The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

E VEN I NG, MAY 27, 1850.

STATE OF TRADE.
NOTTINGHAM.—Hosiery The American orders
are keeping us employed to a certain extent, but we
have not such an amount of business doing to Lon-
don, Manchester, and to other populous places, as we
generally have at this season. Merino yarns are being
used to a great extent for the autumn and winter
trade; but cotton yarns are in very small request,
although it is thought a greater price will shortly be
demanded. Lace—Whether it being holiday week,
or to what cause to attribute it we know not, but this
has been the flattest week we have bad since Christ-
mas ; and this, too, at- a period when we might ordi
narily look for the greatest amount of sales. Perhaps
the weather has materially hindered or postponed the
spring trade. However, it is, on the whole, anything
but promising, unless we btain a better home de-
mand and a greater extent of European Continental
orders.—Nottingham Journal.
LEICESTER.—We have no alteration to report since
our last in the state of trade • it being holiday week,
but little has been doing in the warehouses.—Leicester
Journal.

BRADFORD.—WooIs—There has been more inquiry
for all kinds of combing wools during the week, and
the spinners are more willing to buy in quantity than
they were some weeks past; but there is no disposi-
tion to sell at less prices. Noils and shorts are in fair
demand at late prices. Yarns—The demand for yarns
is not lessened for any market, but the addition of the
shippers bas given it a tone of firmness ; large orders
are now given, contracts fur distant delivery entered
into, and prices very firm. Pieces—The business
doing by the home-trade houses is now very large,
and as the period of dulness usual between the sea-
sons has passed over with so small an accumulation of
stock, it gives us a pretty correct indication that the
production is not exceeding the wants of the trade,
and that a general active business may be looked fur,
and correspondingly increased prices, during the
autumn.—Bradford Observer.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.
GREAT WESTERN.
A meeting of the superintendents and other per-
sons employed on this line was held at Swindon on
Wednesday, to make arrangements for presenting 11 tes-
timonial of their respect and esteem to Mr. Seymour
Clarke, the chief superintendent of this railway, on
his retirement from the
.service of the company, in
consequence of the late proposed reduction of salaries.
He has been appointed general. manager of the Great
Northern Railway, at a higher Wary.
The proprietors of this company have just received
from the directors their proposals relative to and the
conditions upon which they intend issuing the fixed
41 per cent. stock of the company. There is to be a
deposit of 10 per cent. upon the amount of stock, to
be paid within 21 days from the date of acceptance or
allotment thereof. Future instalments to be paid at
the respective dates fixed, subject to a power re-
served to the directors for the time being to postpone
any one or more instalments by giving one month's
previous notice, if the money should not at the time
be required for the purposes of the company, namely,
101. percent. in October, 1850; same amount in Ja-
nuary, May, August, and Nov., 1851; 201. per cent. in
Jan., 1852 ; 101. per cent. in April, and 101. per cent. in
July, 1852. Any proprietor may pay up the full
amount of his stock at once, or may anticipate by
agreement the specified instalments. The fixed in-
terest of 41- per cent. will be computed from the dates
of payment up to the 30th of June and 31st of De-
cember in each year, and will be payable half-yearly
at the same time with the other dividends of the com -
pany. The conditions are accompanied by the written
opinions of Sir F. Kelly, Mr. J. H. Lloyd, and the
Hon. J. C. Talbot, that the company has power to
raise the stock, and that it will be perfectly legal
good stock.

YORK, NEWCASTLE AND BERWICK.
It appears from the report of the directors to be
submitted at the special meeting of proprietors, to be
held to-morrow, that the state of the share market
precludes any reasonable probability of raising the 17/
yet to be paid by the holders of the Great North of
England Purchase shares, unless privileges be granted
to that class of shareholders sufficient to insure the
payment of calls as they become due; and that it has
been urged upon the directors that the limited gua-
rantee adopted at the meeting on the 26th of March
last was not calculated to attain that object. For
these and other reasons which the directors urge in
their report, they have recommended the adoption of
a series of resolutions which they will submit to the
meeting, and which comprise the following provisions
The 81. already paid to take ordinary dividend after
the Ist of July next ; the call now made of 2/. per
share to be reduced to 1/. ; the following calls to be
made, viz., 1/. on the Ist of July, 1852; 1/. 10s. on
the Ist of January, 1853; 1/. 103. on the Ist January,
1854 ; and 3/. 13s. 4d. per share at such times be-
tween that date and the Ist of May, 1856, as the di.
rectors may think proper. These sums will make up
16/. 13s. 4d. with what is already called up. The
calls paid beyond the first 81. per share are to have
perpetually guaranteed interest at 4/. per cent., with
the option of relinquishing it and taking ordinary di-
vidend. There are other conditions to give power to
the shareholders, after paying 51. more in calls, to
divide their shares into a share of 81. bearing ordinary
interest, and a guaranteed share of 171., on which 51.
will then have been paid. A further payment of 21.
per share, by way of advance, to entitle the holder to
divide such 171. share into two shares of the nominal
value of 81. 13s. 4d. and Si. 6s. Bd. respectively, upon
which lait share the said sum of 2/. per share shall be
deemed to be paid, and separate certificates shall be
given. The directors to undertake to raise by loan,
if possible, one- third of the 25/. due on the preference
shares; but if such amount shall not have been bor-
rowed on the Ist of January, 1856, then it shall be
called up at such times and in such instalments as
they shall determine. There are some minor provi-
sions, one of which enables a holder of preference
shares to pay up in full, and to have them converted
into consolidated stock, retaining his guarantee. It
is expected that these terms will secure the raising of
the necessary funds for completing the purchase of
the Great. North of England Railwa

EASTERN UNION.
On Friday a special meeting of this company was
a held at Radley's Hotel to consider a Bill now before
sa, Parliament; Mr. J. C. Cobbold in the chair.
66' The CHAIRMAN said the object of the Bill was to
s3i extend the time for making the line to Harwich. Ap-
plication was made to the directors to know if the
Eastern Counties agreed to make the line, whether
the board would give up the powers. That company
les. having agreed to make it, he (the Chairman) and the
board of directors had assented, and a clause was
in-
serted in the Bill to enable them to do so. As many
of the creditors were pressing them, they proposed to
) convert the debenture debt into new shares, by which
means they would place the parties who chose to
take those shares in the same position as debenture
'34
creditors.

Mr. HUNT read the Bill, and upon the reading of
the 6th clause, which gave this company power, " with
the approbation of three-fifths of the•votes of the pro-
prietors present, either personally or by proxy, at any
general meeting of the company especially convened
for the purpose, to sell and transfer to the Eastern
Counties Railway the Eastern Union and Harwich
Railway and Pier,"e
A long discussion ensued, in which Mr. Lechmere,
the Chairman, and Mr. Cayley, M.P., took part, on
the subject oileasing the line to the Eastern Counties
Company.
On the motion for the approval of the Bill,

Mr. LECHMERE moved in amendment, to the effect
that the clauses which gave the company power to sell
the line to the Eastern Counties' Company and to
0' create new shares be omitted.
7i6 The amendment was put, and lost by a large ma-
jority.
After some discussion, the original motion was
agreed to, and the meeting separated.

RAILWAY. SHARE MARKETS.
BRISTOL, MAT 25.
STOCK EXCHANGB.—The market was both firm and Ani-
l., mated to-day. The transactions were as follow :—Bristol and
;,,74 Exeter, 64—Ditto. Thirds, 12 dis.—Great Western, Quarters,
.21 14—Ditto, New 17/. Shares, 7% dis.--London and North-
•d Western, 103 4.-Midland Stock, 33%.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 25.
STOCK EXCHANGE.--The share market was firm to-day
151 at the quotations. The transactions were as follow :—London
,3
and North-Western, 103 c.—Ditto, New Quarters, %
Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 9% dis.—Manchester,
. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 74—Midland, Halves,
• 27% that —North Union, Halves (No., 4), 61. 1 ls. 3d.
p.—South-Eastern and Dover, 13% c.
41.
6d MAN-CHESTER, MAY 25.
o
u oTOCK EXCHANE. —A fair amount of business has been
done tO-day, and pr are unaltered.
YORK; MAY 24.
• STOCK EXCIRANGE. —The transactions to-day were as tot,
:—North British, 71,4—York, Newcastle, and Berwick",v.
>gid 1314—Ditto (Newcastle Extension), 8%--York and North
Midland, Preference, VA.
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JBDER AND SUICIDE BY A MOTHER.—WAR.
WICK; SATURDAL—The greatest possible excitement has
prevailed throughout the neighbourhood of Great Lister-
street, during the past few days, in consequence of a married
womanhaving murdered one of her children and destroyed
i her own life. It appears that a female named Ann Sea-
% born, the wife of a mechanic, who resided in a cottage on
• • PritnroSe-hill, had recently suspected that her husband was
paying improper attention to a young woman with whom he
was acquainted. On Monday last her husband left home,
his three children, one an infant, remaining with their
mother in the cottage. Suspecting whither her husband
had gone, and stung by jealousy, she,. duri:ig his absence,
precipitated herself and infant into a well in the garden.
The two other children having witnessed this act, left quite
helpless'and alone, it being quite dark, knew not what to do.
,34 One of them, however, contrived to find its way to a house
near the canal side, where the father was, and having told
its melancholy tale, the father, accompanied by some corna
panions, immediately proceeded home, and after some delay
the two b()dies were extricated from the well, life being quite
extinct. The inquest was held on Wednesday, at the Ma-
zeppa Inn, Lord-street, when a verdict was returned " That
the mother destroyed her own life and that of the infant
whilst in estate of inanity..?

SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 25.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-ship
Ripon, Captain R. Moresby, arrived here this morn-
ing at seven o'clock, and landed mails from the fol-
lowing places and dates, in charge of Lieut. Tancock,
R.N., Admiralty agent.
Her dates of sailing are—Alexandria, May. 9 ;
Malta, 14 ; Gibraltar, 19.
The freight brought by the Ripon consisted of 15
packages of specie of the value of 15,0001., 182 bales
of silk, 10 bales of senna, 11 packages of elephants'
tusks, 10 bales of tobacco; also 1 hippopotamus, 2
horses, and 21 cases of animals, birds, snakes, lizards,
&c., &c.

The passengers by her amounted to the large num-
ber of 166, among whom are his Excellency General
Jung Bahadur Koonwur Ranajee, Ambassador Ex-
traordinary to the Queen, his two brothers, Colonels
Juggul and Dhur Shumsheer Jung, and suite, con•
sisting of 24, with Mr. M'Leod, his secretary and
interpreter, Captain Cavanagh, in political charge of
the mission. His Excellency has travelled from his
own country, Nepaul, of which he is Prime Minister
and Commander-in-Chief, to pay a visit and to make
some presents to her Majesty the Queen. It may be
remembered that this is the first visit her Majesty has
had from a 'Undo° of such high caste. Colonel
Lockwood, C. 8., her Majesty's 3d Dragoon Guards;
Sir E. and L-ily Gambier, Hon. C. Murray, Earl
and Countess of VVinchilses, &c.

Stations of her Majesty's Ships—Sir W. Parker's
fleet at Malta, the Dragon at Gibraltar, en route to
England, touching at Lisbon.
Ships observed on the Voyage—Exchanged colours
with the brig Helen, 100 miles east of Malta, on the
13th inst., steering E., at the back of the rock. Ex-
changed colours with a Norwegian ship, showing flag
with a T, and No. 34 under.

The Hon. C. Murray, C. 8., her Majesty's Consul-
General in Egypt, has brought home an interesting
collection of animals, birds, &c., from Egypt, for the
Zoological Society. The most curious and rare, how-
ever, is the hippopotamus. He is 10 months old, and
weighs about 5001 b.; is remarkably gentle, and so at-
tached to his keeper that he will not sleep out of his
presence, takes his bath frequently during the day,
and lives principally on milk, meal, &c. The collec-
tion of snakes are remarkably rare. There is a beau •
tiful lion, leopard, ibex, gazelle, pelicans, &c. An
Arab boy looks after the snake tribe, playing with
them in the same manner :as one would with a pet
lamb. The boy, on board, excites as much curiosity
as the snakes.

ARRIVAL OF THE MINISTER OF THE RAJA
OF NEPAUL.

SOUTHAMPTON, SUNHAT EVENING.--The arrival
of General Jung Behadur Koonwur Ranajee, Prime
Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the Nepaulese
territory, in the East Indies, by the Ripon steam-ship
yesterday morning, created an immense deal of in-
terest in the town ; and immediately the Ripon was
discovered steaming up the river, great numbers of
people, of all grades, flocked to the docks to welcome
the illustrious stranger. The general comes to England
on a mission from his Highness the Raja of Nepaul
to the Queen of England, and is the bearer of a com-
plimentary letter, and some articles of great value,
as presents to her Majesty. The General is ac-
companied by a suite composed of the following:—
Colonel Juggut Shumshere Koonwur Ranajee, and
Colonel Dbeer Shumshere Koonwur Ranajee, brothers
of the Minister; Captain Runmihr Singh Adhikaree,
Kbajee Kurbeer Khutree, Khajee Hemdul Singh
Thapa Lieutenant Kurbeer Khutree, Lieutenant
Lall Singh Khutree, Lieutenant Bheem Sen Rana,
a Nepaulese doctor ; two Soebss, one Soebadar, and
12 servants. Captain Engledue, R.N., the superin-
tendent of the Oriental' and Peninsular Company's
affairs at this port, was early in attendance, and went
on board immediately the steamer came alongside the
dock platform, to render his valuable assistance to the
august party in landing. The General having ex-
pressed a disinclination to sojourn at an hotel, Captain
Engledue at once, proffered the use of the elegant and
commodious suite of apartments over the offices of
the establishment of the Peninsular and Oriental
Company—an offer that was politely accepted, and
the party were immediately conducted to their tem-
porary abode. The appearance of the General, as he
walked from the vessel to the shore, was somewhat
imposing. He is a man of middle stature, thin, and
his countenance bears the imprint of intelligence.
He appears to be about 32 or 34 years of age, and
his dress is magnificent in the extreme. His tur-
ban appears to be completely studded with dia-
-1 monds and precious stones of almost every hue,
the emerald, of which there were several, of
immense size, being second in importance. It
is said this part alone of the General's dress cost
50,0001 ; but it would be idle to hazard an opinion
upon the correctness of the assertion. The whole of
the suite are Hindoos, and they are very particular
in their mode of living. They will eat nothing but
what is killed according to their own notions ; and a
large number of kids, to which they seem particularly
partial, had to be provided for them for the passage
from Alexandria. The fore cabins of the steamer
were given up exclusively for their accommodation.
Captain Engledue made every arrangement for
their comfort at the Oriental Company's establish-
ment, and having passed a portion of his time in
India, and consequently well acquainted with the
habits of this peculiar race cf people, he was the
better enabled to carry his arrangements out with the
fullest effect, for which he was warmly thanked.
The baggage of the General and suite was passed
without the usual examination, an order to that effect
by electric telegraph, having been forwarded to the
Customs' authorities at this port.
About half-past two o'clock this afternoon the
General and suite left the terminus of the South•
Western Railway in a special train for London, where
it is understood a commodious furnished house has
been taken for his accommodation.

The Ripon brings to England for the Zoological
Society the hippopotamus which has been waiting in
Cairo for the hot season, and a collection of animals
and birds, among which are an ibex from Mount Sinai,
a lion, a ghepard, two lynxes, an ichneumon, some
civet cats, and a variety of serpents, lizards, and de-
sert rats. 1 young giraffe was also to have formed
part of the collection, but it was unfortunately
drowned in the canal after reaching Alexandria. The
hippopotamus, being only ten months old, is compa-
ratively small, and lives exclusively on milk, its daily
consumption being about eighty pints, for the fur-
nishing of which several cows have been kept on
board. It is very tame and allows itself to be freely
handled by its Arab attendant, whom it follows and
answers to the name of " Ghebbayseh," an island on
the blue Nile, near the seventh cataract, between
Senaar and Fazoglu, where it was caught. It is a
male specimen, and Abbas ?ache, the Viceroy, has
issued orders to procure a female, which is expected
to arrive here after the rise of the Nile, in about
three months' time, and will also be sent to Eng-
land. Preparations for the conveyance of the
hippopotamus had been made at Southampton on
board the Ripon, with a convenient iron tank, holding
about 400 gallons of fresh water, which it will re-
quire to be renewed every other day, to bathe in.
This is the first hippopotamus that has ever been
brought to England alive. It is not so repulsive in
appearance as one is led to believe, nor is it so un-
sightly as the rhinoceros.

Mr. Mitchell, the secretary to the directors ,of the
Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, and a keeper, ar-
rived in Southampton a few days since,to take charge
of the animals. They were dispatched yesterday
afternoon, by special train, accompanied by the native
keepers also, and the " snake charmers," who were in
attendance upon the reptiles.
The presents from India to the, Queen, it is under-
stood, comprise several cases, containing jewels, shawls,
silks' and other valuable productions of the East, of
the value of 200,0001.
His Excellency and suite (in all 24) proceeded to
London immediately on arrival at Southampton. He
was saluted at Malta, and whenever he met our,men-
of-war. He was generally liked by all the passengers
for his amiable disposition. When off Gibraltar he
exclaimed it was worth all the passage to see that one
place ; but on 'Arriving at the Southampton Docks
Railway he thought the scene which presented, itself
much more wonderful ; in fact, he was quite confused
at, beholding so much bustle.