The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-09 00:00:00

'CIAL NEWS. f ImpERIA

MONRY AND COMAIERI

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
• The sales- of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
estimated at from 3,000 to 4,000 bales all to the
trade. The market was flat, and prices of all kinds
were drooping. The sales comprised 110 Pernain
and Maranham, at SP. to 61d. ; 110 Bahia, at
6d. to 611 d ; 200 Egyptian, at 6id. to lid. ; 200
Surat at 31d. to 41(1., and the remainder American.
Railway Shares were flat at lower prices.
The ship Chance, arrived at Callao, bad Mel-
bourne accounts of December 9, bit the tenor of
them is not known.
The steamer Forerunner, with the African mails
on board, brings 2,0900 z. of gold.
The Niagara furnishes late dates from the United
States and Canada. The mercantile advices read
Well, and the yield of gold in California was large.
The steamer Orinoco brings about 190,0001. in
Specie on freight, 45,000 dollars being for the Mexi-
can bondholders. The accounts from Mexico lead
to the conclusion that Santa Anna will certainly
return to power, whether, however, to be more
successful than his predecessor, remains to be seen.
Mr. Falconnet's letters are not so late as the
published advices.

From Jamaica we learn that the expected proro-
gation of the House of Assembly had not taken
Place. Nothing had been done in reference to
granting supplies, the revenue bills were in abey-
ance, and by some it was considered that the ses-
sion would last till April.
There had been a flood at Port Maria, and the
roads were impassible owing to, the overflow of the
Westermost river. The water is described as hav-
ing rushed through the houses and stores.
The inhabitants in Stennetts Town had been
driven from their houses, the water having
attained the depth of 5 feet, but subsequently it
had quite subsided. In Annotto Bay the flood had
been tremendous, heavy rains having prevailed.
The bridge on the Annotto River was entirely de-
stroyed, earth, trees, poultry, pigs, goats, and
houses being carried away. Most of the stores on
the Bay suffered severely. Business was entirely
suspended, all communications with the interior
being cut off. Falmouth, Hanover, Westmore-
land and Montego Bay bad suffered also. Much
injury had been done to the cane fields.
The suspension of payMent of Mr. George Hen-
nett, the railway contractor, has been announced,
and the liabilities are said to be large.
The Arctic Company is receiving, it is stated,
very good support, and the Share list will be cloned
on Saturday. It is obvious that parties who join
Such an undertaking must do so with the object of
giving it full support as a national experiment,
and such men, it is said, have come forward both
here and in Aberdeen.
There was no alteration yesterday in the rates at
Which Bills of Exchange were negotiated upon the
Principal Continental cities. Paris, 90 days, was
taken at 25 27- to 30 ; Hamburgh, 13 7i- to 7f :
Ainsterdam, 11 181 to 19 ; and Trieste 115 to 11 9.
The' Honourable East ndia Company drew bills
during the last fortnight to the amount of 13,3031.
423• 2d. at the exchange of 2s. Id. on Bengal, and
48- lid., on Bombay.
The English Stock Market has risen again, Con-
801e being 99i for Money and Account. Bank
Stock is worth 2271 to 228-i. Exchequer Bills are
_•
to 13s. premium. The New Three-and-a-
Quarter per Cents. have been at 1031 The business doing in Greek Bonds is still active,
and they have been done as hih as 8i and 9.
I.s,razilian New Stock is active at 971 to 98 for the
'ollr-and-a-Half per Cents. Equator Stock is at
vi• Sardinian Bonds are 98 to 99i, being scarcely
1(3 good. The Turkish Loan is 'better and the
Spanish Certificates are up. Peruvian. New Scrip
185 to premium.
There has been an improved market for Railway
shares, but the dealings are still limited. Great
Waterford
are up a little, and North Stafford and,
and Limerick. Chester and Holyhead
go not so high. South-Western fluctuate, and
elth-Western are still depressed, as also York
and North Midland.
411 French Shares there is -very little doing, but
they bring rather higher prices, owing to the im-
te'vement at Paris. Upper India have been again
Gold
at •i premium.
mold Mine Shares continue inactive, and there
fe,sPecially a decline in the Waller, the prospects
„ the mine being very different from what was re-
presented. This, we apprehend, will 'be the case
with many of the other United States schemes that
are now being foisted on the market, and if the
directors who joizx-them do their duty, they- will in-
gist upon sending out a special agent to verify the
representations made befcre they part with -a
sixpence to the parties who introduce the affair
on this side of the Atlantic. The Megantic
Copper Company did this, and the result was that
the directors, as honest men, advised the share-
holders not to go on with the concern, and fulfilled
their promise by deducting only the amount origi-
Willy agreed on for expenses.
In the Land Company's Shares very little has
been done, and they are nominally the same.
The Australian Bank Shares are generally rather
cheaper.
The directors of the Englks. kand Australian Cop-
Per Company have this day received advices from
their managers, dated Adelaide, 15th November
hit, by which they have been informed that over
40 teamsters had been engaged to work on the
port Wakefield road, consequently, showing that
labour was becoming more abundant in the colony.
The
manager writes :—" We have accumulated
between 300 and 400 tons of coal at the works, and
We anticipate that in the course of next week we
'3411 be able to light three or four furnaces, and
the copper produced will enable us to keep faith
With the Burra Company."

1:411TISII FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK THIS DAY.
(From. the Official List.)
:l*Stock
Bsiiness done.
a
a Per cent. Reduced Annuities lo# 4
Ni'er Cent. Consols Annuities
to 34 per Cent. Annuities........ .... .
I 1.. g Annuities Expire sth Jan., 1860 62 7-16
8,4;4, Bonds, £lOOO 4B
Consols
Sea Old Annuities 991
—untie's for Account 10th March 992 8
Exchequer Bids 14d.
£5000. ..... ••• ........
0
p
ICE —ICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds
x Ditto Nw, 5 per Cont.
1852, 4i per Cent 97i 8 7f
Qrequaet.clor Bond,
51
Ate .- ex over-due Coupons
I!.e all 3 per Cent 24
tartottto for the Account 2sh
Eipatr,jan Bonds, 5 per Cent... ... ...
iat,allsti New Deferred, 3 per Cent. 234
•%„, Spanish
Committee Cert. of Coup. not fun, 8 7i
ft, edish Loan
li
'vtlrk*
i.:21 Loan, 6 per Cent., 1852
bq .'4° for the Account
411 Exchange 2i per Cent
tt° 4 per Cent. Certificates 9Bl

13
8 13

Consols
Ditto March Account

dP 0

li P

HALF-PAST TWO.
99A B
991

eO/fir
daY --XBSION OF MURDER.—GLASGOW, MONDAY(;-013.
evening last, a respectable looking young man
tometered the central police-office, stating that he wished
i deliver himself up to justice as he could get no peace
It 418 Mind from having recently committed a murder.
%. 'States that his name is Joseph Crawford aged 19
*1 Cars
(lib
,1 a shawl printer by trade, and a native' of B. ed-
gton Corner, near Croydon, Surrey. Some eight
oeths
Cob, ago, while at Longbank, on the banks of the
about 15 miles from London, an illegitimate child
the born to him, and, after sundry consultations with
attelm)ther, he killed it by holding its head under water,
N.._ then tossing the body into the stream.
The body
this recovered, he learnt, and an inquest held, but by
he tinle he had escaped. He came to work at Barr-
t butsner Glasgow, as a calico printer some n weeks
iin remorse would not let him rest, and he resolved
i7:lBerrender himself. Such is the man's account, t, which
hell.teadily perseveres in. He is still detained waiting
vices frora England on the subject.
hee4 kONSTERTRAIN.—One of the new express engines
ItailiVaY constructed for the London and North-Western
kat' Yesterday brought an experimental train con-
eachng of not less than 34 carriages,
is Q ' fr°m Birmingham to London in three hours. This
everonsidered to be the most extraordinary performance
ha, accomplished by a single locomotive engine, and
tZn he
~a'arr confirmed the expectations formed of the merits of
augennents recently patented by Mr. M'Connell
44.147t1Y parts of the journey the speed had to be much
hiadltlished in consequence of the bad state of the road,
the there is no doubt, when these defects are remedied,
ezi,,,,wo hours' trip, with a train of 15 carriages, will be
ed into effect.
'11441
11150,., JaLIDDLESEX CONSTITUENCY.— According to the
(44 "'just issued by the Middlesex Reform Registration
larkepi' it appears that the Liberal party have g
- ained
tainiupon the late revision, independently of still reo- epreg a majority of tried supporters of their present
f eiekierxtatives. The number of electors on the register
the rebate etom for 1853, is 14,836 ; the number of electors on
thr of electors for 1852, was 14,610. Increase
Of ch:).!etal number of electors, 226. The total number
epui,--g_it'a in the register is 3,378, being 1,576 names
,ays and 1 802 new names inserted. These facts,
'II lesslrePert, 'shown] a total change of 3,378 electors
'l4an six months gmost forcibly exhibit the neces-
anp,tY `
a close attention to the register, and the future
lib era this office should receive from all friends to
TePrial 411131 Progressive reform.
chaß ColfuEnvATivit LAND SOCIETY.—The sixth pur-
e or the a
Ortiercv. ociety was made yesterda (Tuesda) in
414.8 r between the towns of Ware and Herty
ford.