The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-02 00:00:00

received on the state of the markets :—" The markets, with a
very few exceptions, have presented an exceedingly gloomy
aspect this week; almost every department of trade is in a
most distressing state, and there is nearly a total cessation
of business. The trades in whom confidence can be placed
cannot be induced to purchase beyond their actual necessities
though most articles rate below cost price. Several houses
continue to press their merchandise into the market by the
hammer, which has generally gone off at an immense sacri-
fice. The accounts from all the towns of the interior are of
an uniform depressed position, nor do they anticipate an early
improvement. Importations from the United Kingdom still
continue adding to our stocks, of which the markets are fully
supplied. No alteration need be expected in commercial
matters till confidence is restored. The transactions during
the week have been principally for cash, and no price can
Possibly be affixed to any article."

lONE IrAND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
A large business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yester-
day at very firm rates. Speculators took 1,000 bales Ame-
rican, and the total sales were 8,000 bales •, 150 Egyptian sold
at 7d to Bd, 300 Surat at 3d to 3id, 80 Maranham at 5111 to
6d, and the rest, American, at 4d to 6id per lb.—Shares were
heavy, except Birmingham, Dover, and Grand Junction.
Birmingham and Gloucester, 93# ; Caledonian, 3# ; Chester
and Birkenhead,
;
hea63d,i3o ; Dublin and Drogheda, 77; Edinburgh
and Glasgow,
Grand Junction, 221 ; Ditto Half, 1101 ;
Liverpool and Manchester, Quarter, 54,2 ; London and Bir-
mingham 321. Shares, 354; Ditto Quarter Shares, 24i
London, and Brighton, 46i ; Midland Counties, Quarter, 23# ;
Preston and Wyre, 16# : South-Eastern, 35 ; York and North
Midland, 1261; Lyons and Avignon, 195..
More than usual anxiety is shown among the mercantile
teamBn3 of the City as to the result of the debate on the mo-
wn of Mr. Duncombe on the letter-prying business of the
Home Secretary ; and it is said, that if Ministers are defeated
their resignation will follow. Politicians as well as others
are on the qui mire. There are many who believe
a dissolution of Parliament will be the dernier re-
:l of the Premier; should he have either a small
isaeritY, or meet with a majority against him. , That there
evi;jeulelh importance attached to the forthcoming debate is
,t)e_rd t from the length of time the Cabinet Council sat yes-
%ll!fternoon. It would he much regretted if a dissolution
coluinatrriament took place, as the general business of the
it is
,teit would thereby receive a check, just at a time when
Th;e nowledged to be improving in the United Kingdom.
cmoniarnikeertsciaa
China lreadi'lt4;itcessoreceved from. the East Indies and
favourable as could have been
wished, but still British goods were moving off steadily. The
American merchants were most persevering in their efforts to
dis_pose of manufactures received from the United States. and
nAmerican Domestics" had, for the first time we believe,
otbeen inserted in more than one of the Trade Prices Current ;
much is reported to have been done in them.
The accounts by the Overland Mail have not particularly
198 nfluenced the English Stock Market. Consols are 981 to
for the Opening • Bank Stock realises 198 to 1981 ;
Reduced Three-and-a:Half per Cents. are 102 to 1024;
and the Three per Cents. 99 to 99* ; Exchequer Bills obtain
735. to 755. premium.
The market for Spanish' Bonds is rather better. The
Actives realise 224 to 225; and the Three per Cents. 32}
to i• Portuguese Converted Stock has been at 454 ex div.
The accounts from Lisbon announce reductions in the Go-
vernment expenditure, but the Treasury was very low.
Mexican are 35j for the Actives, and 15i for the Deferred.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. realise 61 to eon.
For Railway Shares rather lower rates have been obtained.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official Lilt.)

191%
Bank Stock-- . ...--„---.--'"*"*........"." 9934
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities .... ...... ........
10254
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1660 1234 7-16
%%Consols for Open.ng „.....••••••-•••••...........
Exchequer Bills, I%d. 154 d
75 pm.
75 om.
Ditto 5ma1L................. - .... ....... 7b pm.
Ditto Advertised. - pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
~.- Mexican Bonds, 1637, 5 per Cent. . ........... ..... 7.
Ditto for the Account. 3516
Ditto Deferred Stock 15%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted • 4534
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1640 -
Ditto for the Account. 22%%
Ditto Three per Cent. .....- ...... ...." ............ -
Ditto for the Account 32%
Dutch 256 per Cents 6l ( 074
Dutch 5 per Cents.. • .....• 100 N%
Ditto for the Account.---
100%
New Loan. 4 per Cents. (1814)
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
ILAILWAYS. PAID. PZi SHARE.
Great Western ..... 75 - .........
to
-78%
Ditto % Shares - Ditto % Share-_.. ......... .. ........... 2 -
London
Landon and Brighton ....,.. : .... 50 ..„ •.. -
and Greenwich (Pre"fe'rence) 18 ...... ittl.(... to -
Manchester
London and Croydon ..... .... 13% -
Newcastle and Birmingham .. . 40 ..«....• 55 -
and Darlington Junct. 01 - to -
Northern and Eastern .... 45 -
.........••
Norwich and Brandon .. 2
York and North Midland : ...•.... 50 lO6 1
Ditto 14 Shares .....
04% to 105
Ditto Scarboro' B-"ra..n..c.b.: ........ :: 252% -
20% to
Orleans •
• lours, and Bordeaux... 1 -
-
IParis and Orleans 2° -
la./.1,- _ .••••••••••••••••••••
‘-.IESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 1.-OUT market
continue. •
at abn, - quiet, with a moderate amount of business doing,
etnn, it previous rates. Manchester .and Birmingham, 56
tztt
Ditto, (10artere ; Blanchester and Leeds Half-Shares, 44i ;
art
Railway, 87 'l.B, 8i; Huddersfield and Manchester Canal
liuddersfields.
Canal, ManchManchester2l4. and Buxton, 20s. prem. ;
MA

ItK-E T NEWS.—(THIS DAY.)
SMITIIFIELn.— Er.Alr MAZILETS.
Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 123 to 41; use-
ful ditto, 4/ 48 to 4l 12s ; fine Upland ditto, 41 14s to 51;
Clover Hay, 51
to 6/ los ; Oat Straw, 11 12s to 11 14s;
Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s per load. Supply but mode-
rate, and trade steady.
CIMIBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay 3/ 15s to 4145; use-.
ful ditto, 4/ 63 to 4/ 13s ; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 16s to. w 5_
n/. sesa,t
Clover Hay, 4115 s to 5/15s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 14s to 11163 ,
Straw, 11163 to 11 188 per load. Both hay and straw sold
readily, at full prices.
WIIITECIIAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ lOs'to 41; use-
ful ditto, 4/ 4s to 4/ lOs ; fine Upland ditto, 4/ 12s to Si ;
Clover nay, 41 158 to 61153; Oat Straw, 1112 s to 11 14s ;
Wheat Straw, 1/ 14s to 1/ 16s per load. A full average
suPPIY, and a sluggish demand. New Meadow Hay was
selling at from 31 5s to 4/ 6s per load.
SuGAR.— COLONIAL.
The market for British Plantation is heavy,
about 300 hhds having been sold at rather lower prices. The
public sales have consisted chiefly of 90 hhds Trinidad, 110
Luna Molasses, 11,848 bags Mauritius, and 600 bags Madras.
he Trinidad Sugar and Molasses were taken in, the former
at 568 to 568 6d for good to fine brown, and the latter at
258 for fair quality, being about the previous value, but
at which there were not purchasers. Nearly all the
Mauritius was disposed of, but went off very heavily,
jnd at a decline of fully is to 2s, the more particu-
arly on the lower sorts ; low to fine brown brought 48s to
558, and low yellow 55s Gd to 67a; the Madras sold at 43s to
48s for low to mid brown which is also a decline of fully 2s.
Tha only transactions which have transpired worth reporting
LlTaisttouotf7,tloioreoebolarxges, e cargoes of yellow Havannab, contain-
which have been sold afloat at 19s 6d
to 21s 6d, deliverable either over the ship's side in London, or
near port on the Continent The uantity of British Planttion
landed last week at the East and West India Docks was 1a,121
hhds 161 tierces 211 barrels, and there were taken for home
consumption 1,648 hhds 101 tierces 225 barrels. The stock
in the same places is 11,456 hhds 1,651 tierces 1,762 barrels.
PuIPCOFFEE_-195 casks 203 barrels British Plantation only
y sold at rather lower prices.
West 1' quantity landed last week at the East and
!ovr _ t India Docks was 403 puns 22 hhds ; there were taken
14
Itiune consumption 80 puns 8 hhds, and exported 34 puns
midi. s. The stock in the same places is 9,646 puns, 2,070
, iittSiterls:rartET2R4sE"—totl2:446s36dbfagorsrefraction,being
Bengal at auction all found
11 to 2* per cwt.
about former
thS_PviaclEsue,.—viz., at 2id for good black.
1,1-4106e1;ags Sumatra Pepper were all taken in above
rALLOW.--P. Y. C. is in good demand at 41s 3d to 41s 6d
per cwt on the spot, and 42sto 6d 428 9d for the last three
mouths. Town is 43s 6d per cwt. 12!,k--The market is quiet and the arrivals have been
77ge• The stock in London is 31,058,0001bs against
niorC,ooolbs at this time last year. The price of Congou
lidtoi
s 2
London good ord 100 to Ild, and Twankay good ord to but
id to Is 3d per lb. The home consumption from
this year has been 11,793,0001bs or rather less than
last year.
Toßcco.—The market, during the last month, has not
presented any feature
hare been effected to requiring particular observation. Sales
fi very extent, have in sme
instances been rather in favourlimited of the buyer ;and neverthess,o no
general alteration can be made in the quotations.
11E3. IP.— The price of clean is 298 to
30s per cwt.
VI,

VT EYMOUTR, JULY 21. His Majesty the King of
Saxony and suite arrived herelunexpectedly
taro chariots and four, from Oxford, on their way to Ports-
mouth. The inhabitants of the town were much pleased at
les • last evening, in
Majesty's visit, fully expecting that he would remain here
a day or two, for the purpose of visiting the Isle of Portland
and other interesting places in our neighbourhood, especially
gleal pursuits • b
disappointed, for he left
ast.helliZieintY Was kuowntotake so much interest in geolo-
_,_
_tit we were greatly , b inernbig.
CI-1141) MURDER.-- On Monday morning, between
eight and nine o'clock, as policeman Hart, L 58, was on duty
in the Belvidere. road, Lambeth, he was informed that the
1170a:cid
itei
ri ognef i n g
body of an infant (not quite dead) was found in the timber-
to Mr. Patrick, situated near the old Guild-
in the above road. The policeman immediately
proceeded to the spot, and saw the infant bleeding from
the head, nose, and ears, and lying immediately un-
derneath the wall of a house next to the timber-
yard. On looking about he perceived marks of blood on the
top of the
all from the tank, and found the child had been thrown over the
w yard of the house, nearly ten feet in height.
The policeman directly went to the house, and on knocking
at the door it was opened by a young girl, seventeen years
of age, the sister of the landlady, who with her hus-
band, was from home at the time. The policeman
questioned the girl on the subject of the finding
of the child, but the girl denied any knowledge of the cir-
cumstances, when the policeman, observing that her hands
and apron were bloody, asked her the reason, and she be-
trayed so much confusion that he went to the station-house,
and a surgeon having examined the girl, it was at once as-
certained that she had recently delivered herself of a child in
the water-closet, marks of blood from which place to the
wall, over which she must have thrown the child, were
perceptible. It was found the child was still living, but the
injunes it sustained were of such a serious nature that it ex-
pired in about two hours after the discovery was made. The
girl herself was immediately conveyed to the workhouse. In
the timber-yard into which the infant was thrown, two large
watch dogs are kept, both of which were found licking over
the body when the horrible discovery was first made.
SOUTHAMPTON, JULY I.—The Peninsular Com-
pany's steam-ship Montrose arrived in the Docksfrom Gibral-
tar t his day, at half- past one o'clock, and landed the Penin-
sular and other mails, which were immediately dispatched
bon y a special train to London. The Montrose
left Gibraltar
the 234 of June, Cadiz 24th, Lisbon 26th, Vigo 27th.
Her cargo consists of fruit and Spanish hams, and the fol-
lowing passengers; Mr. Preaux, Mr. Crosby, Mr. Morgan,
Mrs. and Miss Dumford, Mr. Fisher Mr. Bussi, Mr. Kerby,
Mr. Eller Mr. Edwards, Mr. I. Moody, Mr. Greeham, Mrs.
Coster, Airs. Waggernee, Mr. and Mrs. Jose V'd Margallero,
and Mrs. Broughton. Her Majesty's steamer Warspite,
Captain Wallis, and two foreign steamers were at Gibraltar
at Cadiz two French brigs of wa r ; at Lisbon the French brig
of war Volage, a Prussian corvette, and the usual Portuguese
squadron. The Lady Mary Wood, Captain Cooper, will leave
for Alexandria on the 3d instant, and take out the India and
China mails. The Royal West India packet the Clydewill take
her departure to-morrow with the Mexican and West India
mails. A very fine ship, the Cairo, arrived in the Docks yes-
terday, from whence she will sail on the 3d instant with a
large number of emigrants for Canada, &c.
SACRED -HARMONIC SOCIETY.—EXETER HALL
Mendelssohn will again conduct his St. Paul on Friday next,
the concert being the last this season.