The Sun.
London, England, 1834-01-10 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL, JAN. 8.

The weather continues extremely wet and squally. The
inconvenience arising from the long detention of the ships
outward-hound has been very serious, and many have been
in port now ready for sea for a longer period than was per-
haps ever known before. At present there appears little
signs of a favourable change. From day to day nothing
but " heavy wet."
COTTON MARKET.—The demand is so freely met that
any improvement has ben impeded. Our present rates,
however, are very freely paid. There is a speculative
inquiry for new Americans at 93., which is supplied from
day to day. Sales 2,500 bags, of which 400 are new
Boweds on speculation at 9d. ; 1,300 ditto to the trade, 9,1.
to 94-d. ; 500 old Americans, 7id. to 9id. ; 300 Brazi!s.
SHIPPING.—No foreign arrivals to-day; six coastwise.

The young Earl of Sandwich is about to
launch a brilliant new equipage. His Lordship's sister,
Lady Caroline Montagu, who married Count Alexander
Walewski, the Ex-Polish Envoy! is now finally settled in
Paris, where she is giving grand parties.
It appears that the sales of stock which have
given rise to so much speculation, and some little alarm,
during two days past, in the Consol market, have been
made on account of the Savings' Banks, but with what
object is yet to be ascertained. It is certain that they
do not result from the state of the deposits with those
institutions, which are known to be on the increase ge•
nerally throughout the country ; and as Government
possesses, under the recent Acts of Parliament, a control
over the whole fund, the prevailing notion is, that this is
the commencement of some financial operation in which
the Government has a direct concern. Hence it may
relate either to the compensation to the West India in-
terest ; the repayment of Bank of England capital settled
by the new Charter ; or to the sums voted by Parliament
for the Irish clergy. The more current conjecture is, that
the repayment/ to the Bank is the object in view, but
there are many who believe it to be applicable to both the
other objects named, and there eviden'ly does not exist at
present any positive information on the subject. If the
operation contemplated is a large one, it will take a very
long time to complete it, as the sales have not exceeded
10,0001. daily, and it is understood that they will con-
tinue at the same rate. The late visit to the Treasury of
the Governor and Deputy Governor, with some of the
Directors of the Bank, seems to have been one motive for
connecting this operation with the concerns of that esta-
blishment, which, after all, may be assignable to none of
the causes specified. It may possibly be in anticipation of
the new measure which Parliament has authorized for
granting annuities by the Savings' Banks, and which will
induce many, in the first instance, to draw out their de-
posits, for the sake of converting the interest into annu-
ities.— Times.

COL. MACERONE'S STEAM-CARRIAGE.-
Yesterday the steam-carriage for which Colonel Macerone
and Mr. Squire have obtained a patent, and which has
been running from Oxford•street to Edgewar2, for the
last fortnight, made a trip to Uxbridge, and, notwith-
standing the extremely disadvantageous state of the road,
owing at once to the long-continued rains, and to the
quantity of loose gravel which is at present being laid
down upon it, the trial afforded another unequivocal proof
of the success which has attended the efforts of the
patentees in bringing to a comparative degree of perfection
the construction of locomotive carriages. The road,
which, even in fine weather, is a very bad one, was, as
before-mentioned, in the worst possible condition, and yet
the journey from the Regent's.eircus, Oxford-street, to
Uxbridge, was performed (not taking stoppages into ac-
count) in an hour and a quarter. The consumption of
time in the stoppages for the purpose of taking in water
and fuel was, of course, considerable, but that is a matter
that can be easily remedied by the establishment of stations
at proper distances, and with suitable apparatus, upon
any road on which a carriage of the kind may be started.
The first two miles were performed in seven minutes and
a half, and the average rate of speed was 12, 14, and some-
times 16 miles an hour. Indeed, it was manifest that
in summer, and upon a good road, the coach could go
even 20 miles an hour. Up some of the hills, which had
been thickly covered with gravel, it went at the rate of
right miles an hour. On its return to town, one of the
Oxford stages in full gallop passed it, while taking in water
at Kensington. After the lapse of a few minutes the
steam-carriage followed, came up with the stage, still at
full gallop, passed it, and left it " no where" ete it arrived
at the commencement of Oxford-street. This carriage,
we understand, has already run 2,500 miles without being
detained on the road for a single minute by any de, angement
of the machinery, save the breaking of the axle-tree on its
return from Windsor in last September, an accident to
which every other species of vehicle is equally liable, and
against the recurrence of which, i❑ the instance of the
steam-carriage, the patentees state they have effectually
provided. It is the intention of the patentees, we believe,
to continue running the carriage for some days longer to
Uxbridge, when it will be discontinued. They at the
same time express their willingness to run the carriage,
for the purpose of showing the power of. the engine, .upon
any road in the kingdom.

THE LATE HURRICANE.