The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-10 00:00:00

Sub-Committee No. 4.

This Committee met to-day, at twelve o'clock, in room
No. 11, when there were present, Sir W. Heatheote, Chair-
man, Mr. Evans, Mr. Home Drummond, and Mr. Hope
Johnstone.

AYLESBURY AND THAME JUNCTION
RAILWAY BILL.

This was a Bill to make a Railway, in continuation of the
Aylesbury branch of the London and Birmingham Railway.
The standing orders were complied with. The length of the
line is represented as 14 miles, and the cost is estimated at
100,0001. Mr. Robert Stephenson is the engineer, and the
agents were Messrs. Wright, Smith, and Co.
MANCHESTER, SHEPI'IELD, AND MID-
LAND JUNCTION RAILWAY RILL.

By this Bill it is proposed to form a railway from Sheffield
to Chesterfield, and from Dronsheld, through Chatsworth to
Bakewell. The cost of the line is estimated at 1,050,000/.
for a length of twenty-three and a half miles.
The engineer Is Mr. Vignolles, and the agents, Dorrington,
Hayward, and Co.
There was no opposition, and the standing orders were
complied with.

MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
era M.'"u-R3X3S,T9.
SMITIIPIELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 is to 41 5s ; Clover ditto, 41 8s to
51125; Oat Straw, 1/ 115 to 11 13s ; IS Straw, 11 13, to 1/ 15s
per load. Trade dull, at barely last week's prices.
CumsEaLaNn.—Meadow Hay, 31 Ss to 418 s ; Clover ditto, 41 8s
to 5/ lOs ; Oat Straw, 11 10, toill 12, ; Wheat Straw, 11 13s to 11 15s
per load. Supply but moderate, and trade somewhat heavy.
WiIITECHATEL.—AIeadow Hay, 31 3s to 41 So ; Clover; ditto, 418 s
to 3i 2s Gd; Oat Straw, 11 105 to 11 12s , Wheat Straw, 11 12s t• 11 14s
per load. Trade dull, at our quotations.
COLONIAL.
St:GAIL—The market for British Plantation is heavy, only about
60 hhds having been sold at previous rates. The public sales
have consisted principally of 3,841 bags 34 casks Mauritius ; 1,239
bags Bengal; 1,450 bags Madras, and 1,509 boxes brown and
yellow Havannah. All the Sugar admissible for home consumption
found buyers at previous prices ; good brown to fine yellow Mau-
ritius brought 46s 6d to 53s ; good to tine soft yellow Bengal, 48s 6d
to 50s ; low to good brown Khaur, ditto, 37s to 38s, and mid brown
to flue yellow, 42s to 525. The Havannah was all taken in at 215 to
26s for low brown to good greyish yellow, being chiefly much above
the value. 242 puns West India Molasses at anchor only partly
found buyers at 20$ for good Berbice.
Coma is dull.
Mar.—There has been very little demand ibr this article. 6 s
6d
Rum.-676 bags of Bengal were all taken in at 15s 6d to 1
for small broken to mid white, being above the value.
SALTPETEL-2,376 bags Bengal were mostly taken in at 25s Gd for
13 to 13N per cent refraction, which is above the value; a small
portion sold at 26s 6d for 11% per cent refraction, being rather dearer.
Spices.-145 chests Cassia Lignea sold readily at 52s to 64s for ord
to good quality, which are fully previous prices.
TALLOw.—r.Y.C. is 42s Gd to 42s 9d per cwt on the spot, and
town 45s Gd.
TEA.—The market is dull, but the deliveries are good.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT,
NORTH WILES RAILWAY COMPANY V. ARCHER.
PORTDYNLLAEN HARBOUR.

This case, which has excited considerable interest, has been decided
in favour of the defendant, counsel on behalf of the Company having
nientioned to the Court on Saturday last that they would consent to
allow the injunction to be dissolved. By this move on the part of the
plaintiffs, any expression of opinion by the Court upon the
conduct of the parties will be avoided. It will be
recollected, that after the defendant's counsel had addressed
the Court in support of the motion to dissolve the injunction, the
matter stood over in consequence of the Vice-Chancellor desiring to
see a case that the plaintiffs thought proper to keep back from him
when they applied for their injunction, and which it appears by the
defendant's answer was laid before Mr. Lloyd, the barrister, on his
behalf, in March last, by Mr. David Williams. the solicitor of
the Company, and in which it was expressly stated that the har-
bour of Pertdynllaen was purchased by the defendant for himself,
while no mention, or reference of any kind, was made therein to the
North Wales Railway Company, nor was anything stated that could
be strained to justify their recent attempt to claim the benefit of tke
purchase, and which it appears, moreover, was made sonic months
before the Company was thought of or formed.

GOVERNMENT PRECAUTIONS. Active preparations
are in progress fer carrying out the precautionary measures noticed
in our last. The Indian corn and corn meal in store at liaulbowline
will be transferred on Monday to the Lee Mills, which will be on
that day delivered up to the authorities. Accommodation has been
provided there for forty soldiers and two officers, who will be per-
manently stationed on the premises ; and it is said that two pieces
of cannon will be planted at the gates.—Cork Southern Reporter.
EXTENSIVE SLIP OF EARTH-WORK ON THE GREAT
WESTERN Haire/Av.—A large slip of an embankment supporting
the down rail ofthe Great Western Railway, occurred on Saturday night
last. The heavy rains which have fallen tbr some weeks past; have
produced a prejudicial effect upon the earth-works of the line, and has
no doubt rendered them at many points less secure. The slip oc-
curred between seven and eight o'clock on Saturday night, not
very long before the six o'clock up-train from Bristol was due. The
embankment gave way for a considerable distance, and slipped from
under the up-rail, which was left supported *sly by some of the
wood-work. A number of men are engaged in repairing the damage,
and it is expected it will cost the company above 1,0001.
THE LIVERPOOL CORN-LAW PETITION.—Upwards
of 50,000 signatures were attached to the Liverpool petition praying
for a total and immediate repeal of the urn-laws.
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DUTCH MAIL.
AMSTERDAM, FEB, 4.—The number of passengers on the
Dutch railway in the month of January was 52,244 ; the
money received for passengers and goods was 54,640 florins.
The Second Chamber of the States General will meet the
day after to-morrow (Friday). Some projects of law will be
presented to the Chamber on that day, among which will be
one confirming the measure adopted by way of reprisal
against Belgium, and a number of proposals relative to the
first book of the penal code
ZWOLLE, FEB. 2.—ln consequence of the extraordinary rise
of the Twen and the Dinkel, extensive inundations have
taken place, and much damage is done to the roads and
bridges in this province.
The river Yecht and Rigge have also risen to a level with
the crown of the dikes, so that it was necessary to take pre-
cautions against inundation.
, Bois LE Duc, FEB. 4.—What we expected has come to
pass. The inundation has reached the town, and a great
number of streets are under water, in some places to the
depth of two feet, Many houses, chieflv belonging to the
poorer classes, are completely overflowed: The communica-
tions are wholly interrupted in many places. There are
similar accounts of inundations from several other places.
AMSTERDAM, FEB. 6.—We have received the Java journals
to the 11th OctoUer, which contain a resolution of the Go-
vernor. General of India, to the effect that the import duties
which are to be charged ad valorem shall be levied either on
the valuation, according to the market price of the day, or on
the invoice price, with an addition of 30 per cent.
DRESDEN, JAN. 28.—We have unfortunately again to an-
nounce a great and increasing inundation of the Elbe. The
flood is now 13 feet above the usual level and has overspread
the country far and wide. The snow in the Bohemian and
Saxon mountains has been melted in a few days by the con-
tinued rains ; the Moldan has done immense damage at
Prague. The tributaries of the Elbe have almost all risen to
an extraordinary height, so that we may expect greater
masses of water to come down. We have at present a sharp
frost, which we hope will prove some check on the waters.
VIENNA, JAW. 29.—His Imperial Highness the Archduke
Charles having considerably gained in strength within these
f,..w days, there is every reason to hope that he will soon be
wholly recovered and no more bulletins will be issued.
HAMBURGII BORSENHALLE, VFELIt.
Bills. Ow.
kustrian 5 per Cents ••• • • • 116 ...-
Bank Shares • ..... ............... 1600
Anglo-Russian Loan ................ 1044
Russian 5 per Cent., Munk Certificate. p2I3U
Ditto Ist series Inscription... ........ 10414
Ditto, Mope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 99
Ditto, in Certificate. 99
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. ...... 91
Ditto Stieglitz • ••• • • ••••• • • • • 8934-
Spanish New 5 per Cent •
Ditto 3 per Cent •• .. •••• • • • • XL
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 2% per Cent • .
Dutch Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ..... 59%
Ditto 3 per Cent. .••• • • • • ••••• ••
Polish New 4 per Cent. Joan, 1644.• 83
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ••• • • • 86%
National Bank Shares.

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Bills.
6131
7336
'9SU
89%

DUTCH F U.NDS.—AUSTEADAM, FEB. 6.
Money.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent— •• • • 60%
lsitto, 3 per Cent 73
Ditto, 4 per Cent.. ...... ......• •• • • 94%
Amort Syndic, 4% per Cent.. • • 99%
Ditto, 3% per Cent.... •••••• • • • • • . 110% 99
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent • • 164 165
East India Loan, 4 per Cent...—. •• .. 94% 95
Exchange on London, at sight • •••• • . 12 20
Two months. ..... 12 10
On Hamburgh, at sight • • 35 36
Two m0nth5............... 31 25
•Dutch Papers, Feb. 7.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, JAw. 30.
5 per Cent. Metalliques•. •
4 per Cent. ditto •••• • • • .• •
3 per Cent. ditto •••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • • • 77
Lean, 1834
Ditto, 1839 ................. ...... 1211
Bank Shares ..............
Esterhazy's Loan ........ .
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand . •••••
Gloggnitz • • • • .• . • •• • • • • • • •• • •• • ....... 146
Vienna—Milan .. • ........ • • •• • • •• •
Leghorn• ••. • • ......... ...... „ 117 t 4
Sienna ...•••••••
Grosetto ......
Oldenburg • • .....
Pestoja. • • • ..............
Apenninen
—Allgemeine Zeltunz. Feb. 2.

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REVIEW OF THE BRITISH CORN
TRADE DURING THE PAST:WEEK.
The trade in Wheat has, since our last, maintained a very
firm tone ; and though the millers have acted with much cau-
tion, prices have tended upwards at several of the leading
provincial markets.
Iu the agricultural districts the rise has been somewhat
greater than at the chief consuming markets, farmers having
generally brought forward moderate supplies. This has been
particularly the case at the shipping ports on the east coast,
from whence the produce of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire,
and Norfolk is dispatched to the south and north. This cer-
tainly does not look like an intention on the part of the
growers to force sales at depreciated prices.
The arrivals of Wheat coastwise into London have been
only moderate during the week ; nor has much been exhi-
bited at Mark-lane, by land-carriage samples, from the
neighbouring counties. The purchases made by the millers
on Monday appear to have sufficed for their immediate
wants, and the demand has since then been extremely slow.
On Wednesday the transactions were of so little importance
as scarcely to afford the means of judging of the real value
of the article; nor was much more done on Friday, though
factors manifested a disposition to facilitate business, and
would probably have accepted rates a trifle below those cur-
rent in the beginning of the week if they could thereby have
succeeded irr clearing off the few parcels on sale. Foreign
free Wheat has also been difficult of disposal, particularly
the inferior descriptions, comprising the bulk of what re-
mains in granary. Really good qualities have not been sold
cheaper than on Monday at any period of the week; and
such is the scarcity of really serviceable parcels, that small
lots have, from time to time, been released from under lock
by bonded certificates. Bonded Wheat has met with very
little attention. A few orders have been received from Bel-
gium for Polish Odessa, but the limits have been too low to
admit of their execution. The speculative demand appears,
for the present, to have entirely ceased; end though fair
Dantzic has been offered at 565., and good Lower Baltic,
red, at 525. to 535. per quarter, scarcely a bargain has been
closed. So general is the expectation that Sir Robert Peel
will succeed in carrying his new measure, that very little at-
tention is being paid to the averages; hence the rise in the
duty to 17s. per quarter on Thursday last had no influence
erne way or the ether on bonded Wheat.
REVIEW OF THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE.
The latest advices from New York inform us that the de-
mand for flour for export to England had rather slackened
in the early part of January, but about the middle of the
month a renewed inquiry had sprung up, which had enabled
holders of Genessee to realise 5:1,i dolls. per barrel for good
brands. Further news from Great Britain was anxiously
looked for, and it was expected that the tone of the English
letters would have considerable influence on the market.
From the north of Europe the accounts are of much the
same character as those previously received. Though the
demand for wheat appears generally to have been languid at
most of the continental ports, the smallness of the stock, and
the prevailing opinion that great scarcity is likely to be felt
before another harvest can be secured, seem to have pre-
vented any decline occurring in prices; indeed quotations
have rather moved upward, as well in Germany as iu Hol-
land and Belgium.
The latest accounts from Dantzic state that holders of
really fine old wheat had manifested no inclinatioa to lower
their pretensions, and that few were willing to enter into
contracts to ship the best samples (the produce of 1842) in
spring below 555. per quarter. New wheat might have been
bought at from 48s. to 525. per quarter, according to quality,
but the actual transactions had not been of much im-
portance.
A letter from Elbing, dated 27th ult , furnishes us with
a statement of the stocks of grain there at the commence-
ment of January, from which it appears that the entire
quantity of wheat in granary consisted on the first of that
month of only 2,360 lasts. Little or nothing had been done
there in wheat for shipment, prices being relatively higher
than at the neighbouring port of Dantzic.
At Stettin holders of wheat appear to have remained
firm, and by the latest reports from thence we learn that
there were no sellers below 475. to 48s. per quarter, free on
board in spring.
The reports from Haniburgh state that the navigation of
the Elbe had again become impeded by floating ice, the
weather having been frosty :during the latter part of Ja-
nuary. The corn market had In some degree
well
recovered
edhemeldanadt
from the previous depression, and wheeatianacsevcierat.
At Rotterdam, on Tuesday, all
asesmc'st
kinds of spring corn, had been held at n
enhanced terms, in consequence
from the Rhenish provinces.
of
frts an of
a anticipated demand
At Antwerp a material rise had, we are informed, been
caused by the proposed alterations in our corn-laws. Polish
Odessa had been sold at over 555., and Pomeranian wheat at
3s
being e que. t
575. 7d per quarter. Other articles had risen in the same
proportion : rye being quoted, on the 3d instant, 445. 60.,
s.
mucht° teoro.
high
in that quarter
to admit of business being done with a view to
The accounts from the Mediterranean are still without in-
terest, tee):
eed b4arpleryieesfrom wheat2of9
2. pr
the English
markets. Letters
from Marseilles, of the 31st of January,
quote Polish Odessa wheat 451.,
and
Danube 41s. per quarter
free on board, being nearly as much as those qualities are at
present worth in the London market.
From Odessa the advices of the 16th of January state that
vessels had become very scarce ; consequently little had been
done, for want of shipping. Ordinary wheat was then held
at 28s. to 325., good secondary aorta at 345., and fine at
355. 6d. to 38s. 6d. per quarter, free en board.—Mark-lane
Express.

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TEL SALMON FISHINGS.—The first two days' returns
which have reached us from our own district are favourable. In the
Conon, three fish were got; in the Beauly about the same number ;
in the Ness, five fish; while at Fortrose Point and other parts of the
coast about fifty were got. The want of ice is much felt. There is
none north of the Findhorn, where about one-fourth of the usual
quantity has been collected; at the Spey one-half; but at ♦berdeen
there has been about the usual quantity.—Ross-shire Advertiser.

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FISHEBY PIERS AND HARBOURS (IRELAND).—Yester-
day the third measure on the part of the Government for the im-
provement of Ireland was printed, entitled " A Bill to encourage the
Sea Fisheries of Ireland, by promoting and aiding with grants of
public money the construction of piers, harbours, and other works."
it is appointed to be read a second time to night (Tuesday). Under
each of the three measures—Public Works, Drainage, and Fishery
Piers—it is proposed to advance 50,0001. There are as many as ST
sections in the bill. The preamble states the objects to be carried
out, and provisions have been framed under the following heads :
Commissioners, grants, loans, preliminary proceedings, works, Pur-
chase of lands, security for loans and repayment, maintenance of
works, and miscellaneous matters.
The Exeter petition for the immediate repeal of the
corn-laws has received in three days upwards of 6,600 signatures.
DISTRESS IN DTlNGARVAL—Notwithstanding all theii
upwards of
van, and there is
representations of the great distress prevailing in.
.t.ouin
locality, and the unmistakeable fact of
a autr rulers
of entered ii.to, to partially relieve iti;
as if the
of this country are looking as listlessly
To
appalling facts detailed had no
of
514:000e mustperso persons
sgalant
remind them that there are
present in a starving condition inthfung
's distress. Were it not
DP prospect whatever or relief for
individuals, who generously and
for the humanity of a fewci
we would before noW,_th
or
-house is full, the Fever
l starvation. I' ie p
from actual
contagious disease spreading rapidly,
benevolently came forwarl,avaen d t
o subscribed
record maany large d
esautmh
s,
Hospital full, and
someare we to
of relief to the sufferers. We fear many
tostr distress,
andrender
dctitthoi aet itGahiv leo'rrfuesnte'hie'ent Government
wealthy absentees
ingtthat neighbourhood, to aid the struggling
who is compelled to witness the sufferings
onws .itaii coil
Whereillnll pi
s: ;i
fnnfosaopti business,
::::vvestariyijoi ei
neighbours?ni:ei:lin:::esien's
one coming forward as yet, though when the rent becomes
due they will not fail to demand it from all, and then it is
brought to a foreign land, where the possessor may enjoy
himself without witnessing the appal ling scenes of misery
which he could not avoid observing at home.— Waterford
Freeman.
HARWICH, FEB, 6.—A brig, supposed to be a collier,
is sunk between the Shipwash and Orfordnoss.—lpswich
EaTTESS.