The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-04 00:00:00

50c . Paris and Strasburg, 532 f. 50c.; Tows and Nantes, 552 f.
50c. ; Paris and Lyons, 595 f.
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The following are the quotations for the new lines :
Lyons and Avignon Railroad (Talabot).so6Lsoc. ; ditto (Leeointe)
5021. 50c. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 5011. 50c. ; Bor-
deaux and Cette (Mackenzie), 5031. ; ditto, Espeleta, 599 f. 55c. ;
Charleroi, 4901.
Lvoss, Ilaitat 30.—Marseilles and ♦vignon, 941 f. 25c ; Paris
and Orleans, 1,282 f. 5,0 e. ; Routn, 1,0271. 50e. ; Yicraon, 692 i. 50e.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK E XCIIANGE, APRIL 2.
Boulogne and Amiens, 121—Ceylon, % —Dutch Rhenish, 5%
East Indian, %—GreatWestern Canada, 4—Louvain and Jernappe,
1% —Lyons and Avignon, 2—Luxembourg; 134—Madrid and Ya-
lentia, I—Natnur and Liege, 1% —Over Yssel, 3 dia.—Paris and
Strasbourg (Constituted), —Sambre and Meuse, 3% —West Flan-
ders,

DEPARTURE OF TROOPS FOR INDlA.—Yesterday, about
one o'clock, a detachment of troops, enrolee for Woolwich, preparatory
to embarkation Tor India, marched down the Ken t-road, headed by their
band. The road was crowded by persons who seemed to take great
interest in the brave fellows, and we think it not improbable that
many " a tall fellow" was stimulated by their example to enter her
Majesty's service, for a recruiting party, which was at hand, had a
long train of followers with gay ribbons in their hats...
VACANCIES IN THE CUSTOMS' DEPARTMENT.--Within
the last few days upwards of twenty lockers, twenty weighers and
several tide waiters, have. been called upon to retire from the service,
previous to being superannuated on pensions. Many of these men
have been in. the revenue service for thirty years. The vacant
situations are at the disposal of the Lords of the Treasury.
Her Majesty the Queen and Prince Albert, with other
members of th• Royal Family, honosred the French Theatre with
their presence 43 evening, being the last performance to ba glvpn

bell/rel:ester.
The Earl and Countess of Baddington haw, removed
from the Admiralty to their residence in Berkeley-square.
The Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst and the
Hon. Misses Copley leave town to-day for Turville Park, Buckle, for

the E,ster holidays. F
MAlZE.—Anciongt the uses to which maize may be
put, is that of feeding poultry. The poultry of Toulouse is remark-
able for its delicacy of flavour, and its texture of flesh and fat; it is
fattened on maize. A person accustomed to fowls so fed c:01 eg,sity
distinguish them in the market from any that may have been fat-
tened on other kinds of corn. So also maize is esteemed in the.touth
of France the best food for fattening pigs, insomuch that in parts
where maize is dearer than barley, still maize is purchased to finish

the fattening of a pig.
Canadian butter is cow selling at Sunderland fur ad.
per pound ; a large consUnment has been made to merchants in that

town.
MASTER MARINERS' BENEVOLENT SOCIETY. -OR
_ _ .

Thursday the eleventh annual meeting (..f the members of the above
Society was held at the Bridge-house Hotel, Southwark, to receive
the report for the past year, to elect officers, and on general business.
Admiral Sir Edward Codrington, G.C.8., President of the Institu-
tion, in the chair. The report stated that the Society was making a
steady progress ; and, notwithstrnding- the severity of the gales
during the past winter, experienced less loss than during former
years—the claims arising from shipwrecks and deaths being
1,1311. 4s. 6d., showing a diminution of the preceding year of
4651. 9s. There are now 1,174 registered members. Last April
there was a balance in hand of 1,1071. 6s. sd. ; subscriptions received
during the past year 1,5891. 18s. 6d. ; the expenditure amounted to
1,2151. 12s. 4d. The Society have now 5,088/. 10a. 10d. invested in
the funds, together with a balance In hand of 1,0511. Gs. Id., making
a total of 6,1344. 16s. 1 id. During this Society's existence it has
distributed 8,8291. 10s. 6d., being 4,6501., awarded to widows and
orphans ; 3,4301. to shipwrecked members ; and 7091. 10s. for partial
losses sustained by members whilst at sea. The report was unani-

mously adopted.
INFANT ORPHAN ASYLUM.—The anniversary festival

of this society was held on Thursday evening at the London Tavern,
and upwards cf 150 guests were present to do honour to the occasion.
Lord Caithorpe had been announced as the President, but his Lord-
shtp was unavoidably absent, and his place was supplied by Mr. B.
Bond Cabbell. The usual loyal toasts having been given and duly
responded to, the Chairman proposed " Health and Prosper'ty to the
Infant Orphan Asylum." This toast having been responded to with
enthusi ism, some of the recipients of the society's bounty went in pro-
cession round the room, and their cleanly and wholesome appearance
excited the warm approbation of the company. " The Army and
Navy," "the Church," and several other toasts were then drank,
and all of them, but especially the former, were enthusiastically re-
ceived. Lieutenant Waghorn's name was associated with the army
and navy, and the gallant officer returned thanks in a short but ap-
propriate speech. The list of subscriptions read during the eveoing
showed a collection in aid of the society's funds amounting to up-
wards of 1,7001. After a very pleasant meeting, the company sepa-
rated. The arrangements, it is hardly necessary to say, were in the
usual excellent style.
We regret to announce the decease of Lady Charlotte
Talbot, wife of C. R. M. Talbot, Esq., and sister to the present Earl
of Glengall. The melancholy event took place at Malta on the 22d
of last month, where her Ladyship had been residing for some months
past on account of her health.
ARRIVAL OF FOREIGN CATTLE.—Thursday morning
145 fine oxen were landed at the St. Katherine Docks, from two
Dutch steamers. Immediately after being landed they were driven
off to Newgate Market, to carcase butchers, to whom they were
consigned.
ALARMING FIRE IN BROWNLOW STREET, DRURY-
esorg.—Thurseay night, between nine and ten o'clock, a fire was dis-
covered to have broken out on the premises of Mr.Joues, a smith, re-
siding in Brownlow-street, Drury-lane. Immediately that the fire
was discovered, the fire-engines and brigademen from High Holborn
statics were sent for, which promptly arrived, followed in rapid suc-
cession by others, which were got into active operations. The fire
originated front the flue of the chimney of the forge, which commu-
nicated to the rafters and roof of the house. Immediately after the fire
was extinguished, it was discovered that the flames had communi-
cated to two houses at the back of Mr. Jones's premises, in Oho t's-
gardens. The firemen quickie,: directed their attention there, and
promply succeeded in subduing the fire in that direction.
A PROLIFIC STOCK.— On the morning of Wednesday
last Catherine Barry, a young Irish woman, living in Jenning's-
buildings, High-street, Kensington, was confined in the workhouse of
that parish, Gloucester-road, Kensington, and brought into the world
three children at a birth. The above A the third acceuchement of
this prolific women in that institution, having on the first occasion
had twins, the second three children, and on her admission the last
time she threatened Mr. Guazzaroni, the medical officer of the work-
house, that she would that time have fear. She was, however, dis-
appointed, and one of the last three infants died shortly after its
birth. The other two, with the mother, are doing well.
DIIRIIAM GREAT HORSE FAlR.—This fair was com-
menced on Monday, and continued for three days. It is celebrated
for its supply of first-rats horses. First-class horses, rising five years
old, and suitable for carriages, were purchased readily by the London
job-masters, at prices varying from 35 to 60 guineas a-head, and
pairs well matched in size (of bays or greys) realised from 120 to 160
gainers; unbroken colts fetched from 20 to 30 guineas; hunters of
good pedigree and celebrity, adapted for heavy country, ranged in
pries from 35 to 80 guineas; colts varied according to breed, from
16 to 40 guinea'. Several entire horses were offered at prices rang-
ing from 150 to 200 guineas ; cart horses, young, and well moulded,
fetched from 20 to 30 guineas, and upon the whole a tolerable good
business was done at high prices.
EXECUTION OF WILLIAM HUBBARD LT LEICESTER.
—This unfortunate man, who was convicted at the Leicester assizes,
for the murder of his wife, expiated his offence in front ef the county
Bridewell, at Leicester, on Wednesday morning. After his convic-
tion he behaved with great indifference as to his fate, until Saturday,
when, by some means, he obtained a brick from the Are-place. and
made an attempt to strike the police-constable, Bassford, who was
attendant upon him. Fortunately, however, his deadly purpose was
intercepted, and lie was prevented adding another crime to that far
which he was so shortly to suffer. He was then handcuffed to pre-
vent him doing further mischief; and this appears to have irritated
him erremely, as he manifested the utmost sullenness afterwards.
During Monday and Tuesday he maintained the most sullen obsti-
nacy, refusing to have tiny communication with the rev. chaplain,
who frequently called upon him, He slept soundly the latter part of
the night, and had to be awoke to prepare for his execution. The
Rev. Mr. Backer was in attendance upon him at an early hour on
'Wednesday morning, and endeavoured to bring him to a sense of his
awful situation, but he appeared determined to resist to the last ;
and as he was led from his cell to the drop, whilst the rev. chaplain
was reading the funeral service, be gave utterance to an expression
showing Ills disapprobation et' that part of the ceremony. Ile then
" Gentlemen, I have had an unfair trial and
ascended the drop, which was at a considerable elevation ; the rope
was attached to the bean!, and in less than a minute he was launched
into eternity, the oely remark he made being addressed to those
around him. lie said,
an unjust sentence," whips
avenue which Commanded a view ef the
and even the tops of the houses were
he repeated twice. He died almost
wdreithpowutasadsettritsteglgyieerowEdVeedry;
covered with people, Many of whom had travelled twenty or thirty
miles during the night to witness thee xecution.
AN INFANT PICKPOCKET,—A little boy, said to be
scarcely seven years old, was charged on Wednesday, at Bow-street,
with having attempted to pick the pockets of people passing along
the Strand on the previous evening. The :eater was oblige: to place
his little prisoner on a stool within the bay, Were he could be seen.
The constables who had captured hint swore that they bad watched
mileagmisistiTte, said his father was "dead
him industriously trying for a pocket worth picking, by carefully lift-
hie little creature, in answer
itio4quupestthioensskrut
and gone," and his mother got her living by selling flowers, and he
lived with her, in Georgestreet, St. Giles's. Idr. Henry told the
gaoler to put him aside for an hew or two, and sent a policeman to
request the mother to come forward. The policeman went to St.
otfotiliitentcohayt coat.
eT
Giles's, and returned without having found the mother, for the boy
could not tell the number, f the house she lived in. MrAlenry, how-
ever, sent the policeman back again, snit
in aeent en hour he returned
with the mother, and presented her, r.s.her a good-looking woman,
before the court, and thereupon the follong colloquy ensued: —Me.
Henry—How is it this boy of yours is running about the streets, try-
ing to pick pockets ? I'm afraid you have not done your duty by
him. You must have brought him up in a very bad way.—Woman
—I don't know, your worst/I'o have beat and towelled that boy
every day of his life, till I am hardly able to stir, and never the bit
of good can I get out of him.—Mr. Henry—l do not wonder at that.
The poor child wants teaching, not beating. Why don't you send
him tel school? you have excellent charity schools in St. Giles's.—
weneen—e have, your worship, sent him to school many times, bat
he always runs away.—Mr. Henry gave the young culprit some ex-
cellent admonition, and eventually gave him up to his mother, telling
her to send him to school once more, and if he ran away again to
bring him to that court, and he would see what else could be dune
ter him. The mother promised that she would, and she departed
with the infant pickpocket Its her band,
During the last few days one or two railway meetings
have occurred, the chief facts of which may be briefly stated. The
traffic of the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway continues to increase,
and that of the present year, as far as it has yet gone, shows very fa-
vourabre results. The amount of receipts for the last 12 weeks has
exceeded that of the correellonding weeks of last year by the sum of
2,4371. 19s. 6d. The shareholders were informed at their last meet-
ing that the directors would in the following September declare an
intermediate dividend for the year H 45, which they did at 21.
10s. on each 1001. share, and so on In proportion to the quarter
shares of 251. each, They have now recommended that
a further dividend of 21. 10s. per 100/, share, an ,l
ratet.bly for the quarter shares, be declared payable on and after the
24th inst., free of income-tax. The report of the Dublin and Kings-
town Railway shows a very considerable increase of traffic, and a
dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. was announced. The Ulster
Company pays a dividend of 18s. per share, the balance of net
profits for the half year being 10,0881. 3e. At the first half yearly
meeting of the Jamaica Railway the statements made were ex-
tremely satisfactory. The receipts as at present ascertained averagt
about 14,0001. per annum, and every hope was entertained of a pro-
gressive increase. The shareholders of the Ayrshire and
sch Caledonianeme, and
Railway Company have determined to wind up their
the committee propose forthwith to return 2/. per share.
TIIE STRIKES AT MANCHESTER. MANCHESTER.
few err
than two distinet
WEDNESDAY MORNING.— These are
strikes of the operatives of this town g nooing on at this moment. The
one has been its existence more than twenty weeks, the other is now
in the fifth week of its continuance. The Jrst is that of the journey-
men tailors. But as these things easily escape public attention, it
may not be out of place here to state simply, that the chief cause of
the 5, rike was a custom which had recently grown up here, and in
other large tewns, for the employers to give out work to be done at
the houses of the operatives, a practice which the operatives assert
to be pregnant with great danger to the public health, and the cause
of much misery, sickness, and suffering to the workers and their
families, arising from the over-crowding of ill-ventilated, and fre-
quently filthy apartments in which the work was carried en, it being
no uncommon thing fur three four, five, and even seven human
beings to be crammed into on; small room, which served the pur•
pose of workshop, sleeping room, kitchen, scullery, and all
other domestic purposes. The men insisted on having proper and
well-ventilated workshops or near the employer's premises. This
the masters peremptorily refused to accede to, and hence the strike.
At the outset about 300 of them en were involved in this strike. At
present the number actually on strike is about 150, the numbers
having been reduced by one or two large houses having yielded to
the
demands of the men, and others having found employment else-
where. It is said to be in contemplati°n the Tailors' Society in
London, after the Bth instant, to admit all that are now on strike in
Manchester as free members of that society, with the view of taking
them out of this portion of the labour market, and thus cripple the
spring operations of the Obstinate employers. Whether or not they
may be able to accomplish this object, of course remains to be seen.
A few
d ,
days ago, the committee here issued a monster placard, ad-
/eased To the Public," and headed " Continued Oppression of the
Journeymen Tailors." In this placard, after refuting some state-
ments made in some of the local journals, they give the number of
men now at work in the "st ruck shops," and also the ti number
who turned out from each shop respectively. From this Ital appears
th 270 men stn uck at the eutast, and that, at the end of twenty
weeks, tee employers have enabled to crocus, by adver-
tising,-
&c., I_3 very inferior
only been • •-•
woremen. Thus stands the case at pre-
sent. The strike has already cost the operatives 2,3001.
TRAVELS IN ALGEIRA AND TUNIS IN 1843••—" We havo
here two most interesting and entertaining. volumes upon
Northern Africa, under the rule, or misrule. of the French.
The gallant author, Captain Kennedy, who, in conjunction
with Viscount Feilding, has recently travelled through Al-
geria and Tunis, given: a most graphic and picturesque ac-
count of his adventures, inclirdinamong the w.ll
g those c
Arabs and Bedouins of the Desert. Captain Kennedy and
Lord Feilding appears to have visited every place cif note.
Tunis , • Sfax, the rose garden of the Desert ; ICairouan, one
of the most sacred cities of the Mahometans, and to which
scarcely any Europeans had previously been allowed to
penetrate; the site of ancient Carthage ; the magnificent
amphitheatre of El Jem ; as well as many other localities of
almost equal interest. At the present time, when the recent
unhappy events in Africa have attracted so much attention,
we feel especial pleasure in recommending this entertaining
work, as one which throws mush light on the customs and
condition of a brave but unfortunate people, and affords much
valuable information as to all that is remarkable in the
country they iu.laabit,"--Hood'a Alagazine.