The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-31 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY EVENING, JAN UARY 31, 1849,

M. CLEMENT THOMAS is reported to be out of
danger, from the effect of the wound received in his
duel with M. CO ETLOGON.
The Presse says :—" We believe that we can give
the assurance that at three o'clock yesterday, M.
MARRAST sent a proposition to the PRESIDENT of the
Republic, as a means of insuring tranquillity, to with-
draw from General CHANG ARNIER the command of
the forces in Paris, in order to give it to General
DE LAMORICIERE. This demand met with a formal
refusal."
A report was current yesterday that General
CHANGARNIER had received a pistol-shot in his head.
The Patrie says :—" We have reaso❑ to believe that
the General received a slight wound on the forehead,
but that it was purely accidental,"
Several important arrests were made during the
afternoon—amongst others, Colonel FORESTIER, of
the 6th Legion of the National Guard of Paris, the
principal leader of a Republican society, and a num-
ber of incendiary Socialists. In addition to these
arrests several others were spoken of, and particu-
larly of some persons stating themselves to be mem-
bers of a Socialist committee in the rue Jean-Robert.
Several persons, who in the groups had uttered vio-
lent language against the PRESIDENT of the Republic
and the Government, are said to have been arrested.
A report was current that CAUSSIDIERE and LOUIS
BLANC had been arrested. This report is not con-
firmed, and some persons who arrived yesterday from
London state that they saw them there on Satur-
day last.
Colonel FORESTIER is said to have been seized
because of a seditious speech addressed by him to his
men.
Among the other persons taken into custody is M.
D'ALTON SUER, once the Peer and now the Republican
Infidel of France.

Now that the panic of Monday bas in some measure
subsided, it would appear that the Ministry evidently
contemplated the forcible dissolution of the Assembly,
pretending, as an excuse for the demonstration,
that the Garde Mobile was conspiring against the Go-
vernment. The failure of the whole of M. ODILON BAR-
ROT'S own conspiracy was absolutely sublime. The Mo-
bile ranged themselves by the side of the troops of the
line throughout Monday, thereby proving the falsity
of the accusation, and the National Assembly is still
in existence ! So much for the wisdom, to say no-
thing of the patriotism, of the Reactionaries.
The National says :—" Yesterday, towards mid-
day, the PRESIDENT of the Republic left the Elys63
on horseback, dressed in the uniform of a general of
the National Guard. Wherever he appeared the
people (not those in his retinue, but the casual per-
I sons encountered in the streets) greeted him
with cries of Vice la President! Vive la Re•
publique! Vive l'Amnestie! A bas les Ministres !
Some voices adding A bas Chang arnier ! A bas
Thiers! M. Louts BONAPARTE may judge by
these manifestations of the sentiments of the people
towards himself and towards the political men by
whom he is surrounded—men whose deplorable ad-
ministration tends to compromise him in the esti-
mation of the multitude."
BOURSE.—PARIS, 'TUESDAY, JAN. 30.

THREE o'CLecK.—The French Funds have risen to.
day, as might be expected after the triumph of the
Government in the division on the Rateau motion. The
Railway Shares also rose, especially the Orleans,
Rouen, and other paying lines. Exchange on London
(30 days) 25 321 to 35 ; ditto (90 days), 25 22i to 25.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

EGYPT

ALEXANDRIA, JAN. B.—ABUAS PASHA appears to
take a very correct view of the state of things in his
new dominions, and to be anxious to place every
thing on a right footing. Previous to his departure
for Constantinople, he gave orders that the manu-
factories which were established on a large scale by
his grandfather, after the model of those in
England and France, should be reduced to a
more limited extent. The number of scholars in
the Government institutions is to be restricted, after a
thorough examination, to such youths as give promise
of being able to profit by the superior education which
they there receive. In the army, also, he seems
desirous to make improvements. There are now
30,000 very inferior troops in the service : of these he
purposes retaining only 9,000; to have them tho-
roughly trained, to increase their pay, to give them
better rations and clothing.
ABBAS PASHA has also provisionally relinquished
the monopoly to which MEHEMET ALL subjected the
produce of Abyssinian Suden, and which was most
shamefully carried out by the Turkish authoriti*s.
This is therefore an immense advantage to trade. It
is so generally expected that this immunity will
be permanent, that several merchants have
already gone to those countries for the
purpose of trafficing in gum, senna, gold, ele-
phants' teeth, &c. This freedom of trade will
be of great importance to Germany, for in conse-
quence of the direct communication between Egypt
and Trieste, it can immediately exchange the manu-
factures of Austria, which are valued in the Suden,
Abyssinia, and for the rich productions of Central
Africa. M. BORCHALEK, who was sent to those
countries two years since by the Trieste Bourse Com-
mittee, has collected much invaluable information on
trade and commerce. He is now about to return
home.

IRELAND.

BY ELECTRICTELEGRAPII.

DUBLIN, TUESDAY EVENING.—There was a meet-
ing at Kilmainham to-day, convened by Lord Bra-
bazon, at which forty magistrates of the county of
Dublin were present, for the purpose of considering
the present Poor-law. With one exception the whole
body condemned the system root and branch.
Notwithstanding the near approach of the Ist
of February, there is but little change in the prices

of grain.
This day there was an improved demand for all
descriptions of grain at our Corn Exchange, and at
rather higher rates.
Wheat 6d., and oats and barley 3d. to 6d. dearer
than on Friday.
Orders have reached Dublin from the Horse
Guards suspending all recruiting ; the recruiting
parties to be immediately called in. Is is supposed
that in future the duties will be discharged by the
enrolled pensioners.
The weather continues dreadfully severe, stormy,
wet, and intensely cold.
Prices of provisions, however, unaffected, and the
markets are extremely low.

ARRIVAL OF TILE COURT AT B UCKINGIIAM-
PALACE.—Her Majesty, Prince Albert, and suite
arrived this morning by special train at the Padding-
ton terminus of the Great Western Railway, and
immediately proceeded in four of the royal carriages
to Buckingham Palace; the escort consisted of a
detachment of the 11th Light Dragoons (Hussars).
A Privy Council was held this afternoon, at which
the Royal Speech to be delivered to-morrow on the
opening of Parliament was submitted to her Majesty.

MILITARY MOVE MEN TS.—The head-quarters of
the 64th Regiment embarked at Cork in the ship Java
on the 23d, and a division in the Tulloch Castle on the
20th inst., for Bombay, and have sailed for their desti-
nation. The ships City of Poonah, Cotfield, Dudbrook,
and Diana, having each a division of the 70th Regiment
on board, sailed on the 20th and 23d inst. from Cork for
Bengal. The ship Bombay, with a division of the 84th
Foot on board, sailed from Cork on the 17th instant for
Bombay. The head-quarters of the 99th Foot landed
at Hobart Town from Sydney on the 12th of July last.
Lieutenant-General Sir Robert Gardiner, family, and
staff, embarked yesterday at Southampton in the
Oriental steamer Montrose for Gibraltar, of which for-
tress he has been some time appointed the Governor.
PORTSMOUTH GARRISON.—The old Government-
house at Portsmouth, formerly the residence of the
Major-General commanding the district, situate in St.
Thomas's-street, is now occupied as a temporary hospital
for the soldiers in that garrison. A detachment of two
officers and 50 men of the Ist battalion of the 91st Foot
are under orders to embark at Woolwich on the sth
proximo as a convict guard at Bermuda, proceeding
thence to the Cape of Good Hope to join the reserve
battalion. The situation of garrison surgeon has be-
came vacant by the demise of Mr. Chaldecot. This ap-
pointment will not be filled up.
THE DAUGHTER OF A LIBERATED SLAVE.—
Among the audience at the anti-slavery meeting in this
city on last Thursday week was Miss Crowther, the
daughter of the Rev. Samuel Crowther, the converted
native African, who has been ordained by the Lord
Bishop of London, and is now engaged in extending the
knowledge of the Gospel in his own country of Abbeo-
kuta. Miss Crowther, who is also a native of Africa,
felt perhaps a greater interest in the proceedings than
even the warmest British advocates of the anti slavery
cause, her father having been rescued from a slave ship
by ono of the British cruizers, to which event is owing
his present career of usefulness to his countrymen and
the Church. On leaving the meeting Miss Crowther
energetically expressed to those who had conducted her
thither her satisfaction at what she had beard, and only
regretted that she could not tell the meeting how grate-
ful she felt to the English people for what they had done
and urged them to renewed exertions in so good a cause.
—Devonshire Chronicle.

MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris
is 94 per mile, which, at the English Mint price of
3Z 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex-
change of 25.39; and the exchange at Paris on London
at short being 25.371, it follows that gold is 0.06 per
cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from
Hamburgh the price of gold is 437 per mark, which, at
the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for
standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.11; and the
exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.101,
it follows that gold is 0.34 per cent. dearer in Ham-
burgh than in London.
THE RIGHT OF WAY THROUGH GLEN TILT.—

Another action has been raised in the Court of Session,
in connexion with the right of the public to a road
through the Duke of Atholl's forest of Glen Tilt. The
present action is brought by the three complainers in a
former case, and is in the shape of an application for
suspension and interdict to have the Duke of Atholl pro-
hibited from disturbing and molesting them in using the
public road from Blair Atholl through Glen Tilt to
Braemar. The complainers are—Mr. A. Torrie, Aber-
deen; Mr. R. Cox, writer to the Signet, Edinburgh; and
Mr. C. Law, merchant, Perth; and the case came on for
hearing before Lord Robertson, in the Bill Chamber of
the Court of Session, on Friday and Saturday. The
counsel for the complainers were the Lord-Advocate,
Mr. Inglis, and Mr. J. H. Burton; and the Dean of
Faculty and Mr. Paton for the Duke of Atholl. The
case was further adjourned till Thursday next, when
the Duke is to lodge written defences in answer to
the mass of documents put in on the side of the com-

plainers.
THE Caors IN IRELAND.—Brairds of winter grain
look well and vigorous, the season of the year considered.
Bere particularly looks prosperous; this grain is much
depended upon, from the very large return in meal that
it yields; no grain coming so near our old friend the po-
tato, as human food. Wheat looks well also, and a con-
siderable breadth is sown. Potatoes are keeping well
through the winter, and many intelligent farmers are
calculating upon having their crop all in the ground
early in March. From the experience of past years they
are going to adopt this plan, and should we be again vi-
sited by blight in August next (which we earnestly
hope may not be the case), the crop will be far on to ma-
turity then, and less danger is done to forward crops
than to those soft and growing. We would again urge
upon our farmer friends the necessity of procuring a
piece of bog or mountain land for their potatoes, if con-
venient, but on no account plant in rich loamy ground,
highly manured. The fresher such ground is the better
chance, but in either case, whether fresh or worn, the
chance of a sound crop on such land is not good.—Ar-
magh Guardian.

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION.—Since the appearance
of the paragraph announcing the Herald's fruitless
search for Sir John Franklin's expedition, news has been
received at the Admiralty from Captain Kellett, of the
Herald, confirming the report of his not having fallen in
with the Plover, which ship was bound in search of the
missing expedition, and so far the Herald had failed in
her desired object; but it was hardly under any circum-
stances to have been expected that the Herald with her
instructions could herself have fallen in with Sir John
Franklin's expedition.— Times.
ERRATUM:—A line was omitted by accident in our
second leading article of yesterday, which occasioned an
apparent blunder in the number of post-captains. We
stated, " this is in addition to 95 retired captains who are
is receipt of 1/. per diem, and of 37 in receipt of 18s.
per diem, making in all 100." It should have been--
"This is in addition to 95 retired captains who are in
receipt of 1/. per diem, and of 37 in receipt of 18s. per
diem, making in all 132, who are eventually to be reduced
to 100."
How TO SPLIT PAPER.--PPOCIIre two rollers or
cylinders of glass, or amber rosin or metallic amalgum,
strongly excite them by the well-known means, so as to
produce the attraction of cohesion, and then with pres-
sure pass the paper between the rollers. One half will
adhere to the under roller and the other to the upper
roller, and the split will be perfect. Cease the excitation
and remove each part.
No CHANGE IN THE CORN-LAW.—In reference to
the statements in the Lcripon Protectionist papers that
Ministers intend to propose a ss. duty on corn, we have
the best authority for affirming that there is not the
51i:,litst foundation for such rumours. Lord John
we understal.d, ila declared his intentiun Lc,
abide by the Corn-law measure of 1846 in all its in-
tegrity.—Manchester Examiner.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. 1:
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was ac-
tive,
and fuller prices were paid. Sales, 12,000 bales.—
Railway Shares also were rather higher.
The accounts received from Paris have inspired a
batter feeling here, and the view we took as to the pro-
bable temporary character of the depression is already
receiving satisfactory confirmation. Much, however.
depends up in the future course of Louis Napoleon and
the firmness of his Ministers.
In the Produce, Markets there has been a very firm
tone this week. Sugar has b,on at fully previous rates.
Coffee is rather more offered to day. The corn trade is
looking decidedly better this morning.
There is some complaint of the small dividends paid
by the Bauks in Canada, and the losses which one esta-
blishment sustained last year, but allowance must cer-
tainly be made for the badness of the times, and it is
hoped more success will attend the operations of the
several companies during the current year.
At the United Mexican mine meeting to-day a divi-
dend of 7s. 6,1. per share has been declired, and a most
favourable report has been mane.
The gates of the Royal Exchange, usually closed on
the day of King Charles's martyrdom at twelve o'clock,
against the thoroughfare only, were, by mistake, shut
both yesterday and on Monday, a curious example of
erroneous reckoning that has excited some amusement
on 'Change.
There has been a buoyant market for Public Securi-
ties, the business being for transfer principally. Consols
have ranged from 91i to 914, and are now 911 I. Bank
Stock is 193. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
are 92 to i. Exchequer-bills have realised 42 to 45
and 48 prem., according to date.
The foreign securities aro also looking up. Spanish
Three per Cents. have been 27i to 28. Mexican are
254 to 26. Dutch Two-and-a Half per Cents., 494,
and Portuguese Four per Cents. 27.
In Railwaf Shares there is an improvement, with a
fair business doing. The French lines are better The
following comparison of prices may be interesting:—
Dec. 29. Jan. 31.
Caledonian... ... ... ... 22i 25k
Eastern Counties . . ... ... lli 111-
Great Northern ... ... ... tit 9i t
Great Western ... ... ... 79, 102
London and Blackwell ... ... 4 5
London and Brighton ... ... 31 35a 6
North-Western ... ... ... 124 137 9
South-Western ... ... ... 40k 44i
Midland ... ... ... ... 85 97 91
North British ... ... ... 15i 16if A
South-Eastern ... ... .., 24 251 'd
York, Newcastle, and Berwick ... 281 30
York and North Midland ... 541 574 81
On 901. paid at December 29,1 and 1001. on the 31st
of January.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 193
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9176 M,A %
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 9041 lh3/41/2
3 per Cent. Annulties,l726 9Ol
New 3% per Cent. Arms. 92% %%AN
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 —
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 B%
India Stock 242
Do. Bonds, 10001
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 21/A, 2d.
March. June.
1,0001.
5001 45 46 p 47 p
Small 45 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
• Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent ., 93
Equador Bonds 23/ 3
Grenada, 1 per Cent. . . —
Ditto Deferred
Mexican Bon-ls, 1846, 5 per Cent 2.53%
Ditto for the Account ....
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 4B 49
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o
Ditto for the Account l5
Ditto Passive Bonds 3%
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 2B 2734
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cent.,l2 Guild 49%
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
, u,iii Lss Do.Nr.: IN RAILWAY 811AXEi AT ON Vu.LOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. Pea SHARE.
tberdeen
tenbar., Notting., Boston, &c VA..— to
kyrshire and Galloway
,elfast and County Down .. 20% .. ..
Berks and Hants Extension
(Gt. West. Perpet. 5 per ct.) 5
irmingriain & OxtordJunct.,
calls duly pd, or with guar. 20
Do., withouta guarantee... 20 ...
qrmingham, W 01.,& Dudley,
calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ... .
Do., without a guarantee... 10
:tineing., \Vol., & Stour Val. 131.145....
:irkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction lO
ioston, Stamf., & Birming... 5
.ristol and Exeter . 9O
Do., Thirds
Luckinghamshire 161.4s
aledonian
Ditto, Quarter Shares 111..... 5
Ditto, New 101. Preference 7% B% to
Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50
,hester and Holyhead
Ditto, Preference
larence.
Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10 . ... to
Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10
._. _ _

_ .
Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10
Direct London & Portsmouth 5% to
Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 35

Dundalk and Enniskillen 22%......

East Anglia, 251. L. & E., - -
and L. & D -..
' Ditto, 18/. E. &H. lB ......
Ditto, 31. lOs., E. & H... 3% — to
E istern Counties
Do. New Guarant. 6 per Ct. 10
Do. Perpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d —
Do., d 0....... N 0.2, 6/. 13s. 4d...
Do., Northern & Eastern... 50
Do., 5 per cont. ... 50
Do., Quarter 12% .. ..
Do., New
Eastern Union, Claes A (late
E. U. Shares) ... .. 25
Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 3% , to
Ditto, do, Class B (I. &B) 2258 — ..... to
Ditto, do, class C. ditto... 20
Ditto Scrip" (gua. 6 per ct.) 20
Ditto (C. & .E.), 5 per et. 2% — to
Kest Lancashire
Ditto, New ...
Do., New Quarters
Do., 6 per Cent. Preference
Quarter Shares 614......
East Lincolnshire ... 25
Edinburgh and Glasgow SO
Ditto, Half Shares
Edinburgh and Northern
Ditto, New port
..ixeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% — -.. to
Exeter and Exmouth...
,lasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..Bl. 6s.Bd — ..... to
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50
Do.PreferenCe Consolidated
Great Northern.... ...... .... 19
Do. % A Deferred..... ... 12% 5
Do. IA B 6 per Cent. Guar. 6%
Do. Extension .... ..... ..... 2%.. ...
jtt. South. & West. (Ireland) 45
'heat North of England 100 —
Ditto, ist.w 40/.
Ditto, ditto
Ditto, .1.`46,w 301. 3O ...
Ditto, New 15/...... ... ...... 14 ...... .
ireat Western 100 lO2 ... .. to
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares 23 -
Ditto, Fifths
Do. New 171 l5 ..... 14;4%.. to
Huddersfield and Manchester 30 .. -.— ...... to
Ditto, Thirds lO
dull and Selby 5O
Ditto, Half Shares .. ...... 25 ..._ —
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% to
I.ancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50
Do., Thirds...
ancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 .....
Ditto, ditto
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Quarters
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Sixteenths ........... 6k — .... to
Ditto Thirds (Reg. )
Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. 7% — ...... to
Do. Liverpool and Bury... 43
Do. (Rudders. and Shelf.) 43
Do., Wakefield, Pontefract.
and Goole
Do., West Riding Union... 7 .... . 3
Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25
Do., do., Half Shares (A)
_9% — to

Leeds and Bradford - 50 lOl ..... to
Leeds,Dewsbury,& Manchss. 50
Do., Half Shares
Ditto, Blue (scrip) ... 2% — ...... to -,
Leeds and Thirsk ......... ..... 50
Ditto, New . .. 40 . .... ...... to
Do.,do.,Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%..... ...... to -..
Liverpool, Crosby, andSouth-
vort . 3% - - to
Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction. 2% ..... to
London Fic. Blackwall .....131.65. Sd
Do. Extension ..... 22%. — ..,.... to —..
149nd., Bright., & South Coast 50 ...... 36 .. to 35X%x.d,
Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . — ...... to
Do. Pref. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... ..... to
Ditto, ditto 1852 60 ..... 50
Do., New, guar. 6 per cent. 5
t•ondon and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d — ...... to
Ditto Preference
London & North Western.....loo 139 138 139 to 137
Do. Quarters (L. and B.) 22
133. New
Do. Fifths
Do. 40i. Shares... -14. & M 25 — to
Do. 10/.... M. and B. (A.) 10 .... . to
Do. 10/. .. M. and B. ( B.) 10
Do. 101.... 51. and B. (C.) 1
London and S. Western...—. 50 ..
Ditto, New 504 421/2- 33 ...... to
Ditto, New 40/. ... ..... ..
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ......
.. _ _ _ ....

J.
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40
Ditto, Thirds.-- ....... .... 15 ...... 1134 %
Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref.
7 per Ct. on Deposit and
5 per Ct. on Calls ....... 5 • ••• •••.• to
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 11,E —
Londonderry and Coleraine... 30
Londonderry and Enniskillen 30
,lanch, Buxton, & Matlock 41/2 214 to 1
Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100
Ditto IA Shares (No. 1) ...
25 18
Ditto, ditto (No. 2) -
Ditto, 14 Shares (No. 3)... 11 Vi — to
Do., Neri- 10. Preference.. 10 ...• ~i .11 5/
•• to
D it to Grim,by
DII to, d 71,0. - ...,a to
Ditto, ditto .... . B% -- . ..... t.)
Ditto Sheffield and Line. 15 .....
. .....