The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-05 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE THEATRE.

The Marylebone pantomime of the Knight and the
Wooden Demon continues to attract crowded houses
here every night. It is a pantomime of the old school,
full of fuu, frolic, and trick; with a Harlequin, Panta-
loon, and Clown who do not fear to exert them-
selves. It is delightful to witness the uproarious
joy of the children at this theatre. The engagement of
Mrs. Fitzwilliam and Mr. Buckstone, which terminates
shortly, has been most profitable to the management.
Every night since Christmas this snug little theatre has
been crowded to suffbcation.

COURT CIRCULAR.
WINDSOR, THURSDAY.
The Queen and his Royal Highness walked this
morning in the Home Park.

His Royal Highness the Prince of \Vales and the
younger branches of the Royal Family walked and
rode in the Home Park.

The Baron Andrian left the Castle thin morning.for
London.

The Chevalier Bunsen is expected to arrive at
Windsor Castle this afternoon, on a visit to the Queen
and his Royal Highness.
Her Majesty had a small evening party, yesterday
evening. The following had the honour of receiving
invitations :—the Hon. Mrs. Anson, Mr. and Miss
Meynell, the Hon. Mrs. Phipps, and Miss Bathurst.
The royal dinner party this evening will include,
in addition to the ladies and gentlemen of the royal
household, her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Princess Mary, his Serene Highness Prince Ed-
ward of Saxe Weimar, Lady Augusta Cadogan, the
Marchioness of Waterford, Baroness Speth, Lady
Fanny Howard, Mons. and Madame Van de Weyer,
the Chevalier Bunsen, Baron Stockmar, Viscount
Clifden, Baron Knesebeck, and Capt F. Seymour.

' The Commissioners for the Reduction of the Na-
tional Debt held a quarterly meeting yesterday at the
office of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Down-
ing-street. There were present the Master of the Rolls,
the Governor of the Bank of England, and the De-
Deputy-Governor. Mr. Higham, Secretary and
Comptroller-General, was in attendance.

TIM LATE EAnr. or AUCKLAND.--The deceased
Earl will be interred at Beckenham on Saturday, instead
of on Monday. The Bishop of Sodor and Man arrived
at the Admiralty on Wednesday evening; and the body
of the deceased Earl arrived at Whitehall, in a hearse,
from Lord Ashburton's, yesterday afternoon, at five.
The mournful cortege, Which is to be strictly private,
will leave the Admiralty for Beckenham, tomorrow
morning, at nine o'clock.

The funeral of the late First Lord of the Admiralty
having been appointed to take place to-morrow, an order
has been issued by the Board that all men-of-war hoist
their colours half-mast high on the occasion, from nine
o'clock in the morning till sunset on that day, and the
Lord Mayor of London has written to the harbour-mas-
ters of the port to intimate to the commanders of the
vessels in the river his request that they will perform
the same ceremony of respect to the memory of the
lamented nobleman.

ICE STORM IN CANADA.--In my last I gave you
rather a particular description of an ice-storm, together
with some of the effects and consequences of this me-
teorological phenomenon; but, in doing this, I omitted
to mention one of its effects, of more consequence, per-
haps, than any other. In this country the electric tele-
graph communication is conveyed along wires supported
by upright poles, about 15 feet high and 200 feet apart,
except in two or three instances, where they cross our
immense rivers, where they are obliged to be stretched
to a much greater extent, in ono instance to a thousand
feet, without any intermediate support. Now, when it
rains and freezes at the same time, as is the case in an
"ice storm," these wires immediately become coated
with ice, and this adds to their weight so materially as
to break them down, especially in the instances of such
long stretches as I have mentioned. Such breaks, how-
ever, are not confined to these; for since the last break
steel wire have been substituted, of so fine a texture,
that they are less liable to be broken by such means.
In the present instance they were not injured, while the
shorter stretches of less perfect materials, although three
or four times their thickness, were broken by the super-
incumbent weight, and thus the communication was cut
off so long, that we actually received th 3 mail itself by
the Britannia before a telegraphic communication of its
principal items of intelligence could reach us.—Chronicle
Correspondent.
YANKEE RECEPTION OF THE PRESIDENT'S MRS-
SAGE.—" The country papers are loud in their com-
plaints of the almost interminable length of the Presi-
dent's message. Not one in ten can publish it, and
those which do, give_ it by instalments."--, ew York
Coioier.

HONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
5,000 bales.' The market throughout the day was firm.—
in Railway Shares there,was net much doing, but prices ,
were very firm.
The satisfactory issue of the meeting of Peruvian
Bondholders held yesterday has quite thrown
in the shade further complaints as to the jobbing
that has been practised. The Chairman ad-
mitted that he had received letters of com-
plaint from bondholders, who stated that they had
sold their stock in ignorance of the excellent terms to
be proposed, but observed that the committee were not
responsible for this. This is perfectly correct, for the
committe, in their official capacity, do not seem to have
heard of them until long after others knew, if not the
details, at least that something very good was coming
out. Senor Osma is highly spoken of as a man
of integrity, and how the matter oozed out, whether
throagh letters sent from Lima or ortherwise, we shall
never be able to ascertain, probably, All we hope is
that Peru will faithfully adhere to her protni:.es, that
the guano will continue to be found in abundance, and
that Messrs. Antony Gibbs and Sons, who have
contracted to receive it, will duly pay over
half the proceeds to treasurers jointly appointed
by Senor Osma and the committee of bondholders. This
is really a very important point, because, as the chair-
man stated yesterday, the Venezuela Government, after
remitting funds to Messrs. Reid, Irving and Co., to pay
the dividends, actually withdrew them for its own pur-
poses ; and we all remember similar cases, none being
more flagrant than that of Mexico, when Santa Anna
was in power. As it is not yet settled who is to appoint
the agent, or rather Senor Osma stipulates to do so, we
hope that the committee will use every exertion to have
a voice in the nomination. There is nothing like doing
the thine. rightly and fully while they are about it, to
avoid the unseemly squabbling that has so frequently
occurred as to whom the agents act for, whether the
foreign Government or its English creditors, until either
both parties are kept out of it, or more frequently, the
former gets possession.
The California gold fever does not subside. Expe-
rienced parties in the City state that the gold must be
the purest, perhaps, ever discovered, if the analysis given
in the American papers be correct.
We understand that; an American citizen has disco-
vered an extensive deposit of rock salt in New Bruns-
wick, and that he has made a proposition to the Go-
vernment of that province to make them acquainted with
the locality, on being assured a small per tentage of the
duty paid to the Government on the quantity raised, and
this only for a limited term of years. As this proposi-
tion involves an outlay on the part of the Government,
and offers the greatest security against deception or im-
position, we hope the proposition will be favour-
ably received; for if no salt is raised no money is
to be paid, and the Government have it at all
times in their own power to regulate the
rate of duty which shall be collected on the
mineral. It is, however, as a local editor observes,
rather singular that we should have had a provincial
geologist wandering over the lace of the country for
years, at a heavy expense to the public, and that he
should have discovered no indication: of this deposit
during his peregrinations. Fortunately for the public,
a lynx-eyed Yankee occasionally follows in the track of
these well-paid official gentlemen, and when they
happen to make a discovery, such as we have just re-
ferred to, we see no reason in the world why they
should not be permitted to benefit by their ingenuity.
There are reports that the Revenue Returns for the
quarter ending this evening, will not be altogether so
favourable as was stated a day or two since, hut this is
mere conjecture. The prices coming lower from Paris,
and the unfavourable weather, in co junction with the
Danish affair, have an effect on the Funds, and there
has been again a little realising. Consols are 88a
New Three-aud-a-Quarter per Cents. 59,1 and the
Three per Cents. 88 Exchequer-bills are 425, to
455. premium, and India Bond, 41s. to 455. premium.
Spanish Three per Cent. Bonds are 26f. and Portu-
guese Four per Cents. 26. Mexican Stock is at 25 to
251; Peruvian are 484 to 494; Dutch Two-and-a- Halt
per Cents. are at 48 to 49.
Railway shares are rather cheaper generally, but there
have been a good many transactions.
BRITISH FUNDS Tti DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Reduced 883% 5/ii
New 3% per Cent. Anna
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 8 11-16 3/4
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10,1.859 8
India Stock
Do. Bonds, 10001 44 45 41 p
Ditto under 1.000/
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 2%d. 2d.
March. June.
1,000/.
500/.
Small 42 45 p 42 45 p
i'RICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent... 25%
Equador Bonds 2%%
Mexican Bon4s, 1846, 5 per Cent 25
Ditto for the Account .... .
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent
Ditte for the Account 48% 493%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account ... 26
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 261/
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent 74f. 75f.
Exchange 2sf. 50c.
t,11:-_INESS:1 ONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. Pea SnAzie.
kberdeen

Ambeer., Notting., Boston, &c.
kyrshire and Gallaway
_7lll —

Bilfast and County Down .. 20
girmingnam & Oxford Junct.,
calls duly pd, or with guar. 20
Do., without a guarantee... 20 . to
Birmingham, \ & Dudley,
calls duly pd, or with guar. 10 ... . 15

Do., without a guarantee.— 10
Birming., Wol., & Stour Val. 131.145.... .•
•• to
iiirkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction.., lO
Boston, Stamf., & Birming... 6
Bristol6and Exeter .
Do., Thirds
luckinghamshire..
. _

~.; aledonian
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, New 101. Preference 71
Ditto. Clydesdale Junction 50
jhester and Holyhead 5O .....
Ditto, Preference
larence.
_ ._

Do., Ist Class, 6 per Cent... 10
Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10
_ _

Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 ...... to
)irect London Sz, Portsmouth 514 — _ to

. _
i.iublin and Belfast Junction.. 35
i)undalk and Enniskillen ... 20
~ast Anglia, 251. L. & E.,
mad L. & D
Ditto, 181., E. & H lB ...... 8U3....... to
Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H 3%
E iltern Counties
Do.. New Guarant. 6 per Ot. 10
Do. l'erpet., 5 per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d...
Do., do 1.5i0.2, 61. 13s. 4d... 1/4 p to par
uo., Northern & Eastern... 50

Do., 5 per cent.
Do., Quarter 12%.....
Do., New
Eastern Union, Clans A (late
E. U. Shares) ......... .. 25
Ditto, ditto, Class A, ditto 3% — to
Ditto, do, Class B (I. & B) 20
Ditto, do, Class C, ditto... 20 -.. to

Ditto Scrip (gua. 6 per ct.) 20
Ditto (C. & E.), 5 per ct. 21/ —
ast Lancashire
Ditto, New ..
Do., New Quarters
Do., 6 per Cent. Preference
Quarter Shares
_614 — to

Last Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto, Half Shares
_ __

Edinburgh and Northern ... 25 ......
Ditto, New port l5
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2% .. to

Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle..B/. 6.8 d... to
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50 ......
Do. Preference Consolidated ..... ..
Great Northern ... 19
Do. % A Deferred ..... ... 12% 4% to
Do. %B 6 per Cent. Guar. 6% 4%%... to
Do. Extension ...
Gt. South. & West. (Ireland)_42%

great North of England 100
Ditto, New 401
Ditto, ditto ....
Ditto, New 301
Ditto, New 15/...... ... ...... 14 ...... •
Great Western 100
Ditto, Half Shares
..._

Ditto, Quarter Shares 2l
Ditto, Fifths
Do. New 171
Huddersfield and Manchester 30 .. _ _ to
Ditto, Thirds lO
Hull and Selby 5O lOO
Ditto, Half Shares .. ...... 25 ......
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121,4 — to
Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50
Do., Thirds..
Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93
Ditto, ditto
Ditto Half Shares ... 43 ......

Ditto Quarters 17% l 2
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Sixteenths ........... 6 LA ...... .. .
Ditto Thirds (Reg.)
Do., New Guar. 6 per cent. 7% 8%%... to
Do. Liverpool and Bury... 43
Do. (Rudders. and Sheff.) 43
Do., Wakefield, Pontefract,
and Goole
Do., West Riding Union... 7 .... .
Do., Preston and Wyro ... 25
Do., do., Half Shares (A) 91/2 to
Leeds and Bradford 5O ..... 99 ... .. to
Leeds, Dnwehury, & blanches. 50
Do., Half Shares
Ditto, Blue (scrip) ..... .... 21
Leeds and Thirsk ...—.... ..... 50
Ditto, New
Do., do.,Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%..... ...... to
Liverpool, Crosby, and Suut h-
ourt.
Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction 2l/2 —
London Ait Blackwall ......131.65. 8d....
Do. Extension
L ind., Bright., & South Coast 50
De. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9
Do. Prat. Cony. 5 per Cent. 50 ...... ..
Ditto, ditto 1852 50 ....•
Do., New, guar. 6 per cent. 5
London and Greenwich... 12/,155. 4d... 91A ... to
Ditto Preference
London & North Western 100 ...•..1251
Do. Quarters ( L. and B.) 22
Th. New ...
Do. Eiftito

Do. 40t. Shares... L. & M 25 — to
Do. 101.... M. and B. (A.) 10 .... .
Do. 101. .. M. and B. (B.) 10
...... to
Do. lOL ... M. and B. (C.) 1
London and S. Western...—. 50 ..
Ditto, New 501. - ..... 421/2...,.. 30% to
Ditto, New 40/......,........:, :34

Do. Tenths (Consolidate 4) 50 ....„
to
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 40
Ditto,_Thimls....

Do., New Scrip, 1848, Pref.
7 per Ct. on Deposit and
.
5 per Ct. on Calls
London, Salisbury, 0114, ......
Londonderry and Caine...Clur 28:% — ...... to
Londonderry and raliskillen 271/:2 —
.. to
Lowestoft (guar. 4 per cent.) 20
Ditto (guar. 6 per cent. ... 13 .....
...... to
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 4
%a ..... to
danchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100
Ditto 1/1 Shares (No. 1) ... 18
Ditto, ditto (Ne. 2)
Ditto, 1/8 Shares (No. 3)... 1114 — ...... to
Do., New 10.. Preference.. 10 ...
Ditto Grimsby 4O — to
Ditto, ditto.
Ditto, ditto
Ditto Sheclield and Line. 15
Ditto, Grimsby Dock ...... 20
Ditto, Man. & Lin. Union 41., 25....
Nlidland.
Ditto, Consol. Preference...100
Ditto, 501. 5hare5........... 25
Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo ... •
Midland, Consol. Bristol and
Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100
Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 38 .., „~
Ditto ditto 141.18 a...
Midland, Leices. and Swan-
nington (8 per ct.gua.)....100 .... .
alidld. Great Western (Irish) 45
Middlesbro' and Redcar. 6

per cent. guar.
Newcastle and Carlisle lOO ......
Ditto Quarter Shares . .... 25 ... .. --
Newmarket ........ . —......, 20 .....
Ditto Extension Scrip... 21. 12s. —
Newport Abergy., and Heret. 6
Newry and Enniskillen ....., I
-- ...... to
Newry, Warrenpoint, and
liostrevor ..... ............... 20
••• •• to
Norfolk: 100 ...... 47
Ditto New 201. l5
•..... to --
Ditto Guaranteed 5 per et. 20
Do. Do. 51/ per cent 5 ..... -- ...... to
Do. do. Waveney Valley 2
Northern Counties Union ... 4
North British
Ditto Half Shares, ..... ..... 121/ 7 ....„ to .....
Do. Quarters 6IA 3l to
Ditto. Extension
1110... to
to ......
Ditto Thirds .... ........ ...... /31'i...... 4% to
North and South-Western... 2
North Staffordshire..... l 5
North Wales -
North Western lO ..... .... to
Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton -
Reading,Guildfd., & Reigate 10 ...... 1014 to ---
Royston and Hitchin ..... .. 2 ......
Scottish Central
"rottish Midland ............„. 25
. Ditto, Now..
heflield, Rotherham, and
Goole
Do. do. (South Div.) 4 ..... ..
.... to ..
hrewsbury and Birmingham 9
Ditto, ditto. Class B. 5
Ditto, New Guaranteed 8
Shrewsbury and Hereford .. 2
( Nor. W. Blin.) -
Ditto Halves, Ditto 9 ..„ „. .....
• ... to
Ditto, Oswestry 16% ...... ...... to
Ditto ,New L..
Ditto 8 per Cent. Pref....... 10
•,ihropshire :Uni0n...
..... to _
•=outh Devon .
Ditto, Preference 25
'outh Staffordshire.... 61,2 — .. .. to
South Eastern
Ditto, No. I. -
Ditto. No. 2.
Ditto. No. 3.

/4

Ditte,:liegistered No. 4.... 10
Ditto. Scrip No. 4..
-outh Wales
South Yorkshire, Doncaster

and Goole
-',wans. and Loughor and Ca-

5

. meron's Stm. Coal . 6 --to
raw Vale Extension ... ..... 8
Thames Haven Dock and
Railway l7l/ —
Vale of Neath
Waterford and Kilkenny 171,,5.._.,
Waterford and Limerick ... .. 474.....
Waterford, Wemford,Wicklw,
and Dublin .. 3 ...... --
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed
Do. do. do.
Do. do. do. ...... .10
West Cornwall 6 - -
West London
..• -. to
Ditto, First Class .. 20
Ditto, Second Class 2O
Whitehaven and Furness l4 ... .. ..... to
Windsor, Staines, and South

Western...... ,
12
Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 40 ...... 26 ex.int to
Fork, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 -
Do. Original New & Ber ck 25 ...E27lh 5/i to --
Do. Exton. No. 1 (Y. & N.) 15
Do. do. No. 2, New &:13. 15 -
-Do. G. N. E.-Pur. or Pref. 8
fork and North-Midland .. 50
—..
Ditto, Preference
to Ditto East and West Riding --
Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo Italian (late Italian
and Austrian
Boulogne and Amiens 2O
... .. to --..
Central of France ( Orleans
and Vierzon) ...
Ceylon ....... - ......
...... to
Demerara. -
Dendre Valley
Direct Bombay and Madras ss. ..„ . -
Dutch Rhenish 7/4 -
East Indian
Great Indian Peninsular !4 — ...... to
Louvain tla Sambre ......... 71/2 — . ..... to
Luxembourg
to
Ditto
Madrid and Valentia - . ... to
Namur and Liege........ 2O
Northern of France l2 ..... -
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 7
Paris and Lyons
Do. Do.
Paris and Orleans... 2O
Paris and Rouen -
Paris & Strasbourg ..... ..... 8
Rouen and Havre ... 20
Sambre and Meuse
Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14 -
Tours & Nantss ... .. ...... .. 9
Tournay, Jurbise, Landen,
and Hassell ... .. .. 20 ...... ....., to
West Flanders B3/4 — ...... to --
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia -
British North American .... 50
Colonial .... .. .. .-.. . 25 ..... . to
Commercial of London .. ..... 20 ......
London Joint Stock ...- ..... 10 -' —
Loudon and Westminster. .. 20—..... 221/2 to
National Provincial of Engld. 35
Ditto, New
National of Ireland
Provincial of Ireland?; 25
Ditto, New
Union of Australia 25 -
Ditto, New
Union of London ........ ...... 10
Union of Madrid