The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-22 00:00:00

Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... . 4%
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierznn ... r;
Over Yssel 413 s 4d —
Paris & Lyons, Lailitte's 2
Paris and Lyons, Gau-
neron's, ... .
Sambre and Meuse .... 4 ...... 7%8
Tours and Nantes, Mac-
kenzie's
Verona and Ancona 1
West Flanders

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Provincial of Ireland 25 •••..
Union of Australia
Union of London... lO

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
ICILY 11TAZUCETES.
SMITIMELD.—Coarse Meadow hay, 31 15s to 4/15s ; useful
do., 41 16s to 51 83 ; fine Upland do., 51 lOs to 51 15s ;
Clover Ilay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 11 18s to 21;
Wheat Straw, 2/ to 2l 2s per load. A fair average supply
and a steady demand.

CvAnstuti.AND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 41 to 41 18s ;
useful ditto, 5/ to 5/ 103; fine Upland ditto, 5/12s to 5/16s;
Clover Bay, 4/10s to 6/; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ ; What
Straw, 2/ 18 to 21 3s per load. Trade firm at the above
quotations.

WHITECHAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 18s to 4118 s;
useful ditto, 5/ to 5/ 8s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 10s to
5/ 15s ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ Gs ; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2!:
Wheat Straw, 2/ to 2/ 3s per load. Supply good and trade
rather dull. New Meadow Hay- sold freely at from 3/ lOs to
418 s ; and New Clover 4/ to 41 16s per load.
COAL MARKET.
Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Chester Main,
14s ; Davison's West Hartley, 15s ; New Tanfield, 13s 6d;
Smith's Pontop, 13s ; Taylor's West Hartley, 14s 6d ; Tan-
field Moor, 16s ; Tanfield Moor Bates, 13s 6d ; West Wylam,
14s 9d; Wylam, 14s 3d; Wall's-end Killingworth, 15s;
Wharneliffe, 15s 9d ; Eden Main, 16s 3d • Braddvll's "Lefton,
17s 6d ; East Hetton, 15s Gd ; Hasweil, 17s 9d ; Hetton,
lis 2d ; Lambton, 17s 3d ; Stewart's, 17s 9d ; Hartlepool,
17s Gd ; Heugh Hall, IGs ; Kelloe, 16s ; Adelaide, 16s 9d ;
Barrington Tees, 14s; Brown's Deanery, 16s; Richardson's
Tees, 15s ; Tees, 17s ; West Tees, 15s ; Graigola, 21c ; Hartley,
14s 6d ; Morgan's Stone, 22s 6d ; Eden Hartlepool Cinders,
23s.—Ships arrived, 43.

MISS JULIA BENNETT'S BENEFIT. —We observe
by the Haymarket bills that the benefit of that fascinating actress,
Miss Julia Bennett, takes place to-morrow, on which occasion the
sterling old comedy of She Stoops to Conquer will be revived.
After which M. Leopold de Meyer, who has in the handsomest
manner volunteered his services, will perform a grand fantasia on
the pianoforte. We have no doubt but that the house will he
crowded, as every admirer of histrionic talent will be anxious to
embrace the opportunity of showing his admiration of the talents
of this very accomplished young artiste.
UNroN BANK OF AUSTRALlA.—Yesterday the
annual meeting of the Proprietors of this Company was held at
their offices, 38, Old Broad-street, J. J. Cummins, Esq., Chair-
man of the Board of Directors, presiding. The report, which was
read by the secretary, stated that the deposits of the branch banks
had increased, while bills offered for discount bad diminished.
There were no new failures, and no new bad debts, although some
of the branches had wound up unfavourably. No change of im-
portance had been made in the colonial arrangements. There were
bills payable to the amount of 78,430/., which, with other sums,
made the liabilities of the Company 194,4761. The paid up capital
of the bank amounted to 820,0001. The balance of undivided profit
up to the end of the year just ended was 43,5681., from which the
Directors recommended a dividend of six per cent. The report was
adopted. Mr. Robert Carter and Mr. Thomas Young retired from
the directory by rotation, but were unanimously re-elected.
DEATH OF SIR .TonN E. HONYWOOD, BART.—We
have to announce the demise of„the above Hon. Baronet, at his
seat, F.vington, Kent. on Thursday last, in his 33d year. He was
the son of the fifth Baronet, by the eldest daughter of the Rev. Sir
W. H. Cooper, Bart.; married 1834 second daughter of the
Rev. Charles Hughes Hallett, of Highams, Rent; succeeded his
father in 1832, and is succeeded in his title by his eldest son,
born 1835.
PIGEON-FLYING.—MATCH FOR 20/.—Yestertlay,
match to fly two pigeons a distance, for 101. a side, was decided.
The owners were Dix, of the Borough, and Castles, of Blackfriars;
and the terms of the match were that the birds should be conveyed
to Dover, and be released together and at one time, and the first
pigeon arriving in Loridun to be considered the winner. The birds
were thrown at eight o'clock in the morning, and at 23 minutes
after nine the pigeon belonging to Castles had pitched at his home;
the other occupied eighteen minutes longer ; thus the winning
bird travelled upwards of eighty miles in elghty.three minutes.
'They were of the dragon breed, and young birds.
PRESENTATION AGAINST STEAM-BOAT PIERS.—
Yesterday a Court of Conservancy was held at the Swan, West.
minster-bridge, before the Lord Mayor and other City functionaries,
when the following piers were presented as being at certain times
of the tide obstructions to the free navigation of the river, anti
their removal recommended, viz. :—A pier near the Thames
Tunnel; a tier of barges at Wapping, called Charrington's-pier ; a
Boating pier at the end of Essex-street, Strand; and a tier of
barges used as a pier opposite Chandler's, at Milbank.
THE LONDON COFFEE AND EATING-HOUSE-
Respells' ASSOcIATION.—Last evening the annual general meeting
of the members of the above association was held at Anderton's
Hotel, Fleet-street, for the purpose of receiving a statement of the
proceedings of the Committee during the past year, and appoint.
ing officers for its management during the ensuing year. Mr.
Curtain having taken the chair, the Secretary read the report.
The Association, it stated, was proceeding prosperously, the
receipts having exceeded those of any former year by 401.
The excursion to Rosherville Gardens, the ball at Willis's
Rooms, and the dinner, which had been undertaken by the Com.
mittee as a means of increasing the funds, had resulted favourably.
Amongst the donations were the following :—Colonel Sir de Lacy
Evans, 10/. 10s.; Sheriff Sydney, 101. 10s.; Mr. Kinton, 101. 10s.;
Mr. Binmore, 51. ss. ; the Morning Advertiser, 101. 10s.; The
5un,211.; the Dispatch, 51. ss. ; and the Lrod Mayor, Si. ss.
During the year 2001. more had been added to the funded pro..
perty, snaking the whole now amount to 1,6001. The Corn..
mittee had placed another pensioner upon the funds, and hoped
soon to be able to give relief to a much larger extent than at pre-
sent. The receipts within the last year amounted to 343/., and
the expenditnee 'set a balance in favour of the Society of 331. The
report was adopted.
ROYAL NAVAL BENEVOLENT SOClETY.—Yesterday
a meeting of the naval officers subscribing to the above Society
took place at the Thatched House Tavern, St. James's-street.
Amongst the officers present were—Admirals Sir E. Codrington,
Lord Radstock, Sir C. Ogle (Chairman); and Captains Dickinson,
Ridcout, Drew, Bague, Saumarez, Houghton, &c. Capt. Dickson,
the Secretary, read the report, It stated that the receipts within
the last three months amounted to 1,1411., and the expenses to
6311., of which sum 4441. was given to distressed naval officers,
their widows, and orphans. The report having been adopted,
Admiral Sir R. Stopford was elected a Vice-President and Admiral
Bowles a trustee of the Institution. The meeting then proceeded
to the consideration of the applications for relief, and distributed
sums amounting in the whole to about 500/. A vote of thanks to
the Chairman concluded the business of the day. During the
meeting several angry discussions took place relative to the con-
duct of the Secretary, and Sir E. Codrington and Captain Saumarez
said they should withdraw from the Society if Captain Dickson
continued to be the Secretary. Some notices of motion on the
subject for the next meeting were given.
SCRIP CERTIFICATES.—IR the Crown Court, On
Tuesday, Mr. Justice Cresswell, in summing up in the case of a
youth charged with stealing sixteen scrip certificates in the Lin-
coln, Leeds, and York Direct and Independent Railway, told the
jury the question for them to decide was whether or no the
prisoner at the bar was guilty of stealing " so many pieces of waste
paper," and designated them as little worth." A witness in the
same case said he had bean in the habit of buying scrip certificates
by hundreds, but he never made an entry of such purchases....
" they wern't worth it."
LORD GREY.-1 can recollect, when I was ten or
twelve old, going to Hastings's trial. My garter somehow came off,
and was picked up by Lord Grey, then a young man. At this hour,
as if it were in a picture, I cars see his handsome but very pale face,
his broad forehead ; his corbeau coat, with cut-steel buttons ; his
white satin waistcoat and breeches, and the buckles in his shoes.
He saw from whom the garter fell, but, observing lay confusion,
did not wish to increase It, and, with infinite delicacy, gave the
garter to the person who sat there to serve tea and coffee.—
Lady Hester Stanhope.
CARRIER-PIGEONS AT LIVERPOOL RACES.—Almost
immediately after the race for the cup,: on Thursday last, a num-
ber of carrier-pigeons were set at liberty from several places in the
vicinity of the judge's chair and the weighing-hut. We had an
opportunity of observing them from the summit of the Grand Stand.
They immediately towered to a moderate height, as if scared by
the immense and moving multitude below, and, after having taken
a few circles in the air, stooped towards the Grand Stand, around
and closely over which they continued to 117 rapidly for some time.
Occasionally,when they took a sudden turn and balanced themselves
for a moment in their Bight, the missives tied under their wings
were distinctly visible, strongly illuminated by the bright sunlight.
After the lapse of five or ten minutes, two of them stretched away
in a zig. sag flight to a considerable distance, and again returned
towards the stand, as if making it the object from which to mark
their line of departure. Tnis was repeated several times. At
length these two pigeons, after a more lengthened irregular Sight
over the fields directly facing the stand, stretched away in the di.
rection of Manchester, which, we have no doubt, was the place of
their destination. Two others continued their evolutions round
the stand during, perhaps, ten minutes longer, and then suddenly
darted away in a south-easterly direction. One dark mottled bird
continued to fly rather wildly round the stand about half an hour,
and then it also Hew off towards the south.east. •
ROYAL MINES OF COBRE ASSOCIATION.—Yester-
day, the annual meeting of this Company was held at the offices,
26, Austinfriars; Mr. Russell Ellice in the chair. A man was
placed at the door to prevent the admission of any gentleman in
connection with the press, and the report, even at the close of the
proceedings, was studiously kept out of sight—a course adopted by
no other mining company in the City, the directors and secre-
taries being in every other case ready to give any information that
may be required. A dividend of 11. per share was declared at this
meeting.

TIIE GREAT BRITAIN STEAM-SHlP.—This Magni-
ficent vessel, since her arrival at Liverpool, has been visited by
upwards of twenty-five thousand persons. On Saturday week the
number was eleven thousand, and last week, though she was not
on view on one of the days, that number was ncreased by about
fourteen thousand. The vessel will have to b 0 got ready for her
first Transatlantic trip by Saturday.—Liverpool Albion.
PRESENT TO HER MAJESTY.--During the last few
days a number of distinguished persons have been attracted to the
London Docks, for the purpose of viewing the four thorough-bred
Arabian horses which have just arrived in this country per the
Caroline, being a present from the Imaum of Muscat to her
Majesty the Queen. The animals, notwithstanding the wildness
peculiar to their breed, have since their arrival in the docks exhi-
bited a wonderful degree of docility. They were accompanied
from Muscat by grooms in the service of the Imaum. Yesterday
the group were removed from the docks by four of the royal ser.
vants to the mews adjoining Buckingham Palace, Pimlico. We
believe that a similar present was made from Muscat to his
Majesty William the Fourth.

A Pole, named Pristleinstein, twenty-four years of
age, the son of a colonel who served in the French army in 1813
and 1814, was tried by the Paris Court of Assize on Saturday, on
a charge of forgery. The prisoner, who had received a brilliant
education in Poland, having compromised himself in a conspiracy at
Wilna, where he had obtained a professorship in the college, was
imprisoned in a fortress with his brother. They both made their
escape, but at Leipsic avoided detention only by bribing the gen-
darmes with nearly all the money that they possessed. The pri-
soner's brother went to Egypt in search of better fortune, and the
prisoner himself came to Paris, where, in order to gain his bread,
he worked upon the fortifications; hut falling ill from fatigue, he
was compelled to give up his occupation, and go to the hospital.
After he had left the hospital he contracted a few I rifling debts, and
wishing to pay them off by raising a lean of 100 francs, he drew a
bill for that amount as from Warsaw, and put upon it an imaginary
name, as being that of a banker of that city. This bill was given
by him to his landlady; but twenty-four hours afterwards, stung by
remorse, he wrote to her, confessing the fraud, and entreating her
not to denounce him to justice. It was, however, too late, the hill
being already in the hands ofthe Commissary of Police. Whilst in
prison, Pristleinstein, in a fit of despair, attempted to commit sui-
cide, but was prevented by the gaoler. The jury acquitted him, and
subscribed a sum of 55 francs towards his relief.
An enormous cucumber was cut a few days since
in the garden of Sir Thomas D. Acland, Baronet, M.P., Killerton
House, Broadclist, measuring two feet four Inches in length, and
nine inches in girth.—Plymouth Times,