The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-14 00:00:00

AUGUST 14, 1851.

Sted:NES.

ton
rail Nominal Phut,. "31fie"
to-day.
Asturian l5 ..
Australian ............ 4 1% —2%
Barossa Range ....... 1 13 0 3%
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal all • • —• •
Bolanos Scrip ..........
British Iron.. • • ... • .... 13 5 .. —••
Brazilian Imp. (is. Si. p.) 2434
Do. Cocaes and Culaba all • •
Do. St. John del Rey •• 15 18% 19% ad
Cobra Copper • • .•• 40 35% 3634
Copiapo ....
General.. • • . ..... .• all 13% 14
Mexican& S. American 9 3% 434
Real Del Monte, Unreg. 4 tjp
Do. Black Debentures. ..
Do. Red Debentures .. • • —••
Santiago do Cuba .... • • 10 3 —3%
Tin Croft
United Mexican- •28 2 8%, —2% 2% %
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia •• ••• • • • all 31 3534
British North America.. 56 45 —46
Colonial 25 10% 12
Commercial of London.. 20 25 —26 x.d
London Joint Stock .... 10 18% 17% x.d
London and Westminster 20 2734 —29 x.d
National Provincial Eng. 35 •• ••
Do. New ........ • • 10 • •
National of Ireland .... 22% 18% 20%
Provincial of Ireland.... 25 42 —44
Do. New .. •• • • .... all 15% 163(
Union of Australia• all 35 —363 y x.(l
Do. New ............ 236 3 —34 s
Union of London .... • • 10 13% 14%
Union of Madrid all - —••
MISCELLANEOUS.
Canada •• •• •• ••• • • • 3234 48 —49
Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 2636 —2B
Penin. & Oriental Steam, all 694 —7l
Ditto ditto 5 11 9 xd 9
Royal Mail Steam ...... GO 78 —BO
(We cannot be answerable for the errors of the Official Lists, and
will not be influenced by interested correspondents.]

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWSI,
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 8,000 bales, comprising 6,500 American, 300
Pernam arid Maranham, at 5i to 6id., 200 Bahia at Sid.
to 6id., 200 Egyptian at 6d. to 84d., and 800 Surat at
2id. to 30. per lb. The market was firm, good ord.
and low mid American were light, as also Surat.—The
Shar• Market was dull.

The six weekV average price of wheat is 425. 9d. per
quarter.

- The Amsterdam Stock Market on the 12th inst. was
dull for Dutch Stock, the Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
being 58 15.16 to 59. Mexican Bonds were lower.

The Garay Treaty forms at present the subject of a
difference between Mexico and the United States, and
the following explanations by the assistant-engineer en-
gaged in the Tehuantepec survey throw some light upon
the matter:—

"In reply to the statements concerning the Tehuan-
, tepee route, I beg leave briefly to assure you that it is
quite as feasible as any in the United States; that there
are no less than six mountain passes, all admitting of
grades not less than 60 feet; that the road can be built
upon a grade of 55 feet to the mile; that a ship canal is
by no means impossible; that earthquakes have not oc-
curred on the Isthmus so far as I am informed; that
the lands are incomparably rich, abounding in iron, tin,
silver, salt, and coal mines, together with mahogany,
lignum vitas, india-rubber, pine, line oak, and cy-
press, and every variety of gum trees and dye
woods. We may add to these a soil and climate
adapted to the raising of rice, cotton, sugar, and to-
bacco, equal, if not superior, to the finest portions
of the southern country, and in quantities sufficient,
should the Isthmus fall into the hands of foreign capital-
ists, to injure seriously, if not destroy, the American
trade to Europe; the existence of an excellent harbour
on the Pacific; a magnificent river on this side, navi-
gable for 30 miles for ships; a salubrious and healthy
climate ; the close proximity of the Isthmus to
the United States ; the saving of two thousand miles
in the voyage to California ; the control of
the entire India trade, and the market which the States
of the South and West must have for their produce on
the shores of the Pacific—it is plain, then, that the 'inva-
sion' of the Isthmus, so liberally imputed to the engi-
neering party, has been attended with some good results,
and that Tehuantepee possesses immeasurable advan-
tages over the pestilential climate, spongy morasses, and
barren heights of Panama, or the stagnant lake of Nica-
ragua.

The action of the late Mexican Congress, in refer-
ence to the Tehnantepde route, is due to the influence
of the ;members from the States of Vera Cruz and
Oaxaca, who oppose it on the ground that they are not
likely to reap any benefit from it—in other words, the
decline of their capitals is but too plainly de-
picted in the approaching reality of the great
dream which Cortez had centuries since. Every
effort, therefore, has been strained to avert this blow,
and even the people of Sovora and Tamaulepas have
been humbugged into the idea of railroads there, to
secure their opposition to Tehuantepec. And yet with
all your want of an extensive and abiding faith' with
regard to the practicability of their project, their resist-
ance to the Isthmus route is sure evidence of its feasi-
bility and importance."
The English Funds are very weak this morning, and
there is scarcely any business doing. This, indeed, ap-
pears to be the only cause of the existingheaviness, for the
unfunded debt is higher, showing money to bo less in de-
mand; the weather is fine and the Foreign Exchanges are
expected to go higher to-morrow. Consols have been
961 4 for Transfer, and 964 *for Account. The New
Three-and a.Quarter per Cents. have been 984 to 99;
and the Three per Cents. 974 to 4. Bank Stock is
firm at 214. Exchequer-bills have been marked 475.
to 505., and India Bonds 58s. premium.
Foreign Securities are afftcted by the settlement of
the account. which takes place to-morrow, and by the
arrangements for "carrying over." The making-up
price of Mexican was put as low as 284, but the bp,cu-
lators grumbled sadly at this, and we believe the committee
have since altered it to 29. Certainly the public who
deal in these things ,are made to suffer pretty severely,
and at the option of a few jobbers, and we cannot woe-
der at the disgust they are unmistakably evincing for a
security that can be so " banged." The want of candour
on the part of the Mexican authorities, the with-
holding of information as to the amount of du-
ties pending, leading to the fear that the urgent
wants of the Government may have led to
their being discounted, the certainty of dull
trade and small duties until October, and the
official declaration of the Finance Minister that the
Treasury is utterly impoverished, have all combined to
disheArten those who entertained good, and who
thought especially that the remittance on Saturday last
for the dividends would have been 150,000 to
200,000 dollars, instead of the paltry 30,000
dollars that came to hand. Still we would
counsel holders in their disappointment not to forget
that the price now is getting low, 294 to 4, with the in-
demnity money included, being, oven it Mexico pays
only 2 per cent. on the orginal capital, a fair value.
Of course the great problem is, whether she can pay
that, and what her political relations are to be vis-
a-vis the United States. At present they are not
all that could be wished. Peruvian Stock has been at
90; Equador at 34. Sardinian Scrip has been 4 discount
to par. Dutch Two-and-a-1141f per Cents. are nominally
59i. to 604.
The last week's railway receipts, ascertained up to
this day, are in round figures as under:—

1851. 1850.
Great Western...
North-Western
... 53,422
South-Western 18.457 ••• 14,150
Brighten
Midland
South-Eastern
North Stafford
Caledonian .. 7,424 ... 7,803
Shares are all worse again this morning by about i to
1 per cent., and the account is against the speculators
for a rise.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES.
21534
Baal;
StocoFk BRITIstI FUNDS O'CLOCK.
3 .e; Cent. Redueed Anne.
3 per Cent. Console Annuities 96% % 96
99 98% 99 9871
7% 7Ai
rinoec
linwg. 3Asintoenpeek.rtoCeexnt.pirAne Jaaen:l736-0.
26014
India Bonds, 1,0001._ ..... .......
Ditto under 1,0001........ 5B p 53 p
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Consuls for Account
achequer Bills. I%ii.
1,000/.
500/.
Small, ..
PRICES OF FOREIGN name O'ONE CLOSING
. CLOCK. PRICES.
Danish 80nd5,1825,3 per Cent. ..
erdrsc:.;n.t.t,.:.e.x...
j....a117.u..,....... 314
EmiliDlailtdetanoor,
,sB:pnve
Ditto, Account Coupe. 294, 8% 9
29%
Peruvian Bonds. 5 per Cent-
Ditto Deferred —
Portuguese 6 per Cents.
Ditto, Converted, 1841 —
Russian Bonds
Ditto, 41,E per Cent
Ditto, Small
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, Scrip
Spanish a per Cent. 1840 —
Ditto, Passive —
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Austrian, 5 per Cent. ....... ......-
Dutch 21/2 per Cent. 12 Guild —
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates

314
291 A
291,;4
90%
43%

33%

101%

par
21
53%
38

821 A

93%

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—( THIS DAY.)
LONDON, AUG. 14. Wind at noon S. to S.W., mo-
derate breeze and fine weather, although cloudy at times.
NEWPORT, Ana. 13.—Wind W.—Sld. North &k,
Cape of Good Hope; Eltxtee, Rio Janeiro; Masonic,
Porthcawl and Boston.
WEXFORD.—Sid. Brothers, New York.
HULL, AuG. SW. by S.—Sld. Harlequin,
New York.
OJS FALMOUTII.—Syra, St. Vincent; Anna Maria,
China; Taglioni, Adelaide, South Australia; August
and Julius, Coast of Africa, and sailed for Copenhagen;
Raleigh, Batavia, and sailed for Hamburgb.
LIVERPOOL, AVG. 13. Wind S.S.W. to N.W.—Arrd.
B 3 zdntum, Arica; Victoria, Laguna; Rebecca, Now
York; Duke of York, Bustouche; Recorder, Calcutta;
Lancaster, Calcutta; Celt, Antigua; Western World,
New York; Commerce, Quebec. Std. Brilliant, Quebec;
Barkhill, Newfoundland; John Bright, Shanghai; Ze-
phyr, Africa; Venilia, Rio Janeiro; City of Glasgow,
Philadelphia; Tonorvanda, Philadelphia; Wisconsen,
New York; Trumbull, New York; Infanta, Quebec;
Feronia, Quebec. Off port, Dido, Act eon, Branscumbe'
Waterloo, Degby, and Madonna.
STANRAER, Au°. 13.—The Vigilant, of and from
Waterford for Glasgow, got on shore in the Bay of
Lone, but io expected vff after diacbarging put of „rp,

PLIMOUTH, AUG. 13.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Fame
Havant,oh; Viefory, gaebte. Sid. Lad Wilhurn Deno
tinek, New Z,aland. Off port, Katherine Stewart,
Forbes, Sydney, New South Wahs. The wreck of 3
vessel of bumeen 300 or 400 tons, lying on her broadside,
forerea.t and bowsprit standing, and the other masts
alongside, with a gilt star on her stern, and sheeted with
yellow metal, and which appeared to Lave been only a
few day., in that state, was passed 9th inst. lat. 49 loPg'
11 W.

- .
RAMSGATE, AUG. 13.—Wind E.S.E.—Arrd. Thorn..
ley, Quebec.
tiOUTHAMPTON, AUG. 13.—Wind &E.—Sailed Her-
mann steamer, New York.
DARTMOUTH, AUG. 13.—Wind W.—Arrd. Prima
Donna, Porto Rico. Off port, Diana, New. Orleans;
Orion, Baltimore, both for Bremen.
PILL, AUG. 13.—Wind N.—Arrd. Collins, Quebec'
GLOUCESTER.—SaiIed Ireland, Quebec.
QUEENSTOWN, AUG. 12.—Wind S.W.—Offport, Cum-
berland, Callao.
BELFAST.—Arrd. Waterford, Quebec, Sailed Berlin
and Britannia, Quebec.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-( THIS DAY)

(B tore Mr. Under-Sheriff BurtcHELL.)
BARKER AND OTHERS V. KENNETT.
The plaintiff* in this action are well-known II
and advertising agents, and the defendant was connect
with a parcel* delivery company. The amount 50°0
to be recovered was 541. 9s. 5d., for advertisements je"
sorted by defendant's order in the London and count/
newspapers. Defendant had given a bill of exchange
for a portion of the amount, but the bill had been dis-
honoured.
ear find
Mr. WALTER WHITE appeared for the plaintiffs, -
adduced evidence to prove the orders and the insertion
of the advertisements.
The Learned UNDER SHERIFF asked whether tberl
WAS any additional charge upon, the amount actually psi'
for the ineertione?
Mr. WHITE said that 10 per cent. was charged, and
in a case before Mr. Baron Martin it was held Oa"
where there was a risk of a lengthened credit, 15 per cent-
was not an unreasonable charge.
Plaintiff did not charge interest on the bill, and 013
jury gave a verdict for the full amount.

GOODMAN V. CRESSWELL.
The plaintiff in this action is the proprietor of al.
Boar and Castle Tavern, Oxford-street, and the defend'
ant is a gentleman residing at Folkeatone. The runoua
claimed was 91. 17s. 5d , for a bill incurred by defendaeS
during a recent sojourn in the " great metropolis."
Mr. TnomPsore, Sie-lane, appeared for the plaintiP',,
and adduced evidence to show the ordering and deliver'
of the viands, but a question arose whether the order
given by the waiter ai the bar could be construed into
an order by the defendant; but it was shown that, by
the methodical manner in which the accounts were kepi.
the waiter proved each order, and that he saw every ite°
inserted in the book before he left the bar.
Mr. TnomesoN thought that more conclusive evidenal
could not be adduced.
The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF said it Was not often
that hotel bills could be so clearly made out.
The jury gave a verdict for the full amount.
LEGAL EXPEDITION.—" The delay of the law" bssi
often been the subject of complaint, and again occasion'
ally it has been insinuated that the law is rather SI
" fast;" but in this court it appears that both law an
justice is administered without unnecessary delay. The
Court sat at eleven o'clock as a county court of thj,
sheriffs of Middlesex, and divers nobles and others
lower degree were called upon by Mr. Hemp, chief officg:A
of the Sheriffs', to surrender, or in default to be declared
outlawed. Four cases were tried and decided, and ST
court was cleared in less than half an hour, everybody
apparently being quite satisfied; even in one case, where
the defendant's attorney had resisted the claim as tar
he could, he said he would not trouble the jury, and es
1
down expressing his feeling that he was "perfectly sitar,
tied" with the verdict of a British jury; but 1`
he had pleaded something else he would bate
shown quite a different fe.ce on the matter. u,131
of the jury asked what eould have been done, vu.,
his inquisitiveness was suppressed, and the attorney
resigned himself to a verdict with the same satisfaction
as any gentleman whose doubts are likely to be Tete:All
by Mr. J. K. (inquire for address at Mr. Clarke's, Old
Bailey).

MANSION-HOUSE —(THIS DAVd
Caroline Sheehy and Thomas Sheehy, brother 011,,
sister, both young persons, were placed at the b„7
before Mr. Alderman Moon, on a charge of stealing Iv
in silver, half a sovereign, a gold watch, a gold ne,e,.
''
chain, and a pair of gold bracelets, the property of DS
Jacob Hamis, a ginger-beer manufacturer in Whili".
street, Houndaditch.
of
The female prisoner was a servant in the employ •
the prosecutor, and on Friday night last was left to tail.;
charge of the house in the absence of her master and u 37.
tress. All the rooms except the kitchen were previous.%
locked, and on the prosecutor returning home with his Iv6o
ho was astonished to see a light in the bedroom.
„,
knocking at the door the light was immediately ext,%"o
guished, and when the prisoner was questioned on 'A
subject, as soon as she opened the door, she said sbe
gone there for the purpose of getting a clean tableclord
for the kitchen. No sooner, however, had they entfr
the house than she ran off up the street, without bon:
net, shawl, or cap, and succeeded is escaping, 14;
consequence of there being a great crowd
,b"
the neighbourhood. The prosecutor subsequen`hva
found that the bedroom door had been forced, and 11l
articles mentioned above abstracted from a chess
drawers which had also been forced. Until yeaterds,
she had escaped detection, but on that day her mistral
who suspected she would go by vessel to Cork, proceed°.
in company of a police officer to the wharf near Tower
hill, and ou their way happened to meet her in the
street. She was of course taken into custody, and on holt
searched all the property was found upon her Pers°a
with the exception of the bracelets, which she had pledged
for 306., the duplicate being in her pocket. It appeared
that they were pledged at a pawnbroker's in the gug"a
ware-road, where the prisoner stated she had been se%
by her mistress, Mrs. Hamis, in order to get 10
money on them. The only evidence against the 111,he
prisoner was that he had been seen loitering about d
house for several evenings prior to the robbery, and ill
in his possession at the time of being taken into oust
the gown worn by his sister when she decamped on
day evening.
e
Mr. Alderman MOON said he would remand the lase
until to-morrow, in order that further evidence mighthe
procured as to the male prisoner's participation `'"
robbery.

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY'?
EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF FURNITURE.—Ann Stric-d
land, a well-dressed woman, was placed at the bar bei;
fore Mr. Bingham, charged with being concerned with
her husband, who is in custody, and remanded till tr
morrow, in robbing Mr. Richard Turner, of 75, Ider'''
lane, of property to the amount of 3004
Mr. Henry Collins, auctioneer and valuer, 51,Brefferi
street, Golden-square, said the prisoner was the wife ne4
a prisoner who stood remanded till to-morrow, on
charge of stealing from a dwelling-house in Kinotre°7
St. James's-square, a quantity of furniture, consisting (1;
four bedsteads, four beds, and other articles, to the value
of 300/., the property of Mr. Turner, who had placed 0-„
ailindquheesrtiohnu'sbtoandrecbeeiivneg the reit
prisoner in the house
from the lodgers, she
through motives of charity, to receive a cerTli
remuneration for so doing. Mr. Collins added, t"l5-$
a woman, who was a servant in the house, had,1133:1
mysteriously disappeared from the premises, and
nowhere to be found; and he was afraid that something
strange had happened to her. He had no doubt th°
prisoner at the bar could give the magistrate some in'
allowe.a
formation about her, if his worship would ask her. ,
Mr. BINGHAM said, he could not put such a questo-;
but he would ask her presently if she had anything to
say. (To Mr. Collins)—Can you show any act on t _
part of the prisoner touching the removal of the furniture,
done in the absence of her husband?
Mr. Collins—Yes. Since his capture she removed
from her lodgings down to an obscure residence at Clap;
ham, where she had boxes, in which, no doubt, a fires
deal i
deal of the property was concealed. She returned 1.
those lodgings after her husband was remanded free'
this court.
The prisoner said she left her lodgings at Clapbsui
with a view to get others, but as there was little or 13n 4
furniture there she went away with the intention
procuring some. Afterwards she returned to Claphet,
Mr. BINGHAM said it would be better, under the Tr
cumstaucas, to order a remand until to-morrow, in or"
that the prisoner might be brought up jointly witorder
hu- band. Meanwhile she might consult her legal
visers. He (Mr. Bingham) would take bail for her
pearance to-morrow.
Prisoner said she could not procure bail, and she bed
no legal adviser.
She was then removed to the lock-up cells in the ref4r
of the court.

SOUTHWAR.K.—(THIS DAY.).
A few days ago Mr. Church, the solicitor to the Sou
Eastern Railway Company, attended before the Inag;
,
trate at this court to apply for a summons agate
-
Lieutenant Bradshaw, of the Royal Artillery, for col:
'lathing a violent assault upon one of the guards4o
tached to the company, named George Richardson. 'v.";
in the due execution of his duty at the London.brl4o7
terminus of the railway. After heating the staterneutd
the guard, which showed that he was roughly tres Jar,
without the least provocation, the magistrate (Mt' file
dine) granted a summons, which was placed to ica
hanas of Guest, one of the summoning officers attrif ted
to the court for service, and to-day was OPd/. 06
for the hearing. The officer, however, was no
able to serve the summons, owing to Lieuteli.so%
Bradshaw not being placed in quarters, bats.,
only recently arrived at Woolwich barracks.
Church accordingly attended, and said that the 0001135,P0,.
was determined to protect their servants from the 1•;0
luxe of persons who thought proper to attack thetera',
their mad freaks. He should, therefore, press the "
plaint, and he had no doubt if the officer saw the fla_
jutant, and explained his business, that that gentian•
would see the summons delivered to the Lieutenal?!.
Guest was then directed to proceed to Woolwich so.
morrow morning, and endeavour by all possible weans
to effect a service on the lieutenant or the adjutant.

PORT or BRISTOL.—A meeting of the Town
Council of this city was held yesterday, when a report 19,116
presented from the dock committee, showing tila the :go-
come of the dock bad very much increased, exceeding
expenditure of the year by about 3,0001. The CO
also recommended that the dues on sugar be reduced onei
te:
half, that is from s. to is. 6d. per ton, and those en
coffee, and cocoa entirely removed, which the council unani
mously assented. It was also stated that the foreign tonnage
of the port exceeded that of last year (and even the
excel).
tioual year 1$19) ky nearly 20,000 OM. ..

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