The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-09 00:00:00

AMERICAN NEWS.

The packet ship England, Capt. Bartlett, arrived at
Liverpool on Saturday, after a run of little more than 18
days, from New York.
The House of RepresentedVes had passed a resolution
authorising the Postmaster-General to enter into an ar-
rangement with our Government for the purpose of fa-
cilitating the dispatch of the English mails from Boston
to Montreal, &c. The Senate had rejected the clauscof
the Naval Appropriation Bill, abolishing corporal
ments, on the 14th ult.

The President had nominated J. S. Green as Secre-
tary of the Navy, but the Senate had not acted on
The grand jury finished their labours in connexilen
with the recent riots at Philadelphia on the morning of
the 15th ult. In their presentment they state that they
have acted on upwards of 200 bills of indictment, out of
which number they found 161 true bills. They refer at
some length to the late disturbances, the whole of whicb
they attribute to the lax manner in which the law has
been exercised by the constituted authorities of the city
and county, and more especially those of the district of
Kensington, and to the efforts of a party to exclude th•
Bible from the public schools. They severely censure
the authorities of the disturbed districts for their want
of energy and promptitude on the occasion, and are of
opinion that their conduct ought to undergo legal inves-
tigation. Judge Parsons addressed them upon the con-
clusion of their labours, and said that the Court had read
the presentment with great satisfaction, and approved of
it entirely.
We have no commercial news.

APPROACHING MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—We
have_to announce that the nuptials of Lord Charles Welles-
ley, son of the Duke of Wellington, and Miss Pierrepont
is finally appointed to be solemnised this day. The
Duke of Wellington, as we have previously stated, giires
the wedding breakfast at Apsley House, for which circulart
of invitation have been issued. •4ti
lil4lAnsznEss.—One drachm of freshly scraped
ko%e Wish root, to be infused with four ounces of Oa-
ter,ap a close vessel, for two hours, and made into a
syrup, with double its weight in vinegar, is an improved
remedy for hoarseness ; a teaspoonful has often proved
effectual ; a few teaspoonfuls, it is said, have never been
known to fail in removing hoarseness.
TEE LATE STORM.—As a proof of the severity of
the storm on Monday week, we are informed that on Monday
last, a week after the occurrence, the hail-stones at Gatewood,
near Cautley, were laid twelve inches in depth, in the goits
and ditches, and that some of them were as large as wal-
nuts.—Doncaster Gazette.
A wag, passing through a 'country town, observed
a fellow placed in the stocks, " My friend," said he, " I ad-
vise you by all means to sell out. •" I should have no ob-
jection, your honour," he replied drily, "but at present they
seem much teo low!'
REVOLVING DIOPTRIC .LANTERN FOR THE BEE.,
MUDA CAST-IRON LIGHTROUSE.—The above lantern has been
constructed under the direction of the Honourable Trinity
House Company, and will shortly be shipped for Bermuda.
The lantern forming the light-room is 10 feet high and 14
feet in diameter, supported by iron pedestals of 7 feet high,
and is a polygon of 16 sides ; to which an iron perforated
platform is fixed, with an ornamental scroll at one end and a
flight of steps at the other. The lantern is glazed with very
thick plate glass, and the roof is formed of strong coptoer
plates, supported by iron rafters. On the top a large glolot
head and vane is mounted, for the purpose of ventilating the
lantern. In the centre is fixed an iron column supporting a
dioptric apparatus of the first order, consisting of eight po
a frame
gonal lenses of great power, mounted upon and y
paratus revolving by means of machinery. Around the table
or platform is a large iron frame, which supports four tiers of
mirrors at bottom, and eight tiers above the polygonal lenses,
fixed at correct angles for exhibiting the light, which is given
by a powerful lamp fixed in the centre of the apparatus,
which consists of a concentrated burner with four circular
wicks. There are altogether 384 mirrors of silvered plate
glass. The whole is mounted with an improved ventilating
apparatus upon Professor Faraday's principle. The lantern,
pedestal, apparatus, and machinery form a most interesting
work of art, and does great credit to the skill and ingenuity
of the manufacturers.
BOAT UPSET.—FIVE LIVES LOST.—Ou the even-
ing of Monday, the 24th ult., one of the boats engaged
in the cod and ling fishing at Ness, Island of Lewis, was
upset, and five of the crew perished, only one being
saved. Three of them have left wives and families to
lament their loss.--Inverness Courier.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen will hold a Privy Council to-morrow (Wed-
nesday) afternoon at half-past two o'clock, at Buckingham
Palace.

The Right Hon. John Nicholl, Judge-Advocate-General,
had an audience of the Queen yesterday, at Buckingham
Palace, and submitted to her Majesty the proceedings of
some courts-martial.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert walked yesterday fore-
noon in the royal gardens.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester visited the
Queen yesterday.
The Royal Family were taken airings yesterday, in the
royal gardens of Buckingham Palace.
In the afternoon her Majesty, attended by the Viscountess
Jocelyn, Lady in Waiting, took an airing in an open carriage
and four. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by
the Equerries in Waiting, Colonels Buckley and Bouverie,
accompanied her Majesty on horseback.
The Queen had a dinner party yesterday at Buckingham
Palace. The company included his Excellency the Prince
Castelcicala, the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter, the
Marquis and Marchioness of Westminster, Lady Lyndhurst,
Viscount and Lady Marianne Alford, Lord and Lady Robert
Grosvenor, the Lord Mayor, le General Avitabile, the Right
Hon. George Dawson Darner, and Captain Francis Seymour.
The band of the Ist Regiment of Life Guards was in at-
tendance at the Palace during dinner, and performed a va-
riety of favourite pieces.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and
the Hereditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh
Strelitz, attended by Baroness Ahlefeldt and Baron Knese •
beck, honoured the Duke and Duchess of Buccleuch with
their company at Montague House, Whitehall-gardens, yes-
terday afternoon, at the public breakfast given by the Noble
Duke and Duchess.

The Duchess of Cambridge and the Hereditary Grand
Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz honoured
the performance of the French plays with their presence yes-
terday evening. The Duchess of Cambridge was attended
by Baroness Ahlefeldt.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at the
Foreign-office. It was attended by Sir R. Peel, the Duke
of Wellington, Lord Wharncliffe, the Duke of Buccleuch,
Earl of Aberdeen, Lord Stanley, Sir James Graham, the
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Earl of Haddington, Earl of
Ripon, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Lord Granville
Somerset, and Sir Edward Knatchbull.The Council sat
three hours.

The Ecclesiastical Commission for England had a meeting
yesterday at the office in Whitehall-place. The Commis-
sioners present were the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Bishop of London, the Bishop of Bangor, the Bishop of
Lichfield, the Bishop of Norwich, the Bishop of Rochester,
and the Dean of Westminster.
Mr. Wickham, Chairman of the Stamps and Taxes had
an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yester-
day at his official residence, in Downing-street.
Dispatches for the Governor of Hong-Kong were sent off
yesterday evening, from the Colonial-office.
Dispatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office,.
from the Governor of the Mauritius.

MONEYAND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
Consols closed very firmly at 98,23- to 99, and all the
other Securities were well supported. The New Three-
and-a-Half per Cents. brought 1011 to a ex dividend.
The Government broker took about 16,0001. Reduced
Three per Cents., supposed to be for the savings' banks.
East India Stock was at 2841 to 285, without the
dividend.

There was no increase of business in the Spanish
Market, and prices remained flat. The Five per Cents.
were 238 to 4, and the Three per Cents. 331 to 8.
Mexican were firm at 36 to 4. Brazilian, New, touched
sci. Portuguese Converted were dull at 45 to 4..
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester, New, 61 ;
Bristol and Exeter, 7; Birmingham, Quarter, 24 to 24i;
Croydon, 34 ; Manchester and Leeds, 37; Manchester
and Birmingham, 16 to 158; Newcastle and Darlington,
171 to 18; Northern and Eastern, I 28; Northern and
Eastern, Quarter, 31; Norwich and Brandon, 54; South-
Eastern, New, 7; York and North Midland, Scar-
borough Branch, 18; and Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux,
Ito 131 premium. Brighton, 3i i; Greenwich, 6A-; and
North Midland, 21 to t- discount.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The transactions in Cotton at Liverpool on Saturday were
not extensive, but prices were firm. Sales, 3,ooobales. Shares
were dull at the following rates :—Birmingham and Glou-
cester, 95 ; Grand Junction, 228 ; Liverpool and Manchester,
Half, 115 A ; London and Birmingham, Quarter, 26A ; Lon-
don and South Western, 83A ; Manchester and Birmingham,
541 ; North Midland, Thirds, 32A ; South Eastern, 35A ; Paris
and Lyons, 2i.
There are accounts from the Mauritius this morning to the
sth of April, but they are, as usual, extremely barren of
intelligence.

If the financial affairs both of Spain as well as of Portugal
are fairly represented in the accounts that have recently come
to hand, there cannot be a doubt but that the treasuries of
both kingdoms are in a more impoverished condition than
they have before been. Still se sanguine are foreign Minis-
ters that the gullibility of John Bull is as extensive as
ever, that new propositions are made for fresh advances of
capital, upon the secarity of thrice hypothecated revenues.
The first proposition of M. Mons is thus disposed of by a City
capitalist of long standing. Being asked what he would be
ready to take the proposed new issue of Stock at, the price
assumed for the Three per Cents. being 35 per cent., " Why,"
said he to the interrogator, " if you will strike off the 30 per
cent., then I will come to some terms with the remaining 5 per
cent." It is intended, to make the bait more sure of suc-
cess, that the dividend upon the proposed new Stock should
be made payable in Paris and Amsterdam, as well as in
London, but it is not believed that the scheme will take.
Then, as to Portugal, the Cabral Ministry is in a rapid course
of annihilation. What with internal dissensions and politi-
cal intrigues, this fine country is reduced to nearly
as low an ebb as that of Spain. Here, too, a new
attempt is about to be made to obtain fresh advances from
this side of the water. To those of our readers who have
any spare cash at disposal, we may give this advice—select
some good English line of railway, about to be carried out
tinder the provisions of an Act of Parliament, invest in that,
and let foreign loans alone.
There have been some accounts received at the Hall of
Commerce from Buenos Ayres and Monte Video. Another
battle had taken place, in which the French party, who had
joined the Orientals, had been defeated. The petty squabbles
and minor military movements that so frequently take place
in that direction scarcely deserve notice. The commercial
news is deficient in interest.

A very small amount of business has been transacted in
the English Stock Exchange to-day, notwithstanding the
banks are now open for private transfers. The prices of
Consols have ranged from 98i to 99 for Money, as well as
for the Account, the dividend deducted. Bank Stock has
been quoted at 1988 ; India Stock at 285 ; and the New
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 1018 a.
Mexican Bonds have varied from 36 to 361 now being at
36i. Columbian and Venezuliau have been done at 13& ;
Peruvian at 26i, and the Dutch Five per Cents. at lON g.
In most of the Railway Shares a slight' improvement has
taken place this morning, as the corrected list of prices will
show.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 6.—We have
again an improved market, and considerable business has
been done in Manchester and Birmingham, and Trent Valley.
Manchester and Birmingham, 554 544 ; Paris and Lyons,
2i ; Trent Valley, 1044.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bask Stock lll% Indian Stock ........ .......281%
3 per Cent. Red 99% Ditto Bonds 94 pm.
3 per Cent. Cons.
3% per Cent. Red 102% Ditto New Annuities ...
New 3% per Cent. lOl% .Ex. Bills. 1,000/. I%d ... 76 pin.
New 5 per Cent. — Ditto 5001. ........ ....... 76 pin.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 76 put
Jan 1860 l2 7-16 Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859 — Consols for Opg... .. . .... 99
Jan. 1860 12% India Stock for Acct.... _

FUNDS.
......- Portuguese, 5 per Cent ......
Ditto, New Ditto... ............
Belgian, Austrian. 5p
per Cent
t
Brazilian Bonds , Prussan, 5 per Cent
_... ;Russian, 5 per Cent ..
;Ditto, Metallic. ....... ..
"
13% Spanish, 5 per Cent....".."
Colotnbian, 6 per Cent
c h li Buenos
ian , Ayres,
nper 6
Cent per. .
.C..e.n. : t... ..
...
...
,Ditto, 3 per Cent .... "
Ditto, 1824 ..-•••••••?.*7 ..... ;Ditto, Deferred .......... "
Cuba Bonds, 6 per ...e
Danish, 3 per Cent — !French, 5 per Cent...,,,. —f. —c.
Gr
18_,5, 5 per Cent — ;Exchange .................. —t. —c.
eek.
Mexican, 5 per Cent , — 'French, 3 per Cent ......—f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per Cent.,
1837..
peruvi
• 1825. 6 per Cent 26% Ditto, 5 per Cent ........100).
an,
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 99
Ditto, New Shares, 17% paid 24
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) 77
Harwich (Braithwaite), 2 paid. 436
London and Birmingham (Stock) # 226
Ditto New Quarters ( 2 paid) .... .... .. 26
London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) . 7
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Greenwich (12t. 15s. 4d. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk) ..... .. ..........
.
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
..............
Manchester and Birmingham 55%
Newcastle and Darlington Junction. 21 paid 39
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares ON paid)
North Midland (100 paid) ... ...... ...........
Norwich and Brandon, 2 paid 7%
South Eastern and Dover (33 2a 4d paid)
Ditto New Shares ( 4 paid)
York and Scarborough Branch (2)2 paid)
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaux, 1 paid
Paris and Orleans (20 paid) ....... ................

FOREIG

THE WILLS Foaozar CASES.—OH Friday week
the convicts Barber and Fletcher were conveyed on board
the Agincourt, which vessel has for the last week been lying
off Woolwich, in the hourly expectation of receiving orders
to sail. Fletcher a few hours after he got on board volun-
tarily and unsolicited made a written statement, declaring
that Barber had no guilty knowledge of the forgeries which
were effected by him (Fletcher) and the other prisoners,
Sanders and his wife and Mrs. Dorey. The document, which
was published on Saturday was forwarded to the Home
Office,
accompanied by a petition from Mr. Peckham, the
solicitor of Barber, praying for a revision of the case. On
Tuesday last, Fletcher made a further and still more explicit
declaration of Barber's innocence. The subsequent declara-
tion was also forwarded to the Home Secretary, who on re-
ceipt sent down to Woolwich an order for the detention of the
vessel until the case could be thoroughly investigated.
THE Mooas.—There is every prospect of the
ensuing season being one of the finest ever seen in the
northern counties. The young birds are already very
strong, and with powers of wing equal to what they often
are in the beginning of August. They are so far advanced
as to be beyond harm from the weather. Sportsmen may
confidently anticipate that there will be no halting on the
moors, from their dogs leisurely looking at broods unable to
take flight. Among the places recently taken are the fol-
lowing :—Arisaig, by the Duke of Marlborough; Achna-
carry, Lord Malmesbury ; Arndilly, W. Peel, Esq. ; Knoc-
kie, Hugh Munro, Esq. ; Mamore, Mr. Peacock ,• Castle
Leod, R. Reid, Esq. ; Carr Bridge, Colonel Forbes. An aged
but enthusiastic sportsman, Mr. Lockhart, from Essex, was
in Skye last year for several months, shooting and fishing,
and arrived here last week to join a party in Sutherland.
This gentleman is in his 82d year, but hale and vigorous,
and delighted with the Highlands.—lnverness Courier.
HORRIBLE DEATH.—ENSHAM, Oxore, JULY 2.
We had a dreadful occurrence in the village last week. A
wild young fellow slightly stabbed two men in a drunken
quarrel, for which be was put in the cage;. he begged and
entreated he might not be locked up alone, and offered money
to any one who would sit up with him, but in vain; they
locked him in, and had not left him long when they found
the cage was on fire. It was some time before the constable
who had the key could be found, and when the door was at
last opened the flames rushed forth to such a degree that
they could not get the poor wretch out till water had been
thrown in to extinguish them. Tho man was then dragged
out quite insensible, though not dead, and dreadfully scorched.
Dr. Hitchins, from Oxford, arrived just in time to see him
expire.
NOT TO BE GRAHAMED—is the inscription on a
dozen different varieties of fancy wafers, attached to tho•
letters we have received from our correspondents in all
parts to-day.—Hampshire Independent.

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MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY')
COEN-EXCHANGE.
Fresh up to-day, we received rather a scanty stIPPIY
Wheat of home produce. The finest 'parcels of both red all
white mostly found buyers, at aboftt previous rates 'of cf.
rency, but those of all other descriptions declined quite ls:
per quarter. In Foreign Wheat the quotations are Is per
quarter easier for bonded Wheat ; figures were almost nominal:
Chevalier descriptions of Barley were held at previous cur
rencies, but grinding and distilling sorts were is per quart,s.
lower. Malt at an abatement of Is par quarter. For Oa
's
the rates declined from 6d to quite is per quarter. Bealls'll
a reduction of from Is to 2s per quarter. Maple Pe4s, „sr
cheaper. Other kinds at late rates. Best town-made FO
50s per 280 lbs.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
WHEAT—Essex & Kent,
I MALT—Ch evalier...... • 63s to
red 44s to 545 OATS—Yorkshire and Ditto, white
'-
Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe . 25510
coin, red 4os to 435 Youghall and Cork, ,US
Ditto white 42s to 475 black
Irish, red 478 to 508, Cork, white
Ditto, white
RYE—Old 2ss to 33s BEANS—Tick 2650 am
New 36s to 38s, Pigeons
BARLEY—Grinding 23s to 27s PEAS- Grey
so
Malting l3s la 365; Maple
Chevalier 32s to 3581 White ais too
MALT—Suffblk and Nor- I 80i1er5„...„,„. ... , 32s
00,
folk s6s to 625, FLouß—Town made '... ±,85 t 0
Brown sos to Ms, Sufto k ................ 345 toy
Kingston and Ware 56s to 625; Stockton & ~
Norfolk 34s ..-
FOREIGN GRAIN AND FLOUR IN BOND. 0
WHEAT—Dantzic
Hamburgh 36s to 40s PvAS. 238 tOgy
BARLEY 3os to 33s FLOUR—American .. . ... 23' 19
OATS—New .... .....
.. . ,A
... 22' -
Feed l4s to 16s
SIVIITIIPIELD. 111
The attendance of buyers being small, the demand for,,,i,
kinds of Beef was in a very sluggish state, and prices ru,r,
in some instances, a shade easier than those on thif
se'nnight. Although a few of- the very primest Scots raivor
have produced 45., we consider the highest general firma d,
Beef not to have exceeded 3s 10d per 81bs. "Notwithstall ,
ing the number of Sheep were extensive, we have to reporj,,
steady demand for that description of stock, and last.wev'sr
prices were fully supported, the best old Downs readilYlo
ducing 4s. per 81bs. Lambs, at prices barely equal to w 0
quoted in our last report. Calves at full currencies. Pig!,
late rates.

Per Sibs. to sink the offal, Li.
Par
d. to s. d. s. 41.10 a
Inferior Beasts 2 6 210 Second qualitydltte... 3
„2. 33 4
Second quality ditto 3 0 3 4 Coarse-woolled ditto.. 3 6' i
.0
Prime large Oxen 3 4 3 6 Southdown Wethers 2le ,
Prime Scots, &c. - $ 6
Large coarse Calves 3 4 310 Large Hogs 1 0 I
Prime small ditto 4 0 4 4 Small Porkers. ll 26 i
m
Suckling Calves, each 18 —0 28 (, Quarter old Pigs, eachl6 0 5 I
Inferior Sheep 2 8 3 0 Lambs 4 0

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