The Sun.
London, England, 1846-10-20 00:00:00

MARYLEBONE.-(THIS DAY

John Roberts, proprietor of the Sols' Arms, Hamp-
stead-row, appeared to answer to a summons issued
against him, for refusing to receive five soldiers of the
3d Infantry, that were billeted on him by Sergeant
Richard Daniel, 12 S.

Mr. Roberts cumplained of there being no names
given in with the billet. He urged that he was respon-
sible for the acts of the inmates of his house, and
yet if any of these men committed any offence,
he had no means of ascertaining their names.
He thought it was a very loose way of billeting soldiers,
without affording the publicans anything like a descrip-
tion of the men thus foisted upon them. In this par-
ticular instance he had no accommodation for them, and
had offered them five shillings, but they had demanded
ten shillings.
Mr. LONG was of opinion that Mr. Roberts was not
justified in offering any fixed sum, as he was bound
either to take them in, or provide them with lodging
elsewhere. However, he agreed with him in considering
that, as a responsible person, he was entitled to have
the names of the parties billeted upon him, and he
should, therefore, dismiss the summons.

WORSHIP-STREET'.—(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Lawson, a japanner, &c., of No. 10, Watt's Build-
ings, Kingsland-road, charged one of his workmen,
named Williams, with the following gross assault :--
Mr. Lawson stated, that at about five o'clock yesterday
afternoon the prisoner, who was somewhat the worse
for liquor, opened the door of the counting-house in
which he was engaged in writing, and demanded of him
some money. Witness perceiving the state he was in,
refused, and advised the prisoner to go home. The
latter, however, continued to importune him, and
witness at length removed the prisoner's hand from
the handle of the door, for the purpose of closing it.
The prisoner immediately pounced upon him, and they
fell to the ground together. Witness called loudly for
assistance, and two others of his workpeople came, but
before their arrival Lis shirt and clothing were literally
torn to ribbons. The prisoner was n.w secured, and
upon the arrival of the police he was given into their
custody. It tjook fuur policemen an hour to get him to
the station.house.
Mr. BINGHAM fined him 10s. or one month's im-
prisonment.
An individual of respectable exterior, and who said
he was a wine merchant, was fined 30s. for assaulting
Mr. Inspector Pascoe at tin station-house. The de-
fendant, who was extremely tipsy, it appeared offered
himself as bail fora person who had committed an assault.
The defendant, however. being in such a state his
bail was refused, and he struck the inspector. The lat-
ter offered to look over the assault if he would go
quietly home; he, however, became so violent that he
was obliged to detain him.
The defendant acknowledged the justness of the Ma-
gistrate's decision, and having paid the fine he quickly
vithdrew.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
MAY MA7anzTs.
SmanFlELD.—Meadow Hay, 218 s to 3/ 18s ; Clover ditto,
318 s to 4/ 15s; and Straw, 11 6.1 to 11 12s per load. Trade
dull, at the above quotat ons.
CUMBERLAND.—meadow Hay, 21 103 to 41; Clover ditto,
31 as to 41 14s; and Straw, 11 8s to 11 13s per load. A full
average supply, and a heavy demand.
WHITECHAPIEL.—Meadow Hay, 21 8s to 3/ 16s ; Clover
ditto, 3/8s to 51; and Strgw, 117 s to 1/ 12s per load. Supply
good, and trade very duff

COLONXAL.
SucAn.—There:bas been an improved demand for West
India, and a large business bas been done at fully previous
rates, but no material advance can be quoted, as holders met
the purchasers freely. The public sales have consisted of
168 hhds Barbadoes, 6,402 bags Mauritius, 2,382 bags
Bengal, and 55 boxes Savanilla. All the Barbadoes was
taken in (excepting a few lots), being held above
the value. Both the Mauritius and Bengal found
ready buyers, the former at rather higher prices,
and the latter at previous rates. The Savanilla sold
at 48s to GOs 6d for good mid yellow to fine white. The
quantity of British Plantation landed last week at the East
and West India Docks was 740 hhds 91 tierces 182 barrels,
and there were taken for home consumption 1,196 hhds 161
tierces 229 barrels. The stock in the same places is 12,208
hhds 1,660 tierces 3,607 barrels.
COFFEE.-1,429 bags Ceylon, 86 bales Mocha,lso pack-
ages Mysore, and 28 casks (washed) Rio offered at auction,
were nearly all disposed of at former rates.
Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East and
West India Docks was 859 puns 149 hhds; there were taken
for home consumption 246 puns 15 hhds; and exported 66
puns 27 hhds. The stock in the same places is 13,280 puns
886 hhds.

.....
RICE,-614 bags 1,000 pockets Bengal, and 5,189 bags
Madras, chiefly sold at 18s to 19s for good mid to good white
Bengal, 15s 6d to 16s for good Cayo ditto, and 15s to 17s for
yellow to mid white Madras, being about is below the
highest period.
SALTPKTAE.-3,073 bags Bengal chiefly found buyers at
25s to 25s Cd for 10% to 54 per cent refraction, being pre-
vious rates.

SPICES.-618 bags Pepper and 84 chests Cassia Lignea—
the Pepper brought 21/8d to 3d for fair heavy Malabar, and
2%d to 23A d for good sifted Penang, which are about former
rates. The Cassia Lignea sold at 558 6d to 56s for good mid
quality, but large bundles, being comparatively cheap.
ALLow.—P.Y.C. is 48s to 48s. 6d per cwt on the spot,
and Town 50s Gd per cwt. •
TEA.—There is not much doing, but the consumption is
good.
INDIGO.—The quarterly sales concluded yesterday. The
quantity bought in is estimated at about 3.000 chests, which,
with 12,915 chests withdrawn, leaves 5,478 chests actually
sold ; but of the withdrawn and bought in, it is stated that
1,500 chests have been taken by the buyers, making the total
amount actually sold at about 7,000 chests. Prices ranged
from July rates to 6d per lb. advance for Bengal, 2d per lb.
Madras, and 3d per lb. for Kuspah and Oude.

We are authorised to state that Mr. Bancroft, the
American Minister, did not arrive at Liverpool by
the steamer Cambria. He intended to leave New
York by the steamer Great Western on the it th inst.
The Hon. Harriet Grimston expired at an early
hour on Sunday morning, at her residence in Upper
Grosvenor-street, in her 70th year. The deceased was
the only surviving sister of the late Earl of Verulatn.
SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION.—Mr. Gould, the na-
turalist, who was some years absent on an ornithological
tour in New Zealand and Australia, is about to leave
England on an expedition to Guatemala, and other parts
of central America, in order to explore the natural his-
tory of those regions.
METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENTS.—Yesterday the
range of buildings extending from the Hall of Com-
merce to the corner of Threadneedle-street, and thence
down Broad-street, were sold by public auction, by
Messrs. Fuller and Son, the auctioneers. Among the
lots sold were 500,000 stock bricks. The ground will
be speedily cleared, :Ind measures taken to render mere
commodious these important approaches to the Royal
Exchange. The formation of the new street from Hol-
born-bridge to Clerkenwell proceeds slowly, and the
traffic is but small, as the road is at present carried to no
important place.
FOOT RACE.—Yesterday the 200 yards race be-
tween Lambert and Gill, fur 201., was decided at Hollo -
way, and inn by the latter.

~ 'assages 225.
Cork and Killarney - -
Cork and Waterford ............ 1%...... - -
Cornwall
5 Ditto, Half Shares ...... - ••.... to -
...... - ...... to -
Cornwall and Central Devon 2% l.siii ...... to -
Derby and Crewe............ 25' i
A...... -
SNhourttlii ei
Northern
u.n..c.t.i.0.r.r... .......... 2251/1
........ -7,4% to -
Direct Lincoln, East Retford,
Direct and
toto
___—
Direct Norwich .................. 1 - -
-
Dublin,
Belfast, & Coleraine 21/,', ...... - Dublin and Galway .. ......... 4 - .... ...
to Dundalk!and Enniskillen ... 10 .. .... .. -
-
Eastern Counties ............ 14/. 16s ....... 21%% to -
Do. Do. New .. . .............. 12/. 16s 6% pa. to -
Perpet., •5
per ct. No. 1,6/. 13s. 4d - -
Do., d 0....... ......... N 0.2,6/. 13s. 4d... - -
Do., York Extension -
East Dereharn and Norwich 1 - to -
Eastern Union .. .... .. 35
Ditto, Quarter Shares -
.
Do. Extension to Harwich 1%8 - .. ... to -
Do. Cambridge and Ely ... 2% - .••••• to -
% - East Lancashire
14
5
... to -.Ditto, New
East Lincolnshire ll/t 1
Fast and West of England... IN3 -
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O
Ditto, Half Shares -
Ditto, Quarter Shares l2l/2 - to -
Edinburgh and Northern ... 10 - -
Edinburgh and Perth -
Ely and Huntingdon -
Enniskillen and Sligo 2l/, -
Exeter,to —.
0 -
15 -
la, Yeovil,mllo):lZ &11 e..aktyerr 5514 -
Do. i 4 Shares (5 per ct. gua.) 12% ..... - .. ... to -
Glouc.,Aberystwith,andCen
of Wales -
...... to -
Goole, Doncaster, Sheffid., &c. 42s l/8 dis. to par
Grand Union (Nott. & Lynn) 1% - ... .. to -
Great Eastern and Western.- 21/a -
Great Grimsby and Sheffield 10 - -
Gt. South. & West. (Ireland) 271/ - -
Great Munster
Great North of Scotland 2%...... - ...... to -
Great North of England 100 -a...238 ..... to -
Ditto, New 5
...... to --
Ditto, New l5
Ditto, New -
Great Western
Ditto, Half Shares 5O -
Ditto, Quarter Shares -
Ditto, Fifths 2O ...... - ...... to --
Do. New -
Harwich and E. C. Junction 2 ...• . - -
Hull and Selby 5O ......108 ... .. to -
Ditto, Quarter Shares 12%...... -
Ditto, Half Shares
• -.
---
.pswich& Bury St. Edmunds 111/ ••••
...... to

...... ..... . to --
Do. do. and -Norwich
...... to
Killarney Junctions ......... 114 - ••
to
Lancaster and Car1i51e....... 45
Do. New 5

...... --- ...... to --
Lame, Belfast, & Ballymena 425. ...... ...... to Leeds and Bradford 3O ..... 731/4: .. to
Leeds and Carlisle •2% .. ...... to
Leicester and Birmingham 225....... . ...... to
Leicester and Bedford 22s. ...... par ...... to t.eeds and Dewsbury - ...... to
Liverpool, Manchester, and
Newcastle Junction .......
Liverpool and Bury .........
.. .. ..
.. ... ttoo _—
London & Blackwall...l6/. 13s. 4d ....... --
Do. Do. New , . ........ . 3 ...... ...... to
Extension ............... 71/2 ......
Gond., Bright., & South Coast 50 ...... 59 j 8 60 to 5934
Do. Fifths .................. 40 /-
to
..... London and Croydon...l3/. 15s. 9d ....... 22
Do. Guaranteed "Oper Cent 9
London and Greenwich... 12/.155. 4d... 91/ to
i
Ditto Preference ..... ...18/ 17s
'M. to
London, Hounslow. &Western 2
London and North Western..loo 197 198... to 196
Do. Quarter Shares ...... .. 2
Do. do. New ...... .... ..... . 2 ... 161/2%14% to
Do. do. Fifths
Do. Eighths G. J. 121 h — to
Do. New Quarters G. J. 5
Do. Shares.....L. &M. 8
London and S. Western.... 41/. 63. 10d. 70
Do.Naw consolidated Bths.. 40
Ditto New ..•• •. 221/2.. ~.
Do. New lB
London and Y0rk............... 21/2 — ... .to
Ditto Half Shares -
London and Windsor ......... 1% — ...... to
London, Salisbury, & Yeovil 21/2 l![4 to
Londonderry and Coleraine... 121/2 — to
Londonderry and Enniskillen 1212 — ...... to
Lynn and Ely
15
82 .....
sLi3a, untie
laienedte Dr earne hd aLine e d s
Ditto Half Shares ' _ 38 ...... ...... to --
Ditto Quarters
Ditto Fifths
Ditto Sixteenths . ....... ... 614 — ...... to
Do. Extension
Manchester and Birmingham 40
Ditto Quarters (A)
Ditto Quarters (13) ......... 5
to
Ditto Quarters (C) ...... .. 1
Manch. Buxton, & Matlock 423.
—' p... to
Manchesti , Birmingh am, and
MouldJ unction —
Manchester and Southampton 2
Midland 100 .. ... -
Ditto Fifths
Ditto, New

)MONEY and COMMERCIAL :NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO TH ;, <RE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were
12,000 bales, of which 2,000 were Egyptian and 2,000
American, on speculation. Egyptian were id. per ib.
higher, and Brazil and Sorra were sold at extreme
rate s.—Shares were rather quiet.
Several of the shipowners and merchants connected
with the principal pots of the United Kingdom have
just formed a plan for extending the whale and seal
fisheries by British vessels. It is perfectly well known
that America, by a combination of circumstances, has of
late years outstripped us in consequence of
heavy losses individually sin tained by those
British shipowners who have prosecuted the employment.
An institution similar to the one now proposed has been
already established abroad. "It is a vulgar error to
suppose (states the prospectus) that the ocean can be
depopulated, and in fact whales were never more abun-
dant than at present in the Arctic regions. The true
cause is, however, plain and indisputable. The trade
has proved unprofitable to individuals, simply because
by individuals it has almost necessarily been prosecuted
on too limited a scale." Accounts annually received
have afforded information of the great decrease of the
fisheries, but we were hardly prepared to find so large a
diminution of our shipping engaged in the trade or so
great an increase in that of the United States. From
official documents the results of experience and esti-
mates way be succinctly given as follow:
" So recently as the year 1821, the British whale
fisheries gave employment to 323 ships, of which 159
were engaged in the northern, and 164 in the southern
fishery. The total number now employed is only 85,
the northern fishery having dwindled to 44, and the
southern to 41 vessels. Simultaneously with this rapid
decline in the most enterprising branch of our commerce,
the whale fishery of the United States has advanced with
almost equal rapidity; the number of American whaling
ships, which in 1834 was 431, having increased in 1845
to no less than 735—a contrast as remarkable as it must
appear humiliating to the first maritime nation of the
world."
Should the undertaking succeed, as no doubt it must,
a large additional employment will be given to the
shipping interest and to the mariners of Great Britain.
There are not any advices from the British colonies
to-day.
A large amount of business has been transacted in the
British Securities to• day, especially for Money. Consols
for Account have been quoted only at 95k, for Money at,
948, the Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities at 933 to
94, and the New 'Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. at
951. The premium upon Exchequer-bills remains at
13s. to 16s. Bank Stock is dull at 205 k. India Stock
has been sold at 257 k.
The constant changes in the Ministry of Portugal
give a considerable instability to the value of the Stock
of the country. To-day the prices aro a trifle better-
-42k to 43 for the Account. The only business worth
notice to-day in the Foreign Market is, in Spanish at
264 IF, in the Three per Cents. at 374 ;-}, in Brazilian at
86k, in the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 59k,
and in the Four per Cent. Certificates at 91k.
In the Railway Share Market a good deal of business
has been transacted. The latest prices at which pro-
perty of this kind has changed hands to-day are
annexed.
BR f.e18.11 FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock .2061 2051/
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 94 93% 94
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 95 94j,
New 314 per Cent. Annuities
New 5 per Cent. Annuities ll9
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 9 15-16 13-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 9 13-16
Do. 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860.. 10 1-16
India Stock 257%
South Sea Stock
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Nov. 26 95%
Exchequer Bills. I%d. I%d.
13 16 pm.
5001. ...
•••
.. Ditto Small — .16 pm,
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent B6l/2
Portuguese 4 per Cents 42%
Ditto for the Account .. ..... 42% 43
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent, 1840 26.3/4
Ditto Passive Bonds 55i34
Ditto 3 per Cent 37:%4
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates .. 91%
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SIIAZE.
20
Aberdeen
Amber., Notting., Boston, &c 2%...... 234 to 3%
Armagh, Coleraine, &Portrush -
Aylesbury and Thaine l% to
Belfast and County Down ..
Birmingham and Gloucester..loo
Do. New (iss. at 7% dis.).. 17% —
Birmingham & Oxford June... 2
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and
Cheshire Junction 23% — ..... to
Boston, Stamf, & Birming... 225.
Bristol and Exeter
Do., New
Bristol and Gloucester...
Bristol and Liverpool June... 2% ...... to
Buckinghamshire..- B4s.
Caledonian
Ditto, Half Shares
Ditto, Extension
Cambrian and Grand Janet.. 423.
Chester and Holyhead... `27% ... 231% to
Cburnet anti Blythe
Chester and Manchester 425.
Cheltenham and Oxford
Clydesdale Junction 2O
to
Cork, Blackrock, & P--