The Sun.
London, England, 1844-10-18 00:00:00

" This Corporation, so important.by the private posi-
.,ion of each of its members, and also by the influence of
the burgesses of London, by which it is elected, has
heretofore limited itself to the reception within the city
itself of the foreign Sovereigns who sojourned in Eng-
land. It never on any former occasion quitted the
limits of the commonalty till this occasion of the visit of
his Majesty to Queeu Victoria. The departure, too, of
the Lord Mayor and Aldermen for Windsor has{ been
considered by all serious minds as a most significant
event. To have induced the Corporation of London to
break through a rule consecrated by immemorial custom,
required in fact that the elite of the English population
should have pronounced itself strongly in favour of
Franca, and that the deference and veneration felt for
ow- Sovereign should be carried to the highest pitch."
The French Funds on Wednesday were very firm.
The Five per Cents. which rose five centimes, closed
at 118 f. 60c., and the Threes at 82f. 40c.
THE BOURSE—WEDNESDAY, OCT. 16.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per C3nts ..
•• 107 25 •• 107 25 .. 107 25 .. 107 25
Three per Cents••• •• 82 20 82 40 .. 82 20 .. 82 40
Bank of France 3055 "3055 ..3050 .•3030
Lento Bank, I,ooof. Shareslll3 50 ..1112 50 ••1112 50 ••1112 50
5,000 f. Sharesso4s —5045 ..5045 —5045
Belgian Fives,lß3l••
180 ........ 103 f .. 103 f .. 103 f .. 1031
Spanish Passive .• • ••• •••• •• 6 •• 6 .. 6
Active •• •• •• •• •••• 321 •• 32/ •• 32f .. 321
Threes ••• • • • •"• •• 35f •• .. 35; 3,54
Portuguese Five per Cents .• 491 .. 50f 491 •• 50f
.. 88 70 .. 98 70 98 70 98 70
Roman •• ...... ......... 1051 .. 1051 .. 1051 •• 1051
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, R. 8........„ .• n 7 50 .. 397 50 •• 397 50 •• 397 60
L.8.......••••••282 50 .. 290 .• 282 50 .. 286 25
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AMYarrIIMAResES FOR SETTLING, 16Tu OF OCTOBER.
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1010 ..1015 .. 1010 ..1015
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Rouen to Havre••• ••
1020 ••1021 25 ..1020 .•1021 25
Strasburg to Bale 277 50 .. 278 75 .. 277 50 .. 278 75
Avignon to Marseilles ..
RAILWAY SHARES FOR THE ACCOUNT, OCTOBER 31.
Versailles, R.B 4OO .. 400 .. 400 .. 400
282 20 •• 290 .. 282 50 .. 283 75
1012 50 ..1015 ..1012 50 —lOl2

Rouen to 11avre............ 766 25 .. 767 50 .. 766 25 ..'LO,_ 50
Orleans
•• •••.1023 75 ••1023 75 ..1020
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Strasburg to Bale•••• • - 278 75 .• 280 .• 278 75 .• 280
Avignon to Marseilles•••••• 778 75 .. 781 52 .. 780: .. 781 25

TROTTING MATCH FOR 251. A SlDE.—Yesterday the
admirers of fast trotting were gratified by the match
between Mr. Barton's well-known horse, Diamond, and
Mr. M'Clue's horse, being decided. The terms of the
match were to trot twenty miles in harness on a turnpike
road, and the usual rules of trotting to be complied with.
Tho locality selected was upon five miles of ground on
the Godstone road. The horses appeared at the starting
place harnessed to match-carts, and entered upon the
contest, performing five miles in twenty-three minutes ;
they turned together, and concluded ten miles in forty -
eine minutes, Mr. M'Clue being three hundred yards in
advance. The horses were then pulled up, and having
been refreshed and rubbed down, occupying only fifteen
minutes, they resumed the match, going away at a
lively pace, and concluded another five miles in twenty-
three minutes, Mr. M'Clue being two minutes in advance.
They turned for the winning goal, and at the seventeenth
mile Mr. M'Clue's horse broke into a gallop and was
turned, which enabled Mr. Barton to take the lead, which
he maintained the remaining distance, and came in the
winner by five hundred yank. The horses were ably
driven, and appeared not the least distressed at the con-
clusion. The twenty miles were accomplished in one
hundred and three minutes, including stoppages.
SALE OF A CHURCH LlVlNG.—Yesterday the sale
by auction of the important church preferment, consist-
ing of the advowson, and next presentation to St.
Neots, Suffolk, took place at the Auction Mart. It was
described as being worth twelve years' purchase, at the
sum of 8,0001. The annual income was stated to be,
after deducting 1331. 6s. Bd. for poor rates, tie., 7101., in
addition to which the glebe comprised 43 acres, 2 roods,
and 30 perches of excellent land, with a parsonage house.
The real income derived from the commutation, value of

the glebe land, and surplice fees was derived as follows :
—from tithes, 7801. 10s., glebe land 801., and surplice
fees 201., which were subject to the deductions above
stated. The living is situated about nine miles from the
market town of Bury of St. Edmund's, and five from
Stowmarket, and is known in the immediate locality, as
" Itattlesden." The number of acres is about 3,200, and
the Rev. James Baker, who is 75 years of age, is the in-
cumb?at. The property was put up at 5,000 guineas,
and after an animated competition, was knocked down at
6,600 guineas.
SUDDEN DEATH OF A PAUPER IN THE EDMONTON
UNION. —Late on Wednesday evening Mr. IliggS, Co-
roner for the Duchy of Lancaster, held an inquest in the
Edmonton Union Workhouse, on the body of Henry
Guest, aged 75, for several years an inmate. It appeared
by the evidence that deceased was an exceedingly hearty
man for his age, and that on Saturday, having eaten his
dinner as usual, he arose from table, and, whilst walking
in the sitting hall, dropped dead, without exhibiting any
previous signs of the sudden termination of his existence.
Jr. Hammond, the union surgeon, opened the body, and
discovered the cause of death to be rupture of the heart
itself. Verdict, " Natural death."

ST. Niisiais's.—On Saturday, when the Rapid
coach was passing through St. Ninian's, and coming
down the steep descent in that village, where it is next
to impossible to prevent the horses from going a little
quicker, it went right into the centre of a drove of sheep
pent together in that narrow place, where it was in vain
for them to attempt to escape, and overthrew seven of
them, several being killed on the spot, and the others
maimed and bruised. The drivers of the sheep, acting
zealously for their masters' interest, seized the horses
and detained the coach until they received satisfaction
for the loss sustained, for which they are to b© com-
mended.--Stirling Journal.

who has taken from Spain, Gibraltar, Jamaica, Cam-
peachy, Honduras, the Bahamas, Trinidad, and the
Falkland Islands ; from Holland, Demerara, Berbice,
Esequibo, and the Cape of Good Hope; from Turkey,
the lonian Islands ; from the order of Malta, Malta
and Gozo, &c. &c., should also take exclusive pos-
session of all the other points on the globe, and all the
other markets which its navy or its commerce have
not yet got, that we should renounce all right to place
our flag on even the smallest islet, that we should
at its instigation bring confusion into our colonies,
while we at the same time retarded the day marked
out for the emancipation of the negroes, to reduce our
navy while we kept up an exorbitant and ruinous
army; to occasion every now and then to continental
Europe some fears respecting the continuance of
peace, and thereby retard the progress of industry,
and bring about commercial crises, and, in short, to
give it every trouble in fomenting revolution, as it is
doing at the present moment in Spain. These are
the terms upon which it may be reckoned that the
understanding between the two countries will not be
less cordial than that between the two Sovereigns.
Let us cease to be rivals, and there will be no obstacle
to our being allies."
The Constitutionnel regards all the compliments
paid to the KING and the French people as mere imi-
tations of French politeness, meaning nothing. We
wish these haters of England would follow the
example in place of denouncing Englishmen as cut-
throats in Otaheite. The following are its spiteful
remarks :
" The King of the French has been the object of
every attention in England. We are grateful for it to
the English nation and its Government. In fact, if these
speeches, addresses and royal fetes, have .'for their ob-
ject to place a certain salve on our recent wounds, and
to console by satisfactions of pure vanity, our offended
interests and dignity, at least they are acts of politeness,
and we prefer them on the part of England to rude be-
haviour. Oar Ministerial journals are, it is true, highly
ridiculous in their enthusiasm. The King has the Order
of the Garter, neither more nor less than Louis XVIII.
and Charles X., his predecessors 1 Behold him altoge-
ther in the rank of legitimate Kings 1 He can wear,
like them, on days of ceremony, a garter on his left
leg, and display before the eyes of ambassadors this
present of Queen Victoria I The Mayor, Aldermen, and
Common Council of the City of London, rode three or
four leagues in their carriages, dressed in their crimson
robes, to congratulate the King on the policy of his Mi-
nistry, and to recommend him to continue that policy,
in the interest of humanity 1 What happiness for
France I What a political event 1 But it is not the
fault of England that our Ministerial journals are ridi-
culous. Our neighbours, judging of our nation by its
Government, have taken it into their heads that appear-
ance is everything to our eyes, that the bottom of mat-
ters is of little importance to us, and that forms alone
occupy us. They go direct to the useful, the true, the
positive, but they imagine that we are a formalist
people, and that we regard no other interests than
those cf our !self-love. They serve us, therefore, ac-
cording to our taste, and we ought to be grateful to
them for their desire to please us. In Morocco, we
have the glory of Isly; they have the treaty of Tan-
giers. At Otaheite, they get our throats cut and expel
us ; but at London they compliment us, and place us
in their addresses above all the great warriors in his-
tory. They have obtained the disavowal of M. d'Aubigny
and the indemnity of Mr. Pritchard, but the Aldermen
of London visit the King in their crimson robes. Have
we not all that is suitable for us ? However, our Minis-
ters make the King declare that peace is the greatest in-
terest of nations, as if independence, the integrity of the
territory, national honour, and the grandeur of the
country, were not interests still more precious than
peace, of which we know better than any others how to
recognise the value. The King is recommended to pro-
claim the coming of perpetual peace, that dream which
the head of a great nation ought never to declare aloud
in a foreign country. This definition of the entente
cordiale is in fine suggested to the King ; a platonic
friendship between France and England, in which France
demands nothing from England, nor England anything
from France ; a vain definition, for such an alliance im-
plies an absolute statu quo, a complete fixity in the world,
or else it is not a real alliance. All this the English ap-
plaud with the utmost gravity, and continue to proceed
towards their object, of acting everywhere without us
and against us if necessary. They pay us in coin which
they suppose is suitable for us, and they flatter our
vanity for the greater edvantage of England."
The Globe thus adverts to the address from the
Corporation of London :