The Sun.
London, England, 1845-06-02 00:00:00

MONDAY EVENj

the ;es vier, t.ousually ion:, au long that loway in :he
crowd cried " shame," having been brought to a close, the di:.g
fell amidst the screaming of the women. In a few minutes the
unfortunate youth—for he was but twenty years of age—had yielded
up his life. He seemed to struggle fur a few moments, but his
sufferings were not great. 6
The Rev. Mr. Rolfe favoured us with the following statement,
written by the prisoner yesterday, and signed by him a little after
seven o'clock this morning :
" I fully acknowledge that I was guilty of the murder with which
I was charged, and I beg pardon of God and man for the horrid
crime I thereby committed. I beg the prayers of al good Christians
for my poor soul, and I hope that all Catholic young men will take
warning by my sad fate, not to neglect the duties which their holy
religion prescribes. Whilst I adhered to its pious precepts and
practices I was virtuous and was happy. When I neglected them
I fell into bad company—plunged into vice—stained my soul with
murder, and am now about to forfeit my life on the scaffold. 1 resign
myself to a shameful death, as a penalty I have justly deserved by
my crimes, and only hope Almighty God will, in his boundless
mercy, through the merits of Christ, accept it and my repentance,
however late, as a small atonement for my many offences.
" June '2. " JOSEPH CONNOR?'
The Rev. Gentleman said that the prisoner went to bed at ten
o'clock la 4 night, and did not awake until half.past five this morn-
ing, maid that he ate a roll and a half, and drank three cups of tea,
for breakfast; lie administered the Sacrament to him this morning,
not extreme unction, as it was only usual to administer that rite
when persons were in danger of dying from sickness.
The body was cut down at the usual hour, and the scaffold hay.
ng been removed, the crowd dispersed.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.
LONDON, JUNE 2.—Wind S.W., moderate breeze, and fine.
DEAL, MAY 31, P.M.—Wind E.S.E.—JUNE I.—S.W.
Arrd. Pilgrim, Bawling, Porto Rico; Danitske Eeg. China for
Copenhagen ; Creole, Boysen, Bahia for Hamburgh ; Catha •
rina, New York for Stettin. Ski. Sumatra, Ceylon; Bengal,
Cape of Good Hope ; Commodore, west coast of Africa ;
James, Cuba; Westminster. New York.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 31.—Wind S.S.E., light.—Jusie 1.
Wind S.S.W., ditto.—Arrd. Bleng, Stewart, Port Adelaide;
Charlotte, Carter, China ; lmogine and Suffolk, New Orleans ;
Henry Gardner, Nichols, Mobile; Leonard, Dobbin, and
Boger Sherman, Charleston; St. Patrick, New York; Hi-
bernia steamer, Ryrie, Boston. 1. Arrd. Secret, Valparaiso;
Plata, Buenos Ayres; Elizabeth, Barbadoes ; Ocean Queen,
New Orleans ; St. Mark, Savannah ; Mary Kembell. Apa-
lachicola. Ski. Apparition, Rio. 31. Liverpool, Hoeg-Kong;
Panama, Bombay ; Emelia, Rio ; Thomas Mellor, Brazils ;
St. Lawrence, (laebec ; Cheetah, Labrador. 1. Ann, La
Guayra ; Cambridge, Honduras; John Marshall, Alexandria,
United States ; Ashburton and New York, New York ; Wil-
liam Goddard, Boston. Off, Isabella, .Demerara ; Maid of
Cashmere, Jamaica; Albatross, Trinidad; Columbus, New
York ; and many others.
WHITEHAVEN, MAY 31.—S1d. George, Pugwash.
WATEnvoitn, MAY 29.—Sid. James and Hippocampi, St.
John's, New Brunswick.
CORK, MAY 30.—S1d. Swallow, Demerara. Arrd. Oscar,
Jameson, Benin (66 days) ; Lowca, Dobren, Valparaiso.
Off, Belmont, Wallis, Trinidad.
OFF CROOKIIAVEN, MAY 26. William and Henry,
Nicholson, Ichaboe.
BELFAST, MAY 31.—The Campbell, Orr, from the Clyde
to Demerara, aground in the Holywood Bank; has been got
off, and into deep water.
LYNN, MAY I.—Part of a wreck was picked up near the
Roads 29th ult., and handspike, branded Temperance. From
the appearance of bulwarks and main-beam she appears to
be a foreigner.
HARWICII, MAY 31.—The brig Riso, for Stockholm to
London, has been assisted in here, very leaky, and with loss
of anchors, &c., having been on the Sunk Sand.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEAI7.
CIIY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool, on Saturday, were
four thousand bales, with a fiat market. A fair
business was done in Shares, at steady prices.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 31.—The sales are
—Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrusb, 2%; Barnsley Junction,
5% :j.ll ; Ditto, Half Shares, 2% 3/4 ; Birkenhead, Man-
chester, and Cheshire Junction, 8 1-16 ex new ; Blackburn,
Burnley, and Accrington, 7% ; Blackburn, Darwen, and
Bolton, 5 ; Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 13 ; Caledonian,
; Cambridge and Lincoln, 71% 8 ; Churnet Valley, 51/t ;
Clitheros Junction. 1 ';"4 prem. ; Direct Northern, 31, ;-
Eastern Counties, New, 9%; Erewash Valley, 19%; Glas-
gow and Dumfries, 2% 3/4 ; Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, and
Manchester Junction, 1% ; Leeds and Thirsk, 7% ; Leeds
and West Riding Junction, 8% ;
M Leicester and Brming-
ham, 10s. 9s. 6d. prem. ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston,
2 11-16 ; London and Worcester, Oxford and Rugby, 4% 34 ;
London and York, 4 1-16 ; Manchester, Buxton, Matlock;
and Midland Junction, 4% 9-16; Manchester and Birming-
ham, Quarter Shares, 9% %; Ditto, New Quarters, 71,4 A!,
Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenth Shares, 8% ; Midland
Railway Consols, 401. Shares, 283/4 ; Newcastle and Berwick,
17% ; North British, New Shares, 714 ; North Westerr,
; Nottingham and Mansfield, 2%; Oxford, Worcester,
and Wolverhampton, 2; Sheffield and Manchester, Quarter
Shares, 1614 ; Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union, 375.
345. 6d. ; Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Dudley, 5;
South-Eastern, 44 ; Ditto, No. 3,7% ; Trent Valley, 18%;
Ditto Continuation and Holyhead Junction, 21/. ; Welsh
Midland, 1M prem. ; Whitehaven and Furness, 23/4.
The letters brought by the Hibernia steamer from Halifax
were not delivered until rather a late hour this morning,
owing, we are told, to the great increase in the colonial commu-
nications between this country and the United States. From
the published accounts it is considered quite clear that all
apprehensions of a serious difference of opinion upon the
Oregon question are at an end. This is most satis-
factory, as fears Were entertained in many quarters
that the commercial intercourse with America would
have been interfered with, and that, too, just at a
period when symptoms of a good improvement were most
apparent as respects the markets for British manufactured
goods. It is quite certain that the Polk party has almost
lost caste among the majority of the people of the United
States, and from previous accounts, we are led to the conclu-
sion that the peace party are rapidly rising as the ascendant,
and that the extension of mercantile pursuits is now the
principal object of those connected with trade and commerce.
There is some interest felt in the City in favour of the plan
for the construction of a railway in conjunction with the Man-
chester and Birmingham Continuation and the Welsh Junc-
tion Railway. The Provisional Committee comprise a great num.
her of highly influential names. It is, in some quarters, ajected
that there are engineering difficulties to encounter, but we
are assured that these, as compared with those that have
been overcome in existing lines, are of easy accomplishment.
It is somewhat remarkable that here, as well as at the
principal outports, a sudden demand has sprung up for bonded
wheat for exportation ; this is especially the case with re-
spect to Hull. In the circular of Messrs. Wright and Young,
of Hull, we find the following:—
"In the foreign grain trade a decided improvement has
taken place. Since our last a good demand has arisen for
wheat, particularly bonded, for export' to Holland and Bel-
gium, and prices have advanced 3s. per quarter ; owing,
however, to the little that remains in this port, the transac-
tions have not been important. Barley, and other descrip-
tions of spring corn, have also been in better request, but
without any material alteration in their value.
" Our last Tuesday's market was moderately supplied with
English wheat, which met with tolerably fair sale at an ad •
vance of 2s. per quarter upon the rates current on that day
week, the ofillers being, as heretofore of late, the chief pur-
chasers.
From the information that has been received from the Con-
tinent, a belief was induced that the crons were looking
excessively well, and that there was plenty of wheat
on hand. The former statement we believe to be true, but
with respect to the latter Very considerable doubt exists.
and hence it is that a speculative market now exists for
foreign grain here. With respect to our own crops, there is
little doubt but they will prove most abundant if anything
like a fair harvest weather should prevail when the sickle is
ordinarily in request.
The advises by the Halifax steam-ship being of a most
peaceable nature, the demand for EnglisliLStock has been
most animated. Consols for the Account have reached
100%. The price for transfer to-morrow has risen to 100%,
being about 34 per cent. above Saturday's closing rates. The
Three per Cent. Reduced have realised 9914, and the Three-
The premium on Ex-
has advanced to 211. For
cahnedq-ua-e2ibu.ilrltseirs
tpirenr):Ceßnatsn.klso2telciik.
India Bonds the current rate is from 735. to 745. premium.
transactions in the Foreign Stock Market have been
less important than those in the British Stocks. Still the
prices have been rather firmer. Belgian Four-and-a-Half
per Cents. have been quoted at 99% ; the Spanish Consols
at 30% ; the Mexican Portuguese Converted
Cents. at an advance from
37% to 38M ; the Portuguese Converted to 673/4 ; and the
Dutch Four per Cents. to 98% N.
An immensity of business has been transacted in the
Railway Shares this morning, and, as will be seen by the
official list of prices, in almost all instances, at advanced
prices. It may, in fact, be stated with truth that never was
the bond fide demand so animated as it has been to-day.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
Bank Stock 2lO 211
33
98% 99%
100 99% 100%
New 314 per Cent. Annuties lO2 101% 102%
Long Annuities ,Expire sth Jan. 1860... 11 7-16%
perpe r
Cent. Cent.ent. Reducedceneeis
Auras Annuities
Do. 30 Years, Expire Oct. 10, 1859 ll%
India Bonds 1,000/ 73
Ditto under 1,0001 74
South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Annuities
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills. 13/4d. I%d.
1,000/.
500/
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised 57 59 pm.
PRICE OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Columbian
Bonds,bianßon 3
d51.8...7,. , ................ 1514 %
Mexican
5 per Cent 3B
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Deferred Stock..
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cent
Ditto for the Account. 303/4
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account.
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent., 1840 —ls
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds 74
Ditto 3 per Cent...
Ditto for the Account.
Belgian 4% per Cent 99%
Dutch 2% per Cents ............... . .
Ditto 4 Der Cent. Certificates
PRICE OF SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Aberdeen
Armagh, Coleraine, Portrush ...... 2%...... to
Birmingham and Gloucester 100........139 137... to 138
Ditto, New...
Ditto, half Shares ......... 3 ...... 4% to 5
Brighton, Lewes, Hastings ... 20 ...... 25M% to
Bristol and Exeter
Ditto New lO
C dedonian 5 10% to 10%
Cambridge and Lincoln
C.lester and Holyhead l5 ...... 1714 17 to 18
Churnet Valley 2 ...... 53/4%% to
Cork and Waterford 2% to
Pirect Northern
Dublin and Belfast Junction 2V e....•• 111/1 to 10%
Dublin and Galway ...... 2%•••••• 4
Eastern Counties l4l. 16s. .. 20
Do. New 4!. 16s 6% 73/4 to '63/4
Eastern Union
Ditto Extension
EdinburghptDitto
New
e ma, nv4d
Shares
aa
rs
egso w 5O .. .. . 74% to
Ditto Quarters - t
21% 7l/2 . ••• • to 8
Great South and W. (Irish)... 10 ..... 210
Ditto % Shares 5O ......117
Ditto Fifths
Guildford, Fareham, Portma 2%...,.. 64 53/4 to 6
Hull and Selby 5O ...109
Ditto half 5hare5........... 2 •••••• 25% to
Lancaster aad Carlisle... 2O ...... 45