The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-20 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1854.

Minister of England, " War did not frighten us—
Peace clid." "We were not alarmed for Lord
RAGLAN and Admiral NAPIER—aII our apprehen-
sion centred itself in Lord ABERDEEN." Our
apprehension, that is to say, lest the status quo
ante be2lum were really after all to be accepted as
the necessary basis of the pacification, whether
Turkey were to be still left in peril from the
perpetual possibility of Russian encroachments,
or whether the ravaged provinces of Moldo-
Wallachia were still to be awarded to the
SULTAN as nominal suzeraine, but to the CZAR
as actual Lord Paramount. The First Minister
of the Crown of England, about the time which
we have already particularised, had the extraor-
dinary cowardice, and yet, at the same time, the
extraordinary daring, to avow his belief that it
would be " unwise to lay down conditions" for a
Peace with Russia, seeing that Peace, he argued,
would be dependent upon the casualties of the
campaign, upon the alternative, say, of the Allies
taking St. Petersburg, or the AUTOCRAT tak-
ing Constantinople. Upon that base and most
despicable avowal from the lips of the English
Premier, the Quarterly observes—the words are
worthy of particular note—" If we could force our
own terms on the CZAR at St. Petersburg, at the
mouth of our cannon, we should be sorry to ask
more than would effectually secure the cause for
which we have taken up our arms. If we found
the CZAR holding his council within the walls of
the Seraglio, we should blush for England if it
accepted less." Language like this is worthy of
every true-hearted, magnanimous, and chivalric
Englishman ! Words that will find an echo in
every corner of the land to which they may pene-
trate ! Yes, the Quarterly is right. The war
undertaken against Russia by France and Eng-
land is not a war of conquest or a war of ambi-
tion—and therefore the terms of peace would not
be appreciably altered by the capture or destruc-
tion of St. Petersburg. The Allies of Turkey
are not calculated to be so very seriously
affected by the casualty of a Russian defeat, or
the accident of a Russian victory, that they could
consent to modify the clauses of the final treaty
• of pacification. With the keenness of this tren-
chant and two-edged retort, the Quarterly re-
viewer has severed the little, fumbled-up knot of
casuistry, twisted by the tremulous hand of the
Prime Minister, in defiance of its unravelment.
Altogether, the argument from which we have
here quoted, and to which we would thus direct the
attention of the public the more pointedly, is one,
to our thinking, so noble in its sentiments, so
clear in its arrangement, so irresistible in its con-
clusions, as we have said before, so logical, and
lucid, and chivalrous, that it reflects honour at
once upon the ability and upon the patriotism of
our contemporary.

ciently onerous, we see the imperative necessity
of some relaxation of the stringent regulations now
in force. If we are to pay " war taxes," we
should insist on a " war currency." The demand
for an extra vote of credit will form a suitable
opportunity for bringing the question under the
consideration of the House and country, and for
eliciting the Ministerial intentions on this vitally
important topic.

A very logical, lucid, and chivalrous argument
in regard to the War, in allusion to the noble
sentiments of Lord LYNDHURST, and iu reference
to the craven policy of Lord ABERDEEN, appears
in the new number of the Quarterly, recently pub-
lished. It is the old, old story all all over again,
as a matter of course : but the reviewer has con- ,
trived to infuse into it fresh interest, if not by
the bitterness of invective, by the tartness of sar-
casm—by the vigour of a sententious and epi-
grammatic style, if not by any great novelty or
liveliness of illustration. It is thus tersely
he reprobates at one moment " the bloodless
statecraft by which Russia has construed, with
Punic fraud, the treaties she has extorted with Scy-
thian violence"—and at another insists that in abet-
ting Turkey, and in confronting Russia " we have
no necessity to re-create an Eastern C2ESA.R, but to
block out the inroads of a Northern ATTILA." In
referring to the inquiry sometimes advanced, and
almost always depreciatively as to the vitality of
the Turkish Empire, as to whether the Ottoman
realm can by any possibility maintain itself much
longer, intact and erect, in the presence of Christen-
dom, our contemporary awards a magnanimous
tribute of eulogium to the valour and genius re-

Our readers will have seen in The Sun a brief
Abstract of the Report of the Parliamentary Com-
mittee on Public-houses, and the resolutions
which they have attached to it. With the gene-
ral spirit of the Report all judicious and impartial
persons must agree. The Committee evidently
desire to encourage amongst the poor a taste for
rational and improving amusements, to lessen the
temptations to sensual and depraving pleasures,
and to uphold, to a reasonable extent, the reli-
gious claims of the Sunday. Whether, indeed,
it be possible, by prohibitory legislation, to secure
a religious observance of the day set apart, not by
Divine, but by Church authority, for worship,
we more than question ; still the attempt has
been made so long, that, like Protection and Fac-
tory Acts, and chartered monopolies, the thing is
not to be got rid of in a day. It will be many
long years before our legislators, devout men
all, will believe that religion does not need
their pious cradling and guardianship. The Com-
mittee, therefore, prudently would close the Gin
Palace and the Crystal Palace alike till after
morning service. It quite understands that Par-
liament will forbid those who will not attend
a morning service to go anywhere else. Men
shall not be amused if they will not be edified.
We refrain from displaying the logical and prac-
tical consequences of such legislation, only remark-
ing that we quite agree with Archbishop WHATELY,
no mean authority, that the province of Govern-
ment is to prevent crimes against man only, not
sins against GOD. A simple rule which, if well
understood, would save the House of Commons
and the House of Lords too, much sanctimonious
speechifying and debate.
On the Sunday, the Committee propose to give,
in summer at least, the advantage to intelligent
recreation over the gin-shop. The latter is to be
opened on Sunday only from one to two p.m., and
from six to nine p.m., while the Crystal Palace, the
British Museum, and similar places, it is proposed
should be opened from two p.m. for the rest of the
day. We do not understand why it is not from
1 p.m., when the partial opening of public-houses
is to be permitted. They have I hus endeavoured
to give intelligence a comparative advantage over
sensuality ; the former is to have an uninterrupted
course from two till nine ; while the latter meets
a check of four hours between one and nine. On
one point the Report is justly emphatic, namely,
the impossibility of continuing the restriction on ra-
tional entertainment on the Sunday, while drunken-
ness and other forms of debasing gratification are
hardly interfered with. Nothing surely can more
revolt all common sense as well as morality, than that.
our Legislators should freely open " dram and jerry
shops" to the multitudes whom they deprive by
law of their ordinary occupations, while they shut
in their faces the doors of the Crystal Palace.
Men may spend their earnings in brutalising them-
selves, in ruining their health, in impoverishing
their families, and even in drinking themselves in to
wife beating; but they may not spend them in what
must enlarge and improve their minds, and what
their families can share with them! The selfsame
Legislature will sell on Sunday its tax-paying spirits
to the multitudes, whom it compels to be idle, at the
corner of every street, while it will allow no one,
except those who will stoop to evasions, to sell
ocular instruction in art, science, nature, and his-
tory! We may surely demand that such egregious
inconsistency shall not disgrace our statute-book
till another Session. Nothing on earth can jus-
tify, first, legislating against Sunday work, and
then offering to the unoccupied the most seduc-
tive and demoralising of gratifications only.
The whole question of the sale of intoxicating
liquors, especially on the day when ordi-
nary employments are illegal, is just now
attracting unusual attention. Our Judges
have so unanimously pronounced intoxication
to be the cause of the greater part of the crimes they
are called upon to try, and our police reports bear
such superabundant testimony in the same direc-
tion, that men, far enough removed from tee-
totalism, are beginning to ask whether Govern-
ment can do nothing towards suppressing one of
the most fruitful causes of crime. The adoption
of the Maine Liquor Law by several A merican
States, even by the Legislature of New York itself,
though it was lost by the Governor's veto, and
the prohibition of the sale of spirits in Scotland
itself on Sundays, show that the evil must have
become great indeed which could induce Govern-
ments to resort to such violent methods. It is
also a sign of the times, that even the Edinburgh
Review has, in its last number, substantially
argued for the Maine Law—seeming, indeed, to,
have little to say against it, except that, if carried
out rigidly in Britain, it would deprive the Chan-
celler of the Exchequer of some 15,000,0001. per
annum ! We do not, on this occasion, touch on
the argument on either side ; we only point the
attention of the fair-minded public to the growing
sense of the evils of the present facilities for intoxi-
cation ; indeed respectable public-house keepers
themselves expressed before the Committee
their wish that the New Scottish law
should be adopted in England. Should this
ever be the case amusement must be permitted
to those who will not attend worship, otherwise
they will be driven for excitement, which human
nature will crave, to secret vice. But should it
not, and should, which is much more likely,
a partial opening of such places be still allowed on
Sundays, then in common decency we ask that the
people may at least have the option of seeking
pleasures which are assuredly innocent in them-
selves, and which no man has a right to prevent
another from enjoying, merely because he thinks
that he should offend GOD by enjoying them him-
self. Such prohibitions are doubly wrong, for
they first lay down the law for another man's
conscience, and next they step beyond the pro-
vince of human legislation. They confound sins
against GOD with crimes against men.

We should scarcely feel surprised if, at the pre-
sent moment, " the state of the weather" consti-
tuted the chief subject of discussion, not only
amongst agriculturists, but of all classes. Eng-
lishmen have often been ridiculed for making it
their ordinary topic of conversation, but it has
assumed a peculiar importance which more than
justifies the selection. On the continuance of
fine weather for some five or six weeks will mainly
depend the prospects of the approaching harvest,
and, as a natural consequence, prices of food, and
the comparative comfort of the working popula-
tion of the country during the ensuing winter.
An old proverb declares that " a bushel of March
dust is worth a King's ransom." It is even more
important at this time, when the continuance of
unseasonable weather for several weeks led to
serious apprehensions for the cereal and other
crops. Fortunately they had not sustained any
actual deterioration, and if ST. SwITHIN fulfils
his promises, if the auspicious auguries afforded
by the bright sunshine of Saturday be realised,
we may look forward confidently to cheap and
abundant markets—to the large loaf, with enough
and to spare for all.
It is not only in the United Kingdom that
these cheering prospects are perceptible. All
through the European Continent and among our
trans-Atlantic brethren the same goodly promise
is held forth. We need not dread active compe-
tition in our markets, nor the exportation of the
breadstuffs so urgently required for the wants and
exigencies of our own people. Should we require
any assistance from other quarters beyond those
usually obtained therefrom, they are easily obtain-
able, so that we need not dread any deficiency in
consequence of the withdrawal of supplies from
Odessa and other Russian ports. In Mark-lane
there has been a general fall in the quotations ;
and as it is we are told that "prices are merely
nominal, inasmuch as the millers and other dealers
decline increasing their stocks until the appearance
of the new crops in the market, and that the
offers were so much below the prices lately cur-
rent that the factors could not make up their
minds to accept the same." We thus find that
the estimate of those best qualified to arrive at a
sound conclusion is altogether in favour of an
.ample supply, and a material falling off in prices.
Should these anticipations be verified, we may
look for very important results. The first will
probably be a less earnest demand for money,
and a diminution in the rate of interest
demanded. The cheapness of all the ne-
cessaries of life will require a lower amount
of money for the transactions of every-day life.
Much gold now in circulation, from our absurd
and impolitic prohibition of small notes, will be
released, and will therefore find its way into the
Bank coffers. The Old Lady herself will be com-
pelled, for very shame sake, to relax the screw, i
or, as MON'TAGUE TIGG might exclaim, to " dis-
pense with cue half-quarter of ounce in weighing
out the pound of flesh." Additional notes will,
as a matter of course, be issued against the gold
thus accumulated, and employment must be found
therefor, and if 5 per cent. will not be paid for
the pecuniary accommodation, it must be granted
at 5, or 4, or possibly 3i per cent. This will
send up the quotations not only of the Funds but
of all other securities, and the Bears will receive
another severe but salutary lesson of the dangers
of the course which they have so earnestly, but
so recklessly and incautiously, pursued. Nor will
these be the only good effects of productive crops.
Every branch of industry will receive a de-
cided impetus, for the capitalists will not be
enabled to bear off " the lion's share of the
profits" when money can be obtained on reasonable
terms, so as to allow fair remunerations to those
who undergo all the risk, toil, and anxiety in the
creation and production of wealth.
Our readers will perceive that the foregoing
observations have been offered in accordance with
the present condition of the monetary code. The
blessings we have indicated might in a great de-
gree be obtained—although much, under any
circumstances, will depend on the state of the har-
vests all over the world, or at least in the nations
with which we have been in the habit of dealing
by' a judicious modification of our monetary code.
For all domestic purposes, a one pound national
note Would be not merely as useful as a sovereign,
but Would possess many advantages not appertain-
ing to
a metallic currency. For instance, there
would be no
wear and tear, no injury from dimi-
nution of weight
tended with nor would its destruction be at-
any actual loss. The experience of
the sister kingdoms
when existin • •
o-
proves that it would speedily,
„, prejudices had worn away, be even
more acceptable than go
ld. In
Sawdetsl
Ireland sovereigns are seldom seen in gone-
craelvesuse. them,lf he forthwith dealer or tradesman
sends them, maScotland a
ani
f o re-
ceives e-f
i full weight, so thattliewrheicl hle be
keeps npos his deduc-
tion, wi will
into the bank with
ac-
count ; and we have known many instances where
change for a sovereign was refused when it would
readily be given for a one pound note of
i n good credit. Why, then, should
notsome
a ttempt be made to obtain even an instalment of
monetary reform, to obtain the legislative sane-
ti DR to the issue of small notes by the Bank of
E ngland and other joint stock and private banks ?
Thei charter must be dealt with next year ; and it
would, even if no other pressing necessity existed
for the change, be right to pave the way for the
altoration in the circulating medium that is in-
evillable. But when, we consider the enormous
bur dens that have been added during the present
see: lion to charges which were previously sad-

vealed by the Turks in the last great war of de-
fence against Russia, namely, during those famous
campaigns of 1828 and 1829, the narrative of
which has been recounted by Baron VON MOLTKE,
as is here finely and nobly said, "with a spirit
and precision unsurpassed by POLYBIUS," Mind-
ing to that " mischievous question which has
been the fons maiorum," the Quarterly Reviewer
here remarks :—" One thing is clear, that the
vitality of states must be judged by the rallying
Power they evince in the crisis of danger. Of
this power Turkey has shown herself marvellously
Possessed. Even in the war of 1828-29, when
Mahmud in his haughty
London had lost all aid
ad sal
sympathy from the
Christian
, rne of the treaty of
his fleets
of
werewdasestrotyoerdn
from his throne, when monarchies—when Greece.
undiscipned
at Navarino, when his
recruits seemed likely to replacewith effect even
the turbulent valour of the janissarie
s_it is
startling to see the energy with which the
country met the invasion of Russia—delayed her
march, baffled her generals, resisted her sieges,
wasted her forces, and, yielding at length
vered from pecuniary extortions that statesmen
prophesied would leave her bankrupt, maintained
the national spirit—the proud desire of redemp-
tion ; and rose with as superb a crest as if never
bowed at Adrianople, against the first renewed
aggressions of her gigantic foe—undaunted at the
moment when her present allies seemed about to
desert her, and the statesmen of France and.
England urged her to accept the peace which.
would have signed away her independence."
These words are words of very lofty panegyric,

CABINET COUNCIL—A Cabinet Council was held
yesterday at the Foreign-office, Downing-street. The
Ministers present were—the Earl of Aberdeen, Lord J.
Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Duke of Argyll, Viscount Palmerston, the
Earl Of Clarendon, Sir George Grey, the Duke of New-
castle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James
Graham, Sir C. Wood, the Right Hon. S. Herbert, Sir
W. Molesworth, and Earl Granville. The Council sat
four hours and a half.

THE COURT.—We understand that her Majesty and
the Prince Consort, and the youthful Royal family, are
expected to prolong their sojourn in the Isle of Wight
until after the Prince's birthday, the 26th of the ensuing
month, on which occasion the Queen will give the
annual rustic fete to the domestic labourers on the Os-
borne estate.

Her Royal Highness 'the Duchess of Gloucester and
suite leave Gloucester House, Park-lane, early in the
ensuing week, for White Lodge, Richmond Park, for
the season.

The Earl of Hardwicke has left town for Dover, to
embark on board his lordship's yacht the Susan, now at
anchor in the Downs, to witness, we understand, the
embarkation of the French troops for the Baltic.
The Count and Countess Flahault have left Grosvenor-
square, for Brighton. The Hon. Miss Elphinstone Fla-
hault is staying with Lord and Lady Shelburne, at Lans-
downe House.
Viscount Brackley has arrived in Grosvenor-street,
from visiting the Earl and Countess of Cawdor, at
Brighton. .
Lord and Lady Feversham and the Hon. Miss Bun-
combe have left town for Buncombe Park, Yorkshire.
Sir William and Lady Molesworth entertained at din-
ner, yesterday evening, the Duke and Duchess of Argyll,
the Duke and Duchess of Wellington, the Marchioness
of Ailesburv, the Marquis and Marchioness of London-
derry, the Duke of Newcastle, the Bishop of Oxford, the
Earl and Countess of Essex, the Marquis of Granby,
M.P., the Hon. Mrs. .Dyce Sombre, the Marquis of
Lansdowne, Baron Marochetti, Viscount Torrington,
Mr. Knightley, M.P., &c..
Sir John and Lady Lister Kaye and family have left
town for their seat, Denby Grange, Yorkshire.
By letters received on Tuesday from Constantinople,
intelligence has been communicated of the death at the
Turkish capital of Mr. William Hale,
_the inventor of
the rocket without a tail or a stick. Mr. Hale's name
will be known to many, owing his connection with the
seizure by Government some time ago of a large quantity
of rockets of his manufacture, at Rotherhithe, on the
supposition or information that they were made for the
refugees living under the protection of this country.

but the world is their witness that they aro

---- •
.. eminently deserved and without the faintest
blemish of exaggeration.
As the reviewer observes
farther on, "Our course
[in regard to the result
of the war) is as clear to wisdom as it is to honour."
" We find a power already established
111 -Turkey, with ancestral attributes of national
illtilgrity and independence—that power, under
very adverse circumstances has shown a courage
a. nd tt'naper to,assist the object of civilised Europe
in maintaining its
own stronghold against the
progress of Russian
" This
ambition." . .
power, then, it is our business to confirm and
strengthen." As the
writer in the Quarterly has
said before that, when speakiu,,..,
caused by the deplorable, an - a the alarmd
let us say, the dis-
graceful words uttered a moth ago in the House
of Lords (on the 19th of June), by the Prime

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MONEY MA RKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at 8,000 bales, including 1,500
American and 500 Surat taken for export and on
speculation. The market continued tame, but
steady, without alteration in prices. The sales
comprised 6,500 American, 200 Pernam and Ma-
ranham at 6i3. to 71d., 100 Bahia at 68d. to 61d.,
200 Egyptian at 51d. to 9d., and 1,000 Surat at
21d. to 31. per lb. Railway Shares were dull.
Accounts from Hamburg of the 16th inst. state
that large amounts of gold had arrived there from
London, and been re-forwarded to St. Petersburg.

The advices from New York record two failures
in the Stock Market, where a panic had existed.
Flour was lower and wheat dull. Freights were
steady and engagements light. The forgeries of
Messrs. Schuyekill are stated to have amounted to
two million dollars, and have caused much excite-
ment among American Rail way Bondholders.
The meeting of the London Joint-Stock Bank
proprietors has been held this morning, and the
directors have made a very encouraging statement.
The dividend is at the rate of 10 per cent. per
annum. As regards the loss sustained by the late
forgeries of warehouse warrants, the Bank, it was
stated by the chairman, Mr. Goldney, had only lost
5,0001., which has already been " written off ' the
profit and loss account. The following report was
adopted :
LIABILITIES AND ASSETS; FRIDAY, 30TH JUNE, 1854.
THE LONDON JOINT STOCK BANK.
Dr.
To eapital paid up, viz., 6,000 shares at
101. each
To amount due by the Bank
•To amount of " The
Guarantee Fund," 31st

Dec., 1853
To six months' interest
on ditto, at 3 per cent
per annum
153,549 3 6
To amount carried to profit and loss
account

£6,697,498 3 2

By Exchequer Bills, India Bonds, etc £689,018 8 11
By bills discounted, loans, and cash
By building, furniture,
etc., in Princes•street £20,025 0 0
By do. in Pall mall

28,775 0 0

£6,697,498 3 2
PROFIT AND LOSS ACCOUNT OF THE LONDON JOINT STOCK
BANK, FOR THE HALF-YEAR ENDING 30TH JUNE, 1854.

To current expenses, proportion of building

expenses, directOis' remuneration, bad
debts, income tax, &c. £24,370 9 2
To amount carried to profit and loss, new
account, being rebate of interest on bills
discounted not yet due 26,982 13 3
To dividend account for the payment of
half a year's dividend, at the rate of 101.
per centum per annum, upon 600,0001.,
amount of paid-up capital upon 60,003
shares
To balance, being undivided profit for the
past half-year 24,695 7 3

2106,048 9 8

By balance brought down £106,048 9 8
" The Directors have agai❑ much pleasure in meeting
the proprietors, to place before them the annexed state-
ment of the liabilities and assets of the Bank, and of the
profit and loss account for the half-year ending the 30th
June last, by which it will be observed that the net
profits amounted to 54,695/. 7s. 3d.
" From the continued prosperity of the Bank, the Di-
rectors have felt themselves justified in increasing the
dividend, and have accordingly appropriated 30,0001. for
the payment of a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent.
per annum, which has left a balance of 24,695/. 7s. 3d.,
as undivided profit to the credit of the current half-year.
" The dividend will be payable on and after Friday,
the 28th inst."

The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in
the Bank of New South Wales was held at Sydney
at the end of April last. The report presented by
the directors was prepared upon the accounts
ending with the March quarter. The balance-
sheet shewed 66,4971. 17s. as available for division
after deducting current expenses, rebate on all
bills under discount, &c. The gross profits for
the six months were 91,0591. Bs. 11d. The direc-
tors' recommendation as to the payment of divi-
dend, &c., was adopted as follows :
To payment of Dividend of 10 per cent.

fo-r the half-year -Z40,000 0 0
Increase of Reserved Fund 20,000 0 0
Carried forward for future division 6,497 17 0
The Reserve Fund had thus been increased to
70,0001., and the intention of the directors was to
further augment the same until it reached 100,0001.
New local agencies, in addition to foreign ones,
had been successfully opened, and the business of
the Bank exhibited every sign of still further im-
provement.
The improved tone of the English stock market,
observable towards the close of business yesterday
afternoon, has been fully maintained, and so far
the settlement of the account has assisted prices.
Consols have been 92 to for transfer, and 92k
to for account, being at present rather buyers at
the highest of these quotations. The payment of
differences arising from the speculation of the last
three weeks has been in progress, and with the ex-
oiation of the small failure noticed yesterday, has
gone off satisfactorily. There is considerable cu-
riosity respecting the financial plans of the Govern-
ment, and according to some of the on dits
authority to raise 8 or 10 millions sterling will be
a portion being for Turkey. The New
Quarter per Cents. have been at 921
asked,Ttoh9re3: -
aanda
and the Three per Cents. at 92k to 92k.
Bank stock is steady, at 210, and South Sea Stock
at 1121. Exchequer-bills are at Fir, and the Bonds
of 1859 at 4to pm. India Bonds are 2s. to ss. pm.
Foreign Securities have been very quiet. Spanish
3 per Cents. realise 36, and the Deferred 18. Rus-
sianper Cents. are heavy at
82 ; Dutch 4 per
Cent4s.llhave been at 901 ; Brazilian Old Stock has
been at 991 to 100.

IVAR-MAP OF RUSSIA, TURKEY, cf:c.

--fhe following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 6 to 61 ; Mexi-
can, 24g- to 24i ; Peruvian, 66 to 68 ; ditto Three
per Cents. 50 to 52 ; Portuguese Four per Cents.
39 to 41 ; Russian Five per Cents. 97 to 99 ;
ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 82 to 84 ; Spanish
New Deferred, 171 to ]Bl ; ditto Three per Cents.
351 to 36A; ditto Certificates, 31 to 4; ditto Pas-
sive, 3i to 4.
The last week's railway receipts ascertained up
to this day are in round figures asunder :

BY G. M. THomrsox.

This really remarkable map contains a super-
abundance of information. It lays before us, in
one comprehensive view, European Russia, Euro-
pean Turkey, the Euxine, and the Baltic. It marks
out the whole of the continental railways, as well
as all the continental and submarine telegraphs,
together with the lines of their probable extension
to Tunis in Africa, under the waters of the Medi-
terranean. Added to all which, this very novel
and noteworthy war-map of Mr. G. M. Thompson,
is accompanied and illustrated by distance tables
in English miles, particularising the various routes
from London to the seats of war in the Cacausus
and in the Principalities. The distances between
numerous important places on the Danube and
along the shores of the Black Sea, are also indi-
cated, besides those extending between St. Peters-
burg and Moscow, and Constantinople. Occa-
sionally we observe that the compiler contents
himself with giving the distance in round numbers,
as, where it is said that 144 miles spread out be-
tween Adrianople and Constantinople, the real
length of the main road connecting those cities be-
ing only, in point of fact, 137 miles altogether. It
would be invidious, however, to carp at errors,
which are only minute and exceptional. Until
the issue of Mr. Thompson's useful and valuable
map, we believe the information contained in it
had never before been brought together—informa-
tion, that is to say, in regard to the distances, in
regard to the railways, and in regard to the electric
telegraphs, submarine and continental.

1854. 1853.
Great Western
North-Western
Brighton
Midland
South-Eastern ... 20,310 19,095
Caledonian, and Edin. and Glasgow 16,351 15,037
Great Northern 18,105 16,350
Lancashire and Yorkshire 20,776 30,073

and with moderate dealings in Midland, The Railway Share Market has-been buoyant,
South-
Eastern, Great Northern, and North-Western.
In the foreign lines there has been several bargains
at the previous rates.
The Mining
Market is dull. There has been a
purchase of London Joint Stock Bank at 27/. The
Australian Agricultural Shares are lower.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
( From the Oticial List.)
Business done.
Bank Stock
i per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92,i i a
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
34 per Cent. Annuities . 93 24 i 4 i 3 2B
New 2i per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
Ditto 30 Years Expire sth Jan., 1860 4
India Bonds, £lOOO ..
Ditto, under £lOOO 2
South Sea stock
Console for Account 17th August 924 I i i a 2,i 2
Exchequer Bills, 2id•
ZlOOO .
Small 5 p par
Exchequer Bonds Scrip —
Ditto Scrip, 1859
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. lOO 99.
Ditto Small
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent —
Ditto 3 per Cent
lexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cont. 67
Ditto for the Account 99
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St
Ditto 4i per Cent B2
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 36
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. lB
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2A per Cent. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Ccrtifieates 9oi

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols
Ditto August Account 92

THREE THOUSAND MILES FOR TH REE-HALFPENCE.—
By a new postage law just passed by the United States
Congress, a single letter. conveyed out more than 3,000
miles is to be charged 1/d., and for a greater distance
sd. For a single letter conveyed not more than 3,000
miles, wholly or partly by sea, and to and from a foreign
country, the postage will in future be 2/d. ; and if above
3,000 miles, sd. The postage on ali inland letters must
be prepaid, and after the Ist of January next this must
be done by stamps. On all letters intended for delivery
in the towns in which they are posted, the postage will
in future be /d. each, and all not-known letters, after
being advertised, will be charged each an additional id.
In the United States all letters the owners of which
cannot be found, are advertised in the public journals.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

THE WAR.

LAST DESPATCH FROM VIENNA.
VIENNA, Wednesday Evening.—All the Austrian
reserves are to be called out, and made mobile.
The French troops at Adrianople are marching
towards Varna.