The Sun.
London, England, 1848-05-09 00:00:00

•
1848. MAY 9,

NATIONAL --ASSEMBLY.

MARKET NE Tius W DAY.
HAY MAZIEETS.
ditStOM4T/ 1E47 4S )
load.ove
Clover,
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eaanddo ws t Br
aawy:,
13116t50t03111 0114 a ; Crl
g pe
A moderate supply, and a heavy demand.
CUMBERLAND.—Meadow Hay, 31 to 31 15s; Clover
ditto, 41 to 4/ 12s ; and Straw, 1/ 7s to 1/ 11s per
load. Trade dull, at the above quotations.
,lEFtO.I M ;
WIIITECIIAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 31 to 3/ 15s ; Clover,
ditto, 41 to 51; and Straw, 1/ 8s to tills per load.
Supply but moderate, and trade dull.
COLONIAL.
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SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is firm,
about 520 hhds having been disposed of at an advance
of Is since this day week. The public sales have com-
prised 3,000 bags Mauritius, 8,000 bags Bengal, 400
bags Madras, 400 cases Bahia, 207 cases and 450 bags

Pernambuco. The Mauritius was partly realised at
very full prices—grey and yellow at 36s to
40s ; Bengal brought an advance of 6d per
cwt, low to fine white Benares 38s 6d to
435, and grainy descriptions 38s to 51s ; Madras
sold steadily at 28s Gd to 31s for low brown and very
low yellow; white Bahia brought an advance of 6d to
Is, but brown descriptions of Bahia and the Pernam-
buco were withdrawn above their relative value. The
quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the
East and West India Docks was 910 hogsheads 179
tierces 368 barrels. There were taken for home con-
sumption 958 hogsheads 82 tierces 135 barrels. The
stock i❑ the same place is 12,792 hogsheads 1,346 tierces
2,393 barrels.

COFFEE.-670 bags Plantation, and 1,725 bags native
Ceylon have been offered by auction. Only a small
portion of the Plantation was realised, at extreme prices;
but about two-thirds of the Native sold at steady rates,
good to superior ord at 30s to 31s, and inferior at 29s
to 29s 6d per cwt.

Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East
and West India Docks was 873 puns 281 hhds. There
were taken for home consumption 256 puns 169 hhds,
and exported 30 puns 42 hhds. The stock in the same
places is 14,498 puns 2,870 hhds.
SALTPETRE.—Ot 983 bags Bengal at auction only
about one-third was disposed of at 33s 6d for 34 per
cent, refraction, which was again lower.
TALLow.—P.Y.C. is 48s per cwt on the spot, and
Town 50s 6d per cwt.
TEA.—The market has been steady, and the deliveries
are good..

COAL MARKET.—YESTERDAY. ,
Buddle's W. Hartley.. 14s 6ch Washington
Hedley's Hartley' l4s 3chßelmont lss 9d
Holywell Main
Original Tanfield
s 3d
Tantield Moor ....
Wylam
West Wvlam
West Hartley
Wall's End, &c. Hudson's Hartlepool lss 9d
Acorn Close
Bewicke and Co.
Harton
Northumberland

EAST INDIA MAIL.
SOUTHAMPTON, MONDAY NIGHT.—The Peninsular
and Oriental Company's steam-ship Erin, Captain T. S.
Russell, • arrived at Southampton, at six o'clock, from
Malta and Gibraltar, and landed mails from the follow.
ing places and dates, in charge of Lieutenant W. P.
Newenham, Admiralty agent. The mails were forwarded
to London by the night mail train.
Dates of Sailing--Constantinople and Sinope, 18th of
April; Samsoun, 13th; Trebizond and Alexandria, 12th;
Malta, 25th; Gibraltar, Ist May.
The freight of the Erin consists of 159 packages of
specie, 150,0001. in amount; and a general cargo, con-
sisting of ten Cashmere goats as tribute to her Majesty
from Gholab Singh, in Cashmere; 54 bales of silk, 29
ballots of silk, 62 cases of silk, 50 bags of yellow berries,
108 barrels of gum, 1 bale of rugs, 374 boxes of raisins,
188 drums of ditto, 121 bales of goatswool, 54 cases of
sponge, 40 bales of carpets, 15 tubs of leeches, 2 half
tubs of ditto, 69 cases of empty bottles, 31 barrels of
elephants' tusks, 80 packages of sundries.
Miscellaneous Intelligence.—A fine Turkish steamer,
called the Escudear, was wrecked on the Ist of April
near Cape Fiorez, in the Black Sea, on her first trip ;
number of people lost. She sailed from Constantinople
same time as the Erin. Vast numbers of persons are
flocking down to all seaports on the Continent to embark
from the disturbances. Numbers are leaving Rome.
There were more than thirty passengers at Malta, for
whom the Erin had not room. The packet crowded to
suffocation in the saloon. Very much illness (lever)
prevailed in the fleet at Malta; there were 125 cases
reported. The Trafalgar, 120, was to leave for Eng•
land on the 26th, with Admiral Sir Lucius Curtis on
board, and hoisting his flag. Admiral Harvey had
entered on his duties at Malta. Many Jesuits had
arrived at Malta. The Government had assisted at
some Roman Catholic procession, and which had given
offence to many. At Alexandria the English inhabit-
ants are pained to see the church there unfinished for
want of funds.

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RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL, MAT 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Eastern Counties,
14;s—Great Northern, 10 die.—Lancashire and Yorkshire
(late West Riding Union), 37/8 dis.—London and North-
Western, 132—Ditto, New Quarters, 48s. 9d. p.—Midland
Stock, 1021,2—Ditto, Halves, 51/i dis.—Ditto, Erewash Val-
ley, 7 p.—North British, New Quarters, % dis.—North Staf-
fordshire, 2% dis.—Shrewsbury and Chester, New 13W,
Shares, 3/4 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 241,4—Ditto,
No. 4, Thirds, 3 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (N.
and B.) Extension, 3/4 p.—Ditte, G. N. E. Purchase, '/7,4 p.—
Ulster, 61/2 die.
MANCHESTER, MAT 8.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanes-
shire, and Cheshire Junction, 6% dis.—Eastern Counties,
15—Great Northern, 10 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire,
Fifths, dis.—Ditto (West Riding Union), 3% dis.—Lon-
don and North-Western (Leeds and Dewsbury), 12 dis.—
North Staffordshire, 2% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover,
No. 4, 2 15-16 dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, Exten-
sions, No. 2, 1 p.

THE NORTH MAIL TRAIN.—(From a Corres-
pondent.)—This morning, about half-past three o'clock,
as the mail train from the north was approaching within
a few miles of Derby a violent noise was heard, caused,
it appears, by the breaking of a wheel of a second-
class carriage. After proceeding upwards of two miles,
having passed through a tunnel, it was discovered
the carriage referred to was off the rails, and the train
was stopped. The gentlemen in the next carriage, a
first-class one, were fur a considerable time in the
greatest alarm, having discovered the cause of the fear-
ful jolting and clouds of gravel, &c., which was conse-
quently occasioned, long before the servants in charge
of the train did. After a delay of an hour and a half,
the passengers were taken into the foremost carriage,
the others being left behind, in consequence of the
second•class carriage being so much damaged. One
gentleman, from jumping out before the train was stop-
ped, was much hurt about the shoulders. The above is
another instance of the absolute necessity of some
means being adopted whereby passengers may commu-
nicato with the guards, as our correspondent was fully
aware of the great danger
of his situation some minutes
before the officials discovered it. It is but right to men-
tion that the servants of the company acted in the matter
with the greatest attention.
SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—This morning a shock-
ing occurrence took place in Little St. Thomas the
Apostle : a man named William Page, a book marbler,
&c., residing at No. 1, having thrown himself out of a
window on the third story. He had been ill for a con-
siderable time, and his mind was affected. On being
taken up he was found to be dreadfully injured, and was
conveyed to the hospital, where nut the slightest hopes
were given of his recovery.
THE BODY OP A MURDERED CHILD SENT BY THE
PARCELS DELIVERY.-011 Thursday evening a small
wicker-basket was brought to the Parcels Delivery
Company's Office, in Middleton-street, Clerkenwell, by
a respectable-looking young woman, who paid the car-
riage; it was addressed to the relieving officer, Holborn
Union, Gray's Inn-lane, where it was delivered in due
course, and on being opened the body of a male child
about three days old was discovered, in a shocking state
of decomposition. On Saturday an inquest was held on
the body, before Mr. Mills, at the board-room of the
Holborn Union, when, in accordance with the medical
evidence, the jury returned a verdict of wilful murder
against some person unknown.
Mr. A. Moxhel, the Consul General of Belgium for
New York, arrived in London yesterday morning, by the
General Steam Navigation Company's steam-ship Soho,
from Antwerp.

Two (THIS DAY.) he Assembly
new delegates took their seats in t
m,
and this morning, viz., Thomas Richards for Durham,
Edward Mitchell for Rochdale.
theMar.bVsennr ofx caalnlyedagthiteataitotnenitnionthoef tmhee,Arospsoeliinm3l,3dlyiatinetdo
. h.suggested that public meetings should be held
Crehnatrptiasrttms oofvetenntn and Westminster in favour of the
sent week.
SHAW,%l.deeikn.Sm isrfigeelds suggested
:Market
ani opene: aciorumrseeeotiti?gosehpould
re.
After much discussion, it was agreed that the agita-
tation of the metropolis should be left in the bands of
the executive.
Mr. MITCHELL delivered his report from Rochdale,
and urged upon the delegates the necessity of union and
unanimity iu their body. At present there was a decided
split among the Chartists of Lancashire, owing to the
recent conduct of Mr. O'Connor.
The delegates then resumed the consideration of the
report of the organization committee, and after a long
discussion, resolved to appoint, provisionally, twenty
jcommissioners, whose appointments have all to be sub-
ect to the confirmation of the country.
The election of the commissioners occupied the As-
sembly until half-past one o'clock, when it adjourned
until three.
In the course of the morning proceedings, Mr. Briggs,
of Sheffield, and one or two other delegates, stated that
the people were getting dissatisfied with their proceed-
ings, mid that they were expecting almost daily to be
recalled to their homes.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was
steady. Sales 5,000 bales. Railway Shares, although
in but limited request, had a tendency to advance.
The Belgian and other Continental papers received
to-day contain no news of particular interest. The
want of specie for the payment of wages was felt as a
great inconvenience by the manufacturers who had me-
morialized the Government to order the payment in
specie of the notes of the Societe Generale where the ob-
ject was to distribute the amount among workmen.
Another arrival from the Cape of Good
Hope gives us dates three days later than those
already to hand. There is no political news of in.
I teiest. The excellent precautions adopted to ensure
the tranquillity of the frontier were proving most
effectual, for even cases of stealing were become rare.
The Kafirs, indeed, are likely now to be organized into
useful communities, and to be taught more effectually
the arts of peace. Trade was increasing, but the im•
ports were stated to be too large for the exports, now
the military expenditure in the eastern province is likely
to be diminished.
The failures in the north of Europe still continue,
and much inquietude prevails in consequence.
yPel
aa
rt co
of our
In mercantile circles, having an interest in the
German trade, the idea is entertained in many quar-
ters that the Prussians will push their successes, and by
ment will
the aid of gun-boats and pontoons even penetrate into
the islands, and that the exasperatio❑ bits become so
ne-
gotiations '' drag theirlB4 slow length aloganffnigsa:A.,r,
have suffered
i amicable arrangement. Lord Palmerston has admitted
greatmtoh
aeatntemdt h,aaetsfkoNtrooabrtelo3en,
year
rbre
be overrun.
Secretary
cwaoervoey:dritrfnhougarnity.
Ft difficultoh
releti
The public Y
sales
most severely.
also that Russia has been applied to, and the question for
considerateion likely
t 0
00bwe
soonfar atrhraatngepdo,wer will allow
going off rathera
yet be made. Certainly, howevensnffarcionltoaidsrfpts"itpfl'hhioee
lo es of colonial and foreign wools are
favour the
Ayres will speedily
that the commerce of Buenos
in the Foreignllll;
of forei wer than the
y were, and the absence
shows symptoms of much felt, although the home trade
revival.
Money is very
easy in the recent exports. City, notwithstanding the
The Consol Market has be
the settlement of the accounten very Well supported, and
without any particular difficult
t has been proceeding
notations have been 83 to 84 y- For transfer, the
g
❑ext account day, 831 to 83. i.
Bank
kd for June 9, the
high as 1891 and l9lf; and India S Stock has been as
tock 931 E h
quer-bills have realised 395. to 425. prenai ' xe e..
Spanish Five per Cents. have been
._Ouse. The
12,1 to 131 and the
Three per Cents. 231 to ..1. Portuguese Four per4;Cents.
There is but little doine•
have been marked 18i. Dutch Two-and Z •a flail per
Cents. have been quoted 411 to 43.
Railway Shares, though quiet, are rather dearer.
BIIITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock l9l 1911,4 1891'; iai
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 82N14 YZ . .
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3 per Cent. Consols Anne 8332i -134
New 34 per Cent. Arms 831,04
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 Bl/2 7-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 8 11-16
India Stock 931

i%%

India Bonds under 1,0001..
South Sea Stock -
Ditto Old Annuities
Consols for Account - 83 'Xi 10. i
Exchequer Bills. 2id. & 3d.
1,000/.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Equador Bonds 2%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent -
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,lB4o -
Ditto Passive Bonds 314
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent • 23 4
,•' Ditto for the Account 233/4 •
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 3 per Cent 49f. --c. '
Exchange
Dutch 21% per Cent.,l2 Guild 421,4 411 43
Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SIIARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PK/ SIIAILE.
Aberdeen - -
Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 31,i - -
Ayrshire and Galloway - -
Belfast and County Down .. 14% .. .. - -
Birmingham & Oxford Juno... 20 -
3inningham, W 01.,& Dudley 10 ... . - -
Binning., Wol., & Stour Val. 121.45.... - -
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction 73/4 - ...... to -
Boston, Statnf., & Binning-. 5 - ...... to -
Bristol and Exeter - -
Do., Thirds - -
Buckinghamshire... l2l. 4s
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares - ...... to -
Ditto. Clydesdale Junction 50 - -
Chester and Holyhead 42%..... - -
Ditto, Preference l5 - -
Clarence. ... 781,E - ...... to -
Do., lst Class, 6 per Cent... 10
Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10 - -
Do., Gov. Loan, 4 per Cent. 10 - ...... to -
Direct London & Portsmouth 3% - to -
Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 25 - -
Dundalk and Enniskillen ... 17% - to -
East Anglia, 251. L. & E.,
an.d L. & D., . - ......to-
Ditto, 181., E. &II lB ...... - ...... to -
Ditto, 31. 10s., E. & H 3% 3% to -
Eastern Counties .
Do.Perpet.,s per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d... - -
Do., do N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... M dis.... to -
Do., Northern & Eastern... 50 - ...... to -
Do., Quarter .... . ...... ...... 12 % - ...... to -
Do., New
Eastern Union
Ditto, Quarter Shares -
Ditto., Thirds .. ......... ...13s. 4d - ...... to -
Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.) ... 10 . - -
Ditto, ditto ......... ........ 20 .....• - -
East Lancashire
Ditto, New .. ........... .... . 15
Do., New Quarters - -
East Lincolnshire 2O ;4 - ... - -
Edinburgh and Glasgow -
Ditto, Half Shares -
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12% - -
Edinburgh and Northern ... 25 ...... - -
I,‘
Ditto, New ... ..... ...... 6 - ..... . to -
Ditto, New port l3
Ditto, ditto, New
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 4 -
3 - ...... to -
Ditto, New .
Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlisle-84 65.5 d... - .. ... to -
Glasgow, Kilmarnock, & Ayr 50
•••••• - •••••• to
-.
- -
Ditto, New
Do. Preference Consolidated 15 ..- - - ... to -
Great Northern.... .......... ... 13 -
Do. London & York Exten. 2% - ...... to -
Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 40 - -
Great North of England 100 - -
Ditto, New 40L 5 53 ..... to -
Ditto, New 304 - ...... to -
Ditto, New 151......... -
... to _
Great Western 9O - -
Ditto, Half Shares - ..... to -
Ditto, Quarter Shares - ...... to -
Ditto, Fifths 2O ...... - ...... to
Do. New 171 9%..... -
Huddersfield and Manchester 26 „ to -
to
Ditto, Thirds 9 ...... - -
Hull and Selby 5O
..... - ••.... to -
Ditto, Half Shares . 25
Ditto, Quarter Shares
12,•••-• --- . ..... to -
Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 17% •...... to
...... to -
Do. do. and Norwich ...... 17% -
Do., do., Extension "•••• to ....
Scrip
(late (Camb. and Ely) 2%
Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50 to -
-
Do., Third 5.................... 10 - - ..".
to -
Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 ...... - -
Ditto, ditto .................. Ditto Half Shares 82 '•••.. 72 -
•••...... 43 -
to
Ditto Quarters ............... 14% 1114... -to -
Ditto Fifths 9
............ 81,43i,% to -
DittoSix.teenttis ..........• 01L...-. 6 . ... to -
Ditto Thirds (Reg.) - .. to -
Do. Liverpool and Bury... 43 - . ... to -
Do. (Rudders. and Sheff ) 38 -
Do., Wakefield, Pontefract,
-
and Goole 5O - -
Do., West Riding Union ...41. 2a.....334 % dis to -
Do., Preston and Wyre ... 25 -
Do., do., Half Shares (A) 9 -
Leeds and Bradford 5O ..... 91
Leeds, Dewsbury, & Manches. 471 - -
Do., Half Shares -
Ditto, Blue (scrip) ..... .... 2% - -
Leeds and Thirsk ........ ...... 45
Ditto, New - 26 . .... - ..... to -
Do., do., Prefer., 6 per Cent. 3%. .... - ...... to -
Liverpool. Crosby, and South-
port. - ...... to -
ttoo -
_
Liverpool, Manchester, and
..
Newcastle Junction. ...... ... 2% - ...
London Sr Blackwall --IV. 6s. 8d --•
Ditto New, No. 2 5l. 13s. 4d.... - ...... tto -
Do. Extension ........ -.....20
o
32%34.- to -
Lond., Bright., & South Coast 50
Do. Consolidated Eighths... 40 - to -
Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. 9 . - -.... to -
Do. Pref. Conv. 5 per Cent. 50 - - ... to -
Ditto, ditto
1852 50 ..... - -
Vondon and Greenwich... 124 15s. 4d... -
Ditto Preference lB/ 17s 2d... -
...... to --
London & North IVestern.....loo 133
...... to _
Do. Quarters (L. and B.) 22 -
Do. New
Do. Fifths - ...... to -
...... to -
............
t 0
00 =
Do. 40/. Shares..... L. &M. 20 ...... i
Do. 10/.... M. and 11. (A.) 710. .... -
„....
to
Do. 10/. .. 51. and B. (B.) 7%
Do. 104 ... M. and B. (C.) 1 -
London and S. Western-- 50 ... .. 45% ..... to 47
Ditto, New 50/........ .. ..... 42%...... - -
Ditto, New 404......... -.. 34 ...... -
..... . to -
Do. Tenths (Consolidated) 50 ...... ..
-
to -
-
Ditto, Thirds ... .. 10 -
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 1% ...... - -
Londonderry and Coleraine... 271
/2
Londonderry and Enniskillen 25 - ..... to -
Lowestoft (guar. 4 per cent.) 20 -
Ditto (guar. 6 per cent..,, 3
to -
blanch, Buxton, & Matlock 3 -
-Manehr, Sheffield, and Linc.l-

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