The Sun.
London, England, 1859-08-12 00:00:00

VT.

310IV-'l' NEWS.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.
Business in the Foreign and Colonial Produce
Markets has been rather inactive during the last
day or two. Most of the principal staples, how-
ever, have supported former values. Teas at pub-
lie sale, brought fully late prices. Coffee has
improved 6d. to is., and cocoa 2s. to 3s. per cwt.
Sugars, however, have been rather cheaper,
particularly West India qualities. In the refined
market the trade have bought rather freely owing
to a slight decline in prices. Rice has exhibited
rather more &Illness, but little variation has taken
place in the value of saltpetre and tallow. The
public sales of foreign and colonial wool have been
well attended, and the prices exhibited at the com-
mencement of the series have been well maintained
for all descriptions.
The Liverpool Cotton Market yesterday closed
quietly,
and 6,000 bales were sold at previous
values. In Railway Shares the transactions con-
tinv.ed on a limited scale, and prices exhibited a
further decline.
It is expected that the particulars of the New
1114aian Loan will be announced either to-morrow
Or en Monday, and the terms will probably be
anfßeiently favourable to attract numerous sub-
aoribers. The amount required is stated to be
£12,000,000, which it is proposed to raise on a 3
per cent stock.
The recent reduction in the terms of discount at
the Bank of France, viz., from 4 to 31 per cent.,
prepared those interested in the course of monetary
Fairs for a favourable monthly balance-sheet, but
the results, in most instances, have exceeded expec-
tation. According to telegraphic advices received
this morning the bullion is larger by £2,700,000
than at the corresponding date of the previous
"th, while the discount operations of the estab-
"shment have been lessened during the same
Period by nearly £2,750,000. It appears, more-
over, that the advances on securities have been
diminished to a still more important extent.
There were no bullion operations at the Bank of
England yesterday. The bar silver by the last
Mexican packet has not yet been disposed of, but
the dollars have been sold at ss. id. per oz., being
a de3llne of id. compared with the price realised
for the previous supply.

At the special meeting this day of the Peel
River Land and Mineral Company, Mr. Hughes
ill the chair, a resolution was passed for converting
the paid-up shares into a general stock, divisible
alneng the proprietors according to their respective
interests therein ; no transfer of any fractional
Part of £5 to be allowed. Several other alterations
in tb e regulations were proposed in consequence of
this consolidation, which were also agreed to unani-
blou ay.
4 decline of about per cent. took place at the
ceelinencement of business this morning in the mar-
Ret for Public Securities, which was attributed to
the -intelligence received from Parma. The forth-
Tilling loans, however, no doubt assisted to pro-
ueve this depression. At the present moment the
ka.rket shows increased depression, the Funds
be'' se ng nearly per cent. lower than at the
lelc yesterday afternoon. Consols, which have
"e'ell dealt in 957, are now 95 to 95k for
ay and 951 I for the account. Bank Stock is
yat 223. The New 3 per cents. and the Re-
-41 tteed remain at 958 ; India Loan Debentures
,T 358), at 941 ; and the Bonds at Bs. to 9s. dis. Ex-
e4equer Bills are rather flatter at 235. to 275.
Prem.

The transactions in the Foreign Stock Market
co ntinue on a moderate scale, and prices are steady.
Turkish 6 per Cents. are 82* to 83* ; ditto New,
17;2 t° 73; and the 4 per Cents. remain at 1021.
—ltir'utch 21 per Cents. have declined to 64-1;
'exioan is steady at 191 to 201, and Spanish 3
1743 r Cents. at 441. Peruvian 4* per Cents. are flat
84
92i, and Buenos Ayres 6 per Cenfs. at 71.
In the Railway Share market there has been
tether more activity, and in some instances prices
ave slightly advanced. Edinburgh, Perth, and
,11114 co, London and Blaekwall, North Western,
''South Eastern, and Stockton and Darlington, ad-
Iranced ss. ; South Devon, 10s. ; and Caledonian,
; Brighton and Midland declined ss. ; Great
Western, 10s.; South Western and North Eastern
Berwick), 15s. ; and Great Northern, £l.
the Foreign Market Lombardo-Venetian Old
Shares are flat at 101, and the New at 101. Great
Luxemburg are 62.
The Colonial lines also show symptoms of depre-
ai°o• East Indian have receded to 991 4; Great
Indian Peninsula to 971; Grand Trunk of Canada
to 341 341 ; and Great Western of Canada to 141.
loint Stock Bank and Miscellaneous Shares have
7°4 in moderate request at about former rates.
1
-,Tandoo and Westminster are dealt in at 491,
rlion of Australia at 482, Canada Land are 108 ;
Electric Telegraph, 104 ; Peninsular and Oriental
lStd, 77 ; and Red Sea Telegraph, 131.

Bak
sttonclkTlSH FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
95* i I'c 1
'3, Per Cent. Reduced Annuities
95iiiii 5 I
*), yer Cent. Consols Annuities
95t i t
_
941
iliieittcitwttti(LlßS:oetaebenitedk:Sstlifeenu:Pel.7Booo7lBsuiBties 941
8 5 8
95i t
(.., onsols for A.ccount (Sept. 7)
j4...ellectner tills, £l,OOO, lid Dilitttto° 4:sSra°a°ll, lid'
24 7 3
24 7 3
_

- . -
13iiiiilo-tos):l::ecfeE,L:oe:un.rrGeecdtNeennFtt..UlBNDs2 S—CLOSING PRICES.
Diittttoari 6
94k
DittoAl*Yres) 6 per Cent.
71 2/
181
....,kternro„, r
59 x d
•istexit3a7l37.3i) 0 per Cent.
I.;itt per Cent.
Nil, 9 Account
1:),;!:iatt•4/ per Cent —
1, "Le Account
A-ortii
___
tr,gllese, 1853, 3 per Cent.
14_1,t0 A cco,ant
451
-1-.11.,!n, 1822, £ St., 5 per Cent —
St, 1," 4i per Cent.
-1,1.1,811 3 per Cent
Z iult;111(140 . Account ceepewe ill Ilu
nLCotteannt
83k
821
Ditto Accoant .. • • 731
Venezuelan
Guaranteed; 4 Per' Cent. ***************** 102411
• en zuelan 5 per Cent•
........ 1/
Dividends on the above payable in London.
Dutch Exchange, 12 Guil. 21 per Cent... 641
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 9sk
Ditto Account

SROALS OF MACKEREL.—The shores of the Bris-
tol Channel, says the Hereford Journal, have been visited
lilt_ th wonderful shoals of mackerel and numerous other
aa
thilds of fish. At Porthcerry they were se numerousthat
e farmers were obliged to use them for manure.
J EXECUTION AT DURHAM.—Yesterday mo morning,
last
in,
OM Shafto Wilthew, who was convicted at th
assizes of the murder of his wife, suffered thteDeurxramme.
tallal.,tY of the law in front of the county prison a
mention a
case- B.owing the rapidity with which justicet.‘3lifaets,
onin thisthe
asTovertaken its victim, we may
li, 11,R of Tuesday, July 19, Wilthew cut his
tried before Baron Watson, and convicted ;
t • --e taY sleeping in bed ;on Tuesday, the 26th, shtehrwoaast
and yesterdthaye
tita°l"lillg he was publicly executed. The motive which
that
soner alleged for having committed the crime w
1.1.8 wife had proved unfaithful to him. During
his is had
was calm and respectful, and since
con-
demnation
he had Conducted himself with great propriety.
hisils trial
~"I.o_ has been most attentive to the ministrations of the
rgaili, and has been very earnest in his devotions. He
:us wife
OA never questioned the justice of his sentence, but said
had lived was a woman of most irritable temper, and that he
unhappily with her for years. Wilthew was in
the 56th year of his age, and he met his fate with great for-
titude and calmness. He arose between 5 and 6 o'clock,
time in company with the chaplain, afterwards spent some
in the chapel in devotional exercises. At 10 minutes
t 0 8 o'clock Mr. W. Woolley, the dner-sheriff went into
the Prison and demanded the body u
of Wilthew., The pri•
gond a ner was informed that the hour of execution. was at hand,
~e procession was formed with the condemned culprit in
'Fi Centre, the chaplain on one side, and the under-sheriff
on the other. The governor of the prison, the deputy-
R9vernor, the four sheriff's officers, and the three gaol offi-
. deputy-
thee followed. On reaching the grand jury room, Askren,
ill executioner, performed the operation o pinion-
-lig his arms. The chaplain read prayers. As
roll as the last stroke of eight had struck by the
clock, the prisoner walked out upon the plat-
;4,3_llll on which the scaffold was erected, and was placed by
lae hangman beneath the drop. The preliminaries of ad-
Weresting th. e rope and coverup' g the face of the wretched man
Le Wa , d
quickly performed, and within a minute afterwards
corn e. A slight quivering of the muscles was the
n7e;ltYlerga of life which Wilthew exhibited after the drop fell.
_here
whore upwards of 5,000 people present at the execu-
!_l(l, conducted themselves in a most orderly manner,
Path), at
p..,8 - manifesting any indignation at the crime which the
aner had committed, nor displaying the slightest sym-
Ilis fate,