The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-18 00:00:00

EXTRAORDINARY INVENTION._
MOSS'S METALOMETER, the most surprising
instrument ever `l4ivented for sharpening razors, penknives,
surgeons' instruments, &c. ; the hone never required. Ile
extraordinary powers of this instrument are such that if the
edge of a razor be drawn aeross an iron bar, one minute will
suffice to restore it to an edge not to be obtained by any other
metnod. The Advertiser invites an inspection at his manu-
factory, 200, Fieet-street.
\Vented, some respectable country agents. Reference in
London. One for each town. Apply (if by letter, post paid.)

iLEGANT DRESS COATS, of all Co
-J lours, from 30s. to the very best Saxony Cloth, V. 10s.,
cut and made in a superior style by experienced workmen ; a
suit complete for 31. 10s. ; summer trousers and waistcoats
is. 6d. to 10s. 6d. ; dressing gowns, 15s. to 255. ; pilot great
coats 18s. to 30s. ; youths' dresses to any taste, from 18s.—At
NV lIIT TIN G AM'S, 52, Cheapside, near Bow Church.
Established 25 years.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS

TlMES.—There is nothing adverse hitherto, but the
contrary, in the working of the Bank resolution of yester-
day, for an advance in the rate of interest on discounts to
5 per cent. The principal money dealers have been willing
to lend to-day below that rate, that is, at 4 per cent., and
accommodation generally has been more tree than it was
before. This state of things must, however, be bat tempo-
rary, unless a rally in the foreign exchanges shall take
place, and the effect in the country, where it is eipected to
be felt much more than in London, is still to be- ascer-
tained. Being taken as an intimation that the Bank see
danger at hand, the prudent merchants and manufacturers
will contract their means, and render assistance by those
who require it much more difficult to be obtained.
The sales of Stock on account of the Bank were, it is
believed, continued to-day, although managed more pri-
vately, and probably to no great extent. One sale of
5,0001., on account of the Savings Banks, was effected, if
not more. A slight improvement may be noted in the
money rates of Consols, which closed at 93k to +, both
for Money and this Account. For the July account the
qlnudoitaa tsiotnosckw, e2rse
59
to 3 1- t 205 BE
xanclitleSqutoecrk
B•tivlaiss, 139255. ttoo 139465.;
premium.

Business in the Foreign House was rather more ani-
mated, and in several of those stocks upon which no divi-
dends are paid the quotations are a shade higher. Spanish
Actives, with the May Coupons, were 19 to 4; Portu-
guese Five per Cents., 35i to j-; the Three per Cents.,
21i to ; Mezicen reached 251 to 264 ; Colombian, 301
to 3111- ; Brazilians were 78 to ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half
per Cents. were 56 to I; the Five per Cents., 104 to ;
Belgian, 101 e to 1021; Danish, 75 to I.
The railway market was heavy. London and Birming-
ham, 68 to 70; the quarter-shares, 20 to 21; Great
Western, 7 to 8 premium ; Brighton, 19 to 91; Black.
wall, 21 to 2; North Midland, 5A- to 41; Midland Coun-
ties, 18 to 17 ; Southampton, 7 to 6 discount.
There was scarcely any variation in the rates of exchange
from those negotiated on last post-day. The rates on
Paris, at short, were 25 22i- to 25 ; and on Amsterdam, 12
to at short. On Hamburg, at three months, the rates
were 13 9A- to e.
It is understood, in the city, that the French Govern.
ment have agreed to withdraw the blockade of Buenos
Ayres, and to submit the differences with that State to the
decision of Great Britain, and that orders to that effect
have been sent out to Buenos Ares.

HERALD.—Money for commercial discounts continues
in full demand, and is not to be obtained, on any condi.
tion, under five per cent. ; therefore it cannot be doubted
but that the determination of the Bank of England yester-
day will operate as a steady.
.restriction upon their issues.
Looking at the comparative value of the two descrip-
tions of precious metals which have been actually exported
this week, against the amount exported last week, the sum
of bullion really exported has but little diminished, since
we find, that during the week there has been a larger pro-
portion of gold bullion than silver exported.
The exports of Lullion from this country to the Conti-
nent and the Colonies, between the 9th and 15th of May
inclusive, are as follows :—Gold, in bars, 15,160 oz. ; in
coins, 3,334 oz. Silver, in bars, 37,477 oz.; and, in coins,
83,219 oz.

The rates of the continental exchanges have somewhat
slightly improved; the transactions have, however, been
rather limited, since there were more bills in the market
that, money. On Paris they are quoted at 25f. 521 c. a 25f.
574 c. On Amsterdam they are 12i a; on Rotterdam,
12f a i; on Antwerp 12 11 a 2 ; on Hamburg, 13 9i a
1 0
s;
oamned
connsiderable
Frankfurt,
s all
esso go. f a I.oney stock have been made
to-day by the Bank or Government broker on account of
the former establishment, as also the Savings' Banks.
These are strong indications as regards the state of
the Money Market, but it would be more satisfactory if
the Commissioners of the Savings' Banks were compelled
to explain the cause of these sales, and the late choppings
and changes which they have lately made in funds,
which for the most part belong to the industrious classes.

POST.—Whether or not the sales made by the Com-
missioners of Stock were for account of the Savings'
Bank, as has been more generally stated, we are unable to
say. Many persons about the Stock Exchange seem to
be satisfied that the Chancellor of the Exchequer is get-
ting rid of a large amount which he caused to be purchased
in, the name of the Commissioners some months since, and
as it is apparently at a certain sacrifice in price, and the
ordinary business of the house is interfered with by such
operations, it is almost needless to say that they are viewed
with considerable jealousy. The idea some time ago wasthat
Mr. S. Rice contemplated making another loan, as a means
of meeting the increased expenditure of the government
consequent upon the sending out of troops to Canada, and
an an augmentation of our naval strength, in which case it
would of course have been desirable to maintain the quo-
tation at as high a point as possible; but, as no such mea-
sure has been resorted to, and the Canadas have become
comparatively tranquil, it is now rather supposed that the
funds accumulated are the same which are daily coming
into the market in limited amounts. We repeat what is
said, and believed, upon the subject, without pretending to
know ourselves under what circumstances, or for what
amount, the transactions alluded to have in reality taken
place. If the Government have had any share in them, the
het will doubtless transpire on some future day, when the
Chancellor finds himself called upon to lay the particulars
of his recent financial labours before Parliament.

A Morning Paper, in alluding- to the announcement
yesterday by the Bank authorities of the determination to
which they had come in the course of the day of raising
their rate of interest on discounts from four to five per
cent., and the stagnation which prevails in the manufac-
turing districts, observes, for the obvious purpose of arous.
ing the feelings of the operatives against the landed aris-
tocracy, that " we are now arrived at one of those periods
when the people find themselves, without knowing how,
involved in distress and embarrassment," and that " the
corn monopolists will soon have a practical demonstration
of the importance of manufactures to agriculture."
It is now some months that the English ports have been
open for the admission of foreign grain, and so large has
been the quantity entered, the principal part at a nominal
duty, that at least five millions of money have been re-
quired to pay for it. This sum has been drawn, not par-
tially in our manufactures, but altogether in gold and sil-
ver. In this circumstance we find, if not " a practical de-
monstration of the importance of manufactures to agricul-
ture," in the indefinite sense in which the phraseology we
have quoted is introduced, at all events a demonstration,
and that a strictly practical one, of the importance of
foreign agriculture to British manufactures. Sovereigns
to the extent of five millions have been paid to the
farmers of the Continent, Spain, Portugal, Italy, and other
countries, in exchange for the corn importations of the
last few months, and, from all we can learn upon
the subject, not a single yard extra of the produce of our
factories has, during the same period, been received by
either. The drain of the precious metal has been con-
tinued, and the exchanges have gone on declining from
post day to post day, until the Bank of England have at
length found themselves under the necessity of applying the
" screw" an expedient that always causes derangement in
the financial affairs of the country, and an advance in
the price of provisions, which it is so desirable to avoid.

If the opening of the ports for the admission of foreign.
grain were calculated to serve the operative, such a result
would have been apparent at the present moment. The
Continental merchants would have hastened to avail
themselves of an opportunity of supplying them-
selves with cur manufactures, which they base
not had before for years past, had there been a disposition
to do so, and our cotton mills would all have been in an
unusual state of activity ; but what are we told is the fact ?
That " we are arrived at one of those periods when the
people find themselves, without knowing how, involved in
distress and embarrassment." The English manufacture
is incomparably handsomer and better than anything of the
kind to be met with abroad at the same prise, yet such is
found to be the actual working of the system recommended
for our permanent adoption—of a free trade in corn.

The total amount of money in the savings banks
of Great Britain now reaches the sum of 22,699,7921.33. 7d.
DISTRESSING OCCURRENCE IN HIGH LIFE.

—An unexpected event of a peculiarly painful descrip-
tion has recently occurred, which has created a great sen-
sation in this and the adjoining county of Cheshire,
and, as contradictory rumours are afloat, we should think
ourselves wanting in our duty to our readers if we were not
to lay before them the authentic facts of the case. The parties
are a recently-created baronet of sporting celebrity (residing
within a hundred miles of Conglcton) and his lady. The ex-
traordinary attractions of the latter—the unrivalled grace,
and the sweetness of her manner, have often been the theme
of universal admiration in the northern division of this
county, in the gaieties of which she occasionally partook.
Tli. friends of the parties had for some time been apprehen-
sive that the harmony of their domestic intercourse was Lot
uninterrupted; no idea, however, had been formed of the
inwalsasit;orene-iked.
de t owna,s
ii
had ordered the
extent of the e_xtrangpeamrken,ttiulanttil::::
On that day Sir -- having. been occupied by business
departure aorft uCr e"agni
all the morning
alfltlert the i town
s
pot yet come
co
an:
rhi insgreturn
shortly t
home, but no idea was entertained of the rt al nature of her
absence until the empty carriage drove back into the stable_
yard. It proved that Lady had been met at the Red
Bud, Lawton, by her father and brother, under whose
protection she immediately placed herself, and p d
with them to her paternal home, where,we believe, she
rom.d e
still remains. We add, with great • pain, that, judg-
ing from the accounts that have reached us, there is
but too much reason to fvar that all attempts to effect a
reconciliation will prove un^ T rdshire Ga-
“val :Lg.— SI _a flu-
zdte.