The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1844,

dignity. She knows that recent victories have again
conferred honour on our arms in Africa, and con-
solidated French dominion in Algeria. All Europe,
in fact, is unanimous in celebrating the humane,
liberal, and pacific Prince who places his glory in
never having sullied his reign by any of the crimes
which politics have too long excused, and which the
folly of men have sometimes classed amongst great
actions. What opinion would Europe form of us if,
judging of France by the Opposition, it could believe
that we were impatient to quit this state of peace and
of tranquillity, that we were tired of happiness, and
that we had a thirst for the drama of revolutions
and of war ? What would she think of us if
she could mistake for the voice of the country
the cries of the Opposition, which sees not, or
will not see, the honours which the crowned
representative of France and of the Revolution
of July is at this moment receiving in a foreign
country are honours paid to the Revolution ? Oh !
no doubt we should appear very small, very mean,
and incapable of enjoying true glory and true liberty I
Fortunately, however, France is known to foreign
nations, and that gives us confidence. We fear not
that the Opposition be confounded with France. The
Opposition is small, quarrelsome, and basely envious.
France is great and peaceable. These people who are
driving their country into war, are revolted when
they are called the war party ; and they are right in
some respect in rejecting this qualification. Their
common sense tells them that war would be a fright-
al scourge for the whole earth. If they were to
plunge their country into a war, they would be the
very first to lament it and groan in their hearts.
[heir success would confound them. They court
passions which they know to be bad and baleful.
They Manse with their mouths that which in their
consciences they approve of ; and if they had less con-
fidence in the wisdom of the Government they insult,
in the courage of the Minister whom they treat as a
coward, they would not venture to be so bellicose
in their language. M. GUIZOT will maintain peace—
and this is their reliance. The war they make is but
a war against the Ministry. If, however, their suc-
cess should be greater than they wish—if the country
should in the end fancy itself dishonoured—oh,
then, indeed! so much the worse for France! She
would have to get out of her difficulties in the
best way she could. What would you ? One
must be something, and when one is not in the
Ministry, where can one be if not in the Opposi-
tion ? Let us then make opposition! The KING is
going into England. The Queen of BRITAIN came
first to visit him in France—all Europe is attentive,
and more than one King, perhaps, looks in spite on
this union of two Governments who hold in their
hands the peace of the world. The Constitutional
King of FRANCE will receive in a free country
marks of sympathy, which are not granted to ab-
solute monarchs. We are no longer in those days
when to be prodigal of caresses, while ;the parties
only thought of cutting one another's throats, passed
for a master-piece of policy. This approximation of
the Revolution of 1688 to the Revolution of 1830 is a
great and solemn event. But M. GulzoT is Minister!
The KING'S journey into England is, therefore, the
coup-de-grace of our national dignity, and in the ex-
pression of its spite the dynastic Opposition goes far
beyond the radical Opposition. We have said that
the Opposition is well known abroad; but, happily,
France is well known there also, and this
it is that gives us confidence. We have no
apprehension that one will be confounded with
the other. The Opposition is petty, quarrelsome,
and basely envious—France is great and peaceful ; and
blind, indeed, must they be who doubt of her mode-
ration, her peaceful spirit, her profound discretion,
after the proofs she has given during a series of four-
teen years. It is she who has put the curb on the
restive parties, and who, despite of the Opposition,
has left it to flounder in an impotent minority. It
is she who has given to her Government force enough
to establish order and maintain peace amidst conspi-
racies, plots, assassinations, revolts, and intrigues
more dangerous perhaps than open violence ! 'With-
out the support of the country what could the Go-
vernment have done? How ably, without going
further back, did it bring back to order the spirits
excited by the follies of 1840. No, no ! Be quiet !
You may be called hot-headed, narrow-minded,
fractious. hut the_dianitY of France will not suffer
for you are not France, nor will France be judged of
by you. We thank Heaven that her cause is not
Yours !"
The accounts in the English papers of the affair
between Lieutenant ROSE and the French naval cap-
tain at Otaheite, has excited some bitter remarks
from the war party, as if the insult, if insult it was,
had been offered to the French officer. Several of
the Ministerial papers contradict the report as intelli-
gence had been received by the French Government
to the 11th of May, while the affair is stated to have
taken place on the 7th of April. The following ap-
pears in the Moniteur :
"Reports from the Governor of the French establish-
ments in the Pacific arrived to-day (Wednesday) at the
office of the Minister of Marine and Colonies. These re-
ports are to the 11th of May. They make no mention
of the accident which is said to have taken place relative
to an officer of the English navy, and of which several
journali of this morning have copied accounts from the
London papers. No new engagement has taken place
since the affair of the 17th of April, in which the insur-
gents entrenched at Mahaena were defeated and dis-
persed. On the Ist of May the King's fete was cele-
brated at Papeiti with pomp, and amidst the most per-
fect order. The chiefs of all the districts of Otaheite and
of the island of Eimeo were invited to attend. Almost
all of them were present at the ceremony, accompanied
by the principal personages of each district, and they
showed dispositions of goodwill and of conciliation, which
Governor Bruat considered as very satisfactory."

The greatest excitement took place on the Paris
Bourse when it was known that the contracts for the
Orleans and Bordeaux line of railway were finally
declared. The Constitutionnel gives this account of
the scene : .

" The adjudication was scarcely terminated, when the
speculators hurried off in their cabriolets to the Bourse.
It was a veritable steeple chase. In the Rue de Varen-
nes, the horse of one party having come down, the per-
sons in the cabriolet hurried off, to arrive at the temple
of fortune, without giving a thought to the fate of the
driver and horse. We may well say temple of fortune,
since in the first hour the shares of the Mackenzie Com-
pany realised as much as 90f., and those of the Company
Bartholony 125 f. of prime on the share of 500 f."
The following appears in the Siecle

" There has been scandalous goings on at the Bourse
during the last few days. The promises of shares of the
different Companies which intended to offer tenders for
the Orleans and Bordeaux Railroad were made the ob-
ject of frightful jobbing. Never was the gambling now
prohibited by law carried on in a more barefacel way.
Simple promises, which the following day might prove
to be valueless, were sold at considerable premiums, and
this in spite of the King's Commissioner, who is ap-
pointed to see that the Bourse does not degenerate into
a mere gaming-house. What is the meaning of these
negotiations ? The subscription itself fur shares in
undertakings of which the nature and condition are un-
known is very irregular, the parties who subscribe not
knowing what they pledge themselves to, or what they
obtain, because they are ignorant of the extent of the
sacrifices agreed by the managing Committee ; but, as if
this'irregularity were not great enough, a new one is
introduced. Simple hopes are made the ground of spe-
culation; and large premiums are paid for the shares of
the Company which appears to have the greatest chance
of obtaining a contract."

TICE BOURSE-THURSDAY, OCT. 10.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cants
Four-and-a-Half lll 80 .. 111 80 .. 111 80 .. 111 80
Three per Cents.•..• 82 20 •• 82 20 •• 82 .. A 2
Bank of France. •••• 3060 ..3060 ••3060 —3060
Laftitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharesllo2 50 ..1102 50 ..1102 50 —llO2 50

5.000 f "Sharesso,so ..5050 ..5050 ..5050
Belgian Bank.. ••. . 657 50 .. 657 50 .. 657 50 .. 657 50
Belgian Fives,lB4o •••• • • • • 1031 • • 1031 lon .. lon
. 1842 •• •••• •• 106: .. 105 f 105 1051
dpanish Thiees • • ..•.. •• • 341 • • 34: • • 34 .. 341
Active .• ••••• . • • • • 32/ —, 321 .. 32/ 321
Portuguese Five per Cents... 50 .. 501 .. 50 .. 501
Neapolitan••••
Roman

RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain •••••••• •• •• •• 923 75 .. 523 75 •• 922 50 .. 922 50
Versailles, R.B.
L. 8.......•••• 267 50 .. 268 75 .. 267 50 .. 267 50
Rouen •• •• •• ••••1000 . 1000 .. 995 .. 995

Rouen to Havre
Orleans
Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 267 50 .. 271 25 . 267 50 270
Avignon to Marseilles•..... 772 50... 772 50 . 770 .. 770
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER 15.
Versailles,lA3 • • .... 266 25 .. 268 75 .. 266 25 .. 268 75
997 50 —lOOO .. 996 25 .. 997 50
RouentoHavre•••••••••• •• 760 .. 760 .. 755 .. 750

.
Orleans .• •. •• —lOlO ..1010 —lOO3 7.5 ..1005
Strasburg to 8a1e.......... 270 .. 272 50 .. 264 7$ .. 270
Avignon to Molleilles.• •• •• 772 50 .. 772 50 .. 771 25 .. 772 50

The daily journals have published an account of
an insult said to have been offered to Lieutenant Rose,
of her Majesty's ship Hazard, by the French naval
authorities at Otaheite. This announcement, of what
was deemed to be a fresh subject of complaint
and of demand for satisfaction by Great Britain,
has evidently caused great excitement in Paris. We
have the more pleasure, therefore, in being enabled
to state that the impression in the best informed quarters
in this country is, that no insult whatever was offered, or
intended to be offered, to Lieutenant Rose by the naval
officers of France, and that the whole proceeding can be
satisfactorily explained as regards the part the French
took in it.--.o6server,

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
There was a fair demand for Cotton at Liverpool yes-
terday, and the market was well supplied, at previous rates.
Sales 5,000 bales. Shares continuedactive, and a large bu-
siness was done :—Bristol and Gloucester,46; Chester and
Holyhead, 74 ; Dublin and Drogheda, 70k ; Eastern
Counties, 13i ; Grand Junction, 210; Ditto New, Quar-
ters, 38k ; Great 'Western, Fifths, 26 ; Lancaster and
Carlisle, 14 ; Liverpool and Manchester, New, 35; Lon-
don and Birmingham, 213 ; Manchester and Birming-
ham, 50k ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 125 k ; Mid-
land Counties, 111; North Union. 120 ; Sheffield and
Manchester, 95 ; South-Eastern, 401 ; Ditto, New, 13k;
Lyons and Avignon, 2i; Paris and Orleans, 39k; Paris
and Rouen, 39 ; Paris and Strasbourg, 41s. ; Orleans,
Tours, and Bourdeaux, 3k ; Central of France, 34.
The Bank of England returns to the 7th instant, on a
comvarison with the previous weekly statement, offers
the following features only deserving special allusion:—
A restriction in the paper circulation of 279,9251., ns
regards the issue department ; a further increase in the
public deposits; under the banking department ; but a
slight decrease in the general lodgments, a trifling re-
duction in the rest, and a diminution in the bullion, to
the total amount of 319,9491.
There are no later arrivals to-day from any quarter.
A fair business has been done this week in the general
produce markets ; and the same satisfactory feature
distinguishes them ; vim., an absence of speculation.
Indigo has improved within the last two days ; and the
large Colonial Wool sales have gone off favourably.
The Public Securities have been firm to-day. The
purchases on account of the Sinking Fund will
be limited to 43,5191., as regards Stock, but
there will be again 400,0001. invested in the Exchequer
Bills, made out pursuant to the Act 57 Geo. 111., cap.
48. Consols are 100 a to a for Money, and the same for
Account. Exchequer Bills realise 755. to 775. premium.
The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. obtain 102 k to
1024 ; Bank Stock is worth 206 ex-div. ; and India
Stock, 289.
The accounts from Spain have no influence in promot-
ing speculation in the securities of that country. The
Five per Cents. are 231 ; and the Three per Cents.
31 fs being almost nominal. Portug,ues Converted are
marked 51 ; Mexican bring 343 ; and Peruvian, 25
to + ; Dutch Two- and-a-Hal f per Cents. are 621- to L.
The Railway Shares have been quiet, and buyers are
still rather too freely met, to allow of the market being
called very firm. The French lines continue an excep-
tion, as they attract more notice at improving rates.
Banks and Mines are dull.
PRICSE OF BRITISH HUN DS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
sank Stack 2OB

.. .
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Coniols. Antis
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities 102%%%
India Stock
India Bonds,l,ooo —
Ditto under 1,000........... .............
Exchequer Bills I%cl. .114 d
WO. ........•-•—........... —••...— ..... 75""77 pm.
5001.,•..•...-•....•.......... •.......•.... 73 77 pm.
I Ditto 5ma11.................. ............ 75 77 pm.
Ditto Advertised.
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. .....
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Deferred Stock lscy
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents. 253(
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840. .......
Dutch 234 per Cents 6'2W4%
Dutch 5 per Cents
PRICES OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ........ 104% to
Bristol and Exeter
to IS
Bristol and Gloucester 3O ......... 4534
Caledonian
Cnester and Holyhead 5 „,„ ..... 71431 ~.. to
Eastern Counties
Eastern Union
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ... ..... . 63
Great North of England. lOO 12531 ...... to
Greet Western ..... ............ ..... 75
Ditto 36 Shares
Ditto Fifths
London and Birmingham. lOO „„,
Ditto New Thirds 2 34% to
Dit o % Shares
London and Blackwall 16% ...... 6%% .. to
London and Greenwich (Preference) 18% ...... 23%... to
London and South Western
London and Croydon
London and York 231 1%% ... to
Midland Counties lOO llO 10934 to 11334
Birmingham and Derby .... ...... 100
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 21
Northern and Eastern ......... ..... 45
Norwich and Brandon .........„ 6
Ditto New
South Eastern and Dover ..... ... 3234
Ditto New
Trent Valley
York and North Midland ....... 50
Ditto % Shares
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
Ditto Selby Scrip
• Central of France ....
Boulogne and Amiens
Orleans. Tours, and Bourdeauxl.
(a'Anthou aid's Company) j 1
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Orleans
Parisand R0nen.............. ...... .... 20
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Union of London
M ' r ' ANCHESTE :)TOCX. EXCHANGE, OCT. 11. —We have
h ad a better market to-day;and prices generally cl,tse firmer
Churnetf,, 4+ 7-16; Eastern Counties, 1331 ; Hudders-
fields, 4 ; Windermere, 4 5 16; Leeds and Dewsbury
8-i; London and York, 3i ; Manchester and Birming-
ham, 50; ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 5 1-16 ; Lincoln-
shire, 2 5-16 7-16; Southport awl Euxton, 2 13-16
3i; Boulogne and Amiens, 4.
CLOSING PRICES,
BRITISH FUNDS
Bank Stock cx dlv. 206 Indian Stock 299
3 per Cent. Red 99% Ditto Bonds ~......»..... 94 pru.
3 per Cent. Cons - lOO% Ditto 01(1 Annuities ',..„ -
14U1011,i'aciir.-'---- -121171-atliNl7, I;4l9kVi .::-- --,7 pin-.
New 5 per Cent.--
Long Annuities 4 to expire : Ditto Small '77 pm.
Tan left) — ;Bank Stock for Acct.... 210
Oct. 1859 Consols for Act. 10034
Jan. 1800 ......... -
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent ... ...... Portuguese, 5 per Cent .....
Belgian, 5 per Cent 1111,4 Ditto, New Ditto, —
Brazilian Bonds ............ Ba% Paasian' 5 per Cent
Buenos Ayres, d per bent... --Russian,s per Cent —
,:hilian, o per Cent
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Jitto, 1824.......... .......... ..... Ditto, 3 per Cent 3431
Cuba Bonds, 0 per Cent Ditto, Deferr,.,.4
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 15.25, 5 per Cent..., Exchange
Mexican. 5 per Cent ......... .French, 3 per Cent. —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837.... Dutch, 234 per Cent 6234
Peruvian, 18f25, 6 per Cent... 25% Ditto. 5 per Cent 98%
SHAREs
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid)....„.„.
..... 10416
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ........ 73
Bristol and Gloucester (30 paid) ...................
~, 153
4
Caledonian (5 paid)
Chester and Holyhead ( a paid)
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid
Great North of England, 100 paid
Great Western (75 paid`
Ditto Half Shares, 50 paid BB
Ditto Fifths, 12 paid
Kendal and Windermere, 1% paid 431
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto, New Thirds, 2 paid
Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 paid)
London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 61%
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Greenwich (122. 15s. 4d. paid)
Diito, Preference or Privilege, £lB 17s 2cl paid 23%
London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) 74
London and Croydon (Trunk) l6i
London and York, 231 paid 3
Midland Counties (100 paid) lie
Midland, Birmingham, and Derby, £lOO paid
Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid 4B
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid ll3l
Ditto, New Shares
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) .....
Trent Valley, '2 paid Bg
York and North Midland (50 paid) 10634
Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) ••• 52
York and Scarborough Branch (10 paid) ..... ..., 5334
York and Selby Scrip. paid 4l p.m
Central of France, 2 paid 4
Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid . . 4
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid
Paris and Lyons, 2 paid 3
Paris and Orleans (20 paid) - ... 39%
Paris and Rouen. 2U paid

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BRUSSELS, OCT. 10.—The average price of wheat, last
week, was 19f. 21c., and that of rye 10f. 47c. The
prices are nearly the same as for several weeks past, and
there is consequently no change in the import and ex-
port duties.
Several merchants of Brussels have just addressed to
the Minister of the Interior, and the Minister of Finance
a letter, remonstrating against the projected augmenta-
tion of the duties on printed calicoes imported from
England. _ _ _

The Princess Mary steamer left Ostend on Tuesday,
with 110 passengers, among whom were several inhabi-
tants of our provincial cities, who avail themselves of the
fine weather, as well as .the cheapness and convenience
of this mode of fravelling, to visit London. The Polish,
Countess Vrisiliff and suite were among the passengers.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussrms, OCT. 9
Actua Debt, 246 per Cent.,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent
98 Loan of Thirty Millions Four per Cent .... ~ :
Three per Cent: ..- ...... ~.;:63,4
---- Thirty-seven .311111 ns, ditto. - ........... ios
.
1 .
.. ..
....,-_,, (1840).... ...........
104
Loan of City, 1843,
844
-.... ...... •••••••••••• ...... ......." ;our per. Cent.... ............... .... le •;1
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent.
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent 604
Issue of 1841......... ...... , , ... .. ..... ........ ........
—Brussels Pavers, pct. 10.
Au', ial A N VU N W.—VIENNA, Ocr. 4.
1104
Five per Cents. 3fetalhgues .
100% Four per Cents.
~ .......... ....
Three per Cents. .................... . ... . ... ........... . 76
Bank Shares .. ......, 1598
AllgemeinaZeitung, Oct, T.

THE RECENT PO ST- OFFICE
DELINQUENcIES-
In reference to the late disgraceful .combination which
existed amongst the letter-carriers in opening the letters
of sporting gentlemen, and in order to put a stop more
effectually to such' practices in future, the following
notice was affixed to the-walls in the Geheral Post-office
on Thursday : NONCE. •
" It must be distinctly understood that no sub-sorter,
or letter-carrier, may, in the office, open any letter in-
tended for himself until he has shown the address to
some other sub-sorter, or letter-carrier.
" The late disgraceful proceedings have rendered this
regulation necessary, in order to prevent the repetition
of c,;llusions such as existed amongst the parties recently
dismissed. It will hereafter be the duty of the assistant •
inspectors to examine the addresses of letters they may
observe open in the hands of any sub-sorter or letter-
carrier.
" General Post-office, September, 1844."
Hitherto all notices that have been issued affecting
the letter-carriers were merely written on paper, and
posted up ; but the above notice, so that it might be
more conspicuous and more permanent, has been painted
in white letters on a black board, so that none may
plead ignorance thereof.

Friday a deputation from the distressed Needle-
women's Society, accompanied by Mr. Alderman Fare-
brother, the President of the society, and the honorary
secretary, Mr. Roper, had a long interview with the
Poor-law Commissioners on the subject of the low prices
at which needlework was taken in at the different
unions, when the Commissioners were pleased to express
their anxious wish to afford all proper assistance to meet
the wishes of the deputation.