The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-02 00:00:00

Rus,zou:as or T3IE DAY.

The daughter of Sir J. Parke, one of the Barons of
the Exchequer, will, it is said, be shortly married to Sir
Matthew White Ridley.
A " Court of Inquiry," consisting of immaculate
Members of both Houses, is to be forthwith appointed
for the purpose of examining all the candidates for office
under Sir Robert Peel. The Commission, of course,
will sit with closed doors, as some of the doings of Noble
Lords and Honourable Gentlemen could not bear the
light. One Nobleman, in particular, whom the writers
of his own party have assailed lately, demands the fullest
inquiry into his character.
A rumour, and something more, prevails, that
Lord Francis Egerton is about to raise a troop of
yeomanry from among his numerous tenants, and that
the example will be followed by the other Tory aristo-
cracy. If they insist upon this mode of keeping down
the people, Peel must submit, for the bread-taxers are
his masters, and their name is legion.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 31.—There
has been rather more business doing to-day. The sales
are :—Lancaster and Preston, 28i ; London and South
Western, 531; North Midland, Half, 32i; Ditto, Thirds,
9+ ; Midland Counties, Quarters, 21 ; I.7nLon Plate
Glass, 9i.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JULY 31.—A better'
business has been done in the Cotton Market to-day, the
sales amounting to 3,000 bales, of which the trade have
taken 2,300 bales, and exported 700 bales at Friday's
rates.

LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JULY 31.—The day
has passed without a single transaction at the Stock Ex-
change, the brokers having lately deserted the building.
There are but few arrivals to-day, and the only one
of a later date is from Demerara, the papers being up
to June 22, from which we take the following :
One of our leading mercantile houses deeply con-
cerned in the shipment of produce, and the sales of bills
has failed to the extent of upwards of 100,0001. sterling
doing immense damage to our smaller traders.
It is anticipated that the immediate resignation of cer-
tain high public trusts, must be among the consequences
of this truly lamentable public calamity. The situation
of one or two other large houses is described as very
precarious. It is impossible to forseee where the pressure
of the present crisis will stop.
Governor Murray Maggregor, died on the 14th June.
The Montrose steamer has arrived with a mail from

tlic e iterranean ; the dates are from Gibraltar July
22, Cadiz 2g, Lisbon 26, Oporto 27, and Vigo 28, but
they do not communicate any news of importance. The
state of finocial drains in Portugal appears, according
to the showing Of the Finance Minister himself, to be in
a very bad way.

Title lUNDI. ,
pretty firm this
The English Stock Market opene,
of j
morning, at a slight advance upon the C 10.24 ng pricesul
Saturday. Consols are now 89i 1 for Money, 2d 894.
for the Account ; Bank Stock, 169 170 • Three TerCents.
Cents. Reduced 90+ ; Three-and-a-Half Reduced, 98i ,
99' ; Exchequer Bills, 14 16 premium. 1
Spanish Active Stock 191 17, Portuguese Five per 11
Cents. 2911 301, Ditto Threes 171 18/. Not much busi- 1
ness doing at present. _ _

The Cinitiliental arrivals consist of two French, two
Flanders, one Dutch, and one Hamburgh mail ; but the
intelligence brought by them is not of importance.
The Dutch Two-and-a-half per Cents. came 51 15-15,
and the Fives 101 11-16. No alteration in the rate of
Lxchange from Hamburgh since last mail.
'RIVES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYi. Paid. Per Share.

Bristol and Exeter
Great Western
Ditto Ilths /
London and Brighton
London and Birmingham
Ditto Thirds .. .. 32
London and South Western 3B& 53 ... .. to
Midland Counties ... ...... ~ ....... 100
.
York and North Midland... ..... ,PO
Ditto New Shares...
..„.. 21i to --
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Union of Australia. ... 25 , 306..•••• to
HALF.,rd ST ONE.
There has been but little business doing t,
.the
•S.tock
Exchange up to the present time, and the mal.l'et is
rather flatter.
Consols are now 898 for Money, and 891 for the Ac-
count ; Exchequer Bills, 14 16 premium ; Spanish Ac-
tive Stock is now quoted at 198 ; Portuguese Three
per Cents. 181 ; Mexican Bonds, 258; Dutch Two-and-
s-Half per Cents., 52 ; Ditto Fives, 1018 102 k.
There is equally little business doing in the Share
• • hut prices aro rather higher :—Great Western
- • "3. . London and Brighton, 43 ;
• luQstorn, 53 ; York

Market ;
arc ; Ditto Fifths, ,
111rminglialY1 •;;;,,:lis, 534 ; South
and North Midland, .75.

HALF-PAST TWO.
Consols 893 90, Mexican 26i, Columbian 201, Porta-
01leAP 84 Spanish 193 20
Q.
UARTER TO THREE.
The receipt of the detailed advices by the overland
• instil, with two days' later accounts from China, has
I given a renewed Impulse to speculative operations
LAW .117,CD PDXACE.
William Afajorl I said Ps be an
---At the E eter Assilles on Fricia7, in the Tea market, end Matters at present are
in favour of a rise, notwithstanding
,m4ll 74 years of agp, was convicted of administering the din finished .cOnSumption, which has already begun
poison to Thomas coomhs, his son7in-law, his daughter. , to shoe r itself on this account, and which will no
and several of their children. Th.. Wretched man '" 'lli;ubt
it ~, Ifo nu t4ll further, as., the de..aynies!,olf,event,,,,,e)nr
would appear was; led to commit the crime from spore ' 'I:IOCCSSa ries in I.C.‘, anu the ccf.p o„tra „ s ...„ ......, h
said petty quarrel he had. With his son-in-law, when lie Of, trad4 tin tclae mautifaCturing distrits, will retrench
to a se ri ilituro of the people upon
to him, according to the evidence of th
e
. . daughter, -You 1 tiii, sN • •
. ttk us extent the expen
Wits. upon other. article. The accounts
this: s every.