The Sun.
London, England, 1858-06-30 00:00:00

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COMDTERCIA.L INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Accounts from Liverpool state that the Cotton
Market yesterday closed firmly and with some ani-
mation ; prices of all descriptions, however, were
without change. The sales amounted to 15,000
bales, 4,000 of which were taken by the specula-
tors, and 3,000 by the exporters. In Railway
Shares a fair amount of business was transacted,
and former values were fully supported.
At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Ross,
Mitchell, and Co., held yesterday, it was agreed to
accept a composition of 12s. Gd. in the pound.
Loud complaints were made at the system upon
which the business of the firm had been conducted,
and the diecussion was very protracted. Although
an angry feeling is often displayed at similar meet-
ings, the indignation expressed on this occasion
was much greater than usual.
When the fire took place at the St. Katherine's
Dock a few weeks ago, the insurance offices ad-
vanced the rates 2s. Gd. to 3s. Gd. per cent., but
as similar casualties have since occurred at Fresh
Wharf and the London Docks, it would not
excite surprise if another rise is shortly announced.
The losses accruing from the disaster of yesterday
are considerable ; indeed there has not been such
a destruction of property .in London for some time,
but it is yet too early to form a correct ei•timato
of the value of the merchandise damaged and
destroyed. Before these events, which singularly
enough have all occurred within a few weeks, the
offices had sustained few losses of a similar cha-
racter. They had been particularly fortunate in
that respect, and thus some complaint was made
when they advanced their terms immediately
after the fire at the St. Katherine's Dock, the
claims arising from which being the first cf any
magnitude since the opening of the establishment,
but now it is admitted that the risk justifies the
movement, and there can be no doubt that
from this time many will ensure their
property, who have hitherto declined.
A very active demand for money was experienced

yesterday. At the Bank a larg~r discount business
was done than at any time since the crisis, and the
terms out of doors further advanced. At the
Sock Exchange also there was some pressure.

There was a meeting of the Calcutta and
Burmah Steam Navigation Company to-day, but
the proceedings were said to be private.
The de-cription given of the English Stock Market
yesterday will apply to-day, scarcely any change
either iu the transactions or quotations having
taken place. If anything the Funds are a trifle
flatter, but the movement is fractional and unim-
portant.. Perhaps, the less favourable position of
the Money Market has slightly influenced the
values.

Consols have been 95 and are now

95j buyers. The New Tbree per Cents. are 95 I;

the Reduced, 95 ; the March Exchequer Baca,

325. prem. ; and the Bonds, 1001 ; Bank Stock
Was 2201 224.

The numbar of transactions recorded in the
Foreign. Stock Market are rather limited, but the

tendency in prices has beer► in an upward direction.

Turkish. 6 per Cents. are 94 :T; ; ditto 4 per Cents.,
1041 ; Brazilian Scrip is 1 11 discount ; Mexicali
3 per Cont.,s.. :19;i 20 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents.,
•._

.46k 47 ; Russian 41 per Cents., 102 Spanish 3
per Cents., 45 4 ; and ditto Deferred, 27Z.
The following are the nominal prices of Foreign
Stocks :—Grenada Deferred Bends, 5.1 6 ; Mexi-
CAD, 19i 19i ; Peruvian, 861 7i ; Ditto 3 per
Cent.s., •66 67 ; Portuguese 3 per Cents., 4947 ;
Russian 5 per Cents., 111 113 ; Ditto 4i, per Ceuta.,

_ .
101 103 ; Sr-Inisla 3 per Cents., 44. C! 45. f ; and. Ditto
Deferred, 27.1

The transactions in the Railway Share Market
to-day have bean limited, but prices have been
firmer. , Great Northern, North-Western, Man-

Chester, Sheffield and Lincoln, and Midllnd?, im-
proved 55., Caledonians 10s., and South-Eisterns,
11. Eastern COunties and North British declined

Ds., and Lancashire and Yorkshire 153. The

Foreign and Colonial undertakings are nat. Groat,
Luxembourg have re.Tded 55., Grand Trunk of
Canada.lss., and East Indian 153.
Mining shares are inactive, and show little vari-
ation from previous quotations. Joint-Stock

Banks and Aliixellaneous Share; are at stealy quo-

tations. Union of London improved J.l.w3irs-
lian Agricultural ös., and Van Dienaa,i'a Land

decliued 15s.

BRITISH FUNDS.— CLOSING PRICES—THIS DAY.
(From the Oflicsal Lst:)
Bai.k Stock
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 453 . !2:i
Ncw Three per Cent. Annuities
Long Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860
Ditto Bonds, £lOOO
Di t ae).l.T Cloloi.
Consols for Account .
Exchequerßills—
,tlooo
£5OO
Smaa
Exchequer Bonds, 1858, :3 per Cent
Ditto, 1859
FOREIGN FUNDS.—THIS DAY.
Brazilian, !`: per Cent —
Ditto Scrip, 1854 ......
•
20
Peruvian Bonds, 41 per Cent B7
Portuguese 3 per Cent., 1853
Russian, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —
Ditto 41 per Cent lO2
8,1) • ,ii.t, ~,,,,,is. a per (Ann ... . -
Ditto Account
Ditto New Deferred, 3 per Cent. •
Turkish Bonds, 6 per Cent.
Litto Guaranteed 4 per Cent.
Dividends on the above pa) ante in London.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for account (July 8) 9sa 3 x il

15 20
95,4
Marcli. June.
:;21 it 17p
18 -
19 22 17 p

COURSE OF Rae RANGE. —YESYEIIDAT.
Amsterdam •••.•. • . • . •• 11 lit 4 Gibraltar .. • •
Ditto, three months .• 11 174, Leghorn
..... • • 29 G 5
Itotterdani ••••.•• • •• •• 11 17% Genoa
Antwerp •• •• •• •• •••••• 25 35 whin •••••• •• • -
Brussels •• •••••.•• •• 25 35 !Venice •• •• •• •••• ••
Bamburgh •• ••• •• •• •• •• 13 7 'Napier. —••.•GO•O • • • •• 414
Alton* •• •• •• ...• •• •• • • Paiermo •• •• •• 142594 it
25 10 Messina
.• 25 32?,:i Lisbon • • h 1„r
M• •••.••••• •• 25 35 Oporto .• •••• •• •-• ..... 52N,
Itourdeaux ••.•.•.. •... • • 'Rio Janeiro ...... •••• ••
Frankfort-on,llaine .... I l 8!,; Buenos Ayre5..........
•• ••• » ••• ••• ••• • •• • • .New, days'eight
Vicuna .......... • • .... 102 s Philadelphia
Trieste .• •• •• •• •• •• .• 10 29 i TRICES OF ECLLION, PEN oz:
Petersburg .. .• 353 A 'Yoreign Gold In Bars £3 17 9
Madrid 49)4 Portugal Gold Coin .. 0
Cadiz •••.••••• • • •• •.•• 40% !Mexican Dollars 0 0 0
B • ••arcelona ............ .• New IJoHars ...... 0 0
Seville..

A. CHILD KILLED BY DRINKING 14:11.—On Sunday
evening, as a man named Evans, residing in Blenheim-
street, Liverpool, was drinking a glass of rum, one of
;ais children, a girl three years old, seized the glass -end-
tinily and swallowed the contents. The child soon after-
Verde became very unwell and died on Monday im con-
Ylllsione.
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.--Yesterday morning, a.t an early
boor, a well-dressed young woman attempt e 2. suicide by
jumping off Hungerfeett. bridge. Sthee, -eiss taken out in a
, ""sate of insensibility, and conveyed to Charingeeroes
hospital, where she now remains in a dangerous state.
he gave her name Amelia Farrow.
, THE RIVER oF DEATH.—One would have thought that
'be College of Physicians would years ago have warned the
,eqoveinreent as regards the state of the River Thames.
;chat river has been gradually,getting worse for the last
Len years, and why, we ask, did not the Royal College of
rhysicians. as it is called, warn the authorities, and pre-
`tbrit the Houses of Parliament being built over a common
tesspool, which they ought to have known would endanger
he lives of all the members ? I£ that college be of any
lue to the country it surely was its duty to have acted the
laart of a monit. r on this question, and the only way we
~au account for its apathy in this matter is the fact that
doctors live by the diseases of the people. The more there
are of them the more fees they pocket. When the number
?f doctors is cvsidered (all on the look-out for fees or
business) it is not unnatural that they should speculate
bhon a sickly season. This seems to be the only reason
longcan account for the College of Physicians not having
Igng ago interfered as regards the state of the
liver. We have a Minister of Health Dlr. Cow-
Der, we believe, to whom the country pays 2,C00/.
year. - How is it, that he did not bring this important
question before the House of Parliament? It is surely a
question of health.• if officials who aro so handsomely
Paid by the country, are to shuffle and throw the ball from
°Ze to the other, it were better far to alter this form of
government. It is truly lamentable in a great country
like this to see its principal river turned into a regular
kisoilud chalice. All such evils, we thir., proceed from
the ninnuer in which doctors are paid vi::., by the num-
ber of their visits. If this had not been the case, depend
‘11)on it that long ago the walls of Parliament would have
"uounded with petitions against the state of the river,
Which must and would have been alter:A. ; but, as it is,
tho wore disease there is the better for the doctor, and
• therefore it is no one's business to interfere. Ci Tempera,
0 Mores : It is o:lly when üblic opinion sounds the tocsin.
q alarm that the doctors make a sign of joining in the cry
for
redress, a they did i
of n respect. of the pharmaceutical
Bunios, and i n the case Dr. William Palmer, for the
llngeley pcisonings. We ask again, Why did, not the
theca° College of Physicians (if they are to be cues? eyed
nservators of theublic health) long ago interfered
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'la this matter ? Let them answer this question if they
044•-- (Signed), THE MEMBERS ot"rnFi BBITTSIT COLLEGE
laZAZTH, Eustou•road, Lentlrly, 1.,;1 the t.:4,ciMy of
niiste.—awns 2(1,1858.

MONEY MALKET FiR