The Sun.
London, England, 1837-02-18 00:00:00

FASIIION,I3LE INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS. . .
Mr. and Miss Forsyth, at the London
.Hotel, Albermarle-
street, from Ragshot ; Mnjer Orde, and family, at ditto ,• Mrs.
Finchley mid family, at ditto, from their seat, Hartrup Lodge,
LiocolnF:hire; the. Russian Ambassador, in rJover-street, from
Brighton; Lord Leveson, at Devonshirr, House, from the
Ceatinent; Sir Watkin and Miss Wr.cn, in St. James's-
square, from their seat, Wynnstay, laca:c Wrexham, Denbigh-
shire ; Lord and Lady Aylmer,
at the Carlton Mite', Regent-
street, from Hall Barn ; Colone7k Seale,, M.
P., at ditto, from
a tour ; Monsieur Fould, atV.,_ Rogers. Esq., at ditto, from
Paris; Mr. and Mrs.. Ar,stin,
Mr. Hedworth Lam)-,tori, 11. P., at Raggett's hotel, Dover-
street, from Bath ; Cap
1-. tin Martin, at ditto, fromßrighton;
and his lady, in Chester-
street, from Bri4l)%on • Sir John and Lady, and Miss. Shelley,
in„ ~ ul3°lfirrtsc-',lo:;.4are, irom Combo Abbey, the seat of the Earl
of raven.; Henry Winston Barron, Esq. M.P., at the Bur.
ling:.ou. -Hotel, from Paris.
DEPARTURES.
General Mackenzie and family, from thh, London Hotel,
Albermarle-street, for Paris; Miss Derrick, from ditto; Mr.
and Mrs. Montague, from ditto, for Brighton ; Mr. and Mrs,.
Ewart, from ditto ; Mr. Edward Cooper, M. P., from Far-
rance's Hotel, Belgrave-street, for Machin Castle, Ireland ;
the Hon. Col. and Mrs. Grant and family, from the St.
George's Hotel, Alhermarle-stmet, for their house in Bel-
grave-square ; Mr. and Mrs. -Henry Seymour, from ditto,
for their seat in Norfolk ; the Duke of Richmond, from the
Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-s'Ject, for Goodwood; Eiti Shad-
broke, from ditto, for Ilenharo Hall; H. Perkhls, Esq., from
ditto, Hanweirth Parke, Mons. and Mad. Schomer, from
ditto, for Paris ; Mrs. and the Misses Gresley, from ditto, for
1 liastlns i NIT,\ liciteage, Lsco fripu ditto, for Wiltshire,

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank 5t0ck............ ...... .. 2 8 714 i India Stock —
S pet' Cent. Red,
3 per Cent. Cons 00%%%% South Sea Stock
314 per Cent. - !Old Annnities ... ...... ...... •••
••
59
Ditto Red 98% 9 517.4 9 INew Ditto ..... —....... ........... --
New 31/., per Cent.. WAN% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751...
New sper Cent. ... .... Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 27 30 pm.
Batik LongAnnuitiesto expire Ditto ..... ........500. .....
Jan 5, 1,.1,0 15% 1-16 Ditto Small
Oct Ili, 1359 14% ' Ditto Commercial 26 29 pm.
Jan 5, 060 — , Ditto Advertised —pm
Jan. 5, .880 .......... ..... --- IBank Stock for Account... ..... --
April 5, 1881' — India Stock for Account
Jan. 5, 1870.............. ..... -- Consols for Acconnt...... 9014%Wi
Omnium ...... .............. ...... -- pm.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austnan Bonds . ........ lO5 Peruvian Bonds ~,....- ..... ......
Belgian Bonds .....- ......... — Ditto Account ....... ..... . .....
Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds.
Brazilian Bonds — Ditto Accotra
Ditto Account ~...... — Ditto New Bonds .............4914 9
Burnos A yres Bonds ....._ ..... —1 Ditto Account 49
!)ittn Account ............. ..... —1 Ditto, 3 per cent.
ChilllAi 80nd5............... ..... —' Prussian Bonds —
Ditto Account
Couctiliian Bonds ..........» — Ditto Account —
ifitto ACcolint.
Columbian Bonds, 1924 —l Spanish Bonds —
Ditto Account
fhtitol 80nd5.... ~.......... ..... - Ditto Bonds, 1831 917006
1)ll to Account . — Ditto Acconnt ',B 73, 8 7
tire,* 80nd5.............-.-.-- —, French, 5 per cent.......... —t. —c.
Ditto Bonds. 1825 — --- 4 per cent. ...... -.. —f. —c.
Ditto Account - 2 per cent. —f. —c
lthrx lean Bonds, 5 per cent —l ----- Exchange —f.
Ditto Account ......- ........ ' Dutch, '24 per cent.
Ditto, 0 per cent ........... --1 Ditto Account —
Ditto Account ................ —1 Ditto, 5 per cent. 102%
Ni.p.1itan..................... ..... —, Ditto Account —

' PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
Commercial Blackwall Railway Company 2 0,/,%
Dublin U:141 Kilkenny Railway Company
Great Weei.crn Railway Company..
London and Birminfrham Railway Company 75 122 1
1. •iiiinii and Greenwich rtailway Company— 2O 22
London, Saliisbury, and Exeter Railway 1 0,4
Westminster and Greenwich Railway Company 2 IN,
British North American Bank
Colonial Bank

COURSE. GF EXCII
Anniterdam C F. 19.
Ditto, at
Itottetilz.m ° U I2 s}i,

Antwerp...
NI.C. 12 I'2
Altona.... _

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Paris, 3 days' sight 25 55
Ditto ........ ......... ....2 Us 25 85

26
Mat-se:Nes. _

I,;:i:i:iort Maine, Ex. M. 153
1),1 ef's!Angli, ruble 3 L's. 111 o
ik:to
V,:!:1113, effective fl '2 M. IC) 15
10 17

11...,..111,1 ....... ......
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1.51,4
C,tlr. 7

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AN GP. YESTEBDAT.
Lrgtuur 47 ifs
Genoa ill 5
Milan Si
Venice 4:
Vaple, .., 40
Palermo per oz. 12(04!
Li,bon 5.1,44
Oporto 53
Rio Janeiro 2`..N
Bahia ......•• 26
Buenos Ayres
Dul;lin, 21 days' sight 1
1%
Corte

4,W,ral,ar .

PRICE Or• BULLION, PER OZ
Portagal Wild, coin
.0 0

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Foreign t,01,1. in bars 4 17 9
New Doubloons

Now I).4lars
Silver, I,:us. etanrhrt.

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PRICF.b OF 111 ISII STOCKS. DUBLIN, FEVAWARY 15
3 ,er Cent. Conso:s ... ..... Sti% ,Ocati Canal 1M... 6 per cent. ES%
il‘t to tkance.l —l Ditto, 4 per cent 59.%
3,i ....., Cent. Stock b6lf, • Hiberruan rank ... —
itto New, ba:lo
n... per Cent. Debentures 94 National Insurance Co .... ..... 31
Hank Stock .. Set) City Debentures, 4 per cent... 79
nova; Canal Str-lc
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Gripti Canal Stock —

{,e• cent

... MAILS.
A. Due 1 A rrlve.l. Due IA rri, e.t. Due
G A merles.... ..... . 0 0 Fmnec e 0 Lisbon 0
0 Mari! ...... 0 0 flu2rii. & Jcrsay 0 0 Malta
Buenos Ayres.. 0 i 0 flamb.,rg 0 0 Mexico.-- ...... 0
0 ~..iriba,,ena .... II 1 0 f10i!..m.1
0 Onblin ... ..... n l 0 Jamaica .. .....
0 r ianlers ~....... I l 0 Leeward Island, 0 I 0 Waterford il

HIGH WATER AT I.ONIPIN 111111)0E TO-MORIWW.
111 Ling ..... :nitiute3 after I. I 111,,,1ing.......54; inintlos after

TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Our fr;end at Gloucester kill see that his communication, on
Church-rates has been anticipated in The Sun of yesterday.

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LONDON,
SATURDAY F.VI.;IN (NG. FEBRUARY 13, 1337

the House of Lot-d; yestertLy afternoon, the pro-
ceedings were almost exclusively limited to the present.-
thin of Petitions. The Bishop of LoNDoN, in presenting
some against the abolition of Church-ratrs, promised
freib supply of the same tort of Petitions from the agri-
ctlitural districts in his own diocese. "So (added he)
those who thought they would carry the abolition of
Cion•eli-rates by storm, were likely to find themselves
-mistaken."

One or two Bills were forwarded a stage ; after which
ilie;r Lordships adjourned.
In the House of Commons upwards of forty Members
intim:Aed to the SPFA KE a that they were entrusted ‘lith
Petitions to the House on the subject of Church-ratos
great many were then presented.
_ . . .

•
On the motion of Lord 3. RUSSELL, the Municipal Cor-
por itions (Ireland) Bill was read a second time.
Several other Bills were advanced a stage. Amongst
the number, was the Municipal Corporations Act Amend-
ment Pill ; the Report of which—after much discussion
on several of the clauses, and a division on one of them—
was brought up and ordered to he laid on the table.
A long and desultory conversation took place on the
Recorder's Court Bill. Several Amendments were agreed
to in Committee ; the Bill then, as amended, was ordered
to be taken into consideration on Wednesday next.
Mr. O'CONNOR DoN, the only Irishman on the Com-
mo tee nominated to inquire into the system of collusive
voting in Scotland, was excused from attendance, and Mr.
DIVIt'TT was substituted for him by a large majority.
The House then, at 10 o'clock, adjourned until Monday,
in consequence of the SPEAKER'S continued indisposition.

The Report of the English Municipal Bill was brought
up last night in the Commons. There was a good deal of
uninteresting discussion on the various clauses proposed to
be inserted to suit the views of Hon. Members on the Op-
positiora side of the House.
Mr. SCARLETT having discovered that the original Act is
much -too aristocratic in its provisions, was extremely
anxious to introduce into the present nmasure a
clause which would remedy the defect pointed out by
him. The Hon. Gentleman strongly urged upon the House
the necessity of restoring to the burgesses the privilege in-
tendett for them by the MELBOURNE Administration ; but
of which they had been deprived by the mutilation in-
flicted en the Bill in the House of Lords—namely, that of
electing the Aldermen. The brilliant Representative (for
the last time) of Norwich, was of opinion, that it would
be a great improvethent to vest the election of Aldermen—
where do our readers imagine ?—in the burgesses at large,
no d.3ubt. Yes, truly, so Mr. SCARLETT expresses it ; but
when he comes to explain what he means by bur-
gesses' "at large," we find he means the particular
burgesses of such snug little wards as he proposed
to cut out for the English boroughs ; each ward having
the choice of its own Aldermen. The Attorney-General
did not see the advantage to be gained by this plan, and
thought it better to let the matter remain, as the friends of
the Hon. Gentleman in the other House had fixed .it.

The Hon. Member, amazed that so deep and artful a
scheme for advancing the interests of bribery and Toryism,
should have been penetrated by any intellect but his
own, proceeded, on the defeat of this amendment, ,to
move another, having for its object to appoint two She-
riffs instead of one. The reason of this sagacious pro-
posal, as stated by its author, was to prevent that par-
tiality which a single judge must necessarily exercise. By
having two judges to decide there would be produced a
happy state of equilibrium in their decisions. The
two Sheriffs, like the two loadstones, of exactly equal
power, which attract the last resting-place of the
Prophet of Mecca, in opposite directions, would pull
different ways, with a nearly balanced authority ; and
thus the ends of justice would be satisfied by the exercise
of an impartiality of which no one could complain. A
wise main of old said, that " wisdom crieth nut in the
streets, aed no man regardeth her." May not the same
observation apply to the House of Commons, after the re-
jection of this amendment ?

The Irish Poor Law Bill has been printed and circu-
lated. Before we proGseed to examine its provisions in de-
tail, we shall, for the griper information of nur readers,
give a summary of its clause; in the order in which we find
theitt in the Bill itself. They axe in all one hundred and
!:ixteeu in number—of which the 7,i-eater portion refer to
Jhe executive power of the Commissioners, and the super-
vision and management of Workhouses. To prevent con-
fusio:► we shall prefix to our abstract of each clause the
numbe:- standing before it in the Bill :

1

1. The English Poor-law Commissioners for the time being
are etapawgr,Nl to carry this Act into operation.
2. They, (iv any one of them, are authorised to requim and
enforce itclance of such witnesses as they may wish to
exinti 111r$No5cibtolitr4iem upon oath touching all matters
havii Ittpelr,tcrtipe-,0 cots of this Bill. They may also
g
en: t e-Titauctior(.o: oks, plans, accounts, anti other
oowittittilkr4o4 Are'.'san& et, without, however, assuming
al:r /4.o4ififc.r pecrogat... of a Court of Record. Wh-
ile:. ..NW-ifdt-45. be tompfil d to go a greater distance than
tw, ~ ~,:.'.,:-.% give evidki
0 "." D /".*: .tile assitt,“e his Act, all laws relating 0 the
0.
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