The Sun.
London, England, 1852-02-02 00:00:00

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rid—
a ,tominal Prices. , Ltnsto-day .or,
---- --.
Agua Fria .. ........ I 214 -23 P 314 %
Anglo Californian - .... 10s. %-li P 134 %,
Australian ........ • ... 5 % - %
Ave Maria ....... • • 1 li, dis -% P
Blaenarvon Iron & Coal all .. -•-
British Australian Gold 1 par - % p I
British Iron •-•••• •. • • 13/. ss. .. -'-
Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.) 243( 135 - 2
Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba all 13( -1%
Do. St. John del Rey- 15 2235 - 2335 23%
CObre Copper • • .... ••• 40 33 -34
Copiapo .. -••.• • • • • • 14 4 - 5
Eng. &Aufitralian Copper 234 % % p
General.... •-•• • . • • all 9% - 1035
Gold Mountain •••.. •• I par - % p 13(
Great Polgooth . .... all %-3; p
Mexican& 8. American 9 331 - 4
Nouveau M0nde...... • • 1 Y: —li p 1%
Santiago do Cuba ..... 10% 434 - 5
Tin Croft ..•••••• .• .• • • 7 9 -10
United Mexican...... • • all 2 - 214
West Mariposa ........ I Par - % p
JOINT STOCIL BANKS.
Australasia .... •• ••• • • • all 38 - 39%
'British North America.. 50 4614 -48
Colonial .. -•••••• •• •• 25 11% - 12%
Commercial of London.. 20 24 - 251,(
London Joint Stock .... 10 18% - 17% a
London and Westminster 20 29% -30 29% 3fl --. '
National Provincial Eng. 35 .. -••
National of Ireland• .... 2234 17% -17
Oriental Bank Corporat. all 3() - 3114 x.d
Provincial of Ireland.... 25 4334 -45
Do. New - - ........ all 15% - 1634
Union of Australia •••• all 35 - 3634
Do. New ............. 234 3 -35
Union of London .... •. 10 14% - 15%
Union of Madrid .. .
MISCELLANEOUS.
Canada •• .......• •• •• 3234
Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 2735 -28 281,4
renin. & Oriental Steam. all 70 -71 x.d
Ditto ditto 10 1735 - 18
Royal Mail Steam ...... 60 77 - 781,4

,NEOUS.
48 —494
27% 28
70 —7l x.d
173 i 18
77 Vqsi ,
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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS'
CITY. TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were
estimated at 8,000 bales; the market was steady, but in'
animate at previous rates. The sales comprised 6,000
American, 1,000 Pernam and Maranham, chiefly at 4d.,
350 Egyptian at 54d. to eid., 500 Surat at 21d. to 30e
and 80 Sea Island at ls. 2d. to ls. 91d. per lb.—ln Rail-
way Shares a moderate business was done at rather
higher rates.
Information as to the state of the Manchester market
is given in the following communication from /dearth
McNair, Greenhow, and Irving:—
" If certain descriptions of Maddapolams and Domes-
tics be excepted, stocks will be found to be very little
on the increase. It must be stated, however, that in
regard to the large transactions of the month, a material
portion of theta have arisen in the way of deliveries,
from the heavy contracts entered into in December.
Neither manufacturers nor spinners are so well supplied
with orders as they were then; still there are mae9 f
them fully and positively engaged for a month hence'
and even two. Prices are now generally about wos'
they were a month ago—excepting 7 eSths and St" -
printing cloths which, in many descriptions, are 10. to
3d. per piece higher. The actual scarcity of such !ag
those to which we refer—and which many of our friends
will recognize— is almost without a parallel.
" Though we see it stated in some quarters that thee
country trade is healthy and active, a smaller portioll,°'
truth, we believe, was scarcely ever embraced. Oar
formation is carefully procured from parties °
most competent to form an opinion ; and the result Or
gativea and falsifies the statements referred to. fie''
we believe, was scarcely ever found to be doing st t",;
season of the year. There is, however, nothing 011";
rially important in such an inactive state. The l'ess;o-
- the general expectation that cotton goods ra sY -
lower, together with the facilities afforded by re ilwai
travelling—so very different to what they used tc. bey
at a much lessened expense too—naturally in: dig:
more frequent visits to this market, and to create h13.-nd
minds of the retail dealers a desire to econonsiaut jier
render more productive their capital, by holding snaa. -
ill the
and better assorted stocks. We believe that
hands of all such, stocks are ueusaally d,
The steamer with the American mail has arrive
She brings very little specie, but the rate of exediang
continues high, being 10k.
The postage of letters to Norway during the period
when they have to be convoyed via Denmark and sfre.
den is reduced to la. sd. por half ounce.
The Dutch Government has introduced modification!
into the law imposing
anineeme-tax of three per eenq
on floating capital or pulley embarked in some branell.v.
industry. In the Amsterdam Stock Market on the 3151
instant, Dutch Bonds were well supported. Spanish and
Mexican were dearer. In Portuguese and Russian there
was no change. TFe First Chamber of the States Gee
neral is to meet on the 18th of February.
The abundance of money is putting the bankers 43,11
their " mettle" to extract a fair profit out of the ante
funds at their eommand, and the London and
West-
minster has found it expedient to lower its allowance
upon deposits from 2to 11 per cent. It reflects n311'.4
credit on the management that such excellent divide%
should be paid to the proprietory, such liberality sbde_
to the officers, and interest be given besides to the
positors. The large amount of gold brought in is liltfoiFis
we conceive, to occasion still more in cot'
venience yet. The Bank of England is bog
tainly not anxious to receive it, and Yet I, to
no alternative. All the precious metal taiee
obg-
them is scrupulously assayed, and there is every P. log
bility when it gets into the Bank vaults of its reosa'ostli
there for some time, as even the foreign loans are /13., any'
taken in the respective countries where they L'il..louslY
credit, and those states which are known to bece
embarrassed need net come here. One circurart
would take away our gold coin, viz., the Want °,llion
Australia; but even then we should receive in unsva.
pound for pound. When a mint is established nt,tiere
ney, which Government is said to contemplate, "
will be no further occasion for the risk of shipment.
be
A further dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound has u`'
paid under Messrs. Rucher's estate. ; t and
(1
The English Stock Market has been very 11`e"'s for
prices are rather flat. Console have been 961 r,t° sroar
Money and Account. The New Three-and-a°‘4l/Ther
per Cents. have been 981 to =',l. and the Threez,%,
Cents. 97 to East India Stock is worth 261'40
chequer-bills have been 58s. to 615.,_ and India 1107 i.
70s. to 735. premium. South Sea Stock is at
The foreign news is not of importance. De or
The Foreign Bonds have not been active, with ° 51.
to
two exceptions. Grenada have further advanced
and 61, and it is said that the movement is baseci upon
floode
arrangements connected with the Canal. Mexicanijoods
have been also at a rise to 32 and 321. Equador,,reoch
have been at 4; Sardinian Stock is at 88 to ; 30
Five per Cents. are 102, with the exchange at 'Ear
Dutch Four per Cents. are 94 to 1; and Belgian per
and-a-Half per Cents. 91i to ,• Spanish 'torho
gad
gad Cents. are 40i to 4; the New Deferred 171 '
the Five per Cents. 23i to to Ill'
Railway Shares have been rather more buolanGold
though the dealings are by no means extensive. to I
Mine Shares are steady. Anglo-Californian ar °
premium, and Agua Fria 2k to 1 premium. Ails'
are qaiet.

QUARTER TO THR.O
... 96 i
... 96i f

Consols ... .-
Ditto Account, Feb. 10 ... -
ALTistOJNE 01,1„` 005
BRITISH YU N(DerS
oraTaltheSODfficral
3 per Cent. Reduced Atusuities...... 97 14
3 per Cent. Consols Anne. 96%4
New 314 per Cent. Arms 98%
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 7
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 6
india Stock 261
Do. Bonds, 10001 7O 73 p
Ditto under 1.0001
South Sea Stock
Consols for Account 107 AI
96%14
E xob caner Bills
1,0001.
A mi. — 58 61 p
al
?RICE OFEquFadOoßr —5861 p
Sml
58 61 p
Grenada, l
ra,zicaDnibttoonDthie
,%18p4e6r,
eCxe ilt.
co •• 4
EfeßlrroGneNadsFUNDS AT ONE o'o,oo
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5 64
5% 6
Jan. upons ~.„,/
Ditto Account ...... .... ... 31% Zi"l
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per. Cent. .............. 88 i,
opanish Bonds, 3 per Cent. ...... .. 403/4 A,
Ditto, New Deferred 1714 1°
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent.
Eachang® .. .....................
Belgian 41h per Cent....... 9l
Dutch 24 per Cent., 12 Guild
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates

On Saturday evening Sir James Duke entertain:"
at dinner, at his town residence in Portland-place, the em"
bers of the Common Council of the ward of Fairing
Without, of which the worthy Baronet is the aldera3oB
and also several influential gentlemen connected Withi
ward. bolo
REVISION OF EPISCOPAL INCOMES.—If the
will, to morrow night, instead of luxuriously reclina),,,' the
their own benches in the House of Lords, only step
their
House of Commons, they will hear of something, nnt„'; sn,;
advantage, but greatly to the advantage of the conn",",.:ool'
especially of poor curates. They will bear Sir Renistt—o in"
give notice of a motion for a Committee of the Hong, 0.--
quire into episcopal incomes, with a view to their rev° ,„ore
than which it would not be possible to name a reforra '-
urgently needed.— Advertiser.
pr 00° 13.
DETERMINED SUICIDE.-011 Saturday arn"iitne,dubigi,
most determined act of self destruction was corn
young man named George Ridley, a private in tbe I,sll'it„g
to
ment of Grenadier Guards, stationed at the vies
Barracks, Saint James's-park. The deceased,
Who
nt the
morn tetrlie
single, was about thirty-one years of age, and ba d i
been drinking freely, for which he was reproved. _d an'
morning he was with the other soldiers at roll call 5,11401tb.
swered to his name, when Ihe appeared in his neu3_`—ort
and spirits. About half-past seven o'clock a loud 7_lo'idierS.
fire-arms issuing from the barrack-room, several It fall
hastened thither, and discovered deceased lying liters"
length on his back on the floor, his head, which was „ner
shattered to atoms, embedded in a pool of blooc.l,;si,w,
musket, which had been recently discharged, by .1° oose aG
long piece of string fastened to the trigger with a. nr011313:
its other end. Mr. Nichol, surgeon of the corp,
wad that
in attendance, who pronounced life to be extinctt eia,cosen
death must have been instantaneous. No doub _Duro, wase
while in a standing position, had placed the gun, w
; z the 13°431iis
loaded with ball, between his legs, and pase.rir, • o. in
mouth,
lie
thusove r onep
thheis
trfiegegt,e
_r
the d
dmuzzlejscbargb,e.edil:ths: zrrii
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tents into his brain. The ball bad gone thro%n goo ,
horizontally, grazed the ceiling, and then fell 0 LP
where it was found. January'
During the week ending the 24th 0. 04 destbs•
there were 138 births in the Manchester union and I.rno,
fete
Of the deaths, there were five from fever, one snitw
wages, and two scarlatina.