The Sun.
London, England, 1849-11-06 00:00:00

DUI CH FUNDS.

ANSTEEDA3I, Nov. BuURSE.—The gen6ral
tenthncy of the B:urse was exceedingly flat to-day,
n. arty all tl.c transactions in the different kinds of
stock were made at yesterday's closing pricer. This
was especially the case with the Three per Cent. French
and the Four per Cent. Portuguese; Russian stock alone
was in detnerf.
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTEWDAMt Nov. 2.
Bills

Actual Debt, 2% per Cent— •...... 53
Ditto, 3 per Cent .. • . 62%
Ditto, 4 per Cent • • • . • 817,4
Amort Syndic, 3% per Cent.. .... •. . •
East India Loan, 4 per Cent..........
Spanish New 5 per; Cents.• • ....
Austrian 5 per Cent 5.................—
Ditto 3 per Cent., inland ..........
Commercial Company, 4% par Cent • • ---
Exchangeon London, at sign .. •.` 12 5
Two months.... ....... •• • . 12
On liamburgh, at sight .. 34 87
Two months.— • . .... 34 75
On Paris, at 5ight.......... 5d t 2
Twomonths ...... 56 37

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ACCIDENT TO THE DURB OF CAMBRIDGE.—This
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of Rutland's seat, near Newmarket. The Royal Duke
was in company with Colonel Hall, of the Ist Life
Guards, and Mr. Sloane Stanley, shooting over the
Links, when he received a slight injury in the hand,
which compelled him to quit the field. His Royal
Highness has since returned to Kew, and suffers but
slightly from the accident.
Mr. Anderton has given notice of the following
motion for the next Court of Common Council :—" That
it be referred to the Commissioners of Sewers to
examine and report whether the smoke arising from
steam-engines and furnaces erected in and near the City
and ihe steam-boats upon the Thames, is or is not in•
jurious to the health of the inhabitants, a preventive to
cleanliness, and destructive to public buildings; and
whether the present jaws ure sufficient to cause the nui-
sances (if any) to be abated."
ALARMING OCCURRENCE. —On Sunday afternoon,
about four o'clock, one hour before high water, a large
sailing-vessel, laden with suit sand, the property of Mr.
Pass, of Nine Elms, was proceeding up the river from
Woolwich, and when opposite Blackfriars Steam-boat
vier the captain let go her anchor for the purpose of
bringing her up. Unfortunately the chain was foul, and
the crew were unable to slacken it sufficiently to make
the anchor hold, and the consequence was that the yards
of the vessel came \in contact with the fourth arch on the
north-west side of Blackfriars-bridge. By so doing the
yards sprang, and the mast-head of the ponderous vesssel
caught the crown of the arch, and in an instant she
heaved over, and in less than two minutes sank. Toe
men in the vessel shrieked out for help, when John
Ware, the deputy piermaster, and Carey, one of the
extra men, came alongside the vessel, fortunately
succeeded in rescuing the crew of the sunken vessel, and
conveyed them ashore. Whilst they were engaged in
si.tving the lives of the people in the vessel a large.yawl,
laden with potatoes, was making, her way towards
Hnngerford Market, when her bow came in contact with
th'e saint ilia of the bridge, which threWlier athwart
the tide, and for a moment or two the lives of the crews

belonging to both the large vessels, as well as those who
so heroically put off from the pier, were greatly
jeopardized, but fortunately the bead mast of the potato
yawl was low enough to allow it to pass under the bridge.
If such had not been the case, the whole must have been
drowned.

GLASGOW, Nov. 3. COTTON MARZET.-- The
demand for cotton from the trade has during the week
been on a limited scale, and, the market being conse-
quently quiet, no change is prices can be quoted. Pig
Iron—Our pig iroe market has been quiet throughout
the week, but prices have been fully maintained. Mixed
numbers may be quoted at 425. 6d. per ton, No. I 435.,
and No. 1 Gartshirrie, 445. to 445. 6(1. cash. _ _

ROYAL ARTILLEES.—Captain P. Benn's and Cap-
tain Wright's companies arrive d at head-quarters, et
Woolwich, on Saturday afternoon, from Dublin, via
Liverpool, having been relieved by Mjor Desbrisay's
and Captain Hyde's companies. Captain Bean's and
Captain Wright's companies are now the first on the
list for foreign service; but are not expected to leave
Woolwich until the early part of next year, ell the
reliefs contemplated for the present year having already
embarked for their destinations.
INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM, WANITEAD —Yester-
day afternoon, the half-)early general ma tting of the
governors of this charity, for the purpose of reporting
specially in reference to the number of orphans created
by the ravages of the recent epidtmic, and of electing
the increased number of forty orphan children into the
estab!i,hment, was held at the London Tavern ; Mr. B.
13. Gabbell, MP. presiding. The report, which was by Mr. Buckler, the secretary, dwelt brie fly upon
the fact that many of the orphan children then pressing
for admission into the institution had been deprived of
both parents within a few hours by cholera, or else left
dependent upon the mother, who was herself suddenly
thrown upon her own resources. Under these circum-
stances, the committee had endeavoured to meet a
slecial emergency by special means, nama ly, by an in-
crease in the already large number of children admitted;
and they had therefore come to the conclusion that a
special election should be held in February next, at
which forty children should be admitted. The com-
mittee had also determined to increase the number re-
ceived at each half- yearly election, so that the Infant
Orphan Asylum would receive 120 children yearly, a
larger number than had ever been received by any of
the national charities within a similar space of time.

There were yesterday 163 candidates for admission. At
the conclusion of a very busy poll, which lasted several
hours, the names of the forty successful candidates were
announced. There are 330 children now in the asylum,
without the addition to the number made yesterday. A
of thanks to the chairman for his courtesy in pre-
siding ch red the proceedings.
THE DUKE AT DOVEN.—The Duke of Wellington,
as Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, held a Pilots'
Court here on Tuesday last, at which three senior mena-
bars of the Fellowship were superannuated, ai.d three
young men from the supernumerary list were put in
their places. His Grace was rt c-_ived with a salute of
nineteen guns, a vuard of honour, with band and colour,
from the 50th (Queen's Own), under the command of
Major Long, and by the local officials. The Noble Duke
looked well and hearty; and after the routine ti the pilot
bu'iness had been transacted, his Grace took his cus-

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ternary survey of the harbour works. Oa reaching the
esplanade (in front of which, in defiance of the deiences
yet raised, the sea has been making extensive inroads
during the late gales), his Grace's opinion was naked by
the harbour master as to what was to be done to save

the houses and land in that locality, which stand in
jeopardy every hour. The Duke replied, "0, keep on
piling." '• How far, your Grace ?" was the next query.
" Let me see," said the Duke, looking down, musing,
and then scanning the bay with the eye of an engineer,
why, to the bathing machines." Having completed
his survey, the Noble and Gallant Duke stepped into his
carriage, and drove off, under another salute from the
grand redoubt.—Doter Chroakk.
Guy FAWKES' DAY.—The anniversary of the gun-
powder plot wit 3 celebrated in the vicinity of Tower-
hill last night in a manner seldom witnessed, at least
during the lust few years, in the metropolis. As soon as
dusk set in, vast crowds collected on the hill, and in
Trinity-square, and speedily innumerable pieces of fire-
works were darting about in all directions. As the
evening advanced the excitement increased, and between
nine and ten o'clock there probably could not have been
less than from 60,000 to 8,,,000 persons assembled. A
large force of police were in attendance, under the di-
rection of Mr. Inspector Marchmont, in order as far as
possible to prevent squibs being thrown against the
houses, as also to protect the inhabitants from the de-
predations of the swarm of thieves that invested the
neighbourhood. We heard of no accident of any par-
ticular moment, excepting one which befel Sergeant
Hains, of the Fenchurch-street station section of the City
police, who, in endeavouring to prevent a lad throwing a
squib, had the lower part of his arm rather seriously
burned.

MDLLE. RACHEL AND THE THEATRE FRANCAIS.-
A complaint was entered on Friday last, before the Civil
Tribunal of the Seine, by the members of the committee
of administration of the Tl;44:re Francais, with a view
of compelling Mdlle. Rachel to appear before the tribunal
to show cause why she has ceased to belong to the
theatre, and, in accordance with the laws of the society,
to compel her to fulfil the duties she contracted to
perform, and in default of her doing so, to show cause
why she should not be condemned in the sum of 12,000
francs damages and interest, from the 15iii ult., for
every week she declines to conform to the regulations.
The complaint also prayed the tribunal to grant such
provisional conde muation to the theatre as it should
think proper. The tribunal, agreeing with the views of
the complainants, fixed on the 9th instant as the day for
hearing the. comilaint.
We are grieved to learn that at the late calamitous
fire at Combury House (Lord Churchiil'). a 13,x con-
tainirg valuable records relating to the illustrious hero,
the ancestor of the Noble Lord, perished in the confla
grati.,n, though strenuous efiorts were exerted for its
preservation.

WHAT IS A REAM OF PAPER P—We understand
that a case of some importance io consumers of writing
paper was decided before the Sheriff of Aberdeen on

Tliursday last, the facts of which are briefly as 7(1low:
—A traveller, representing the house of D. Jack and
, Glasgow, tiffs in Aberdeen some time ago, solicit-
ing orders for peper at a very cheap rate per ream.
Amongst others he got orders from Messrs. Win. Gor-
don, Wm. Adamson, and Wm. Stevenson, and when
the goods came to hand it was found they had supplied.
a ream 4t0., which contains 480 sheets, being just one-half
the quantity of u ream folio cut 4W., which contains
960 sheets. The parties refused to pay for the former,
as they maintained that they had bought the latter, it
being the universal practice in Scothrui to buy and sell
paper by the folio ream into whatever size it might be
cut: and on D. Jack and Co.'s bringing the matter into
Court, the Sheriff decided in favour of the purchasers.
—Aberdeen Herald.