The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-28 00:00:00

DECEMBER 28, 1849

her right to the marriage porion was thereby
for:eited. Rccoutse having vg,Ain been made to the
courts of law, and these having again pronounced
judgmcnt in favour of M. C., the widow appealed,
in last resort, to the Council of Sate, or rather to its
adminiArativestction, ctlnposed of live tnemb,rs, by
where, owing to secret irfluences and consideratiors,
which I have reason.to believe Mr. C. will soon make
known to the world, the judgments of all the tribu
na!s were reversed, and it was decided that the regis-
tration could not be made without first summoning to
appear in court the Baron de 8., who has ken in his
grave upwards of two years !

GERMAN Y

AND

TH E NORTHE RN STATE S.

AUSTRIA AND HUNGARY.

Intelligence has been received from Vienna to the
22,1. The news from Servid was of such a serions
character that WELDEN bad prohibited the journals
from publishing it, or from making anyallusion to it.
The suspended journal, the Presse, is about to ra-
anp:ar at Brunn, which is out of the rayon of
Vit nna, but WELDEN, in the Wiener Zeitung of the
20th, publishes a proclunation, reminding the inl-a
bitants of Vienna in general and the subscribers to
the Presse in particular, that Vienna is still in a state
biege, and that all subscribers in Vienna to the ob-
noxious journal will subject themselves to trial by
court-martial. The unparlonable offence of the
Presse was its praise of Lord PALMERSTON.
The Government of Austria is now completely in
the hands of the Jesuit Camarilla. All the telegra-
phic wires terminate in a central room in the Palace,
so that all intelligence is rt.ceived in the first place by
the Camarilla, and " cooked" before being forwarded
to the Ministers, who are thus reduced to the position
of mere cyphers.
The Hungarian Bishop LONOVIC3 has been libe-
rated from his prison at Pesth. NYARY is still in
confinement. The March constitution was to be pro-
claimed on the morning of the 26th in the Town- hall.
The high district commissioner at Presburg, Count
CZIRAKT, has resigned his plaCe.
Twenty-one sentences by the Arad court-martial
were published on the sth. Five are sentences of
death. commuted by General lIAYNAU to sixteen
years 'imprisonment in a fortress.

In Hungary the passive resistance of the Magyars
still goes on undiminished. No means is neglected
to show their silent scorn. The ladies wear bracelets
which are entirely compact of the little silver six-
kreuzer piecas of KOSSUTH with a ducat of the same
coinage set in the middle.

WIRTEMBERG.
The Chambers ware. dissolved cn the 221 Decem
ber. The SCULAYER Ministry has resigned.

PRUSSIA.
WiLnacx has received addresses congratulating
him on his acquittal from no less than 86 towns.

BRUNSWICK.
The Brunswick Chambers have adjourned to the
14th January.

ITA LY.

--as-

A letter from Rome, of the 20ih inst , announces
that the period of the POPE'S return to his capital is
still uncertain. His HOLIPIESS had adjourned his
decision until the Bth of January.

CHRISTMAS BOOKS.
(SECOND BATCH.)
YOUNG TROUBLESOME ; or, ifaster Jacky's
Holidays. Designed and Etched by John Leech.
Glorious John Leech—the " bottle imp" of Punch—
has just issued his Christmas volume, magnificently
embellished. But that we remember the adventures
of the immortal " Briggs," we should certainly pro-
claim " Young Troublesome " to be the artist's mas-
terpiece. Let all who enjoy a good laugh, or love
fun and drollery, obtain this illustrated narrative of
". Mister Jacky's Holidays"—it will prove as provo-
cative of merriment as the berries of the mistletoe,
when put to their right use, and will shed a gleam of
fascetiousness arcund, as odd and fantastic as that
cast by a bowl of snap-dragon. The characters
of the story, told litre with such a felicitous
pencil, and painted in such brilliant colours, are
no mere automate, but living and breathing
existences—people that we all know intimately, not
as mere bowing acquaintances on the Mall, but as
friends and familiars- Here you have Master Jacky,
" supposed to have arrived per railway (grown out of
all knowledge)," Rugg'es, the domestic, grinning his
welcome on the door-step. Here you have Young
Hopeful teaching Jane and Cary to fence, the two
wee little morsels of girls drawn as only John Leech
can draw little children. Here you have Jacky
" celebrating his arrival (to the disturbance of Mr.
Phenols) with various athletic exercises"—the
father's irsitatioa and the little scapegraces' romp
appearing in admirable contrsst. Here you have
Young Troublesome " on a wet day bored to death"—
witness him balancing the chimney ornament on
the end of the poker at the tip of his nose ; see him,
surrounded by a voluminous library, protesting "he
has read all the books in the house ;" observe him
lounging in disgust and ennui on the sofa, or worry-
ing his elder sst-rs so entirely beyond endurance
that cne is ceremoniously conveying her needlework,
scissors and all, to another part of the room in high
dudgeon; • Here-ybu have him "in pursuance of a
bright thought playing at cricket in the drawing-
room"—the cricket hall, to the dismay of the little
ones; and the horror of Ruggles, smashing a costly
vase of alabaster, the little boy in the foreground
being an inimitable conception. Here you have
the arrival and progress cf the " Theatre Royal
Drury-lane in miniature; up to the grand evening
rehearsal of the Miller and his Men, and the terrific
explosion in the Housekeeper's Room "—the old lady
in the door way being a superb sketch of senile
amazement. Mr. Plicenix delivering a kcture to
Young Troublesome, with his mother gazing down
upon him with a half-serious, half-amused expression
of countenance, form a capital picture; but not half
so capital as that in which is pourtrayed the arrival of
that dear, lit tle, old, crabbed, frost-bitten Mr. Worm •
wood Scrubbs, delightfully unconscious of the paper
pigtail appended to the collar of his spencer by that
mischievous varlet, Master Jacky. Here you have
old Bradshaw" come to stop a week—no mere
fancy portrait, but a veritable daguerreotype from the
crown of his head to the soles of his cl:trence shoes.
Here Mr. Phoenix, indignantly sniffing on the door mat
of his bedchamber, in exquisite dishabille, hopes
" that Bradshaw isn't teaching him to smoke,"
whereas, in the next group, you have a representa-
tion of " old Bradshaw" under the influence of
tobacco in a state of ashy, dreamy, dizzy, sickly
stupefaction. Here you have Mr. Maudlin Grooves,
M A., plump and sentimental, wishing ybung Jacky
at Jericho in his hopeless anxiety for a tete a-tete with
the object of his affections. Here you have a grand
tableau of Jacky bolstering "old Bradshaw" over the
head of Mr. Wormwood Scrubbs, who has evidently
tugged down the bellpull in his indignation at the
hubbub. Here you have Young Troul,lesome
endeavouring to entertain himself, while his
honoured parents give a dinner party and I.e is
waiting for dessert, bunnetting Ruggles with a silver
dish- cover, and subsfquently embellishing the legs
of that domestic with a burnt stick—Ruggles soon
afterwards adjourning to the kitchen, and there re-
lating to his fellow• servants what that " ere boy has
bin and done." Here you have him privileged to
leave the dining room with the ladies, dancing the
schottische with a beautiful gill, whom he subse
quently kisses under the mistletoe, shamefully "taking
an undue advantage of his delightful position." At
" the end," which we are rej :iced to see is only " for
the present," you have him " presiding over a j uvenile
party at the clo e of the holidays, and hoping to meet
the present company again in good health and spirits,
this time twelvemonth"—an aspiration which elicits
amazing cheers from Mr. Wormwood Scrubbs.
Saving and excepting, of course, the hero, Young
Troublesome, this Mr. Wormwood Scrubbs and that
capital "old Bradshaw," are the happiest creations in
the volume—a volume drawn to the very life by the
master hand of John Leech, the Democritus of the
pencil.

MANNERS AND C'VSTOMS OF YE
ENGLYSHE, Drawn from ye.g.vichby Rychard
Doy:s. To which be added some extracts from
Mr- PIPS HYS DIARY, contryivted by Per
cival Leigh.
A reprint of one of the most felicitous and most.
humorous serials ever published in the pages of the
London Charivari cannot fail to be r'ght welcome to
the lovers of fun in these merry days of Christmas.
Hence the present volume, extracted from the
seventeenth volume of Punch, will EQ hailed wi:h
general satisfaction. The success cf Mr. Percival
Leigh's parody on the "Diary of Samuel Pepys"
has already elicited the commendation of the Quarterly
Review, and the fantastic gvbilp of the son of 11. B. the.
inimitable Richard Doyle, i univerAally appr(c ated
throughout the country. Purb,:ps the drollest thing
to our thinking that has yet emanated from his ec-
centric brain, a sketch worthy of the hand that has
pourtrayed "Ye Manners and Cvstoms of ye Eng-
lyshe," is the little tail-piece to the volume of Punch
just completed, representing the letters
EIND OF von. 17
as 'furnished with the legs of horses, and gallopping
in 1111 career under the direction of Mr. Punch
him-
self, wh,, handles the ribbons with the science of a
first-.rate whip. We are sanguine that tl:e present
volume, besides affording del•ght to the present age,
will be turned to with curiosity by rem.te genera-
tions, as affording glimpses into th,! manners and
customs of our contemporaries.

Y and COMMERCIAL IN Da
CM- QTI ARTER TO THREE.
The ffAlf of Coiton at Liverpool yeterday
m.,ted at 8• COO belee, of which 1,000 A eee-icae, 1;000
. ,
r,OO titian, 2,000 Surat, anu 200 Ste Is:and
%11,, n Tc-cult-,,t:,ri. The sales comprised 3,300
on, 800 roam, &c., at 61d. to 6id.; 1,2C0
ft/ at (k.; 800 Egyptian, at 6i to 7* ;
2 5.,0 Surat, at 4i-it. to 4id.; and 230 Sea Island, at Is.
3:1 to 6d. per lb. The market closed firmly, and
prices of ell kinds excel t Surat were 111. per lb. higher.
—Railway Shares were dull, and prices tend downwards.
le Mark lane to-day the arrivals of Foreign Wheat
were 11,240 quarters; of Barley, 10,210 quarters; and
of Oets, 11,570 quarters.
Privately there is a demand for low sorts of Congou,
for Cotton, and for Coffee.
A great deal has teen said and written of the impost-
Brief', in a p as well as commercial view, of rail-
wey coma:aide ttion in India, but there is another exten-
sive tract of country under Bri:ieh sway which feels yet
more severely the want of similar facilities—we waft
the North American provinces. The elaborate report
diasfl up by the Government Camnissioners who con-
, di'c'ed the special survey has, unfortunate ly, like most.
Blue Booki, atirseted very little attention in England.
In the co!oeics it is far otherwise, but the ability to
early out any great undertaking requiring a large out
lay dots not exist there. The aid of the mother
c6tntry is indispensable, if only to inspire confi•
deuce, and the most desirable medium of afford-
' ing this is by the enierprise of capitalists, secured
to some extent by Government. We are told that
in the country lying between the Restigoache River and
Ilalifax, the inhabitants, who will be near to the Quebec
and Halifax Railroad, will amount to about 100,000 ;
enticing the population either upon or near to the line,
including the two termini, 250,000 persons. But if the
t population be taken within the area which will be
benefited by and become contributors to the line, then it
may be estimaled at not less than 400,000 souls.
In a report of the directors made upon the New
York and Erie Railroad, in 1843, when the question
of proceeding with that lino was under consideration;
one of the data upon which its future receipts was calcu-
lated d.iiived from population and relative distance,
and using the data obtained from the working of one
portion which had been completed and was in operation,
it was calculated tbat1,531,000 persons, on a line of 425
miles in length, would return, in net earning?, to the
railway, 1,343,500 dollars, or 2f dollars nearly per head,
equivalent to 10e. sterling. As the railroad is not yet
completed, the true result cannot yet be seen, but
applying the, same ratio (of 10s. per head) to the 400,000
inhabitants eho are within the area, and likely to be
come tributaries to the Quebec and Halifax Railway, it
would give 200,0001. as its probable revenue.
The great staple of trade of New Brunswick is its
timber. For this all-absorbing pursuit the inhabitants
neglect agriculture, and instead of raising their own
supplies, they import provisions in large quantities from
Canada and the United States. In the year 1846, New
Brunswick paid to the latter, for provisions alone,
216,0001. sterling, whilst in return the United States only
took from them 11,0001. in coals and fish.
Of Nova Scotia the great staples are timber and the
products of the fisherh s. The inhabitants import pro-
visiens largely. Canada is an exporting country, and
capable of supplying the demands of both. In the win-
ter of 1847-8, the price of flour at Halifax and St.
John was at 40s. the barrel, and it was being imported
from the chief ports in the United Sates, even from
as far as New Orleans, in the Gulf of Mexico. At
the same time, at Quebec, the price of flour was only
25z. per barrel, a very great difference, which, bad the
railroad been in existence would not have occurred.
Another great source of revenue likely to be developed
by the railway is that of coals, to be derived from the
Great Cumberland Field. Quebec and the upper
country would, no doubt, take large quantities for their
own consumption. Halifax the same for itself, and also
for exportation to the United States. Considerable returns
would arise from the fisheries and from the products
of the forest lying contiguous to the line,
which would find thieir way by it to the shipping ports.
The country through which the road will pass pessessee,
theretene, in iistlf, elements which, when fully deve-
loped, cannot fail to real:ft,' large receipts. But there
are, exclusive of these, other and highly important
sources for productive revenue. Halifax may be consi-
dered to be the nearest great seaport to Europe.
Pasco; gers travelling between England and the Cauadas
would adopt this railway as the shortest and bestline
which they could take; emigrants would do the same.
Tie grand desideratum is political tranquillity and the
co-operation of the Colonial Legislature.
Letters both from leadrid and Ba,celona announce
that the new tariff was giving a great impulse to busi-
ness, and that the Customs departments had not been
so active for years. This, considering the tardiness with
which the reforms were undertaken, is certainly very
gra,ifying.
In the Amsterdam Bourse on Wednesday there
was no particular change. Dutch Stock maintained its
value.
The English Funds aro looking up, but there is still
comparatively very little doing. Consols have been 964
to and are now 961 4-; New Three-and-o• Quarter per
Cents. 971 1, and Reduced Three per Cents. 964- to
Exchequer-hills are steady at 595. to 605., and India
Bends at 88s. to 91s. premium.
In the Foreign Market a good deal has been done in
Mexican Bonds it an improvement to 291 for money,
and 291 a for account. Brazil St. era has been quoted
881. Portuguese Four per Cents. have been marked
364. Spanish Five per Ceuta. are 19 to 31, and the
Three p, r Cents. 381 to 38.4-.
Railway Shares have been flat again, but the busincs:
done has be, n restricted.
The following is an additional statement of railway
receipts :

IF'49.
Great Northern ...
Lancaster and Carlisle 2,843
Blackwall
Lancashire and Yorkshire
York, Newcastle and Berwick 11,604
Yi,rk and North Midland 6,702
Great Western ......... . ....• 17,540} 21 776 22,797
Bristol and Exeter
South-Western 9,427 10,213

£2,465

572
11,134
14,1.5
755

ONE 4:1..... . G
P. ~::,.: 14. N.:Til;: ,tiND, O'CLOCK. FRIrES,
3 ,5r Ccat. R4ducad Arns .. 96Ni., .4 961,4
:4 ,w 31A per Cent. Aren5....... ... 73A:1.1 97,•,'-,
Cong Anns. to expirct J an. 1860 ...... 8 9-16 8 9-16
, cia Bond, 1,0001.
:onsAs for Account
,cile ;1.11 Hills, 114 d . ti 2d
1,000/. June .. 6,) 5) p
500/. June
Small. June
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.

ONE ,;LOSIN
o'ol. Vlit. FRIO F.'•
razilian Bond.SB q 8811
Ditto, New, 1829 and 1839 86% 8634
Equaclor Bonds
~xwan, , por Cent. 18.16, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons . .....
Ditto, Account ... .... .. .......
Peruvian Bonds, 4 per Cent....,.,,,
Ditto. Account
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto,4 per Cent.
patthsh 5 per Cent. 1840
Ditto, Account
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London
Beligan, 41/ per Cent...
88
orvlL 2' per Cent., 12 Guild. ..
Dittf,, 7 oar Cent. Certificates B5

3614
191/g
3814

rizicEs OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSIN•
'A t LAVA:" SHARES. AT ON O'CLOCK. PRICE,
borl(-en 5O
••• ••• ll
Do. Preference
mbar. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 634
kyrshira and Galloway.. 7%
ielfast & County Down 28
i3,.rks & Hants Extens.
(Gt. West. I'er.s per ct.) 6
,irmiugham and Ox
ford Junet., calls duly
paid, or with a guaraa. 20
Do, without guaraz.tee 20 ......
irininr, Wolverh'ton,
and I', uPey, calls duly
pd, cr sith guarantee 10 ...,..
Do. v; ithout guarantee 10 - ........ -
D . ming.. Wolvcrlepton,
and Stour Valley 131. 14s ...
:irkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheehire June.... 20 .....• ........ .......
'lristol and Exeter 92 ..,.. •• ......... „.„,,,,
Ditto, Thirds
.*.;uekingham,hire .
Cale;Jonian ...... ...... 50
Ditto, Ncw 10/. Pref... 10
Ditto,Clydesdale June 50
hester and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference l5
Clarence
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent. .. lO •••••• ....
Dilv7,t London & Ports-
mouth
Dublin and Belfast Junc. 40
.;undalk & Enniskillen 2714 — .. ............
ast Anglian, 251., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25 ..... . --
Do.
181.,
E. a
a....
18
........ ......
Do., 31. 10s., Pref.. 31,

_ ••
Fitto, 71. 175., 7 per
Cunt., Preference.., 2
a4tern
........20
......
Do. New, Gua.6 oerct. 10
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No.l ....... 61.135. 4d.... p
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d••• ••
Do. North. & Eastern, .••
6 per Cent.
Ditto. 5 per Cent.... 50
Do. New
Fastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 23
Dicto, Class A, ditto... 6
•••• ••••••• a•
Do., Class B & C 25
Do. Fcrip(6per cent.) 20 ....
B. tit Lalica:Atilra
Ditto, New .. 25
.....
Quarters 614
••
Do., 6 per Ant. Pre-
-6!4
East Lincolnshire ...... 25
f,:dinburgh and Glasgow 50
. ••••.
Ditto, Ralf Shares ... 25
.......
Edinburgh and Northern 25
Ditto, Newport l5
•':xeter.Yeovil, & Dorch 25, —
Exeter and Exmouth... 2Is.
Gr4S<OW, Dumfries, and
Carlisle ....... ..81.65. Rd —
Glasgow,Kilmar..& Ayr 50 ......
Do• Preference --......— ......
Gloucester & Dean Forest 11
i4:-eat Neltbern
••
Do., A Deferred ... 1214-- --
0., lAt 13 6 per Cent...
Do., 5 ler Cent. Pref. 10

10

A -...-

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