The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-12 00:00:00

SAILINGS.

July 4.—Merlin schooner, Viscount Milton, for Ireland; Talis.
man cutter, Robert Meiklam, Esq., Clyde.
sth.—Corsair schooner, John Congreve, Esq., Cherbourg; Re-
solution schooner, Duke of Kw land, on a cruise to the westward.

MONEY and Uti IAtCIA IN it. %V b.
CITY, QUART ER To THREE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool yestei day was very steady.
Sales about 8,000 bales. The Stock Exchange was closed for
repairs.
Among all classes in the City the report of the Committee
of the House of Commons, relative to the jobbing that has
taken place with respect to the North Kent Shares, has been
perused this morning with most anxious, and, we may add,
fairly indignant attention. There is too much reason to be-
lieve that this is not the only instance in which official confi-
dence has been used to advance the interest of certain parties
who have unfairly obtained information to the disadvantage
of the bona fide holders of scrip receipts before the Commit-
tees of several of the groups made their final decision. A
most searching inquiry ought to be entered into with
regard to many other lines where, without question,
similar transactions to that we have noticed have
occurred. In the concluding part of the report of the Com-
mittee most persons entirely concur, viz., that such transac-
tions on the part of one or more Members of Parliament and
others must tend, if not put an end to, to render the decisions
of the Committees of the House of little value in the eves of
the public generally. It is quite certain that, even should
the session be too short this year to take up the subject in
detail, the most prompt steps must be taken next year to
bring the matter fully and fairly before the public, and
without which the dignity of the Legislature in its decisions
upon private Bills would become a matter of scotn.
The issues of notes by the Bank of England during the
week to Saturday last, were 29,891,935 i., which is less by
155,535/. than per previous return. The public deposits are
reduced a little, but as yet the payment of the half•year's
interest is pretty nearly balanced by the revenue front vari-
ous branches of the public revenue. The stock of the pre-
cious metals in the Issue Department was 15,891,9351., and
in the Banking Department, 526,197/., a decrease on the total
of 183,769/.
The Stock-market is in a most quiescent state to-day.
Consols for the Account have fluctuated but from 99% to
99 ; the Three per Cents. for transfer next week, from 991/s
to 98% •, arid the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. from 102%
to 14. The premium upon Exchequer-bills remains heavy,
at 545. to 58s.
A very few bargains were made in the Foreign Stocks
to-day. Spanish are rather lower, the Consols having just
been done at 26%, and the Three per Cents. at 371,4. For
the other foreign bonds there has been but very few trans-
actions to-day.
The Share Market has upon the whole looked firm this
morning, but not very many transactions have been reported.
The old lines are the firmest as to price.
bttITISEI FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 991,(s
3 per Cent. Consols Arms 99% 9878
New 34 per Cent. Annuties 102%4
Consols for Opening
Exchequer Bills. 13/4d. I%d.
1,000/.
5001.
Ditto Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 36%
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Deferred Stock 20%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Converted
Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent ll7
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent,1840
Ditto Passive Bonds 6%
Ditto 3 per Cent 37%
Dutch 21/2 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 99%14
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100
Ditto, lied Shares 3 ' 314 • to
Birmingham and Oxford
Junction
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln
Chester and Holyhead
l'irect Northern ..
Dublin and Belfast Junction 2% 7N to .
Dublin and Galway 2l/2 3% to
Eastern Counties
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto New 14 Shares 2% to
Enniskillen and Sligo .........
Goole and Doncaster
tireat South and W. (Irish)... 10
Great North of England 100 240
Harwich 1
Lancaster and Car1i51e......... 20 ...... 48

London and Birmingham ...100 -
Ditto Thirds
London and Blackwell 16% 914 ...... to
London and Brighton 5O 751/2N... to
Ditto ConsolidatedBths 25 -
London and Croydon... 131. 15s. 9d.... 22% to
Loudon and South Western.. 41% Bll/2 to
Ditto New . 2l/2 l4
London and York 2l/2 ...... 51,4%... to
Lynn and Ely
Lynn and Defeliani
Manclie*Lci. and Leeds
Ditto Quarters
'Manchester and Birmingham 40 591/4 to
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 22s
Midland
Ditto New
Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo l4B
Midld. Great Westent (Irkh) 21/2
Newcastle &DarlingtonJunc. 25 ...... 531/2 to 54%
Mawcastle and Berwick
NesYcark and Sheffield ll/2 1%..... to 214
North British
Ditto New 1 .. ... 6%'/... to
Oxford and Worcester... 214 6,i...... to 7
Portsmouth Direct - to
Rugby. Worcester. and Tring 1
Scottish Midland
South Eastern and Dover ... 331/2 473/,1 1/2... to
Ditto New, No. 1 8
2%
...... 168.,.4.2
ttoo
_—
Dip, New, liu. 3
South Wales
Trent Val)ey . 2 . .. 18
Welch Midland 214 ...... 3V..... to
York and North Midland
.. _ .

Ditto Selby
Ditto, Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens 6 ...... 101
East Indian
Great Northern of Franca
(Laffitte's)
5% to

,
Do. Do. (Rosamel's). ..... ... 2 ..... 2i, to
Lyons and Avignon
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 4 ... .
Paris and Lyons (Laffitte) ... 2
l'aris and Rouen
Royal North of Spain
fours &Nantes (Mackenzie) 2
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Colonial
London and Westminster ... 20

RAILWAY RETURNS.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail.
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which tht
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week In the previous year :

•Cy
Week Last -El 4
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. 4, •`" '
:
O bi)
4:.4.F.
---- -- -
£ X
July 5 Arbroath and Forfar • ...........• • • 229 143
4 Bristol and Birmingham ......... •• •• 4,368 2,837
4 Chester and Birkenhead .•••••• •• • • •• 694 635
3 Dublin and Drogheda• •
h Dublin and Kingstown ••••• • • • ..
6 Dundee and Arbroath .••• • • •
5 Durham and Sunderland .• •• • • ..... • • 713 453
5 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••••• • • • • • • 2,706 2,297
6 Eastern Counties and North Eastern .• 5,213 4,776
5 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • I,B', 3 1,532
5 Glasgow and Greenock• •••• • • • • .... 1,177 1,129
5 44rand Junction ••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 10,620 8,730
5 Gravesend and Rochester •••••• • • • • • • 288 -
- 4:teat North of England ••.•••• • • • • • - 1,743
6 Great Western ...•. - . .
- hull and Selby • • ..... • • - -
4 Liverpool and Manchester ••••• • • • • • 6,174 5,295
5 London and Birmingham .••••• • • • ' - 20,544 18,285
6 London and Blackwall- ••••• • • . - - 1,48', 1,337
5 London and Brighton .•••• .• .• ...... 5,224 4,158
8 London and Croydon - 1,825 507
5 London and Greenwich. •.-••• • .. .. i,206 863
5 London and South Western .••- .• • • 9,062 7,676
6 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ••• • • . 1,007 877
4 :d anehester and Birmingham .••• • • .. 3,927 3,339
5 :•4 anchester, Leeds, and llull Assoc.. 6,041 6,172
5 11 idlaittl Comities ...... .
5 eweastle and Darlington .... • • • ... 2,703 749
5 Newcastle and Carlisle ••••••• • • . .. .. 2,124 1,8b9
6 Newcastle and North Shields• •••• • • . 594 406
4 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,818 1,529
7 Faris, Corbeil, and Orleans
7 Paris and Rotten .
5 Preston and NVyTe• ••••••••• • • • • • • • • 733 50:3
5 Sheffield and Manchester •.•• .. • ..... 815 693
5 South Eastern.... • ...... .
5 'fair Vale
- Ulster. - 491
4 Y arnmutli and Norwich ............424 403
5 York and North Midland ........... 3,864 2,478

SERIOUS EFFECTS OF THE THUNDER STORM.—
Yesterday afternoon, the metropolis was visited with a heavy storm
of thunder, lightning, and rain. Although pretty general,its eflects
appear to have been the most severe over Somers Town, Ca:nden
Town, and the uorth.west of the suburbs. Is Sumer; Town, after
a tremendous peal of thunder, the electric fluid struck the corner
of a newly-built house in Seymour-street, carrying away a stack of
chimneys, and the corner of the parapet, then taking an oblique direc-
tion, carrying away all the parts it touched, until it reached the
coping of the wall. Near the spot two working men were sitting
en &hew of bricks—one either sprung with attriget some distance,
or was hurled by the shock five or six yards. He was picked up by
Mr. Silcock, who has opened a public-hmse, into which
the poor fellow was conveyed, in a senseless state. The other was
struck against a wall, against which he stood for some time im-
movable. A third man, who was driving pigs along the road, was
also struck down. The explosion was so tremendous that most of
the inhabitants of that end of Seymour-street rushed out in alarm.
CRICKET.—THE NEW RULES AND THE UMPIRES AT
LOAD.9.—The subject of the altered rule with regard to the de-
livery of the ball, or rather the deterininatien on the part of the
committee of the Marylebone Club to enforce the old 111th rule, as
amended, in respect to the bowler being " no.balled" if his hand
shall be too high, has given rise to a general discussion. It would
appear, too, that there was an indisposition amongst some of the
umpires to carry out the particular rule, and, therefore, as the corn.
mittee are anxious to avoid stultifying themselves by means of their
own umpires not acting strictly up to the laws of the game, they
assembled in the afternoon of Monday, when they unanimously
passed the following resolutions :--" That in future the umpires be
appointed by the committee and paid separately from the scorers."
"'That no player belonging to Lord's ground shall be permitted to
play or stand as umpire in any match in which the laws of cricket,
as laid down by the Dlarylebone Cricket Club, are net strictly ad-
hered to."
_DEATH OF TILE MAYOR OF WALSAI.L.—We regret
to state that Mr. Hervey, the respected Alayor cf 'Walsall, was
drowned while bathing, at an early hour on Wedistaday morning.
This event is rendered still more lamentable by the fact that one
of the persons who went with dtags to find the body of the de.
ceased gentleman was drowned in the attempt. The demise of
Mr. Hervey, more particularly under such circumstances, has cc-
casioned a deep tiding of regret throughout the norough.
At ptifiT iN tiF I' FtF.S ALAtioi Fill )m IAoI.LANIt
--Ye.teulay morning some Dutch vessels at tived in the Thames
wi. h eats°, s of remarkably tit e Dutch fresh salmon toil, which
were quickly disposed of at moderate prices. Them were also
landed a large quantity of cherries and peas from France, which
were forwarded to Covent-garden and other markets.