The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-28 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
There was no cotton market at Liverpool on
Saturday.
The wind having been contrary, and the Cam-
bria steamer not a new boat, the American mails
are not expected until Wednesday.
In the Stock Exchange this morning considerable
sensation has been produced by the report that the
Home Government will grant no more charters to
colonial banks or other undertakings, a determina-
tion that might have been anticipated after the
speech of the Duke of Newcastle, made a short
time since in Parliament. It is obvious that the
colonists will no longer be willing to allow
English corporations to amass large profits out
of their industry, unless an adequate induce-
ment is offered as regards a benefit to Aus-
tralia. The Legislative Council of New South
Wales has made such a strong report upon the
laws of banking, and so energetically protests
against banks having their head quarters in
England, and placing none of their resources
in the colony, that there seems to be no
longer any option left to tle Secretary
for the Colonies here but to postpone further
action in the matter pending a reference
to Australia. A local charter might then be
granted, " but it would probably be of a
much less liberal character than any given to
previous establishments. We will not affirm
that the Select Committee of the Legislative
Council is right in all the views it has taken, but
no doubt the large profits obtained upon gold buy-
ing have sensibly contributed to their decision.
The probability of a general and official inquiry
into the law of partnership here, and the expediency
of making alterations therein, will weigh with Go-
vernment in abstaining from any special grants,
even for companies having their seat of operations
at home.

'The English Funds have been very firm this
morning in the absence of any large dealings, many
parties being out of town for the holidays. Con-
sols have been done at par for money, and are now
99i For Account they leave been 99i to par.
The intelligence from Constantinople is of a nega-
tive character, but that Russia will gain influence
appears to be certain. Exchequer Bills of June
are 75., and those of March 6s. to 10s. premium.
East India Bonds are worth 40s. premium.
Foreign Stocks are generally very firm, although
not much dealt in. Equador bring 5k to 6; Mexi-
can have been up to 25i and 26 ; and Brazilian,
Old, are at 104. Russian Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. haVe been marked 1031 to , and the Five
per Cents. 1181. Spasish New Deferred Stock is
at 25 to k. The Turkish Loan is at 21 premium.
Sardinian Stock is firm at 97. Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. are at 66, and Danish Five per
Cents. at 105.

The railway meetings announced are the fol.
lowing :

Company. Date. Place.
Glasgow, Airdrie, & Monkl. Mar. 29, Glasgow.
Glasgow, Barrh., & Neilston Mar. 30, Glasgow.
Irish South-Eastern Mar. 30, Dublin.
Manch., Shelf., & Lincoln April 13, Manchester.
Redruth & Chasewater April 6, Queen-street-pl.,

U. Thames-st.
Shrewsbury & Chester Mar. 31, Chester.
South Yorkshire May 12, London Tavern.
Stirling & Dunfermline Mar. 29, Edinburgh.
West Flanders April 7, 61, Moorgate-st.

Ditto April 19, Bruges.
The railway " calls" for the month of April are
as follows

Date. Call.
Cork and Bandon, New Preference 9 ... £1 0 0
Dublin and Drogdeda, Preference 25/ 1 ... 5 0 0
*Great Western of Canada 2O ... 5 0 0
London, Tilbury, and Southend l3 ... 2 0 0
*Lyons and Mediterranean Ito 15 ... 2 0 0
*Namur and Liege, Preference ll ... 4 0 0
Newmarket, Bury Extension lB ... 010 0
Newport, A bergavenny, and Hereford l4 ... 110 0
*Quebec

West Cornwall 2O 1 0 0
Total £381,195.
* The amount called by foreign companies is 193,6201.,
but the holdings of English proprietors are not known.
Total called in 1853 £2,971,748.
The Railway Share Market is particularly inac-
tive, and prices are scarcely so high. Great North-
err have advanced, but Great Western, Lancashire
and Yorkshire and South Western are scarcely so
high. The French shares are duller, and rather
in favour of buyers also.
The Gold Mine Shares have been quiet, at steady
prices, and the Cordillera rather_ higher. The
LandPompanies are -much'the same.
'`The Joint- Stock Shares are 'Scarcely so good ;
and the 'London Bank of Anstralia mad India,
which has riot yet got 'its charter, is down to
discount to par.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(Frcra the Official List.)
Business don'

3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
India Bonds, £lOOO —
Ditto, under £lOOO 4O
Bank Stock for Account —
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, I.id. June. March.
£lOOO
£5OO —
Small 7 12 10
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Brazilian New Bonds, 1829 dg 39, 5 per Cent 9B
'Danish Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Equador Bonds 5l
Mexican 3 per Cent...... 26 51
Ditto Account March 31,
Portuguese 4 per Cent. 39 I
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ............
Ditto, 4A per cent ' 1034 9
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent 25 i 41
Ditto Passive (Converted) si
Turkish Loan,l6 per Cent., 1852
Venezuela Bonds 3i per Cent.
Dutch Exchange 2i per Cent 66
THREE O'CLOCK.
Console -
Ditto April Account 991 100

FIRE AT DEACON'S COITEE-BousE.—A fire that occa-
sioned considerable confusion broke out at a late hour
on Saturday night in the premises belonging to Mr.
Deacon, well known in the City as " Deacon's Coffee-
house and Hotel," situate at No. 3, Walbrook, immedi-
ately facing St. Stephen's Church. The flames originated
in the kitchen on the first floor, owing to a defect in the
hearth of the stove. The inmates, on finding that the
flooring had become ignited, endeavoured by all means
in their power to extinguish the fire, but after labouring
for nearly an hour they were compelled to send to Wat-
ling-street engine-station for the aid of the firemen ; and
in the course of a few minutes several firemen and two
engines attended, when, by ripping up the wood-work,
&c., the men were enabled to get at the exact seat of
the fire, which was happily extinguished in a very brief
period. The damage is thus returned by Mr. Braidwood,
the superintendent of the fire brigade :—" Flooring and
joists under the hearth burned ; stove and stones taken
up ; wood lining over the fireplace cut away in the kit-
chen on first floor, and the ceilings under damaged by
water." Mr. Deacon was insured in the Royal Insu-
rance Office.—Three other fires also took place during
Saturday, viz., in William-street, Islington ; Munster-
street, Regent's-park ; and Princes-street, Stepney ; but
the property destroyed at each was so trifling as not to
deserve lengthened reports.

SIR GEORGE RUSSELL CLERK'S MISSION TO THE CAPE.
—We copied on Thursday last, from an evening con-
temporary, a paragraph stating that Sit George Russell
Clerk, K.C.8., late Governor of Bombay, and a most
distinguished civil officer in the highest rank of Indian
administrative duties, is about to proceed to the Cape.
It is understood that the object of Sir George Clerk's
mission is the settlement of boundaries, and particularly
the boundary of the Orange River Sovereignty.
THE ROYAL NAVY.—On Saturday two general orders,
issued by the Board of Admiralty, and now in force, with
respect to the entry of volunteers from the mercantile
marine into her Majesty's ships of war, and with respect
to salvage, were printed in a Parliamentary papdr. The
first circular relates to the name of the ship from which
the men entered, with particulars as to the crew, and the
reason for leaving the merchant service. With respect
to salvage, all officers are to afford every possible assist-
ance to vessels in danger or distress, and no claims for
salvage to be raised unless really important services are
rendered. Efforts are•to be used to save property, &c.
THE SANITARY CONDITION OF PLYMOUTH.—In his
report to the Board of Health, Mr. Rawlinson, C.E.,
draws a dark picture of the sanitary condition of the
borough and town of Plymouth, comparing it to War-
saw, one of the worst cities on the continent. At a
meeting of the town council of Plymouth, on Wednes-
day, after a long speech from J. Collier Cookworthy,
Esq., M.D.., reviewing Mr. Rawlinson's report, and
pointing out various inaccuracies therein, the council
unanimously determined to oppose the application of the
Health of Towns Act to Plymouth, which is the re-
medy proposed by Mr. Rawlinson for the bad state of
things which his report reveals.
GREAT FIRE AT KNELLS, NEAR CARLISLE.—On Sa-
turday morning last, the extensive mansion of John
Dixon, Esq., of Knells, near Carlisle, was burnt to the
ground—the outside walls only being left standing. The
fire originated in the butler's pantry. About half-past
11 o'clock on the previous night he retired to rest, the
members of the family and servants having preceded
him. All then appeared to be safe. Between one and
two he heard an unusual noise, and supposed the house
was being broken into • but, to his great astonishment,
found fire raging upon oLli sides. He instantly gave the
alarm, when the inmates of the house escaped with
safety. The loss is variously estimated at 10,0001.
12,0001., and 14,0001.
MURDER OF A WIFE BY HER HUSBAND. —A tinker,
residing in Harrison's-lane,• Sunderland, was, on Tues-
day last, committed to Durham Gaol, to take his trial for
the wilful murder of his wife. She had been labouring
under chronic rheumatism for some time, and he bad
suffered her to lie in a small back room in the midst of
filth and vermin, with scarcely any food, while lie was
drinking and cohabiting with another woman, till she
died on Tuesday week, a day or two after she had been
removed to the workhouse. The coroner's jury returned
a verdict of wilful murder.