The Sun.
London, England, 1848-10-02 00:00:00

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REVIE.WV the lIJONEY MARKIIi for the
MONTH of SEPTEMBER.
This has been a very quiet month ; but there has
been a tendency towards improvement more or less
distinct in almost all quarters. Money is almost as
cheap as in, the spring. First class paper can be
done at something very near 24 per cent.; and on
the Stock Exhange employment is not easy at a
per cent. less.

Consols have been exceedingly steady, and leave
off at 86. Exchequer-bills have vibrated at about 25
to 30 ; and the only class of people who seem to have
any sound cause to complain of a formidable depre-
ciation are the holders of railway shares. There cer-
tainly has- been a remarkable fall during the last few
months in these securities.
The following is a specimen of the prices at pre-
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sent• •

London and worth Western . 110
Great Western BO
Midland
York and North Midland
• Comparing these rates with the rate of 1846 or
,even df 1847: is not a pleasant, although it may pos-
sibly. be an instructive employment. Recovery must
Cone.from the companies, and not from the money
market. The money market is as ,easy as it well can
be. But so long as the public are justified by events
in looking with suspicion on the financial stability of
these concerns, it can excite no great surprise that
an article which everybody distrusts will fall into
the hands of somebody it a characteristic price.--
Banker's Magazine:

STATE OF TRAIPE.
MANCHESTER, SEPT. 30.—Our report this month
Ls of a less favourable character than that for the pre-
ceding one, and we regret that it should be so.
Though during the greater part of August the
market was seriously and prejudicially influenced by
causes which we enumerated in our last circular, yet
shortly previous to and at the close of the month a
change for the better became not only apparent, but
in reality existed.
Such was the improvement then, and such did it
continue, accompanied with a comparatively active
demand up to about the middle of the present month,
since which period, the prevailing characteristic of the
market has been that of gradually increasing de-
pression, if we except the momentary existence of a
better feeling arising from the accounts from India
by the last " Overland Mail," which induced many
at the time to believe that they were decidedly favour-
able. So far they have only induced a little more
inquiry.
Stocks are rather heavier than they were at the
end of August, and many descriptions of both cloth
and twist, which are again becoming irregular in
their value, are lower in price than they were at the
same period. Many spinners and manufacturers are
yet producing to order. It is only, therefore, as re-
gards those whose contracts have expired that any
abatement in price has been conceded. With the
completion of existing engagements, according to
present appearances, and with the present extent of
production, it is more than likely that the rates ruling
previous to the last advance will be barely maintained
generally, and that operations for a while will be
limited to existing wants.
The demand during the month has been again
chiefly for export, that for the home trade having
been to a much smaller extent than what it usually is
at this season of the year. Though operative spinners
and weavers are generally pretty well employed,
there are many artisans, such as joiners, masons,
bricklayers, &c., out Of employment.
We would fain hops that the present dulness and
inactivity. may prove# only temporary. There is,
however, 'a considerable deal of uneasiness and dis-
trust arising from the present anomalous position of
the money market. Confidence is not yet re-esta-
blished. It is, we fear, sadly too true that the means
of many parties are drippled from their connexion
with railway matters: Credits too are necessarily
much curtailed. —Ttese, with the present unsettled
political state of the continent of Europe, with con-
siderations attaching to the harvest, potato crop, &c.,
while they last, are sufficient to interrupt the progress
towards permanent amendment.—McNair, Green-
hew, and Irving's Monthly Circular.

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NUMEROUS FIRES IN ONE NlGHT.—During the
night of Saturday five fires occurred in the metropolis ;
one was at No. 7, St. Swithin's-lane, City, belonging to
Messrs. G. and H. Hussey, hair-dressers. It was dis-
covered by one of the inmates who was fortunately up
at the time, or it is probable that the entire building
would have been destroyed. The engines of the Lou-
don brigade from Watling-street quickly attended, but
the firemen were unable to get the flames extinguished
until considerable damage was done to the premises.
The loss will rail on the Sun Fire-offiee. Another fire
happened at 117, Royal Mint-street, Minories, belonging
to Mr. R. Morris; considerable difficulty was experienced
in getting the fire out, as it had penetrated into the shores
of the walls. A third fire broke out in the extensive pre-
mises belonging to Mr. B. Young, glue-maker, Spa-
road, Bermondsey. It was caused by the upsetting of
a lamp. The engines promptly attended, but the fire
was extinguished by the workmen in the interim. A
fourth fire took place at the Crown and Anchor Tavern,
the property of Mr. William Burn, No. 12, Luke-street,
Mile-end New Town. It was caused by the heat of the
stove in the next house, which set the beam and flooring
of the cellar on fire. By 'the timely exertions of the
inmates and strangers the fire was confined to that por-
tion of the premises to which it commenced. The fifth
fire happened at No. 8, William-street, Lisson-grove,
but in this case the damage done was only trifling.
COMMITTAL OF A QUACK DOCTOR POR MAN-
SLAUGHTER.—An old man, named Thomas Whitehead,
who has for many years been imposing upon the igno-
rant and the credulous in Sheffield and the vicinity, by
pretended skill in surgery, has been committed fbr man-
slaughter, in causing the death of a young man, named
George Taylor, alias George Booth, aged 19, a razor
grinder. At the inquest on the body it appeared that
some months ago the deceased became afflicted with pain
in his left arm, and gained admission on the books of
the Sheffield Dispensary, as a patient. The visi•ing
surgeon discovered a small tumour connected with the
covering of the bone, and prescribed leeches and fomen-
tations. Nu danger was apprehended, but the case was
expected to be chronic. Three weeks or a month after-
wards Taylor discontinued his attendance at the dispen-
sary, and put himself under the treatment of White-
head, who said it had been mistreated at the dispensary.
He pulled off some loose skin that had been raised by
poulticing, and ordered ointment to the wound, "to
brine."' it to a head." A witness thus describes what
took place at one of the deceased's visits to
the prisoner :—On the following Saturday I was
present when Whitehead again dressed the wound. It
appeared very bad. He got a pair of scissors and began
cutting the flesh round the outside of the rim of the
wound. He was cutting the bad flesh off. The deceased
cried out much. His mother had gone out, having first
asked me to go in, because she could not bear to stay.
When Whitehead had cut round the ridge of the
wound, a piece of the fleshy rim, as large as my fist, fell
off upon the floor. It appeared putrifled. Whitehead
then took his scissors, the point of which he put into the
wound down to the.bone, and prized bits off. This conti-
nued about 10 minutes. When he had done that, he told him
he must go into the infirmary directly and have his arm
taken off, or else it would kill him very soon. On that
day, the 19th of August, the sufferer was received into
the Sheffield infirmary. Everything which could be
done was done, but Taylor died on Friday, the 22d
inst. After the Coroner-had summed up, the jury re,
turned a verdict of " Manslaughter against Thomas
Whitehead, and he was conveyed to York Castle, by
virtue of the Coroner's warrant, to take his trial at the
gaol delivery in December.
APPREHENDED CATASTROPHE IN ST. JAMES'S
CHURCHYARD, TOXTLTH PARK.—In the year 1839, a
very serious and painful circumstance occurred in this
grave yard by the falling of a portion of the wall on the
north side, whereby a number of coffins and putrid re-
mains of the dead, were precipitated into the streets.
But, at the present time, a calamity of a much more
aggravated character is to be apprehended. The upper
and larger portion of the grave yard is on a level of
seven and a half feet above the lower part. The wall
which bears up the mass of earth, the tombs, and graves
of the higher ground, has for many years been gradually
getting out of perpendicular, but within the last two
years the declination has so much increased as to occa-
sion great alarm. The wall is now shored, and is
eighteen inches out of perpendicular.' The first heavy
and continuous fall of rain is expected to occasion the
disaster. It is quite impossible it can stand the approach-
ing winter. When the wall does come down, which,
without prompt measures, it inevitably will, the number
of graves and vaults which will be dragged in its fall and
exposed will be from fifty to sixty in all probability. To
attempt to describe the revolting exhibition which such
a catastrophe will occasion, is quite horrifying, and the
authorities of the church trust to the correct feelings of
those interested in the prevention of such a calamity, to
meet the exigency without such a portraiture. Each
grave, it is well known, is private and freehold property,
over which the minister and wardens have no control.
—Liverpool Mercury.
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BANK OF FRANCE.

the following is a return of the situation of the Bank
of France on Thursday, Sept. 28, 1848:

ASSETS.

... f. 130,894,388 41
. . 99,664,708 00
... 202,573 44
... 74,858,068 31
... 115,218,184 38
14,482,200 46
33,981,296 65
1,312,718 50
50,000,000 00

Cash in "coin and ingots
Ditto in branch banks
Bills over due
Bills becoming due in Paris
Bills in the branch banks
Advances on coins and ingots...
Ditto on French public securities
Ditto by branch banks... ...
Ditto to the State on Bons du Tr6sor...
Advance to the State on the lean of
150,000,000 f. 25,000,000 00
Stock forming reserve 10,000,000 00
Rentes, disposable funds ... 33,902,413 62
Investments of the new branch banks in
the public funds ... 12,806,741 39
Hotel and furniture of the Bank ... 4,000,000 00
Real property and branch banks ... 2,524,088 00
Loan of 10,000,000 r. to the city of Paris 1,000,000 00
, Interest in National Discount Bank ... 200,000 Of
Interest in old Departmental Banks in
National Banks of Towns ...
Bilk protested in the Bank-
Ditto in the branches ...
Expenses of administration of the Bank
Ditto of the branches
Miscellaneous ...
Consolidation of Treasury Bonds

230,000 OG
16,232,482 49
9,029,131 00
313,564 78
208,972 00
644,701 11

6,992,145 00

f. 643,698,377 54