The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-18 00:00:00

"FIFTY POUNDS DEWARD,

" Whereas, on the night of the 14th of August inst.,
James Bright, one of the police-constables of the borough
of Ashton-under-Lyne, was shot and wilfully murdered
in the public streets of this borough; now we do hereby
give notice that her Majesty's Government has offered a
reward of fifty pounds to any person who shall give
such information and evidence as shall lead to the dis-
covery and conviction of the murderer or murderers.
And we do also give notice that the Secretary of State
for the Home Department will advise the grant of her
Majesty's gracious pardon to any accomplice not being
the person who actually fired the shot, who shall give
such information and evidence as shall lead to the same
result.

" By order of the Mayor and Magistrates,
" HALL AND TAYLOR.
" Town-hall, Ashton-under-Lyne, Aug. 17."
BIRMINGHAM, THURSDAY.—This morning, between
two and three o'clock, two Irishmen, named Ragan and
Jenny, living respectively in the Lower-priory and Inge-
street, were apprehended by Chief Superintendent Ste
phens, charged with uttering seditious language at one
of the usual meetings of Confederates and Chartists in
Loveday-street. They were brought before Mr. Beale
and Mr. Luckcock, at the police-office to-day, and re-
manded until to-morrow.

George White, who was lately upon a visit to this
town on a Chartist mission, was apprehended in Man-
chester yesterday, and will to-morrow, with the prisoners
above-mentioned, be brought before the Birmingham
magistrates.

The town remains quite. In the early part of the
week it was rumoured that the disaffected intended to set
are to the mansions of Mr. James Taylor, of Moseley-
hall, and Mr. Muntz, M.P., of Ley-hall. The police
were consequently posted at those places for two days,
but they are now withdrawn. There does not appear to
be, as far as qn be judged from outward appearances,
the slightest pbability of a fiimult.

RIfiIIT 07 WAY THROUGH GLEN-TILT.--On Fri-
day last a discussion took place before Lord Curling-
hame, the ordinary on the bills on a note of suspension
and interdict presented by the Duke of Athole against
Mr. Gordon, a farmer in Aberdeenshire, being allowed
to drive cattle through the valley of Glen-Tilt to Castle-
town of Braemar, which was near his farm. Having
heard the case at great length, Lord Cuninghame said
that the arguments had been very full and very able, and
it appeared to him that the question as now raised was
one really of very great importance. Ho was inclined
very strongly to think that it was to be inferred from the
statements of parties as he had heard them, that the
public have had no recent continuous possession of the
road. That was still his impression, and accordingly
the party who first claimed it as a public road proceeded
upon a declarator. The respondent in this case, on the
other hand, came to assert his right to the actual and
immediate use of the road. That was certainly a dif-
ferent question, and ho doubted if there were at present
grounds for supporting such a claim; and upon that
point it was very material to observe that the claim as
held by the respondent, was not for a specific object, con-
fined to himself, but for the whole public, so that, if an
interdict were to be refused, the effect must unneces-
sarily be to declare that the farmers in the extensive dis-
trict to whisk the respondent belonged, would have the
same right to use the road as himself. It would open
the road to the whole public; and he doubted if that
would be reasonable when the question as to the exis-
tence of the road, of its continuous use in modern times,
was the very point to be settled. In the case before
Lord Ivory, it was maintained that this was not a servi-
tude road, but ono of the public roads of the country.
That issue was now fairly raised, but he was not pre-
pared to say that the road must be generally used in
the meantime by the whole public till the right to it was
ascertained.—Scoisraan.
From Palermo the date is the 4th of August, and
the French fleet from that port had sailed, it is said, for
Cagliara. The letters dwell on the exasperation mani-
fested by all classes against the Neapolitans, and the pro-
spects, in case hostilities should ensue, of a war al-
most of extermination. The abolition' of the order
of the Jesuits had just been decreed by Par-
liament. Their patrimony is to be confiscated to
the State, the foreigners amongst them are to be ex-
pelled, and they are no longer to wear the dress of their
order. Provision, however, has been made for their
support. Tho fathers are to receive four taxis (about
i s. 4d.) per day, and the lay brothers two taxis (Bd.) per
day, so that the treatment in this instance is far more
just than that which the body recently experienced at
Naples.
The advices from New York by the Hibernia,
announcing a decline of more than a half per cent. in
the rate of exchange, contributed yesterday morning in
some measure to the heaviness in the English funds,
Since the knowledge that considerable orders have
lately been sent out for Indian corn and provisions
renders it probable that the downward tendency
will continue. The tightness of the money-market
had in no way diminished, the rate being still from
12 to 18 per cent., and the long continuance of the
disparity in the rate as compared with that pre-
vailing in England was a subject of general surprise.
Owing to this pressure, the stock-market showed
some heaviness, but it had received support from a
number of orders, partly from England, but chiefly from
the continent. By many persons an expectation was en-
tertained of severe failures during the coming months of
September, October, and November, when the chief col-
lection of country debts commences by the im-
porting houses, but it is probable the orders now
gone out will cause an increase of confidence. At
Boston speculations in railroads, mills, &c., have long
been carried on to 'a great extent, and it is in that
city that the occurrence of a revulsion is most feared.
rho course of exchange at New York on London
is 1091 per cent., and the par of exchange between
England and America being 109 23.40 per cent.,
it follows that the exchange is 0.08 per cent.
against in England. But, the quoted exchange at
New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the in-
terest must be deducted from the above difference.
LIGHTING THE NEW HOTISES Or PARLIAMENT.—
Last night, experiments for the purpose of testing a
new system of gas burners, with which it is proposed to
light the interior of the New Houses of Parliament,
were made in Trafalgar-square, before a committee, and
Mr. Barry, the architect. A branch, containing eight
burners for consuming common gas, was introduced into
the reflector at the south-east corner of the square, and
which threw a most brilliant light, by which small print
could be read at forty paces. The result was considered
satisfactory.
FRENCH BUTTER.—Among the arrivals at present
taking place from the Continent are some parcels of
butter from France, which, not being of common occur-
rence, are of interest. The steamer Belfast, arrived
from Calais, has brought 32 packages, and the James
Watt, from llavre, 100 firkins of this article, the produce
of France.

111 E PRUSSIAN LEGATION.—Letters were received
on Wednesday from Berlin, in which his Excellency Cheva-
lier Bunsen states that urgent business had prevented his de-
parture for London, and that he is likely to be detained
longer in the Prussian capital than was originally contem-
plated. Madame Bunsen and family, who came to town
from Wales to meet his Excellency, will await Lis return at
the seat they have taken, near Barnet.
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.--Traffic for
the week ended Aug. 5, 1,807/. 4s. Id. ; ditto, ended
Aug. 12, 2,2351. 55.; Post-office, for conveyance of mails,
and toll from Shrewsbury and Chester Railway Com-
pany, not included.
The first of the new decimal coins, in conformity
with the plan of the present Master of the Mint, has just been
completed. It is a two-shilling piece, bearing the profile of
the Qtteen on the obverse.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was quiet, but
there was no change in the quotations. Sales 3,000 to 4,000
bales. Railway Shares were gloomy in the early part of the
day, and prices were declining. Subsequently a better feel-
ing prevailed, and there was a general improvement in the
quotations.
The expectation entertained in some quarters that the
Bank of England directors would advance the rate of dis-
count at their meeting yesterday, has not been realised, al-
though it is fully understood that the subject engages atten-
tion. Probably it may be considered that with the present
ample supply of bullion, and the prospect of finer weather,
a week's delay in raising the value of money will
be judicious. Much will, of course, depend upon the
continuousness of the drain of gold, and of a favourable
temperature, whether an advance takes place at all just
now. It would occasion,even if adopted at once, no incon-
venience to the mercantile community, for they are not spe-
culating, and the accounts we this day receive from abroad
tend to show that such operations in corn as have been en-
tered into are mostly on foreign account, the English cau-
tiously abstaining from purchases—to auy extent. We may
need supplies, but a brilliant autumn will much diminish
our wants.
The Corn Trade is dull this morning, with a good quantity
of foreign on offer.
The accident on the North Western Railway has been
much talked of in the City, and although captious opposition-
on the part of the engineers would be strongly condemned,
we must say that the reasonable bearing of the men -
who consider themselves aggrieved, and who as sober
individuals would be worth even a higher rate
of pay, enlists them many advocates. The night
travelling will certainly be diminished on this line,
unless a speedy settlement of the dispute is effected, for
rumour is sure to aggravate the extent of 'any accident
that occurs, and which even under other circumstances
might have taken place.
The meetings of the Eastern Counties, Great Western, and
South-Eastern Railway proprietors were of a more satis-
factory character, yesterday, than those of some other com-
panies, and may serve, probably, to restore a little more
confidence in railway investments, which at present greatly
need a lever.
The accounts from Germany received to-day advised the
commencement of the Danish blockade, but still there are
sanguine expectations of peace, through the able offices of
Lord Cowley.
The Funds have been a little firmer to-day. Consols 86 to
864 for Transfer, and 86% to 86% for Account. At present
the market is scarcely so good, some sales for money having
been effected_ Bank Stock is worth 196% to 198. The
Exchequer-bills of March are down to 355. and 325. pre-
mium. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 86i to 87k.
The Foreign Bonds are very dull. Spanish Three per
Cents. are 22i. Mexican Stock is 14 to 17, and Brazilian
703. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are at 44.
Shares are rather better.

ONE CLOSING
enICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICEF.
Bank Stock 1961/2 198 198
3 i or Cent. Reduced Anns 8614% 861/2
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities B6l/214 86 861/2 85%
New 3 per Cent. Aims__
Long Anns. to expire Jan.lß6o
Ditto, Oct. 10, 1859 ..... -16 % 8%
India Bondi', 1,0004
Ditto under 1,0001... . 26 p 27 p
Consols for Account .............. 861/2%1/2 86
Exchequer Bills. 21/2d. & 2d.
1,0001. March ...... ........... 32 35 32 p 32 p
1,000/. June 24 p 26 p
Small, June
PRICES OF FOREIGN FITNDB. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, Sinall
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent B4
Al Exican, 5 per Cent. 1846 l7 16% 16%
Ditto, Account
Portuguese 5 per Cents. -
Ditto, 4 per Cent — 1814
Ditto, Account ... ..... ...... 181/2
Russian Bonds ... .. — 1001/2
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840,
Ditto, Passive
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Ditto, Account

Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21,! per Cent., 12 Guild. ... 44

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22 th

PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSINGRAILW AY SHARES. PAID.
AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Aberdeen 5O
Amber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 33:t..»..
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 21A —
Belfast & County Down 16
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction .... ... 20 .
Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Dudley 10
Birming.,Wolverh'pton, •
• `v
and Stour Valley 131. 145...
Birkenhead, Lancashire, V V • 'or
and Cheshire Jam.— 10
Boston, Stamfd & Birm. 5 —
Bristol and Exeter B5
Ditto, Thirds „. 25
Buckinghamshire... 141. 4s. ..Y.c-
Caledonian .
Ditto, Half Shares .. 83A I• %
Do. New 10/. Pref 2l .. .. 21
Ditto,ClydesdaleJunc 50

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Chester and Holyhead... 47% —
Ditto, Preference l5
Clarence
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent.
Direct London & Ports-

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24
154
2%

14

month
Dublin and Belfast June 3O ...... •
Dundalk &Enniskillen 20
East Anglia, 251., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25 ....... .
Do., 181., E. & H.... 18
Do., 31.105.
Eastern Counties........ 20 ...... 141,i 11 14IA
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent.
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
Cent., No. I ..6/. 13s. 4d.... par
Ditto ditto, No. 2...61. 13s. 4d... par
Do. North. & Eastern 50
Do., 5 per cent.
Do. Quarters
Do. New
Eastern Union, Class A
(late E. U. Shares) 25
Ditto, Class A, ditto... 1
Ditto, Class B (I. &

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and B.) 2O
Ditto, Class C, ditto... 171,x..... .
Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 10 „.... . .... .. .....
Ditto, ditto
Ditto (C. & E.) guar
5 per cent. ..
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Ditto, New Quarters 61.....
Do., 6 per Cent. Pre-
ference Quarters
East Lincolnshire ...... 23
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..- 391,... ,
Ditto, Half Shares ... 15 .. .. .••
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121,4......
Edinburgh and Northern 25
Ditto, New 614 -
Ditto, Newport
Ditto, ditto, New qq. ....
Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorch. 2%
Ditto, New
Glasgow, Dumfries and
Carlisle . ............Si. 6s. 8d.... .„.
Glasgow,Kilmar., & Ayr 50
Ditto, New ... . 40
Do. Preference Consol. 15
Great Northern
Do., London and York 214 — -

10%

2%
39%

51:4

:rest South. and West
(Ireland)
Great North of England.loo ... .•
66
Ditto, New, 40/. ..... ... 15
Ditto, New, 30/ 3O
Ditto, New, 151......... 14 .. .. .• —
Creat Western 9O ... .. 82 33 81........ 81
Ditto, 1/2 Shares 5O ......
Ditto, 14 Shares
Ditto, Fifths 2O
Ditto, New 171........ 13 ... .. 1014 lOl
Huddersfield and Manch. 28
Ditto, Thirds
Hull and Selby .. ...... 50 ......
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ......
Ditto, 14 Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50 ......
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93
Ditto, ditto
Ditto, % Shares ...... 43 ... ..
Do. Quarter Shares... 17% — ..
Do. Fifths... ... 9
1)o. Sixteenths 64 — .. • •
Do. Thirds (Reg.) l3 .....
Do. New, Gua.6 perct. 2%•••••• ...
Do. Liverp. and Bury 43 ......
Ditto 1,4 (late Hud-
dersfield and Sheff.) 38 - •• ......••••. .....
Do.(Waketield,Ponte-
tract, and Goole) ... 50
Do.( W. Riding Union) 6 ..... --••••••-•—• •••
Do. (Preston & Wyro) 25
Do. % Shares (A)... 9%
Leeds and Bradford...... 50
... ......
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 50 ..••••
Do., Half Shares ...... 22 %..-- —...—
Do., (blue) Scrip...... 2%... ..
Leeds and Thirsk ...... 60 ......
Ditto, New ...... ..-... 30
Do., Prefer., 6 per CL 3%......
Liverpool, Crosby and _
Southport . .......... ... 3% ......
Liverp., Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction... 2% — z ..-
London &Blackwall...l3/. 68.8 d.... 41,2
Do. Extension ..... ... 22%...... ••••••
London, Brighton, and
South C0r0t......... 50
Do. Consol. Eighths. 50 —
Po. Guarant. 5 per ct.., 9 ...... 814
Do. Pref. Con. 5 per ct. 50 _ ... ~,
Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 —
Ditto, New 5/., guar.
6 per cent.
London and Greenwich 12/15s 4d — .........
--
..
(1. ..5
Ditto, Preference... 18/ 17a 2d — ..... —***
Loudon and N. Western 100 113% 113 x
Do. Quarters (L. & B.) 22
Ditto, New
Ditto, Fifths .....
..
.. 2
Do. 40/.Shares(L.M.) 20
Do. 101. (M. & B.) A. 9
Do. 101. (51. & B.) B. 9
Do. 101. (M. & B.) C. 1
..
Lonzi. &S. Western
Do. New bOl. ... ..... 421,4„ 2gii ........... —391 A
-... .41 .......... • 28/2

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