The Sun.
London, England, 1842-06-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. TUESDAX EVENING, JUNE 7, 1842.

O'Neill, Esq., partner in the firm of Torlades and Co., who till
lately held the appointments of Consol for Belgium and Den- I
mark. Lady Isabella Pitcairn also died on the day of her ar-
rival by the picket ; also Mr. Moon, an English merchant,
from Maranhao.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

HOUSE OF LORDS.--(TII1S DAY.)
The House sat to- day to hear appeals. The Peers present
were—Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, Lord Campbell, and
Lord Wynford.

FOGO r. MATTILIE.

The arguments in this part-heard appeal were resumed
to-day, but had not concluded when our Evening Edition wont
to press.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
Appeal motions occupied the Lord Chancellor the whole of
the morning.

VICE-CHANCERY--(THISDAY.)

(Before Vice-Chancellor 'Wm RAM. )
BROWN V. PERKINS.

His Hotronit delivered judgment in the above case. The
plaintiff and the defendant entered into partnership as solici-
tors for a term of ten years, to be computed from the 19th
February, 1836. In March, 1837, differences arose between
them, and on the 18th of November. 1837, the partnership was
dissolved by consent. On the 10th of December, 1837, the
matters in dispute between them .were referred to arbitration,
but no award was made. The plaintiff had Wed a bill praying
an account of the partnership dealings and transactions, and for
payment of what, in taking the accounts, should be found to be
due to him ; lie offering, out of the assets, to pay to the de-
fendant what might be due to him. The defendant pleaded
that. Brown had practised as an attorney, and had thereby had
the benefit of the agreement. His Honour overruled the plea.

QUEEN'S BENCH. -(THIS DAY.)
The Cou KT took the Special Paper this morning, and was
engaged the whole day in hearing arguments on technical points
of practice.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL.NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The English Market remains in the same stagnant condition
as yesterday ; prices remain without variation. The indis-
position to transact business continues, and during the day it
has been extremely limited. Prices, however, have not varied,
and Consols are 911 1 for the opening ex-dividend ; Three
per Cents. Reduced, 911 911; Bank Stock, 1671 168 ; Ex-
chequer Bills, 46 48; and India Bonds, 24 prem.
The Foreign Market is steady, with but little doing. Bel-
gian, 102 103 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 524 521 ;
the Five per Cents., 101 1011; Danish, 804 814 ; and Bra-
zilian, 67.
The quotation of Mexican is 364.
in the Share Market London anal Birmingham Shares are
178; Great Western, 86 87; South Western, 6210 South
Eastern, 25 25* ; and Brighton, 35%.
An tetempt was made to raise the quotation for Spanish
Bonds, which to a small extent succeeded. Since then it has
gone back, and is now 211 for the Four per Cents., and 211
224 fur the Three per Cents.
The proceedings at the meeting of Treasury Bondholders
yesterday have doubtless contributed to produce this effect ;
and although no new trickery was discovered, still the exposure
of former actions of the Government towards its creditors must
have a degree of influence. The meeting adopted the sugges-
tion of the Committee, and determined to address a memorial
to the Regent on the subject, in consequence, as it is expressed in
their apology for troubling h m, of having so often and so vainly
api lied to the Executive. It isto be hoped that th is remonstrance
may produce some beneficial result, although from the con-
fusion of Spanish finances generally, the expenditure far ex-
ceeding the income, but little can be expected for some time
at least. The other bonds quoted, are only Portuguese Three
per Cents., 22.
It is stated that a large failure has taken place in the Share
Market at Liverpool. For some time past, and until very
lately, speculation in this description of security was going
on to an enormous, extent there ; however, within this
•and the previous month, the market has been represented as
" dull, and prices declining ;" and although some doubt exists
as to the correctness of the report, yet, from these circum-
stances, it obtains almost general credit.
A proclamation has been issued to-day, directing that all
sovereigns below the weight of 5 dwts. grs., and half-
sovereigns below 2 dwts. 131 grs., shall no longer be a legal
tender. Some change of the kind has long been expected,
from the great abrasion which the coin has undergone; it was,
however, generally eonsidered that the plan of calling in the old
and issuing new money would be chosen. The present mea-
sure will prove a source of great loss to the mercantile public
in general, since it has been calculated that nearly (sue-third of
the circulation is under weight, and the holders now will be
obliged to sell it for the old gold.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Eastern Counties
Great Western
Ditto Fifths
London anc. Brighton ...... .. 50 35% to
London and Birmingham 90 i7B ...... to
Ditto New ... 2 39 ...... to
London and Smith Western 3Bl 621 to
South Eastern ,and,Dever
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
British North American ...... 40
National of Ireland 174 l6 to
Provincial Bank of Ireland
LIVERFOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 6.—The Market was
very steady, and a fair amount of business ss as done at the quo-
tations ; 4,500 bales met with purchasers.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JUNE 6.—We have had an
extremely languid inquiry for every description of Stock to-day,
and the sales wore altogether confined to two small lots of South
Eastern and Dover, New Shares, for which 53 was paid.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 6.—Our market
fur railways remains heavy, and business very limited ; the in-
quiry continues for Bank Stock. London and Birmingham,
178 180; Souti. Western, 62% 63; Manchester and Leeds, 82
83 ; ditto Half-shares, 36 361; Bank of Manchester, 41. 3s. 9d.
CLOSING PRICES.
. BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 1674 India Stock — pm
3 per Cent. Ree. ...... 911 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. Cons
31 per Cent. Red... loo} Ditto New Annuities...
New 3% per Cent... lOOl Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 48 pm
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001...... —pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small
Jan. 1860 ... 124 Bank Stock for Acct —
Oct. 1859
Jaa. 1800 Consols for Opg. 911
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 —
Chilian, 6 per cent B7 Ditto, Metallic .

Colombian, 6 per cent
Ditto, 1824
Danish, 3 per cent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
exiean, 5 per cent 36
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et.

Spanish, A per cent 2li
Ditto, Deferred.... .. 10
French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Exchange —f —c.
French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
\ Dutch, 24- per cent. 52
, Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ...
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 52
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) ... . 93-
Ditto New Shares ( paid) ... .....
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) .... . . ... 51.
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid.. 411
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London Grand Junction Railway lB6
Liveivol and Manchester (100 paid) —
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid)
London and Birmingham (90) ... . .. 1771
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid )
London and South Western (431 15s Odpd) 63
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk)
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ... .. 83
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) bk
Paris and Rouen (16 paid) ... 164
South Eastern ant Dover L. .d) paid) 243;t
Ditto Scrip. ( 5 paid)

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JUNE 7.—Wind this day at noon, N. W., and light.
DEAL, UNE 6.—Wind E.N.E., fresh.—Arrd. Diamond,
North, and sailed for St. Thomas's. Arrd. from the river,
ara sailed, Tyrer, Bombay ; Rapid, Jamaica; James and
Mary, Quebec; Elizabeth, Miramichii Amy, Leghorn.
OFF DOVER, JUNE I.—Fortuna, Hansen, St. Croix, for
Copenhagen. 2. Anna Sacilania, Laguna for Hamburgh;
William, Torrance, Port) St. Diary; Konig, William, Am-
sterdam for Batavia.
OFF DUNGENESS, JUNE 3.—William Ernst, Wittleleve,
Amsterdam for Batavia. 6. Delft, Muller, Bangoewunjie for
Rotterdam.
OFF BEACHEY HEAD, JUNE s.—Hoppet, Stockholm for
Vienna.
Poarsstounr, JUNE 6.—Wind SAE.—Sailed Chapman,
Quebec.
OFF DARTMOUTH, JUNE 6.—Terceira, Borgies, Fayal, for
Hamburgh.
FALMOUTH, JUNE s—Wind E.S.E., light breezes.--Arrd.
Lady Mary Wood (steamer), Southampton, for Gibraltar;
Ellen, Rouen.
BRISTOL, JUNE 6.—Sid. Elizabeth, Newfoundland.
COWES, JUNE 6.—Arrd. Stag, Pearson, Havannah. Sld.
Rahamon Roy, Stettin"; Ark, London.
PLYMOUTH, JUNE 6.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Bolwar,
London, for Hobart Town. Sld. H.M.S. Malabar, Rio.
LivEaro,l., JUNE 6.—Wind variable and light.—Arrd.
Ann, Green, Maracaibo, left April 21 ; Tomkinson, Kirkness,
Tampico; Blanch, Trewick, Palermo; Ann and Margaret,
Neilson, Iceland. Sld. Roe, Mobile, Columbia, Philadel-
phia, Palestine, Boston, Albion, and Thetis, St. John's, New
Brunswick; Sisters and Nautilus, Newfoundland; Highlander,
Messina. Arrd. off, Alexander, Jamaica.
CORK, JuNE 4.—Arrd., Kingaloch, Castlereagh, Kellar,
Newfoundland; Prince Albert, Pernambuco, sailed April 6.
Tir Limo, JUNE 2.—Arrd. Hanover, Newcastle, and sailed
for St. Thomas. Sld. Joseph, Quebec.
STROMNESS JUNE I.—The Rambler, Stephens, from
Swansea to Christiansand, has put in here, having been totally
dismasted during a squall, 30th ult., off the Batts of the Lewis.
MIA., Julia 6. —Wind, N.N. E., moderate.—Sid. Cove,
Quebec.
ST. JOHN'S, NEWFOUNDLAND.—The Melina, Butler, bound
to Harbor Grace, was spoken, April 9, off Cape Race, all well,
by the Surf rise, which arrived here on the 10th April. The
Melina had not arrived at her destination on the 19th May.

WHITECHAPEL HAY MARKET.
The
.supply was moderate ; the fine and middling qualities
were in demand at a little advance on Saturday's prices. The,
ordinary sorts more in request. Clover, 2/. 10s. to 5/. 3s. ;
Hay, I/. 16s. to 4/. ; Straw, 11. 10s. to 1/. 14s.

ELECTION COMMITTEE.
(THIS DAY.)
WATERFORD.
No business was transacted in this Committee this day, as,
soon after meeting, at eleven o'clock, it adjourned till to.
morrow, without giving any decision as to the vote of Maurice
Phelan, which is expected to decide the fate of the petition.

. _
INSTITUTION OF CIVIL
.ENGINEERS.
On Saturday evening Mr. Walter; the President of the In-
stitution of Civil Engineers, gave his anntfal Converzazionc,
As is usual, in addition to a most hos itab'e reception, ha sup-
plied ample food for curiosity by a remarkably well selected
collection of works of art. and models of machinery, all of
which our limits will not permit us to particularise. The
Admiralty had, with becoming liberality, sent a number of
their beautiful models of men c f war, showing the superi-
ority of the mode of construction introduced by Sir Wits
ham Symonds and his assistant, Mr. Edge. Near these
were appropriately placed a collection of models of improved
marine engines, by Maudslay and Field, Miller, Seaward, and
Fairburn. From among the multit tide of other models may
be selected Dockray's self-acting signal tar railway% mallets
for raising ships, the Maplin Sand Lighthouse, by Messrs.
Walker and Burgess, bridges by Gravatt, Roe's arrangements
for cleansing sewers, Captain Reid's water-wheel, Oldham's
machine for numbering bank-notes, Palmer's corrugated east-
iron roof, and a beautiful collection of tools made by Bodmer,
of Manchester. Cheverton's mechanical carvings in ivory,
and Braithwaite's pressed carvings in wood, exhibited the
close alliance subsisting between the fine and mechanical
arts; Dent's astronomical clock, made for the Emperor of
Russia, and that with Professor Airy's new scapement, at-
tracted much attention ; as did also the models of Wilton
Church and the Cambridge Courts, by Salter, from the designs
of Wyatt and Bruceton ; and that of llailton's Nelson memo•
risl column, with the simple and mechanically contrived scaf-
folding with which Grissell and Pet() are now erecting it. A
bugle-horn, covered with platinum, by means of Mons. Roulz's
electro-galvanic process. showed a very successful substitution
of a chemical for a mechanical process.
First among the specimens of the fine arts must be placed
Thomas Landseer's beautiful engraving of the beautiful Miss
Power; sane portfolios of spirited sketches by Nixon, and by
Oliver; and l atham's striking likeness of the Lablache, may
also bc_singled out without snaking an invidious distinction.
Bailey's busts of Fuseli and Stoddart, and his model group of
charity, of course were admirable, and it was scarcely fair to
place so near them the busts of the President and Mr. Sibley,
which were modelled by .1. E. Jont s, in which, however. so
much talent was displayed that he has little cause to be dis-
t, t s'ed at any comparison, especially as we learned that he has
hitherto laboured with amateur love at the art of modelling,
being professionally a civil engineer. The principal model-
room was too brilliantly lighted by Faraday's light—the same
as that which illuminated the throne-room at the Queen's
late fete. Defries exhibited his ingenious dry gas-meter in
the same room ; and the other rooms were lighted by Wil-
kins's dioptric lamps, and Cross and Blaekwell's improvement
upon Palmer's candle-lamps, which appeared to be really an
improvement.
The attendance of the Council and Members of the In.titu-
tion was so numerous as to point out wherein lay the strength
of the body over which Mr. Walker so efficiently presides.
The visitors also were very numerous, and many of them were
of high rank and distinction. The Duke of Wellington made
the complete circuit of the rooms, and examined everything
with so much interest, as to make us envious of Mr. Alanby,
the Secretary, who had the agreeable duty of attending his
Grace, and affording him any explanation he needed. Among
fire or six hundred visitors we noticed particularly—His Grace
the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis of Northampton, the Earl
of Devon, Lord' Bexley, Lord Lowther, Lord Monteagle, Lord
Blayney, Baron Rolfe, the Right Hon. the Speaker of the
House of Commons.
SlRS—William Burnett, George Rose, Henry Ellis, M. J.
Brunel, Peter Laurie, William Pearson, eorge Murray, Dun-
can APDougal, Jephson Norreys, Isaac Lyon Goldsmid, Chas.
Clarke, Edward Cust.
General Pasley ; Admiral Dundas ; Colonel Sykes ; Majors
Anderson, M'Clintock, Mercer ; Captains Norton, Locke,
Groves, Porter, Henderson, Doran, Vetch, Probyn, Kinnaird,
Goodwyn Brandreth, Beaufort, Johnson, G. Smith, T. Dick-
enson ; Lieutenant Amsinck.
The Reverend Lonsdale, Principal of King's College.
PROFESSORS—Wheatstone, Vignoles, Cowper, Lewis, Hall,
Making, Partridge.
DOCTORS—Farraday, Simpson, Willis, Ure, Liston, Reid.,
Arnott,l3uckland, Paris, Granville.
Masses.—Mackinnon, AL P., Heroes, M.P., Headley, C.
Wood, M.P., Pendarves, M.P., Hodgson, M.P.
Chevalier Benkhausen, Consul-General Russia.
SCULPTORS—Messrs. Bailey, Rivers, Wyon.
ARCHITECTS—Messrs. Fowler, Hardy, Moore, Hogg, Cant-
well, Bossevi, Stulers (to King of Prussia), Stack (to King
of Prussia), Chawner, Hopper, Barry, Ferrey, Newman,
Angell, Crake, Kay, Abraham, Woolley, Shaw, Wyatt, Hake-
well, Brandon, Tite.
ARTISTS—Messrs. Stanfield, Knight, T. Landseer, C. Land-
seer, Doyle, Stone, Boxall, Stephanoff, Scanlan, Smith Smith,
Lake Price, Hullah, &c. &c.
The guests separated at a late hour, delighted with the re-
ception afforded them by their host, and with unanimous wishes
for the success of so useful and well-conducted an institution
as that of the Civil Engineers, which is fortunate in possessing
so hospitable as well as so scientific a president.

THE ‘, PROTESTANT CONFEDE-
R.A.TION" OF BIitMINGHAM.
BIRMINGHAM, MONDAY.—The following is a reply from
Sir James Graham to an Address, which wag forwarded to him
for presentation to her Majesty, by the Members of the " Pro-
testant Confederation of Birmingham ."
" Whitehall, June 4, 1842.
" Sir—l am directed by Secretary Sir James Graham to
acknowledge the receipt of a written paper, addressed to her
Majesty, in the following terms:—
" To the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty. —Most, Gracious
Sovereign, we, your Majesty's most loyal and dutiful subjects,
the Members of the Protestant Confederation of Loyal
Orangemen of Birmingham and its vicinity, beg leave most
humbly to approach your Majesty's throne with the most heart-
felt abhorrence of the treasonable attempt which has been
made upon your Majesty's life and person.
" ' And while we would on one hand adore that Divine Pro-
vidence which has thrice protected your Majesty from the hand
of an assassin, we would also implore the same Divine Provi-
dence that it may continue to watch over and protect your
Majesty from treasonable violence and Popish machination.
" Signed on behalf of the Confederation,
" WM. FRENCH, Grand District Master,
6, Smallbrook-street.
" WM. GREATWOOD, Worshipful Master,
Prince of Wales's Lodge.'
" And I am to inform you that Sir James Graham is of opinion,
this is an address which he ought not to present to her Majesty
for acceptance. " I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
" To Mr. W. French." " S. M. PHILLIPS.