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

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocic.

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 80. 300 Surat at
3d. to 4-gd., and 15 Sea Island. Railway Shares
were flat.

The accounts by Royal Mail steamer from the
East Indies are generally fsatisfactory 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-
ried 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
wide% 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-
h 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 994- 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 99a, soon after they had been 99 I.
The prices for the February account are 99 ;
the New 3f per Cents. have been 103 k to • and
the;
3 per Cents. 100 k to Bank Stock is dull at
2241-2, 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 46-1 to 47,
and the Deferred to 22/ to if ; Mexican Bonds have
been steady at 23i ; Brazil 5 per Cent. Stock has
been at 102 f, and since down to 1011. Dutch
per Cents. have been at 651, a quarter per cent.
decline. The Turkish Loan is k discount to it
premium. Peruvian Stock is worth 10* Rus-
sian Bonds are at 119, and Austrian Five per
Cents. at 882 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 1, and Northern 2 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 THIS DAY.
(From the Official List.)
Business done.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities... .......
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 31 per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6i 746
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6 3-16
India Stock
India Bonds, £lOOO —
Ditto, under £lOOO 73
Consols for Account 10th February 99i i i i
Exchequer Bills lid. March. June.
£lOOO.. 64 2
£5OO 63
Small 6O
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY.

Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 9B
Ditto New Bonds, 1829 & 39, 5 per Cent lO2
Grenada Bonds, Deferred,

Mexican 3 per Cent............ 23i
Ditto for the Account 231 i
Peruvian 6 per Cent.
Peruvian Deferred 3 per Cent 62 i
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent. ..........
Ditto for the Account 93
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent 46h 7 Of
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent 224
Spanish Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun, 4,1 5d i p 4
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852 i P Par
Austrian Bonds 5 per Cent.. B9 8i
Dutch Exchange 2i per Cent 6si 6 x d
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates..........

THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols
Ditto February Account
At this moment the Mining market is looking up,

MARKET NEWS-(THIS DAY.)

CORN EXCHANGE.

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 du'l inquiry, at barely late
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 sorts
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.

Flour.
3,270

English ..
Irish ....
Foreign ..

ARRIVALS nus WEER.
Wheat. I Barley. 31alt. Oats.
3,190 3,770 b,OlO 2,080
200 i
3,260 11,8307

3,780

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WHITECHA PEL.
Generally speaking, the demand Was in a sluggish state.
Beef, 2s 4d to 3s 6d ; mutton, 3s 4d to 4s 4d ; veal, 3s Od to
4s 2d ; pork, 2s 6dito 4s per 81ba by the carcase.
BOROUGH HOP.

Our market continues firm for all now hops, and prices
are well supported.

FATAL SUMMERSAULT.—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-mortem examination, was found to be fractured
from external violence. The coroner having remarked
on the danger of such tricks, returned a verdict of
"Accidental death."