The Sun.
London, England, 1854-07-14 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at from 5,000 to 6,000 bales,
including 500 American taken for export. The
market closed tamely but steadily, with prices
of American 1-16 d. in favour of the buyer, and a
large supply. The sales comprised 4,500 American,
40 Pernam and Maranham at sid. to 6id., 300
Egyptian at 6d. to 11d., and 700 Surat at 3d to
3d. per lb. Railway Shares were firmer.
Colonial produce has, upon the whole, been ra-
ther firmer this week, with increased dealing in
some staples. Refined sugars have been more
wanted. Coffee has been rather duller. In tea
there has not been much done. Of rum fair pur-
chases have been made at the reduced quotations.
Saltpetre has declined Bd. to Is. per cwt. Rice
has sold to a moderate extent, and cotton has been
quiet. Tallow has been rather firm. The indigo
auctions are going off steadily. In spices there
has been very littl doing privately, and nothing
by public sale.
The public sales of colonial and foreign wool
commenced yesterday evening, and opened well,
some of the Australian samples going ls. higher.
Business in American State Stocks has this
week, according to the report of Messrs. D. Bell,
Son and Co., been done at the following rates :
Redeemable. Dividends. Per Cent.
United States 6 per Cont
Bonds 1863...Jan. and Ju1y...107i 108*
United States 6 per Cent
Inscribed Stock 1867-1868...
...1071 108*
Pennsylvania 5 per Cent. ...Feb. and Aug.... 79 81
5 per Cent
Bonds 1877...
Ohio 6 per Cent. Inscribed
Stock 1856... Jan. and July... 91
Massachusetts 5 per Cent
(Sterling Bonds) 1868... April and 0ct....101 103
Maryland 5 per Cent
(Sterling Bonds) ...Jan. and July... 92 93
Alabama 5 per Cent. 1863...MayandN0v.... 83 85
Virginia 5 per Cent
(Sterling Bonds) 1888... Jan. and July... 90 92
Virginia 6p. Cent. Bond s 1886... „ ... 92 94
Canada 6 per Cent. (Ster-
ling Bonds) 1876... „
LOANS OF CITIES.
New Orleans 6 per Cent
Bonds 1893... Jon. and July. 79 81
RAILROAD BONDS.
Great Western of. Illinois

... 823/4 833/4*

_lO6l 107.

10 per Cent. Ist Mort-
gage lB6B...April and 0ct.... 91 93
Pennsylvania Central R.
Rd. 6 per Cent. Mort-
gage Bonds ..lBBo...Jan.andJuly... 90 91
New York and Erie 7

per Cent. 2d Mort-
gage, Convertible 1859...Mar. and Sept... 90 91
New York and Erie 7 per
Cent. 3d Mortgage 1883...
New York and Erie 7 per
Cent. Convertible 1862...Jan. and July... 77 79

* Ex Dividend.

81 83

The estimate for the Post-office Department
Packet Service, for the year 1854-5, gives a grand
total of 812,8261. against 835,2121. the financial year
1853-4. The principal items are, 172,8401. for the
North American Mails, 240,000/. for the West
Indies, 162,8891. for the Overland Mail, 37,5001.
for the Bombay Line, 22,5001. for the West Coast
of Africa, 20,500/. for the Peninsular Mails, and
25,000. for the West Coast of America.
The English Stock Market has been very well
supported, but the extreme advance of yesterday
has not been realised, Consols having then, after
the official hours, been done at 92. There was a
prevalent rumour that the allies in the Baltic were
to be assisted by a Swedish army of 50,000 men, and
this, with the fineness of the weather, gave an im-
pulse to purchases, and rendered the Bears, who were
taking courage, very nervous again. It is said the
Bank of England has still a good deal of Stock to
call for, and should it require its delivery the
market may experience a further rise before the
settling day. The buyers yesterday afternoon
were of high standing, and usually possess the best
sources of information. A feature that should be
noted, as appearing to show that speculation for a
fall is much more circumscribed than it was, is the
evenness of the money and account prices. On
previous occasions recently we have seen money
stock considerably above the quotations for time,
but now the prices for transfer are 918 and
911 sellers for August. The highest rates this
morning haVe been 91 Z. The New 34- per Cents.
have been at 92 to g, and the Three per Cents.
at 911 to Exchequer-bills have been at ls. dis-
count to 2s. premium, and India Bonds at 4s.
premium. East India Stock has been done at 225.
The foreign market has been heavy, and the
only bargains recorded are in Mexican at 24*,
Sardinian at 86, and Spanish Deferred at 18k.
Portuguese Three per Cents. have been at 361,
Dutch Four-per Cents. are 901 k.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds 6 to 61, Mexi-
can 24 to 241., Peruvian 66 to 68, ditto 3 per
Cents. 50 to 52, Portuguese 4 per Cents. 39 to 41,
Russian 5 per Cents. 97 to 99, ditto 4 per Cents.
80 to 83, Spanish New Deferred 181 to 19, ditto
3 per Cents. 37 to 38, ditto Certificates 4 to 4i,
ditto Passive 34 to 41.
The Railway Share Market, which rose to
per cent. yesterday, after our report, has been
quieter, now the settlement of the account is got
through, and not quite so buoyant. The transac-
tions have been in Caledonian, North-Western,
South-Eastern, and York and Berwick.
The Mining Shares are dull, the Joint-stock
Banks firm but inactive, and the Crystal Palace up
again to par. The Australian Land Shares are
nominally the same as previously.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities Business done.
911
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
01gii
34 per Cent. Annuities ii
1
India Stock
225
India Bonds, £lOOO 4 p
Consols for Opening 19th July
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
£lOOO „.. 2 p
£5OO 1 d 2 p
Small 4 p
Exchequer Bonds, 1858
Ditto Scrip, 1859
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Ilexican 3 per Cent. ..... —.. .
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per .....
Ditto, 1848, 3 per Cent 361
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent B6
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. lB4
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 21 per Cent. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certifieates _
HALF-PAST TWO.
Consols 9ls i
Ditto August Account 9ll sellers

ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL.-(THIS DAY.

This morning the inquiry was resumed for the eighth
time, at the Sheriff's Court, Red Lion Square, before
Mr. Baker, the Coroner.

The Jury having assembled, Mr. Metcalfe, the bar-
rister, said he appeared upon the part of the Committee
of the Hospital. It was not their intention to intervene
between the public and the medical authorities of the
Hospital. They courted the fullest inquiry, but
at the same time he was instructed to lay before
the jury evidence to contradict the whole of the state-
ments of the house committee as to their agreeing to
a reference. They, the committee, had never been
consulted at all, and the first they knew of that part of
the matter was by seeing it in the newspapers. He also
was authorised to state that the whole of the statements
made by Mrs. Rosser were untrue. The nurse who had
been so charged was a woman of good character and
kindness, and ha should call her, and could also call
numerous witnesses to give testimony to her kindness.
Mr. Bodkin said he was glad that the house commit.
tee had taken such a step. _
_ _

Mr. Metcalfe then called Ann Faulkner, head-nurse
in the ward into which the child was taken upon the day
of the operation. She took the child into the operating
room about ten minutes to two, and brought it back
again into her ward, and sat by the fire with it. At the
time she took it into the operating-room first, Mr.
Makley and his two students were there ; she took the
child back again about half-past two, and then the ope-
ration took place. She did not tear the clothes off the
child ; it was prepared ten minutes before two. She
never dashed the child down, and called it a dirty little
wretch, and wished it dead, or said she would jump
down its throat. She was not accustomed to use such
language, and had given the child castor oil the day be-
fore, and it had operated. She had since left the hospi-
tal, and obtained a situation in St. George's Hospital as a
nurse, but had been dismissed in consequence of what
had been stated about her during these proceedings.
By Mr. Clarkson—The child's bowels were properly
opened, and the woman Rosser know that Mr. Cooke
and Dr. Scobell saw the child after the operation in the
ward, and Mr. Cooke came in at 12 that night to see
the child, and saw it again twice upon the next day,
Friday.
Cross-examined by Mr. Ballantine—l did not look at
the child as I cannot bear to see an operation per-
formed. I cannot say how long the child was under
operation. Ido not thin% it was more than one hour.
I have not said that it was a shocking operation, that it
made me sick, or that it was butchery and a murderous
operation.
Mary Rosser.—l was examined upon a former occa-
sion. I made a mistake about the doctors : they did not
go round and see the child morning and night. She
then repeated the charge she had made against the wo-
man Faulkner. I have seen Bridger the Beadle, and told
him I was sorry I had taken a false oath, and made a
mistake about the doctors, but I did not tell him that
what I said about the nurse was untrue.
Henry Bridger, Beadle of Bloomsbury, was sworn, and
said that the day after Rosser was examined she came to
him and said she was in a very bad state of mind at hav-
ing said what was untrue about the doctors and nurse.
She did not say that she had sworn falsely about the
nurse,