The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-17 00:00:00

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,r.rCHELMSFORD, FEE. 13.—Prices to-day were as
_follow:

CHELMSFORD, FEE. 13.—Prices ky were as follow:
Wheat, white, 46s to sls ; red, 40s to 445; barley, 27s to 30s;
chevalier 29s to 34s ; grinding 24s to 28s ; malt +5.5 to 565;
chevalier 55s to 58s; oats 18s to 255; peas, partridge, 273
to 305; white, 28s to 308 ; boiling, 295 to 325; dun, new, 26s
to 28s; beans, tick, 26s to 30s; harrow ticks, 27s to dls;
mazagan, 24s to 28s.
COLCHESTER, FEE. 14.—Wheat, white 46s to 50s ; red 42.
to 45s ; oats, 18s to 21s; beans, mazagan 26s to 28s; middle
and small 28s to 305; peas, white 30s to 325, grey, new 28s to
305 • barley, 305 to 36s per qr.
HADDINGTON, FEB. 13.—The following are the prices of
grain at our market to-day
Wheat. I Barley. Oats. Beans.
First
Second ... 39s 5d I 27s 4d 21s 6d 31s Od
Third .. .. 848 9d 21s 6d 19s Od 28s Od
Total quantity of Wheat in market 867 qrs., 797 sold
Do. Barley do. 434 qrs., 419 sold
Do. Oats do. 417 qrs., 355 sold
Do. Beans do. 181 qrs., 181 sold

COAL MARK

Prices of Coal per ton at 1
Chester Main l3s Od,
Howard's W. H. Neth l3s Od
Longridge'sW.Hartley 13s 6d
Revensworth'sW. Hart 13s Od
Redheugh Main
rantield Moor Butes lls 9dl

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wall's End, &c.
Acorn Close ....... ..... 13s 9d
Brown ........ ......... 12s 9d
Harton
Hebburn
Heaton
Walker l3s 9d
garvey Wylam l3s Od
Eden Alain ......
Hetton
'Ships at market,

T.—YitsTxRDAY.
;he close of the market :
Haswell l6s 6d
Lembton
Pensher • l4s 6d
Russell's Hetton
Stewart's .. ... ....
Heugh Hall
South icelloe l4s 9d
Seymour Tees ......
South Durham l4s 6d
Tees
Cowpen Hartley
Hartley
Nixon's Merthyr and
Cardiff ....,...., 2ls Ora
Deep Vein Milford .. 22s Od
155 .....Sold, 63.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, FEB. 16.

STOCK EXCHASGE.—The ' share market opened flat
this morning, and throughout the day there was a very
limited amount of business doing. The only sales reported
were—Great Western (Original Shares), 86% ex div.—
Wilts, Somerset, and kVeymouth, 93.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 16.

STOCK EXCHANGB.—The business to-day was very limited,
and prices generally had a downward tendency. The trans-
actions were as follow : —Eastern Counties, 7 13-16—Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 6614—Ditto, Fifths (West Riding
Union), 4 dis.—London and North-Western, 119—Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 29%—blidand, 577/e
York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Unpaid-up, 3% dis.
MANCHESTER, FEB. 16.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—There has been a fair amount of
business done to-day, but prices in most cases were lower
than those of Saturday. The only transaction reported
was—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 29%.
BIRMIN GRAM, FEB. 16.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—A very limited business has been
done to-day, without material alteration in prices. The
only sale reported on .Change was—South Staffordshire,
1 dis.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTESALL'S—YESTERDAY.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
11 to 1 agat Mr. Gooch's Victress
11 to 1 agiit Mr. Atkinson's Chieftain
15 to 1 agst Mr. S. Thompson's Hardwick
18 to 1 Captain Little's Agis—taken
20 to L agst Mr. Mason's Miss Mowbray—t freely
20 to 1 agst Lord Waterford's Sir John
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
100 to 6 agst Duke of Bedford's Hesse Homburg—
taken freely
20 to 1 agst Mr. Morris's Haresfoot—taken and
afterwards offered
25 to 1 agst Mr. Brown's Sally Warfoot colt—taken
The only bets were 500 to 30, six times, agst Hesse
Homburg; 500 to 25 agst Haresfoot; and 1,000 to 40
agst Sally Warfoot colt.
CHESTER CUP.
18 to 1 agst Mr. J. Stanley's The Confessor—taken
30 to 1 agst Mr. Greville's Ariosto
33 to 1 agst Mr. Parkinson's The Grand Duke
33 to '1 agst Mr. Saxon's Black Doctor—taken
33 to 1 agst Mr. Merry's Aingleader
35 to 1 agst Lord Waterford's Cockcrow
40 to 1 agst Mr. Wilkinson's Neasham—taken
1,000 to 20 agst Mr. Hill's Pitsford—taken
1,000 to 10 agst Mr. R. Harrison's King of Trumps—t
1,000 to 10 agat Mr. Brown's Sally Warfoot colt—taken
1,000 to 10 agst Mr. R. Harrison's Tom Holtby—taken
Black Doctor was backed for about 1501. at 1,000 to
30, and the King of Trumps, Tom Holtby, and the Sally
Warfoot colt, freely at 1,000 to 10; most of the other
quotations are made from offers.
DERBY.
16 to 1 was laid once in hundreds agst Augur, and
afterwards offered, and 20 to 1 to 2001. laid agst Lapidist,
showing a decline in the latter of three points. Offers
to take 7 to 1 about the favourite.

INVESTMENT OF CAPITAL IN IRELAND.
The subject of Ireland has occupied a prominent part in
her Majesty's Speech from the Throne, and while we cannot
but lament the occurrence of outrages in certain parts of that
country, it is gratifying to observe that the tranquillity
which has prevailed in the west and south continues unin-
terrupted, and has even led to the contemplation of a reduc-
tion in the police force in those districts.
We have been assured that the attention of the Go-
vernment has been seriously directed towards the
state of Ireland, and the countenance and sanction
given to the efforts of the West of Ireland Land
Company are proofs of the earnestness of their inten-
tions. The great impediment to individual enterprise
is the isolated ',condition of them who are engaged in at-
tempts to improvement and the difficulty experienced In
contending with the many obstacles which are its conse-
quence. These difficulties will not be felt by a powerful
company possessing large tracts of land, introducing the
most recently improved modes of cultivation, and conducted
by men of capital, ability, and perseverance, We have
taken an interest in the efforts of the promoters of this com-
pany, because we recognise in their success the harbinger of
better days for Ireland, and because we expect through their
means the introduction of permanent employment for the
labouring population of that beautiful, but neglected country.
• The West of Ireland Land Company has been incorporated
by Royal Charter, and we understand that Government have
expressed not only a strong feeling
in its favour, but inti-
mated their readiness to co-operate with the directors in any
measures, calculated to promote the interests of Ireland. The
directors were anxious that such stipulations should be made
in the Charter as would give stability to the undertaking,
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trace a
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and make timely and judicious provision against the tempta-
tion, common to other companies of paying dividends out of
the capital, or borrowing money on mortgage. With this
view it has been determined that the Charter shall prohibit
the company from exercising this power, and that Go-
vcom-
pany'sc'tilfitsmaernratnogfemoneentofantheanxious
concern for the interests of the company, and consider the
insertion of these stipulations calculated to inspire public
confidence.
The objects of the West of Ireland Company are, to pur-
chase some of the large estates in the province of Connaught
now in the market, and to improve and let on lease, or re-
sell, the same in such portions as may be deemed advisable.
The difficulties hitherto in the way of such an undertaking
erlinient auditors.shall have
lv e
have been the enormous costs of transferring land. It will
hardly be credited, that in a case of sale of land for 1,200/.,
the costs to seller and buyer amounted to 200/., being about
seventeen per cent., or one-sixth of the purchase money.
These have now, happily, been removed by the operation of
the Encumbered Estates Act, and land with unassailable
titles may be purchased cheaper in western Ireland than in
any other portion of the British Empire. Under such
circumstances, it is not to be wondered at that attention
should be attracted to it as a field for English capital and
enterprise. how
When we consider with much jealousy England
guards her possessions in remote ortions of the globe, and
human the immense sacrifice of life which necessarily attends
the retention of those possessions,ssiona, independent of the
enormous sums required for their administration, the idea has
t
itself to us, tha it would often suggested be expedient to
give increased facilities and greater encouragement to the
improvers and cultivators of large tracts of unreclaimed
land, nearer home and in our own dominions. These facili-
ties have already been granted by the operation of the En-
cumbered Estates Act; and the encouragement held out by
the Government to the West of Ireland Company will,
doubtless, be attended by most salutary effects, and induce
many English and Scotch settlers to emigrate to the com-
pany's estates.—Newcastle Chronicle.

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volunteer rifle corps, provided that the proposed formation
bona fide application,
of such corps is recommended by the Lord-Lieutenant of the
county, and that the members of the corps undertake to
of rules adopted by several
provide their own arms and equipments, and to defray all
or without the rifle and
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dress or ordinary
corps already forming; also sketches and estimates for uni-
forms and accoutrements, with
sword-bayonet, improved on the French principle. The
clothing they propose to supply
as a gentleman
may wear with satisfaction.
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scribing club may be viewed on application at the ware-
rooms, 111, 116, 118, and 120, Regent-street, or at the City
depot, 22, Cornhill. Eight and five guineas are quoted for
these samples, but the tastes and wishes of any body of gen.
tletnen will be readily adopted and estimated for by Messrs.
Nicoll, who will send competent persons for instructions to
any part of the country, where a fair amount of business will
be insured.
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INCORPORATION or TUE GENERAL THEATRICAL
FUND.—Her Majesty has been graciously pleasedA
to grant
a charter of incorporation to this truly excellent institution,
whereby it will now be placed on an equality With the more
rich and prosperous funds of Covent -garden and Drury-lane
Theatres.