The Sun. — London, England, 1857-04-27 00:00:00

t to obtain ,ye reached inter: st g r r • Cerilo, ;,) be :rans - Elich is tile conspiraci 'll not open unt ofscati xrels which the Queen to the cri n place at rnpily sup hbourhood he Carlists , Huez do 13 the Corte; c, say 3 • of France , r from l' lg q uestion . sis of question . 'ers is O. ecreed tbilt Con l o lll e ti►e fund. -equired lD —"lt Ira l e Chamb e ' , roposing t ° ca pital _o , embers .i g her ; bat )pted th 3 ent gaVe,_ 3 Of.) to tn ° Marline t 0 graphic de LPRIL 23. ental C OO. inst., from Sul •opeam, t' u t „ the misslu° ! 21st inst.° SuNDA I '.„, d at iNtw tbe iEt v : c l 3XpOriefie ria 9 hag. e' r i the ar r ly, ,n, at Sae"; Saturue, the beavi Southaa* telegraP l3 nsular a,° /3 from wil ic j ie agen t ..o AUstrall9 f degr ee lue So to -Y on the lgt "a ne3rill J , e a,At 26th. bo ) 1e that.; the One s ` telegrar ° ;d Gall" SuNDO a orning'3 t $ COMP 311 ;11 inst. IV/ I. at half 13 : tch Wag r L 1.37 a' r '' s tearae; ss than 10 ° Lt, at to (riag 0 0 ileft _ e hav , t o. )001 ,- - - r 0 ° 4..be 1 a r. ttena , o o ,o f r g 3de attar )50-8-/ it y o t t (1 03 • G ie s 401 1. 0 in 0 .0 0 jo 0 1 - 1 v fire , e be 2,°0 a. 0,1 110 wev 1 1,0(' T be ned' be inso re_, also Cl)ji gdrea - oil al- 9 Aert se in 3alis es 0 - i are cob, he g -orks" r e Lter -1 1 ° 1 e ; ,e cog" a . a rriv e , 13 ... str eeti: b to 11 1 0 but rt/PL ( 10 r 9. - 3 , n tle.Y Ldjoil g ker, iidera" en deter jos. 131.° : f w wow , t e sal ford. to S r. ile 'ens. 'r ,-=- MONEY MAR ET AND COMMERCIAL IN TELLIGEZZOE. CITY, Two o'CLoctc. The Liverpool Cotton Market on Saturday closed heavily, and the transactions were small and unim portant, without alteration. The sales were -7,000 bales, 1,000 of which were taken for export. The Railway Share Market was• very inanimate, having opened with a dull appearance, but towards the close of business a slight improvement was manifested. From most of the chief manufacturing towns, the advices received this morning descril:e business as being exceeclin4ly dull. At Manchester the operatives are acting with extreme caution owing to the ratherfluctuating state of the Liverpool Cotton Market. At Leeds the manufacturers are not working full time and the demand is quiet. Ope rations are also contracted owing to the London Wool Sales which commence on the 30th inst., as it is uncertain what prices will be realised. It is generally thought, however, that late rates will be fully maintained. The quantity that has arrived is about 56,000 bales, chiefly Australian. During the past week the pressure upon the money market was certainly less severe, the eleva tion of the Bank rate to 61 per cent. having check-d speculation as well as commercial engageme❑ts. On Thursday and Friday the demand suddenly in- creased owing to the abstraction from the market of the means require I to secure the gold brought by the Auglosea from Australia, and also to Pay for a large amount of stock which the job bers had purchased. On Saturday there was renewed quietness, bat to-day, as far as can be ascertained the market is extremely tight. Until the middle of next month no change for the bet'er can be expected, and even then it is questionable whether lower quotations will prevail. Prepara tions are being made for the mercantile paper fal ling due on the 4th proximo, and a few days after that period, the settlement of the Consul account will no doubt sustain the inqoity. The specie movement is still a source of great anxiety to all interested in the progress of m.)netary affairs, and judging from present indications, the drain of gold to the Continent, and of silver to the East, is likely to continue. Accird ing to the advices received via Trieste, the rats of exchange at Calcutta, Bombay, and Shanghai, re main unfavourable, so that the shipments on the 4rlt and 20th of the month may still be expected to be made to the average extent. To procure the neces- I sary supplies, remittances of gold to the Continent must be effected, since the receipts from Mexico are quite inadequate. During the last few days about 35,0001. has been withdrawn from the Bank of Eng land, and the 195,4411. just received from Australia will no doubt follow. The advices from that colony will therefore be perused with great attention; as upon the steady importation of gold wiil depend the maintenance of the present stock of bullion at the Bsnk of England. Last week the receipts of the precious metals Were about 300,0001., and the exports 111,7741. A meeting of the South . Australian Copper Mining Company was held this day to agree to the sale of their mining property and all its appur tenances to the Strathalbyn Mining Company (limited), and also for agreeing to the conditional compromise made in the case of Thompson v. Armitage. A meeting of the StrAthalbyn Mining Company was also held at the same place to con eder the propriety of confirming the said condi tional agreement of Thompson v. Armitage. The resolutions were passed unanimously. The Board of Trade returns for the month end ing the 31st March have been issued to-day. A very favourable increase is exhibited both in the import and export business of the United King dom—the tables for the three months also showing an important augmentation compared with the cor responding period of previous years. The total declared value of the exports during those months Was as under 1857 1856 • One Month. Three Months. £10,456.348 £28,827,493 9,448 570 25,149,103 Increase this year £7,778 £3,678,390 The Import and Shipping Returns show a very satisfactory improvement. A. decline of about k per cent. has taken phce in tile market for English Stocks to-day, the specula tors for a decline showing a disposition to continue their operations. The dearness of money, the con tinued demand, the prospect of the drain of ?old and silver remaining unchecked, and the uneasy fe eling regarding the hostilities in China, are amon g the principal causes of th 4 de pressed condition of the market. There is nevertheless little business in progress, as the future is involved in so much uncertainty with re gard to financial affairs. Consols have beta 92:2 for transfer, '92i to 93 for account, and 93i 4 for June. The New Threes were 91i I, the &.duced 911 the June Exchequer Bills ss. discount par, and the Bonds 981 A. Bank Stock is 213 to Foreign Securities are weaker, and the transac tions have been generally unimportant. Turkis'.► 6 per Cents. have declined to 931 and the 4 per Cents. are 99 7 g to 100 ; Russian 4i per Cents. have been 96i-; Mexican, 231 ; and. Dutch 4 per Cents. 97 to 97k. The following are the nominal prices of Foreign Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bomb, 6 7 ; Alexi 't") 239 i; Peruvian 4i per Cents., 77 79 ; d o . 3 per Cents., 55 . 57 ; 'Portuguese 3 per Cents., 44 to 46 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 104 6 ; ditto 41 per Cents., 9 7 99; Spanish 3 per Cents., 41/ ; ditto Deferred, 25 tl; ditto Certificates, 69 ; ditto Passive, 5l 6. A very limited business has been transacted in ,the Railway Share Market, and iu all instances ower prices have been curren'. Caledonian, s, ae tern Counties, B r i g ht on , Manchester, -uelEeld, and Lincoln and Midland have r eceded ss. ; South Western and North Ear ern (York) 10s. ; Lanca s hi re an d Y or k s hi r e North Western, 15s. ; an d N or th E as t ern , Be rwick, and South Eastern, 11. In the Foreign 41 ( 1 Colonial undertakings values have also de e"ed• Eastern of France have receded 103 Can ada, o f F rance , ss. ; Grand Trunk of 'allada, 2/. ; and Great West ern of Canada, ss. ki ritish, F o reign, a nd C o l on i a l Mi n i ng Sh ares ar e as nominal quotatiorp. r " o int-Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares te 2/.ery inactive. Bank of London declined 1 . 43 3 Loi:don and Joint-stock, sa. ; and Otto de 14 clined Bank, 5s ; and North of Europe Steam . 81411 313 FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE (YCLO. •h. ( from the Official Ltst.) Business done. It, k 213 1.4 i 4 n St ock .•.• 3 P"4%(int• .educed P.nuult. ,, 9IA fi xeDer Cent Conso:s Atunmitieb 92i 4 .1%;„: ‘ , 3 Per Cent. Annuities 9lfi 1 Lj" 4 i per Cent. Annuities 76A *' Annuities, ex ire fitt. 'Jan. 1 869 " lII ° 39 p • sth April, 1885 l7 15(16 14diaStOckYears' expire 220 22 , t.. olagols for Account 93 24- 4"-}lognor Bills, 2id •• • March. I June. L ttki t . ..... ... i 5 d par 500 . _ 15 d par ••• .. -- ~qtnel! 5 d par u it'." 1 1(74 . 11 . 1 . 44; * i{p er Cent. pt. °ZS OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE 0101.0cK. ..•r• inti ti an 5 per Cent. * .p New 1829 and 1839, 5 per Cent — i l ica n A 3 e r c i o e t i; i: ( l 2 t ent bitt o A ' It. ccouut z 71.) Ito it a t o l 1 , 4 8( 2 ; '11(1):1: erki... ! 23 , Cent.l2 t St., 5 per Cent — cent -- , 6 ...i. b itto Account P Oitt o Guarant ee d, 4 )or Cent. bit to Account I 99" 100 br, , ,, 1 , r„ Ohldeirls on trio above ,av4ble i n La na n . `-' chang - e, 2A per Cenl., .11itto 4 per Cent. Certificates l2 Guilders 97 ! TWO O'CLOCK. 921 Z -92iT 93 Consols, money Ditto for account tPtA LAWYER'S NOTION OF CRINOLINE.—I n the Bank- Court, on Saturday, an application for cmlificate ba4 made by James Henry Sinith,:Connaught•ttqrace, "Ageware-road. Mr. Levy, a creditor, opposed a Multitude of grounds which he could not establif , h ; n and tit Linklater, for the as,ignees, complained that the anialtrupt spent 2,329/. in improvements in ladies' stays. —t,_uttizzsioner Fan* , : Were they of a nature to attract the fashionable world ?—Tne bankrupt: Yes ; improve tnents in the bodice.—Mr. Link later : Was this improve ,glnibent in corsets made with what is called crin. line ? oat's of laughter) - Mr. Lavrrance : No, no ; that is 7" 11 very lower down. (Renewed laughter.)—The bai,k -nPt: The impro vement was inserting elastic in cornets. "••••Llis honour granted a common certificate. ~ ~ ~: a ~.. „ • 20 i ! 100 100 20 100 100 20 20i 100 :00 100 ZETAii.E MARKETS—(This Day)• RAILWAYS. RAIINVAYS. Closing Prices SaturOy. Business done this day. ?go );Amo7. '.;ng. Bost. & Eastn. Junc......, !Belfast & Ballymena !Btrinng. Wolverh. & Stour Valley Birkenhd. lAncsh. dr Cheshire Junct F3l burn . ....... Bluth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) Bristol & Exeter !Caledonian.... ;Chester & Holyhead' !Cork and Bandon ;Cork, Black. & Pass ;Cornwall St. 100 St. 100 St. 100 50 all 20 all 20 all 10 all I Ds. A. . 10 8 I Do. B 50 45 IDablin&BelfastJunc. 25 all Dun. P. &Aber.Junc. St. 100 East Anglian 20 all Eastern Cour :Ans.—. St. ,100 EasternUnion,A.stk. St. 'lOO D o . , do. B. ....... 25 83 Do. New A 25 171 East Kent ... , St. 100 East Lancnshire 20 all ,E4st Suffolk 10 4 I Do. St. 100 ;Edinburgh & Glasgow 0 all tEdinb. and Peebles t. 1100 lEdinb.Prth.&Dunde , 0 1 all ;Forthand ClydeJunc. St. 1 100 !Furness ... St. 100 1 1 (_flasgow & S.Wc ',ern 10 all tGreat N. of See' St. 100 Great Northern St. 1100 Do., A. Stock ;t. 100 I Do., B. stoe: St. !too Eth. &West.(lre.) St. 1100 'Greg ' l , 'estern. St. 100 Do. f: .r. V. B. gua. St 12 all Irish South-Eastern , all Lancaster &Carlisle. 164 1 14! Do. , Thirds 1.6f 4 1 12 Do. New Thirds St. 1100 Laucash. & York shin' 16 1 6 Do., do. F. V 3 1 Do., Wst. Itid;ng Un 20 all Do. Southport. ..... 111, all London & Biackwall St. 100 T_,ond.Bright.&S.Cst. St. :100 London &N. Western . all iDc. Fifths ....... . 10 • all 1D0.,16/.5h.,M&8...0 ••• 2.!;1Do. Eighths id St. 100 London & S. Wbsternlloo. t 5 all Lndndrry &Coleraine' 15 all Lwlndrry. & Eunisk. 100 Manch.Shef. &Lineln. 10 1 Metropolitan 65 - 70 Do. J. L. Ricardo's arrangement I. ....... !Do. Birming. & Derby Midland G. West. (Tr. ) 'Do. Shares Newcastle &Carlisle Newpt.Aherg.&Hrfd Newry & Enniskillen Newry, Warrenpoint & Rostrevor Norfolk.. Northn. Counties Un North British North Devon, Rail. & Dock Stock ........ Do., A Stock Do., B Stock .... N. astern 1 3T...wick ,Do. do. Extens;on 'Do do. G. N.E Parch. Do. Leeds Do. York North London N. & S. Wstn., Hamp , stead, and City Jn 'forth Staffordshire North Western N. & S. Westrn. June !Oxford Worcester & Wolverhampton Portsmouth Rhymuey Scottish Central Scot. N.E.Abrdn, St 103 Shropshire Union . 4 !Sitingbourne &Sheer. all 'South Devon 100 'South Eastern ..... all Do. per c. Shares 100 South Wales 17 S. Yorksh. RiverDnn 7 'Do.. ..... all ,Staines,Wok.,&Wok.„ all Stockton & 15 ' Do. do., 1834 3 ; Do. do., 1.8n5 16i Stockton & Hartlepl 100 ,Taff Vale 100 iDo. Pref., No. 1 22 'Thames Hay. D. LP all ,Vale of Neath... all Waterfd. & Kilk' 'ny all ;Waterford &Liny all 'West Cornwall all West End of London and Crystal Palace Do. A. Do 'I O 1 St. 100 St. 100 50 all 25 all 00 all 25 all 30 9 - all 81i - 82 53 - 51 16 - 161, A. 100 50 32 St. 100 St. 100 60 - 62 3} - 3i4 43 - 44 86 87 3l— 3 d 24 24 i 641 651 1 96 99 5/ 5 d 74 8 10 11 29 - 30 6 - 4 LO6 103 25i 26} 48 50 2,4 lid 171 74 75 87 - 88 6 5A 6 5d 41 - 43 20i - 2C: . ; - 4i 7 - 9 2A - 3 5t - 6 West lOndon • Do. First Class Do. Second Class Wmbledon &Croydon 5$ - 5$ 8i- 9 65 - 67 8i - 9 88 - 93 68 - 69. 34 - 36 .. _.. ... 4 -- 5 •• - 9i 19 - 20 11A -11 i 54 - 56 3G j - 37*, 81 - 7:1(1 97 - 31 - 341 95 97 8 -8! 96 - 97 8i -- 88 122 -- 124 , 103 - 101 1 66i 66i 63 -- 65 5 - 7pl , 5 - 7 pi - 1011 6 - 64 1103 - 110 11041 -101 i 381 394 BRITISH Pi !Atlan. and St. Law. 'Bontl.my, Birotla, and Cen.lnd,guar. G p.c. Do inuffalo & Lake MIL, Buff., Brnt. & Go. (ch. p.c.bds.,l Aug.,'72, Do. do., 1 July, '73! Do. do., 1 June,'74l Calcutta and S. East.l Central Oude (Litn.)' Ceylon A shares Do. B. do. ,i)ernerara Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares.. D0.4'1 p.c.13nd5.,'57 Do. do. do., '59, do. Geelong & /elbourne guar. 5 per cent. CA. Trunk. of Canada Do. 6 p c. Deben Gt. In. Pen. g. 5 pert Do. New. guar. 5 p.c ;at. Westn. of Canada, Do. New Do. Bds., payable '57; Do. do., '76, p. Do. do., '73, do. .4 Do. do., '73, without; option ;Madras, guar. 41 p.c Do. do., 5 per c. I Do. 41 p. c. Exten. Do. 3d Ex.; g. sp.c. Do. 4th Ex., do. ,Onde (Limited) 'Scinde, guar. 5 per e Do FOR atwrp & Rotterdam Ardennes Belgian East. Juliet. Fie zit:l.s to Graissessae ICa.rmeaux& 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 Lierre and Turnhout Lombardo-Venetian Lucca & Lyons and Geneva Lyons Sr. Medil,erran. Maria Ante - ja Do. New Namur & Liege Do. do. 6 p. c. Pref Northern of F,.Ance "TorwegianTrr Prat' IParis and Lyo. 5 Paris and Orleans itteci'e 4 San Fran (r.'c mam.) , r. 7 p. — e• 7i 'tome and Frascati all Ro: .1 Danish all Royal Swedish 01 Sambre and Mouse v l l )o. 5i per cent. pref \ all Southern of France..a, I West Mamie re all ,Do. 54 per C. Pref all I W.& N.W. of Frauct 6 :Western of Austria._ all I West. of Switzerlawl all ,Wiesbaden .... ._ a ll Do. Sp. pref. 1 all 'Zealand .TOINT-STOI ►Nustralas i a In Bank of Egypt %l) Bank of London all Bri. Col Ek. &Ln. Co all ,British N. American 8 C. Ilk .of Ind. Au. &Ch 50 'City 25 Colonial 20 lOcnumorcial of Lond. all 'En:;.Scot.&Aus.Clit. all Lon. Cti . Bk. of Aust all (Ditto New 20 Loudon and County 53 I.and. &E. Bnkn,g.Corp 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond.andWestminst 35 (National Pro. of Eng 10 i Do. New 22i; National Bank all r INew South Wales Oriental Bank Corp 15 ;Ottoman Bank Proviucial of Ireland all Do. New I R Ans. B. &G. Im. Co all South Australia all Union ot 24!D0. New 10 - !Union of London 50 I Unity Mutual Wfstra Bk s of Loud PSSESSIONS. i - ip 4 - i p 196 - 98 95 - 97 95 - 97 1 - 1 pl IST • 109 11 - ltp 20/ -- 20/1 62 63 89 -- 90 218 -- 218 -- 1 nl 24i 251 2i 21 1 99 -- 100 'l' .- 211 7: lE 106 108 19 20 214 d par lii gP ... - ... li -21 p 7t - 74 _ ig - 3 - 4p 33A - 33 par iP 23. 7 71 - .:1 .6 i - Eb ii -: 32 84 - 81 20 - 2I 39 - 391, 9 - 10 61i - 62, 1 ; 53 - 59 d P 17 . : 16 1 -- 11 9 -- 94 BA 9 321 -- 331 4t -- 5 9A -- " 0 30 e ar -- 1 BANKS. 2i lid, ••• ... sa d —65 ii ... -- ... 17i - 17i1 17* - 1 8 171 - 46 - 48 fa! 58 60 6 4 "*"' • ••• ••• 10dj 20 20 10 1100 16 10 100 100 all all all all all all all 10.' 2 100 100 2E0(.1 lOs all all all all 66i f 6 i 100; i i i 1081 104 i 31 2i 101 1001 part 101 861 5/ 6 20; 20; 621 891 241 30 i 30 rll LP' g l itiN, 140 NDON, MON DA Y EVENIN G, APR IL 27 1857, LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. MARKET NEW S.— (Tills ay. .) LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) Leasing Companies Clostng Prices Saturday. Business this dsy CORN EXCHANGE. The lending ecuntry markets held on Saturday were but moderately supplied with wheat, and fine sno,ples of both red and white were rather dearer. Most spring corn re alised extreme rates, and flour was held for more money. On the-Continent, wheat has become rather firmet' in price, but the transactions in it have continued limited. The markets in the West have rulod dull. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (13tford Mr. Commiseioner li.droyd.) THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK.-EX I:LUNATION OF THE AUDITORS. To-day was appointed for the Examination of the auditors of the hank. It was also appoited for hearing arguuments in support of the claims made by Mr. Ramsay for an order for the assignees to pay the divi dends on his proof for 7001., the dividends being re tained on the ground that the shares on which the proof had been made were subject to the calls by the official manager, under the " Winding-up Act," and that made by the directors previously to the stoppage. Toat by Mr. Frorode was on the ground that be hal been induced, by fraudulent misrepreeentations to take up new shares in the bank. By the official list the meeting was appointed for 11 o'clock, but as the ineetirq; on the proofs had been adjourned the meeting did not take place till nearly half-past 12. Mr. Linklater then said he would proceed with the examination of Mr. Page, one of the auditors. Mr. Page said, I am desirous of being examined, having been one of the auditors. I was appointed one of the auditors of July, 1853, and audited them up to July 29, 1856. Mr. Thos. Chandler was an auditor during the whole of the time, and I believe before. Mr. Crawford, on the first occasion, handed a document which contained a detailed account. Ur. Crawford was the chief accountant of the batik. He referred to . the general ledger for the total, but chiefly to items pointed out by him. He (sir. Page) did not consider it was their duty to ascertain the value of the securities held, but be did object to signing a certificate. That all the items of the balance sheet had not been gone into. Would only sign ene, that an abstract balance-sheet, and relative accounts had been placed before them, but he never entertained a doubt but that the securities would realise what they were represented at. (The case was proceeding when our reporter left ) The arrivals of English grain up to our market, last week, were very moderate. From abroad we received, 6,549 quarters of wheat, 20,107 barley, 26,64 oats, 780 rye, 609 beans, 410 linseed, 1,353 rapeseed, 30 mustard seed, and 3 '0 sacks of flour. The quantity of English wheat received fresh up to-day coastwise from Essex, Kent, &c., was very moderate. By land carriage the receipts of that grain were small. The show of samples was in fair condition, and for most de scriptions we had a fair demand, at au improvement in the quotations, compared with Monday last, of is per qr. We were fairly supplied with most kinds of foreign wheat, for which the inquiry ruled steady. Selected samples realised an advance of ls. per quarter, compared with this day week. Ocher qualities were steady, but not dearer. Floating cargoes, on passage, wcra held on higher terms. Scarcely any English barley is here. Fine samples have ruled in favour of sellers, and other kinds have continued tolerably firm, although the imports last week were large. Malt was in moderate supply and fair request, at full prices. The show of oats was rather extensive, nevertheless, the oat trade was firm, at fully late rates. There was a good demand for beans, at an advance in the quotations of is. per guar Pets changed hands steadil We had a good demand were fully is per 28)lbs. dew. CURRENCY PEI{ 13 Whev— Essex & Kent, Red new 504 to 58a Ditto— old —s —a Ditto, White new Sls 67s Ditt0....... old —ll —s Norfolk and Lin coln, Rod, old —s --a Ditto new .•.... 483 58s aye —Old •••• ••...... —s —s New •• •• •• •• •• .• 32s 36s Barloy—Grinding••• .• 26s 30a Malting .••••.• •• 38s 40s Chevalier— • • 421 47s' Malt—Suffolk and No rfolk...• •• 673 77s Brown 623 63s Kingston and Ware 69e 788 at is more money. 'or flour, and country marks Ter. LPERIAL MEASURE. Malt—Chevalier .... 77s to 79s pats Yorkshire and Llncolnsk., Feed 20s 22 Potato • • . 22s 29s Youghal 3nd Cork flack. ...• .. 18s 223 Cork, White 199 27s ficotin,Feed...•• 243 27s Beans—Tick •• .. 33s 349 Pigeons .... 39- 41 , Peas—Grey ...• •• .• 35s 36 Maple •• •• •• •• 37s 38, 353 38 THE GRAND DUKE COASTANTLVE AT TOULON Boilers .....•• •• 3As 37- Flour—Town-made... 50i 52s Suffolk' 393' 41s stooktn & Norfolk 395 40s .ego. i. A letter from Toulon of the 22d says :—" The Grand Duke Constantine to-day paid a second visit to the arsenal, accompanied by his suite, all of whom belong to the navy, and who are charged to take notes of what they see. On visiting the armoury on the previous day, be did not at first notice the guns brought from Sebastopol, as the precaution had been taken of turning them some what out of sight, but on his examining them more closely, he found that they had belonged to Russia. ' Those are trophies of victory ?' he asked one of the functionaries who accompa nied him. 'Yes, Prince,' replied the latter, but I can show you something by way, of a set off,' pointing to a number of French guns, which had been rendered unfit for further meetvice by the Russian shot. Ah !' said the Grind Duke, that is what you call a set off, is it ? Perhaps it is sufficient for you by way of courtesy, but I —. However, I accept it, such as it is,' ediled he smiling. During the same visit he pointed out a dozen firearms, which he expressed a wish to exa mine more closely, and they were sent to the maritime prefecture in the evening. The Prince has de clined having any attendance of troops or illu minations, or visits from the different bodies. have come,' he said, to perfect inysilf in naval affairs ; I have much to learn, and it is better for me to occupy the short time whiter remains at my disposal in a serious examination of what may be useful than in vain ceremonies.' The Prince males all his excursions as a private individual, and without disarranging any one. He passed ',early the whole of to-day in visiting the Arsenal, the extent of which is greater than the town of Toulon, although the latter contains 75 ; 000 in habitants. His Imperial Highness expressed his admiration at the order and regularity which pre vailed in every part of the gigantic establishment. The immense fountain, from whence all the ship ping in the harbour supply themselves with water, particularly struck his attention. The Prince paid a second visit to the armoury to-day ; but be fore his visit, orders had been given to hide from view the great bell which had been brought from Sebastopol. Seeing some large object . , however, covered over with a tarpaulin, the Prince asked what it was, and on observing some little hesitatien on the part of the person to whom he addressed the question, he himeelf raised the covering, and, see ing what it was, gave a melanchol3 smile, and said, I will not look at that at present, but will return another day.'" METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. The total imports of foreign stock into London last week were 1,494 head. In the corresponding week in 1856 we received 431 ; in 1855, 1,213; in 1854, 1,101; in 1853, 3,550; in 1852, 1,'44; in 1831, 1,617; and in 1850, 1,360 head. IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WINK. From Beasts. Oporto ......... 121 Schiedam l3 ... Rotterdam- 94 Dordt 4 Efamburgh , Harlingen 235 ... Amsterdam 1 Antwerp Calais ... Sheep. Total-- 522 EARL FITZHARDINGE.—We regret to state that Earl Fitzhardinge, who we lately reported had met with an accident while hunting in the Berkeley country, is still labouring under severe illness. The noble earl is unahle to take nourishing food, and fears are entertained with regard to his ultimate recovery. ELECTIONS FOR CONVOCATION.—The Rev. Dr. Jere mie, the sub-dean of Lincoln, has been elected proctor to represent the dean and chapter in convocation ; and the Rev. Mr. Masingberd, and the Rev. Mr. Mackenzie to represent the diocese. THE AMERIPAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, Saturday.— The British and North American royal mail steamship Europa, Captain Robe.et Leitch, sailed from the Mersey at 11 o'clock this forenooi. for Halifax and Boston, with the usual mails for'the Unitecl States and Bi;tish North American possessions, 140 passengers, and a full cargo of ire rchandise on freight. COLLIERS' STRIKE.—The works cf the Cwmayton Coal Company, Monmouthshire, have ben brought to a stand still, in consequence of the bands there employed having turned out on strike, and having either so far 'enlisted the sympathies of, or intimidated, the workmen employed by the company with a view t o supplying their places, as to prevent them from working. THE EXHIBITION OF DESIGNS IN WESTMINSTER HALL—The plans for the new Government offices which have been sent in by competitors from all nations, will be thrown open for public inspectiou in Westminster Hall, on Monday, May 3. There will be a private view for members of the Houses of Lords and Commons on Monday next, May 1. Most of the designs provide for the erection of Westminster -bridge considerably eastward of its present site. The names of the judges with whom the final selection will rest have not yet been announced. The United Service Gazette announces the a very im portant step has been taken towards the proznotion of education in the army. A "Boatel of E iecatinO has been formed, at the head of which is the Commander-in - Chief (rx officio), with Major General Cramer for vice-president, and Colonels Poi R.E., and Ad dison, Assistant Quartermaster General, for members. Everything in relation to the suitab;e preparation of officers for first commissions and later adoaneentent will he under the government of this board. Voe e"Mi"a tions will no longer be conducted at Sandhurs;', but by competent professors, holding their appointments tem porarily, as recommended by the commissioners sr . " lately returned from the Continent. DETERMINED SUICIDE IN THE REGEYT'S CANAL. — Yesterday afternoon, about half-past 2 o'e,!ock, an alarm was raised that a man had mounted the psoooet of the bridge at Islington, ar d plunged into the Regent'. 4 Canal. A number of persons hastened to rescue him, but had sunk. The drags having been procured, the body wt.'. (alter some time had elapsed), recovered, when life was found to be extinct. Some individuals recognised it as that of a man named Edward Jackson, living in the Lower road. It appeared that a female to whom he. had been paying his addresses had yesterday married another, and it is supposed the mortification drove him to the commission of the rash act, as he appeared quite in a frenzy. ARRIVAL FROM MELBOURNE.—The Anglesea, with gold, from Melbourne, which landed passengers at Ply mouth on Thursday, experienced baffling winds in the Channel. At 2 p.m. on Friday she was near the Start, and at 8 p.m. off the Bill of Portland. On Saturday, at noon, she was back to the Eddystone, and Captain Thorn was preparing to enter Plymouth Sound, when a light breeze sprang up from north west, and she stood for sea, first placing about 30 passengers in a pil boat, bhich landed them at Plymouth on Saturday afternoon. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. —Amongst the company honouring her Majesty's Thea , re with their presence oil Saturday evening were the Duchess of Montrose and party, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Earl of Malmea bury, the Countess Dowager of Harrington, the Coun tess of Mountcharlem, the Earl of Westmorland, the Earl of Chesterfield, the Earl of Lucan, the Earl of Lonsdale, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl and Countess of Sam ford and Warrington, the Eail of Wilton, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, the Countess of Shaftesbury and LadyVictoriaAshley, Lady Panmure,Viscoun t Exmouth, Lord and Lady Templemore, Lady Cosmo Russell, Lady Deerhurst, Sir G. Wombwell, Bart., Lord Kirkwall, Lord Burghersb, Lady Ansteed, Lora] and Lady Arthur Hay, Lady Antrobus, Lord Gifford, Mrs. Beauclerc, Col the Hon. James Macdonald, Mr. and Lady Shelley, Major-General Sir George Bowles, Mr. Bernal Osborne, M.P., Sir Thomas Barrett Lennard, Bart., and Lady Lennard, the Hon. James Bourke, the Hon. Mrs Boyle, Thomas S. Duncombe, E-q., M.P., Lieutenant- Oeneral Sir Alexander Woodford, M.P. Lady Wood ford, and the M is s es Woodford, Sir Frederick Pottin ger, Bart.. Sir Charles Hanbury, Bart.. Sir Peter Cautley, Bart., Sir James Clerk, Lady Barnard, Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Admiral Ryder Barter, Colonel Brownlow Knox and Miss Knox, Major Moffat, Mr. Power, Colonel Bertram, Lieutenant Colonel Torrene, Colonel Sibtborp, kir. Bertram, General the Hon. H. Cavendish, Mr. Gordon, Mr. Gore Langton, Captain Barnard, Captain Carter, Mr. and Mrs.l Longden, Mr. W iliam Delafie:d, Mr. Maclean. Colonel Lockyer Freestun, M.P , and Mrs. Lockyer Freestnn, Mr. T. 17zielli, Mr. Broadwoodo Mr. Phiiip Graves, Mr. B. B. Williams, Mr. Fitzgerald, Mr. A- Bill c ings, Captain Burt, Mr. Harvey Lewis,. Mr..and Mrs.Bv Palmer and party, Captain and Mr. Octaviu N c i a gr t am, Mr. F. Lyon Barrington, Captain. Mrs. Watts Mrs. 11, Antrobus,ilr. and Mrs . , Hamilton, Captain Marshall, Mr. and Neville, Mrs. Blantyre, Mr. Carol , " Crichton, Mr. and Mrs. Wheeler, Mrs. Mr. and Mrs. Galgetty , Mr. Palmer, Mr. arid Mrs. Browne, Captain Holder, Captain H. Mr. Price, Miss Webb, Turner, Mr, R. King, Mr. Co, fie, Mr. and Mrs. A..h ton Yates, Mrs. and Miss Anson, Mr. Stonor, Mr. and Mrs. Highmore, Colonel and Mrs. Watson, Mr, Shaw, Mr. Baring, Mr. Rogers, Major F. Baring, Major Pole, Mrs, and Miss Shelley, I Ln. &N. W. Calodon E.U.&E.O Gt.NorthU E. Count. Caldonian., Do Gt.Westn Y. IL N.M Do Do S. Eastern Do Peto & Co Do Ln. &N. W do Midld Midland._ E. Count Do Do Do L.& . W Do Gt. Northn T. Bra ssoy M. MClean Stk. &Dar Do Gt. Westn I 91 - 93 98 - 102 11 - 13 133 - 135 31- 4. 107 - 109 12i -- 13 23 --- 24 102 -- 101 par -- p 88 - 90 k - 0P 54 - 56 !131 - 134 8 - 9 9 - 9i -32 i 86 - 88 SHARES. 92 - 91 94 --- 56 5/ - 6 103 - 1 1 2 103 - 112 - A - Sp 111 - 121 73 - 74 13 - 115 106 - 108 100 - 102 60 - 62 108 - 10i1 91 --96 4 93 -- 85 85 -- 87 99 -- 101 91 -- 10; -- 17 10 -- 10" 71 -- 73 19i -- 191 144 g ---14 i 132 -- 134, 137 - 140 113 - 115 1154 - 356 - -- 66 - 131 - 13 96 - 98 86 - 88 ll - lip Oi 91 92 1 1i ld ••• ..• 1 id 211 22 109 - 111 114 -- 116 105 -- 110 65 -- 70 17i.-- 181, 22} - 23 98 - 102 91 - 27 - 28 2 - 3p ••• ..... •• 2i - 3 • RAILWAYS. !Buckghamsh. I Clydesdale Jc. Col.Stour Vy.: E.Lin. g. 6 p.c lE. Un. H. Sh. Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direct. Do. New Glstr.&Dn.Fr Hull & Selby Do. Shares Do. 1 Shares Lon.&Greenw Do.Prefcrence Lon. T;!., &S. Do. 13,11 c.. Sh. Mancli.Dxton. and Mr tlock Mdld. Bradfd. Newmarket BuryE.G.spc.' & Est.s p.c. Do. 6 per et Do. Fixed sp.c Prest. & Wyrr Do. Stirs. A Royetn. & Hit. IShrews. St Her Staflordsli.. WearVal.g6pc l D 0... WiltsdiSomrst . PREFEREN , Blyth and Tyne 10 p, e.pref. (is“ Lat 50/:; Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. Do. 4 per c. Shares.. Caledu; £lO 4.{ p. c. Ches. & Ho. 5a p. c. Do. do. 5 per cent... Cork &Bandon qp.c. Dun.Perth.&Aber.J. E. Anglian Cls. A Sh. Do, do. Cls. B 6 p. c. Do, do. Cle. C 7 p. c. Eas.Co.Ex,sp.c Do. No. 2 iDo. New 6 pr. c. St. East Un., G. 6 p. c. Do. 5/.., 10 per cent. Do. 10/, Debentr.Sh. Do. do. 4 per cent... East L.Ancash .6 p.cts. E.dzW. York. J. sths Edin. dz Gl. sp. c. Sh. Ed. Pr Lb .8.7,D 4p.c. Furness, 5 D. c Glas, dt 5.W.C.5 pc. Great Northn. 5 pc. Do. 5 p. c. Redeem. at 10 p. c. prem.... Do, 4 per cent Do. 5 p.c., Red. at 5 p. c. prem. Gt.N.o 7 Scot.lst Pre Gt. S &W. (Ireland) Do. 4 per c. Pref. St. Gt.W.(B.&H.Er. - .spc' Do. con. red. 41 p. c. Do. con. red. 4 p. c. Do. irred. 4 per tent. Do 5 p. c. red. pref. Do. Linn. Pref. Sh Do. Chester Bp. c.P. S Do. do. 5 p c. do Do. Birm. Gua. Stir Do. Chesil. Qua. Sh Do. do. do Do. do. clo Lan.& York. 6pe.S'. Lon.& B.C. 5 pe.No. , D0..P.. 5 p.e.St.No.2 Do. New Guar, C 1)o. do. 5 p. C.. No. 4 Loo. di N. W., Coy. & Nurea',on 5 p. Lon. & S.W. 7 pen,: late 3d Shares Loncly.& Color. iSb. Loncly.&Ennis. I Sh. M., 6 p. Cent. Do. do. 00. Do. do. per cent. Mar}-pi. Carl. 4 p.c. Do. 4. pc," cent Do. do. INid, Consol.., p.c. St. Do. Con.Br.Bir.6p.c. Do. 44 n. c. Pref. S';,, Do. L. di IL Pre. S't. New., Aber.. &c.. pr. 5 p. c. red. 5 n. c. Do. Perpet. 6 p.. et. Norf k.Deb.4 p.c. Sb. Do. 5 p. c. Ext. 1'346 Do. 54. p.c. pf 1847 Do.Wv.V.sp. ~1 8 47 North British_ Do. 7/. Preference P3rw. 4 ).c.Prf Do. do. do 'Do. Leeds 6pc No.l Do. do. Qrs., 1848... Do. York FL&S. Pur. North Staffordshire.. Ox.,Wor. & Wela. 6 p.c., Ist guar. Do 6 p. c. 2d guar._ Scot. Ceut.New Pref. Sc. N. E. Aber. g.6n c. Do. do, 7 p.c. pf. Do. d 0.3,1 p.c. pf. St South Devon Do. fixed 4i r,•cent. S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) or £1 Os. 6d, Do. 4. per cent De. Fixed 4. p.c. Sh S. Wales Gua. 4 p. c Do. do. 4} p. c SATorksh. 4 p. c. Guar Stock. &Dar., sp. c Do. do. do. , , Stock. Sc Hartl. g. u. p.c. till July 1, '56 IWaterfd&Kilk. 6 pc. BRITISH MINES. 2112Alfrect Cons. (Phi 14 'British Iron ..... 20 Conduraw (Ciambru.) 2Ot t - 214 7 - 8 160 - 170 140 - 460 131 -14 ii 4 - 5 1 iDev.Gt. Crisis. (Tay.) 14s :Great South Tolgus 10/3 G rt. W. AIL& (Philk.) 7 IGrt.W. Vor (Hclstn.) 886(111,a:1y Bertha 74 N. Frances (Illogan) N.W.Btsset (Illogan) ?ill5 North Wheal Crofty 1 !Par. Cons. (St.Blasy) 4; - 5 14 - 16 21 5 . 23, 6 22 - 23 6 - 7 1 - 330 - 340 6 - 7 320 -- 330 9Porkellis U, (Wend.) l 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co 2i ;S. Caradon (St. Cleer) 2 S. Carn Brea (Mogi].) 19 S.W. Frances(lllogn.) 4A Tain. s. &L. bfin. Co 9 'Tin Croft 40 Un.Miren (Gwennap) 12s 6 V. of Towey (Camar.) 1 W. Basset (Illogin)„ 20 ,W. Caradon (Liskrd.) Wh. Basset (Mogan). 5• IWh. Buller (Rdruth). !Wh. Edward(Calstek) 1.175,Wh. Kitty (U. Llant) 8 Wh. Ma. Ann (Menlit. ) 4i Wh. Trelawney (Ls.) - 4i - 5 200 - 220 -1 30 - 32 150 - 160 ?60 - 270 360 - 380 4 - 44 18 20 44 - 46 22 - 24 FOREIGN MINES. 20 I 7 Australian - 1 35 I 27 Bmzilia- Emp.(issued at .t 5 ~ m) 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cilia& ... ... 20 15 Do. St. John Del Roy 18 20 1 4 Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica— $ id 40 all Cobrc Copper 59 61 ... 16 Copiapo 2 all Fortuna 20 all General 3 all Linares 5 1i Lusitanian 1 all Maaignita .. ....... 1 all New Granada 4 i 1 all Novcau Monde 20 all Pont.Sil.LdhL& Smlt 6 8 5 1 Port Philip ... -- ••• 30 16, Santiago de Cüba 1 all `outh Australian 1 all Do. Scrip 1 all Do. 10 p. c. Prof ... —.• ••• 28i all Milted Mexican 31 3i .. MISCELLANEOUS. 25 19 Australian Agricult, 2C?, 211 10 all Australti. Rotal Mail ... ... 10 all Berlin Water Works 4 5 50 40 Brit, American Land ... ... IC3 32i Canada - 155 St. 100 D2,.oo.6pc.Jae&July ... ---. ... St. UV: 'Do. 6 p.c.Feb.kAur. ... .-- ... . 100 D 0.6 p.c. M.Lr.&Sept ... .. St. all Car t er Min. of En. ' % 33 38 25 • all DO. Pn.i. 7. p. cent. 25 27 5 all Crystal Palace 2i 2fi 5 all 1- 2•••,. Preference 4 I - ..Yi j Crystal Pal, of France ... ... 1 i Duston Ir on O re ... ... 20 18 Eastern Steam ... ... St. 100 EleetrieTelegraph 1 all Electric Tel. of Irel ... --. . .fi _. 5 all En.drAust.Cop.Smao 11 -- I. 10 10s. Eur, & Indletn, Til e par 3p 25 ‘ll Gen, Ir.Se.a3l.(lin4 ... ... 15 14 Gen, :team Navigat. ... ... 20 , 6 London Discount 4l ail Loud. Gen. Omnibus 4 44 41 i /0 10 Magdalena St. Navig. ... ... 10 all IMediteran. Elec. Tel. ... ••• 10 all Mexican& S.Americn 2 31 5 5 Nat. Discount Co I --- id 4j 5 5 Do. New 10 5 Netherlands Land 4 • 1 10 all Do. Do. - 5 all Do.B p c.PLiss.at ld. 4 --- 41 5 1 Do. Pa. 1.00 80 New B. &N. S. Land 18 22 St.lloo N, S. W. Gov,s p.c.1).! ... ... 1 ' all N, B, Australasian... t; i 0 all Nrth.ofEuropeSteam ... ...d 10i 1 S all Oriental Gas 12 5s Do. New Shares par —iP Pin 25 all f Peelßr. Ld. dt Minrl 2 21 50 all Peninsular 4 Oriental ... ... 50 10 Do. New 50 all Rhyme, Iron 15 all Do. New. 6 8 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 6l 63 1 all Scot. Austral. Invest l4 1 4 1 all Do. New „ ••• St. 100 S . A us. Gov.6p.c.bds ... 25 all South Austral. Land 34 36 1 all Submarine Tel. Scrip i 1 I all Do. Registered 120 i 5 Trust&Ln C o. U . C an ° ..: ... - 10 0 1 23 A Van Di emon ' s L and 10 12 St. 1 10(j Ditto p.c.Jan, dkJuly ... a" 0 6 , , 100 100 all 100 all 100 1043 , all 1.00 1.00 all all all all all all 00 100 100 100 100 St. 12 11 1201 all 100 100 100 100 12 25 20 St. Lo.ol 100 all 100 100 all all 911 a Lambs. CalTes. Pigs 291 42 ... -- 261 ... - ... - 58 ••• 4 ... 10 ... 196 ... - - ..• 655 ... 4 ... 313 ... The yearly comparison of weekly imports is as follows : Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs 8513 ISO 160 ... 91 6- 1855.... - 163 -. 1854 539 244 ... 1853 902 _, 2,124 ... 1852 320 992 ... 1851 442 _. 772 -. - ... 367 ... 319 2 - ... 474 42 - 535 5 - 346 ... 73 To-day's market was very moderately supplied with foreign stock, which moved off slowly, at about previous quotations. Notwithstanding that the show of English and Scotch beasts was seasonably good, and in fair average condition, the demand for all kinds, owing in a great measure to the prevailing cold weather, ruled tolerably firm, and last Monday's currency was supported. The best Scots sold at from 4s 101 to 5s per 81b, and, prior to the close of busi ness, a fair clearance had been effected. From Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and Cambridgeshire, we received 2,350 Scots and short-horns; from other parts of Ireland, :;50 of various breeds; from Scotland, 480 Scots; and from Ireland, 140 oxen, via Liverpool. The numbers of sheep in the market were only moderate for the time of year, but their general quality was prime. Compared with Monday last, there was much less activity in the mutton trade, and, in some instances, prices were a shade lower. The general top quotation for the best Downs in the wool was 6s ; but a few very superior lots realised 6s 2d per 81b. Downs, out of the wool, sold at' 101 per 81b beneath those rates. Lambs were in fair average supply, and heavy request, at a decline in prices, compared with this day so'nuight, of 4d per 81b. The top price was 6s 6d per Sib. About 400 came to hand from the Isle of Wight. The show of calves was only moderate, yet the veal trade ruled heavy, and the quotations were fully 4d per 81b lower than on Monday last. In pigs very little was doing, at late rates. Per Bibs to sink the offais. e. d. a. d. S. I. ■ . Interior Beaste....3 4to 3 61PrimeSouthdown 510 6 2 Second quality.... 3 i 3 4 117q1Arge crse. calves 3 8 4 8 Prime large oxon 4 2 4 8 Prime small do 410 5 4 Primo Scots, &c. 410 5 &Large hogs Inferior Sheep ...4 6 4 10Small porkers Second quality ...5 0 5 2!Suekling calves 23 0 30 0 Primo crse.-wlled.s 4 5 81Quarter old piga 21 0 28 0 Lamb, 5s loa to 63 Bd. TOTAL SUPPLY; FOREIGN SUPPLY. Beasts Beasts Sheep and lambs 21,440 Calves l2l Sheep and lambs Calves . Pigs 1551 Pigs A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat stock exhibited and sold in the Great Metropolitan Cattle Market, on Monday, April 28, 1856, and this day, Monday, April 27, 1857. Per Sibs, to sink the offals. April 21, 1856.1Apr.20, 1857 s. d. s. d.ls. d. s, d. Coarse and inferior beasts ... 3 2to 3 6 3 4to 3 6 Second quality ditto 3 8 3 10,3 8 4 0 Prime largo oxen ... 4 li 4 4,- 2 4 Prime Scots, tkc ... 4 6 4 84 10 5 0 Coarse and interior sheep 4 0 4 4,4 6 410 Second quality ditto ... 4 6 410 5 0 5 2 Prime coarse woolled ditto 5 0 5 2 5 4 5 8 Prime Southdown ditto 5 4 5 8,5 10 6 2 Lambs ... ... 5 8 6 85 10 6 8 Largo coarse calves 4 2 5 0 3 8 4 8 Primo small di ... 5 2 5 8 1 4 10 5 4 Large hogs ... 3 4 4 2,3 8 4 2 Neat small porkers 4 4 4 8 4 4 5 0 Beasts... 4.152 3,828 Sheep and lambs 19,600 17,740 Calves... ... ,„ ,„ „, 105 131 Pigs ..290 i 210 Surnass os Sams, April 30, 1855.—Beasts, 4,112 ; Rime and lambs, 21,261 ; calves, 153; pigs, 355. May 1. 1851.—Beasts, 4,668 ; sheep and lambs, 25,020 ; calves, 210 ; pigs, 295. NEWGATE AND LEA.DENTIALL. Our markets are tolerably well supplied with both town and country killed meat. Generally speaking, the demand is inactive at our quotation?, Per Ms by the carouse. s. d. s. d. I s. d. g. d Bees, interior 3 0 3 4 Mutton, Inferior 3 4 3 8 Do., middling 3 6 310 t Do., middling ..... 310 4 2 Do., prime large 4 0 4 2 Do., prima 4 4 4 8 Do., do. small ....4 4 4 6 Veal 3 6 4 10 P.,rk, large 3lO 4 2 Pork. , ra4.11 . .. ... .. 4 6 6 2 Lamb, f.B Gd to 68 41. BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS. Since Monday last the arrivals of home grain, potatoes, coastwise and by land carriage, has been peasopably good. The imports h ►ve been rather extensive, viz., 20 tons from Ireland, 7 tons from Leer, 300 tons from Harlingen, 63 tons from Ternengen, 1,339 sacks and 315 bags from Schiedam, 1,519 bags from Hamburg, :329 sacks, 1,158 bags and 88 tons from Rotterdam, and 11. tons from Medunblik, A moderato business is doing, above quota tions. York Regents, 100 a to 155 s per ton ; Kent and Essex do., 93s to 135 s ; Scotch do., 90s to 125 s ; do. cups, 85a to 05s ; Middlings, 60s to 753; Lincolns, 85s to I.oos ; Blues, 85s to 100 a ; Foreign, 85s to ICOs. BOROUGH HOP. Our market continues to be weif supplied with most kinds of hops. Fine qualities are steady, and quite as dear as last week ; but inferior parcels rule dull. Last week's imports were 222 bags from Hamburg, and 51 do., from Hamburg. Mid and East Kent pockets, 3/ 109 to. 5/ 12e ; Weald of Bent, 3/ 5s to 31 ISs ; Sussex, 31 Os to 3/ 12a ; yeas.. lings, 1/ 10s to 31. per• ewt, WOOL. As the public sales of colonial wool will commence on Tuesday next, our market is exceedingly heavy, and prices are nominally unaltered. About 57,000 bales will be offered, viz., 13,751 bales Sydney, 20,024 Port Philip, 6,716 Tasmania, 8,912 Adelaide, 5,832 Cape, and 803 East India. Last week's imports were 95 bales from Smyrna, 320 from Buenos Ayres, and 22 from Copenhagen. The following are the current rates of English wool : Down togs, is 7d to is 8d ; half-bred hoggets, is 6d to is 7d ; Kent fleeces, is 5d to Is 6d ; Down ewes, is 5d to is 6d ; Leicester fleeces, is 4d to is 5d ; combing skins, to is 5d ; flannel wool, is 2d to is 6d ; and blanket wool, 10d to is 2d per lb. SEEDS. There has been more disposition shown to purchase cloverseed at fully former rates. Canaryseed is in fair de mand, at enhanced quotations. Rape and oilseeds ore steady, but in tares very little is doing. Tarrup,Waite,per bush. 215 to 22 , Carraway ........ 42s swede2lB 22.. Coriander •• • • 223 243 gusts rd, 8r0wn...." 203 22i fiempseed, per quarter 415 44s White, new •• • • lOs 12s Linseed. Eng. Sowing • • 703 723 tarel,Winter,new....B, Od 730 d Crushing ........ 565 683 Old •• • —5 —s Baltic •. • • ...• —3 —8 Canary, per quarter €B' 704 Odessa ......... 633 64s Rye grass (new) .• 3ti 41 , (Aimed Cake, pr. ton— CluTer,RedEns,(ewt.) 588 80 English •• ..,101 Os 101 108 White .•.• GOJ 75s Foreign perton 01 10 10,103 Foreign .. 573 76 ,- . Rape Cakes , FFr ton 61 Os 61 10 , White.... (03 72 - IRapneed, pr qr... •• 10s 84s Trefoil, uevr.. •• 26; 321 Our market to-day is ste. ported, P.Y.C„ on the for the end of the year, 54 6d nett cash; Rough fat, 21 LLOW. , adY , and prices are well sup spot, 58s 3d ; to June, 555. ; Is per cwt. Town tallow, 55s :a 110 per Blbs. 0153. --- Stock this day .... — 25.108 476 6 : t trice" Y. C —— I 0, Od Delivery last week •• I 2,256 Ditto from June 1.... 98,041 Arrivals last week.. 1,404 Ditto from Junel.. - .. , 82,2 56 Price of TOMS ........• 149; 3d 1.854. 1856 I 10+57, 34.101 64a 01 —s 0 31.702 54s 3du 54:, 6d 1,820 78,227 784 88,741 1,082 100,618 ' 64g 9d 958 73,927 568 6d 18,593 11,'•18 476 Od to 385 3d to —sOd —5 Od 1,897 1,971 99,544 99,324 608 Pd 411 216 71,595 94,262 565 Od NEWMARKET RACES. (This Day.) (BY ELECTRIO 1 1 1:1,12011APH. HANDICAP SWEEPSTAKES OF 20 SOUS: Crusada Spinet Evening Star C , it 501. PLATE. .Eupatoria Hegira OA.TLANDS HANDICAP. Admiral Lyons Erening Star Colt Nine ran. LATEST BETTING. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS. 5 t) 2 agst Kent 4to 1 agst Vedette 6 to 1 agst Anton 6 to 1 agst Loyola 9 to 1 eget Lambourn Weights for the Handicap Sweepstakes of 20 goys. T.Y.C. Yrs , t tb Yrs st lb Kestrel Cru,nda 3 7 13 Evening Star 0.. 3 6 9 Humbug All are here. Weights for the 50/. Handicap Plate. Yrs stlb 4 9 0 4 8 7 8 6 5 8 0 4 8 0 a 7 12 4 7 7 R. M. P.tapat Kestrel Noi ette Alcyone Tester Yrg st lb HartlPy Buck ... 5 7 4 Nougat Fright Spinet Aster 3 5 10 Renown 3 5 6 Octavia Torn Thumb • Eutry for the Queen's Plate. R.ll. Mary I Eloquence Mary Ann I Noitette Melissa Anemone Lady Florence Two THOUSAND GUINEAS.—Pampero, Keepsake, Church Langton, Sunflower, Mohawk, Sagitta, Purston, Fiying Eaglishaian, Western Power, and Tarrington have paid forfeit. ONE THOUSAND GUINEAS.-Vigil, Aspasia, Festivity, Sagitta, Genista, Bar One, and Rosa Bonheur have paid Forfeit. SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOYS.—Messenger, Academus, an•i Bewick have paid forfeit. SPORTING NOTES. THE TWO THOUSAND. Vedette's lame ! Such is the assertion of every other person one meets in Newmarket. The same was said of Fazzoletto last, so I do not attach much credit to the report. Aldcrolt was engaged to ride Vedette, but now it is asserted that Lord Glasgow has determined to run one of his " duffers," and to claim the services of Ald croft. My confidence in Vedette is not, however, shaken ; that he will run well and honestly I an, fully cr:nvinced. He did work enough this morning to satisfy his backers. That be walked somewhat gingerly when he was first brought out I readily admit, but when he took a rousing gallop with Lord of the Hiili his alleged lameness was nDt apparent. Between Vedette and Kent I see a " divided duty." lam " fond " of Vedette on account of Skirmisher's running, and I am partial to Kent on account of his (Kent's) good looks. Were I a professed betting man, I do not think I should know how to choose between the two horses. Kent beat Schiedam easily enough, but it is also asserted that Drumour beat Schiedam in private even more easily. Mr. Howard, however, has Hot yet arrived at the end of the long lane of ill luck, and will, I am afraid, be compelled to wait later in the season before he finds a turning. The movements with regard to Loyola and Beeswax C it I do not pretend to understand, but I shall not be surprised to see Loyola resume his old price in the bet ting. I will at once boldly assert my opinion that I deem Loyola's Clear well running a mistake. I certainly shall not be " tickled with the straw " of Lord Clifden. Anton is said to be vastly improved in his two-year old form, and so he ought to be to justify the large outhys which have been made in his favour. Sydney has been described to me as a mean-looking devil, and I am inclined to regard his reported trial with Ellington and Tester as unworthy of consideration. Of the out siders, my only fancy is for TURBIT and LAMBOURNE, but the winner will, I expect, be either KENT OR VEDETTE. The town is filling rapidly, and people are posting from Huntingdon and Cambridge in such rapid suc cession as to remind the old inhabitants of the good old days before railways were not. The weather as I write is bitterly cold, but the interesting week's racing in store renders us indifferent to the skiey influences. I shall perhaps have time to touch upon the One Thousand in my " Notes " on Wednesday. At present I can only tender my unconditional allegiance to Blink Bonny. A FRESH MAN. Newmarket, Monday morning, 8 o'clock. TATTERSA.LL'S—SATMIDAY. TWO THOUSAND. 3 to 1. agst Vedette (fakeu and offered) 10 to 3 agst Kent (rakes) 7to 1 agst Anton (taken) 9 to 1 agst Sydney (taken and offered) 10 to 1 agst Lambourn (taken) 100 to 9 agst cby Surplice—Beeswax (taken) 12 to 1 agst Loyola (taken and offered) 15 to 1 apt Druniour (taken) 25 to 1 a-4.st Lord of the Hills (offered) 700 to 25 agst Vedette winning the Two Thousand and Skirmisher the Derby (taken) CHESTER CUP. 11 to 1 aget Mmcepie (taken) 1000 to 30 aget Rogertborpe 40 to 1 agst Claret 12 to 1 agst 15 to 1 agst 25 to 1 :kgst 40 to 1 agst 30 to 9 agst DEBBY. skirmisher (taken) Kent (taken) Lady Hawthorne (taken) Adams (taken) Beeswax colt (taken) THE OAKS. 3to 1 not Think Bonny (offered) 20 to 1 apt Lady Hawthorne (taken) LATEST CITY BETTING.—SATURDAY NIGHT. TWO THOUSAND. 12 to 1 agst Colt by Surplice—Beeswax. 20 to 1 agst Drumour (offered) ASCOT GOLD CUP. 12 to , 1 agst Gtinnia di Vern , (take 1 to 1251.) 2000 to 10k: agst Mincepie (taken) 2000 to 100 at„,st Polestar (taken) 1 600 to 40 ages P , oodle (taken) pretty Boy, Fandango, and Skir -600 to 300 agst wisher " mixed" (taken) 800 to 100 agst Magn.:fier, Sprig of Shillelagh, and Savnt..Ter " mixed" (takeu) ----- BETTING AT MANCHEST,NR.—YESTERDAY. 3 to 1 agst Vedette (taken - fiPelY) 7 to 2 agst Kent (taken) 600 to 100 agst Anton (taken) 13 to 2 agst Beeswax (taken) 100 to 8 ag:•t Loyola (offered) The report that the Austrian army is being reduced is I incorrect. That great numbers of men are sent to their homes is perfectly true, but the gaps are filled up by the recruits raised during the last two months. TRIESTE, April 25.—Accounts from Al, xandria, of the 19th inst., announce the arrival in that city of 3,000 Turkish troops, whose destination is not known. CHANCES OF THE FRANKLIN EXPEDITION. —We have shown in a previous discussion of the subject that it is by no means ridiculous or extra va g ant to think it possibl,e that some (if oily two or three) of Sir John Franklfit2, 6 com p a nions, vigorous men who we nt out at the age o or 28, and would he now , as to their years, of the age when men have but attained their complete ripeness aud the Esquimaux, st rength, may have taken r efu g e among all his among as Dr. Kane declared th at it "required powers, moral and physical, to prevent" his men from doing, when they also were placed in a critical position. Dr. Kane coarse says of himself an d his men, " we regarded th life of these pe o p le with eyes of envy, and did not doubt but that we could have lived in comfort upon their It is c learly possible, then, that at least re.ources." one Englishma n may still be living among th e Esqui maex, parted by a vast and impassable tract of desert continent from the most northern settlements of his own coun t s ymeo, and to whom the eight of a deliverer would bring such joy as we who live all the years through among friends and in families are utterly unable to ima gine. We have already pointed out how the behaviour o f the Etquimaux has led more than one Arctic sailor to believe that they know somethiog about Sir John Franklin's crews, that they are indisposed to tell what they know, and that it needs time and tact to extract their knowledge from them. The space of ground within which it is now certain that Frank lin's ship% were lost, and probable that their disabled hulls are to be found, is of so limited extent that even on maps of a considerable size it may be covered with a shilling. To Cambridge Bay, on one side of this region, a single sailing vessel has passed and re turned home unscathed, its commander expressing kis conviction that the passage is so constantly open that ships can navigate it without difficulty in one season. To the other side of this region there is achotce of routes, and the point that would be reached by a vessel entering Peel Sound would, probably, be less than 200 voiles dis tant from the limit of the area of search on the western. side. From such a point the who l e area could be expi red easily and safely by the help of doge.—Dickens's flow hold Words. LIVING CELEBRITIES. PHOTOGRAPHED BY MESSRS. lIIALTLL AND POLY BLANK. NOS. I. TO XII. A dozen of these wonderful Portraits have now made their appearance. And they appear, by their marvellous beauty as woks of Art, and stilf more ! by their marvellous truthfulness and exactitude :,s copies of Nature, to demand from us some more . than usually emphatic expression of our very sin cere and unaffected admiration. It.is their mead. It is their due. They are—we repeat—wonderful. They are literally like ,Shadows in the Glass ( f Twelve of our "Living Celebrities." The actual reflections of the bodily appearance of these twelve eminent men—to a line, to a shade, to a hair. In teresting now that they are still moving and breathing among us. How interesting when, in Lhei t i i cs e e ir of e na-ure, they shill have passed away an7l tidies shell he scanned by posterity, and not merely by their contemporaries ! Fancy looking over a collection of naull and Polyblank Photographs of the age, not of Victoria, but of Anne or Elizabeth. Examining in succes sion shadows in, the grass " horn the very life," of pale little lameter Pope ; of be-wigged and be scented Congreve ; of Swift, with a face all a-flame with passion a. cl genius ; and Addison, with his flushed more by wine than by emotion ! Or better still, turning over prints taken by the sunbeant from the actually " i elleete I features" of burly' Ben; of bearded Raleigh, with his cap a-wry and a feather in it ; of BacoA, looking wisdom out of his astute eyes ; of Sidney, the smooth-checked hero of the boudoir and the baetle-field ; and " best beautiful " of all, the glorious c untenance, the veritable eyes, brow, mouth, mothtsche, even the dimple of laughter near the lips of handsome Will Shakspere ! 'Fancy that. Well—after times may look back to some of these faces with a kindred iutere-t as to faithful limnings of men eminent in their way in the Age of Victoria. We don't pay any one of these gentle men the preposterous compliment of likening them in any way to Popes or Shaksperes. But we do assert that these photographic portraits of them are deeply and peculiarly interesting now that they themselves are " Living Celebrities," and that they will be still more wonderfully interesting when in the eoutee of events they shall, alas ! have b, come every one of them "Dead Celebrities ! " They have already done their best themselves to immortalise their " Names." The Messrs. Maull and Poly blank have now in turn done their best to perpe tuate their "Features." How attractive (even during their lifetime) the series has been rendereii by the very . diversity of the collection, the subjects chosen for it sufficiently i n di ca t e i n he mere enu meration. Here is the Cuvier of his time—Pro fessor Richard Owen, a perfect master of Anatomy. Here is Babington Macaulay, the Tacitus and Gib hon of our generation. Here is England's, the World's Engineer Robert St e ph enson . era John Roebuck, the "Dissenting Minister " of the House of Commons. Here is Edward Baily, the Sculptor of Eve, who through that Eve has given us a glimpse of Paradise. Here is Sammi Warren, the Watcher by the Deathbed in that weird " Diary of a Physician"—the keen and caustic Satirist of "Ten Thousand a Year." Here is the learned Master of the Mint, Professor Gra ham. Here Edward Ward, one of the most youthful, one of the most gifted, and one of the most popular of our Royal Academicians. Here is the wise and witty Lord Chief Justice of England, John Lord. Campbell. Here George Cruiksimak, the Hogarth of the Etching Needle, the Prince of Caricaturists. Here (the latest of these all but miraculous sun pictures) Rowland Hill, the Author of the Penny Postage, and, therefore as such, Everybody's Benefactor. Twelve undoubted "Living Celebri ties." The very men themselves looking out upon us vividly and life-like from the paper under our hand--as vividly as they might look in upon us from the threshold—framed in the doorway. We long to see added to the list of "Living Celebri ties "in this really exquisite collection of Photo graphic Portraits—great names like those, for ex ample of Charles Dickens, and Buiwer Lytton, and Alfred Tennyson, and Henry Brougham, and William Thackeray. We await their aippe'arance— and while doing so, we wish cordial success to the enterprise, the ingenious and remarkable enterprise of the Messrs. Maull and Polyblank. LITERATURE. The Fortunes of Glencore. By Charles Lover. 3 vols. Chapman and Hall. Those who have occasionally met with this story as it periodically appeared will, no doubt, be pleased to find it here presented to them iu a concise form, while those unacquainted with it previously will meet with a worthy subject for perusal. A consi derable amount of skill and ingenuity are displayed in its construction. The scene varies from country to coustry—from the wilds of Glencore to the C 'seine of Florence. The personages brought for ward are also strangely contrasted, from the eccen tric Lord of Glencore himself to the peculiar, though widely different, Billy Traynor. It is a question whether this latter individual is not the best character in the work. After the meanness, the craft, the subtibty, and circumvention which meet the eye at every turn, and arrest the step at every tread, in the mazes of diplomatic labyrinths, and the mysteries of political intrigues, it is refresh ing to encounter one impervious to their influence, to recognise amid the qui n t essence o f art one:to? " Rough Nature's children humorous fts she." Glencore's two friends, Sir Horace Upton an.l Colonel Harcourt, are again two specimens of the opposing points from which two men will view the same thing. The narrative is complicated, and the chief event is a painful one, indeed the story is of the powerful more than the pleasing kind. The thirst for revenge which excited so strongly biota the unhappy recluse and his unfortunate wife suffi ciently accounts for any degree of misery that arose. When she was carried away by passion to such degree that she preferred her husband to believe her guilty, rather than by proclaiming her innocence remove the sting from his path, while he, goaded to -madness by his tortures, resolved on the extreme act of disowning his marriage, and ruining his son's prospects ; it is a necessary consequence that their careers must be recorded as the night side of na ture. The numerous minor details of the intricacies of foreign courts, and home management, impart an agreeable variety to the plot, and there is great interest awakened by the sorrowful position of the young heir of Glencore,who is sent out in the world worse than an orphan. His adventures engage at tention, he possessed too much of his father's proud reserve and sullen discontent, to have been happy under any circumstances ; but in the cruel isola tion in which he found himself, his *suseeptibility made him morbid, and his pensive tendency wss reduced to despair. The Countess is an imperson ation of an Italian climate, with the bonds of a glittering slavery she replaced the dissevered ties of home. Tile inward satisfaction that others would have felt, from a consciousness of innocence, she d-rived from the supposition of guilt beng attached to her name. As for feeling pity for either Lord or Lady Glencore it is out of the question, the senti ment is reserved for the unoffending, on whom were visited the sins of his parents. Is is amusing to note the self-sufficiency of Upton as he moves along the tortuous path in which he delights. The plea sure of gaining his end would be marred, if the de sire was obtained in a straight or simple way. After such disclosures of human pride and passions, as are here pourtrayed, to be at all in unison with one's ideas of consistency, the end must be sad. The last heir of the fallen house is left a wanderer beyond the seas, and the faithful adherent to Ids evil fortunes has waited for his return till his life has been extended beyond the limits of mortality. H e h a s waited in vain, however, for time, that has brought round the changing seasons in unchanging order, has not reconstructed " the pitcher broken at the font," or reinstated the fallen "Fortunes of Glencore." The principal parts in the performance of the "Elijah," with which the season of the Royal Surrey Gardens open. on the 11th of next month, will he taken by Miss Lou'aa Vining, Madame Weiss, Miss Dolby, Mr. Weiss, and nr. Sims Reeves, assisted by a band and chores of 1.000 pdtfornaers. SHIPBUILDING AT PRESTON.—There were launched on Saturday, from the yard of Messrs. A. Ogle and Co., iron shipbuilders, a sailing ship and a screw pleasure yacht. The former belongs to Messsrs. Blythe and Troughton, Liverpool merchants, is 400 tons register, and is capable of carrying between 600 and 700 tons. These are the first iron vessels that have been launched at Preston. Mr. Gye announces the return of Mdme. Ristori to the Lyceum in June. The renowned Italian tragedienne, whose success in Paris shows no symptoms of decree se, will appear this season in the new drama written ex pressly for her by the distinguished poet and patr ot, Montanelli, and in an Italian version of " Macbeth:. LADY FRANKLIN'S AROTIO EXPEDITION. L a d y Franklin has effected the purchase of a steam yacht ad mirably adapted for the requisite Arctic service, and she eminent and experienced Arctic voyager ard explorer, Captain M'Clintock, has accepted the command of :die expedition. These facts abundantly show that L..uly Franklin is as earnest ie her intention of carrying gut the great duty whioh has devolved on her. ST. MA.RIC'S HosrrrAL.—On Saturday evening the anniversary festival of this excellent and pinch-needed institution was celebrated at the London Tavern, under the presidency of Mr.. Alderman Copeland, M.P. Ab ant 150 gentlemen sat down to a capital dinner. The ul nal formal and complimentary toasts having been given a nd duly responded to, the chairman briefly gave the taast of the evening, advocating the claims of the hospi. tal with much force and eloquence. It was received with enthusiasm by the company, who endorsed their • opinion of the merits of the hospital by a most liberal subscription, amounting in all to upwards of 2,200/. 10 20 5 20 20 33-!, 10, 20 20 60 20 100 100 100 ;IGN. 89 68; I 35 19 Ili i 383 i 81i i G4l i 131 f 1084 24 i 203 39 9i 32k 52 1