The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-29 00:00:00

COURT -108BITIONALIBLE.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, with the King and Queen
of the Belgians, left this forenoon for Claremont, and are
expected to return to Buckingham Palace for dinner.
Lady Stanley held an assembly on Saturday evening at the
family mansion in St. James s-square. Her Ladyship has
invitations out for another assembly on the 11th of next
month.

Lady Brougham has caused cards to be issued for assem-
blies on the Ist, 15th, and 29th of the ensuing month.
The Bishop of Chichester proceeds to Brighton on Tuesday
next, to hold a confirmation at St. Peter's Church.
The Earl and Countess of Tankerville have taken a man-
sion in Lower Grosvenor-street (adjoining Earl Amherst's),
for the season.
msacozza,ANEwas.
The annual meeting of the Society for the Propagation of
the Gospel among the Jews was held on Friday evening, at
the Freemasons' Tavern, John Dean Paul, Esq., Treasurer of
the Society, in the chair, who stated that the subscriptions
during the past year amounted to 927/. lls. l ld., and the dis-
bursements to 634/. ss. 5d., thus leaving in his hands a
balance of 293/. 6s. 6d. The meeting was addressed by. the
Revs. J. Bennett, J. J. Freeman, Dr. Wilson-, J. -Morrison,
E. Horle, Owen Clarke, J. Crowther, G. Paul, Esq.; the Rev.'
R. Herschel' (one of the converted Jewish ministers), and'
Thomas Farmer. Several resolutions were pissed, and the
officers for the ensuing year appointed.
On the same evening, the London Society for Teaching the
Blind celebrated its first festival at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street. John Abel Smith, Esq., M.P., presided
on the occasion, and was supported on Tither hand by Lords
Arundel and Dudley Stuart. The company, though not a
very numerous one, was highly respectable, and the purpose
for which it was assembled was carried out by a most liberal
..subseription—amo3ntinA t bow... 700/. ana now. -
The neww lino Ln TCS9. trom Long-acre to Leicester-square,
which is to be continued to Piccadilly, has been thrown open
for the traffic of carts and carriages.
A new floating pier, similar in appearance to the one at
Lambeth Pal ice, was.opened on Friday at-Wandsworth ; it
is called the Waterman's Pier, and has been erected by some
Wandsworth lightermen and watermen, with the hopes of
inducing other boats to run between Putney and London, be-
sides those already engaged in the trade.

SUICIDE OF A CHELSEA PENSIONER,--On Friday
Mr. Higgs held an inquest at the Compasses, Upper Ebury- ,
street, Pimlico, on the body of Edward Harrell, aged sixty-
live, a pensioner belonging to Chelsea Hospital. Charles
Thompson said that the deceased with his wife lodged at
No. 51, Upper Ebury-street. At five o'clock yesterday
(Friday) morning, witness was called from his bed by one
of the lodgers, and told that deceased had made an attempt
upon his hfe. Witness immediately arose; and upon going
into the kitchen saw him lving upon the floor,-and bleeding
from a large wound in the throat. Deceased was first
missed by his wife, who went to the kitchen_in search of
him, and found the door shut. Upon pushing against it
the deceased fell, and it appeared as if he had endeavoured
to hang himself by a cord at the top when his wife inter-
rupted him. Being frustrated in his -attempt to hang him•
self, he got his razor and inflicted a large gash upon his
throat. Witness had never observed anythingan him which
indicated insanity. His pension of one shilling and three-
pence per day, and a trifle his wife earned by washing, was
all they had to live upon, and deceased being about to reside
in Chelsea Hospital, he went to St. George's workhouse to
ask them to make provision for his wife. They refused sin-
less he also would enter the workhouse. Mr. Hankley,
surgeon, said that he attended the deceased, and found him
dead from the effects of the incision in the throat—Verdict,
"Temporary insanity."
A LEARNED FRENCH JOURNALIST.—A writer in
the Constitutionnel, one of the leading journals in Paris, states
that the Childe Harold of Lord Byron was an ancient Saxon
king! Another paper states that Gloucester is a large manu-
facturing city in Scotland I A third avows that no English-
man, Irishman, or Scotchman, can open a shop, or sell con-
fectionery or lueifer matches, without the authority of the
Parliament or the Queen !
THE CONVICT LOWTHER.—We stated in part of
our impression last week, that the extreme sentence of the
law was to be. executed on Lowther on Saturday last, for
shooting the Marquis of Normanby's gamekeeper. We are
glad to state, however, that shortly before the time appointed
for the execution, a second respite was received. The crimi-
nal will, therefore, in all probability, now be transported for
life.—Leeds Mercury.
The great match at draughts for 651. a side be
tween Mr James Wylie, " the Herd-Laddie,"- and Mr. An-
derson, of Braidwood, commences on the
-second Tuesday in
June. •
TNE SHARSPEARE SOCIETY. —The - Marquis of
Conyngham presided on Friday at the third annual meeting
of the Shakspeare Society, which was held in the rooms of
the Royal Society of Literature, St. Martinr.s-lane. There
was an unusually full attendance of members on the occasion,
and the proceedings went off with more than wonted enthu•
Siam, owing to the satisfactory report presented of the past,
and the great promise-held forth of satisfactory and useful
_labours in future. The Secretary stated that six, octavo
works had been printed and distributed during the, past s ear;
and that threcwere printed for the present, beside numerous
volumes just ready, in various stages of preparation. The
expenditure during 1843 was 664/., for printing and binding
the Society's publications, &c.; and-_ therecelpti were 893/.,
thus leaving a balance in the Treasurer's hauds of 229/., in
addition to arrears due front members of the three passed
years of 2251.;- beyond 417/. from members of the present
year. Thanks having been voted te- the- Director, Council,
the Noble Chairman, and officers of the Society, and various
routine business concluded, the meeting separated. •
MILITARY INTELLIGENCE.—CHATHAM, Arm 26.
—The following garrison order has- this day been promulgated
by order of Colonel Sir Thomas Wiltshire, Bart., K.C.8., di-
recting the officer commanding the 58th Regiment to select
2 captains, 3 subalterns' 1 surgeon, 5 corporals, 5 sergeants,
and 140 rank and file of that corps to hold themselves in
readiness fur immediate embarkation by the Pestonjee
Bomanjee transport for New South Wales. Colonel Thomas
Weare, K.H., of the Provisional, has alio received orders to
hold in readiness all the available men belonging to the corps
now serving in the colony of Australia for embarkation in the
above ship, which is about 1,000 tons burden. The regiinents
at present serving are the 51st, 80th, 96th, and 99th. The
troops are expected to leave here next week. -
RAISING A SUNKEN BARGE--LOAD OF STONES.—
About twelvemonths ago a barge, belonging to Mr. Free-
man, at Millbank, laden with about forty tons of stone, was
sunk off Greenwich Point. Some persons Undertook to get
the stone and barge up, but failed in their attempt. The
City authorities, being acquainted with the nuisance, em-
ployed four experienced under-watermen to remove it, and
they have succeeded in getting up 53 blocks of stone, and
likewise cleared the remainder of the barge away.
HORRIBLE DEATII.—On Friday an inquest was
held at the Lye, on Jeremiah Morris, who came by his death
in the most extraordinary manner. -The-deceased had visited
the works of Mr. Evison, chain-manufacturer at the Lye, on
Wednesday, for the purpose of seeing the men. An appa-
ratus connected with the fire is used for the purpose of pre
venting the immediate heat in contact with part of the work
from destroying the iron of which it is composed, a portion
of cold water being conducted through a pipe to an aperture
surrounding the part, which becoming warm from the office
it has to perform, is returned through another pipe in a
steaming hot state. The return pipe, from constant use, is
frequertly obstructed, and it is a custom with the workmen
to blow down it to clear it. On the present occasion, the de-
ceased coming.into the shop essayed to clear an obstruction
which had taken place in the pipe, after-others had failed in
the attempt, and, having, blown forcibly down the pipe, in
' drawing his breath for another and more powerful attempt,
drew from the pipe the next inspiration, which, creating -a
' vacuum betwixt his mouth and the obstruction, the sub
-
• stance, whatever it might' 'have been, assisted as it was by
i the power of steam behind, rushed upwards towards his
. mouth, and deluged him with steam and scalding water. The
unforttinato wiz died in great agony.— Wolverhampton Chron.

MONEY AND GO z,iIVIERCIAL NEW -
:From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
A moderate business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yes-
terday at previous rates, sales 3,500 bales. Shares were better
on the whole. Chester and Holyheat, ; Dublin and
Cashel, 5; Great Western, 1131 ; Birmingham Thirds, 39;
Brighton, 4.3 i; South-Western, 84; Manchester and Bir-
mingham, 56 ; Midland Counties, 89 ; Manchester and
Leeds, Half, 474 ; Paris and Orleans, 37i ; Paris and Rouen, 37i.
The return of the Note Circulation by, and the amount of
Bullion, &c., in, the Bank of England is from Jan. 27, to April
20, and the weekly average gives the following results coin-
pared with the previous statements to March 23 ;
Circulation, Now £21,427,000
Last time

Increase ......

305,000
Deposits, last time 13,972,000
Now

Decrease
Securities, Last time 22,479,000
Now

Decrease ......

329,000
Bullion; Now
Last time 15,784,000

Increase

231,000
Reit, Last time , 3,169 000
Now 3,123,000

Decrease

£46,000

There are no arrivals in the City to-day.
The Stock inarket is flat, with but little doing, although
there are a goad many parties about the Stock Exchange,
taking into account that this is Saturday. The recal of
Lord Ellenboroifgh, and the schism that has arisen
upon this subject between the Government and the
East India Directors, together with the anxiety respecting
the Budget, Are the causes of the existing heaviness. Consols
for transfer next week have been 995 to 3, and for Account
993 3. ExchExchequer Bills have supported the premium of 765.
and 775. The New Three and-a-Half per Cents. are 103 to
1023, the Reduced-102 to 3, and the Three per Cents. 983 to
99. Bank Stock is quiet'at 1961.
The Foreign Market is dull, and we cannot wonder at
Spanish looking flit, when we hear, by advices from Madrid,
that the contract for a • new loan has been actually signed.
The next difficult mater, however, is, to get the money.
The Three per Cents. have been 373 to 3 ; the Passive, 63 ,•
and the Deferred,ls to 3. Mexican have been heavy at 353
and Brazilian steady at 81. Belgian Bonds have realised
1044, Russian 1173, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
603 to 611.
The Share Market is buoyant for all the principal Rail-
ways, and in Great Western and South-Western there is a
slight advance.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 26.—We have
had a fair amount of business done to-day, without much
alteration in prices. The quotations are—Dublin and Cashel,
53 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 563 3 to 57 . Manchester
and:Lee4ls, Quarters. 91 ; Paris and Lyons, 3 ; South-Eastern,
36 ; Ditto New, 94; Trent Valley, 75 to 9 ; Preston and
.Wyre, 17 ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 54 ; Glasgow
and Ayr, 521 ; Paris and Strasburgh, 2/. 16s. 9d. ;, Man-
chester', Assurance, 104.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock ... ... ... ..... .. 196% Indian Stock pre.
1 per Cent. Red. 1,9 Ditto Bonds .. ........ . —pm •
3 per Cent. Cons. .. ..... .. 99X Ditto Old Annuities
3%,6 per Cent. Rei
New 3% per Cent 102% Ex. Bills, I,OOW. 1 lid... 75 pm.
New 5 per Cent...„ — \ Ditto 5001
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 77 pm.
Jan. 1860 l, 7.10 MBank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1839 ,Consols for Acct. 99%
. _

Jan. 1860 lndia Stock for Acct....
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per Cent ... ...... ,Portuguese, 5 per Cent —
Belgian, 5 per Cent. .... ....... 1044' Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds Bl Prussian, 5 per Cent
fauenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Russian, 5 per Cent 117%
Chllian, 6 per Cent — 'Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per Cent ...... .Bpanish, 5 per Cent 2534
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, 4 per Cent 36%
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent...... 93 :Ditto, Deferre •
D .nish, 3 per Cent
areet, 18 5, 5 per Cent — Exchange
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 — Dutch, 234 per Cent...—. 61%
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent — Ditto, 5 per Cent lOO%

SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) 61%
Ditto Halt' Shares (25 paid)
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid)» .......
Ditto Neii (17% daid)
Bristol and Exeter (-0 paid) ..
Caledonian. 5 p.iiii
Chester and Holyhead (, 'i paid)....... ........ .... ..... 6%
Dublin and Ca;hel (23 paid)
Eastern Counties (211taid)
Ditto Registered (816 s 8d paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) 66
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Pitths .il2 paid)............... ...... ...,, 2oli
Harwich (Braithwaite) (2 paid) ..........
Lancaster and Carlisle ( 5 paid).....
London and Birmingham (Stock) ' 229%
Ditto Quarter Shares (2 paid) 27%
London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d:) rs4
Lonion and Brighton (5n paid)
Londoa and Greenwich (IVt. Is. 4d. paid)
i ntto, Preference or Privili•ge (131. 17s. 2d. pd) 16%
Londoss and South Western ( 211. 6s. 10d. paid)
- Ditto Eighths (Iss. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk)
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid
Ditto Half Shares (30 paid)
Manchester : nd Riming:lam 57
Newcastle and Darlington Junction (18 paid)
North Midland (100 paid)
Ditto H it Shires (4i) paid)
Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (33 12s 44 paid)
Ditto 'Jew Shares ( 4 pad)
York and Scarborough Branch (.4. paid)
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
:,4Z
Paris and Rouen (20 paid)
Rouen and Havre ( s paid) ........ ................

FLANDERS AND DUTCH MAILS.
BRUSSELS, APRIL 25.—The average price of wheat
lad week was 17f. 62c., and that of rye 101. 30c.
The import duties, therefore, remain at 37f. 50,. rer
lick:6olitre on wheat, and at 211. 500. on rye; and the
export duty at 23 centimes per 1,000 kilogrammes
on both wheat and rye. . . .

The Chamber of Representatives, in' its sitting yes-
terday, heard the continuation of the report of the
Minister of Foreign Affairs, on the commercial rela-
tions of the country. The communication turned
chiefly on the remonstrances of Holland against the
proposed system. Several motions were made, but
no resolution has yet been taken, even with regard to
the opening of the discussion. It is hoped that, at
the desire of several Members, and the promise of the
Minister of the Interior, the Government will have
further communication to make.
To-day the Chamber, in Secret Committee, heard
the further continuation of the report of the Minister
of Foreign Affairs.
APRIL 26.—The Secret Committee to-day was;
distinguished by a speech of the Minister of the
Interior, which took up the whole sitting, from nine
till four o'clock. We hear; that the entire political)
and commercial system of the Government, especially
with regard to what is desirable for the future, hi
stated with great precision. The whole speech was;
delivered extempore, but the short-hand writers o f
the 2lfoniteur took it down, and the Chamber resolved
that it should be published, if the remainder of the dis-
cussion does not take place in Secret Committee.
The Minister presented the accounts of the ex=
ports, which amount, in manufactured goods, to
seventy millions (in 1842 they were only sixty-seven)..
Of these seventy millions, twenty-one go to France,
eighteen to Holland, six and a half to Prusssia, two
to England—in all about fifty millions. The re-
mainder is distributed all over the world. Four
and a half millions only go to the countries beyond
the Atlantic. The Minister thinks that if these facts
could be reversed, our position would be more fa-
vourable. There is a risk of our losing more than we
gain in our four principal markets. The Minister then
entered into very detailed considerations of the com-
mercial policy of England, France, Holland, and
Germany. The sitting, on the whole, was highly in-
teresting.--Bruseels Paper, April 26.
THE HELDER, APRIL 21.—His Majesty's frigate
Jason arrived to-day in the Texel, and will go in
the course of this week to Flushing, there to join the
Rhine frigate, under the command of his Royal High-
ness Prince Henry. These vessels are to proceed to
the Mediterranean.
AMSTERDAM, APRIL 24.—The Java journals from
29th November, to 9th December, 1843, have been
received. They contain long accounts -of desperate
encounters with Malay pirates. Several of their ves-
sels were taken and destroyed, and several prisoners
made. A considerable number of persons who had
been captured by the pirates were restored to liberty.
The Stoats Courant of the 25th April publishes a
Royal resolution, countersigned by the Minister of
Finance, relative to the deciding, by drawing, of the
10,000 bonds of. the Lorrenler of 1,000 florins each,
bearing interest at 5 per cent., which are to be re-
paid.