The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-06 00:00:00

DUTCH FUNDS.

AMSTERDAM, Nov. 2.—THE PAURSE.—The general
tendency of the Bourse was exceedingly iht to-day,
nearly all the transactions in the different kinds of
stock were made at yesterday's closing prices. This
was especially the case with the Three per Cent. French
and the Four per Cent. Pot tuguese; Russian stock alone
was in demand.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, Nov. 2.
Bills

Money.
53v

Actual Debt, 2Y2 per Cent.... • • •.... 53
Ditto, 3 per Cent •.••.• .• • • ........ 6217 i
Ditto, 4 per Cent. ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 8144
Amort Syndic, 3}6 per Cent •• • ..• •• • •
East India Loan, 4 per Cent • •
Spanish New 5 per; Cents.• •• .
Austrian 5 per Cent 5.................—
Ditto• 3 per Cent., Inland ..........
Commercial Company, 434 per Cept
Exchangeon London, at sight . .... 12 5
Two m0nth5......... ••• • .. 12
On Hamburgh, at sight ...• 34 87
Two months.• • 34 75
On Paris, at sight.... 56 €2
Tw0m0nth5......... ••• • •. 56 37

ACCIDENT TO TUE DUKE OF CAMBRIDGE.—This
illustrious Duke met with a slight accident whilst out
shooting on Thursday last, at Chantry Park, the Duke
of Rutland's seat, near Newmarket. The Royal Duke
was in company with Colonel Hall, of the Ist Life
Guards, and Mr. Sloane Stanley, shooting over the
Links, when ho received a slight injury in the hand,
which compelled him to quit the field. His Royal
Highness has since returned to hew, and suffers but
slightly from the accident.
Mr. Anderton has given notice of the following
motion for the next Court of Common Council :—" That
it be referred to the Commissioners of Sewers to
examine ar.d report whether the smoke arising from
steam-engines and furnaces erected in and near the City
and the steam-bouts upon the Thames, is or is not in-
jurious to the health of the inhabitants, a preventive to
cleanliness, and destructive to public buildings; and
whether the present laws are sufficient to cause the nui-
sances (if any) to be abated."
ALARMING OCCURRENCE.—On Sunday afternoon,
about four o'clock, one hour before high water, a large
sailing-vessel, laden with soft sand, the property cf Mr.
Pass, of Nine Elms, was proceeding up the river from
Woolwich, and when opposite Blackfriars Steam-boat
pier the captain let go her anchor for the purpose of
bringing her up. Unfortunately the chain was foul, and
the crew were unable to slacken it sufficiently to make
the anchor hold, and the consequence was that the yards
of the vessel came in contact with the fourth arch on the
north-west side of Blackfriars-bridge. By so doing the
yards sprang, and the mast-head of the ponderous vesssel
caught the crown of the arch, and in an instant she
heaved over, and in less than two minutes sank. The
men in the vessel shrieked out for help, when John
Ware, the deputy piermaster, and Carey, one of the
extra men, came alongside the vessel, fortunately
succeeded in rescuing the crew of the sunken vessel, and
conveyed them ashore. Whilst they were engaged in
saving the lives of the people in the vessel a large yawl,
laden with potatoes, was making her way towards
Hengerford Market, when her bow came in contact with
the same arch of the bridge, which threw her athwart
the tide, and for a moment or two the lives of the crews
belonging to both the large vessels, as well as those who
so heroically put off from the pier, were greatly
jeopardized, but fortunately the head mast of the potato
yawl was low enough to allow it to pass under the bridge.
If such had not been the case, the whole must have been
drowned.

GLASGOW, Nov. 3. COTTON MARKET.— The
demand for cotton from the trade has during the week
been on a limited scale, and, the market being conse-
quently quiet, no change in prices can be quoted. Pig
Iron—Our pig iron market has been quiet throughout
the week, but prices have been fully maintained. Mixed
numbers may be quoted at 42a. 6d. per ton, No. 1 435.,
and No. 1 Gartsherrie, 445. to 445. 6d. cash.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.—Captain P. Benn's and Cap-
tain Wright's companies arrival at head-quarters, at
Woolwich, on Saturday afternoon, from Dublin, via
Liverpool, having been relieved by Major Desbrisay's
and Captain Hyde's companies. Captain Benn's and
Captain Wright's companies are now tho first on the
list for foreign service; but are not expected to leave
Woolwich until the early part of next year, all the
reliefs contemplated for the present year having already
embarked for their destinations.

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INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM, WANSTEAD.—Yester-
day afternoon, the half-yearly general meeting of the
governors of this charity, for the purpose of reporting
specially in reference to the number of orphans created
by the ravages of the recent epidemic, and of electing
increased number of forty orphan hildren into the
establishment, was held at the London Tavern ; Mr. B.
B. Cabbell, M.P., presiding. The report, which was
read by Mr. Buckler, the secretary, dwelt briefly upon
the fact that many of the orphan children then pressing
for admission into the institution had been deprived of
both parents within a few hours by cholera, or else left
dependent upon the mother, who was herself suddenly
thrown upon her own resources. Under these circum-
stances, the committee had endeavoured to meet a
special emergency by special means, namely, by an in-
crease in the already large number of children admitted;
and they had therefore come to the conclusion that a
special election should be held in February next, at
which forty children should be admitted. The com-
mittee had also determined to increase the number re-
ceived at each half-yearly election, so that the Infant
Orphan Asylum would receive 120 children yearly, a
larger number than had ever been received by any of
the national charities within a similar space of time.
There were yesterday 163 candidates for admission. At
the conclusion of a very busy pH, which lasted several
hours, the names of the forty successful candidates were
announced. There are 330 children now in the asylum,
without the addition to the number made yesterday. A
vote of thanks to the chairman for his courtesy in pre-
siding cl,)sed the proceedings.
THE DUKE AT DOVER.—The Duke of Wellington,
as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, held a Pilots'
Court here on Tuesday last, at which three senior mem-
bers of the Fellowship were superannuated, ar.d three
young men from the supernumerary list were put in
their places. His Grace was received with a salute of
nineteen guns, a guard of honour, with band and colour,
froM the 5003 (Queen's Own), under the ccrnurn,d of
Major Long, and by the local officials. The Noble Duke
leoked ell and hearty; and after the routine of the pilot
bu,iness had been transacted, his Grace took his ems-

tonary stirrup of the hartour works. On reaching the
esplanade (in front of which, in defiance of the defences
yet raised, the sea has been making extensive inroads
during the late gales), his Grace's opinion was aikud by
the harbour master as to what was to be done to save

the houses and land in that lccality, which stand in
jeopardy every hour. The Duke replied, "0, keep on
piling." " How far, your Grace ?" was the next query.
" Let me see," said the Duke, looking down, musing,
and then scanning the bay with the eye of an engineer,
" why, to the bathing- machines." Having completed
his survey, the Noble and Gallant Duke stepped into his
carriage, and drove off, under another salute from tly,
grand redoubt.—Dover Chronicle.
GUY FAWKES' DAY.—The anniversary of the gun-
powder plot was celebrated in the vicinity of Tower-
hill last night in a manner seldom witnessed, at least
during the last few years, in the metropolis. As soon as
dusk sei- in, vast crowds collected cn the hill, and in
Trinity-square, and speedily innumerable pieces of fire-
works were darting about in all directions. As the
evening advanced the excitement increased, and between
nine and ten o'clock them probably could not have been
less than from 60,000 to Bu,ooo persons assembled. A
large force of police were in attendance, under the di-
rection of Mr. Inspector Marchmont, in order as far as
possible to prevent squibs being thrown against the
houses, as also to protect the inhabitants from the de-
predations of the swarm of thieves that invested the
neighbourhood. We heard of no accident of any par-
ticular moment, excepting one which betel Sergeant
Gains, of the Fenchurch-street station section of the City
police, who, in endeavouring to prevent a lad throwing a
squib, had the lower part of his arm rather seriously
burned.

MDLLE. RACHEL AND THE THEATRE FRANCAIS.—
A complaint was entered on Friday last, before the Civil
Tribunal of the Seine, by the members of the committee
of administration of the,Tl.6.lre Francais, with a view
of compelling Mdile. Rachel to appear before the tribunal
to show cause why she has ceased to belong to the
theatre, and, in accordance with tho laws of the society,
to compel her to fulfil the duties she contrawed to
perform, and in default of her doing so, to show cause
why she should not be condemned in the sum of 12,000
francs damages and interest, from the 15th ult., for
every week she declines to conform to the regulations.
The complaint also prayed the tribunal to grant such
provisional condemnation to the theatre as it should
think proper. The tribunal, agreeing with the views of
the complainants, fixed on the 9th instant as the day for
hearing the complaint.
We are grieved to learn that at the late calamitous
fire at Combury House (Lord Churchill's), a box con-
taining valuable records relating to the illustrious hero,
the ancestor of the Noble Lord, perished in the confla-
gration, though strenuous efforts were exerted for its
preservation.
WHAT IS A REAai OF PAPER ?—We understand
that a case of some importance to consumers of writing
paper was decided before the Sheriff of Aberdeen on
Thursday last, the facts of which are briefly as follow:
—A traveller, representing the house of I). Jack and
Co , Glasgow, was in Aberdet n some time ago, solicit-
ing orders for paper at a very cheap rate per ream.
Amongst others he got orders from Messrs. Wm. Gor-
don, Wm. Adamson, and Wm. Stevenson, and w hen
the goods came to hand it was round they had supplied
a ream 4t0., which contains 480 k beets, being just one-half
the quantity of a ream folio cut 4t0., which contains
960 sheets. The parties refused to pay for the former,
as they maintained that they had bought the latter, it
being the universal practice in Scotland to buy and sell
paper by the folio ream into whatever size it miw,ht be
cut: and on D. Jack and C:).'s bringing the matter into
Court, the Sheriff decided in favour of the purchasers.
—Aberdeen Herald.