The Sun.
London, England, 1842-12-08 00:00:00

MONEY and- COMMERCIAL "NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The report of the Liverpool Cotton-market yester-
day, states business had been quiet, and that only
3,000 bales had found buyers, 200 of which were—
Surat at 34d. to 4d.; .100 Bahia at 6+d. to bid. ; 150
Maranhain, at 54d. to 6+d. ; and the rest Ameri-
can at 4d. to 50. per pound. In the Share
market there was a good demand for Grand Junc-
tion, Liverpool and Manchester, and Great Western,
at full rates, but no change in the others. Eastern
Counties,. New, were 10i • Grand Junction, 185 ;
Great Western, Fifths, 91 ; Birmingham, Thirds, 634;
Paris and Rouen 25+ ; and South Eastern, New, 18+.
The advices from the United States by the sailing
packet North America, are to the 19th ult. The
market for State Stocks at New York did not
seem to be improving, as the discredit into which
they have so deservedly fallen in . Europe was
much against their value in the eyes of the
native capitalists, who speculate largely upon
the chances of a profitable sale here or on the Conti-
nent. At Amsterdam, Louisiana Five per Cents.
(Hope's Loan), have fallen 8 per cent , as no interest
is expected to be paid next January, and never, per-
haps, was so sad a spectacle exhibited of a great na-
tion being sunk into utter degradation. by the growing
popularity, of repudiation doctrines.
The advices before us state that it is now pretty
generally conceded on all hands, that the present crop
of cotton will be the largest ever grown in the United
States, say 2,200,000 bales, and may range as high
as 2,500,000 bales. Financial affairs are now in such
a state, that no interposition is made by suspended
banks or visionary financiers to " sustain prices,"
or " hold for better prices." Neither does
the absurd notion of financiers appear to
operate, to the effect that Bank facilities are necessary
to send the crop forward ; on the contrary, the re-
ceipts at the ports of the Atlantic have, up to this
time, been immensely, greater than ever before, and
the requisition -of specie in payment does not cheek its
export. It flows freely to the market.
The state of affairs in the British colonies offers no-
thing particular for comment, though Sir Charles
Bagot's return is not considered at all improbable
among parties in the City connected with Canada.

A •Coinmunication froin Texas states that one of
two things will happen there this winter—a formi-
dable invasion from Mexico•—or an acknowledgment
of its independence.
The Funds are still rather flat, with a minor bug-
ness doing. The purchase for the Savings' Banks has
amounted to 5,0001. in the Reduced Th-ree per Cent.
Annuities at 941, though 941 was at first asked.
Consols have been done for Special Transfer at 95 to
951, with the dividend, and for opening' at 93+. The
premium on Exchequer Bills is dull at 47 to 48 ;
Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 100+
to 101 ; Bank Stock has been more in request at 1721
to 1731. Annuities for Thirty Years are at 121.
Being still without news from Barcelona, owing to
the interruption by fog of the telegraphic communi-
cation with Paris, the Spanish Bonds are heavy at
18 for the Fire per Cents., and at 23 for the Three
per Cents. Portuguese Converted Stock is worth 321.
The Mexican Active Stock is neglected at 301.
People are afraid to touch it, and what the Yankees
will say now to Mexican good faith we may easily
guess. Brazil Stock has been steady at 694 ; .Danish
firm at 831 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent.
Stock at 52+ to 53.
The Share Market is very good. Great Western
Railway are 251; ditto New, 141 to 1 ; Birmingham,
100 ; ditto Quarter, 25 ; ditto Thirds, 32 ; South
Western, 201; Northern and Eastern Scrip, 5 ; and
Edinburgh and Glasgow New, * prem. Brighton
are 141; Bristol and Exeter, 231; Eastern Counties,
141.; Edinbuigh and Glasgow, 2 ; Greenwich, 71;
and South Eastern, 21 discount. British North Ame-
rican Bank are 7 discount.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
R A ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Bristol and Exeter 7O 46}...... to
Eastern Counties
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 4B to
Ditto New
Great Wester'

Ditt• New
t•

London and Brighton ... —lO
London and Birmingham ...... ... 90 l9O ...... to
Ditto I Shares
Ditto New ... 2 ...••• 34 ...... to
London and Greenwich
London and South Western ... 4156 ... .. 61ii
South Eastern and Dover 5O --;. ...... to
Ditto Scrip... ......... ...
Northern and Eastern
Ditto Scrip... .. .. ............ ... 1

2LINCRESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, OCT. 7.—There
continues to be a demand for all the leading Railway
Stocks, and prices are well supported.:—South
Eastern,
.221 and -8- ; Ditto Scrip, 174 ; Manches-
ter and Leeds, 70k; Ditto Half, 304 ; Manchester and
Birmingham, 20; Sheffield and Manchester, 32 ;
Ashton and Oldham Canal, 76.

LITERATURE.
MIDSUMMER EVE. 3 Vol..
Saunders and Orley, London, 1842.
There is considerable ingenuity evinced in this
fiction, whose leading incidents are so contrived
as to give the reader a very fair idea of the do-
mestic manners and prejudices of Londoners
during the stormy period of the Reformation.
The chef personage—or, at any rate, the, one
who will most warmly excite the reader's inte-
rest—is a poor, blind, fatherless girl, by name
Annot Palmer, who is represented at the outset
of the story sitting by the way-side near the
turnpike at Islington, like the lone figure
spoken of in Scripture. Being a regular
attendant on Sundays at the church of
one. of the reformed preachers, she is discovered
and attested by the furious Popish Bishop of
London, Dr. Bonner, conveyed to his palace at
Fulham, subjected to a rigid cross-examination as
to the articles of her faith, in the presence of the
Prelate, and several other Church dignitaries,
and ultimately put to the torture as, a heretic
and infidel. Exhausted with pain, she is next
removed to one of the city churches, which is•
used as a prison for refractory Lutherans; but
the place of her confinement being fortunately
discovered by a young man, Harry Markham,
who had been they innocent cause of her arrest,
he resolves on obtaining her release, impelled to
this determination by his affection for a lady of
birth and fortune, Anne Granville, who had long
been a kind friend and patroness of the blind'
orphan girl. Markham's attempt is successful,
Annot is liberated by stratagem from her con-.
fine went, and the story concludes with her de-,
parture, in company with her liberator, and
several other persecuted Lutherans, from Eng,
land for the shores of Germany. The characteF
of this meek, patient, sweet-natured girl is sus»
tained with great feeling and propriety through-
out; and with a skill, too, and a delicacy that
proves the author to be well read in that " mys-
tery of mysteries," the female heart. Dr. Bonner
is a portrait less felicitously executed; vigour it
possesses, enough and to spare ;
,but we fear
it is coarse to a degree exceeding the truth of
history. The scenes in the prison in the first
volume, where the high-minded old martyr,
Dr. Maynard, administers the sacrament to
his fellow-prisoners, are "admirably coloured ;
and the description of the business at Stnithficld
has an earnestness and reality about it, that
might almost induce one to believie that it was an
extract from the memoir of some contempo-
rary chronicler who was an eye-witness of the
terrible spectacle.

TWO- MEN COMMITTED UPON A CHARGE OF CON.
SPIRACY TO MURDER.—TWO men, naitiad John
Kavanagh and James Frrrell, of Rahanna, in this
county, were arrested on the night of the 20th of
November, by Mr. hill, sub-inspector, and a
party of the eonstabulary fiom New Ross, after a
most harassing march. They were brought before
C. 11. Tuckey, R.M.,
and Major Sweeny, under a
warrant from Richard
Rathborne, R.M., and John
Maher, Esqrs., and committed to Carlow gaol, on" a
charge of conspiracy to Murder Valentine Egan,
steward to . Mr. Byrne, of Rosemount, county Wex-
ford.— Carlow Sentinel.
ROBBERY OF THE CASTLECOMER MAIL.—On Wed-
nesday morning last, as the postpoy:was proceeding
from Castlecomer to Ballyragget, with the Durrow
and Barryragget mail bags, he was stopped by
.two
men,_ about two miles from Castlecomer, and deprived
of the bags. On the return of the postboy to Castle-
comer, Sub-Inspector Green, with a party of the
constabulary, proceeded to the spot, but could learn
nothing that could lead to the discovery of the robbers.
The bags were subsequently found on a limekiln near
the spot ; one bag was untouched, and the other
opened, but the letters sustained no injury. The mail
was conveyed so Ballyragget, after the discovery of the
bags by a mounted policeman.—Carlow Sentinel.
THE LEAGUE FUN D.—The friends of the Anti-Corn-
law League, in Blackburn, are making the most stre-
nuous efforts to render their contribution to the League
fund worthy of the important object for which it is
designed. On this evening there ivill be a tea party
in the school-room of the new Independent Chapel, at
which William Eccles, Esq., will preside. Mr. Cobden
is expected to be present.
It is in contemplation to raise the sum of 30,000/.
to put that magnificent building, Wells Cathedral, in
perfect repair. The archdeacon has promised 1,0001.,
and the dean 5001.—Salisbury Journal.
WESTMINSTER ScnooL.—The first representation
of the Adelphi of Terence will take place" at St. Peter's
College on Monday, the 12th of December. The se-
cond and third representations, with the addition of a
prologue and epilogue, on Thursday, the 15th, and
Monday, the 19th of December.
The present population of British. Guiana, accord-
ing to the latest returns of the Commissary of popu-
ilation, founded upon a recent census, is about 102,000.
Of this number Georgetown contains about 19,000.—
Royal Gazette.