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

A-14. OVERLAND MAI L INDIA AND CHINA. a a have received by express taom Msr.eilles our letter Ih iab li end papers in anticipetion ot the mail which left follow:Y on the 17th ult. Our corre6pendent writes as 14 e4r. In / e d. "IY anything of public interest has occurred ew la sin ce t h e dispatch of the last mail. Th e int-r -ata between Ghoolab Singh and the Governor-Ger.er.il o ....,!elebr ate d with great splendour on the 26th of De eiznuer and succeeding days. An account of the inter still e of courtesies which took place on the occasion on hiss found below. The Maharaja left Vizierabad, the .rn to Jummoo on the 29 . h, but at the date of latch a ' t i ned t. _ counts the doaernor-General a wes still de iere by heavy raiu, which appears to have been bed 1 0 _' tnrau shout the Northern Punjaub. Ghoolab Singh v . , it 50 of his followers from intense cold in ssa -4lng the raises betwe , n Jummoo and C ,shmere. A 41 arked • the troop; lla Provement has taken place is the health of e e In the Punjaub. tiotilr the Napier arrived at Sukkur on the 3d of with . r 3% and left the f.llowing day after an interview tyd whe;e3 daily expected of lihypore, Ali Moorad. He was at lad • ravad on the 7th, reached Kurrachee on the 12th, at Bombay. He has been every gel e e nthusiastieally received. At Hyderabad the t o d ec h k ee chiefs assembled from all parts of the province u ira honour. He was similarly received at Kure b 7 th e n' and parting entertainment is to be given to him ../"Zolornunity of Bombay. th e 4 , ll „ l3e ngal a commission has been appointed to make tits ) a w e t complete investigation into the whole organize : - dep e ;: t he Commi ssar i at . The alleged frauds in this ferl —lne nts and the claims constantly male against it good ri gs unadjusted balances, have lately occasioned a er e ci L e al of comment. s ear "e Act for taking land for railways in Bengal has • th oo e° ,l yet come into effective operation, some doubts, at 41 a pparently without sufficient reason, having been chile en tertained regarding its sufficiency. Mean t° th: a ior Kennedy, the consulting railway engineer Und er a if, e llgal Government, has three lines of railways 4 ,1 . , consideration—the first, through Pandoosh nrclw an, direct ta Mirzapore; the second through the "ah to Burdwan, and then to Rajamahal; and hir cl throughand Pandooahthe coal districts to i Taattl. 4 ; ' 4 American, named Booth, was found murdered in ss bed at rie er a s -- the Calcutta Ice-house on the 3d of January; thiltieSdpeiiribitereivt 41 e l, s ` me was committed by four American seamen, who Ne t t been Since aprehended. The reckless and bucca tieniced by the culprits was most character- We s at tir sole object in committing the crime (which y planned beforehand) was plunder; and fie Ikede' openly of it in the sailors' taverns they tlLien t W eed s which it appears they were in the habit of thei Inad g with pi s tol s a nd bowie knives concealed under d ress. le " T he ultimatum o f the Supreme Government regard togth .. a Altanes a ff a i rs i s a nxiously expect« d, but has gir t ': Yet transpired. It will of course involve an a.- the F ee t of territory, either temporary or perpetual, for Ouidation of the existing debt, and a further lien tt5 2 . 4 ," of security for the future payment of the con siCrt, to guard against arrears. Meaosshile, the neces d Y i or „ the int e rt erence o f the Supreme G ove r n ment is to 41"econaing more imperatively essential, not merely 440! Wellbeing 'of the countr>, but even to the very Sou s 7 a lle e of the Ntzam's Gov• rnment, the financial re ete s iZ i e of which are daily dimini•hiuss through the sue. Pos e '" ° Pposition of refractory Talookdars; he of Elich kteeot Content with de f eat i ng hi s master 'e troops, has till Oi l the offensive, and seised forcibly four or five %Res not belonging to the El•chpore Taloolta, and so disP r ehensive i s b e o f present molestation that he has ataleaded about 1.500 Rohillas he had taken into ray, th e wh ° are now diapers. d into parties and plundering , a d ; bet a aluent country atter the fashion of the Pindarees ; fo ki l i a Newsb of Ellchpiire is nat likely to enjoy his Valley acquired possession much longer, fir the trice' of Berar (which is the freest colt 'n dis poni" ' ll India) has been 1 , ng known to be that bte e -nn ,of the Nisam's country which the British ae lected for themselves; and this suspicion is by 4 ,, that in the minds of the native community - lf ti t "e fact the Nizam has lately ordered the ea er dar who has charge of the Elichpore revenue ac klikle to submit a statement of them to him. The h ad is riot likely to offer any opposition to the sur .• to ( L e l' e province from which he is himself unable fei ta '"ve any be n efit, and the present occupier has for thd 411 claim to consideration by loosing his Rohillas 44 e country. tho '" e rd Grosvenor has arrived at Calcutta, and is viti:it to proceed on a visit to Nepanl and the upper pro- Vai t l• At Bombay the cholera is much abated, and its is h ,"aa given an impulse to the progress of sanitary 4 1"°/eMent, which is likely to be permanently hene eisi. 1 ,, the „„ n a Bombay Railway is proceeding satisfactorily; it —rit rant for the earth-work has been oaken by Favel an d 0. F o wler, at the rate of 3,0001. per enie, at W hich is about 20 per cent. below the engineer's th,Tei including the permanent way. The cost of trai v, ill e , exclusi ve o f s t a ti o n s , will be about 7,0001. per Gl* A Prospectus for a railway from the head of the of Cambay to Baroda has been published and the bear; are now submitted to Mr. Berkley and Mr. Cony -14,4 (the present and late engineers to the Bombay aY) for their report. Iltr t aa. BETWEE ' THE GOVERNOR-GENERAL It a AND GHOOLAB SINGH. h,PPears that Ghoolab Singh reached Vizierabad on the 114 -, atte n d e d b y b e t ween 2,000 and 3,000 of his troops. eeeaaiterview, fixed for the 24th, was put off for two days on th e e pt of the ill health of the Marquis of Dalhousie. On t i'ternoon of the 26th a deputation of officers, consisting Ros e Brigadier commanding the station, accompanied by his % h a , th e Commissioner of Lahore, and the Governor etacsetal's secretaries, proceeded to meet the Maharaja, and Itia l eted him through a street a mile long, composed of the a IltiZ a of the troops in camp. Ghoolab Singh was received 11 1 4 , distance from the Durbar tent by Sir Henry Lawrer.cs pa ah A lajor Burn, and welcomed, on alighting from his ele thent' by Sir Henry Elliot, secretary to Government, with hev" rov ernor.General. On arriving at the door of the Dur wb te nt his Hi g h ness was met by the Marquis of Dalhousie, 1i 5 , ( , ) ,1 a fter going through the impressive ceremony of shaking l te - aa as cond ucte d his illustr i ous guest to a seat on the right of d 4 .. 0 f his own. Th e G overnor -G en e r al was in the costume di Monster o f St ate , w hile the ruler of Cashmere was ra hub! il l a green and golden dress, set off by a many-coloured °- The presents on both sides we , e then brought to light' and some people have been ill-natured enough to say Yet t although on our side they were to an immense amount , th e ,"e Were not losers by the exchange. Ghoolab Singh lllfor returned to his camp, under a salute of 19 guns, Our a 'pant has n e t en lightened us as to what passed between re o Pest folk s; b ut i t i s sup p ose d th a t a ll the changes were wiirt,t,hat t protestations of friendship and mutual bepraising aami hi ft ` - 'n Pridav the 27th of December, the Most No bl e the ree o rl P t i e of ' Dalhousie, attended by a brilliant staff , all und er on elephants, 21 in number, proceeded in State , dei b ' e l f t salute of 19 guns, to return the visit paid him the th e _ ore by Maharaja Ghoolab Singh. The following is or der in which the procession moved ;The Sir G OVERNOR-GENERAL. Henryliot. Sir Henry Lawrence. Hearsey. Sir GI b blr. j • Lawrence. M } Mont gomery. 6 Major Re memy . Mr. Courtenay. yi ,,Ptain Atkinson. • I Major Fane. kr. Thomas. Cs ptain Metcalf. tr. Gran Itai t al or Nuihall. captain Bowie. l ' Cap ) tain Davison. saora W. Ha 1 4 Mr. Lambrecht. t• De la Grange. y. / Mr. Macdonald. "la,lor B oy d . f Major Burn. Captain su tear , t ow T e u . cker {Mr. Inglis. C aptain Captain Loveday. T h •C. Hill. Lieutenant Walker. D'tnaldpMr. Piinsep. Captain Burroughs. of th e procession was preceded and followed by detachments Th e e dY Guard. th e , Whole o f th e t roo ps were out and formed in line, as 44 done the day before, from the camp of the Gover hitter General towards that of Ghoolab Singh, the troops of the 11; s b e , ei ng also paraded and completing the line. ' thud alighness had deputed his son Meer Runbeer Singh, s ad rile Sirdars, to go as far as the viceregal camp to meet aea s i a esc ort the Governor-General, and he himself came toi l e a Mile in advance of his own tents to receive a; :d elsc e 7 ,F a t his Lordship to his camp, showing a marked defer ztaotriiv,.tvf the mode of reception, and establishing his inte oicaerds!ocnid.ed manner in the eyes of the swarm of ahaliting from his howdar, which greatly eclipsed any- Oeu`e' °f the kind in Ghoolab Singh's suwaree, the Governor . raja ral Was W ho conducted into the Durbar tent by the Mahe tletiv:":assigned to him a seat on his own right, while . Sir Office,`"iot took his place on the left, the other British • G ov „— la attendance seating themselves on the right of the arse'rnor-General. The Durbar tents were most tastefully i tod l lged, and when all were seated, the Governor-General fall the Maharaja at the top of a long vista of tents, with (10 1iisi e l p fficers, in their glittering uniforms, forming a spectacle, ine O on either side, must have presented an imposing Th e l kid attendants of the Maharaja then presented nuzurs, ag e rtter some conversation, during which Ghoolab Singh hi ta ? Pressed on the Governor-General his anxiety to see a'.ll C ashmere—an anxiety acquiescingly acknowledged q`corula Lordship —his Highness directed his presents to the trsae_rnor-General to be brought in. They consisted of 51 . )peii's",,Yrith horses and elephants. The tribute shawls of the lat.,: of attraction. for her Majesty, were again the chief ob 14_ f attraction. "In brilliant colour and excellent soft teAssld delicacy of texture," says a correspondent, " they sp4r a , cle d anything of the kind I ever saw." Several Buishna of guns of -hill manufacture, very tastefully Other ", formed another portion of the presents. Among tied _ B, a brass gun called a " Yemsee," because usually car lb. ° h a buffalo or bullock, the calibre of which was perhaps wh et There were also two " sherbuchas," literally " lions aisi a ',Pes'' or " young lions," of the calibre of aboutwith barrels made of steel. These guns are intended to Wall a an e ePorted on camels, and can be perch e d on roc k s , th e As t f orts, and similar places. Pos ed r the off er i ngs to t h e G overnor -G eneral had been dis kid „of 21 t rays were b roug h t i n f or Si r Henry Lawrence, an o : 1 for Sir Henry Elliot. The other officers in attend new:lPie Governor-General also participated in his High sent vn iu erality, a list of their names having been previously !seated the Maharaja's. Some kheluts were further pre ssoeer b Y his Highness, after which utur was served, and the to thenoGeneral rose to depart. His Lordship was escorted k e h..P.lace at which his elephant was in waiting by the bin byroortn.i.ehaacjah, and by Meer Runbeer Singh to some distance ar s u ay e a c i a mP. The Governor-General was saluted, both on and departure, by a discharge of 21 guns, and did his own camp till sunset. Vi'zio ra t i t d urdan the 27th of December, the entire . force at Gilbert was Paraded, under Major-General Sir Walter la th e 6 .C.8., and Brigadier Hearsey, for brigade exercise, l ab si Presence of the Governor-General and Maharaja Ghee haehiald'g.a T he troops were under arms, on the parade ground Chief c amp. a little before 7 A 111 and the Cashmere 1. cant, to . troops the ground about half an hour afterwards. r consisted of five corps of infantry, viz.:—Her 11 sainesty' s Tienta aflOxtahtiavneth Foot, the 21st, 32d, and 34th Re 4th i• Native Lancers, and the 6th Irregular Cavalry, with two Infantey, her Majesty's 9th Lancers, the a- u44° Fitis of ar um Rtaza erY—altogether about 5,600 men. After o tooN mucked mid in slow time, then THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1851. again formed line, advanced, covered by the light compani ' C tton—The transactions since last month have been con of the different corps and by the P:11118, formed square to re - siderable , and at improved rates. Bombay quoted Ts 9 to ceive cavalry, again f,irmed line, then columns of companie ,, , Ts. 9 9; Bengal, Ts. 9 4to Ts. 9 8; Madras, Ts. 9 5 to 'Ps. the cavdry advancing, charging through the interval:, and 10 3. About '0,500 bales have been sold. Stock, say 41,500 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 corespondent, ' diversified with a few mares' tails, as sTamen 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.' Laies. 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 dulls; 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. 50,t. to 3 dolls. sc. ; whites, 2 dolls, to 3 dolls. 10c. Sales of both kinds estimated at about 56,000 pieces. WoollensSpanish Stripes—Stock in Chinese hands is large. Prices remain as before 90c. 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. Rat, 2 dolls. 40c. to 2 dolls. 70c per pecul; bar, 2 dolls. 10c. to 2 dolls. 20c. ; round, 2 dolls. 80c. to 4 dolls. 30c.; hoops, 2 dolls. 60c, to 2 dolls. 80e. Tin plates, 9 dolls. to 9 dolls. 513 c. Cochineal-90 dolls. to 115 dolls. Turkey Opium-340 dolls. per pecul, 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. CHINA. The following is our correspondent's letter, dated Hong-Kong, December 30, 1850: " The mail steamer arrived here on the morning of the 18th, bringing dates from Ertglaad to the 24. h of Oct then " Notwithstanding the cold and bracing weather we now have great sickness still prevails among her Ma jpeta 's 59th Ftegiinent—upwarda 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 ye it 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 ano - her 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 iu which you have called the attentien 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 Kwangsi 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 well known to foreigners by his acts in 1839—by the durance he 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 bj pirates. One (Mr. Fast) was killed, and the other was severely wounded, but escap, d 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 holy days, which coanmanced early in February, are expeet,i to pass over quietly. " There is an active demand there for most ar ides of import, and the advices from Shanghai, which reach to the 23d of December are also mote 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 000ib., against 39 000,000;b. last year. The transactions in silk have hen hmited. Total export from Shanghai, to date, 12,500 bales, aguin:t e,soo to the same period last year. " Her Majesty's screw-steamer Reynard returned with the Bishop of Victoria, on the 19tn. from Shanahai and the other f, a ports. Captain Ince, t f her Majesty's brig Pilot, died here en the 11:h. Lieutenant 'matey, of the Hastings, is appointed to the coweaaud. " Her Majesty's brig Contest leaves to-day for Shang hai to relieve the Pilot. Her Majesey's steamer Sphiex returned from the north on the 26th inst. Black. Green. Total. Export from Canton from July 1, 1850, to l iec. 24, 1050 26,112,000 3,097,000 29,209,000 Export from Sharghai 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 .• •• 27,651,600 2,971,000 30,621,008 Export from Shanghai from July 1, 1819, to December 24, 1049 8,245,060 184,000 8,429,000 35,896,000 3,145,000 39,050,000 Exchanges on England—First class paper and American credits, ss. 14. 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. 103. 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 dolli.; No. 3, 380 dolls. to 410 dolls. ; Taysaam, 270 dolls. to 330 dolls. Export since Ist of July last 12,120 bales. Shirtinga—The demand for the better descriptions of greys had been good. Greys quoted 1 doll. 88c. to 2 dolls. 83c. ; whites, 2 dolls. We. 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, 58. Id. India—Company's accepted bills, 236 r. per 100 dolls. . . Freights-41. for tea, and 4/. 10s. for silk. SHIPPING. ARRIVALS FROM GREAT BRITAIN. At Hong-Kong—Dec. 7, the R.jasthan. from Liverpool; Dec. 9, the iilargaretra, from Hall; Dec. 14, the Investiga tor, from London • Dec. 25, William I. (Du.) , from Newport. At Shanghai—bec. 12, the Catbaya, from Liverpool ; Dec. 16, the John Dugdale ' from Liverpool; Dec. ;9, the Confucius, from Liverpool; Dec. 19, the Viscount Sandon, from London. DEPARTURES TO GREAT 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; 'ov. 23, the James Turcan, to London ; Nov. 30, the Duke of Portland. to London; D..c. 3, the Iris, to London; Dec. 4, the Lord Ashl-y, io London; Dec. 18, the Ann Lockerby, to Liver pool.— Times. In Harbour—Her Majesty's ship Hastings, steamer Sphinx, and her Mai , sty's brig Contest. "At Whampoa —The screw steamer Reynard. " At Canton—The ste.tmer 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, Decemb, , r 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 pres-ure 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 i per cent. all round, and are understood to be very unwilling to increase the accommoda tion already granted to their constituents. The tightness in t'.e Bazaar is said to be greater than for a length of time, and is accompanied by an unusaal amount of distrust, as the stoppage of D. and r.J. Pestonjee has caused an uneasy feel ing. Government securities and Bank shares are difficult of sale at the following quotations :—New Fives, 96i to 97; Sicca Fives. 1011 ] to 102 ; Company's Fours, 80i to 81; Sicca Fours, 84 ; Transfer Loan, 110 ; Bank of Bombay shares, 14 to 14i per cent. premium; Oriental, Y.O per cent. dis count ; Commercial, 12 to 13 per cent. discount ; Agra, 1 per cent. disc unt. he tendency of English each Inge has been rather downwards since the date of our last report, and sellers are now firm at 2s. 2id. to 2s. 2 9-61 d. ; for China drawn six months' eight bills, 2s. ; eight to 2s. Sd., for local bill with documents; and 2s. 2id. for Scotch bank credits at 60, amount sight. Freights we quote at 2/. to 21. 5s to London and Liverpool, and 13r. per candy to China Grey Skirtings, 40 inch.—Only .. !,o'o pieces of these have been sold at 4r. la., and a small lot of 45-inch at 4r. 14a. to 5r 15i c c per. piece. G. ey Madapollams—These have been influenced favour ab:y 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 no sales have come to our know ledge, and there is no demand whatever for them. For Domestics and 'I cloths there has been a little in quiry. We under,tand that 4,000 pieces of the former and 6,500 pieces of the latter have been sold at about former rates. Bleached shirtings and madapollams 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 disposed 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 b-en made at 84r. We also near f a sale of li0) pieces of Turkey' red mule, 38 in., at sr. Cotton Yarn—The market for yarns is very much de pressed. It is repined that o'o bales of water No. 33 have been sold at I('aa. A few bales of mange have been disposed of at 10a. per lb. Metals have also partaken of the general dulness. Beer—There is no beer of B..ss'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 lOBr. to - 109 r. We hear that contracts have been made fig 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 9.0 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 Hindustan, witt the mail, bringing London dates to the 25th of November, reached her rm orings on the after noon of the 4tb, and the mercantile 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 operations. The value of the leading staples has, however, n t experienced any material altera the continued very moderate 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 slightly 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 been kept to the extreme value of the previous week. Rice in 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 advises determining h 'lders 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 bend continning small, while purchases are less eagerly pursued. Corahs have met with a moderate inquiry at last week's rates. Shell lac arid lac dye continue in demand, with prices looking up. Oil seeds atill 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 se. isfactory 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 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 i. Freights have been kept 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 absence of 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 012 the reserve in their biddings. CANTON MARKET REPORT. HONG-KONG, Dzc. 80, 1850. During the month the demand for import , bee continued itCllll. LITERATURE. and the Quarterly; your neighbour, the Radical, reads ' the Daily News and the Westminster. You associate with Tories; he with Chartists. You imbibe political wisdom at agricultural dinners; he 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 misrepresented. " The consequence is, that each of you knows as 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 sacratnents ; you bow to the decision of councils, and respect the apostolical succes sion. You take much interest in the building of churches, and you reverence time•honoured ceremonies and autho rized forms. " Your neighbour is a Dissenter. He accepts no creed but the Bible, aid 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; be 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 gez j 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 lite—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 Farnley. "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 fellow, 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 sit 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 compelled 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 fiugers 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 seized me; I shook my fist at the trombone, and defied all the drams of Islam to interrupt me— a grand chorus, in which every instrument joined with redoubled fury, seemed to be the acceptance of my challenge. ' Ha, ha I' I shouted in the midst of it, and fell to work more fiercely than ever. 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 stew:ling 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 tails." THE FIRST ANGEL. A Novel in Two Vo lumes Saunders and 0 tley. Whoever may have written this agreeable fiction has, in it, d;epleyed abilities deserving of every en couregemeet. I'o 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, we 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 in 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 coutse 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. " sit and laugh in Rabellaia' easy chair," is delightful enough when the subject of our annota tions happens to be scene mature and callous book maker, whose sensibilities to ridicule have been blunted by frequent disappointments e .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 eenfrequently 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 machicety. The plot is at once ingeniously complicated and naturally elucidated. Here the romancist has shown himself to our thinking to be especially successful. Shifting a dewy lawn at his scenes from Africa to Europe; from a p rovincial village to the great metropolis, from 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 dotnestic circle. Se veral of the imaginary character 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 opena with the betrothal of Helen and Harry Farnley, we are led to imagine for a while at its outset that those are its hero and heroine. A little, progreke 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 Farafey, who bas strayed from the army, in which, as a junior officer, be had proceeded to Egypt under Aleatcrombie. 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 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 Morris Smith, before we comics to secure to himself c thh o ae m v ecmhoien followedtphortrnt portion ni a ti of ofot long, r sermpethies. His happiness at the commencement of the tale has in it some thing terrible, from its serenity-and completeness, and i s contrasted horribly with his sobsequent calamities. The rapid demise of poor ,Jeriaii, her twin sister Mary, and their gentle - hearted mother, invests the narrative with a strange and oppressiVe melancholy. After wards, he however, ho , 'relieved by a return of jay to again is dissipated by the wert t h h o e ug g h loo th m is i s sudden death of his long-loved and dearly- purchased bride. What appears to u s the prominent blemish in the work is a certain . over-celsniring in the sentiment. such a length as to de heess. The badinage g S e o n m e e ra ti t u e les io t t h o is m i e s r c e ar i r n ie 4 d wk te i , 4 between Jenny and Morris, again, is in the highest degree unnatural and ridictOtte—brother and sister never coquetting in any suet absurd manner in real life, or only, doing so, we shone opine, when conspicu ous for frivolity and sillitieeS;,,'Xr. Forland, likewise, attracting towards i nt a ary Pa gil li n s g of interest. Con hitsriamtshtseehlvfimenr°ieWsi;nhsetthrhicek°r 1 4 r. Dale Of Bulwer Lytton's novel in Blackwood, and the inadequacy of the portraiture becomes painfully appreciable. Notwithstanding, 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 ap preciation of esthetic beauty. Her temperament throughout is shown to be right womanly, and not a merely fantastic idealism. Once or twice the charm of interest ieeof tiu excitement, her fortunes rises to the height her history when she apparently becomes the victim of the n Rogernign particular at that portion of Conway. Of the novelist's lo s sc u i a r ter r nt o il u set n a d t ! style of composition we can speak in terms of ap proval, seeing that, although unmellowed as yet by cultivation, it betrays a capacity admitting of very large development. His diction, almost always elegant and perspicuous, is at times even eloquent and picturesque. Here, for example, is a rich and poetic simile regarding sunset on an Eng lish landscape—the writer describing the house of Helen Fernley as being situated with a westerly aspect, " BO that the setting sunbeams fell full upon it in summer evenings, turning the windows into fiery beacons, and pouring rubies upon the large, sloping lawn in front when the dew began to fall." Subjoined is a specimen of the author's powers in didactic com position. His a rgument runs to the effect that the divine commandment Thou shalt no t b ear false wit ness against thy neighbour," is more frequently broken than any other law of the Decalogue. lie says:— " You are, perhsps, a Conservative in politics. You think that authority is the right of the few, and obe dience the duty of the many. You have a reverence for kings, and a contempt for mobs; you see that change is dangerous, and pub lic opinion fickle, and you sigh for golden days that are departed. " Your neighbour is a Radical. He thinks there is no rightful authority save the will of the people. Ile dis claims obedience and turns up his lip at kings. Instead of the danger of change, be can see nothing but its be nefits. The past is to him all misery rind corruption, and all his hope is in the good time coming. " You dislike one another, and avoid one another. You think him a deeigerous fellow; a friend to violence and commotion. He thinks you a selfish obstacle, a lover of tyranny and a foe 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 equally desire the good of your country and of the world, and that you differ chi Ay beeau:e eeucatien, and taste, and circumstance, have led each of you tees 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) reed the Morning Post 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 lire cursor of many brilliant romances. 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 (1840), on the retired list, died on the Sth instant, aged 73. He entered the navy Ja nuary, 1798; was at the capture of Le Mentor, 14, privateer; was acting Lieutenant of the lemeraire 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 It. Calder's action, was made a lieutenant iu 1807, served in the defence of Roses 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. PORTSMOUTH, SUNDAY.—The Birkenhead, iron Steam troop-frigate, Master-Commander R. Salmond, completed provisioning yesterday for ten weeks for t.OO troops, at hieh she expects to embark this week for Gibraltar. She will be swung on Monday to ascertain the deviation of her 'com passes. She will be 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 pisheries. 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 Majest's yacht Victoria and Albert, and now mas t er -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." Woot.wicx, Fan. 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 upwards 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 cornmeal 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. Atherly, for Corfu, where they are to be stationed. , Commander Edward Dixon ( 1841 ) , h avin g finished a ' course of study of steam at the Woolwich Dockyard, was ex ' amined by Mr. Humphreys, chief engineer, as to his profi ciency on Tuursday 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 roof, 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 ye ars.— Wes tern Times. Dispatches were sent of on Saturday from the Colonial office for the Governors of the West India Islands. rADVEnTISEMENT.j—TIIF,' EARL OF ALDROROtTGII Holloway's ARD lioLLowAT's IlLt.s.—An astounding cure by this miraciil _pills will medicine, alter every other means had failed. see extract from 4 his Lordship's letter, dated .. Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. SU, 16 45. Professor Holloway— Sir : I beg to acquaint you that your pills have most ha e d o eminent or the faculty, at home and ~Ji over the fected a cure or a disorder in my liver and stomach w 2 h 4. 1 5 1 la h ti m aati continent,lsi or not ,a : bcon able to effect ; nay. not even the s w o n f rftli a Cure any disease of the liver or stomach.—Sokt rlenbad. (Signed) " ALDBOSOUGII." D 7 all Incaldno vendors throgghQo iakai __ _ rgi4s These ( d ew Ointment) at Professor RollowVos zstabusamont, 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 t.itssengers, 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 300,000/. 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 ➢lurray, 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 lauding 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 Lute, we have advicos from New York to the sth inst. The Arctic bas brought specie to the amount of 25.000. Tne Canada arrived at Halifax on the 3d inst., after a rough passage. In Congress no proceedings of interest had taken A steamer called the John Adams had gone down with 100 persons on board. Nicaragua accounts to the 31st of Dec., report that the port of San Juan had been made free to all nations. The canal operators were rapidly progressing, the steA tiler din•ctors 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 500. COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. NEW YORK, FEB. s.—The exchange market is heavy and the supply fair. Sterling is to 10 for first-class bills; France, 5 12i. 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 jto but no large sales coul.l be effected without a greater concession. Subsequent to the departure of the Asia, Wednesday last, prices receded ic., 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 t ations, th. ugh reduces, must be considered as entirely no minal, buyers claiming a still further reduction. The re ceipts at ad th , 3 shipping ports aro 1,254.384 bales, against 1,_17 7 1. To same date last year—an increase this season o t'3,tis3 bales. The total foreign exports this year are 1,858 hales more than last—say, 29,964 bales increase to ure,tt Brita n, 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 9.,920 bales less this Fea4on 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 for 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. 621jc. Sales 10 barrels. Iron—There have been sales of 200 tons of Gartsherrie and Colt nests 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, 1; 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 iu 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, coasisting 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; wbo, in his dying moments, bad requested that they might be sent to his friend--•• the Great White Medicine," the name by which Mr. Catlin bad been known among them ; and which, &ter having been sent from place to place, and from hand to band, for many thousand miles, and across the Altantic, had at last been delivered to him in England. The curious and most interesting information imparted by Mr. Catlin to his audience, was received with mingled emotions of surprise and satisfaction ; and when be an nounced that his extensive collection, which once occupied the Egyptian Hall, was shortly to be re-opened, at the spacious rooms, No. 6, Waterloo place, with numerous additions from the Rocky Moun tains, he eas greeted with unanimous shoats of ap el luse. Tee hcture was not concluded until a late hour, which the audionee, however, under the isflaence and excitement of the subject, seemed to overlook; whilst their unweariA atterlion and unmixed epproba ti .n must have been h;gbiy gratifying to Mr. Catlin. REPRESENTkTION OF GLAMORGAti!MIRE. - The election for Gl , -Inorga►»hire is r ppointed to Lake place on the 25th instant. At present there is only one eautlitiate, Sir G. Pe r oand 14 0 PPPoitivsa i 4 I%IIOO PAW, COURT CIRCULAR, The Queen and Prance Albert walked yesterday in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Their Itiyal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Al fred, the Princess Royal, the Princesses Alice, Helena, and Louisa, took their usual calking exercise yesterday, and his Royal Highness Prince Arthur was taken an airing. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales 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 NV ellesley 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 all Nations in Hyde Park. attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Hon. 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, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal and the l'rincess Alice visited and inspected the Zoological Gardens in the Regent's-park, on Saturday afternoon. The Equerries in Waiting, Lord '.,harles Fitzroy and Lieutenant- Colonel llon. Alexander Gordon, were in attendance on her Majesty and his Royal Highness. Her Majesty and Prince Albert honoured the Princess's Theatre with their presenc!.. on Saturday evening. The royal suite consisted of the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, Hon. Caroline Dawson, Lord Dufferin, Lord Charles Fitzroy, and Lieut.-Colonel Hon. Alexander Gordon. The Queen's private band attended in Buckingham Palace on Friday evening, and performed the following pieces : Overture " Centril Ion" Finale 2d Act ......... " Zauterflote" Her Royal Highness the Dechess of Kent visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloecester on Saturday, at Glou cester House. A Cabinet Council was hell on Saturday afternoon, at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The Ministers present were Lord John Russell, the Lori 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 Holhouse, the Earl 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 Ro"al : Agricultural Society, con sisting of Mr. Shelley, Colonel Challoner, and 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. Hayford 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 Cowper, M.P.; Sir James Gordon, K.C.B. ; Sir John J. Burgoyne, K.C.8.; and Captain Stephenson Ellerby, Lord Hobart, Secretary to the Commission, was in attendance. Mr. John Wood, Chairman cf the Board of Inland Re venue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, at his official residence in Downing-street, on Saturday. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat on Sa turiay. Present-1 he Master of the Rolls, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, tte Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Sir Edward Ryan. " Siordet's Extension of Crawford's Patent (galvanised' iron)," and "Austin's Ex tension of patent (raising sunken vessels)," were heard. The Duke of Wellington attended early 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 of Salisbury attended the daily service. TO THE SECRETARY OF THE BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On Wednesday the 12th, the debate was re sumed on the question of bringing in the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, and adjourned at Six ut 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't. He earnestly pointed out the fact of 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 for the success of that effort. He recited the strong reasors for hoping that such an effort might rot succeed ; and did the work the League or Leaguers ought to have been doing every day and every hour, of clearing and enforcing- the interest the powerful and the numerous chases had in opposing its success. No instance has been seen, of such an exemplification of the ancient fable of the Tortoise and the Rare, as has been given by tho 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 of the opportunity held out in the House of Commons, of discrediting the ope rations of the adversary, by exploding every one on its first appearance. It might almost be supposed that the object was to get up another contest, for the sake of the results of another victory. Those that might, will nut; and those that would, may not. The division, which was only carried against the Pro tectionists 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, that the word of the Minister is all that stands be tween the 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 phre,e, the enemy would be upon us and at our heels. On the night of the division, it was not at all certain that the Government was not oe feated, and there were even sinister whispers to that effect passed round the lobby. If it had been so, there would have been a dissolution of Parliament. and Hurrah for 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 orclieary concerns of life. No man says, " Let in the housebreaker or the plunderer, for then there will be a rally of everybody in the house, and he will be driven out again." Men keep him out when he is out. They take measures for breaking up his haunts, and his sources of strength and encouragement. They try the chances of amendment in himself, and they throw before him the tem !aliens of an honest industry, in the ill hope of tempting him into the easier way. 'The last thing they w ill think of is to invite him, in order that they may drive him back again. The majority of the Government is not virtually smal ler than on the last occasion, but the contrary. That is stated to have been 21; and calling the difference 8, more thsn half that number of Irish Members may be considered as savingavowedly voted against the Govern ment through pique at the interference with the Pope's movements, sad number more, English, Irish, and through confidence in the verbal arrange- Scotch, voted ment of the motion, which may be allowed to have been sufficient to deceive even the elect. There are always a number of A/embers, who as if in emulation of that happy disposition in a horse which is described as looking tor something to " shy" at, appear to be on the look - out for anything which will present to them the opportu nity for being deceived. On Friday the debate on the Eeclesialtical Titles As sumption was brought to a division, which will tell at Rome both on the powers military and clerical there established. A mejority of 395 against 63 is some thing like a " greitt fact," and may be set off against many assurences that the mass of the English people wanted Dither the Pontiff or his Gallic body-guard to help theta to mansge their affairs. The thing, though troublesome, will not be without its good. It will have shown the dispositions, and the capacity, of actors of various denomination, and will be a sort of guide for confidence in periods to come. I am, Sir, your obedient servant. AN OLD REFORMER. Landon, 17 Feb., 1851. SUPPOSED NEWS OF SIR JOHN - - - FRANKLIN. An extra, published by the Colombo Observer, con tains, und,:r date Singapore, Jan. 6, the following:— News from the utmost ends of the earth are always ac • ceptable, 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. Franklin and his party than even the Admiralty itself is et possessed 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 latest accounts from the tar 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 Esquimauxs they had this vague story very satis factorily confirmed, with the addition that the whites and natives having quarrelled, the former had been murdered. As to the possibility of these unfortunates being Sir John Franklin's party I leave you and your readers who have paid attention to the case in all its bearings to judge. Whether these men spoken of were or were not Sir John's comPanY, little hopes can now be entertained of finding them alivte! their their provisions must have been expended one year, and h fuel, which is as necessary, must have all been burned out nearly two years A TAX COLLECTOR. EXTENSIVE DEFALCATIO N d —On Saturday Mr. Stone, _of inrbabitant of the parish of an ol d the situation for some tax in that parish, was St. Mary's,,Newington, and years as collector of the_ p Park -street, a r il l E ;f s e t i r y e e lodged, Cam d a e t n t o wn, iiorse m b o y n S g e e r r taken at his residence, geant Quinnear. 1 Piinatnissued by the Commissioners of In lane gaol, on:a wa r r ant and charging him with being a de come and Prope rty- s t f au l te r of the money collected by him to the amount of I t a ppears that a discovery of the defalcation had been • made near ly twelve months ago, and at that time Mr. Stone a e absconded. A warrant for his apprehension had been issued t that time by the Commissioners at Somerset House, and it was placed in the hands of the parish co-,- 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 act.ve and indefatigable o ffi cer lost very little time in putting it into force, and soon captured his man. In this, as in many instances of a similar description, the sureties of Mr. Stone arc unable to pay a single shilling of the defalcations, and the consequence has been that the unfortunate rate-payers have been compelled by A re-sews/meat to make up every f a wn of the 1,500/. THE COUNTI LIVERPOOL, FEB. 15.—N0 cl demand inactive. x. d. 5. dl Wheat, per 701 b : English, white ~ 5 G to 6 01 EtY MARKETS. ;hange whatever to-day, and the Do. red 5 4 5 7 Irish, best red .• 5 0— 5 3. Do, lower quality 5 0 5 2 Manx, red and wh. 5 4 5 7 Dantsic, high mixed 6 8 7 0, Do., mixed .. .. 6 0— 6 3, Rostock, &c.. .. 6 2 6 4 Hamburgh and Lowerßaltic7. S 6 5 9 American & f white 5 9 6 4 Canadian, t red 5 4—5 10 Antwerp & Louvain 5 6 5 8 French, red .. 5 4 5 6 Hungarian and Mariaropoli 5 6 5 9 Odessa, Polish .. 5 5 5 6 Do., common .. 5 0 5 41 Egyptian • • .. 3 9 4 2, Flour, English & Irish, per 2801 b 29 0 30 Do., extra fine 31 0 32 0 d. IDo.Meal, perl96lb 15 0 to 16 0 'Barley, English, pr imperial quarter 26 0 —2B 0 !Irish, Scotch, and Ilanx,per 601 b.. 3 4 3 6 Foreign, grinding 3 2 3 4 , Rye, par 601 b •• 3 3 3 2 Beans, English, pr imperial quarir 29 0 30 0 Irish and Scotch, per 4801 b.. .. 25 0— 27 0 Dutch .. 26 0 28 0 Egyptian .. 22 6 23 6 Peas, English, per imperial quartr 30 0 32 0 Foreign .. 27 0— 31 0 Oats, per 451 b : English, Scotch, and Welsh, old est mealing .. 2 61— 2 7 Do., feeding .. 2 b— 2 6 Do., foreign .• 2 6 2 8 Oatmeal, English, Scoteh,pr24olb 23 0 24 0 Irish, new .. .. 21 0— 21 6 Do., old .. 2J o—2l 0 2 9 - 2 10 United States, per barrel .. 20 0— 23 0 Canadian •• .. 21 0— 22 0 Indian corn, per 4501 b, white .. 29 6 32 0 MANCHESTER, FEY. 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 have 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 tour, the latter article being chiefly from France. At our market this morning wheat re ceded in value Id to 2d per %lb. For Jour the demand vm s extremely limited, and in the few sales effected some conues sion in prices was necessary. Oats and oatmeal moved off very slowly, and must again be noted the turn cheaper. .NOTTINGHAII, 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 tMns. In oats and beans no alteration. WORCESTER, Fas. 15.—The highest general price of wheat must be quoted at 16s per bag, but 14s 6d to 15s is nearer the mark for average samples of English-grown. Malting barley from 3s to 3s 6d per bushel, and distilling about 2s 9d per bushel. English b eans 4 s to 4 s 4d ptr b us h e l, and foreign from 3s 6d to 35 BJ. Old English oats 3s 2d to 3s 3d per 39 , k, and new 3s to 3s 2d. Irish 2s 6d to 81. Spring vetches As to 4s 2,21 per bushel, and winter sold at 4s 6d 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 Is per quarter less money. Average price of barley 26s 3d per guar. er. At Wolverhampton the supply of wheat from the farmers was not large, but the millers were careless buyers, though farmers would not submit to a reduction in prices , in a few instances 6d per quarter reduction was made. Fine dry samples of English wheat sold at last week's rates—red being worth 14. 64 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 lls 6d to 12s for old, and 10a 6d for new English. In oats little doing at 18s to . 20s per 3121 b. The price of the 41b loaf (brown bread) in this neighbourhood is 40. Dannitint, Fra.l3.—The relative weight per four bushels of the three prices of wheat were 18st191b, 17st 81b, and 16st 121 b. Oats, 13st 01b, llst 131 b, and lOst 61b. Barley, 16st 61b, 16st 11b, and 14st 121 b. Peas and beans, 19st 01b, 18st bib, sad 16st 41bs. Qrs. Best. Current. Inferior. 488 Wheat ... ...... X 2 2 0 £1 15 0 £1 8 0 1224 Oats 485 Barley 51 Peas and Beans 1 9 6 1 8 0 1 4 0 Average of wheat 34s 11id. ABERDEEN FEB. 14.—Grain—Oats (old), Os Od to Os Od; 401bs per bushel; oats (new), 15s 6d to 16s Od, 401bs per bushel; barley, 20s 6d to 21s, 52Ibs per bushel ; bear, 1910 d to 20s 0d,521bs per bushel; wheat 46s to 005; oatmeal, 1286 d to 13s 6d per boll ; flour, 31s to ns per sack. Provisions—Beef, 4d to 6d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 4d to 6d; veal, ditto, 4d to 6d ; pork, per stone, 3s to 3d ; lamb, per lb, 4d to 6d; tallow, per stone, 3,6 d to 4s ; potatoes, per peck, 6d to 7d; hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each, lid to 8d; hares, each, 1s 6d to 2s ; grouse, per brace, Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 8d to 10a ; eggs, per doz, 8d to lid ; cheese, per cwt, IBs to 2350 d ; hens, per pair, 2s 6d to 3s; chickens, ditto, 2s Od to 2s 6d; 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 645; eggs, wholesale price, per dozen, 61 to tihd ; 41b loaf, cash, 5d ; credit, 6d ; pork, per stose of 141 be, 3s td to 3s 6d; pork fine, small, 5s 6d to Os Od ; pork large, 3s 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; side, tid to Od ; beremeal, is 2d to Is 3d ; flour, is 8d to 2s Od; barley, per lb, ld to 2d; barley flour, ls 4d to is sd. GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, FEB. 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 aold at 45s to 46w, 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 Ib, current from 5d to sid, inferior from •Id to 4,1 per do, 'lnking the offal. A few of both oxen and sheep tuinea out ur..old. Prime fed calves in demand. Pigs dull at from 2Ss to 36: per cwt. DUBLIN, FEB. 14. —We had an extremely dull market to-day for every description of grain but we do not alter our quotations of Tuesday. White wheat, 21s OA to 24s 6d ; red ditto, 19s Od to 22s 6d ; barley, 12s ticl to 14s hd ; oats, is 9d to los 3d ; rapeseed, Its Od to 200 Od per barrel; oatmeal, lOs 6d to Ila 6d; second flour, per cwt, 12s 6d to 15s Od ; Indian corn, per 4301 b, 29s to 335. CORK, FEB. 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 very limited, the receipts for the week being only : •Wheat, 151 brls, at 16s 9d to 20s per brl ; barley, 943 brls, at to 12. s per brl ; . . . - oat , , 3,857 brls, at 7s 6d to 9; S(i per brl. Whe:tt is un changed in value, but oats and barley manifest a downward tendency. The business doing in prepared and loreign wheat is very moderate in extent, and restricted to the supply of the immediate wants of the tt ade. 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 en 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 ixists for the article, has led holders to look for an advance of 5s to 7s 6d per ton. We quote the value of the article 7110 s to 7/. 15s per ton. Barrels. Currency. 0 White wheat oos Od to 00s Od 00s Od-20 stone 18 Red wheat 17s 6d to 18s 9d 00s Od-20 do 8 Barley ll s Od to 00s Od COs Od-16 de 0 Bere 67 Oats 73 Pigs 2Bs Od to 31s 6d 28s Od per cwt Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:- 0 barrels white wheat; 3 red;; O barley; 0 here; 5 cats; 2 pigs. Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week Wheat, 205. Barley, 984. Oats, 4,696. Pip, 619. PRICES OF BUTTER. CANT. _ I CURRENCY. - First quality ........ 81s Second quality Third quality . Fourth quality Fifth quality Sixth quality ... 905 First quality . Second quality Third quality Bls Fourth quality Fifth quality Sixth quality _ __ Return of Cattle sold for the week ending Feb. 8 : Pigs, 1,319. Sheep, 344. Cows, 116. Co tx.—Flonr —First 11s 6d to 12s 6d; extra 133 Od • seconds, 1086 d to Ils 6d; households 93 to 10s Od; thirds, 7s to 9s per cwt. Oatmeal 10. 6d to 005; Indian meal 7s 3d to is 6d; wheat meal, 105 to lOs 6d per cwt. Indian corn 715 s Od to 7110 s per ton. Bran 90s to 95s Od per ton. Hay—Farmers 255 to 445; average 38s; dealers 40s to 50s Od; average 48s per ton. Str aw—Farmers 223 Od to 34s Od ; average 285; dealers 355 04 to 005 Od; average 00s 04 per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf Bed to 64 household loaf 4 d to 5d per 41b. Fresh butter, 10d to 12d per lb. Eggs-4s 10d to 5s Od per hundred. Coals—. Newport 165 Od; Lydney 17s ; Landore 14s ; Neath Culm, 135 6d per ton. Tallow 37s Od to 38s per ewt. Whisky, 25 0. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Meat —Beef 4ia to bid; mutton 5d to 7d; veal 4d to bd ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 5d per lb. Hops 6110 s to 0/ Os per cwt. Bangor slate! 312 s 6d to 315 s per ton. Bark—Barbary 710 s to 810 s ; Valonia 151 to 01; French 6/ Os ; Spanish 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 14s to 15s per stone. Hemp 321 to 341 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 21. to 00s ; red ditto, 24s to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundland, 10/ to 111105 per ton. Timber—Memel, 80s per ton ; red pine, 31 10s ; yellow ditto, 2/ 155 per ton; deals, 12s to 15. per 100. Hides— Market 223 to 325: salted 235 to 325 per cwt ; calf skins 3-id to aid per lb. Potatoes , white lid to 10 d; Minion. , I . Bd to 12d. Guano—Peruvian, 11/ 108; lehaboe, 8/ to 9110 s per ton. Tar—Archangel, 19s per barrel. ROYAL ARTILLBRY.-GENERAL ORDER.-_‘!_?..e puty Adjutant's-General's-office, Woolwich, Feb. 13, lbl His Lordship, the Master-General, has directed accom panying order from the Foreign-office, dated 2 m 4 e t d h ai J s, an t u o a b ry e last, containing regulations respecting foreig n a e nc of the Royal promulgated fur the information and . ge guidance ii D. Ross. Deputy Ad- Regiment of Artillery. —(Signed) respect . pg i foreign medals. jutant-General." " - Regulation: pleased wtear di ni re e c d t a t i ll s a w t — hi l e . h A , Application The Queen has been for permission to accept and foreign. order, are conferred by a foreign i n should l a d r m b y e the a o d r dre ,s addressed, the for u c c , Be m rv cn ic li s 'ider-in-Chief, the Master-Ge ttihoe!,e u s—e p e o a n - o y , s t o h v e e d re e ? g o n ra o t n ion ßri of ti a s n h y sDie e m n r il r e i a t l am o ry f a y t o h r e breo ' r°n a si n vh c ae e l , or the Lords of the Admiralty, who, if ,4°rdynsubmit the same to tier Alajeqy's Principal a l 'f s a tate for Foreign Affairs for her Wijesty's sanc sec La% w i n i ng which they may grant such permission other formality. 2. Permission to wear a without foreign medal cannot be granted to a Brit is h su bj ect, un l ess 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 worm—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 coals then lying in a barge in the wharf. The clerk complied, and accompanied him to the vessel. Directly he left the office, a neighbour saw two men enter it; upon the return of the clerk to the counting-house he found that during his absence his desk had been broken open, and two bags, con taining upwards of 601. in gold and silver, had been sWle a ll t therefrom. Immediate information of the theft wasgive n the Paddington station, and constable Heseltine. and other of vigilant officers of the D division promptly w tin g ries ven to the offenders, who, from the accurate description the officers of their dress and is presumed, long escape detection. u m , SLOANE...... The personal appearance, cannot, it THE CONVICTS, Mu. gaol, o i b f n u t i :t e ew v g is a i nothing t te. g m W ae mtphereeatstientnhgte term of their im prisonment will be undergone t i le unhappy understand c convicts posi tive will be determined untila probability a nforl tilh a i t We are enabled to state, in gistrates this day . (31on Y taa been frequently asked, that while undergoing imprisonment, will not the male prisoner, be allowed to follow answer to a question which h i s profession in any way, but, on the w ill be subjected t o the discipline in force at the ' w hich he may be confined.— Sunday Paper, F RO MM Cow.—A cow in the possession of Mr. c g o a n o t i r w ar i y th , in R i c h ar d Hill. of this town, has produced the extraordinary num b e r of fifteen calves—thi r t een h e if ers an d two bulls. Sh e calved two heifers on Wednesday last, making foiX wags" within the lag three years.—Leeds Afercurt• --- 14. ~1 1: 1 • P eb ir 4 0 1 6 " a 0 on / el' bl 3, b lo flt c. $' ieri' l 30 0 " kerS lick' rdiu, reYs DU I/ O r ' so d 'I Or'