The Sun.
London, England, 1853-02-24 00:00:00

In French Shares there is nothing doing, but

is understood the Bears are oversold, particularly
in Strasburgs and Northerns.
The Upper India Shares have been done at
premium.
The last week's railway receipts ascertained up to
this day, are in round figures as under :-
1853. 1852.
Great 'Western 15,471 14,439
North Western 41,193 39,190
South Western 8,994 8,933
Brighton
Midland... 21,677 20,507
South Eastern 9,533 10,021
Caledonian
Great Northern
Lancashire and Yorkshire 16,550 15,660
York and North Midland
Newcastle and Berwick 8,994 8,933
These traffics, considering the severe weather,
are to be regarded as very encouraging.
The Gold Mine Shares are looking up ; and the
Copper Companys of South Australia also incline
towards an advance.

The Land Companies Shares are very firm, and
there is more doing.
In the Joint Stock Bank Shares of Australia
there have been numerous transactions at rising
prices.
The following is from Messrs. Tredinnick's cir-
cular :
" The statistics of sales of copper ore in Cornwall last
Thursday, and that of the corresponding sale for the
previous month—from which it will appear that
1,216 tons of ore, and 84 tons of fine copper,
was the produce of the former over that of the
latter ' • this is a forcible and telling fact upon the divi-
dends to be declared during the present and next month
by these mines. The rise in the standard during the past
few months has enabled many an old and tottering mine
to hold its head up, whilst others just meeting the cur-
rent cost of working, have commenced to pay divi-
dends from profits realised. Lodes can bo wrought and
tribute pitches set, which formerly remained idle from
the low price of the produce, and all of the tribute bar-
gains pay better, whilst most of them yield double of
the profit to the adventurers."
BRITISH FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK THIS DAY.
(From the Official List.)
Business done.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities looi a a
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities
New 31 per Cent. Annuities lo3i a
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan., 1860 6a
Consols for Account 10th March .. 99
Exchequer Bills lid.
£1000.
£5OO l2 17
Small l2 20
Ditto Advertised lO 14 8
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New, 1852, 4i per Cent 97
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 24
Russian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Spanish Now Deferred, 3 per Cent 23a
Swedish Loan
Turkish Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852
Dutch Exchange 2i per Cent
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates 991 9
HALF-PAST TWO.
991
99i I

Consols
Ditto March Account

FRENCH PLAYS.—M. Ravel took his benefit here last
night. He appeared in L'Etourneau and Rue de la Lune,
in both of which pieces he was frequently and enthusias-
tically applauded. A numerous and fashionable audience
filled the house.
SINGULAR SUICIDE IN THE WAKEFIELD HOUSE OF
CORRECTION.—On Monday night a suicide was com-
mitted by a lad in the Wakefield House of Correction.
The lad was about 14 years of age, named Henry War-
rass, and he had been committed to that house for two
months as a rogue anl vagabond. Shortly before half-
past seven o'clock, the usual time for mess, he hung
himself at the handle of the bell in his cell; with a small
piece of cocoa fibre. On the attendant visiting him at
half-past seven lie found him suspended, but not
quite dead. He died a short time afterwards,
though lie was immediately cut down and means were
tried to restore him. The deceased had gone to York
to witness the execution of the murderer Waddington ;
he had also seen the body of the child for whose murder
Waddington was executed, and was an associate of a lad
who has since that execution committed suicide in the
workhouse at Sheffield. It cannot be known whether
Warrass intended to commit suicide or not. Since his
admission to the prison he has given no evidence of a
vicious temper, and the circumstance of his choosing so
short a time before he would be visited by the attendant
contributes to produce the impression that he was only
trying an experiment—one which, unfortunately, has
had a fatal result. The deceased was confined in a cell
by himself, and with the exception of three hours each
afternoon for instruction his confinement was altogether
solitary.