The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-19 00:00:00

ADDRESS TO THE KING.

"Sire—The Chamber of Deputies, wishing to prove
to your Majesty and to the whole country, that far from
wishing to place themselves in opposition to the
Executive, they are most anxious to offer to it their
frank and loyal concurrence, have voted spontaneously,
but provisionally, the taxes fur a part of the present
year. It nevertheless feels the high and irresistible ne-
cessity of opening for itself an avenue to your Majesty,
and exposing to you, Sire, the genuine feeling of
its spirit. The Chamber places full confidence in the
Prince who was the first to give in the Italian peninsula
this new light of the Constitotion, and it therefore feels
that this statute which ho was the first to grant should
not be annihilated by the responsible agents of the Exe-
cutive who now hold the reins of power. Sire, the De-
puties of the nation, in the face of the obstacles thrown
in the way of the Chamber and of the existing Govern-
ment, are most anxious, as honest and free citizens, to
invoke the harmonizing influence of the Sovereign,
that once again its voice should speak aloud, and recal
us to that union which is stable, and that it should re-
concile those serious dissensions which the illegal con-
duct of some few amongst us have endeavoured to en-
gender between the Executive power and the elective
Chamber. The real interests of the Prince are identical
with those of the nation, of which he is the bead and
the supreme avenger, and the systematic violation of
them which is effected by a Ministry, which exhausts at
its own arbitrary will the true and copious springs of the
power of Government, wrings the heart of every good
citizen when he contemplates the lot of his unfortunate
country. These necessities and interests to which
wo allude recover their force in carrying out fully
and severely the constitutional provisions to which
the Monarch assented—which are the legitimate
right of the country and the dearest wish of its
representatives. Now, what has been, and was,
is ever the conduct of the Ministry, in addition to
its ruinous general policy, which has already been the
object of the censure of the Chamber. It has violated
in a hundred ways the most substantial of our privileges
—it has violated the sanctity of our homes—it has
trampled under foot both the freedom of the person as
well as that of the mind, in the most arbitrary and illegal
manner—it has made between citizens, who are equal
in the sight of the law, other distinctions than those
which spring from civil merit—it has broken into the
sanctuary, which should be inviolable, of the magistracy
and profaned it, and without regarding the security of
our citizens, or providing us with other models for our
government, it has dismissed, and still dismisses, the
National Guard, and has recomposed an armed
body unauthorised by any law, and with commanders
who have been appointed in the teeth of the statute.
It has exhibited no anxiety to extinguish the unhappy
causes of disagreement which have disturbed the friendly
feelings existing between the military and the citizens,
feelings of harmony which will assuredly never cease to
exist, as it has always existed, in full vigour between
the children of the same country, who feel in commen
the same wants, the same desire for glory, the same
sorrows, and the same hopes. It invaded tho power of
the Legislature by acts which required its previous con-
currence, and by doing so greatly aggravated the condi-
tion of the finances and of those who contribute to them;
and if the condition and the necessities of the State
were of serious gravity it was clearly their duty to open
them honestly to those who represent such sacred
•
interests, in order that they might obtain the legal con-
currence of the Chamber, and it would not certainly
hare refused its assent to any reasonable or honour-
able proposition. The Ministry have attempted, and
to the last still attempt, to discredit, and thus render
fruitless the constitutional rule, and thus take from
the Chamber both the opportunity and mode of
bringing to a termination the provisions which are
required for the moral and material interests of the
country; and are seeking to break the chain of loyalty,
faith, and gratitude which binds together the Prince and
the representatives of the people, in order that their
voice should be prevented from reaching the throne.
Sire, it is your prerogative to nominate and dismiss the
Ministry; but it is the duty of the Deputies of the
people to point out to the head of the State of the great
obstacles which are placed in opposision to the regular
march of the machinery of Government. Against
such Ministerial misdeeds the Chamber assuredly
possesses both severe and irresistible rights which
it may exercise—rights which become duties.
Still, fur the sake of moderation in civil proceed-
ings, it prefers addressing itself to the Sovereign.
Placed as your Majesty is in another sphere of these
high constitutional attributes, by which your Majesty is
deprived of the possibility of doing wrong, and is in-
vested with the entire power of doing good, your
Majesty will not delay to pronounce that royal declara-
tion, which is the supreme remedy for the afflictions of
the State—for, on their part, the deputies have always
been ready, and still are so, to grant to the Government
of your Majesty that entire and constitutional support
which will carry with it the fruits, not only of power
and of force, but of the love and reverence of your
people."

We understand that the Conde de Montemolin,
anxious to promote education amongst the industrious
classes, has intimated to the Rev. llardinge Ivers, in-
cumbent of the Roman Catholic Church of St. Alexis,
Kentish Town, his intention of presiding at a public
deje 12ner, which is to take place about the middle of next
April, for the benefit of the Kentish Town Free Schools,
open to the youth of all religious persuasions. Other
royal personages, and several noble and benevolent pro-
moters of education, are expected to attend.

LEGITIMACY IN PORTUGAL.—A new daily news-
paper made its appearance on the 7th instant at Oporto,
under the title of A Patria. It espouses the Legitimist
or Royalist cause, and boldly announces its principles,
its tendencies, its wishes, and its purpose. All these
are, of course, entirely at variance with the famous "set-
tlement" of the Portuguese question, forced upon the
reluctant and immense majority of the Portuguese na-
tion by the now defunct Quadruple Alliance. The new
journal is, in short, strenuously opposed to the state of
things established by the intrigues of Talleyrand and his
master. Louis Philippe, supported by the family interest
of the Kiag of the Belgians and the " liberal" bias of
our own Foreign Secretary; and we hail, therefore, with
sincere satisfaction, the accession of an ally in the cause
that we have so long advocated.—Post.
A RARE BIRD KNOWN TO BRICKLAYERS.—An
amateur naturalist has offered a reward to the man who
will furnish him a live specimen of the " brick bat."
This must surely be the same individual who was in-
quiring the other day about the new fish recently dis-
covered, and which turned out to be the gutts percha
sole.—The Builder.
DEATH OF LADY ELIZABETH PALK.—We have to
record the demise of the above venerable lady, who ex-
pired suddenly, on Thursday night, at her residence in
Bruton street. Her ladyship, daughter of William first
Earl of Lisburne, was in the 85th year of her age, hav-
ing been born 13th May, 1764. She married May 14,
1792, the late Sir Lawrence Palk, Bart., whom she has
survived thirty-six years, and by whom her ladyship had
a family of six sons and two daughters.
Thomas Lovell Beddoes, the author of the beauti-
ful drama, entitled the Bride's Tragedy, died at B .sle, in
Switzerland, on the 26th of January. He was the son
of the late Dr. Beddoes, of Clifton.

RONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.,
The Cotton Market at Liverpool was steady on Sa-
turday, and the sales were 6,000 bales, including 2,000
taken on speculation. Railway Shares were firm, and a.
fair amount of business done.
The Foreign advices received this morning are gene-
rally favourable. The report of the Paris Bourse is
encouraging, and a rally is occurring; but the late rise
having been so rapid, fluctuation is to be expected.
The Grain Market has been heavy again. Wheat is
about ls. lower than on Monday last. Spring corn is
dull at barely Monday's prices. The supplies of Foreign
continue large. During the first week after the cessa-
tion of the duty upwards of *35,000 quarters of grain
and meal were realised from bond in the United King-
dom.
We have been requested to state that the project for
the British Bank, advertised in The Sun, meets with
support in influential quarters, and that there is every
prospect of its being carried out.
The notice for a reduction of the interest on Ex-
chequer-bills from 24d. to 14d. per centum per diem
excites some controversy. Some think that a safer rate
would have been 2d. at present, and that when the June
bills fell due they could have been lowered to lid., if the
Money Market justified it.
The Dublin and Belfast Junction Railway will not
obtain from Government the assistance intended, owing
to the opposition manifested to the 50,0001. grant, and in
consequence the remaining 161. will be called up, and
preference shares must also be issued if that important
trunk line is to be completed. The Blackwell Railway
will pay a dividend of 2s. 6d. per share for the half-year,
free of income-tax.
The Stock Market is exceedingly quiet, and the
Exchequer-bill Notice only improved Consols momenta-
rily. The jobbers are timid as to a renewed supply o f
money stock, and hence the indisposition to do business.
Consols have been done at 934 for Money, and 93i- for
Account, and are now quoted 931 4 and 934 4.
The Exchequer-bills (to be paid off) are a 6
385. to 395. premium, and those still bearing
2d. interest are 445. to 48s. premium. India
Bonds are 525. premium. There has been a bargain in
South Sea :Stock, at 10n. Tho New Three-and-a-
Quartt-r per Cents. have realised 944 to 944, :and the
Three per Cents. 934 to 934. Bank Stock is ab out 195
to 197.
In the Foreign Stocks there is likewise very little) doing.
Spanish Five per Cents. are, however, rather better,
being 174 4. Mexican 25 to 251, being still flat.
Granada are firm at 17 to 174 for the Active, and Si for
the Deferred Bonds. Chilian have been done at 94.
Dutch Two-and •a-Half per Cents. have been 5041, and
the Four per Cents. 801
The Railway Share market is rather heavy. It is
reported that the Eastern Counties dividend will be
only ss. 6d. per share, but we cannot confirm this.. The
East India meeting is now in progress, and there is an
animated discussion as to the obtainment of a 5 per
cent. guarantee.
ONE c Lost mG
vlttcEs OF BRITISU FUNDS. O'CLOCK. .pßtez.B.
dank Stock
per Cent. Reduced A-ns 93%341h 931,(
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93:4% 931,fa
Sew 314 per Cent. Anna.... ..• 94% % .Y 41,4 941,E
Lone: An ns. to expire Jan. 1860
Ditto, Oct. 10, 1859
India Stock 246
Endis. Bonds, 1,0004
Ditto under 1,0001..
South Sea Stock IOIA3 101 N
Bank Stock for Account ...... 196
Consols for Account 93%1,72 83%
.:xchequer Bills. 21/sd. & 2d.
1.000/. March
1,000/. June 45 48 44 p 46 p
5001. March 39 38 p 38 p
5001. June
Small, March .. 39 38 p 38 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. ONE OLOBLNG
O'CLOCK. nucEs.
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent.... ..... . . 94 91
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent... 66
Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred ... 3% 3

Greek Bonds .
Ditto ex over-due Coupons 4%
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 —
Ditto, Account 25 251-4 25
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents —
Ditto, Account 49 IA
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto. Account 1743/ 173rd
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French; 3 per Cent
Exchange —f. —e. 25f. 30c.
Belgian, 24 per Cent — 464
Belgian 44 per Cent B3
Dutch 21A per Cent., 12 Guild.... 50% 50
Ditto. Account ..... ... ...... ..... 50% 50
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates 80%1A 80
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
PAILWAY SIIARES. AT ONE O'CLOCK.. PRICES.
Aberdeen
Caledonian
Do. New 101. Pref 7%..... 8%%. ...... 8%
Dublin and Belfast June 35 ...... 8
East Anglia, 251., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25 ......
D0., 31. los.
Eastern Counties 2O ...... 114 11% 10% 10%
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent. .....
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 6L 13s. 4d.... 34 p ............ ... 14 P
Eastern Union, Class A
__
....

(late E. U. Shares) 25
Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 20
East Lancashire
Ditto, New .... ..-.. 21 ...... 151.,, -.... 1514
East Lincolnshire”...... 25.
Great Northern
Do., %B 6 per Cent... 6% 5% 5%
Do. Extension 2% ...... % ••• %
I;reat South. and West.
(Ireland) ... 33
Great Western 100 ...... 103 101% ..... ...• 101%
Ditto, 1,4 Shares 6O ...... 51
Ditto, Fifths ..... —..... 20
Ditto, New 171....... 15 ... .. 14
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 ...... 551 A 56 .
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 -

Do. Quarter Shares... 171
Do. Fifths.... ....... .... 10 - ••••••”.•
Do. Sixteenths
Do. (W. Riding Union) 8 .. ... 4% % 47(8
London & Black wa11...13/. 6s. 8d.... 5% ... si
London, Brighton, and
South Coast 5O ..... 35%!‘ •• 34%
Ditto, New 5/., guar.
6 per cent.
London and N. Western 100...141% 1424 141 142 142
Ditto, New ....... ..... 7 ...... 13 4 13
Ditto,Fitths ..... .. .. 2 ...... 10% 10
Loud.. &S. Western 5O ...... 40 ...,. ........ 40 44
Do.. New Scrip, 1848,
Pref. 7 per Cent. on
Deposit, and 5 per
Cent. on Calls
Manchester,Buxton,and
Matlock 4%. l% l%
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire...loo -
Ditto, New 10/. Pref... 10
Midland ........ ........100
Do. Consolidated Pref.loo 115% 1154
Do., do., SOL Shares-. 25 ... ..

. . .
Do. Consol. Bristol and
Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 ......124 ••• 124
Norfolk ......... ............ 100
--
...... •-• .. 19%
Do. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20
Do. Guaranteed 514 pc. 5
North British ...........25 •••••• 1634 Li . l6
Ditto, Halves ..
Ditto, Quarters
North Staffordshire
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton ...... 50
Reading, Guildford, and
Reigate .. 1214.... . ....... ..... 13%
Scottish Central
Shrewsbury and Biros... 10
Shrewsbury & Cheater
(Nor.. W. Min.)
---- •••
Ditto Oswestry ...... 181,¢...... 15
...
Do. 8 per Cent. Pref. 10
15 ..... ...
Shropshire Union
South Eastern .. 3343 25%. ..... ... .... 2514
Do~ Scrip No 4
south Wales ...... 33 ...... 19,4 18% 1914 191/4
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. .... ........... 25 ..... ........ ..... ---.
Do. Extension No. 1. 20
Do. do. No. 2. ... 20
Do. G.N.E.Preference 8 ... . 87 ... 8
York and North Midland 50 ...... 5414 ...... .. ....... 54
Ditto, Preference
Do. East and Westßid-
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 20 ...... 9% 10 93/4
Central of France (Or- .
leans and Vierzon) ... 18 ..... 1114 11
Luxembourg.... 7 ...... % 7O
Ditto ... .. 10 ...... 2 ex.int.
Namur and Liege ..... 20 ... . 814 %......
Northern of France.... 12
Orleans and Bordeaux... 7 ...... 3 %%% 336
Paris and Rouen 2O ........ 20% ex. d ...... 20% X•ii
Paris and Strasbourg - •••••••• 3
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse 2O ... .. 514%% b%
Tours and Nantes 9
.21,A 3-4 2,‘

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London Joint 5t0ck...... 10
London & Westminster. 20
••
••• 23N
Provincial of Ireland ... 25
Ditto, New ...... .. ..... 10

On Saturday last the following gentlemen received
official information that they had been raised to the rank
of Queen's Counsel :—Mr. Roundell Palmer, M.P., I%o'
Lloyd, Mr. Calvert, Mr. Hope, Mr. Melina of the
Equity Bar, and Messrs. Keating and Greenwood of the
Common Law Bar; together with a patent of precedence
to Mr. Sergeant Kinglake. This selection, as far as
concerns the Common Law Bar, has occasioned, we hear,
great surprise and discussion, as it was fully antic!'
pated that at least two gentlemen whose names will
not be found among those above enumerated—one our'
nently distinguished by his professional abilities, and the
other not only acknowledged to be a most able lawyer'
but to have likewise attained a conspicuous elevation
in literature—would have been honoured with the
silk gown. Among the promotions just mentioned, it
will be observed that the Northern Circuit, the Senn
Circuit, the Midland Circuit, the Norfolk Circuit, 0"
the North and South Wales Circuits have been altogether
omitted. This circumstance is the most remarkable to
reference to the Northern Circuit, where in place of ten
Queen's Counsel, as there were formerly, there are now_
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only three—Mr. Baines having been recently removed to
fill the office of Chief Commissioner of the Poorae"1"
At the least the Lord Chancellor has shown an honon.v.:
able disregard to anything like the promptings of Foil
tical partisanship.
An
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILwAy.--Tro' for
w-
the week ended Feb. 11, 1849:—Coaching traffic, 740 L
10s. 2d. ; parcels, 481. 11s. 3d ; goods and cattle, Se"
2a. 3d.; steam-boats,ll2/. 58.4 d. Total, I/1854 95'

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LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, FEB. 19.—Wind this day at noon,S. W.,
moderate breeze and cloudy.
DEAL, FEE,lB.—Wind Arrd. from-the
River, the Florentia, Tindall, Adelaide, S.A.; Herald,
Vestue, Madras; Julia, Lecroix, Cape of Good Hope;
Warrior, Thomas, Jamaica; Royal Shepherdess, Bell,
Aden; Siren, Gilbert, Porto Rico. 18, Mary, Hermes,
Pernambuco. 'l7, Arrd. from the River. and sld., the
Dorothy, Moody, Calcutta ; Columbus, Edie, ditto ;
Tweed, Catchpole, Cape Coast Castle; Eg-lin:an, Dixon,
Coquimbo ; Janet Willis, Laing, Demerara; James
Cruickshank, Sayers, St. Vincent; James Holmes, Head,
Barbadoes. 18. Devonshire, Hovey, New York. Sld.
the Whitty, Sydney, N.S.W.; Samuel, Barbadoes.
LIVERPOOL, FEB. 17.—The Countess of Lonsdale,
steam-tug, took fire this morning in her bunkers, but it
Was extingished without doing much injury. A consi-
derable quantity of (loose) goods, mostly prints, velvets,
shovels, rope, &c., have been brought here from the
wreck of the Cookson. The Passenger, from Buenos
Ayres to Antwerp, that put into Dingle harbour about
two months since, after several ineffectual attempts to
get to sea, still remained there on the 12th instant.-
18.—Wind W.—Sid. 17., Pampero, Lima; Fame, Rio
Janeiro ; Spartan. Savannah ; Lehigh, Philadelphia.—
Off Port, 18.—Scotia, Baltimore.
KINGSTOWN.—SId., James Hunt, Barbadoes.
SOUTHAMPTON, FEB. 17.—51 d., Thames steamer,
West Indies; Iberia steamer, Gibraltar.
C°lvEs, FEB. 17.—Wind W.—Sid., Koophandel,
liiiannah.
Purstottzir, FEB. 17.—Wind variable.—Sld., Sove-
reign, Cadiz and Buenos Ayres; Royal Sovereign, Ade-
laide, South Australia; Childe Harold, South Australia.
NEWPORT, FEB. 17.—Wind W.—Sid., Jewess, Ha-
vannah.
BEAUMARIS, FEB. S.W.—Sid., Partenetia,
Rio Janeiro.
CAIRN RYAN, FEB. 15.—Arrd.,. Euphrates, Parker,
Philadelphia, for Londonderry.
HOLYHEAD, Fan. 16.—The Orwell, Liverpool to New-
castle, has put in leaky.
ISTEOMSAY, SKYE, FEB. 13.—The Ottilie, of Stettin
from Dublin to Newcastle VI as driven on the rocks near
Arisaig, 10th inst., her bottom is stove in and it is
feared she will he a total wreck—sails and materials are
being saved. The Mary and Jane of Port Gordon, from
Liverpool to Aberdeen has been towed iu here having
struck on the rocks at Ryleakin 11th inst., and it is ex-
pected must discharge.
WHITBY, FEB. 18.—The Tino of Arundel has been
towed in very leaky.
HULL, FEE. 16.—The Perth (smack) of Aberdeen has
been taken into Grimsby a derelict by the schooner
Sarah and Ann.