The Sun. — London, England, 1853-05-30 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL I MARKET INTELLIGENCE -(THIS DAY.) CITY, TWO O'CLOCK. The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were estimated at 7,000 bales, of which 1,000 American w ere t a k en for export' and on specula- Ilion. The sales comprised 5,000 American, 700 Pernam and Maranhain at 61d. to 71d., 300 Egyp tian at 61d. to 10d., 1,000 Surat at 3d. to 4:td. and 40 S ea I n l an d at 2s. to 2s. 10d. per lb. Rail way Shares were quiet, at rather lower prices. The Sarah Sands steamer has arrived from Aus tralia with a large mail, but her dates are not later. She has about 320,0001. in gold and 20,0001. in sil ver, and probably her passengers also possess con siderable sums. There are, besides, various ship arrivals, including the Benjamin Elkin, with advices of Feb. 21 from Sydney, and Feb. 3 from Moreton Bay ; the May Queen, with advices of Jan. 22 from Port Philip, the Windsor, which left Sydney Feb. 8 ; the Northumberland, Feb. 6 ; the Wooloomoo loo in 87 days from Sydney, and the Tasman from Hobart Town. The amount of gold on board these _vessels is not yet ascertained, but the Northumber land, it is expected, has about 17,000 ounces. There are Adelaide letters of Feb. 28, per ship Lord Montgornerie, arrived at Singapore. The Melbouric had not reached Adelaide on her home ward voyage up to that date. The accounts, as far as they have been received, several of the vessels abovenamed being only off the coast are very favourable. The La Plata steamer is telegraphed. The Asia, from New York brings 600,000 dollars specie. The advices notice more activity in the stock market. During the week ending May 14, the total value of the exports of merchandise was 1,303,436 dollars, and of specie 110,000 dollars. The dry goods trade was becoming quieter as the s easen adva nce d, b u t a l arge an d pro fi ta bl e b us i ness had been done during the previous three or four months. The wheat crop in all the Western States of Canada promised an abundant crop. Newfoundland accounts state that a delegate had been appointed to treat on the subject of free trade, with the United States. lowi The railway meetings announced ar e th e f o l ng COMPANY. DATE. PLACE, &C. Charle ro i and Ercl uelines May 31, Charleroi. Cork and Bandon. Kilkenny and Gt. Southern and Western Ireland May 30, London Tavern. Killarney Junction May 31, Dublin. Llanelly Railway and Dock June 6, London Tavern. Man ' , Sheffield. and Lincoln June 8, Manchester. Midland Gt. West. Ireland June 8, Dublin. D lsla niur and Liege June 7, London Tavern. Ditto, ditto June 15, Brussels. South Yorkshire June ] 5, London Tavern. Waterford and Kilkenny May 31, London Tavern. The English Stock market has been flatter, with v ery little doing, on account of the greater compli cation of the Eastern question. Consols have been 1 0 0 1 A for Transfer, and 1004 # for Account. They t r e now low The New 3k per Cents. are 102 i #3 and the 3 per Cents. 99i Exchequer Bills are par t o 25., and India Bonds 30s. premium. *G uth Sea Old Annuities are at 991. The pr i ce of Consols for June is 1001 I. In dForeign Securities there has'been very little I . ° lng, and p r i ces s h are i n th e d e p re ssion of Eng- Ish stocks. Mexican Bonds are quoted 26i to 4, 411(1 Peruvian 87. B r a z ili an Old B on d s are 100 t o 4 ; Equador Stock is at 6, and Grenada has de clined to 21. The Spanish Committees' Certificate 11 at 6 i• Nothing has been done in the Def erre d. ussian Bonds have falle n f u ll 1 p er cen t., b e i ng at 11 8. Dutch 4 per Cents. are dull at 97. The sh ares o f t h e G ol d M i ne Companies have w u eeu hea vy . Th e L an d C ompan i es ' Shares are 5 / (31.8 e. Australian Agricultu ra l h ave f a ll en 41. t o ,_.) and B r i t i s h A merican L an d have fluctuated 4 .r 75 to 85. The Agua Fria Company have received intelli -I,el_tlce that t h e t h ree wee k s ' pro d uce was 2 86 oz. e machinery had been sent up to the mine. Th e shar es o f th e B an ki ng C ompan i es h ave b een .4e avy. The amount of railway calls for June is 1,521,9411., ux which 1,217,4001. is called by foreign companies. This is selling day in the Railway Share Market, 14 d prices are Ito per cent. worse, being, how ever, very well supported under the circumstances. BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY. (.From the Official List.) Business done. 3 Per Cent. Reduced Annuities ....... 3 N P er Cent. Consols Annuities lOOl A 3 D Lc rc' 3 1 per C en t. A nnu iti es lO2l 3 A 3 A nnuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Indio 30 Y ears, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6 3-16 80nd5,...... £lOOO . Ditto, under £lOOO 3O south Sea Old Annuities •.. 9 Consol s f or Account xehequer Bills, 13d. R1000 R. 500 Small Ditto A 2 p pal dvertised PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY. trazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent Ditto New, 1852, 43 per Cent lOl Cbilian Bonds, 3 per Cent.. ........ cluador Bonds ‘ 3, !enad a B on ds, Ex. Dec., 1849, Coupon 2l mexican 3 per Cent. Ditto for the Account 26s 87 6 e ruvian Bonds, 43_per Cent. l o rtligucse Bends, 5 p e r Cent. Rus sian Bonds, 5 per Cent. b itto 4A per Cent. Bonds, 3 per Cent bitt o for the Account 4Bl b itto New D e f erre d, 3 per Cent 23 Spanish Committee Cert. of Cou. not fun. 6i Sw edish L oan ....... p t i Dividends on the above payable in London. atch Exchange 4 per Cent. Certificates 97 Po dia THREE O'CLOCK. 1001 1001 i Consols Ditto June Account MA RLBOROUGH-STREET.-(THIS DAT.) yotr7TRRING A FORGED NOTE.—Charles Marston, a li ng than who refused to give his address, at th e k rl mr before Mr. Bingham, charged with having was placed wi ° l , Wi nglY uttered a forged 5/. Bank of England note, With intent to defraud Mrs. Anna Taner, confectioner, I,lt A uilley-street, Grosvenor-square. , rosecutrix deposed that, on Saturday afternoon, d 40 14 fiveoithrdrekre,ley. o'clock, the prisoner came into her .shop, an ed 10s. worth of ice to be sent to Mrs. Rigby, 36, square. As there was another confectioner's p, °l3 , n the same street as hers, she asked prisoner if he 0 3,:8 lireu he had come to the right shop. He replied, was ; and what's more, Mrs. Rigby had given 1 , 141 the ncione to for it, and he then tendered to ", a er k the sh e 51. y note p p .y roduced in payment. As soon and took it in her hand she thought it was a bad one, b rok t e o inake sure, she sent it over the way to the pawn -4cl I' Q % Who sent it back to her with word that it was arri,„"ue then sent for a constable, and before he fell ° " 44 e prisoner walked out of the shop. The policeman t ti w (-1 h 1:11 and took him into custody. th e Vector Parke said when prisoner was brought to Ivaystation he read the charge over to him in the usual in en he (prisoner) replied he was sent with the Au t i a butler, whose name he said he did not know, Ituo lived at No. 6, Grosvenor-square. He after that ; Baid he lived in Fitzroy-square, and shifted from terkeleysuare Witness had ascertained that k ilia ' r e 4 e person as - Mrs:Rigby resided at 36, Berkeley- Th e • , renlan dPed riAnner who declined offering any defen ce, was for a week. IS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The demand for wheat in nearly the whole of the pro vincial markets held on Saturday was rather active, at improved quotations. Barley--the supplies of which on offer were limited—sold freely, at full prices, and the -value of malt, oat s , an d flour was well supported. Both beans and peas moved off steadily, and the currencies had an upward tendency. The latest accounts from New York state that wheat and flour were in moderate request for shipping purposes. Nearly the whole of the Continental markets have ruled steady, at full prices. The arrivals of English grain up to our market, last week, were very limited. From abroad we received 26,410 quarters of wheat, 8,630 barley, 16,970 oats, 2,830 beans, 1,433 peas, 9 tares, 257 sundry seeds, 970 sacks, and 1,286 barrels of flour. The quantity of wheat received fresh up to this morn ing's market, coastwise from Kent, was very limited, but in fair average condition. From Essex, as well as from the East Coast, the supply was comparatively small ; whilst the receipts by land carriage exhibited a falling off. Notwithstanding that the show of samples both red and white was limited, the demand, owing to the moderate number of millers in attendance, was not to say brisk. However, it may be considered steady, at prices equal to those obtained on Monday last, and at which a fair clear ance was effected. The sale for forward-delivery parcels was tolerably firm, but the business doing was rather limited. Growers gene rally were firm. The supply of foreign wheat was again very exten sive ; but most of the samples were in good condition, from nearly the whole of the vessels having made rapid passages. Medium qualities sold freely, chiefly for ship ment coastwise, at very full prices. Most other kinds moved off slowly, at late rates. Several floating cargoes changed hands at is per quarter more money. Scarcely any English barley was on offer ; but the supply of foreign was rather extensive ; never theless, the barley trade was steady, at full quotations. We had a moderate inquiry for malt, the supply of which was good at late currencies. On the whole, the supply of oats was good ; yet the de• mand was tolerably active, at previous quotations. Beans came slowly to hand ; whilst the inquiry for them was firm, at full prices. The sale for peas was steady, but no change took place in their value. We had an improved sale for both English and foreign flour, at full prices. CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE. Wheat—Essex & Kent, Malt—Chevalier • • 61s to 63s Red • • •• new 37s to 43s Oats—Yorkshire and Ditt0............ old 378 47s Lincolnsh., Feed 16s 21s Ditto, White new 37s 47s Potato ^so 212 Ditt0........ old 39s 51s Youghal and Cork Norfolk and Lin- Black. ...• .. 154 19s coin, Red, old 37s 47s Cork, White..... 174 21s Ditto new .•••.. 31 42s Scotch. Feed. 208 258 Rye—Old ............ 284 305 Beans—Tiok ......... 34. 384 New .. • ....... 39s 31s Pigeons .... 36, 444 IS Arley—Grinding 24s 283 Peas—Grey ..•• •• •• • 308 35s Malting 704 32. Maple. •• •• 33. 36s Chevalier.... 33s 36s White......• •• .• 36. 40s Walt—Suffolk and Nor- Boilers ••• •• 378 40e folk •• •• • • ...... 528 583 Flour—Town-made... 393 44s Brown .••• • • • 463 52s Suffolk •• .. 32s 3is Kingston and Ware 57s 60s Ktockts & Norfolk 32s 36s SMITHFIELD. During the last week the import of foreign stock into London amounted to 3,131 head. In the corresponding period of 1852, wo received 2,703 ; in 1851, 1,1 68; in 1850, 1,926 ; in 1849, 2,117 ; and in 1848, 3,245, and in 1847, 3,336 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LIST WEER. From Beasts. Bromvershaveu 27 ... Sheep. Harlingeu. ..... . 166 ... Antwerp 40 Hamburgh lOO Rotterdam_ 292 Dordt... 11 CONCERTS EXTRAORDLVA.RY. eti, ar a e series ''' tern kbl • of concerts, titled ar with t degree of exaggeration,Mr. Mitchell's. y hanks to 11°411e d cil an • n—t w hich may be e th a u n s . Ivelllte to be in preparation — thanks to ti_ tinlvri enterprise. They place, before and now lying i t ,, f 4: Programme already printed, the Hanover leth:- pe r mule dates being N t v e i a ll , take according i the scene being figtta, 411. d 18th proximo —the Union and te Roorns—the director being ~ Cologne . Hanover °f the arti t eng g d composing the the the 7th , 9 thllth l , v l e 4 b t e l r i i edßiensides %eighty n i s a i s e , t , --- - . a- 4 ~ o r , as they are t e e i r n m . te141141, Der Zolincer' Miinner-Gesang" especially Partiebuy lari7 attractions, two others may on the organ kiVe .Wilh I• 01 , and others t organist ----ntnely, performances on be the pianoforte by stn e e Mina .., auss, es how -4 th e rnian ' reputed O b viously, i. Lainent Ge to be the great World---Schneider of Dresden. vel' the , • that an is • e of he ti ,' -e cruet' novelty in the programme the th j i lt the arrival in this country i fo v r oc t a h l e is fi ts r . st t o l . m f ori e • 134ngne 'Union of eighty ma e record in k o gl a tt ra o lt fratei.ynion we find the following 1942 always to:(14,11,e, on. has existed since the year - ' Weber, the Wh o the Musicra superintendence of literrraorFdriannazry merits t i- tili zta chosen director for life. The ex ale chorus si it ' s gentleman in the cultivation kllgaiaereinot worldly known and areci o a f te re d thethroug l h d o , u e t dby cknom e b th e 1, ,ut have been repeatedly a was appointed te Yal ihrtlBB,lan Government. Herr Weber in the course et the-418441 director a few years ago, and h favour of Ins kajejresent year has been, through t -?,ed Eagle. In itk &I'll', decorated with the order of the -1: hi l t rB t Year tho Union counted no more than 30.hnielhemebvearrs; 4..., notwithstanding the severe exertion l',, his voice ,iiittriant was forced to undergo, in cultivati b th e 4 11 - actill'ing musical knowledge and technical holio,nher rapidly increased, and now amoun ts t o t a l of 172 -'l,' rapidly d illassociates, making a ~ era an A teenabe 'ikon I'B. .calfactiolit6yl, nl ii i el g the distinguished persons connected . with ktnglti ec42" who have accorded their patronage t n o les th o e f IVeliek"" of the Union, Ave find enumerated thena rtna ie,rern, Liszt, l'orrneß, Ernst, Jenny Lind, t ' this ne‘,„ _eTsohn•tartholdy. We doubt not but that be re. 141447 ,bilence of Mr. Mitchell's enterprise will our taltrwtl as it well de.erves, by the musical public of °AOII3. Lambs. Calves. Pigs ... 94 - •.. - 49 ... 12 ... - 738 ... 95 ... 422 ... 19 28 T0ta1.... 636 ... 1,847 ... 137 ... 483 The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as under : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 1852 470 ... 1,723 ... 94 ... 382 ... 34 1851 72 ... 596 ... 106 ... 301 ... 93 1850 325 ... 1,262 6 ... 333 ... 1849 334 ... 1,483 26 ... 274 1848 499 ... 2,276 19 ... 451 We were again seasonably well supplied with foreign stock, in good saleable condition. The whole changed hands, though rather slowly, at last week's prices. The show of house-fed beasts on offer was by no means so extensive as on Monday last ; nevertheless, as the attend ance of country buyers was less numerous than for some weeks past, it proved quite equal to the wants of the butchers. The primest Scots and short horns were in moderate request, at last week's prices—the general top quotation for beof being 4s 4d per Blbs., at which figure a few Scots were sold by weight ; but all other breeds moved off slowly, and late rates were barely supported. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 2,500 Scots and short-horns; from other parts of England, 500 Herefords, runts, Devons, &c. ; and, from Scotland, chiefly per railway, 550 horned and polled Scots. There was a considerable increase in the supply of sheep ; but its general weight, from a large portion of it being composed of tigs, was by no means heavy. The primest Downs and half-breds sold at full quotations—the highest figure for the former being 4s 8d per 81bs ; otherwise, the mutton trade was dull, and prices had a downward tendency. The arrivals of lambs—amongst which were 350 head from the Isle of Wight—were good ' • yet the lamb trade ruled steady, at full currencies, viz., 5s to Os 4d per 81bs. We were rather scantily supplied with calves, the de mand for which was tolerably firm, at from 4s to 5s per 61bs. SPIRIT OF JOURNALS. OXFORD HONOURS. (From the Times.) In ordinary cases a list of honorary degrees at either of the universities is about as dull an affair as the cata logue of ships in "Homer." Every now and then, no doubt, the name of some worthy, illustrious in peace or war, in thought or achievement, is included in the batch of brevet lawyers, and commands general respect. This name sheds, as it were, a halo around those of his com panions, every one of hom was at least converted into a D.C.L. at the same time as a great man. But, if we look at the ordinary practice in such cases, we find either that persons are selected for the dignity who, from their social position, may add a certain degree of lustre to the universities, or that they are men to whom the universi ties willingly show honour, because in honouring them they honour themselves. We need not quote in detail the names of the royal personages and great philosophers and literary men who have received the freedom of the Isis or the Cam at the hands of our university authori ties ; the fact, as we state it, is one of general notoriety. It was reserved for the University of Oxford to put the matter on an entirely different footing, and to convert what has hitherto, and with reason, been esteemed an honourable distinction into a mere political by-blow. Lord Derby is the Dagon of the hour, and Lord Derby's followers are duly converted into little Dagons, that the Oxford Dons may humour the great man even in his whims. It is intelligible enough that Lord Derby should have been selected for the post, because during his tenure of political power death had removed from the scene the old Chancellor— alas ! how different a man 1 We will say nothing of the motives which might have induced such a choice, but will rather accept the selection as a graceful compliment to the office rather than to the Premier. But, even if Lord Derby were to be chosen Chancellor of Oxford when he was First Minister of the Crown, does it follow that all his colleagues are to be selected for university distinctions when they have ceased to occupy the lower places in the Ministry ? We are urging no captious objection against the addition of one or two colleagues of Lord Derby to the list of eminent men who might with propriety have been selected for an honourable dis tinction. Our complaint is, that all have been taken and that the University of Oxford has thus degraded itself to the level of a political club—and what a club ! When everybody else had thrown them off, the Oxford Dons have taken the Protectionists in. They have afforded a refuge to a faction which had long since been rejected by every important interest in the country and which had ended its political career by re nouncing the principles upon which its existence as a party was based throughout. Certainly we have no wish to renew the acrimony of past controver sies, and, had the adherents of Lord Derby been content to retire for a time into a decent obscurity, we would not have been the first to disturb the even tenour of their reflections and regrets. But here we find our old friends, who beyond all question have made the greatest political fiasco of modern times, flaunting about in all the dignity of fallen greatness, and, what is worse, the University of Oxford abetting them in the monstrous delusion. One would as soon have expected to meet one of those Magdalens whom Correggio knew so well how to paint en debardeur at a masked ball, and receiv ing countenance in her irregularities from an elderly and respectable divine. Let us look for a moment at the names. There is the Duke of Richmond. Well, the Duke of Richmond occu pies, no doubt, a high social position in the country. Then there are the two Marquises of Chandos and Blandford—amiable men, enough, we believe, in their way, and noblemen to boot, so let Oxford take them in also without question. Then we have the Derby Chan cellor, Lord St. Leonards ; the Derby Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Disraeli ; the Derby Foreign Secretary, Lord Malmesbury ; the Derby Colonial Secretary, Sir John Pakington ; the Derby Home Secretary, Mr. Walpole ; the Derby President of the Board of Trade, Mr. Henley ; the Derby Vice-President of the Board of Trade, Paymaster-General of the Forces, and Treasurer of the Navy, Lord Colchester ; the Derby Postmaster-General, Lord Hardwicke ; the Derby Lord- Lieutenant, Lord Eglinton ; one of the Derby Joint- Secretaries to the Treasury, Mr. G. A. Hamilton (the other would have beers "too bad") ; the Derby Attorney- General for Ireland, Mr. Napier ; the Derby Under- Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Lord Stanley. Besides these there is Sir E. B. Lytton, a distinguished literary man, no doubt, but who in the present instance, we suspect, owes his red gown rather to the fact that he wrote a very silly pamphlet about Protection than that he is the author of Pelham,. Then there is Sir Archi bald Alison, the Tory historian of revolutionary Europe. Against the last two names we raise no ob jection. The suspicion, such as it is, that rests upon them arises from their political associations. Politics apart, they are fairly entitled to University distinctions. The same thing may of course be said of Mr. Disraeli, and, in a lesser degree, of Lord Redesdale. There is one name, indeed, which we heartily rejoice to see in the list,—it is that of Sir Harry Smith, although the old warrior must be somewhat puzzled at his approaching honours. It seems, however, agreed on all sides that this mark of conventional distinction is to be accorded tam, Marti quam Mercurio, and, if it is to be assigned at all to military gallantry, there can be no more gallant D.C.L. than Sir Harry Smith. It was impossible to form a list of this kind without including in it the names of some men distinguished in literature and science, or by the honours of their pre vious University career. It would have been too inde- cent to exclude altogether the persons for whom the honours contemplated were originally intended. Mr. Macaulay and Sir Roderick Murchison, and Dr. C. Wordsworth and Professor Aytoun, therefore have been induced to march through Oxford with this ragged regi ment of doctors. They, together with the three literary politicians above named, constitute the ha'porth of bread to this intolerable quantity of sack. Dr. Forbes Winslow, hitherto eminent among lunatics, will hence forth be eminent among Oxonians, and Mr. Samuel Warren appropriately closes the procession. Are these indeed our great men ? If we ever form our national Pantheon, will it be filled exclusively with _ . the busts of the Derby Doctors ? Shall we see On one side the bust of Malmesbury, musing upon the Canadian cod fisheries—on the other, that of 'Walpole, devising his militia qualification for the county voters Northumberland, indeed, may not be there, with ducal condescension " offering his arm" to Commodore Sey mour ' • and a squeamish delicacy may exclude Beres ford addressing the Essex " rabble," or Stafford, as he presided at that memorable dinner of Admiralty contingencies. Let us at least have Beresford with Colonel Fox and Forbes Mackenzie habited as the three witches in Macbeth, and represented as asking each other " When shall we three meet again ?"—not on the weird heath, but in the recesses of the Tory Club. Let us have Brown, of the Carlton, in the act of with- drawing the Norwich petition. Let us have the "man in drab." Above all, at the head of the proud Gallery of Illustration, let the chivalrous Derby himself be re presented in the act of giving up the principle of protec tion, and at the lower end let Warren be seen as he appeared when writing the last lines of the Lily and the Bee. Let the seat of this Pantheon be the University of Oxford, and let the ancient University henceforth be styled the Derby Arms ! AFFAIRS OF THE EAST. (From the Morning Post.) Prince Menschikoff has left Constantinople, and diplo matic relations are definitively broken off between the Czar and the Sultan. This is a matter of serious mo ment to Europe, and of infinite discredit to Russia, now menacing with warlike aggression a friendly state, whose only offence is the possession of what her neighbour covets. Of the course of England, and of France, in this emer gency there can be no doubt. Their professions will not be found empty, nor their actions treacherous. There is but one feeling in this country. And there is no voice, save one that speaks under Russian influence, that does not re-echo the sentiments expressed by all parties in the British Parliament. The Opposition has challenged the Government to carry out a bold and English policy, and her Majesty's advisers have replied that their policy was "to maintain inviolate the faith of treaties and the independence and integrity of Turkey." The first step of that bold and united action, resulting from the identity of interests and cordiality of agree ment of the two great Western Powers, will be the sail ing of a combined fleet for the Dardanelles, to carry into effect our guarantee of the treaty of 1841. An honourable issue from the labyrinth of contradic tions in which Russia has involved herself in her Eastern policy will now be difficult. But we still think that, however the honour of Russia may suffer the peace of Europe at large will not be hopelessly endangered. Turkey is strong of herself, and, with France and Eng land to back her, she must prove more than a match for the Czar, who is too discreet and too sensible to plunge into active war with the whole of Europe, for all the in great Powers would assuredly resist any attempt to overthrow by arms the Ottoman empire. 20 Russia has imagined hitherto that " there are insuper- 20 able obstacles to common and united action between 20 England and France," and it has been under this im- 20 pression that she has acted. When the Czar finds out 20 his mistake he will probably halt in his ambitious course, 20 which he has failed to advance by intrigue, and cannot 5 carry out by arms. For though treaties may be shirked, 2/:1° 20 and Cabinets may be tric ked, the ar g uments o f Dundas and Lasnsse are likely to be so effective in aspect as to 6 excite no desire to provoke their force. ELECTION OF CHAMBERLAIN. Ibo I 5 STATE OF THE POLL, SIXTH DAY (MAY 28). 3 2 - 3 Sir John Key 2729 20 Mr. Benjamin Scott 2658 20 Majority for Key 7l Five hundred and forty-nine liverymen polled to-day. Of these there were three hundred and eight who voted for Sir John Key, and two hundred and forty-one for Mr. Scott. Total number since the commencement of the contest, 5,387. Sir John bad from the proceeds of the former polling, when the business of to-day began, a majority of 14 votes in hand. In th e course of the first half hour Mr. Scott's friends reduced that number by one, and in the next half hour by six. Subsequently, however, Sir John's supporters flocked to the poll, so that by one o'clock the worthy baronet's majority reached 76. This was reduced by two o'clock to 71, where it remained during the next hour stationary, the polling being equal. The announcement of the state of the poll was received with the most enthusiastic cheering. Both of the candidates briefly thanked their friends, when the proceedings of the day were adjourned until Monday (this day). • Pigs were in very moderate request, but no change took place in prices. Per Sibs to sink the offals. s. d. s. d.l nferior Beasts.... 3 oto 3 2 Second quality ....3 4 3 6 Prime large oxen 3 8 310 Prime Scots, &c. 4 0 4 4 Inferior Sheep ... 3 6 3 8 Second quality ...3 10 4 0 Prime erse.-wlled.4 2 4 4 Lambs TOTAL SUPPLY. s. d. s. d. Prime Southdown 4 6 4 8 Large crse. calves 4 0 4 6 Prime small d 0... 4 8 5 0 ILarge hogs 3 4 3 8 Small porkers 310 4 4 Suckling calves ..20 0 25 0 iQuarter old pigs 19 0 24 - 0 Od to Os 4d. _ FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts .. Sheep and Lambs .. • • ....2b,680 Calves • - ••.... 347 Pigs „ ...... . • • •• •• 215 A statement and comparison of stock exhibited and sold in Monday, May 31, 1852, am 1853. Per 81bs, to si IBeasts • ....... ...• •• ... 598 ISheep .......• ..... . Pigs . r the supplies and prices of fat Smithfield Cattle Market, on I this day, Monday, May 30, ink the oflhls. May 31, 1852. 1 May 30,1853 s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d 2 Bto 2 103 oto 3 2' 3 0 3 43 4 3 6 3 6 2 $ 3 8 3 10 3 10 4 04 0 4 4 Coarse and inferior beasts ... ... Second quality ditto ... .., ... Primo large oxen ... ... ... ... Prime Scots, &c ... ... ... ... Coarse and inferior sheep ... .., Second quality ditto ... ... .., Prime coarse woolled ditto ... ... Prime Southdown ditto ... ... 2 10 3 2 3 6 3 8 3 03 6 3 4310 3 84 2 3 104 6 3 8 4 0 4 4 4 8 Lairbs ... 4 2 5 4 5 0 6 4 Large coarse calves ... 3 6 4 o'4 0 4 6 Prime small ditto ... 4 2 4 6'4 8 5 0 Large hogs ~. ... 2 6 3 4 3 4 3 8 Neat small porkers ... 3 6 3 83 10 4 4 Beasts .., 3,390 4,398 Sheep ... 26,860 25,680 ... ... 317 347 Pigs •• • ••• ••• ... 415 215 Symms ON SALE, June 2, 1851.—Beasts, 3,482 ; sheep and lambs, 31,540 ; calves, 334 ; pigs, 480. June 3, 1850.—Beasts, 3,261; sheep and lambs, 26,720 ; calves, 243 ; pigs, 310. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL. The supplies of country-killed meat on sale hero are very limited, owing to the prevailing warm weather. With meat slaughtered in the metropolis, we aro seasonably well supplied ; yet the general demand is steady, and last week's prices are well suppolbs brted. Per 8y the carcase. s. d. s. d. s. d. s. d. Beef, inferior 210 3 0 Mutton, Inferior 3 6 310 Do., middling 3 2 3 4 Do., middling 4 0 4 2 Do., prime largo .3 63 8 Do., prime 44 4 6 Do., do. small ....3 8 3 10 I Veal 3 10 4 10 Pork, large 343 10 Pork, small ........ 40 4 4 Lamb 5....... ss Od to Gs 4d BOROUGH HOP. of hops, a We continue thel t t e o shdavvaenaceveiryn the e a v d a y demandleeef o w h f ie r h al i l kinds s well supportod Mid and East Kent pockets, 120 s. to ; Weald of Kent, 115 s. to 1265. ; and Sussex, 112 s. to 120 s. per cwt. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Since Monday last, the arrivals of home-grown potatoes have been very moderate ; but the imports have continued good, they having amounted to 32 tons, 22 boxes from Dunkirk; and 525 tons, 2,346 bags from Hamburgh. The demand to-day is in a sluggish state, as follows : York Regents, 137 s to 175 s per ton ; Lincolnshire do., 115 s to 135 s ; Scotch ditto, 130 s to 135 s ; ditto reds, 95s to 110 s ; Foreign, 80s to 100 s. WOOL. There has been an increased number of buyers in attend ance at the public sales since our last. Good and fine qualities have sold freely, and prices have had an upward tendency ; whilst the value of other kinds has been well supported. Nearly 20,000 bales have now changed hands, at the following prices :—Port Philip—Clean sheep's, is 4d to 2s 10(1 • damaged is to is lld ; black, Od to ls 4 d ; lambs, 2s to 2s 141; do.damaged, 10d to ls9d; do.part ls9d; pieces, is 5(1 to is 9d ; ditto grease, Oct to is 2d; locks, is 4d to is Od ; pieces and locks, is 4cl to is 8(1; mixed, is 6(1 to is 91d ; greasy lambs', is 4d to is Od ; second skin, is 9d ; handwashed ditto, is Gd. to is 10d.—Cape Clean sheep's, is Oct to is 10d ; damaged, is to is 4d ; second, is 6d to is 9(1; handwashed, is to is 6d ; black and grease, 8d to 10d ; pickings, Gd to 7(1 ; grease, 6/1 to to is lAd ; ditto lambs', lld to is 4(1; skin, is 2d to is 40—:Launceston—S econ d s ki n, i s 5d to is 7d; clean 2sheeeird's,,; handwashed, is 9d.—Hobart B T d o te wn 2 — e ; C l le e a e n ks, sh w e d ep' t s e l i s e 2d 4d .— to is ee6wedpsheep's, Zealand—Clean 2ies o7adLla2ms b7ed s , e s e4dp handwashed' s, s 4d 2 s l d( s .c l t o d tso ; d handwashed, ny7d7wlsateos lid.—Sydney—Second damagedclean e s p h ' e s e , Gd lo a t t o e 1 2 s s 8 ; d p p e i r ec l e b s . , is Last 4 d o week's to s 0 importsd were about 4,000 bales, chiefly f rom th e colonies. Pri vately the demand is inactive, yet prices are supported. SEEDS. Linseed continues very dull in sale, and most kinds are lower to purchase. On the spot Black Sea has changed hands at 465. ; and Calcutta, ea-granary, 465. 3d. per qr. The price of the latter, for the autumn, is 46 5 . E as t . India rape is quoted at 475. to 48s. All other seeds dull. Cakes continue to decline in price. Turnip,Whits, per bush. Os to 113 Carraway„ 468 48s Swede .. • • ...... 108 12s Coriander ............ ll s 14s Mustard, Brown ••• • .. 78 9s Hempseed, per quarter as, 448 White, new. .• 730 d 9s Linseed, Eng•Aowing.. 54, 58 . Tares,Winter, new.. .. Os Od Os Od Crushing •• • • 45s 488 Spring Canary, per quarter • . 40s 44s Odessa •• • • 46s 48s Rye grass • • 288 Bas Linseed Cake, pr. ton— Clover, Red Eng. (cwt.) 418 64a English .. . 81 Os 91 5s White •• • • ...... 48s 67a Foreign, per ton 71103 91 08 Foreign Red...... 443 62s Rape Cakes, pr ton 4188 61 Os White.... Sic 67s Rapeseed,Neworlat 21/0s 2410 s Trefoil, new.. •....... 243 28s TALLOW. The business doing in our market is by no means exten sive. Importers, however, are very firm, and prices are 6d per cwt. higher than on Monday last. To-day, P.Y.C. on the spot is selling at 47s 6d, and for delivery during the last three months, 48s to 48s 3d per cwt. Town tallow is 47s per cwt. net cash ; rough fat, 2s 8d per 81bs. Stock this day .. • • . • Price of Y. C. •• • • t 1849. 25,922 3Ss 9d ! 25,729 1 36s !Jel to, 36.533 37s 9(1 to, 41,834 37s Od to ON Pd 71 1 49 103,071 24,383 , 17s 6,1 to 00s Od 7 93 It 2,041 1,440 85,796 49s 3d to 00s Od, 373 Oct 38s Oct Delivery last week • • 932 1,224 723 Ditto from June I ...• 96,200 94,100 102,436 Arrivals last week .. 2 6 6 2,342 'B2 Ditto from June 1.... 113,982 96,400 107,994 rho° of Town .... • 398 6d 383 Od 385 Od 108,371 388 9d 1850. 1 1851 ' i THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENIN-G, MAY 30, 1853. SHARE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWATS. ;hr., Paid t.llOO !CI 86 lAberdeen ..... ........ Ambg. Nottng. Bost & Eastu. Janc....... Birmng. Wolverh & Stour Valley Birkenbd. Lanesh & Cheshire Junet...... Do. Chesh. dt Birk., , £5O & £25 Cons—. Do., £20......... ...... Bristol & Exeter...... Caledonian. Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon.... Cork, Black. & Pass. DublindzßelfastJune Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction Do. New EP st Anglian (.£25 L. & E. & L. &D.) Do., (£lB E. & H.) Eastern Counties Eastern Union, Class. A. late E. U. Sh Do., do.. Do., B. & C.. lEast Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk. & Birming. June Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edinb.Prth.&Dunde e Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock cGt. Sth. &West. (Ire..) Great Western rish South-Easte rn . Lancaster &Carlisle Do., Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshire .4 I all a 1 28 7il all it. 100 it. 100 50 all i 0 all !O all ;0 45 5 all 5 all 15 all 18 all !O all 5 all 15 8i 5 all ;t. 100 po all 5 117; )0 all' 3t. 100 6 1 3: 15 1 16' ;t. 100 5 all St. 100 - 16 I 13 L 6 63 8 all 8 5 !O 17 !O all LO 10 it. 100 ft. 100 ;t. 100 It. 100 ;t. 100 0 8 !G3 all 3i all O all IO 6il O all It. 100 O all 5 1 19 !O 1 17 ',O all 'OO all 'AIIt 13 .0 21s. .0 1 ft. 100 .),5 1 20 0., Fifths --- Do., Wst. Riding U. Leeds Northern ..... . Liv. Crsby. &Soutirpt. London & Blackwall Lond. Tilb. & Stheud. Loud. Bright. & S.Cst. London & N. Western o. Fifths 30.,16/. S 1) ..M&8...0 London & S. Westoro I, Do., £5O . ......, Do ,Lndndriy. &Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Shef. &Lincln. Do., Man. & Lin. Un Midland Do. Birming. & Derby Midland G. West.(lr.) Do. Shares Newcastle & Carlisle Newmark Do. Bury Extension. Newpt.Aberg.&Htfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry Warrenpoint & Rostrevor Norfolk.... ........ Do., New Northn. Counties Un North British .. North Devon, No.l [Do., No. 2. _ I Dc.; A Deferred Do., A B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western N. & S.Wcstrn. June. Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Birmg Do., L. & N. Westn Guaranteed Stock Shrewsby. & Herefd Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves, do Do. Oswestry ...... Shropshire Union South Devon South Eastern......., South Wales S. Yorksh. River Dun D 0......... ...... ..... Stockton & Hartlepl Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath Waterfcl. & Kilkenny Waterford&Limeriek West C0rnwa11........1 Wmble don tkCroydou Woodford . York Newetl. dißerw. Do. Extensions 5 1 11i1Do. G.N.E. Purchase it. 1100 iYork & N. Midland.. PREFEREM it. 100 Aberdeen ....... ....... all Do., No. 2, 7 p. c... 100 Brig. dr Ex. 4p. o. St. 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares ... 100 ! Caledonian .£lO . all 'Chester dr Holyh ead Guar. 54 per cent... 34 Corkdrßandon 5 j p.c. all Dundee PerthdrAber deen Junction.. . . ... all EastA nglian (£3lox) 6 per cent. ... ...... all Do. (i.!5) 7 per cent 2 Do. (£7l7x) 7p. et all Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l all Do., No. 2.. ...... all Do., New 6p. c. St all Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent 100 EastLaucash. 6 p.cts. all Edinb.Prth.drDundee 51 per cent 1100 Glasgow & S.Western guar. 5 per cent 100 Great North , ' 5 p.c 1 100 Do. sp. c.,Redeem , at 10 p. c. prem i all Gt. Southn. &Westn. (Ireland) Eighths 6 Gt. West]. (Berks dz Hants Ex. 5 p. c.) 100 G. West. fixed 41 pc. 6 Lan. & York. F. £2O, 100 'Do., 6 p. c., Stock... 100 London and. Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. c... 100 Do. Pref., sp. c. St. a ll Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 .. 100 Do. New Guar. 6 p.c. 5 London dr S.Western, Con. Thirds 10 Londonderry& Color 1 Shares all Londy. & Ennis. ISh all Manch. ,Shef. , & Lin., i Shares, No. 1,... all Do. New, £10... 3 Do., S.: 6 . all Marypt. &Carl. 4p. c. all Do. 41 per cent ..... 81 Do . 100 Kid. Cousol. 6 p.c. St. 100 Do. Cousol. Bristol di Birni. 6 per cent.... 5 Do. Pref. 41 per cent. all Norfolk Extension... all Do. Guar. 51 per ct.. all Do. Way. Val. 5 p c 100 North British ......... all North Staffordshire.. 100 Oxford Worcester dr Wolverh. £15,6p. c 12 Do all Shrews& Birm. N. G all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W.Min),B p. c. 10 Do. 5 per cent all South Devon 14 Do. New all S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of £1 Os.ikL, all S.Yorksh.4p.c. Guar. 3 Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. 1 100 York Newcastle and Berwick, 4 p.c.Pref 5 Do 10 York& N. Midland H k S. Purch... St. 20 St. 15 FORE: 3 A ntworp &Rotterdam 3 RolgianEastn. Junct. 4 Beziers to Graissessac all Charleroi & Erquelin. 10 Dijon and Besanon. • , g Dutch Rhenish..... all East ...... 1 Do. Extension •• • • all Gt. Indiaa Peninsula 10 Gd. Junct. of France Gt. Western of Canada Shares ... 1 Lucca & Pistoja sp•c. pref............ ........ 15 Luxemb0urg........... 10 Do. (Railway) ......... 2 Do. ..................... 3 Do. (Canal) ............ 2 Do. 6p. ct. pref.-- 9 Lyons & ➢fediterran. 4A Madras ............... .. all Namur & Liege (with 10 20 20 20 interest) ..... all Do. (ex intermit) .....• all Northern of France all Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds• (fray. B. S.; Ams. Shs.) all NorwegianTrunkPref 10 Paris and Lyons all Paris and Orleans all Paris and Rouen all Paris and Strasbourg 4 ParisCaen Sr, Cherbrg. 7:1 Quebec &Richmond all Rouen and Havre all Sambre and Meuse 4 Do. 5l p. et. prof 2 Sth-Eastrn.of France 4 Southern of France 2s. Upper India Scrip all West Flanders 8 'Do. N per c. Pref... ).0 Western of France.. 2 West. of Switzerlam 6 Zealaud"....- ...... - Closing Price. 11118 day. 281 - 29 5i - 6 10 - 10 7 -- 6 :11 21 -- 22 3i -- 23 d 102 -- 104 693 -- 70 23f -23 i 203 -- 213 a - -- ii; 8 - 5i -- 6 3 & 131 - 13 - 101 - 11 71 - 734 - 744 53 - 56 73i -74 i 30 . - 3 2 88 -- 89 55 -- 57 134 - 136 112 -- 113 891 904 7i -- 8 ' 94 -- 96 131 --14 i p 79 -- 801 4 -- 4 d 161 -- 17 9k 9$ 104 -165 p 112#_124, 1 -1 89 -- 90 6 -- 5d 5 -- 4d 12 -- 13 19 -- 21 291 -30 i 3 -- 2id 74 -74 j 42 -- 44 a - 6 Pi 4 3 di 2i - 8i - 94 53 - 55 d 35 -- 36 ••• ...'• Li ._ 4 18 di - - - PI 53i - M 96 - 97 60 - 61 64 - 66 73 76 11 ldis 17 19 13 —. 1 5 20 -- 21 fd 73i —74 f 36i 37 13 -- 14 23 25 2i •; 3 15 15, - 10, 33 34 10 10, 4 (1 pa 71 7i -- 7 d 2 6 64 F, SHARE 92 - - 96 88 -- 92 d 107 -- 109 1108 -- no► 19h -- 2O - Ci - 6j 5 4 :: It a lap! li - 211 p li - 2 p 14 - 15 18 - 18 31 - - ,112 - 113 8i - 8i 61 - Ti 106 10! i --r 1153 - 154 ••• xd •• • xd ii - iEi 3i -- 4 p 1 10 -- 11 13i -- 1411 8 9 10 11 —IIP, 150 - 152 1118 i- - i 122 I) , 11g . - 117 25i -26 i 101 20 - 14 17 181 , 1 p 14, —15 i par #P 261 19a zu4 id P 104 106 51 i - il3l :GN. 1 Oidi 1 li par p 14 15 2f 3i p 1 din 5 i P 1 lip p par 7i - 71 4 - 41 i - l. ij - i ll ii - 21 71 - 7i 35i -35 i 141 -- 141 17 -- rfl 42 -- 43' 44 -- 45 368 -36 i 41 -- 5 1 id -- par 20 -- 21 9i ..• - . 5 6 p 3dis par —lop l 101 Beefless done this day. RAILWAYS. Bedford and Bletch ley. ... Birm. & guarantee.... Do. withoutgr Bina. Woly. dr Dudley guar. Do. wtht guar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Je. E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Glstr.dr Dn. Fr Hrtlpl. Dk. & Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. d Shares. Lon.&Greenw Do. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cent. Do. 6 per et. Manch. Mtn. and Matlock Middlesbro' & Redcar. Nfidld.Bradfd. Northern and Easternsp.c. Do. 6 per ct. De. Fixedsps Prest. & Wyre Do. Roystn.k Hit. Do. Shepth. S t Shef.Roth.and i Goole g. 5 p.c. S. Staffordsh. Wear Valleygr 6 per cent Do Wilts&Somrst Closing Prices this day. Leatlng Compans. London .3/j N. West. I Gt.Westn Do Do Do L.&N.W Caledon Gt.Nrthn. (fit. Westn Irk. New. & Bcrw. V. &NMd Do S. Eastern Do 'Norfolk.. L.& N. W. & Midld. Stekton lc Darlingt. Midland.. 'E. Count Do L. &N.W &Ln&Yk Do Gt Northn Do La.ncash& Yorksh. M.MClcan Stockt. & Darlint Do GtWestn 106 - 108 54 - 56 150 - 152 33i - 31 112 -- 114 56 -- 57 274 -- 284 14i -14 t, 26 -- 27 98 - 100 3 - 31 1106 - 108 65 - 67 151 - 153 151 - 153 d 33 11.05 - 34 -106 i lip' P -1 p Business this day. 70 69i 534 Pm 79j 80 101 i 4 1171 a 17 14i 741 I MINES. Agua Fria A.nglo Californian Australasian Australian Australian Cordillera Australian Freehold Ave Maria Baden (Gd. Duchy of) British Anstrin. Gold British Iron Brazilianlmp. (issued at £5 pm Do. Cocaes & Cuiada Do. St. John Del Rey Carsons's Creek Cobre Copper Colonial Gold Copiapo Copper Min. of Eng Do. Pref. 7i p. cent English and Austin Copper Smeltg. Co General Great Nugget Vein Great Polgooth Lake Bathurst.. Liberty Loud. &Californ. Gold Quartz Crush. Co Mariquita ........ Mexican&S.Americn New Granada.. Nouveau Monde Port Philip Quartz Rock Rhymney Iron ...... Do. New Santiago de Cuba..... South Australian..... Tin Croft United Mexican Waller West Granada West Mariposa Yuba JOINT-S' - 11 par 31 d i - 7 - 1 5 6 - 31 —32 # par 1 p 46 47 10 — 11 65 —75 8 pl 2 14 d 15 17 lj • a par — #p d par 8 8i - 14 lip par —p, 26 -- P 28 7 8 6 7 par 4 p 9 11 4i 54 d— i d p d— p d— p BANKS. Australasia British N. American Chrtd. Bnk. of India, 86 - 87 Australia, & China Colonial Commercial of Lond English Scottish and Australian i - 1p Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia I- 1p 211 - 2 1 1 p London and County London Joint Stock Lond. & Westminster London Bank of Aus tralia and India National of Ireland Oriental Bank of Corporation 52 - 54 53 11 2{ Do. New Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn.Bkg. & Gold Imp Co South Australia Union of Australia Do. New i d par 49 51 50 491 77 78 77 8 8h ••• ••• •• ..• (Union of London.. Union of Madrid.. MIS C F. tr. A NEOTIS 100 35 Australian Agricult. 67 70 6B 6 20 8 Australsu. Pci lie. Mail ... ... 10 6 Australn. Royal Mail _ _ 50 38i,Brit. American Land 80 83 85 7580 78 81 4 100 326'Canada 65 70 5 5 Crystal Palacs 2l 3 p 7 1 1 4 2 Crystal Pal. of France 1 1} 20 1 Eastern Steam — ... 1 1 Electric Teleg. of Ir — ... 15 14 Gen. Steam Navigat ... _ 20 14 General Screw Steam ... ... 20 5 Irish Beetroot Sugar ... ... 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel ... ... 10 2 Netherlands Land ... ... 20 7i Nrth. of Europe Steam ... ... 50 all Peninsular &Oriental ... ... 50 25 Do. Do. ... ••• 1.00 GO Royal Mail Steam 25 25 South Austral. Land 40 42 401 1 all Submar. Telegraph 5 2 Univeral Emigration and Colonization ... ••• 100 28i Van Diemen's Land 18i —19 i LLOYDS' SHIPPING.-(THIS DA Y.) LONDON, May 30.—Wind at Noon, N.N.E. ; light breeze, and cloudy. There have been several light falls of rain this morning. Cows, May 29.—Wind, W. to W.N.W. Arrived— Henry Harbeck, Matanzas ; Bertha, do. ; Joven do. ; Otavia, do., and sailed for Gothenburgh. PLYMOUTH, May 29. Wind, N.N.W. Arrived— St. George, Callao. QUEENSTOWN, May 28.—Wind, N.W. A rr i ve d— President van Buren, Havannah ; Gasparino, New York. Off Port—Conqueror, Bombay • Medora, Matanzas. HARWICH, May 28.—Wind, iV.N.W. Arrived—Alma, Buenos Ayres. LOWESiOFFT, May 29.—Wind, N.E. Arrived- -Mary, Southampton, for Sunderland, assisted in here with con siderable damage from contact with the Diana (s), of Waterford. CLYDE. — Arrived—California, New Orleans ; Cora Linn, New York. Sailed—Emperor, Maulmain ; Akbar, Cal cutta. NEWPORT, May 29.—Arrived--Scott, Gloucester, for Cape of Good Hope; Louisa, Liverpool, for Quebec; Hamlet, do., for Now York ; Albion, London, for Ja maica. DUNKIRK, May 27.—The Republican, of and for Yar mouth, from Shields, which got on shore April 25, h as been assisted off t o -d a y, and brought into harbour. AKYAB, April 12.—The Good Luck, of Jersey, from Rio Janeiro, struck on the Takerr Rocks, and has become a total wreck ; crew saved. POINT DE GALLS, April 29.—The Madras (s), Calcutta to Suez, struck upon a rock here to-day, is leaky, and will proceed to Bombay for repairs ; her mails will go forward by another vessel. HAYMARKET THEATRE.--A more than ordinary de gree of excitement was created on Saturday night by an unexpected incident which occurred during the per formance of M. Planche's popular extravaganza ' en titled Mr. Buckstone's Ascent of Mount Parnassus. In the scene where Mr. Caulfield personates the Spirit of Mont Blanc, and usually adds te the amusement of the audience by an attempt to mimic the voice and manner of Mr. Albert Smith, the extraordinary resemblance, after the delivery of a very few words, produced a sensation which animated the audience to uproarious laughter and applause. The gratification of the public, however, was only surpassed by the as tonishment of Mr. Buckstone, on the stage, when, al most immediately after, it became evident that it was Mr. Albert Smith himself, who, having supplanted Mr. Caulfield as the Spirit of Mont Blanc, was making fun of his own entertainment with singular bonhomie and good humour. What led to this very curious improvi sation was not made public. It is enough to add that every word uttered by Mr. Smith increased the hilarity of the audience, and that, being unanimously called for at the end of the scene, he asked pardon of the house for the joke he had committed, and retired amid the loudest applause. THE DOCKYARD APPOINTMENT SCANDAL.—The Report on Dockyard Appointments is valuable rather for the facts of which it will form the official record than for the opinion it expresses on those facts. We cannot help considering that an exposure so scandalous would have fully justified the committee in chronicling their de cision in stronger terms than they have employed. It may be, however, that the subdued and entirely un impassioned tone adopted in the Report will have more weight with candid men than a style of com position more proportioned, in popular estimation, to the flagrancy of the offence and the iniquity of the system. It may, also, very probably have been present to the minds of the Commissioners that the extra-judicial opinion of the public had, during the whole progress of the inquiry, been so ably and eloquently conveyed through the press, that they were themselves additionally bound to preserve a sort of judicial calmness and dignity in commenting on facts and conduct the mero statement of which is their suffi cient condemnation.— Weekly News and Chronicle. is said that the plan for a new street, commencing from a point in the Strand, nearly opposite to Essex-street, availing itself of the east side of Lincoln's Inn-fields, and opening into Holborn, nearly opposite to Red Lion-street, was prepared upwards of two years since, and that a company is uow forming to carry the plan into execution,—wilder. 12i 20 10 20 !Do.. THE FRENCH EINIPME. A vast number of persons arr . ved on Saturday in Paris by pleasure-trains organised on not less than six great railways—the Northern, Strasbourg, Lyons, Orleans, Western, and Rouen. Many of these strangers proceeded at once to Versailles to be on the spot for the great review which was to t.ke place on the plain of Satory, in presence of the Emperor of the Freneh and the Duke of Genoa. The rest went there yesterday morning, and Paris had b een i n general less animated than usual during the day. The weather was not very favour able, a s show ers ,h ad been falling from time to time since daylight. Marshal .111Znan, the Com mander-in-Chief, had drawn out the plan and made all arrangements for this military spectacle. The line of tro o p s was to face Versailles, with th e left bearing on th e f arm of Satory. The infantry were to draw up i n t wo l i nes in front, the cavalry behind, and cl ose t o t h e camp. The arti llerywas to be placed on th e two flanks. A s th e soil of the plain of Satory is soft, the rain of the night must have saturated it so comp l etely as to render the manoeuvres of heavy artillery difficult. B ut even without that arm the sight would no doubt be a fine one. Yesterday being fete Dieu, the churches of Paris were dressed out most richly, to do honour to the procession of the Holy Sacrament. At the Made leine the space under the exterior range of columns was hung with draperies, the procession gang round the church, under the colonnade, to a grand altar placed under the peristyle facing the Rue Tronchet. At the church of St. Thomas d'Aquin the altar was erected, as in former years, in one of the courts of the arsenal. A considerable number of persons were collected at the various churches to view the procession. The Minister of the Interior, after having taken the orders of the Emperor has accorded a pension of 500 f. a year to M. de Balsac, the well-known novelist. Accounts from the departments concur in stating that a considerable rise has taken place in the price of cattle of every kind. In the Jura and all the departments of the centre of France, cows, pigs, and sheep, of late, have fetched much higher prices, and the market still appears rising. In Burgundy a similar advance has taken place, as well as in the departments of the north-east, and in those adjoining the Rhine and the Meuse. In Paris, every kind of provisions is higher of late, and the tendency of the market is still upwards. House-rent also is advancing in an extraordinary manner, the landlords appearing determined to in demnify themselves at present for the heavy losses which they sustained after the revolution of 1848; and with an increase of rent, in many cases amount ing to a fourth or a third, apartments are snatched up so suddenly that almost every one may be heard complaining of the extreme difficulty of obtaining suitable accommodation. It is not too much to say that the expense of living in Paris has within the last year increased from 15 to 20 per cent. The Court Imperial of Paris has given a judgment in the case of " the Correspondents," and without changing to any very great extent the decision of the Correctional Police, against which both par ties had appealed, leans more towards the accused than towards the law officers of the Crown. By the preceding judgment, M. Alfred de Coetlogon and M. Virmaitre had been condemned to six months' imprisonment ; M. de Planhol to three months ; and the Duke Rovigo, M. Flaudin, and M. de Lapierre to one month. Likewise, MM. Anatole de Coetlogon and Aubertin, both tried by default, had been condemned to one year's impri sonment ; whilst M. de Chantelauze had been ac quitted. On the second trial, which has just ter minated, the accused were defended by MM. Berryer, Hebert, Dufaure, Odillon Barrot, du Teil, and Belval. After a deliberation of an hour and three quarters, the court confirmed the sen tence of the first judges in its principal points, but reforming it in the following ones :--ist. It de clares that the charge against Alfred de Coetlogon and the Duke de Rovigo, of having illegally in their possession arms of war (which had been decided affirmatively by the lower court), is not proved, and orders the arms which had been seized to be restored to them ; secondly, decides in the negative the charge against M. Alfred de Coetlogon, of being guilty of insult towards the person of the Head of the State (decided affirma tively by the other court) ; thirdly, decides that M. Aubertin (who is absent) ought to have been found guilty of the publication of false news ; and, fourthly, the judgment changes the mode in which the other court had fixed the costs, the Imperial Court assigning them in certain proportions to the prisoners, according to the guilt of the parties condemned. The court also sets aside completely the charge brought against the prisoners, of being engaged in a secret society, declaring that no proof exists to lead to any such conclusion. As this was the point which the Procureur-General was above all anxious to establish, the decision of the court must so far be considered as a blow given to the Government. At the termination of business on Saturday the public funds had again lost a portion of the advan tage obtained the preceding day, and during the day prices underwent very sudden changes ; the market for cash was so much better supported than that for the term, that an interval occurred dur ing which purchases for the account for sale for money could be advantageously effected. The Three per Cents. for the end of the month declined 70c., and the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 75c. In the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. for money, there was a fall of 50c., and of 60c. in the Three per Cents. In Bank of France shares no change occurred. The concluding quotations were :—For cash—Three per Cents., 79f. 95c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 102 f. 60c. For the account—Three per Cents., 79f. 85c. ; Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 102 f. 50c. ; Bank Stock 2,700 f. Shares of the Bank of Credit Foncier declined 5f., closing at 835 f., and those of the Societe Mobiliere 17f. 50c., the last quotation being 870 f. A considerable decline in prices oc curred in the Railway Share Market yesterday, the Rouen and Havre line being the only exception in which an advance of 10f. took place. Paris and Rouen shares fell 20f. lc. ; Paris and Strasbourg, lf. ; and Lyons to the Mediterranean, 17f. each ; Paris and Orleans and Bordeaux and Cette, 15f. ; Northern, 11f. ; and Cherbourg,s, Westerns, and Paris and Lyons, 10f. each. Closing prices— Northern, 902 f. 50c. ; Paris and Orleans, I,oBof. ; Paris and Strasbourgs, 922 f. 50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 945 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,115 f. ; Lyons to the Mediterranean, 762 f. 52c. ; Western of France, 765 f. ; Rouen and Havre, 525 f. ; Bor deaux and Cette, 635 f. ; Caen and Cherbourg, 630 f. TURKEY. The Paris M oniteur says—" The F renc h Govern ment has received news from Constantinople, dated 20th of May. The French and British Ambas sadors, the Prussian Minister; and the Austrian Charge d'Affaires, had united to make conjointly an attempt to effect a conciliation, but this step bad led to no result, as Prince Menschikoff still demanded the guarantee of the immunities of the Greek Church. It was rumoured that this ambas sador intended to leave Constantinople on the night of 21st May. Another message from Vienna re ports that Prince Menschikoff started on the 22d for Odessa. Notwithstanding such information, we would hardly believe that hostilities would be commenced in consequence of the rupture of diplo matic relations between Russia and the Porte. And our opinion is grounded both on the wisdom of the Cabinet of St. Petersburg, and the assurances given but recently by the latter to all the Courts of Europe, founded on the law of nations, which does not make a cams belli of the refusal by a power of acceding to a demand of concessions and advantages not stipulated by previous engagements." Although the news received by telegraph from Vienna had prepared the Paris public for the rup ture of the negotiations between Prince Menschi koff and the Porte, as well as for the departure of Prince Menschikoff from Constantinople, the alarm ing note which appears in the Moniteur of yester day morning has certainly taken the public by sur prise. It cannot be concealed that if the object of the French Government was to allay alarm, the plan it has taken in order to accomplish its object is anything but a good one. It was no longer ago than Saturday that the Government denied having received any account of Prince Menschikoff's departure ; that the organs of the Government were using every means in their power to impress the public with the belief that there was no danger of a rupture of negotiations ; and that the directors of the Paris press were informed that if they published the accounts re ceived from Vienna, of Prince Menschikoff's de• parture for Odessa, they would be punished under the law which prohibits the circulation of false intelligence ; and yet at that very time the French Government must have been in possession of full details of the rupture of the negotiations—must have known that Prince Menschikoff had embarked with the whole of his suite—and, in short, must have known, as admitted by the Moniteur of yes terday, that the only guarattnietlteelevcic\ Russia have f Cabinet of and s t. f d wisdom a c o e f the r t p h e o rte i s maintenance “the w i o s Petersburg ;" " th e assurances which th e C zar has Lgiven to the Courts of Europe ;" nations, which " does not considerted fo h accede conce ss i ons not - • engagements" as a ca sms b c lli . Among the R uss i an tamed th a t th e affai peace will be pre serve d confidence amongand. the l aw o f stipulated the e by refusal anteriort o party in Pa r i s it i s s till main r will be arranged, an d th a t ; but it i s o b serve d that French politicians is daily dinii- I nishing. Indeed, the RusTsianTs7-----ie themselves have e some misgiving, and they seem to think a sudden attack by the Odessa fleet on Constantinople by no means an improbable event. It is by no means a favourable symptom, too, that the Russian politi cians in Paris (and they are numerous) no longer admit that the pretensions put forward by Prince Menschikoff to the protectorship over the members of the Greek Church new. On the other hand, they maintain, contrary to the assertion of the Aroniteur, that the whole of th e d eman d s ma d e b y that diplo matist are of ancient date; and that even the claim of protection over the Greeks is not only old, but that it is founded on concessions made years ago by Turkey; though never carried out. The Paris papers are in general very reserved on the question of Constantinople. The only one of them which ventures to announce Prince Menschi koff s departure is the Assemblee Nationale, which merely says : _ "Accounts have been received from Constantinople via the Danube and Vienna. The last delay fixed by. Prince Menschikoff having expired without any under standing being come to between him and the Divan, the Prince embarked on the evening of the 20th, and de finitively quitted Constantinople. The news of this de parture, which was in some measure foreseen, in no way shakes our confidence in the maintenance of peace. It is not Prince Menschikoff who is the arbiter of the situation ; it is his Sovereign the Emperor Nicholas ; and all the assurances received from St. Petersburgh are essentially pacific." The Presse of Vienna has the following article on the Eastern question :- 1 "The Lloyd steamer, which arrived the day before yesterday, brought intelligence from Constantinople of the 16th inst. Three important facts are made known —the change of Ministry, the settlement of the Holy Sepulchre question, and the last audience of Prince Menschikoff with the Sultan. The negotiations had accordingly not been. broken off, and it appears that great hopes of an undisturbed peace were entertained at Stamboul. It seems, also, that Russia participates in the wish, for the Journal de Franefort contained the fol lowing passage a few days ago The Emperor of Russia asks for nothing in the Orient which could expose the honesty of his conservative efforts to a doubtful in terpretation. The power of circumstances is the mightiest power, and it enjoins the maintenance of the Turkish Empire. The latter can be endangered by the revolu tion, but not by the Cabinets.' On the other hand, the appointment of Reschid Pasha appears to be nothing less than a concession to Russia. W e shall shortly see in what manner England has assumed the part of a quiet spectator, and France has indemnified itself for its plia bility in the question of the Holy Places." The general belief in Vienna is that we shall soon hear of the Russian army having entered the Danubian principalites; that then the Porte would probably acquiesce in the demands of Russia ; and that thus the difficulties of the present position of affairs would be removed, without disturbing the peace of Europe. However far these conjectures will prove true cannot be at present determined ; but much probability seems to be attached thereto. GERMANY. The Vienna journals state that the title of Count will shortly be conferred on the head of the Roth child family by the Emperor of Austria. The Austrian Minister of Finance has reduced the interest of a certain State paper, for which the Imperial salt-mines are specially mortgaged, from 5 per cent. (which it has hitherto borne) to 4i per cent. These bonds are called " Partial- Hypothekar-Anweisungen, ;" the interest they bear is always payable four months in advance. The reduced interest will commence on the Ist of June next ensuing. The holders who are not content with this reduction of interest will receive repayment of the capital stock. There are about forty millions of these bonds floating. This reduc tion of interest will be of advantage to the State in a financial point of view ; but the measure in ques tion is by far more important in its moral conse quences, inasmuch as it proves that Austria can afford to run the risk of forty millions of its State paper currency being presented for repayment at so short a notice. These bonds, however, are always much in demand for permanent and temporary investment ; and there is no doubt of the holders being perfectly content with the reduction of 4 per cent. of the interest. The marriage of Princess Anna, niece of the King of Prussia, with Prince Frederick of Hesse Cassel, was solemnised at Charlottenburg, on the 26th inst. The usual national contribution for the Princess's dotation was declined by the King. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Sir James Graham, First Lord of the Admiralty, held a levee at Whitehall on Saturday, and it was attended by the following officers : Vice-Admiral Sir Edward Tucker, K.C.8., Rear-Admi ral Sir John Gordon Sinclair, Bart., and Rear-Admiral Edward Collier, C.B. Captains—Frederick A. Wetherall (1826), Thomas Ben nett (1828), John Kingcome (1838), Robert Craigio, (1839), Richard IL King (1839), Richard L. Warren (1839), and T. S. Thompson (1846). Commanders—Arthur Morrell (1823), Thomas B. Bond (1825), Lord Francis J. Russell (1837), Santnel C. ITmfre yille (1838), Henry H. Bingham (1840), Richard D. White (1847), Valentine 0. Inglefield (1848), Thomas Brewer (1852), and Frederick A. Egerton (1852). Lieutenants—William R. Davies (1815), Godfrey Brere ton (1815), George Read, (1815), S. 11. Ricketts (1842), and Anthony H. Hoskins (1849). Masters—George Johnson (1830) and John C. Barlow (1835). PORTSMOUTH, MAY 29. The Fairy Royal yacht, Master-Commander Welch, and the Efin, Master-Commander Bailiston, were yes terday taken into dock for re-embellishment, in readi ness for her Majesty's summer cruise. The Vulcan steam-troop-frigate, Commander Von Donop, completed the adjustment of her compasses, and rebent sails yesterday. She will be ready for sea to morrow, when she will drop out to Spithead. The Porcupine steam-vessel, Lieutenant Commander Jackson, had her compass adjusted yesterday, and is taking in stores, prior to proceedingl i to the Isle of Man. It is probable that Rear-Admiral Sir James Stirling will succeed Rear-Admiral Moresby in the command-in chief on the Pacific station, and the Presidept, 50, at Chatham, will be the flag-ship. Tho Banshee steam dispatch-vessel, Lieut. Hosken, R.N., commanding, has been ordered, by telegraph, this afternoon, to prepare immediately for sea. She has " blue Peter" flying, and parties are ashore looking for leavemen belonging to her crew. A Government mes senger is supposed to be on his way per train with dispatches for her to convey to Rear-Admiral Corry, who is cruising with his squadron in the Channel. These dispatches are supposed to contain further sailing instructions for the gallant admiral. Wind very variable ; rain, hail, lightning, and thun der, at intervals. PLYMOUTH, MAT 28. His Netherlands Majesty's steam-sloop Seoubin, 4, Captain Fabius, which left this port on Thursday fore noon, is gone, it is said, to Constantinople, to convey some pirates, now in prison in that city, to their native island in the Archipelago, where they will be tried for an act of piracy on a Dutch merchant vessel committed in their locality some months since. Her Majesty's steam-ship St. Jean d'Acre is ordered to be fitted with Grant's patent cooking apparatus. The frigate Sybille, 40, is to have her copper taken off, and be caulked, preparatory to her being put into commission by Captain the Hon. C. B. J. P. Elliot, who will relieve the Fox, 42, Commodore Lambert, on the East India station. The names of all the dockyardsmen who are voters have been sent to the Admiralty. Mr. Galot, who arrived at Devonport Dockyard on the. 20th inst., and left on the 21st, has paid a second visit this week, and left again on the 27th. He was ac companied on the second occasion by a clerk, but has found very great difficulty in obtaining from the men any information regarding the means by which they procured their appointments in the yard. SHEERNESS, MAY 28. The Comus, 14, gun-sloop, Commander William A. Fellowes, was undocked yesterday and berthed in the fitting basin. She musters now in crew 90 odd. She has crossed lower and topsailyards, and all her rigging is turned in and set up. To-day they have commenced -iii leer stowing her hold. The Tribune, 3 0 , new screw steam - frigate, Captain the Hon. S. T. Carnegie, arrived here from Woolwich yesterday, having made a very satisfactory trial of h er e ngines, the machinery of which acted admirably, an d she promises to be a very fast ship under steam powe r . She washk The Horatio airdort immediately i c pr taken tm e i n n into tbnpreparing for e busily the ufis 3 for engaged in , g basn riggingo s department e aw have in c ompleting her fitment, receiving her arma men t , stores, theri dl o&c. va AA The steam-transport Rhadamanthus, Joh Mn 29. Belam Master Commander, p a s se d h ere for Chatha m on the 27th inst. from Woolwich ; she has taken in Government stores, and the furniture of Mr. Lang, lately appointed master-shipwright at Pembroke yard. She passed out this morning for Pembroke. WOOLWICH, MAY 28. APPOINTMENTs. Paymaster—William Hamilton (1829), to the Britan nia, 120, flag-ship on the Mediterranean station. Clerks—Frederick T. Robins (1851), from the Saturn, at Pembroke, the Sybille, 40, at Devonport ; William Horniman (1853), to the St. Jean d'Acre. Second Master —O, F. Clementson (185 S), to the St. Jean d'Acre. Charles P res,grave, first-class assistant-engineer, is promoted to be chief engineer, and appointed to the 6itnoom, 18, iron screw steam troop-ship, of 350-horse power, at Portsmouth. MALTA, MAT 22. Some alarm was felt here (until the arrival of th Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Euxine, nutahr subsided.i inst., t ~ and The on t i ed c Ha from Marseilles) for the safety of the Haddin g ton, known to have a large cargo for Constantino p le on board, a nd which vessel was overdue by some days. It was, h ow ever, ascertained that she had p ut into Corunn a wi on a the n dall l fear her voyage to the Levant on the same day. her din g en gines t n or;acehae d m apgoerdt, 0) a e le gy : $lO bo'''' • lt 0 1 ' flipo 4 •„136 if ; r i l et JePd ; ill);(r• tb' 'es°' A tt lr s t. 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