The Sun.
London, England, 1851-04-08 00:00:00

INC

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SHAIZEIS.

Railways. I Paid. Nominal Prices. 'Business done
to-day.
Aberdeen •• .. • • 8 6 15 % dis dls.
Caledonian IR. • . .. 10 64
Chester and Holyhead 15 16 16% x.d
East Anglian (31. 10s.)
6 per cent. • • 8% 2% 2%1%
Do. (51.) 7 pr. ct. Pref.
Do. (71. 175.) 7 p. c.' Pref. 2 ..
Eastern Counties Exten.,
5 per cent. No. 1 • • 613 4 par p
Do. No. 2 .• • • • • 613 4 par p % pm
Do. New 6p. cent. Stock 10 10% 11%
Eastern Union, Scrip
guaran. 6 per cent. • • 20 16% 16%
1)o. 101. Deben. Shares . 10 ~
East Lancashire. 6 per
cent. quarter shares .. 6 4 • •
Glasgow & S.-W. Consul 100 ..
Gt Northern, 5 per cent. 12% 13% 13% 134
Great South. & Western
(Ireland) eighths .• 1 p.
Lancashire and York-
shire, F. 201. .• • • 6 dls.
Do. 6 per cent. Stock . 100 ~
Leeds and Thirsk, 6 per
cent., No. 1.. .• .. 11 p
Do. 6 per cent., No. 2 . 17 ..
Do. 6 per cent., .90. 3 . 5 ..
Do. quarters. 1848 .. 9 I p
London, Brighton, and
Seuth Coast guar. 5 per
et., late Croyd,n thirds 100 ..
De. pref., 5 p ct. St,ek,
1851, from 501. share. E 100 114 120
Do. cony. 5 per et. 1852 60 57 —6O
Do. new guar., 6 per ct. 100 136 139
London &S.-W., new .. 5 254 P.
Londonderry and Emals- •
killen, halt shares • • 10 • ..
biatich., Sheffield, and
Line , quer. shrs., No. 1 25 13% 14%
Do. new, 101. •• 10 11% 12%
Do., 61. • • .• .. 3 % % P
Midland Con. 6p. c. stock 100 132 134
Do. Cousel. nristol &
13inanng., 6 per cent... 100 ..
Do. Bristol St Glouces. 48 _
Do. do. do. ••33 10 6 ..
Do. Erewash Talley 50
Do. Leic. Ft Swanning.
8 per cent. guar. • • 100 • • •
Norfolk Extension • • 20 17 —lB
;o. guar. 5% per cent. b 4%
Do. Waveney Valley .. 2•North British •• .. 5 5 5% x.d x.d
Shrewsbury and Birm.
New Guaranteed .. 8 11 11% 11%
Shrews. and Ches. (Nor.
W. Min.) 8 per cent. 10 lb% 15%
South Devon 25 14 16
South-Eastern, p. et. 10
Waterford & Kilkenny, 51. 1
West London, 1 st Cl. (101.) 10 ..
Do. 2d Class do. (par) 20 ..
York, Newe., and Berw., 17
Gt. N . of E. Pur. 16% 16%
York and North Midland
H. and S. Furch. .. 10 1% 1 dis. 98%
Oxford, Worcester. and Wolverhampton, 151., 6 per cent., 3%.
SOREIGN.
Boulogne and Amiens •• 20 9%
Central of France (Or-
' leans and Vierzon) •• 20 17% —lB 18% 18
Demerara .. 17%
Dutch Rhenish • . 8 4% 414 dis. 3%
East Indian • • .. •• 14 IL 15%
Do. do. do. 20
Great Indian Peninsula.. 5 % % p.
Ditto ditto .. . 2% % %P.
Louvain ala San re 7% •
Luxembourg • . a 1
Ditto 10 —3% 334
Madrid and Valenti* ..•
Maria Antonia .. 25 7 9
Ditto, New • • 134 2 4
Namur and Liege .. .• 20 8 —B%
Northern of France • . 16 14% 15% 14%
Orleans and Bordeaux •. 8 4 —3% dis.
Paris and Orleans .. 20 35 —37 36
Paris and Rouen .. .. 20 25 —26
Paris and Strasbourg .. 16 5% dis. 101
Rouen and Havre .. • 20 10% 10% 10%
Sambre and Meuse • • 20 —3% 4
Tours and Nantes • • • • 15 9 dis.
Tourney, Jurbiso, Lan-
den, and Hessen •• 20 • • • •
Wont try INM(r
214
=Banks—London and Westminster, 27% ; ational Provincial Of
England, 40; Union of London 12%.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.

The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were estimated
at :;oao bales. The rnarket was heavy, at previous rates,
eaceptinterior qualities. which were r dher lower. The
sales comprised 3,500 American, 200 Bahia, at 7 %/ed. to
Bd. ; 301 Egyptian, at 73%d. to B%d. ; 1,000 Surat, at 4d.
to Wed.; and a 0 Sea Isla d, at Is. 2d. to Is. 91. per lb.-
In Railway Shares a fair business was done at higher prices.
The state of the Metal Market is described by Messrs.
W. Short and Co. in the terms subjoined
Iron, w ith the exception of a fair demaad for rails of the
America!, flange pattern, we have scarce anything to note;
for these 51. ss. (and it is said Si. is 6d.) per ton have been
paid. Bars are in very moderate demand, and good marks
are obtainable at 41. Its. in Wales. Scotch pigs have
been greatly neglected, and the price has declined about Is.
per ton. Of mixed numbers ordinary brands, there are
sellers at 41s. payment against bills of lad ng, and 41s. 6d.
against storelreepeae' free on board warrants. Of Swedish
there is a limited quantity in stock, and good assortments
are not to be had under 12/. per ton.
" Swedish Steel is firmly held for the price quoted. Copper
is firm in price, and in fair demand. Tin-English wa-a on
Ist instant reduced 4/. per ton. In Foreign we have had a
limited business, and we quote the price about 2/. per ton
lower; the last sales of Bar,ca in Holland were made at a
price equivalent to 83s. per ton, shipped free in bond there.
Tin Plates continue in very fair demand. Lead is without
alteration. Spelter has declined to about IT/. los. per ton on
the spot, and for delivery during the summer a considerable
quantity has been sold at 15/. 55."
Some days ago we gave an abstract of the contents of
Mr. Locke's proposed Railway Audit Bill, and we have now
before us the plan of Messrs. Stanfori and Mullings, which
has likewise been brought into Parliament. Upon the whole
we incline to think that the first-named will have thc pre-
ference, the latter being too involved, and containing too
many wheels within wheels. The preparers of the Bill de-
sire that a boat dof railway auditors shall be established, to
consist of five persons, neither directors nor shareholders, nor
etl,e, wise interested. A special meeting of proprietors and
holders of debentures, &c., is to be held within four calendar
maths from the passing of this Act, and at this elec-
tors will be chosen in the proportion of one for every
500,0001. of capital of the railway ; or if the total capital be
less than that amount, still one elector may be appointed,
and the parties voting for him must have held their stock
not less than six Calendar months, and to the amount at
least of 100/. ; neither can the directors or other officers
vote. The number to constitute a meeting must hold at
least one-fifth of the capital, and proxies must be sent
three clear days before to the secretary. Every 1001.
capital stock will give the right to one vote, and one more
vote for every five shares beyond the first ten with limitations
upwards. When the electors are chosen, the Board of Trade
will advertise their names, and convene them to take into
consideration the claims of the different candidates for the
office of auditors, who will be ballotted for, rear auditor only
being chose nat each meeting. A party from the Board of
Trade will officiate as secretary at these meetings of electors.
The auditors will be appointed for life, but subject to re-
moval for gross negligence or misconduct. The general
duties of the auditors will be to inspect the accounts kept by
all railway companies,, to call for vouchers, distinguish
capital from revenue, inquire into all pecuniary obligations,
including cases, guarantees, and if expedient to examine the
directors, clerks, and other oflicers of the company. Non-
compliance will subject the offending parties to a fine of 201.
per diem. The auditors, as far as practicable, will keep up a
"continuous" audit, and print and circulate half-yearly a clear
statement made out upon one uniform plan, showing the real
financial condition of the company, the profit and loss, the
amount available for dividend, but without the power to fix
such dividend, and may append any observaions they
think fir. These will have to be read out at the
meetings of shareholders, and sold at a low charge to
the public generally, the same as Parliamentary
reports are. The auditors may appoint a secretary and clerks,
the secretary not to have more than 600/., nor any other
officer more than 400/. per annum. The five auditors are
to have 1,200/. per annum each. The railway companies
will have to defray the expense of convening meetings to
choose electors, but no elector will be peal more than 101.
The Commissioners of the Railway Department of the
Board of Trisee will defray their own expenses out of the
fuads voted by Parliament, but the entire cost of the audi-
tors and thei- officers will be liquidated by a general " audit
rate," levied upon the " net" profits of the companies,
which will pay the said rate half-yearly into the Bank of
England. These comprise the objects of the proposed Act.
The followir g particulars of the state of the Cotton Market
is from the Circular of Messrs. Schroeder and Mummy, of 15th
ult., published by Ix. James Irvine, of Liverpool:-
" NEW ORLEANS, MARCH 1.5.-COTTON.-0 it last review
was dated let inst , and left our market in a depressed state,
with fair sales, however. The arrival of the 15th February
steamer, subsequently to the above date, bringing news of a
further decline in the Liverpool market, and a limited busi-
ness at Manchester, had the effect again of unsettling this
market, and the sales durng the first week ot this month
amounted to 2'2,500 bales, at very irregular prices, ranging
from 91-aa to 101/Bc. for middling, according to the nature of
orders for even running' or mixed average' parcels of
this grade-the former being very scarce, in consequence of
the large quantities of decidedly low and inferior qualities,
coming to market from all points, and indicating clearly that
they are the complement ot crops In this state of things,
the accounts from Liverpool of the 22d were looked for, and
no one doubted that that market would have given way fur-
ther; the steamer arrived, however, reporting no change in
prices, but a firmer market. Factors were thereby induced
to demand improved rates, and not being met by buyers
whose letters have not yet come to hand, the business tran-
sacted this week has amounted to 21,700 bales, at more regu-
lar and somewhat more improved prices, say 934 to 1014
for middling, as in qualty, while the higher grades, from
the scarcity, maintain a e aloe relatively much higher, eood
middling being held firmly at 11 to 111,4 c. As to the ex-
tent of our present crop, we see no good reason to change our
views lately expressed. The contirued large receipts have
been by some construed into an evidence of a great product
this season, but had we not reliable information from the
shipping points of the interior, the experience of past short
crop years, showing invarishly the heaviest per centage of
receipts, we should still be unshaken in our opinion. reins
have been taken to ascertain the most reliable accounts, and
from the best source, within a few days; the result shows
that the average of receipts for this port is barely 880 m bales
against 830 m in 1849-50. We have accounts from Red
River, according to which a vast extent of Cotton lands are
threatened with inundation ; the stock of cattle are being re-
moved, and planting of the crop to come is postponed inde-
finitely. We define the present position of the market by
the following quotations, viz. :-Ordinary, 8 to 84c.; good
ordinary, 9 to 9's c.; middling, 10 to 10I4c. ; good middling,
11 to 111,4 c.; middling fair, 1114 to 1134 c.; fair, 12 to
124 c. Sales during the last fortnight, 44,200 bales; receipts
at this port since Ist Sept., 744,809 bales, against 651,239
bales last year; increase of receipts at all the ports up to
latest dates, 143,132 bales"
The Trust and Loan Company of Upper Canada has had
all the required capital paid up, and a reference to its im-
portant objects may be made hereafter under this head.
The Amsterdam Market was rather animated for Spanish
Bonds on Sunday, but dull for other stocks.
The English Funds continue very firm. Consols are
96% 7/9 for Transfer, and 96% to 97 for May. Exchequer-
bills have been very firm at 555. to 58s. premium. The
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. have realized 97%
and the Three per Cents 96 to %.
In Foreign Securities scarcely any business is doing.
Mexican are heavy at 33 IA to and Spanish Five per
Cents. at 20% to 21. Peruvian Deferred have been at 39.
In Shares there has been very little doing, and prices are
flatter generally.

QUARTER? TO THREt
Consols 96
Ditto Account ... 961

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES.
8 pi, Cent. Reduced Anne.
3 per Cent. Console Annuities 96YR 34 96.74
New 814 per Cent. Anna ... ....• 97%34 97%
r.,,ng Arms. to expire Jan.lB6o -16 7% 7%
In ii,: Flondr, 1,0i)0c.„. —
Ditto uncial. 1,0001... ..... . ......
Consols for Account 9634 7s 96%
E (chequer Bills. I;id. & 2d
1,0001. June
5001. June 55 5,3 p 54 1.
Snit% June 55 58 p 58 p

ONE

PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds... ••
Ditto, Small
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent
Ditto Account
Danish 80nd5,1825,3 per Cent. , —
Do., 5 per cent
F,quador Bonds
111,;(icf,m, 5 par Cent.lB4s, with Coupons—
Ditto, Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto, Account
Peruvian Bonds, 41A per. Cent—

CLOAIN

- Ditto Deferred
Rassian Bonds ,,„ ~. 111

PRICES.
891/2
5514
4

Ditto, 4 per Cent
Sparisli 5 per C.,nt. 1840_
Ditto, Account .....
Ditto. ''arrive
Dividends on the above payable in London.
D :tat 214

3314

VB3/4

21
5i
58,4

to, 4 per Cdnt. Certificates... 893 ex d.

LLOYD'' SHIPY/NUr.--( THIS DAY.)

LONDON, APRIL B.—Wind at noon N., gloomy.
PARIS, APRIL 6.—A French steamer was seen on the 2; st
Feb., on shore on tho rocks near Cape-a.Teon, Port-au-
Prince, by the Aglara, arrived at Havre. 7th, The Ras..
theden, of Fre..erickstadt, with loss of bowsprit, apparently
by being in contact, was seen on the 3d April, to the west-
ward of the Goodwin Sands. She was standing to S.W.,
and supposed to have an English pilot on board.
LOWESTOFT, APRIL s.—The Teazer, Atkins, of Wells,
riding in South Roads, was run foul of by the schooner
Sarah, Hatchcomb, of London. The former had quarter-
board and rail carried away, and received other damage; the
latter carried away jib-boom, and proceeded for Newcastle.
PEAL, APRIL 7.—Wini E. to E.N.E., fresh.—Arrd.
Hermann de Ruyter, Flint, Dordt, Batavia; Warder, East-
ward, for the Westward. Sld. Africanus, Gambia; Dorus,
Antigua.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 7.—Wind S.— Arrd. Icarus, Demerara;
Cvntlii, Dean, Cirenfuegos ; Glencoe, Bower, Rio Grande;
Oats, Para; Bers Grant, M'Cartnev, Honduras; Loodianah,
Pultamore, New Orleans; Robert Watt, Burton, Apalachi-
cola. off port, Britannia, Prince Arthur, f:alitax;
Resolution, Smyrna; Eleanor, Constantinople; Thomas,
Va-
lencia; Crown, Calcutta; Gem, Monte Video ; Ackeron and
Southampton,itc
Helena, New Orleans; Try and Yorkshire, New York ; Lady
of the Lake, Boston; Grace, Eastport ; Cambrian, Newfound-
land; Queen of the West, Beyrout ; Stamboul!, Zante.
WEYMOUTH, APRIL 7. Sld. George Wilkinson, Quebec.
PLYMOUTH,
APRIL 7.—Wind E.—Sid. Cheshire
Itch,
Natal; ; Boston Castle, Quebec.
PoaTsmount, Aran, 7.—Wind E.—Arrd.Charles Carter,
Hocking, London, for Cape of Good Hope;
Tinker, Lendor, and aid. for New York.
STOCKTON, APRIL s.—Ar- d. Sophia, And -
erstem, Neu-
stadt. Sld. Perseverance, Quebec.
SHEERNESS, APRIL 7.—A foreign barque, d laden
on shore on the Knock Land, Essex Coast. barqueAeal- 'is
alongside to lighten her. is

MARKET NEWS._.(THIS DAY.)
HAS NIAZZICETS.
SMITIIFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 3s to 4/ Ss Od ; Clover
ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 8s; and Straw, 11 is to 1/ 8s per load.
A full average supply, and a slow trade.
CUMBERLAND.--Meadow Hay, 31 53 to 47 8s; Clover
ditto, 31 5s to 4l 8s; and Straw, 1/ Ss to 1/ lOs per load.
Supply tolerably good, and trade rather dull.
WHITECITAPEL—Meadow Hay, 3/ 83 to 4/ 6s; Clover
ditto, 3/ Os to 4/ 8s; and Straw, 1/ 2s to 1/ 8s per load.
Trade dull, at our quotations. _ _

COLONIS.M.
SITGAL—The market for British Plantation is heavy, and
prices are generally 6(1 to Is lower since this day week;
About 200 lihds have been sold. 2,500 bags Bengal and
8,300 bags Madras were only about half realised at prices
establishing the above decline. The quantity of British
Plantation landed last week at tlie East and West India

Docks was 764 hogsheads 48 tierces 190 barrels. Thera
w( *ak,n fiy. home comumption 822 hhds 33 tierces
barrels. The stock in the same places is 3,262 hhds 5.
tierces 634 barrels.
COFFEE. —Only a limited business has occurred privatell
in Native Ceylon, at 42s for common quality. so
Rum.—The market is extremely heavy, and there are
et
buyers at previous rates. The quantity landed last Wen
the Last and West India Docks was 237 puns 287 uds,
"'db,
there were taken for home consumption 2EO puns ; 3 h",„,8
and exported 205 puns 313 hhds. The stuck in the 33'.
places is 1,401 puns 1,471. hhds.
TALLOW. P.Y.C. is 4! s per cwt. on the spot, and TOwri
41s 60.
TEA.—The market steady.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DO')

OLD COUR I.
(Before the RECORDER.)
George Frederick Hopping, 38, ironmonger, and Jail
Brown, EA, :gent, were indicted for misdemeanour.
Mr. Parry prosecuted, and Mr. Robinson defended the P
soners..
It appeared that the prisoner, Hopping, had obtained, Alta
the assistance of the other prisoner, a certain quantity ot:lrej
goods from Messrs. Daniel and Co., by means of a fOld
order, which they represented as coming from Mr. Beell2fef;
the prosecutor, from whose employ Hopping had only s th
days previously been dismissed. Hopping bad access to
order book, and it was found after he left, that several Pig
with blank forms had been torn out.
Both the' prisoners were found Guilty, and sentence W°l
deferred.

ANEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON-SERGEANT.)
MINT PROSECUTIONS.—Mary Ann Buckley, 17, r,
Catherine O'Brien, 18, spinster, _Harriet Downes,lB,
Samuel Jones, 64, clothworker, and James
all pleaded guilty of uttering counterfeit coin, and were 0'
tented to imprisonment for six calendar mouths.
The Common-Sergeant was occupied during the tnorld
in trying prisoners for similar offences, but the cases preeeP
no feature of interest.

BO W-ST REET.—(THIS e
This morning Charles Gill, the working jeweller, of 1`1! of
ington, who was c nunitted from this court, for the wam'A,
bail, some weeks since on the charge of having sent a thin
ening letter to Lord John Russell, at his official residenet,,,,
Downing.street, was brought from the House of Detencw"
for the purpose of being liberated upon bail.
-a
It will be remembered that Gill was ordered by Mr.
..-At
to enter into his own recognizancee in the sum of 100/.,foj
to procure two substantial bail, to keep the peace and 1710*
good behaviour towards the Premier for the next tiv74l
months. He was sent to prison in def3ult of finding 40,
required bail; and about a fortnight afterwards two trapcet
men offered to be his bail. On Field, the detective 06
making the necessary inquiries, he found that one bail 11
substantial, but the other was not, and the bail was cellk
quently refused.
Since that time Gill's friends hate endeavoured to 0171°4
another substantial tradesman to become bail, but withi;
success. A petition had recently been sent to her MlkieS,oo
through the Secretary of Mate, imploring for a mitigtwO
of the hail, and that one tradesman who bad been apPogio
of should be accepted instead of two. Her Majesty 1
graciously pleased to grant the petition.
talf
This morning Mr. Samuel Howgood, of Surrey-47h*,
Newington, pawnbroker, who had previously offered to
_..:4
come one of the securities, said he was willing to be 1)0'
in the sum of 501. for the good behaviour of Gill.
Mr. HENRY—WeII, I am willing to accept your bail.
.4
Mr. Howgood and Gill then entered the clerk's office, 701
their names and addresses having been taken, the magisti
ordered Gill to be discharged.
Gill, who looked fresh and well, then /left the court 1,-
his wife and friends.
It was stated that Gill had quite recovered from the d
sion under which he laboured, and has expressed his IT'
at what had occurred.

ARLB RO'-STR,EE r—(THis
Ann Dowling was placed before Mr. Bingham, chartol
with obtaining a situation in the service of Keith BarSl3
Esq , 28, Upper Portland-place, by means of a fort
character.
Mr. Barnes stated that on the 7th of January last $11,1:
prisoner applied for the situation of cook in his fatta)
and produced to him several written recommendations; 10,
among others, one purporting to be written by a Mrs. I 0
with whom she (prisoner) stated she had lived last in sf'd
vice, and had left in March, 1850, with the intentioat4
going into some small way of business. She also stated tso
when she lived with Mrs. Rae that lady resided
,e
Worcester-park, Great llalvern, and that she was then
siding at 47, Preston. street, Brighton, where he could ,Arl'o
to her. A Etter was accordingly written to Mrs. Raat,t
the letter produced was received in answer. On the fait',e
the excellent character contained in that letter, she ivas)t
gaged, and entered his house. On the 24th of March last 'el
found the prisoner in a state of intoxication, and deslo
she would leave his service the rest morning. She
-d
that night, and on the Tuesday week folloviso
he received from a person, who said she came fr:4
the prisoner, the letter produced, purporting to be wr't*;l,
by the prisoner, wherein she demanded the wages due to Ivo
and her clothes to be given to the bearer. On looking at
writing and the crest (a stag) on the envelope, he folio,
that the handwriting and crest was precisely
milar to that which purported to have come nt
Mrs. Rae, and from subsequent inquiries ‘.‘ hich he made
was induced to put the matter into the hands of the police
Mrs. Rae's sister proved that the letter produced Was fAt
in the handwriting of Mrs. Rae, and to the best La
knowledge Mrs. Rae never resided in Brighton. Mrs.
was now in the Isle of Wight_
The prisoner, in defence, persisted that the letter w if
the handwriting of Mrs. Rae, and begged for a remand',
order that Mrs. Rae might be communicated with.
Mr. BINGHAM was of opinion that the letters prodnelo
afforded sufficient proof of the prisoner's guilt; but as
wished it, he would remand her for a week.

NEWMARKET RACVI:;'

(THIS DAY.)

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