The Sun.
London, England, 1841-10-25 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, OCT. 22.—Prerious to
the arrival of the Caledonia steam-ship, the market was
in a feverish state ; holders of American Cotton were
offering very sparingly, and at an advance of id. per lb.
on Friday's quotations. Subsequent to it they have sup-
plied the demand better, and the extreme advance has
not been maintained. We quote ordinary, middling, and
fair qualities TO. per lb. higher,and extreme rates for good
fair and good. Surat is rather worse to buy. Brazils
and Egyptians have been stationary throughout the
eek. Sea Islands are difficult to buy at last wer'
prices. There have been taken on speculatie-
American.

-K'S
..1 5,700

LIVERPOOL
SHARE MARKET, Oc.;/.. 23.—The trans-
actions at the Stock Exchange to-day have been very
limited. They comprise only the following :—Grand
Junction, Half Shares, 95i ; Livotrool and Manches-
ter, 197.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 22.—The
Share Market has been very fiat to-day. Our only
transaction is, London and Birmegham, Quarters, 21.?,.
Up to the present time the•:e has been but little busi-
ness doing. Consols are 671 IT for Money, and 884
for the Account; Exche4uer
Spanish Active S'„00;', 201. 10s. 12s. prem.
4 ; Portuguese Five per
Cents., 29i ; Dr.to. Threes, 17i 18.
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, OCT. 21.
3 per Cent. c_;onsols
Three aa;t Half Stock 96a 'Grand Canal Stock ......
Ditto Reduced
Ditto New 1830 964 I Ditto 4 per cent ..
34 Per Cent. Jobs.
There h-..s been but little business doing in the Stock
Exchan:6e. Consols are now 874 for Money, and 884
for tke Account ; Exchequer Bills, 11 12 prem. ; Three
per Cent. Reduced, 864 87 ; Ditto Three-and-a-Half,
9.6-1 Spanish Active Stock are now quoted at 204 ;
Brazilian Bonds, 514 51 52; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 514 4 ; Colombian, 184.
There has been rather more business doing in the
Share Market. Birmingham and Derby are 48 ; Great
Western, 74 75 ; Ditto, New, 74; London and Brighton,
37i 4 ; London and Birmingham, 157 do., and South
Western, 52 ; South Eastern and Dover, 19.
Consols, 874 88; Ditto, Account, 884 4 ; Spanish,
204 4.
No alteration to notice, and very little business doing.
The operations in the produce markets recently have
been on a snore liberal scale, and altogether better calcu-
lated to give satisfaction to the sellers. There is still a
good deal of excitement among the Tea brokers respecting
the large quantity of spurious loaf, a compound of
rose leaves and indigo, which has recently been bare-
facedly sold in the market. Some of the brokers com-
plain that Mr. Bland should have taken the matter up,
when much more influential men might have
done it. Mr. Bland, however, is perfectly right. Like
Columbus' egg, he has been the first to act upon the
subject ; and it is a disgrace to the trade that none of
its more influential members have done it be-
fore him. This hint is intended only for those who
evince a disposition to shirk the matter and evade in-
quiry, for we know that the majority of the respectable
dealers wish to have this enormous evil remedied.
The spirit of exclusiveness and the close trade
system, where nothing is good but what is done
by an initiated person, or a wealthy member
of the trade, is quite at variance with the sentiments
and resolves of the public. Let this inquiry be resumed,
and that immediately, or the Excise may prove less
civil to the adulterators than we have been.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock ... 1634 India Stock •••
3 per Cent Red .. 87 Ditto Bonds pr
3 per Cent Cons B7i :Ditto Old Annuities ...
34 per Cent Red 964 ;Ditto New Annuities...
New 34 per Cent 974 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....24d II pm
New 5 per Cent Ditto 5001........ 12 pre
Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small. ...14 pm
Jan 1860 . . 12j ;Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859 l2 5-16 India Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860. ;Consols for Acct BB4
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgidn, 5 per cent — !Ditto, New Ditto 294
Brazilian 80nd5.... 52 Prussian, 5 per cent —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Inussian, 5 per cent
Chilian, 6 per cent...... ;Ditto Metallic
Colombian, 6 per cent... !Spanish, 5 per cent 204
Ditto, 1824. — !Ditto, Deferred
Danish, 3 per cent ... ;French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. ;Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent.... !French, 3 per cent —f.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825, Dutch, 2i per cent. ... bib
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent
SHARES
Birmingham and Derby Railway (100 pd) 48
Bristol and Exeter (60 paid): ..... . 26
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid 544
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) 37 j
London and Birmingham (90) .........
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid) .., 214
London and South Western

Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) —
Ditto Quarter Shares ( lb paid)
South Eastern and Dover (43 paid)... 19

STRIKE OF THE MASONS.

We have been requested to publish the following letter
from the Scottish Association of Masons to the Masons
lately employed at the new Houses of Parliament :
" Edinburgh, Oct. 21, 1841.
" BRETHREN,---I have just received yours of the 19th
instant, and regret that there should be any apparent
backwardness on our part ; but we understood that your
delegate here would have written to you prior to his
leaving for Dundee on Wednesday morning, accompanied
by a member of this branch.

" We beg to state that the rumour about men being
engaged here for London was altogether without
foundation.

" In reference to pecuniary aid, you must be aware
that we cannot act in that respect without the concur-
rence of others, but ne time shall be lost. I have warned
a meeting of the National Committee for this evening,
who may probably take it upon them immediately to
send you one hundred pounds. In the meantime, there
is no fear of money. The Edinburgh branch has una-
nimously passed a resolution recommending that five
hundred pounds be sent to London to support the masons
lately employed at the new Houses of Parliament, and
more if required.

" A circular will be issued to-night, and returns on this
question called for, but many will not be waited for.
There is no doubt of plenty of money.
" I need nut state how earnestly we feel in your af-
fairs, but the best way to demonstrate this is in some more
substantial way. Let our English brethren be true to
each other. The battle they have engaged in is no or-
dinary one. Let them know that they shall not endure
the struggle alone—a nation (as masons) who have never
been conquered, a nation of hardy Scotsmen, are allies;

they may count upon us come weal, come woe.' But
no hesitation--no wavering—no breaking of the ranks.
One unbroken, undecided movement, and victory shall
be ours. lam in haste, but shall write you soon again.
" With an earnest anxiety for a snccesful termina-
tion, I remain, brother, your 's devotedly,
'• JOHN 41)1E, National Secretary.
" 19, Ponton-street, Edinburgh."

TESTIMONIAL TO MR. JOHN MITCHELL,
BCORSELLER, QUEEN-STREET.-----011 Tuesday evening
last, Mr. Mitchell was entertained, by a party of his
friends, in the Bon-Accord Temperance Coffee-room,
for the purpose of presenting him with a handsome and
elegantly-finished Time-piece, as a mark of esteem fur
his able and consistent advocacy of the people's rights—
Mr. Mackay, printer, in the chair. The Chairman, after
expressing the high satisfaction he felt in presiding on
such an occasion, introduced Mr. M‘lienzie, who pre-
sented the testimonial in a neat and appropriate speech.
Mr. Mitchell returned thanks in his usual frank and
open manner. Mr. Ord next addressed the meeting
briefly. Mr. Strachan, after eulogising Mr. Mitchell for
his straightforward conduct, alluded to his talented de-
fence of Lovett's Chartism, and called upon the mem-
bers of the National Association to exert themselves, as
he was sure that the principles of the " new move " re-
quired only to be known to be appreciated. Mr. Lobban
also gave an excellent speech, The meeting was enter-
tained by a number of beautiful songs and recitations,
and broke up at an early hour on Wednesday morning,
highly delighted at- the way in which they had enjoyed
themselves.--Glasgow Paper.
HIDEOUS BARBARITY.—A horrible murder
has just been committed in the department of the Meuse,
under circumstances as mysterious as they are extraor-
dinary. The jege d€ paix of the district, accompanied by
the gendarmes end by two physicians, proceeded, in ac-
cordance with information which he had received: to the
house of a carpenter named Christophe, trron the thres-
hold of this house, covered with erearse and Woody cloth,
lay the inanimate body of ft OH of 17. On the right side
of the neck appeared a gaping wound of enormous sieei
evidently produced by the discharge of a fireettla. The
wound was so large that the physieient decided that the
murderer,'after having fired leie gun into the throat of his
victim, must have drivvet knife into the same wound to
despatch her. The lips of the wound were black and
burnt, clearly proving that the muzzle of the 14tin must
have been laid against her skin. Her handkerchief was in
part consumed, and, by a meet remarkable circumstance,
proving the cool barberity of the poor girl's assassin, a
piece of her mettlin fichu, which had served as wadding
for the gun, was found deeply bedded in her flesh. The
body bore no further traces of violence, and there was
nothing to indicate that the criminal had striven to satisfy
a brutal appetite. The father of the deceased was absent
at the period when the juge de paix made his visitation.
He was said to have gone to a town some ten miles dis-
tant to collect some money that was due to him. The
Inwther gave an incoherent account of the transaction—
an account, however, which went directly to criminate
the poor girl's lover. It is impossible to say whether
the young man became a murderer through jealousy, or
through despair, it being generally said that the parents
of the poor girl had refused him her hand. The young
man has not yet been found.
Major-General Sackville Hamilton Berkeley
succeeds Majer-General Sir William Gomm
in the com-
mand of the troops at Jamaica ; and Sir William will
succeed Sir Charles Napier in command of the Northern
District of England. Major-General Berkeley served
'
at the capture of
iirinatn in 1804, the Danish
Islands
of St. John and St. Croix in 1807, and of Martinique in
ilnBofi9l,hinngcluupdituhge tliineesaiege. of For t Bourbon
" tchommand of the N.orthern Dis-
trict has arisen from The delay
receipt of a communication from Sir W. Gomm.
Horse
SINGULAR FACT.
days ago,
ow: ai g the
time been affected with a
pain alleviated. After minutely examining applied to Dr. Brown, of Ssael vmeoreatwho hadafowr
thigh s7elling in the
part, the doctor commenced tos, order
the
get the
after considerable labour,' y
operate,
an d
succeeded oiwoman
some,an
residing in the village of Stevenston,
swollen
in extracting a sewing needle,
about an inch and a half long, which the patient had
swallowed nearly 30 years ago,—Caledonian Mercury.