The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-18 00:00:00

CORN AVERAGES.

GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN,
For the Week ended July 12, 1839, made up from the Returns of
the Inspectors in the diiTerent Cities and Towns in England and
Wales, per Imperial Quarter.
Wheat (ilk Oki. I
Oats
I Barley 375. 4d. Rye
IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE ?.1K WEEKS

Cohntibian Bonds, 1824. —` Spanish Bonds —
Ditto Account Ditto Account.
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account — Deferred BX,
Greek Bonds French, 5 per cent. —l. —c.
Ditto Bonds, 16'25 — 4 per cent.
Ditto Account — 3 per cent.

Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent. —; Exchange. -f. —c.
Ditto Account I Dutch, 214 per cent.
Ditto, 6 per Cent — , Ditto Account —
Ditto Account
1
—, Ditto, 5 per cent B 3!;1 .74
Neapolitan. —l Ditto Acc0unt........

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• PRICES OP SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK. . •
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Paid. Per Share.
Cheltenham and Great Western Railway 3O 4"
E ~tern Cottatted riatiway l6 7 'Ai ‘;',
London and Croydon Railway Company l4l. 18s. rd. 12
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUMAN, JULY 13.
VoCr cent. Conols
Ii; per Cell'. Stock -
Atto Reduced
Ditto New, 1530 -
'4; par Cent. Debentures... 91 •Ys ' National Insurance Company -
stank Stock - Cisy Debentures, 4 per cent. -
Grand Canal stock - Ballast Office Debentures, 4 -
Royal Canal Stock - per cent -
HALIf-PAST ONE.

This day being the Quarterly Meeting for the Proprie-
tors of Bank Stock at the Bank of England, we hear that
few of the Proprietors attended, and the meeting broke up
at an early hour, and that nothing was said on the subject
of the Dead Weight.

The Bank Directors were going to meet again on the
private affairs of the Bank, which is expected will last some
time. _ _ .

Yesterday was a day of business in the City, and ex-
citement, particularly in respect to the result for the bid-
ding of the dead weight, as well as the settling of the
Consol Account. To-d,,y is the paying and receiving of
the differences of the various accounts, which is going off
well, in consequence of which no speculations of conse-
quence have taken place to the present time. It appears
to be a very quiet day in both the Markets, and nothing is
known respecting the future operations of the Bank in re-
gard to the dud weight.
Consols at present are 921 for the Account ; Money,
92 Exchequer Bills, 16 19 ; Small, 17 20 ; India Bonds,
24 ; Bank Stock, 18925.
In the Foreign Market very little doing. In Spanish
nothing done; Portuguese, 351 ; Three per Cents., 221 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54i ; Five per Cents.,
103,+
The Liverpool steamer is expected on Saturday, from
New York.

IPSWICH ELECTION.—TiIe actual state of the
poll of the Ipswich Election at its close was—
Cochrane
Gibson
Mr. Gibson polled only 601 votes when he was returned
in 1837 by a majority of eight.
The Post puts forth the following bit of fiction :—" One
of the Ipswich voters, to whom the Ministerial party had
generously given 451. on an understanding that he would
certainly vote for the Radical candidate, Mr. Gibson, went
soon afterwards to the poll, and recorded his vote for Sir
Thomas Cochrane. On being reproached for dishonour-
able conduct by his bountiful patrons, he replied, " Not
at all; I wished to earn my money, and I fancied the best
way of earning it was to show that the conduct of Mr.
Gibson in the House of Commons could not have been so
very bad as his opponents give out, and for this purpose I
copied it as closely as I could. I hope, gentlemen, you are
not angry.

LAUNCH OF TIIE VESUVIUS MAN-OF-WAR
STEAMER AT SHEERNESS,-011 Thursday, at high water
(noon), her Majesty's steamer Vesuvius, burden about 800
tons, was launched at the dock-yard, Sheerness. The
noble vessel, which has been built with the utmost rapi-
dity, her keel having been laid down only ten months ago,
on the slip from whence the Acheron was launched in
August last, was named, according to the usual farm, by
NFss Hill, the daughter of Sir John Hill, Superintendent
of the yard, and majestically glided into the waves. A
large party met on board the Howe flag-ship to see the
launch, after which, on the boatswain's piping to dinner,
about 40 guests, chiefly ladies, sat down to a champagne
luncheon in the ward-room. The Vesuvius, immediately
on being launched, was taken into the basin, and in less
than four hours was maated.—Kentish Times.

Slit PHILIP FRANCIS.-" He was wont to say
that he had nearly survived the good manly words of assent
and denial, the Yes and No of our ancestors, and could now
hear nothing but unquestionably,' certainly,' unde-
niably,' or 'by no means,' and I rather think not ;' forms
of speech to which he gave the most odious and contemptu-
ous names, as effeminate and emasculated, and would turn
into ridicule by caricaturing the pronunciation of the words
Thus he vvou!d drawl out unquestionably' in a faint
childish tone, and then say, Gracious God, does he mean
yes ? Then why not say so at once like a Tan ?' As for
the slip-slop of some fluent talkers in society, who ex-
claim that thev are so delighted,' or so shocked,'
and speak of things being pleasing or hateful to a de-
gree,' he would bear down upon them without mercy, and
roar out, To what degree ? Your words mean anything
and everything, and nothing.' There needs no addition
to this for the purpose of remarking how easily he was
tired by prosers (those whom it is the mode to call bores),
come they even under coronets and crowns. Once when
the Prince of Wales was graciously pleased to pursue at
great length a narrative of little importance, Sir p.
Francis, wearied out, threw back his bead on his chair
with Well, Sir, well ?' The sensitiveness of royalty at
(MCC was roused, and the historian proceeded to inflict
punishment upon the uncourtly offender by repeating and
lengthening his recital, after a connecting sentence, ' If
Sir Philip will permit me to proceed.' A less exalted
performer in the same line having on another occasion got
him into a corner, and innocently mistaking his agitation
and guestures for extreme interest in the narrative which
he was administering to his patient, was somewhat con-
founded when the latter, seizing him by the collar ex-
claimed with an oath that ' Human nature could endure
no more.' In all this there was a consistency and an uni-
formity that was '.extremely racy and amusing. He is not
now present to cry out, What does that mean, Sir?
What would you he at ? No gibberish !' and therefore it
may be observed that there was something exceedingly
piquant in his cha,aeter."—Lord Brougham's Sketches.
DEATH FROM A GOOSEBERRY.-011 Thurs-
day week an inquest was held at Kingston-upon- S,iar,
touching the death of John Wakefield. Verdict—" Acci-
dentally choked by a gooseberry sticking in the throat,"