The Sun. — London, England, 1853-04-16 00:00:00

nta ill'i 12. of Luis. Elul' qu irid 0f 0 0 [aid be' COURT CIRCULAR. Her Royal Highness' the Duchess of Kent visited her Majesty yesterday at Buckingham Palace. F The Ea r l o f Carlisle, Lord Londesborough, and Mr. rost, n "Vice-Presidents o f th e B r i t i s h A ssoc i a ti on ; L or d W otham, M.P._ ; Mr. Blu n d e ll, M ayor o f H u ll ; M r . ands, M.P. ; Mr. Spoo ner , M.P. ; M r . H u tt, M.P., he Hon. A. Duncombe, M.P., had an interview wi th his Royal Hi g h ness Prince Albert, yesterday morning, on t h e onbi ect of the meeting of the British Association about to take place at Hull. His Royal Highness Prince Albert rode out on horse back yesterday , attended by Lieutenant-Colonel F. H. S eymour. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, and her Serene Highness the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, a ttended by Lady Anna Maria Dawson, dined with h er Ro yal Highne ss the Duchess of Gloucester, at her resi dence, G loucester -house, Piccadilly, yesterday. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and the Prin c ess Mary also di ne d w i t h t h e R oya l D uchess at Glouc ester -house, last evening. A dep u t at i on on the part of the magistrates of Essex, in quarter sessions assembled, to represent their objec tions to the County Financial Board Bill now before Parliament, had an i n t erv i ew w i t h Vi scount P a l merston testerday. The deputation consisted of Sir John Tyrell, t art, Sir Wm. B. S myt h , Bart., Sir J. Page Wood, art, Mess rs . Ch as G. Round,N. Burnadeston, W. C°443 n, W Beresford, Chas. Duane, John Disney, and Henry Bullock. .„„A deputation, consisting of Mr. Charles Hindley, MMr. James Bell, M.P., the Rev. C. B. Gribble, r. Dr. John Mayfield, Hodgkin , and Mr. L. A. m interview a e roozow, had an with the Duke of New castle yesterday at the Colonial -office. Smith, Clift, it d epuation from Da r t mou th, cons i st i ng o f M essrs . and Chalker, had an interview with Vis count Palmerston yesterday, at the Home-office. The deputation were introduced by Mr. Moffatt. SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY. -------- Last night, the first performance of Handel's Israel in Egypt, ro us audience in Exeter Hall. As a whole, the per formance was satisfactory, but, in many parts, there was /4 ' o orn for considerable improvement, especially in some c 4 the c h oruses. The principle singers were—Mde. ~ "ell°, Mis ses F . Rowland and Dolby, Messrs. Ben- N-°u, Staudigl, and Formes, all of whose voices and exe ive powers were dis Played to muchof Mr. Sim adventa. Owing to the continued indisposition ge s Reeves, Mr. Benson, though he was himself extremely unwell, consented to take his part at a very short notice. The usual performance of The Messiah, in aid of the funds of the Royal Society of mu s ithan b — which formerly took place at the Hanover-square Rooms —is announced for next Friday, in Exeter Hall, the members of the Sacred Harmonic Society having volunteered their as sistance for the occasion. THE MEDITERRANEAN. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 15. ir By the Peninsular and O r i en t a l C ompany ' s steam-s hi p :-,1- tan 41(11cgton, Captain E. C ooper, we h ave accounts from uon stinople March 22 ; S myrna, M arc h 26 ; M a l ta, P r il 1 ; Gibraltar, April 7. vv The H a d dington experienced fine weather on the out .riard p a, a ssage, but hom ewar d s encountered heavy gale the e Mediterranean, and strong easterly winds since ' - 'ving Cape Fi n i sterre. She brings 13 passengers, and ?1,1 die fr eight 5 pack ages o f specie value 5,2361., 1 package us 93 bags of galls, 40 bags of yellowberries, 712 boxes and 1,064 barrels of raisins, 80 drums of figs, 99 barrels of currants, 3 cases of suczades, 148 cases of B P p origes, 68 c ases o f op i um, 119 cases of gum, 67 balel ~e ' t carpets, 170 b ags of herbpseed, 439 bags of cuma t a , 437 bales of silks, 459 bales of goats' hair, 66 bales of sheep' s wool, 777 bags valonia, 39 b a l es o f ma dd er - root, .: 1 7 bags o f orange-peel, 26 bags of squills, 3 cases of Jal aP, 6 cases of o tt o o f roses, 7 b a l es of skins, and 88 Packages of general merchandise. On the 29th ult., at 1 p.m., in lat. 36.1 N., long 18.40 of the Haddi ng t on p asse d th e F renc h fl eet, consisting seven ships of the line, and one steam-frigate, run ning to the eastward. The British freight-ship Progress, 32 days from Corfu, arrived at Gibraltar on the 4th inst., having on board th e h ea d- quar t ers o f h er Majesty's 30th Regim en t o f Poot, consisting of 10 officers, 18 sergeants, 6 drummers, and 315 rank and file, under the command of Lieuten ant-Colonel Cavan. Our accounts from Gibraltar are to the 7th inst. in clusive. The screw steam-ship Grecian, 10i days from Alexandria and 6 from Malta, touched at Gibraltar on the 2d inst., on her way to Liverpool. The screw steamer Balbec, 6 days from Liverpool, arrived on the same day, a n d procee d e d f or M a lt a , S myrna , an d Con tantinople. The Roy a l Y ac ht Sq ua d ron sc hoone r Con stance, 23 days from Cowes and 2 days from Lisbon, arriv e d on the 3d. The Peninsular and Oriental ::•'•°lllPany's steam-ship City of London, 5 days from koeuthampton, reached Gibraltar on the Ist inst., and r.cceeded for Malta and Constantinople. The Royal the Ist, Club cutter Sparrowhawk sailed for Cadiz from Malta The Swedish corvette Najaden, 36 days ra, arrived at Gibraltar on the 6th, and, with r alajesty's at -' l )(lred i n earners Furious and Antelope, was an the bay when the Haddington left. ral tar exch nn' a, on Lo don,gs were quoted as follows :—At i f. are• ; G en : L . 51 ; Paris, sf. 31c. ; Marseilles, i,hPc'ent • 3 7c. ; at 8 days' eight, on Madrid, ta, ree 'i on Viz, Malaga, and Seville, par ; Alicante Spanish Pillar a discount ; Valencia, discount ; all t l l '_ e asteri 3 ,7 w ." l -lare, 24- per cent. premium. to pr " wiodb olio nld having sprung up on the sth instant, Th: e : ed the i r essels in Gibraltar-bay were enabled an d %I re w ste al r , e !Pective voyages. B th in Mail s .8 ' .11 1 ) Bengal, with the outward India v. ins at 10 Was passed by the Haddington on the lucent P•M Mated t e r un • The about 22 miles south of CP pe St N eed! 0 have A of this vessel to that position is esti riY 0, e on y ays -e8 ce nPi d 3 d 10 hours from the unde r s "e Probably have arrived at Gibraltar ear da3,B. ‘- , OTTO N caenFichh!osztlelr:hell°4 Hugh Fleming, of the °lninercial Association, has received ad -1;4"Y, th at A e i Secretary to the Hon. East India Con -"ructed, to f I. *W Rathbone, of Liverpool, is in -122 whole 4Drward to him, for disposal in Manchester, Nies% a nd two half bales of cotton, received per the " I ' B have beep Bombay, and that Messrs. Setley and Nrp eee een directed to forward to him for the same fortyl6ll2i2PPbeadlefsr°ln bales produced from New Orleans seed, Cochin to London, per the Rubicon. The %le a , consist of thirty-two grown Belgium, from New a ~ S seed ; Btufferent eighteen of the same description, but with elgi um mark ; and seventy-three and half of the th e ee t n. growth from indigenous seed, all the produce of ted Su ilterED STATES EXPEDITION TO JAVA.—The s steamer Mississippi arrived at Mauritius G 11 a e on h tu of February, and was to touch at Point de er w a y 410 dor e p to join the Japan expedition. Corn , MAerg/TWltraason board the Mississipi. —Accounts have been received from e'hilea_slauritius to the 25th of February. The rate of ex unte for document bills was about 31 per cent. dis co n were The ship ments of sugar up to the 19th of Feb. p orky , ? 8 ,285,8501b . aga i nst 102,808,5161 b. at the same aienaterru'"ast year Oxen we re ver y scarce , owing to the ption to ihe trade w ith th e coas t o f M a d agascar, th e retail pric e o f beef averaged from is. to ls. 3d. wh'l4 No mat er i a l a l teration had taken place in the eatf rice, a lth oug h the stock had slightly diminished. and flour showed a tendency to improvement. WAGES MOVEMENT AT LIVERPOOL.—There have O!_e various mee ti ngs th i s week by the members of liferent trades, with the view of obtaining an increase of wages. On Monday, the journeymen boot and shoe makers h e ld a meet i ng in the Concert -hall. On Tuesday, there was a meeting of tailors at the Circus-street S chool -room. On Wednesday evening, the journeymen painters met in the same place. The corn-porters Met on Tuesday evening, in the Tabernacle, Bisp ham-street. At all these meetings resolutions in favour of an increase was adopted. On Tuesday, a number of the journeymen pilots met at Westbrook's, Merchant's Coffee-house, Old Church-yard, for the pur pose of taking into consideration the recent concessions made by the master pilots, in reference to towing ves sels by steam, and also to discuss certain grievances alleged to exist in the pilot service, as at present ma naged. After some discussion the meeting broke up, it being understood that another meeting will be called, at which matters brought under discussion would receive further consideration, by the men employed in the pilot service.—Liverpool Chronicle. SHIPBUILDING IN AMERICA. — Mr. _ , _a y, of East Boston, is building a ship 320 feet long, and t 5 f eet beam, to measure 4,000 tons, for California ; to be Propell e d by th e scre w, and to have Mr. Forbes' new Mg of intermediate topsails. Two other ships —one of 1,500 tons, and another of 1,200 —for the same tade. A. correspondent says :—" The seamen are so scarce, and so bad, that we must soon come to a steam-engine for making and taking in sad." FATAL ACCIDENT AT COIITTS'S BANK.—A lad named William Jones, aged 14 years, son of a painter, :was on Thursday employed with his father painting the interior of Messr s . C ou tt s ' p rem i ses , an d was engaged by him self in a room p re p ar i ng the window sashes. Sufficien time having elapsed for him to complete his work, the foreman, John Archer, and William Jones, the father of the lad, entered the room, and were horror-struck at discovering him with his neck jammed between the sash lines and the stile (upright) of the window, with his feet resting on the ground. He was extricated, but fouqd to be quite dead. It is supposed that in cleaning the slide where the sash traverses, he got his head under neath the sash-line, and let it go with a jerk, when the 'weight d rew the cord so tight as to strangle him. ROYAL ARTlLLERY.—Considerable misapprehension has occurred, and surprise expressed, at the statement of gunner J. Haveland, who was severely hurt at the recent fire in Holborn, that he would be sent to Woolwich to be tried by court-martial. It ought, therefore, to be -known that by a recent order it is indispensable to bring every soldi er b e f ore a court-martial who may meet with an accident under any circumstances. This measure is now necessary in every case of accident before the soldier can pass a medical board, to insure by a course of inquiry that__ the ci rcumstances were really accidental. Captain -[ .efiham's company, 11th Battalion, left Woolwich on Thursday f or E ast b ourne, to be stationed, Captain t:liillpott's proceeds to Portsmouth on Monday, to re lieve Captai n L ev i nge ' s company, 11th Battalion, and the will joi n h ea d- quarters here on the same day. r There i are s evera l non-commissioned officers of the Royal xn t)lery to b e appo i nted adjutants of Militia Artillery the districts where it i s i n t ended to instruct the militia " the duties of artillerymen. ~-,~ MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Mining Journal of this day.) MINES.—The smelters, for reasons best known to themselves, have this week lowered the price of copper 2d. per lb., or about 181. per ton. We may, therefore, we presume, look for rather more than a corresponding fall in the standard for copper ores. In the absence of any falling off in the demand for copper, and of any in crease in the supply of ores, it is difficult to account for this sudden and unexpected move on the part of the smelters ; and, as it would be in vain to attempt to penetrate the mysteries of their craft, we must content ourselves with considering the effect the decrease in the price of copper may have upon the interests of mining. The general share market has not been by any means brisk, and the tendency of prices is decidedly down wards. In the Bullion Market,—Mexican and South Ameri can dollars, 4s. 111 d. per oz. Bar silver containing gold, all gold above 5 grains in the pound to be paid for, ss. 18d. per oz. standard. ' Bar silver without gold, ss. Ig-d. per oz. standard. Bar gold, 775. 9d. per oz. standard. Fine cake silver, ss. 51d. per oz. In the Metal Market the retrogade movement con tinues, and we regret to announce a fall of 2d. per lb. on Sheathing Copper, and 181. per ton on Tough Cake and Tile ; the respective prices now ruling are, there fore, is. ld. per lb., and 1171b.—Tin also, British and foreign, is lowered to Si. 12s. ; Plates full 6d. per box reduced in price, and scarcely any sales making in the article.—Spelter has sustained a further drop of 10s. per ton. —Lead and Manufactured Iron alone maintain their position ; Scotch Pig-Iron is down again to 545. per ton. The gold mining share market this week has been quiet. The inquiries have been chiefly for the Califor nian adventurers, especially for Nouveau Monde, Agua Fria, Anglo-Californian, Quartz Rock, and Yuba River, the accounts recently received by some of these com panies being very favourably interpeted ; on the other hand, the Australian mines are comparatively neglected, and, consequently, to some extent have suffered in price. On Thursday, however, they again rallied, shares were inquired after, and they have since maintained their po sition, and Great Nugget Vein considerably improved. The news received from California has been of great interest. The weather was fine, the roads to the mining districts were good, and business was improving. At Campo Seco, two Mexicans had struck a pocket, from which in five days they took out 0,700 worth of gold, one piece weighing 81bs., washing in their battais in one hour 200 ounces. At Curtisville, three Mexicans had taken upwards of $30,000 out of one claim in three days. A traveller states that he saw three lumps picked out, the largest as big as a brick. A piece of gold-bearing quartz, weighing 250 ozs., and not containing more than 20 per cent. of quartz, had been sent from Sonora: At Poor Man's Creek, another lump had been taken out, weighing over 23 lbs., and valued at 300 dollars. At Negro Point, the average gold found by each individual was from 6 dollars to 8 dollars per diem. A report has lately been spread that the value of the 100 dollars shares in the Rocky Bar Mining Company were only of the value of 5 dollars in New York. It appears that it was determined at the last annual meet ing that the denomination of the shares should be changed from 100 dollars to 5 dollars. The old certi ficates have, consequently, been called in, and new will be granted in the pioportion of 20 shares of 5 dollars each for every old one of 100 dollars. The Agua Fria Company have received advices from Mr. Hepburn, their superintendent, informing them that Mr. Attwood, the agent, had transmitted to him 1214 ozs. of retorted gold, part of the yield of 160 tons of veinstone from Gold Hill ; not being able to clear out the mortars, he calculated about one-fourth yet remained in them. THE WOOLLEN TRADE. (From the Leeds Mercury of this day.) The imports of wool into London in the week ending to-day have been 1,778 bales, of which 592 were from Sydney, 453 from Bombay, 211 from the Cape of Good Hope, 330 from Galatz, and the rest from Alexandria, Germany, Belgium, &c. The market for English wools is active at full prices, and foreign and colonial samples phcfarelimitedoorains.prices continue foreign n l uea d nree eaxa a nytfi t edefranrn h iy:re i l dgo colonial r ni a ag t l e t s h , e w p hich wool past t havewe check b u week. been business.—ales effectedne ss. Prices, h- only oSal we e vt s oe of r a, ya fi mm r firm.—ln maintained, e t s d h a,l e ewsi Englishtthhi saweek,n u w p o w o market a l anrdd lates last dwe t en h e : ky r , e s. —ln the Liverpool wool market wool is in good demand, descriptions. t rather higher prices, priusbeli 2c () p si : a r lb t ea i s c i u e s l n a erxl Sydney,yt v o r e d h nl o : m ssdo e i g y r E o aa s w n n dt Thursday, eeerirtiee w e ill The com India, 1,400 Peruvian, 400 Black Spanish and Itali an , and 1,000 Oporto, uenos Ayres, Turkey, Egyptian, &c. The imports during the past week have been 114 Oporto, 209 East India, and 287 Trieste, Leghorn, and Egyptian. The woollen cloth market of Leeds has fluctuated very much this week. On Saturday, there was a brisk and active business dine in both the Cloth-halls ; nearly all kinds of goods of a marketable character were eagerly bought, and the stock of cloth in the market (which, for a long time, has been exceedingly limited in quantity) was nearly all cleared out. There has not been a better market this year. On Tuesday very few fresh goods were brought into the Cloth halls ; the assortment from which the merchants had to select was, consequently, indifferent in character and inconsiderable in quantity, and a very flat and quiet market ensued. Considerable deliveries of cloth are regularly taking place, by order, direct at the merchants' warehouses, so that, on the eboro fra.tia There have been several buyers from London, Glasgow, and other parts of the country in the town during the week, which has caused more activity in the warehouses for the home trade. Some of the shipping houses con tinue doing a brisk business, which, together with the demand for own market, causes about an average trade to be doing at present. HUDDERSFIELD MARKET. Our market continues without much alteration, and although the season is pretty well over, the demand is kept up very well consi dering how firmly it has been sustained from the com mencement. In some cases prices are a shade easier. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET.—The flannel market has been rather flatter to-day, and a more limited de mand for goods, but the prices have been fully main tained. The wool market has been quiet, with no change worth mentioning. BRADFORD MARKET.—The sales during the week have been limited ; the prices demanded act as a barrier, and the accounts from the country are quite contrary to business being done. Noils and broker are without change. YARNS.—The business doing is not different to that of many weeks past. The cost of producing yarns is too high to enable the spinners to offer at prices at all satisfactory to the manufacturers. PIECES.—The difficulty of making goods to meet the prices offered is not lessened, and the avocation of the manufacturers continues cheerless and unremunerative. The fair at Leipsic is well attended, but the advanced prices retard operations. HALIFAX MARKET.— There has been a fair call for both yarn and piece goods, particularly the former, for which higher prices are paid. In the wool market, too, the business has been tolerably active, especially as re gards the bright Lincoln kinds, which are fully as dear. Middle wethers are 171 d. to 170. per lb. Low and middle short wools are much inquired for : they are scarce, and prices a little tighter. TRADE OF LEICESTER.—The high prices manufac turers require has checked the home demand for the present. There is. still a good business doing in the foreign market. Worsted yarns have again advanced a halfpenny per lb. Wools command high prices, and there appears a full confidence they will continue at their present rates, if not still go upwards. NEW YORK MONEY MARKET.—The avounts from New York show a slow but steady course of recovery in the money market, and after the next arrivals from Cali fornia the resumption of specie remittances to this coun try may probably be expected, the imports of foreign goods having been continuously large. As compared with the corresponding period of 1852, when the quan tities taken were unusually limited, the value of the merchandise entered during the first 3 months of the pre sent year exhibits an increase of 3,500,000/. The im migration to New York during the same period had experienced a considerable diminution, the arrivals for the three months having been but 26, 544 , agai nst 38,660 in 1852. Thi s has been caused by the diver sion of the European tide to Australia, and the thinning of the Irish population from previous re movals, and already there were signs of a tendency to an increase of wages. The New York Even ing Post contains the following paragraphs regarding the recent pressure on some of the banks :—" Many operators on the Stock Exchange and others feel not check quite s ure th at the banks have got ou t o f th e i r difficul ties,Lave on account of the large sums they are known to upward and ar this te t n e d el e i n n e g y s o u f pp t l h ie e s m an ar i k m er rt l a v n e t borrowed,the have repeatedly alluded, during the period of extreme e pressur e , t the f ac t o f some o f t h el b an k s , o ld and Thnewe, eahasveingf theborowed largely to sustain themselves. , the real b u t . l i y announced, B an k h as b een the only one public over now that the excite ment s has existed, we rineal extent of the evil that The Hanover Ba th nk had k, should b e ma d e known. Bank of the State of New V borrow $400,000, b u t the sustain sum itself. This large ork h a d t o raise $900,000 to Mr. A. Belmont and Messrs.D was loaned to them by The necessity to borro w seems to She rman an d C o . directors having, with inexcusable recklessness, have ar i sen b y th e the Bank of Charleston, which had )e a ll owe d ster ling exchange on speculation, to overdrawen buyin g up the amount of $BOO, OOO . Of course, this large its account to from the market limited the amount availableae sum taken to the New York merchants, at whose expense, therefore the bank relieved itself. Other banks borrowed largely, Bank of Commerce re - discounted its paper to and the a v very large amount, while at the same time it was alto xe vy d to avail itself of the large balances it held of the Ohio Lifee and Trust Company. It seems of some ',importance to the mercantile community that they should know what what a fragile reed banks are to rest upon for support." PARIS BOURSE.—The advices from the Paris Bourse mention a circumstance likely to have a favourable effect both in its political and financial bearings, namely, that the projected scheme for constructing a fleet of Transat lantic steamers to be stationed at the port of Cherbourg, and which were expected to cost about 2,000,0001. ster ling, is reported to have been abandoned. From Odessa, under date of the Ist of April, it is stated that much sa tisfaction had been occasioned by a confident impression that orders had been received from St. Petersburgh for disarming. "The fear of a rupture in the East," it is remarked, " has for two months past kept business in suspense, and we may now hop e to see a g ain a little more activity." THE SUN, LOXDONI . SATITRI/AV 'A'VENING, APRIL 16, Ma, THE FRENCH EMPIRE. The Senate met on Thursday ; M. Troplong in the chair. Several bills, the two principal of which were that relative to the new organisation of the savings' banks, and that which concerns the post age of Paris letters, were brought up from the Legislative Body, and referred to the bureau for examination. The Senate then declared that it did not oppose the promulgation of the three bills authorising the buying up by the State of the jouissance shares of the canal companies. Three reports were then presented by M. de Thorigny— one on the bill according a credit of 5,000 f. for the Academy of Medicine ; the second on the bill re lative to the transmission of letters between France and the French colonies ; and the third on several bills authorising exchanges of State property with private individuals. The Senate, after due delibe ration, declared that it did not oppose the promul 7 gation of these measures. The proceedings then terminated. A decree in the Moniteur orders the 80,000 young men, called out as the contingent of 1853, to be divided amongst the several departments, according to a table annexed to the decree. The Moniteur publishes a return of the receipts of the taxes and indirect revenue for the firet quar ter of 1853, which amounted to 199,600,000 f., being an increase of 14,334,000 f. on the correspond ing period of 1852, and of 20,489,000 f. on that of 1851. The Minister of the Interior has addressed the following letter to the Prefects, relative to the Universal Exhibition of 1855 : " Paris, April 8.. "Monsieur le Prget, you are aware that, by the de cree of the Bth of March last, his Majesty has ordered that a Universal Exhibition of agricultural and indus trial produce shall take place at Paris in May, 1855, and that to that exhibition is to be joined that which was to open for our own products on May 1, 1854. It is proper even as early as the present time to call the attention off, the persons under your administration to the importance of this solemn competition, and to the necessity which exists for them not to neglect anything calculated to sustain worthily the struggle to which the Government of the Emperor has invited the producers of all the countries in the world. I request you, in consequence, Monsieur le Prefet, to place yourselves immediately in relations with the Chambers of Agriculture, Manufac tures, and Commerce, which are the chief representatives, as well as the natural organs of these great interests. You will point out to them, and will call on them to point out to the principal agriculturists and manufac turers in their circumscription, all the advantages which France must derive from the Universal Exhibition, the realisation of which the industrial crisis produced by the political events of 1848 had alone prevented in 1849. They will exert themselves to the utmost, I am con vinced, to enable our country to preserve in 1855, the eminent rank which it obtained at the universal exhibi tion of London. In fixing for the Ist of May, 1855, the opening of our Universal Exhibition, the Emperor, in his great solicitude, has been anxious to allow to the French producers, as well as to those of foreign countries, full time to prepare for this vast competition, which, if opened in 1854, would have appeared, not unreasonably, too close to that of 1851, for which the manufacturers of all nations had made extraordinary efforts and had imposed on themselves sacrifices more or less considerable. The department of foreign affairs has just notified to foreign governments the Universal Exhibition of 1855. Instruc tions and regulations will be hereafter fixed on for the introduction of the articles sent from other countries, as well as for the classification of everything ad mitted to the Exhibition. I shall take care, Monsieur le Prefet, to inform you of these instructions, in order that you may transmit them to our chambers of agricul ture, commerce, and manufactures. I will also trans mit to you, when the proper moment arrives, the proper rules and papers for nominating the juries of examina tion, and for sending articles to the exhibition. I request you, Monsieur le Prefect, after having communicated to the said chambers of agriculture, commerce, and manu factures, the present circular, to let me know the result of the conferences which you will have had with them, as well as the disposition evinced by our manufacturers and men of business relative to a solemnity which inte rests them so directly. Receive, Monsieur le Prefet, the assurance of my distinguished consideration. " F. DE PERSIGNY, Minister of the Interior." " We can now state as certain," says the Cour rier du Nord, " that no itinerary of the journey of the Emperor in the Nord has yet been decided on. The only thing nearly positive is, that the journey will take place in the early paxt of Sep tember." The Government has sent to the Council of State for examination a bill to accord, as a national re compense, to the heirs of Girard, the inventor of spinning thread by machinery, two pensions of 6,000 f. a-year ; also, a bill to grant to the widow of M. Eugene Burnouf, the great orientalist, a pension of 5,000 f. a-year ; and lastly the draft of a decree concerning the financial administration of the various colleges throughout France. The Emperor has just had placed in the Tuileries the portrait of Pope Pius IX, painted at Rome, from life, by M. Eugene Goyet. The Monitcur contains a statement of the receipts produced by the indirect taxes for the first three wonths r. - sf 44 .- present year, The toil amount for that period is 199,600,0001., which snows an in crease of 20,489,000 f. over the receipts of 1851, and of 14,334,000 f. over those of 1852, for the same period. The Constitutionnel of yesterday has a long article on the budget, showing the large part as signed in the expenditure to works of public utility. After enumerating the sums appropriated to this purpose, the Constitutionnel says All the great works of general utility, such as rivers, canals, ports, drainages of lands, and more par ticularly railways, receive a magnificent dotation. The idea which guided the Government in the preparation of the budget is thus clearly shown. The greatest severity has been exercised with regard to purely administrative expenses ; the grants for the ministerial departments have been lessened as much as possible ; the effective strength of the army has been reduced, but for those fruitful creations which enrich the country an abundant and generous provision has been made. This is sound policy and good government. The sums devoted to public works are not expenses in the general sense of the word—they are rather investments, advantageous for every one—for agriculture, for manufactures, for commerce, for consumption, and for the treasury itself, which derives an ample interest for its advances by the , increase which takes place in th e p roduce of the taxes.' BANK OF FRANCE.—The following was the situa tion of the Bank on Thursday, April 14 : Ca. Fr. c. 397,452,239 63 99,989,386 146,582 16 Cash in hand Cash at the branch banks Overdue bills Bills becoming due in Paris, of which 45,167,505 f. 08c. are from the branch 118,411,611 33 banks Bills in the branch banks Advances on coin and ingots Do. in the branch banks Do. on public securities of France 35,734,5.36 10 Do. by the branch banks Do. on railway shares and bonds 50,701,100 Do. in the branch banks Ren D te o s . of to he r th es e er : e ta f t u e nd by treaty of June 30, 1848 10,000,000 Rentes of disposable funds Hotel and furniture of the Bank Real property of branch banks 3,674,250 Interest in National Discount Bank Expenses of administration 854,597 08 Sundries 1,012,249,682 80 GERMANY. The Mentz Gazette states that the Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt has given his sanction to the project of a railroad from Aschaffemburg to Mentz, and that of a railroad from Mentz to Bingen. A letter from Mentz, 9th, says :—"A communist trial, similar to that of Cologne, will commence on the 2d of next month, before the Court of Assizes of this city. The prisoner is a man named Jean Georges Reininge!, who has had his domicile in Paris, and is accasea of having, in 1851, conspired against the Germanic Confederation, and particu larly against the Grand Duchy of Hesse. He was arrested on the 6th of September, 1851, and has been in prison ever since that period. Dr. Steiber, a Prussian police judge, is subpoenaed as a witness against the prisoner. It is thought that the trial will last a week." A printer named Goldsberg was arrested at Dresden on the 11th, for a speech against religion at a meeting of the ultra-democratic association of that city. He was set at liberty the same day, but the Government dissolved the association. The First Prussian Chamber vot id, on the 11th, the bill which confers on the Kammergericht, the right of taking cognisance of political crimes. The Prussian Government has adopted several measures to calm the agitation which has mani fested itself among the workmen of Ber'in since the dissolution of the Hygienic Associations. The Ministry is endeavouring to establish small houses for the reception of the s ick. Pre v i ous t o the dis solution of the association i t s cash - box had b een removed, and M. Levy, the cashier, has up to this time refused to say what has become of the money. On the 12th the President of Police addressed a notice to all persons who ;night be able to give any information on the subject. . _ . The subject of the measures to be taken against Switzerland is shortly to come before the Germanic Diet. The blockade is not intended to be imme diate, and the resolutions are to be prospective, and only to be put in force in the event of Swi'vzer land refusing to comply with the demands urged against her. A convent of Jesuits is about to be established at Cologne, and premises have been hired for the purpose. _ _ _ By order of the Emperor of Austria, the Arch bishop of Milan, and the Pat r i arc h of renice have arrived at Vienna to take part in the definitive deliberations of Concordat to be concluded with the Court of Rome. The Postampt Gazette of Frankfort states its opinion that these two prelates will be nailed on to give their - a: trice as to the position Qs A nstrla ami the Emperor with regard to the Christian populations of the East. The Corriere italiano of Vienna states that the commission appointed to carry out the measures relating to the sequestration of the property of the refugees has been instructed not to admit any claims to such property on the part of foreigners without great circamspection. The Vienna Gazette of the 13th contains the offi cial announcement of M. de Bruck having been named internuncio at Constantinople, in the room of M. Reihberg, who is to receive another appoint ment. M. Vietzl has been nominated resident minister at Athens. The Austrian squadron which has lately visited ,he different islands of the Archipelago has just re turned to Cattaro, where it will remain for some ane. Two workmen have been arrested in one of the suburbs of Vienna, accused of participating in the murder, in 1848, of the Minister of War, Count Baillet Lacour. The Official Gazette of Holstein publishes a treaty which incorporates the Oldenburg Principality of Lubeck in the Customs' system of Holstein. The disease amongst the vines of Zante, Morea, and Cephalonia, has greatly increased. TURKEY. The Debats of yesterday returns to the question of the East. It enumerates the chances of war, and gives its reasons for supposing that, although either of two eventualities might lead to a war be tween Turkey and Austria or Russia, it would not necessarily lead to a war in Europe. As regards the chance of European intervention merely for the purpose of preventing the decay and disso lution of the Turkish government, the Debats is of opinion that it is not p ro b a bl e , a nd it seems not to apprehend any important change from that e vent in the equilibriu m o f power i n Europe. There was a time when thi s o pi n i on would have found very few partisans, but other interests have sprung up, and consid era ti o ns of finance and commerce frequently prevail over the old notions of policy. Even i n E ng l an d, which has been always represented as having a deep interest in the maintenance of the integrity of the Turkish Em pire in the hands of Turkish rulers, there are indi cations of a falling off in the feeling which w a s en tertained on this subj ec t, and it is doubtful whether the English nation would consent to a war with any European power for the prolongation of the reign of the Turks, if it could be shown that they might lose more by such a war than they would hope to gain if ever so successful. SWEDEN. A letter from Stockholm of the sth, in the Cologne Gazette, says :—" It has been stated that some persons at Orfa had been c ondemned to im psariosroareuentt wointboburtealavdllung first confessed. Theyd water for taking the were, in addition, condemned to apologise for their conduct. This punishment must appear exceed ingly severe to those separatists who look on the national church as an invention of the devil. That , broughts en t the end be is the reason why a female could not obtain abso lution, because she refused to admit that she had affair will in violated the divine law. She remains for the pre- Agitation still continues at Urfa, and 62 separatists are accused of having in b P e ri fo so r n e , th a e n K d i t n h g e • outraged public worship. In the south-west of Sweden, the Mormons are beginning to develope their doctrines more boldly. No importance ap pears to be attached to their efforts." SILK WORMS.-Silk appears about to have, like gold, its California. The Fr ench Academ y of Scien ces has just received from New Orleans two species of silk worm peculiar to Louisiana, which feed, not on the mul berry tree, as other worms do, but on the leaves of ordi nary trees, even the willow and the walnut. One of the species, the larger, pro duces annually a q uantit y of stron g , a complete revolu- e silk ; the other, the sm aller, p roduces a silk less stron g , e and white in colour , but four times a-year. If th ese t w s ieo o nn r t n i i nn s i n e t el a it n ee ep b nr e de du d e partments production n n aturalised eonft s sillsinFr ance cultivate willta tb effected. At pre- the mulberry tree and produce silk. The total number of mulberry trees is about 39,000,000, and they yield about 780,000,000 kilogrammes of leaves." SINGULAR CASE OF POISONIN. G.—A rich gentleman residing at Stettin, who had been long suffering from an indisposition for whi ch the medical men of the place could find no remedy, at length consulted a celebrated physician of Berlin, who soon afterwards gave it as his opinion that the patient was suffering from the effects of poison. It appears that he had in his bedroom for seve ral years a number of stuffed birds, over which it was necessary, in order to preserve them, to strew from time to time a quantity of arsenic, and the emanation from this poison has had such an effect on the gentleman's health that great uoubts are entertained of his recovery. THE SII ARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS, Closing Prices Yesterday. Paid.' !Aberdeen lAmbg. Nottng. Bost. ' & Eastn. Jiinct Birmg. Wolverh. & Stour Va11ey....._ Birkenhd. Lancsh. & Cheshire Junct. Do. Chesh. & Birk., £5O and £25 Cons. Do., £2O Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon.... Cork, Blackrock and Passage....... Dublin&BelfastJunc Dundee Perth&Aber deep Junction Do. New East Anglian (X 25 L. and E. & L. & D.) Do. Do. (18/. E.& H.) Eastern Counties..... Eastern Union, Class A. (lato E. U. Sh.) Do., do _ _. Do., B. and C East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk Birming. June Edinburgh & Glasgow Edin. and Peebles Edin. Prth. &Dundee Glasgow&S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Great Southern and Western (Ireland) Great Western Irish South-Eastern Lancaster & Carlisle Do., Thirds Lancash.& Yorkshire Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby. &Southpt. London & Blackwall Loud. Tilb. & Sthend. Loud. Brigt. & S. Cst. London & N. Western Do., Fifths Do. ,£lO Sh. M. &B. C London & S. Western Do., £5O Do., £4O Lonileriy. &Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Blanch. Shef. &Lincln Do., Man. & Lin. Un Midland Do.Birming. & Derby Midland G. West.(lr.) Do. Shares _ New Castle & Carlisle Newmarket Do. Bury Extension. Newp. Aberg.&llftd Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint, and Restrevor Norfolk IDo. , Jew . Northn.Counties Un North British North Devon, No. 1 Do No ~ .2 _ _ Do.; A Deferred Do., B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampt6n Scottish Central IScotash Midland . Shrewskuy&Birrag. Do., L. & N. Westn. Guaranteed Stock. Shre xsby.& Hereford Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves do Do Do. Oswestly Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern South Wales S.Yorksh.River Dun Do. Stockton & Hartlepl. Thames Haven Dock and Railway' Vale of Neath. Waterfd. & Kilkenny Waterford& Limerick West Cornwall Wimbledon&Croydn. Woodford York Newetl. &Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G. N. E. Purchase York & N. Midland 29 - 30 5 1 -- 6 10 -- 101 7I 6ld 21 -- 22 - 2d 103 -- 105 64 -- 644 21i -22 j 19 -- 20 1 3i - 4ipm 8 -- 9 5} - 51 3f - 4 13h -13 f 10 - 11 71 - 73 - 75 55 - 57 73 - 75 32 - 34 62 - 64 - 83 i 47 - 49 124 -126 1109 —llO 91i -- 92 6f -- 7f 94 13ip 77 4i d 8 d 161 9a —2 p 105 120 3 p 1 .1 P —21 h 3hd 2hd —11 h 21 3 3 1 75 45 - .. Business done this day. DR. Capital eserve fund 91,250,000 -- ... 12,980,150 14 Rdserve immobiliere 4,000,000 Notes to bearer, in circulation Do. of branch banks 159,390,525 • Do. to order (Post bills) . - Bills payable at sight 10,228,089 Account-current of Treasury Creditor 71,949,131 48 Various accounts-current 111,630,117 96 Do. branch banks Dividends to be paid Discount, interest, and expenses Re-discounts of the last half year Sums received over and above the value of the protested bills Sundries 27,823,512 432,185 2b 3,709,382 21 710,456 02 420,393 82 2,750,208 04 1,012,949,682 80 From these returns, it appears, that the metallic reserve, during the past month, has advanced in Paris 5/ millions, and in the branch banks 71 mil lions. The discount accommodation has fallen off 141 millions in Paris, and 71 millions in the pro vinces. The advances on in the very nearly as they were both in Paris and the departments, but those on railway securities have advanced 1I million in Paris, and of a million in the provinces. On the side of the liabilities, the notes in circula tion have increased one million in Paris, and three millions in the branch banks. The account cur rent of the Treasury has fallen off 26 millions. Private accounts current have increased 12- mil lions in Paris, and fallen off about of a million in the departments. The whole amount of the me tallic reserve at present is 497 k millions to 6691 millions of notes now in circulation. The Bourse yesterday was again characterised by dullne ss i n th e d eman d f or Government Securities, and, with the exception of an advance of sc. in the 41- per Cents., for the end of the month, there was a slight decrease on Thursday's quotations in the other descriptions, with a downward tendency at the concl us i on of business. Bank Stock expe rienced no ch ange. The following are the last quo tations :—For cash-3 per Cents., 80f. 30c. ; par Cents., 103 f. 15c. For the account-3 per Cents., 80f. 30c. ; 4-i p er C ents., 103 f. 20c. B an k Stock, 2445. Th e t ransactions in Credit Foncier and Credit Mobilier Shares were made at a decline of, in the former, 13f., an d i n the latter sf. Th e last quotations were for Credit Foncier, 899 f. 50c., and Credit Mobilier, 927 f. 50c. The Railway Share Market was inactive and declining, with trifling exceptions ; Orleans, Paris and Rouen being the only leading lines that escaped a decline. The closing prices were thus :---Northern, 905 f. 25c. ; Orleans, 1,043 f. ; Paris and .Strasbourg, 845 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 944 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,095.; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 807 f. SPAIN. The Madrid journals of the 10th have arrived in due course, but they are two days behind the tele graphic dispatch published yesterday, and their principal contents were given yesterday from a let ter of the 10th, received by express. The letter, however, we perceive, omitted to mention that by royal decree M. Llorente, Minister of Finance, was charged with the ad interim administration of the department of Justice, v acant by the resigna tion " from ill health" of I. Vabey. The journals give a list of the Senators dismissed from public functions for having voted against the Cabinet in the Narvaez affair. They a re—Lieut.-General Santos de la Hera, member of the Royal Council ; M. Lopez de Cordova, ditto ; M. Melchor Ordon nez, Governor of the Province of Madrid ; M. _ Arrazola, President of the Sulireme Tribunal of Justice ; Lieut.-General Shelly, Director-General of Cavalry ; and M. Hilarian del Rey, Director- General in the Ministry of Finance. Decrees nominate other persons to some of these functions, and amongst them is one conferring the post of Civil Governor of Madrid on General Lersundi, Captain-General of the province. The only other item of news in the papers is, that one of General Roncali's daughters was married on the 9th, to Don Antonio Saavedva, son of a Minister of Foreign Affairs under Ferdinand VII.; and that the Queen and King were represented at the ceremony by a Lady of Honour and a Chamberlain. A letter of the 11th, received by express, announces that the Queen had accepted the resignat;aa of the Mi nisters, which, as stated on Thursday, had been of fered by them on the previous evening ; but her Majesty immediately charged General Roncali to compose another Cabinet, and he accepted the task. It was thought, however, that he would find difficulty in the accomplishment of his mission. If he should not succeed in it, General Lersundi, or General Armero, the retiring Minister of Marine, would, it was said, be entrusted with the duty by her Majesty. 18,i 100 100 all all all 8 all 100 all PREFERENCE SHIRES. 'Aberdeen . Do., No. 2, 7 p. c.. Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. S Do. 4 p. c. Shares . Caledonian £lO .... Chester k Holyhead Uttar. 63 per cc,..,. Cork&Bandon 53 p.c. Dundee, Perth, andl 1 . Aberdeen Junction E. Aug. (705.) 6 p. c. Do. (X 5), 7 per cent. Do. (X 7 17s), 7. p et. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do No. 2., Do.; New 6 p. c. St. Eastern Union Scrip • Guar 6 per cent... East Lancash. 6 p. ets. Edinb. Prth. & Dund. Glasgow &S. Western Guar. 5 per cent... Great Northn. 5 p. c. Do. 5 p. a., Redeem. at 10 p. c. prem.. , Gt.S outhn. & Westn (Ireland) Eights Gt. Westn. (Berks Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) Great Western, fixed 4i per cent Lan. & York. F. £2O Do., 6 p. c., Stock London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. Do. Pref. 5 p. c., St. Do. Convertible, 5 p. c., 1852 1. Do. New Guar. 6 p. c. London Az S. Western, Con. Third 5........, Londonderry & Coler A Shares .. . Loiidndry. dc Ennisk Shares Manch Shef. &Lin i Shares, No. 1 Do., New, £lO Do., £6 ....... Maript. & Carl. 4 p. e. Do. 4i per cent.— ... Mid. Consol. 6 p. c. St. Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent.: Do. Pref. 4 per cent Norfolk Extension Do. Guar. 5i per ct Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cent North British North Staffordshire.. Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh. £15,6p. c. Do. Shrewsbury & firm. New Guaranteed... Shrewsby. dr Chester Nor.W. (Min), 3 p.c. Do. 5 per cent. !South -Devon (Do. New, S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) f£l Os. 6d. S. Yorksh. 4p. s. Guar. Waterfd. &Kilk. 6p. c. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref Do York & N. Midland, H. & S. Purchase... FORE: Antwrp. &Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. Junct. Charleroi & Erquelin Dijon and Besangon Dutch Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of France Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref Luxembourg Do. (Railway) Do Do. (Canal) Do. G p. cent. pref Lyons dx Mediterran Madras Maria Antonia Do. New Namur & Liege (with interest Do. (er.: interest).„ Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds (fmy.l3,&Ams.Shs.l Norwegian Truk. Pref Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Paris Caen &Cherbrg. Quebec k Richmond Rouen and Havre—. Sambre and Meuse , Do. 5i per cent. pref Southern of France 1 Upper India Scrip ) West Flanders Do. 5 per c. Pref... l Western of France... 7Nest. of Switzerland ew Zea1and......... ••• ..-. loi 107 1106 - 108 ln —2O ad! d 6 - 61 xi' 34 - 3;', 4 41 1 - I,:q)i - 2 p 14 , 4 - 15 ISI -18 i 34 -- 3i 127 - ?1-9(1 1112 - 113 811-- sz 74 1 .06, - )08 d- .5i 153 ii 151 3i- 4p 10 -11 13i —l3lxd' 8 9 lot -- 4 148 -- 150 22 2 3IP 5 - 6i 109 - 111 S - 26 2 - 2 p NI - 114 171 —18 a lip 14 —15 i par p 26 —26 A 194 —20 i d —spar, 101 - 103 5 - 51 par i pl id -- id ' 1 -- 1A 13i -14 i 3 -- 4p lt --1± d 5 -- 6 p 1 --2 i p p 1 2 2 1 p 46 4 11— 1 1 2 ad AP 11 —l3 p 24-3 p 74 -- 8 5 -- 6 35i -- 368 14 -- 15 91 „ 17 -- 17ip 424- 43 42* -- 43} 33 5 i -- 3 3 1 -- i p -- 1 p 204 -- 214 9 -- 94 5 5A . i; p 5 4 d par OA 11 d d r 64 A 119} II 43_ - 50 331 50i 98 62 64 17 -- 19 8i 9i 13 -- 15 3a -- 3i d 20i -21 i 75i -- 76 36 37 12a -13 i 4 -- 41 19 -- 21 3 -- 14 -- 15 9 i -- 10 33 -- 35 9i -- 10 ia -- par 69 70 7i 7 d 2i 2id 59 60 :IGN. LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Paid RAJLWATS. Leasing Compans. Closing Prices Yesterday . Business this day. IBe iron' ands Bletchley.... Birm. & Oxfd. ' guarantee Do. withoutgr Birm.Wolv. &' Dudley guar. Do. wthtguar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E.Lincoln. gr. 6 p. cent..... Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Dk. & Hull & Selby. Do. Do. 1 Shares. !.m.& Greenw o. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent... Do. 6 per et... Nianeh.Bxton. and Matlock Ifiddlesbro' di Redcar. . Nridld.Bradfd. Northern and Eastern sp. c. Do. 6 per ct.. Do. Fixed sp. c l'erest. & Wyre Do. Shares. Roystn. & Hit. Do.Shepth.St. Shef. Roth. & Goole g.5.p.c S. Staffordsh WearValleygr 6 per cent Do.. Wilts diSomrst! London 41.1 N. West.{, Gt.Westn Do Do Do L. dx N.W Caledon Gt.Notrhn Gt. Westn. Yk. New. dr Berw Y.&N. Md Do Do S. Eastern Do Norfolk ,Do Ln. &N. W. & Midld. Stckton & Darlingt. Midland... E. Count Do Do L. dz N. W &al& Yk Do Gt. Northn Do 1 Laucash. di Yorksh hirMelean l Stockt. di Darling Do Gt. West n. • • 3 106 -108 52 - 54 149 —lslxcl 32a —33 a 'll2 -- 114 56 -- 57 274 -28 A 131 -- 144 25i --263xd 19 i --20 26 -- 27 2i - 31 105 -10 i j 64 - 66 ,•• ----• ... 149 - 151 149 - 151 1 6c) 32 - 33. 103§ - 104 MINES. 1 all Agua Fria lOs all Anglo Californian — p 10 2 Australasian — 1 p 20 5 Australian 1 all Australian Cordillera i p 1 all Australian Freehold. 4 d ar 1 all Ave Maria 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) par p 1 all British Austrin. Gold 1 p 20 13.5 Br:Lish Iron 6 8 35 246 Brazilian Imp. (issued at .£5 pm.) 5 6 66 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiaba 61 - 61 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 30 —3l 1 6 Carson's Creek — p 40 all Cobre Copper 47 —4B 5 1 Colonial Gold 2 —2l p ... 14 Copir po 6 7 St. all CopperMinersof Eng — 25 all Do. Preference — —— p 5 all English and Austin Copper Smeltg. Co ll —ll d 20 all General l7 —l9 2 all Great Nugget Vein 1 p 34 3 all Great Polgooth 6— 2 1 p 1 all Lake Bathurst 4 1 all Liberty — p 1 all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co 1 1 all Mariquita d par i 10 9 Mexican &S. Araeric 7. 8r 8 1 all New Granada — p 1 all Nouveau Monde 1 1 p 5 1 Port Philip par- pll 1 all Quartz Rock p ar — p 11 50 all Rhymney Iron 25 —27 15 Do. New 7 8 30 10 Santiago de Cuba, 66 —76 1 all South Australian par— 4 p 10 7 Tin Croft ll —l3 281 all United Mexican — 1 all Waller 14 1 all West Granada..... par p 1 all West Mariposa par p 1 all Yuba — p JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australasia B9 - - 90 90 50 all British N. American 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India,' Australia, & China' lip 100 25 Colonial — 100 20 Commercial of Lon don ... 4 English Scottish and Australian l6 lip 20 76 Lond. Chart. Bk. of Australia 36 AO 20 London and County ... 50 10 London Joint Stock 100 20 Lond. &Westminster 20 2 London Bank of Aus tralia and India 50 226 National of Ireland 25 all Oriental Bank of Corporation 54 56 25 5 Do. Now — 100 25 Provincial of Ireland 10 all Do. New .• • 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp. Co 4 dis— par 25 25 South Australia 49 51 25 all Union of Australia 77 78 2 1 Do New 8 9 401 ;lilll2 of MISCELLANEOUS. 100 35 /Australian Agricult , 87 89 90 20 I 6 Austrlasn.Pcific.Mail 10 5 Australn. Royal Mail 38:1 , Brit. Americn. Land 83 - g 5 874 6 7 100 32i'Canada - 5 5 ' Crystal Palace 4 2 Crystal Pal, of France 20 1 Eastern Steam — 1 1 Electric. Toleg. of Ir — 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat — 301 100 50 General Screw Steam — 20 26 Irish Beetroot Sugar, 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel 10 2 Netherlands Land ! 20 26 Nrtb .of Europe Steam 50 all Peninsular & Oriental 824 50 25 Do. Do. 100 60 Royal Mail Steam. . -_ 25 25 South Aust ra l. Land 49 51 1 1 Submar. Telegrap l .l...' 6 2 Universal Emign tion 10 and Colonisr 100 286 Van Dieme-fs Land..' 206 —21 A MARKET NEWS-{THIS DAY.) COVENT GARDEN. The demand for both fruit and vegetables ruled steady, as follows : FRUIT.—Pine apples, 8s Od to 12s Od ; hot-house grapes, 12s to 20s ; Hambro ditto, Os to Os Od per lb ; apples, dessert, lOs Od to 13s Od ; cooking ditto, 6s to 12s per bushel ; pears, Os Od to Os per dozen ; lemons, is to 2s Od ; oranges, 4s to 9s per 100 ; pomegranates, Od to Od each ; almonds, 5s per peck ; Barcelona nuts, 20s per bushel ; cob-nuts, s per 1001bs. ; chesnuts, 8s to 20s per bushel ; straw berries, is to 2s per ounce. VEGETABLES. — Cabbages, is to 2s Od ; Brussels sprouts, 2s Od to 3s Od per half sieve ; brocoli, 2s to 4s ; greens, 4s Od to Gs per dozen bunches ; French beans, is to 2s per 100 ; asparagus, 5s to 9s per bundle ; sea-hil, 2s Od to 2s 6d per basket ; rhubarb, 9d to is 6d per bundle; cauli flowers, Od to Os per dozen ; potatoes, 100 s to 165 s per ton ; turnips, 3s Od to 4s Od ; carrots, 6s Od to 8s Od per dozen bunches ; cucumbers, Os Gd to is 6d each ; celery, 9d to is Gd per bundle ; spinach, 2s Od to 3s 6d per half sieve ; onions, 4s Od to 5s Od per bushel ; beet, is Od to l e Gd per dozen ; leeks, 3d to 4d per bunch ; shallots, 6d to 8d ; garlic, 6d to 8d per lb ; endive, 2s 6d to 3s Od per score ; small salad, Od per punnet ; horse-raddish, is Od to 3s Od per bundle ; mushrooms, is Cod to 2s Od per bottle ; parsley, 2s Od to 3s Od per dozen bunches ; turnip greens, is 3d to is Gd per bushel. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. Geese, 4s Od to 8s Od ; Turkeys, 4s to 88 each ; Ducks 2s Od to 3s 6d; tame Rabbits, is Od to is 9d; wild ditto, 8d to is; Pigeons, 7d to 10d each; roastin*Pigs, 4s 6d to 8s Od each; Surrey Fowls, 6s Od to 108 Od; ditto Chickens, 5s Od to 7s Od; barn-door Fowls, 35 Od to 6s Od per couple; Pheasants, Os Od to Os Od; Partridges, Os Od to Os Od; Hares, 2s Od to 2s 6xl; Leverets, 2s Od to 2s 6d; Woodcocks, 2s 6d to 3s 6d; Grouse, Os to Os Od; Snipes, 9d to is 6d; Teal, 6cl to 9d; wild Ducks, is 3d to 2s Od ; Widgeons, 9d to is ld; and Plovers, 6d to is each. English Eggs, 88 Od to 008 Od; French ditto, 6s Od to 7s Od per 120; fresh Butter, is Od to is 2d per lb. BREAD. The prices of wheaten bread in the metropolis are from 7d to 8d; of household ditto, 5d to 6icl per 41b loaf. NEWPORT. Beef, from 3s Od to 3s 8,1; Mutton, 4,4 Od to 4s 8d; Veal, 38 6d to 4s 4d; Pork, 38 8d to 4s &I per 81bs. WHITECHAPEL. Beef from 2s 10d to 3s 6d ; Mutton, 38 10d to 48 6d ; Teal, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; Pork, 38 Od to 48 6d per Sibs. by the carcase. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 7sod to 12s Od ; Brills, Os Od to Os Od; Cod Fish, 4s Od to 8s Od each; Salmon, is 6d to 2s per lb.; Soles, 8 d to 2s 3d per pair ; Eels, Gd to is per lb ; Lobsters, 8d to 2s Od ; Crabs, Gd to is 10d ; Whitings, 3s Od to 6s per doz.; Doreys, 2s 6d to lOs Od; Mullets, is to 5s each ; Common Oysters ' 9s Od to 12s Od; Natives, 36 s Od to 423 Od pe r bushel; Mackerel, GOs per 100; Smelts, 6d to is 6d per doz.; Scate, Gd to Od per lb; Shrimps , i s 6d to 2 s 3 d per gallon; Bloaters, is Id to 2s 3d per dozen; Fresh Herrings, Os Od to as Od per dozen ; Haddocks, Gd to is Od each ; Plaice, s 4s to 6s per 100 ; Carp, is Od to 2 s Od each ; Ten c h , I Od to 2s er od per brace ; Gurnets, to Od each Halibut, p 6d lb. HIDES AND SKINS. Market hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2id to 3d; 641 b to 721 b, to 31d; 72113 to 801 b, 31d to 341; 801 b to 881 b, 34d to 3;1d; 881 b to 961 b, 3? 2 d to 4d; 961 b to 1041 b, Id to 4 - 1 d ; 1041 1 ) to 1121 b Od to Od. Horse hides, 5s Gd to N Od; calf skins, light, is Gd to 3s Od; ditto, full, 58 Od to Os Od; polled s h ee p, 10s Od to 12s Od; Keats, Os Od to lls Od ; Half-breds 9s Od to lls Od ; Downs, Gs Gd to 8s Od • Lambs, 2s 3d to 2s 9d ; and Shearlings, is Gd to is B{l. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD. —Meadow hay, 3/ 5s to 4/ 13s ; clover ditto, 3/ 10s to 5/ 5s ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 16s per load. Trade steady, at full prices. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 3/ 5s to 41 168; clover ditto, 3/ 5s to Si 5s ; and straw, 1/ 8s to 1/ 16s per load. Supply good, and trade firm. WHITECRAPEL.—Ifeadow hay, 3/ 3s to 4/ 128 ; clover ditto, 3/ 8s to 5/ 58 ; and straw, 1/ 6s to 11 13s per load. A. full average supply, and a steady demand. all 100 all 100 . all all all all S T 1 N S~T, % LVD EP E 11 7 D E CEO r4R,Yraiti 717 . V•to - A -\ \ - The Mayor of Newcastle has itt*/*iiiisll o llo . wiiv communications, in reply to the Ikeit(tirittr acl a becatit' the recent meeeting on the Turkish 07 , W15 -- = - .:_ c: " House of Commons, Aigirti,"l63': "My dear Sir,—l beg to forward you the reply of Lord John Russell to the memorial intrusted to me for presentation to him by the late public meeting at New castle. lam sure you will concur in the satisfaction with which I receive Lord John Russell's assurances of the interest which the Government of this country con tinue to attach to the maintenance of the Turkish Em pire on its present independent basis. " I am, my dear sir, " Most faithfully yours, " JOHN B. BLACKETT. " The Right Worshipful the Mayor of Newcastle." " To the Mayor of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. " Sir,—l have had the honour of receiving an address signed by you on behalf of a meeting of the inhabitants of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. " I am happy to find that this meeting concurs with me in opinion that this country ought to be anxious to maintain the independence of Turkey.' ' " That independence could tot be subverted without a great change in the territorial circumscription of Eu rope ; a derangement of the distribution of power, sanc tioned by treaties, and more especially a violation of the engagements contracted by the great Powers in 1841. " That indepe n d ence cou ld no t b e su bverted without a danger of the aggrandisement of States already suffi ciently formidable, and a disturbance of the balance of power in Europe. " That independence could not be subverted without a great diminution of British commerce, now fostered by the moderate tariff of the Turkish empire. " You may rely upo n th e cons t an t v i g il ance o f h er Majesty's Government b e i ng em pl o y e d t o preven t s u c h misfortunes ; upon the sense of justi ce an d goo d f a ith which animates the principal States of Europe ; and upon the weight of the British Parliament, which will be ever ready to defend the rights and the independence of her Majesty's allies. " I beg you to thank the inhabitants of Newcastle in my name, for the distin gu i s hed honou r th e y h ave d one me ,and remain, sir, with great respect, your obedient some, " J. RUSSELL. " Chesham-place, April 11, 1853." —Newcastle Chronicle, April 15. THE PATENT SMOKELESS FURNACE.: --•,--- (Front the Mining Journal.) As "the time produces the man" fo r it s particular .) emergency, so does it often . the " means " for at taining an immediately desired object ; and just a t th e moment when the necessity for aneffic!ent invention to prevent the formation of smoke, in all its frightfully in creasing density and profusion, has become manifest, we have both the man and the means before us. The smoke less furnace invented and patented by Mr. John Lee Stevens, with whose scientific ability and persevering industry the readers of the Mining Journal cannot be unacquainted, appears to us to possess every re quirement for the purposes for which it is intended, its leading points being novelty of conception and combination, united with extreme simplicity, cheap ness of construction, and durability, unendangered by any moveable parts ; added to which the labour of the fireman is absolutely simplified and lessened, in stead of the contrary. The invention consists in the combination of two sets of fixed fire-bars, the first of which is chiefly fed by the scoria and cinders voided from the second or upper set of fire-bars, with a calorific plate, the face of which may be protected by a few fire bricks ; by which arrangement the current of air enter ing at the lower part of the furnace passes through two strata of fire, and thence between the calorific plate and the bridge, and is thus so intensely heated as continu ously to produce the entire combustion of the gaseous products of the fuel, and to prevent the ordinary forma tion of smoke. It is, in effect, a double furnace, con fined to the limits of, and economically applicable to, any common description of furnace ; has all the advantages of a hot blast without the cost of any pneumatic appa ratus ; is so contrived as uniformly to distribute and keep up the requisite heat in boilers of whatever form ; and whilst most effectually preventing the annoyance of smoke, and the usual deposit of soot in the flues, it causes an average saving of at least 20 per cent. in the quantity of fuel consumed, and also admits the substitu tion of the cheapest for that of a dearer quality, and of small instead of large coals, as further means of reduc ing the expense of consumption. These claims to preferential consideration are now unquestionably sustained by the strong and concurrent testimonials in favour of the invention that have been submitted to us, and which place the saving in the cost of fuel a little in excess of the inventor's calculation, being in various proportions that range from 20 to 26 per cent. ; and the highly respectable parties from whom they emanate, agree in declaring that the smoke, visible only when the " hot blast" is suspended by the door being opened for a renewal of coals to the furnace, is re duced to the lowest possible minimum in quantity, thin ness, and duration, and is, indeed, so light, as to be described as " a little smoky vapour." We may, there fore, hope very soon to see the last of the dense smoke, pouring out in thick and murky currents over and through the metropolis, from shafts and funnels innume rable, and hitherto indomitable. Nor will the benefits thus conferred on commerce specially, and on society uniyersally. be onnfin,l to Lo.ndon.—thrpuahout the United i.ingdom they wi ll b e s n are d, and, we doubt not, duly appreciated. Mr. Lee Stevens has already succeeded with his inven tion, modified to suit the various forms of boilers re spectively used by Messrs. Ward and Co., Grand Junc tion Wharf, and Mr. Wm. Batley, engineer, Bridge street Works, Northampton ; Messrs. Samuel and Vim. Standing, engineers. Osborn-street, Whitechapel ; Messrs. Welch and Margetson, Cheapside ; Messrs. Herring, Brothers, and Co., Alders,gate-street; Messrs. Keens and Welch, Garlick-hill ; the General Screw Steam Company's ship the Earl of Auckland, &c. ; and, we understand, is daily adding to the number, both in town and country. We are also happy to hear that he is possessed of those indispensable adjuncts to extensive operations in these days —commercial and official in fluence to assist, and money power to back him, with out which even an enterprise carrying with it the warm est wishes of all who value comfort, cleanliness, and health, might be too much for his admitted experience and energy. EARTHQUAKE IN AMERICA. The following account of the recent shock of an earth quake in the northern part of the State of New York is from the Northern Journal, published at Pulaski, Jeffer son county : "A most singular occurrence happened in our village and vicinity on Friday night, or rather Saturday morning last. The day previous had been clear and mild, and the evening closed in starry and cloudless. At about 10 o'clock the sky became overcast, and unusua l d arkness prevailed, which continued up to the time of the occurrence, which was about half-past 2. The phenomenon commenced with a heavy, distant, and rumbling sound beneath, somewhat like distant thunder, except that it was more smothered, which rapidly approached and increased to a climax, and then re ceded and died away. The roar as it approached was in. terrupted by one grand explosion louder than the loudest thunder, and by a series of reports less loud and less de fined, the whole ending with the same h eavy rum bli ng with which it commenced. The only intelligent description that can be given of the sound is, that it was terrible and appalling. Many who were awakened by it from their sleep pronounced it unearthly. From the first a tremulous motion was communicated to the earth, causing a rattling of the windows, which increased with the roar to such an extent that the buildings were violently shaken, displacing furniture, rattling dishes, &c. The motion was sufficient to cause the bell in the church to strike nine or ten times. The Academy bell rang also, though lower down, and in a position to be less affected by the vibratory motion of the earth. " Some who were standing in their houses at the time of the shock say that in the height of it it was quite impos sible to stand unassisted. In one instance a chimney was thrown down. In stone and brick buildings the effect was greater and more threatening. Our villagers were every where aroused, and many rushed into the streets, each supposing that his neighbour's house was being overt hrown by some violent explosion. 'ln other places , in particular directions, the shock and reports seemed equally or more severe and terrific. Mr. Calvin Wakefield, a candid man of undoubted veracity, living some six miles east of this , says that the shock threw several stones from his cellar wall. rushed wildly to fearful in that quarter. Neighbours meet them, in turn, seeking some distant neighbours, to protection. All concurred in be lieving " The whole occurrence was said to have been truly friendly sympathy or evil threatened their , is asked on every hand, to be answered " ' What was it? as the conceits of the ques some dire impendin g in a `Was it an earthquake. as it a concussion of tioned. ~, , vir e ,s it the bursting of some wandering aerolite the atmosphere, produced , by some wild rushing meteor or comet. in our midst ?" Was it—what was it r h t nhqoue First,a es k au erdt. thahe;elntlnhbeoaaiatrsboef absence e s is ca, clearly a a lla t h gce a os n . u hand t e a r r e . destruction. tl iou thatsA d ways as diverse ~'lv . . "Nearly all concur in pronouncing it an earthquake —a or agof giveninai ynnZ; light t b s i o n d i u e s t io a n fi d e i ro n tfli t oa h e ns i h a r t s o . f; same facts, however, would go to show there was sufficient nfiTrn:he, disturbance or change in the atmospherefor dumb beasts to discover that something unusual was about to oc cur. The dogs barked and howled in the streets for soma time previous, and those confined manifested the greatest Uneasiness. It is possible, however, that the muttering was heard by them before it broke out loud enough to awaken sleepers. " As for theilirection in which the shock travelled, we are convinced it was from east to west. We have heard from different points, from reliable sources, and find that at Remseu, Trenton, and Holland Patent nothing was ex perienced; Turin quite heavy, at Copenhagen quite heavy, at Watertown slight, at Adams heavy, and, if reports are correct, heavi er th an h ere. From these facts it would appear evident that the course of the—whatever it was— was from east to west, or vice versa. The precise time of the occurrence of the phenomenon was, by Lowville time, 22 minutes to 3 o'clock ; by the time of the Principal of the Academy, lately adjusted by the Watertown time, a quarter past 2 o clock. " Twice before, we are informed, have similar pheno mena been observable here, though never anything as severe as this ; one fifteen years ago. We have also heard it stated there were two or three slight shocks felt sub sequent to the grand shock on Friday night, at those in tervals of about five min u t es . Thi s is affirmed by living east of this, tho ug h no t di scovera bl e in th e v DIPLOMATIC SERVICES.—From a return yesterday issued (obtained by Mr. Oliveria, M.P.), it a ppears that the salaries of persons employed in diplomatic services amount to 117,9551., and the allowan ce for house rent is 9,9001., making 127,855 1 . a-year. There is, besides, 7,679/. for diplomatic services in Persia. ; \: ;. OA". 15 , oil 91 4):) •ouns el to toke of 1) th r rat° Co ri s fe re o f p ,l 1 50 161 St. 20 St. 50 40 25 25 100 100 100 100 261 13i 20 20 50 10 6 12 121 12. 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