The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-30 00:00:00

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)
_ _

The most painful excitement has prevailed at Norwich
since Tuesday, when it was discovered that the Recorder
of Norwich, his son and daughter, had been most brutally
murdered at the country seat of the learned gentleman.
No reason has as yet been assigned for the perpetration
of the triple assassination.

COURT CIRCULAR.
OSBORNE, WEDNESDAY.
The Queen and Prince Albert drove out yesterday
afternoon in an open carriage.
This morning her Majesty_walked in the pleasure-
grounds of Osborne.
Prince Albert went out shooting this forenoon. His
Royal Highness was attended by Colonel Berkeley
Drummond ani Captain the Hon. Alexander Gordon.
The Royal Children took their usual pony and
walking exercise to -day.

The Earl of Clarendon visited Lord John Russell
yesterday. Lord John Russell left his residence in
Chesham place in the afternoon, for Pembroke Lodge,
Richmond Park.

YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BER-
WICK RAILWAY.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,--1 do not expect that even your powerful pen,
much less that of your correspondent " Verax," how-
ever true may be his statements, will restore sanity to
the minds of railway speculators, in respect of the York,
Newcastle, and Berwick. The madness against this
line is as decided as the madness was in favour of the
South Sea bubble. When a certain and very handsome
dividend will not c mvince the man who has his hun-
dreds or thousands to invest, we may be sure his mind is
no longer within the regions of " common sense."
" Verax" shows the steady increase of the traffic returns
on the York, Newcastle, and Berwick—the last week is
similarly favourable. Let us take the traffic returns of
the these last weeks, the distances being 32f mites longer
in-1847 than in 1848 :-
1847. 1848. Increase.
X 11,418 ... X 13,682 ... £2,216
11,056 ... 13,709 2,653
11,036 ... 13,472 ... 2,436
Such are the traffic returns in these bad times ; and if

in such times the directors can pay seven per cent. with
ail annual surplus of 76,0001., the shareholders who have
bought for investment may sleep comfortably. I confess
myself to be of this class. The ridiculous depression of
this stock has induced me to turn every farthing I could
spare into York, Newcastle, and Berwick shares, and
those proprietors who, like myself, turn a deaf ear to the
alarmists, all being, as far as I can learn, either selfish or
silly, will, befure two years roll over our heads, have
abundant cause to rejoice that they held fast, untnindfu.
of the growls of the packs of hungry " Bears" that fre.
quent the Stock Exchange.
Manchester, Nov. 30, 1848.

SANDS.

CABINET COUNClL.—Summonses were issued to all
the members of the Cabinet to postpone the Council ap-
p. iut4 d to be holden this afternoon at the Foreign-office.
The Council is to take place on Tuesday next, December
5, when all the Ministers will be in town.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL.—We are happy to learn
that the Premier is quite recovered from the severe culd
he- caught a fortnight ago. The Noble Lord, with Lady
J. Russell and family, purpose to reside at Pembroke
Lodge, Richmond, until a fortnight atter Christmas, and
then come to town for a permanency.
Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer is, we learn, shortly to
lead to the hymeneal altar the Hoe. Georgians Wellesley,
youngest daughter of the late, and sister to the present,
Lord Cowley. The ceremony, it is said, will be per-
formed at Hatfield House, the seat of the Marquis of
Salisbury, uncle of the fair fiancée. The Duke of
Wellington, and a large family party will assemble there
on the occasion.

ROYAL VISIT TO BRIGHTON.--TheiF Royal High-
nesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the
Princess Mary, have been staying with the Duchess of
Gloucester at the Bedford Hotel since Saturday last,
where they arrived in the afternoon from honouring the
Duke and Duchess of Norfolk, at Arundel Castle, by a
visit of three da) s.
OSBORNE, ISLE OF WIGHT, Nov. 29.—ROYAL
SHOOTING PARTY.—His Royal Highness Prince Albert
crossed the Ferry this morning on a shooting excursion
to Parkhurst, his Royal Highness was attended by
Lieutenant Colonel the lion. C. B. Phipps, Captain the
Hon. Alexander Gordon, and Colonel Berkeley Drum-
mond. The day was a November one, a Scotch mist,
and a hard south-wester. _ _

THE LATE VISCOUNT MIIILDOURBE.—It is arranged
that the funeral of the late Viscount Melbourne is to
take place to-morrow, when the mortal remains of his
Lordship are to be consigned to the family vault in Hat-
field Church, about three miles from Brucket Hall.
The Rev. J. S. Broad, M.A., Incumbent of St.
George's, Newcastle-under-Lyne, has been appointed to
the Head Mastership of the Grammar School of that town

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE` 8'
Ci i Y, QUAR TER TO THREE.
The market tor Cotton at Liverpool yesterday
steady, but not quite so aetive. The sales were esti'
mated at s,ooo.bales, including 1,000 American for el.
port :—viz., 4,000 American at 3-id. to 6d.; 450Pernats,
&e., at 44d. to 5d.; 200 Bahia at 4-id. to 5d.; 100 EgYr
din at 5:1,-d. to 6cl. ; and 200 Surat,. at 20. to 3d.. 111
Railway Shares business was limited, and prices wer
a shade lower.
The letters received by her Majesty's packet Exprel,
from Rio de Janeiro, are to the 15th October, and supll
various interesting items of commercial interest not give"
in the papers received by the Sampson. The packet
adds another 100,0001. to the recent large arrival, t
specie, and whit to our mind is of greater 1n013°5
it confirms the impression we had entertain,
of a disposition lately again to over-suPP,4
the South American Markets. The import duties 'lli
eree of October 1, 1847, is not to come into force lin",
January, 1850, therefore the Rio market may be onrf
posed to offer some encouragement to shippers °
manufactures, but we should inquire what can be tbl
utility of forcing off goods, even if entered (111
free, beyond the wants of
.consuniptiom ~„1
mercantile report, now before us, states 1"".1
the imports of almost every article had au
h
t.normous, and that business in piece-goods was 1011,
than in the previous month, and, further, " it is trim)
alarming to think what may be the result of a c°11:
tinuance of imports, nut only in the face of a verf,
limited inquity, but at a period of the year vibe"
trade is almost always at a stand." It nil
be alarming to think, but one must think for
that, and doing so we cannot but arrive at the concluso
that severe loss, if not ruin, awaits many. Pale'e,:
in the trade. It has been our province
hear much lately in the way of complai°,'
but the statements made personally to us by one or t,'
merchants in the Brazilian trade, " beat" all we hiLl
heard for some time as to trading tactics. Long nret
heavy losses, and returns upon capital where the °poi;
tion is successful, far below what an investment in
Funds would yield, are but rough outlines which shedl
in would render more extraordinary. Such a or°
never can be long pursued.
The Continental advices are of a more tranquil cibi/j:
raeter to-day, and the position of the Pope is not al,
perate as was alleged. The difficulty of arriving to
conclusion as to the issue of the Presidential elect
does not materially diminish, though the chances of olv,
.vaignac are believed to be improving.
The London Money Market is extremely easy'
much so, that some parties have an idea that the Nt'j
of England will retitle, its rate of discount. As we ""11
money already superabundant, and conceive that
adopting such a measure the direCtors would be inerteol
looking to the proprietary profits, not to the interest
the public, we may be permitted to hope that no 611""
intention at present exists.
The English Stock Market closed very heavily yo-
ter
day, Consols being 878 1, but this morning the libt
is looking up a little, the rates being 878 to i•
foreign nee s has made them better. New Of r
and-a-Quarter per Cents. are 86i f, and the Three 51,
Cents. 86 to -I. Exchequer-bills have been at 395. to

premium.
Dital
The Foreign Securities have been rather dull. S„01„0,
Five per Cent=., 14 to 12, and the Three per Lttt
24i to 25-k. Portuguese Four per Cents., 24i to
Mexican, 21i to it. Brazil Stock has been at 75. PIIt
Two-and-a-Halt per Cents. have been 47i. !Sir
The Railway Share Market is not active, but
rof
quotations are obtained. Caledonian, Great Westeet
North 13ritiA, and South-Eastern, and some feW°'
lines, are better.

410
ONE 00),„0,
eitick.;, of :iltITIAli I,IINDS, O'CLOCK. raiiit6
For Cent. Reduced Aims. 861,8 86 86 !di 871
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities...— 87%14 % SO
New 314 per Cent. Ann 5......
Long Anna. to expire Jan. 1860 -16 % li
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 8 13-16 8 i
95f'',
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
1177
Consols for Account B7l/24
t.;xcliequer Bills. 2%d. & 2d. 451
1,000/. March ... ..... 49?
1,0001. June
500/. Mai eh. ,

500/. June
Small, March 45 p
Small. June

4-51/
41?
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7
134

UNE
O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds
Equador Bonds

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.

Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1846 2l %AI
Portuguese 5 per Cents. —
2.1
Ditto, 4 per Cent 24%34 11
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, 3 per Cent ...... 25' 25 24?
Ditto, Account 24%
Dividends on the above payable in London. 41
Dutch 2% per Cent., 12 Guild 473a .0
Ditto, Account
PRICES OF BUSINESS DONK Cl:co,.
oSil'a
RAILWAY SHARES. PAl—ir, •AT ONE O'CLOCK. Pl." 0
1
Aberdeen 5O . ... 15%
Amber. Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 4k..„..
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 7
Belfast & County Down 19
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junct., calls duly
...
paid, ( r with a guaran. 20 ...... ... ......
..,,
Do, withoutguarantee 20 . ...
Birming, Wotverlf ton,
and Dudley, calls duly
pd, or with guarantee 10 ..... 13% 14 14
Do. without guarantee 10
Birming., Wolverh'pton,
and Stour Valley 13/. 145... .. . ''..
Birkenhead, Lancashire,
....
and Cheshire Junc.... 10
....,
Bo:40n, Stamfd & Birm. 5 ...
Ditto, Thirds
Luckinahamshire... 14/. 4s.
Caledonian
..,,,
Ditto, Half Shares .. 83A ...... ......
Do. New 10/. Prof-- 5 ..... 4%
.....
Ditto,ClydesdaleJunc 50
Chester and Holyhead... 50
Ditto, Preference l5
Clarence
...,
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct. 10
..0 Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10 ...... --•
Do. Government Loan,
••-• 4 per Cent.
.--
Direct London & Ports-
mouth - .... .. ..
Dublin and Belfast June. 35 .....
Dundalk & Enniskillen 20 „
East Anglia, 25/., L. &
E. and L. and D...... 25 ......
Do., 18/., E. &11.... 18 ......
Do., 31.105.
Eastern Counties 2O ....... 11 LAA....,..
Do. New Guaranteed
6 per Cent. .....
Ditto, Extension, 5 per
...
Cent., No. 1 6/. 13s. 4d....
...-
Ditto ditto, No. 2 61. 13s. 4d...
..,
Do. North. & Eastern 50
714
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 (L &
6
and B.) 2O
••••
Ditto, Class C, ditto... 20 . .... ....
••••
Do. Scrip (6 percent.) 10 ..-.. ........ .....
....
Ditto, ditto - ....««......
Ditto (C. & E.) guar.
••••
5 per cent.,.......... 2% .- —
••••
East Lancashire
..•••
Ditto, New
.•••
Ditto, New Quarters 614
Do., 6 per Cent.
.o,Pre-
ference Quarters ... 614 ...... ... ......
East Lincolnshire ...... 25 ~ 24% .. ......
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 .._.„
Ditto, Half Shares ... 15 .. .. 91,4 •••
....•
Edinburgh and Northern 25 —
Ditto, Newport l5 —
Exeter,Yeovil, & Dorcb. 2% PA A
Glasgow, Dumfries, and

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••••
Carlisle - .... ..... ......
....„
Glasgow,Kilmar ,& Ayr 50 .... -
Do. Preference Consol. -
Great Northern
......
Do., -IA. A Deferred ... 12%«.... - ....
Do., % B 6 per Cent. 24
guaranteed ... ..... 6%e...... 25/2
•-•
Do. Extension 2% ...... -
;refit South. and West. 210
(Ireland) - ••• ...... .• •••
....•
rest North of England 100 ...... -
...•
Ditto, New, 40/. ..... ... 40 -
••••
Ditto, ditto 25 - .... ..........
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Ditto, New, 30/ 3O - ........ .." .• •
,„,..•
Ditto, New, 15/ ..... .... 14 .. - ........, .....
~,,,.
Great Western 9O - ...... 40
Ditto, 1,4 Shares
Ditto, IA Shares
Ditto, Fifths....... ..... 20 -
.....
Ditto, New 171........ 13 ... .. - ........ „
...,
Huddersfield and Manch. 30 - ........ .••••••
.....
Ditto, Thirds -
ilull and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... 96
Ditto, Half Shares ... 25 ...... 47 47% Ditto, 1,4 Shares -
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
..-
Ditto, Thirds -
••••
Lancashire & Yorkshire 93 -
••••
Ditto, ditto -
....
Ditto, % Shares ..._. 43 ... ..
Do. Quarter Shares... 17% - ........«..... 4
,4
Do. Fifths... ........ .... 9 - •
••••
Do. Sixteenths 614, -
Do. Thirds (Reg.) l3 ..... - lO
....
Do. New, Gua. 6 per ct. 5 - ..... .........
...,
Do. Liverp. and Bury 43 -
Ditto % (late Hud-
dersfield and Sheff.) 43 - - ...........
Do.(Wakefield,Ponte-
••••
tract, and Goole) ... 50 -
..-•
Do.( W. Riding Union) 7 .. ... .." ... ....
...„,
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25 -
•••
Do. 1/2 Shares (A)... 91,x...... -
..-•
Leeds and Bradford 5O - ...... ..... •• • ~,,..
Leeds, Dewsbury, &c.... 50 . -
•••
Do., Half Shares 25 ...... - ...- .........
......,
Do., (blue) Scrip 2%... .. -.
--
Leeds and Thirsk - ••"••" ......
.....
Ditto, New ..... ........ 35
- •• ••. ........
......,
Do., Prefer., 6 per CL 3% ▪ -
Liverpool, Crosby and
....
Southport .
3142 - ••• ...... ......
Liverp., Manchester, and
...•
Newcastle Junction... 2% - ..... .. ........ .....
London & Black wa11...13/. 6s. 8d - ....... •• ...... --'
Do. Extension ..... ... 221 ▪ - •••• ..... ••••'"
London, Brighton, and 28
South C0a5t...... ... 50
~,,.
Do.Guarant. 5 per et-, 9 - -
Do. Pref. Con. 5 per ct. 50 .. ... - .......•••••••• /
Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 - ........•
Ditto, New 5/., guar. ..•••
6 per cent. .. 4 - ....... .. ......
....„,
Lniclen and Greenwich 12/15s 4d - ... ...... •••••• ..-•
Ditto, Preference... 18/ 17s 2d -. .... ... ..... ...

(11, NENVB.
0 THHREE•
yesterday wir
sales were eats'
mericau for'
d.; 450 Permit*
5d.; 100 Egg
lid. to 3d.. 111
and prices well

packet Exprok
)ber, and supPll
iterest not given
o. The rat
irge arrival of.
greater import
ad entert'°
.o ovcr-saPP4
port duties dir,
into force OW
:et may be surf
to shippers °,
chat can be th
r entered del
isumption.
states th°
de had bee°
oda was 1101°6
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cult of a on:
face of a yfr„
he year lirue:
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think for all
,t the conclatil
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r province
of complain"
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