The Sun.
London, England, 1852-12-23 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 5,000 bales, of which 1,000 American
were taken on speculation. The market closed
steadily at previous rates. The sales comprised
4,000 American, 170 Pernam and Maranham, at
bid. to lid., 50 Bahia at 631, 200 Egyptian at
6d. to 82d., and-400 Surat at 4d. to 4id. Railway
shares were dull, at rather lower rates.
The six weeks average price of wheat is 41s. 3d.
per quarter ; and the last week's sales were 121,850
quarters.

There will be no further public sales of Sugar,
Coffee, &c., until January 4, the markets having
last night closed for the holidays. Sugar has this
week been firmer, and British Plantation has ad-
vanced Gd. per cwt. East India sorts also have
been rather dearer. Of Coffee there have been
but sparing buyers, and Mocha is down to 2s.
Rice has been dull, and also Tea. Tallow is in
rather more demand, and also Cotton, and Saltpetre
has risen Gd. per cwt. The deliveries of produce
for home consumption, with the exception of Tea,
are satisfactory.
The French Government, or the agents sup-
posed to be acting for it, is still covertly, though
largely, purchasing grain, and the object can only
be divined to be to produce such an impression
upon the French market as will keep down prices.
It is probable that the last crops were smaller than
hai been supposed, or the necessity for this course
would not have arisen ; and the advisers of Louis
Napoleon, sensible that popular discontent waxes
warm when food is dear, are determined, at whatever
sacrifice to the National Treasury, to repress any
rising tendency whenever possible. Under auto-
cratic sway, this is not so difficult a task, -but it
would be very different where the Finance Minister
has his accountability towards the representatives
of a free people. Private competition must here
be left to Accomplish what Government inter-
ference can alone bring about in other quarters.
Those interested in French securities, however,
may not regard with an indifferent eye the heavy
drain upon the national income, occasioned by the
new charges for the maintenance of the Imperial
Court, as well as by these commercial operations,
and a new loan ere long seems inevitable.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up
;o this day, are, in round figures, as under :-
1852. 1851.
£17,526 16,496
45,469 42,366
9,454 9,294
10,004 8,344
24;719 22,737
12,329 10,913
5,109 4,706
8,655 7,572
14,402 11,163
17,478 16,299
8,775 ' 7,967
14,494 14,333

Great Western
North Western
South Western
Brighton
Midland
South Eastern
North Stafford
Caledonian
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire
York and North Midland
Newcastle and Berwick ..

Stocks are again rising, but there is less doing
than there was yesterday. Upon the reopening of
the transfer books, there will probably be sales as
usual, but the state of the Money Market will
ultimately determine whether the speculators will
be encouraged to rally the quotations. The Bank
of England return, to be published in to-morrow
evening's Gazette, will show, it is expected, a de-
crease of about 300,0001. in the bullion. Consols
have been 1008 to and the New 3 per Cents.
1041 to g. Bank Stock is quiet, at 223-. Ex-
chequer Bills are up to 645. and 675., and India
Bonds to 78s. and 82s. premium.
The Foreign Securities are flatter generally.
Mexican Bonds have been 24i to , and Peruvian
Deferred 64 to 1;.. Grenada Deferred Stock is quiet
at 12 and Equador 51. Spanish New Deferred
are at 24, and Portuguese 4 per Cents. at 40,
being heavy. The Turkish Loan is quoted
premium only. Dutch 2/ per Cents. are 68-
In Gold Mines business is falling off ; prices are
down only about on the 11. Australian Shares.
The Californian have receded to a similar extent.
The 51. Shares of the Australian Mine have de-
clined li.
Australian Agricultural Company's shares are at
about last evening closing rates, to 101. decline,
and Van Diemen's Land 11. lower. The South
Australian are 71. to 91. cheaper.
The Joint Stock Bank shares are heavy.
Not much is doing in railways. Midland have
been higher, and also Great Western. Caledonian
and others rather lower. French shares are
neglected.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(Front the Official List.)

Business done.
Bank Stock 2234
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities....... .....
New 31 per Cent. Annuities lO4B g
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 Gi $
India Bonds, £lOOO 7B
Ditto under £lOOO 78.82
South Sea Old Annuities lole
Consols for Opening 18th' January
Exchequer Bills 14d. March. June.
£lOOO 64 7
£5OO 64 4
Small 64 7

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent ' 74
Equador Bonds
Grenada Bonds, 11 per Cent.
Ditto Ex. Dec., 1849, Coupon
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent
Mexican 3 per Cent
Peruvian Deferred 3 per Cent
Portuguese 4 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 4oi 1
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, 41 per cent • 1055
Ditto Small
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 514 1
Ditto Deferred, 3 per Cent.
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 4 p
Turkish toan, 6 per Cent., 1852 1 p
Dutch Exchange 21 per Cent 6Bl 4
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates

12g
248 4
. 64

Two MORE SUDDEN DEATHS.—Yesterday Mr Davis,
the coroner's beadle, forwarded to Mr. Wakley information
of two cases of awfully; sudden death, which occurred
within a few hours of each other, and almost in the same
locality. The first was that of John Chapman, aged 39,
clerk, who resided at 99, Metropolitan-buildings, in :the
Old Pancras-road. He returned home at his accustomed
hour, and at ten o'clock was found sitting in his chair
quite dead. The other case was that of Thomas Stacey,
aged 21, residing at No. 23, Grange-road, Camden-town,
assistant to Mr. Barker, a brewer in the Hampstead-road.
Deceased was seen by a fellow lodger to get out of bed in
the course of Monday night and walk along the passage,
where he was discovered a few minutes afterwards in a
state of unconsciousness. Mr. Coldcleugh, a surgeon, of
Grange-road, was called in, but life, in this case as in the
preceding, was quite extinct.
AN UNWELCOME CIISTOMER.—On Monday evening,
about seven o'clock, Messrs. Hall, stationers and printers,
Cambridge-terrace, Camden Town, were suddenly sur-
prised by the unexpected entrance of a bull into their shop
in the following manner :—A bull ran across the road, and
made for the plate-glass folding doors of Messrs. Hall's
shop, which it threw wide open, ringing at the same time
the shop bell, and nearly overturning a case of goods di-
rected to Messrs. Bull, Gibraltar. It then proceeded at a
trot to the end of the shop, brushing against a large plate-
glass show case, and passing without injury a quantity of
ink-bottles on the floor. Mr. Bull then endeavoured to
turn round, but in doing so, got wedged in between three
stacks of paper and a cutting-machine. In this position
he remained for 10 minutes or more, apparently somewhat
astonished at his novel situation. By dint of the coaxing
and persuasion of the drover, and the way out being made
a little more clear, Mr. Bull walked out again without
damaging anything beyond a small picture-frame glass,
which was broken by the violence with which the front
doors were thrown open, and which bear the mark of the
bull's horn, fortunately striking the wood work in the
centre of the doors. The printing-office doors at the end
of the shop had just been closed, or Mr. Bull would pro-
bably have proved rather a slovenly " distributor," and
have made some very unpalatable " pie."

FIRE, AND PROBABLE Loss OF LlFE.—Last evening,
between the hours of five and six, the inhabitants of Half
Moon passage, Bartholomew-close, West Smithfield, were
most painfully excited in consequence of the following me-
lancholy occurrence, which it is feared will terminate fatally :
—lt appears, from the inquirles instituted, that a family
named Mackey, resided at No. 9, in the before-named court,
and whilst Mrs. Mackey was engaged in melting some bee's-
wax and turpentine on the fire, the spirits became ignited,
when the flames coiled up in a vast body. The unfortunate
female, to prevent the chimney taking fire, laid hold of the
vessel containing the flaming ingredients ; but the heat
was so great, that she was compelled to drop the same,
when the liquid fire ran over the room, and over the wear-
ing apparel of the poor creature, completely encircling her
in flame. She immediately ran down stairs into the street
with the fire mounting over her head, and at the same time
the fire was seizing upon the furniture in her room. A
number of the neighbours and police ran to the assistance
of the female, and by great exertions they succeeded in ex-
tinguishing the fire about her body, but not until sho was
most seriously burned. The sufferer was forthwith removed
to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, where she remains in a
very precarious condition. The engines of the London
Brigade and parish quickly attended, but owing to the
services of the police and neighbours the fire in the pre-
mises was subdued without the aid of the engines. Mr.
Mackey was uninsured. The building belongs to Mr.
Howard, of Tottenham, and it is unknown at present whe-
ther it was insured or not.

(ADvEnTrsEmENT.)—Holloway's Ointment and Pills a
certain specific for the Curo of Scorbutic Eruptions.—
Extract of a letter from Mr. Abbitt, chemist, Leaming-
ton, dated Nov. 25, 1852 :—To Professor Holloway :
Sir,—A person named John Margoschis, of 19, Regent-
street, Leamington, was afflicted for eight years with
scorbutic eruptions on the lips, and at length the whole
surface of the mouth and lower part of the face was
covered with sores. He tried all kinds of remedies
without deriving any benefit whatever. At length he
was recommended to use Holloway's Ointment and Pills,
which in three days produced a great change for the
better, and in a short time effected a perfect cure."—Sold
by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's establish-
ment, 244, Strand, London.

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for Opening 18th January len ox div. I St.