The Sun.
London, England, 1851-02-14 00:00:00

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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, 'TWK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterdO O'CLOC
ay were estimated at 4,0t0 bales, of which I,oooAmerican were taken on speculalion.
The sales comprised about 3.000 American, 100 Pernam and
Maranham at Bd. to Sid., 60 Bahia at Bd., 300 Egyptian at
74d. to 41., 300 Surat at 4id. to 50. and 100 Sea Islands
at Is. ld. to Is. 7d. per lb. The market' was flat, and all
kinds except the better qualities of Egyptian and Sea
Islands were ;d. per lb. lower.—Railway Shares continued
active, and prices were considerably higher.
In the Colonial Produce Markets the business done has
been limited, and the quotations have varied only to a very
trifling extent this week. The uncertainty as to the coarse
which the Chancellor of the Exchequer may recommend in
regard to the coffee duties quite suspends business in that
article. Sugar has kept up pretty well. Rice and Grain
have been dull. Tea is held firmer. Tallow steady.
In the report of the Appendix of the Special Committee
of o
w e
r
Assemblypaper on the state of agriculture in
on the climate of Upper and
Lthe
Canada,House o t
there
is
a
Lower Canada, by Dr. Winder, librarian to the House of
Assembly. In this paper-it is stated, on the authority of
actual observations, " that the mean temperature of Mon-
treal is 46. 4 deg., and that of Toronto 45.50 deg., While the
means of the two added together give the temperature of the
two provinces as 45. 77." The following additional facts are
extracted from the same paper :

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Win
The medium temperature of Lake Superior 21er. Su mm
63er
The medium temperature of Lake Ontario 30 72
The medium temperature of New Orleans 59 83
The medium temperature of Key West ... 70 81
The Engifh Funds have been very flat, and the debate
upon Mr. Disraeli's motion has not been in their favour.
The agitation in France, and the marked sympathy for the
President, are likewise not unheeded by the more circum-
spect, and money, owing to the share speculation, is dearer.
Consols have been quoted 961/8 1.1. for Transfer, and 9614 %
for Account, being a shade under previous rates. Exche-
quer-bills have declined Is., being 575. to 535. Bank Stock
is firm at 215 to 21514. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. are 95%
Foreign Stocks are flatter also, and the settlement of the
Account progresses unfavourably for the Bulls. Spanish
Five per Cents. have dropped to 19%
,4 People begin to
think that after all the Curtes may impose obstruction to the
plan of M. Bravo Murillo for settling the debt. The Three
per Cents. are 38 to 38!4 : Mexican Stock has been quoted
33 to 3314; and Peruvian Deferred 36. Brazil Bonds are
92k. Dutch Fonr per Cents. are 911,4 to 9134.
Railway Shares have been dealt in to a large extent, but
upon the whole there is a good deal of fluctuation. Specu-
lators are still very confident.

QUARTBR TO 7118.1U3.
Consols ••• • Ilea 9l i
Ditto Account, Marsh 12 ... 96
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCX.
;From the Official List.)
Bank Stock.. 215 215 k 215
Z per Cent. Reduced Annuities 97 96%
3 per Cent. Consols Anna
New 314 per Cent. Anal. 9BA
Long Annuities. Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 7% 7 11-16
De.3o Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 N
India Stock 265% £65%
Consols for Account 96101
E ,cchequer Bills. 14d. 2d.
• March. June.
1,0001.
5001. — 57 58 p
Small — 57 53 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds. 5 per Cent. 9214
Mixican 80ne15,1846,5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Peruvian Bonds, 4% per Cent —
Ditto Deferred
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. .....
Ditto Account
Ditto Passive Bonds
6panish Bonds,3 per Cent,1840
Ditto Account
Divideugs on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21,4 per Cent., 12 Guild
Ditto 4 ner Cent. Certificates ... 911,4%

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, FEB. 14.—Wind at noon, variable, S.E. to S.W.
DEAL, FEB. 15. Wind N. to N.N.W.— Arrd. India,
Schutt, Calcutta. Arrd. from the River and sailed, Golden
Spring, Port Philip ; Margaret Kelly, Bombay ; Tweed,
Cape Ccait Castle; Anna, Trinidad. Sld. Garland Grove,
Adelaide, South Australia ;_John Bright, Port. Natal; Mary
Bell, Aden.
PORTSMOUTH, FEB. 13.—Wind S. to S.E.—Sld. Welling-
ton, Adelaide, South Australia.
FALMOUTH, FZB. 13.—Wind W.S.W., light breezes.—
Arrd. Carlo, Rio Janeiro. Off port, Renner,gPorto Plata,
and tailed for Hamburgh.
LIVERPOOL, FIB. 13.—Wind S.E. Arrd. Elizabeth
Moore, Shanghai; London, Valparaiso; Jersey, New Or-
leans; Wanades, Saldanha Bay, sld. the 15th of December;
Mayflower, Manzanella; Harriet and Jessie, Charleston.
Put back, Atlantic; New York, towed back from Queens-
town, to have her machinery repaired. Sld. General Mi-
chell's, Batavia; Anna, Melhuish, Moulmein; Geraldine,
Lima; Don Pedro 11., Rio Grande; Heleos, Rio Grande;
Freeman, Jamaica; Wyoming, Philadelphia; Sherley, New
York ; E. Z., New York.
ST. DAVID, FEB. 13.—The stern of a boat, marked "La
Prosperjte, Memel," has been picked up.
HOLYHEAD, FEB. 13. Several bales of cottoa yarn,
marked "AG G" and "N Z," have been picked up on the
south-west coast.
CROMER, FEB. 13.—The Remembrance, of and from
Shields, for Constantinople, came on shore at Sherringbam
this rooming. If the weather continues moderate, she may
be got off after lightening.
I"VIIITEIIAVEN, FEB. 13.—The Silius, Kingston to this
port, is on shore between St. Bees Head and Ravenglass.
cask of brandy bas been picked up, marked " No. 6, V A,
deuble James Hennessy, cognac."
DUBLIN, FEB. 15.—The Emerald is.), from Waterford, has
been towed in with machinery damaged.

qUEEN'S BENCH.-'THIS DAY.)
Till+ was the second day of the sittings in London at
Nisi Prim after term. The cases tried possessed no feature
of public interest sufficient to justify a report. The sr scud
jury cases are fixed for Monday.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
Sittings in Banco, before Barons PARKE, ALDERSON, PLAT T,

and MAu.m.)
The Court gave judgment in several cases this mornirg,
none of which were of sufficient importance to call for a
report.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the LORD CUIEF BARON and a
Special Jury.)
The Court was still occupied with the case of the Attorney
General r. the London Dock Company, which will probably
last out beyond the present week.

VHREATENINGLORD J. RUSSELL.
I OW-STREET.—(THIS DAY).
Charles Gill, charged with having threatened to shoot
Lord John Russell, was brought up for examination this
morning at the Bow-street Police-court. The publication of
the arrest in -the morning papers drew a large concourse of
well-dressed people to the office, bnt the entrance and avenues
were kept in excellent order, and the court was at no time
during the inquiry inconveniently crowded. Mr. Henry sat
upon the bench, and heard the case.
The prisoner is a short, thickset young man, with small
dark leatmes. There is nothing about the expression of his
countenance to indicate insanity, but his eyes are deeply sunk
in his head, and he appeared to be a man of a studious turn
of mind.
Mr. llEstar asked him if he pleaded guilty to the charge
of threatening Lord John Russell? The prisoner said he
should decline using that, and added in reply to further
questions that he lived at 33, Surrey-place, 01:1 Kent-road,
and was a working jeweller.
Mr. Arthur Russell, the private secretary to Lord John
Russell, proved the receipt of the letter containing the
threat, and Inspector Field spoke to having arrested the
prisoner on a warrant last night. He told the prisoner what
he was charged with, and the prisoner at once admitted
having written the letter.
The letter was produced, and upon being shown to the
prisoner he at once admitted the handwriting, and re-
quested that the whole of it might be read. This was done;
it was simply a statement that he had made some important
discoveries in the laws of gravitation and leverage, and
called upon Lord John Russell to assist him in making his
discovery known to the world, or he would first give him a
black eye and a bloody nose, and if that did not suffice to
make his Lordship sensible of the neglect with which his
Lordship treated mechanical geniuses like himself, he would
get half an ounce of powder, as much lead, and a pistoi4uid
test the maximum power or resisting strength of his Lord-
ship's skull.
The prisoner said he sent this letter a fortnight ago, and
he should be glad to know how it was that so much time
had been allowed to elapse between the receipt of the com-
munication and his arrest.
Mr. Arthur Russell replied that the delay was caused
in this way :—The letter was first sent to the Commissioners
of Police and then to the solicitors of the Treasury, who, of
course, took time to inquire into the matter.
Mr. HENRY—Do you apprehend, Mr. i, that his
Lordship goes in danger of his life from the Prime"
violence? Mr. Russell said he did.
The prisoner said his Lordship ought to- bar. been present
to answer the question himself.
had
dteher heraid.hbueen
Mr. HENRY told hint that was not at all necessary; and
answer to the charge ?
asked him if he had anything to say
I and even Mr,, Cobctns-
- Tobhteapinripsoultelricsitayid
bugged by the Astronomer Royal, ea.
lend t-h of the peon ey, as
who called himself the friend well
poor man_n discovered anything
as Lord John Russell, Mr.
_engineers of
eminence, and the promoters of the Great Exhibition, were
ityog:ethbeern.eh himself his country, he could
forh sh
iosbj invention,es
tct,eipnha writing
nstofi nonargn:thhee
other
If a
from those whoprofessed obtain no assistance . to patronise
allthat humbug'm,a
s llikely
community driven him to this expedient,
the mechanical ingenuity of the day, and it was the negli-
gence or want of supporthat had
ndthe part of this arrogant class
Lord
df bjroihnnginßgushsiesl
li,nvheenmti,oo
•unldintnoottmetorietilyit
bid
Ilienrrgpaol4gseainst him ; and if he had read the letter atten-
nubpgre would have seen before any violence would have
btlftvtfenrrteltiethhYinrii:jeesorted to, notice of it would have been given in the
public papers, to whom he should have sent a copy of this
letter long ago, had he not felt convinced that be would be
set down for a madman, and his letter treated with tantalis-
ing silence.
Mr; liknav—You, and others by your example, must be
Taught that you are not to attain your object by using threats
to others, and annoying public men in this manner. You
must enter into your own recognizances in the sum of 1001.,
and find two unities in 501. each, to keep the peace ter
twelve months, give forty-eight hours' notice of your sure-
ties, and in default., be imprisoned for twelve months.
Prisoner—Thank you, Sir; but I hopethe papers
pub-
lish my letter; that's all I want.
The prisoner was then removed. will

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DEATH OF MR. CARUS WILsoN.--We risve to re.
Cord the death of William Wilson CaraunedNicTlison
liii.s
86, which melancholy event took place oil Tuesday last at ea,t,_
ton-hall, his seat in iVest moreiand. He was for, several years M.P.
ior Cockermouth, but retired from Perliament hi 1826, and was ~.
a chart time Vice Lieutenant of Westmoreland during the absence'''Z
of the late Earl of Loisdale from the country. Ile had peen pre_
siding last week at a Protestant nu.eting at Kenaal to,,,,xition
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lament against the Papal aggression,
his death se-
taken very seriously iil, and died in a Jew days. By .._,_ was
venal families will be placed in mourning,
IgV At
hTei:algrie—lai
reesptecl.tTin
It isG s°taVteEdßtNeMatEthlCTGolisvertUiniegifrt.has determined upon the appoint-
processes for the steeping and preparation
went of competent persons to ma:7ll:qt::
of flax, with the • itf
affording accurate information to the numerous' view,
farmers about to engage ill this branch of landowners via
This would be a prudent and most u • husbandry in Ireland.
very serious injury in those districts where '
. send Step, calculated to pftVent
necessarily ignorant of the proper c
.. the rural popillatitth are
after its growth. Indeed, Without Ourre of treatment for tip
titration could scarcely have a far Some such arrangement, al.
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