The Sun. — 1842-12-03 (London, England)

COMMERCIAL -NEWS; CITY, QUARTER TO- THREE. 1 The Cotton Market at Liverpool was without alteration yesterday, except that the American qualities in the face, too, of so enormous a crop, had a rising tendency. People must indeed be speculation mad to pay advanced rates in the face of suf.th advises as we receive from the United States. About 6,000 bales were disposed of. The Share Market was good for. Great Western, Liverpool and Manchester, and London and Birmingham. The quotations were— Eastern Counties Debentures, ; Grand Junction, 183 184; Great Western Fifths, 4- to 81 ; Birmingham, 186 ; Manchester and Leeds Half; 29i ; and. North Midland, 61i. Advice have been received fnom -Hobart Town to the. 27th June. Flour had improved in value, being 181. per 2,0001b5. Wheat was Gz. 101 to 7s. 3d. per bushel. The dates at Hobart Town from South Australia were June 2. In the neighbourhood of Port Line. coin the natives were exceedinglv troublesome, and the settlers were afraid to stir -froin the location. Several most daring robberies lant. been committed at the different out-stations, and the two or three soldiers placed in guard over them were compelled to decamp. A mounted police was urgently required. Port Philip papers >of June 16, notice the condemnation to death of the desperate bushrangers captured by a party of the settlers, and in addition to other atrocities and murders brought home to them, it had been discovered that they intended to assassinate Judge Willis in cold-blood, as he was riding into Melbourne, but which their timely capture happily. prevented. Mr. Arden, the pi oprietor of a Port Philip journal had bad his seMence for a libel on Judge Willis remitted by Sir George Gipps. A narrative is given in the Hobart Town papers of the .repeated attempts of a party of doubly and trebly convicted convicts, sent from Sydney to Van Diemen's Land, to 'effect an escape, extra irons, a guard within and without the door of their cells, and a rigorous search, being insufficient to check theirreckless daring. -A pistol was concealed in a loaf of bread; the handle of a pail, containing water, was wrenched off to serve as a tool for working a gap in the wall, and the constable being suddenly surprised and gagged, the prisoners wrapped part of the bed-clothing round their irons to prevent noise, .set to _work and covered the floors with blankets to deposit the bricks as safely as possible upon them. They had got to the outer yard, when the . vigilant outside watcher finding the constable inside made no answer to his questions, fired off his piece, brought the superintendent and others to his aid, who just levelled their guns at the convicts as they mounted the top of the prison wall. One constable fired, but missed, and the convicts then cried for a surrender. In their voyage to Van Diemen's Land, they had previously attempted to seize the ship ; and a Hobart Town Editor expresses a very just apprehension that they may yet become formidable to society, unless the most rigorous and unrelaxing vigilance be exercised. Cape of Good Hope papers) to Oct. 7, contain no news of the least interest. The market for the English Stocks has been very firm, and bargains have been made in Consols for special transfer next week, as high as 94i to 95* with the dividend. For the opening, the interest being deducted, 93i to 94 have been the ruling prices. Exchequer Bills have rather improved, and are called 50s. to 525. premium, and India Bonds have touched 455. to 475. premium. There has been an investment this morning of 6,000/. in Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities, at 94k. Bank Stock has been supported at 172 to 1724- ; and India Stock for the opening has been done at 260 ex-dividend. New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. are 101 i to 1011. The Foreign Bonds are not very buoyant, although there have been a few more bargains in them. The arrival of the Regent at Barcelona has had no effect on the value of Spanish Stock, the Active being still 18-i, and the Three per Cents. 23k. Mexican Bonds are flat at 30i to 30-k for the Five per Cents., and at 8 for the Deferred. Chilian • Stock is rather heavy at 89; Brazilian keeps firm at 67 ; and Austrian has realised 111. For Portuguese New Five per Cents. the quotation has been 371 ; and for the Converted, 32-a-; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are quiet at 521. Railway Shares are dull. Great Western, 22f ; SOuth Western, 19i- ; and Paris and Rouen, 4 to 5 prem. ; Brighton, 15; Blackwall about 11; and Birmingham and Gloucester, 541 discount.