The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-11 00:00:00

The French Funds rose again on Thursday :

The Three per Cents. closed on that day at 84f. 40c.
th♦ Five per Cents. at 1221. 40c. ; Orleans Railroad Shares,
1,292 f. 50c. ; Rouen, 1,092 E 50c. ; Vierzon, 787 f. 50c. ;
Havre, 907 f. 50c. ; Avignon, I,OSOf. ; Basle, 286 f. 25c. ;
Spanish Three per Cents, 381/2 ; ditto Passives, 7.
The following are the quotations for the new lines:—

Orleans and Bordeaux, 1901. premium ; Boulogne, 140 f.
ditto, Troyes and Montereau, 60f.; Paris and Lyons,
(Laffitte), 301. ; ditto (Calon), par ; ditto (Ganneron),
6f. 50c. • Northrn Line (Laffitte), 421. 50c. ; ditto (Rosa-
mel), 171. 50c.; Tours and Nantes (Mackenzie), 12f. 50c. ;
ditto (Drouillard), par ; ditto (O'Neill), sf. ; ditto (Jacques
Lefevre), par ; Lyons and Avignon (Lecointe), 181. 50c.;
ditto (Talabot), 351. ; ditto (Compagnie Meridionale), 51. ;
Bordeaux and Toulouse ( Mackenzie), par ; ditto and
Cette (Espeleta), 15f. ; Creil and St. Quentin, par ;
Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron), 12f. 50c.; Dijon and
Mulhausen, par; Dieppe, 12f. 50c.
LYONS, AUG. 4.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,0421., end
of August ; Paris and Orleans, 1,247 f. ditto ; Paris and
Rouen, 1,062 f. ; Orleans and Vierzon, 7851. ditto ; Orleans
and Bordeaux, 680 f. ; Montereau, 537 f. ditto.

BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 8.

Boulogne and Amiens.. 111 A OverYssel
Bordeuax &Nlediterran Paris& Lyons (Lafitte) 3%
Bordeaux and Toulouse Ditto (Ganneron's).
Do. and Cette 2l/s ' Ditto (Calon's).... -
Dutch Rhenish '...
Dendre Valley
Dieppe & Paris Juliet. Paris & Strsburg (Gan-
Dijon and Mulhouse ... : neron's)....
East Indian — Do. (Compte de L'Est) 2%
Grt Northern of France Paris and St. Quentin.
(Laflitte's)
Ditto (Rosamel's)
Great Paris and Lyons — Sambre and Meuse .... 6
Jamaica Junction 63/ Strasbourg and Basle .
Do. South Mdlnd June — Tourt, &Nantg(M'Ken.
Louvain and Jemeppe 4% ' zie's). —
:,yons and Avignon — I Do. (Lefebvre's) —
Naniur and Liege 514 Verona and Ancona....
Orleans and Vierzon .. 1714 Welt Flanders 43g
Orleans and Bordeaux 11

We direct public attention to an excellent article
which we copy, in another column, from the Sentinel, on
the subject of rebuilding Quebec by the issue of paper
money. The suggestion, we understand, emanates from
that useful body, " the Society for the Emancipation of
the Working Classes."

REPRESENTATION OF SUNDER

LAND.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 7.—The following letters addressed
by the late Noble and talented representative of this borough,
to A. J. Moore, EN., Colonel Thompson's professional legal
agent, will explain the cause of the dalay which has occurred
in the issue of the writ for this borough

" Howick, August 1, 1845.
" Dear Sir,—l have just received your letter of yesterday ;
in reply to it, I beg to inform jou that I have not been able
sooner to take measures for dbtaining my summons to the
House of Lords, because I could not find the patent of peerage
which it is necessary to produce. This has, however, now
been found, and I have instructed my solicitor in London to
apply to the Chancellor to issue the summons without any fur-
ther delay.

I am, yours, " GREY."
" How ick, Aug. 5, 1845.
" Dear Sir,—T write to you one line to say, that I have
received this evening an intimation from my solicitor in
London, that the papers which I had sent up, and which 1
had supposed to be all that were required in order to obtain
my summons to the House of Lords, are not considered suffi-
cient by the Lord Chancellor's secretary, and further evidence
in support of my claim has been called for. This evidence has
been sent off by return of post, and I trust there will be no
further delay. I shall be obliged to you if you will explain to
the electors of Sunderland that I regret very much that which
has already taken place, and that I have done all that is in my
power to expedite the issue of the writ, and to relieve them
from the excitement of a canvass and contested election. I
should be glad to have this known by ail parties in the town ;
as I should consider it a very bad return for the kindness I ex•
perienced there four years ago, if I needlessly prolonged a period
of suspense, which I know must be very inconvenient.
" I am, dear Sir, yours, " GREY."
The usual nightly meetings have been held, which have not
diminished either iu interest or numbers; and in addition, a
meeting of ladies exclusively was held in the Lecture Theatre
of the Athenaeum this morning, which was very numerously
and re=pectably attended. The principal speakers were Col.
Thompson and Mr. Robert R. R. Moore.
Another diabolical attempt has been made to damage the
character of the Gallant Colonel in the estimation of the Wes-
leyans and other Dissenters, by the publication of some gat bled
extracts from speeches delivered at Hull, and reported in the
Hull Packet (the Tory newspaper of that town), under the
head, " The Religious and Political Opinions of Col. Thomp-
son." There is also a quotation from Hansard of part of a speech
delivered by Col. Thompson in the House of Commons on a Bill
being introduced for the better observance of the Sabbath.
It is as follows :—" By the same right by which our fathers
protested against the doctrines and practices of an ancient
church, so he would protest, and if he stood alone in the House
he did not stand alone out of doors, that the judicial observance
of the sabbath was not only not directed in the Scriptures, to
which all parties professed to look for authority, but was abso-
lutely prohibited." '1 his is sorely innocent enough, though it
may be regarded as a crying sin by some few Wesleyans ; its
publication, however, shows the shifts to which the Tories are
driven to prop up their sinking cause.
The " local interest" cry is still kept up, and York citizens
are buying up Durham and Sunderland Railway shares, in the
full expectation that Mr. Hudson will be returned, and that
he will do something to promote the prosperity of this line.

ARMY PRIZE MONEY.--'1 he account of unclaimed
army prize money (formally made by the deputy-treasurer of
the Royal Chelsea Hospital), from the 18th day of January,
1809, to the 31st day of December, 1844, directed to be an-
nually laid before both Houses of Parliament by the Act of the
2d William IV., cap. 52, was published yesterday. The
debtor side of the account gives a sum total of 1,302,3721.,
of which 1,081,3121. accrued by cash arising from for-
feited and unclaimed shares of prize-money, grants, &c
and 221,060/. from the dividends or interest of moneys
invested in the public funds or other Government securities.
The creditor side of the account gives a grand total of
1,298,2531., of which 670,339!. consisted of cash refunded to
claimants, 57,6180 of the exper.ses in executing Acts from
1809 to 1844, and 570,284/. of sums paid for the Royal Hos-
pital in diminution of the annual vote. A balance remains
of 4,129/. The secretary states, in a memorandum, that,
although the balance appears to be as above stated, yet there
is in the Three per Cent. Consols 100,000/. stock, invested on
account of army prise-money, the interest %hereof is in-
cluded annually in the Parliamentary estimates, and is ap-
plicable to the payment of prize claims ; and when the amount
thereof, in addition to other sums received on the same ac-
count during the year, exceeds the sums paid, the Paymaster-
General takes the balance as an appropriation in his account.
The difference between the above balance, 4,1291., and the
100,000/. stock in the Consols, arises from the investment in
that stock having been made when the funds were very low,
and from the sales thereout, as occasion required, having been
from time to time effected when the prices were considerably
higher.

-NAVAL PROMOTION.--Mr. Jaillei W. Ozzard,
secretary's chief clerk under the flag of Rear Admiral
Cochrane, C. 8., Commander-in-Chief in the East Indies, has
been promoted to the rank of paymaster and purser, and ap-
pointed to the Vestal, 26, seniority, 9th April; 1845, vice Ore-
gory; died of fever, at Madras. Mr. Ozzard is a talented pro-
mising young officer, of more than ten years' standing as clerk
in the Childers, Edinburgh, Bellerophon, Wasp, Powerful, and
Agincourt, where be served with great credit, particularly in
the Syrian campaign, where he was often a volunteer against
the enemy. The last three and a half years of his employ has
been under the immediate eye of Sir Thomas Coctittehe, in
India and China, who has been pleased to mark his high appro-
bation of Mr. Ozza"d's zeal and integrity, by giving him
eurtiminion in a death vacancy.

THE PROROGATION
OF PARLIAMENT.

HER MAJESTY'S
SPEECH.

Mr LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,
I rejoice that the state of public business enables
me to release you from further attendance in Par-

liament.

In closing this laborious session, I must express
to you my warm acknowledgments for the zeal and
assiduity with which you have applied yourselves to
the consideration of many subjects deeply affecting
the public welfare.

I have given my cordial assent to the Bills
which you presented to me for remitting the Duties
on many articles of import, and fur removing restric-
tions on the free application of capital and skill to
certain branches of our manufactures.

The reduction of taxation will necessarily cause
an immediate loss of revenue, but I trust that its
effect in stimulating commercial enterprise, and en-
larging the means of consumption, will ultimately
provide an ample compensation for any temporary
sacrifice.

I have witnessed with peculiar satisfaction the
unremitting attention which you have bestowed on
the measures recommended by me to your considera-
tion, at the commencement of the Session, for im-
proving and extending the means of Academical
Education in Ireland.

You may rely upon my determination to carry
those measures into execution in the manner best cal-
culated to inspire confidence in the Institutions which
have received your sanction, and to give effect to
your earnest desire to promote the welfare of that
part of my dominions.
From all Foreign Powers I continue to receive
assurances of their friendly disposition towards this
country.

The Convention which I have recently con-
cluded with the King of the French for the
more effectual suppression of the Slave Trade will, I
trust, by establishing a cordial and active co-operation
between the two Powers, afford a better pro3pect
than has hitherto existed of complete success in the
attainment of an object for which this country has
made so many sacrifices.

GENTLEMEN OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS,

I thank you for the liberality with which you
have voted th! Supplies for the service of the current

year.

MY LORDS AND GENTLEMEN,

On your return to your several counties, duties
will devolve upon you, scarcely less important than
those from the performance of which I now relieve
you.

I feel assured that you will promote and confirm,
by your influence and example, that spirit of loyalty
and contentment which you will find generally pre-
valent throughout the country.
In the discharge of all the functions entrusted to
you for the public welfare you may con fidently rely on
my cordial support; and I implore the blessing °Whine
Providence on our united efforts to encourage the
industry, and increase the comforts of my people,
and to inculcate those religi9us and moral princi-
ples which are the surest foundation of our security
and happiness.

ROYAL TIIAMES YACUT CLUB.—The members of

the Royal Thames Yacht Club held their monthly meeting on
Thursday evening, at the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-
street ; Captain Wheeler (the Treasurer), in the unavoidable
absence of the Commodore, presided. Captain Wheeler, on
the motion for confirming the minutes, suggested that as a
motion for building a cutter for the especial use of the Com-
modore at sailing matches, had been carried at the last meeting
without notice having been previously given, that such portion
of the minutes be not confir.ned on the ground of irregularity.
This portion having been expunged, on the above ground, the
minutes were confirmed. The subject of building a new club-
house, and some other important motions, were postponed,
owing to the absence of parties, and after ten or twelve gentle-
men had been ballotted for and elected, several were proposed
for ballot, and the meeting broke up.
HARVEST PROSPECTS.—A broken sky, with warm
gleams of sunshine, have this morning given new heart
to those who are looking with anxiety towards the ap-
proaching harvest. The wheat is not forward enough yet
to have suffered from the recent rains— and no mischief
has been done which a few days of tine weather will not
repair. We have seen experienced agriculturists from all
parts of the county, and we find them by no means desponding,
either as to the present condition of the crops, or the ultimate
prospect of the yield—very little sunshine will bring prices
down as fast as they got up, as our market of to-day has proved.
Western Times.
STATE OF THE HOSIERY' AND LACE TRADES.—
The Nottingham trade is in a very depressed and gloomy state.
The wrought cotton hose branch is not at this moment worse
than it has been in for months past, and the cutup cotton hose
branch, which has been stagnant for months, has revived a
shade. 'I he drawer and pantaloon branch is very dull, and
employment scarce. The silk glove branch, after having passed
through a sort of fever, has rather suddenly fallen back into its
former state, which causes considerable privation amongst
the workmen. In Helper and the vicinity the hosiers
are attacking the rate of wages ; but the hands, long inured to
suffering, seemed determined to resist.—The plain silk hose
branch, after being a shade improved, has also retrograded to
its old position, if not to a worse. The fancy bobbin-net trade,
that is, the Lever's fancy trade, continues extremely de-
pressed, and many machines and hands are standing, though
we have heard it asserted that two of the principal firms
have had some large orders, but this we fear is exaggerated.
The stint of hours was pretty well abided by for a few days,
but some of the manufacturers finding they could sell
some of their patterns, continued to work long hours : this
caused the measure to b t abandoned, in which attempts are
made to induce Parliament to interfere. A meeting was
called on Monday evening, at the Town dial], of the twist and
warp hands, at which it was resolved to petition Parliament to
limit the working hours of lace machines to sixteen per day.
But as Parliament will be prorogued, it is said, on the 9th
instant, nothing can be done this session.—The warp lace trade
is also very dull, especially the cotton trade. The silk branches
have not felt it to the same extent, though the warp lace hands
have almost taken the lead as to the restriction of hours ;
most of the frames are worked single-handed ; the long
hours are confined in general to the rotary machines at
times, and to those now making cloth. The Bill for compelling
the hosiers and masters to give tickets with their work, as
amended and made applicable to the Nottingham and Derby
trade, passed the House of Lords on the 30th ult„ and has re-
ceived the royal assent. It comes into operation on the Ist of
January next. This la .s will cause a new era in the hosiery trade
as the system of underworking by giving secret prices, and by
private docking from the regular list of prices is now at an
end. It will cause an equalisation of price, to be given
through-rut the trade. The. Bill now extends to bagmen,
and all putters-out of hosiery, who will be compelled to give
tickets to their journeymen, and even to their apprentices.
It will provide employment for printers to prepare forms of
the necessary schedule?, which in some descriptions of work
will require to have more than twenty entries. The large
warehouses will be compelled to have extra clerks, as with
every different description of work a distinct schedule or
ticket must be given. It does not appear that the hosiers
made any opposition to this law, though in 1823, when a
similar measure was proposed by Mr. Peter Moore, M.P. for
Coventry, they almost unanimously petitioned against it.—
Nottingham Review.

DEATH WHILST BATHING IN THE SERPENTINE.—
On Friday Mr. Gill held an inquest at the Brown Bear,
Knightsbridge, on the body of William Powell, aged nineteen,
who was drowned whilst bathing in the Serpentine. The
deceased was an apprentice to Mr. Lack, harness-maker, of
Stockbridge-terrace, Pimlico, and on Tuesday last,. be-
tween eight and: nine o'clock in the evening,. he, with a
fellow apprentice named llayley, went to the Serpentine to
bathe. Powell went into the water first, and having got
about eigkt or nine yards in the river from the. shore, he
was observed by his companion to be struggling in the water,
and tried to call for assistance, but was unable. He sunk,
and an alarm having been given, the boats belonging to the
Royal Humane Society came to the spot, and in about ten
minutes the body was recovered, and conveyed to the receiv-
ing-house, where every means were resorted to to restore
animation, but without effect. Verdict, "Accidental death."
A gentleman present wished to know if the Royal Humane
Society thought three men sufficient to watch the numerous
bathers? Mr. Charlier, the secretary, said that they would
like to have double the number, if they had sufficient funds ;
the present was the only accident of a fatal character that had
occurred this season, although the number of bathers had
considerably increased.
New oats were cut last Monday at Cromwell, but
generally speaking, that. (as well as other grain) is remarkably
late, and the rainy weather very much militates against its
ripening.—Nottingham Journal.
A MAN KILLEEk BY A Bur.L.—On the arrival of
the down train at Selby, on Tuesday morning, the body of a
man of the name of Isaac Woodcock, was discovered lying at
the bottom of one of the caravans, which contained a bull, be-
longing to Earl Fitzwilliam, whilst proceeding to the exhibi-
tion of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society at Beverly. When
the discovery was made, it was also ascertained that the bull
had his fore feet placed on the shoulder of the unfortunate suf-
ferer; and that the unfuriated animal had also struck him with
his horns very severely at the back part of the head. Life was
quite extinct.—Doncaster Gazette.
TESTING THE SECURITY OF RAILROADS.—On Fri-
day, on account of the long •continued heavy rains, the Direc-
tors of the Great Western and of the London and Birmingham
Railroads caused an experimental trial to be made on those
railroads, for the purpose of ascertaining the solidity of the
roads and blocks on which the iron work is affixed, also to in-
vestigate the state of the embankments. The examination was
very satisfactory, the roads being found perfectly secure.
A tobacconist, who recently entered the happy
state of wedlock at the church of one of the principal parishes
of South-W4st Essex, in the fulness of his joy at the consum-
mation of his wishes, prestnted the officiating minister and
clerk with packets of genuine Havannah paper.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(SATURDAY.)

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT
BY HER MAJESTY.

This being the day fixed upon for the prorogation of
the Imperial Parliament by her Majesty in person, con-
siderable bustle and excitement weie manifested in the
neighbourhood of St. Stephen's and along the route
usually taken by the royal procession, from an early
hour. At all points from which a view of her Majesty
could be obtained scaffolding and platforms were in
the course of erection, for the purpose of accom-
modating those liege subjects anxious to obtain
a glimpse of the imposing pageant of the Queen of the
Isles going in state to relieve heiself and those who
have been engaged in the business of legislation, for a
season, from the more weighty and pressing cares of the
state. The morning bore a threatening aspect, but by
mid-day the sky cleared up, and fortunately continued
so during the whole progress of the royal pro-
cession. About one o'clock a strong party of the
Metropolitan Police arrived on the ground and formed
themselves at regular distances on each side of the space
along which the royal co, 14e was to pass from Bucking-
ham Palace to the entrance of the House of Lords. Im-
mediately after the horse and foot guards took up their
respective positions. Exactly at half-past one the Queen,
with her usual punctuality, left the palace in the state car-
riage. Prince Albert sat en the same side of the carriage
as her Majesty, dressed in, a Field-Marshal's uniform, and
opposite were seated the Duchess of Buccleuch, the
Mistress of the Robes, and the Earl of Jersey, the
Master of the Horse. During the whole progress
of the royal procession, from the palace to
St. Stephen's, her Majesty, who looked exceed-
ingly well, and seemed in excellent spirits, was
cheered by the immense assemblage with heartiness
and cordiality—tokens of good feeling and respect
which she acknowledged in the most condescending
manner. We have seldom seen a larger concourse of
people assembled on such an occasion, or one
whose conduct was more deserving of praise ; for
during the whole proceedings, though we traversed the
entire route of the procession, we did not witness a single
act of rudeness, or hear one unseemly obserraticn. The
ladies, as is usual on such occasions, mustered strongly,
and were particularly marked for their anxiety to secure
a good view of her Majesty and all the " pomp and cir-
cumstance" by which she was surrounded. The royal
cortege reached the entrance to the House of Lords
at ten minutes to two precisely, the fact of which was
announced to the assembled thousands by a discharge of
cannon.