The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-08 00:00:00

FOREIGN FUNDS.

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Austrian, 5 per Cent --.-
Portuguese, 5 per Cont ...... 77%
Belgian, 5 per Cent 1043f Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... 38 Russian, 5 per Cent ll6
Chllian, 6 per Cent
Colombian, 6 per Cent: Spanish, 5 per Cent 25
Ditto, 1824 — 'Ditto, 3 per Cent .. ....... ...... 35
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 93 Ditto, Deferred l4
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 18 5, 5 per Cent...... !Exchange —4. —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 !Dutch, '2% per Cent ssh
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... 30X Ditto, 5 per Cent lO2

SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) .
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) s;z;
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
Ditto New (25 pain)
Ditto Extension Ms. 4d. paid!
Lon Jon and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Guildford Junction ( 5 pad)
London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) .:. SO
Ditto Eighths (Iss. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk) ... ... 16%
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Manchester and Birmingham 44
Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid)
Paris and Rouen (20 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 3N
Ditto Scrip (25 paid) 35,,
York and North Midland (50 paid) 123

RAILWAY BILLS.

FIRST REPORT FROM THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON RAIL-

WAY BILLS CLASSIFICATION.

The Select Committee appointed to consider which of the pending
Railway Bills shall be deemed competing Bills, according to the reso-
lutions agreed to by the House, have agreed to the following Re-
port :
Your Committee having considered the cases of the under-men-
tioned Railway Bills,
Bolton and Preston,
Brighton and Chichester,
Chester and Holyhead,
Colchester and Harwich (No. 2),
Eastern Counties,
Eastern Counties (Brandon and

Manchester and Leeds (Heywood

Branch),
.Midland Counties Consolidation,
Newcastle and Darlington Junc-

tion,
Northern and Eastern (Newport

Peterborough),
Edinburgh and Glasgow,
I:
Furness,
Great Western,
Guildford Junction,
Harwich Railway and Pier,
HuddBrstleld,
Lancaster and Carlisle,
London and South Western,
Macclesfield and Birmingham,'
(Macclesfield and Poynton
Branches),
are of opinion, that, of the said Bi'
Railway (No. 2), and the Harwich
for compefiing lines.

_
Deviation),
INorwich and Brandon,
Salisbury Branch,
ISlamannan Branch,
South Devon,
South Eastern,
South Eastern (Canterbury, Mar-
gate, and Ramsgate),
Taff Vale,
West London (Extension),
Yarmouth and Norwich,

the Colchester and Harwich
Railway and Pier, are alone Bills

MURDER OF MR. BRYAN.—DUBLIN, MARCH 5. I '
The Leinster Circuit is extremely heavy. The trial of the parties
charged with the murder of the late Butler Bryan, Esq., closed at
twelve o'clock on Saturday night, when the jury returned a ver-
dict of Not Guilty.
REDUCTION OF THE THREE-AND-A-HALF PER CENT.
ANNUITIES.—The proposition of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, it is said, will be to reduce the rate of interest from
3i to 3 per cent. The amount of stock upon which these
annuities are now paid is about 250,000,000/. ; and a reduc-
tion of 1 per cent. would, therefore, leave a be of
1,250,0001. per annum on this account, in favour of the
national income.
AQUATICS AT ETON COLLEGE.—The captain, Mr.
Codrington, has just selected his crew for his eight-oared
boat, for the approaching season, which consists of the
following Etonians :—Mr. Codrington (captain), and Messrs.
Errington, Luttrell, Speake, Slade, Babington, Dixon, and
Woodridge. Lord Cecil has been selected by the captain as
coxswain.
MILLBANK PRISON.—An inquest was held on Tues-
day, at the Milbank Prison (late the Penitentiary), before
Mr. Higgs, on James Shillitoe, aged 19, a prisoner under sen-
tence of transportation for ten years. Mr. John Richard
Grove, the governor, said that the deceased was admitted on
the 7th of June, 1842, from the Warrior hulk. He had been
convicted at Chelmsford on the 7th of March, in the same
year, of burglary, and sentenced to transportation for ten
years. Dr. Baly, the physician, said that the deceased made
the first complaint of illness on the 23d of last month. He
was found to be suffering from diarrhoea, and on the 27th,
being feverish and much worse, he was removed into the in-
firmary. On the 29th he was attacked with inflammation of
the throat, and on Monday last died. A post mortem ex-
amination
was made to ascertain the cruse of death, and the
appearances proved the deceased to have died from inflam-
mation and ulceration of the throat, inflammation of both
lungs, and ulceration of the bowels. A juror remarked that
the case was the same as all other inquests held in that
prison, and it was clear that deceased had died from the
general complaint—diarrhoea. Another juror inquired
whether the prison was so damp and unhealthy as it was
reported to be? and the Governor replied that the prison was
not damp, and, as an engineer, he could say, that no place
was better drained. He denied that the mortality was great,
and stated, that the number of deaths and of the sick, was
much lower in amount titan in any regiment in the service.
In fact, he might say, that the invalids and deaths in the
army were double what they were in the prison. A juror
said he had always heard that the prison was very damp,
even the room in which they were then sitting. He himself
was of opinion that the prison was damp and unhealthy, and
that the atmosphere and earth were affected by the tides.
. The Governor said that the building was several feet above
high-water mark, and was not damp from the cause assigned.
' The prison contained, upon an average, 1,300 souls, and the
mortality was but three per cut. The jury returueci a ver-
dict c>l"*Nattaal death."