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Mud, proinoLed ; Auguritus Newton, Gent., to IA En-
sign, vice Frederick Peto, resigned.
2(lRegiment (Light Infantry) of West York Militia—
William Watts, Gent , to be Ensign ; Charles Masterman
Smyth, Gent., to be Ensign ; Ensign Richard Wilson to
be Lieutenant, vice English, resigned.
3d Regiment (Light Infantry) of West York Militia
William Pickard, Gent„ to be Ensign.
4th Regiment of West York Militia—Ensign Bryan Eyre
Ceote Comber to be Lieutenant, vice Harrison; appointed
to the 21st Foot ; Wm. Mather, Gent., to be-Eurugu.
The Galloway Rifles—Ensign' Septimus Parrot' to "is
Lieutenant, vice Thomas Hugh Tans Dalrymple Has,
Esq., resigned.
Cambridgeshire Militia—Reginald Whitig, Gent., to
be Ensign, vice Rees, promoted.
Ross. Caithness, Sutherland, and Croniarty Eiecent of
Rifle Militia—Major George William Holmes to ke
Lieutenant-Colonel, vice the Honourable James inclair,
deceased. .

LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, REILItUARY 12, 1846.

E ritioz 413. STAMPED SD•

Spirit of the Public Journals.

AMERICA.

Governineat did not :iptend to bring in any bill to
amend the law.on the subject during the present session.
110IfSE OF COMMONS OFFICES BILL.
Lsrd ST,ANLEY of ALDERLEY moved the first
reoding.ot this bill.
The bill was accordingly read a first time.
Their lordships then adjourned.

(Front the Times of this day.)
The publication of the Crimean Report has at least
had the effect of convincing the aocused Crimean officers
that some explanation of their conduct during the period
of their command is expected from them. In this report
certain specific charges are made against many officers
—among others against the Earl of Lucan, the Earl of
Cardigan, Sir Richard Airey, and Colonel Gordon. The
representations made by Ministers in the two Houses of
Parliament in palliation of the conduct of their chief
military agents are now proved to have been totally un-
true. The &hums gossip of " good society," and of the
fierce old gentlemen in the clubs, has been duly weighed
in the balance, and may now be estimated at its proper
worth. The fact simply is, that between them the chief
English officers in the Crimea destroyed one third of the.
army committed to their care. Three-fourths of the
misvy and starvation, and suffering from cold and want
of clOhing. to make no mention of the absolute anni-
hilation of our splendid cavalry, must be referred to
the gross incapacity of the officers in chief com-
mand. These gentlemen are now strutting about
our streets with all the halo of heroism around
their heads ; they are receiving rewards from
foreign Sovereigns ; they are promoted to honours
and dignities at home, as though they had not done suf-
ficient mischief in the East, and as if the past were to be
slurred over and forgotten. The report of Sir John
M'Neill and Col. Tulloolo has 'ellen like a Russian shell
in the midst of therm dreamer*, And they appear to be at
last convinced that a day of reckoning has come which
they cannot evade.' This rsport—this official report, set
ou foot by the Government, and conducted by the agents
of the -Government—milt receive 44 amplest conside-
ration, and every officer whose conduct tias been therein
impugned, must be brought to the most exact account.
The Peers who took share in the debate last night appear
to have, as it were, an inkling of this great truth, but
they understand so little the gravity of the position that
they fancy a few formal declarations and formal vouchers
will be sufficient to satisfy the, public. This is not so.
By all means, if the Earls of Lucan and Cardigan, if Sir
R. Airey, and Col. Gordon, are falsely accused, let Sir
J. and Col. Tullocb, and all the officers and
soldiers they examined, be covered with confusion.
If, on the ntber hand, they are proved guilty of negli-
gence,' of incapacity, of gross unfitness for command ;
—if it can be shown that the greatest share of the
destruction which fell upon the British army bofora Se-
bastopol was due to their unofficer-like administration
of their important trust, by the consequences they must
abide. Fair play for all. But there is fair play for the
dead as well as for the living. The blood of 10,000 gal-
hint veterans—the flower of the
.English army—as true
heroes as Lord Lucan or Lord Cardigan, or as Sir R.
Airey or Colonel Gordon, cries from the ground for jus-
tice. The House of Peers is the highest court ofjudica-
ture in the realm—we solemnly admonish them, in the
name of the English people, how they prejudge this
cause. If they come forward as partisans, they will
simply link the prestige of their order to the fortunes of
men who are labouring under the weight of a heavy
accusation, brought against thorn by agents who have
in the most dispassionately judicial spirit reported upon
the case.

LIVERPOOL, FEE. 11.
The Royal mail steam-ship America has arrived
with advices from Boston to the 30th ult., and from
New York (by telegraph, via Halifax) to the 31st.
' She brought no specie on freight.
The Royal mail steamship Arabia arrived at
Halifax on the 31st ult., and proceeded to Boston.
The papers do not contain any information re-
specting the differences with England on the enlist.
went question.
On the 29th the ballot for Speaker stood as fol-
lows :—Banks, 99 ; Orr, 09; Fuller, 34; Scatteray,
8. Necessary to a choice, 106.
In the Senate, on the 28th ult., Mr. Cass de-
livered a speech, which occupied two hours and a
half, on Central American affairs. Alluding to
the remarks of the National Intelligences, that the
country might be drifting into difficulties, he said
that he did not believe it. He thought. the ship
of State was ou its true course, and the pilot doing
his duty. , Mr. Cass used strong language, denun-
ciatory of the positions assumed by the British Go-
vernment relative to the Protectorate in Central
America, characterising its pretensions in setting
up a king over the Mo4quito Indians as mere
mockery, under which England alone exercised
real soveroiguty.
Mr. Clayton corroborated Mr. CMs by reading
extracts from documents, showing thst the British
Vice-Consul was the real Governor of Mosquito,
and gave titles to land in his own A 0920,,
Mr. Collamer contended that Mire could be no
possible pretext for the assumption of England,
that the occupation she agreed not to exercise was
only prospective, and had uo reference to the occu
pation which she then held. He, however, thought
the time for legislative action had not arrived, in-
asmuch as the President, in his annual message,
expressed hopes that there might still be au amica-
ble adjustment of the controversies between this
Government and Great Britain. The subject was
then postponed.
A resolution, declaring "any agitation of the
slavery question unwise and unjust to a portion of
the American people and injurious to every section,
and ought not to be countenanced," had been
adopted by a majority of one in the House of Re•
presentatives.

Haddington, Berwick, Linlithgow, Audi Peeblesshires
be
Northamptonshire Militia—Wilhani Alexander tar,
RSeecgoinindenLtieQuittinialintit: vtetilHilynai-"ltoGen°,l—pro4l°l66matedik, tle
M.D., to be surgeon, vine Molloy, deceased:*
Worcestershire Regiment of Militia,-,Artlatu• Fleming
Slack Payne, Gent., to be Ensign, vice.Speoner, appointed
to the 42d Highlanders. John Turpin, Gent., to be Ea-
sign. Francis Robert Paulet, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
vice Bridge, appointed to the Land 'Prins/loft Corps,
Herman Ernest Galion, Esq., late Captain in the 50th
Foot, to be Captain, vice Noel, who retires.
Prince Regent's Royal Regiment of Ayrshire Militia
Rifles—Charles Birdwood, Gent., to be Ensign.
2d or North Durham Regiment of Militia—Augustus
Rich, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Green, resigned.
(The following appointment is substituted for that
which appeared in the Gazette of Tuesday, the sth inst.)
Royal Montgomery Rifles—John William Lloyd, Gent.,
to be Ensign, vice Shirkey, promoted.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—(This Evening.)
The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter before four
o'clock.

NEW MEMBERS. -
The Right lion. Mr. WALPOLE took the oaths and
his seat fur aanbridgegUniversity.
Mr. RIDLEY took the oaths and his teat for New-
castle.

NEW WRIT.
A new writ was issued for Leominster, in the place of
Mr. Ark wright, deceased.
BROADSTAIRS HARBOUR AND PIER BILL.
On the motion that this bill be read a second time,
Sir E. DERING moved that it be read a second
time that day three months. The inhabitants of St.
Peter's most strongly objected to a certain clause, and
the reason that they bad not opposed the bill in the first
instance was that, till Friday last, they were unac-
quainted with its provisions. If the hon. members
whose names were at the back of the bill would with-
draw the objectionable clause, he would withdraw his
opposition.
Mr. BROTHERNON said the clause would be with-
drawn.
The bill was then read a second time.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills 'were severally read a second time,
and ordered to be oottulatit,*---,bigenalaki,VA and
Wexford Railway, Barduey, &I Drainage, 134 wiry and
Tinsley Road, Crowland and Eye Road, Dews-
bury, Batley, and Heckmondwike Water, i Forest!
of Dean Central Railway ; Hampstead Junction,
Railway ; London, Tilbury, and Southend Rail
way (Additional Capital, • &c.) ; London, Tilbury,
and Southend Railway (Extension and Branches) ;
Perth, Almond Valley, and Methven Railway ; Perth
Burgh and Harbour ; Poole and Bourne Valley Rail-
way ; Uttoxeter aed Blythe Marsh Road ; and Wem
and Bronygarth Roads ; Calnbrook, Dafchet, and
Slough Road ; Conway and Llandudno Road ; Mid:and
Great Western Railway of Ireland ; Prisoners' Dis-
charge Society.

BANKR UPTS.
William Schenk, merchant, Royal Exchange•buildings,
Ccrnhill, city, to surrender Feb. 20, at half•past twelve,
and March 17, at twelve, at the Court of 13ankruptcy.
Graham, official assignee ; Surr and Gribble, Abchurch-
lane,

Thomtis Evans; tailor, St. James's-street, Westminster,
Feb. 20, at twelve, and March 19, at one, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Pike, Old Bur-
lington-street.
Richard Minifie, baker, Honiton, Devon, Feb. 21 and
March 27, at the Exeter Distiict Court. llirtzel, official
assignee, Exeter ; Mules, Honiton ; Dew, Exeter.
Charles Phillips Edney and Alfred Rains, wholesale
druggists, Liverpool, Feb. 22 and March 20, at eleven, at
the Liverpool District Court. Bird, oeleial assignee,
Liverpool; Evans and Sul, Liverpool.
Morton Andrew Edwards, sculptor, Dean-street,tßoho,
Feb. 28, at eleven, and March 27, at ono, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-build-
ing 3; Lowe, Wimpole-street.
David Davis, general-shop keeper, Merthyr Tydfil. Feb.
25 and March 31, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Miller, official assignee, Bristol.

William Bowman, tailor, Sloane.street, Chelsea, Feb.
22, at twelve, and March 28, at half-past eleven, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee. Alder-
manbury ; Hensmau, College-hill, Cannon-street Meat.
Henry Barnes, wine and spirit merchant, Winchester,
Feb. 22, at eleven, and March 27, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Gedye, George-street, Mansion-house ; Pain and
Rawlins, Winchester.
George Tilley, dust contractor, St. George's-wharf, Old
St. Pancras-road, to surrender, Feb. 20, at ball-past
eleven, and April 5, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Nicholson, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Chidley,
Gresham-street.

-
- THE LAW OF DEBT.
Mr. MALINS gave notice of his intention to intro-
duce a bill to do away with the present distinction be-
tween special and simple contract debts.
SALARIES OF COUNTY 'COURT JUDGES.
Mr. ROEBUCK gave notice that on that day fort-
night he would move for leave to bring in a bill to regu-
late the salaries of county court judges.
SANDHURST COLLEGE.
Colonel NORTH asked what steps bad been taken by
the Government (in accordance with the promise made
last year) to carry into effect the recommendation of the
Committee on Sandhurst College for the admission of
10 additional cadets into the orphan class at that esta•
blishment ?
Mr. F. PEEL said no steps had been taken to fill up
the proposed cadetships, because it was thought better
to let it stand over for the present.
PREVENTION OF RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.
Mr. SEYMOUR FITZGERAL D asked the Vice-
President of the Board of Trade whether it was his in-
tention to propose, during the present session, any mea-
sure for the prevention of accidents on railways ; and
also, as it appears from the proceedings in reference to
the report of the officer appointed, t inquire into the
condition of the Eastern Counties Railway, that, though
the Board of Trade had the power to direct inquiries into
the condition of any line of railway, it had no power to
compel the repairs that may be absolutely necessary
for the security of the public, whether it was his inten-
tion to introduce any measure for the purpose of invest-
ing the Board of Trade with the authority necessary for
the purpose '?
Mr. LOWE said it was the intention of the Presi-
dent of the Board of Lade to introduce his bill of last
session, with reference to railway accidents. The second
part of the question was under discussion.
In answer to a question front Mr. M'Ma.itiolv,
Mr. lIORSMAN said it was not his intention to
bring in any measure for facilitating the reclamation of
Irish waste lands ; neither did he intend to bring in
any measure to amend the Irish grand jury system.
Colonel W. I'ATTEN asked whether the joint com-
mission agreed to in the month of August last by the
Emperor of Morocco and her Majesty's Minister Pleni-
potentiary, to arrange a commercial treaty, had yet met,
and, if not, what was the cause of the delay
Lord PALMERSTON said that in consequence of
some delay on the port of the Emperor of Morocco,
which he explained, the treaty alluded to had not yet
been arran cd.
REGULATION OF THE NAVY.
Mr. BRADY asked the First Lord of the Admiralty
if he intended altering the regulations in her Majesty's
navy, by which the following officers were at present
not allowed to have the distinguishing mark of gold
lace on the cuffs of their undress coats, thereby reducing
them to a level with the inferior grades of officers, viz.:
Inspectors and deputy inspectors of hospitals, staff sur-
geons, surgeons and assistant surgeons, paymasters and
assistant paymasters ?
Sir C. WOOD said the regulation of uniform for the
navy was under consideration.
SA RDINIA. AND THE EAST.
Mr. LA.YARD asked the First Lord of the Treasury
if the report with reference to the exclusion of Sardinia
from the late conferences atConstantinople was true, and
if Sardinia had protested in consequence ?
Lord PALMERSTON said that the Conferences al-
luded to had reference only to the fourth point, that of
the arrangements to be made by the Sultan in favour
of his non-Mussulmen subjects and to the principalities.
Sardinia had not been communicated !with on the
subject, it being considered not a question affecting the
peace negotiations, but to be decided on by the Sultan
independently. Sardinia applied to be admitted, but
the represeu tatives of France and England having no
instructions on the point, Sardinia therefore was not
present at the conferences.
MUNICIPAL REFORM BILL (SCOTLA ND).
Leave was given to Mr. EIVART to bring in a bill to
extend the provisions of Scottish Municipal Reform Act
to certain Royal Burghs in Scotland now excluded from
the benefits of that act.
PUBLIC JUSTICE.
Mr. NAPIER moved the following resolution :
"That in the opinion of this house, as a measure of ad-
ministrative reform, provision should be made for an
efficient and responsible Department of Public Justice,
with a view to secure the skilful preparation and proper
structure cf Parliamentary bills, and promote the pro-
gressive amendment of the laws of the United Kingdom."
(LEFT SITTING.)

- The Hon. Mr. Dallas is reported to have accepted
the post of Minister to England, vice Mr. Buchanan.
There was a rumour current that a filibustering
expedition, numbering 500 men, had landed at San
Blas, Lower California.

William Janes, builder, Nayland, Suffolk, Feb. 22, and
March 17, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards,
official assignee, Sambrook-court; Stevens and Satchel!:
Queen-street; Daniell, Nayland, Suffolk.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.
Charles Duff Campbell and James Henderson, glaziers,
Edinburgh.
William Wylie and Robert Wylie, block builders and
spirit dealers, Glasgow.

A shocking affair had occurred in Kentucky. A
number of fugitive slaves having taken refuge in a
house the police officers proceeded to arrest them.
The slaves fired and wounded several of the spec-
tators. One slave woman, finding escape impossible,
cut the throats of her children, killing one instantly
and severely wounding two others. Six of the
fugitives were apprehended, but eight of another
party are said to have escaped. The freezing of the
Ohio liver offered great facilities for fikitive slaves.
Two British agents, named Galbraith and Gillis-
pie, who had, in default of bail, remained in prison
at Buffalo since August last on a charge of enlist-
ing soldiers, had been released on providing secu-
rities for their future appearance.
Fourteen persons had been drowned in Chesa-
peake-bay by the capsizing of a schooner.
The steam-ship Star of the West had arrived at
New York with $613,446 in California gold. Pas-
sengers by her had crossed tho Isthmus of Panama
in 22 hours.

The proceedings last night in the Rouse of Peers
amount to this :—Lord Cardigan gave notice to the
Secretary of the War Department, "That, having been
reflected upon in, as he considered, a very unfair manner
in the report of a commission appointed by her Ma-
jesty's Government to inquire into the conduct of the
war in the Crimea, he should feel it his duty to-morrow
to transmit to the noble lord a full explanation
of his conduct as animadverted upon in that report."
There is no objection to this step, as far as it goip, bat
what is the court of inquiry to which he appeals 3 Clearly
the military authorities, who with this report before
them—for they had it in July last—have heaped honours
on the officers accused, do not, constitute a tribunal in
which the country will have confidence. Lord Lucan,
for his part, has written a letter to the Secretary of
State, in which he contradicts "in a most positive man-
nor every part of the report." In other words, lie pleads
"not guilty " to the charge against him : but Where is
the judge ? where are the jury ? Surely the bare denial
a Lord Lucan is no answer to the solemn report of Sir
Jahn M'Neill and Colonel Tulloch, resting as it does
upon the testimony of witnesses whose names are given,
and whose evidence is printed ? Lord Panmure rose
after the two officers accused in the character of the
" tumoral° del diavelo ;"—lie was sure, for his part, that
the Commissioners had not the slightest intention of
attacking the character of the noble Earls ; and, on the
whole, he was for treating the popular clamour with
suitable contempt. Lord Derby, who followed, with
characteristic; boldness harped upon the theme, " Are
the two Lords accused to have an opportunity offered
to them for making a public defence 1" By all
means. They are most fully entitled to a patient
and careful hearieg, and, if they can • succeed in
setting aside the evidence of the witnesses against
them, to a full and decisive acquittal. For their own
sakes, if they hold themselves free from blame, they will
urge forward such a measure, and they will without
doubt meet with every facility for carrying their pur-
pose into effect. The conclusion of the discussion was
simply puerile. The decorations and honours which
have been bestowed upon the Earls of Lucau and Car-
digan have, we are told, been riven to them, not for
their success—not for their qualifications as Generals—

COURSE OF EXC
tm5ten1am............-11 18

.A.NGE.--- THIS DAY.

Ditto, three months 12 0
Rotterdam ............ 12 ()!4
Antwerp • • .• • • • • .• .• • • 25 60
Brussels • • • • • • • • •• •• • • 25 60
ilamburgh •• • • •• • • .41 • • 13 10%
Altana .. • • • • .• •• •• .• ••
Paris•• •• •• •• •• 25 40
Ditto, three months .. 25 80
Marseilles ............. 25 82,'
Bourdeaux
Frankfort-on Maine .... 12C%
Berlin .• •• •• •• •• .• •• ••
Vietma•• •• •• •••• •• •• •• 10 45
Trie:te•• •• •• •• •• .• •• 10 47
Petersburg 36%
Madrid •• •• •..• •• 497 i
Cadiz ••• •• •• •• •• •••• 50
Barce!Outt ••••••• • •• ••
Seville
•• .• •• •• •• ••

Gibraltar .
Leghorn . ..•. 3; 22%
Genoa 00000 ••••••••••• 35 t*i
Milan •• •• •• •• •• •• •• ••
Venice. .. ••••• •• •• ••

Naples ........ 44%
Palermo •••• 143.•
Messina ..• ..... 134%
Lisbol
Oporto 581,1 i
Rio Janeiro ....... • ••••
Buenos Ayres.... • —
New York, 60 days' sight
Philadelphia .• . .....

PRICE. OF NIFLLICN, PEI OF.
Foreign Gold In Bars 33 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 u 0
Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0
New Dollars ...... 0 0 0
Silver in bars ...... 0 5 1%

In the Court of Oyer and Terminer, on the 28th
ult., the second trial of Louis Baker, charged with
the ;murder of Bill Poole, was postponed until
April next, on motion of the counsel for the
accused. The trials of the other defendants will
not take place until the case of Baker is disposed of.
Advices from Havannah state that General
Concha was to leave the island for Spain, where he
will receive the title of Count of Havannah. His
successor is said t• be General Zabala.
From the New York commercial advices we
learn that the latest European accounts were con-
sidered unsatisfactory, and had caused a decline
in the prices of all the speculative securities.

THE BANK OF FRANCE.

The annual general meeting of the shareholders of the
Bank of France took place on Thursday the 31st ult.,
when the report of the proceedings of the establishment
for 1355 was laid before them. The report begins by
explaining the difficulties which the Bank had to con-
tend with during the last year, and particularly in the.
last six months of it. The expenses of the war in the.
East, and the coincidence of an insufficient harvest, had
necessarily led to large exports of bullion. It was no-
cessary to procure earn from abroad at a very high
price, and furnish gold for the pay of the army. The
Bank had co-operated in these payments, by which a
very sensible reduction in its metallic reserve took
place, u hide at the same time the facilities granted by
the Bank to meet the increasing demand of commerce
and manufactures contributed to the same result.
In order to contend against this accumulation of un-
toward circumstances, the Bank had recourse to two
kinds of measures. It procured, at considerable ex•
pense' from different countries of Europe, from two to
three hundred millions of the precious metals, and pat
in practice some restrictions which it bad on previous
occasions adopted with success. These restrictions did
not prevent the Bank from extendireos to discounts more
than ever, and it constantly furnished the Treasury with
all the cash it asked for. The report then goes on with
a recapitulation of the different operations of the prin-
cipal establishment and of the branch banks. It states that
during the last three years the mass of operations had
acquired unusual development. In 1853 the total amount
of its transactions was 3,964,000,0001. ; in 1854,
3,188,000,000 f. ; and in 1855, 4,863,100,0001., this last
being an increase over the previous year of nearly a
nelliard. The discounts of commercial bills, which
constitutes the principal operation of the Bank and
the branch establishments, amounted in 1854 to
2,944,000,000 f., and in 1855 to 8,762,000 f., being an
increase in favour of the latter of 818,000,0001.
These operations were most extensive in the last six
months of 1855. In July they reached the sum of
383,000,000 f., and in the four following months they
varied from 341,000,000 f. to 354,000,001 f. ; and in De-
ember, to 513,000,000 f.
The restrictive measures alluded to in the commence-
ment of the report began in October. The rate of die-
count was raised from 4 per cent. to 5 per cent., and
afterwards to 6 per cent., and the date of bills admis-
sible was reduced from 90 to 75 days. The advances
on railway and other securities were also temporarily
restricted, but, as the time approached for the last loan,
those advances were considerably increased, and the
Bank afforded every facility in order to assist those per-
sons who wished to subecribefor it. After the close of the
subscriptions these advances amounted to 185,000,000 f.;
but as this sum was too large to remain permanent,
the Bank succeeded, by degrees, in reducing it ; and,
between the Ist August and the 31st January, the
amount was brought down from 185,001,000 f. to
93,000,0001. With regard to the transactions of the
Bank with the Treasury, the report states that on
the let July last the Treasury repaid to the bank a third
instalment of 5,000, 000 fr. sothat its debt of 76,000,000 fr.
is now reduced to 60,000,000 fr. Since that period Use
Bank advanced to the State 40,000,000 fr. for three
months on the Transfer of Treasury bonds, and that
operation has been renewed twice. On the 29th March,
1855, the metallic reserve of the Bank and the branch
establishments amounted to 451,000,000 fr. • on the 11th
July following it was 310,000,000 fr., and the bills in cir-
culation was 670,000,000 fr. It was at that period that
the Bank began to get gold and silver from abroad, and
at the end of the year those arrivals had reached the
sum of 260,000,000 fr., the expenses attendant on which
were as much as 3,920,0001 r. At the end of January
the import of bullion amounted to 298,000,000 fr.
The amount of cash sent from the Bank to the
branch establis,hiumreinngts,lBasnsd,
4fs77ooo7loeoobfrr7teuhe lank
carriageto
~wtaos'snore than 700,000 fr. The general move-
mentathneoentnhtei
amounting
of the Bank in 1854 amounted to 25,090,0110,000 fr.;
in 1855 to 30,359,000,000 fr. ; being an increase in 1855
of 5,269,000,000 fr. The amount of bills drawn by the
central bank on the branch establishments and vice
versa was, in 1854, 313,000,000 fr., and in 1855,
376,000,000 fr., being an increase in the latter year of
63,000,000 fr. The payments of the commercial bills
discounted by the Bank have been throughout the year
effected with great punctuality, although the sums were
at times very great. On the 31st Oct. the Bank had to
receive in Parts a sum of 65,417,0001 r. divided iat)
54,602 bills ; and in the branch banks the debtors hare
been equally exact. During 1855 the Bank did not
meet with any loss from bankruptcy, but, on the con-
trary, recovered the sum of 342,000 fr, from former
failures. With regard to branch banks, theyare going on
every year increasing in number and impartance,at sinck
e
the the junction of the departmental banks to thel;
establish-
ments the united operations of the branch
merits have constantly exceeded those of.
operations
establishment. In 1854 the whole of th,enir. situp
1855
to
together an ounted to 2,161,000,0.00 r thees central
.''
of the latter
2,745,000,0001 r., being an increasesisS favour
alone
show
year of 584,000,000 fr. Lyons and Marseilles
of
an increase together of 201,000,0001 x.
ishme The expenses
the central Lank and the branches
establishments
to amounted9,Bl3,oool ,
in 1854 to 5,007,0001 r., and
in
nary nn o
ones,
oordinaryredy ebxy-
being an increase of 4,806,0001 r. It would not, r,
how-
ever, be logical, says the report, to draw any compari-
son, as the
penses, and
circumstances, and, moreover, the shareholders are well
former
me
latter are
er extraordinary composed
rdi
aware that they have been well compensated for these
expenses, as they have for the first time received for the
same year two dividends, amounting together to 200 fr.
on 91,250 shares, the profits during the year amounting
to 18,250,3191. r.

COM:SEECIAL INTELLIGENCE.
Naw YORK, Jan. 31.
Cotton activejand firm. Breadstuffs firm ; unchanged
prices, but tend upwards. Market to-day for fancy
stocks dull. Money-market easier. Freight easier.
NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 30.
Sales.—Cotton, 7,000 bales ; firm.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.

No Speaker elected.

LATER FROM THE BRAZILS.

but for p .rsonal bravery in the face of the enemy, Were
these noble lords private dragoons, and had they been
rewarded with a shilling a day of extra pay, this would
be well enough, but from Generals other and very dif
furent qualities are required than more personal courage.
Even so, without meaning to cast the sLadow of an im-
putation upon the gallantry of the Earl of Lucan, we
know not that in the Crimea his heroism was put to the
test. Wlisn the charge of the heavy brigade took place
at Balaklava, most rightly this General was not seen
flourishing his sabre in the van of his division. As far
as the Earl of Cardigan is concerned in the famous
charge of the light brigade, every man there present did
his duty ; nor, when the fatal order was once given,
did Lord Cardigan do anything more than any private
soldier who rode over that bloody field. It is sufficient
honour that he was one of that band of heroes.

LIVERPOOL, MONDAY.
By the arrival of the clipper Phantom, Captain
Knight, we have received advices from Pernam-
buco to Jan. 9, being one fortnight later than
brought by the last mail.
_ _

The Royal Mail ship Avon, from Southampton
on the Bth of December, arrived at Pernambuco on
the Ist of January.
The Queen and Rosario, from Liverpool ; Ame-
thyst, from London ; Elizabeth (and proceeded to
Rio Janeiro), Miranda, James Stewart, and Bal-
cluths (and all three sailed for 13ahis), Chase,
Esther Ann, and Spirit of the Times, from New-
foundland, had arrived at Pernambuco.
The Westmoreland sailed front Pernambuco, for
Liverpool, on the 4th of January ; and the Meteor,
for the Channel, on the Bth ult.
The Sugar Market was looking up, and large
purchases had been made for the Channel and on
French account, at mil. 2 250 to 2 350 per atroba
for average browns ; mil. 2 400 to 2 550 for se-
lected browns ; and mil. 2 600 to 2 700 for very
superior descriptions. Yellow; and whites were
without change.
There was no alteration in the Yalu) or demand
for either cotton or hithis.
Freights dull and declining-50s. per ton for
sugar in bags to the Channel ; 30s. to Liverpool ;
and cotton, to Liverpool, Id. to ed. per lb.
Codfish was
.looking up, and nail. 14 400 had
been paid ; at Bahia it was selling at mil. 15 500
to 16 000 ; and at Rio do Janeiro about the same
rates were current.

Thne are no persons so profoundly interested in the
due prosecution of the inquiry to which the Crimean
Report must give rise as the upholders of our present
military system. If they make common cause with
officers whose incapacity for military command has
been proved they prejudge the case against themselves.
Who can honestly assist hereafter in calling the nation
to arms if our soldiers are always to be handed over to
such incompetent guidance ! Our military chiefs and
administrators have not only been in the wrong, but are
resolved to persist in their error. Two officers high in
command, between them, brought about the destruc-
tion of the English cavalry in the East. They are se-
lected as especial objects of their Sovereign's favour.
Another.:-; Quartermaster-General of the British Army
in the Crimea, brought that army to the ♦erge of de-
struction—he is appointed to the office of Quartermaster.
General of the British Army. Sir John APNeill and
Colonel Tulloch may be safely left to describe the qualifi-
cations and performances of the gallant officer who is to
act as his assistant. What the military system of Eng-
land was before the Crimean campaign, such it will be
again in six months' time ; nay, it is the same already.
Years must elapse ere we can replace the legions of
veteran soldiers who died ♦ictims of the "system"—and
the " system" remains in full force ! Had such things
oacurred under the rule of the First Napoleon, in place
of selecting the incapable officers for rewards, decora-
tions, and promotion, he would have dismissed them
from active employment altogether—they might have
esteemed themselves fortunate if they escaped a yet
faller measure of speedy justice at the hands of their
indignant master.

LONDON GAZETTE-- (This Evening.)

WHITEHALL, FEB. 9.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
pasted under the Gloat Seal for Granting the dignity of a
Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britaia and Ire-
land unto Lieutenant-General Sir John Fox Burgoyne,
G.C.L'., and to the heirs male of his body, lawfully be-
gotten.

The Edindale sailing-transport, No. 10, Captain Lash,
arrived on Saturday morning at Woolwich from the
East. She has hitherto been engaged in transporting
cavalry horses,
and is expected to em bark a similar
cargo.
Mr. H. R. Rich, master of the merchanb ship Hoogbly,
recently returned from Australia, has tray emitted to the
treasurer of the Royal Naval and Military Free Schools,
Devonport, the sum of 51. is., collected from big pas-
sengers during the ship's absence from E oglaud. The
treasurer of those schools requests us I acknowledge
Lac he has received the above sum.