The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-26 00:00:00

IN THE MATTER OF THE PRINCESS BARIATINSKI,

This case came before the Court upon petition praying that
certain jewellery belonging to the Princess, which was now
deposited in the Bank of England in the name of the Ac-
countant-General of the Court of Chancery, might be re-
moved to the office of Mr. Commissioner Barlow, for the
convenience of inspection, in order to have a value put upon
them by competent judges previous to their sale,
,if such sale
should be approved of by the officer of the Court.
Ilis LORDSHIP, after a short discussion, made the order.

VICE-CHANCERY---(THIS DAY).
( Before the VICE CHANCELLOR Gf ENGLAND.)
His HoNouu. took mot ions and cause petitions to-day, none
of which possessed any feature of interest.

MERCHANTS' AND TRADERS' ASSOCIATION, FOR THE
PROSECUTION OP SWINDLERS, AND OTHER PURPOSES, FOR THE PRO-
TECTION OF TRADE, 101, WOOD-STREET, CireapsinE.—A large party
of influential gentlemen, Members of this Association, dined together
at the London Tavern yesterday. Sir James Duke, M.P., the Pre-
sident of the Society, was in the chair. Several excellent addresses
were made in the course of the evening, by the President, Solicitor,
Secretary, and Members f the Committee, setting forth the advan-
tages which the subscribers derived from the working of the Associa-
tion. The funds were stated to be in a prosperous condition, and the
Society was represented to be daily increasing. The proceedings of
the evening appeared to be highly satisfactory to the members, and
there was some excellent singing by Mr. Taylor and his party. The
company separated about eleven o'clock.
FANCY FAIR UNDER THE RIVER THAMES.—On Mon-
day, and every day since, the. e has been the novel and interesting
scene of a fancy fair in the Thames Tunnel, to commemorate the
third anniversar of the opening of this wonderful thoroughfare. On
the first day no less than 12,994 persons visited the fair, being 5,009
more than on the first day of last year's fair. The booths and other
attractions exhibit taste and spirit ma the part of the owners.
MUTILATED LETTERS. WRECK OF THE GREAT
LIVERPOOL.—So saturated and mutilated were the letters and news-
papers washed from the wreck of the Great Liverpool, that it was
with the grea est difficulty the executive officers of the General Post-
office could make out any of the addresses upon them, and even up to
last evening (Wednesday) the whole of them had not been disposed
of. As a precautionary measure, and for the purpose of preventing
complaints from parties to whom the letters might in any case be
delivered, the authorities have had a special stamp struck upon such
letters, notifying that such letter or newspaper was "saved from the
wreck of the Great Liverpool."
LAUNCH OF A NEW IRON STEAM VESSEL.—Yester-
day, a now iron steam-vessel was launched from the building-yard of
Messrs. Ditelibuni and Mare, at Blackwell. It was built by those
gentlemen for the Norfolk Steam Navigation Company, a proprietary
composed of the principal shippers, merchants, and tradesmen resi-
dent in Yarmouth and Norwich, and their respectives vicinities, be-
tween which places and London she Is intended to ply, in place of the
Ailsa Craig, which vessel has, in conjtuictiEm with the General Steam
Navigation Company's vessels, hitherto occupied that station. She
is a very handsome vessel, her length overall is 165 feet, extreme
breadth 22 feet, the present draught of water only three feet six
inches, and when fully laden with cargo, computed to be less than
seven feet, so that she will have the advantage of entering and leav-
ing Yarmouth harbour at any time of tide.
LLOYD'S —At a general meeting of the members
of Lloyd's, held yesterday, March 25, G. R. Robinson, Esq., in the
chair, after the subject of the internal arrangenients of the establieh-
n:ent was disposed of, a vote of 251. towards the testimonial to Lieut.
Waghorn, R.N., to record the sense entertained by the subscribers of
the important services rendered to the mercantile interest by the re-
gular and early receipt of the shipping intelligence from India
effected by the energetic and persevering exertions of Mr. Waghorn
in originating and establishing the overland communication with that
extensive portion of the British empire, was proposed, and unani-
mously carried.
BILLIARD AND BAGATELLE TABLES.—In a few days
a part of an Act of last session and 9 Victoria, c. 109), relating
to games and wagers, will take effect in respect to billiard and
bagatelle tables lit other than public-houses. It is provided by the
11th section that from the sth of April next, in the counties of Mid-
dlesex and Surrey, every house, room, or place kept for public
billiard playing, or where a public billiard table, or bagatelle board,
or instrument used in any game of the like kind is kept, at which
persons are admitted to play, not being under a vietualler's license,
shall be licensed under this Act. That every person keeping any
such billiard or bagatelle table without being licensed for the house
where it is so kept, cud also every person licensed under this Act
who shall not, during the continuance of such billiard license, put
and keep up the words, " Licensed for billiards," legibly printed,
in some conspicuous place near the door and on the outside of the
house specified In the license, shall be liable to be proceeded
against as the keeper of a common gaining-house ; and be-
sides any penalty or punishment to which he may be liable,
if convicted, of keeping a common gaming-house, shall, on
conviction of keeping such unlicensed billiard table, bagatelle board,
or other instrument before a magistrate or two justices, be liable to
pay such penaltY, net mere than 101., for every day on which such
table or board shall be used, or on the discretion of the magistrate or
justices, may be committed to the House of Correction, with or with-
out hard labour, for any time not more than one calendar month, and
in default of payment of a fine or costs, the goods of a defendant may
be sold. By the 13th section, persons licensed must not allow any
person to play at billiards or bagatelle after 1 and before 8 o'clock in
the morning, or at any time on Sundays, Christmas-day, or Good
Friday, or any public fast or thanksgiving day; and by another see.
tion (the 14th) constables and police-officers are empowered to enter
the premises as often as they think proper, and if refused, such refusal
to be deemed an offence against the tenor of the license. The charge
for an annual license is, by the 10th section, fixed at 65., which li-
cense is granted by justices in session assembled to such persons as
in their discretion are fit and proper to keep billiard tables or baga-
telle boards.
Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston received Gene-
ral Espartero and the Duchess of Victoria and .Mademoiselle E. Es-
partero, the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Caroline Leveson
Gower, Viscount alorpeth, Lord Glenelg, Lord Harry Vane, Lord and
Lady Kirmaird, Lady Ashley, Lord Dunkellen, Colonel Fox, Mr.
Rogers, and a select party, to dinner yesterday, at their mansion in
Carlton-house-terrace. A small party assembled in the evening, in-
cluding his Excellency Count de St. Aulaire, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Clanricarde, Lord Ashley, Viscount and Viscountess
Mahon, the lion. Mr. fitanley, Viscount and Viscountess Jocelyn,
Lord John Russell, the Earl of Malniesbury, his Excellency Count
Pahlen, Mr. R. Mines, Mr. S. O'Brien, Mr. C. B. Sheridan, Lir John
Cans Ilobhouse,
Lord Brougham received at dinner, on Wednesday,
the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricarde, the Earl of Auckland,
and Alias Eden, Viscount Goderich, the Vice-Chancellor of England,
Mr. and Mrs. A. Montgomery, Mr. and Mrs. Stanley and Lady
Dillon, and Mrs. J. Townley.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry had a
dimmer party oar Wednesday, after 'which the Marchioness had a
dansante at Iloldernesse House. The circle invited was very limited.

NATIONAL LAND AND BUILDING ASSOCIATION.—
Last night a public meeting was held in the National Hall, Holborn,
T. Wakley, Esq., M.P., in the chair, for the purpose of forming an
association having for its objects a "National Land Association,"
and a " National Building Association." The Chairman described
the physical, political, moral, and social benefits that would accrue
to the working classes by acquiring, through associations similar to
the one proposed that evening, land and a home for themselves and
families. Messrs. It. Moore, Hill, Bainbridge, Ireland, and other
gentlemen, explained the objects of the Association ; and resolutions
favourable to those objects and the formation of the becleo•
~a '"
N ng
been carried, thatlkS Were voted %9 giv
- - and the mooting
separated,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL YEWS,
CITY. QUARTER TO THREE.

The Cotton. market at Liverpool, yesterday, was very in-
animate, and the business was decidedly in favour of the
buyers, although not at a further decline than %d. per lb. on
the rates of Friday last. The sales were 4,000 bales, includ-
ing 500 American, for export; 200 Pernain and Maranham,
at 53/4d. to 7d.; 50 Egyptian, at 63/4d to 81/0. ; and 50 Sea
Island, at 12d. to 15d. per lb. Shares were again dull and
declining.
It is much to be regretted that our Contemporary, the
Times, should continue the line of policy which it thought
proper in the first instance to adopt of exciting alarm among
the moneyed interests on account of calls upon railways,
the plans for which are now under the ordeal of Parlia-
mentary scrutiny. It ought not to be forgotten that the
point taken 'up in the first instance by the leading
journal was, that as much as from twenty-five to
thirty millions sterling would be locked up as deposits
upon new railways projected in the course of last year. The
fact turns out to be that from ten to twelve millions have
thus been absorbed as yet, which was quietly drawn out of
circulation, and lodged with the Accountant General,
without any apparent pressure. This tact is admitted.
But now, says our Contemporary, considering what
may happen hereafter, the calls upon shares that
will pass Parliament " threaten a more formi-
dable evil, since they will not be confined to a few
weeks, but will spread over years, as a continued drain on
the monetary resources of the country." The fallacy of this
hypothesis has over and over again been demonstrated. It
is notorious with those who usefully comment upon correct
information, that the expenditure upon railways hitherto
in this country has tended to improve the con-
dition of the labourer, and all other grades above
him in connexion with railway extension. The millions of
money that have already been expended in the formation of
railways were brought into operation, and without produc-
ing the slightest panic in the money market. Nineteen-
twentieths of the existing lines are profitable invest-
ments, and how a continuation of so good a system
can damage the circulation, or impose difficulties
in the way o conducting ether branches of industry or of
commerce, is a point which we leave the journal referred to
to prove to the satisfaction of well-informed men, who hold
a directly contrary opinion. No fact can be more clearly
demonstrated than that when new railways have been
commenced the circulation of money is immediately
extended, and doing benefit not only to the county
through which each passes, but also adding to the comforts
of the lower classes. It may in true that the prices of the
shares of existing lines have been unduly elevated, but this
was the natural result of strict confidence in the undertakings,
and not a little to be ascribed to the circumstance that a
higher rate of interest was obtained for money advanced in
their construction than that yielded by the Public Securities.
Further accounts have come to hand this morning from the
seat of-war on the Sutlej, but only in the main confirmatory
of those before obtained. There is every reason to hope that
the missing steamer the Virago is safe, though no authenti-
cated statement has reached the City to-day.
The Consol Market has been almost neglected this morn-
ing. For the Account the current price is 96, and for money
from 953/4 to 96. Exchequer-bills have been taken at from
28s. to 255. premium this morning. Bank Stock for the
account has fallen from 21114 to 210.
The Foreign Funds have not been dealt in much to-day.
The chief changes are a fall in Russian Five per Cents. from
109 to-108. Spanish Five per Cents. for the Account have
been offered at 25% for the Account, and the Three per Cents.
at 363/4. The Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are at
59%, and the Four per Cents. at 9414. The Grenada One
per Cent. Bonds have just been taken at 22.
The prices of Railway Shares have varied but in a trifling
degree from those of yesterday.
BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE

CLOSING

O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 95% 96 96
Long Annuities, Expire lan. b, 1666
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1160 .. • • 10%
Bank Stock for Account .. .. 210 210
Con/Kis for Account 96 96
Exchequer Bills. I%cl. 1 %d.
1,000/. .... 24 28 25 pm. 28
500 T.....— 29 pm. 29
Ditto. Small .... 27 29 psu. 29
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. 22 22
Russian Bonds .. .. 109 108 106
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account 25% 25%
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. 5%
Ditto, Three per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account .. 36% 36%
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. 44 44
Dividends on the above payatle in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 59%3 % 59%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 944 944
BUSINESS
PRICES OF
PAID. DONE AT CLOSING
.
RAILWAY SHARES. PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.

Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction .. 2% •• • . 134%.... • ... 1%
Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham. 225. .... dis . die.
Birmingham and Gloucester..,.loo .......... • 125
Bristol and Exeter .. 75
Ditto New .. . .. 5 .. • • 9 .. • • ...... 9
Buckinghamshire .. 425. .... 1% % dis
Caledonian .. .. 10 .... 7%14 7X
Ditto, Half Shares .. 2 1% l%
Ditto, Extension .... 1%
Chester and Holyhead .. .. 20 .... 16% .... • • 17%
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. . . . 3
Direct Northern .. 2% .... 1%34 l%
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 10 .... 534 5%
Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 ....
Eastern Counties .. .. 141. 2534 19% .. 19%
Ditto New 81. 165..... 4% 51 p.. bl3a p
Ditto, York Extension .. 10s. .... 34 1.. .. • 1
East Lincolnshire 114 ....
East and West of England .. 1% ....
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 72
Ditto 34 Shares 5 .... 12
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 1234 .. • . 17X 18
Goole, Doneast., and . heffield, &c. 425. % dis dis.
Grand Union (Nottingh. & Lynn) 1%.... %......... 34
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 1634 15% 16%
Great North of England . ..100 ....215
Great Western .. 85 —140
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 5 .... 14% 14
Hull and Selby .. 50 ....100 99 .. •
Ditto Shares .. . 1234
Ditto, Halt Shares .. • • • • 7 .... .....
Lancaster and Carlisle .., .. 35 ....
• Ditto, New .. .. 5 .... .
Leicester and Bedford 225.
Liverpool and Leeds Direct .. 2%.... 236 1 % •
London ant Birmingham . .100 ....217 216
Ditto Thirds .. 16 .... 49% .... •
Ditto Quarters .. 2 .... 2534 26%
Ditto Fifths 2 .... 22% 2314
London and Blackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. 734 . .
Ditto New .. .... 3%..
London and Brighton .. .. 50 .... 6134% 60X •
Ditto, Consol. Eighths .• .. 40 ....
Ditto ditto Fifths .. .. 20 .... 27 26%
London and Croydon .. 131. 15s. 9d. 191
London and Greenwich .. 121. 15s. 4d.
London and South• Western.. 41/. 6s. 10d. 73 74 ..... .
London and York .. 234 14% .... 1
London, Warwick, & Kiddermins. 214 .... 134
Manchester and Leeds .. S 2
Ditto, Fifths .. 2
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 .. I*s .. •• ..
Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) .. 4 .. 10% 11
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) .. 2 .... 834 .834
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425..... 14 p par par
Manchester and Southampton. .. 2 .... ... . . 134
Miclla-id ..100 ....141 140.. •• • . 140
Ditto, New .. 18 26 3i 34 27% 2614 27 27
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 108 ....113 112 ll2
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .... 1534 16
North British .. 20 .... 24 23 ...... • • 23
Ditto, Half Shares .. 6 .... 8% 7 7
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 114.... 134 X ..... . 1%
North Kent and Direct Dover • • 234 .... 134
North Staffordshire • • 425. 234 1% p 134
Norwich and Brandon .. 18 .... 22
Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptia. 1234 .... 9% .. ..
Perth and Inverness .... 1
Portsmouth Direct .. • • .. 3%.... 234
Rugby and Huntingdon .. .. 2 .. %34 ..... .
Scottish Central .. . .. 10 .... 13 ..........
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. .... 1X • .
South Midland .. 42s .... 34 34 dis
South Staffordshire Junction .. 234 .... 2
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 3314 . 34% 34 34
Do.. New (do. 331. 63.8 d.) No. 2. 10 .. 10% •• .. 10%
Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2%.... 234% 13(1.••• 1X
Trent Valley and Holyhead June. 2%.... ..........
Vale of Neath 2 .... 1% . .
Warwickshire and London .. 425..... 1 dis. 1... 1 dis.
Welsh Midland 2%.... 114 1........
West Riding Union • • • • .. 425. .• 114 p. •• •• • • 134 p
Yarmouth and Norwich .. .. 20 .... .. 24%
York and North Midland .. 50 .... 94 .......... -
Ditto, Selby .. 30 .... 71% .. • •
Ditto. Extension .. 15 .... ..........
Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten... 1 .... 7% 6% X ....
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. 12 .... 1234..........
Bord., Toul., & Cette Mackenzie) 2 .... 1 % 2........
Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 2
Dutch Rhenish .. .. .. • •
East Indian .. . 58. 3414 ........
Grt. North. of France Constituted S .. . . 15
Luxembourg .. 4 .... I X .....
Namur and Liege .. .. 4 .... 2% 2...... • •
Orleans and Bordeaux .. 6 .. 12 % %
Over Yssel .. 41. 3s. 4d.... 3 dis.
Sambre and Meuse . .. 6 .... 334
Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 5 6% .. .•
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... 26%
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