The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-10 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock,

FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUssELR, FEB. 6.—The Minister of Public Works
received to. day a deputation of the principal proprietors
of iron-works interested in the railway of Sambre
and Meuse, who came to assure hire that they
had no part whatever in the intrigues, the üb•
ject' of which is to support the line of Taylor ; that
they all desire the prompt execution of the first proposed
line,which will suffice for all tho wants of that industrious
country, which wants nothing more than this vent
for its production to attain all the development of which
it is-aut,ceptible.
The Minister received these gentlemen in a favourable
manner,-and had no difficulty- in satisfying them.
The Chamber of Representatives resumed to-day the
debate on-the articles of the budget of the department
of the interior.
Article 3 was witlidr&wn.

Article 4 (now ankle 3) was agreed to, as well as all
the articles of the 2d and 3d chapters, and the first ten
articles of chapter 4.
BRUSSELS, FEB. 7.—The Chamber of Representatives,
after the presentation of several reports, continued the
debate on the budget of the department of the interior,
several articles of which were agreed to.
Several petitions have been presented to the Chamber,
and to the Minister of Public Works, to obtain a reform
in the Post-office. If we are rightly informed, a plan
has been drawn up in the office of the Minister, admitting
the reform in principle, but recommending the progres-
sive application of it. It is hoped that the plan may
be laid before the Chamber before the close of this ses-
sion. The greatest obstacle appears to be the fear that
is entertained in the Finance Department of a diminution
of the revenue. To remove that obection, the merchants
who have the greatest interest in that reform should im-
mediately point out the means of making good the defi-
ciency, if there should be any.
We have had very unpleasant weather for three days
past. Yesterday we had a thunder storm with snow,
hail, and rain, which continued for four-and-twenty
hours, and has been succeeded by a pretty severe frost.
There is, however, a pretty certain indication that the
spring will be mild and favourable—this is, that the spots
in the sun have greatly diminished. Mr. Forster, the
astronomer at Bruges, has ascertained by a great number
of experiments that these spots have a great influence in
the temperature.—Brussels pope's, Feb. 8.

AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, FEB. 1.
5 per Cent. 3letalliques...... ....... 11134
4 per Cent. ditto ........................ 10112
3 per Cent. ditto— • ..... •.• • • •••• • • • • 78
Loan, 1834 •..
Bank Shares • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • 1625
Esterhazy's Loan
RAILWAYS.
The Northern, or Ferdinand ••• • • 182 U
Gloggnitz • ..... 1341
Milan .. ....... 122 R,
—Allgeruelne Zeitung, Feb. 4.
. DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, FEB. 7.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 214 per Cent............ 64 6434
Ditto, 3 per Cent •••• • • • • •••• • • • • 785£ 784
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
Ditto, 5 per Cent..
Alma Syndic, 4% per Cent .• .• 99.74 10034
Ditto, 334 per Cent......... .......
Commercial Company, 43% per Cent 1473¢ 148
East India Loan, 4 per Cent.......... 9834 984
Exchange on London, one month l2 17.5
• Two months ..... •• •
At 5ight.........
On Hamburgh
Two months..
On Paris
Two months. •

43.15

•• • 3.5 25

—Dutch Papers, Feb. 8.
PRUSSIAN lIINDS.—Bzumx, FEB. 4.
. •
Bills. Money.
St. Schuld Sch., 332 per Cent .... .•• • • • 100 1-12 99 7-12
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent..
Exchange on London, 2 months
—Universal Prussian Gazette, Feb. 7.
HAMBURGH BORSENHALLE, FEB. 4
Bills. Money.
113

6 2154 6 24

3 Austrian 5 per Cents
Bank Shares
. Anglo-Russian Loan .. .
. Hussian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 105% 1054
Ditto let series Inscription.
Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 993 i 9914
Ditto, in Certificate. 99 99%
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. .. •• .. 92 91%
Ditto Stieglitz ...• • • •
Spanish New 5 per Cent. .
. • Ditto 3 per Cent
Anglo-Portuguese Loan, 23 per Cent 4O
Dutch Actual Debt, 23 per Cent.... • • 6334 63
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844...• 87% 87
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent ...• • . 87% 8714
. Nation ,a 1 Bank Shares • • 140
Eichange on London.
Pelersburgli, Three months .....
' Bremen, Two m0nth5..........
—llanburgh Borsenhalle, Feb. 4

• 371,',
• 6 13

' BELGIAN FUNDS.—Baussus, FEB. 3.
Actual Debt, 2?i per Cent .. .
Rothsehild's Loan, Five per Cent
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent •• • . 98
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto Thirty-seven Million", ditto
Ditto, ditto, 1840.. .. . ...... .
Ditto, ditto, 1844........ .. •• • ... • •
Ditto of the City, 1843 • • • . 103
Ditto, 1832 ..
Bankofßelgium ..... • • • .. • . • • • ....... .• 608
—Brussels Papers. Feb. 5.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. REILLY.
In this case, which had not concluded when our Afternoon
Edition went to press, 'the jury returned a verdict for the
Crown Tor the single value-772/. 16s.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.
GLOBE.—If the decisions of the Council of Trent,
" the whole cycle of Roman doctrine,"—if the con-
tinual -insinuation, and frequent direct assertion, that
Protestantism is heresy—if the assumption, as self-evi-
dent excellencies, on every occasion, of the Romish dis-
tinctive
rally-raeritorio characters of priestly-obligatory, and gene-
, sw.usk:elibacy, confession, absolute spiritual
direction
legends of Enwhesii if the re-publication of all the
ages, :and the obtit.iionkery, through all the dark
public in n
on
of the Englishthe astonished eyes
the nineteenth century of
thaumaturgic and t
toe-nails itnber-shavings, oli clothes,
and old tombstones—if all this is consistent with the
creed of the Church of England,this within
and if the uncen-
sured inculcation of all
n
University of Oxford is consistent"
uh the walls of the
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with the moral and
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intell ctual reputation of that
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admit that its convocation will be vedrsity —then vk e
ine
lessly, as certain of our Contemporarieslling
as need-
will, in expressing any
opinion of their hink they
Thursday next. But, if any men, Protestant own on
holding
principl.-s, ever were called upon to stand forth,g
and say
they hold them—if any provocation possibly can bej
given to a e.', who b lteve the Reformation
o
querei• great privileges for them, to vindiccante.
those privileges in the face of first covert—
now open—insult—then surely the members of that
University rre so called upon, and the ill-blood
ereatencd as likely to result from their obeying this call
will have been generated by no act of theirs. The whole
question ia, whether they do adhere to Protestant free-
dom, as freedom which ought in England, and an
English University, to be exercised and enjoyed, or no.
The rout of the controversy is not this or that dogma—
but tlie.right of our forefathers, and of us their suns, to
assert the freedom of national education from the obligation
to bOw to one exclusive set of dogmas, imposed by a
foreign -hierarchy. It is this obligation which is now
'4nfquitocally asserted by the new Oxford school—and

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DIRECT PORTSMOUTH RAIL-
WAY.--(THIS DAY.)
A special meeting of the Shareholders of the above
Railway was held at the London Tavern, W. A. Wil-
kinson,-Esq., in the chair, for the purpose of consi-
dering the late adverse decision with respect to this
line Which the Board of Trade had come to.
The CHAIRMAN detailed the various advantages of
this proposed line, and contended that the Board of
Trade had not given that consideration to the subject
which was due to it. The Company had not been
allowed to reply to the arguments brought forward
by their opponents ; the reason alleged by the Chair-
man of the Board, Lord Dalhousie, that it was phy-
sically impossible. Under these circumstances he
contended that it was their duty to go to Parliament
and have their case thoroughly Investigated.
Mr. YOUNG, the Secretary, then read a report from
the Directors, which stated that the Committee had
fully considered the position in which this undertak-
ing was placed, and its chances of ultimate success,
which, with every respect for the Board of Trade,
they could not believe were materially diminished by
their recent announcement, seeing that, with very
limited experience, and a system ill-adapted for the
attainment of correct information, it had been physi-
cally impossible for that Honourable Board, by
reason of the multiplicity of schemes submitted
to their notice, to give to each a sufficient attention.
It was now understood, that notwithstanding their
reports competing railways would be referred to
Select Committees, whose decisions, founded upon
evidence publicly given, and after all parties had
been fully heard in the presence of each other, in
accordance with the recognised principles of
English justice, could alone be satisfactory and final.
Before such a tribunal the Committee felt assured
that they would be able to prove that the direct
London and Portsmouth Line would afford the safest,
the cheapest, and the most expeditious railway commu-
nication between London and Portsmouth • that it was
earnestly desired by the towns of Dorking, Godal-
ming, tiaslemere, Petersfield, and Havant ; and more
especially by the large and important towns of Portsea
and Portsmouth ; some of which places would, by the
adoption of the line favoured by the Board of Trade,
be wholly deprived of the advantages of railway tra-
velling they so much required ; that it had the general
concurrence and support of the principal landowners
on the line and in its neighbourhood, whilst the com-
peting railways were not desired by the inhabitants
of the districts through which they would respectively
pass, nor by the towns of Portsea and Portsmouth,
and would be met by the most determined opposition
of a large brAly of influential landowners. The
Committee were therefore unanimously of opinion,
that it was expedient that this undertaking should be
submitted to Parliament.
Resolutions, empowering the Directors to go to
Parliament, but limiting the liability of Shareholders,
in case the Bill should be unsuccessful, to 10s. per
share. for future expenses, were then passed. An
option was given to the Shareholders to go on or not,
providing. they made their election on or before the
20th inst.—The meeting then separated.