The Sun.
London, England, 1850-03-02 00:00:00

EXCLIANGX.

Gibraltar • • • • • . • • • • • • • . -0-
Leghorn ........ ••.. • . 30 GO
Genoa .. .. ........ •• .. 26 0
Nfilau ................
Venice ........ • • • . .. ..
Naples .. .......... •. 4114
Palermo, peroz .. .. .. .. 121%
Messina .............. 122%
Lisbon.... • • .......... 53%
Oporto .... • • .... ...... 53%
Rio Janeiro •• .. ......
isuenos Ayres ...... ..
New York, 21 daya'slght
Philadelphia ..........

?RIM OF BULLION, ?LB oz.
Foreign Gold inbars...£3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloon. .. 0 0 0

New Dollars •• .. •• 0 4 10%
Silver in bars ........ 0 4 11%

METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS.—The
Commissioners of Sewers held a Court yesterday, at
their premises, No. 1, Greek-street, Soho-square, for
general purposes of business. Present—Viscount
Ebrington, in the chair, Sir T. Burgoyne, Mr. Hawes,
Mr. Hardwick, Captains Harners and Dawson, and Mr.
S. M. Peto. The secretary read the annual statement
of accounts, which showed that the general cash, ba-
lance in hand, on the sth January, 1849, amounted to
22,9561. 38. 7d.; the receipts from rates and contribu-
tions, from sth January to 31st December, 1849,
amounted to 71,623/. 13s. 10d., the payments during the
same period for works, survey, management, &c., were
85,345/. 3s. 6d.; balance in hand, 9,234/. 138. 11d.;
outstanding assets, 64,4891 2s. 6d.; •utstanding lia•
bilities, 100,738/. Is. Id. The auditors certified
to the accuracy of the accounts, and reported most
favourably on the manner in which they were kept. One
or two answers to summonses were then considered.
Permission was given to the Lambeth Water Works
Company to drain their premises into the sewer in Bel-
vedere-road, and instructions were given for several
sewerage improvements within the jurisdiction of the
commission. The Court then adopted the following re-
solution:—" That the Court regard with satisfaction the
efforts made by the Metropolitan Sewage Manure Com-
pany to distribute sewage water and manure, and thereby
remove from the Thames, when it is noxious, matter
which, if spread over the land, is found to be most bene-
ficial and fertilizing. That the Court will afford to the
company, and to all parties engaged in effecting this
useful object, every facility- and encouragement consis-
tent with the important public interests confided to the
care of the commission." The court was then adjourned
till Tuesday, March 14, when they will meet at Poplar.
APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following are the
names of gentlemen who passed their examination in
the science and practice of medicine, and received certi-
ficates to practise, on Thursday, the 28th of February,
1850:—William Foot Vidal, Aveley, Essex; John Page
Cooper, London; John Willingtcn Clement, Pockling-
ton ; Charles Nelson Wilkinson, I{.N., South Lambeth;
Allred Whittle, Liverpool; James Samuel Seyer Lang,
Yalon, Somersetshire ; Edmund Grosvenor Goulden,
ilaz•dgrovr, Cheshire ; George Charles Armstrong,
Ware, Hens.

A NEW PARr k'AMENTARY PROVERB.—We have to
record the addition of a new expression to the stock-list
of Parliamentary idiotistnes. In giving a narration of
the famous Dublin Election petition, which dragged its
slow length along during four months of the session of
1847, and cost furthermore, 15,0001, Mr. Reynolds
added that the witnesses examined before the com-
mittEe manifested, he would not say perjury, but a
"considerable ceunomising of truth." The phrase is
happy, and will, we doubt not, become memorable.
So busy are shipbuilders here at present that the
operatives have to stint their diet hours in order to ex-
pedite the finishing of vessels contracted for.—Dundee
Advertiser.