The Sun.
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THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 9, 1854.

citor-General for Ireland, which latter post
he continued to hold under the GRENVILLE Ad-
ministration. During that interval, his powers,
which were totally unknown by the English,
had been almost forgotten by the Irish members.
When at last he was returned for Midhurst he
was received with coldness and indifference. He,
however, speedily created a sensation, which
placed him on a pinnacle from which he was
never subsequently displaced. Mr. Commissioner
PHILLIPS, in his admirable work " Curran and his
Contemporaries," thus truthfully and eloquently
describes the event :—" Although obnoxious to
GRATTAN'S admonition to FLooD, that an oak of
the forest was too old and too great to be trans-
planted at fifty,' he ventured, after seven years'
hesitation, into the English House of Com-
mons. His name was scarcely known there.
But on his very first speech he was at
once and unanimously recognised as an orator of
the highest class. He burst abruptly upon Par-
liament in all the effulgence of his genius. The
almost unexpected appearance of so brilliant a
luminary above the political horizon immediately
attracted every eye, and fixed the public atten-
tion. It stood alone and incomparable, neither
to the two great luminaries which had just sat,
nor to the lesser lights which still shone, did it in
any portion of its phases bear resemblance. There
was nothing of PITT'S majestic diction—nothing
of the fierce vehemence of Fox—the sparkling
fancy of CANNING was not there—nor SHERIDAN'S
adorned declamation nor WINDHAM'S Attic
graces. He stood alone, isolated and original."

Such a man could not escape the shafts of envy
and malignity. He was the butt of many missiles,
but none touched him so severely as that in re-
ference to the unfortunate ROBERT EMMETT, on
whose prosecution he was retained, speaking to
evidence on the occasion. That the charge was
utterly untenable appeared on the trial that oc-
curred in respect thereof. Mr. PHILLIPS speaks
of the charge as " totally unfounded," and
MOORE, in his Diary, also exonerates the distin-
guished advocate from transgressing in any degree
the strict line of his duty. It was, however, per-
sisted in with malignant perseverance, but will,
we trust, be buried in the tomb, with the object
of the calumny.
We have already alluded so fully to the various
events in life of this truly great man, that we
may be excused from following him through the
course of his eventful career. We cannot, how-
ever, refrain from giving Mr. PHILLIPS' description
of him while still a practitioner at the bar.
" But stop !—who is that square-built, solitary
ascetic-looking person, pacing to and fro, his hands
crossed behind his back, so apparently absorbed
in self—the observed of all, and yet the com-
panion of none ? It is easy enough to designate
the man, but difficult adequately to delineate his
character. Perhaps there never was a person
less to be estimated by appearances. He is pre-
cisely the reverse of what be seems. Externally
cold, yet ardent, in his nature ; in manner re-
pulsive, yet warm, sincere, and steadfast in
his friendships ; severe in aspect, yet in
reality social and companionable. That is
PLUNKETT, a man of the foremost rank,
a wit, a jurist, a statesman, an orator, a logi-
cian—the Irish GYLIPPUS, as CURRAN called him,
in whom are concentrated all the energies and all
the talents of his country. Eminent at the bar,
it is in Parliament we see his faculties in their
fullest development ; yet in the Irish House of
Commons his chief displays were on a single ques-
tion, that of the Union, and in the. British Par-
liament that of the Roman Catholic question.
His style was peculiar, and almost quite divested
of the characteristics generally to be found in
that of his countrymen. Strong, cogent reason-
ing, plain but deep sense, earnest feeling and
imagery, seldom introduced except to press the
reasoning or to illustrate it, were the distinguishing
features of his eloquence. He byno means rejected
ornament, but he used it sparingly ; and though
it produced its effect, it was not directly, but
rather collaterally and incidentally. He always
seemed to speak for a purpose, never for mere
display; and his wit, like his splendour, appeared
to be struck out by the collision of the moment.
In this, indeed, his art was superlative !" With
this truthful and beautiful quotation we take our
leave of the great Advocate, Statesman, and
Judge, merely adding of him what GEORGE the
Third emphatically declared of his earliest friend
and college companion, Archbishop MAGEE, "He
was, indeed, a man of other times, when there
were giants in the land !"

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INT ELLIGENC.E.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool on Saturday
were estimated at 5,000 bales, all to the trade.
The market was very firm, without change in
prices. The sales include 300 Egyptian at 6d. to
9 Ad., and the remainder American. Railway shares
were dull and heavy, at lower prices.
Wheat is up 3s. per quarter as compared with
last Monday, but with a slow trade.
By a direct arrival, the Ambrosine, we have
Geelong (Port Philip) dates of Oct. 13. The rate
of exchange on London was 1 per cent. discount at
30 days' sight, and for every additional 30 days
per cent. This was the Bank rate of purchase,
but drafts were issued at 1 per cent. premium.
Gold was at 765. per ounce, and freight to London
4id. per ounce. Wages were high in the colony of
Victoria generally. The continued unsettled
weather had retarded the shearing operations
throughout the western district, and shearers were
more easily obtained than last year. The demand
for all descriptions of labour continued great.
Bullock drivers for the roads were scarcely to be
had, and married couples without children for
home stations, &c., were equally scarce. Female
servants for the country were also difficult to ob-
tain. Married couples for hotels, per ann., with ra-
tions, from 1001. to 110/. ; married couples for home
stations per ann., with rations, 701. to 801. ; ditto
for out-stations per annum, 651. ; families taking
two flocks, per annum, 701. to 801. Shepherds,
per annum, 401. ; hutkeepers, 351. ; do. for home
stations, 401. ; generally useful servants, 701. ;
bullock drivers for the roads, per week, with ra-
tions, 31. ; do. for stations, per annum, with
rations, 75/. to 861. ; cooks for inns, per week,
with rations, 1/. 10s. to 21. ; cooks for shearers,
per week, 21. ; shearers, per week, with rations,
1/. 10s. ; do. per hundred, with rations, 11. 10s. ;
farm labourers, per week, with rations, 30s. ; farm
servants, per annum, with rations, 701. to 751. ;
grooms, per annum, with rations, 601. to 701. ;
gardeners, per annum, with rations, 751. to 801.
Seamen, A.B. to run to London, 451. to 50/. ;
A.B. for coasting, per month, 10/. to 121. Female
servants : general house servants, per annum, 251.
to 301. ; housemaids, 201. to 25/. ; laundresses,
251. to 301.

The latest Geelong gold report states :—" The
intelligence from the different digging localities
continues good, although on the Ballarat side they
complain of the late rains having greatly impeded
operations. The later discoveries there have been
at a much less depth than hitherto, in fact exten-
sive surfacing has been met with, holding out some
encouragement for the digger of small means ;
the line of the last discoveries is toward Bunin-
gong. That which has been long since predicted
is now pretty well established, that all the ground
between Golden Point and Buningong was one
continued gold field. On the Wardy Yallock
a few are at work, and said to be doing
well, but the Western diggings will have a fair
chance of being fully developed this season from
the large numbers now swelling their population.
Since the last circular there have arrived by e :cort
43,582 ounces.
The revenue accounts of Victoria for the quarter
ending Sept. 30, showed that the ways and means
of the year would be about 2,846,8391. 16s. 7d.,
and the appropriations for the service of 1853 were
stated at 1,739,1b2/. The ordinary revenue
amounted to 385,0321. against 190,6061. during the
same quarter of the previous year, and the terri-
torial revenue was 736,3301. against 462,3401.
The following official information is from Van
Diemen's Laud :

" The competition in the supply of food with other
countries—more especially with America--is not to be
feared ; as, owing to the distance and expense of freight,
flour can hardly be imported into the Australian colo-
nies at a rate yielding less than 6s. per bushel for wheat,
and it is evident that the risk and expense of importing
produce of a perishable nature, such as potatoes, onions,
fruit, &c., from distant countries are so great, that in
such articles there can be no competition."

The following outline of the land regulations will
show the advantages offered to emigrants :
" lily the regulations of November, 1851, any re-
spectable person may select one block of land for rental,
with regard to the whole or a portion of which he will
have the power of claiming a right of pre-emption (that
is, of buying before other persons), at the upset price
of it. per acre, on the following conditions
"That the amount proposed to be pUrchased shall
not be less than 100 acres, and not more than 640 acres.
" That he shall declare his intention to exercise the
right of pre-emption, with regard to a specific quantity
of land, within a given time.
"That with regard to this amount of land he shall
pay an increased rental annually of 30s. per hundred
acres, in addition to the annual rent or license-fee of 1/.
per hundred acres mentioned in the rules for rental,
making the amount of the rent of the land to be pur-
chased equivalent to 2A per cent. upon the upset price.
" That he shall not be called upon to pay the upset
price of the land until ten years from the date of selec-
tion.
"There are some regulations as to transfer of this
land, the object of which is merely to check or prevent
jobbing, and to which, therefore, it is unnecessary to
refer.
"The advantage Which these new regulations hold
out to the settler with a small capital are ob-

vious. Out of every hundred pounds of his capital,
971. 10s. is left in his hand to clear and stock his
farm, erect the necessary buildings, &o. ; and
he is thus enabled to keep himself clear of debt
at his first outset. At the same time, he may at once
enter upon the possession of any amount of land which
the capital at his disposal may enable him to cultivate,
with the positive certainty that, at the period when the
price of land will have to be paid to the Government, he
will have no difficulty in meeting the demand made upon
him ; for should he not have saved the whole amount
from the price of the produce of his arm, yet the in-
creased value of the land, in consequence of the labour
bestowed in clearing and fencing, will be such as to
enable him to borrow without difficulty the amount de-
manded by the Government."
The railway meetings announced are the follow-
lnb

Company. Date. Place.
Great Indian Peninsular Jan. 11, 3, New

Broad street.
Kilk. & Gt. Sou. & Westn. Ireland. Jan. 11, 17, Grace-
church-street,
London and Greenwich Jan. , 11, 10, Cole•
man-street,
London, Brighton, and South Coast Jan. 26, Bridge.
house Hotel,
North Staffordshire Jan. 25, Stoke.
upon-Trent,
Paris and Rouen

The English Stocks have been heavy again this
morning, but, upon the whole, they are not lower.
Consols have realised 92k to for transfer, and
924 to 92y for account. The New 3j per Cents.
have realised 931 to and the Three per Cent.
Reduced Annuities 92i to 4. Bank Stock is worth
219. Exchequer Bills are Gs. to 9s. premium, and
India Bonds par to 4s. premium. The news of
the fleets having entered the Black Sea has not
occasioned either excitement or surprise.

Foreign Stocks have been a good deal dealt in at
lower prices. Russian Five per Cents. have de-
clined to 110 and 109. Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. have been 62k to 63. Spanish Three
per Cents. are 431, and the New Deferred 20k.
Mexican Bonds have been 221- to 23, being one-
half per cent. lower. Equador have been at 41.
The Grenada Deferred Bonds have been at 7.
Brazilian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. are marked 92.
The market for Railway Shares has been rather
firmer, and a few purchases have given some im-
pulse. They, however, are partly the result of
speculators buying back. French shares have
rallied about 10s., and the improvement is to about
that extent in the English lines.
The Gold Mine shares have been neglected • the
Land Companies' are steady ; and in the Banks
nothing has been done.

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

Business done.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 92a i 1
3 per Cent Consols Annuities . 924 1 i x d
New 31 per Cent. Annuities 938 a i i R 6
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
India Bonds, £lOOO
Ditto, under £lOOO ........................... 4 p
Consols for Opening 18th Jan
Exchequer. Bills, ld.
£l000
£5OO. 6 9 p
Small 6 9 p
PRICt OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New, 1852, 43/4 per Cent 92
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 62
Chiliau Bonds, 6 per Cent lOl 2 100
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent B3 41
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, Deferred
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account... 23 21 i i
Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. 65
Ditto 5 per Cent .....,...... . 47
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent. 39
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent. £ St llO 9 x d
Ditto 4i per Cent 9l 89}
Ditto Small
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent B9 8
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 43i 123 x d
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cont. 2Ol i x d
Ditto Passive (Converted)
Venezuela Bonds, 3i per Cent
Ditto Deferred, 1 per Cent l3
Dividends on the above payable;in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Guil ..... 623/4 3 2/ 1 x d
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates 95 41
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for Opening 18th January.... .... : 9213 i x d

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.

RUSSIA AND TURKEY.

ENTRANCE OF THE COMBINED FLEETS
INTO THE BLACK SEA.

A telegraphic despatch from Constantinople,
dated December 30, says the combined fleets have
entered the Black Sea.

Eighty exiled Softas had arrived at Candia on
December 27.

Teu thousand Egyptian troops are concentrated
at Cairo, under El Hamill Paella, for military
exercises.

The storming of Karakal by the Turks has not
yet been officially confirmed, but the Siebenburgen
Bote (Transylvania Courier) persists in the truth
thereof.

Austria has demanded whether the Russian Court
would object to a European Protectorate over the
Christians in Turkey.
The reply, in most positive language, was that
Russia would permit no other Power to meddle in
the matter of the Greek Church. Russia had
treaties with the Porte, and would settle the ques-
tion with her alone.

M. Kaniloff, director of the diplomatic bureau
at Teflis, has gone on a special mission to Teheran,
with four staff and six subaltern officers.

Prince George Stourdza, son of the ex-Hospodar
of Moldavia, has offered his services to the Sultan,
who has accepted them, and the Prince is to set out
for the army of Omer Pasha, where he will com-
mand a brigade.
The Pasha of Egypt, when he heard of the dis-
aster at Sinope, ordered the immediate armament of
six frigates, five corvettes, and three brigs, destined
to fill up the chasm which has been produced in
the materiel of the Turkish fleet.

From St. Petersburg, Dec. 28, we learn that the
Prince of Warsaw is expected there shortly to take
s share in the diplomatic conferences. The loss of
a vessel of 110 guns, the Rotiscoff, was sensibly felt
by the Emperor.
The most perfect tranquillity reigned at Bucha-
rest on the 30th Dec. The march of troops towards
Lesser Wallachia had been suspended, the ground
being covered with snow.
From Belgrade we learn that on the eve of St.
Nicholas (Dec. 17), it was rumoured there that the
usual prayers were not to be said for the Emperor
of Russia, the protector of the country. The
heads of the church having received an address
from several inhabitants, went to the residence of
the chief magistrate and requested him to give the
necessary orders for the prayers to be said. It was
eventually decided that what was asked for should
be done. The Consuls of England and of France
having conside red that fact as a violation of the
neutrality, drew up a protest, and addressed a
report to their ambassadors at Constantinople.
The Servian government has demanded explana-
tions from the (7,o3inet of St. Petersburgh relative
to the presence oiF Prince Milosch in the neighbour-
hood of Servia. The reply contains the assurance
that, in case of noed, Russia would protect Prince
Alexander, and t 1 iat the presence of Prince Milosch
in the neighbourl mod of Servia is quite a matter of
indifference as regards the future welfare of the
country.

The -journal do St. Petersbourg of the 25th ult.
has the following :from the frontier of Asia :
" The last despatches from the Aide-de-Camp
General Woronzoi,' F.; under date the 30th November,
confirm still more strongly the impression pro-
duced on the Turl s by our victories before Akhalb-
sykh and at Basch kadyk-Lara. In consequence of
the defeats sustain ed by the enemy, most of their
militia dispersed, and the -Kurds, who were with
the Turks, turned against their regular troops who
were retiring in disorder, and took from them all
that they could. In addition to the inhabitants of
the Sandjuk, of the Poskhoff-Tchai, those of the
Sandjuk of Tchaldyr, have solicited our protection ;
and in general the populations of the neighbouring
Turkish possession .s send deputies and elders to
meet our chiefs of detachments, and to give them
assurances of their • peaceable dispositions."
The Emperor of Russia has conferred the Order
of St. Alexander Nevsky on Admiral de Ricord,
member of the Advniralty Council and president of
the scientific coma littee of the navy ; and has nomi-
nated Lieut.-Gene ral Rostovtsoff, chief of the staff
of H. I. H. the Cesarevitch Hereditary Grand.
Duke, and superic ix. of the military schools, a mem-
ber of the same 0 Her.

Geneval Prim a tarted from Constantinople on the
sth for Paris and. Madrid. On Monday previous
he had an audience of the Sultan, being presented
by the Spanish ambassador, Chevalier Antonio
Riquelme, at the Imperial Palace of Tcheragan, on
the Bosphorus. He was accompanied by his staff.
On that occasion he made the following speech :

" Sire,—On the eve of departure for Spain, in order
to give an account to my gracious Sovereign of the mis-
sion with which she has deigned to charge me, my first
duty is to take leave of your Imperial Majesty, and to
receive your sovereign orders. Allow me, Sire, at the
same time to express to your Imperial Majesty my
sincere thanks for having allowed both myself and the
officers under my command to assist at the opera-

tions of .your valiant army of Routnelia, which has
enabled;nie to appreciate all the brilliant qualities of
the Ottoman soldier. I have seen him indefatigable
in all the marches and labours of the campaign,
under privations and suffering of every kind ; I have
seen him resigned ; and I have also seen him coura-

geous and enthusiastic, when fighting against the enemies
of his country in the magic name of your Imperial
Majesty. The illustrious captain to whom your Impe-
rial Majesty has deigned to confide the army of the
Danube, by his intelligence, his activity, and coolness, is
worthy, in my humble opinion, to command such sol-
diers. I leave in the hopes of returning next spring.
Then I shall find your Imperial Majesty at the head of
your brave armies, and we shall have the satisfaction of
assisting at your brilliant triumphs • for God only knows,
Sire, what your soldiers are capable of doing in the day
of battle, when commanded by your Imperia Majesty."
This speech was made prior to the signature of
the note of the Four Powers.
Trieste is the appointed neutral town at which
the Congress is to be convened for the negotiations
for the peaceful settlement of the Turco-Russian
question. The Turkish Plenipotentiary is not yet
named. Aali Pacha, the late Governor of Smyrna,
is spoken of.