The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-03 00:00:00

BOURSE-PARIS,WPDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents. 119 10... 119 15... 119 5... 119 5
Four per Cents 101 50... 101 50 .. 101 50... 101 50
3 per Cents 8) 50... 80 50... 80 35... 80 35
Bank of France 3305 —.3305 • ...3305 .. 3205
Laffitte Bank 5,000 f 5052 50...5082 50.:.5080 —5OBO
Belgian Bank BO7 50... 807 50... 805 ... 805
Belgian Fives
1840 1044 ... 104 i ... 104 i ... 104 ft
Spanish Active. . 234 ... 234 ... 2 4 ... 234
Neapolitan lOB 60... 108 80... 109 60... 108 80
Roman,
RAILWAY SHARES.

SL Germain' B3O ... 830 ... 830 ... 830
Versailles, L.B B7 50... 87 50... 86 25... 86 25
Rouen
Orleans.
Strasburg to Bale 2Ol 50... 201 25... 201 25... 201 25

TIIE POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY FOR 1843.
—We have had frequent occasion to call public at-
tention to the comprehensive plan, and excellent ar-
rangements of this useful work, and in these respects
have little new to add. It is satisfactory, however,
to state, that Mr. Kelly, the proprietor, not ungrateful
for the extensive patronage it has justly acquired, has
adopted many new improvements, and by simplifying
some of the details, and making numerous additions,
has this year rendered it the most complete Directory
ever published. Of these we select the following :
The full names of each partner in every firm appear
at his proper alphabetical position with a reference
to the firm, which likewise appears as before. This
will remedy an inconvenience complained of, that
unless the leading partner's name was remembered,
a firm could not be referred to. A list of the prin-
cipal hotels, taverns, and commercial inns throughout
England and Wales has been compiled, the land-
lord's name being in each case added., In the
" Trades' Directory," some new lists have been added,
the longest of which is " Travellers," (Commercial).
The Street Directory has been much enlarged, and
now embraces a much wider extent. The Court
Directory also takes a much wider range than in the
last edition, and includes some thousands of names
not contained in any other book. The Proprietor,
from his access to official documents, and the assist-
ance liberally afforded by the Post-office authorities,
has great advantages, and consequently has been
enabled to furnish a vast amount of information, all
of which has been collected within the last seventy
days, by responsible agents, possessing local know-
ledge. It is accompanied by an excellent map .of
London, by Wyld, it extends to 1,558 pages, 112
more than in the edition of last year, and forms
altogether a most valuable book of reference.
We have reason to believe that Lieut.-General Sir
Hugh Gough, G.C.8., with the greater part of the
troops at present employed in China, will forthwith
return to India ; and that the command-in-chief will
be entrusted to Major-General Lord Saltoun, G.C.11.,
C. 8., at least until the payment of the twenty-one
millions of dollars stipulated in the late treaty. The
force under his Lordship's orders will consist of a
brigade at Chusan, a small garrison at Amoy, and
two battalions (British), with artillery, at Hong-
Kong, where, it is expected that the head-quarters
will be established.—Post.
THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY, we under
stand, deputed a reporter to attend the meeting of the
Metropolitan Anti-Corn-law League, held on Thurs-
day night, at the Mechanics' Institution, in order that
the Society may be accurately informed of what oc-
curred. No doubt it will be greatly interested by
the sums subscribed,' and by the statements made
by Mr. Wilson, confirming so many other similar
statements, all tending to show that the falling off in
the consumption of the towns' people is the principal
source of the fall in the price of agricultural produce.
At length the landowners are awakening to a due
sense of their own interest, and are finding out that
there is no stimulant to agricultural improvement, and
no reward for agricultural productions, at all to be
compared to thriving consumers. At length after en-
countering more obloquy, and gathering on them-
selves more contempt than is borne by any class of
men in the country, these sapient gentlemen have ac-
tually discovered that they have been labouring to
kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. If they have
not succeeded, it is because there is a vitality in hu-
man property which even landlords cannot ,kill.
A HINT TO TILE-MASERS.—The landed interest is
just now bent on making England more fertile than
Sicily, by underdraining every clay field. At the
same time the diffusion of knowledge amongst agri-
culturists, and the progress of improvement, is ex-
tremely slow. " Two years ago," says Mr. Pusey,
" the agriculturists discovered that while 405., 505., and
even 60s. per thousand, were paid for tiles in the south
of England, Mr. Beart, of Godmanchester, five years
before, had invented a simple machine, by which he
had reduced the price of tiles from forty shillings
to twenty-two shillings, throughout Huntingdon-
shire." Fire years to spread amongst them such
useful knowledge ! "The price of tiles," adds Mr.
Pusey, "depends on that of coals," and then follows
an eulogium on Lord Tweeddale's ingenious machine
for making draining tiles. Now, as building seems
nearly arrested in the manufacturing districts, and as
they abound with ingenious workmen, we, would'
suggest to the tile makers, those who have works in
the neighbourhood of 'coals, that they turn their at-
tention to making draining tiles by machinery at a
cheap rate for ate use of the landlords in all parts of
the kingdom. It will p robably be cheaper to con ve3r
the article when manufactured to
tiles.
At any rate
where.it is wanted,
than to convey the coals to burn
as the demand for such tiles, from the sudden
light which has broken on the landowners,
and the sudden necessity for exertion they have
discovered, seems likely to be very great; if tiles
be made on a large scale it will most probably be a
rofitable speculation, and a great advantage to those
profitable
who are desirous to drain their land. The
manufacturers should encourage the landowners by
lending them all possible skill to carry out improve-
ment. If, as Mr. Pusey says, an increase of five or
six bushels of wheat per acre were to result from
the use of tiles manufactured on a factory principle,
it. might puzzle the Post (no difficult matter) to tell
how much of the increase was the result of manu-
facturing and how much of agricultural labour.