The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-19 00:00:00

COUii&T=PASiiIOTZABLE.

The Queen Dowager has contributed a donation of twenty
pounds to the Indigent Blind Visiting Society, through the
hands of the Hon. William Ashley, a member of the Committee.
Her Majesty also contributed twenty-five pounds at Christmas,
1838, when she accepted the office of Patroness to the charity.
Prince George of Cambridge has left Corfu, with two or
three English officers, to pass the winter in the genial climate
of Naples.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, who have
taken one of the splendid hotels in the Champs Elysees, are net
expected to return from the French capital until shortly before
Easter.

The Dowager Marchioness Conyrgham is expected to return
from Rome, accompanied by Sir William M. Somerville, Bart.,
ere the second week in March. The remains of the late la-
mented Lady Maria Somerville were interred in the Roman
capital.
Earl Delawarr proceeds to town on the 31st inst., to attend
the Duke of Wellington's grand dinner at Apsley House.
The Earl and Countess of Aylesford have during the last
week enlivened their beautiful seat, in Warwickshire, by a suc-
cession of parties. Among the company assembled were the
Earl and Countess of Dartmouth and Lord Lewisham, Lord
Brooke, Lady Jane Peel and Misses Peel, Captain Peel, Hon.
C. Finch, &c.

Count Nesselrode is expected to return to the Russian em-
bassy in a day or two, from a short tour in the provinces, pre-
vious to his departure for St. Petersburgh.
The marriage of Lady Elizabeth Sackville West, eldest
daughter of the Lord Chamberlain and the Countess Delawarr,
and niece of the fourth Duke of Dorset, with Mr. Francis Hast-
ings Russell, of the Scots Fusilier Guards, and eldest son of
Lord George W. Russell, late ambassador at Berlin, are fixed
to take place to-day at Buckhurst Park, East Grinstead.
The Lord Great Chamberlain and Lady Willoughby de
Eresby and family are not expected to return to this country
from Rome, where they are passing the winter, until the first
week in May. His Lordship, as hereditary Lord Great
Chamberlain, has delegated his official duties connected with
the opening of Parliament to the Gentleman Usher of the Black
Rod, Sir A. W. Clifford, Bart.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Clare Journal states, that mass was offered up on Wed-
nesday in Ennis and the adjoining parishes for the safety of Mr.
O'Connell pending the State trials.
The steam plough has been introduced in Scotland, for
ploughing in morasses and boggy land, where horses cannot be
employed.

John Romilly, Esq., recently appointed one of her Majesty's
Counsel, took his scat on Wednesday as a Bencher of the Hon.
Society of Gray's Inn.
A collegiate school was opened in Lambeth on Monday, to
the head mastership of which the Rev. J. R. Barber, M.A.,
has been appointed.

HONE ir AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
:CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
The Consol market doses with a steady appearance, and
with a moderate business doing, the accounts by the French
mail of a rise in the Rentes not having induced any movement
here. The latest rates were 96L to 97.
Spanish Bonds were rather flat up to the close of business,
the Five per Cents. being 224, and the Three per Cents. 304-
%. There was an advance in Portuguese Converted to 454
for Money, this security being held in few and firm hands.
Mexican were steady at 324 to 4. Brazilian small were done
at 764. Dutch Two and-a-Half per Cents. rose to 544.
The additional bargains in the Railway Shares have been
these :—Eastern Counties were 12% ; Brighton, 6%; South
Eastern, 15 ; and Sheffield, Ashton-under-Lyne, and Man-
chester, 27 discount. Birmingham, New Quarters, were 271 ;
Croydon, 21/2 ; Manchester and Leeds, New, 15%; Rouen and
Havre, 5%; and Yarmouth and Norwich, 33 premium.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
In the Liverpool Cotton market yesterday, the sales were
9,000 bales, the market being rather less animated. Speen-
lato -s took 1,500 bales American, 1,000 Pernambuco, and
1,000 Surat ; 2,000 Pernam sold at 64d. to 63d., 100 Bahia
at 61/2d., 200 Maranham at 6d. to 61d., 100 Egyptian at 60. to
7d., 1,500 Surat at 34d. to 4id, and the rest American at
54d. to 641.—Shares were inactive: Eastern Counties, ex
New, 10; Grand Junction, 233; Birmingham, Quarter, 29;
South Eastern, 354 ; ditto, New, 354 ; Paris and Lyons,
2 19-20 ; Manchester and Leeds, 101.
We briefly noticed yesterday the attendance of many influen-
tial parties to inspect specimens of foreign cured provisions,
including the Secretary of the Board of Trade, and other
practical men in such matters, to ascertain if, in ordinary
course, the poorer classes were likely to derive any advantages
from the reduction of duties, by the new tariff, upon articles
of food imported from abroad. So satisfied were all
present upon this point, that it is in contemplation to convene
a public meeting (to be held at the Hall of Commerce we
understand), to show the policy of an extension being given to
this new branch of trade. It is established as a fact that most
of the provisions already imported—that is the best of them—
have been sold to the middle and pourer classes at immense
profits, as English produce, while the inferior is
marked " American." Thus a prejudice is kept up, and the
retailers, by demanding comparatively high prices for articles
imported, which were bought 25 or 30 per cent. lower, are, as
already stated, immense gainers. It has been suggested, in
in order that. the new tariff may have in this respect a fair trial,
that in the more populous districts of the metropolis
shops should be opened where none but foreign
cured provisions should be sold. The principal complaint made
by some of the practical men present at yesterday's inspection,
was, that the Pork, and some of the Beef, was too fat. This,
however, cannot refer to the Port Phi'ip Beef, as that is de-
cidedly cut too lean.
There were no colonial arrivals in the City to-day, and the
French mail was detained, supposed by the prevalence of fogs
in the Channel.

The Commissioners purchased 18,0001. Console this morn-
ing, but only a small sum was invested in aid of the Sink-
ing Fund ; in fact, as the brokers for the Commis-
sioners lump the purchases, the specific sum laid out
daily, in reduction of the debt, is not publicly stated, nor in-
deed is there the least clue as to the transactions of those re-
presenting the Lords of the Treasury upon the subject above
alluded to. Consols for Account have touched 97—the
same quotation rules for Money. Exchequer Bills hive
been heavy at 665. premium. The Reduced Three-
and-a-Half per Cents. have touched 103, but they are
now a shade lower. The Transfer Books are now
all open for free transfers, and business is, in consequence,
much increased. It ought to be stated that the purchases of
the Commissioners were made in Consols at 97. Bank Stock
for Money and Account is worth 1891.
This is the pay day in the Consol Market, and it has gone
off satisfactorily.
In the Fsreign Market not much business was transacted to-
day. Old Portuguese Five per Cents. were quoted at 71 ; the
Spanish Actives at 22i; the Three per Cents. at 30i ; the
Passive Bends at 5i ; Dutch Five per Cents. at 1004 ; and
the Two-and-a-half per Cents at 54g.
The principal changes in the Railway Shares have been to•
(lay in the GI eat Western, which are up to 34 premium; in the
Grand Junction, which are at 134 premium ; in the Manches-
ter and Leeds, which are at 151,E premium; in the South
Eastern and Dover, which are at 51,/ discount ; and in the
York and North Midland (Scarborough branch) which are at
154 premium. In the other Railway Shares the variations
have been slight this morning. New Australian Bank
Shares have realised 4 premium, and the London Joint-
Stock Bank Shares 2 premium.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JAN. 17.—We cannot
report any change in our market, except Bolton and Bury,
which have advanced to 971., being an improvement of 41. per
share. Prices generally continue firm :—Sheffield and Man-
chester, Quarters, 4 9.16 • Manchester and Leeds, Quarters,
86 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 38i ; Manchester and
Leeds, 99i to 100% ; Bolton and Preston, 25i to ; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 58i.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
B .n'a Stock lB9 India Stock —pm
b riztr Cent. Red.
3 '3: Cent. Cons.
3h pm. Cent. Red ... 102% (Ditto New Annuities...
A stw 3,3; per Ccnt. ... 101 h Ex. Bills, 1,0001. lid. 67 pm
New 5 per Cen. — Ditto 5001...... 68 pm
Long Annuities to expire i Ditto Small ...... 68 pm
Jan. 1860 ... ...... 12 11-16 Bank Stock for Acct. 189 k
tic t. 1859
Jan. 1860 ...
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Aastrinn, 5 per cent. ... ; Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent --' Ditte,-New Ditto —
i
Brazilian 80nd5.....,... IPrussian, 5 per cent —
11 zenos Ayres 6 per cent. ;Russian, b per cent —
Chiller', 6 per cent. — Ditto, Metallic ..... ..
Colombian, 6 per cent... (Spanish, 5 per cent —
Ditto, 1824 — IDitte 3 per cent... —
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent ll% Ditto, Deferred.... .. , 12i
Danish, 3 per sent — 'French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — ,Exchange ...... .... —f. —o.
Mexican, 5 per cent 321 'French, 3 per cent. —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 i Dutch, 2% per cent. 54#
Peruvian, 1825,6 per ct. ;Ditto, 5 per cent.... 100%
SHARES.
Eastern Counties (23 paid)... loh
Ditto New Shares ( paid) ...... I 1 i
Great Western (75 paid) ... 108%
London and Brighton (50 pa d) „.... ........ 43%
London and Birmingham ( paid) ..... ... 240
Ditto New Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 29%
London and South Western (411 6s 10d pd) 731
Ditto Eighths ( 1: 5s paid) .. .• 2
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ... 16%
Lancaster and Carlisle (5 paid) 5%
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Ditto New Shares (30 paid) Newcastle and Darlington Junetion(ls paid \
2945%
Rouen and Havre ( b paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) ......
Ditto Scrip (25 paid)
Yarmouth and Norwich (13 paid)..,,.,...
is 164

COURT CIRCULAR.
Wninson, THURSDAY.—The Queen, attended by her
Lady in Waiting, the Viscountess Canning, walked this
morning on the Castle terrace and in the slopes.
His Royal Highness Prince Albert went this forenoon to
enjoy the sport of shooting at Bagshot, accompanied by Sir
Robert Peel, and attended by Mr. G. E. Anson, Captain
Meynell, and the Hon. C. A. Murray.
In the afternoon her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert walked in the grounds adjoining the castle.
The Royal Family were taken for their usual airings to-day.
The Duke and Duchess of Buckingham arrived to-day at
the Castle, on a visit to her Majesty and his Royal Highness
Prince Albert,
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and Lady Fanuy
Howard will join the royal dinner circle at the castle this
evening.

Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge
arrived in town yesterday morning from their residence at
Kew. Their Royal Highnesses paid a visit to her Royal High-
ness the Duchess of Gloucester. A dejeune was served to the
royal party in the afternoon at Gloucester House.
A Deputation of the Broad Silk Hand-loom Weavers of
Spitalfields, consisting of Messrs. W. E. Burroughs, John
Poy ton, and John Sherrard, had an interview yesterday with
the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, President, and the Earl of
Dalhousie, Vice-President of the Board of Trade, upon the
depressed condition of the body which they represented.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, and Mr. Wick-
ham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes had interviews with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday at his official resi-
dence in Downing-street.
Count de Pollon, Sardinian Minister, transacted business
yesterday at the Foreign-office.
Mr. William Maury, deputed by the American Chamber
of Commerce, at Liverpool, to advocate a reduction in the duty
on tobacco, had an interview with Mr. Gladstone yesterday, at
the Office of the Board of Trade. Mr. Maury had also an in-
terview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Bishop Griffiths had an interview with Lord Stanley yester-
day, at the Colonial-office.
Colonel Wood, M.P., transacted business yesterday at the
Home-office.
Lard Granville Somerset had an interview with the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer on Wednesday.