The Sun.
London, England, 1853-05-17 00:00:00

PORTUGAL.

Although the Lisbon mail has announced that
the Queen of Portugal had just performed the
ceremony of turning the first sod of the projected
railway, the private mercantile advices state that
owing to the want of funds no expectation was
entertained of the project being carried out. The
wealthy natives are said to stand aloof from it,
while the wise decision of the London Stock Ex-
change to shutout all Portuguese undertakings will
prevent anything being obtained in England. The
Minister, moreover, had declared in the Chambers
that as yet no contract had been signed confirming
the original concession, and it appears that a bill
on London at 90 days for 30,0001. given by the
projectors to rcomplete their deposit of 40,0001.,
must be paid before the Government will take up
their promised share in the concern. Reports, it
is added, were circulated in Lisbon that the pro-
jectors hope to dispose of their interest whenever
they can secure any valuable concessions from the
Government, and some went so far as to assert that
M. Salamanca was in treaty with them. This,
however, was not credited. Meanwhile it was
believed that the Government were desirous that
the line should be carried out in defiance of the
ban put upon it in this country, so that they might
escape the necessity of abandoning their course of
spoliation. A statement having been circulated
in Lisbon, that the Portuguese Government and
the Bank of Lisbon had come to an arrangement of
their differences, the Bank has notified that the
report is entirely false.

ITALY.
In its sitting of the 12th, as already stated by
electric telegraph, the Piedmontese Chamber of
Deputies discussed the Relief Bill in favour of Sar-
dinian subjects whose property is under sequestra-
tion in Lombardy. M. Valerio, of the Opposition,
gave his adhesion to the bill and to the spirit of the
report of the committee, but wished it might be
understood that the bill did not propose to divide
refugees into two distinct families. M. Asproni
observed that there were many refugees who had
not yet obtained naturalisation in Sardinia, and
asked whether Ministers would object to extending
the benefit of the bill to them, by naturalising
them. The Minister of Finance, Count Cavour,
expressed his satisfaction at the unanimity dis-
played by the chamber on this question, and then
said he could not at present answer M. Asproni's
question, but so much he would say that ho was
ready to do what he had done hitherto, always fol-
lowing the rules of good policy and justice. The
Minister's speech was received with loud applause,
and the bill was voted by a majority of 127 to 7.
The Chamber then proceeded to consider the Savoy
Railway Bill, the discussion of which was ad-
journed to the following day.
A letter from Turin says :—" The Prefecture of
the Apostolic Palaces at Rome has sent a very
handsome present to the Grand Dukes of Russia
who lately visited Rome, consisting of a copy of
two groups in the gallery of the Vatican, repro-
senting a stag bitten by dogs."

The Augsburg Gazette has the following from
Milan of the 18th :—" A rumour has been in cir-
culation hete, that it was in contemplation to at-
tempt another rising, but we believe that if the
audacious crime of February 6 should be again
essayed, the result would be even a greater failure
than the first. The military authorities have
adopted all the measures necessary to prevent such
an event. It is worthy of remark that this ru-
mour of a new attempt at revolt at Milan had
been disseminated at the same time in Switzerland,
Piedmont, and Savoy. The plot was directed at
the same time against the Austrian Government,
and against that of Piedmont."

St.
20

THE SHARE MARKBTS.

Paid.'

1100

St,.
50
50
20

100
100
all
all
all

8i
all
.00
all

all 1
11i
100

111
all I
all
all

'Aberdeen
Ambg. Nottng. Bost
& flastn. Junct

Biruag.
• Stour Va11ey.......
Birkenhd. Laucsh. &

Ch6ibire Junct.

Do. Chesh.
£5O and £25 Cons.
Do., £2O
' Bristol and Exeter
Caledonian
Chester & Holyhead
Cork and Bandon
Cork, Blackrock and
Passage
Dublin& Belfast June
Dundee Perth &Abe-
deen Junction
Do. New
East Anglian (X 25 L
and E. & L. & D.)
Do. Do. (181. E.& H.)
Eastern Counties...
Eastern Union, Class

A. (late E. U. Sli.)
Do., do

Do., B. and C.......,,
East Lancashire
East & West Ind. Dk
& Binning. June '
Edinburgh & Glasgow
Edin. and Peebles._
,Edin. Prth. &Dundee
'Glasgow &S. Western
Great Northern Stk
Do., A. Stock
Do., B. Stock
Great Southern and
'Western (Ireland)
Great Western
Irish South-Eastern
Lancaster &
Do., Thirds
Lancash.& Yorkshire
Do Fifths

Do., Wst. Riding Un,
!Leeds Northern

Liv. Crsby. &Southpt.
London & Blackwall
Loud. Tilb. & Sth end.
Loud. Brigt. & S. Cst.
London & N. Western
Do., Fifths
Do. ,£lO Sh.M. &B. C
London & S. Western
Do., £5O
Do., £4O
Londeriy. &Coleraine
Lndndrry. & Enuisk.
Manch. Shef. &Lincln
Do. , Man. & Lin. Un
'Midland

Do. Birming. & Derby
Midland G. West. (Ir.)
Do. Shares
Newcastle & Carlisle
Newmarket

Do. Bury Extension.
Newp. Aberg.&llftd.
Newry & Enniskillen
Newry, Warmnpoint,

and ltestrevor,
Norfolk
Do., New

Norihn.Counties Un,
North British

North Devon, No. 1
•,No.
Do 2

Do., A Deferred
Do., B Guaranteed
North Staffordshire
North Western .......
N. & S. Westm. June
Oxford, Worcester, &
Wolverhampton
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland

Shrewsbury & Birmg.
Do., L. & N. Westn.
Guaranteed Stock.
Shrewsby.& Hereford
Shrewsby. & Chester
(Nor. W. Min.)
Do. Halves do

Do Do. Oswesiii:,
Shropshire Union .
South Devon.
South Eastern

South 'Wales
S. Yorksh. River Dun
Do.

Stockton & Hartlepl
Thames Haven Dock
and Railway'
Vale of Neath
Waterfd. & Kilkenny
Waterford& Limerick
West Cornwall

Whubledon&Croydn.
Woodford
York Newctl. &Berw.
Do. Extensions
Do. G. N. E. Purchase
York & N. Midland

1 Aberdeen

Do., No. 2, 7 p. c
Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St
Do. 4 p. c. Shares
Caledonian £lO

!Chester &• Holyheadi

IGuar. 14 per. cent.
Cork&Daudon 53 p. c.
Dundee, Perth, and
Aberdeen Junction
E. Ang. (705.) 6 p. c.
Do. (X 5), 7 per cent.
Do. (X 7 17s), 7. p et.
Eastern Counties Ex-
tension, 5 p. c. No.l
Do., No. 2

Do., New 6 p. c. St.
Eastern Union Scrip
Guar. 6 p or cent...
East Lancash. 6 p. cts.
Edinb. Prth.&Dund.
Glasgow /4L S. Western
Guar. 5 per cent...
Great Northn. 5 p. c.
Do. 5 p. e., Redeem.
at 10 p. c. prem.. ,
Gt.S outhn. & Westn.

(Ireland) Eights
Gt. Westn. (Berks at
Hants Ex. 5 p. c.)
Great Western, fixed,
4. per cent
Lan. & York. F. £2O
Do., 6 p. c., Stock
London and Brighton
Guaranteed 5 p. e
Do. Pref. 5 p. c., St
Do. Convertible, 5 p
c., 1852
Do. New Guar. 6 p. c
London & S. Western,

Con. Thirds
Londonderry& Color
A Shares
Londndry. dr Ennisk
A Shares

MAch.,Shef.,&Lin.,
4. Shares, No. 1....
Do., New, .......
Do., £6 ....... ........ .

liarypt. do Carl. 4 p. c.
Do. 4i per cent
Do

Mid. Consol. 6 p. c . St.
Do. Consol. Bristol &
Birm. 6 per cent....
Do. Pref. 4A percent.
Norfolk Extension...
Do. Guar. 5i per et.
Do. Waveney Valley
5 per cent ~ .
North British .........

North Staffordshire..
Oxford, Worcester, &
Wolverh. £15,6p. c.
Do.

(Shrewsbury & Birm

New Guaranteed...
Shrewsby. & Chester
Nor.W. (Min), 3 p.c.
Do. 5 per cent.

South Devon
Do. New

S. Eastern (Reading
Ann.) f£l Os. 6d.
S. Yorksh. 4p. c. Guar.
Waterfd.&Kilk. 6p.a.
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick, 4 p. c. Pref
Do

York & N. Midland,
H. & S. Purchase...

FOR:

Antwrp.&Rotterdam
Belgian Eastu. Juliet.
Charleroi & Erquelin
Dijon and Besangou
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian
Do. Extension
Gt. Indian Peninsula
Gd. Junct. of France
Gt. Westn. of Canada
Shares