The Sun.
London, England, 1849-03-15 00:00:00

FOREIGN FUNDS.

AMSTERDAM, MARCH 9.—The inland funds were very
firm to-day. but there was not much business. The
same may be said with regard to the Spanish debt; but
the French and Portuguese, as well as the Austrian,
were in much demand. Russian without fluctuation.
The very considerable purchases in Peruvian funds, both
old and new, again occasioned a rise of '2 per cent.

Bills

• !"-:1'
EAL MARKET, MARCH 13. fhere were in
in the market to-day 8:5 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 280110
imperial, whereof 73 sold thus :—1 at 117 s 6d, 49 at 117 s Od,
20 at 11 6s 6d, lat 116 s Od, 2at 115 s Od. Average price
of the whole, 116 s 9i 7-12ths. 14 sacks flour, whereof 2 sold at
335, 1 at 31s, and 6at 303. 4 sacks barleymeal, whereof 2 sold
at 255, and 1 at 21s. 18 sacks pot-barley, whereof 9 sold thus: --
lat 1/ lOs Od, 3atl/ 9s Od, 2at 1/5s 6d,3 at 115 s Od. 3 sacks
brosemeal, whereof 2 sold at 28s.

EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MARKET. MARCH 13.--
Suolte, i,rge. Oat stra,a, !row 6, to 7s per kemple of 16
stones trot, ; wheat do., 63 6d to 7s 6d; bade} do., 5s to 65.
Hay from 7d to 941 per stone.
CORK, MARCH 12.—Flour—Firsts 14s 6d to 15s; extra 16';
seconds 13s od to 14s Od ; households lOs to 12s ; thirds es to 19s
per cwt. Meal— Oatmeal 11s to Ils 6d; Indian 'meal 84 ; wriaat
meal II s per cwt. Indian corn 7 Os to 7 12s 6d pe; ton. Bran
41 lOs per ton. Hay Farmers 24s to 42s Od; average 385;
dealers 30s to 48s ; average UOs Od per ton. Str w—Farmeri
15s Od to' 23s Od; average 00s; dealers 27s Od to 00s Od;
average Obs Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten :loaf 6d to 7d;
household loaf 5d to 6d per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to
10d per lb. Coals—Newport 17s; Lydney 18s ; Landore 17s ;
best Neath Culm 16s per ton. Tallow 43s 6d to 443
per cwt. Whiskey, 25 0. p., 6s Od per imperial gal-
lon. Meat—Beef 4d to 7d; Mutton 5d to 6d; veal
50 to 7d ; pork 4d to 50 ; bacon 7d to 8d • sausages 6d per
lb. Hops 6/ lOs per cwt. Bangor slates 3/2s 6d to 8/ 5s per
ton. Bark—Barbary 6/ to 71; Valonia 11/ to 131; French
61; English 6/ per ton. Fleece Wool 10s to 12s per stone.
Hemp 35/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 18s to OOs ; red
ditto 25s to 273 per barrel • Newfoundland 10/ 10s to 12/ per
ton. Timber—New Memel 4/ lOs ; old scarce; red pine 31
15s ; yellow pine 31 per ton ; deals, first quality, 20/ ; second
quality 17/ per 120. Hides—Market Ils to 16s; salted 11s to
les per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 2d; market 2d to 2d per lb.
Potatoes, white 10d to 12d; Minions 18d to 19d; Guano—
Peruvian, 10/10s ; Ichaboe 91 per ton ; Tar—Archangel, 181
per barrel. Eggs, 4s to 4s 2d per hundred.
BELFAST, MARCH 12.—Butter—Firkins, first, 90; crocks,
80 ; firkins, third, 70 ; crock, 6d per Ib ; shipping price, 631
to 88s per 6wt. Potatoes, per stone, 8d to 10d; ditto, per cwt,
43 6d to ss. Butchers' Meat—beef, per lb, 4d to 70 ; mutton,
5d to 7d • veal, 6d to 70. Fish—Trout, 6d per lb ; brett, 31
to 4s; soles, Is to is 6d per pair. Poultry—Fowls, 2s 6d to
3s a •pair ; chickens, Is 6d to 2s per pair , ducks, 25 to 2s 6d
per pair ; turkeys, 3s to 4s each ; geese, 2s 6d to 3s 6d ;
per dozen, 7d. Hay, is 2d to is Ild ; straw, oat, 8d to Is Id;
ditto, wheat, 7d to lld per cwt.
BANBRIDGE, MARCH I2.—Prices to-day are as follow:-.'
Oatmeal, from 9s 9d to lOs 3d per cwt ; Indian meal, 8s Od W
Ss 9d per cwt ; flour, first, per 1121bs, 16s Od ; second, 14s 6d;
third, 12s Od ; fourth, 10s Od ; bran, 4s 6d ; wheatmeal, 1256 d
to 14s Od ; wheat, from Ss 9d to 93 9d per cwt of. 1121bs ; Ws,
hs 6d to 6s 9d ; barley, 6s 6d to Os Od per cwt ; American
flour, 28s 6d to 30s Od per brl; best butter, firkin, at the scales
9d per lb; second, 80; lump, 8d to 90 ; beef, 3d to sd;
mutton, 4d to 6d ; potatoes, 4s Od to 7s Od per cwt ; hens, 10d
to Is Od each ; chickens, 10d to Is 4d per pair; ducks, Is 10d
to 2s 4d ; turkeys, 2s 9d to 3s 9d each ; geese, 2s 6d to 3s 3d;
eggs, hen, 5d to 6d per dozen ; duck, 6d to 6d per dozen ;
tur-
key, Os to Is Od per dozen; hay, upland, from Is 4d to Is 8d
per cwt; ditto, lowland, from is Od to Is 2d; straw, from 8d
to 10d ; turnips, 8d to 10d ; pork, from 43s Od to 4759 6d per
1121bs. Weight of bread at Hamilton Moore's bakery, 4lbs for
50. Old grain whiskey, at Mr. Robert Bell's, 6s 3d per
gallon, duty paid.
BALLYMENA, MARC* 10.—Oats ss'ed to 6s 2d; oatmear
lOs Od to lOs 6d per cwt • butter, 8S; beef, 3d to 6d per lb ;
mutton, 3ifd to 7d; flour, per cwt, 18s Od ; second, 17s Od;
third, 15s Od ; inferior third, 13s Od ; fourth, 10s Od ; bran.
5s 6d to 6s 6d; Indian meal, white, per cwt, 8s Od to 8s 6d;
yellow, Ss Od to 88 6d; potatoes, 3s Od to 8s 6d per cwt; bays
II d to is 6d per cwt ; American flour, 30s per barrel ; tallover
4s Od to 5s 4d per stone ; flax, 4s Od to 53 10d ; straw, 8d to ls;
hides, 2s 6d to 6s 6d each ; pork, 37. 6d to 47s 9d per cwt;
turnips, 9d to Is per ditto; carrots, Os to is per ditto; bear*
5s 9d to 6s 6d ; grey peas, 6s 6d to 7s 6d.

COAL M.ARK.H.:`.
Bate's West Hartley 14s Od
Carr's Hartley
East Adairs Main 1 le 9d,
New Tanfield 133 6d
North Percy Hartley l3s 6d
Ord's Redheugh
!'anfield Moor
Walker's Primrose
V est Hartley
Wall's End, &c.
Bewicke and Co.
Brown's l3s (hill
Framwell Gate ... 14s Od,
Goforth ..... . ........ 13s 9dl
Gibson
Hedworth
Hilda l3e F d
South Killingworth
Eden Main
Braddyll's Hetton 153 Od

i . Y I ST E X 11 A Y.
Bell
Hetton ... l6s 01
Haswell l6s 31
Lambton
Morrison l3s 0.1
Russell's Hetton .„ 153 DI
Stewart's
Whitwell ...
Caradoe .....
Cassop.. ..... ..... .
15s DA
Hartlepool l6s yr,
l'hornley
Trimdon ... 135 01
Whitworth l2s 61
Adelaide Tees
Bartley ._ ...... .....
Nixon's Merthyr .
Whitworth Coke
Ships at market, 178.

RAIL 't, Y :Vitt ,MARKETS.
BRISTOL, MAlicu 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was rather flat, being setae,
day.—The sales are—Midland Stock, 82—Great Western, Quarter*
23( dig.—Ditto, New 171. Shares, 11. 17s. 6d. dis.

LIVERPOOL, Maaem 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market to-day is very 'thine, and IRO
business doing. Price. are again on the decline.—The sales Are"'
Lancashire and Yorkshire (late M. and B.), Fifths, 3 dis.—Ditto.
Halves (late Liverpool and Bury), 10 dis.—London and North'
Western, 135 ex div. —Ditto, Quarters, New, 5 ex in. p.--Midbr,
Stock, 79% c. ex div.—Ditto, New Halves 7% dis.—North Union (Ai:
216 —Skrewsbury and Chester, New 101. Preference. guaranteed I Pe',
cent., 16—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, ,21. 6s 3d. dis.-:
Louth-Eastern (No. 4), Thirds, 7% —York, Newcastle, andllerwic7,
(Nos. 1 and 2), 1 die. ex div.—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), pet
cent, guaranteed, 3s. 9d. dis.

BIRMINGHAM, Miami 14.
SToc a EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birmingham, Wolverhampton,
and Stour Valiley, 113( c.—North Staffordshire, 3 dis.—Shretr..;
bury and Birmingham (A), 4% dis.—Ditto (B), Gas. 9d dis. ex in.
Shropshire Union, 2 dis.—South Staffordshire, 3U dis.
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, MARCH 13.
STOCK EXCHANGE. -- The business done in the Stock Exchange t°'
day has been as follows :—Midland Stock, 82% —North Britiell•
Thirds. 4%—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (original N. and /OP
nit—Ditto (G. N. E. Purchase), 1934.

TEM MERCHANTS' AND TRADESMAN'S MUTUAL
ASSURANCE SOCIETY.—The first annual meeting of this
society took place at the office, 5, Chatham-place, Black'
friars, yesterday, J. Mac Gregor, Esq. in the chair. The
report of the directors was submitted to the meeting,
and the accounts for the year were passed. It appear
that the society was incorporated in May, 1847, and that
the number of policies issued since that period up to tb:
31st of January last, at which time the annual accotle;
was made up, was 183—representing an income 'O7
1,8781. 19s. 5d., and insurances to the amount of 03
Since the 31st of January, the society appears to be.,
tT
rapidly increased its business. In the last six weeks, o
policies have been passed, covering 16,0001. in insurance'
and 4801. 2s. 4d. in annual premiums, and there still re"
mains before the board for approval 26 proposals, repre:,
senting 7,5001. for insurance, and 2051. 2s. Bd. for pre'
miums—making the number of policies 244; the aine,c.:o
assured, 84,530/. ; and the annual income up to the tt„`'
of the meeting, 2,564/. 4s. sd. Resolutions, electing
Mac Gregor chairman for the ensuing year, and re-else_."
ing the gentlemen who vacated their seats by rotation
directors, were unanimously passed, and the meeting the
dispersed.
PRESERVATION OF LIFE FROM SHIPWRECK.—C°It!
MATTRESSES FOR SHIPS.—A number of experitnee
were last summer exhibited on the Thames and intb;
basin in Woolwich Dockyard, to prove the efficacy 0f as
invention by which the lives of sailors and pauongerlil
ships, &c., could, in the event of shipwreck, be save, ~
The invention, which was very simple, consisted in 511%
stituting cork cuttir,gs or shreds in the place of horse
hair, wool, or flock as the stuffing for mattresses, Pill°l1p 11
&c., to be employed in ships and nautical craft of all
kinds. The experiments were perfectly satisfactell;
and were approved of by Sir G. Bremer and by nninelo
persons connected with the navy and by scientific O
who witnessed them. The cork was cut into small vet'
d
micular shreds of various fineness, and a few pounds
this material were found to possess a most extraordirolff,
buoyant power. The difficulty at that time was to pr.:,
cure the article so manufactured in such quantities Its
render it generally serviceable; the instruments eel,:
ployed to cut the shreds, from the toughness of the corm
not possessing sufficient power, or being sufficietil
adapted to cut large quantitit s, except by very el,
m°
process. The consequence was the invention did not 1";
come very generally known or used. Since that 1310
machinery has been contrived and is now at work on
premises of the patentees, at the City Saw-mills, S„ss
gent's-canal, by which the cork is cut
with the greeist,,
dispatch and facility, and can be furnished to any extes.
The recent lamentable loss of 170 lives on the coast of d
sex, would not have happened had the unfortunate vesss
which was wrecked had mattresses ol this material on boat
ed
Ihe majority of the sufferers might probably have essaP
by means of it.— The Times, March 7.
[ADVERTISEMENT.]—The Surpassing Excellent
of Holloway's Ointment and Pills in the Cure of Old wow'
or Scrofulous Sores.—Four years since, Thomas Watkillio
•otton-spinner, at Manchester, received a severe wound in
arm by its coming in contact with the machinery; fora °nlo o
derable time he was attended by several medical men at
so
Infirmary, who decided that nothing could save the penrlllol
life but amputation. To this he objected, whereupon De .becl
discharged as incurable. At this crisis his friends subset-11w
a trifle to purchase some of Helloway's Ointment and r
ialog
which remedies in a few weeks healed the wound, after a°
ot
a period of suffering.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Profeo
Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.

BIRTHS.
On the 12th inst., at Chatham, the wife of Captain Chary
Fanshawe, Royal Engineers, of a son.
On the 10th inst., at Lepton, Essex, Mrs. Charles Dames
of a son.
11/410 On the 10th inst., at Wembden, near Bridgewater,
Henry Codrington, of a daughter.
„,
On the 11th inst., at Radnor-villas, Folkestone, Ja-
Lucas, of a daughter.
On the 12th inst., at Grove-road, North Brixton, the 11'
of J. E. Giles, Esq., of a son.
On the 12th inst., at South Lambeth, Mrs. E. B. lie-
witty
of a daughter.
On the 12th inst., Mrs. Allison, of Regent-street, of tW''
—a girl and boy.
On the 13th inst., at Glocester-terrace, ilvde-nark-P.rdBl3
the lady of W. Logan, Esq., of a son. •

MARRIED. d
On the 10th ult., at the Pa lace of St. Michael and
George, Corfu, lonian Islands, C. B. Greenhill, Esq.,Ordll
Storekeeper, to Mary Jane, only daughter of the late
Russell, Esq., of London and Limerick.
We'
On the 12th inst., at St. George's Church, Hanover—sci taio
by his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, C,aPiste
Cockburn, of the 11th Regiment, eldest son of tualdest
Walter Cockburn, Esq., to Emma Georgiana Eleanor, el 101
daughter of C. D. Raiford, Esq., of Grosvenor-B,llWe'
of West Lodge, in the county of Suffolk.

On the 11th inst., at WesthpolrEppe:house, near Mart°27bogu
ridei
Marshal Sir George Nugent, Bart., G.C.8., aged
of the Bth Regiment of Foot, and Governor of St. ga.rskiti
On the Bth inst., at the Firs, Kenilworth, agcd i"' t 01
Hassard, eldest child of Lieut.-General Thomas
the Madras Army.
On the 9th inst., at Old Brentford, Middlesex-, T. $Ol
Esq., aged 76. eat
At Bru4es, on the 11 th inst., Emily Catharine, Youljg
aired daughter of the Rev. Charles de Coetlogen, l7' After
On the 12th inst., in Itl.lton-street, Dorset-square,
relict of the late W. Whitehead, Esq. 71,
At Sawbridgeworth, Herts, on the 12th inf
Pie
Elizabeth, relict of Mr. W. Beaumont, late of 130."
Stortturd.
On the I:.;th inst., at Lewes, Charles S. Cooper,

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