The Sun.
London, England, 1848-08-07 00:00:00

TTIR •SUN,

5 par Ct. on Calls .....'ll:. 132. 4,1... -
London, SAisbury, & Yeovil 11,E —
Londonderry and Coleraine... 27 ih. — -
Londo;aclerry and Enniskillen 25
Lowestoft (guar. 4 per cent.) 20

Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.... 3
Manch. Buxton, & Matlock 4
Manchr, Sheffield, and Linc.100

Ditto 1/1 Shares( No. 1) ... 18
Ditto, ditto, (No. 2) 25
Ditto, % Shares (No. 3 )... 71,x ......
Do., New 101. Preference.. 10 .....
Ditto Grimsby
Ditto, ditto.
Ditto, ditto ...
Ditto Sheffield and Line. 12%...... .
Ditto, Grimsby Dock ...... 17% — to

Ditto, Man. . Lin. Union
Nlanchesterand Southampton 214 —.- to
............. —lOO ... 1011/2....... to 101

Ditto, Consol. Preference...loo . — ...... to

Ditto, 50/. Shan ...... 20
Midland, Birrn., and Derby...loo
Midland, Con Rol. -Bristol and •

Birmingham, 6 per cent.... 100
Midland, Bristol and Glouc. 38
Ditto ditto 1-1/. 185...
Midland, Leices. and Swan-
nington (8 per ct.gua.)....100
Great Western (Irish ) 421/2 to
Middlesbro' and Redcar.
per cent. guar. ........ 54
Newcastle and Carlisle IOU

Ditto Quarter Shares
N ewmarket

Ditto Extension Scrip... 2/. 12s —
Newport Abergy.. and lleref. 6
Newry and Enniskillen. ...... 7
Newry, Warrenpoint, and
liostrevor
Norfolk ....... ~... —...... 100
Ditto New 20/.
Ditto Extension -

Do. Guaranteed 51% per et. 6 ..... 5
Do. do. IV aveney Valley... 2
Northern Counties Unien .... 4
Korth British
Ditto Half Shares. - to

Do. Quarters
6 !il.
Dit to. Extension
Ditto Thirds ... ......... -.... 4%...... 2% to
North and South-Western... 2 .. .. -
North Staffordshire... .. ...... 12%. -
North Wales 3l/e ..... _ , .... to
North Western B3A, — .... to
Oxford, Worcester, and Wol-
verhampton ... . ........... .. 45 -
Reading, Guildfd., & Reigate 7% ......
Royston and Hitchin ..... .. 1%......
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland ..... ....... .... 25
Ditto, New 12% to
Sheffield, Rotherham, and
Goole 7%...... ...... to
Do. do. (South Div.) 4 .....
- Lrewsbury and Birmingham 8
Ditto, ditto. Class B. 5
Shrewsbury and Chester
( Nor. W. MM.) l6
Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 ... .. . to
Ditto, Oswestry l6
Ditto (New) 1

Ditto 8 per Cent.Pret...... 10
Sbropslaire,Union...
South Devon

Ditto, Preference . . .... 25 ..... to
South Staffordshire...
-outh Eastern
Ditto, New, No. 1

Ditto, New, N 0.2
Ditto, New, No. 3
Ditto New, No. 4. ...... ... .. 83/4 53/4 to
South Wales
South Yorkshire, Doncaster

and Goole
Swans. and Loughor and Ca-

Meron's St m. Coal . 6 -
Thames Haven Dock and

to

Railway 171,4 —
Faw Vale Extension ..... 6
Vale of Neath
Waterford and Kilkenny 76'4......
Waterford and Limerick....
Waterford, NA' exford, W ieklw,

and Dublin
Wear Valley 6 per Cent.
Guaranteed .... . ..... 4234 —
Do. do. do.
Do. do. do. ..... . _ 734_ .. ~
West Cornwall 6 -
Whitehaven and Furness l3 ... .. . ..... to
Windsor, Staines, and South

Western „ • 914 — to
Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 35 ..—.. to
Cork, Newcastle, and Berwick 25
Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 ..
Do. Exton. No.l (Y. & N.) 15

Do. do. No. 2, New &B. 10 ...
Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8
York and North Midland .. 50
Ditto, Preference
Ditto East and West Riding
Extension ..... ...... 25
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... ..... .to
Central of France ( Orleans

--------
and Vierzon)
Ceylon
Demerara.
Dendre Valley
Direct Bombay and Madras ss. .....
Dutch Rhenish -
East Indian
Great Indian Peninsular
Italian and Austrian
Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1
Louvain ahi Sambre
Luxembourg
Lyons and Avignon (Con-
stituted)
Madrid and Valentia
Namur and Liege 2O ...... ...... to --
Northern of France lO ..... 5 5%... to
Orleans and Bordeaux ...
Paris and Lyons
Pans and Orleans.... 2O -
Paris and llouen ..
Paris & Strasbourg ...... ..... 8 .....
Rouen and Havre 20
Sambre and Meuse
Strasburg and Bale l4 ..... ..... to
Tours & Nantes ...
rournay, Jurbise, Landen,
and Hasselt . 18 ...... —..-.. to

West Flanders
JOINT STOCK RANKS.
Australasia
• • -

British North American .... 50
Colonial - • .. to
Commercial 01 London
London Joint Stock .....
London and Westminster... 20
National Provincial of Engld. 35
Ditto, New
National of Ireland 22% ..... to
Provincial of Ireland
Ditto, New ••••••••• 10
Union of Australia 25
Ditto, N ew... 2% — to
Union of London .... 10
Union of Madrid . 4O free.. -
MINES.
Anglo Mexican lOO — to
Asturian Mining Company... 12 ......
Australian ... 21,x...... ..... to
Blaeuarvon Iron awl Coal ... 50
Bolanos Scrip
British Iron
Brazilian Imperial ..... .. ...' 24%
Ditto St. John Del Rey ... 15 ....• --- ...... to
Galvanized Iron .... ......... ... 10 - ...... to ---
Ditto, New -
Real del Monte, Unregistered . .. .. ... to
Do. Black Debentures —
United Mexican

LLOYD'S SHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, AuG. 7.—Wind S.W.; light breeze, and fine
clear weather..
LEITH, AUG. 4.—Wind N.—Sld. Royalist, St. John's,
New Brunswick.
PETERHEAD, AUG. 3.—Wind N.W.—Arid. Com-
merce, Setter, Greenland, with 43 tons of oil.
MARYPoRT, Am 3.—Arrd. Congress, Lester, Que-
bec; 4th, Hannah, Shaw, ditto.
MILFORD, AUG.s.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd, 3d, Hope,.
fames, Quebec. Std. sth, Silurian, Lewis, Portland,
United States; Caroline Alice, Howells, Boston, United
States; R•solution, Gales, Quebec.
PoßTsmouTit, Auc. 6.—Wind W.N.W. to W., strong.
—Arrd. Princess Royal transport, Barbadoes; Canon-
dale, Munden, Quebec.
OFF PORTSMOUTH, AUG. s.—Asia, Calcutta.
SOUTHAMPTON, AUG. s.—Arrd. Prince. Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 6.—The Cornelia, French, for this
port, run ashore on Middleton Port, New York, on the
21st ult., while in tow of a steamer, but got off with-
out apparent damage, and proceeded. A ship, with loss
of foremasts was run on shore on Cape Sable, on the
20th ult. The Affghan, Black, from Quebec to the
Clyde, which was on shore on Jeremie Island, was
floated off on the Bth ult , with apparently only trifling
damage, and making but little water, and proceeded.
the Zetland, Bannerman, from St. John's, New Bruns-
wick to this port, put back to the former
port, water-logged, having been on shore on
Seal Island, and would have to discharge and repair.
The .Jenny Lind, which arrived here yesterday from
New Orleans, experienced a heavy gale three days' out.,
and threw overboard about 40 bales.of cotton and 20
sacks of corn ; the vessel did not receive any damage.
LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 6.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. sth,
Niagara steamer, Regrice, Boston, left 26th ult. and
Halifax 28th ; Juinna, Fletcher, Calcutta ; Commodore,
lir. a lfoot, Calcutta ; Circassian, Carr, Valparaiso ;
Jenny Lind, New Orleans ; Eliza, Smith, New Orleans ;
George Canning, Biikett, Ambrig, Scotland ; Mobile,
Home, Muir, St. John's, New Brunswick. Sid. sth,
Corinthian, Mauritius ; Coaxer, Cape of Good Hope ;
James Calder, Charleston ; Ancona, Mason, New
Orleans ; Cambria, steamer, New York ; Diogenes,
New York; Nelson, Willage, Quebec.
Conic, AUGUST 4. —Wind S.W.—Arrd. 3d, Wuzuier,
Batavia ; Queen of the Isles, Evans ; Callao, 4th,
her Majesty's ship Stromboul. Sld., Sea Bird, Holmes,
Mirarnichi, John Knox, Galatz.
OFF LIVERPOOL, AUG. s.—Magnificent, Dale, Corssir.
SHEERNESS, AUG. 4.—Arrd.Vittoria, Quebec.
I)ovER. AUG. 6.—Put back Eleanore, Schroeder, far
Port-au-Prince.
SCILLY, AUG. 4.—Wind S.W.—Ski. Gazelle, Lakey,
Newfoundland.
NEWP,AtT, AUG. s.—Wind W.—Sl(l. Ann,l Moon,
Quebec.
FALMOUTH, Auc. 6.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. 4th, Lis-
bonaise,ive, Evet, Bahia, with loss of an anchor; Tom Co-
r n Manson, Cape Haytien for Bremen; sth, Chap-
mans, Atkins,
ARilobejrzneiitroi
oslttn,des, Rogers, Bahia. Off
i)
London; 6
Jt.'h Sourabaya, and sailed
o
• , hi armonie, Dingus, Havannah, and
PLYMOUTH, Auc.
sailed for Antwerp; Msgdalen, Kindelman, New York.
s.—Wiud S.W., strong.—Arrd.
Albion, Hindsen, Quebec.
SILCOMBE, Aua. 6.--Wind W.—Arrd. Old Nap,
Quebec.

L ON' 11 0 Nir_

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair..a few minutes after
Twelve o'ckelc.

The Lords' amendments to the Landon and South
Western Railway Company's Acts Amendment (Exten-
sion, Deviation, and New Works) Bill were considered
and agreed to.
The Report en the London (City) Small Debts Bill
was brought up and agreed to, sad the Bill ordered to
be read a third time.
Captain GORDON presented a petition from the
county of Aberdeen against the Registering Births, &c.
(Scotland) Bill.
Lord G. BENTINCK presented a petition from the
island of Tobago, signed by the Speaker of the House of
Assembly. but the Noble Lord did not state the prayer
of the petition.
Mr. LOCKHART presented a petition from Glasgow
against the Registering Births, &c. (Scotland) Bill. and
also against the Marriages (Scotland) Bill. Tl:e Hon.
Member also presented several petitions to the same
effect from other places in Scotland.
REGISTERING BIRTHS, Ste., (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The LORD-ADVOCATE, in moving the second
reading of this Bill, stated that the impel feet nature of
the present system of registering births, marriages, &C.,
in Scotland, made it absolutely necessary that some
measure should be introduced for the purpose of giving
some further protection to the prisete rights of persons,
and of affording that correct statistical information on
the subject which wsis so important and valuable to the
country. Under the law as it now existed neither of
those objects could be accomplished. He asked the
House not so much to consent to the measure upon the
ground of what had taken place in the House of Lords,
or in the House of Commons during the last session,
as upon what had been done under the Act of 1837, for
the more perfect registration of births, marriages, and
deaths in England, and by which the most authentic and
valuable sources of information had been furnished to
Parliament. He did not propose to interfere with the
principle of the law of Scotland as far as concerned the
ceremony of marriage, but be required that where the
parties did not choose to go before a clergyman that
they should go to the registrar, and have their marriage
properly entered. All doubt as to the legitimacy of their
issue would, therefore, be set at rest, and much litigation
prevented. If the House agreed -to the measure no
marriage woulil be legal in Scotland unless it was duly
solemnized by an authorised clergyman or by a licensed
registrar of marriages. The law of Scotland with re-
spect to the punishment of the seducer of women under
a promise of marriage was most defective, since the
man who had betrayed a woman into connexion
with him might deny it on oath, and in an un-
uspecting moment obtain from her all written
evidence of the promise he had violated.
All who had paid attention to the subject must be per-
fectly satisfied that the law relating to marriage was
altogether defective, and required placing upon a defi-
nite tooting. Banns might now be published in parishes
in which the parties did not reside; the parties who
heard them read might know nothing about the parties,
end the certificate of the clergyman was deemed a suffi-
cient evidence of the publication. Again, as the law
stood, if a man declared in the streets, perhaps, in
a heedless moment, that a woman was his wife, or if he
did so before a magistrate, that was his wife to all intents
and purposes. It was an irregular marriage, but yet
according to this monstrous law it was valid. As far as.
,possible, marriage should he sanctified by a religious
ceremony. He urged the House not to let the session
pass without passing measures so earnestly required as
those he had been dealing with.
The motion having been put,
Mr. DUNCAN said, as the measures had been fully
considered in Scoland, the reconsideration of them again
was utterly unnecessary, since every village and hamlet
in Scotland had had ample time to form their opinion.
The measures had been deferred from time to time.
(He read the dates of the different stages.)
The House had not ample time to consider the.
Bills in consequence of the delay that had taken
place. They were most unpalatable to the people of Scot--
land, as evidenced in the vast number of petitions pre-
sented against them, and the extremely small number in
their favour. The first Bill, which was virtually the
same as that of the last session, which was so generally
petitioned against, was only printed on the 28th of July,
and could not have reached some of the northern parts
of the country. He was not opposed to registration, but
he considered it could be accomplished with much less
cumbersome machinery, and less expense. The objec-
tions against the Bill were to be found in the
petitions against it, which he advised the Noble and
Learned Lord to read. Considering that the first Bill
required consideration by the people of Scotland, he
should more that it be read a second time this day six
months.