The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-03 00:00:00

HULL, FEBRUISY 1:

Srock EXCIIANGS..—The sales are—Blackburn, Clitheroe, &c., 9s.
6d. dis.—lllackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, par ex int.—Buckingham-
shire, Bs. 6d. p.—East Lancashire, New, 2% p.—Great Northern
(late London and York), 27i —North British, Thirds, 74s 6d.—
Northern Counties Union, 28s. 6d.—York and Newcastle, Prefer-
ence, I is. 3d. p.

- EDINBURGH, JANUARY 30.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-The sales are -Caledonian and Dumbarton-
shire, 455.-Direct Northern, 545.- Dundee and Arbroath (No. 1),
32/.-Dundee and Perth, New, 1278 - East Lothian Central, 435. 6d.
-Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 19%-Ditto, Quarters, 15s. 9d.-
Edinburgh and Northern, 16% - Ditto, Newport, 51. 125.-Ditto,
ditto, New, 535. -Edinburgh arid Perth (New), 51s. 6d.-Great
Northern (late Direct Northern), 735. 6d. -North British, Quar-
ters, 865.-Ditto, New Quarters, scrip, M.-Ditto, Thirds, 735.-
Scottish Midland, 19% -Strathent Junction, 70s. 6d.
GLASGOW, JANUARY 30.
STOCK Excuswax. -The sales are-Caledonian, New, 465.-Cale-
donian and Dumbartonshire, 445. 6d.-Direct Bombay and Madras,
3s. 9d.-Eastern Counties, York Extension, 51.-East o; Fife, 495.
6d.-East Indian, 9a.-East Lothian Central, 435.--Edinburgh and
Perth, 508. -Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 651.-Ditto, 34% -
Ditto, Halves, No. 2,9/. 63.-Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 6/. 4s.
- Manchester and Southampton, 3.15. 6d.-North British, Thirds,
725.-Scottish Grand Junction, .215.-York and Newcastle, Pre-
ference, 71.

IRISH RELIEF ASSOCIATION.

SOUP.

The following letter, introduced by a note to the editor,
appears in Saunders' News Letter (Dublin paper). It con-
veys a most favourable view of the working of the system of
soup kitchens in Ireland :
" Office of Public Works, ,Linuary 22, 1847.
" Gentlemen,—l should be most ungrateful indeed, if I
allowed longer time to pass without expressing to you and
to my kind friend Sir James Dombrain, both on my part and
that of the unhappy population surrounding G►andore, in
the county of Cork, my cordial thanks for your ready re-
sponse to our application on behalf of the electoral division
of Kilfanaghembeg, in the Union of Skibbereen.
" When I left that place last week our soup establishment
was in full work; and if I was to name one word which
should convey my opinion of the most prompt, the most
efficient, and the most practicable means of saving the lives
of thousands, that word would be soup; not food, food, food,
but soup, soup, soup.
"In our village they now distribute 7,000 quarts of soup
daily, excellent substantial stuff; poor beef, slink calves,
beans, meal, bruised peas, rice, and a littla oatmeal, with a
small portion of commissariat biscuit broken up into it. We
charge 11,4c1. a quart, and with a staff under 2s. a day, we
find that this can be done at an expense of less than 10s. a
day loss.

" The labourers going to the roads take a pint in the
morning, and a pint on -their return; they are no longer
staggering from weakness, their aspect is already improved,
and their physical powers amazingly so; the women and
children in the village and its neighbourhood also participate
in the advantage, and any benevolent persons who wish to
give gratuitous relief, purchase ticket, which have, instead
of coppers, now become the only relief circulating medium.
"I should not omit to mention that the digester is of in-
finite value in working up the meat and bones, and in boiling
the peas. Wherever Igo I endeavour to promote soup esta-
blishments, and I am happy to say that the Government
have now instructed the Commissariat to give their cordial
aid in setting them a-going.—l have, &c.,
"J. REDMOND BARRY.
"To the joint Secretaries of the Irish Relief Asuciation."

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DETENTION OF THE PENINSULAR MAILS.—It was
on Monday announced at the General Post-office that the
Montrose, which sailed from Southampton with the Penin-
sular mails of the 27th ult., hhd, during the gale of that
nig. ht, been compelled to take shelter at Yarmouth, Isle of
Wight, and had been compelled to remain till the wind had
abated.
A SOLDIER FLOGGED.WOOLWICH, JAN. 30.
Gunner and driver Blakely, of the 10th battalion of the
hadtried 8. The prisoner been by
to the extent of fifty lashes.
d to imprisonment at Fort
Royal Artillery, received corporal punishment this morning,
a court-martial, and sentence
sent out by the I
racks to which he was
non-com-
missioned officer of the room in the barracks
failed to return until he
attached, to change a half sovereign,
Pitts, Chatham, for having, when
who
at Fort Pitts, he put
plain clothes. When in confinement .
destroying them to such
lime in his eyes, with the object of .
was brought back by a policeman, fund him dressed in
that crime he was corporally punished to-day.
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an extent as to render him unfit for service, and it was for
LIBERATION OF MADAME LAFFARG E.
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correspondent of the Atlas announces that this c
concerning whom so intense and factitious an finteresttrlina,ef hhaes:
been kept up, is about to be liberated. " The fac
enlargement," he says, " appears certain, and the anticipa-
tion has given rise to almost as much excitement as the
his-
tory of her crime did upon the occasion of her trial." It
seems that the matrimony-agent through whom she was
introduced to her unfortunate husband, instead of‘shrinking
abashed from the notoriety which the ill-assorted union
brought upon him, boasts of it to this very hour; and his
advertisements are lengthened by his efforts to bring it to
the public memory. Moreover, on Tuesday last, there ap
peured in all tli = Paris papers an announcement from a rival
establishment (that of Madame St. 313 re), :Fetting "urth that
she has to dispose of" a young English orphan, heiress to a
splendid fortune l"