The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-14 00:00:00

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Avignon to //amines— •• •• 920 .. 985 .. Ito .. 920

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Vinalllelia ... . ... . 472 58 .. 475 472 80 •• 473 7i
L.B•••• •••• •• 350 . 260 350 .. 356 25
Rouen •••• •••• •• •• •••• —1022 50 .4825 ..1021 55 • •1—

.:021 15
Rouen to Havre.... 792 N .. 792 50 •• 787 50 .. 787 50
Orleans ••••• •••••••••• •• ••1070 .4071 25 .4067 511 .•1--

Strasburg to Eale•••• •••••• 292 AO .. 292 7$ .667 51
.. 291 25 .• 291 23
koiptott to Marsellka....., 922.11 •• 122 40 .. 908 .. 9.X 60

PRITY COUNCIL.-Sir James Grahatn4 the Chan'
cellor of the ExcheqUer And other Ministers, left
town by the half-past one o'clock' train of the Great
Western Railway yesterday fur Slough, to attend
her Majesty's Privy Council sppointed at half-past
o ;o'clock, at Windsor Castle. .1 The Duke of Wel-
lington and Sir R. Peel attended the Council, his
Grace and the Right Hon. Baronet being at the Castle
on a visit to the Queen.

Tin WILATIIER.—The thermometer in the course
of Thursday marked 21, being one degree lower than
it has been this season. The barometer is falling
rapidly, and there is a keen squally wind from the
east, with every appearance for fall of snow. The
river is covered already with floating ice.

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
BaussaLs, DEC. 10.—The average price of wheat last
week was 17f. 04c., and that of rye 10f. 43c. The duties
on importation and exportation remain as before.
We learn from Vienna that Count de Woyna, who is
appointed Envoy Extraordinary from the Emperor of
Austria to the Court of Belgium, is to set out from
Vienna for Brussels in the course of next week.
The Chamber of Representatives, in its sitting to-day,
received a project of. law, the purport of which is to
grant to the department of Public Works a credit of
12,500,000 f. for, the construction of a double line to the
railways, and of the buildings depending on the stations,
for the construction of a section of the railway from
Ghent to Tervuren and the entrepots, for the construc-
tion of a navigable canal to the Meuse, from Liege to
Maestrecht, and of a navigable canal to open a commu-
nication from Turnhout to the canals of the Campine.
The 2d article authorises the Government to accept
the subscription of the English Company (Mackenzie and
Co.), for the construction of the railway from Tourney
to 'rurbise, and from St. 'Frond to Hasselt.
The necessary funds for these several undertakings
will be provided for by the issue of Treasury bonds.
- We are able to state that the King and Queen will
.quit the' Palace of Lacken on Thursday next (for his
Majesty's seat ,at Ardenne, as has been reported) for
'Paris, in order to be united with the Royal Family of
France, to receive the Duke and Duchesa d'Aumale.
Their Majesties are expected at the Palace at the Tuile-
ries on Friday next.
The voyages of the steamer between Antwerp and
Flushing are stopped by the ice.
The numerous suicides which have lately occurred in
Prussia, in the prisons for debt, have drawn the atten-
tion of the Government to the serious question of im-
prisonment. It has the opinion of the most eminent
lawyers. It is now under consideration whether impri-
sonment for debt shall not be wholly abolished, giving
creditors some of the security.
• BELGIAN FUND3.—Batment.s. Deft 12.
Actua Debt, 214 per Cent.,
• Rothechild's Loan, Five per Cent. ... . ....... --
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent.. .....
Three per
• Thirty-seven Milli, ns, ditto 77
1r41%
Loan of City, 1243, lOl
*Four per Fent. ........... la%
1234
Society of Commerce, Four and
.a Half per Cost
Bask of Belgium, rave per .........
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—4llgemeine Zeitaing, Due. 8.

. par Cents.
Three per Cents.
Ralik Shares

THE NEWRY RAILROAD.
MEETING OF THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
OF BELFAST.
The meeting on Monday in the Commercial Rooms,
respecting the railways westward, was attended by the
most influential gentlemen engaged in commercial
matters, in this town. There was only one opinion
expressed regarding the necessity of supporting the in-
terests of the Company formed for the construction of
the railway from Newry to Enniskillen, which was re-
garded by the meeting as an extension of the Ulster line
from Belfast, which would pass through almost the only
manufacturing districts of the west. The advantages of
the line to the agricultural interests of the west were very
pointedly stated.
The improvements effected in the navigation of the
two Loughs Erne, which now allow steam communica-
tion, in a direct line, for upwards of fifty statute miles,
render the formation of a railway from Enniskillen—“the
key of the two Loughs—to Belfast and Newry,
unques-
tt)irlaecbti ymtohree twoiilikely
to best ports
retso
Inn
iin y
thee eastremunerativtoaste to shareholders
and all other parties concerned, ',Lan any other Irish rail-
way speculation with wnich we are acquainted. The
meeting was r
rvectl unanimous in supporting this line,
and re y
_ ...greed to prepare and forward petitions in its favour,
which will carry with them all the weight and influence
a hick can be attached to the unanimous opinions of the
merchants and traders in the greatest commercial town
in Ireland.-- Banner of Ulster, Dee. 10.

ANTI-PUSETISM IN THE -CITT.—A meeting of the
electors of the Ward of Aldgate (preliminary to the
annual civic elections) was holden on Wednesday; it was
resolved that their representatives be instructed to op-
pose the grant of 200/. towards the endowment of Crip-
plegate new church, and to support Sir Peter Laurie's
amendment to postpone the consideration of the sub-
ject for one year. The members of the ward voted with
Sir Peter Laurie on Thursday, and in accordance with
those instructions.
BRIGHTON. THURSDAY.—The Master of the Cere-
monies' ball, which took place last night, at the Old Ship
lintel, was attended by upwards of 200 personages,
among Whom were the. Duchess of Calabretto, Viscount
Lake, Viscount and Viscountess Dillon, Lady Twvsden,
Westphal, Sir John and Lady atinp•
Sir Arthur de Capel Broke, Sir
bSeirll, G.
iarn HenrydLa Lady Westphal,
Menry Vyner, Sir W. Ball, Sir John Edmund de Beau-
loir, Marquis de Montalembert, General Kemp, Hon.
Hanbury Tracy, Colonel, Mrs., and Miss Rolt, Major
Warburton, Captains Fulcher, White, Ponder (62d Re-
giment), &c.
BEIM—ST*I3EI3T DISSOLUTION. OF A STRIK.E.—On
Thursday evening week, seven of the workmen at the
Glengarnock iron-works were brought into Beith under
the charge of a strong party of. constables. A precog•
nition being taken by the examination of one of the
principals, farther proceedings were delayed till the
following day, when a special meeting of the Justice of
Peace Court was held. It came out, on examination,
that twenty-four persons had been engaged in the strike.
An offer had been made by the masters that the men
should retarn to their duty, which was refused; but on
the three first examined being sentenced, two of them to
fifty, and the other to forty days' imprisonment, the re•
n3aming four of the seven succumbed, and promised to
return to their labour, while the other three were imme-
liately dispatched to Ay r.—fler Observer.
CAUTION.—On Thursday; in the immediate neigh-
bourhood of Chiswick; a boy named Bennett, aged 14,
was killed by his cousin and brother, by te gun, while
engaged in shooting small birds. 'the accident origi-
nated in a scuffle between the two last-named youths,
during which the gun went off, and the contents, small
shot, were lodged in the body of deceased, Yllin *e
standing close at hand. The parties hay, been held
so bail.
PROTECTOR LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANT.—The
annual meeting of this Company was held on Thursday at
the office in the Old Jewry. T
William
Cripps, Esq., M.P., presided, and entered
chairman,
into
very full
details as to the progress and state of the Society's
affairs. A report and balancersheet were then read,
from which it appeared that the assets of the Company,
on the 31st October, 1844, amounted to 4t10,9 let, 15s. Id.,
and the liabilities (including the proprietors' paid-up
capital) to 351.2691. 4s. ld., leaving a surplus of 79,6491.
14s. The report stated that a revaluation of the assets
and liabilities would be made in 1845, when the directors
had reason to believe it would be found, if the events of
the intervening year were ordinarily favourable, that the
surplus above stated was still further augmented, and
that they would be, at the next general meeting, enabled
to recommend the distribution. of a very satisfactory
bonus. Thomas Devas, Nathaniel Gould, and Robert
Alexander Gray, Esqs., were re-elected directors in lieu
of the gentlemen retired by rotation ; and Thomas Bod-
dington, Esq., one of the auditors, was also elected to a
vacant seat in the direction ; John Deedes, Esq., and
John Wheelton, Esq., were chosen as auditors ; and the
thanks of the proprietors having been unanimously voted
to the chairman and directors, the meeting separated.—
Morning Herald.
PROCLAMATION OF OUTLAWRY.—On Thursday
County court of the Sheriff of Middlesex was held at
the Sheriffs' Court, Red Lion-square, when proclamation
of outlaivry was made against John Robert Duncan,
Frederick Hawkes,Charles John Attwood, Spalding,
Aaron Jolly, Henry Brown, John Scott Lillie, Arthur
Selby, Edward Benjamin Lake, James Tongue ; and the
Court was then adjourned.
THE Moons.--Yesterday closed the year for grouse,
black game, and ptarmigan shooting. To such as pre-
ferred a walk on the frost-covered hills to fire-side
comfort, a quiet stalk among the crowing old cocks
would secure a few brace to lay on the Christmas table.
For all varieties of Highland game, the ipast has been a
most. productive season. From
several of the homeward-
bound sportsmen, during last month, we gleaned the fol-
lowing notices of their success on the moors :—The
Kinrara party numbered 800 brace of grouse, 300 head
of other game, two roe-deer, and 40 salmon. The Foyers
party had 500 brace of grouse, three red-deer, and three
roe. At Abererder there was 1,403 head bagged. Mr.
Johnson, at Gruids, 400 brace of grouse, three deer, and
six salmon. Captain Inge and friends, at Lochcarron,
had 750 brace of grouse, 100 brace of ptarmigan, eight
deer, and 17 roe. Captain Inge had three times double
shots at red-deer, killing and lefteach time. At
right
40 brace black game, four stags, and a hind. Mr. Gonne
and Mr. Beale, at Culrain, counted 600 brace of grouse,
and 100 head of other game. At Coignafearn the birds
have been much spared--only about 1,000 brace were
shot—this being the last of a nineteen years' ,ease of
that far-famed range, held by Lord Saltoun and Affirck
Fraser, Esq. It was one of the first shootings let in the
North, long before there was such a general dethand.
Next year we hope again to see the familiar faces of our
sporting friends from the sunny South, to whom we. have
been often indebted for notices of their doings in the
rivers, corries, and mountain glens of the -Highlands.—
Inverness Courier of Wednesday.