The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-10 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

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CITY, TV 0 o'CLOCK,
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 10,000 bales, including 1,500 American,
and 500 Surat, taken for export and on speculation.
The market closed firmly, with prices well main-
tained, and common qualities of Surats Id. per lb.
higher. The sales comprised 7,500 American, 350
Pernam and Maranham at 51d. to Bid., 700 Egyp-
tian at Md. to 81d., and 1,500 Surat at 31d. to
41d., per lb. Railway Shares were quiet, at lower

prices.
Colonial produce has been taken to a fair extent
this week, and at former prices. Sugar, however,
has rather tended downwards. Coffee has been
firm, and in spices there has been no alteration.
More has been done in tea, and rico has been in
better demand, at advanced rates. Cotton has
been heavy of sale ; saltpetre is held more firmly ;
cochineal has declined about id. per pound ; hemp
and flax have been rather iu increased request ; and
tallow has not been brisk, but maintains its value.
The condition of the London dried fruit trade is
thus described by Messrs. Witherby and Hanson :
"The market for currants has been since our October
report in an inactive state. The trade have confined
their purchases of the late arrivals at Liverpool, which
have latterly obtained here 80s. to 858., or ss. to 7s.
above the opening price at the port. This fruit is superior
in quality and condition to the bulk of 1853 crop, but
quite inferior to 1851 Cephalonias. The cargo per Tanti ry
is not equal to the Liverpool fruit, but is held at 80s. for
butts. For barrels and cases of the Liverpool fruit 90s.
is asked. 1851 fruit continues to be neglected. The
French decree prohibiting distillation from grain has
raised a hope of that country helping to relieve this mar-
ket of its low 1852 and 1853 fruit ; holders accordingly
are less inclined to realise at present, but no purchases
of any extent have yet been made. The continued ship- 12
ments to the northern ports of Europe have, however, N,
considerably reduced the stock of such description." 16
In the Liverpool circular of Messrs. Houghton St.
and Levy is the following respecting distillation 111
from currants : 20
"The stock of '5l is only very trifling, and, with the Sl,
limited supply of new, not at all adequate to a moderate t
consumption. The better description of other growths St.
will no doubt ere long come into notice, and as the French 20
Government has prohibited distillation from grain 34
strong hopes are entertained that the low qualities will st,
be taken for that purpose ; distillers there have already 50
given their attention to this, and a movement is in progress 40
to petition the Government for the import of currants and 25
raisins duty free, for such purposes—a facilitation which, 25
it is anticipated, they will obtain. The Economist of last St.
week makes a similar suggestion to the distillers of this Bst2s
country, or to be allowed to distil in bond under control, St.
and remarks that, if this is contemplated, steps should be 50
taken at once, before any measure be adopted in France 25
which would cause the low-priced fruits to pass to that 100
market. The duty•paid clearances have materially in-
creased, from 95 tons in September to 270 tons in Octo- 2r
ber ; the same month last year they were only 45 tons. 50
The exports also show a favourable result, being 130 20
tons, against 90 tons in September; in October, 1853, St.
they had almost ceased." 50
The foreign commercial advices are of a meagre st.
character this morning. The stock markets of the 16
Continent at the latest date were heavy, but money, 8
generally, is abundant. The Neapolitan Govern-
SS
ment has prolonged the right of free importation of 2i.
grain to June, 1855. 25
The English Funds have been very depressed got.
again, and the supply of money stock still 50
exceeds the demand. The decline at the 10
Paris Bourse undoubtedly has an injurious effect, 10
and the exaggerated apprehension about the dura-
tion of the Sebastopol siege is also working. Con-
sols have been 931,, to 941-, and are since 931 to 937
for transfer. The account prices have been 94i I,
and are now 931 to 94. The new 3 per Cents. have
been 92 to 93, and the Reduced 9*, to 931. In
Bank Stock nothing has been done. East India
Stock is 233 to 235. Exchequer Bills have been
6s. to Bs., and India Bonds 11s. to 14s. premium.
Business in the foreign market has been quite at
a stand-still, the only security dealt in being Turk-
ish Scrip, which has not recovered much, being 11
to 1 discount. The contractors have announced
that they will exchange the bonds just issued for
new ones properly signed by them.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds, 5!2 to G ; Mexi-
can, 22 to 22•,-; ; Peruvian, 68 to 70 ; ditto,
3 per Cents., 48 to 50 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents.,
40 to 42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto,
4i per Cents., 84 to 86 ; Spanish New Deferred,
18 to 18.1 ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 37i to 38 ; ditto,
Certificates, 5t to 5 ; ditto, Passive, 4,1, to 4/.
The Railway Share Market has been declining,
with more sales pressed. Great Northern, how-
ever, have been looking up. North Eastern, Cale-
don, North Western, and Lancashire and York-
shire are heavy. The Foreign lines have been a
shade lower, and with but few transactions.
The Colonial Mines are in some request, the
Banks, scarcely so good, and the Miscellaneous Com
panies, including Crystal Palace, lower.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(Prom the Oficial List.)
Business done
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities.... .........
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 948 34 41-4 3/
New 3 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 -16
Dittc 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 4 1-16
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan.,1860... 4 9-16
India. Stock
India Bonds, 13000
Ditto, under £lOOO l4
Consols for Account 14th NOT.
Exchequer Bills, 2id.
1000
Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK
Brazilian Bolds, 5 per Cent 99
rnrkish Scrip 6 per cent
bividendo on the above payable in London.
HALF-PAST TWO.
Consols
ditto November A cel'int

CORONER'S INQUEST.

yt
Admiral Parseval Deschenes, Commander-in-Chief of
the French squadron of the Baltic, has arrived in Paris.
He is in a short time to rejoin his squadron. The whelq
is now assembled at Cherburg.

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Mr. Wm. Carter, the coroner for East Surrey, has 100
been engaged for three days inquiring into the circum- 20
stances attending the death of Edwin. Roe, aged one 5
year, who died from the effects of arsenic. The inquiry
20
took place in the Royal George Tavern, Union-street,
Rotherhithe, and excited, at each sitting, considerable 4
interest. The following will be pund to be a brief sum- 20
mary of this important inquest : 29
Harriet Roe said that she was the wife of William 20
Roe, a hoop-shaver, and she lived in Wild's-court, Ja- 20
maica-level, Rotherhithe: The deceased was her son. 33i,
A person who came to her house gave him a halfpenny,
20 10
for the purpose of purchasing at a shop a cake.. Her
son George went out with her children and was absent 20
about five minutes, and on his return she saw 'a
cake in the deceased's hand. It was a flat cake, 1
covered with carraway seed, coloured blue, yellow, 20
and pink. She broke the cake, giving part to
the deceased and the remainder to another child
of hers, named William, aged three years. The
portion which she gave to the deceased he ate,
and the other child also ate what he bad. He had his 20
dinner that day, consisting of mutton, pudding, and
some potatoes. After partaking of the breast, witness 10.
20
made some sop for the child, which it refused to take. 4?)
The deceased continued to fret, and she put it in the 20
cradle, where it slept for nearly an hour and a half. 20.
Upon awaking it vomited. It went to sleep again 20
until about nine o'clock. She told her husband that 20
the child seemed convulsed, but he did not think 200
medical aid necessary. Between half-past ten and 5
eleven o'clock she retired to bed, keeping a candle 20
burning lest the infant should wake. At a quarter N
past twelve he got worse, and appeared sick at the
stomach, and he made an attempt to vomit, but could 20
throw nothing up. She then sent her husband for a gi
doctor. Oa his return Mr. Burns came, who saw the 10
child. She informed him what it had partaken of dining 20
the day, and that after eating the cake he was not out 206
of her presence. Mr. Burns sent some medicine by her
husband, consisting of a powder and mixture. The 20
powder was put into the mouth, and two teaspoonfuls of
the liquid in a few minutes afterwards. She then placed
some hot flannel to the stomach, and as she did so the
child straggled in her arms and expired. She could not
account for the death otherwise : it was altogether un-
expected.
George Roe said that he was 14 years of age. The
deceased was his brother. On Sunday week preceding
the present inquiry he carried him to the house of Mrs.
Banks, who keeps a little shop for the sale of cakes and 11
sweets, and other articles of provision. Mrs. Banks'
son served him with one. He asked for a seed-cake.
The top was coloured, and the seeds were blue, white,
yellow, and green. His mother gave the best portion to
his brother William, and the other part to the deceased,
in his presence.
The room having been cleared, the Jury consulted
and returned a verdict "That the deceased died from
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of criminality." 11