The Sun.
London, England, 1845-05-17 00:00:00

i!TZEAD.

The prices of Wheaten Bread the Metropolis are from
7d to 7id ; of Household ditto, 5d to 6,1 d per 4lbs leaf.

HAT ivitAsticETS.
SMITIMELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ lOs to 4/ 10s; use-
ful do., 4/ 12s to 514 s ; fine Upland do., 515 s to 5/ 12s ; Clover
Hay, 41 10s to 613 s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 212 s ; Wheat Straw,
21 2s to 2/ 3s per load. A fair average supply and a sluggish
demand.
CUMBERLAND. Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 12s to 4/ 12s ;
useful ditto, 4/ 14s to 5/ 4s ; fine Upland ditto, 515 s to 5l 14s;
Clover Ilay, 4/ lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 2/ to 21 2s ;
Wheat Straw, 2/ 2s to 2/ 4s per load. Trade tolerably
steady, at late rates.
WHITECIIAPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 3/ 12s to 4/ lOs;
useful ditto, 4/ 12s to 5/ 5s ; fine Upland ditto, 5l 6s to 5/
12s ; Clover Hay, 4/ lOs to 6/6s ; Oat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ Is ,
Wheat Straw, 212 s to 2/3s per load. Both Hay and Straw
moved off slowly at about stationary figures.

ILO YD'S SHIPPING.—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 17.—Wind N.W., moderate breeze and
cloudy.
DEAL, MAY 16.—Wind N.N.E.—Arrd. Lady Lydford,
Scott, Ichaboe ; Niord, Kaslen, Bahia, for Stockholm.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 16.—Wind N.N.W., light. Arrd.
Evening Star, New Orleans ; Powhatton and Carrol,
Mobile. Sld. William and Elizabeth, New Orleans ;
Senhora, Nassau. The Bairns, bound to Jamaica, has put
back with damage, and leaky, having been on Burbo Bank.
Burs Tor„ MAY 17.—The Nora Creina. from Sumna,
which sunk in Kings-road in November, has been raised and
towed on the mud at the entrance of the River, where it is
expected she will ebb dry.
RELFAST, MAY 14.—Skl. Perseverance, New York.
GALWAY, MAY 14.—The Susan, O'Malley, in entering the
harbour grounded outside but got elf, after being lightened,
without apparent damage. The Mary, Davis, on leaving the
harbour grounded, but came off without damage.
SitiEws, MAY 15.—The Queen of the Tyne, of Aberdeen,
in leaving the harbour on the 9th inst., got in contact with a
ressel belonging to Newcastle, which sprung her bowsprit,
and has since been surveyed and condemned.
GREENOCK, MAY 15.—A large iceberg was passed on the
3d inst., in lat. 45, lon. 71, by the Countess Loudon, arrived
here. The mast and part of a rudder, supposed belonging to
one of her Majesty's revenue cutters, the pulleys having the
broad arrow, and being marked "No. 1 cutter," have been
fallen in with off Lowestoffe, and brought in here.

NATIONAL ANTI-CORN-LAW
LEAGUE BAZAAR.—(THIS DAY.)
The Bazaar was crowded this morning within a few
minutes after the doors were opened. The majority of the
visitors stood fur some minutes on the staircase leading from
the entrance hall, for the purpose of admiring the splendid
specimens of carpet manufacture with which it is hung. One of
these carpets is a copy from Ruben's celebrated picture of the
Descent from the Cross. It looks like a piece of Gobelin's
tapestry, and is a perfect triumph of art. Opposite to these is
a beautiful model of a wherry. In the Shakespere Saloon a
silk communion cloth attracted great attention from the
beauty of its fabric and the elegance of its design. The great
hall was crowded, but not with mere loungers. There were
a greater number of purchasers at the stalls this morning
than we have usually observed at this early hour. The
Post-office, with its notifications of dismissals and appoint-
ment, of things lost and found, and of the arrival of mails,
was a source of great amusement to the visitors, and of no
small pecuniary profit to the League Treasury. We yester-
day noticed a superb pony phaeton which was for sale in the
yard. Close to the photon stands one of the smallest and
most beautiful Shetland ponies ever seen. Ile is a present to
the League from the Islanders, and is marked at 101. 10s.

CITY IMPROVEMENTS.—Yesterday, in consequence
of an order of the joint committee of the parishes of St.
Giles, Cripplegate, and St. Luke, Middlesex, with the con-
currence of the Church Building Commissioners, the work-
house of Cripplegate parish, a large building, situate in
Moor- lane, Tenter-street, and New Union-street, Cripple-
gate, was sold by auction, by Mr. Pullen, for the purpose of
being taken down to clear the site, on which itis intended
to build a church for the improvements adjoining the
New Royal Exchange. I. has been proposed also to make
a new street in continuation of Moor• lane to Bunhill row,
which is to be carried across Shepherdess Fields to Islington.

1.845.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was flat.
Sales 4,000 bags. Railway Shares were somewhat firmer.
Barnsley Junction, Hoy Shares, 41s. 21/s ; Birkenhead,
Manchester, and Cheshire, 103/4 1/2 ; Blackburn, Darwen,
and Bolton, 5% ; Belfast and Ballymena, 83/4 ; Bolton,
Wigan, and Liverpool, 13 11% ; Caledonian, 11 Is. 3d. ;
Ditto Extension, 314 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 7 7% ;
Chester and Birkenhead, 541 55 ; Ditto, New Shares, 48 %;
Ditto, Half Shares, 27 ; Churnet Valley, 6% 6 • Clitheroe
Junction, 2% 3/4 ; Cork and Waterford, 2% ; Dublin and
Galway, 4 ; Dublin, Mullingar, and Athlone, 41/, %; Dun-
dalk and Enniskillen, 43/4 ; Eastern Counties, New Shares,
414 ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 17%; Grand Junction,
230 ; Great North of England, 198 ; Great North of Scot-
land, 3 ; Great Southern and Western Extension, 13% ;
Great Western, Fifth Shares, 413/4 ; Jamaica Junction, 4 ;
Limerick and Waterford, 834 % ; Liverpool and Manchester,
Half Shares, 107 ; Ditto. New Shares, 383/4, ; London and
Birmingham, 235 ; London andiWindsor, A ; London and
York, 91s. 935. 9d. ; Direct Northern, 34 ; Leeds and Thirsk,
71A ; Leeds and West Riding Junction, 9% 3/4 ; Manchester
and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 91/8 4 ; Manchester
and Buxton, 55% ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 160 ;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland, 61% •, Manches-
ter and Leeds, 154 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 704 70; Ditto,
Quarter Shares, 21% 4 ; Midland Railway, 162% : Ditto,
401. Shares, 19%/,t ; Ditto Consolidated Birmingham and
Derby, 1231,4 • Newcastle and Berwick, 141/2 15; Newry and
Enniskillen, 514 Is. 6d. ; North Union (A), 145% ; North
Wales Mineral, New Shares, 53/4 ; North Western, 4% ;
Oxford and Birmingham Junction, 3% ; Runcorn Gap,
Preference Shares, 34 IA ; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter
Shares, 15% ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birming-
ham, 43/4 5 ; Shrewsbury and Grand Junction, 5%; Shrews-
bury, aswestry, and Cheshire, 43/4 ; South-Eastern and
Dover, 41172 ; Ditto, New Shares, No. 1, 131/2 ; Ditto, No. 3,
6% 18s. 9d. ; Scottish Central, 63/4 ; Trent Valley Con-
tinuation, % ; Welsh Midland, 2 ; West Yorkshire,
21/8 ; Worcester and Tring, 434 ; York and Carlisle, 24
475. ; Namur and Liege, 64 ; Northern of France (English),
5% ; Ditto, Rosamel'e, (English), 465. 24 • Orleans, Tours,
and Bordeaux (English), 10%; Paris and 'Lyons, Laffitte's
(Engli.h), 3 595. ; Paris and Lyons (Ganneren's), 535. Ed.
545. ; Paris and Rouen, 424 ; Paris and Strasburgh, 21/2 ;
Sambre and Meuse, 10.
The arrivals of the present week having been so numer-
ous, there is nothing due, and we have no later intelligence
to-day.
The Bank of England during the week to May
10, increased its issue of notes by 55,840/., and its
stock of bullion by 58,432/. There were, however, 312,125/.
snore of the notes appropriated to the creditor side of the
banking department. The Rest has been remarkably steady,
for it exhibits an increase of 5/. The Public deposits were
increased by 679,436/., and the other deposits lessened by
290,154/.
The Funds are firmer to-day. Consols for immediate
transfer bring 98% to 98%, and for time 99 to 1/2. Ex-
chequer-bills have been at a premium of 565. to 545. Bank
Stock is at 2101/. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents.
have been 100% to 100%.
The Foreign Bonds are still dull. Spanish Five per Cents.
have been nominally 30% %; the Three per Cents are 42%;
and Portuguese Converted, 67 to 674 Mexican have been
361/ to 36%; and Chilian Deferred, 52 ; Dutch 214 per
Cents. have realised 63%.
For Railway Shares there has been a firm market, and the
Paris and Lyons Shares have risen, as well as some of the
other French lines. The Midland Counties, the Irish, and
some of the English lines are very well supported.

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities 97% 98
3 per Cent. Consols Anns 98% 99%
New 314 per Cent. Aunuties lOl 100% 101%
Long Annuities ,Expire sth Jan. 1860... 111/
Do. 30 I ears, Expire Oct. 10,1859... 11%
Ditto 30 Years, Expire Jan. 5, 1860 ... 11 9-16
India Stock for Account
India Bonds 1,0001 —
Ditto under 1,0001 6B
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 13/4d. 11/2d.
1,000/.
5001.
Ditto Small —
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent B9
Chilian Bonds, 6 per Cent —
Ditto Deferred
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account .. ..,
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account 67%1A%
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 —
Ditto Passive Bonds Bl4
Ditto 3 per Cent —
Ditto for the Account.
Dutch 21/2 per Cents ........... ......
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... 9811,4 97%

PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHAM
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush 1% 2%8 to
Brighton, Lewes, Hastings ... 20
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New ............ 2
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian ll% to 11

- Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 11/2 7%%... to
Chester and Holyhead
Cuichester and Brighton lO ..... 11% to
Churnet Valley
Vireet Northern .... ........ .. 21,( 34 to
Dublin and Galway .
Dublin and Mullingar 2% 4%..... to
_ _

Eastern Counties 25

to --

Do. Perpet. 5 per Ct. No. 1. 51.13 s 4d 11/...... to
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Ditto New 1A Shares 2l/ 6% ..... to
Great North of England...... 100
Ditto New ... ... 5
Ditto New
Great Western
Ditto % Shares .. 50 105
Guildford, Fareham, Portms, 2% 514%2— to
Harwich 1
London and Birmingham ...100
Ditto !,4* Shares
London and Blackwall 16% 94 to
London and 8right0n.......... 50 ...... 64 to
London and Croydon... 131. 15s. 9d.... 181/2.. to
London and Greenwich... 12/. 15s. 4d... 10.8 3/4 o 11
London and South Western.. 41%...... 791/2 to
Ditto New 2l/2 133/4 to
London and York ... ..... ...... 2% 4% to
Manchester and Leeds
Ditto Half Shares - 32
Midland 100 164 1621/2 to 164%
Ditto New
Midland, Birm. and Derby ...100 126 ...... to 125
Newcastle St DarlingtonJunc. 25 49%...... to
Ditto New Brandling
Newcastle and Berwick
North British ... 10
Ditto, New 1
Northern and Eastern
North Kent 23/4 5% to
Norwich and Brandon lO ... 18
Rugby, Worcester, and Tring 1
Scottish Central
Shrews.,Wolver., Dud., Birm. 21/2 5l/2q... to
South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 4l ..... to
Ditto New, No 3 2l/2 63/4 to
South Wales
Trent Valley and Holyhead
Junction ... 1% 2% to
York and North Midland ... 50 ......104
Ditto Half Shares
Ditto Selby
Ditto, Extension
FRENCH RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens
Bordeaux and Toulouse
Bordeaux,Toulouse andeette 2
Great Northern of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. Do. (Rosarners) ... 2
Louvain and Jemeppe ... 2
Namur aad Liege 2% 6 to
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 2 ...... 103/4:34 to
Paris and Lyons (Lailitte) ... 2
Paris and Lyons (Ganneron's) 2 ...
Paris and Rouen
Paris and Strasburg... 2 ..... 3
Rouen and Havre l 4 - to
Royal North of Spain
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
National Provincial of Engld. 35

THE NAVY.—A return (recently moved for by
Commodore Sir C. Napier. M.P.) has been printed, of the
ships launched since the year 1800 up to the present time,
and broken up, cut down, or altered, without having been at
sea, and of those turned into hulks and receiving ships, and
likewise those that are -unserviceable without having been
at sea, and the total cost. It hence appears that since 1800
four 74-gun ships (the Redoubtable, Vindictive, Anson and
Minotaur), and seven 42-gun ships (the Amazon, Daedalus,
Brilliant, Penelope, Thames, Bacchus, and Hebe) have beon
launched. One of these ships, the Redoubtable, was broken
up in 1841 ; three, the Vindictive, Amazon, and Diedalus, were
cut down in 1832 and 1844; and one, the Brilliant, is cutting
down. The Penelope, as is well known to nautical readers,
was converted, in 1843, into a steam-frigate, and is now at
sea, in good condition. The remaining five vessels, the
Anson, Thames, Minotaur, Hebe, and Bacchus, were turned
into hulks and receiving ships in 1843, 1844, 1842, 1836, and
1839. All the ships mentioned as altered or cut down, are
reported to be in good condition. The total cost of the hulls
of all the vessels enumerated in this return amounted as
follows :—The Redoubtable, 74, to 86,0491. ; the Vindictive,
74, to 81,5401. ; the Amazon, 42, to 42,920/. ; the Daedalus,
42, to 35,009/, ; the Brilliant, 42, to 49,803/. ; the Penelope,
42, to 54,7291. ; the Anson, 74, to 88,762/. ; the Thames, 42,
to 47,0511. ; the Minotaur, 74, to 76,662/. ; the Bacchus, 42,
to 34,961/, ; and the Hebe, 42, to 32,4841. The return is
signed by W. Symonds, the Surveyor-General of the Ad-
miralty, and is dated the 27th of March last.

• - -
OPENING OF OXFORD-STREET EAST.—Yesterday
a portion of the new street, called Oxford-street East, was
thrown open for the passage of vehicles. The whole line will
be opened in the course of a few weeks.
FATAL STEAM MOAT ACCIDENT OFF LIMEIIOUSE.
—On Thursday evening an inquest was held at the Eight
Bells, Church-street, Greenwich, before Mr. C. J. Carttar,
on view of the body of John Williams, aged ten years, who
met his death on the steamer Waterman 5, in consequence
of being knocked down by the bowsprit of a billy-boy, which
came across the bows of the steamer on Tuesday last, as de-
scribed in The Sun of the following day. The jury, after a
consultation of nearly an hour, returned a verdict of acci-
dental death, accompanied with a suggestion that captains of
steam-boats should to the utmost give way to all vessels
under canvass or otherwise, although in the present in-
stance the captain of Waterman 5, perhaps, did all that he
could do under the circumstances ; and they only wished
the Directors of the Steam-packet Company to communicate
such observations to the captain of No. 5 Waterman, without
imputation of the slightest nature. Mr. Newbon, of Ward-
robe-place, Doctors'-commons, solicitor to the Company,
said he should make known to the Directors the sentiments
so expressed by the jury.
MELANCHOLY OCCURRENCE.-FIVE LIVES LOST.
—A deplorable accident happened on Tuesday last, within a
few miles of the coast-guard station at Mainport, near Fal-
mouth. One of the coast-guard men named Barnes took his
family, consisting of three sons and daughter, in a boat for
an excursion along the beach. On returning home and
rounding the point from Falmouth, a heavy squall caught
the sail and instantly capsized the boat, when the whole
party were thrown into the water, and drowned before assist-
ance could reach them.