The Sun.
London, England, 1856-04-22 00:00:00

COURSE OF EXCHANGE.— Tars Dir.
Amsterdam 'l2 L-- Gibraltar ........
• Ditto, three months .. 12 • Leghorn ••••• ••••• .••3" 15
Rotterdam ............ 12 24 Genoa ......... • • x: 90
Antwerp 25 67% llilan
Brussels ..... . .... 25 671/47 Venice........
ilamburgh 13 11% Naples • r .......... 43%
kltona •••••• • • •• •• .• Palermo .•
Paris ........ .. • • .... 25 45 Messina ....
Ditto, three months .. 25 77%, Llsbo- ......
Marseilles 25 77% Oporto 53%
Bourdeaux Rio Janeiro ..... • • ....
Frankfort-on Maine .... 12 % Buenos Ayre5..........
Berlin New Yurk,6o days' sight
Vienna 10 *26 Philadelphia ..........
Trieste.....: •• .... 10 25 PRICES or BCELICE, PEE oz.
Petersburg 37 Foreign Golo in Bars £3 17 9
Madrid ........... 49% Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Cadiz 50 Mexican Dollars .... 0 0 0
Barcelona. New Dollars 0 0 0
4evil)e. Sliver in bars .• 0 0 0
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TIIE LATE THOMAS ATTWOOD.

A town's meeting was held in the Town Hall, at
Birmingham, yesterday, the Mayor (I'. R. T. Hodgson,
Esq.,) in the chair, for the purpose of devising the best
means of carrying into effect the resolve of a small meet-
ing held a week or two since, the raising up of a me-
merial commemorative of the great public services of
the late Thomas Attwood. The hall wa.; well filled ;
Mr. Muetz, M P., Mr. Scholefield, M.P., Mr. Salt,
Mr. George Edmonds, Mr. William Mathews, Mr.
Joseph Webster, Mr. J. Betts, Mr. Alderman Cutler,
Mr. Alderman Baldwin, and all the surviving political
unionwts were present, many of them wearing the long
laid-by medals. The meeting was of a most enthusiastic
character, and the following, amongst other resolutions,
was passed :
" That the eminently patriotic services of the late Thomas
Attwood, as the leader of the greatest political movement
of this century, deserve an acknowledgment from the coun-
try. In a time of great public peril, when law and liberty
were alike in danger, he curbed the passions of the people
by his wisdom, and led them to victory by the force
of his enthusiasm and the earnestness of his patriotism.
Ho sought no compensation for his sacrifices, and bo ac-
cepted no reward for his services; and this meeting is of
opinion that it is the duty of all who have profited by his
labours and who admire his character to mark their gra-
titude and perpetuate the memory of his good deeds by a
memorial that will be a stimulus and an example to his
townsmen for ever."

A handsome sum was subscribel in the hall ; and a
committee was appointed to decide on the form which
this memorial of honour and gratitude shall take.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(This Day.)

LONDON, April 22,—Wind this day at noon, N.E. ;
alight breeze, and cloudy weather.
SWANSEA, April 21.—Wind E.—Sailed—Louisa, for
Marseilles; Brazilian Packet, Barcelona; Marco Polo,
Gibraltar.

WATERFORD, April 20.—Wind N.N.E. to W.—Sailed
—Marion, for Quebec.
YooLE, April 21.—Wind E.—Sailed—Nelson Packet,
for Carbonear.
SALCOMBE, April 20.—Arrived—Achilles, from Ceylon.
JERSEY, April 20.—Wind E.—Sailed—Christopher Co-
lumbus, for Bay Chaleur ; True Blue, Malta.
CARDIFF, April 21.—Wind N. W.—Sailed—George
Kidd, for Rio Janeiro ; Eustace, Milo; Primus, Malta.
SHIELDS, April 21.—Wind N.—Sailed—John Robin-
son, for Shanghai ; Harriet, Quebec.
HARTLEPOOL, April 21.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Metta
Margaretha, from F.moe. Sailed—Holland Frauw, for
Hong Kong ; Croxdale, Genoa..
SKIBBEREEN, April 17,—Tho Boomerang, of Liverpool.
dismasted and abandoned, was passed on the sth inst., in
lat. 41. N. lon. 46. W., by the cutter Muscongus, arrived
off Cape Clear.
MALApril 21.—Several smacks were round and
stripping a D°N'large easel, with Newcastle on her stern, sunk
in 3!+ fAhorna at low water, off the Whittaker Spit, on the
io
The schooner which was on shore at Thurstill
Spit a April.onth
e 16th April, came off yesterday.
SYRA, 9th April.—The British schooner Timandra,
Ellis, from London to Balaklava, put into the island of
Milo on the 31st of March, her cargo (patent fuel) being
on fire ; she had to run on shore and was scuttled ; her
cargo would be landed.
CONSTANTINOPLB, April 21.—The Omer Pasha (a.), it
ashore in the Bosphorus; assistance has been sent.

(PEE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
LIVEZPOOL, Tuesday Morning.

Wind S.
Arrived—Astartejtem Rio Janeiro ; Orion, New Or•
leans.
S tiled—Harriet Stewart, for Konigsberg ; Margaret,
Nairn; Thermutin, Beirout.

• :A rly.,:wcur _ _
(Br SUFMABIgE ANI) bRITIBII TELEGRAPH.) 4"fliB
GRAVESEND, Tuesday, 9.43 a.m.' .10
Wiwi, E. ; tide, low water ; fine. •
Arrived, April 21.—Anne, from Dunkirk; Reynard,
Ostend.
Arrived, 22.—Wellington, from Madras.
Sailed, April 21.—Jame Shepherd, for Jamaica.
Saild, 22d.—Gertrude, for Danzig; Blue Jacket, Ge•
nos,. 1

TESTIMONIAL TO MR. SAUNDERS, or THE GREAT
WESTERN RAILWAY..—A most interesting presentation
of plate to Mr. Saunders, the secretary of the Great
Weetern Railway, took place in the Board-room on
Saturday afternoon, when about 200 of the clerks and
other employes on the line assembled . not more than
that number, out of about 1,200 gentlemen, employed
as managers and clerks on the line, being able to be
:spared from their duties at one time. The testimonial,
which had been got up so privately that Mr. Saunders
knew nothing of it within a very few days of the time,
consisted of a most elegant epergne—supported by ex-
quisitely-modelled figures, representing Justice, Indust.
try, and Wisdom—and two beautiful claret jugs. The
plate was designed and executed by Messrs. Hunt and
Roskell, and the epergne was surmounted by some ex.
quisite artificial flowers (from the studio of Mrs. Stodart,
a floral artist of great talent). Mr. Saunders, who was
most deeply affe,ted and loudly cheered, expressed his
heartfelt thanks in a very neat and appropriate speech.