The Sun.
London, England, 1842-01-26 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARES.

St. Germain ----
- iiii 50 ... 872 50 ... 870 ... 870
Versa Wes. K. B 945 ... 345 ... 945 ... 945
L.B 2lO ... 212 50 ... 210 ... 212 50
Rouen 485 ... 490 ... 485 ... 490
Orleans . . 5lO ... 540 ... 595 ... 536
Strasburg to Bale 230 ... 230 ... 290 ... 230

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VtunNA, JAN. 15.
Five per Conts.Metalliques
Four per Ccnts • IOOX
Three pr Cents.
Bank shares 16_,2
—Allgemeine Zettung. Jan. 19.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS
CI7Y, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL JAN. 25.—This day being kept a close
holiday, there is no Cotton or Share Market to report.
By the arrival of the Isabella Watson, from the Cape
of Good Hope, papers to the 2d of December have been
received at the North and South American Coffee-
house, but they do not contain any news of the least
interest. No intelligence from the frontier.

THE FUNDS.

There has been but little business transacted up to the
present time. Consols are 8914 for Money, and 89t- i
for the Account ; Exchequer Bills 17 19 prem.
Spanish Active Stock opened pretty firm at 25i I;
Portuguese ,Five per Cents. are 33f 34 ; Ditto Threes,
19i 20 i.
PRIC foiS OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ORE.
It .II WAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great North of England .. .. 90
Great Western
Liverpool and Manchester .....100 ......198* to 198
London and Brighton 5O 37i to 37
London and Birmingham 90 l7O ...... to 169
Ditto New
London and South Western 3B/ 5B-A to 59
Louden and Croydon (Trunk)... 13f l2 ..... to
alidland C 3Unties ..
North Midland . ...100 - ,
Ditto New . .

COURSE OF EXCHA2
Amsterdam ......0 F 12 7i
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .2 U. 12 8
Antwerp
Hamburgh ......11'1. B l3 13i
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60
Ditto, 3 months.. 25 85
Marseilles
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Maine... 150 k
Petersburgh, 3 Us ... 37
Berlin.
Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M 953
Trieste, ditto , 954
Madrid
Cadiz
Bilbao
Barcelona
Seville

GE—t. YESTERDAY. )
Gibraltar 46
Leghorn ..... 30 30
Genoa 25 90
Milan
Venice
Naples ... 40
Palermo, per ez 119*
Lisbon 52
Oporto 52
Rio Janeiro 27
Bahia
Buenos Ayres
New York, 21 says sight 46i
Philadelphia 46
PRICES OP BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Com ...3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars... 0 4 9i
Silver in Bars 0 4 11
HALF-PAST ONE.
The English Market continues steady, with but a very
moderate business doing. Consols for Money are 89* ;
and for the Account, 891 ; Bank Stock, 168 ; Three
per Cents. Reduced, 89i I; Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
Reduced, 991 ; New Three end-a-Half per Cents., 984 ;
Exchequer Bills,. 17s. to 19s. premium.
In the Foreign Market the operations have been very
limited, and without variation. Spanish Active Stock is
25i!; Mexican 29i ; Russian 115:a ; Dutch Two-and-
a-l-lalf per Cent ;. 511 a ; and the Five per Cents. 101/ t.
The Share Market presents no alteration, and scarcely
anything done. Great Western are quoted 86* ; Liver-
pool and Manchester, 198 ; London and Brighton, 37 ;
London and 'Uirmingham, 169 ; London and South
Western, 59.

HALF-PAST TWO.
Consols, Money, 891 ; Ditto Account, 898 ; Colom-
bian, 21/ 22/ Mexican, 298 ; Spanish, 25i t.
QUARTER TO THREE.
The trade of the ports of Boulogne and Calais appears
to have very steadily increased for some years past, and
last year there was again an augmentation. The
Customs' revenue of the formex port was in 1840
1,566,000 fran(:ts, and in 1841 1,815,000 francs. For
Calais, it amo-anted to 990,000 francs in 1840, and to
1,359,000 fran cs last year.
The number of vessels visiting the port of Flushing
last year was 2,751, of which 218 were British, 266 Bel-
gian, and 159 Ilamburgh.

THE 11,1,4RKETS.—(THIS DAY.)
CORN EXCHANGE.
The arrivals of all Grain since Monday have been
small. There wus very little doing in any article, and
prices remain an on Monday. Flour very dull sale.
COLONIAL MARKETS.
There was little business transacted, either for home
consumption or export, but prices were fully sustained.
TEA MARKET.
The demand wins good, and full rates were paid. Com-
pany's Congou Is. 10id. cash.
T.ALLOW MARKET.
Prices continue firm, with a good demand, at 48s. 6d.
on the spot, and 48s. 6d. to 48s. 9d. for delivery.
METAL MARKET.
Iron in good request, at firm rates. Lead sold slowly,
but prices firm. ).3pelter in good request at 381. per ton.
MUM

SPORTKNG INTELLIGENCE,
BETTING AT MANCHESTER—TUESDAY.
CHESTER CUP.---14 to 1 agst Lanercost (t.)-15 to 1
agst the Squire-15 to 1 agst Rory O'More-17 to 1
agst Bellona (t.)----26 to 1 agst Jolly Tar (t.)-23 to .1
agst Alice Hawthorne (t.)-25 to 1 agst Marshal Soult
(t.)-25 to 1 aglit Rhodanthe (t.)-27 to 1 agst Re-
triever-27 to 1 agst Una-27 to 1 agst Cruiskeen-
-200 to 6 agst Satirist-1,000 to 50 agst Marquis of
Westminster's two, with an acceptance with both (t.)-
4 to 1 agst Scots lot-500 to 30 agst Lord G. Ben-
tinck's lot (t.)
DERBY.-7iI:o 1 agst Attila-10 to 1 agst Chatham-
-23 to 1 agst Wiseacre— 28 to 1 agst Joanna C. (t. freely)
—2B to 1 agst ?Robert de Gorham-45 to 1 agst Meteor
—45 to 1 agst Espartero (t.)-50 to 1 agst Moss-trooper
—offers to take 3 to 1 about Scott's lot.
coAxs.—No thing done.

Buckingham-house, on the site of which Buck-
ingham Palace now stands, was purchased by Queen
Charlotte, the Queen of George 111., in January, 1775.
It was built in 1703, and after being rebuilt was in-
tended to be converted into ii Palace by George IV.
Buckingham-house was generally occupied by the King
and Queen at those times when drawing-rooms were held
at 6t. James's Palace.

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AND

Public Optutou.

" Who runs may read."

FOREIGN.

The French Chamber of Deputies was occupied on
Monday with the Right of Search question. M. Berryer
delivered a very powerful speech against it.
Several of the Paris Journals state that a Royal or-
donnance, promoting the Prince de Joinville to the rank
of fear-Admiral was issued on Saturday. The Moniteur
is silent on the subject.
All the influence of the French Cabinet was exercised
to keep M. de Salvapdy from making a fool of himself
by reading his despatches on the Etiquette question in
the Chamber of Deputies. A Government which owes
its existence to the hurling of the paving stones of Paris
at the heads of the champions of legitimacy naturally
shrunk from such a test of ridicule.
As the Cameleon, French Government steamer, was
on her way from Alexandria to Toulon, she fell in with
and took in tow, off Cape Sepet, the Mermaid, from
Liverpool for Leghorn, which had been disabled by a
storm.

The Journal du Havre mentions a rumour that the
British schooner Camilla, which used to ply with passen-
gers during the winter between that port and Southamp-
ton, was run down a few days since in the Channel by a
three-masted vessel, in a thick fog. The Captain and all
the crew of the Camilla are said to have perished.
PUBLIC OPINION.
In an article on the subject of the Oxford Professor-
ship of Poetry, the Morning Post takes occasion to ex-
press its regret for the defeat of Mr. Williams, observing,
" We think that he and his academical friends had fair
reason to look for another result. But as to the great
theological cause with7hich the late contest has been
associated, the result of the late Poetry Professorship
election matters not a jot. Theological truth is not all
dependent on popularity."
The Advertiser, contrasting the rejoicings at Windsor
yesterday with the distresses existing at Manchester,
Bolton, and elsewhere, states that this frightful state of
things is wholly the effect of class legislation—the result
of passing laws for the benefit of the few, instead of for
the interest of the many. "It is the adoption," adds the
Advertiser, "by Parliament of those narrow monopolist
principles by the Premier, and embodied in his measures,
which has produced the appalling commercial crisis in
which the country is now placed."
The Times, alluding to the stability of our institutions,
in an artiele suggested by the Royal Christening, says,
" The continuance of our prosperity must be expected to
depend on the fidelity of ourselves and our rulers to our
Protestant faith ; and the prayer that our Prince may
lead the rest of his life according to the beginning, which
he made yesterday, is one in which not only every cha-
ritable Christian, and every loyal subject, but every real
patriot, must fervently join."
The subject of the principal leading article in the
Herald is the Royal Christening, wherein, speaking of
the visit of the King of Prussia, our Contemporary re-
marks that immediate political or commercial results are
not to be expected ; but if there be not hereafter a kinder
there will most certainly be a more thorough under-
standing between England and Germany, for that the
reception given to his Majesty will have, for the greater
part of Germany, a national interest.
The Chronicle contains a leading article, suggested
by a memorial addressed to Sir Robert Peel by the
American Chamber of commerce at Liverpool, from
which we make the following extract :—" The plain
question is, shall we allow the great agricultural people
of the United States to take our manufactures ? What
a question to be mooted, while both capitalists and work-
people are in their present condition ! The discussion
should be cut short by the procession of starving thou-
sands to church to thank God for the existence of such

a market for the products of their industry. v But we
cannot choose as to the medium of payment. We must
be content to exchange for that which they have to
offer. And the hungry wretch who cannot get work or
potatoes, would be well content to labour for American
flour. You shall not,' is the reply of Monopoly."
Tho Hants Independent observes :—"Poor-laws and
not Corn-laws keep up the standard of wages. The
latter aggravate ten-fold the severity of the former but
Corn-laws render Poor-laws the more necessary. It is
the only protection the labourer has against starvation,
for where a legal provision for the poor exists, wages,
however excessive the supply over demand, cannot fall
so low as to produce actual famine."
The Cambridge Advertiser thus alludes to the mis-
government of the Tories:—" The late Government
cannot be justly blamed for the financial deficiencies of
the country. If, the saddle is to be placed upon the
right horse, the burden of the blame must rest exclu-
sively upon the Tory Governments, to whom 'the people
are indebted for those legislative enactments, of which
it is the professed object to advance the interests of
particular individuals, to the total exclusion of whatever
is beneficial to the great bulk of the community."
The Brighton Guardian observes, in an article sug-
gested by the late ceremony of laying the first stone of
the Royal Exchange :—" But while the heads of the State
and the public mind honour commerce, we find the Mi-
nisters, both of the Throne and of Religion, conspiring
to put an end by law to one great branch of trade. They
have passed laws to prevent as much as possible all trade
in corn between England and other countries. In doinc,
that, they violate the very principles they consecrated'
onMonday week, and prove that they are most incon-
sistent."

We take the followingfrom the Dublin Pilot:—" Lord
Eliot and family sailed for England on Saturday even-
ing. It is said that his Lordship has been so disgusted
with the rampant Orangeism of the law department—
as manifested in the advice tendered to the Lord Lieu-
tenant in reference to the removal of Sheriffs Porter and
Browne—that he will not return to this country. It was
very generally rumoured yesterday that a serious dif-
ference of opinion had arisen between Lord Eliot and
the Lord Lieutenant, respecting the propriety of substi-
tuting Sir Edward Borough for the present Sheriffs."
CONXIVICERCIAL.ILEPORNI.
At a meeting of the West Hackney Anti-Corn-law
Association, held on Dionday, more than 150 females
attended the demonstration against the Corn-laws.