The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-12 00:00:00

THE LIVERY OF LONDON.

A List of the Livery of the several Companies in the Corpo-
ration of London who are qualified to vote during the year
ensuing for Members to serve in Parliament for the City
of London and the Suburbs thereof.
Apothecaries
Armourers
721 G unmakers 3O
Barbers
Bakers

Bab:-et Makers
B:acksn: it hs
Bowlers ',...
Butchers
„
Brewers , - 40 Masons .. ............. ...... 42,
Carpenters
Clothworlter:
Cla.elkmakers
Combrnakers
Cuaehruakers
Cutp ers 106 Painters ..• lO5
Corks ls6Pewterers .. 7l
Cordwai tiers
Curriers
Cardmakers
Cutlers
Distillers 34 Salters .• • l3B
Drapers
Dyers
EMbroiderers 22•Si!lc-throwsters
Famnakers l7 Spectacle-makers ....... 98
Furriers
88! Stationers
Feltmongers
Fishmongers
Fleteher.s. . ... l9'Tin-plate-workers
Founders B5, Turners
Framework-knitters . 51 Tilers
Fruiterers
Girdlers
Glaziers 76 Wax-ell andlc ts
Glass-sellers
Gluiors _ l3l Wheelwrights 163

Goldsmiths ls2' Woolmen
Goldwire-drawcrs . ^9'

' • ' Total 8,853
It will be seen by the al,ove statement that the Ilaborda.
shers and Stationers' Companies Starud the highest in a nume-
rical point of view—making together 777, while the Basket-
mftlzers and Silk-throwsters have,- when united, only 14
Liverymen.

EXCURSIONS 'SWITZERIAND, By J. FENI-
MORE COWER, ESQ., AUTHOR OF " THE Poor," &c.—This
celebrated writer (obs.erves the Spretator) has imparted to the 4
account of his journey, something of as narrative intsrect ; his
peculiar character,' moreover, gives freshness to what might
otherwise be faded. Intimately familiar with all the beauties
of the old world, be looked at Switzerland with a refined and
instructed eye. His route was acteiss the Jura to Neufchatel
and Berne ; thence be proceeded thoroughly to explore the
I.kad of landscapes, threading- the,more rarely visited moun-
tains and valleys on foot, till, havitig exhausted even Switzer-
land, he passed over into Germany, and sailed on most or all
of the lakes, crossed the Simplon, and closed his journey at
Milan. Igo vi:sitor to this land, of romance should go unac-
compttnied by this charming work.,
London, opulcnt, onlaiged, and still increasing Lon-
don, although first in science and in arts,•contaitts much to make
the life of man wretched, and to pollute his soul. There is
no defining the. social state of its inhabitants. Squalor and
splendour are alternately, as you thread your way through the
streets, predominant.—Metropolitan.
it ATTLIN THE REEFER, EDITED BY TIIF.
A omen OF "PE TER Si m1,1..r.. g Ile characters in bati/in
the Reefer,- observes the Speitotor, "arc not very nume-
rous, but they are very good. First in the order of time, we
bare the good-natured, selfish, .tyrannical, hard-working,
Lard-driuking, Joe Brandon, the,top-sawver ; a capital por-
trait of a first-rate workman in prosperous times. Nest there
is old Ford—forcible, but somewhat forced, and a slight in-
dication of a hypocritical Methodist deluder of a fanatical
congregation. Thou comes a full-length portrait of Mr-
hoot--au ignorant, pompous, capricious, and cruel master of
a boarding-school.; with one or two sketches of ushers.
After these, we get o-i.shipboard, where the persons are
mostly characteristic and faithful, from the finished picture of
Captain Reud down to the petty officers and seamen."

THE STATE OF POLITICS AND

PARTIES IN UPPER CANADA•

No. V.

The change which has taken place in the constitution of
the House of Assembly of Upper Canada in the late Ge-
neral Election has so completely altered the aspect of all
political questions in this Province, that any speculation
upon them would be idle, until the causes of this apparent
revulsion of public feeling shall be better understood, and
its ulterior consequences more clearly ascertained. We
shall, therefore, in this paper, just take a glimpse at the
general condition and prospects of the country with refe-
rence to emigration thither ; and, in another, pass under re-
view one or two points affecting the Lower Province, with
which, at present, we shall conclude what we have to say
concerning the Canadians.

The emigrant who leaves England, designing to settle in
any part of Canada, should endeavour to see as little as
possible of the United States ; because if he does, and should
unfortunately have candour enough to open his eyes and
his understanding to what has been done, and what is in
progress, in this great republic, it is hardly in the nature of
things that he can settle down contentedly in the British
Provinces. It is not possible, without having been on the
spot, for any one to appreciate the contrast, in every thing
which concerns the comfort and prospects of a settler, be-
tween the American and Canadian sides of the Lakes and
the St. Lawrence. In the former all is bustle, activity,
and enterprize. Every face looks cheerful ; every man
seems to prosper. The towns on the Lake have all exten-
sive, natural, or artificial harbourage, and carry on a very
considerable traffic. Their large manufactories and ware-
houses, their busy quays, their crowded shipping, indicate,
in terms that cannot be mistaken, their progress and pros-
perity. The inland towns, as they may be called, which
are studded along the northern tier of counties of the State
of New York—Utica, for instance, Syracuse, Auburn,
Rochester, &c. &c.,---are equally characterised by all
the evidences of prosperity ; their broad and spacious
streets, their large and handsome brick-built houses,
the excellence of their hotels, the number and va-
riety of their well furnished shops and manufactories,
their numerous and handsome churches belonging to the
various classes of religious persuasions, and the universal
spirit of active energy which pervades the entire mass of
society, leave no doubt as to their present condition or
future prospects. Cross over now to the opposite sido of
the lake, say from Oswego to Cobourg (this being in the
main route to Upper Canada), and the traveller might fancy
he had got into another hemisphere. Instead of a spacious
and crowded harbour, a mere jetty for the landing of steam-
boat passengers—here are no quays, no wharfs, no ware-
houses, no crowded and busy populace, anxious to welcome
every arrival. Oh, no ! All is inaction ; the whole aspect
of the place speaks of the dullness and silence of the grave,
rather than the busy haunts and ways of men. The hotels
are small—their inmates few—their accommodations indif-
ferent ; instead of the crowded rush to table which has
been remarked on the other side of the lake, the guests
come straggling in at intervals, talk lazily over their meals
about the slackness of emigration, and saunter out again, as
they came in, with listless and chilling unconcern. With
the exception of Toronto, Cobourg may be taken as a fair
average of the towns of Upper Canada. It is nothing more
than a scattering village, stretching along the shores of the
lake ; and, though it has sprung up within a few years, it
has none of the neatness and freshness of a new town, but
its whole appearance is that of age and premature decay.
Toronto, formerly called York, is the capital of Upper
Canada, situated nearly at the head of the lake. I t con-
tains a population of about 12,000 souls. Like Cobourg,
it is a long straggling place. With the exception of a few
brick-built houses, principally belonging to persons con-
nected with the Government, the houses are chiefly frame-
houses, small, irregular, and of mean appearance. The
shops are few and indifferently furnished. There is not,
strictly speaking, a single bookseller's shop in the place :
there are, it is true, two or three places where books may
be had ; but in the same shop, on the other side of the coun-
ter, a grocer's store, or some other business, is carried on.
Wherever there is a town on the Canadian side, a cor-
responding one springs up on the other. Thus on the Nia-
gara frontier, opposite to Queenstown, the Americans have
Lewiston ; and opposite to what was designed to be the
City of the Falls they have Manchester. So, again, at the
bottom of the Lake, opposite to Kingston, they have
Sacketts' Harbour, and opposite to Prescott they have
Ogdensburg. The comparison which has been made be-
tween Oswego and Cobourg applies with little variation in
the other corresponding towns. It is a mortifying subject
of reflection that there should be such a difference in favor
of the American towns, but there would be little wisdom
in denying or disguising the truth.

The Canadians possess eight or ten very fine steam boats,
built generally on the American model, with a promenade
deck and the wheel on the fore part of it : the Great
Britain, the queen of the western waters, is the largest of
them ; she is capable of accommodating 900 deck passen-
gers (that number having actually been brought in her
without inconvenience it is said), and upwards of 250
cabin passengers. The greater part of these boats were
built about three or four years ago, when the tide of
emigration was flowing strongly into Upper Canada. Since
that has been so materially checked, they are not only too
numerous but too large for the demands of the public.
Nothing can be more melancholy than traversing the Lakes
and the St. Lawrence in these fine boats day after day,
with half-a-dozen cabin passengers, twice as many deck
passengers, and a few barrels of flour and pork, when it
is manifest the whole freight cannot repay the owners the
cost of the wood burnt for raising the steam.
A faithful and honest account of the actual condition
and resources of Upper Canada is much wanted for emi-
grants. Neither the statements put forth in the " Back-
woodsman," written by Mr. Dunlop, one of the principal
officers and agents of the Canada Land Company, nor those
circulated in every possible variety of form, by the North
American Land Company, to draw emigration towards the
extensive plot of ground they have recently purchased in
the Eastern Township of Lower Canada, nor the high
-wrought pictures to be found in various parts of " Chambers'
Journal," are deserving of the slightest credit. Yet, on the
faith of these delusive statements, thousands, aed tens of
thousands, have been induced to go out to Canada, and all
their hopes and prospects in life been totally wrecked.
Many, very many, utterly ruined, have died broken hearted ;
-very many more unable, or ashamed, to return, are linger-
ing out a. wretched existence, deprived of all the enjoy-
ments which can render life worth having. How many a scene
of wretchedness and privation would a tour through the
recently settled parts of Canada disclose! Whole families,
in England accustomed to all the refinements and comforts
Of the middle ranks of society, buried, literally buried, in the
forest, and labouring with almost 'nopeless efforts to clear
enough of the wilderness to satisfy the wants of nature.
The mother broken hearted—the father and his sons re-
duced to a condition of toil and hardship very far below
what the humblest of their own men-servants had, in former
days, been accustomed to ; and his daughters, bred and
brought up as ladies, are seen burning their harps and
piano-fortes for fire-wood, laying aside altogether the ac-
complishments and graces in which they had formerly
delighted, obliged to labour in the most menial occupations,
ranging about the woods half naked, and falling literally
into the habits and feelings of savage life.

illaclemo;73elle Taglioni has at length recovered from
the effect, of her.late accident. She re-appeared as the Syl_
phide, for the first time, at the opera at Paris, Tuesday evening,
A meeting of the architects, competitors for the
designs of the New Houses of Parliament, was held on Mon-
lay at the National Gallery, when it was stated that the pro-
ceeds of the late exhibition of their designs, after paying all
expenses, amounted to 7941. It was agreed that the amount
should be equally divided among the competitors.
SUICIDE is PoisoN.—An inquest was held at the
North London Hospital, Gower-street, New-road, before Mr.
Stirling, on view of the body of Mrs. Elizabeth Lewis, aged
37, who committed suicide by swallowing laudanum. It ap-
peared from the evidence that the deceased was the wife of a
mechanic residing in Pancras-street, Tottenham-court-road,
and the mother of a young family. On Thursday last she
quarrelled with her husband, of whom she was jealous, and in
a paroxysm of passion swallowed two pennyworth of laudanum.
She was taken to the above hospital, and died on the following
day. Verdict—Temporary Derangement.

COTTON MANUFACTURE IN RUSSIA.—The
Emperor of Russia has recently granted permission to Messrs.
T. and C. Von Malzow, Von Sobolcnsky, and Robert Kennedy,
to form a company to erect a cotton-spinning fabric in St. Pe-
tersburgh, or in its neighbourhood.

PRICES OF STOCKS 'nits DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank stock.
3 per Cent. Bed. 91y!,..1 Ditto Bonds 2 dis. par
:3 per Cent. Cetts Ol L 0 1 :.iitnith Sea Snick -
r:•!,.c, per Cent - Old Annnities
Ditto Red l('l,', New Ditto F9
New 5% 13.2 r Cent 100 149,74 '3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751...
New 3 per Cent — i Exch. Bills, ..1:1,10 , ..... 9 8 PH,
Bank Long Annuithis to expire !Ditto ...............500 8 10 pm.
Jan 5, !s1;0 's 13-1614 n : Ditto Small
Oct 'O, rt,io li 11-16 Ditto Commercial
.ihrt 5, ISM' ISY2 9-16
~' Ditto Advertised — —1".•
Jan. 5, IStzu.., - Batik Stock for Account 213
Aptil 5, 15...-4. — i India Stock for Account
Jan. 5, 1870
Omaium
_ rm.
___ - 'Cunso:s for Account ... ...... .9",,----Ti 1

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian BtMils — Peruvian Bonds
Belgian. Romla
1033,4 i Ditto Account
Ditto Account .
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Mien() r A vrcs Bonds — Ditto Account 7O
Ditto Account — Ditto, 3 per cent. 16 3 .1: 14
Cnillian Bonds — ;Prussian Bonds —
Ditto Account ltus.ian Bonds, IS'..'-.:
Columbia:l Bonds yl I Ditto Account —
Ditto Account -
Columbian Bonds, 15:24 . 214 !Spanish! Bonds —
Ditto Account 'AY, Ditto Account
D tiiih Bonds
Ditto Account
Greek Bonds — ' French, 5 per cent.-- ...., —f. —t.
Ditto Bonds, 1,1-.!fi
Ditto Account - ~ per cent. —f• —c•ltlexican Bonds, 5 per cent — ' Exchange ....... .... —I. c
Ditto Account — Dutch, 21.4 per tent
Ditto, 6 per cent.
Ditto Account — : Ditto, 5 per cent I 03,..i
Neapolitan — Ditto Account —

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share,
Bolanos Mining Company EiO 145
Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (issued at 5/. pm.) ,20 29
Cheltenham and Great Western Railway
Eastern Counties Railway I
Great ‘Vesterti Railway Company 2O :387/
Leeds and Manchester Railway Company
Brighton Railway Company
Brighton (Gibbs') Railway 1
Brighton (Rennie's)
London and Blackwall Railway
London, Saliishury, and Exeter Railway i
illanchester South Union Railway Company,,.,,, o
North Midland Railway Coinpanyl
South Eastern Railway Company
Anti Dryrnt Company
British North American Bank

4
0%
2%
03/,
:114
5 9.341,47
2 4
10 94.1
10 10 ON:!i

Colonial Bank
Canada Company
Van Dieman's Land Agricultural Company l7

Arrived. Due.
0 America 0
Brazil
0 Buenos Ayres._
0 Cartlia;ena 0
I Dublin...
1 Flanders 0

MAILS.
.1 Arrived. Due. Arrived. Due.
I France 0 0 Lisbon I
1 Gunn. &Jersey 0 0 Malta
1 0 Hamburg 0 0 Mexico 0
1 Holland 0 0 Ostend 0
0 Jamaica 0 0 Sweden 0
0 Leeward Islands I 1 Waterford 0

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE TO-MORROW.
Morning 53 minutes after 0 Evening 9 minutes after 3.

Messrs. Cli

rkes and

The establishment of Railways in this country, and the successful
results of the Belgian lines, which have been completed, naturally
create a desire to extend them more generally on the Continent,
and thus open a wider field both for domestic and foreign communi-
cation.

A Deputation from the Directors of the South-Eastern Railway
Company having obtained the favourable consideration of the
French and Belgian Governments for the formation of an Interna-
tional Railway, to connect the British, French, and Belgian Capi-
tals, by lines through Calais, by Lille, to Paris and Brussels, the
preliminary arrangements for this great undertaking have, to a
certain extent, been completed. A considerable portion of the
above lines will be common to Paris and Brussels ; and since they
connect with those capitals great manufacturing districts of France
and Belgium, they afford the prospect of a large remunerative re-
turn. Besides these, other lines, connecting Paris with London
and Brussels, have been proposed, the first through Amiens and
Abbeville to Boulogne, the second through Amiens, Valenciennes
and Mons, by the coal districts, to Brussels, which, with diminished
distance, offer many other advantages.
A line from Brussels to Mechlin, formed by the Belgian Govern-
ment, was opened in May, 1835, for the conveyance of passengers
only. The official returns for the year ending May, 1836, after
allowing interest at the rate of Si. per cent., on the cost of
the works, show a surplus resulting from the conveyance of
563,210 passengers, of 41 per cent. Since May, 1836, the line has
been extended to Antwerp, and during that month the number of
passengers amounted to 101,479, yielding a revenue of 4,313/. 195.5 d.
Another line from Ostend, by Mechlin and Liege, is also in pro-
gress. By the proposed route, and in connection with the South
Eastern Railway, the journey from London to Paris will be accom-
plished in 14 hours ; that to Brussels, Mechlin, or Antwerp, in
about 13 hours.

The greater part of the surveys have been already made, and esti-
mates prepared by the French administration of the Ponts et Chaus-
s6es. These have subsequently been examined and approved by Bel-
gian engineers, and the French Government has consented that,
previously to a:final selection of the lines, the country should be re-
examined by English engineers, and the works executed under the
joint inspection and superintendence of engineers appointed by the
Directors of the three countries.
The sections which have been taken show that the lines can be
executed with much less difficulty than the average of the great lines
now in progress in this country ; the gradients are favourable, a
considerable portion being almost level, and the greatest inclination
not exceeding 17 feet per English mile.
A pledge has been obtained from the French Ministry, that a law
shall secure to Foreign Subscribers their property and annual profits
against confiscation, in the event of war. The law of France and
Belgium, respecting undertakings by Joint Stock Companies, limits
the responsibility of Shareholders to the amount individually
subscribed. • -

The Capital necessary for the undertaking is estimated at
4,500,0001., and is preposed to be raised yip" England, Franc. and
Belgium. The portion for England will he 1,500,000/. divided into
37,500 Shares of 401. each, nearly corresponding in value with the
Shares of 1,000 francs each, into which the Continental portion of
the capital will be divided.
Only 15,000 Shares will be allotted at present, 5,000 of which
will be apportioned to Shareholders in the South-Eastern Railway.
On the Shares thus allotted, a Deposit
,of 2/. each will ha re-
quired, in order to meet jointly with the
.'Continental Shareholders
the expenses of the preliminary investigations.
The remaining Shares will not be allotted until it has been de-
termined by a General Meeting of the Shareholders• to proceed
with an application to the French Chambers for the necessary legis-
lative authority to prosecute the work. .A preference will then be
given to an equal amount to the Holder's of the Shares issued in the
first instance.

It is proposed that the general management of the undertaking
shall be conducted by deputations frpm the respective directions of
each country, meeting periodically at fixed places for that purpose.
J. S. YATES, Sec. pro tern.

The publication of THE SUN NEWSPAPER commenced this day
at 10 minutes past Three o' Clock.

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INTERNATIONAL .- '/RAILWAY COM-
Y.
Connocting GREAT BRI : ' i',. PARIS and BRUSSELS.
PROVISIONAL i DIRECTION.
The Marquis of Clanricard • •! ' : eathcoat, Esq., M.P.
Lord de ]'lsle "....•‘‘ 1 uart de Rothsay
Lord William Bentinck, M. •;' 'in. T. P. Courtenay
C. Barry Baldwin, Esq., London: J. ham, Esq., London.
G. Borradaile, Esq., London Ja rison, Esq., M.P.
John Bowes, Esq., M.P. Fri 'orth, Esq., M.P.
Henry Broadley, Esq., Hull J. t •nshaw, Esq., London
Sir R. Campbell, Bart., Li:inch:lA W. : :rds, Esq., London
William Clay, Esq., INI.P. ' John 1, Esq., London
H. Elphinstone, Esq., M.P. - % Hen ' , , Esq., Birmingham
William Ewart, Esq., M.P. . Isaac. sq., London
J. Minet Fector, Esq., M.P." PMT. 't, Esq., M.P.
P. H. Fleetwood, Esq., i\l. P. , John • Esq., Birmingham
John Fleming, Esq., Glasgow . G. T. ~ Esq., London
M. A. Goldsmid, sq., London. H. G. Esq., M.P.
Josiah J. Guest, Esq., M.P. J. Wal
,i., Birmingham
Edmund Halswell, Esq., London John ',..., London.
With power to add to the' r.
MANAGING DIRECTOR—Captain 6 !tingle, R.E.
CONSULTING ENGINEER—George • enson, Esq.
BANKERS—Messrs. Smith, Payne, an ' Messrs. Esdaile
and Co.
,
FOREIGN AND CORRESPONDING SEC ' . John Dowro
ing,
Esq., M.P.
ACTING ENGINEER—WiIIiam C
Soucyroas—Messrs. Clutton and Fear.- , :.' essrs. Parkes and
Preston. .