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ARRIVALS THIS WEER.

Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour
Envlish lO2O .. 3230 .. 4780 .. 3210 .. $3O
Irish -
Foreign.. 1420

21:0 aks.
250 U.

LONDON AVERAGES DECLARED ON FRIDAY—Wheat,
4,911 quarters, 700 4d ; barley, 3,475 quarters, 31s 6; oa
82ts,
13,393 quarters, 21$ lid ; rye, quarters, —; beaus, 7
quarters, 37s 101; peas, 625 quarters, 33. 7d.
IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES—Wheat, 665; hcr•
ley, 30s ad; oats, 25t 2(1 ; rye, 38s 7d ; beaus, 40s ad; peas,
$96 4d.
THY. SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES—Wheat, 69s 81; barley,
sls 6d; oats, 25s 8(1; rye, 41s 11d; beans, 42s 10d; peas,
_ .

-
40s 6d.
ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK—Wheat, ,979;
barley, 67,721; oats, 2:,908; rye,l92; beans, 7,355; peas,2 1,280
quarters.
TEA—Our market is firm, and a good business doing, as tot
lows :—Constou, ilid to 25 6d; Ning Yong and Oolong, is to is 9d ;
Sattebong, is to 2a 8d; Flowery Pekoe, is 4d to 35 641; Caper,
Is to is 4d; Scented Caper, is 2d to Is Gd : Orange Pekoe,
Is 2d to Is 6d; Scented Orange Pekoe, Is 81 to 2s
Is ad ;
Twankay, lld to is 4d ; Hyson Skin, 8d to is 2tl; Hyson, 6.1
to Sis 9d; Young Hyman, 10d to 85; Imperial, la Lob; 8d;
Gunpowder, is to 3s ad ; Assam, is 3d to is 4d per lb. Up to
Saturday last duty was paid on 6,760,18011)s, against 5,766,9201b*
in 1054.
SUGAR—Fine samples of raw sugar have changed hands
steadily, at full quotations; but low and middling
ed kinds have
moved off slowly, at barely stationary prices. Refin goods
steady. Brown lumps, 425 Gd; and low to fine grocery, 43s to
49a per cwt. Foreign sugars, afloat, as well as crushed, com-
mand very little attention. The clearances to the 10th Just. were
were 1,272,528 cwts, against 1,203,827 cwts u 1854.
MOLASSES—All kinds are dull in sale, at prices varying
from 14a 61 to Ns Gd per cwt.
COFFEE—All kinds are in request, at very full prices. Good
ord native Ceylon is worth 47s to lis Od per cwt. Plantation
kinds are rirm.
COCOA—Our market is steady, but we have no advance to
notice in the uotations. Fine red Trinidad, 465 to 475; grey,
38s to 40s; Bahia, 33s to 35s per cwt.
CHICORY—The demand is heavy, at last week's currency.
RlCE—There is an improved inquiry for cleaned qualities,
at late rates. Other kinds support former terms without diril-

eulty.
SEEDS--Clover seed has advanced 2s per cwt. Trefoil is
dearer, and all other articles are firm.
WOOL—About 5,000 bales have arrived this week. The trade
is in a most depressed state, and sales cannot be effected unless
on lower terms.
HEMP AND FLAX—Bombay hemp has fallen 30s per ton,
and all other kinds are drooping. So little is doing in flax that
the quotations are almost nominal. Jute is offering on lower
terms. Coir goods are steady.
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argue strongly against the repeal of the newspaper
stamp duty, where the persons most interested were
precisely those who dissuaded Parliament from
making the sacrifice.
Earl GRANVILLE said that the amount of bills
asked for was not greater, with one or two exceptions,
than the amount asked for in the last forty years.
He believed that the objections to loans were sound—
amongst them was the important one that they led
to lavish expenditure. Loans injured trade, by dimi-
nishing available capital.
The Earl of DERBY complained that no answer
whatever had b"en given to the observations of the
noble lord. The complaint was that a change
had been made—not as to the future, but the past—
without any intimation being given ; and that the
late Chancellor of the Exchequer had been practically
borrowing money while professing a mere arrange-
ment of the financ3s of the year. The answer given
to this was that the noble earl did not know what the
next budget would be. The amount of bills to be
issued had nothing to do with the question. Mr.
Gladstone had stated that he did not mean to raise
money, but only to provide revenue out of revenue,
while he had really anticipated the revenue, and
added to the public debt. Let the Government
really state whether they still adhered to the principle
of providing for the services of the year out of the
revenue of the year, or whether, under a great national
emergency, they would take a course which all previous
Governments had taken, to throw a partof the burden
upon posterity, dealing with the matter as a perma-
nent debt, or without adding to the permanent debt,
spreading it over, say, thirty or forty years. The corn
plaint was that the Government had departed from
their own principle, and endeavoured to conceal that
departure.
The Duke of ARGYLL said that the question re-
solved itself into a mere verbal dispute as to whether
these comparatively small sums, raised on an emer-
gency, constituted a loan or not. The Government
had laid down no general principle—Mr. Gladstone
had simply said that it was unadvisable to rush into
loans at the outset of a contest. The present dispute
seemed to him ridiculous and trivial.

Earl GREY did not think the question by any
means a trivial one. It was whether Government at
the beginning of a great war had fairly explained its
views, and dealt with the public as it ought. It had
been stated that they were to hear no more of these
bills, and now thus to introduce them was not a fair
way of treating Parliament. The Government had
no right to draw bills at four years' date—let them
state clearly what they were doing. He, however,
agreed with them in one thing, that a great part of
the expenses should be paid out of revenue.
London, England, 1855-03-17

PROBATE DUTY.

Mr. Wu.r.unts on Thursday moved the following
resolution :

That in the opinion of this house real property and im-
propriate tithes should be made to pay the same probate
duty as is now payable on personal property ; and that
property belonging to corporations, universities, colleges,
bishoprics, and deans and chapters, should pay a duty
equivalent to the probate and legacy duties levied on per-
sonal property.
He made a long technical statement on the injustice
of the actual anomalies of the probate duty, and said
that his resolution would give the Government two
millions and a half, which they had no excuse for
neglecting at the present moment.
To this the CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER replied
that real property paid no probate duty, because its
succession was not under the jurisdiction of the
ecclesiastical courts, and that to make them pay pro-
bate would be to alter our entire system. His pre-
decessor had carefully considered the subject in his
succession bill, and he could not consent to disturb
the arrangement. As to the latter part of the reso-
lution it was a subject of great importance, and he
should be not disinclined at a future period to intro-
duce a bill for its regulation.
After a discussion of little importance, in which
the claims of the landed interest were ably defended
by Mr. Peacocke and Sir J. Strickland, the motion
was negatived by 84 to 81.
London, England, 1855-03-17

of " Inquisitors," in 1855, though he told the
House of Commons to take care not to offend
the Emperor of the FRENCH (a privilege which,
it would seem, he had reserved for himself) ;
figuring foremost in the counsels of the Carl-
ton Club, and noisiest of all at the orgies of the
Reform Club—toadying a British Admiral one
month, and all but slandering him the next ;
pouring forth jeremiads at one time—but we
must stop. Columns would be required to
recite the contradictions o f this versatile and
able, but most singularly inconsistent, public
man, whose changes are stamped in his con-
stituencies, Cockermonth, Carlisle, Cumber-
land, Penrhyn, Dorchester, Ripon, and Carlisle
again)
It was once wittily remarked by a Conserva-
tive Squire, " That Sir JAMES GRAHAM, after
" all, appeared to have one really fixed idea in
" his mind, viz., that England was progressing
"to a Republic, and that he should play for
" being its first President." In that humo-
rous saying, the strange recklessness and wild
plunges of Sir JAMES GRAHAM are happily in-
dicated. He is always for casting himself and
his political fortunes into the lottery of change.
There is a characteristic lubricity in his nature
which forbids all hope of steadiness in one
purpose. Even a vane on a steeple should be
consistent in turning with the winds. But
Sir JAMES GRAHAM is not a weathercock, but a
whirligig. His rapid circumvolutions would
amuse a philosopher, while teaching a plain
man of the world the real " reason why" such
eminent parts, such decisive though desul-
tory vigour, such hoarded knowledge, and such
effective eloquence, have failed in securing
" double-firsts" in the course of public
honours.
Unstable as water, Sir JAMES GRAHAM Could
never be relied on as chief of a party. He
can only produce his results, while acting sub.
ordinately to other minds. When he attempts
to stand alone he totters. He has made bril-
liant speeches, and yet cannot be said to he a
man of genius ; he has done bold deeds, and
yet he has never become the hero of any party
in the land, winning no more lasting conside-
ration than belongs to a great special pleader
in the politics of England.
London, England, 1855-03-17

GERMANY.

Prince Gortschakoff presented his creaentials to
the Austrian Emperor on the Pah. The Conferences
formally opened on Thursday last.
Baron de Bruck has been filially nominated Minis-
ter of Finance.
Baron Lieven arrived at Vienna on Monday, from
St. Petersburg, to notify.the accession of Alexander 11.

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The 'health of the Empress and her infant con•
tinues to be excellent.
The Government of Prussia has issued a circular
note, dated the Bth, to its diplomatic and consular
agents abroad, in wilich it declares that there is
every reason to believe that the negotiations now
in progress will have a favorable, that is, a pacific
solution.

M. de &toy states, in the Debate, that Prince
Charles of Prussia, who is to go to St. Petersburg
to present the compliments of the Kiug, his brother,
to the new Emperor, is to obtain the King's inten-
tions respecting the dying message of Nicholas on
the subject of the relations of Russia and Prussia.
The Prince is to assure Alexander that. the King,
desiring the continuation of peace, is ready to con-
tinue the work of mediation, if the new Emperor will
continue the policy of the Emperor his father. If
he should fail, he will confine himself to a strict neu-
trality.
London, England, 1855-03-17

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rautg Iflarlat a 0 tit Itttiligtutt.

FRIDAY EVENING.
THE Consol Market has been unsettled during the
week, and exhibited at intervals tokens of reaction
from the advance which it sustained when the death
of the late Czar was announced. Business under
the circumstances is circumscribed, notwithstanding
the reports which have been busily circulated of
favorable symptoms in Paris and Vienna, leading to
hopes that the renewed Conferences in the latter
capital may have a pacific result.
The daily quotations have been : Saturday, 921 93 ;
Monday, after receding to 921 1, prices recovered,
and left off as on Saturday ; Tuesday, some accounts
of favorable tenor, said to have come to band from
Vienna, caused an improvement of nearly 1 per cent.,
the market closing at 931 d for money, and 931 for
account of the 11th April ; on Wednesday, the quo-
tations fell back again, marking at one time 021, and
closing at 93 tot for present transfer. Yesterday,
the prices were firmer, and at the close were quoted
at 931 for money, and 031 for account. To-day's
market has been buoyant, and an advance of per
cent. was established at the close, when Consols
marked 934 4 for money, and 931 f for account.
New Two and-a• Half per Cents. were 79; India
Stock, 225 ; India Bonds, Ils. to 145.; Exchequer
Bills, Os. to 9s. prem.; Exchequer Bonds, 991.
The Bank of England has subscribed for the whole
of the guaranteed Jamaica loan of 433,0001., at 101
1.
6s. 4d. per 1001.
The exchanges both in France and Holland show
a tendency to further improvement, and gold could
not now be sent from this country, except at a de-
cided loss.

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trions younger brothers, who had had large sums
spent on fitting them out, and to share in the estate
would be gross injustice to the elder brothers.
➢ir. EWAItT contended that the proposed bill was
in accordance with the spirit of the age, and unless
this spirit was provided against more violent innova-
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The house rejected the bill by 150 to 84.
London, England, 1855-03-17

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive
Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a press of matterl
and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite iude
pendent of the merits of the
We sannot undertake to return
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London, England, 1855-03-17

THE MISCHIEF OF A TRANSITION

MINISTRY.

THE evils of a Government like the present
are more apparent as each week rolls on.
Public and private advices from every capital
in Europe acknowledge that in no quarter is
the Palmerston Ministry looked upon as per-
manent. Our foreign and domestic affairs are
beginning to feel the consequences of a Cabi-
net necessarily weak and vacillating, without
parliamentary support, and without a policy.
All the world is agreed upon the point that
the Premier is identified with no ideas, is fol-
lowed by no party, is tremulous with age, and
has utterly disappointed the expectations of
his admirers. MIRABEAU called LA. FAvrrrx a
" Grandison-Cromwell," and our Prime Minis-
ter might be termed in similar style a " Lord
" Ogleby-Chatham." Lord PALMERETON laughs,
while the politicians before and behind him
are grave at the aspect of our affairs.
Nor could Lord PALMERSTON, even if he had
youth, atone for the necessary evils attendant
on a transition Cabinet., which is necessarily

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FOREIGN.

The Foreign securities have on the whole been
well supported, the general tendency being to an
advance of prices. Turkish Bonds have reached a
small premium, and were done to-day at par to
prem. for money, SO for speculation. Spanish
Threes are also better, at 301 37 ; the New Deferred
marking 16t
London, England, 1855-03-17

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CHRONICLE OF THE SIEGE.

-------
Letters from the camp to the 3rd instant reached
London yesterday, but they report few incidents of
any interest. The following passages are extracted
from the correspondence of the Herald :
Both allies and Russians are evidently straining every
nerve for a final struggle. Every day, and all through the
day, numbers of the enemy's troops are incessantly em-
ployed in their earthworks, and seem not only to be pre-
paring measures for a vigorous defence, but actually for
advancing, as if to beseige us in our own parallels.
There are still no signs of any attempt to cleanse the
camp ground—another month and it will be too late.
The weather has again changed for the better; it is cold,
with very sharp north-east winds, but dry and sunny.
Lord Raglan now is frequently seen riding through the
different parts of the camp.
As much fresh meat and vegetables as can be procured
are now served to the men two or three times a week, and
the beneficial effects of this change of diet are becoming
every day more and more apparent. Scurvy is fast dimi-
nishing, though fever is rather more rife than could be
wished for at present.
It would appear, beyond doubt, that the Russians still
display, in spite of the Emperor's ukase, the same
cowardly ferocity which at Inkermann rendered their name
odious throughout Europe. Most of the bayonet wounds
were given to the poor Zouaves and their brave officers,
after they had been already wounded and disabled by
musket-shots. Our men know this as well as the French,
and store up the bitter recollection in their hearts against
the day when we shall again meet the enemy in battle.
Nn matter what orders may he issued by the allied gene.
rids, I am certain the enemy will now meet with very little
quarter from our troops.
Every one still seems confident as to the results which
will attend our reopened fire. It is intended to concen-
trate the fire of certain batteries upon one or two weak
points in the enemy's defences until the guns in them
him been dismounted, and the abhattis round them de.
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of shot and shell per day, and each mortar fifty rounds of
shell every twelve hours. The mortars will fire all through
the night to prevent the enemy repairing the damages
which have been caused during the day's bombardment—
the long guns will only fire during the daylight. Field-
pieces, small howitzers, and cohorns will be used in our
most advanced works for the destruction of the stockades
and abbattis. Storming parties will be told off to attack
each battery as soon as silenced. With the new batteries
lately thrown up the English will open fire with about 150
guns, and the French with nearly 200. The 10th or Ilth
of March are spoken of as the dates on which it is moat
probable we shall recommence our attack. In spite of
these assertions, which are repeated from all points, I still
find no reason to alter the conjecture made two days since,
that it would be towards the end of March or beginning of
April before our attack commences.
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THE YOUNG POET'S ASSISTANT.
Price 25., post flee.
• 004 tr.AIA. :
London, England, 1855-03-17

SHARES.

Wednesday WM the half-monthly settling day in
Railway Shares. The accounts were adjusted with-
out difficulty, and business afterwards became more
animated, but prices were in many instances below
the previous rates. Yesterday and to-day the quota-
tons have improved, snd the market this afternoon
showed considerable firmness at better prices.

BRITISH F
°Fru

[DB.— Clo3ing Prices.
.1.. QUOTATION.

921
92;

S per Cent. Consols I
Ditto for Account
S per Cents Reduced .. • •
S per Cents
Long Annuities
Bank Stock, 7 per Cent —
India Stock, 104 per Cat.
IC:cob. Bills, 20. per diem
India Bonds, (1,0004) l4

93$ 931 i
I

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32,
for the week ending on Saturday, the 10th day of arch, 1859.
MOM rePARTMCNT.
Notes issued .... al2i:•,911,880 Government Debt 211,015,100
Other Securities .. 2,984,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 12,911,8 NA
Silver Bullion .. • • -

696,911,880

L 26,911,880 j
BANKING DiPAILTXICNT.
Proprietors'Ospital£l4,ss3,oo( Government Secu-
Rest
•3639.849 rities (including
Public Deposits* 4,828,237 DeadWeightAn.i 4111,542,383
Other Deposits 11,149,103 Other Securities .. 14,880.844
given Day th other Notes 7,941,050
Bills

£35,076,919 i £35,V6,919
Natncluding Exchqquer, Savings Banks, Commissioners of
sial Debt, and Dividend Accounts.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Tue,d. Wed.
1014 i
62} ‘l2i ;
70f 25e 69f 400
95f c 94: c
299 Cf. 2090 f
204
70 id 701 c
100
361 37
80 79

Per Cent.
'Brazilian ..•.••••b
Danish
Dtch. (EX 12 (luil )2i
French 3
Do. 4i
Do. Bank Stock
Mexican 3
Peruvian 43
Portuguese
Russian 5
Spanish
Turkish Scrip(Ace )8

Mond

Thura
101}

n
09+
je
94; tOc
2090 f.

70(

.2086 f.
201
70 xd

1004

361
aoi

Friday.
1013
London, England, 1855-03-10

gilt rtss.

LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 1855.

"PRESS" OFFICE,

Friday Night, March 9.

THE prospects of peace are not favor
able.

The tenor of the manifesto of the Russian
Emperor must not be exaggerated. Its
publication, under all circumstances, was a
matter of course. No insuperable difficulty
to peace, however, exists at St. Petersburg.
Nor is it, we have reason to believe, at the
Court of St. James's that difficulty is expe-
rienced.

On the contrary, it has reached us from
high authority that the instructions with
which Lord JOHN RUSSELL was furnished
were framed in a spirit in accordance with
the disposition of the Court of Russia.
The obstacles to peace have their origin
at Paris, notwithstanding the mitigatory
efforts of the French Minister for Foreign
Affairs.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL, we are assured,
failed in his efforts to dissuade the Emperor
Louis from repairing to the Crimea, His
Majesty has, probably, by this time quitted
France with this object, HAVING TAKEN PRE-
CAUTIONS FOR THE SAFETY OF WS CROWN.
It is said that the French Emperor has
exhibited at this moment an elation, as well
as firmness, of conduct unusual with him in
their combination.

The King of PRUSSIA complains of the
manner in which he has been treated in re-
cent negotiations. His Majesty offered to
make for the common object large and most
important concessions, The Emperor Louis,
on the other hand, proposed to make two
conditions of the adhesion of the King of
PRUSSIA to the Western alliance, which ex-
cited alike astonishment and indignation :--
1. That the French Emperor should have
the power of moving troops through Germany
without the sanction of the Germanic Con-
federation.

2. That the King of PRUSSIA should pre-
liminarily engage to vote with the majority
at the Congress of Vienna.
We are informed that even M. DROUYN
DE LHUYS urged on his Imperial master that
" there was no precedent for such a condi-
" tion being imposed on an independent
London, England, 1855-03-10

Pug Ittarlitt and (Sill! Ittellignut.

FRIDAY EVSNINIE
THE sudden and astounding intelligence of the death
of the Emperor Nicholas occasioned intense excite-
ment upon 'Change, as throughout the general circles
of London society, on Saturday last. The imme-
diate effect produced by the news was a rapid and
extensive rise in prices, comprehending all descrip-
tion of stocks and shares, as well foreign as British.
in Consols the improvement established during the
day amounted to fully 2k per cent., and the market
closed firmly. On Monday the tone was more sub-
dued, business being quiet, and some sales effected
for the purpose of realising profits. Nevertheless, the
quotations on the whole were well sustained, and the
prices at the close were 93} 1, both tamed,
an
and
account. During Tuesday the market continued to
show signs of reaction, and Consols receded to
93k k. On Wednesday the quotations went below 93,
but rallied before the close of business, and left off
at the rates of the previous day.
Yesterday the prices presented further fluctua-
tion, owing, it was believed, to heavy sales on French
account. The quotations went back to 921, and
closed at 93i. To day the attention of dealers has
been occupied chiefly in settling their accounts in
Consols. This afternoon's quotations have been
921 93 for money, and 93 to for the new account.
The Three per Cents. Reduced (which are now
shut) have been done at 931 to 92/, with dividend
and for money. The New Three per Cents. hive
been done at 931 I.
London, England, 1855-03-10

"CURIOSITIES OF LONDON."
TO THE EDITOR OF " THE PRESS."
Sir,—The writer of the review of the above work,
in your journal of last week, has made two or three
charges of 011a8S1011, of which I am anxious to clear

myself.
1. Re states that no earlier name than Londinium
or Augusta is noted in my volume ; if he will turn to
page 645 (Roman London) he will find the early
British Llyn-dun, and Llong-dinas, referred to.
2. Taylor, the water-poet, is mentioned elsewhere
than at the page your reviewer refers to. See
" Long acre " (p. 473), where, in Phcenix-alley,
Taylor kept an ale-house.
3. The artiele on "Coffee-houses" (see p. 200) ex-
tends to six pages, and includes notices of thirty-two
coffee-houses, although the reviewer implies the
" catalogue" to contain only half a dozen.
4. The article on the " Gardens and Public
Walks " (see p. 319) extends to seven pages ; and
"Parks" to fourteen pages (583 to 597) ; whereas
the reviewer states that they "are dismissed with
notices so scanty that a foreigner could never gather
from the book the slightest notion of the importance
once attached to these scenes."
6. " The Mulberry Garden," the reviewer objects,
is only noticed in three lines; whereas, had he re-
ferred to the article on "Buckingham Palace," pp.
565-566 (the actual locality of the Mulberry
Garden), he would have found quoted Pepys's de-
scription of the plate ; the anecdote of Dryden and
his mistress eating tarts there; and a note of the
garden by Sedley and Dr. King—the very illustra-
tions of the omissions of which he complains.
I will not take up more of your valuable space
than to say that, although I did not aim at writing a
history of London, I hoped that the labour of years
might accomplish a somewhat "higher object than
that of bringing together a miscellaneous collection
of local facts and illustrations," " a great mass of
desultory facts," &c.—l am, sir, your obedient
J TIMBS.
London, England, 1855-03-10

sovereign." The Emperor was deaf to
this remonstrance of his own Minister,
and declared that he " would make a prece-
" dent."

The peremptory conduct of the Emperor
of the FRENCH, which disturbs the Court of
St. James's, has its origin in engagements
which he entered into at the close of last
year with the Emperor of AUSTRIA, and
which were contracted without the know-
ledge of the British Government. This
secret compact with Austria makes the Em-
peror of the FRENCH master of the situation.

The death of the Emperor NlcuolAs has
already modified the spirit in which the
Emperor of AUSTRIA was induced to accept
the revival of the policy of CHOISEUL, but
his Imperial and Apostolic Majesty is em-
barrassed and disquieted. His brother has
departed to St. Petersburg on a mission,
which is not one merely of condolence.
The rumours rife during the week or the
cause of the visit of Lord CLARENDON to
Boulogne, and of the principal subject of
his conferences with the Emperor, the
Crimean Committee, the dissolution of Par-
liament, &c., are mere inventions, part of
that stock of " canards " now flying. The
departure of Lord CLARENDON to Boulogne
was occasioned by the news of the death of
the Emperor NICHOLAS, and by the natural
desire of himself and Lord PALMERSTON that
not a moment should be lost in his con-
ferring with the Emperor of the FRENCH on
the influence of so great an event.

The Budget will not be brought forward
before Easter : the day on which the finan-
cial statement will be made, will, we have
reason to believe, be the 20th of April.

We understand that Sir THOMAS GLAD-
STONE has been requested to allow himself
to be put in nomination for Liverpool, and
that no doubt exists of the readiness of the
Hon. Bart. to fulfil his duty at this con-
juncture. Sir THOMAS GLADBTONE has
always uncompromisingly adhered to the
distinctive tenets of the Conservative party.
He has never for a moment swerved from
the maintenance of the Protestant Constitu-
tion in Church and State.

Two years since, when Tim PRESS commenced
its labours, the affairs of England were
intrusted to the discordant authority of a
Coalition Cabinet, whose political and mili-
tary mismanagement have tarnished the cha-
racter of our Constitution. Urged by an
London, England, 1855-03-10

Brazilian b

Danish 5
Utch. ( El 12 (luil )2e
Fronon 3

Do. 4k

Do. Bank Stock -
Mexican 8
Peruvian 4i
Portuguese 4
Russian 5
Spanish 3
Turkish Scrip(Acc )6

36
79

I7BT al

178-A 9:

79 I

tmolitan Varktts.

(Reported erehteioely for "Tai Passe.")

• -
CORN-EXCHANGE—The arrivals of English wheat this
week, coastwise and by land carriage, have been on a very
moderate scale ; nevertheless, the demand for all kinds has
ruled excessively heavy, at a fall in the quotations of from 3s to
fully 48 per quarter, and clearances have not been effected. In
foreign wheat so little has been doing that prices have ruled
nominally 28 per quarter lower. Floating cargoes have been
much neglected. In barley very few transactions have taken
place, at a fall in value of 28 per quarter. Malt has moved off
heavily, on easier terms. We hare had very large arrivals of
Irish oats, and the inquiry for them has been iu a most
depressed state, at 2s per quarter decline. Both beans and
peas have met a heavy market, at 25 per quarter less money.
The flour trade has been very dull, and the top price of Eng-
lish has fallen to liba per 2601b8. American parcels have gone
lower.

EztoLtaa—Wheat, Essex and Kent white, 67. to 761; red,
61s to 665; Norfolk and Lincoln red,62s to 665. Malting barley,
20s to 3.9. ; grinding ditto, 27s to 29 s ; distilling, 29. to 30s.
Malt, 64s to 70s. Feed oats, 24. to 25s ; potato, 27s to 28s.
Rye, 42s to 445. Tick beans, 36s to 40s ; pigeon, sBs to 445.
Grey peas, 33. to 36s ; maple, 36s to Us ; white boilers, 36s to
42s per quarter. Town-wade tiour,6os to 655; country marks,
46s tio its per 2801bs.
London, England, 1855-03-10

55,157,0t10
(oaa numbers below thousands omitted.)
SCOTLAND.
North British Advertiser
Glasgow Saturday Post

802,000
727,000

IRELAND.

Daily Express
Telegraph....

748,000
959,000

A CONVENTION was signed at London on the 24th
of January between her Majesty and the Emperor of
the French relative to the supplies to be furnished
to the Turkish army. The allies are to furnish
supplies in equal proportions, as nearly as possible.
In the case of one furnishing a larger proportion,
there shall be prepared every three months an ac-
count of the supplies furnished by each, and the half
of the excess duly repaid. This convention wan
ratified on the 28th ult.
London, England, 1855-03-10

MARCH 10, 1855.

recently made a great sensation in Paris. We also
hear that Mdlle. Sophie Cruvelli is re-engaged for
one month ; that there are to be no less than three
tenors, the most celebrated on the Italian stage,
namely, Mario, Tamberlik, and Gardoni ; Fanny
Cerito, Angiolina Bosio, Carl Formes, Borghi Mamo,
a contralto of great celebrity in Italy and France,
are said to be engaged; and Meyerbeer's L'Etoile du
Nord, most powerfully cast, and put upon the stage
with extraordinary splendour, is to be brought out
during the forthcoming season.
London, England, 1855-03-10

THE PRESS.

Did they think they'd spoilt ye
When the whole Viceroy'lty
Cried Cead millefailte
To bould Eglintoun—
That they send such craturs,
Wid such comick faytures,
To be Legislators
In poor Dublin's town?

The disolateness,
And the dull sedateness,
And the dthreary nateness
Of St. Germans stout—
Troth they were bad enough,
And dthruv us mad enough—
Fait 'tis we were glad enough
To bow him out.

The ruined mansions,
Wid their boults and staunchions,
Chandliers and branchin's,

Rust wid decay.
No balls nor singing,
And no laughter ringing,
And the aid-congs winging

Their flight away,

Made the town o' Dublin
A grief and troublin,
No light hearts bubblin,
No merry tehuues.
But the joy 'll be lesser
When the Queen (God bless her!)
Sends his droll successor
To haunt our ru'nes.

For ye 'll see a soight there,
Like a dhreary noight-mare,
Wid breeches toight there,
And a silly smoile.
By thim breeches' toightncss,
And his sham poloiteneas,
And his weak brains loightness,
Ye 'll know Lord Carloyle.

For now that I have won it what on earth avails it all to me?
But little fame, much self-reproach, is all the good will fall to me.
I've thrown away the brightest chance I had of doing rightf lly ;
I know as well as any man I've acted most despitefully ;
My name will only live as one who in the gen'rous prime of life
Showed pro misinndgwhat s he mu a
kinkith
To join me ! Vernon Smith,
Carlisle, and Cornewall Lewis, empty ass and learned bore I
Dreary, weary,
Seedy, weedy,
Shaky, raky,
Pottery, tottery,
Feeling, like a galleyslave, too weak to pull the oar.
Oh, Heavens! how I rue it I have won with assiduity
The place I've been ambitioning for fifty years and more!

BARNEY BRAL LAGHANEUTENANT ON THE NEW LORD
LIEUTENANT
Och, botheration !
Ye poor Irish nation,
You've lost your station
In the hemisphere.
The bosthoons they sind ye,
The Divil mind ye,
Would raise a shindy
Were ye as ye were.

FAST DAYS AND LOOSE NOTIONS.
(AN UTTERLY UNIMAGINABLE CONVERSATION.)
Lord GRANVILLE : By the way, Palmerston—about this Fast-day?
What do you think?
The PREMIER (simply): I think it will fall on a Wednesday.
(Great laughter among the knot of Ministers present.)
ood. Ha l
Sir C. WOOD (with a supplemental laugh): Deuced g
ha ! ha !
Lord GRANVILLE : Of course the House don't meet on that day ?
The PREMIER : I don't know. I don't care. But I do not see
why the Commons should not have a holiday as well as the Lords.
Sir C. WOOD: Hear, hear, hear!
Sir W. MOLESWORTH : You know my notions about such obser-
vances ; but I am bound to say that this is a very remarkable occasion.
A certain set of gentlemen are charged by the nation (truly or
to falsely
is not now the question) with mismanaging war and
a bringin
events, my
it a
disastrous crisis. These gentlemen—l will name, t all
Lord Palmerston, my Lord Granville, my Lord John Russell, and my
Lord Clarendon, not to mention others—turn round upon the nation,
and desire it to fast, and humiliate itself. As a repartee, I conceive
London, England, 1855-01-13

THE PRESS.

SATURDAY,

probably call for parliamentary investigation, relates to his alleged
refusal to allow the Turkish steam-squadron to co-operate in effecting
an efficient blockade of the Russian coasts, and of the Sea of Azoff.
It is reported that official representations, from officers high in coin-
mand in the Turkish navy, were repeatedly made to the gallant
admiral upon this vital point, pointing out the utter uselessness of
the Turkish ships confined to the Bosphorous, praying for permission
to show the Turkish flag off the Asiatic coast, and, finally, remarking
in energetic terms on the hopeless folly of blockading the mouths of
the Danube, and leaving Odessa, Kertch, and the Sea of Azoff unmo-
lested. The gallant admiral's friends Say, of course, that he acted
under orders from home. We shall be curious to see, upon the re-
assembling of Parliament, some of these home instructions to our
naval commanders.

Our revenue returns do not thus far reflect much credit on Mr.
GLADSTONE'S financial sagacity. He imposed last year new taxes to
produce, as he estimated, ten millions annually. The receipts for the
three quarters of his financial year have come in, and the actual in•
crease is only 1,928,3161. It is said that some of the increased taxes
have not yet come in. Perhaps not ; but this circumstance will hardly
account for so great a deficiency. In some items we can trace the
discrepancy between his estimate and the actual results. He expected
that the increased malt duty would give him an addition of 2,450,0001.,
or upwards of 600,0001. each quarter ; but we learn that the increase on
malt this quarter is only 150,0001., so that the consumer is taxed nearly
50 per cent. that the revenue may be benefited little more than 10 per
cent. When will Mr. GLADSTONE learn that first lesson of financial
experience, that, in matters of taxation, two and two do not
make four.

As the period for the next financial statement and for new esti•
mates approaches speculation is busy with probable details. It is re
ported that the army will be raised to three hundred thousand men -
thirty thousand foreign mercenaries being included in the number ;
but where the latter are to be obtained still remains a mystery. Many
German States have rigorously prohibited recruiting in their
dominions, and as yet we hear of no bands of gallant German recruits
having landed on our shores. Yet it was hinted these recruits would
be wanted for immediate service—to be despatched to the Crimea at
once, indeed. It is thought probable that Sardinia may furnish some
troops, as that State has just acceded to the treaty of December 2 ; but
it is unlikely that that kingdom can have many men to spare. From
all that we can learn at present the bill remains a dead letter. Mr.
SIDNEY HERBERT'S appeal to the Opposition was too candid for false-
hood :—" You ask where we are to procure these men. We shall be
" very much obliged to you if you will tell us where we can get
" them."

JANUARY 13, 1855.
London, England, 1855-01-13

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive.
Their insertion is often delayed, owing to a press of matter,
and when omitted, it is frequently from reasons quite inde-
pendent of the merits of the communication.
We cannot undertake to return communications of which we do
not avail ourselves.
Ccmmunications should alive,* be legibly written, and on one
side of the paper only. If long it increases the difficulty of
finding space for them.
Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the
came and address of the writer, not necessarily for publica-
tion, but as a guarantee of his good faith.
Advertisements sent from the country must be accompanied by a
remittance or a reference for payment in town.
London, England, 1855-01-13

THE PRESS.

after several feints of submission, Bou-Baghla pre-
sented himself unexpectedly, on the 26th of De-
cember, before the Bordj de Tarmalt, and endea-
voured to take possession of it. The Caui Lakaar,
the son of Mokrani, met the attack with courage,
vigorously repulsed the assailants, and Bou-Baghla,
having been taken prisoner, was beheaded on the
spot.
The Algerine coast has been visited with one of
the most dreadful storms ever remembered. During
the night of the 30th ult. upwards of twenty vessels
and as many coasting-boats were wrecked near Store;
amongst them was a steamer, the Vile de Cette,
laden with coffee and other valuable cargo, from
Marseilles. The remainder of the vessels were laden
with merchandise. The losses were immense, ex-
ceeding two millions of francs. Fortunately only two
lives were lost.
GERMANY. _ _ _

Vienna, on the night of the Ist, was visited by a
tremendous hurricane. One of the old walls of the
church of St. Stephen was blown down, and the roofs
of several houses were carried away.
A telegraphic despatch from Frankfort of the Bth
inst. announces that the Cabinet of Berlin, in a note
dated the sth, has decidedly sent a refusal to the
demand made by Austria for the immediate mobilisa-
tion of a portion of the Prussian army. The despatch
adds, that the secondary kingdoms, as Bavaria,
Saxony, and Wurtemburg, have resolved to adopt the
same course as Prussia in refusing to comply with the
demand of Austria to mobilise the Federal contin
gents. Hanover, it is said, has not yet come to a
decision on the subject.