The Sun. — London, England, 1857-04-20 00:00:00

:0N 1 F 77 rtr A ) - AND COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE. CITY, Two o'Caocu. The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed ! eav ilY, and prices of all kinds were unchanged NI those current on Friday. The sales were esti 4ated at 5000 to 6,000 bales, 1,000 of which were iaken f or export. The Railway Share Market was Via' and prices of all th e l e ading stocks again de ed. ~The accounts from the textile manufacturing dig :eta state that business during the past we®k re ) aitl ed quiet, but the prices of most articles have :, 11 well maintained. The high rates for money I. _' the dearness of the raw material continue to in ',l,ence the various markets. T he steamer Pera has arrived from Alexandria 11th the remainder of the overiind min. T he Rus s i an R ailway scheme, w hi c h f or s ome 4°4t113 Past h as l e d t o so muc h di sc ussion, is at i B :gh introd uce d to the Engl i s h mar k e t, Messrs. rin g Broth ers, h av i ng i ssue d ou t th e necessary r° sPect 4 4 Ile. With th e exception of Mr. Thomas til t lg the di rectors are all fore i gners, w h o are w ell : 4 ; 4 in the railway and banking world. The 1 1 , 4 ' 1 „ er igth of the lines is 2,585 miles, calculating ti 01 : 1511 e at about 1i verts ; the particular direc ; of these lines have already been made public. 82"tinaated the gross produce from traffic will 1/y ) ' 9351 . Per mile per annum, and calculating the irecliture at 45 per cent. the net profit is set :4 1 at 4,165,6081 p. The average cost is valued at l e d 1 ' Per mile. The guaranteed interest, after ler lletin g the amount for sinking, is only 4 11 -12 ths loi . ce , llt .) and the first issue is for 2,000,000 1 . in I ., B nareg k ilt ~,,,e a 'ng last w ee k th e arr i va l s o f s p ec ie amounted to the Indu s , , and the shipments, including that ; h e Indus, : to about 823,8901. The subjoined lij os e ., Particulars of the remittances by the Indus, 4 leaves to-day for India and China, viz. : 1111- my (silver) £284,396 n, . (gold) Ilon (gold) 0. (silver) Madras (silver) 1)° . (gold) C alcutta ((Fold) IP°. (silver) ' 220.791 t - ,,nang (Silver) - in"... n . 28,510 1 ,,,,_K41) re (silver) ',.`' - ,'lg-lion g (silver) Canton (silver) Bha ngbai (silver) The Total £739,797 I ts 1 " 11 ey Market remains in a very stringent sit e ' al l ( ' exceedingly high rates, according tothe Fop4en(' character of the paper offered for dis b4:, ar e demanded by the brokers and Lom hit;:"reet firms, w h o ara reaping an abundant tti l s, through th e ma i n t enance o f th e p r essure. lialietather surprising that under existing circum btit sg we do not hear of more mercantle failures, 4u at the same time, although there are few al 811 sPensions, the inconvenient; and embar ktir-gent are cons id era bl e. Wh atever ma y b e th e 4 04„tic)11 of the tightness, and it is admitted by hb W ho are considered high authorities on the to r ": et that th ere i s no prospec t o f c h e ap money 9k Years, One fact has been clearly demonstrated, kt", th e imperati v e necessity of an augmented at e ' re ulation. It cannot too often be repeated 6 r the faciliti es i n t hi s respec t w hi c h were amp l e ('eat" Year 1844, w h en th e B an k Ch ar t er A c t t oo k k e :_) aro . ridiculously inadequate to th e t rade o f th e r t 3r time, but through th e a p a thy ex hibit e d it i s li likely th a t further difficulties will yet be sub tted to before a modification is determined upon. . kir % France recognises the desirableness of adapt ktilt,,,he power of her National Bank, to an extent ti t ; t 'Sensurate with the functions which, through I development of commerce, that establishment t ai °W called upon to perform. Hitherto the capi -14 ( 4 this Bank has been 3,600,0001., but it is to Oised forthwith to 7,200,0001., by which means ttp ri Progress of commerce wilt be stimulited, S such nimetary convulsions as that lately lit, f enced may be subdued, if not a lt oge th er §i' l :nted. F ranco can boa-It of some of the most 8 1 4i te financiers o f th e p resen t d ay , an d w h en th e i r On this matter are carried out, and the con icir,tatted extension of note issue; is made, the ex taay perh aps b e f o ll owe d on t hi s s id e, b ut tp:the merchants and others agit a t e th e sulject 4 . Q be vexatiously delayed. N l i , 3 Cliay a special meeting of the Scottish Aus 'l:vestment Company has been held for the . ;41 te 5-e O f considering the propriety of selling their 11 4 f t eat in the " Bon Accord" property in Austra liitli°l;the stun of 12,000/. cash, and 8,00 , 0 8 shares, Ac_ N. c p;"'s• per share paid thereon in the share of 4 tov, °lo Pany, limited, together with a i s a . ) k(1",',, 1 '3 7. in the said property. The Chairman t o " ,e Particulars of the contract, and stated that tY of one-twentieth would be given in addi-- 1 ,411,4 ° the 8,000 shares. The Mining Company c.onsist of 75,000 shares of 1/. each. Some ttieslon took place about the thesesa directors being ~k tk ie Mi nl lll g Company, and company being ''aol h4 .aole for calls on the 8,000 shareS ; but the monad %Lip*, for sale was eventually carried unani n_Y. °l lli e llt - L , i4 ned heavi ness i s th e c h arac t er i s ti c f ea t ure 11 4 o f 4ll. glish Stock Market to-day, the appear the Russian railway scheme and the un- Itit'av 1 attachi ng to monetary affairs having an 411014 141 e i n fl uence. The speculators for a ,Ilve st are en couraged, and as very few bona fide 4 4 4 . 41 ents are made prices decline. Consols 'ecol,""Ll 921 93 and 92f for , transfer ; for :\lec4 they have been 93k and 931 1. The Itie m Per Cents• have been 91 • I the Re pri'itco-1:4.111 I • the March ExChequer Bills 7s. to 3s. 'he 0,"), and the June ditto 10s. to ss. discount. were 98g.i. Bank Stock is 213. . 144tIter-.l4B:kii.suhthe . Foreign Market , also remains 6 per Cenis. are 94 to 941, and the nts, remain nominal. Sardinian Bonds e ~'l l ire e, v e een 91 ; Spanish Threes, 411 ; Portuguese ; Brazilian 5 per Cents. 991 ; an - e f lPer Cents 651 tock a °- , ewing are . the nominal prices of Foreign Grenada Deferred Bonds, 61 7 ; Mexi an, Oeqs, Peruvian 41 per Cents., 78 79 ; do. 3 per 4 4 14 1 „..) 54 1 4 ; Portuguese 3 per. Cents., 441 51 ; 7 4 „ 5 per Cents., 104 6 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 4. 4 Sp anish 3 per ents., 411 ; ditto Deferred, ditto Certificates, ; ditto Passive, 51 6. ~aiiA e ltrernely limited business has b een d one i n tti, e 4 shares, an d, w i t h one or two exceptions, est er h ave exhibited a downward t en d ency. G reat ~Ilit . „u r n have r ece d e d s s . ; L ancas hi re and York -4„,128. 6d . to 15s. ; North Western ss. ; V, Eastern (Berwick) 10s., and South Wales htktbealedonian have improved 55., and Cheater I it k4._ '".°l 3thead 10s. The French lines have been t o ;lady rates, and the Canadian have improved it a Slight extent, Grand Trunk o f Canada 119.v -' ke ci advanced about 5s to 10s. The East Indian tds Geelong and Melbourne are a shade lower, an d 1)t New Russian Shares are quoted' at Ito 1 NA Alining Shares there islittle change to report. DGreat Consols have realised 450. North eal Basset 231. Tip Croft 41. p t i °int-Stock Bank Shares have been inactive and (I t , ee .' l are depressed. London and County o have _ Al l ,l l ' a ed about ss. Ott oman Bank and Union f :r alia realised about former rates. fi el lt Miscellaneous Share Market has been very ' 44 7 .' 110 Ith of Europe Steam, Electric Telegraph , aku Diemen's Laud are at previous rate 3. 114411 , - :8R FUNDS.—CLOSING PSICES —THIS DAY (horn the Of List.) 4 Business done 11%14 ,, Ste k • 213 121 -11 44,.., c lee r ' o c e l i t i Reduced Anuuities o liiißli 4 ''' '' 3 Per • Consols Annuities 92f 3 2* 3 owo, Cent. Annuities 92 la . 1 4 4 .0,, a 1l Per. Cent. Annuities , Dlt t °lllcuties, expire sth Jan. 18(10 2A 7-16 44, ',?, 30 Years , expire sth April, 1885 lB C bitt o °44B , 4:1;99 elsoie 44der £ lOOO 5 d 4 tor A ce 93 tat,„,,,_ omit •• 41liar Rills, 2id. March. I June. • ~,„-,72., .......... WV. 3 d 7 1 105 C it t i i i • ....................................... 3 7 1 10 5 bitt ....... 2 d par I 5 . .10 Di ° 13 011 d .ig ... tt o. 18 ,,,s 58, 3A per Cent. 4- RI ' . 4 . ....... It niORR 98* f it n R -- "" OP ,FOR,EIGN FUNDS—THIS DAY. c, - Ato ll ." Per Cent atli a „,, . 1852, 44# per Cent. ro,C„ 'Made 6 Cant • 102 i Di tto „! per 4 mtt o io:'"(18, 5 per Cent., Con. 1841 -- efisi a ,, j i° o 3, 3 per Cent. 45 Lbitt o A c ', llo , 1.522 £ St., 5 per Cent — vrli' an 'i Per Cone. 96 h., l) ltt o A „ e ° ll4 a, 5 per Cent. - ekti, h - - , ,, , eoin i t 91 ' bitt, '''''ade 3 er Cent. ilk /ta w r : P i, hi gh c eferred, 3 per Cm'. •Etkihh :nuoittee Cert. of Coup. not run 6i bitto A 448 . t 6 per cent — ....cen tin 94 tht to t,, healwteed, 4 per (Amt. thittil EX ,C"ide nn. On the above payable in London. Ditto 4 c uanize, 2i per Cen.;., 12 Guilders 65j Per Cent. Certificates 96* ' euete..n_sols, mon e y 7HREB O'CLOCK. 92i 3 '' Account (May 7)..,..... 94 i SHARE MARKETS--('his Day.) RAILWAYS. Closing rice this day. Business done this day. - 8i - 9 G 5 - 67 8i -- 9 89 - 91 691 -69 i 34 - 36 33 - 43 8:1 19i - 20 11 - 11 52 - 54 35 - 36 8i - 70 98 - 100 56 - 57 83~ : 34 7i 8; 96 - 97 87 - 88 121 - 123 104 - 106 66i - 67 63 - 65 68 - 72 6 - 8P 6 8 j•.,1 101 i 102 d par j 5i - sq 103 - 309 1041 - 105 2 d par 1101 102 39 : :io 82 - 821 53 - 55- ... _ ... 16 - 164 53 - 60 3i - 31 , 1 44 - 45 —87 i 3 d t 24 396 --40 i 6 1 6 ,65§ 9G 99 5 01 74 - 10 - 11 291 - 3O 6 - 4 106 -- 103 26 -- 27 49 -- 51 ' 24 -11 d 17i -18 i 75 -75 i 87 - 88 - 4A - 41 - 43 201 - 20 , 2 4t 4i 7 - 9 24 - 3 5i - 6 SSESSIONS. i - iP i - i P }96 - 98 95 - 97 95 - 97 1 - 107 - 109 - 20i 21 64 - 65 891. -90 i 211. - 211 - 1 p 25 -25 i - 3 99 - 100 p 123 - 128 122 - 127 106 108 19 20 21 d 1 p 21i i fP 1 iP ". '..• ••• it '''' 2iP :MN. 7i - 7i et• .... ... li ..... 11 3 4p 5 54 1 I d Pur l 33i 341 par iP 24 6 61 ... ..a 32 - 7 - 13 'Bl - 214 394 - 39§ 9 - 10 621 -62 i 59 - 60 Par p 17 - 19 1 - it 9 - 94 33 -33 A 4/ -5" 9 4 - 10 30 - 31 p4'-- 1p BANNS. 89 -- -. ' i - W - . 1 2f, 2di 1i id 63 65 ••• 17 -- 17?.,11 17A -- 18 1 17i --174 46 -- 48 . . f a 'a 58 6i - ---- [OO all all all all all 100 51 all 100 100 100 all al 1 all 100 100 100 100 121 12 14s 10/3, 1866di 161 151 , 40 I ,1256, 11/ tsl 16, all all all all RAILWAYS. t. 20 St. St. t. 3 St. St. Pad 100 all 100 100 1742 100 100 all 100 100 St. ioo St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 12 all 50 all 16f: 14 16? 12 St. ,100 all all 100 100 2A 1 100 ' all 100 1 100 100 ,100 !Arabs. Nottng. Bost Eastn. Junc....... ;Belfast & Ballymena 131.rmug. Wolverh. dz Stour Va11ey......... Birkenhd. Lancsh. ti Cheshire Junct......, Blackburn ...... I Blyth & Tyne original X 25 (iss. at £45) Bristol & Exeter Caledonian ICl:ester & Holyhead Cork and Bandon Cork, Black. & Pass 'Cornwall Do. B. Dnblindtßelfast Juno. iDun. P. &Abor.June East Anglian lEastern Counties Eastern Union ,A. stk IDo., do. B IDo. New A... Est Kent , East Lancashire Eest Suffolk Do. Edinburgh Zr Glasgow Edinb. and Peebles lEdinb.Prth &Dundee Forth and Clydaune. Furness ..... . !Glasgow dr S. Western Great N. of Scotland Great Northern Do., A. Stock Do., B. Stock !Gt. Sth.&West.(lre.) 'Great Western. Do. SU.. V. It . gua. St Trish Sonth-Eastern. Lancaster & Carlisle. Do., Thirds Do. New Thirds Laneash &Yorkshire Do., do. F. £l6 Do• , Wst. Riding Un. Do. Southport. London & Blackmail Lond.Brizht.&S.Cst. London & N. Westerni Do. Fifth!! Do. Eighths London dr S.Weaterni Lndncirry.diColerainel Lndndrry. & Ennisk. Mancli.SheE&Lineln. Metropolitan Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement Midland ........ ...... 'Do. Birming. & Derby Midland G. West. (Ir. ) Do. Shares Newcastle &Carlisle ; Newpt.Aberg.&Hrfd Newry & Eaniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint & Rostrevor Norfolk.. ....... Northn. Counties Un North British North Devon, Rail. .& Dock Stock Do., A Stock Do., B Stock ..... N. Eastern Berwick Do. do. Extension Do do. G.N.E.Purch. 'Do. Leeds Do. York North London NT. & S. Wstn., Hampl stead, and City Jn.. tirortli Staflordshire.. North Western........ 611 N. &S. Westrn. June. Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton.. [6 j Portsmouth : 0 ft hymney _ _ )0 'Scottish Central ...... )0 ;Scot. N.E.Abrcln. st )J Shropshire Union 4 Sitingbourne &Sheer. 11 South Devon.. ..... )0 ;South Ea5tern......... .11 IDo. 4i per c. Shares 10 ISouth Wa1e5........... .7 S. Yorksh. River Dun 16 100 100 all all all all all all all all Staines,Wok.,&Wok. Stockton & I Do. do., 1854 Do. do., 18c5 Stockton dr Hartlepl Taff Vale Do. Pref., No. 1 Thames Hay. D. R, IVale of Neath Waterfd. Kilkenny Waterford&Limeriek West Cornwall l i \Vest End of London and Crystal Palace Do. A Do. B West London._ Do. First Class, Do. Second Class... Wmbled on &Croydon BRITISH PI I l • Atlan and St. Law. ' Bombay, Baroda, and Con.lnd,guar. 5 p. c. I Do. I Buffalo do Lake Hur. Butf. Brnt. & Godch. 6 p. c:bds. , 1 Aug. ,'72 Do. do., 1 July, '73 Do. do., 1 June, '74 ICalcutta and S. East. Central Oude (Lim.) Ceylon A shares Do. B. do Demerara Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares D 0.44 p.c.Bnds.,'s7 Do. do. do., '59, do. Geelong & Melbourne guar. 5 per cent. Gd. Trunk. of Camila Do. 6 p. c. Deben Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 pore Do. New. guar. 5 p.c Gt. Wostn. of Canada Do. New Do. Do. Do. Do. Bds., payable '57 do., '76, p. '60... do., '73, do. do., '73, without . option Madras, guar. 44 p.c Do. do., 5 per c.., Do. 4i p. c. Eaten Do. 3d Ex., g. sp. c Do. 4th Pc., do. , -- Oude (Limited) Scinde, guar. 5 per c Do FOR: ltwrp & Rotterdam Ardennes Belgian East. Junct. Beziers to Graissessac Carmeaux& Toulouse Coal Mines and Ry Dutch Rhenish Eastern of France Do. New Euphrates Valley Gt. Central of France Great Luxembourg , Italian Junction Lake Const. & Bale Lierro and Turnhout Lombardo-Venetian Lucca & Pist.sp.c.p. Lyons and Geneva Lyons & Mediterran. Maria Ante-Qla Do. New . .......... Namur & Lieg e Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref Northern of France NorwegianTruk. Frei Paris and Lyons Paris and Orleans Recife & San Fran , (Pernam.) g. 7 p. c Rome and Frascati Royal Danish 22 alNational Bank Royal ..... Sambre and /limbo DO; 54 per cent. pref Southern of France Wect Flanders..,, Do. 54 per c, Pref W. t ic N.W. of France Western of Austria_ I • West of Switzerland (Wiesbaden Do. 8 p. cent. pref. Zealand JOINT-STO' all 'Australasia 18.1 Bank of . Egypt 50 Bank of London .. - all Bri. Col. Bk.dan. Co all British N. American 8 C.Bk.of Ind. Au.d:Ch 50 City 25 Colonial .-. O . .' . •_! 20 Commercial o f Loud all Eng.Scot.tilAus.Cht all Lon. Ch. Bk.of Aust all Ditto New 20 London and County 50 Lnd.&E.Bnkng.Corp 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond.andWestminst 35 National Pro. of Eng. 10 Do. Now all y New South Wales all ' Oriental Bank Corp 15 'Ottoman Bank 115 Provincial of Ireland all Do. New 1 R.Aus.B.&G.Im.Co all South Australia all Union of Australia,,,' 2i Do. New 10 Union of London 50 Unity Mutual ... ... , 50 Westra Bk,of Load„ 91 69 iiiii 35i 4 19? , 11i i 13 344 4 96i 871 6* 123 2} 101 67 6i 1011 4 1083 / 105 4/ 1011 4 1 82} 2i 544 591 i 44 I i 4 87 q 40k 65 98 18 171 13i 5 5 103 i 20 641 4 4I 89. 90 21§ 25f 101 21ifi 8 9i 90 89 17i i 30i 30 '463 i 100 5} 100 100 100 100 100 100 all 100 100 all all 10 25 15 20 25 50 50 50 Buckghamsh. ;Clydesdale Jc. Col.Stour Vy., g. 6 p.e 'E. Uu.lLSh. i , Glas. Barr. dt Neils. Direct. Do. New Glstr.&Dn.Fr. 1 Hull & Selby. Do. Shares. I Do. r Shares. Lon. &Greenw IDo.Preference Lon. Til., &S. Do. Bark. Sh . 'Manch.Exton. and Matlock Maid. Bradfd. Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. N.&Est.s p.c. Do. 6 per ct Do. Fixed sp.c Prest. & Wyre Do. Shrs.4 IRoystn.& Hit. 'Shrews.& Her S. Staffordsh WearVaLg6pc Do Wilts&Somrst PREFEREN , IBlyth and Tyne 10 p. e.pref. (issd..at 501 ) Bris.&Ex.4 p.c. St Do. 4 per c. Shares Caledn. £lO 4. p. c Ches. & Ho. 51 p.c Do. do. 5 per cent Cork Ar, Bandon 5 p.c Dun. Perth. &Aber.J E. Anglian Cls. A Sh Do. do. Cls. B 6p. c Do. do. Cls. C 7 p. c Eas.Co.Ex,sp.c No.l Do. No. 2 Do. New 6 pr. c. St East Un., G. 6 p. C Do. 51., 0 per cent Do. 101. Debentr.Sh Do. do. 4 per cent East Lancash.6 p. cts E.&W. York. J. sths Edit). & Gl. 5 p. c. Sh. Ed. Prth . &Dun. 4p.c . Furness, 5 p. c Glas. & 5.W.G.5 p.c Groat Northn. 5 p.c Do. 5 p. c. Redeem at 10 p. c. prem Do. 41 per cent Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prom. GLN . of Scot.lst Pre Gt. S & W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. Gt.W.(B.&H.Ex.spc Do. con. red. 44 p.c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Do. irred. 4 per , ent. Do 5 p. c. red. pref. Do. Birm. Pref. Sh Do.Cbester Bp. c .P. S Do. do. 5 p. c. do Do. Birm. Gua. Stk Do. Chesh. Gua. Sh Do. do. do. Do. do. do. Lau. & York. 6 pc. St. Lon. &B. G. 5 pc. No.l D0.,P., 5 p. c. St.No.2 Do. New Guar. 6p.c. Do. do. 5 p. c., N 0.4 Lon. & N. W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 p. Lon. & S. W. 7 per et. late 3d Shares Londy.& Color. Sh. Londy. &Ennis. 2 Sh. M., S. , &L. 6 p. Cent. Do. do. do. £6 Do. do. 31 per cent. Marypt. Carl. 4 p.c. Do. 4. per cent Do. do. .. . Aid. Con sol. 6 p.c. St. Do. Con. Br. Bir. 6 p.c. Do. 4i p. c. Prof. St. Do. L. &H. Pref. St. New., Aber. , &c., pr. 5 p. c. red. 5 p. c. pm. Do. Perpet. 6 pr. et. NTorf k D eb. 4 p.c. Sh. Do, 5 p. c. Ext. 1846 Do. 5i p.c. pf , 1847 ..,1847 North British .. ..... Do. 71. Preference N. E. Berw. 4 p. c. Do. do. do IDo. Leeds 6 pc. No, 1 Do do. Qrs 1848 Do. York H. & S. Par. North Staffordshire Ox., Wor. & Wolv. 6 p.c. Ist guar. Do. 4. c. 2d guar._ Scot. Cent. New Pref. Se.N.E.Aber.g.6p.c. Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. Do. d 0.3 p.c. pf. St , South Devon Do. fixed , q pr cent. S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d. Do. 4i per cent Do. Fixed 4i p.c. Sh , t S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c Do. do. 44 p. c S.Yorksh.4 p.c.Guar Stock. &Dar., sp. c Do. do. do. :Stock. St Hartl, g. 5 p.c. till July 1, '56 IWaterfd&Kilk. 6 pc. 20 113 St. St. 124' 25 I 25 a. 10 20 20 10 St. 18 20i 100 100 .00 20 20 20 Yd r'RE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVEN IN G I APRIL 20 1857! LINES LEISED AT FIXED RENTALS. ~&ILWAAS. r,ompanie, C . ,,srri, HO'S tLiS dap. Ln. &N. 'W.' Cale.don Gt. Northn E. Count. Caldonian. BRITIS a Alfred Cons. (Philk.) {British Iron Condur3w (Cambrn.) Dev. Gt. Cash. (Tay.) Great South Tolgus Grt. W. Alfrd. (Philk.) Grt.W. Vor (llelstn.) Lady Bertha N. Frances (Illogan) N.W.Basset (Illogan) North Wheal Crofty Par. Cons. (St. Blaxy) Porkellis U. (Wend.) Sort. Cons. Min. Co S. Caradon (St. Cleer S. Carn Brea (Illogn. S.W. Frances(lllogn. Tam. S. & L. Min. Co Tin Croft Un.Minen (Gwennap V. of Towey (Camay.) W. Basset (Illogan) W. Caradon (Liskrd ) Wh. Basset (Illogan). Wh. Buller (Rdruth). Wh. Edward(Calstck) Wh. Kitty (U. Llant; Wit. Ma. Ann (Menht. Wh. Trelawney (Lis.: 92 - 94 98 - 102 ' 11 - 13 133 - 135 3 - 41 16 124 - 13 23 - - 24 102 - 104 2a 2$ 89 - 91 i - $ P 54 - 56 1 131 - 134 8 - 9 9 - 9i 31 - 32; 87 - 891 !E SHARES. 92 - 94 oi 1796 5i - G - 112 - 112 - -- 12i - 74 - 115 - 109 - 102 - 62 - 10 - 96' - 87 - 101 - 101 - 17 - 10!,, - 19 - 9i - 14 - 134 - 140 -- 115 - 156 - 6g' --- •• - 134 - 98 - 89 - 1B pl - 103 92 ld - - - 110 - 116 - 110 - 70 - -23 i - 102 - 104 - 281- 8 p ...." ... - 3 MINES. 204 - 214 7 - 8 160 - 170 110 - 460 134 - 144 5.t - 64 53 - 6 15 - 17 23 - 25 5 - 6 22 - 23 6 7 - 330 - 340 6 - 7 320 - 330 - 41 —5" 20ci 220 - 1 31 - 33 150 - 160 260 - 270 350 - 370 41 - 4i 18 20 44 - 46 22 - 24 MINES. - 2 - 21 19 21 Rd 60 63 11 13 id 14 1 5 7 ld p 1 - 6 : ii. *ii = ii :31- 3 .A.NEOUS. 2O - 214 i I= 1 . 66 7 155 33 - 38 25 - 27 2i - 5, 3 / 4 - 5t 6 7- - par ip li - Ft 31 - 41 •ii i ,3,1 t --. 1 4 - 41 par IP 18 - 22 Y - t lA - ii par ip 1 2i 2i 23 7- ii P 6 - 8 62 - 64 1, - 1 35 - 37 -. _ _ 1 11 - 13 FOREIGN Australian Brazilian Imp .(isaue d at £5 pm) Do. Coaxes 6z Cuiada Do. St. John Del Roy Clarendon Con. MM. Co. of Jamaica Co bre Copper Copiapo Fortuna General Linares Lusitanian Iljariquita New Granada„ INovean Monde Pont. Sil.LdM. dti Smlt Port Philip Santiago de Cuba south Australian Do. Scrip Do. 10 p. c. United Mexican 18 ,00 all all l Os. MISC: Australian Agricult. Australn. Royal Mail Berlin Water Works Brit. American Land Cana& Do. Go. 6pc.Jau&July Do, 6 p.c.Feb.&Aup. D 0.6 p.c. Mar.&Sept. Copper Min. of Eng. Do. Pref. 7§ p. cent Crystal Palace Do. Preference 'Crystal Pal, of France uston Iron Ore Eastern Steam Electric Telegraph Electric Tel. of Irel. En. &Aust. Cop. SmCo Eur. & Ind.Jetn. Tel. Gen. Ir. Sc. Col.(lim.) Gen. Steam Navigat. London Discount Lond. Gen. Omnibus Magdalena St. Navig. Mediteran. Elec. Tel. Mexican & S.Americn Nat. Discount Co Do. New Netherlands Land— Do. Do. .. Do.B p c.PLiss.at I d. Do. Do. New B. &N. S. Land N. S. W. Gov. 5 p. c. D. N. B. Australasian... Nrth.of Europe Steam Oriental Gas Do. New Shares all 10 all all 100 all ' all all Peelltr. Ld. & Minrl. Peninsular & Oriental Do. New Rhymney Iron Do. New Royal Mail Steam.... Scot, Austral. Invest Do, New S. Ana • Gov. 6 p.c.bds South Austral. Land Subnaarine Tel. Scrip Do. Registered Trust&Ln Co. U .Can Van Diemen's Land 6 p.aan. azuly N 194 141 132 133 i 97 114 105 65 911 d 2i f 23j 3 I$ 335 7i 21j 1 i pm lli i Business this day. Do.. at. Westn. Y. & Do Do S. Eastern o Peto &Co Do lan. &N. W. & Midld. Midland... E. Count Do Do Do L. & N. W Do Gt. Northn T. Brassoy M. MClean' Stk.&Dar Do Gt.Westn i w Arsioige A " 4tUgg SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock, TATTERSALIS—(This Evening.) GREAT NORTHERN. 9 to 4 agst St. Giles (taken) 9to 2 aget Skirmisher (taken and offered) 9 to 2 agst Chevalier d'lndustrie TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 4to 1 agst Kent (taken) 11 to 2 agst Anton (taken) 6to 1 agst Loyola (taken) 6to 1 aget Vidette (taken and offered) Bto 1 agst Sydney (offered) ONE THOUSAND. sto 4 agst Blink Bonny. 3to 1 Ayacanora. 6to 1 agst Tasmania. CHESTER CUP. 6to 1 agst Leamington (taken) 10 to 1 agst Mincepie (taken and offered) 20 to 1 ag4 Dolemma! a (taken) 30 to 1 asst Zig Zs; (taken) 500 to 5 agst Lance DERBY. 12 to 1 agst Anton (taken) 100 to 6 agst Arsenal (taken) 25 to 1 agst Sprig of ShilWash (taken) 25 to 3 agst Lady Hawthorn (offered) 25 to 1 agat Tournament (taken) 40 to 1 agst Warderrnarske (taken) 50 to 1 apt Chevalier d'lndustrie (taken) 1000 to 5 agst Athlete NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—(This Day. •The following appointments were made at the Admi• ralty this afternoon : Captains—Chas. Wise, to the Vesuvius ; G. G. Ran. dolpb, to the Cornwallis. Commanders--W. P. Crozier, to be Captain on the Reserved Half-pay List ; E. Lacy, to the Adventure ; W. A. J. Heath, to the Assistance, commissioned as a troop ship. Assistant-Surgeons—John Hudson, to the Belleisle ; W. A. Turner, to the Rhadamanthus. Assistant-Paymaster W. D. Broom, to the Tortoise. LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. :Sittings in Banco, before Lord Campbell, and Justices Wightman, Erle, and Crompton.) CORONERS' FEES-THE QUEEN Y. THE JUSTICES OF GLOUCHSTERSIIIRE. Sir F. Thesiger moved for a rule for a mandamus against the Justices of Gloucestershire, calling upon them to allow and pay Mr. Gaisford, coroner for the county, certain fees for holding inquests, which bad been disallowed by the :Court of Quarter Sessions. The learned counsel said, the question had of late be come one of considerable importance, and much obstruc tion of justice had taken place in the county of Glou cester. Trio Chairman of the Sessions had appeared to take a particular view of the case, and had published a pamphlet on the se bject. He held that in cases of sudden death, and where p9rsons had died by the visitation of God, there being no suspicion of violence, the Coroner was not justified in holding inquests. Lord Campbell said that was a very laudable wish on the part of the magi•trates to put a check to the holding of unnecessary inquests. Sir F. Thesiger said no doubt that was so ; but the magistrates of Gloucestershire appeared to entertain a notion that unless violence was shown the coroner was not entitled to his fees. In the present case it appeared that in the month of November last, Mr. Gaisford re ceived informatio:a from the constable of Westerby, that a female about 60 years of age had been found lying on the floor dead ; she bad not been, at attended by a medical man, and she was unknown to be labouring under a disease ; upon which Gaisford travelled 17 miles, and held an inquest, when the jury returned a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God." In January he also received information from a police constable of the death of a child, from being scalded, in which be held an inquest, and the jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death." At the same time he heard of another case, in which a per son had gone into a chemist's shop, and suddenly ex pired ; and in tba►t case a verdict of " Died by the visitation of God"' was returned. At the following Quarter Sessions, he presented his account of fees, when the justices refused to allow the payment of the 20s. for the inquest under the 25 Geo. IL, cap. 21, and the 63. Bd. under the Ist Vic., cap. 88, which is allowed to the coroner for the payment of the expenses and making his action. The learned counsel read several oases which had been before the Courts to show that where the coroner acted bona fide and upon ordinary discretion he was entitled to his fees. Lord Campbell maid it was certainly desirable that some rule should be laid down, both as a protection to the coroner and with due regard to the interests of the rate payers.—Rule to sh ow cause granted. CIIIRLEWIS V. THE HARD OF MORNINGTON, ADMINISTRA- TOR, &Q. Mr. E. James, Q.C., moved on Thursday last, before Mr. Justice Coleridge, and a verdict found for the plaintiff, with 2,339/. 145., the full amount of the plaintiff's claim, for a tailor's bill for the late Hon. James Long Wellesley, of the 12th Lancers, and interest thereon at the rate of five per cent. The defence was, except as to 3751., Statute of Limita tions, for a rule to reduce the damages to the amount, with interest, from the year 1846, when the bill was given, and the ground of the motion was that the account had been furnished generally, in the year 1843, to the solicitors of the Earl of Mornington, and that the giving of the bill in 1845, by Mr. Welles ley, was a general payment only, and not on account of a settled transaction, so as to bring the whole account within the Statute of Limitations. The Court were clearly of opinion that the bill was given in part payment of the account due in 1843, and therefore there was no ground for disturbing the verdict. —Rule refused. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. Mr. Commissioner Goulburn was the Commissioner of the day, but there was no case of the slightest in terest. IN RE R. K. LANK. In the matter of this bankrupt, who is a solicitor, and extensively connected with bill discounting, it was origi nally intended by his Honour to give judgment to-day on some disputed points, but the judgment was adjourn ed for hearing further arguments. CITY SHERIFFS' COURT. (Before Mr. Prendergast, Q.C.) CALDWELL V. EXLEY.I The plaintiff is a seed merchant, and defendant is in the same business in Mark-lane, and the action was brought to recover the sum of 381. 108. for a quantity of winter tare seed, alleged to have been sold to the de fendant. The transaction occurred in September last, and the plaintiff swore that defendant promised to pay on the goods being delivered at the railway station, and they were forwarded accordingly, but no delivery order was tendered at the time, but afterwards an undated one was offered, which defendant refused to take on that ground. _ _ . Mr. Buchanan called the defendant, and put in an invoice, on which it was stated that the goods were to be paid on the receipt of the delivery order, and defendant said that through not receiving the delivery order in September he had lost the contract and 6d. per bushel ; he refused to take the order because the railway com pany would not have delivered to an undated order. In examination by Mr. Mayhew, defendant admitted that he had received a notice from the plaintiff that the delivery order was lying at his agent's, and defendant could have it on payment of the amount of the invoice, but he had never applied. Mr. Buchanan contended that a proper delivery ought to have been tendered at the time of the sale, and that defendant was not bound to go to an agent, but the ♦endor was bound to deliver it before he bad a claim. The order was not, in fact, tendered at all till February, which was too late for sowing the seed. His Honour considered that the purchaser ought to have gone and taken up the delivery, as he bad the op portunity of selecting his own time and suiting his own convenience. He must therefore give judgment for the plaintiff. EMIGRATION FROM THE NORTH OF SCOTLAND.—The Spring fleet has just sailed for Canada from the north east coast of Scotland, carrying out 1,500 passengers. They are chiefly agricultural labourers, and for the most part young and newly-married people. Large sums of money continue to be received from settlers in Upper Canada who had previously gone out, chiefly from Aber deenshire, and there is every prospect that before many years few agricultural labourers will be left at home. Wages have risen, but when we state that the highest rates do not exceed 201, a-year, it will not be thought surprising. GENERAL SIR CHARLES NAPIER. The Life and Opinions of General Sir Charles James Napier, G. C. B. By Lieutenant-General Sir William Napier, K.C. B. In Four Volumes. Vols. I. and 11. John Murray. Had Tacitus been own brother of Scipio, and. surv►ving him, written h s Biography—the result could hardly have been more interesting than are these enthralling Memorials of the Conqueror of Scinde, penned by the classic historian of the Cam paigns of the Peninsula. This, in truth, is Charles Napier's noblest and most enduring monument. Here, in this eloquent and touching Narrative of his Life—here, in these pages, glowing with the warmth of fraternal love, radiant with the evidences of chivalric genius, and luminous with the light shining out of Great Deeds and Heroic Sentiments —here, if anywhere discernible, is most assuredly the "Memento" destined to convey to posterity the fittest notion of all that was most memorable in the Career and Actions of the Hero of Meeanee and Hyderabad. A glorious history recorded in appro priate characters ! A Tribute to the Fame of the last great Captain of England—in every particular more solid, more massive, more substantial, than the Bronze Statue and the Granite Pedestal, erected in homage to his memory upon the most conspi- • cuous site in the Capital of the Empire—a work of art so far valuable and of importance, for inasmuch as it will serve to attest to a remote epoch the un affected admiration with which this Dauntless Heart was regarded by his own immediate cot:tempo- It is impossible not to recognise everywhere throughout these two introductory volumes of the biography of Napier, the perfect and tender appre ciation of his character by his eminently congenial biographer. The key-note of this appreciation is struck in the very first sentence of the first para graph. " This," says Sir William Napier, in ac cents simple but thrilling, " This shall he the story of a man who never tarnished his reputation by a shameful deed : of one who subdued distant nations by his valour, and then governed them so wisely, that English rule was revered and loved where be fore it was feared and execrated." Adding, "For thus nobly acting, the virulence of interested fac tion was loosed to do him wrong : honours were withheld, and efforts made to depreciate his ex ploits by successive Governments nevertheless, his fame has been accepted by the British people as belonging to the glory of the nation." A mag nificent but sorrowful epitome of a brave life, this is—with truth, alas, in every syllable! Attestations of which have already been emblazoned in inde lible colours upon the scroll of the National History. Read it—and then answer I They will tell you, those redoubtable annals, in regard to this Great Captain—Conqueror and Administrator—that his Life has no one "damning blot" upon it, as with so many of his renowned predecessors ! They will say, Here, at least, there is no cause for ex tenuation in regard to the treatment of a Ney or of a Carraccioli ! They will tell you, those annals of England, when speaking of Napier, that Here was one who carved out for his country with his sword a new and vast dominion. One who en hanced the Oriental Empire of Great Britain by the addition to it of 58,000 square miles of territory ! A Great Proconsul—victorious first in the field and afterwards in the council chamber ! And whose rewards for all this and for How much more ! were —a star and a bit of ribbon, incessant obloquy and spiteful depreciation ! It is very bitter and very heart-galling, all this—but it is wholesome, never theless, that the truth, miserable though it be, should be spoken right out, without fear and without prevarication. And that Truth. What does it aver ? It says, Here, in Charles Napier was a man who deserved well of his country—one whom chi valrous 'monarchs in the grand old times would have delighted to honour—a Hero and a States man—dauntless and magnanimous ! Yet , a man who, for the most part, from first to last, was treated as the very target of national Ingratitude—a butt for every arrow of hatred, winged with calumny, pointed with envy, barbed with spite, and poi soned with virulence ! A strange, sad tale enough with all its glory—but one, alas ! too true in everything relating to it thus sorrowfully. So true that when the dauntless heart of the great Soldier at last ceased to beat—there lay by his conch, as the sole trophies of so much valour, of such lofty Civism, and of so many and of such re splendent achievements—the Ribbon of the Bath and the Sword of the Ameers ! The latter a spon taneoussgift to the Conqueror and Administrator of Scinde from the gallant foes he bad vanquished— a gift expressive at once of their love, of their gratitude, and of their admiration ! Honour to the great man's memory ! He should have died not thus—but, ah ! how differently Died more gloriously he could not for his own heroic reputation. But he should have died at least surrounded by nobler evidences of the recog nition of his great deeds by his fellow-citizens. He should have died, if ever a soldier died, with the truncheon of a Marshal in his hand ! He should have died not simply a Grand Cross of the Bath, but a Peer of the Realm an Earl, or at the very least a Viscount—if only in consideration of his having added the magnificent province of Scinde to our vast oriental dominions ! Napoleon the Great, with such a Paladin as Charles Napier, would have given him his baton for Meeanee—would have made him a Duke and a Viceroy for Hyderabad ! In stead of which, there was the paltry ribbon—there was the presentation sword received from the Ameers, once his enemies—lying by the noble sul dier's deathbed ! Remembering which, it may be well here to epitomise, in contrast, some among the principal events comprised within the span of this one memorable existence—events (historical for the most part) occurring during the interval which elapsed between 1782—and-1852 : the former the date of General Sir Charles James Napier's birth in London ; the latter that of his death (in the 70th year of his age) at Oaklauds, near Portsmouth. It was on the 10th of August, 1782, that Charles Napier was born at Whitehall—the eldest son of the Honourable George Napier and Lady Sarah Lennox, daughter of the second Duke of Rich mond. So that the Hero of Scinde, through his mother, was great-great-grandson of King Charles the Second While through his father he trac:d his lineage back to the great Montrose, and, as his brother wisely remarks, to the " still greater" Inventor of Logarithms, Napier of Merchistoun ! Glorious and aristocratic associa tions of consanguinity—enhanced by the remem brance that one of the sisters of Charles James Napier's mother (Lady Caroline Lennox) was wife to the first Lord Holland, and mother of Charles James Fox ! Charles Fox, Charles Napier, and the rest of that generation of first cousins, being all sixth in descent from Henry the Fourth, of France, as we have already remarked that they were fifth in descent from Charles the Second,' of England ! " Hence"—referring to this blending together of the blood of the Gallic King and the Scotch Mathematician, Sir William remarks, iu re gard to his dauntless brother—" the blood of the white-plumed Beauvois commingled with that of the heroic Highlander in his veins,. and his arm was not less strong than theirs in battle !" Educated by his father : in January, 1794—being then scarcely twelve years of ago—Charles Napier received a commission in the 33d Regiment. The master passion of his life, an inordinate thirst for Fame, had already revealed itself through sundry curious manifestations. For example, while yet a child, he exulted on finding that he was short sighted—because a portrait of Frederick the Great hanging in his father's room had " strange eyes"— because the eyes of Alexander the Great were said to be of a different colour—because he read in Plutarch that Philip, and Sartorius, and Han nibal, were all one eyed ! " He even wished" says Sir William, " to lose one cf his own, as the token of a Great General [a child's thought remember I)—unknowing, then, that none of God's gifts can be lost with satisfaction." It is curious to note a little further on (vol. i., p. 470) how, in 1837, "while fretted in spirit, he was oppressed by congestion of blood in the eyelid., causing a painful depression, and leading him to fear the loss of sight, with poverty and an existence at, once obscure and suffering." But this was in his fifty-sixth year, and the period of which we have previously spoken was the halcyon dawn of his life, when the future warrior was scarcely escaped from the freakish fancies and the lovely day-dreams of childhood. He was then "demure and thought ful." He was remarkable for a " gentle and calm demeanour." Mr. Sheridan offering, one day at the Hotwells, Bristol, to " tip" him, according to old schoolboy custom, but having the "'tip" courteously declined—remarked, in surprise to the father, " Your boy is a fine fellow, but very wonderful." True words, Richard Brinsley—" very wonder ful !" Here, however, before we leave these days of little more than babyhood —so strangely and so strikingly characteristic—here let us note, in pass ing, one exquisite little baby anecdote of the Hero of the Hereafter : " When be could but just speak, hearing for the first time the caw of a single crow, probably a melancholy one, which infancy could de tect, he stretched forth his little hands, and, weep ing, exclaimed with broken infantine accents, ' W hat matta, poor bird ? what matta ?' " It was the same noble heart that cried out afterwards in the days of his Glory and of his Terror, when the flash of his sword was as a gleam of lightning in the eyes oftho Ameers, and when the warriors of Asia dubbed him, in dread and amazement, " the Brother of the Devil" it was the self-same voice, the same noble heart, unchanged and unchangeable, that cried aloud in anguish long years after wards upon the very morrow of one of his ct most heroic achievements—" Battle ! victory Oh ! spirit-stirring words in the bosom of society ; but to me, Oh, God ! how my heart rejects them. That dreadful work of blood, sickening even t 3 look on : not one feeling of joy or exultation entered my head at Meeanee or Dubba ; all was agony ; I can use no better word. I was glad we won, be cause better it was to have Beloochees slain than Englishmen, and I well knew not one of us would he spared if they succeeded ; to win was my work for the day, and the least bloody thing to be done? But with it came anxiety, pain of heart, d:sgust, and a lon g ing never to have quitted Colbridge, to have passed my life in the round field and the devil's acre, and under the dear yew trees on the terrace amon g st the sparrows : these were the feelings which flushed in my head after the battles. Well, we are born for war in this good world, and will' make it while men have teeth and women have tongues. But away with these feelings! let me go to work, let me sink in harness, if so God pleases ; he who flinches from work, in battle or out of it, is a coward." Not for him, however, the life of calm and quietude, the dolce far niente under "the dear yew trees on the terrace amongst the sparrows !" Half a century and more of glorious action and chivalric deeds—this was the very different path way upon which Charles Napier adventured while yet a stripling, when in 1798, as aide-de-camp to Sir James Duff, he first took part in the service of his country by participating in the terrible task of the suppression of the Irish rebellion ! Sixteen ! He was no more than sixteen at that period when his public career may be said to have really commenced. What he looked like then, we may comprehend at a glance, from the contemporary miniature by W. H. Egleton, engraved as the frontispiece to the first volume of these memorials. A smooth, calm, gentle boyish face, as unlike as could well be to the keen, fiery, impulsive, impas sioned, eagle visage of the grand old warrior as he was in later times, familiar to our recollection. Speaking of his brother's personal aspect, Sir Wil liam has curiously enough remarked (vol. i. p. 117) that an extraordinary change became observable in it in the twenty-seventh year of his age, namely, in 1809. "Up to this period," he says, "his counte nance had been very comely, yet grave and sedate; his dark lustrous eyes , alone g iving signs of the fiery spirit within. disregarded, and his manner became eager and restless, with sudden spasmodic movements, springing partly from his wounds, partly from ill health. This change of manner was a mark of awakened genius : be had warred with and against men of migityenergies,'and thus becoming conscious of ability, his countenance acquired a peculiarly ve hement expression, and his resemblance to a chained Eagle was universally remarked." Observe—the ex- traordinary change iu his appearance, thus pictur esquely described and characterised, is attributed by the biographer of Napier "partly to his wounds. Hiswounds !—No wonder that they told upon him in some way surprisingly, those terrible and tot easily numerable cicatrices! For although he never lost an eye, as Nelson did at Calvi, nor an arm as the same glorious Victim of Victory did at Teneriffe— Charles Napier was hardly less frightfully or less frequently hacked and hewed in battle than even the Conqueror of the Nile and Trafalgar. sub ject to accidents of all kinds in his youth, he broke his leg, he nearly broke his neck more than once, in the sports of boy hood. While, after his entrance into public life, particularly, while serving in the Peninsular War, the blows of the combatants seemed everywhere as he went to concentrate upon his d:minutive frame as the radii of a wheel at the axletree. Had he worn a magic girdle about his waist—like the scarf supposed, by his credulousfollowers, to have charmed death from Ibrahim Pacha, the son of the Egyptian Viceroy Mahomet Ali—he might have unwouud it from his loins upon the evening of battle before enter ing his tent, as Ibrahim was wont to do in the pre sence of his troopers, and have shaken out of the foids a shower of bullets ! Look at the straight to which Napier was reduced, for example, towards the close of the bloody conflict of Corunna, where the i young Major had command of the 50th Regiment. A musket ball struck him, bre akin; the outer bone of his leg—he was pierced in the back by a bayo net—he had a sabre stroke on the skull—and was about to be despatched when he was magnani mously saved by Guibert, a Drummer, and, almost fainting, carried to the rear as a prisoner. That final blow upon the skull was as the crash of Vul can's hammer on the head of Jupiter, whence issued, fully armed, the Minerva of his wise and warlike Genius : crowned with the invincible helmet, and bearing in band the •resistless spear. From that memorable day of Corinna, as we have already seen, his very aspect and bearing betrayed a total alteration—a change so apparent and startling as almost to amount to a transformation. No longer merely grave, sedate, and comely—his lineaments thenceforth evidenced the flame and passion of his impetuous spirit. From that time for ward he seemed, as it were, to bear in his every feature the impress of his fiery genius— he seemed to carry visibly upon his brow, in his glance, in his movements, the sign manual of a Hero and a Conqueror. Till—under the united influence of Glory and Ingratitude, of Victory and Vituperation—laden down with the laurels which he reaped so lavishly, and with the calumnies with which his enemies vainly endeavoured to over whelm his heroic capacity for endurance—he be came in appearance what we (all of us who knew him) so well remember—the "Chained Eagle" to the last ! Reverting, however, from the man himself to his memorable sufferings and renowned achievements—How (we may ask) are those suf ferings and achievements to be the most effectively and yet, at the same time, the most sententiously epitomised ? How By the simplest record of names and dates—a very bede-roll of glory ! A prisoner among the French—Napier was treated with chivalrous consideration by Soult, one of Napoleon's Paladins, Marshal of the Empire, and Duke of Dalmatia. As soon as lie was sueielently restored from his grievous bodily sufferings, the young Major was allowed to return homewards on parole. To return homewards as one born again as by a miracle of resurrection ! For his name had been returned among the list of the killed— his friends were in mourning—his will was at Doctors' Commons ! He got it back, of course, immediately : amid afterwards, when the period of parole had expired, got back himself betimes—to the Peninsula. He was on the Coa fighting as a volunteer. Fighting as desperately as ever : for here two horses were shot under him— and at Busaco he was shot through the face 1 Recovered again from his wounds—he was at the siege of Fuentes d'Onore, and made one .also in the second and more memorable siege of Badajoz. In 1812, when Napoleon the Great, with the daring of Alexander, and the skill of Han nibal, and the forethought of Caesar, and the army of Xerxes, was conquering Russia, and routing her armies, and taking her capital—Charles Napier was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel. In 1813—when the disaster of the Beresina was forgotten in the double glory of Lutzen and Baut zen—the young Colonel was taking part in the ex pedition to the Chesapeake. Direct 'participation in the crowning triumph of the Allied Arms at Waterloo, he was denied by circumstances—ar riving upon the battle-field only upon the dawn of the nineteenth ! Accompanying the British forces to Paris as a volunteer, he subsequently had his share in the storming of Cambray. It is worthy of remark at the termination of that War of the Giants—it is wonderfully worthy of re mark now that we are in the midst of the Anglo- French Alliance, when Queeu Victoria has visited the tomb of the Emperor Napoleon under the dome of the Invalides—it is touchingly and impres sively worthy of remark What were the feelings of OD British Soldiers in 1815 as described by— whom ? By Thiers ? By Thibaudeau ? By Mon tholon ? No : but by Sir William Napier—our o clapic historian of the Peninsular War ! And described by him in his equally classic biography of lii,sfamousbrother, Conqueror and Administrator of Scinde. What are his words? Mark them—learn them off by heart—note every syllable of them! He says — "The feelings of the British soldiers [then in 1815] were unequivocally shown. Proud oft heir long victo rious course against the French, they yet respected the latter as brave enemies, and had a profound admiration, even LOVE, for NAPOLEON, They thought of him, not as a foe, but as a hero standing alone ; a soldier to be hailed by all soldiers ; as a man who had enabled them to gain the greatest pos sible glory by fighting hint : a mas ter in war an d the fast friend of warriors." Magnificent words— magnanimous, heroic, glorious words—the tribute of a Preux Chevalier of the Pen as of the Sword ! Mark the anecdote which follows " When Louis the Eighteenth entered P aris, the writer, his post being at the bead of the picquets guarding the Barrier of Saint Denis, was asked by the Captain on duty there if he was to salute ?" [This is a his torical incident : and now, observe the sequel of it !] c, I h a ve no orders on that head, and give none was the reply." [Nobly spoken, brave Sol dier and truthful Historian ! And now as Marcel lus says in Hamlet, " Mark what followed it !"] Quoth Sir William (1., 267.)—c , The King came up, crowds thronged forward, and the words vive and Roi -were heard on all sides ; but the last was generally preceded by the words l'Elnpereur et, pronounced in a low tone. The British soldiers being left to them selvesbrought down their muskets from the shoulder, and placing their hands on the muzzles fiercely re garded the approaching King. He seemed sur prised, but soon his countenance assumed a look of such malignant ferocity, so fixed, so peculiar, as never to be forgotten." Remember, English men—all this is from an eye-witness, and such an eye-wimess Remember all this is from the hand and heart and conscience of a British soldier, and of all British soldiers from the one who is univer sally recognised as the annalist of 13ritisli Tictoziss in the war of the Peninsula. Reading this, well may we now exclaim in 1857, in the presence of the Anglo-French alliance, that for Englishmen hardly less than for Frenchmen, Waterloo has at last, indeed, been gloriously avenged The con tinental wars for a time consummated—Europe having her sword at length sheathed—Napoleon conquered, banished, dead, buried in his island prison of St. Helena only to be disinterred after the lapse of another generation, to the end that ho migat be ultimately borne homewards and yet more solemnly sepultured—how in the lull that fol lowed that great Storm, how, after that, fared Na pier, the young Colonel of the Peninsula ? A terse synopsis of his life may (in answer to that suggestive query) be thus readily compacted together :—Hav ing served upon the lonian staff for about a twelve month, Charles Napier, in 1824, was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Cephalonia. Fifteen years afterward., in 1839, he was intrusted with the com mand of the Northern Military District of England. So that Ihe who more than forty years previously had taken a subordinate, but still responsible part in the extinction of the Irish Rebellion, was now called upon to take a conspicuous and most respon sible part in the military governance of Eng land during the suppression of the Chartist Insur rection ! Accomplishing his share, however, hap pily in the last mentioned achievement in the Cause of Order by moral force rather than by physical violence. Shortly afterwards, in 1841, he was ap pointed to the command of the Anglo-Indian army, stationed in the Bombay Presidency. And in the year afterwards, in 1842, was despatchedby the then Governor-General, the Earl of Ellenborough, to Scinde—where he was entrusted with the difficult task of keeping open the jeopardised communications between Generals English, Nott, and Pollock, at that time advancing into Affghanistan. To say that in this enterprise Sir Charles Napier had to contend against an enormous disproportion of dif ficulties were to say nothing. How enormous th, use difficulties were may be most strikingly illus trated by the simple record of his achievements—. the achievements by which they were utterly dis sipated. Those achievements we may truly desig nate, in one wurd, magnificent. They in cluded among them the famous battle of Meeanee, that memorable victory in which, with merely 2,600 men, Sir Charles Napier defeated and routed an army of 35,000 Beloochees ! They were crowned by the yet more memorable tri umph won by him soon afterwards at Hyde rabad—a triumph by which the power of the Ameers of Scinde was at a single blow shattered to frag ments as by a thunderbolt. Nominated almost im mediately Governor of the new province, the victo rious General soon showed no less capacity than daring and energy as an Administrator. He caused canals to be dug, he turned the commerce of Scinde into enisirly novel channels, he awakened in a surprisingly short time the dormant industry of the population. He abolished with a stroke of the pen —slavery, the suttee, and the execrable practice of infanticide I Dreaded first of all by the natives as a bearer of the Sword of War, Sir Charles Napier, as the bearer of the Sword of Justice, was very soon regarded by the vanquished race with love and veneration. The story of his heroic Conquest has been told by his brother, the annalist of our wars in the Peninsulas--as also the no less notable narrative of his wise and mode rate Government. The subsequent events in our hero's life are yet more vividly than those of 1842- 43 in the popular recollection. They are so, be cause in a historicl point of view they are but as incidents of yesterday. Everybody remembers well the anxiety, we may almost call it the actual panic, awakened amongst us here at home by the first dis astrous intelligence of the Sikk campaign of 1849. We have none of U 9 forgotten how the people then, as it were with one voice, fixed upon the Hero of Scinde as their destined Deliverer ! How the Iron Duke him , elf emphatically endorsed the popular mandate by replying, when asked to mention three names among any of those he might recommend for the command at that apparent crisis to her Ma jesty's Government—" Sir Charles Napier—Sir Charles Napier—Sir Charles Napier I" And finally, how, in obedience to the instinct of the nation, and in answer to the deliberate recommendation of the Duke of Wellington, the Government did send Sir Charles Napier to assume the command of our army in Hindostan at a crisis fraught, to all appearance, with enormous difficulty, and with all but overwhelming responsibility. When he arrived in the Punjaub the war was over, as every body, equally well remembers. But, as every body does not remember as it ought to Le remembered in simple justice and out of the commonest motives of gra titude, Sir Charles Napier signalised the com pa.rwively brief interval of his last command over an English army, by vindicating in a re markable manner his character as a military reformer—a military reformer daring and enlight ened ! In the winter of 1850-1851, he resigned that eornmaud. And in 1852, to the grief of all who knew him, and amidst the unavailing regrets of every patriotic citizen of the empire, having a heart uninfluenced by passion, and a judgment un warped by prejudice—he died, as we have said, at his estate of Oaklands, near Portsmouth. Peace to his manes. Honour to his memory. To that memory he himself has 'secured an unfailing »c petuation. His career will be cherished in the popu lar recollection because be made it a part of the national story. His achievements will be borne in mind, because, without exaggeration, they are, in truth, among the greatest and the noblest of the valiant deeds of Englishmen. To point the moral of this memorable life, to adorn the tale of these heroic actions, it is well that Charles Napier's bro ther of all men should have assumed the office of his biographer. Nobly is that brother acquitting himself of the duties deVolving upon him from that self-imposed responsibility. So appropriately and so judiciously is he doing this that we look forward. with eager satisfaction to the prospective completion by two more volumes, of a work which, in the first and second, gives all the promise of a masterpiece. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.) LONDON, April 20.—Wind this day at noon, W.S.W.; moderate breeze and fine. PLYMOUTH, April 18.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Star of the North, from London, for Bombay, with loss of top mast, &c. Sailed—Coral Queen, Cape of Good Hope; Speculation, Quebec ; Margaret Ann, ditto ; Gem, New• fonndland. DARTMOUTH, April 19.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Pacha, from Rio Janeiro. BELFAST, April 17.--Arrived—Warder, from Dome• rata. CLYDE—Sailed—Alert, for Monte Video. OFF SHOREHAM, April 19.—Wind S.S.E.—Charles Henry, from Antwerp for Brazils. POOLE, April 18.—The Peseverance, of this port, makes water, having been on shore.. _ CARDIFF,` April 18.—Wind S.—Sailed—trimpe, for Batavia. ABERDEEN, April 18.—The, City of Quebec, hence to Quebec, with passengers, is aground, but expected off without damage. DROGIIHDA, April 18.—The Woodstock, from Swansea to Liverpool, was run into off the Skinces by the Fililia, from Liverpool to New York, and sunk soon afterwards crew saved. (PER ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LivintrooL, Monday Morning. Wind W. Arrived—Express, from Halifax ; Duero, Berm steamer, Coruna ; Annthen, Santander • J. V. Maria, Amster dam ; Felicity, Jamaica; Otter, Gibraltar; Otterburn, Amsterdam. _ _ Put back—Meander, screw steamer, and Govran Bahry, Turkish frigate, screw, both with machinery damaged. QUZEMISTOWN, April 18. Wind S. Arrived—Avon, from Ibrail ; Chacofords, Malaga. (BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAYZSEND, Monday, 9.42 a.m. Wind calm; tide high water; very fine. Arrived, April 19.—Bravo, from Stettin ' • Carolinda, ' Cherbourg • Princess Victoria, Terceira ; Lady R eou . Young 20.--eind i l gll" G Harlingen. fromßandhol m ; C o lli er, Arrived,Taragna ; April Emden ; Eugenie, Nantes. DEAL, Monday, 9.20 a.a. Wi n d N.W., light and fine. Passed in tow—Canopus, from Mauritius, for London. Passed—Ossian, screw steamer, from westward, for London : Douglas, London, Manilla ; Rapid, London, Bahia. Passed, April 18 —Barrels, from Shields, for Pori Ma• hon. Anchored—Eliza Moore, from Lone/on, for Lima; Linos. field, London, San Sebastian ; W. G. Malcolm, London, Bombay. The Queen has signified her pleasure of appointing the Rev. C. J. P. Eyre, Rector of Bury 'St. Edmunds, to succeed to the Rectory of Marylebone, Ott the el , .vation of the Hon. and Rev. J. T. Pelham to the See of Norwich. THE SHAKSPERE CLUB DINNER.—Mr. Payne CoLier will preside at the Shakspere Club dinner this year at Stratford ; and the meeting will probably receive from the trustees of the fund provided by Mr. John Shake peare some account of their services and their projects. —A thenceunt. FUNERAL Or A FRENCH EXlLE.—Yesterday morning the mortal remains of M. Roug6e, an eminent French exile, were conveyed to their last resting-place at the Tower Hamlets Cemetery, amid the regret of his friends and the sympathy of his fellow-exiles. The funeral started from the residence of the deceased in Charlotte. street, Blackfriars•road, and as soon as the coffin wail placed in the hearse and the widow and immediate friends in the mourning coach, the foreign exiles, to the number of about 2,00 0 , form ed in procession, and fol. lowed, carrying flags, bearing various rep u bli can dev i ces, and encircled with crape fringed with silver. As the procession proceeded it was joined by great numbers, so that by the time it arrived at the cemetery it could not have numbered less than 10,000 individuals, and ex tended upwards of a mile in length. After the coffin wa lowered into the gra v e M. W. Pyat, Flandier, and s Louis Blanc, and others, de livered the funeral orations. At the end of the ceremony the vast assemblage retired. The whole proceedings were conducted with the greatest &wow. all 10i 100 100 2sqd, lOs 10 20 10 20 20 20 20 12 25 20 25 10 L 0.6 20 25 25 12i