The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-25 00:00:00

MINES.

Peal del Monte, Unregistered .. .... 3% %
....
... 4i,
COURSE OF EXCHANG E. -(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam .. ....C.F. 12 932 Gibraltar ..... ......... ......
Ditto, at sight ••.. • • 12 6 Leghorn .............. 30 80
Rotterdam ...... 2U. 12 10 Genoa .. ..... ......... 26 jg
Antwerp .......... .... 25 15 Allan .
Ilamburgh .. .. . • M.B. 13 1534 Venice ................ ._
Aitona • .. Naples
Paris, 3 days' sight .... 25 80 Palermo, per oz . 1191,2
Ditto, 3 months...... 26 5 1,15h0u... • •
Marseilles • ........... 26 5 Oporto •• . • .... ••.. • • 5'2%
Bourdeaux ..... 26 15 Rio Janeiro
Frankfort on Maine.... 1223 Bahia .. • • • • • • . • ......
Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... .• Buenos Ayres .. • ... • .
Berlin . ...... ....... . • New York, 21 days' sight
Vienna, effec. no ••• • .• 10 104 Philadelphia .......... .
Trieste, I d.tt0.... •• .... 10 103 raicEs OF RCLLION, PER OZ.
Madrid •••••• • • • • 364 Foreign Gold in bars ...£3 17 9
Cadiz •• • •• . •
Bilbao..

Barcelona ... ...
SeYille..•• •• •••• •• •••

New Dollars .• •• •• 0 4 9.3*
'Ulcer In bars ...... •• 0 4 111*

Mr. Philip Howard paired off with Mr. Frederick
Hodgson, 51. F. for Barnstaple, in favour of the.proposod measure or
Government for the reduction of the import duties on timber.
A CONTRAST.—George Hudson, a man reared behind
a counter in York, with scarcely two ideas in his head, was
left money by some relative or other, and speculated in rail-
way scrip and railway shares, by which means he accumulated
vast wealth, bought estates from Dukes, Lords, and com-
moners, and latterly he sought and found admission into the
House of Commons as M.P. for Sunderland. He never did,
and probably never will do, any great thing for his country.
All he has done has been for himself, or the rearing of a vast
fortune for himself; yet this man had a "testimonial" lately
subscribed for him, amounting of itself to the enormous sum
of 20,000'. sterling. Of that amount, nearly 1,0004 was sub-
scribed for him in this city of Glasgow. We need not speak
of Rowland Hill er Robert Wallace. But Thomas Waghorn,
a brave officer, has crossed the burning sands of Egypt again
and again to find out a short route between England and
India. Whereas that journey, a few years ago, could not
be accomplished in less than two, three, four and some-
times six months, Thomas Waghorn has succeeded in
throwing it open within the space of thirty days. He has
brought dispatches from the remote quarters of Asia, and
delivered them safely in London within an almost incredibly
short period. He is still risking his life to shorten the jour-
ney. He is opening up a communication between millions of
the human race. He is adding to the grandeur and glory of
England. Hi is enriching its merchants—stretching out in-
calculable bounds for their enterprise; and what have they
done for him? There was Isid down at the bar of the Royal
Exchange, the other day, a .subscription paper for some
testimonial " to Thomas Waghorn. It lay there for four
days—it lies there still. Some ten or twelve Glasgow firms
have subscribed in all 701. to it. Blush. ye mammon-wor-
shippers of George Hudson ; and let your ears tingle, ye
ungrateful recipients of the matchless services of Thomas
Waghorn l If an Italian actress came to Glasgow, she would
pocket more than that in one night from " a fashionable and
applauding audience." With these reflections we are almost
apt to throw down our pen with scorn and inexpressible dis-
gust.--e Scotch Ile. brmees' Gazettes.
THE MISFORTUNE OF FORTUNE.—The following col-
loquy is related, by the Jincrnal Valleves to have passed a
mustak e advanced
up
yourge o
mind
d 1
mto pass Pew days ago between a gendarme and a thief named Fun
taine, whom he had arrested at Tievieres (Calvados) :
Gendarme—" Foolish and wretched man, how-could you, at
your
m
your days in
prison ?" Fontaine—"l am not :o unfortunate as you
think. I have been a thief for 60yearSiand this.is,ll4 first
, commit a
the c,t:eisnr offor which you
ever arretteid."