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The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-03

MONEY MABSET-THIS DAY.

Two o'CLoox.

The English stock market is better:' to•dsy, and
yesterday's decline of per cent. has been recovered.
although business shows no increase of activity.
Consols were first marked 91, and are now quoted 911
to 1 ex div., for the 10th July. The Three pee
Cents. Rodeoid have been dealt in at 911 to
92; the New Three per Cents. at 921 to 1;
Bank Stock at 211 to 211; the New 30 years'
Annuities at 16 15-16; Exchequer Bonds, 1859, at
100; to 101; Exchequer Bills, March, at 225. to 265.
prem.; ditto June, at 19s. to 2.75. prem.; and India
Bonds, at 355. prem. Omnium is quoted 41 to 41
prem.
Great dulness continues to prevail in the foreiga
stock market. Turkish is quoted 811 to ; ; Mexican,
241 to 1; Spanish Deferred Three per Gents, 18 to
; and Russian Five per Cents., 98 to 100. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been dealt in at 631
to 1 ex div. • Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at
71; and Brazilian Old Five par Cent. (small) Bonds,
at 1011.

The ship Windermere sailed from Geelong on the
12th March, for London, with 4,600 ounces of gold
on freisht, worth 18,0001.
St. Petersburg advices to the 23rd June quote the
exchange on London at 38 546 to 7-16 d. Scarcely
any business was going forward in produce.
Mr. Thornton, the chairman of the committee of
Portuguese bondholders,yesterday made his formal pro.
test, through Mews. Donnison and Son,fthe notaries,
against the continued arbitrary reduction of 40 per
cent. from the dividends now ia course of payment.
The Portuguese government is understood to be
ardently desirous of obtaining the aid of English
capitalists in the promotion of railway undertakings,
but so long as this deep stain on Portuguese credit
remains unremoved there is no chance whatever of
any such assistance being rendered.
The receipts of the Great Western Railway of
Canada for the week ending the 15th June were
7,6481. sterling, or at the rate of 311. 15s. per mile per
week, against 4,9161, or 211. 9s. per mile, in the
corresponding week of last year.
London, England, 1855-07-03

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

LIVERPOOL Bits BILPS AT PORTION PORTS.—CaTalier,
at Baton; Ebro (sa.), at Sinaloa.; Jane, at Zoltbansp ;
Hortense, at Antwerp ; Betsey Tacker, at Genoa ; Liberia,
at St. John's, N.B. ; Asia (a.), Kingstown, Standard, Egyp-
tian, Hymen, Stentor, and Vittoria, at Halifaa ; Us ming,
and Fanny WHenry, at Philadtilphia; Don Francini°
Lason, and Madan)°, at Havana ; Enoch Train, Clarissa
Currier, and Great Duke, at New Orleans ; Arctic, City of
Mobile, Excelsior, American Union, William Rathbone, and
William Rogers, at New York.
London, England, 1855-07-04

RUSSIA IN BELGIUM.

BRUSSELS, MONDAY.

The objects for which the Rowan journal, Le
I.u►d, bee been founded are disclosed at n very early
period of its existence. Only yesterdly, in the first
numb.r, we were told that its great work wee to en-
ligt. ton much-abused public opinion respecting Russia,
bat to-day the single editorial article which it pub-
lishes nes for its thesis that, whatever may be said
of the entente cordials between England and France,
the antagonism between those two countries is
"natural. fundamental, perennial, and based upon
the opposition of their interests." In the name of
moderalion„ enlightenment, and love of peace, the
Russian writers revive the memory of ancient feuds
between France and England, and attempt to re-
kindle hatred between the leaders and guardians of
European civilisation.

In addition to the selection of General Simpson for
Commander in-C aid of the army in the Crimea, a few other
appointments have beet mode. Geo. &sally. leaves the camp
at Aldsrsbott fur the administration of the staff in the
Crime. Colossi' Markham, now on his way from India,
will premed to the East to assume the command of earlobe,
and Colons I l'aketihant succeeds General Estatmart as,
A,ilaaet•Geseral of the Forces before Sebastopol.
Sir Roger and Miss Palmer, and Mies Matthews,
Mee maned to Poetised Howe, attar a hyphened ab-
lone at Gesstaattserle sad Is the Crimea.
London, England, 1855-07-04

FR4NCE.

The Moniteur of yesterday contains an official
article, which is little more than an ampllfication or
the Emperor's recent speech. The only important
passage is one relat►og to another Austrian proposi-
tion, made subsequently to that which publislisd
diplomatic documents have made known, and which
Austria offored to send to St. Petersburg se an ulti-
matum. The Monsieur says: .

&nth then the Cabinet of Vienna has protested to the
governments of France and England a proposition based on
the principle of limitation of the Russian fleet, and as far as
this goes satisfactory, but at the same time incomplete, be.
Imam it had not the character of an ultimatum implying a
eases Celli. T►ere could be no adventure in discussing •
plan of which we knew beforehand that Regale would cate-
gorically reject its principle, and that *uvula did not pro•
wise to sustain, if required, by arms. The negotiations,
then, have closed, and war must decide the question in MIS.
pens*. However, while demonstrating most completely
that Russia admits of no means really suited to diminish
her preponderance in the Black Sea, and to realise the
third point, the negotiation. have given their fall force to
the obligations of Austria towards Fumes and England.
The official writer proceeds, in conclusion, to de-
clare that the cause for which France and England
are fighting is one that ought to unite all the fi4ga
of Europe, and that the government will neglect no
means of fecundating existing alliances, and creating
uses ones; "but should the gore foment have to sup-
port with England alone the principal weight of the
burden of the war, it has an entire confidence in the
military courage of the two armies, and the civil
courage of the two nations."
London, England, 1855-07-04

AUSTRIAN FINANCES.

Mow OUR OWN 001INESPONDZNT.)
VIENNA, Imre H.
The Vienna 281.11411, gins an official statement of
the receipts and expenditure of the last two years.
The ordinary receipts for the year 1854 amounted to
246 millions of florins, being about eight million.
more than the previous year. The ordinary expel,-
ditnre of the state WNW from 286 millions of florins iu
1863 to 378 millions last year, showing a surplus
expenditure of 02 millions. The to:al annual d. ti-
motley rose from 66 millions in 1853 to 140 millions
in 1854, chiefly in consequence of the enormous ex-
penses of the army, and especially of the Wet levy of
95,000 men. The ordinary expensed of the army wet
117 millions of florins, together with 91 millions of
extraordinary expeneeti,making a total 01209
of fi..rius, or nearly 21 million pounds a,erling. The
late reduction of the army is calculated to bring down
the annual deficiency to its former level. As long es
the Austrian army was on the war footing, it cost a
million of forms (100,0001.) every day. It ought 1.. t
to be overlooked that the increase in the revenue can
only take place as long as peace is maintained.
London, England, 1855-07-04

charge being preferred against them—ttishemthat
Englishness submit tamely to Wraps by *Om- .
stits•ed authorities, rely bealMen they an 414011 stkin
that they have conatitutiiiial means at Obtaining
redress without recoup's, td•fbksap.
This coep Vat mangwif of the Hone SiCRICTART
and his Sabbath legislation friends is a new Wenn-
tion of the neoessity for Administrative Reform. The
mischievous neglect and inefficiency of the War .De-
pertinent have just been re-enacted on a small scale
—parodied as it were—by the Home Department.
Innocent men have been mevid up in dose cells, in
the dog-days, some for foar-ead•twenty hours and
some for nearly doable that time ; and the only excuse
alleged for this wanton act of oppression by the
1101111 SICIATANT is, that be did not know
where to find his legal advisers at the time
they were wanted. The domestic 'dadaist/Mho el
the State is paralysed by the same defective ergetli•
fatless that has rendered our War Administration
rig and a bye-word. If the sufferings of the
ttLd■s of home mismanagement are influitely hot
lion doom of oar countrymen in the Crimea, OA,
Mat host more immediately under our observation,
Ind mesh as may any day fall to the lot of any one of
is. We are much mistaken if the Hyde-park raid, end
the incarcerations that have followed it, do not urge
on the Administrative Reformers to carry the wai
without delay into the Home Department.

We regret to observe that the irritation caused
by Lord HOBERT GROSVENOR and 81r GEORGE
Ow is not to be allowed to subside under the heal-
ing influence of time and repose. Already we art
tLreatened with a crusade for a more etringtot Sun•
day Trading Bill than that which Lord ROBERT
OBOSTAIIOI has withdraws. A semi-official evening
paper labours herd to show that Lord BOBERT'd Bill
was not uncalled fort and the organs of the pro•

motets of Sunday legislation in the press are already
declaring that his measure was not sufficiently
stringent, and announcing that its place will
be supplied by one that is to make root
■nd branch wax with Sunday trading. It
these men were not wilfully blind there is
ample warning in our Eoglish history against the
insane course they are pursuing. The over-
strained severity of the puritanical Governments
from 1649 to 1680 provoked that revnision in the
national aeotim.its which led to the solution of all
moral ties—the degrading and shameless debauchery
of the reign of CHARLES IL. More than a century
was required to partly public morality from
the taint it received in the days of that
dissolute monarch. At this moment England is
emphatically a religious nation. But puritanical laws
and police-meddling mean eying& considerable section
of the public) against those earnest devotional views
which are made the pretext for incessant acts of petty
Pharisaical oppression. If we would have a people
really pious we most beware of represeoting religion
as hostile to social and civil liberty, and of investing the
dissolute and protane, in the eyes of the unreflecting,
with the attributes of martyrs and champions of
free thought.
London, England, 1855-05-09

THE UNITED STATES.

We give now some details of the Amnion news
(from Balton, 25th April), which were not included
in our despatch yesterday :
Another steamer, the William Knox. from Cin-
cinnati roe St. Louie, was destroyed by fire on the
23rd ult., below Louisville. The boats were full of
passengers, but all were expected to be saved by a
steamer seen alongside.
Io .the Supreme Court of New York, on the 19th
alt., a verdict of 15,234 dole. was returned against
Plaines. T. Barnum, for Crystal Pala:ember's bought
at the dens he assumed the presidency.
The Maine liquor and license question caused a
sanguinary riot at Chicago oa the 21st ult., in which
four nose were killed and six others dangerously
wasided. The rioters were chiefly composed of
Germane. Incendiaries were buy at work during
the ezeihinest, and nine or ten buildings were est
fire to, but were speedily subdued—the authorities
being on the alert.
The steam ship George Law arrived at New York
on the morning of the 24th ult., with advice. from
California to the Ist nit., and 772,800 dollars in
treasure. Trade in California had not improved;
money was difficult to get. Page, Bacon, and Ca
'resumed business on the 29th March, and the depo-
sits exceeded the money drawn out by nearly 100,000
dollars. Dr. Wright's friends had great hopes that
he would resume payment: Sherry, Janes, aid
M'Cree, a recently established jobbing house in San
Francisco, had failed for 100,000 dole. The
.proposi-
don to fund the floating debt of San Francisco met
with much opposition. The weather has been fine,
and the crops promise an abundant harvest. The
miners are generally reported to be doing well. The
excitement regarding the new Kern river mines had
subsided. The amount of gold shipped from San
Francisco for the first quarter of 1866 was 8,910,313
dole., less than in 1854 by 1,768,867. The legisla-
ture was expected to adjourn about the middle of
April. A prohibitory law has peened the
Assembly. Its • Sr. not very stringent, sad
wines from Cid; alga rapes were exempted from its
prohibitioss. An antniusbling law had pained to
divide the state into ocagremonal districts. Tist
Alia California, of the nth Marsh, says :—"
difficulties are apprehended in relation to a
veiny between the mama minister and the
pan government, sad active sesseures are in papa-
wades to redress the grievances:"
The other news by this arrival is not of any im-
perious&
The Nay York Transom of the 24th ult. contains

the knowing :
The 7111bestoree have opened ellen is Broadway sad
other themengbfarn ter the enlistment of sea to serve la
" The Wu with Spain t" sad we hear that &Windom an
quite sunless. The maul of the Melissa Volunteer,
London, England, 1855-05-09

THE LOSS OF LIFE IN THE CHANNEL.

CORONER'S INQUEST ON THE BODIES.
(IT st.scriuo T3IIIOIAPE.)

PLYMOUTH, TOBSDAY.

The coroner's inquest on the bodies of the passen-
gers loot in the ship Jobs has terminated in a verdict of
manslaughter against Captain Rawls, who has leen com-
mitted to Bodmin gaol. The jury expressed surprise that
the Toad was not furnished with blue lights. sad i ream.
mended that a light should be placed on the Mammies. They
considered that there was not one extenuating circus.
stases, before or after the ship stunk, in the conduct of the
captain and the crew, all of whom are considered blame-
able, except a seaman named Elder.
H.ll. steam-vowel Avon, Muter A. J. /hitch, has jest
suited, with some of the emigrants saved from the wreak,
on the Manacles. It appears that the total number of souls
en board was 288, via. 289 emigrants, and the crew, 19. Of
these, 98 are saved, including in this number the whole of
the erew. The court of inquiry, held under the as of last
year, has concluded its investigation. The report will be
made to the Board of Trade.

Tax Immix Mau.—The Oriental Company's
steamer Tsui., CAptaiit Joy, Admiralty agent, Lieutenant
Morris, li N., arrived this morning at Bouthuapten with
the heavy portion of Use Indian mail. She left Alexandria
es the 2lst ult., Melia en the 26th, sad Gibraltar on the
and May. she Mune 74 pamengen, amour* wh
were Colonels sad Gay, and Captain Little, of the
Indian army ; Mart:l4:ld;g:, 69th Regiment Captain
Chattortoa, ath ti and Lieutenant Chute, 84th
muds The Two need very boisterous woatlin
boulevards.
onion, Pamaig.—issmuNce DAT.—May B.
Adusla on my/anti 1,046; ditto by sewn Oasts,
371.--Total, 3,417.
London, England, 1855-05-09

SHIPPING INTELLIGBNCE.

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CASUALTIES.
(BY ZLECTRIC TELZORLPH.)
FALMOUTH, TITIBDAY.
Active, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, is dismastad aad Moan.
doned in bsllut trim. She was passed April 9, lat. 40.30
N , lon. 48 W., by the Anna, arrived here.

A large ship, apparently British-built, with mainmast gone
about 30 feet above deck, fore and misea masts and jab-
boom standing, was passed April 6, let. 38 lon. 40, water.
logged and abandoned, by the Cupid, arrived here.—
Liverpool, May 8.
A bank, with 80 fathoms water, was passed over Jan 30,
lat. 2.6 8., len. 48 8., by the Lady Flora Hastings, arrived
here.—Liverpool, May 8.
Lady Flora Hastings, arrived here 6th instant, experienced
a submarine convulsion March 12, in lat. 2 N., lon. 18
W., which shook the ship all over, and lifted everything
on deck out of place.—Liverpool, May 8.

LITZATOOL SHIPS AT FoRIIGN PORTl3.—Anbies
ow), Cambria (s.), Providence, Parries, Lucifer (ss.), and
Oipsey, at Malta; J. A. Westervelt, Nashville (v.), Onego,
Cynosure, Emerald Isle, and Ontario, at hew York;
Daniel Webster, and Helen M•Gaw, at flown ; Leonida,
at Honolulu; Tonawanda, and Westmoreland, at Phila-
delphia; ?dents ice.), at Smyrns ; Mentor, at Vera Cruz ;
Africa (a.), at Halifax; Sea Rover at Constantinople;
Spark of the Ocean, at New Orleans ; Minnesota, at Balti-
more; Dorcht ster, at Mobile; Eagle, at Virginia.
London, England, 1855-05-09

OUR CONSULS IN THE EAST•

TO THE EDITOR Or THE 'means. eh,
SIR,—In your parliamentary report you
Mr. Wise concluded by quoting a letter from s mat I,*
telligant Mussalman," &c. Al this proceeded fror s
mistake on the part of the heaoureble member,
ou or
that
passage in question wee quoted front my little plgoOlit
onWi "
th Oar Consuls in the Rast," p. 12.
regard to Lord Palmerston 's flippant answer: dol
"the charge was supported by no one fact whatever,' IWI
to secure his lordship that every charge can be "PPGrile, _kg"
facts ; and I may further remind him that be
on that of your reporter, I beg to inform y
Minister for Foreign Affairs, had received savers! conP7,
against consuls in Turkey, which, however, met win ";
same result that all questions put to him in the /b._
Commons daily meet, an evasive sumer or as lor
promise.—I am, fte., ANGLO.LEVANTINS.
Tuesday evening.

..A., I
REVIIiIII2 AND EXPENDITLYBE.—On War...,
nerstl.
return was inked of the estimated net snugrow - 0
and the estimated expenditure, secludingd incloilisf_,
oast of oolloction. The n 88 IVY 86,639.°Cd",,, 017,
the gross 91,024,9611. The expenditure wee ,
OM.,
excluding the coat of collection, and 91,024,9511. ind
the semi.
London, England, 1855-05-09

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

The market is fist at the following reduced quotations,
vie.: Town TOlcw, 51s 9d. nett cash; Petersburg Y. C.
on the spot, b3s. ; May end June, iiZe. 9d. ; October to
December, 5.55.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Measra. Patteeden aad Smith report that the demand
are oew Kent and Sussex hope is daily improving, and prim;
for a shade dearer.

COAL MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Walls End Hartlepool, 181. 6d.; Walls End Haswell,
His. ; Walls End Kelloe, 18s.-73 freak ships at market.

BARNUM'S ELEPHANT.—Passengers who travel by
the New York and New Haven cars have a grand chance of
"seeing the elephant." Going from New York, the cars
pas the farm of Y. T. Barnum, a mile or co before reaching
ridgeport, Ct. On that term. and in plain air" from the
reilroad, an elephant may be seen every pleansnt day,
attached to a large plough, and doing up the "
g " in first-rate style, at the rate of about three distirct
double-horse t ams. The aniraal is perfectly tractaLe.
His attendee; .ides him, while a coloured man guide s the
plough. The elephant is also used for carting large loads of
gravel in a cart arranged purposely for him, ar.d in (Lowing
stone on a stone boat or drag, in piling up wo d, timber,
and in me. himself generafly useful.—Aare York
Tla6w e.
THE CHARITABLE TRU:3IS BILL, AND THE VALUE
1,0
great
al 4/ i
f:
rbr.
to the
sample of
oh
pat
fe:rThkri
followingAcF c seemsAlarme
is tkhae,yl yibtir 7,,,kosovaef
Wiltniogtos, helooging to a chrrity, aad consisting of a
4-roomed cottage and 7 scree of arable land, which has for
many years been let on a yearly tenancy at 141. per annum,
hes, by order of the Charity Commissioners, been put up for
letting by public tender, cad has realised a yearly rental of
CIL, at which rent the tenant takes a fourteen years' lease
of the property, and engages to put the cottage fat" thorough
repair, to insure, to pay all rates and tales, and to pay all
the ewe of a kits* and counterpart. The poor of the parish
are much indebted to the Rev. F. Heberden, the vicar, and
his churchwarden, George Russell, Esq., as well as to
Robert Bestow, Esq., for the great pains they bare take,
in btiagiog the state of the ch,rity, and its abase, before
the commisei Len. The rent now obteiaed is clearly not 4
fictitious one, as it is given by the old yeript, small work-
ing farmer, who no doubt knows its ryaVvalue, though he
eould not be blamed for ant giving it Wore he was asked,
especially as he took possession under' tqrwee churchwarden,
wit) had himself long occupied the farm sekamakinadir-
guare rent of 161.—Sosith Eastern Ossetic.
SAMBRE AND MEUSE RAILWAY,-
ending April 28, 180,1,0941.115. Bd.
Git 7s. CI. Mlles open, 181)5,

r.—Traffic for week
Corresponding week,
68; Mk 36.
London, England, 1855-05-09

THE VICTUALLING DEPARTMENT.

STRANG' to say, the most extraordinary evidence
hitherto given before Mr. Rouncit's Committee hes
until now been allowed to pas' without imeament.
Wonderful as have been the hate brought to light by
the examinatiog of Sir Hart Ross and others, nothing
semeenspare with the unvarnished tale told on this
day week by Mr. GIANT, the Controller of the Vic-
tualling Department of the Admiralty. This gentle-
man stated that he had been forty years in the Berries
of the Admiralty, during twenty-six of which he bad
been connected with the Victualling Department. Until
the recent reconstruction of the Transport Board the
Transport Service was milder his control. We menden
these facts to show how competent this witness must
be to speak as to the system and working of the
Victualling and Transport Departments. Nor does
Mr. GRANT disappoint us in the evidence he gave
belbre the Committee. For au official man, he is
weederfally truthful. Notwithstanding the length
dela, be bee been in the service, he does not seem to
bees learnt the Treasury creed, according to which the
suppression of the truth is not held to be falsehood. The
importance of the evidence which Mr. GRANT was
qualified to give, can hardly be overrated. It has
tut is the very departments in which he has had
mo mask experience, that the greatest blunders have
summed during the last twelve months. If to the
dement of the troops before Sebastopol, and
the eierwerhlng of the men in the trenches, we add
the balloon of the victuals provided, and the "Bala-
Nava" of the transport service, the various cause of
es many deaths in the Crimea will be pretty well
0 reckoned up."

Not the least carious part of Mr. GRANT'S evidenes,
is the light it throws on the great coffee question.
It amain this gentleman thought it extraordinary
that rjaw soiree amid be sent out to troops in the
field, who had not the mom of routing or grind-
London, England, 1855-05-09

PRESENT STRENGTH OF RUSSIA IN THE

The military correspondent of the Augsburg
Gazette writes from the Polish frontier that the rein-
forcements received by the Russian commanders in
the west of the Crimea since the battle of Inkermann
beer no proportion to those which have joined the
Allies. He says, "Numerically, Omer Pasha's
corps alone is almost equal to the entire rein-
forcements of the Russians. The new Russian
troops which have entered the Crimea since
the battle just mentioned are the following: The
2nd brigade of the 13th reserve infantry division, and
the two brigades of the 14th reserve infantry division,
forming together 12 battalions, or at most 9,000 men ;
further, the 9th infantry division, at present near
Perekop, and numbering possibly 10,000 meo.
These and a Greek volunteer battalion make up the
reinforcements of the Russian infantry since the bat-
tle of Inkermann, for the troops of the second in-
fantry corps, represented by some journals as
having marched to the Crimea, and the divi-
sion of General Wagner, said by the Austrian
Military Gazette to be in the Valley of Baidar, are
not there; the second corps, in fact, is still in Po-
land. Before the battle of Inkermann the Russians I
had no more than 70,000 infantry in the Crimea; at
the present moment they should have about 90,000.
The cavalry force whioh has joined the Russian
army since the battle of Inkermann consists of six
regular regiments. If we reckon the crews of the
ships at 8,000, and the Tchernomorskiechen battalion*
at 8,000; the rifles, sappers, engineers, and artillery
at 15,000 ; and the cavalry, regular and irregular, at
20,000—the Russian army at Perekop, Eupatoria,land
Isar Sebastopol will number about 140,000 men."
London, England, 1855-05-09

VESSELS SPOKEN WITH.

Amiga, from London for Adelaide, Jan. 25, lat. 23 N., 10.23 W.
Bengal, homeslentta, 151. achy, lat. 33 8.,100.16
Coraubia, from London for New Zealand, Feb 12, lat. 3 ha% IL
Her:trance, from Clilds. for London, Feo. 8, lat. 21.4 S., lea. 61.14 L
Kate, from aydrey for Gordon, March 1 , lat. 268., lea 11 W.
Ocean Gem, from Calcutta for London, March 11, lat. 23 L, In.l
Queen of the Bess, from Calcutta for Loudon, April 2t, 11 chr

lat. 45.34 N., lon. 22.10 W.
itc:ntalLElpperor, from Calcutta for London, April IS, 133.4432,

• -
10n.17.61.r -
Thomas Campbell (ship), from Bombay. March 14.1aL V eliti IL
William Frowner from Calcutta for *Liverpool, ho. 30,
104,
lon. 87 E.
Wellington. with invalids, from Bombay for London, Apnl 3S,W•
44.32, yon. 17.61.

THREE SHIPS ON SHORE.—Advises from SSTsIIII4
dated April 21, state that a heavy gale had prevailed there
on that day, which drove on shore the &lips Outmost,
from New York ; the Southport, for Bristol; sod at
Glasgow, for London.
London, England, 1855-05-09

ADMINISTRATIVE REFORM.

Bruinfonsm.—A requisition to the Mayor of Bir-
mingham is in course of signature, requestiog his worship
to cell a town's meeting, for the puree of oomidetiog the
propriety of eo•operatiog with the *metropolitan movement
in fortherance of administrative reform. Already the re-

qaisition is numucesly and respectably signed.
MAIcCRESTE2.—An early public meeting is to be
oiled at Manchester on this subject.
London, England, 1855-05-09

RUSSIA.

The Corriere Italian of Vienna says : " The ac-
counts received from Russia give a melancholy picture
of the state of commerce and manufactures in that
country. All the labourers usually employed in agri-
cultural work have been taken to construct redoubts
and dig trenches along the line of the Vistula and on
the coast of the Baltic. The crops this year will
consequently be very scanty, If there be also taken
into account the injury which commerce has sus-
tained by the blockade of the Russian ports in the
Baltic and the Black Sea, it will be seen that the ad-
vantages hitherto derived by the Russians from the
coasting trade have been completely annulled. The
condition of the poorer classes is therefore becoming
worse and worse every day."

CRACOW. MAT 2.
Russia has been making the mast formidable
'preparations for a long and vigorous defensive
war along its whole extensive line of frontiers
from Samogitis up to St. Petersburg. Magazines
of ammunition have been formed ; stores of
provisions laid in, fortresses constructed, the
more important places fortified, and cannon mounted.
Lutly, it has surmounted the greatest of all difficul-
ties in a country of such vast extent, the concentra-
tion of its troops on the spot where they will be most
available. All this is the result of the temporising
policy pursued by Prussia and Austria, and permitted
by the Mies.
According to private accounts from Russia, pub-
lished in the Crag of this town, an extraordinary
military movement is now being executed on the
whole line of defence from Finland to Lublin in Po-
land. The troops, which for more than a year
past, have been concentrated at certain fixed points,
of stratertical importance, and which are partly in
their winter quarters and partly still on their
march, will in a short time have formed their en-
trenched oamps. In the province of St. Petersburg
two such camps have been formed for the cohorts
of the provincial militia.

A letter from Warsaw. in Spoter'e Gazette of
Berlin, states that official intelligence has been re-
oeived by the superior authorities of the former city,
that the Emperor Alexander is before long to visit
Poland. areal-feces-are to celebrate his 'Majesty's
stay. The Poles are in hopes that they rill obtain
a constitution from the Emperor. They may obtain,
it is thought, some ooncessibns.
The Emperor of Russia, by a ukase, promulgated
the 28th alt., has, in order to expedite the deo tar'
of businessin the Ministry of Marine, the
London, England, 1855-05-09

rents and privileges_ of the clergy, the Military
Orders of Santiago, Calatraix, Aloantara, Montag,
and San Juan de 'maiden, religions communities
and associations, chapels, the sequestration of Don
Carlos, communes, charitable institutions, and gene-
rally all possessions whatever held in mortmain.
The Archbishop of Toledo had presented a protest
against the bill, bat it was couched in moderate and
dignified terms; that of the Pope's Nuncio had not
been presented. One of the journals says that the
Nuncio was preparing to leave, but the government
had not been informed that such was his intention.

In the Cortes, on the god, M. Avecilla look eon-
sion to declare, in the name of the democratic party,
that it had never entered into any negotiation with
Mr. Soule for the solo of the islands of Cuba. A
committee had resolved to propose to the Cortes to
adjourn from the Ist July to the let September.
A letter mays :
The bankers of London and Paris have formally declared
that they will not moke any less to Spade, unless sime
eresagemset be made with respect to the rejected coupons.
Aecordieg to letters from Cabs, the penons engaged in the
recent conspiracy bad such a large o'mmeod of money, that
after purchasing arms, hiring vessels, and paying filibusters.,
they had 300,000 piastres (1.600,0001 r.) in hand, which sum
Ind been seised. The correspondence between the con-
spirators and their agents in the United States had also,
it is stated, fallen into the hands of the authorities.
London, England, 1855-05-09

HEALTH OF LONDON.

The present return discovers an increase in the
deaths of the week that ended last Saturday on those of the
two previeus weeks. Having been in these weeks 1,087 and
1,132, they rose het week to 1,185, of whirl. 597 were deaths
'of males, and 688 of females. In the ten corresponding
weeks of the years 184.5 64 the average number of deaths
was 990, which, if raised for increase of population by
tenth part for the purpose of comparison, becomes 1,089.
It appears that nearly 100 deaths occurred last week more
than the ordinary rate of mortality would have produced.
Last week the births of 845 boys and 779 girls, in all 1,624
children, were registered in London. In the ten correspond-
ing weeks of the years 1845-64 the average number was
1,507.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height
of the barometer in the week was 29 844 in. The reading
of the instrument rose to 3041 in. by nine o'clock a.m. on
the last day of April, which was the highest reading' in the
week. The mean temperature was 44 degs., which is 7 den.
below the average of the same week in 38 years. It was the
same as in the preceding week. The mean temperature was
below the average on every day of the week, and on Friday
the extent of depression below the ge was so great as
11 dep. The mean temperature of that day was only
40 8 degs. The highest temperatures of Thursday and
Saturday were 63.0 dep. and 63.6 degs., and these were the
highest in the week. The bison temperature in the week
occurred also on Saturday, and was 28 3 dep. ; the lowest
on Thursday was 28 7 degs. The mean dewpoint tempe-
rature was 371 degs., and the difference between this and
the mean temperature of the air was 6 3 dep. The wind
blew generally from the north-east. No rain fell, except a
slight quantity on Monday and Tuesday.
London, England, 1855-05-09

(THREEPEN

THIS DAT.--TWo o'CLocs.
The English stock market to-day is firmer, and
yesterday's decline of 3to per cent. has been re-
covered. Very little business, however, is going
forward. Consols for money and to-morrow have
ranged between 881 and 88, and are now
quoted 882 to 1. For the new account of
the 30th inst., the present quotation is 881 to 2. The
Three per Cents. Reduced have been dealt in at 871
to 3; the New Three per Cents. at 873 to 88; Bank
Stock at 2101 ; India Stock at 230 ; Exchequer Bills
at se. to Bs. prem.; and Exchequer Bonds, 1858, at
991 to 3. The =Mum is quoted Ito 2 prem.
In the foreign stock market the movement is
mainly confined to Turkish, which has risen to 73/
to 743. Mexican is quoted 201 to 21 ; Spanish De.
ferred Three per Cents., 18 to 3; and Russian Five
per Cents. 98 to 100. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Ceuta. have been dealt in at 63 to 1; Ditto Fear
per Cent. Certificates at 913 to 921; the Com-
mittee's Certifs. at 31 to 4 per cent.; Sardinian Five
per Cents. at 851; Portuguese Four per Cents. at
421; Granada Ont-and-a.Uslf per Cents. at 17; and
Brazilian Old Five i.er Cents. at 981.

LONDON COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-31sy 8.
Bills and M. Money.
'note. Pricer. a.d negotiated this day.
Amaterdam per E 3 Months 120. Cat,. ... 120. 11811.
Ditto
Rotterdam
Antwerp
oe.
Brumels
Ilasiburgand Altana „ , Wows. 71echl. 13mca. 71 ash.
Pada ........ per t Short 251 r. 15c. -, 25fr. 1121 c.
Ditto...
Marseilke
w ~ 22(r. 421 c. ... 351 r. 41e 1
Erank.fint.on-tbe.Malnc per £lO 11910. kr. .., 11910. kr.
Vienna (effective).- per t „ 120. 43kr. ... 1211. 49kr.
Trimte
Madrid
Cadiz
Ildban ..... ...... - , , 4' pence ... 49 penoe
Barcelona
Velem ........„
lecum.,
.., ..... „,„0„, „ „49 pence ... 4/ Pram
Libretto;
Leghorn “ .. um. 2do. ... 3.. r. 250.
Genoa „ 261 r. (oc. ~ 231 r. 550.
MaPiro
ermo per ounce „ 131 pence ... 1311 snce
„ 131 poem p ... 1911 peace
Lisboa...oo4m =Bret a dare date - pence •• 6 3t.,
pence
Ooorto
New Taik-.....
London, England, 1855-01-16

LONDON WEEKLY DOC
Imported.,

SOOOk.W. India—cooks
MaurWoo bone
Bengal lelladres bage
Foreign.. pkp
OoMIL, W. I OM"'
Mocha bole'
Ceylon bets
Cuomo, 11. P bogs
Foreign
Buy VI. India =

2,500 2,500
92,00) 5,500
11,00 10,500
550 .0,1169
2G
262
900 1,700
269

400 1 G,56

TALLOW NIARKE'L—THIS DAY.
The tallow market is decidedly dull. There is wany
any disposition to buy. Petersburg Y. C., oa the apot,
nominally quoted 68e. Jemmy to Marsh. 681.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Mr. B. J. Davis reports the trade he4v7. Qnotatieu:—
Prime meadow hay, 70s. to 803.; superior, 84s. to ok, ; in-
terior, 50s. to 603.; rovsen, 60.. to 763.; clover, 90s. to 115 n ;
second ant, 80.. to 100 s.; straw, 225. to 275.

COTTON.—Livsnroot, Jan. 15.—The market eloted
with a hardening tendency, and prices of all descriptions
of American are extreme. and other sues are without
change. The sales reach 7,000 to 8,000 bales-1,000 for
capon and on speculation ; comprising 100 Pernam and
Maranham, 51d. to 61d. ; 200 Egyptian, 51d. to 91d. ; 800
Surat, 21i. to 3141. ; and GO &a Islands, 12d. to 191 d.
per lb.

COALS.-LOssnox, JAN. 16.-Bate's West Hailley,
19s. ; linrahope, 17s. ; Chester Main, 17e. 9d. ; Ilasting's
Hartley, 208.3 d. ; Howard's West Hartley Netherton,
20s. ; North Percy Hartley, 19s. ; Tantield Moor, 17s. 3d. ;
Tanfield Moor Butes, 178 3d.; Walker Primrose. 158. 94. ;
West Hartley Grays, 208.; Wylsm, 195.; Walls End
Acorn Close, 19s. 94. ; Walls End Goafortb, 193.; Walls
End Harvey Wylam (u nsd), 143. Gd. ; Walla End
Heaton, . 198. ; Walls End Hilda, 188. 3d. ; Walls End
Lawson, 18s. ; Walls End Braddylls, 20s. Od. ; Walls
End Framweligate, 205.; Walls End Haswell, 21s. 3d. ;
Walls End Hett4n Lyons, 203. 6d ; Walls End Kt pier
Grange, 20s. 6d. ; Writs End Plummer, 20s. 9d. ; Walls
End South Hetton, 21s. 3d. ; Walls End Camp,
20s. ; Walls End East Trimdon, 17.. 61. ; Walls End
Evenwood, 178. ; Walls End Hartlepool, 21s. 31.; Walla
End Hartlepool Heaton. 20s. 61. ; Walls End Heugh Hail,
19s. 64. ; Walla End Kelloe, 218. ; Walls Eud Trimdon
Hartlepool, 218. 3d. ; Walla End Tees, 211. 3d.; Walls
End Whitworth, 168.; Walls End Low Bitchbnrn, 17s. Gd.;
Darwentwater Hartley, 20s. 34.; Eautsay's Cannel, 245. 681.
London, England, 1855-01-16

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

The sittings of the court for the January General Quarter
Sessions were resumed yesterday morning at the Guildhall,
Westminster, by adjournment from Clerkenwell, before Mr.
Serjeant Adams (Assistant Judge), Mr. Witham, and a
bench of magistrates. ;Isere wets 115 prisoners for trial,
of whom 109 were committed for felony, and aix for misde-
meanors.
Charles Samoa, clerk, was indicted for having stolen a
101. note, the property of Samuel Scott and another, his em-
playen. He pleaded guilty.
Mr. BaUntie* said he was instructed on behalf of the
prisoner, and the matter was one to which he wished to call
the attention of the court though he should not say a great
deal in referenoe to it. There was a deep anxiety about the
case. The prisoner came from a most respectable family,
and one of the consequences of his present position was that
his father, if not actually in a lunatic asylum, was in a state
of the utmost wretchedness and misery of mind at his son's
misconduct. and his mother, too, wet in a state bordering
upon distraction. The father obtained for him a situation
in the eminent banking-house of Scott and Co., in'
Cavendish-opine, and up to this unhappy transaction he
had conducted himself well. Ile had an opportunity of
takir g a 101. note, and he did so, but he did rot spend at in
proliquy, but in the purchase of a gold watch, which he
deposited with a young lady to whom he was engaged to be
married. When the matter was discovered that yours;
lady at once gave up the watch and rendered all the infir-
nation she could relating to the matter, and those who had
London, England, 1855-01-16

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.-THIS DAY.
VDT MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
(PIOM 011 OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
There was a moderate attendance at our corn market this
day both of town and oountry dealers. Tke trade was ex-
tremely quiet. The prices of every article remain nomi-
nally the same as on Friday last.

MINCING-LANE.—THIS DAY.
Siloam—The large public sales are going off with more
steadiness than was anticipated without any alteration in
prices. The refined market quiet at former rates; brown
lumps, 42a. fal ; grocery, 433. to 483.
Corpse.—The public sales are progressing without altera-
tiooSe
4'.:lA.2P—"Greens of good qualities are selling in tote public
sales at very full prices.
SALTPITAL-1,200 bags were offered ; about onelifth
sold ; refraction 3, sold at 29e. to 29.. 61. ; the remainder
bought in.
Rice —1,300 bags Java sold freely 111 public sale at a
slight advance—lss. to 17..
Itom continue' dull of sale, and prices partly nominal.
Pzresa.—Batavia sold at 4f 1. per lb.
COTTON.—No talcs reported.
In other articles no 'notarial alteration; markets gene-
' rally dull.
London, England, 1855-01-16

SOUTHWARK.

Robtrt Mothereills, riesoifiml as aiestlenian, residing at
110, Stamford-etreat, wee charged with indecently assault-
ing Mary Ann Hoak, 13 years of age.
The cosailaiasat. • very intelligent and interesting
looking inlayed m nurse in the defendant's service,
having of the indecent annul;
Mr. lal Men, en trittaiffseinhe priasner, said the chine
could net be maintained, inematich as the girl had ast made
any menplaint until some hours afterwari. Aeoording to
her stnesistent she wont down to the kitchen and remained
an boar and • half, and bad ample opportunity to state
how she had been bested. She was also at home three
hours before she stated anything there. Under all those
circumstances he hoped hU worship would discharge the
prisoner.
Mr. A'Brekett said he thought it • use for a jury, and as
the Slimy Sessions were then on, he should commit him
for trial.
Committed accordingly.
London, England, 1855-01-16

Mr. John Stokes, a wholesale dealer in hardware, Kent-
attest, Southwark, wee charged with committing a series of
violent assaults on Harriet Stokes, bin wife.
It appeared that the defendant had for a long time lived
en very bad terms with his wife, and had once before suf-
fered imprisonment for ill-swing her.
The charge in the present ease having been fully proved,
Mr. A'Beckett said that huh puttee had been before him
so frequently that he was perfectly acquainted with the
prisoner's conduct. These could be no doubt he had com-
mitted latterly several aggravated assaults on his wife. He
bad suffered six months la gaol for a former assault, which
had had no effeet on him ; therefore he should commit his
for six months eipin, and require him at. the end of that
period to find two sureties to keep the peace for a further
six months.
The prisoner was then removed by the gaoler.
Batenvoutrecn.—Mr. A'Beekett yesterday received the
sum of 101. from the Leethersellers' Company for the poor-
box of this court, requesting an acknowledgment by our
reporter.
THAMES.
Fanny Harrison, aged 16, was remanded, charged with
robbing a great number of children in the public streets of
bundles of linen and other property.
Mr. Frederick Schroeder and Mr. PEW Rua, sugar re-
finers, both of Christian. street, St. George's-in-the-Bast,
were summoned for non-observance of the Smoke Preven-
tion Act.
The evidence and the defense were of the usual chuac.
ter, and
Mr. Yardley inflicted the penalty of in Mr. Schroeder's
eau, and of 31. in the cue of /dr. Huck.
London, England, 1855-01-16

was most heavily felt, so that when it is completed
Poland will have but few men left capable of bearing
arms. More than 60,000 men have been raised in
Poland during the put year, of whom, however, the
fourth part were carried off in the hospitals by sick.
sees and disease before they were able to join the
regiments for which they were destined. The
cholera still ravages the unhappy coutry, but it is
typhus which has decimated the ranks of the recruits.
Prince Paekiewitch is still at S. Petersburg, and
is not expected to retorts to Warsaw for several
weeks. It is said that the Czar will accompany Dim,
for the purpose of inspectin; the state of the for-
tresses and the active army to Poland, and, of course,
he will not fail to fanatimee his men by giving them
—his blessing.
London, England, 1855-01-16

GLYN OF THE BRITANNIA.

We (Daily News)have received the following from
the Admiralty :
Admiralty, Jan. 16, 1855.
The following despatch has been received from Tim-
Admiral Dandu

Britannia, in the Dardanelles, Dec. 30, ISM.
" Sir,—l beg you will be pleased to ley before the Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty the following statement
I consider it my duty (as it may have escaped the observe
tion of their lordships) to submit for their favourable con.
sidention before I resign the command of the naval forces
in the Mediterranean.

" Early in July last Lieutenant Henry Carr Glyn, of the
Britannia, accompanied by his Berens Highness Prince
Ernest of Leiningen, and thirty picked seamen of the fleet,
were detached on service to Roustehouk on the Danube, for
the purpose of organising the Turkish gun-boats, and
throwing a bridge across the Danube at that point.
"This work was most effectually performed by the great
exertions and ability of Lieutenant Glyn and his Serene
Highness, who were frequently exposed during these opera-
tions to the harassing fire of the enemy. His Excellency
Omer Paths rendered his thanks in person to those officers ;
and the bridge, which is still standing, has been of great
assistance to the Turkish army.
" It may be necessary to add that both Lieutenant Glyn
end Prince Ernest, with their men, suffered materially in
health from fatigue and the unhealthy MOOD In which these
operations ware obliged to be undertakes.

41 Modals were offered to them oaken hem the Turkish
government, bat which they declined; and I treat my
Lords will madder their serving to be deserving of po-
i mullion.—l have, &A.,

(Signed) "J. D. Dumas, Vlee-Adrairal.
" The fieerstary of the Admiralty."
L mamma of the insportaace, et the time, of the

above serviee, and the very pralleverthy lemur in which
it was performed, Lieutenant Glyn has been promoted to
the rank of commander.

ARRIVAL OF THE CAMBRIA, WITH
London, England, 1855-01-16

FOREIGN.
The Baltic Ports all continue still open, but the supplies
from the interior are generally yet unimportant. At Din-
a* them had been imported :

Wheat. Wheat.

From Poland
94,600 against 304,600
From the interior
Stook in granary, ha. 1

Making a total of
Export to Groat Britain.. 197,400
I Do. Holland, Belgiumollo. 45,240
- 242,650 „ 509,460

Stock in granary, Jan. 1,1855.... 8,460 1854.. 46,600
This is admitted to be the smallest quantity held at that
port, at the same period, since the year 1675. It is diffi-
cult to form a correct opinion as to the extent of the sup-
plies to come forward this year. The crop there, as well as
In Poland, although better than the year before, will not
yield more than an average one ; nevertheless the supplies
boa Poland, *wording to the best information received,
I are not likely to 'need 80e000 qn. of wheat, and the un-
certain state of politics will keep back the feuds which is
London, England, 1855-01-16

AUSTRIAN FINANCE.

The estimates of the Austrian empire for the finan- •
cial year now commencing present the following items;
Fur the ministry of the interior, 23,865,968 trios (conven-
tional). Of this total the sum of 669,5288. are for the cen-
tral direction ; 40,0008. for the Academy of the Sciences at
Vienna ; 35,9808. for the Imperial Geological Museum;
3,115,700f1. for the prisms and houses of correction; and
18,798,46411. for political government and administra-
tion of the crown lands. A sum of 10,468,2208. is set down
in the budget for the department of superior police; and
twenty four millions for that of the finance. For public
worship and instruction, 4,443,7088. have been allowed;
and lastly 20,283,6308. for the ministry of commerce, trade,
and public buildings.
From amongst the items we select ens of 7,028,5608. for
the armed Toltec-patrol in the crown-lands ; another of
83,3336. as payments to foreign governments. The admi-
nicratii-n of justice figures at 13,780,0Z.8., the religious
establishments cost the state 1,287,0008., the seminaries and
schools 1,482,1018 , and the Academy of Plastic Arta
127,5798. The direct tales fur the year 1865 will realist
86,792,4208., and the inciirect 134,724,5618. The receipts
from the state lands, from the mines and the mint, form
collectively the sum of 11,728,3538. In the items composing
the aggregate of the indirect taxes, one is for harbour and
entrance duties, valued at 18,794 0356.7; the duty on tobacco
r' at 21,747.7868., the salt-tax at 27,113,9318., and lastly, the
lottery yields a ue of 6,010,0716.
London, England, 1855-01-16

FRANCE.

(PROM Tlll CORISSVONDENT OP Till DAILY ;
rAms, SUNDAY EVPNING. 4
I can assure von that there is not a word of truth
in the report that Count de Morey is about to go to
Vienna on a special mission.
An anecdote related to me to-day shows how
warlike ideas in high quarters continue to be. The
gendarmerie of the Imperial Guard (the very elite of
that corps) felt hurt that none of their body had yet
been ordered to the Crimea. A proposition was made
in the regiment to get up a petition to the Emperor
to allow them to take their part in the war. The ,
Emperor, being sounded beforehand on the subject,
said he could not approve of any military demonstra- I
tion ; but he desired the gendarmerie to rest assured
that he should very shortly find a worthy occasion
for their services. This has been laid bold of as a
confirmation of the report (which I still discredit)
that his Majesty means to go to Sebastopol himself.
The Constitutionnel says its private lettere from
Turin confirm the explanation given of the resigna-
tion of M. Dabormida, the Minister of Foreign
Affairs. He retires because ho was opposed to the
offensive and defensive alliance now concluded be-
tween Piedmont and the Western Powers. If the
Congitutionnel be well informed, the King of Sar-
dinia will furnish a contingent of 16,000 men, and
in return the Western Powers will enable Piedmont
to raise a loan.
A letter from Adrianople of the recent date of Dec.
29, says :—The General•in-Chief of the Army of the
East has ordered General Cassagnoles to march for
Constantinople with the two regiments of hussars
and dragoons now here. The general has already
left with the hussars. There will only remain at
Adrianople the two regiments of cuirassiers, com-
manded by General Forton. The loss of the regiments
which leave us is greatly regretted here on every

account."
It is reported that the King of the Belgians' son,
the Duke de Brabant, is going to Egypt for his health.
He is of a consumptive tendency.
Men are actively engaged, says the Constitutionnel
in making roads at the camps of the North. The
ground in and near the camp at St. Omer has been
so completely drained that it is now as clean as any
town, and, thanks to the care of the Emperor, the