The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-23 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIALNEWS,

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000
bales, including 600 American for export, at previous
rates, though the market on the whole was heavy. A
fair business was done in Shares, which were firmer:—
Birmingham and Gloucester, 108 ; Caledonian, 44 ;
Chester and Birkenhead, New, 15i ; Edinburgh and
Glasgow, 674 ; Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton, 17 ;
Glasgow and Dumfries, 1/. 55.; Grand Junction, 218 ;
Ditto, New, Quarter, 391 ; Great Western, Fifths, 24i ;
Liverpool and Manchester, 209 ; Ditto, Half, 1041 ;
London and Birmingham, 223 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, 38k;
Manchester and Leeds, 126 ; Midland Counties, 109 ;
North British, 21. 175.; South-Eastern, 38 ; Ditto, New,
11 ; Paris and Rouen, 371 ; Rouen and Havre, 18.
There is not a single arrival from the colonies this
morning with advices of a later date than those before
received.

The accounts lately received from Mexico have re-
newed the feeling of anxiety in reference to the position
of Texas, vis-a-vis the United States. It is im-
portant to know whether Lord Aberdeen, amidst
the distraction which the Morocco affair may
have caused him, has been mindful of the very
peculiar position of affairs in South America, and of the
danger we run of losing both our influence and our com-
merce with both of the republics, if we fail to adopt some
decided course of action. The question arises whether
Lord Aberdeen intends to support the claim of Texas
for its independency, and if so, what will be his line of
policy, now Santa Anna is raising a new army for the
avowed purpose of invading it. The movement may
be one of mere show on the part of Mexico; but as
this must be a matter of uncertainty, our representa-
tives in the two republics should be called upon to act
with vigilence. The import trade of Texas has been cal-
culated at about three quarters of a million of dollars,
and some idea of the future opening to the enterprise of
British merchants may be formed from the following
epitome of last year's export trade from the United
States :

Domestic goods
Foreign goods 278,978 dollars.
127,951 9,

Total • 406,929
This, however, is not one-half of the amount in 1838,
the uncertain political position of Texas having inflicted
a heavy blow on its consuming powers. The United
States took in return both cotton and hides to nearly a
corresponding amount with the exports above given.
The purchases by the Commissioners this morning
were 5,000/. Consols at 98k. And this is at the present
moment the value for cash, and for account. The mar-
ket has a languid appearance. Exchequer Bills opened
at 745. premium, and they are now at 725. premium.
The Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have improved to 1021.
India Bonds are at 945. premium.
The sales of the Foreign Bonds have been few this
morning. Spanish are at 22* to 221, and the Three
per Cents. at 33k. A purchase has been made in the
Russian Fire per Cents. at 121. The Dutch and the
other Foreign Stocks hold about yesterday's value.
The Birmingham and Gloucester Railway Shares
have rallied to 4 and 6 premium. London and Birming-
hams have fallen to 122 premium; Midlands to 8 pre-
mium; and the York and Selby Scrip to 33 premium.
British North American Bank Shares have been done at
74 discount, and the Union of London at Q premium.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock... ........ ..... ......... ....... ....... 1993 199
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities. 993¢ li%
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities MN .3i 7i
I}4 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 102%4,
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 101%%
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 1254
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860.
India Bonds,l,ooo 94
Ditto under 1,000 93
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, llid. 1 %d-
-1,000/.
5001. ..... —.........«........ —••..-.• 74 72 pm.
Ditto Small ..... ....... 74 72 pm.
Ditto Advertised
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Columbian Bonds
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 35%
Ditto Deferred Stock 15%
Russian Bonds, 1822, 5 per Cent 120% 121
Spanish; Bonds,, Five per Cent 1850 223(,
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Three per Cent.
Dutch 234 per Cents 61%14
Dutch 5 per Cents lOO%
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO lO5 108 ... to 104
Ditto New
Chester and Holyhead 5 69414% gto
Dublin and Cashel .. 2% 6ii% ••• to
Eastern Counties
Great Western
Ditto N Shares
Ditto kifths
London and Birmingham. lOO 222 to
Ditto New Thirds 2 3B ...... to
London and Blackwall
London and Greenwich
London and South Western 41%

Ditto Eighths
London and Croydon
Lynn and Ely 1 I,‘ 4%44 ... to
Manchester and Leeds 7O

__
Ditto % Shares SO . 533(
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 ..... .... 54%
Midland Counties lOO lO9
Birmingham and Derby lOO ........ SO%
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 21
North British 23 '
Norwich and Brandon -
South Eastern and Dover 3234
Ditto New
Yarmouth and Norwich IS
York and North Midland
Ditto Scarboro' Branch ......... 234
Ditto Selby Scrip
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Union of London
MA.NCTIESITER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 22 —The
market generally is rather flatter, with the exception of
Manchester and Leeds, which are in good demand.
Blackburn, Burnley, and Accrington, 2i ; Chc3ter and
Holyhead, 6 1-16 ; Churnet Valley, 3s. premium ; Lan-
caster and Carlisle, 5:12- ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Man-
chester, li premium ; London and Birmingham, New
321., 38/. ; Manchester and Leeds, 125 ; Ditto, Quarter,
11 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 54-i ; Ditto, Quarter,
5 7.16 ; Midland, 1091 ; Preston and %%Tyre, 5 per-Cent.
and dividends, 37i ; Sheffield and Manchester, 83.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY.

. OLD COURT
(Before Mr. Baron GURNEY and Mr. Justice WIOHTMAN.)
POST-OFFICE ROBBERY.—Patrick Larkins, a letter
collector in the Post-office, was indicted with stealing, on
the 12th of August, two letters containing several bills of
exchange and orders for money to the amount of 7502,
the property of her Majesty's Postmaster-General.
Mr. Shepherd and Mr. Adolphus conducted the pro-
secution, and Mr. Ballantyne appeared for the prisoner.
Our readers will recollect that the letters in question
were sent from the Central Bank at Perth to Messrs.
Glynn, Halifax, Mills, and Co., in Lombard-street, that
they never arrived, and that the prisoner was detected in
destroying them, when he discovered that their con-
tents were of no value to him. The case has been so
recently before the public that it is totally unnecessary
to enter into it in detatul. The case was most clearly
made out against the prisoner.
The jury found him Guilty, and
The COURT sentenced hint to transportation for life.
MURDER.—.lances Carroll, a labourer, was indicted
with the wilful murder of Elizabeth Hobbs, on the 2d
of March last.

The prisoner, it appeared, resided in Birdcage•alley,
in the Borough, and hawked things abut the street.
On the day in question a quarrel took place between
the prisoner and deceased, who resided in the same house,
when the prisoner struck the deceased on the head and
face several times with his fists and the poker, of which
blows she died.

Mr. Ballantyne defended the prisoner
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN summed up.
The jury found the prisonerguilty of Manslaughter, and
Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN sentenced him to one calen-
dar month's imprisonment and hard labour.
INFANTICIDE.--Sarah Hyland, aged 22, spinster, was
placed at the bar charged with the wilful murder of her
new-born child.

The prisoner was a servant in the Savoy Palace
Tavern. The landlady, Mrs. Gibson, suspected that the
prisoner was pregnant, which she positively denied. She
went to bed on the night of the 24th of June with a fel-
low-servant, and on the next morning, after the other
girl had got up, she delivered herself of a child and
went down stairs. Before leaving the house she told
her fellow-servant not to let her mistress look into her
box. Mrs. Gibson, overhearing this, desired the
other servant to go up stairs and look into her box.
She did so, and found a child, which was dead. A sur-
geon was called in, who found that the head of the
child was crushed, and that a petticoat was wrapped
round the body, the strings of which were tied round the
neck, either of which causes would be sufficient to pro-
duce death.
Mr. BALLANTYNE addressed the jury for the defendant,
and urged on the jury the probability of the child com-
ing by its death in the difficult circumstances in which
the prisoner was placed, without the prisoner having any
criminal intention.
Baron GURNEY having summed up,
The jury retired to consider their verdict, and had not
returned when our report left.

NEW COURT.
The COMMON SERGEANT was occupied the whole
morning with disposing of Mint eases.
One man, named Page, was indicted for uttering a bad
half-sovereign at Paddington, under the following cir-
cumstances :
The prisoner went to a chemist's shop, and told the
shopman to send a black draught to a neighbouring
house, and to send with it change for half a sovereign.
The shopboy was accordingly sent with the black draught
and the change, and on his road to the house he was met
by the prisoner, who asked him if he had got the change,
and upon the boy saying that he had, the prisoner gave
him half a sovereign, and told him that he would take
the change and the bottle home. The boy gave them up
to the prisoner, and brought the half-sovereign home to
his master, who immediately discovered that it was a bad
one ; and upon inquiry being made the prisoner had
never delivered the draught at all. Information was
given to the police, and he was taken into custody, and
upon his being searched another half-sovereign was found
upon him, which Mr. Field, the Solicitor to the Mint,
stated had been cast in the same mould as the one which
was given to the prosecutor's boy.
The COMMON SERGEANT—This seems a higher order
of smashing, Mr. Field.
Mr. Field—Yes, my Lord, it is. This is the new kind
of eoining—these half-sovereigns have been electrotyped.
The COMMON SERGEANT to the prisoner—Well, we
must put a stop to this electricity, and you must beim-
prisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve months. Several other prisoners were found guilty of uttering
base coin, and were sentenced to -various terms of im-
prisonment, varying from three to nine months each.

The Hon. Frederick Calthorpe, brother of Lord
Calthorpe, had recently received a great accession to his
fortune by the valuable property bequeathed him by the
late Mr. John Guigh.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
PLYMOUTH, DEVONRPORT, AND CORNWALL
RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The County Members' Plate of 251., added to a Sweep-
stakes of 3 sovs. each. Heats, once round and a dis.
Mr. King's ch c by Hornsea, dam, by Soothsayer,
3 yrs (Mr. Scobell) 1 1
Mr. Braund's Dick Turpin, 3 yrs 2 2

Mr. L. Downe's Usurper, aged dis.
Her Majesty's Plate of 100 Guineas. Heats, three miles.
Mr. Scobell's Fox, 4 yrs (Cowley) 1 1
Sir S. Spry's Usurper, 4 yrs 2 2
The Devonport and Stonehouse Plate of 501. Heats, once
round and a dis.
Mr. Crofton's Cornopean, 4 yrs (Cowley) 1 1
Mr. King's ch cby Hornsea, 3 yrs
Mr. Graham's Charlatin, aged
The Chelson Meadow Plate of 301, added to a Sweep-
stakes of 2 sons. each, for the beaten horses. Heats,
one mile.
Mr. Reed's Mona, 5 yrs (Moon) r 1
Mr. Williams' Elysium, 4 yrs
Mr. Allibone's Icarus, aged

Mr. Johnson's GylkWat:', 4 yrs ' 4 4
Mr. King's fby Jack-in-the-Green, out of Eliza 3 dr
NE WENT RACES.
The Sweepstakes of 3 sous. each, with 12 added, were
won by Mr. Bradley's Sweetheart, beating Fickle, and
Blemish.
The Hurdle Stakes were won by Mr. Holman's Mystic,
beating Discord, and Freedom.
The Hack Stakes were won by Mr. Jenkins' Hark
away.