The Sun.
London, England, 1862-06-19 00:00:00

THE COTTON MARKET.

LIVERPOOL, TUNE 18.
The demand for cotton continues unabated, and
this day's business exceeds 15,000 bales-8,000 on.
speculation and for export. Prices id. per pound
higher than yesterday's rates.
The annexed figures show the gradual decline lii
the stock of cotton at Liverpool since the com-
mencement of the second quarter of the year:-
1862. 1861. 1860.
Bales. Bales.
Stock, April 4
429,730455950 898442:8361 991350a5544,00
)5 ~ 11
~ 18 389,530 874,330 .. 1,015,880
..
..
..
..
336978:267700 909502:67:00 1,027,290
May
9
~ 16 366,390 1,049,590 .. 1,111,260
~ 23 376,460 .. 1,111,610 .. 1,200,730
„ 30...••• 370,330 .. 1,151,010 .. 1,295,570
June 6 324,690 .. 1,148,650 .. 1,358,630
' „13 289,120 .. 1,131,080 .. 1,335,040
The quantity of cotton now on hand is therefore
less than one-fourth of the stock in store two years
since.

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9 1

CRIME IN FRANCE..--A murder and suicide have
just been committed at Mosnay (Indre). A forest keeper
named Poitrinaud had frequently occasion to complain of
the encroachments of a small farmer named Duds, who
frequently drove cattle on to the property under the keeper's
care. This had given rise to such a feeling of hatred on the
pas t of Duris that Poitrinaud had at length become alarmed,
and on the morning of the murder had expressed a fear that
Purls might do him some harm. Dulls concealed himself,
armed with a gun, behind a hedge by which ho knew Poi..
trinaud must pass. The latter arrived shortly after, and, on
passing before the spot where his enemy was concealed,
paused to light bis pipe, when Duris fired, and the ball
passed through his left cheek and brain. Thais then rushed
forward and battered the head of the lifeless body with the
barrel of his gun until it had bent in his land ; he then
used the butt end until it broke, and afterwards employed
his heavy wooden shoe for the same purpose. His rage 0"
not yet exhausted, as he set fire to the clothes of the nittr;t:
dered man, which burnt until the flame reached the keete„ii_
powder-flask, which exploded. Duris then picked 01:.d7he
trinaud's gun, and was about to fly, when
voice of a young man calling from a neighb:laiir:
ridngplacing
The murderer was then seized with a panic,
ed the trigger
the muzzle of the gun to his own heart, re_
P yssoitrintrud, whe
with his foot, killing himself on the spot.
#h of whom are in
flock
nofame of Mr.
was a widower, has left two children, 130 . .
he4wood.
a soldier, and was In
business. Duris had formerly bees
receipt of a pension of 200 f. a year'
~,0. Yesterde t
GREAT SALE OF SoUTSDOW--
PArYe- brhede
remainder of the renowned Babraham
Southdown sheep, which
deserved l h -'t
ce e ir y, was
Jonas Webb with such . . exposed to
,_r the joint direction of Mr. Straf-
fordpublic competition undo ~_..as.
There was
and Mr. J. Carter "u
almost all a Very
large
attendance of breedersfrom parts of England,
as
_ . b. maY be regardedas the of iOual home of the
Sussex, wave .Powerfully repree 4 , •
Southdown, being _ , 1:1 eel, while buyers
Ise present from France, liermany, Sweden,
were also Present
lots
disposed - •
, Spain,
and America.of ,omprused 148 rams and
289 ewes, and the former realised altogether £2,711 25.,
and the latter £2,209 65., making the total proceeds of the
day £5,720 Be. Last year, when the first port;on of the
flock was disposed of, 967 animals realised £10,096 63. 6d.,
so that this great flock, which is now scattered throughout
England,Europe,
has altogether produced to Mr. Webb the satisfactory suns
of £16,646 14s. Gd. The highest priced ram yesterday was
taken by Sir T. B. Laniard, but most of the ewes which
provoked any competition ' were purchased for exportation
to Spain and Germany, while a few lots were takeanr
_for
America. At the close of the sale, whitnredch In"' world, hearty
as an important event in the agrioul—
fanarlyor and
cheers were given for Mr. Webb and his
been' put to the
genial gene-
ralregret was expressed that a period has
a
have extended over
genial hospitalities of Babraham which
no loss than 36 consecutive Yew'