The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-24 00:00:00

COLONIAL.

SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is dull and
inactive, only 150 hhds having been sold at about previous
rates. Tke public sales have offered 5,703 bags Mauritius,
2,872 bags 10 casks Bengal, 324 bags Madras, 37 cases and
casks Penang, 230 hhds Cuba Muscovado, and 140 boxes
Clayed ditto, all of which went off heavily, only about two-
thirds finding buyers at rather lower rates for all de-
scriptions, excepting the better sorts of Mauritius, which
brought the extreme value. Very low soft to good
brown Mauritius sold at 35s to 455; low to fine
yellow ditto, 45s fid to 52s 6d, low to fine white Be-
nares Bengal, 49s 6d to 55s 6d ; good brown to fine grainy
christalised yellow, 45s 6d to 67s 6d ; a few lots soft greyish
yellow, 46s 6d to 47s 6d; good brown to good yellow Cuba
Muscovado, 44s to 52s ; mid brown to good elayed yellow,
but soft, 42s 6d to 49s 6d ; and mid white ditto, 583 to 58s fid.
The quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the
East and West India Docks was 335 hhds, 26 tierces' 46 bar-
rels; there were taken for home consumption, 970 hhds,
117 tierces, 268 barrels. The stock in the same places is
7,390 hhds, 890 tierces, 2,324 barrels.
COFFRE.—The market has been dull.
Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 9 puns 23 hhds; there were taken
for home consumption 254 puns 37 hhds, and exported 174
'puns 92 hhds. The stock in the same places is 12,073 puns
1,326 hhds.
TA L LOW. —P.Y.C. is 48s to 48s 3d per cwt. on the spot,
and Town 52s 6d per cwt.
TEA.—There is a steady business doing, with a good con-
sumption. The price of ord to good ord Congou is 91Ad to
10d per lb, and of good ord to best middling Twankay 2d to
Is ld per lb.

REGULATIONS OF THE FRENCH

RAILWAYS.

The Moniteur of the 18th November contains a royal
ordonnance, issued on a report of the Minister of Public
Works, fixing the general regulations that are herce-
forth to be observed by all railway companies in working
their lines. This ordonnance contains not less than 78
articles, referring to the several sections of the way ;
working stock ; the composition of trains ; the depar-
ture, circulation, and arrival of trains ; fares ; superin-
tendence of working; regulations relating to passengers;
and general arrangements. The following are the
principal points referred to :
" The Way.—The stations are to be considered part
of the public domain, and as such to be regulated by the
superior authorities. The entrance, the circulation, and
the standing of public or private carriages aro to be
subjected to the decisions of the Minister of Public Works.
The repairs of the way and of the works depending on
it, though evidently at the discretion of the companies
are to be made known to the Government authorities
who can interfere when anything is unsatisfactory. The
crossings and passages on the line are to be subjected to
government regulations, particularly in what relates to
the barriers required for the latter. High embank-
ments, viaducts, and bridges over rivers and streams,
are to be defended by strong parapets. All stations,
passages on the level, &c., are to be well lit up.
" The Working Stock.—Locemotives are in the first
instance to be subjected to certain prods of strength,
for the boilers, axletrees, wheels, &c. They are to be
provided with an apparatus to catch the pieces of coke
falling from the furnace, so as to prevent their reaching
the ground. Every means must also be employed to
prevent sparks from issuing from the funnel, whereby
property along the line has, from time to time, been set
on fire and consumed. The report regrets that the
grating at present in use is not found to be efficient.
Axle-trees aro in all cases to be made of wrought-iron
of the first quality.
" Composition of Trains.—All companies are bound to
furnish a sufficient number of carriages of every descrip-
tion to supply the wants of each station. The hours
fixed by the company for departure are to be rigorously
observed. As the public, in a great measure are depen-
dent on railways for their mode of transport, these two
regulations are absolute on all companies whatever ;
when any exception to this rule is permitted, as in the
case of direct trains, it is the government authorities
who must regulate the matter. In cases of 4:e or
extraordinary movement from one point to another, the
company is obliged to provide an additional and suffi-
cient number of carriages of every class ; the number of
carriages for a sigle train is not to exceed 24, and this is
to be considered rather as the exception than the rule.
Double locomotives are permitted, as otherwise trains
would be multiplied to a dangerous extent. But when-
ever the second locomotive is employed, the cause of
such proceeding must be entered in a book. No matters
liable to explosion are to be transported in a train in
which passengers are carried. A means of communica-
tion must always be established between the conductor
and the engine-driver.
" Departure, Circulation, and Arrival of Trains.—A
number of articles refer to the measures of precaution to
be used in starting trains at proper hours, so as to leave
a sufficient time between each ; the maximum of speed ;
the precautions to be taken in passing through tunnels, &c.;
they also regulate the passage of extraordinary trains ;
the obligation of communicating by signals ; and the
general superintend ence of the line. Registers are to
be kept at every station for marking down the causes of
all delays. No train is ever to leave before the hour
appointed in the printed lists.
" Fares.—The conditions of the concession generally
regulate the tariffs, but a company may lower its prices,
if it thinks fit, subject, however, to the condition of
keeping them so, for a certain time. As a general rule,
however, no changes whatever can be made by the
company without first submitting them to the govern-
ment authorities. Railways that have been conceded
prior to 1835 will not be subject to these, regulations
until April 1, 1847. Equality of charge is to be strictly
enforced, as- otherwise the companies could become
unjust to one locality at the expense of another.
" Superintendence of Working.—This section,'which has
been already in great measure anticipated by the Railway
' Police Bill, dwells on the appointing royal commissaries
and their functions. It is unnecessary to do more than
simply refer to this part of the report, since its chief
provisions are already known to the public.
"Regulations Relating to Passengers.—All persons
unconnected with the company and the service are for-
bidden to enter the premises of a railway without per-
mission, or to stand or circulate, or to place there
objects of any kind, or to introduce horses, dogs, or
other animals, or to cause vehicles of any kind to circu-
late there. Government authorities are an exception to
this clause. Passengers are not to lean out of carriages,
or pass from one to another, or carry loaded firearms, or
leave a carriage when in movement ; the other prescrip-
tions are generally similar to those in force for common
carriages.
" General Arrangements.—No person can sell any
thing within the precincts of a station without permission
from the authorities. When a line crosses several de-
partments the attributions conferred by the present
regulations on the several prefets may be concentrated
in one. Every person employed by a railway company
must wear a uniform, in order that the public may at
once see, in case of need, to whom they are to apply.
Signal-men, guards, and barrier keepers may wear a
sabre. At each station a book must be kept to receive
the complaints of passengers. Copies of the present
regulations are to be constantly kept placarded in all
stations ; copies are alo to be given to each person em
ployed, and whatever relates to passengers is to be hung
up in each carriage."

OTAIIEITE.—The following memorial to Lord Pal.
merston, on the subject of French interference in Otaheite,
was adonted at a public meeting held in the Town-hall
of Tewkesbury on Friday last, the mayor in the chair:—
" We the inhabitants of the borough of Tewkesbury and
its vicinity, beg leave to express to your Lordship our
deep sympathy with the Queen and Christian people of
Otaheite, in their sufferings under the dominion of the
French in that island, and the contiguous island of
Eimeo. That whilst we are anxious most carefully to
avoid any movement which might by possibility embroil
the respective Governments of France and England, we
do most earnestly entreat her Majesty's Government to
adopt such measures, through negotiation or otherwise,
as shall by• specific mutual guarantees ensure to the
inhabitants of the Society Islands, namely, Raiatea,
Taahaa, Boroboro, Huahine, and Maupiti, the peaceable
and permanent possession of their native soil. We
moreover urgently implore your Lordship to obtain from
the French Government a positive and explicit p!edge
that any portion of "the Otabeitian population who may be
disposed to retire from that island and from Eimeo shall
be empowered so to do, without molzstation or subse-
quent interference with their persons or property."
At the Castle of Exeter, on Friday last, Mr. Mat-
thew Cheriton, of whom it was said in Court that he has
an annual income of 901. a year, besides being possessed
of property to the amount of 700/, was convicted of
stealing turnips from a field in the occupation of_ Mr.
Blake, in the parish of Kenton. He was detected in the
very act of pulling the turnips and putting them intabis
hag, and all he could offer in defence was that he had not
removed them.from the field. The Court very properly
dwelt' on the enormity of the case, looking at the state
of his circumstances, and sentenced him to be impri-
soned one calendar month, and kept to hard labour,---
"F alnwiith Paner.