The Sun.
London, England, 1846-08-17 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL NEWS.

NEW YORK MONEY MARKET, FRIDAY, JULY 31.
There was some activity in the Stock Market to-day, and
prices improved. _Harlem went up 11/2 per cent.; Norwich
and Worcester 1/.12 ; Reading ; Farmers' Loan IA .
At the second board prices improved a fraction, with
very moderate sales. There appears to be a movement
going on in Harlem, which is rapidly inflating the mar-
ket price of that stock. It has already reached the level
of Norwich and Worcester, and will, without doubt, pass
beyond it. It is controlled by a small clique of operators,
and we look for a smash as so,m as it may suit their purposes
to let it come. It would be well for the outsiders to watch
the market closely, and slip out as soon as the turning point
has been made. It is not tar a- head ; and at the rapid rate
this stock has advanced during the past week or two, it will
soon be reached. _ _

There was only a moderate demand for foreign exchange,
for remittance by the Boston steamer. Prime bills on
London sold at 7 to per cent. premium, hut there were
goods bills offering at 7 per cent..premium. We quote bills
on Paris sf. 40c. to sf. 371/c.; Amsterdam, 13814 to
.381/2 ;
Hamburgh, 34% to 31% • Bremen, 70% to 76%.
The passage of the ad valorem Tariff Bill has created
considerable activity at the Custom-house, and every
one appears to be in a great hurry 'to get their goods
through, and into the market. The cash entries nave
been unusually large. We have no doubt but that the
month of August will be a very busy mouth at the Cus-
tom-house, in the way of entries for importation ; and after
that the principal business will he entries fur exportation, as
an immense quantity of foreign merchandise will be ex-
ported during the months of October and November, for the
benefit of drawback and re-importation, under the reduced
rate of duty.
The importation of foreign merchandise after the Ist of
October, until the new tariff goes into operation, will be ex-
tremely limited, and only to the extent of the actual and im-
mediate demand for consumption, and only ill instances
where there will be, after the Ist of December, an
increased duty. The revenue front customs from
this to the Ist of December, will be very small, while
the expenditures are going on at the rate of several
hundred thousand dollars per day. The 10,000,000 surplus,
anct., the 10,000,000 treasury notes will be expended long
before that time. Tile expenuitur-e of that amount has already
been incurred, but as yet-thepayments have not been made ;
when the drafts conic for the money,l I le deposits to the credit
• of the Government in our banks will be swept away very
rapidly. We have not, as yet, begun to feel the effect of
the Mexican war upon the finances of the Government, or
the influence ultra the money market of the withdrawal of
such a large sum from our banks. It is true that the trea-
sury notes will, if t hey pass into general circulation, fill the
vacuum to a certain extent, but not otherwise. At present,
therefore, all is doubt and uncertainty, in relation to our
financial policy, so far as the receipts and expenditui es of the
Government are concerned.

SIR CHARLES WETHERELL.— We are happy to state
that, according to the accounts received on Friday, the Right
lion. and Learned Baronet continues to improve, but the
danger is not yet past.
The annual general meeting of the Stamp and Tax-
office Assurance Society, under the patronage of the Hon.
the Commissioners of Stamps and Taxes, was held on Mon•
day last, when the Secretary read a statement of tf a income
and expenditure for the past year, showing an increase of
3401. Os. 2d. In making his report he had the gratification
to announce the result of the steam-boat excursion for this
year, that the fund had benefited by the support of friends
to the amount of 651. 10s. 63. He further alluded to the
great progress the Society had made in so short a period, and
stated that the funds now amounted to the suns of 2,3501., 9s.
8d , which would be a sufficient inducement to all who were
eligible to avail themselves of the society's advantages.
The dividend declared at the meeting of the Great
Western Railway char* holders was at the rate of B.per cent.
per annum. The teceipts for the first half-year of 1846 were
496,4281., and those of the corresponding half-year of 1815
only .133,297/., showing an increase of .63,131/. The expen-
diture in the first half-year of 1846 was 189, 621/., while that
of the corresponding half-vear of 1845 was 158,3661., showing
an increase of 31,253/. • Air. Russell, the chairman, has given
a flat contradiction to the rumour that the liabilities of the
Company amount to 43,000,000/. He states that the direc-
tors are authorised to raise 14,287,0001., but it is expected
that their necessities will not require more than 12,940,000/.

..:04 an evidence that con; is Hir,ady bec-Aning a
regular article of exchange, it is mentioned in the City that
large quantities of wheat have been shipped from this country
to France, and that they have been paid for by importations
of gold.
POST OFFICE NOTICE.—The following notice was is-
sued on Friday, at the chief office, St. Martin's-le:Grand
"Peninsular Mail;.—The Peninsular and Oriental steam
(rackets will di=continue calling at Comma, outwards and
inwards, during the winter months of November, December,
January, and February next, commencing from the 7th of
November next."

LYCRUM.—SERIOUSIINDISPOSITION OF MR. KEELEY.
—On Friday evening a notice was posted at the Lyceum
Theatre which caus ,d disappointment atid regret; it ststed
that in consequence of the sud,ten and ierious indisposition
of Mr. Keeley, the theatre would not be opened. The
theatre was also closed on Saturday evening from the same
cause. _ _ .

Ibrahim Pacha arrived at Malta in the steam-frigate
Avenger on the 2d. He was received with a salute from fort
Angelo, and another salute was fired on the following morn-
ing when he landed accompanied by Admiral Sir Lucius
Curtis. On lauding he was received by Colonel Balneevis,
the acting Governor, and his staff, and a guard of honour of
the 42d Royal Highhinders. When his Highness arrived at
the Governor's house, there was another guard of honour
from the 88th Regiment to receive him. He left the same
evening for Alexandria.

_
FIRST ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY IN FRANCE.--A
cargo of enormous cast iron tubes has arrived at the Quai
des Celestines. They have been made at the forges of Van-
deuvre (Aube), and are destined for the atmospheric railway
of St. Gertnaiu.— The Builder. . .

INTREPID CONDUCT.—OR Thursday evening last,
about half-past seven, as a Mr. Mitchell, a gentleman in the
committee clerks' office of the House of Commons, was
rowing up to Putney, he saw a boy about eight or nine
years of age fall from the towing path in front of the
Duke's Head public-house, Putney, into the river, in a
depth of at least 12 feet water. Although the tide was
running very strong at the time, Mr. Mitchell, without un-
dressing himself, instantly plunged in and succeeded in
bringing the bey, who sunk the second time, above the
water. When they came up, the boy's arms were tightly
clasped round Mr. Mitchell's neck, and it required con-
siderable exertion before he could disengage himself. On
relieving himself from the boy's grasp, Mr. Mitchell, who
is an expert swimmer, succeeded with great difficulty in
bringing the boy to the towing path, which was, in conse-
quence of the high tide, three or four feet under water, 'when
he was pulled out by a numbei• of persons who had assembled
at the spot. Mr. Mitchell was all but exhausted from his
exertions, and his watch very much injured. Mr. Wrightson,
the landlord of the Duke's Head, accommodated Mr. Mitchell
with a change of clothes, but he suffered considerably from
the effects of his gallant and successful exertions to save the
life of a fellow creature. The boy's father, a greengrocer at
Putney, of the name of Nicholls, on hearing of the circum-
stance, waited on the preserver of his son's life, and thanked
him for his invaluable services. This is the second time Mr.
Mitchell has risked his own life to save that of another,
having, about seven months back, saved the life of another
boy under somewhat similar circumstances, off Chandler's
Pier, Millbank.

- FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LANCASTER AND CARLISLE
RAlLwA'r.—On Wednesday afternoon, one of those melan-
choly accidents which have been of such frequent occurrence
on these works, took place at Fiddler's Gill Viaduct, about
four miles from Kendal. It appears that from forty to fifty
men were on the viaduct waiting for some material to corn.
mance their work, but nothing had as yet been moved, when
an awful crash took place, the timbers supporting the
machines with which the viaduct had been constructed
giving way, and taking down with them 10 or more of the
men, one of whom, Mr. Bainbridge, was nearly crushed to
atoms. six were sadly injured, and but faint hopes are
entertained of the recovefy of any of them. The height
which the machines fell is 55 feet, but the unfortunate
fellow who was killed was at a height of 70 feet from
the ground, which he never reached alive, as he was
caught amongst the falling timbers, and taken down after-
wards by his fellow-labourers, dead, and in a dreadfully
mutilated state. Expresses were immediately dispatched to
Kendal for surgeons, and three—Messrs. Gough, Lougmore,
and Brumwell—arrived on the spot without the loss of a
moment. At that time the lives of three of the men were
despaired of, but after great attention and skill from the sur-
geons some hopes are now held out. The beams which haves
caused this sad affair have supported two heavy iron ma-
chines ever since the work commented, and lifted all the
immense stones which have been employed in building it;
and as no work was going on at the time the acci-
dent occurred it surpasses•the comprehension of the man-
ager of the works how it happened ; and at the same
time it is considered almost miraculous that 30 or 40 men
did not perish ; but numbers succeeded in saving themselves
by clinging to the broken timber around them. The in-
spector and conductor of the works had fortunately just left
the place.
SINGULAR CASE OF HYDROPHOBIA.—On Monday
afternoon, an inquest was held at the Wheatsheaf Tavern,
High Wycombe, Bucks, before Mr. J. C. Hunter, coroner,
on the body of Henry Abbott, whose death bad been caused
by the bite of a dog, which ha had received six weeks ago.
The bite was received from a cocker dog. Mr. Wilson,
surgeon, deposed—l was called to attend the deceased on
Tuesday morning last ; my young man had previously
dressed his hand when be received the wound. lie had an
iatense pain in the stomach, and had a difficulty in swallowe
ing liquids in particular. I sent him a mixtnre and som-
pills, but on returning I found he could not swallow the
mixture, though he had taken the pills. From that time
the symptoms increa.ed, particularly the difficulty in swal-
lowing and the aversion to water. I bled him to relieve
the pain, and called in Dr. Smith in the afternoon, who
agreed with me that it was a case of hydrophobia. There
WAS a violent sighing and a heaving of the diaphragm, and
it took sometimes two or three persons to hold him down,
,
Towards the last his convulsive efforts returned nearly every
minute, and his dread of water was intense) whenever he
saw or felt it, it convulsed his whole frame. I have no doubt
he died from hydrophobia. He spoke to me of the bite of
illness. the animal previous to his Charles Bennett de-
posed—l am assistant to Mr. Wilson. About six weeks
ago the deceased came to Mr. Wilson's shop and stated that
he had been bitten in the right hand by a dog. I cauterised
it freely, and appled some dressing to it. There were
marks of teeth in the hand. The wound subsequently,
healed. The jury returned a verdict of "Died from hydro-
phobia occeeioned by the bite of a dog."

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
The Cotton market at Liverpool yesterday was dull. Sales
about 4,000 bales.—Shares were very quiet.
The books at Lloyd's, the Court of Admiralty, and the
public journals, too often testify the fact that lite, as well as
large properties, are too frequently lost and perilled by col-
lisions at sea; and since the mercantile navy of this country
has had added to it a large fleet of steam-ships, those colli-
sions have become more frequent and dangerous. There
cannot be a question that the masters of Bailing-vessels have
long held that steam- ships are compelled to, get out of
their way, and, therefore, run hazards and risks they might
have prevented. However, to guide steamers in the course
they should pursue, the corporation of the Trinity House,
some years back, issued a rule, which the masters were called
upon strictly to observe. Now, it would naturally be
imagined that a notice of this kind, emanating from this all-
powerful body as regulators of navigation, would have been
known by heart by all sailors, from the captain to the cabin-
boy, of the largest class down to the smallest registered
ship. Not so. What says the second paragraph of the
report of the committee of the general shipowners upon
this subject? Referring to the "increasing frequency and
fatal consequences of collisions at sea," the com-
mittee states (and a competent authority it is), " that
the rules sanctioned by the Trinity Corporation for
the navigation of steam-vessels' are well calcu-
lated to prevent these disasters, but, although they
have been largely circulated by the Trinity Corporation,
they do not appear to be sufficiently known to shipowners
and masters." Surely every vessel leaving port :ought to
have a copy of the rule on board—the more so as her Ma-
jesty's steam-vessels of war and most foreign masters follow
now the regulation noted. As too much publicity cannot be
given to the Trinity House rule (which long since received
the sanction of the Admiralty), and for the guidance of
masters of steamers, we quote it here. It is this :
"Rule. When steam-vessels on different courses must una-
voidably or necessarily cross so near that, by continuing
their respective courses, there would be a risk of coming into
collision, each vessel shall put her helm to port, so as always
to pass on the larboard side of each other.
"ABteani-vessel passing another in a narrow channel, must
always leave the vessel she is passing on the larboard hand."
There are not any colonial arrivals of a late date reported
hereto-day. •
Consols for the account have been rather heavy again,
although the quotation tor account is 05% anil 95%; for
money the price is 95% to %. Exchequer-bills have ranged
from 7s. to Hs.. premium ; the Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents., from 97% to 97% ; and Bank Stock has been done
at 209.
Business is dull in the foreign bonds this morning, Old
Portuguese are atBs ; Russian at 1131/2 ; the Spanish Three
per Cents at 361/8 %; the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents
at 59%, and the Four per Cents at 941.
In the Railway World it is stated that the negotiations
between the directors of the North Staffordshire and the
Churuet and Blythe Railways have been favourbly concluded,
end the line of the latter is to be given up to the former.
Extension shares are to be granted by the North Stafford
Company, the other proprietors to contribute one-half capital
thereto. The Railway Share market is rather heavy this
morning.
BRITISH FUNDS.

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock ... .. .. .. .. • • 209 209
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. .. 96% 96 96
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 93% % 95%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anus. 97% ,r, 97%
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 .. 10% 7.16 10 7-16
India Stock .. .. . .. .. f.. .. 260 260
Consols for Account • • • • .. .. ..... 95%3i 95%

Exchequer Bills. I%d. 141.-
1,0001... .. .... 711 7 pm. 7
5001. -. .. .... 8 11 7 pm. 7
Ditto, Small .... 12 8 pm. 8
ONE CLOSING
FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 88 88
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ceut .. .. 85 85
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. .. ~ ,„ _ 42%
Ditto, filr the Account .. .. „ _ 42%
Russian Bonds .. .. • . .. .. 113% 113%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .. 25%
Ditto, Passive Bonds .. .. .. 5% 5%
Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. .. 36 %% 36%
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Two-and-a- [tall per Cent .. 59% 59%
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 9414 94!¢
PRICES OF BUSINESSCLOSING
RAILWAY SILARES. PAID. DONE AT PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.
Amber., Notting., Boston, and

Eastern JUnction .. .. .. 2%.... I 3/4 ••••• • • • • • I %
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 .... 6%% %•• • • . 6v,
Ituckingintnishire .. .. .. .. 425. .... 3% di5....... IA dis.
Caledonian - .. •• .. .. 20 .... 154 .... •• .... 15%
_... _..

Ditto, Half Shares .. .. .. 2 ~‘ .... 1q.......... 1M
Ditto, Extension .. • • • • 2!;; ••• • •••••• • • • • 1%
Cambridge and Oxford .. .. .. 1%.... 1/2 ....• • . . . .
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2%.... % ........ ..
Direct Northern .. .. .. .. 2 .... 1% ...... .... 1%
Dublin and Belfast Junction .. 10 .... 4 .... ...... 4

Eastern Counties .. 141. 233 % •• •• • • 23%.
Ditto New .. 10/. 165..... p..•• 77,6 P
Ditto, York Extension 10s. • • • • .. • • • •
Eastern Union .. .. 30 .... .......... 48%

Do. Ipswich 84 Bury St.Edmunds 9 ..
Do. Extension to Norwich .. 2Y, .........
East Lancashire........l4_ .... .....

East Lincolnshire 114
Edinburgh and Northern .. .. 10 .... „ BV2
Great Southern 8c West. (Ireland) 25 ...• • ......... 28N
Great North of England . ..100 ..... 234
Ditto, New .. .. 15 .•• •....... 50%
Great Western .. 85 •• .. 152% 152...... 153

Ditto, Hal shares 50 8687 .. 87
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 10 •• .. 23% 23%
Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... • • 35
Ciuildford, Fareham, &Portsmoth 5 .... 5%..........
Hull and Selby .. .. 50 • • ..106 .......... 106;
Lancaster and ('arlisle .. 45 .... • • 63

Leeds and- Carlisle

.. .. .. 2%.... 1%...

Leicester and Bedford .. .. .. 225..... % % dis.•. • % dis.
Leicester, Tamworth, &c. .. .. 425. •• .. li dis 1/2 di,.
iverp.. Mauch., & Newc. Junct. 2y4.... ...
London and Blackwall .. 161. 13s. 4d. 8!4 • .• • •
Ditto, New .. .. .. .. 3 .... 441 44
London and Brighton • • • • • 50 • • . 65% 65 •••• • • 65
London and Croydon • • .. 131. 15s. 9d .. 23%.... •• •• •• 23%
London, Hounslow, and Western.. 2 .... ••••• - • • • • li
London an ! Noith-Western . —lOO ....228 .. .• .
Ditto, Fifths .. .. .. .. 2 .... 26 •
London and South-Western ..41/. 6s. 10ct..: 75 . .......
Ditto. New Cousol. Eighths .. 40 .... ....
Ditto, New ~ .. .. .. 14 ... 20
London and York .. .. .. .. 2 .... 21/ 2.... •• • • 2

Ditto, Hall Shares • • . • • • 2 •• • • 1 ••••• • • • • •
Lynn and Ely .. 15 .... • • 16

ManelL,ster and Leeds .. 82 .... ••
Ditto. Fifths .. 3 .... 11 .. 11
Ditto Extension 425..... .......... p

,inchester arid Birmintham .. 40 86

Ditto, Quarter Shares (II • • 5 .... 15 •. • • ...... 15.%
Atli-whetter, -Buxton, & Matlock 425. .... 1 1,-{, 1 p...... 1 -p
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 ... 134 .. • .....
Midland .. ..100 . 140 .......... 140..

Ditto, New 24 •• • •••••• • • • • 374
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 ....115 .......... 116
Newca4tle and Darlington Juliet. 25 .... 4314 .......... 4344
Ditto, New . .... 1111/4..••••••
Newcastle and Berwick .. 15 •• • • 28 ..... .•• .. 28,4
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston • . 1% .... 3,4 • .
North Br; tisli .. 25 .... 3914 •••• • • • ... 39

Ditto, Half Shares .. :: • • 8% •• 14 kiN ........ I 4 ?;,.
Ditto, Carlisle Extension .. 114.... 41A .. •••• • • • - 4
North Kent and Direct Dover 214.... ••••• • • • • • 1 5,,
North Staffordshire .. - • • • 425. •• • • 3% Ye P••• • • -3% p
Richmond .. .. .. .. .. 10 •• • • 18% •••••• • • • • 16%
Scottish Central .. .. . .. 12% .. .. 19% 18% .. 1834
, -
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 2%.... 3ls ......... 31S
Shropshire Union .. .• .. .. 425..... % dls• •••• • • • % dis.
South Midland .. • • .. • • 42e. ••• • ••••• • • • • • is P
South Eastern and Dovor .. 33% .... ..........
Do., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 2% •• • . 3% IA ........ 3',i
South Wales .. .. • • .. .. 5 .. • . 3'4 4........434
Warwick and Worcester .. .. 421. .. .. 1 % dis... .. .. .. 11,i dis.
Welsh Midland .. .. • • • • 2% ••• • •• • • .... %
West Riding Union • • .• .. 425. .... 34 3 p
.. ..
.. 3 p
Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth 10 .... :6 .......... 6
York and Carlisle .. .. • • • •
.214 •• •• Ye %••••• • •
___ ...

York amd North Midland .. .. 50
Ditto. Scarborough Branch .. 25 .... 4614 • • 46%
Ditto. Extension .• .. 20 .... 394 39 .• .... 39
Do. E, and W. Riding Eaten... 1 1314 ........ .. 13►,f'