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London, England, 1854-03-14 00:00:00

tain the stock cheaper than other persons. The
price is 11 to 2 premium.
The Railway Market has been buoyant, but this
being " ticket day," there is little doing beyond
the arrangements connected therewith. French
Shares are in request, and about a to / better.
The current prices for the Jamaica mines, not
officially quoted, are as follows :
Metcalfe, to / premium ; Sue River, F discount
to par ' • Port Royal, g to g premium.
The Foreign Mine Shares have been firm, but
very quiet.

In the Miscellaneous Shares there is nothing
doing.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(Front the Official List.)
Business done.
3 per Cent, Consols Annuities 9ll $ 4
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4 15-16
India Bonds, £lOOO —
Ditto, under £lOOO 4 p
Consols for Account 16th, March
Exchequer Bills, ld.
£IOOO
£500
Small lO 14 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent. 77
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent.. .......
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent 76
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent.
,i; St 9l
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 371
Dividends on the above payable In London.
HALF-PAST TWO.
Consols
Ditto March Account 914 i

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

THE WAR IN THE EAST.
THE PASSAGE OF THE DANUBE BY THE

RUSSIANS.

The Correspondent of the Morning Chronicle
writes from Braila, on Feb. 27.—" I have to com-
municate a fact of great importance to you under
the present circumstances, and which has this
moment come to my knowledge. The passage
of the Russians on the right bank of the Da-
nube, between Braila and Galatz, is no longer a
supposition, and it will take place almost imme-
diately. General Prince Gortschakoff, who left
this for Galatz on the 23d instant, proceeded to
Ismail, where he inspected the troops, which we
may shortly expect here. A corps of 50,000 will
be concentrated on Braila. Contracts have been
made for the provisioning of the army—such as
straw, hay, barley, meat, flour, &c. Moreover, a
quantity of iron and chain cables have been pur-
chased for the construction of bridges. All these
articles are to be delivered within the shortest
delay possible."

The following is dated Vienna, Monday even.

ing:—

"Austria was invited to join the Western Powers
in an alliance against Russia. Austria forwarded
the proposition to Prussia, with modifications to
the following effect :
" She does not feel herself called on to join the
Western Powers in a declaration of war against
Russia, but is prepared to sign a convention for
securing the integrity of Turkey in the spirit of the
treaty of 1841.

Aiistria will maintain peace in Servia, Monte-
negro, and Bosnia, leaving it to the Western
Powers to care for Greece and the Greek provinces
in Turkey.
" It appears from an article in the Oest. Corre-
spondenz of Sunday that Prussia approves this."
A telegraphic despatch from Berlin, dated Mon-
day evening, says
" The President of the Second Chamber put a
question to-day to the Minister as to the course
which the Government intended to take in the
impending war. M. Manteuffel answered that the
Government will soon make proposals to the
Chamber, which will give an opportunity of ex-
plaining the course hitherto taken by the Govern-
ment, and in which it will persevere. Prussia is
on terms of amity with France and England."
A telegraphic despatch, dated Kalarasch (oppo-
site Silistria), March 4, says :—"About 1,200
Turks crossed the river in three places. They en-
countered about an equal number of the Russians,
and, after an engagement which lasted some hours,
and after dismounting several Russian guns, they
retired to the right bank. At Bucharest on the
7th, and at Krajova on the 9th, there was nothing
of importance to communicate."

A fetter from St. Petersburg, of the Ist instant,
announces that the Emperor visited, on the pre-
ceding day, the fortifications of Cronstadt, accom-
panied by his son the Grand Duke Alexander.
Letters from Constantinople of the 27th state
that the Turkish Government has required from
the Greek Minister in that capital a formal disa-
vowal of all participation in, or c(innivance with,
these acts of subjects of the Greek Government;
and Redschid Pasha has declared that, if within a
given time, authentic proofs were not forthcoming of
its having nothing whatever to do with the aggres-
sion, or of its not having done all in its power to
prevent it, the Greek Minister should receive his
passports. These intentions are said to have been
communicated by the Porte to the English and
French Ambassadors, who have approved of them.
The Cologne Gazette, under date of Vienna Bth,
says :—" A report was current at the Bourse to-
day that the left wing of the army of the north
was to have its head-quarters at Troppac, the left
at Cracow, and the centre at Olmutz. The Arch-
duke Albert has not only been appointed to the
command of the army of observation, but also
general-in-chief of all the armies of Hungary.
Accounts from Krajova of the 4th announce that
the Russians have abandoned the investment of
Kalafat ; 3,000 men only remain before that place.
The remainder have retired and taken up a position
between the Schyl and Aluta. A regular emigra-
tion has commenced among the people of Wallachia.
Whole villages being no longer able to support the
bad treatment and the tyranny of the Russians,
are leaving with their wives and children, and all
the property they can convey with them to place
themselves under the protection of the Turks.
Most of them are Greek Christians."

THE BLACK SEA.

The subjoined is dated Varna, Feb. 15:—" I con•

tinue to see in this place additional proofs of the
extraordinary exertions the Turks aro capable of
when pressed by hard necessity to shake off their
habitually quiescent habits. The greater part of
the ammunition and stores of the nine vessels
which were conveyed here by the Magellan and.
the Furious have been discharged, only one acci-
dent having occurred—one of the Paixhans, of 44
olzes alias a 120-pounder, having from miscalcu-
lation of the enormous weight sunk a short dis-
tance from the jetty, but in shallow water, and
therefore in the hope of being fished out very shortly.
This extraordinary activity we owe to the impulse
communicated to all branches of the service by
Omer raiz Paaha; the newly-appointed military
governor of this important fortress, for notwith-
standing a succession of gales and snow storms,
in which the Furious snapped a cable and deposited
pro tem. an anchor in the road of Varna, this
man has been down every morning to the jetty,
beforo daylight, in fair weather and foul reprov-
ing the indolent and encouraging the active.
The Anglo-French fleet in the Black Sea is ex-
pected to pay a visit to this port very shortly, and
the large steam-mill of Messrs. Charnaud is in full
activity, this house having entered into heavy
contracts with the French Government for the
supply of flour and biscuit to the squadron. The
numerous water mills of the valley are not equal
to the exigencies of the now important station of
Varna, for to take flour or biscuit to the shores of
the Black Sea is like taking coals to Newcastle.
The great abundance of provisions stored up in
the magazines of the fortresses has arisen from
the Government having forbidden the export of
grain, and laid its hands on the large supplies
which go to Constantinople, the Mediterranean, and
England ; therefore, the rise of price is not indica-
tive of scarcity for the army, but a result of the
extraordinary measures to provide against a
Omer Pasha said some
de-
ficiency for the troops.
time ago, Why is the Government continually
sending me wheat. I do not know where to put
the wheat I have. What we want is barley and
forage.'
" The merchants of Varna complain loudly of the
prohibition to export, and there can be no doubt
that their case is a hard one, for not only are they
forbidden to export what is in the hands of the
peasants, but they cannot even do what they will
with their own, that is, with the corn bought, paid
for, and lying in their own stores. The state of war
also presses heavily on all the other operations.
"The report of the speeches of Messrs. Cobden and
Bright at the Manchester meeting has arrived here,
and to a person practically acquainted with Turkey,
or living on the spot, they are a mass of fallacies,
showin -y extraordinary ignorance of Turkey. One
would think that those speeches were made 15 years
ago, when the Empire was in all the travail of her
national difficulties, with her powerful revolted
satrops, with the great work of her unfeudalising
revolution not yet begun, her arming an untu-
tored horde, and justice to the Christian popula-
tion not yet recognised as a sound maxim of policy
by her leading statesmen. Doubtless Turkey is
still terribly behind in road-posts, and many
other institutions. But Messrs. Cobden and ,