The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-05 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAI EVENING, AUGUST 5, 184

has been long known to covet the Home-office. --Sir J.
(,iRABAM has gained, in the Home-office, a reputation
almost unequalled for administrative skill ; and we can
conceive no shuffling of the Government cards which
would more easily accomplish Sir ROBERT PEEL'S ob-
ject, better please all parties, and more benefit alrthe
great interests which are to be considered, than the
transplantation of Sir JAMES GRAHAM to the Colonies,
of Lord WHARNCLIFFE to the Home-office, and of Lord
STANLEY to the honorary office of Lord President of the
Council. Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S great administrative
talents are not unaccompanied, it is true, by faults which
have gathered for him a large stock of personal
unpopularity ; but his faults are rather faults of manner,
which offend individuals brought into personal commu-
nication, than faults which would materially detract from
the benefit that the colonies would derive from his singu-
larly clear head and indefatigable industry.
It is not improbable that there will also be some shut•
fling of the smaller cards in the Government pack ; and
we advise the electors of Cambridge to be on the look
out, as nothing is more probable than that Mr. MANNERS
SUTTON should be put into some berth which will be a
comfortable provision for life. But the destinies of the
nation will not be materially influenced by the fate of
Mr. MANNERS SUTTON.

Neither will much depend on Lord MAHoN's ac-
ceptance of the secretaryship of the Board of Control.
We have heard indeed that his Lordship has refused
this flattering offer : and one might indeed be surprised
at his accepting it, or even at the offer being made, if
one did not remember that Sir R. PEEL had signalised
the commencement of his administration by offering one
of the Vice-Chancellorships to Lord COTTENBAM.
This must be Lord MAHON'S consolation for the other-
wise apparently low estimate of his qualifications, im-
plied in a proposal that he shall succeed Mr. EMERSON
TENNENT, and be Lord JOCELYN'S Y:.lior at the Board
of Control, notwithstanding that two years ago he was
Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and that his
rank and standing in the House of Commons and in his
party are further illustrated by high character, and a
most creditable literary reputation.

Accounts from Constantinople to the 16th ult., appear in
the German Universal Gazette, according to which the re-
volt which had broken out at Wan was on the increase.
Eleven battalions of infantry, and two batteries of artillery,
were on the march from Erzeroum. The rebels had mur-
dered an Armenian priest and the Charge d'Affaires of the
PACIIA. They are Mussulmans, but of a different sect. The
inhabitants and Rayah Christians support the Porte. A
merchant ship had brought in news of a revolution in the
island of Candia. The Mussulmans wanted to kill the
PACIIA, on suspicion that he favoured the Greeks. Eighty
millions of piastres is the estimated amount of damage occa-
sioned by the tire at Smyrna.

According to the Gazette de Cologne, Prince METTERNICH
arrived at Johannisberg on the 30th ult. The King and
Queen of PRUSSIA arrived at Stolzenfelds on the 28th, and on
the 30th they made an excursion to Coblentz.
From a letter, dated Vienna, July 24, which appears in the
French paper L' Univers, it appears that one of the objects
of Prince METTERNICH in seeking an interview with the
King of PRUSSIA at Johannisberg, is to persuade his Majesty
not to give a constitution to Prussia.

News from Lisbon to the 29th July has arrived. AN-
TONIO CABRAL had returned to the capital, and had resumed
his office of Minister of the Interior. His brother Jost: had
been nominated Minister of Justice, and had set off on an
electioneering expedition to Oporto, having, before his de-
parture, published two ordinances, which made still further
inroads on the constitution.

Madrid papers to the 28th have arrived. The QUEEN,
during her stay at Saragossa, had pardoned a criminal under
sentence of death. Her MAJESTY was expected at St.
Sebastian on the 2d of August.
MADRID BOURSE.—Three per Cents., for Cash, 281; for
Account, 29k; Five per Cents., for Cash, 21k.

We have received the Paris papers of Sunday.
The Moniteur publishes various royal ordinances—among
them one authorising the Minister of Marine to apply, in
1845 and 1846, a sum of 9,760,000 francs to increase the
squadron on the western coast of Africa, and construct and
arm seven additional steamers to be employed on the African
station. Another ordinance authorises the expenditure of
13,000,000 francs for improving the works and harbours of
Toulon and Port Vendres.

According to the Algerie, ABD-EL-KADER had evacuated
the territory of Algeria, and had retired to the deserts of the
south-east, which belong neither to Algeria nor to Morocco.
He cannot, however, remain long there for want of subsist-
ence,) but neither can he be pursued at this season of the
year. Both the French and the Emperor of Monocco are
adopting measures to prevent him from returning into their
dominions.

On the Ist inst. the Duke and Duchess of NEMOURS
arrived at Perigueux. Count BRESSON had arrived at
Bordeaux.

The great Madrid banker had arrived at Paris, having,
according to private accounts, been compelled to fly from
Madrid in consequence of the threats of NARVAEZ. During
the late crisis CERIOLL had been fortunate in his speculations
on the Bourse, and had won large sums from Salamanca and
from NARVAEZ, and the latter had determined to get back
his money by getting up a pretended Progressista conspiracy
for the especial purpose of involving CERIOLA. The col-
leagues of NARVAEZ, however, demurred to taking any part
in such an iniquitous scheme, and CERIOLA, having been put
on his guard, escaped to Paris.
There was nothing done in the Funds on Sunday.
The following are the quotations for the new lines :
MARSEILLES, JULY 29.—Marseilles and Avignon, 1,017 f.
50c. ; Boulogne, 627 f. 50c. ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 675 f.
LYONS, JULY 31.—Avignon and Marseilles, 1,050 f., cash;
Paris and Orleans, 1,255 f., ditto; Paris and Rouen, 1,102 f.
ditto ; Orleans and Vierzon, 807 f., ditto ; Orleans and Bor-
deaux, 685 f., ditto; Nismes and Mdntpellier, 550 f.

DREADFUL RAILWAY
ACCIDENT.
(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)

Great Chesterford, August 4, Two o'clock, P. If

A dreadful accident has just now occurred on the Cam-
bridge line of the North-Eastern Railway, between this and
Littlebury, by the down quick train running off the line, by
which several carriages were smashed to atoms and set on
fire. The stoker, killed on the spot, now lies under the en-
gine. We can just see his band, but cannot get him out.
The engineer's leg is smashed, and several persons are sitting
about the corn fields with bruises and contusions, and clothes
torn to pieces. Trunks and carpet bags are torn and broken
to pieces, some burnt, and the contents are lying about in all
directions. Men with pails of water are endeavouring to
quench the fire of the wreck, which is burning most furi-
ously. This line has only been opened five days.
Since writing the above, I hear there are two more persons
very much hurt.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

. _
In the Liverpool market' yesterday the sales of Cot-
ton were 8,000 bales, including 3,000 American on
speculation. Prices were very steadily supported. The
principal feature in Railway Shares was again the excited
state of West York, West Riding, and Leeds and Thirk.
The following are some interesting extracts from the
letter of Messrs. Wilkinson and Jewesbury, touching upon
the state of the mercantile markets :
The improved demand for labour continues to operate
with considerable effect on the necessaries of life, the in-
creasing consumption of which is daily manifesting itself. By
observing travellers from all parts of the country, we are
happy to learn that there are prospects of an abundant har-
vest, and we have no fear of its being well reaped, if the
season corresponds with former ones to the end, as it has
done to this time, and it is to be hoped that these blessings
will be as gratefully received as they are freely given. We
learn, by a gentleman who has just arrived from the Conti-
nent, and passed through the great corn-growing dis-
tricts of South-Russia, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Bo-
hemia, Silesia, &c., that everywhere the crops were
abundant, and quality excellent—that the greater part
was cut, and some already housed, that the weather was
splendidly fine, but so hot in the shade the thermometer
ranged for days and days together between 92 and 98 degrees
Farhenheit, that the oldest peasants said they had never wit-
nessed so hot and fine a harvest time.
" Accounts from Calcutta to the 9th June state that agri-
culture generally looked very promising, and good crops were
expected, if nothing occurred to prevent them ; but the sea-
son so far, is very similar to those when great inundations
have followed; and some of the old natives express great
fears that such will be the case. The low price of our April
sales of indigo had given great dissatisfaction, and the loss to
many of the shippers was considerable. The fact is, that
India produce is generally held too high in that market, and
British manufactures sold too low to make the trade with that
country profitable."
Letters from the United States of America to the 15th
ult., state "that in the Western States the crops of wheat
had been mostly housed, in fine condition; that even in
Ohio, where a failure had been contemplated, the crops had
turned out above an average, and that, generally, there was
an abundance of every kind of produce, but the greatest in-
crease was in sheep's wool, an article which has been much
attended to of late years. The business in the Eastern States
differs nothing from our last report."
The letters and papers by the Dee steamer reach to the
9th July from Jamaica, the 4th from Trinidad, the 6th from
Demerara, the 10th from Barbadoes, and the 2d from Vera
Cruz. Mexico was in a very disturbed state, and the insecu-
rity of life and property was becoming every day greater.
Upon this view of matters, therefore, we should be disposed
to think that the danger of a war with Texas is extremely
remote.
In Jamaica the weather was propitious, and agricultu-
ral prospects were cheering. Great things are evidently ex-
pected from the Hill Coolies. In Barbadoes the drought was
still much felt; and strange to say in Demerara there had
been a wet season, and dry weather was wished for. It is
stated that several negroes sent formerly from the British
colonies to Surinam are still held in slavery, but it is clearly
a nice point of law whether the Dutch have not the right
to detain them, having obtained them betbre we emancipated
our colonial labourers.
The Funds have been very firm to-day, with a moderate
business doing. Consols were 98% to 98% for Money, and
983/4 74 for Account. Exchequer-bills have been 50s. to 535.
premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. are
1021/8 to M ; and the Three per Cents. 99% to %. Bank
Stock is 210 to 211.
The Foreign market is still comparatively dull. Spanish
Three per Cents. are 33%, being steady. -Portuguese Con-
verted have been 641 A, being rather flat. Mexican are firm
at 361/2. French Five per Cents. obtain 121 f. 50c.
There is a fair business doing again in Railway Shares, but
the disposition is rather to sell. London and York Shares
have gone lower, as it is considered impossible that the Bill
can pass the Lords this session.
ONE CLOSIN6
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced
3 per Cent. Consels Annuities 9854%-% 58%
New 31A per Cents .1024 102%
Long Annuities to exnire Jan.lB6o 111/2% 11%
Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 111/4 5-16 11 5-16
India Bonds, 1,0001
Ditto under 1,0001. .
Consols for Account .
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., 11/2d.
Ditto 5001.
Ditto Small

ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds 6 per Cent 5O
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent 8914
Mexican, 5 per Cent. 1837
Ditto, Account 361/
Ditto, Deferred ...
Portuguese 5 per Cents. B5
Ditto, Converted 64%
Ditto, Account
Ditto, 4 per Cent
Ditto, Account
Russian Bonds WO 118%
Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840.
Ditto, Passive
Ditto 3 per Cent. ...... 37%
French, 5 per Cent. l2lf. 50c.
Exchange
Belgian 41/ per Cent. ...... 101 1001/
Dutch, 21/2 per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certific.... 99 % %
PRICES. OF
B AILWAY SHARES PRICEs
Aberdeen PAID. A ONE O'CLOCK
2% — 31/s
CLOSING
Armagh, Coleraine, and
Portrush l% —
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Bristol and Exeter
Do. New .... . ......... 2 ...... 121/ 12
Caledonian
Cambridge and Lincoln 1%...... 3%
Canterbury and Dover.. 1%
Chester and Holyhead... 15
Cornwall
Direct Northern
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 21,4 7l/ 7%
Dublin and Galway..... 2%
Eastern Counties 141. 165...... 20%4% 20%
Ditto New 41 16s. 6l/2,7 7 p
Eastern Union l5 .. ...
Ditto Extension .
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50
Ely and Bedford
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorset
Grand Union l% l% l%
Great South. and West.

CLOSING
PRICES
50
50
89

65 64

36%
19%
85
641 A
64%

65
1183/4
63%
37'78
121 i. 50c.
25f. 70c.
mu
62544
99%

2

( I reland)
Ditto Extension
Great Western , . 80 24 .....
Ditto, Fifths
Guildford, Fare'm,Ports. 21/i ... .. 36
Hull and Selby SO
Do. Half Shares
Leicester and Bedford 22s. l%l/2 p 11/2
London and Birminghm (Stock) —.246
Do. New Thirds
Do. Quarters 2
London and Blackwall. 16/. 135.4 d lll/2 11
London and Brighton... 50
London and Croydon, 131. 15s. lid. 24%... ......... .
Do. New l3s 4d .. •.. •• 2 p

113/4
2241/2
sh
3,

Do. Guaranteed 5 per
Cent.
Lond. & S.Western 411 6s 10d B4 81
Dv. Consolidated Bths 12
Do. New
London and York 2l/2 55/sIW/s•••••
London, Salisbury, and
Yeovil
Londonderry &Coleraine 2!,;......
Londonderry and Ennis-
kiflen 2IA 23A 23/4
Lyini and Ely
Lynn and Dereham l% 3 i'i; 3%
Manchester and Leeds... 76 203
Do. 1A Shares
Do. 14 Shares
Do Sixteenths ... 314 123/4 123/4
Manche:ter and Birmin. 40
Do. Quarters
Do. New Quarters ... 2
Manchester,Buxton,and
- , _

131/2

Matlock 225...... 5% I
Midland 100 175
Do. New
Midland,Birm., Derby 100
New(!as[ le and Berwick 11/2 203/I 214
North British
Do. NeW
North Kent
North Staffordshire 225....... 31/8 p 3%
North Wales .. ll4 3104 3k
Norwich and Brandon... 14 - 22%
D0., New
Oxford and Worcester... 21,4 7% 63/4
Portsmouth Direct ...... 91/2 4 31A 4% 41%
Preston and Wyre
Richmondand IVestEnd
Junction
Rugby, Worstr, & Tring 1
Scottish Midland l%. . 2
Shrews., Wolverhamp.,
Dudley, and Birm 2l/2. .. . 4VA .... 4%
Shrewsbury and Trent
Valley Union 22s.
South Devon 2O 3Ol/2 3Ol/2
South Midland
South Eastern & Dover 33/ 2s 4d... 45 4614
Do., No. 3
Staines and Richmond... 1
South Wales ..... ... 21/2 5% /8 565/
Trent Valley and Holy-
head Junction
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ..,... . . 2%
Welch Midland
Worcester, Shrewsbury
and Crewe Union ...
York and North Midland 50 llO 111 lll
Ditto Scarboro' Branch. 25
Do. Extension

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens... 6
Bordeaux,Toulouse, and
Cet to
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian ... ..... .... ss.
Great North. of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. do. (Rosamers) 2
Jamaica Junction... ..... 11A 63,8
Louvain and .Inleppe... 4 ... .
Namur and Liege
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux... 4
Over Yssel 413 s 4d 1 p... •
Paris& Lyons, Laffitte's '1
Paris and Lyons, Gan-

6%
6%
...... 4%
51/2
164
11
1p
31/2
2%
2
48%
214

neron's,
Paris & Lyons, (Calon's) 2
Paris and Orleans 2O
Paris and Strasbourg
( Gann k.on's)
Royal North of Spain
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
West Flanders
JOINT STOCK BAls, K.
National Prov. of Engd. 35

101„,
4A

RAILWAY TO TUNBRIDGE W ELLS.—It is expected
that the branch railway from Tunbridge, on the south-eastern
line, to Tunbridge Wells, will be opened in the next month.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)

Sarrim-ELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 18s to 4/18s ;
do., 5/ to 51 8s ; fine Upland do., Si lOs to 5/ 16s;
Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2l;
Wheat Straw, 2/ to 2/ 3s per load. Supply but moderate
and trade firm..

CUMISERLAND.—Coarse Meadow flay, 31 163 to 4/ 18s ;
useful ditto, 5/ to 5l 8s; fine Upland ditto, 5/ lOs to 5l 16s;
Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/13; Whigat
Straw, 2/ 2s to 21 3s per load. Trade steady at the above
quotations.

WHlTEcHArm..—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 18s to 4/ 15s ;
useful ditto, 4/ 16s to 5/ 8s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 103 to
Si 15s ; Clover Hay, 4/10s to 6/ 6s ; Oat Straw, 11 18s to 2/ ,
Wheat Straw, 2/ is to 21 3s per load. A fair average
supply and an active demand.
New Meadow Hay 3/ 12s to 4/ 15s, and New Clover 3/ 15s
to 5/ per load.