The Sun.
London, England, 1857-02-03 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CITY, Two o'CLocK.

Advices from Liverpool state that the Cotton
Market yesterday ruled very quiet, and prices
generally were without alteration. For some of
the finer qualities of Egyptian an advance of about
td• per pound had been realised. The sales were
6)600 bales, of which 500 were for exportation, and
about the same amount on importation.
-The exact amount of specie which will be taken
out by the steamer Ripon to-morrow to India and
China is 971,328. Of this only 140,0001. is for-
warded to the latter country. •
Notwithstanding this immense shipment prepa-
rations are evidently in progress for the next
steamer, which leaves on the 20th instant. Gold
iB still remitted to the Continent in payment for
Purchases of silver, but temporarily the efflux. is
less extensive. About 15,0001. or 17,0001. was
Bent from the Bank yesterday. At present there
is no announcement of the arrival of the Heather
13°14 but as she has now been a very long time on
the passage she will no doubt be reported before
many days have elapsed. It is not exactly known
what amount of gold she will bring, but other
vessels are also near at hand, so that extensive
supplies may be calculated upon. There is, there-
fore,less apprehension regarding this continued drain
as a fair prospect exists of the Bank's coffers being
speedily replenished.

The demand for money is very fully sustained,
owing to the sales which have to be met to-mor-
row, but there is an impression that a consider-
able degree of relief will immediately follow. Under
the most favourable circumstances, however, no
diminution in the terms of discount is likely to
occur for some time to come.

The English Stock Market has opened this
Morning with a very quiet appearance, and the
settlement of the account is making favourable pro-
gress. Consols are about 93 to 93i for money,
and 934 I for the* March account. Tine New 3
per Cents. are 93i and the Reduced 93J
In the Foreign Market there is no particular
change at present. Turkish 6 per Cents. are 931 4,
and the 4 per Cents. 1021- Mexican Stock is 20i4.
SPanish New Deferred are 23i to 24k.

Railway Shares are all steady, but very quiet.

6811181-1 FUNDS THIS DAY &T ON 3'CLOCK.
(From the Offietal List:)

41. ne,- don.
dew 3
3 . Per Cent. Annuities 931
. —r ut:ut,. tsbduced kuJuitat,
• Ir3l. Cent oonsols Annuities 93 fi
Ditto Account
PRIC ...ES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ON oPr,l ~, , .
Mexican 3 per Cent 2ll i
Penw
b 'an Bords 41 per Cent
uuseiau Rends, 1822, C St., 5 per Cent lO7 109
_ Ditto, 4i per Cent.
513ituuh Rouds, 3 per Con,
ur,itto New Deferred, 3 per Cent.
''th onus, f' par cent
Ditto Guaranteed, 4 per Cent.
llt.toen% )., the Above .Ayablei in Ign•Acn.
...
CRUM,

'AL COURT—(This Day.) I Tit;

OLD COURT.
(Before the Recorder.)
Shortly after 10 o'clock this morning the jury, who
bad been locked up all night, in the case of Abraham
ssenden, charged with stealing a heifer, on account of
altheir not being able to agree upon their verdict were
brought into court, and the Recorder inquired of then&
4 they had agreed upon their verdict.
The foreman replied that they had not, and there was
110 probability of their doing so.
Mr. Holding, surgeon, of Bridge-street, Blackfriars,
Was then sworn, and stated that he had visited the jury
%at morning, and he was of opinion that, with regard
to one of them, his health would be endangered if he
Were kept any longer without food or refreshment of
tome kind.

The Recorder said that, upon that statement, he felt
himself justified in dischreging the jury, and taking into
consideration the inconvenience they had undergone, he
Would discharge them altogether from further atten-
dance.

The jury, many of whom appeared to be in a very ex-
hausted condition, not having had any refreshment
Whatever from 1 o'clock on the previous day, were die-
Missed.

The prisoner wee liberated upon bail to appear next
Session iu case the prosecutor should resolve to try him
a second time.

THE CASE OF JOHN PAHL.
The grand jury have returned several true bills against 18
John Paul—" honest John Paul "—for the numerous 18
frauds and forgeries committed by him upon the City of 20
London Union. 1.71

ATTEMPT AT MURDER BY A CONVICT.

PORTSMOUTH, FEE. 2. 4k.to
A determined attempt to murder one of the warders of
100
the convict prison in this borough was made this morning Lou
bY a prisoner named Johnson. The convicts had been to '2O
service, as usual, at the church mithin the walls of the
prison, and as they were coming out of the sacred edifice,
St.
and falling into their respective gangs, Johnson suddenly
100
stabbed in the neck on the right side a warder of the name
of James Aston. Two convicts immediately sprang upon too
Johnson, and secured him, and ho was taken away. Aston
20
Was conveyed to the infirmary of the prison, apparently LO
'with no hopes of his surviving for a minute. The inatru- 40A
went with which the deed was committed was a small clasp 20,
Penknife. It is most extraordinary how Johnson became too
Possessed of it, as he had only just, in common with the Kw
other prisoners, been searched, when nothing was found
100
liPou him. He had always been regarded as a dangerous ,no
prisoner, and therefore extra precautions were taken with
bgard to him. It appears that some years since he bad
eu a convict on board the Stirling Castle, convict hulk, 20
tlid that Aston was at that time a warder on board. 0
Johnson was sent to Gibraltar in due course, and there
stabbed a warder, for which he was sent back to this coun- 20
try (under sentence of transportation for life) to recom- 20
Illence a probationary course here. It is presumed that he
20
had on board the Stirling Castle formed some grudge
against Aston. On his being taken to his cell, he said to
one of the warders, " All I hope is, that I have killed the
; but if I have not done it, tell him I hope ho won't 10
forget the Stirling Castle." It is reported that Johnson 20
and another convict bad determined, one or the other, to 5
murder Aston. We are sorry to say that on the despich £0
of the report hardly any hopes were held as to the recovery £9
of Aston. He is about 34 years of age, and a married man 6
with two children. •

I 'to' MARKET NEWS.—(This Day.) • zo

lIAY MARKETS.
SMITHFIELD.--Meadow hay, 2/ 1.2 s to 4/ 4s clover do.,
3/ 10s to 51 sa; and. straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ Os per load.
Trade firm.
CUMBERLAND. —Meadow hay, 21 15s to 41 4s do., 31 lOs to 5/ Os; and straw, 114 s to 11. 9. ; clover
1 hort supply. per load,
do . 3/
WIIITEOAPEL
51 5s .—Mandeadow hay, 21 12s to 41 4s ; clover
10sH to; straw, 1/ 4s to 11 od per load.
A steady demand.

SUDDEN DEATH OF THE SECRETARY OF THE R
CLUB.—Yesterday morning Mr. Bedford, the
coronerE
itu
for Westminster, held an inquest at the Reform Club,
Pall-mall, on the body of Mr. William King Norway,'
who has for some years past held the office of secretary
of that institution. From the evidence adduced on the
inquiry, which lasted only a few minutes, it appeared
that some time since Mr. Norway broke one of his legs,
and from that time had been in the habit of taking
audanum to allay the pain v‘hich sometimes has been
very severe. On Friday last he suffered acutely in con
equence of the cold, and took more than his usual dose,
circumstance which unhappily resulted in his death.
The jury at once returned a verdict of "Accidental
poisoning." The most painful feelings have been excited
in consequence of this most unfortunate occurrence,
Mr. Norway having been greatly esteemed by the mem-
bers of theiclub.
FIRE AT SOUTHWARK.—Yesterday morning, about
half-past six o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises
belonging to Mr. James Powers, known its the Hat and
Feathers Tavern, situate at No. 100, Gravel•lane, South-
wark. The premises stretched from Zoar-street to Cashes-
grounds. The lower part contained a great quantity of
spirits, which added much to the fury of the flames. The
Inmates, to avoid being burnt to death. were compelled 1 40
o jump from one of the back windows into the yard. 50 Fortunately, they sustained no material injury 5
doing. It was
Zoar- feared that three houses at the least, in
street, wool I have been in so • 20
consumed, and as it was 100
they were severekininjured. So intense was the heat that too
the front of the
John Gibbs, on the g's
Read Tavern, belonging to Mr. 100
opposite side of the street, became 20
ignited, and serious
houses in Thomas-place. The e was also done to several 20
he inmates of the last-named
rushed out into thewsittrheetalmost naked with their chil-
dren, and carrying2o
them any article of furniture they
5°
could lay hold of.
SALFORD ELECTION. --vest A lop
y morning, at the 50
Town Hall, Salford, the eiectiovenlradocaf a member of Parlia- joo
ment for the borough, in the
Brotherton, Esq., took place, ri:hoof the late Joseph 20
(Stephan 60
Musauyanlrformalities 20
Heelis, Esq.) presided ; and after the Mayor
had been gone through, Edward
YeY Langworthy, 25
Esq., an alderman of Salford, was
proposedperson t by James 20
upon to represent LOU
Avicall Turnt r, as a fit and proper
e against 25
the borough. Mr. S. Pope enforced
worthy the necessity of supporting any measur • Lang. 1
proposed 25
the liquor trade. No other candidate being
the Mayor declared Mr. Langworthy to be elePctra.
The differences between the Waterford and Limerick Ril and the Great Southern and Western Railway Comps. i—nn-
ale' are at length happily aettlecl.—Lintedia Obserci. ioo