The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-18 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNP, 18, 1846.

mates, and proving itself not wholly unworthy of
that distinguished lady from whom it will have
received its title. Nearly eleven thousand pounds
are still wanting to complete the funds which are
deemed requisite for the construction of the "Refuge,"
fifteen thousand pounds being estimated as the cost
of the building, and four thousand being the amount
of sovercigni already contributed. That eleven
thousand pounds will be collected, or we have mis-
taken the sympathies of humanity.

The report that the courier of the French Em-
bassy at Rome had been robbed of his dispatches, on
his way to France, is confirmed by the German
papers. These papers also announce that in Sep-
tember next the Emperors of AUSTRIA and Russia
and the King of PRUSSIA will meet at Vienna.

We have no intelligence from Lisbon of a later
date than that published yesterday. It appears that
the Ministers are directing their attention to the sub-
ject of financial reform, and they have issued a pro-
gramme, promising extensive retrenchments, and the
fulfilment, as far as possible, of the national engage-
ments. The foreign dividends are to be held invio-
lable under any circumstances.

Advices have been received from Madrid of the
11th of June. All places of public amusement were to
be closed for nine days in consequence of the death of
POPE GREGORY XVI. ; prayers are ordered to be
offered up for the election of a good Pontiff. It is
reported that Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA has commu-
nicated to the editor of the Clamor Public° the fol-
lowing letter addressed, in 1836, by QUEEN MARIA
CHRISTINA. to her sister CARLOTTA LOUISA, the late
consort of the Infante Don FRANCISCO DE PAULA.
"My dear Louisa—l have received your dear letter, in
which you remind me of the conversations that have
often taken place between Ferdinand and us as to our
some day marrying your sons and my little girls. This
project has always pleased my heart, and 1 wish that
time had wings, in order that I might behold the accom-
plishment of that which has ever been the desire
and will of dear Ferdinand, which desire and will
I shall always endeaveur to realise, so far as I
can, and the more so as I have always acknowledged the
real affection you feel for me and my little girls—an affection
which has made you reject all other matches. I also believe
that the national representation, instead of opposing those
marriages, will approve of then', as being not only advan-
tageous to our family, but also to the nation, seeing that
Spanish Princes are alone concerned in question. I shall not
fail to make the said proposal when the proper time comes for
it. Adieu, dear Louisa ; accept, I beg you, your sister's sin-
cerest thanks, and for ever confide in my affection.
" Your sister and friend,
" MARIA CHRISTINA.

" Paris, Jan. 23, 1836."

On the festival of Corpus Christi the QUEEN went
in grand procession, accompanied by the authorities,
to the different churches in Madrid. It was ru-
moured that the Cortes would be dissolved in July,
and that the new Cortes would be summoned to meet
in October.

The Madrid Bolsa was closed on the 11th, owing
to the Corpus Christi fetes.

We have received the Paris papers of Tuesday.

The budget of the expenses relating to the French
consulships was voted on Monday, in the Chamber
of Deputies, after an endeavour, on the part of MM.
DE LAMARTINE, LEON DE MALLEVILLE, and BER-
RYER, to get up a discussion on the subject of Syria.
The ouly reply which M. GUIZOT made to their
taunts was, " that he could add nothing to what he
had already stated. The discussion should certainly
take place, though not now; for the present time was
not a fitting one. At this moment a reorganisation was
being effected in the Libanus, which tended to re-

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place under the same power all the populations of the
mountain. It would be most unwise to run the risk,
by any premature discussion, of compromising the
arrangement in prospect, which would, he hoped,
restore peace and happiness to Syria. The efforts of
the French Government in this question might be
denied, but they were not questioned in Syria, or at
the propaganda of Rome. It would be an easy
matter for him to communicate letters to that effect,
but he should not do so ; next session all would be
arranged, and M. DE MALLEVILLE would then him-
self perceive the error into which he had fallen."
All these papers contain long accounts of the
grand doings on Sunday, at the opening of the
Northern Railway.

The price of bread in Paris for the second fortnight
in June has been again augmented, and the price of
first quality bread is 37 centimes the kilogramme,
and that of second quality, 30 centimes.

Algiers journals of the 10th mention no new fact
of importance, but confirm the previous statements
of the submissions of tribes. Nothing certain was
known of the movements of A 13D-EL-KADER.

The Courrier Francais says—

"We are assured that Government has received from
Otaheite news of a most serious character. Several warm en-
gagements had taken place between our soldiers and the
natives of the different islands, which M. Bruat had given
orders to occupy. But the most serious fact is the connivance
of the English missionaries, who covertly sent powder and
ammunition to the insurgents. Several boxes of cartridges
concealed under Bibles and religious books were seized ; and
the marks of English manuf ictories were equally found on
the muskets left on the field of battle by the natives. We
shall see what steps will be taken by Government in presence
of the constant renewal of such incidents."

Little or no business was done on the Bourse on
Tuesday, the speculators lying by for the decision of
the Houses of Parliament on the Corn-law and the
Coercion Bills.

The Three per Cents., closed en the Paris Bourse on
that day at 83f. 15c. ; the Five per Cents., 120 f. 30c.; the
Orleans Railroad Shares, 1,255 f. ; Rouen, 1,012 f. 50c.
Havre, 740 f.; Great Northern, 735 f. ; Avignon, 880 f.
Vierzon, 630 f. ; Bordeaux, 6001 ; Boulogne, 482 f. 50e.;
Paris and Strasburg, 503 f. 75c.; Tours and Nantes, 515 f. ;
Paris and Lyons, 5371. 50c ; Spanish Three per Cents., 38.
The following are quotations for other railway shares :
Lyons and Avignon Definitives, 513 f. The.; Bordeaux
and Cette Definitives, 5i 9f. 75c.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 17.
Boulogne and Amiens, 11!i —Dutch Rhenish, 7 —East Indian,
V2—Louvain and Jemappe, I!.e ex d.—Namur and Liege, 3%—Or-
leans and Bordeaux, 10—Paris and Lyons Constituted, 6%.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWf
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was steady.
Sales, 6,000 bales, all to the trade. Shares were dull, and
not quite so good.
Much regret has been expressed in mercantile circles this
morning at the result of the notice of motion which stood
for discussion yesterday at the East India House in favour
of a testimonial beirg made to Lieutenant Waghorn for
his unwearied zeal and perseverance in originating and com-
pleting the overland route to India. It must not, however,
be assumed that this circumstance arose from any lukewarm-
ness on the part of the proprietors in awarding to this gen-
tleman the full meed 3f praise—and something more sub-
stantial to boot—by the notice having been dropped. The
fact, we believe to be this, the Honourable Proprietor
who gave notice of the motion, as well as many
others, anticipated a rather lengthened discussion upon
Mr. Poynder's resolution for the immediate abolition
of all anti-Christian rites in the East Indies. The
Hon. Proprietor, however, did not persevere in addressing
the Court at any length, and as Mr. G. Thompson, who had
two motions on the paper, could not attend from illness, the
Quarterly General Court, which is usually a "field day" for
proprietors, who like to see their names in print, was suddenly
brought to a termination by the motion of adjournment being
proposed and carried. We have reason to believe that the
subject will again be revived, and that Lieut. Waghorn's
claims will be elaborately and deservedly brought forward in
the hall of the East Irdia House.
But a few private letters have come to hand this morning
from the Brazils, brought by her Majesty's eteamer Swift.
In trade at Rio Janeiro, as well as at Bahia, there does not
appear to be any marked features. A demand for bullion
for the interior and for the River Plate had sprung up. This
may account for the comparatively small amount of specie
that has been brought home on freight by the Swift packet.
The Consol Market is still flat. For the Account
the current value now is 95% rather buyer, ; for the Re-
duced Three-per-Cents the quotation has receded from 95%
to 95%; and the New Three- and-a-Quarter per Cents. from
97% to 967 A. There has been a rally in the premium of
Exchequer-bills to lfs. Bank Stock has fallen from 206%
to 203%.
The only bargains worth notice in the Foreign Bonds to-
day are those in the Portuguese Four per Cents., at rates
fluctuating from 49 to M, the present price being 50i.
The Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents have been
sold at an improvement to 60 and 4. Russian are at 1091/2,
and the Mexican Deferred at 1614.
A pretty fair amount of business has been transacted in
Railway Shares and Scrips this morning; but in prices the
changes since yesterday have been slight, indeed.

IiRITISIL FUNDS.

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock ..
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 95,E y„ % 95%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 97 IA toili 9671,
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1660 .. 10 3 -16 3 10 %
Consols for Opening .. • • .. .. 95 % 951
Exchequer 11111 s. 1 %d. I%d.
1,0001... .. —•—• 11 16 pm. 16
5001. . .. •... 11 16 pm. 16
Ditto. Small .... 16 II pm. 11
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Chili= Bonds, 6 per Cent .. .
Mexican Bonds, 1537, 5 per Cent .. za
Ditto, Deferred .. .. .. .. 1614 164
Ditto, Debentures .. .. • • .. 17% 15N
Portuguese Four per Cent •... 51 50%
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 49 51 504 50%
Russian Bonds .. ..
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 971,i 97%
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 597 k 6014 60 GO
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. —• 92

PRICES OF BUSINESS
CLOSING
DONE AT
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID.PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Boston, Stamford, & Birmingham. 225. .... dis dis.
Buckinghamshire 425. .... % dis .. • . % dis.
Caledonian .. .. 10 .... 10% % • • 10%
Ditto, Extension .. .. 2% • • 1
Chester and Holyhead .. .. 22% .... 2034 • .
Derby and Crewe .. 2% .... 6%14 ... .. 6%
Direct Northern .. 2y, ....
Eastern Counties .. 141. 165... 245 24.4
Ditto New .. lO/. 165... • . 834 p... .. .. p
Do Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d. • ... 3y P
Ditto, York Extension .. I Os. .. . • 134 is •••• • • • •
Eastern Union .. 25
Do. Ipswich & Bury Stialmunds 9 ..........
Goole, Doncast., and ,liettleld, &c. 425..... dis .. • • % dis.
Great North of England . 100 •
Ditto, New .. . 13, •• •• 14% ........ 1414
Great Western 85 ••.. •.••• • • • • •
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 5 .... 1634 • ...... •• • 1634
Hull and Selby .. 50 ••.. ••••• • • • • •
Ditto, Half Shares .. 15 .... 3514 ••• • • • 3534
Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth 2 .. • • 14 •• • • ••• • • 134
Leicester and Bed.ord 225..... 3s di5..... • • ,4 dis.
Leicester, Tainworth, &c. 425. •• .. 34 d 15....... % di-.
London an ' Birmingham . .• 100 .... 225 ...... 226
London and Black wall • • 161. 138. 4d. 7% •••• • • • • 8
London and Croydon .. ..131. 158 'Jd... 22% - .... • . 22%
London and South. Western • - 411. 6s. 10d. • • 784 7734 ...• 77%
Ditto, New .. .. 14 .... 251 .. 25 4
London and York .. .. 2 • 2% 2. •• • .... 2
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 234 .. • • 134 rs •••• • • • • Irs
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil .. 232
Lynn and Ely .. 15 .... 12% • •
Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 •• • •• .
Ditto Extension 425. .. • • 21-i P •••• • • •
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 .
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) .• 4 .... 134 ••••.. . • • • 134
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) • • 1 •• • • 934 34 •••••• ••
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. •• • • % p.. • • • % p
Manchester and Southampton .• 2 • • I% •••• • • • •
..100 ....150 ••...• • • , • 150
Ditto, New .. .. 18 .• • • 314 % •• • • 31344
Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 .. • • 4538 ••• • • • • • 4534
Ditto, New . 1 .... 9k . • • 9%
Newcastle and Berwick .. •• 15 •. • • 24% • . 25
Norfolk .. • . .. 20 25% .. 253,E
Nona British
Ditto, Bah Shares .. .• • • 8% ••••• • • • • 1134
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 134.... •• • •
Northern and Eastern .. .. 50 .. 74
North Kent and Direct. Dover .• 2% ... • 1% %•••• • • • •
North stattordshire 428. .. • • 3% 74 P••• • • • 3% p
Oxtd.,Worcester,& Wolverhmptn. 12 .. 81A••.... • - • • 8%
Portsmouth Direct • . • . .• 3% .. .. ••• • • • 3
Scottish Central . .... 34
15!4 • • • • • • • • • • 15
slirewsbury and Birmingham .. 234 .... 2% •• •
Shropshire Union .. 425..... dis •• ••.. 1% (Its.
South Eastern sums Dover .. • • 333 g ..........
Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2% ... 2%. •• •• •• 2%
South Wales . • • . .. 5 .... 1 34 .. 1
34
Welsh Midland .. . _ 1134
West Riding Union • . • • .. 425.• 2 4 %34 .. 234
York and North Midland .. .. 50 .... •• .
Ditto. Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... 4834
Ditto, Extension .. 15 .... 33 4 ...
Do. E. and W. Riding Eaten... 1 .• • 11% .• •

21,Cp

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Barbadoes .. .. • • • . .. 1.........,
tioulogiu• and Amiens .. .• .. 12 .... 11% ....• •.. 1116
Dutch Rhenish . • • • ••• • 6 .... -- ...• ••.• .. 7%
East In.lia, .. . • • • • ..ss. .... % .....
Louvainltalian and n
(I o ein Austrianepy e
.. .. 4
. . . . ..3 .. .. . •.. —i3i x
d...... 1% xd .
Luxembourg
Northern of France Constituted.. 5 .... _
.........
Paris and Lyons Constituted .. 5 .... Guy
.......:
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 5 .... 4% ..... ....
Sambre and Mcuso .. • .. 8 .... ___
..........
Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 5 .. .. 514 ....
..
..
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
London Joint-Stock • • • • • • 10 .... 1414......
London and Westminster .. .. 20 .... 2611. .....
NINES.

14%
6}4
4%
4
5%

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE 01 LORDS.

GLASGOW, KILNEARNOCIC, AND AR-

DIMOSSAN.

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The Committee on this Bill met for the first time at eleven this
morning, in Room B (New Houses of Parliament). The members
are Earlit,den (chairman), the Marquis of Ormonde, and Earls King-
ston, Verulam, and Effingham.
Mr. Austin and Mr. Sergeant BAlasis appeared for the promoters,
and Sir Thomas Phillips and Mr. Pickering for the Glasgow, Paisley,
Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway Company, and for the Duke of Port-
land, who opposed the BM on the ground of residental damages.
Mr. AUSTIN opened the case for the promoters at great length. The
Learned Counsel then proceeded to describe the course of the intended
railway, stating the popul9tion of the various towns through which it
passed, and the probable expense of its construction, and concluded
by submitting that the Ayr Company had no locus stundi, and that
therefore their opposition could not be maintained.
Mr. PICKERING submitted that the Ayr Company were landowners
affected by the tine, that they were described in the book of reierence
as such, and that as such they had a right to appear on their petition,
even though they did not say in that petition that they were land-
owners affected by the line.

Mr. AUSTIN said that the practice of Parliament was to admit no
petition which had not the ground of opposition stated on the lace
of it.

A long and desultory conversation, or rather squabble, took
place here between Mr. Austin, on one side, and Sir T. P,illips
and Mr. Pickering on the other, awl the Committee, as soon as they
could restore order, decided on obtaining the opinion of Lord Shot tes-
bury, and they i,,ijourned for:half-an-hour for that purpose. At half-
past I, the ha!f-liour having expired, the chairman returned, and
further adjourned the Committee till 2 o'clock.
At about half-past two the Committee re-assembled and gave their
decision, that the opposition on the part of the Ayr Company could
not be entertained.

DIRECT LONDON AND PORTSMOUTH.

GUILDFORD, CHICUESTER, POR,TSIVIOUTII,

AND PAILEHAM.

Their Lordships met this morning at the usual hour, in Room A,
(New houses of Parliament), Lord Beaumont in the chair. Aa
the members were present.

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The evidence on the part of the Guildford, Chichester, Ports-
mouth, and Fareham tine was proceeded with.
Mr. The, the eminent architect and surveyor, and some other
witnesses, were examined as to the valuation of land, &c. ; they gave
evidence highly favourable to the promoters of this Bill.
Mr. Pope, the coat-merchant, and other witnesses, gave evidence
as to the probable coal traffic on this and on the Direct London and
Portsmouth line. IlLs evidence was in favour of the Guildford and
Chichester Railway.

The Committee were occupied with this class of evidence up to the
time w•e went to press.

EDINBURGH AND NORTHERN (STRATH•
ERN DEVIATION, AND DONTERIVILINE
BRANCH).

The Committee on this Bill also met for the first time, at eleven
o'clock, In Room No. 6 (Committee rooms in Abingdon-street), Lord
Portman in the chair. The other members present were Euris
Dude and Pomfret, and Lord Carteret.

The Committee Were occupied for nearly an hour with a discussion
as to what course should be taken and at about a quarter to twelve
o'clock they adjourned till .11onday, in order to give time for au
arrangement between the agents.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
GROUP XIII.
The Committee met to-day, at twelve o'clock, Sir Wm. Clay in
the chair.