The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-19 00:00:00

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JUN E 19, 1846.

JAMAICA COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.
(From De Cordova Mercantile Intelligencer.) ,
Flour.—The only sales have been 200 barrels Fresh
Baltimore at 335.; 1,100 ditto New Orleans at 31s. 6d. The
article has since been offered, and refused at prices under
previous rates, 600 barrels Philadelphia, arrived in January,
having been declined at 31s. per barrel.
Cornmeal.—Subsequently to our last issue 7.50 barrels
were brought to this market, which were immediately sold
at the reported price of 265. The article is now being re-
tailed at 23s 'per barrel.

Rice-Previously to the arrival of the 1,000 bags already
reported,from
that 2,110000 rt,
mb,eargse
iosfp
odsiesdc 0(1x° uarteidsls.l3add.rasr,r
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have cCet
been ;:sold 150 bags first quality at 225. 6d. • per 100 lb. A
cargo of Carolina went into port this week, but as yet no
desire has been manifested to purchase. The market for rice
has been very much affected by a report that 7,000 bass are
now on the water for this island, on board two Coolie vessels.
Bread-500 barrels pilot bread, 100 ditto crackers, and
25 ditto navy of the same shipment, changed holders at the
tated rates, of 2s for pilot and crackers, and 18s. for navy.
Butter-There have not been any sales of moment in Irish
descriptions, the prices of which (1011.) is with difficulty
kept up. The operations in American have been also small.
We report only 100 firkins at 6id., and 100 at 7d. per lb.
The article is very dull.
Lard-This article is also very inactive. Irish may be
quoted at 7d, and American at sd. to 6d. per lb.
Candles-Prices have somewhat declined, owing to the
ample supply. 225 boxes Philadelphia 6's, B's, and 10's, have
been sold at 6d., 200 ditto 12's and 14's at 7d. per lb.
English and Irish sorts are almost entirely neglected.
Cod Fish-Two cargoes immediately after the departure
of the packet came in from Halifax, the boxes of which went
off readily at 205., but only portions of the casks, and in very
small lots, were taken at 16s. per 100 lb. Another cargo sub-
sequently arrived, but it remains as yet unsold. A large
shipment from Newfoundland has been thrown into the
market, and partly sold in lots at 135., in hogsheads and
tierces.
Mackerel-Are getting scarce, but the consumption is not
great. No. 3is worth 30s. per barrel.
Herrings-Last sales of Halifax No. 1 were made at 19s.
per barrel ; 130 ditto Newfoundland, not prime, have been
sold at 13s. per barrel.
Alewives-Prime No. 1 are worth 12s. to 13s. A parcel of
an interior quality brought prices ranging from 7s. to Ils.
per barrel.
tletn3tz(l, articularly No. I, which is worth
68s. per barrel. The sit, es salmon have
been 12 tierces No. lat 525., and 11 barrels os. „
at 60s per barrel.
Soap-We report a sale of 1,300 boxes Olden's and Thorn-
ton's at 1 ls. 3d. for 501b5., and 12s. for. 601bs. There have
been several arrivals of this article within the last four weeks.
Pork-Is gradually declining, and prices are now below
the figure (68s. 4d.) which was obtained some ten or twelve
days back for a parcel of 500 barrels new prime. The stock
has been considerably increased by the continued arrivals,
and we may look for a still further reduction in rates ; 200
barrels prime were declined at 665. 4d. per barrel.
Hams-Affinot in demand; 300 American have been taken
on speculation at 7d. The best Lancashire move off slowly
at 10d. to 10%d. per lb.
Pigs' Tongues-There are none at market.
Cheese-100 hampers prime D. G. fetched 10d. per lb.
Corn- 500 bags New Orleans have been taken at 4s.
per bushel, and 100 bags Philadelphia at Bs. 6d. per bag.
Owing to the late large arrivals, the stock is now very ample.
Oil-The continued arrivals cause this article to remain
inactive. Cod is dull at 2s. 6d. per gallon. The supply is
very large.
Salt-200 sacks fetched Os. per sack. The article can be
purchased at a lower rate.
Lumber-The market continues well supplied. We have
heard of no transactions.

EXPORTS.
Sugar—Hhds. and trcs. were sold at from 13s. 3d. to 28s.
per 100Ibs.
Rum-60 puncheons have brought 3s. 10d. per gallon.
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.—Jamaica Bank, 60 days, 1 per
cent. prem. ; 30 days, I% per cent. prem. Planters' Bank,
60 days, 1 per cent. prem. • 30 days, 11,4 per cent. prem.; at
sight, 2 per cent. prem. 6olonial Bank, 60 days, 1 per cent.
prem. ; 30 days, 1% per cent. prem. Merchants' Bills, 90
days, per cent. prem.

STEAM BETWEEN HARWICH
AND ROTTERDAM.
EXPERIMENTAL EXCURSION.
The port of Harwich was for a considerable period the
great packet boat station for the North Seas. Situated upon
the most convenient point for the run from England to many
of-the principal sea-ports of the north of Europe, it com-
manded, before the introduction of steam, much of the mail
and passenger traffic to Belgium, Holland, and the countries
bordering the Baltic. It is the intention of the Eastern
Counties Railway and the projected Harwich steam shipping
companies to make a vigorous effort for the restoration of
the place to somewhat of its former importance as a packet
station, and by placing it in direct communication by rail
with London, to make the route through Essex, embarking
at Harwich, the principal highway to Holland, thus saving
the tedious navigation of the river and the Swinn, and re-
ducing the time of transit between London and Rotterdam
by a very considerable proportion.
An experimental trip, with the view of ascertaining by
actual experience in What time the journey from London
to Rotterdam, by Harwich, could be performed, took place
last Wednesday, the directors of the Eastern Counties and
Eastern Union Railways being the gentlemen under whose
auspices the experiment came off. The distarce between
London and Rotterdam, by Harwich, is about 222 miles, the
land journey to Ipswich comprising 68, and the run across,
the remaining 154. The trip was accomplished on Wednes-
day in about fifteen hours and a quarter, including several
stoppages for pilots off the Brill, and a detention of nearly an
hour for the Custom-house inspection upon entering the
Meuse. We may add, too, that the wind, which freshened
considerably towards evening, was right in our teeth, accom-
panied by a slight swell from the eastward. Making allow-
ances, therefore, for these unfavourable circumstances, it may
be fairly presumed that the sea passage from Ipswich to
Rotterdam may be performed without much difficulty in
about twelve hours, while the transit from town by rail
need not occupy more than two additional hours—the re-
sult being, that letters written and papers published In
London early in the morning may be received in Rotter-
dam, the Hague, and the surrounding towns, on the same
evening.
The special train which contained the experimentalists of
Wednesday left the Shoreditch station at half-past five a.m.,
and cracked on through the meadows and woods of Essex at
a goodly pace to Ipswich. There the Orwell steamer lay gay
with colours, 'and musical with overplus steam, waiting to
perform her part in the race. No delay occurred, and within
ten minutes we bad exchanged the railway carriage for the
deck, and were gliding down the quiet pastoral river, shoot-
ing by its weirs and abounding fishing station, en route for
Holland. The little town of Harwich, with its flotilla of
boats lying idly before it, was soon passed to the right, and
the Getman ocean opened gradually to the view, the
long low coasts of Suffolk and Essex stretching away,
dimmed by the summer haze on either hand. Scattered
trawlers and small fishing craft beat lazily about in the light
breeze; a vast fleet of boats were dredging for cement—an
odd sounding species of industry (we should as soon think of
fishing up ready made warming. pans,) Felixtown and its
tnartello tower appeared like grey specks to the left, and the
distant sails of vessels in the Swinn threaded on the horizon
like beads.
The weather was delightful—the easterly breeze just rip-
pling the undulations of the slowly heaving swell, and tem-
pering the atmosphere to a pleasant coolness. The day wore
on agreeably, but the sun was low in the horizon ere the
sails of the Goree pilot-boat were descried looming through
the light vapoury haze which bung over the ocean.. As we
passed through the clumsy Dutch craft riding at anchor—
the sweep of -his bright polished bows plunging heavily into
the short head-sea which the freshening breeze had raised,
the pilot, a fine hardy-looking seaman—decidedly Dutch
built as well as his vessel—pulled on board, busily employed
in bracing up his second or third pair of trousers with a piece
of spun yarn, and was quite astounded by the intelligence
which reached him from a dozen voices at once, that we were
from London that morning. The Dutchman walked aft,
gave the spoke of the wheel a wrench, signed to the captain
to move on, coiled up the lead-line in his hand, and then
said it was quite impossible. A copy of the Morning Chronicle
of the day was then put into his hands—he glanced at the
date—hove the lead phlegmatically—walked to the helms-
man—" South-east by South"—and then said, " Ver fasht;
ver fasht, indeed."
The rest of the voyage was soon performed. The low
sandbanks which fortify Holland against the assaults of her
perpetual enemy, the sea, hove up on the horizon—with the
towers of distant churches looming dimly through the even-
ing mist. Then we wound our way through the compli-
cated channels by which the Meuse is entered, and were soon
gliding up its quiet sedgy stream—remarking the lazily turn-
ing windmills—the snug Dutch hamlets—with their steep
red roofs, half embosomed in green trees—the willowy
mouths of half stagnant canals and creeks opening to the main
stream—the interminable rows of trees stretching far along
the banks, in monotonous lines along the swampy level, the
pile of bigger trees occasionally kept in countenance by rows
of junior branches of the same vegetable family. Here and
there you saw the masts and long vanes of Dutch boats
moored in canals off the main stream, peering up amid pol-
lards and elms, and behind low straggling cottages, and
around ricketty old windmills. Here and there, too, a crawl-
ing schuyt brushed lazily by the rushes, drifting with the
muddy stream, from the banks of which ever and anon
storks, looking like geese in consumptions, rose, and flocks of
starlings and curlews came pipingby. Groups of sabot-shod,
Wile-bloused peasantry loitered by cottage doors, and over
all the setting sun blazed down, through the summer mist,
with that rich golden glory which you see in the pictures of
Cuyp. And so we crept up the river until, as the evening
was deepening into night, we got alongside the great elm-
lined pier—the well-known Brompjes of Rotterdam.
Two of the party, Mr. Beke and Mr. Alfred Cobbold, im-
mediately started for the Hague with newspapers of the
day fur his Majesty, the principal officers of state, and the
journals of that city. Great satisfaction was evinced at the
receipt of newspapers almost wet from the London press ;
and in token thereof their bearers, who bad strolled almost
accidentaliy into a club-house, were elected honorary mem.
bers by one unanimous shout of acclamation.
Next morning the Nieruve Rotterdamsche Courant ap-
peared with a jaw-breaking Dutch paragraph, which, being
interpreted, is as follows
"We have received this day several English p per
viz.,
- the Morning Chronicle, Times, and
.Mornini all this
day's date, June 17.•
" These papers were dispatched per railway from London
to Ipswich, and .from thence by the steam-boat Orwell for
this port. The train started at half-past five o'clOck, and at
half-past seven the steamer arrived in our harbour. As she
had to strive against a contrary wind and other obstacles, we
trust with confidence that future trips may be
with still greater rapidity." performed
After an evening pleasantly devoted to the lions of Rotter-
dam, and a capital supper at the excellent hotel of the Pays
Bas, whose marble lobbies and painted saloons—nay,eve
the fearful climb up innumerable flights of staircasesf to aerial
fine
bed-rooms, commanding a glorious moonlit
tlik.eetir houses, and
old Dutch town, its jumble of tqes,
ehrpweith pleasure, we
ships' rigging—we shall ever remehmi
started yesterday morning homeward bound,e about twenty
minutes after ten, and after a delightful run, made still more
so by ceaseless attempts to baffle
id the heat by exercising it
relics of Holland, we let
with all manner of pleasant tteclu
go our anchor off -Ipswich at n o'clock, having performed
the passage in about twelve hours.
Among the gentlemen present were J. B. Cobbold, Esq.,
chairman, and Jail Fortman, W. May, and J. Cobbold,

PRICE SD.

Esqs., directors of the Eastern Union ; and G. Fisher, Esq ,
of Cambridge, W. C. Wells, Esq., of Chelmsford. and T.
Gibbes, Esq., of London, directors of the Eastern Counties
Railway, and Norwich Steam-packet Companies.

TWENTIETH REPORT FROM THE
SELECT COMMITTEE ON RAILWAY BILLS
CLASSIFICATION.
The Select Committee appointed for the Classification of Railways
. pursuant to the Resolutions adopted by the House, have further
considered the matters referred to them, and agreed to the follow-
ing report : •
Your Committee recommend that the 'Newry, Warrenpoint, and
Rosstrevcr Railway Bill be referred to Group No. 62. Also,
That the Templemore and Nenagh Railway Bill be referred to
Group No. 66.

PARLIAMEN TA RY BUSINESS.
From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)

THUR3DAY,-JUS7E 18.
The following Railway Bills were withdrawn:—
Trent Valley (Alrevas Branch).
Oxford, Coventry, and Burton-on-Trent Junction.
St. Alban's, Hatfield, and Hertford Junction.

RAILWAYS.
Select Committee on Group No. 45.
Mr. Leader discharged; Mr. J. Tollemache selected, and added to
the Committee.

Select Committee on Group No. 59.
Mr. I'acke and Capt. Taylor selected, and added to the Committee.

PARLIAMEN TAR Y DIV'S] ONS.

From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
THURSDAY, JUNE 18.

SHEFFIELD, ASHTON-UNDER-LINE, AND MANCHESTER
RAILWAY (BARNSLEY BRANCH) BILL.
_ _

Report considered ; Motion made, and Question put, " That the
Bill be re-committed." The House divided :

MINORITY—AYES, 54.
Aglionby, H. A. Corbally, M. E. Morpeth, Viscount
Allix, J. P. Douglas, Sir H. Ogle, S. C.
Anson, Colonel Duncombe, Thomas Philips, Mark
Armstrong, Sir A. Duncombe, A. Powell, Caleb
Arundel, Earl of Escott, Bickham Rolleston, Colonel
Barnard, Edward G. Evans, William Scott, R.
Bentiuck, Lord G. Fitzroy, Lord C. Scrope, G. P.
Bentinck, Lord 11. Gibson, Thomas M. • Smith, Abel
Blackburne, J. I. Grimsditch, Thomas Spooner, Richard
Blake, Martin J. Ilinde, J. H. Stewart, P: M.
Blake, Sir V. Hindley, Charles Stewart, John
Boyd, John Hodgson, Richard Tollemache, J.
Bridgeman, H. Hope, Sir •I. Vesey, T.
stright, John Johnstone, Hope Wakley, T.
Brocklehurst, T.' ' -Legit. U. C. Wortley, Lord
Bratherton, J. " Mackenzie, W. F. Wortley, J. S.
Buckley, Edmund Maenamara, Major TELLERS.
Cavendish, G. H. 3PCarthy, Alexander Ward, H. U.
Cobden, Richard 3litcalfe, H. Parker, John

MAJORITY-NOES, 98.
Acland, Sir T. Farnham, E. Neeld, Joseph
Archbold, Robert Forman, T. S. Nicholl, John
Baine, Walter Forster, Mathew Norreys, Sla D.
Bannerman, A. Fuller, A. E. Northland, Viscount
Baring, F. T. Gardner, J. D. O'Brien, A. Stafford
Barron, Sir H. Gaskell, J. M. O'Conor, Don
Bateson, Thomas Gore, Montague Pattison, J.
tiereslord, Major Gore, W. 0. Plumridge, Captain
Bodlun, W. h. Hamilton, W. J. Itawdou, Colonel
Bowring, Dr. Hawes, B. Rendlesham, Lord
Hildyard, T. B. T.
Istheepltbounn,
iCe:
EWa.rlJ.
of
Bruce, Lord E. Hayes, :dr E.
Bruges, W. H. L.
Burroughes, H. N. Hill, Lord E. Sheppard, T.
Busleild, W. Hodgson, F. Somerset, Lord G.
Callaghan, D. Holland, Robert Staunton Sir G.
Chichester, Lord J. Holmes, W. A'C. Stuart, V.
Cholmondeley, N. Houldsworth, T. Stuart, henry
Christie, W. D. Hume, Joseph Strickland, sir Q
Chute, W. L. W. Ingestre, Viset. Strutt, Edward
Clerk Sir G. James, William Trelawny, J. s.
Collett, W. R. Jerilyn, Earl Trollope, Sir J.
Collett, John Ramble, H. Vane, Lord H.
Crawford, W. S. Knightley, Sir C. Villiers, Charles
Cripps, W. Labouchere, Henry Villiers, Viscount
Davies, D. A. S. Lascelles, W. S. Waddington, 11. S.
Dennistoun, John Layard, Captain Wawu, J T. -
Dickinson, F. F. Lemon, Sir C. Williams, W.
Douglas, Sir C. E. Lindsay, Captain Wimiington, Sir T.
Duckworth, Sir J. Lygou, General Worcester, Marquis
Duncan, George Mackinnon, W. Yorke, R.R.:
Ellice, Edward Martin, John

Miles, William TELLFI49.
Mitchell, T. A. Estcourt, I'. G.
Morris, David Greene, Thomas