The Sun. — London, England, 1857-06-01 00:00:00

We have received onr despatches from India and China by overland mail, via Marseilles. The dates of these advices, as stated in our telegraphic report of Friday last, from Trieste, are as follows :—Bom bay, May 2 • Calcutta, April 23 ; Madras, April 28 . H ong Kong , April 15. The Indian news, it is satisfactory to state, is not of an exciting character. The regiments of the Persian expedition were returning to India. A part of the 14th Light Dragoons had already re turned from the Gulf, and it was oupposed that the whole of the 2d division were on their way to Bom bay when the mail left. The sepoy of the 34th, who wounded Lieutenant Baugh, had been hanged, and the Jemadar of the guard had been similarly punished. The charges against the latter were as follows : "For having, when officer in command of the quarter guard of the 34th N. 1., on the day on which Mungul Pandy attacked the adjutant and quarter-master, told the men of the guard, when they evinced a desire to go out and aid the adjutant and sergeant-major in resisting the murderous at tack made upon them, "If a man leaves this guard, or attempt to do so, 1 will have him hanged for disobedience of orders." Further, with having in the lines of the 34th Regiment N. 1., endea voured to spread sedition by telling the men of that corps that if any of them brought him one of the new cartridges he would cut his head off ; also, for having warned the men of the 34th N.I. to bold themselves in readiness for a general revolt on the night of Hoolee. Lastly, with having held a pun. cbaet in his own quarters for the purpose of organ ising a general rising of the sepoys against govern ment ; at which punchaet two pay havildars, a naick, and a lance naick from the 34th N,1., were present. " The Jemadar hoped for mercy till he was placed beneath the gallows, and then, finding that nothing could change his fate, he addressed his comrades in the following impressive terms : " Sepys, listen to me. I have been a traitor to a good government. lam about to be punished for my great sins ; I am about to be hanged, and I deserve my punishment. Sepoys, obey your officers, for they are your rightful and just rulers, or else you will, like me, be brought to the gallows. Sepoys, obey your officers ; listen to them, and not to evil advisers—l listened to evil advisers, and you see what lam come to. I call upon God to bless the Governor-General and all the great gen tlemen, the general, and all the sahib logue (gen tlemen) here present.—Seeta Ram Sects Ram ! Seeta Ram !" It was imagined that an outbreak among the sepoys at Barrackpore to prevent these executions was a possible contingency, and preparations were made accordingly to overawe any demonstration of the kind ; but everything, nevertheless, passed off quietly, and not a whisper expressive of mutinous feelings was uttered, but, on the contrary, the native soldiers on the ground, some three or four thousand in number, were evidently impressed with a conviction that they would themselves be sum marily dealt with if they displayed the least sign of disobedience or even exhibited disorder in their ranks. The Hurkaru remarks : " Government has put forth its strength wisely in the examples it has recently made of the 19th Native Infantry and the men of the 34th Native infantry, and we believe that every regiment and sepoy in the native army are disposed to accept the lesson, and avoid its practical application to them selves. We anticipate no further outbreaks or mu tinies for a long time to come, but should they un fortunately arise, we trust they may be put down as rigorously and effectively as . the late unhappy disturbances have been." The Bombay Times, treating of the same event, says " That this unhappy man was the prime instiga tor of the mutinous spirit of the corps there is no doubt whatever, and his execution is a plain necessity. It issatisfactory to record that the disaffection is confined exclusively to the Brahmin sepoys and officers, the Mussulmans of the regiment standing quite aloof from them, and manifesting the most loyal conduct. An attempt has been made by some of our journals to find the cause of the mutiny in the conduct of the commanding officer. Colonet Wheeler, who is reproached for having attempted to spread the knowledge of Christianity amongst the men. The charge, however, in so far as we have yet seen, is quite gratuitous, and the ex treme readiness manifested by a portion of the Indian press to stigmatise all efforts of Christian men in the army to spread the knowledge of the Gospel, as indiscreet, is too disingenuous to find much countenance, and is not very creditable to our estate. A very strong presurapton against the charge is the fact, stated above, that the Mussul mans, of all men the most sensitive on the subject of their religion, are totally free from all suspi ciela of disaffection, which is hardly consistent - with the belief that the conduct of the Brahmin sepoys is influenced by such motives. We notice with much dissatisfaction that a circu lar has been recently addressed to the commanding officers of the Bombay regiments, by the adjutant general, on the subject of the enlistment of recruits, in which directions are issued tbat a preference is to be given to high caste applicants over low ones. A more mischievous or inopportune innovation could not well have been made. It is well enough known that the high state of discipline maintained in this army is traceable entirely to the utter obli vion of caste in our ranks, and the attempt to Ben galise the Bombay army in this respect cannot be too strongly reprobated. We publish elsewhere the circular letter in question, and trust that some attention will be excited to the matter." A postscript of the Delhi Gazette of the 18th April received at Bombay, May Ist, has the follow ing :—" We regret to be informed by telegraph that bad symptoms have manifested themselves at Urn balla. The native troops have been ordered to fire what they consider the objectionable cartrid ges to-morrow. The empty European barracks were burnt down at nine last niget, and the native infantry hospital, a mile distant, three hours after." The Phoenix states that in consequence of the ru mour that Goolab Sing is dead, and that the train of events in his' kingdom is not clearly foreseen, officers at Peshawar who had obtained leave to visit Cashmere, have been interdicted from going thither. The bindian of April 18 reports in the following terms, the finding o f coa l i n t h a t province : " We are happy at being able to announce that the existence ofcoal in Scinde is an established fact. It has been found in the Sehwan district. The credit of the discovery is due to the deputy -col lector, Captain Phillips. We look upon it as one of the most important discoveries ever made in this country, not second to anything connected with the province. Both as a commercial matter and a revenue matter it must have a great effect in bring ing this province into competition with other parts oelndia. We shall have the nearest coal fields in India to the sea. The facts connected with this dis covery are the following. Captain Phillips was engaged in sinking a well in the Vera Plain, Meokan Gande,r, about 28 miles from Kotree, and at a depth of 40 feet from the surface the workmen came on a seam of coal, eight feet thick ; and a few feet lower down another seam, 18 inches thick, has been discovered. About 300 maud have been dug out of the well, and the supply from the country surrounding the spot is probably very large. The well has been sunk to a depth of 80 feet, without, however, coming either to wa t er or t o any other strata of coal. Ten camel-loads have been sent to the naval department for an experiment, and we shall look with much interest for the official report of the quality of coal and its value for steam purposes ; there is, however, no doubt of its burn ing well, and it burnt in the Kotree factory to a white ash. We trust Government will pursue the important discovery, and a few hundreds expended now may lead to a future revenue of thousands. Our acting commissioner, Mr. Ellis, with expected promptness, has at once ac ce d e d t o C ap t . Philli ps ' s . Wish, an d has granted money for the purpose of further excavations." The notorious outlaw of Oude, Fuzil Ali, the murderer of poor Rehau, has at last met with his deserts. Lieut. Longueville Clarke, of th e 3(l.Regt merit of Oude Irregular Infantry, on the evening of the 7th April, marched with 40 men across t he Nepaui frontier,constitut through th e d ense j ungle which es the boundary, and surprised Fuzil Ali and his bandinat. grove of trees. Th e men f ought desperately, Lo u Clarkeout of h av i ng one man killed and four wounded on of his sm a ll p ar t y . F uz i l Ali and two of hiebroth Pr !, equally no t or i ous ban dits with himself, were killed, and two others of the gang. Lieut. Clarke was nixaself slightly wounded. A suttee had oocurred at 2t eyvearsillago g village of Vun . in Kutch. Bhunsalle Sango, died, his mother, 65 years of age, insisted on v i m g molating herself on the funeral p ;ile prepared for the reception of her son's remains s and though the attendants and bystanders apparently remora trated with her at first, they ceased to opp ose h er wishes on finding that she was determined to becom e a suttee, which she accordingly did. His Highness the Rao, on learning what had been done, took the advice of Capt. Raikes, the political agent, and Pursuant thereto imposed moderate fines on those of the villages which had furnished abettors of the proceeding, and sentenced some of the leading men in it two years' imprisonment with hard labour. The principal parties concerned in the suttee, viz., the Bhunsallees of Vung, Karreea, and Bibba, are poor cultivators, living by the sweat of their brow; whom a large fine would throw into inextricable debt and difficulties. There has been another great fire in Pegu. This time the rising tort of Bassein has been totally destroyed. The Rangoon Chronicle of the 25th March furnishes the following account of the con flagration : We are sorry to hear that Bassein has become a heap of smouldering ruins. About four or five days ago a fire broke out there, the origin of which no one seems to know, which spread with frightful rapidity over the town, not sparing even the court houses, residence of the commissioner, treasury, church, nor, in fact, anything on which it could use its devouring strength. Poor Major Fytche has been rendered houseless 'and deprived of all his worldly effects ; the treasury has had its rupees and other coins converted into shapeless molten masses, the opium has had its narcotic pro perty well extracted, and, in a word, the destruc tion has been so complete as to serve all alike, spar ing nothing, and making no distinctions." CHINA. HONG KONG, APRIL 15. Early this morning we received the ugly news that H.M.S. Raleigh, Capt. the Hon. H. Keppel, on her way from Macao'to this place, struck iipon a rock in the Lemma Passage, and was so near sinking that they were forced to run her on shore to save the lives of all on board. At 10 a.m. to-day Admiral Seymour seut to the assistance of the Ra leigh the Coromandel (s. v.) and Bittern (brig), and the French admiral sent away the steamer Catinat to assist the Raleigh ; but it was feared their aid would not avail much. The Raleigh, a new and splendid frigate, had a capital run out from Eng land, and all regret, at this juncture, the mishap. The war is inactive just now, and the admiral is resting quietly until cool weather and a large naval and military force enable him to take aggressive measures. Troops and ships, steamers and gunboats are coining, and an overpowering force is on its way. We are doing strange things. Every one talks about war with China. The fact is we are at peace with China as an empire, our quarrel and war being with the Governor of the Quang-tung, the Mandarin of Canton. At all the other ports we are on the most friendly terms and doing a large trade, the Emperor probably knowing little or nothing of what is going on at Canton. The enclosed summary from the China Mail of this morning is the best epitome of news since last mail : "In the colony matters remain in statu quo. His Excellency Admiral Seymour has been down here for some weeks. Nothing, we suppose, can possibly be undertaken without large reinforce ments, both of troops and men-of-war. The Cruizer is reported to be at Singapore, and some of the gun-boats at Batavia. " We are told that important documents have fallen into the hands of the Government, proving the complicity of the mandarins and the people of Canton in the various plots of incendiarism, kid napping, and assassination, which have imperilled the persons and property of the residents of this colony. " The scarcity of rice is beginning to be seriously felt here among the Chinese, and to day's quota tions are 3.20 dols., with every prospect of a rise, unless we have plenty of rain very shortly. " The people along the river banks are said to be extremely civil, and readily supply the ships with fresh provisions, &c. " Much distress prevails in the interior, which must be greatly increased should the present drought continue. Rice is said to be already at famine price, even in Whampoa. The scarcity of provisions at Amoy also has materially interfered with business transactions. Rice is at a higher price than it has been for many years past, For mosa being quoted 3 dols. "From Ningpo we have little to note, beyond a fight which bas taken place between some French men engaged in conveying junks, and the Portu guese lorchamen, who claim the monopoly of the convoy trade. The French boat was captured, but as despatches on the subject have been sent to his Excellency M. Bourboulon, the lorchamen are likely to pay dearly for their temerity. Both Chi nese and foreign residents at the port have but too good reason to rejoice in the prospect of a severe castigation being at length inflicted on these Por tuguese pests, who have for years been a terror to the native coasting craft, committing depredations of all kinds with the most perfect impunity. That the piracies on the coast are not all perpetrated by Chinese is well known to every foreign resident in China. " From Shanghae the most interesting news would seem to be the imminent danger which threatens the traffic, both import and export, through the successes of the rebels, and the con templated desertion of the imperialists unless their wages are forthcoming. The urgency of the case is shown in the anxious endeavours of the authorities to raise funds by means of subscriptions from the traders, which has almost in every instance, we are told, been refused." The North. China Herald says that " an imperial duty upon opium has at length been imposed at this port. Small boats, with official flags flying, hav ing been stationed near the opium ships at Woo sung, that the deliveries of drug may bs duly re ported, and the imposition collected from the seve ral dealers at Shanghae after its arrival. The amount of the duty is 12 taels per chest, which, at 33,500 chests (the deliveries of last year), gives about 402,000,000 taels. Of this sum, 335,000 taels, or 10 taels per chest, goes to the imperial service ; the balance of 67,000 taels being allowed for the ex penses of collection." No payment, however, has yet been levied, as the mandarins are desirous of first ascertaining the opinion of foreigners on the subject. Our usual correspondent writes as follows : The report current here a month back that the rebels were making overtures for surrender was a piece of official gammon, bandied about with the hope of exciting liberality in the special efforts then and now on foot to get money for their unpaid troops in this province, to whom, according to I-liang's cou f t ssi ons i n th e document above referred to, payments are due both to officers and men, to some for two months, to some for three months, and to others for four ; i n f act, the whole army is little better than a band of filchers, and the whole coun try round their encampments is a frightful scene of desolation. Nor is this all. The generals have already sent adrift large bodies of the militia, and these are roaming about, gambling by day and plundering by night. The past winter has been very mild, and the spring thus far cold and backward. Drought is again feared. Last year the fall of rain in this region was about 30 inches ; ordinarily it is nearly twice that amount. Here the season has been healthy, but in Soochau great mortality has been prevalent, espe cially among the children. We received lately from Shanghae copies of the import and export returns of the port for the half year ending 31st Dec., 1856, issued by the " Office of Maritime Customs." It shows the imports to have been :—Goods manufactured and tmmanufac tured, 5,189,821 dols 62c; opium, 5,571,000 dols ; treasure, 10,079,567 dols—total, 20,840,380 dols 62c, or at the exchange of 7s 3d, 7,554,650/. 17s 6d; and the exports—Silk, of all kinds, 15,565,422 doll 52c; tea, 4,388,576 d o l s 78 c : sundries, 576,337 dols 94c—total, 20,530,537 dols 30c, or at 7s 3d ex change, 7,442,2471. 5s sd. The export of raw silk was—To Hong Kong and London, 58,469 bales raw, 5,469 throwns, 1,297 course, 290 refuse, 287 cocoons • to the United St a t es, 831 131.1 raw, 4 re fuse ; and of tea— Black. lbs. To Great Britain 6,563,182 Hong Kong and Whampoa Australia The Continent Montreal ..... United States 105,982 116,772 614,800 361,755 Green. lbs. 7,014,319 111,282 33, 818 _____ 265,76" 275,027 11,275,368 Total. lbs. 13,577,501 217,264 1'59,509 830,532 275:027 11,619,113 26,17 A generally w e ll-i n f ormed correspondent,72 wroitoes us from Shanghae, that—" The rebel force which burned Ho-kow (Ho-how) about a month ago after wards made an unsuccessful attempt upon the city of Kvrang-sin-foo. They then moved north, and are now in great strength in and about Moyune. The whole of the green tea country is at the mercy of the marauders—Hwuy-chow will be again plun dered, and litle doubt can be entertained that the whole stretch of the green tea producing country will suffer far more this season than during the pasttwo years. The population of those districts is now suf fering severely from the scarcity of rice. So much for the state of the green tea country. To the southward of Ho-kow, the rebel bands which hold the cities of Kien-chan and Fu-chau are in such strength as to threaten the whole border country between Fokien and Keangse ; and the risk attendant upon sending money into those districts for the purchase of new teas has become very serious. There seems little prospect of any safe passage being secured for the transit of Moning and. Ningchow teas across Keangse, so that the production of those districts will probably remain unbought unless it can find a vent at Canton. The disordered state of Keangse has also a moat inju rious influence on our import trade here. No move ment is observable in the neighbourhood of Nan king yet ' • but the I m p er i a li st troops declare that unless all arrears are paid up directly —say half a million of tael—tbey will leave the way open to Soochau, and then the effect on the Shanghae mar ket would be deplorable indeed.» DESTRUCTION OF MANDARIN JUNKS. ( From the China Mail.) The Hon. Company's steamer Auckland, v.;nile on a cruise on the l.st April, observed a Mandarin junk in the Bay of Tung Chung. Tie steamer came to an anchor off the bay, and the boata immediately , got outand despatche were. Alimdqc the coin., I COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Bombay Times.) REPORT ON TUB STATE OP BOMBAY MARKET FROM TEE 16TH TO THE 30TH OF APRIL, 1857. The Overland Mail from London of the 26th of March per the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamship Ganges, reached Bombay on the night of the 20th of April. Our money-market during the past fortnight has con tinued in the same easy state as reported in our last. The rates of discount ruling at the banks continue the same, and are likely to remain so till the season is over. We hear that the liabilities of the branch here of the London and Eastern Bank are not of a serious nature, and it is supposed there will be sufficient funds to meet its en gagements. Government securities and local joint-stock shares continue at about former quotations. IMPORTS. Cotton Piece Goods—The amount of business trans acted during the fortnight has been to a limited extent. Shirting's of all descriptions are ingood demand, as well as madapollams, which are in good demand and scarce. T-cloth is in very good demand, and there is no stock of it available in the market. Bleached and Fancy Goods—Bleached satin spots con c . tinue very scarce and in good demand. Yarns —These have been firm as last reported. Metals—English bar iron and hoops are in fair demand, nails square and round, are scarce, and have advanced in price.. Pig lead is dull, tin plates are in demand, spelter is dull and has declined, Swedish bar iron is also dull ; Swedish steel, in tubs and fagots, continues to be in fair demand. Cochineal —This article is dull, and there is no change to be noted in the prices. Saffron is dull, and has declined in value. EXPORTS. Cotton Wool.—The market continues dull, and prices have declined, owing to the arrivals being freer. Oil Seeds. These continue in the same declined state as last reported. Opium.._An advance in the price of this drug is to be noticed,;and we now quote I,oBor. to 1,090 r. for Indore and M...indlesir. The Peninsular and Oriental Corn pa'4'm steamer Aden takes for the Chinese ports about 1,200 chests this evening. Tonnage.—Freights are very dull, and the arrivals are numerous; and no advance in the rates is expected soon. Our present quotation is from 21. 15s. to 21. 17s. 6d. for Liverpool. Exchange. —A large business was done in local bills, credits, and documents, at 2s. ltd. previous to the ar rival of the China steamer, and afterwards, at same rate, for China d rawn b ac k , and 24. lid. for loc al credits ; but this last day or two holders have been firmer, and the rate is now 2s. 1 9.16 d. for best bills, and 2s. 1 11-16 d. for documents. On Calcutta, sight 991 r. ; On Madras, 30 days' sight, 99Ar. ; on China, 60 days' sight, 223 r. (From the Calcutta Englishman of tbe 22d of April.) Wednesday, April 22. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Hun dostan, with the London mail of the 10th ult., arrived here only - on the 20th inet., the advices by her having already been anticipated both by electric tel?graph and the Bombay Dak. Yesterday morning we received via Bombay intelligence from Landon to the 26th ult. We have had no change in our produce market, al though operations may be said to have been on a smaller scale, in consequence of tbe continuance of high prices for our staple articles and high freights. Very little doing in indigo. We have had a smaller business in sugar for Great Britain, owing to the rise in freights, nor have the Bombay shippers been very eager to make purchases. Of rice we do not notice any change in table qualities, but Ballam has been in active request. Salt petre has been in less demand, and value lower. An active demand prevailed for raw silk at extreme figures, bat the market closes flatly. There have been large sales of Rurrypapl, but the middling and low qualities of all denomination s are neglected, and comparatively lower offers made for them. We have had some inquiry for "rails of good makes, Linseed continues to move off for the United States at unaltered prices. Rape, Wel, and poppy have been in less demand. No change in the position of other articles. The receipt of favourable advices from the Upper Pro- ' vincea as regards piece goods and twist has caused a better feeling in our import market, and native dealer have shown more willingness to operate. The sales dur ing the past fortnight, notwithstandin g the intervention of holidays, have been to a fair extent, and in some in stances at enhanced figures. Mule twist especially, and coloured yarn have advanced in value but we have no change in metals. Money W e hav e aga i n to re t porfavourably on the .. market havi ng .b ecome easier since our this p ,, Market last, ;cough not to any great extent. A further reduc- Glen of 1 per cent. in the rates of the Bank of Bengal took place on Thursday last. The last statement of the bank's liabilities and assets for the week ending the 15th inst. will be found below. The amount of cash as com pared with the statement inserted in our preceding num ber baa increased from Rs. 87,62,005.8-3 to Co.'s Rs. 1 , 11 ,34,597.120, while that of loans on deposit of THE SUN, LONEON, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 1, 1857 mand of Lieut. Davies to cut her out. When about 10 yards from the junk a battery, which had up to that time reserve its fire, opened upon the advanc ing boacs with grape and canister. Lieut. Davies immediately ordered the second cutter and gig, under command of Lieut. Philbrick, to take pos session of the junk. whilst he proceeded with the launch and first cutter to storm the battery. The Chinese stood well to their guns whilst the party were wading on shore, wounding Mr. Williams, the purser (a volunteer), and three seamen, severely. A volley of musketry, however, dispersed them, and the party took possession of the battery, and held it until the junk was observed to be under weigh, when they embarked and assisted to tow her out. During this time three other batteries kept up a heavy fire on the junk and the two boats towing her, which was returned by the junk's guns and with small arms. Unfortunately Mr. Lowis, midshipman, received a severe wound in the leg by a musket ball, and which it is feared may lead to amputation of the limb, whilst turning the junk's guns on the shore batteries. The Chinese were re markably well armed. Several spent shot struck the boats, but without doing any material damage. One shot took an oar out of a seaman's hand whilst in the act of pulling. The following is a list of wounded : Mr. Williams, purser, severely in the face ; Mr. Lowis, midshipman, severely in the leg ; Edward Lund, A. 8., severely • T. Welsh, A. 8., slightly ; Wm. U nw i n, A. 8., slightly ; C. Brown, A. 8., slightly • E. Yeomans, 0.5., s li g htl y. The Auckland has since left this station, having sailed on Monday for Singapore. It is scarcely two mouths since her arrival, yet in that short time she has done good service, and has always been ready for work. She helped to destroy a fleet of five war junks, carrying 64 guns ; and to disable a bat tery of 30 guns—defeated the Imperialist fleet of from 80 to 100 junks, at Second Bar Creek—as sisted in the capture of eight pirate vessels and 72 prisoners —took and burnt a pirate at Chung-chow Island—and ended, as above mentioned, by cutting out a junk of seven guns from under several batte ries in Tung Chung Bay, on the north side of Lan tao, a place admirably adapted for a mandarin sta tion, commanding as it does the passage from the Cup-any-moon to Macao. She has, in the perform ance of these services, had one sailor killed and three officers and ten seamen wounded. Yet neither promotion nor honours await her captain or officers —they belong to a seniority service. We hear also that the Sampson had assisted in destroying a fleet of 13 sail (three ]orchas and ten junks), in Deep Bay. Thi s fl ee t, it was un d erstood, had ben stationed there to intercept the market boats bound to or from Hong Kong, and the Ad miral sent Commodore Elliot with the Sampson, Hong Kong, and the Sir Charles Forbes to destroy them. But the bay was found so shallow that the Sampson had to anchor at a distance of eight miles horn the junks ; and even the small steamers could not approach within four or five miles of them. The work had therefore to be done in boats, and was performed, we are told, in gallant style, though the shore and the hill-side close to the beach were co vered with matchlock men. The following account of the affair has been sup plied to us : securities has decreased from Rs. 1,38,88,939-11.3 to Re. 1,28,90,245-6-4. _ LIABILITIES. Proprietors' capital 1,07,00,000 0 Reserve fund Current accounts Cash credits undrawn 10,57,034 3 10 Other claims Bank notes and post bills 1,49,85,635 6 8 Total Company's rupees 3,38,51,184 9 6 ASSETS. Government securities Dues from Government 1,46,798 7 9 Mint certificates, undue 8,24,452 12 0 Cash 1,11,34,597 12 0 Loans on depoit of securities 1,28 90,245 6 4 Accounts of credit on ditto Government bills discounted 38,07.244 1 8 Mercantile bills ditto 8,17,766 14 11 Dead stock VAIN FEARS OF ADIIIIRAL SIR CHARLES NAPIER. Total Company's rupees 3,38,51,884 9 6 Sbares—There has been a fair amount of business, Coal Company's shares having sold at 1,325 r., India General's at 1,180 r., and Steam Tug's at 1,140 r. The value of other joint-stock shares are well supported, but no transactions reported. The Ganges Steam Navigation Company have declared a dividend at the rate of 24 per cent. per annum. Goernment Securities—The improved aspect of our money-market is gradually affording more confidence to capitalists and native dealers, although we have scarcely experienced any alteration in our quotations, Company's Four per Cents. only being a shade better. Our closing rates are for this description of paper 15r. 4a. to 15r. 6a , for Sicca Fours 17r. to 17r. 4a., and for Company's Fives 2s. to 4s. per cent. discount. Other securities are nominal at our quotations, Exchange.—On London —The rate for the present mail opened at 2s. lid., for first class six months' sight bills, and at this figure considerable business was trans acted, when the rate fell to 2s. which may be con sidered the closing quotation, with perhaps a slight downward tendency. On China, some transactions in CO days' sight bills took place at 216 r., but the rate has advanced to 219 r,, at which we hear business was done last, Freights.—A. further improvement has taken place since our last, and, although the arrivals during the past fortnight have been more numerous in proportion to the preceding period; yet some of them being American VOts• eels and others whose destinations had been previously fixed, the available tonnage has not been sufficient to meet our requirements. Favourable advice., moreover, for rice from China caused an increased demand on the part of shippers, and consequently higher rates have been paid. We hear as yet only five ships of about 4,000 tons capacity have been taken up by Government for the conveyance of coals and hay to the Persian Gulf, not withstanding that 10,000 tons remain still to be engaged or not hereafter, according to the tu rn c i rcumstances might take, The rates to China have advanced from 1$ per bag to 1$ 25c., and to Mauritius from lr. Ba, to 2r. per bag, and to other ports on the east and west of the Bay of Bengal we observe a proportionate rise. Our quotations for London are 41. 12s. 6d. to 41. 155., and for Liverpool 41. ss. to 41. 7s. 6d. per ton, at the close the market showing an upward tendency. Viewing the present aspect of affairs, and the prospect of produce being abundant on the opening of the rivers, combined with the expectations of a moderate amount of inward tonnage during the next three months, we might rea sonably look forward to a further advance in our rates to all ports. The following charters have been effected since our last The Forfarshire to convey coals and hay to Bushire at 50r, per ton ; the Pearl, for the same voyage, at 52r; the Segoff at 54r.; the Hamlet at 55r., and the Cana'la at 57r. (One or two tenders we hear at 60r. are still pending acceptance by Government.) The Anne Mary, to carry 15,000 bags of rice to China, at 1 dol. 17 3 / 4 c. per bag ; the Morrie England, 18,000 ditto, at 1 dol. 20c. to ditto ; the Lockett, 10,000 bags ; the Iskeu derea, 3,000; and the Colorado, 20,000 bags, all at 1 dol. 15c. a bag ; the Frederes Area (F), for Mel bourne, 41. 15s. ; the Winslow (F), for Mauritius, at 2rs. a bag ; the Shepherdess, to take 20,000 bags to Havre, at 51., and if to Bordeaux, 5/. 10s. per ton. (From the Examiner.) "In case of a sudden war with France and Russia, the Queen's throne would not be worth six months' purchase," says Admiral Sir C. Napier, whose special delight it is to exalt foreign naval forces and to disparage our own. But what puts the throne of our Sovereign in so much danger ? Simply the fact that France and Russia can man their fleets more expeditiously than we can, but how do they man them ? True, the Czar marches regiments on shipboard and calls them seamen, and France, with better resources, can command the services of 40,000 seafaring people. But does no thing depend on the quality of the crew so pro vided ? The Gallic cock has no aptitude for water. The Frenchman is not web-footed. He is born and bred to strut and crow ashore. The parade is his place, not the deck, where there is no public to ad mire him. We are a nation of the duck kind. Wherever there is a pond or a puddle you see chil dren swimming boats in it, or if there be no boat to swim, they will be paddling in it from the sheer love of water, quite apart from, and irrespective of, its uses for drink and cleanliness. In France you would see the urchins of the same class playing at soldiers. Nevertheless Frenchmen serve at sea, and perform the duties of seamen, but it is without that aptitude which seems to belong by breed to the Englishman, and consequently, when diffi culties occur in French ships, there is always a want of resource, readiness, and contrivance. They do very well as long as the routine continues un disturbed, but let that be deranged and a rare con fusion follows. Sir C. Napier has given an account, Nye believe, greatly exaggerated, of the state of things in which he found him. , elf on his way to the Baltic with a newly-manned fleet. Does he believe that a French fleet, suddenly manned by naval conscription, would be in better or in equa l or d er ? Th e F renc h , it is true, would not have landsmen, of whom Sir Charles complains he had too many ; but, on the other hand, are their beat seamen to be compared with our thoroughly able seamen, competent to every duty of a ship, except the navigation—leadsmen, helmsmen, riggers, &c., and the handiest fellows aloft at making, shortening sail, an d ree fi ng i n th e world ? Confident we are that an English fleet, newly manned, with its portions of landsmen and able seamen, will in the aggregate of skill be more than a match for a French fleet with its comple ments of regular but inferior seamen. The English landsman, be it observed, is improving with every day's practice, and with an aptitude, whi c h we w ill call national, for the work. With the Frenchman, at best, the thing is all malgre. He hates the sea and all belonging to it. The English love for the thing favoured by wealth manifests itself in gentlemen's yachts pecu liar to the Anglo-Saxon race in these isles and America. A French admiral observed to the wife of an English consul iu France, that if all other evidence of the madness of English people were wanting, the single fact of rich and great English lords and gentlemen leaving their beautiful places to go sailing about in small craft was enough to prove the national insanity. Upon which the lady replied, that if all other evidences of the in aptitude of the French for the sea were wanting, the sp sech which the admiral had just made, im plying that there could be no comfort and no en joyment in a sea-home, was enough to prove the elemental incapacity. When Zadig hurt his eye, the surgical authorities all settled that he must lose the sight of it, but when it was so uncivil as flatly to contradict them and to get well, they wrote unanswerable treatises to demonstrate that, according to all scientific prin ciples, it ought to be stone-blind. Sir C. Napier's naval fortunes have been as per verse as Zadig's eye. He ought to have been beaten on several occasions when he was not : - "At daylight, on the 6th inst., the Hong Kong and Sir Charles Forbes, with the boats of the Samp son, Hornet, Sybille, and Nankin's launch in tow, proceeded up Deep Bay ; but when within 5 miles of the junks it was found there was not sufficient water to permit the steamers to proceed, and Com modore Elliot ordered off the boats. It was ob served on nearing the junks, that preparations for action had been made, iu their having the mast heads crowded with men provided with stinkpots ; the bills and beach were also lined with soldiers, some bearing white flags ; and one large red flag was far in advance of the others, apparently bidding defiance. On rounding the point, the lorchas opened fire from their guns, but were soon silenced ; the firing from th e bushes, rom gingals and rockets, was most terrific. Immediately the junks com menced firing, the crews cheered, and proceeded up the creek, taking the 13 junks in succession. At about 1 o'clock, Commodore Elliot gave orders for the boats to go further up, to search the upper part of the creek ; but on arriving at the place where it was supposed there were more mandarin junks, those at anchor were found to be trading boats. The commodore, after examining them, ordered the boats to return, but in consequence of the tide having fallen very low, the Niger and Sampson's launches got on shore, and the boats were detained until they floated ; as soon as the tide rose, the boats passed down the river, burning and destroying all the junks, and throwing the guns overboard. The commodore endeavoured to save three heavily armed lorchas, but in consequence of their grounding, ultimately ordered them to be burnt. After completing the work of destruction the boats directed their course for the steamers, and being taken in tow, arrived at their respective ships about 6 p.m., after a hard day's work, the men having been in the boats fully 10 hours. One man, only (a marine) was seriously wounded." SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE. HONG-KONG, APRIL 15. ARRIVALS FROM GREAT BRITAIN. At Hong-Kong. —April 9, the Neva, from Liverpool; April 11, the Chrysolite, from London. DEPARTURES TO GREAT BRITAIN. From Hang-k ong —Mar. 29, the Jupiter, for Falmouth ; March 31, the Chieftain, for Falmouth ; the Johann Christopb, for Cowes ; April 13, her Majesty's steamer Barracouta, for England. Shanghai.—March 24, the Confucius, for London. SHIPS OP WAR. At Hongkong. —Her Majesty's steamer Calcutta ; her Majesty's brig Bittern ; her Majesty's steamers Coro mandel, Hornet, and Sampson ; the gunboat Starling ; the French frigate Capriciense ; the French steamers Catinat and Marseau ; the Spanish steamer Magallauas. Macao.—The Portuguese brig Mondego ; the French frigate Virginie ; the Spanish steamer Jorge Juan. Canton River.—Her Majesty's brig Acorn ; her Ma jesty's sloop Conine ; her Majesty's brig Elk ; her Ma jesty's ships Nankin and Sibylle ; her Majesty's steamers Encounter, Inflexible, and Niger ; the chartered steamers Hongkong and Sir Charles Forbes. Amoy.—Her Majesty's brig Camilla. Foochow- —Her Majesty's sloop Racehorse. Shanghai,--Her Majesty's steamer Pique. EGYPT. ALEXANDRIA, MAY 22. The India and China mails arrived at Suez by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamers Ganges and Bengal, from Bombay and Calcutta respectively, on the 17th and 20th inst., and the outward mails, which reached Alexandria on Tues day, will probably leave Suez this day. The fast mouth of Ramadan is now approaching its end, and the Viceroy, who has passed the greater portion of it at his favourite place of residence at Mat iout, has for some days been at Alexandria. He was to embark this morning by the Feiz-Jehad steam frigate for a short cruise, but his absence will necessarily be a short one, the customary official receptions during the Bairam holydays being al ready announced. Hi s Hi ghness, it is expec ted, will afterwards proceed to Cairo, and it is repprNd that he contemplates shortly visiting the Oasis of Siwah. It might appear improbable that he [should undertake a long and laborious journy:rafthis sea son of the year, but Said Pasha seems bent upon inspecting all parts of , his dominions himself, and his character for indifference to personal hardship and fatigue is now so well established that it will excite very little senprise if the report be confirmed. For the last few days his Highness has resided at a countryhouse, which he has just purchased in the neighbourhood of Alexandria, and Which has cost hi m 35,0001. T o t h ose who only know Egypt as it was the price will no doubt appear very large, but the advance in the value of property has of late years been so great and unceasing that it almost seems as if destined to form a permanent subject for wondering comment, even among the moat far seeing of the inhabitants. It may, indeed, be doubted whether any other "old," country could cite so extraordinary an increase in the value of property as that which has been witnessed here during the last 12 0r1.5 years. As an instance, I may mention the case of a small property in the . vicinity:of Alexandria, which a few years ago was valued atifrom 1,5001. to 2,0001., and which has just realised 23,000/.—a price equal to little less than 1,0001. an acre. As illustrating the increase in the value of property within the town, I may add that house rent has in many cases been trebled within the last five years. The Viceroy's son Toussoun Pasha, a fine little boy of about six years of age, goes to Marseilles by the next French steamer for temporary change of climate. He will be accompanied by Achmed Menikli Pasha, the General who commanded the Egyptian Contingent in the late Russian war ; by a physician, and by his English nurse. The little Prince will make some stay at Marseilles, where he will be the guest of M. Pastre, one of the leading merchants of Alexandria, and it is said that his journey will probably be extended to England. Her Majesty's ship Tartarus has sailed for Rhodes, for the purpose of taking a series of deep water soundings on the line between Alexandria and that island. Transactions in our grain-market are almost en tirely limited to the sale of contracts for future delivery. Of these, for the delivery of Saide wheat in September and October, 182,000 quarters are estimated to have changed hands, and the price is at the present moment equivalent to about 375. 6d. per quarter free on board. Some trifling quantities of beans and barley have commenced arriving, but they are bought up chiefly for home consumption. The cotton-market was rather quiet during the earlier part of the fortnight, but the reseipt of the last intelligence from Liverpool has given it a fresh impulse, and prices are again firm. Exchange on London at three months' date, 102 i piasters per pound ; Marseilles, 4f. 96c. to 4f. 97c. per dollar. telegraphic despatch mentions the stranding, on Salvo reef, of Faroe Island, off the steamer Imperatrice, Captain Adams, while on her voyage from Cronetadt to London. The crew were saved, and arrangements were n progress with a view to save the ship and cargo. The latter consisted principally of wheat and tallow. 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True, the Miguelite fleet was taken. Yes, but by all the rules of warfare it was the British fleet which ought to have been taken." But it was not, and "if not why not ?" as they ask in bills of equity. Because, after all, the men pitted against double or treble their force were British seamen. They may have hung back at first, the best will occasionally do so, but they must have made up for it afterwards, or the vic tory could not have been won against such odds. Pursuing a similar train of argument, Admiral Sir C. Napier assured the Grand Duke Constantine that he might have beaten the British fleet in the Baltic, but perhaps, if the Russian had been so ill advised as to try the experiment, the result would have been the same as that of the Miguelite and Sir C. Napier could then have told us that "by all the rules of warfare it was the British fleet which ought to have been taken," not the Russian. There must surely be something deficient in the rules of warfare if events contradict them. The great achievements of the English navy were per formed by men who did not act by rule, but who ruled fortune by their genius and daring. Calcu lation has superseded all that, and calculation is fal lible, as it does not always include all the elements which go to make up the result of success on the one hand or failure on the other. For example, if that Miguelite affair could ever occur again, Sir C. Napier would not fight a battle in w hi c h he ought to be beaten, though the event was nota defeat, but a victory. He may .have hate had an opportunity of the same sort in the Baltic, and lost it by process of the same erroneous calculation. The motion which served to introduce Admiral Sir C. Napier's favourite text, "we have been beaten'?. together with that comfortable assurance respecting the Queen's short tenure of her throne in the event of war,:-was for a committee to con sider the constitution of the Board of Admiralty. We have lately had a run of good fortune, very able men having in succession filled the office of First Lord, but still we cannot see why a civilian should be placed at the head of the Admiralty, any more than over the army, And there is this to be observed, that the management of naval affairs re quires much more technical knowledge than that of the army. In both services there is the per sonnel and material to be mastered, but the mate rial part in the navy is much more extensive and difficult. Can any seaman suppress a smile of contempt when he reads that a First Lord of the Admiralty has inspected and approved the equip ment and condition of a ship of which any swabber or cabin boy on board has a better com prehension PRICES OF. SHARES. Prom the Official List. PUBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENIN , , LONDON, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1857. CANALS. r; Names of 0 Dividend Names of Dividend Companies. 2 per Pr ice '" Companies. Zi per Price. 4 Annum. • Annum. £ £ A shtn &Oldb 93 71. p. ct. Peak Forest. 78 51. Os. Birmingham 40 41. , 91 Regent's.... 30 17s 16 14 Coventry.... 100 111. Rochdale.... go 41. Derby .. •• •• 100 6/. 15s. &Ord &W or. igo 281. GrandJunetn 100 2'. pr. ct. 51% Stoerbrldge. 45 121. 10s. Do., 6 pr. Ct. 10 6' pr. ct. I Severn and 1 2 f • 11. 16s. — 'Grand Union 100 7s. 6d Wye Rail. Remit & AVD 40 Gs. Warwick & Leeds &Livrp 100 251. 490 1 Birming. 100 21. 2654 Leicester ...• 'OO 5/. Warwick & Leiestr &Ntl. 83 I/. ss. Napton.. ) 100 21 ' 234 LoughLorogb 143 701 IWorestr & 1 ~,, los. Macclesfield. 100 21. 10s. Birming. ' u 16 54 Neath .•...• 1.100 161. Wilts & Brio 7s. Od. 45 0xf0rd...... 100 WATER-WORKS. Dividend per Name of Company. Amount of Share. Paid. I Pri' Annum. ORE 4T LOSS OF LIFE OiV THE LAN CASTER AND ULVERSTON.E SAND'`'• During Friday night or early on Saturday morn" ing several persons were drowned on the sands be' tween Lancaster and Ulverstone. On Saturday evening when our report was ofnecessity despatche a r it was not known at Lancaster what was the pre cise number of those who had lost their lives, b et there was reason to suppose that it was not legs than 14, and the bodies of eight of the deceased had been recovered, having been washed ashore at Hest-bank, ali 1 ,ut th ree m il es f rom L ancas t e r. ; was at this point th a t th e f act o f t h e ca l am ity first became known on the morning of Saturday. Fre° the sands which it will be remembered skirtsM ere ' cambe-bay, there were seen floating in the Water s number of men's hats, som e boxes, and other thing s ' and it was at once conjectured that the hats, hei.' &c., were the property of persons who, i n crossing r o the sand., had either been over t a k en b y t h e lide had left the proper track and so got into the wa ter ' A number of men went ou t i n b oa t s an d r ecover ed e the hats and boxes, and a f ur th er starc h re veale d the bodies of eight men fl oa ti ng as near l y t o ge p l, as possible. They wer e b roug h t as h ore, an d ill t course of the day recognised ; and it was r urnoile r s d at this place that at Sil ver d a l e, two or t h ree el i. d ed e higher up the sands, some bodies had been vit'sf ve ashore. It is believed that all the per sons who ." 3 ;,, lost their lives are single young men, in ser v 7 t l i Some suppose there we re t wo young wome n W l s , them, but owing to difficulty of obtaining infore i m , tion from the oth er s id e o f t h e sands our eorT-6 pondent had not learnt whether this was: t', o Suffice it that a party of more than a dozen per who had been living i n serv i ce a t Poulton, il-est; ham, and other places on the Ulverstone en dpf sands, left Kent's-bank on Friday night, inteu r t il ' to be present at the Whit,untide hirings at 1 7, caster on Saturday. Their route was along b a t sands by the edge of the bay, being the mane tu t , is taken by the over-sands coach between Vi c .,,, e e stone and Lancaster. Tire party spent some t i-- „a drieking at Willeocks's Kent's-bank Hotel, ir g they started in twolight one-horee carts. Aceer il „ li ir to the tide-table it was high-water at UlverstOrie Saturday morning at 10 minutes past 4 o'clockaeb, in order to cross the san d s i n safety and avoid.til tide the journey should, have been commenced either end at 41 win, past 9 o'clock on Fridaypift r : but this party, besides bein g i n t ox i cate d , are und er stood to have started later by an hour orill e a; Some who intended to have cr osse d w i t h theta j dined to doso because of the time they d started, so so saved their lives. Nothing mor e is known ue l party until the bodies of some of them werewati ashore as already described. We h ave otel l ' o s to mention that at Hest, al o n g w ith th e bodie,'l 1( 8 recovered on Saturday one of the carts, with lifeless horse attached to it. Two conjectureg t ,/ hazarded as to the way in which the accident f l ip have occurred, which no on e i s l e ft a li ve t o eicP ie nri e One supposition is that the carts were floated 0; 0 of the streams that have to be forded. At the le on , dangerous one there is a guide stationed trod rise to sunset, so that he would not then have t 3,1 on duty. One young m an o f th e compa ny Ile t to Geo. Ashburner knew the track whi c h oug" j o have been taken, but the probability is that 0 6. 7, 0 . thought of using his experience. Another 011 20 ture is that the whol e p ar ty h a d f a ll en asleep, tie, the horses had been l e ft t o t a k e th e i r own od..,1110; and that they actually f o ll owe d t h e tid e until rj, sleepy occupants of the carts were fatally imine ll t b. The appearance of so me o f th e b o di es h as l e d 1° , 4 supposition that suffocati on t oo k p l ace duringsf",.,4 Upon the eight bodies r ecovere d a t Hest 70 money to the amount of ab ou t 301. an d 46 1 . fot o found, being the wages they h a d rece ived b e starting. • Country Marke HADDINGTON GRAIN MA.RKET—MAT 29 ' .; solb s oj WHEAT. I BARLITY I OATS. I 48i 3 . 14 First 64s Od 42s Od 34s 6d ' . 36 Second 4Bs 6d 1 36 s 3d 1 30s lid Ivs 0 0 Third 34s 01 I 27s 01 127 s 6d iV i ;il 451 °l id Total quantity of wheat in market, 461 qrs., . o s go ld barley „ 141 gm. '.. - 8 0 1 " oats I ; 188 qrs., + 7 5 . 30 014 PP beans IP 64 qrs., AVERAGES PER IMPrRIAL QUARTER. m otli. Wheat, 2/. 8 6 8-12ths / Barley, ...11. 16 3 .„7"120 0 Oatz, i ... 11. 10 11 11 . 12tha I Bean s , 21. 4 4 1." PO • 4 DALKEITH GRAIN MARKET—NA! . 2 5 ' lot 1 1 • Qrs. Best. 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Ditto New Ditto Debentures.. Do. Continental 1 s t C ap. Do. Do. 2d Cap. Do. Do. 3d Cap. Do. Do. 4th Cap. Independent. London Preferen. Phcenix . •• •• •• •• •• .. Ratcliff • • •• • Surrey Consumers .... United General .. • . •• Westminster Chartered Ditto, New Western A Ditto B Name of Company. Albion •• .... • • .. &Matta Brit. and For. Ditto Marino ....... AU:lemmata • • .• .• • • • • Atlas .. krgns Life ........... llritlsh Commercial Church of England City of London Clericl.Mod.& Gen. Life County .... •• .• Crown ...• • • • • •• •• Eagle E qu i t y and Law • • • • • • Europeto Life F am ily Endowment General .• • • •.• • • • • • • • • Globe •• •. •• •• • Gresham Life . ...... • Do. Do.•• •••••• Guardian ............ Imperial Fire..... .... Imperial Life Indemnity Marine.... Law Fire Law Lite.. • •......... Legal and General Life London London & Pro's. Law Marine... • • .... • • Nied.lnvlid & Gen. Life Minerva .••••• • • • • • . Monarch .. • . • • • • .. New Equitable Pelican •• • • • • • • • • •• •• Phoenix Profeseional Life...... Provident Life........ Rock Life.... • • .. Royal Exchange ...... Sun Fire 0000 • • Ditto Life United Xingdom .. • . Universal Life Victoria Life Name , of Company. Australasia Bank of Egypt Bank of London British NorteAmerican Ch. Bk. Ind. Aust & Ch City .. Colonial Commercial of London. Eng Scot. & Aust. Ch. Lond. Cnar. Bk. of Aus. Do. New .. • • London and County .. Lon. & Eastn, link,;. C. London Joint-Stock ... Londn .sad Westminstr Nat. Provincial of Eng. Ditto. New ....... Ditto ditto Nattow.l Bank New :.oatti Wales Oriental Bank Corpora. Ottoman Bank Provincial of Ireland.. Ditto, New......... lonian;.. ....... ........ South Australia Union of Australia.... Ditto Union of Hamburg.... Union of L0nd0n...... Unity Mutual Western Bank or Londn 51. per cnt. 6t.per ant. Al. per cent. 51. per cent. 4r. por ant. Si. per ent 41. per cent. BRIDG: Dividend per Annum. 10e per cent.l 11. 12s. Od. 11. Ss. Od. 288. DOCKS, Dividend per Annum. 51. pr cent. 61. pr cent. 41. per cent. 51. p;Cent. 4%1. per cnt. 4 per cent. 51. Os per C. IT AND COI Dividend per Annum. 71. per cent. 5/. per cent. 21. per cent. 2/. 61. per cent. Mi. per cent. M. per cent. 31. ss. 4/. 15s. 41. 10s. 6 0 . per cent. per cnt 5/. Si. per cent. 16s Od pes!sh. 7 per cent. X s. d. 10 0 0 Stock, 25 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 61 0 0 5 1 8 Amount of Share. X a. d. 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 70 10 3 Amount of Share. 4 s. d. Stock. Stock. Stock. 100 6 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 stock. Stock. 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Z s. d. 100 all Paid. I Prii Z a. d. Stock. ,00 "45 0 too o 0 5 0 0 stock. 50 - 0 0 I - 20 0 0 9' 14 0 0 - COMPANIES. Amount Share. £ s. d. 20 0 0 20 0 0 150 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 Stock 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 SO 0 0 40 0 0 25 0 0 60 0 0 20 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 'RANCE COMPANIES. Dividend per Annum. 71. per c. 145.6 d. 1. p.c.& bs. 15s. 04. & be 41. per cent. 7d. 10e. 71. 10s. 51. 5 pr ct.& bs. 11. per share 11. 18s. ss. 5 1 4 per cent 11. 41. per cent. 6 per cent. 51. per cent 51. per cent 11 . 1. per cent ; 143. 5/.p:e47kbs. 2s & 2s booms 244. per sh. 4s. per share 18s. dabs. 4 per cent 5' per cent. 51. per cent. 6 per cent p. ct. 5/. per cent. 51. per cent. 12 per c. 7s. p c. &bs ti% p. c & bs 11. 14s. 41. & bonus. 51. & bonus. 51. & Louus. TINT-STOCK Dividend per Annum. /01. per cent. 51. per cent. 9 per cent. 41. per cent. 51. per cent. 171. p. c. & bs. 4t. per cent. 51. per cent. IV. per cent. W. per cent. 28 per cent. 18 per cent. 16 pc.& 45 61. per cent. 20'. per cent. 101. per cent. 41. p. ct.dtbs. 81. per cent. 51: per cent. 10!. per cent. 111. per cent.l 151. per cent, LIST OF SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. Dividend Amcunt Name of Company. per of Paid. Price, Y Annum. Share. s - --- - 1 4 a. d. X s. d. 1 Bank of Scotland .. •, 71. per cent. 100 C 0 100 0 0 197/Os British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 231105 Caledonian Bank .. •• . 81. per cent 10 0 0 210 OSI 16s City of Glasgow Bank 51. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 13/ 5a • Clydesdale Bank •• .. 5%/. p cent. 20 0 0 10 0 0 14 2s s C immercial Bank .. 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 248/0s . Eastern Bank.. •• •• .. 61. par cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 14/ Os L Edinb. & Glasgow.... 3%1. p cent. 5 0 5 0 05/ 2e National Bank ....- 6% per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 192110 North of Scotland Bank 5/.per cent 20 0 0 210 05/ its ' Royal Bank of Seotl. .. 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 137i1 a Union Bank of Scot. •• 81. per cent. 100 0 0 150 0 0 109103 Western Bank .. ...... 71. per cont. 50 0 0 50 0 0 84 /Os Alliance Fire and Lire.. 8%/. pi cent. 100 Q 0 11 0 0 17112 s British Guarantee ... 41. per cent. 10 0 0 2 0 011 Ils Caledonian Fire Insur . Io,.par cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 251 Os City of t4lasgow Lite.. 61. percent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 I/ 5s Co , onial Life ......... 51. per cent. 50 0 8 3 0 06 1 Os Edinburgh Life Insur.., 61. der cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 28115 s Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51.,i0r cent. 50 0 0 3 5 04/ 6s Life Assoc. of Scotland 6 /.per cent. 40 0 0 3 0 06/ iss Nationai Fife and Life W. per cent. 10 0 0 1 4 02/ Os North British Insur... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 36/15s Northern Assurance Co. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1./ 17s Scottish Provincial .... - 50 0 0 2 0 03/ Os Scottish Union Insrne. 7361. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 011 15s Standard Life ........ 51. per cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 221 Os MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. "".' ... .... £ a. d. £ e. d. - Acadian Charcoal Iron .. 10 0 0 2 0 0 - African Steam Ship .. .. 20 0 0 10 0 0 - lea .... •• .... 61, rer cen t. 50 0 0 20 0 0 - / 1 41 per cent. 50 0 0 - A As ul a t l i n on Mart........ Australian Avriculturl - 25 0 0 19 0 0 19 Australian Trust .... 81. pr cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 - Austra/tan Royal Mail - 10 0 0 all - Anglo-blexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 all - British American Land 5/. per cent 50 0 0 40 0 0 - Canada ... • • ........ it. per cent 100 " . 0 0 32 10 0 151 Do. 5 per cent Bonds 51. pet cent Stock MO 0 0 - Ditto, .5 per cent bds 51. per cent Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, fi per cent. •. 5/. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds 1874 al. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 - Ditto, 6p c. bds 1b76 61. per cent. Stock 100 0 0 -- Crystal Palace Ditto Preference 7l pr. cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 - Crys. Palace of France - 4 0 0 all - City Navigation Bonds 3361. per cent - - - Electric Telegraph - Eng.&Aus. Cop. Smelt - 5 0 0 all - Eng.&lris. Mag. T. Co - 50 0 0 all - Equitable Reversionry slper cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 -: Ditto New - 50 0 0 22 10 0 Gen. Revers. & Invest 5l. p e and It 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Gen. I. Sc. Col. (Lim.) - 25 0 0 all - Gen.SteamNavigation 10/. per et. & 15 0 0 14 0 0 - London Gen. Omnibus 121. per cent 4 0 0 all 3% Hudson's Bay U. per cent. Stock Stock - Hungerfbrd Lon. Ne. &Na. Mauro - 10 0 0 all - - London Reversionary 54 per cent. 15 0 0 all - Mex. &S. American - 10 0 0 all 2% ] Nat. Discount Comp • • - 25 0 0 50 0 3% ] N.S.W. Gov.sp.c. Deb. 51. per cent. - 100 0 0 - Nor. Bri. Australasian 6d. 1 0 0 all - North of Europe, Stm. Si. per cent. 20 0 0 17 10 0 9 a .94 Price'sPatentCand. Co - 29 0 0 all 23% i Peel River Land&Min. - 5 0 0 a ll 2 Pen. & Oriental Steam 7/. per cent. 50 0 0 all 70 Ditto New - 50 0 0 10 0 0 I R eve rsionary Int. Soc 4311. pr cent 100 0 0 ail - - Ditto New ••.•.. •• 4 1 a 1. pr cent. 130 0 0 20 0 0 - Royal Niall Steam 4l. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 - '- Scottish Ails. Invest l5/. per cent. 10 0 all J. South Australian Land 71. per cent. 25 0 0 1 all 35 Trust and Loan Comp. 731. , . pr cent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 5% 'YUJl:Omen's Land ! 10s. clOO 0 0 28 10 0 -1$ - Do. GOV. 6 per ct.lids 6 percent, .. • . __ - • ABERDEEN—Max 29. Potato oats -25 s Od to 26s Od 1401bs per buijoi Common oats 24 s Oct t o 25 s Od Bere 31s Od to 35s Od 1 531bs 0 Barley 31 s Od t o 35s Oct Wheat, red (spring)3Bs Od to 42s Od 1 621bs IP , white 36s Oct to 46s Od Oatmeal ' l9s Od to 20s Oct per boll. Flour 44s Od to 45s Od per sack. ' , 0 1 PROVISION MARKET. 141 1° r% Beef, per lb 6d to 9d I Butter, plb. Os lid ‘ lO , l - Mutton, per lb 7d to 9d Eggs, p doz. Os 7d ov. 0. 1 , )5 Lamb, do., Os Od to Or; 0 i Hens, p pair 2s 6d t°'4; 0! " Veal, per lb ... 9d to is —d I Chickens,do. le 6d to 5,. oi ' Pork, perlb...os 6d to Os 7d Ducks, do. Os Od t°o` 01 0 1 ,34 Salmon, per lb ... ...... ls 6d Ducklings,do 2s 6d to 1 4 ill - Grouse, per brace Os to Os Turkeys, each 48 Od t° ,,14 Oa Tallow, p stone, Os to lls 0:1 Potatoes, per pock, - - Rabbits, each I 3d to 4d. 8 ,0 80 0 oa Butter for export a ti on ( presen t cure ) per cwt.... oid to °e • Eggs, wholesale price, p er d ozen •, , , RETAIL PRICES. Id 6 ad F10ur,141b....0s Od t o 2 s 6d B ar l ey f1 0ur ,14113.00 to 21- Ontmeal ~....0s Od t o 2 s Od ~, dust, Ol to .9' el Beremeal ....0s Od t o 2 s Od , per lb 24 t° 74 Peasemeal... Os Od t o 2 s 8d Sid ' s, ................ , .... . Ai." Cheese, per imperi a l s t one , 4s. Od. to 4s 6d 'A .4-Ib. 10g...7d 12-lb. 10af...3ad. -.. • DUBLIN, MAT 29. - White wheat, 35s 01 to 3,?s 6(1 ; red ditto, 32s 6d „o d t eV 6d; ditto new, —s; barley, ma lti ng, 16 s 6d t o 25 s 6d; !',; , ing, —s to —s ; oats, o ld, 13 s 3d t o 16 s; ditto, newm' Od to —s Od; oatmeal, 158 to 17s Od; ber e , ne w, Od ; rapese , d, —s Od to --s Od per brl ; bakers' flout, FIC Od to 24s Od per cwt ; Indian corn, 38s Od to 40a 64 4 , 30 lbs. LOCAL SHARE HARMS. LIVERPOOL, MAY 30 • 1 t STOOK EXCHANGE.—The market has been witon sit o, change, and closed dull to-day at • the followinf 1. 1 ,0 3 Chester and Holyhead, 18k—East Lancashire, prerl o e shares 5 per cent. , 54—Lancashire and Yorkshire, •i, ge icl, London and Nort Western, 101—Manchester, Sheli and Lincoln, 421 A—Midkind, 83 f.—South Eastern, 3, North British, 10i—Grand Trunk of Canada, 15.1' 0 4 —Ditto, 6 per cent. Dohs., 92—Birkenhead, Londe* Cheshire, 68g. MANCHESTER, MAT 30, 0 4 STOCK EXCHANGE. —There was a very fiat busineigi er a, io s prices were rather e as i er . Sh e ffi e l ds, 424—Great Vireki cos 65i—Grand Trunk s , 15 13 -16—East Lancashire, I,li 16s —Dover s , 22 —Londons, 104 3i--Eastern COUntie't 56 —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1004. 2s 'Os LEEDS, MAY 30. fi i STOCK EXCHANGE.—MidIand, 83—North Wester-, 10 ;1 Leeds, 100. BIRMINGHAM, MAY 30. es 123 STOCK EXCHANGE. —This market was inanimate lie but prices a shade firmer. London and North-V 7Bl 7, o r ai 05 101 4-i—South Staffords, 9l—Warwick and BirMing' • 5s Canal, 24I—Birmingham Bank Co., 32. Os 115 s z ,1 Sero" . l6sss MILITARY MESS EXPENDITURE. —Th e Mute— - for Os Gazette says the Commander-in-Chief has given order e r T: a imitation of charges for dinners. Two shilling s n r er , os diem is to be the maximum charge for an o ffi cer's dift Amount Share. s. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 1 0 0 50 0 d 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 6 5 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. 20 0 0 LOO 0 0 ',ANKS. 12 10 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 2 0 0 2000 2 0 0 4 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 o 10 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 all 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 Amount of share. X a. d. 40 0 0 25 0 0 :00 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 2.5 0 0 25 0 0 1 15 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 Z A. d. all 150 e o 12 10 G 2' 1100 0 C, 201 42 15 0 5 41 0 0 - 43 10 0 - 41 0 0 - 52 0 0 41 16 0 0 - all 10 0 0 all 4 0 0 £ a. d. 50 0 0 - 11 0 0 i 25 0 0 4 all - 5 15 0 1 25 0 0 - 50 0 - 2 0 0 2 0 0 10 0 0 - 10 0 0 - 50 0 - 50 0 - 50 0 5 all 1 4 0 0 47 a 5 :- 50 0 0 - 20 0 0 5: 30 0 0 38( 2 10 0 - 13 0 0 114 2 10 0 3 Paid. IPi 4 a. d. 18 15 0 50 0 0 O '0 O 0 6 O 0 - O 0 - 20 "O 0 31 50 0 0 10 0 0 3; 20 0 0 4; 35 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 22 10 0 all 41 15 6 o I 1 25 0 0 i 6 2 10 0 - 3 0 0 10 0 0 9 , 50 0 0 - 50 0 0 - BIRTHS. Or SON. t li° On the 29th M a y, a t 4, A Denzil-place, the wife 0 ope Rev. John W. Grane, incumbent of Northam, *D ll6l3* ton. On the 29th May, at 5, Rochester-terrace, C a mden -I°lld the wife of Frederick Claudet, Esq. OF A DAUGHTER. On the 30th May, at _Blackheath, the wife of Mr. $ Herber t. On the 29th May, at 17, Eton Villas, Haverstoc the wife of William. Clowes, Esq. MARRIED. On the 30th May, at St. George's Hanover-square' le' Cook, of 109, Mount•street, G rosvenor-square , to CA' se t, second daughter of Mr. Henry Barnett, of Poland -011 Oxford.street.Wci. On the 30th May, at J ames ' s Church, Holloway , 4dest A. Oliver, of Bunhill-row, Finsbury, to Laura, the daughter of the late Mr. Thomas, of Holloway. tahneo2f9TthrinMiatyy,at Cambridge,D I E e D . 3 George 7. lih O ra n ri , ~ 0 , sell-square. Jane Matilda, wife of Mr. Sergeant' On the 30th May,sudden l y,at IT, Bedford-P l '' ow l. On the 29th May, at 15, Barnsburproad, Wm. Blaxland, aged 77. Brimley, If)." late On the 28th May, at Bath, Lieut.-Colonel Tattoo, of 77th Regt. , aged 88. nrrY e ' On the 28th May, at Montpelier-road, Peckba ,_to Mr. James Malyon, 40 years confidential clerk to the 0 Loul Chief Justice Tindal d 73 ' age . Carter, wife On the 29th May, at Dalston, Elizabeth J. of John Ca rt er, Esq. nvr ich, On the 25th May, at Napier Villa, East Gree James the,MCarthy, Esq., aged 67. Islington, P.' On 2Bth May, Frank John, youngest child of I V ' 119 Leader, Esq., of Brentford-butts. ____.......2."..! LONDON : Printed and Published by MUIWO YOVI4G' of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office , N ° 112 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the coon of Middlesex, Monday, June 1, 1857. • A s. d. P (*nee to in n Above Rectal bat 0 "Sprii I . Yon " Jovi Polo. Iwa r / Webs! bered) kr. NI kind] " 1 1. Pa Thi The electit _ .thla . 1)414 „OM( raid. Paid. Paid. C' M 1~ QT 10 Enter; trat ed Stall, *nee 0 ---.. their OF II ar( li ratter] Komi Stalls Poly ei hal at R . ee of of Por rto The L Of Tin At h a Dkord Put 7 ancl ration; anus r~ At i lit the the fol The -eas e , The N 130ttit Mium S c they helm] the te - \ .0, • 01 ei It, ha ,0$ Rb zi r. d