The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-03 00:00:00

DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.

This morning clock, there was a sudden
(THIS DAY.)
outbreak of fire, about fire o
upon the extensive premises belonging'
to Messrs. Badger and Co., wholesale confectioners, 15
and 16, Bishopsgate-street Without. So strong a hold
had the flames obtained before their existence was known
to the
alarm was sounded fire in immense sheets shot high
Police, that in less than five minutes after the
into the air. The engines of the parish, London Esta-
blishments, with those of the West of England and
County companies, arrived in a short period, and a
powerful body of water was scattered over the flames.
The firemen were unable to get the fire extinguished
until the upper and first floors on the south wing of the
premises were burned out, and the valuable stock therein
destroyed. The damage will reach to several hundred
pounds. Fortunately the other portions of the premises
received no damage unless by water.
About one hour previous the premises in the occupa-
tion of Messrs. C. and J. Reid, tailors, No. 21, Saville-
place, Lambeth, were discovered to be on fire. The
police gave an instant alarm, and the engines of the
brigade and West of England promptly attended. The
fire was soon got out, but not until the flooring, parti-
tions, fixtures, and stock in trade were damaged. The
stock was insured in the London Fire-office.

TURKEY AND GREECE.—Advices from the Turkish
frontier, to the 18th of October, announce that the
French Consul at Bucharest had complied with the re-
quest of the Greek agent, and conceded provisionally
the protection of the French flag to Greek commerce
and Greek subjects ; but, before giving this act an offi-
cial character, awaited instructions from his Government.
The Russian Consul-General expressed his approval of
the step taken by the French Consul. The Porte seems
willing to relax in the coercive measures it has taken, so
as to give time to the new Grc,k Ministry to effect a
r, conciliation. The GorQrnincnt of St. Peter,burglt iw
said
men
tto t o
heao vmees
tt
or strongly ly- re c
amicable mendarrangemented th e Gewritek Govern-
hoie Porte
as speedily as possible.

EVENING,

The following report from the Bristol market may be
interesting :

"Importers of raw sugar having mostly withdrawn
their samples from the market, and the supply on show
being consequently very indifferent and limited, the
transactions of the month scarcely reach 1,000 hhds.
West India and 5,000 mats Mauritius, purchases, how-
ever, both in Liverpool and London, particularly of
sugars suitable for the pans, are still being made on a
large seale, and this must continue to be the case until
our importers bring forward their stocks, which, at
present, we see no prospect of their doing. No sales of
consequence are reported in Bengals; and, indeed, for
grocery sugars of all descriptions the demand is exceed-
ingly limited, which arises, we believe, in a great mea-
sure from the daily increasing; consumption of manu-
factured crushed sugar."
The English Securities have been fluctuating. Con-
sols have been 811 to 82f for Money, and 811 to 82k.
for Account. Money. from day to day has been ra-
ther easier. Exchequer-bills have realised 16s. to 19s-
discount, and India Bonds 355. discount. Bank Stock
is worth 1851, and India Stock 229. The New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents. have been 8l to 82j.
The Foreign Stocks are merely nominal. Belgian
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 88 ex-dividend ; Mexican,
151 to 16i ; and Spanish Three per Cents., 26i to 27.
For Railway Shares the quotations are much the same
as yesterday.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Anns.. Bl 811/4 8034 81
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities.. .. 82 813/ 824 82
New 34 per Cent. Anns . 8144 821/4 82
LongAnns. to expire Jan. 1860 ... 84% 8
Ditto, Oct. 10, 1859 ..... ...... 8 1-16 8 1-16

,
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 83(1% 81/2
India Stock 229 229
India Bonds, 1,0001.
Consols for Account Bl% 82%14 821
Exchequer Bills. 3d.
1,000/.
500/
Sinai!

OXE cLosrsl3
O'CLOCK N ICES

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto, Small
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent Cent
Ditto, 3 per Cent
Grenada Bonds, 1 per Cent.
Ditto, Deferred
Russian Bonds •• •••
Dividends on the above payable in London.
French Rentes, 5 per Cent. ...... —l. —c. 1141. —c.
Exchange —l. —c. 25f. 80c
j Belgian 4% per Cent BBx d 88 x d
Dutch, 2% per Cent., 12 Guild S3IA 53 53
PRICES OF PAID. BUSINESS DONE CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES
Aberdeen

Amber., Nott., Boston,
and Eastern Junction 2%
Ayrshire and Galloway.. 21,E —
Belfast & County Down 10 ..... .
Birmingham and Ox-
ford Junction
Birmingham], Welver-
hampton, and Dudley 10 .. 13
Birm Wolverh'p ton,
and Stour Va11ey..... 8

78%
48%
31,fi
105

18%
13

Birkenhead, Lancashire,
and Cheshire Junc.... 7%
Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 6 —
Bristol end Exeter 75
Ditto, Thirds
Buckinghamshire 101. 45 ..... .•••••••
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares..... 334 --
Ditto, Clydesdale Junc 50
Chester and Holyhead... 371
Ditto, Preference 8
Clarence
Do. Ist Class, 6 per Ct
Do. 2d Class, 5 per Ct. 10
Do. Government Loan,
4 per Cent. lO .....
Dublin and BelfastJunc. 20
Dundalk & Enniskillen 15
East Anglia, 25/., L. &
E. and L. and D....••• 25
Do., 18/., E. & H.... 18
Do., 3/.105., E. &H. 1
Eastern Counties
Ditto, Perpetual, 5 per
Cent, No. 1....... 6/.135. 4d... 14 dis
Ditto ditto, No. 2... 61. 13s. 4d...
Do., York Extension.. 10 ...
Do., North. & Eastern 50 ...... ••.•••
Do., Quarters
Do., New
Eastern Union 5O .. •••
Ditto, Quarter Shares 121/ —
I)i tto, Thirds ... ..... 13s. 4d
Do., (guar. 6 percent)
East Lancashire
Ditto, New
Ditto, New Quarters... 3%
East Lincolnshire
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 ..... 48
Ditto Half Shares ... 15
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%
Edinburgh & Northern.. 20
Ditto, New

211/2

-

16%

M dis

14
7%

. _
Ditto, Newport ..... ... 7 —
Ditto, ditto, New . .... IIA —
Edinburgh and Perth... 2
Ditto, Extension los.
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorch. 254
Ditto, New .2
Glasgow Dumfries, and
Carlisle 8/. 68.8 d
Glasgow, Kilmar.,& Ayr 50 ......
Ditto, New
Do. Preference Consol. 12% —
Great Northern 8
Do., London and York 21/..
Great South. and West.
(Ireland)
Great Northof England..loo 218
Ditto, New 401.
Ditto, New 30/. BO
Ditto, New 151 ll% - ..
Great Westein. B 5
Ditto, % Shares 5O —
Ditto, % Shares
Ditto, Fifths
Ditto, New 171
Huddersfield & Mulches. 22 ...... ........ ....
Ditto, Thirds ....
Hull and Selby 5O .. ... 98%. ...... ...... 98%
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, 14 Shares 12% ...
Ipswich Bury St. Edm. 15 . 61/2%
Do., do., and Norwich 15
Do., do., Extens. Scrip
(late Camb. & Ely)... 2%......
Lancaster and Carlisle... 50
Ditto, Thirds
Lancashire & Yorkshire 82
Ditto % Shares . ... 38
Do. Quarter Shares... 141,E III,E
Do. Fifths
Do. Sixteenths 6,4 —
Do. Thirds (Reg.)....10/. 4s. ...
Do. Liverp. and Bury 34
Ditto % (late Hud-
dersfield and SheiT.) 33
Do.(Wakefield, Ponte-
fract. & Goole - •
Do. (W. Riding Union) 4/.2a 23/ % % dis.... 2% dis.
Do. (Preston & Wyre) 25
Do. 14 Shares (A) 9
Ditto ditto (B) ... 114 ..... -
Leeds and Bradford 5O
Leicester and Bedford... 16s. ......
Leeds, Dewsbury, Srea• • • 371,1 — ...............
Do., Branch 1/ Shares 121,1 -
Do. New Branch( blue) 210 s — ••••••

2%

153/4
23

s 4

11%
5%

Do. Extension (green) 21/2•• •••
Do. NewExten. (pink) 2%
Leeds and Thirsk
Ditto, New 17% — ... . **** ••••••
Do., Prefer., 6 per Ct. 3 1-,(,, „
Liverpool, Crosby and
SouLupurt .... ....... 2
Liverp., lanchstr&NeW
castle Junction 21,4 ...... —.
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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The sales of Cotton yesterday at Liverpool were only
1,000 to 1,200 bales, the market being very dull.
American was sold chiefly. Railway shares were flat.
Although different writers will take contrary views,
and we differ from those of Messrs. Ferguson and
Taylor, as far as causes are concerned, we believe that
their report of the state of the markets is interesting,
and we know that it is accurate. They state—

"As may be inferred from what we have already said,
prices of all descriptions of manufactures have been un-
settled and declining under the pressure of a comparative
cessation of demand and monetary difficulties ; P. L.
Printers have been in only very limited request, and
prices, in a great measure, are nominal. Some clearances
to raise the needful prompt, have been sold at
unquotable rates, lower than taken in 1841, and
on which doubtless a considerable sacrifice was
made, as the web was woven from high-priced
cotton before the late decline. The turn out' against
an attempted reduction of wages by,the operatives of
Ashton-under-Lyne, if persevered in, may sustain the
value of these fabrics somewhat, which result, doubtless,
will not be objectionable to the manufacturers of that
district ; but we would rather have seen the suspension
of production, and its consequences, accomplished by a
combined movement more likely to preserve an ami-
cable feeling between the employers and the employed,
than by the present struggle to uphold the value of
labour. Stocks at present are sufficiently abundant,
and prices have a drooping tendency ; nine-eighths
maddapolams and skirtings are neglected, more es-
pecially the former. Prices of the lat4er have declined
about 4i-d. to 6d. per piece. Forty-inch G. E. India
longcloths have declined to the lowest rates at which
they were ever offered in this market, and the sales that
have been effected this month have been at prices most
ruinous to the producers ; some parcels have changed
hands at prices unexampled at any previous period
of the severest pressure. Stocks are yet abun-
dant, notwithstanding the great curtailment which
has taken place in production. G. E. cambrics and jac-
conets have been only of limited inquiry, and prices are
drooping; stocks, however, are not very heavy. Do-
mestics, which suffered so severely from the advance in
cotton, never obtained a proportionate advance to the
rise of the staple, and consequently the production was
greatly reduced; stocks, however, have continued to
accumulate, and although by no means superabundant,
yet the value of these goods has declined within the last
week or ten days, owing partly to the fall in
the value of the raw staple, and partly to
the general exigencies of the times. If business
shortly revives these staples will be amongst the first to
advance in value. Velvets and velveteens are much de-
pressed, and prices are receding."
There are no further failures, but the Bank is said to
have further applications for assistance to some extent
now before it.

NOVEMBER 3, 1847.

OMNI '

Do. New, No. 1 6 . ..... . ..... .......
Do. New, No. 2 .. 3/ 13s. 4d....
Do. Extension l5
London, Brighton, and
South Coast 5O
Do. Consol. Eighths.. 20
Do. Guarant. 5 per ct. 9
Do. Pref. Con.s per ct. 50
London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d —
Ditto, Preference ... 18/1752d...
Loudon and N. Western 100 149 150......
Do., Quasters L. & B. 17
Do., do., New
Ditto Fifths
.., ~ .........
Do. 1j Shares (G. J.) 25
Do 40LShares(L.M.) 15 —
Do. 40/. (M. & B.) ... 40
Do. 101. (AV & B.) A. 71/2
Do. 10/. (M. & B.) B. 7% lO% lO%
Do. 101. M. & B.) C. 1
Load. & S.Western 411. 62. 8d 54 ... .. ...... .. 54
' Do. NOW ConsoL Bths 40 —
Do. New 50/. ... ..... 32%.. .. 281/2
Do. New 40/ . 26 ... .
Do. Tenths (Consol.) 50
Ditto ditto .„,.... .... 40
Ditto, Thirds 61.135. 4d.... 1 1% dis. ..... . 1% dis
London, Salisbury, -and
Yeovil
Londonderry&Culeraine 27% ....... ........
Londonderry and Ennis-
killen 233,4.....
Mancliester,Buxton,and
Matlock 3 ...... 1%
Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire ...100 - ...
Do. Quarters (No. 1) 13
Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25
Ditto ditto (No. 3)... 71/2
Ditto and Grimsby.... 25
Ditto ditto . ........ 7
Ditto ditto
Ditto Sheffield and

28%
....

Lincolnsb;re 71,4
Manchest. & Southampt. VA.--
Ilildand lOO 106% 108.— ... . 108
Do. Consolidated Pref.100
Do. 401. Shares
Do. 501. Shares
Do. Birm., and Derbyloo
Midland Consol. Brist. &
Birming., 6 per cent.loo
Midlnd, Brist. &Glocstr. 34 ......
Ditto, ditto 71.9s — ......... .....
Midlnd, Leicest. & Swan-
nington, 8 per ct.guar. 50
Midland Great Western
Trish BO —

weastle and Carlisle...loo
Do. Quarters 5O

Newmrket& Chesterford 13%

Do. Extension ...... ...2/..f25....

Newport, Abergavenny,
and Hereford . 4. ......
Newry and Enniskillen 7
Newry, Warrenpoint,
and Rostrevor .. 10

__ ........ -..
Norfolk ... ..... - ........ -.100
Do. New 201.
_ _ ..... ..••.• •

..... ...... .
Do. Extension
Do. Scrip, 1847, North
of Norfolk._
Do. do. Waveney Val. 2
Northern Counties Union 4 —
North British . ....... ... 25 24% 25
Do. Half Sham l2l/......
Do. Quarters 4:4 3% 4
Do. Extension
• ••••
Ditto Thirds
North Staffordshire 7%..«.. 6% 7
North Wales
North Western
Oxford, Worcester, and
Wolverhampton ...... 35 ...
Reading, Guildford, and _. .

Reigiiie
7%
Royston and Hitchin ... 1% ..
Scottish Central
Scottish Midland 171,1 — . ..-
__ Ditto, New

Sheffield, Rotherham,
and Goole
Shrewsbury and Birm... 6
Ditto ditto, Class B. 3
Shrewsbury & Chester
... ( Nor. W. Min.) l6
Ditto Halves ... ditto 8
Ditto Oswestry ...... 12
Ditto New
Shrewsbury and Herefd 2 ......
Shropshire Union
South Devon 40 - 000000 ••••••••
Do. Preference
South Staffordshire 21. 128....
South Eastern & Dover 331/B 271,( % ...
Do., No. 1 2O
Do., Nc. 2.
Do., No. 3
Do., No. 4
South Wales ...... 15
South Yorkshire, Don-
caster, and Goole 2 —
Swans. & Loughor & Ca-
meron's Stm. C0a1.... 4
Taw Vale Extension ... 4
Thames Haven Dock
and Railway
~,
Vale of Neath ... .. ...... 4
Waterford and Kilkenny 131,,E •
Waterford and Limerick 35 —
Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw,

and Dublin
West Cornwall
Whitehaven & Furness 8 —
Windsor, Staines, and
South Western..... ... 42s
wilt., Somerset, & Wey-
mouth ........ ..-..... 25
York, Newcastle, and
Berwick.
Do. Original New and
Berwick
Do. North Shields Pur. 25 - •• • ....... ••
Do. Extension No. 1. 10
........ ... ..
Do. do. No. 2......... 10
Do. G.N.E.Preterence 8 ...... 814; 734 814...
York and North Midland 50
Ditto, Preference
Do. East and Westßid.
ing Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Anglo-Belgian 4 --
Barbadoes 1
Bottiogne and Amiens... 20 ...... ......... =,
Central of France (Or-
leans and Vierzon) ... 14
Central of Spain ... . ... 2
Ceylon
Demerara 2l, ... .
Dendre Valley
Direct Bombay and
Madras - ...... .• •• • •
Dutch Rhenish
East Indian ... ..... .... ss.
Great Indian Peninsular ss. ......
Great Southern of Madras 55.
Great Western Bengal... ss.
Great Western Canada... 3J
Italian and Austrian. ... 4 ... -
Jamaica S.Dilid. Junction 1
Louvain ala Sambre ... 6 ... • --- ........
Luxembourg.
Lyons and Avignon 5
Madras 1
Madras. Nellore, and
Arcot %
Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... ..
Namur and Liege
Northern of France....... 10 .. ...
Orleans and Bordeaux 6 •
Over Yssel 4l3s 4d
Paris and Lyons .. 10 ...... ...............
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasbourg 8
... ......... ••• -
Rouen and Havre
Sambre and Meuse ...... •16 .... 41 .. ... ..... ... 3%
Strasbourg and Bale ... 14
lours and Nantes ...... 3
3 ••
Tournay, Jurbise, Lan-
den, and Hasselt....... 12
Trinidad
West Flanders ...... .... 8
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
London Joint Stock
British North American 50
Colonial 25
Commercial of London 20 —
Provincial of Ireland ... 25
Dit to, New
London & Westminster. 20
Ditto New........ ...... 13
National Prov. England. 35
Ditto, New ...... .. ..... 10
National of Ireland 221,4...... ..,
Union of Australia
Ditto,New... ........ ... 2% ......
Union of L0nd0n..„..... 10
•••
Union of Madrid 40