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London, England, 1856-02-12 00:00:00

to arrang e certain very recent and formidable
difference s with Russia, upon conditions of a
merely of •dinary character, upon conditions im-
plying to; T their very nature that Russia comes
under I e same category with the rest of the
great ►E. Rates of Christendom ! HEAVEN send that
the vo; ice of warning resounding to us from the
grave sf VALERIAN KRASINSKI, that the cry of
that ac )ble heart ray reverberate far and wide at
this terrible turning-point in the history of the
civilised. world—reminding the nations of Europe
of the dark and sinister truths which appear just
now eitls er to be entirely overlooked, or to re-
main alb ogether unappreciated. Enough for us
if but a few of these monstrous facts, facts embla-
zoned u:pon the annals of the human race in
characte rs of blood and flame, are here very briefly
indicatel 3, but indicated by their mere enumera-
tion, GOD knows, with sufficient distinctness.
Is it forgotten ? When our diplomatists are
becoming so mealy-mouth in regard to the inten-
tions of the Imperial Government lof St. Peters-
burg—is it forgotten how Europe has fared during
the last hundred years under the pressure of the
advances made simultaneously to the north, and
to the south, and to the east, and to the west by
that Robber-Government ? A little while ago and
we heard a good deal of these things. A little
while ago anal noble lords and right hon. gentlemen
now so fair-spoken in regard to the intentions of
Russia, in regard to the policy of the CZAR, in
regard to the ambition of the House of ROILANOFE,
did not hesitate to speak of these intentions, of
that policy, of that ambition as of evils threaten-
ing the peace of Europe, the liberties of Europe,
the rights of European independence, the glory of
European civilisation. Is it already so entirely
forgotten—that terrible story of Russian des-
potism, and Russian spoliation ? Let us recapi-
tulate but a few among the criminal and damning
incidents recorded in that disastrous narrative—
now that we are upon the eve of the Paris con-
ferences.

Dbserve A little over a century aid a half
from the present time—that is to say, in 1689,
at the date of the accession of PETER, miscalled
the Great, the population of Russia was 18,000,000.
By the year of grace 1763, namely, when
CATHERINE 11. ascended the throne, it had in-
creased to 23,000,000—becoming at the
time of her death in 1798 as many as
36,000,000—and attaining at last in 1825
at the period when the late AUTOCRAT assumed
the purple, the vast aggregate of• 58,000,000 or
60,000,000 altogether ! Listen further ! These
are the words (it is believed) of Sir JOHN
M'NEILL, echoed to us from the humble grave
of the heroic KRASINSKI :—" The acquisitions of
Russia from Sweden are greater than what re-
mains of that kingdom ; her acquisitions from
Poland are equal to the Austrian Empire ; her
acquisitions from Turkey in Europe are of greater
extent than the Prussian dominions, exclusive of
the Rhenish provinces; her acquisitions from Tur-
key in Asia are nearly equal in extent to the whole
of the smaller States of Germany ; her acquisitions
in Persia are equal in extent to England; her ac-
quisitions in Tartary have an area not inferior to
that of Turkey in Europe, Greece, Italy, and
Spain ; tho acquisitions which she has made
within the last sixty-four years (prior to 1836)
are equal in extent and importance to the
whole empire which she had in Europe
before that time." Hearken yet further ! It is
still, we believe, the voice of Sir Joarr 111‘..NEILL,
echoed back to us as with a trumpet-sound from
the tomb of Count KRASINSKI—"In these sixty-
four years she (Russia) has advanced her frontiers
850 miles towards Vienna, Berlin, Dresden, Mu-
nich, and Paris ! She has approached 450 miles
nearer to Constantinople. She has possessed her-
self of the capital of Poland ! and has advanced
to within a few miles of the capital of Sweden !
Since that time she has stretched herself
about 1,000 miles towards India, and the same
distance towards the capital of Persia (Teheran)."
Enough ! And this is the Robber Despotism
with which England, and France, and Turkey,
and Austria, and Sardinia, are about to negotiate
at Paris upon ordinary terms, upon the customary
kind of conditions! VALERIAN KRASINSKI, from
his lowly but honoured- grave in the land of his
exile cries—" Beware !" And the Voice of an-
other and a greater exilp—the Voice of the Cap-
tive of St. Helena—has it not long since declared
prophetically—" Fifty years and Europe will be
either Cossack or Republican !",
What—with that prediction before him, pro-
nounced, as from his death-bed, by the Great
Founder of his Dynasty—what says NA POLKON
III.? Shall Russia, sooner or later, overrun
Europe—or shall Poland be restored ?

Si vis pacesm parr bellum. Even in the piping
times of peace England should, in the words of the
teem old Scottish warrior, be " ready, aye ready
for the field." It is still more essential that she
should maintain the maritime supremacy to which
the greater portion of her prestige is ascribable.
We therefore do not complain of the credits de-
manded by the Government. Any parsimonious
or stingy attempt to effect a paltry saving under
existing circumstances would be "a penny-wise
and-pound-foolish policy," which every right
thinking man would strongly and unequivocally
condemn. But while Parliament and the country
cordially and unhesitatingly respond to the Minis-
terial demands, and willingly sanction the full
expenditure required for the vigorous and ener-
getic maintenance of the War, it is doubly incum-
bent on all parties to avoid any unnecessary-ex.
penditure. The legitimate charges are sufficiently
onerous, without any useless addition, front the
red-tapist adhesion to a,. yictous system, or from
the introduction of objectionable matters. There
never was a time when a large and com-
prehensive measure of Naval Reform was
more urgently required than at this moment,
whereby not only would considerable savings be
effected, but the efficiency of the service and of
the controlling department would be greatly
increased. It is not because we are at war that
those important and interesting topics should be
shelved—for that reason they should be pressed
forward with the greatest possible energy. The
exigencies of the service should be accurately as-
certained, and when that object has been effected
no efforts should be spared to obtain " the right
men for the right places," and to avoid, so far as
human precaution can do, the possibility of mis-
takes similar to those which in by-gone days re-
flected so much discredit on former Boards.
No reasonable objection could be made to the
first item in the list—that for the excess of ex-
penditure over estimates of 204,0001., even if so
fair an explanation could not be given for the
greater part of the amount, by the improved
system of keeping accounts, that debited the ex-
penditure to the period when it actually occurred
in place of charging it in a future year. The cost
to the nation in either case is precisely the same.
Some discretion should be allowed to the executive
when Parliament is not sitting, and if the outlay
be prudent and judicious the parties who have
sanctioned it on their awn
responsibility are en-
titled to praise rather than censure for their
energy.

Tin additional votes for 140,12 4114 VW, Vain

and other branches connected with the additional
seamen, will be heartily approved of by every
true-hearted Englishman, and the tardy com-
pletion of an adequate force of gun-boats to con-
duct operations in the Baltic joyously hailed
throughout the length and breadth of the land.
We long called for a proper force in that essential
arm of the service. Had the ABERDEEN Admi-
nistration been in earnest far better accounts
would have been rendered of the proceedings in
the Baltic, and British officers and seamen would
have been spared from very invidious insinuations.
The 200 gun-boats that will be available at the
breaking up of the ice will have a wonderfully
moderating effect on the disposition of the
Russian Government. It is only to be regretted
that an improvident and precarious peace should
be cobbled up, at a time when we are, under
PROVIDENCE, in a position to compel one, that
might be regarded as an equivalent for all the
sacrifices and expenditure which the nation has
so cheerfully sustained. The gigantic prepara-
tions may now be thrown away without the
nation reaping either honour or profit. Still it is
right that they should be made, and it is by no
means impossible that they may still be required.
At all events the knowledge that they have been
made will render the representatives of the CZAR
less querulous and far more reasonable than
Prince GORTSCHAKOFF was last year.

It is the acts of omission that require greater
notice. Sir CHARLES NAPIER only gave expres-
sion to the national will when coraplaining of the
absurdity of having the affairs of the Admiralty
carried on partly at Whitehall, and partly at
Somerset-house. The division occasions constant
confusion, expense, and delay to the service, and
an adequate remedy should b© supplied with all
convenient speed.

We cannot, however, concur with the Gallant
Officer in his remarks respecting the list of Ad-
mirals. There are at least three times the num-
ber on the Active List that are required. All the
old Admirals, whose physical powers disqualify
them from active service, should be pensioned off
by the Admiralty, which would clear the
list considerably. There are, at least, thirty
of the number who have been Post Captain
more than half a century, scarcely one of whom
are now fit even to walk the quarter-deck in a stiff
breeze, much less to direct the efforts of a fleet
under a trying emergency.

There are at present 21 Admirals. Surely nine
would be sufficient, and the reduction might be
gradually effected, first to 15, then to 12, and
subsequently to 9. In like manner the 27 Vice-
Admirals might gradually fall to 21, and then 15 ;
and the 51 Rear-Admirals to 33, 27, and eventually
to 21. By this means, and giving an Admiral of
Great Britain, and a Vice-Admiral, and Rear-
Admiral, we should hare forty-eight Admirals,
and scarcely one-third of the number could ever
be required for active service. We have now
between active and retired Admirals five or six
for every line-of-battle ship in commission, and
fully three Generals for every regiment. It is
not by such proceedings that we can hope to re•
duce the enormous burden of taxation, or to make
any effectual efforts to reduce the burden of our
enormous national debt. Let the House of
Commons resolve upon 'grappling with the diffi-
culty, and providing a remedy adequate to its
enormous magnitude.

It sometimes happens that the attempted ex-
culpation of a foolhardy offender leads to his con-
viction ; and the painful reflection in left to him
that, had he remained gniet, his •fate might have
been different. Of course, no one but himself
and friends can regret this, the welfare of society
being obviously promoted by the provision. Whe-
ther the fact will prove applicable to Lords CAR-
DIGAN and LITCAN We cannot undertake to pre-
dict ; hut we must confess to entertaining a feel-
ng of satisfaction at the steps taken by these
Noble Lords in relation to the 'charges involved,
or brought against them, in the Report of the
Commissioners sent out to inquire into the con-
duct of the War in the, Crimea. The matter has
now, we trust, reached a stage where nothing
short of the amplest investig,ationwill be permitted,
not only into the charges brought against them,
but also against other superior officers intrusted
with command during that disastrous period,
when the flower of the British army perished, not
ignobly, but unnecessarily, on that fatal soil !
Lord CARDIGAN', it will be seen, gave notice
in the House of Lords last evening, " That having
been reflected upon in, as he considered, an un-
fair manner in the Report of a Commission ap-
pointed by her MAJESTY'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 on in the Report." His Lord-
ship was followed by Lord LUCAN, who stated
that immediately on the appearance of the Report
he had addressed to the Secretary for War a letter
in reply, which, however, the Noble Lord refused
to allow him to publish ; and he desired to be in-
formed whether the Noble Lord would either pub-
lish it himself or allow him (the Earl of LueeN)
to publish it ? Now, these are steps which inno-
cent men might be expected to take in the first
instance, and, as far as they go, tell in favour of
the Noble Lords. But observe what follows :
Lord PANMURE, in reply, informed the House
" that he had communicated with the Commis-
sioner who was now in L ,ndon with respect to
the remarks of which the Noble Lord complained,
and that gentleman had informed him that he
should be able to support the charge made in the
Report by returns now in his possession, and
printed in the Report gr_the _Commissioners. He
had promised to furnish this reply on the follow-
ing day, and he would then be prepared to lay
the letter of the Noble Earl opposite and the
reply of the Commissioner on the table of the
House." Thus, it will be seen, there is no flinch-
ing on the part of the Commissioner, and an issue
may speedily be arrived at if desired. From
what followed, however, we have some doubt of
such a desire being entertained—the Earl of
DERBY on the one hand, by his expressed wish to
place the parties inculpated who had not a seat
in the Rouse on an equal footing with the two
Noble Loris, in having the opportunity of laying
their statements in reply to the charges preferred
against them before the Houie—and Lord PAN,
MURE, by prothising to have such statements laid
before the House, apparently being agreed that
the matter would end in the publication of the
documents, and the inculpation or exculpation of
the parties by public opinion.
Now, this really will not do. We say not one
word as to the guilt or innocence of the parties
inculpated, but we point to the gravity of the
charges, and repeat, this will not suffice. It is
alleged, in the words of a contemporary,
" that between them the chief English officers
in the Crimea destroyed one-third of the army,
and that three-fourths of the misery and starva-
tion from want and cold, not to mention the an-
nihilation of our splendid cavalry, must be re-
ferred to the gross,incapacity of the officers in the
Crimea," The allegation is frightful, and the
culpts,bility proportionately enormous. The blood
of ovr alaugiatend heigeowto lay no.

thing of the damaged prestige and the material
injury to the nation—demands the institution of
something of the nature of a court-martial, before
which the accused parties may be put on their
purgation—a Court so constituted as to insure
public confidence in the straightforwardness and
honesty of its procedure—a Court to which
the House of Peers must be content to
refer its inculpated members, and whose
decision shall be handed over to her MAJESTY
for confirmation, and.- what further course of
action may seem good, to be taken on it. If
this, or something of the kind is not done—all
that has been apparently effected in the way of
reform in the army, will prove mere moonshine,
and the honours and emoluments conferred on the
Noble Lords, Sir R. AIRE; dsc., will, justly or
unjustly, operate as so many ignes fatuce to lure
incapables into the service, and officers of ability
from the proper discharge of their •duties, to the
future loss and humiliation of the country. The
Report of the Commissioners must be acted on to be
worth anything, and it will not be wise, it will
not be prudent, in the House of Peers or the
Ministry to put any obstacles in the way of its
being so.

ADELPBI THEATRE.

A farce of the genuine Adelpbi flavour was brought
out here last night, and met with unbounded success.
The title " That Blessed Baby," at once proclaims the
whimsical class to which it belongs. The terror of
John Thomas, the footman, who has clandestinely
married Mary Jane, one of his fellow-servants, contrary
to the published laws and regulations of his master, who
has a morbid antipathy to babies, affords half an hour
or so of highly pleasant diversion. The weight of the
piece lies solely upon Mr. and Mrs. Keeley ; and the
acting of these admirable artistes was capital. The farce
is perfectly original, and i from the pen of Mr. Moore.
As this is his first dramatic essay at any theatre of im-
portance, we may fairly congratulate him on his success.

MADAME JENNY LIND-GOLDSCHMIDT'S
GONG giliTS.

The programme of the third miscellaneous concert,
which took place last night in the Hanover-square
zooms, was on the whole well selected, though in some
respects of rather a fatiguing character for the principal
singer. For example, Madame Goldschmidt had to
execute, with only the interval of time devoted to a
very short tenor song, the scene and air, " Non paven-
tar, from // Flauto Mayieo, and the soprana part in
the trio for voice and two flutes from the Camp of Sile-
sia, best known in England as the finale to L'Etoile du
Nord. Two more intricate and arduous pieces than the
first song of the Queen of Night and the tour de force
with which Meyerbeer has illustrated his heroine's re-
storation to reason are not extant.
The scene with the two flutes (Messrs. Pratten and
Remusat) defied objection. We have heard nothing to
surpass it for brilliancy, neatness of execution, dramatic
finesse, and unblemished parity of intonation--even in
passages the most daring and perplexing. The epithet
" incomparable" may lse applied to this performance
without the slightest exaggeration, since it displayed as
much esprit as vocal facility, and left the ear and mind
of the listener equally charmed and satisfied. The other
essays of Madame Goldschmidt were " Deh vieni non
tardar," from "Figaro," "Caste diva," and a little song
by Mendelssohn, "The stars and the maiden" (in Ger-
man, called "Die sterne schauen"),
Besides the pianoforte performances by Herr Otto
Goldschmidt--who played Beethoven's concerto in C
minor (with the orchestra), Chopin's somewhat hack-
neyed and over-sentimental nocturne in D flat, and the
first allegro of the " Suites Anglaises " is G- minor by
John Sebastian Bach (solus)--eSignor Piatti gave two
movements from th tiolenColla concerto composed ex-
pressly for him by Herr Molique. and M. Sainton his
own violin fantasia on airs from "Rigoletto."
The room was crowded to excess,

THE NEW MEIIIBER FOR EDINBUR6IJ.

(Prom the Daily News of this day.)

" I am a man of moderate wishes," said the late Lord
Dudley and Ward ; " a good soup, a small turbot, a neck of
venison, and an apricot tart are a dinner for an Emperor—
when he can't get a better." The electors of Cambridge are
philosophers of the Dudley and Ward stamp. Not be-
ing able to indulge in a state banquet of High Toryism,
they have known how to satisfy the moderation of their
political appetites on the Mild but respectable con-
servatism of Dir. Walpole. There is not a great deal of it
Perhaps—it might soot, but a lenten repast to the grosser
palates of aldermen ors:quires, but it is in good taste, well
chosen and well served up. Possessing the merit, too, of being
what it professes to be, it offends the judicious taste with no
such villanous compound of opposite flavours as the "Li-
beral but Conservative" mixture of Mr. George Denman.
Having been unable to feel any very deep anxiety for the
defeated candidate's success, we of course contrived to bear
with equanimity the intelligence that he had withdrawn
from the contest. It was the only thing ho could do. The
irrefragable logic of figures was too strong fur him. SSG to
419, at the end of the third day's poll, was au arithmetical
reductio ad absu,nlam. We trust the reproof will not be
without its lesson. If Mr. 'Denman's views were more
liberal than his address, the lesson he will have to learn will
simply be that homely one, that—Honesty is the best
policy—and that of all clishoncsties•there is none less politic
than the practice of political .:eserve. " Liberal," without
the " but," might have sent many to vote for him willingly,
who either went not.at all, .or wentaeluctantly. " Conser-
vative " after the " but " had not even the poor merit of
stealing a single supporter from the ranks of his anta-
gonist. If, on the other hand, as may be the case, Mr.
Denman's address fairly and adequately represented his
political opinions, the contest was one wholly personal
between the two men—and in that event the lesson that Mr.
Denman may derive from the result is one of personal mo-
desty. It cannot be an agreeable thing to have put 419 gen-
tlemen to 83 much inconvenience, for the mere purpose of
fruitlessly recording their opinion that Mr. Denman is fitter
than Mr. Walpole to represent the University of Cambridge.
The consolatory view of the matter is that suggested by the
safe and prosperous position of the illustrious mem'3er for
Midhurst. True it is that a, contemporary, hardly less elo-
quent than the new-fledged senator himself, hail sug-
gested it as a remarkable coincidence "in the aunal of
literary fame," that " the star of Warren had just begun to
glitter in the senatorial firmament as that of Ma2aulay had
sunk below the horizon ;"—true it is that the learned and
enthusiastic orator hail himself told the men of Midhurst, in
the first fervours of his saceess, that he was about to enter
the House of Commons as their representative " free as the
rushing breeze that revAlei above their hills ;"--still, not-
withstanding these auspicicus om DS and these aerial antici-
pations, we had misgivings that at times disquieted us.
Till Walpole was safe for Cambridge, we could hardly feel
confident that Warren was secure for Midhurst. We were
haunted by disagreeable recollections that frailty as well as
fairness was an attribute of the Lily—that vicarious industry
was too often the thankless portion of the Bee.
"Sic vos non vobis mellificates apes"
that melancholy epitaph over fruitless toil kept ever chiming
in our ears. What, we asked, if such should be the fate of
the senatorial toils of Warren ? With the result of the Cam-
bridge election all these apprehensions are dispelled, and an
intelligent public will appreciate as it deserves the great fact
that the House of Commons has not lost Walpole and has
gained Warren, who may bo alternately its " rude Boreas"
and its " mild Favonins," its " own iEolian lute."
The result of the Edinburgh election is peculiarly gratifying,
and deserves to be discussed with less of levity. Of the de-
feated candidate, indeed, we know nothing but his name ;
for though the pen of Scott has made "the black Douglasses"
tolerably familiar to English reail,,rs, the fame of the brown
branch of the family has not yet penetrated to the south of
the Tweed. But of his successful rival we do know some-
thing ; and during the whole of cur political experience—
which now ranges over a rather longer period than it is quite
agreeable to remember -it has rarely been our luck to en-
counter a man in whom practical sagacity and high principle
have been niore liarrPilk ble,ntrerihati in Adam Black. He
is no modern conformer to liberalism ; what he is now he
was in the dark days of Castlereagh and Sidmouth. That
an overwhelming majority of the inhabitants of Edin-
burgh are liberal-in Mir FolitiCn IV a fact which none
can doubt who recalls the results of all the elections
for that city since the passing of Earl Grey's Reform Act.
There have been different shades of politics among the Edin-
burgh Liberals. Some cling to the eclectic doctrines of the
Edinburgh I?eview—these are prinlipally the members of the
learned professions and the circles among which they move.
Some adopt the sturdier notions to propagate which the
Scotsman newspaper was erip:nally established ; these are in
general the trading classes. Some, perhaps, go beyond
both. Mr. Black, by his sdcial connexions, belongs to the
second set of politicians, participates in most of their
views, and has shared in their labours. But, by Ins
long connexions as elk publisher with the leading Whig.
literati, he has often been called upon to act as a me-
dium of communication between the first and second of the
three sub-divisions of Edinburgh Liberals we have enumerated.
This is, perhaps, the most trying positiou in which au honest
politician can be placed ; and, with frequent, opportunities of
narrowly observing Mr. Black, we do him no snore thau jus-
tice when we declare that we have uniformly found him as
upright and firm as he is clear-sighted. This is exactly
the kind of man who is wanted in Parliament at present.
Old questions have been settled, new questions are emerg—
ing, and many well-meaning Liberals • are—from want
of habits of independent thought and en-born moral
courage—wavering and uncertain, Men are needed, to
give the tone to their party, who possess sagacity to judge
for themselves, and courage to act upon their convic-
tions through good repute and bad repute. The electors of
Edinburgh have acted wisely in delegating the charge of pro-
moting their principles and interests in the Legislature, at
such a juncture, to a man who combines both qualities iu so
high a degree has Mr. Black. Even in England the bold and
uncompromising stand made by Mr. Black against narrow-
minded sectarianiem can be appreciated at present ; but only
those who know Scotland intimately can appreciate it at its
full worth. His fellow-citizens, after bestowing upon him
Various grades of local distinction, have now conferred upon
him the highen honour they can bestow. His past services
have richly deserved it ; and we firmly believe that his past
life will prove to have boon merely_ the prophetic mirror of
the future.

The Grand Duke of Tuscany has ordered a new
levy of 2,000 mon of the class of 1837.
The Earl and Countess of Monnteharlea are expected-
in town to•day, from the Bedford Hotel, Brighton,
where they Lave been staying for a few days!.
Lord and Lady Augusta Gordon Hallyburton left
town yesterday, to pass a few due at Twickenham.
Last week 180 of the Royal County Limerick Militia
volunteered to the lice, aztl cF Clegg 24 Wi' for-the.
Foot Guards.

Feb. 10.—The Augusta, from Demerara, for
London, run on a rock and carried away past of false
keel ; is now in safety.
ST. DE'S BA Y, Feb. 10.—Arrived—Guillaume, from
Havana, for Havre, lost mainmast and two men in a hur-
ricane off the Azores on the 18th of January.
NEWPORT, Feb. [l.—Wind W.—Arrived—Humboldt,
from London, for St. Thomas. Saila I—Venus, for Lon-
don ; Moses Wheeler, Calcutta ; Achsab, Jamaica.
SWANSEA, Feb. 11.—Wind S.B W.—Arrived—St. Vin-
cent, from the Cape of Good Hope ; United, St. Jago de
Cuba. Sailed—Gratitude, for Huasco ; Barge, United,
and Cuba, Coquimbo.

(PEE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Tuesday limning.
Arrived—Wonder, steamer, from Jersey.
_ .

Sailed--Herman, steamer, fir Bremen ; -Sylph, steamer,
London ; Caledonia, Sunderland ; Daspatch, steamer, Jer
sey ; Alliance, steamer, Havre ; Susanna, Newport ; Ti•
tania, Cardiff; Le Coq, Clierb9urg.
LIVERPOOL, Tuesday Morning.
Wind S.
Arrived—James White, from Bombay.
Sailed—Delta, for Havre.

BY SIMMABINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 10.18 a.m.
Wind S.S.W. ; tide, four hours' ebb ; fine.
Arrived, Feb. 11.—liolywood, from Constantinople.
Arrived, Feb. 12.—Pollux, front Hamburg.
DEAL, Tuesday, 9.40 a.m.

Wind S.S. W. ; moderate.
Passed—Sonora, from Calcutta, for London.

MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.)

HAY MARKETS.

SMITITIFIELD.—Meadow hay, 4/ 03 to 51133 ; 0101,0% ditto,
4115 s to 6/ 144 and straw, 11 54 Od to 1/ 9s Od per load
Trade rather dull.

z,UNIBEIILAND.—Moadow hay, 4/ 43 to 5/ 154; clove/ do.
4i 154 to 6! 143 ; and. straw. 1/ 5s to 11 10! per load
.4 slow trade.

WHIVICIEIAFEL.—Maa.dow hay, 41 53 to 5' 153; clove?
,10., 4/ 1 to 61 153; :Ind straw, 1/ 44 to 1/ 94 per load.
Supply good, and trade'dull.

COLONIAL.

The market for tea ht,; been extremely inactive, and prices
are only nominal. Common congou 91 to 9id per lb.
SUGAR,.—An increased demand has prevailed .for the conti-
nental markets and for h6nre consumption : a fair amount of
business has been done. • The supply continues moderate, and
rates generally are firm: There are but few parcels declared
for pulic sale.
COFFEE.,—The market ;continues firm ; low to fine ordinary
brought 51s to 535. Plantation-was at rather higher rates,
and for the better qualities an active demand existed. Mocha
has also been in request, at rather higher rates.
Rice.—The demand has rather improved, and higher rates
have been obtained for the better qualities.
,Rum continues steady. Prices are without any material
alteration.

TaLLow.—The market still continues dull, and prices still
show a downward tendency. .February and March,
57s 9d ; April and June, 525; last three months, 50s 9d to
51s per cwt.

The newly erected' barFaelehnti at Pembroke dock-
yard are to be immediately filled with militia.
We hear from Madrid that orders had been given to
sell the Crown property in the Basque Provinces.
DEATH OP LADY EMILY HENRY.—We regret to an-
nounce the death of the Lady Emily Henry, which oc-
curred, after a lingering and protracted illness, on
Saturday morning, at her residence, Cumberland-ter-
race, Regent's-park.
It has been decided by Mr. Justice Crampton that an
insolvent leaving the court with an order of protection
eannot be arrested on his way home.
THE MURDER IN SOHo.—Yesterday the man Bous-
field was brokight up at the Marlborough-street police,
and formally committed to take his trial for wilful
murder.
The Czar haS decreed that a year's pay shall be given,
as a gratification; to all the general and 'other officers
of the army and navy, to the civil cnbployes, and the
medical and transport service, who took part in the
defence of Sebastopol.
Advices from Switzerland state that the National
Council have passed the Railway Bill for a line from
Geneva to the Canton of Vaud, in favour of the city of
Friburg. The.C:anton has sufficient financial resources
to construct the whole line, with very little aid from
foreign capitalists. -
AFFAIR BETWEEN THE PIEDMONTESE AND RUSSIANS.
letter from the French camp, dated Jan. 29, says :
—"On Tuesday last the Piedmentese had an affair of
outposts with the Russians, and made 200 prieeners.”
GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—The directors propose
to dec'are a dividend at the rate of 21 per cent, per
annum.
,EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY. -- Yesterday, at a
meeting of those shareholders of the Eastern Counties
Railway Company who are dissatisfied with the present
management and opp -ised to the re-election of Mr.
Waddington, held at the London Tavern, it was resolved
to support Mr. Orr, Mr. Walters, and Mr. Helps at
the nest election of directors, in place of those who re-
tired by rotation. ..
: ENORMOUS BLAST AT HOLYHEAD NEW HARBOUR.--A
monster blast, which has required the labour of six men
in its formation fee the last ten months, and which re-
_r aired 8 tons of powder to explode it, was let off in
the quarry belonging to these works on Wednesday
.last, in the presence, of the chief engineer and a nu-
emirous staff. It is calculated that the quantity of stone
'loosenedby ale aEplogiou wul W.).19:k00 Atia .60,000
to*