The Sun.
London, England, 1854-11-04 00:00:00

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CITY, Two oviqoax.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at 7,000 bales, including 1,500
taken for export. The market was quiet and
prices steady. Railway Shares were very firm.

The number of ships arrived yesterday in the
Thames from abroad was 20, and from Ireland 1,
besides two colliers.

The weekly return of the Bank of England, made
up to the 28th ult., has rather disappointed some
who were predicting a much larger increase in the
precious metals, but there is good reason to be
satisfied, as a considerable amount of gold yet re-
mains to be paid in. The Government account is
by no means as high as could be wished at this
period, and with such heavy liabilities impending.
The discounts and loans were slightly reduced.
Compared with the previous week, the changes
were as follows :

Active circulation
Increase
Bullion

£20,935,885
64,365
13,581,426
175,448
3,132,547
6.713
1,905.513
12,026
11,441,511
261.356
1,130,644
15,638
10,960,762
152,511
14,556,912
185,551
6,086,425

Increase.

Rest
Increase
Public Deposits
Increase
Other Deposits
Decrease
Seven-Day and other Bills
Increase
Government Securities,
Decrease
Other Securities
Decrease
Notes unemployed •
Increase

139,820

The gold by the recent Australian arrivals is re-
ported by Messrs. Haggard and Pixley not yet to
have been sent into the Bank of England. The
specie per Atrato from Mexico, &c., is to be deli-
vered to the consignees to-morrow. The 294,0001.
received from Madras and Calcutta per steamer
Candia, is gold in bars, and nearly all consigned
to the Honourable East India Company.

The foreign exchanges were firm yesterday after-

noon.

The amount of gold shipped direct from London
during the week to last Thursday was 3,882
ounces, and of silver 270,600 ounces, all to the
Continent.

It is feared that the sailing ship Swarthmore,
which has been on her voyage home from Mel-
bourne since June 17, has met with some disaster.
Her gold freight is 252,0001., and insurances up to
40 per cent. have been done on her at Lloyd's.
The Will Watch, which left Melbourne on the
20th June, has also arrived, but it is not yet
known whether she brings gold.
Accounts of the 2d inst. from Vienna state that
the whole town of Sebastopol was in ruins on the
25th ultimo, and that the combined fleet had forced
the port, and found the harbour floating with
human bodies. Since the bombardment com-
menced the women and children had been prohi-
bited from fetching water outside the town, and
great distress in consequence existed. Admiral
Korniloff was killed in the cemetery which lie bad
fortified, and which the English carried by assault.
Prince Menschikoff having threatened to burn
Sebastopol in ease of its fall, General Canrobert,
it is stated, had declared that in such case, according
to custom, no quarter would be given to the besieged.
The port of Eupatoria, which the Allies evacuated
one day in presence of a large force of Cossacks was
occupied by the former on the following day, with-'
out any conflict.

The Funds are rather dull this morning, but the
quotations are supported. The business doing is
almost entirely for present transfer. Consols have
been 941 4 for transfer, and 941 ;. for account.
The New 3 i?er Cents. Nave been 93g to and
the 3 per Cer its. 931 to 1. Exchequer Bills have
been firm at t 3s. to 9s. premium.

In Foreigi i Stocks the dealings have been
limited, and t here is a want of buoyancy. The
Turkish Scrip has been at 1 to 1 premium, being
steady. Surp rise is still expressed that no " Fir-
man" has yet appeared. Peruvian 4 per Cents.
have been dul ii at 70. A species of cajolery is still
sought to be e xercised by parties in pay of the re-
public, as well as by holders of the domestic debt,
to get the bona fide foreign creditors to sanction
the quotation a f the former securities, but we
opine that no su, 3h suicidal policy will be adopted.
Spanish Deferre c 1 are 181, and the Passive
The following .are the nominal prices of foreign
stocks :—Grenad r 1 Deferred Bonds, st, to 6 ; Mexi-
can, 22 to ; Peruvian, 70 to 72 ; ditto,
3 per Cents., 50 to 52 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents.,
40 to 42 ; Russia n 5 per Cents., 95 to 97 ; ditto,
4i per Colas., 84 to 86 ; Spanish New Deferred,
18,,t to ; ditto, 3 per Cents., 37A to 38 ; ditto,
Certificates, 51 to 51; ditto, Passive, 4l to 44.
Railway shares : tre generally supported, but with
less doing. The F 'rend' lines are dull, but Luxem-
burg are rather higber.
Santiazo Miue has improved, London Chartered
Bank of Australia an d the English and Scottish
are highetr. Crystal Palace without change.

BRITISIII FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CL! " R.
(from the tilPial 1.7,:. )
Tin incss done.
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
:.. per Cent Consols Annuities,' q 4 i :I i
New 3 per Cent.' Annuities
Consols for Account 14th Nov.. 94g i
. Exelieq tier Gills. 24d. . , 6 9 p
-:-.100)
2500 . ..... .... -6 9 p
finial'. 6 9 p
. ~.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONI E O'CLOI ; lk.
Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cent.
Sardinian I3onds., 5 per Cent.-- —... ...... 89
Spanish Bowls, : per Cent :37
Ditto New r referred, 3 per Cent IBA
Ditto Passive (Converted)
Spanish Comer iittee Cert. of Coup. not fun 5
Turkish Scrip 6 per cent
Div', .ends on the above payable in Lopelon
TWO O'CLOCK.
.. 943.
. 94j i

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THE NEWCASTLE FIRES.

GATE MEAD, Nov. I.—The inquest held here before
Mr. J. M. Favell, coroner, closed this day.
The. jury, after being absent nearly two hours, brought
in the : Following verdict :—" We are ef opinion that the
death c, f Thomas Scott and others was occasioned i y the
accidental explosion of a quantity of nitrate of soda and
sulphur contained in a warehouse in Hillgate, commonly
known fts Bertram's warehou,e. The immediate cause
of the e 7 plosion was a fire (the origin of which, owing to
conflicting evidence, we have not been able to discover,
althoug h there would appear to hrve been a want of
caution displayed), which broke out in the adjoining
worsted . mill belonging to "Me,-rs. Wikon, and commu-
nicated to the adjoining warehouse alluded to, but in
what w. ay the substances, nitrate of soda and sulphur,
which i n our opinion
acted, , -sed;
.tli,e.. explosion acted or re-
acted,
;heroically iy, we are unable to state.
At the iin% it our duty earnestly to re-
comnie nd the properper authorities to prevent by every
means in their
under
substances as sulphur and
most
cilue: any nit, r ates,
to lio, a of the which,
certain conditions, we consi-
dererous and destructive charac-
ter, fron i being stored or' deposited near each other. eve
are fully - satisfied that there is a complete. want of evi-
dence o 1 the presence of lsgunpowder in the warehouse
where t he explosion took place'
The tJoroner, at the conclusion, saiduthat e had pre-
viously omitted to mention Captan D Cane's name in
referen, :3 to the assistance derived from him in the
investie ;ation. The gallant captain had been brought
e.r
from b.
down : Lt the instance of the corporation,
!jog any impediment, he had been ofthe but,wso greatestas
service to him (the coroner), and the jury, he
satis-
fied, lir tzst feel grateful in the same degree to Captain 13
u
Cane.
The j ury having expressed their hearty concurrence in
the fee :lings of the coroner,
Cap tain Du C me thanked them for the acknowledg-
ment ,of his services, and complimented the jury on the
ability - arid patience which they h id displayed in their
invest Nation.
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Drs.. COVERT OF COAL AND IRON MINES.--LISBON,
429 .—An English gentleman of the name of Croft,
who ha. been long resident in this country, whilst en-
gaged ii lookin,g out fora suitable tract of land to be
planted with the Purgueira tree, from the nut of which
oil is ext ratted, has accidentally discovered a large coal
field of several square miles, as well as another of equal
extent richly impregnated with iron, between Batalba
and Leiria,at a, distance of about 70 miles from this city,
and has already secured from the Government the exclu-
sive right of exploring both. B ,th the coal and iron are
of the best quality, are very abundant, and come up
close to the surface.
The Court of Adinirylty have comle -nned the Rin:ian
ve.si Johan Christophe, seized in the port of Great
laimsby with simulated papers as a Crown droit, to be
wful prize, and she iz ordered to be sold forthwith
for the benefit of her captors. •