The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-07 00:00:00

AT, APRIL 7, 1846. PRICE SD.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
LIVERPOOL,
STOCK EXCHANGE —The sales are—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction, % p.--Caledonian, 3 dis.—Dundee and Perth,
34 dis.—Eastern Counties, York Extensions, 10s. p.—Goole and
Doncaster, % dis.—Huddersfield and Manchester, 2% dis.—Hudders-
field' and Sheffield, 1y p.—Leeds and Thirsk, 4% dis.— Liverpool
and Bury, 4% p.--Ditto, New shares, 18s. 6d. p.— Liverpool and
Leeds Direct, 6s. 3d. dis.—Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, Bs. 9d.
p. —London and Birmingham, 2l7—London and York, 1% dis.—
Manchester and Leeds, 37 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 8% p.—Manchester,
Midland, and Great Grimsby, 17s. 6d. dis.—Midland Stock, 14434—
Newcastle and Darlington, 44 —North British, Carlisle, 14 p.—North-
uusberland and Lancaster, 1% dis.—North Staffordshke, p.—
North Union (A), 208—Ditto (II), 141—North Western, Is. 6d. dis.
—Oxford and Birmingham, 10s. dis.—Sheffield and Manchester, 105
—Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheater, 3 dis.—Shropshire Union and
Canal, 255, dis,—South Eastern, No. 2, par ex d.—Ditto, New
Halves, 10s. dis. ex d.—South Midland, 14 dis.—South Staffordshire,
dis.—Tean and Dove Valley, dis.—West Riding Union, 1% p.
—Bandon and Bantry, 235. 6d. dis.—Dutch Rhenish I Is. 3d. p.
ni ANC HESTER, APRIL G. . .
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bandon and Bantry, 13i dis.—
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 34 p.—Blackburn, Dariven,
and Bolton, 1% dis.— lit ston, Newark, and Sheffield, 1 7-16 dis. c.—
Chelmsford and Bury, I% dis.—Chester and Manchester Direct, 295.
dis. —Clydesdale Junction, 1% dis.—Derby and Crewe, 15-16 p.—
East Lancashire, No. 2, 34 p.—Huddersfield and Manchester Rail-
way and Canal, 134 db.—Huddersfield and Sheffield Junction, 1% p.
—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, A dis.—Leeds, Dewsbury, and
Manchester, I—Liverpool and Bury, 5 p.—Llverpool, Ormskirk,
and Preston, 34 p.—Liverpool; Preston, Manchester, and Southport,
% dis.—London and Manchester (Remington's), 1% dis.—London and
York, 1% dis.—Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, 34 dis.—Man-
chester and Birmingham, 75 c.—Ditto, Quarters (A), 6% p. c.—
Ditio, Quarters (B), 6% p. c.—Ditto, Quarters (C), p.—Man-
chester and Birmingham Continuation and Welsh Junction, 205-6 d.
dis.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 38 p.—North Staffordshire, 1%
p.—Preston and Wyre, 22%—Ditto, Halves, 234 p. Sheffield, Leek,
and Crewe, 18s. 6d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Hereford, &c., 134 dis. c.—
South Eastern and Dover, Halves, No. 4, 34 dis.—Teen and Dove
Valley, % dis.—Trent Valley Continuation and Holyhead, A dis.--
West Riding Union, 1 1-16 p.

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LEEDS, Aram G.
STOCK EXCLIANGE.-The asks are-Eastern Counties, York Ex-
tension, I Os. p.-East Lancashire, N 0.2 (late Accrington), bs. p.-Hud-
dersfield and Manchester, 20s. dis.-Hadderafield and Sheffield, 114
p. c.-Leeds and Thirsk, 4 dis.-North British, New Carlisle
Branch, 6s. p.-Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton,4s4 dis.-
London and York, 295. dis.-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 255.
dis.-Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 10s. p.-Westßiding Union,
31. 51. 6d.-Birkenhead, Chester, Mold, Br.c., 28s. dis.-Bradford,
Wakefield, and Midland, 22a. 6d. dis.-Clitheroe Junction, 2.55.
dis.-Great Eastern and Western, 345. dis.-Lancashire and North
Yorkshire, 20s, dis.-Leeds and Liverpool Direct,ss. dis.--Leeds and
York, 30s. dis.--Leeds, Wakefield and Midland, 20s: dia.-Manches-
ter, Buxton, Matlock, and Midland, Is. dis.-Manchester and South-
ampton, 12s. Gd. dis.-Northumberland and Lancashire Junction, 245.
dLs.-North Staffordshire, 331. 6d. dis. -North Western, 2a. 6d. dis.-
Shropshire Union, 275. dis.- York and Carlisle, 365. dis.
HULL, Aran. 6.
STOCK EXCHANGE.-Scripholders are less inclined to force sales
to-day, which in some measure accounts for' the small number of
transactions. There is a rumour prevalent that the Lords are cot
unlikely to prevent the adoption of Sir Robert Peers new Corn-law,
and that probably the present Parliament may be dissolved, and thus
many of the new schemes find a speedy death. Much as this is to
be wished, no faith can be placed in the rumour. The sales are-
Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 10s. dia.-Blackburn, Darwen,
and Bolton, 356-Boston, Newark, and Sheffield, 251.-Derby, Gains-
borough, and Grimsby, 10x.-Hull and Barnsley Junction, 245.-
Hull and Lincoln, A -Liverpool and LeedaDirect, 2 4-London and
York, 241.-North British, Carlisle Branch, 305. 6d.-North Staf-
fordshire, 31. 171.-Shropshire Union, 154-West Riding Union, 354,
SHEFFIELD, APRIL 6
STOCK EXCIUNGE.-The sales are- Eastern. Counties, York Exten-
sions, 154 -Midland, Sheffield, and Rotherham, 34-Boston, Newark,
and Sheffield, 11. 6s. - Manchester and Lincoln Union and Canal,
11. 25.-North Western, U. Is.-Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 11. Is.-
Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and Crewe, 1 Is. 6d.
TORK, APRIL 6.
&roux Excaarroz.-The sales are-Grand Union (Nottingham to
Lynn), U.-London and York, IU-Newcastle and Berwick, 1654
-North British, Carlisle Extension, 11. 9s. 6d.-York and North
Midland, New (East and We3t Riding), 8%.

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)
MONDAY, APRIL 6.
The following Petitions for Railway Bills were reported,
and the Bills ordered to be brought in by the undernamed
Hon. Members:—
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth—Mr. Hayter and Mr.
W. Long.
Midland (Claycross to Newark)—Mr. Cavendish and Mr.
Hudson.

NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL-OFFICE,

• MONDAY, APRIL 6.
The following petitions on Railway Bills have been ad•
journed till the first day after the Easter recess :
East and West of England Junction. s c•4l,
North Devon. . •
North Gravesend.
Cork and Passage.
Midland Great Western of Ireland ()duilinger to Galway).
Midland Great Western of Ireland (Longford to Sligo).
Midland Great Western of Ireland (Liffey Branch and Long.
ford Deviation).

THE RICHMOND RAILWAY.—The works upon this
line of railway, for which Mr. H. Brill is the contractor, are rapidly
approaching completion, and there is little doubt of the line being
opened throughout in June. The line is six miles in length, and is
almost a dead level from Richmond to Barnes Common, where it
rises a few feet, and then a cutting commences, which deepens as it
approaches Putney, under the High-street of which it passes, the old
road being connected by a flat iron bridge, which is now in course of
construction. Between Richmond and Putney nearly three miles of
permanent way are completed, and the rails are laid down. The
greatest engineering difficulty was the crossing of the osier beds, which
are considerably below the level of high-water mark, and a mere de-
Posit of mud to the depth of many feet. Over these beds and the
Wandle, as well as ether streams, twenty-two arches were to be
erected, and of these all but one have been completed. Two of the
bridges are seventy feet span, and of very handsome appearance.
An earth embankment succeeds these arches, and the railway is con-
tinued along it until it joins the South-Western Railway at Falcon-
bridge, Battersea. This latter portion of the line has been completed
some time, and on Monday numerous platelayers commenced fixing
the rails.
FRENCH RAILROADS.—The Journal des Chemins de
Fer announces that the Minister of Public Works had declared his
intention not to concede this year the railroad between Lyons and
Moulins. The administration of the Bordeaux road was waiting
until the Orleans Company should have organised its summer service
to work the section comprised between Tours and Orleans. The
road will not, consequently, be opened before the 15th inst. The
municipal body of St. Quentin voted, on the 29th. a resolution to
the effect of calling on the Ministry to present, without delay, to the
Chambers, a project of law authorising the Government to concede
the prolongation 01 the Creil aid St. Quentin Railway, as far as Belgium,
to the Company which had demanded that concession. The Assembly
had, however, appointed a committee, of which Mr. Cordier, was a
member, to whom it had given full powers to take steps necessary
to forward that object. The receipts of the Orleans line during the
week ending on the 31st ult. amounted to 150,730 f., and those of the
first quarter of 1846 to 1,745,633 f. The Rouen and Paris road pro-
duced during the same week, 142,648 f., and during the last quarter
1,692,888 f. The receipts of the latter in March, 1846, exceeded by
154,600 f. those of the corresponding month of 1845. The Journal
des Mats announces that the Government was preparing to
lay before the Chambers some new projects of law relative
to railroads, and that the Chamber of Deputies would in
a few days enter upon a discussion relative to several im-
portant lines. "Thus," observes the above journal, "this
vast enterprise of "putolic interest, followed up with energy and suc-
cess during preceding sessions, will, In the course of the present year,
be filially brought to a conclusion In the Chambers. Tho system or
railroad communication will be nearly complete, and In future It will
merely be necessary to form certain branches. The new railroads
which are to be laid before the Chambers are four in number—namely,
the two sections of the Vierzon line, which were mentioned in the
law of the 11th Juno, 1842, but the plans of which were not suffi-
ciently advanced, and which will extend, the one front Chateauroux
to Ligomes, and the other from Bec Allier to Clermont ; thirdly, the
Normandy line, which will connect Caen, and eventually Cherbourg,
with Paris ; and, lastly, a line from the Saone to the Marne, or from
Gray to Vitry."
QUICK WORK.—Mr. Hudson has summoned his
co-shareholders in the Midland Railway Company to meet at Derby,
on Saturday, May 2, to give their approval to twenty-six railway
Bills which that Company has now in Parliament. The following
Monday, at ten o'clock, the York and North Midland Railway pro-
prietors are required to meet him at York for the purpose of having
submitted for their approval six Bills, and also to confirm certain
deeds and agreements affecting the Manchester and Leeds and Hull
and Selby Railway Companies. A quarter of an hour is allowed for
this. At a quarter past ten the Hon. Member for Sunderland raeets
the Newcastle and Darlington Company to consider and approve
seven Bills in Parliament and certain agreements. These are to be
decided by half-past ten, when the chairman of the north and south
lines is to officiate as head of the Newcastle and Berwick. We should
not be surprised to find the Hon. Member taking his seat in the House
of Commons in the evening of the same day, having obtained between
the rising of the House on Friday and its sitting again en Monday,
the assent of the proprietors to ten millions of railway property to
forty Bills in Parliament.—Railway Record.
NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK RAILWAY.—The works
in this neighbourhood are progressing with considerable rapidity, the
very favourable state of the weather having enabled the spirited
contractor, Mr. Mackay, to proceed without intermission through
the winter. Near the site of the station, however, a very formidable
obstruction has presented itself, in the shape of a huge whinstone
rock, extending across the entire breadth of the line; but even this
is fast disappearing, and from present appearances, there is every
probability that this portion, at all events, of the line will be ready at
the specified time. A locomotive engine has been placed on the line
south of this to assist in forwarding the operations.—Berwick Warder.
RAILWAY LABOURERS' STRIKE.—Tbe greater num-
ber of the labourers employed on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway
at and in the neighbourhood of Peurii h, who lately struck work in
consequence of the contractors demanding IC% hours' werk per day,
exclusive of meal times, instead of le hours' daily labour, have re-
sumed their work, agreeing to the demand of the contractors, with-
out an advance of wages.
THE BRICKLAYERS' STRIKE AT BIRMINGHAM.—The
workmen employed in the above trade have refused the offer of the
mestere, which appeared in The'Sun of yesterday.
We have to announce the demise of Lieutenant.:
Colonel Sir Thomas Stephen Serell, K. 11., her Majesty's Consul-
General to the Austrian Italian states, who expired on the 24th ult.
at Venice, at the age of seventy. Ile had been Consul-General at
Venice since 1834, having filled a similar office at Corunna ftom
1830
.to 1832, and at Oporto from 1832 to 1834. Ills rank of Lietite-
nant-Colonel, we should add, was of a local nature, and Confined to
the continent.

A grand ball in aid of the " Distressed Needlewomen's
Society," is, We understand, to take place on the 24th inst., at Al-
mack's Rooms, St. James's. Many noble.and influential names are
among the patrons oh the occasion; and we trust that the result may
he such as to reflect increased honour on their exertions, and to add
liberally to the means of the Society. The object is a most laudable one.
The Countess of Wilton and family arrived earlrou
Monday morning at the Blackwell pier, by the General Steam Na-
vigation Company's steam-ship Wilberforce, after a pleasant passage
of' 19 hours Prom Antwerp. • 4

such work or undertaking, and if in any of the foregoing
cases the person or persons named in such warrant or order,
or the survivors or survivor of them, or the majority of such
persons, apply by petition to the Court in the name of whose
Accountant-General the sum of money mentioned in such
warrant or order shall have been paid, or such Exchequer.
bills, Stocks or Funds shall have been deposited or trans-
ferred as aforesaid, or to the Court of Exchequer in Scotland,
in case such sum of money shall have been paid in the name
of the said Queen's Remembrancer, the Court in the name of
whose Accountant-General or Queen's Remembrancer such
sum of money shall have been paid, or each Exchequer-
bills Stocks or Funds shall have been deposited or trans-
ferred, shall by order direct the sum of money paid in pur-
suance of such warrant or order, or the stocks, funds or se-
curities in or upon which the same may have been invested,
and the interest or dividends thereof, or the Exchequer•
bills, Stocks or Funds so deposited or transferred as aforesaid,
and the interest and dividends thereof to be paid or trans-
ferred to the party or parties so applying, or to any other
person or persons whom they may appoint in that behalf;
but no such order shall be made in the case of any such pe-
tition or Bill being rejected or not being allowed to proceed,
or being -withdrawn or not being presented, or of an Act
being passed authorising the making of such work or un-
dertaking, unless upon the production of the certificate of the
chairman of Committees of the House of Lords with refe-
rence to any proceeding in the House of Lords, or of the
Speaker of the House of Commons with reference to and
proceeding in the House of Commons, that the said petition
or Bill was rejected or not allowed to proceed, or was with-
drawn during its passage through one of the Houses of Par-
liament, or was not presented, or that such Act was passed ;
which certificate the said Chairman or Speaker shall grant
on the application in writing of the person or persons, or the
majority
o ritr ury
ysofthiveopres of themrsonsna.med in such warrant, or the sur
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COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

VOTES OF THE THANKS AND THE FREEDOM OF
THE CITY TO THE COMMANDERS IN INDIA, &c.
Yesterday a special Court was held for the purpose of
voting the thanks and congratulations of the Court, with
the freedom of the City, in gold boxes of the value of 100
guineas, to the Lieutenant-General the Right Hon. Sir
Henry Hardinge, Knight Grand Cross of the Bath, Governor-
General of India; to General Sir Hugh Gough, Bart., Knight
Grand Cross of the Bath, Commander-in-Chief of the forces
in India ; and to Major-General Sir Henry George Smith,
Knight Commander of the Bath, for the valour, judgment,
and ability displayed by them in the recent battles of Aliwal
and Sobraon, on the 28th of January and the 10th of
February last. Also the thanks of the Court to the other
officers, European and Native, for the intrepidity, persever-
ance, and discipline evinced by them upon both of those me-
morable occasions.
There was likewise notice of a motion attached to the
business paper by Sir Peter Laurie, to the effect that the
freedom of the City be presented to Major-General Sir
George Pollock, G.C.8., in testimony of the esteem enter-
tained by the Court, in common with their fellow-citizens,
of the distinguished military services rendered by him in
Affghanistan, and of his indefatigable zeal and energy
throughout that campaign.
The cause of the delay in voting the well-merited acknow-
ledgment to Sir George Pollock arose from the general sup-
position in former Courts that the honours could not be paid,
except in the presence of the individuals for whom they were
intended. Upon the present occasion the mistake was cor-
rected.
Mr. R. L. JONES said, in rising to move the first resolu-
tion which related to the Governor-General of India alone,
for it was considered more respectful and complimentary to
give a distinct and separate acknowledgment to each of the
illustrious individuals whose Aervices had done such honour
to their country, he felt no small degree of gratification. He
laboured under no doubt as to the sentiments of the Court
upon the subject. He knew the resolution he had to pro-
pose would be received not only unanimously, but with accla
mations.—(Hear, hear.) It would be presumptuous in bin,
to go to any length in expressing his opinion of the_ gal-
lantry, ,energy, and skill of those who achieved such extra-,
ordinary victories under circumstances of a nature yh,ch-1
called forth the astonishment of their countrymen, familiar
as Englishmen were with all the praises and enjoy ment of
triumph.—(Cheers.) He should merely refer to the
quent dispatches of ~Sir Henry Hardinge, which it would be
a libel' upon the Court to say that any member was un-
acquainted with, to exhibit the spirit of description beat
adapted to depict the combination of judgment, gal-
lantry, humanity, and perseverance which made the scene
of war so remarkable. The whole course of the military
proceeding was calculated to exalt the character of our coun-
trymen as well as that of the native troops engaged, and
after the glorious victory, the result of those magnificent ex-
ertions, the mildness of the conditions, and the Christian feel-
ing by which the operations of the commanders were distin-
guished, even against those whose conduct had been aggres-
sive in the extreme, increased the glory which had been pur-
chased by such a sacrifice of human life.—(Cheers.) Mr.
Jones concluded by moving that the freedom, &c., be pre-
sented to the Governor-General of India.
Mr. DIXON seconded the motion.
The vote was carried unanimously, and amidst accla-
mations.
Mr. HARRISON rose to move the vote to Sir Hugh Gough.
It was, he said, impossible for any one possessed of the
heart of an Englishman not to feel delighted at the course
pursued in India by our Government. He held in his hands
the vote to a General of very great distinction, and he felt
that he was wholly unable to do justice to the occasion. The
result of the victories which they were celebrating would be
felt in the establishment of civihsation, of commerce, and of
peace, and the natives would have cause to rejoice in the
protection afforded to them by the valour of the British
arms.—(Cheers.)
Mr. R. TAYLOR heartily agreed in the resolution.
The resolution was carried unanimously, and amidst cheers.
Mr. ANDERTON moved the vote to Sir henry George Smith.
He felt the greater pride and gratification in submitting the
resolution, as he knew the gallant General when a boy, and
not a member of the army. He thought that after a lapse
of forty years, Sir Henry Smith would not be sorry to hear
that he had proposed, in Guildhall, the freedom of the City
for eminent services rendered in India.—(Cheers.) The
victories in India would not only have the effect of establish-
ing peace in that extensive territory, but would serve as a
lesson to America, likely to convince that people that it was
dangerous to provoke England by acts of aggression and
tyranny .—(Cheers.)
Mr.
JOHN WOOD seconded the vote.
_

Dr. LYNCH said, titaTtiieman must be cold indeed who
could hear unmoved the glorious deeds of the British army,
or not join with all his heart in paying homage to the daunt-
less valour and cool intrepidity of the men, and to the judg-
ment and ability of the Generals, who had exalted the
military character of their country to the highest point of
renown.—(Cheers.)
Mr. LAWRENCE admitted that war was full of horrors, but
the war in which these illustrious men had served their
country was the surest and the speediest means of establish-
ing peace, and every one knew that the more quickly san-
guinary contests were ended the better.—(Cheers.) The
moderation with which the signal triumphs gained were
acted upon showed that the continuance of the extermi-
nating process was not the object of the commanders of the
troops against the perfidious aggressors. He could imagine
a period when war would not suit the refined capacities of
men; but the world was still at a great distance from that
happy crisis.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. Writs agreed that moral victories were greatly to be
preferred to those which were to be gained by the effusion of
blood; but he denied that the victories which England ob-
tained were without fruit—witness the twenty-five years of
peace which had resulted from one great battle.—(Cheers.)
The vote was carried unanimously, and amidst cheers.
Mr. J. WOOD moved the vote of thanks to the officers and
men, and
Mr. BOWER seconded the motion, and took the opportunity
of stating that the Court could not think of deviating upon
the present occasion from their usual practice of inclosing the
freedom in a gold box.
The motion was carried unanimously, and amidst cheers.
Sir PETER LAURIE then rose to move "That similar ho-
nour to that paid Ito the other distinguished commanders
should be given to Sir George Pollock, whose absence from
England had prevented the Court from voting to the gal-
lant commander the freedom of the City." Sir Peter Laurie
spoke in terms of the highest praise of Sir George Pollock,
who was a relative of the distinguished Chief Baron Sir Fred.
Pollock.
Mr. OBBARD, who has two sons serving in the army in
India, seconded the motion amidst cheers, and
Sir PETER LAURIE hoped that he should one day move
votes of thanks to the sons of his old friend, if ever there
should be a revival of the horrors of war.
The motion was carried unanimously, and amidst loud
cheers.