The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-22 00:00:00

THIS DAY S NEWS

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MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE
A favourable change took place on Saturday in the Liver-
pool Cotton Market, a large business having been done at
firmer rates ; sales 10,000 bales, of which speculators took
4,000, and exporters I,ooo.—There was no change to notice
in the Share Market. Birmingham and Gloucester, 100 ;
Eastern Counties, 12A ; Grand Junction, 2141 ; Great West-
ern, Half, 81 ; Lancaster and Preston, 39 ; Birmingham,
Thirds, 37.1 ; Brighton, 474 ; Midland Counties, 99i • South
Eastern, 37*; Ditto New, ; Paris and Lyons, 21.165. 6d.
It has often happened, and will doubtless frequently occur
again, that to obtain accurate estimates of pending events,
we must look for information from abroad. But in the in-
stance to which we now have to draw attention, the reverse,
it may safely be assumed, is not the fact. It was not to be
expected that the 'West India monopolists would concur
in the law for: admitting the produce of free-grown foreign
sugars at a reduced duty. The toscin of alarm, at first sounded
but slightly on this side of the ocean, has been echoed back
with redoubled strength from the West India colonies.
Nothing but total destruction to the planters is held to be
inevitable. Take as a sample of the feelings of the colonists
a resolution passed at a meeting held at Falmouth, Ja-
maica, last month, upon this subject. It is as
follows :—" That such a proposition (i. e., the Government
increase, if carried into effect by the Imperial Legislature,
will expose this colony to a ruinous competition with foreign
producers, and will afford unjustifiable facilities to the sur-
reptitious and indirect introduction into the home markets of
slave-grown produce, inflicting a lasting and irretrievable in-
jury upon every class of persons connected with or resident
in this colony, it being utterly impracticable for the agricul-
turists to withdraw from the cultivation of the present staples,
and to apply their capital, machinery, or stock, to any other
remunerating stock."
It will be for the authorities at home to place all due checks '
to prevent the admission of slave produce in contravention of
the provisions of the Act of the Imperial Legislature permit-
ting sugars, the produce of free-labour, to be entered for home
consumption at the reduced duty.
There were late, and we ;are pleased to say, favourable
accounts from New South Wales this morning. The dates
are to the 6th April, brought by the General Hewitt.
Trade had improved, and crime had decreased.
Of the 5,000 emigrants to be sent out by the
Home Government, 1,500 had reached the colony, and
all had found employment. So far, therefore, the intentions
of the Governments have been successful. Those acquainted
with agricultural pursuits were most in demand. It was es-
timated that the flocks of sheep in the colony were at least
five millions in number.

In the Stock Market this morning there has been some
alteration to-day. The current value of Consols for Money
and the Account has been from 995 to 99k, being
an improvement of 4 per cent. The Government brokers
bought 20,0001. Reduced Three per Cents. at 1084, the
highest value that has been paid for this Stock for very many
years. All the other Funds were firm. The Reduced Three-
and-a-Half per Cents. are in full demand at 1035 ; India
Stock for the Account at 286 ; Bank Stock at 1994 to 200;
and the New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. at 24 per cent.
above par.
The Foreign Market is not quite so buoyant. Spanish
Consols have receded to 224, and Three per Cents. are at
334 4 ; Portuguese Converted are flat at 441. The other
Continental and South American Bonds bear about Satur-
day's values.
The Railway Shares are advancing. The Birmingham and
Gloucester have reached 15 premium ; the Bristol and Glou-
cester 164 premium ; the Great Western 594 premium ; the
Fifths 12 premium; and the Manchester and Leeds 365 pre-
mium. In Banking Shares there has not been any variation.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
• •••••• 200 19934
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 100%14
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 99% %
334 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 334 per Cent. Annuities 102%14
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 l2 11-16%
India Bonds,l,ooo
Ditto under 1,000 ..........................
South Sea Stock
Console for Account ........... ... ..................
India Stock
... 286
Exchequer Bills, 130. iyid.
1,0001.
500/... —.... ............».. ....... 7B 76 pm.
Ditto ima11.....„.„„..... _
76
pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 1043f
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839. B2 811,(
Columbian Bonds
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 3%
Ditto Deferred Stock ..... ........
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent ........ .....,
.....
Ditto Converted
45 44%
Ditto for the Account ................ ..
Spanish, Bonds, Fite per Cent 1840 —
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds ...............» ........... „ .......... „
Ditto Three per Cent. .......................... „ —
Ditto for the Account .................... „
Dutch 2% per Cents
61% 34% Dutch 5 per Cents
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE 4.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SMARR.
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO . ....... 10134.... to
Bristol and Gloucester
Chester and Holyhead.... ........ ... 5
~ 414
Eastern...-
Counties ...... .............. .29 a.41‘... 1274%
Ditto New Registered, Sl. 6s. Bd. ...... 14%% ... to
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O ......... 64 •to
Omit Western
....
75
Ditto % Shares
Ditto Fifths l2 93W: tO 24
Hull and Selby
. to
Ditto % Share!. 8
Lancaster and Carlisle
London and Brighton, llO E,.,..,.. 41313
London'and Greenivlch (Preterence) 18%
London and South Western ...... 41% ...... 8134
London and Croydon ............... 13% ...... 17%
Manchester
and Leeds 7O ......... 106% %... to Di' - - - • -

Mtn 3 Shares 3o•j."
Midland Count;--—

—ounties lOO
•.. 90% tb 1/0
Newcastle and DarlingtonJUnct 2l 3IN to
Northern and Ea--

stern 4b 5s ''''' to
South Eastern and Dover 323 .. 3;" .to Dit•

Ditto New - r
York and North Midland .....
0 .104— ll
...... to
Ditto 3 Shares 125 531 to
Ditto Scarboro' Branch
Orleans, Tours, and Bourdeaua 1 .... 2... to ....
MANCHESTER STOCK ExcitAloat, JULY 20.—We have no
material alteration to note in the market to-day. Prices re-
main firm. Huddersfield and Manchester, 17s. 6d. prem. ;
Blackburn and Preston, 3 ; Eastern Counties Perpetual,
No. 1, 325. 10d. prem. ; Ditto, No. 2,20 s. 4d. prem.; Man-
chester, Bury, and Rossendale, 3 13'16ths'

FOUND DROWNED.—This morning the body of a
man, between forty and fifty years of age, was found off
Cadogan pier, Chelsea. The head was in a most frightful
state, the body having lain in the water seVeiral days. From
inquiries which have been made, it appears that the de-
ceased's name was Pegler, and he was formerly a clerk in the
banking-house of Messrs. Coutts, Strand. The btkly lies at
the Swan public-house, where the inquest will be held.
WILL OF THE EARL OP LONSDALE.—The will of
the late Earl of Lonsdale has been just proved, in Doctors'
Commons, by the Right Hon. William Earl of Lonsdale, the
Hon. Henry Cecil Lowther (sons of the deceased), and Sir
John Beckett, Bart. The deceased gives a very large por-
tion of his property to his wife (who died in his lifetime).
To his cousin, Mary Frances Thompson, 10,0004 but by his
codicil he revokes this legacy, and gives her an annuity of
1,0004 per annum instead. To his friend the Hon. G. O'Cal-
laghan, 2,000/. By the codicil, to his son Cecil and family
(in addition to the benefit they received by the will), 30,0004
His Lordship observes, " My domestics and servants are so
numerous that it would be next to impossible to name them
separately;" and desires his executors to compensate them,
leaving the amounts to their discretion. He desires to be
buried in Lowther, in a " private manner." The will is
very long, and dated in 1836. The personal property is
sworn under the large sum of 100,000/.
BERLIN, JULY 17.—Intelligence has been received
here from Kissingen, that his Serene Highness Prince Albert,
who has gone therefor the benefit of the waters, has been
suddenly taken ill, and some apprehensions were felt that
the disorder would prove to be an inflammatory fever.

MARKET NE WS.-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE-MONDAY.
Fresh up to. day we received a fair quantity of Wheat from
Kent and Essex, but that from other parts was rather limited.
The stands being rather heavily filled with last week's un-
sold samples, and the millers not feeling disposed to purchase
except on easier terms; the demand for all kinds of Wheat
of home produce was excessively heavy, at a decline in the
currencies noted on Monday last of from is to, in some in-
stances, 3s per quarter, and at which amount of depression no
progress could be made in effecting sales. There was only a
moderate quantity of free foreign Wheat on sale, yet the trade
with that article was as dull as almost ever remembered,
and the rates gave way from is to fully 2s per quarter.
Comparatively speaking, only a limited quantity has paid duty.
In bonded Grain so little was doing that the quotation re-
mained nominally the same. Of samples of Foreign Barley,
a good number was on sale ; while the Barley trade was ex-
cessively dull, and where sales were pressed, is per quarter
more money would have been accepted. No English Barley
at market. The supply of Malt embraced only about 3,800
quarters, yet that grain was a mere drug, and might have
been purchased at a great reduction in value. The quantity
of Oats was large, and we have to notice a decline of 6d per
quarter in their value. Beans, Peas, and Flour declined
from Is to 2s per quarter, with next to nothing doing in them.
So little was doing is Seeds, that the rates were almost no-
minal.

CURRENCY PER IMPERIAL MEASURE.
WHEAT—Essex & Kent, MALT—Chevalier 63s to
red ...... ...... 433 to 536 OATS—Yorkshire and
Ditto, white
Norfolk and Lin- Potatoe
coin, red 403 to 43s Youghall and Cork,
Ditto white 42s to 47s black
Irish, red 47s to 508 Cork, white
. .

Scotch, feed 2ls to 238
BEANS—Tick 25s to 29s
Pigeons 36s to 39s
PEAR— Grey ..... 3OB to 32.
Maple .......... 27s to 32a
White 30s to Ms
Boilers 32s to 38s
FLOUR—Town made 46s to 48.
Ms to 38s
Stockton Si Norfolk 343 to 300
rD FLOUR IN BOND.
BEANS 208 to 26s
Pass 23s to 27.
FLOUR—American
Baltic

DittO white
RYE—Old 2ss to 3351
New 36s to 38s
BARLEY—Grinding 23s to 27s
Malting 3.Ss Is 36s
Chevalier ...... 32s to 35s
MALT—Suffolk and ,70r..
folk s6s to 623
Brown sos to 51s
Kingston and Ware 566 to 62s
FOREIGN GRAIN Al
WHEAT—Dantzic
• Ilamburgh 36s to 40s
BARLEY 305 to 33s
OATS—New lts to IBs
Feed l4s to 16sa
SIVaTIIFIELD.
From our northern grazing districts, a full average time-oi
year supply of beasts came fresh to hand, in, for the most
part, excellent condition ; while the droves from other quar-
ters were tolerably extensive; hence our market was well
supplied with that description of stock. Notwithstanding
the prevailing warm weather, we have to report a steady,
but by no means brisk, demand for Beef, at, in every in-
stance, prices fully equal to those obtained on Monday last
—the best Scots realising 4s per 81bs—and at the conclusion
of business a good clearance was effected by the salesmen.
The number of Sheep were again on the increase. However,
the primest Downs and Half-breds commanded a fair inquiry,
at very full currencies, while all other kinds were quite as
dear, and nearly the whole of them were disposed of. Al-
though the supply of Lambs was large, the inquiry for them
was steady, and full rates were realised without difficulty.
Prime small Calves sold freely, other kinds of Veal slowly,
at late rates. Upwards of 200 Pigs were received from .-
land, while the Pork trade was in a sluggish state, at barely
stationary prices.

Per Bibs. to sink the offaL

5 d. to s. d. s. d. to s. d.
Inferior Beasts 2 6 2 it: Second qualityditte... 3 2 3 2
Second quality ditto 3 0 3 4 Coarse-woolled ditto.. 3 6 3 8
Prime large Oxen 3 6 3 8 Southdown Wethers 3le 4 0
Prime Scot; &c. -
Large coarse Calves 3 2 3 8 Large Hogs 1 0 8 6
Prime small ditto 3lO 4 4 Small Porkers... ..... 3 8 4 0
Suckling Calves, each 18 0 35 1: Quarter old Pigs,eachl6 0 20 0
Inferior Sheep
SUPPLY AT MARKET.
Beasts. I Sheep. Calves. I Pigs,
I
2,580 23,250 193 350
NEIVGATE AND LEADMITTLA.LL.
On reference to our returns below it will be observed that
the arrivals of country-killed meat up to these markets since
this day se'nnight have been seasonably good, but a large
portion, owing to the prevailing warm weather, has come to
hand much out of condition, and consequently been disposed of
at miserably low rates. The supplies of meat slaughtered in
the metropolis have been, the time of year considered, tole-
rably extensive, yet the demand has ruled, comparatively
speaking, steady at in most transactions, if we except those
of the inferior qualities of Beef and Pork, full prices.
At per stone, by the Carcase.
S. d. to s. cl. s 4. to s. d.
Beef, inferi0r............ 2 0 2 2 Hutton, Inferior 2 4 2 8
-- middling ..... .... 2 4 2 6 --- middling 210 3 2
prone large ...... 2 8 3:0 prime ... 3 4 3 8
prime small ...... 3 2 3 4 Fork, 1arge..„....„ 2 6. 3 4
Vea1.........„.....:..... 3 2- 4 2 —small 3 6 4 0
Lamb. 4s Od to Is Od.
ARRIVALS DURING THE PAST WEEK.
Beasts. Sheep. Calves. Pigs.
6 180 --
8 212 4111

Scotland
Yorkshire

....
Norfolk — 35
Suffolk 6O
Cambridgeshire .. 4 40
Essex l2 120 00
Surrey l6 3CO 196
Devonshire
Wiltshire
Other parts

12
16
84
200

Total 76 1,107 414 4t2
Previous week's arrival

Difference since ourlast 5 634 35 102
WOOL MAR,3I.ET. _
The public sales of Wool held since our last have been
well attended by buyers. At their commencement the bid-
dings were not very animated, and prices even hardly main-
tained. However, as they have proceeded they have become
brisk, at in some instances higher figures. The sales will be
brought Jo a close on Thursday next. Privately a fair busi-
ness is doing, both in English and Foreign, at late rates. The
imports for the past week have amounted to nearly 4,000
packages.

TALLOW MARKET.
This market is the same, the prices are unaltered, and bu-
siness dull. The advices received from St. Petersburgh are
up to the 13th instant. Prices then were the same as the
two or three previous posts. 111 to 114 roubles, making
the cost down here, 43s to 43s 6d per cwt. Town Tallow is
40s 6d nett cash.

BOROUGH AND SPXTALFIELDS.
Such is the limited business doing in old Potatoes—the
supplies of which on offer are smaller—that it is difficult to
give accurate figures. However they may be considered to
range from 60s to 85s per ton. New potatoes are in good
supply and active demand, at from 7s to 15s per cwt.
BOROUGH HOP IMARHZT.
We have again to report the receipt of very unfavourable
reports from Sussex, and several parts of the Weald of Kent,
where the bine is looking very unhealthy, and where it is now
evident but few hops can be produced. The Worcester dis-
trict and the best parts of East and mid Kent promise a
good return. The duty is called 145,0001. For most kinds of
Hops the demand is in a very sluggish state, and prices are
barely supported. Sussex pockets, Si 18s to 61 10s; Weald
of Kent ditto, 615 s to 71; Middling Kent ditto, 71 to 9/ 15s ;
Ditto bags, 71 to 8/ ss; East Kent pockets, 71 to 91; Choice
ditto, 10/ to 12/.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, JULY 22.—Wind fresh south-westerly breeze, and
fine.

DEAL, JULY 21.—Wind A.m. S. to S.W.; P.M. S.W.—
Arrd. Ariel, Sydney, New South Wales ; Windsor, Fennell,
Calcutta; Helene Catharine' St. Thomas for Copenhagen;
Doctor Syntax, La Guayra for Bremen; Niord, New York
for Rotterdam ; Detroit, Boston for Cronstadt ; Gironde and
Thomas and Hannah, Quebec. Sld. Malabar, Bombay;
Lord Auckland, Hobart Town; Kandiana, Calcutta; Mag-
net, west coast of Africa; Freeman, Cape of Good Hope;
Mary, Ichaboe ; Ruckers, Demerara ; Truelove, Grenada
D'Auvergne, Jamaica; renfells, Cuba; and the whole of
the outward-bound.
PonTsmounr, JULY 21.—Wind S. to W.S.W.—Arrd. Un-
daunted, Miller, Quebec ; her Majesty's steamer Dee, Mil-
ford; Ratcliff, Garrett, China, left Cape of Good Hope May
19 ; Parrock Hall, London for Sydney, New South Wales.
Sld. Eliza, Quebec; Oberon, St. John's, N. 8., after clearing
the nets from her keel.
MARGATE.—The Lady of the Lake, from London to Bide-
ford, got on the sands, but came off and proceeded.
FALMOUTH, JULY 21.—Wind variable and light.—Sld. her
Majesty's ship Crane, Plymouth.
LIVERPOOL, JULY 20.—Wind W.N.W., fresh. 21. Wind
S.S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Jessamine, Miller, GonaiVes ; Hero
of Acre, Jones, Savannah; Victoria, Hartshorn, New York;
Adelaide, Foot, Montreal; John Foster, Cape Coast Castle;
Isabel, Antigua; Eleanor, Fanny and Omeo, Taylor New
Orleans; Milton, Dixon, Mobile; J. T. Ford, Day, Quebec.
Sld. Lady Sandys, Singapore; Victoria, Aden; Josepha,
Ichaboe; Charles Carter, Bahia; Eliza Johnston, Pernam-
buco; Kilby, New Orleans; George Washington, Pacific, and
Rappahannock, New York ; Hemes, Buenos Ayres ; Indus,
Princess Royal, ship, Princess Royal, steamer, Nimrod, and
ship Queen Mab, and Black Prince, Bombay; Dauntless,
Quebec.
HAI-mum, Juix 21.—A loaded brig, name unknown,
got on the Gunfleet this morning, but has been assisted off.
The Guernsey Lily (loaded) was totally lost on May 17,
on the mainland of Ichaboe ; crew saved. . -
The barque Charles, of Liverpool, in rendering assistance
to the Guernsey Lily, lost two men.
THE SUNKEN WRECK IN RAMSEY BAY.
Ramsey, Isle of Man, July 17, 1844.
Sir,—On Friday last I went out, in a boat, three miles in
the bay, and succeeded in bringing the wreck of a vessel
(supposed to be the Alexander M‘Niel, of Stranraer, lost in
March last) nearly on shore, her mast-head-being a most
dangerous obstruction in the way of the navigation.
(Signed) F. M'NIELLY.
To W. Dobson, Esq., Lloyd's.

THE Is'limns or Sum—The arrival of the Go-
vernor-General of India ih Egypt, on his overland route, is
an event not to be passed without notice. We have read
with great interest that Sir Henry Hardinge has had an in-
terview with Mahomed Ali, and no doubt made that liberal-
minded Prince seethe mutual benefits Egypt and England must
derive from a close and friendly intercourse. The day cannot be
far distant when the Mediterranean and Red. Sea shall be
united, if not by a canal, by a railway, which may be said
to unite even seas together, almost as effectively as if the
waters of one flowed into the other. We anticipate that,
ere long, we shall have a convention with Egypt for the
convdytihes of our regiments from the Mediterranean to
the Red Sea, and thence to India, thus enabling us to
send in about two months, or six weeks on an emergency,
a European force to our empire in the East. Instead
of conveying our soldiers round the Cape at- an enormous
expense, Out regiments could, after a proper seasoning sn
the Mediterranean, be moved on to India, and vice versa, as
required, when a railway had been completed, as we trust is
now detcrniined on. The Visit of Sir Henry Hardinge to the
Pacha, we conceive will do much good; and as the begin-
ning of a friendly arrangement, for still greater facility and
celerity of transit through Egypf, we cannot too highly esti-
mate the wisdom of the Governor-General's laying the basis
of the negotiations fur that object—a/VOW- and Military
Gazette.
IMi'ofirANf t 0 EMIARANTS TO NEW ORLEANS.—
By advices from her Majesty's Consul at New Orleans, it
appears that the yellow fever had been singularly destructive
of life among iwgratts arriving froth Europe during the
isiekly geasbh of the atithhal of the year. The Coltlinlsslonsi's
'of Emigration hair's issued a notice warning persons of the
danger, and appriting them that in order to avoid it they
ought het is he iniliictd to start ll•Oth this Cyuntry during
the months of June, July, August, and Septemnet
DEATH OF DOCTOR HASLAM.—On Saturday morn-
ing, at half-past eight o'clock, John Haslam, M.D., died at
his house in Lamb's Conduit-street, iu the Slat year of his
age. The doctor was distinguished for the cure and allevia-
tion of diseases of the mind, and has left behind him many
valuable works upon this melancholy subject. He‘was an
excellent scholar, a witty and cheerful companion, and a
most zealous and sincere friend ; and his memory will be
long cherished by a numerous class of friends and admirers.
We are happy to notice the improvement that has
taken place in the receipts of the Rhenish Railway, amount-
ing to about 400,000 f., in the first six months of this year
compared with 1843. In the first six months of 1844, the
receipt ,was 214,122 dollars ; (14Poj 180, 111,76 2 dollars •
increase in 1844,100,3§0 dollars. 'l'he receipts la.. June,lB44,
were 22,230 dollar more than in June, 1843