The Sun.
London, England, 1851-05-24 00:00:00

EVENING, MAY 24, 1851,

Paid.

Nominal Prices. I Business don,
I

Asturian ....
Australian ...

Barossa Range
Blaenarvon Iron and Coal
Bolanos Scrip .....• • • • •
British Iron
Brazilian Imp. (is. 51. p.)
Do. Cocaes and Cuiaba
Do. St. John del Rey..
Cobre Copper . ..... .• •
Copiapo • • • • •

1% - 2
3% -3%

32% - 32
16%-17M
38% - 39
6)4- 7%
1338-14
-4%
- Ni

Mexican & S. American
Real Del Monte, Uureg.
Do. Black Debentures.
Do. Red Debentures ..
Santiago de Cuba ......

Tin Croft .
United Mexican.......
JOIN'

4% 5
4% —3%
:IL BANKS,
33 -32
42% - 43%
101 i - 12
25 - 25%
is% 17%
27% 284

Australasia ............
British North America..
Colonial ..............
Commercial of London..
London Joint Stock ....
London and Westminster
National Provincial Eng.
Do. New ............
National of Ireland ....
Provincial of Ireland....

18% - 20%
42 - 43%
157 i - 15

Do. New
Union of Australia

Do. New ............
Union of London . •
Union of Madrid

35 - - 33%
3 - 3)4
12% - 13%

Canada ......

CELLANEOUS.
3234 423{ —46
14 263{ 28
all 65% 69
5 11 1134
60 75 —7B
,h

Gen. Steam Navigation .
Penin. & Oriental Steam.

Ditto ditto
Royal Mail Steam
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MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TWO O'CLOCK.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were esti-
mated at 6,000 bales, of which 1,000 were taken for ex-
port and on speculation. The market was dull, and the
disposition to sell still continued. The Railway Share
market opened heavily, and with a downward tendency,
but later in the day there was an improvement, and closed
with a better feeling.
The weekly statement of the Bank of England, made
up to the 17th inst., is more satisfactory than any we
have had of late in respect to the amount of bullion, al-
though there are other items which we are inclined to
watch with equal interest. We desire, for example, to wit-
ness full employment for money, rather than its accumu-
lation. Tho active circulation fell off, and a larger
amount was added to the unemployed notes, the public
depositi from their gradual accumulation enabling the
Bank to draw in its notes without making further sales
of Exchequer-bills. The next return may be expected
to show a further addition to the bullion compared with
the former week. The changes in the return before us
are as follows:

Notes Issued
Increase

... 26,705,095
••• .•• 55 985
..• ..• ... 3,139,966
Increase ... 5,597
Public Deposits ... ... 6,017.417
Increase ... 862 821
Other Deposits 8,921,477
Decrease ... 42,414
Seven Day and other Bills ... 1,077,668
Decrease ... 50,195
Government Securities ... 13,590,988
Decrease ... ••• 15.374
Other Securities ... ... 11,887.695
Increase ... 378,805
Notes unemployed... ... 7,579,520
Increase ... 383,560
Bullion 13,356,420
Increase ... ••• 84 803
Active Circulation... ... ... 19,125,575
Decrease ••• 327,575
Yesterday afternoon bills of exchange, dated 90 days,
were negotiated in London at a slight advance on Am-
sterdam—viz., at 11 171 and 18; at 119 to -4- on Frank-
fort, being also higher; end at 13 7; to 81 on flamburgh;
Trieste was at 12 48 to 50, being lower.
During the fortnight ending yesterday, the East India
Company drew bills in London to the amount of 65,648/.
11s. 5d., of which 60,2741. 58. sd. was on Bengal.
The exportation of the precious metals this week has
comprised 311,390 oz. of silver to Holland, Belgium, and
Germany, and 1,500 oz. of gold to Dunkirk.
The accounts from Manchester and Leeds respecting
the state of trade are satisfactory, greater activity having
prevailed.
The Funds are extremely firm again to-day, and there
is a continuance of money purchases for the first transfer
day next week. Not much is doing in speculation, as
the fine weather causes the attendance to be thin.
Consols are 97i for Transfer and 974 for Account.
The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents, have been 98
to 4, and the Three per Cents. 96i to 97. Exchequer-
bills have continued at 425. to 455, premium. East India
Stock has been at 259 to 261.
Foreign Securities have been firmer, but not at all
active. Spanish Five per Cents, have been quoted 204,
and the Three per Cents. 40*, being an improvement.
Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have touched 83,
and the Deferred 38 and 39. Buenos Ayres Stock has
been at 571 to 574. Brazilian Small Stock has been
marked 90. Mexican Bonds have been quoted 35.
- Dutch Four per Cents. are at 894.
The Committee of Spanish American Bondholders
have received a letter from Mr. Lord, the agent of the
Venezuelan bondholders, dated " La Guayra, April 25,"
of which the following are extracts:—
"The satisfactory way in which Congress is dealing
with the arrear interest will of course be viewed by the
committee as far preferable, and more advantageous
to the bondholders, than the capitalization and issue
of new bonds for that interest, compensating, as it
will also do, in some degree, for the shameful
misappropriation of funds by the late Adminis-
tration. . . . It affords, perhaps, something like a
guarantee that the funds will henceforward be faithfully
applied to the object for which they are destined by
law, always supposing that peace and good order will be
preserved. . . On the 14th inst. I gave instructions to
my agent in Caraccas, Senor Jose M. de Royas, to wait
upon the Minister to report to him the request of the
committee, that agents should be appointed in La Guayra
and Porto Cabello to receive and remit to London the
portion of Customs' duties assigned to the foreign debt.
Owing to the Easter holydays Senor Royas could not
obtain an interview with the Minister until the 22d. For
an account of what passed on the occasion, I beg leave
to refer the committee to the enclosed extract from
Senor Royas's letter, written immediately after the in-
terview. It confirms what I stated to the committee in
my letter of the 22d of March last year, and proves that
on this point the Government is impracticable. . . .
The present Finance Minister, on taking office last
month, gave orders to the several collectors of Custom-
houses to remit to the Treasury in Caraccas thence-
forward the entire proceeds of the quarter part of import
duties assigned to public credit. This the Minister
stated to Senor Royas at a previous interview, adding
that he was determined to re-establish this credit, and
to apply the funds strictly to the purpose to which they
had been assigned,' telling him to assure me that the
creditors might place entire confidence in this resolu-
tion. It is a repetition of the assurance given by his
predecessor, Senor Heres, in his note of the 13th ult. to
her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires, of which I sent the
committee a copy in my letter of the 26th.
"The decree for imposing the extraordinary contri-
bution as passed to the Executive on the 23d, and the
probability is, that it Is now a law of the Republic.
Senor Gellineau (the Minister) intimated to my agent at
the late interview that he only waited for it to become
law to reply to my late letters, when he would furnish
me with an official copy of the decrees for transmission
to London.

Rest

" The ordinary session of Congress (duration 90 days)
expired on the 20th inst., but they have been extended
for an additional 15 days, to complete certain measures
deemed important, the extraordinary contribution:being
one of them."
The Railway Share Market has been steady, bat much
quieter. Prices generally are higher.

QUARTER TO THREE.
Con gala 97Z-
Ditto Account, June 10 ...
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)

8 per Ceiat.Reduced
... : 96% 97
8 per Cent. Consols Anns
New 31 per Cent. Anns.
Long Annuities, Exp. Jan. sth, 1860 7 5-16
India Stock 259 261
Consols for Aceount 97%34
,cchsailer Bills. I%d.
1,000/. . . — 45 42 p
Small — 42 p
Ditto Advertised ...... 41 44 p
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto, Small .
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent.
Mexican 80nd5,1846,5 per Cent., Coupons
Ditto Ex Jan. Coupons
Ditto for the Aneount
Peruvian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Aeconat
De. Deferred ..... 39 38
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent —
Ditto 4% per Cent 100%%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent.........
DitteTor the Account
Spanish Bonds, 3 per Cent,l840
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch 21,E per Cent., 12 Guild
Ditto 4 per Cent. Cerbifieates 8934

EXCHANGE.

9lbraltar.• •••••• •••• ••

Leghorn .............. 30 47%
Genoa ..•• •• ......••.. 25 35

"Allan .......... • • • • • •
Venice................
Maples
Palermo, peroz.. •• ....
Messina ..............
Oporto • • .• • •
Rio Janeiro .• . •
Buenos Ayres .. ••.• • •
New York, 60 days'sight
Philadelphia .... • • • • •.

1.1116L8 OF BULLION, PEI OZ.
Foreign Geld in bars.. :E3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars ••.• • . 0 4 11%
Silver in bars 0 5 Li

LLOYD'S SHIP PIN G (THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 24.—Wind at noon N.W., light bretze
and flue clear weather.
DEAL, MAY 23.—Wind E,, cloudy.—Arrd. Kent,
Honduras; Magdaline, New Orleans, for Bremen.
Arrd. from the river, Cornhill, Hobart Town. Arrd.
from the river and sld., Ann Miln, Port Philip; Electra,
Grenada. Sld. Heroine, Valparaiso.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 23.—Wind N.N.W.—Arrd. Mary
Rowe, Sierra Leone; H. H. Boody, New Orleans. Ski.
New City of Cork Jamaica; Mary Winch, Valparaiso;
Elizabeth, Maracaibo; Athens, Baltimore; Az, New
York; lowa, Staten Island; Christiana, Cape Breton;
Mangerton, Quebec; Elizabeth, ditto; Viola, Newfound-
land. Off port, Empire.
PILL. MAY 23 —Wind E.—Sid. Ashley, New York.
NEWPORT, 11.1. av 23.—Wind N.W.—Sld. Argantyr,
St. Thomas; Wrangel, Quebec.
QUEENSTOWN, MAY. 22 —Wind N.W.—Arrd. Mary
Louisa, Havannab. Sid. Mary, Quebec.
CARTHAGENA, MAY 15.—A schooner, supposed to be
a Swede, of about 160 tons, named Fredin, water.
logged, dismasted, and apparently only recently aban-
doned, was passed 9th inst., the Lizard bearing N.E.
by E. distant eighty miles.
LoNDONDERRY.—Arrd. Harvest, Philadelphia.
HULL, MAY 23.—Wind E.—Sld. Prince Albert St.
John's, New Brunswick. ,

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
COVENT GARDEN.
Very large supplies of vegetables, including Brocoli and
New Potatoes from Cornwall, were on sale to-day. The de-
mand for them ruled active, at late rates. In fruit very little
was doing.
FRUIT. —Pine Apples, 6s Od to IN Od per lb. ; Straw-
berries, 6d to 9d per oz ; Pears, 4s Od to 6s per dozen ;
Green Gooseberries, 3s 6d to 4s Od per half sieve; Apples,
5s to lOs per bushel; Oranges, 6s to 12s; Lemons, 6s to 10s
per 100; Seville Oranges, 7s to 13s per 100; Chestnuts, 2s
to 5s per peck; Brazil Nuts, 12s to 14s; and Barcelona, 18s
to 22s per bushel; Cob Nuts, 70s to 00s per 1001bs ; Hot-
house Grapes,:s3 to lls per lb;
VEGETABLES.—White Cabbages, 6d to is Od per dozen ;
Greens, 3s Od to 5s Od per dozen bunches ; Brocoli, 58 to lOs
per dozen bundles ; Potatoes, 80s to 100 s per ton ; ditto, 3s
6d to 53 6d per cwt; ditto, 2s Od to 2s 3d per bushel; Young
Turnips, 4s per dozen bunches ; Cucumbers, 4d to is 6d each ;
Leeks, Id to 2d per bunch ; Celery, 6d to Is 6d per bundle ;
Rhubarb, 4d to 9d per ditto; Sea Kale, 8d to is 9d per pun-
net; Spinach, t d to 10d per half sieve; Young Onions, 4d
to 10d per bunch; Artichokes, is to is 6d per half sieve;
Horseradish, Is to 4s per bundle; Red Beet, 6d to Is per
dozen; Mushrooms, 9d to is 3d per pottle ; Radishes, 4d to
8d per dozen hands ; Cabbage Lettuces, Ed to 9d per
score ; Asparagus, 2s 9d to 8s per 100.
NEVJGATE AND LEADENNALL.
Turkeys, 5s Od to 7s Od ; Geese, 6s to 8s Od ; Ducks, 38 Od
to 4s Od; Tame Rabbits, Is 4d to is 8d; Wild ditto, 8d to
10d ; Pigeons, 5d to 8d ; Roasting Pigs, 4s 6d to 7s Od each ;
Surrey Fowls, 7s Od to lOs; ditto Chickens, Os Od to Os Od
Barn-door Fowls, 3s Od to 6s per couple; English Eggs, Cs
Od ; French ditto, 4s 6d to 53 6d ; and Irish ditto. Os Od to
Os Od per 120; Fresh Butter, Os to Os Od per lb; Partridges,
Os Od ; Hares, 2s Od to 2s 6d ; Leverets, 2s Od to 2s 6d ;
Wild Ducks, Os i d to Os Od each.

WPOR.
Beef, from 2s ed to 3NE s
4d; Mutton,T
WBd to 3s 10d; Lamb,
es Od to Gs 0d; Veal, 3s 4d to 3s 10d; and Pork, 3a Od to
3s 8d per Blbs.

WHITECIIAPEL.
Beef, from 2s 2d to 3s 2d ; Mutton, 2s 4d to 3s 8d ; Lamb,
4s 8d to bs 8d; Veal, 3s Od to 3s 10d; and Perk, 2s 6d to
3s 8d per Slbs.
___

BILLINGSGATE.
Turbots, 3s Od to Cod ; ls 3d to 2s 9d ; Haddocks,
N6dtols Od each ; Fish, NOdto4s 9d ; Lobsters, 4d
to 2s Od; and Crabs, 4d to Os each; Soles, Os 6d to Is 10d
per pair; Flounders, 9d to Is 10d each; Dried Haddocks,
6s Od to 8s Od; Smelts, is Od to 2s Od per dozen ; Whitings,
3s Od to 7s Od per 15; Eels, Os 4d to Os 10d; Salmon,
Is Od to is 9d per lb; Herrings, Os Od to Os Od per 100;
Common Oysters, 4s Od to 8s Od per ushel; Salt Fish, Od
to Os Od per score; and Mackerel, I ös o€l to Sus Od per 100.

The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from
6V2d to 7d; of Household ditto, 41/-,d to 6d per 41b loaf.
E PSIMICET.
Market Hides, 561bRXID
to 641 b, lid to 2d ; ditto, 641 b to 721 b
2d to ',id ; ditto, 721 b to 801 b, 24d to 20; ditto, 801 b to
881 b, 2},d to 2id ; ditto, 881 b to 961b,2id to 3d; ditto, 961 b to
1041 b, ::34d to 3bd ; ditto, 1041 b to 1121 b, 3id to 4d. Calf Skins,
light, Is 6d to 3s Od each ; ditto, full, 5. Od to 5s 6d ; Horn
Hides, 5s 6d to Os; Polled Sheep, 5s 6d to 6s 6d; Rents,
5s 8d to 6s 10d ; Halt-breeds, 5s 8d to 68 10d ; Downs, 4s 6d
to 5s 6d; Lambs, Is 10d to 2s 10d; Shearlings, 9d to lld.
HAY IVIAIMETS.
SMITHFIELD.—Meadow Hay, 31 Os to 41 6s Od; Clover
ditto, 31 5s to 4/ lOs; and Straw, 1/ is to 1/10s per load.
Supply moderately good, and trade rather dull.
Curiassnr,AND.—Meadow Hay, Si 3s to 4/ 7s; Clover
ditto, 3/ 5s to 4/ 10s; and Straw, 1/ 2s to I/ lls per load.
A full average supply, and a sluggish demand.
WRITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, Si Os to 41 6s; Clover
ditto, 31 5s to 4/ lOs; and Straw, ll Is to 11 10s per load.
Trade dull, at late rates.

BO W-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Mary Ann Macarthy, aged 30, was charged before
Mr. henry with the wilful murder of Elizabeth Allen,
by beating her upon the head with a poker. The par-
ties, who lived in Turner's court, Befordbnry, have been
for some time past at variance. The deceased had, in the
course of last week, caused another woman to be locked
up for striking her, and this woman, the prisoner, and
the deceased came in contact on Sunday last. The wit-
nesses alleged that the prisoner struck both Allen, the
deceased, and the other woman with the poker. Allen
died yesterdy morning. The other woman is as yet
considered in danger.
The prisoner, who solemnly protested her innocence,
was remanded.

HORRIBLE SUICIDE AT THE SARACEN'S HEAD Ho-
isaL.—This forenoon a painful degree of excitement pre-
vailed among the occupants of the Saracen's Head Hotel,
Skinner-street, Snowhill, in consequence of the suicide of
Mr. James Bristow, a gentleman very highly connected, and
supposed to be lately residing at Henley, in the county of
Middlesex. The deceased gentleman had taken apartments
for a few days at the hotel, and he retired to rest about one
o'clock this (Saturday) morning, quite cheerful. Nothing
more was heard of him, until one of the ostlers had his at-
tention drawn to a pool of blood which lay on the floor of
a coach-house underneath the deceased's bedroom. One
of the female servants went up, but found the door
closed ; she, however, raised an alarm, and when she entered
the apartment the deceased was lying on the floor, with his
head nearly shattered to pieces. By his side was discovered
a six barrelled pistol, which, from the position of the de-
ceased, had been discharged in his mouth. The police were
called, and when his pockets were searched, two letters were
found, one addressed to Mr. Mackenzie, of Half-Moon-street,
Piccadilly, in which the deceased mentions something rela-
tive to the late Derby races and other matters.
A MARVELLOUS TALE.—When the American
barque Mary Annah, was making her last trip to Belfast, on
reaching long. 65 deg. 49 min. W., and lat. 27, deg. 20 min.
N., the sailors were astonished to hear a bark, which was un-
mistakeably that of a dog, and seemed to proceed from the
sea. Looking out they discovered the poor animal from
which the cry proceeded struggling with the billows far
astern. Captain heating was apprised of the fact, and
bringing his glass to bear on the now lessening object, which
increasing distance was every moment making more indis-
tinct, he pronounced it a sunfish basking on the surface.
The men were positive as to the fish having barked as nothing
but a dog could, unless a very odd fish indeed, and just at
that moment a sound came down upon the wind unmistake-
ably issuing from canine jaws. The ship was put aback, and
in a short time the adventurous animal was hoisted on board
in a pitiable plight. He recovered, however, and now frisks
along the deck of the Mary Annah as nimbly as though his
energies had never been tasked by swimming over half the
Atlantic—a feat which some of the sailors strongly assert, we
do not wish to say swear, he has accomplished. " Uncle
Sam," as the dog is now christened, must have dropped from
some ship that had passed in the Mary Annah's course; but
how the poor animal could have kept afloat for such a period
as he must have been in the water is a problem.--Northern
Whig.

ROYAL ORTHOPCEDIC HOSPITAL.—Yesterday even-
ing a meeting of the friends and committee of this hospital
was held in the boa•d-room, No. 6, Bloomsbury-square. It
appeared that the prospects and arrangements of the ensuing
anniversary festival, under the chairmanship of Mr. Quarles
Harris, were in every respect satisfactory and encouraging.
A numerous list of noblemen and gentlemen had signified
their ready willingness to support the worthy founder of the
hospital on the occasion, alike by their presence, pecuniary
assistance, and personal services as stewards of the dinner.
Nearly 11,000 patients had now participated in the benefits of
the charity, and the daily increasing numbers, coupled with
the fact of no less than 300 being on the books waiting their
turn of admission, rendered the commencement of the pro-
posed new and extended building an object of much interest
to the friends and supporters of the charity. Her Maje,ty
and his Royal Highness Prince Albert had given the warmest
encouragement to the design, and energetic exertions were
being made for its speedy consummation.
SUICIDE OF A NEWSVENDOR.—Yesterday morning,
shortly after eight o'clock, Mr. Charles Reynolds was disco-
vered suspended from the cupboard door in the kitchen. His
daughter-in-law, with great presence of mind, got into the
window, unlocked the door, and, with the assistance of de-
ceased's eldest eon, cut him down. Mr. Bannister, surgeon,
of Oxford-street, attended with all possible speed, but life
was found extinct. He has left a family of five children to
deplore his untimely end. Supposed cause for committing
this rssh act, pecuniary embarrassment. An inquest will be
held on Monday.
SHIPLOAD OF ELEPHANTS.—The barque Regatta
has arrived here from India, freighted with nine living ele.
phants, a zebu or Burmese bull, sixteen enormous serpents,
including a brace of boa-constrictors of 24 and 16 feet in
length, beside a wilderness of monkeys, the fretted porcupine,
and other live varmints. One of the most curious features of
this Noah's-ark collection is a calf elephant, about
Ceylon,playful
nine
months old, and weaned from its dam on the passage from
Ceylon, being but three feet high, and as docile and
as a kitten. Another is one of the native chiefs of
who accompanies the show in charge of the elephants. This
enterprise is the greatest, probably, sincethe , •
days of the
flood. The elephants were hunted and caught in their native
jungles by Messrs. June and Nutter, accompanied b 1
the natives. Their capture was effected b 60 of
y drivin y
260 of
them into a kraal, or rude pen, constructed in the jungle, out
of which they succeeded in securing thirteen—two having
died on the passage and another being stolen from the
drove.
the The Regatta ma ade
Hope and the ian of St. ,
in 112 days. The elephant hunters were three months Helena and four days in the jungles before they effected their object.-
New York Tribune.

HIGHLAND GAMES IN LONDON.—We are happy
to learn that the Highland Society of London intend insti-
tuting games similar to those formerly exhibited in Holland
Park, and that a truly national display may be expected
about the last week in June. The competition will embrace
all our Highland sports, musi,, and athletic exercises, and
will form a feature in the World's Gathering by no means un-
attractive to foreigners and characteristic of our country.
Prince Albert is said to enter cordially into the scheme, and
most of the Scottish nobility and ladies in London patronise
it with ardour and enthusiasm. Arrangements, we under-
stand, are in progress for making the prizes as liberal and
numerous as possible, and for carrying out the fete in the
most efficient manner. We sincerely trust that nothing may
occur to mar this undertaking, which would prove highlyin-
teresting to our foreign visitors.—lnverness Cozoier. _

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL AT WITilAm.--The
first stone of a Roman Catholic chapel was laid on Thursday
at Witham, in Essex, by Cardinal Wiseman, assisted by
several priests of the Romish Church, in the presence of a
numerous concourse of persons. The ceremony Was accom.