The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-23 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
There was a better demand for Cotton at Liverpool yester-
day, the sales being 6,000 or 7,000 bales. Prices were rather
looking up. Shares were very dull.
The accounts, per Tay steamer, from the West Indies,
chiefly re-echo the sensation produced here by Sir
Robert Peel's free-trade declarations, and which are
felt to be the knell of all monopoly. The Legis-
lature of Jamaica having voted the introduction of 7,000
Asiatic labourers, all of whom, however, cannot arrive
during the present season, and the railway system being
likely to be extended throughout the island, together with
improvements in the manufacture of sugar, what pusilla-
nimity does it not argue on the part of the West India
colonists to be afraid of slave-grown sugar.
The principal change in the Bank of England assets and
liabilities last week were these
Notes issued ..... $26,800,325
Increase ...... 101,705
Other Deposits
Decrease
Seven-day and other Bills
Decrease ......... 18,356
Other Securities 22,251,906
Decrease ..... 656,755
Bullion ...
Increase
The Funds are flat again this morning. Consols, 957 to
96% for next week, and 96 to 1,-6 for the account day. Ex-
chequer-bills, 375. to 395. premium. As usual, there are no
official purchasers on the last day of the week. New Three-
and-a-Quarter per Cents are 9814 %. Bank Stock has gone
back to 209.
The Foreign Bonds are rather firmer. Spanish Five per
Cents., 27%; the Three per Cents., 3778 ; Mexican, 31; and
Dutch Four per Cents., 95% to %.
Shares generally are much the same as yesterday. Direct
Northern have improved a little. North Staffordshire are
firm. Trent Valley are rather unsteady.

BRITISH FUNDS. ONE CLOSING '
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock .. • • • • • • • • • • .. 209 209
Three per Cent. Annuities ..
..
.. 96,
96%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 9634 9,J 96% 9634
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anna. 98% % 98%
India Stock . • • • • • • • • • • .. 259 259
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. _ ..
.. _
Ditto, under 1,0001. .. ..,
.. 42 42
Bank Stock for Account • • • • .. 209 209
Consols for Account • • • • • • • • .. 96% 96
Exchequer Bills. 1%41. I%d.
1,0001. .. .. •• •• 39 37 —-- pm. 36
6001. .. • •• • • 39 36 pm. 36
Ditto, Small. . •• •• 36 39 pm. 39
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Equador Bonds , .. .. .. 3%% 3%
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. .. .. .. 23 23
Ditto, Deferred .. .. - • 5 5
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent .. 31 31
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent. .. .. 39 38
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. •• • . 9734 273(
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. • • 6% 63i
Ditto, Three per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. . • • • 37T 37%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent • • 99%N% 59%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 953 s 6 ' 95%
PRICES OF BUSINESS CLOSING
RAILWAY SHARES.
rAID.ONDEOON,CELAOcTK. PRICES,

10 .• .. 10 ..
...

Aberdeen ..
Amber., Notting., Boston and
Eastern Junction .. -2% •• •• 2% ••••• • • • • •
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 •• • • 2 % %
Bristol and Exeter .. 70 86 ........
Ditto New .. 5 •• • 111,x ••••• • • • • •
Buckinghamshire .. 425. • - • • % P• • • • •• • •
Caledonian 10 13%
Ditto Extension .. .. 2b4• • • • 214% • •
Chester and Holyhead .. .. 20 • • 21%U • • • • • • • •
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 234. •• • • 134 %% ••• • • •
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) 534.... 3„Ye a 6•
Direct Northern 231 . • 234 74 •••• • • • •
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 5 •• • • 6 •••• • • ••
• • •
Dublin and Galway
Eastern Counties .. 141. Its. .... 21% .
Ditto New .. 81. 16s. •• • • 6% P
Ditto, York Extension .. I Os. •• • • 1% ••••• • • • • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. 50 •• • • 77
Ditto % Shares .. 5 1534 .
Ditto 14 Shares .. 1234 19
Ditto New 34 Shares.. .. 10 .• .. 15
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 •.• • • 21 ••••• • • • • •
Great Western ....15334 ex div. 153% x d
Ditto, half Shares .. .. 50 .... 86 ex div
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 5 .... 1734 ex div. 1734 x d
- Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... 3334 ex div. x d
Hull and Selby .. 50 ....106% 107 lO7
Ditto, Halt -hares .. 7 ...- 26%
Isle of Axholme . 2% .... 134 .... • •
Liverpool and Leeds Direct 2% . 13%
'Avery.. -Manch., & Newc. Junct. 231 • • 3% ••••• • • • • •
Lftdon an Birininghain" ... .100 .... 221 222 ex div 222 x. di
Vitt° Thirds = .. 16 .. •• • • •••• • • • 48% x d
Ditto Fifths •2 .... 243 x ex x d
London and Blackwell .. 161. 13s. 4d. • 9
London aid Brighton -.. .. 50 .... 653 36 ex div.: 6534 xd
Ditto, Consol. Eighths .. .. 40 .... 55 .. ... 5414
Ditto ditto Fifths .. .. 20 .... 29%
London and South. Western.. 41/. 6s. 10d. • ......... 7834
Ditto, New 12%.... 24
London and York .. 234 .. • • ......
London, Warwick, & Kiddermin.s. 2% .... 2
Lynn and Dereham .. • • • • 5 •• "
Manchester and Leeds .. 82 .... . ......
Ditto, half Shares .. .. •- 38 •• • • 60% •• • ...... •
Ditto, Fifths .. 1 .... 12
Ditto Extension .. 425..... 331 p........
Manchester and Birmingham .. 40 .. ..
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) • • 2 .... 10%...•......
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 .
Manchester, Buxton, Sc Matlock 425.
Manchester and Southampton
_2 .... 2%

21
.6% p

3% p

10%
7%
1% p
2%
150

Midland .. .. .... .... ..
.. ....10102-. .... ..
:15270 %
27 28
Ditto, New
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .... . .....
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 25 .... 45
Ditto, New .. .. ~ - .. I. .... 11 10%
Newcastle and Berwick .. '.. 10 .... 22 •. .
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston ... 2% .... 1%
North British .. .. .. .. .. 17% .... 27%4
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 14.... 2% ......
Ditto, Dalkeith .. .. .. 25 . ..
Ditto, ditto .. .. .. .. .. 5 .. .. 6% .. .. .
North Kent and Direct Dover -• • 2% ....' .... •
North Staffordshire .. .. • • 42a. •• .. 3% 4. p 4 p
Norwich and Brandon .. • • • • 18 .... •• • •
Oxfd.,Worcester, & Wo.l.v:erh:m: pt.::
431225: ............
31u36;dii
%31416431.
Pertk and Inverness •• • • • • 2• • • • • • 214. . .. 1% • • ...
Portsmouth Direct • • • • • • 3% •• • • 354% ...... • • 3%
Preston and Wyre • • • • •• 25 ••• . .... ••.. • • 34%
Rugby and Huntingdon • • .. 2 .... ___
....
1%
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2% .... 3% 4 . . • '314
SSiirouothpterveoUnni.o.n ::
South Midland ••
• • • • • • • 425..... 21, ,-,..
Teen and Dove Valley • • • • .. 1% ~
.. 3'e.r •7B 7;:,
Trent Valley .. .. .. ...... - ......
52505. .....
4257% •:
4275%
Trent Valley and Holyhead June. 2)6.... 13.,
1 N
Wexford, Waterford, & Valenta 1% „.. 1 q
..
....
..
lu
West Cornwall- :• • • • •• - • • 2 •• • • 114 %
• • • YorkDDDoilDitto,
ttaoit, . d.
HalfaN n odr tsiyhh ExtensionMidlandßiding
Shares
: :
EXten.: : 151
.•
.• •: —lO ........ .. : ..:
10%

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .. • • .. 10 ~
•I]
Bord., Toul., & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 ~ 2(2
Ditto, ditto (Espelete) 2 ~ •
•• • •
Dutch Rhenish • • • • ' • • • 5 ••
Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 •153
Great Western Bengal • • .. 53.
Luxembourg
Paris and Rouen • • • • .. 20 ~ 401, •• • •
Rouen and Havre ........20 30r".. . :::••• ••
•
Sambre and Meuse • • .• 6 ~ .
West Flanders •• •• 4• ••4•
.". •• ••
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.

Australasia • • • • • •
Provincial of Ireland • • •

MINES.

Real del Monte, Unregistered .. 4

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

11%
2%
16%

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DEAL, FEB. 20.—Arrd.:from the river, Ganges, M'Donald,
Sydney, New South Wales ; Ariadne, Hildreth, Bombay.
Sid. Antelope, Mont .t Video.
SOUTXAMPTON, FEB. 20.—Arrd. Tay steamer, Sharp,
West Indies ; left St. Thomas's 31st ult. ; on freight 4,842
ounces of gold dust, anti 61b. 91/2 oz. silver. Sid. Oriental,
Alexandria. _

PLYmorrn, FEB.- 19.—S1d. Simla, Cape of Good Hope.
20. Her Majesty's steamer Samson, Rio Janeiro; Dundee,
Jamaica.
LivEitpooL, FEB. 20.—S1d. Margaret, St. Thomas ;
Hayti; Penelope, Cayenne; Ironside, Tobasco ; Gossibium,
New Orleans; Emma Watts, ditto; Manchester
od(istt.o Al-
bion, St. John's, New Brunswick. on; Hope, Algoa Bay;
Crescent, Charente.
Bideford,id. Nrd. a
Brunswick,ne Jamaica.St . Andrew's. New
Brunswick.
ILFRACOMBE, FEB. 20.—The schooner Margaret Sanders,
Coax,
of Plymouth, has put in here with loss of bowsprit, "top-
.ll72.o—Sl.9l—AldSr.
mast, &c., having been in contact last night off Ball Point,
with a ship (name unknown), which received damage, and
proceeded for Milford.
CLYDE, FEB. 19.—Arrd. Trident, Miller, Demerara and
Dublin • Norma, Cameron, Pictou and Halifax. Sld. 18th,
Ann Harley,f New York; 19th, Flora, Berbice; Rose, St.
Kitt's.
SHIELDS, FEB. 20.—Sld. Julie, Rio Janeiro.

FROM A CORRESPONDENT.—We begin to hear ac-
counts of,ttke loss of potatoes in —, and I fear that is
not quite free from the disease. Our foreign cook here has
be procured in
taught us a method of dressing common horse (or Heligo-
gand)hewi
taieyi a
beanvine w
usedhs which htchotemhme.
beans, which make them an excellent substitute for
potatoes ; and, as they are a most nourishing food, and carry
and keep well in a dried state,- if they can
scarcity.,Fmurot fienn eyi etnsa 1
ldq,
diulianenytti
Italiansath ireees ,sdotrudhe
south
hise
sodwf
toi
hnuEeklut
rhsobeweeas.vialemrllyevw useful
often at our table a 3 a vegetable. Perhaps this should be
made known. -
Mr. Thomas Moore, the poet, has been placed in
mourning by the demise of his last surviving sister, Miss Moore, in
Lower llagot-street, Dublin, on Saturday last.
DETERMINED SUICIDE BY MR. BRUNEL'S CLERK.—
On Friday Mr. Wakley, 3f.P. held an inquest in the University
College Hospital, on the body ef John C. Baddeley, aged 60, late of 4,
Gilbert's-buildings, Westminster. Sirs. 13eddeley, widow of de-
m ceased. stated that he had been formerly an agent at Lloyd's, and an
,e extensive shipowner, but that latterly he was a clerk in the office of
td
plrlerisliururenoef b
Brunel, tthiseineensgisniener.MrF. For toeint,shsoinheeec, and of his inability toomplained of the unusual
qt, perform his portion of it in consequence of his delicate health. He
also could not sleep from a pain in his head. Although he was de-
oe pressed in spirits when he left home on Friday, there was Bothing
n particular in his manxer. She never afterwards saw him alive.
Mr. Cerswell, a clerk to Mr. Hornedife, solicitor,
69, Great
' Russell-street, deposed, that deceased called at the office last
3 Friday, to get renewed a 131. bill, due that day. He complained
of the great press of railway business in Mr. Brunel's, which
t he said quite unsettled his mind. Witness having assured him that
Mr. Hornedge would renew the bill, deceased asked permission to
I wait in the private office until Mr. Hornedge arrived. He was
, alowed to do so; but was not long there before witness was in-
I formed that a gentleman was bleeding in Mr. Hornedge's office. on
going in, he found deceased sitting upon the floor, with his throat
cut, his head resting upon a chair, and a bloody razor between his
legs. Several medical gentlemen were called in, who advised his in-
stant removal to the hospital. Sergeant Collison state I that he
carried the d, ceased, upon a police-stretcher, to the hospital. He
was then alive, quite sensible, and coniposed. lie told witness to
take care of the property he had about him for his family. That it
was an unfortunate matter, but.that he had loot 10,0001., without the
knowledge of his friends, and that its-things had come to the worst,
he could not stand it any longer. lie also begged of him not to in-
form his family of his fate. The jury returned a verdict, " That de-
ceased destroyed himself in a moment of insanity.N"
SEIZURE OF AN ILLICIT STlLL.—otwithstanding
the repeated prosecutions of various parties by the Excise, for ilhoit
distillation, this contraband trade appears to be considerably on the
increase, as no less than ten stills have been seized by the same off •
cers in the course of the last three months. On Friday from infor-
flicTherseydiZ:
mation received, they proceeded to the house No. 3, John-street,
spirits, several utensils used in
Horton, and having obtained admission, on the ground floor they
distillation, and about 200
is now a prisoner in
i.foetcienidwaycouspeple,rastgilula,usteittyinobfrinicokizoerik; which appeared to have been
gallons 01, eermfeaninteiltly,wthaseho.
a woman, with six children, on the premises, who gave the same of
Smith, but in consequence of her large
take her into custody. Her husband, it appears,
Coldbath-fields House of Correction, committed there for a similar
offence a short time since. The still and apparatus were seized and
conveyed to the warehouses of the Excise department.
HORRIBLE MURDER.—Uriah Deffett, of Meare, vi as
committed, on the 9th instant, by G. Warry, Esq., for murdering his
wife whilst in a state of intoxication. On Sunday evening last she
was upbraiding him with spendin6 his Sundays in drunkenness, aid
Tn,t providing tar Ler and his fatuity of five young children, for which
49 knocked her dowo, and then cut her across the forehead ad UM-
p ,3 with a knife, which caused her death.- - Rherbot 42 Journal.