The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-13 00:00:00

JOINT-STOCK BNKS.
. 10 •••• 14%••••

London Joint-Stock •: :•

MINES
Real del Monte, Unregistered • • •• • • 314 •••• to
Erratum in Sntuday's List.—Read Derby and Crewe 6%, instead
of Cornwall and Central Devon.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.-(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam ...... C.F. 12 10 Gibraltar.
Ditto,' at sight ...... 12 7 Leghorn ...... • • ...... 30 75
Rotterdam .... 2U. 12 UN Genoa .. . 26 15
Antwerp • ......... .... 26 20 Milan .. ••.•••• • • • • • • •
Hamburgh .... • • M.B. 13 1534 Venice.... •••••• • • • • • •
&Rona ......... Naples .. 39%
Paris, 3 days' sight .... 25 S 5 Palermo, per ca. ... • ... 119%
Ditto, 3 months 26 10 Lisbon.... •••••• .. • • • • 52%
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 15 Rio Janeiro •• •• • • • • 23:s

Frankfort on Maine.... 123
Petersburgh, 3 U 5.... ••
Berlin ............ • • • •
Vienna, effec.f10...... 10 1
Trieste, ditto 10 12
Madrid 36!,6
Cadiz .. : ........ 36%
Barcelona ............
5ev111e....... ...... • ..

Bahia .. • • ..... .......
Buenos Ayres .. . • ....
New York, 21 days' sight --
Philadelphia .... • • . , ..
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold in bars.. £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin • . 3 17 5
New Doubloons . 0 0 0
New Dollars •• •• "• 0 4 9%
Silver in bars .. ...... 0 4 11

MARKET NEW S .-(THIS DAY

CORN-EXCHANGE -WEDNESDAY
Although the arrivals of English Wheat since Monday have not
been extensive, we had a large number of that day's unsold samples
on offer. The attendance of buyers being small, the demand ruled
necessarily heavy, at barely the late depression in the quotations.
The show of free foreign Wheat was trifling, yet the sale for that
article was dull, and prices had, in some instances, a downward ten-
dency. In Corn under lock we heard of no transactions. With
DArley We were but In9derately DuPPllecl i Mill, homer, the incivary

for that descripti,
Malt very little
mostly supported
late rates,

English ......
Irish . .
Foreign ......

ion of grain wa
business was
1. Oats, Bean:

Wheat.
1,370 qrs.

s dull, at barel
transacted,

is, Peas, and F 1

.RRIVALS.
I Barley.
1,310 qrs.

:ly stationary prices. In
yet the currencies were
'lour very dull, at barely

2,210

. 1,300 I
Malt, 2,330 qrs.
WHX'rECHAPEZ.

Date Flour.
450 qrs. 2,290 sks,
1,720 -
- -

On the whole the demand for each kind of Meat was tolerably
steady and prices were well supported.—Beef from 2s 8d to 3s 6d ;
Mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 6d ; Lamb, 5s 4d to 6s 4d ; Veal, 4s to 5s ; and
Perk, 3s 6d to 5s per 81bs by the carcase.

MPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS DAY.)

MOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
ROYAL ASYLUM OF ST. ANN'S.

Mr. BROTHERTON moved the Lords' amendments to this Bill,
which were agreed to.
WARWICKSHIRE AND LONDON ~RAILWAY—WORCESTER

AND WEEDOINE

This Bill was read a second time and ordered to be committed, as
was also the Bill for the Hampton and Ashchnrch line.

ATTENDANCE OF MENBEIM

Mr. GISBORNE wished to know whether he was to attend the
Committee of which he was appointed a member, or whether he
was to be present at the important debate which was about to take
place. If he did Est attend the Committee of which he was a
member, the effect of his non-attendance would be to break up the
Committee. He should move that the House adopt measures for
laying down rules for the guidance of Members who were similarly
situated with himself. He was persuaded that until some distinct
rulewas laid down, there would be a repetition every Wednesday
while the session lasted of the present difficulties..

Sir GEORGE GREY thought that, looking at the great import-
ance of the question which would shortly be brought before the
House, the Hon. Member would be properly exercising his discre-
tion if he remained during the debate, and neglected the duties of
the Committee for to-day. He was, however, afraid that the Hon.
Gentleman had placed himself in a position from which the House
could not extricate him.

Mr. BERNAL was of opinion that the responsibility of attendance
on Committees should not rest on individual Members, but on the

House. He hoped the House would take into their consideration to
adopt some rule for the guidance of Members.
TEN HOURS BILL. •

Lord MORPETH presented petitions from the manufacturers of
Bradford, against the limitation of the hours of labour, as proposed in
the Factories Bill. _ _ .

Mr. ALDAM presented a petition from the manufacturers of Leeds,
of a similar nature with the foregoing.
THE FACTORIES BILL.

On the order of the day for the adjourned debate on the Second
reading of this Bill being read,
Mr. COLQUHOUN said, on a former occasion his Right Hon.
Friend, the Secretary of State had stated; that the Ten Hours Bill
would very seriously affect the great staple manufactures of the
country. On the contrary, he believed, that their manufactures
would be greatly benefited by it, and all the beaevolent manufac-
turers, and they formed the great majority, were of opinion, that the
restrictions of labour,as proposed, were advantageous, and not hilarious
to their interests. What was the evil to be apprehended from restriction?
It had been said that injury would result to the carpet manufacturers
because the hours of labour on the continent, in France, Austria, and
Prussia, were longer and therefore the English manufacturers would
be unable to compete with the foreigner. It was his belief that the
French labourer working fourteen hours a day did not produce so
much workmanship as the English labourer who worked only ten
hours a day. He could not conceive, then, that injury would result
to trade from competition with foreign countries because the
hours of labour were diminished at home. If advantages had
been given to the manufacturers which were more than equivalent to
any tax that you were going to impose, ought not, he would ask,
that to be a reason why some alteration in the hours of labour should
take place ? Great competition en the part of capital and labour
tended to reduce the wages of labour. It was therefore the duty of
Government to interfere, and restore the equilibrium which should
exist between the employer and the employed. He believed the ma-
nufacturers to be an humane and intelligent a class of men as any in
the empire.—(Cheers.) Let them be sincere—let them be perfectly
sincere—let the operative see that they wished to obtain advantage
for him as well as for themselves. Messrs. Holdsworth and Gregg
had stated that the reduction of wages would be about 7% per cent.
upon the amount of 10s, 3d. But he would prefer the evidence of
Mr. Leonard Horner, the factory commissioner, which was upon a
wider basis. According to his evidence the weekly wages was 11 s. 7d.;
so that on the yearly earnings of 311., the reduction would be 21.45.,
leaving him 281. 16s. The operatives said they were quite ready
to assent to this reduction. But what was the effect of the compe-
tition? Why, according to Mr. Horner, from 1828 to 1841 the fall
had not been 7 or 7% per cent., but from 85. to 7s. per week, and
from 4s. to 3s. 6d. ; and in one mill in Manchester the fall had abso-
lutely been as much as 17 per cent. He did not think that high
wages were always advantageous to the operative, or by any means
a criterion of the benefits of his position at any time ; for he believed
that moderate wages, with moderate labour, was far
better, both for his moral and his social advantage ;
and when they were called upon to secure him
against that undue imposition of labour under which he now suffered,
there was a case made out which imperatively called for the pro-
tection which the operative sought.
(LEFT SITTING.)

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
WHITEHALL, MAY 9, 1846.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be
passed under the Great Seal, constituting and appointing
Thomas Flower Ellis, Esq., barrister-at-law, and Thomas
Bros, Esq., barrister-at-law, her Majesty's Commissioners for
inquiring into the criminal laws now in force in the Channel
Islands.
The Queen has also been pleased to appoint Charles Clark,
Esq., barrister-at-law, to be Secretary to the said Commis-
sion.

DOWNING-STREET, MAY 9.

The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. Augustus
William Hanson to be Chaplain for her Majesty's Forts and
Settlements on the Gold Coast.

Her Majesty has also been pleased to appoint Wm. Whaley
Billyard, Esq., to be Chairman of Quarter Sessions, acting as
Civil and Criminal Judge for the colony of North Australia.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, Melt- 11.
Errata in Gazette of May B.—The Christian names of the
under-mentioned Second Lieutenants should be as follow :

Royal Regiment of Artillery—Edward Eldon Robert
Dyneley, not Eldow ; Dominick Sarsfield Greene, not
Scarsfield ; Archibald Motteux Calvert, not Mottram.
Corps of Royal Engineers—Anthony Reynolds Vyvyan
Crease, not Vivyan.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—R.
T. Adderley, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Cornet J. Roberts to
be Lieutenant, vice Hand, resigned; J. Spode, Gent., to be
Cornet, vice Roberts, promoted, May 9.
Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire.
Royal Flintshire Militia—R. P. Puleston, Esq., to be Cap-.
tain, May 7.
Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire. -
Shropshire Militia—E. L. Gatacre, Esq., to be Major ;J.
N. Heathcote, Gent., to be Surgeon, May 8.
South Salopian Yeomanry Cavalry—Cornet Badger to
be Lieutenant, vice Charlton, resigned, May 8.
North Salopian Yeomanry Cavalry J. F. Fitz Giffard
Mytton, Gent., to be Cornet, April 28.
Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire.
Royal Gloucestershire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—
T. G. Parry, Gent., to be Cornet, vice C. Boevy, promoted,
May 9.
OFFICE OF METROPOLITAN BUILDINGS, ADELPHI-

TERRACE, STRAND, APRIL 16.
In pursuance of the Act passed in the seventh and eighth
years of the reign of her present Majesty, cap. 84, intituled
"An Act for regulating the construction and the use of
buildings in the metropolis and its neighbourhood," the
Right Hon. Sir James Graham, Bart., one of her Majesty's
Principal Secretaries of State, has appointed Ambrose Poyn-
ter, Esq , architect, of Park-street, Westminster, and John
Shaw, Esq., Architect and Surveyor of Christ Hospital, to be
Official Referees of Metropolitan Buildings.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.

William Chamberlain, grocer, East Dereham, Norfolk.
BANKRUPTS.

Joseph Fearnly, worsted stuff manufacturer, Windsor-ter-
race, City-road, to surrender May 19, at half-past eleven,
and June 19, at half-past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Loughborough,
Austin-friars.
Nathaniel Levy, carcase butcher, Butcher-row, Aldgate,
May 19, at two, and June 23, at eleven, at the Court of
Bankruptcy. Alsager, official assignee, Birchin-lane ; Smith,
Barnard's Inn, Holborn.
John Green, coal merchant, Yarmouth, May 20, at one,
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Charles Gulledge Barley, grocer, Wisbeach St. Peter's,
Cambridge, May 20, at half- past one, and June 23, at eleven,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Hill
and Mathews, St. Mary Axe.
Brookes Hugh Bullock, wine merchant, Nicholas-lane,
City, May 20, at twelve, and June 13, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Alderman-
bury ; Walter and Pemberton, Symond's Inn.
Charles M'Kinnell, wine-merchant, Fenchurch- street, City,
May 19, at half-past two, and June 23, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy. Johnson, official assignee, Basinghall-
street ; Vandercom and Co., Bush-lane, Cannon-street.
Robert Hearn, commission agent, Wood-street, Cheapside,
May 20, and June 18, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Bell, official assignee, Coleman-street-buildings ; Moss,
Queen-street, Cheapside.
William Wells and John Claxton, coal merchants, Bank-
side, Southwark, May 22 and June 16, at one, at the Court
of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place,
Old Jewry; Jordeson, St. Afary-at-hill, Eastcheap.
Frederick Savery, baker, Hillingdon, May 21, at two, and
June 22, at half-past one., at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street, London ; Bur-
bridge, Hatton-garden. •
Charles Frederick Came and Maurice Telo, merchants,
Liverpool, June 1, and 22, at twelve, at the Liverpool Dis-
trict Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Chester and
Co., Staple Inn ; Davenport and Collier, Liverpool.
George Whitfield, wine and spirit merchant, Nottingham,
May 23, and June 11, at one, at the Birmingham District
Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Birmingham; Brown,
Nottingham; Smith, Birmingham.
Richard Lees, ironmonger, Wolverhampton, May 23, and
June 13, at one, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittle-
ston, official assignee, Birmingham ; Crisp, Wolverhampton;
Geddy, George-street, Mansion-house, London.
John Andrews, share broker, Hill-house, near Hudders-
field, May 25, and June 15, at eleven, at the Leeds District
Court. Kynaston, official assignee, Leeds; Clarke, Chan-
cel y-lane, London ; Hird, Huddersfield; Sanderson, Leeds.
Samuel Brear Sowden, share broker, Leeds May 26, and
June 16, at eleven, at the Leeds District &urt. Young,
official assignee, Leeds; Rushworth, Staple Inn, London;
Sanderson, Leeds.

(Dividends, &c., in our next.)

EAST INDIA HOUSE.—(THIS DAY.)—At a special general
Court, resolutions, granting an annuity of 5,0001. to :Lord
Hardinge, and an annuity of 2,0001. to Lord Gough, were
proposed, and, after a few objections by Mr. George Thomp-
son,. were unanimously agreed to.
EWELL FAIR, SURREY.—Yesterday, this fair was
held in the usual; fair-field. The supply of fat cattle was limited,
but lean stock arid mulch cows made up the deficiency. The fair
was well attended with Puyerh Ng stock *old olt At goo prim.

John Blicon, carpenter, York, May 26, and June IE, at
eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee,
Leeds ; Brook, Featherstone-buildings, Lon
don ; Hodgson,
York ; Cariss, Leeds.
William Badger, boot maker, Rotherham, Yorkshire, May
22, and June 12, at eleven, at the Cutler's-hall, Sheffield.
Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ; Tatterahall, Great James-
street, London ; Broadbent, Sheffield.
Edward Linley and Aaron Linley, cut nail manufacturers,
Sheffield, May 22, and June 12, at eleven, at the Cutler's-
hall, Sheffield. Freeman, official assignee, Leeds ; Moss,
Serjeant's Inn, Fleet-street; Raynor, Sheffield.
William and James Fox, oil and colourmen, Manchester,
May 22 and June 12, at eleven, at the Manchester District
Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester ; Bower and
Son, Chancery-lane, London; Atkins, Manchester.
John Wilmot, coach proprietor, Lenton, Nottinghamshire,
May 22 and June 12, at eleven, at the Cutler's Hall, Sheffield,
Freeman, official assignee, Leeds; Johnson and Co., Temple;
Bowley, Nottingham.
John Page, iron dealer, Walsall, Staffordshire, May 22 and
June 23, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Christie, official assignee, Birmingham ; Suckling, Bir-
mingham.
Thomas Hartley and Robert Ingham, stock brokers, Leeds,
May 27 and June 15, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Hope, official assignee, Leeds; Nelson and Co., Gresham
place, Lombard-street; Nelson, Leeds.
Thomas Rogers, surgeon dentist, Bradford, Yorkshire, May
26 and June 15, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Hope, official assignee; Bitterfield and Co., Bradford; Bond;
Leeds.