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THE POLISH ADDRESS TO THE

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CORN EXCHANGE.
Very moderate supplies of English wheat were on offer
in most of the country markets held on Saturday. The
demand, however, for most kinds was in a sluggish state,
and, in some instances, prices wore the turn in favour of
buyeri. The barley trade was heavy, Lnd malt was much
neglected. Oats, beans. peas. and flour wore a dull inquiry.
Our advices how New York state that both wheat and
flour were on the advance, with very limited supplies on
sale. In the continental markets, the business doing in
grin on English account has been trifling.
Up from market, coastwise, the receipts of Eriglish grain
were moderate. From abroad we received 5,288 quarters
of wheat, 2,703 barley, 8,381 oats, 367 beans, 218 tares,
8,479 linseed, 3,776 rapeseed, 65 mustard seed, L 4 sundry
seeds, and 100 sacks of flour. .

The following address to the Emperor of the French
was presented by the Literary Association of the Friends
of Poland :
"Sire—Amidst the universal voice of congratulation
which has hailed the auspicious vi,it of your Imperial
Majesty and your august Consort to our beloved Sove-
reign, we should not have sought to address these
words of welcome to your Imperial Majesty if we had
not believed that, in the principles which we have sought
to maintain and laboured to disseminate, there resides
the power of rendering perpetual that strict alliance
and cordial amity which happily subsist between the
two great Western Powers.

" Your Imperial- Majesty has already declared, in
words which mark a new epoch of European history,
that the time of conquests is irrevocably past, and that
it is not by extending the limits of i'zs territory that a
nation can henceforth become honoured and powerful ;
it is by placing itself at the head of generous ideas, by
rnahin„? everywhere to prevail the empire of right and
justice.'
" Such are thu words which your Imperial Majesty
has inscribed on the united standards of France and.
England. They are words of hope for the oppressed,
and of repose for the world. It is not, sire, our design
to urge their immediate application to a nation which,
as the statesnv, n of all countries and of all poii. ical creeds
have affirmed, has been the victim of injustice the most
fli?;iant and perfidy the most foul. We await, however, -
with confidence the hour when Europe, awakening to
the fearful rAribution t,y which such crimes, when un-
redressed, are inevitably visited, will seek to avert the
punishment by repiring the wrong which she has per-
petrated or permitted. To save from impending, ruin a
nation which, though separated by its faith from the
European family, yet possesses noble. qualties that
command our admiration and sympathy, is a righteous
work that hallows the alliance by which it has been ef-
fected ; but to raise from the dust a people professing
the same religion with ourselves, once the generous
champions of Western civilisation, and still possessing
all chivalrous traditions which lie at its basis, this would
lie an achievement that would bind together the powers
that shall unite in its accomplishment by a link that
centuries would have no power to sever. This would
be not only to inaugurate hut to establish the em-
pire of right and justice on a firm and enduring basis.
—We haue the honour to be, sire, with profound respect,
your Imperial Majesty's most humble and most obedient
p:ervants, the Council of the Literary Association of the
Friends of Poland. On behalf of the Council,
44 TIREADALBANE, Vice-President.
" W. LLOYD BIRKBECK, Hon. Sec."

Coastwise, the receipts of English' wheat put up to this
morning's market were very moderate, and the supply at
hand by land carriage was malt. The attendance of millers
was not very numerous ; yet, owing to the limited show
of samples, the demand for all kinds of wheat of home
produce ruled steady, but by no means brisk, at au ad-
vance in the qu ,tations obtained on Monday last of from
is to 2s per quarter at that amount of improvement, a
good clearance of the stands was effected some time prior
to the close of business.

Theshow of foreign wheat was very moderate. Although
the amount of business transacted in all descriptions was
limited, last week's prices were fully supported, and the
importers were very firm.
Floating cargoes of grain were held at full quotations.
The quantity of both English and foreign barley brought
forward wAs limited, and the sale for all kinds was steady
at full prices.
Malt meta slow sale, yet the quotations were supported.

We had a moderate supply of oats, and the trade was
steady, at au improvemeni: in value of quite 61 per qr.
There was more doing in beans, the rates of which ad-
vanced is per qr.

Peas sold steadily, at full prices; and there was rather
more doing in flour, on former terms.

CURIV.NCY PEit DIPE,cIAL MEASURE.

Whgar —Essex t Rent,
Red .. new 63s to 733
Oitto • • • • ........ old —s
)itto, White new 78s 82s
old 79s 84s
NI-erten and ~in•
colt', Red, old 63s 763
oitto new • • • • • • 63 75.
Rve—Old .. • . .• —s —s
New •• •• .• 42s 44s
Raley—Grinding • • 294 31 a
visiting . • • • • .. .. 32. 33s
,hevalier 33s 34s
31 dt—Saffolkand Nor-
folk • • • • • • 62s 67s
-cr0wn................8- Os
ICinirston and Ware 68, 70s

Malt—Chevalier •• 709 to 71s
Oats Yorkshire and
Lineolnsla., reed 25s 29=
Potato . • ........ 28s 3Cs
Tough& and Cork
Black. ...... 243 29s
Cork, White..• 269 30s
Scotch, Feed. •• 27, 30.3
Weans—Tick ......... 38s 41-
Pige0n5.......... 40 45:
Peas—Grey .. 33s 3 s
Waple. •• •• 305 38a
White. •• •• •• • 36s 42
Boilers ••• •• •• 42s 45s
141.nr—Town-made. 60- C 59
Suffolk • •• 48s sis
Atocktn k Norfol) 46s 52s

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited the
Duches,, of Gloucester on Saturday, at Gloucester House.
The Princess de Castelcicala, née Thadea de Zeltner,
died suddenly, on the 6th inst. The death of the Prin-
cess has caused universal regret at Naples, on account
of her amiable character. _ .

SMITHFIELD.

Last week's imports of foreign stock into London were
but moderate for the time of year—the total supply amount.
ing to 951 head. In the corresponding week in 1854 we
received .",05 ; in 1853, 3,896 ; in 1852, 1,889 ; in 1851,
1, ;73 ; in 185 U, 1,0 a ; in 1819, 1,30 ; and in 1818, 1,877
head.

Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, and their youthful
family, are at Conholt Park, near Andover, where they
have resided since they quitted Brighton. We regret
to learn the eyesight of his lordship is cor.sidered irre-
trievably lost.
Lord Stanley of Alderley and family have arrived in
Dover-street from Italy.
The Earl and Countess of Chesterfield and Lady
Evelyn Stanhope have arrived in town from Bretby Park.
Lord Stanhope is suffer.ng much from the accident he
met with on Friday while escorting the Emperor and
Empress of the French to the City.
The Duko of Wellington's mansion, Apsley House,
which has been undergoing re-embellishment and repair,
at immense cost, the edifice having been also partly re-
furnished in splendid style, is now nearly complete in its
improvements, and it is expected it will be occupied by
the noble Master of the Horse and the duchess during
the present season.
RUSSlA.—Letters from St. Petersburg of the 12th
init. state that the entire country round Kovno had be-
come inundated, and that all the goods there were under
water—a circumstance which will add to the losses in-
curred from the heavy charges for the overland trans-
mission of produce.

IMPORTS INTO LONDON LAST WEER.

- -
From Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs
Rntte,'iam...... 84 ... 44 ... 283 ...

Toning 54
Har
Hamburgh
Antwerp
Kamp&l
Amaturdam.... 20

v• •
••• •••

- ... -
4 8 ... -
9 ... -
22 ... -

T0ta1.... 416 ... 56 ... 379 ..
The yearly comparison of weekly imports ie as under :
Beasts. Sheep. Lambs. Calves. Pigs
1854 268 128 ... 101 8
1853 620 336 37
1852 4lO ... 1,033 ... 441
1851 lB4 ... 985 ... ... 337 67
1850— 395 ... 317 211
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There was a fair supply of foreign calves in to-day's
market, but that of beasts and sheep was rather limited
for the time of year. From Our own grazing districts the
receipts of beasts fresh up this morning were on the in-
crease, compared with Monday last, and in excellent con-
dition. Nearly the whole of the kinds were above sverage
quality. The attendance of buyers was by no means ex-
tensive, and the demand for most kinds of beasts was
somewhat inactive, at prices barely equal to those ob-
tained on Monday last. The top figure for Scots was 5s
per 81bs.
The arrivals of beasts from Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, and
Cambridgeshire, amounted to 2,400 Scots and short horns ;
from other p.Lrts of England, 400 of various kinds, and
from Scotian.] 400 hornedsand polled Scots.

Mr. C. Mathews (says the Weekly Chronicle) has ac-
cepted an engagement as actor and ktage-manager with
Mr. Smith at Drury-lane. Thither also go Mr. Robert
Roxby, as acting-manager ; Mr. Beverley, as scenic
artist ; and Mrs. Frank Matthews, Miss Oliver, and
Miss Martindale. Mr. Frank Matthews is engaged with
Mr. Kean at the Princess's.

Lord Stanhope is going on as favourably as could be
expected atter his serious accident on Thursday last, in
St. Paul's Churchyard while on duty with his regiment.
Soon after the accident a telegraphist message was for-
war,ed to the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, at
Bretby-park, and on Friday the noble earl and countess
and Lady Evelyn. Stanhope came to town. Dr. Ferguson,
the surgeon of the regiment, and the medical gentlemen
called in direct'y after the accident, are in attendance on
lordship, and sanguine hopes are entertained of his
early recovery. The fracture was ably reduced before
his lordship's removal to the Regent's-park Barracks.
The Queen, the Duke of Cambridge, and a host of the
nobility sent or made inquiries yesterday after the con-
dition of the young nobleman.
CORK ELECTION.---Mr. Deasy, Queen's counsel, has
fir the seat in Cork county, lately occupied
by Mr. Burke Roche, now Baron Permov,
Onielat in,truetions have been received at Southamp•
ton to fit up the General Screw Company's steamer
Indiara, for conveying cavalry to the Crimea.

Notwithstanding that the show of sheep was tolerably
extensive, and that most kinds came to hand in good con-
dition, the mutton trade was brisk, at fully last Monday's
currency. In some instances the best Downs, out of the
wool, realised 4s 8d per Ms.

We had a good inquiry for lambs, the supply of which
was moderate, at from 5i 4d to 7s per Blbs.
Prime small calves sold steadily at full prices. Other-
wise the veal trade was in a sluggish state.

The pork trade was very-dull, at last week's quotations.
The arrivals of stock by sea from Ireland last week xere
i 9 beasts.
__

Per Bibs to sink the offals.
s. d. s. d.I s. d. s d•
Inferior Beasts.... 3 4to 3 6.PrimeSouthdown 4 8 5 0
Second quality.... 3 8 4 41Large erse. calves 4 0 4 6
Prime large oxen 4 6 4 8 Prime small d 0... 4 8 5 0
Prime Scots, &c. 410 5 6,targe hogs 3 0 4 0
Inferior Sheep ...3 6 3 8 small porkers 4 2 4 4
Secou;i quality ...3 11 4 o,,Suekling calves .22 0 29 0
Prime crse.-wlled.4 2 4 4,Quaiter old pigs 20 0 25 0
Lamb ss 4d to 7s d.
TOTAL SUPPLY. FOREIGN SUPPLY.
Beasts ..•• •• ..•• •• 4,012 t Beasts— •• . ..•• ••.. • 724
Sheep .•• •• ..•• •• ..21,•*0 I Sheep ..•• • ..... •• ...... 170
salves,.• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 155 I Calves..•• ••••••• •• .• •• 116
A statement and comparison of the supplies and prices of fat
stock exhibited and sold in Smithfield Cattle Market. on
Monday, April 21, 1854, and this day, Monday, April 23,
1855.
Per Blbs, to sink the offals.
April 21, 1854. 1Apri123,1855
s. d. s. d. d. s d
Coarse and inferior beasts ••• 3 oto 3 2 3 4to 3 6
Second quality ditto ... ... 3 4 3 6 3 8 4 4
Prime large oxen ..• ... 3 8 4 0 4 6 4 8
Prime Scots, &c ... 4 2 4 414 10 5 0
Coarse and inferior sheep ..• ... 3 6 3 8 3 6 3 8
Second quality ditto ... ..• ... 310 4 43 10 4 0
Prime coarse woolled ditto ... 4 6 48 1 2 4 4
Prime Southdown ditto .. 410 5 0 4 8 5 0
5 6 7 0 5 4 7 0
Lambs ..se calves ... 5 4
5 4 6 5 ;1 8 5
4 0
06
Large coat
Prime small ditto
3 0 4 23 0 4 0
Large hogs-
'lest small porkers 4 4 4 B'4 2 4 4
4.0 2
241:4
7450
21,580
167 155
Pigs ... ..• 380 335
SUPPLIES ON Sets, April 25, 1853.—Beasts, 4,562: shee
and amb , 20,230 ; calves, 219; pigs, 175.
April 26, 1852.—Beasts, 4,341; sheep and lambs, 25,950
calves, 216 ; pigs, 390.

ARRIVALS OF SPECIE.—The specie arrivals of the last
week ani,,unt.l to ahcut 500,000/., including 122,000/.
of silver. The shipmehts were under 200,000/.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—We are enabled to state that
the electric cables are actually laid from Balaklava to
Varna, and will be ready for use to-morrow, the 24th.
By this arrangement, intelligence from the allied head-
quarters in the Crimea may ho received in London
within a few hours.—Morning Pest.
THE BOY FORGER.—The boy Lucas, who obtained
401. from Messrs. Pinsent and Co., on a banker's draft,
through fo=rging the sig-iature of Mr. John Elliott,
grocer, at Devonport, has been committed for trial.
THE DENBIGHSHIRE MILITIA.—A great number of
the men belonging to the Denbighshire Royal Rifles
have claimed their bounty mud di=charge, but in conse-
quPnce of an address from Major Wynn. which was read
to them in Welsh, inviting them to re-enlist, with an
11.,
conductt'ie
hnalsaji;lerei tny
urne.-
t:ufxlrlrepo,
tl
nt oralbhiae:.irdeigt regiment, t ,b ando theirbounty
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The Emperor and Empress of the French honoured
Mr. C. F. Hancock, of Bruton-street (the jeweller), with
an interview on Saturday morning, previous to their
departure, and expressed to him their satisfaction at the
manlier in which their commands had been executed.
The Emperor has also been graciously pleased to honour
Mr. Hancock with a further extensive order.

Colonel Cadogan, who has been appointed British
Commissioner to the Sardinian heafl-quarters in the
East, passed through Turin, on Sunday, on his way to
Constantinople.

M. Tillers has sent to his printers the manuscript of
the four last volumes of his great work, L' Histoire du,
Consulat et de l'Empire.
Two other vessels shave just been launched at Brest
and Cherbourg, that, at the former port, being a lace
steam transport. the Marne, of 1,200 tons, and that at
the latter, the floating battery the Devastation.
The Opinione of Turin says :—" We understand that
the Chamber of Deputies which bad adjourned to the
23d April, will be further relieved from business to the
Ist May, on account of the great length of time which
the Senate is devoting to the Convent SuppressionThll."
The Parma Gazette states that as Colonel Count Anvisi
was, on the evening of the 14th, passing along one of
the streets of that city a man fired a musket at him, but
fortunately without doing him any injury. The man
got clear off.

NEW@ATE AND LEADENHALL.
The supplies of conutry-killed meat on sale to-day were
very moderate-4 meat slaughtered in the metropolis
tolerably good. The businems Lin was by no means ex-
tensive, yet prices were well supported.
Per slbs by vie carcasa.
s. d. s. d. I
Beef, inferior 3 4 3 6 I
Do., iniddliug 3 8 310 I
Do., prime largo 4 0 4 2
De , do. small 4 4 4 6
F4rk, large ... 3 2 3 8 ,
Lamb ..............

e. d. 8. d.
Mutton, Inferior 3 4 3 6
Do., middling 3 8 310
Do.; prime 4 0 1 6
Veal 3 8 4 10
Pork, email 3 10 4 4
2d to 68 6d

The Lord Mayor of Dublin, and a deputation from
the corporation, have had the honour of forwarding,
through the French ambassador, an address from that
body to his Imperial. Majesty the Emperor of the French.
The deputation was assured that it would prove highly
gratifying to the EMperor, and that his Majesty would
return an early reply.

BOROUGH AND SPITALFIELDS.
The supp.:ies of potatoes have become less extensive. and
about an average business is doing, as follows ;—York
Regents, 100 s to 120..5; ditto plants, 135 s to 140 s • Scotch
do., 90s to 105 s ; ditto cups, 80s to 95s ; Kent and Essex
do., 100 s to 115 s; middlings, 60s to 704; blues, BJs to 955;
Lincolns, 85s to 110 s per ton.

THE SUN. LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 23 1855

The Hon. Artillery Company, of which his Royal
Highness the Prince Albert is Captain-General and
Colonel, did duty at the Crystal Palace, under the com-
mand of Major Barnard, on Friday last, when the Em-
peror and Empress of the French, the Queen, and Prince
Albert honoured the Exhibition with a visit, The regi-
ment mustered nearly aOO strong, and presented a most
soldier-like appearance. Eighty men under Captain
Robinson (Lieutenant Lewis carrying the Queen's
colours) were told off as the Guard of Honour. The
steadiness of the regiment, and the precision with which
the ground was taken up under the direction of the
Adjutant, Captain W. H. Snell, were the more notice-
able as the corps is composed entirely of volunteers.
The men were under arms ten hours, having mustered
at half-past eight in the morning, and been dismissed at
half past six p.m.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following gen-
tlemen ha ring undergone the necessary examinationsfor
the diploma, were admitted members of the college at the
meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 20th instant :
Messrs. Orlando Ilaviland, Bridge water, Somerset; John
Hutton Stapleton, Trowbridge, Wiltshire ; William Wil-
loughby Coleßurton, Jamaica, West Indies ; John 0 wen,
Trellys, near Fishguard, Pembrokeshire ; Francis Work-
man, Reading, Berkshire ; Edward Thomas Tylecote,
Haywood, Staffordshire ; Uriah Perrin Brodribb, War-
minster, Wiltshire ; Isabel' Hawker Sinner, Plymouth ;
Heckstall Smith, St. Mary's, Cray ; Samuel Tregelles
Fox, Falmouth ; William Sellers, Bury, Lancashire ;
and William Wilberforce Watson, Scarborough. At the
same meeting of the court Mr. Richard Croker Russell
passed his examination for naval surgeon.; this gentleman
had previously been admitted a member of the college,
his diploma bearing date August 15, 1842.
THE CITY POLICE FORCE.—Mr. D. W. Harvey, Com-
missioner of the City Police, has addressed the foil iwing
letter to the superintendent of the force : " City Police-
office, Old Jewry, 20th of April, 1855.—Dear, sirt,ho
have to request you will forthwith communicate to
officers and constables of the City police-force uponthatr,
and
Empress occasion of my presentation to the Einp%rolcl
Empress of the French by the Lord Mayor, his
Impe-
rial Majesty was of the dis-
cipline and flattering terms,
pleased to express
admirationto me, 'in the most
of our force, and the e
order was preserved on the occasionn_
lan'
gatified to add
s
Imperial Majesties to the city, d
hffiie n t mariner
for v i-ii tn of t whichh
e i r
that his Royalourarrangements, Highness the Dukea of Cambridge also ex-
pressed his approbation of
e this occasion to
George Grey, her Majesty s ' principal Secretary of State
rtment. I embrac
for the Home
our valuable services, and to express my
acknowledge
t iank, to the entire force for the exemplary manner in
edischarged their arduous duties on this im-
' which they
am,
oP°.l.C.ivan.tHlcsevas4,iy°.n.—. To /Ir. Superintendent Bodggpn,
p~iy of Diipu