The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-25 00:00:00

Bergelonzi defendant. The case seemed to be utterly devoid
of any general interest.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
Nothing of importance came before the Court, which rose
at eleven o'clock.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
(Before the ASSISTANT-JUDGE and a full Bench of
Magistrates.)
This morning the second February sessions for the county
of Middlesex opened at ten o'clock, in the Court-house,
Clerkenwell-green. In consequence of an anticipation that
the Learned Judge would, in his address to the grand jury,
be likely to make some allusion to the case of Miss Osborne,
considerable interest was excited, and the Court was densely
crowded by fashionably-dressed persons; but, much to the
apparent disappointment of the auditors, tbe Learned As-
sistant Judge did not in the slightest degree refer to the case,
as the young lady was out apon bail, and her name, conse-
sequently, did not appear in the calendar.
The number of persons whose names appeared upon the
calendar amounted to 73, of whom 63 were charged with fe-
lony, the remainder being for misdemeanours and assaults.
The Learned ASSISTANT-JUDGE briefly addressed the grand
jury, and commented upon the great increase which had
latterly taken place in the business of this Court—no less
than 1,100 cases having been tried by him within the last
five months.
Three prisoners, named Carr, Jones, and Williams, who
had been convicted at the last session, were called up for
judgment, and each sentenced to six months' imprisonment
in the II use of Correction, with hard labour, the three last
weeks to be solitary.
Several cases were tried, but they were of no public in-
terest.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
o.The demand for bonded Cotton at Liverpool yesterday
still exceeded that for the duty-paid article, and the former
was about %d. per lb. cheaper. Sales, 4,000 bales, all to the
trade at previous rates.—There was a dull market for Shares.
Birmingham and Derby, 941,4 ; Birmingham and Gloucester,
1291/2 ; Bristol and Gloucester, 56 ; Caledonian, 7% 7 ;
Chester and Birkenhead, 383/4 ; Chester and Holyhead, 81/8 ;
Dublin and Drogheda, 78 ; Churnet Valley, 7%. 3i ; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 60% ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 16/. 6s. ;
Glasgow and Greenock, 15% 3/4 ; Grand Junction, 220 ;
Grand Junction, New, 434 ; Great Western, One-Fifth, 303/4 ;
Liverpool and Manchester, 202 ; Ditto, New, 37 ; London and
Birmingham, 32/. Shares, 423/4 ; London and Brighton, 574
1,4; London and South-Western, 79%; London and York,
7% '6% • Direct Northern, 2% ; Manchester and Birming-
ham, 624 ; Manchester and Leeds, 13811; Midland Coun-
ties, 125 ; Newcastle and Berwick, 14%; North British,
Half Shares, 2% ; North Union, 137 ; Preston and Wyre,
23%; Scottish Central, 41,4 ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junc-
tion, 51/s 4 ; South-Eastern, 40 393/4 ; Ditto, No. 2,9%;
Trent Valley, 191/2 20; Paris and Lyons, 61s. 6d.; Orleans,
Tours, and Bordeaux, 6%; Northern of France, 51/2 %;
Boulogne and Amiens, 5%.
The Cambridge packet brings advices of ene day's later
date from the United States. The papers give an account of
the number of vessels, and their tonnage, that entered the
port of New York in the month of January 1842, 1843, 1844,
and 1845 ; from which it appears that in -January, 1842, the
number of American vessels was more by one-half, and
the excess of tonnage was one-third over the arrivals
for January, 1843 ; while on the other hand, there is a
slight increase in the number of foreign arrivals, and
amount of tonnage, in January, 1843, over the corre-
sponding month in 1842. In Yanuary, 1844, the gross
amount of American tonnage entering New York from
foreign ports had increased only to the standard of 1842 ;
while the gross amount of foreign tonnage was in excess
nearly one-half over the corresponding months in 1842 and
1843. The analysis of the arrivals during the last month
(January 1845) is highly gratifying in its results, as it proves
satisfactorily that our commerce is now in a more flourishing
condition than it has been for the same month during the
last four years. The gross amount of American tonnage
employed in commerce considerably exceeds that of 1842
and 1844.
It is stated that the pest fever was raging last month to a
considerable extent at Port-au-Prince. It had betn rather
mild on board the American vessels, but very severe amongst
the French seamen.
From the Cape of Good Hope, advices of the Bth ult. in-
timate that some of the Kafir chiefs were disinclined to come
into the conditions of the new treaty proposed to them by
the British.
The Fuads are firm to-day.
There have been sales made by the Chancery broker,
but the speculative operations for April have most effect.
Consols have realised 993/4 to par for present transfer, and
99% to par for account. Exchequer Bills have gone back
to 69a. and 675. premium. New Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents. are 104 to 1044 ; and the Three per Cents. Reduced
100% to %. Bank Stock has been quiet, at 212.
The Foreign Investments are fiat. Spanish Actives at
27% %' • and the Three per Cents. at 401/2. Portuguese
Converted have been 601 to 61. Columbian Stock is worth
13%; and Brazilian 90. French Five per Cents. are 122 f.
75c., with the Exchange at 25f. 50c. Venezuela Bonds are
443/4. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. realise 634 to X.
Railway Shares continue flat, owing to the arrangements
for settling the account.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Steck
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .. 100X%4
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 89% 100 993%
New 314 per Cent. Annuties
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 1-16%
Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5,1860
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 9B3'
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 13/4d. 11,4 d.
1,000/.
500!. ... ,„ .. ... 69 67 pm.
l Ditto Small —
, Ditto Advertised ..... ...
Ditto Commercial
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent 9O
Columbian Bonds. 13%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Converted 60%
Ditto for the Account 6l
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 275/ %
Ditto Deferred
Ditto 3 per Cent 4O
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent
French Rentes, 5 per Cent.
Exchange.
Dutch 21,4 per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100 133
Ditto, Half Shares ......,.. 3
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
Cambridge arid Lincoln
Churnet Valley
Cornwall
Dublin and Belfast Junction 2% 5% .... to
Dublin and Galway
Eastern Counties 14!. 16s. 18% 171 to 17
Ditto, ditto, No. 2.
10% 0 A to
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ... 62
Great North of England 100 l9l ...... to 190
Ditto New
Great Western BO
Ditto % Shares
Guildford, Farnham, Portms. 2% 4% to
Harwich 1
Hull and Gainsborough
Lancaster and Car1i51e......... 15
Lincoln, York, and Leeds IX O% to
London and Birmingham ...100 226 ...... to
Ditto Quarters
London and Blackwell 16% 74 to
London and 8right0n.......... 50 ... 5714%%% to
London and South Western.. 416...... 78
Ditto New 212... 12 113/4 124 to 11%
' London and Croydon
Ditto Guaranteed 5 per Ct. 4
London and York ........ ...... 2%...... 7ys to 6%
Lynn and Ely
Manchester and Birmingham 40
lihtdland lOO 126
Ditto New
Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100
Newcastle & Darlington .runc. 24 ...... 48
Newcastle and Berwick
North British
Ditto New 1 .. 3% to 2%
Northern and Eastern
Norwich and Brandon lO .... 16
Rugby, Worcester, and Tring 1
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 21,1 4% to
South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 394 to 40
Ditto New, No. 1 8
Ditto New, No. 3 2% 71(2 to
Staines and Richmond........ 1
South Wales
Trent Valley
Waterford and Kilkenny 1 ...... 2%3/4... to
York and North Midland
Ditto Selby
Ditto, Extension: l4 123/4 ...... to
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Antiens
Great Northern of France ... 4
Lyons and Avignon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2
Paris and Lyons
Paris and Ronen .
Strasburg and Bale

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Australasia
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 24.—We have no
new feature to notice to-day; a fair amount of business
has been done. Edinburgh and Glasgow, New Quarters,
5 ; London and South-Western, 79 ex div. ; Man-
chester and Leeds, 138 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 141 A ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 11 ; Sheffield and
Manchester, 104%; South-Eastern, No. 2, 10; Blackburn,
Burnley, and Accrington, 54 ; Blackburn, Darwen, and
Bolton, 3 15-16 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 7% %; Ca-
ledonian, 71,E 7 ; Churnet Valley, 7%; Dublin and Galway,
3 9-16; Great Grimsby and Sheffield Junction, 23/ ; Hud-
dersfield and Sheffield Junction, 4 9-16 ; Leeds, Dewsbary,
and Manchester, 33/ ; London and Worcester, Oxford and
Rugby, 31,4 ; London and York, 74 1,4 ; Manchester and
Buxton, 2% ; Sheffield and Lincolnshire Junction, 255.
235. 9d. ; Trent Valley, 191/ % ; West Yorkshire, 37 ;
Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 11% ; Union Plate
Glass, 19 18%.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, FEB. 25, r.m.—Wind easterly, fresh breeze,
and cloudy.
SIIERNESS, FEB. 24.--The leaks of the barque Edward
Robinson were stopped last night, and she proceeded to-day
for London, in tow of a steam tug.
OFF MARGATE, FEB. 24.—Codrington, Iluxtable, An-
tigua.

OFF DOVER, FEB. 24.—Clyde, St. John's, New Brunswick.
DOVER, FEB. 24.—A boat marked " Bear Park, of Salt-
somes, Jeremiah Moore, Master," has been picked up in the
North Sea.

DEAL, FEB. 24.—Wind N.W., moderate. 10 r. 31., N.E.,
squally.; Arrd. Robert Small, Williams, and ColomboAThom-
son, Calcutta; Plautius, Rotgaus, China, for Amsterdam;
Belle Creole, Purchase, Jack, Tavenor, and Emma Eugenia,
Kettlewell, Mauritius; Susan, Cant, and Majestic, Smith
Ichaboe ; Emilia, Rio Janeiro ; Napoleon, Bendixen
Rio for Hamburgh ; James Holmes, Head, and Mary Eliza-
beth, Thom, Demerara; St. Thomas packet, Paterson, St.
Domingo for llamburgh ; Mediator, Chadwick, New York ;
Clyde, Halcrow, St. John's, New Brt:lllvit.b: (ai,:3Z,11 tiro C,
Ichaboe for Scotland. Sld. Favourite, South Seas ; Tyne,
New Zealand ; Hindostan, Bombay ; Hebe, Bahia ; Marys,
Berbice ; Helen, Demerara; Druid, Barbadoes ; Don Cho-
vanui and ilarriet, Jamalca; Diary, eata Martha; Jan