The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-23 00:00:00

THE BOURSE—WEDNESDAY, Nov. 20.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cults •• 119 35 .. 119 35 .• 119 30 .. 119 35
Fours. lO6 75 166 75 106 75 .. 106 75
Three per Cents.-- 83 10 .• 83 15 83 5 .. *3 10
Bank of France 3127 50 —3130 .•3120 ..3130
Laftltte Bank, I,ooof. SharesloBo —lOBO ..1080 ..1080
5,000 f. Sharesso27 50 ••5027 50 ••5027 50 ..5027 50
Belgian Bank •••• 635 .. 635 •• 635 .• 635
Belgian Fives, 1840 104 .. 104 • • 104 104
1842 •••••••• 167 107 107 .. 107
Two-and-a-Half 61 75 .• 61 75 . • 61 60 61 70
Spanish Active 32- .. 321 •• 321 .. 22-.1
Threes......

Passive 6 .. 6 •• 6 .. 6
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 53 .. 53 .• 53 .. 53
Neapolitan•• •• •• •••••• .. 97 60 .. 98 .• 97 60 .. 98
1/.0 •• ••

RAILWAY MARES.
Versallles,R.B.•• ••........ 435 .. 437 50 .. 432 50 .. 432 50
L.B.•••••••••••• 312 50 •• 312 50 •• 310 .. 310
Ronon•• ..................1000 . 1000 .. 997 50 .. 997 50

Rouen to Hair••...
Orleans ......... •• .. - 1017 50 .•1020 ..1015

.. 781 25
..1017 50

Strasburg to Bale.- ..... 278 75 .. 978 75 .. 276 25 . 276 25
A.viguon to Marseilles• .... 875 . 877 50 875 .. 875
RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, 30.
St. Germain. 940 •• 940 .. 940 .. 940
Versailles, R.B.
L.8..............815 .. 315 .. 310 .. 310
Rouen..• ................. 935 .. 997 50 .. 995 .. 995
Rouen to Havre•........... 780 .. 781 25 . • 780 .. 780
Orleans ••• • • •• •• •• • .......1017 50 ..1018 75 ..1016 25 ..1017 50
Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 277 56 .. 277 50 .. 276 25 .. 276 25
Avignon to Marseilles.-- 875 .. 880 .. 575 .. 876 25

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—We are given
to understand that the entire profits of the last season.
are to be expended upon one scene alone in Balfe's
new opera, called The Daughter of St. Mark. A
procession takes place from the amazing height of
forty-three feet, in which nearly six hundred persons
make their appearance, the costumes of whom are of
the most varied and brilliant description. Its pro-
duction will form all together a musical era in this
country, the whole opera being in recitative.

LATE AND IMPORTANT FROM

OTAHEITE.
(From the Shipping Gazette.)
Accounts down to the 11th June have reached us
from Otaheite, when her Majesty's ship Thalia, 42,
and Salamander (steamer), were both off the port of
Papeite, in which harbour the French had the Uranie
frigate of 60 guns, and the Ambuscade, 32, with a
steamer. The Charte, 46, was gone to the Marquesas
for more troops. .

The oppressions and cruelties of the French con-
tinued unabated, and their insolence towards the
English was even greater than before. The Thalia,
it appears, called there on her way to Valparaiso, in
consequence of having heard, while at Sydney, of the
unchecked barbarities which the French were indulging
in at the expense of the poor Queen and the inhabitants
of Otaheite.

" The French had hired one of the traitor chiefs to
go on board the Basilisk to assassinate the Queen
but the base intention was happily discovered in time
to guard against it."
Captain Hope, of the Thalia, refused to salute the
French flag which had been so unaccountably hoisted
on the island. The French were fortifying in every
direction.

From this information it must be supposed that
affairs in the Pacific are likely to become worse before
they can be better, and that disquiet never would
have advanced to its present height had our Admiral
kept the Vindictive at Otaheite, or proceeded thither
himself, with the Dublin. Admiral Thomas evinced
a considerable dislike to the scene of tumult, and kept
at a distrnce, enjoying a peaceful retirement amongst
the shades of 0 whyhee.
Admiral Thomas had never been near Otaheite, not-
withstanding the disgraceful conduct of the French,
not only towards the natives, but towards our mer-
chants and other Englishmen there. The absence was
deemed extraordinary, as they were not ignorant that
the Admiral would pass near Otaheite on his passage
to Valparaiso from the Sandwich Islands. This was so
unlike the course which a British Admiral usually pur-
sues as a Commander-in-Chief, and its example bodes
so little good to the navy and to the distant d pen-
dencies of the state, that the Admiral's motives for
neglecting Otaheite should be explained—but no one
can explain them but himself.
Vessels with British registers, and laden with British
property, were continually running between Sydney
and the islands while they were undisturbed by the
French. This trade, we presume, is at an end. Col-
ling wood's captain has failed to preserve it. It is for
the Collingwood to repair the loss. She is on her way
to Otaheite.

PROPOSED RAILWAY STATION IN FARRINODON-
STREET.—It is in contemplation to convert a portion of
Farringdon-street into a station, connecting that place
with the Eastern Counties Railway, by means of the
formation of a railway between Farringdon-street and
the Tottenham station. A company has already been
formed, and notice given of their intention to apply for
an Act of Parliament. The line proposed will be direct
from Farringdon-street, crossing the City Canal to Tot-
tenham, at which place it will join the Eastern Counties
(Cambridge line) Railway.
FALL or A HOUSE.—Thursday forenoon a new
building, situate at the corner of Draper's-place, in Old-
street, St. Luke's, fell and buried a number of workmen,
bricklayers, and labourers, in the ruins. The accident
is supposed to have been caused by the giving way of the
foundation of the house, which is near a sewer, now in
course of formation. Four of the men were taken out of
the ruins, and conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital,
but only two of them, named William Lutton and George
Hill, were admitted, and they were found not to be very
seriously injured. It was believed, however, that three
men, still missing, were under the ruins.

FALL OP A WALL.—On Thursday morning, about
eleven o'clock, a wall about forty feet in height, sud-
denly fell, at the corner of Showfield-street, in Chelsea_
road, with a tremendous crash, burying underneath the
ruins four individuals who were at the time at work
upon it. The unfortunate men, John Newman, aged 30,
a master bricklayer; William Lee, aged 45, journeyman;
James Lardner, aged 28, journeyman; and Arthur Ellis,
aged 16, an apprentice, were standing upon some scaf-
folding erected near the summit of the above wall, when
the latter, which had recently been run up, gave way
near its base, and the whole instantly fell. Assistance
having promptly arrived, the men were got from ammig
the rubbish, and three of them were conveyed in a sadly
mutilated state to St. George's Hospital, whilst Newman,
who resides near the spot where the accident happened,
and sustained a severe injury of the skull and legs, was
conveyed
home. Each of the unfortunate men lie in a
very precarious state. The cause of the occurrence is
stated to have been the wet weather, which prevented
the work from setting or drying.