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the house at greater length—he would be happy to point ~,bsthing out or gi ve an y ex pl ana tion to the committee u lat might be required. He now begged to put into the hands of the Chairman the following vote :- 45 ,500 men to be employed in the sea service, 1854. 12,500 Royal marines, and 2,000 boys. Mr. IMAM assented to the vote, and hoped to see the . next naval estimates in a more improved condition. Sir T. D. ACLAND said he too was an advocate for a ' wise economy, but he hoped his right hon. friend the mem ber for Carlisle would remember there could be no such ,economy if the efficiency of the service were neglected. Mr. A. STAFFORD said that in reference to the pro- Posed reduction in the hydrographical department, he had to state that he entirely agreed with the right hon. baronet 4 1 ,0 n that point. Government W. WILLIAMS said he could not blame the vovernm en t for the increase which had been made in the naval esti mates for the present year, b ecause pu bli c op i n i on "d been distinctly pronounced in favour of such a mea sure, Captain SCOBELL should insist that the improvements In steam added as much to the defence of England as they could facilitate the operations of an invading force. He 'Warned th e authorities how they increased the jealousy of ' 33 . 0 French nati on by co ll ec ti ng a Channel fleet at a time that u ly ly h aas e n n snle,looo. n r a . t ;e io a n r, had not a single line-of-battle ship in the hear.) The annual cost of a 90- gun s hi p so that the fleet of 14 or 15 line - of - b attle ehi h Ps, referred to by the late Chancellor of the Exchequer, ;tvould cost close on 800,001)1. a year. (Hear, hear.) He !hither b egged to suggest that all vessels in lutist . ° should be built by contract, and he had no doubt they would ex cel those built in the dockyards. Admiral W A LCOTT thought it better that no step should be taken until the report of the committee sitting on the question of " manning the navy" should be made. • Sir J. WALMSLEY wished to know whether it was the Intention of the Admiralty to place the port of Liverpool 3 2 1 a better state of defence than that in which it was at the present day ? He thought the better defence of that Port Was a subject to which the attention of he r Ma j est y 's Government ought to be seriously directed. Sir J. GRAHAM said he had to observe, in answer to t he questi on w hi c h h a d b een j us t put to him, that the question of the defence of Liverpool was one which had not been altogether overlooked. by her Majesty's Govern ment. A steamer of war had been ordered to go to that Port alr ea d y, and measures wou ld b e t a k e n in the course of the summer if necessary, to provide for its def ence. He W ould now venture to say a few words in answer to some cbservations that had' been made in the course of that dis tessibm The great pressure upon him that evening had feet with respect to the saving he had endeavoured to ef hear)—and he therefore had to defend again tr_le reductions he had proposed to make. They had cer tainly Placed the expense at th e lowest possible amount .Ps)llsistent with efficiency ; but at the ,same -time he be lieved that the important point of efficiency had not been neglected by them. It had been said that these had been 1 1 10 red uct i on of dockyards, but the fact was , as a pp e ared the a report o f th e comm ittee which had inquired into subject, that the numbers of men in the dockyards had been reduced from 13,000 to 9,600. With regard to the ?xercise of political influence in promotion at the dockyards, Ile had to state that the rule in those establishments at present was, that when a man had once been admitted into t hem, nothing but his own misconduct should prevent his Z i uquent promotion. His noble friend the member for "doh, in the year 1848, when the employment of his Political influence in effecting promotions had been cen sured had given a most solemn assurance on the p art of e Government that such an abuse should no longer be tontinued. He (Sir J. Graham) agreed in the opinion Which he had heard expressed by some persons, that if they Were the have another Reform 1.411 the good of the service happiness of the men employed in the dockyards, is well as in the Post-office and revenue departments, "bid render it desirable that, while they continued in the service of the Crown, their franchise should be suspended. a-s could undertake to say that, in the distribution of the patronage at his disposal, political influences should not be allowed to prevail. He knew well the difficulty of carry ins out that pledge, for the pressure on the Admiralty au thorities was extreme ; but his duty was a sacred one, and to the best of hi s ability he would endeavour honestly to discharge irrespective of all charge it, i r r e sp outward considerations. ie should tell the house that, having considered matters 111 c onnection with the navy since his return to the office he had left 20 y ears ago , h e h a d f oun d that so much had been 'Oho by his right hon. friend the member for Portsmouth , that tlhaat he sho u ld be deceiving the house if he were to stat e he hoped to be able to effect any very considerable .re duction in th e nava l ex p en dit ur e. There was at present an Increas e in the number of men, and that of course rendered nec essary an increase in the whole of the estimates. He should tell the house that, notwithstanding the hardships which poor sailors underwent in the service, out of the number of seamen which the house had ordered, not less t han one-half had been volunteers. He thought that cir hllinstance told favourably in favour of the officers, and S helved that when in command of ships they did not in L e ne i ral abuse their authority. Everythina had been done check that abuse of authority, and he b hoped that the measures taken for the purpose had been attended with success. In the present year an increase had been recom p°ended, as he had already stated, in the American na val rem, and the American authorities had justified that in crease by a r e f erence t o the increased activity and enter whichV the hurry of the times exacted from the n av y . were the views of the American Government —such ; ere the views of the British Government. It was not in spirit of rivalry to any other power —it was not in any s pirit of hostility to any other power —that these votes W ere ask e d f or • and he was confident the committee would give their assent to them. (Hoar, hear.) The vote was then agreed to, as were also a vote for 1 ' 736 236/. for the wages of seamen and marines, and T f; ,42 61. for victualling. le e uRAIRMAN then reported -av e 8 .. progress, and asked 1 . 11 e.?, it again. a se uface of Examiner (Court of Chancery) Bill was read c ° ll tl t,' M Oa the mhe. olotion that the house at its rising adjourn till lir. a vP whether -, 4 -.POLE wished to ask the noble lord opposite apecti n ; t " h e bring on his resolution on Thursday ro e oaths taken by members, and if the discussion on the n rev • for I D I°lll3 moti on of the right hon. baronet the member roitwich should last till a late hour? • Lord J. RUSSELL said if he could bring on his resolu tion respecting the oaths, and with reference to Jewish disabilities, before eleven o'clock on Thursday night, he should do so. If not, he should postpone his motion to Rome other day. The noble lord then moved to discharge Mr. Wilson from further attendance on Ithe ndian terri tories committee; and that the following members be added thereto :—Lord J. Russell, Sir C. Wood, Sir G. Grey, Sir addock, Mr. C. F ortescue, Mr. Cardwell, Mr. J. Elliot, and Mr. Lowe.—Agreed to. The noble lord then obtained leave . to bring in a bill for carrying into effect the treaty with the republic of New Granada for the suppression of the slave trade. On the motion of Sir J. SHELLEY, Alderman Cubitt ' vas appointed to be a member of the select committee on the coal dues. The house then adjourned at half-past one till Monday. PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—FiEs. 13. • fil - UPPLY. Order for committee read—Motion mad 14 ,11 11, "That the Speaker do leave the chair. e ,, an ,x d h q e u n es o t n io s n o s" . vklod—Ayes, 164; Noes, 28. MAJORITY—AYES, 164. Peel Frederick 4 . 4 and, Sir T. D. Ilanmer,. Sir J. Percy, J. William . 41 alr ux , kl t' u C ili tt i. W. 11 11 a as r ti c e u , r A b le e la G n . der .44fIcierley, C. B. Thistle, 'more J. G. Phillips, John Henry A , chibald Thill , c oca, Thomas 4alerson, Sir James H il e a a w d ia lamn Pilkington. James WilliamT.B Phinn, T. arinessiey Earl f Henchy, D. O'Connor Pinney, William 4, Th ,o , X "ton, W. Heneage, G. F. Potter, R. al leY II J I; . Herbert, Sidney Prime, R. e in es, M. T. Herbert, Sir T. Richardo, 0. • t ar ing, Sir F. Hervey, Lord Alfred Rice, E. ernes, T . t a a, I. T. Heywood, James Robartes, T. J. A. Hindley, Charles Robertson, P. F. ll er ti k l ai eY, Admiral Horsfall, Thomas B. 'Roll, P. _ _ $? then, Richard Hotham, Lord Russell, LordJ • V aoktt, J. P. Howard, C. W. G. Russell, F. C. LT. 1, 01(1 ,ero, Colonel Hutchins, E. Sawle, C. B. G. arty,e nua ni - CJohn Hutt, William Scholefleld. W. b a nker T . ...re% ' • • Ingham, R. Scobell, Capt. . a a a rt iu m:h rt° ers n , ' bi j : Beating, Henry Scott, F. Kershaw, James Seymour, Lord Ch. -ers, Thomas Kirk, William Smith, Rt 'ln. R. c , 4 rieris F 'teeth ' : Labouchere, Henry Smith, W. M. am, oohn Langston, J. H. Choi Spooner, R. ni‘ ndeley, Ld. H. Leiden, William Stafford, A. CiristY, Samuel L ew is, Sir T. F. Stanley, Lord Ce v b e it ' ll ' Locke, Joseph Stansfleld, W. R. , bld, J. Chevalier Lovaine, Lord Stapleton, John -'`.!ftlll, 'Walter Lowe, Robert Stirling, William Co " tP t nn, 11. Combe Luce, T. SulLvan, M. Cr a ".. ar, Vi r • F. Mackinnon, W. A. Thoniely, T. c u q.ord, R. Macgregor, James Towneley, C. beo ford, Alderman Mandeville, Viscount Townshend, Capt. BeV' W• Marshall, W. Turner, C. I)isrings Bendward Meagher W. N. Tyler, Sir G. L./., ° ' I Lamin , Thomas Villiers, C. Pelham br t ,,, ral anrig, Viscount Mitchell, W. Vivian, H. H. ta_ M o nd , Henry Milligan, R. Waddington, 11. S. x, e i n,nude, j, Mills, T. Walcott, Adm. Fa ciyn, W. J. v r gan, WJ. Moffatt, G. Walmsley, Sir J. Molesworth, Sir W. Walpole, Spencer H. liV, a son, Sir Robert Monsen, W. Wickham, H. W. Pit raa nn, Joseph Montgomery, Sir G. Wilkinson, W. A. I,it_gerald., J. D. Morgan, C. R. Wilcox, B. phgeraid, W. R. S. Morris, D. Wilson, James Forst aro, Henry ~er, 11. Mulgrave, Earl Wilson, M. Stunts, G. Frederick Wortley, J. S. Forster' Charles c 0..., Newdegate, C. N. Wrightson, Wm. B. Ci,x,"'"u, Colonel Oakes, J• ii. P. Wyvill, M. • c i - ger, R . Zreige, John O'Connell, Maurice Young, Sir John O'Flaherty, Anthony oci rteli, Viscount Oliveira, B. ti ° oo Zall, Si r George Osborne, Ralph Go w W. Paget, Lord George TELLEIS. Grace, O L. Pakington, Sir John Graham'; 0 - ton Viscount Hayter, W. G. Sir James Pa l t ni te e n r , s j. ' Berkeley, Granville MINORITY—NOES, 23. II , rrow ~,,, aj a tili m „, ',.," tn. R. Greville, Colonel F. sari,' -' 'aPiain Hadfield, George Smith, • Cl 3r " T olin Xennedy, Tristram Swift, ft. y,- J S oh ir n a. B . e V iki . oattetir William Lucas, F. Cr "'JM. Allan, Edward Whalley, G. H. S Van ell s e ittart, George H to ook. Joseph Williams, W. 1 , ' lk e , Sir j. Miller, T. J. Moore, G. H. c; W. J. ~. . w ..„. Alurrough, J.P. French V' . •A. Pellatt ApsleY qx,t e _ n.e. Joltzstephen Powlett, Lord W. na Shee, William TELLIES. Hume, Joseph Stuart, Lord D. ON •KOB Tu EST MONTGOMERY, THE P OET , AND H IS WRITINGS E uoNTINENT .— A literary f r i en d of ours has just l'eeeived aletter from Amsterdam, in which he informs Us that M. J. H. liiiehen, one of the Municipal Council that_, city, and .curator of the Athenmum in Amster th`", has Just delivered a long and elaborate le b c e tu fo r r e e on a „ s poetical works of Robert Montgomery, v,-erewded and brilliant assembly of savants" at s t‘.:(ltrecht, which has excited profound interest, and 1 Published after it has been delivered at Leide. a..e o._ .-IS-oohen translated select passages from la ,flni.presence of the Deity," " Woman, , "The 2lessiah," and ~ Satan 'and Luther." His extracts t°4'olU this last (and in some respects the greatest of the ~et's works) called forth warm expressions of approval.. heare are gratified in stating this, because we rejoice to 411110 that foreign countries are beginning to confirm °lls which Southey and Professor Wilson long since_ th uttered in England. While on the subject, we may add gn at a, complete illustrated edition of Robert Mont and Poems has just been published in America ; fatedwe hear likewise that his "Luther" is to be tram ,, into German. It was of this (the only poem on t'''..l_, Reformation Whieh exists) thnt Neander, the illus -1,'°1,1.8 German historian of the Church, said, just before - ~ . e cued ~ -- 44 e ' navethat work with p ro f oun d i nterest - 4 opt jy.'t read LONDON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1853, Anything more disgraceful can scarcely be ima gined than the system of petty prevarication in dulged in of late by some of not the least import ant Members of her Britanic MAJESTY'S Govern ment. Yesterday evening, in the House of Com mons, afforded a new and very melancholy illus tration of this, during the course of the very garrulous and vapid debate which followed the inquiries addressed to the present Ministry iu reference to our relations with France, by the Right Hon. Gentleman the Leader of the Oppo siticn. Than those inquiries, nothing, we take it could, by possibility, have been more rational under existing circumstances. For, let us- ask one simple question—have we not witnessed recently the extraordinary spectacle of Cabinet Ministers pandering to the prejudices of th e mob by scurrilities directed against the Im perial Chieftain of 35,000,000 of Frenchmen, at the very time when the naval and mili tary armaments of the country wore being largely augmented under the guidance of the Administration Y Aware of this, it was only reasonable that Mr. DISRAELI should - wish, before the House was called upon to vote the supplies for our maritime service, to elicit from the occu pants of the Treasury benches some clear and distinct explanation of the views really entertained by them in regard to the most powerful of our Continental neighbours. Among the estimates to be submitted to the Commons, on the House going into a Committee of Supply, there were items show ing an increase over the expenditure of the previous year of 399,0001. in the Naval department. It was only right, therefore, the Ministerial advisers of the SOVEREIGN should be required, before bringing those items under the consideration of the popular representatives, to announoe boldly and explicitly what axe their actual sentiments towardi the members of the neighbouring Go vernment. Hence the inquiries, made last night by the Right Hon. the ex-CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER. How those inquiries were re sponded to by the Noble Lord the FOREIGN SECRE TARY, the community may now recognise through the medium of yesterday's discussion. Now, let us see for one moment with what astonishing cool; ness Lord JOHN RUSSELL can insult the common sense of the people in his blundering attempts to evade the assaults of his antagonists. Allusion, said the Noble Lord, had been made to passages in speeches delivered by Members of the Cabinet —and for what purpose had that allusion been made ? It could only be to excite irritation. Good GOD to which side we should like to know is this irritation attributable ? Is it attributable to the Statesman who demands with all Parlia mentary decorum some explanation of a dubious part of our public policy—or to the Minister of State who so far forgets the responsibility of his position and the dignity of his office, as to speak of an illustrious Ally in terms of the most vulgar vituperation? Let us add, however, that Lord JOHN goes. farther than this in his profound contempt for the common sense of the population. He asserted that nothing was further from the inten tions of the gentlemen who acted thus, meaning, of course, the Right Hon. Baronets the PRESI DENT of the BOARD of CONTROL ' and the FIRST LORD of the ADMIRALTY, than to say anything offensive to the French EMPEROR or his people . ! Can anything, we ask, be more preposterous than this, more directly opposed by the deductions formed by the most dispassionate judgment ? According to Lord JOHN RUSSELL, you may call a distin guished potentate by all the opprobrious terms in the dictionary, and yet mean nothing whatever offensive ! You may scout a whole race, and that race, as Mr. DISRAELI justly observed yesterday, the most polite, the bravest, and the most in genious of modern times. You may designate a great people like this, foremost in the ranks of civilisation—a nation of slaves—ground down into , the dust under the most ignominious circum stances—and yet mean nothing whatever offen sive As well might you indulge your spleen by kicking a man in Regent-street, and then, when remonstrated with, declare that you meant nothing whatever offensive. As well throw mud and brick bats at a group of neighbours who are doing you no sort of injury, and then rebut the charge of intem perance in your conduct, by declaring that you meant nothing whatever offensive Nevertheless, in regard to one of those two Cabinet Ministers of England who have recently degraded their office by becoming the scurrilous assailants of a friendly and neighbouring Govern ment—it must be remembered, as Mr. DISRAELI said last night with such bitter truth and such exquisite sarcasm, that he is in the habit of saying offensive things without meaning them, a peculiar organisation,, of which it can only be said that it is a very awkward accomplishment. Bearing in mind what has recently occurred in testimony of the accuracy of this observation, remembering the language employed by Sir CHARLES WOOD at Halifax and Sir JAMES GRAHAM at Carlisle, and taking into account the melancholy prevarications by which blame in the matter was striven by Lord JOHN RUSSELL to be slinfiled off from the shoulders of the Coalition Ministry—it will be well for the honour of the country, for the dignity of the CROWN, and for the character of the British Government, if henceforth the Statesmen, en trusted with the higher offices of Administration, display, if it be only in appearance, a manlier courage and a wiser circumspection. It was said of the whilome " King of CON- MARA," as poor DICK MARTIN was facetiously designated, that when dunning applications were pouring in thickly, he was accustomed to " bless the happy days when the post came in but once a fortnight." The embarrassed potentate could only regard the increased postal facilities as unmitigated evils, enabling troublesome creditors to annoy gentle men who had favoured them with their custom, and as a means of keeping the unsatisfactory state of their pecuniary concerns continually under consideration. The benefit to the community was lost sight of in the inconvenience to which he was personally exposed. _ There are many Right Honourable Gentlemen who entertain a similar feeling as to the publicity given to Parliamentary discussions. Mr. GLADSTONE, last night, must have blessed the happy times when there was no HANSARD, when the publica tion of debates was strictly prohibited, and all that the public could learn of Legislative sayings and doings was derived from the pages of the Gentleman's Magazine,• which contained very brief summaries of the proceedings, the names of the orators being studiously concealed, until they be came identified with the classical appellations under which they were designated. If the prac tice of the " good old times" were restored, Mr. GLADSTONE, Lord JOHN itIISSELL, and Sir CHARLES WOOD would have been spared the castigation so soundly administered by the veteran JOSEPH HUM; who wielded the formidable instrument placed in his hands with a vigour and energy that must have in no small degree astonished the un willing recipients of the. unexpected flagellation. Nothing can be more displeasing to one of the " ins" than to have his own opinions as an " o4t" brought forward in opposition to his conduct on the subject under discussion ; but it must be pecu liarly so when these very opinions were put for ward as reasons for censuring his predecessors, and made use of as stepping-stones to official rank and power—when he finds that he is condemned by his own words, and the gross inconsistency of his proceedings is clearly and unsparingly exposed on an authority which he, at least, cannot slight or disregard. The first named Right Hon. Gentleman, so far back as the 6th of Dec., made a vigorous onslaught on the late Administration, and more especiallyon the accomplished occupant of the office which he him self now holds, for daring to allude to any fiscal reductions before he had obtained the sanction of the House to the renewal of the Income Tax, which, " producing more than one-tenth of the annual revenue," would expire at the ter mination of the current financial year that is to say, on the sth of April next. It was true that Mr. DISRAELI had fully and une quivocally explained the intentions of the late Government in reference thereto. He was pre pared to recognise the distinction between preca rious and certain incomes, leaving the details of the measure for future arrangement. But, not withstanding this explicit avowal—notwithstand ing that there was no concealment of, or mystery as to, the Ministerial views, Mr. GLADSTONE, a leading Member of her MAJESTY'S Opposition, thought it "by no means a regular.(!), an advan tageous (! 1), or almost a constitutional (HI) order of proceeding," to make any provision for the financial year, commencing the sth of April, until the course to be pursued with respect to the Income Tax had been fully considered. Lord JOHN RUSSELL fully concurred in that opinion, thinking that " there was great force in what the Right Honourable Gentleman said, as to the neces sity o f taking both the Incom e Tax and the House Tax before the House was asked for any votes ;" while Sir CHARLES Woo D---the unhappy Marplot of every proceeding in which he was concerned— who occasioned greater damage to every Adminis tration with which he has been connected than its most forMidable opponent, c ontributed his mite, by declaring that " the House ought to go i n t o a Committee of Ways and Means, when a resolu tion might be proposed for the maintenance of the Income Tax." But, alas for consistency and stability of opinion—alas for faith in human promises I These very men now force the House into a Committee of Supply, asking large grants, while they obstinately refuse to afford the slightest particle of information as to their intentions with regard to the Income Tax—all mention whereof is to be delayed until after dissolution.E as e r , v w h e l e l n m t g e h i t m t p h o e s y t is skulko n t e t v h e e r g h e a e o k f ground, while the duty of appealing to the House to sanction a course once deemed so unconsti tutional, devolved upon a colleague against whom no such damning evidences of inconsistency could be adduced. Let the Noble Lord and his Right Honourable colleagues ponder over the Admirable lines .of the Bard of Scotland— " Oh, wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursels as ithers see us, It wad frae mony a blunder free us And foolish notion." Could they know the light in which their shameful tergiversation would be regarded by every disin terested man throughout the length and breadth of the land, they would have been spared that de plorable blunder which has cast so much discredit on the entire Administration. We should not under other circumstan.?es object to the passing of the Naval Estimates. There is no extr vagant or unnecessary outlay to be complained of. The propositions of the late Government have been fairly carried out. We only fear that there has been too great a reduction in the scientific department, and that the efficiency of that im portant branch may be impaired from the adoption of the penny wise and pound foolish economy. Nor can we concur in the propriety of the saving with respect to tidal harbours. The expenditure is, we believe, essential to the natio:nal safety, and we do not grudge or complain of it. But we do object most str enuous l y t o the total disregard of principle that induces men. who gave utterance in - December-last to such ()pinions as those above alluded to, now to follow a course so totally opposite to that which they then insisted on. Never was there a m ore fl agran t instance of eating one's own words th an th a t by three leading Memb ers o f h er .M A JESTY'S Government. just exhibited Elsewhere will be found, .in our impression of this evening, those important documents by which Louis KOSSUTH has corroborated the statements recently made by a gentleman of uninapeachable integrity in regard to a now notoriou s forgery, purporting to have been penned by :him in the form of an inflammatory Proclamation.. It was only the day before yesterday that we ex plained, with all possible distinctness, the tendency of this very cruel and flagrant fnbrication. We then proved, by reference to our journal of the 12th instant, that we ourselves had already at that date, and in our leading columns, alluded to the document, by asserting that -we wanted evidence of its authenticity. It has consequently been a source of profound gratification for us to observe the recent disavowal of the Proclamation on the part of the glorious leader of the Hun garians, and still more to find Rossunt himself rendering that disavowal conclusive by language of the most exact corroboration. MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday, were estimated at 5,000 bales. The market was quiet, but closed heavily at previous rates. Railway shares were firmer. The Indigo auctions went off well again yester day afternoon. The quantity passed is now 10,306 chests, of which 6,477 have been sold. The sales will be resumed on Monday, with the remainder of catalogue B. The balance-sheet of the Bank of England, made up to the 12th instant, shows by the changes in its various items that the demand for money continued steady, for although there was but a trifling increase in the loans and discounts, the withdrawal of pri vate balances showed that parties were able to ob tain better employment for their surpluses. The sum of the precious metals was diminished nearly 300,0001., as stated under this head a day or two since, and this necessitated a curtailment of the issues, and an addition to the notes reserved. The smaller amount of the Government securities shows either sales by the Bank, or a return of advances that had been made thereon. Compared with the previous week, the changes are as follows : Active circulation Decrease Bullion Decrease Rest Increase . Public Deposits Increase Other deposits Decrease Seven day and other Bills Decrease Government securities Decrease... Other securities ... £22,305,085 390,325 18,402,360 298,452 3,313,924 5,492 6,239,297 671,092 12,012,578 593,652 1,417,834 22,164 13,648,600 Increase ... Notes unemployed Increase - . 116,051 13,790,758 84,946 9,494,625 155,805 The rates at which Bills of Exchange were nego tiated yesterday afternoon on the principal conti nental cities were higher on Paris, viz., 25 2712 to 3212, and up to 13 7i and 8 on Hamburgh, and 120 i on Frankfort. Amsterdam was scarcely so good, being 11 18i to 19. Trieste about the same. All these prices are for 90 days' bills. From what transpired at the meeting yesterday of the shareholders in the Fast India Railway Com pany, it would appear that there are some parties who still affect to believe that the formation of the entire railway communication, not only in the Bengal presidency, but also in the north-west pro vinces, ought by good right to be entrusted to that company, notwithstanding the immense contracts it has on hand, and the importance of other lines being formed simultaneously. Neither the Board of Control nor the honourable Directors in Leadenhall street, will be disposed, we apprehend, to favour in the least such unreasonable pretensions, damag ing as they would prove to the public weal, and objectionable as they would be upon principle. The Upper India Railway Company has a prelimi nary capital subscribed by first-rate parties, willing forthwith to commence the construction of the great trunk line, of about 400 miles, from Allaha bad to Delhi. The directors are practical men, either here or in. India, and Mr. Robert Stephenson, the eminent engineer, is their adviser. There never was a time when it was more expedient for Government to adopt a well-organised plan, such as is here presented ; and if Sir Charles desires the welfare of our vast Eastern territories, he will without delay secure the necessary capital offered by this public and responsible company, and anti pate the period when, money being scarcer, the same facilities would not exist. A very moderate guaranteed interest would be an adequate induce ment, because the proposed line has all the ele ments of success within itself. It passes along a level country and populous cities, and replaces a miserably tedious system of travelling. It cen tralises the governing power, while it developes the popular resources ; and the following state ments, so far from being exaggerated, are, as the Indian press has testified, much subdued in com parison to ascertained recent data " There is, both by steamers and country craft, a continuous permanent water communication between Calcutta and Allahabad. The yearly tonnage 'V the Lower Ganges is 1,500,000 by the country craft alone. The number of passengers is also very groat. Deep water ceases at Allahabad, and consequently it is at this important city that the real difficulty and expense of transit begin. The sandbanks of tho Upper Ganges, and the sharp ledges of rock of the Jumna, render the navigation by even the smaller country craft slow and precarious. The insurance of merchandise and pro perty from Agra to Allahabad, by the river route, in con sequence of the danger and difficulty of the navigation, is as high as from Calcutta to England, the distance in the one case being 300, in the latter 15,000 t miles. Above Allahabad, notwithstanding the defective river navigation, and the rude and expensive land carriage, which costs from 4d. to 8d per ton per mile, moving at the slow rate of 10 miles in 24 hours , there is an officially 'ascertained traffic of above 1,000,000 tons, and a land passenger traffic, by various conveyances, exceeding 100,000 per annum, besides passengers by boats, and about 300,000 travellers on foot. Having a great and navigable river connecting Calcutta and Allahabad, a railroad would, by beginning at the latter city, and pro ceeding by Agra and Delhi to Lahore, establish a steam communication from Calcutta through the fertile and populous Dooab, in the North-West Provinces, " occu pying the great line of Indian traffic with Central and Upper Asia." This is the great line of military as well as of commercial intercourse, more than three-fourths of the Bengal army being cantoned above Allahabad, and almost all emergent movements of troops and stores taking place to the north-west, or in advance of that town. One of the directors of this company, so far back as 1846, in a work of his on Indian railways (" Indian Railways," by an Old Indian Postmaster), stated that he had seen no large portion of territory present the like facilities for the introduction of a rail way, as from Allahabad to Delhi.' " The exports of gold coin from London direct during the week to Thursday last, were only 1,800 oz. to Belgium, and 10,0001. to Port Philip, and of silver 5,409 oz. to the Continent. The English Stocks are flatter, upon the news of a collision between the Turkish and Austrian troops, and the discovery of a conspiracy in Hun gary ; but very little business has been done. Consols have been 99 for transfer, and 991 for account. The New Three-and-a-quarter per Cents. have been marked 103 k /. Bank Stock is firm, at 224 to 228. The advertised Exchequer Bills have dropped to 10s. premium and par. Foreign Securities have been very dull. Spanish New Deferred are firm at 231, and Mexican at 23i. Buenos Ayres have been done at 62. Dutch Four per Cents. are 98/, and Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 99. Railway Shares have been tolerably firm, a n d in Aberdeen there is a further rise. French shares have been much the same. The Gold Mines are very steady. The Land Companies' Shares aro still rising. Australian Agricultural are up 51. to 101. ; and South Australian about 21. The Joint Stock Bank Shares are very firm. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (Prom the Officiai List.) Bank Stock 228 7i 3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOOl I. 1 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 New 31 per Cent. Annuities.. Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 63 Consols for Account 10th March 9 91 13 i Exchequer Bills lid. March. £IOOO • £5OO Small Ditto Advertised 5 12 _ .... 10 par PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent. 62 Mexican 3 per Cent 23i i Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. Ditto, 4i per cent lO3l Spanish Bonds,l3 per Cent — Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent 23a I Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. 5 p c Belgian Bonds, 4i per Cent. Ex. 25fr 99 Dutch Exchange 2i per Cent — Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates.... .... . TWO O'CLOCK. Consols 99 /. Ditto March Account 2 6 NEW NOVEL by the Author of " MARGARET MA EILAND." 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JOHN DOUGLAS and CO.—ln answox to an Advertisement inserted in the " Bradford Observer" of this day, signed SIEGMI.7ND IOWENTEIAL, attested JOSH. WILCOCK, We, the undersigned, do Hereby Give Notice,. that the said Sieg mund Lowenthal never was a Partner in our Firm, and that he ceased to be in our employ on the OHN 31st c ay of Janua , ry last. J DOUGLAS ALFRED BANKART, ANDREW CAIRO CHUII TON, • Carrying on busines as Stuff. Merchants in Bradforci, in the County of Yo s rk, under the Firm of J onx : 1 D ouGLAA and Co. Bradford, 17th February, 1853. • I) INNERS, BALL SUPPERS, and 'WED! DING BREAKFASTS provided in Town or Con airy, by Messrs. PUttSSELL'S, Cornhill, including wines, and the 'hire of plate, linen, china, seats, tables, servants, carriages, tents, aMinings, dancing hollands, &c. Ball.rooms lighted and adorned. :Instru mental mtts'c provided, Bills of fare sent per post for any number, or one of the firm will wait upon parties if required. Ain agnifi c ont display of Bride Cakes for selection, decorated in a7te w and elegant style. All the Parisian nov elties in Wedding Station ery.— Messrs. PURSSELL, 78, Cornhill (only). THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET. Farewell Season of Mr. Benjamin Webster as Lessee and Malnager. THIS EVENING, FEB. 19, Will be performed the new and original Comedy, in fl - re acts, called NOT sO BAD AS W.r.; SEEM ; or, Many Sides to a Charac- Supported by Messrs. B. Webster, Barry Sullivan, K ee l e y, ter. Blackstone, Leigh Murray, Stuart, Rogers, Miss Rosa Benuott, Miss A. Vining, Mrs. Leigh Murray, &C. After which, the new and original Farce, called TO PARTS AND BACK FOR FIVE POUNDS. To conclude with the Farce of A CAPITAL MATCH. ROYAL LYCEUM THEATRE. Under the Management of Madame Veal% THIS EVENING, FEB. 19, Will he performed the Comic Drama called A PHENOVENON IN A SMOCK-FROCK. Characters by Messrs. C. Mathews, F. Matthews, and Borneastle ; Miss F. Baker and Miss C. Mit. 2.he11. After which, the new and popular original Fairy Extravaganza, entitled THE GOOD WOMAN IN THE WOOD, in which Messrs. F'. Matthews, Suter, Horncastle, and Templeton ; Madame Testris, Mi s s Julia St. George, Miss Robertson, Miss Martindale, Mitts Ellis, Miss Wyndham, Miss Eglinton, and Miss Rosins, Wright will. Appear. To conclude with LITTLE TODDLEKINS. Sole Agent tor the Private Boxes, Mr. W. Alleroft, 16, Igew Bond street. THEATRE ROYAL ADELPHI. Proprietor, Mr. B. Webster.—Directress, Madame Celeste. THIS EVENING, Fan. 19, Will be presented the powerful now Drama of SLATE LIFE ; or, Uncle Tom's Madameabessrs. Alfred Wigan, S. Emer3 , 0. Smith, Harding, and Cullenford ; Celeste. gin Woolgar, Miss Collins, Miss To conclude with the succe•sful new Comic Pantomime, called Miss Keeley, and Mrs. Keeley. NELL GWYNNE ; or, Harlequin Merrie Monarch. Principal Mdile. Auriol ; Clown, Mr. Flexmore. ROYAL PRINCESS'S THEATRE, OXFORD-STREET,. Under the Management of Mr. C. Kean. THIS EVENING, FEB. 19, • Will be performed the new and original Comedy, in three acts, by Douglas Jerrold, entitled ST. CUPID ; or, Dorothy's Forte n a (as played at Windsor Castle, by Royal Command). Principal cb erec ters by Messrs. Wright, W. Lacy, Harfry. J. Vining, Ryder, F. Cooke, Everett, and Chester; Mrs. W. Lacy and Mrs. C. Kean. After which, THE SPITALFIEL DS WEAVER, in which Mr. Wright will appear. To conclude with the new and criginal Grand Comic Christ mas Pantomime, entitled lIARLEQUIN CHERRY AND 'FAIR STAR; or, The ' Green Bird, the Dancing Waters, and the Singing Tree. ROYAL OLYMPIC THE&TRE. Lessee' and Manager, Mr. Farren. THIS EVENING, FEL 19, Will be presented THE HUNCHBACK. Supported by Messrs. Compton, W. Farren, Jan Hoskins, Cooke, Kinloch, Edgar, and Bender ; Misses Anderton and H. Gordon. Atter which, the now and. successful, Farce of A DEED WITH OUT AT NAME, in which Mr. Compton will appear. To conclude with THE WATERMAN. Box-office open from Eleven till Five, under the superintendence of Mr. E. Chatterton. ASTLET'S ROYAL AMPHITHEATRE. Proprietor nd Manager, Mr. W. Batty. LAST WEEK BUT TWO of Mr. BATTY'S MANAGEWENT.. ON MONDAY ETENING, FEB. 21, And dnrlng the Week, the Entertainments will commence with the superb Spectacle of MAZEPPA AND TIIE WILD HORSE, reprOduced with all its splendid and startling effects. After which, a brilliant Routine of Scenes in the Arena, sup ported by the first native and continental talent. To conclude with a Laughable Farce. Doors open at ball-past I,IX YCIOCk . To commence at seven. Sox-office open daily from Eleven to Four. stage Manager, Mr. W. West. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE. Tuts DAT —Morning 7 min. after 10 I Evening 47 min•aft. 10 To-Moanow—Morning 27 min. after 11 I Evening 0 min-aft. 0 THE WEATHER.--SuN OFFICE, FEB. 19. THERMOMETER, IN THE SHADE. 30—highest since noon yesterday. 18—lowest this morning and during the night. 29—this day at noon. BAROMETER, 29'68. WIND, N.E.—Fine and frosty. The Publication of " THE SUN" Commences every afternoon at THREE O'CLOCK, and the Late or Third Edition, containing 'tile DEBATES IN PARLIAMENT ON THE SAME EVENING, with all other news ariving in London up to the how of Post, at SEVEN O'CLOCK. EXPRESS EDITIONS will be forwarded after the Post is closed by the Latest Trains• •-• : , r ,, I:its 44 410 , • COURT CIRCULA B. Her Majesty and his 'Royal Highness the l!'rince Albert honoured the performance at the Princess's Theatre with their presence yesterday evening. The Royals site consisted of the Marchioness of Ely, the Hon. Flora, Macdonald, Lord Rivers, Lord Alfred Paget, and Lieutenant Colonel the Hon. A. Gordon. The band of the Coldstream Guards atten, ded in Buck ingham Palace during dinner on Thursday, auks performed the following music : Overture—" Fest" Valse—" Paul and Virginia" Grand scena ed aria . Verdi. Polka—" The Juno" - Koenig. Pas Redouble " Zerbinc, ou la Corbeille, d'Oranges" Aubor. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attanded in the evening, and played the following compositions : Overture—" La Gaieto" Chorus of soldiers—" Falkner's Brant" Marschner. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, accompanied by her Serene Highness the Princess Adelaic , ,e of Hohen lohe, and attended by Lady Fanny Howard, arrived at her residence, Clarence House, St. James's, at four o'clock, from Frogmore. The Royal Duchess, with - the Princess Adelaide of Hohenlohe, attended by Lady Fanny Howard, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester last evening at her residence, Gloucester House, Piccadilly. Lord Cowley had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down. ing-street. A deputation, consisting of Mr. James Truscott, Mr. Stone, Mr. Beresford, and Mr. F. Braithwaite, had an in terview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Colonel Steinbach had an interview with the Duke of Newcastle yesterday. Sir Alexander Spearman had an interview' with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. Dispatches were sent yesterday from the Colonial-office to the Governor-General of Canada and the Governors of the other North American provinces. Dispatches were received yesterday from the Governor of Gibraltar. ORDER OF THE THISTLE-LORD EGLINTON. ( From the Morning Herald.) We have looked, we cannot say with anxiety, but cer- Lainly with a confident expectation, to Borne of the mi nisterial journals for a contradiction of the statment that Lord Aberdeen had conferred upon the Earl of Eglin ton the vacant ribbon of the Order of the Thistle. Emi nently popular as such an act would be, especially in Ireland, we have naturally looked to the journals sup posed to possess the confidence of Lord Aberdeen, for a disclaimer of the merit, to which the noble Premier has no claim. When, however, we see that credit is actually taken by those journals for this act, it is necessary that the real truth should be told. With the conferring of the Order of the Thistle on the late Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Lord Aberdeen had nothing whatever to.do. Before the resignation of the late Ministry, Lord .Derby had recommended this ap pointment to the Queen. Her Majesty, we understand, unhesitatingly and most graciously assented to the re commendation, and, according to the invariable etiquette on such occasions, the royal favour once conferred was not to be revoked by any change in the advisers of the Crown. - It happened, indeed, that before the actual installa tion of Lord Eglinton as a brother of the illustrious order which he is so well qualified to adorn, the friend who recommended him had ceased to be First Minister of the Crown. If there was any interference of the pre sent Ministers in the matter, it was the purely mini sterial duty of carrying out the commands of the Sove reign, to give.effect to the favour which she had already irrevocably ,conferred. GREIT FIRE IN TUE BOROUGH.—At a late hour last night, a most tremendous fire broke out in King-street, Borough, in the premises of Mr. Mansell, letterpress printer. Being one of the best parts of the metropolis for ready assistance on such unfortunate occasions, in a short time about twelve brigade and the West of Eng land engines reached the spot, and were in due time supplied with water, no less than 180 auxiliaries being employed. Notwithstanding this powerful aid, the flames spread so furiously that the exertions of the fire men tended to little advantage till the premises, stock, furniture, &c., of Mr. Mansell had been destroyed, and also the next houses partly consumed. Most valuable assistance was afforded by the M division of police, who saved much property, and co n ti nue d a dread to the Kent-street "gang," who mustered in formidable num bers. Mr. Mansell is believed to be insured. DEATH IN THE SNOW ON DARTMOOR.--.PLYMOUTH, F EB . 17.—The missing body of Corporal Panton, 7th Fusiliers, was found on Tuesday forenoon, about two hundred yards from the the Duch Hotel, Prince Town, almost within sight of his destination. In consequence of the inclemency of the weather, and the road being covered with snow, the convicts have been put on half I rations. From 500 to 700 of them have been employed to clear the approaches to the prisons, and they have been obliged, at considerable ri s k, t o bring in the sup plies upon their backs. SOUTHAMPTON, FRIDAY. —Some commotion has been caused in the docks to-day by a strike for wages of the seamen on board the Peninsular and Oriental Company's ship Bengal. This steamer is appointed to leave South ampton on Sunday for Alexandria, -with th e I n di a m ail, it and on Thursday demandedhuersdayth an ewholecrew, when ca ll e d u p on to sign increase of wages. This being reported- to the superintendent of the company waanged immediately pro- of seamen gene rally were t (Captain ,Engledue), that g en tleman refused to s ac cede to the demand of the men, statin g th a t t h e com pany had always paid a uniform rate o f wages, viz., 2/. 10s. per month, with s s. g ro g money, equal to 558. amnh , lower ev ceeded to London to eng a g e a fresh c rew. T his was speedily done, and about 30 abl e seamen were b roug ht o e n than periods that a when rate,he n down to man the Bengal. Some of these, it appears, deterred by the threats of fhe old crew, have hesitated to go ,on board the ship. while others have been put on board under an escort of policemen. The men com posing the former crew of the ship are greatly exaspe rated against the new-comers, and having threatened to assault and even murder them, a strong detachment of the town police force has been to-day on duty alongside the Bengal and the company's office, to prevent these threats from being carried into effect, and to protect the well-disposed seamen from insult and'inj ory. 1 THE GOLD COMPANIES. —Some impetus has been given to the operations of the gold companies by the decision of the Commission Court of San Francisco, in favour of the claim of the Hon. J. C. Fremont, as reported in the San Francisco Herald of the 28th December last, which likewise confirms the exclusive right to the minerals on the part of the landholders in fee in California--no new law, by the by—of the United States. We likewise get at the authenticity, or otherwise, of many gold com panies. " The Albion Gold Company's territory is at the upper portion of the county of Mariposa, and con sists of a little more than one thousand acres of land, in the highest degree auriferous, within seven miles of the Nouveau Monde Gold Works, with a ti tle in fee simple, and possession indisputed." In a few weeks the re cently-appointed manager and his staff will proceed, via Panama, to Burns Ranche, to take possession of the estate. The direction is purely English, and has the chairman of the Agua Fria at its h ea d ; and it will be seen by a notice in our advertising columns that Sir Charles Nightingale, Bart., has accepted the office of director, in the place of Sir John Shelly, retired,—Morn ing llerfad• LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DA Y.) LONDON, Feb. 19.—Wind at Noon, N.E., light breeze, and fine clear frosty weather. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 18.—Wind, N. to N.N.W. Sailed —Hat's ship Medea, Havannah ; do., Furious, cruising. DEAL, Feb. 18.—Wind, N.N.W., strong and squally. Arrived—Resolution, Lines. Arrived from the River, and sailed—Kath. Stewart, for Forbes, N.S.W. ; Glori ossa, Calcutta ; Emperor, Algoa Bay ; Claudia, Demerara. OFF FALMOUTH.—Thomas Snook, London, for Cape Coast Castle. LIVERPOOL, Feb. 18.—Wind, N. Arrived—Baltic (s), New York, left on the 7th of February, on freight 150,000 dollars of specie. Sailed—Sir John Falstaff, Jamaica ; William Mills, Savannah. Ems, Feb. 18.—The Fanny of Nantes has been wrecked ; crew saved. GIJON, Feb. 11.—The Jessie of Liverpool went down off Luanes on the 9th inst. ; crew saved. GIBRALTAR, Feb. 9.—The Omonia, Greek brig, for Queenstown, put in here, January 31, leaky, and will dis charge. YARMOUTH, Feb. 18.—The Econcmy of Goole foimdered off Cromer ; crew saved. LYNN, Feb. 18.—The Blassorn, w hich grounded, came off without damage. BELFAST, Feb. 17.—Wind, N.E. Sailed—John Thom son, New Orleans. BU.RNTISLAND ' Feb. 19.—Th e S amue l Whitbread, which grounded at the entrance of this harbour, has come in leaky, and will require caulking. MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Mining Journal of this day.) The fall of about 2/ in the standard for copper last week brought a few sellers of heavy shares into the market early in this, but altogether prices have been well maintained. Bul lers have been in demand, but no sellers, even at the present price of 1,2001, the report being that the dividend will be greatly increased. In the metal market an advance of ld per lb took place yesterday in the price of manufactured copper, being equal to 91 per ton : the present prices, as reported by Messrs. Sims, Willyams, Nevill, Druce, and Co., are—Manufactured, is 3d per lb; tough cake, 1351 per ton ; tile, 135/ per ton ; yellow metal sheathing and bolts, is ld per lb. The price of English tin has also advaiiced 51 per ton : the present prices are— Blocks, 51 12s per cwt ; ingots, 51 12s per cwt ; bars, 51 13s per cwt; refined blocks, Si 15s per cwt. Lead likewise shows a disposition for a rise, and spelter has advanced to 221 lOs from holders. Iron maintains its price, and a large business is transacting; Scotch pig has been sold at 53s 6d cash, and 55s to 57s 6d for account in three mouths. The sale of copper ore at Thursday's ticketting was 4,627 tons, produce 7, standard 155115, average price 8/ Os ; pro ducing in money 38,6431 17s 6d, and fine copper 331 tons 6 cwts. The corresponding sale of last month was 3,411 tons of ore, produce 7i, standard 1521 Os 6d, average price 81 I4s; producing in money 29,7531 Iss, and fine copper 256 tons 19 cwts ; being a decrease in the average price equal to about is per ton. In the Bullion Market—Mexican and South American dol lars, 4s Hid per oz. Bar silver, without gold, 5s lid per oz standard. Bar gold, 77s 9d per oz standard. Spanish dou bloons, 77s 6d to 77s 9d per oz. Foxdale, NeWtonards, Tamar, East Tamar, Herodsfoot, and East Wheal Rose Mines, have sold lead ores. Spearne Consols, Sidney Godolphin, Providence Mines, Bottle Hill, and Birch Tor and Vitifer, have sold black tin. The market for the gold mining shares has been decidedly better this week. Buyers have been more numerous, in the anticipation of good accounts both from Australia and Cali fornia ; and prices have displayed a firmer tendency from first to last. Yesterday, the upward movement was more particularly remarked ; and the - market closed at the highest prices of the week. The descriptions chiefly in demand are Co lonial Gold, Great Nugget Vein, Nouveau Monde, Port Philip, Anglo-Californian, and Agua Fria. The New South Wales Gold MiOng Company, we hear, have discovered gold on their estate on the Hunter River. It is rumoured that they have disposed of a portion of it for a large sum of money ; the posi tive amount we are not in a position to state, but believe it to be 50,0001 sterling. On Wednesday last, the Anglo- Aus tralian Gold Mining Company entertained Captain Bell, their superintendent, and the mining staff, at a dinner, at the Cla rendon Hotel, Gravesend, previous to their departure for Australia in the ship Adele, which sails to-day. On the same evening, the Chartered Australian land and Ilinining Com pany gave a banquet to their staff, at the Albion Tavern, Aldersgate-street. Great reciprocity of feeling was shown on both occasions by the several parties, and a good under standing appeared to exist betweenithe employers and their operatives. The Chowringee, from Melbourne, with nearly 63,713 ounces of gold, touched at Pernambuco, and sailed on the 21st of December. On board of her is a nugget of fine gold, weighing 46 lbs. troy, from the White Horse Gulley, Bendigo gold field. The Three Balls, which left Port Philip with 77,803 ozs., and the Roxburgh Castle, with 155,628 ozs., arc daily looked for. The com panies established in the more settled parts of the United States, as well as those in Central America, have decidedly assumed a finer appearance ; and the revival of confidence in the other descriptions of stock has likewise sensibly affected them. The accounts from California speak of the heavy rains and floods there, which in some measure, though not to a great extent, have paralysed operations in that quarter. The adjudication of Col. Fremont's claims, delivered by Mr. Com missioner Hiland Hall, on the 27th Dec. last, in favour of that gentleman, must give increased confidence to those who have speculated in gold mines situated on the location of the gallant officw. The Agua Fria Company have already been put in possession of their location, and, we believe, now that the question of disputed title is finally settled, will commence working. There can be no doubt that the colonel has had great difficulty iu obtaining this award : though it has arrived rather late, yet we must congratulate the different companies concerned on the ratification of their titles by the United States' Commissioner. Mr. Wright, who it will be remembered was over here last March, at the meeting of the Ana Fria Company, we understand has left California for the Atlantic States, in order to procure in the Supremo Court the immediate ratification of the colonel's grants. During the week the business done in the iron commies has been but limited. Several transactions have taken place in the Portland Iron Company at it prem. ; the British are 10/. ; Blaenavon are 15/. ; Rhymney, 231. to 251. ; ditto new shares, 71. to 8/. The Committee the Stock Exchange have appointed a settling-day for the shares in the Worthing Mining Pompany, and ordered the shares to be marked on the Official List. The allotment of letters of the Port of Southampton Emi gration Company will be issued on Monday next, together with a programme of the intended operations of the com pany. - The Knockatrellane Copper Mining Company intend allot. ting their shares on Monday, the 21st inst. The Camborne Consols Mine is to be sold by Mr. Wryghte, the official manager for winding up the affairs of the late company. The adventure has always stood in good estima tion with miners ; and with prudent management, it is con sidered exceedingly probable to prove a profitable under taking. THE WOOLLEN TRADE. (Front the Leeds Mercury of this day.) The imports of wool into London during the week ending Thursday, were 147 bales, of which 65 were from Belgium, 62 from Germany, and 20 from Buenos Ayres. The public sales are progressing satisfactorily. In the English wool market there is no change in the de mand for wool this week. Prices are firm and stationary. In the Foreign wool trade there has been rather more busi ness dono during the past wetk, and at prices corresponding to those current at the present London auctions. In the Liverpool market wool is steady, but quiet ; and prices unchanged. Imports for the week, 25 bales Buenos Ayres, and one Leghorn. WOOLLEN CLOTHMARILET. —During the time the wool sales are taking place in London, the woollen cloth market of Leeds has very often been dull and inactive, mainly in consequence of the absence of most of the manufacturers, and also the un certainty which generally pervades the market during the progress of the sales, but so decided an advance has taken place- at the commencement of the present sales as to put beyond doubt the effect that will be produced in the cloth market ; hence a:very brisk demand has arisen for goods now brought into the 'Cloth-halls. There was an excellent market on Saturday; the stocks were considtrably reduced, and fresh goods bought up with eagerness. On Tuesday there was also a full average market. Stocks wore never lighter than they are at present, There have been some of the pricipal buyers from London in the town during the week, consequently there has been more activity in the home trade. The ship ping houses continue pretty brisk. On the whole there is a fair trade doing in the warehouses. WORSTED, BRADFORD, TIIITRSDAY.—Tho advance given at the London wool'salesmerely supports the prices which have lately been obtained in Bradford, and as the supply of English wool from the country is very limited, things remain much as they were, with very little doing in the raw material. The demand for pieces is but indifferent, and that for yarns is bad. No doubt there is a dimunition in production. HOSIERY, LEICESTER.—The home demand for worsted goods is dull, and the rise in yarns is not yet obtainable. Shipping orders are approaching their completion, and no fresh ones from America have yet been given out. The demand for cot ton goods is extensive, and keeps the workmen in full em ploy. Worsted yarns are firm, though not much doing in them. Wools remain without alteration ; average farmers' lots are realising 355. per tod. Hitherto the London colonial wool sales have fetched considerably better prices, as com pared with the last wool sale. AMERICA. At one o'clock this (Saturday) morning the United States Mail steam-ship Baltic, Captain Comstock, arrived in th e M ersey f rom ew York, after a tedious and stormy voyage, with 70 passen gers, 150,000 dollars in specie, on freight, and the usual mails from all parts of the United States to the 7th inst. inclusive. The Baltic was detained in New York two days beyond her appointed day of sailing, on account of the adverse weathei which prevailed. The House of Representatives had under discus sion a bill for regulating the silver coinage, by which it was proposed to depreciate the , silver coin 7 per cent., and also to levy a seignorage of from to 1 per cent. on all coins in future : but this proposition of the seignorage was vehemently op posed. By the arrival of the Empire City at New York from Havannah we have received intelligence from the latter place to the 31st of January. The sugar market was firm at previous rates. A great fire had taken place at Cardenas, Cuba, on the 29th ult., by which the custom-house, the theatre, and a number of sugar and molasses ware houses were burnt. The loss was estimated at $500,000. When the Baltic left New York business was active ; money raher tighter ; stocks were feverish and. uneasy, and quotations rather weaker. The cotton market had a slightly downward tendency, with an average amount of sales ; the receipts at the southern ports continued large, and the quotations at New York, for New Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, were 11c. to 12c. per lb.; and Uplands of the same quality, 11c. to 11c. The provision market was dull, and pork rather cheaper, new prime being quoted 16c. to 14c. ; new mess, 17ic. to 18c. Beef firmer, with little alteration in previous currency. The market for breadstuffs was quiet, without material change. Western Canal flour was quoted $5 37i to $5 50 per barrel, with a steady demand; Gennessee prime wheat, $1 28 to $l3O per 601b5.; Indian corn, round yellow, 68c. to 70c. per bushel, barely supported ; Southern white ditto, 66c. to 68c. per bushel ; Indian corn meal, $3 50 to $3 62 per barrel. Freights were reported at nearly the same rates as prevailed at the last steamer's departure---the asking prices being, for flour to Liverpool, 3s. 3d. to 3 s . 6d. per barrel; grain - to ditto, lop. to lid. per bushel ; and cotton, id. to 5-16 d. per lb. Exchange in London was firm, with moderate sales at 1091 to 110 ; on Paris, in fair request, at 512 ' on Hamburgh, 361 to 361 ; and Bremen, i • 79i to 79i. Honumm CASE OF INFANTICIDE AT ISLINGTON. infanticide, -2 A case of accompanied with circumstances of . a most revolting d escr i p ti on , h as b een comm itt e d i n Islington by a young woman named Harriet Butler, servant to a respect a bl e t ra d esman . It a pp ea r s that suspicions had been previously entertained of the de ceased's pregnancy ; the appearances, however, she sa tisfactorily accounted for. On Monday last, on the family coming down to breakfast, a most powerful odour pervaded the lower part of the house, and as it did not abate, a search was instituted, and the remains of an infant, partially consumed by fire, were discovered in the accused's room. A medical man ascertained that she had quite recently been delivered, and she was re moved to the workhouse in charge of the police. THE FRENCH EMPIRE. The mails had been delayed by the state of the weather, and none of yesterday's papers have come to hand. Letters, however, from Paris supply us with everything of importance that had taken place up to last night. M. Vergmaud, one of the persons arrested a fort night ago on the charge of giving political informa tion to foreign newspapers, has been set at liberty. All the others remain still in custody, and are likely to be kept there for some time longer, although it appears that the investigation which has been going on before the juge d'instruction has led to no.discovery that by any stretch of the law can be construed into a criminal act. The Monitcur publishes a decree by which an addition of ten centimes is made to the pay of all the sous-offitiers of the French army. The aug mentation commences on the Ist of April. The Municipal Council of Paris has just published. its budget of receipts and expenditure for 1853. The ordinary receipts are estimated at 1,166,500 f. for the co mmuna l cen ti mes ; 34,596,000 f. for the octrois ; 3 , 1 77,725 f. for the rent of stalls in the retail markets ; 136,000 f. for the weighing tax ; 145,000 f. for the voieries ;• 1,174,000 f. for the revenue of th e waterworks ; 451,000 f. for the tax for the Cais se d e P o i ssy, the slaughter-houses, and the entrepots ; 629,722 f. for rents arising from places let on the public highway ; 164,469 f. 990. for rents of communal property ; 98,0001. for copies of documents ; 407,500 f. for tax on funerals ; 700,300 f. for concessions of ground in the ceme teries ; 130,000 f. for the voieries ; 1,319,843 f. 80c. taxes for various works and services • and 4 743,286 f. for sundry receipts • maki ng a totem of 46,164,346 f. 79c. The extraordinary receipts are set down at 950,000 f. ; making a general total of 47,114,346 f. 79c. In the enumeration of the octroi duties, fresh water fish is set down at 44,000 L ; oysters, 170,000 f. • sea fish, 540,0001. • poultry and game, 1,180,0 d ' of. • corn and flour, 45,000 f. ; butter and eggs, 550,000 f. The amount received by the city for supplies of water by subscription is 820,000 f., and from the fountains which supply the water carriers, 354,000 f. The letting of chairs produces 4,364 f., and the charge to public carriages for the right of standing for hire, 400,000 f. The ordinary expenses amount to 40,108,851 f. 67c., and the extraordinary expenses to 7,005,4951. 12c., and making a general total of 47,114,346 f. 790. The Bourse opened heavy yesterday under the unfavourable impression produced in the public mind by the Imperial decree published in the Moni teur yesterday morning, increasing the pay of the non-commissioned officers of the army. The speculators regarded it as a warlike measure, and when the Three per Cents. were called at 80f. 65c., many began to sell in order to realise the profits made by the rise of Thurs day, and the Three per Cents. fell to 80f. 50c., and closed at 80f. 70c. for the end of the month. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 106 f. Railway Shares were not much affected, and some rose on the announcement that they were in good demand in the London market. Orleans Railway Shares closed at 1,050 f. ; Rouen, 1,015 f. • Havre, 490 f. ; Great Northern, 890 f. ; Bale, 360 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 827 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 927 f. 50c. • Lyons andtheMediterranean 760 f.: Western. of France, 730 f. ; Bordeaux and Cette, 597 f. 50c. ; Caen to Cherbourg, 612 f. 50c. • Dijon to Besancon, 532 f. 50c. ; Shares of the Ba nk of Credit Mobilier, 840 f. SPAIN. Our accounts from Madrid are of the 13th inst. The Queen, in virtue of the prerogative conferred upon her by the 30th article of the Constitution, had appointed Lieutenant-General Joaquin de Ez peleta, President of the Senate, and Lieutenant- General Francisco Armero y Ppnaranda Mariano Tellez Giron Duke de Osdna and del Infantado, General Juan de la Pezuela, and M. Francisco Olavarrieta, Vice-Presidents. The Gazette publishes a Royal decree nominating 43 new Senators, with a view no doubt of neutra lising the opposition in that assembly. Among them are the two bishops of Jaen and Malaga, Ge nerals Carondelet, Duke of Baylen, Jose Carratala, Valentin Ferraz, Joaquin Ayerbe, Andreo Garcia Comba, Ramon de la Rocha, Count de Casa Eguia, Fernando de Norzagaray, Francisco Javier de Espeleta, Fernando Cotoner, Francisco de Ler sundi, Anseinto Blaser, the Lieutenant-General of the Fleet, Francisco Bald astano, &c. M. Lujan, the Opposition candidate, had been elected at Santander, by 145 votes to 121, obtained by M. Gallo de Akaittara, the Ministerial candi date. The Espana, Clamor Publico, and Diario Espanol had been seized on that day. The Nacion and Las Novedades had experienced the same fate the day before. A heavy fall of snow had taken place on the 13th, which was considered a rare occurrence in Madrid. It being Sunday the Bourse remained closed. MONTENEGRO. f' From Montenegro the accounts are very imper fect. The Turks continue inactive (says the Aus trian Correspondenz). The nahia or district Kulska had declined to accept the terms offered in the proclamatiOn of Omer Pacha, and young and old had made a vow to hold out to the last man. The Grahovo prisoners were in chains, and badly treated ; and the Bosnian volunteers, who had joined the . expedition of Omer Pacha, are described as committing every kind of atrocity on both sexes of the Christian population. By a telegraphic dispatch, received to-day from Germany, the important intelligence is communi cated, that the war in Montenegro, which was sup posed to be for a time suspended, has broken out afresh, with the startling accompanying circum stance of a serious collision between the Austrian forces and those of the Sultan. There is now no doubt that the mission of General Leiningen to the Porte has terminated unsatisfactorily, and as had been generally expected in well informed circles. The demands of the Austrian Plenipotentiary, who, among other things, was intrusted to require the cession on the part of Turkey of the Sutorina, and Kiech have been refused. The movement of Aus trian troops towards the Bosnian frontier has been for several weeks continuous ; and the Ban Jel lachich, whose name is so famil'ar to English ears in connection with the recent Hungarian war, has moved from Agram, and in all probability directs the war. It may be added, that the affair of Mon tenegro has been the, great Viennese topic of con versation since the suppression of the enveuteT Milan ; and that the impression prevails in mili tary circles, that the time is near when Austria and Russia will make a N move against Turkey, but all these " rumours of war" have yet to be confirmed. ITALY. The Gazette de Basle of the 16th announces that all communication between Lombardy and Ticino is interrupted, the passage of travellers , and even merchandise and corn, being prohibited upon this frontier. There were 4 , 000 Austrians on the line of Como, and 1,200 on that of Varese. The provinces continue calm. A few insigni ficant local disorders have occurred in the Romagna, which were instantly quelled. Rome has been un disturbed. The Sardinian States continue to enjoy general tranquillity. Marshal Radetzky has published a second pro clamation, in which he orders the judicial au thorities to sequestrate, upon the first legal evidence, the property of those persons who shall render themselves, directly or indirectly, accom plices in treasonable practices. By another proclamation the University of Pavia has been closed until further orders. The officer who commanded the guard at the Viceregal Palace, at Milan, and who allowed him self to be surprised by the insurgents, has been reduced to the ranks. Several soldiers, it is said, have been executed. AUSTRIA. A letter from Vienna, of the 15th, States that the Austrian Government has addressed a very energetic note to the Swiss Government, on the subject of the late insurrectionary movement at Milan. It complains that the canton of Tessin in directly favoured the movement. The Austrian Government demands satisfaction, and reserves to itself the intention of enfor c in g it if necessary. The blockade of the frontier is strictly main tained. Not a single traveller is allowed to cross. The same letter states that the Austrian Govern ment has addressed an energetic note to the Eng lish Government, complaining that Mazzini and Kossuth are allowed to get up coispiracies in London, and publish proclamations in the Eng li sh journals of a nature to provoke insurrections. A telegraphic dispatch from Vienna, dated the 17th, says : "Notwithstanding the resumption of hostilities be tween the Montenegrins and the Turks, the Stock Ex change to-day has been very firm. It is positively affirmed that Austria will endeavour to obtain the adhe sion of the other German States to the Austro-Prussian commercial treaty." Another tel eg rap hic dispatch received from Ger many announ ce d he important fact, that a very extensive and well-organised conspiracy, for the overthrow of the Austrian rule, has just been dis covered in Hungary. A report has gone the round of the journals, of the French and British Governments having ad dressed an " identie note " to Austria relative to her concentration of troops on the eastern frontier. There exist grounds for asserting that this report , is unfounded. 4 -,___