The Sun.
London, England, 1855-02-21 00:00:00

THE TEMPERATURE IN THE MIDLAND

COUNTIES.

A correspondent, writing from Worcestershire,
says :
" Being a subscriber to The Sun, I find you register
the thermometer at 11 deg. on Blackheath on Wednes-
day last. lam induced to send you the lowest point by
Six's thermometer for a few nights in the Midland
counties. The thermometer was placed on the south
front of a greenhouse :
" Friday, Feb. 16... 7 deg.-95 deg. below freezing.
~ 17... 2 „ —29 i „ ft
„ 18... 81 „ —23 i ~ SP
~
~ 19... 22 „ —lO if ff

CRYSTAL PALACE, FEB. 20.—SHILLING DAL—Ad-
mission at the doors, 712 ; admission by season tickets,
334 ; total, 1,046.
INLAND BOOK POST.—GENERAL POST-OFFICE, Feb.,
1855.—0 n and after the Ist of March nest the following
alterations will be made in the regulations of the inland
book-post :—lf a book packet be found to contain any
enclosure which is sealed, or otherwise closed against
inspection, or any letter, whether sealed or not, the letter,
or other enclosure, will be taken out and forwarded to
the address on the packet, charged with full postage as
an unpaid letter, together with an additional rate of 6d.,
the remainder of the packet, if duly pre-paid, being for-
warded as heretofore. 2. If a packet be not sufficiently
pre-paid, according to its weight, but nevertheless bear
stamps to the amount of 6d, it will not, as heretofore,
heenrni. 'l;a'ilo to I'l, letter rite of p• but will lip
forwarded charged with the deficient book postage, and
an addition of 6d.—Rowland Hill, secretary.

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VIONEY MA it KE T

AND
00.141VIERCIAL INTETZIGENCE.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK

The cotton market at Liverpool, yesterday, was
heavy again. The sales amounted to 4,000 bales
(500 of which were taken for export), comprising
200 Pernam and Maranham at 51d. to 7d., 200
Egyptian at sd. to ad., and 400 Surat at 3ild. to
3-id., per lb. Railway Shares were very inactive.
The public sales of tea are going off very heavily.
Some of the common congou has been sold as low
as 9d. per lb. The indigo auctions have progressed
well, at fully October rates, and good Kurpah has
been 2d. to 3d. per lb. dearer. Up to last evening,
8,469 chests had passed.

The extraordinary lino of argument adopted by
Mr. Cardwell, in reply last evening to the speech
of Mr. Collier, who moved for returns elucidatory
of the course of the trade of Russia during the
past year, is the subject of comment among all prac-
tical men ; but, we may state at the outset, that
it surprises no ono who has watched events and
taken cognizance of the past proceedings of our
Government. The present policy is, in fact, "all of
a piece," with that half-and-half truckling system,
which has cost us thousands of lives and millions of
money without producing any definite results. The
question which every disinterested merchant asks
is, " Are we at war, or are we not 1" If at war,
why not strain every nerve to cripple our enemy,
if only in common justice to those who fight our
battles and supply the means ; if at peace, why
blockade at all ? According to the reasoning of last
night, it would be easy to prove that all we are
doing is worse than useless, since honourable mem-
bers give it as their opinion that, for the benefit of
consumers in France and England, the indirect
trade had better be permitted. It would be easy
to show the utter fallacy of such assertions, even
in reference to this part of the subject, for substi-
tutes would long since have been made temporarily
available if any one had really believed in the stop-
page of the Russian trade. As to the assertions
about the profit upon the exports of tallow, hemp,
&-c., to Egland being only 950,0001., and the total
value 7,000,0001., there is not a practical man who
would hesitate.to give it a positive contradiction.
Accounts from Vienna state that a great fall had
taken place in the price of the Northern railroad
Shares, no less than 25 per cent. in two days,
under the impression that the new French Com-
pany had power to make a line almost parallel to
the Northern. 'When this was ascertained to be
incorrect, a rally occurred of 13 per cent., making
the actual decline 8 per cent.

Yesterday afternoon the quotations of the foreign
exchanges were firm. Paris, 90 days, was at 25
321 to 35, Amsterdam at 11 171 to 18, Hamburgh
at 13 5 to 6k, and Trieste at 12 48 to 54.

Public Securities have improved since the com-
mencement of business, in consequence of the pub-
lication of an outline of the treaty which Prussia
is stated to he about to make with the Western
Powers. The Manifesto of the Emperor of Russia
is likewise considered to be much more pacific in
its tone. Consols have been 90/ to 911 for trans-
fer, and 90:4 to 91f for account. The New 3 per
Cents. have been 911 to 91/, and the Reduced 91
to 9l I. Exchequer Bills have been nominally 6s.
to 9s. premium. India Bonds are 12s. premium.
In Foreign Stocks scarcely anything is doing.
Turkish Bonds realise 75k, French 41 per Cents.
are 66 50, with the Exchange at 25 5, Dutch 21
per Cents. are 611. Brazilian Old Bonds have
realised 1001.

The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5 to 6 ; Mexi-
can, 201 to 21 ; Peruvian, 69 to 71; ditto Three
per Cents., 49 to 51 ; Portuguese Four per Cents.,
41 to 43 ; Russian Five per Cents., 98 to 100 ;
ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 87 to 89 ;
Spanish New Deferred, 17i to 18 ; ditto Three
per Cents., 36 to 36k; ditto Certificates, 4i to 5;
ditto Passive, 4 to 41,
Railway Shares have been very dull, but they
keep firm. In the Colonial lines there have been
a few transactions at previous rates.
Mining Shares are flat. English and Australian
copper ore lower, and St. John del Rey have
declined

The Joint-Stock Banks are slightly in favour o:
buyers.

The Land Shares have been heavy.

FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'ULOt
(Front the Official List.
Bwdness none
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities OlB g
3 per Cont. Consols Annuities
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 4 5-16
India Bonds, £lOOO ..........
Consols for Account, Bth March 9l 90i 1,1
exchequer Bills, 24d.
21000
Ditto Advertised

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 100:3
Curkish Bonds, per cent —
Ditto for the Account 751
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 46 per Cent. 66f. 50e. ex.25L sc.
Ditto Scrip
Oaten Exchange, 26 per Cent. 12 Gull

msols HALF•PA ST TWO.
91
Ditto, Marcia Account

MARKET IVEIVS-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

As the navigation of the Thames is now almost wholly
suspended—it Jbeing impossible to land cargoes even when
arrived—there was no business doing in wheat here to-
day. Prices were, therefore, nominal.
All kidds of spring corn, as well asflour, were excessively
heavy and nominal in price.

Wheat.

ARRIVALS THIS WERE.
I Barley. ( M alt.
I 330 I ......

English ..
Irish ....
Foreign ..

Oats.
2,251

Flour.
1,010

1,190

BOROUGH 1101'.
Fine hops are very scarce, and quite as dear as last week.
Inferior parcels are dull, but not cheaper.

WHITECHAPEL.
The trade was dull, as follows :—Beef, 3s Od to 4s 2d ;
mutton, 3s 2d to 4s 4d; veal, 3s 10d to 4s 10d ; pork,
3s OJ to 4s 4d per 81bs. by the carcass.

SHARE MARK ETS.

t
I Paid.

100

1.06
86
100
too

1.(40
3
100
all
all

13 b

all
141 s.

16A
10
3L
yll
all

20
10
20
35

10
22
all
all

(Th DAY.)

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