The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-03 00:00:00

RAILWAY RETURNS

RAILWAT TAArric.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year:

SPANISH AMERICAN BOND-
HOLDERS.
The following correspondence has taken place between
the Chairman of the Committee of Spanish American
Bondholders and the Consul-General of the Republic of
the Equator:—

(Copy.)
"18, Austinfriars, June 24, 1847.
' "Sir,--The Committee of Spanish American Bond-
holders, perceiving by the public journals that you have
received the appointment of Consul-General of the Re-
public of the Equator, request the favour of your in-
forming them whether you have received any instruc-
tions from the Government of that republic, to enter into
communication with tho committee in reference to the
adjustment of the foreign debt of that republic.
" I am, &c.,
(Signed) " G. R. ROBINSON, Chairman.
" W. P. Robertson, Esq., Consul-General of
the Republic of the Equator."
" Equatorian Consulate-General, 10, Old
Jewry-chambers, June 29.
" Sir,—l have the honour to acknowledge the receipt
of your letter of the 11th inst., requesting to know if the
Government of the republic which I serve has authorised
me to communicate with the committee in reference to
the adjustment of the Equatorian foreign debt.
"I beg to state in reply, that officially I have received
no such instruction ; but I think it right to inform you
that his Excellency Don Vicente R. Roca, President of
the republic, has expressed in his communications to me
his desire to re-establish the credit of Equador in this
country. The civil wars and consequent dilapidation of
the public' treasury previously to his accession to his
office left the Government then, and I fear still leaves it,
without immediate means of carrying a satisfactory
arrangement with the bondholders into effect; but I am
persuaded that, the intarnal peace of the country being
uow assured, the Government will turn its serious atten-
tion to some early arrangement with the English bond-
holders.

"I beg to take this opportunity of stating that I am
desired, in a dispatch which I received by last packet
from Don Manuel Gomez de la Torre, Minister of Equa-
dor, to correct, publicly, a misapprehension which has
arisen that a term of two years had been fixed on for
converting the old Columbian into Equatorian Bonds in
Quito, after which time all claims would be wholly ex-
cluded. No measure of this or any other kind, tending
to invalidate the claims of the English bondholders has
emanated from the Equatorian Government.
" I have the honour, &c.,
(Signed) " W. PARISH ROBERTSON.
"G. R. Robinson, Esq., Chairman of the Committee
of South-American Bondholders."

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
JULY 2, 1847.
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
June 29. Gauntlet cutter, illiam Peareth, Esq.,
from Sandgate ' • Susan yawl, Earl of Hardwicke, from
Southampton ; Stormfinch cutter, Lieut.-Col. Bowers,
C.R., from Poole.
30. Fair Rosamond schooner, William Lyon, Esq.,
and Dream yawl, G. Beutinck, Esq., from Cherbourg.
July 1. Witch cutter, Henry Oglauder, from
Guernsey.
2. Peterel cutter, Earl of Dchester, from westward.
SAILING.
June 29. Fairy schooner, Sir Hyde Parker, Bart., for
coast of Norway.
YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION.
Schooners—Maud, Esmeralda, Flirt, Merlin, Resolu-
tian, Camilla, Fair Rosamond. Cutters—Osprey, Alarm,
Lark, Heroine, Dryad, Gauntlet, Noran, Stormfinch,
Antelope, Turquoise, Talisman, Elizabeth, Witch,
Peterel, Medina. Yawls—Dream, Waterlily, Albatross,
and Susan.
THE TORIES AT FAULT.-Mr. Spencer de Horsey and
the Tories of Newport, Isle of Wight, cannot agree ;
nor can they agree with their old Member, Mr. W.
Martin, and both gentlemen have retired. Messrs.
Blake and Crampton have it all their own way at present.

BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON.—Last evening
the monthly meeting of this society was held in the
rooms, Bedford-street, Covent-garden. Among those
present were Mr. G. Ceoper (who presided), Dr. Par-
kin, Mr. James Rich, Mr. George Rich, &c. Mr. Long
read an elaborate paper on the potato disease, which he
attributed to the noxious influence of a comet on the
atmosphere of the earth. He also stated that the haulm
of the plant had been generally found to be first affected,
and that the best preventive of disease was to cut off the
stalk, and recommended that this should be done in next
August. Dr. Parkin contended that the disease was not
caused by the comet, and denied that it first appeared in
the haulm of the plant. He attributed the malady to
" the existence of something deleterious in the atmos-
phere." Mr. Taylor read a paper to show the great
superiority of wheat, as compared with potatoes, in point
of nutriment.

P""'s Thre"-- "--;arrent the
country are ca e p-tth ake return to rartiament a
particular of their management from the formation
thereof. This is for the purpose, no doubt, of finding
out where monopoly and extortion exists; that it does
in some places is notoriously known.
The Right Honourable William Frederick Fownes
Tighe has been appointed Lieutenant of the county of
Kilkenny, in the room of the late Earl of Besborough.
Mr. Tighe is brother-in-law of the Duke of Richmond.
NEW CONSULAR APPOINTMENTS IN BARBARY.—
We have much pleasure in announcing that Richard
Reade, the eldest son of Sir Thomas Reade, her Bri-
tannic Majesty's Consul-General at Tunis, has been
appointed Vice-Consul at Tripoli, in Barbary, from
whose perftct knowledge of the Arabic and Maltese lan-
guages we feel persuaded that he will be found a very
useful auxiliary to our much respected Consul, G. W.
Crowe, Esq , in a place where so many natives of Malta
are permanently settled; and among whom (so prone as
they are to litigation) disputes are continually arising
requiring Consular interference. Another appointment,
that of Consul at Ghidames, with a salary of 500/. a
year! is also spoken of, having principally in view the
abolition of slaveryi n Central Africa; and it is currently
reported that Mr. James Richardson, known in this
island as the editor of the harlequin, Clown, and other
satirical and facetious (to say nothing more of them)
penny publications, has had the good fortune to obtain
the same through the influence of the Anti-Slavery So-
ciety.—Malta paper.
DE BEAUVOIR TOWN, KINGSLAND.—This rapidly
increasing district seems destined to be kept in a state
of commotion upon church matters. The lord of the
manor, Richard Beynon de Beauvoir, Esq., built and
endowed a beautiful church. Harmony and good feelings
reigned triumphant for some years until the conduct of
the reverend incumbent became the subject of inquiry,
before the superior church courts, and since his suspen-
sion and the appointment of an exemplary and popular
curate, the Church, " St. Peter's," has been filled by a
highly-respectable congregation, and such has been the
estimation in which he, the curate, has been held by the
inhabitants of the district and the parishes adjoining,
that certain parties who left at the time of the irruption,
and are now again desirous of returning to St. Peter's,
finding no disposition on the part of the churchwardens
to accommodate them with sittings in the area of the
church, have laid the matter before the Bishop of Lon-
don, with a request that he will exercise the power
given him by the Act under which district churches and
chapels are built, to turn out non-parishioners to make
room for those families- inhabiting the district assigned
to St. Peter's; and he has with the greatest promptitude
caused the matter to be fully investigated, and the law
on the subject being indisputable, the result may be an-
ticipated from that well-known disciplinarian. It has
been the subject of remark how it happens that the
densely-populated parish of Hackney, one of the largest
and most respectable of the suburban districts of Lon-
don, has been so long overlooked by the Scottish Pres-
byterians, where an ample field is open for one or more
of their talented clergymen. There are at this time in
the parish, besides the Established Church and chapels,
chapels numerously attended by almost every denomi-
nation of religious Dissenters.
WAKEFIELD CORN MARKET, FRIDAY. -- The
arrivals are pretty good of oats and beans, and moderate
of wheat. The business passing to-day is extremely.
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limited, buyers restricting their purchases to mere retail
quantities quantities for immediate wants. The value of wheat
about the same as on Tuesday, which is 6s. tos
2s.
wnwsaitasetsr:
than-this day week. Oats are Id. per stonbee,epone,:lnig
to 3s. per load, and beans 24. per quarter c,s
CANAL.
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to destroy the finny tenants of the stream, either from a
idle
• towards many boys who occupy their time in
spite
angling there, or to serve a new
organized party of
suburban poachers who vend among the Jews this order
of fish at this season of the year.
ACCIDENT IN WHITECHAPEL—.On Thursday after-
noon, shortly after two o'clock, an occurrence of a most
fearful character, nearly attended with a serious sacrifice
of life, occurred in Somerset-street, Whitechapel. It
appears that a lofty chimney connected with the range
of premises in the occupation of Messrs. Bowman and
Sons, 27, Great 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.
We understand that the revenue accounts
.for the
t
current quarter, to be made up on Monday, are likely
o
turn out well. In particular, we expect that thcr
be a considerable increase upon the prcsen,quar..er
,e will
compared with that of last year in the Customs
and
Stamps. There may possibly
be a falling off upon Excise,
but it will not be great.