The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser. — Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-03-04 00:00:00

THE tibtrpoot taittarb, TUESDAY, MARCH 4, 1856. FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT. MONDAY MORNING. HER MAJESTY and the Court continue to reside at Buck ingham Palace, devoting such brief spaces of time as the public affairs leave at the QUEEN'S disposal, to a discharge of those domestic and maternal duties which it is her happiness to attend to, and in the fulfilment of which she sets so com mendable an example to even the humblest as well as the most exalted of her subjects. On Wednesday, a levee, the second of the season, was held by HER MAJESTY at St. James's Palace. The presentations were numerous, those of military and naval officers predominating. In the evening of the same day, HER MAJESTY entertained a select party at dinner, among whom were Her Royal Highness the PRINCESS ROYAL, Mr. Bucmuctx, Minister to the Court of St. James's from the United States, the Earl of EGLIETON, and the Right Hon. B. and Mrs. DrsaA.eu. On Thursday, the QUEEN and Prince ALEBET, together with the PRINCESS ROYAL, honoured the Haymarket Theatre with their presence; and on Saturday HER MAJESTY graced the performance at the Lyceum Theatre by attending. The performances on this last occasion were for the benefit of the Pavilion company of actors, who have suffered so severely in the loss of their pro perty by the recent fire at their theatre: Preparations are already on foot, on an extensive scale, for the reception of the KING of the BELGIANS, who is shortly expected on a visit to the QUEEN, and whose sojourn in this country will, it is understood, extend to about a week. How important soever the routine of our domestic public affairs may at this time appear, and doubtless are, all eyes are at present fixed on Paris. The transactions there being car ried on arrest not merely the attention of Great Britain and her august Allies, but rivet the observation of all Europe and engage the sympathies of the civilized world. In that capital a small council of men are assembled, delegated to discuss and arrange the conflicting interests, and to represent while they amalgamate and modify the opinions of the independent Mo narchies of Europe—it may indeed be said, of the world at large. Considering the importance of the subjects submitted to their arbitrement, it is not to be wondered at, that every motion, whisper, or expression which may emanate from them is. watched with the most intense anxiety. In vain, however, are all eyes and ears upon the stretch. The avenues to the meeting ehamber are barred against intrusion by means so strict that " Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds" on which to rest conjecture., In the absence of information the fancy has been busy, and rumours the most fantastical have been freely circulated with respect to the negotiations and the resolutions of the conclave. The first great act of the Plenipotentiaries has been ratified and promulgated. An armistice has been concluded, and proclaimed, the armistice being of course a useless affair unless proclaimed and publicly acted on. It includes more than the mere formalities implied in the temporary cessation of hos tilities. It was authoritatively stated that no armis tice would be agreed to by the Allies, until a formal recognition of the principles on which the negotiation should proceed were definitely fixed. The proclamation of the armistice is therefore looked on as a proof that some sin cerity is evinced on the part of Russia, and that there is at least a probability of peace. Having divulged so much of their proceedings, the members of the Conference have once more drawn around them the curtain of obscurity, and all concerning them and their deliberations is again involved in that mystery which forms so fertile a source of conjec ture. The suspense thus occasioned is painful, and some maintain disadvantageous; but a moment's reflection must convince even the most anxiously curious that affairs so mo mentous as those concerning which the assembled Plenipoten tiaries are deliberating must be carefully secluded from general discussion, at all events until they have assumed a practical and definite form. Those whose monetary and mercantile interests are deeply involved in the issue, will no doubt long eagerly for such intelligence as may guide them in their future proceedings, but in the meantime prudence dictates to them and others to "wait a little longer ;" to refrain, in fact, from speculations and conjectures which must prove vain and fanciful, and may occasion themselves much risk and detriment. While anxiety connected with foreign matters occupies so large a share of general attention, and while on the subject of our external policy ministers are in the enjoyment of what may prove a portentous and treacherous repose, they have during its continuance been tossed upon a sea of domestic troubles. In the House of Lords they have been beaten and baffled on a question of vital interest to the state — in the same place they have been constrained to grant a commission of inquiry into the report issued by them selves, although prepared by their commissioners to in quire into the state of matters in the Crimea, which had produced such disastrous effects upon our army and had so tarnished the glory of our arms. In reference to this report two ministerial blunders already stand prominently revealed. The commission issued was not sufficiently extensive. It em powered the commissioners to inquire into the state of affairs which had produced the evil complained of, but it conferred on them no power to ascertain who were the parties immedi ately to blame for that -state of matters. For example, it enabled them to ascertain that the great mortality among the cavalry horses was occasioned by want of food, which was plentiful at a few miles' distance from them, and that Lord CARDIGAN refused to allow the cavalry horses to go for forage. It also enabled them to ascertain with precision the melan. choly fact that the mortality occasioned by this want of forage Was not confined to the hersek but extended its ravages with frightfully fatal effect among the men. Here, however, it stopped. They were not entitled to inquire into the reasons which induced the Earl of CARDIGAN to refuse, even in the trying emergency referred to, to convert his cavalry chargers into beasts of burden for the:conveyance of commissariat stores. Sir Jorm MgNerr, and Colonel TULLOCH inquired with search ing and impartial scrutiny, and reported with responsible though fearless fidelity, so far as they were entitled to go; but here, like provident men, they m de a virtue of necessity and proceeded uo further than their commission gave them warrant for. In these circumstances, parties, who like Lord. CARDIGAN imagine they have been presented to the public in an unfair and invidious light, demand to have the supplementary portion of the inquiry gone into. It is per fectly obvious that various and conclusive reasons may have operated on Lord CARDIGAN'S mind, and may have fully jus tified him in acting as he did in the peculiar circumstances referred to ; and so of other officers, whose conduct is im pugned by implication. The demand made in reference to further investigation has wrung from Ministers a military commission for further inquiry ; and thus, as is the case with most half-measures, the piecemeal style of the examination gives rise to endless misrepresentation out of doors, and varied castigations in Parliament. By one set of opponents, Minis ters are accused of issuing an imperfect commission for the purpose of screening the great offenders, while those who are so designated by an imperfectly-informed public complain loudly that they have been denied the opportunity of stating their own case, and vehemently affirm that their reputation is undermined by insinuation and tarnished by inference, which they could have disproved if permitted the opportunity to do ,ao. A third class maintain, that, in appointing the military commission to prosecute the inquiry further, Ministers are, in effect,invalidating the report, censuring the investigation, and sending their own commissioners for trial before a newly-con. stituted and anomalous military tribunal. In point of fact, .= the whole of the ministerial procedure, in respect to this Cri mean inquiry, has been of so extraordinary and nnbusinesslike a character, as to provoke, if not to justify, the most sweeping suspicions. Every one has long since agreed that the parliamentary investigation was so adroitly manipulated by the artistes who preside over the politico-culinary arrange ments of the cabinet cookery work, that its conclusion was a farce, sorry enough, no doubt, in the enactment and result, but still a farce. Here the second branch of the inquiry seems to have been so " cribbed, cabined, and confined," that even • .-•the unwearied assiduity and dauntless courage of the commis sioners have been circumvented , and a third commission must now sit upon the cruelly-mutilated subject of inquiry, to com plete a work which the two gentlemen sent to the East have, by their report, proved themselves so fully competent to perform. Bad as it is, however, this is not all with which Lord PALMERSTON and his colleagues stand fairly chargeable in respect to the report of Sir Joni.; M`lcurt and his coadjutor. On receiving the report, Ministers did not communicate it to the Horse Guards; and, in ignorance of its contents, the Commander-in-Chief conferred promotion, and bestowed places of emolument, trust, and high responsibility, on officers tuiderlying suspicion, if not deserving of severe censure, in accordance with the terms of that report. In withholding the report from the head of the military department, Minis ters Inflicted manifold wrong. In permitting the ignorant act of patronage, they exposed the public service to detriment ; they placed the Commander-in-Chief in a false position with Parliament and the country; and they set the recipients of the patronage in the invidious light of being rewarded first, and punished or acquitted afterwards, while, at the same moment, they lay the conduct, motives, and judgment of their own commissioners open to misconstruction, and expose them to undeserved suspicion. The matter was gravely de bated in the House of Lords ; and, on Friday last, it was dis •!ussed with much acrimony in the House of Commons, the latter discussion ending in the withdrawal of a resolution brought forward by Mr. ROEBUCK, severely condemnatory of Ministers, in relation to the newly-appointed Board of Gene rals to further prosecute the inquiry into the Crimean mismanagement. The discussions in Parliament for the last two years have turned so much upon " War's vast art," that matters affecting merely civil rights have received but little attention ; though in not a few instances these have been threatened with serious injustice. One of these occupied the attention of the House of Commons, almost exclusively, for the two first nights of last week ending in a total and ignominious defeat of the Government,on a measure, on which, judging by the parade and ostentation with which it was introduced, and advocated, they had obviously set their hearts. The measure in question was the " Local Dues on Shipping Bill" introduced by the Vice- President of the Board of Trade, in a speech full of false facts, supported by illogical deductions, and entirely based upon the " appropriation principles" which form so distinguishing a characteristic of the Manchester school of political ethics. This Bill had been foreshadowed in the address from the throne at the opening of Parliament—was introduced early in the Session, and with hot-haste pushed its second reading on Monday last. Alarmed by the revolutionary opinions pro mulgated at the introduction of the Bill, in his declaration that " Corporation property" was a thing which the legisla ture could appropriate to the general good, without offering any compensation to the party denuded, the Conservative party stood manfully forward in opposition to the measure, which was also warmly opposed by all who object to so sweeping a mode of dealing with property ; and on the second reading, Sir FREDERIC Tussiazu, in a calm and temperate but convincing speech, pointed out the dangers to be apprehended from a measure which proposed to effect such un disguised spoliation. At the conclusion of his address, Sir FREDERICK moved that "the bill be read a second time this day six months." This was seconded by Sir F. BA.RINO. Mr. LOWE defended his bill, but did so in a style which, by bringing prominently forward its very worst features, raised up enemies where he meant to secure friendship. In-the words of a contemporary, " he was by far too enthusiastic a parent, and thought too highly of his child." Many members, whose love of ease might have induced them to remain absent from a division on the subject, and whose apathy or dullness might have secured their acquiescence in a more plausibly put for ward tale, had their apprehensions excited and their fears roused by such assertions as those with which he backed up his arguments. " Whatever may be your charter," said Mr; Lows; " and whatever may be your legal rights, your charters are iniquity, and your rights injustice, and we will sweep you, away, your self-elected system, and your property." Even the dullest could perceive that a slight extension of this dogma, which was now only levelled at a corporation, would snap asunder the bonds of every species of property—would snatch the coronet from the ducal head—wrench open the treasures of the Church—pervert and sully the direct and pure stream of justice—filch the diadem of the Sovereign, and in its explosion burst asunder the fabric of the throne. Men wondered to hear such doctrines avowed in as assembly of constitutional legislators ; and stood aghast when reflection restored to them the consciousness that these were the senti ments entertained and expressed by a member of the govern ment. If the matter of Mr. LOWE'S MU and his speeches were bad, the manner in which he delivered the one and advocated the other was by no means such as to inspire confidence in the measure or to extort approbation for the man. His-manner is repulsive -his assumption intolerable. He reasons with the arbitrary harshness of a despot —assumes the stiff' for mality of definition while manufacturing a string of what he calls abstract truths—moves his intellectual man in a region peculiarly his own, in which he deals• exclusively with those same " truths." These he pours upon the ear with a rapidity of utterance never equalled, and a cold unimpas. sioned yet vehement monotony as irksome as his self-applaud ing temerity is offensive and repellant. How any Ministry,. more especially a Ministry presided over by a man of such consummate " tact," finesse, indeed, as Lord PA.LMERSTON ) . should have confided the management of a bill so deeply involving their own character as politicians and their credit , as statesmen, to such a man as Mr. Laws, is a matter which evades solution, and can only be accounted for by. the entire absence of legislative skill and debating talent in their second range of officials. Mr. HORSFALL, with telling suavity of manner, followed the Vice-President of the Board of Trade, and with a well aranged phalanx of facts and figures vanquished the abstract propositions- laid down by the framers of the bill. In persuasive accents, which told well, in contrast with the dictatorial impetuosity of his opponent, the Honourable Member for Liverpool laid before the House a succinct but glowing narrative of the • valuable purposes to which the denounced Town Dues had been applied, and successfully applied in -such a way as to con tribute not merely to the maritime benefit of that town, but to the general benefit of the country. Mr. EWART also did something to expose the hollow reasoning.and dangerous prin ciples upon which the bill was founded. and by which it was supported. On Monday night the debate was formally ad-- journed till the following day, but every one felt assured that the fate of the measure was sealed. The property doctrines of Mr. Lows, probably derived from his experience in the Australian bush, where the definitions of tnewn and tuum are said not to very strict, had too effectually_ damaged it to admit of its possible resuscitation. On it, as on the murdered. DuscAic, "treason had done its worst." Even so adroit a "leech" as PALMERSTON could effect no present cure, and ac cordingly on Tuesday night he dexterously threw his mantle over the abortion and withdrew it from further observation. One singular, and by many it was considered shabby obser vation, as it reflected on his subordinate, escaped from his- Lordship in his withdrawing address; it was to the effect that Government did not fully understand the peculiari ties of the case till these were brought out in course of the debate. On this latter point, that of attempting to legislate for cases they did not understand, Mr. DISRAML, hit the PREMIER hard. Every indulgence, he said, bad.. been accorded to Ministers by the Opposition, yet within the six weeks during which Parliament had been sitting,. through their rash and ill-considered attempts at legislation,. they had manifested the utmost feebleness and been exposed I to numerous defeats. They were defeated not by their oppo nents, not even by their supporters, but by themselves. Not even the balanced sarcasm and well-weighed invective of the Right Honourable Member far Buckinghamshire coual add. much to the damage the Government bad already sustained;. and the Australian proposition of Mr. Lows was bur , xd. , for the time being, if not consignedto lasting oblivion. It is now clear, that in reference to this measure Ministers reckoned without their host. Relying on the comparative feebleness of opposition whieh the Manchester petitioners had led them to expect, and in reality, as Lord Para&susvors ad mitted, ignorant of the true nature ©f the case, in tholope of conciliating that rapacious clique, they► made a swoop- at the Liverpool Town Dues. As, in cases frequently recorded in the annals of sporting, the falcon has been impaled upon the heron's bill, Ministers have run a-tilt against Mtzuicipal pro perty, and they have been fatally wounded by their ow.n.shirered lance. VALIIISLEY'S SABBATH DE&TV RATION MOTION! TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SlB,—What has become of our representative, Mr. J. C. Ewart, and where did he hide himself on the all-important " Sabbath Recreation" question, brought before the Commons. by Sir Joshua ? I look in vain for h.-name in that tell-tale list of ayes and noes in the division of . the.House—on neither side is it to be found. The inference, I fear, is inevitable. Fearing on the one hand to do justice. to his own feelings by opposing, and still more greatly fearing on the other to offend even a few of his unwashed supporters at the hustings, a studied balance of the difficulty probably coerced the adoption of Falstaff's defence of the better part of valour, and he shirked that which he could not face. This is sorry trim ming.. The great community of Liverpool had a right to look for a deeper interest and a balder and more independent front in its representative,. on one of the greatest questions. that could by any possibility agitate the legislature of the , country. As for our Walmsleys„ our Heywoods, and Shelleys, we may look in vain for anything better from them. For the talented young Lord Stanley's support of the infidel measure, how ever, the country has much cause to feel deeply grieved at the prostitution of hit highly-gifted mind, in furtherance of an attempt to lift the very foundations of moral society, (to say nothing of the higher principle involved,) that of legalising the infraction of the Decalogue,—an acquisition long aimed at by the Whigs, Radicals, and revolutionary infidels, both in and out of the House. I am not sorry the question has been mooted, for while its discussion has been adorned with as splendid a display of parliamentary eloquence as ever graced the Commons House of parliament in its best days, the divi sion exhibits a majority s,„ overwhelming as to lead to the hope that any future attem p t to renew the motion "looms" (if it loom at all) in a ver y remote distance indeed. But where, I again ask, was the ra di ca l representative of our borough?—where could he be bo rrowt»g on such a divi sion as that which called for practical proof of the divinity that stirred within him ? It is a p ertinent question, and one which I, a voter but not a supporter of the " honourable member," hold a right to put. If timidity on a great not only moral but religious question frights Mr. Ewart from the post of honour and responsibility, what guarantee have we that a great damaging constitutional question may not meet, under similar fears and pressure, with the same fate? But then this was only a moral, based on a ttei'e religious ques tion, and consequently of secondary importance only. Sir, I do not hesitate to say that the principle mooted was of a magnitude stretching to eternity itself, and that it was so fat is evident in the number of petitions against it. It is truly gratifying to see no fewer than three—yes, absolutely three mortal columns of the Times occupied in close array with the names of places from which those petitions have emanated, proving the existence of a sounder judgment, a better feeling, and a more elevated and righteous principle pervading the country at large, with its humble inhabitants, than the mise rable, the contemptible minority of 48 out of the 424 members who voted on the occasion had dreamt of. I congratulate my townsmen on the result. BROOKVALE. SIR E. L. BULTVER and THE CLASSICS. THE LIVERPOOL STANDAIth. TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVERPOOL STANDARD. SIR, —Long confinement to the house, through a complica tion of bodily diseases (which, thank God, have appeared to conclude an armistice not to disturb the mental citadel), has driven me, pour passer le temps, to the lazy, yet most rational way of wiling away the weary hours, by lolling on a couch, perusing standard literary productions, which I read with a relish ; and if, at times, the appetite fail when the food gets dry, why, I take a snooze, and at it again. No living or dead author presents such mental attraction to me as Sir EDWARD 1301,WER LYTTON ; he is an author who may defy criticism. But yet, as in the most costly robe, a passion glance may detect a stitch out of place, which has eluded the searching inspection of a most thorough-bred art professor—se the giant in literature may be found tripping by an admirer, where the most envious critics had failed to dis cover a flaw. I have lately been reading, for the half-dozenth time, Sir Edward's admirable work "The Cartons ;" and, iu craving a niche in your literary corner for this letter, I do so for an alternative purpose, viz., either to find myself in the wrong, which some one or other of your scholastic correspondents,— nay, should this meet his eye, Sir E. himself, perhaps—may prove to me ; or, finding that I am right, to serve as a caution, even to the profoundest classical scholars, not to mislead young students by erroneous references. In " The Cartons" I find thefollowing passage :—" 'Be good children, Roland and Blanches both,' said my mother, stopping from her work, and holding up'her needle threateningly—and, indeed, inflicting a slight puncture - upon the captain's shoulder.' --° gem acu tetigisti, my deary' . said my father, borrowing Cicero's pun on the occasion.' " And the erudite author, for the' benefit of non-composite readers, explains, in a foot-note, the. Latin quotation of "Rem acu tetigtsti," as Cicero's joke on a senator who was the son of a tailor—" Thou halt touched the thitigtsharply,"—(or with a needle—actr). Now, although rusted for these last forty years in classical study, I have never forgotten that elypticatpassage, "Rem acu tetigisti," which you will find in " Corderius, Colloquim where the dialogue refers to the pawning of a book ; and has as much to do, in old " Cordery," with a tailor or his trade, as the waters of our own Mersey with those of the' Bosphorus! I should like to learn from any of your classical• correspon d6nts-, whether "the. pawning of a book that had been lent," as recorded by Corderies, or a skit at a tailbr by Cicero•, as recorded by Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, originated thepointed eqUirogue of " Rem ace' tetigisti. '—l am, your's,- E. B. LYTTONIENSIS. AMERICA. ARRIVAL OF THE. PERSIA, AND OP' THE QUAKER CITY. BY the arrival of the British and North American' royal mail 'steam-ship Persia, Captain Judkins, which arrived' in Liverpool on Sunday morning, at) half-past ten, we have intel >ligenc3 from New York to the 20th tilt. The United States man steam-ship Quaker City, Captain Shnfredt, arrived about half an hour after the Persia, bringing intelligence from New York to the 16th 'of February. The. Quaker City has cons* to take the place of the Pacific, on the-Liverpool and New rt , rk line, and brought the • mails which should have come by that ship, and six passengers: The Persia brings her own' milk. 146 passengers, and $700,000 in specie:. Up to the time when the Persia sailed, no tidings had been received respecting the 'NcifiC, nor' had the steamers which , :had been sent in search of her returned:, The Governor of Kansas (Shannon) had left for his post, with full instructions to execute and carry out all the laws of that territory He carried with him instructions to Colonel Sumner, who had charge of eight hundred troops stationed at Fort Leavenworth, to hold himself in readiness for any emergency that might arise. The members of the Western Anti-Slavery Society had memorialized the Legislature of Ohio to withdraw from the Union. The U.S. sloop-of-war John Adams had arrived at Panama from the Fejee Islands, where she had been to chastise the natives for cruelties to American seamen.. During the cruis ings of the John Adams five sharp engagements took place between her crew and the cannibals of Polynesia. Five of their largest towns were burnt, and all the houses therein reduced to ashes. A treaty was ratified between Commander Boutwell and Tui Vite or Thokambau, the King of Fejee, on behalf of the American government. The isthmus of Panama was very free from epidemic or con tagion. There had been some slight insurrection in Lavilla. In Nicaragua affairs were quiet. General Walker had about 1,000 men with him. President Rivas had issued a decree suspending all official communication with the Minister of the United States, and recalling Parker H. French. Mr. Manning, acting Vice-Consul of the British Government at Realejo, had addressed an official letter to the Minister of Foreign Relations of Nicaragua, in which he sympathizes with the Provisional Government of Nicaragua in its endeavour to maintain quiet amongst a disorganized population, and bring prosperity to a people reduced to want by aimless revolutions. He assures the executive of the goodwill of the British cabinet whilst the affairs of the republic are conducted in accordance with the " usages of the laws of nations." He also recognizes Walker's commission as a general, and promises to transmit to Sir Charles Wyke, English Consul in Guatemala, a copy of the Walker-Rivas treaty. Amongst the items of miscellaneous news, we learn that Barbour, the witness against the acquitted Irish fillibusters at Cincinatti, had been put on his trial for perjury. Mr. Rowecroft, the English Consul, had giverr evidence in favour of the veracity of the accused. An Irish Emigrant Aid Society Convention had been held at Buffalo, at which it was determined to organize a prac ticable system for the benefit of emigrants, by assisting them to remove from the seaboard cities to a field where there ser vices would yield ample subsistence. The president of the convention denied that there was any sectionality in the movement. The emigrants were to be free to go to- Canada or Minnesota ; the only object of the society was to provide a way, and furnish the means. A railway train, weighing eighty tons, had crossed the-Po tomac river on the ice. vV The Northern Light had arrived at New York from San .Than, with advices from California to the 21st January, and $2 , 12,678; and the St. Louis, from Aspinwall, with $1,023,028' on freight. 011 , the sth February, Her Majesty's ship Eurydice and the mail' steamer Clyde were in the harbour of San Juan. Her Majesty's ship Espiegle had sailed" the previous day. J: L. Stephens had left San Francisca with 1,275,548,19 dollara , on freight, including 259,071 dollars for England. The mines continued to yield a regular supply, and great prepara tions were'being made by the farmers for sowing an unusual quantity of grain daring the coming season. Business at San Francisco was The latest advices _from the Amor' River repert the Rus sians as well fortified. A cannon foundrrhad been established. From the- Sundwich Islands we learn that the inhabitants of Hilo were in•great apprehension lest the stream of lava from the volcano should overwhelm the town. Accounts frorn , Havana, of the 13th ult,report the state of the sugar crop as-unfavourable. The weather was -bad, and the crops would probably not be larger than last year. An increase in rates- was expected. Molasses were scarce; The ship Anna Tift, Captain Golding, from New Orleans for Liver pool, had been struck-by lightning. She also' sprung a leak, and put into Havana to repair damage. She would probably have to discharge. Advices from Veva , Crur report that Puebla had capitulated terHaro y Tamariz. Comonfort was about to to dispatchfrom the city of Mexico nearly 7,000 soldiers, divided -into three brlandes, a g ainst the insurgents. Santa Anna's property had been seized on accounrof his- treasons and other crimes. In the interior all the telegraphic wires had been cut away. Uraga had been beaten- at Tolman. It was saidlhat the southern provinces werequiet. Thcreanadian Legislattirelvw? opened on the 15th February by theGovernor-Genera. Letters from Porto Cabello, of the 27th January,.-report` considerable activity in business: Coffee was in great demand for the European and United--States markets. Good qualities commanded $l2 per qtl. ; fair; $l2l. Hides, 214 c. per 1.6.; much request for the United States. Freight, $l6 to $lEk, The Aaviees from Valparaigo are - to' thel6th, and Callmo to the 26th January. affairs- were tranquil. Ten or twelve ediflees had been destroyed by fire at Valpard3a.' Pern was in a very unsettled state. Mr. Dallie r the sew Minister to EngEind, was to leave A the Baltic, elf the 6th instant. His- sort had been appoinied , Secretary of Legation. COMMERCIAL INPELLIGENCE. Nicr Yonir, February 20. There was-a , plentiful supply of money,. and the market was Vusy at the rates previously current, namely,. 8; to 10 per cent. fir first-class business paper. The- stock. market was buoyant. Oompared with- the dosing quotations of yesterday, Illinois &ultra Bonds - advanced if ; Erie sliares-i ; New York Cen tral *; Harlem 24:; Hudson River 4 ; ..Reading ; Michigan SOuthern 1 • Galena and Chicago- 19:; Chicago and Rock Island A.; Cleveland and Toledo 24; Panama -1;. and Nicara gua 4. per cent. - Foreign Exchans , continued. firm, and Bankers expectingza further advance- were. indifferent about drawing at the present rates. Exchange on England : In grod. demand at Nine: t 109i.c. Bills -on France-, L 6.181 to U. 211. Corrow.—ln cotton there had been-tin - adVanee- of le. to c. per - th. during the week. There was a fair amount of business doue, without excitement, and holders- were very firm at the following quotations. The sales were estimated at 7,500 bales, in addition to 15,080? transitu. Vre-nuote— New Orleans Upland.. Florida. Mobile: and Texas. Ordinary 9' 9 9 , 9 Mirk'ling. .......1Q . 10i t f I.oi 101 ile.:ititliing Fair —.ll 11 11k, 11 Fair ll.l 111 111 121 T6tal. import since Ist February ...... 27',13Ct bales. Taal import since Ist September _198;541 , Export from the United States : • - Singe Ist Septemberclß.ss Se.nie time, 1854 • 968,071 ~ Export, from Ist to 15th February Cotton lB6B, 8,121 bales. 1555; 4,176 bales. S7.VCII>,OI , COTTON IN , INTERIOR TOWIF4 , IiOT INCLUDED IN LOG OF TICE PATISTIL; FliOld NEWYOItV TO LEVERPOOL. Feb. 20th.—Wind, W. • courses, various; 2 p.m. received mails ; 2.50 p.m., proceeded slowly dowit the rivr ; 6 p.m. set on full speed ; oderate and clear. 21st.—Wind, W. course, N. Ka E:.• =distance run, 225 miles from. the N. Ir. light ship; lat. 4 32.; long. 69 10. ; fresh breeze and clear. 22nd.—Wind N.W.; oc.urse, N. 86;E:; .distance, 307 miles ; lat. 40 49. ; long. 62 Itri; fresh breeze•and clear. 23rd.— Wind, N.N.W,; course, N 79 E.; distance, 317 riles; lat. 41 46. ; 10ng..53 26.; freelHireezaand clear. 24th.—Wind, southerly ; course,. N. 72 E. ; distance, 301 miles ; lat. 43 19.; 1eug..49 56. ; fresh breeze and hazy. 25th.—Wind southerly; course, N. 72. E. • distance, 274 miles; lat 44. 44 ; long.. 42 54. ; strong gales, with thick weather. 26th. —Wind, souttlenly ; course, II; 62 E.; distance, 281 miles ; lat. 46 52. ; 2cag.. 36 54; fresh breezes, and clear, with heavy sea. 27th.—Wind, S.SM.; course, N. 70 E.; distance, 293 miles; lat. 48 32. ; tong. 30 64..; streng breezes acd clear, a heavy sea. 29th.—Wind, S.S•AV.; course, NZ 76 Si;:distance, 308 miles ; lat. 49 46. ; 27. ; strong;breezes and cloudy. 290.—Wind, S.S.W,; course, 111 .80 ; distance, 286 miles ; lat. 50 31. ; king. 16 01. • at 9:30 a. M., stopped engines to repair floe;, 11 - a.m., set on. full. speed; moderate breezes and clear. Mizell Ist—Wind; S.E.; course, vrationsi at 8 a.m. abreast of the Old Head of Ican,sale; moderaki and•hazy. 2nd.—Wind, S.E:.; at 2.28, a.m.. arrived at the bor,. and stopped to wait for tite•tide; 8.30 a.m.seton full speed, and arrived in LiverpootaZO a.m. The royal mail steamship Canada,. with.. brae European mails of the 2nd February.: arrived at Halifax on the 19th,and had seen nothing of the Pacific. Disorganization still prevailed in:.the. senate. To• enable him to arrange his committees without annoyance, Mr. Banks, the newly-elected speaker, had lefthis, customary residence, 'and betaken himself to some concealed•. retirement. Several discussions, which led to no result,. had. taken place in regard to the affairs of Kansas; but after a-long , continued party eon .test, as to who should be appointad printer, the senate had at last come to a decision. threense Auras Queaatowe---In reference to, this subject, the State Department had sent to the Senate a mass of documents stretching back to IWO. Regarding this matter the New York Herald says :—" We , published, on. Sunday, several extracts from the London- newspaper press• on the Central American•question. That from the London Times is unexpectedly geaeroue and conciliatory, and the• flat-footed protocol of the 'Thunderer ' for a pacific settlement of this warlike entanglement is a refreshing novelty in its way. * * This arrangement, if duly ratMedund carried out between thetwo Governmetete e vreuld certainly make clean work of the whole business; but we agree with the London Globe, that the proposal to ' root out' that alleged ` g ang of pirates and murderers' is just the point where the sha would pinch. We could do no such, thing. Those men have expa triated themselves. They arc -no longer citizens of:the United' States. We: are no longer rospoiesible for their aces ; and if, upon a call Prom one native revolulionary party in Nicaragua, acting against another such. party, GeneraLWallevr and his followers have gone and conquered the coun.try, it is an affair to be settled by the sovereigp people of Niceragua," Concern ing the proposed reference to an:rneutral third power, by Lord- Clarendcu, the American press. does not appear to entertain very sanguine hopes of its success, probably Om members of the. press took too practical nview of the untenableposition which has been assumed by the -American Union to, be deceived into a hope that the United States' version of their own quarrel will nceive favour at the hands of any impartial power. Indeel they declare that such a thing as an impartial power is not to be meta with. On this• subject the Herold has an article, in which. the following remarks occur:-- " Perhaps no prominent State in the .world is so badly si tuated as the United. States is when subjects of international differences are referred to what is theoretically denominated a friendly power. The honest truth. is, we have no .friends amongst the monarchs of Europe. A third and wholly im partial and disinterested umpire is not to be lowed; We do riot complain of this. Prejudices exist in all the-governments of Europe against the republic. It is natural and , inevitable that it should be so. These prejudices result from the charac ter of the Union, which is a ceaseless enemy of absolutism of whatever form. * * * * Now, in this condition of things, we stand no chance in arbitration. Our rights are sure to be sacrificed. *, * * * - We are, onrselves e to a great extent, responsible for the fact, that, as a government ; we have little or no weight with the Cabinets of Europe. We have under taken an,exclusevely American policy, and : rather discouraged all attempts to occupy a position in Europe at all correspond ing with,the wealth and resources of the republic. * * * The remedy is still obvious,—the enforcement of the American conatruction of the treaty. * the positive, refusal of the admi nistration either to arbitrate or recede,and let consequences visit theparties interested as they shall incur them. If England can afford to appeal to armeein such a cause we cannot afford to be neutral. * * * * We have, therefore, no fears of a war between the United States and England ; for upon the issue raised by Lord Derby, of peace instead of war, the Palmerston Ministry, if brought to the test, will, from the pressure of public opinion, be ignominiously expelled from power." Warlike discussions, and a consideration of the United States' resources. in the event of hostilities form staple topics of general conversation, and the American mind, as has lately been the case with that of Great Britain, finds exercise in the supposed invention of submarine infernal machines, plans for several of which have been submitted to the Secretary of War. One of these is thus described by the newspaper already quoted :—" The Nautilus. Battery, a floating cylinder from which radiates a circular battery of mortar-shaped tubes, charged with shot and shell of a peculiar construction, which can all be blown up together by an electric wire, connected with the nearest lighthouse or fort. The ,guns are made of iron plate, and each gun can be charged to the muzzle 'and exploded like an immense bombshell, making, in a continuation of fifty three mortars, the force of five hundred shells, of the largest calibre known in military service. This battery will cover an area of a mile or more with a deadly irresistible shower of cutting shot, and exploding shell and burning flames. Another invention is a kind of floating fire-shell, of great size and power, charged with Greek fire, and a kind of wedge shaped shot, which is also connected with the galvanic battery." Such fancies as these may tend to inflame a spirit of in creasing antipathy, and may, without doubt, by their influence on the popular mind, tend to complicatestill further the already sufficiently enlarged maze of boasting and discontent. That they can ever serionsly sway the reason of the real friends of American greatness, or act as an intimidation to the British government, cannot be supposed for a moment. Internal complications seem to thicken. The latest accounts from Kansas state that the Abolitionists there were organizing troops, erecting fortifications, and col lecting munitions of war at Lawrence, in order to be ready for instant and effective service. THE RECEIPTS. Ports. 1856, 1855. Augusta and Hamburg,. Feb. 1 27.807......40,292 Macon, Georgia, Feb. 1 16,496.—._.20,790 Columbus, Georgia,. Feb. 9 1:3,846 2,338 Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 11 ... 7,852 21,109 Memphis, Tenn., Feb. 6.... ... . . ...... 5,•679, 18,560 Columbia, S.C., Feb. 8 IMSSELS -LOADING UPTI4S3 UNITED STITES. EVIL GREAT New Orleans Mobile Florida Savannah Charleston New York Galveston BRITAIN. • Feb. 9.. Feb. 9.. Feb. 9. Feb. 15.. • Feb. 15.. . Feb. 19. • ,Feb. Total. ..... ........ 108 ericTEMENT OF RECI:?TS, EXPORTS, AND STOCKS OF COTTON. Exports Total Exports Stocks on to to Hand and Receipts Great Britain. Foreign Ports Shipped. /656 2,098,317 835,662 4352,21)3 561,913 1855 1,452,255 693,5 7 8 966.071 439,493 Increase 646,058. 14.1,084 386,132 123,418 From the circular•of Mr. W. P. Wright, of the `3oth ult., we extract the following ;—" In Mobile; and with some few at New Orleans, 3,500)000 bales is still confidently adhered to. It is, of course, impossible to prove in advance the extent of a cotton erop, grown as it is over so vast an extent of country, and subjected as it is by low rivers, bad roads, and other bin dranees, in being brought to the ports. Receipts show a gain on last year of C 41,000 bales, and a loss as compared with 185 a of 109,000. The exports for the weekare the largest on re cord in the aggregate, amounting to 142,000. bales, of which, 5.1,000 are to other foreign ports than Great Britain or France;_ indeed, the most. remarkable feature •in the export since the , Ist September last, is the large quantity taken by France and other continental ports. Notwithstanding the large exports to Great Britaia this week, the total is still 46,000 bales less than in 1853." BREADSTVIUS-Up to the close of last week the common qualities of superfine flour haslz, declined to the extent of 25c. per barrel, with only a very moderate demand. The tele graphic advices per Canada, to • the 9.nd instant,from Liver pool, were received early yesterday morning, announcisg. a considerabto,decline in prices there, and a further reduction of 25c. per barrel was conceded : by the holders, without leading to any business. At this day's Corn-exchange there was a rather better feeling, and the, higher grades, being scarce, were held at comparatively dear prices. We quote Western Canal, $6,871 to $7 per bbl. Ohio and pure Genesee, 47,75 to $B. Fancies and extras, $8,50 to $9,50. Southern kinds, $8,50 to $10,50. Canada, free, $7,25 to $9. We aunt. whpat. sc. per bushel lower, but in consequence of the difficulty in effecting shipments, from the prevalence of ice in. our harbour, few transactions take. place. Genesee white, fs'ooc. to 2C5c. per 601bs. Southern white, 200 e. to 205 c. Western white, 200 c. to 205 c. Western red and mixed, 170 c. tolBsc. Canada, . 195 e. to 205 c. Southern red, 180 c. to 190 c. Indian corn had. declined 6c. to 130 c. per bushel, and shippers still held off. Jersey and northern round yellow, new, 70c. to 75c. per 56lbs. Southern yellow, new, 70e. to 75c. Southern white, new, 72c. to 76c. Mixed, old, 75c. to 78c. Barley, 117 c. to 127 c. i per 481bs. Rye, 120 c. to 125 c. per 561bs. Corn meal, $3,75 to $4,121 per bbl. Rye flour, $5 to $6,58 per bbl. PROVISZOM3.-Thf) market for pork bad. improved slightly, say 61-c., with an increased demand previous to yesterday, part speculative; the supply was large, but being in the hands of strong parties, with light receipts, , it was well held ; sales 3,100 barrels, closing at $15,87; to $15,931 for mess, and $13,871 for prime, including 500 barrels for August, and 500 ditto for June delivery, at $15,50;. and 400 ditto buyer's option, thirty days, $l6. The beef market confined dull and drooping, with sales of 600 barrels, , at $9 to 9,e21 for country prime, $lO to $ll for ditto mess, $l3 to $13,50 for Vermont mess, $ll to $14,25 for repacked Western, and $11,50 to $l5 for repacked Chicago. Prime mess beef and beef hams were dull of sale, and prices are without quotable change. Bacon was quiet. Lard was in Pair demand, and prices had advanced lc. yesterday on the better qualities ; sales 1,500 barrels and tierces, closing at 101 e. to 10te. for fair to prime. Batter and cheese remained quiet, and the market was steady. NAVAL STOBES.-The market was dull at our notations; stock about 12,000 barrels. Spirits turpentine were in very large stock, and the market not active, though prices were about the same; stock 17,000 barrels. Tar moved off slowly, at prices within our range, thin being worth about as much as thick ; stock 12,000 to 15,000 barrels. Common rosin was inactive, but firm, at $1,55 per 3101 b. delivered. Coats-Liverpool was in good supply, but we have heard of no sales ; the last sale of best Orrel was $6,30, less d per cent., cash. Inose.-The business in Scotch pig was very small, at $34 from vessel, and $35, six months, from yard. Last sale com mon English bars $62,50; refined was offered at $67,50. 300 bundles English sheet, single, sold at 3ic., six months. TOBACCO.-In tobacco there has been a fair demand, with out change in prices. Sales 100 hhds. Kentucky at 12},c. to 13c. ; 426 bales Havana, 23ic. to 25c. ' • 42 cases seed leaf, 11c. to 13c. ; and 51 ditto Florida, 10c. to 20c., usual terms. SA.LT.-The receipts of all kinds had been small, and prices ' well sustained. An invoice of 1,170 sacks Marshall's Liver rsool fine, the only lot afloat, had been ta,lccn at. abont, $1.40, four months ; 300 sacks Ashton's sold, previous to our last, at $1,55, less three per cent. cash. FEElGBTS.—Freights were dull. To Liverpool : For cotton, td. to 5-16 d. per lb. ; flour, 2s. 6d. per barrel; grain, '7d. to 81d. per bushel. To London : Flour, 4s. per barrel. To Havre : Cotton, ie. per lb ; flour, 70c. per barrel. These rates at the moment are quite nominal. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 18.—Cotton: Sales to-day, 14,000 bales, at an advance of ic. to tc., under effect of the Canada's news. Middling is quoted at ate. to 91c. Sterling exchange, 8 per cent. prem. Freights stiffer. AUSTRALIA. ARRIVAL OF THE JAMES BAINES. Tun anxiety which had been felt here for some days past respecting the James Baines (clipper ship), Captain M'Donald, belonging to Messrs. James Baines and Co.'s celebrated " Black Ball" line of Australian mail packets, was happily dis pelled, on Saturday forenoon, by the arrival of a telegraphic message intimating that, on the preceding afternoon, she was off Ballycotton, near Cork. Immediately on receiving this intelligence, her owners despatched the steam-tug United States to aid in bringing her into the Mersey, placing the steamer under the orders of Captain Newlands, a gentleman whose experience in Austra lian, and likewise in Channel navigation, entitles him to the highest confidence ; and about noon on Saturday, he left Liver pool to meet the James Baines. Her mails were landed on the Irish coast and immediately forwarded to Liverpool, where they arrived on Sunday. By this arrival we have advises from Melbourne to the 28th Novem ber. She has brought 80,000 ounces of gold on freight, and 300 passengers, besides a large cargo of wool, &c. Amongst the passengers by the James Baines is the celebrated Mrs. Emma Waller, an actress whom the press of California and the Australian colonies pronounce to be one of the most ac complished actresses the stage has had for many years. During a severe gale which the James Baines encountered, this lady fell, and we regret to add, dislocated her right shoulder. She is, we believe, to appear in London at an early date. Mr. G. V. Brooke and Miss Catherine Hayes were at Melbourne at tracting large audiences. Mr.. Brooke had performed 117 nights in Melbourne, and 59 at Sydney. The James Baines has been detained by calms, off Cape Horn. During the voyage she experienced a severe gale, which lasted for five days. . The Lightning, Captain Enrlght, hence, arrived at Mel bourne 25th November. The James Mines, which had waited for her three days, brings the return fetters. The subjoined precis of Australian news• is taken from the Melbourne Age of the 27th November : STATE or Tram—Since the departnre of the last mail business has been more animated ; and the reports from Syd ney being more` satisfactory, there was increasing. confidence. The demand for the interior had greatly improved, and was very lively. Large quantities of goods were continually for warded to the diggings ; while cartage continaedvery low, in fact lower than had ever been since the gold discovery. Mer cantile transactiomr had generally assumed a more healthy aspect, and insolvencies were less numerous. The . official re turns. of exports and. itnports to the 17th November stood thus : Imports. Bxports. For thevireeli ended 20'.: £273,026 £268;719 PT IT „ 27 • 170,248 405;526 NO7. 3 . IT „ 17 169,201 17%239. TY N 0v. ...... • • • •••••• • • • TY From Ist Jan. to IT .8,633,528 10,915417 Showing an , ' excess of exports over imports since Ist Jan. of £2,281,889. EXC.HANG , EB. - -The Banks lowered the rate of exchange - on England on the 19th November - to par, and purchased at two per cent. discount. This reduction had an immediate effect on the price of gold, which is now quoted by the brokers at' from £3 15s. Vt. to £3 14s. 9d. The Colonial Bank of Ags- - tralasia will shortly commence or...craions, with every prospect' of success. _ _ _ • GRAIN &ND FLOUR.—At the beginning of October flour was worth about £l7, and there- was a great demand, both natural and spec - dative, so that the-price- quickly advanced to. £so,at which it remained firm; sennteh so that a cargo of 490 tons of Chilian flour was sold. , at £4' loDs. nett cash. Another large cargo, which was held-at 247 for several days, was eventually sol& ab £44 55., the importers seeing the neces sity of lowering timir price to effect a'sale. Csits- had greatly improved in value, Arctieularly as regarded California, which were much preferred. Pao-visloars. nett was little change ha the market. Butter and cheese had : declined, while - Dads butter had fetched 174 d. Lx rocs.—Malt lismrs were in great- demand,. more par ticularly bottled porter; and as there' was very little more expected that season, a considerable rise- inlarice was antici pated; concurrently with-the diminution of - stocks auring the slimmer season. The quantity on hand was -held by a few in• dividuals. Ale and porter was worth 14s, ; :come parties were even asking- 155., half ale- and half porter: There was very little alteration in the marketvalue of spirits.- Brandy:. hhds., gals., 13s. Vd. to 145.; Hennessy!s and United Vineyard,. do., 13s. to 139.0 d. ' - other brands, 9s. fa to 124. Geneva : .1121KZ or Key, 43--gal. cases; £1 aS. Half cases each, 18s. -to 15a.; other brandS,- do., 18s: Whisky t Soohela, gal. 55.9 d. to 6s, Irish, Jamieson's or Mehaes, 611 . ... to es. 9d. do. Grain, do., 4s. to 4s. 6d.. SAaT.—Liverpool, coarse; per ton, £5 55..t0 Smkr.—English pale yellow, hhd., cwt.,, (LCtidon, AZ to ; Liverpool, yellow, per cwt., £1 15s:. to El 18s. WOOL.—This staple had undergone considerable Cluctua- Hens in varta-e. The sales bY aaetion on the Bth: passed: off Without spirit, and parts of: stocks of greasy - wool whith had previously realized Bd. to 0d:. did not realize more than- M.. to nd. At tise sale of the 15th prices ralliedialittle; and: we• may quote the average at from Vid. to Std. The quantity of wool shipped from October IDtir to Nov. 10thi was 561,959 , 1b5-- Lknonn.—The cry of destitution had entirely ceased,,and there were few complaints- of want of emplOyment. Some judicious- steps had been tabsra , .by the government for notify ing to new arrivals and others,- seeking such :infortnation,. the localities in which a demand existed for labour; and: the current rate of wages. TIIE'. GOLD FIELDS.—The-reports received during the-pre vious month from the various gold fields were-of an uniformly satisfactory character, both as regarded the yield of the pre cious metal and the generally prosperous condition of the populatibn. Two nuggets,the one weighing:22o and the other 240 ounces; had been found on the Alma; and, a third, weigh, ing 730 ounces, had been brought to light at Daisy-hilL Dis coveries• of new quartz-reefs - were of frequent occurrence, and indications were not wanting- of the presence -of- silver and copper in these conglomerates; - Great activity was observable in the works of the ironfounders in Melbetarne,andthe-mea employed by the principal firms- had been-working night and day, in. order to keep pace with lhe demand for quartz,crush ing machines. The quantity .of gold brought dewn'by escort during the last five weeks. was 263,091 ounces. Irrespective of which, a large quantity found its way to this city and to other places, by private hand, besides what was smuggled. over the frontiers to avoid-payment of theesport duty: Actalcul.zuna.—The coming harvest- promised to. be a bountiful one. _ _ _ CROWN LANDS.—A cossklerable quantity of -lancLhad been thrown on the market b 7- the government ; : but, tht. demand, had been somewhat inadive, and numerous .lots -had; been withdrawn for want of tn. offer, while in many instances those wbc became purchasers. forfeited their deposits, and. neglected to complete their contracts. ILSITSB3 AND HOUSP - ariNTS.—The comparatively moderate price of building materials, and a plentiful supply- of labour, hadimparted activity to building operations, Notwithstand ino-the fall which had taken place in....rents,. they-.- were stilt absurdly and extravagantly high. TIEN Erecztows.—The election for Melbourne terminated in favour of Mr. Themes Rae, by a.,majority a four to one over Mr. Cruikshanlo, the pro-squatting candidate; Tam New CONSTXMITTION.—The -governor hod. proclaimed the royal assent to the New Constitution Act for. the colony, awl recommended a general holiday in honour of the-event. The citizens universally suspended business but, there were no special public rejoicings. The legislatam had been dis aolvecl, with a speech from Sir Charles Hothurn., From Adelaide-we learn that. business had assumed a. more lively appearance, partly owing..to the commencement of har vest work, as wallas from the execution of slndry export orders for the Melbomrie market, which latter hattended to: lighten stocks in some,descriptions of goods. Tha wheat harvest had to some extentbeem thrown back by the cool and stormy wea ther. 'ln many articles of general consumption importers had considerably less on hand than at that time last year. The high price of breadstuffs acted as an incubus on every channel of industry.. The Chamberof Commeree had held a meeting on the subject of steam communication with England, and recommended that no contribution for the services,.as proposed, could be claimed from the colony. Dare at ROBBERY ' , TZAR .ROTllEJlltaf4G — Anathor of those daring robberies which; have been so frequently committed of late hi:various parts of the West Ridingof Yorkshire, but par ticularly in the neigl - 4ourhood of the large towns, was perpe trated on the premises of Mr. John. Hardwick, a farmer re siding at a place called Gilfit, a few milearom Rotherham, on Monday. Mr. Hardwick was almut to take an additional farm in. the immediate -.ieinity of his. own, and had provided him seir wrtn netween.2.ool. and 3001; for the payment of the valu ation, which ha.dx iust been made. Of this 37/. in gold and some loose silver were deposited in a. box in Mr. Hardwick's bedroom, and *o rolls of 51. notes, 1001. in each roll, were secreted in a pair of old boots, which. were left promiscuously among other articles of wearing apparel in the bedroom. On Monday afternoon, Mr. Hardwick : andhis wife went to Rother ham market,. locking up the. chamber where the money was,. and also the• house, before leaving. Very shortly after fluke , departure, two men made their appearance on the premises, seizing a lad named Samuel . Law, about 15 years of age, who was looking after the.cows, presented a pistol to his head., and commanded him to be. silent. They then dragged him into the cow-house, and,, having tied him securely to the "beck," put a large piece of turnip into his month, and tied up his jaws, by way of gagging him. They then closed the door of the place, and proceeded to the house, into which they effected an entrance by breaking a square of glass in one of the lower windows. They appear to have gone direct to the room where the money was, and to have forced open the door by means of a fire poker, coal-rake, or such other implement as they found at hand. The box containing the money was forced open with a carving knife, and the contents, consisting of 371. and a purse with some silver in it, were abstracted. The 200/., concealed in the pair of old boots, was missed by the thieves. After ransacking the bedroom they went down stairs in search of more booty, but succeeded only in ob taining a silver watch from a delf-closet. They then de camped from the house by the back door, and got clear off with their plunder. A hay fork, a• mattock, an d a half circular hedging-bill, which had been taken from Mr. Hardwick's corn-loft, apparently for weapons of defence, in case of discovery, were found in the house. Soon after the retreat of the robbers had been effected, a sister of Mr s . Hardwick called at the house to pay a visit, and the robbery was then discovered. A neighbour was at once summoned to the premises, and was examining them when Mr. - Hardwick . returned. He immediately went in search of t, hheubtogyrLearl, and found him in the position already described exhausted, having remained hound and gagged for about y three hours. He was speedily released, but did not recover his consciousness for some hours after. The lad says he can swear to tho men who seized him, and has given a description of two persons who were seen by others near the place shortly before the robbery was committed. The watch and the purse also can be identified. Mr. Hardwick has frequently been robbed of poultry, and has once or twice shot and wounded the marauders. His house dog was poisoned a few days ago. It is scarcely necessary to add that he has deposited his money in a hank. [MARCH 4, 1856. ECCLESIASTICAL INTELLIGENCE• PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS. Rev. T. H. Britton to the Vicarage of Newlyn, Cornwall. Rev. F. Colville, Vicar of Leek WoDtton, to be a Rural Dean within the Archdeaconry of Coventry. Rev. J. Clarke, to the Curacy of East Donyland, near Colchester. Rev. W. Featherstonhaugh, to the Rectory of Edmondbyers , Durham. Rev. L. Gregory, 8.A., to the Vicarage of Oadby, Leices tershire. Rev. C. W. Heaton, 8.D., Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, to the Rectory of Plumpton, Northamptonshire. Rev. J. H. Hill, M.A., to the Brotherhood of St. Kathy rine's, Regent's-park. Rev. E. Lacey, to the Curacy of Watford, Herts. Rev. J. L. Morris, M.A., to the Vicarage of FillongleY o Warwickshire. Rev. R. Powell, to the Living of South Stoke. • Rev. W. H. Walter, M . A. to the Curacy of Sedge , Durham. Rev. F. T. Wintour, to the Rectory of Hawerby, Lincoln' DIOCESE OF CHESTER. Ovau TABLET.—The Bishop of Chester has ikenced a school-room for the performance of Divine Worship, in con sequence of the fire by which the new church has bees de stroyed. CONgFXRA.TION.—The new Church of All Souls, Vauxhall, in the parish of Liverpool, is to be consecrated by the Lord Bishop of Chester, on Friday next, the 7th instant, at elevate o'clock.---The district of Vauxhall was constituted by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners under the Act of Parliament commonly known as Sir Robert Peel's Aet, and it therefore becomes by the consecration of a church a new and separate parish for all ecclesiastical purposes,—patronage in the Crown and Bishop alternately. AT Catrine, N. 8., recently, the Rev. E. J. Jonas, in corn' pliance with an expressed desire, had evening prayers, with a sermon, in a Churchman's house, and at the same time ad' ministered baptism. The parish (Sorn) was the last in the west of Scotland in which Episcopacy was given up, and this was supposed to be the first Episcopal service for more than two hundred years; the house in which the service was per formed was covered with the slates of the old Episcopal church. One old man who came from lltauchline to attend the service , stated that, although he had been in Scotland forty-nine years; and attended the Established tirk, no Episcopal place 01 worship being near him, he never ceased to read his Prayer book; on the Sunday, and hoped to die in the faith of the Church. Tom: friends of the Church in the parish of Wheatley, Oxon , where, on accountof the numerous small tenements, mach oP positionmight be expected, have just gained a signal victor!' On the that a vestry was held for the purpose of granting rate to meet the current expenses of the' year. The proposal was, however, met by an amendment in favour of the volanY tary principle, which, being put to the rote, was negatiVed g e and the rate•was carried by a majority of independent 0 , the chairman's vote. A poll was then demanded by the de' feated party, hut after some discussion was prudently with' drawn. Two valuable' metropolitan livings, in the gift of the Lord t Chancellor, have become vacant—the rectory of St. Margaret s? Lothbury, by thedeath• of the Yen. Archdeacon Hollingworthe worth £1,500 a year ;= and the rectory of St. George's, Blooms; bury, worth £1,0003 year, by the elevation of the Hon. allu . Rev. H. M. Villiers, M.A., to the bishopric of Carliale. Tnx London Gazttie of Tuesday announces that; the Qum! has been pleased to order a conge d'elire to pass the Great Seal, empowering the Dean and Chapter of the Cathedra l Church of Carlisle to elect a biahop of that see, the same being void by the death of Dr. Hugh Percy, late Bishop thereof; and her Majesty has also been pleased to recommend the Hoe. and Rev. Henry Montagn , Villiers, M.A., to be elected by tll e said Dean and Chapter, Bishop of the said see of Carlisle: TICE COUNCTir ON TUESDAY. [PROId TtE mice.] A CEMINBT Council, war-held on Tuesday afternoon, at' the Foreign-office, Downing-strOet. Fourteen of the Ministere were present. Lord P:tx.mriasrolg briefly explained his reason for wishing this Council to be held. It was that height assure himself that every Member of the 6binet fully understood the principle-upon which it would ice. faure• be necessary to card on the business of the country, so- far as- legislation was coil' curned. Hebei] given his best consideration to the subject, and had maturely, and he would add affectionately —(a laugh) —weighed the powers and capabilities of those with whom he had the honour to be associated. Ii announcing the con victionthat further experiments in 'legislation must be dl - he hoped that he shouid%receive credit for doing what was• best for those whom he saw around him. In a word, they were-not up to their worTa. The Loan Cittuczown quite comprehended the Premier. On the- previous night the President of- the Council had been desired to-apologise for the Parke blunder; and to promise to do what was fitting. That course was. exceedingly unkind to himself, and he felt that he ought to have been supported. Lord GiANVILLS was sure that he had supported his Noble and Learned Friend in a remarkable. manner. When In (Lord Granville) came to read the amount of wisdom he bad poured forth 'upon a subject of which ha really.. knew nothing , he was quite astonished. The Duke of AroaTlzhad also been astnnished to hear the Noble President say so much. It was aIP wrong,. certainly but it showed, his desire to be useful. He(the Duke) would take that opportunity of asking whether th& , Cabinet did not think he had castigated the four Law Lords-in capital style , answering their elaborate orations with the •intimation that they were only. prompted by the jealousy of a batch of pro" fessional adventurers: Lord PALMERSTON , admitted that it was bead. Ile should not liked to have said. it;. but some people might say anything with impunity. He was anxious to correct- his Noble and Learned Friend, the- Chancellor. His remarks were- by n° means solely directed , at his Noble Friend, although, doubtless , the Parke affair was one of the great messes. of the session. The LORD CzntrucELL.oz weal' repeat thathe ought. to have been stuck to. Mr. Vnanoai•Smieux begged that the language used there might be more refined. It was all very well.for the Haase of Lords, where people •talked about " rows," and .quoted vulgat proverbs, bat he lmd been accustomed to genteel society. Sir GEORGSGuErIoped that the Chancellor was not going to be childish. He was mortified at his failure, and naturally so, for it was a very signal and disgraceful one; but the well of the Calefiet wasnot to be sacrificed to atrolotiet. Lord PALMERSTON- said the conciliatory speech of tit! Home Secretarye-(laughter)—explained his , meaning,. and left nothing to be desired. To-night he was going to throw" over another experiment. (Sensation.) Yes; the bill which their friend the Irish Solicitor-General called. the Loofa Jews- The Duke of ARGYLL was not surprised. The advocacy to which the measure had been committed was deplorable. , Lord PALMEzslox • said that it was nolhingof and, considering that Robert Lowe knew nothing of the clue!' tion until he got-.it up for the debate, he had ,been.descetuf dashing. He defied the noble duke himself to have been more courageous, • But audacity would not. do by itself. I t would be dangerous to confront the opposWen the- measure had called out, unless- they had other and betterchampiont And he begged to signify Wall and each of his friends-around him that no oneanust be astonished or offeadeei at any, grails:, fate overtaking any measure he might, iriiife in charge. was contrary to his opinion that any bilis-114, been broughtin at all. They - were a war ministry,p4 while there vie; war, they had an excuse for neglecting everything else. Anu• a man who had a good excuse was an ass far-not using it., Sir GEORGE. Gass was no amateur legislator, and detested the making ach; of parliament for doing what ought to be left to official responsibility. The premier's remarks; there' fore, did not affect him. But he confessed .that; of all the cabinets with which he had been associated, .this one• bad die tinguished itself, .most by abnegating ono- duty. supposed t° belong to the executive—that of initiating.reforms. Lord PALMERZT.ON begged the Home Secretary, not to niis; state the case. They initiated lots of reforms, aud he had Ile" the least objection. to- everybody -as- many as b e pleased. But he , would have no government questions, If the bills could be• carried, bon. If not, so mach the worse for se objectionable- bill. Sir GROHS& GREY might acquiesce in a,leurse which neces' sity seemed to dictate, but it certainty looked quintesseutialtf cowardly, Mr. Lanouoll,Eßl3 agreed with his friend,. but eometiruel apparent cowardice involved the highest moral courage. The were convinced, that their retention of office was a nations necessity ; and he saw a noble fearlesaness in their hesitating to accept no humiliation that might enable them to persever e in the diseltarge of their duty. (Hear; hear.) The Duke of ARGYLL had heard those sentiments at many e r their meetings. The argument was infelicitously put, but the conclusion was practically, if not logically defensible. But he should certainly not take the trouble •to attempt legislation , unless he were to receive support, especially as anytaing might briugiorward would be—he said it without a partie P of vanity,--that which a government ought to pride itself on producing. Lord PALMBESTON was unfortunate in annoying his friends,, as he seemed to have done in several instanceo,, but a little anger there was better than a good deal of 0 4 " warduess elsewhere. Sir Cua,ax,ns Woo) was not going to be personal, but f 1 44. he had been a good deal laughed% at, he should like to ask, 1 1l all good humour, who it was that first decided that the nevi Crimean Commission must sit with closed doors, and then deeidod that it was as absoluttly necessary that the sitting(' should be public. Lord PARMIIRE thought that he had suffered enough freT mistakes—he would not say whose—in that business, to alle him to ask that the subject be dropped. Lord PALMERLTON said there was no need for socene 6 • 4 ; The• change was only another proof of the willingness of Il e Majesty's Ministers to do whatever was agreeable to anybodi" A door must be open or shut, as the French proverb said, Sir CHARLES WOOD wished to ask when a door was. note door. (Impatient sensation.) Well, he would give notice the question for their next meeting. Lord GRANVILLE concluded that they had accomplished tb : object of their assembling. There could be no doubt 0 5 the Cabinet was in rather an awkward position—somethiei like that of the king that reigned , but did uat govern - ' bi then, as reigning would do for them, why— Lord PALMERSTON : Vice la Reins ! THE Nsw Loiar. — A bill for raising £5,000,000 by WaY Of ,4 annuities, now before the Commons' House, enacts that evel contributor of £ lOO shall be entitled to £lll 2s. 2d. in th e per Cent. Consols. The conti ibutors who have already depes%i io per centum on the sums by them subscribed are to pay remainder by instalments as follows—viz., £lO per cent. oto the 3rd of March, £25 per cent. on the 13th of March, o f per cent. on the 29th March, £l5 per cent. on the 10ti!,0 April, and the rema i n i ng £ l5 p er cen t. o n or b e f ore the 1 0 , of April next ensuing. Guardians may subscribe for infal l o The dividend on the stock will be three per cent. en annuity of £ lll 2s. 2d., to commence on the sth of JanO t 'i , 1856, and to be payable half-yearly. Contributors tusqbe cipate payment of their instalments, but no discount 0 1 , 1 , 0 t allowed thereon. Subscriptions paid in part only, and l o t cnipleted, will be forfeited. The Bank is to be allowed £50 0 ,., e . every £1,000,000 of the said loan for the expenses of mal l " t• ment, equivalent to the rate of ls. per cent. The 3 per cc annuities are to be added to the joint stock of Consols. A i sinking fund will be formed for the extinction of this P t ; 0 debt until, by means of a yearly payment of £250,000, a fled, of £5,555,416 13s. 4d. of the funded debt has been calle e .br A second bill, just issued, provides for the funding of V,f' d ed quer-bills to the amount of £3,000,000, the terms alL ° ' o r being £lll 2s. 2d. in Consols for every. £lOO of Exchet P t , o f bills. Interest on the bills will be allowed from the dt o ir the same up to the days on which they are deposited. "iti; scribers may pay money instead of Exchequer-bills by g l r-arnium of ss. per cent. on the money paid.