The Sun.
London, England, 1849-10-31 00:00:00

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke of Cambridge
and the Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-
Strelitz, attended by Major Stephen, were present
yesterday at the opening of the new Coal Exchange.
Colonel Perceval had an interview with Sir George
Grey yesterday at the Home •office.

HEALTH of the QUEEN DOWAGER.
(From the Court Circular.)
The Queen Dowager had some refreshing sleep on
Monday night, and felt better yesterday morning.
Sir David Davies remains in attendance on her Ma-
jesty at the Priory.

THE GREAT NORTHERN.
TO THE. EDITOR OF THE SUS.
member of that body to whose fortunes
and mis'ortunes you :ever vouchsafe a lively interest
feels confident that a few particulars of mismanage-
ment upon this railway, observed in one day, will not
be without its recommendations to you.
On Saturday, the 20th inst., I left Wakefield for
Pontefract Corn Market, by the quarter past nine
o'clock train (this is not, I suppose, the " Great Nor.
them," but, 1 believe, under the same management).
We had not proceeded above two or three miles before
our engine was utterly exhausted, and but fur the
fortuitous arrival of a luggage, or coal train, engine
at the minor station we had reached, the business of
Pontefract would have been long over, ere myself
and others could have participated. The circumstance,
however, was only a novelty to strangers, none to in-
dividuals attending the market. At Doncaster you
have to re- book, at the risk, amidst the confusion, of
losing your seat and your luggage. At Bawtry,
arrived in the dusk, not a lamp lit or signal out till
the last moment, sheep trucks upon the main line, and
some shrewd doubts by the inefficient officials whether
there " might not " be some stray sheep down the
line ! At Retford, luggage turned out that had been
put in for Gainsbro', ana the blunder discovered by
the merest accident. At Gainsbro,' a staff of the most
impertinent officials in the kingdom, and a practice
such only as so dangerous a monopoly, unwatched, as
railway could attempt, namely, charging half price for
twice the distance travelled; thus, to Hull, 4s. 73d ,
second class, but to Hull and back, 2s. 6d. only ; this
fur the shameless and nefarious (so stated on the spot)
purpose of annihilating the honest calling of the
packet boat betw an the points referred to.
This arrangement, so beneath an honest association
of men, is unknown but locally, so that a stranger,
for want of information, sees, without comprehending
it, one man paying half the money of another for
travelling twice the distance !
What I would especially insist upon in such a case
is, that if a company can afford, for an unworthy
purpose, to halve their f4re for double the distance be-
low the stipulated price, that a law should step in to
prevent such a perversion of common sense and com-
mon honesty, by compelling the company to charge
their own reduction upon both the double and single
ticket.

Your keen sense of justice, and protection to the
public, will, I am sure, appreciate these remarks
Sir, your most obedient servant,
A COMMERCIAL TRAVELLER.
Newcastle on-Tyne, Oct. 29.

MONEY MARKET.--The premium on gold at Paris
is 12 roigldlish, gives an ext. Mint price
exchange o
it follows that gold s 0.00 per cent.
perper wiohricsht,aantdtahreig
25.46; and the exchange at Paris on London. at short
being 25.47}, i
dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from
Hamburgh the price of gold is 438 per mark, Which,
at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101-3. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.114; and the
exchange at Ilamhurgh on London at short being
13.121, it follows that gold is 0.46 per cent, dearer in
London than in Ilan burgh. The course of exchange at
New York on London for bills at 60 days' sight is 1104
per cent., and the psr of exchange between England and
America being 109 23 40 per cent., it follows that the
exchange is nominally 0.67 per coot. in favour of Eng-
land. And, after making allowance for difference of
interest and charges of transport, the present rate will
leave a trifling profit ou receiving gold from the United
States.

DEATH OF THE EARL OF ALDROROUGH.—We
have to announce the demise of the Earl of Aidborough,
intelligence of whose decease at Leghorn has been re-
ceived by his friends in this country. The Earl, who
had been resident for a long series of years in Italy, died
on Monday fortnight. The deceased, Mason Gerrard
Stratford, EArl of Aldborough, Viscount Aldborough of
Belan, Viscount Amiens, snd Baron Baltingl ass, in the
Peerage of Ireland, was only son of Bdnjamin O'Neale,
fourth Earl, by Martha, only child of Mr. John Burton,
and niece and heiress of Mr. Mason Gerrard. He was
born Bth July, 1784, and married 2.1 August, IEO4,
Cornelia Jane, eldest daughter of Mr. Charles Henry
Tandy, by whom, who survives his Lordship, ho leaves
issue, an only son, Viscount Amiens.

On Wednesday laht Batty's troup of equestriaLs
entered this town, and gave a morning and evening
-entertainment, the latter of which was well attended,
and the feats of horsemanship and gymnastics were
highly applauded,—Chtlmsjord Chronicle.