The Sun.
London, England, 1851-11-18 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL.

Business at New York and the leading cities was
better than for some weeks past. The money market
was ea-ier, and stocks were looking upwards.
Prices had receded slightly in the breadstuff
market, which was very quiet. Western Canal flour
3 dolls, 75c. per brl. ; Genessee prime wheat 94c. to
96c. per 601 b ; Indian corn round yellow 60c. to 62c.
per bushel, steady ; Indian meal 3 dolls. 57ic. to 3
dolls. 50c. per brl.
The cotton market has been inactive, and prices
had slightly receded for most descriptions. New
Orleans and Mobile, mid. fair to fair, 91 to 9i per lb.,
or a fall of i c-nt. ; Uplands, mid. fair to fair, 84 to
9c. per lb., or a similar decline. A killing frost had
been experienced on the 24th at Montgomery, Ala-
bama.

Provisions dull. Old mess pork, 14i to 15 ; new,
151; beef heavy, at declining prices.
Exchange on London 1101 to 1101 ; Paris, 5 16 ;
Hamburgh 361 to 36k; Bremen 791 79k.

THE BOROUGH OF LAMBETH AND MR. W. WIL-
LIAMS, M.P.—A meeting of electors of the borough of Lam-
beth was held last evening at the Horns Tavern, Kenning-
ton, which had been convened by MT. W. Williams, M.P..
one of the Members of the borough, for the purpose of
enabling him to render to his constituents an account of his
stewardship. The chair having been taken by Mr. Dalton,
the Hon. Member, Mr. W. Williams, proceeded at great
length to give the history of his Parliamentary career during
the past session. At the conclusion of his speech several
questions were put to him by various electors present, to the
whole of which his answers were deemed so satisfactory that
the following resolution, having been proposed, was carried
unanimously :—"That the meeting, having vies ed with great
satisfaction the conduct of Mr. Williams during the past
session, and having heard his answers to the questions now
put to him, regard him as eminently entitled to the unabated
confidence of his constituents."
THE WEATHER AND THE PARlES.—During the
past two days the weather has been intensely cold. The
ornamental waters in the royal parks have already become
covered wi:h a thin surface of ice. The Royal Humane So-
ci .ty, with their usual promptitude, have commenced prepa-
rations, by erecting marquees and hot baths on the margins
of the several ponds in the parks, to prevent accidents. Yes-
terday afternoon the thermometer stood at 30 deg. whilst the
sun was shining brightly, but during the night the mercury
was as low as 24 deg. in confined situations, and 22 deg. in
the open thoroughfares, being several degrees below freezing
point. The barometer stood at 29 deg. 89 min., with wind N.
by W., and an exceedingly sharp and cutting breeze. The
previous day the barometer stood at 29 deg. 92 min., and the
lowest state of the mercury in the thermometer was 25 deg.,
the wind then being N.N.W., with slight falls of snow in the
morning.
THE TYNE PILOTS.—It will be recollected that
two Tyne pilots, brothers, of the name of Freeman, during
the gale of September the 26th, while exposed in an open
boat in the North Sea, were rescued from death as by a
miracle, by the intrepidity and courage of the crew of a
French lugger; that after the pilots were given up by their
friends and companions as lost, they cast up at Dunkirk, in
France, some hundreds of miles from their homes. The Tyne
pilots, to acknowledge the bravery and humanity of the
French master and his crew, have purchased a massive
silver snuff-box, which will be presented to him by Mr.
Ingham, QC. It bears the following inscription :—" Pre-
-0
sewed by the pilots of South Shields to Captain Blanquid,
of the St. Jaques, of Dunkirk, in gratitude for the humane
and courageous conduct of him and his crew, in saving, at
their own risk, Robert and Fr tricis Freeman, two river
pilots, in a storm off the N E. coast, on the 25th of Septem-
ber, 1851."
THE LATE MAIL ROBBERY —The individual under
remand for the commission of the above offence was brought
up before the Bristol magistrates, yesterday morning, for
further examination. Mr. Peacock, solicitor to the Post-
office, attended, and informed the Court, that Henry Norris,
the prisoner, had formerly been in the employment of the
Post-office, at Bridgwater. he having been engaged in 1847,
and discharged in 1819. The prisoner was seen by the post-
master to place a letter In the °lice on Tuesday evening,
and he was also seen in the neighbourhood the following
morning. Mr. Peacock added, he thought it would be ad-
visable, for the ends of justice, to have the prisoner examined
at Bridgwater by the county magistrates. The bench acceded
to this course.