The Sun.
London, England, 1854-04-20 00:00:00

The obse'quious collaborateur of M. Gutzor !
The personal friend for forty years of
the Czar NICHOLAS—the English senator with
whom the latter personage declared- very recently
that he (the AUTOCRAT) could in ten minutes
luTange the long-vexed question of the Eastern
difficulty entirely to his Imperial MAJESTY'S satis-
faction ! A significant declaration, for our ceg-
n.sanee of which we are indebted to the opportune
revelations of the Secret and Confidential Corre-
spondence.
The Earl of ABERDEEN continuing to be the
First. Lord of the Treasury—itcannot possibly be
matter of surprise that no energetic measures
should yet have been adopted for the due prose-
cution of the war upon which we have adventured.
No wonder, with Lord ABERDEEN Prime Minister
of England—that the troops sent out by us to aid
the Turks in withstanding the onslaught of the
armies of the AUTOCRAT, should be restricted to
what -MONTAGUE TIGG might have aptly termed
the " ridiculously small amount" of 25,000 men.
No wonder that even these were sent out in drib-
lets, that these driblets are delayed in their pro-
gress • towards the seat of war, and that
L when they at last reach the frontiers of
the Ottoman empire, they should be landed
at about as remote a point as possible from , the
scene of action in the Principalities, namely, at
Gallipoli in the Dardanelles ! Neither can it be
matter of surprise, so long as the Earl of
ABERDEEN, with his hankering after peace
at any price, with his friendship for the-AuTocRAT
and his sympathies with the Northern Courts, and
his especial predilection for the Court of St.
Petersburg, remains at the head of the British
Government—neither can it be matter of surprise,
we say, so long as the Earl of ABERDEEN continues
to be Prime Minister of England, that we should
hear even now, towards the close of the April of
1854, after all that has occurred that
Lord RAGLAN is only now en route from
Paris to Marseilles—that the Duke of CAMBRIDGE
has scarcely fixed the date of his departure from
the French capital—that the Earl of LUCAS only
left London last night for Dover, on the way to
Paris, thence to proceed to Marseilles, and so on
to Gallipoli ! Statements like these even now
cannot be viewed with anything like astonish-
ment by those who correctly appreciate the
, fact of Lord ABERDEEN continuing to be
the Chief of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Go-
vernment. Can be no more regarded with
surprise, indeed, than that other equally
noteworthy circumstance that the combined fleets
were still at anchor between Baltchik and Kavarna,
according to our latest advices (dating up to the
10th instant inclusively) from Constantinople.
So much for the glorious results as yet obtained
by a war carried on against Russia, while the Earl
of ABERDEEN, the forty years' friend of Russia and
of the AUTOCRAT, continues to preside over the
Councils of her Britannic MAJESTY'S Administra-
tion.

I created to its own use, and thus cancel, by a stroke
of the pen, something like a million a-year from the
charge of the national debt 1" we may be certain
that something very serious in reference to the
position of the Bank has been " ventilated" at the
Exchequer. But if any doubt could remain on
the subject, it would be altogether dispersed by
the publications of the present week. First, ive,
find numerous letters inserted in the Times, alurost
every day, questioning the propriety of the Act
of 1844, and the restrictions thereby occasioned
on banking operations. No remonstrance or,objec-
tionhas been pffered against opinions which, a short
time since, were deemed heretical. We cannot
forget that, little more than two months ago, the
Times, in answer to "A Banker," declared that,
"if the alterations which, in his view, Were gene-
rally thought to be necessary, were such as to
affect the Act of 1844, they were as much doomed
to disappointment as if he were waiting to see a
revival of protection." This was the Times'
opinion on the 16th of February, 1854, and yet
" the principles of that Act are seriously ques-
tioned in its columns on the 18th and 19th of
April, without a single,expression of dissent; and
this day it goes much farther, for it draws a com-
parison between the position of the Spanish and
English Ministers of Finance greatly in favour of
the former, as it declares that "it is probably
better to beg at Saragossa than at Threadneedle-
street, and to be a temporary petitioner for
the use of other people's money than our
own !" It speaks, too, of the Bank being "placed
in the enviable position which is popularly
supposed to be so difficult to obtain—that of at
once possessing and eating its cake." The refe-
rence to the extraordinary advantages afforded to
the establishment affords powerful testimony that
it is at least in contemplation to reduce these ad-
vantages, and to insist upon a change, in which
the interests of the community will be mere
thought of than had previously been the case.
At present the public suffers. Like PICKWICK
between Pori and Sue; it is sustaining the
blows of both parties—that the Exchequer shovel
and the Bank carpet-bag are equally busy, in deal-
ing blows on the unfortunate recipients. But
when financiers quarrel, borrowers may have fair
play. We therefore anticipate that the losses of
the GLADSTONE abortion will be more than com-
pensated, and that before the arrival of August,
1855, some steps will be taken to remove the
incubus that has so long paralysed the industrial
energies of the nation, and to confer on the coun-
try that inestimable blessing, " free trade" in
banking and in money, which is even more im
portant than free -trade in food.

MONEY MA RKE

AND
COMMERCIAL. INTELLIGENCE.

_CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 7,000 bales, all to the trade. The
market closed firmly, with 'prices of all kinds fully
supported. The sales comprised 5,000 American •
1700 Pernam and Maranham, at 6d. to 7-id. ; 400
Egyptian, at 6d. to Bid. ; and 700 Surat, at 3d. to
4td. per lb. Railway shares were steady.
The steamer Hydaspes, from the Cape of Good
Hope, has arrived. She brings late dates, but no
commercial news of importance. The withdrawal
of the steamers of the General Screw Steam Navi-
gation Company from • the South African station
will be much regretted, but, fortunately, the occa-
sional calls of other steamers at the Cape will for
the present help to obviate the inconvenience.
The new Orders in Council permitting British
as well as neutral ships to convey Russian produce
and- other articles (not contraband of war) to ports
not blockaded have given satisfaction, in so far as
they remove the anomaly of our own merchants
being placed upon 'a more disadvantageous footing
than those of other countries ; but it is still con-
sidered very questionable whether all these indul-
gences will be calculated to cripple our unscrupu-
lous enemy. . _

The amount of specie exported in the Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Company's vessel
Ripon, which left Southampton this day for Egypt,
&c., is 198,7431., of which 50,6001. is for Malta,
15,3001. for Alexandria, and the rest for India and
China. ;
The last week's railway receipts ascertained up
to this day are in round figures as under :

Great Western
216 £l, 1853. 3
981
North-Western
South-Western
Brighton
Midland
South-Eastern....."
Caledonian, and Edin. and Glasgow 16,615 13,897
Great Northern 18,004 15,593
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Yorkand North Midland, Newcastle
and Berwick, and Leeds Northern S 28,702 24,430
The English stocks are still ascending, and under
the influence of money purchases the speculators
are timid in resisting the upward tendency.
Having sold already to such an extent, and had
stock openly bought in against them, upon their
failure to deliver it,' we cannot feel surprised at the
pauSe in their operations, and the inclination
to await the receipt of later intelligence from
the seat of war. Should the Turks experience
a_ serious defeat while our, farces are being
kept at a respectful distance, the market would
certainly give way, but the knowledge that public
opinion would force on vigorous measures subse-
quently, would in the end rally the market. The
principal cause of depression, therefore, to which
the speculators must look, is the shipment of specie
to the continent, and the contract of a new loan,
and from certain appearances it has been conjec-
tured within the last two or three days that ar-
rangements are really making for a loan. We will
neither take upon ourselves to deny nor affirm that
such a proceeding is immediately to be a opted,
but if so, the object is clearly to render the Govern-
ment more independent of the Bank of England,
after the late- cavilling at the assistance required,
and which, as a significant sign of the times, is
bringing the " leading journal" to write in quite a
novel strain, and wholly in opposition to the mono-
poly conferred by Peel's Act of 1844, which hither-
to it has so strenuously supported. Consols have
been at 87i to 88g for transfer, and at 871 to 88k
for account. The New Three-aud-a-Quarter per
Cents. haVe realised 871 to 88k, and the Three
per Cents. 86k to 87k. Bank stock is firm at 212
to 2121. Exchequer Bills have been at par to 4s.
premium.
Foreign Stocks are very passive. Peruvian
Four-and a-Half per Cents have been done at 58k.
Mexican Bonds are 24f. Spanish Three per Cents.
have •been 36i. In Russian and Dutch 'securities
nothing has been done.
The Railway Share Market-is about I per cent. H
higher again for the principal English lines, with,
however, very limited transactions. French shares
are very firm, but mostly nominal. There have
been a few bargains in the Belgian and Canadian
lines.

Pebble

Inder

We have repeatedly alluded to the decided op-
position offered by the Directors of the Bank of
England to the financial scheme for the conver-
sion of certain portions of the public debt, and
the vexation which its author must naturally have
felt at the unequivocal and humiliating failure of
his pet project. At the last half-yearly general
meeting of the partners, a wealthy and influential
proprietor made the successful result of that op-
position a, subject for complimenting the Direc-
tors and congratulating his brethren. We then
hinted that these joyous paans' were rather pre-
Mature, and that before such exultations were
indulged in it might be as well to wait a little,
until it was seen how Mr. GLADSTONE would re-
gard the operations of the favoured establish-
ment to defeat the objects of those from whom
they had obtained so many valuable privileges,
and on whose favour they were dependent for
their continuance. The Directors, however, went
on like the convivial toper, who, while indulging
in his over-night potations, was thoroughly oblivi-
ous of the heavy reckoning he would have to
satisfy in the morning. The momentary, triumph
was all they looked to, but I*,w that they are
awakening from the fond delusion, that they are
enabled to count the cost, to discover the price
that they will have ", to pay for their whistle,"
they find that they have gone a leetle too far in
heir self-gratulatious, and that..they may exclaim,
like the celebrated King of EPIRUS, " Another
such victory, and we are lost."
It was, certainly, a dangerous experiment on
which they adventured. They " inflicted a heavy
blow and great discouragement" on the amour
imoive, of a young and dashing fikaucier. Not one
of the mere red tapists who would take his snub-
bing in good part—pocket the affront—and be pre-
pared to resume amicable relations the- moment
That the magnates of Threadneedle-street, in the
plenitude of - their triumph, were prepared to
send assurances of their magnanimous forgive-
ness for his daring to bring forward any project
without having first obtained their 'sanction.
Such conduct might have answefed very well with
a Wood-en-headed Chancelloref the Exchequer ;
but it was, to use the mildest term, rather im-
prudent when practised towards a man of vigor-
ous intellect and great deterMination—one not
afraid of deviating from the - beaten track—but
prepared to think and. act for iiiMself without re-
ference to the probable_ sayings of the civic Mrs.
GRUNDYS, or the consternation that might be ex-
cited among the elderly dames, who, thanks to
well-stocked purses, inflexible obstinacy, and
lagging behind the spirit of the age, •are "thought
well of on 'Change."
Mr GLADSTONE has, however, to use the
language of the P. It., " countered severely."
He has found "a Downing-street RoLasnalor the
Threadneedle-street OLIVER," and administered a
" Stock dollager" that has elongated the counte-
nances of " the wise men of the East."
In place of borrowing fOrthwith the sum to be
liquidated, and placing the loss on the transaction
to the wrong side of the national ledger, he has
paid off the dissentients to the amount of nearly
8,000,0001. sterling, or about 86 per cent. of
the entire amount dealt with, and he has trans-
ferred a large proportion—more than a moiety--
of the loss to the account of his chuckling oppo-
nents. This has been effected by paying off the
dissentients out of the Government balances, and
claiming, in pursuance of the partnership articles
between the Government and the Bank, advances
sufdoient to liquidate all the demands on the
Exchequer ont of the assets of the " Old Lady."
Nor has this been done in a genteel or liberal
manner ! In place 'of borrowing the entire
amount required on deficiency bills; and paying
interest for more than double- what -he required,
Mr. GLADSTONE will only do Fio, on the exact
amount required, so that the practical result is
that the Bank and the. Government have changed
places, and that it is the Exchequer whic
Bankh
kepiseusiz
the balances of the Bank, in place of the
and using the balances of the Exchequer! In place of
having some five or six millions deposited in their
hands gratuitously to use a-s they think proper,
the Directors are obliged to provide from two to
three millions sterling out of resources mate-
rially curtailed and restricted by the operations of
the Bank Charter Act of 1844.
It is needless to say that this has been a
very formidable and unexpected movement on
the part of the Exchequer, and that it
is strenuously resisted on . the part of the
Bank. We cannot say what has been the ex-
tent of that resistance—whether the Bank has
threatened to dishonour the cheques of the Ex-
chequer, or to leave the dividends on the debt or
the salaries of the public servants unliquidatecl.
We can only judge of-the magnitude of the breach
from the tone assumed by the ABERDEEN-GLAD-
STONE organ, and the threats fulminated against
its quondam protegee by the Times. Froubi the
article to which the Leviathan gave insertion in
its impression of Saturday, to which we have already
directed public attention, it was Manifest that " it
was a pretty quarrel -as it stood." From the .
pertinent interrogatories there exhibited it could
easily be seen that there was something more than
met the eye. When the inquirpwas seriously made
why Government should make a present to any
thirty
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The Joint Stock Banks are a shade better, and
the Land Companies' are firm. In Mines there is
nothing doing. Crystal Palace are up f, owing to
the anhouncement of the opening next month.

RITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES
• . ( Prom. Cho Offscii' a List.)
Bank Stoek "' Business time.
2124 12 9
:
; Ter Cent. Reduced. Annuities B7 61 74 4
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities B7i 81 8 8
New 31 per Cent. Annuities BB 7/ 81
fang Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan.,1860 4 15-16
India Bonds, £l000
Consols for Account 11th May B3 71 84 i 8 7;
Exchequer Bills, 2d.
£lOOO. ... 4 p par
Small 4 p par
PRICE OF FOIU FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent. —
Ditto Small

-- -
Grenada Bonds, Ex. Dec.' 1849 pupon 17i
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
%lexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. sBf
gardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent 7B
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 36:).
Spanish 'New Deferred, 3 per Cont. l7f
:' ; • Dividends on the above pay4bi. to 64 ndon.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols ~ B7f 8
Ditto May Account . B7f i

THE SCREW STEA.MER BALTIC.—This handsome iron
screw steamer, which was launched from the building-
yard of Mr. Alexander Denny about 10 days ago, has
already received the greater portion of her machinery,
and is rapidly being finished for sea. The entire opera-
tions are expected to be completed by the 30th of this
month, when she will take her departure for Hull, be-
tween which port and Copenhagen she is intended to ply,
in concert with the Humber, also a new ship, just about
ready for launching. The 'Baltic has all the appearance of
realizing the high expectations formed of her, both in regard
to speed-and safety. She will have extra accommodation
for first and second class passengers, for whose comfort
every possible provision, will bef made, whether in regard
to space, ventilation, or protection from the weather. She
is the propetty of Messrs. Thomas Wilson, Sons, and
Co., Hull, whose business reputation ' affords ample
security to shippers and passengers. Her commander,
Captain Atkinson, has been long and favourably known
in connection with the Baltic trade, and knows every
creek and corner of the passage as intimately as a river
skipper knows the windings and turnings of the Clyde.
The Baltic's.dimensions are as follows :—Length between
perpendiculars, 180 feet ; breadth of beam, 26 feet ;
depth, 15 feet ; burden, 600 tons. Her engines, which
are supplied by Messrs. Tulloch and Denny, are on the
direct acting principle, and of 110 horse power.—.
Dumbarton Herald.
ST. PETERSBURG,—From St. Petersburg the dates are
to the 11th of April, when tallow and other produce
continued to be purchased for transmission to the fron-
tier and the Prussian port of Memel. The Odessa let-
ters are to the 7th. They state that business was wholly
suspended, but make no mention of a blockade. Advices
from Riga yesterday of the 13th inst. state that a recur-
rence of sharp frosts at night prevented the breaking up
of the ice in the neighbourhood of the town, although
at the Upper parts of the river it bad been disappearing
for some days. The bay was likewise full of ice, and 20
vessels caught by it were in a rather dangerous position.
One of them, a Dutchman' in ballast, had just been
wrecked.

THE SUITORS' FUND AND FEE FUND.—The annual
accounts of these funds have been, presented to Parlia-
ment. The Suitors' Fund consists of 3,882,5581. stock ;
62,442/, out of the dividends are.applied to the payment
of the salaries of the judges and officers of the Chancery
Courts, and the other expenses of those courts, and the
surplus interest is carried over to the Suitors' Fee Fund.
This latter fund, with the above contribution and with the
aid of 67,0191., "received from the Commissioners of Inland
Revenus"(an item to which some explanation might have
been appended), amounted to 183,764/. in the year ending
in November last ; and the amount was applied to the
payment of other Chancery salaries and compensations.
The list of Chancery compensations and pensions seems
framed upon a liberal scale. , This account has among
its items—annual payments it must be presumed—com-
pensatiou to two Six-Clerks for loss of office and profits
3,155/., to 20 sworn clerks 28,5961., one deputy-clerk of
enrolments, deputy record-keeper, and agent to sworn
clerk, 1,4531., the late clerk of custodies (in lunacy)
1,2681., chief clerk to a Master 7501., pension to a retired
Master, 1,5001., to two retired registrars, 2,541/ . to the
'late Master of Reports, 2,2501.
SERVICE or AQUEDUCTS AND FOUNTAINS AT CON -
STANTINOPLE.—The Turkish capital offers the pecu-
liarity that good and salutary regulations exist where a
mere chaos was hithertosupposed to occupy their place.
Itee)rding to late calculations, based on con ect obser-
vations and tables, the fifteen systems of sources and
water wells which surround Constantinople, and from
which numero-us aqueducts and cisterns are alimented,
yield a daily supply of 249 lulehs of water, which is
equivalent to 12,267,532 kilo,gr. ; and as the population
of the Turkish capital is calculated at 600,000, a daily
supply of 2,044 kilogr. for every person indiscriminately
is resulting' therefrom. The administration and ser-
vice of thii Water supply is confided to an especial
class or order of men, the corps of the Su-Jaldshi, ( r
well-masters. This regularly organised corps exercises
a licensed art, . and if they possess no theoretical' knon •
ledge, still they practise their art according to some
traditional rules and princiles. To this corps all the
works relating to the searching after water, its conduct.
ing and distribution, as far as want and even comfort
are concerned, are confided. The corporation of the
Su-Jaldslii now consists of about 300 Turks and 100
Albanese Greeks, who are exclusively selected from
some families of the district of Drinopolis, in the Epirus.
The inhabitants of five or six villages emigrate for the
sake of ottupyiug the situations of well-muter' la Con.
stathauple aLtd -other Turiiigh

wouli be just as card to apptopriate tce sum

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 20, 1854,

THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

Y ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII.)
PLYMOUTH, THURSDAY MORNING.
The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's
mail packet Hydaspes, Captain Benson,. arrived
this morning.
She left Calcutta, January 15th; Madras, 20th;
Point de Ga!le, 25th ; Mauritius, February Bth ;
Cape of Good Hope,• 25th; St. Helena, March sth ;
Ascension, 10th. Arrived at Fayal, April 10th,
and left on the 13th. '

She has a full cargo of silk and indigo, and 120
passengers.
From the Cape we learn that the election of the
Upper House was completed; that for the Lower
House was still in progress.
The Graham's-town Journal states that gold had
been discovered at Smithfield early iu February.
This is confirmed by the Port Elizabeth Mercury
of the 18th of February.
Dr. Devereux, Roman 'Catholic Bishop of the
eastern province, died in February.
The Meander, 44, Commander Talbot, was at
Simon's Bay, and the Dee, Commander Smith,
was at Struys Bay.
The Hydra and the Dart were expected at the
Mozambique.
The Penguin had sailed for Algoa Bay, and was
expected at the Cape at the beginning of March
en route to England.
The squadron was all well.

NEWMARKET RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC-TELEGRAPH.)
SWEEPSTAKES OF 10 SOVS.

Three ran.
HANDICAP PLATE. T.Y.C.

Anteverta
Folly o' the Day
Ten ran.
SWEEPSTAKES OF 100 SOVS.

Incubus
Olitipa
SWEEPSTAKES OF 50 SOVS.

Quince

Four ran.
HANDICAP PLATE OF £lOO.

Eleven ran.

BETTING ON THE COURSE.

PORT STAKES.
sto 2 apt Orestes.

BUCKHURST STAKES.
sto 4on Boiardo.

CLOSE OF THE ROOMS LAST NIGHT.

CHEERER CUP.
9to 1 agst Raalbeo.
25 to 1 agst Duchess of Lorraine colt.
40 to 1 agst Jujube (taken freely).
40 to 1 agst Peggy.
40 to 1 agst Cobnut.
50 to 1 agst Jack Frost.
100 b to 15 agst Dr. O'Toole.
1000 to 10 agst Catspaw.
1000 to 10 agst Aldtord.
1000 to 10 agst Little Jem.
1000 to 5 agst Canute.
1000 to 5 agst Bridesmaid.
1000 to 4 agst Royalist.
1000 to 3, apt Indian Warrior.
1000 to 2 agst Umbriel.
1000 to 2 agst Pantomime.
1000 to 2 agst Annie Sutherland.
1000 to 2 agst Wild Huntsman.
DERBY.
sto 1 agst Autocrat (offered).
Bto 1 agst Dervish.
33 to 1 agst Wild Huntsman.
33 to 1 agst Marsyas.
40 to 1 agst Belgrave.
50 to 1 agst Prince Arthur.
100 to 1 agst Champagne.
200 to 1 agst Punch Box.
200 to 1 agst Marley Hill.
200 to 1 agst Marble Hill.
200 to 1 agst Acrobat.
200 to 1 agst Remus.
200 to 1 agst Boiardo.
GREAT NORTHERN.
15 to 1 agst
25 to 1 agst Viudei.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
7to 2KA Ruby (taken).
7to 2 agst Boiardo (taken).
Bto 1 agst Champagne (taken).

PARISH OF ST. MARY, LAMBETH.

Yesterday the adjourned vestry meeting of the in-
habitant ratepayers of this extensive parish was held in
the New Vestry Hall, Kennington-green, for the pur-
pose of taking the Fill for the election of churchwardens
and committee forming the Highway Board. The Rev.
C. B. Dalton, M.A., the Vicar, presided.
Considerable interest exists throughout the parish as
to the election of not only the churchwardens, but the
persons who are to form the Board of Highways, com-
mittees being appointed in the various districts to sup-
port their respective candidates.
At the conclusion of the day's proceedings, the Rev.
Mr. Dalton announced the result of the day's poll to be
for—Mr. Grey, 277 ; for Mr.' Flews, 275 ; Mr. Stratton,
195 ; and Mr. Barnard, 143, giving a large majority in
favour of Messrs. Grey and news. For the Highway
Board, the numbers announced by the rev, vicar were
sufficient to show that Messrs. Price, Hodson, Taylor,
Moseley, Doulton, Hayton, King, Wade, Mason,
Avern, Bowles, Deacon, Bryan, Wells, Valler, Nott,
Orme, White, Atlee, and Littlejohn, were in the
majority.
At a late hour in the evening, a meeting of the com-
mittee and supporters of the election of Messrs. Grey
and Plews as churchwardens was held at the Duke of
Sussex, Oakley-street, Dr. Sewell in the chair, when,
after much discussion, resolutions were carried to carry
out and increase the satisfactory result that had arisen
from their exertions to secure the return of their candi-
dates, Mr. Grey and Mr. Plews, as also their list of the
Board of Highways. The polling will finally close to-
morrow.

MARLBO.ROUGh-STBEET.-(THIS DAY.)

UTTERING A FORGED NOTE. —William, Turner, an
elderly man, was brought up before Mr. Bingham,
charged with uttering a forged 51. note.

Mr. John Lowe stated That he was the landlord' of
the Grosvenor Arms, Green-street, and that on the
10th of February last the prisoner came into his house
and partook of a glass of gin, and, in the course of con-
versation, he said he was an old customer of the late
landlord, and should continue hiq custom with witness.
He then went out, and in a short time he returned and
gave me an order for half a gallon of gin, saying that
he had found it so very good, and directed
it to he sent to Mr. Gardner, 26, Gilbert-street.
The prisoner paid for the gin with the 51. note
produced, and witness wrote his name upon it, and gave
him 41. 13s. 41. change. Prosecutor sent the gin to 26,
Gilbert-street, but found no one there. He was positive
prisoner was the man. The note was a forgery.
Police-constable Rigden, said be apprehended the
yesterday afternoon, in Holborn. He told him the
charge against him, but he made no reply. He then
conveyed him to the station, •where he was searched,
but nothing found upon him.
The prisoner, who declined making any defence, was
remanded for a week.

An experimental trial, under the direction of the Board
of Ordnance, has taken place at the Royal Arsenal,
Woolwich, of Captain Maher's " Rifled " musket bullet,
which was very successful at .200 and 300 yards. A.
further trial at an extended range will shortly take
place.—British, Army Despatch.
SHIPMENTS or SPECIE.—The shipments of specie by the
Peninsular and Oriental steamer Ripon amount to
198,7001., of which 69,0851. is gold (including about
50,0001. for military expe,,ditures at Malta), while
129,6571. is silver for Singapore, Hong-Kong, Canton,
and Shanghai. Pending the delivery of the last Austra-
lian arrivals a small suns of gold was again taken fr,on
the Bank of England yesterday for transmission to Paris.
COLONIAL GOLD COMPANY.--The subjoined memo-
randum is from the Colonial Gold Company. It indi-
cates that the question of profitableness of quartz
crushing in New South Wales will soon be put to a de-
cisive test :

" The Colonial Gold Company have received advises by
the Harbinger from their superintendent in New South
Wales, to the 30th of December.
" Mr. Spence writes from Louisa Creek—' You will be
glad to learn that this morning (the 30th) we got up steam
for the first time, and tried the engine. She worked most
beautifully from the first, without a jar, leakage, or any-
thing objectionable. We put the wheel round about 30
revolutions in the minute, and there was no little satisfac-
tion at the completion of so important a portion of the
undertaking. The large wheel of the crushing house is to
be on the ground this evening, which we shall soon have in
its place, and then the rollers will be raised to the cradles,
and we shall finish the walls and cover all in. One of the
kilns is ready, another nearly so, and the tranaroad is
being laid down, not only along the ridge and to the house,
but also on an inclined plane into the long level, so as to
do away as much as possible with the windlass.'
" Mr. Spence calculates that he can deliver and reduce
30 tons of quartz per day, one month with another ; and
taking the average of 3 tons per diem, for 25 days in the
month, or at the rate of 9,0 0 tons per annum, he estimates
that all charges for breaking down, quarrying, raising,
breaking, loading waggons, and delivery at kilns, for
calcining, and expenses of engine and reduction houses,
and general superintendence and incidentals, will amount
to (per ton of quartz) 11. 10s.
Value of gold per ounce £3 10 0
Less royalty, 3 per cent £o 2 14
Proportion to Great _Nugget
C°
EstinaulaPtedanYcharge (i) 3 7
10 0 N
Li 4 3i porton
on 30 tons per diem, Prt
yielding ono ounce. And be acids ;
' Should we realise the success thus anticipated, I shall
immediately pressed to make all necessary preparations for
raising a more extensive establishment in one of the many
localities open to us, where auriferous quartz ma be eb„
tai4o4 is *wawa, ca Gam gat mud.' "