The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-05 00:00:00

HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE.

The privileges, in the shape of admissions, which will
be conferred on the shareholders in " Her Majesty's
Theatre Association" have been officially set forth. The
proprietor of 50 shares will be entitled to a personal
entrée for all representations ; a holder of double that
number will he entitled to a reserved seat in the pit ;
while 150 and 200 shares will respectively entitle the
proprietor to a pit-stall for two nights a week, or for
every representation. The actual owners on the Ist of
February in every year will be the proprietors entitled
to the proportionate priviliges during the ensuing season,
such privileges to be totally independent of the divi-
dend receivable on the shares. The reserved seats under
thes? regulations will be so far transferable nightly
that the proprietor's nominee will. be admitted to the
seat on paying balf thv ordinary prio9 of entraoo!

MUNEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS•

CITY, Two o'CLocx.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday
amounted to 7,000 bales. The market was heavy,
and the prices of those kinds of American at 61 and
under, declined I, while other kinds were without
any material alteration. Of American, 500 bales
were taken for exportation, and 1,000 ditto and 500
Surat on speculation. The sales included 5 500
American, GO Pernarn and Maranham, at GO to
Girl; 600 Egyptian at 60 to 15d ; and 1,000 Surat
at 4id to sii. Railway Shares were steady, and an
improving market was perceptible.
In the Produce Markets this week, a fair business
has been transacted. Tea has been less dealt in, but

Tallow has been taken freely on speculation, owing to
the short shipment from St. Petersburgh, and the
rinsing of the navigation. The Silk Market is
steadier. Cotton is rather drooping, and for hemp
there is less demand. Sugar and Coffee have been
firm, but not active. Rice has been dull. Spices
have been at full prices.
There are further arrivals from Australia, but not
bringing later dates. A meeting had been held at
Mount Alexander to protest against transportation,
and seeing that within the last few days there has
been a further cargo of transports sent with tickets of
leave to Van Dieinen's Lind, the subject is of most
serious and pressing interest. The petition is as
follows :

To the Honourable the House of Commons of Great
Britain and Ireland, in Parliament assembled.

" The Petition of the Gold Diggers and other Inhabi-
tants of Mount Alexander, Colony of Victoria, Australia
Felix, in public meeting assembled,
"Humbly Showoth,—That a large number of your
petitioners, both British and foreign, have been induced
to make the Australian colonies their adopted country,
from the promises held out by Earl Grey in the name of
Great Britain, that the system of sending criminals to
these colonies was to be discontinued.

" That your petitioners have struggled on in hopes
that those promises would, before this, have been tul-
filled, and on the discovery of largo gold fields in New
South Wales, and also in Victoria, fully believed that
the Home Government would see the inducement held
out to crime by the continuation of sending convicts to
the immediate neighbourhood of productive gold mines.
" That your Petitioners learn, with feelings of deep
regret, that the Home Government, by Earl Grey, in
reply to John King, Esq., the Anti-Transportation Dele-
gate from this Colony, have no intention of discontinuing
the present practice of sending convicted criminals to
Vau Diemen's Land.

" That your Petitioners would beg to remind your
Honourable House, that while Van Diemen's Land con•
tinues to receive convicted criminals, these Colonies will
❑ever receive the full benefit the gold mines otherwise
would cause to extensive free emigration.

" That your Petitioners would fiirther call the attention
of your Honourable House to the fact, that about two
thousand of the working population are likely to alter,
annually, their position in life, from the Gold Mines, by
becoming employers, and may be induced with their
capital to seek for a more appropriate homo for their
families than these colonies are likely to give when
transportation to Van Diemen's Lind is allowed to con-
tinue.
" Your Petitioners, therefore, pray your Honourable
House to address her Most Gracious Ma-
jesty the Queen, to rescind the Order in
Council that allows convicted criminals to
be sent out to Va❑ Diemen's Land, or any
other of the Australian Colonies, and your
petitioners will ever pray, &c."
The following letter being addressed to us by a
party of high respectability, who furnishes his name,
we think it desirable to give it, remarking that the
complaint might be made of numerous other new
undertakings, though perhaps in a less direct form :
" TO THE EDITOR OF THE BUN.

" Sir,—ln your number of the 3d November, are ad-
vertisement inviting the publio to take shares in the
Western Railway of Switzerland, in which the names of
most respectable men are given as a body of Directors ;
and notice is given in the advertisement that no further
application for Shares will be received after Saturday
next, the 6th of November, applications for the shares
to bo made to the Secretary of the Company, and to
Messrs. George Burnand and Co., and Messrs. Spurling
and Son, the Sharebrokers of the Company.
" This morning I proceeded with my application, duly
signed witk the requisite references, to the office of
Messrs. George Burnand and Co., 12, Cornhill, where I
saw the representative of the house, who told me that
they declined receiving applications for shares, because
they had been all allotted on the evening of the 4th, but
that I might be accommodated with them by paying
12s. 6d. premium per share in the market ; and this, he
admitted, had been done without any meeting of the
board of directors, who to this hour have not met.
" It this be the beginning of the management of the
Western Railway of Switserland Company, I think it
would be desirable to call attention thereto. Does not
this savour strongly of stock-jobbing?
" London, Nov. 5, 1852." " VERITAS.
The Stock Market is very buoyant, and there is a
marked increase in the money business doing. Con-
sols have been quoted 1001 to for Transfer ; and
WO} to for Account. The New 3f per Cents. have
been 103} to ; and the 3 per Cents. 99i to Re-
duced 3 per Cents. have been at 99i to j. Bank
Stock is worth 2231 to 224 i. India Stock is at
2741 to 2751. Exchequer Bills are firm; and India
Bonds realize 843, premium. The news from Paris
of the initiatory proceedings for the declaration of
the Empire, is apparently but little heeded here.
Tne Foreign Securities have been neglected, and
the Turkish Scrip is further depressed, being only 2i
to 24 premium, or say at present 2} to 3 premium.
Buenos Ayres Stock is at 811. Sardinian Bonds are
worth 98. Dutch 4 per Cents. realized 9Gi ; Mexi-
can are higher, being 244 to 25. Spanish Deferred
have been quoted 25f to f, and the 3 per Cents. 51i
to 52k. The news from Constantinople regarding
the Loan does not up to the present time con-
firm the assertion that an indemnity will be
offered, although it is admitted in an official com-
munication that the Ambassador of the Porte at Paris,
and the agent of the Bank exceeded their instructions.
Such being the case, the Government must be held
responsible; but the question then remaining is, what
compensation shall be offered?
The Railway Share Market is not so good as it
was yesterday, and there is less doing in the English
lines. Still it cannot be said that there is any marked
depression. French Shares do not quite support the
material rise of yesterday, but are buoyant.
The Gold Mine Shares are firm.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(From the Official List.)
Business done.
Bank Stock
R ;.,or Cent. Reduced Annuities— .....
R por Cent Consols Anus. look i g i i
New 34 per Cent. Anus.
Long Annuities. Exp. Jan. Bth. 1860.. -16 1/2 7-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 63/4
India Stock 275 4i p.
Do. Bonds, 1000/ B4
South Sea Old Annuities .
Ditto New Annuities ..... ........
3 per cent. Annuities, 1751
Consols for Account
Eschaquer Bills. I%cl. March June.
1,000!. — 74 7
5001.
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent -
Ditto Small
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent.
Danish 5 per Cent.
Kquador Bonds . .
Mexican 3 per Cent
Peruvian Bonds, 1849, 6 oar Cent, ......
Ditto Deferred 3 per Cent. ....
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto Converted 5 per Cent. ... ......
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent..... IIB3A,
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent.... —
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent...— 251/s IA
Ditto Passive (Converted)
Swedish Loan
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852 2i 4 i i P.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Dutch Excha., 21A per Cent., 12 Gull —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates

711 REE O'CLOCK.

Consols 4190 OP *P.
Ditto Account. Nov.ll .„

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TRH BRIGHTON RAILWAY COLLISON. GOVERN"
111 INT INQUlR.Y.—Yesterday Captain Wynne, the Govern-
ment inspector of Railways, proceeded to institute an in-
quiry on behalf of the railway department of the Board of
Trade, into the recent collision with the express train on the
Brighton line. His report of the disaster will be forwarded
to the Ward of Trade, when it will be made public.—The
injuries to the Earl of Chichester is not of that serious char-
acter, which from general report we had been led to expect.
His lordship's left eyebrow was laid open, the wound being
rather more than an inch in length, but not of serious; depth.
Mrs. Cloves, a widow lady, residing at 18, Regency-square,
who was in a first-class carriage with Mr. George Tamplin
and Mrs. Tamplin, received the most severe injury of any
person in the train. She sustained a compound fracture of
her right leg, and the anterior plate of her left leg was
greatly indented, but the limb was not broken. She is at-
tended by Mr. B. Valiance; and on inquiry las nights at the
surgery, we ascertained that she is going on as favourbly Ai
can be expected under the unfortunate circumstances. Lord
and Lady Foley and Mr. and Miss Wygram, of Brunswick-
square, were also among those who were injured.
REPRESENTATION OF BRADFORD.— The committee
which conducted the late election in the interest of Col.
Thompson, have decided to petition against the return
of Mr. Wickham. They feel that the election of that
gentleman was not the frir expression of the opinions
and wishes of the electors—that it was accomplished
directly by a conspiracy of the Roman Catholic voters
and indirectly by corrupt and false votes. The votes of
the former cannot to removed from the poll, but those
of the latter can, and by their removal the not of the
former rendered null and void. On this account cLitsfiY
go we believe, have the friends of Col. Thompson re-
solved on a petition. An intimation of their intention
has been made to the chairman of Mr. Wickhiam's li
mince, ce, and a meeting of that body was heldyesterdayl
at the New Inn, to consider what steps shall be taken in
the matter. re have not heard the result of their
delibei