The Sun.
London, England, 1854-08-21 00:00:00

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY.)

LONDON, Aug. 21.—Wind this day at Noon, W. • light
airs, and dull, cloudy weather. The Mercury is falling.
PLYMOUTH, Aug. 20.—Wind, S.W. Sailed—Clara, for
Australia ; Rose, Quabec.
OFF DoVEß.—Arrived—Twende Brodre, from New
Brunswick, for Grimsby.
PORTSMOUTH. Aug. 20. —Wind, W. Arrived—Agra,
from London, for Geelong, and sailed for Southampton ;
Albert, Antwerp, for Vera Cruz ; H.M.S. gun-boat Arrow,
Woolwich ; Mauritius (s), Southampton. Off Port—Phae-
ton from St. Lawrence ; Cornelius Geps, London, for Port
Philip ; Sea Witch, do , for Hong Kong.
FALMOUTH, Aug. 20. Wind, variable. Arrived—Anna
• Agslhi, from Rio Grande; Vrede, Swansea, for Batavia,
With foremast sprung. Sailed—Voluna, for Quebec.
COWES.—Arrived—Kingfisher, from Havannah.
BRIDGEWATER, Aug. 20.—Arrived—Idas, from Quebec.
PIARWICEI, Ang. 20.—The Matilda Cornelia, Amsterdam
-*Cardiff, has been assisted in here leaky, having been
aground on the Long Sand.
SA.LCOMBE, Aug. 20.—Wind, W. Sailed—Specimen, for
/teva de Sella. Off Port—Queen of the West, from
Antigua.
Ellen
Dui LN, Aug. 19.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Mary
Brodr trom Barbadot s ; Miranda, from t. John's, N.B.
ene, Quebec. Sailed—Enterprise, Sfor Quebec.
QtrEENSTOWN, Aug. 19.—Wind, W :S.W. Arrived—
, -P,Fari" Eugenia, from Akyab ; Amelia Hill, .Matanzas.
utt tort—Runnymede, from Pernambuco, and sailed for
Goole.
LIMRRIOK, Aug. 19.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Revival,
from Quebec ; and Chapman, do.
• ~BELFAST, Aug. 19.—Wind, W. Arrived--Orion, from
. WATERFORD, Aug. 19.—Wind, S.W. Arrived—Erin,
from Quebec.

(BY SUBMARINE AND EUROPEAN TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Monday, 10.45 a.m.
Wind, S.W. ; tide, 3 hours' flood ; fine.
Arrived, 20th—Froya' from Lisbon, prize • Adele, Mi-
ratnichi ; Juniter (s), Harnburgh ; Elizabeth Harrison,
Porto Rico; Baumgarten, Trieste; Confucius, Mauritius;
„e°l,lroodore, Jamaica ; Alexander, Antigua ; Lady Frank-
* Pogwash ; Hemisphere Sagunay ; City of London (s),
"Illlkirk • Karen Ann Sophie, liogense ; Speculati, Guern-
sey ; Bellcna, Soderham ; Brilliant, Oporto ; Clio, Oporto ;
Lord Nelson, Cadiz ; Margaret, Leghorn ; Kate, do.
DEAL, Monday, 9.45 a.m.
—Wind, S.W. ; fresh, and cloudy.
Passed—Henrietta, from Batavia, for Rotterdam.
Anchored—St. Paul, from London, for Havre ; Achilles,
London, for Africa.
c,
'ailed —Lady Chapman, f,r Trinidad ; Henry Buck,
~..ar; City of Calcutta, Clyde; Margaret and Elizabeth,
‘*endoaiff ; Fanny, New York.

LORD JOHN RUSSELL AT THE LAKES.—Lord John
Russell presided unexpectedly at the opening of a small
school in the district of the Lakes on Thursday last. His
Lordship's arrival at the Lowood Inn, on Windermere,
baying become known to the Rev. W. Hodgson, that gen-
tlemanllls requested his presence on the interesting occasion.
Lordship with great kindness complied, and arrived in
the afternoon, accompanied by Lady J. Russell and
141114, at the schoolhouse, which is situated in a ro-
mantic. locality, among the mountains, and is built
at the sole expense of Mr. G. Redmayne. A large
Party of the neighbouring gentry were present, and,
after a brief statement by Mr. Hodgson of the cir-
• oumstances under which the school was erected, and
an address by the Rev. Canon Miller, of Birmingham,
on the advance and prospects of English Education,
Lord John Russell addressed the assemblage at some
length, and referring to an allusion made by Mr. Miller
to the presence of the widow of the lamented Dr. Ar.
nold, whose residence is in the immediate neighbour-
, hood, concluded by a warm tribute to the doctor's me-
mory, and with the expression of an earnest wish that
the bitterness of party spirit might no longer impede the
progress of education.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—GALLANTRY OF A SEAMAN,—
Last evening, a few minutes before eight o'clock, as one
of the London and Westminster steam-boats was leaving
the pier at Westminster-bridge, a female, apparently
.labouring under the effects of liquor, threw
herself into the river. A seaman, named George Davis,
lately arrived from the East Indies, who happened to
be on board at the time, immediately threw off his coat,
jumped into the water, and caught the drowning woman
in his arms. Assistance having been rendered, the
woman was conveyed in a boat to the shore, and taken
by the police to the station-house. It deserves to be
mentioned that this is the third time that this gallant
seaman has had the happiness to save the life of a
fellow-creature.
ANOTHER EXTENSIVE FIRE AT A FACTORY.—On
Saturday afternoon a destructive fire broke out amongst
some small houses in a very densely-populated neigh-
bourhood, known as Pepper-street, near Gravel-lane,
fafSouthwark. The fire originated in the picture-frame
aotery of Mr. Scratchley, the men belonging to
*whom, it was stated, had gone to dinner. Hundreds
of inhabitants soon assembled on the spot to assist in
removing the furniture of the persons residing
near it. From the nature of the stock the flames
spread very rapidly. The Christ-ohurch parochial
engise and those of the brigade soon arrived, and,
having been set in operation, in two hours all further
danger ceased ; but the entire factory, stock, tools,
&°-, were consumed.
SMIERSETSHIRE CENTRAL RAILWAY. This line,
Which
forms a junction with the Bristol and Exeter
' ifaawan was formally opened on Friday last for traffic.
".°°tsmences at the port of Highbridge, and tbrminates
at the town of Glastonbury.
The Belgian Moniteur says :—" A convention was
teed On the 12th of this month at London for guaran-
r!isg literary and artistic property between Great Bri-
enl and Belgium, and for regulating the tariffs of books,
graviogs, music, &c., imported from one country into
other. This convention will be presented to the
Chambers at the opening of the session."
Mit. DUFFY, M.P.—The Nation contains the follow.
l
:—We believe we may confidently promise Mr.
''''offy's return to Ireland in renovated health in a few
Weeks. His medical adviser has sent him to travel in
a.
tle interval, to complete his recovery, and he is gone to
Flanders and Germany—the former, the country in
Burope which has had the closer connection with Ire-
-11,.d, Douay, Louvain, and Fontenoy bear w ;
and the latter, interesting to Ireland at
present fromitness its
tenures,sation peasant proprietors, and industrial organi-
.
EXCEPTED ARTICLES TO BANKRUPTS.—By th enew
Bankruptcy Act, all bankrupts on and after
Sept. 1 nare
luto be allowed 201. worth of excepted articles in furni-
re and implements of trade, in the same manner as
insolvents are allowed by the Insolvent Debtors' Court.
tene o
SARAH FEATHERSTONE'S LIFE SPARED.—The Seti-
f death- passed- u') on• Sarah Featherstone at the
last Chester Assizes, for the murder of her child, has
been commuted to penal servitude for life. Asa recommended peenner recommended to mercy hy the jury,

MONEY AIARKET

AND

COAIMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at 5,000 bales, including 500 American
taken for export. The market was heavy, without
change in prices. The sales comprised 4,200
American, 250 Pernam and Maranham, at 6d. to
6/d. ; 200 Egyptian, at 61d. to 9d. ; 300 Surat,
at 3d. to 34d. ; and 40 Sea Island, at ls. to
is. ld. per lb. Railway Shares were firm at
improved prices.
Letters from Birmingham mention that there has
been again an improved feeling in the iron trade
duriti, the past week. Pig iron, of good quality,
has been in increased demand, and Scotch pig has
risen 2s. to 4s. per ton.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
'farms, which left Southampton, yesterday, for
India, ATc., has on board 350,2701. in specie.
The following are the nominal prices of foreign.
stocks :—Grenada, Deferred Bonds, 6 to 6/ ; Mexi-
can, 241 to 241 ; Peruvian, 69 to 71 ; Ditto 3 per
Cents., 51 to 53 ; Portuguese 4 per Cents., 40 to
42 ; Russian 5 per Cents., 99 to 101 • Ditto 4/,= per
Cents., 85 to ;
87 Spanish New Deferred, 181 to
18/ ; Ditto 3 per Cents., 38i to 381 ; Ditto Certi-
cates, 41 to 51, ; Ditto Passive, 3/ to 4.
The Africa steamer from New York with advices
to the 9th inst., are hut four days later than pre-
viously in hand, and do not report anything of par-
ticular importance. The close of the Session of
Congress there, like that of Parliament here, had
somewhat cooled down the political atmosphere,
and left the public mind more free for the calm
consideration of all the consequences of the railway
stock and bond panic, with the probabilities of or
against its early subsidence. From all appear-
ances, it must be doubtful whether even the most
I accredited and most correctly managed of the rail-
way lines will be able to recover their previous
standing for some time to come, owing not so much
to the enduring remembrance of the frauds which
have been perpetrated and exposed in other lines as
to the grievous amount of borrowed on bond
debt with which they are overloaded, and on
which heavy amounts of interests are payable, thus
swallowing up a large proportion of the earnings of
the most successful. In some cases these bond
debts exceed more than twoor threefold the amount
Of the paid-up capital stock which was the basis of
the enterprise, and according to which the measure
of credit, or the borrowing power, should have
been prudently limited.
Although commercial affairs do not appear to
have been tainted with any of the recklessness of
the stock market, but rather to have been con-
ducted with becoming caution—for there were no
signs of overstocking markets and large speculative
movements, but the reverse—it is evident that the
commercial community must have been hampered
to an inconvenient eaten t by the curtailment of cus-
tomary banking accommodation, consequent on the
high bidding for moneyin the market against them
by railway boards, and the enormous absorption of
the funds which else would have been at the disposal
of the banks for answering the legitimate demands
of commerce and industry. It is evident from the
returns of the City Banks, published weekly, and
brought down to the sth inst., inclusive, that so
far as New York is concerned, the amouut of loans
at nearly 94 millions of dollars, showing an actual
increase of 4 or 5 millions, must include and re-
present a very heavy weight of advances on rail-
way stocks not readily realisable in the existing
state of the stock market, although originally
loaned upon, no doubt, with what was considered
a sufficient margin of price against any probable
depreciation. The banks, therefore, must con-
tinue to be the holders in cases where those who
have lodged them as security, direct or collatoral
are not able to redeem. Otherwise the position of
the Lanks cannot be deemed unfavourable, since
collectively their stock of specie had been increased
to the date mentioned above to nearly 141
millions of dollars, (nearly one million less,
however, than July 29, the week before), against
two months before about 10 millions. Their
note circulation, moreover, does not exhibit
any sign of being in excess at over nine mil-
lions of dollars, which has been about the average
for nearly a year past. The deposits meanwhile
show a large addition at nearly 762 millions, or
about four millions more than they were two
mouths before, and twenty millions or more beyond
their amount at the s ime time last year.
The corn trade was heavy to-day, and prices were
2s. per quarter lower for wheat. All other sorts
of grain were heavy. About 200 quarters of new
wheat were on sale in middling condition.
The letters of allotment of the Turkish loan
were, it is understood, delivered this morning,
which of course gave an impetus to the transac-
tions. It readily found buyers at 5 and 52
premium. The attempt to discredit the power,
however, of allocating the Egyptian tribute by
parties in Paris claiming to have a prior lien upon
that fund, have been met promptly by a letter from
M. Musurus, the Turkish Envoy, by which it
appears to be incontestably demonstrated, that
those parties could have no such pretensions, inas-
much as the contract upon which they were
founded, and which they had " failed" to fulfil,
had been " cancelled" upon their own formal
request, to be exonerated from " their engage-
ments."

The dealings in English Stocks have been
limited this morning, and prices rather in decline.
This is attributable, no doubt, to parties realising
their profits, which was to be expected after the
rise of Saturday. Consols opened at 94/ to 94k,
but since have been done at 94 for money, while
for account the quotations have ranged from 94i-
to 94-i. The New per Cents. have been done
at 9,4- and 951, and the 3 per Cents. 94i- to 94g.
Exchequer Bills is. discount to is. premium.
The Foreign Stock Market is generally heavy,
and the quotations rather flatter. Peruvian Four-
and-a•Half per Cents. are firmer, however, at
72, but Spanish Deferred are weak at 181 ; Dutch
Two-and-half per Cents. at 62, and the Four per
Cents. at 94. These are the only transactions offi-
cially recorded. Turkish Loan Scrip has been done
at 51 premium.

The railway meetings announced are the fol-
lowing :-
Company. Date. Place.
Ambergate, &c.
Be fast and County Down
Birken. Lane. and Ches. Jnc Aug. 26, Birkenhead.
Blackburn
Bristol and Exeter Aug. 24, Bristol.
Cornwall
Dublin and Wicklow Aug. 29, Dublin.
Dundalk and Enniskillen Aug. 29, Dundalk.
East Lancashire Sept. 25, Bury.
Eastern Counties
Glasgow and South-Western Sept. 6, Glasgow.
Great Northern
Great S. and W. of Ireland
Hull and Holderuess Aug. 29, Hull.
L'pool, Crosby, & Southport. Aug. 29, Liverpool.
Ll anelly
Llynvi Valley Aug. 25, Paddington.
London and Blackwall Aug. 22, London Tavern.
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock
Maryport and Carlisle
Melb ,urno Dock and Railway Aug. 21, London Tavern.
Metropolitan Aug.. 30, 27, Gt. George -et.
Newmarket (Extension)
Newry and Enniskillen......... Aug. 29, Guildhall Coffee-h
Norfolk Aug. 30, 69, Lombard-st.
North Devon . Aug. 30, London Tavern.
North Eastern
Northern Counties Union
Oxford, Worces., & Waiver. Aug. 29, London Tavern.
Rhymney Aug. 30, New Palace-yard
Royal Danish
Royal Swedish
St. Andrew's and Quebec (A) Aug. 31, 26, Parliament-st.
Sambre and Meuse Aug. 24, Jardinet.
South Devon
South Eastern Sept. 7, Bridge-house Hotel
South Wales
South Yorkshire Aug. 31, Sheffield.
Staines,Wokingh., & Woking Aug. 24, London Tavern.
Thames Haven .
Vale of Neath Aug. 30, Neath.
Waterford and Limerick Aug. 30, Waterford.
Wells and Fakenham Aug. 23, Fakenham.
West Cornwall
W. E. London and Crys.Pal Aug. 21, London Tavern.
West London Aug. 22, London Tavern.
Wharfdalol ' Aug. 23, Skipton.
Wimbledon and Cr0yd0n...... Aug. 22, Fendall's Hotel.
Worcester and Hereford
Railway Shares have not supported the rally
which was observable on Saturday, and a decline
has occurred in Great Northern, Great Western,
and all the principal lines. In the Foreign Shares
the dealings have not been of importance.
Mining Shares are dull, also those of the Banks,
and in the Land Shares there has been no business
done.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOUR.
(Prom the Oticial List. )

ss
3 per Cont. Reduced Annuities ... 94R I (low,
Busine
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities ... 941 4 4
3 } per Cont. Annuities
95 4
India Bonds, £lOOO . .
_.
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• .•
Ditto, under £lOOO 5 pin
Consols for Account 13th Sept.. 94i
Exchequer Bills, 24d.

DOJO _ .
1 dis 1 pm
2500 1 dis 2 pm
Small 3 pm par
Exchequer Bonds Scrip, 1858
Ditto 1859
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent.
Spanish New Deferred, 3 per Cent ....... 18ti
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 24 per Cent. 12 Guil
Ditto 4 per Cent.-Certifieates...... ' ;
HALF-PAST TWO.
Consols 94i
Ditto September ittoOouut mmiweim 9it

SEEDS.
New seeds are now coming freely to hand, and in fair
condition. The business doing in them, however, is very
moderate. Linseed moves off slowly ; Calcutta and Madras
Cakes 1i e
tos
25 e,ir commandr.wa
)v,
................. .
at from 60s to 61s ; Bombay, 62s ; and Black Sea for for-
prices.
ward delivery, 60s to 61s per qr. Calcutta rape is tolerably
42 48s
24s 383 Coriander.... ~ ~
Swede .. • • .... • •
103 lbs
Nt astard, Brown• • • • • •
rs6bBa.sh.
103 13s Flempseed, per quarter 4Ps 44s
,firurrinnipa.tvvsmstse,poe
White, new .• •• .. lOs 14s Linseed, Eng, 'lowing •• 74s 8
r Ares. Winter, new .... Os Od Os Od Crushing .. —„ .. 62t 64s
Os OdOs Oil Baltic .. •• ••• • • • 583 60s
Canary, per quarter 453 483 Odessa ....
Linseed Cake, pr. ton--
Rye crass. ••.. • • • • 26s 30s •
Clover, Red Eng . (cwt.) —s —8 English •• • 101 Os 11, 10s
White .. • • .... —— s —s Foreign, per ton 9,5 s 111 5s
Foreign Red.... ——3 —8 Rape Cakes, pr tJn 6/ 153 7! bs
White.— —s —s Rapeseed, New•prlst 26'11s 30. Os
Trefoil, new.. •• • • • • —3 --1