The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-01 00:00:00

IVIONLY-TRADE-COMMERCE.

Three hundred of of the operatives of Messrs. Sharp, Roberts,
and Co., the engineers of Manchester, were discharged on
Saturday last. One or two cotton-mills, it is stated, are on the
eve of stopping their works.
The sixth annual meeting of the South Australian Company
was held at New Broad-street yesterday. From an inventory
taken abroad it was found that the Company's property in
South Australia amounted to 333,6801., and that the surplus
of assets beyond i:bilities was reckoned at 57,0001. The total
revenue for the'year ending 1841 was 17,289/. 10s. 3d., and
the balance of the profit and loss account was 9,121/. 15s. 4d.
he colony was stated to be in an improving state, and the
erns very abundant.
P41,1.1.1C IMPROVEMENTS. _ _

The intention of the Corporation of the City of London to
re-construct the Courts of Queen's Bench, Common Pleas,
and Exchequer, will he carried into immediate effect, and the
present Courts in Guiahall-yard will be pulled down on the
termination of the present sittings on the tith of July. The
Corporation has voted 11,0001. fir their erection, and they are
to be ready for Michaelmas term.
NAVAL. AND mxx,rriuty.

Two ships of the line, one to be called the Prince of Wales,
of 110 guns, and the other of 90 guns, to be named the Prin-
cess Rojal, have been ordered to be built at Portsmouth by the
Admiralty Board.
Mr. Henry V. Craven, a promising young officer, who was
mate of the signals on board of her Majesty's ship Revenge, at
the storming of Beyrout, Sidon, and Acre, fell overboard on
his passage to China, and has been drowned.
ZAW AND POLICId. 1
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The Tipperary Special Ccmmission was opened at Clonme
on Tuesday. Lord Chief Justice Pennefather, in his address
stated that " it was shocking to humanity to be informed tha
there was hardly a crime of violence that was not perpetrated
almost with impunity in the county."
In the bill filed in Chancery against the Wigney family
there are no less than 46 defendants, many of them minors.
Eight attorneys are at present working at it : it will remain
perhaps in Court 20 years, and the costs amount to 5,0001.
Frederick Isambiel, who a few days since obtained a sum-
mons against Miss Thyrza Sumner, a young lady residing at
Oatland's farm, Surrey, for having torn his coat at Dubourg's
Hotel, Haymarket, and so beset him with matrimonial ad-
vances as to render it necessary for him to seek the protection
of the law, displayed the love-letters stated to be received by
him, at Marlborough-street, yesterday; but the Magistrate
dismissed the case, leaving the plaintiff to his remedy, if he had
any, in some other Court.
At Queen-square yesterday, Robert Cleverly was . charged
with indelicately addressing Miss Eliza Davis and her sister on
the previous evening while taking their walk on Millbank, and
fined the highest penalty, 51., which was paid.
William Scott, a linendraper's shopman, whose debts were
upu ards of 3001. contracted in six years, was opposed yester-
day at the Insolvent Debtors' Court in his discharge by a Mrs.
Kerby, and be was remanded for four months from the vesting
order.
Henry Elmore, sin of Mr. Elmore the horse-dealer of Picca-
dilly, whose debts amount to about 8001., also applied to be
discharged, but the ease wasadjuurned to serve a creditor, ani
further bail refused.
laTILIZARY AND SCIENTIP/C.

Among the excursions made by many of the members and
vianors of the British Association of Science, was one made on
A:onday by a party of about 60 or 70, who started by train to
see the remarkable fossil trees exhumed by the excavations for
the Bolton line of railway. There are five or six of them, all
preserved with every care, covered under a penthouse, walled
round like a well, for those below the level of the rtil, and
wooden trap-doors. They consist of huge monocotyledons,
sigillana., in character like to the equideter, or merestail, and
other enormous trees of thousands of years gone by.
THEATRICAL.
Miss Kemble, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Balfe, left
town for Dublin, to fulfil her last engagement with Mr. Calcraft,
It is understood that ;Miss Kemble will perform at Covent-
garden Theatre till Christmas, when she will retire from the
profession.
Vauxhall Gardens open on Monday next under Mr. Bunn's
management.

SPORTING.
Sir Francis Goodricke, Dart., takes the Pytehley Hunt for
the ensuing season, and not the Earl of Ducie, as stated.
CO lONA ISLE.
The Duke of Wellington is expected to leave Apsley House
on Sunday fur Cambridge.
The Duke and Duchess of Northumberland arrived in
town from Sion House on Wednesday, and are expected to
leave to-morrow :or Cambridge.
The Duchess of Buccleuch's breakfast at Montagu House
will take place this day.
The Earl and Countess Powis leave town to-morrow, for
Cambridge.
His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge will
shortly join the 17th Lancers at Leeds.
The Marquis of Conyngham has left Kingston on a cruize
in his yacht, on the coast of Ireland.
ZYZISCIELL.A.IVEOITS.
The fne villa and gmunds of the Marquis of Bute at Cam •
has been purchased by Mr. Vincent, a near neighbour,
at 7,oooiguine as.
Tho quiztists still coat lie txt walk, 14 *Se IlUnak" (42

the hills in the neighbourhood of Blackburn, Burnley, and
Colne, and a great meeting was held the day More yesterday
in :Manchester, where language of a very exciting kind was
used. _ . .

MV
The celebrated Dr. Chalmers, of Edinburgh, is now sojourn-
ing at Rostrever, county Low h, for the benefit of his health.
Yesterday afternoon the distribution of the prizes took place,
at King's College, to the successful competitors of the various
classes.

LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM
RAILWAY.-(THIS DAY.)
A Special Meeting of the Directors and Proprietors of this
Railway took place to-day, at the Company's Offices, Euston-
square, for the purpose of considering the propriety of empow-
ering the Directors to purchase the interest of the proprietors
of the Warwick and Leamington Railway, and also to enable
them to raise funds for that purpose by creating, from time to
time, new shares.
GEORGE CARR GLYNNE, Esq. took the Chair at 12 o'clock,
and, after shortly stating the object of the meeting, proposed two
resolutions for the sanction of the Proprietors for the purpose
of carrying that object into effect. The purport of these reso-
lutions was, that the Directors should be empowered to pur-
chase the Warwick and Leamington Railway; and that, in
order to provide kinds for that purpose, they should be em-
powered to create from time to time such number of new shares,
and ander such terms and conditions, as they should think fit.
These resolutions vt ere unanimously agreed to, and the meet-
ing separated.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The market has been without a feature, but prices remain
firm. Consols 91k for the Opening ex dividend ; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 911 91a ; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Re-
duced, 1004100 g; India Bonds, 23 ; Exchequer Bills, Old,
45 47:; New, 41 43 prem.
In Foreign Securities there has been no variation. Belgian,
102 103 ; Dutch Twc-and-a-Half per Cents., 514; the Five
per Cents., 1004 ; Danish, 81 t 32; and Brazilian, 65.
Mexican is quoted 36 36k.
Business in shares has been very limited ; the sales only corn-
prise—South Western, 60%; Eastern Counties New, 81 ;
Debentures, 61. Is. Bd. ; South Eastern, 24k ; Croydon, 123/4 ;
and Brighton, 35g.
Dealers in bonds are extremely shy of entering into trans-
actions, until the decision of the Committee of the Stock
Exchange be known. Colombian, however, are quoted, 221/2 ;
Portuguese Five per Cents., 344 ; and Spanish Three per
Cents., 21, bith ex div. ; Spanish Five per Cents. 204.
The fraud of yesterday continues to excite much attention
among the parties connected with the Stock Exchange, and
has attracted some notice in the mercantile community
generally. The loss sustained by it has been calculated at
about eight thousand pounds, which, should the Commit-
tee not annul the bargains, will have to be borne
chiefly by jobbers. In consequence of these transactions,
a large amount of differences which ought, in due course, to
have been paid yesterday, remain still unsettled, and it is
thought that many defaulters will ultimately be declared. It is
reported that the Committee are determined thoroughly to in-
vestigate the business, and it is to be hoped that no wish to
acre. n the offenders will be allowed to interfere with the richly
merited exposure.
This attempted swindle has done more than anything which
has occurred for many years to deter parties, unconnected with
such dealings, from entering into them, and will, very pro-
bably, bring about the desirable event of annihilating the sys-
tem of time bargains in the bonds of insolvent or DOG-
paying States. It also forms an excellent illustration
to what has been frequently written on the subject,
and goes far to prove that they are in reality nothing
but gambling. Had the report been correct, it was
known that the house at New Orleans had scarcely any con-
nexion with that here, and should therefore have had no effect
on the stock. Or even admitting that the firm in London
had suspended, the ultimate loss to the bondholders
could not by possibility have exceeded 21 per cent., and yet
the quotations were driven down no less than six per cent.
The decline also shows the estimation in which these foreign
Governments are really held, when the solvency of a mere
agent is considered to be of more importance than the stability
of the Executive.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS Paid. Per Share.
Eastern Counties
Ditto New 4/. 6s. Sd.
Ditto Debentures el. 6s. Bd. 101. 4s. 2d.
London anc Brighton ...... .. 50 35kg .. to
London and South Western 4IN ... 604 to
Londan and Croydon ( Trunk)... 134 12114 ... to
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
South Eastern and Dover 5O ...... 24k to -
LIVERTOOL COTTON MA RKET, JUNE 30.—The market
continues in the same dull state as heretofore, but without any
change in prices. Cotton is very fairly offered for sale ;
holders, however, do not press their stocks on the market so
as to cause a decline on previous rates. The business to-day
amounts to about 3,500 bales.
LIVERTOOL SILARE MARKET, JUNE 30, was again dull,
and only a limited number of these were sold, viz. Eastern
Counties, 81f; Edinburgh and Glasgow, New, 34 ; Great
Western, Halves, 61, Fifths, 8g ; London and Birmingham,
177 ; Midland Counties, Quarters, 17.
MA NCUESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 30.—We have
no alteration to note; and business has been transacted in the
following stocks :—Manchester and Birmingham, 231; Mid-
land Counties, 693%; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank,
10 5-16 ; Manchester Assurance, 94.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. . . 911 !Ditto Bonds .... 25 pm
3 per Cent. Cons Ditto Old Annuities
31 per Cent. Red......... 1004 \ Ditto New Annuities...
New 34 per Cent......... Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 43 pm
New 5 per Cen'. — Ditto 5001...... 43 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small
Jan. 1860 ....•.... 121 Bank Stock for Acct —
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 !Consols for Opg. 914
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent — :Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds... — Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent ll4
Chilian, 6 per cent — :Ditto, Metallic.-- ....
Colombian, 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent...... 20g
Ditto, 1824 221 Ditto, Deferred.... .
Danish, 3 per cent Bl French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — !Exchange
-

Alexican, 5 per cent 36 ,French,-3
percent. —f. —c.
Pitto, 6 per cent. 1637 !Dutch, 24 per cent. 5ll
Peruvian, 1625, 6 per ct. IP; qn, 5 per cent. .. ... 1001
SHARES.
Eastern Counties Railway (..:3 paid) ...
Ditto New Shares ( paid)
Ditto Debentures .. ....
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... ... 45
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid ...
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 60
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk)
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .., ~ ......
Ditto New Shares (30 paid) ... 334
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 4f
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... •. 23
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 24A
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid)

COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT.
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE.
ARRIVALS.
June 25. Petrel cutter, Eall of Ilchester, from Weymouth
and Southampton.
June 26. Brilliant schooner, G. H. Ackers, Esq., from
Cherbourg; Nymph cutter, Sir John Bayley, Bart., from
Southampton ; Bret-v.- yawl. 1 homas Legh, Esq., from South-
apton.
June 28. Camilla schooner, Thomas Hallifax, jun., Esq.,
from Dartmouth.
June 29. Chaim cutter, John Meiklam, Esq., from Yar-
mouth.