The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-07 00:00:00

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LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1846.

Strikes of journeymen carpenters, masons, and other arti-
ficers engaged in the construction of buildings, have pre-
vailed for some time in the most industrious parts of the
country, and the disposition on the part of other kinds of
workmen and labourers to follow the example is manifesting
itself in some new shape almost every day. Such a combi-
nation, or unanimity of feeling, or by whatever other name it
may be called, is universally regretted. The labourers re-
sort to it as the last necessity ; they have tried, they say,
other means, and can find no other by which they can
obtain a fair increase of wages. There is a great demand
for labour ; the contractors are making fortunes by
their undertakings, while the hands on whom they entirely
depend are half starved on 255. a week. We will admit all
these facts—we will admit that in many contracts the mas-
ters could pay better wages, and that in such instances they
act an unworthy and ungrateful part towards the hard-
working and skilful labourer; but the great question for the
unfortunate journeymen is, "will the strike be effectual?"
We are compelled to answer in the negative. Times are not
now as they were forty years ago, when high bounties were
given for militiamen, when such masses of young
men were wanted for the army and navy, and
countless other departments, here as well as in
the colonies—then a strike was effectual, because the supply
did not exceed the demand. The masters had no remedy—
they had no reserve to fall back upon, and if the demand
was not speedily complied with, there was no alternative
but to stop the works ; and that was of little avail, because
such was the scarcity of labourers, that if any lengthened de-
lay took place, one-half of the men had found employment
elsewhere; and to obtain a supply, the masters were
obliged to give higher wages than even those which they
had at first refused. What is the state of the
country now? Notwithstanding the vast works in railways
carried on, and the rage for speculation, some time ago,
evinced by so many companies, notwithstanding the increase
f wealth and the consequent employment of capital furnish-
ing labour, the supply still far exceeds the demand. How
can it be otherwise ? Even independent of the drain for the
army and navy and colonies forty years ago, there are at
least 100 workmen now for 50 in 1800. Since that period
the population of Great Britain has nearly doubled. In
1801 the total population of England, Wales, and Scotland
was 10,942,646, while at the last census, in 1841, it had reached
18,844,434 and now it is fully 20,000,000. Cannot the jour-
neymen see the great disproportion between the two periods,
and how injuriously it must tell against them if they perse-
vere long in the strike? There are ten times the Humber of
men now fit to supply the deficiency that there was when
strikes were successful, and besides they ought to learn from
experience. In later times the attempt to dictate to the
masters has, we believe, in every instance failed. Several Of
the trades tried it on a grand scale, among others the journey-
men tailors, some ten or twelve years since; so did the jour-
neymen masons, and other workmen, at the new Houses of
Parliament, but both attempts fell to the ground. The con-
tractors in a few weeks found masons and carpenters in other
parts of the country ready to submit both to the pay
and to the foreman put over them, and the unfortunate
,‘ strikers," after exhausting the greater part of their reserved
fund and starving their families, were forced to find employ-
!
ment elsewhere. The tailors were defeated by the women,
for greater numbers of the weaker sex were taken into em-
ployment, and performed all the light work formerly done by
the men; and from the very nature of things and the work-
ing of circumstances no other result could have been antici-
pated. If workmen can be had, a strike never can be effec-
tual. The masters ars generally men of capital or great
credit ; they can afford to wait events—the journeymen
have not the means. If we except the combination funds,
they can rarely obtain a livelihood for a month—very few of
them have saved a quarter's wages, most of them have
nothing to depend upon but the wages they receive every
Saturday night. The wants of their families alone must soon
make a class of this kind yield
; and besides, every class
,except
their own class is
against them. l'ilev4fiewerevbncli.feartll
odds against a party in a contest.
against them, so are legislators, erncontractorzent ithse
masters of all trades and crafts, all est+ushed
authorities; and even private individuals, take p
in the dispute, and generally against the journeyme4. We
remember the present Viscount HARDINGE, when speaking
in the House of Commons on the tailors' strike, stated that
he would walk through the streets, wearing a coat with a
hole at each elbow, for any period, rather than encourage
such combination. He was cheered by the whole House.
We have mentioned these facts for the gOod of the workmen
and their families, with the fullest conviction that they can
only injure themselves by their perseverance, and that
scarcely in any one instance have they the slightest grounds
for anticipating
any other result.

Among the various benevolent institutions which have
been at different periods called into existence, we remember
none more thoroughly entitled to public sympathy and
public patronage than those undertaken for the reformation
of juvenile offenders. Recently we have often endeavoured
to impress this most important consideration upon the minds
of the reading and thinking people; we have gladly availed
ourselves of the very smallest opportunity for developing
the true philanthropy involved in the maintenance of these
,establishments, conscious that what cannot be realised by a
coup de plume may be accomplished through the instru-
mentality of perseverance and repetition. In this manner
we have not continued indolent or indifferent spectators of
the struggles made of late by many excellent persons for the
propagation of these charitable ideas. On the contrary, we
have yielded the accordance of our commendation to the
praiseworthy exertion of such men as the Recorder of Bir-
mingham and the Solicitor to the City of London ; rejoiced,
as we were, to perceive such a laudable anxiety for the sup-
pression of vice in its most incipient and consequently
in ita most dangerous state, coupled with such facilities for
the development and dissemination of the wishes entertained
by two influential public officers. Other persons we gladly
recognised, though, for comprehensible reasons, their names
were not adduced, aiding manfully with their voices, their
•

pens, and their subscriptions for the more universal adoption
of these views of social improvement. Literary genius and
oratorical eloquence were alike striving to foster these pecu-
liarly humanising doctrines, and without the introduction
of sectarian differences (too often the bane of similar
intentions) emulated each other in their self-imposed exer-
tions. Seeing these noble efforts for the reclamation of so
many thousands of our eontemned fellow-creatures, we were
filled with sentiments of the most sanguine satisfaction ; and
animated with the prospect of some ulterior realisation of
these dreams, we snatched at the most meagre coincidence
that transpired, in relation to the subject, for the purpose of
keeping attention alive to the disease and to its remedy—to
the poison and to its antidote. Upon these hopeful princi-
ples we have mow proceeded for a considerable time, ever
looking for a traceable increase of interest in behalf of such
establishments as might be commenced upon the reformatory
system, ever looking for a material multiplication of their
funds, for an equally material addition to the number of chil-
dren received into such institutions, and an extension of
similar branch institutions in different quarters of the pro-
vinces. Our anticipations in this regard have, however,
up to the present moment continued most miserably delu-
sive ; and, instead of an improvement upon what had been
already accomplished, there has been a most unanticipated
deficiency where deficiency was hitherto unknown. We
are reduced to an acknowledgment of these unfortunate
facts from circumstances which have just transpired
in relation to an establishment of the character in question,
viz., the Philanthropic Society, St. George's-fields-
This Society, formed for the especial purpose of the recep-
tion of such juvenile offenders as have been themselves com-
mitted for crimes, proceeds upon the following system :
" The uniting the religious and general education of the
child with his practical instruction in some useful branch of
industry that sheuld enable him to maintain himself in after
life by his own honest exertions." Nothing could be more
definitely expressed, nothing could present more satisfactory
views of the benefit derivable from the existence
of such a society to the community at large. Nor does
it bear about it the impress of benevolence only ; it
has the characteristic also of promoting social economy, as
well as of promoting social happiness. Those are the pre-
acknowledged facts of this Association ; now, what has been
the nature of its reception ? What has been its prosperity ?
What treatment has it received at the hands of that society
it was established to benefit ? We take shame to ourselves
in undergoing the humiliation of such an announcement
of the public behaviour towards this admirable institution ;
we do so, because we grieve for the inconceivable lethargy
of the people, when they should have been up and stirring.
Yesterday an annual dinner of the Philanthropic Society
gave occasion to the announcement of these unsatisfactory
particulars, in regard to which our remarks have reference;
and it is over the admissions there made of its want of pros-
perity that our lamentations are uttered. The particulars
are these. The accommodations at an time available for
inmates in the Philanthropic Society are small enough, GOD
knows ! They are horribly disproportioned to the multi-
plicity of children implicated in criminal acts; these accom-
modations amounting in the aggregate to not more than
one hundred. One hundred children for the thousands of
such children running loose about the streets and bye-ways
of the metropolis! Well, small as this number appears,
infinitely paltry as it is in itself, we observe that " the
pressure on the Society's finances compels them at present
to limit that number to fifty !" and those fifty of only a
single sex—females. Thus no assistance whatever
can be tendered by the Philanthropic Society to
the vast number of abandoned ' boys destitute
in mind and body—who infest the capital of our rich and
civilised England—in themselves swarms, as it were, of
embryo crimes! May we not literally regard these facts
respecting the Philanthropic Society as an exemplar of the
veritable condition of philanthropy in society? May we not
receive them as an evidence that benevolence with the public
is very bountiful in tongue, but very stinting in donations—
that the public is a millionaire in professions of commissera-
tion, but actually a bankrupt in charity? We fear an
answer to these interrogations, unless some active movement
be made for their reversal.

The proceedings which took place last night at the London
Tavern, on behalf of the Provident Clerks' Association, and
which are fully recorded in another part of our paper, may
be looked upon in a national point of view. To see the Pre-
sident of the Board of Trade patronising such an excellent
institution, which so much contributes to the moral and so-
cial welfare of the executive body which carry out all our
great commercial transactions, viz., the clerks, is at once an
evidence of his Lordship's nobleness of heart, and of the im-
portance which he attaches to means so legitimate as are
carried out by this Society. But to hear from the lips of
one of her MAJzsrt's Ministers, and that one the President
of the Board of Trade, that the sentiments he uttered in
recommending clerks to assure, were not merely " vox et
pratereanihtl," but that what he recommended he personally
practised, and had himself assured his own life, is proof po-
sitive that his Lordship not only approves of the general
principles of societies, such as the Provident Clerks'
Association, but that he is entirely satisfied with
the manner in which those principles are practically
worked out. The Earl of DALnousuc, by taking the
chair at the anniversary dinner of the Provident Clerks'
Association has borne most important testimony in favour
of the general utility of that admirable institution--an in-
stitution which, to use the words of the Noble Earl, " has
this recommendation, that there are none whose means are
so small but may obtain advantage from it—no man is so
poor, no clerk so humble, but may join in order to provide
for the wants of the future by contributing towards its funds,
which will be fostered and cherished and paid to the utter-
most farthing." It is not surprising that an association of such
great value, and so ably conducted should increase in" pros-
perity with every passing year in great and rapid proportion."
It has gone on nearly doubling itself every year since its first
formation. The year 1845 is stated to have been the most
prosperous since the first formation of the Society, and the
three first months of 1846 have been not only equally pros-
perous, but doubly so. The Society has increased, is in-
creasing, and will continue to increase. The infant of some
five years since is the giant of to-day, and the Provident
Clerks' Association now ranks among the first, if not the first
in this commercial kingdom.

A letter from Copenhagen of the 26th ult. says :
"The Prince Royal of Denmark has just made art appli-
tion to be divorced from his wife, the Princess Caroline of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz, whom he married in July, 1811 (his
second wife), end who in 1844, after a discussion with her
husband, withdrew to Neustrelitz to her family, where she
has since remained. The suit will be tried in our capital by
a commission composed of ecclesiastics and laics, partly
chosen by the King of Denmark, and partly by the Grand
Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The application for dissolv-
ing the marriage is founded on the grounds of insurmount-
able aversion (odium invincible), which, according to the
Lutheran religion, to which both parties belong, is sufficient
to warrant the annulation of the marriage. The Prince
Royal of Denmark had been first married to his cousin, the
Princess Guillemine-Marie, daughter of the late Frederic
VI. of Denmark, from whom he is also divorced. The Danish
journals announce that as soon as the divorce between the
Prince Royal and the Princess Caroline shall have been pro-
nounced the King will grant him a dispensation of the delay
of three years, before the expiration of which time, according
to our laws, persons divorced cannot again contract marriage.
The Prince, it is said, will marry during the present year his
cousin, the Princess Augusta, daughter of the Landgrave,
William of Ilesse-Cassel, and of the Princess Louise-Char-
lotte, sister of King Christian VIII. of Denmark."

Madrid papers of the 29th have arrived. As the towns of
Lugo, Pontevedra, and Vigo, have surrendered to the
QUEEN'S troops, the Spanish Ministry consider the insur-
rection in Galicia at an end. RIIBLN DE SOLIS and the
insurgent junta escaped from Vigo on board the ship of war
El Nervion, which, with a guarda coasta, had joined the in-
surgents. They had sailed either for the coast of Portugal
or for Gibraltar. Of the prisoners taken the Government
had directed that all officers holding the rank of captain, or
any superior rank, should be shot, and that all other pri-
soners should be sent to the colonies. The Grand Duke
CONSTANTINJ of Russia was expected to arrive at Cadiz
shortly.

3Lumun, BO SA, APRIL 29.—Three per Cents. 317 for
cash ; Exchange on London, 3714.

' MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO TIIREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 7,000
bales, including about 1,500 for export and on speculation.
Prices were pretty well maintained.--There was not so good
a market for Shares, and prices receded.
There are some accounts from Port Melbourne at the
Jerusalem Coffee-house this morning, but they are singularly
barren of intelligence of importance. The colony, on the
whole, seems to be rather in an improved state. It is a fact
that the potato crop has shown symptoms of disease in the
colony as well as here and elsewhere. Some Van Diemen's
Land papers have also come to hand, but there is no recent
intelligence in them.
The West India papers and letters were delivered this
morning, but their contents have been entirely anticipated,
so far as news of a commercial character is concerned.
It is understood in mercantile circles that the correspond-
ence to be forwarded by the India mail (tbe letter bags for
which will be made up this evening) will be upon a most ex-
tensive scale. The latest advices from the Presidencies of
the East Indies, as well as from China, notice a better
demand for assorted manufactures, and the consequence is,
that many preparations are making to supply the markets in
the directions referred to just now.
Accounts have been received from Valparaiso to-day, rather
later in point of date than those before obtained. The
contents of the letters are of interest only to those
to whom they are addressed, one point excepted that
confidence had much increased in trading pursuits.
The Consol Market has been scarcely so firm to-day as
yesterday. A great deal of business has however been
however transacted for Money—little for the Account. The
Exchequer-bill market is firm at 245. to 275. premium, a
sure indication that money is not in any considerable request.
The current price of Consols for the Account has been 96%3%,
for Money 96% % ; for the New Three-and-a• Quarter
per Cents. 9714 %; and for Bank Stock 2051/2 and 2043%.
The market is rather heavy just now. India Stock is at 264,
or 1 per cent. higher than yesterday.
The Foreign Stock Market is rather flat. Mexican Boids
have receded to 313 for the Account. The Peruvian Stock
has advanced from 3734 to 391/2. Spanish Three per Cents.
command 37; Brazilian of 1839, 82; and the Dutch Four
per Cents. 913% to 9214.
In the Railway Share Market there is a good business
doing. Prices are pretty firm.
BRITISII FUNDS.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday, the contents
of which are of very little interest.
The Western Railway Bill passed the Chamber of Deputies
on that day.

CLOSING
PRICES.
204 N
95%

ONE
O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock .. • • • • • • . 2051% 204%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 95 % %
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 96%%s
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 97%'4
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10 3-16
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1849 .. 10 1-16 10
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 .. .. 10 7.16
India Stock ..
.. 264
India Bonds, 1,0001. • • • •
Ditto, under Imo/. • • 33
South Sea Stock • • •• ..
Ditto, New Annuities • • • • 95
Consols for Account • • • • •• 96% %
Exchequer Bills. 130. 134 d.
1,0001... .... 24 27 pm, 27
500/. -• .• .... 24 27 pm. 27
Dittb. Small .... 24 27 pm. 27
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

96
97U
10 3-16

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, New Bonds, 1829 and 1839 .. 82 82
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 31% 31%
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 3234 31% 31%
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. .. 3834 3954 393
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 37% 3934 3934
Russian Bonds • • • • • • .. 1101,(
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent • • ..
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. .. 51%
Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. • • • • 37 37
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent .. .. 42
Dividends on the above payable in Lendon.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 9634 9634
Ditto, Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 56 56
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 5934 59%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 91% 92% 92%
PRICES OF BUSINESSDONE AT CLOSING
PAID.
RAILWAY SHARES. PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen _ _ _ .. • • .. 10 .. • . 5 ........ 6
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 2% 2%
Bristol and Exeter ••.• 755 -. • • 84% ..... ... 84%
Ditto, New . • • • • • • • • .... 10% lllO4
Buckinghamshire .. .. .. .. 425. .... 4 par .. •
Caledordan .. .. .. .. .. 10 .... 7% %
Ditto, Half Shares . • • • • • 2% •• • • ••••• • • • • • 2
Ditto, Extension • • • • • • 2% •• • • 1% ••••• • • • • • IN
Cheltenham and Oxford .. .. 2 .... ___ .. _ IN
Derby and Crewe .. • • • • • • 2% •• • • 6%%••: • • • • • 65i
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2%.... % .
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. 534 .... 3% ——— _ _ 3%
Direct Northern .. • - • • • • 2% •• • • 2% M•••• • • • . 2%
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 10 .... 7% .......... 7.x
Dublin and Galway • • • • • •
Eastern Counties .. .. .. 141. 165..... 23% %%...... 23%
Ditto New .. .• • • • • 8/. 165..... .... _ _
.• 7% I
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 13s. 4d. % p .. if 1
Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. 6/. 13s. 4d. 1/ P•••• • • • • 34
Ditto, York Extension .. .. 108..... 1% %21 N . . 13Fi
Eastern Union .. • • • • • • 25 ....
Do. Extension to Norwich .. 234 .... 1% ...... „ _ 1
Do. Cambridge and Ely .. • • 2% •• • • 1% .
East Lincolnshire .. • • • • • • 14 -• • • 14%••• • • • • • I %
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... ___ , ;
I)itto 34 Shares .. • • • • • •10 18
Ely and Huntingdon • • • • • • 7% •• • • 5 ••••• • - • • • 534
Goole, Doncast., and Sheffield, &c. 428..... M p par • • par
Great Western .. .• • • •• 85 •• • • 155 ••••• • • • • • 155
Ditto, Half Shares • • • • • • 50 •• • • 88 ••••• • • • • • 88
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. • • 5 •• • • 18 •• • •
Ditto, Fifths .. .. .. .. 20 .... 35% ..... . 35%
Guildford, Fareham, &Portsmoth 5 .. • • 434 ••••.. • • • • 434
Harwich & Eastern Count. Junct. 2 .... .. ..... ... 1
Hull and Selby .... .. .. 50 •..104 .......... 104
Ditto, Halt ohares • • • • • • 7 .... 261 .... 26%
Lancaster and Carlisle • . .. 40 .• •• •• • ...... 581,4
Ditto New .. .. • • .• • • S —•• 10% ••••• •••• 11
Leicester and Bedford ...... 225..... % dis... •• .. 34 dts
Liverp., Manch., & Newc. Junct. 234.... 254.... •••• •• 214
London an i Birmingham . —lOO —22834 ..... . . . • . 228%
Ditto Quarters •.. .. .. .. 2 .... 29 • • ........ 29%
Ditto Fifths .. .. _ 2 • ... 25 .......... 25
London and Blackwell .. 161. I3s. 4d. 8% .. .... .• • • 8%
London and Brighton .. .. .. 50 •• .. 65% 66 .•• • • . 66
Ditto ditto Fifths .. .. .. 20 .... 31% 32 ...... 32
London and Croydon .. .. 131. 15s. 9d. 223434 .... •• • • 2234
Ditto, Guarant. Five per Cent. 9 .... ..... ..... 10
London, Hounslow, & Western .. 2 .... 1% 1..
London and South-Western.. 411. 6s. 106. 79% 78 ......
Ditto, New . _ .. 12%.... 2334 .... • • ....
London and York .. .. ~ .. 2%.... 2%..—. . . . . .
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .. 234.. • • 1% ..........
Londonderry and Coleraine .. 10 .... 7 .... • .....
Lynn and Dereham .. .. .. 10 .... 6% • • ........
Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 ....
.... ......
Ditto, Fifths .. .. .. .• 3 .... 13 12% ......
Ditto Extension .. .. .. 425. .... .. ...... .. ...
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . .. .. . —
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) .. 1 •• • • 9 . • 8%
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. .. • • 134 %p•• .. • • 1% p
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 2% 2.. ••.. • . 2
Midland .. .. .• • • .. ..100 .. •• 154 ...... •• • • 154
Ditto; New ~•• •• .. 18 ...• 33 3234 331 A .. 33%
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 108 ....124 . . . 124
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25 .... 45 .::. :: •—• :. 45
Ditto, New . • • • • • 1
.... 1 0
Newcastle and Berwick 10
.. .. 10 .... 20% %—.... • • 20%
North British .. ...• • • • • 22% .. _ 30 _ ...... ~29%
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 14 .. -. 2% ••—.. • •
North Kent and Direct Dover • • 234 ... • 1% %..• • • •
North Staffordshire _ • •
•• 425..... 41...% p 4% p
Norwich and Brandon . • • 20 .... 27 ...... •
• •
•
Northmpton,BanburY•BCChelthm. 2 .... 1••.•• • • • • • 1
Oxfd., Gosport, Portsmouth., and
Southampton • • .• • • • • 425..... 3A dis % dig.
Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptn. 1234 .... 9% —••.. • • • • 9
Perth and Inverness .. • • • • 234 ....
134 ..........
134
Portsmouth Direct _ _ • • 3%. •
.• 3 _.._.. • • 334
Rugby and Huntingdon .. .. 2 .... 1 .• • • .... • • 1
Scottish Central ~ •
•• 10 .... 1534%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham 234 .... 3% 3 •• •
Shropshire Union .. .. .. .. 42a..... 34 % dis •
South Midland .. . _ 425..... 21%p•• .. • • 1% p
South Eastern and Dover .. • . 3334'.. 40% % ...... • • 403(
Ditto. New (iss. at 32/0 No. 1. 16 ... 20
Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 234 .... 234 32% • •
Stiines and Richmond .. .. .. I ..., m%_ „ „ _ %
South Wales .. .. _ _ 5 _ _ 2.x%
1%
ITvrarwient Ne-kasl ihe
jyreaanidolloolnydhoenad.Jun.c..
4228% .. .. .... —34
dis
% dis.
Welsh Midland .. .. .. .. • 234 .. _ ___ _ 1
%
West Riding Union .. • • .. 425. .... 32% p 234 p
WiLbeach and Si. Ives .. .. • • 2 134
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 5 .... 334
York and Carlisle .. .. .. .. 2%,,,, • • • 1%
York and Lancaster .. .. .. 2%,,,, •• • • .... • • 1%
York and North Midland. .. .. 50 .... •-- .. •
Ditto. Extension _ ~ _ 15 _ 35 • • .... • •
Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten... 1 .... 11% ..... • •

The preliminary examinations of LECOMTX have nearly
trial before the
terminated, and it is probable that his ,
Chamber of Peers, will commence about the
20th of May.
Addresses of congratulation to the KurGi on his escape,
continue to pour in from all parts of France.
The addressof the Archbishop of PARIS to the KING on his
jour defile, has not been published in the Moniteur. Oa this
subject, the Journal de Rouen says :
" The King had received, the evening before his fete, the Arch-
bishop of Paris, who came to pay him the customary compliments.
The Archbishop's address was little enough in conformity with the
necessities of the moment—with the turn of men's minds—with the
ideas of the Court—and even so unsuitable in form, as to astonish all
who heard it. The King was much offended ; and during the even-
ing, in the midst of his family and household, he several times mani-
fested his displeasure and his emotion."
Pains BOURSE, MAT s.—The Stock Market has been again firmer
to-day, and both Threes and Fivei may be quoted higher, the former
having been last called at 84f. 25c., and the latter at 120 f. 45c. for the
end of the month. The market closed as follows :—Three per Cents.,
for cash, 84f. ; for account, 841. 2bc. • Five per Cents., for cash,
120 f. 10c. ; for account, 1201. 45c. ; Bank of France Shares, 3,460 f. ;
Neapolitan, 1011.50 c. • Spanish and New Loan not quoted.
lialLwaxs,—The Sare-market has been very heavy throughout
the day, and at the close the prices of most of the lines remained
within a shade of those of yesterday. For cash—Paris and
Orleans left off at 1,252 f. 50c.; Paris and Rouen, 1,042 f. 50c.
BanadleH, a2v251.,./11600fui. ;ognArgannoan,A9m3olefil;s,Vslemrzof.;n,
; Rouen
ern Str7a7sobf.t7gpaarnids
and Lyons, '575f.; Names, 542 f. 50c. ; Bordeaux, 632 f. 50c ;
Dieppe,
North,6Bsf e•
4551. ; Paris and Strasburg, 518 f. 75c. ; Fampoux not quoted.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, MAT 6.
Boulogne and Amiens, 12%—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cetto
(Mackenzie), 2 A—Central of Spain, % —Ceylon, %—Dutch Rhenish,
7—East Indian, % —Great Northern of France Constituted, 15%—
Great Indian Peninsular, %—Great Western Bengal, %—Jamaica
South Midland Junction, 2 4—Luxembourg, 2A—Naniur and Liege,
4li —Orleans and Bordeaux, 11—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 8%
—Paris and Rouen, 40%--Sarnbre and Meuse, Su
~—West Flanders, 3. .....

and on leaving the While
edge of the Temple Causeway, SINKING OF A STEAMER.—On Tuesday aft
Flora, an old steamer belonging to the Woolwich Company,"non tho
ve r withu po nthe passengers,
edg
lower
gTempleoin going downßitr t h
pier,e
struckriver
the stumps of the piles were forced through the bottom of the 'Ls' and
which immediately began to fill, to the no small consternation of the
passengers. The, vessel grounded, but there wail not water sufficient
near the spot to cover the decks. The passengers were detained
until another vessel, the Syreu, came up and took them out: Th.
Flora was subsequently floated into a safe berth near the Temple
Stairs. The hales were stopped up, and yesterday morning she was
taken to Woolwich for repairs.

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

Boulogne and Amiens 12 .... 1214 .. ••• • • • .
Central of Spain .. 2 11A ........
Dutch Rhenish .. 5 .... 7 674 . •
East Indian . ss. • • • • • •
Orleans and Vierzon 10 .... • • .....
Orleans and Bordeaux .. .. 6 .... 11% .••• • • • •
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... 8 7 . .....
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 .... S•X %• • • •• • •
Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 5 ••••• • • • • •

MINES.

British Iron .. . • • . .. 10 .... •••• • • • ...
Real del Monte, Unregistered ......

11%
7%
5%
64

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, Max 7.—Wind N.N.E. at noon, light breeze and cloudy,
ROCHESTER, MAY 4.—Acrd. Queen Victoria, Stockton, with loss of
jib•boom and other damage, having been in contact with a schooner
in Haisborough Gulf.
OFF DOVER, May 6.—Arab, Port Philip.
OFF FOLKESTONE.—And. George, Sydney, New South Wales.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 6.—Wind S.W. to W.—Arrd. sth, Sir Robert
Sale, Loader, China; 6th, Matilda, Nielsen, Bahia; Christina,
Wendia, ditto. Sid. 6th, Seringapatain, Furnell, Madras and Calcutta.
CowEs, MAT 6.—Wind W.S.N.—Acrd. Alwina, Rowells, Val-
paraiso, for llamburgh ; Onderneeming, Loeff, Rio Janeiro ; Mathilde,
Nelson, Bahia; Seth, Morbery, Bahia.
BRIDPORT, MAT 6.—Wind W.—Sld. Fox, Foal!. St. John's, New-
foundland.
LivEaroot, Mar 6.—Sld. Mary Jane, Mason, St. John's, N.B. ;
Coverdale, Benson, Montreal.
DUBLIN, MAY s.—Wind S.—Arrd. Simeon Hardy, Cook, Barbadoes.
CORK, MAT 4.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd Agile, Smith, Mauritius; Roan,
Le Patourel, Rio de la Hache.
OFF CORK.—Penelope, of Jersey, Cape Coast Castle.
nzna., MIT I.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Cynthia, Ballol, St.
ra
iLso, wn
parreooviori,
shtfon2Ed
F6.—Theeb.,
John's,Da Nn °G
leaky,
a kSarah,y, and of
would London,
pro
b apbul
yt
bben
condemned. to a l Valpa-
raiso, -
LYNN, MAY s.—The Cilee, Fish, of and for this port, from Hartle-
pool, got ashore on the Tory Sand, in Lynn Well, yesterday, and
sunk ; crew saved.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 7, 1846.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

GROUP VI,