The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-31 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN UARY 31, 1849,

M. CLEMENT THOMAS is reported to be out of
danger, from the effect of the wound received in his
duel with M. COETLOGON,
The Presse says :—" We believe that we can give
the assurance that at three o'clock yesterday, M.
MARRAST sent a proposition to the PRESIDENT of the
Republic, as a means of insuring tranquillity, to with-
draw from General CHANG ARNIER the coaimand of
the forces in Paris, in order to give it to General
DE LAMORICIERE. This demand met with a formal
refusal."
A report was current yesterday that General
CHANGARNIER had received a pistol-shot in his head.
The Patric says :—" We have reason to believe that
the General received a slight wound on the forehead,
but that it was purely accidental."
Several important arrests were made during the
afternoon—amongst others, Colonel FORESTIER, of
the 6th Legion of the National Guard of Paris, the
principal leader of a Republican society, and a num-
ber of incendiary Socialists. In addition to these
arrests several others were spoken of, and particu-
larly of some persons stating themselves to be mem-
bers of a Socialist committee in the rue Jean-Robert.
Several persons, who in the groups had uttered vio-
lent language against the PRESIDENT of the Republic
and the Government, are said to have been arrested.
A report was current that CAUSSIDIERE and Louts
BLANC had been arrested. This report is not con-
firmed, and some persons who arrived yesterday from
London state that they saw them there on Satur-
day last.
Colonel FoREsTIER is said to have been seized
because of a seditious speech addressed by him to his
men.
Among the other persons taken into custody is M.
D'ALTON SHER, once the Peer and now the Republican
Infidel of France.

Now that the panic of Mondry has in some measure
subsided, it would appear that the Ministry evidently
contemplated the forcible dissolution of the Assembly,
pretending, as an excuse for the demonstration,
that the Garde Mobile was conspiring against the Go-
vernment. The failure of the whole of M. Ontr.oN BAP-
ROT'S own conspiracy was absolutely sublime. The Mo-
bile ranged therrrselves by the side of the troops of the
line throughout Monday, tl-ereby proving the falsity
of the accusation, and the National Assembly is still
in existence! So much.for the wisdom, to say no-
thine; of the patriotism, of the Reactionaries.
The National s•vy's:.--" Yesterday, towards mil-
day, the PRESIDENT of the Republic left the Elyse:;
on horseback, dressed in the uniform of a general of
the National Guard. Whz,rever he appeared the
people (not those in his retinue, but the casual per-
sons encountered in the streets) greeted him
with cries of Vice la President! Vine la Re-
publique! Vine l'Ainnestie! A bas les Ministres !
Some voices adding A bas Chank,rarnier ! A bas
Pliers! M. Louis BONAPARTE may judge by
these manifestations of the sentiments of the people
towards himself and towards the political men by
whom he is surrounded—men whose deplorable ad-
ministration tends to compromise him in the esti-
mation of the multitude."
BOURSE.—PARIS, TUESDAY, JAN. 30.
THREE o'accil.—The French Funds have risen to-
day, as might bo expected after the triumph of the
Government in the division on the Rateau motion. The
Railway Shares also rose, especially the Orleans,
Rouen, and other paying lines. Exchange on London
(30 days) 25 321 to 35 ; ditto (90 days), 25 221 to 25.
LIUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAY ti AT THE

LONDON STOCK-EXCHANGE. JAN. 30.

Boulogne and Amiens, —Luxembourg (101.), 2%--
Northern of Franee, 7% - Rouen and Havre, 9,/,,—Sambre
and ➢leuse, 311 i.

SPAIN.

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Accounts from Madrid to the 23d contain little in.
formation.
The Cu-lists were collecting their scattered forces
together in the mountains of the Rhune. Several
have been arrested, disarmed, and carried off towards
Bayonne.
The Journal du Peuple speaks of a severe engage-
ment on the 16th in the environs of Vich, in which
the Carlists lost four killed and twenty wounded.

EGYPT,

ALEXANDRIA, JAN. B.—AunAs PASHA appears to
take a very correct view of the state of things in his
new dominions, and to be anxious to place every
thing on a right footing. Previous to his departure
for Constantinople, he gave orders that the manu-
factories which were established on a large scale by
his grandfather, after the model of those in
England and France, should be reduced to a
more limited extent. The number of scholars in
the Government institutions is to be restricted, after a
thorough examination, to such yowhs as give promise
of being able to prof-it by the superior education which
they there receive. In the army, also, he seems
desirous to make improvements. There are new
30,000 very inferior troops in the service : of these he
purposes retaining only 9,000; to have them tho-
roughly trained, to increase their pay, to give them
better rations and clothing.
ABBAS PASHA has also provisionally relinquished
the monopoly to which MEHEMET ALI subjected the
produce of Abyssinian Suden, and which was most
shamefully carried out by the Turkish authorities.
This is therefore an immense advantage to trade. It
is so generally expected that this immunity will
be permanent, that several merchants have
already gone to those countries for the
purpose of trafficing in gum, senna, gold, ele-
phants' teeth, &c. This freedom of trade will
be of great importance to Germany, for in conse-
quence of the direct communication bAween Egypt
and Trieste, it can immediately exchange the manu-
factures of Austria, which are valued in the Suden,
Abyssinia, and for the rich productions of Central
Africa. M. BORCLIALEgI, who was sent to those
countries two years since by the Trieste Bourse Com-
mittee, has collected much invaluable information on
trade and commerce. He is now about to return
home.

IRELAND.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING.—There was a meet-
ing at Kihnainbam to-day, convened by Lord Bra-
bazon, at which forty magistrates of the county of
Dublin were present, for the purpose of considering
the present Poor-law. With one exception the whole
body condemned the system root and branch.
Notwithstanding the near approlch of the let
of February, there is but little change in the prices

of grain.
This day there was an improved demand for all
descriptions of grain at our Corn Exchange, and at
rather higher rates.
Wheat Gd., and oats and barley 3d. to Gd. dearer
than on Friday.
Orders have reached Dublin from the Horse
Guards suspending all recruiting ; the recruiting
parties to be immediately called in. Is is supposed
that in future the duties will be discharged by the
enrolloi pensioners.
The weather continues dreadfully severe, stormy,
wet, and intensely cold.
Prices of provisions, however, unaffected, and the
markets are extremely low.

ARRIVAL OF THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM-
PALAcE.—Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and suite
arrived this morning by special train at the Padding-
ton terminus of the Great Western Railway, and
immediately proceeded in four of the royal carriages
to Buckingham Palace ; the escort consisted of a
detachment of the llth Light Dragoons (Hussars).
A Privy Council was held this afternoon, at which
the Royal Speech to be delivered to-morrow cn the
opening of Parliament was submitted to her Majesty.

:MILITARY MOVEN' ENTS.-The head-quarters of
the 64th Regiment embarked at Cork in the ship Java
on the 23d, and a division in the Tulloch Castle on the
20th inst., for Bombay, aryl have sailed for their desti-
nation. The ships City of Poonah, Cotfield. Dudbrook,
and Diana, having each a division of the 70th Regiment
o❑ board, sailed on the 20th and 23t1 inst. from Cork for
Bengal. The ship Bombay. with a division of the 84th
Foot on board, sailed from Cork on the 17th instant for
Bombay. The head-quarters of the 99th Foot landed
at Hobart Town from Sydney on the 12th of July last.
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Gardiner, family, and
staff, embarked yesterday at Southampton in the
Oriental steamer Montrose for Gibraltar, of which for-
tress he has been some time appointed the Governor.
PORTSMOUTH. GARRISON.—The old Government-

house at Portsmouth, formerly the residence of the
Major-General commanding the district, situate in St.
Thomas's-street, is now occupied as a temporary hospital
for the soldiers in that garrison. A detachment of twe
officers and 50 men of the Ist battalion of the 91st Foot
are under orders to embark at Woolwich on the sth
proximo as a convict guard at Bermuda, proceeding
thence t.c. tho Cava of (....I.lnci Napa to 31,111 tho ro.nrv.
battalion. The situation of garrison surgeon has be-
come vacant by the demise of Mr. Chaldecot. This ap-
pointment will not be filled up.
THE DAUGHTER OF A LIBERATED SLAVE.—...

Among the audience at the anti-slavery meeting in this
citj on last Thursday week was Miss Crowther, the
daughter of the Rev. Samuel Crowther, the converted
native African, who has been ordained by the Lord
Bishop of London, and is now engaged in extending the
knowledge of the Gospel in his or, n country of Abbeo-
kuta. Miss Crowther, who is also a native of Africa,
felt perhaps a greater interest in the proceedings than
even the warmest British advocates of the anti slavery
cause, her father having been rescued from a slave ship
by one of the British cruizers, to which event is owing
his present career of usefulness to his countrymen and
the Church. On leaving the meeting Miss Crowther
energetically expressed to those who had conducted her
thither her satisfaction at what she had heard, and only
regretted that she could not tell the meeting how grate-
ful she felt to the English people for what they had done
and urged them to renewed exertions in so good a cause.
—Devonshire Chronicle. _ _ .

MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 91 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of
3L 17s. lOid. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25.39; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25.37 i-, it follows that gold is 0.06 per
cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
Hamburgh the price of gold is 437 per mark, which, at
the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.11; and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.101,
it follows that gold is 0.34 per cent. dearer in Ham-
burgh than in London.
THE RIGHT OF WAY THROUGH GLEN _ TILT.—

Another action has been raised in the Court of Session

in connexion with the right of the public to a road
through the Duke of Atholl's forest of Gle❑ Tilt. The
present action is brought by the three complainers in a
former case, and is in the shape of an application for
suspension and interdict to have the Duke of Atholl pro-
hibited from disturbing and molesting them in using the
public road from Blair Atholl through Glen Tilt to
Braemar. The complainers are—Mr. A. Torrie, Aber-
deen; Mr. it Cox, writer to the Signet, Edinburgh; and
Mr. C. Law, merchant, Perth; and the case came on for
hearing before Lord Robertson, in the Bill Chamber of
the Court of Session, on Friday and Saturday. The
counsel for the complainers were the Lord• Advocate,
Mr. Inglis, and Mr. J. H. Burton; and the Dean of
Faculty and Mr. Paton for the Duke of Atholl. The
case was further adjourned till Thursday next, when
the Duke is to lodge written defences in answer to
the mass of documents put in on the side of the com-

plainers.
TIIE CROPS IN IRELAND.—Brairds of winter grain

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look well and vigorous, the season of the year considered.
Bere particularly looks prosperous; this grain is much
depended upon, from the very large return in meal that
it yields, no grain coming so near our old friend the po-
tato, as human food. Wheat looks well also, and a con-
siderable breadth is sown. Potatoes are keeping well
through the winter, and many intelligent farmers are
calculating upon having their crop all in the ground
early in March. From the experience of past years they
are going to adopt this plan, and should we be again vi-
sited by blight in August next (which we earnestly
hope may not be the case), the crop will be far on to ma-
turity then, and less danger is done to forward crops
than to those soft and growing. We would again urge
upon our farmer friends the necessity of procuring a
piece of bog or mountain land for their potatoes, if con-
venient, but on no account plant in rich loamy ground,
highly manured. The fresher such ground is the better
chance, but in either case, whether fresh or worn, the
chance of a sound crop on such land is not good.—Ar-
mugh Guardian.
THE ARCTIC ExrEDmori.—Since the appearance
of the paragraph announcing the Herald's fruitless
search for Sir John Franklin's expedition, news has been
received at the Admiralty from Captain Kellett, of the
Herald, confirming the report of his not having fallen in
with the Plover, which ship was bound in search of the
missing expedition, and so far the Herald had failed in
her desired object; but it was hardly under any circum-
stances to have been expected that the Herald with her
instructions could herself have fallen in with Sir John
Franklin's expedition.— Times.
EREATUM.—A line was omitted by accident in our
second leading article of yesterdly, which occasioned an
apparent blunder in the number of post-captains. We
stated, " this is in addition to 95 retired captains who are
in receipt of 1/. per diem, and of 37 in receipt of 18s.
per diem, making in all 100." It should have been--
"This is in addition to 95 retired captains who are in
receipt of 1/. per diem, and of 37 in receipt of 18s. per
diem, making in all 132, who arc eventually to be reduced
to 100."
How TO SPLIT PAPER.—Procure two rollers or
cylinders of glass, or amber rosin or metallic amalgam,
strongly excite them by the well-known means, so as to
produce the attraction of cohesion, and then with pres-
sure pass the paper between the toilers. One half will
adhere to the under roller and the other to the upper
roller, and the split will be perfect. Cease the excitation
and remove each part.
No CHANGE IN THE CORN-LAW.—In reference to
the statements in the Lonpon Protectionist papers that
Ministers intend to propose a si. duty on corn, we have
the best authority for affirming that there is not the
slightest foundation for such rumours. Lord John
Russell, we understand, has declared his intention to
abide by the Corn-law measure of 1846 in a i till its n-
tegrity.—Mancliester Examiner.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was- ac-
tive, and fuller prices were paid. Sales, 12,000 bales.—
Railway Shares also were rather higher.
The accounts received from Paris have inspired a
better feeling here, and the view we took as to the pro-
bable temporary character of the depression is already
receiving satisfactory confirmation. Much, however.
depends up in the future course of Louis Napoleon and
the firmness of his Ministers.
In the Produce' Markets there has been a very firm
tone this vveek. Sugar has been at fully previous rates.
Coffee is rather more offered to day. The corn trade is
looking decidedly better this morning.
There is some complaint of the small diviclends paid
by the Banks in Canada, and the losses which one esta-
blishment sustained last year, but allowance must cer-
tainly be made for the badness of the times, and it is
hoped more success will attend the operations of the
several companies during the current year.
At the United Mexican mine meeting to-day a divi-
dend of 7s. 6d. per share has been declared, and a most
favourable report has been made.
The gates of the Royal Exphange, usually closed on
the day of King Charles's martyrdom at twelve o'clock,
against the thoroughfare only, were, by mistake, shut
both yesterday and on Monday, a curious example of
erroneous reckoning that has excited some amusement
on 'Change.
There has been a buoyant market for Public Securi-
ties, the business being for transfer principally. Consols
have ranged from 91i to 911, and are now 91H. Bank
Stock is 193. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
are 921 to 1. Exchequer-bills have realised 42 to 45
and 48 prem., according to date.
The foreign securities are also looking up. Spanish
Three per Cents. have been 271 to 28. Mexican are
25 to 26. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 49k,
and Portuguese Four per Cents. 27.
In Railway Shares there is an improvement, with a
fair business doing. The French lines are better The
following comparison of prices may be interesting:—
Dec. 29. Jan. 31.
Caledonian... ... 22i 25i
Eastern Counties ... 11/ 11
Great Northern. ... 81
Great Western 102 .
London and Blackwall 5
London and Brighton. ... 35i 6
North- Western ... ... 124 137 9
South-Western 40 44;
Midland ... ..• ••• ••• 85 97 9i
North British ... 15i 16* 4
South-Eastern 24 25a 6
York, Newcastle, and Berwick ... 284 304
York and North Midland 54q 571 81
On 901. paid at December 29,! and_lool. on the 31st
of January.

ONE CT,OsING
,-<,.,, ~1.4 tiF "llama FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock 193 193
i titer Cent. Reduced Anna 91X%%% 91%
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9134 1/2 .74 ii i 913ja
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726
New :3% per Ccnt. Anne...—. 923/41:4AVA 92%
Long Anna. to expire J an. 1860
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 B% 8 11-16
India Stock 042 242
India Bomb, 1,0004
Consols for Account 91% 1/2 92
Exchequer Rills. 21Ad. & 2d.
1,000/. March ......
1,000/. June 4B p
5001. March 45 46 p
5001.. June
Small, March .. 45 p
Small. June
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS

ONE
O'CLOCK.

CLOSLN •
PRICES.
26
84%

Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent .. ..... ...
Chilian Bonds 8 per Cent.... . 93
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. —
Ditto Deferred 2%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 25%%
Ditto. Account 2534 26
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents 4B 49
rortuguese 5 per Cents. —
Ditto, 4 per Cent 27 2',
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto. Account l5 15%
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild.... 49% 4914
Ditto, 4 per Cant. Certificates 78 .A,%% 78%
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
ktAILWAY SHARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
tberdeen
Amber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 414 .-
Iyrshire and (Calloway.. 7% —
-(eltast & County Down 20% ......
Berks & Hants Extens.
(Gt.W est. Per.s per ct.) 5
birmingham and Ox•
ford Junct., calls duly
paid, or with a guaran. 20 ...... 261. E ...... ......
Do, withoutguarantee 20 ...
Bit ming, Wolverh'ton,
and Dudley, calls duly
pd, or with guarantee 10 .....
Do. without guarantee 10
Birming„Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 13/. 145...
Bi r k enh ead , Lancashire,
and Cheshire Junc— 10 —
' Boston Stamfd & Birm. 5 ......
Bristol and Exeter 9O ... ..
flittn. Third!, ... 2714 _
Luckinghamshire....M. 48.
Caledonian
Ditto, Quarter Shares 11% 5 4%
Do. New 10/. Pref..... 7%..... 8%.
Ditto,Clydesdale June 50
Chester 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.
Direct London & Ports-
mouth
Dublin and Belfast June. 35
Dundalk & Enniskillen 22
Mt Anglia, 251., L. &
E. and L. and!:...... 25
Do., 181., E. & 18
Do~ 31. 10s.
Eastern Counties.. .
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent. ...... 10
Ditto, Extension,s per
Cent., _No. 1 61.135. 4d....
Ditto ditto, No. 2 61. 13s. 4d...
Do. North. & Eastern 50
Do., 5 per cent. -
Do. Quarters ..... 1214
Do. New
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25
__.

Ditto, Class A, ditto... 31/2 —

Ditto, Class B (I. Sc
and B.) 221, —
Ditto, Class C, ditto... 20 . ...•
1)o. Scrip (6 percent.) 20
Ditto (C. & E.) guar.
5 per cent........... 21/ ....•
east Lancashire
Ditto, New
Ditto, New Quarters 61/2, ......

Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ... 6
itafst Line° ...... 25
Ldinhurgh and Glasgow 50
halt Shares ... 20 .. 1614
F.diutirghandNorthern 25
Ditto, Newport
xoter,Yeovil, & Dorch 23
Exeter and Exmouth... 21s.
tila,,gow, Dumfries, and
Carlisle ..... •....81.65. 8d....
Glasgow,Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 ......

2% dis
25%
4'%,
BYB

Do.Preferenee Consol. - •••
Great Northern
Do., -1/2 A Deferred
Do., % B 6 per Cent.
guaranteed ...
Do. Extension 2;-i — •••
!rear 6outn. and West.
(Ireland)
Great North of England.loo ......
Ditto, New, 401 4O
Ditto, ditto
Ditto, New, 30/ 3O
Ditto. New, 15/ l4
_
. ~ A

Great Westerr lOO ...... 102
Ditto, i Shares 5O ....• 52
Ditto. 'A Shares

Ditto, Fifths .. 20
Ditto, New 171— ...... 15 ... 1414344 l4 Ai
Huddersfield and Ranch. 30
Ditto, Thirds
Hull and Selby 5O ......
._ ___

Ditto, Half Shares ... 25
Ditto, 14 Shares ..... 12%.• ...
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 ...... . •—•
Ditto, Thirds -
Lancashire & Yorkshire
Ditto, ditto
Ditto, % Shares ...... 43 .....35G 351/
Do. Quarter Shares... 17% l4 13% ... 13%
Do. Fifth5...
Do. Sixteenths 614 — •• --
Do. Thirds (Reg.)..... 13 ..... ... 7
Do. New,Gua.6 per ct.
.7% ...... ... _

Do. Liverp. and Bury 43 —
Ditto 1,4 (late Hud-
dersfield and Sher.) 43

Do.o7iakefield,Ponte:
tract, and Goole) ... 50
Do. (W. Riding Union) 7 .. ... 3
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25
Do. % Shares (A)... 91,4
Leeds and Bradford 5O lOl • ••• 101
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 50 ....••
Do., Half Shares 25 ..
Do., (blue) Scrip.-- 21......
Leeds and Thirst; ...... 50
Ditto, New ...... ....... 40 - •• ••\ -
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 31,:1 —
Liverpool, Crosby and
Southport . 3lt -
Liverp.,lllanclsster, and
Newcastle Junction... 2%.:•—•

LOritiO;..7BYlaawall...l3/.651i3d....
Do. Extension ~.. ... 221/i... .. ....
Lon(!on, Brighton, and
South CoaF,t ......... BO ..... 36 3VOix.d 361,,i x.d
Do. Guarant.s per ct.., 9 ......
Do. Pref. Con. 5 per et. 50 .. ...
Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 ...... 50
Ditto, New 51., guar.
6 per cent. —. ...... 5
b
Lindon and Greenwich 12/15s 4d - . ......... ..,„ 9 x.d
nitto, Preference .. .20
London and N. Western 100
Do Quarters (L.& B.) 22
Ditto, New
' DI
Di itO,Fifthq ..... .. .. 2 ...... 9 _
1.):,
Do. 40/.Shares (L.M. ) 25
Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 10
Do. 101. (51. -- & B.) B. 10
Do. 10/. (M. 84 B.) C. 1 ... .. 5 4:li, .
&owl. & S. W,stern 5O
- _ 411i1••-••..• ...ea 44

Do. New 50/. ... ..... 42%...... 33 - 33