The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-10 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.

Cash. Account.
Orleans 1057 50 .. 1057 50
Northern ...
New ditto — ..
Lyons and Mediterranean 1165 .. 1167 50
Geneva.. 342 50 ..
Southern
Western
Eastern
Sardinian 3BO .. 380
Austrian
Lombard
North of Spain
Saragossa..
Ditto to Barcelona 350 .. 350

RUMOURED LOSS OF HER. MAJESTY'S
SHIP CHANTICLEE

PORTSMOUTH, Nov, 9

The _Hampshire Telegraph of Saturday says :
"The anxiety of the naval public respecting the
safety of this ship has been considerably increased
during the past week, owing to no information
having been received of her arrival at any of the
Peninsular or Mediterranean ports. She left Ports-
mouth on the 16th ultimo, under orders to proceed
to Gibraltar and Malta, having no instructions to
call at Plymouth, and would not, therefore, do so
unless actually compelled by the state of the wea-
ther to put in for shelter. Iv e believe that she has
not been spoken with since leaving Portsmouth.
She left Spithead during a temporary lull in the
gales which prevailed last month, and must have
been exposed to the full force of the weather before
getting clear of the Channel. Had she run into
any of the French or Peninsular ports it is pretty
certain that the Admiralty would have been informed
of the fact ; and had the direction of the wind been
the reverse of what it was, we might have derived
hope from the supposition that she might have
run before it in a westerly direction. We have
been favoured with the following communication
from the Admiralty on the subject, and the ex-
pression of hope which it contains is the only
encouragement we can hold out respecting the
vessel :

"Admiralty, 7th November, 1862.
" ' Sir,—Having laid before my Lords Commissioners of
the Admiralty your letter of the 6th inst., I am commanded
by their lordships to acquaint you, that no intelligence has
been reaeived of the Chanticleer since she left Portsmouth
for Gibraltar and Malta, but no anxiety is felt for her safety.
—I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
" W. G. ROMAINE.' "
" The Editor of the Hampshire Telegraph.'
" The Chanticleer is a new screw-sloop, carrying
17 guns, of 200 horse-power and 950 tons burthen.
She is commanded by Commander Charles Stirling,
and has a crew probably of 170 or 180 men. This
is her first commission.
"We may add that there is really no serious
cause for apprehension at present. The Pera, which
brought the last mail from Gibraltar, arrived at
Southampton on the Ist inst. She probably left
GilTaltar four or five days previously, or about the
27th ult. Eleven days only would then have elapsed
since the Chanticleer left Spithead, and that would
not be an extraordinary length of time for her to
occupy in a voyage to Gibraltar if she went under
canvass only.We may reasonably await the arrival
of the next mail before entertaining any se,riou,

fears:'

UNJUST WEIGIITS.—We cannot conceive that it
can be necessary, or that the Legislature intended, that
honest traders, who, from inadvertenco, are found to have
a few inaccurate weights on their premises, should be
visited with the serious penalties and consequences of this
act. In all cases, we think, in the first instance, a warning
would be sufficient, it being every man's interest to have
without some detached his weights just. It is unlawful to balance any scale with
a moveable weight. We have yet to learn how scales used
In weighing salt, bacon, alkalies, &c , are to be kept accu-
li o
this v can
renders th i'
the h e
ownerd° e n
ra`.o ; they will vary with the atmosphere, and, consequenly,
require adjusting ahceed°
deiingghlty•
Yet
many times, who have unwit-
tmgly offended in this way ; the magistrates having sup-
liable to the serious penalties alluded to I We have seen
parties convicted harshly
posed the moveable weight to be an evidence of fraudulent
intention 1--The Grow..
weight