The Sun.
London, England, 1846-11-28 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

(From lost Night's Gazette.)
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, tor
the Week ending on Saturday, the 21k clay of Novetuher, 1846.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

voter Issued... .
••••• 28,517,b 40

Government debt:,... 11,015,100
Other securities 2,981.900
Gold coin and bullion 11,811,:s82
Silver Minim ...... 2,501,458

£28,317,840

25,317,
M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.4o
Dated the 2Gth day of November, 1846.

BANYING DEPAILTM.E NT.
X. I

.
eroprietors' capital.. 14,553,001 , Government securi-
112st ..... ..... • - Weight _Ann sit.... 12,PC8,11
eluding Exchequer, Other securities - 13,353,:4
Commissioners of Notes coin - Gold and silver coin.. 605,932
ings-banks, and Di-
vidend accounts).. 7,87G,390
)they deposits ••• - • • 7,975,058
seven day and other
bills... .. . .. . ...

990,484

X 34,877,621

£34,877,621
%f. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier.
1846.

Dated the 26th day of November

FLANDERS MAIL.

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BRUSSELS, Nov. 24. The average price of wheat
during the week ending on Saturday, Nov. 21, was 26f.
86c., and that of rye 21f. 25c. per hectolitre. This is a
considerable rise above the prices of the preceding week,
viz., If. 27c. on wheat and lf. 36c.'on rye.
The Moniteur publishes the law for'continuing the
free importation, till the Ist October, 1847, of wheat,
rye, barley, buck wheat, maizebrans, vetches, peas, oats,
potatoes, and other provisions.
The Government is authorised to grant for the same
term total or partial freedom from import duty on flour,
groats, cattle, and every species of provisions not enu-
merated in the following articles. A scale duty of 10
centimes per 100 kilogrammes shall he levied on these
articles:—
" Art. 2. Wheat, rye, barley, buck wheat, oats, brans,
vetches, peas, and potatoes are not to be_ exported till
the Ist October, 1847. The Government is likewise
authorised to prohibit the exportation of flour, groats,
all kinds of bread and biscuits, and oatmeal.

" Art. 3. The Government may, if circumstances per-
mit before the Ist October, 1847, suspend the present
law as far as exportation is concerned. It may also
prolong it wholly or in part till the Ist December, 1847.
" Art. 4. The present law shall be in force the day
after its promulgation.

(Signed) " LEOPOLD."
Our stock market has been very animated since this
morning, and a very eager desire to purchase has been
manifested, which has occasioned the prices of all our
railways to rise several florins per cent even before the
commencement of Change. The cause of this mi-
-1 expected change is a notice published in the Vienna Ga-
zette of this day, that the State resolved to purchase
railway shares at suitable rates. The imperial resolution
is dated yesterday, and announces that his Majesty has
been pleased to order that an extraordinary loan office
shall be opened in the department for the payment of
the public debt, which is destined to purchase with the
funds allotted to it shares in certain national railroads at
prices corresponding with their actual value. This
measure has caused a better tone on 'Change, and appears
to give more room for speculation.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
NORTHERN COUNTIES UNION.—It is currently ru-
moured in Westmoreland that the York and Carlisle
Railway, now amalgamated with .the Yorkshire and
Glasgow Union, and the Leeds and Carlisle Companies,
have abandoned the portion of their line for which they
obtained a separate Act last session, from Bishop Auck-
land, in Durham, to Kirkby Stephen, in Westmoreland.
The immense tunnel of two miles in length, which would
be required on Stainmore Fell, through a strata of solid
limestone rock, is, we understand, now looked upon us an
insurmountable difficulty—that is, the undertaking would
occasion the expenditure of so large an amount of ca-
pital, that the probability of an adequate return ever
being realised is thought to be problematical. About
two months ago the projectors of the York and Carlisle
line, endeavouring to obviate the difficulty, had a partial
new survey made, by which they sought to carry their
line from the south-eastern extremity of the proposed
tunnel, over the summit of Stainmore—leaving the ori-
ginal line.to the south-west, and proceeding northward
4,1 miles, close by Brough to Hall Garth, where they
turn again to the south-west, and run into the
original line at Smarldale (at which place the York-
shire and Glasgow Union line, adopted by the
united companies, is crossed), and proceed for-
. and thereon to Tebay, near Orton, joining . the
Lancaster and Carlisle Railway there. The adoption of
the course, however, is found to be quite impracticable,
owing to the steepness of the gradients over Stainmore,
and the promoters therefore have no other alternative
but to desert the undertaking—a result much to be re-
gretted, as the railway promised to be of great utility,
not only as a traffic, but as a passenger line, and the
benefit alone which it would have rendered the county
of Westmoreland and the southern districts of Cumber-
land by bringing coals, now so dear an article, at amuch
cheaper rate, would have been vast. At Appleby and
Kendal, the average price of coal throughout the year is
ls. per cwt., the former town being supplied from the
West Pits in Durham, and the latter from Wigan, in
Lancashire ; whereas, by a transit on the York and
Carlisle line, coal from the Durham pit, of by far the
superior quality, could be laid down at each place at not
more than 6fcl. or 7d. per cwt.
GREAT NORTHERN (LONDON AND YORK.—About
75,000 tons of iron rails will be required for the forma-
tion of the entire line during 1847 and 1848. The first
instalment of sleepers on which to lay them amounts to
500,000,

There are no fewer than fifty-six applications to Par-
liament for new lines and extensions in Norfolk and
Suffolk.

A rather rough rencontre took place the other day be-
tween a surveyor and some labourers, on the property of
Mr. N. Micklethwait, at Taverham. The parish con-
stable and his myrmidons drove them off and lodged
them in custody.

DISTURBANCE IN COVENT-GARDEN THEATRE.--
Last evening Covent garden Theatre was the scene of a
disturbance which lasted during nearly the whole of the
first part of the concert. No sooner were the doors open
than the eatire space of the immense area was speedily
crowded from the basement to the ceiling, stage and all.
Notwithstanding this, money was still taken at the
doors, and the stream kept pouring in until the people
were literally packed together in one solid mass. The
first overture, Fidelio, was played by the band, and the
usual movement was attempted to be made towards the
" promenade." To this movement a formidable obstruc-
tion opposed itself at the proscenium on either side of
the orchestra in the shape of a barrier, where the pres-
sure and crowding were very great. A scene of uproar
commenced which almost baffles description; the music
was stopped by the groans and yells which ensued, and
it was with much difficulty that even Miss Birch ob-
tained a hearing, The new " Valse," " The Garland,"
and the solo performances of Herr Koenig were perfect
dumb show, and the appearance of a body of police only
added fuel to the flame. Another piece of music was
stopped, and M. Jullien essayed to address the discon-
tented, but the groans and hisses for some time pre-
vented his being heard. Ultimately he declared that
those who were dissatisfied should have tickets given for
the following evening.—(Cries of "Why take our money
when the place was over full ?") He assured them that
a placard was put out announcing that the theatre was
full.—(Cries of " False, false I") The music again pro-
ceeded, but the riot now assumed so serious an aspect
that a reinforcement of police was deemed necessary, and
in a few minutes a large body of the F division, under
the orders of Mr. Superintendent Pearse, made their ap-
pearance, and took up their station at the barriers,
amidst the most discordant yells and other marks of dis-
approbation, and the post was not yielded until the police
truncheons were exercised pretty freely. Noise now
took the place of violence, and the concert proceeded
amidst cries of " Shame 1"—" Jullien, give us the
Police Quadrille"—" Jullien's new Police Polka," &c.
Ultimately the time arrived for the British Army
all Arm
drille, the noise of which completelydrowned
at further interruption, and the theatre
having a:t.etceQmua
become
e.
considerably thinned, the first part terminated,
time.A
general
tnot
until nearly an hour after its
feeling appeared to prevail that proper
thenumber of persons
li-mited:
of enter.
LAURENT'S CASINO.—This popular place
admitted ought to have been more
.
tainment is nightly crowded. Among those who have
lately visited the salon, may be mentioned the Earl of
Uxbridge, Viscount Itanelagh, ViscountC tel an upe,
Lord Adolphus I?itzdarence, Lord Charles ihynne,
Lord Cecil Forester, Lord Harry Vane, Lord Loftus,
Sir Henry Huelock, Sir W. Anstruther, Sir W. Car-
michael, Sir J. Key, J. Spalding, Esq., G. Wombwell,
Esq., &c.
WILSON'S ENTERTAINMENTS.---Mr. Wilson gave
one of his entertainments on the songs of Scotland, OR
Wednesday night, at the Eastern Institution, for the
benefit of the Tower Hamlets' Dispensary, to a densely
crowded audience. We unt'erstand that there were
nearly 1,400 within the walls. Mr. Wilson was in
splendid voice, and the applause which greeted him was
incessant.

THE COUNT DE MONTEMOLIN.—His Royal High,
ness, we are informed, usually spends the morning in
transacting business, and afterwards receives visitors.
Besides several distinguished foreigners, his Royal High-
ness received yesterday the Earl of Charleville, Captain
Ryder Burton, R.N., and Mr. Peter Borthwick, M.P.
His Royal Highness, accompanied by the Marquis di
Villafranca, General Don Juan Montenegro, Colonel
Merry, and Mr. Borthwick, inspected yesterday the
works of the new Houses of'Parliament, and was pleased
to express much interest and admiration at the design
and progress of this great national work.
EXTENSIVE CUSTOMS SElZURES.—Yesterday 113
bales of unmanufactured tobacco, weighing 8,384 lbs.,
were, together with 100 gallons of foreign brandy and
geneva, seized by the Customs' officers, and conveyed to
the Queen's warehouses in Ramsgate and London.