The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-15 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Late on Saturday afternoon the following notice was
issued from the Bank of England :
" The Governor and Company of the Bank of England
do hereby give notice, that they will he ready to receive
tenders, for the purchase of Annuities terminable on the
sth of April, 1867, granted under the Act 3d Geo. IV.,
cap. 51, on Wednesday next, the 17th July, at Twelve
o'Clock, such Tenders to be made either in money or in
Three per Cents. Consolidated, or in Three per Cents.
Reduced Annuities, or Three-and-a• Half per Cents. An-
nuities, and to be for sums of not less than 10,0001. Money
or Stock."

The above intimation being made public at so late an
hour, and on a Saturday, when most of the gentlemen of
the Stock Exchange had left for their country residences,
caused much surprise, and the general opinion is that the
public will not purchase the terminable Annuities; it is
more likely that this dead weight will answer the purpose
of the Insurance Companies and Bankers, but it depends
on the sealed price demanded by the Bank Directors. By
the above operation it is evident that the pressure of the
present money crisis bears heavily on the Bank Corpo-
ration.

LIVERFOOL COTTON MARKET, SATURDAY.—" We have
a good demand for Cotton to-day, and the market closed
with considerable firmness, at an advanced price of -id. per
lb. The sales 4,000 to 6,000 bags.
We have received the Hamburg papers of the 12th of
July by the mail.
Exchange on London 13 4 lower; Metalliques, 106 ;
B ink Shares, 1,509 ; Gold 541, same as per last post.
The City of Hamburg steamer arrived on Saturday at
Falmouth, with mails from Lisbon, and two Indian mails
from Gibraltar, whence she sailed on the 4th inst. from
Cadiz on the sth, Lisbon on the Bth , Oporto on the 9th,
Vigo on the 10th.
The arrivals from Lisbon state that the Cortes have
been principally occupied during the past week on the
subject of the Budget, which is still under discussion; the
particulars of the news from Lisbon will be found in ano-
ther part of the paper; all was tranquil there when the
ace iunts left.

We have received Cape of Good Ilope papers to the
25th of April.
We have received New Brunswick papers to the 16th
June. We extract the following :
" Rumours of the most unpleasant description relative to
the Clerk of the House of Assembly, have been current
during the past week. It is stated that he has left home
with a large sum of money, from 2,0001. to 5,0001., placed
in his hands to pay the contingencies of the House of As-
sembly. There is no doubt that Col. Fitzgibbon has gone
from home, that be received a sum of money to pay the
contingencies, and that he has only partly done so."
We have received Calcutta papers, but they are of old
dates.

Gibraltar papers to the sth July have been received, but
they have been anticipated in their intelligence from Spain
by the French papers.; 4...,
The notice from the Bank Directors, of their intention
to receive tenders for the purpose of terminable Annuities,
has not had that effect on the funds which was anticipated
on Saturday afternoon.
Consols have only receded 1 per cent., they closed on
the above day at 921 93 for the Account, and opened
this morning at the same quotation, in the morning part
of Saturday they were 931- -3- ; Exchequer Bills, 14 17 ;
India Bonds, nothing done as yet; Bank Stock, nothing
done.; India Stock, 2512 2524.
In tie Foreign market, Spanish Active, 181 19 ; Por-
tuguese, 334 34; Three per Cents., 20.421 ; Brazilian,
771- 78 ; Belgian, 1024 i ; Colombian, 324 ; Mexican,
254 262; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 54h- f,- ;
Five per Cents., 1033-.
PRICES OF STOCIKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock - ..1'89., 9 90; India Stock —
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons. 61135%%,/, South Sea Stock —
3-, per Cent 99% Old Annuities —
Ditto Red 99%% New Ditto
New 3 per Cent 4/9 tiA 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1731
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities toexpire I Ditto 500 .. pm.
Jan. 5, Iwo . 14 3-10 Ditto Small 14 15 12 pm.
Oct. Id, 1859 l3 15-16 14 i Ditto Commercial — pm.
Jan. 5, 1860 13 13-16 Ditto Advertised ..... pm.
Jan. 5, 1880 Bank Stock for Account ...
April 5, 1880. — India Stock for Account ...
Jan. 5, 1870 — Consos for Account .. 93%
PRICES OF FOREIGN FETIVDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCE.
Alstrian Bonds Peruvian Bonds —
8.._,„; lan Bonds
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bends
Ditto Account

Chilian Bonds
D tto Account

Prussian Bonds
Russian Bonds, 1822

Columbian Bonds ZU%
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, 1824. 3.04 2 k•
Ditto Account ...
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account
Greek Bonds
Ditt., Bonds, 18'23

Ditto Account
Ditto Metallic
Spanish Bonds lB% 19),y
Ditto Account.
Passive
DenTred 83,,,
French, 5 per cent. —f; —c.
4 per cent...„,. —f. —c.

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Ditto Account I 3 per cent. f. —c.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent —; Exchange. —f. —c.
Ditto Account I Dutch, 2!<, per cent 543 i, Ni
Ditto, 6 per Cent —, Ditte Account 54,4
Ditto Account —l Ditto, 5 per cent
Neapolitan .. —. Ditto Acc0unt........ .....
PRICES OF SHARES Tli :IS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Paid.
Eastern Counties Railway ..
Brighton Railway
Londosi and Croydon Railway Ca mpany 1 I!. 18s, 6d.
N rth Niidland Railway Compml 65
South Eastern and Dover Railwa y Company 9

Per share.
11%34
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70Y4
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PRICES OF IRISH aTC ACKS, DUBLIN, JULY 13.
3pc Cent. Consols ..... 92 I Grand Canal Dells. 6 per cent.
3%pref Cent. Stock
-Oats Reduced
Ditto New, 1830 ..... 99, 6 City of Dublin Steam Comp.
314 per Cent. Debentures... National Insurance Company
Bank stock — City Debentures, 4 per cent.
Nrand Canal Stock
Royal Canal Stock

HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
We have received Siegal are papers to the 29th March

COMMERCIAL REMAR EL EUROPEAN GOODS.
Beer, Wine, and Spirits----Stock large, and only sale-
able in a cask or two at a timce, las wanted. Wines about
200 dozens. Sherry, and afc w cases of Port, have been
sold at a decrease of ss. per di )zen. Market well supplied
with Sherry.
Hama.—Good wanted.

Ter.—Stock very heavy,
Cotton Goods, Plain, Pti nted, and Coloured. —The
Trinculo, arrived from Liverp )ol since our last, has brought
a large supply of Cotton menu factures.
Further importations being expected both from the
Clyde and Liverpool, and bold ers being anxious:to realise,
price% continue very low. T Vere has been a good deal of
inquiry for both plain and pril it ed goods during the week,
Cotton Twist, Grey Mule— -The only inquiry is at pre-
sent for low numbers.

Woollens—The Trinculo bi ings 192 pieces of Spanish
and 1,245 yards of fine broad cloth, of which we have
heard of no sale.

Opium—Benares has been in: good demand during the
past week, end in consequence the second sale of opium
not havi, g ocaurred as ( xpected, it is:iuppri e : tl.e sales have
ben postponed.
At a late hour last night, and NI :bile preparing to go to
press, we received accounts tb tat the second opium sale
took place on the 12th February„ which went off with a
()Teat dorree of spirit.

It :s calculatod"that if the whoil4 of the dead weight is
;old, it will produce 9,369,0001.

A report prevails that a large so m of the Dead We'ght
has been purchased by one of the 3 .nsurance CAnpanis—
the same one as bid for it about two years ago.
This is Settling-day in the For& t.; a Market, consequently
the chief business doing is settling t`le accounts as well
as paying and receiving the differ( in ces.
Comsols at present may be qua ittid at, for the opening,
93k; ex div. 91:4; Exchequer Bills lower, receded to
12 prem. ; India Bonds, nod Lit 7 done; Bank Stock,
189- 190; India Stock, nothing done ; Spanish Active,
19; Portuguese improved to 341; rhree per Cents., 2Q;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 64/ ; Five per Cents.,
1001.

HER MAJESTY'S TIIEAT Et..,E —The perform-
ances on Saturday night were G 1 eg47ielmo Tell and La
Gitana. The house was well fill id.. Her Majesty and
the Queen Dowager were preset at, as were also the
Duke and Duchess of Cambridgcs and the Princess
Augusta.
LAUNCH OF A STEAMT4R.-., .Friday morning,
at high water, a very splendid steoft i-ship, named the
Vesuvius, was launched from the dock-v 4 rd at Sheerness.
A great number of persons were present;..
BATHING.—On Saturday morning, between six
and seven o'clock, a fatal accident occri 'red to Augustus
Howden, eighteen years of age, the son of the Reverend
Vesey Ilowden, residing at St. John''s Wood, Regent's
Park. The unfortunate gentleman company with a
friend, proceeded to the Regent's Car Al to bathe ; being
seized with cramp he was unfortunately drowned before
assistance could be rendered. The body was conveyed
home in an hour afterwards.

FRIGHTFUL ACCIDENT F 'ROM WINDOW
CLEANING.-On Thursday afternoon, between two and
three o'clock, a fine: youth, named Johr r. Born, fell from the
third floor window of the house, No. 244, in Blackfriars-
road, upon the iro a railings in front of the shop. The suf-
ferer was immediately picked up and conveyed to the sur-
gery of Mr. Jam es, a few doors off, hut who advised his
immediate removal to St. Thomas's -hospital, whither be
was conveyed in a cal by two policem ea. Upon examina-
tion it was discovered that the right Ili, ;•,11 and the left leg
were broken, while I he forehead was: c' mpletely smashed
in, and the brains %too ere protruding. li .e was immediately
attended by Mr. Tra' yers, but remains w :thout the slightest
hope of recovery. 'The youth was elf !ailing the window
when the accident happened, and had j tot outside for that
purpose.
SINGULAR EFVECT OF THE S TORNl.—During
the severe storm of tb under and lightnii ig which prevailed
at Bromley, Kent, and its vicinity on Si inday evening last,
about half-past ten„ a body of fluid wao observed to burst
apparently at a A( At distance, and to I.)reak into innumer-
able zigzag coruscations of light of int. ense brilliancy and
superb colours. The radiations flew 7in all directions, and
the burst of lig ht was instantaneous followed by two
tremendous expi esions, which shook ale. buildings in the
neighbourhood, and the successive rors of thunder were
awful in the extreme. fl) house of Mr. James Gould,
situate on Martin's-hill, near the tot in, was struck by
the lightning, and severely , iamaged. A portion of the
electric fluid was attracted by A zinc chimney-top placed
upon a stack of chimneys on his-..house ; the zinc top was
torn off, and the remaining tops „ wcrt shattered to pieces,
and the particles thrown into tit° Adjoining field, a dis-
tance of thirty yards from the ape t; the t:uid having reached
the slated roof, travelling by me ins of the' bell-metal nails,
drawing them from the wood an. l raising anal dispersing the
slates, and causing other devastat ions, forcing away the lath
and plaster, thus making a clear Passage en the outside of
the brickwork towards the grou ad. Mr. Gould and his
family, with some other friends,
rere sitting near the fire-
place in the room on the chimne y o r which the zinc top
was placed which had been struck by the electric fluid, and
most providentially escaped. The el Fects of the fluid ex-
tinguished the candles thatt were hum iing on the table, fill-
ing the room with a strong suffecatio; sulphureous vapour,
and slightly singeing the hair of sons eof them. Had the
fluid continued in its course down time aperture of the chim-
ney, the consequences would haver o ved fatal.
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