The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-02 00:00:00

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i After the distribution of prizes to successful competitors in
the late exhibition at Paris, the King gave a grand enter-
tainment on Monday in the Palace of the Taileries to about
200 of the principal exhibitors. The number of prizes
awarded was six hundred; one hundred gold medals, two
hundred-silver medals, and three hundred bronze medals.
Some of the most meritorious and distinguished exhibitors
were made Chevaliers of the Legion of Honour.
Admiral Hamelin, who is to succeed M. Dupetit Thocara
in the command of the French station in the Pacific, had
sailed from Rochefort in the frigate Virginie.
About a month ago a young Englishman, of elegant ad-
dress, arrived at Brussels, and announced his intention of
carrying on business there as a banker. lie took a hand.
some house, and commenced operations by making large
purchased of furniture, &c., for which he paid in bills signsd
by Englishmen, and which he said he had discounted for the
parties, knowing that his money was safe. It was discovered
however, to be a plot for robbing the people of Brussels. Twe
of the parties were arrested, but the principal escaped.
The Helvetic complains of a new violatiod of the Swiss
territory by French custom-house officers, who, it says, have
crossed the Doubs, and seized a citizen of the Canton of
Berne, bound him, and carried him into France. The Helvetic
adds, that this is the third instance of invasion for which the
canton has had to demand reparation within the last three
years.
The attempt. to discover the grave of Moaart have not
succeeded, but the searches made for it hare disclosed that
of Gluck, which has been found in the cemetery of Watzleins-
dorf, at Vienna. It is covered by a slab, now broken in the
middle, and obscured with moss, behind a splendid monu-
ment, erected to the memory of a rich banker. It bears the
following modest inscription—" Here lies an honest German,
• good Christian, and a faithful husband, Cristophe Chevalier
de Gluck, Master of the Art of Music. He died on the 15th
November, 1787."

A letter from Chambhy states that M. Bravais, Professor
of Astronomy at Lyons, and M. Martins, Professor of Natural
History at Paris, intended ascending Mont Blanc, and re-
maining there six days, if possible, for the purpose of re-
solving several scientific questions. Observations are to be
taken during their stay at Chambiry, Geneva, the Grand St.
Bernard, and other places, in order to be compared with
those taken above, They purposed arriving at the summit
of Mont Blanc on the 27th inst., or, if the weather was un-
favourable, some days later.
Nearly one-third of the town of Landshut, in Bavaria, was
destroyed by fire cut the 20th. Two hundred families were
deprived of their homes.
The Geological Society of France will hold this year its
annual meeting extraordinary on August 12, at Chem-
bery, in Savoy. The Viscount d'Archiac de St. Simon, the
President; has addressed a circular to the members, re-
minding them of the peculiar interest offered. to their study
in the environs of the town, and also announcing that the
King of Sardinia, appreciating the services rendered to
science by the former meetings of the Society, had most
graciously given his permission for this special Assembly in
his States.

LAW AND POLICE.
The Norwich assizes commenced on Tuesday, The cause
list shows an entry of 16 cases, of which four are special
juries; and the calendar contains 55 prisoners for the county
alone, of which nine are charged with the crime of arson.
Edward Gurling was charged at 51arylebone Police-court
with having stolen, from the residence of Admiral Sir James
Whitehead. 18, Ca►endish-square, a gold watch and chain.
On the previous night, while the servants were employed in
assisting the Admiral, who had recently met with a severe
accident, into the house, the prisoner went down the area
steps, and making his way into the pantry, gold the watch
and seal, the property of the butler. He made his egress by
the way he had entered, and ran off as fast as he could, but
he was pursued and taken into'custody, with the watch and
chain in his possession. He was remanded for a week.
At Woolwich ten boys were charged by Mr. Wates, the
relieving officer, with maliciously destroying their clothes.
He said that fourteen vagrants came to him on the night
previous for relief, which he gave them, and then ordered
they should all go to the night-refuge fur the destitute rill
the next morning. They did so, an 1 on his going to see
what was to be done, he found the prisoners in a complete
state ofnudity. He had been comp, lied to furnish them with
clothing. They were sentenced to one month's bard labour
in Maidstone gaol. Nearly 150 committals of a similar kind
have taken place at that office, within a very short period.
Thomas Garner Richmond, formerly an extensive corn-
dealer and contractor, and for several years past one of the
fraternity of Morden College, Blackheath, appeared at the
Greenwich Police-court, to a summons at the instance of the
Rev. William Marsh, Chaplain of Morden College, charging
him with unlawfully, wilfully, and maliciously disturbing the
congregation on the 21st ult., in a very boisterous, irreverent,
and unseemly manner during the performance of Divine
service in the chapel of that institution. The defendant did
not deny the charge, but on promising not to enter the
church again the information was allowed to stand over till
the Ist of October.

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On Wednesday a special meetingof the New Zealand Com-
pany was held to receive the report of the Select Committee
appointed by the House of Commons to inquire into the pro-
ceedings of the Company. Mr. Soatnes was in the chair.
After a long discussion relative to the report, the meeting
was adjourned for a fortnight, to allow of time to take the
subject into consideration.

A general meeting of the Governors and supporters of the
Caledonian Asylum will take place at the Freemasons' Ta
vern on Monday, at which the Duke of Buccleuch will pre-
side. The object of the meeting, we understand, is to come
to a decision on the claims of the Free Church men to inter-
fere in the management of the charity.

MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NE WS.
CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
The English Stock Market closed with a dull appear-
ance again to•day, Consols being 99f to I. Stock is
more easil, obtainable for Account than Money. The
Reduced three-and• a-Halt per Cents. continued rather
flat 1021 to 103, and the New at 102 to 1021 ; Old
Three-and•a-Half per Cents, were done at 103; South
Sea Stock was as high as 116; and the East India Bonds
(under 1,0000 were at 975. premium.
The operations in the Foreign Market continue very
limited. Colombian were 14, Mexican 36k to 1, Peru-
vian 26, Portuguse Old Bohds 12, Spanish Actives 22i,
and the Three per Cents. 33k ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
oer Cents. were 61k.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester New, 10 ;
Bristol and Gloucester, 16 ; Dublin and Cashel, 3 ;
Eastern Counties New, 5 ; Great North of England
New, 4+ ; Great Western Fifths, 12i ; Croydon, 54 ;
Manchester and Leeds Half, 1 ; Midland, 11 ; New-
castle and Darlington, 184 ; Northern and Eastern
Scrip, 10i ; Ditto Quarter, 41 ; South Eastern, 51 ;
Ditto New, 81 ; Yarmouth and Norwich, 12k to 13 ;
York and North Midland Half, 30 ; and Orleans, Tours,
and Bordeaux, l to 11 premium. Blackwall have been
9*, Greenwich sf, and Midland, Birmingham, and Derby
ex-dividend, 16 to 20 discount.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 8,000 bales
at full rates ; 1,000 bales were on speculation, and 400 for
export. The sales included 200 bales Egyptian at 64d. to
7d., 200 Pernam at 5Ad. to 61, 350 Surat at 3d. to 344., and
the rest principally American at 441. to sid. A good business
was done in English, but very little in French railways.
Bristol and Gloucester, 109 ; Chester and Holy head, 6,i, ;
Eastern Counties, 124 ; Ditto Perpetual, 345. 4d. ; Glasgow
and Greenock, 121; Liverpool and Manchester, 227; Ditto
Half, 113 ; London and Birmingham 321. shares, 384 ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 554 ; Midland Counties, 1034 ;
North Union, 1324; South-Eastern, 38k; Trent Valley. 94;
Paris and Rouen, 384.
Accounts from Gibraltar state that in the transit of British
manufactured goods from thence into Spain, a very consider-
able falling off was observable, not arising from any more
favoured competitor being in the market, but from the inabi-
lity of the people in that country, who have for years re-
ceived their supplies from " the Rock," to adjust old respon-
sibilities. There were reports that the French bad been
committing serious atrocities at Algiers.
The bold. manner in which Sir Robert Peel spoke out I;st
night relative to the indignities offered to the British Consul
at Otaheite by the French authorities, self-dubbed " the
Protectorate," of Queen Pomare, has given much satisfaction
among political and monied men in the City.. Such petty
annoyances to those in friendly relations with Great Britain,
on the part of the French, put one in mind (as an old mer-
chant has just remarked to us) of the celebrated painting of
Landseer, as exemplified by the portraits of two dogs—under
the title of " Dignity and Impudence."
There are not any colonial arrivals of late dates, this
morning.
The Commissioners took 10,000/. Consols this morning,
at 994. The Otaheite business has had a most trifling influ-
ence. The correct value of Consols for Money is now 994 ; the
same for the Account. In the other funds the variations
have been slight to-day.
In the Foreign Bonds the transactions kayo been but few.
Spanish Five per Cents. have been quoted at 224 4 ; Mexican
at 364 A ; Brazilian at 844 ; and the Dutch Five per Cents.
at a fall from 1014 to 1014.
The Railway Shares in most instances continue toadvance•
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 31.—We have
no material change to report to- day, but stock generally is
rather more freely offered.—Barnsley Junction, 2 15-167
Bristol and Gloucester, 54j; Eastern Counties, 124; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 65 ; Huddersfield and Manchester, 25s
premium; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 5 1-16; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 544 4 ; Manchester and Buxton
365. ; Trent Valley, 94 ; Scarborough Branch, 224.
CLOSING PRICES. •
BRITISH FUNDS.
Milk Stock 2l
Indian Stock
3 per Cent. Red lOO Ditto Bonds 97 pin.
3 per Cent. Cons
9)4 per Cent. Red lO3 'Ditto New Annuities ...
New 3% per Cent 102% 'Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 1%d... 77 pin.
New 5 per Cent, — Ditto 5001.
Long Annuities to expire 1 Ditto 5ma11.........
Jan 11160 l2 9.16 'Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859
;Consols for Act. 99%
Jan. 1100 !lndia Stock fer Acct....
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent ...... Portuguese, 5 per Cent B2
Belgian, 5 per Cent ..... 'Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds ' .Prussian, 5 per Cent
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent.— Russian, 5 per Cent...«
CUM, 6 per Cent ..... initto, !Metallic ..«.«.......« —
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Ditto, 1824....... — 'Ditto, 9 per Cent 33%
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent...—. Ditto, Deferred..... ......
Danish, 3 per Cent — French, 5 per Cent. —t.
Greek, 184, 5 per Cent 'Exchange —f —e.
Mexican, S per Cent .... 36% French, 3 per Cent. —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837....... 'Dutch, 23 per Cent...—. 61%
l'eruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... 26 )Ditto, 5 per Cent

SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) lll
Ditto, New Shares, 17% paid
Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid
Dublin and Cashel, 2% paid ...............
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
Ditto Registered (816 s 8d paid)
Great North of England, 100 paid
Ditto New Shares (5 paid)
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Filths, 12 paid
London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 441.) 7
London and Greenwich (12t. 15s. 4d. paid)
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Lsondossand South Western (411. 6s. lbd. paid),,, 88
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk) b
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid/
Ditto, Half Shares, 30 paid
Midland Counties (100 paid)
Newcastle and Darlangron Junctien, 21 paid 39%
North British, 2% paid ..... ..... .. ..................
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Scrip (15 paid) 2534
Ditto Quarter Shares (12% paid)
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) .....
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid
Yarmouth and Norwich (18 paid) ....... ...... ......
York and North Midland (50 paid) ll6
Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) :
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, I paid .... .....