The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-16 00:00:00

31 ADDING D:

Proprietors'capital.. 14,553,000
Rest 3,595,631
Public deposits (in-
cluding Exchequer,
Commissioners of
National Debt, Say-
ings-banks, and Di-

viriend accounts). • 11,1 C 0,205
Other deposits .. •• .. 10,185,000
Seven day and other
1,095,104

£37,585,940

Dated the 14th day of March, 1

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
• BRISTOL, MARCH 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market to-day has been some-
what depressed. The transactions were as follow : Great
Western, Quarters, 141—Midland, 38%—Ditto, 6 per cent.
Stock (Birmingham and Gloucester), 122%.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 15.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was very dull to-
day, and prices had a downward tendency, the market closing
heavily at the quotations. The transactions were as fol-
low :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consul. Fifths, 8% dis.—
London and North-Western, 1041/2—Ditto, New Quarters,
6s. 3d. dis.—Ditto, Fifths, 3s. 9d. p.—Midland, 3914—Ditto,
Halves, 25 dis.—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (91. 12s. 3d.
B.), 6% c. dis. Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester, 1334
dis.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Original N. and B.),
13/. Bs. 9d.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. till
1850, 61,4 dis.—Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport, 53/4—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 7
North Union (A), 235—South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4,
Registered), s%—Dutch Rhenish, Cl. Is. 3d.—Caledonian,
Preference, 7%.
MANCHESTER, Maucii 15.
STOCK Excluavoß.—Business on our Stock Exchange
to-day was very inactive, and prices remain almost station-
ary. The transactions were as follow :—Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 40% c.—Ditto, Fifths, 8 15-16 dis.—Ditto, 321.
(late Extension), 11% dis.— London and North-Western,
Manchester and Birmingham (C), Quarters, 7-16 p.—Man-
chaster, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference (guaranteed
71% per cent. for 6 years, from July, 1849, 6 per cent. after in
perpetual), 6 15-16—Birmingham and Oxfcrd Junction,
with a guarantee, 271/s.
BIRMINGHAM, MARCII IL
STOCK EXCHANGE.—Our share market was very dull
to-day. The only transaction was—Birmingham, Wol-
verhampton, and Stour Valley, 8%.
YORK, Dimwit 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as
follow :—Great Northern, 7%—York and North Midland,
Preference, Cl. Sa. 9d.
GLASGOW, MARCH 14.
Srocx ENCTIANGZ.—The transactions to-day •were as
follow : Caledonian and Dumbaitonshire,.6ss.—Monklands,
60%.

RAILWAY RETURNS
RAILWAY TaArric.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail-
orays for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year:—

_
9
A 4 ....!
Week Last 1
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. E 4
O to
U .9
--- -
X £
Mar. 9 Aberdeen .... •• ---.. . .
10 Amiens and Boulo;:,,ne .••.. • • • • ...... 1,253 1,309
9 Belfast and Ballymena ••.• . •
10 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 791 710
10 Bolton, Bi ackburn, Clltheroe, and W. Y. 441 381
10 Bristol and Exeter • • ••• • 3,450 -
3 Caledonian..... 4,489
10 Chester and ..............1,350• • 1,350 1,035
7 Dublin and Dr0gheda............76 687
12 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••• • • • •• • • 610 596
9 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen.. •• • ... 1,028 1,003
10 East Anglian.... ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 728 709
9 Edinburgh and Glasgow .•..••• • • • • • 3,052 3,291
9 Edinburgh and Perth
10 Eastern Counties and North Eastern.. 14,553 13,213
10 East Lancashire ... .
10 Eastern Union.. ••••.• • • • • .......... 1,833 1,203
9 Glasgow, Kilinarnock, and Ayr ...... 2,899 2,551
9 Glasgow and Green0ck......... - „ 982 1,015
3 Great Northern and E. L........... 2,764 1,600
9 Great Southern and Western ........ 3,959 3,136
10 Great Western, &c...........- _ _ 17,340 17,926
_l3O LLL steatenidecsaassanitlledrr e
Taalhlndidr
scYkaorr.,ksis.
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..
.. .. .. •..
.. .... .. .. .. .. 11,923 1i ,27,730
3,382 11
-
10 Liverpool, Crosby, and Southport- - 121 7
-12 G
1 9 Londonderry and Enniskillen .• ••• • ••
1010
r,LondonLondon
andlld Emoaretv,i Western,l
. . .
.. . B.s. . c.... .• .. :.. 470:656506524 378:421311031
9 London and Brighton .•••••• •• •• - - 8,303 8,230
10 London and South Western. •••• •
1100 Nmiladnicahneds,tßerr,isSthoeifil,
aneldd,
j3anirdnititnamlns.hir:
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10 Midland Great Western (Irls )•••• .• 2510:;903290094 2301,:011865651
829 769
9 Monklands •• ••••••• • • • • •• ••• .... ••••••••
••
10
Paris
• ..
53;413945
52:5;917
9 Rouen'
10 Soo tt 1 sai nn
Cd British
de
.. 6.1
•.: .... .... •••• •:.
• •... .... ••••
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•••
••• •••
••• •••
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... ... 1 E 2 '8: .7869
109 SSlu•e°etwtiss libuMryidalanudlChes• t•er ........... . ... 1,248077 1-,-238
10 Shropshire Union ..
9 South Eastern and Branches .• • • •... 5,`.18 f,783
3 South Devon •••• • . - ........• • ..... 1,550 1,582
9 Taff Vale •••••.•• .• .• • • • ........... 1,792 1,812
809 713
- Waterford and Limerick....... - 256
- Whitehaven Junction .• •••••• • •• • • - - -
10 York and Newcastle .•• • •
10 York and North Midland . .... • •

ENTRANCE TO ST. JAMES'S-PARY.—A very trifling
change might be advantageously made in the entrance to St.
James's-park--that is, to cut off about sixty feet of the
garden of St. James's Palace, which is elongated beyond the
building, and to carry the roadway straight from Pall- mall
into the park. St. James's-park cannot be said to have any
very convenient or ornamental entrance from the metropolis,
the low contracted arches of the Horse Guards being both
mean and obstructive. The way through the stableyard
and Cleveland-row is also the reverse of spacious or beau-
tiful; while cutting away this small slice of the garden
Would afford to the sovereign and the Court, a broad, airy,

lz
and unobstr ed c munication between the most (desalt
street of the capital (Pall-mall) and the palatial abode o
royalty. At present this tortuous way, occasioned by this
small spot of enclosed garden, is scarcely frequented; grass
grows between its uneven pavement; and a large dust-bin,
with its cavernous mouth fully expanded, betrays accumu-
lated filth, cinders, cabbage stalks, and broken garden pots.
Such is the most open and spacious entrance to St.James'a-
park.— The Builder.
HOSPITAL FOR CONSUMPTION, BROMPTON.—The
plans and specifications for the final completion of this
national charity are now under consideration ; and it was
decided by the meeting of the board of management, over
which the lion. Octavius Duncombe, 11. P., presided, that
the eastern wing shall be proceeded with as speedily as
possible.
WESLEYAN REFORM. —A numerously attended
meeting of the friends and supporters of Wesleyan reform
took place on Thursday evening at Exeter-hall, Mr. William
Gandy, of Spitalfields, in the chai
meeting Several of the delegates
who had attended the aggregate.were present, and
took part in the proceedings of the
nef.s-g.
obtaining he subjecta
for discussion were the proprietyafreater
iefusion of lay influence amongst the conneaoa
com-
mittees; the abrogation of the declaratory rule of 1n835
the restoration of the expelled ministers, Messrs. Everett,
Dunn, and Griffiths, to their former position as ministers in
the Wesleyan Society. After a lengthened discussion uponim
the above subjects, resolutions to carry them out were passed,
and the meeting separated after a vote of thanks to the
chairman.
REMARKABLE ESCAPE.—On Sunday afternoon
three lads, named Ray, Leslie, and Wishart, all apprentice
seamen, left Aberdeen harbour in a pilot boat on a pleasure
sail. A storm arising towards night, after holding out to
sea,they made for the harbour, but seeing another boat all but
swamped in getting in, they desisted, and again went out to
sea, the boat being driven by the wind towards the north.
In the course of Monday they found themselves' near the
Moray Firth, the situation of which was known to one of
the young men. They had laid themselves down in the
bottom of the boat, but the wind veering round and also
moderating, on Monday afternoon they set sail, and again
lying down, exhausted by cold and hunger, were driven
southwards as far as the mouth of the Tay, the lights there
being discernible on Tuesday morning. They constructed
of iron bars in the boat a rude anchor, which they threw
overboard, but after dragging 13 fathoms of rope it did not
reach the ground. They then laid down in despair, the boat
being nearly filled with water, and they were again drifted
to sea by the current. On Tuesday, about midday, a breeze
to landwards sprung
.up, encouraged by which they set the
sail and were drifted to land, and jumped ashore among the
rocks opposite Catterline, exactly 48 hours after leaving
Aberdeen harbour. During this time they tasted no food
and -suffered nineh Irons cold. They. ware, however, kindly
treated by a gentleman in the nighbourhocd of their land-
ing place, by whose generous offices they were recovered,
and travelled home on Wednesday.—Aberdeen Journal.
SCOTCH REPRESENTATIVE PEERS.—The Earl of
Airlie and. Lord Blantyre were elected on Wednesday repre-
sentative peers for Scotland, in the room of the late Earl of
Airlie and Lord Colville of Culross.
PORT WINE.—The attention of the wine trade is
being directed to the heavy duty charged by the Portuguese
Government on wine shipped direct from Oporto to Great
Britain, and it is understood that steps are to be taken to re-
monstrate, through Lord Palmerston, against its continu-
ance. The impost amounts to about 6t. per pipe; and as the
quantity exported to this country is on an average 22,000
pipes per annum, it appears that we pay 132,000/. more for
our port wine than we should do if we were put on the
same terms as other countries—a mere nominal duty being
charged on the same wines if shipped to America. In con-
sequence of this unequal charge we have lately received one
or two cargoes of port wine from Oporto via New Bruns-
wick, by which a saving of 3/. per pipe is effected after twic e
crossing the Atlantic. This anomaly has been preserved
for many years to the great injury of the trade and consumer.
The open sky sits upon our senses like a sapphire
crown: the air is our robe of state, the earth is our
throne, and the sea a mighty minstrel playing More it.
—Eliza Cook's Journal.
ADVENTURES OF A STRAY SHIP.-0a the 9th of
January the Talbot steamer, plying between Bristol and
Carmarthen, when off the Sker-point, ran foul of L'Hiron-
delle, a French vessel, laden with a valuable cargo of oil.
The vessel was left in a sinking state, as then supposed, and
the Talbot having received the crew on board proceeded on
her voyage. From the 9th to the 30th ult. no trace of the
missing vessel was obtained, but on that day intelligence was
received at Lloyd's that she had been seen between the Small's
and the Bishop's-rocks. Ultimately this fugitive of the
ocean was found high and dry on Towyn-sands, in Merio-
nethshire. Her masts and sails were gone, but the hull was
little damaged; 64 hogsheads and pipes of oil were landed,
and eight more partially damaged. It would thus appear
that this vessel alone, unguided, undirected, drifted about,
for at least thirty days, a distance from 150 to 200 miles.
FISHING Fon RATS.—A new branch of industry
has sprung up in Newcastle. Juvenile disciples of Isaak
Walton—the shade of the old angler frowns upon us while
we write—may be seen in the streets, patiently reposing by
the side of a grate, with a line and baited hook in the sewer,
to catch rats. Their prey are sold to the jackals of the rat
hunters, men who keep hundreds of rats in store, and sell
them to sportsmen.—Gateshead Observer.
A NEW SUBSTITUTE FOR GUNPOWDER.—A Mr.
Napier, of Swansea, has announced to the Scientific Institution
of that town that he has discovered a new expl sive sub-
stance, which he designates " white powder," having ten
times the force of common gunpowder. It is composed of
the following ingredients :—One part yellow prussiate of pot-
ash, well dried ; one part sugar, well (hied ; two parts chlo-
ride of potash. These materials are finely ground separately,
and then intimately mixed.
Mr. Watkinson, the proprietor of the Boston Free
Press, was found guilty at Lincoln, on Wednesday, before
Lord Campbell, of having published a libel on the Rev. D.
Moore, the chairman of the Spalding Sessions. The sentence
will not be pronounced until Easter Term, in the Court of
Queen's Bench.
At Stafford a young man, named Daw, recovered
201. damages for false imprisonment, from an accountant
named Hay, residing at Wolverhampton. Daw, who was
well known to the defendant, was found by the latter in his
stable courting the cook, whereupon he was given into cus-
tody by Ray, charged with being found on the premises with
intent to commit a felony. The magistrate before whom the
plaintiff was brought dismissed the charge.
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has
refused to grant an extension of letters patent for certain im-
provements in combing wool and other fibrous substances.
William Escott, for forging a bill of exchange for
201., was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment by Mr.
Sergeant Murphy, at York, on Thursday.
At Aylesbury, on Thursday, the Lord Chief Baron
ordered sentence of death to be recorded against George
Arnold, for feloniously shooting at William Nixon. The
prisoner, who presented the appearance of a respectable
tradesman was reported to have made several attempts on his
own life of late. During the period of his imprisonment he has
daily committed to paper his "reflections," interspersed with
poetical effusions, and written in beautiful characters, and
remarkable for the accuracy of the language in which they
are couched. After the sentence had been passed on the
prisoner this book was handed up to the Learned Judge, who
was understood to express it to be his intention to submit it
to the Secretary of State.
Mr. Justice Wightman yesterday, at Bedford, sen-
tenced William Mitchell to fifteen years' transportation, for
having set fire to three stacks of wheat.
An Italian organ-grinder, named Francis Piedestro,
was committed by Mr. Burnell,for two months, for a savage
assault on a policeman who endeavoured to removn him from
Walter-crescent, where he was grinding his organ, for the
avowed purpose of annoying a gentleman who had refused to
give him 6d. to move on. The fellow blubbered like a child
when he was led off to prison.
Two respectably-dressed persons, named Charles
Pound and William Langford Jenkins, were yesterday
charged before Mr, Arnold, at Worship-street, with having
obtained, under false and fraudulent representations, the
sum of 8001., in cash and bills of exchange,frorn Mr. William
Newman, a colour-manufacturer, in Great Chart-street,
Hoxton. Mr. Vann, who appeared for the prosecution, in-
timated that at the next examination he should be able to
clearly establish the false pretence upon which the money
had been advanced. Mr. Arnold ordered the defendants to
be remanded for a week, but consented to accept bail for their
future appearance, which he fixed at an amount, themselves
and their sureties, of 6,0001.
Tun ARMY.—Major-General Sutherland, Henry
Rainey, C. 8., and the lion. Charles Gore, C. 8., have been
placed upon the list of general officers, receiving the unat-
tached pay of 255. per diem.
IMPORTANT TO LICENSED VICTUALLERS.—At the
last Woburn Petty Session the landlord of the White Bear
was charged with allowing card-playing in his house, con-
trary to the tenor of his licence. Mr. Brickwood, solicitor,
of Luton, who appeared for the defendant, contended that a
police officer merely seeing two persons sitting with cards in
their hands was no proof that a game had been played, and
that if charges of such a nature were entertained by the
bench no publican would be safe, for any two men might go
into apublic-house, and pull out a pack of cards, and thus
render the landlord liable to be proceeded against. The
magistrates, entertaining this view of the matter, dismissed
the case.
ST. Lunn, CHELSEA.---THE LONDON (WATFORD)
SPRING WATER COMPANY.—A numerous and highly re-
spectable meeting of the parishioners took place on Thursday
night at the Commercial-hall in the King's-road, Mr.
Churchwarden Fielder in the chair, when a deputation from
the above company, including Mr. Patch, of Bridge-street,
Parliament-street, the active agent, and Mr. Homersham, of
the Adelphi, the engineer of the company, explained the ob-
jects of the proposed undertaking, which was to afford the
inhabitants of the north-western portion of
n ruLtondlon,no
now
most iiisufficiently supplied with what has b
deno-
minated the life blood of a city," abundant supply of
pure spring water.
t com pany was projected for
the purpose of obtainla'ihgeep-ra.eseterifb means'. of shafts from the
neighbourhood of Watford, which
chalk formation in the
water It was proposed to be lifted into reservoirs on Stan •
more-common (to respectiveitih,eh_w heights of 400 and 450 feet
high-water mark at London-bridge), and
above the Trinity
brought to Loncesn aind the suburban districts in capacious
he Edgeware-road. A series of resolutions to
phipeee t
pipes along
the present supply cf.w ater to the metropolis
twas impure and unwholesome in quality, insufficient in quan-
tity, inconvenient in its distribution, and exorbitant in its
cost were carried, but not without an opposition on the part
of some gentlemen connected with the existing monopol
the water companies—which, however, signally failed, and
the meeting, after pledging itself to support the proposed
scheme, adopted a petition to Parliament, praying for the
intervention of the Legislature.
CUSTOMS.—Mr. H. Richmond, one of the members
of the Beard of Customs, has retired, after a length of public
service, extending, we believe, to considerably more than
half a century. It is understood to be the intention of the
Government not to fill the vacancy caused by the retirement
of this officer.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]—DecIaration of a soldier wbo
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444, Strand., London.
COMMITTEE OF COUNCIL ON EDUCATION.—By a re-
oturrgnrjaunsttspnrleasdeentteod
schools
ools Parliament,
poonC by her Majesty's command,
conditions not involving the
acceptance of management clauses, it appears that 444
schools have received grants of that description to the amount
of 10,6 11. Os. nd., already paid, and 1 ,228/., conditionally,
due. The return does not include the numerous class of
schools which have obtained grants to enlarge and furnish
them with fixtures, being already held in trust for educational
purposes at the time of applying to the Committee o Council
on Education.