The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-12 00:00:00

MONEY and CONIMERCIAL N E WS.
CITY, QUARTEI? TO THREE.
The Cotton market at Liverpool yestel day was very steady.
Sales about 8,000 bales. The Stock Exchange was closed for
repairs.
Among all classes in the City the report of the Committee
of the House of Commons, relative to the jobbing that has
taken place with respect to the North Kent Shares, has been
perused this morning with most anxious, and, we may add,
fairly indignant attention. There is too much reason to be-
lieve that this is not the only instance in which official confi-
dence has been used to advance the interest of certain parties
who have unfairly obtained information to the disadvantage
of the bona fide holders of scrip receipts before the Commit-
tees of several of the groups made their final decision. A
most searching inquiry ought to be entered into with
regard to many other lines where, without question,
similar transactions to that we have noticed have
occurred. In the concluding part of the report of the Cona-
mittee most persons entirely concur, viz., that such transac-
tions on the part of one or inure Members of Parliament and
others must tend, if not put an end to, to render the decisions
of the Committees of the House of little value in the eyes of
the public generally. It is quite certain that, even should
the session be too short this year to take up the subject in
detail, the most prompt steps must be taken next year to
bring the matter fully and fairly before the public, and
without which the dignity of the Legislature in its decisions
upen private Bills would become a matter of scum.
The issues of notes by the Bank of England during the
week to Saturday last, were 29,891,9351., which is less by
155,535/. than per previous return. The public deposits are
, reduced a little, but as yet the payment of the half year's
interest is pretty nearly balanced by the revenue from vari-
ous branches of the public revenue. The stock of the pre-
cious metals in the Issue Department was 15,891,935/., and
in the Banking Department, 526,1971., a decrease on the total
of 183,769/.
The Stock-market is in a most quiescent state to-day.
Consuls for the Account have fluctuated but from 998 to
99 ; the Three per Cents. for transfer next week, from 991,(
to 98% ; and the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. from 1021
to 14. The premium upon Exchequer-bills remains heavy,
at Ms. to 58s.
A very few bargains were made in the Foreign Stocks
to-day. Spanish are rather lower, the Consols having just
been done at 26%, and the Three per Cents. at 371/2. For
the other foreign bonds there has been but very few trans-
actions to-day.
The Share Market has upon the whole looked firm this
morning, but not very many transactions have been reported.
The old lines are the firmest as to price.
bArt ISt" FUNDS THIS DAY Al' ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities q9l/2%
3 per Cent. Console AIMS 991/8 98%
New 34 per Cent. Aiinuties 102114
Consols for Opening
Exchequer Bills. 13/4d. I%d.
1,000/.
5001.
Ditto Small
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent 36%
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Deferred Stock 203/4
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Converted
Russian Bonds. 1822, 5 per Cent ll7
Spanish Bonds, 5 perCent,l840
Ditto Passive Bonds 6l/2
Ditto 3 per Cent 37% %
Dutch 2% per Cents
Ditto 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 991 4
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SIIARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester 100
...

. .
Ditto, tialf Shares ......... 3
Birmingham and Oxford
Junction
Bristol and Gloucester
Caledonian
Ditto Extension
Cambridge and Lincoln ...... 11/2.-- 4:ANi to
Chester and Holyhead
Pirect Northern
Dublin and Belfast Junction 21/2 7A to
Dublin and Galway 2l/2 33/4 to
Eastern Counties

Eastern Union -
Ditto Extension
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O .. 74% to 75
Ditto New 14 Shares 2% 8%...... to
EiutZskillen and Sligo
Goole ond Doncaster l% 2%..... to
Great Dr, uth and W. (Irish)... 10
Great Noith of England 100 240
Harwich. ~ 1
Lancaster ashl Carlisle..
London and Birmingham lOO
to

Ditto Thirds ........
London and Blackwall 16% 914 to
London and Brighton)
Ditto Cousoli, tatedBths
London and Croydon... 131. 15s. 9d.... 2-.:% to
London and South NV:totem.. 41% Bll/2 to
Ditto New .
London and Y0rk............... 21/.z...... 31,4 A. .
Lynn and Ely - to
Lynn and Derehani
MancheiLui and Leeds

.. _
Ditto Quarters ...... ......... 2
Manchester and Birmir.gham 40 591/ to
Manch, Buxton, & Matlock 226
Midland
Ditto New
Midland, Birm., and Derby...loo l4B
Midld. Great Western (Irish) 2%
Newcastle &Darlington,iunc. 25 ...... 53% to 54%
Newcastle and Berwick
Newark and Sheffield l% ..... 1% .. .„ to 2%
North British
Ditto New 1 .. ... 6%%... to
Oxford and Worcester 2l/2 6% to 7
Portsmouth Direct
Rugby. Worcester. and Tring 1
Scottish Midland
% South Eastern and Dover ... 33% 47% ... to
Ditto New, No. 1 8
Ditto New, .No. 3 2l/t B% to
.4,onth Wales
frent Valley •.. 2 . . .. 18
Welch Midland 2% .. ... : 3 V,.... . to
York and North Midland
Ditto Selby
Ditto, Extension
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens 6 ..... 10% to
East Indian
Great Northern of France
(Laffitte's)
Do. Do. (Rosaniers)......... 2 ..... 2A, to
Lyons and Avignon 2 . 2%..... to
Orleans and Vierzon
Orleans and Bordeaux ... .. 4 ...... 10%,%% to
Paris and Lyons (Laffitte) ... 2
Paris and Rouen . ....
Royal North of Spain
f ours &Nantes (Mackenzie) 2
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Colonial
London and Westminster ... 20

RAILWAY RETURNS.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC—The following arc the Total Receipts of Rail-
ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the
respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same
week in the previous year:—

•Cs
Week Last F,:kg '
ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. it
e.:,,t.L...X
OF
-- -
£ Z
July 5 Arbroath and Forfar ........• •••• • • 229 143
4 Bristol and Birmingham .•••••• • • • • • • 4,368 2,837
4 Chester and Birkenhead .•••••• • • • • • • 694 635
3 Dublin and Drogheda• •.• • •
8 Dublin and Kingstown
i
6 Dundee and Arbroath .••••••• • • • • • • • 34 287
5 Durham and Sunderland .• •••••• • • • • • 713 453
5 Edinburgh and 4 iiasgow .••••• • • • • • • 2.706 2,297
6 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 5,213 4,776
5 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr ••• • • • 1,873 1.532
5 Glasgow and Greenock••
.. •• •• 1,177 1,129
5 Grand Junction . ..... .............. 10,620 8,730
5 Gravesend and Rochester.. ••••• • • • • • 2881 -
- ,:reat North of England •••••• • • • • • • - ,743
18,631 16,994
6 Great Western .•.•••.•••• • • • • • • • • • •
- Hull and Selby . - -
4 Liverpool and Manchester ••••• • • • • • 6,174 5,295
5 London and Birmingham .•••• • • •• • 20,544 18,285
6 London and Blackwall. .
5 London and Brighton ............. • • 5,224 4,158
8 London and Croydon .......... ..... 1,85 507
5 London and Greenwich .•••••• • • • • • • 1,206 863
5 London and South Western .
6 Manchester, Bolton, and Bury ...... 1,007 877
4 Manchester and Birmingham .••. .. .. 3,927 3,339
5 Manchester, Leeds, and Hull Assoc.. 6,341 6,172
5 Midland Counties. • ... •.- - -
5 Newcastle and Darlington .. .. .. ..
5 Newcastle and Carlisle
6 Newcastle and North 5hie1d5........ 594 4(G
4 North Union and Bolton and Preston 1,818 1,529
7 Paris, Corbeil, and Orleans - .... - - 6,086 5,302
7 Paris and Rouen .•• • • ...... .. - 5,944 5,637
5 Preston and Wyre- .... •• • ..• • • .... 733 503
5 ,;heflield and Manchester.• •• •• •..... 815 603
5 South Eastern.. ....
5 Taff Vale • . - - - .... 1,052 832
491
• Yarmouth and Norwich .• .....
5 York and North Midland ... ........ 3,864 2,478

SERIOUS EFFECTS OF THE THUNDER STORM.-
Yesterday afternoon, the metropolis was visited with a heavy storm
of thunder, lightning, and rain. Although pretty general,its effects
appear to have been the most severe over Somers Town, Camden
Town, and the north-west of the suburbs. Ih Scmer Town, after
a tremendous peal of thunder, the electric fluid struck the corner
of a newly-built house in Seyinour.,tretetcn takingarry
iigaanwoabyliqausetadcikreoc.f
chimneys, and the corner of the parapet, then
tion, carrying away all the parts it touched, until it reached the
coping of the wall. Near the spot two working men were sitting
on a heap of bricks—one either sprung with afirig-t some distance,
or was hurled by the shock five or six yards. He was picked up by
Mr. Silcock, who has opened a leiblic house, into which
the poor fellow was conveyed, in a senseless state. The other was
struck against a wall, against which he stood for some time im-
movable. A third man, who was driving pigs along the road, was
also struck down. The explosion was so tremendous that most of
the inhabitants of that end of Seymour-street rushed out in alarm.
CRICKET..--THE EW RULES AND THE UMPIRES AT
Loan's.—The subject of the altered rule with regard to the de-
livery of the ball, or rather the determination on the part of the
committee of the Marylebone Club to enforce the old 10th rule, as
amended, in respect to the bowler being " no-balled" if his hand
shall be too high, has given rise to a general discussion. It would
appear, too, that there was an indisposition amongst some of the
umpires to carry out the particular rule, and, therefore, as the corn.
mittee are anxious to avoid stultifying themselves by means of their
own umpires not acting strictly up to the laws of the game, they
assembled in the afternoon of Monday, when they unanimously
passed the following resolutions :—" That in future the umpires be
appointed by the committee and paid separately from the scorers."
" That no player belonging to Lord's ground shall be permitted to
play or stand as umpire in any match in which the laws of cricket,
as laid down by the Mary lebone Cricket Club, are not strictly ad-
hered to."
DEATH OF THE MAYOR OF WAESALL.-WO regret
to state that Mr. Hervey, the respected Mayor cf Walsall, was
drowned while bathing, at an early hour on Wednesday morning.
This event is rendered still more lamentable by the fact that one
of the persons who went with drags to find the body of the de_
ceased gentleman was drowned in the attempt. The demise of
Mr. Hervey, more particularly under such circumstances, has oc-
casioned a deep feeling of regret throughout the uorough.
BirtritTATlON OF ZALMoti FROM HOLLAND
—.Yesterday morning some Dutch vessels arrived in the Thames
with cargoes of remarkably fine Dutch fresh salmon iced, which
were quickly disposed of at moderate prices. There were also
landed a large quantity of cherries and peas (rem France, which
were forwarded to Covent-garden and other market..