The Sun.
London, England, 1845-08-28 00:00:00

DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL

BRUSSELS, Aro. 25,—Our journals contains long ac-
counts of the fetes at Cobourg, in honour of Queen
Victoria, who, as some of them say, is expected to pro-
long her visit to September 30.

DUTCII FUNDS.—Arisrunem, AUG. 25.
Actual Debt, 2 Money. Bills.
% per Cent.... •• • ..... 63j 64
bitto, 3 per Cent •••••• •• • 76% 77%
Ditto, 4 per Cent •••• • • • . 10034 100%
Amore Symlic, 4 per Cent— •• • • 99% 100%
Ditto, 3% per Cent.. •• • • ••. • .
Commercial Company, 4% per Cent... 167% 168%
East India Luau, 4 per Cent..........
Exchange on London, at sight • • 12 20
Two months.— ••• • • • 12 15
On llamburgh, at sight
Two m0nth5.............
On Paris •••• • • • • 57 50
Two Mouths. •••••. • • • • - 57 12
—Dutch Papers, Aug. 26.
BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussns, Auo. 26.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto Thirty-seveu Millions, ditto
-Ditto, ditto, 1840 • • •••••• • • • • • • 1017,
Ditto, ditto, 1842... . . •
101%
Ditto of the City, 1832 I.
Ditto, 1843
Bank ofßelgium • •
Brussels Papers, Aug. 26.

.......... ••••• miy,

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vizzisa, Aro. 22.
5 per Cent. 3letalliques.... • • • • • • • . 112%
4 per Cent. ditto... ...... •••••••—• ••• • • 101%
3 per Cent. ditto—. ••••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 781
Loan, 1834 ...... •• • • ...........• ••• • • • 1594
Ditto, 1839
129%
Bank Shares ......... • .. • • 1626
Esterhazy's Loan •• •••• • • • •• •• ••
-Allgerneine Zeitung, Aug. 23
CHAR

.ING-CROSS BRIDGE COM-
PANY.—(THIS DAY.)
The Half-yearly General Meeting of the Shareholders
in this Company was held this day, at their office, 9,
Villiers -street,Hungerford-market. Mr. William Hawes,
Chairman of the Company, presided.
The advertisement calling the meeting having been
read, the Secretary read the report, of which the follow-
ing, is an abstract :
The Directors propose the payment of a dividend, for the
last three months, of nine shillings per share, n the rate of seven per cent. per annum on the capital of the atCompany,
and also to retain a surplus of 4351. 4s. 11d. to be carried for-
ward to assist the next or winter half-year.
The Directors desire to call the attention of the Share-
holders to the loan of 26,000/., which was obtained in 1842, by
the mortgage of all the Company's property to the Exchequer
Loan Commissioners, and a portion of which (7701.) by the
condition of the agreement is to be paid off next year; but as
there can be no doubt that a loan may now be rained at a
much lower rate of interest than five per cent. per annum,
they propose to advertise for loans on debentures, to be issued
under the provisions of the new Act, for five, seven, or ten
Years the interest thereon to be secured on the tolls of the
bridge; and resolutions authorising the issue of such deben-
tures will be submitted to the meeting.
Your Directors were anxious to have closed the capital ac-
count by this meeting, but not having been able to accomplish
this, they can now only repeat that which they have stated on
former occasions, that the estimate published in the prospectus
of 1838, will be as nearly as possible correct. On the other
hand, it is also very satisfactory to your Directors to find the
traffic far exceeds the expectations of the original projectors of
this beautiful structure ; for in the prospectus above referred
to, the daily traffic was estimated at 4,000 persons, whereat,
during the period the bridge has been opened, nearly 14,000
persons daily have used the bridge.
Your Directors canin,t conclude this report without calling
the attention of the shareholders to the increasing desire of the
public to concentrate the railway traffic of the metropolis in the
neighbourhood of this bridge.
It is also stated in the report that the purchase of property
for making approaches is deferred until something certain shall
be known about the proposed railway schemes, and that the
directors have not been able to come to any agreement with the
Hungerford Market Company.
The CHAIRMAN, in a short address, adverted to the state-
ments embodied in the report, and added that he had that
morning had an interview with the Provisional Committee of
the Central Terminus Railway Company, and they offered for
the consideration of the shareholders in the Charing-cross Sus-
pension-bridge to lease it for a number of years at 160,0001.,
being double the amount originally subscribed, and also
to advance 26,000/. for the liquidation of the deht due
to the Exchequer Loan Commissioners, reserving the
rights of the market, and also allowing the bridge
shareholders to take in the proposed arrangement a moiety
in shares and a moiety in money. This arrangement was,
however, contingent upon the Central Terminus Railway
Company receiving their Bill, and the approval of the present
meeting. He should not detain them further, but proceed at
once to move that the report be received.
The motion being teeonded, was unanimously carried.
Resolutions were then read and agreed to—" That a dividend
of 9s. a share for the last three months be declared, being at the
rate of 7 per cent. on the capital of the company, and that the
same be paid on the II th of September next."
" That the Directors be authorised, when they see proper,
to raise an additional capital of 10,000/., in 3,200 shares of
3/. 2s. 6d. each, to form approaches to the bridge ; and also
that the Directors be authorised and empowered to take such
steps as they might think necessary to complete the arrange-
ments with the Central Terminus Railway Company for the
lease of the bridge for a number of years, reserving the rights
of the market and of the Shareholders."
Thanks were then voted to the Directors, and the meeting
adjourned.

CRUELTY TO A HORSE.—The driver and conductor
of an omnibus were on Wednesday fined 40s. each, at Marl-
borough-street Police-court, for cruelly treating a horse in
their omnibus. They beat the horse over the legs and knees
with the head of the whip to make it go on. A witness whom
they called, an outside passenger, who said he " knew all about
horses," declared that they beat the animal no more than was
necessary to make it go on, for the horse was unwell! 1
MELANCHOLY DEATH OE A CLERGYMAN'S DAUGH-
TER.—During the whole of yesterday a feeling of regret pre-
vailed in the neighbourhood of Clapham at a fatal accident
which happened to a daughter of die Rev: Benjamin Hoe, of
Cure-lane. It appears that at the back of the house is a small
fish-pond, and after dinner the children were usually taken to
play in the garden, and the deceased among them. On this
oceasion the deceased child got away from the servant, and
whilst running on the bank of the pond, unfortunately stepped
into it. The servant used every means to get the child out,
which she succeeded in doing in a few minutes, and conveyed it
to the house, when a surgeon was sent for, who promptly at-
tended. Every means were used to restore animation, but, as
the child had been in a sickly state of health, all his efforts were
useless. The Rev. Mr. Hue was at York at the time, but was
expected home last night.
AN ALDERMAN FINED FOR BEING DRUNK.—The
Liverpool Mercury says—" Yesterday Mr. Alderman R. S.
Crook, a member of the Town Council and of the Education
Committee, was charged with being drunk on Wednesday
evening, and assaulting police-officer No. 271. lie was tined
10s. and costs,"

THE HAGUE, AUG. 24.—The following particulars
are sent us from Bois-le-Due :—" We have received here
further details of the ravages caused at Zevenberger, by
the dreadful hurricane on the 19th of this month. The
roof of the new church fell in, and in its fall carried
away the ceiling. Eleven houses are wholly destroyed,
66 very much injured, and 60 others damaged, though in
a less degree. Three persons lost their lives ; the da-
mage done to effects and furniture, and to the front of
the Castle is very great.
GRONINGEN, AUG. 21.—We learn that orders have beet►
given by his Majesty's Government topurchase in foreign
countries large quan ti ties of potatoes,and to distribute them
for sale in the kingdom at a certain fixed price, in order
to alleviate as much as possible the distress arising from
the failure of that product.
BRUSSELS, AUG. 24.—Colonel Fitch, and Mr. G. L.
Taylor, architect and civil engineer of London, have had
an audience of the Minister of Public Works, as repre-
sentatives of an English Company which proposes to
make a railway from Termonde to Chatelet.
We have much pleasure in stating that accounts from
different parts of the kingdom agree in announcing that,
in spite of the long continued rains, the appearance of the
crops is satitfactory ; the corn has not suffered much, and
fine weather having set in, the farmers have hastened to
profit by it, and expect that the harvest will be fine and
abundant. Effectual remedies have been employed to
check the disorder in the potatoes, and they, too, pro-
mise to be abundant.

Colonial .

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)
Loxnox, AUG. 28.—Wind N. by W., fresh breeze and
cloudy.
DEAL, AUG. 27.—Wind N.W. to N.N.E.—Arrd. Pales-
tine, Sim, Sydney; Princess Charlotte, Haugh, Coast of
Africa; Prince George, Saldanha Bay; St. George, ditto;
Planet, Booth, Jamaica ; Howard, Paulser, New York.
Arrd. from the river and sailed, Prince of Wales, Hopkins,
Calcutta; Resource, Tasker, St. John's, New Brunswick ;
Lady Kumaway, Avery, adras. Sld. Gratitude, Laun-
ceaton ; Elvera, Bombay; Amelia, Mulholland, Mauritius;
Parrock Hall, St. Kitt's ; Duke of Norfolk, Jamaica; St.
Clare, St John's.
LIVERPOOL, AUG. 27.—Wind N.N.W. fresh.—AtTd.
Whitehavem Bradley, Antigua; Freeman, Jamaica; Speed,
Brewer. Jamaica; Nymph, Nassau; Laplander, Natches;
Ashburton, Howland, New York ; Union, St. Stephens, N.B. ;
Hebbert, Montreal; Matilda, Montreal. 26. Sld. Wave,
Smallman, St. Andrew's, N. 8.; Souter Johnny, Little, Mon-
treal. 27. Otlport, Belle. The Eli, Chapman, for Oahee,
is at anchor near the Rock.
CLYDE, AUG. 26.—Arrd. Lucia Carey, Watson, Halifax;
Favourite, Crawford, Saldanha Bay • Alan K err, Gray, Que•
bee. 2:3. Slu. Arrow, Guthrie, Tobago;' 26. Scotchman,
Turnbul!, Dcmerata ; Nancy Munro, Cochrane, St. Thomas.

I - - --
PERCI'SSION LOCKS AND TITHES APPLIED TO THE
SERvlca OF FIELD GUNS.--At the general muster of the
Hon. Artillery Company, which took place at their ground in
Finsbuiy-,quare, to celebrate the birth-day of his Royal High-
tless Pruice Albert, the double royal salute waa thus fired for
the first time by the Artillery division, commanded by Captain
belin, when the superiority of this me: hod, and the precision
and rapidity of the explosions, as compared with the effect of
tin old port fires and tubes, were very man:feet to all who wit-
nessed the akrviec. 'the brass goo, of the Artillery Com-
pany were east about the year 1t,04, and have been recently
examined, bouched, and fitted with percussion locks at the
Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.

I, re are informed that rn railway in the country
exhibits so large an incretse of treflic as the Menchester and
Ptirmingliem Jibe. The receipts of the lac, two weeks, as com-
peted aith the corresponding petted of last year, are as fol-
lows: 1845. 1844.
Week endi: g August 8 .£4,453 £3,035

4,216
TUISIBRIDGE.—A gentleman fishing- for " in
a P stream near this town, one day last 14 e••Ic , took 6. fish
44 inch.. long, and on cutting it open, a chub, 11 aiel.es tang,
Waft found in na anti. —Maidstone Jour flirt
Mr. kJ. agoin oii uf,t;
noon from Cremorne-gardens, Chelsea, in his cora.iatioo
balloon. ttecompanied by the Hon. G- Vatisillal!. the nepl.eia
Li;rd Bexley. The balloon took a south-costeii) diteetion, aud
d,scended, after being to the air about twenty minutes, in
Beddington Park, near Croydon.

pm. 500/. ... ....... ._..,... 48 5; pus.
Ditto Small •—
.. .. 54 51 53 pm.
eRIOE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Columbian Bonds. lB4
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 34%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 4 per Cent.
Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent llB%
Ditto 3 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account.
Belgian Scrip, 2% per Cent.
Dutch 2% per Cents --
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 9914
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE
O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SRAM
Aberdeen
Birmingham and Gloucester 100
..... 132%
Caledonian
, to
Cambridge
and Lincoln
Dublin and Belfast Junction 2 -
to
Dublin and Galway
Eastern Counties
Do. New 4/. 16s. ISA. p... to
Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No 1. 61.13 s 4d 14.. ... to
East Dereham and Norwich 1
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Great South and W. (Irish)... 15
Great Western
20 80 212
Ditto Fifths
Hull and Selby •• ... 50 ......104
Ditto, Half Shares -
Leicester and Bedford 22s. 2% 34 to 2% p
London and Birmingham lOO •..,,.225 222... to 224
Ditto Quarters
London and Blackwell 16%...... 10%,%% to --
London and Brighton 5O ..... 774 %14 to
London and Croydon 13/. 15s. 9d, 26% l
Do. New
London anal South Western.. 41% ...... 77A ... to 76%
Ditto New .. 2% 15% to London and Y0rk....... 2% 6%31... to 6%
--
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 21,4 2% to
Lon. & Manch. (Remington's) -
Lynn and Ely
Manchester wnd Leed5......... 76 ... to
.
Ditto Half Shares
~...
34 .. .99 -
...
Ditto 4 Shares
Manchester and Birmingham 40 6B
Ditto Quarters
Ditto New Quarters......... 2 ... 10
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 22s .»_71,44 p to 7
Midland
Ditto New 2 253/ 26 25 to 26%
Midld. Great Western (Irish) 2%
Newcastle & Darlington June. 25
Newcastle and Berwick
Newcastle. Durham, and Lan-
cashire Junction IN
North British- l5 ...... 324 ...... to
North Kent Direct & Dover `2i 414 to 4%
North Staffordshire
North Wales 1 q
Oxford and Worcester 214 .... 7% to 7%
Portsmouth Direct
_!2. 6,4 to
Preston and Wyre ............ 50
..... to
Richmond -
Rugby. Worcester, and Tring 1
Shrews.,Wulver., Dud., him. 2% 6V4... to 6%
Shrews. & Trent Val. Union. 225. ...
Shrews., lierefrd &N. Wales 2% 4% to
South Devon
South :;ilidland 22,i 7%r to 74 p
South Eastern and
.Dover
Ditto New, No. 3 2% ..... BAi to
Staines and Richmond........ 1
South Wales
Trent. Val. & Holyhead June. 1
- • to ..... /NI
Waterford, Wemford,Wicalte,
and Dublin
Vs eicb Alitiland 2l,k
%V rster, Shrews., & Crewe Un. 1:A 4%......
to 4
fork and North Midland ....50
Dim oirlalf Shares 25 .. ... 5214 ...... to
Ditto Scarboro'l3ranch 25 59% to
,_;Ditto Selby.
DILL°, Extension
FOREIGN R.kl LWAYS. _
Boulogne and Amiens G ... 11% to 11
Dendre Valley
Dutch Rhenish 3 .... 9 ...... to
East Indian
Great Northern of France
(Latfitte's)
Do. Do. (Rosamel's) ... 2 ... 3% to 3%
Lyons and Avignon
Luxenibourgh
Namnr and Liege........ , ...... 4
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans anti Bordeaux ... .. 4 .... 12 '.1).. to 11%
'aril and Lyons( LitiEtte) ... 2
Paessand Lyons(Ganneron's) 2 ..... 9;)i to 2%
Paris and Lyons (Calm's)... 2 .... 2:li to Oh
Paris and Orleans... ........ .... 20
Paris and Rouen ...
Royal North of Spain 2 2% to
Sambre and Meuse
West Flanders
MINE.
Real del Monte,Unregistered
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
25

CORONER'S INQUEST.—On Tuesday even
inquest was held at the Queen's Head, Chatham, 1
Hinde, Coroner, on the body of Mr. Lackett Coker,
House officer, belonging to the port of Rochester, wh.
a blow on the had from a boom, while on duty on
Majesty's ship Aigle, 24, Captain Lord Clarence I
effect of which injury was to cause almost insmedia
After examining several witnesses, whose testimon
prove that the deceased met his death by his own cs
in not getting away from under the boom while it
lowered, the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental
THE GALLANT CAPTURE OF A PIRATE
BY THx PANTALOON.—Dispatches have been recei
Government, officially confirming the accounts of t
capture of a pirate slaver, by the boats of her Ma,
Pantaloon, Captain Willson, which appeared in yeste
The Pantaloon had two men killed, and seven woun
pirate had seven men killed, and two wounded.
THE CHINESE LANGUAGE.—A Chines
fessor" has been engaged at the Collegiate Institute
pool, for the purpose of teaching the pupils the Chit
which now forms a part of the curriculum of studi,
fessor Hoo Siensang," we are told, speaks the " Co
of his country.
FAMINE AT SHOREHAM.—This town w.
on Saturday by some 2,000 visitants from the mett
during their stay, consumed all the " breadstuffs"
and, on their departure, the inhabitants were lit
about begging for bread. It is stated that, con
general practice, refreshments were distributed t,
Cockneys at the usual prices. Sussex Paper.
SOMEWHAT NOVEL (ir TatrE.)--It is
rumoured at Malta, that a gallant officer of that
corps, the 42d Royal Highlanders, is about retir
pomp and vanity of a military life, and seeking r,
seclusion in the cloister, under the unassuming g;
sian or barefooted Carmelite.
_RUMOURED AFFAIR OF HONOUR. -L
Malta of the 15th inst. make mention of a rumou
spread, siportly after the arrival of the packet fri
that a hostile meeting had taken place
tween two officers of the Rifle,, in which affair
so seriously 'rounded as to render it expedient f
nist and the second to keep out of the «ay ;
names nor dates are mentioned, there may be
the story

S LATE OP TRADE.—The unfavoural
continues to affect the demand for goods, and th
tinues quiet, without any sensible change in pric
market is still very Sim, and the spinners are g
contract for some time to come.--RocitnA
iVlAuxor, Aug. 25.—0 n account of the wakes
week, few pieces have been brought to mark
those few have been eagerly bought up at goo,
wool market Iris undergone little change ; prices
the same, but low wools are very scarce.
Guardian.

IiSTINFIELD liArEs —The Dul;,, of
has been induced to renew the support. so long
ance•ters and himself, to the ancient race. of C'
his Grace proposes to give a 501. plate to these
paper.

DERBY RAcrs.—We understand tt;:it
fixed for Tuesday and Wednesday, the 14th and
er. From the very strong feeling existing in
tabliAing these race,, no doubt they will be
ported. -The time fixed is undoubtedly late, hi
to hold them earlier in future yeara.—Derby