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

ship of the.Honourable Henry Ashley, Colonel Bolden),
and Colonel Clayton, was attended by Prince Edward
of Saxe Weimar, Lord Rossmore, the Countess of Nor-
bury, Lady Georgians. Toler, the Hon. 0. T. Toler,
:Colonel Thornton, Colonel Bolden-, Captain Bulkeley
and party, Major lidney, Major Wade, &c.
The Earl of Beverley has returned to the .old Palace
at Richmond, from a visit to Alton Towei a, where hi;
Lordship. went to meet his Royal Highness the Due de
Bordeaux.
The Earl and Countess of Kinnoull are still at Rome,
where they are expected to remain until the end of
January, and then leave that city, their way to Paris.
Viscount and Viscountess Combermere have been
entertaining, at Combermere Abbey, the Marquis and
:Marchioness of Chohnondeley, Lord and Lady.De Ros,
Lord Edwin flill, Lord and Lady Delamere, Lady Rolle,
the Earl and Countess of .Hilsborou,A, and. Viscount
and Viscountess Hill.
Les Comks de Bonneval, le Comte de Bethuen Sully,
le Comte Charles de Bethuen, le Comte Unice de Lam-
bertye, le Cemte L. C: de Mellet, &c., took their de-
parture on Friday from the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-
street, for the French capital, via Folkestone.
IYLXSCEIMANEOUS.
'We regret to perceive, by accounts from Essex, Not-
tingham, and Rent, that the incendiary fires still con-
tinue. The Chelmsford Chronicle of Friday contains the
details of ten of these terrible calamities.
Sir Charles Burrell's large piece of water in Essex,
the extent of which is about 90 acres, was drawn off and
shed, a week back, when the take was—carp, 2,917,
-weighing 49 cwt. 2 qrs. ; pike, 406, weighing 5 cwt.
2 qrs. 23Ibs. ; eels, 6
cwt. 1 qr. ; besides 178 perch and
" tench, not weighed,, without counting eels, the take.
of which was much smaller than usual.
On Christmas day, white violets and primroses, in full
bloom. were gathered near the town of Ashburton, an
occiurrence not known for many years before.
A provincial paper states, that in consequence of the
spread of teetotal principles the excise payments of the
common brewers have fallen off full one-fourth, and .the
value of all property in breweries has declined one- third. i
The Xing of Bavaria has commissioned Dr. Pauli to
proceed to Ireland, for the purpose of personally inspect-
ing the atmoaheric rail-road, and report his observations
regarding
rega-
Ar then ame to the Bavarian Government.
13aily has just completed a model for a statue in
marble of Sir Charles Metcalfe, late Governor of Jamaica,
-1"
robe erected opposite the Senate House,• in Spanish
wn, in that island. The height is nine feet, and the
costume a military one.

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°l‘'T‘ir AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
The Co
(Prom The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
ton Market at Liverpool yesterday continued
brisk, and prices were nearly id. per lb. higher for mid.,
and id. for the better sorts of American. The sales con-
-3,000 of
nAilwlllaeyricans.
3sisted of about 10,000 bales, of which speculators took
—There was again an active demand
64 Shares ; Birmingham and Gloucester were
; Eastern Counties, 114 ; Great Western, 994 ;
Brighton, 424 ; Manchester and Leeds, 99 ; Paris and
it°"ni 321 i ; Rouen and Havre, 111 ; South. Eastern,
35 ; Paris and Lyons, 3+ ; Paris and Orleans, 334.
frolmt appears by the advices received from Liverpool this
Morning that the information of the arrival of the Acadia
Halifax and Boston (United States), was not
founded on fact. It seems that a transient vessel en-
tering the Mersey had fired signal guns like those of the
steamer; and hence the mistake. It is necessary to
explain this' hence
in order that those who may
be expecting letters should not imagine that their corre-
spondents have been forgetful of their duty.
T her
far a
siness purposes are concerned, the last day of
1843, merchant; speculators, and others, appear to have
made up their minds to take holiday, for all places of
public resort are all but abandoned. This day's record
of brief.City affairs" must therefore be of necessity very
"
96kThe market for Consols for the Account opened at
, and it has closed a fraction lower. There were
not any purchases on behalf of the Commissioners to-
"ay. The price of Bank Stock has advanced to 185.
Exchequer Bills are at 625. premium. The Reduced
Three per Cents. at 974 4, and India Bonds at 795.
premium.
The transactions in the Foreign funds have been
rather considerable this morning, and though many
sales of Mexican Stock have been made the price
has advaneed.from 32 to 324 ; at present the rate is 32
to 32*.: Good remittances are expected on account of
the dividends by the next packet. Spanish Bonds are in
iernand for Account. The Three per Cents. have ad-
vanced to 32, and the Five per Cents. to 21i. Dutch,
Portuguese, and the other Stocks, whether European or
Transatlantic, command about the same value as yester-
day.
Great North of England, Great Western, London
and Brighton, Blackwell, Greenwich, South Western,
Croydon, Manchester and Leeds, Northern and Eastern,
Paris and Orleans, Paris and Rouen, and South Eastern
and Dover Railway Shares, are in advance of yesterday's
rates. Other Shares remain very nearly at the same
prices. The London and Westminster Bank Shares are
Irrn, at 21 premium • and the United Mexican Minin
,Shares are at 3i per ;hare. g
mar
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, DEC. 29.—The
ket is
vices. brisk, with a fair business doing at full
p Manchester and Leeds, and South Eastern, are
in good demand. Eastern Counties Scrip, 134 ; London
and Brighton. 42t
; Manchester and Leeds, 98 to 984;
Ditto quarter; 74 to 4 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 544;
Trent and Mersey Canal. 515.
CLOSING PRICES
BRITISH FUNDS.
13 ag Stock ............ 189 India Stock pie
;.iit (.
i• cut. Red.
3 , !-'I tent. Cons, . . Ditto Old Annuities ... N 114 Cent. Red ...• 1021 Ditto New Annuities...
t
v- '3i Per Cent_ Ex. Bills, 1,000/. lid. 64 inn E,,,,,, 5 per cer,-..- *** — Ditto 500/...... 62 on, 1 ,
,ig Annuities to expire— Ditto Small ...... 64 xe•
Jam' 1860 .' ...... . 12 11-16. Bank Stock for Acct. 1841
4 4a.
JC.t. 1859 — India Stock for .... .
1860 ...
4aFOREIGN FUNDS.
herpan, 5 per cent.... Po. rtnguese,_ 5 per cent.
41". 6 Per cent. — Ditto, New Ditto —
Ur • •
pt asthan Bonds... ...... Prussian, 5 per cent —
- - ,ft‘ os Ayres 6 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent —
1201111111 u!,. 6 per cent. — Ditto, sletaic . ....
bittuluTan. 6 per cent... • Spanish, 5 per cent 2l/
halia„ a ti 24 .. . Ditto, 3 per cent 3ll
-74iBonds, 6 . p..e.; ........ 11* Ditto, Deferred....
sh, 3 per 5ent....,.. Frenc, 5 per cent. —f —.c.
'-'reek, 182.5 5 Per Exchange ...... .... —f —e-
Aletleal!, 5 Percencet.n.... —32# French, 3 per cent. —f —c.
Ditto n'
6 Per cent PeB37 Dutch, 21 per cent. 56
uvian,l2s`ret. !Ditto, 5 per cent.... 991
SHARES.
Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) ...... 57
Ditto New Thirds (25 paid),......... ... 18
__ Ditto Eighths (lt lOs ........ .. 3#
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 Pd)
I.,_arsistteDoritiltto New Shares (171 paid)
aendouEnxtieetse(r
23(7p0aild)a)id) ... ..... . ... .. 641
11
Ditto Scrip (81 6s Bdpaid)
Edinburgh
New Registered ( paid)
12/
and Glasgow (50 paid) 5B
Great Ditto Registered (121 paid) ... ..... . 141
North of England Railway (100 pd) 65
Great Western (65 paid)
Ditto
Di t t o
iHalffth Sharessi2
pa
i(ds)o paid) ... 99
70
Hull and Selby (50 paid) 191
60
. IL:oonnntiddditoootnnno a zLoan Nri go ht
et os n(1(050papii)d)::: ....
............. .. . 4111
aanndd Buliacrmkiwnalghla(ml6(lllitsp4ad,
)paid) .. 61
Ditto New Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) •
28
London and Greenwich Railway (12(15s 4dpd) 5/
London and South Western (41/ 6s 10d pd) 741
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ... 15
Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid)•••9#
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ... .. looi
Ditto New Shares (30 paid))
...Ditto Quarter Sharon ( 2 paid) 4l
71
.i!oarnehester and Birmingham (40 Pal`:) 4O
a thern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares (121 paid)
Noah Midland (100 paid) ..... ...
__Paris and Orleans (20 paid) .. ............
Paris and Rouen (20 paid) ... . ...
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid)... 35
Ditto Scrip and
paid) ................. .. .. . :
Yarmouth and Norwich (13 paid) 1 '
York and North Midland (50 WT. ...
Ditto New Shares (20 paid)...........Pa...... ......--120 •

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COWES, ISLE OF IGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
tXTREME MILDNESS OF THE SEASON.—The fields are
covered with daisies, the banks with primroses and vio
lets, the gardens bloom with flowers—mignonette, sweet
wall-flowers, stocks, pansies, mallows, nasturtiums,
Clarke, tropceoluna eanariensi, sweet and yellow alysson,
al'kea pulehella; geraniums, and roses, are as as com-
mon a• , sin the spring. The birds are singing and build-
anisg. A hedge-sparrow's nest was this day taken with
it;lree eggs in it. The thermometer stands at 55, and the
aeotaeter at 30. 33.
.11,1 e Marquis and Marchioness of Sligo and family are
Still at Cowes, as is Sir Wm. Montagu and family, Sir
Edward Paget and family, and many others.
(The letter of our Correspondent enclosed specimens
°I. the above flowers, fresh and fragrant from the garden;
should a change to real wintry weather suddenl-
the description of Shakspeare will appl y y with literal
correctness:—
The seasons alter
P ; hoary headed frost
alls in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,
And on old tlyems' chin,
and icy crown,
An odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds
Is' as in mockery, set."]

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN
ltioBrlnT-n-'1',1,10 fitfulfrig accounts of incendiarisrn, in the
t,ntion Lrtahpers oSaturday, induce me to call. your at-
evidence against the, as was prophetically delivered in
the
tuttible servant: h corn-laws, before the Committee of
'louse of Lords July 4, 1814, by your obedient
' MATTHEW PHILLIPS.
0,.1).8--The evidence, Which Was printed in the Journals
r the 'louse of Lords, foretold such a result.
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_ IJDENT FRAUD.—On Friday Mr. Powell, a re-
bl)Petable tradesman at Lsnabeth, was applied to by a
'tan for a loa❑ of a truck for two hours to convey some
re-
goo as he represented, to Camberwell ; but suspecting
potne his manner that a fraud was contemplated, Mr.
'w. 11 allowed him
.to have the vehicle, taking th.► pre-
lo~► to direct his son to watch his motions. The fel-
' had no sooner obtained possession of the property
2th544 he
and to Whitechapel, and there sold it for
TuZi'e . was taken into custody while spending the
,r, 3 in a neighbouring public-house.
= iti, ti-
' "oN CAPTAIN Rous.--We are glad to hear
tyl: the Gallant 'Member for Westminster is going or!
or 1 avourably, and that strong hopea are entertained
* ' a rest9ration of the sight of the injured eye.