The Sun.
London, England, 1839-01-22 00:00:00

SOCIETY OF BRITISi MUSiCIA:S

This is the fourth season of th, ab .re S, ei, tc cvi i h cv:is
established for the pm pose of fostering naive taient, hiu
regard to composition and performance. It dos m,t a, pear,
however, to have answered the intentious of its founders,
praiseworthy as they were. We understand that some con-
siderable sacrifice has been made by the musicians engaged in
order to continue the undertaking for the present season ; and
judging from the appearance of the Hanover-square-rooms
last night, the public have not responded to the call for the en-
couragement of indigenous talent to the extent of which the ob-
ject was worthy. The concert of last night was extremely good,
although without a single composition cf foreign growth, or a
single performer in the orchestra not a native of Great Britain.
It opened with an excellent symphony in B flat, by M'Farren,
and the second part commenced with Sterndalc Bennett's un-
rivalled overture to the ." Naiades," admirably played by the
orchestra. In the course of the evening a concerto on the
piano-forte was beautifully played by Miss Calkin, a very
promising young lady indeed.- The singers were Miss Hain-
' forth, Miss Dolby, Mr. Handel Gear, Mr. Purday, &c.
Mr. Dando was the leader. The second concert takes place on
Monday, Feb 4.

140NEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY (THIS TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET OF MONDAY.—The demand
for Cotton to-day has been extensive. The sales reached
9,000 bags, chiefly Americans, the principal part of which
have been taken by speculators at full prices,
The arrivals this morning are French mails, ship letters from
Rio Janeiro, Oporto, Monte Video, St. Kilt's, and Bahia.
The New York packet, Westminster, has arrived, but she
brings old dates, previously received.
We have several arrivals of slAip letters this morning, but
they are of old dates, consequently there is a very great
dearth of intelligence in the City, and the various funds are in
an inactive state.

Consols opened at the leaving off prices of yesterday, 92
for Money, and 92 for the► Account.
The accounts rece►ved from India yesterday had a slight
effect on the British Market.

The commercial advices by the overland despatches from
India state that the trade in cctton piece goods, yarns, and
woollen goods, were dull, at lower prices. The rates of ex-
change at Calcutta, after some fluctuation, remained fixed at
Is. 1 I Id. to 2s. per Company's rupee, for bills on the Trea-
sury, at 30 days' sight ; fur private bills, at six months' sight,
or ten months' date, 2s. to 2s. 21.
The crop of Indigo was coming in freely, but it was not ex-
pected that much would be done until after the sale of 250
chests of Bengal. The demand for raw silk for home mar-
ket was active. There was little doing in opium, and the
Money Market was heavy till the beginning of the month,
when a change took place. The remittances brought out by the
August and September overland m:iils amounted to 30 casks,
the chief portion intended for operations to China, and for
execution of French orders for Indigo.
Advices have been received from Lima of the 12th October,
but there is no news from that quarter so late as had been re-
ceived via Panama ; but it appears that the feelings of the
Chilians had been greatly aroused against all foreigners, par-
ticularly the English, in consequence of the disapprobation so
very generally expressed by them of their conduct towards
Peru in conjunction with the Buenes Ay roans.
Exchequer Bills, 67 69 ; India Bonds, 64 66 ; Bank
Stock, 202} 203 ; India Stock, 256 257 ; Spanish Active,
184 ; Portuguese, 354; Three per Cents., 224; Belgian,
031 99,-; Brazilian, 77+ it; Colombian, 28+ ; Dutch Two-
and-a-half per Cents, 541 t; Five per Cents, 101;1 10+*
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY Al uNE O'CL4tCK.
Bank Stock •O3 a% India Stock ............ ........
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons. 9.:3/K., kg 47A SOLI, h Sea Stock
3}t, per Cent. lOtlit% Old Annuities 911,4
Ditto Red. lOO., New Ditto
Now 3 per Cent... 997.34 lee 9974 ; 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 —
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long A nnuities toexpire - Ditto 500 ...67 69 r 8 pm.
Jan. 5, 1860 l5 r Ditto Small 67 69 68 pm
Oct. I.', 1859 Ditto Commercial — pm.
Jon. 5, 1860 14%1 Ditto Advertised
Jan. 5, 188 I —; Bank Stock for Account
April 5, 1880 —l India Stock for Account
Jan. 5, 1870 — !Conso's for Account ... 9?%4
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds — , Peruvian Bonds

Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Stands
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds
I ) tto Account
Colombian Bonds l Ditto Account —
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, 1824 2S% Spanish Bonds
, .. .

Ditto Account
Danish Bonds -6% 5 i Ditto Bonds, 1834
Ditto Account Ditto Account. 18%.74%5(,%
Greek Bonds — , French, 5 per cent. —f. —c
Ditto Bonds, 1825 — 4 per cent.
Ditto Account — 3 per cent.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent.... —-- Exchange —f. —c.
Ditto Account —
Dutch,
2,4 per cent. ...... .....54%!4
Ditto, 6 per Cent — Ditto Account —
Ditto Account
Neapolitan — ' Ditto Account

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Shve,
General Mining Association l7 8
Rhyinney Iron Mining Company 55 50',4; I
Great Western Railway Company.
i ,non and Greenwich 7iailway Company 2O 17
London and Croydon Railway Cowman), till 13%
filidichester and Birmingham Railway lO
Do. Do. Extension
South Eastern and Dower Railway Company 9
Bitumen, Bastenne and Gaujac
Do. Robinson
London Joint Stock Bank, lO

6%
2.14
Q-
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HALF-PAST ONE.

We have received a file of Montreal Papers by the West-
minster, but not of a latter date than the 20th December,
from which we extract the following :
" We see a rumour going the rounds of the press, and cr.
roneously attributed to the Kingston Chronicle, that Van
Schoultz had made a will, in which he had bequeathed some
4,0001. for sundry purposes. It is very improbable that this
adventurer was posse.3sed of any such funds."
We understand, from good authority, that Cardinal, Du-
grette, Thibert, and L cpailleur, four of the rebels, found guilty
of high treason at the court-martial, are to be hanged on
Tuesday morning next, in the gaol square. The Toronto
Patriot contains the following :—" Three regiments of the
Lire. another brigade of the Guards, a regiment of Rifles, a
dismounted cavalry corps, artillery, and a rocket brigade, ate
all to be at Halifax this winter, and are said to come over-
land here." _

The following is 2 copy of a letter from the Attorney-
General, addressed by the Collectors and Acting Comptroller
of her Majesty's Customs to the Chairman of the Board of
Trade :

" MONTREAL, DEC. 4.

" Sir,—With reference to the letter of the Collector and
Acting Comptroller of her Majesty's Customs, forwarded me
from Messrs. Roger, Dean, and Co., requesting to be informed
whether, during the suspension of specie payments by the
banks, under the ordinance of her Majesty and Special Council,
the notes of the same banks will be received by the collectors
in payment of bonds for provincial duties, and intimating at
the same time that in the event of that mode of payment not
being acceded to, they intend to tender payment of a bond in
notes of the hanks in question, and in the event of their being
refused, they will abide the result of any action which may be
instituted on said bond, I have now, by command of
his Excellency, signified to me in your letter of this day,
to state that in my opinion the payment of money into Court
preceded by such tenders, would not operate any suspension
of legal proeeedings as against the Crown, there being no
provision in the said ordinance obligatory on the Crown in
that respect. I have the honour to be,
(Signed) " THOS. LEIGH GOLDIE, Sec."
Consols at present may be quoted at 921 for the Account ;
Money, 94, buyers ; Exchequer Bills, 67 69 66, lower ;
India Bonds, 65 63, lower.

In the Foreign Market Spanish Active has improved to
i; Portuguese continue the same, as in the morning,
35,3-; Three per Cents., 223-; Belgian also the same 981
99i; Brazilian, 77 78; Colombian, 28+ ; Mexican, ;
Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 54+ 3-; Five per Cents.,
102+.
Accounts have been received from Monte Video, 12th Nov.,
but as yet their substance has not transpired.
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols for this itooonnt, 921

THE CORONERSHIP.—A letter has been received
in town from Mr. Wakley, M. P., in which he states that he
shall return to London immediately, when, should he ascer-
tain that it is the general wish of his friends and the electors
that he should become a candidate for the vacant office of
Coroner for the Western Division of Middlesex, he will com-
ply with their request.
On Wednesday, the 2d inst., a young man, named
George Coggan, farming servant to Mr. Allender, of Idlc-
stop, incautiously put on a clean shirt in a damp state. The
following morning the family observed a great alteration in
his appearance, and he complained of weakness and general
debility, which increased alarmingly until the following day,
when he died.—Doncaster Gazette.

On Saturday morning, about nine o'clock, whilst
several workmen were engaged in placing a large iron bar on
tle roof of a building which has been recently erected in Os-
mond-street, Whitechapel, for a soap manufactory, the rope
by which it was slung broke, and the bar, weighing nearly
nine hundred weight, fell. The cornice stones, which pro-
jected some distance, gave way, and two men were precipi-
tated from a fearful height to the ground. One of them,
James Macartney, had his skull fractured, and another, named
Henry Willis, bad his arm broken in two places. Of three
men who were at work underneath, on the scaffold (which
was smashed to atoms by the bar and falling stones), two sus.
tained considerable injury; one having had his shoulderdis-
located, and a youth, named Webb, was so much injured in
the spine that no hopes are entertained of his recovery.