The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-24 00:00:00

E A K E

AND
COM MEE, CIA L INT ELL MENGE'.

CITY, TWO o'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 American
were taken fur export. The market closed heavily
without change in prices. The sales comprised
210 Pernam and Maranham, at 7d. to 71d. ; 30
Bahia, at 6d. ; 300 Egyptian, at s:ld. to Bd.; 600
Surat, at 3d. to 40. ; and the remainder Arne-
icaL. Railway Shares were inactive at rather lower
prices.
We have the arrival of the steamer Bombay
notified by electric telegraph from Trieste, with
dates from Calcutta to the 15th of July, Bombay
to the 21st, and Canton to the sth. Tho brief
notice is that trade was dull there, and no parti-
cular news.
The screw-steamer Alps is telegraphed also from
Liverpool, with advices from New York to the
12th inst. She brings 288,000 dollars in specie.
Under the head of the " Money Market," it is
stated in the Tines of this morning, as if from
authority, that " the anticipated letter from M.
Drouyn de l'Huys with regard to the Turkish loan
has been obtained, and is precisely in the same
terms as that already furnished by Lord Claren-
don." This assurance so far is satisfactory, although
it might have been as well if the document itself
bad been given, seeing the absolute contradictions
by Mr. Stanley in his letter in The Sun yesterday,
of other facts previously asserted by M. Musurus,
the Turkish Envoy, and still left unexplained by his
Excellency. Straightforward explanations on the
part of those who alone can make them would put
an end to the " attempts of speculators" on either
side to make trade out of the question by ".idle
statements with the view of influencing the mar-
ket." We believe that it is cf the greatest iwport-
ance for Turkey that the loan should be realised
without more let or hindrance than is necessary
for the security of the public, or rather the sub-
scribers to it here. As there can be no doubt that
the firmans authorising the loan must be here or
in Paris, it would doubtless serve the interests
both of the loan and the subscribers that they
should be published in a translated form. Other
rumours are afloat about the loan which it is not
deemed necessary now to advert to.
A return to an order of the House of Commons
has just issued from the Post-office of the money
orders issued for the three months ending the 30th
of June, the gross sum received, and the cost of
maintaining the offices in Great Britain and Ire-
land within the same period :

Total sums received for printed forms £l3s 2 7
Gross amount of money orders issued 2,540,537 7 6
Commission
Cost of maintaining offices lB,lBl 0 0
Number of money orders issued, 1,322,541

The London and Western Districts Cemetery
Company have received the official approval of
Viscount Palmerston by letter, dated the 21st inst.,
addressed to Mr. J. F. Galbraith, the managing
director, of the site of Isleworth for their large
cemetery. The distance from Oxford-street is only
7-i miles, and the site is considered highly eligible
and convenient for the metropolis and vicinity,
having access by road, rail, river, and canal. The
company has been provisionally registered, and it
is intended to apply for a Royal charter. The
estimates, including land, enclosures, churches,
ikc., are for a sum less than 50,0001.
The news frouaßerlin and Vienna contained in the
second editions of the morning papers of the total
rout of the Turks in Asia with an enormous loss of
men and materiel, coming from avowedly Russian
sources, has been entirely discredited on the Stock
Exchange, perhaps too absolutely so, and th© Funds
would really seem to have improved upon it, for
we have Consols better than at this hour yester-
day. They are called 941 to for money, and 941
to for time, with a fair business doing. Threes
Reduced 94k to Thres and a quarter per Cents.
941 to Bank Stock was done at 210. Long
Annuities 4g. India Stock 225. India Bonds
ls. to ss. premium. Exchequer Bills par to 4s.
premium, the latter for small bills. Exchequer
Bonds, 1858, 98g.
Very few dealings are recorded in the foreign
market. Mexican are 244), being firm. Spanish
Deferred were 18k. The Turkish Scrip has been
dealt in sparingly from 6k to 7k prem.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bonds 6 to 61, Mexi-
can 24,1 to 24 Peruvian 71 to 73, ditto 3 per
Cents. 52 to 54, Portuguese 4 per Cents. 40 to 42,
Russian 5 per Cents. 99 to 101, ditto 415.- per Cents.
85 to 87, Spanish New Deferred 17i to 18, ditto
3 per Cents. 37 to 37-1-, ditto Certificates 41 to 5,
ditto Passive 34 to 4.

The last week's railway. receipts ascertained up
to this day are in round figures as under :

1854. 1853.
Great Western
North-Western
Brighton
Midland
South-Eastern
Caledonian
Great Northern 20,731 18,174
Lancashire and Yorkshire
There is a dull market for Railway Shares, but
prices have recovered somewhat of yesterday's de-
cline. As exceptions, however, we notice Cale-
donian and South-Western, which are very heavy.
Central of France are rather lower.

St. John del Roy Mine Shares have receded 103.,
but Colonial Gold are 1/. to 11. 10s. better. Banks
are inactive, and also the Land Shares..

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY.—CLOSING PRICES.
( Prom the Ogcial List,)

Business done.
sank Stock ......
i per Cent. Reduced Annuities . ..... 94} i
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 94 4 i 4
si per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860
India Stock
India Bonds, 1:1000 .......
Ditto, under £lOOO 1 5 pm
Consols for Account 13th Sept.
Exchequer Bills, 24d.
I'looo
2500 2 3 pm

Small 3 4 pm par
Exchequer Bonds Scrip, 1853 .. . 9Bl
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.
Wexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. —
Ditto 3 per Cent
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent. —
Ditto for the Account lB/i
Turkish Scrip
nivtdenle on the above payable in London.
In yesterday's List, read the lowest price of Turkish
Scrip, 6.

THREE O'CLOCK.
Console 94
Ditto September Account 94k

ODESSA.—Advices from Odessa to-day of the 11th
inst. state that it was rumoured to be the intention of
the Czar to remove the prohibition against the export of
grain, which has existed at that port for the last six
months. Looking at the extraordinary extent of the
present crop.; in Southern Russia, this measure will be
of considerable importance, if the total absence of block-
ade, which is still reported, should be allowed by the
allies to continue- It is to be presumed, however, that
the place remaining open is simply a temporary 'conse-
quence of the arrangements in progress for the attack
upon Sebastopol.

D IR. GEORGE 110DSON.—This gentleman is giving
nightly, at the Regent Gallery, an entertainment called
"My Irish Portfolio ; or Leaves from a Shamrock, "
which LI redolent with Hibernian humour, vocal, drama-
tic, and anecdotal, and is likely to become as popular as
the many amusements of a similar class which, within
the last few years, have met with so much favour in the
metropolis. Mr. Hodson takes no small rank as an
Irish comedian, is the possessor of a very good voice,
and is blessed with that hilarity of spirits which belongs
to the natives of the Emerald Isle. His clever imita-
tions of Woodin, 0. Smith, and Buckstone, are among
some of his most successful efforts. We cordially re-
commend an inspection of his ample and varied " port-
folio."

COMMITTAL OF MR. G-. H. SMITH FOR THE MURDER
OF HIS WlFE.—Yesterday morning, at nine o'clock,
Mr. J. Lewis, coroner for the city of Rochester, and a
respectable jury, again assembled at the Guildhall,
Chatham, in pursuance of adjournment. The coroner
having on Tuesday given directions to Mr. Bevon, the
surgeon, to make a post mortar?, examination—and that
gentleman was the only one examined—he stated that he
had made an examination of the deceased lady. He found
the scalp and cranium had been perforated on the left
side, so that he could introduce his little finger into the
wound ; the brain was gorged with effused blood ;
the two leaden bullets, which he produced, were lodged
in the anterior lobe of the right side, having tra-
versed in an oblique course the corpus callosum, until
resisted by the internal table of the cranium. No marks
of violence were visible on any other parts of the body.
Death, in his opinion, was caused by the concussion and
effusion of blood about tho brain by a pistol-shot. The
coroner briefly addressed the jury, when a unanimous
verdict was given of mprder against Mr. Smith, and he
stands committed under the coroner's warrant to take
his trial at the next Maidstone assizes. The prisoner is
in a very desponding way. He has refused to take any
food or nourishment whatever since he has been in cus-
tody, and as he stood remanded by the mayor and ma-
gistrates he was brought up at twelve o'clock yesterday,
and was ordered to be removed to the county gaol.
The deceased lady is stated to be a cousin of Lord Vis-
count Canning, the Postmaster-General, and their corn-
ing to Rochester was on account of their accompanying
a lady, a friend of theirs, at Jersey, who came to Coat-
ham to see a son of hers, and to stay for a short time,
when it v;al agreed that they should return to Jersey
The prisoner had obtained leave of absence
together.
from his duties as postmaster at Jersey for a limited
period to recruit his health,