The Sun.
London, England, 1845-04-28 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARES.

St. Germain ..... ... • —.1105 1105 ..1095 ..1095
Versailles, 11.13•••••••••••• 527 50 .. 527 50 .. 527 50 .. b 27 50
L.B•••••••••••• 345 . 345 •• 340 .. 340
Rouen.. ...••• •• ••••••••••11?2 • 1100 —1097 50 —lO9B 75

Rouen to Havre••••
Orleans .•••
itrasburg to Bale•• •••• •• 296 25 .. 296 25 .. 290
Avignon to Marseilles•• •• —102? 50 ..1022 15 —1029
Orleans to Vierzon •• • • •• •• 9a5 •. 855 .• 845
Bordeauxst.
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50 ......125003,070 50
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1520290520
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RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, MAT 3.
•..... • • 340 •• 342 50 .• 337 b 0 .• 337 50
••••••••••••1102 58 .-1102 50 ..1096 25 ..1096 25
297 50 •• 297 50 .. 287 50 .. 290
Versailles,
::::1030 •• 1030 ..1020 ..1020
7.129102 50
.•••1921102 50
Rotten to Havre. •• •• •• ••••1292107
50
...•1922107
50
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.. 915
..1210
.. 290
• 1022 50
.. 207 0
• 845

In our Saturday's„ impression we inserted a letter
signed " Hospitality, the writer of which feelingly ad-
vocates the propriety of raising a fund for rewarding
and making some provision for one of the most intrepid
as generally known, we
body of men who ever engaged in the most perilous ser-
vices that can be ex.acted,ol our fellow-creatures by the
demands of humanity. The merits and services of the
notcu eoq(7ut
ethers
fhr,o m
off them, they are,
in daringae ,1
as
strugglethe
in so many instances, lost
.themselves. Their task i;
always one of imminent peril, and demanding the most
undaunted energy both of body and
of purpose. It is, to
brave the utmost fury of that element and to encounter
boatmen
fatalt arco
sandsrenot
the tremendous horrors of those storms, in which the
shipwrecked voyager expects, on the Goodwins, that
destruction from whence i?o human hands, but those of
these brave boatmen, are likely to snatch them. A very
recent case in which the dreadful sacrifice of two boats'
crews in one of these arduous and daring efforts was the
result of their devoted enterprise—gives an additional
and a melancholy force to the suggestion of our corre-
spondent. The violence of the equinoctial gales, too,
that have been lately blowing, and the boisterous condi-
tion of the weather yesterday, may well serve to remind
us of the strong and righteous claims that such men have
upon the bounty as well as the sympathies of the coun-
try at large. It is really a debt of honour as well as of
gratitude yet to be discharged by the public to the brave
seamen who have snatched so many precious lives from
the yawning deep, and those engulfing sands, to pro-
vide a fund from whence some. provision may be secured
for the wives and families of such of these hardy boat-
men as perish in their calling; and rewards be dispensed
for the encouragement of those who perform, and sur-
vive, the more remarkable and hazardous of these res-
cues.
We have with all readiness given publicity to the
proposal of our correspondent, and shall with great plea-
sure contribute our aid to the advancement of the project
he has pointed out, whenever it shall be adopted.

FLANDERS and HAMBURGIL MAIL
BRUSSELS, Arlin. 23.—The central section appointed to
examine the project of law relative to the five railways, has
not yet concluded its labours. There will be a report for each
railway. The first report will be that of M. Cogels, on the
railway between Jemeppe and Louvain. We have not heard
that any serious objections have yet been made ; some modi-
fications only are spoken of.
We learn with pleasure that the Commission, appointed
some months ago by the Minister of the Interior, to inquire
into the best means of saving persons in case of fire, has
made its report to the Chambers. It appears from the report,
that the Commission, after examining a great number of
machines, fire-escapes, &c , employed both in foreign coun-
tries and in Belgium, have decided unanimously that that
called "La Sauveur," invented by
Major Kessels, is superior
to all those hitherto known, for affording aid in extinguish-
ing fire, arid saving the lives of the inmates when in danger.
The machine does not want any
support from the walls of the
building on fire.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIEStris, APRIL IS.
5 per Cent. Metalliques• • • • ••
44
...... • •
4 per Cent. ditto... ...
3 per Cent. ditt0........ . 7814
Bank Shares . • • • • • • • • • • •
Esterhazy's Loan ••• • • • • •••••• • • • • • 581 A
—Allgemeine Zeitung, April 20.

DRuRY-LANE THEATRE —The present week closes
l)uprez's engagement ; and this evening, Wednesday,
and Friday, are the last nights this gifted singer can be
heard on the English s.tage. lie performs in the Bride
of Lammermoor this night, and on Friday and on Wed-
nesday he will appear in Guillaume Tell, owing to the
enthusiasm his p;•rii)rmance of Arnold excited on the oc-
casion of her Majasty's state visit.
The private view of the exhibition of the Old So-
ciety of Painters in Water Colours, in Pall-mall East,
was on Saturday visited by a numerous company of
nobility and gentry, amateurs of the fine arts, amongst
whom we noticed the Duke and Duchess of Northum-
berland, Marquises Aylesbury and Lansdowne, Mar-
chionesses Aylesbury and Lansdowne, Earls Powis,
Mansfield, Brownlow, and:Jersey ; Countesses Mansfield,
Brownlow, Jersey, Dowager Morley, and St. Aulaire ;
Bishops of • London, Lichfield, and Winchester ; Lord
and Lady Prudhoe, and Lord Colborne ; Duke de Soto
mayor, Count Mauricepietrichstein, and Chevalier Bun-
sen ; Sirs E. Head, J. C, Hobhouse, T. Acland, &c. ;
Ladies Head, Mary Wood, &e.
1 he prize for a convivial duet offered by the. Duke
of Cambridge, patron of the Melodist Club, was awarded on
Thursday, at the meeting of the Club, to Mr. Parry ; and the
premium for the second best to Mr. C. E. Horn. Messrs.
Manvers and Machin sang the compositions (four in number)
extremely well.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000
bales, and for the week they amount to 72,450 bales. The
stock is about 136,000 bales larger than at this time last y ear.—
In Shares there was less doing, and prices were rather flat :
Aberdeen Railway, 437 ; Barnsley Junction, 4%; Bir-
kenhead, Manchester, and Cheshire, 11% ; Birmingham
and Gloucester, 132; Blackburn, Darwen, and Bolton, 5 4%;
Belfast and Ballymena, 7% ; Bolton, Wigan, and ,Li-
verpcol, 11% 1/4 ' ; Caledonian, 11% IA • Ditto, Extension,
31/2 31. Bs. 9d. ; Cambridge and Lincoln, %; Chester
and Birkenhead, 47 45%; Ditto, Half Shares, 23%; Chester
and Holyhead, 15% 16 ; Churnet Valley, 6% ; Clitheroe
Junction, 3%; Clydesdale Junction, 7%; Cork and Water-
ford, 214 ; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 10% ; Dublin,
Mullingar, and Athlone, 3% % ; Dundalk and -Enniskillen,
5% ; Eastern Counties, 19 ' • Ditto, New Shares, 5 ; Edin-
burgh and Northern, 2%; Glasgow and Dumfries, 235.
245. 6d. • Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 18; Grand Junc-
tion, Half Shares, 113%; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 5% ;
Ditto, 30/. Shares, 23 ; Goole and Doncaster, Ys ; Hudders-
field Canal andßailway, 634 %; Huddersfield and Sheffield,
8% ; Inverness and Elgin, 13/ ; Inverness and Perth, :!,;i
Jamaica Junction, 2% premium; Limerick and Waterford,
8%; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 535. 6d. ; London
and Birmingham, 234%; Ditto, 321. Shares, 44; Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 31% %; London and Brighton, 63 ; Lon-
donderry and Enniskillen, 4%; Ditto, New 501. Shares,
14; London and York, 4/. 3s. 6d. 4/ ; Direct Northern,
78s. 6d. 4l; Leeds and Dewsbury, 6 ; Leeds and Thirsk, 4%;
Leeds and West Riding Junction, 6% ; Lynn and Ely,
63/ 7; Manchester and Birmingham, New Quarter Shares
5%; Manchester and Buxton, 5%; Manchester, Sheffield,
and Midland, 8% %; Manchester and Leeds, 146 ; Midland
Railway, 153% 1,4 ; Ditto, 401. Shares, 184 ; Ditto, Fifth
Shares, 3% ; Newark and Sheffield, 4% I-Newry and En-
niskillen, 4% 4; North British, 1714 ; Ditto, half Shares,
414 ; North \Vales Mineral, 17%; North Western, 965. 3d.
4%; Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 81s. 6d. ; Preston
and Wyre, 34%; Runcorn Gap, New Shares (80 dis.),
151%; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter Shares, 14 13% ;
Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Cheshire, 5/. 995. ; South-Eastern
and Dover, New Shares, No. 3,7% ; Scottish Central,
53/4 ; Trent ;
Valley, 18 Y 4 Ditto, Extension, 714 ; Ditto,
Continuation, 2% ; West Yorkshire, 6 %; Wor-
cester and Tring, 4; Bordeaux and Cette, 2%; Dijon and
Mulhouse, 2%; Namur and Liege, 5%; Northern of France,
English, 51A ; Paris and Lyons English, (Laffitte's), 545. ;
Ditto, French, 2%; Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's), 51s. 6d.
2 ; Verona and Ancona, 114.
The following is an analysis of the Bank of England re-
turns for the week to the 19th instant :—Notes issued,
29,184,220/. ; decrease, 32,7301. Rest, 3,151,3331.; increase,
3,755/. Public deposits, 3,218,350/. ; decrease, 1,136,8161.
Other deposits, 11,531,2671. ; decrease, 221,755/. Seven-day
and other bills, 1,122,066/. ; increase, 36,097/. Notes,
7,791,345/. ; decrease, 210,0891. Bullion, 15,842,840/. ; de-
crease, 50,0871.

The new Scotch and Irish banking law is less hostile than
was anticipated, but we doubt whether any interference will
be palatable to our cannie neighbours north of the Tweed.
A case is spoken of in the City which forcibly illustrates
the justice of our remarks as to the necessity for
extreme caution on the part of all who embark in
foreign railways. The Namur and Liege Company, which
is said to have given no notification of such intention
at the time when the prospectuses were issued, has printed
on the back of its bankers' receipts, and therefore only known
to the shareholder after he has paid his money, a notice to the
effect that out of the profits a dividend of five per cent.
is to be paid to the shareholders, 1 per cent. is to be reserved
for appropriation in the manner deemed most advisable,
and the surplus is to be equally divided between the pro-
jectors, or concessionaires, and the shareholders. Anything
so monstrous was perhaps never before heard of,
even in these days of railroad enterprise, for the
French companies, reckoning the first men in the
City among their directors, only take one-tenth of the
surplus profits, after paying a good dividend. The share-
holders of the Namur and Liege certainly should take early
steps to protest against such an appropriation.
The Funds opened rather flatly to-day, but look now
somewhat firmer. Consols are 98% to 99% for Money, and
99 to 9914 for Account. Exchequer-bills have been firm, at
58s. to 60s. premium, and India Bonds at 71s. to 745.
premium. Bank Stock has realised 210 to 2101,x. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 1003/4 to
101%.
The Foreign Securities are quite nominal. Portuguese
Converted have been 66%; Mexican, 37%; Russian, 1171/ :
and Dutch Four per Cents., 971,E to 97%.
On the whole Railway Shares look firmer to-day.__

ONE - CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consols
New 31/1 per Cents 10034 101% 101%
Long Annuities toexpireJan.lB6o 11% 11%
India Bonds, 1,0001 74 74
Ditto under 1,000/.
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Account....
Exchequer Bills, 1,000/., 11,4d.1 60..58 pm. 58
Ditto 500/.
Ditto Small
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... —
Ditto Account
Ditto, Deferred —
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Converted —

98
991 A

37%
18

Ditto Account 66% 66%
Russianlßonds ••• • ... 117% 1171
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent. •• 4l
Dutch, 2% per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent., Certifies
PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES.
CLOSING

Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% 2%
Birmin and Gloucester. 100 133
Do. New
Ditto 1,4 Shares
Bri'ton, Lewes, & Hast. 10
Bristol and Exeter 7O
Do. New .... . ......... 2
Bristol and Gloucester... 30
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1% ......7/4 ...... •• •
Chester and Holyhead... 5
Churnet Valley
Coventry, Bedworth, and
Nuneaton ........ ...... 114 314
Direct Northern
Direct Norwich
Dublin and Belfast June 21/ lO3/
, Dublin and Galway 21...... 4/214 ...... ...
Dublin, Belfast, and
Coleraine
Eastern Counties 25 ...... 19% LA,•Nmg...
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1—.54 13s. 4d II,E
Ditto ditto, No. 2 l3s. 4d... 01/2
Eastern LTnion l5 .. ...
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ely and Bedford
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Ditto Extension
Great North of Scotland 21% 516
Great Western
Ditto % Shares 5O 103%
Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 2% ... .. 5%3/4
Harwich
Hull and Selby 5O
London and Birminghm (5t0ck)...234
,Do. 14 Shares
London and Blackwall. 161. 13s. 4d 9l/B'l4 8% ... ..
London and Brighton... 50 ...63 623/4 631/2 62%
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 173/
Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d...
Do. Preference ...18117s 2d 2414
London and S. Western 41/6s 10d SO
Do. New
f.ondon and York 2% 4VA14%••••••
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Birmin. 40
Midland 100
Do. New
Midland,Birm.,Derby 100 ll5
Newark and Sheffield ... 11,4 51% 43/4.........
North British
Do. New
North Kent
North Wales
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland I %••• 334%
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2%. . —4% .
South Devon... l5 ... .. 281/2
South Distrito & Dover 33128 4d... 411440%
Do., No. 2.
Do., No. 3
South Wales

2%
135

3?,%

10%

55
1154
71
16;i/,
7

214
65
23/4

134
31/8

1031 A
51/
14
100%
233%
3134
8%
62:1,1/
17%

2414
80

144
4%

liji
57
155
1714
115
43/4
17

43/4
5%
3
44
5
3

4%
271
41
71%4
5%
1%
19