The Sun.
London, England, 1849-09-26 00:00:00

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should not generally be permitted to exceed the 1 Frani.° Shares, 2,330'.; Neapolitan, 88f. 50c.; Spanish
amount of private securities, or regarded as a legiti- ThirteteisL,w3Asfy.s;,DiTttin Fivessh not quoted.
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Whether others may feel disposed to join in the at 758 f. 75c.; Rouen. 530 f.; Havre, 266 f. 25c.; Avignon,
demand already put forward for a decrease of the
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500.; Nantes, 293 f. 75c.; Montereau,
220:.; Vierz4on,t.. The.; Northern, 438 f. 75c.; Paris and
S 305 f.; Strasburg and Bale, 102 f. 50c.;
rest will mainly depend on the manner in which the
Bordeaux,
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directors henceforth execute the important trust 116f.s 352 F
25^.
confided to their hands. If they still keep on the BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
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pressure of " the screw"—if they still exhibit the
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same stringency and illiberality that have been so Haireus, 1411rg, , _Namur and Liege, 514—Rouen and
painfully perceptible since October, 1847, the com-
mercial and trading community will require addi-
tional banking accommodation, which might be
provided from the resources which the directors of
the Bank of England are either unable or unwilling
to bring into profitable operation.

SPAIN.

Madrid journals of the 20th have arrived.
The Espana says that there was some intention of
introducing postage stamps of twenty maravedis
(about three-halfpence), and of allowing letters to go
free by them all over the kingdom if paid in advance ;
if not so paid, letters are to be subject to the present
rate of postage.
MADRID BOMA, SEPT. 20.--Threes, 28& ; Fives,
111; Exchange on London, 50 80.

The mayoralty of Sir JAMES DUKE will be re-
markable for the hospitalities of which he has been
not only the donor, but the recipient. The entertain..
ment given last week, in honour of the LORD MAYOR
of London, by the Mayor of Manchester, was of
a most interesting nature in all its details. It was a
festival worthy the manufacturing celebrity of Man-
chester, and the commercial pride of England. The
labours of the manufacturing districts are so much
identified with our national prosperity, that the im-
portance and magnificence of the great capitals of these
districts are matters of national pride and personal
interest to all classes of the community. Equally
significant and appropriate was the reproof bestowed
on " Coningsby " (as every one remembers), when on
that young representative of the new generation sigh-
ing for a visit to the Miditerranean, and exclaiming,
" What would I not give to see Athens ?" it was wisely
retorted, " Have you seen Manchester 7" The age of
ruins is, indeed, past; Manchester is the city of
the nineteenth century, and consequently a festival
! likethat which has just been celebrated is endued with
more than a passing interest. As an evidence of the
rapid developement of our commercial prosperity, the
Mayor of Liverpool, in his speech on that occasion,
remarked, that when the last Prince of WALES and
his brother the Duke of CLARENCE visited Liverpool,
on the 18th September, 1806, the tonnage of that
port was 507,000 tons, and now in 1849 it is
3,600,000 tons ; this he believed would give credence
to the fact that this seat of manufacture alone had added
to the wealth of the country no less than one thousand
millions
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eloquent in his praises of Manchester
do not
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Speaking of the former, he said, ,
enlarge upon a topic known to the whole world,
about the greatness of your skill and enter.
prise, and the vastness of your stores. I have seen
Manchester, and as everybody who has seen Manchester
will say with me, and has said to me—all my ex-
pectations have been surpassed." He then more
particularly commended the system adopted at the
Penitentiary, believing it "to be a most important
thing that the law which punishes should endeavour
to reclaim those whom it has condemned." Speaking
of England, the Prussian Ambassador, alluded to the
memorable 10th of April, and added a hope, that
before long, Prussia and all Germany would be
equally unanimous in behalf of constitutional, civil,
and religious liberty. " When we have emerged
from our difficulties," he said, " which I hope we are
fast doing, we shall run a race with you in many an
enterprise of industry, commerce, and trade." To
this intimation we most heartily respond—So be it
England will joyfully welcome competitors in such a
struggle. Chevalier BirNSEN'S sentiments have
already been forcibly expressed by the poet CAMP
BELL, when he wrote—
' The spirit of Britannia
Invokes across the main
Her sister Allemania
To break the tyrant's chain.
By one kindred blood, she cries,
Rise, Allemanians, rise,
And hallowed thrice the band
Of our kindred hearts shall be
When your land shall be the land
Of the free—of the free!"
That time, so dearly desired, we are now told is at
hand, and in Germany we are henceforth to find a
rival in the pursuit of liberty and the cultivation o

PORTUGAL.
Advices have been received from Lisbon of the
19th. Tl,e country was perfectly tranquil. A dis-
patch had been received from Turin, requesting that
the body of CHARLES ALBERT might be permitted
to remain at Oporto for the present.