The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-31 00:00:00

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RAILWAY SHARE.%
St. Germain
Versailles, R. B 720 ... 720 ... 707 50 ... 767 50
L.B. 285 ... 28; 50 ... 232 51 ... sB7 50
Havre
Orleans . . 465 ...465 ... 465 ... 465
Strasburg to Bale 337 50 ... 337 50 ... 337 50 ... 337 50
Mulhausen to Thann

BELGIAN 1' UNDS—BRUSiELS, MAY 29.
Actual Debt, 2N, per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. lOl%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
3 per Cent. ...... .. 71%
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 92 lA
Society of Commerce, 4 b per Cent IIS
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 79
National Society .
—Brussels Papers, Nay 29.
HAMBURG BOitSEN HALLE, MAY 2S.
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Austrian 5 per Cents.
10. i
Bank Shares
An lo. Russian Loan 107% 107%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Series
Russian 5 per Cent. Hops and Co. 3d and 4th
Se,i, s
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch ctual Debt, 2Y4 pe Cent. 50,4 54%
Ditto 5 per Con` 1! 1
Polish Bond.
New icket
Anglu.lanish Loan, 3 per Cent 7'2!4, 72
Norwegian Lean, 1333, 4 per Cent.... lOl% BA%
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAMBURG, MAY 20.-13. ti.—Two months, 13. 5.
PETHRSBURGII, MAY 17.-11 11-32.
CHRINTIANIA, MAY 18.—Three months, 5 2.
STOCKHOLM, MAY 17.—Thirty day's, 11. 32.
BERLIN. MAY 25.—Three ninths, 6. 59%.

THE QUEEN AND REFORM.—A very numer-
ous public meeting of the inhabitants of Colchester was
held at the Assembly-room of the Angel Inn, on Monday
evening last, " for the purpose of agreeing to an address to
be presented to her Majesty at the present crisis." Mr.
M'Pherson, a Chartist, towards the close of the proceed.
ings, addressed the meeting in a speech that went to the
approval of the Queen's, and the disapproval of her
Majesty's Ministers' conduct. Blame was bestowed on the
Whigs by Mr. Dennis also, who trusted that " the sun of
freedom is again rising, and will illumine the political
hemisphere, and that peace and concord will reign through.
out the land." Three cheers were given for the Queen,
and the same number for the People's Charter. Three
deep groans were conferred on Peel.
GREAT MEETING AT CORK.—A highly
influential, and most numerous Meeting of the Citizens of
Cork, convened by requisition, took place in the County
Court-house last Monday, when an Address was voted to
her Majesty the Queen, expressive of their feelings at her
Majesty's recent noble resistance of those arrogant and un-
constitutional conditions and restraints sought to be imposed
on the Royal will by Sir Robert Peel, as the leader of the
Tory faction.
THE HEREDITARY GRAND DUKE OF Rus-
SU. —His Imperial Highness, and his Royal Highness the
Prince William Henry of the Netherlands, arrived at
Mivart's Hotel, shortly after twelve, yesterday, from a
visit to her Majesty at Windsor Castle. His Excellency
Count Orloff, preceptor to his Imperial Highness, and
Count Tolstoy, left Windsor Castle at an early hour, and
were in town before nine in the morning.
His Imperial Highness the Grand Duke of Rus-
sia forwarded the munificent sum of 3001. to the Lord
Mayor, yesterday, for the necessitous poor of the city of
London.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—.The Duke of
St. Alban's was married on Wednesday, at the seat of the
lady's family in Leicestershire, to Miss Gubbins, daughter
of General Gubbins. The whole of the Beauclerk family
were present.
HANOVER, MAY 24. Several members
of the Second Chamber, have lately sent in their resigna
tion, which much diminishes the probability of the meeting
of the Chamber on the 28th of May, so close at hand.
After their resignations there remains only 38 Members of
the Second Chamber, but ten of them are newly elected,
and not taken their oaths, who arc admitted to take their
seats before their election has been valued by a full
Chamber, and this, contrary to a custom which has been in
force for twenty years, which has never been contradicted,
and has been;acted upon since by the present Government.
Of these 38, many are decided partisans of the Constitution
of 1833, on whom the Cabinet cannot reckon, so that it
seems likely that the Chamber will again be incomplete
for some weeks.
His Excellency Count Pozzo di Borgo gave a
sumptuous banqeest, last evening, at Ashburnham House,
to the Hereditary Grand Duke of Russia. It was under-
stood to be a farewell banquet, and, in addition to his Im-
perial Highness, the party included his Royal Highness
Prince William Henry of the Netherlands, his Serene
Highness the reigning Duke of Saxe Weimar, Prince Dol.
gorouky and Bariatinsky, Count Orloff, Lord Torrington,
Count and Countess Woronzow, Dowager Countess of
Pembroke, Baron de Lieven, Counsellor Joukoffsky, Ge-
neral Kaveline.: Count •Vietria. M. D'Adlerberg, Count
Tolstoy, Count and Countess Charles Pozzo di Borgo,
Count and Countess Zavadowsky, Countess Petotski,
Countess Choiseul, M. de Kisseliff, &c.
HAMBURG, MAY 28.—Private accounts from
Limburg say that Dr. Christiani, who intended to go to
Hanover to be present at the opening of the Session of the
Estates of the Kingdom, which takes place to-day, has
received, in a Cabinet letter, positive injunctions not to
appear, with
the intimation that if he does, measures will
be taken to prevent his doing any mischief.
CONSTANTINOPLE, MAY B.—The Turkish
Government has just decided on a measure which will in-
terfere greatly with the foreign Steam Companies now
running their boats in this country, viz., to establish boats
of their own, to bear the name of packets, but to carry
passengers, goods, money, &c. ; the first, a fine steamer
of about 600 tons, will commence on the Smyrna line in
about a month ; the second, of 600 tons, will take the
Trebisonde line in about four months; she is a splendid
boat, built here, An old English boat we called the
Hilton Joliffe, now the Saheer el Kebeer (Great Magi-
cian) will be employed in the neighbourhood of the capital
as a tug. Others will be built for the purpose of com-
pleting the number of boats necessary. The Monarch,
hourly expected from England, will run in the Sea of
'Marmora. As all the boats will be not only commanded,
but chiefly manned by Franks, it may go hard with the
foreign Companies, as privileges will probably be accorded
to the Turkish steamers.
SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 30.—(From our COT-
respondent.)—THE SOUTHAMPTON RAILWAY.—The ar
rangements preparatory to the contemplated opening of
the line from Southampton to Winchester on the 10th of
June (simultaneously with the extension of the line from
Winchfield to Shapley, near Basingstoke); are in a state
of forwardness, which justifies implicit confidence in the
belief that no disappointment will take place. The
extensive erection constituting the terminus in this town,
together with a Branch Station for the accommodation
of passengers, have assumed an appearance closely bor-
dering on completion ; and the beautiful engine of sixteen-
horse power, supplied from the foundry of Messrs. Sum-
mers, Groves and Day, of Mill-place, near this town, has
been placed on the road, and made an experimental trip
yesterday evening, when she fully realized the high ex-
pectations which had been raised by an examination of her
finely-executed complex machinery. Another, and a much
more powerful engine, together with several of the car.
riages for passengers, are expected to-day ; several of the
luggage waggons have already been received from the
depot.

APOTHECARIES' HALL.—At a Court of Exa-
miners, held last night at Apothecaries' Hall, the following
gentlemen were granted certificates of qualification :
John Nathaniel Barlow ... Writtle, Essex.
Herbert Diaper Portsmouth.
Thomas Pearce Bevan Banbury.
Henry Hensley ... Bath.
John Chadwick Lancashire.
John Smith Gaunt
George Devereux Harrison Welch Pool, illontgo-
meryshire.
Peter John Thompson Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Richard Hindle Blackburn.
William Edward Coyte Bishop Norwich.
Peter William Leather Prescott.

Yesterday the annual meeting of the Society for
the Protection of Life from Fire, was held at the Free.
masons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, pursuant to adver-
tisement, for the purpose of laying before the public the
report of the Committee for the past year, and also to dis-
tribute medals to those persons whom the Society had found
to have distinguished themselves by saving the lives of
fellow-creatures from fire, at the hazard of their own. The
proceedings were of a tumultuous description.
A petition has been got up by the Tories of
Frome against the Government grant for National Educa-
tion, about to be proposed.—_A similar petition was also
lying for signature, on Sunday last, at the Methodist
Chapel, in conformity with a resolution passed at a meet-
ing of their preachers in London.— Wilts Independent.
The " Countess of Lonsdale" steam-ship, be-
longing to the General Steam Navigation Company,
arrived last night at one o'clock from Hamburg with her
Majesty's mail. She left Hamburgh on Wednesday
morning, and has accomplished the passage in the unu-
sually short space of forty-seven hours. Among her
passengers were Lord Loftus, Baron von Bertouche, Ad.
miral Luthers, &c.
LAUNCH OF A STEAM-SHlP.—Yesterday a
new steam-vessel, called the Queen, was launched from
the ship-building yard of Messrs. Curling and Young, at
Limehouse, in the presence of a vast concourse of specta-
tors. The ship is of 800 tons burden admeasurement, 200
feet in length, and 29 in breadth, exclusive of the paddle.
boxes. This splendid vessel has been built for the East
India Company, and is intended to navigate the Indian
rivers.

LAUNCH AT WOOLWICH DOCK-YARD.-011
Tuesday afternoon a vast concourse of persons assembled
at Woolwich to witness the interesting scene of the launch
of her Majesty's sloop the Crane from the Dock-yard.
Lady Bloomfield performed the ceremony of christening.
HUNGERFORD MARKET COMPANY.- The
usnil half-yearly general meeting of this Company was
bid I yesterday. The Earl of Devon in the Chair.
LORD WESTERN'S SHEEP.—Lord Western
has thrown out a challenge to any South Down breeder
to show against his Anglo-Merino sheep at tie next
exhibition of the East Essex Agricultural Association at
Colchester.