The Sun.
London, England, 1849-07-28 00:00:00

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1849.

The Oesterreichiche Correspondent gives a few
scanty and unautenticated details of the BAN'S
defeat. The said paper asserts that the BAN of
Croatia learned, or the 10th instant, that vast bodies
of troops had heel forced down upon him. He
determined to reteat to the table-land of Tittel
and to,n, . simply fri the defensive. This intention
was keic,,,js:!(.Frs-xeL ,;at the BAN'S troops had not the
silightest idea of wiat was to take place. At six in
the evening of the tsth they began their march, but
two of the enemy E officers, who were captured on
the 14th instant, calfessed that the BAN'S intention
was already knoln in the Hungarian camp. On
reaching Hegyes, where the BAN expected to meet-
his enemies, all Ais found to be quiet, and it was
supposed the Hingarians had fled, when on a
sudden some sigial rockets were observed to
ascend. The vey next moment the BAN's front
and flank were ;ssailed by a tremendous discharge
of grape and caniter from the hidden batteries of
the Hungarians. A. charge was attempted, but all
was in vain, and the BAN'S army was compelled to
retreat to Verbash and thence to Kish-Ker. Here
the exhausted troops, believing that the pursuit would
not be continued, attempted to obtain food and rest,
but the Hungarian forces appeared again and drove
them across the Roman entrenchments to Katsh,
where the BAN'S rear-guard arrived at ten o'clock
A.M , having been thirty one hours on their legs, ten
of which had been passed in hard fighting.
The Imperialists themselves allow that they have
been completely outgeaeralled by GEORGEY. PAS.
BEWITCH is totally ignorant of even the direction
which GEORGEY and hii 44,000 men took after driv-
ing the Russians from Waitzen.

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Week Last Vg 47
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. 13 ,' .0
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July 21 Aberdeen '.... ...... .......... 547 494
22 Amiens and Boulogne. •••••• • • • .
21 Belfast anti Ballymena ••••••• • • • • • • • 531 452
22 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,002 858
22 Bolton, Blackburn, Clitheroe, and W. Y. 509 282
22 Bristol and Exeter • • .... • ..... •• • •
15 Ca1ed0nian............ ••••••• • • • • • • 6,315 4,581
22 Chester and Holyhead. • .•• • • „ 2,243 1,481
19 Dublin and Dr0gheda................ ••••• • • • • 947 866
24 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • • • • • 938 955
21 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen •••• • • • • 1,209 1,264
22 East Ang1ian.......• •••••••• • • • • • • • • 896 652
21 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••••• • • • • • • 4,003 3,505
21 Edinburgh and Northern• ••••••• •• •• 2,379 1866
22 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 20,659 16,602
15 East Lancashire •• •
22 Eastern Union... ... .. ••••••• • • • • • • • 1,626 1,394
22 Kendaluverpo o
21 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • 3,328 2,410
21 Glasgow and Greenock. • ....... •• • • 1,279 1,351
22 Great Northern and E. L• ••••• • • • • • 2,281 __
21 Great Southern and Western •••• • • • • 3,475 3,166
22 Great Western, &c •• • • ...... •••• '' • • 21,938 21,836
• • • • • • - 234
22 Lancashire and Yorkshire.. ••••• • • • • • 14,922 11,329
15 Lancaster and Carlisle • • •
21 Londonderry and Enniskillen. 2,675 2,205
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and
25
182
12,039 10,749
174
21 London and Brighton .
22 London and North Western, &c 45,403 47,170
22 London and Blackwall• •••••• • • • " • ' 1,190 1.4 11
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28 London and South Western .•••• • • • • 11,810 11,895
21 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 4,388 2,844
22 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham •• • • 22,570 22,798
22 Midland Great Western (11"1,11) '"• '• 1,126 924
77245 42-1'713865
- Newcastle and Car.li.s.l.eii ii : : ill' li."
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22 North British ....... ..... ••••• • • • • • 3,334 2,412
21 Paris and Rouen.
21 Rouen and Llavre .. •••• • • •' ...... •' 3,215 1,867
22 Scottish Central
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1,535 1,007
22 Shrewsbury and Chester ••• • • •
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21 York and North Midland. •• •••• • • • •

LECTURE ON THE ELECTRIC LIGHT.—On Tues-
day evening, in St. Andrew's-hall, Professor Isbam
.Beggs, late of the Polytechnic Institution, London, de-
livered an interesting lecture on the economy and philo-
sophy of the electric light, and on its present and pro-
spective bearing on the vested interests of gas compa-
nies. The lecture was illustrated by many beautiful
experiments; and the electric light was shown in action
by the aid of a voltaic battery of extraordinary power.-
7he Norfolk Chronicle and Norwich Gazette.
The Count and Countess de Neuilly and family
will leave Chamberlin's Royal Victoria Hotel, St.
Leonard's-on-Sea, on Tuesday next, after a sojourn of
fifteen weeks, for Claremont.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotten at Liverpool yesterday were
5,000 bales; of the week, 55,340 hales, including 16,740
on speculation, and 7,520 for export. Prices were with-
out alteration. In Railway Shares but little business
was done; prices, however, were steady, at Thursday's
quotations.
The position of the Bank of England is now more
independent of the periodical influence of quarterly
revenue payments ; and we shall be enabled to judge of
it as bearing more immediately upon trading pursuits,
The changes of the week to the 21st inst. were conse-
quently much less important than those of the preceding
week, though, as it is satisfactory to find, they are still in
the right direction, viz., of the withdrawal of idle
balances, and the extension of the note circulation.
Whether this is a temporary movement, or will continue,
t must be interesting to watch hereafter. The following
,s a comparison with the previous week :
Notes Issued ... 27,834,475
Decrease 92,215
3,215,652
2,982
2,809,910

Rest ...
Increase ...
Public Deposits ...
Decrease ...
Other Deposits ...
Decrease
Seven Day and other Bilis
Increase ... ...
Government Securities ...
D< crease . .
Other Securities ... ...
Decrease ... ...

... 294,317
... 11,302,086

166,182
... 1,106 849
". 12,057
... 14,335,835
••• 97,042
.. 9,657.804
27,628
Notes ... 8,111,140
Decrease ... 362,275
Bullion ... 14,717,193
Decrease 50,730
Active Circulation ... 19,723,335
Increase ... ... 270,060
The foreign exchanges were yesterday afternoon
tolerably steady, but there was a slight decline in the
quotation for three months' bills on Hamburgh.
Trieste was firmer. Paris and Antwerp were without
alteration.
The quarantine regulations everywhere are being more
vigorously enforced, and prove exceedingly irksome
and costly to our commerce. It is strongly urged that
vessels proceeding from ports in the United Kingdom
that have been notified as infected by the Spanish Con-
suls to their Government, and bound for Cadiz or Ma-
laga, should call at Vigo, and there comply with the pre-
scribed quarantine, in order to prevent the expense and
great loss of time consequent on a voyage to Port Mahon.
One circumstance affords a little consolation, viz., that
the treatment of cholera is now better understooi, and
the disease being much guarded against loses half its
terrors. Whether extreme precaution would not disarm
it of nearly all its virulence time will determine, and
whether the disease is contagious is yet an unsolved,
though a very important, problem for the shipping
interest.
The colony of Liberia is, in many points of view, of
particular interest to the trader as well as the philan•
thropist. The opening of an extended commerce with
the interior of Africa is highly probable, in that direc-
tion, before the lapse of many years, and the liberal
policy of the British Government in recognizing and
encouraging the new state, has already invested it with
importance, and imparted to its inhabitants a marked
degree of energy. Advices dated the 18th of May de-
scribe an expedition undertaken against the Spanish
slavers at Trade Town and New Casters. We are to'd
that the fullest success crowned the undertaking. The
slavers were completely routed, and their establishments
at both places destroyed. The slaver at New Casters
had raised the whole country in his defence, and had
supplied the natives liberally with munitions of war,
and when the Liberian expedition attempted to land, he
led on in person the natives, by thousands, to oppose a
landing. A few bombs from the French steamer kept
them at bay, and, under cover of her fire, the troops
pushed boldly ashore and formed on the beach. The
Spaniard did not show himself afterwards, but
the natives, concealing themselves behind rocks,
trees, and bushes, kept up a continual and
annoying fire for two days. As soon as the line of
march was taken up for the barracoon, the slaver has-
tened to the factory, and applied a torch. When the
Liberians arrived there the house was a hear of ashes.
It was built of mud, so thick and well dried, that it
would have resisted a six pound shot. It was three feet
thick, twelve feet high, and beautifully whitewashed, and,
enclosing a perfectly level and well-cleaned area of
about two and a half acres of land, presented a beautiful
sight in the deep green wilderness, in the bosom of
which it was situated. Six or seven men were killed of
the natives, the rest taking to their heels. Not a man
was killed or seriously wounded among the Liberians.
No resistance was offered at Trade Town. The slaver
there had heard of the fate of his compatriot below, and
as the men marched up to his factory he advanced to
meet them, suing for mercy in the humblest attitude.
The amount of property destroyed by this expedition
was not known, but it is said to have been large. The
troops brought back with them two Spaniards and thirty
or forty slaves. Previous to setting out upon the expe-
dition, the forces assembled in the Methodist church in
Monrovia, and there united in prayer to God that he
would prosper their undertaking.
Still, even just wars bring evils in their train, for the
Liberian Herald states—
" The present scarcity and high prices of provisions,
especially of breadstuffs, are but a forerunner of what
••• - __a .h— a ^VP'. The
expedition, from catfies which could not be con tlestsee,
took place just at the time when we should have been
burning off and preparing our lands for planting. The
natives had been some time kept in excitement, awaiting
the war, and neglected their farms. They are already
beginning to pour in upon us, to divide, by theft or
otherwise, the little stock of provisions which we have.
Already bacon. middling, is up to 25 cents.; flour 13
dolls. end 14 dolls. the barrel; and rice 2 dolls. and 2
dolls. 50 cents. u bushel. When all these things are
taken into account we shall find that breaking up those
slavers has cost us from seven to ten thousand dollars—
an enormous sum for young Liberia. We do not repine.
We had rather suffer these inconveniences multiplied ten-
fold than permit so gross violation of our laws, so great
an outrage of humanity, within our territory. It is to
be feared we shall have again to take up the cudgel, and
use it vigorously, both to the windward and leeward.
The schooner Lark, presented by the Queen of Eng-
land to the Republic of Liberia, arrived at Monrovia on
the 16th of May."
Our accounts from the manufacturing districts state
that there was rather a duller market for goods at Man-
chester, bet at Halifax there was still a good business
doing. At Nottingham many bands continued idle upon
" strike," and at Leeds business was steady and prices
were firm.
The exports of the precious metals from London
during the week, to Thursday last, were as follow:
Gold coin to Belgium, 1,500 ounces; Silver coin to
Antwerp, 2,010 ounces, and to Dunkirk, 43,000
ounces. Silver bars to Copenhagen and Peters-
burgh 140,000 ounces, and to Belgium 20,000 ounces.
There is an exceedingly quiet market again for Public
Securities, and prices are rather heavy. Consols have
been 93 to all the morning. The New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. have been 93g to 94, and the Three
per Cents. 93 to 8.
In the Foreign Market almost the only dealings have
been in Mexican, which has ranged from 26i to 27,1.
Spanish Five per Cents. arc 18t ie Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. 54.
Shares are rather worse generally this morning. Ca-
ledonian and Eastern Counties are heavy. York and
North Midland are firm. The transactions are very
limited, and scarcely afford a fair test of the market.

ONE U'OCLCK. 0b.,, I G
RICER 0 I'. ltiTlfiil YIINDS ?IttokS
• Bank Stock
3;, er Cent. Reduced Anne ......
8 per Cent. Consols Annuities 93 93% 931,8
New 314 per Cent. Ann 5...... 9336
_94 91
fndia Str,ck

India Bonds, 1,0001.
Ditto under 1,0001.. .......
Consols for Account . 93% 93 93
E .:chequer Bills. I%d. & 2d.
1,000/. June
Small. June — 48 p
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS oN•E CLOSIN.
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
84
69
3%

Brazilian Bonds
Danish 80nd5,1825,3 per Cent
Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent. —
Ditto, Deferred 3%
ffiexican, 5 per Cent. 1846, with Coupons ~...
Ditto, Ex Coupons 26% 271 27 27% 27%
Portuguese 5 per Cents. — „.,.
Ditto, 4 per Cent 30% 3018
Russian Bonds .
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21% per Cent., 12 Guild sl7's% 515
Ditto, 4: per Cent. Certificates 811% 80% 80%
Ditto. Account,' ..........
5 per Cent Neapolitan
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID.AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICE'.
Aberdeen 5O ...... 19% 19%
Do. Preference
Caledoniai
Ditto, New 101.%Pref... 10
Chester and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference l5 ...... --1234
Eastern Counties...
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent..,..
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. 1 61.135. 4d....
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25
Do. Scrip (6 per cent.) 20 ...... 191/8
East Lancashire

Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters ... 6% —
East Lincolnshire ...... 25
___ ___

llya

7%
29

Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 4l ... .... ......
Exeter and Exmouth... 215.
Great Northern
41
Do., )".2 A Deferred
4
D0.,1/2 13 6 per Cent 7% —
Do., 5 per Cent. Pref. 5
Great North of England .100 ... ............... 231
Ditto, New, 40/
Great
100 ...... 83 We5tern............... 8;
Ditto, 14 Shares
Ditto, Fifths ... 20
... .. 111,4 lll/i
15%
Ditto, New 171........ 15
Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... 91
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... _ 94
Lancashire & Yorkshire 96 . ..... _. ....
..........
Do. (W. Riding Union) 9 .. ... _
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 ......
Leeds and Bradford 5O 103% 103%
Leeds and Thirek
Do., Pref., 6 per Cent alA _
......... ......
London, Brighton. and
South C0a5t........ 50
London and N. Western 100 133% 132%..... 132%
Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 15%3/.... ..... ••• 15%4
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire...100
DO. New 104 hem.. 10 'mail ...1

3%

Midland
Do., do., 501. Shares 30 ... ..
D.,. Uonsol. Bristol and
Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 127 x div
Midland Great Weltern
Irish 47%
North British ... .... ... 25 ...... 31 3 3
North Staffordshire 17%,.....: 12 ky, ..... ..... 12
Shrewsbury and Birm
Shropshire Union
•
South Errtern K3%"1%%
Smith Wales
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick. . .. . 25
Do. G.N.E.Prefennce 8 ...
York and North Midland 50
Ditto, Preference lO
FOREIGN RALLWAY6
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzoa)... 20
East Indian VA
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Bordeaux.. 7 ...... 2 ',is
MINES.

65:14
171;4

127 .x.(l

2014
37
32
7%

Cobre Copper ..... 40 ....
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Union of Australia
Union of London,—

,•••• 24 x.d

... ..... 25 x.d
10%

LLOYD'S SHIPPING--(THIS DAY.I
LONDON, JULY 28.—Wind this day at noon W.S.W.,
light breeze and fine.
BRISTOL. JULY 27.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. James
Daly, Richton, Africa.
SWANSEA, JULY 27.—Wind N.N.W.—SId. 26th, Com.
modore, Cuba.
DEAL, JULY 27.—Wind W.—Arrd. Arab barque,
supposed Algoa Thy. Arrd. from the River, Nixson,
Lowe, Port Philip. Sld. Newfoundland, Bombay;
James Holmes, Barbadoes.
FALMOUTH, JULY 27.—Wind N.W.—Arrd. 26th,
Camcena, Ritchie, Patagonia. 27th, Anna Tuft, Ross,
New Orleans,
OFF PILL, JULY 27.—Colina, Shaddock, Quebec.
CAUTION TO MARINERS.
HASTINGS, JULY 27.—The Master of the Bee fishing
smack reports that on the 25th inst., about high water,
he saw a vessel's mast appearing about three feet above
the water, a short distance west of Bexhill and one mile
and a half from shore.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY )

COVENT-Gala EN.

Our market was heavily supplied with both Fruit and
Vegetables, the sale for which was active, at about last
week's quotations. Fruit—Apples, 2s. to 3s ; and
Pears, is 9d to 3s per half-sieve; Cherries, 2s to 4s 9d
per half sieve; Pine-apples (English), 5s 6d to 7s; and
hot-house Grapes, 6s to 9s per lb; Colonial Pine-
apples, Is 6d to 4s each; Melons, 2s to 5s each; Goose-
berries, 2s to 4s ; and Currants, 3s 6d to 6s per half
sieve; Lemons, 7s to 9s; and Oranges, 8s to 12s per
100; Strawberries, 2d to 10d; and Raspberries, 4d to
10d per pottle; forced Peaches and Nectarines, 30s
to 34s per dozen. Vegetables—Peas, is 3d to 2s; French
Beans, Is 6d to 2s 3d; Cabbage Lettuces, 8d to Is;
Broad Beans, 10d to Is 3d; and Parsley,, is 3d to is 6d
per half-sieve ; Horseradish, 2s to ss; and Celery, 9d
to is 4d per bundle; Asparagus, is 6d to 5s per
100; Onions, 2d to 4d per bunch; New Potatoes, 4s to
8s per cwt.; and Shallots, 4d per lb; Mushrooms, 6d
to 8d per punnet; Cauliflowers, is to 5s per dozen;
Cabbages, 6d to 8d per dozen; Turnips, 2s to 3s;
Carrots, 4s to 6s; and Greens, is 9d to 2s 6d per
dozen bunches; Cucumbers, 3d to 2s per brace;
Radishes, 3d to 6d per dozen hands; small Salad, 2s
per dozen punnets; Cos Lettuces, 8d to is per score.
NEVIGATII AND LEADENHALL.

POULTRY.—Turkey Poults, 5s Od to 7s 6d; Goslings,
6s Od.to 7s 6d; Fowls, 2s 9d to 5s 3d; Capons, 5s 3d to
6i 63; Chickens, 3s to 4s Od; Ducklings, 2s 6d to 3s 6d;
and Pigeons, 6d to 10d each; Ostend Fresh Butter, 7s
6d to 10s; and English ditto, 8s to 12s per dozen lb;
Irish Eggs, 4s 9d to 5s 6d; French ditto, 4s 9d to 6s;
and English do. 6s 3d to 7s per 100.
NEWPORT,

Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 2s lOd to 38 10d;
Lamb, 4s 4d to ss; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 8d; and Pork, 3s
to 3s 10d per 81bs, by the carcase.
WRITECHAPEL.

Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 6d; Mutton, 3s to 3s 10d
Lamb, 43 to 4s 10d ; Veal, 3s to 3s 8d; and Pork,
3s to 3s 104 per Sibs.: by the carcase._

BILLINGSGATE.

Salmon, 8d to is Od per lb.; Turbots, 5s 6d to 8s;
Brills, Is 3d to 2s 2d; Cod Fish, 4s Od to 8s; Whitings, 4d
to 8d; Lobsters, 8d to 2s 6d; and Crabs, 4d to 23 each;
Soles, 8d to 2s 6d per pair; Eels, 4d to is per lb;
Mackerel, 4d to 10d each ; Flounders, is to is 4d per
dozen ; Haddocks, 4d to 7d each; Scate, 7d to 9d per
lb; White Bait, is to is 3d per quart.