The Sun.
London, England, 1852-11-26 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

LAW INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

FRANCE.

CITY, Two O'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool, yesterday, were
estimated at 3,000 bales, all to the trade. The
market closed heavily, an prices, as compared with
rates of Friday last, were .Id. per lb. lower. The
sales comprised 2,000 American ; 680 Pernam and
Maranhams, at 60. • 200 Egyptian, at 64d. to
9d. ; and 200 ' Surat, at 31d. to 44 d. per lb. Rail-
way shares were firm, at higher prices.
In the Colonial markets this week, the leading
staples have been duller, and there has been gene-
rally not so much buoyancy in prices. Both sugar
and coffee have been slightly in favour of buyers,
although the Continental markets for the last
named continue firm. Spices have met with a
brisk demand. Tea has been quieter, and owing
to large arrivals, the speculation in tallow has fallen
off. Cotton has gone lower. Saltpetre has been
supported ; and rum has been in demand at ad-
vanced rates.
The rumour has been current within the last day
or two that the Honourable East India Company
have declined for the present to give a decision
upon the formation of a railway in the Upper Pro-
vinces, and the alleged ground is a desire to ob-
tain fuller information. The reports that the Ho-
nourable Company have a desire to make railways
in India themselves, or that they favour the pre-
tensions of the would-be monopolising East India
Railway, we deem unworthy of credence. In the
first place the Board of Control years ago, decided
that Government should not make the railways,
and as there was a strong battle at the time, it can
hardly be supposed that the fight is to be renewed,
or that, if renewed, the same results would not
attend it. One might fairly inquire how many
years longer our great Eastern empire would have
been without railways if Government had been left
to take the initiative. Secondly, with regard
to the existing or East India Railway Company,
if our information be correct, its preposterous
demand to be permitted to make the line in Upper
India as a matter of right, has already been posi-
tively refused. How any Board of Direction,
numbering among its members men of sense and
practical experience, could expect the larger portion
of our Eastern possessions to be delivered up,
bound hand and foot, to their monopoly, we cannot
imagine ; but we expect the claim was made upon
the system of endeavouring to obtain all possible,
rather than with the idea that it would be granted.
This Company has yet much of its work to com-
plete, and has just received a guarantee upon
another million of capital, quite enough to be
efficiently managed by one Board. As to the Upper
India line, it is so indispensable that not a day
should be lost in authorizing its commencement.
Railways in India, where the communication is so
imperfect, will work far more wondrous changes
than in Europe, which enjoyed other and
rapid means of transit previous to the introduction
of the locomotive ; and immediate advantage should
be taken of the abundance of money to sanction
every scheme that will benefit the colonies.
The Honourable East India Company will, ere
long, have to stand before the bar of public opinion,
upon asking a renewal of its charter. Mr. John
Sullivan places clearly in view, in " Remarks on
the Affairs of India," the reforms that are most
required. As at present constituted, the Board of
Directors of the East India Company are mere ad-
visers of the Board of Control. They may origi-
nate and suggest, but they have no power to com-
mand or prohibit. Mr. Sullivan proposes a Mini-
ster for India, with a competent body of indepen-
dent persons to advise him. There might, he
considers, be a President, who should be a Cabinet
Minister, two Vice-Presidents, and a Council of
six or eight members; one Vice-President and one-
third of the Council, without any special qualifica-
tion, to be named by her Majesty, removable at
the pleasure of the Crown ; the rest to be quali-
fied by a certain number of years' experience,
gained by residence in India, elected, as now,
either by the East India Proprietors, or by a more
enlarged constituency, for a certain number of
years, and eligible for re-election at the expiration
of that period. If Committees were kept up to
continue the present mode of conducting business,
it is recommended that parties not otherwise en-
gaged should be elected. Parliament would be
able then to check the whole by receiving periodi-
cal reports as to the subjects upon which the
Council had disagreed with the Minister.
Owing to the boisterous weather, the steamer
with the French mail could not come into Dover,
and proceeded to Ramsgate. We have, therefore,
no letters.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron Alderson.)
ROBBERY.
John Cooper, aged 40, described as a porter, was in-
dicted for stealing 40 sovereigns, and a quantity of silver
plate, value 401., the property of William Comber Hood
and thers, his masters.
Mr. Clarkson appeared for the prosecution, and Mr.
Gifford defended the prisoner.
Mr. Wm. Comber Hood deposed as follows :—I am
in partnership with two other gentlemen, and we carry
on the business of publishers and booksellers in Ave
Maria-lane, under the name of Whittaker and Co.
The prisoner had been in the service of the firm 15 years.
He received 235. a week, and 101. a year for locking up
the premises at night, and being first upon them
in the morning. There was no necessity for his
being there on Sundays. He had no occasion to
go to the warehouse on Sunday, the 31st of October.
I live in Gloucester-terrace, Hyde Park. On that
evening he called upon me about 10 o'clock. He said
the premises in Ave Maria-lane had been entered, and
every desk broken open, and a considerable quantity of
bills and half bank-notes strewn about, which he picked
up as well as he could. He requested me to go to Ave
Maria-lane, to see what had been effected. In addition to
what I have mentioned, he said he was on his way to church,
about 6 o'clock, when he found the door of the warehouse
open. He also said that being fatigued with magazine work
the night before, he had not been from home till church time
on Sunday night. He was excessively nervous at the time;
he produced a seal, saying I should know what it was.
It had been in my private drawer on Saturday night. I
accompanied him to Stationers' Court. The prisoner
unlocked one pf the doors of the premises. It was the
only door that could be opened from the outside. The
prisoner got a light. The police were in charge
of-the door when I arrived. The prisoner, before I left
home, said he thought the robbery had been committed
by country-hands, and not by London thieves, as it was
so bungingly done. I found the safe open, but the bolts
of the lock had not the appearance as if violence had
been used to force the doors. I remarked that the
safe must have been opened by some servant on the pre-
mises. I always kept the key of the safe my-
self. I placed it on Saturday night in a compartinent
in my private drawer. This drawer had been forced.
The prisoner brought me the key of the safe which I
think he said he found on the table. All the contents
of the safe had gone except some bills, including a box of
silver plate, containing spoons, forks, and knives, all
marked with a crest, six half 5l notes, and 301.
more in notes. The prisoner showed me a
window on the first floor where he said
he thought the entry had been made. It looked
on a skylight and a flat of leads. The bars were down
and the shutters open, but the bars did not appear to
have been forced. pane of glass was broken, but it
was too small for any one to enter by. I found a bunch
of old rusty keys on my desk—they were formerly used
in the warehouse, but had been lost for a long time.
The'prisoner knew where the key of my safe was kept.
There were five safes on the premises, but only mine
had heen opened.
Joseph Self said, I am the potboy of the Daniel Lam-
bert public house, on Ludgate-hill. I knew the prisoner
—he came to our place on Sunday night the 31st, a
little after six. He asked if one of the young men might
go over to their place, for it had been broken open.
When I got over I told him that we had better have a
constable. He replied very well, and came out of the pre-
mises and shut the door, I went for a policeman and shortly
afterwards returned with one. The prisoner suggested
that a light should be got. He went inside and felt
about, but could not find a lucifer. He then went over
to our place, and got a candle lighted. The witness then
described the appearance of the premises. The prisoner
seemed very agitated, and kept running out. He said
that every blessei place had been broken open : this was
before the light was got.
Samuel Kent, city police-constable, corroborated the
evidence of the last witness. It was his opinion that the
door had been opened with a key—not forced. The pri-
soner pointed out a window on the first floor as the place
where the thieves might have entered ; but witness could
discover no foot-narks on the leads. The prisoner said
that every blessed farthing had gone, but he hoped, as
the governor was in the habit of sending money every
day to the bank, that he had not lost much.
Sergeant M`Lean gave similar testimony. The prisoner
showed him the old keys, and said they had been left by the
burglars ; but he noticed that there was not a skeleton
key among them.
Daniel May, of the detective force, said he was pre-
sent on the following morning in Ave Maria-lane, when
the prisoner was recognised by two gentlemen, who had
seen him come out of the premises on Sunday morning.
The prisoner, on being questioned afterwards about it,
said it was a mistake, and he could prove he had never
been out of his house until six o'clock m the evening.
(The trial was proceeding when we went to press.)

THE CONTINENT.

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY).

The English securities have been firm again, and
there is still an idea that the motion of Lord Pal-
merston will secure a majority, and thus give an
outlet to Ministers to escape from their difficulty.
Consols have been quoted 1011- to for Transfer
and Account. The new 3f per Cents. have been
1031 to 104, and the 3 per Cents., 1001 to Bank
Stock is at 223. South Sea New Annuities have
been at 100 g. Exchequer Bills have been firm at
70s to 735, and India Bonds at 80s to 83s, pre-
mium.

CORN EXCHANGE.

The supply of English wheat received up to our market,
this week, coastwise, has amounted to 2,110 quarters,
almost wholly from Essex and Kent, and in very inferior
condition. To-day, the show of samples by land carriage
was very moderate. All kinds met a slow inquiry, yet a
fair clearance was effected, at Monday's prices.
The imports of foreign wheat are heavy, viz. 31,560
quarters. Several parcels of low wheats changed hands
for country consumption, at full currencies. All other
kinds moved off slowly, but we have no alteration to
notice in their value. Floating cargoes were held at the
extreme rates of last week. Several transactions took place
on Irish account.

Foreign Stocks have been weaker. The Spanish
Certificates have sunk to 3k and 3, owing to the
refusal of the Government at Madrid to take any
measures for recognising them. The Turkish Loan
is at 2 premium, and heavy. Mexican are de-
pressed at 24 to Equador have improved to 5
and si. Dutch 2k per Cents. are 651 to 66k.
The Railway Share Market is much quieter, and
prices are nominally rather lower for several of the
lines which have recently attracted most attention.
French shares have been neglected, but are at the
previous values. _ _

A very large quantity of English barley being on offer—
upwards of 10,000 quarters—the sale for that article was
in a sluggish state, at barely stationary prices.
Malt was in good supply, and moderate inquiry, at pre-
vious currencies.

We had a very inactive trade for oats, the value of
which was with difficulty supported. Low kinds were
6d lower.

Beans, peas, and flour without alteration.
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.

English ..
Irish .• • •
Foreign ..

Wheat.
2,110

Barley.
10,55,)
1,160
31,560 I 2,690

II
Malt. Oats. I Flour.
5,830 6,130 2,260
12,100 I -
-- 14,480

- In gold mines there is still an active business at
full prices. The Agua Fria Company have later
accounts, but their affairs were in statu quo, the
agent sent out desiring to obtain a more favourable
lease before he set to work. Australasian shares
are 11. higher.

BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK THIS DAY,

(Front the Official List.)

Business done.
Bank Stock 223
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lOO 3
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.
New 34 per Cent. Anntities.
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6 7-16 i
India Bonds, £lOOO
Ditto, under £lOOO
South Sea New Annuities
Consols for Account..
Exchequer Bills lid.
£lOOO.
£5OO
Small

80 3
. 100/
. 101 t
March. June.
72 70 3 73 70

PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds; 5 per Cent. —
Ditto 4i per Cent 97 i
Danish Bonds, 1825, 5 per Cent lo6i
Equador Bonds 5
Mexican 3 per Cent. . . ... ............ ........
Portuguese 4 per Cent..
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent llB
Ditto 41 per Cent.... ... . ...... .......
Spanish Committee Cert... oi-Coup. not fun 3i 3 p c
Swedish Loan . . ...... - ... . ... ...... ....
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 18,52
Dutch Exchange 2t, per Cent..... i 6i
HALT-PAST TWO.
Consols
101
Ditto Account, Dec. 9
j

, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 26, 1852.

The Corps Legislative met yesterday.
M. Fould read to the Assembly a message from
the President of the Republic, in which he says Shr.
" The Government, as you know, will only change -
in form. Devoted to the great interests which in- st.
tellect brings forth, and which are carried out by 20
peace, it will maintain itself, as by the past, within
the limitsi of moderation." 14
The speech was favourably received. 31
The Moniteur contains the complete and defini-
tive returns of 25 departments, which give, for the 27i
Empire, 2,333,651, and against it 77,116.
Besides these complete returns from 25 depart- e
ments, the Moniteur contains partial returns from st.
28 other departments, which, so far as they go, 50
present similar proportions. It may therefore be 50
set down that there are already 5,000,000 aster- 50
tamed votes for the Empire, so that the general 25
result may fairly be expected to reach the 8,000,000, 25
which is the estimate made by people likely to be 25
well-informed.

The appeal of MM. Jourdan and Sougere, of the 18
Bicele, against the judgment which condemned each g
of them to a year's imprisonment and I,ooof. fine,
for publishing news calculated to bring the Govern- 25
ment into contempt, came on yesterday for hearing. 25
After counsel had spoken on both sides, the Court St.
of Appeal confirmed the former judgment, as far 50
as the fine was concerned, but reduced the term of st.
imprisonment to six months for each of the st.
appellants. St.
M. Selles, ex-Procureur-General of the Supreme St.
Court of Martinique, and M. Caqueray, director of !-
the Insurance Company of Versailles, yesterday g'o*
appeared before the Correctional Police, charged
with having opposed the Government agents in the
execution of their duty on the day of the Prince
President's triumphal entry into Paris. From the
evidence, it appeared that several persons assem-
bled at Tortini's having refused to take off their
hats when the Prince President passed, a disturb-
ance ensued, in which the defendants were par-
tially active, paying no attention whatever to the
injunctions of the police agents. The Court, after
hearing counsel for the defendants, condemned
Selles to one month's imprisonment, and Caqueray
to six.
The Presse says :

"It is stated that the ordinary session of 1853 will St.
commence on the Ist of February. Some important 50
bills, several of which have been already submitted to 40
the examination of the Council of State, particularly 25
that for throwing open the butchery trade, will be pre. 25
sented to the Legislative Body during the session." St.
The .Patirie says :
8
st.i " The Government is occupied with the question whe-. St.
ther the fines iucurred by the publishers of journals in 50
the cases specified by the law of July 16, 1850, and the 25
decree of Feb. 17, 1852, can be remitted or lowered by 100
way of grace ; and whether the fines already paid in St.
virtue of Article 49 of the last decree, can be legally 2
refunded."

t.
M. Thiers has left Paris for London, and will be 15
absent for a fortnight or three weeks. 50

A letter from Limoges says :
" The result of the vote is the more remarkable, as in
this department, which was so recently ravaged by
socialism, there were nearly 6,000 negative votes on the
20th of December. The opposition is now reduced to
600."
The Union de la Sarthe says :
" For some days back seireral Socialist manifestoes
have been disseminated in this department, with the sig-
nature of Comitd des Invisibles. These demagoguical
documents, more disgusting, if possible, than the last
which issued from Jersey and London, bore foreign
postmarks."

- PARIS BOURSE, Nov. 25.—Closing prices : Rentes,
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 106 f. 90c. ; ditto,
Three per Cents., 84f. 750. ; Bank of France,
2,975 f.

- 50
SPAIN. St.
Madrid journals of the 20th are filled with details 50
of the ceremonies and festivities observed on the 20
20 previous day on occasion of the Queen's fête.
MADRID BOURSE, Nov. 20.—The Three per 25
Cents., 46 9-16 ; Exchange on London, 50 70 paper.