The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-15 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, July 15.—Wind this day at NOM, S.W. ; light
breeze, and cloudy, with rain at times.—The India Mail
has arrived at Marseilles, and will be delivered in London
on Monday.
COWES, July 14.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Emma Lin-
coln, Matanzas; Mary Glover, Now Orleans.
DEAL, July 14.—Wind, S.W. by W., fresh. Arrived
—James Gibb, Callao, for Antwerp.
FALMOUTH, July 14.—Wind, N.N.E. Arrived—Con-
stance, Pernambuco ;_ Josefa, Havannah.
SOUTHAMPTON, July 14.—Wind, S.W. Arrived— Bos-
phorus, (s), Cape of Good Hope.
PLYMOUTH, July 14.—Wind, W. Arrived—Queen
Victoria, Quebec. Sailed—Charles Brook, St. Vincent.
PORTSMOUTH, July 14.—The Factor, Weymouth to
London, is on shore on the Sand Head.
QUEENSTOWN, July 13.—Wind, S.E. Arrived—Ma-
r'ner, Maceio ; Ranger, Bahia • Juliana, Porto Rico ;
Wm:Tucker, Cienfuegos; Pastorita, Havannah ; Florence,
St. John's, N.B. Off Por:i—Swithamley, Havannah, and
proceeded.

NEWPORT, July 14.—Wind, N.N.E.
St. Thomas ; Old England, New York.
SWANSEA, July 14.—Wind, E.N.E. Arrived—Wm.
Gales, St. Jago de Cuba.
LOWESTOFFE, July 14.—The Boyne, of and for Arundel,
from Sunderland, has been got off Corton Sands leaky.
—lt is blowing a heavy gale from the S.W., and a fleet of
loaded velsels have put back to the N. Roads.
MlLFORD.—Arrived—Maria, Quebec; Robertson, Ha-
vannah.

FLEETWOOD, July 14.—Wind, N. Arrived—Alphine,
Nova Scotia.

BELFAST, July 13.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Emmanuel,
Quebec. Sailed—Britannia, Quebec.
HULL, July 14.—Wind, N.E. Arrived—Meteor St.
John's, N.B. ,

THE ORDNANCE SURVEY STAFF are at present engaged
making minute and elaborate surveys of Chobham for
future military purposes. The survey embraces 200
square acres.
MR. BUCKSTONE'S BENEFIT.—This annual event, which
is on the present occasion more than usually interesting,
takes place this evening—the last of the season—when
we anticipate a bumper audience, full of enthusiasm and
good wishes for the future prosperous career of the ex-
cellent and able manager. The performances announced
are Mr. Sterling Coyne's comedy of Presented at Court,
after which, and for the last time, will be enacted Mr.
Buckstone's Ascent of Mount Parnassus. The manager
will address the audience as to his future intentions,
and the comic drama of The Rough Diamond will close
the performance, and, for the present, the theatre.
THE REPRESENTATION OF THE CITY. —TIIO Jewish
Chronicle says—" Arrangements are in progress for
shortly commencing an energetic agitatiow for the pur-
pose of enabling Baron Rothschild to take his seat in
the House of Commons, to which he has been thrice
elected by the citizens of London. We hear that, once
commenced, the movement will not rest until this im-
portant object is fully attained."
LAMBETH BATHS AND WASHHOUSES.—The first an-
nual general meetinr, of the proprietors in this company
was held yesterday afternoon at the Board-room, West-
minster-road, for the purpose of receiving the report and
statement. of accounts ; Mr. Taylor in the chair. Mr.
G. A. Cape, jun., read the report, which observed that
the directors had much pleasure in stating that the
works are so far completed that they have been enabled
to open first and second class swimming baths, although
in an unfinished state. During the first week the baths

were opened 7,609 persons bathed, and the cash re-
ceived was 851. 18s. 8(1. The entire estabEshment for
bathers, it is hoped, will be completed in the course of next
month, and the directors, in concluding the:report, state
that a further call of 11. 10a. will be mach: in August
next. The balance sheet showed the receipts from the
first call to amount to 2,6661. 10s., and t.. 1 ie company
has now a balance in hand of 1,1921. ss. 9d. Mr. F.
Maudslay moved, and Mr. Barton seconded, the adop-
tion of the report, which, upon being put to the meeting,
was carried ?tem. con. The chairman stated that the

success which had attended the first week ibf their op::rations had been surpassed in the second, and the results
had greatly exceeded their most sanguine e):pectationa.
The baths will, when complete, accommod ate 10,000
persons per day, and in addition there are to be 55 pri-
vate baths, with washhouses and an infant school at-
tached. The meeting, after transacting some routine
business, separated.
TELEGRAPHIC DISCOVERY.—The Cologne Gazette
affirms that the Telegraph director Gintl has die covered
a means of making one telegraphic wire convey two
messages in opposite directions at the same time.
THE VINEGAR TRADE.—Messrs. Hill and Underwood,
of Norwich, the extensive vinegar distillers, lin: ye just
issued their trade circular, from which we glean that an
enormous increase has taken place in the denyg.wd fur
vinegar made from malt by the patent process there
pursued. The circular does not allude to the effect Fro-
duce(' by the failure in the grape districts, nor attlyibute
the great favour iu which this malt vinegar is not v held
to any particular cause, but it should be borne in mind
that the Lancet, while drawing attention to the vi negars
of Europe, and their adulterations, placed the vine egar of
Messrs. Hill and Underwood in the most hone .urable
position among those exempt from sophistication - a fact
in itself sufficient to account for increased publi; zppre-
ciation.

MONEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL
INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 7,000 bales, of which 1,500 Ame-
rican were taken for export. The market was
very firm at previous rates. The sales comprised
5,000 American, 100 Pernam and Maranham, at
6/d. to 71d. ; 250 Bahia, at 61d. to 6id. ; 500
Egyptian at 61d. to 10d. ; and 1,000 Surat, at 31d.
to 41d. per lb. Railway Shares were dull and in-
active, at lower prices.
The Produce Markets have been steady, and ex-
porters have made a few purchases. There is,
however, scarcely any speculation in progress. The
supplies generally are moderate, and prices have
ruled steady. Tea has been dull in the absence of
any later intelligence from China. Rather more
has been done iu coffee. Sugar has been at full
rates for West India, and East India is held firmly,
although not in much demand. For hemp and flax
there has been a good inquiry. Cotton has been
rather dull. Surat at 38 to 41 per lb. The
Indigo auctions are progressing rather better.
The public sales of wool have commenced, and
of colonial alone there will be over 60,000
bales put up. Foreign samples also will be
offered. The attendance of buyers is good,
but owing to the large quantity and the state of
the Eastern question, prices rule lower, the reduc-
tion, compared with the May sales, being id. to ld.
per lb.
The Overland. Mail arrived at Marseiles at seven
o'clock this morning, and the letters will be de-
livered here on Monday next.
The Committee of the House of Commons now
investigating the subject of the decimal coinage,
has closed its examination of witnesses, and there
appears to be a strong impression that the result
will be a recommendation favourable to the
changes proposed. Supposing 25 farthings to be
henceforth comprised in the 6d., it is contended by
some parties that there will be an inconvenience
because 6d. and 12d. are the only fractions which
can be confined within the limit of 3 places of
decimals, 3d. and 9d. requiring 4 places; 11d., 41d.,
711, and 10kd., requiring 5 places; id., 21d., 311,
Bkd., 91d., and 111 d., being inexpres-
sible strictly in less than six decimal places. A
correspondent, therefore, urges that—
" Disposing thus of sixteen out of the forty-eight
fractions of a shilling, we then find that no number of
figures whatever can represent precisely in decimals the
remaining 32 fractions required for the expression of
id., id., id., lid., 2d., 24d., 2id., 31d., 31d., 4d.,
44d., 4d., 5d., 51d., 54d., 64d., 61-d., 7d., 74d. 7id.,
Bd., 80., 81d., 94d., 91d., 10d., 102 d.,
and Hid."
The practical way of dealing with these thirty-
two incommensurable quantities, is to take a suffi-
cient number of places of decimals—three, ten,
twenty, or more, according to the magnitudes in-
volved in the computation, whereby we attain an
approximate truth, "as near as you please," ac-
cording to Professor de Morgan ; but " the abso-
lute answer cannot be obtained without resorting
to the use of vulgar fractions, from which the new
decimal system is intended to release us."
The English Stock Market which assumed a
much more buoyant tone yesterday afternoon, has
preserved the same to day, owing to the renewed
assurances by Lord John Russell, last evening,
as to the pending negociations for peace, in
which the German powers acquiesce, and the
news from the Continent appears like Wise
to be favourably interpreted. There is not
a large business doing in Consols, either real
or speculative, and the approach of settling day
regulates most of the transactions. For transfer
the quotations have been 97:k to 98k, and for
August 98 to a. Exchequer Bills remain at ls.
discount to par. The New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. have been 101 to , and the Three per
Cents. 98g to g. Bank Stock has been firmer at
229. South Sea Stock has realised 114 i to 116.
Foreign securities have been in some cases rather
better, and the settlement of the account has been
the principal cause of this. Portuguese 4 per cents.
are 41 to 1, an improvement of Ito a. Mexican
have rallied to 26k and 27k. Brazilian 5 per
cents. have been at 101. Russian 42 per eents.
have been done at 1001 and 1001. Danish Stock is
worth 107. Sardinian Bonds have been marked
941. Spanish Securities are still rather heavy, the
Three per Cents. at 46g. to the Deferred at 24.
The Railway Share Market has been inactive,
and the payment of differences upon the account
has occupied chief attention. There has been a
rise and a decline subsequently in Caledonian.
Shares, an improvement in Brighton, North-
Western, Oxford and Wolverhampton, and Great
Western. French Shares have advanced about
to I.
The Gold Mine Shares are merely nominal, and
the Land Companies and Banks arc heavy.

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

Business done.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9B-3 I R
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9B A 74-
New 34 per Cent. Annuities lOl 4
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan~ 1800
South Sea Stock
South Sea Old Annuities
Consols for Account 984 7i
Exchequer Bills, ld.
£l000
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto New, 1852, 43 per Cent 99 x d.
Danish Bonds, 1825, 5 per Cent lO7
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 27
Pei avian Deferred 3 per Cent.
Portuguese Bonds, 4 per Cent. ...
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto 4i per Cent.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent 94;
Spanish Bonds, 3 por Cent 463' / x d
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 22g x d
HALF-PAST TWO.
97i 98i
98

Consols
Ditto August Account

ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE.—The following gentlemen
passed their examination yesterday, and received com-
missions to-day as Acting Lieutenants :—W. H. Wright,
J. L. Lawrence, E. Stubbs, C. H. Stevens. Mates for
Lieutenants.—H. T. Templer, H. T. Burgoyne, J. M.
Wilson, S. C. Robinson, W. Johnson, S. Stanley, E. S.
Kerby, T. G. Baillie, D. Boyle, J. T. Pringle. Second
Masters for Masters. Messrs. Renny, Sedworth,
Mitchell, and Williams.
DECIMAL COINAGE.—The committee of the House of
Commons have concluded the examination of witnesses,
and it is believed the result will be a unanimous report
in favour of the adoption of a decimal system, making
the pound sterling the integer, and dividing it into 1,000
mils or farthings. Dr. Bowring, on whose motion in
Parliament the first step was taken, in 1848, by the
coinage of the florin, or I.loth of a pound sterling, was
the last witness examined, and he gave the most satis-
factory evidence as to the accuracy, rapidity, and ease
with which all calculations are made and all accounts
kept throughout the vast Chinese empire, with its
400,000,000 of dependent subjects. He produced to the
committee the abacus, or instrument by which the art of
reckoning is taught in all the elementary schools of
China, and stated, that after a single month's instruction,
a Chinese youth is far more competent to apply the rules
of arithmetic to all the business of life than is a learner
in any of our common schools after the lessons of years.
It was suggested that the general employment of the
abacus (called swan wan by the Chinese) in the education
of the young would greatly promote and popularise the
introduction of a decimal system of currency and ac-
counts.
SINKING OF A SCHOONER AND Loss OF Two LIVES,
AT DEPTFORD.—Yesterday morning, between the hours
of nine and ten, a painful sensation was caused amongst
some hundred persons on board the different craft lying
in Limehouse-reach and Deptford, in consequence of the
following dreadful occurrence, by which we regret to
state two human beings were prematurely hurried into
eternity. The Prince Albert, Captain Millingham, of
Gainsborough, arrived in the river a few days since with
a cargo of Yorkshire goods, and after discharging her
cargo she was, yesterday morning, proceeding down the
river in order to take in ballast preparatory to returning
back to Yorkshire. A heavy squall of wind, however,
spranc, up, which struck the schooner on the starboard
and threw her completely on to her larboard side. The
unfortunate captain made an attempt to save his wife
and child, who were below, but the rush of water down
the hatchways and companion to the cabin was so great
that he was obliged to give up the attempt as fruitless,
and at length he had the greatest difficulty in saving his
own life, being obliged to jump overboard to escape
going down with the ill-fated vessel. As the water
rushed down the hold of the vessel a few faint screams
of the woman and child were heard, but they were
quickly drowned by the rush of water.
SHOCKING DISCOVERY IN THE ADELPIII ARCHES.—
Yesterday, considerable excitement prevailed in the
vicinity of the Adelphi and Hungerford market, in con-
sequence of a man being found in one of the dark arches
with his throat cut from ear to ear. From inquiries 1.
that were instituted it has been ascertained that the
name of the wounded man is James Pigot, a coach
turner, who resided at 45, Clarendon-street, Somer's- I
town, and was in the employ of Messrs. Pierce and 2
Countz, coach builders, of Long-acre. He was at work 2
as usual in the early part of the morning, when he ap-
peared in his usual health and spirits, and left at break- 2
fast time. At half-past ten o'clock Mr. John Peek,
residing in Chapel-row, Chelsea, having had business at 11
the wharf, in passing one of the angles, saw an appa_
rently respectable man lying on the ground, and hearing 2;
o
a gurgling sound, went towards him, when he discovered
01
a tremendous gash in his throat, from which blood was 1
issuing. Assistance was immediately obtained, and the 1(
unfortunate man conveyed to Charing-cross Hospital, 2(
where he was placed under the care of the resident sur- 2(
geon, but faint hopes are entertained of his recovery. 1(
It is stated that a razor has been found underneath the 2(
arches, but at too great a distance from the body to lead 2(
to the supposition that it was the weapon used, and the
extensive nature of the injuries preclude the possibility 2
1:
of the sufferer giving any explanation of the circum-
-1(
stances.

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PREFEREN,

Aberdeen.
Do. No. 2, 7 p. c.
Bris. & Ex. 4 p. c. St.
Do. 4 p. c. Shares
Caledonian £lO
Chester & Holyhead
Guar. 5) per cent
i Cork &Biindonsip.c
Dundee Perth &Aber-
deen Junction
EastAnglian (£3los)
6 per cent
Do. (£5) 7 per cent
Do. (£7l7s) 7 p. c
Eastern Counties Ex-
tension, 5 p. c. No.l
Do. No. 2
Do. New 6 p. C. St
Eastern Union, Scrip
Guar. 6 per cent
East Lancash. 6 p. de
Edinb Prth.&Dundee
5i per cent.
Glasgow & S. Western

Guar. 5 per cent....
Great Northn. 5 p. C.
Do. 5 p. c. Redeem.,
at 10 p. c. prem....
Do. 4i p.c. Scrip • •• •
Gt, Sou thn. &Westm.
(Ireland) Eighths)...
Gt. Westn. (Berks
Hants Ex. 5 p. c)...
Do. coy, red, 4} p.c.
Do. con, red. 4 p. c.
Do. irred. 4 p. c....
Lan. & York. F. £2O
Do. 6 p. c. Stock ...

London and Brighton
Guaranteed 5 p
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Do. Pref., 5 p.c. St.
Do. Convertible, 5 p.
c., 1852

Do: New Guar.6 p. c.
London & S. Western
Con. Thirds

Londonderry& Color,

Shares -
Londy. &Ennis./ Sh.
Alan:, Shef., & Lin.,

Shares, No. 1.
Do. New, £lO ...

Do. £6..

Marypt & Carl. 4 p.c.
Do. 4i per cent.,,,,,

Do
Consol.6 p.c.St
Do. Consol. Bristol &
Birm. 6 per cent._
Do. Pref. 4i per cent
Norfolk Extension

100
100
100
100
all
100

Do. sp. c. .... .
Do. Guar. 5i per et._
Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c
North British
North Staffordshire
Oxford, Worcester, &
Wolverh. £l5, 6 p.c
Do

Shrews. & Birm.N.G.
Shrewsby. & Chester
(Nor.W.Min), 8 p.c.
Do. 5 per cent
South Devon
Do. Now
S. Eastern (Beading
Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d.
DO. 4 4 per cent. Pre.
S.Yorksh.4p.c.Guar.
Waterfd.&Kilk.6p.c.
York, Newcastle,and
Berwick,4 p.c. Pref.
Do

York&N. Midland 11.1
and S. Parch,,,,,

4 iAntwrp &Rotterdam
3 'Belgian East. Juuct.
all Charleroi & Emu°lin
10 Dijon and Besapn
8 Dutch Rhenish
all East Indian
1 Do. Extension
all Gt. Indian Peninsula
10 Gd. Junct. of France
204 Gt. Westn. of Canada
Shares
3 Lucca and Pistoja, 5
per cent. pref.
Luexembourg .....
Do ',. (Railway)
Do

Do. (Canal)
Do. 6 p. cent. pref
Lyons & Mcditerran
Madras

Maria Antonia
Do. New
Namur & Liege (with
interest
Do. (ex interest)
Northern of France
Do. 201. 3 p. c. Bds
[fmy. B. SzAins.Shs.]
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