The Sun.
London, England, 1844-07-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY )EVENING, JULY 4, 1544.

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A.1.0.NE l' A...N i) CI 7-lIIME R (A AL NEWS. f
CITY, QUAI?TEI? TO THREE.
A good business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yesterday,
at very firm rates. Sales about 7,000 bags, including 1,060
on speculation, and 500 for export; 800 bags Pernam, sid.
to 64d ; 700 Maranham, 41d. to sid. ; 200 Bahia, 54d. to
fid. ; 500 Surat, 2ld. to 3d. ; 100 La Gamyra, sd. ; and the
rest American, 4d. to 64d.—Grand Junction, Birmingham and
Liverpool, and Manchester Shares were in good request, but
others dull. BirMingham and Gloucester, 942; Dublin and
Di ogheda, 771; Eastern Counties, Registered, 13i ; Edin-
burgh, Leith, and Newhaven, Bonds, 14; ; Grand Junction,
Half, 111 i; Great Western, Fifths, 231; Lancaster and Car-
lisle, 5 ; Liverpool and Manchester,Ditto, 227 ; Half, 1111 ;
London and Birmingham, 220 ; Ditto, 321. Shares, '36* ;
Ditto Quarter, 25; Midland Counties, 95; Ulster, 37.
The papers, &c. by the Overland Mail have been received
to-day. The mercantile accounts are not very favourable,
but yet are considered as good as the last.
Stocks are firm, though dull, this morning. Consols 981 i
for the opening. Exchequer Bills realise 735. to 765. pre-
mium. Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 1024 to i.
The animation which prevailed yesterday in the Foreign
Market has quite subsided. Spanish Five per Cents. are 23k,
and the Three per Cents. 334, being rather flatter. Mexican,
kept up at 351 i ; and Chilian at 104 to 105. Brazilian,
New, were firm at iio2 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
obtain 601 to i.
Shares are at full quotations, and the northern lines have
risen. French are also better again.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List)
S per Cent. Reduced Annuities 99% Ti
11 per Cent. Reduced Annuities lO2
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 11=60.......
Ditto 30 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859
India Bonds,l,ooo ........... .................... ......
Ditto under 1,000.... ..........«.».„....».»....« 94
Consols for Open rig .....». »„ ..... • 98% Xl%
Exchequer Bills, 13(d. 116(1
5001 — ............ 75 pm.
Ditto 5ma11..., — •••••••••••• 76 pm.
Advertisd
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto New Bonds, 1829 and 1839
Chilian Bonds,6 per Cent lO5 104
Mexican, Bonds, .837, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 35%
Ditto Deferred Stock 15%
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 23
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 2% per Cents ..».«..... CO4 %
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. Pea SHAWL
Bristol and Exeter..................... 70
Eastern Counties
Ditto New Registered 81. 6s ltd.
Edinburgh and Glasgow ...... ...... 50,......
Dit o 14 Shares
Great Western
Ditto )6 Shares
London and Birmingham. lOO .. 222%t0
Ditto New Thirds 2 36% ...... to
London and Blackwall 16%
London and Brighton 5O ......... 465(
London and South Western ...... 41%
Ditto Eighth 5............ ............ 4/ ........ 3U
London and Croydon
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 1:1
North Br iti.,l
Norwich and Brandon

Trent Valley .... „ ..... ............... 2
York and North Midland ......... 50 llth _ .... ..... to
Ditto 14 Shares 25 a% ...... to
Ditto Scarboro' Branch 2% ...... 21.... ..... to 20%
Orleans, Tours, and Bordeaux 1 ..... .... 1%
Paris and Orleans ............
..... 20 ........ 39%
Parisand Rouen.... .............. ... 20 38% to 39
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London Joint Stock
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 3.—There has
been rather more business doing to-day, but without any
material alteration in prices.—Eastern Counties, Registered,
13i ; Manchester and Birmingham, 56 55i ; Ditto, Quarters,
3* premium ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 3i ; Man-
chester and Buxton, 10s. and Bs. 9d. premium ; Trent Valley,
8/1 i ; Manchester and Liverpool District Bank, 10 13-16.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
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
,Ex. Bills, I,OOW. 1314... '76 pro
New 5 per Cent. Ditto 5001
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 76 pal.
Jan 1-61, l2 '.16 Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859 1 2 5.16 Consols for 0pg..... ..... 98%
Jan. 1860 !lndia Stock for Acct....
FOREIGN.:. FUNDS.
Austrian. Portuguese, 5 per Cent
Belgian, 5 per Cent Ditto,. New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds 82% Prussian, 5 per Cent '
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — Russian, 5 per Cent .... ......
-hiliantf. per Cent
5 per Cent ...
Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Onto, 1824 Ditto, 3 per Cent 3 ,
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent....,, Ditto, Deferreti..... ......
Danish,3 per Cent ...... ...... 89 French, 5i er Cent --t. —c
Greek, Is. 5, 5 per Cent ..... Exchange -...f. —c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent ..... 55% French, 3 per Cent. Blf. s)c
Ditto, fi per Cent., 183'7.... Dutch, 2% per Cent... €O%
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent„ . Ditto, 5 per Cent ........10014
SHARES
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid)
Ditto, New S arcs, 171 ' paid ..... ......... ... .
Chester and Holyhead ( .. paid)
Dublin and Cashel, 2% paid
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid
Great Vl'estern (75 paid)
Ditto Firths, , 2 paid
Harwich (Braithwaite), 2 paid k %
Lancaster and Carlisle, 5 paid 4%
London and Birmingham (Stock) • 221%
Ditto, New *1 birds, 2 paid
Lenders and South Western (Al. 6s. 10d. paid)
Newc:.stle and Darin-Iron Junction. 21 paid 40%
North Midland (100 paid)
Ditto Half Shares, 40 paid
South Eastern and Dover (33 21 4d paid) ... . :
Trent Valley, 2 paid 8
York and North Midland (50 paid) lO5
%
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Orleans, Tours, arid Bourdeaux, I paid
Paris and Rouen, 20 paid
Rouen and Havre, RI paid

FIRE IN OXFORD-STREET.—Late last night a fire
of somewhat an alarming character broke out in the exten•
sive range of premises known as Stratford House, situate at
No. 161, Oxford-street, in the occupancy of Messrs. Taylor
and Morel, jewellers and dealers in fancy goods. An instant
alarm was raised, and in the course of a few minutes a great
body of the D division of police were on the spot, as well as
the St. Marylebone parish-engine. That part of the premises
where the fire originated was, with its contents, destroyed,
the adjoining apartments much damaged by fire and water,
and the ceilings underneath greatly damaged by water. The
loss is fully covered by insurances in the Sun and Guardian
Fire-offices.

THE CONVICT DALMAS.—Yesterday afternoon Drs.
Sutherland and Monro again visited the convict Dahlias, by
the direction of the Right Hon. the Home Secretary. Neither
his daughters nor any other visitors had been admitted to see
him. This, perhaps, was the more necessary, as at the time
of Dr. Sutherland's visit on Tuesday, the convict was natu-
rally excited. Dalmas was. Again conducted into the pre-
sence of Drs. Sutherland and Monro, by the principal turn-
key, Mr. Stiles, and he was dressed in the same manner as
on the preceding day. The interview lasted nearly an hour.
Several questions were put to the convict, the whole of which,
we are informed, he answered in the most composed manner.
Dalmas, if possible, appeared more cheerful than at the in-
terview on Tuesday, and conducted himself with the most
remarkable fortitude. Both Baron Gurney and the Home
Secretary are now entirely satisfied with 'the evidence, which
has undergone the most searching investigation since Satur-
day last at the Home-office. Sir James Graham having
stated that he would recommend the convict as an object of
the clemency of the Crown, provided sufficient and justifiable
grounds were produced to warrant the Right Hon. Gentle-
man in so doing, Drs. Sutherland and Monro again examined
the authorities of the prison, who had been in attendance on
the prisoner both before and after the trial, relative to his
general conduct and behaviour. The physicians will make
their report to the Home Secretary this day (Thursday),
and it is not improbable that the result will be communi-
cated to the High Sheriff the same evening. At any rate,
the fate of the convict will be early determined and an-
nounced to him on Friday.

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POST-OFFICE ARRANGEMENTS.—In our paper last
week we stated, that after the 6th instant, the mails going
northwards from London would start an hour earlier in the
mornings and evenings, and that there would be no altera-
tion of the time of the mails leaving Edinburgh, Glasgow,
and the intermediate post towns. However, it turns out that
further arrangements have been made, for the mails going
southwards from the metropolis of Scotland and other places
will start nearly two hours later. This arrangement will
afford the people in the north an opportunity of answering
their London letters two hours earlier than usual, for now
they cannot do so within five .or six hours after their arrival
in the' north. The Post- office authorities are using their
best endeavours in facilitating the expeditious transit of let-
ten,' which will be duly appreciated by the public.
LICENSED VICTUALLERS' SCHOOL.—The dinner
of the supporters and subscribers to the funds by which this
school is partly supported, took place yesterday, at 'White
Conduit-house, Pentonville. It was 'very numerously at-
tendeu, nearly 1,200 persons sitting down to the good things
provided by Mr. Rouse, the proprietor, beneath an immense
temporary building of wood and canvass, decorated with
flags, devices, mid pictures emblematical of benevolence and
charity, evergreens, flowers, &c. In the gallery were some'
hundreds of ladies who enlivened the proceedings by their
Presence. The musical arrangements were under the direc-
tion of Mr. Ashton, assisted by upwards of a dozen profes-
sional vocalists. Mr. Toole, the toast-master, kept the order
of the drinking, and announced in his usual manner the com-
mands of the chairman, Mr. W. Wigram, of the firm of Reid
and Co., supported by Mr. Octavius Wigram, Mr. W. Reid,
Is‘rce it separate till several hours after.
of
&c. There were also present many persons of high respecta-
bility connected with the beer and spirit trades. The healths
of the
were Royal Family, of the Army and Navy, of the Chair-
man,drunk
of the Queen, of Prince Albert, and of the other members
and the toast of the evening, " Success to the School."
&e.
with great loyalty and enthusiasm, and se-
veral speeches were made, but so great was the noise of
thousands of voices, that excepting to those close to the
speakers, it was impossible to catch the words of the
speakers. The amount ef subscriptions was considerably
above 1,000/., the chairman giving 50/., and Messrs. Reid
and Co. lOU, it being the thirty-secoud subscription of an
equal sum. In the course of the evening the children edu-
cated at the school entered the room, and one of the boys
spoke an addresswritten for the occasion. The whole of the
boys and girls than sang a hymn, and retired. The company
did not
lOUS ILLNESS OF AIR. J. SCHOLEFIELD, M.P.
_
regret to hear that serious apprehensions are enter-
tained the ultimate restoration to health of the Honour-
able Member for Birmingham, who, we lament to state, is so
dangerously ill that his family has been summoned to his
chamber. We understand that the Honourable Gentleman
y 24th ult., the result of which has been the loss of the use of
on
but on Monday his medical attendants considered him some-
whatlase
ssie die z. e d
On kith
Sunday
a paralytic attack on Monday week, the
n
day last the worst fears were entertained,
better. On inquiry •yesterday we were informed that
Mr. Scholefield had passed a restless night, and was rather
worse. Mrs. Scholefield and the members of her family are
in town with the Hon. Gentleman, as also the family physician
from 13irmingham.
FROLICS or
y A TAR AT DEVONPORT.-011 Wed-
nesda evening a tipsy sailor, lately paid off from the
Indus, was observed pursuing a zigzag course towards
Mutton Cove, in which he several times lost his equili-
brium and embraced mother earth. He, however, scram-
bled as far as the quay, when, to the horror of some and
amusement of others' over lie went, clothes and all on,
and struck out across Cremil ferry. After he had swam
three parts over (nearly half a mile), he came back and
made his way up into the town ; but shortly returned,
and stripped to his trousers, and took another voyage
towards the opposite shore. On landing again he be-
came quarrelsome, and got into a fight, when he was
seized and taken to his lodgings. A crowd which had
assembled were highly delighted at Jack's novel mode of
enjoying himself. •
A QUADRUPLE ALLIANCE.—The sloth, which has
just arrived in this country, is described to have four
stomachs. He has four good reasons to congratulate him-
self, then, that the Zoologicallardens• is. not is poor-law

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

DISPATCHES FOR TANGIER.—The Sydenham steam-sloop,
Lieut.-CommanderMapleton, having had her defects repaired
at Portsmouth, is ordered to Devonport, whence she will
proceed to Tangier with dispatches for the British Consul. If
her services be not required by that functionary, she will go
to Gibraltar, and be under the command in chief of Vice-
Admiral Sir E. Owen, at Malta. As we stated previously to
her being commissioned, she will be employed as a packet-
boat on the Mediterranean station, but more especially on the
western part, and by the consul at Tangier.
The Albion, 90, Captain W. Lockyer, C. 8., is under orders
at Cork to hold herself ready for sea at the shortest notice.
Her destination. it is said, will be. Gibraltar.
The Dee, steam troop-vessel, Master Commander J. H.
Laen, is employed conveying the Royal Marines to their re-
spective divisions, and will then wait orders at Chatham.
The Tartarus, steam-sloop, Captain Wolfe, has arrived at
Cork, from Bombay.
The Madagascar, 44, Captain Foote.—By letters from this
frigate to the 10th May, we hear that she was to leave the
Cape de Verde Islands on the 6th of this month for England
to be paid off.

The Penelope, 22, steam-frigate, Captain Jones, was off
Cape Mount on the sth of April, and was about to proceed
to Boa Vista.

The Larne, 18, Commander Brisbane, has gone to Cape
Mount.

The Spy, 3, brigantine, Lieutenant-Commander Woold-
ridge, is ordered from her cruising ground to Ascension, and
thence to Spithead.
The Sealark, 10, Commander Gooch, was on her way to
Calabar and Benin, to relieve the Spy.
The Fox, 42, Captain Sir H. M. Blackwood, Bart., has re-
ceived her sailing orders at Devonport, for Calcutta. The
Fox takes out two full-length portraits of her Majesty as
presents to the Emperor of China.
The old breakwater light ship is to be fitted at Devonport
for a tank vessel.