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London, England, 1853-04-09 00:00:00

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MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL
INTELLIGENCE-4=S DAY.)

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 7,000 bales, including 2,000 for export
and on speculation. The market closed tamely.
Railway shares were tolerably firm.
The process of the quarterly payments had com-
menced last week, as far as salaries are concerned,
sufficiently to affect the Bank of England returns.
The bullion, consequently, was slightly diminished
up to the 2d inst., and there was a reduction of
public deposits. The discounts and loans were
larger, from which it may be concluded that money
was still in demand. Compared with the previous
week, the changes are as follows :-..

£22,387,170
593,475
19,007,449
115,547
Rest
Increase
Public Deposits
Decrease
Other deposits
Increase 31,579
Seven-day and other Bills
Increase
Government securities
Other securities
of
fecreas 607,450
e 16,385,120
Bills
Increase 453,673
Notes unemployed 10,182,860
Exchange were taken yesterday after-
noon at rather lower rates in some instances upon
the chief Continental cities. Ninety days paper
The
en amendments Trieste, and
madel2o to
theon Frankfort.chaceuo
was negotiated at 25 25 to 30 on Paris, 11 181 to
19 on Amsterdam, 13
to 8 on Hamburgh, 11 5
toChancellor
of the
Exchequer in his proposals for a a • p al conversion
of the National Debt have formed the almost
partial
ex-
clusive topic of discussion in the City, and the con-
cession made to public opinion in regard to restrict-
ing the addition to the capital gives satisfaction ;
still there are few who do not consider that the
proposition to give 1101. of New Two-and-a-Half
per Cent. Stock would not be better omitted entirely,
since it is admitted that it could not with advan-
tage be carried far, and therefore, if success-
ful on a small scale, would not justify a
larger operation of the same class. Moreover,
there is every reason to believe that the conversion
into a New Three-and-a-Half per Cent Stock, and
into Exchequer Bonds, would be quite sufficient to
induce holders of the Threes to come forward if
they had no other alternative, whereas now the
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. will be preferred to the
Three-and-a-Half, and, except by bankers and
capitalists, even to Exchequer Bonds. We are
among those who think that either by lottery,
.drawing, or some other plan, some 50 or 100
millions of Three per Cent. Debt might be an-
nnually, or at least periodically, converted, admit-
ting all the difficulty resulting from the obligation
to give 12 months' notice, because if the Money
Market proved inauspicious, there would be no
occasion to act upon the authority which Parlia-
ment might give ; audit really seems parting with
an excellent future chance to bind the country,
for 40 years, to give a fixed rate. Ere then, Con-
sols may be 120 or 130, and the current rate of
interest only Ito 2 per cent. The inutility of re-
placing Exchequer Bills that circulate at 1i per
cent. for Bonds at 21 is likewise part of the sceme
much canvassed, and which, it is hoped, will be
modified. To replace Stock the Bonds would be
highly popular, and it is the general opinion that
50 millions sterling would find immediate takers.
The amount of the precious metals exported from
London direct during the week to Thursday last
was 20,0001., and 22,300 ounces of gold and
10,000 ounces of silver. Of the gold 20,0001. went
to Sydney. The rest was for the Continent.
The funds have been firmer, and there is a good
business doing. Consols have been quoted 1001 to
1001 for transfer, and 100-1 to 1 for account. The
New 31 per Cents. have realised 1031 1, and the 3
per Cents., 991 to par. Bank Stock has been
supported at 225. East India Bonds are 485., and
Exchequer Bills have sunk to par, in consequence
of the belief that the bonds will have a preference.
Foreign Stocks have been quiter. Portuguese
Four per Cents. bring 40i to 41. Mexican are 271
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Stock is supported.

Active circulation
Increase

Bullion

Decrease

Railwaighares are not much dealt in, but re-
main about the same. The French lines are dull.
Gold Mine Shares are rather weak.
The Land Companies' Shares have been sup-
ported.
The Australian Banks are heavy.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.
(From the Official List.) _

Business done.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99& "4 100
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
Yew 31 per Cent. Annuities.......... 1033 a
Lon-, Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6 13-1 G
India Bonds, £lOOO 4B
Ditto, under £lOOO 47 1
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, I:3d. Juno. March.
£lOOO
Far
R5OO —
Small 1 p par 2
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.

Bmzlian Bonds, 5 per Cent. - x d
Ditto 5 per Cent. (Rothchild's) lOO
Ditto New Bonds, 1829 & 39, 5 per Cent lO2.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 6O
Danish Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Mexican 3 per Cent
Ditto Account April 15, 2B 7i
Peruvian Deferred 3 per Cent 64
Portuguese 4 per Cent. —
Ditto for the Account 4l 40i
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup, not fun 8a ft p 0
Swedish Loan 1 d
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852 2 31 p
Belgian Bonds, 4i per Cent. Ex. 25fr 1.60
Dutch Exchange 2i per Cent 66
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 97 x d
TWO O'CLOCK.
looa i
1001 l

Consols
Ditto April Account

LLOYDS' SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, April 9.—Wind this day at Noon, N. to N.W.,
moderate breeze, and fine dry weather.
DEAL, April B.—Wind, N.E., squally. Arrived—Black-
friar, Sydney, N.S.W. ; Undaunted, Geelong ; Constan-
tinople, Mauritius ; Alevia, Callao; Regalia, Demerara ;
Trial, Barbadoes ; Sophie, Baltimore. Arrived from the
River—Candidate, for Barbadoes. Sailed—The whole of
the outward bound.

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COWES, April B. W. Ind, N. by W., squally. Arrived—
Julia, Callao ; Diamond, Rio Janeiro ; Hermann (s), Now
York, and left for Bremen.
LIVERPOOL, April B.—Wind, N.W. to N. Arrived—
Falcon, St. John's, N.B. ; Majestic, Bonny; Ann Bald-
win, Caldera ; Jamaica, Bahia ; Iris, Reo de la Hache ;
•
Dauntless, Apalacheeola ; Sterling, Savannah • ' Rocham-
beau, do. ; Mary Pleasants, Philadelphia Arctic, New
York ; Saratoga, do. ; Star of the South, N.B. ; Onward,
Halifax.

PLYMOUTH, April B.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Countess
of Morley, Cardiff, for New York. Sailed—Asia, Port
Philip ; Queen Victoria, Quebec ; Spermaceti, do.
FALMOUTH, April B.—Wind, N., fresh. Arrived—
Westmoreland, Bahia ; Garde National, Havannah.
SOUTHAMPTON, April B.—The Abebna (Brit. barque),
laden with cotton and corn for Liverpool, was on fire at
New Orleans, on the 19th March.
DARTMOUTH, April B.—Wind, N.W. Sailed—Calypso,
Quebec.
YARMOUTH.—Arrived—Leonidas, Sunderland for Cowes,
assisted in very leaky from contact with the Dispatch, of
London, and the Minerva (brig), of Sunderland. The
Courier, Seaham for Dunkirk, has been assisted in here
with damage from contact with the Eperior, Newcastle to
Brest, which has put in with loss of bowsprit.
TORBAY, April B.—Wind, N. Sailed—Lovely Nelly,
Demerara ; Elizabeth, St. Thomas ; Adventure, Ha-
vannah ; Transit, Laguna ; Duchesse Anna, Vera Cruz ;
Edward, New York.
SHIELDS, April B.—Sailed—Queen of the Ocean, St.
Thomas'.
SUNDERLAND, April B.—Sailed—Robert M`William,
Quebec.
BRISTOL, April B.—Arrived—Mona, Mauritius; Chaleo,
Africa.

DREADFUL OUTRAGE ON A FEMALE.—Yesterday after-
noon considerable excitement prevailed in the neighbour-
hood of the Broadway, Westminster, in consequence of
its being reported that a woman had been murdered in
Peter-street, by a man with whom she had lived as his
wife. From inquiries made on the spot, the reporter
ascertained that a married man named Cox, swell-sinker,
and resiiing in Ship-court, Horseferry-road, Westmin-
ster, was drinking in a public-house in Great Peter-street,
when a woman, named Weaver, living in Duck-lane,
Westminster, with wilt= Cox had been on terms of great
familiarity, came in, and after conversing some little
time, some angry words arose, and Cox told her to leave
the place. He came out, and the woman persisting in fol-
lowing him, was struck a violent blow, and knocked down,
n
Cox following up his violence by kicking her upon various
portions of her person. The cries of the unfortunate
woman caused some people to rush to her assistance, and
hherlo blows
assailant
herant awta that prevented ed
Thfroeminflictig any
further
woman,
however, con-
tinued to follow him up the street, and threw a stone at
him, which, however, missed Cox, but passed through a
spr
et
window in the shop-front of Mr. Richardson, a baker.
It appears that Cox then became very excited, and rush-
ing after the woman, some say he knocked her down,
and kicked her with all his might in the forehead, and
others, that he struck her only with his clenched fist, but
it is evident that the blow was a very severe fist,
but
the fact that it inflicted a wound on the forehead. A
constable then came up, and the man went away, and
the woman managed to reach the Rose and Thistle pub-
lic-house, which is a short distance down the street where
the outrage took place, where she fell down a corpse.
The police having been informed of the circumstance,
proceeded in search of Cox, and after some time succeeded
in apprehending him, and he was conveyed to the police-
station in Rochester-row, and the body of the unfortu-
nate woman was carried to the house where she had

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 9, 1853.