The Sun. — London, England, 1857-05-28 00:00:00

and the era from " we the re ) is to be heads of stain the 3rior on- ) engaged nnounces Railway reholdera Lll reckon a decree ier redue m. the de now fixed 'Wel; and I,nn ounces .unress de nd secoud ing Ferdi !and Duke lay, 1831, e Count de ;List, 1827. geapolitan .atives not foniay no clay, at the he Interior closing on netitutionsy s under the a on Mon be left fur )r to bring tt the two uld propose siou to the leing agreed he MiniAe don having proceedings. MAY 26. ;talitzin, has signia of the "row. The led with re' he Senate on a the throne. great length of Vicalvara , p o li c y to be ng the Go of its power , t fur the II )onnell) wh ° had a right not approv e A he did no t amongst the in preventing at he wished! idy to e xtend, ended hims elf )y saying th at necessary t ° Ind that he' amity of th e libility. Th ° ,, tter says th e " ,rsh9,l Serra° responsibility [one had bee' ained that the divisions pre• ie debate v's° e reports CO' Ebert of Baa s ' e in favour °f ; lie adds t I33 " J. pt the covili 7EDNESDA Capt. Jogr el , ielphia Stea ll d at a q11 514° , Ln the Mol e ' w York to thet a all parts . Df the acl/I°e 3t. a mail, but 01 l 00 passeugei* capital one f : r t i s. She pas s e 88 miles ° at intelligeol of Genel, I having tak e ! San Juan de 1. at New Yo r/' mail and O F )7,527 dots. ill . The &Julie' a rains; oth er ; e for busill, The growl beY (9ll o f but hope ,nd New 0 ; L large Brit l ; cade the 1) 0 o om Peru 1 left the OP; ie south, b il l ; Viranco, J 3°t 3 hands of ,c, O port that sti (J e lull, excl l3 " lud good. Qt cl‘ ctive. ^'"A ° oll on Lay" )ressing 6 ` . leo' 0 11 'heat los t rather (Piet; moderat o e°' ' hooner -0 APO ng off the 0 tided to r so te. belJnit'", 00' if his beiab,t to iructione 'tbrit wag + ' v n to ob. All effort -Vest' d S P called 011 allo w the clei:rej her il'q, e ,rea isel ha d t gad or aaJ, l t he ei . ) refer to A ll oo o b: x presse' sie to ox e SUCh nt B S t tie cionnteteution to go ;d of. T he a c tler Lbw th e 113 gb - ' thou e n Wlt tt ip P r ` ! r te cl , I and rePa"" re. Nine, is he P Dj I 1 y ET :AND [COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'CLocK. Letters from Liverpool mention that the Cotton Market yesterday closed quietly, but steadily, and prices were unaltered. The sales were estimated at 5,000 bales, 500 of which were taken on specu lation, and 500 for export. The Railway Share Market closed with a dull appearance, but previous prices were fully maintained. Business in Mincing-lane, and in most other de partments of business, is gradually being con tracted, and the effects of dear money are becom ing more apparent. The Board of Trade Returns, lately published, exhibited an extension of com merce, but this is no proof of commensurate profits having been realised. The frequent failures that are announced in the manufacturing dis tricts give evidence of the embarrassments caused by the high prices of the raw material, and the difficulties experienced in obtaining discount ac commodation. The public sales of colonial wool, which com menced on the 30th ult., terminate tomorrow. No particular change has taken place in the mar let for silver, but full prices are current. Buyers at'e awaiting the receipt of advices from India and China, via Trieste, which are expected to-day or to-morrow. If a further advance should he reported, the shipments on the 4th will, no doubt, prove ex ceedingly large, and the demand would then natur ally increase. Supplies are still received from the Continent, ab )ut 40,0001. having been received from, Boulogne. It is, therefore, expected that a Portion of the gold lately imported from Australia by the Dtamboul, which arrived in town yesterday, Will be remiled to the Continent, in payment for this and other supplies. The Bank of England directors at their "parlour meeting" to-day, male no alteration in the tnms .?_f discount, and no determination s eems to have ue Sti arrived at with regard to making advances on stocks during the shutting of the transfer books for consols. It was generally presumed that they Would have made some announcement on the subject, but although no instructions have yet been given, there can be no doubt that the au thorities will grant this accommodation. With respect to the rate of discount, it was not supposed any change would be reported, as there is an active demand for accommodation at full rates in most quarters, partly owing to the preparations for the 4tJA, of the month, and partly also in con- sequence of the sattlements at the Stock Exchange. When the obligations are discharged a period of increased ease will probably ensue, and if the drain of silver to the East should diminish, additional relief will naturally be afforded. The telegraphic despatch from Trieste has just arrived. The' China exchanges are higher, but those at Calcutta and Bombay are a shade lower. The report of the directors of the lonian Bank read to-day shove 1 a net profit of 9,6771. 10s. 6d. On the years' transactions, which was much beyond t he preceding years profits. This, added to the fernier balance, made 16,9911. 9s. 4d., from which tire dividends at 5 per Cent. per annum being taken left abalance of 9,4911.95. 4d. on Ist of Jan. 1857. The report was adopted, the dividend being de clared previously. The English Stock Market is dull, but firm and the alterations in the India and China ex changes have not yet exercised any effect upon ' v alues. The public operate very cautiously and the general appearance of the market is, there fore, exceedingly dull. Consols for transfer have been on 94i, and 93i 94, while for the account they have been almost stationary at 94 to 94i. 411 e present quotations are 93i 94 and 94i re spectively. The New Threes are 924 and the Reduced 921 Bank Stock is 212 k, and India ditto 221 i. The March Exchequer Bills have risen to 6s. and .7s. premium, and the " Adver tised" ditto, of which the B rnk broker has bought to 30,000/., are 2s. to 4s. premium. In Foreign Securities husinsss is dull. Turkish 6 per Cents. have risen to 95i ; and the 4 per Cents. are ling ; Mexican 3 per Cents. have risen to 221 231-the clergy in the Republic having Withdrawn their opposition. Dutch 2i per Cents. are 65A ; and Spanish Threes, 41A I. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stooks :--Grenada Deferred Bond s, 617 ; Mexio an, 221 i; Peruvian 4A per Cents., 77 8 ; ditto 3 per Cents., 531 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 45A ; Russian 5 per Cants., 107 109 ; ditto 41 per Cents., I , 97 99 ; Spanish 3 per Cents., 414 4 ditto De ferred, 251 A ; ditto Certificates, 6.1 ; ditto Pas sive, 5.1 2 I. The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to this day, are in round figures as under :- 1857. 1856. ( heat Western N orth-Western Brighton Midland Benth- Eastern Caledonian - 4.393 10 838 Great N or th ern Lancashire and Yorkshire Bristol and Exeter 6,165 6,319 , 'heater and Holyhead East Lancashire 6.609 6,046 Lan caster and Carlisle.. . . 4 4 anchegter, Shef f ield, ... Li nc oln 10,015 8,852 .„ orth Stafford North London Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverh 4,142 3,178 West Hartlepool Vaster 1,428 1,290 zelfast and Ballymena 1,361. 955 dinburgb and - Gla.gow 4142 g0w and South-Western Great Western of Canada 11,367 15.329 Grand Trunk of Canada Northern of France In the Railway Shire Market a very limited amount of business was done. Prices, however, showed a slightly upward tendency for some of the Principal undertakings. North-Western and Mid land advanced ss. ; Manchester, Sheffield and Lin coin, 7s. 6d. to 10s., and North-Eastern (Berwick) 1/., Lancashire and Yorkshire, and South-Eastern, Were about ss. to 10s. lower. The French and Canadian lines are inactive, and exhibit no mate rial variation in pikes, Sambre and Meuse, how ever, have improved 10s. to 15s. Mining Shares are at nominal values. No busi ness of any importance being reported. 'Mut-stock Bank Shares are moderately active. Dindon and CounV have advanced 58., and Ott,nnan Bank 10s. ; Commercial of London and •Provincial of Ireland realise former values. In the Miscellaneous Shares, Canada Land de clined 10s. Royal Mail Steam and Peel River realised former rates. BUITISH FUNDS.—CLOSING YitICES —THIS DAY Omni the Offictal Lest.) Busines. done. Bank Stock 3 per Cont. koduced tuauitiwi 3 , per Cent ilonsols 4h 4 34 ' l "' 3 per Cent. Annuities 92 India Stock India moods, Eloqo ......... ...,•••••—• . — Ditto, under £lOOO 4 7 d Consols for Account ..................... ...... March. I June. EAchequer Bills, 24. d. ClOlO Ditto Advertised 24 p 1 __ PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS —THIS DAY. Brazilian 5 per Cent..... Ditto 5 per Cent. (Rothschild's) ......... Ditto New, 1852, 44 per Cent. Milan Bond s , 6 per Cent. lOl4 24 siexican 3 per cent — Ditto Account 221 31 Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 Ditto 1856, 3 per Cent. 454 61 Russian Bends, P! , 22, 1.: St., 5 por Cont Ditto, 4. per Cent. Sp niEli diowis, 3 per Cent. Ditto Account Ditto Now Deferred, 3 per '.en , - Ditto Account 251 Ditti. Passive Oi I:nalisti Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun. Ci wurkiah Solids, 6 per cent 94. T T Ditto Account Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent. Ditto Account Venezuela Bonds, 41 per Cent Ditto Account 36A i Dividends 3n the above oava,,- 1 , U. Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cen.;., 12 Guilders Csi THREE O'CLOCK. Consols, money Ditto, Account (June 4) THE APPLE AND PEAR CROPS.—Tee Exeter Gazette s aYa :—From all the fruit•growing dihfricts of thin county We have the most encouraging reports of the state of t le apple and pear blossom. .\ SHARE MARKETS---(This Day.) RAILWAYS. Closing Price , this day Shr.l Paid 1 RamwaYs. 2il 1O io all 3 i all j+ liW 15 I all ii I all It. 100 it. 10 0 I. Eon 6 ail '0 all .0 1 all 5 I all X) all It. 100 ts_ _ 8 ?5 in - it. 100 P,O all LO 4 R. 100 0 all t. 100 0 all .0 all ;t. 100 ;t. 100 ;t. 100 .2 I all 5C J all lei 14f 164 12 St. 100 16. 6 3 i 20 all 116' all St. 100 St. 100 i 0 alli 10 all 126 26 St. 100 25 all 25 all St. ,100 10 1 10 1 St. 'lOO St. 100 50 I all 25 all 00 I all 25 all 50 9 20 all St. 'lOO 50 3A St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 Ett. 100 St. 100 25 23i 2515 4 50; all St 'lOO St. 100 tO 3/.1 'DI I'4- LO ' all 'it. 1100 10 16 LO 10 it. 100 ;t. 100 ;t. 10J LO 4 10 all it. 100 [0 all >t. 100 ;0 17 !O 7 !O all :5 • all 15 l 5 22 0 all !CI all A all 0 all 5 all 5 all ~ ) ,0 all 10 all 20 all 10 all 0 I all l 8 I 9 8 I all 14 101 )0 1100 )0 1100 10 100 'A) 2s. O 2ed !Cs lOs ?,0 1 L 74 all !O 3t. 100 O 15 )0 all 30 all 20 all It. 100 )0 all IO all !O 4 ,I 0 all !Oi 8 )0, all tmhg. Nottng. Bost. Eastn. June...... Belfast & Ballymena Birmng, Wolverh. S'tour Birkenhd. Lancsh. Cheshire Junct...... 31ack burn. ... . . Rlyth & Tyne original'' £25 (iss. at £45).... Rristol di Exeter__ Caledonian...... "nester & Holyhead. Cork and Bandon.... 'lork, Black. & Pass Cornwall D. A Do. B Dublin&BelfastJune. Dun. P. &Aber.Junc East Anglian Eastern Counties EasternUnion,A. stk Do. Do. 'New A._ East Kent East tianeashire East Suffolk ...... Do. Edinburgh & Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles Edinb.Prth. &Dundee Forth and ClydeJunc. Furness . Glasgow & S.Western Great N. of Scott and Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock Gt. Bth. &West. (Ire. ) Great Western. Do. Str.V.R gna. St Irish South-Eastern !Lancaster & Carlisle. Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Lancash &Yorkshire Do., do. F. £l6 Do., Wst. Riding Un Do. So nth port. Loudon & Blackwall Lond.Bright. &S.Cst. London & N. Western Do. Tqftbs Do. JO/. Si 1.,M&8 C Do. Eighths London k S.Western Lndndrry. &Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Nianch.Shef. drLincln. Metropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement Midland ....... Do. Birming. & Derby Midland G.West. (Ir. ) Do. Shares Newcastle & Carl i ale Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfa Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint & Rostrevor Norfolk Northn. Counties Un North British ..... North Devon, Rail. & Dock Stock ........ Do., A Stock Do., B Stock Eastern Berwick Do. do. Extension Do do. G.N.E.Pureh Do Leeds Do. York North London N. & S. Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jn North Staffordshire North Western N dz S. Westrn. Juno Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton Portsmouth Rhymney 'cottish Central .. Scot N.B. Abrd n. St Shropshire Union Sitingbourne &Sheer South Devon South Eastern Do. 4i per c. Shares South Wales S. Yorksh. River Dun D 0.... Staines,Wok.,&Wok Stockton & Darling Do. do 1854 Do. do.; 185 Stockton dt Hartlepl 'Taff Vale Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Hay. D. &R Vale of Neath Watered. & Kilkenny. Waterford &Limerick West Cornwall.-- Wait End of London and Crystal Palace Do. A Do. B West London .., Do. First Class , Do. Second Class... Wribledon tzeroydoo iMITISTI jAtlan. and Sc. Law. Bombay, Baroda, and Cen.lnd,guar. 5 p.c. !Do. ... - ...p riughlo & Lake Hur. I.d par Buff., Brut& Go4ch. 1 95 97 6 p.c.bds., 1 Aug. ,'72 Do. do., 1 July, '73 92 95 Do. do., 1 June, '7 , C 92 95 Calcutta and S. East. Central Onde (Lin].) Ceylon A shares Do. B. e• a Demerara Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares Do.4i p.c.Bnds.,'s7 Do. do. do. '59, do. Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent Gd. Trunk. of Canada Do. 6 p c. Deben Gt. In: Pen. g. 5 perc Do. New. guar. 5 p.c. Gt. Wcstn. of Canada Do. New Do. Bds. payable '57 Do. do., "76, p. '60... Do. do., '73, do. ... Do. do., '73, without option Madras, guar. 4i p.c Do. do., 5 per c. Do. 44 p. c. Exten. Do. 3d Ex., g, sp.c. Do. 4th Ex , do , Oude (Limited) Scinde, guar. 5 per c Do.. 11 - p 107 109 1i - lip 19i -- 20 63i -- 644 91 -- 92 21 -- 212 , - ip! 231 -23 A 2 - 21 400 -- 101 1110 -- 114 1110 114 106 108 19 20 , 21 * d hp - 4 iP all A ltwrp &Rotterdam 1S Ardennes all lielgian East. Junct. 16 Tiezi ers to Graissessac all I Carm eau z & Toulous Coal Mines and Ry 12 (Dutch Rhenish all Ivastern of France all I Do. New 2s. i Euphrates Valley 18 pt. Central of France IA Great Luxembourg 4 Italian Jntction all Lake Const. & Bale all Licrre and Turnhout 6 Lornhardo-Venetian all , Lucca & Pist.sp.c.p. all !Lyons and Geneva ... all ILyons ST. Mediterran. all Maria Ante-ja ...... all Do. New .... ....., • all Namur & Liege all Do do. 6 p c. Pref, all Northern of France. all NonvegianTrnk. Pre . all Paris and Lyons all Paris and Orleans 7 Reeife & San Fran.. fPernam.) g. 7 p. c 74 Rome and F rasca ti , all Royal D an i s h r all Royal S we di s h all Sambre an d M euse all 70, 5:! pe r cent, pre all Southern of France. I all Nest Fland ers ... . all 'Do. 5A per c. Pref all W.&N.W. of Fra tic . 6 ,Western of Austria._ all (West, of Switzerland all !Wiesbaden ............ all Do. Bp, cent. pref. all Zealand .. 5B- 5B 8i - 9 67 - 69 ER - 9 89 - 91 -73. j 35 - 36 i = ..6 9 - 10 18. - 19 11i - 12 52 - 54 35 - 36 ••• - • Si - • 97 - 59 - 61 ••• ••• 82 - 33; 95 - 97 8 - 8 2 ? 961 - 82 - 90 121 - 12:1 102 - 104 661 -66 i 63 - 65 70 - 74 6 -- 8p 6 - 8 .- 101 -101 i -6& 112 1011 - 105 - T- ... id par 93 99 4i i 8.33 -83 i 54_ - 55 15 - 16 63 65 3f 3/. 1 42a 436 87 88 3d 40 1 — 2 4 i 2 4 1i 66i 676 96 99 - 10 - 10 8 i 30. - 31 7 - 5 105 107 25 26 48 50 3 2 d 18 19 744 75 86 87 6 5 d 6 5 ii -- ii 20 - 20: 4 - 4A 7 - 9 - - 6 ISSESSIONS. Business done this day. n I all 9 all !O I I#3 !O ss. !O 5 !O all l i t, -2p FOR .IGN. all lAustralasia ISi Bank of Egypt 50 Bank of London I all Bri. Col Bk. & Ln. Co all British N. American , S C. Bk .of Ind. An. &Ch 50 City 25 ,Colonial 20 Commercial of Lond. all l Eng. Scot. &Aus.Cht. all :Lon. Ch. Bk.of Aust. all ,Ditto New . 20 ILondon and County 50 iLnd.&E Bnkng.Corp 10 ',London Joint Stock.. 20 I Lond.andWestminst. 35 National Pro. of Eng. 10 IDo. New 22 I National Bank ...... all INew South Wales .... all ;Oriental Bank Corp 15 ,Ottoman Bank jProvinc al of Ireland' 86 - 2 - 50 - 11. - 62 - Do. New ;It. Aus. B. &G. Im.Co ;South Australia Union ot Australia., Do. Nov I Union of London , Unity Mutual l \Yearn cf bond, 6,3 - 61 lfis 14 5 - 29 291 par iP 241 6i ~. -••••-! 54 - 5:lPi 29 30 - Ai -- SRI 20 -- 374 -- 38* 1 84 -- 9i 581 -- 5811 56 -- 581 d— par li * 8A 1 8 I 81 Si 30, 1 2 . 31 5 94 10 30 31 par 1 p JOINT-STOCK BANKS, 171-- 17/ -- IN - 46 40 id 53 - 6 - 16 - 7-7 ~._.. 20 20 1G 20 33A 10 20 20 89A 121 k 1014 66i i 1011 1001 104 5 4k / 861 7i i 20A 401 1 i 66 7/ bi 23i A 10i 10 298 30 6 2646 s/uN, ,LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 28, 185 7; CEJA MTE, LIE. Leasing I,ompantes Closing Prices this day. Business this day TO THE EDITOR OF THE BIM We mentioned a fortnight since the progress ef fected by the dw:eity Commissi.m. It has dimin ished crime some eighty per cent. • In some Zillahs, it may be said to have ex ing.uished it. In others, where dacoity was lately so rife that every man of property went to sleep in doubt whether he should not be a puper by the morning, a gang robbery is almost a phenomenon. Few, however, who read those bare statistics have any, idea of the ob stacles the Cornrnib.sir,n has to encounter. Re cent t;ials have Oren the public some idea of the obstacles whirl impede the English police. In the great bullion robbery• the thieves dis p' ay ed au ahility almost amounting to genius Their accomplices embraced men of high rtspectab liry, belonging to a class which by its habits alone seems almost t ) defy suspicion. Yet we doubt if Pierce and Agar were more subtle than Ramcoomar • and Jem Saward, barrister and fence, member of the Inner Temple, and receiver of stolen goods, was a fool compared with Anondo Kash. Sir,—On Saturday last, you published, by re quest of Mr. W. W. Carus Wilson, an extract froin a review, containing he says, " a complete answer to the statements regarding his father's charitable llls itutions." ' The statements referred to are, I presume, the, following :—That the'unhealthy situation of Cowan Bridge, unwholesome food, exposure to cold, &c., enfe.-bled P.e girls and predisposed them to disease; that fever broke out among them ; that ab ut forty of them suffered from it ; that- the surgeon, who was called in, condemned the girls' daily food by the expressive act'on of sp . tting out a portion of it wh;ch he had takeri in order to taste it ; that the school was removed to a new situation and a committee of management appointed. Now, let us examine the Complete answer," and see how these charges are disposed of. And, first, the reviewer assumes that theSe _statements rest solely on the testimony " of one who, when but a child of nine, left the establishment." A re ference, however, to " The Life of Charlotte Bronte," will show that this is a false assumption. He praises the situation of the school, " ou Mr. Carus Wilson's property, half a mile from Casterton hail, high and healthy ;" but he has not the can dour to state that this description applies to 'he present site, and not to that referred to in "Jane Eyre." He eulogises Mr. Wilson's liberality, but omits to state that funds are• raised from the public for Ramcootnar was a philosopher, and one of no mean brain. He had probably not studied Edgar Poe's detective stories, but he had arrived at the conclusion of Rlgar's hero Dupuis. Man and particularly man of the police specieS is go verned by habit. Crimes habitually occur in a cer tain way. Therefore when a crime is discovered, the police always pursue it on the presumption that it has been committed in the habitual manner, and the moment a link in the chain is ;ost are hopelessly at fault. Ovally dacoities in Bengal are committed by men of the same caste. They can trust each other better. They excite less observation while travelling. They can keep up a more per fect surveillance over each other's acts. Darogahs as " practical men" are well aware of this fact, and therefore whenra dacoity takes place, use this as their datum of inquiry. There were so many men. Who has seen a gang of so many men of one caste ? Moreover, if one is caught, all the remainder are expected to be nearly of one caste, and ac cordingly the darogah's duty is narrowed to that caste, to his infinite comfort. Ramcoomar, however; . as we have said, was a philosopher. Relying on this invincible chain of habit he fot med, his gangs of widely different castes. He collected three goalas from his own village, a Kyburt from Hooghly, two Chundals from Mshomedpore, two Booyan coolies oft the railrold, a Mussultuan from Bimpore, some Bagdees and Harees from the country round. The receiver was a Seukra, and the spy an oilman. It will be obvious to any one acquainted with Bengal that an informer's story descr,bing Lich a gang as this would be regarded as simply ludicrous. Acting on this assumption, Rarnciomar, the in stant he wag out of jail, recommenced his lucrative trade. Three dacoities were committed within six miles of the Commissioner's house without a clue io the perpetrators or a trace of the property. The Commissioner, his deputy, and his agents, were equally at fault, and the gang might have enjoyed months of impunity but for an accident. , They had taken 1750 rupees in hank notes from a Ba boo's house. They had the temuerance to wait three months, but at last one of the notes was presented, the bearer seized, and the note traced to a moodee's shop. The moodee, though a Bengalee, invented so poor a lie that ho was arrested. Once within the Commissioner's grip, the truth began to ooze out. A casual remark caused the arrest of six more, and in a few weeks the most scientifically organised gang in the country was broken up. Anoudo Kagh was a mild Hindoo. He was of good caste, and regarded by his neighbours as thoroughly respectable. He 'did not, it is true, keep a gig, but he did perform those ceremonies which are in Bengal what the gig is in England, the palpable evidence of respectability. He was an old man with that hale active look which is so rare in India, and which always prepossesses Englishmen. This man was not so much a Sirdsr dacoit, as the Ahithopel of the entire dacoit frarernity. His true character was 'some what wrangely revealed. The joint magistrate of Baraset had received information that a gang of auspicious looking men had gone out to commit a dacoity to the eastward. They were headed he was told by an " old Kaet." The roads and ghauts were watched, the guards doubled, and the joint magistrate himself was all on the alert. No dacoirs however appeared, when just as the official fervour subsided, intelligence was received of a' dacoity in the house next to that occupied by Anoudo Kagh. The magistrate proceeded to the village, and be first person he met was the " old Kaet." Anoudo at once confessed that he had invited the Dacoits, that they had refused to go further, and so he had given them a ne i g hbour's house to plunder. He was dis believed, but compelled to give security for good behaviour, a little precaution which theiudge as a matter of course disallowed on appeal. He was subsequently convicted of another offence, and then the whole truth came out. He was profes sional adviser to no less than four dacoity clubs. His plan was to send out two of his relatives into service to persons reputed to be of wealth. If the report proved true, Anondo directed his bands to the attack. If false, the relatives extended their inquiries into the neigh bouring families, always alighting at last upon the richest. Meanwhile Anoudo deemed himself safe. The gangs never knew whence their orders were received, and, although he was mentioned in many confessions, no trace of his identity could be dis• the support of the establishment, which Mr. W. W. Carus Wilson modestly calls his " father's charitable institutions." He makes no mention, whatever of the condem nation of the food by the medical gentleman, of the fever which scourged the school, and thenonFe quent change of site, and reformation of the estab lish ment. But, surely, the l ady superinten dent "whose able letter appeared in a review," will supply the gentle man's omis ,, ions,, and in her " long and complete answer to the a.sertions in Jane Eyre," make some reference to this eventful period in the existence of " the clergy daughters' school." She does no such thing, t.t least as quoted in the review. She eulogises Mr. Wilson ; asseverates her own impartiality ; refers to her apostacy from her Church, and expatriation from her country ; makes a somewhat erroneous statement respecting Mr. Bronte's family ; hazards some conjectures about the intent - ons of the author of "Jane Eyre ;" and lays before us a bill of, fare at Cowan Badge —" meat, vegetables, and puddings daily in abundance." Very good, Madam I but what about the ccoking that spoiled these provisions ; boiled the puddings in unclean water ; compounded the Saturday's nauseous mess from the fragments accumulated in a dirty larder during the week ; and too often sent up the porridge, not merely burnt, but with offensive fragments of other substances disco verable in it ? The Reviewer . says " the whole of this letter Mrs. Gaskell must have seen, as she quotes one sentence out of it word for word." 'Whether Mrs. Gaskell has seen this letter, I do not know; but if the Reviewer will refer to the "LifP," vol. i., page 78, he will find that Mrs. Gaskell quotes from a letter which she bad herself received from the same lady, who evidently in both instances used the same form of expression —identical, however, in only three words, "bright, clever, little"— in zeference to the same chil. May I not justly retort the charge of disingeniou•mess on the Reviewer ; who must have known this, when he aecused Mrs. Gaskell of making a garble .1 quotation ? "Jane Eyre" was published in 1847; Lowood was almost immediately identified with Cowan Bridge, yet "the Lady who was superintendent in 1824" was discreetly silent for more than seven years, until, in fact, the author was laid in her grave. So were Mr. W. W.,Carus Wilson and the Reviewer,, for aught I know. Their present pro ceedings are merely an illustration of a very old To the day o f her death "Currer Bell" maintained that the picture drawn in "Jane Eyre" was, on the whole a true picture of Cowan-bridge school, as she knew it by experience*; that the institution was subsequently improved she knew, and stated in the same work in which she had exposed its former mismanagement. . I am told that the Reviewer, referred to in this letter, has, with exquisite taste and Lreat charity, alluded to the closing houro of my wife's life, de scribing them as painful. Painful indeed they were, but not in his serve of the term. On this subject I would say to him, " Who art thou that jndgest another? Judge not that ye be not judged.. First cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye." Trusting to your sense of justice to give this letter a place in your impression, I am, Gentlemen, your obedient servant, A. B. NICHOLLS. Haworth , Parsonage, May 20th, 1857. M. THURNEYSSEN AND THE CREDIT MOBILIER. The following communication regarding the fail ure of M. Charles Thurneyssen, is from M. Isaac Pereire, the President of the Credit Mobilier Com- parry : " Paris, May 25, Sir,—ln announcing the failure of M. Chas. Thurneyssen, you have referted to the Credit Mo bitter, and have also stated that he was connected with me by relationship and business transactions. " Your good faith has been imposed upon by statements emanating from malicious motives, for M. Charles Thurneyssen has never had any busi ness connexion with me or with the Credit Mobi lier. He was never at any time mixed up with the operations conducted by that establishment, nor a director of railway companies or other inuustrial undertakings. " The insinuations therefore regarding the Credit Mobilier are without fouudatien, nor have they any better basis as respects myself. Although a cousin of M. Charles Thurneyssen married one of I my nieces, he can scarcely be looked upon as my I relative ; and I have never had social intercourse or business transactions with him. I regret that this abuse of the privileges of the press should render it necessary for me to enter into my private affairs ; but I feel bound to add that on one occa sion I rendered a service to M. Charles Thurneys sm, solely out of regard to his family, and that I have suffered in consequence. About three and a half years ago I 1.-nt him 500,000 f. to extricate him from the embarrassments into which he was plunged by speculations in land, and that sum is still due fro me. " His uncle, M. Auguste Thurneyssen, whose declining years are enibitwred, and whose'fortune is largely diminished by this painful event, is one of the most highly esteemed and respected men iu Paris. He was formerly a banker, and connected with the house of Stieglitz, and for the last 20 years his name has been associated with these of the most respectable English and French capitalists as u director of the principal railways. Like his son, M. George Thurney.seu, it is only as a creditor that he is connected with his nephew's failure, which, deplorable as it is, does not possess the ex aggerated importance which has been attached to it. "I doubt not, sir, that, having given currency to reports so unfounded, you will give equal publicity to these explanations. Every one has a perfect right to form his own estimate of the Credit Mobi lier as an institution, but it is an abuse of that right, and one unworthy of the English .press, to • connect that society with events to which it is com pletely a stranger, and to attack it through its ad ministrators, who are at . least entitled to some con sideration from the position they occupy in public esteem.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, "I. PERIERE." covered. These two stories are sufficient to show the class of men with whom the Commission has now to deal. It is not the dacoits themselves who are so formidable. They can be kept in or der by mere terror. It is the leaders whom it is imperative to arre4, whose ingenuity is equal to the otganisPd force arrayed against them, and who can raise new gangs almost from the ground. It is the respectable _thieves who really puzzle the police, and if some of the evidence recorded before Mr. Ward is correct, we must strike among the peerage as well as the bourgeoise. Next week we hope to point out an obstacle .to the Commission more important and more dangerous even than the astuteness of the dacoits.—Friend of India. M. Francisco Travassos Valdez has been appointed by the Portuguese Government arbitrator to the mixed British and Portuguese Commission at the Cape of Good Hope foi the adjudication of slave questions. M. Val dez has hitherto held a similar office at Angola, and is favourably known in literary circles in Portugal as the writer of some able productions on the slave trade, where he was the first to draw attention to the discoveries of Dr. Livingstone in Africa, and to their probable effect on that abominable traffic. M. Valdez'e father, Lieut.- General Count B irnfitn, is well-known as the chief of the staff of the late Dom Pedro, and as Prime Minister to the late Queen of Portugal. THE PARLIAMENTARY OATHS BILL.—The following is the form of oath to be taken hencetoith (in all cases) in lieu of the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjura tion, viz. :—" I, A. 8.. do swear that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to her Majesty Queen Victoria, and will defend her to the utmost of my power against all conspracies and attempts whatever which shall be made against her person, crown, or dignity, and I will do my utmost endeavo ur to disclose and make known to her Majesty, her heir? and her successors, all treasons and traitorous conspiracies which may be formed against her or them ; and I do faithfully promise to maintain, support, and defend, to the utmost of my power, the succession of the Crown, which succession by an act entitled An Act for the further Limitation of the Crown, and better securing the Rights and Liberties of the Subject,' is and stands limited to the Princess Sophia, Electress of Hanover, and the heirs of her body being Protestants, hereby utterly renouncing and abjuring any obedience or allegiance to any other per son claiming or pretending 10 A right to the Crown of this realm ; and I do declare that no forjgu prince, person, prelate, state, or potentate bath or ought to have any jurisdiction, power, superiority, pre-eminence, or authority, ecclesiastical or spiritual, directly or indi rectly, within this r ealm. So help me God." The act, however, will not affect the form of oath prescribed for papists by the Reman Catholic Relief Act (10th of Geo. IV., cap. 7). Fedi RAILWAYS. 100 Buckghanash. 100 Clydesdale Jc. all Col.Stour Vy. 100 E.Lin. g. 6 p.c all E. Un. H. Sh. 100 Glas. Barr. t Neils. Direct 100 Do. New all Glstr.&Dn.Fr all Hull & Selby all Do. Shares all Do. Shares all Lon.&Greenw all Do. Preference 100 Lon. Til., &S. 7i Do. Bark. Sh. all . 3franch,l3xton. and Matlock Mdld. Bradfd. 50 25 12. 12? 20 50 50 50 25 12i St; 10 12 50 100 5.f Ln. tcl ,, T W. Caledon E.U.&E.O Gt. Northn E. Count. Caldonian. Do Westn Y. St N.M Do Do all all all all 92_ - 91 a la INewmarket BuryE.G.spc. N.& Est.s p.c. Do. 6 per ct.. Do. Fixed sp.c Prest. & Wyre all Do. l Shrs.4 100 Roysin.& Hit. all Shrews.& Her all S. Staffordsh.. all WearVal.g6pe 25 all Do St. ,100 .Wilts&Soinrst 25 10 1.0.61 100 5 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 all all all 100 4i 100. 100 100 100 100 all 100 all 100 100 100 all S. Eastern Do Peto &Co Do Ln. dgN.W. dg Midld. E. Count Do Do ... Do ioo g 100 oo 100 all all L. & W Do Gt. Northn T. Brassey M. MCI ean Stk.d;Dar. Do. .. w PREF EREN, 5I all Blyth and Tyne 10 p. e.pref. (issd. at 50/.) Bris.&Ex.4 p. c. Do. 4 per c. Shares Caledn. £lO 4 p. c Ches. & Ho. 5 p. c Do. do. 5 per cent Cork & Bandon 5 ip.c Dnn.Perth.&Aber.J E. Anglian Cls. A Sh Do. do. Cls. B 6p. c Do. do. Cls. C 7 p. c Ea% Co . Ex,sp.c No.l Do. No. 2 ...... Do. New 6 pr. c. St. East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 5/., 10 per cent. Do. 10/. Debentr.SO. Do. do. 4 per cent East Lancash .6 p.cts E.&W. York. J. sths Edin. & Gl. sp. c. Sh. Ed. Prth . &Dun. 4p.c Furness, 5 p. c .... Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c. Great Northn. 5 p.c. Do. 5 p. c. Redeem, at 10 p ; c. prem Do. 4i per cent Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 c. prem. Gt.N . of Scot.lst Pre Gt. S & W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per e. Pref. St. Gt. W. (B.&H Ex.spc Do. con. red. 4A p. c. Do. con red. 4 p. c. Do. irred. 4 per lent. Do 5 p. cared. pref. Do. Birm. Pref. qh Do. Chester Bp. e. P. S Do. do. 5 p c. do Do. Birm. Gua. Stk Do. Chesh. Gua. Sh Do. do. do Do. do. do. Pstn. Lan. & York. 6pc.St. Lon. &B. G. 5 pc. No. 1 D0.,P., 5 p.c.St.No.2 Do. New Guar. 6p.c. Do. do. 5 p. c., No. 4 Lon. & N.W., Cov. & Nuneaton 5 p. ct... Lon. & S. W. 7 perct. 108 - 112 108 - 112 1113 - 115 3i :: il 164 12 —1 . 9 2)1 234 lot 106 par p 2$ 2$ 83 90 id - Pi 54 56 130' - 1.13 8 9 9 - 94 314 - 86 - 881 M SHARES. ":i = ii 94 - 96 51 - 6 1105 - 107 1100 - 102 I 12 - ••• -- ••• 71 - 72 -- 93 --95 83 - 85 84 -- 86 100 -- 101 94 -- 10 164 -- 17 91 -10 i 72 -- 74 19 -- 19 9? -- 91 14i -14 i, 133 -- 135 late 3d Shares Londy.& Color. 8 Sh Londy.&Ennis. Sh M., S. , &L. 6 p. Cent Do. do. do. Do. do. 31 per cent. Marypt. ) 1 / 4 Carl. 4 p.c. Do. 44 per cent Do. do. ‘fid.Consol.6 p.c. St Do.Con.Br.Bir.6p.c Do. 4:3 p. c.'Pref. St Do. L. &H. Pref. St New. ,Aber.. &c., pr 5 p. c.red. 5 p.c. pm Do. Perpet. 6 pr. ct Yorf k D eb. 4 p.c. Sh Do. 5 p. c. Ext. 1846 Do. 54 p.c. pf , 1847 Do.Wv.V.sp. ~1847 North British D 71. Preference E. Berw. 4 p. e.Prf Do. do. do Do. Leeds 6pc No. 1 Do. do. Qrs., 1848 Do. York EI.&S. Pur North Staffordshire Ox., Wor. & Wolv. 6 p.c., lst guar Do 6 p. c. 2d guar Scot. Cent. New Pref. Sc.N.E Aber.g.6p.c. Do. do. 7 p c. pf. St. Do. c10.3i p.c. pf. St South Devon Do. fixed 44 pr cent S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6(1. Do. 46 per cent I Do. Fixed 46 p.c. S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c. Do. do. 46 p. c S.Yorksh.4 p.c.Guar Stock. &Dar., sp. c Do. do. do. 61 -63 i 10i -- 114 Stock. & Hartl. g. 5. p.c. till July 1, '56 Waterfd& Kilk. 6 pc. 137 - 140 114 - 116 154 - 156 • —b.) 66 68 130 - 132 96 - uS 86 - 88 11 - lip 101 - 103 91 92 14 is 22 - 22 412 - 113 114 - 116 105 - 110 /8 - 19 22 3 / 4 - 23 3 / 4 98 - 100 95 - 100 27 - 28 2 - Sp ••• ••• 2i - 21 54 pm I pm BRITISH MINES. . . 2/ 12 Alfred Cons. (Philk.) 18 19 20 14 British Iron ' 7 8 . 20 ICondur3w (Cambrn.) 150 160 10 1 Dev. Gt. Oasis. 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St. John Del Rey 11 16 I.li A 15 1 6 Clarendon Con. MM. Co. of Jamaica g id 40 all Cobro Copper 56 53 1 16 Copiapo 2 all Fortuna 20 all General 3 all Linares 5 li Lusitanian 1 all Mariquita 1 all New Granada i g 1 all Noveau Monde 20 all Pont.Sil.lAM.& Smlt 6 8 5 1 Port Philip — ••• 30 16,. Santiago de Cuba 1 all south Australian 1 all Do. Scrip 1 all Do. 10 p. c. Pref ... . 28k all United Mexican ..., 34 4 18 - 141 MISCELLANEOUS. Australian Agricult., Australn, Royal Mail Berlin Water Works Brit. American Land Canada Do.Go.6pc.Jan&July Do, 6 p.c.Feb.&Aug. D 0.6 p.c. Mar. &Sept. Copper Min. of Eng. i)o. Pref. 7. p. cent Crystal Palace Do. Preference Crystal Pal, of France ‘Dustou Iron Ore Eastern Steam Electric Telegraph Electric Tel. of Irel., En.&Aust.Cop.SinCo l Eur. & Ind.Jctn. Tel. Gen. Ir. Se. Col.(lim.)1 Gen. Steam Navigat.; London Discount ..., 11 Loud. Gen. Omnibus 3i Malzdalena St. Navig.l ... Mediteran. Elec. Tel.! ... Mexican& S.Americu i 21 (Nat. Discount C0....1 11 rDo. New Netherlands Laud , 1 a _ o. Do. , 4 Do.S p c.PLiss.at ld ' 41 o 18 ;t. 100 1 all 5 all 1.0 108. ?,5 911 l 5 L 4 ••• •• 4 - 5• t4B - 152 11.1 - 1121 25 - 27 - 2 5t 5. 94 .4 I :v:1 i 0 all .5 all 10 60 1 all 5 all 1 all 1 all !O 5 LOO 283, 1/ - li Do. Do. New &N. S. Land', 18 N.S.W. Gov.s p.c.D.! N. B. Australasian...; Nrtb.of EuropeSteam l Oriental Gas Do New Shares Peel Er. Ld. Peninsular dt Oriental' Do. New Rhymney Iron Do. New Royal Mail Steam Scot. Austral.lnvest Do. New S. Aus. Gay. 6 p. c.bds South Austral. Land Submarine Tel. Scrip Do. Registered True. Ln. Co. Up. Can V Diemen'o Land, a - 9 10 i li id hp li 2h 150 1,1 - 112 i 21 —23 5 7 60i la 62 .. 0•••• • • 31 4 65 62 31 ••• - 36 i _ 1 i - 1 - ••• 11 ffeWSVENDERs BENEVOLRNT AAD PROVIDENT -INSTITUTION. C.- The 18th anniversary of this society, the object of which is the granting of pensions and temi,o rary relief to indigent masters and servants en gaged in the s•de of newsp pers, was celebrate t at the Freemason , ' Tavern, Great Queen-street, last evening. The festival was presided over by Mr. JOlin Walter, M. P., Who' . was supported icy the leiding members of the trade and a company num bering ah -ut 150 gentlemen. The occasion was also honound by the presence of groups of ladies. The finances of the .s.ic!ety are in a flourishing state, and a porik.in of them have been disbursed in affording timely;aid to the necessitous. After the repast the usual loyal tcpsts were duly given from the chair and cordially responded to by the a , semhly. The CHAIRMAN, in proposing the `• Army_ and Navy," remarked that they were all extremely proud of the laurels - won by their brave defenders, both by sea and land ; but there was a community of interest between those services and the trades rept. , seated at that board. The army and navy would have little incentive to the achievment of great deeds if there were no newsveadors to spread the fame of those deeds through the world. (Cheers.) One portion of the trade, which he be lieved was not represented that night, but which was generally known by the name of the " roaring va.gabonds"--(a laugh)—seemed to suppose that the army and navy had been created for their especial benefit, because during the whole of the late war it was impossible to get a quiet hour in his part of the town from the extreme enthusiasm evinced by this fraternity in daily proclaiming the achievements of those gallant services. (Laughter.) Whatever mistakes might have occasionally marked the sten torian announcements of this enterprising class, he was sure that whenever the army and navy were again called _upon to distingui h themselves the newsvendors of London would be delighted to give publicity to the records of their prowess and hero ism. (Cheers.) The toast was drunk amid loud applause. The OHAIR➢IAN; in introducing the toast of the evening, observed that the principle of combina tion was one of the most deeply rooted qualities of the human mind, and would al ways exist iu one form or another. If it did not,,take a good direction it was pretty sure to tikei bad one. Most of them remembered the period when the spirit of combination was widely exhibited in a very disagree4ble and un amiable fashion. He alluded to the time of the Trades' Unions, when masters on the one side and servants on tile other were arrayed against each other in the strongest antagonism. Of late years, howbver, whether owing to the greater diffus'on of coMinon sense among all classes, or, as he hoped, to the greater" dissemination of a Christian and charitable spirit, a happier state of things prevailed. Combinations now assumed amore benigoaut and friendly aspect, and society reaped a cortesponding benefit. Benevolent iris itutious, iepresen ing al- most every trade in the kingdom, had sprung up un all sides ; and no doubt they would see the present society, which hekegat ded oily yet in its infancy, becoming widely ramified through the country in due course and extending its branches in every quarter. There was something remarkable — it might alm(ist be said mysterious—in the way the intell ctual food pf the community was daily .pro vided. Foroigriers and frig mis from the couutiy often wonder how the physical wants of a vast city like London could be regularly supplied; and it was only by passing the tiaker's shop in the middle of the Light and 4 observing the underground opera tions thi-iis going on there, or by noticing the wag gon loads of cabbages piled as high as that room on ;heir way _to C,►vent-garden at 4 o'clock in the M Grill g--(Liugliter)—tuat such persons could gain a faint idea of the mode in which the Londoners got their bread, meat, and vegetables. The intel lectual food of the community was supplied in a similarly mysterious manner ; and most p-ople knew nothing of the occult processrs which resu ted in the appearance of their newspapers on their breakfast table. One class of traders who minis tered to the comforts of the people were called licensed victullers. By an analogous nomencla ture newsvendors might be termed " the unlicensed intellectual victuallers" of the country, sup plying as they did its daily mental aliment. (Cheers). Indeed society would find itself exceed ingly embarrassed and could not get on at all wi h out the service of so useful a class of caterers. (Hear.) He had not had an opportunity of ex amining the report of the Newsvendors' Benevo lent Institution for that year, but he had looked into the report olthe year before, and he was sorry to-say he did not find it quite so encouraging as he could desire. He trusted, however, that the result of that evening would enable them, when they next published a statement of their position, to furnish something more satisfactory. (Cheers.) As near as he could calculate what he might call their work ing expenses, they amounted to about 40 per cent. of their entire receipts. This was far too large a proportion--(hear)----and a society in which such a state of things existed could not be deemed self supporting. Let them endeavour, then, as far as possible to reverse these proportions. (Cheers.) The bon. gentleman conc l u d e d by proposing "Pro sperity to the Newsvendors' Benevolent and Pro vident Institution." The toast was drunk with much enthusiasm. The Secretary then read a list of donations in aid of the funds, which was headed by Mr. Walter, 251. ; Messrs. W. H. Smith and Son, 10/. ; Mr. J. C. M‘Donald, 51. ss. ; Messrs. Dawson and Son, ; Baron Rothschild, 51., &c. The total suoa eollegted during the evening amounted to about I 100/. Mr. WILD, the chairman of the committee, pro posed "The limn of Mr. Chalks Dickens," the president of the institution, and expressed his hope th.►t the state of their finances would before long enable them to provide almshouses as well as small pensions for the objects of their bounty. Mr. TERRY (the treasurer), in very complimen tary terms, gave " The health of Mr. Walter." (The toast w.s received with enthusiAsm). _ The CHAIRMAN, in returning thanks, said he was convinced, tr ,, m the difficulties with which the newsvenders had to contend, that their task was no light or easy one. What between the public who must be silt plied, and the newspaper publi-her who could not print his impression fast enough, the poor new:Nender was, as it were, in a vice, whe:e he was pretty well squeezed, and had very much of a dog's life of it. (Laughter.) He had taken c ,n -siderable pains to obviate the complaints of indig nant suhscrit ers, who coreplainedbittrly that they did not receive their papers till mid day, forget ing all the time that the fault perhaps lay with sortie pros♦ orator in the House of Commons, who pro tract d the debate beyond 2 o'clock in the morning, and thus delayed the newspapers getting to press. He hoped however, by the application of adds tional power to the printing process, to accomplish before many months elapsed that which it must be owned was no easy achievement—namely. to please every body. (Laughter.) " The health of the Donors" was next given, to which Mr. J. C. M'Donald briefly responded, for cibly pointing out the consolation which the news vender might derive in the midst of the daily vexa tions to which he was exposed, and earnestly coun selling the members of the trade to bear and forbear with each other: Twelve o'clock having arrived, Toe CHAIRMAN excused himself from further at tendance, on the ground that it was time to think about " going to press," otherwise their country friends might not receive their newspapers with due punctuality in the morning. (Laughter.) " The Press" and a few other toasts were also drunk, and the party separated at a late hour. The musical arrangements were under the direc tion of Mr. Smythson, assisted byMiss Jane Wells, Mr. D. King, Mr. Lawler, and Mr. Genge, who contributed greatly to the enlivenment of the even ing. Mr. B. Banks, jun., acted as toastmaster. NEWS.—(This Day.) CORN EXCHANGE. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN For the week ended May 28, 1857, made up from the Re turns of the Inspectors in the different Cities and Towns iu England and Wales, per Imperial Quarter. WHEAT I BARLEY I OATS I 1 RYE I BEANS I PEAS 57s 9d 42s 8d 24s lid 30s 7d 43s 8d 1 42s 3d THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES. WHEAT BARLEY 43s 6d BARLEY I OATS 23s 9d I RY E BEANS PEAS 39s 2d 41s 2d 40s 2d 55s 3d ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK. Wheat, 112,312; barley, 7,110; oats, 9,974; rye, 52; beans, 5,274 ; peas, 510 quarters. MEAT MARKETS. NEWGATH amp LEADENHALL.—The trade generally ruled y. follows : — Be ef, from 3s id to 4s 4d ; Mutton, 3s steady, es 2d to - ss s Od ; Lamb, 5a 4d to Gs 2d ; Veal, 4s Od to 5s 2d ; Pork, 4s o{l to 5s Oil per Sibs, by the carcase. SOUTHALL, May H.—The supply of Aock here to-day WAS very moderate, and the trade generally ruled brisk, on higher t , nos :—Beef, from 3s 4 , 1 to 5B 3d ; Mutton, 4s 6d to 5 s 2.1 ; Lamb , 58 6 d to Gs 6 d ; Veal, 4 4d to 5s 4d ; Pork, 4s Od to 5s Od per Blbs, to sink the offal. RoMFORD, May 28.—The trade was brisk, as follows : Beef, from 3s 4d to 5s Od ; Mutton, 3a 8d to 5s 4d; Lamb, 6s Oil to is Od ; Veal, 4s Od to 5s Od ; Pork, 4s to 4s 10d per Blbs. HAY MARKETS. SMITHFIELD.—Meadow hay, 21 10s to 41 4s ; clover do., 31 103 to 51 53; and straw, 11 5s to 1/ 10a per loan. A fair demand. CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 2/ lOs to 41 4s ; clover do., 3/ lOs to 51 Os ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 1/ lOs per load. Trade dull. WHITECHIPEL. —Meadow hay, 2/ 10s to 4/ 4s ; clover do., 3/ 10s to 5/ 5s ; and straw, 1/ 5s to 33 108 per load• Both hay and straw sold slowly. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, May 23.—Wind this day at noon, S.; slight breeze, with passing clouds. PORTSNOUTD, May 27.=-Wind S.—H.M.S. Devastation, from Devonport ; H.M.S. Snake, ditto. Sailed—H.M.S. Eurydice, for Cowee. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Tnurbday Morning. Wind S.W. Arrived —Euphrates, screw steamer, from Palermo; Gleaner, San Sebastian; Bijou, Lisbon; Belle, Africa; Sarpen, Alexandria; Heinrich, Hambargh ; Eclipse, Ostend; Don Antonio, Buenos Ayres; Viligant, Ostend; Telegraph, Newfoundland, with loss of bowsprit, fora and main topmast, and baying been in contact off Crosby with the Felicia, New Orleans. Sailed—Commodore, for Stettin Jane Fergusson, Riga; Sir W. F. Williams, Hobart Town. WATERFORD, May 25. Wind S.E. Arrived—Henrietta, for Memel. ' DUBLIN, May 27. Wind S.S.E. Arrived—Farewell, Affiance, Endeavour, and Anne, from Dunkirk. HOLYHEAD, May 27. Arrived—Harriet, from Charlestown ; Elizabeth, Point Leron. BELFAST, May 25. The Beta, from the Clyde, for Boston, has been towed Al here, making water, and bowsprit sprung. Must dis charge for repairs. 1. (BY SUBMARINE AND 13RIT1SLI T , LEGRAPIL) GRAVESEND, Thursday, 10 a.m. Wind E. ; tide five hour's ebb ; fine. Arrived, May 28.—British King, from Grenada; Jas. Holmes, Barbadoes ; Agnes, St. Vincent ; S. and 0., Darien; Equinox, Cienfugos ; Carolinda, Cherbourg; Enterprise, Lazatotte ; Neptune, Havanna, ; Wm. eo thian, and Paca, Cronstadt ; Unity, Guernsey ; Planta, Tobago. Sailed, May 28—Chatham, for Madras. DEAL, Thursday, 9.36 a.m. Wind E.N.E., light. Passed—Achilles, from London, for Philadelphia. Sailed in tow—Blenheim, for London ; Arethusa, for Calcutta; Lavinia, for Trinidad; Latona, for Point de Galle ; Affiance, for Launceston. REDUCTION OF POSTAGE TO OFFICERS ON BOARD SHIPS OF WAR.—Ou and after the let June next, letters posted in the United Kingdom addressed to officers serving on board auy of her Majesty's ships on a foreign or colonial station will be chargeable with the uniform British rate of 6d. when not exceeding half ounce in weight, ls. when above half ounce, and not exceeding one ounce, 2s. when above one ounce and not exceed ing two ounces, and so on, instead of being subject to the ordinary rates of postage from this country to the particular foreign country or colony at which the ship may be stationed. In addition to this Bri tish rate of 6d. the letters will, of course, be subject to any foreign rate of postage chargeal le upon them. Letters, therefore, forwarned via Marseilles, to or from ' the Medi:erranean, India, China, or Australia, will be liable to a French transit rate of threepence per quarter ounce. and letters to or from the Pacific will be liable to a New Granadian transit rate of sixpence per ball ounce. Toe prepayment of the postage wi Ibe optional or compulsory, according to the regulation in force with respect to ordinary correspondence a dd res sed to the place at which the ship is stationed, but the delivery of the letters will, in most cases, be accelerated if the postage be prepaid. An arrival of about 30,000 soverelne is expected from Constantinople by the Ottoman Bank, in addition to the 42,0001 42,000/ ju-t received. The am ount from Russia to.,ay (about 5.0,0001.) will be taken &ii -fly for tile Continent %to pay for silver. Ot the 180,0001. Au tralian geld which reached London this afternoon a portion will go to the Bank. LITERATURE. The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint Simon. Abridged ft om the French by Bayle St. John. Two vole. Chapman and Hall. The Memoirs of Saint Simon occupy a prominent place in French historical literature. They form one of those works, less va'orable from their direct information than for that incidentally given, and more to be valued as giving a vivid and lifelike picture of the minds anti monue!s of the time than as an authentic record of history mad politics. The work in French, we are told by the editor, occupies twenty volumes, which he has reduced to four, the first series being now issued, and the second to be published in a short time. They furnish a sum mary of Court life during the latter-years of the reign.of LouisXlV. and the Regency of the Duke of Orleans, and the effect is very similar. to the view of the fairy world by daylight. Mr..S t. John, a most decided democrat, who very probably con siders Robespierre a greater man than Napoleon, is delighted with such a congenial picture' prov ing ro his mind the innate wickedneas and media.. crity of kings; and leading him at last to wonder at the small amount of the executions during the French Revolution ! Those who may be inulined to dispute the justness of these conclusitns, will yet see in the extravagance and misgovernment of this dissipated Court ti , e signs of the coming storm. The last volume leaves the King, after his m awj ~ re verses in the% campaigns with Prince Eugene and Marlborough, putting tax after tax on his over burdened people, while the lavish expenditure of the Court •and its unworthy satellites was scarcely curtailed. In that gaudy and dissolute circle, as one after another dropped from it, their deaths seem to have been hardly heeded. A hurried whisper, a day of excitement, a few hours of pretended sorrow, were the only tributes rendered to the brother and son of the King. The selfishness and heartlessness of the head of the court set an example, readily followed by the .others. St. Simon occasionally indulges in a little moralising, but rejoices just as much as the others over the death of his opponents. The Duke of Bourgogne was the honourable excep tion to the Royal family. Had he come to the throne instead of his contemptible son, Louis IV., how much mischief might have been delayed, if not averted. The last chapter, of this series, leaves him succeeding to the dignities cf his father. The next will probably commence by telling us of the death of his charming Duchess, so soon to be fol lowed by his own. The editor has exercised a judicious description in his abridgment of the work, but a little more severe censorship would have been acceptable to English readers. In his desire to show the closing days of that brilliant court as they really were, and to give the gossip of the day with the vraisemblance of the original, he has admitted some Court scandals that could have been well dispensed with. He asserts, no doubt with correctness, 'that the undertaking has been tedious and difficult. M. de St. Simon having bleu most elaborate in his descriptions of all festi vities, ceremonial., and the like, and most diffu,e in kis histories of the relations of relations of alt con cerned in any particular event, these detiila have been wiseiy omitted, and also almost all St. Simon's numerous discussons on points f precedenc , , &c., on which subject he seems to have been as i;Ja! tutted as his Royal maser. Lie following extract from the preface, by the editor, may be interesting to those unacquainted with the biography of St. Simon : " The army was the first scene of St. Simon's worldly experience. When very young he entered the King's Mus keteers; and in time rose to the command of a regiment. He served in more than•one campaign, and appears to have disch aged his duties conscientiously and well. While still in the camp he began to mote down in a journal the events that were occurring around him, incited to do so by the pleasure he had received in readin g the Memoirs of the Marechal de Bassompierre. Even at this early time it is evident that he was endowed with a rare power of obser vation, and good natural sagacity; and with a certain rigidity of opinion which prevented him from much shar ing the vices with which he came in contact. St. Simon's military career did not last long. Ho had served more than five, years when the peace of Ryswick I was signed ; and the field never saw him again. The great war of the Spanish Succession began in 1702, and nearly all Europe was involved in it, until the treaty of Utrecht decided the question at issue; but St. Simon, being de prived of the promotion he thought himself entitled to, resigned his rank. In this, doubtless, he acted wisely. He seems to have had no special predilectionfor a military life—never speaks of his interrupted career with soldierly regret—does not even imply that he had talent in that direction. The court, not the camp, claimed him. He was formed to move, not amidst helmets and plumes, but amidst powdered wigs and gold-headed canes—to wander observant amidst fans and hoops, not tents and trenches. In that sphere, looking on at the intrigues and schemes that thickened or dispersed around him, joining in them himself when a friend was to be served—for St. Simon was evidently capable of friendship—or an enemy to be thwarted—he was equally capable of enmity ;—maiutain ing himself in intimacy with most of the courtiers whose views were in harmony with his own, and with many whose views were very different; fighting for the rights and dig nity of his order with the tenacity of a man who regards them almost as passports to eternal salvation, and who sees that in the confusion of new grades and unusual privileges arising, he and his fellows are counting for less and less every day ; criticising the plans of government in opera-. tion, and drawing up new plans of his own • noting with a sort of prophetic cunning all political and diplomatic changes threatened, the struggles to gain power and the struggles to preserve it ; and all the while keeping his ear open to reports of all domestic occurrences at the court — the love-affairs, the scandals, the marriages, the tragedies in this direction, the comedies in that; -such bzing his position and occupation, we need not be surprised at the vast extent and varied nature of his Memoirs. A more active and public mode of life in which he would have been forced to find work for the critics rather than play the critic himself, would not have suited him so well ; and would have injured the interests of posterity. We see this plainly in the review of his career. " During the lifetime of Louis XIV., St. Simon enjoyed much indirect favour from his popularity with the leading personages of the Court and the Government; but the King, displeased with him in the first instance for his re tirement from the army, and afterwards for his deter mined stand in support of the most petty privileges of the order to which he belonged—to say nothing of his pedan tic and meddling disposition— never bestowed much no tice upon him, and sometimes evinced marked coldness. It was nut until the government fell into the bands of the Duo d'Orleans, the Duo do Chartres of St. Simon's child hood, that his position changeo. With the Duo d'Orleans he had always been on good terms. He had stood by him in fair weather and in foul; and now to a certain extent reaped the reward of his devotion. He became a mem ber of the Council of State ; and had nominally a voice in deciding the affair aof the nation. But he was not meant by nature to be a statesman any more than he was meant to be a soldier. Abler and more unscrupulous intriguers got hold of the helm ; and St. Simon, despite of his inti- Macy with the Regent, never had any sensible influence on great affairs, and continued to jot down notes of what he know of the manners and character of the Court. The historical portion of the work, the details of Blenheim, Ma'plaquet, &c., and the account of how the news was received in Paris will be to many the most interesting portion. After the terrible re verse of Blenheim none dared to send the news, and the public anxiety and suspense were fearful. On another occasion after much delay the king dab patched Chamillart himself to bring the true state ment. The work will be welcome to many who are desirous of rendering themselves in some de gree acquainted with so remarkable a work, afford ing as it does, through the lapse of a century and a half, a glimpse of the petty strifes and dis the splendid dissipation and selfish ambition, the golden chains that were too often worn in the Court of the Grand Monarque. Ernest Basil. A Novel. By J. M'Grigor Allan, author of "The Woman Hater," &c. 3 vole. Newby. This story may serve to amuse an idle hour.. It is written in an agreeable manner, and contains immense variety. The various adventures and Ernest Basil meets with are very entertainintga,tja ds it is very curious to notice the benefit to which he is subjected in his e Cters are well those around him. The severfalc the h a w ra isehief-maker, .nus i r l l ts res t e: described, particularly that o place to generally pla '' c e o d n i t s r s i e v n3 i nig hhifalsehoods in order I F la lac tii i i d g ' the stories. Miss Fair weather is a sample of an arrogant and selfish girl, and she is truly shown to be the style that_gene rally deceives people by false appearances. Elinor Lawrence is a direct contrast to this, and the little that is seen of her is very attractive. One of the chief points of the story is the account given of the hypocrisy that is practised to so great au extent by persons . pretending to be so much better than their neighbours, till they are suddenly discovered giveh whois d a.gn go elaubso to be worse than the generality. Of such wan Sir Penny-wise Close, and also Flaccid. On the whole, it is most probable that this tale will please those who like lively and anecdotical sketches. There is a Sardinian priest at Turin at present who i s in the 104th y ear o f h:sage, being born in 1753. He hal been presented to the King, who has added 100 f. to his yearly pension. He does not look more than 60, and hie hair is still black. REPRESENTATION OF LEEDS.—Out of respect to the character and memory of Mr. R Hall, the late member f.r the borougl of Leeds, the leaders oreef the twoost chief d to one political patties in that borough hav e a g p p all meetings or other active steps as to the future repre sentation of the borough until after the funeral of the deceased hon. member. Ic is understood that the pro position for this arrangement was first made by the Liberals, and was at once acceded to by the Conserva tives. Notwithstanding this highly creditable disposi tion on the part of the political leaders—a dis position that has met with the a pp roval of the great bulk of the inhabi tants of the borough—a placard, without imprint, wa posted in Leed s y e s terd ay, naming s Sir W. Clay as a fit and proper person to be put in nomination as Mr. Hall's succ e s sor. The Latne of Mr. Might has also beta me!,tioned, even in preference to Mr. Cobden. by some o line Liberals. but until after the funeral of Mr. woica will take place to-morrow (Friday) at Whitolcirk Church, mar Leeds, nothing certain can be known or done. 20 25 20 100 43 i &3 51_ 75 4} 21k 29,- Si 381 58i 8i i 47 i 14i 58i