The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-27 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

Money tight. Gold, 252. Exchange on London
—Bankers Bills, 272 to 275. Stocks steady—New
York Centrals, 133; Illinois Shares, 124; Erie,
1121 ; 6 per cent. United States five-twenty Bonds,
1031. Cotton dull—Middling Upland, 161 to 162.
Flour, wheat, and corn declining.
A heavy fall has taken place in pork, as well as
in produce of every description. Provisions falling.
Coffee steady and sugar heavy. Molasses inactive.
Petroleum crude, 51c. to 52c.; refined, 80c. to 82c,
111 EXIC 0.

According to news meived at New York from
Mexico to the 2d inst., it was reported that Uraga
and Doblado had 'given their adhesion to the
French.

The steamer Little Ada has been esptnred off
Charleston.

The Caledonia has been intercepted at Cape Race.

THE CONFERENCE.

BERLIN, JULY 27.

A telegram from Vienna received here states that
the Danish Zenipotentiary, M. de Quaade, had
declared, at the preliminary meeting of the Confer-
ence, that he was fully empowered to conduct the
negotiations, reserving only to his Government the
right of ulterior ratification,

SPAIN.
MADRID, JULY 26.

It is stated that a Credit Foncier for Spain is
being organised in Londin with a capital of
300,00Q000 reals, and that no privileges will be
required from the Government,

FRANCE.

PARIS, JULY 27.

The Government candidates in the department of
Ardeche and Dordogne have been elected by a large

majority.
BOURSE, July 26.—The market continues firm,
notwithstanding the intelligence of a fall of at in
the English Consols. Threes, for the Account, have
fluctuated between 66f. 71c. and 66f. 121 f. Mobilisr
has been done at 903 f. 75c., and is now demanded
at 991 f. 25c. R silwny Shares firm, and prices
stationary. The market closed as follows :
41 per Cents. 94 20 Italian Loan 6B 15
Do. end month.... Do. end month 6B 15
3 per Cents
Do. end month 66 10 Nev Mexican .... SG
i
Credit Mobilier..., 995 Russian
Do. end month 990 Austrian

• •

Bank Shares 3385 Spanish Threes.... .....
Credit 1 oneier l2lO home Debt ......
Roman
RAILWAY%
Cash. account.
Orleans 873 75
.. 872 50
Northern 577 50 .. 6,.,77 50
Lyons and lleditirranean 893 75 .. ova
New ditto ..
Southern lB 75 .• 1
Western
Eastern ..• •
Sardinian 25 .•
Austrian.
Lombard
North of Spain -
Saragossa l5 .•
bitto to Barcelona -
--

••
633 75 610 -
515 -
473 5 .. 473 25
351 25 .. 350 -
40S 75 410 -
627 50 .. 627 50
440 - .. 435
523 75 .. 526 25

THE BOMBAY NAILS.
SUEZ, JULY 26,
The Benares, from Bombay, reached Suez at 6
p.m. this day.
The Norma, from Mauritius, arrived at 7 adv.
yesterday.

SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 27.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam-
ship Delta, Capt. Wseks, with the heavy portion
of the above mails and 49 passengers, has arrived.
The Delta brings on freight-3 packages specie,
value £541 93 2d ; one box bullion, £145; two
boxes bloodstones, 17 cases Indian shawls, 3 cases
lace, 1 case jewellery, and 185 packages sundries,
The Delta left Alexandria on the 14th, and ex-
perienced fine weather throughout the passage. On
the 16th she passed the cornpany's steamer Delhi,
and on the 19th the Massilia—the former steering
S.E., and the latter E.
Hibernia, Marlbu-
RoHyaelr
011alkaj,esGt)::wslehri,psvieefsewr,ar Revenge, Boxer,
Marlbo-
rough, Liffey, Meanee, and Magicienne were at
Malta ; and at Gibraltar, the Procria and RApole
GIBRALTAR, July 22d.—The Spanish frigate
Berenguela, left Cadiz on the 19th for the Pacific
Seas, to reinforce the squadron of Admir©l Pinion,
The brigs John Bradsha (of Liverpool), Eliza-
both Henderson (of Shields), and W.G.D.B. (Com
mercial code of signals),
Riga, passed
through the Straits to the Eastward on the 16th
instant. and ship

The following British vessels have arrived here
since the sailing of the last mail for Southampton—
brigantine Jenny Jones, 15 days from Liverpool ;
echooner Hash, 14 days from Liverpool ; steamer
111assilia, 41 days from Southampton ; schooner,
Betty Russell, 16 days from Newport; steam€ r Dal-
housio, 74 days from Wasgow steamer, Kelpie,l2
days from Southampton ; schooner Lord Hgrring,

ton, 13 days from Newport ; schooner John Bell,
17 days from Liverpool ; schooner King, 14 days
from Swansea ; steamer Crimean, 6 days from
Liverpool ; schooner Magdalene, 17 days from Car-
diff; barque Erromanga, 26 days from Newcastle :
and schooner Florence, 14 days from Card;ce,
Exchange on London, 90 days dat, 50Z ; Parie,
sf. 28c. to 29. c. ; 6f. 30c. ; Genoa, 51.
31c. ; Madrid, 8 days ;fight, par ; Cadiz, I 1 dis. ;
Barcelona, prem..; Seville, Malaga, Almeria, Va-
lencia, and Piicant, par. Freights unaltered,

Death of Mr Sergeant Merewether,

This gentleman, who was for many years town-
a3lerk of the corporation of the city of London, died
a few days ago at his residence at Castle• field, near
Caine, in Wiltshire, at the advanced ego of 84. He
was elected to the (Bee of town clerk on the 23.1 of
June, 1842, on the death of Mr Henry Woodthorpe,
the father of the present town clerk, who had held
it for 17 years. oa)that oecasion he stood a contest
with Mr William Pzitchard, the then High Bailiff
of Southwark, and was returned by the Common
Council, in whom the right of appointment vests, by
a majority of 26. The salary was £2,000 a year,
with an official residence, and many incidental emo-
'tomcats besides. At the age of 62 he entered on the
duties of the office, relinquishing with that view the
whole of his professional practice, which had become
very lucrative from the extent to which be was re-
tained as counsel before Parliamentary committees.
He was called to the bar on the sth May, 1509, and
was for many years previous to his death a sergeant-
at-law, with a patent of precedence. He was also
Attorney-General to the late Queen Dowager, Doc-
tor of Civil Law, Recorder of Reading, and went the
Western Circuit. He is said to have owed his appoint-
ment as town clerk to a pamphlet which he wrote in
defence of the alleged right of the corporation of Lon-
don to the foreshore of the Thames, then a subject
of protracted litigation with the Crown, and his last
appearance as an advocate was in the Court of
Chancery, where he spoke for a whole day with his
accustomed ability on the side of the corporation.
He was afterwards examined as a witness before the
Royal Commission, of which Lord Taunton (then
Mr Labouchere) was chairman, and threw much
light on the constitution, customs, and effiirs of the
ccrporation, giving his evidence in the spirit of a
Conservative, which he always was in politics. On
the 10th of February, 1859, when verging on 80
years of age, Mr Merewether resigned the office of
town clerk on a pension of £l,OOO a year, which
now reverts by his death to the civic purse. He
was a man of fine presence, with much suaaity of
manner and a dignified bearing, and it is generally
acknowledged by the civic authorities at Guildhall
that the office was never more worthily sustained
than by him within living memory. Mr Merewe-
ther had a large family, five of whom survive, his
eldest son being Mr Henry Merewether, Q.C., and
Recorder of Devizca. It is a remarkable circum-
stance that his death was preceded by a few hours
by that of his brother, the Rev. Francis Merewe-
ther, rector of Cole-orton, Leicestershire, at the ege
of 80.