The Sun.
London, England, 1854-12-19 00:00:00

FRANCE.

PARIS, SUNDAY.
The following despatch has been received here :
" CONSTANTINOPLE, DEG'. 7.
" Omer Pacha has embarked for the Crimea
with the greater part of his army.
" Ismail Pacha commands the Turkish troops on
the Danube provisionally.
" Prince Napoleon has had a relapse, and cannot
yet rejoin his division."
The Constitutionnet, in an article treating of the
alleged acceptance
to accept the four guarantees by Russia of the four guarantees,
says :—" In reality
as the starting point of the negotiations does not
constitute any engagement on the part of Russia.
It merely amounts to saying that Russia took the
four guarantees as the maximum of the demands
made by the Allies, reserving the power of debat-
ing them, and of getting them diminished in the
course
t e
course of the negotiations. It is not thus Unit the
acceptance of the four guarantees ought to be un-
derstood in order to become a s •
emus concession.
The Russian note of the 28th November—and the
conduct of Austria proves it—does not constitute
an overture of peace, and cannot serve as the basis
of negotiations. Bet we
en not announcing reserves
and
sacrificing
them
there is a difference tote coqe."
The ]lonitcur publishes the following report
he
from M. Baroc
of M. B
acting.
as Minister of Finance in
the absence
the division by mean, who is ill, relative to
chapters of the
credits of the Budget
of 1855

" Sire—The law of finance of June 22, 1854, opened
the credits necessary for the expenses of 1855. Con-
formably with art. 12 of the Senatus Consultum of Dec.
25, 1852, these legislative credits were only fixed by
Ministries and an imperial decree, after the council of state
had been consulted, was to divide them by chapters
according to the wants of each branch of the service. I
have the honour to submit this division to the Lppraba-
tion of your Majesty. Since the budget of 1805 was

voted by the legislative body, some modifications have
been made in the expenses of the different Ministerial
departments. In the first place, art. 13 of the law o
June 14, 1854, on public instruction, prescribed that the
service of the faculties should, from the Ist Jan., 1855,
form a special service attached for the sake of order to
the general budget and paid by the State. The conse-
quence of this legislative enactment has been to consti-
tute by the decree annexed the special budgets of the
establishments of superior instruction. The expenses
of the faculties were comprised in the general budget of
1855 for the sum of 2,786,636 f., and their proceeds
are estimated among the receipts at 1,810,156 f. The
amelioration of 1,375,105 f. anticipated in the latter
has caused the credits to be increased by a supple-
mentary grant of a similar sum, and the subvention
of 076,480 f. which is furnished by the Treasury has been
added to the ways and means of the service of the facul-
ties. As to the credits of the general budget, they are
confined to that subvention, and are reduced by the sum
of 1,810,156 f, equal to the proceeds which it ceases to
benefit. The imperial decrees of the 26th June and
6th July last, relative to the credit foncier societies,
in placieg these establishments within the attributions
of the Minister of Finance, and confiding the direc-
tion of the credit foncier of France to a governor
named by your Majesty, has permitted the reduc-
tion to the sum of B,ooof. necessary for the expenses of
the surveillance of the credit foncier companies of Mar-
seilles and Nevres, the credit of 29,0(Y0L included in the
general amount voted for the Ministry of Agriculture,
Commerce, and Public 'Works. The imperial decree of
June 23, 1854, having attached to the Ministry of State
the services of civil buildings, the non-subventioned
theatres of Paris, the departments, and the dramatic
censorship, which previously belonged to the Ministry
of the Interior, it has been necessary, in the plan
of division which I have the honour to submit to
your Majesty, to cut off the credits granted by the
budget to the latter Ministry, and add to that of the
former Ministry the sum of 2,028,800 f. for the services in
question. In consequence of the annulment of
1,810,156 f. and of 21,000 f. made in the budgets of
the Ministries of Public Instruction and of Agricul-
ture, the credits opened by the finance law for
1,562,030,308 f. are reduced to 1,560,199,152 f. Out of
this sum; 1,082,841,832 f. only farm in reality the charges'
of the State. The surplus, or 477,357,320 f., is only
• placed in the budget for the sake of order, and repro-
cents the expenses of collection, departmental expenses,
&c. ; and it is only the sum of 1,560,199,152 f. which
I have the honour to propose to your Majesty to divide
into charters, according to the wants each service.--
I am, &c., " BAROCHE, acting ad interim.'
The above report is followed by a decree of the
Emperor, dividing the above-mentioned sum'into
chapters, and appropriating it among the different
ministries.

CANADA.
DEPARTURE OF LORD ELGIN.
MONTREAL, Dec. 4.—lt is expected that Lora,
Elgin will sail on the 22d in'st. Sir Cusack and
Lady Roney also sail in the same boat.
Mr. Laurence Oliphant, private secretary to Lora
Elgin, returns to England with the noble Earl ;
and Lord Bury, son of the Earl of Albemarle, suc-
ceeds Mr. Oliphant as general superintendent of
ndian affairs in Canada—a post the noble Viscount
is well qualified to fill.
Sir Edmund Head commences his duties forth•
with, and be stands, assuredly, under the most
auspicious circumstances, so far as the present con'
dition of Canada is concerned.

THE BALL AT THE GOVERNOR-
GENERAL'S.
On Friday evening last his Excellency Lord
Elgin gave his farewell assembly, at Spencer
Wood, to upwards of 600 persons, including
every member of both Houses of the Legislature.
The fine band of the 16th Regiment attended in,
~..
the ball-room, and performed the usual variety of
quadrilles, waltzes, polkas, &c. Shortly after 12
o'clock his Excellency, accompanied by Lady Head/
entered the supper-room. After due honour had been '
done to a most recherché entertainment. His l''
cellency, in compliance with a general desire, came
forward, and addressed the ladies and gentlemen
as follows
" Ido not intend to depart from the rule which' bars
prescribed for myself, of not giving toasts after supFTl'
at balls in this house ; but I trust that in the position in ,
which lam placed this evening, it will not be deemed
altogether inexcusable in me if I try at least to say A t.
few words to you, for Ido not know that I shall succeed . ,i
in the attempt, before I drink off the bumper I have
filled here, and which I intend to drink to the last drop.
I wish that I could address you in such strains as I bare
sometimes employed on similar occasions—strains sultan
to a festive meeting, but I confess that I have a weight
at my heart, and that it is not in me to be merry.
" For the last time I stand before you in the official
character which I have borne for nearly eight years. For
the last time I am surrounded by a circle of friends, with
whom I have spent some of the pleasantest days of ml
We. For the last time I welcome you as my guests
to this charming residence, which I have been in the
habit of calling my home. I did not, I will frankly
confess it, know what it would cost me to break this
connection, as the period of my departure approached,
and I began to feel that the great interests which have
so long engrossed my attention and thoughts, were 'pea'
sing out of my hands. I had a hint of what my feelings
really were upon this point ; but my anticipations h.:.
this-respect were far different from their realisation. ,'"
cannot bring myself to believe that the future bas 'n
store for me any interest which will fill the place of those
I am now abandoning.
" But although I must henceforward be to you 'as 1,1
stranger—(no, no)-although my official connexion svita
you and your interests will have become in a few date
matter of history, yet I trust that through some °I'S
channel or another the tidings of your prosperity an
progress may occasionally reach me, that I may bee,'
from time to time of the steady growth and develop'
ment of those principles of liberty and order, of manly
independence" in combination with respect for au-
thority and law, of national life in harmony with
attachment to British, connection which it has been
my earnest endeavour, to the extent of my trust,h
means of influence, to implant and to establish. I
too, that I shall hear that this house continues to ls''
what I have ever sought to render it, a neutral territory,
on which persons of opposite opiuiois, political old re-
ligious, may meet together in harmony and forget their
differences for a season. And I have good hope that
this will be the case for several reasons, and, among
others, for one which I can barely allude to, for it mighil
be an impertinence in me to dwell upon it. But I thin ,
without any breach of delicacy or decorum, I may vend,
Lure to say that, many years ago, when I was much
3 oueger than I am now, and when we stood towards
eaeh other in a relation somewhat different from that
which has recently subsisted between us, I learned
to look up to Sir Edmund Head with respect,
as a gentleman of the highest character, the greatest
ability, and.the most varied accomplishments and at-
tainments—and now, ladies and gentlemen, I have 01119
to add the sad word,
' Farewell.' I drink this bumper
to the health of you all, collectively and individually. ,-I
trust that I may hope to leave behind me some who soil,
-
look back with feelings of kindly recollection to 110
period of our intercourse, some with whom I have 1001
on terms of intimate official connexion, whose worth and
talents I have had the best means of appreciating, and
who could bear witness, at least if they please to do OP
to the spirit, intention, and motives with which I have
administered your affairs, some with whom I have been -
bound by the ties of personal regard--aid, if reciPr"
city be essential to amity, then most assuredly I can
leave behind me no enemies. lam aware that there
must be persons, in so large-a society as this, who this"'
that they have grievances to complain of, that due con-
sideration has not been in all cases shown to them. 11'4
them believe me when I assure them that so far as I an'
individually concerned, that no such error of omission or
of commission has been intentional on my part. Fare-
well, and 'God bless you."
During the delivery of this 'address his Excellency was
frequently interrupted by loud applause, and at its con'
elusion the cheers were renewed again and again, and
lasted for several minutes. As soon as silence was se'
stored Sir Edmund Head came forward and said—
Lord Elgin stated that he intended to allow ngl
toasts to be proposed. I shall begin by an act of ipso-.
boreination, and ask you to fill a bumper to the health Of
Lord Elgin. The Governor-General has alluded to his
approaching departure. I feel that I, as his successor, •
come before the public of Canada under the greatest pos-
sible disadvantages, for I fellow one who has done more
to ameliorate the social and political condition of the pi:o•
vince than any public man can ever hope to do again.
Indeed LordElgin has soltreated the varied questions he has
had to deal with as to leave any man who follows btu
1
but very little to accomplish. I propose the health of
Lord Elgin with all the honours.
His Excellency, in reply, *said a thousand thanks
to you for that cheer. Sir Edmund Head has conferred,
a fresh obligation on me in provoking this outburst of
your sympathy. Sir Edmund Head has referred,_ ii
terms almost too friendly to the place which I hold
se
your esteem, but let me remind him that though the°
are sunny hours I have had my times of darkness iI
Canada. He has said that I have had opportunities whicho
may not occur for him. Let me toll hint that he, two..! ,
will have his opportunities. Ido not say that he
free
I have no difficulties to encounter—a career altogethers
an,
of difficulty would not be one worthy of his abilities and
character. But let me hope for him, that when the ieve"
are darkest and densest, he may be able, as I have
behind, l•
been, to retain the lively faith that there is a sun.n .
which, in due time, will burst through and scattertttl,,.T,
At a later period of the evening Mr. Turco ,
nfy ron
in an elegant. address, took leave of his
behalf of the French Canadian portion
tion, opula-
althe present time has
Toe Quebec and Richmond
the public last Monday, and up toing
irnad was opened to
nEf xtcheel I ep
of this road is a
had very large traffics The open
community, and it is
very great the proprietors as pro'
to be hoped th iat t will be to
nvenient.
fitable as it is to the public co
g
boon to the travellin

THE OFFICERS FOR THE EAST.—We have already
alluded to the appointment of three additional general
officers for the Eastern array. Lord Rokeby, late of the
Guards, is an old Waterloo officer, a member of the
noble house of Montagu, who, like a glorious scion of
the nobility, has volunteered to go out. I.lajor-Genera.
Barnard. was for many years Colonel on the Staff
Major-General Markham, C. 8., late of the 32d Foot,.
was Aide-de-Camp to the Queen. He served in Canad 3,
and in India durin,-, the Punjaub campaign, for which
ha received a•niedarand two clasps.

17 ON E V MAIt K E T

A 11 D

COMMERCIAL TNT ELL fa KATE.

CITY, TNN 0 o'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 7,000 bales, including 700 American
and 300 Surat taken for export. The market was
heavy, and no change in prices. The sales com-
prised 6,000 American, 120 Pernam and Maran-
liam, at 61(1. to 6i(1., 200 Egyptian, at 51(1 to 81(I.,
and 700 Surat, at 31d. to 3id. per lb. Railway
shares were dull.

The official statement of the public income and
expenditure for the year ended the 10th October
is far more satisfactory, under all circumstances,
than might have been expected. It appears that,
notwithstanding the costly nature of the conver-
sion, there was still a fair balance in hand at the
date mentioned, although not equal to that exist-
ing on the corresponding day of 1853. The com-
parative figures stand thus :
. _

Balances, Oct. 10, 1853. £6,780,241 6 6
„ „ 10, 1854 5,626;529 9 11
The amount of delit created during the year was—
Exchequer Mils £19,730,900 0 0
Consolidated Fund Bills 1,290,000 0 0
The amount of Funded Debt paid off
was

The excess of Income over Expendi-
ture was
The English Stock market has been very ani-
mated for one security, Reduced Threes, in which
numerous bargains have been made in prices rang-
ing from 91} to 9n. Consols have been firmer,
at 911 to I. Exchequer Bills have been at 4s. to
7s. premium. The New Three per Cents. realise
91i to I.

Foreign Stocks were but little dealt in ; but an
improvement has occurred in the Turkish Scrip to
6 and 5 discount. Peruvian Bonds have been
firm at 70i. Spanish Deferred Stock is worth 19.
Dutch 4 per Cents. have brought 911 to 912.
There has not been a bargain in any other security.

The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6; Mexi-
can, 21i to 211 ; Peruvian, 69 to 71 ; ditto
3 per Cents., 48 to 50 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents.,
41 to 43 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 97 to 99 ; ditto
4 per Cents., 87 to 89 ; Spanish New Deferred,
18i to 19i ; ditto 3 per Cents., 381 to 391 ; ditto
Certificates, 5i to 5a ; ditto Passive, 4/ to 4i.
The English Railways have improved a little in
most instances, with a very limited business doing.
The chief transactions have been in Great North-
ern, Midland, Great Western, Lancashire and
Yorkshire, and South-Western. The Foreign
lines have been without alteration generally, but
East Indian Extension are flatter, and also Great
Luxembourg.

In the Colonial and other Mining Companies the
transactions have been limited, and at ba;rely pre-
vious rates. The Joint Stock Banking Shares have
been very dull. The Peninsular and Oriental
Steam Line have risen, and the South Australian
Land are better.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES,
( From the Ouicial List. )

Bo qiness done

Bank Stock ..
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9li MIW
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuitiei Expire sth Jan., 180
India Bonds, £lOOO .
Consols for Account, 10th January
Exchequer Bills, Yid.
21000
Small 4 7
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Small ........... ....... ...
Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cont.
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent —
Ditto Now Deferred, 3 per Cent
Turkish Scrip 6 per cent 6l 51 i d
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent. 12 Guil 6li
Ditto 4 Der Cmt. CJrtifieates
THREE O'CLOCK.

flonsoli
Ditto, January A

......
.. ... 914 I x d

The Russian couriers manage to get from Sebastopo,
to Moscow, by way of Odessa, in 96 hours ; from Mos-
cow they reach St. Petersburg by an extra train in 12
hours ; thus already 108 hours suffice, when no accidents
occur, to convey Prince Menschikoff's despatches from
the seat of war to the centre of government.
On Saturday last, about ir,o navvies in the employ of
Messrs. Peto and Co., engaged for the construction of
the railway from Balaklava to the trenches in front of
Sebastopol, left town by a special train for North Shields,
-whence they were to be conveyed to the Austrian ter-
ritory. The men are to have ss. per day, and their
lodging, food, and clothes found them. The total num-
ber to be sent out will, we understand, exceed 2,000.
A POTHEC HALL.--Names of gentlemen who
passed their examination in the science and practice of
medicine, and received certificates to practise on Thurs-
day, Dec. 14 :—Edward Russell, Liverpool ; Robert
Henry Moon, Ilfracombe, Devoe ; Edward Towndiow
France, Sheffield; William Moxon, Rugeley, Stafford-
hire.
ROYAL COLLEGE Or SURGEONS.—The following gentle- ,
men having undergone the necessary examinations for
the diploma were admitted members of the college at ,
the meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 15th inst.: 1
—Messrs. Henry Wakefield, Hon. East India Corn- 2
parry's service, Bombay ; Edmund Reeve, Brancaster, 2'l
Norfolk ; James Hinton, Clifton, near Bristol ; George 2i
Nicholas Cheek, lion. East India Company's service,
Bengal ; William Whytehead Boulton, Beverley, York-
shire ' • George Uttermarck, Guernsey ; Matthew Brown 100
-
field, Milton, Gravesend ; Edward A. Rogers, Man-
cheater ; Walter Board, Burnham, Somerset ; Joseph 100
B. Murphy, West Ella, near Hull ; and John Griffith, 20
Barmoeth, North Wales. 25
BIRTH EXTRAORDINARY.—On Monday morning last, 25
the wife of a labouring man named Booth, living at 25
Howden Clough, near Birstal, West Riding, gave birth
to four children, three boys and a girl. They were all 100
alive at the time of birth, but died shortly afterwards.
, 100
RAILWAY SLEEPERS FOR THE CRlMEA.—During last 20
week the works of Messrs. Reed and Co., proprietors of 5
the creosote works at the North Dock, Montwear- 5
mouth, have been employed night and day cutting and 20?
preparing sleepers for the intended new railway in the
Crimea. About 20,000 of these are now ready, and 100
will be conveyed by the North Eastern Railway to the
Tyne, where they will be loaded on board several large 100
100
screw-steamers, chartered by the Government, and sail
100
direct for the Crimea.—Sunderland Times.
LIMERICK COUNTY ELECTION.—The writ for holding 20;
the election was received on Thursday by the High 100'
sheriff, who has appointed Tuesday, the 26th, for the 20
nomination. Mr. Stephen De Vere will be returned 5
without opposition. He is brother of Sir Vero De
Vere, of Curragh Chase, nephew of Lord Monteagle, 20
and cousin of the Earl of Limerick.
FOOD CONTRA.CTS.—During the past week the food 20 4
contracts for many years of the unions in Devonshire
have been taken (from Christmas to Lady-day) at prices, N
as it will be seen, by no means so exorbitantly high as 20
many persons predicted would be paid during war time. 33,
The contract for bread at the Tiverton union has been 10
accepted at 74d. to lid. per 41b. loaf ; flour, 575. per 29
sack ; mutton, sd. per lb. For the Totnes union con- 20
tracts for bread have been taken at lid. to 81d. per 41b.
loaf ; seconds flour, 565. sd. for 2801bs. ; beef, sd. to 20
64d. ; mutton, 5.1 d., and pork, 6id. per lb. ; fresh but- 111
ter, is. 4d. ditto. A rather extraordinary fall in the
price of pork occurred at the Exeter market last Friday.
Ou the previous market day the price was as high as
10s. 3d. per score, whereas on the following Friday the
price fell to Be. and 9s. per score. A very large quan-
tity of pigs was left unsold even at this reduction.
ARMY AND NAVY SERVICES.-- From a return yester-
day printed, on the motion of Mr. Disraeli, M.P., it
appears that the total payments made by the Bank of
England, up to the 11th of December inst., in respect
of the sum of 12,874,5051., appropriated under the 17th
and 18th of Victoria, cap. 121, for the navy services of
the year 1854, amounted to 8,825,000/. ; the same pay'
ments in respect of the sum of 8.810,059/. appropriated
for the army services, to 5,029,0001., and the same pay

10
5
20
20

went in respect of the sum of 4,583,701/., appropriated I V
to the Ordnance, to 2,950,000/. The balances of credits, 20
• . 20

&c., now in the Bank are respectively as follows, viz. .
—On account of the army, 38,1041.; the navy, 5 029/ ; ,
and the Ordnance, 37,8361. The above payments. m" 10
''
prise the full sums advanced up to the 11th of Deccoem
ber ; but it will be impossible to state how much of 20
20
these advances will ultimately be chargeable
upon the
vote of credit of 3,000,0001. (appropriated by the said 6
act for "additional expenses") until accounts and .F-
O
vouchers shall have been received, including all the re-
turns from abroad, showing the actual disbursements 40
for each separate service. Out of the said vote of credit 40
for 3,000,000/., the sum of 500,000/. constitutes the total
amount of payments made by the Bank up to the 11th 50
of December inst.; but this sum does not represent. the 25
full amount expended up to that day on account of the 20
vote of credit, for the reasons already stated. The ne- 100
cessary transfers from the vote of credit Ordnance ai of th 100
extra expenditure for navy, army, and sere - 20
vices cannot be made until the accounts of actual dis-
bursements shall have been received and audited ; hut 20
any addition to the expenditure chargeable against this
vote will be, pro tante, a reduction from the expendi- 50,
tore as stated above, for the navy, army, and Ordnance a
votes. 100
CHARGES OF FELONY AGAINST A BRISTOL MERCHANT.
--The Bristol magistrates were occupied yesterday in
20
investigating several charges of felony against an oil- 50
merchant of that city, Mr. John Gilbert, jun., and a man 20
in his employ named Davey. Testimony was adduced 25
in support of the presumption that the prisoner had com-
100
mitted robberies to a serious extent, from the fact that
for some time past he has sold oil at a much lower rate
1-05
than other persons in the trade could afford to do. The
result of the investigation was, that the prisoners were 25
both committed, Davey on the charge of stealing, and 25
Gilbert for receiving the •*l.l, knowing it to have been 50
si9lon, ...