The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-05 00:00:00

BtON.EY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
-.- CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
In the Liver Pool Cotton Market on Saturday a fair busi-
;eas was done, at firm prices. Sales, 7,000 bales—viz., 200
.furat, at Iv. t 6 41d. ; 40 Egyptian, 'at 84d. ; and the rest
,I,l2nerican, at 54d. to 61d.—'rhe• •Share Marlet closed firm.
..ssiiirraingham and Gloucester New, 171 ; Grand Junction
•;.i- ; Great Western; 112 ; South Western Eighths, 171 ;
tv.orth Alidland, 96 ; Paris and Lyons, 2/. 13s. ; Rouen and
'lsivre• 14 ; South Eastern, 351 ; and ditto New, 361.
__There are not. any Colonial arrivals this morning, and
tits delivery of the morning mails was very late, owing
letttiers from
the heavy falls of snow that have taken place. The
the manufacturing districts continue to-read
ai• 1/fact4TilY, as respects the prospects of trade. The
alight increase that has been made in the issues
op
notes by the Directors of the Bank of England,
7 aPPears by the returns referred to on Saturday, tends to
,sTmonstrate, however, that the demand for accommodation
at bank and its branches in various parts of the country,
have 110 t
.been, by any means so considerable as was anti •
e'Pated. No doubt great caution in this respect continues to be
obser,
for ed by the Court of Directors, the more so as the mania
_ r speculation in cotton, in railways, and in mining shares
4PPears to be rapidly on the increase. There is an opinion
trevalent, that before the middle of the year, the Bank will
gasess a sum in -bullion not far short of 20 millions sterling.
Y every arrival from South America, large remittances are
!/Pected to be received for some time to come, and at the
pres
~,, ent moment there is scarcely any demand for ex-
rirtation• The orders for foreign gram, in anticipation
short crops in this . country, do not at the present
:omens demand the slightest attention. It is true, that
;rut a month or six weeks back, there were many who
ticipated a large importatation in the spring, but the high
f_te that at . present rules, and which is likely to con-
ks,trie,ec in 'no immaterial degree, the furor
fat at the time we have referred to prevailed
favour of speculations in foreign grain. At any
rye, the Directors of the Bank of England are now in a 9o-
,t`eical to answer demands upon them, for the exportation of
3TeriPireeloll.B metals, to the extent of four or five millions
ag, without there being the least necessity for putting
sa the screw.
NA firm market has ruled for the British Securities to-day.
9'11301s for Aloney and Account have advanced, the former from
3
tinai to 971, and the latter from 971 to 971. At the present
but 10,0011;
are scarcely so high. The Commissioners bought
bac" ~,-',°oo/. Consols at 974. The Reduced Three per Cents.
tio'° fluctuated only from 981 and 981. A quota-
is: is given for the New Five per Cents. namely,
, It is some time since any transaction occurred
our
Stock, and their prices were very considerably lower,
o-Q _4r n'enlary serves correctly. Bank Stock was last quoted
134.sturday at 1931, but now sales cannot be effected above
g;:',Eiehequer Bine remain at 678., 695. premium, and India
nus at 82s. premium.
pAn improvoment must be noticed in most of the Foreign
nds this morning. Austrian Five per Cents. were worth
ilu
inverted,
.Belgian, 106 ; Dutch Five per Cents. 1011 : Portuguese
.6,,,cverted, 48 ; the Old Five per Cents. 751 ; the Spanish
r,'Lives have risen from 23 to 231 1, and the Three per
,ents. from 311 to 321 1; Mexican and Portuguese Stocks
al'e a trifle higher than they were on Saturday.
si.A very varied, market has prevailed for Railway
h_gares to-day. The most important features are a
ill', in the London and Birmingham Shares to
premium ; and in the Great Western to 38
reltiurn. Most of the other Shares are in the shade, under
.satarday's rates. London and Westminster Bank Shares
‘ra rather lower, namely, at 4/ premium.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List)
tlahk Stock 19214 192
:Per Cent. Reduced Annuities ...........».».•••• 9e/4
' lier Cent. Consols. Annuities 97%
?,,, per Cent Reduced Annuities .......
ew 334 per Cent. Annuities 11174 1
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1560 l2 13-141%
India Bonds,l,ooo 132 MN
- Ditto under 1,000 Bl
Consols for Account 97%%%
Exchequer Bills laid. 134 d
1,000/.
. 5001.
Ditto Small , 69 6O pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent . .......... ................ 115 .
_lielgian Bonds, 5 per Cent... ....... ...-...... ..... 106
zraxilian Bonds 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account . .......
Spanish Bonds, Five per .... . .............
Ditto for the Account 23% %34 I
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Mutch 34 2 Cents 5`,14
Dutch 5 perper Cents lOl%
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
1%,_,• kAILWAMII. PAID. PEA SNARL
1417.11,12 ham and Gloucester—. 100 '74 ..... .... to 73
COI and. Exeter 7O 69 ..... .... to
...Astern Counties -
1-litto Gr New 25 12% to —..
eat Westent
Grilto 14 Shares
, _and Junction IOO
Kindon and Brighton so ..... .... 4614 ...... to 4534%
i.7,12c10tt and South Western
'Hid and Carlisle 5 ..... .... 514 ..... to ..-
,ularid Counties lOO .... .... 93
?...rwieh and Brandon
p
'ol,yteastle and Darlington Junct. 15
hem and Eastern
.
Paris and Orleans
Paris and Rouen
Rouen and Havre.•.
sc'eth Eastern and Dover .... 50 ........ 35%% ••• to
,pitto Scrip .. '" '25 -
1 rk and North Midland
, Ditto New Shares 2O ..... .... 57
',l-ANcnr.sTr STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 3.—We have a
pgrilli_tt market to-day, there is no material alteration in
I,,,.`"•—.Alanctiester and Leeds Half Shares, 49; Manches-
3ancl Birmingham, 391 to 4; Newcastle and Darlington,
,‘,.• Manchester and Leeds Quarter Shares, 94 to i; South
rf tltern, 77 to 774.
CLOSING PRICES.

St "Ic
BRITISH FUNDS.
S Stock
~ Per Cent. Red.
`3%Per Cent. C 0,,.... .. 97% Ditto Old Annuities 961
b,14.1)" Cent. Red lo2i Ditto New Annuities..
New-w 3% per Cent
i.. 5 Per Cent.
"I,if Annuities to expire Ditto 5mi11..... 69 pm
'-,111. 1860
~et. 1859
44' Ib6o
..
4.14'5 FOREIGN FUNDS.
1n 5 cen .. Portngele, Pe r cent• "
Riltigiln & pep" entt.
--ratilianb Borridcs.... ...... 79 Prussian, 5 per cent.... • .....
!lance Ayres 6 per cent. Russian. 5 pe.reent......
telsc •,11ilian, 6 per cent. Ditto, 111 e
entomb: an, 6 per cent... 12} Spanish, 5 per cent 24
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, 3 per cent.... 321
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 93 Ditto, Deferred.... . 13
banish, 3 per :ent — !French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Creek, 1825, 5 per cent —i Exchange ...... .... —f. —c.
4lxican, 5 per cent — !French, 3 percent. —f. —c.
isuitto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent. 55%
rtruvian, 1825,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cant.... 101%
SHARES. ,
Birmingham and Derby (100 paid)
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ... ......
Eastern Counties (23 paid) lO%
Ditto New Shares (25 paid) ....
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) —
Ditto Registered (12% paid) ... ..... . 141
Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham (2% p) 2i
Great Western (75 paid) ... 112%
Harwich Extension (2 paid) ... .. .......... .. 2%
Itarrogate and Knaresboro' ( 3 paid) ..... 3%
Hull
L and Selby (50 paid) .. 6O
endon and Brighton (50 pa d) .
London and South Western (41/ 6s 10dpd) 78
L . Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) .., 2A
london and Croydon Railway (Trunk) ... 17
,ler.wich and Brandon (2 paid) ••• •• .....
,4,1.1
arts and Rouen (20 paid) ... . ... ............ 0 4
Rouen, and Havre ( 6 paid) 14%
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) •. 35%
Ditto Scrip (25 paid)
Yarmouth and NorwiDh (13 paid).......... 18%
-York and Scarboro' Branch (2% paid) 20%

riZ• FINE ARTS.
e Were favoured on Thursday last with a private
mot; of some pieces of sculpture, which are intended to
the Pediment of the new Royal Exchange. The
the -."" who has undertaken them is Mr. Westmacott,
rieeminent sculptor, and he has shown great chaste-
-It,.an simplicity in his designs, and, so far as he
tok,.le,t Proceeded—for the work is by no means
ttirev eat skill in his execution. The sculp-
t° kennsists of several figures, all bearing reference
eoloteteantile life, which are grouped on either side a
sal,l/40 figure of Commerce, upwards of nine feet
se groups are for the most part detached
we see a British and a foreign mer-
qh°,.' en aged apparently in conversation with each
time' *nile close beside them stands a Persian
10° 1*; and in another, a sailor who is tying up a
.
Pen goods, while an agent is looking on, with a
%.01 his hand, as if about to take an inventory of
PletalseParate article. The whole produces a very
itpls,4lg effect, and has the merit of being strictly
tYe4Priata, and intelligible at the first glance to
(0114,8Peetator. Mr. Westmacott deserves praise
Plg Ivlliehvnlg rejected all fantastic mythological designs,
„w, ould have been utterly out of keeping in a
elhl4,..'ge the Royal Exchange. With it it is impos-
ture. "" associate classic ideas or images. The sculp-
Itex;. we understand, will not be finished till May
TIT

ht., 4 LATE CASE OF EXTORTION AND MURDER AT
St 11.,1411433.—1t will be recollected that on Thursday
hil--,..._""ourough-street Police-court, a miscreant, who
of No.
116,--a to be Joseph Burgen Smith, gentleman, l'i
tot vnirumond-street, Euston-square, was fully committed
tr0,._741 at the Central Criminal Court, for extorting money
)tltgth I.rd Abingdon's butler, under a threat of charging him
Itte.,-"aving committed a most horrible offence.l
Governor, has
hhasis
itsce-wqxtion in New at Mr. Cope, the G
thatlrtinesi that the prisoner has assumed a name,welfare the
pnabnlide
tt,oitt's is Jt,lan Bottle, aged 32, in whose we
account of his
1t,,i,;40Me interest a few years since,
at pig' it is said, been innocently chargoend ithlaB337uri%dierr.
q,c, ,Mustead, near Woolwich. In Novembers
ng
istlitize uodi, a gentleman residing, and
b arsenic
14111,..°f Property, in that village, was murdered
posses. i. y a large
her,b adrninistered in his breakfast coffee, and severatlhrmoeumgh-
iirt,l°f his family nearly shared a similar fate
the -flis_"'lng of the poisonous draught. Suspicions reti
.one
Vraa7Vo-ualned prisoner (the murdered man's grandson,n
live erroated, and at the Coroner's inquest, wbhenhseleasntetdo
ki...,_aYs, evidence was adduced of his having e.
(1,,', 'nmething in the coffee-kettle on the morning of the
...Y on which the murder was committed, besides his utter-
wouldas ens that he wished his grandfather was dead,
*— then come into possession of 1,0001. a
iizether with other facts indicative of his guilt, warranted.t
year, which,
ili,„i.lirt in returning a verdict of " Wilful murder " against 4",'.. ilis trial took place at Maidstone assizes in the suc-
e4Tr month, before Mr. Justice Gazelee, Mr. Adolphus
112`moting the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Bod-
;- iefending the accused. It occupied two entire days, and
Zmulated in an acquittal. The decision of the jury pro-
intl the utmost excitement in Court, and was hailed with
its4Mintostlivelyindgemonstrations of satisfaction and applause,
a strong prejudice against his relatives for
piroi tang. him. Circumstances, however have since trans-
at
t. winch further dispel the mystery of the murder, but
A fue:ntesent period it would not be prudent to detail them.
.10.17 r nOnths since he was charged with stealing 501. from
tellaciirdritai. ther- in-law, who resides in St. John-street, Smith-
as, bui he managed to abscond, and had not been
thara:.f until he Was apprehended on the present infamous
()Nazi:l4l:4l,de Bronstein, Chamberlain to the late Duke
Jetyn,,„ `-°burg Gotha, arrived at the Brunswick Hotel,
illg C.Peet, on Saturday last, bearing dispatches announc•
i'4l3 tr- "emise of his Serene Highness. His Excellency, who
t ostaaavelled with the utmost haste, was detained two days
1,1443 bY thinlemency of the weather, Which ‘CCSUIte
~eueai orauheuticiatelligonce.