The Sun. — London, England, 1853-02-25 00:00:00

INDIA AND CHINA. . . The steam-ship Adria arrived from Alexandria at Trieste at 2 p.m. yesterday, after a passage of 140 hours. _ She left Alexandria on the 18th inst., and brings the - following news from India 'the Burmese occupy the Aeng with a large force. Pegu (the province, we suppose) has been again occupied by a large force of Burmese. They raised the siege on the Bth and 9th of January, and marched to the defence of Ichoygt, upon learning that General Steel was advancing upon that place. The Burmese have retired from Prome and from Meadami. It is said that a revolution has taken place at Ava, by which the old King has been deposed and driven out, and. that the new King has recalled the troops to Ava, and desires peace. Fever and. diarrhoea prevail among our troops, and were increasing. Trade in India was languid. Exchange was firm at 2s. Id. in Calcutta. The insurrection in China caused considerable devastation. The Pottinger has brought (to Suez) 21 boxes of gold dust from Australia. THE FRENCH EMPIRE. We have received the Paris papers of yesterday in due course. All the heads of the admininistration of the city of Paris, and of the department of the Seine, have taken the oath of fidelity to the Emperor and the Constitution, before M. Merreau, the Secretary- General, at the Hotel de Ville. By a decree of the Emperor, M. de Lacour, French Minister at Vienna, has been appointed ambassador to the Sublime Porte, in the room of the Marquis de Lavalette, who returns to France at his own request. Baron de Bourqueney is to replace M. de Lacour at the Court of Vienna. M. Rouland, Procureur-General of the Cour Imperial of Paris, has been named Councillor of State, unattached to any particular section. The Moniteur, under the head of Erratum, states that, instead of saying that M. Fremy has been charged with the general direction of the Mi nistry of the Interior, it should be said, "is charged temporarily, &c." The Emperor has just decided that out of the 10 millions appropriated by the decree of 22d Janu ary to the improvement of the habitations of the Working classes, three millions shall be immediately placed at the disposal of the Minister of the Inte rior. The proprietors of houses inhabited by per sons of the working classes may at present address their demands for aid and submit their propositions to the Prefect of the Seine. The Emperor, on the proposition of the Minister of Justice, has exempted 158 individuals from the police surveillance, to which they had been sub jected by the Mixed Commissions of the Depart ments and the Commission of Revision. The Emperor has presented the Bishop of Nancy with a sum of 3,000 f. for the poor of his diocese. The Minister of the Interior, M. Persigny, has addressed a circular to tit° Prefects throughout France, relative to the privileges of the Credit foncier Company, requiring information as to the various engagements or mortgages in each depart ment. The bill lately presented to the Legislative Body, concerning foundlings, proposes some marked changes in the system now in force. The new measure authorises the Government to in troduce such changes as experience may have shown to be indispensable. To the absolute o'oligation of having a turning-basket at each lospital, the bill allows the Government to sup press or establish such a mode of reception as it may deem most advisable. It also permits it to adopt such g eneral measures as may app ear best, either to lessen the number of children re ceived, or to regulate their mode of admission. Another modification relates to the yearly sum for each child. Hitherto it was paid up to the age of 12 years only, the law presuming that children could be usefully placed out at that age. Ex perience, however, has proved that this limit was too narrow, and that 15 years must be considered as the youngest period at which a child could be provided for with advantage. All the enactments contained in the old law relative to the property which foundling children might be left by will are preserved. The situation of the children when bound to trades is made the object of special enact- Inents, the prefect being ordered to take note by frequent inquiries of the manner in which each child is treated. The new bill allows the prefect to authorise, on the sole condition of paying the expense incurred, the delivery of the children claimed by their parents. This reduction of the cost to the parents will, it is thought, tend to lessen the number of children thrown on society. The bill fixes penalties for the repetition of the offence of abandoning children, such a practice being evidently contrary to the law of nature. The Minister of Police has authorised the crea tion at Paris of a Society of Regattas , on the same plan as th ose w hi c h ex i s t in diffrent sea ports, the object being to encourage the navigation of the Seine. The Presse says that Monsieur V. Verneuil, a literary character, has proposed to the Minister of Police to make a change in the ordinary travelling Passport, which will prevent many of the frauds at present practised by thieves and other bad charac ters, who frequently commit robberies and even murders to possess themselves of a passport, un der which to screen themselves from detection. The change will consist of the likeness of the person named in the passport, taken by the daguerreotype, and placed beside the signature. An artist has already offered to the Minister to execute the like ness at a cheap rate, and a chymist has undertaken to render the likeness indelible. With this im provement it will be impossible for any but the person named in the passport to make use of it. The Minister of Police has taken the proposition of M. Vernemll into his serious consideration. Yesterday there was more fluctuation and excite ment on the Bourse than for a week past. Very unfavourable rumours were prevalent relative to misunderstandings with Austria, which had the effect of depressing the Rentes until the 4- per Vents. fell 80c. below the quotations of yesterday, closing at 105 f. 10c. for cash ; Bank Stock also was called five francs lower, leaving off at 2,800 f. The Three per Cents., on the other hand, left off at an improvement, the last price being 80f. 85c. Very little business was done in railway shares, and no improvement was observable in prices. Foreign funds altogether neglected. ITALY. 11'he military authorities, believing that Mazzini was still in the town, have taken the most rigorous xneasures to prevent him from escaping. Tjiey even opened the coffins which were being carried to consecrated ground, to assure themselves that Mazzini was not concealed in one of them. By order of the Commandant, all the houses were illu minated on the 19th, in rejoicing for the preserva tion of the Emperor's life. Orders had been is.sued to the 'householders to suspend, for the purpose of lighting the town, a F.tmp from the first-floor of every fourth house, 'which is to remain burning from six o'clock in the evening until daylight. In case of disturbance the householders are to close their doors, and every man found in the street is to be treated as concerned in the affray. The inhabitants are forbidden to ap pear on the bastions from six o'clock in the evening till seven. in the morning. It is believed in Turin that the visit of M. Mas !limo d'Azeglio to London, is connected with the Loucicn refugees, and that he has bee n d es p a t c h e d at the, i nstance of the Queen, who still remains in the 'Tyrol. The Government continued to expel from Pied inont the most dangerous of the refugees. The loan of two millions would be effected with the house of Rothschild at Paris. SPAIN. -The Madrid journals of the 18th have come to hand. The Clamor Publico states that Major- General Ortega has been placed under the imme diate orders of the Minister of War with full pay. It was currently rumoured at Madrid that M. Estban. Collentes would be named Minister of Public Works before the opening of the Cortes. A private letter from Madrid announces that the Government has concluded a loan of 52 millions of reals with the Bank of St. Ferdinand, on the se cv.rity of the receipts from Havana during 1854. YA is believed M. Manuel Burmudez de Castro will be named Intendant of Havana after the meeting of the Cortes. The Herald() aives the contents of some letters from Lisbon, which state that, in con sequence of the death of the Princess Dona Maria Amelia, which took place on the 4th inst., the Queen o f P ortugal will receive no one, norleave her apartments 'for a week ; that all the func tionPaies of the P a l ace s h a ll go into mourning for font,. months, that all judi c i a l a ff a i rs s h a ll b e sus - Le.nded, anti the theatre closed for three days. T=he same letters give intelligence from Rio Ja neiro t o the 14th ult., and from Pernambuco to the: 21st The Brazilian G overnment h a d h a d a decided triumph in the late elections. The greatest tranquility prevail e d th roug h out the country. Up "r4B " 50 0 British and American vessels had entered the port of Rio Janeiro in the course of last year, besides 44 Spanish vessels. The Three per Cents. were at 411. GERMANY. Two shocks of earthquake were felt at Bacherach, Rhenish Prussia, on the 18th, one at six o'clock in the morning, the other at ten ,minutes to eleven. The oscillations only lasted a moment, and after that the air became serene. The inhabitants of the houses nearest to the Rhine heard a noise resem bling the fall of chimney pieces, or furniture in the upper rooms. The steamer Hermann, which was ascending the Rhine' at six o'clock, elt the first shock. Letters from Stettin to the 15th of the present month, received by the Minister of Marine, state that the frost had led to the suspension of all navi gation in that place and the other ports of the Bal tic. Snow had fallen in large quantities and very generally in the north, particularly in Further Po merania, Silesia, the Prussian Provinces, and the frontiers of Poland and Russia. The average depth of the snow was computed at the lowest to be two feet, and in some places it was as deep as eight or ten feet. The railway trains had been much im peded by the snow, particularly to the north of Berlin. . The Vienna journals of the 22d state that Le bemji has been interrogated by the magistrates ap pointed to investigate the late attempt on the Em peror of Austria. He declared that "he had been pondering over the necessity of assassinating the Emperor for the last two years." He is described as being violent in his demeanour to the examining magistrates. He is vulgar in his bearing and totally without education. His face is small, sickly looking, and he has long hair. He appears to have been abandoned to himself from his infancy. His interrogatory lasted the whole night. In the course of it he fell into frequent contradictions, and he made furious declamations against the state of things in Hungary, and especially against the gendarmerie. At first he did not give his real name. He wore a Hungarian hat and was decently . dressed. It has been ascertained that he has al ways displayed a great a'version for work, and has never lived long with the same master. The Journal de Francfort contains an article dated from Vienna, maintaining that Austria, in virtue of the treaties of Carlowitz, Passarowitz, and Belgrade, has the power of demanding the re moval from urkey of refugees and malcontents. The new Danish Diet is convoked for the Bth of March. A letter from Dresden of the 19th in the Journal de Francfort, says :—" In consequence of the tele graphic dispatch announcing the attempt on the life of the Emperor of Austria, Prince Albert of Saxony, who was at the time at Brunn, received directions from the King by telegraph to proceed at once to Vienna to express to the Emperor the congratula tions of the King of Saxony at his Imperial Ma jesty's escape." The King of Prussia, immediately after receiving , the news of the attempted assassination of the Em peror of Austria, sent one of his aides-de-camp to Vienna, with an autograph letter of condolence. General de Kaltenborn left Cassel on the 20th for Vienna, charged to express to the Emperor the satisfaction of the Elector at his IVI ajesty's late for tunate escape. TURKEY. The Russian Admiral Menschikoff is appointed Commander-in-chief of the three Corps d'Armee in Bessarabia and on the Turkish frontier. This is a very important nomination. It is rumoured that the mediation of France has been proposed and accepted at Constantinople in the differences between Austria and the Porte. FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. A terrible accident took place yesterday on the Great Western Railway, by which one of the directow_was killed upon the spot, another sustained very serious in jury, and several first-class passengers were much hurt, while others, including two directors, narrowly escaped with their lives. The accident happened to the up ex press train leaving Bristol at 8.10 a.m., and due in Lon don at 11.30 a.m. The train left Bristol punctually, and kept correct time up to its arrival at Ealing, about five miles west of Paddington. It consisted of an engine and tender, a luggage van, two second-class and three first-class car riages—the latter being in the rear. A travelling por ter invariably accompanies the express trains on the Great Western Railway, occupying a small iron box on one end of the tender, from which he commands a view of the train, and, in case of necessity, can communicate with the engine-driver without difficulty. The train had just passed under the bridge a short distance on the London side of the Ealing station, and was tra versing that portion of the line known as the Eal ing cutting, when the travelling porter observed that the first of the three first-class carriages was oil the rails, and swaying to and fro in a very alarmino• 's manner. He instantly got up and turned round to the driver, who was in the act of looking round at the moment, and who, observing that something was wrong, shut off his steam and reversed the engine. At that in stant the coupling chains between the second and first class carriages gave way, and the two first of the latter ran up the embankment with fearful velocity. The first, on reaching the top, a height of about 15 feet, toppled over and fell backwards upon that which followed, crushing three out of four of its compartments, and forcing it back on the main line, where it fell over on its side. The third carriage did not leave the rails. The driver brought up his train as quickly as possible, and returned to the spot, where a fearful scene presented itself. The first of the three first-class carriages was turned completely over and lying upon its roof—the several compartments being more or less crushed and the passengers imprisoned within. The second carriage had suffered most. In the centre compartment of this had been seated four of the directors of the railway on their way to the usual weekly board meeting. The names of these four gentlemen were—Mr. Richard Potter, of Gloucester ; Mr. Henry Simonds, of Reading ; Dr. Richard Prichard Smith, of Reading • and Mr. James Gibbs, of Clifton, near Bristol. The latter gentle man was killed on the spot. Dr. Prichard Smith, who was seated by his side, sustained a dislocation of the shoulder and had a rib fractured. Mr. Potter and Mr. Simonds, who were seated in the same com partment, and opposite Mr. Gibbs and Dr. Prichard Smith, had a most miraculous escape and were not all seriously hurt. There were several other officers of the company and general passengers in this carriage, but none of them sustained any severe injury. The passen gers in the third carriage escaped with nothing more serious than the shock. The best aid that could be given to the sufferers was afforded on the instant by the se cond-class passengers, none of whom had suffered the smallest inconvenience. One of the guards hastened back to the Ealing station, and the other, as soon as the passengers who were not hurt could be transferred to the second-class carriages, came on - to London with the train. Intelligence of the catastrophe was iastantjy communicated to Mr. Saunders, the secretary, and Mr. Gooch, the locomotive superintendent. The firmer, without a moment's loss of time, summoned Mr. Caesar Hawkins, Mr. Alfred Keyser, Mr. Teevan, and Mr. Harper, medical gentlemen resident in the neigh bourhood, and dispatched them to Ealing to render every assistance in their power. The latter soon got together a party of men to clear away the debris. On their arrival it was found necessary to break up the two carriages most injured in order to ex tricate soipe of the passengers who were still completely wedged in. One gentleman, Mr. Adam Duff, of-Read ing, who was seated in the first carriage when it fell over on to its roof, got his head fixed firmly into the hole through which the lamp is ordinarily suspended, and it was with the utmost difficulty he could be extri cated. Mr. Duff had some of his fingers broken, but was not otherwise injured seriously. The body of Mr. Gibbs was got out as soon as possible and conveyed to the Ealing station. Among the other passengers in jured were Mr. Miller, of Warminster, whose forehead was seamed with a terrible gash ; Mr. Ormerod, of Brazenose College ; and Mr. Kelly, the company's sta tionmaster at Birmingham. Dr. Prichard Smith was brought on to London and conveyed to the Prince of Wales Hotel, close to the station, where his dislocated shoulder was reduced by Mr. Caesar Hawkins. He was stated last evening to be going on favourably. Mr. Miller was also stated to be doing well. The accident is supposed to have Originated in the breaking of one of the "scroll-irons," or "spring hangers," attached to the near leading wheel of the front first-class carriage. The consequence of this breakage would be to set the axlebox free, thereby giving the wheel a play which would necessarily in a very short time throw it off the line. The ballast is torn up for some 400 yards, indicating that the wheel or wheels had been off the 'rails before the coupling chains broke. There must, of course, always be a degree of uncertainty as to the precise cause of any accident of this character. But it is suggested that the extraordinary variations in temperature may have led to the fracture described, no imperfection being visible in the iron. The accident, it is needless to say, occasioned a great shock to the board of directors, who were expecting the arrival of their colleagues when the news reached Lon don. The deceased gentleman has been a director for many years, and was universally respected. He was one of those members of the board who, at the recent half -yearly meeting, went out by rotation, and were re elected. It is stated that he effected an insurance of his life against railway accidents only a week or two ago. When the carriage in which he was seated quitted the line, his head appears to have been dashed against the window-frame, probably while in the act of looking out, or perhaps by the simple force of the shock. The temple has been driven in, and the spinal cord is broken, so that death must have been instantaneous. The right arm is also fractured, but otherwise the body is not in jured. He has left a widow and family to deplore his loss. _ One of the most remarkable features of this accident is that in the foremost of the three carriages, that which mounted the embankment and then tumbled back upon its own roof, there . were 21 passengers, none of whom were killed. Being crushed down to the solid p ar t o f the doors by the enormous superincumbent weight of the wheels, iron work, and heavy framing, the escape of so many human beings from instant death seems almost miraculous. In this carriage were Lieut.-Col. Bell, of the Royal, and his lady, both, of whom werejammed so tightly amid the debris that they could move neither hand nor foot, and it was with some difficulty that they were extricated. • Mr. Wakley will at once proceed to hold an inquest on the body of the deceased, and a searching investigation will be made as to the cause of this melancholy accident. The following official account of the circumstances has been sent to us for publication : " OFFICIAL ACCOUNT. "The morning express train from Bristol reached the Ealing cutting at the usual time, 11.15, and had passed the Ealing station on its way to Paddington, when the travelling porter, who sits on the tender looking back on the carriages, observed one of the first-class carriages to sink at one corner and to run off the rail. He instantly called to the engine -driver, who, on looking back upon the train, saw the gravel flying about, and shut off the steam, reversing the engine. When this was done, but before the train could be stopped, the three first-class carriage's broke away from his coupling, and were dis covered running up the left slope of the cutting. " The foremost of them, after reaching the summit of the slope, fell over, and the second carriage, coming into violent collision with it, also fell over on its side. "The last carriage was but slightly injured, and the passengers in it escaped without injury. "In the second body of the middle carriage four of the Great Western directors were seated, coming to at tend the weekly meeting of the board. One of them (Mr. James Gibbs, of Bristol), we lament to say, was killed on the spot. Dr. Prichard Smith was severely injured by a dislocation of the shoulder. The other di rectors (Mr. Potter, of Gloucester, and Mr. Simmonds, of Reading), escaped unhurt. Three or four of the passengers met with some injury by cuts or contusions, but not in any case to a serious extent, and all were en abled to proceed on their journey. "The only cause which can be assigned for the acci dent is the breaking of the scroll iron and axle guard of the first-class carriage, and it is difficult to distinguish whether either or both of these were fractured before the carriage left.the rail or when it was upset. "The wheels and axles prove to be entire, one axle only being bent, which was obviously occasioned by the blow when the carriage was thrown over from the slope of the cutting." IMPORTANT POST-OFFICE REGULATIONS FOR THE EARLY DELIVERY OF LETTERS. &c. The following new regulations respecting the early delivery of letters and newspapers within the London district will come into operation on and after the 28th inst., when the time for posting letters at the receiving houses in London will be extended from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. In the morning, commencing on Tuesday next, the Ist of March, the receiving-houses throughout the metropolis will be cleared at 9 and 11 a.m., instead of at 7.45 and 10 a.m. At the following.places in the neighbour hood of London, the time for posting letters at night will be extended to 9.30 p.m., and they will be dispatched the same night to the General Post-office, St. Martin's-le- Grand, instead of at 7.30 on the following morning, as at present—viz., Camberwell, Camden-town, Hackney, Holloway, Islington, Kennington, Kent-road, Kentish town, Kingsland, Newington-butts, Somers-town, South Lambeth, Vauxhall, and Walworth. Letters and news papers intended for dispatch by the morning mails, if taken to the receiving -offices, must be posted the previous night, before the hours named above ; but if taken to the chief or branch offices, they may be posted on the morning of dispatch up to the following hours :—For the day mails, which leave Euston-square, if posted at Charing-cross, Old Cavendish-street, or Borough branch offices, newspapers at 6.45 a.m., letters 7.15 a.m. ; at the chief office and Lombard-street branch office, newspapers at 7 a.m., ;and letters 7.45 a.m. ; for the other day mails, as at present, viz., newspapers at 7.30 a.m., and letters at 8 a.m., at the branch offices, and at the chief office and Lombard-street, newspapers at 7.45 a.m., and letters 8.30 a.m. Letters and news papers for London and the neighbourhood intended for the 8 a.m. dispatch, if taken to the receiving offices, must be posted the previous night, but if taken to the London District Office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, they may be posted on the morning of dispatch at the following hours :—Newspapers up to 7 a.m., letters 7.45 a.m. The second dispatch to the country places within the London district will be made at noon, instead of at 1 p.m., as heretofore, and letters and newspapers to be forwarded by it can be . posted at the London receiving houses up to 11 a.m., or at the windows of the chief office up to 11.45 a.m. It must be understood that the letter-receivers will not be required to keep their houses open after 8 p.m. for the sale of postage stamps, nor for the receipt of registered letters nor foreign paid letters. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 24. The Duke of Wellington, 131, screw line-of-battle ship, Captain Henry Byam Martin, will haul out of the steam-basin into the new dock on Saturday. She took on board and stowed her 25-inch hemp cable to-day. The Thomas Arbuthnot, hired freight-ship, which left this port on Tuesday afternoon for Corfu, with the head-quarters of the 48th Regiment on board; put back to St. Helen's Roads last night, smallpox having broken out on board since leaving Spithead. The Prince Regent, 90, Captain Hutton, flag of Rear- Admiral Corry, hauled out of dock this morning, after a par tial refit, and out of the fitting basin into the harbour this afternoon, to reship her stores and receive her crew from the Blake hulk. The Niger, 14, screw-sloop, Commander Heath, is to pro ceed from Malta to Corfu to relieve the Wasp, 14, Commander Lord John Hay, which is ordered to Constantinople. Lieutenant Edward Field, of her Majesty's ship Blenheim, and Lieutenant Charles T. Cerjat, of her Majesty's ship Ex cellent, have exchanged ships. The London, 90, Captain Mundy, is ordered to proceed forthwith to Plymouth, for the purpose of raising men. She will go out of this harbour on Saturday or Monday next, and is expected to sail about Tuesday. She wants upwards of 230 men to complete her complement to 850. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 24, Her Majesty's steam-ships Magicienno and Vulture, which left on Sunday to relieve the homeward bound at the entrance to the channel, are both lying in the Sound, having returned yesterday. The steam-vessel Sprightly, with seamen for vessels fitting at this port, arrived from Portsmouth,andreturned again yes terday. On the return of the screw steamblock-ship Sanspareil from Lisbon to this port she will go into harbour, have her masts and bowsprit taken out, and be fitted with those of the Dub lin, 90. SHEERNESS, FEB. 23. The Amphion, 34, screw steam-frigate, Captain Charles G. E. Patey.—The crew of this frigate were engaged yesterday shifting over to the Nymph frigate hulk; and the Amphiou has this day been taken into the basin and docked in the dry dock to make good defects. The Myrtle steam-vessel has been put out of the basin, having made good defects and damage. The Cuckoo steam-vessel has this day been taken into the basin to make good defects and repair damage. CIVIL DEPARTMENT. Mr. Forbes, foreman of the smiths, who was removed from here lately to make room for Mr. Bailey, late a fireman at ,Woolwich, to be made a foreman, has again, by the present Admiralty been sent back to this yard, and the newly-made foreman from Woolwich (shortly after the last election there) has again returned to Woolwich smithy. Mr. Costell, master smith of Chatham yard, has also returned from his new ap pointment (given under the old Admiralty), at Portsmouth, to his late quarters at Chatham yard. / WOOLWICH, FEB. 23. APPOINTMENTS. Surgeons—Archibald Elliott, M.D. (1851), and John C. Sabben (1851), additional to the Victory flag-ship at Ports mouth. PROMOTIONS. Mr. Snowden, late carpenter in the Terrible steam -frigate, has received notice that he has been promoted from the second to the first class; and Mr. Burch, late carpenter in the Rosa mond steam -sloop, that he has been promoted from the third to the second class ; and both will be borne on the books of the Fisgard flag-ship at this port, in the respective classes to which they have been promoted. Mr. Budd, inspector of police, when on duty at the south west gate on the 16th inst., stopped William Bra don, d a con- him fidential man in the eng ineer's department, a searched, and there were found concealed on his person six copper bolts and nuts, weighing 31b., and also a file, marked with the broad arrow. T he offender was taken to the station and charged in the usual way, and on searching his lodgings an iron door-bolt with the broad arrow was found. On the whole of the evidence bei n g taken before the magistratet a the police court yesterday, the prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial. FEL 24. The Rhadamanthus steam -transport, Master-Commander Belem, has arrived at Woolwich from Portsmouth, Sheerness, and Chatham. The Victoria, a small schooner laden with granite for the dockyard, broke from her mornings alongside the wharf wall during the gale of last night, and broke several of the iron stanchions put up for the prevention of accidents on dark nights., The Phoenix screw steam -sloop,- Commander Edward A. Inglefield, after being taken into dock, had her copper strip ped off, and is now being doubled on the outside. Her dock has also been doubled, and her bows greatly strengthened, and she will be completed in these parts of the vessel by Sa turday evening next, the greatest exertions being made by all hands to have her ready for sea as early as possible. Com mander Inglefield is daily on board, to give directions and see that the work is executed to his satisfaction. THE FRENCH NAVY. — telegraphic dispatch from Toulon states that the experimental squadron, which had gone out to sea some days back to t est the sailing p o wers of the vof arious vessels composing it, has just been forced, by stress wea ther, to put in at the Hyeres Isles, but with out having sufferedther, any damage. Dispatches from Greece announce that the Gomer, steam-frigate, on board of which is hoisted the flag of Admiral Remain Desfoss6s, commander-in -chief of the Levant station, had arrived at the Pyrceus, from Smyrna. Durin g the stay of the frigate in this last-named city, a grand ball was given on board by the French officers, in honour of the marriage of the Empe ror of the French. 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Full directions are given th each . ** A lib e ral discount to shippers. THE 'SHARE MARKETS. BRITISH RAILWAYS. RAMWAYII. IClesing Prices 1 Yesterday. 'Aberdeen ~ Ambg. Nottng. Bost. & Eastn. Jun 0....... Birmng. Wolverh. & Stour Va11ey......... Birkenhd. Lanesh. & Cheshire Junet...... Do. Chesil. & Birk., £5O & £25 Cons.... Do., £2o_ Bristol & Exeter !Caledonian. Chester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon.... Cork, Black. & Pass. Dublin&BelfastJunc. Dundee Perth &Aber deen Junction ....... East Anglian (£25 L. & E. & L. & D.) Do., (£lB E. & H.) Eastern Counties Eastern Union, Class A. into E. U. Sh 0., do. . Do., B. & C. [East Lancashire East & West Ind. Dk. & Birming. June Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edinb. Prth. &Dundee Glasgow & S. Western Great Northern Stk Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock I Gt. th.&West.(fre.) Great Western,,,,,,,, 'lrish South-Eastern, Lancaster & Carlisle. Do., Thirds ........... I Lan - cash. Do., Fifths ....... Do., Wst. Riding Un: Leeds Northern... ' Liv.ersby.&South p t London & Blackwall bond. Tilb. & Sthend. Lond.Bright. &S.Cst. London & N. Western Do. Fifths Do. ,10/.5h.,M&8...0 Tiondon & S. Western' Do., £40... .. r aidtdrry.&Coferaine dndrry. & Ennisk. Manch.Shef. &Lincln. Do., Man. &Ltn. Un. Midland . ..... .* b Do. Birming.& Derby Midland O. West. (Ir.)1 Do. Shr Newcastle & Carlisle Nem, mark et 3 Do. Bury Extension 16 Newpt.Aberg.6llltfd 7i Newry di Enniskillen all Newry Warrenpoint dz Rostrevor ,100 Norfolk... ..... ••• • Ipo., Norihn. Counties Un North British North Devon, No.l Do., No. 2. ...... Do., A Deferred Do., A B Guaranteed North Staffordshire North Western N. & S.Westrn. June Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton Scottish Central Scottish Midland Shrewsbury & Birmg Do., L. & N. Westn Guaranteed Stock Shrewsby. & Herefd Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W. Min.) Do. lialves, do Do. Oswestry Shropshire Union South Devon South Ea5tern....... .. South Wales S. Yorksh. River Dun D 0..... ...... Stockton & Hartlepl Thames Haven Dock and Railway Vale of Neath , Waterfd. & Kilkenni Waterford&Limc_ielil West Wmbledon &Croydon Woodford York Newctl. &Bern, Do. Extensions...... Do. G.N. E. Purchase York & N. Midland. Busness done this dad•. Paid PREFEREN I Aberdeen Do., No. 2, 7 p. c... Bris. d; Ex. 4 p. c. St. Do. 4 p. c. Shares .. Caledonian £lO ..... Chester & Holyhead I Guar. 5i per cent.. Cork &Bandon 5i p.c Dundee Pertil &Aber. deen Jur ctiou ....... EastAnglian (£3los, 6 per cent ..... Do. (25) 7 per cent.. Do. (£7l7s) 7 p. ct.., Eastern Counties Ex tension, 5 p. c. No.l Do., No. 2............. Do., New 6 p. e. St.. Eastern Union, Scrip Guar. 6 per cent.... EastLancash. 6 p.cts. Edinb. Pith. &Dundee, 5 1 per cent... . .... Glasgow & S.Western guar. 5 per cent.... Great Northn. 5 p.c. Do. 5 p. c., Redeem., at 10 p. c. prem Gt. Southn. &Westn (Ireland) Eighths... Gt. Westn. (Berko Hants Ex. 5 p. c.).. G. West. fixed 4 yr c. Lan. & York. F. 1:20, Do., 6 p. c., Stock... London and Brighton Guarar teed 5 p. Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. Do. Convertible, sp. c., 1852 r Do: New Guar. 6p.c London & S.Westorn Con. Third 5......... Londonderry& Coler. Shares Londy. & Ennis. Sh Manch. ,Shef. , 6E Lin., Shares, No. 1... Do. New, £lO.. - _..... 'Afarypt.&Carl. 4 p. c. Do. 4i per cent__ i___ IDo .. l'i ~... id. Consol. 6 p.c. St. Do. Consul. Bristol di Birm. 6 per cent.... Do. Pref. 4i per cent. Norfolk Extension... Do. Guar. 52 per ct.. Do. Way. Val. 5 p c North British ...... ... North Staffordshire Oxford Worcester & Wolverh. £15,6p. c D Shrews& Bina. N. G Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor. W.Min),B p. --- Do. 5 per cent ...... (South' Devon . Do. New S. Eastern (Reading Ann.,) of £1 Os. 6d., S. Yorksh.4p. c. Guar. Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c. York Newcastle an Berwick, 4 p.c.Pref. Do. York& N. Midland H & S. Porch FORE: Antwerp&Rotterdam BelgianEastn. Juuct. Charleroi & Erquelin. Dijon and Besangon Mitch Rhenish East Indian • Do. Extension Gt. Indian Peninsrla Gd. Juliet. of France Gt. Western of Canada Shares Lucca & Pistoja sp.c pref............. ..... Luxembourg Do. (Railway) Do. Do. (Canal) Do. 6 p. ct. pref Lyons & Mediterran Hadms Namur & Liege (with interest) Do. (ex interest) Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. 0. Bds (fmy. 13. & Ams. Sits.) NorwegianTi mil[Pref Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Paris and Strasbourg ParisCaen & Cherbrg. Quebec &Richmond Rouen and Havre Sambre and ?Sense Do. .5,11 p. ct. pref Southern of France Upper India Scrip West Flanders Do. 5 per c. 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Oriental Bank of Corporation Do. New Provincial of Ireland Do. New Royal Australn.Bkg, & Gold Imp Co South Australia Union of Australia Do. New Union of London Union of Madrid 1 1 p P 2 3 p Gi 7 p par p d P P par A p 1 P 7 9 4 —:- 4A 2i 2#' 29 —3O Par 1 p 41A —42lxcl 3# 60 70 8113 11 20 22 1i —i p g d p * 1 p - d d — *P 7 P IBp IgP pr — ip 21 23 p —7 . fir— P 11 12 64 7 ad 2; 3 p P P P K BANKS. 86 - 87 li - li pi 2 - 24 pl - 6P ... "--- ... 49 - 51 724 - 7 3 1 74 - 81 MISCELLANEOUS Australian Agricult. Australsn.Pcific.Mail Australn. Royal Mail Brit. American Land Canada Crystal Palace Crystal Pal. of France Eastern Steam Electric Teleg. of Ir. Gen. Steam Navigat. General Screw Steam Irish Beetroot Sugar Nat. Pat. Steam Fuel Netherlands Land.... Nrth. of Europe Steam Peninsular & Oriental Do. Do. Royal Mail Steam ... South Austral. Land Subma.. Telegraph .. Univeral Emigration and Colonization.... Van Diemen's Land 1250 - 255 16 - 16 ió ::: ii 58A ck ssi MARKET NEWS-(THIS DIY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The present week's arrival of English wheat, coastwise, has been very moderate, viz., 3,480 qrs., almost wholly from Essex and Kent, and in improved condition. Fresh, up to this morning's market, the receipts by land carriage were small, hence the show of samples was limited. The attendance of buyers was by no means numerous, yet the demand for all kinds of wheat of home produce ruled steady at Monday's prices. For forward delivery very little was doing. The imports of foreign wheat are only 950 qrs. Selected qualities sold steadily at full currencies. In other kinds very little was doing. Foreign cargoes were much neglected. The show of barley being very limited that article moved off freely, and late rates were well supported. We had a good demand for malt at extreme currencies. The arrival of oats have continued limited, and sold steadily at full prices. Beaus, peas, and flour were a dull sale, but not cheaper. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. 1 Barley. ( Malt. Oats. Flour. '2 .480 1,150 ( 3,030 360 1 1 , 0 10 600 I 700 1 570 1 1,79 English .. Irish .... Foreign .. SMITHFIELD. The supply of beasts on offer this morning was very mo derate, but in fair condition. Amongst it were 160 Scots from Scotland, As the attendance of buyers was limited, the beef trade ruled somewhat inactive, at Monday's quo tations. The top figure for beef was 4s 2d per Blbs. Sheep —the number of which was small—moved off steadily ; in prices no change took place, the primest old Downs, in the wool, being worth 5s 2d pier Blbs. We had a fair inquiry for calves, at late rates : the supply was very limited. Pigs sold slowly at our quotations. Milch cows were very dull, at from 141. 15s to 191. each. Per Blbs to sink the offal. u. d. s. d. Inferior Beasts ...3 0 to 3 2 Second quality ...3 4 3 6 Prime large oxen 3 8 3 10 Prime Scots, &c. 4 0 4 2 Inferior sheep ...3 10 4 0 Second quality ...4 2 4 6 Prime crse.-wlled.4 8 4 10 i a s. d. N. d. I PrimeSouthdown 5 0 5' 2 Lalge crse. calves 3 2 4 2 1 rime small do 4 4 4 8 rge hogs 210 3 2 1 mallporkers 3 8 4 0 ; uckling calves 19 0 25 0 1 uarter old pigs 19 0 24 0 TOTAL SUPPLY. Beasts Sheep Calves l2O Pigs 3OO NEWGATE AND FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts 230 Sheep Calves 2O Pigs _ LEADENHALL. The trade ruled steady, an, Per 81bs by a. (1. e. d. s. d. a. d Beef, inferior 2 8 2 10 Mutton, Inferior 3 4 3 6 Do.,middling 3 0 3 2 Do.,middling 3 8 4 0 Do., prime large 3 4 3 6 Do., prime 4 2 4 6 Do., do. small ....3 6 3 8 Veal 2 8 4 4 Pork, largo 2 8 3 2 Pork, small 3 2 4 0 prices were well supported. the carcase. BOROUGH HOP. The show of now hops continues limited, and the de mand is steady, at, in some instances, a further advance in the quotations. Old parcels aro held for money. Mid and East Kent pockets, 96s to 160 s ; Weald of Kent, 95s to 112 s ; Sussex, 95s to 112 s per cwt. COLONIAL. SUG&R.-A fair business has been done in British Plan• tation, the supply of which is moderate, and f u ll prices have been obtained. Barbadoes sold by auction for low to mid yellow, at 35s 6d to 37s 6d for good, at 38s to 38s Gd, and for fine 39s to 39s 6d. Demerara crystalised, sold at 370 to 38s 6d for mid and good, and at 35s to 36s 6d for ord. Refined was more active, low to fine grocery lumps 45s 6d to 48s Gd. East India Mauritius has been sold pri vately to some extent at the previous rates and by auction, fine brown realised 33s 6d to 34s 6d, and low to good 30s to 335. Mid grocery brought 34s 6d to 355, and low to fine soft yellow 29s to 335. Bengal has been at fuller rates, low to good white Benares, has been sold at 36s Gd to 38s 6d, fine at 39s to 40s, and mid, like Mauritius, at 35s 6d to 365. Foreign—A good deal has been done at stiff prices.. Per nambuco by auction, sold at 308 Gd to 33s for low to good brown, and at 34s 6d for low, mid, and yellow. Bahia has reached 35s to 37s 6d for low to mid white, and low to fine brown has since been taken in at 30s 6d. Yel low Havannah was mostly taken in at 37s to 438 6d for mid yellow to florettes, a few parcels selling at 35s to 378 for low to mid yellow. COFFEE.—There was a fair demand early in the week, at full prices, but a re-action has since occurred, and prices are lower. Native Ceylon has been at 48s to 48s 6d, and more recently at 478 6d to 48s. Mbcha declined is. Yes terday mid sold at 72s to 72s 6d, fine fine ord clean gar bled at 68s, and triage at 44s to 53s 6d. Pl an t a ti o n Ceylon was last taken in a t 58s 6d to 63s for mid and good of fa vourite marks, a few lots of low mid and mid selling at 54s to 575, and bold triage at 48s 6d to 535. Jamaica good ord has been sold at 465, and blocks at 375. Foreign has been held firmly. COCOA.—There has been more activity, and Trinidad went at 33s to 34s Gd for grey, and 35s to 39s for low to good red. Guayaquil brought 34s to 35s ; and Para, 28s. RICE.—FuII prices have been obtained, Bengal good white selling at ng 6d to 12s. SPlOES.—Batavia nutmeg have realised 2s 6d for mid, and mace 2s 6d for mid ; dark ginger was taken in at 51s for mid Cochin ; Jamaica sold at 67s to 154 s for small to good bold white. Penang pepper was taken in at 3icl for fair, and nd for mid ; and Batavia at 3id. COTTON.—There has been a quiet but firm market. TEA.—A fair business is doing, and the current rates wero—Congou ord to mid 9d to lOd, mid 104 d to lOid, rather blackish leaf is to is lid. Twankay, good ord to mid, 10c1 to 11d, mid to Hyson kind is to is ld. • Hyson, good ord is 2d to is 3d, and is 4d to is sd, and mid to good mid is 8d to 3s 6d ; Gunpowder is 4d to 38 ; Canton kind 9cl to is 4d. TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is quiet at 44s 3d per cwt on the spot. INDIGO.—Tho sale has been remarkably even through out, and has concluded by establishing prices as mentioned below. The orders both for export and home use were large, as evinced by the quantity sold, viz., 9,400 chests, which although less than was sold in February, 1852, is considerably above the average of the February sales for the previous five years. Of the quantity brought forward it is estimated that 3,377 are bought in, 3,201 witndrawn, and 8,200 sold, to which may bo added about 1,200 of the bought-in and withdrawn, making the total quantity sold say 9,400 chests; of wnich 6,000 are for export, and 3,400 for homo use and resale. The following are the quotations as compared with the last October sale :—Good and fine shipping fid to 8d per lb higher; ordinary ane defective do. 4d to 6d do. ; broken and consuming, 41 to 6d do. ; m9Aras, good and fine, 3d to 4d lower ; do. middling ordi- 6d to 8d per lb higher, nary, pa Krpak, good and fine, do. middling and ordinary, 3d to 4d do. 1 SPORTING INTELLIGENCE, TATTERSALL'S—THURSDAY. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE. 13 to 2 agst Miss Mowbray. Bto 1 agst Bourton. 9to 1 agst Oscar. 12 to 1 agst Sir Peter Laurie. 14 to 1 agst View Halloo. 20 to 1 agst Peter Simple. 26 to 1 agst Carrig. 25 to 1 agst Abd-el-Kader. 30 to 1 agst Benedict. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 6to 1 agst Contentment. 15 to '1 agst Lampedo. CHESTER CUP. 25 to 1 agst Scarecrow. 40 to 1 agst Truth. 40 to 1 agst Newminster. 2000 to 60 agst Braxey. DERBY. 9to 1 agst West Australian. 15 to 1 agst Pharos. 15 to 1 agst Orestes. 20 to 1 agst Umbriel. 25 to 1 agst Ninnyhammer. 40 to 1 agst Orinoco. 40 to 1 agst Vanderdecken. 50 to 1 agst Ethelbert. The room was thinly attended, and the betting flat and unimportant. THE HEREFORD RACES AND STEEPLE CHASES.— In consequence of the continued severity of the weather, the races postponed from last week to this day, will not take place. - SUTTON STEEPLE CHASES.—In 'consequence of the frost, these events, announced for this day, are postponed until Friday next. ORIGIN OF CERTAIN WORDS. All the words of dignity, state, honour, and pre-emi nence with one remarkable exception (to be adduced presently), descend to us from the Normans—sovereign, sceptre, throne, realm, royalty, homage, prince, duke, count (" earl," indeed, is Scandinavian, though he must borrow his " countess" from the Norman), chancellor, treasurer, palace, castle, hall, dome, and a multitude more. At the same time, the one remarkable exception of " king," would make us, even did we know nothing of the actual facts, suspect that the chieftain of this ruling race came in, not upon a new title, not as overthrowing a former dynasty, but claiming to be in the rightful line of its succession ; that the true continuity of the nation had not in fact, any more than in word, been entirely broken, but survived in due time to assert itself anew. And yet, while the statelier superstructure of the language—almost all articles of luxury, all that has to do with the chase, with chivalry, with personal adornment, is Norman throughout with the broad basis of the language, and therefore of the life, itis otherwise. The great feature of nature, the sun, the moon, the stars, the earth, the water, the fire, all the prime social relations, father, mother, husband, wife, son, daughter—these are Saxon. The palace and the castle may have come to us from the Norman, but to the Saxon we owe far dearer names, the home, the hearth, the house, the roof. His "board," and often probably it was no more, has a more hospitable sound than the other's "table." His sturdy arms turn the soil ; he is the boor, the hind, the churl ; or if his Norman master has a name for him, it is one which on his lips becomes more and more a title of op probrium and contempt—the villain. The instrument used in cultivating the earth, the flail, plough, sickle, spade, are expressed in his language ; so, too, the main products of the earth, as wheat, rye, oats, bere, i. e., barley ; and no less the names of domestic animals. Concerning these last it is not a little characteristic to observe, and Walter Scott has put the obse rva ti on i n t o th e mou th o f the Saxon swine herd in Ivanhoe, that the names of almost all, so long as they are alive, are thus Saxon, but when dressed and prepared for food become Norman—a fact, indeed, which we might have expected beforehand, for the Saxon hind had the charge and labour of tending And feeding them, but only that they might lie on the table of his Norman lord. Thus ox, steer, cow, are Saxon, but beef Norman ; calf is Saxon, but veal Norman ; sheep is Saxon, but mut ton Norman ; so it is severallywith swine and pork, deer and venison, fowl and pullet. Bacon, the only flesh which may ever have come within his reach, is the solitary ex ception. Putting all these together, with much more of the same kind, which might be produced, but has only been indicated here, we should certainly gather, that while there are manifest tokens, as preserved in our language, of the Saxon having been for a season an inferior and even an oppressed race, the stable elements of Saxon life, however overlaid for a while, have still made good their claim to be the solid groundwork of the after nation as of the after language ; and to the justice of this conclusion all other historic records, and the present social condition of England, consent in bearing testi mony.—Trench's Study of Man. THE SIX-MILE-BRIDGE AFFAIR.—The bills against the soldiers in the Six-mile-bridge prosecution have been ignored by the grand jury of Clare. THE THREATENED STRIKE AT SOUTHAMPTON. A meeting of stokers and coal trimmers—not very nu merously attended—was held at Southampton yesterd a y evening, for the purpose of taking into consideration the best course to adopt to obtain an increase of wages. After some discussion, it was determined that no strike should take place, the feeling of the meeting being evidently in favour of waiting to see the result of the seamen's strike. It was, however, arranged that a respectful memorial should be presented to the directors of the several steam companies, setting forth the wishes of the men, and asking for an increase of pay to 4/. a-month, the wages given at present being 70s. It was stated by sonie of the stokers that provisions, clothing, and house 'rent had latterly advanced materially in price, and that, as the general value of labour in this country is steadily rising, the men employed in the subordinate departments of engineering branches should ))e ade quately iemunerated ; but the speakers deprecated any thing like hostility to their employers in the shape of a sudden, unjustifiable demand. The wages given now to this class of men are, by the General Screw Company, 4/. per month ; Royal Mail Company, 3/. 10s., " with " grog ; Peninsular and Orient a l C ompany, 3/. 10s., " without " grog. SUNRISE OVER THE RUINS OF THEBES.—Just as the flush of dawn was beginning to become faintly visible in the east, Mohammed pointed out to me the lofty palm groves, encircling the northern limits of the temple of Karnak. We were then entering on the sacred territory of Thebes, and that I might enjoy the first sight of the ruins, I desired him to put me on shore alone. I landed on the left bank, and with a sort of boyish eagerness at which the philosopher may smile, ran with all my might in or der to reach a particular point, spoken of by the his torians of the French expedition, by the time the sun's first rays should stream into the dusky valley from behind the crest of the Arabian mountains. But the propylaea and mighty ruins of Karnak, towering far above the date-palms, like the pinnacles of a mountain, were not the principal objects in the magnifi cent landscape then assuming form and consistency be fore me. The glories of man's works became almost invisible in the blaze of glory diffused over God's works above the tabernacle of the sun, crimson, purple, amethyst, and gold, piled up like a mountain in the Orient, over what appeared to be a flaming sea, diverging north and south, seemed to suggest to the imagination the hidden appearance of some divinity behind that screen of dazzling splendour. Presently, earth seemed to mimic heaven in brightness ; the crest of the Arabian mountains, encircled with a halo of vivid colours, glowed tremulously for a moment, as if to smoke and burst forth in flame, when the sun rose, as if with one bound, from behind the line of the horizon, and all nature became flooded at once with light almost too bright for the sense. Then stood forth the ruins of Thebes in all their grandeur. Time seemed to have receded 4,000 years, and to have given back the city to me as it was in the age of Rameses. Wreaths and columns of white mist inter penetrated, and glowing with light rolled here and there be tween the antique structures, concealing their imperfec tions, over-canopying what might have been the mass of private buildings, and imparting to the whole the aspect of a stupendous city, displaying its pinnaclesonly through the luminous vapours of the morning. The broad Nile, illuminated and almost crimson by the sun, rolled its flashing waters from south to north with overwhelming majesty. I looked arou n d me on all sides, at the towering mountain peaks behind Gournon, at the Memnomum and antique temple of Medinet-Habou, at Karnak and the avenue of sphinxes, at the Arabian. mountains, at the palm-groves and the village. —.From an Egyptian, Pilgrimage. [ADVERTISEMENT.] —Deafness —New Discovery. 39, Albemarle-street, Piccaay, observe, opposite the York Hotel. The organic vibrator, an extraordinary power ful, small, n ew l y -i nvented instrument, for deafness, en tirely different from all others to surpass anything of the kind that has been, or probably ever can be produced, being of th e same colour as the skin, is not perceptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears are entirely removed ; and it afford; all the assistance that possibly could be desired. The Royal Exhibition valuable newly-invented, very powerful waistcoat pocket glass, the size of a walnut, to discern minute objects at a distance of from four to five miles, which is found to be invaluable, for yachting, and to sport smen, gentlemen, and gamekeepers. Tele scopes, possessing suc h extraordinary power, that some 31 inches, with an extra eye piece, wilt show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars. .They supersede every other kind, and are of all sizes for the waistcoat pocket, shooting, military purposes, &c. Opera and race-course glasses with wonderful power ; a minute object can be clearly seen, from 10 to 12 miles distant. Invaluable newly-invented spectacle.—S. and B. Solomons, Aurists and Opticians, 39, Albemarle-street, Piccadilly, observe, opposite the York Hctel. [ ADV EIITISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Ointment and Pills are an infallible remedy for Tumours, Swellings, and Contracted Joints.—Ann Carter, housemaid, residing with a f am ily i n Burton-crescent, had; an immense tumour on her right knee, which increased to such a size that she could not bend the joint, and was in consequence obliged to leave her situation. Her medical attendant informed her there was no chance of cure, and that it would be necessary to amputate the limb. This opinion not satis fying her, she commenced using Holloway's Ointment . _ ind - Pills in good earnest, and, by God's blessing, they have been the means of effecting a perfect cure, and she has resumed her foriner situation: —gold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's, 244, Strand. COUNTRY MARKETS. BOSTON—FEB. 23. We had a moderate quantity of all sorts of grain on offer to-day. Wheat met a slow sale, and previous rates were barely maintained, except for very choice sanOes• The demand for spring corn • also ruled inactive, at p rices much the same as the quotations of last week. Wheat, red, 40s to 475, white, 46s to 495, extra 51s; barley, 27 s to 33s ; oat s , 15 s t o 21 s ; b eans , 32s to 36s ; peas, 29s to 348 per qr. DERBY SMITHFIELD—FEB. 22. The supply of fat beasts to-day was large, and high Prices were asked ; the demand was brisk, and 0, clearance was easily effected. There were but few sheep compared with the wants of buyers, th e p r i ce f u lly mai ntained that of last week, and all were sold. Fat calves wore more plenti ful. Good show of fat pigs, with an advance in Priee' —Beef, sid to 6d ; mutton, 7d to 8d ; veal, sid to 6,1 per lb. ; pigs, 10s Od .to lOs 6d per score ; rough fat, 4s 84-1 Pe r 14 lbs. ; hides, Od to 2id per lb. ; calf-skins, 2d to Od per lb. EDINBURGH GRAIN—Fn. 23. We hid a large supply of grain in to-day's marke t ' the demand was good, and prices still rising. Top of Wheat 65 ilb 61s Barley s6lb 36s - Oats -- Beans 6 7. lb 40s Od 6d 8d Od Wheat, Barley Oats... Beans ~.sold 967 qil _sold 833 qrs so sold..sold 1,2 3 0 1 6 ir.s, Total Supply and Sales. 1,088 qrs 887 qrs 1,426 qrs._ 412 qrs. AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Average of wheat £2 8 3 3-12ths Ditto of Barley Ditto of Oats 1 1 2 10-12tb5 Ditto of Beans 1 14 8 DUBLIN—Fxs. 22. We had a steady market id our Corn-exchange to dap' without any alteration in the currencies of Friday last . White wheat, 26s Od to 30s Od ; red ditto, 250 Od to!eSega: barley, 12s 6d to 16s 6d ; oats, 10s Od to lls Od ; rap e 's 21s Od to 23s per brl ; oatmeal, lls Od to 12s Od bak e .6j, flour, 14s 6d to 18s od per cwt ; Indian corn, 31s Od to 04 " per 480 lbs. CORK-FEB. 23. Bris. _ ___ Currency. 3 White wheat 25s Od to 00s Od Os Od- 20 s tone ' 3S Redwheat 23s 6d to 25s 3dl Ditto 00s Od to 00s Od 00s Od-20 do. Ditto 00s Od to 00s Od . 132 Barley l4s Od to I4s 8d Ditto OGs Od to 00s Od 00s od-16 do. Ditto 00s Od to 00s Od .. 5 Bere l3B 4d to 00s Od Os Ott 361 Oats 397 Ditto 9s 10d to lOs 31 108 Od 4:14* 428 Ditto 108 8d to lls Od 52 Pigs 42s Od to 43s Od 43s Od per 04' Quantity sold at the highest prices : if 00 barrels white wheat ; 10 red ; 71 barley ; 0 bore; oats ; 3 pigs. Quantity of grain and number of pigs sold last weeks Wheat, 767. Barley, • 1,337. Bere, 0. Oats, Pigs, 396. PRICES OF BUTTER. cuitxxxcv. First quality Second quality Third quality BBs Third quality ............... Fourth quality Fifth quality 76s Fifth quality ............... 4 90 Sixth quality sBs Sixth quality ............... Return of cattle sold for week ending Feb. 19 Pigs, 796. Sheep, 239. Cows, 142. ; Coax.--Flonr— First, 15s Od to 16s Od ; extra, LI. do, seconds, 14s Od to 15s Od; households, lls to 13s Od ; ; 8s Od to 10s per cwt. Meal—lndian meal, 8s Od to 80 Wt oatmeal, lOs 6d to llsOd ; wheat meal, lOs 6d to 115 per Indian corn, 71 15 s Od t o 812 s 6d per t on . B ra n, 4/ 1 2° 5 e to 41 15s Od perton. Hay—Farmers, 20s Od to 36s Od; arer 30s; dealers, 32s Od to 40s Od ; average, Os per ton. Stra.a Farmers, 14s Od t o 23 s Od ; average, 20 s ; d ea l ers , 26 0 „,v ci to 00s Od; average, O s . per t on. B rea d—Wh ea t en loaf, i nd to Od ; household ditt o , bd t o Od per 41b . —f res h b u tter, 0 4 lld per lb. E ggs , 6,3 6d to 5s 7d per hundred. Meat lip 41 d to Sd ; mutton, sid to bid ; veal, 4d to 6d ; pork, to de 6d ; bacon, 7d to lid ; sausages, 6d per lb.—Fisk, Nowf ° o ; land, 11/. Os to 121 Os per ton ; Scotch herrings, 2 80 t ° ,4,10, Red, do., 30s per brl.—Potatoes, white, 9d to 10d; lld to 12d.—Coals; Newport, 22s ; Lydney, 22s ; Od per ton.—Whiskey, 25 0.p., 6s Od per imperial ga 4l°. 6sll Hides, market, 25s to 32s ; Salted, 26s to 32s per cwt. skins, 3id per lb.--Bangor slates 21, 17s. 6d to 3/. per t °ll. ,ot Fleece wool, 15s to 16 s per s t one . —H emp, 381. to 4 1„1,- 1,., ton—Timber, Memel, 3/. 10s ; red pin e , 31. 10s ; yellow v a, 3/. ss. per ton; deal s , 161. to 181. per hundred.—Barko ' ' 71. to 81. 10s. per ton.— Tallow, 46s to 47s per lOs to 0/. per cwt.—T ar , A rc h ange l , 19 s. per brl.—" sl)° Peruvian, 101. lOs to 111. per ton. CT. RAILWAT SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, FEB. 24. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market for shares has firm to-day, but not much doing, and quotations reir, o ; • about the same as yesterday, as follows :—Caledonian , 0 ,1; Dublin and Drogheda, 61A ; Eastern Counties, 131; I-j i . o , 9' cashire and Yorkshire, 7gif ; London and North Wss"„a• 121 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 30i ;,,r l l .O land, 78i ; Newry and Enniskillen, 4 3-16 d. ; ° British, 9 3-16 ; South . Eastern and Dover, 24 ; Marg ° and Carlisle, Quarter shares, 9-16 p. MANCHESTER, FEB. 24. cc' ise : STOCK EXCHAN6E.--Prioem haire - beerrllnner in uus ineS, qnence of purch ases f or the settl e ment, b u t the has been small. E as t ern Counties 134 ; Lonuo— n stoat took, 721 ; Kendal an d Windermere Pref., 141 ; Leeds s 81 ; East Lancashire, 19 1; Caledonians, 32A phWO Junctions, 6A d. ; Bristol and Exeter, 109. LEEDS, FIB. 24. „ Ye' STOCK EXCHANGE. —There has been a further inirr ° firr o ment in shares this morning, and the market closed to at the following rates : —Midland stock, 79 ; South E..,. 3s r ar and. Dover s , 24 ; N orth Westerns, ; Great No erns, 20. BIRMINGHAM, Fan. 24. , A ill STOCK EXCHANGE . — The transactions were cnieuYdi local stocks, which wero a shade higher. Shrowsburtare. Birmingham stock were done at 74; Preference 0 at 11k. SEABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent trot* the General row by the night—and M by the morning —dispatch.] ~....------ - COUNTRIES. Day when made up From what 3 % 0 1 ; 11, in General Post- Port Ell ° Office, London. Dispatched. En ol , ' - ---- - --- lie l a America(byßrit.pack)N Every Friday .... Liverpool ... EA America (by United Sts. Feb' 2l packet) .........N Feb. 24 .......... Liverpool ... America (by U. States packet) ..........N March 4 ........ Southampton Feb' 26 Australia (via South ampton)April • .........M 4th of March .... Southampton Apr Ditto (via Marseilles) N Bth of March .... Dover .....• Al°il 1 . Ditto (via Cape of Good 3u Mar ch Hope) ............N 22d of February .. Plymouth •• Feb. 15 Africa (West Coast)..N 23rd of the month. Plymouth • • D. 29 Alexandria..........N 8,9, 24, &30of m. Dover ...• •• r e h 4 Alexandria.. .... ....M 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton Mar o c, D O. Bahamas ..... • • • ...M 2nd of the month Southampton ist,il,, Belgium ........ .. ..N f say., .........„ Dever ..... • Pea „ I n 1 6 Brazil .......• • • .... 3 ,9th of the month.. Southampton Mar), 16 Buenos Ayres ...... ..M 9th of the mouth.. Southampton ble,f . ` 2 6 ~ Cape of Good Hope ..N 14th of the month Plymouth .• ....F",,,f) 3 ' Cape of Good Hope ..N 2nd of Apri1...... Plymouth .• te n ,: -g6 Cape de Verde . ...N 14th of the month. Plymouth .. Fe.' Ceylon (see India). Feb' 2 %1 Ceylon .... ...... .. ..N 14th of the month Plymouth •• . v .- Channel Isles ........N Mon ., Wed.,&Fr!d . Southampton ' l • l l' T r. 1 CCohninsatan(steine.lpnledia) Mcd & 17th of month Seuthampton 24*-- Feb 304 Dont. of Europe • • • . • •11 7,8'17'244n of m Egypt (see India Constantinople ......m 4th & 20th of mon. Southampton ." io de Dover .... • • ,i Feb iii F G r ib a r n altar • ) M & N Twice dell, ...... Dover ..... 1 .1 . • Greytown :: : ........&....! 42 7 7d i , c•e daily .. .... Dover ...... ' P ` c ..- - l i e c e e d a'lll & 17 1 , 7 2 t 0 h , 0 2 f 7 mon.o fm . Greece (see In I Ma r ch I t, Hamburgh ..........N Tuesday & Friday L:Onunththdoamanm•PP.:..nn.T4trruar'ih! Havannah ..... ..... M 2nd of the month Southampton,„on.TP Holland ........ ... M Wednesday & Sat. London .....I.,rch i 6 Honduras .........m 17th of the month. Southampton, e '" 20 'F e b. . India (vl aSouthampt.)M 4th & 20th of mon. Southsunpton c b s e l* India (via Marseilles)M Bth& 24th of month Dover .....• 31 lonian Isles (s ee I n di a ) Pri eedOr Ireland ......m & N Twice daily ...... Holyhead • • " Arriv — Li sbon ..............m 7,9, 17, &270 f m. Southampton lo p i 6 Madeira ..........m 9th of the mo n th SoutharnPton m gareb 18 .... N 23rd of the mo n th Plymouth • • """ Malta (see India) 0. 29 Malta r 5 6 Mauritius (see India) - ~, . Feb. o p Mauritius ..........N 14th of the month Plyrno n '',. * ,,1l st elf Mexico ........m 2nd of the month.. Southampto n ii , Naples .............. N sthlsth2sthof mon. Dover .• • • • • ' ma rch ', O New Granada ..... At 2d & 17th of month Southampto n Dort!' New Zealand • By private ship .. Various Por ts 6j a tcl l ' Papal States ........N sthlsth2sithofloon. Dover ••• • • • LArris' 94 l Peninsula ..........M 7 thl7th27thofmon. Southampto n ' m ach . , Pefu • ........... —Mtd & 17th of mon Southam p ton, e b. 2: , ,, Port Natal ..........N • 14th of the month Plymouth • • il iur cl ; Sicily ..............N sthlsth2stholmon, Dover •••• •• mod' 1 Tuscany ..........N sthlsth2sthofmon. Dover ••• • • • arch Venezuela ..........M 2d & 17th of month Southampton .• Vanustr Dieme alian's Land (see 16 A .... • • • • West Indies ) ........M 2d& 17th of month,SouthamPtn p ____—_,,-;•e reb.- BIRTHS. OF A BON. A T Loaf' On the 21st inst., at W o ol w i c h-common, S On er. t h° the 22d inst., at 42, York-terrace, Regent'slgooli wife of T. 0. W. Costa, Esq., late Captain 4 t h Guards. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 22d inst., at M Hon. alahide, the Mrs* Delp' DIED aged IP, C.oEn.thje. 2 N Ot u h g i e n u s t t , ., E a s t q H ., al.; l arr ri-s e te nn t, Dublin' in in the county of Cavan. teac h ' A n 30° 10 , On the 20th inst., at Dublin, aged 26, • ' Doug a Esq., 3d Dragoon Guards, only son of Colonel M. , ix a o C. 8., Aide-de-camp to the Queen, and of Rose' Stonelyset, Lanarkshire, On the 22d inst ,at 5, Chesterfield-street, Af e r fair ' al° all Hon. Miss Upton: ass ogo nneo l on n 3f EttBthh.hs the 21st .2 2 :1a 8 st t te h i Ln ul sot t r. . d: a a ßt t .(t.)i N t i Nice , : G iwt e z o e Gi r i gi ra IF° grow, t o. : G ic e . r al , ... : a l p e : ' p. q : Robil i of her Majesty's Treas Ott the 19th inst , at Ifc . kfield, Sussex, W. T. C. Gaarci ° ' surgeon-major of the Coldstream - ----- (f o 50? 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