The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-26 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARES.

Versailles,R.B... .. .... 390 .. 390 .. 390 .. 390
L.B. ..... ....... 287 50 . 287 50 .. 286 25 .. 286 25
Ronenl.
Rouen to Havre............ 767 50 .. 770 .. 767 50 770
Orleans •...

Strasburg to Bale •• •• 278 75 .. 281 25 .. 278 75 . 280
Avignon to Marseilles.•• 780 . 788 75 .. 780 .. 788 75
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER 31.
Versailles, R. 8... . 390 .. 390 .. 390 .. 390
L. 8..• •• •• •••• 286 25 .. 287 50 .. 286 25 .. 287 50
Rouen 1037 50 ..1043 75 ..1037 50 ..1040

Rouen to Havre 767 50 .. 772 50 .. 767 50 .. 772 50
Orleans ..•..•

Strasburg to Bale.. •• •••• •• 278 75 .. 281 25 .. 278 75 .. 281 25
Avignon to Marseilles•..... 782 50 .. 787 60 . 782 50 .. 787 50

We have perused, with much interest, the valuable
tract just issued by the publisher, Mr. S. Clarke, of
Pall-mall East, entitled the " First Report of the
Committee of the Society for the Emancipation of
Industry, bringing down their proceedings to the ter-
mination of the Parliamentary Session of 1844." It
is a document every way worthy of the careful labours,
the unwearied zeal, and the undaunted spirit of a
body of individuals who have rendered so much good
service to the common weal by their sustained efforts
to enlighten public opinion, and to enlist the
public voice against the disastrous fallacies in-
corporated in the monetary system of the Bullionists.
A more complete and unqualified case was
never established, upon inferences more logically
drawn from incontrovertible premises, than is proved
in this able and temperate paper against the monster-
mischief known as Sir Robert Peel's Bank Charter
Bill of last session. It makes its appearance, we
trust, in good time to invigorate and inspirit those
somewhat tardy, but determined efforts, which the
agricultural, commercial, and banking interests of
Scotland are now making, from Jedburgh to John
o'Groat's House, against the threatened administra-
tion to their now thriving country, of the Premier's
quack nostrum—the golden pills—which, notwith-
standing all the skill he has heretofore taken credit for
exhibiting, as consulting physician to the State, have
produced absolutely nothing but disorganisation and
disease in her constitution. We warned our brethren,
North of the Tweed, while the meditated mischief
had been as yet but briefly announced, as kindly in-
tended " for England, only," that the apathy with
which they looked on at the " Doctor's" " magnetic
passes" on their southern kinsmen, would soon be
converted into the alarm consequent on the fact of
being themselves the next patients selected for expe-
riment. Our words have proved " owre true" almost
sooner than we expected. The banking interest of
Scotland certainly exhibited, pending the last session,
a degree of moral timidity in nut running to
the rescue of their neighbour Nasilst the fire
had not yet scathed their own roof-tree. Now
that the incendiary intention of making tLem
submit to the same disaster, is fairly announced,
we trust they will be all "up and doing,"
and prepared for efficient resistance and defence
before the next session commences. In a day or two
we shall return to the Society's " Report." The sig-
nificant statements of our City Correspondent, corro-
borated, as they are, by the statements which appear
in the " Money Market" articles of all our Contempo-
raries, are but too likely, we fear, to involve the in-
dications of an approaching re-visitation of some of
these evil influences which have periodically developed
themselves since the passing of Peel's " Currency"
Bill in 1819, as its unquestionable and necessary
results.

in occasions us much regret to learn that whilst
the Imperial Parliament, and some of the principal
municipal bodies of the kingdom are making the most
praiseworthy and benevolent efforts to provide for the
labouring classes of the people, in a more especial de-
gree, places of healthful resort, public walks, parks,
&c., the Commissioners who preside over the adminis-
tration of the estates of his Royal Highness the
Prince of Wales, which are the hereditary pro-
perty of the Duchies of Cornwall and Lan-
caster, are pursuing a precisely opposite course. They
have hosen too, a season which has been remarkably
distinguished by the prevalence of those disorders
which arise from the overcrowding of tenements in
densely-peopled and ill-drained localities, to hold out
a premium for the profit of his Royal highness's
rent-roll, to the further indulgence of that spirit of
brick and mortar investment, which is the local curse
of all the suburban sections of this capital. Kenning-
ton-green—a small plot, heretofore a common " green"
(as its name imports)—afterwards usurped as a market-
garden, and in either destination forming an open and
cheerful space between the Vauxhall and Kennington-
roads, at their junction near Kennington-cross, is now
let out for building leases. No greater nuisance
to the houses on the east and west sides of the green,
or the said two roads,lrespectively, can be imagined:;
but the question of health to the operative and indus-
trial communities who reside in, or habitually fre-
quent this vicinity, is, of course, of para-
mount importance. The contemplated nuisance
is attempted to be justified on the plea that
it is expedient to reduce the present charge
of managing the revenues of the Duchies, to one of
which the land belongs. The reduction of the salary
of the Chancellor or the auditors would be equivalent,
we should say, to the fee simple of twenty such plots,
and would be unattended with one particle of that ill-
feeling which the execution of this notable project is
calculated so justly to excite. We had hoped that
the time had gone by for this species of land-jobbing,
at the cost of the comforts of the poor and the health
of the public.

Sir James Graham arrived in town to-day from
Windsor Castle, where, it is understood, the Right
Hon. Baronet had been to make arrangements for the
royal visit to the City on Monday next, on the open-
ing of the new Exchange.
Lady Peel arrived in town this morning.

We understand that Sewell and Co., of Old
Compton-street, Soho, silk-mercers in ordinary to the
Queen, purpose closing their establishment on Monday,
in consequence of her Majesty's visit to the City.
BRUSSELS, OCT. 24.—The Senate had a short sit-
ting yesterday, in Viich the draft of an address, in
answer to the King's speech, was brought up. The
draft was, as usual, an echo of the speech. The Chamber
of Representatives chose for its President M. Liedt, who
had 62 votes, the number of Members present being 67.