The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-13 00:00:00

OCTOnfltt la, ittio.

FRANCE.

Huber was the first of the •risoneis arraigned
before the High Court at Versailles. the prisoner
is to be first tried for participation in the insurrection
of the 15th of May, 1848 He announced his in-
tention of not employing counsel but of defending
himself. The Court, nevertheless, named a
member of the Versailles bar to assist him
in ease of necessity. As soon as the jury wcs
complete, the usual oath was tendered to them. The
President again addressed the jury on the case of the
prisoner Huber, and the Registrar read an extract
from the indictment, relative to the affair of the 15th
of May. To prove this case there are 30 witnesses. The
prisoner declined answering the questions put to him
by the President until he had defended himself from
the imputation cast on him by his accomplices in that
affair. He proceeded to justify himself against a
recent publication of Raspail, and entered into a long
explanation of his conduct on the 15th May. He
demanded that Raspail, Blanqui, and Monnier should
be summoned as witnesses. lie concluded his address
at halt past five o'clock on Wednesday, when the
Court adjourned. •
The SemaphGre de Marseilles of the Bth instant
publishes a letter from Athens of the 28th ult., an-
nouncing the arrival at Patras of 800 Venetian
refugees. Several Hungarian exiles, among whom
were four members of the Hungarian Diet, had
arrived at Athens in the last Constantinople steamer.
Princess Be.giosa had also sought refuge at Athens.
" Milady Heald (Lola Montes)," says the Sema-
phore, " passed through Marseilles a few days ago
with her young husband. They intended to proceed
to Spain by sea; but in order to avoid the quarantine,
which passengers from Marseilles have to undergo in
the Spanish harbours, they took the railroad on their
way to Perpignan."
M. Manin, President of the Republic of Venice,
had arrived at Marseilles.

The Gazelle unaux states that Sergeant
Boichot has written to it from Lausanne, to state
that there is no truth whatever in the report of a duel
having taken place between him and a Spanish
officer.

The Moniteur says—" The Constilutionnel an-
nounced that preparations are making at the Ministry
of War for the liberation of the class of 1842. That
journal is ill informed ; there has never been any idea
of effecting such a measure."

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.
(From the Londoii New Price Current. 00..12.)

Swett.—Te-day the business concluded in the 'West
India Sugar market was of little moment, although there
are sellers at prices 6d per (let under Friday last. The
purchases amounted to 530 hhds, including the public
sales of 133 hhds 90 barres Barbadoes, at which prices
declined 6d to ls; good yellow sold at 383 Gd to 395,
middling 37s to 38s, and low 363 to 36s 6d. 16 hhds
Demerara chrystalisted brought fair rates, and went at
42s to 44s 6d for good. For the week the total pur-
chases of Sugar amount to 2,230 hhds, &c.
FOREIGN.—On the part of exporters little inclination
has been manifested to make purchases in this market,
and large parcels have been offered for sale. There

ate also sellers of bonded parcels by private treaty
rather under former rates. For refining here
the quantity of Sugar taken has been trifling.
The public sales have proceeded with dulness: of Per-
nambuco 6,994 bags, duty -paid, were all taken in at
moderate rates. The private operations in Foreign
Sugar for the week are only a cargo of low white Bahia,
in bond, at 21s, and 4,000 chests of yellow Havannah,
duty paid, at 39s 63 to 40s 6d for good.
REFINED.—To-day a fair quantity of Refined Sugar
Ras sold for home consumption, but former low rates
were acceded to for all sorts. The market for Bonded
Crushed Sugar is dull, at 28s to 28s 6d per cwt.
MAURllTlUS.—Thisafternoona small public sale of 623
. _ _

bags Mauritius Sugar went at barely former rates; or-
dinary brown at 29s to 30s; middling, 31s to 325; good
and fine, 323 6d to 34s 61; ordinary and middling
yellow, 35s to 36s 6d; and good at 37s to 38s.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the quantity of Bengal
sugar offered was large, and comprised seven public sales.
amounting to 7,980 bags : the chief part found buyers in
consequence of holders submitting to a further decline of
6d to Is per cwt: fine strong yellow went at 424 to 43s 6d,
good white ditto 44s 6d to 465, fine 46s 61 to 48s, fine
white Benares 403 to 40s 6d, good 39s to 39s 6d, mid-
dling 38s to 38s 6d, damp and washed 36s to 38s 6d,
good and fine yellow, like Mauritius, 37s to 38s 6d,
middling and good soft 34s 6d to 375, low 32s to 345,
end brown 29s to 30s per cwt.
MOLASSES —The market for West India has a more
active appearance, and former rates are well supported.
The purchases have been 400 puns at 15s 6d for mid-
dling St Vincents, Demerara end Trinidad, with small
parcels of fine Antigua at 17a ficl to 18s. Bengal Treacle
14s 6d to 15s per cwt.

COFFEE.—'Phis afternoon Coffee was dealt in with
caution by private treaty for home use and export.
Only 68 bags were offered at public sale, consisting of
Plantation Ceylon, which went at rather lower rates;
low middling at 47a to 48s 6d, fine and fine fine ordi-
nery 42s 6d t) 46s 6d, triage 32s 63, da-nagod 39s to
4Cs 63, and pea berry 525. The value of Native is 38s
to 385 6d for good ordinary.
COCOA.—This afternoon at public sale 423 bags and
35 barrels of Trinidad Cocoa went at easier rates, good
red 44s 6d to 455, mid 42s to 42s 63, ord 39s to 40t, and
low to good grey 36s to 41s per cwt.
TEA.—Public sales will take place on Tuesday next,
and already the large quantity of 19,000 packages
are declared. The demand for common and good
ordinary Congou has feiten off during the last few
days, end holders are more disposed to sell,
whilst prices have slightly declined, and rule at
Sid to 9d; the better sorts continue to be operated in with
caution, medium at 9d to is ld, good strong blackish
leaf and Pekoe flavour It 2d to is 9d. A further decline

is also exp, cted to take place. In Green the sales made
have been small, and the rates accepted are rather under
those current previously, whilst largo parcels are on
offer. Scented Teas are held for fu" terms, still few
buyers are to be met with.
EicE.—To day East India Rice was in good demand
by private treaty, and at public sale 375 bags Bengal
went rather higher;* good white realised 10i 6d to lls,
and middling ils to 9s 6d per cwt
SPICES.—To-day Nutmegs met with little attention,
and at public sale 14 cases 1 bag Brown only in part
sold at easier rates, good at 35 2d to 3s sd, middling
2s 8d to 2s 10d, small 2s 4d to 2s 6d, mouldy 2s 21 to
3s 2d, low ditto 7d to is; 5 cases Mace, went at 2s 41
to 2s 5d for good, and country dam is 6d to
Is 101 ; 23 cases Calicut Ginger, good mid
home trade kind realised 68s 61 to 70s; 937 bags Mala-
be-, good mid and good export sort 24e 6d to 265, da •
Lunged 24s to 265; 481 pockets 134 bags Bengal, low and
ordinary, 19s 6d to 21s, damaged 13s to 195; 456 bags
Malabar pepper taken in at 21,1 for half heavy brown,
but damaged sold 2.4 d per lb.
SPIRITS.—For Leeward Island Rum a good demand
has existed this week; on the part of holders there is
also more firmness, and they obtain is 4id to is 5d for
proof. East India met with a brisker sale, and cannot
be obtained under is 3d. A fe'r quantity of Deme-
rara has sold at 2s to 2s 6d for 30 to 40 per cent
over.proof, and at these rates there are not ready sellers.
For Jamaica, we quote 20 to 30 per cent over-proof at
from 2s 2d to 2s sd, 32 to 36 over, 2s 61 to 2a 103, and
fine marks at from 3s to 45.. The stock of rum is
not so large as last year, whereas deliveries are greater for
all purposes; prices ruled lower. For Brandy the market
is quiet, and prices are drooping fur new sorts, but old
Brandy is still held with firmness, as the supply is small.
The value of Cognac bust brands of the vintage of 1848
is 4s 5d to 4s 7d, 1847 ditto 5s to Sc 2d, 1546 ditto 5s
10d to 6s, 1845 ditto 6s 4d to 6s 6d, infer:or sorts 3s to
45 4d, and Bordeaux 2s 6d to 2s 8d per gallon. Geneva
at Is 9d to is 10d for ordinary, and at 2s 3d to 3s 3d for
fine. In the value of British made spirit there is no
variation.

SALTPETRE.—The market to-day for rough presented
a quiet aspect, end prices declined 6d p3r cwt. At
public sale 300 bags Calcutta sold at 26s to 263 6d per
cwt, and 12 per cent. at 26s for ord quality.
INDIGO.—To-day during the progress of the sale II 1
chests have been withdrawn, and 1,365 chests (including
483 withdrawn) have passed this day. The biddings
were not so brisk as on the previous day, and prices
in some instances a shade lower, particularly
for the middling and ordinary qualities. Kurpahs con-
tinue in good demand at 2d to 33 advance on last sale's
pi ices. 5,862 chests have passed the hammer, of which
784 have been bought in, and 2,113 withdrawn, leaving
2,965 chts sold.

FRUIT.—On Tuesday last 118 butts, 51 crtls, and 97
brls new Patras and Vostizza Currants, part damaged,
were offered at public sale. The few lots sold
realised 37s to 39s for damaged butts and crtls,
and 40s for sound butts and damaged brio. Another
public sale took place yesterday, when 110 butts 150
caroteels and 492 barrels new Patras and Vostizza,
part damaged, were offered, but with very little suc-
cess, as they were principally bought in at 39a
for butts and caroteels, and 405 for barrels. The
business done by private contract has been very limited
throughout the week. New Valencia Raisins remain
firm at 425. On Tuesday 351 boxes and 286 half-boxes
damaged were offered at public sale, tho whole sold at
39s to 40s.

OILS.—A more active demand exists for Cocoa Nut
Oil, and prices have ceased to recede, as there is a less
amount on offer. A public sale of 51 packages went at
34s to 34s Gd per cwt. fur good quality. In Palm
Oil operations have been upon au extendtd scale,
and fine quality has been selling at 31s Gd to 325. For
Olive an advance in the value is apparent, Galli-
poli selling at 44/ to 45/, and other descriptions
at 421 to 43/ lOs per tun. For Rapeseed Oil much
inquiry ez.ists. Sales of Palo have been made at
39s Gd to 40s, and brown at 38s 6d to 393 per cwt.
Linseed Oil has been largely dealt in, and rules at 31s to
31s 3d on the spot. For delivery several contracts have
been entered into at 30s to 30s 3d. Lard 0.1 at 35s
to 40s ; Ground Nut Oil remains dull of sale at 275.
Seal met with much attention, and higher rates ha,,e
been obtained. Palo at 371 to 381, straw and tinged 341
to 361, yellow and brown 31/ to 33/ per tur Southern
continues to be brought sparingly to market, and there
are several purchasers of good to fine.
TALLOW.—This ow
Tallow w
. —l'h is afternoon,ere atn
epaurblyl c
South American
to 365; 1,073 casks Sydney
P. Y. Candle went at 35s 9d to 36s 3d for old.
all sold L
atlo 9gds
9 32
33s 3d to 37s 31; 106 c.oßlis

TalE WEATIIER.—Winter hes set in somewhat
earlier than usual this year, and the sudden transition
from the fine weather of September to the sharp frosts
and biting winds of the last ten days has been anything
but agreeable. The tops of the Keswick motati.'ns are
at present enveloped in snow.—Carlisle Journal.

YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BER-

WICK RAILWAY.

A specia' general meeting of the proprietors of the
York, .New,astle, and Berwick Railway, resident in
London, was held yestei day, fur the purpose of
electing two delegates to attend the special meeting
of the company, to be held in Yolk on the 25th in-
stant, for the appointment of the future directors of
the colicen.
'The Hon. Mr. Hone Browne was called to the
chair.
The CHAIRMAN explained the objects of the
meeting, and called upon the shareholders to deter-
mine the mode of proceeding that should be now
adopted.
Mr. PRANCE thought they had only one matter to
determine, and that was whom they should elect to
represent them at the forthcoming meeting in York.
Sir JOHN EASTHOPE wished, before they went to
that business, to have some expression of opini m
upon the question of appointing auditors. Much of
the mischief that rail ways had latterly suffered from
could be traced to the detective audit system tteit had
hitherto prevailed, and it was therefore his decided
conviction that some alteration must be made in the
exi,iting law, to place the auditing of railway accounts
more under the control of Government.
Alderman SIDNEY perfectly agreed with the Hun.
Baronet, and was rejoiced to find that a feeling in
favour of Government auditors was rapidly gaining
ground. It was objected that no honourable man
would uncle: take the office of director of a railway
company if he had a Government officer placed over
him ; but he, for one, could not sympathise with such
an objection. The maladministration of railway affairs
had been so glaring and profligate that it was absolutely
necessary, for the sake of public decency and honour,
that Parliament should take the subject into its
serious consideration immediately after its meeting in
the ensuing session; and he hoped the suggestion
just thrown out by the Hon. Baronet would be
adopted by the meeting.
Colonel JOHNSTONE could not understand why
railway directors should be so very nice about
having auditors placed over them. For his part,
when he had the command of a regiment and
its funds at his control, he was always most
anxious to have big accounts strictly examined and
checked by an auditor independent of himself, and
the meeting might depend upon it that until the same
practice was adopted in railway companies, the public
would place no confidence whatever in their published
accounts. The present mode of auditing railway ac-
counts was nothing better than a farce, if not a fraud
upon the shareholders, and he therefore hoped Perlis.
ment would interfere to put a stop to it.
Alderman SIDNEY, in order to bring the question
formally before the meeting, Moved a resolution to the
effect that it was expedient that a public auditor, in-
dependent of the company, should be appointed, under
the provisions of an Act of Parliament.
Colonel JOHNSTONE had much pleasure in second-
ing the resolution.
Mr. MAYIIEW would not object to the appointment
of the public auditor, but he could see no reason why
he could not be appointed as well by the shareholders
as the Government. lie was entirely opposed to the
principle of Government interference in the internal
management of railway companies, and if it were
proposed he hoped the Legislature would never sanc-
tion it. lie moved as an amendment that a public
auditor, who should have no interest in the concern,
be appointed by the company.
Mr. BASSETT seconded the amendment, believing
that if the principle of Government supervision were
once applied to railway accounts it would not be
long before it was extended to the accounts of every
species of joint-stock companies.
Mr. SCOTT agreed with the spirit of the original
resolution, and observed that it was mere moonshine

to expect that justice would ever be done to the public
by auditors emanating from the shareholders.

After some further discussion the amendment was
put from the chair and lost, when the original reso-
lution was carried by a moderate majority.
The specific business of the meeting was then com-
menced, and Alderman Sidney, Mr. Prance, Sir John
Easthope, and the Chairman, were respectively pro-
posed as delegates to represent the London share-
holders at the York meeting.
The CHAIRMAN said it would be inconvenient for
him to act, and his name was accordingly withdrawn.
Mr. SMITH said, before the meeting elected two
out of the other three, he should be glad to hear from
the gentlemen proposed whether they had any interest
that was likely to militate against their acting im-
partially.
Sir J . EASTUOPE was generally not disposed Loans wer
such a question when it was proposed to elect him
to an office of trust, but in these times of railway ad-
versity it was not advisable to be too fastidious on
such an occasion as this. He would tell the honour-
able proprietor, then, that with the exception of a few
shares in the South-Western, he held no shares in
any other English railway but this. While entering
into this explanation it was right that he should
express his decided disapprobation of what he con-
ceived to be a scheme, on the part of the existing
committee of management, for electing a certain
individual to the post of managing director. He
was not in a situation to say that the gentle-
man pointed to in the report of the com-
mittee ought or ought not to be appointed,
but when he was told that two of the most
honourable and efficient directors that had been upon
the board of management of this company had
declared their intention not to retain their seats in the
event of this gentleman being appointed, while
another who was then present, and who paid
the company 50,0001. a year in the shape
of dues, had pronounced an opinion that his
appointment would result in the ruin of the under-
taking, he did think that the delegates whom the
meeting selected should be unbiassed upon that ques-
tion. He felt this the more, because the very piper
that had first unmasked the duplicity of Mr. Hud-
son's management had recently indulged in a most
scurrilous attack upon this gentleman, and the meeting
ought to be careful that it did not elect a delegate
who had been canvassing in favour of his appointment.
A PROPRIETOR would be glad to know to whom
the Honourable Baronet alluded.

Sir JOHN EASTUOPE had no hesitation in stating
that it was to Mr. Love.

Mr. Alderman SIDNEY would follow the example of
the Honourable Baronet, and at once state that he
had not the slightest interest whatever in any indivi-
dual who might hereafter be proposed as the manager
of this railway, nor did he hold any stake in any other
concern that was likely to bias his judgment in
dealing with the affairs of this line.

Mr. PRANCE made a similar avowal, adding, how-
ever, that he saw no objection to the principle of
appointing a managing director, since it had been
successfully adopted in the Brighton, the South-
Eastern, the Edinburgh and Glasgow, and other
lines; but he was at a loss to understand what this
could have to do with the election of dele-
gates, inasmuch as their duty would be only
to select directors. The task of deciding whether
there should be one or three managing directors, and
who they should be, would rest entirely with the new
board.
The CHAIRMAN took some discredit to himself for
not having stopped this discussion before. It was
hardly fair to allude to a gentleman who was not
present, or make use of an anonymous communica-
tion in a local paper against any one.
Sir JOHN EASTHOPE said, so far from its being
anonymous, the communication he referred to ap-
peared in the form of a leader, evidently with the
avowed sanction of the editor, and unless Mr. Love
took some notice of it in the shape of a prosecution
for libel his character would remain unvindicated.
The names were then put to the vote, and Sir John
Easthope and Mr. Alderman Sidney were declared
duly elected, and supplied with written authorities to
act as the delegates of the meeting.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
proceedings terminated.

BELGIAN EASTERN JUNCTION

RAILWAY.

A meeting of the English shareholders in the above
undertaking was held yesterday, at the London
Tavern, for the purpose of advising with the directors
on their future policy. Sir Frederick Smith, presi-
dent of the company, occupied the chair.
The following report was submitted to the meet-
ing :
" At the meeting held in London, on the 18th of
September, 1849, the following resolutions were passed:
" First, ' That the Chairman be requested to convey
to the Belgian Minister the disappointment felt by this
meeting that no answer has been sent to the proposals of
this company, of August last, and to receive which this
meeting had been specially convened. That the Chair-
man be further requested to write to the Minister, in-
forming him that this meeting, has been adjourned to
Friday, the 12th October, 1849, in order to rtcc.ive this
answer: and that this meeting does at its rising accord-
ingly stand adjourned to the said 12th October, and to
be holden at this place at one o'clock precisely.
" Second, That the consideration of the report of the
directors be adjourned till the 12th of October, 1849.'
" In pursuance of the foregoing resolutions, the Pre-
sident addressed to the Minister of Public Works, of
Belgium, a letter dated the 19th of September, 1849,
conveying to him the expression of disappointment ma-
nifested by the shareholders, that no answer had been
received to the proposals made on their behalf, and re-
questing him to favour the board with a:definitive
answer, in time for the adjourned meeting to be held
this day.

" The President also transmitted a copy of the first
resolution above quoted.
" The agents of the company have made repeated
efforts, to obtain, at an early period, the reply which the
shareholders had a right to expect, but the Board be-
lieve that circumstances over which the Minister of
Public Works bad no control, have hitherto prevented
him from obtaining the decision of the Council of Mi-
nisters, to whom it is understood the proposals of the
company are to be submitted.

" But in the interview which the agents of the COM.

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" As late as nine o'clock last night t e'Pr'•eSident te- -,,,. ~- ,_,.>
ceilnd froze M. Greban the copy of a letter-dated-the- t-h" - ‘----""
inst., and addressed to that gentleman by the 14iilikter t4M.',4167
Public Works, in which the lo.ttur expresses hia regret that
it is not yet in his power to make known to the company
the decision of the Government, on the subject of the
proposals made to him on hclulf of the company by the
i'resiclent, but signifijing hie desire to be informed of
eel Lain points, both of general principle and detail, with
the view that he may be acquainted with the actual
position of the company, and its immediate and future
resources, as well as with i;s present and ultimate
objects.

It is hardly neustary to explain to the meeting that
this communication from the Minister having only bee a
teceivA within the lit few hours, it has bete imposiible
to con►ene a meeting of the Board for the purp:- se of
such a discussion as would enable the directors to lay
herore the shareholders a well matured plan of pro-
ceeding.
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"It is gratifying, however, to them to find that there
now appears a pi otfabil!ry for a solution of the questi
at issue, at no dist•lut period; and, as their earnest
di:sire is to follow such a course, as may be considered
.nost advantageous in all resp cts for the shareholders
at large, and looking at the great importance of ti
question, they would earnestly recommend that the
meeting should appoint a committee, with lull powers
to undertake, either independently, or in conjunction
with the Board, those negotiations for the company foe
which the Mini,ter's letter appears to afford an
( pening."
A short discussion took place upon the report, and
ultimately it was resolved— " That this meeting is of
opinion that it is highly desirable that a deputation
should proceed to bring the negotiations with G.
vernment to a speedy issue; and that with this view
the directors are hereby empowered to name a
committee of not more than three shareholders
to act in connexion with them for the accomplishment
of this object, and if neceessary to accompany some
of their body to Belgium, and that the expense of
such deputation be defrayed out of the funds of the
company."
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting terminated.

TESTIMONIAL
TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES.

THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATHY
OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND LI-.
BERTY."—Kossuth's Protest against Russian Interven-
tion.

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Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankers:--,
Messrs. Conga and Co.
Messrs. Drummsnd.
Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ;
or to any one of the members of the committee formed
to carry out the Testimonia I.
***All further Post-office orders to be made payable to Mud°
Young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand.
Subscriptions already received £l,loi 19 1k