The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-16 00:00:00

MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
A small amount of business was done in Cotton at Liver-
pool yesterday, and at id. per lb. decline; sales, 2,500 bales.
There Was a dull market for Railway Shares.
Birmingham and Gloucester were 83i ; Chester
and Holyhead, ; Eastern Counties, 11/. 13s. 9d. ;
Grand Junction, Half, 119; Birmingham, Thirds,4li ; South
Western, Eights, q ; Manchester and Leeds, 115; North
Midland, Half, 45i ; Paris and Lyons, 21. 13s. ; Do. and
Orleans, 33i ; Do. and Rouen, 34i.
There was not any arrival from the Colonies this morning.
As respects the New Zealand Company, the meeting of the
Proprietors of which was held yesterday, very conflicting
opinions exist. But any attempt at coercion, come from what
quarter it may, and directed to any parties, is deemed to be
the worst policy that could be followed.
Not much business has been transacted in the Funds this
morning. Consols for the Account have been done at 98i ;
the same for Money. The New Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. were firm at 1021 ; Exchequer Bills are flat at 695.
to 71s. premium. India Stock has touched 2861, but is now
at 2851. Bank Stock is steady.
A slight reaction has taken place in Spanish Bonds this
morning, the statement of a disturbed feeling in Spain being
fully believed. The Five per Cents. have fallen to 244, the
Three per Cents. to 35, and the Passive to 6i. But a slight
variation has taken place in the other Foreign Securities.
The Share Market is flat to-day, and many of the minor
lines were lower in point of value.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
?qtwer ntp.eCrco&snolts..l.nnnnuniiNeses 98%16
102 %%
India Bonds,l,ooo
Ditto under 1,000 BS 86

Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account 9B %
India Stock
Exchequer Bills, I%d. 13{d.
1,0001.
5001.
.
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Columbian Bonds. 14% % 15
Mexican Bonds, 1937,5 per Cent ... 36 :i5%
Ditto for the Account 3534
Ditto Deferred Stock 14% %
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. —
• DittO for the Account 303
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted 46%
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent 1)8
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 25 24%
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds.
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account.
Dutch 23¢ per Cents 57%.
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 5 jeer Cents. . . .. 101%%%
PRICES OF SHIAEETHIr DAY AT 'ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE
Birmingham and Derby........... le9 .. — to
—" •

Ditto-Thirds
Dit, o Eighths
Bristol and Gloucester 3O 44% ....•• to
Chester and Holyhead 5 636 .. .. to
Eastern Counties
Ditto Perpetual 5 per eent l3s. 4d. ... 1
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 64
Ditto Registered
Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham 2% ...... 1V....
Great North of England lOO 9916 to
Great Western
Ditto 3% Shares
Harrowgate and KLaresboro' ... 3
Hull and Selby
Lancaster and Carlisle 5 74% ... to
London and Brighton 5O 44% to
London and South Western 41%
Ditto Eighths
London and Croydon (Trunk)... Am
Manchester and Leeds 'lo .........115334 to 115
Ditto 36 Shares 3O , 49%U ... to
North British 236
Norwich and Brandon
Northern and Eastern 45 57% to
Ditto Seep
Paris and Orleans ............. ....... . 20
Paris and Rouen 2O 34M to
South Eastern and Dover 5O 35y6 ...... to
York and North Midland ......... 50
Ditto Scarboro' Branch ..... .. 236
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, MARCH 14.
3 13er Cent. Consols 9BM
Three and a Half Stock ......
Ditto Reduced lOl,
Ditto New, 1530
335 per Cent. Debentures 94
Bank Stock 19535
Grand Canal Debs. 6 pet Cent 84%
LAST PRICES OF SHARES.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SNARL
Dublin and K. Road
Drogheda 55 63
Hibernian Bank
City of Dublin Steam Company lOO 98%
British and Irish Steam Company ... 50 ......
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 15 —There is
no alteration in the market to-day, and only a moderate
business done at the following quotations :—Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 64 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 4411; Sheffield
and Manchester, Quarters, 8 1-16; Lancaster and Carlisle,
7i ; Manchester Assurence, 10i.

TEMPLETON'S ENTERTAINMENT
Mr. Templeton concluded, on Wednesday evening last,
his first series of musical entertainments, at the Music
Hall, Store-street. Of the enthusiasm with which the
numerous audience greeted the efforts of this accom-
plished artist for their entertainment, our readers may
form some idea from the fact that during the course of
the evening there were no less than seven encores. The
entertainment on Wednesday consisted of selections from
his two popular entertainments, on the subjects of Mary
Queen of Scots and of Robert Burns. We were not
before aware that Templeton is himself the creator of
the spirit-stirring melody, " Put off, put off, and row
with speed," which has always been one of the most at-
tractive portions of his Mary Queen of Scots. It is im-
possible to do justice to the manner in which lie gave this
soul-stirring melody on Wednesday evening; and in King
James's song, " There was a jolly beggar," he repre-
sented the gallant Prince to perfection. The contrast be-
tween the artificial scenes of the Court and the naive sim-
plicity of the cottage, was beautifully exemplified by the
second part of the entertainment as compared with the
first. The second part consisted of the beauties of Burns,
and the " native wood-notes wild" of Scotia's greatest
poet were warbled by Templeton with a truth to nature
which has never been surpassed. How could Templeton
be otherwise than great on such a theme ? The son of
the poet's old schoolfellow—born and bred on that classic
ground which Burns has immortalized—

" Each simple air his mot 1; sung
Placed on her knee, when helpless youpg,
Still vibrates on his ear."
Ire perfectly electrified the audience by his " Scots
wha hae;" while the delicate and beautiful compliment
conveyed to the ladies, in " Green grow the rushes, oh! "
was never so completely brought out as it was by Tem-
pleton's treatment of this exquisite song. At the con
elusion of the performances, Mr. Templeton announced
that it was his intention, on Thursday, the 28th instant,
to produce, at the Hanover-square Rooms, a new musical
entertainment, entitled the " Lays of the Last of the
Scottish Minstrels, Sir Walter Scott."

THE OJIBBEWAY INDIANS AT THE THAMES TUN-
NEL—Yesterday (Friday) a curious display took place at the
Thames Tunnel, which afforded a striking instance of the meeting
of extremes—it was a procession of aboriginal men through a work
which attests the highest grade of civilisation—a group of savages
gazing with wonder on the latest triumph of engineering skill.
About noon an omnibus drove up to the entrance of the Tunnel,
laden with the Red men of the West, now sojourning for a time
amongst us—the Ojibbeway Indians. The appearance of feathered
heads, painted faces, bearskin garments, and mocasined legs, In
the classic locality of " Wapping Old Stairs," created a general
hubbub. Shops were deserted, tools and needles were thrown
down, and a general rush attested that curiosity was in no wise
wanting amongst the amphibious denizens of this aquatic neigh.
bourhood. From the statement of the gentleman who accompanied
them, Mr. C stlin, it appeared that these Canadian subjects of
Queen Victoria had long expressed a strong wish to see this effort
of the skill of the " pale faces "—a desire he was anxious to
satisfy. The Indians passed into the shaft, and looked
curiously over the balustrades of the winding stairs. They were
five in number, with two squaws and a child. Upon reaching
the level of the double archway, which forms a safe path across,
but beneath the river, their expressions of surprise were strikingly
characteristic—guttural ugh I ughs I attesting their satisfaction.
They evidently regarded it as more wonderful than many of the
more showy and glittering spectacles which their visit to the "old
country" has offered for their admiration. With stately tread they
marched through the arched avenue, the crowd pressing almost
rudely upon them. When half way through they halted at a stall,
where bright medallions, bearing the likeness of Mr. Brunel, were
offered for sale, when the owner, Mr. Griffin, liberally gave each
of these novel visitors specimens of the showy memorials. As the
old chief of the party looked at the portrait of the engineer, the
picture suggested the wide difference between man in the savage
and in the civilised states. When the party reached the Surrey
side, they proceeded a short way up the staircase, and one
of the " braves" having received a duplicate medal, took it into
his head to acknowledge the boisterous attention of the crowd below
by throwing down in the midst the superfluous memento. A
scramble ensued, which so much amused the whole party, that the
first Indian's example was followed by all ; and Mr. Griffin coming
forward with a copious supply of the shiny pieces of metal, a me.
tallic shower ensued, which emulated the one told of in Danae's
story. The humorous scene which then took place defies descrip-
tion. The scrambling among the dense crowd, some fifty or sixty
of whom were seen in every variety of attitede, from the tiptoe of
expectative position to the various phases of the tumble and somer.
set, the shouting and hurraing, with some attempts at imitation of
the cries of delight of the savages, formed altogether an animated
tableau, in which it would be difficult to distinguish who were most
delighted, the Indians, the crowd, or the more respectable portion
of the spectators, including the ladies, several of whom (not the
least pretty) pressed forward and shook hands very cordially with
the red-skins.

THE FREE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.—A large pub-
ic meeting was held last night at the Wesleyan Chapel, Long-
lane, Southwark, for the purpose of receiving the deputation from
the Free Church of Scotland, consisting of the Rev. Dr. Macke'.
lar, late Moderator of the General Assembly, the Rev. Dr.
Buchanan, and the Rev. A. K. Tweedie. Sir James Forrest,
Bart., late Lord Provost of Edinburgh, was to have presided ;
but owing to his sudden departure for Birmingham, where an im.
portant meeting is to be held, Mr. Alexander Thompson occupied
the chair. The Rev. Gentleman above-named addressed the meet.
ing. The Rev. Dr. Mackellar observed that it had been said they
had come to England as mendicants, and so they had, but not in
the ordinary or offensive sense. Since June last they had erected
500 churches in Scotland, and some hundreds more were required.
BOARD OF GUARDIANS, GREENWICH.—EDUCATION.
—On Thursday evening, at the weekly meeting of the Board
esarrdof
Guardians, Mr. Powle brought forward a motion, " That
bestth eduo:
lution of the 9d of August, ordering that twenty of the
cated boys about twelve years of age, should be employed in the
workshops, be rescinded, and that the regulations of the Poor.iaw
during
three requiring school instruction of the children,
three of the working days, weekly, be adopted, or that some other
equivalent arrangement be made in lists thereof." Several of the
guardians urged Mr. Powle to withdraw the motion. Mr. Powle
said, it was a subject of such importance that he could not consent
to do ro. All the guardians refused to support the motion. Mr.
Powle said, then, of course, the motion would drop for the present,
but he certainly would bring the matter before a full Board.
ANNOYANCE JURIES.—For the purpose of taking
into consideration the means of bringing about an alteration4in
the mode of carrying into effect the objects of the Act of Parlia-
ment relating to " weights and measures,'' a preliminary meeting
was held on Wednesday night at the Windsor Castle Tavern,
Long-acre, Mr. Marshall, grocer and tea-dealer, 20, Strand, in the
chair. He said that during the 25 years he had been in business
he had closely observed the prejudicial effects to trade produced
by the system adapted of inspecting weights and measures under
the Act of Parliament. He had experienced the inconvenience
and &lay occasioned to his business by the manner in which the
visits of this jury were conducted, and had been fined and held up
to public obloquy for having one 41b. weight out of the many
used by him in his daily trade, not more than one drachm short.
Mr. Knight, the secretary, and several other persons, addressed
the meeting, and urged the necessity of a speedy reformation in
the system adopted by the above jury, and it was at length deter.
mined on consulting their Members of Parliament on so important
a subject. For this purpose a deputation of 18 gentlemen was
then chosen ; and thanks having been voted to the Chairman, the
Meeting adjourned,