The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-04 00:00:00

THE BOURSE--THURSDAY, OCT. 31.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents llB 60 .. 118 70 .. 118 60 .. 118 70
Fours .. ••• • • ••• • • • 106 95 .. 106 95 •.• 106 95 • • 106 95
Three per Cents... •• 81 80 .. 81 85 .. 81 70 .. 81 85
Bank of France"... •••• .• • 3075 .•3075 .•3072 50 .. 3075
Laftitte Bank, I,ooof. Sharcslo6s —lO7O .. 1065 —lO7O
5,0001. Sharessoo2 50 ..5002 50 ••5002 50 —5002 50
Belgian Bank ........ •••• • • 655 .. 655 .. 655 .. 655
Belgian Fives, 1840 .• ••• • •• 1031 .. 1031 • • 1031 .. 1031
P.Tanish Threes. 344 .. 3 .. 3 .. 341
Portuguese Five per Cents • • 53 •• 53 • • 53 .. 53
Neapolitan ••• • •• ••• • • •• 98 75 98 75 .. 98 75 .. 98 75
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.
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Versailles, L.B
Rouen ..........•• •• •• •• ••1020 . 1020 ..1020 ..1020
Rouen to llavre...•
Orleans .... ..... .... -• •• —lOlO ..1013 75 ..1010 ..1011 25
Strasburg to Bale.— —•• •• 275 .. 275 .. 272 50 . 275
Avignon to Marseilles— —•• 792 50 . 792 50 .. 790 •• 790
RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, SETTLING, , OVEMBER 4
Rouen . . lOl5 ..1020 .1015 ..1020
Rouen to Havre 768 75 .. 768 75 .. 766 25 .. 766 25
Orleans •. ..
Strasburg to 8a1e..... ..... 273 75 .. 275 .. 270 50 .. 275 —'
Avignon to Marseilles— —• . 790 .. 790 .. 787 50 . 787 50

OXFORD, Nov. 1.--The Rev. W. Goodenough
Penny, M.A., Student of Christ Church, and Perpe-
tual Curate of Ashendon,' Bucks, has resigned his
studentship, on conforming to the Roman Catholic
faith. It is also announced, and the intelligence has
produced a deep sensation, that the Rev. John Henry
Newman has intimated to the Rev. Mr. 'Williams,
the late candidate for the Poetry Professorship, the
impossibility of his continuing a member of the
Anglican Church.

SCHOOLS, HY THE QUEEN'S COMMAND, IN WINDSOR-
PARK.—IIer Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince
Albert have long contemplated the erection of schools in
a convenient situation on the royal domains, for the
education of the park and gamekeepers' children. A
spot, admirably adapted for such a purpose, having been
selected at the west end of the gardens at Cumberland-
lodge, about a mile from the statue of George IV., the
necessary plans of the intended building, executed under
the orders of the Commissioners ,of "Woods and Works,
were submitted to, and approved, of :,by, her Majesty.
The building will be in the Elizabethan style of archi-
tecture, and erected at the cost of about 1,5001., which
will be defrayed by her Majesty and the Prince.
BRIDGWATER.—We have to record the loss of the
schooner John and Mary, of this port, on her passage to
this place on Thursday last, with a cargo of coals. This
vessel left Newport the day before, and to all appearance
was then in perfect condition, but we understand she
sprung a leak in the channel, and shortly after went
down in twenty feet of water. On discovering the leak
the pumps were used, but the water rapidly increased in
the hold, and the crew finding their:efforts of no avail
immediately took to the ship's boat, and were shortly
after picked up by a passing vessel. The cargo and
vessel belonged to Captain Hercules Fowels, of this port,
and was supposed to be worth about 6001. or 7001.
Somerset County Herald.
SECOND AND THIRD-CLASS RAILWAY PASSEN-
GERS.—Mr. Baxendale, the Chairman of the Dover
Railway Company, having been asked by Lord Gran-
ville Somerset, one of the most active and intelligent
members of the Select Committee on Railways, whether
it had never struck him that " it would be necessary to
raise the price of the third-class fares, as a means of
prohibition against persons who ought to go into a se-
cond-class carriage taking a third ?" replied, " No,
never ; not from that motive. It was only yesterday
that I was speaking on this particular point, and I said
that we have no right to judge, because a man wore a
good coat and a good hat, that the man's purse was equal
to pay a high or a low rate ; there are many that have
sufficient pride to wish to look well in the world, and
who have not the wherewithal to pay very liberally."—
Railway Record.
THE SUICIDE AT KILMARNOCK.--We gave on 'Wed-
nesday last the particulars of a very singular suicide
eommitted near Kilmarnock, by an elderly gentleman and
a lady presumed to be his wife, who had drowned them-
selves in the river Irvine, after having tied their arms
together with handkerchiefs. We understand there is
every reason to believe that the parties were a Mr. Jo-
seph Barker, formerly of this town, and his wife. Mr.
Barker was one of the firm of John and Joseph Barker,
Cromford-court, who were largely engaged in the
German trade, and failed somewhere about the year
1814. Mr. John Barker, we believe, died very
shortly afterwards ; but Mr. Joseph Barker sub-
sequently resided in London, and more recently
travelled for sometime for a house at Birmingham.
This employment he left a few months ago, with a view
to a connexion with a house in London, in which, how-
ever, he did not succeed ; and it is supposed that disap-
pointment on this score, and probably the exhaustion of
his resources, led to the commission of the fatal act.—
Manchester Paper.
THE OVERLAND PASSAGE TO INDIA.—The antici-
pations which were excited by the announcement of
Major and Mrs. Darby Griffith's description of their
Journey Across the Desert, and the various exciting
incident of their Overland Passage from India, have
been more than realised by the publication of the work,
which turns out to be as entertaining a companion as it
was pretty sure to be useful and valuable as a guide. The
peculiar facilities and advantages which Major Griffith
and his lady seem to have enjoyed, and the unusual stay
which they made at the principal points of the journey,
have given a value to these volumes which no mere hasty
and passing glance at the various features of the work
could have afforded. The Journey across the Desert
from Suez to Alexandria ; the novel description of our
new military colony at Aden ; the account of the passage
of the Red Sea, and the voyage on the Nile ; the full and
interesting description of Malta ; and the rapid and
spirited sketches of Sicily and Italy—all these features of
the work give it a value and attraction not belonging to
ordinary books of travel.
MISS STRICKLAND'S LIVES OF THE QUEENS OF
ENGLAND.—It is but due to this accomplished authoress
to state that in the article on the Royal Exchange,
which appeared in the Times of Monday last, we were
indebted to her recent volume, " The Life of Queen
Elizabeth," for that portion of it which related to the
opening of the .rust Exchange by that illustrious Sove-
reign.—Tunes.

ATTEMPTED
ASSASSINATION

OF

GENERAL NARVAEZ

AND

BARON DE MEER