The Sun. — London, England, 1851-02-17 00:00:00

°VERLAND INDIA AND CHINA. l'i t 144: 4 / "are received by express from Marseilles .. ol , i_r , . 11 '1, 4°11 Pzpers ie anticipution of the mail dt w v h ir t i c t h es lc a l s , 1011, (i . 7 on the 17th tilt. Our corretpeu en ' 4 :.- 'Be are I 11 !4 4 Y anything of public interest has h o e cc i u e r t r e o r d . ' ti la since the dispatch of the last mail. ttesiti7cell Ghoolab Singh and the Govern 2 o T 6 r t -General D er e i - 1 earAtit, e ritted with great splendour on the 444 eueeeeding days. An account of h the inter ello of courtesies which took place on t•-'! . erabad, Ni le fetlitd -below. The Maharaja left 41:r'tcrs oon the 29th, but at V tb i s z e i s d t ci :lit acounts the Governor-General Ned "e hY heavy rain, which appears ht7aohiaavbeisalhlticeedgteohh-i NI throußhout the Northern Punjaub. G l 'ih i u „ st , s , l3 of his followers from intense Ghoolab Singh tr A a- NV', `.lle is between Jummoo and C tttv" iroProvement has taken place in the health of ::°°" le the Punjaub. 3d Of at,"l7Charleit Napier arrived at Sukkur on the ~ and left the followieg day after an interview tile k ale • L ie ,b a , sr Of Ehypore, Ali Moorad. Ho was ' 1 i r de - a" cat the 76, reached Kurrachee on the l itr i -"Y ezPected at Bombay. He -as 14, eclhnsiastie Ily r c ,At bad the e ev l e 2 r t y li . , !ir see chiefs asse Mbled e fr e o i m ved all parts il o y f d th er e a pr t ov i t u ic r e . Iti eillta„,heilottr. Re was similarly received her,), —'1 a parting entertainment is to be given a to him Ckii;u_lollltUilty oi Bombay. wist 0 v ss —" gal a co mmission has been appointed to make f atePlete ievesti ation into the whole org . an ° t he Co • • g liertkett rumissartat. The alleged frauds in this ' lo 2„ n , and the claims constantly made against it 4 tre-andjusted balances, have lately occasioned a ,etli: atot, icooti.ntinsi:ing. land for railways in Bengal has doubts, egi i '' Yet car into effective operation, i lrst apPPareutly without sufficient reason s , o h m a s ving been mean lite ‘_ Nett i I thi,lajor IK a• p 4l : 4 regarding its sufficiency. tl i , ,cie gal ez —tle dY, the consulting railway 1 ' t sign— G ov Y, has three lines of railways engineer kl ikir., consideration—the first, through ,teloott'iL,si,ti, direct to Mirzepore; the e eaanmdk i, a h tatth Cotlgh Pandooah and the coal districts to Ae a ele -. ineric ti i b ed at th e ti, nataed Booth, was found murdered ry in ; 3d o 6 cri,„ ..e.Calcutta I - e-bouse on the e se c h a o . en hu . I N be ''''utiothris.ttedbi four American `hit% • aPPrehended. tts. tti deli l'i illeitlncil leed by the culpritsThwe ear larseckmleosssst character hey /which bertts°telel ssobject in committin t kil ted Y planned beforehand) was he crimepounds . , .aar , ishi b • were in the _ kt itleil ted °P " I 3? of it in the sailors' taverns they k: 1s elt appears they . ell' dre.WithPistols and bowie knives concealed under ~ 1,1:1, . tot the6NlLll2Linilliese of the Supreme Government rega h rd- s ljp, a6 hi Z_ a S itiirs is anxiously expected, but has 11,7ett oi.,Papired. It will of course or in p v c o r l p v e e tu a s n i, f a: . b ,. t uid,,.krritory, either temporary _ ti i ti lray roti of the existing debt, and a further lien t of the can tett leenrity for the future Paymen• cces lity f Ito eh _ , d 4ii. op %el.:ere against arrears. Meanwhile, the n t, 4 Ikton,;eterlerence of the Supreme Government is t4hes,3,e_g More imperatively essen v t e l u al, not merely to the very sou p t ,l l lee eil l ig of the country, but e At- s lof .."8 Nizatt's Government, the finan t c h i e al su r c e: 114tehlio,,, whit are daily diminhhing througheof te t t e ' l 4, less itlon of refractory Talookdars )4 1 4 a t tcl'ititent with defeating his mat'ter's troops, has tiII:INN L o o e oensive, and seized forcibly T ; s h t four ro() absoka, and so till-1344144 .ging to the Elichpore P o Es t five %NI 41,,._ into pay, 4141 Inve II he of present molestationthat he has tie s ho d iti , "' J et 1,500 Rohillas he had taken Pindarees; la t i t 'lja e , fl e now dispersed into parties and plundering_ h is _tli t 11 t cow after the fashion of the enjoy his hell &s of Elichpore is nut likely to for the hitct, erthfred possession much htti 14 ' /11 4 d? r ar (which is the known fins to be that :s o f ,ji,i) has been longlonger,e t - is Ith„ Hof Niearn'a country wich . the British }is :04,7; 4 for themselves; and this suspicion thi: Tact In the minds of the the ordered ' N -.64 . eo,,tealli, who the Nizam has lately N. to ii . W ," has charge of the Elia The h Ali omit a statement of them to h ._ pore r . e . v m enue me 'to L A. 8 ey to offer any . tidt t I !kit lik 1 opposition to l the su . r . - fsitZles „,,Province from which he is himself unable ells' All "," benefit, and the present occupier has for kNen„°_irri to c onsideration by loosing his Rohillas 1hk.c0h1,•,47. •It vros 1 1 ,,. t o „ see has arrived at a t ' rre ePed • • N paul and the P Ni t , A, ~. ori a 'Mit to eu nor pro- Calcutta, and is 54`53erabay the cholera is much abated, a u n i d ta i r t y s tt"Ah eh an impulse to the progress 110/kti, ilent, which ia likely to be perman o e f nt s ly a bene s.b kitN6nl4l:ifty Railway is proceeding satisfactorily; It:Oki:et for the earth -work has been taken by ht7,lo,rel and 0. F owler, at the rate of h 3, 0001. per thl4qleh is about 20 per cent, below t The cost of teiLAs,lniOcluding the permanent way. the engineer's q,;it, eclusive of Stations, will be about h 7 per Pl;iAt 040apectus for a railway from the ' ad of the Cony -4)ol's 1 1 441 ,, 64 1 • to Baroda has been publishe e d. and the 414•,(thA-"Ir Submitted to Mr. Berkley and th Mr. e Bombay i '11).)-f Present and late engineers to + for their report. llie /t t i t, . Vi. .BETwEE s THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL SINGEL s sl / 4 bi l Ds sa 4 ., OD GHOOLAB '' 4 „ itt 'oat Ghoolab Singh d 3 000 of his tro p ,t , ,.viet)ded by between 2,000 reached Vizierabad on the os. all ' ff for two days on 4 : et of 4-tw. filed for the 24th, On !L ifte rtion' 4 c ill health of the Ma w r a q s ui P s u o t f o Dalhousie. by his v s i t il l e t _ Iterieir corn"matnd7.. accompanied Y li . '4l' 6f .t h 6 h deputation of officers, consisting g_he station, ih„lsss,,,,Proissioner of Lahore, and t M e aharaja, and ~th,``Ad 12,aries, proceeded to meet the the composed of the li tt " Oithlit'4, through Street a mile long, received a !14411”r00,...Ps in camp. Ghoolab Singh was t 4 ,10 t t 'Mtn the Durbar tent from his ele- L't' ea e•cr o ' a nd welcomed, on alighting by Sir Henry Lawreres with N-etsrn;ir IlenrY f, _ :, Elliot, secretary ' to Government, 1 s'AthEstGener- 1 Dalhousie, ii:lett,i' arrivingxlighee:s.wasumet by the Marquis of _ at the door of the Dur 140de' raP„ieß through the impressive ceremony of shaking t i 14. 0 his illustrious guest in the costume ,‘ht .111iiiterwrl..„ The Governor-General was ___ _ a _ . q hue 'Qted . - • 'tl6thhle a -- ei` tiste, while the ruler of Cashmere_ was r A, ape and golden dress, set off by brought to ktt:iinti.me Presents on both sides were then h to say a many coloured it beltte;:htl.e People have been ill-natured enough qe4 .l W e -s '' ° l l Onr side they were to an immensegamount, kkteillorle not losers b the exchange. Our th'l/I ltiat "led stn his s a mp Y ender a salute of 19 gu r between Na t f (- enlightened sas to what passe Ghoolab Singh iteth, t olka v h ut . 0 s were 144 protestat' and mutual praisingb it is supposed that all the 11°4 pli.t of. i itula of friendship Oa lt it' llth % the ee Most Noble the 6 4 la of Li of December, the . 4 4 ,, A r t, _ n al d in State, ;le •"_o. elephauts, 21 • 13 mber, proceed! .. the 1:1°Ileie, attended by a brilliant staff, all tit hef._ se e !.iite of la mina t in nu ° 44'4, OY Maharaja d The following is o return the visit paid nim ill whi ch th hoolab Singh.._ 1 1.13 411 recession moved L . ilti nrYE:ii°t. ERN"-GEN S E i R r A H'enry Lawrence. tlrg44i'r Re 4ii.. J. „. arsey. Sir W. Gilbert. 1041. b_eetwrenc Mr. Montgomery. Ilit • '4lelaay. k r. „t±l4 Atkins.° tr, boala.t I l• / 1 Major Fane. Mr. Courtenay. 4s.rlalt. L o4 r e:)tith e n . t { Captain Bowie. Captain Metcalf. Captain Davison. k rv. ii k n. ii e 1 4 ay. Mr. Lambrecht. I.llettoearange• I Mr. Macdonald. t:4tekulf%' • t Major Burn. • 15 tais .. Lz 4 ticker . Mr. Inglis. Lieutenant Walker. l ' sttis. -1/ tei c h is t :h W ill e. ip s. Captain Loveday. '114.1r... pale. Mr. Prinsep. ",„th: tec4l,,!„l' detachments 4 11 ad --II VfaB preceded and followed by Captain Burroughs. th,. e get' Grplard. line, as 1 4 °4 14 1 (14 of the troops Were out and formed 4tt Atis tle ral i e th e day before from the camp of the Gover . Ile' ",,ehi :I°Wards the of Ghoolab Singh, the troops of the .4 ~''' r14:180 paraded‘an I completing the line. Singh, sll,4Veiercoetimrderr,l'ilttl deputed his son Meer Bunbeer te meet Ac eli 1 9 it ‘. th e - V° go as far as the viceregal camp me I , t titk t 011 e in y ern or-General, an te d uts he to receive f a c e r_ himself ca d Plc iit ill tilsi 14411sallievathe4 °f his °w h it:L owing a marked . e 4, 4 . ei„ e r,„_,_ e o his camp,. s n 'Ah l 'i a de c i ded 4 of reception, and establishing swarm of ' t)°lt re • the eyes of the a,. A all ent..,manner in hi s dinte-_ e I AR „Ight • -es Ath - 15 Tron i h. ri . ei4 4 e k itia , is howdar, which greatly eclipsed any- Il i % wths c „_ PI Ghoolab Singh s suwaree h tb y e Governor the Maha ttNaJaseriuunilted. into the Durber tent r. Sir . are i il t lot tca his a seat on his own other British IN, at t,_, his place on the left, theight, while rsii.4l-,Qe-saiance :seating themselves on the rig t fully 4 4 tc4, ° NI. Th D b t nts were most tas e _ t o t e ~iina ...,_ e ur ar e •ht of the tl'l 1 0 a t atail;'!en all were seated, the . Governor-GeneTal Ilea;,, c ala„,,o ee . ala at the top of a long vista of tents, with oas ,„ eers, in their glittering uniforms, formingm 'll, tie. s'n either aide, must have presented an imposing 4 , ,4tt, d it 4 ri t. i , t t 4 0 11 11 1 4 , 48. of the . 11 aliaraj . a then . presented nuzurs, 4 s :s i„ res4,(l on during which Ghoolab Singh .7 his 1 9 taht ti °11 the Go vernor-General his anxiety to see ;4 t cretioraeOte--ari anxiety acquiescingly acknowledged to the 51,, c . ) 1 . 'q n..1)--his Highness directed his presents ,) p,'thiL,.. -r el to be brought in. They consisted of 51 p-`,4 tiqtncip-ri, and elephants The tribute shawls of the ;Ne% •,.,ttse,,,.`°r her Majesty, * were again the chief ob s' del.,„-„"cti• , " In brilliant colour and excellent soft -Dh. -Ad 1-- eY or t tare ' " says a correspondent, " they Pe e s "31h ing e of te kin I ever saw." Several E Nepo fo r ?! ~guns of hill manufacture, very tastefully 'itd Oita' 4 b rass another ortion of the presents. Among Nlvd, ,b,,i gun calledPa " Yemsee." because usually car- s ), th er 61 0 orb ullock the calibre of which was p ‘ e i rhap brillere or„ w ere ut 4oz. with al,so te;o " sherlenchas," literally lems ti t!: :rrei "mting lions," of the calibre of abo , to A lla tt , e flio , rt s ed - on ade of steel. These guns are intended llt 'WI offs" cmels, and can be perched on rocks, the ktieler tht,e similar places. NOf 21 tringB to the Governor-General bad been ei tis e - At, for s.t: Were brought in for Sir HenryLwr t ric , Nat , : )l l, th e ~.."., Lleory Elliot The other officers in s . at _I: ectit -.4l.oereirse'rernor-Gen_e; lalso participated in his High Pe. 4:1 tt"Y, 8 Het of th a ce m , ue Nt a , . a. , eir names Oasi.„`lbis li i ii!tr la 8. Some kheluts were further pre aen previously I.' tii ' c r . -B e gonees -after which utur was served, and the 41 11 1 e 1 11 4 c. aeral rose p His Lordship was escorted fro araj e "at w hich le• 1 ph . ant di 4 , the a e ,,!'l '1)37 Reef:B'll%e b distance liet`ttivel -,"13.,• The Governuor-e Gener t rwa s saluted, both o . ri , by the 4:vas h in to w s a ( i ) t m in e g 01•Asehil-.cti departure. by a discharge of 21. guns, and de., : . e Nt 13 "411 carop till ~,,%1,.._. urd. , sunset. 'Allh ` a baa ‘„'Y, ' t he 27th of Dece mbeentire force at is p ert Q as paraded and -M ' - General Sir Walter 1 th, .C.)l _ . , e. ajor- th B . Pr e e and Brigadier Hearsey, for brigade exercise, 11 41 . nig. The the Governor-General and Maharaja Ghoo- Nina the uo troop, were under ar s : m the parade ground ay'thief eabtleetrnr., a little before 7 rn a,M' and the Cashmere 4 %1). ‘o the Rround about half . 'sM hour afterwards. dkiitiseht3A 10th of of five corps a infantry, viz. :—Her eh esrts.or N ati on 24th Foot, the 21st, 32d, and 34th Re -1)44 etivelnfantry, her Majefity's 9th Lancers, the fOtb,,_ tc . t ies et .„, allc .e„s, and the 6th Irreg t star Cavalry with two - ‘ ll liee 3}‘,l,:l4_erY--altogether abo ut 5,600 lien. After ...' 44.90134 marched rou:gl ill slow time, then THE SUN, again formed line, advanced, covered by the light compani:s of the different corps and by the guns, formed square to re ceive cavalry, again formed line, then columns of companio, the cavalry advancing, charging through the intervals, and retiring under cover of a fire from the artillery. The review concluded with the general salute, after which the Governor- General and the Maharaja returned to their respective camps, and the troops to their several quarters. It was r fine breezy morning,' says another correspondent, diversified with a few mares' tails, as seamen call the light floating clouds that portend wind. The hills between this and Cash mere, at not 50 miles off, with their sides covered with snow, added to the brilliancy of the scene.' LONDON, Cotton—The transactions Hoes last month have been con siderable, and at improved rates. Bombay quoted Ts. 9to Ts. 9 9; Bengal, Ts. 9 4 to Ts. 9 8; Madras, Ts. 9 5 to Ts. 10 3. About 20,500 bales have been sold. Stock, say 41,509 bales. Cotton Yarn—Owing to the firmness of holders the sales have been small. Quotations show an advance for the higher numbers. Nos. 16-24 quoted 29 dolls. to 30 dolls. ; Nos. 28 -32, 31. dolls. to 33 dolls; Nos. 38-42, 34 dolls, to 37 dolls. Shirtings—Prices for greys and the better descriptions of whites have improved somewhat. Greys ase quoted 2 dolls. 50c. to 3 dolls. sc. ; whites, 2 dolls. to 3 dolls. 10c. Sales of both kinds estimated at about 56,000 pieces. Woollens—Spanish Stripes—Stock in Chinese hands is large. Prices remain as before —90 c. to 1 doll. Long ells. assorted, 6 dolls. 80c. to 7 dolls. 30c. ; scarlet, 7 dolls. 85c. Iron—The sales are reported at 8,000 peculs; stock large. Rod, 2 dolls. 40c. to 2 dolls. 700. per pecul ; bar, 2 dolls. 10c. to 2 dells. 20c.; round, 2 dolls. 80c. to 4 dolls. 30c.; hoops, 2 dolls. 60c. to 2 dolls. 80c. Tin plates, 9 dolls. to 9 dolls. 50c. Cochineal-90 dolls. to 115 dolls. Turkey Opium-340 dolls. per pecnl. and stock large. Tea—During the month there has been a fair amount of business done in black tea. About 26 chops of congou have been settled at Tl 6 and T 18. Of the new greens 200,000 packages have arrived, but no settlements of consequence have taken place. _ . _ Black. Green. Total, Export from Canton from July I, 1850, to Dec. 24, 1850 .. 28,112,000 3,097,000 29,209,000 Export from Shanghai from July 1, 1850, to Dec. 18, 1850 .. .. 11,019,000 1,321,000 12,340,000 37,131,000 4,418,000 41,549,000 . . . . . . Export from Canton from July 1, 1849, to Dec. 24, 1849 .. .. 27,651,000 2,971,000 30,621,008 Export from Shanghai from July 1, 1849, to December 24, 1849 .. 8,245,000 184,000 8,429,000 35,896,000 3,155,000 39,050,000 Exchanges on England—First class paper and American credits, ss. Id. and ss. 1 1 / 2 d. India—Company's accepted paper, 232 r. to 233 r. per 100 dolls. Freights nominal. Some vessels are offering at 11. 10s. for immediate dispatch. Our advices from Shanghai are to the 23d inst. There had been a good amount of business done in Imports, but prices showed little improvement. Shipments of produce continued heavy. Tea—Large purchases of low Cengous had been made at rather higher rates, The settlements of green were estimated at 160,000 packages, of which about 35,000 packages were for the English market. Silk—Prices remained without change, and the business done had been inconsiderable. The market was nearly clear of the finer sorts. No. 1 and 2 Tsatlee, nominal at 445 doll a. ; No. 3, 380 dolls. to 410 dolls.; Taysaam, 270 dolls. to 330 dolls. Export since Ist of July last 12,120 bales. Shirtinge—The demand for the better descriptions of greys had been good. Greys quoted 1 doll. 88c. to 2 dolls. 83c.; whites, 2 dolls. 10c. to 2 dolls. 60c. The sales of both descriptions about 125,000 pieces. Spanish Stripes—About 4,000 pieces were sold at 85c. to 90c. for assorted. Exchange on England—• Oriental Bank and first class paper, ss. ; American credits, ss. Id. India—Company's accepted bills, 236 r. per 100 dolls. Freights-41. for tea, and 41. 103. for silk. SHIPPING. ARRIVALS FROM GREAT BRITAIN'. At Hong-Kong—Dec. 7, the Rajasthan, from Liverpool; Dec. 9, the Margaretta, from Hull; Dec. 14, the Investiga tor, from London ; Dec. 25, William I. (Du.), from Newport. At Shanghai—Dec. 12, the Cathaya, from Liverpool; Dec. 16, the John Dugdale, from Liverpool ; Dec. 19, the Confucius, from Liverpool; Dec. 19, the Viscount Sandon, from London. CHINA. The following is our correspondent's letter, dated Hong-Kong, December 30, 1830: " The mail steamer arrived here on the morning of the 18th, bringing dates from England to the 24th of October. "Notwithstanding the cold and bracing weather we now have great sickness still prevails among her Ma jesty's 69th Regiment—upwards of 200 being generally in the hospital. It is confined chiefly to those who were laid up last summer; but it is evident that there is something radically wrong when, at a period of the yelr when all other invalids rapidly recover, sickness and mortality still exist to so great a degree among one regiment, and is confined to them. " It is easy to conjecture what the results of another hot season will be should a proper inquiry not be instituted into the causes of the sickness, and suitable remedies not be immediately adopted. The manner in which you have called the attention of Government to the subject has given general satisfaction to all in this settlement; and the same feeling must exist everywhere—that a serious responsibility rests upon those who neglect the melan choly facts brought to their knowledge, and thereby sa crifice lives for want of proper treatment and proper re medies. "The Statesman has left with 92 invalids, of whom 58 are of the 59th Regiment, after having been only one year in the East. Three military doctors are among the sick, and have left, and those remaining are per fectly inadequate to the duties devolving on them, par ticularly as the .compounding of medicines, keeping of accounts, and making returns, form part of their duties. "It is generally reported at Canton that Commissioner Lin is dead. He was sent by the Emperor to put down the rebels in the Kwangei district, not very far from Canton. From the energy of his character, and the dread entertained of him by his countrymen, his death may be considered a loss to the Empire. He is sell known to foreigners by his acts in 1839—by the durance ha kept them in for six weeks, and by the seizure of the opium. " Two Swedish missionaries at Foochow, returning from a vessel with a small amount of money for their personal wants, were attacked a few weeks ago by pirates. One (Mr. Fast) was killed, and the other was severely wounded, but escaped by jumping into the water and swimming ashore. The Chinese authorities were very prompt on this occasion in discovering the perpetrators and inflicting punishment. " Some months ago we alluded to the duty of two mace that had, contrary to the spirit of the treaty, been put upon tea by order of the Viceroy at Canton. We understand that Lord Palmerston has written for all particulars connected with the question. The merchants at Canton have deposited with the consul there a formal protest against the tax and this violation of the treaty, and a copy of this document will no doubt go forward to his Lordship. " At Canton the Chinese holydays, which commenced early in February, are expected to pass over quietly. "'There is an active demand there for most articles of import, and the advices from Shanghai, which reach to the 23d of December. are also more favourable. " At both places there has been a good deal done in tea. The total exp .rts, to date, to Great Britain are 41,000,0001 b., against 39,800,0001 b. last year. The transactions in silk have been limited. Total export from Shanghai, to date, 12,500 bales, against 8,600 to the same period last year. " Her Majesty's screw-steamer Reynard returned with the Bishop of Victoria, on the 19th, from Shanghai and the other free ports. Captain Ince, of her Majesty's brig Pilot, died here en the 11th. Lieutenant Hickley, of the Hastings, is appointed to the command. " Her Majesty's brig Contest leaves to-day for Shang hai to relieve the Pilot. Her Majevy's steamer Sphinx returned from the north on the 26th inst. " Io Harbour—Her Majesty's ship Hastings, steamer Sphinx, and her Majesty's brig Contest. " At Whampoa—Tbe screw steamer Reynard. " At Canton—The steamer Phlegethon. " At Amoy—Her Majesty's brig Serpent. " At Shanghai—The Pilot. " Our latest dates are—from England, October 24; United States, October 13; Calcutta, November 8; Bombay, November 18; Singapore, December 7; Ma nilla, December 2; Sydney, September 30; and Port Philip, October 9. COMMERCIAL IN LELLIGENCE. (From the Telegraph and Courier.) BOMBAY, JAN. 17. The Bombay market for British manufactures has during the fortnight under review been unusually dull. Indeed, business has been almost entirely suspended; and the few sales made have in most instances been forced, and the native dealers exhibiting great reluctance to purchase. This state of matters has arisen chiefly from the monetary pressure in the Bazaar—the banks having increased their rates of dis count to 7 and 10 per cent. on Government and private bills respectively. The yarn market is greatly depressed. Money continues very scarce. The banks have raised their rates of interest another t per cent. all round, and are understood to be very unwilling to increase the accommoda tion already granted to their constituents. The tightness in the Bazaar is said to be greater than for a length of time, and is accompanied by an unuseal amount of distrust, as the stoppage of D. and IJ. Pestonjee has caused an uneasy feel ing. Government securities and Bank shares are difficult of sale at the following quotations :—New blves, 961 to 97 ; Sicca Fives, 101 i to 102; Company's Fours, 80i to 81 ; Sicca Fours, 84 ; Transfer Loan, 1 10 ; Bank of Bombay shares, 14 to 14i per cent. premiuna; Oriental, 20 per cent. dis count; Commercial, 12 to 13 per cent. discount; Agra, 1 per cent. discount. Ihe tendency of English exchange has been rather downwards since the date of our last report, and sellers are now firm at 2s. 23 i d. to 2s. 2 9-61 d. ; for China drawn six months' sight bills, 2s. 2i.d. ; eight to 2s. 3d., for local bill with documents; and 2s. 21d. for Scotch bank credits at 60, amount sight. Freights we quote at 21. to 21. 5s to London and Liverpool, and 13r. per candy to China. Grey Sbirtings, 40 inch.—Only 2,010 pieces of these have been sold at 4r. la., and a small lot of 45-inch at 4r. 14a. to 5r 15ia per. piece. Grey Madapollams—These , have been influenced favour ably by the fact that imports have fallen off, but only about 7,000 pieces have been sold at 2r. sa. since the last mail left. Grey Jacconets—ln these r.o sales have come to our know ledge, and there is no demand whatever for them. For Domestics and T cloths there has been a little in quiry. We understand that 4,000 pieces of the former and 6,500 pieces of the latter have been sold at about former rates. Bleached shirtings and m adapollams are very dull, only a few boxes having been sold at 4r, 12i. and 2r. 3a. per piece. Bleached jacconets are •'in very feeble request, only 500 pieces having been disposes', of at a very low rate. There is no demand whatever for prints and woollens. A few sales of Turkey red cambrics, 24 by 33, have been made at 84r. We also hear of a sale of 200 pieces of Turkey red mute, 38 in., at sr. Cotton arn—The market for yarns is very much de pressed. It is reported that 100 bales of water No. 38 have been sold at 108 a. A few bales of orange have been disposed of at lqa. per lb. Metals have also partaken of the general dulness. Beer—There is no beer of Bass's brew in the market, but it is in good demand, and the first arrivals are expected to bring high rates. Cotton—Dhollera cotton may now be quoted at 113 r. to 114 r. ; and Compta at 108 r. to 109 r. We hear that contracts have been made for new Broach at 115 r. per candy. Opium—Holders of Malwa opium are giving way, and the price of the best Mundlaisar may be quoted at 1,020 r., and Indore at 990 r. per chest. The operations for the China steamer, which leaves to-morrow, are on an exceedingly limited scale, say about 150 to 200 chests. The Marwarries are sending forward the drug on their own account. The present stock is estimated at 5,400 chests. (From the Calcutta _Englishman, Jan. 7.) The Hindostan, with the mail, bringing London dates to the 25th of November, reach. ad her moorings on the after noon of the 4th, and the me - ccantile advices being of a less encouraging tendency than they were by the previous dis patch, we cannot look forward to any increased activity in our export market, which since our last issue has been in a quiet state ; particularly during the past week, the daily ex pectation of the receipt of later home news proving detri mental to any free course op !rations. The value of the leading staples has, however, not experienced any material alteration, the continued very moderat e supplies indueing the generality of holders to maintain firmness, though some, passed by the tightness of the Bazaar money market, show a willingness to meet slig htiy easier offers. On these terms sugar has met with extended sales, with a decided show of inclination to proceed upon more important transac tions. Saltpetre again looked after for home shipments, while a fair demand for America and France continues, and prices have thereby beeta kept to the extreme value of the previous week. Rice iii general inquiry, and large business done at very full but generally unaltered rates. The indigo market has been in an unsettled state, the want of later home advices determining holders to refrain from sales, and buyers to act on the reserve in their biddings. In silk business has been on a limited scale, supplies of the new band continuing small, while purchases are less eagerly pursued. Corahs have met with a moderato inquiry at last week's rates. Shell lac and lac dye continuo in demand, with prices looking up. Oil seeds still command extensive inquiry at extreme previous rates. Jute in general request, which is stimulated by a slight concession in prices for the middling and lower quali ties. Under the influence of a tight Bazaar money market, and the last little satisfactory China accounts, opium has further receded 10r. to 15r. The slackness which prevailed in our import markets when we last wrote has, continued without any intermission. The market for cotton piece- goods in particular has remained ex tremely dull. Mule twist is also flat, and has sustained a further slight decline in value. Turkey red yarn has again fallen 6 pies per lb. Copper improved a little after the de parture of the last mail, but it has again slackened. Iron continues extremely low. Spelter is at 6-4. The demand for pig lead is dull at 6-0. In our money market the demand is increasing, and the Bank of Bengal has raised its rates of interest 1 per cent. per annum. Exchange has been more largely dealt in than for some I time past, which t ended to lead rates slightly in favour of sellers, negotiations ruling for six months' sight credit bills at 2-2 to 2-2 h ; document drafts, 2-2 i to 2-2 a. Freights have been k e pt to last week's improvement, with an upward tendency in requirements, to which, however, general shippers have not acceded. Indigo—The demand has, since our last, been less brisk, mainly owing to the continued a b sence o f later home news, and the transactions by private treaty have been confined. Public sales offering the undermentioned quantities, for which prices in the middling and lower sorts ruled at the cheapest previous terms, and in some instances sr. below, the market being in an unsettled state determining holders to refrain from sales and buyers to act on the reserve in their biddings. CANTON MARKET REPORT. HONG-KONG, Due. 80, 1850. During the mouth the demand for importe has continues' active. DEPARTURES TO GREAT BEITAE{. From Hong-Kong—Nov. 28, the Pilgrim, to London ; Dec. 5, the Wisconsin (Am.), to London; Dee. 29, the Statesman, to London. From Whampoa —Dec. 6, the Crisis, to Liverpool; Dec. 12. the Esperanca (Hanover), to London. From Shanghai—Nov. 11, the Sir J. Beresford, to Liver pool; Nov. 12, the Pilot Fish, to Cork; Nov. 21, the Shah Jehan and the Brahmin, to London ; rCov. 23, the James Turcan, to London; Nov. 30, the Duke of Portland, to London; Dec. 3, the Iris, to London; Dec. 4, the Lord Ashley, to London ; Dec. 18, the Ann Lockerby, to Liver pool.— Times. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, FEB. 6. —The Peninsular and Oriental Com pany's steamer Haddington, with the Calcutta mail of the 7th of January, arrived at Suez on the 3d instant, with 72 passengers, who proceed to Malta and Southampton, per Indus, this day. The Indus, with the London mail of the 24th of January, arrived here on the 4th, and landed the whole of her valuable cargo for India, including about forty tons' weight of specie, of the value of 300,0001. sterling, which proceeded on the same night on its way to Cairo, thence to cross the Desert to Suez, for shipment on board the Haddington. The Egyptian Government gets three-eighths per cent. on the value of its conveyance across the country. Among the passengers by the Indus was the Hon. C. A Murray, our Consul-General, and his bride. Said Pasha, the Admiral of the fleet, sent off his barge for them to land in, a guard of honour received them at the landing wharf, and Abbas Pasha, the Viceroy, has sent down his private steamer to convey them to Cairo—an honour which has not been shown to any consul. Abbas Pasha has a decided leaning to the English, which is very satisfactory, as no other measures will be recommended to him but such as will confer an actual benefit on the country; and to please the English his Highness will keep the transit in a most efficient state, as it is at present. Mr. Robert Stephenson, the eminent engineer, has left for Malta, with a party of friends in his yacht Titania. This gentleman came from Cairo to Alexandria by land, in order to survey the country, and is very decided in his opinion of the expediency and great advantage of a railroad between the two towns. AMERICAN NEWS. By the United States mail steamer Arctic, Captain Luce, we bare advices from New York to the sth inst. The Arctic has brought specie to the amount of 25,000. The Canada arrived at Halifax on the 3d inst., after a rough passage. In bongress no proceedings of interest had taken place. A steamer called the John Adams had gone down with 00 persons on board. Nicaragua accounts to the 31st of Dec., report that ;he port of San Juan had been made free to all nations. The canal operators were rapidly progressing, the steamer directors having succeeded in getting on the lake. The frigate St. Lawrence, with articles for the Exhi bition, was nearly ready for sea, having taken on board nearly all the contributions, numbering about ZOO. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, FEB. s.—The exchange market is heavy and the supply fair. Sterling is Si to 10 for first-class bills • France, 5 121 1 . The money-market is easier. Good stocks loans are ne gotiated with more ease. The rates are sto 6 per cent.; paper goes at 6 to 7 per cent. for good names. Cotton is very heavy, with sales of only 350 bales, at a de cline of to 11, but no large sales could be effected without a greater concession. Subsequent to the departure of the Asia, Wednesday last, prices receded ac., and remained steady till Monday last, at this reduction, pending late advices from abroad, but when these came to hand yesterday, they completely unsettled the market, the decline in Liverpool being unexpected, sales of some hundred bales were made at uneven prices, averaging about half a cent lower. Our quo tations, though reduced, must be considered as entirely no minal, buyers claiming a still further reduction. The re ceipts at all the shipping ports are 1,254,384 bales, against 1,217,731. To same date last year—an increase this season of 3,653 bales. The total foreign exports this year are 93,858 bales more than last—say, 29,964 bales increase to Great Britain, 46,391 increase to France, 6,834 increase to the North of Europe, and 10,669 increase to other foreign ports. The shipments from southern to northern ports are 91,920 bales less this season than last, and there is an in crease in stock of 45,836 bales. The sales for the week ending Friday last were 5,100 bales, and fur the last three days 1,400 bales. The ashes market is heavy for pots, with sales at 5 dolls. 32ic. Pearls unchanged, and saleable at 5 dolls. 62ic. Sales 50 barrels. Iron—There have been sales of 200 tons of Gartsherrie and Coltness iron, at 21 dolls. 58c., at six months, to arrive. The market is firm. Flour and meal were a heavy sale, at easier rates, the market being unfavourably influenced by the Canada's ad vices. Wheat was a dull sale, at late rates. Indian meal was steady, but quiet ; 3,500 bushels of Southern sold at 67c. Provisions—The market for pork was dull. Beef firm, and in fair demand. Lard was in good demand. 160 tierces new sold at Bic. to Bic. Freights steady, but shipments small. Flour, Bd. to 9d. Cotton, ; dead weights, 12s. 6d. to 18s. Tobacco—There is a fair amount of business going forward ; holders are firm and prices well supported, with an increasing inquiry for low grade Kentucky and Maryland. The stock in the inspection warehouse on the Ist inst. in first and se cond hands consisted of 5,259 hhds, 612 ditto Virginia and North Carolina, and 73 Maryland—together, 5,914 hhds., being 430 less than on the Ist ult. NEW ORLEANS, FEB. I.—Not much doing in corn. Prices are 65c. to 68c. CITY OF WESTMINSTER LITERARY, SCIEN- TIFIC, AND MECHANICS' INSTITUTION. Mr. Catlin, the celebrated traveller and delineator of the North American tribes, gave his third and concluding lecture on Friday evening, to a crowded and highly respectable audience, in the theatre of this institution. The first two lectures of the course were devoted to the tribes of the North American Indians generally, among whom Mr. Catlin had resided for eight years; and were rendered deeply interesting , by the numerous illustra tions, consisting of paintings, dresses, weapons of war, and the chase, &c., besides living representatives of their chiefs, warriors, and medicine men; with war dances, songs, &c. The last and concluding lecture, was devoted to a full and graphic description of the strange and mysterious religious ceremonies of the interesting tribe of the Man dans, with an account of the heroic exploits and stoicism of some of their valiant chieftains; and the awful and sudden extinction of the tribe. These de scriptions:caused great excitement, particularly when the lecturer exhibited, with much feeling and emotion, the decorated sheath and war-knife of the chief of the tribe; who, in his dying moments, had requested that they might be sent to his friend-- the Great White Medicine," the • nams, by whiqh ' Mr. Catlin had been known among them ; and Vdilch, a+ter. having been sent from place to . place, ant ‘fioni hand, to hand, for many thousand miles„And across the(Altaiit.e, had at last been delivered to hir in England. • ' The curious and most interesting information imparted by Mr. Catlin to his audience, wee received with mingled emotions of surprise and satisfaction ; and when he an nounced that his extensive collection, which once occupied the Egyptian Hall, was shortly to be re•opeued. at the spacious /notes, No. 6, Waterloo place, with numerous additions from the Rocky Moun tains, he was greeted with unanimous shouts of ap plause. The lecture was not concluded until a late hour, which the audience, however, under the influence and excitement of the subject, seemed to overloelt; whilst their unwearied attention and unmixed approba tiJn must have been highly gratifying, to Mr. Catlin. - - REPRESENTATION OF GLAMORGANSBI&E• - The election for Glamorganshire is appointed to take place on the 25th instant. At present there is only one candidate, Sir G. Tyler, and no opposition is anticipated. MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY l7, 1851. LITERATURE. THE FIRST ANGEL. A Novel in Two Vo- hones Saunders and Otley. Whoever may have written this agreeable fiction his, in it, displayed abilities deserving of every en couragement. To pretend that the work is altogether unblemished by evidences of immaturity would be a mere affectation of compliment. Nevertheless, these very tokens of immaturity are the precise features which win for the effusion the reader's interest, and extort, however unwillingly, the reviewer's sym pathy. For they indicate rather clearly the absence of that skill in composition which is alone capable of acquisition by practice in authorcraft, that adroitness in style which, in many instances, practice degene rates into mannerism, but which, when that practice is accompanied by critical judgment, becomes ripened to the perfection visible in the masterpieces of our literature. Had we taken up one of the volumes hap hazard, and glanced through a single chapter; Ave should have recognized with facility the hand of a student-novelist, an adventurer upon the career of letters, an aspirant for those intellectual honours which in their highest manifestation crown the scho lar with bay-garlands in the capitol. Without as piring to compete thus literally with the fame of Petrarch, the writer of now-a-days, be he poet, or romancist, or playwright, or historian, aims at achieving for himself a success quite equivalent to that most illustrious of all coronations—the success of a wide and genuine popularity. Ambition has been called a " glorious fault," but an ambition like this, so peculiarly innocuous of its kind, can scarcely be regarded as a fault at all, partaking, on the contrary, as it does, rather of the character istics of a virtue. Whenever; therefore, we perceive any indication of hopes having this particular ten dency, our regard is enlisted at once iu the cause of the aspirant. When coupled with these yearnings for popularity we detect, through the unavoidable flaws and weaknesses of a first work, the ardent spirit and crude powers of a youthful imagination, that interest is in a manner redoubled. But when added to all this we find the tyro exercising his partially developed abilities for the inculcation of a pure and evangelic morality we instinctively turn towards him and his efforts that genial warmth of welcome which of all things is the best calculated to incite him to arouse his dormant energies. Such adolescence of intellect, such generosity of ambition, such depth and sweet ness of morality, we recognise in the author of the volumes before us, the half-grown but still blooming fruits of a mind capable, we conceive, of better and loftier achievements. " The First Angel," taken as a first work, is removed from the iron and inexorable grasp of ordinary criticism. It appeals to the gentler feelings of the reviewer, demanding at his hands for every merit the applause which leads to larger excellences, for every blemish the hint best tending to prevent the possibility of their recurrence. Fortunately not only for the writer of the story, but for ourselves in like manner, there are of these merits not a few in the course of the narrative. For tunately we say for ourselves, seeing that of all the tasks imposed upon us in our capacity as critics that of tomahawking a young and ambitious writer is the most uncongenial and repulsive. " To sit and laugh in Rabellais' easy chair," is delightful enough when the subjct of our annota tions happens to be some mature and callous book maker, whose sensibilities to ridicule have been blunted by frequent disappointments, and whose self esteem is defended, so to speak, by an epidermis as impenetrable as the scales of an armadillo, or the skin of a hippopotamus. With regard to a young writer, such as we believe the anonymous author of " The First Angel" to be, our sentiments are altogether dif ferent. In his instance we acknowledge at once that our principal anxiety is to discover, if possible —not blots, but beauties. We open the volumes vigilant for all that can extort our admiration. Respecting the novel at our elbow we may say that our solici tude in this particular has been not unfrequently gra tified. We have found the tale simple in purpose, and for the nonce sufficiently unaffected. What ap pears to us to be the principal merit of the production is the structure of its machinery. The plot is at once ingeniously complicated and naturally elucidated. Here the romancist has shown himself to our thinking to be especially successful. Shifting his scenes from Africa to Europe,, from a provincial village to the great metropolis, froth a dewy lawn at daybreak to a London ball-room in the height of the season, and at midnight—he has contrived to diversify , the interest, and to bring out in broad lights and sha dows the principal personages introduced, by sug gesting appropriate yet contrasting back-grounds. His dialogue, moreover, generally speaking is na tural enough, whether it be articulated in the heart of a desert, or in the bosom of a domestic circle. Se veral of the imaginary characters are especially good, as the creations of a beginner. The villain of the book, above them all, is entitled to commendation as a study from the Varney of Sir Bulwer Lytton. Like the profligate in " Lucretia," Roger Conway is an artist, but, unlike his extraordinary prototype, Conway repents before his dissolution. In his in stance, the heart's blood of the reader is not curdled with horror by a description of the earthly hell of Norfolk Island, where felons are transformed into devils incarnate by the hopeless prolongation of their sufferings. Seeing that the fiction opens with the betrothal of Helen and Harry Fernley, we are led to imagine for a while at its outset that those are its hero and heroine. A little progress in the narrative assures us to the contrary. We then discover the heroine in the person of a young girl named Anna Morville, the daughter of a refugee from the first French Revolution. Her father dying in the wilderness from inanition and fatigue, Anna is res cued from death by Harry Fernley, who has strayed from the army, in which, as a junior officer, he had proceeded to Egypt under Abercrombie. Upon a casket of jewels, containing a will, written in sympa thetic ink, the fortunes of the chief personages in the romance are dependent, and this casket is saved to ' Anna Morville by her rescuer from destruction. The hero of this story we have not yet mentioned ; and this is about the most elaborately drawn character in the volumes. His name is simple and plain enough in all conscience, being nothing more euphonious or un common than that of Smith. Morris Smith, before we have followed him long, contrives to secure to himself the chief portion of our sympathies. His happiness at the commencement of the tale has in it some thing terrible, from its serenity and completeness, and is contrasted horribly with his subsequent calamities. The rapid demise of poor Jenny, her twin sister Mary, and their gentle-hearted mother, invests the narrative with a strange and oppressive melancholy. After wards, however, the gloom is relieved by a return of joy to the hero, though this agai n i s di ss i pate d by th e sudden death of his long-loved and dearly-purchased bride. What appears to us the prominent blemish in the work is a certain over-colouring in the sentiment. Sometimes this is carried to such a length as to de generate into mere mawkishness. The badinage between Jenny and Morris, again, i s in the highest —brother and sister never coquetting in any such absurd manner in real degree unnatural and ridiculous ous for frivolity and silliness. Mr. Forland, likewise, a life, or only doing so, we should opine, is the veriest stick of a parson, when conspicu ttracting towards himself not one momentary feeling of interest. Con trastHulwer Lytton's novel in Bki him c w of the portraiture becomes painfully appreciable. hz, Notwithstanding, . o o i d t toe and M t hre inadequacy. Dale of however, this occasional weakness of portraiture, the production before us is adorned with many agreeable limnings of character. Anna Marville especially, the First Angel, so called from her casual appearance in childhood, is conceived [with a true and exquisite owrrowaincleY womanly, charm ap preciation of aesthetic beauty. Her temperament rises to the and not t oa l f s m r oieunrgteehl interest y o e u sf ta t n surrounding fantastic sr s tr h i oc o u w ind n de ian t l o igs m b h. e e rc g ne h et fortunes height of excitement, in particular at that portion of her history when she apparently becomes the victim of the licentious artist Roger Conway. Of the novelist's style of composition we can s p ea k in terms of ap proval, seeing that, although unmellowed maentc.apacity admitting s itt y in e g t erspicuous, i s for example, is His diction, ao le if y ra cs very e l ar t ly i w v a a t y i o sl n a r , e large ee i g t a n tde betrays av ne do p p at times ll' fe l l t l h fu a ll upon it in summer evenings, turning the e a v r e i n o h eloquent taincd similepi an Eng lish landscape—the writer describing the house tr r e e s g cl a u r e di n Hera,su set on westerly oa aspect, p f e l c e t s Fernley a t r h n a g sunbeamssituated windows into fiery beacons, and pouring rubies upon the large, eloping i t eY the as setting bein lawn in front when the dew began to fall." Subjoined is a specimen of the author's powers in didactic com position. His argument runs to the effect that the divine commandment " Thou shalt not bear false wit ness against thy neighbour," is more frequently broken than any other law of the Decalogue. He says:— " You are, perhaps, a Conservative in politics. You think that authority is the right of the few, an d obe dience the duty of the many. You have a reverence for kings, and u contempt for mobs; you see that change is dangerous. and public opinion fickle, and you sigh for .golden days that are departed. " Your neighbour is a ltdclical. He thinks there is no rightful authority save the will of the people. He dis chtinas obedience and turns up his lip at kings. Instead of the thnger of change, he can see nothinz but its be nefits. The pest is to him all misery and corruption, and all his hone is in the good time coming. " You dislike one another, and avoid one another. You think him a dangerous fellow; a friend to violence and commotion. 11 thinks you a selfish obstacle, a lover of tyranny and a toe to human improvement. "You convey these improvements to others while you act on them yourselves, and the truth meanwhile is pro bably this—that you are two very honest and very ill informed men; that you ((pally desire the good of your country and of the world, and that you diff...r chiefly became education, and taste, and circumstance, have led each of you to see only one side of a very difficult question. " You would soon learn this if you took any pains to do justice to one another, but you do nothing of the kind. You, the Conservative, read the Mot ning Post and the Quarterly; your neighbour, the Radical, reads the Daily News and the Westminster. You associate with Tories; he with Chartiste. You imbibe political wisdom at agricultural dinners; be at demonstrations for the ballot. That is to say, you both seek for infor mation just where you are sure to find your own opinions glorified, and your neighbour's mi , representrd. " Thu consequence is, that each of you knows Its little as possible about the real opinions of the other, and nothing at all of the grounds on which they have been formed. Yet you treat each other as if you knew them perfectly, and knew: that they were evil. " Can you say that in this mutual distrust and dispa ragement you are not bearing false witness against your neighbour? Or again; perhaps you are a Churchman in religion. You acknowledge the creeds and the catechism; you have faith in the efficacy of sacraments; you bow to the decision of councils, and respect the apostolical succes sion. You take much interest in the building of churches, and von reverence time•honoured ceremonies and autho rized forms. Your neighbour is a Dissenter. He accepts no creed but the Bible, and no interpretation of it but his own. He loves simplicity, is indifferent about architecture, and sees the dress of antichrist in a bishop's gown. He ex pects no heavenly graces from the services of another, and looks to obtain them only by the prayer and travail of his own soul. " You call him a schismatic, and he calls you a bigot. You are satisfied that his opinions are the result of a presumptuous will; he is sure that yours have sprung from the influence of a blind prejudice. You will not believe that any humble and devout mind could arrive at his conclusions; he is quite as certain that honesty and common sense are incompatible with yours. "If you could but know each other's spiritual history. If, with the searching eye of that God to whom yon both appeal, you could gaze openly upon each other's souls. how different might your judgment be! " You would see, perhaps in each the same thirst for truth—the same dread of error—the same consciousness of sin. You would find that, in both cases, belief had grown up out of many tears and prayers, many doubts and struggles,—through the discipline of life—by the bedside of death; with the same sense of God's presence and of man's eternal responsibilites." Among a variety of odd conceits scattered through the pages, the following may be taken as the one de scribed with possibly the most animation. Conway is depicting to Jenny the circumstances under which he painted the likeness of Helen for Harry Fernley. "It was about a year ago—a month or two before you left the South—l was in this neighbourhood for a short time, and was visited by a fine young follow, an officer in the army, who declined giving me his name, but told me he wanted a miniature likeness of a lady who refused to At for it. It was therefore to be done by stealth, at a concert to be given in the town next day. I have reason enough to remember it! The day was hot and the room was full. To screen me from observa tion, I was placed behind the kettle-drums. The dis tance was too great. I was competled to use an opera glass to see the features of the subject. The concert— alas! that I should call it so—had begun before the lady arrived. The little drummer in front of me rapped away as if he would crack the parchment; the mouth of a huge trombone was bellowing an inch or two above my ear,—most men would have thrown their pencils at the kettle-drums, and kicked the brass abomi nation through the window, under similar circumstances; they affected me indifferently, however. For a minute I was almost mad; my fingers shook with the heat and the noise. I drew a line that was as much like a grass hopper as Miss Farnley's nose, or any nose in the uni verse. Then a sudden frenzy of enthusiasm seised me; I shook my fist at the trombone, and defied all the drums of Islam to interrupt me— a grand chorus, in which every instrument joined with redoubled fury, seemed to be the acceptance of my challange. • Ha, ha !' shouted in the midst of it, and fell to work more fiercely than over. It was a splendid victory. The portrait was a masterpiece." Once, and once only to our recollection, does the novelist attempt anything like a humorous descrip tion. Here it is. He is speaking of summer in the metropolis. "It was morning in London —a fine, hot, dusty, sum mer's morning. The street a full of bright sunshine and dreadful smells; the walkers very dry in their throats, and very moist upon their faces; the shopmen unusually pale, and much given to sighing; the horses standing with lather on their necks, as if waiting to be shaved; or trotting hopelessly over the stones, with lolling tongues, whipping their own sides unsparingly with their dis contented taiis." Such are among the principal characteristics of "The First Angel "—a fiction which, with care and industry on the part of its author, may prove only the pre - cursor of many brilliant romances. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen and Prince Albert walked yesterday in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Al fred, the Princes; Royal, the Princses Alice, Helena, end L , aisa, took their usual walking exercise yesterday, and his Royal Highness Prince Arthur was taken a:i airing. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, their Royal Highnesses the Prince of \Vales and the Princess Royal, the Ladies and Gentlemen of the Court, and the do mestic household, attended Divine service yesterday, in the private chapel of Buckingham Palace. The Hon. and Rev. Gerald W ell esl ey officiated. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also attended the service. The Countess de Neuilly and the Duke and Duchess de Nemours visited her Majesty and Prince Albert at Bucking ham Palace on Saturday. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by the Countess de Neuilly and their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess de Nemours, went to the Exhibition for the Industry of ail Nations in Hyde Park, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel lion. Alexander Gordon. The illustrious party were conducted through the building, and afterwards returned to Buckingham Palace. The Countess de Neuilly and the Duke and Duchess de Nemours paid a visit to her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence House, St. James's, and in the afternoon returned to Claremont. The Queen and Prince Albert, acconpanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal and the Princess Alice visited and inspected the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's-park, on Saturday afternoon. The Equerries in Waiting, Lord Charles Fitzroy and Lieutenant- Colonel Hon. Alexander Gordon, were in xtendance on her Majesty and his Royal Highness. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoural the Princess's Theatre with their presence on Saturday evening. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Mount Edgcuinbe, Hon. Caroline Dawson, Lord Dutferin, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Alexander Gordon. The Queen's private band attended in Buckingham Palace on Friday evening, and performed the folloving pieces : Overture... Finale 2d Act " Zatiberflote" Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kentvisited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester on Saturday, at Glou cester House. A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Miniaers present were Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey, Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Francis Baring, Sir John Hobhouse. the Ea-1 of Carlisle, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Right Hon. Henry Labouchere, and the Right Hon. Fox Maule. The Council sat three hours. A deputation from the Royal Agricultural Society, con sisting of Mr. Shelley, Colonel Challoner, ani Mr. W. Brand reth Gibbs, had an interview with Lord Seymour, on Satur day, at the Office of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, in Whitehall-place. Dr. Bayford had an interview with Sir George Grey on Saturday, at the Home-office. The Transatlantic Packet Station Commissioners had a meeting on Saturday at the Board of Trade. Present—Earl Granville (chairman), Hon. William Covrper, M.P.; Sir James Gordon, K.C.8.; Si: John J. Burgoyne, K.C.8.; and Captain Stephenson Ellerby, Lord Hobart, Secretary to the Commission, was in attendance. Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland Re venue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, at his official residence in Dovning-street, on Saturday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Cauncil sat on Sa turday. Present—The Master of the Rolls, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Sir Edward Ryan. " Siordera Extension of Crawford's Patent (galvanisedi iron)," and "Austin's Ex tension of patent (raising sunken vessels),' were heard. The Duke of Wellington attended esrlv service at the Chapel Royal, St. James's, yesterday. The prayers were read by the Rev. Dr. Wesley, and the sermon preached by the Hon. and Rev. A. Phipps. The Marquis and Mar chioness of Normanby, and the Marquis oftialisburyattended the daily service. TO Till SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On Wednesday the 12th, the debate was re sumed ou the question of bringing in the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, and adjourned at Six of the clock. On Thursday the debate was renewed on the " Dis tress of the Owners and Occupiers of Land." Sir James Graham made what, without borrowing from the hackneyed epithets used in the press till they become in significant, may be called a crushing speeeh. He did the work which the Leaguers ought to do and don's. He earnestly pointed out the fact ot a coming storm, not the less dangerous because preceded by a deceitful calm. He urged the palpable certainty, that the veritable meaning of the proposed motion was, to defer the effort to restore Protection till the dissolution of Parliament, and in the mean time to be laying the foundations fir the sum as of that effort. He recited the strong reasoes for hopiiig that such an effort might not succeed ; at d did the work the League or Leaguers ought to have been doisig every day and every hour, of clearing and enforcing the interest the powerful and the numerous classes had in opposing its success. No instance, has been seen, of such an exemplification of the ancient fable of the Tortoise and the Hare, as has been given the commercial and manufacturing interests in Parliament. No system of answering the stream of fal lacies perpetually poured out from the Protectionist benches. No advantage taken ot the opportunity held out in tl:ie House of Commons, of discrediting the ope rations eif the adversary, by exploding every one on its first appearance. It might almost be supposed that the object seas to get up another contest, for the sake of the results sit another victory. Those that might, will not; and those that would, may not. The iivision, which was only carried against tho Pro tectioni ats by 281 against 267, shows on how narrow a base the safety of the community is allowed to rest. I adhere to an expression in a letter to you a few days ago, tlett the word of the Minister is all that stands be ' tween t leo commercial interest and defeat. Should any circumstance, a nervous headache or a sleepless night, induce the Minister to waver, or drop an unadvised and perhaps; misinterpreted phrase, the enemy would be upon us and at our heels. On the night of the division, it was not at tail certain that the Government was not de feated, tend there were even sinister whispers to that effect 'passed round the lobby. If it had been so, a!tere would have been a dissolution of Parliament, and Hurrah fir the restoration of the Corn-laws. There are those will shake their heads, and ' say " What then?" But this is not the way men reason and act. in the ordinary concerns of life. No man says, " Let in the housebreaker or the plunderer, for then ever ybodyin the hous e , and he there will be a rally of will ho driven out again." Men keep him out when ho is out. They take measures for breakin g u p hi s h aunts , and his sources of strength and encour agemen t. Th e y try the chances of amendment in himself, and they throw before Thim the temptations of an honest industry, in the hope of tempting him iuto the cosier way. The last thing t'aey will think of is to invite him, in order that they may drive him back again. The majority of the GcVerIIMOLIt is not virtually smal ler thais on the last occasion, but the contrary. That is stated to have been 21; and calling the difference 8, more th,an half that number of Irish Members may be considared as having avowedly voted against the Govern ment through pique at the interference 'pith the Pope's movements, and a number more, English, Irish, and Scotch. voted through confidence in the verbal arrange went of the motion, which may be allowed to kave been sufficiesit to deceive even the elect. There are always a number: of Members, who as if in emulation of that happy disposii ion in a horse which is described as looking for something to " shy" at, appear to be on the look-out for anything which will present to them the opportu nity foe being deceived. On li'riday the debate on the Ecclesiastical Titles As sumptisin was brought to a division, which will tell at Rome :ioth on the powers military and clerical there establie tied. A majority of 395 against 63 is some thing like a " great fact," and may be set off against useuy assurances that the mass ot the English people wanted, either the Pontiff or his Gallic body-guard to help them to manage their affairs. The thing, though troubletsome, will not be without its good. It will have shown the dispositions, and the capacity, of actors of aarioue denominations, and will be a sort of guide for confidetace iu periods to come. I am, Sir, your obedient servant. AN OLD REFORMER. London, 17 Feb., 1851. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Intelligence from China reports the death, at Hong-Kong, of Commander J. M. R. Ince (IM6), of the Pilot, 12. Com mander Ince was appointed to this ship November, 1849, on the promotion of Captain Lyons. This is the third comman der's vacancy that has fallen to the patronage of the Admi ral since his appointment. Commander Thomas Coakley (1340), on the retired list, died on the Bth instant, aged 73. He entered the navy Ja nuary, 1798 ; was at the capture of Le Mentor, 14, privateer ; was acting Lieutenant of the '1 emeraire in the battle of Trafalgar ; and was in Lord Gambier's operations against Co penhagen, 1807, and at the reduction of St. Paul's, Isle de Courbon. Commander Soady (1822), lately retired from the service of the Ordnance department, died last week in the 64th year of his age. He entered the navy September, 1800, and served afloat 19 years during the war. He was in Sir R. Calder's action, was made a lieutenant in 1807, served in the defence of Rosas and Cadiz, and was in the North American expedi tions. His last gallant service was at the battle of Algiers, in the Nymphe, in which action, when the Captain and se nior Lieutenant had been placed hors de combat, he com manded the ship; notwithstanding, he was not promoted until 1822. He held the appointment of Superintendent of Shipping belonging to the Ordnance Department, from July, 1830. APPOINTMENTS. Mr. J. G. Messum is announced as clerk in charge to the Banshee, steam-packet. This officer was said to have been promoted a few weeks since. Second Masters—Thomas C. Cave to the Bonetta; T. D. Browne to the Banshee. Clerks—Thomas S. Vinall, in charge, to the Bonetta; Alexander Allen to the Apollo ; Charles Fisher to the Fisgard. Midshipmen—N. D. F. Lillingston and W. M. Wright to the Bonetta. Masters Assistants —George A. F. Day and John E. Chapple to the Bonetta ; R. G. Pashley and F. H. Buist to the Banshee. Captain Sir E. Home and his little band of sufferers are progressing favourably. Sir E. Home has a core formed in the wound in the head, which is expected to work out in a day or two. He will then leave the hospital, as the wound will be reduced considerably. He now expects to join his ship the beginning of the week. Commodore Lambert, in the Fox, 42, left the Cape, Dec. 15, for Trincomalee, all well. Assistant Surgeons M'Mahon and Sole, of the Dee, steam tender, and Arab, 12, exchanged ships at the Cape. Arab, Commander Morris, sailed on Saturday evening for Chatham, to pay off. She landed her invalids that she brought home at Hasler, and took round some supernume raries that the Pike brought up from Plymouth for the Cum berland, 70. Echo steam-tug, took off to Spithead and put on board the Cornwall about 80 convicts from the hulks at Portsmouth, for conveyance to Gibraltar. PonTestourx, SUNDAY.—The Birkenhead, iron steam troop-frigate, Master-Commander R. Salmond, completed provisioning yesterday for ten weeks for 800 troops, whieh she expects to embark this week for Gibraltar. She will be swung on Monday to ascertain the deviation of her cont passes. She will he ready for sea on Wednesday. Captain Yates, of the Britannia, 120, has been granted six weeks further sick leave. He continues very ill. The Seaflower, cutter, Lieutenant-Commander Fletcher, sailed yesterday to resume her station off Jersey in protect ing the fisheries The Pike steam-vessel camel t Friday night from Devonport with supernumeraries r the Cumberland at Chatham. These were transhipped to the Arab, about to sail for the latter port, and the Pike came into harbour to obtain new boilers. The Kingfisher, 12, Commander Harvey, has arrived at Ascension, on her way home from the coast of Africa. The Admiralty have appointed Mr. Macdonald, late master of her Majesty's yacht Victoria and Albert, and now master-attendant of Woolwich Dockyard, to be one of the officers to be consulted by the Privy Council "on all mat ters relating to navigation, questions of collisions at sea, salvage, &c." Fxu. 16.—The Resistance, 10, troop-ship, Master• Commander Bradshaw, left Woolwich this morning for Cork, and was towed down the river by the Monkey and Jasper steam-vessels. The Resistance is to convey the service companies of the 68th Foot (the Durham Light In fantry), under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel R. W. Huey, from Cork to Malta, after six years and upward* of service on home stations. The Birkenhead troop-ship, Master-Commander Aylen, when ready at Portsmouth, is to proceed to Cork to embark the service companies of the 55th Foot, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel C. Warren, C. 8., for conveyance to Gibraltar. _ _ The Vulcan steam-frigate, Master-Commander John Penn, when ready for sea at Sheerness will proceed to Cork to embark the service companies of the 74th Highlanders, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel J. Fordyce, for conveyance to Gibraltar, where they are to be stationed. The Apollo troop-ship, Commander James Rawstorne, when ready at Sheerness, is to proceed to Cork to embark the service companies of the 92d Highlanders, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel M. K. Athsrly, for Corfu, where they are to he stationed. Commander Edward Dixon (1841), having finished a course of study of steam at the Woolwich Dockyard, wasex amined by Mr. Humphreys, chief engineer, as to his profi ciency on Thursday last, and, having passed, received his certificate accordingly. A BARN or GLASS.—We understand that Mr. N. Tuckett intends to cover a large barn, 110 feet long, and 28 feet wide, on his farm at Heavitree, with a glass rcof, after the model of the Palace of Glass. The expense will not be above two •thirds of the cost of slate, and he anticipates several advantages from the novel roof; among others, it may be applied to the drying corn during a catching har vest. The corn can be placed in the barn immediately upon being reaped, where it will have the benefit of the sun when it shines, be protected from the showers, and also dried by artificial heat, if required, and then stacked in ricks under a covered stackyard. This will enable the land to be imme diately ploughed up, and sowed with turnips or rape, which will prepare the land for another cereal crop the following year, so that he anticipates three crops in two years.— Tfres tern Times. ffi l) c e i s f p o a r t c t h h e e s G w o e v r e e rn s o e r n s t o o f f tt o te n w Ss es tu t r l d n a a v frialosmlant,dhse. Colonial- Lordship's letter, dated-.-_ —.- ---- -.--- .. rADVIERTISE3IENT.]—THI4 EARL OF A.LDBOROUGH AND HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—An astoun ding cure by this miraculous "Villa Messina'Leg Professor Holloway—Sir :I beghorn , Feb. 21 ,1. medicine, arter every other means had failed. See extract from 845 his w a c q uaintyou that your pills have et focted a cure of a disorder in my liver a nd stomach which all the most eminent of the faculty, at home and all over nes t e lie w co on n da tlnerfent,pilhlads willnot been able to effect ; nay, not even the waters of Carlsbad or Ma rienbad. (Signed) ~ A gam anydisease of the liver o r stomach.—Sold (also 110110 Way's Ointment) at Professor Holloway 's Establishment, 244. Strand and by all medicine vendors throughout the civilised world. SUPPOSED NEWS OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. An extra, published by the Colombo Observer, con tains, tinder date Singapore, Jan. 6, the following:— News from the utmost ends of the earth are always ac• ceptablo, more especially when the subject-matter is the relief of the distressed, who have risked and it may be feared lost their lives in a search after knowledge. I have it in my power this month to give you later information of the search which is being prosecuted for the recovery of Sir J. Franflin and his party than even the Admiralty itself is yet polisessed of. Her Majesty's surveying ship Herald arrived here from the Arctic regions, rid the Sandwich Islands and Hong-Kong, during the last week, and she has the lates t accounts from the far north. Near the extreme station of the Russian fur company they learned from the natives that a party of white men had been encamped 300 or 400 miles inland, that the Russians had made an attempt to supply them with provisions and necessaries, but that the natives,, who are at enmity with the Russians, had frustrated all attempts. No communication could be opened with the spot where they were said to be, as a hostile tribe intervened. From the Esquimauas they had this vague story very _satis factorily confirmed, with the addition that the whites murdered. natives having quarrelled, the former had been As to the possibility of these unfortunates being 5 - r have paid John Franklim's party I leave you and your readerdwz 0 . Whether attentian to the case in all its bearings t. O !fahlA,,, company, little men spoken of were or were not Sw irl ° alive, a; little hopes can now be entertained of e year, and their find on g them their provisions must have been expendedv all been burned out fuel, which is as necessary , must hav e nearly two years lON BY A TAX COLLECTOR. EXTENSIVE DEF ALCAT lON Mr. Stone , an old inhabitant of the parish of —On Saturday and who held the situation for some St. Mary's, Newing ton , . of the_ property-tax in that parish, was years as collector taken at his earridence, Park-street, Camden town, by Ser geantl P, and safely lodged at Horsemonger- Q l ane gaoul,inolnLa warrant issued by the Commissioners of In • co m e and Property - t ax, an d charging him with being a de faulter of the money collected by him to the amount o f 100/. It a ppears that a di scovery o f t h e defalcation had been made nearly twelve months ago, and at that time Mr. Stone absconded. A warrant for his apprehension had been issued at that time by the Commissioners at Somerset House, and it was placed in the hands of the parish con stable for execution. For some cause or other, however, it had never been put in force, and the Commissioners, from in formation which had reached them, issued another warrant which they forwarded to Mr. Robinson, the superintendent of police of that district, and that gentleman at once placed it in the hands of one of his sergeants, Quinnear. This active and indefatig able o ffi cer lost very littl e ti me i n putting it into force, an soon captured his man. In this, as in many instances of a similar description, the sureties of Mr. Stone a are unable to pay a single shilli ng o f th e defalcations, an d the consequence has been that th e unfortunate ra te-pay ers have been compelled by a re-assessment to make up every farthing of the 1,5001. THE COUNT LIVERPOOL, FEB. B.—No demand inactive. s. d. s. d Wheat, per 70lb r.ngl:sh, white 5 6 t 6 01 Do. red .. 5 4 -- 5 7 Irish, best red z . 5 0— 5 3 Do, lower quality 5 0 5 2 1 3lanx, red and wh. 5 4 Dantsic, highmixed G 8 0 Do., miicd •• 6 0 6 3 Rostock, &c . • 6 2 6 4 Harnburgh and Lower Baltic .. 5 6 5 91 American SD pwhite 5 9 6 41 Canadian, trod 5 4—5 10 Antwerp &Louvain 5 6 5 Si French, red.._.,.. 5 4 5 61 Hungarian and Mariaropoli .. 5 6 5 9 ; Odzsaa, Polish •• 5 5 5 6 Do., common .. 5 0 5 4 Egyptian .. .. 3 9 4 2i Flour, English & Irish, per 28016 29 0 30 01 Do., extra fine 31 0 02 01 United States, per barrel . 20 0 23 0 Canadian • • .• 21 0 22 0 Indian corn, per ...„ _ tY MARKETS. Lange whatever to-day, and the d. F. d. Do. Meal, perl96lb 15 0 to 16 0 !Barley, English, pr i imperial quarter 26 0 28 0 Irish, Scotch, and 2 .lanx,per 601 b.. 3 4 3 6 Foreign, grinding 3 2 3 4 Rye, per 601 b .. 3 3 3 2 Beans, English, pr imperial quartr 29 0 30 0 Irish and Scotch, Per 4801 b— • . 25 0— 27 0 Dutch .. •• 26 o—2B 0 Egyptian .. .. 22 6 23 6 Peas, English, per imperial quartr 30 0— 32 0 Foreign .. 27 0 —3l 9 Oats, per 451 b Scotch, and Welsh. old Irish, n. - • t est mewling .. • • 2 61— 2 7 Do., feeding 2 5 2 6 Do., foreign • • 2 6 -- 2 8 Oatmeal, English, 2 9 - 2 10 &Seotch,pr24olh 23 0 24 0 Irish, new .. 21 0 21 6 Do., old . .. 2J 0— 21 0 4501 b, white 29 t; 32 0 MANCHESTER, FEB. 15.—Nothing has yet occurred to re lieve the trade from the monotonous inactivity which has been so long experienced ; the transactions during the present week have consequently been on the same restricted scale as pre viously noted, any change in prices which may nave taken place being in favour of buyers. From Ireland and our own coast the arrivals into Liverpool are only scanty, whilst the imports from abroad consist of a moderate quantity of wheat and beans, with a liberal supply of four, the latter article being chiefly from France. At our market this morning wheat re ceded in val ue Id t o 2d per 7 0 1 b. F or four the demand was extremely limited, and in the few sales effected some conces sion in prices was necessary. Oats and oatmeal moved off very slowly, and must again be noted the turn cheaper. NOTTINGHAM, FEB. 15. —We had a small attendance of farmers at market to-day, and fine samples of wheat were scarce ; such maintained their prices, but secondary and out-of conditioned were very unsaleable. The barley trade was very flat, with but little business doing ; we do not alter our quota tions. In oats and beans no alteration. WORCESTER, Fes. 15.—The highest general price of wheat must be quoted at 16a per bag , but 14 s 6d to 1 5s i s nearer the mark for average samples of English -grown. Making barley from 3s to 3s lid per bushel, and distilling about 2s 9d per bushel. English beans 4s to 4s 4d per bushel, and foreign from 38 6d to 3s Bd. Old English oats 3s 2d to 3s 3d per 393), and new 3s to 3s 2d. Irish 2s Gd to 2s 841. Spring vetches 4s to 4s 2d per bushel, and winter sold at 4s Gd to 4s 10d. White peas averaged 4s, and gray 3s 8d per bushel. At Stourbridge on Friday there was a fair demand, and all kinds of grain maintained last week's quotations, except a few damp samples of wheat, which could only be disposed of at 1s per quarter less money. Average priee of barley 26s 3d per quarter. At Wolverhampton the supply of wheat from the farmers was not large, but the millers were careless buyers, th oug h farmers would not submit to a reduction in prices; in a few instances 65 per quarter reduction was made. Fine dry samples of English wheat sold at last week's rates—red being worth 14s 6el to 15s 6d, and white 15s 6d to 16s per bag of 9 score 101 b. Malting barley in less supply, and sold freely at 24s per quarter. Beans moved off slowly at 111 6d to 12. for old, and les 6d for new English. In oats little doing at IBs to 20s per 3121 b. The price of the 41b loaf (brown bread) in this neighbourhood is 4id. _ _ gALKEITE, FEB. 13.—The relative weight per four bushels of the three prices of wheat were I 88491 b, I7st 81b, and 16st 121 b. Oats, 13st 01b, I lat 131 b, and lOst 61b. Barley, 16st 6113, 16st Ilb, and 14st 121 b. Peas and beans, 19st 31b, 18st 611), end 16st 4lbs. Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior. 488 Wheat Z2 2 0 £1 15 0 xi ---- sii 1224 Oats 485 Barley 1 6 0 1 3 6 0 18 0 51 Peas and Beans 1 9 6 1 8 0 1 4 0 Average of wheat __. . .., ABERDEEN, FEB . . 14.—Grain—Oats (old), - Os Od to Os Od; 401bs per bushel; oats (new), 15s tid to 16s Od, 401bs per bushel; barley, 20s 6d to 21s, 521bs per bushel ; bear, 19s Od to 20s Od, 521bs per bushel; wheat 40sto 005; oatmeal, 12s 6d to 133 6d per boll; flour, 31s to 32s per sack. Provisions—Beef, 4d to 6d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 4d to 6d; ♦eal, ditto, 4d to 6d ; pork, per stone, 3s to 3s 6d; lamb, per lb, 4d to fid; tallow, per atone, 34 6d to 4s ; potatoes, per peck, 6d to 7d; hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each, Od to 8d; hares, each, Is t;d to 2s ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, Bcl to 10a ; eggs, per doz, Scl to lld ; cheese, per cwt, 18s to 23s Od ; hens, per pair, 2s 6d to 3s; chickens, ditto, 2s Od to 2s 6cl; ducks, ditto, Is 6d to 2s Od ; ducklings, ditto, Os Od to Os; turkeys, ditto, es Od to 9s Od; geese, ditto, 6s Od to 7s; butter for exportation (present cure), per cwt, Os to 64s ; eggs, wholesale price, per dozen, 6d to bid ; 41b loaf, cash, 5d ; credit, 6d ; pork, per stone of 141bs, to 3s 6d; pork fine, small, 5s 6d to Os Od ; pork large, 31 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of •204 lbs, Os to Os. Meal—Oatmeal, Is 4d to Os Od; barley dust, 7d to 8d; peasemeal, Is 8d to Is 10d; aids, 6d to Od ; beremeal, is 2d to•ls 3d; flour, is 8d to 2s Od; barley, per lb, Id to 2d; barley flour, Is 4d to is bd. GLASGOW CATTLE MARXET, FEE. 13.—The numbers at our cattle market te-day were—Oxen, 800; sheep, 1,497. The large supply of cattle caused sales to be rather slowly ef fected. Best ox beef sold at 45s to 465, current from 42s to 445, inferior from 30s to 36s per cwt, sinking the offal. The sheep market was well supplied, but no alteration in the prices of last week. Best wethers brought 6d per lb, current from 5d to sd, inferior from 4d to 4i per do, sinking the offal. A few of both oxen and sheep wined out unsold. Prime fed calves in demand. Pigs dull at from 28s to 36s per cwt. DUBLIN, FEB. 14.—We had an extremely dull market today for every description of grain, but we do not alter our quotations of Tuesday. White wheat, 21s 0.1 to 24s 6d ; red ditto, 19s Od to 22s 6d ; barley, 12s 6d to 14s 6d ; oats, Ss 9d to 10s 3d ; rapeseed, ISt Od to 208 Od per barrel; oatmeal, lOs 6d to lls 6d; second flour, per cwt, 12s 6d to 15s Od ; Indian corn, per 4801 b, 29s to 335. CORK, Fia. 14. The trade during the week has been quiet, and the business passing of moderate extent, Indian corn, stocks of which are small, being the only article in which anything like activity manifests itself. The supplies of home grain are rery limited, the receipts for the week being only:—Wheat, 152 brls, at 16s 9d to 20s per brl ; barley, 943 brls, at 8s to 12s per brl; oats, 3,857 brls, at 7s 6d to 9s Sd per brl. Wheat is un changed in value, but oats and barley manifest a downward tendency. The business tieing in prepared and foreign wheat is very moderate in extent, and restricted to the supply of the immediate wants of the trade. Egyptian, however, owing to the demand for coarse flour, has sold pretty freely at about 17s per brl. In barley we have no transactions of moment to re cord. Oats are very dull, and it is almost impossible to effect free on board sales of the article. Prices are nominally the same as last quoted. The flour trade continues in the same state as last noted. Coarse qualities are scarce, and continue in good demand, but the business passing in the finer descrip tions is restricted and dull. The stocks of Indian corn are light, and this, coupled with the fact that a steady consump tion demand exists for the article, has led holders to look for au advance of 5s to 7s 6d per ton. We quote the value of the article 7110 s to 71. 15s per ton. Barrels. Currency. 0 White wheat oos Od to 00s Od 00s Od-20 stone 18 Red wheat 17. 6d to ISs 9d octs Od-20 do 8 Barley II s Od to 00s Od COs Od-16 do 0 Bere 67 Oats 73 Pigs °Bs Od to 31s 6d 28s Od per cwt Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:- 0 barrels white wheat; 3 red;? 0 barley ; 0 here; 5 oats; •.; pigs. Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week:_ Wheat, 205. Barley, 981. Oats, 4,696. Pigs, 619. PRICES OF BUTTER. CANT. CURRENCY. nest quality . ........ ...... 905 First quality ... Bl. Second quality Third quality Fourth quality Fifth quality Sixth quality Return of Cattle sold for the week ending Feb. 8 : Pigs, 1,319. Sheep, 344 .og Cows, 116. Cons.—Flour—First 11 s 6d to 12s 6d ; extra las Od ; seconds, 10s 6d to 11 s 6d; households 96 to 10s Od; thirds, 7s to 9a per cwt. Oatmeal 10s 6d to 00s; Indian meal 76 3d to 7s 6d; wheat meal, 106 to 106 6d per cwt. Indian corn 71 55 Od to 7110 s per ton. Bran 90sto 9580 d per ton. Hay—Farmers 25s to 445; average 38s ; dealers 40s to 6080 d; average 48s per ton. Straw—Farmers 226 Od to 34s Od; average 286; dealers 35. Od to 00s Od; average 006 Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf bid to 6d ; household loaf 4id to 5d per 41b. Fresh butter, 10d to 12d per lb. Eggs-4s 10d to 56 Od per hundred. Coals— Newport 16s Od ; Lydney 17. ; Landore 14. ; Neath 13s 6d per ton. Tallow 376 Od to 38. per cwt. Whisky, 25 o. p., 56 9d per imperial gallon. Meat —Beef 41d to 60; mutton 5d to 7d ; veal 4d to 5d ; pork 4d to Od; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 5d per lb. Hops 6110 s to 010 s per cwt. Bangor slates 3/26 tid to 315 s per ton. Bark—Barbary 71 0 a to 8/0s; Valonia 15/ to 01; French 610 s ; Spanish 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 14s to 156 per stone. Hemp 321 to 34/ per ton. Fish—Scotch herrings 211 to 006; red ditto, 24s to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundland, 10 1 to 111 105 per ton. Timber—Memel, 80. per ton; red pine, 31 10s; yellow ditto, 2/ 15s per ton; deals, 12s to 15s per 100. Hide . . - ' Market 22 5 to 32.; salted 23s to 32 s p e r owt ; calf sk ins 3 , 4 d to 3id per lb. Potatoes, white 71d to 10d . ,; 10d to 12d. Guano— Peruvian, 11/ 10s; tchabc'e , W 91 - per ton. Tar—Archangel, 191 per barrel. ------,-, ROYAL ARTILLBRY.--LTENRRA L ORDEE.—" De . c b Feb. 13, 1851. . erc i, has directed the accom panying Lordship, the Master-I go. puty Adjutant's-General's-office , Wool y " . ' Foreign- office. dated 24th January panying order from regulationstheForro. respecting foreign medals, to be last, containing promulgated ed) H. D. Ross, Deputy Ad pleased to direct that —I. Application Regiment of Artill!r.e 7, R e gulations respecting foreign medals. for the iifr,m,.a_tion_ and guidance of the R o y a l jutant-General. to accept and wear medals which, b • , not being for permission of any foreign order, are conferred by a foreign the decoration . The Queen tish subjects, in the army or the army, for vereign on B r it . so or for naval services, should be addressed, as the has"been militaryay be, to the Commander-in-Chief, the Master-Ge neral of the rdnance, or the Lords of the Admiralty , if neral they see fit, may submit the same to her Majesty's Principal secretary of State for Foreign Affairs for her Majesty's sanc tion, upon obtaining which they may grant such permission without any other formality. 2. Permission to wear a foreign medal cannot be granted to a British subject, unless such medal is bestowed for military or naval services, but no permission is necessary for accepting a foreign medal, if such medal is not to be worn.—PALMERsToN." DARING ROBBERY. —About one o'clock on Friday a man of respectable appearance entered the counting-house of Mr. Parry's coal-wharf, Harrow-road, adjoining the canal, and requested the clerk to let him look at a cargo of c oals : then lying in a b arge i n t h e w h ar f. The clerk com theea and accompanied him t o th e ves s e l. Directly h e le ft the return office, a neighbour saw two men enter it; upon ur .__ ,_,_ of the clerk to the counting-house he found that two t , l ags, Mguu absence his desk had been broken open, and had been stolen con taining upwards of 601. in g old and silver,it thft was given at therefrom. Immediate information o le t b Heseltine and other the Paddington station, and cuusta promptly went in quest of vigilant officers of the D diiticociluiate description given to the °treaders, who, from the d appearance, cannot, it the officers of their dress a personal detection. is presumed, long escape THE CONVICTS, Ma . AN DN7 MRS. SLOA nz. The un h a ppy convicts re main ... for the present in ewgate. We probability that the term of their im understand there is a i in this t w ill be un d erg one gaol, but nothing posi tiveprisoninen- " d until the meeting of will be determ ined ___ the visiting ma gistrates this day . (Monday). We are enabled to state, in question which has been frequen tly asked, that answer to a while the ma le prisoner, undergoing imprisonment, will not beallowed to follow his profession in any way, but, on the contrary, will be subjected to the discipline in force at the gaol within which he may be c on fi ne d .— S un d ay P aper. PROLIFIC COW. —A cow in the possession of Mr. Richard Hill, of this town, has produced the extraordinary number of fifteen calves—thirteen heifers and two bulls. She calved two heifers on Wednesday last, making six heifers within the last three years.—Leeds Mercuri.