The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-18 00:00:00

The Bishop of Tasmania had an interview with
Lord John Russell, yesterday, at his official residence
in Downing-street.
Mr. Charles Russell, Chairman of the Great West-
ern Railway Company ; Mr. William Goodenough
Hayter, Director; and Mr. Charles Saunders, Secre-
tary to the Company, had an interview with the
Right Hon. Edward Strutt, yesterday, at the office of
the Commissioners of Railways, in the Board of Trade.
Mr. Glyn, Chairman of the London and North-
Western Railway Company, had also an interview
with the Right Hon. Gentleman yesterday.
The Marquis of Lansdowne, Lord President of the
Council, arrived in town yesterday afternoon, from
his seat, Bowood Park, Wilts.
The Right lion. Edward Strutt, Chief Commis-
sioner of Railways, had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday.
Lord John Russell gave a dinner to the Cabinet
Ministers yesterday evening, at his residence in
Chesham -place.

MR. FERRAND AND THE POOR,

LAW COMMISSIONERS.

In Michaelmas Term, 1846, a rule for a criminal
information was granted by the Court of Queen's
Bench, on the application of Mr. G. C. Lewis, then
one of the Central Poor-law Commissioners, and
now Member for Herefordshire, and Secretary to the
Board of Control, against Mr. W. B. Ferrand, the
late Member for Knaresborough, for certain charges
affecting Mr. Lewis contained in two letters written
by Mr. Ferrand, and published by his desire in the
Times, in August, 1846. We are authorised to state
that the matter has been arranged through the inter-
vention of friends—Lord John Manners acting for
Mr. Ferrand, and Mr. Hay ward (Queen's Counsel)
for Mr. Lewis ; and the charges in question have
been withdrawn. The following is the form of with-
drawal definitively agreed upon by Lord John Man-
ners and Mr. Hayward, on behalf of the parties re-
spectively :

" MEMORANDIYM.

" Mr. Ferrand withdraws the letters which constitute
the alleged libels in this case, and also the pleas
pleaded in justification of them.
" Both letters were written under feelings of con-
siderable irritation and excitement, when Mr. Fer-
rand was suffering from illness, and had no opportunity
of consulting with his friends. Before writing the
first (of August 6, 1846), he bad received information,
which at that time, and for some time afterwards, he
saw saw no reason to distrust, leading him to conclude
that Mr. Lewis had co-operated with Sir James
Graham to lower him in public estimation ; and he
wrote the second letter (of August 10, 1846,) under
a bond fide, though erroneous impression, that the
mistake into which Mr. Lewis fell in his evidence,
and which was the sole cause of the second letter's
being written, was an intentional mis-statement. On
full and calm inquiry, and after consulting with his
friends, Mr. Ferrand is now convinced that he acted
hastily, and without accurate information, in both
instances. He therefore withdraws the charges con-
tained in the letters, so far as they affect Mr. Lewis,
who will stand precisely as if they had never been
written; and Mr. Ferrand regrets that he ever wrote
and published them.
"Nov. 16, 1847."

BELGIAN AND DUTCH PAPERS.
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE HAGUE, Nov. IG.—Very few transactions
were made at the Bourse, and integrals wore offered
at the same price as on the day previous. All the
other Dutch funds maintained their standard. In
shares of the Commercial Company especially there
was a good deal of animation, and towards the close
of the day they rose 1 per cent. In the Spanish
funds business was slack, and the prices sustained no
variation. The other foreign funds were much the
same as yesterday, but in the Russian Four per Cents.
there was an improvement. Five o'clock—lnland
integrals still maintained their price; the Three and
Four per Cents. are improving. Commercial Com-
pany in great demand. The rise in the London funds
has a very visible effect upon our Bourse, and there
is a marked improvement on nearly all the funds,
both inland and foreign; Peru and Mexico were in much
greater demand then during the last few
days, and
there is a general activity. The discount is still five
per cent. The failure of the house of Rolleghemd,
has plunged the family of Mr. Nollet into the deepest
affliction. This gentleman had, it appears, signed
several large bills for Gillies and Nenin, payable at
the house of Imbrecht ; they were, of course, pro-
tested on the failure of that house ; this circumstance,
together with the arrest of three merchants who had
failed, and the probable inevitable result of his own
failure and imprisonment weighed so heavily upon
Mr. Nollet's spirits, that he left his home
early on Thursday morning, and proceeding
to the river at the extremity of the town,
he threw himself into it. The water was so low
that it scarcely covered his body, yet he was not
found until about seven o'clock the same evening.
The proposition relative to the suppression of the
tax on the culture of rye, which was proposed to the
Second Chamber of the States General last session,
not having been accepted by it, the Government,
which continues engaged in the revision of the present
system of taxation, has judged it advisable so far to
put the project into effect as to make free the permits
and bills of entry of such grain as is not subject to
the impost. The suppression of these formalities will
be a great relief to the people, for about a million and
a half of these permits are annually given out.
Dutch Papers, Nov. 15.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Varnea, Nov. L'3.
3 per Cent. 104
4 per Cent. ditt0......„ 96%
3 per Cent. ditto
Loan, 1834
Ditto, 1839 .....
Bank Shares .....
Esterhazy's Loan .
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand .• .• •• - • 151
34
Gloggnitz •• • • a...* ••• - .• .•••••• • • • • .• 110
Vienna—Milan ....... 93Leghorn g=
Oldenburg _
Apeuninen .... ••• • •• ••• • • • •••• • • • • 94%
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Banssus, Nov. 16.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent..
Ditto Three per Cent... _
Ditto Thirty-seven Millloas,ditto
Ditto,ditto,lB4o.• • •
Ditto,ditto,lB42 •••••••• • • • • • • • ..... —7l
Ditto, 1844..• •••• • • •• •
Ditto, 1836..•• • • • • • • • • • • • • • -
Ditto, 1838 •••••••••• • • • • • • " •• • •• •• 67%
Ditto of the City, 1832 ••••• • • " • " ••• • • 99%
Ditto, 1843 ••••••••'••••• • • " • • • • •• • • 9yl
Bank of Belgium • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 63%
—Brussels Papers. Nov. 16.
DUTCH FUNDS.—Amtnnanikm, Nev. 16.
on
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent • • Ms4ey. Bills
Ditto, 3 per Cent • • • • • • • • • • • ..... • 54%
• 65% 66
Ditto, 4 per Cent • ..... • • • • •—•
Amort Syndic, 334 per Cent • • 84 8434
Commercial Company, 436 per Cent• .- 163% East India Loan, 4 per Cent 16334
Exchange on London, at sight
Two months • • 12 12
•
•
On Hamburgh, at sight .. • 35 92
Two months..... ...... 2$
On Paris • ...... ••• 34 62
Tw0m0nth5............. 56 5O
HAMBUR(III BORSENHALLE, N0v.13.
Austrian 5 per Cents ................ 13101418, 14". Y,
Bank Shares • • • • • •••• • • •••• • • • • •• • • 1600
Anglo-Russian Loan •••••• • • • • • • • • 10136
Russian 5 per Cent., Hanab. Certificate. 10034
Ditto Ist series Inscription • • • • • • • • • • • • 101%
Ditto, Hope and C0.,3d and 4th series.. 95
Ditto, in Certificate ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 95
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ...... 864
Ditto Stieglitz •• • ••••• •• • •"• •• " 86% 56
Spanish New 5 per Cent ••••••• • • • • • • 12% 12
Ditto 3 per Cent ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 22% 223(
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 234 per Cent .•
Dutch Actual Debt, 236 per Cent .
Ditto 3 per Cent. •••••••• • • • • • • • •
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.... 79
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent 80
National Bank Shares .• • • • • • • • • • • • • • •

....... 155
•• •••• - • . 119%
.1609
. 61%

•• ••• 93%

MR. BROOKE,' THE RAJA Or SARAWAK.—This
distinguished philanthropist has been invited, it is said,
to Oxford, to receive the honorary degree of D.C.L.
from the University, as a mark of the esteem in which
he is held by that learned body for his labours in pro-
moting the cause of civilisation and the extension of the
Church of England among the mine tribea_of Bonn.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, WEDNESDAY.—The Queen will hold
• Privy Council on Monday next, the 22d inst., at the
Cantle, at one o'clock in the afternoon.
The Queen and Prince Albert walked this fore-
noon on the Easter Terrace and Slopes.
The Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice took walking and pony
exercise. The Princess Helena was taken an airing.
Prince Albert rode out on horseback this morning,
attended by Captain the Hon. A. Gordon, his Royal
Highness's Equerry in Waiting.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge and the Princess Mary, accompanied by
his Serene Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse, and
attended by a Lady and Gentleman in Waiting, are
expected to arrive at the Castle this evening, on a
visit to her Majesty, from their residence at Kew.
The Right Hon. Sir George and Lady Grey are
expected to arrive this evening from town.
The Marquis of Anglesey, Lord and Lady Ashley,
and Colonel Wylde are also expected to arrive this
evening on a visit to the Queen.
The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening
will include her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,.
their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge and the Princess Mary, his Serene High-
ness Prince Frederick of Hesse, the Marquis of An-
glesey, Baroness de Speth, the Lady in Waiting on
the Duchess of Cambridge ; Lord and Lady Ashley,
the Right Hon. Sir George and Lady Grey, Colonel
Wylde, and the Gentleman in Waiting on the Duke
of Cambridge.
The band of the Grenadier Guards attend during
dinner. Her Majesty's private band will afterwards
attend in the Castle.