The Sun.
London, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEW..
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There was a fair demand for Cotton at Liverpool on Satur-
day. Sales, 4,000 bales, at previous rates. Shares were
steady.
The private accounts received from the United States in a
commercial point of view are of an unfavourable na-
ture. The trade and commerce of the country had
been much impeded by the war with Mexico, as shipments
of produce were made with hesitation, and at a risk that
very few parties appeared disposed to encounter, to sag
nothing of the increased rates of insurance. The exports o.
Cottoa to Europe continued to exhibit a further falling otl
as compared with what they were at the correspondink
period of last year.
It appears 'by the accounts from Canada, that the Go-
vernor-General had taken the most active steps to call out
and embody the militia to its full effective force. Other mi-
litary preparations were in progress at the date of our pros, nt
advices, so that it is pretty apparent that should a collision
arise with the United States upon the Oregon, or upon
any other Question, the colonial frontier will be well
guarded. Volunteers, in the first place, are to be
solicited to make up the quota of force required. It
not a sufficient number offer, then unmarried men
under forty are first to be ballotted for, then un-
married men above 40, and if then a sufficient corps be
not raised, married men of the first-class. The weather had
taken a favourable change after the continuance of rains and
colds, which had impeded very considerably vegetation;
the temperature had become summer-like. Quebec was in a
most bustling state, not less than 281 vessels having arrived
in port, being an excess of 102 over the number en-
tered inwards at the corresponding period of last year.
The Consol Market opened rather flatly this morning, but
still the sales have not been by any means extonsive,
although money has continued to be in increased request,
owing to the requirements of parties having large amounts
to pay, in the shape of duties, as the financial quarter
arrives more nearly to a termination. After being
done at 951,i, the price for the next settlement is
now 9Pa ex. div. A few sales < f the Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents. have been made, at 963/4 to 97 ; of the Three per
Cent. Reduced Annuities at 951,A, and of 011 South Sea An-
nuities at 931,5. The premium upon Exchequer. bills has
ruled from lie. to 15s.

A good deal of business has been transacted in the Foreign
Funds this morning, this being the settling-day for the halt=
monthly account. The price of Portuguese Four per
Cents. has rallied from 45' to 461%, and for the
account to 47. Not a bargain was made to-day in Spanish
Actives, but the Three per Cents. were quoted at 36.4. The
Dutch Four per Cents. were at. 91%; the Brazilian Five per
Cents. at 82. The Mexican Five per Cents. have fluctuated
from 271/2 to 281/, ; Grenada Bonds from 201/2 to 21, the
former rate being now the market value.
The North Staffordshire Railway scrip has fallen to-day
from 41,4 to Pi premium, but the Welsh Midland is up a
shade. In the other scrip and shares the variations have been
very trifling; indeed to-day a more than ordinary amount of
dealings has taken place in the shares of foreign lines.
Boulogne and Amiens have been done at 111/2 ; Central of
Spain at 1%; Dutch Rhenish at 7%; Northern of France
at 14%; and Paris and Orleans at 4i 34.

BRITISH FUNDS,

'UNE

CLOSING

O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 951,i 95%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anne. 97 96.34 97 56
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10%1,4 lOU
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 10
India Bonds, 1,000/.
Ditto, under 1,000/. .. 20
South Sea Stock ..

Ditto. Old Annuities .. 931 A ex div • 9314
Consols for Opening .. 95% »i 95,A
Exchequer Bills. 174c1. 11.6 d.
1,000/. 11 15 pm. 15
5001. 11 15 pm. 15
Ditto. Small 17 12 pin. 12

ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 82 - 82
Equador Bonds .. .. .. .. .. 331
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. .. .. .. 21 20e 21
Ditto, Deterred .• .. .. .. .. 4 % 4
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 Per Cent • •
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 28 27% 28% 28!s
Ditto, Deferred .. .. • • • • 16% 14 16 .4
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. .. 3SIA
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ceut .. .. --
Ditto, 3 per Cent .. .. .. . • 47 48
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. .. .. • • 464%; 47;,,
Ditto, for the Account .. .. .. 47 47
Russian Bonds .. .. .. .. .. 109)i 1093
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 24
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. .. —61 i
Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. .. 36% 37
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 60
Ditto. 4 Der Cent. Certificates .. 9131 91'26
PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT . _
PRICic.S.
RAILWAY SHARES. ONE O'CLOCK.
Aberdeen „...... .„ .. .. .. 10 .... 39./4 .. •••• • • .. 3%

.•
Amber., Notting., ;lesion, and _
Eastern Junction .. .. .. 2%.... —...... .. I!i
Birmingham and Gloucester.. .. 100 .. .. 126 .. ——• • .. 126
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 2 ——.... .. 2

Bristol and Exeter .. 75 .... . 85
Buckinghamshire .. 423.

Caledonian .. .• • • .. 10 .... 11 % lO%
Ditto, Half Shares .. .... 1% 1!y
Chester and Holyhead 22% .... 20 y, ........ • • 201%
Derby and Crewe .. 6% %lA
Direct Manchester (Remington's) .... % %
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) 51A - .• • . . • 3%
Direct Northern .. .• ... • 1 • • l%
Eastern Counties .. 141. 1t5..... 23% '24 23% 24!,6
Ditto New .. 10/. 165..... .... • • 7% p
Do. rerpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. I3s. 4d. 1 p •
Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. %34 p 34 p
Ditto, York Extension .. 103..... 1 .......• •
East and West of England .. 3/2
Edinburgh and Glasgow 50 .... -•

Ditto .14 Shares .. 10 .... 17 .. •• • • .... 17
Ditto New IA Shares.. .. 121 17) .. • • 171/i
Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester .. 2% •• ...... Iyt
Glouc., Aberyst., & Cent. Wales 13-e
114
Goole, Doneast., and7-'haffell,&c. 425..... dis 74, dis.
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 20 .... 22' 22.%
Great North of England . .. 100 .... •
Ditto, New .. . 114 14.4 TA . 141,4
[lull and Selby •.. .. 50 ••..1024 104 104

Leicester and Bedford.. .. 225..... i dis. par.. 14 dis.
Leicester, Tarnworth, &c. 425. •• .. 1 h tits. ys
London an Birmingham . —lOO ..........

Ditto Thirds

. 24 .... 63 .. ..

London and Blackwall .. 161. I3s. 4d. 7% .......... 7%
London acd Brighton . 50 . 64 IA 61'1,
London and South-Western .411. 6s. 10d... 78 .......... 78

p~ _. ~~

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London, Salisbury, anti Yeovil .
Lynn and Ely ..

•• 1;8
122

Manchester and Leeds ..

Ditto, Fifths .. .. 3 .... 1214;6 •. .• .. 1234
Ditto Extension .. 425. .. 2 2% P
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 . 80 ...... • • 80

111Anchester, Buxton, Matlock 425. .... 34 p
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1% 174
..100 ....147 ..... 147
Ditto, New 18 • • 3034 31 ...... 31
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 1221 A .......... 12214
Newcastle and Darlington &met. 25 46
Ditto, New . 1 .... .
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 15 .... 24 .. ~, , • • 24 • • 241 A
Norfolk .. .. 20 .... 25% 26 ...... 26
North British 22 • • • •
Ditto, Half Shares 8 •• • • ..........
Ditto, Dalkeith •.. 25 .... •• •

- Ditto. ditto .. 5 .. . 6
Northern and Eastern .. .. 50 .... 71%
North Staffordshire .. 425... • • 37. 4% 3% p 4 p
Oxid.,Worcester, & Wolverhmptn. 1231 .... 814 ..
Scottish Central .. . .. 10 .... 15% ........ •
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 24....
Do., New (do. 331. 63.81) No. 2. 10 ....
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33% . . --
Do., New (do. 15/.) .. No. 4. 2%,.•• 2%3/. •••• • • • • •2%
West Riding Union • • • • .. 425. • ... 21,4 %% p 2I,E p
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 5 ....

YOLK aad NurthMidland

Ditto. Extension .. 15 .... 33 32yy 324
Do. E. and W. Riding Exten... 1 ... 10% .. lO
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

Boulogne and Atniens .. .. .. 12 .... 11% .. •• •• .. 11!g
Bord., Toul., & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 .. . . ... . • .. . .
Ditto, ditto (Espelete) .. 2 .... 1%..
Central of Spain .. .. .. .. 2 .... 134 ... . . 1 V
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_4

Much Itheuisti 6 .... 75• ...

East In tta i .. .. ss. .... 1,6
Louvain and Jeineppc 4 .. . 1 .
Northern of France Constituted.. 5 .... 141/4 141,4
trleang and Bordeaux .. 6 . . 10

Paris and Orleans .. .. 20 .... 47 4734
Paris and Rouen .. .. 20 .... 38 i ••• ..... 38 N
Sambre and Meuse .. .. 8 .......... 5

%Vest Flanders

MINES.

Real del Monte, Unrenistered 334 •• • • •• • 336

Her Majesty the Queen Dowager will take her de-
parture from Marlborough House this morning, for the Con-
tinent. Her Majesty will proceed by the South-Eastern Railway to
Ramsgate, and embark thence for Ostend. The Earl Howe will
accompany her Majesty to Ramsgate. His Lordship, however, does
not proceed to the Continent with his Royal Mistress Viscount and
Viscountess Barrington will have the honour of attending her
Majesty during her ebsence on the Continent, which, we believe,
will not be extended beyond the latter end of August next. The
Yen. Miss Barrington will accompany her noble parents.
MAD DtIGS Sitrurdes, the following caution
was circulated by order of the Commissioners throughout the metro-
politan police district :—" All persons are cautioned to take proper
steps to keep their dogs chained up or muzzled. The Act 2d and 3d of
Victoria, cap. 47, sec. 61, enacts, that it shall be lawful for at y con-
s;able belonging to the metropolitan police force to destroy any dog
or other annnal t easonably suspected to be in a rabid state, or which
has been bittot by any dog or animal reasonably suspected to be in a
rabid state ; and the owner of any such dog or animal who shall
permit the same to go at large after having be.m informed, or reason-
able ground to believe it to he in a rabid state, or to have been bitten
by any dog or other animal in a rabid state, shall be liable to a
penalty of not more than 5/."
'rue hay season is advancing fast. A large portion :f
the crop has been tarried in excellent conchtion, and much more is
cut. The yield is abundant. We regret to learn that the vegetation
is much injured by a kind of blight.—Brighton Gazette.
CASTOR OlL.—The following was relw.ed to us by
a friend of ours a day or two sines. A gentleman In the neighbour-
hood who hal a pint and half bottle of castor oil, asked his servant
to bring It to him, when he told him it had all been used at table for
steads, he having from time to time filled the dinner castor: with it,
believing. it, from the label, to be intended for that purpose.—Yar-
mouth Adrertiser.

CURIMIS CIRCUMSTANCE.—For some months pre
vtous to this week, Mr. Worsley, butler to George Sowerby, Esq., of
Ketton, felt considerable pain in different parts of his body without
being able to ascertain the cause. A short time ago he was playing
at cricket, and on account of the pain he experienced when the
game was finished he fancied he had sprained his right arm. The
remedies usually adopted in such cases were accordingly applied, but
without any beneficial effect. The pain hi the arm increased until
at length the sufferer could use neither his arm nor his fingers. In
this state he called one elsy this week upon Mr. Jackson, surgeon, of
this town ;who, after minutely examining the arm, discovered some-
thing unusual under the skin a short way below the elbow. He then
'aid open the skin and took from beneath it a common needle. Imme-
diately the needle was removed the patient was relieved, and had the
full use of his arm and fingers. In what way the unwelcome intruder
got into his arm ho knows not, but the medical gentleman is of
opinion that he must at some time or other have swallowed it.
FOOT RACE —On Saturday, two amateur pedes-
trians, named Lawford and Thavies, ran a 120 yards' race on the
wood pavement, Oxford-street, for 5/. ; the latter wor. •
The average annual increase of attorneys exceeds 60e.
MURDER.—The Kilkenny Moderator of Saturday
morning contains the following account of a deliberate assassination,
in the presence of four persons, two of them men, companions of the
victim, yet neither attempted to arrest the perpetrator of the foul
deed. It is some gratification' to believe he is in custody :—" At
about eleven o'clock on the night of Thursday last, as a farmer,
named James Fennell, residing near CaStlecomer, was returning
home from the fair of Kilkenny, he was shot dead by a low-sized
man, wearing a dark frock coat, who immediately crossed the
ditch and ran away in the direction of Castlecomer. The de-
ceased had been at the time driving his car, on the road near
Webbsborough, in which were s,!ated with him h
of the
son and a servant girl, and two men named Mrieiliarleialsrwere in
his company, one in front and the other it
car, but no attempt whatever was made by them
assassin. Constable May, of Castlecomer,, with
heard that Fen-
been at the time patrolling near Dysart, at dh
nail and his brother-in-law, James Boyle,
d a quarrel shortly before the
who ere previously on
bad terms with each other,
de bad not returned
murder, at the public house oftEtaddwitaard Muidowny, of Webbsborough,
him, and
proceeded to Boyle's house, ai t
shortly ad og
after,
they arrested
home at the time, but,
ssuxs
npilcoinotuhsofsinhcaev?
mrug.ascom mit fed the
he is at present in custody on
put into pos-
session prisoner, and the Parties stood On
atrocious deed. Fennel.,
da
of a farm occupied by
bad terms since. The appearance of the prisoner fully corresponded
with the description of the assassin."
n 1
FATAL ACCIDENT FROM BATHING.—OiI
half-Past seven o'clock, a yporuoasnuigtodsrman,aboutotwenty-flueortnli
ing, about
years of age, named Mackenzie, a compositor in aoend a
newspaperaym
Welch's wharf, at
vicinity, was bathing from Messrs. B
the bottom of Bottetie-street. Fleet-street ; When half across the
it is
riversupposed, , over whichfrom cra he wasm attempting to swim, he suddenly sank, as
p
. Ills body was found on the beach at
the recession of the tide, about nine o'clock, and taken in a shell
to the adjacent yard of Mr. Egerton, where it awaits a coroner's in-
quest. This is the sixth fatal accident b
cared in this immediate locality, Within the dpraoswt
Wniencgt.whlt hr! oc-