sheep ...3 2 3 6 Second quality ...3 8 4 4, Prime erse.-wlled. 4 6 4 SI s. d. s. d. Prime Southdown 410 5 2 Large crse. calves 310 410 Prime small d 0... 5 0 5 6 ,Large hogs 3 0 4 2 Small porkers 4 4 410 ,Sucklingcalves ..22 0 29 0 IQuarter old pigs 21 0 27 0 TOT AL SUPPLY. Beasts .. • • ...... 4,513 Sheep . • • • • .. • .....17,216 Calves • • ... • ...• .. 61 Pigs ..... .•••••• • • • • • • 213 A. statement and comparison of stock exhibited and sold i❑ Monday, Jan, 24, 1853, au 1854. Per 81bs, to si Coarse and inferior beasts ... ... Second quality ditto ... ... ... Primo large oxen ... ... ... ... Prime Scots, &c ... ... ... ... Coarse and inferior sheep ... ... Second quality ditto ... ... ... Prime coarse woolled ditto ... ... Prime Southdown ditto ... ... Large coarse calves ... ... ... Prime small ditto ... .., ... ... Largehogs ... ... ... ... ... Neat small porkers .., ... ... Beasts... ... ... ... Sheep ... ... ... ... Calves... ... ... ... Pigs ... ... ... ... SUPPLIES es SALE, Jan. 26, 1852.—Beasts, 3,852 ; sheep, 21,250; calves, 171; pigs, 320. Jan. 27, 1851.—Beasts, 3,903 ; sheep, 20,610 ; calves, 145 ; pigs, 230. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Since our last report large supplies of meat have come to band from various distant parts of the country, in good condition ; and we continue to be well supplied with each description slaughtered in London. Although a good busi ness is doing, the trade is far from active, on the following ,erms Per 81bs by the carcase. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 210 3 2 Do., middling 3 4 3 6 Do., prime large 3 8 3 10 Do., do. small 4 0 4 2 (kirk, large 3 4 4 2 s. d. s. d Mutton, Inferior 3 0 3 6 Do., middling 3 8 4 2 Do., prime 4 4 4 8 Veal 3 10 5 2 Pork, small 4 4 5 0 BOROUGH HOP. A full average business is doing in most kinds of hops ; but owin; to the continued arrivals from abroad, we have no improvement to notice in prices. Last week's imports were 06 bales from Antwerp, and 262 ditto from Ostend. Mid and East Kent pockets, 141. Os to 171. 17s ; Weald of Kent ditto, 101. Os to 121. 12s ; Sussex ditto, 101. Os to 12/. ; and foreign, 61. 15s to 91. Os per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. A fair average supply of potatoes has come to hand since Monday last, chiefly by railway. The imports have been small—viz., 50 tons from Belfast, 2 ditto from Limerick, and 6 baskets from Harlingen. A good business is doing, as follows :—Kent and Essex Regents, 140 s to 160 s ; Scotch ditto, 140 s to 1603 ; Scotch cups, 103 s to 140 s per ton. WOOL. The first series of colonial wool sales will be commenced on the 9th proximo. The quantity a t p resen t d ec l are d i s 33,649 bales colonial, and 1,039 E as t I n di a . Th e i mpor t s since the close of last sales, together with the stock then rema ining unsold, is Sydney, 14,552 ; Port Philip, 9,504 ; Van Diemen's Laud, 2,377 ; Adelaide, 134 ; Capo, 5,688 ; Swan River, 279 ; New Zealand, 815 ; East India, 1,039 bales. The private market is steady, an d p r i ces are we ll supported. Last week's imports were-540 bales from Melbourne, 124 from the Mauritius, 5 from Madras, 32 from Rouen, 62 from Mogadore, 464 from Bombay, and 33 from Copenhagen. SEEDS. The demand for linseed is steady, and prices are rather on the advance. Black Sea, on tho spot, is worth 59s ; Bombay, 60s ; fine St. Petersbnrgh, 58s ; Archangel, 48s per qr. A cargo of Azoff to be delivered has produced 60s ; Odessa, 60s ; and. Alexandrian, 55s per quarter. East India rape is worth 58s to 60s per quarter. All other articles are steady. rarnip,White, per bush. 18 4 to 21s Swede .. • • 20s 23s Unsi.ard, 8r0wn.... • • lOs 13, White, new 14 , 16. Ires,Winter, new .. . • 7s 6d 8s Od Spring • • • • • . • •• Os Od l s Od Canary, per quarter .. 613 65s Rye erase•• ...•• 28s 34s Clover,lteang.(cwt.) 564 66 3 White • • .• .. • • • • 72s 803 Foreign Red.. .. 54s 64A White.••• 7ns 7G3 Trefoil, new...•.•.••• 193 21s Carraway.......• •• .. 423 48.! Coriander ........ •• • 103 15' Hernpseed, per quarter 83s 38s Linseed, Eng.-lowing" 593 Os Crushing .... •• •• 55s 58s 'Lane •• .. 50s 55s Odessa .. Linseed Cake, pr. ton-- English . 91 103 Ilc Os Foreign, per ton 9/ Os 111 lOs Rape Cakes, pr ton 6 1 10 s 71 Os Rapeseed, New, print 30!Os 32, Os TALLOW. The demand continues steady, and prices are still on the advance. To-day P.Y.C. on the spot is quoted at 62s 9d, and for spring delivery 638 3d to 63s 6d per cwt. Town tallow, 61s 6d per cwt. net cash. Rough fat, 3s 5d per 81bs. i 1850. 1851. I 1852. Stock this day 42,145 49,02 59.244 tc , Price of Y. C. i l t " 0 9 :96d 3 3 1 1 64 91 3 ° 36 61 d 3tl Delivery last week .. 2,363 2.103 2,643 Ditto from June 65,888 65,652 73,056 Arrivals last week.. 2,066 4 1.356 s Dittofrom Juno 1.... 82,560 89,765 95,766 Trioo 0! TWA 416 04 1 894til 1394 6cl 43,748 45s 6d tO 00% Od 2,045 68,444 1,528 71,564. Vs 34 41,248 32s Od to 00s Gd 2,365 70,e03 269 87,536 64A 00 FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts.... •• • . ........ . 859 Stleek , .. • • • • Ca1ve5.......• ....... ..... 37 f the supplies and prices of fat . Smithfield Cattle Market, on id this day, Monday, Jan. 23, ink the offals. Jan. 21, ISs3.'Jan, 23,1854 s. d. B. d. s. d. •s. 2 10 to 3 03 2to 3 6 3 2 3 43 6 3 8 3 6 3 8310 4 2 310 4 24 4 4 6 3 8 310 3 2 3 6 4 0 4 43 8 4 4 4 6 4 8 4 6 4 8 410 5 04 10 5 2 3 4 4 03 10 410 4 2 4 85 0 5 6 210 3 63 0 4 2 3 8 4 04 4 410 .. 4,170 4,513 17,660 17,240 ... 152 61 ...290 243 SHARE MARKETS.-(TRIS DAY). 100 100 100 all all all BRITISH RAILWAYS. 50 20 20 50 RAILWAYS. !Aberdeen Ambg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. June Belfast & Ballymena Birmng. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lancsb. & Cheshire Junct Do. Chesh. & £5O & £25 Cow Do., £20......... Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) Bristol & Exeter Caledonian. Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black. & Pass Cornwall Dublin&Belfast Juno Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Do. New . East Anglian (£25 L. & E. & L. & D.) ,Do., (£lB E. Sr H.) Eastern Counties Eastern Union, A. stk Do., do. 8.. ...... Do.NewA(lateThirds) ; East Lancashire Edinburgh & Glasgow Ediub. and Peebles Edinb.Prth.&Dundeo Forth and ClydeJunc. Glasgow & S.Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Sth. &West. (Ire. ) Great Western Irish South-Eastern. Lancaster &Carlisle Do., Thirds.. Lancasn. &Yorkshire Do., Fifths ....... Do., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv. Crsby. &Sontb.pt. Loudon & Blackwall Lond. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond.Bright.&S.Cst. London & N. Western Do. Fifths Do. ,16/.5h.,M&8...0 Do. Eighths London & S.Western Do., £5O • •• Closing Prices this day. 100 100 100 100 100 100 19 -20 A 4 - 4i 8 - 9 Easiness done this day. Aberdeen Do., No. 2, 7 p. c Blyth & Tyne 10 pei ct. prcf. (iss. at£so; Bristol & Exeter 4 pi cent., stock Do. Do., shares Caledonian £lO ..... Chester di Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent... Cork &Bandon 5i p.c. Dundee Perth&Aber deen Junction....... 99 - 101 (THIS EVENING.) 12 10 dl 16 18 6 5d 94 -- 96 50} - 501 14 - 16 14 -15 4~ 44 8 - 9 4i - 12 - 35 - 42 24 - 28 543 1 1 491 50i 424 3 4/ 12i I 12i iSt. 50 40 2 100 42 34 all all 100 61 - 63 61 - 63 21 . 81 - 82 57 - 59 126 - 128 99 - 101 79i - 80 92 - 95 1 12 -13 p 60i -61 k 7i - 100 - 100 171 17. all 100 12 - 13 - 7i par p 97 100 100 d- pa r par p 75 76 13 12 d 10 9 di Do., £4O Lndndrry.&Colerainel Lndudrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Shef.&Lineln. Do., Man. &Lin. Un Midland Do. Birming. & Derby Midland 0. West. (Ir. ) Do. A Shares . . Newcastle &Carlisle Newmarket Do. Bury Extensions' Newpt.Aberg.&Htfd Newry & Enniskillen' Newry Warrenpoint & Rostrevor Norfolk Northn. Counties Un North British North Devon, No.l. Do., No. 2. ........ Dc., i A Deferred ... Do., B Guaranteed North London N. & S. Wstn., Hamp ! stead, and City Jn 1 North Staffordshire North Western.. N. di S. Westrn. June Nuneaton, Hinckley, and Leicester Oxford Worcester di Wolverhampton Portsmouth Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Birmg Do., L. & N. Westn Guaranteed Stock Shrewsby. & Herefd Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves, do Do. Oswestry ...... Shropshire Union Do. A, B,C, & D, fully paid up at per cent. South Devon South Eastern South Wales Yorksh. Rivsr Dunl 82 1 58i 127 6 99 100 >0 791 801 791 100 31 100 19i -20 i 59 - 594 32 34 61 60i 11 60/1 9i 10 9i 2.2 100 100 100 100 54 56 d par 6 —5 d 2i 3 6 8 45 48 31 3 3 / 4 d 28 29 8 10 7i 8 x in 97i 6i 74 100 9n 100 20 20 50 20 Do. Staincs,Wok.,&Wok Stockton & Darling Stockton & Hartlepl Taff Vale all 51s. 100 20 11 100 I 'Do. £lO shades Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limoriek West West End of London and Crystal Palace West Loudon Winbledon &Croydoisi York Ncwctl. & Rem. I Do. Extensions....... !Do. G.N.E. Purchase York & N. Midland.. ii - 2{ 66 - 7i 52 ... 55 6 - si(l 8 - 84 1 d par St. 16 St. 20 12} St. 12i 12i 25 33 - 35 90 - : 42 55 - 57 55 - 60 55 - 60 2i -2.1 h 13 - 15 6i - 7i 10 - 12 3i - 3g,1 13 - 15 574 584 31 32 3 -- 2 d 4 5 ii : io 2i 2i 14 - 15 - 5t - 5i 25 - 27 . - ... 6- 7 1 11 76 30 20i i 20 1 59 i st 91 811. 29 8 i EastA ngliau (X 3 10s) 6 per cent. Do. (E,5) 7 per cent Do. (7 17s) 7 p. et 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. £lO Deben. Sh EastLaueash. 6 p. cts East & West Yorksh Junction Fifths 'Edinb.Prth.&Dundeel 4 per cent. 11i / 8/ Glasgow & S.Western guar. 5 per cent Great Northr 5 p.c Do. 5 p. c.,Redeem., at 10 p. c. prom Do. 4 per cent. Scrip Gt.N. of Scot. ,lst Prof Gt. Southu. &Westu. (Ireland) Eighths Do. 4 per ct. pref. St 1 Gt. Wcstn. (Berk s di Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) 1 ) Do. con. & red. 4, p.c( Do. do. 4 per cent () Do. iiTedeem. 4 p. c Lan. & York. F. Do., 6 p. c., Stock Leeds Nn. 6 p. c. No. 1 Do. Quarters,lB4B London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. 0 Do. Pref., 5 p. e. St Do. Convertible, 5 p C. 1852 ....... Do. New Guar. 6 p.e. Lond. & N. W., Coy. & Nun., 5 per cent. London & S. Western, Con. Thirds Londonderry& Coler 1100 'lOO 100 6 100 12,i all all A Shares . Lowly. & Ennis. A Sh' ilanch.,Shef.,& Lin., I Shares, No. 1 Do. New, £lO Do., £6 ..... Marypt. &Carl. 4 p. c. Do. 4A per cent..., 12. 12 12i St. St. 14 58 i 32 15 5i 7 all all 1.0 100 100 60 62 80, 4i 4id 43 44 Mid.Consol. 6 p.c. St. Do. Consol. Bristol .St Birm. 6 per cent.... Do. Pref. 4i per cent. Norfolk Debent. Sh. Norfolk Extension., Do. Pref. 5i per ct... Do. Way. Val. 5 p c North British ......... North Staffordshire.. Oxford Worcester d; Wolyerh. 1115,6 p. c. 6i -- 61 4 -- 44 5 56 P 1 -- lip -- lip 131 -- 144 2i - 3i 117 : lie St. St. St. St. 20 100 100 100 100 all 100 60A 1. 11. 10 44 A 3 f 108 110 par— p 8 - 8i 64 7 98 —loozd 95 —lOO „ 96 98 a „ id pl 137 —l39.ad 15 8 i 8 10 2i - 3 12l' -- 12; 64 74 84 9 4 par 139 - 141 - id ''; ,••• XCL 30 20 1 40 99 —lOll par— i 1, 15 all all all 0 cot. Cen., New PreE hrews& Birm. N. G. Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min),B p. c. Do. 5 per cent South Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading, Ann.,) of £1 05.6 d., S.York.sh.4p.c.Guar. Waterfd.&Kilk. 6 P.e. York Newcastle and Berwick,4 p.c.Pref. 'Do York& N. Midland H k S. Purch DERBY. 8 to 1 agst King Tom (taken.) 13 to 1 agst Dervish (taken.) 33 to 1 agst Scythian (taken.) 66 to 1 agst Star of Surrey (taken.) - 9 # - 10 151 - 10 - 104 11 - id- 4p 221 - 17 - 23 191 - 93 - 96 34 - 4 t —idisxdi 138 ad 95 4i 1 10 1 1 i xd THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 23, 1854. trb ambition. SUN OFFICE, Six o'Clock. TATTERSALL'S, CHESTER CUP. 100 to 6 agst Newminster (taken). Balrownie, Haricot, Captain Cornish, Braxey, Moni• mia, and The Penitent, are scratched. AMERICA. (BY MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.) ARRIVAL OF THE AFRICA, (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) LIVERPOOL, MONDAY. The Royal Mail steamship Africa, Capt. Harri son, which was to leave New York on the 11th inst. with the usual mails from the United States, and British North America, for this port, was off Holyhead, inward bound, this afternoon at one o'clock. The Africa is expected to arrive in the Mer sey not later than seven o'clock, so that it is highly probable her mails will be got ready by the post officials for despatch by the nine o'clock train, to ensure their reaching London in time for the first delivery to-morrow morning, FOREIGN. Antwrp & Rotterdam ! Belgian East. Junet Beziers to Graissessac Central of Italy Charleroi & Erquelin l I Demerara . Dijon and Besagon I Dutch Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension Gt. Indian Peninsula) Gd. Junct. of France! Gd. Trunk. of Cauadal Shrs. and Bonds._ Gt. Central of France. Gt. Wostn. of Canad Shares Do. bonds(l i55.)1857 Do. bonds (2 i55.)1862 Hamilton & Toronto Do. 6 per cent Lake Coust. & Basle Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref. Luexembourg Do. (Railway) I Do 204 ICO 20 Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p, cent. pref. Lyons & Diediterran Madras Maria Antonia ,Do. New Melbourne Dk. & By ' Namur & Liege (with 1 interest 40 all all all 2A 2 d 1 14 4 3 d ii - ii - iid 2i 3ip par par 6 p 2i 2ip 4 3 d 32 2 d 2 ld ••• ••• id par 8k 81 5 6 1 k id ... .p par i p 6i - 7 Do. (ex interest) Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds [fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.] NorwegianTruk. Pref Paris and Lyons Do. bonds Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Paris Caen& Cherbrg. Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre Royal Danish ... Royal Swedish Sambre and Mouse 70, 5. per cent. pref S.E. of France Southern of France St. Andre ws & Quebec Upper India Scrip West Flanders 4 -: x in 4i 5 x d 7A -- 8. 12t -- 12ip 40 - 42 36 - 38 28A - 29 3 Idl 17 18 1d par Do. 5} per c. Pref . Western of France West. of Switzerland Wiesbaden Zealana x in h in 6i 51 x in 181 xin 6i 7 ;91 30 2913 m 8 221 1 i xin 28i 1 3 9 8i x in 11i 10i xin ill ii 2 3p ... pm x in ... ... 3i 41 1— i d 2 4 pl 7i i i.dl a in I in MITES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. ' Leasing Closing Prices Business Sbr. Paid RemweTs. Compans this day, this day. 50 all Bedford and Ln.&N.W. Bletchley •.• ••• St. 100 Buckghamsh L. &N.W. 100 102 50 all Clydesdale Jo Caladon... 50 52 St. 100 E.Liucoln. gr 6p. cent Gt.Northn 139 141 140 25 all Glas. Barr. & Caldonian. Neils. Direct. ••• ••• 25 all Do. New Do. 25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr €lt.Westu. 30 32 100 all Hrtlpl. Dk. & Yk. New. Railway & Berw.. 50 all Hull & Selby Y.&N.I.Id. 109 111 25 all Do. Shares Do 54 -55 i 12 ; all Do. i Shares. Do 27 28 12i all Lom&Greenw S.Eastern l3l 131 20 all Do. Preference Do 24i —25 i St. 100 Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent... Norfolk St. 100 Do. 6 per ct.. Do 5i all Mancli.Baton. Ln.diN.W and Matlock & Midld 2 - 3 50 all Middleabro' & Stckton & Redcar Darlingt. 100 all Midld.Bra,dfd lliclland... 98 100 98i 50 all Northern and Easternsp.c. E. Count.. 60 62 5 all Do. 6 per ct Do 5 ,, all Do.Fixedsp.c D 0...........- 2' all Prest. &Wyre L. &IS .W. & L n & 1 12 Do. Shares. Do S 100 Royst n .& Hit. Gt.N or th n 140 143 S 100 Do.Shepth.St. Do 140 143 2 18a Shef. Roth. & Lancash.& Goole g.5.p.c Yorksh 12 91 S. Staffordsh.. MrMClean 21 1d 7i 50 all - WearValleygr Stockt. & 6 per cent ... Darling . 25 all Do.. Do 3O 31 Bt. 100 WiltsfSgionirstpt.Westn 95 - 97 96i 5- MINES. Agua Fria ....... A ng lo Austrin. Gold Anglo Californian Australasian .......... Australian ............. Australian Cordillera Australian Freehold. Avo Maria ............. Baden (Gd.Dachy of) Bla3narvon Iron and Coal . British Austrin. Gold British Iron Brazilianimp.(issued at .C 5 pm Do. Comes & Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Carsons's Creek Cobra Copper Colonial Gold Copiapo . Copper Min. of Eng. Do. Pref. 7 p. cent, English and Austin. Copper Smeltg. Co, ,General Gt.NuggetVeiuSerp Do. Registered....... Great Polgooth . bake Bathurst....... Liberty Linares. Lond.&,Califoru.Goin Quartz Crush. Co _ Mariquita IMexicau&S.Amerien. New Granada New Linares Mining and Smelting Co ;Nouveau Moude Pontgiband Silver Lead Min. & Smelt Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymney Iron Do. New Santiago de Cuba.. South Australian.. Tin Croft ....... ..... United Mexican Waller West Granada..,,,,,, West Mariposa...,,. Worthing Minin g of Australia Yuba MISCELL Aubin clal and Iron Australian Agricult. Australsn.Pcific Mail Australu, Royal Mail Berlin Water Works Brit. American Land Brit. & Colu. Smeltg. and Reduction Co Canada Company Crystal Palace Do. New...,,, Crystal Pal, of France Eastern Steam Electric Telegraph (A) Do. (B) Electric Tel. of Irel, Gen. Steam Navigat. General Screw Steam Irish Beetroot Sugar Magdalena St. Navig, Nat. Pt. Steam Fuel Netherlands Land N. S. W. Coal & Interim Stem. Nay. C 0.... N. B. Australasian Do. New Nrth. of Europe Steam Peel lir. Ld. dz Peninsular & Oriental Do. d Portland Iron Co Royal Mail Steam Scot. Austral, Invest, South Austral. Land Submarine Telegraph Van Dienion's Land JOINT-S' Australasia ............. British Colonial R an k and Loan Compa ny British N. American Chrtd. Bnk.of India, Austral. and China Chrtd. Bnlc. of Asia Colonial Commercial of Loud English Scottish and Australian Chrtd. London Chrtd. Bnk. of Australia Loudon and County London Joint Stock Loud. andWestminst National Provincial of England Do. New National of Ireland I New South Wales Oriental Bank Cor poration Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn. Bkg and Gold Imp. Co i South Australia Union of Australia Do. New. Union of London Union of Madrid P 6 d ... par d Ap d - 4 2 3 i di . i A d g i d 9 - 11 8 -' 10 5 6 2 3 29 31 d 45 47 par— 4p 124 136 65 75 4 6 p 2 2t5 14 16xd1 id par li 2 d i 9 ... 1 i i * * d it 6ixd, *die— par ... ... Par iP - - 29 —3l.xd P 8 10 44 # — 54 5 7 3 —3; # d d # d t - i EOUS . 38 - 40 ... -- io -7-: 73 75 - 80 I 1 - lh p 1 -1 8 p 16 - 18 16 - 18 ••• -- ••• 2 ld ... -- ••• id fP id_ 1(11 11 -- ip 36 -- 1 38 A d * P i3i -14 A BANKS. 75 - 77 Pis ldis 24-14 d 1 cl ip 42 __ 44 41 - 46 d— par -- 71 73 7 i - 7i OUNDLE STEEPLECH ASES. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPB.) ARRIVALS FOR THIS DAY'S RACES. Grand Steeplechase—Topsy, A. Y., Ploughboy, Old Rake, The General, Quasimodo, and Blackwood. For other races—Harry, Ivanhoe, Baycock, Agnes, Woodpecker, Springy Jack, Beaver, Nom de Guerre, Robin Hood, Linnet, and Maria Monk. ORDER OF RUNNING. Farmers' Steeplechase . 2.0 Handicap Steeplechase DEFENCE OF THE EAST COAST OF SCOTLAND. ABERDEEN, JAN. 21.—Government having resolved to put the east coast of Scotland and England in a state of defence, Captain Craigie was appointed to the com mand of the Royal Naval Volunteers, thus to be raised. He has visited the people in the fishing villages on the Firth of Forth, and enrolled upwards of 200 men. Yesterday he held a meeting with the fishermen in the neighbourhood of Aberdeen, and was accompanied by the Lord Provost, the shoremaster, the town-clerk, Major Christie, and other public officials. The captain assembled the men in the open square of their village of Foot-Dee, and in a blunt, sailorlike speech told them that he wanted them as volunteers. They would be enrolled for a period of 5 years, and while enrolled would be exempt from im pressment. Their training and exercise would be on shore or on shipboard, at such periods as would least interfere with their ordinary avocations, and would not exceed 28 days in the year. They would not be taken beyond 150 miles from the united kingdom under any circumstances ; but it did not follow by their enrolment that they would be taken even that distance, while by act of Parliament provision was made for their special protection. Each volunteer would receive 10s. on th' day of enrolment, being a portion of his bounty of 61., and while training on shore would receive is. 7d. a day, with is. a day, for travelling expenses for every seven miles. At the end of the 28 days' drill, volunteers of good conduct would receive a further proportion of bounty not exceeding U. Is. until the fifth year, when they would receive 1/. 68. each. Volunteers would be provided with a jacket, trou sers, and pair of shoes, to be worn during the time of training. They would be called into active service only in cases of imminent national danger or great emer gency, and with this view would always be kept within 150 miles of the united kingdom. In actual service they would only be called out for one year, except in cases of great emergency, when they would be summoned by Royal proclamation ; but those volunteers whose time of service would be so extended would receive extra pay, and at the close of two years would be entitled to be discharged and exempt from all other service or lia bility. As it was of importance that boats' crews should not be broken up, Government would give a gratuity, in addition to the bounty ❑amed to such skippers as might bring their boats' crew with them. The force thus proposed to be raised would be identical with the Sea Fencibies during the last war, or with the land militia. They all knew that Europe at present was in a very critical state ; the Government wished to be pre pared for the worst. Should any outbreak really occur which would endanger our liberties, impressment or the ballot must be resorted to if the present proposal were not successful, for the country must bo defended. To poor men the ballot was virtually the same as impress ment, as they could not pay for substitutes, but the fishermen on the east coast, he felt assured, would readily come forward, and, in the noble spirit of their forefathers, enrol themselves for the defence of their country. (Cheers.) To be of good service, however, it was necessary that they should be disciplined, for all the hardy fellows be fore him would have little chance with even a dozen of men well trained. Had the Government resorted to the population generally, to raise the number of men re quired (1,500), they would, no doubt, have succeeded, but as the fishermen resided on the coasts it was felt that they were most in need of protection, and it was therefore decided to give them the first offer to enrol themselves in the service. And he was glad to say that so ar as,he had yet proceeded, they bad responded nobly to his appeal. Though he had only begun last week, he had already enrolled 250 names—the fishermen, wherever he went, being enthusiastic in the cause. (Cheers.) And be had not the least doubt but that when he returned to Aberdeen, three weeks hence, to receive names, the fine fellows before him would show the same ardour to defend the shores of old Scotland, their sweethearts, and wives. (Cheers.) GEORGE BRANDS, a seaman, then stood forward, and in a very enthusiastic address backed Captain Craigie's appeal. He had " been out " in 1798, and he could as sure the young men around him that their forefathers had acted nobly, and the "folk of Filtie " (fishermen of Foot Dee) would prove themselves worthy of being called their sons. (Cheers.) Three cheers were then given for Captain Craigie and three for Provost Blaikie, after which the meeting ad- journed. Captain Craigie, who has been appointed to this com mand, was the general superintendent of the benevolent distribution of provisions to the destitute people of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland during the recent destitution, and is a favourite with the people on the east coast. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY. LONDON, Jan. 23. —Wind this day at Noon, S. to S.W. ; light breeze, and fine, clear, mild weather. DEAL, Jan. 23.—Arrived—Fairy Queen, from Shields, for Melbourne ; Sea Witch, Shanghae ; James Booth, Hindoston, Aidelaide, S.A.; Coronet, Savannah; Arab, Mobile ; Dion Bell, Cape of ood Hope; _Palmyra, Barba does, with damage to rudder ; Pandora, Tobago ; Eme rald, ntigua ; Falcon, St. iThes • Mercur, do. Arrived from the river and sailed :—Waterwitch, Bathur st ; Rasevean, St. Michael's. Sailed—Nightingale, for Boston. FALMOUTH, Jan. 22.—Wind, S.S.W. Arrived—Ca. ribbean„•rom Santa Martha, for Bremen ; Electric Flash, London, for St. Michael's. Put back—Prince Albert, for Jamaica, with pumps choked. The J. J. Cabb (American barque), from Baltimore to London, which put in here on the 16th inst. with damage, has been surveyed, and com menced discharging. PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 22. —Wind, S.S.E. Arrived—H.M.S. Thetis, from Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, and Plymouth. Sailed—Merlin, for Terceira ; H.M.S. Apollo, Constan tinople ; H.M.S. Diligence, westward. HULL, Jan. 22.—Wind, S. by W. Arrived—Queen of the West,,from St. Michael's ; Abcona, do. Sailed—New Deep, for St. Michaels. DARTMOUTH, Jan. 22.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Quiver, from London, for St. Michael's. GLOUCESTER, Jan. 20.—Arrived—Helena, New York. HARTLEPOOL, Jan. 21.—The Lady Ilewart (brig), of South Shields, from Shields to London, was boarded yes terday between Scarborough and Filey, having only one man and a boy on board, having been in collision with the Ivenstone, of Lynn, 19th inst., off Darlington Allen ; the master and five of the crew of the former have been saved. LIVERPOOL, Jan. 22.—The Independent (barque), of St. Rowan, from Cardiff to the Mediterranean, put in here yesterday, with larboard bow stove, having been in con tact with an American ship. QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 02. - -Wind, S.W., blowing strong. Arrived—lllawara (s), from London, for Sydney, with paddle-box stove. • DUBLIN, Jan. 21.—The Tancred, from Liverpool to Smyrna, which went on shore on the Arklow Bank, the same day got off, and was abandoned and foundered, has broken up. The Scotland, from Liverpool to Africa, which went ashore, Jan. 19, near Baldoyle coast guard station, got off, and was being towed round to Dublin, parted her hawsers, was again taken in tow a second time, and went ashore on the North Ball, on the 20th, where she lies very badly ; crew saved. CONS ANTINOPLE, Jan. 9.—The Tecla Seraphine (Tecla Josephine), Swedish schooner, from Odessa to ,Queens town, of Falmouth, got aground at the second Lighthouse of Gallipoli, and shortly went to pieces; cargo saved; the greater part damaged. (BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.10 a.m. Arrived-22d Queen (s.), from Harlingen ; Ellen Baird, Sydney ; Y, Honduras ; John Scott, Demerara ; Jenny Lind, Messina; Kroopman Stn area, Schevening Henrich, Galatz ; Marian Zagury, St. Michael's Dromo, Cape Coast Castle ; Astrea, Leghorn. Arrived-23d—Queen of the Isles, from St. Michael's ; Calypso, Jamaica ; Heomden, Landssona ; Magnet (s.), Nieu Diep. Sailed—Queen of the Wave, for Madras ; Taymouth Castle, Plymouth and Adelaide ; Champion, Cardiff and Philadelphia; Antwerp (s.), Antwerp. Dub, Monday, 9.10 Wind, W., light, thick fog urivalfs, all 13.5 24} all all 15 11i all all all all all 12s. Wit 37 d 13j 62i ad lit 15 26i i i 45i 5 4 ad 72i 3 li 21 7i 22 li 2 xd THE NORWEGIAN RAlLWAY.—Advicea from Christiania give a favourable account of the Norwegian Railway. Much interest has been felt as to the practicability of the trains running regularly in the winter, but a fall of snow in one week, equal to the usual quantity of a couple of months, had been experienced without produc ing any impediment to the traffic, the contrivances in front of the lomotives for clearing the rails having proved completely effectual. In some parts, it is said, the trains were literally running between walls of snow. The re gular opening of the line being deferred till the spring, there are at present only two goods trains a-day--one to Strommen (14 miles), and the other to Eidswold (42 miles)—with a few passenger cars attached, but they carry about 200 persons daily, and the receipts average 3001. a week—a sum considerably in exeese of the on- Sil4l waticipativat 38i 40 38 9 31 i THE PRINCE CONSORT. (From the Illustrated London News.) We have hitherto purposely abstained from mak ing the slightest allusion, or giving the least cur rency to the reports th a t , for the last six or seven weeks, have been industriously circulated in the press and in society relative to his Royal Highness the Prince Consort. But the time has at length arrived when it is no longer desirable, even if it were possible, to keep silence upon the subject. If, by our notice of them, the accusations of which the illustrious Prince has been the object could pene trate into any wider circles than those which they have already reached, we should deem it a matter alike of delicacy and of duty to refrain from givin ,, their authors the advantage of our pages for the propagation of their slanders, even although the refutation went side by side with the falsehood. But the calumnies against the Prince have been so long and loudly blazoned abroad—from the pot houses and the pot-house journals in which they originated, to the clubs and places of public resort, and from thence to the columns of almost every newspaper in the country—that our silence is no longer necessary. The man who has the high honour of being the husband of a Queen Refpiant ofa country like England stands in an exalted, and therefore in a perilous posi tion. If any one be obliged to walk warily, it is he. To no individual who stands is the precept that he should " take heed lest he fall," so applicable as to him. Too lofty to be strictly a subject—too power ful in the secrecy of his home, to be safely trusted with power in the senate or the cabinet—too nearly allied to the Crown to be quite dependent upon its favour, or to be quite independent of all that con cerns its honour and dignity—he is surrounded on every side with difficulties and anomalies. He is placed too high to have any objects of ambition, such as those which captivate the minds or quicken the energies of other men. Wealth and title can have no attraction to his mind. He has the high est of all title ; and if he have not wealth enough to satisfy him, no effort he can make can procure him any increase to it. His pretensions can inter fere with no man's advancement. His functions are so entirely non-political and ornamental, that if any office be bestowed upon him, it is that the office may be honoured by his acceptance of it— ' and not that he may thereby acquire any additional rank or importance. And yet, though so little is allowed him to do, much is expected of him. By ' custom and consent, if not by the constitution of ' this country, be is the first and most honoured sub ject of the Crown. But the Christian law, and by the law of domestic affection, he is the head and chief of the most illustrious family in the land ; and the Queen of Great Britain is as much his subject as every other happy and dutiful wife is the subject of the lord and husband whom she has selected. If his hand be too much seen in social life, and if he manifest too lively an interest in the affairs that take place around him, he will be reckoned a meddler who oversteps his province ; if it be too little seen, and if he does not sympathise with the world in which he lives, he will be accounted a simpleton or a nobody. The amiable Prince, whom the Queen of the greatest empire in the world freely chose for her husband, understood all these things. He felt both the delicacy and the difficulty of his position on one side, and its responsibility and dig nity on the other. Of necessity a stranger, he made it his first duty to become an Englishman—to study our feelings, our habits, and our virtues, that he might in all things become a model to English gentlemen and to English society. So admirably did he comprehend his duties, and so gracefully did he perform, that, next to the Queen herself, he be oame the most popular person in her dominions. His public appearances were few, but they were always judicious. He never advocated a cause which it was not proper that he should countenance; but always—as in the case of the Great Exhibition of 1851—lent his powerful aid to schemes of utility that were national, but non political. He felt, as if l i instinctively, what objects it was his duty and pri vilege to favour, and what objects it was better that he should leave to other and freer, but less splendid, agencies, to uphold and foster. His remarks, whenever he addressed an assemblage of Englishmen and women, invariably showed that he possessed not simply a good head but a good heart, and gave proofs of abilities that, had he been born in a less exalted station, would have raised him to eminence and honour. No one breathed a ' syllable in his disparagement. For his own sake, as well as for that of the Queen, he was esteemed and beloved by all classes. It was felt that, what ever the Royal families of other States of Europe might be, England had the happiness of possessing, in Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, models of domestic virtue and of public usefulness. But it has pleased some malignant —or, perhaps, merely thoughtless —persons to set rumours afloat with respect to his Royal Highness, which have a tendency to diminish his well-earned popularity, if they have not already accomplished that undesir able end. The accusations, at first vague and un meaning, gradually shaped themselves into some thing like consistency. It was at first asserted that nothing could account for the dismissal of Lord Palmerston two years ago, but the enmity of Prince Albert to that statesman. The whispers, however, did not swell into a roar on that occasion. It was only when his lordship announced, some weeks ago, his determination to withdraw from the Ministry that they again began to be heard. A certain class of political quidnuncs and pot-house busy bodies could not imagine anything so prepos terous as that Lord Palmerston should be capri cious, or that he should be guilty, once or twice in his life, of an error of judgment; but they could imagine easily enough that Prince Albert should have a personal to the object of their ado ration, and that he should forfeit the good opinion entertained of him, and which had been steadily increasing for twelve years, by exercising political power iu an underhand and unworthy manner. They, therefore, explained Lord Palmerston's re signation in their own fashion, and without a shadow of proof began to accuse the Prince of unconstitu tional intermedling in the affairs of State. They broadly hinted that the husband of the Queen was the enemy of England—that he betrayed State secrets to foreign Powers ; and that, while the re sponsible Ministers of the Crown were endeavour ing to support the cause of Turkey, he, the irre sponsible adviser of his wife, was doing his best to betray that cause, and to serve the interests of the Emperor of Russia. The utter improbability of such charges signified nothing to the hot-brained partizans who made them. The accusation once set in motion, rapidly acquired impetus. To jour nals that administer to the coarse tastes of the tap room, such slanders against a personage so distin guished were in the highest degree welcome. There is nothing so intelligible and, we are sorry to say, so popular as scandal. it is not every one who can talk politics. Few can converse well upon the drama, the sciences, or the fine arts. Ques tions involving literary taste and scholarship do not greatly interest the masses ; and, though all under stand the great and daily topic of the weather, it is a topic that is apt to lose its flavour. Not so im mortal scandal ? A piece of slander never tires either the great or the little vulgar. It is always acceptable, either at the club or at the tea-table— at the tavern or in the beer-shop. It taxes no man's brains to grapple with its intricacies ; and the more lofty the position of the slandered person, the more keenly it is relished. Besides, as everybody knows, slander is a very marketable commodity to struggling newspapers that desire to thrust them selves into notoriety. The cowardly nature of the assaults against the Prince's character was never allowed to deter the utterers of such stories. The Prince would not reply to them. Had it been Mr. Brown or Mr. Jones, or any other companion of Mr. Doyle's Tour, who had been maligned, the I courts of law might have been appealed to. Had it even been Lord Palmerston who had been the victim of misrepresentation, his lordship might have stooped from his lofty eminence raised and demo lished by a breath the flimsy superstructure by his assailants. The Prince Consort was_ not in so enviable a position. H e was too far above the anonymous slanderers even to be aware of thei r existence ; and it is likely that their storie s h a d been for many wee ks in circulation before his Royal Highness had any knowledge of the m . Th e Smith t aun t of the Rev. Sydney against Sir R. Peel seems to have been the maxim on which they acted—" Select for your attack," said the caus ti c w it, 6‘ a place where there can be no reply, and an opponent who cannot retaliate, and you may slander in safety." Much may be said for the prudence of such a course of conduct ; but can anything be said for its manliness or for its de cency." Upon the general question of the influence which the Prince may naturally be supposed to exercise, it is scarcely worth while to enter. To deny to him all concern and interest in the events which so nearly concern and interest her whom he is bound to solace, to advise, and to protect, would be to deny nature as well as expediency. If a responsible Minister at anytime demanded an audience with the Queen, and with the Queen only, Prince Albert would nut, of course, be present ; but if the Minister de mand no such private audience, and have no objec tion to the Queen's husband, but would rather court it than otherwise, Prince Albert can do no wrong in remaining ' • or, if any wrong be done, the Minister, not the Prince, is responsible. Ho is not only the Queen's husband, but a Privy Coun cillor, and has a double right to give his advice. Those who clamour so loudly against the presumed political interference of the Prince should ask them selves whether it would be better to increase his private and domestic influence, by degrading and l eafien i n hip public importance That his intiusce was ever exercised in a manner injurious to the in terests of this country, or to the rights of the re sponsible Ministers of the Crown, we hold to be a falsehood, not the less wicked because it happens to be absurd. It is an insult not only to Prince Albert, but to the Queen, even to suppose it. THE PATE OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN SEALED BY THE ADMIRALTY. (From the Morning Chronicle.) The public, which has so lately been informed of the groundlessness of the recent announcement of the intentions of the Admiralty with resp ec t t o the missing expedition, will have been taken by surprise at the notice which we p u bli s h e d on Sa turday, from Friday night's Gazette, to the effect that, from the 31st of March next, the crows of her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror will be con sidered as having died in the service of their coun try. We trust, for their own sakes, that the Ad miralty may not be legally in error in acting up on such an assumption. That the conclusion thus set forth is strangely premature cannot be gainsayed, since at this moment we are wholly ignorant of the results of last year's operations in the Arctic Seas, inc!uding not only what may have been effected by Sir Edward Belcher, but also that most important exploration by Captain M'Clintock north-west from Melville Island, which he intended to extend to a distance of 1,200 miles over the land and ice. In the face of our inevitable ignorance as to the issue of these expeditions, we are surely not justified in assuming the deaths of those for whom search is yet being made. The Admiralty may, indeed, withdraw the pay which these devoted men have earned at such a fearful sacrifice. We can under stand and excuse the economical motive, but that they should strike out their names from the com panionship of their brother officers, and substitut e for the u ncer t a i n ty o f a p oss ibl e ex istence the . decree that they have now ceased to live, is, we think, going very far beyond what the present state of our knowledge warrants. Whenever the search for these brave and unfortunate men is finally concluded, after an examination of the region which Sir John Franklin, in obedience to his orders, necessarily entered from Wellington Channel in order to pass to the meridian of Behring Strait ----and which region, we cannot too often repeat, has not been explored either by Sir Edward Belcher or by his predecessors— whenever we can proclaim that this explora tion has been thoroughly effected, and in vain, then, and not till then, shall we be entitled to pronounce over their names the doom to which they are now prematurely consigned. Whether the civilised world, which has been a spectator of our efforts, will acquiesce in a step which antici pates the conclusion of the drama, before its closing scene, we think very doubtful, and we fear that the honour of the country will not be raised by it. The acquisition to our geographical knowledge by the late discovery of Captain M'Clure, will cease indeed to throw lustre upon the British name if it be made the signal for putting a sum mary and final extinction on the search for the brave men who have imperilled their existence in that very cause. It will throw little credit on the British navy that the discovery of the North-west Passage and the abandonment of poor Franklin and his followers should stand side by side in their annals. It cannot have been forgotten that every expedition of search has been declared to have had the rescue of the missing ships as its sole object ; and much is to be regretted that by the present act any doubt should be thrown on the sincerity of such professions. (From the Morning Herald.) The notice which appeared in the last Gazettc will have fallen heavily upon many an anxious heart, and with some we fear has pealed a knell to long-cherished and now disappointed hopes. It is the fiat of the Board of Admiralty, that from the 31st of March next the crews of her Majesty's ships Erebus and Terror shall be wiped out of the book of the living. They have assumed the office of executioner, and Europe stands up as a witness to the deed. Whether the stroke of a pen can do the work of the headsman's axe may be matter of opinion, and even though the deed be duly authorised by the Times, in the face of these we boldly denounce its indecency and its inefficacy. The Admiralty can take away thepay of those whose places they would fain fill up in the list, and we do not blame them for wishing to save the public money ; but we trust the House of Commons will take leave to in quire upon what principle of justice or reason the present moment is selected as the fitting one —how it comes to pass that the Board has not deferred the step until we have learned something of the result of their own expedition commanded by Sir Edward Belcher, a part of which, under Captain Kellett, had an excellent point for future operations (already commenced at our last dates from thence) at Melville Island. It is alleged that Sir Edward Belcher had drawn back from his mission on the very shores of the Polar Sea, in face of the open water which had been the highway of Sir John Franklin's progress ; that he receded from this position, instead of executing the instructions he carried out and the object in view. But so long as those instructions have not been carried out, this object not executed, there will remain a space comprising no less than 70 degrees of distance, between Wellington Channel and Behring's Straits, within which Sir John Franklin pursued his way in obedience to his orders, which has never been entered at all. This is a fact which demands reiteration, and it may be worse for the Admiralty that they have chosen to ignore it for the sake of getting rid (if they can) of a trouble some and expensive question, heedless of their own and the country's honour. The close of the financial year affords, we pre sume, the coveted opportunity for balancing ac counts with the living and the presumed dead; but we doubt if any among the friends of those who are now summarily deprived of pay, position, and even life itself, will acquiesce in the arbitrary sentence now passed. It is a question which all are alike competent to pronounce and act upon, and is no exclusive privilege of Arctic officers —none, at least, but such as Sir Edward Belcher and Captain Kel lett, who are on the spot, and therefore able to judge of the only circumstances which should in fluence such a decision. We trust, therefore, that, if Arctic authority be cited, we shall know the in dividuals referred to, since, as a body, there aro various degrees of weight to bs attached to the per sons composing it. It strikes us forcibly—and no doubt many will share the feeling—that, did not the friends of the missing party owe it to the administration of the Duke of Northumberland that Sir Edward Belcher's expedition was sent out, they would not have re ceived the rude shock to their hopes which has now been inficted. One word as to the terms of the notice. We would charitably hope the Admiralty are better in formed than they presumed their readers to be, when they sanctioned the expression, that " if in telligence be not received before the 31st of March" the names would be removed from the list. We need hardly remind our readers that the doubt im plies forgetfulness of the fact, that every avenue of intelligence from the Arctic Seas has been, and will continue, sealed by ice until long after the date named. The close of the financial year, and the period when Arctic news reaches us, are separated by an interval of six months. THE MILITIA.—We mentioned some days since that it was intended by government to enrol 20,000 Irish militia. To these we understand 10,000 Scotch militia will be added. It is intended that these men shall be used to replace any troops that may be sent to the Mediterranean. PORT PHILIP AND COLONIAL GOLD COMPANY. — This company, established two years back, have issued a full report of their proceedings preparatory to their meeting on Tuesday. It narrates the despatch of Mr. Evan Hopkins to Melbourne in 1852, followed by an expedition of 105 persons, consisting of clerks, miners, bays, &c., who were to work for the company on tri bute, materials and rations being found them ; the dis appointment of the directors at finding that Mr. Hop kins had fixed this tribute at only one-third of the amount collected, while the company undertook every expense and risk ; and the final check to all immediate prospects of success by the accidental burning of the company's store and premises erected at a great expense at Forest-creek, in the neighbourhood of Mount Alex ander. Much vexation is likewise shown to have been caused by the unbusinesslike delay of the Government official in attending to the company's application for the lease of a specific locality. Under these circumstances, the present position of the concern is shown to be as follows:—All the miners sent out from England were, with the exception of six of the best, dismissed, but an assay-office has been established under the charge of Mr. Birkmyre, which is answering very well, a d a lease of a piece of land at Fryer's-creek has at length been obtained from the Government, upon which sys tematic operations are to be commenced without delay Of the original paid-up capital, amounting to 97,5001., the sum tl4; remains is represented by cash , buildin g s, stores, &c., at Melbourne, valued at 47,8141., and cash in England, amounting to 12,9741., making a total of 60,7881.: the balance, together with 2,9851., obtained by the sale of shares at a premium, and 3,258/. profit on the purchase of golddust, having been chiefly absorbed in the experiment, against which so many warnings were given, of sending out persons from this country with the expectation that on their arrival in Australia they would work for the distant shareholders on any other than ruinous terms. The penalty of' this mistake having, however, been paid, there is no reason to pre vent the future o perations of the company from being such as, with good management, 'may retrieve that Which 1114 17901110 A 25 100 100 20 50 50 100 100 20 50 20 25 20 10 20 35 10' 22/ all all 6i 6 55 7 1 i ,~