The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-07 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The High Sheriff of Gloucestershire has refused to con-
vene a county meeting "to take into consideration the
existing restrictions on commerce, especially those affecting
the necessaries of life ; and to hear Mr. Cobden and others
on these subjects."
A meeting of the landowners and occupiers of land was
held at Sleafield, in Lincolnshire, on Monday, when speeches
were delivered and resolutions adopted, expressive of the
absolute necessity that existed for maintaining the existing
corn-laws, and deprecating strongly any side-wind attacks at
the agricultural interest generally.
A meeting of landowners in the county of Salop, in favour
of the agricultural interest, is to be immediately convened by
the High Sheriff of the county.
The subscriptions at the close of the recent Huntingdon
meeting, in opposition to the League, amounted to nearly
one thousand pounds.
A requisition, numerously signed, has been forwarded to
the High Sheriff of Somersetshire, calling on him to convene
a county meeting, to take measures for opposing the-Anti-
Corn-law League.
The term being up for clearing the land lately purchased
by the Crown at Old Ford and Bethnal-g,reen, for the com-
mencement of the new park, the Crown has taken possession
of the property.
On Monday evening, at a meeting of the Institute of
British Architects, Mr. Tito in the chair, a paper was' read
by Mr. Scoles, on the architecture of the pyramids of Egypt,
describing the peculiar construction of the Abaroash, Takara,
and Medoon, and showing their foundations to have been
formed upon common sand, but supported by retaining or
inclosing walls of masonry.

ALARMING ILLNESS OF THE
KING OF SWEDEN.

We have received the following account; by the Hamburgh
mail

STOCIMOLM, J. 26.—His Majesty the King, who com-
pleted today his 81st year, has unhappily been attacked
with severe illness. The State Gazette publishes the follow-
ing bulletins:—

• " JAR. 26, 10 A.M.—The King, who retired to rest yester-
day evening without any appearance &indisposition, and
slept well during the night, was seized at half-past six this
morning with vomiting and determination of blood to the
head, which still continues, but appears however to diminish.
"2 2injc,sty is easier, and seems to be better
than when the last bulletin was issued.-

" 5 P.M.—His Majesty has experienced no change since
two o'clock."

The bulletins are signed "Er ap Edholm."
The Aftorblad adds to the second bulletin that the ap-
pearance of improvement was produced by bleeding ; that the
King had never before consented to be bled, but that the
physician having now declared that nothing else could save
his life, it had been done by order of the Crown Prince. The
vomiting was a spitting of blood. The blood from the arm
had no unfavourable appearance, and the patient fell into a
state of lethargy. Between ten and eleven in the forenoon
he asked for coffee, and drank some, then vomited again and
fell asleep, Between twelve and ene he drank a glass of
water, which he took from the hand of an attendant. A
great number of officerS of State and persons of distinction
have been to the Palace to make inquiries. A supper at the
Crown Prince's this evening, and a fete intended to be given
by the Queen the day after to-morrow, arc deferred. The
theatre will not be open this evening.

MIDDLESEX and SURREY GRAND
JUNCTION RAIL '4 AY.
We beg to call the attention of our readers to the
above railway—an advertisement of which appears
in our columns of to-day —not only on account of its
general merits as a junction railway, which cannot
fail to interest the commercial and manufacturing
interest of the kingdom, but also in a military point
of view. It appears to us that the facilities which
the proposed line will afford to the transit of troops
and" military stores to that portion of the coast of
Kent in particular which has so recently attracted
the attention of the Government, will necessarily re-
commend it to the serious consideration of our pro-
fessional readers ; and we ourselves are convinced
that if the intended line should obtain the sanction
of the Legislature, the defence of the coast of
Kent will be easily secured, without incurring the
expenses of batteries and lines which was at' one
time contemplated. His Grace the Duke of Welling-
ton, in his evidence before the Committee of the House
of Commons in the last session, referring to the necessity
of establishing a harbour of refuge between Ports-
mouth and the Downs, readily admitted that naval
warfare, in the strict sense of the word, was not
sufficient to protect the coast from an invading army,
and that the system of maritime warfare (by the
power of steam) was such as to render the situation
of a fleet in the Downs totally insecure. Now, it is
clear that, by the junction line proposed between the
Birmingham, Great Western, South Western, and
Dover lines, a supply of troops from almost every
part of the kingdom—from the most remote depots
and garrisons—may be commanded—say Weedon,
and Winchester, and Maidstone—within twelve or
fourteen hours ; and within that time the coast of
Kent may be bristling vvi,h bayonets I We sincerely
trust that the line, in this national point of view, has
already attracted the notice of Government—and, for
our own parts, we wish the bold undertaking every
success. The atmospheric principle of locomotion is,
we observe, recommended to the consideration of the
shareholders. United Service Gazette.

DEATH. OF THE EARL OF BESSEOROUGIL—This
venerable nobleman died on Saturday, at the seat of his second
son, Lord de Manley, at Canford House, in Dorsetshire, where
his Lordship. had arrived from his house at Brighton, and sunk
under the prevalent influenza, at the advanced age of eighty.six.
His Lordship is succeeded in his titles and estates by his eldest
son, Viscount Duncannon, who was called up to the House of
Lords in 1635. Frederick Ponsonby, Earl of Bessborough,
Viscount touricatmon, county Wexford, Baron Bessborough of
B,.saborougfi, county Kilkenny, Ireland, Lord Ponsonby, Baron
Ponsonby, of Sysonby in England, aid Vice-Admiral of Munster,
was born on the 26th of January, 1758, and succeeded his father
in Nog. His Lordship was married in 1780 to Henrietta Frances
Spencer, daughter of John, first Earl of Spencer, by whom (whe
died in 1621) he had issue John William Viscount Duncannon,
the present Earl, who was cdled up to the House of Lords in
1835, by the title of Baron Duncannon. His Lordship was
born in August, 1781, and was married, in 1805, to Maria Pane,
daughter of John, Earl of Westmoreland, by whom, (who died in
1834) his Lordship had a family of fourteen sons and daughters;
the eldest son, John George Brabazon, now Viscount Duncannon, was
born in 1809. His Lordship's second son, Sir Frederick Caven-
dish Ponsonby, died in 1837, and his Lordship's third son, William
Francis Spencer Ponsonby, was created Baron de Mauley, by
patent, in 1838. His Lordship's only daughter, Caroline, was
married to the present Viscount Melbourne, and died in IE2B.
The death of the Earl of Bessborough puts several families of the
highest rank into mourning—the Cavendishes, Spencers, Ponsonbys,
Bentincks, Somersets, Beauclerks, Westmerelands,
Lansdownes, Russells, Ashley., &c., &c. T
Mr. EhIPLETON.-11 e understand that Templeton, Fitageralds,
who has been so pre-eminently successful i
line of musical entertainments, has so many
Piovincial and other
n Hanover.square
engagements to 111161, that be cannot re-a n his newly-ado Pied
till March, when he promises
Majesty'snovelties°
"ved
town,n preparations for opening the
Mr. Lumley, of her
in and is busily occupied faP
TP rehe4cer hae
tr
re
eis c
ihsa raamc te r
theatre the first week in March.i
Madameer Persiani and Signor
Fornasari will commence the season.
The ballet of La Jolie Fi
lls de Grand is in re-
hearsal at Drurplane Theatre!

MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.'
There has been a sadden re-action again in the value of
the English Securities, the Stock contracted for last meek
having been delivered, and the Bears thinking it once mote
a good opportunity to speculate. Consols were 97* to fOr
Money, and 97 to * for A scount. Stock at these rates, how-
ever, was not at all freely offered. The Reduced Three per
Cents. were 97i to 98. The heavy investments were not
affected. Bank Stock did no,t look quite so good at the close.
To a slight extent, also, th, 3 Foreign Market shared the
flatness. Spanish Actives wer.l 24-1 to 24, and the Three per
Cents. 3211 a. Mexican brougA'it 3411 to and Colombia%
12i to 11. Russian were 1181.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been
these :—Birmingham and Derby t.•ere 39 ; Ditto' and Glou
cester, 27* ; Eastern Counties, LILA Great North of Eng-
land, 8 ; Brighton, 4 ; ManchestAT and Birmingham, 1;
Midland Counties, 8 ; and South • Eastern; 14* discount
Gravesend and Chatham, • Great Western, Fifths, 7i '1
Guildford Junction, ; Croydon, n; Elbe, Scrip, 6i; Nor-
wich and Brandon, 211 to ; Newcastle a In.l Darhngton, 1.7 i;
Paris and Orleans, 13 ; and York and No.n:l Midland, New,;
37 premium.
There was no alteration of moment in a
a rates of the
Foreign Exchanges, which generally, therefor e are stead!'
though not buoyant.
The West India mail has not been announced..
We have no exports of specie to notice during the Week
ending Thursday last._

(Prom The Sun of Last Night.) •
In the Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday a etir
ness was done, and prices were steadily suppoed..-:: The
sales were 7,000 supported.:
bags—including 1,000 on speculation,`.
1,700 Surat, at4d. to 4id. ; 100 Bahia, at 64d.; 300 Mersa:
ham at 6d. to 64d. ; 30 Pernambuco, at 6i-d ; 30 Egyptia.v.ak
741, and the rest American, at sd. to 64d. per lb.—'l2st
Share Market continued steady. Eastern Counties wets'
10/. 6s. 3d. ; Grand Junction, 2291 ; Great Western, 1124 A
Brighton, 46 ; South Western Eighths, 2/. 16s. 3d.; Midlanit
Counties, 92 ; Paris and Lyons, 2/. 12s. 6d.; South Efts*" ,
tern.and Dover New, 36.
Not a single arrival of any interest has been announced it
the City to-day.
The proceedings in Parliament relative to railway comps'
vies, and the provisions to be made hereafter, as respects
new lines, have formed the topic of much conversation M the
City this morning, and a very strong hope is expressed, that
some provision will be made to prevent an entire Monopeli
in favour of the lines now in existence. •
A very firm market has existed this morning for all the
public Securities, and an immense amount of husineis has
been transacted. Consols for Account have been firm at 97f!
and for Money at 971 The Commissioners bought 15,00 w
Consols at 97i. Exchequer Bills have fluctuated from 675.
to 695. premium. India Bonds are up to 84s. presairar-
Bank Stock has advanced from 192 to 194, but India Stock.
is a shade lower, being quoted at 277. In the Threo-and-
a-Half per Cents. there has been but a shade of variation to-
day.
The Foreign Market has been brisk, and the amount ce
business done has been rather considerable. Spanish .Actives;
have been done at 24i the Three per Cents. at 32i
32j, but in the other foreign Funds the prices have remained'-.
much the same as yesterday.
The Share Market is very quiet to-day, as our annexed list
of official prices will show :
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, Fxn. s.—We have
good market to-day, and prices are fully maintained.—Law
don and South Western, 78 ; Manchester and Birmingham,.
39* to 40_; Manchester and Leeds, Half Shares, 50} • Sher.
field and Manchester, 61; South Eastern, 36 ; Ditto, Sall),
36i ; Lancaster Canal, 26.; Manchester Assurance, 9i.
CLOSING PRICES..
BRITISH FUNDS.
Barik Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons.... 97i Ditto ()Id Annuities ""'
3i per Cent. Red lO3 Ditto New Annuities..
New 3i per Cent
_4l;
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 500/. .. . ... -.69 V:
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5ma11.... 2-
Jan. 1860
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 ...... 12i Consols for Acct. 97k
FOREIGN FUNDS.

A Ittriao, 5 per cent. — Portuguese' 5 per cent. ••••
iielgian 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds ... ...... Prussian, 5 per cent rat
FS nmos A yres 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. .. I'7
Cnilian, 6 per cent. Ditto, Aletallic ..... ..
Colmobian, 6 per cent... 121 Spanish, b per cent x•
39
iitto 1824 — Ditto, 3 per cent
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 93 Ditto, Deferred.... ~. i_3!
Danish, 3 per tent — French, 5 per cent. -4. -7:::
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — Exchange ... ... .... —lr. ----;
81exicau, 5 per cent — French, 3 per cent. ...a. ''''''
Oitto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent. , 551
Perivian,lB2s,6 perct. 241 , Ditto, 5 per cent.... 101 i

SHARES. .
Birmingham and Derby (100 'paid) ... ...... 61'.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 pd) 721 •
Eastern Counties (23 paid)...... ..... ' 14
Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham (2* p) a
Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 92
Grand Junction Railway (100 paid) l9l
London and Brighton (50 pa d) .
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) .
Ditto Scrip (71 paid) . . Pi
Manchester and Birmingham (40 pal,: ) 3Vi
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) - - 9.1!
Nerwich and Brandon (2 paid) ...., .. .
Newcastle and Darlington Junction(ls paid' • 321
Paris and Orleans (20 paid) .... .........
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid).......- o'l7
York and North Midland (50 paid) .. .. --
Ditto New Shares (20 paid) bi-
COURNE OF EXI:IIANG.E.—t YESTERDAY:? .
kmsterdam CF. 12 6 Gibraltar - . • .-
30
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .. .'2U. 12 611 Genoa . •25 9
Antwerp :2E5 90 Milan - :.flamburgh Rs. R. 13 15 Venire
Alumna
Paris, 3 days sight ... 25 65 Palermo, per or 1184
Ditto, 3 months
Marseilles ... ..... ... -
.....
1).52
2
23
Bourdeaux 25 00 ;Rio Janeiro
Frankfort on Maine ...122
,Bahia
Petersburgh, 3 Us., ... 3011 , Buenos Ayres ...„
Berlin .

trienna, effec. li. 3M. 955 Philadelphia
Tri,ste, :lino 9 56 kaicts, OF BULLION, eta of.
io ,
'iadrid .• 36i Foiii -gn C-Id - barsE 3-77. 13
Cadiz 36A Portugal Gold Coin.. 317 P
5
!';ilbao .. 36 ;New Doubloons ~,..0 0
Barcelona
Seville ........ ..-.. —.lSilver in Bars... ..... 0 411

COURT CIRCULAti
"WINDSOR, TUESDAY.—Her Majesty and his Royal 1116
h.
ness Prince Albert are as well as can be expected.. all
Her Royal Highness the Princess Alice was taken
airing in the Park to=day.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived
town yesterday from his residence at Kew. f" 190
Le Comrnandeur Marques . Lisboa, Brazilian 1-111-
transacted business yesterday at the Foreign-office. tia
The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had*raeepe
yesterday afternoon at the office in Whitehall-OW. boy,
Commissioners present were the Archbishop of- Cante„r;shor
the Bishop of London, the Bishop of Winchester, the„l„,/,
of Lichfield, the Bishop of Ripon, the Bishop of Solirest-
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Dean Hof
minster. t
The Secretary at War transacted business yesterdaY 8
H Sir e-office. had James Graham and other Cabinet Ministers •
views with Sir R. Peel yesterday.
Dispatches) Y
received yesterday at the Colon'
from the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. ,4
Dispatches were sent off last evening from the,tie
office, for the Govern of Ho-Kon. . 00
The Judicial Commior ng
ttee of her Majgesty's most Hon .0 The
Privy Council sat yesterday in the CouncirCharnttn, the
Lords present were, Lord Brougham, Lord Canl""of the
Judge of the Prerogative Court; and the Chancomr • .
Duchy of Cornwall. , wed
Mr. Thesiger, Queen's Counsel, and Dr. Admen' lot
heard for the appellant, on an appeal from the High
Admiralty, "The General Steam Navigation Coral—
Tonkin. 'Conne"

The Queen's Advocate and Mr. Platt, Queen
eUrr`w Ls
were heard for the respondent. Judgment was dThomas
The Solicitor-General was heard (ex parte), "
Breton v. James Ennis," from Jersey.

HAYMARKET THEATR'ntitlett
A pleasant, lively, hustling, two-act fareet.!_t eve.
"Used up," was produced at this theatre
:1,7L4r...0.
ning. Th hero, Sir 'Charles, Coldstream- (aTorha
Mathews) is a gentleman of 12,000/. a 3;1:Sole;
having tried every pleasure, is of opinion vilifing,ol
man " that every thing is vanity." Ile is.„.a hee
ennui, and, to use his own expression, 11011Zolet,eer
life at 13, he finds that, at 33, he .is e(3lo` off,e
" used up." He determines to naake
to the first woman he meets, and. old
proposes to Lady Clutterbuck, .a.-;ciet,;ooJ, 40,
Ironbrace, a lady in her second .widonrobit,.
is acceptd. The lady's first husband, -10-,rh,
whom she had thought dead, happens, 'o,.tiasoltsolo6
ment, to be engaged in the capacity of iftvose._,_, to
in doing some repairs to Sir Charles.4_,4oiptiPeout
sees his wife—accuses the Baronet d,',.0Ye1dr,,,,0- es
seduce her. Sir Charles threatens to ti",,iie'iPl',l"; r•
of the window, which opens upon - tog'er,ll,.eg
—they struggle, and both roll Ch Tana)
l'as,N—
In the next act we find Sir Ll7-2-jand)
.murder
with Farmer ll'urzel (air. James
farm servant. Believing himself to 11°to escaPe tiles
Ironbrace, he has assumed this disguise,
ware elf„lio
pursuit of justice ; the only person a igiss
real rank being his foster sister MarY \s,llo fence
Bennett) the farmer's nit-ce. Ironbrace, , has °ler
that he has murdered Sir Charles' filer
sought refuge at the same, farm. of amuse
himself being his coniklant. serTained, f'scenes ensue, until at length all is exc
meoxrerei
ieise :t line.
Charles, effectually cured of ennui,
The acting of Charles Mathews was the
at the colst
rep. till. The ip
kept the house in a continual roar, • atm._
succession' and
elusion announced the piece
loud applause.- 'I his is an e
suoceasio
wfis
cidents follow one another in rapta_he boas,
the dialogue is smartly written.
crowded.
xefbelrlent tar

ENGLISH OPERA-HOU. -4. 0
Romeo and Juliet was produced at this tht-0.41,
Monday. It would be unfair to pass a harsh opil2l.X
upon Mr. Harvey Tuckett's Mercutio, as the Difjoj;
announced that Henry the Fourth was p' ostlxlied •ng
a short time in consequence of that gentleman haniv
a severe cold, which announcement was CO
his performance He evidently laboured under PIT,
sical, inconvenience; but there were occasionally si.
,‘
;111, and even brilliant, points in his perforraancyl
which lead us to infer that he will, by practice or"
311%
attention to his art, become a superior actor.
of
ewolrotvhe looked Romeo, but his delivery' of 11111111-je
passages evoked contrasts, whiciViss
memory abundantly supplied. The Juliet of
She
Angell was a very creditable performance.
played the love-sick girl with feeling and taste, 1.--
aivested of "rant," and that is saying much novq;
4"Ys, When " mouthir,g" and " ranting " see"' in t
in the 411
ascendant, and are the ready means to w-
dienvee applause. The house was well attended'

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