The Sun.
London, England, 1854-01-10 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 10, 1854.

aries, drops in his ticket, as we drop a letter into
the Post-office, and passes out by the other aisle.
All this was done with the most perfect order•
and propriety. " The vilest rabble ever seen" by
a W.B. voted as quietly as the Belgravians of
Geneva. Not a drunken man was to be seen,
and that, too, in a country where all drink wine ;
and all parties agreed that even if there was
bribery and intimidation, it could not, appre-
ciably, have affected the election. The urns were
watched all night by the election committee, the
church being lighted up. Next day they were
examined,—and a narrow majority declared for
the Co ilition, amidst the same universal good
order. It were easy to comment upon so striking
' and pleasing a fact as this in strong terms, but
it speaks for itself. It merely adds another
striking testimony from fact, to what all reason
i evidently points to. The inducements to bribe
and intimidate were as strong at Geneva as in
Canterbury or Devonshire respectively ; but the
Ballot, even in this imperfect form, rendered
money and threats alike useless. It made each
man's vote his own—inalienably his own ; the
ridiculed mechanical contrivance did more for
purity at elections than all Lord JOHN'S little
Acts of Parliament taken together. Geneva is
but one small town, it is true, but it has a con-
stituency of ten thousand electors. It is but one

constituency, like an ancient Grecian State ; but
for Electoral purposes England is but a multitude
of such states, and our wisest Reformers wish
that all its constituencies should be at least as
large as those of Geneva. One fact is well
worthy of notice. Even Universal Suffrage did
not return a rabble of Legislators. It was ac-
knowledged by the aristocrats themselves that
the Council of State, though all of them Demo-
, crate, were all of them also persons with whom
the higher classes express themselves perfectly
content.

INDIA AND CHINA,

TRIESTE, MONDAY, Jan. 9.

The steamer Calcutta arrived at 9 o'clock a.m.,
in 116 hours, from Alexandria, which she left on
the 4th of January.

The India mail left this morning for London,
with dates from Calcutta, Dec. 6 ; Madras, Dec.
10 ; Shanghai, Nov. 19 ; Amoy, Nov. 18 ; Hong
Kong, Nov. 27 ; Singapore, Dec. 4; Penang, Dec.
6 ; Galle, Dec. 13 ; Bombay, Dec. 14 ; and Bur-
mah, Nov. 20.

The. intelligence from Burmah is most contradic-
tory.

A report was current that the Burmese had re-
captured Pegu, and that a combined movement
against the British was to take place on the 20th
of December, but the war party at Ava is too weak
to do anything.
The Russians were at Khiva, and the Peshawur
force had been increased to 13,500 men.
The Afredees of the Kohat Pass had given in,
and accepted our terms.
Trade in India was fair. Exchange at Calcutta,
2-1.

In China the rebels had evacuated Amoy, and
the Imperialists had made a horrible massacre
there.

Canton was quiet. Exchange, 5-1.

(BY SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH.)
MARSEILLES, JAN. 9.
The Vectis reached this port, all well, at 5 a.m.
She brings the India and China mail.

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 American
were taken for export and on speculation. The
market was firm, and prices were fully supported.
The sales comprised 5,000 American, 500 Egyptian
at 6d. to 11±d., 500 Surat at 3d. to 4d., and 30
Sea Island at ls. Bd. to 2s. ld. per lb. Railway
shares were dull, at rather lower prices.
The following report upon the tallow trade, dated
last evening, is furnished by Messrs. Smith and
Charles :

" The advices from St. Petersburg are to the 19-31st
December. 10 to 15 m. poods tallow had changed
hands amongst Russians at 130 10 for August, but there
was nothing doing amongst exporting houses for next
season. Exchange, 381 to 39 1-16.

" Since our last report we have had a rapid advance
in tallow. We closed on Saturday at 598. 3d. all this
month. On Saturday we advanced ls. per cwt., and
to-day there has been increased excitement. The mar-
ket opened this morning without any new feature.
Political affairs, though still considered unfavourable,
were not generally considered to look worse than they
have for some time past. It soon, however, became
evident that there were few, if any, sellers at Saturday's
prices, and very few transactions took place till about
mid-day, when the market suddenly sprang up Is. 6d.
per cwt. Still later higher prices were given, as high
as 635: 6d. being reported as paid for March and April
delivery."
The New York accounts are rather more satis-
factory as regards the money market, but stocks
which had been more buoyant, were rather de-
pressed at the latest date. The exports of mer-
chandise, including specie, during the week to
December 24, amounted to 2,479,626 dollars, and
the inkports to 2,987,052 dollars, showing an in-
creases in favour , of the latter of 507,426 dol-
lars. lln the previous week, the balance had been
the other way, and but for a falling off in the ship-
ment i of specie in the week to the 24th ult.,
there would also have been an excess of exports.
Breadistuffs continued to be exported to a large extent.
Adviees -from-California state that the Miners at
Darg4n. Flat were making from 8 to 32 dollars a day,
and the Badger Hill diggings are stated to be the
richest in that vicinity. The rainy season com-
menced on the 14th November, and the rivers were
in consequence raised. The works of the dry season
had therefore closed. River-bed diggings had been
abandoned. The miners are described as being
well prepared for winter, and news concerning the
gold production is highly satisfactory. Public
works, were being proceeded with, to be finished by
June next, of the greatest importance to the pros-
perity of the mines.
The! letters by the overland mail are expected to
be in London by the 12th inst.
The rates of insurance upon the ship Mada-
gascar, which left Port Philip on the 12th August,
with 0,000 ounces of gold on board, and has
neverlsince been heard of, are as high as 40 per
cent. y The only hope appears to be that she has
made for some Brazilian port, but even of that
fact, we must speedily, have intelligence. One of
the Marine Insurance offices has a large amount
upon her.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Colonial Bank,
this day, a dividend at the rate of 4 per Cent. per
annum was declared.

The Bissoe Gold Amalgamating Company is
started for the purpose of working by Perkes'
Patent Machines, the auriferous' minerals
lately so abundantly discovered in Cornwall
and Devon. The new company is to have a
capital of 12,0001. in, 11. shares, and is possessed of
the extensive works of the company which has the
patent of Todd's Protoxide Paint. The steam-
engine is erected, and the machine of Mr. Perkes
will be in working condition within a month.
Those who have witnessed experiments under Mr.
Perkes' patent, speak of it in high terms. The
services of Mr. Brereton Todd, the metallurgist
have been secured.
The English funds are more buoyant, and with
an increased business doing for transfer. Consols
have been done at 941. The feeling in mercantile
circles is now much stronger against Russia than it
was a month or two since, and an earnest wish is
expressed that the existing treaties may not be al-
lowed to be restored ; in short, that we shall exact
some compensation for all the annoyance and ex-
pense we have incurred, and especially that the
Black Sea shall no longer be closed to the fleets of
the great Powers, which have such an inportant
commercial interest involved. The opening for
trade and the protection we could afford to our
Eastern frontier would be well worth a short strug-
gle with Russia, even if there were not the motive
of gross provocation. As to the mission of the
Prince de Chimay from Belgium to France, it is
pretty well known in the best informed circles that
it has reference to tariff and mercantile, not to
political matters. Exchequer Bills have be en
firm at 7s. to 10s., and India Bonds at par to
4s. prem.

Foreign Securities have improved a little, toge-
ther with the English market. Mexican have
rallied. to 22i and 231. Spanish Three per Cents.
have been done at 424, and the New Deferred are
20,E to 201. Russian Bonds are rather an excep-
tion to the general improvement, being at 108 for
the Five per Cents., and at 89 to for the 41 per
Cents. Portuguese Four per Cents. are not quite
so good. The Chairman of the Portuguese Bond-
holders has entered his usual protest against
the deduction from the interest now in
course of payment, and although with the
same results, namely, that the financial agents
here returned the notarial document without re-
mark. We feel satisfied that it is highly politic to
keep up this official record, as a proof of the ille-
gality, as well as the injustice, of such conduct on
the part of the Lisbon Government. The day of
reckoning must come, and even now the act bears
partly its own punishment, inasmuch as Portugal
languishes for want of those public improvements
which English capitalists might otherwise assist in
carrying out. Dutch 21 per Cents, have been at
62 ex dividend.

Railway Shares have been rather better, but
with very little doing. NortWestern have been
rather higher, and also MidlEnd, North British,
and York and North Midland. French shares
have been at advanced rates.

The Gold Mina Shares have been steady.
The Shares of the Australian Banks have been
better, and there has been a firmer tone in the
miscellaneous shares.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(From the Official List. )

BligiriCSS done.
Bank Stock
........ 219 18
A per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent Consols Annuities 92aiiii
New 31 per Cent. Annuities ........ .. ... 93i 43i 4
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
India Bonds, £lOOO ......
Ditto, under £lOOO 4 p par
Consols for Opening 18th Jan, 92
Exchequer Bills, ld.
£1000
£5OO 7 10 p
Small 7lO p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent
Mexican 3 per Cent. ......... . .... .
Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent.
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent .. .. . -•
Russian Bonds, 1822, sper Cent, £ St lOB
Ditto 4} per Cent .......... ........ . ........
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent......... ..•
Ditto for the Account.,, B9
4panish Bonds, 3 per Cent 42i x d
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent 20. 4 x d
Ditto rassive (Converted)
Dividends on the above payable In London.
Batch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gull 62 x
Ditto 4 por Cent. Certificates ..... 94i 5
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for Opening. 18th January 92s x

TELEGRAPHIC CENTRALISATION.—A charter is pro-
posed to be applied for, for power to consolidate all the
existing lines of telegraph under one uniform system.
REVERSE OP FouruNE.--The orphan child of one of
the oldest of the Irish baronets was admitted a few days
since into the Wanstead Infant Orphan Asylum.
Standard.

TURKISH LOAN.--A report circulated in Paris on Sa-
turday, that Namik Pasha had succeeded in contracting
a Turkish loan in London, was incorrect. No terms
have yet been agreed upon.
TELEGRAPHIC BANQUET.---Last evening the directors
of the Electric Telegraph Company gave a supper at
Radley's -Hotel to 135 of -the clerks employed in the
metropolitan stations. The :health of Mr. J. L. Ricardo,
M.P., the founder and ch:tirman of the company, and
the directors, was drunk v nth enthusiasm. It may be
interesting to mention, as a proof of the progress of the
company's operations sirLce its establishment in 1846,
that the total number of employes in London is 310, and
in the provinces794o.
THE ISLE or DOGS. —This island, so long a tract of
barren and unproductive marsh land, and still the
greater part of it sevxn feet below high-water level, is
now in a flourishing, condition. It has a population of
5,000 people ; a rateable property of 20,0001. in value ;
530 houses ; sixty manufactories ; four places of wor-
ship ; one or two, good school-houses,; ten excellent
public-house ; a •iloctor (no lawyer !) a house-agent, a
gas-works ; an ol.nnibus ; a post-offiee ; and a station for
the Thames poll, ce.—The Builder.

RESPITE OF V VILLIAM CUIIMING.—WiIIiam Cumming,
capitally convicted before the High Court of Justiciary
in Edinburgh, .and whose execution had been fixed for
yesterday (Mot iday, January V), has been respited for
fourteen days. This reprieVe has been requested by the
law authorities apt Edinburgh, in order to give time for
important inquiries, and was despatched from the Home-
office on Saturday night.

DRURY-LANE THEATRE.

A new drama, in three acts, by Mr. Mark Lemon, was
produced here for the first time last evening and obtained
the favourable reception of a very crowded house. The
author has certainly introduced into it only a modicum
of the wit and humour which distinguish most of his
writings, but if we notice a deficiency in this respect, we
must, on the other hand, say that great pains have been
bestowed upon the construction and development of the
plot, and that the interest, first excited in the opening
scene„,by some mysterious relations, is sustained with
increased force until the fall of the curtain upon the
concluding act. It is also due to the management to
add, that the piece was put upon the stage in a very
praiseworthy manner ; the acting was extremely good,
and the scenery both novel and beautiful, while there
were some highly effective groupings of peasants and
brigands, and one particularly pretty Spanish dance in
the national costume. The scene is laid in the province
of Estramadura, in Spain, and the date is recent, the
main event out of which the active interest arises having
occurred during the Peninsular war. A profligate noble-
man, the Marquis of Tavero, having been inspired with
an ungovernable passion for the beautiful wife of a gentle-
man named Lazarro, took advantage of the confusion and
general demoralisation occasioned by the war to make an
onslaught upon Lazarro's d welling during his absence, and
the latter returns to find his wife dying, after enduring
the worst of wrongs, and his castle in flames. He has
two infant daughters ; one of them he saves, the other
being supposed to have perished in the flames. The
Marquis is-soon _ after wards killed in batt:e, before La-
zarro's vengeance can reach him, but Lazarro vows an
undying revenge upon his race. The play opens 18
years later, when a beautiful girl, Juanna (Miss Feather.
stone), the foster-child of a kindly and wealthy old
farmer, Gaspar (Mr. Younge), is about to be wedded to
another foster-child of his, Pablo, a young muleteer
(Mr. Belton), who is rather addicted to wine and flirta-
tion. The young lady is very happy in the prospect of
her marriage, but the event is interrupted by the arrival
of the successor to the title of the ma rquisate of Tavero
(Mr. H. Lee), who claims her as a long lost child.
He, however, does not refuse his consent to her marriage,
provided it be deferred for a twelvemonth, and she be of
the same mind at the expiration of the period. Now
Lazarro (Mr. T. Mead), in the prosecution of his ven-
geance, has allied himself to a gang of bandits, of whom
the notorious Jose Maria (Mr. George Bennet,t) is the
leader, and, with the daughter he has saved, Paula (Mrs.
E. Lewis), goes about the country foraging for the rob-
bers, directing them to booty, and sending travellers
in their way ; but Paula is not aware of this °cou-
p Ltion of her father, wiom she loves very sin-
cerely, the more so that he has been stricken with
blindness, and is dependent upon her for guidance.
He is disguised as an old mendicant, and is pre-
sent when the Marquis claims Juanna. He deter-
mine, as a portion of his revenge, to have her carried
off by the robbers, and treated as his own wife had been.
The year passes, and Juanna is faithful to her love. A
fete is given at the villa of the Marquis, on the evening
on which the young lady is to be at liberty to select a
husband from the titled suitors around her, or as she
may please. The young muleteer comes to claim his
bride, Juanna exultingly throws herself into his arms.
The Marquis consents to their union, but announces
that his claiming Juana was not because she is his
daughter (that not being the case), but for the purpose of
testing the sincerity of her love for Pablo, whom he
declares to be his own son, and whose happiness he is
anxious to promote by a union of reciprocal affection.
But here the consummation of the marriage is thwarted
by the blind mendicant, who, disbelieving the story of
the marquis, brings in, at a given signal, a gang of
armed brigands, and has Juanna dragged away a prisoner
Paula, who has, to her horror, discovered her father's
connection with Jose Maria, seeks to save Juanna ; but
in vain. The next scene is laid in the mountain den of
Jose Maria. He has fallen dreadfully in love with his
beautiful captive, but Juanna does not reciprocate his re-
gards. Paula, who is also in the mountain
hold, discovers, by means of a portrait and other
evidence, that she and Juanna are sisters, the latter
being the child supposed to be lost when Lazarro's cas-
tle was destroyed. She resolves to save her sister, and
luckily she is enabled to do so, from a mutinous spirit
being stirred up among Jose's men, who are discontented
,with their leader, and seize hire, permitting Juanna to
`depart with her faithful Pablo, conditionally on Paula's
staying to secure a large ransom being sent. Paula also
evinces great courage and devotion, being ready to die
rather than that her sister's connection with the ueggar-
brigand should be known, and thus her hope of union
with -the son-ol the. Marquis should be destroyed; but
a body of soldiers come to the rescue, and in their attack
upon the robbers the revengeful Lazarro is shot dead.
The complete happiness of the two faithful lovers follows
as a matter of course.

In the part of Lazarro, Mr. Mead made a successful
first appearance here ; his delineation of the blind
beggar was picturesque and impressive, and it told well
with the audience, who did him the honour of calling
hint before the curtain. Mr. Geo. Bennett threw all
his vigour into the brigand chief—a character just
adapted for his graphic style of acting ; Miss Feather-
stone was a pretty and graceful Juanna, and Paula was
ably sustained by Mrs. Lewis. At the conclusion there
was a loud and repeated call for Mr. Mark Lemon, but
he did not make his appearance.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

A telegraphic despatch, received from Marseilles,
announces positively that the combined fleets en-
tered the Black Sea on the 30th ult. The officers
and crews, tired of their inactivity, hailed the order
to move with the greatest delight ; and it may be
justly affirmed that no movement was ever more
popular.
Another despatch speaks of a division of the
fleets, though the former is considered the more
probable. No doubt a few vessels have been left
at Constantinople in cise of emergency, perhaps
necessitated by the attempt of the Softas to get up
an insurrection.

Another despatch confirms the intelligence that
the diplomatic efforts at Constantinople, for the re-
newal of negotiations, had succeeded. Kosrew
Pacha is said to have been selected by the Sultan
as the negotiator for Turkey. He passes for being
friendly to Russia.
General Prim has arrived at Marseilles on board
the Osiris, and is expected in Paris to-day or Wed-
nesday.
Lord Dudley Stuart was to leave Constantinople
on the 15th, so as to be in England for the meeting
of Parliament. A letter has been received from
that noble lord, in which he speaks in very favour-
able terms of the activity, energy, and zeal of
Lord Stratford de Red.chfle during the whole of
these difficult transactions. _ _

The 6th corps, stationed at Moscow and the en-
virons, has received orders to move towards the
south ; the first columns are already in motion.
The first corps, formed of Grenadiers, has been
cantoned in Finland, Livonia, Esthonia, and Cour-
land. The German nobility of Courland, profess-
ing the Lutheran religion and oppressed in the
Baltic provinces, have solicited permission to send
their children as volunteers, and at their own ex-
pense, to combat for the orthodox faith.
The Russo-Polish authorities have announced to
the Prussian Government the discovery of a politi-
cal plot, which had come to ligut through.n.umer-
ous arrests in the ex-kingdom of Poland and the
Grand Duchy of Posen. The Emperor Nicholas
has expressed a desire that the Prussian papers
should abstain from all communications on the
movements of the Russian army.
The Montenegrin Primates, compromised in the
late plot, have arrived at Trieste.
The concentration of the Turkish troops con-
tinue 4 on the Wallachian frontier. The Turkish
Admiral, Osman Pasha, made prisoner in the affair
of SiUope, has died of his wounds at Sebastopol.
The National Gazette of Berlin states that the
sailor§ of the Baltic fleet, who had been sent to
their homes, have received orders to return to their
posts In March.
TIIP Cologne Gazette of the Bth says :—" In all
the Governments of the Russian Empire, the no-
bility! have been invited to give a proof of their
devotedness, in order to render the war more easy,
1 and t the same time to produce a strong impres-
sion . broad. In Courland, this semi-official invi-
tatio has been very successful. The nobility have
requeisted to be allowed to send their children to
the army as volunteers, and at their own expense.
This German nobility belong to the Lutheran creed,
_. ..

which, as is well known, is oppressed in Courland
and the Baltic provinces. It is known that Rus-
sian agents employ force to convert the peasants to
the orthodox church, but which does not prevent
the nobility from sending their children to fight
for t4e defence of the orthodox faith. The Ger-
man Russians are worse than the Russians pro-
perly] so called."
Thb Hamburg News, under date of St. Peters-
burg,' 30th ult., says :—The Governor-General of
Livonia, Esthonia, and Courland, has informed
the Emperor that the nobility of Livonia and the
citiz*.s of Riga, animated with an unalterable de-
votedness for the throne and the country, have
decl4ed that they were ready to make every sacri-
fice tb attain the object mentioned in the manifesto
of till.

Ist November last. All the civil function-

aries

TOlll

of Courland, Esthonia, and even some of Li-

have offered to the Emperor the tenth part

of their salaries for the field hospitals during the
war ;against Turkey. The Emperor, affected at
this t)atriotic devotedness of the provinces of the
Baltic, has charged Prince Souvarow, his aide-de-
camp-general, to testify his warm gratitude to the
inhabitants, and to declare to the functionaries
that their sympathy for his brave army was very
pleasing to him, but that there would be no necessity
for them to impose on themselves the sacrifice of
any part of their salaries."
The Lloyd states that even before the sending of
the !collective note of Conference, the Emperor
Nicholas had declared that he was disposed to peace.
The National Gazette of Prussia goes further, and
declares that the instructions given to Prince
Goilschakoff to keep on the defensive have not been
changed..

Other German journals speak of a Congress as
likely to take place at Berlin, at which Russia is to
be represented. But it must not be forgotten that
all this reposes on information anterior to the last
communication sent to St. Petersburg ; and that,
looking at the general conduct of the Czar, the
view's thus expressed seem exceedingly improbable.