The Sun.
London, England, 1853-01-19 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocx.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 American
were taken on speculation. The market closed
firmly, with prices of American over sid. per lb.-
1-16 d. to id. per lb. dearer. The sales comprised
5,000 American, 120 Pernam and Maranham, 100
Bahia, 100 Egyptian at 6d. to Bid., 300 Surat at
aid. to 4d., and 15 Sea Island. Railway Shares
were flat.

The accounts by Royal Mail steamer from the
Rad Indies are generally satisfactory upon the
subject of the weather and the crops, but every-
where there was a complaint of dullness of trade.
The island of St. Vincent suffered from another
cause, viz., the long absence of its Lieutenant-
Governor, and the cessation of business by the
Legislature, no supplies having been voted, and
the treasury being empty.

The expenditure of Jamaica was still a subject
of earnest consideration, and among the proposals
was one to establish direct taxation. The promo-
tion of free coloured immigration from the United
States was likewise in favour, and the Rev. Mr.
Garnet, just arrived from Canada, was likely to
give the movement an impulse. The advantages
are thus stated :

" Ist, By the promptitude with which it may be car-I1
tied into effect ; and 2dly, By the comparatively trifling
cost at which it may be carried on. It is the only one
by which a large addition may be made to the popula-
tion in a short period of time, and at a trifling expense.
Nor can it fail immediately to affect the value of lands,
and to increase that value. The short period of time in
which vessels will perform the voyage from any port in
the United States, will enable large numbers to come
almost at once, and to come at a comparatively trifling
cost. The preliminary measure necessary, and which
the Legislature might pass as soon as it re-assembles,
should authorise the formation of a board in this city,
to receive immigrants upon their arrival, and to advise
and assist them in locating themselves, and to appoint
an agent or agents in the United States."
In Dominica, the Governor was at issue with th
Assembly, the revenue being inadequate to defray
the salaries. It had been proposed to borrow
money to pay the salaries.
The accounts from the Isthmus of Panama state
that the weather was finer and that business was
improving. The splendid American steamer City
of Pittsburg had been destroyed by fire on her first
trip from New York to Panama. The Panama
Railway was progressing rapidly.
There was a larger supply of bills here yesterday
afternoon offered upon some of the Continental
cities, the desire now being to attract capital from
abroad in relief of the temporary pressure here.
Still, if the Bank of England were to abstain at
present from further action, there would be, pos-
sibly, a renewed decline ; since grain must be im-
ported, and the French capitalists will persevere,
while the pressure lasts at Paris, in sending over
securities, whether their own railway shares, or
Spanish stock. Silver is cheaper, the last sales
being made at 59d. for standard.
There is still great uncertainty respecting the
course which the directors of the Bank of England
will take at the weekly board meeting to-morrow.
The opinion of practical men, and bankers too,
has, in our hearing, been given pro and con. ,
Assuming that the bullion in the Bank was fur-
ther diminished last week, and that the return to
be published in next Friday's Gazette shows such to
be the case, there will be the question to consider
how much was drawn out purely by dividend
recipients, and what amount, therefore, will be re-
turned into general circulation. The arrivals of
the last few days have been considerable, and the
weather has improved, but the great drawback is
the continued panic on the Paris Bourse, and the
consequent exertions made to raise money here for
the purpose of arresting it. The mercantile com-
munity would feel relieved in a measure, were the
the Bank at once to make the minimum rate 3 per
cent., for that is, after all, a very low charge, if
profits are at all reasonable.

The English Stock Market closed well last even-
ing, Consols being 99ft and the tendency seemed
upwards, but this being " pay day " upon the ac-
count settled yesterday, a reaction has occurred,
and sales for money have been rather pressed, the
bankers still realising with a view of lending the
proceeds. The wet weather again may have some
influence as well as the doubt what the bank will
do to-morrow. The Government broker bought
Consols at 99g, soon after they had been 99 I.
The prices for the February account are 99-i ;
the New 3 per Cents. have been 103- to I- ; and
the 3 per Cents. 100,E to • Bank Stock is at
224, and India Stock at 271. Exchequer Bills are
; not lower, having been 625. to 645. premium.
The Foreign Securities have been all flatter.
Spanish 3 per Cents, have declined to 46i to 47,
and the Deferred to 221 to ; Mexican Bonds have
been steady at 23i ; Brazil 5 per Cent. Stock has
been at 1021, and since down to 101 i. Dutch 2i
per Cents. have been at 65i, a quarter per cent.
decline. The Turkish Loan is discount to
spiraenmi
Bumon.ds PareeruavitanllS9t,ock is
and
Awnsortthrianntiveßpuesr-
Cents. at 881 to 89, or about per cent. lower
than when last dealt in.

Railway Shares have been in favour of buyers,
and not much has been done. Caledonian, East-
ern Counties, Great Western, North. British, and
the York lines are all worse. Paris and Lyons
have dropped I, and Northern to 1.
The Australian Agricultural Shares have gone
back nearly 101. Banks are much the same.
Gold Mines are worse, especially the Colonial and
,the Australasian.

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

- Business cone.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities IC34 i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 34 per Cent. Annuities... ..... .. lo3# 4
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., Isree
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6 3-16
India Bonds, £lOOO —
• Ditto, under £lOOO 73
Consols for Account 10th February 994 i 4
Exchequer Bills lid. March. Juno.
£lOOO..
£5OO 63
Small —
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New Bonds, 1829 dz 39, 5 per Cent 1024
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian 6 per Cent.
Russian Bonds,Fs per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent 22 i
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun 4i
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852. * p
Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent.. B9 8-I
Dutch Exchange 24 per Cent 65
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates......... •

HALE-PAST TWO.
' Consols
Ditto February Account
At this moment the Mining market is looking up,

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)

CORN RXCHANGE.

We had a moderate supply of English wheat on offer
to-day, but its general quality was very inerior. The few
selected samples shown changed hands at full quotations;
but other kinds met a very dul inquiry, at barely lato
rates.

The imports of foreign wheat continue on a limited.
scale. For most kinds there was a fair consumptive de-
mand, and importers generally were firm in their de-
mands.

Floating cargoes were held at the extreme rates of last
week.

Malting barley sold readily, at fully the late 'improve-
ment in the quotations. Grinding and distilling carts
were steady. In the value of malt no change took place.
The supply of oats being very small, the. amount of
business doing in that article was very limited. Prices
Were well supported in every instance.
Beans, peas, and flour commanded very little attention
ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats.
3,190 I 3,770 f 5,010 2,080
200
3,260 r 11,830

English ..
Irish ....
Foreign

Flour.
3,270

3,780

WHITECHAPEL.
Generally speaking, the demand was in a sluggish state.
lPteef, 2s 4d to 3s 6d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; veal, 3s Od. to
4s 2d ; pork, 2s 6d to 4s per Sibs by the carcase.

BOROUGH HOP.
Our market continues firm for all new hops, and prices
are well supported.

FATAL SIIMMERBAULT.—Yesterday Mr. Baker held
an inquest at the London Hospital, on view of the
body of George Alexander Belgue, aged 20 years. The
deceased was potman at the Blade Bone public-house,
Church-street, Bethnal-green-road, and on Friday after-
noon last was amusing himself and other persons in the
skittle-ground by throwing summersaults from a table
on to a truss of straw which had been placed on the
ground. Deceased had performed three leaps success-
fully, and the fourth time, instead of alighting on his
feet, he fell upon the back of his neck. He became im-
mediately paralysed, and when raised up by his com-
panions he exclaimed, "I have broken my neck." De-
ceased was placed in a cart and conveyed to the hospital,
where he died on Saturday. He had been repeatedly
cautioned by his master against such dangerous prac-
tices, but he still continued them for the amusement of
customers. Mr. J. F. Stratfield, the house-surgeon,
said that the deceased was admitted with total loss of
power from severe injury to the spinal cord, which, at
the post-mortentpxammation, was found to be fractured
from external violence. The coroner having remarked
on the danger of such tricks, returned a verdict of '
"Accidental death,"