The Sun.
London, England, 1853-06-24 00:00:00

3.10.NEY MARKET AND COMMERCIAL
INTELLIGENCE--(THIS DAY.)

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of cotton at Liverpool yesterday
were estimated at 8,000 bales, of which 3,000
American were taken for export and on specula-
tion. The market closed firmly. American and
Surat were tight ; other sorts without alteration.
The sales comprised 6,000 American, 600 Pernam
and Maranham at 6id. to 61d., 60 Bahia at 6id.,
400 Egyptian at 6id. to 91d., and 1,500 Surat at
3d. to 4d. per lb. Railway Shares were steady.
In the Produce Markets this week business has
been conducted to a moderate extent at steady
prices. Tea has attracted most attention, although
the dealers are not all prepared at present to pay
the advances demanded by importers. The latter,
on the other hand, abstaiu, from pressing sales.
Sugar has been taken spaigly, but is firm ; and.
in coffee not much has been doing. Rice has been
in moderate demand at full rates • and for cocoa,
also, there has been a steady sale, Cotton has
been quieter. Tallow has been firm in consequence
of the Russian Ci4vpute.
The amount •ofibills drawn in the fortnight to
last evening bylhallon. East India Company was
as follows

Bengal..
Madras.

£459,434 14 8
44,151 13 9

Total £503,586 8 5,
The following report upon the Mining Market is
furnished by Messrs. R. Tredinnick and Co. :
" Wheal Seaton has paid a dividend of 51. for the
past two months, and the mine is looking well. Kir-
cudbright has paid another dvidend of ss. per share,
making 20s. per share this year, yet the shares are sell-
ing at 51. ; another dividend is promised for the coming
two months, Dolcoath shares, which have receded 651.
to 701., paid a dividend of 2/. for March and April months.
Spearne Consols for January, February, and March';
paid 2s. 6d., and the shares are worth 91. to 101. ; of
progressive mines, we are advised that the West Ding
Dong looks well. Lelant Consols with more powerful
drawing machinery would probably pay dividends. East
Margaret is fast advancing, the steam stamps lately
erected are now constantly at work ; seventy men are
engaged on Tutwork, with 25,0001. of Tin Ore disco-
vered. West Darlington is divided into 1,024 shares,
and the returns will probably materially increase in the
course of two or three months. Leeds Town Consols is
fast getting into full play on the lodes ; machinery,, at
great expense, has been erected, and some of the lodes
are now being effectively developed. A general meeting
will shortlyibe held, when a call of ss. per share will be
made to erect steam stamping machinery."
There is a much more buoyant market for public
securities, and the feeling is certainly one of in-
creased confidence, although no positive informa,-
tion has yet been received. The conclusion come
to, appears to be that as circumstances have occur-
red to delay the entry of the Russians into the
Moldavian provinces, there are strong reasons to
hope that some amicable arrangement will be
effected. Consols have been 98/1 this morning,
and are since 981 The New 3f per Cents. have
advanced from Ent to 102 k, and the 3 per Cents.
are 998 1. Bank Stock has improved to 229 and
2294. Exchequer Bills are worth 2s. to 55., and
East India Bonds 28s. premium.
Foreign Securities have, in some instances, been
firmer. Mexican Bonds have rallied to 28 and
284. Peruvian 44 per Cents. have been at 84 to
85. Sardinian Stock is better, being at 91 t. 95.
Russian 44 per Cents. have been supported at 1021.
Spanish New Deferred Stock is at 23i to 1.
Railway Shares have been rather firmer within
the last hour, but still with very little doing in the
English lines. Scottish Central and Bristol and
Exeter have advanced. French Shares are much
the same. Upper India are still in demand.
The Gold Mine Shares have been dull again, but
at full quotations.

The Joint Stock Bank Shares have been steady
except the Australasia, which continues flat.
The Land Companies' Shares have been firmer
nominally, and Crystal Palau are better.

Metcalfe Mine Shares are 6to prem.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

(.From the Official Lid.)

Business done.
Bank Stock . • 229 i
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 9'n a A
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities ...
New 3i
,per Cent. Annuities lOll 2, •
India Bonds, £lOOO
Ditto, uuder £lOOO 2B
Consols for Aecount 9Bi i i
Exchequer Bills, Id.
£l000
2500 2 5 p
Small ... 2 5 p -
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Dutch Exchange, 2,,i per Cent. 12 Gun..,.. 654
Equador Bonds . sii
Mexican 3 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 2S 8
Peruvian Bonds, 4i per Cent. B4
Peruvian Deferred 3 per Cent.
Russian Bonds,vs per Cent.
Ditto 4.4 per Cent.
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent...
Spanish New Deferred, 3 par Cent ...... , 23i k
HALF-PAST TWO.
Consols for Opening 19th July osi 1 x d

THE MURDER AND SUICIDE AT POPLAR.—Yesterday
morning Mr. Baker held an inquest at the Norfolk Hero
Tavern, Gate-street, East India-road, Poplar, to inquire
into the deaths of Mary Picking, aged 43 years, who
was brutally murdered on Tuesday morning last, and
Francis James Picking, aged 40, who afterwards com-
mitted suicide. The circumstances related yesterday
were given in evidence, after which the jury returned a
verdict "That the deceased Francis James Pickiw: de-
stroyed his wife and his own life, being at the time in a
state of temporary insanity."

METROPOLITAN:. ASSOCIATION FOR IMPROVING THE
DWELLINGS OF THE INDUSTRIOUS CLASSES. —The an-
nual general meeting of the shareholders in this under-
taking was held yesterday afternoon at the London
Tavern, for the purpose of receiving the report, and
upon other business. Sir Ralph Howard presided, and
amongst those present were observed the Right Hon. the
Earl of Carlise, Lc,rd Radstock, the Right Hon. Viscount
Ebrington, Lord Robert Grosvenor, M.P., Lord Claude
Hamilton, M.P., Mr. W. A. Wilkinson, M.P., &c.
&c. The secretary having read the report, the chair-
man proposed t!e re-election of Lord Robert Grosvenor,
M.P., and Mr. E. Hill as directors, which, after
a slight conversation, was agreed to. The chairman
moved the adoption of the report, and stated that be re-
gretted very much that the dividend to be declared on
this occasion amounted only to one and a half per cent.
The rooms in Albert-street, Spitalfields, still remained
unlet, the reaso a for which he could not account for, ,
and that circum stance had thrown them out very consi-
derably. The manmittee lately appointed to consider
the plan adopted by Lord Kinnaird, and other benevo-
lent persons, of buying old houses and again letting them
out (instead of building new ones) had reported against
its adoption by this society, for, notwithstanding 12 per
cent. had been realised from one of the houses, the com-
mittee were of opinion that if it became known that the
society were in the market to buy up such houses, they
would rise so much in price that nothing could be
realised from them.. He concluded by moving the adop-
tion of the report. Dr. Southwood Smith seconded the
motion, and stated that the society having given to their
lodgers the means of removing filth, they had not had a
single case of fever a fact which must be highly satis-
factory to the shareholders and the public. Mr. Smith
moved, as an amendment to the report that a committee
be appointed to consider and report upon the state of
the accounts, and that this meeting be adjourned for
that purpose. He considered the accounts to be in a very
rotten condition, and kept in a very loose manner. A
long discussion having taken place upon the matter the
amendment was withdrawn, and the original motion was
carried unanimously. A dividend of 14 per cent. having
rbeen decided, the Issue) compliment was passed to the
chairman, and the n meeting separated.
ANNUAL DINNER TO UNION CHILDREN.—For some
years past the parochial officers of St. Andrew, Holborn,
St. George the Mar tyr, and St. Sepulehere Without,
have, by private sub 3criptions, given every poor child,
. of both sexes, in their several unions, a day's recreation
and substantial dinner in the month of June, and yester-
day the children we re conveyed in caravans to High-
bury Barn Tavern gi •ounds, where an agreeable repast
was prepared for th4rm. They all looked healthy, and
seemed highly delighted with the day's pleasure. Some
of their parents had 'been tradesmen and householders in
the parishes.
MAYNOOTH COLLTIGE. —Yesterday a return obtained
by Mr. Spooner was :issued, giving a detailed account of
the expenditure of 2,1891. 19s. 11d., which was stated
in a Parliamentary paper of 1851, then unexpended of
the grant of 1843, to put Maynooth College infrepair.
Since 1850, 1,907/. 2:13. 3d. has been voted for repairs,
which by the return bad been expended but 411. ss. 3d.,
which was applicable, to works.
IMMENSE CONSUII FTION OF TOBACCO.—Yesterday a
return was printed, Si 'lowing the consumption of tobacco,
&c., in the last three years. In the year ended the sth
January, 1851, the cp iantity of tobacco unmanufactured,
manufactured, and c agars, and also snuff, entered for
home consumption, v vas 27,734,7851b5., and the duty
paid thereon 4,430,1 311. 4s. 3d. In the next year the
quantity was 28,062, 8411b5., and the duty 4,485,7471.
18s. Bd., whilst in the year ended the sth January last,
the quantity was 28,5:58,7531b5., and the duty thereon
4,560,741/. 9s. 6d.
DEFEAT OF RUSSIA' NS IN THE CAUCASUS. —The Porta-
fogio Maltese, of the 1 lth, quotes letters from Trebizond,
announcing that the Czar having ordered Lieutenant-
General Wrevsky to attack Schamyl in his capital of
Argille, the Circassian s saw themselves closely invested
on 13th April, by 40,000 Russians, and 36 field-pieces.
Partial attacks were . made by the latter on different
points but Schamyl, prudently avoiding a general bat-
tle, manoeuvred to get the Russians in such a position as
to close up their retreat and prevent their advance, and
succeeded completely. He then attacked them on all
sides, and routed them with great havoc, 23 guns, and an
immense quantity of provisions falling into his hands.
Five battalions of Poles and irregular troops went over
to the Circassians on that occasion, and Schamyl subse-
quently issued a proclamation, declaring that Russian
deserters are henceforward to receive his protection.