The Sun. — London, England, 1853-02-21 00:00:00

THE FRENCH EMPIRE. The Emperor, it seems, is a great patron of the turf, and he has agents at present in England buy ing up all the available blood stock that is offered for sale. Within the last few days a bill opening a s upplementary credit of 300,000 f. for the national b reeding -studs has been distributed to the Legisla tive Body. In 1852, an application for a sum of 500,000 f. had been sent to the Council of State for e xamination, but the session was too near its close at the time to allow the matter to bo brought before the Legislative Body. The necessities of the ser vice having become urgent, a decree was passed on the 18th of October last, placing 200,000 f. at the disposal of the Minister of the Interior, Commerce, and Agri cu lt ure for the breed ing-studs. The present bill is to make up the 300,000 f. remaining. The Minister of Public Works has formed a com mission consisting of th e f o ll ow i ng mem bers, charged to inquire into the influence which the establishment of railways and the freedom granted to waggon establishments may exercise on the re- Pair of the Imperial roads :—MM. Rouher, Dela roarre, Dumirail, Carlier, Fromy, Thayer, Mon tanier, Gayant, Lebreton, and Dubois. The minis ter will preside, or in his absence M. Rouher. According to a return, published in the Moni teur, the receipts of the customs duties and the in direot taxes during the last month amounted to 8,945,549 E, being 1,344,800 f. less than in the cor responding month of 1852, and 734,434 f. more than ion January, 1851. The Vice-Admirals, Admirals, and Captains at t his moment in Paris were summoned yesterday to receive a communication from the Minister of Marine. The Moniteur announces the arrival of General Gemeau, late Commander-in-Chief of the army at /tome. The pay of the sub- o ffi c e r s in all branches of th e allay ll aval service has been increased ten centimes M. Halphen, of the Bank of France, died in 4- aria yesterday. „ According t o or d ers f rom th e Mi n i s t er o f M ar i ne, Ve Artillery and Marines assembled at Toulon, Brest, Rochefort, Ch er b ourg , an d C e tt e , t o t a k e t he oath of fidelity to the Emperor. At the in stance of the officers in command, this ceremony r°k • Place simultaneously on board all vessels be mc.tignig to the Imperial navy. The debate and explanations in the House of c ommons on Friday have produced the best pos sible effect in Paris. Thre e B ourse opene d f i rm on S a t ur d ay , an d th e - -uhree per Cents., which were first called at 80f. ?,.., rose t o 81f . Th e report o f th e a tt emp t on th e "le of the Emperor of Austria produced some un easiness, and the Three per Cents. fell to 80f. 50c., 411 (1 closed at 80f. 65c. for the end of the month. The Pour-and-a-Half per Cents. closed at 106 f. AUSTRIA. telegraphic dispatch from Vienna, of the 18th, received at Paris, gives the following version of the "t empt on the life of the Emperor of Austria : " Majesty was walking on the Custei, when a wngarian j ourneyman ta il or, f ormer l y a h ussar, name d assobwey, t ra it orous l y attac k e d hi m f rom b e hi n d , an d nunded hi m i n t h e b ac k o f t h e h ead. H i s M a j esty AasW able t o go to t h e palace of the Archduke Al b ert, here the wound was dressed, and from there he re turned on foot to the palace. The wound is not danger -13118) but nevertheless the medical men have recom kended that he should remain in bed." T he Debats adds : ItWe have reason to believe that a first dispatch, leh arrived y es t er d a y even i ng , a dd e d f ur th er d e t a il s. 1, w as with a p on i ar d th a t th e assass i n a p proac h e d th e :,,peror, an d gave hi m a bl ow on t h e b ac k o f t h e neck, 4 1 " te c onsequences of whi c h are f or t una tely without gra y„' An aide-de-camp of the Emp e ror threw him se lf le assassin, and with a blow of his sabre struck him ii cl : e a o , at his feet. Another dispatch, however, gives a 7'mrent versio n , an d sa y s th a t th e assass i n use d a mus 4,et to effect his crime." There appears to be some discrepancy in the ac unts as to the manner in which the attempt was tr ade. Intelligence of the 19th states that the Emperor's 1 0 7alth was satisfactory, but a telegraphic message Yesterday says the Emperor suffers from a slight access of fever but the doctors declare there is no o ° s und for uneasiness. tr ° ll g representations have been made to Lord surtraoreland, and a note sent off London, on the ref t 3 g ec ee t s o! the licence given in England to political Pe r th at some days past the police have been more ha ve usually active in Vienna, and several arrests the o r d e ll made. Domiciliary visits are likewise Mila n — , of the day. This is attributed to the th a t gt ll - 8 , Piracy, and it is generally understood per swa s. '` eu orders have been given to admonish all Ject. s found of conversing upon the sub guilty The P r i ma t e of Hungary and the Archbishop of -alocsa are at Vienna, to take part in certain epis opal conferences, having for their object the con clusion of a concordat with Rome. Another motive for the unusual visit of two Hungarian prelates 14 ,a , 3 7 be to obtain still further concessions to the J esuits in Hungary. They have already been re stored t o their Church property and influence at ,b _Yrnau, much to the rejoicing of the primate (or 'llschbishop of Gran). PRUSSIA. AL Berlin letter, of the 15th says :—" The Second . t 7a k taber has decided that the legislative period is si n ue extended from three to six years. This deci jr-11, 18 ag a in st the wish of the Ministry, who de t,--kt it tobetwo years. The day before yesterday e , Council of Ministers decided that they would t accept that determination, and that the ques - V i)11 should b e su b m itt e d to the examination of the lret Charaber.,, .A. be treaty of commerce has just been completed %i t/v eep. Austria and Prussia.. The particulars of ii , ‘ • 8 treaty, w hi c h ma y b e reg arded as the most % ,... 7 q 3 °rtant event that has occurred in Germany 2,71 1 the establishment of the Confederation and th e i / '"ein, are not yet publicly known. Never mat;, enough has transpired to warrant the affir prn,,,l first, that Austria furnishes incontestable n o her determination to adopt a system of te o gre ssive liberal commercial policy, as will be liet wil .,hy a large reduction of intermediary dues, il lc ianY upon all raw articles of primary necessity, lte ta 'ng unwrought iron, but upon numerous th e ef manufactured goods ; and secondly, that Nth, ir ?ake with thd Darmstadt coalition, by a clause c e j l ein it is stip u l a ted that no treaty s h a ll be Part. ll : d e(' with any Zollverein States without the it r ,,, ic APation o raasen t o f P r us s ia. Th e t rea t y, w hil s t k a l lees th e tariffs on divers most essential and raw liku u 'a etured articles, stipulates likewise that no terrntation w h a t ever shall be introdu ce d u p on in leaveecliarY tariffs, to or fro, but at the same ti me pa tti B external tariffs at the disposal of contra c ti ng fav ou e :',, But thi s f acu lty is mor e lik e ly t o t e ll Iltat e a' a plY than unfavourably as regards foreign and co nsidering the liberal views entertained b,,,,unced by the respective Cabinets. The treaty Oro;:dier said to extend not only to all Austrian gene ra l ' l ands, including Lombardy, but to Italy ent ere ilY--th a t is, to such Italian states as have Nth ther., may conclude commercial conventions 3 _ 114 1 2 .0rt a , -u nPerial Govement. This is a most 'cnci a ~l a b feature of then gotiation, since it ex- L i nes, ' ra ile Wide field for the debut of Prussian pro -Veei w and manufactured ; and will be most forge..k-t beneficial to the Rhenan provinces, whose • h ek telaa l t t , er s and manufacturers already carry on uealitigs with Austria. These and other iobees,tY' will now have a population of some seventy !tele ate -4 suppl and this under the most favour- c e 4icl. t as regards ra il a nd water carriage. It g i both sit t he tariff on raw iron is to be reduced en p a es to 4, whilst (as well known) Belgian kl ee 1 5 1 8 74, and t we _that of England 10 . . This diff.er t; 4 ed - D fn 4, accorded to Austria, and 10, of ""40 -and, will no doubt attract the atten- I lene to 11 r ), Board of Trade, and justify its exer "'el of keltagiiiinticianin- diminution; at all events, to the theten,..3, ITALY. - "'ung to accounts of the 15th . from . Milan, t, o Was still great difficult in obtaining Com kaairrhitoin the city. Baron Martini, Military any Deri,„llt, had threatened to punish severely access 4441 raising cries, singing, or whistling in the ha tz :i Two person s had been condemned . and in t the NI --- Chefor having taken up arms against two g is ts at Josa-gate, the other for having 4141478 in his shop and having been seen with the t e lz e rtts in the Rue Bottonuto. toilit"ers from Berne of the 17th, state that the . 'Aa r kr, at ' orders issued at Tesin are enforced with Nh th • 87eity. The Austrians have blockaded eve 1 g- ats The Ftderal Council has sent Col. ollr • of nThgeolS to examine and report upon the real state 140eZalts, and hopes were entertained that the corti7te would be raised, and that the export of kerchat least, would be allowed. Travellers and 1 / 3 ' th e a are now compelled to take the route Spingen. • O ut SPAIN. CaAi aec°llll -ts are to the 15th. Among the indi °lls th % °bae a't the s • h Government are making t he t arY prep a P r r v is tutrc t r e Vated inerelaTes intthsestat artillery t ha a t nd besides civi l 1.8 0 1!th havelee,.rises of leave which were issued last been Who werei)ell r?called, and the conscripts of 4 04%34 into at their homes on partial leave have quarters, and that detachments of the engineer corps have been sent to such fortresses as required reparation. M. Martinez de la Rosa is to be the Ministerial candidate for the Presidency of the Chamber of Deputies, and his election is considered certain. All reports of modifications in the Ministry had ceased. The following are the prices of Stocks :—Three per Cents., 42 ; ditto Deferred, 23 5-16 ; Redeem able Debt (first class), 10 ; ditto (second class), N ; Coupon Certificates, 4. Exchange on London, 51. THE MADIAIS.-THE OFFICIAL CORRES- PONDENCE. The official correspondence in reference to the case of the Madiai having been laid before Parliament, we select from the documents the following important letters, in reply to the dispatch of Lord John Russell, which has been already published : _ No. 34. MR. ERSKINE TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL. --(RECEIVED FEB. 4.) "Florence, Jan. 27, 1853. "My Lord,—Your lordship's dispatch to Sir Henry . Bulwer, of the 18th inst., reached Florence, by messen ger Drury, on the 24th. " On the following day I called on the Tuscan Minister for Foreign Affairs, and explained to him, as nearly as possible in the words used by your lordship, the views entertained by her Majesty's Government with respectto the continued imprisonment of the Madiais ; requestini , that his excellency would impress upon the Grand Duke of Tuscany the cruelty and impolicy of persisting in a course which is calculated to weaken the mental faculties, if not to shorten the days, of those unfortunate prisoners. " The Duke of Casigliano repeatedly interrupted the communication it was my duty to make to him, and de sired that I would state to your lordship, that although he did not intend to dispute the Queen's right to point out to his Sovereign the arguments which ought, in the opinion of her Majesty, to prevent the adoption of rigor ous penal measures against offences relating to religious opinions, such arguments or advice must be received un officially (officieusement). The Grand Ducal Govern ment would protest, not only against anything like in tervention by force of arms, but even against the right of her Majesty's Government to tender its advice in such a shape as could be construed as an attempt at moral pressure.' "Even such communications as the present he deemed highly injudicious, as tending to keep alive in the mind of his Imperial and Royal Highness the impression left by the interference of the Earl of Roden's deputation. " The Duke of Casigliano denied, most emphatically, that any analogy exists between the moral torture de scribed by your lordship as a species of capital punish ment, and the mild form of imprisonment which the Madiais are now undergoing ; as his excellency asserts that the prison discipline of this country is notoriously as humane and enlightened as any en the Continent. "These persons were not, as is alleged, convicted of having apostatised from the established religion, but of having sought to seduce others from that religion—a crime punishable by law. " His excellency and his colleagues had spared no effort to induce the Grand Duke to exercise the Royal prerogative of mercy ; but his Imperial and Royal High ness would make no promise as to the exact period at which he should see fit to commute the sentence of the tribunal. 'As a friend,' he added, will tell you frankly, that the more this question is agitated from abroad the less chance is there of an early liberation of the Madiais.' " The Duke of Casigliano took advantage of this op portunity to allude, in a pointed manner, to a very similar trial, which has recently taken place in Sardinia, in which a person named Mazzinghi was found guilty and sentenced to three years' imprisonment, adding that her Majesty's Government would, doubtless, offer the same advice at Turin as was given here. "From the whole tenor of his excellency's conversa- tion there is, I fear, but little reason to hope for the im mediate release of the unfortunate persons in whose fate her Majesty's Government and the British public have exhibited so warm an interest. "The Grank Duke is now absent, arid will not return to Florence for some days. I shall not, therefore, be able to report to your lordship by this messenger the effect produced on the Royal mind by the advice I was instructed to tender in the name of her Majesty's Govern ment. _ _ _ " Early next month I shall, however, report to your lordship, by the regular messenger, how this advice has been received by his Imperial and Royal Highness. (Signed) " E. M. ERSKINE." No. 35. MR. ERSKINE TO LORD JOHN RIISSELL.—(RECEIVED FEB, 4.) (Extract.) " Florence, Jan. 27, 1853. " I think it my duty to state to your lordship, with reference to one expression in your dispatch to Sir Henry Bulwer of the 18th instant, namely `an unhealthy prison,' that I am informed by Mr. Chapman, an En glish gentleman, who has interested himself most warmly in favour of the Madiais, and who is permitted to visit them occasionally in prison, that he has no fault to find with the treatment either of Francesco Maidiai or of his wife. " The former, as your lordship is aware, is now con fined in the prison at Volterra, in a healthy situation at the top of a high hill ; and Mr. Chapman assures me that the infirmary in which he is lodged is in every re spect as comfortable as any well-regulated hospital for persons at large. " Mr. Chapman is equally satisfied with the atten tion bestowed on the physical wants of Rosa Madiai at Lucca. "Although this circumstance does not in any way affect your lordship's arguments as to the moral torture inflicted on sensitive minds by protracted imprisonment, I venture to mention it, as the expression ' unhealthy ' might be laid hold of by the Tuscan Government, with the view of diverting attention from a real to an imagi nary wrong. I may add, that the Duke of Casigliano requested me to state to your lordship that the most satisfactory accounts were received yesterday from Volterra of Fran cesco Madiai's health ; accounts, however, which are not borne out by Mr. Chapman, in so far as relates to the mental condition of this unfortunate person." No. 36. MR. ERSKINE TO LORD JOHN RUSSELL. -(RECEIVED FEB. 15.) (Extract.) "Florence, Fob. 5, 1853. "With reference to my dispatch of the 27th ult., I havo now the honour to report to your lordship, that on the 2d inst. I learnt from the Duke of Casigliano that he had communicated to the Grand Duke of Tuscany the argu ments by which her Majesty's Government have sought to persuade his Imperial Highness to pardon the unfor tunate Francesco and Rosa Madiai. _ _ . "Those arguments,lTegTeTto say, have failed, not only to produce conviction on the mind of his Imperial Highness, but they have tended, if possible, to confirm him in his original resolve to do nothing in this matter until such time as he shall be left to the unfettered use of his own discretion. • " The only point on which the• Grand Duke seems to be at all alive to public opinion abroad, is the alleged condemnation of the Madiais as Protestants. He desired the Duke of Casigliano again to contradict this notion, and to assure her Majesty's Government that they were punished solely because they attempted to convert Roman Catholics to their own belief. " I ventured to state to his excellency that it would be difficult for your lordship to attach any credence to this assertion, while it was notorious that the prisoners were not allowed to receive the Sacrament according to the rites of their religion. His excellency could find no be,- ter reply to this objection than that in the public hospi tals that permission was granted to Protestants as a matter of course ; but that the prison discipline forbade such an indulgence to criminals. ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN GOLDMINING OOMPANT. On Wednesday, a dinner was given at the Clarendon Hotel, Gravesend, by the directors of this company, to Capt. Bell, the superintendent, and the staff of miners, who sailed on Saturday, in the Adele, for Australia; Dr. Bartlett in the chair. After the cloth was withdrawn, and the usual loyal toasts had been drunk, The CHAIRMAN addressed the men. He stated, they were about to depart for a new country ; they must not forget that while labouring for the company they would be working for themselves. He had heard much of de sertions in Australia ; they had, however, a guarantee in the fact, that the men had left their families at home, and that a portion of their earnings would be withheld for their support. As far as possible, they had exacted all that could be done—they had looked at the dark side of human nature instead of its best aspect. For his own part, he had great confidence in their superintendent, who had resided some time in Australia, and was well acquainted with the colony ; and judging from the honest faces of the men before him, he did not think they would be so wanting in character as to forget they were Englishmen, and fly from engagements which they had freely entered into. On prosperity to the Anglo-Calfornian Company being drunk, Mr. MASSEY DAWSON observed, that connected as he was with that company, the oldest established of all the gold associations, it gave him great plea sure, if he might use the term, to see so many branch associations springing from the parent stem. The ex perience acquired at the Anglo-Californian board would be used in the direction of the Anglo-Australia and Alliance Companies ; they might in their sphere be equally useful to each other. The men were leaving England as freemen, not fettered in any way as convicts ; he trusted they would never forget what was due to their character of Englishmen. They would carry with them the elements of Anglo-Saxon industry and energy ; and, while their labour was of benefit to the colony, it would be of corresponding advantage to the mother country. Mr. MURDO YOUNG stated, in proposing success to the Anglo-Australian Mining Cordpany, he felt the con viction, that if the directors did not command success, they had done all in their power to deserve it. Every precaution had been taken to prevent failure ; and he trusted that the enterprise would be attended with the prosperity which the shareholders anticipated. Dr. BARTLETT said, they were indebted to their secre tary (Mr. Parker) for the energy and ability he had shown in attending to the interests of the company. He, therefore, most cordially proposed his health. Mr. PARKER observed, in returning thanks, that he had met with the most cordial co-operation on the part of the directors and all concerned. In their ship they had put on board not only machinery, but everything which they thought would be of utility, or conducive to the comfort of the men ; and he might say with pride, no company had yet sent out their staff so fully equipped as theirs. The health of Captain Bell, the - superintendent, was drunk, which was replied to in a neat speech by that gentleman. Mr. FALDER, of Penrith, responded on behalf of the mining staff, who had been selected by him from Cum berland. The healths of James Harmer, Esq., of Ingress-park, who had ki n dl y attended the dinner, of the Alliance Gold Company, Messrs. Combs and Nickoll, the soli citors of the company, Charles Hinks, Esq., and Frederick Bull, Esq., were drank and severally responded to, and the meeting separated, apparently highly pleased by. the excellent banquet supplied to them, which re fleehcateridin.great : ci:edit on the es t a bli s h men t of Messrs. 20 20 10 St. St. St. St. St. 2G 135' 20 20 St. 50 20 20 12i 12j 25 16i 20 S 9 25 10 106 THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 21, 1853. MONTENEGRO. Hostilities have recommenced in Montenegro. On the 4th (says the Trieste Observer) the Turks set fire to three villages, and, crossing the river Zeta, arrived in the vale of Biehovitz, at a place called Kolote. Before starting, Omer Paella ad dressed a parting word to the people of the subju gated district of Bielapaolich, in the form of a pro claination in which the epithet " miserable wretches" is applied to them. The main body of his army was directed against the Liessanska nahia. No movement is reported as having taken plage in the north. According to the Dalmatian Observer, there is every prospect of a most san guinary struggle, the Turkish commander accom panying sacrilege and murder with threats of ex tirpation and general massacre ; while the Monte negrins are united to a man in the determination to shed the last drop of their blood in self-defence. The latest news is contained in the Triester Zeitung, and dates from Cattaro, Feb. 10. It is a partial confirmation of the above. George Petrovich had left the capital for the nahia Rietska, and Prince Daniel was at Yevo (probably at the head of the re spective forces, though the report sap nothing of it). The Kuci border tribes had promised to offer a firm resistance to any future attack on the part of the enemy, and the wavering tribes of Piperi gave the same assurances. It is now positively known that the mission of General Leiningen from the Court of Vienna has failed, and it is said the Sultan will not listen to the " good offices " of any power until the Monte negrins show contrition for the past, and acknow ledge the Sovereignty of the Porte. AMERICAN NEWS. We learn from America by the last accounts, that in Congress Mr. Davis had introduced a bill on the subject of the Fisheries, which provides that whenever the President of the United States shall be satisfied that the American fishermen are ad mitted to the privileges of British residents in the provinces, with all the incidental rights of curing and preparing for market the proceeds of such fisheries, both upon water and land, then he shall issue his proclamation authorising the fishermen of the British provinces to enjoy the like privileges in the waters of the United States, together with the privilege of entering the ports of entry in the United States on the payment of the same duties which are required by law of American fishing vessels ; provided that nothing in this act con tained shall affect the private rights of fishing, or give any tight to occupy private property, except upon agreement. A bill to admit railroad iron free of duty was defeated by 95 to 82. A message had been received from the President respecting the execution of the postal treaty with Great Britain, " The correspondence shows," says the report,— "That Mr. Lawrence has been urging a more liberal construction of the 12th article of that treaty, and Great Britain denies it. The Postmaster-General, in a note to Mr. Everett, of 14th of January, gives it as his opi nion that the 12th article has been violated by Gr eat Britain. The message was referred." A Washington correspondent of the New York Herald communicates, " on high authority," the intelligence that no treaty had yet been concluded between Mr. Everett and Mr. Crampton respecting the fisheries' question. A project had been merely drawn up, binding upon neither party, and giving only a general outline of agreement. " . On this," says the correspondent,-- "Mr. Crampton insisted upon engrafting the clause about registers of colonial vessels, but, of course, with out any concurrence by Mr. Everett. By consent, this was sent to England, to see how far the British Govern ment would authorise the settling of a convention treat ing upon the subject indicated. The Africa brought Mr. Crampton full instructions ; but it is probable the mat tere will rest for the present, as it is understood Mr. Everett is unwilling to pursue the question further at this late period." Tho New York Herald states, that the object of the recent detention of the Africa at Liverpool was that a project of a copyright treaty between the two countries might be forwarded by her. The provisions are said to be similar to those agreed upon with France. _ _ There is very little alteration to report in the New York Stock market. Most descriptions of stocks were in good demand, and quotations rather higher. Money ranged from 5 to 6 per cent. for loans on demand, and quotations were rather higher. Exchange on London, 91 to 10 premium ; Paris, 5 131 to 5 111 ; Amsterdam, 41/ to 41i ; Hamburgh, 36l to 36/ ; Bremen, 791- to 80-fr ; Frankfort, 41i to 414. The cotton market was very heavy, with small sales at irregular prices, but generally at k to / cent. per pound decline, with a light export trade, and with little eastern inquiry. The demand for flour was on a limited scale ; holders, however, were quite firm. The demand for wheat was limited, at firm prices. The supplies of Indian corn were large, and holders were storing in preference to accepting current rates-65 to 70 cents per bushel. Provisions with out material alteration. The iron market was firm, but quiet ; some holders were asking 37 doll. (six months) for Scotch pig, but no sales were re ported at that price. Freights to London—flour 3s. 3d, turpentine 3s. Gd. per barrel : measurement goods 275. Gd to 30s. per barrel. . . _ CALIFORNIA.—In - California this winter there is a repetition of the weather of 1849-50, a delightful temperature, with continuous wet weather. The claim of Colonel Fremont to the Mariposas estate has been adjudicated upon—that is to say, the United States' Land Commissioners have de livered an opinion favourable to the claim. The decree has not yet been promulgated, and, tmtil it is, we refrain from alluding to the matter further than to remark that the ad judication of the commissioners is not a final decision. The case is subject to revision by two federal courts—the United States' District Court here, and the Supreme Court of the United States at Washington. Whether or not the case will be appealed on cannot be known for some time. The miners are doing very well ; better than at any former period—a fact attributable to their improved knowledge of mining. THE COLLISION IN THE CHANNEL. The Camilla, paddle-wheel steam-vessel, Captain Brownless, belonging to the Waterford Steam-ship Company, left London on Wednesday, and Southamp ton on Thursday, for Plymouth, and on Friday morning, at about 20 minutes before 5 o'clock, when about six miles from the Start, which was bearing E.N.E., she came into collision with the brig Dawson, of Sunder land, bound from Cardiff for London, with coals. Mr. Bardfield, the mate of the Camilla, who was officer of the watch at the time of the accident, states that it was a fine starlight morning, the Camilla was going at good speed, steering W:N.W. N and had the lights all right as required by st eam - vesse l s, w h en h e sa w a brig ahead, bearing about half a point on the starboard bow. The helm was put a port with the intention of leaving the brig on the port side, agreeably to the regulations in that case provided. It is presumed that no look-out had been kept on board the brig, for she came directly on for the steamer, and notwithstanding the Camilla had been brought round with her head N.N.W , she ran with her bow on the sponson of the steamer. It is pre sumed that but for the speed at which the steamer was making her way through the water, the consequences that followed would have been much more serious than they were ; as it was, considerable damage was done. The mate of the steamer went on board the Dawson di rectly after the collision, and found that the damage was almost limited to the carrying away of the bowsprit and a part of her bulwarks, and that she was not leaking. The larboard paddle-box of the steamer was considerably damaged, and it was found on attempting to disconnect the engines that she could not be worked. Under these circumstances, Captain Brownless engaged one of the pilot boats to take the passengers, about thirty in num ber, into Plymouth, and put the Camilla under sail and kept along by the land ; and on Friday evening the Preussischer Adler, the Cork Company's steamer, bound for London, fell in with the disabled steamer, and towed her into Plymoutn harbour, where she now remains, alongside the Millbay Pier, repairing. It was nearly midnight on Friday when these vessels arrived at Ply mouth. There was no noise or confusion on the occasion of the collision, and no feelings of alarm app ear to have been excited. Several of the passengers were at the time standing near the paddle-box, and saw the brig come on ; the whole of whom, including a gentleman connected with the royal naval service at Malta, unite in the opinion that no blame can be attached to the officers or crew of the steamer. When Mr. Bardfield went on board the brig some surprise was expressed at the suppo sition that a loaded coal vessel should bear up for a steamer. This must have arisen frori! ignorance or affectation. By the position of th e brigs light in her u t g o h t t h e t h w a t i n d shewa r w d et f d t h h e a wv heave a e t l h e e a r r e o d f t h h e e r f e o t r e e a s n ; i e l r , it is rig g ing, t h when first seen. Itis belie ved if she had been kep t on the course was aswasstetoenwnedg into Dartmouth harbour by two smacks. The position in which the steamer was struck was the very best, be aeatuthsee t t h i e m s e t r e o f n g the e st e p e a l l r i t s i o e f fl. the i v n e g s s at e l ten Th k e no st ts e , sm an e d r was the brig, it ia.th9pgilt, at about eight knots the hour. THE SH BKRTS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAILWAYS. Closing Prices this day. Business done this day. Aberdeen Ambg. Nottug. Bosi & Eastn. Juuct.., Birmg. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lanesh. & Cheshire Junet Do. Chzsh. & Birk. £5O and £25 Cons, Do., £2O Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Blackrock and Passage Dublin&Belfast June Dundee Pertb&Abcr decu Junction Do. New East Anglian (X 25 L and E. & L. & D.) Do. Do. (181. E.& H.) Eastern Countics , Eastern Union, Class'' A. (late In. U. Sh.) Do., do Do., B. and C East Lancashire East & West Incl. Dk & Birming. June Edinburgh & Glasgow (Ellin. and Peebles._ Edin. Prth. &Dundee Glasgow &S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Great Southern and Western (Ireland), Great Western ....... ,Irish South-Eastern, Lancaster & Carlisle. Do., Thirds Laneash. & Yorkshire. Do., Fifths Do., Wst. Riding Un !Leeds Northern Liv.Crsby. &Southpt. London & Blackwall Loud. THU. & Sthend. Loud. Brigt. & S. Cat. London & N. Western Do., Fifths Do. ,£lO Sh.lf. &B. C London & S. Western Do., £5O Do.; £4O Londerry. &Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. ,blanch. Shef. &Lincln Do. , Man. & Lin. Un !Midland Do.Birming. & Derby Midland G. West.(lr.) Do. a Shares . . Newea - sje & Carlisle, Newmarket Do. Bury Extension. ig Newp. Aberg.&Hftd 7i Ne N:y & Enniskillen all Newry, Warrenpoint, and Restrevor 100 Norfolk IDo., Now Nort:in.Counties Un North British North Devon, No. 1. Do., No. 2 Do., A Defei2ed Do., B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June Oxford, Wol.cester, & Wolverhampton Scottish Central Sco;;Ash Midland Shrewsbury& Birmg 'Do., L. & N. Westn Guaranteed Stock. Shrowsby.& Hereford Shrowsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. Halves do Do Do. Oswesti y Shropshire Union South Devo - i South Eas:,ern Souor Wales S.Y ksh.River Dun Do. Stoezton & llartlepl Thames Haven Dock and Railway: VP,lo of Neath Water:d. & Kilkenny Waterford& Limerick West Cornwall Whnbledoukeroydn. Woodford York Newctl. & - ,Berw. Do. Extensions Do. G. N. E. Purchase York & N. Midland ~31 - 33 6 i -- 7 10 - 10 ei 60 22 22 3 24 d 108 110 23 23 64.1 4 174 184 ij -- 2i p) 8 -- 9 - 6 4A - 4i 13$ - 1321 11 - 12 8— sgl 76 7sl 1 55 - 60 1 76 - 78 A d- A 32 - 34 60 - 62 79 - 80 44 - 46 119 - 121 1.08 -- 110 91 -91 i 90 -- 95 13 -- 14 p 771 -- 781 4 -- 4i d 8 -- 2i d 154 -- 16 ". p 1 104 -_ 165 120 -120 i , 3 -- Bhp 91 ! ll2i 5 -- 4 d 4 -- 3 d 11 -- 12 19 -- 21 29i 3 i -- 8 al 78 741 45 -- 47 I 49 - 51 3 21 2i - 31 8i Di 56 58 21 2$ cl 36 37 6i 6 d 2i 2 4$ 8 d 8 1p 48i - 491 flOO - 102 63 - 65 66 - 68 72 75 ... —did 18 20 9 10 14 15 31 3 d 20 22 80 —80 i 37 88 13 13 4 44 2i 2i 15 16 9 94 27 28 9 -- 9i 4d-- In 701 7n 7 —7 d 2 li d 60A PREFERENCE SHARES. 46 7 13 111 11 331 2 79i 80 45 6 121 108 91i 1 i 1 pm 781 8 i 7t 81 8 101 1.6 i i 9 - 91 9} log x d 120 A i .. At Aberdeen Do., No. 2, 7 p. c Bris. & Ea. 4 p. c. St Do. 4 p. 0. Shares Caledonian £lO Chesi,er & Holyhead Guar. 5i per cent. Cork&Bandon 5i p.c. Dundee, Perth, and _ _ Aberdeen Junction E. Ang. (705.) 6 p. o. Do. (X 3), 7 per cent. Do. (£7 17s), 7. p et. Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., No. 2 Do., New 6 p. c. St Eastern Union Scrip Guar. 6 per cent East Lancash. 6p. ctn Edinb. Prth.& Dund Glasgow & S. Western Guar. 5 per cent Great Northn. 5 p. e Do. 5 p. c., Redeem at 10 p. a. prem.. Gt.S outhn. & Westn (Ireland) Eights Gt. Westn. (Berke & Hants Ex. 5 p. e.) Great Western, fixed 4i per cent Lan. S. York. F. £2O Do., 6 p. a., Stock London and Brighton Guaranteed 5 p. o Do. Pref. 5 p. a., St Do. Convertible, 5 p c., 1852 Do. New Guar. 6 p. e London & S. Western, Con. Thirds Londonderry & Coler Shares .........• ..• Londndry. & Ennisk Shares Manch., Shef. ,& Lin., Shares, No. 1 Do., New, £lO Do., £6 Marypt. & Carl. 4 p. a Do. 4A per cent Mid. Consol. 6 p. c. St Do. Consol. Bristol & Birm. 6 per cent Do. P,•ef . 4 per cent Norfolk Extension Do. Guar. 5i per ct Do. Waveney Valley 5 per cont North British North Staffordshire.. Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverh. £15,6p. a. Do. 'Shrewsbury & Birm , New Guaranteed... Shrewsby. & Chester Nor. W. (Min), g p. o. Do. 5 per cent....,.., South - Devon Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) f£l Os. 6d. S. Yorks'h. 4p. e. Guar. Vratc:fd.&Kilk. 6p. c. York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 4 p. e. PreL Do York & N. Midland, H. & S. Purchase... FOR: Antwrp. &Rotterdam Belgian Eastn. Junct. Charleroi & Erquelin Dijon and Besanvn Dutch Rhenish East Indian Do. Extension,.,... Gt. Indian Peninsula Gd. Junct. of Prance Gt. Westn. of Canada Shares Lucca and Pistoja, 5 per cent. pref Luxembourg Do. (Railway) Do. Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. cent. pref Lyons & Med::,erran Madras Maria Antonia Do. New Namur & Liege (with interest. Do. (ex interest) Northern of France.' Do. 201. 3 p. a. Bds. (fmy.B.&Ams.Shs.) Norwegian Truk. Pre Paris and Lyons Paris and Or Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg Paris Caen &Cherbrg. Quebec & Richmond Rouen and Havre Sambre and Me ase Do. 5i per cent. pref Sou:bern of France Upper India Scrip West Flanders Do. 5} per c. Pref Western of Franco., • West. of Switzerland New Zealand..., 106 108 !iii - 107 19 20 i g 4- dj Si - ai I - 2 p - 11 r) 14t - 15 181 -- 181 a BA 1127 - 128 12 -- 114 -- 9 6t 7ixd 104 - 106 p - i P 150 -152 Si -- 4 p 10 11 134 -- 13 9' -- 10 11 -11 i . 1 146 - 148 6 221 2 2 - 21 108 - 110 25 - 26 lt i p l ,11 17 -- 18 t 1 16 -- 17 ip par -- p 26 20 22 Par 1103 - 105 Si - j P a/ h P 1 --ird 1 li 13f —13 t li 2ip 2#-1 d 6 — 6 p 14 — 1 p lf — 2 p I -- 1 i i P 61 —7 xin 4 —44xin 11 —lixin i —l6xin i die i l 9' 11 p 2 —tip .•. - . 767 84 7 - 7 85 -35 i 14 -- 14 161 i -- 1 p 40 -- 42 39 1 32 -- 32 4 -- 41 p -- g 1t -- 2 P 9 4 -- 94 1•• .+•• 4 p 5 4 - a p 84i - Par 9 p of 91 2 78 71 8 45 31i 1 109 641 3i 4 34 4 231 Closing Prices this day. 30 —Bl 293 —303 30 81n1 29 30xcl 108 110 533 mil 149 - 151 321 - 333 113 -- 115 66} -- 27 -- 28' 13i -14 i 25A - 26. - 19 - 20 24 - 2G 3 - 34 [oa 109 65 - 67 151 - 153 150 - 152 -/ ***l icl - x(1 31i - 104 - 104 GREAT SNOW STORM AND LOSS OF LIFE. The recent severe weather, which has continued for nearly a week with all the intensity of an extremely cold ' winter, has not been equalled, at least in this country, for many years. The wind still prevails from the piercing quarter of N.N.E., and there is every indication of the frost continuing with increased severity. In the course of Saturday accounts were received at the General Post office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, of a very heavy fall of snow having taken place on Thursday evening and Friday morning in almost all part of the country, which ren dered many of the important lines of railway perfectly impassable. The mail trains were blocked up, and in several instances they were not extricated for 12 or more hours, and even then the bags had to be conveyed by cross-roads to their destination. Scarcely a county seems to have escaped the storm, and in may places where the snow has drifted its depth is enormous, such as cuttings and cross-roads, to the extent of some twenty feet. In the northern districts the storm was accom panied by thunder and lightning, while the aurora borea lis shone luminously in the heavens, all prognosticating more severe weather. The fall on Thursday visited the counties bordering on the eastern and northern coast to such an extent as to cause an obstruction to all traffic. Stretching from Essex through Suffolk, Norfolk, Lin colnshire, Yorkshire, Durham, Northumberland, &c., the snow came down in a 'general mass. Communications with villages were cut off, and much mischief arose. In the vicinity of Norwich, the fall was very considera ble ; and snow lay in the streets several feet in depth, and the mail train; which should have reached that city from London at half-past two on Friday morn ing, did not arrive till late in 'the afternoon, more than twelve hours behind its time. It appears that the snow drifted on the Eastern Counties line, in the neighbourhood of Bandon, to a great depth. After numerous efforts to get along, the engine was brought to a complete block, the carriages being embedded al most half their height in the drift. In this position the train could not proceed for many hours. Gangs of navi gators were procured as soon as possible to cut a pas sage, and it was only after the above detention that the mail could proceed. The inhabitants of the fen country are in a most distressing condition. The ground is covered with several feet of snow, which obscuring the tracks to the main roads, renders an attempt to travel very dangerous. A respectable baker, named George Lamb, living at Whittl esey, l ost his life in that way. He mistook his road, and fell into a river with his horse and cart, and was drowned. Several vessels were lost off Wisbeach during the snow storm. They were un able to distinguish the bearings, and went ashore and were wrecked. Throughout Lincolnshire and far extending into the Midland Counties, the snow appears to have fallen heavily, and, as in other parts, the railways and cross roads were for a time impassable. Further northward the fall seems to have been more severe, and all commu nication with York by means of its various railways was discovered on Friday morning to be blocked up by huge driftings of snow. The mail train, which should leave that city for London at two, did not get away until eight o'clock, and even then could make but small pro gress. Numerous gangs of men were employed in clear ing the lines, and much inconvenience was occasioned to the traffic. The Hull and Scarborough line and the Market Weigh ton line were rendered impassable. Towards Durham the weather was, if anything, worse, and great inconve nience has been experienced in the neighbourhood. Some of the trains near Newcastle required four or five engines to get them along. Should the frost continue the numerous fleet of colliers in the Lyne will be frozen in. From all parts of the country similar accounts have been received. The intelligence from the French coast announces the snow to be falling fast, and the line of railway from Calais to Boulogne to be much obstructed. THE WEATHER AND THE PARKS.-LOSS OF THREE LIVES. The scenes which occurred yesterday in the various royal parks were such as can with difficulty be described —for scarcely ten minutes elapsed without the ice break ing and precipitating several persons into the water be neath. From the time the Royal Humane Society's men were called off duty on Saturday evening, a large number of sliders and skaters continued to amuse them selves upon the ice until nearly two o'clock a.m. The thermometer at the Royal Humane Society's Receiving House, Hyde-park, fell in the course of Saturday night to 24, being three degrees warmer than on the previous night, but during the middle of yesterday it rose to 32. Bills were posted in each park warning the public of the danger they exposed themselves to if they ventured upon the ice, which was described as being exceedingly rotten and fast thawing. On the canal which is called after Sir John Duckett, and skirts the east side of Victoria Park, three persons lost their lives. Between 4 and 5 o'clock two boys were walking on the ice near Watson's lock, and were heard to express their intention of trying how far it would bear. They had scarcely passed the lock-house when the ice gave way, and they fell into the water. A man unknown, dressed in the garb of a butcher, went from the bank on the ice with the intention of rescuing them, but the ice broke under him, and he was immersed. A youth next made an attempt, and he also unfortunately met a similar fate. He was followed by another boy, who put out a stick, in the act of doing which the ice gave way by his weight, and he fell in the midst of the four who were already in the water, and who were clinging to each other. At the moment there was neither a rope nor a drag with which to assist them while on the banks were the brothers of the two lads, who could with difficulty be kept out of the water. Some persons tied several silk handkerchiefs together, which were thrown to the spot, by which and other means two were got out. A man named Johnson, who lets boats on the canal, brought up one of his boats, by which time, the drags having been obtained from the City of Paris and the lock-house, a search was made, and in about 15 minutes the bodies of the youths were found. One was taken to the lock-house, where it was undressed and placed on a sofa before the fire. The second youth was conveyed to the City of Paris public-house. Surgeons, were soon in attenda nce , ex h aus t e d every resource of their art on the two lads, but in vain ; both were be yond mortal aid. The body of the man has not yet been found. THE ARMY ESTIMATES. The estimates of the effective and the non-effective army services, from the Ist April, 1853 to the 31st of March, 1854, bearing the signature of the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, the Secretary-at-War, have just been printed, in pursuance of an order of the House of Com mons, made so recently as Thursday last. From this document—one of more than ordinary interest, perhaps, at the present moment, when the question of our national armaments is so canvassed, we propose to make a few extracts, in anticipation of the discussion which it must shortly and necessarily undergo in the House of Com mons. Beginning with the effective services, the land forces prOposed to be maintained for the service of the United Kingdom (exclusive of the troops in the East Indies), for the year ending 31st March, 1854 on which the first vote will be taken, amount to 102,283 men, being an increase over the last year of 346. The estimate of the charge of the land forces at home and abroad (vote 2) is 3,625,7831, being an increase on the preceding year of 23,716. The charge of the general staff officers and officers of the hospitals serving at home and abroad, and of the garrison of the Tower of London (vote 3), is estimated at 162,8971., which is less than the cost of last year by 6,7101. The estimate of the allowances to the principal officers of the several public departments, their deputies, clerks, and contingent expenses (vote 4), amounts to 98,4641. higher by 2,507/. in comparison with last year. The charge of the Royal Military College (vote 5) is put down at 16,8881., which is lower than that of last year by 2531. The expense of maintaining the Royal Military Asylum and the Hibernian Military School (vote 6) is estimated at 18,0201., being an increase of 4841. upon the previous year. The estimate of the charge of the volunteer corps (vote 7) is 88,0001., showing an increase of 4,0001. over that of last year. There is, therefore, a total increase of the estimate for the effective services over that of last year of 23,7441. Turning to the non-effective service, in which there is a very marked decrease in almost every item, the esti mate of the rewards for distinguished military services (vote 8) is stated to be 20,2501., being an excess of 4,607/. over that of last year. The charge of the pay of general officers, not being colonels of regiments (vote 9), is estimated at 55,0001., less by 6,0001. than the previous year. The full pay for reduced and retired officers (vote 10) is stated to be 50,000/., being the same as the pre ceding year. Half-pay and military allowances to re duced and retired officers of her Majesty's land forces (vote 11), 358,000/., being a decrease of 7,0001. Half-pay and reduced allowances to officers of disbanded foreign corps, pensions to the wounded foreign officers, and allowances to the widows and children of deceased foreign officers (vote 12), 34,6281., being a decrease of 2,288. Pensions to widows of officers of her Majesty's land forces (vote 13), 117,6371., being less than last year by 1,750/. Probable charges on the compassionate list of allowances, as of the Royal bounty, and of pensions, gratuities, and allowances to officers for wounds (vote 14), 79,5001., a decrease of 3,5001. Charge for Chelsea and Kilmainham hospitals, and the in-pensioners (vote 15), 28,149/., decrease 6661. Charge of the out-pen sioners of Chelsea Hospital, of pensions granted to dis charged negro soldiers, of pensioners from Hanoverian corps which served with the British army in 1793, 1794, and 1795, and of the military organisation of out-pen sioners in the United Kingdom (vote 16), 1,235,8001., showing an increase of 8,9971. Charge of allowances, compensations, and emoluments, in the nature of super annuations or retired allowances to persons formerly belonging to the several public (army) departments (vote 17), 36,0001., being a decrease of 1,5001. Thus it will be seen that there is a decrease, more or less consider able, in the non-effective service estimates in every vote save two, viz., the rewards for military services and the out-pensions ; but the increase in those two votes, amounting together to 13,6041., weighs somewhat seri ously against the aggreg a t e ecrease (22,704) in the other items, reducing, as it does, the decrease in the non-effective service estimates to 9,1001. The sum of the figures given above is, that the total estimate for the effective services for the year ending March, 1854, is 4,010,052/., as compared with 3,986,308/. the estimate of last year, showing an increase for the forthcoming year of 23,744/. ; whilst the total estimate for the non-effective. services for the ensuing year is 2,014,964/., as compared with 2,024,0641., the estimate in 1852-53, being a decrease for the forthcoming year of 9,1001. The total increase in the estimates in both the effective and the non-effective services, taking them toge ther, for the year 1853-54, as compared with that of 1852-53, is 14,6441. From a statement at the end of the document of which the above is a summary, we also learn that the sums passed to the credit of the Exchequer, in the books of the War-office, between the Ist of January and 31st of December, 1852, pursuant to the Treasury minute of the 2d May, 1848, amount in the aggregate to 84,7061. odd, including 17,353 received from soldiers in the land forces permitted to purchase their discharge ; 1,1131. received from men paying smart money; contributions from colonial revenues in aid of military expenditure, viz., Ceylon, 24,000/. ; lonian Islands, 721/. ; and Malta, 6,200/. ; contribution from the colonial revenues of the lonian Islands, in aid of the staff expenditure, 5,2601. Os. 7d. ; and subscriptions from gentlemen cadets and officer-students, &c-, Royal Military College, 18,0921. IPald.l RAILWAYS. Leasing Compare, I Bedford and:London & Bletchley....i N. West Birm. & Oxfd.T guarantee.... 'Gt.Tiestn . Do. withoutgr ; Do Birm. Wolv. Dudley guar. Do. wtht guar. Buckghamsh. Clydesdale Jc. E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. Glstr.ds Dn. Fr; Hrtlpl. Dk. k Railway Hull & Selby Do. Shares. Do. Shares. Lou.&Greenw Du. Preference Lowestoft gr. 4 per cont. Do. 6 per ct. Mauch. Mau and Matlock Middlcsbro' & Redear Midld. - Bradfd Northern and Eastornsp.o. Do. 0 per ct. Do. Fixeds p e Prest. & Wyro Do .Do L. SzN. W Caledon IGt.Nrthu. Gt. Westu l k. Nen. & Bern. Y. & N Md Do S. Eastern Do !Norfolk Do !L.S,:, N. W. Midld. Stekton Darlingt. .Midland.. IE. Coint, Do L. k N. W &Ln&Yk Do Do. 1 Shares. Roystn.k Do.Shopth.S ti Shef. Roth.and' Gooleg.s p.c. S. Staflordsh. Wear Valloygr 6 per cent._ Do Wilts&Sommi;!l IGt Northn !Do Lancash& Yorksh. M.MClean Stockt. & Darlingt Do !GtWestn. Basinesa this day, ..--, St. 20 St. 50 50 20 100 100 all all all all 100 all 50 163 St. 20 50 20 118 10 St. all 1 111 100 1 114 all all all 8 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 20 114 100- 37 6 131 id 81 49i 9 101 65i 65 80i 80 71 70 12i 13 601 59i 60 105 i x.d. 26i i I :GN. 6 1 X in x in x in if ft Xin 35 i $ i 9 26i f pm 10 i x d 32k id MINES. 1 all Agua Fria 105 all Anglo Californian 6 p 1 10 2 Australasian 2 i p 20 5 Australian 1 all Australian Cordillera par 1 p 1 all Australian Freehold. 3 par 1 all Aye Maria 1 all Baden (Gd. Duchy of) par i p 13 1 all British Austrin. Gold A 4 p 14 i 20 13.5 British Iron 7— 9 p 8 9 35 241 Brazilian Imp. (issued at .£5 pm.) .._ . _. 4 --43 2 3 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cu l aba 14 - 21 2 3 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 29 —3O 1 3 Carson's Creek.. par 4 p ii 40 all Cobro Copper 4O 42xd 404 3 x d 5 1 Colonial Gold 3 —33 p ... 14 Copiapo — St. all CopperMinersof Eng 6O 70 25 all Do. Preference di — 7 3 p 5 all English and Austin Copper Smeltg. Co 2 —l4 d 33 20 all General l4l -- 153 2 all Great Nugget Vein 3 . 4 p 6 3 all Great Polgooth l —a 14 p 1 all Lake Bathurst I - d 4 1 all Liberty — 3 p 1 4 I 1 all Lond. &Californ.Gold Quartz C. ush. Co 4 d 1 all Mario aita 3d p 10 9 Mexican &S. Americ 5 6 54 6 1 all Now Granada —lp 14 1 all Nouveau Monde 1 1 p 2-1 5 1 Port Philip le 1 p 23 1 all Quai :a Rook par— p 13 50 all Rhyranoy Iron 2l —23 15 Do. New — ... 30 104 Santiago de Cüba 1 all South Australian par 1 p 13 1 10 7 Tin Croft ll —l2 283 all United Mexican 0 74xd x d 1 all Waller 1 all West Granada — 4 p l 1 all West Mariposa — p 14 a 1 al 1 Yuba a_ a tf P JOINT-STOCK BANKS. 40 all Australastt 853 -- 861 863 53 63 50 all British N. American ... , _ 20 2 Chrtd. Bnk. of India, Australia, & China 13 lip 3/ 100 25 Colonial — ... 100 20 Commercial of Lon- 17 3 don — ... ... 4 English Scottish and Australian l4 lip 20 ri Loud. Chart. Bk. of Australia 43 —44 p 12 3 12 50 20 London and County ... ... 50 10 London Joint Stock ... „. 100 20 Lond. & Westminster ... ... 3G 100 35 NationalProy.ofEng. ... ... 20 10 Do. New — ... 50 223 National of Ireland ... ... 25 all Oriental Bank • Corporation — ... 50 493 25 5 Do. New — ... 100 25 Provincial of Ireland ... ... 10 all Do. New — 5 1 Royal Australn.Bkg & Gold Imp. Co ... ... 23 25 South Australia 4B 50 483 93 25 all Union of Australia 723 —73 A 24 23 Do. New 74 84 83 8 50 10 Union of London „. ... 40 all Union of Madrid . .• • MISCELLANEOUS. 100 35 Australian Agricult 1 250 260 250 2i 5 20 6 Austrlaen.Pcitic.Maili 10 5 Australn. Royal Mail, 51 1 88{ Brit. Americn. Land - 100 32i Canada — 5 0 Crystal Palace ...... 4 2 Crystal Pal, of France .. 20 1 Eastern Steam — 1 1 Electric. Teleg. of Ir — 15 14 Gen. Steam NaTigat — 100 50 General Screw Steam — 20 2i Irish Beetroot Sugar ... 1 all Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel' 10 2 Netherlands Land — 20 2i Nrth. of Europe Steam, 50 all Peninsular & Cliental; ... 87 50 25 Do. Do. 100 60 Royal Mail Steam .. . 524 25 25 South Austral. Lan 57 59 57 9 1 1 Submar. Telegraph 5 2 Universal Emigration s and Colonisation 1 — . 100 28i Tan Diemou's Land.. 18 20 18a 20 19 183 20 19 LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.) LONDON, Feb. 21.—Wind at N.en, N.W., light breeze, and.hard frosty weather. The Countess of Lonsdale (a), plying between Buenos Ayres and Monte Video, has been lost in the River Plate. LIVERPOOL, Fob. 20.—Wind, N.N.E. Sailed—Fair field, New York ; Swan, Melbourne ; Ajax, do. ; Stately, Arica ' • Lady Sale, Maranham; Joseph Wheeler, Barba does ; Mundagues, Matanzas ; Ann and Isabella, Santa Martha ; Cecrops, Charleston ; Hero, do. ; South Esk, Wilmington ; Cambria (s), Boston ; Nemesis, Bataysa ; Zodiac, Singapore ; Mogul, Realijo ; Elise, St. Thomas ; Sir Robert Peel, New York. PLYMOUTH, Feb. 20.—Wind, N.B. Arrived—Camilla (s), with considerable damage from contact with the Daw son, previously reported. Sailed—Dackenhoeden, Ade laide, South Australia ; H.M.'s steamers Vulture and Magician, both for the relief of the homeward bound. FLEETwooD. :: -Sailed—Hercules, New Orleans. STARCROSS, Feb. 20.—The Empire, Cardiff to London, is very leaky, and must discharge, haying foundered on the bar. SOMERCOTES, Feb. 20.—The Agnes of London got on Sand-hall in a heavy gale—fills with the tide, and it is feared will become a wreck ; crew saved. PORTSMOUTH, Feb. 20.—Wind, N.B. Arrived—Thomas Arbuthnot, Corfu and Quebec. SOUTHAMPTON, Feb. 20.—Wind, N.W. Sailecl—Ra milies, Australia. DARTMOUTH, Feb. 20.—Wind, E. Arrived—Dawson, Cardiff for London, with loss of bowsprit, bows stove, and other damage, from contact with the Camilla (s), on the 18th inst., off the Eddystone. A fire broke out on board the Gleam, of Brigham, on the 16th, while the crew were on shore, but was extinguished with assistance from one of .' H.Ms eamers. FALMOUTH, Feb. 20.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Ariel, Newcastle to St. Malo, to stop a leak. Sailed—Fairy, Pernambuco. Off Port —Esk,! Bahia, and sailed for Liver pool. BRIDLINGTON, Feb. W.—Arrived—Zephyr, London for Seaham, with damage The Rebecca, from Rotterdam, and the Seahorse, from Aberdeen, have put in with trifling damage, having been in contact. LOWESTOFT'S, Feb. 20.—Wind, N.N.E., a gale. Ar rived—Dunhatton, from London, for the Clyde ; Moore, Moore, for Sunderland. CLYDE, Feb. 16.—Sailed—Ocean, Denchar (and not Duncan, as before reported), for Melbourne. NEWPORT, Feb. 20.—Sailed—Denmark, New York. WELLS, Feb. 20.—The Robert and Catherine, from Hartlepool, makes water, having been ashore. QUSENSTOWN, Feb. 19.—Arrived—Noe, Mauritius. SALECOMBE, Feb. 20.—The A.A., for Swansea, has put back, having struck on a sunken rock. GIBRALTAR, Feb. 13.—The Agile, for Queenstown, has been on shore. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. SPORTING NOTES.—No. CCCLXXVIII. The list of proposed sport for the present week com prises the Coventry Spring (1) Meeting and Hereford and Sutton Steeplechases, which I shall touch upon in due course, if there is any likelihood of their coming off. The Lincoln engagements are void. Hereford and Sutton are marked for decision on Friday, and the Coventry Meeting for Saturday (flat races), and Monday next (steeplechases). Aylesbury Steeplechases are post poned till the oth of March. The following resolution respecting the Subscription Room at Tattersall's became law on Thursday last : " Every candidate for these rooms shall be proposed and seconded by members, whose respective names and ad dresses shall be put up in the rooms at least seven days previous to his election. (Signed) H. Rous, G. Payne, C. Greville. In No. 368 of theso notes Haynau, now called Oxonian, was returned " out of training." He is, or ra ther was, previous to the s e tti ng i n of th e frost, doing good work. THE SPIRIT OF THE TURF. A MILITARY DEFAULTER. - Sergeant Hunter, at tached to Captain and Adjutant Benley's troop of the Royal Horse Artillery, has disappeared this week from the garrison, the defalcation in his account amounting to 6901.—Xentiab Novury. 10 20 50 50 100 25 1081 3 LITERATURE. MR. WARREN'S NEW WORK. The Intellectual and Moral Development of the Present Age. By Samuel Warren, F.R.S. Blackwood and Sons. A cordial welcome is due to this noble little vo ume, elevating the mind of every attentive reader, as it cannot fail to do, by lifting up his heart to the loftiest regions of contemplation. Its text is the Sursum Gorda of the Christian Philosopher. Brief though the dissertation is, its brevity results neither from a paucity of ideas, nor from. a narrow ness of purpose, but from its laborious and really masterly condensation. Compressed within a few pages, the essay here presented to the public con stitutes, in fact, if we may so express it, a veritable microcosm. It appears under no pretentious cha racter—coming to us simply as the reprint of a lec ture delivered before the Hull Literary and Phi losophical Society on the evening of Tues day, the 28th- of last December. How- Mr. Warren came to deliver that lecture may be very readily understood, bearing in recollection the judicial functions now exercised by him in that ancient borough, and the very natural desire ex pressed by those who may be called the intellectual representatives of the local population, that they might in this manner become more intimately ac quainted with one whose name had been so long and deservedly distinguished in our popular litera ture. October witnessed the transmission of this request, and December itsThilfilment. Permitted to select his own subject, Mr. Warren chose that very splendid one which is expressed upon the title page of the book now submitted to miscellaneous criticism, and by defining " The Intellectual and Moral Development of the Present Age," evidenced his interest in the progress of civilisation, and his homage for the di v i ne an d beautiful truths of Christianity. It is because we have not failed to recognise the scope of this thoughtful and compre hensive dissertation, that we have designated by a rather arresting title, what was at fi rs t not h ing more than a lectur e delivered in a provincial town before the members of a literary institution. We have acted thus, therefore advisedly. W e h ave spoken of the bri e f essay before us in regard to the present age in its moral and intellectual develop ment as a new work from the hand of an old fa vourite—because, we perceive in it an achievement honourable to him at once as a lover of nature, and as a worshipper of the Divinity—an effusion, consequently, that cannot do otherwise than mate rially enhance his already large and ripened repu tation. Honestly we take this essay to be quite as much of an achievement as the delineation of au , astute intellect, like that of Oily Gammon, or of a gentle heart like that of Kate Aubrey —quite as much, indeed, as the pen ning a masterpiece of fiction like " Ten Thou sand a Year," or of enthralling and impassioned narratives like those collected together in the " Diary of a Late nysician." Admiring those two very admirable works with the warmth of an earnest appreciation, we nevertheless do not hesi tate to speak thus of what, if size alone be considered, must, when taken into comparison, appears a very trivial performance. Inferior, however, though it may be in mere dimensions, it will be found on perusal to be loftier in its purpose, profounder in its reason, and t o a considerable extent too, let us add, more daring and ambitious in its character. Within the comparatively brief interval elapsing between the commencement of the perusal of this essay and its conclusion, the stu dent will find that our au th or has traversed almost every one of the various departments of human learning. Herein he may be said to have sounded the whole gamut of knowledge—from its diapason upwards—and always, no matter what may be the theme of his inquiries, with a reverent sense of the awful beauty of creation, and of the inscrut able and ineffable mystery of Omnipotence. It is impossible, we believe, for any thoughtful man to read these few pages without feeling better under an influence at once so very humbling and so very elevating. From the few words of his " Preface" we learn on Mr. Warren's own assurance, that the paper there subjoined " treats of subjects which have occupied his thoughts for many years"— though the work itself, we conceive, might have rendered such an intimation superfluous. He re lates a variety of topics that might have bewildered any man who had not for a very considerable period meditated upon their relation to each other, and upon their natural and symmetrical, though neither obvious nor easily discoverable arrangement. As lecturer to a p o p u l ar au di ence, Mr. Warren thus pleasantly introduced his argument to their con sideration —remarking, after a few preliminary and appropriate allusions to the season, then imme diately associated with the festivities of, Christ mas : " Let me conceive myself to have been installed your Chancellor of the Exchequer intellectual ; and here, at your service, is my Budget ; but it will be forced to deal very summarily with the Income and Expenditure of THOUGHT —its Resources—its Ways and Means—and the circulating medium of that thought--which is language or literature. I cannot, alas ! hold out the hopes of taking off any taxes, but, on the contrary, must impose a somewhat heavy one on your attention P Thereupon he entered upon a serious considera tion of the avowed subject of his discourse, the intellectual and moral development of the age, showing by progressive steps the advances made by man in the examination of the wonders of the universe, and his own signal elevation in know ledge. It is exquisitely disclaimed by our author, however, at the very outset of this daring adven ture, that his purpose is far from being any attempt at an ostentatious display of man's doings and dis coveries—but rather to demonstrate the more clearly that Newton was right when he compared him self to a child on the shore of the great ocean of Truth picking up shells and pebbles. Indeed, after reviewing the bulk of the intellectual achievements of the human race here enumerated with so much lucidity, we feel our mind humbled before the still impenetrable veil of ignorance shutting us out from the comprehension of an inexplicable infinitude. With all our extraordinary triumphs through the aid of natural philosophy —with all our revelations drawn from the minute by the microscope, and from the vast and remote by the telescope—with all the light thrown by our researches into the crust of the earth through geology, and into the abysses of space through astronomy—we still stand, the wisest of us still stand, baffled before a countless series of phenomena defying anything like a rational expla nation. It is actually in this respect as though we required new senses to admit of our extending our knowledge by the recognition of one fact in thesemys tical directions. We have carried our proficiencyin the physical sciences solar that we have our streets lighted by gas, and our seas traversed by steam boats, and our lands threaded by railroads, and the press everywhere, and thought flashing to and fro over continents and from shore to shore, trailed along the bed of the ocean, communicating visibly and audibly with the rapidity of lightning, with people hundreds of miles away, by means of the electric telegraph. We have accomplished all this and more—we have enabled ourselves to grow cop per from a transparent solution, to sketch one another's portraits by the sunbeam, to weigh the sun and the planets as we would weigh any other substance by avoirdupois —nay, we have measured the distance of those heavenly bodies from this earth as we world measure one of the gravel walks ' of our garden with a two-foot rule—and yet, with all this, what do we know of the phenomenon of existence ?—how far have we advanced towards the establishment of a single truth of metaphysics ? During the course of the masterly dissertation be fore us, Mr. Warren contrasts in a startling man ner this ignorance and this knowledge, this weak ness and this strength, this capacity and incapacity, which make up the disordered force of the human intellect. Throughout all this, moreover, he brings the whole energy of his nature, the whole earnestness of his convictions, the whole power of his logic, and all the persuasion of his eloquence, to bear upon that evil phantom of infidelity which has latte r ly been tricked out in obsolete sophistries to frighten the weak minds and craven hearts of the grown children of our generation. This alone was a ma jestic purpose to hold before him in the course of his dissertation, and nobly, and bravely, and fer vently has it been sustained by him throughout. Among the more entertaining passages in the essay are those in which the writer surveys the various departments of science and of literature in refer ence to their present state of development. About the finest passage in the volume is that expressly dedicated to the vindication (if one may dare to say so without impiety) of the truth of the Holy Scrip tures, and of the beneficence of Christianity. W e could willingly gratify ourselves with quotation after quotation, but that even one of any length would be scarcely fair in regard to a dissertation so brief and well-ordered. Nothing remains to be added, therefore, to our foregoing remarks but that while in this lecture Mr. Warren has afforded the world a new illustration of his abilities, he has given Hull fresh cause to be proud of her Recorder, and benefited the community by a novel and ele• vating contribution to our popular liti.brature. ;raid 11 A 9/ 1126 i 7 50 St. St. 25 ,100 100 18/ 9i all