The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-08 00:00:00

DUTCH MAIL.

These articles, which included the payment of
Members' expenses, had already received Royal
sanction.

One of the principal subjects to be submitted to the
Chambers will be that article of the fundamental law
which relates to Ministerial responsibility. During
the last discussion of this project, so great a variety
of opinions were expressed that the Minister of Jus-
tice withdrew it after it had been subject to a radical
revision, and will be now submitted in an amended
form.

The Minister of Marine has sent two naval
engineers to Russia on a Government mission. It
appears, that for a long time, we have received from
Riga only masts or spars of second quality, all those
of the first quality being bought up on the spot by
the English. Messrs. Schurt and Tromp have
accordingly been sent to make some arrangement on
this subject.

AMSTERDAM, JUNE s.—Business was, on the
whole, extremely insignificant to day; there was no
material fluctuation in any of the Funds, which were
all quoted at yesterday's prices at the close of the
Bourse. Peruvian Stock, however, must be excepted,
having been in demand at higher exchanges. Dis-
count, 21 per cent.—Dutch Papers, June G.
lIAMBURUII FUNDS, JUNE 2.
Bills. Money.
104

Hanoverian New Loan,s per Cent. •• • •
Ditto, 3% per Cent. .. • • ...... •• • •
Bank
Prussian 5 per Cent. •• .... •••• • . • I'l% 1014
Russian Certificate •• • •••• ••••—• • • • • • 91
Anglo-Russian Loan - • • • •• • • • • 101 100 X
Hamburgh Certificate, 5 per Cent ....
Russian 4 per Cent... •••••• •• ......
3d and 4th Series, Hope and Co. ......
Ditto Stieglitz .. •••... •• •• ••••• • • • • 80
Belgian Loan, 2% per Cent ———
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ...• • . 64% 644
Ditto, 5 per cent. .......... •• • • .... 90% 90
Anglo-Swedish Loan .. ...... ........ 97%
Ditto, Transport Loan ——••..•• •• ••
Norwegian loan, 1848 ......... .... 98% 93%
Spanish New 5 per Cent •.••••—• • • • •• 10
Ditto, 3 per Cents. ... ••••• • .. 224 22
East India Loan, 4 per Cent .. ........
Ditto, 1846.. .... ——.••••• .. • • .: • .
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent••
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent. • • •
Ditto 3 per Cent. ............ ••
National Bank Shares ........ •• •• • •
American, 6 per Cent. —• • ........ • • 107 4 107%
RAILWAYS.

Hamb. Bergd. •• •• •• •• •
Ditto, Priority Shares ... •• • • 101
Berlin and Hamburg •....... •• ••• • -• 59
Ditto, Priority Shares .. •• •• •• 9114
Cologne and Minden .. • • • ••••• ••
Ditto, l'riority Shares .. •••••• • • • •
11ecklenburg— ...........• ••..•• .. •• 31
Altona and Kiel ......... • • .... •... 92 913(
Gluckstadt -. •• •• •• .. •••••• •• ••
Hanseatic Steam Company •• ••
AUSTItIAN 11T.NDS.—VIENNA, MAY 31.
5 per Cents. .............• ••••.•. • • • .. 8914
4 per Cent.............
3 per Cent............
23i per Cent. ...•
I per Cent.............
Loan, 1834............
Ditto, 1839
Bank Shares .... •
Estcrhazv's Loan .

101
55%

• •••••••••• 1,125

RAILWAYS.

The Northern.
Gloggnita
Milan

••••.... 961

AIL WAY INTELLIGENCE.
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE.
The special meeting of the proprietors was held on
Wednesday at Manchester to receive the report of
the investigation committee, and to adopt resolutions
thereon. The Earl of Yarborough presided. The
attendance of shareholders was numerous, and the
chairman and directors were loudly cheered.
The report had been in the hands of the proprietors
some days, and the Chairman called upon Mr. Simp-
son, the chairman of the committee, to give any
explanations that the committee might have thought
it necessary to print on the report. The board had
never had any other object than the good of the
company, and he was glad to believe from the ap-
plause that had been bestowed that the shareholders
felt that the board had nothing to disguise, nothing
to screen from the sight of the shareholders, because
they felt they need not be ashamed of any act they
had performed.
Mr. SIMPSON moved that the report be re-
ceived, and that the directors be requested to give
early attention to the recommendations. He then
stated that in the notice contained in the report re-
specting the arrears, the committee did not
wish to cast any charge of neglect upon
the solicitors who had care of that part of
the company's affairs. The committee had not
thought it desirable to allude to the extraor-
dinary absence of accidents on the line, but he thought
it was only due to the officers to notice it. He then
alluded to the very large stake which the Noble
Chairman, the deputy chairman (Mr. Chapman), and
two other of the directors had in the undertaking, and
had held unaltered from the beginning ; and to the
liberal arrangements which the journey of the com•
mittee through Lincolnshire had shown Lord Yar-
borough to have made in the negotiations for land.
The CHAIRMAN read a letter from Mr. Jack, one
of the committee, explaining that he was not present
when the latter part of the report was agreed to, and
he did not wish to be pledged to the view there appa-
rently put forth, that competency for the office of
director was to be measured alone by a man's stake
in the company.
Mr. GREIG, another of the committee, replied to
the charge of tameness, and the want of something
striking in it respecting the past, and something
grand as to the future. The committee had invited
information from all quarters, but they had not found
anything whereby they could possibly reflect upon
the conduct of the directors. As to the future, he
held that everything depended upon the Gritnsby
Docks ; instead of being likely to sink the railway,
they would be its making—its salvation.
Mr. KNIGHT, of Lancaster, said he calculated it
would require 10,500/. a week to pay 5 per cent.
upon their outlay, and he wished for the opinion of
the Chairman, knowing how deep an interest he had
taken in the docks, as to whether the revenue would
rise to that when the docks were completed.
The CHAIRMAN said any opinion he could give
would be only valuable as an individual opinion, and
of course it might be an erroneous one. Give the
railway time, and it would be one they would not be
sorry to have embarked in. His own stake in it
was large, and it was unaltered from the time he
entered it.

Mr. WILDS stated that at a general meeting in
1847 the Chairman, in speaking of the cost of the
line, It:d said it would be 17,0001. per mile for the
220 miles, and now the committee said it would be
37,0001. The shareholders had a right to ask how

this was.
The CHAIRMAN said the observation he then made
had reference to the line east of Sheffield, and not to
the Sheffield and Manchester.
Mr. GREEN, of Sheffield, pruduced a report of the
meeting alluded to, issued from the company's offices,
and read sentences in which the Chairman, and Mr.
Holland, of Liverpool, a director, stated that the cost
of the whole works, spread over 220 miles, would be
17,000/. Such statements compromised and damaged
the company, and those who gave the Chairman such
information should be dismissed from the company's
serviote ,
The CHAIRMAN and MR. HOLLAND both alleged
that their observations on that occasion had reference
to the lines east of Sheffield, and not to that west.
Mr. FOWLER, the engineer of the company, by
whom the information was originally given, corrobo-
rated the statement.

Mr. MAXWELL inquired whether the 37,0001. a
mile would include all the expenses to be incurred in

THE HAGUE, JUNE s.—ln the sitting of the Se-
cond Chamber, this day, a Royal Message was laid
before the House, accepting the resignation of M.
Curtius as Minister of Justice, and expressing the
thanks of his Majesty for the able manner in which
he had discharged the duties of his high office.
A second Royal Message contained the appoint-
ment of M. H. L. Wickers, to the office of Minister
of Justice.

Several messages were also presented from the
First Chamber containing the aduption of six articles
of the fundamental law, as passed by the Second
Chamber.