The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-13 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 13. 1844,

HER MAJESTY'S VISIT TO
BUI{LEIGH.

The time arranged for her Majesty's departure from
the Euston-square terminus was a quarter-past nine
o'clock. With her usual punctuality she arrived at
the station exactly at the appointed hour.
The usual preperations had been duly made for the
reception of the royal travellers. They were received
in the state room by G. C. Glyn, Esq., chairman of
the company ; J. J. Jedrum, Esq., deputy-chairman ;
T. Young, Esq., P. S. L. Grenfell, Esq., Directors ;
R. Creed, Esq., the secratary, and the other principal
functionaries of the railway.
The train was driven by Mr. Berry, and soon pro-
ceeded at a tremendous speed, flying over the country
and the several stations at a glorious rate.
The morning was dark and lowering, a heavy wet
fog rolling in wreaths over the fields and clumps of
leafless trees, and everything certainly looking cold
and cheerless enough.
At Tring the train stopped for water. A consi-
derable number of persons had collected at the station,
and a perfect legion of children, drawn, we suppose,
from all the schools in the neighbourhood, were
ranged in two long lines along the platform, and kept
up a series of shrill juvenile hurrahs. The distance
from London to Tring was performed in about fifty-
four minutes.

As the royal travellers approached Bletchley, the
weather began to clear up, the distant mist rose from
the ground, and presently the sun shone forth merrily.
At Wolverton there was a strong muster of spec-
tators, consisting chiefly of the workmen stationed
on that part of the line, with their wives and fa-
milies, and her Majesty and the Prince were loudly
greeted as the train shot past.
On the portion of the line between Wolverton and
Weedon, a good many spectators had stationed them-
selves—farmers, their wives, and labourers in their
smock-frocks, clustered together in little groups at
gates where cross lanes intersected the railroad, and
from every such party there was a momently-heard
shout, and a momently-seen flutter of handkerchiefs,
and then they were left far behind. Roade station,
thronged with anxious groups, was soon passed, and
then Blisworth, and then came Weedon, the town
and the station gay with flags and triumphal arches.
An immense crowd thronged the little station, dis-
posed in every available position, and cheered most
heartily as the royal train arrived. Outside the station
were drawn up the 47th Regiment, lining the road
through the village, and an escort of the 7th Hussars
was disposed in due order. The road leading through
the straggling little hamlet was seen mounted by
several very pretty triumphal arches, and the inha-
bitants were ranged in a double line, dressed in all
the variations of rural dandyism, every third or fourth
man holding a little leaf-crowned banner; the whole
presenting a really very pretty array.
Her Majesty and the Prince were received by the
Marquis of Exeter Lord Lieutenant of the county ;
Sir H. Dryden, High Sheriff; and the county ma-
gistrates.
After a brief delay the royal party entered their
carriage—the Hussars formed around it—the infantry
presented arms, and amid the enthusiastic cheering of
the multitude, and the merry peals of the bells, the
royal cortege drove rapidly off towards Northampton.
The activity and general bustle of preparation in
the town of Northampton for the last few days were
such as to prove that the inhabitants of that ancient
borough were by no means behind hand with their
fellow-subjects elsewhere in devotion to their Queen,
and in a just appreciation of the honour and advan-
tage conferred upon their town by the presence of
the Sovereign. In every thoroughfare through which
it was anticipated that the procession would pass,
workmen were busily employed in constructing scaf-
folding, and fitting up windows and balconies for the
accommodation of those who would, no doubt, con-
gregate from all the neighbouring parts of the coun-
try, to enjoy a sight which to them must be as rare,
as it could not fail to be delightful, and even in those
localities which presented no opportunity of partici-
pating in the general gala, the residents were at least
enabled to gratify their loyalty and taste by deco-
rating their house fronts with appropriate ornaments
and gratulatory devices.
Shortly after leaving Northampton, the day became
again overcast, and continued dull and heavy.
Bullock's Booth was the first stage—it consists of
an old public-house and a few cottages. The inhabi-
tants had turned out right loyally, with flags and
wands, and a tremendously loud brass band. The
brief stay afforded time for the usual demonstrations
of loyalty. and the cortege proceeded.
At Meldon the horses of the Marquis of Exeter
were stationed to convey the royal party the stage
between that and Stamford, and at Wakerly-ford 800
of the tenantry of the Noble Marquis, well mounted,
were ready, and escorted her Majesty and her noble
host to the conclusion of the journey.
At Stamford, as everywhere else, the most devoted
loyalty and attachment was manifested in every way.
Among the company who will be entertained this
day at Burleigh-house, are the Duke and Duchess of
Bedford, the Duke of Rutland, Lord and Lady
Thomas Cecil, Lord and Lady C. Wellesley, Lord
and Lady Willoughby, &c. &c.
At a quarter before one o'clock a salvo of artillery
from the castle walls announced the appearance of the
Royal cortege at some little distance, and within a
few minutes afterwards Queen Victoria and her illus-
trious Consort arrived.

The procession having been formed, with the clergy
and the Corporation in the rear, then preceded the
Queen's carriage up Black Lion-hill, Ware-fair,
Horse-market, and Gold-street, to the Market-square.
Here the cortege halted, and the Mayor read the ad-
dress, which appeared in The Sun of Monday last.
Her Majesty acknowledged it in a few appro-
priate and expressive words. The procession having
been again got in motion advanced along the Market-
square and passed down Abingdon-street, on the road
to Burleigh. Here, as on the previous parts of her
route, her Majesty's admiration must have been ex-
cited by the taste and variety of the decorative
insignia displayed. Scarcely a single house along
the whole line, extending upwards of a mile,
but was
enlivened by flags with loyal mottoes, transparencies,
bearing inscriptions of devotion and attachment, or
wreaths of evergreens suspended from the opposite
sides of the street. The royal visit was also celebrated
by the erection of five lofty and very elegantly de-
signed triumphal arches, chequered and festooned
with various lively colours.
In the evening a dinner in celebration:of the happy
event of the day took place at the Angel Inn. The
Mayor was in the chair, and was supported by the
clergy and gentry of the neighbourhood. After the
dinner, which was an excellent substantial repast
served in good style, the company proceeded to do
honour to the several toasts proposed to them.
STAMFORD, SI% O'CLOCK.—The royal party have
arrived at Burleigh-house. All along the route from
Northampton her Majesty has been received with the
most loyal demonstrations.
The peasantry mustered in great force at every
available point along the road, and every little village
had its triumphal arch—its flaunting colours, and its
evergreen-decked windows and roofs.

Nuneaton Railway, including Mr. Mann, (member
of the committee), Mr. Chinery (solicitor), Messrs.
Bridges and Mason (solicitors), and Mr. Addison
(engineer), had an interview with the Earl of Dal-
housie yesterday.
A deputation from the Brighton and Chichester
Railway Company, consisting of Captain B. Marwood
Kelly, R.N., chairman ; Hon. George F. Hotham,
deputy chairman ; Mr. James Cordy and Mr. Ed-
ward Crowley, directors ; Mr. John U. Rastrick,
engineer; and Frederick Utley, secretary; had an
interview with the Earl of Dalhousie yesterday, at
the Board of Trade.

The nomination of Sheriffs for the year ensuing
took place yesterday (the Morrow of St. Martin) in
the Court of Exchequer, before the Lords of her
Majesty's most Honourable Privy Council.
The Privy Councillors present were the Chancellor
of the Exchequer (who presided in his gold robe of
office), the Lord Chancellor, Lord Denman, Sir J.
Graham, the Lord Chief Justice Tindal, and Sir
James Parke.

The Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer and the
following Judges also assisted at the ceremony, viz.,
Judges Alderson, Matteson, Gurney, Coltman,
Rolfe, and Cresswell.

Mr. C. Greville was the Clerk of the Council in
Waiting.
Their Lordships having been sworn, the names of
the three gentlemen nominated for each county of
England last year were read over, and as each county
was called the Judges who had been on the different
Circuits rose and proposed a gentleman in lieu of the
present Sheriff. Excuses of various kinds, such as no
house in the county—building a new house, and in-
convenient to serve the office until 1847 ; ill health,
a martyr to the gout, and having had to resign a com-
mission ; 60 years of age and infirm ; residing on the
Continent on account of the state of health ; were prof-
fered to the consideration of their Lordships. In
those cases where the excuses were allowed by the
Court, or where death had occurred, the Judges gave
in the names of other parties to supply the deficiency,
three gentlemen being placed on the rolls for each
county.
The list having been completed, was again read
over in alphabetical order, and their Lordships then
rose.

The Earl and Countess of Lincoln had a dinner
party on Monday evening, at their residence in 'White-
hall-place. Among the company were Viscount and
Viscountess Canning, Lord and Lady Mahon, Lord
and Lady Ashley, the Right Hon. T. Pemberton
Leigh, and Mr. Bonham.

RESOURCES OF INDIA—IRON
ORE, &c.

We have heard that some of the superabundant
wealth of this country is likely to be appropriated
to the development of a vast field of enterprise in
the South of India. Some of the provinces in that
part of the country abound in Iron ores of various
kinds, of the richest and purest descriptions known :
wood charcoal, for fuel, may be had, in inexhaus-
tible quantities, for the cost of cutting, and making
it. Labour of all kinds is procurable in abundance;
cheaper than in any other country : and the facilities
for transport of materials, are such as will admit of
Iron being manufactured there, at a cost, far below
that at which Iron can be made at any other part of
the world.

We understand that this is not a merely specula-
tive project. A small Association of Gentlemen in
India, engaged in the prosecution of it, some years
ago; and by their labours, and at their cost, re-
sults of unexampled value have been established;
but the nature of their Association was
far too limited, and the capital they could
afford to embark in the undertaking altoge-
ther inadequate, to enable them to make more than a
mere demonstration of facts. The local Indian Go-
vernment, under the sanction of the East India Com-
pany, impressed with the value, in a public point of
view, of the objects of this Association, has granted
them considerable pecuniary assistance, and has con-
veyed to them rights and privileges, which with those
obtained from private proprietors of land, give them
complete, and exclusive possession of all the materials
for Iron making in these provinces.
A large set of Iron Works has been erected by this
Company near Madras, which is now in active opera- ,
tion, with all the improvements recently introduced
into the manufacture of Charcoal Iron on the Conti-
nent of Europe; the difficulties they had to contend
with, at the commencement, have been gradually
surmounted ; and the extraordinary character of the
Indiail Iron has been fully established : a proof of
this is afforded by the recent purchase, after pre-
vious trial, of several hundred tons of it, by one
of the first English Iron masters, for conversion into
tin plate. With the improvements now in the course
of introduction at their Works in India, there is now
no doubt that Iron may be made there, and sold at a
very large profit, for the consumption of the whole of
the markets of Asia, so as to supersede foreign im-
portations ;, and that it can be disposed of, in this
country at a great profit, to replace the produce of
Sweden, and Russia, for conversion into Steel; and
for use in all purposes, where a superior quality of
Iron is required.

The recent enormous development of railway con-
structions has created a demand for a description of
Iron which England does not produce. The smelt-
ing of Iron ore with charcoal in England is now
limited to a few hundred tons a year; and- the price
of foreign charcoal Iron of good quality, is too high
to admit of its use in this country, for Iron purposes.
Indian charcoal Iron, of a quality equal to the finest
foreign Iron, can be delivered in England, at a cost,
not exceeding that of common English coke Iron;
while its value, for use, as Iron, is at least double that
of the best coke Iron.

All that is now required to realise these statements,
we are assured, is the application of sufficient
capital; and at a time when rail way projects, hold-
ing out expectations of moderate returns, are so
eagerly sought after, it is expected that the attention
of capitalists will soon be attracted to an undertaking,
the success of which, when vigorously prosecuted, is
now placed beyond a doubt; and the profits from
which will so greatly exceed those of any other project
now offered for public participation.
The original Projectors of this undertaking being
now satisfied of the utter incompetency of their means
to occupy the gigantic field of enterprise in their pos-
session, in an efficient manner, have agreed to place
the whole, on most favourable terms, in the hands of
a public Company, who can bring to the prosecution
of it a capital commensurate with its importance.
As this neighbourhood contains the largest Iron
Works in the kingdom, the above information will, we
presume, be of more than ordinary interest.—
(Abridged from the Bradford Observer.)
DUKE DE AL VICTORIA.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Sett,--With reference to the mendacious statement in
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n me,
the Paris lithographic sheets, regarding the alleged de-
parture of the Duke de la Victoria from London, on his
whaey
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is in the enjoyment of excellent health.
I also beg leave to state, that at the very time when,
according to these apocryphal and malignant accounts,
tdoignf: permitg
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it had been given out that the Duke was confined to his
house by indisposition, as a cloak for his clandestine de- 1
parture for Spain, his Grace (being in perfect health)
did me the honour to come to see me, when I was labour-
ing under the effects of a dangarous illness ; and that,
ever since, scarcely a day has passed in which I have not
been indebted to him far those kind inquiries, and kind
acts, which all who have had the advantage of being per-
sonally known to his Grace are aware are as characterise
tic of him in his private relations, as are all the noble and
high-minded qualities in his public station, as a distin-
guished soldier and a patriot,.
To my certain knowledge, the Duke de la Victoria has
not been absent from London for twenty-four hourasince
his arrival, about fifteen months ago.
You insertion of this refutation of one of those " in-
famous and daily inventions," which you have so justly
censured, will oblige, Sir, yours respectfully,
AN ENGLISHMAN.
P.S.—I send you my name and address, which I am
sure you will consider to be a sufficient guarantee of the
correctness of the above statement.

Nov. 12.—A fall of the cliff, near the
Town Jetty, took place this morning early, and we
regret to state, destroyed a cottage tenanted by a poor.
.s Grace the Duke of Welling-
Hi
man of the name of Hart, and killed two of his children,
aged eight and twelve years.. The fall is attributed to
the late heavy
rains—
inquest at the Cricketers,
Welling-
ton and the Commissioners of Dover Harbour will hold
a sessions here on Thursday next.
THE PLEASURE OF HANGING.—On Monday after-
noon Mr. Wakley, M.P., held an inquest
Camden-street, on the body
eve of William Carter, a veteran
Chelsea pensioner, aged ity-three, who hang him.
self at his lodgings, 14, Wellington-street, last Friday.
In the course of the proceedings, the Coroner observed
that it was extraordinary how pleasing the effects of
hanging were. That was apparent from the fact, that of
all the persons who committed suicide by hanging, the
majority were found either in a sitting posture, or with
their feet or knees touching the ground. In one instance
a young lady, who was watched by two females, one at
either side of her bed, strangled herself with the strings
of her night dress, without their knowledge, On an-
other occasion a man hung himself while stretched upon
his face, with his nose almost touching the ground. A
short time since he held an inquest at Balls Pond upon
a man, who having hung himself up, the cord broke be-
fore he was dead, and he survived the attempt thirty-
five hours ; ho stated that he had enjoyed the most
pleasing sensations while suspended. Persons who com-
mitted suicide by hanging (continued the Coroner) went
off as in a sleep, and died without pain. He did not
speak of malefactors hanged at the Old Bailey, whose
necks were broken, but of those who, like the deceased,
hung themselves without subjecting their bodies to a
jerk. In the latter case neither was the neck broken nor
was the windpipe closed, but a congestion of the brain
ensued, which caused death. The jury returned, in the
case of William Carter—" That he destroyed himself,
but that there was no evidence of his state of mind at the
time he did so."

DREADFUL STEAM-BOAT EXPLO-
SION AT BLACKWALL.

MR. SAMUDA, THE ENGINEER, AND SIX MEN
KILLED, AND FIVE OTHERS DANGEROUSLY

INJURED.

An accident, in its effects fatal to seven persons,
and most serious to five others, and in its details
shocking in the extreme, occurred off Blackwall last
evening, in consequence of a steam explosion on board
a new iron steam-boat, named the Gipsy Queen, built
by the firm of Samuda and Co. (the senior of which
is the chief victim), for the Waterford Navigation
Company.

From the naturally confused state of the surviving
parties, arising from the sudden transition of their
companions and friends, a moment previously in the
full vigourof life, to the awful and irrbcoverable state
in which many of them now are, the particulars of
the occurrence could be ascertained only with great
difficulty. It appears, however, that the steam-vessel,
which previously had been only partially tried in Bow
Creek, near Blackwell, came out from the creek yes-
terday afternoon, about half-past three o'clock, in
command of Capt. Price, and with Mr. Jacob Sa-
muda, the constructor of both the boat and engines, a
friend or two, and a number of workmen belonging
to the factory of Messrs. Samuda, on board, made her
first trial trip down the river, as far as Woolwich. She
returned at five o'clock, and was moored to the buoy
off Blackwell, the result of this trial having been sa-
tisfactory to the parties on board.
The Gipsy Queen is about 600 tons burden, and
has paddle-wheel engines equal to 300 horse-power.
Her engines are of a peculiar character, the invention
of Messrs. Samuda. They are what may be termed
" bell-cranked" engines, and, as we are informed, in •
stead of the ordinary eam, the beam of the Gipsy
Queen is divided in the centre, each half being
socketted in the other, with connecting rods at each
end working at an angle, instead of perpendicularly ;
there being two bearings in the centre, instead of one.
Another peculiarity in these engines is that they are
placed fore and aft—one before the other, and not side
by side, as is usually done. The boilers, which are
tubular, were constructed to bear 401bs. pressure on
the square inch, but during the trial they had not
been worked to more than half that pressure. As
soon, however, as the vessel had arrived at Blackwell,
it was determined to try the boilers at a pressure of
251b5., and it is said the safety valve was set accord-
ingly, not the least danger being apprehended. Mr.
Samuda, with the engineer, the foreman of his fac-
tory, and a number of fitters and others, were present
in the engine-room to see the operation, when, about
ten minutes after five o'clock, the unfortunate catas-
trophe took place.
A slight explosion was heard by the persons as-
sembled on the Blackwall Pier, and on all eyes being
turned in the direction of the Gipsy Queen, the his-
sing of steam was heard, and the vapour was seen
issuing from all parts of the engine-room. The
cause was speedily imagined, and Captain Routh, the
Director of the Blackwell Railway, and several
others, raised a loud shout for boats to put off to the
assistance of those on board. But it was some time
before any could be procured, and meanwhile the
persons on the pier became most anxious. As soon,
however, as boats could be obtained they put off to
the steamer, and the result of the explosion was
quickly known by the return to the pier of two boats,
with five men in them dreadfully scalded and dis-
figured, and from them the intelligence was gathered
that they had escaped up the ladder at the time of
the explosion, and had left several of their com-
panions in the engine-room, amongst them Mr. Sa-
muda, sen. This information much increased the
excitement ashore. Women rushed down to the pier
to ascertain the fate of their husbands and friends,
and Mr. Joseph Samuda, who had become ac-
quainted with the then imperfect rumour, was
also on the barges in a state of mind bordering on
distraction. What with the rain, which fell violently at
the time and the darkness of the night, the occupants
of the Blackwall Pier presented a very woeful ap-
pearance ; and so eager were they to learn the worst,
that it was with great difficulty some other serious
accidents were prevented by the parties who had
charge of the barges, as the people were pressing to
the very edges.
On board the Gipsy Queen it was impossible, from
the escape of the steam, to descend to the engine-
room, and axes were procured as soon as possible, and
the decks were cut up in order to allow the steam to
disperse more rapidly, and thus half an hour elapsed
before the fate of those in the engine-room was ascer-
tained. When that place was sufficiently free from
steam for the persons on deck to descend into it, it
disclosed the bodies of seven men in the most ghastly
condition. They were quite dead, and lay in various
positions. The unfortunate sufferers were :
Mr. Jacob Samuda, Mr. Dodds, engineer of the
vessel; Mr. Scholefield, an engineer; James Slanders,
fitter ; Thomas Nugent, apprentice ; Jchn Newman,
stoker, and another man whose name we could not
ascertain.

On examination, it would appear that the accident
was caused by the bursting of the steam from the
main pipe at a joint. The connexion of the main
steam-pipe with the foremost engine is effected by a
" stuffing-box," which renders the joint, where there
is any vibration, more secure. The pipe at this stuff-
ing-box, which in its right place led downward to
the floor of the engine-room, is now turned up to-
wards the deck. The steam in its course, it is evi-
dent, must have found vent here, and, without any
warning, must in its bursting out have dealt the dis-
astrous consequences which the floor of the engine-
room presented.
Mr. Saniuda, with those who have perished, must
have been standing near this stuffing-box at the time.
Several had left the engine-room just before for the
deck, and the five who are so seriously injured were
going up the ladder. The whole force of the ex-
plosion was therefore encountered by the seven de-
ceased. The bodies were literally boiled, their hair
was stiffened and standing straight from their fore-
heads, the features all puffed and some of them dis-
coloured, and the teeth of many displaced. Mr. Sa-
muda was more disfigured than the others, and seemed
to have offered the greatest resistance to the devas-
tating power. The stoker had a severe contusion
over his right eye, and his shoes were found scorched
on his feet.
The bodies were taken ashore, and to the ware-
house of the Black wall Railway Company, and were
subsequently removed to the bonehouse at Poplar, to
await a Coroner's inquest, which it is expected will
be held this day.
The injured persons were :—William Ryley, fore-
man of Messrs. Samuda ' • Charles Mills, boiler-maker
of their establishment; James Hill, ditto; William
Donovan, stoker ; and a stoker whose name did not
transpire.
Ryley was much scalded and scorched about the
head. The stoker had his hand very much shattered.
It is feared that one or two of them are in a very
dangerous state.
They were taken to the Blackwall Railway, where
every attention was paid them by Captain Routh, and
as soon as possible were removed to the London Hos-
pital in an omnibus.
Many are the interventions of Providence recorded
in favour of persons on board at the time of this sad
occurrence. Mr. Samuda had, a minute before, sent
a man, an engineer named Lowe, on deck (who thus
escaped), to look at the steam pipe, and he had
scarcely moved two steps from the compan!on-way
before the explosion took pace. The concussion,
though not loud in report, was so severe as by the
vibration to lift the persons who were on deck off the
boards. _ _

Mr. Samuda, we understand, is unmarried; but
several of the deceased and of the sufferers have wives
and families.
The estimated pressure to which it was intended to
raise the steam was 251bs. to the square inch ; but
when a boat is lying still,, as was the case with the
Gipsy Queen, the steam rises so rapidly that a minute
or two makes a very great difference in the amount
of pressure, none being consumed at the time by the
engines. The Coroner s inquest will, however, sup-
ply all the particulars necessary to form a correct
judgment on the matter.

MYSTERIOUS DEATIL—Late on Monday night a
lengthened inquiry was proceeded with before Mr.
Wakley, on the body of a woman, found on Friday last,
in the Counters' Creek sewer, King's-road, Fulham. It
appeared, on Wednesday, about a quarter-past one, the
deceased came down stairs with a jug in her hand, as if
going for her dinner. The deceased appeared in good
health and spirits, but never returned, nor was she after-
wards seen alive. All her relatives rejected the idea that
she had committed suicide, and said it was most myste-
rious how she could have come into the water at that
spot, unless she had fallen into the river below bridge,
and the body had floated with the tide to that place.
Mr. Waring, surgeon, deposed that he had examined the
body, but could find not the slightest mark of injuries
on it, although the lips were much swollen. The body
exhibited the usual external characteristics of drowning.
Several of the jury commented on the unsafe state of the
Counters' Creek sewer at several parts, and stated that
two persons had very recently fallen into it, and although
they were not drowned, their deaths resulted from the
effects of the accident. About a fortnight ago a carriage
and two horses, mistaking their road, were nearly smo-
thered in the creek. The Coroner said, a representation
on the subject ought to be made by the inhabitants of
the neighbourhood to the proper authorities. The jury
returned a verdict of " Found dead in the Counters'
Creek, but there is no evidence before the jury to show
how she came into the water."
LEGITIMATE USE OF A UNION WORKHOUSE.—
The Rochford union-house contains at this time 207 in-
mates, of whom 51 are old and infirm, 128 children,
11 persons temporarily disabled, and 17 from want of
work and other causes. There are 41 persons 60 years
and upwards, whose united ages amount to 3,054 years,
consequently averaging 741 years each.—Essex Herald.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS,

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.

TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 11 per mille,
which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 1; s. per
ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25
.12:1 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at shoe t
being 25 572, it follows that gold is 0.59 per cent.
dearer in London than in Paris.

By advises from Hamburg h the price of gold is 435
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 10 ;
and the exchange at llamburgh on London at short
being 13 101, it follows that gold is 0.11 per cent. dearer
in London than in Ilamburgh.

Opinions seem to differ much as to the effect which
the French loan will have upon our money market. The
amount will be 8,000,0001. sterling, and not 12,000,000 L.
as was originally expected, and the times of payment will
be spread over a period of twenty months. Bence many
are of opinion that the loan will have no great influence,
but it is to be recollected that a liberal discount will be
allowed where the payments are anticipated.
In consequence of a modification in the Bank of Eng-
land's scheme for charging a commission on remittances,
the statement made yesterday does not now present a
perfectly correct view. To prevent error the whole plan
had better be restated :

First, with respect to remittances. All sums advised
for the credit of a person having a drawing account at
the Bank or branch, are to be subject to a charge of 6d.
per cent., the minimum charge to be Is. Thus, sums not
exceeding 200/ are to be charged Is. ; sums not exceed-
ing 300/ are to be charged is. 6d., and so on. Any
fraction of 1001. is to be charged as an entire 100/
Secondly, with respect to payments. Where neither
the party paying nor the party receiving has an account,
the charge on sums not exceeding 5001. will be If per
cent., the minimum charge being 2s. Gd. On sums ex-
ceeding 500/., and not exceeding 3,000/., the charge will
be 4 per cent. on the first 5001, and * per cent on the
remainder. If the sums exceed 3,000/., the above charge
for 3,0001. will be made, and Is. Gd on the excess. Where
on the contrary, the party lodging the money has
an account, the commission on sums of 100/ is to
be 2s. 6d., on sums of 1001. and under 3001 it is to
be 4s. 6d., on sums of 300/. and not exceeding 3,000/. it is
to be Is. fd. per cent., and on sums exceeding 3,000/ it
is to be Is. per cent.
The distinction between "remittances" and "pay-
ments" which is made in the above statement is the one
adopted by the Bank of England. Where money is paid
to the credit of a party who has an account at the Bank,
the sum is of course not paid over to him at once by the
Bank, but he remains credited with it, until he draws

it by means of a cheque. This transaction, when pay-
ment is made by a credit, is called a " remittance." When
the money is paid for the use of a stranger, and is there-
fore given to him by the Bank immediately, and not
through the medium of a credit, the transaction is called
a " payment."
POST.—The English Stocks continue steady. Money
is not quite so easy as it has been. This is shown by a
fall in the premium on Exchequer-bills, but the quota-
tions for the permanent securities have, nevertheless,
been very well supported. The proceedings of the
French Government, relative to the forthcoming loan,
occasion no great anxiety in the minds of our capitalists,
because the payment of the instalments is to be carried
over so long a period of time, and, therefore, in some •
what minute proportions. How the stock that may be
created will rank in the London market is another ques-
tion. The French authorities affect to think it hard that
their Three per Cents. should not stand as high as our
own, but prudent persons cannot but feel that the future
holds out the prospect of some fierce political struggles
in France, and this at no very remote date ; nor is it
likely, therefore, that capitalists of that character will
have much, if anything, to do with the loan. The pub-
lic at large should take warning from this circumspec-
tion, and be equally wary. French stock is certainly
not a desirable investment just at the present moment,
and, without reference to price, oar own feeling is, that
parties here would act wisely in leaving the native capi-
talits of France to fill up the subscription lists, and keep
the whole of the 200,000,000 francs to themselves. The
circumstance that the Government will be content to
receive 400,000 L per month from December next to
August, 1846, and which is of course an easy mode of
collection, should be no temptation in a case where the
consideration to be given for the money is one, the value
of which depends on contingencies of a palpably critical
description. _ _

SUN.—Consols leave off the same as yesterday, viz.,
100 - 4, there having been Money bargains also at 100 g.
Exchequer Bills were at a decline to 625. and 60s. prem.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. were 102.
The Foreign Market was rather flat up to the close.
Spanish Three per Cents. were 35i, and the Deferred,
15 1-6 to 15. Mexican were 35i to ; Brazilian, New,
85i to 85 ; Colombian, 131: ; Belgian Scrip, premium;
and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 624.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Cambridge and Lincoln, s ; Churnet
Valley, 4 ; Diss, Beccles, and Yarmouth, ; Great
Southern and Western (Ireland), ex New, 34 ; Great
Western, Half, 35:4 ; South-Western, 32 ; Croydon,*
Manchester and Leeds, Half, 15 ; Newcastle and Dar-
lington, 28 to 21 ; Norwich and Brandon, 34 ; Ditto,
New, 11 ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, K ; South
Devon, 1 ; South-Eastern, 9i ; Ditto, Scrip, 111; York
and North Midland, 60i; and Boulogne and Amiens, 2
premium. Direct Northern, I ; and Brighton, 31 dis-
count. London and Westminster Bank Shares were 64
premium.
The Foreign Exchanges were firm on Amsterdam,
Antwerp, and Hamburgh, and on Frankfort rather
higher, but were barely supported on Paris and Trieste.
The following is the official return of the exports of
bullion from the port of London for the week ending
Thursday last :
Gold Coin to Mauritius 332 ounces.
Silver Coin to China 4,000 ,
Silver Coin to Rotterdam lOO,OOO „

A Hamburgh newspaper, Der Freischutz, contains
a statement of the receipts and expenditure of the Times
as follows :-" The British newspaper, the Times, is
known to be the largest in size, and has the greatest
number of copies circulating in the world. The budget
of the expenditure of that journal at the present time is
as follows, namely :-Editorial expenses, weekly, 651 ;
salaries of correspondents, 40/ ; Parliamentary reporters
(twenty in number, 51. each per week), 100/. ; scientific,
tine arts, and literary reporters, 21/. ; penny-a-liners (re-
porters of the occurrences of the day in London, viz.,
fires, murders, curiosities, &c.), 211. ; for extraordinary
information from authors of celebrity, per week, 301 ;
law and police-courts' reporters (several in number)
per week, 20/. The whole of their expenses for
literary matter (as above stated) amounts per
week to 3001 The expenses of printing and
composition weekly amounts to 250/. ; the expenses
for the managing clerks, bookkeeping, &c., 2564 ;
adding to it the interest upon capital sunk by the es-
tablishment for building, machinery, and type, &c.,
amounts to the sum (weekly) of 1,0001, therefore, per
annum, of 52,0004, or 364,000 thalers. The payments
to Government for stamps and advertisement duty,
35,0001. (Qy., the paper ?) The budget of receipts of
the same journal is as follows :-In the year 1842-3,
6,300,000 copies were sold per annum, amounting to
about 125,000 L, or 1,000,000 thalers. The entire ex-
penditure, with the exception of the payment to the
Government for stamps, &c., amounts to 600,000 thalers.
It appears the annual profits derived from it amount to
400,000 thalers, without the profit derived from the
advertisements, of which we are unable to give an
account, but the average number of each copy
of the Times contains from about 700 to 1,000 an-
nouncements, 4,000 to 7,000 per week, and annually
208,000 to 364,000 announcements • as stated
before, we regret not being familiar with the rate of
charging those advertisements, and we are unable to
give a statement of the profits derived from it by the
proprietors. It has also been calculated, that 480,000
typographical letters are used to each copy on an aver-
age, and each such copy, divided into octavo pages, will
form a volume of 300 pages ; so that the 6,000,000 im-
pressions of the Times annually in circulation would
form a library of 6,000,000 volumes in octavo." [Our
Contemporary, who has mixed a.good many errors with
a considerable portion of truth in this statement, has
made one omission, which we will take upon ourselves
to supply. He has said nothing about the number of
letters we receive, and the time consumed in reading and
answering them. • We leave the latter point to the cal-
culation of our readers ; but with respect to the first, we
take this opportunity of stating that we receive 130
letters every day upon an average, or, in the whole year,
the immense number of 40,000.]- Times.
PRICES OF PROVISIONS IN WALES AND JERSEY.-
It is satisfactory to us to know that the wages, added
to the privileges of the working classes in this vici-
nity, are superior to those of the same class in many
parts of England, while they have house-rent and pro-
visions much cheaper. It may be interesting to our
distant readers to learn the prices of the luxuries of
living in Carmarthen; our London friends in particular
will be astonished at finding that in the market last Sa-
turday might be bought-fine geese at 2s. each ; a fine
young turkey, 3s. 3d. to 3s. 6d.; a pair of ducks, 2s. 2d.
to 2s. 6d. ; and fowls from ls. to is. 6d. a couple.
Our poultry is certainly not so large as that from Nor-
folk, but for succulence and delicacy of flavour it
is not to be surpassed. Beef, mutton, and pork are
to be bought at 4d. and 4d.; pickled pints of
the finest meat, sd. We have a most plentiful
year of potatoes; they may be bought fine and
good, at one shilling the bushel, 60 to 651bs. to the
bushel. Fresh butter, 26 ounces to the pound, at ls. sd.
Eggs are now 24 a shilling ; in the summer they
are 36. Good heavy oats, forty pounds to the bushel, are
at Is. lid. to 2s. Cheap, however, as all this appears
to be, we are quite outdone in Jersey, which, being a
free port, is enabled to import, duty free, from
Brittany, one of the cheapest provisoes of France,
provisions, wines, &c., at very low rates. There
' (in Jersey) a turkey is 2s. to 3s. ,• ducks, ls. 6d.
a pair ; gunpowder tea, ss. per lb. ; double re-
finesi sugar, 4id. to 6d. a lb. ; and Brazil sugar, sd.
Very good port and sherry at 245. the dozen; claret, at
18s. to 245. the dozen ; brandy, 4s. the gallon; very fine
and old ditto, 75.; Hollands, 2s. 10d. to 3s. 4d. the gallon.
The prices are still further reduced by the English
shilling passing for thirteenpence. Add to all this,
there are no taxes, and there is not a toll-bar in the
island.-Carmarthen Journal.
UNIVERSITY OF EDINDURGII.-The winter session
of the University opened on Monday, when an admirable
introductory lecture was delivered by the venerable
Principal Lee, in the presence of a crowded and most
respectable audience. Since then all the professors have
opened their classes, Wo are happy to announce that
the number of students matriculated during the first five
days of the session exceeds the number of the corre-
sponding period of last session by 119, this excess being
divided almost equally between the Faculties of arts
and medicine. The law classes are not yet opened, DA
the students of divinity are enrolled separately at the
Theological Library.-Caccionian Mercury,