The Sun.
London, England, 1851-08-01 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON,

DARLLIGTOIS--Wind S.W.—fine.
WarrErrAliof Wind S.E.. strong breeze—heavy rain.
NEWCASTLE—Wind S.W.—cloudy.
B& rocs—Wind S. E., gentle breeze—heavy rain.
GLAsc ow—Wind W.S.W.—rain.
The returns from the following places indicate the state of
the wind and weather on Wednesday morning at nine
,'clock :
Lontrucx—Wind N.W., calm—overcast.
kinumraAn—Wind N., calm—overcast.

communication should be separated into two distinct
services, and put out to separate tenders." The fortu-
nate formation of the Eastern Steam Navigation
Company under such distinguished auspices as
to ensure the attainment of the objects con-
templated by its promoters, will, afford that full
and fair competition which is truly regarded as
of so much consequence to the best interests of the
nation. The Committee refer to this point on
several occasions, saying that " they cannot close
their report without stating that any arrangement
which might tend to promote an exclusive traffic on
the Indian lines in the hands of one company is open
to serious objection, and that in the recom-
mendations which they have suggested for the con-
sideration of the Government, they wish
to lay down the principle, that the only
security to the publio for the full advantage of these
communications must consist in open and fair comps-
• •
talon."
_ _

THE WEATHER.--SuN OyncE, Auonst 1.
THEaxoNNTER, Li THE SHAWL.
70 —highest since noon yesterday.
61—lowest this morning and during the night.
74 —this day, at noon.

BABOhUCTRE, 2914.
WIND W. S.W.—close, muggy weather.

TO CORRESPONDENTS.
'John Roberts, Leominster."---It would be unsafe, as
well as improper, to give advice about railway specu-
lation. No man does wisely to rely upon speculation
for an income, and few who engage in it escape ruin
in the long run. To buy for investment after a heavy
fall, where there is no ground for such, is quite a
different affair.

They also clearly expose the absurdity of the re-
gulation which compels the employment of steam-
ships built of wood and not of iron, and pointedly di-
rect the attention of tie Government to the evidence
received upon the subject from the many eminent
practical and scientific men who have appeared be-
fore them. On the Government now rests the re-
sponsibility of fully and fairly carrying out these re-
commendations. The subject is one which cannot be
treated with apathy or neglect, more especially since
the existence of the Eastern Steam Navigation
Company must remove every difficulty with respect
to a proper emulation between parties ready and wil-
ling, and also fully competent, to perform the neces-
sary service with economy, security, and dispatch.
We trust, therefore, that we may speedily see the
publication of the full particulars of the terms and
conditions required, and that those will be in accord-
ance with the valuable suggestions offered by the
Committee. Indeed, no excuse could be accepted for
any carelessness on this highly important subject.

A trial of a most extraordinary character, and
which proves to demonstration the necessity for an
immediate amendment of the law of lunacy, took
place at Exeter on the 29th instant, before Mr.
Justice COLERIDNE. A farmer named JOHN YEO
was indicted for assaulting CHARLES Luxatooaa,
knowing him to be a person of unsound mind, and
having voluntarily undertaken to take charge of him,
at Lewton Trenchard. The unfortunate man Lux-
MOORE had been a blacksmith, and about twenty
years ago he had a legacy of 1001. left him, the whole
of which he spent in dissipation, shortly after which
he became a violent lunatic, and has so continued
ever since. The prisoner married the sister of the
lunatic, and about four years since the mother and
father of the lunatic, and the lunatic himself, were
removed to the house of YEo.

Mr. JOHN NICHOLSON FOWLIIII, a magistrate, thus
describes the state in which he found the lunatic on
visiting YEO'S house :
At the end of March, in company with others, I
went to the defendant's house. I saw the de-
fendant, and told him we came to see a lunatic.
The defendant lighted a candle and preceded us to the
back part of his house. We passed through a parlour,
in which corn appeared then to be kept. We then
turned into a dark place lighted by the door. In that
passage we found a cell, the door of which the defendant
opened by drawing back a bolt. He held up a lantern
(it was eleven o'clock in the morning). We saw a man
(Luxmoore). He had not any clothes on—perfectly
naked. He was sitting down. The eell was seven feet
long, and between four and (five feet wide, seven feet
high, boarded entirely round, and overhead. There was
a sort of framework of a bed, with the legs cut off,
so that it rested on the floor. There was a little straw,
no covering. There was a small apperture about a foot
square, looking into a passage with iron bars to it.
There was no direct light to the passage, which led
into three rooms—a room at each end. The smell was
so disgusting that I retired as soon as possible, and did
not examine the cell. On the Ist of July I visited the
cell again. There was no provisio❑ for warmth. I
made an order for his removal to the asylum."
In justice to YEO, however, it must be observed
that for thirteen years the lunatic bad been chained
and confined in his own father's house, in a precisely
similar manner. RICHARD WALTER, a carpenter,
thus describes the removal of the lunatic, and the
erection of the cell:—

English •• •• • •
Foreign •• • • • •

" I am a carpenter, and have known the defendant
many years. In February, 1847, the defendant em-
ployed me to go to the lunatic's father's house at Ger-
mansweek, and take down a building in which the luna-
tic was confined. I took it down, and brought the
boards to the defendant's, at Orchard. I was there when
the lunatic was removed. He was brought out of the
house between the defendant and John Luxmoore. They
supported him, and took him away in a cart. The de-
fendant pointed out a place where I was to put up the
1 cell in his house. It was seven feet long, between five and
six feet in breadth, and six feet in height. There were
two iron bolts to the door, a window a foot square with
bars, but no glass. There was a cellar just opposite
the window. I put in the frame of a bedstead, with the
legs cut off close. There was no sacking to it. There
were some boards in it, a little raised from the floor. I
saw a chain attached to the lunatic, as he was coming
out of the door. I made no provision for the chain being
fastened. The chain passed through the floor, and was
fastened to a beam under."

This chain the unfortunate lunatic had worn for
thirteen years, as appears from the following written
statement of the prisoner :--
" I am a farmer, living at Orchard. Charles Luxmoore,
the lunatic, is my brother-in-law. He was brought up to
the trade of a blacksmith. He was weak in his head and
strange in his conduct. His mother says he was of weak
intellect from childhood. Thirteen years ago he was first
confined. He then had the chain rivetted on his leg, which
is still on it. Ido not know that it has ever been taken of
He has been confined in this same sort of cell jor nine years
or more. About four years ago I removed him to my
house: he has been treated just as before. He nett r had
clothing, because he would tear it. About twenty years
sive an uncle left him 1001., which he soon spent and
became violent. He was dressed yesterday. He used to
be able to read and write well, and sang well in church.
His parents have 301. a year; they are bedridden. They
thought if the parish took care of him they would have
to pay for it. None of his relations are insane."
Strange as it may appear, it is yet abundantly
clear that all the persons concerned in the perpetra-
tion of these horrible atrocities were actuated by
kind motives ; they were affectionately attached to
the lunatic, but believed that for his own safety and
the safety of those about him it was necessary that he
should be restrained and treated in the manner
above described. There was no attempt at conceal-
ment on the part either of YBO or of the parents of
the lunatic, and the clergyman of the parish not only
did not attempt to interfere to rescue the unfortunate
victim from the cruel treatment to which he was sub-
jected, but actually appeared on the trial for the pur-
pose of justifying it. The following is the deposition
of the Rev. CHARLES CARPENTER :
" I am curate of Germansweek, and know the parents
of the lunatic. I used continually to visit them. I
used to see the lunatic and talk to him. He never
talked to me rationally. He was close to his father's
room. I tried to teach him the Lord's Prayer, but could
not. No one could pass the house without knowing
that he was violent. It was notorious in the village
that ho was kept chained. I remonstrated once with
his mother, but she showed me some torn sheets. I

should say the manner in which he was kept was not im-
proper. I do not think he could have been kept in any
other mode in his own house, from the general terror
there was of him in the neighbourhood. I never saw a
more affectionate mother in my life, and I may say the
same of all the family, particularly as regarded the lu-
natic. The defeuilafft is a humane, kind man. I have
seen the lunatic' perfectly dressed whoa I went in, and
perfectly naked when I left."
A short time since, among other propositions for
the amendment of the law of lunacy, there was one
made which proposed to appoint the clergyman of the
parish an ex officio visitor of private lunatic asylums.
The evidence of the Rev. CHARLES CARPENTER only
tends to strengthen the objections which we entertain
to that proposition. That ignorant persons like YEO
and old LuxatooxE should consider it necessary to
chain up a lunatic may be readily imagined, but that
a clergyman, and therefore necessarily to a certain
extent an educated man, should be ignorant of all the
modern discoveries in the treatment of lunacy, that
he should still justify the chaining up of lunatics,
shows a degree of crass ignorance, such as we trust
cannot be paralleled in many members of the clerical
profession. YEo was found guilty, and sentenced to
six months' imprisonment. In passing sentence Mr.
Justice COLERIDGE observed:—
" That a person at this time of day should be found
with a good conscience, and against whom no bad inten-
tion exists, which I believe properly to belong to you,
yet acting as you have done for the last four years is,
indeed, a most surprising thing—that you could suppose
that you were authorised to chain for four years in a
cell, such as the evidence has described, a poor lunatic--
that you could do it really and truly with great affection
for the individual, and under the same root where an af-
fectionate father and mother were living, is a thing that
will hardly be believed, except upon such evidence as we
have heard to•day."
The prosecution was ordered by the Commissioners
of Lunacy, and we cannot but remark that, consider-
ing the notoriety of the treatment of the lunatic, it is
somewhat strange that their attention had not been
drawn to the case years before. Such oases as thine,

1.11. --

however, will be of continual recurrence in private
houses and in private asylums (and in many private
lunatic asylums at this moment there are cases even
more atrocious than this case of Lvxmoom) until a
law shall be enacted prohibiting the incarceration of
persons as lunatics until the institution of some
public preliminary inquiry, and further enacting that
no lunatic shall be incarcerated except in a public
asylum.

THE SH

Railways,

Aberdeen.. • • • •
Ambergate, Nottingham,
Boston, & E. Juncion
Belfast and County Down
Birming., Wolverhamp.,
and Stoar Valley
Birkenh., Lan., & Chesh
June., late 33/. Gs. Bd..
Do. Chest. & Blrkenhd.,
501. &251. Consolidated
Do., d0.,20/. • .
Bristol and Exeter..
Caledonian .. • • • •
Cheater and Holyhead
Direct Lond. and Portsm.
Dublin and Belfast Junct.
Dublin and Kingstown..
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Dundee, Perth, and Aber-
deen Junction .. • •
Do., New ..
East Anglian (251. L. &
E. and L. & D.)
Do. (181. E. & II.) ..
Eastern Counties ..
Eastern Union, class A,
late E. U. shares

RKETS

10M to 10%
4% —4%

IN - 10%

1 ...- 11 dls.

MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.)

Business done
to-day.

CORN EXCHANGE-(FRIDAY.)

- -
The receipts of English Wheat up to our market this
week, coastwise, have amounted to 2,440 quarters.
Fresh up to-day, those by land-carriage were small;
hence, the show of samples of both red and white
was limited. The attendance of both town and country
buyers was moderate; whilst the demand for all kinds
of Wheat of home produce was in a sluggish state, at
Monday's quotations. Upwards of 13,000 quarters of
foreign Wheat have come fresh to hand. Selected
samples of both red and white were held at fully
last week's quotations. In the low and middling
kinds exceedingly little was doing, yet prices
were mostly supported. The transactions in
floating cargoes off Falmouth were unimportant.
We had rather a large quantity of foreign Barley on
offer, and for which the inquiry was less active, at barely
late rates. Malt—the supply of which was moderate—
ruled dull, but we have no decline to notice in value.. An
immense quantity of foreign Oats—the first portion of
the Archangel fleet having arrived—was in the market.
The trade ruled dull, at 6d to is per quarter less money.
Beans, Peas, and Indian Corn, as well as Flour, were a
dull sale.

10% 34 14

Do. do. do. ..
Do. do., B & C shares
East Lancashire • • • •
Do. New quarters • •
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Edin., Perth, and Dundee
Exeter and Exmouth ..
Glasgow and South-West,
Do. do. G. D. & C • stock
Great Northern • • •
Do. halves, A, deferred
Do. halves, B, 6 per ct.
Great Southern and
Western, Ireland • •
Great Western ..

ARRIVALS THIS WEER.

4% %

79
- 11%
-

79%
115 14 %
16% %%

..
—2O as.

3 li

14N 34

100
8 6

1714 % %

Oats.
Qrs.
9,

Wheat. i Barley. I Malt.

Flour.

Do. New, 171. .. • •
Lancaster and Carlisle ..
Do. thirds • • • • • . 1
Lancaster and Preston ..
Lancashire and Yorkshire
Do. quarter shares ..
Do. fifths .. • • •
Do. West Biding Union
Leeds and Thirsk • • • •
Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport .. .. • •
London and Blackwall • •
Do., Tilbury Eat. Scrip
London, Brighton, and
South Coast .. • •
London and N.-Westena
Do. do. new quarters .
Do. fifths ..
Do. 101. sh., M. &IS (c)
London and S.-Westera
Do. new 501.
Do. new 40/. ..
Manchester, Buxton, and
Matlock • • ..
Manchester, bheffield, &;
Lincolnshire
Do. Manchester and
Lincoln Union • •
Midland ..

Qrs. I Qll.
2,440

13,490 I 8,810

SMITHFIELD.

Qrs. blacks.
30 1,730

3,140 sks
58,380 1 8,510 bls

To-day's market exhibited a decided increase in the
supply of Beast!, compared with that shown on Friday
last. Owing to the prevailing hot weather, and the thin
attendance of buyers, the Beef trade ruled exceedingly
inactive, at, in some instances, a decline in the quotations
of 2d per 81bs, and a total clearance was not effected.
The numbers of Sheep were seasonably extensive, and of
full average quality. All breeds moved off slowly, at
prices barely equal to those of Monday—the extreme
figure for the best old Downs being 3s 10d per 81bs.
Lambs—the supply of which was large—were a dull
sale, but not cheaper. We had an improved inquiry for
Calves, the value of which had, in nome instances, an
upward tendency. Pigs very dull. Milch Cows, with
their small Calf, were selling at from 141 to la/ each.

s. d. to e. d
Inferior Sheep •• 2 6 2 8
Second qual. Sheep 210 3 0
Coarse-woolledditto3 2 3 6
Southdown Wether 3 8 310
Ditto out of the wool 0 0 0 0
Large /logs • • •• 2 6 3 2
Small Porkers ••• • 3 4 3 8
Quarter old Pigs ..16 0 18 0

Per 81bs. to sink the offal.
s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts-- 2 4 2 6
Second quality ••.. 2 8 210
Prime large Oaen•. 3 0 3 4
Prime Scots .. •—• 3 6 3 8
Large coarse Calves 2 8 3 4
Primeemall ditto 3 6 3
Suckling Calves ..18 0 20 0
Lambs •••• • 310 4 10

TOTAL SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Roasts. i
I Sheep. I Calves. I
pigs
850 14,600 1 240 262
SCOTCH.
Beasts. I Sheep. I Calves. I Pies
100 60
FOREIGN SUPPLY.
I rigs.
Beasts. I Sheep. i Calves.
120 700 62 _
NEWGILTE AND VEULDENNALL.
These markets were excessively heavy, and late rates
were with difficulty supported.
At per stone by the Carcase.
s. d. to s. d. i s. d• to 5. d.
Beef,inferior•• •• 2 0 2 4 Ifutton,inferior .. 2 4 2 8
--- middling ••. • 2 6 2 8 ------ middling ••2 10 3 4
-- primelarge .. 210 3 0 ----prime •• •• 3 6 3 8
-- prime small .. 3 2 3 4 Fork, large.. • • .... 2 6 3 4
Veal.• •••• •• ...... 2 8 3 4 -- small .• •• • • 3 6 3 2
Lamb. 3s 6d to 45 Bd.
BOROVG BOP ItTAZZET.
Although we observe but little improvement in the
reports from the plantations, several parties are backing
the duty at 90,0001. Fine Hops are rather scarcer, and
quite as dear. In other kinds, very little is doing. Mid
and East Kent pockets 90s to 155 e; Weald of Kent ditto,
iOs to 1054; Sussex. ditto, 84s to 965.

•
C0M0N1.8.36.
SUGAR.—The demand for British Plantation has.been
steady, and the quotations have been slightly favourable
to the buyers. Barbadoes, 190 hhds, offered publicly,
went at 39s to 40s 6d for fine yellow, 37s 6d to 38s for
good, and 38s for mid grainy yellow. Antigua brought
37s 6d to 38s 6d for good yellow, 33s 6d to 36s for low to
mid, and 32s 6d to 33s 6d for good to fine. Grenada
sold at 33s to 35s for low and mid yellow, and Jamaica,
good mid yellow, at 363 6d to 37a; good to fine brown,
33s 6d to 245.
REFINED.—The quantity on offer has rather increased.
Grocery lumps have realised 46s 6d to 495.
EAST INDIA.—Not so much has been done in Bengal.
Very fine grainy white has been sold at 47a 6d to 48s,
and low soft yellow at 31s 6d. Mauritius was
rather cheaper; low and mid yellow, 33s 6d to 365; good
mid to good, 368 6d to 37s 6d ord; and mid brown, 28s to
31s 6d; and good to fine grainy yellow, 40s to 435.
Penang was taken in at 38s to 39s for low and mid white.
FOREIGN.— There has been more inquiry for exporta-
tion. A cargo of brown Pernambuco sold at 17s, and
another of mixed Bahia at 188 3d per cwt; Havannah,
3,680 boxes partly sold by auction, at 36s to 38s for low
to mid yellow; 39s to 40s for good and fine; and 345
to 31s 6d for brown mid to fine. Pernambuco realised
348 per cwt; Porto Rico sold at 34s 6d to 37s 6d for low
and mid yellow, and at 383 to 41s 6J for good and fine.
Paraiba, 3,526 bags went at 37a 6d to 40s for low to
good white, and at 40s 6d to 42s for flee; brown was
taken in at 28s to 345; ord Bahia sold privately at 32s
to 345, being washed.
COFFEE.—There has been a good demand for Native
Ceylon at full prices, viz., 37s to 38s; Plantation Ceylon
has been brisk at previous rates, mid to good 51s 6d to
58a 6d, and fine to fine fine ord 43s to 48 6J. Foreign
has been at full rates, but the business done has not been
large. Mocha about the same, and also Jamaica.
RlCE.—There has not been much disposition to pur-
chase. Madras was taken in at 8s to 8s 6d for sound.
ARROW-ROOT.—St. Vincenta has been sold at Sid to
sid per lb, and Bermuda has been taken in at Is.
SmEs.—Pimento has realised sid, Cassia Lignea has
been taken in at 45s to 55s per cwt. Nutmegs have been
in demand, and Mace has been sold at 2s to 2s 2d for
mid pale.
TALLOW.—The nearest price on the spot is now about
38s per cwt.
TEA.—The market has been steady.
COTTON.—Holders are a little firmer, but there is not
much doing.
GREEN FRIIIT.—A fair business is doing. The influx
of foreigners has been serviceable to the consumption of
Oranges, and has protracted the season beyond its usual
time; 750 boxes Palermo, and 100 cases Naples, sold by
Keeling and Hunt, were taken freely by the trade.
Lemons of sound quality command a higher figure.
West India Pine Apples are in good demand, but the
prices realised are not remunerative to the importers.
Nuts of all kinds dull of sale.

Do. 50/. shares ..

De. firming & Derby
Midland Gt. West. (Ire.)
Newcastle and Carlisle..
De. quarter shares ..
Newmarket • • .. ..

Newport, Abergavenny,

and llereford • • ..
Newry and Enniskillen . .
Newry, Warrenpoint, &

BO W-ST REET.--(THIS DAY.)
Colonel Reid, M.P., applied to Mr. Jardine for two
summonses against a cab-driver, one for demanding more
than his legal fare, and the other for abusive language.
The Colonel stated that last night, he and Mr. Richards,
M.P., on leaving the House of Commons, called the
driver, against whom he complained, from the stand in
Palace-yard, and desired him to drive them to St.
James's-street, much within a shilling fare. He said
that he would not take them, unless they agreed to pay
him 25., which they refused, and the driver forcibly pre-
vented their entering his vehicle, and was abusive. The
summonses were granted, Mr. Jardine observing that it
was the duty of every one, and especially of gentlemen
in the Hon. and Gallant Colonel's position in society, to
bring those cases before the public, as it was quite cer-
tain that foreigners and strangers to the metropolis were
very much imposed upon by the class of persons against
whom the complaint was made.
Colonel Reid said that it was entirely on that considera-
tion, respecting the imposition upon foreigners, that ho
and Mr. Richards, as well as other Members of Parlia-
ment, wore determined to follow up every ease of the
kind.

113 4
47%
100

100
42%

186'i 85Vei

[SO%
52 5O 51 50

4 2 0
100
35
100
47%

,2 11%

94 93% x.d
125 124%
26
15%

8534 8 434

28% %
[42% 43%
44U 4o 44
15% %

34 %

Roitrevor • • ••, • •
Norfolk .. .•
Do. New 201. shares • •
Northern Counties Union
North British..

6% ii
Bl,fi 8 x.i.

North Staffordshire ..
North-Western
North & Sth .-We st. June.
Oxford, Worcester and
Wolverhampton.. ..
Scottish Central

ROYAL MUSIC BALL.—Last evening Miss Julia
Warman made her second appearance at the Music Hall,
Adelaide-street, Strand, and performed some of the most
beautiful pieces on the pianoforte we have heard for a long
time. Among the many marvellous effects produced by this
young lady, we must especially notice the variations on" The
Merry Swiss Boy," and a well-known German air. The
brilliancy of finish and the firmness of touch, coupled
with the purest taste and facility of execution, possessed by
this young lady, give promise in a very shert time to place
her amongst the very first pianists in England.
BUILDERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.--Tile an-
nual meeting of the friends and patrons of this institution
was held yesterday at the London Tavern, Mr. W. Cubitt,
M.P., in the chair. The Chairman having opened the pro-
ceedings by a few congratulatory remarks on the prosperity
of the institution, the report was read, from which it ap-
peared twelve pensioners, eight males and four females, were
at the present time receiving the benefits of this institution.
The expectations which had been formerly indulged in by
the promoters of this institution had not been disappointed.
The amount of subscriptions and donations for the past year
amounted to 688/. 135., and 650/. had been added during the
year to their funded stock, making its total amount 2,2501.
The report was adopted, and Mr. Thos. Grissell unanimously
elected president of the institution ; after which an election
took place, when three males and one female were made re-
cipients of the bounty and advantages of this institution.
A vote of thanks to the Chairman concluded the business of
the day.;
NEW ZEALAND COMPANY. —A special general
meeting of the shareholders of this company was held at
New Zealand House, on Wednesday, for the purpose of
receiving a report upon the fate of the Bills recently intro-
duced into Parliament, and of considering the general aspect
of the company's affairs. Mr. Aglionby, M.P., who was in
the chair, regretted that certain clauses in the Bill now be-
fore Parliament, and which were favourable to the company,
had been withdrawn in consequence of the opposition of Mr.
Gladstone, and that the present position of the Canterbury
settlement did not warrant the expectation of a speedy ar-
rangement with the company. After some conversation, in
which Mr. J. A. Smith, M.P., and Mr. F. Young took part,
the meeting was adjourned to give time for coming to
some agreement with the Government on the subject of their
claims. _ _

THE WATER COMMlTTEE.—Yesterday Mr. Simp-
son, engineer of the Chelsea and Lambeth Waterworks, gave
evidence on the case for the companies.
PLENTY Or GOOD COAL WITHOUT MONEY.—The
proprietors of the Gorse Goch Colliery, near Llandilo, have
issued hand-bills offering to sell good coal at 4s. 7d. per ton,
to be paid in agricultural produce, such as bay, coral, fat
pigs, butter, bacon, or cbee3e.

61A dis.
5 dis.

FRIDAY EVENING-, AUGUST 1, 1851.

(We cannot be answer
will not be influenced by

Paid. Nominal Prices. Business dot.
to-day.
Asturian • • ...• •••.• • •• • 15 .. —•• •
Australian • • •••• • • • • 4 1% —2%
Barossa Range .. • • ... 113 0 334
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal all .• —• •
Bolanos Scrip ....... • • • ••
British Iron.. ••.. • ..... 13 5 . • —• •
Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.) 2434 —••
Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba all .. —• •
Do. St. John del Rey • • 15 171,i 19% xd
Cobre Copper •• ...• 40 39% 41%
Coplap° • •• • 14 6% —7%
General
Mexican & S. American 9 3% 434
Real Del Monte, Uureg. 34
Do. Black Debentures. • • ••
Do. Red Debentures • • • •
Santiago de Cuba ...... 10 3 —3%
Tin Croft .............. 7 8
United Mexican.. • • .... 28 2 83i f 3%
JOINT STOCK RANKS.
Australasia .. . ...... . all 33 3434
British North America.. 50 45 —46 45
Colonial ..... 25 10% 12
Commercial of London.. 20 25 25%
London Joint Stock .... 10 18% 17%
•
London and Westminster 20 2734 2834
National Provincial Eng. 35
National of Ireland .. • . 22% 18% 20%
Provincial of Ireland •• • • 25 42 —44
Do. New .. • • • • • • .... all 15% 15
Union of Australia.. • • all 35 3634
Do. New ............ 2% 3 —3%
Uslon of London •• 10 11% 18%
Union of Madrid all ..
MISCELLANEOUS.
Canada . •• 3234 48 —49
Gen. Steam Navigation . 14 2634 28
Penin. & Oriental Steam. all 69)i, 71
I Ditto ditto 5 11 9 xd
Royal Mail Steam ...• 60 75 —7B
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able for
intorest

,ANEOUS.
48 —49
2634 28
69)i, 71
Ii 9 xd
75 —7B
to errors of the Official Lists, and
correspondents.]

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 12,000 bales, of which 500 American and
1,000 Surat were taken for export, and 500 American
and 2,000 Surat for speculation. The sales comprised
6,000 American and 600 Pernam and Maranham, chiefly
at 6d.; 450 Surat, at 2d. to 34d.; and by auction 1,800
ditto, at 2d. to 3d.; and 40 Sea Island at ls. 4d. to ls.
Bd. per lb. The market was well supplied, and closed
tamely at previous rates.—Railway Shares were firm at
higher prices.
The supply of the principal staples has been good
again this week, but holders are rather firm both for
Sugar and Coffee. In Spices, Tallow, Indigo, and Co-
chineal, a fair business has been done, and Cotton,
though quiet, has been held better.
In a report from Manchester, by Messrs. McNair,
Greenhow, and Irving, the state of the piece goods mar-
ket during the month is thus described:—
" Altogether the outward appearances of this Market
would appear to be assuming gradually a character so
materially different to its actual and practical condition,
thar, however honest and well-intentioned the issuer of any
trade report may be, his statements of actual details
must assume a questionable character in the opinion of
some at a distance, who are unacquainted with the loca-
lity in which we live, and its real workings, influences,
and tendencies.
"In the face of the characteristics to which we have
alluded, an abiding sense of duty and of conviction
obliges us to report the existence of a large amount of
business having been transacted during the present and
closing month, notwithstanding the external features,
which have been of a very dull, declining, inanimate,
and cheerless form.
" The low prices prevailing ten days ago for India
cloths and yarns induced very considerable purchases,
which have had the effect of not only removing any ac-
cumulation of stock generally, but of placing many
manufacturers and spinners again under contract. As
you will have perceived, the decline in prices has
reference materially to India yarns and cloths; every-
thing else having undergone but little change, and having
sustained their values with remarkable firmness, consi-
dering the decline upon cotton.
" If these details be given faithfully, as they were in-
tended to be, the conclusion arrived at will be confirma-
tory of what has been stated at the outset. During the
earlier and greater portion of the month continuous and
increasing dulness prevailed, accompanied, as previously
existing contracts expired, with a gradual decline in the
prices of both Cloth and Yarns, and more particularly so
as regarded those of each adapted for India and China;
which resulted not only in an increase of supply, but in
a resolute determination on the part of spinners and
manufacturers to accept yielding and market terms for
their respective productions. Had Cotton remained firm.
matters would have been different."
Hamburgh accounts of Tuesday give the rate of ex-
change at 13 34. Gold is at 4254. Stocks were firm.
There was no change in Coffee. Wheat was dull.
In the Amsterdam Market on the 30th ult. the home
Funds were feeble, and not much was done. Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have been at 58 13-16.
Foreign Stocks had been equally dull.
At the meeting of the Newport, Abergavenny, and
Hereford Railway Company this day, a report was read
which showed that the directors are in earnest about pro-
ceeding at once with the works of the railway, for which
purpose a call of 21. per share would be requisite, the
- payment of which the directors seemed to make as easy
as convenient to the shareholders. The cash statement
: showed the balance in hand to be 14,8311. 9s. ld. The
report was adopted unanimously.
The Stock Market has been flatter, owing to money
sales. Consols have been quoted 964.4 for Transfer, and
961 1 for Account. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. have been quoted 981 and the Three per Cents.
974 to Bank Stock is worth 2151, and South Sea
Stock 1068 to 107 i. Exchequer-bills have ruled at 455.
to 495. premium.
Foreign Securities have been very firm. Spanish Five
per Cents. are 21i to and the Three per Cents, 38 to
4. Portuguese Four per Cents. are 34 to 35. Mexican
Stock has been done at 31 and 31i, and looks very firm.
Brazilian old Bonds have been about 90 to 92. Chilian
Stock is at 104. Russian Bonds have been quoted 101;
and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 594.
Railway Shares are for the most part very fluctuating.
Caledonian have been lower, and Midland, after opening
well, have gone back. The Beers now assert that there
are plenty of shares to be got. Most other shares have
gone back since the market opened, but it is the mere
reaction after the settlement.

ONE CLOSING
PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Bank Stock 2153/ 215:34
3 per Cent. Reduced Anne.
3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96% 1/2% 96%
New 31,4 per Cent. Anna... 98%34 98%
Long Anna. to expire J an. 1860
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 7l/2 71/2
Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 73/8 71/2
South Sea Stock
Consuls tor Account
f:xchequer Bills. 11/2d.
1,0001.
5001.
Small, ..
ONE
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK.
Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent ... lO4
Danish 80nd5,1825,3 per Cent....
Ditto, 5 per cent. ... , 1044
Mexican, 5 per Ct., ex Jan. Coupe 3ll/2
Ditto, Account

48 p
48 p
48 p
CLOSING
PRICES.
104

104►
311,6
30/8

Portuguese 5 per Cents.
Ditto, Small
Russian Bonds
_ _ _

34M

Ditto, 414 per Cent
Sardinian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, Scrip
Spanish o per Cent. IMO 2lli
Ditto. 3 per Cent
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21A per Cent. 12 Guild S9X
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates

it
381 A
59%
93

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY

LONDON, AUG. I.—W ind at noon S.W., light airs
and cloudy.
POOLE, JULY 31.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrd. John and
Thomas, Ford, Labrador; W. G. Anderson, Quebec.
Sid. Prince Eugene, Newfoundland.
OFF DARTMOUTH, JULY 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrd.
Mary Irvine, Taylor, Sierra Leone; Zenobia, Bombay.
SALcosinn, JULY 30.—Sid. Cornucopia, La plata.
Off port, Imperial Lass, Eleuthera.
PLYMOUTH, JULY 31.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd, Iris,
Gent, Alexandria. Sld. Emma, Quebec.
BRISTOL, JULY 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Caroline,
Barbadoes.
GLOUCESTER, JULY 31.—Arrd. Pet, Quebec; Dorica,
Trieste.
CLYDE, JULY 30.—Arrd. Montezuma, Now York;
Jane, St. Übes; Eleanor, Riga. Sid. Charles M`Lauch-
lin, Boston, United States; Chevalier, Demerara.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Titania,
Williams, Maceio; Waitron, Masters, Windsor, United
States; Conquest, Wood, Gasp 4; Elias, Getheo; Smug-
gler, Lines; Guy Mannering, Edwards, New York;
Science, Taylor, Smyrna; Santiago steamer, Greenock.
Off port, Thomas, Tagus; London, Bourdaux; Tigris,
Sld. Sophia, Belize; Niobe, New York; Anna
Maria, Bair Verte, New Brunswick; Devon, Newfound-
land; Agnes, Constantinople; John Mellish, Calcutta;
John M'Kenzie, Aden; Othello and Josephine, Havan-
nah; Canada, Montreal; Pirate steamer, Constantinople;
Aug. Ist (per Electric Telegraph). the Victoria, for
Danteic, has put back leaky, on the Vic-
toria Bar. having struck
DEAL, JULY 31.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Wanderer,
Rome, Rio; Philadelphia, Iloliman, Philadelphia;
St. Übes; Prescilla, liavannah; George, North Carolina;
Lydford, Clark, Antigua; Amelia, Eliza Ann, and
Christiana, ,Quebec. Sid. Charles A. Stetson, New
York; John King, Cape of Good Hope and Mauritius;
Aurora, Trieste.
e vessel
The wreck of a larg, with masts and bulwarks
gone, was passed July 21, lat. 42, long. 26.
A schooner is ashore on the Hore Bank.
A long low brigantine, rather taunt rigged, with all
sails set, and painted black, was seen to founder about
4.30 this morning, 92 leagues N.W. of Holyhead.
CHATHAM, JULY 31.—Wind S.W.—Arrd. Jane Peat,
Peat, Rigs. Sid. Carolina, Quebec.
RYE, JULY 31.—Arrd. Statira, Drewett, Jamaica.
PonTsmourn, JULY 31. —Wind W.—Arrd. Sutlej,
Greigson, Calcutta. bid. Monarch, Calcutta.
SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 31 .—Wind S.E.—Arrd. Eliza
Kirkbridge, Greig, Quebec. bid. Ann steamer, Con-
stantinople.
FALMOUTH, JULY 31.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrd. Guar-
kia, Rezette, Odessa; Cundace, Ordon ; Maria, Alexan-
dria; Maria, Cavetins, Alexandria; Rebecca, Kariffa.
WATERFORD, JULY 30.—Wind S.W. to N.and N.N.W.
—Arrd. Alexander, Nichols, London.
QUEENSTOWN, JULY 30. Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Mary,
Callao; Gluburner and Desiderate, Ibrail; Valiant and
Yore, Constantinople; Juno, Lyra; Unita, Satonica;
Scotia, Awns.

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