The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-18 00:00:00

LATEST FROM IRELAND

DUBLIN, WEDNESDAY EVENING.— The accounts
to-day from the western counties are alarming as
respects the rapid progress of destitution and the con-
sequent mortality among the poor. In the Roscom-
mon workhouse fever is raging, and in one district
the deaths are said to average twenty a-day.
According to the Mail, notice has been given to all
the establishments of this city receiving public grants,
that they are to be discontinued or reduced.
The Earl and Countess of Clarendon arrived this
evening at the Castle, where they will reside fol. the
rest of the season. The first levee is fixed for the
24th instant.
The weather has become suddenly fine, the rain
and storms having been succeeded by a bright sun
and clear atmosphere.
The Lord-Lieutenant has appointed Mr. Pierce
Mahony to be Clerk of the Crown of the Queen's
Bench, in the room of Mr. Bourne, deceased.

We observe with profound regret that the Right
Hon. the Lord Mayor has suffered the severe affliction
of losing, in the year of his mayoralty, his venerable
and esteemed mother. Sir James Duke. is in conse-
quence, compelled to leave town for a few days, for the
purpose of paying the last melancholy tribute of affec-
tion by his personal attendance • upon the funeral
obsequies.
OPENING OF PARLIAMENT.—The address in the
House of Commons will be moved by Lord Harry
Vane, and seconded by Mr. Bunbury. Her Majesty
will open Parliament in person.
Miss Cushman appeared at the Theatre Royal,
Dublin, on Alonday, in the part of Biaric.l, in Mr. Mil-
man's drama of Fazio. At the cone:uoion of per-
iormance Miss Cushman was called for, and greeted with
a storm of applause. The pantomime succeeded, and it
appears to hare lost none of its former attractions,

rti °NEI and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
There was a good demand for Cotton at Liverpo,
yesterday, and prices of all kinds were well supported.
Low kinds of American and Surat were a shade higher.
Good Orleans at 48d. to sd. was in good demand. The
sales were 5,000 bales, including 3,500 American, at
3fd. to 5d.; 200 Bahia, at sd. to 6d.; 150 Egyptian, at
51d. to 6d.; 300 Surat, at 28d. to 3-0.• ani 80 Sea
Island, at Bd. to Is. 24d. 1,000 were taken by specu-
lators.—The market for Railway Shares was not quite
so good.
At a meeting of London Joint-Stock Bank proprie-
tors, held to-day, a dividend at the rate of six per cent.
per annum was declared, with a bonus of 7s. per share.
The bills discounted, loans and cash, amounted on the
30th ult. to 2,437,2061.
Accounts from Havre, in giving a report of the state
of trade during the past year, show a more favourable
result than might perhaps have been expected. The
receipts of the Customs, which in the year 1847 were
25,000,000 francs, were last year about 20,000,000 francs.
There are other ports of France which do not show so
favourably, but it is really wonderful that the country
has passed through the crisis so well.
7.. t is stated that the advanced rates asked at Manches-
ter for yarns and piece goods have checked business, but
probably this is merely a temporary circumstance.
There is usually some timidity at first in acceding to
higher rates, but confidence growing stronger, this will
vanish.
Descriptions of and guides to California may be ex-
pected to abound, and it will be strange if, out of the
mass of information, there be not something useful
gleaned.
The following answers to our impression that the
descendants of the Anglo-Saxons are not the men to be-
come degenerate, as the Spaniards have done, simply
because riches pour in upon them. The extract is from
a brief " Guide to California," published by Effingham
and Wilson:—
"We are confident that the evils which at present
exist in that country are destined to be of short dura-
tion. Slowly but surely the civil power is advancing
from the opposite side of the continent to repress dis-
order and violence, and to introduce a system of police
and administrative government. When that important
object is once accomplished, the various parts of the
society will again unite together, and the magnificent
resources of the country will be rapidly developed by
the energies of the Anglo-Saxon race. Few countries,
indeed, point out such a brilliant prospective as Upper
California. Favoured with a salubrious climate and fertile
soil, besides possessing inexhaustible stores of mineral
wealth, she requires only the application of labour and
skill to be transformed into the land abounding in all the
productions that can minister to the wants of mankind.
Her position, too, is eminently calculated to secure for
her an extensive commerce. Standing, as it were, on
the highway between the vast and growing countries of
the North. American continent and the opulent regions
the East, she is, in all probability, destined, at no remote
epoch, to form the centre of a power which will assume
the uncontrolled sway of the Pacific.
" It has been asserted that, for ages to come, the wealth
realised in California will be almost exclusively derived
from the stores of the precious metals with which the
country abounds. This is an opinion which we conceive
is not warranted by due consideration of the various re-
sources of the country and of the character of the people
in whose hands Providence has been pleased to commit
its destiny. The laws of a well-regulated system of
commerce will, in the course of a short time, determine
in California, as in any other place, a just relation
between gold and all other commodities. When
that result takes place, the plethora of gold will flow
into every channel of industry in the country, and all
pursuits will become equally profitable. The farmer
will always find a ready market for his produce among
the thousands of persons who do not raise a single
bushel of wheat; the merchant, for a similar reason, will
meet with a constant demand for his goods, and the
artizan for his labour and skill. If. California was in
possession of a people constitutionally indolent, and un-
acquainted with the true principles of commerce, we
might then be justified in predicating that all
those of industry, the pursuit of which infuses
life and health into every civilised community,
would be sacrificed to a stupid and avarieious search for
gold. But the melancholy example of Spain does not
apply in this case, any more than indolence and super-
stition can be assimilated to industry and intelligence.
One of the most glorious pictures of modern civilization
is afforded by the progress of the Anglo-Saxon colonist
on the American continent."
The Money Market is extremely good again this
morning, and in the Funds there continues to be a satis-
factory amount of real business doing. The speculators
are very sanguine, unforesVen political difficulties not
occurring, in a further enhancement of values, and our
position is calculated to favour the impression. With
the certainty of wholesome, and the prospect even of
extensive, retrenchment in the national expendi •
ture, concurrently with a decided improvement in
the revenue, there is no drawback at home
to a most cheerful future. The speculators
for a rise look to her Majesty's Speech on
the opening of Parliament as being likely to give prices
a lift. Consols have been 898 to 908 for Transfer, and
90 to 90.1 for Account. The New-Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. have been 904 to 91, and the Three per
Cents. 90 to 4. Bank Stock is 1888 to 190, and India
Stock 238 to 239. Exchequer-bills have been 455. to
465. premium.
The Foreign Investments have been very buoyant.
Mexican, 26f to 27 ; Peruvian, 48f to 50; Equador,
; Buenos Ayres, 26i to 27 ; and Brazilian New
75 Grenada Stock has been at 16. Portuguese
Four per Cents. have realised 27 ,• Spanish Three per
Cents. 28,i; and Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cents. 498.
Railway Shares have been very buoyant. A large
business has been done at higher prices generally.
Aberdeen have been in much favour after having been
long extremely passive, and with scarcely a bargain for
a month at a time. The result of the meeting at Aber-
deen has afforded great satisfaction, the completion of
;he line being highly desirable.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

Bank Stock — lB9 190 1881%
-

3 per Cent. Reduced Annuitie5........... 90 90 -
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 9O 90', 89YR 90%
New 314 per Cent. Aims. 907443/ 91
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860... 8 13-16 %
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 8 7-16
India Stock 236 239
Do. Bonds, 10001 45 p
Ditto under 1.0001
Consols for Account
India Stock for Account 240
Exchequer Bills. 21Ad. 2d.
March. June.
1,000/.
500 i. ...... .......
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCk.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Small
Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 751/2
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 27 261/2
Equador Bonds 3l/3
Grenada, 1 per Cent. . ... 16
Ditto Deferred
Mexican tioneis, 1846, 5 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account .......
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent ......
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent 7l
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 27
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,l840
Ditto for the Account .
Ditto Passive Bonds 3sli
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent. ..
Ditto for the Account .. .
Venezuela Bonds ...
Do. Deferred
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian 41,1 E per Cent
Dutch 2% per Cent.,l2 Guild 49%
Ditto 4 ner Cent. Certificates
,lI,INESs DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PSB SHABA.
Aberdeen
Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 414 l 4
Ayrshire and Galloway
lidfast and County Down .. 201/2 .. ..
Berko and Hants Extension
(Gt. West. Perpet. 5 per ct.) 5
6iriningnani 4 Oxford J unct.,
calls duly pd, or with guar. 20
Do., without a guarantee... 20 ... to
Birmingham, Viol., & Dudley,
calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 .....
Do., without a guarantee... 10
Birming., Wol., & Stour Val. 131.145.... to
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction lO
Boston, Stamf., & Birming... 5
Bristol and Exeter .
D0., Thirds
Buckinghamshire..- l6l. 4s — . to
Caledonian
Ditto, Quarter Shares lll .. ... 5
Ditto, New 101. Preference 71/2 8%%... to
Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50
Chester and Holyhead... 5O .....

to --

Ditto, Preference
;larence.
Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10
Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10
...

Do., Gov. Loin, 4 per Cent. 10
Direct London & Portsmouth 514 — to
Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 35
Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 22%......
East Anglia, 251. L. & E.,
aud L. & D. , , 25
Ditto, 181., E. & H lB
Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H... 3% 2 ,'I to
Eastern Counties ....
Do. New Guarant. 6 per Ct. 10
Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1, 61. 13e. 4d...
Do., d 0....... N 0.2,61. 13s. 4d...
Do., Northern & Eastern... 50
Do., 5 per cont.
Do., Quarter 12%... ..
Do., New
Eastern Union, Class A (late
E. U. Shares) ...... ... .. 25
Ditto, ditto, Class A,• ditto 31,4 —
Ditto, do, Class B (I. & B) 22% to
Ditto, do, Class C, ditto... 20
Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per et.) 20 . — to
Ditto (C. & E.), 5 per ct. 2% — -
, ast Lancashire
Ditto, New
.. ........... .... • 21
Do., New Quarters
Do., 6 per Cent. Preference
Quarter Shares
East Lincolnshire ......... ..-.. 25
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto, Half Shares
Edinburgh and Northern ... 25 ......

Ditto, New port l 5
Kxeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2%
Exeter and Exmouth 2la
_ . _

_______ _ . __ _ _
ilasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..Bl. 6s.Bd ..... to
iiusgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 -
Do. Preference Consolidated -- ..... - -
Great .Nerthern
Do. % A Deferred ..... ... 12Ih 4% x.i. to sx.i.
Do. %B 6 per Cent. Guar. 6% 4sMix.i. to

Do. Extension .... ..... ..... 2%..
-t. South. & West. (Ireland) 45
;rent North of England 'IOO
Ditto, l',.t w 401.
Ditto, ditto .... ....... .... '25
Ditto, New 301 ... 30 . _
Ditto, New 151......... l4 --.— .
1-; rest Western 100 94 95% 95 to 96
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares
Ditto, Fifths
Do. New 171.
Iluddersfield and Manchester 30 .. _ -
Ditto, Thirds.. lO
Hull and Selby 5O -
Ditto, Ralf Shares .. ...... 25 ......
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%
Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50
Do., Thirds lO
Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93
Ditto, ditto
Ditto Half Shares ... 43 -
..... to
Ditto Quarters
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Sixteenths ........... VA ......
Ditto Thirds (Reg.)
Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. 7% — ....... to
Do. Liverpool and Bury... 43
Do. (Rudders. and Sheff.) 43
Do., Wakefield, Pontefract.
and Goole
Do., West Riding Union... 7 .... . 2 %,'I
130., Preston and Wyre ... '25
Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9% ....... to
Leeds and Bradtord
Leeds,Dewsbury,& blanches. 50
Do., Half Shares
Ditto, Blue (scrip) .. 2% to
Leeds and Thirsk ...—.... ..... 50
Ditto, New
Do.,do.,Prefer., 0 per Cent. 31,x..... ...... to
Liverpool. Crosby, andSonth-
port.
Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle J unction. ...... ... 2% — ..... to
London & Illackwall ......131.65. 8d 5% to
Do. Extension
Lend., Bright., & South Coast ,50 ......351,4 3414 to 35%
Do. Guaranteeds per Cent. 9 . 9l4x.d. to
De. Fret. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 __ ,
... to
Ditto, ditto 1852 50 _ _ to

Do., New, guar. 6 per cent. 5 ...... 53/4 to 6
ondon and Greenwich... 121.155. 4d... to
20 ..... -
Ditto Preference
London & North Westem 100 ......130 129... to 130 N
Do. Quarters (L. and B.) 22
DI. New
Do. Fifths
Do. 40i. & M 25 to
Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 10 .... . 13
Do. 101. .. M. and B. (B.) 10
Do. 10/. ... M. and B. (C.) 1

ondon and S. Western..:....-. 50 .. 4234 to 43
Ditto, New 504.-- .....
Ditto, New 404........... 34

Do. Tenths (Consolidated) N to

Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40
_ _

to

Ditto, Third
1)o., New Serip,lB4B, Pref.
7 per Ct. on Deposit and.
5 per Ct. on Calls ... ..... 5 . ... 5% to
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 11A — to
Londonderry and Coleraine... 30
Londonderry and Enniskillen 30
L. westoft (guar. 4 per cent.) 20
Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13
to
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock Oh
..... to _
4tanchr, Sheffield, and Line.100
Ditto M Shares( No. 1) ... 18
Ditto, ditto (No. 2) 25

15 ...... 11%..... to

Ditto, 14; Shares 1114 ......

. _
Do., New 10.. Preference.. 10 ... — ... . to
Ditto Grimsby - 40 — to
Ditto, ditto. -
Ditto, ditto
Ditto Sheffield and Line. 15 .......
Ditto, Grimsby Dock ...... 20
Ditto, Man. & Lin. Union 41. 2s. ...
\,l idland
Ditto, Consol. Preierence...100
Ditto, 501. 5hare5........... 25 ...... 1934 I/2 to
Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo .....
Midland, Consol. Bristol and
Birmingham. 6 per cent.... 100
Midland, Bristol •and Glonc. 40 ... ..
Ditto ditto 181.25. 6d ..
Midland, Leices. and Swan-
! nington (8 per ct.gua.)....100 ,„, . to
twi idld. Great Western (Irish) 45
Middlestro' and Redcar. 6
per cent. guar.
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ......
Ditto Quarter Shares . .... 25 ... ..
Newmarket - 20