The Sun.
London, England, 1845-01-16 00:00:00

estimates of expenditure are stated as follows

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Reals.
Queen and Royal Family
Legislative bodies ....
Aiihistry of Foreign Affairs
Ditto Grace and Justice
Ditto Home Department
Ditto War, including the new Guardia Civil 323,419,845
Ditto Marine and Colonies
Ditto Finance 362,558,540
Sinking Fund Board
Clergy and Public Worship

1,205,522,688
The above estimates, supposing the new taxes can be
levied, show an excess of revenue of 45 millions of reals.
Senor Mon also presented the following project of law:—
" Art. 1. Tne expenses of the State for the year 1845,
are fixed at 1,205,522,688 reals.

" Art. 2. The Government is authorised to proceed to
the arrangement of the national debt, both foreign and
domestic, and to satisfy, according to that arrangement,
the interest of that not comprehended in the estimates of
expenditure for 1845, with the excess of public revenues
and contributions, and with a prudent increase of the
same. An account to be given pi due time to the Corte:
of the use made of this authority,
" Art. 3. The right of cesantea and jubilate on,' i.e.,
retirement from office on a pension, is only to be con-
ceded to those who serve by royal appointment, and
whose salaries are equal to or exceed the sum of 16,000
reals per annum. This disposition is not to have retro-
active effect, all rights acquired previous to this law being
hereby recognised."
The above projects were sent to the (committee of the
Sections to report upon. They were received in silence,
there being no marks either of approbation or disappro-
bation from the Chamber.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
CITY WEDNESDAY EVENING.
CHRONICLE.—The second notification from the
Railway Department of the Board of Trade, which ap-
peared in the Gazette of last night, disposes of seventeen
proposed schemes of railway in the southern district and
vicinity of the metropolis. The first division consists of
four lines ; and the second, or metropolitan division,
contains•thirteen lines. As respects the first, the Board
, has decided on reporting to Parliament in favour of one
only, namely, the Guildford, Chichester, Portsmouth,
, and Fareham Branch, being an extension of the South-
Western line from Guildford to Chichester. The pro-
posed direct line from London to Portsmouth is rejected
by the Board of Trade, as well as the proposed line to
Portsmouth, with branches to Shoreham-bridge, Fare-
ham, and Reigate, and the proposed branch extension,
by the Brighton Company, from Chichester to Ports-
mouth, now to form part of the south-western branch
from Guildford. Of the second, or metropolitan district,
the Bsard has decided to report to -Parliament in favour
of three lines only ; namely-1. The extension of the
South-Western from its present terminus at Nine Elms
to a more centrical and convenient position ; 2. The
Richmond and West-end Junction ; and 3. The pro-
posed line from Richmond to Staines.
The Epsom and Dorking, one of the numerous irons in
the fire which the Croydon Company has in hand—the
London and Croydon Dorking Branch, belonging to the
same family—the London and Brighton Dorking Branch
:—and the South-Eastern Dorking and Reigate Branch,
are recommendend to be postpOned until a future period.
The Board has decided on reporting against the
Grosvenor Railway; the Great Western, Uxbridge, and
Staines Junction; London and Brighton and Wands-
worth Branch; London and South-Western Epsom
Branch; Metropolitan Central Junction; and the South
London and Windsor. Four lines, then, out of seven-
teen, only are to be favourably reported on to Parlia-
ment; four when are postponed; and nine are thrown
overboard by the Railwa; Department of the Board of
Trade.
The result is in favour of the South-Western line ;
protective of the interests of that Company, nearly as
much as the previous notification was in favour of the
interests of the Great Western line. The pr anoters of
rejected lines will prove a formidable and numerous
body to all appearances. It is not to be expected that
they will submit without further effort to the opinions of
the Board of Trude, or at least it is nut likely that
many, it any, of the Provisional Committees will relax
their efforts until they have an opportunity of perusing
the report to be presented to Parliament, which, no
doubt, will explain the principles on which the notifica-
tions have been made, and the reasons which actuated
the members of the Board in forming their decisions.
The labours of the Select Committees on Railway
Bills in the House of Commons must, in that view of the
question, be of a very arduous and extensive character.
What effect the previous opinions of the Board of Trade
may produce upon their proceedings it is difficult to say,
but we see no cause to depart from the belief already ex-
pressed under this head, that it must have great weight,
as emanating from a department of the Government. At
the same time, it is to be kept in view that Members of
Parliament are the representatives of particular consti-
tuencies, whose interests will be more or less affected—
favourably or the reverse—by the result of their delibe-
rations, and when the decision of the Board comes into
collision with the wishes of the constituencies of Mem-
bers of Parliament sitting as judges, it is not to be pre-
sumed that the Committees will confirm the adverse
views to be expressed in the report by Lord Dalhousie
and his colleagues, without allowing evidence to be ad-
duced, and giving full scope to those parties interested in
the new schemes which have been rejected or postponed,
or which may be hereafter reported against in the future
" notifications" which are yet to be made in the Gazette.
SUN.—A decline occurred this afternoon in some of the
English Stocks owing to the state of the Account, which
will be arranged to-morrow. Consols for the opening
dropped to 100, and were last marked 1004. Reduces'.
Three per Cents, were 1004 ; and the Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents., 104. Exchequer Bills receded to
58s. premium, but left off at GOs. premium.
Spanish Bonds have advanced a little, as the Bears
have their accounts to make up to-morrow. The Five
per Cents. were 27 to for the 31st inst.; and the Three
per Cents., 37 to 4. Mexican were 344 4; Colombian,
144 4; and Brazilian, 894.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been there :—Birmingham and Gloucester were 8; Bristol
and (sloucester, 134; Cambridge and Lincoln, Dublin
arid Belfast, 24; Eastern Union, 1 to 14; Great Southern
and Western of Ireland Extension, 2; Great Western,
894; Birmingham, 130; South-Western, 394; Croydon,
34; Newcastle and Darlington, 41 to 40; Ditto and
Berwick, 7i; North British, 24; Northern and Eastern
Scrip, 12 to a ; Ditto, Quarter, 124; Richmond and
West-end Junction, 2i; South-Eastern, 94 to 4; South
Wales, 4; Boulogne and Amiens, 2i- to 24; Orleans and
Vierzon, 64; Ditto and Bordeaux, 64- i; Great Northern
of France, 14; Paris and Orleans, 24i 4; and Paris and
Rouen, 21 to 204 premium. Eastern Counties have
been 84 1 discount. Londoa and Westminster Bauk
Shares were 7 premium.

IMPORTATION OF SEED.—The Commissioners of
Customs having had under their consideration the report of
the practical officers on an application, requesting that
Niger seed, Teel seed, and all other seeds not .particularly
described or enumerated in the tariff, commonly made use
of fur expressing oil therefrom, may be permitted to be
landed at the first-class sufferance wharfs, orders have been
isst:cd that the seeds above-mentioned be added to the list
of articles allowed to be landed at first-class sufferance
wharfs as requested, of which the revenue officers at the
sev,ral departments have had notice, for their information
and government.
EXPEDITION IN THE SHERIFFS' COURT.—This
morning the names of two juries were caled over ; two
juries, sworn and charged on two cases, returned verdicts
departed. " by leave of the Court," in 15 minutes.
All the othercases were struck out of the list, the parties
not having arrived. On the last Court-day a nearly simi-
lar occurrence took place. These cases seldom get into
the list again.

ATTEMPT TO POISON.-MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.-
This morning a man named Benjamin Anderson, who
was brought up on Tuesday last, at the Borough Court,
upon the charge of having attempted to poison his wife
and two children, was brought up for further examina-
tion. The prisoner, whois a ferocious-looking fellow,
appeared quite unmoved at the situation in which he
stood, and rad lost the vacant stare which he exhibited
on the occasion of his first examination. The evidence
previously adduced went the length of showing that sugar
of lead had been found in some sugar in a cupboard in
the prisoner's house, and that the prisoner's wife had re-
cognised it in a basin of tea which she had made. It was
also proved that the prisoner had been seen doing some-
thing in the cupboard where the sugar and poison were
found, and the reascn of his being remanded was in
order that the police might ascertain where and when
he had purchased the poison. Mr. Beswick, the chief
superintendent of police, having drawn the attention of
the Court to the case, called Mr. James Croft, druggist,
of Pollard-street, who stated that on Friday night
week tne prisoner came' into his shop and asked for a
pennyworth of sugar of lead for eye-water. He gave
the prisoner an ounce of sugar of lead wrapped in paper.
He had no doubt but that the prisoner was the man. In
cross-examination by Mr. Harding, the witness said he
did not mark the paper with the word " Poison." The
prisoner was fully committed for trial at the next Liver-
pool Assizes.

Dispatches from the Governor-General of Canada,
and from the Governors of the other North American
Provinces, were received yesterday at the Colonial-
office.