The Sun.
London, England, 1847-01-25 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Our commercial accounts from New York do not extend
-to a later date than the 2d inst.:—

NEW YORK, SATURDAY, J. 2, 2 P.M.—The sales of ashes
this week are small, amounting to only 400 bbls. of both de-
scriptions, including pots at 4 dolls. 683/4c. to 4 dolls. 75c.,
and pearls at 5 dolls. 50c. The sales of cotton for the week
sum up 4,600 hales, of which 3,800 were Upland and Florida,
and 800 Mobile and New Orleans. The arrivals during the
same period were 7,864 bales►. The market closes firm, and
without change in prices since Saturday last. We quote as
follows:

Middling to good middling 10% to 10% 1014 to 10%
Middling fair to fair lO% to 11 11 to 111/2
Fully fair to good fair ... 1114 to 1114 12 to 12 j 2
There is no change in flour, The sales of tallow this week
amount to 60,0001 b. at Bc. B%c. per lb. The Albany Journa
says that it has been ascertained, after a careful examination,
that there are 29,305 barrels of flour now in store in that
city. This is supposed to be about one-halt the amount in
store last year. Eastern orders were filled at Albany on
Thursday at 5 dolls. 37%c. to 5 dolls. sc. fur good Genesee.
NEW ORLEANS, DEC. 24.—Cotton--The sales of the day
amount to 2,500 bales, at very full prices, taken for France
and the north.

DECEMBER 22.—Freights--Nothing new has transpired
in foreign freights. Coastwise there is little offering. Flour
has been shipped to New York at 85c., and to Boston .at
90c. Pork and beef 1 doll. sc. to New York, and 1 doll. 12c.
to Boston.

DECEMBER 23.—A barque was taken for Marseilles at 1 doll.
50c. for flour, and a ship for London at 6s. Gd. for flour, and
20d. for corn. Some engagements were made this morning
for Liverpool at 6s. flour and 18d. for corn.
DECEMBER 24.—We did not hear of a single cotton en-
gagement for Europe. A brig was taken for Antwerp at
I doll. 60c. for flour, and the Bremen ship Olbers, for the
same port, at 1 doll. 50c. per barrel for flour.

LEAMINGTON STEEPLE CHASES.—The frost having
disappeared in this part of the country, the steeple chases
will take place on Wednesday and Thursday next. There
are a great many horses for the different races, and altogether
it will be one of the best steeple-chase meetings that has ever
been. The Selling Stakes and hurdle race closes on the
night previous to the steeple chases ; and all stakes are to be
paid up for the first day by seven o'clock on Tuesday
evening, and the second day by seven o'clock on Wednesday
evening, to Mr. Merry, saddler, Warwick-street. There will
also be a grand dress ball on the Wednesday evening, at the
Assembly Rooms. The steeple chases will come off on
Warwick Race-course. _

It is a matter on which we may congratulate our-
selves and our readers, that not a single case of cholera has
been reported at the police-office for the last three months.—
Bombay Telegraph.
Viscount Morpeth entertained at dinner on Satur-
day last the Marquis and Marchioness of Lorn, the American
Minister and Mrs. Bancroft, the Hon. F. Ponsonby, the Hon.
C. Howard, Mrs. Drummond, Mrs. Sharpe, Mr. and Mrs.
Mackintosh, Mr. and Mrs. K. Shuttleworth, Mrs. Broadhead,
and Mr. Orme.

MANCHESTER, FRIDAY, JAN. 22. The gloom
whish hung over the market on Tuesday continues unabated.
The decline in the value of cotton at Liverpool has appa-
rently destroyed the confidence of buyers in the prices of
goods and yarn, and they are unwilling to operate, even at. a
reduction of quite equal to the decline in cotton. During the
week one or two failures have been announced, but they are
not of very serious magnitude.—Manchester Guardian.
We have to announce the death of the Countess de
Bondy, one of the Ladies in Waiting on the Queen of the
French. She survived her husband but a week.

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BA L COSTUME AT CROCKFORD'S.—The conversion
oc.t.3toictiimprtt into assembly rooms has
proved completely successfully. The salons on Monday and
Thursday evenings are well attended. It is the intention of
the spirited lessee to give a aeries of fancy balls next month,
commencing on Wednesday, the 3d of February, with a grand
bal costume.

REDUCTION IN THB PRICE OF BREAD.—On
Saturday, for the first time during the past eight or ten
weeks, the price of bread underwent a general and consider-
able reduction, with, however, some variations in different
(inlaid' of the metropolis. In the western parishes the price
oldie best four-pound loaf is II d., and that of the household
qua liby 91/4d. In the neighbourhood of Drury-lane the price
is without exception 101/ad. best, and 9d. inferior; and in
Southwark and Lambeth from 1042 d. to 84d., and in some
instances as low as 71(2d.
FIRE IN LEATHER-LANE.—Last evening, between
five and six o'clock, a fire was discovered upon the premises
in the occupation of Mr. Wymer, a bread and biscuit baker,
No. 70, Leather-lane. The flames originated in the bake-
house on the basement, which contained a large quantity of
shavings for heating the oven. Owing to their inflammable
nature it was found impossible to extinguish the flames with-
out the assistance of the engines, which, however, speedily
arrived ; and an abundance of water being at band, the fire-
men succeeded in confining the flames to that portion of the
building in which they originated. Considerable damage
was done to the stock-in-trade and premises. Mr. Wymer
is insured in the Phccnix.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT TO A NEWSPAPER MES-
SENGER.—As a mounted messenger was on Saturday even-
ing riding at a furious pace with a large parcel of newspapers
for the Post-office, St. Martin's-le-Grand, his horse slipped at
Temple-bar, and he fell with fearful violence to the ground.
When raised up he was quite insensible, and blood flowed
profusely from injuries which he had sustained about the
head. his wounds having been bound up in an adjoining
surgeon's, and the requisite stimulants administered, he was
conveyed to his home in a state of the most intense suffering.
ACCIDENT AT THE LIVERPOOL AMPHITHEATRE.—
On Nlonday night a man in the gallery of the Amphitheatre,
who had left his place during one of the acts, missed his
footing
_while endeavouring to spring into his former seat,
was precipitated over the railing into the pit, a depth of at
least thirty feet, and fell upon two ladies. The bench upon
which they were sitting was split, but, marvellous to relate,
with the exception of a few bruises, the man and the ladies
were, we believe, uninjured. —Liz erpool Mercury.
THE IRISH PARTY.—Mr. George A. Hamilton,
Mr. W. S. O'Brien, Lord Bernard, and Mr. Godley, who
have been deputed to act for the committee, arrived in
London on Saturday, and on Monday apartments were ob-
tained in Palace-yard, Westminster, where the Irish Peers
and Members of the House of Commons will have the op-
portunity of consultation and conference.—Dubliu Eeening
Ma il.
CORN AND COALS.—It was mentioned by several of
the coal•merchants in the City, on Saturday, that so great
has the demand for vessels become within the last few days,
to be employed in importing corn from America, that it is
almost impossible to get vessels for any other purpose, and
under no circumstances except at enormous rates, It was
added that a large number of vessels hitherto employed ex-
clusively in the coal trade have been engaged to sail for
New Orleans with all possible dispatch. But for the scarcity
of shipping the coal-merchants say that the prices would, in
a few weeks, have undergone a great reduction—most pro-
bably to their usual price of from 28s. to 30s. per ton. The
quantities at the coal-pits in the North of England, ready to
be sent to the London market, are immensely great, and
every exertion is making by the coalowners to get them
forwarded to the metropolitan market. It was stated 90
Saturday that some hundreds of colliers are anchored
in. time
lower parts of the Thames, a :waiting a favourable wi d t
proceed up the Pool.
oNGST DIS-
DISTRIBUTION OF ABOVE 700/.
Ammeeting of the
TRISSED JEWS.—On Sunday evening
athe various metro-
Rabbi and other officials connectedldat the Jewish Free Schools,
purpose of distribut-
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Chief Rabbi had issued a circular calling upon the inferior
Rabbi to make a collection in their various synagogues for
their immediate succour. The sum thus collected amounted
to above 7001.; amongst the donors were the Messrs. Roths-
child, 1001.; Baroness Rothschild, 50/. ; Sir Moses and Lady
Alontefiore, 501., &c., &C. There were about 1,200 poor per-
sons of the persuasion, of both sexes, present to partake of
the bounty, which was dispensed in money and tickets for
food and fuel.

WRECK OF THE GLENLYON OF PERTH,—Some time
ago we noticed the loss of this vessel at Salt Creek, in the
Bay of Honduras, on the 9th of October last. The second
mate, James Oliver, arrived here on Thursday, having come
to Cork in the Prince Llewlellyn, of Liverpool. He states
that the vessel was driven ashore from her moorings by One
of the most dreadful hurricanes that had happened in that
quarter for many years. After the vessel was stranded, the
crew remained on board, the most of them nearly naked, for
twenty-four hours, till, the storm abating; they got on land
by means of a rope. During the hurricane the clothes of
the crew wire washed ashore, and on the landing of the'
second mate, the only person he perceived was ,an Indian
dressed in his bonnet and jacket, who betook himself imme-
-1 diately to the woods. The crew, ten in number, -were ex-
posed to a deal of privation after the disaster—so much so
that only three remained alive, two of whom were sent to
Belize in a sickly condition. The master, Forsyth„ a native
of Dundee, died shortly after he landed, and the mate, who',
had embarked for Cork on board the Prince Llewlellyn, died
two days before her arrival at that port.—Dundee Advertiser: