The Sun.
London, England, 1850-12-21 00:00:00

but over the destinies of France, not merely on the
favourite charger stabled in the outhouses of the Elybee,
but over also the storms of political commotion and
the whirlwinds yet agitating a Republic born of a
Revolution.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

TILE SHARE MARKETS.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The appointment ofthe:new Legitimatist Committee
has put both Bonapartists and Orleanists on the qui
vine. The Bonapartist Pouvoir has the following on
the subject :
" Gr eat rumour among the representatives of the fusion
—we mean the intrigue! A sort of manifesto of the
Count de Chambord, in the shape of a letter, addressed
to M. Berryer, is, it said, about to be published. M. de
Chambord desires, it appears, to efface as much as pos-
sible the impression unfavourable to his interests which
was caused by the circular of M. Barthiemy. We are
assured that M. de Chambord has joined to the public
part of his message confidential instructions, from which
the Legitimatista will derive their rule of conduct, not only
as regards general policy, but also with respect to cer-
tain particular questions. Among other things M. de
Chambord foresees the case in which the Ministry will
present a demand for a credit for the extraordinary ex-
penses for the Presidency, and he proscribes the absolute
rejection of it. But what is most curious is that, it ap-
pears, the present chief of the Right has not all the con-
fidence of the Court of Frohsdorf. The event of the
message being kept from over prudence has been fore-
sc en, and another Legitimatist notability, General de Saint
Priest, has received a copy of it as a precaution. Every-
thing, then, causes it to be presumed that the public will
be made acquainted with the document. For our own
part, we shall read it with satisfaction; we are anxious
to know what are the intentions of his Majesty Henry V.
with respect to his faithful subjects."
The Orleanists have determined to set up an Oppo-
sition Committee, of which Marshals SOULT and GE-
1111$,D, and MM. DUPIN, GUIZOT. and MONTALIVET,
and possibly M. THIERS, will be members. It is
considered probable that Count MOLE will give up
his project of forming a fusion club, as many leaders
of both parties have declared against a fusion, in
which case he would probably join the Orleanist
Committee ; the Count DE MONTALEMBEET and seve-
ral other leaders have left Count MOLE'S club. The
Legitimatist Union has the following on the nomina-
tion of the Legitimatist Committee :
" In respect to this subject, we repeat that our politi-
cal friends do not constitute either a directing commit-
tee or a ministry, and that the bonds of mutual esteem
and great conformity of principles alone form these
meetings, at which their line of conduct on particular
questions is deliberated upon, reserving to all a perfect
independence of judgment and action."
The Assembly was engaged in discussing a Bill
for regulating the Commerce of Algeria.
The following are the present items of the weekly
Bank account :
Specie in Paris 341,731,220
Ditto in branches ... ..• ... 117,094,367
Bills in Paris portfolio ... 58,065,612
Bill in branches
... 87,564,584
Bills lying unpaid in Paris ... 157,000
Bank notes in circulation ... 398,176,100
Ditto in departments ... ... 83,376,150
Credit to Treasury .. 83,568,048
Private credit accounts 74,403,370
Ditto in branches ...
..• ... 27,286,096
Gold has increased nearly three millions in Paris,
and upwards of a million in the departments. Notes
are less by 44 millions in Paris, and nearly one
million in the departments. The credit to the
Treasury is more by 101 millions. The Portfolio
shows some improvement.
There was a considerable amount of business
transacted at the Bourse, both in Government stock
and railroad shares, and a general rise took place.
The Five per Cents. opened at 95f. 25c., and rose
to 95f. 70c., at which price they closed. he Three
per Cents. closed at 57f. 90c.; Orleans Railroad
Shares, 8501. ; Rouen, 6621. 50c. ; Havre, 267 f. 50c. ;
Great Northern, 4781. 75c. ; Avignon, 1951. ; Vier-
zon, 4101. ; Basle, 1371. 50e. ; Bordeaux, 400 f.
Paris and Strasburg, 357 f. 50a.; Tours and Nantes
2471. 50c.

BRITISH RAILWAYS

Railways.

Paid. 1 Nominal Prices.

Business done
to-day.

Where is Mrs. SLOANE ? Our anticipations have
unfortunately proved but too well-founded. She has
absconded from her usual place of residence, and is
not forthcoming to abide the investigation into the
enormous outrage, or rather series of outrages, laid
to her charge. It would indeed have been miracu-
lous had she done sc—she could not hope to explain
away or rebut the damning evidences of her
guilt. They were but too plainly written in
the attenuated appearance and enfeebled con-
dition of her victim, " the most perfect living
skeleton" ever seen by Dr. MARSDEN. Every state-
ment put forward by the unfortunate girl, nay the
very objections made by the Counsel for -the male de-
fendant, tended to fix_the crime on her shoulders, to
render a conviction certain ; and yet, with that irre-
sistible testimony
.fully before him, with a perfect
knowledge of all the horrible and disgusting facts and
circumstances of the case, Alderman HIIMPHBILY
sends a summons (ll 0 to the chief delinquent
to spear before him. As well might a summons
have been served on Mrs. MANNING, when
she was discovered at Edinburgh, or a polite
intimation forwarded to Mr. RUSH that his attend-
ance before the magistrates was particularly re-
quested ! We really believe that there would have
been as great a probability of its being respected in
the latter cases as in the former. It is true that the
crimes were nominally greater, that more stringent
punishment awaited the murderers on conviction,
than could be assigned to Mrs. SLOANE, but we deny
that the moral guilt was greater than that of the cold-
blooded torturer of her fellow-creature, who practised
a refinement of cruelty on the friendless orphan such
as has never hitherto been brought to light. Mrs.
MANNING speedily destroyed her victim, but Mrs.
SLOANE continued her unceasing persecution for
many successive months, until the miserable child was
brought to death's door, until she was placed in the
most imminent peril—when, according to Dr.
MARSDEN, " she must have died but for the interfer-
ence of Mr. PHILLIMORE," for " she could
not have remained in that state many days
longer." Had it not been for the humane
and laudable conduct of that gentleman
the miseries of the unfortunate JANE WILERED would
have long since terminated, and her infamous mis-
tress might have had to expiate her offence upon the
scaffold. It was by mere accident that these results
were avoided, and yet, even when the poor girl was
by no means out of danger, when Alderman Huss-
PHERY apparently hesitated whether he would admit
the far less guilty defendant to bail, lie issued his
summons to Mrs. SLOANE to appear at the
adjourned inquiry, with almost the certainty that it
would be treated with the most contemptuous disre-
gard, that it would, in fact, be regarded as a friendly
warning to the delinquent to make her escape with
all convenient speed. Even when she disobeyed the
first summons, and her contumacy (to say nothing
of the horrible outrages that had been brought home
to her) would have justified any severity, the
worthy Alderman was satit.ficd with the ridiculous
excuse that " she had injured her leg by
slipping through an area railing ! and that she
could not leave her bed without great danger" I
There was no evidence to support that assertion, no'
even a medical certificate of her illness. The bar.

Aberdeen • • .. • • • • 2
Do. Preference •• g
Ambergate, Nottingham,
Boston, & E. Juncion
Ayrshire and Galloway.•
Belfast and County Down g.
Berke and Hants Eaten.
(Great Western Per-
petual 5 per cent.)
Birmingham and Oxford
Junction, calls duly
paid, or with a guar... 21
Do. without a gear.— 21
Birming., Wolverhamp-
ton, and Dudley, cans
duly paid, or with a,
guarantee .. jj
Do. without a guar. •• 1;
Birming., Wolverhamp.,
and Stour Valley ••13 1,
Birkenhead, Lances., and
Cheshire Junction .. 21
Bristol and Exeter.. • • 101
Buckinghamshire • • • • r
Caledonian • • •"• 51
DJ. 101. Preference • • 11
Do. Clydesdale June... 51
Chester and Holyhead 51
Do. Preference .. ••
Clarence .. • • •• 78 I
Do. Ist Class, 6 per ct. 11
Do. 2d de., 5 per cent. 11
Do. Gov. Loan,4 pr. ct. I/
Direct Lond. and Portsm.
Dublin and Belfast Juuct. 4;
Dundalk and Enniskillen 31
East Anglian (251. L. &
E. and L. & D.) • • • • 21
Do. (181. E. & IL) •• if
Do. (31. 10a) 6 per
cent. Preference ..
Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Pref. /
Do. (71.175.) 7 p. c.Pref.
Eastern Counties 21
Do. Exten., 5 percent.
No. 1 • • • • 6 11
Do. No. 2 .• • • • • Bi 2
Do. New Preference, 6
per cent. .. •11
Do. North. and East.
6 per cent. • • • • 51
Do. do. 5 per cent .. 51
Do. do., New • • • 4;
Eastern Union, class A,
late E. U. shares • • 2;
Do. do. do. .. •
Do. do., Iz & C shares 2;
Do. do., scrip, guaran.
6 per cent. • • 21
East Lancashire .. ..
Do. New quarters ..
Do. 6 per cent. pref.
quarter shares.. .•
East Lincolnshire, gua.
per cent • • • • • • 21
Edinburgh and Glasgow 51
Edin., Perth, and Dundee 2;
Do. Newport .. • • 1;
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch.
Exeter and Exmouth .• 1 ,
Glasgow and South-West, 51
Do. pref. consolidated _
Do. do. G. D. &C. stock 11 I
Gloucester & Dean Forest 11
Great Northern • • • • 2;
Do. halves, A, deferred 1!
Do. halves, B, 6 per ct. i!
Do. 5 per cent. pref. • • 1:
Great Southern and
Western, Ireland .• 51
Do. eighths
Great North of England . 104
Do. new 40/. .. .• 41
Do. new 30/. .. 21
Do. new 151. . .. j;
Great Western .. • • jIN
Do. New, 171. - • 11
Hull and Selby .. 51
Do. half shares • • • 2;
Do. quarter shares .. i!
Lancaster and Carlisle .. 51
Do. thirds • • • • •• 11 i;
Lancaster and Preston ..
Lancashire and Yorkshire 101
Do. quarter shares .. 21
Do. fifths .. • • • 1
Do. F. 201. .. .. • • I
Do. new, guaranteed 6
per cent. .. •• • 101
Do. Rudders. & Shed: 51
Do. West Riding Union
Leeds and Bradford
Leeds and Thirsk • • 51
Do. pref. 6 p et., No. 1
Do. pref. 6 p ct., No. 2 l'
Do. pref. 6 pct., No. 3 ,
Do. pref. qrs., 1848 .. 1,
Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport .. 1
London and Blackwell • • 11
London, Brighton, and
South Coast .. • • 101
Do. guarteed. 5 per ct.,
late Croydon thirds.. I
Do. preference, 5 p et. 51
Do. preference, cony. 5
per cent., 1852 .•
Do. new guaranteed, 6
per cent. .. • • .. 101
London and Greenwich . 12 11
Do. preference .. • • 21
London and N.-Western 101
Do. do. new quarters .
Do. fifths .. • • 1
Do. 101. sh., M. & B (c)
London and S.-Western .
Do. new 50/.
Do. new 401. ..
Do. new preference
Londonderry & Coleraine
Do. half shares ..
Lowestoft, guar. 4 per ct.
Do. do. 6 per cent. ..
Londonderry and Prints-
kluen. .. • • ••
Do. half shares • • ..
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock ..
Manchester, Sheffield, &
Lmcolnshire 1(
Do. quarters, No. 1 ..
Do. new, 101. preference I
Do. Manchester and
Lincoln Union •• 4
Midland • • • • lei
Do. consolidated pref.• • 10,
Do. 501. shares • 3,
Do. Bhming & Derby 10
Do. Consol. Bristol &
Birming., 6 per cent. 10
Do. Bristol & Glouces. 4
Do. do. do. 29 1
Do. Erewash Val. pref. 1
Do. Leic. & Swanning.
8 per cent. guar. • • 11
Midland Gt. West. (Ire.)
Middlesbro' and Redcar,
6 per cent. guar. ..
Newcastle and Carlisle • • 1
Do. quarter shares ..
Newmarket ..
Do. extension scrip • • 2
Newport, Abergavenny,
and Hereford ..
Newry & Enniskillen ..
Newry, Warrenpoint, &
Rostrevor
Norfolk ..
Do. New 20/. shares..
Do. Extension ..
Do. guar. 53 per cent.
Do. Waveney Valley..
Northern Counties Caton
North British..
Do. Preference ..
North Staffordshire ..
North-Western .. ••
Oxford, Worcester and
Wolverhampton.. ..
Preston and Wyre
Do. Halves (A)
Reading, Guildford, and
31eigate.. .. • . '
Royston and Hitchin
Do. Shepreth Eaten...
Scottish Central ..
Scottish Midland .. .

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 20.
Boulogne and Amiens, 9%—Central of France (Orleans and
Vierzon ), 165/—East Indian, 12%—Luxembourg, 1
Ditto, 2i4. —Namur and Liege, 834—Northern of France,
15 lA—Orleans and Bordeaux, 3 Paris and Rouen, 27—Roues
and Havre, 101/B—Sambre and Mean, 34—Tours and
Nantes, 5 ex div.

rister in attendance was informed by the defendan

attorney, who most probably received his instructions
to that effect from the defendant himself. But this
frivolous apology, this transparent humbug, contented
Alderman HUMPIIERY, who would not act so harshly
as to send off a warrant at once, but issued it with
an intimation " that it would be put in force as soon
as Mrs. SLOANE was in a fit state to leave ber bed."

Was justice ever administered in so " rose-water" a
fashion, so calculated to bring the majesty of the law
into contempt and disrepute ?
It is not, as we have already stated, our habit to
offer any observations on a case while it is yet
suit judice ; but the flight of Mrs. SLOANB is a vir-
tual confession of her guilt; and as she has evaded
its penal consequences, she cannot feel surprised if we
give expression to the feelings of indignant horror
that must arise on hearing the unparalleled and unna-

tural brutalities thus tardily brought to light. We could
not have believed that a female could have so acted
towards one of her own sex. There is some redeem-

ing feature perceptible in almost the most degraded,
some womanly feeling that casts a ray of light
upon the picture ; but here all is darkness and

"gloom, there is nothing to relieve the vision, or to
struggle through the surrounding murkiness. The
Roman law could not recognise the crime of parri-
cide. The senators could not conceive such monstrous
guilt, and there was no punishment for the crimi-

nal beyond that which awaited ordinary persons.
There is a similar deficiency in the English law.
The crime of Mrs. SLOANE cannot be adequately
expiated; but that is no reason why she should be

permitted to escape with impunity, and to avoid even
the utterly insufficient punishment assigned to the

offence for which she may be indicted. Mrs. BIRD,
who was an angel of light in comparison, was not

treated with such leniency; there was unfortunately
no JOHN GEORGE Pumumoan in the neighbourhood
of Bideford to protect and rescue her victim—that

miserable girl perished under her sufferings ; but the
constant flagellations to which she was subjected were
as nothing compared to the unutterable brutalities of
the female fiend of Pump-court.

We have been credibly informed that it is the in-
tention of her Majesty to visit Dublin early in the ensuing
summer, by the way of Holyhead.— Carnarvon Herald.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following gentlemen
passed their examination in the science and practice of me-
dicine, and received certificates to practise, on Thursday :
W. Sutherland; Nathaniel Clement Wood, Norfolk; James
Hereford Jepwood ; Robert Bolton ; John Morton, Norfolk ;
Nathaniel Stenson Wood ; Robert Bohun Kidd, Norwich ;
Robert Rooke Prance, Adelaide; Alfred Beckett, Thorne;
John Gabriel French, Burton-on-Trent.
ST. IVES, DEC. 18.—The corpse of a man, mea-
suring six feet two inches, dressed in a blue coat, waistcoat,
and trousers, supposed to be that of the late master of the
Queen schooner, of London, wrecked on the Gurtheon beach,
has come on shore.

Do. new .
Shrewsbury & Birming.,
Cla.si A.. ..
Do. Class 8.. ..
Do. New Guarantee..
Shrewsbury & Herefbrd
hrewsbury and Chester
(Nor. W. Min.)
Do. Halves
Do. Oswestry
Do. New.. ..
Do. 8 per cent. Pref.
Shropshire Union
South Devon ..

Do. Preference ..
South Staffordshire ..
South-Eastern

Do. do. 434 per cent...
South Wales.. .. ..
South Yorksh. and.flyer

ILLNESS OF VISCOUNT ALFORD, M.P.—We deeply
regret to hear from undoubted authority that the illness
(consumption) of this respected young nobleman has assumed
such a shape as to preclude all hopes of recovery; indeed, we
are sorry to say that, probably, ere this year expires, we
shall have to announce his death. His Lordship is confined
to his bed at Ashbridge Park, his seat in Bedfordshire,
where he is most assiduously and affectionately attended by
his afflicted lady. Hardly two years have elapsed since his
Lordship came into possession of the princely income be-
queathed to him by the late Duke of Bridgewater, a circum-
stance which we announced to our readers at the time. We
understand that the will will be disputed, and already have
some of our most eminent lawyers received retainers in the
cause. Lord Viscount Alford, M.P. for Bedfordshire, eldest
scn of Earl Brownlow, Lord-Lieutenant of Lincolnshire, was
born October, 1.12, and married in February, 1841, the Lady
Marian Compton, eldest daughter of the Marquis of North-
ampton; by this marriage his Lordship has issue two sons,
John William Spencer Brownlow, born 28th March, 1842, and
Adelbert Wellington, born 19th August, 1846.—Lincolnshire
Chronicle.

Dun .•
Shell., Roth., and Goole,
N. Div., guar. 5 p cent.
Do. do. South Div. ..
Swansea & Loughor, Ike.
raw Vale Extension ..
flames Haven Dock and
Railway
Vale of Neath
Waterford and Kilkenny
Waterford and Limerick
Waterford, Wex., Wick.,
and Dublin ..
Wear Valley, 6 per cent.
guaranteed ..
Do. do.
Do. do.
West Cornwall
Whitehaven and Furness,
Windsor, Staines, and S.
Western ..
Wilts, Somerset, & Wey-
mouth
York, Newcastle, & Ber-
wick
Ditto and Newcastle

do. .
do. .

FIRE AT CLAPHAM.—Last night (Friday) this
neighbourhood of Clapham was thrown into a state of excite-
ment owing to the sudden outbreak of a fire in a range of
workshops belor.ging to Captain Ross, situate in New-square,
Clapham-common. The building was upwards of 50 feet
lung and 40 wide. It was used by the numerous workmen
employed on the estate in erecting the various houses belong-
ing to the above•named gentleman. It was nearly four
hours after the outbreak before the fire could be extinguished,
and not until the premises in which the disaster commenced
were levelled with the ground, and the stacks of timber in
the open yard destroyed. The total loss is very consider-
able, and unfortunately Captain Ross was insured for only
5004 in the Union Fire-office. Respecting the origin of the
lire nothing certain is known, but there is strong ground for
supposing that it was the work of an incendiary, as no lights
of any description were allowed in the building after dark.
THE SEWER ACCIDENT IN SCOTLAND-YARD.—
Yesterday morning a portion of the premises of Messrs. Ro-
bins, Aspden, and Co., the cement manufacturers in Scot-
land-yard, fell in close to the spot where, some days ago, the
tide broke through and drowned two men. It seems that the
water falling into the sewer had swept away a portion of the
foundation on which the wall which has given way rested.
This accident is, therefore, a natural and unavoidable conse-
quence of the former one; but, happily, has not been at-
tended with the same disastrous results. Mr. Gotto, the
surveyor of the district, visited the spot in the course of the
day, and arranged with Messrs. Robins, Aspden, and Co., as
to the manner in which the injury to their premises should
be repaired. At present, and while the whole subject is
❑nder regular investigation, it would be improper to enter into
details which might compromise individuals. The whole
neighbourhood, however, which appears to be entirely in the
hands of excavators, seems to feel deeply alarmed at the
amount of boring and tunneling going on beneath their ha-
bitations, and not unwilling to believe that the Commis-
sioners of Sewers have some unexplained sinister design
against their property and lives.

Extension .. --..:
Ditto G.N.E. purchase

or preference • .
Do. .•
Do. llartlepool Dock

and Rail Way •: 7. 10
York and Nerth Midland 51
Do. Preference .. .. II

Anglo-Italian (late
Ran and Austrian) .•
Boulogne and Amiens
Central of France (Or-
leans and Pierson)
Demerara
Dutch Rhenish ••
East Indian ..
Do. do. do.
Great Indian Peninsula. .
Ditto ditto
Louvain ala Sambre ..
Luxembourg ..
Ditto
Madrid and Valentin
Namur and Liege ..
Northern of France ..
Orleans and Bordeaux ..
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen ..
Paris and Strasbourg ..
Rouen and Havre ..
Sambre and Meuse ..
Strasbourg and Basle ..
Tours and Nantes ..
Tournay, Jurhise, Lan-
den, and Moen ..
West Flanders ..

Australasia ............
British North America..
Colonial ..............
Commercial of London..
London Joint Stock ....
London and Westminster
National Provincial Eng,
Do. New . .....
National of Ireland
Provincial of Ireland..
• Do. New ..
Union of Australia .

THE VACANT CAVALRY REGIMENT.—Rumour
givos his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge the
colonelcy of the Ist Dragoon Guards, vacant by the decease
of Sir William Lumley. If this arrangement is carried into
effect the Commander-in-Chief will have the 17th Lancers at
his disposal. At all events the Duke of Cambridge la in
town,—United Service Gazette,

Do. Nev-i—..---.....
Union of London
Union Of Difidll4 •• ••

LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 21, 1850.

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