The Sun.
London, England, 1839-09-27 00:00:00

consequence about 4- per cent. They left off at 90 to
for Money, and 901 to for Account. Exchequer Bills
closed at Is. dis. to Is. prem.
Great Western Railway Shares were sold at 5 to 4
dis., London and Brighton 13? to d dis., and London
and Birmingham at 51 to 53 prem. per share. Some
changes are about to be made in the direction of the
London and Croydon Company. Mr. B. Baines, of the
Stock Exchange ; Mr. Newman Smith, of Brighton ;
Mr. R. Hollond, of Hastings, M.P. ; and Mr. L. Ri•
cardo, are said to have been proposed. Ihe affairs of
the Company, from the complicated state in which they
have been represented to be, would appear to require
the must business-like management ; but of the gentle-
men we have named there are some who cannot, we
should conceive (such have been their habits and pur-
suits in life), be prepared to give the necessary utcen-
Lion to its interests.

TIMES.--The city has been occupied to-day with
various reports respecting new measures at the Bunk for
the further contraction of the circulation, and a consi•
derable decline in consequence took place in the funds.
They did not, however, lead to any public announce-
ment on the subject. Other rumours were, and these
are supposed not to be without foundation, that an
application for assistance had been made to the Bank
of England by the agent of the United States Bank,
which had produced a very lively discussion in the
Bank parlour, where the inconsistency of any inter-
ference in the affairs of an institution not of English
origin, and whose securities could scarcely be of the
legitimate banking class, was very strongly urged.
The result of the application has, however, according
to the best version of it, been favourable, but under
guarantees, from third parties, and with a limitation
of time in the first instance, till the arrival of the
Great Western steam-packet from New York, which
it is expected will bring remittances of the proper
quality, and of amount sufficient to cover existing
engagements. There is an account in circulation
which in part differs from this, by stating that the
guarantee is for one month absolutely, so as to afford
the chance of other arrivals besides that of the Great
Western, and even allow time, if necessary, to de-
spatch a vessel to New York. The sum applied for is
either 250,0001. or 300,0001., for both sums have been
mentioned.

With respect to the bills drawn on Paris on behalf
of the United States Bank, nothing has transpired
beyond the reiteration of the assurance that they
have been accepted by Messrs. Rothschild, but no
explanation has yet been given of the manner in
which this is arranged, or of the security by which
those acceptances have been covered. The claims
now forthcoming here, on the agent of the United
States Bank, are of course wholly distinct from those
in Paris, and are said to arise chiefly out of post notes
and bills of exchange, which have been circulated by
that bank through its enormous business nearly all over
the world. The whole of them are payable at the
agency in London. This affair may possibly end well,
but it has caused mean time, and will do so now till it is
disposed of, great disquiet all over the City. The great
sales of stock which took place in the course of the
day, and which produced the decline in the funds, have
been ascribed to some knowledge of the intended appli-
cation to the Bank.
A third version of the nature of the advance to the
United States Bank is, that it will take place in Consols,
the sale of which, therefore, will necessarily follow at
once, and create a further additional pressure on the
money market.