The Sun.
London, England, 1854-06-14 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON. WEDNESDAY EVEN ING, JUNE 14, 18544;

the male as the female ! These would be all
grounds for a more stringent and searching exa-
mination, and, perhaps, for limiting the power of
contracting alliance to the innocent party—but
they should not prove insuperable obstacles to the
injured wife's obtaining ample redress. On this
point, then, we trust the provisions of the mea-
sure may be modified, although we would not on
that account_ reject the instalment of justice ten-
dered for our acceptance.
The new tribunal, too, appears- of too compli-
cated a character. Although the expense and de-
lays attendant on a suit therein might not be so
great as on a bill in Parliament, they would still
be so great as to prohibit the less wealthy classes,
the STEPHEN BLACKPOOLS, and persons of his de-
scription, from obtaining redress. Men with
201., or 1001., aye, or 5001., would not face the
costs of such a suit ; and yet it is for such persons
that the bill is or ought to be framed. The
wealthy do not mind the saving of a few hundred
poinds. Those who could apply to the proposed
tribunal could also bring forward a private Act of
Parliament. We fear, therefore, that the pre-
sent bill does not g) far enough to be effectual,
and that, therefore, it is not calculated to remove
the blot which has so long disfigured the national
escutcheon.

MON E Y MA RKE

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 5,000 bales. The market was heavy
and prices in favour of buyers. The sales com-
prised 3,500 Americans 100 Pernam and Maranham
at 61d. to 60.; 100 Egyptian at 6d. to 71d. ;
300 Surat at 3d. to 4d., and 30 Sea Island at
is. to Is. 2d. per lb. Railway Shares were steady.
The Angiesea, arrived from New South Wales,
brings accounts of March 6th. She has on board
4,262 ounces of gold. There has been a report
that the Steboneath, from Melbourne, was supposed
to be off the coast, but this is probably incorrect.
She would bring 12,108 ounces of gold. The Ster-
]ingshire, from Launceston, is believed to be in
the Channel. There are many items descriptive
of the progress of the Colonies scattered
through the advices received yesterday and to-day
by the various sailing ships that are dropping in.
It would appear from these that the production
gold is good, but that the imports are so large as to
occasion a very great demand for money, to be re-
mitted in payment to Europe, and it is stated that
gold had been sold as high as 41. per ounce. This
is a rate that could leave no profit, but rather the
reverse, and only shows that there was not a choice
as to the means of discharging liabilities in this
country. The various Banks in New South Wales
had large deposits up to the close of last year, and
in the last quarter of 1353 there was an increase of
nearly 4 per cent., compared with the previous
quarter, as regards the Banks of New South Wales.
The discounts at the end of last year ex-
ceeded 3,000,0001., and the assets were more
than 7,600,0001., the liabilities being 6,500,0001.
There was a balance of working capital of about a
million. The coin and bullion in hand was much
beyond what was considered requisite to conduct
the trade of the colony, the estimated sum that
ought to be held by the banks being about two
millions, whereas they had in hand 3,630,000/.
In tlie Sydney journals it is stated that the pre-
liminary arrangement for opening the new settle-
ment at Port Curtis have been accomplished.
Captain M. O'Connell had sailed with a well ap-
pointed staff of working pioneers, and the Governor
and suite had followed in H. M. S. Calliope. Well
organised, settlements on the northern coast would
overcome all the difficulties of overland communi-
cation, and bring Sydney within 50 days of Lon-
don. The account before us then states :

"With respect to the opening of Port Curtis, we
may observe that the first operation to which Captain
O'Connell has been instruct& to direct his best attention
is the opening up of every available means of internal
coininunication. He is to commence by constructing
road from the township of Gladstone to that of Gayndrth,
the most northerly of the present established post towns ;
and which is distant from Brisbane22l miles, from Mary-
borough (Wide Bay) 65 miles ; and from Gladstone (Port
Curtis) about 100 mites. It is expected, from the prac-
ticable features of the country between Gayndah and
Gladstone, that a good bush road will be opened in three
months, and that thus postal communications with every
part of the colony will be at the command of the settlers.
Whether as regards the pastoral, mercantile, or maritime
interests of the colony, the opening of this settlement offers
a most promising subject of consideration. The result of
the first sales of the lands already surveyed in the town-
ship of Gladstone and Pounty of Clinton, give evidence as to
the great interest with which the new settlement is
viewed. For 21 town allotments, the upset price of
which was 201. per acre, 3181. per acre was given. For
215 acres of suburban lots, whose upset price was from
21. to 21. 10s. per acre, 91. was obtained.
" We are informed that the survey of the other pro-
claimed counties is advancing with all possible despatch,
and that building and other operations requisite for the
opening of public offices, stores, wharves, &c., promise
to be carried out with activity."

The South. Australian Copper Mining Company
have received information of the discovery of a very
large, and as is reported very valuable, silver
gossan lode, in the southern part of their property
at Strathalbyn. If the discovery be of anything
I;ke the asserted importance, no long time can
elapse before it will be tested.

The rates for bills of exchange upon the Conti-
nental cities were generally weaker yesterday after-
noon—Paris, 90 days being taken at 25 25 to 27k,
Amsterdam at 11 17 to 17i, Hamburg 13 6 to 61,
and Trieste 13 20 to 24, the last named being
firmer.

Silver dollars are still in demand. Bar silvery is
at ss. 11d.
Thera has been a very dull market again fo
ii?ub'ic Securities, but the quotations are rather
tending upwards. Consols have been 91 to 911,
and are now 91k The Reduced 3 per Cents.
have been at 91)g 1, and since at 91s Bank
Stock is steady at 206. Exchequer Bills are at par
to 4q. premium. The Exchequer Bonds Scrip is
up toll- and premium. The speculative transac-
tions have been as limited as for some days past.
The Foreign Market has been nominally without
alteration. Russian 5 per Cents. have been quiet
at 9970 and Dutch 4 per Cents. at 892 T. Vene-
zuela Stock is worth 241, and Equador 3)2. There
have been no bargains in Spanish or Mexican.
For Rail way Shares the market has acquired
more firmness, responding to the better tone of the
funds. London and North-Western, York and
Berwick, and Eastern Counties have been princi-
pally dealt in. This is "making up" day, and
scarcely any other business has been transacted.
The account will be of a light character. The Na-
mur and Liege shares have advanced IL The
other foreign lines are neglected.
All the Mining Shares are heavy, the Joint Stock
Banks are merely nominal, and the Land Com-
panies quiet. The Crystal Palace do not improve.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DLY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

( From the Oticial List. )

nuqlness done.
:In.nk Stock
ce.l Au.1,;„:(3,
ror Cent. Red - - 914
3 par C,37.1C Cuas&s A',lnil;;;es, . shu
New 1., pe • Con;;. Ar
India O?f7R, 000 .......
.....
4 p
DnAo u-rler 11000 4
Consols for Or;3ning 1.91 Ca July
Exo,oo.icr
2500 ................
Small
Ezeheque: Bonds
p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Equador Bonds
tz.U,Srtiau floods, 1822, 5 per Cent.
Venezuela Bonds, 3i per Cent. 244
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2 'ler Cent. 12 Gull
4 per Cedc. Uertifieatcs ....„
HA LP-PAST Two.
Consols for Opening 19th July ......... 91i

SUICIDE IN THE SURREY TELEATRE.—Yesterday Mr.
William Payne, the coroner of London and Southwark,
held an inquest in the board room of St George's work-
house, Mint-street, Southwark, on the body of Mr.
George Percy, aged 45, the property master, at the
Royal Surrey Theatre. George Williams said that he
was employed at the Surrey Theatre, and was assistant
to the deceased. On Moze.ay morning last, at a guar-
tern past nine o'clock, he saw the deceased in the theatre
paint'ng. He then told witness to light the fires, which
he d'd. After that was done he sent him to fetch some
things that were wanted as properties to be used in the
performances of the evening. Witness went and pro-
cured them, and returned in about ten minutes or a quar-
ter of an hour, when, on entering the property room,
he passed him without see!ng him. He turned round
to :ook alter Wm, when he sound him hanging by means
of a piece of rope, which was fastened to the gas pipe.
Witness ran down stairs .:rd gave the alarm to the hall
keepee, who attended with others, and the deceased was
cut down. Mr. Donoghue and Mr. Watson, two sur-
geons, prompt'y a,tended and tried to restore suspended
animation, but without success. Witness knew that de-
ceased was under notice to leave his situation, and that
he was depressed in mind owing to some reflection
which had been cast on him as he believed unjustly.
The wile of the deceased said her husband had been
overdriven with his work. She was sure he was out of
his mind when he committed the act, for he was a very
good man. Mr. Shepherd, lessee of the theatre, at-
tended, and spoke well of the deceased : he himself had
underlet the theatre, and knew nothing of the cause of
the suicide. The jury returned a verdict of temporary
insanity.
SELF-ACCUSATION OF A MURDERER.—On Tue-day a
man named Hugh Marks delivered himself up to Police-
Inspector Cehil', of Manchester, accusing himself with
having, whilst engaged a turn-out at Liverpool a
year and a ha'f ago, ceuscel the death of a person named
Bruce, in the Trafalgar Decks. He states that at the
clod of Noveinbee, 1852, he was employed by the Glas-
gow Steam Company at Liverpool, where there was a
tarn-out oe the Clarence-dock porters, and during the
tura-out he and other peraoas belonging to the porters'
society went on board a Wexford boat lying in the Tra-
falgar-docks, where they found several men at work.
One of these men, Mark says, he pushed into the hold,
where be received such serious injuries from the fall
that he was taken to the Northern Hospital, and that
lie died these of those injuries. The police at Man-
chester had no information of such a crime having been
committed, but they have detained Marks whilst the
proper inquiries are instituted in Liverpool as to the
probable truth of the accusation.

LA'M'EST FORE UN NEWS.

THE WAR.
RESULT OF THE CONFERENCE AT
TESCHEN.

A telegraphic despatch from Vienna confirms
in substance the one published yesterday as to the
satisfactory nature of the late conference between
the Emperor of Austria and the King of Prussia.
It says it was perfectly cons;stent with the avowed
policy. No diplomatic note resulted therefrom ;
no pen was put to paper.
The policy of the minor German States formed
the chief object of discussion.
It also repeats the rumour that Colonel Man-
teuffel will proceed shortly to St. Petersburg with
a Prussian note, supporting the recent Austrian
note.