The Sun.
London, England, 1848-01-21 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY 21, lB4B.

merited eulogium. The correspondent of the Presse,
speaking of measures adopted is Friburi aLd
the Valais, gives the following explanations :
" The expulsion of the sisters of St. VINCENT DE
PAUL, and the contributions imposed on the convents,
and partieularly on that of St. Bernard, have created
a painful sensation throughout the world. I relate
what has occurred, I excuse nothing, I merely
narrate.

" The Government of Friburg considered that the
convents established in the canton since 1815, were
not placed under the protection of the 12th article of
the Federal pact, and all those which were in this
category were inserted in the decree of proscription
pronounced against the Jesuits. As to the contribu-
tions levied to pay the expenses of the !war, it can
easily be understood that in a poor country they
could only be levied on the rich. The convents for
the most part are rich, with the exception of the beg-
ging orders.
" The Convent of St. Bernard, among others, pos-
sesses freehold property bringing in an annual rental
of several millions of francs in Piedmont and in
Switzerland. The contribution levied on this con-
vent will not prevent it from exercising its pious
hospitality as heretofore. MM. DE MONTALEMBERT
and FuLcuinort may remain perfectly satisfied on
this point. A person who has just arrived from
Valais declares that it is impossible to relate a single
authentic act of violence or of pillage directed against
the convents of this canton. The monks of St.
Bernard have been recalled to the convent which
they had voluntarily abandoned."
In another portion of his letter M. SALAMI.; re-
minds Count MONTALEMBERT that the members of
the Sonderbund Government had, on a former occa-
sion, sentenced their political adversaries to death, to
exile, or to sixteen or twenty years imprisoiment,
and had confiscated their property, and that, there-
fore, they were merely having meted out to them-
selves the same measure which they had meted out
to others."

The Constitutionnel reminds M. GuIZOT that the
Swiss, in suppressing convents, and doing away with
mortmain, are merely following the example set by
France, and concludes by saying, " Let the Govern-
ment, therefore, be less severe in Switzerland, and
re-establish mortmain in France, if it is a crime in
Switzerland to suppress it. It is true that our Go-
vernment would desire nothing better than to re-
establish mortmain among us, but we defy it to dare
to make this answer."

The Journal des Debats has the following on the
subject of the KING'S health :
" The details which we publish relative to the
audience given by his Majesty to the grand deputa-
tion of the Chamber of Peers seems to us to reply
more than sufficiently to the rumours that malevo•
lence, credulity, or fear have been for some days
helping to circulate about the King's health. Two
hundred men have seen the King, and have heard
him, and on their testimony' we freely rely. The
King, it is true, has hardly,/since his late misfortune,
received others than his Ministers, and has confined
his attention to public affairs. His salon has been
closed. The Charter, in according all the constitu-
tional prerogatives of royalty, did not allow him the
privilege of insensibility to losses touching his dearest
affections.

" The guard of the Louvre cannot defend the King
against family misfortunes, and when such enter they
bring something worse than official mourning, and
warrant for a time retirement to solitude. The King,
not having received company since the death of the
Princess Adelaide, it was inferred that his health had
so gravely suffered as to prevent his seeing any one.
Another kind of conclusion would have been more
natural. The King, while he resigned himself to
same days of grief, yet nevertheless did not abandon
the serious duties of royalty. Already has the King
resumed the greater part of the habits of a life ever
so accessible, of a mind so affable, and of a hospitality
so expansive. The officers of his household, of the
National Guard, and of the army, who hold the
superior command of his palace, have again been
received at his table. Before many days are over the
salon of the Queen, which opens with a facility so
benevolent and noble to the elite of all the liberal pro-
fessions of French society, will see re-united around
the King of July all those who love to find in the
vigour and serenity of this green and energetic old
age the guarantee for yet a long time of the repose
and prosperity of the State."
The Chamber of Deputies yesterday were en-
gaged, at the commencement of the sitting, in the
consideration of various subjects of mere local inte-
rest.

The Minister of Justice presented a Bill for put-
ting an end to trafficking in places. In presenting
the measure the Minister stated that the abuse was
one of long standing. The present Government were,
he said, determined to put a stop to it, and for that
reason had proposed the present Bill, which would
nullify any conventions of the kind that might be en•
tered into, and deprive any party infringing its pro-
visions of their right to a retiring pension.
In consequence of the presentation of the above
measure the proposition of M. DUPIN for an inquiry
into the subjects of these acts was withdrawn.

The other proceedings up to post hour offered
nothing of interest.
PARIS BOURSE, TUURSDAY, JAN. 20. -- The ac-
count given by the Journal des Wats of this morning
relative to the KING'S health, and the fact of his
Majesty having received the deputation of the Chamber
of Peers with the Address, have [tended to remove
much of the gloom which has for the last few days
been hanging over the market, and from the opening
of business everything appeared on the mending hand.
Threes, after reaching 74, closed firm at 73f. 95c.
Fives, at 116 f. 5c.; and New Loan at 75f. The
market closed as follows : Three per Cents. for
cash, 73f. 85c. ; for account, 731. 95c. ; Five per
Cents. for cash, 115 f. 95c. ; for account, 116 f. 5c.;
New Loan, 75f.; Bank of France shares, 3,180 f.;
Neapolitan, 991. 50c. ex div. ; Spanish Threes, 29i ;
Spanish Fives not quoted
RAILWAYS.—The Share Market has also acquired
more firmness ; and at the close of the day's quota-
tions were generally marked higher. For cash,
Paris and Orleans left off at 1,177 f. 50c. ; Rouen
and Havre, 4401.; Strasburg and Bale, 160 f. ; Nantes,
3801.; Northern, 627 f. 50f. ; Bordeaux, 4701. ; Paris
and Strasburg, 4031. 75c.; Paris and Lyons,
3921.50 e.

BUSINESS; DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE

LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 20.

Boulogne and Amiens, 13%—Dutch Rhenish, 2%—
Namur and Liege, 6►/.z—Northern of France, 1.03/q ex int.
Paris
.and Lyons, 54—Sambre and Meuse,7%.

Mr. Whitehall Dodd, of Cloverly, Salop, has been
solicited by the influential Conservatives of North Shrop-
shire to stand for that division of the county, the repre-
sentation of which is vacated by the elevation of Lord
Clive to the peerage, and that gentleman, we are happy
to say, has complied with this requisition. Mr. W.
Dodd is a thorough Conservative and a sound Church-
man, and it would have been impossible to select a gen-
tleman more worthy of the distinguished honour about
to be conferred upon him.—Herald. _ _

NUMEROUS Finns.—(Trus DAY.)—Since the hour
of four this morning the firemen of the various stations
have been called to several accidents from fire, namely,
New Cut, Knightsbridge, St. Pancras, Edgeware-road,
and other places. The first took place in the premises
of Mr. Stringer, glass-cutter, Short-street, New Cut,
Lambeth, where the family narrowly escaped. The
Waterloo-road and West of England firemen prevented
the damage extending. Mr. Stringer is insured in the
West of England Company. The next worthy of no-
tice was that in a bed-room of a lady named Wilsoo,
where two children had been left in bed. By the timely
assistance of those in the house, the children were res-
cued from their dangerous position, but the valuable
furniture was destroyed, and the buildings also da-
maged. The other fires also were attended with some
damage to household furniture, and narrow escapes.
FIRE IN Dauar-LANE.—Yesterday morning a fire
broke cut in 126, Drury-lane, occupied by Mrs. Church-
low, as a warehouse for children's clothing. The fire
was subdued by the exertions of the neighbours; and the
police before the engines could be got into play. The
damage is inconsiderable. The fire is supposed to have
o:iginated in an over-heated flue.
LIVE STOCK IN THE UNITED KINGDOM.—From
" M'Quecn's Statistics of the British Empire," we learn
the enormous value of the live stock in the kingdom. It
appears that there are 2,250,000 horses, of total value of
67,000,0001., of which more than 1,500,0001. are used iu
agriculture, and that their value is 45,000,0001. The
number of black cattle in the kingdom is about 14,000,000
to 15,000,000, of the value of 216,000,000 i.; the number
of sheep 50,000,000, whose value is estimated at
67,000,0001.; and the extent of capital invested in swine
is still more extraordinary, when we reflect how little it
is thought upon or taken into account. The number ot
pigs of all ages, breeding and rearing, is calculated to be
upwards of 18,000,000, which, taking one-third at 24
each, and the remainder at 10s. each, gives a value of
11,870,0001., as the capital invested in pigs alone, making
the total amount of capital invested in the above species
of agricultural stock, 346,270,0001.
OPPOSITION TO Da. HamrDEN.—The following
counsel have been retained to support the rule nisi for a
mandamus in the matter of the confirmation of the elec-
tion of the Bishop of Hereford :—Sir Fitzroy Kelly, Dr.
Addams, Mr. A. J. Stephens, Mr. B. L'eacock, and Mr.
E. Badeley. The argument bus been fixed for Monday
next.

!CONEY and nO!‘171-P17)CTA r
CITY. C,2 tj TO 1711? t, E.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was very
dull. Saks, 3,000 !bales, nearly all to the trade, and
chiefly American, at 41d. to 6d. per lb. The market
was very dull, and prices were much the same as pre-
viously. Railway Shares advanced, and there was a
firm market.
The accounts received to-day from Paris are of a
character more reassuring, and so far confirm the im-
pression that desperate efforts to depress the funds have
been made by speculators profiting by the nervous ex-
citability of the public, so natural after a rise in prices.
The increasing abundance of money, however, is a
powerful counter agent.
The following is the number of vessels cleared at the
port of Quebec for the lower provinees, during the years
1845, 1846, and 1847:-
1845 73 Vessels
1846......... 121 Ditto
1847 137 Ditto
It is stated that a new law will very shortly be paesed
for the active prosecution of public works in Belgium.
The Funds have been fluctuating again, but are still
comparatively buoyant. Consols have been 87L and
since 8711 For February the rates are about the
same. Exchequer Bills have been at 255. to 275. prem.,
and India Bonds at 14s. to 17s. premium. Bank Stock
is firm at 198 i. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. are 851 a.
In the Foreign Market there is very little doing.
Spanish Three per Cents. are 29 to 29k. Portuguese
Old Bonds are 78. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
are 53i to 53i.
In Railway Shares there has been a better business
doing, and improved rates have been obtained.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE, O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 189%

3 per Cent. Reduced .Annuities ...... ... B7 i/.:;34
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 87%71 ira
New 314 per Cent. Anas. 885i% %
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 18C0
India Bonds under 1,0001
Consols for Account ... 871 A% 5/8
Exchequer Bills. 3d.
1,000/. ..... .. ..... ...... 27 25
5001.
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent 39
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent 7B
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent. ..
Venezuela Bonds
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21e, per Cent.,l2 Guild 53%%
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Aberdeen
Amber., Notting., Boston, &c. 25/S — ...... to
Ayrshire and Galloway
Belfast and County Down .. 10 .. ..
Birmingham & Oxib.-d June... 20
Birmingham, Vol., & Dodley 10 ..... to -,
Birniing., Wol., & Stour Val. 10/.145....
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire J unction..
Boston, Stamf., & Birming... i - . ..... to
Bristol and Exeter
D0., Thirds

Buckinghamshire lO/. 4s
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Clydesdale Junction 50

Chester-and Holyhead... 37% — to
Ditto, Precerence
Clarence.
Do., le Class, 6 per Cent... 10
Do., 2d Class, 5 per Cent... 10
Do., Gov. Loan, 4 ner Cent. 10
Dublin and Belfast Junction.. 25
Dundalk and EnniAillen ... 17% — to
_ . _ ~

East Anglia, 251. L. & E.,
awd L. & D~
Ditto, M., E. &II ls .....
Ditto, 34 103 ,E. & H... 2
Eastern Counties
Ditto, ditto (B)
Do. Perpet.,s pirct.No. 1,61. 13s. 4d...
Do., d 0.... N0.2,6i. 13s. 4d... is die to par
Do., York Extension
Do., Northern & Eastern
Do., Quarter .... . l2l/Q. . ..
Do., New
Eastersn Union. ... .. 60
Ditto, Quarter Shares ...... 121
Ditto., Thirds .. ......... ...13s. 40 — to
Ditto (guar. 6 per cent.) ... . —
East Lancashire
Ditto, New ... .......... .... . 13
Do., New Quarters
East Lincolnshire ... 19 licz —
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O — to
Ditto, Half Shares
•• •••

Ditto, Quarter Shares l2l
Edinburgh and Nerthern ......
Ditto, New ..... ..... .to

Ditto, New port l 2
Ditto, ditto, New 2M — ...... to
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester 2%
Ditto, New
Glasg., Dumfries, & Carlis)e..B/. 6 '.8d... to
Glasgow, Kilmarnock; & Ayr 50 ......
Ditto, New - 4 O 4O
Do. M Shares (5 per ct.gua.) 121,E .....
Great N oak ere lO% 4N to
Do. London & rork Exten. 21% 1 ...... to
Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 37% 24% ex in to
Great North of England 100 -
Ditto, Nt w 40/ 5
Ditto, New 30/ ... 30 ... .. .. ... to
Ditto, New 151.-- ... ...... 6%...... . ... to
Great Western
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares
Dit t o , Fifths
Do. New 17/
Huddersfield and Manchester '24 .. ...
Ditto, Thirds
Hull and Selby SO
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121% — to
Ipswich & Bury St. Edmunds 171/2 — to
Do. do. and Norwich -
Do., do., Extension Scrip
(late (Comb. and Ely) 2%...... I% ex int to
Lancaster and Carlisle.... ... 50
Do., Thirds
Lancashire and Yorkshire ... 93 .....
Ditto, ditto
Ditto Half Shares ... 38 ...... ..... to
Ditto Quarte.:s
Ditto Fifths 8
Ditto Sixteenths ... ..... ... 614...... to
Ditto Thirds (Beg.) ... 101.4 s —
De. Liverpool and Bury... 38
• . -. ..._ _ _

Do. (Rudders. ant: Shell:) 33
D, Waketield,PonteD

to

,0., tract,
and Goole 471/

to

liefriold. - Fotherhom, and
•_tiewsoury and. Bimingham 7 — ..... to
Ditto, ditto, Class B. 4
••.... to ......
Shrewsbury and Chaster
(Nor. W. Alin.)
Ditto Halves, Ditto... 8 ..,
... ~
Lo
Ditto, Oswestry
to
Ditto (New) 1
Ditto 8 per Cent. Prof 5 ......
Shrewsbury and Hereford ... 2
Shropshire Union
S, uth Devon ....... ...... ... 40
Ditto, Preference
Suutli Staffordshire 4

South Eastern and Dover 331,4 ...... 311...... to
Ditto, Now, No. 1
Ditto, New, N 0.2 l7
' Ditto New, No. 3 2O
Ditto New, No. 4. ...... ... .. 71// — ... .. to
South Wales
South Yorkshire, Doncaster,
and Goole . 2

Swans. and Loughor and Ca-
meron's Stm. Coal 4
Thames Haven Doek and
Railway l7l/2 —
"raw Vale Extension
Vale of Neath
Waterford and Kilkenny l3l/ —
Waterford and Limerick..... 40 ... .. to
Waterford,Wexford,Wicklw,
and Dublin
West Cornwall
Whitehav-- Id F-

to --

nitehaven am Furness l2 ... .. ..... to —0
Windsor, Staines, and South
Western ... 525.
Wilts,Somerset,&Weymouth 30 ...... ... to
York, Newcastle, and Berwick 25 ... . 34% % to
Do. Original New & Ber'ck 25 .. ... 32
Do. North Shields Purcha,,e 25 .. ...
Do. Exten. No.l (Y. & N.) 15
Do. do. No. 2, New & B. 10
Do. G. N. E. Pur. or Pref. 8
....... . 7 G
9:Y1% xi to
77
York and North Midland .. 50
..
t
Ditto, Preference lO
Ditto East and West Riding
Extension 25 ......
FOREIGN RAILWAY&.
Boulogne and Amiens 2O ...... 131/04... to
Central of France ( Orleans
and Vierzoa)
Central of Spain
Ceylon ' 53.
Demerara.
Dendre Valley
Direct Bombay and Madras 53. .... .
Dutch Rhenish .. 7
East Indian . 11i —
Great Indian Peninsular
Italian and Austrian
Jamaica S. Midland Junction 1

Louvain ala Sambre ... 6
. ••• •s •to

Luxembourg
Lyons and Avignon (Con-
stituted)
Madrid and Valentia
Namur and Liege...
Northern of France. lO ...... 107,8 o llxi
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 6
Over Yssel 4l3s 4d .. .. ... to
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Orleans
Parts and Rouen ..
Paris & Strasbourg
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse
Strasburg and Bale ..... ...... 14
Tours & Nantes ••• .. ...... •• S
...

Tournay, Jurbise, Landen,
and Hasselt
West Flanders
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia -
British North American .... 50
Colonial
Commercial of London
London Joint Stock ...... 10
London and Wostminster. .. 20
to

National Provincial of Engld. 85
Ditto, New
National of -Ireland 221,4
Provincial of Ireland
Ditto, New ........... .. ...... 10
Union of Australia
Ditto, New 2% to
Union of London
Union of Madrid
MINES.

Anglo Mem lean lOO —
to
Astrian Mining Company ... 11 , —
Australian...
Blaenaryon Iron and Coal ... 50
Bolanos Scrip
)3ritish Iron
Rrazilian Imperial ...,• .. ... 21 ......
Galvanized Iron
Ditto, Ncw
Real del INlvntc, Unregistered . .. 13 to

LLOYDS SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, JAN. 21.—Wind fresh breeze, with
frost and snow.

RAMSGATE, JAN. 20.—Wind E.N.E.—SId. Troes
Freres, Cuba.
DE AL „J JAN. 20.—Wind E.N.E., fresh.—Arrd. Mary
Sparks, Bushby, China; Don Colitis, Brown, St. John's,
Newfound:and. Arrd. from the River, and sailed,
Eclipse, Mauritius; Pilgrim, Bahia; Palmyra, Deme-
rara; St. Croix, Honduras; Margaret Evans, New York.
Poicrs:3looTll, JAN. 20.—Wind N.N.E.—SId. Mount
Stuart Elphinstone, Hobart Town; Astarte, St. Vin-
cent's. OtT port, Robert Heddle, ICreft, Sierra Leone;
Hebe, Bahia, for Gothenburg; Aolus, St. John's, New
Brunswick.

LITERPOOL, JAN. 20.—Wind S.S,E.—Arrd. Rolla,
Miller, Rio Janeiro ; Milton, Goohan, Boston. Sld.
The Dulie, Calcutta; Petrel, Africa; Resolution, Ma-
ranhatn; Lydia, Antigua; Ringdove, Trinidad: Mary
Ann, l3oston; Herald, Newfoundland. Off port, Lord
Seaton.

PLYMOUTH, JAN. 20.—Wind N.N.E.—SId. Nestor,
Sierra Leone; H.M.S. Inconstant, Rio Janeiro and New
Zealand.

GRIMSBY, JAN. 18,—Gem, Lynn to Gainsborough,
with four feet water in her hold, having been on the
Sunk Sand, proceeded after stopping the leak.
ARDROSSAN, JAN. 18.—The smack Mary, of Ramsey,
came on shore to the south of the Saltcoats, on the 16th
instant, during a heavy gale. It is reported that the
brig Jane and Martha, of Belfast, was on. shore on the
same night at Irvine Bar, with rudder damaged.
STRAI4RAER, JAN. 19.—The steamer reported yester-
day as having put into Loch Ryan, on fire, was the
Viceroy, from Glasgow to Dublin, the cabin and all
abaft the aftermost bulk head was destroyed before the
flame was extinguished; she proceeded today for the
Clyde.
BRIDLINGTON, JAN. 20.—The Triton, of this port, in
leaving the harbour yesterday drove ashore at South
Beach, but was got off the following tide without
damage, after discharging half of her cargo (wheat).