The Sun.
London, England, 1854-02-13 00:00:00

HAYMARKET THEATRE.

A very lively and hum Brous piece of intrigue and
equivoque, by Mr. Palgrave Simpson, entitled Ranelagh,
was produced here on Saturday evening, and met with a
degree of success by no means disproportionate to its
merits. The period is the time of George 11., when
Ranelagh was a fashionable place of resort, and the cha-
racters are attired in the perukes and swords, lace and
embroidery of that day. The principal personages are
two married couples, who are placed in contrast with
each other. Sir Robert Rovely loves his wife, but the
lady's affection is a little too engrossing, makes his home
something of a bore, and induces him to seek amusement
elsewhere. Dr. Coddlelove, on the other hand, is an
uxorious husband, who ties himself to his wife's apron-
strings, and teases and annoys her accordingly. Sir Robert
- has an intrigue with a lady of easy virtue, whom he visits
clandestinely. Lady Rovely, at first uneasy, becomes
suspicious, and learning that her husband is going fur-
tively to Ttanelagh, her jealousy impels her to follow
him thither. Mrs. Coddlelove, glad to escape for a little
from her htisband's devoted attentions, agrees to go with
some friends to Ranelagh while the Doctor is otherwise
engaged. But Dr. Coddlelove goes to Ranelagh like-
wise; for Lady Rovely, having resolved upon her
secret expedition to watch her husband, has taken the
Doctor as her escort. Thus they are all at Ranelagh ;
the knight with his inamorata (a personage who does not
appear) ; Lady Rovely, attended by the doctor ; and
Mrs. Coddlelove all alone, having lost her friends in the
crowd. The ladies, of course, in masks and dominoes.
To increase the confusion, there are three gentlemen,
Colonel Crawfish, Mr. Bramble, and Sir Lorimer L4lly,
each of whom has come in search of a lady belonging
to his family who has made a stolen visit to Ranelagh.
There is now a perfect imbroglio of mistakes and per-
plexities ; and the upshot is, that after the two ladies
are thorougly frightened, the Doctor amusingly mys-
tified, and the libertine knight involved in three
challenges from the gentlemen who are in search of
their runaway fair ones, a•general eclaircissement takes
place, and they-all go home.
The acting was admirable ; Sir Robert and Lady
Rovely being personated by Mr. G. Vandenhoff and
Miss Reynolds, and Dr. and Mrs. Coddlelove by Mr.
Buckstone and Mrs. Fitzwilliam.
The piece was admirably put upon the stage. The
view of Ranelagh, with its rotunda and trees brilliantly
illuminated for a fete, was extremely beautiful, and eli-
cited loud applause. There wan a loud call for the
author, but not being in the house be could not appear.
Mr. Buckstone was enthusiastically cheered, when he
came forward and announced the repetition of the
comedy, for se it is called, three tines a week.

THE COIIET.--Her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert, with the junior branches of the Royal
family, and members of the Royal suite, have arrived at
Buckingham Palace. The Court will return to Windsor
at Easter as usual for a few days. The Royal stud was
conveyed to Paddington by the Great Western
Railway.
The Duchess of Inverness has issued invitations for a
select dinner and evening party on Wednesday next, at
Kensington Palace.
The Duchess Dowager of Hamilton is passing the
season in improved. health in Portman-square.
The Marquis of Waterford has been appointed a
deputy lieutenant of the county of Waterford.
The Countess of 'Clarendon has issued cards for a
grand assembly at the official residence of the noble
Foreign Secretary, Downing-street, on the 22d inst.
The Countess of Ellesmere will have a soirée, to-
morrow, in Belgrave-square.
The Earl and Countess of Ellesmere, and the Lady
Alice Egerton, returned to Belgrave-square on Satur-
day from a visit to the Queen at Windsor Castle.
The Earl and. Countess of Harrington, who have been
entertaining visitors at Elvaston Hall, come to town
early next month for the season.
Lady Bloornfield, of Laughton, Moneygall, has given
instructions for the erection of several comfortable
houses upon his lordship's estate for the widows and
orphans of respectable tenants who may require an
asylum.

Sir Charles Henry Coote, M.P. Lady Coote, and
fatally, have arrived in Connaught-place for the season,
from Ba.llyfinn House, Ireland.
The Marquis of Londonderry visited Sunderland on
Monday last, in his old family railway carriage, " the
Royal George," that conveyed the late Dukes of Cam-
bridge, Wellington, &c., over his lordship's railways on
their visits to Wynyard ; and which ran for the first
time on Monday last, on the splendid Londonderry,
Seaham, and Sunderland Railways.

ARRIVAL OF GENERAL GARIBALDI.—GeneraI Gari-
baldi, the valiant defender of Rome, arrived in London
on Saturday morning, from New York, on board of a
merchant ship, which he commands, as he has nobly
and modestly resumed, after the overthrow of Italian
liberty, his former profession of a mariner.
THE TURKISH EMBASSY.-11a1)eeb Risk Allah Effendi
left London on Saturday evening by the express train
for Paris en route to Vienna, with despatches for his
Gomm*,

MONEY MARKET

AND

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday
were estimated at from 8,000 to 9,000 bales, of
which 500 American and '1,500 Surat were taken
on speculation. The market closed firmly without
alteration in prices. The sales comprised 200
Pernam anti Maranham, at 60. to Bd. ; 100
Egyptian, at sd. to Bd. ; 2,000 Surat, at 3d. to
4d., and the remainder nearly all American.
Railway Shares were firm.
The railway meetings announced are the fol-
lowing :

Company. Date. Pla e, &c.
Belfast and County Down Feb. 28, Belfast.
Birk., Lane., and Chesh. Jn Feb. 25, Birkenhead.
Boston, Sleaf., & Mid. Coun Feb. 18, Euston Hotel.
Bristol and Exeter
Buckinghamshire
Cork and Waterford Feb. 28, London Tavern.
Direct London and Portsm Feb. 24, London Tavern.
Dublin and Belfast Junction Feb. 15, Dublin.
Dublin and Wicklow
Eastern Counties
East Indian Feb. 17, London Tavern.
East Kent
East Lancashire Feb. 22, Bu►y.
East Lincolnshire
Graissessac and Beziers...
Great Northern Feb. 25, London Tavern.
Gt. South. and West. Ireland Feb. ?,5, Dublin.
Great Western

Lancaster and Carlisle Mar. 3, Liverpool.
London and Blackwall
London and North-Western Feb. 22, Euston Station.
London and South-Western Feb. 16, 34, York-road.
Lowestoft
Madras
Manch., Buxton, and Matlock Mar. 2, Derby.
Manch., Sheffield, and Line Feb. 22, Manchester.
Maria Antonia
Maryport and Carlisle
Midland
Newp., Aberg., and Hereford Feb. 23, London Tavern.
Newry and Enniskillen Feb. 28, Guildhall Coffeeho.
N(xfolk
Northern and Eastern Feb. 16, Bishopsgate-station
Northern Counties Union Feb. 24, London Tavern.
North Devon Feb. 27, London Tavern.
North London
Oxford, Worcester, & Wolv Feb. 22, London Tavern.
Royston and Hitchin
St. Andrew's& q,ebec (Cl. A) Feb. 2e, 26, Parliament-st.
Severn Valley
South Devon Feb. 28, Plymouth.
South Wales Feb. 28, Paddington.
South Yorkshire
Taff Vale... Feb. 17, Bristol.
Thames Haven Feb. 27, London Tavern.
Vale of Neath
Waterford and Limerick Feb. 22, Waterford.
West Cornwall Feb. 28, 28,Throgmorton-st.
W. End of Lon. & Crys. Pal Feb. 27, London Tavern.
Whitehaven Junction Feb. 15, Whitehaven.
Worcester and Hereford Feb. 28, Euston Station.
York and North Midland Feb. 17, York.
York, Newcastle, do Berwick Feb. 17, York.

A portion of the letters from Australia has been
delivered, and their general tenour is satisfactory,
although there are exceptional points. The gold
production, measured by the amcunts received at
Melbourne and Sydney, had fallen off ; but there
are doubts whether the diggers had not abstained
from sending down gold, owing to the agitation
respecting the license.
The Osmanli steamer had been wrecked while
on the voyage from Sydney to Adelaide, off Kan-
garoo Island.

- The Adelaide accounts represent the supplies of
most articles of import as being abundant, and
prices were, in many instances, depressed. The
Legislature had imposed an additional duty of 3s.
per gallon on spirits, but enough was previously
cleared for two months' consumption. The duty
upon wine was lowered to is. per gallon. Owing
to the high prices asked for the new clip of wool
by the sheep farmers, the sales were but limited.
Large quantities were arriving for shipment, how-
ever, seven vessels being in course of loading. The
rate of freight to London and Liverpool was 3Ad.
to 4d. per ounce for gold, and id. to, ld. per lb.
for wool.

The letters from China report unsteady markets
for piece-goods, owing to the rebellion, and at Cal-
cutta money was scarce and dear.

There has, been considerable • firmness in the
English stocks, and the quotations are higher than
on Saturday, by to 1 per cent., although with a
very limited business doing. Consols have been
at 91k, and since 'as high as 92, for transfer, the
account prices being 91i to 92. The New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realised 93k, and
are now 931 to 1 ; Bank Stock is quiet, at 216 ;
Exchequer Bills are.l9s. to 205., and India Bonds
10s. premium.
Most foreign securities have been dull, but with-
out any decline it prices. Spanish Bonds are
merely nominal, and Portuguese also--the former
at about 40k to for the 3 per Cents. Mexican
Stock has been at au advance to 251 g.
Chilian
3 per Cents. have realised 75, Brazilian Old 5 per
Cents. 971, Equador 4, and Grenada Deferred 61.
Russian 5 per Cents have been quoted 1041.
BRITISH MINES.—Mr. J. S. Lane reports as fol-
lows :--A dulness still prevails, and only a few
mines can be quoted. These are the Great Alfreds,
32 33 • Alfred Consols, 24 25 ; Sortridge Consols,
1 ; Mollands' 4 ; Tavys, 31 ; Devon Great
Consols, 445 ; North Pool, 195 200 ; South Devon
Great Consols, 225. 6d. 275. 6d. ; Balnoons, 414 ;
East Russells, 5 5f ; West Sortridge Consols, f.
The Railway Share market has been inanimate,
and the arrangements connected with the settle-
ment of the account are in progress, and occupy
chief attention. Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver-
hampton, are rather higher. There have been
only a few bargains in North-Western, Great-
Western, and idland. French shares quite
neglected.

The Gold Mine Shares have been without altera-
tion, the Banks are tolerably firm, and the Land
shares nominally the same.

The current prices for the Jamaica Mines not
officially quoted are as follows :—Metcalfe, to
prem. ; Sue River, dis. to par ; Port Royal, to
prem.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
( Front the Official List.)

Business dont,
dank Stock ... . . .. .. . ..... .. 216
per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent Consols Annuities
Kew 34 per Cent. Annuities 933 4
India Bonds, £lOOO ...... ..... .........
Ditto, under £lOOO lo
Consols for Account 15th Feb. 9li I
Exchequer Bills, Id.
£1000
£5OO l9 P
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
3rezdian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New, 1852, 4; per Cent 9B
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 59
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent.. .....
Ditto 3 per Cent .
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
Aexican 3 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cont. £St loll
Dividends on the above payable in London.
HALF-PAST TWO.
Consols
Ditto February Account ... 9li 4

LINCOLN RACES.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

ARRIVALS.—Jack the Giant-Killer, Wind.ucker, Vic-
tress, Star of England, Maid of the Welt, Strip-me-
Naked, Beresford, Wildgoose, Psyche, Horatio, Lioness,
Tomboy, Topsy, White Mouse, Alp, President, Dor-
mouse, The Prince.

The following leave Malton this day for Lincoln :
The Jewess, mare by Yaxley, and Cardsharper.

MANNING THE NAVY.

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TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—The able manner in which you demonstrated
the manner by which our men-of-war can be furnished
with crews has given general satisfaction to many ex-
perienced naval officers with whom I have the pleasure
of being acquainted. Surely this is not a time for our
Government to hesitate about the paltry outlay of a few
thousands. Let them go energetically and fearlessly to
their work, and the country will find the supplies ; even
our old friends the farmers, on such an occasion, would
cease to grumble. In your edition of Friday evening there
is a paragraph to the effect that the whereabouts of Mr.
Bell, the English engineer, could not be discovered. Why
do not our cannon ask the question ? Their language
could not be misunderstood, and must elicit a speedy
reply. As to his having taken service under the Rus-
sian flag, no one in his senses will credit it, and I trust
our Government will not allow the brave fellow longer
to remain a prisoner, as the heroes of Sinope cannot be
very merciful or humane guardians.—l have the honour
to remain, sir, yours obediently,
A CONSTANT READER.

Bedford, Feb. 12.

CABINET COUNCIL.—A. Cabinet Council was held on
Saturday afternoon at two o'clock, at the Foreign-office,
Downing-street. The Ministers present were, the Earl
of Aberdeen, Lord John Russell, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, the Duke
of Argyle, Viscount Palmerston, the Duke of Newcas-
tle, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir James Graham,
Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. Sidney Herbert, and
Sir Wm. Molesworth. The E trt of Clarendon arrived
in town at half-past 3 o'clock to attend the Council from
Windsor Castle, and joined his colleagues at the Foreign-
office. The Council sat three hou-s and a half.
RETIREMENT OF THE ACCOUNTANT-GENERAL OF THE
NAVY.-Sir John Thomas Briggs, Knt., Accountant-
General of the Navy, has retired from active business
after fifty-seven years' service. Sir John Briggs is in
his seventy-third year, but we trust he may enjoy his
retirement for many years to come.—United Sea-vice
Gazette.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

NEW' NEGOTIATIONS.
From Vienna we learn, by telegraph, that Aus-
tria proposes a Congress, and that Count Orloff
rather approved thereof.
This, however, is at variance with the account
published by the Journal des Debats.
" According to letters from Vienna whiCh we
have received (says that journal on Saturday), the.
Austrian Cabinet has adopted important resolu-
tions in consequence of the communication it re-
ceived from Count Orloff. Not only, it is said, has
Austria refused to enter into an engagement of
absolute neutrality, but she is represented to have
declared that she will consider the passage of the
Danube by the Russian armies as a declaration of
war ; and that she will also consider as a declara-
tion of war the permanent occupation of the Prin-
cipalities by Russia. Au understanding remains
to be come to 'ass to what is to be considerial a per-
manent occupation—that is to say, to fix a time
within which Russia shall evacuate the Princi-
palities. These resolutions are said to have been
communicated by Count de Buol to Baron de
Meyendorff, who has transmitted them to his Go-
vernment. The intermediary of oount Orloff has
been set aside ; his mission has therefore termi-
nated."
The Journal de Franefort publishes an article
having all the marks of a semi-official communica-
tion, in which it is said that " the German Powers
have firmly resolved, though unwilling to make
their resolution the subject of a treaty,' to preserve
strict neutrality, whatever may happen."
The Constitutionnel says these resolutions attri-
buted to Austria by the Debuts are not definitive,
but eventual.
The Constitutionnel confirms the news that Aus-
tria has declared that she shall consider it a casus
belli either if Russia keep permanent possession of
the Principalities, or if the Russian troops pass the
Danube. The Constitutionnel addS that Count
Orloff is the bearer of au autograph letter froth the
Emperor of Austria to the Czar Nicholas.
The Paris correspondent of the Times, writing
yesterday (Sunday) makes the subjoined important
statements :
" It is certain that fresh negotiations are on the
tapis for the settlement of the Eastern question,
and, however they are destined to terminate, that.
hopes are again very generally entertained that
these negotiations will not be unsuccessful. The
propositions said to be adopted by the four Powers
make a concession to the Emperor of Russia on a
point which he has had most at heart, namely,
the liberty of negotiating and treating to a cer-
tain extent alone with Turkey. The Porte will,
of course, have the right to consult with its
allies ; but the negotiations will take place
without the intervention of third parties, who will
only step in when the moment comes for negotiat-
ing a separate and independent treaty, by which
the four Powers will guarantee the stipulations of
the first. With reference to the evacuation of the
Principalities, it is proposed that it shall take place
simultaneously with that of the Black Sea, and that
the fleets will re-enter the Bosphorus when the Rus-
sians re-cross the Pruth. Neither is it certain that
a notification of a menacing kind has been addressed
to the Czar relative to the passage of the Danube, no
more than to the evacuation of the Principalities ;
but it is pcsitively stated that Count Orloff has
been made acquainted with the real sentiments of
the Prussian and Austrian Cabinets, and of the pro-
bability, if not the certainty, that the prolongation
of hostilities will decide these Powers to unite,
once for all, with the Western Government. Count
Orloff has quitted Vienna with the fervent resolu-
tion, at least to all appearance, to impress upon
the Emperor of Russia the absolute necessity
of no longer persisting in a line of policy which
must sooner or later alienate from him the Powers
that were hitherto most friendly. The facts just
mentioned proceed, I think it right to say, from an
Austrian source.
"In another quarter less open to suspicion it is
alleged that on the 29th or 30th ult. the autograph
letter, of which mention has b 'en already made,
from the Emperor of the French to the Czar, (and
which was previously communicated it is said to the
English Cabinet,). proposed that a treaty of peace
should be negotiated between Russia and Turkey
on the bases of the Vienna
.note as modifie,l by the
Porte ; 'that the ne2;otiations should take place di
rectly between a Turkish Plenipotentiary and a
Russian Plenipotentiary—Turkey of course re-
serving to herself the right of taking counsel with
her allies ; that if an arrangement be effected, the
treaty shall be concluded between Russia and
Turkey, but that a convention between the Ca-
binet of St. Petersburg, the Ottoman Porte, and
the four Powers should place the execution of such
treaty under the guarantee of Europe, and that
the seat of the negotiations should not be either at
Constantinople or at Bucharest.
" Another authority mentions that propositions
have been made to the Emperor of Russia, in the
name of the four Powers, for' the conclusion of
a treaty between the. belligerent PowerS only
with the second treaty or convention between the
four Powers, guaranteeing the execution of the
first ; that the old treaties are to be re-examined
by the four Powers, and that a new treaty between
Russia and Turkey of a more explicit nature as to
the relations between those two Powers should be
adopted.
" It is further said that the combined squadrons
are to occupy the Black Sea at three points—the
first at Varna, the second at Sebastopol, and the
third on the Asiatic coast as far as Batoum, to pre-
vent hostilities'and to keep the sea open until the
negotiations shall be brought to a close.
" The propositions above mentioned—and 'which
we are assured that the King of Prussia and Em-
peror of Austria use all their personal influence, in
addition to the Emperor of the French, to induce
him to accept—are substantially the same, parti-
cularly with reference to the two treaties, one as
between Russia and Turkey alone, the other as Le,
tween the Four Powers guaranteeing its execution.
" The concessions thus proposed to be made to
the Emperor of Russia refer to a question of amour
propre and of time. There is no doubt that
some consideration ought to he had for a man
who is at the head of 70,000,000 of human beings,
all devoted to his will ; but the greater the consi-
deration, the more honourable and the more dura-
ble ought to be the peace intended to be restored.
It must not for a moment be forgotten that
Russia can now only gain by time—a month m
two more for the concentration of her forces would
be of the greatest importance to her, and there
is little doubt that she will profit by the over-
tures again made, in order to obtain the dela)
which is so necessary to her. If it be true, as
is affirmed, that the autograph letter of the Em
peror of the French was despatched on the 29th
of January, it will have reached its destination,
destination about the 7th inst. Allowing three or
four days for reflection, even in case the Czar
wished to wait for the return of Count Orlof
before deciding, the reply to these propositions
ought to be received here about the 22d of the pre
sent month.
" I am unwilling to throw any doubts on the
sincerity of the proceedings of Austria and
Prussia, on the more favourable interpretations
of the result of Count Orloff's mission, or on
the prospects opened by them of a pacific ar-
rangement ; but. I think it right not to refuse to
take notice of what is said by many of the Russian
party here, and apparently believed by them.
I mention it with all the more hesitation
and doubt, that it is contrary to what is
declared to be the case in other and generally well
informed quarters. The Russians here say that
Count Orloff has succeeded, instead of failed in his
mission ; and that he has obtained all he desired—
namely, the formal assurance on the part of Aus-
tria and Prussia of an absolute neutrality. That,
nevertheless, the Court of Vienna is to act so 1
as to make the Western Powers believe the con-
trary, and that she is to declare to the Ca-
binets of London and Paris the very opposite of
-what she has accorded to Russia. They maintain
that the menacing independence assumed towards
Russia is only affected. The persons who speak in
this manner go still further, and maintain that an
absolute neutrality will be the policy of even
Prussia."