The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-05 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PA R LIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, July 3.
The Earl of SIEAFTESBURY took his seat on the Wool-
sack at Four o'clock. But five Peers were present, in-
cluding the Noble Earl.
The object of the sitting to-day was to pass the
following Bills through Committee:—
THE MILITIA BALLOTS SUSPENSION BILL, and
THE CORN IMPORTATION BILL.
They were accordingly passed through that stage, and
ordered to be reported, the Earl of Shaftesbury acting
both as Chancellor and Chairman of Committees.
Their Lordships immediately after adjourned, the
whole proceedings not having occupied more than three
or four minutes.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 8,000
bales, including 2,500 Egyptian, mostly on speculation.
American was rather easier. The stock is 759,140
bales, against 437,140 at this time last year. There
was but a limited business done in Shares. The
market was very quiet.
The Bank averages, as made up for the week to the
26th inst., give the following results :
Notes issued £23,676 545
Increase 43,970
Rest, increase. 9,965
Public deposits, increase
7 day and other Bills, decrease 9,834
Government securities, decrease 1,041
Other deposits, decrease
Notes reserved, decrease
Bullion .
Increase
Active circulation 18,051,015
Increase
The state of trade is watched with anxious solicitude,
and in the following remarks by Messrs. Wilkinson and
Jewesbury, will be found some hints relative to imports,
&c., which will serve to give an insight into the proba-
ble result of the revenue :
" The importations of foreign and colonial produce
during the past month have again been extensive. The
markets have been well supplied, and prices, which at
the beginning of the month slightly advanced, have again
receded. Articles of consumption continue in demand,
each return showing a large increase over that for the
corresponding period of last year. The official returns
for the four months, ending the sth May, show an in-
crease in the total value of exports of 475,1691. on the
month, and 284.1111. on the four months, as compared
with the previous year.
" From the manufacturing districts the accounts wear
a more favourable aspect; and it is expected that as the
prospect of a good harvest becomes more certain, from
the very fine weather we now enjoy, combined with the
continued fall in the price of wheat, will produce a good
demand for the home trade. Some large foreign orders
are :in the course of execution, but business generally
remains dull."
The Funds are still rather flat. Consols have been
88i 1. The New Three-and-a Quarter per Cents, realise
91* to 94. Bank Stock is 197. Exchequer-bills have
realised 12s. and 13s. premium.
There has been rather more demand for money within
the last day or two, but the bills falling due to-duy seem
generally to be tolerably well met.
The Foreign Market has been very inanimate. Por-
tuguese Four per Cents, have realised 301 to 31 ; Vene-
zuela Bonds are 39 ; arid llutcq Two•and-a-fialt per
Cents. have been at 57 to * ex. dividend.
Shares have fluctuated a little, some being rather
better and others weaker, with a moderate business
doing.
BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. .. 197 197
three pet Cent. Reduced Annuities .. • • 89% 88% 88%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 91% 90%
Long 9 Annuities, Expire .Jan. 5, 1860 .. 9 1-16 99%
1.16
India Bonds. 1,000/, .. 8 8
Consols for Opening, July 16 .. .• •• 88% 883 i
50000011: ...•
Exchequer Bills. l%cl. 2d.
1,
193
9121413 pp 13 p
14p••••
Ditto, Small •19 14 18 p 20 p
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS, O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent .•
Ditto, for the Account .. ••• .. 191,E 19k
Portuguese Bonds.s per Cent • •
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. 31 30% 30%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 20% 20%
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. 4% 4%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent• • • • • 39 39
Dividends on the above payable in London
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent ••
BUS INESS 57% 57 ex div 57
PRICES OF CLOSING
DONE AT
RAILWAY SHARES,
PAIELONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Amber., Notting., Beaton, and
Eastern Junction 2% •• • • •••••• • • • • 1%
Birming., Wolver., & Stour Valley 8 •• •
9• • • • •• • • • 9
Bristol and Exeter .. 75 ••• • 75 •• • • ...... 77
Ditto, New .. •• 15 •• • • 16 •• • ..... 16
.•
Caledonian 35 29% 29%
Ditto, Half Shares
Eastern Counties . .. 20 .... 21%• 20%
Ditto, York Extension • • • • 7% ••• • •• • • .... • • 7
East Lancashire .. •• • •
Ditto, New .. 10 91i •9%
East Lincolnshire .. 65( ex int. • • .. 7 % x.int.
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 2%.. 1% %• • ...... 1%
Great Northern .. . 6 .. 4% exint.....4 yx. int.
Do., London & York Extension 2% .... I% ex int.-- I%x. int.
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 32 7%. 30% ex int.... 30% x. i.
Great Western .. 85 ....122 121 123.. . 118
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% .... 18% %• • ...... 17%
Ditto, ).ew 7% 7%
London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. 7% ••••• • .. •• 7%
London, Brighton, & South Coast 50 .... 555(,%.. 55%
London au North-Western • . 00 •• .. 183 .. .. • . 181
Ditto, Fifths .. 2 .... .. • • .... • . 17%
Ditto, 101. Shares M. &B. (A) 5 .. •• 11% •• 113
Ditto, 10/. Shares M. &B. (C) 1 .......
London and South-Western 41/. 6s. 10d... 68 67% ...... 675
Ditto, New 27%.... 32.43 .......... 32%
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) .. 50 • • 57 • • • •• • • 57
Ditto, Scrip.. .. .. • • 5 .... 5 .......... 5%
London, Salisbury, and weovil .. 1% „ ..... .
Manchester anti Leeds .. .. •• 82 • • ..1041,4 .... • • .... 103%
Ditto, Thirds (Reg.).. • . • • 71. 45...., „ „ „ p
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425.
Midland ..100 ....129 131........ 130
Ditto, New .. • • •• ••36• • •• 44% 41%
Ditto, New .. • • •• 6 •• • . 1014.......... 1014
Newcastle and Berwick • • .. 20 ~ 29%1
........295,
Ditto, New • • • • • • ••5• • • • 81q%........ 8%
Norfolk ..100 ....125 .......... 125
North British • • • • • • '• 25 •• •. 32% 32%
Ditto, Half Shares • • • • 12% • • 15% 15%
Ditto, Extension • • • • • • 'X •• .. 14 ......
North Staffordshire •• • • •• 7% 10%k........ 10%
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5
Royston and Hitchin . .. 1% ~ Tie
Scottish Central • • • • • • • 17% . k7%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham3l~
3
Ditto. Class B • • • • •• •• -3 •• • • 254 •••••••• • • •)
South Staffordshire • • • • •• 21. 125... % di5........ dis.
South Eastern and Dovor
.......
Ditto. New (iss. at 321.) No.I. 20 •• „ 21
Do.. New (d 0.33/. 65.4c1.) No. 2. 17 „ „ 17
South Yorkshire., Doncaster, and
Waterford and Kilkenny 13%
RAILWAYS.
West Riding Union • • • • ••4/.25...,, p . • • % P
Windsor. Staines, &S. Western.. 425. „ ..
York and Newcastle • • • • •• 25 ag 38
Ditto, New.. •• •• •• •• 16% ......•• •• 17
Ditto, Preference ......8
5100 ,:: —23%• 128293%14
.• ••••••••••
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and
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17k
•
Dutch Rhenish • • • • • • • • 7 •• .. 4 . • .... •• .. 4
Namur and Liege • • • • • • • • 10 •• .. •.. • • •• • • 411
Northern of France • • • • • • 8 104% ••
..10%
Orleans and Bourdeaux • • .. 6 6
••6
Paris and Strasbourg • • • • • • 8
,„ „ „ „
MINES,
Real del Monte. Unregistered „ ....... 2

VISIT OF THE:QUEEN TO INVER-

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NESS AND SUTHERLAND.
(From the Inverness Courier.)
We have received the following information from a
source on which we place the utmost reliance :—" the
Queen has taken Laggan from the Marquis of Abercorn
for the shouting season. The Court will remain there
from the beginning of August to the beginning of
Inverness
September,
on her
ileway
Her
Majesty, it is understood, will visit
to Dunrobin, the second wei k
in S ptember, coming down the Caledonian Canal
from Fort William." Nothing, we trust, will occur to
interfere with these arrangements. The royal visit
will afford unbounded gratification to all the Queen's
loyal subjects in the Highlands, and the proposed route
will enable her Majesty to see some of the finest scenery
in the Highlands. We may anticipate for the royal
party a magnificent " gathering of the clans." Since
the days of the fiery cross, no such rallying cry has
been heard as the name of the Qte en, and from Ben
Nevis to Ben Afore, in Assynt, toe whole population
will be poured forth to cheer every step of the royal pro I
gre,s. It is now two hundred and eighty-five years since
Mary Queen of Scots visited Inverness, and no other
British Sovereign has since penal-at...a t.st.r. —. Liu, Luern
region. Mary found the gates of Inverness Castle shut
against her entrance ; for the Earl of Huntly had then
organised a powerful confederacy in opposition to the
Crown. Queen Victoria has fallen on calmer and hap-
pier days. All gates will be thrown open on her approach,
and from hall and cottage—from Dunrobin Castle down
to the meanest hut on the mountain side—there will be
heard only one voice of generous loyalty and affection.
The shooting lodge of the Maritans of Abercorn
" stands on the margin of Loch Laggan, at Ard-
vreekie, on the property of Cluny Macpherson.
The scale on
which this lodge is erect,d, says
the author of the Statistical Account, " may be
inferred from the fact that it is taxed for sixty
windows." The interior accommodation is of the
"
most splendid description, and Mr. Edwin Land
seer, in one of his vi.its to the north, graced the
walls of some of the rooms with the fruits of his
inimitable genius. The situation of the lodge;
and the whole of the neig
gree. Prince Albert will also
hbourhood, is picturesque and
romantic in the highest de
have ample scope for his favourite field sports. In ad-
dition to Laggan, the Marquis of Abercorn possesses the
adjoining ground
of Glensheiro, the property of Evan
Buillie, 11,q., on which there is also a handsome ledge. j
The extent of his Lordship's Highland, shootings may be
gathered from the fact that his rental is very nearly
2,000/, per annu
1,3621.
annum—the deer-forest alone being let for

ACCIDENT IN
WHITECIIAPEL—.On Thursday after-
noon. shortly after two o'clock. an occurrence of a most
fearful character, nearly attended with a serious sacrificeof life, occurred in Somerset-street, Whitechapel. It
o•
appears that a I r
-ty chimney connected with the range
of premises in the occupation of Messrs. Bowman and
Suns, 27, '3reat Alie-street, suddenly broke in half, and
the immense weight of bricks fell upon the roofs of the
houses numbered 3 and 4, in Johnston's-court, Somerset-
street. For some time it was feared that several parties
had been buried in the ruins, but happily none was hurt,
with the exception of a child, who was badly injured and
removed to the London Hospital, where it remains in a
very precarious state. No cause can be assigned for the
falling of the chimney, which was always considered
perfectly safe.
foe wi.ole of the " navvies" employed at Baker's
cutting, Yeovil, on the Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth
line struck for wages on Saturday.