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

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MOVE Y 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 is'
animate at previous rates. The sales comprised 6,000
American, 1,000 Pernam and Maranham, chiefly at aid.,
350 Egyptian at aid. to 6:1d., 500 Surat at 21d. to 311,
and 80 Sea Island at is. 2d. to Is. 9id. 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 Messrs.
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 them have arisen in the way of deliveries,
from the heavy contracts entered into in December'
Neither manufacturers nor spinners are so well suppledi.
with orders as they were then; still there are man)? °
them fully and positively engaged for a month hence,
and even two. Prices are now generally about wbst
they were a month ago—excepting 7.Bths and 0-8 t"
printing cloths which, in many descriptions, are lid. to
3d. per piece higher. The actual scarcity of such eie
those to which we refer—and which many of our friend`
will recognize— is almost without a parallel.
" Though we see it stated in some quarters that the.
country trade is healthy and active, a smaller portion of
truth, we believe, was scarcely ever embraced. Our in'
formation is carefully procured from parties who era
most competent to form an opinion ; and the result ne"
gativeta aed falsifies the statements referred to. I,°s"'
we beitieve, was scarcely ever found to be doing at due
season of the year. There is, however, nothing
.mate-
rially important in such an inactive state. The Beaso..
at the general expectation that cotton goods reBY be
lower, together with the facilities afforded by rellsl"'
traveling—so very different to what they used to be---
and at a much lessen cxense to—aturaly iduct°
more frequent visits to thisp market,o andn to create inn the,
minds a the retail dealers a desire to economise, and
render more productive their capital, by holding
smaller
and better assorted stocks. We believe that in the
hands of all such, stocks are unusually small."
The steamer with the American mail has arrived.
She beings very little specie, but the rate of exchangs
continues high, being 10i.
The postage of letters to Norway during the period
when they have to be conveyed via Denmark and Swe-
den is a-educed to Is. ad. per half ounce.
The Dutch Government has introduced modifications
into the law imposing an income-tax of three per cent.
on floating capital or money embarked in some branch of
industry. In the Amsterdam Stock Market on the 31st
instant„ Dutch Bonds were well supported. Spanish and
Mexiccen were dearer. In Portuguese and Russian there
was no change. The First Chamber of the States Go'
neral is to meet on the 18th of February.
The ,ebundance of money is putting the bankers on
their " ixtettle" to extract a fair profit out of the ample
funds sit their eommand, and the London and West'
minater ;has found it expedient to lower its allowance
upon de posits from 2to l per cent. It reflects moon
credit oil the management that such excellent dividends
should lie paid to the proprietory, such liberality shown
to the olliaers, and interest be given besides to the de-
positors. The large amount of gold brought in is likely:
we conceive, to occasion still more l°5:011,..„
venience, yet. The Bank of England le Imo
tainly not anxious to receive it, and Yet
to
no alteamative. All the precious metal taken
them is scrupulously assayed, and there is every probe'
w hen it gets into the Bank vaults of its remaining
there for• some time, as even the foreign loans are moatif
taken in the respective countries where they have 091
credit, and those states which are known to be seriouol9:
embarrassed need not come here. One circumstance
would take away our gold coin, viz., the want of it in
Australia; but even then we should receive in bollion
pound for pound. When a mint is established at SYd-
neYs which Government is said to contemplate, ther°
will be no further occasion for the risk of shipment.
A further dividend of 2s. 6d. in the pound has been
paid under Messrs. Rucher's estate.
The English Stock Market has been very quiet, ana,
prices are rather flat. Consols have been 96i to i
Money and Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. have been 984 to and the Three per
Cents. 97 to h. East India Stock is worth 261. Ex,
chequer-bills have been 58s. to 515.,_ and India Bon
70s. to 735. premium. South Sea Stock is at 1071.
The foreign news is not of importance.
The Foreign Bonds have not been active, with one °r
,_
two exceptions. Grenada have further advanced to 5I
and 6k, and it is said that] the movement is based IIP°1;
arrangements connected with the Canal. Mexican Bel%
have been also at a rise to 32 and 32k. Equador BO",
have been at 4; Sardinian Stock is at 88 to ; French
Five per Gents. are 102, with the exchange at 25 30
Dutch Four per Cents. are 90i to i; and Belgian Four:
and-a-Halt per Cents. 91a to ; Spanish Three per
Cents. are .10i to 4 ; the New Deferred 171 to 18; 101"
the Five per Cents. 23/ to 1.
Railway Shares have been rather more buoyant,
Gold
though the dealings are by no means extensive.vree to.
-I
Mine Shares are steady. Anglo-Californian are
premium, and Agua Fria 24 to I premium. Australian
are quiet.

ONE
O'CLOCK.

PRICES OF BRITIsII FUNDS
Ban§ Stock
3 per Cent Reduced Anne. 97 %
3 per Cent. Consola Azmuit his.. 96* 4
NOW 314 per Cent. Anne... ..
Long Arlxis. to expirA Jarl. 1860
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 63/4
India Stc,ek
India Box.ds, 1,0001. 7O 73 p
SouDtihit:slS:oo(ye,:l:iin:Sdteorckl,"l".. .
pP
Consols fDr Account ........
R' xchequt T Dills. ...... ~ 96A IA
NO.
....................
Small. .. ... ....... . ..... -•• 58 61 p
58 61 p

CLOSING'
PRICES
217
97
96%
9814
7
261
73 p
73 p
107
964

61 P
61 p
61 P
CLosiNd
NM Es.
4

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUND 4 O'COLNOECK.
Equador Bonds ..... . .1.) ..... e.ea' 4
(.I,,ripe.n.;;;Dß,eofnedsrre,dl
......
111):
.. _53A 6 5
6A. 77,
Do. Ex Dec., 1849 Co
lz 65L'i
Portuguese ' 'b jLit:i 'Account
'C":e. no. es Jan..
..
. . ;-11/4
3214
Ditto, 4 per Cent.
3174
B Accountonds, 5 —
Sardinian p it°'• ••••.• ---
31% ex d.
. ...
per Cent.
Spanin b. a pOT Cent. 1840 —
Ditto, Passive — 51
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Ditto, New Deferred 1738 18 18
Spanish Com. Cert. Coup. not funded —1% per cent.
Venezuela Bonds, 3,A per Cent — 35
Ditto Deferred
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Renter, 5 per Cent ... ... 102 f. 102 f.
Exchange
Belgian, 4.7 i per Cent:
58
Dutchpitta24lApepre,%Cnetn. t4.1,11r2t i
tGi
vu.itlHd: ....:
9-01/814
9014

On Satturday evening Sir James Duke entertained
at dinner, at his town residence in Portland-place, the men"
hors of th Common Council of the ward of Farringdon
Withoit, .of which the worthy Baronet is the alderman,
and also soveral influential gentlemen connected with the
ward.

REVISION OF EPISCOPAL INCOMES.—If the Bishops
will, to morrow night, instead of luxuriously reclining 00
their own benches in the House of Lords, only step into the
House of C ommons, they will hear of something, not to their
advantage, but greatly to the advantage of the country,
"
especially of poor curates. They will hear Sir Benjamin Hall
give notice of a motion for a Committee of the House to i"
quire into episcopal incomes, with a view to their revision--
than which it would not be possible to name a reform more
urgently needed.— Advertiser.

DETER. MINED SUICIDE.—On Saturday afternoon a
most determined act of self destruction was committed by,l
young man named George Ridley, a private in the Ist Regi-
ment of Grenadier Guards, stationed at the Wellington
Barracks, Saint James's-park. The deceased, who was
single, was about thirty-one years of age, and had hated,'
been drinking freely, for which he was reproved. In tha
morning he was with the other soldiers at roll call and an-
swered to his name, when ,he appeared in his usual health
and spirits. About half-past seven o'clock a loud report of
fire-arms issuing from the barrack-room, several soldiers
hastened thither, and discovered deceased lying at full
length on his back on the floor, his head, which was literal!,
shattered to atoms, embedded in a pool of blood, and his
musket, which had been recently discharged, by his side, a,
long piece of string fastened to the trigger with a noose at
t
its other end. Mr. Nichol, surgeon of the corps, was proMP
in attendance, who pronounced life to be extinct and that
death must have been instantaneous. No doubt deceased,
while in a standing position, had placed the gun, which was
loaded with ball, between his legs, and passing the poor
mentioned over one of his feet, the muzzle being in his
mouth, he thus pulled the trigger and discharged the con-
tents into his brain. The ball had gone through the skull
horizontally, grazed the ceiling, and then fell on the lictor,
where it was Wand.