The Sun.
London, England, 1853-10-26 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET

AND
CITY INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The-sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 5,000 bales, of which 500 American
were taken for export, and 500 Egyptian on specu-
lation. The market closed steady, without altera-
tion in prices. The sales comprised 3,500 Ameri-
can, 100 Pernam and Maranham, at 6jd. to 74d.;
700 Egyptian, at 61d. to 9Ad.; and 700 Surat, at
3d. to 4id. per lb. Railway Shares were firmer.
In their report upon the dried fruit market,
Messrs. Witherby and Hansom state :--
"The market has now continued in a dull and stagnant
state for several weeks past, and the clearances for con-
sumption have consequently dwindled down to a mere
trifle, those for the first 18 days of this month having
been less than during the same period of last month, say
90 tons, against 1,050 tons in October, 1852, and 700
tons in October, 1851, during the corresponding days.
The deliveries in bond during the three weeks ending
20th inst., were 140 tons, and they are still going on.
The increase in the value of the article during six of the
first eight months of this year, as compared with the
prices of 1852, have been upwards of 100 per cent. A
larger deficit might have been expected ; the result proves
that even at high prices during spring and summer, cur-
rants were still used as a necessary ingredient in the
diet of the people. A more abundant crop of apples
than has been known in this country for many years
past, has no doubt checked in part the consumption
during the last two months. There seems to be no
doubt whatever of the London clearances of raisins being
this winter equal to those of former years, which have
averaged during the last three months of each year
3,500 tons, exclusive of deliveries in bond. The official
returns show an increase of 1,285 tons in the consump-
tion of the United Kingdom during the first eight
months of this year. The characteristic of the fruit
market generally is one of suspense, the circumstances
of this opening season differing widely from those of
any previous one. Some little time may still elapse
before it adjusts itself. The great consuming period
will this year commence later than usual."
The Valetta steamer arrived at Marseilles at 8
o'clock this morning. She has on board 8 cases of
the Australian mail. The pleasing intelligence
reaches us by this opportunity that the 10,000
sovereigns dropped while being conveyed from the
steamer Osmanli to the shore at Geelong had been
recovered. The Lady Eveline, from California to
Hong Kong, had been lost. There were 24
Chinese and 6 Europeans saved.
The Argo steamer is expected to have left Mel-
bourne on the 24th August.
The dates from Melbourne by the Overland Mail
appear to be to the 2d of August.

The telegraph advises the arrival of the Baltic
steamer from New York. She has on board nearly
a million of dollars. These we may assume to be
the proceeds chiefly of the State Securities sent
over for sale from Europe. A complete panic had
arisen in the Stock Market. Several brokers had
failed, and sundry commission houses had closed.
Some of the State railroad bonds had gone down as
much as 6 and 8 per cent. Government Stocks,
however, had fallen only about 1 to 2 per cent. ;
and it is evident that the Federal Six per Cent.
Stock could not decline, when the Government is
willing to redeem it at the rate of 122 and 123.
Money matters were more stringent, and daily
getting worse. This we must expect for a time,
the intelligence taken out by the steamer Canada
being of a nature to alarm the speculators and to
make the banks exceedingly cautious. Flour ship-
ments, however, will help to discharge the in-
debtedness of the Americans.

The Foreign exchanges were quoted yesterday
afternoon for 3 months' bills as follows :—Paris,
25.25 to 30 ; Antwerp, 25.25 to 275 ; Amsterdam,
11.175 to 17 ; Hamburgh, 13.6 to 62 ; Frankfort,
1195 to 11/ ; and Trieste, 11.24 to 30. These
rates, excepting Trieste, show a further downward
tendency.
The Funds opened well this morning, and have
gone higher since owing to the fine weather and
the large arrivals of specie. Even the announce-
ment that the allied fleets have passed up the Dar-
danelles is calculated to give confidence. Consols
have been 92, and since 925 and 92i. The New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been quoted
931 and 93k. Bank Stock is low, being 212. Ex-
chequer Bills have sunk from 3s. premium to ls.
dis. East India Bonds are 3s. prem.

Foreign Stocks have been firm generally, al-
though there has not been a great deal doing.
Mexican realise 24;.-- 25. Peruvian Deferred have
been 49k. Portuguese 4 per Cents. are 40 to 41.
Chilian 6 per Cents. have been marked 99k, and
Buenos Ayres, 66. Spanish 3 per Cents. 44k, and
Dutch 22 per Cents. have been 62k.

All the railway shares have advanced. Great
Northern are up 10s. to 11. ; Midland, ss. to 10s. ;
York and Berwick 11., and others in proportion.
French shares are in demand at advanced prices.

The Gold Mine Shares are more active, and in
some instances at rather fuller prices. The shares
of the Land Companies' have been quiet but
firmer, and in the Australian Banks there is no-
thing doing.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
( Prom the Official List.)
Business done.
Bank Stock

3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 914
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 9'2 2
New 31 per Cent. Annuities 93s
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 -1615-16
Ditto, 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct., 1859 -16 5
India Bonds, £lOOO .....
...........
.......
Ditto, under £lOOO 3 p
South Sea Old Annuities
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, 2d.
£IOOO
£5OO par 3 p 1 cl
Small par 3 plc',
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent 56
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent ...........
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Peruvian Bonds, 43 per Cent.
Ditto Deferred, 1 per Cent 49
Pori,uguese Bonds, 4 per Cent 4O 1
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 441
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 2i per Cent. 12 Gull 621
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates..,.-
HALF-PAST TWO.

Consols 92A a
Ditto October Account 92i g

ODESSA.—The advices from Odessa reach to the 14th
of October, and state that the political uncertainty,
coupled with the scarcity of shipping, had brought busi-
ness almost to a stand. Transactions in grain were con-
fined to parcels required for completing cargoes, and
wheat was selling at all prices, from 33s_ 6d. down to
18s. per quarter. The rate of freight had ar min risen to
275. per quarter. Farmers, it was presumed, would sus-
pend their supplies as soon as the news of the existing
state of affairs should be known in the interior. The
steamer between Odessa and Constantinople had ceased
running.
SUSPECTED MURDER. IN GUERNSEY.--A dreadful
murder is believed to have been committed in Guernsey.
The victim is a respectable lone widow woman, named
Langou, who lived in a place called the Carnichers. The
coroner's verdict was as follows :—" That the deceased
was found burnt near her bed, having on her head a serious
wound, which appears to have been inflicted before her
death, it appearing also that the burning must have com-
menced before life was extinct, and there are strong
suspicions that death has been caused by force and vio-
lence." Two men, named Limmer, alias 'Tapner, and
Simms, have been apprehended on suspicion . The body
of Mrs. Langou was discovered in her bed .room smoul-
dering on Wednesday last. Her house was robbed, and
many of the things stolen have been found near the re-
sidence of Tapner. Tapner is a clerk in the enigneer
department, in Fort George, in the island.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY.—Messrs. Train and Co. are
large shipowners, engaged in the Liverpool and Boston
trade in Liverpool. In June last year they bad in their
service, as freight collector, a young man of 21, James
St. Albin Quinn. Large sums of money pas sed through
his hands, and, taking advantage of this, h e decamped
suddenly on the 30th of June, 1852, with about 1,3001.
which he had received for freights from various mer-
chants in Liverpool, and for which he ought to have
accounted to the cashier of Messrs. Train and Co. He
first went to London, afterwards to the C.)ntinent, and
then, returning to Liverpool, shipped in the Great Bri-
tain for Melbourne. On his arrival he set up as a gene-
ral merchant, and, according to his own aiccount, suc-
ceeded in making about 5,000/. ; but his -whereabouts
having been ascertained, a warrant was obtained in Li-
verpool, which was sent out, and he was apprehended,
and sent home in the Eagle, which arrived in Liverpool,
from Melbourne, on Saturday. Yesterday he was
brought before the magistrates at the Liverpool po:ice-
court, charged with embezzlement, and, evidence having
been given to prove that he had received suns of money
from Frazer, Trenholme, and Co., HoJlingshed and
Tetley, Barber, G. Holt, and other firms, which he had
i wt accounted for, he was committed for trial to the
s essions. In only one case was he identified as the
ierson to whom the money was paid, but in all his sig.
tature was recognised and sworn to by Messrs. Train's
c ashier. Quinn's legal adviser, Mr. Chilton, declined to
s ay anything in his defence, remarking that he should
r nerve his observations for the trial.