The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-03 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

Although we have a continuance of fine weather, we
are again this morning very short of arrivals, which causes
a great dearth of information in the City. Extensive
preparations it appears, are making for war in the East,
but it is still doubtful that hostilities will take place be-
tween Turkey and the Egyptians.
Consols opened firm this morning, with an improvement
on the closing prices, and may be quoted 93i for the
Account, and for Money 931 ; Exchequer Bills 43 45 ;
Bank Stock 197 - ; India Bonds 44 46 ; India Stock,
`255f 250.
In the Foreign Market. in SpAnish Active no alteration
from the closing priee,2oi ; Po, inguese a shade lower,
37i i; Three per Cents. 221 ; Belgian 1011 4, ex.
dividend ; Brazilian, 781 4 ; Colombian, 311 4 ; Mex.
can, 251 4 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 561
Five per Cents. 1021 4.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS
Bank Stock . 197 4 71
per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons. %
per Cent 99%
Ditt© Red.
New 3% per Cent 101%4
New 5 per Cent.
Bait( Long Annuities toexpire
Jan. 5, 1880 14% %
Oct. 10, 1859 14% 7-16
Jan. 5, 1860
Jan. 5, 1880
April 5, 1880.
Jan. 5, 1570
PRICES OF FOREIGN FU ti DS
Austrian Bonds
Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account ...
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds
D tto Account
Columbian Bonds 29%
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, 1824 '31% )
Ditto Account ... ...... 31% %% %
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account
Greek Bonds
Ditto Bonds, 1825
Ditto Account
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto, 6 per Cent 2:
Ditto Account
Neapolitan
PRICES OF SHARES'THI

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
India Stock
Ditto Bonds 45 47 pm
South Sea Stock —
Old Annuities —
New Ditto
3 per Cent. Annuities, 17a1
Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 43 44 42 pm.
Ditto 500 43 44 42 pm.
Ditto Small 43 44 42 pm.
Ditto Commercial — pm
Ditto Advertised
Bank Stock for Account ...
India Stock for Account ...
Consols for Account _ ... 93%
['HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Peruvian Bonds lB4i
Ditto Account 1834
Portuguese Bonds.' —
Ditto New Bonds 37
Ditto Account 37J, 7%
Ditto, :3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Prussian Bonds
Russian Bonds, 1822.
Ditto Account —
Ditto Metallic —
Spanish Bonds —
Ditto Account —
Ditto Bends, 1834
Ditto Account.
French, 5 per cent.... —f. —c.
4 per cent.
3 per cent. —f. —e.
Exchange. —f. —c.
Dutch, 2% per cent. `)IN q
Ditto Account . ...56 % Si,
Ditto, 5 per cent 11'2% % 34,
Ditto Account ......
S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company 9S 11 10%
(great Western Railway Company-- ...........
Brighten Railway
London and Blaakwall Railway ll fN%
Wirth Midland Railway Company. 65 61%
National Provincial Back of England , 35 36s
DUTCH FUNDS.—AMSTERDAM, Aram 30.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
Ainort Syndic, 4 hi per cent 945y 95
Ditto, ditto, 31:, per cent ' 79% £0
Commercial Company, 4% per cent 17934 180%
Ditto (1832 and 183) 5 per cent. —
Ditto 1837, 5 per cent.
Loan 1837, 5 per cent. 98% 99
Exchange on London, One month ll 95
Two months
BELGIAN FUNDS—BRUSSELS, MAY 1.
Actual Debt, 236 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent lOl%
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 per Cent.
-- 3 per Cent.
Loan of City, 1832, 4 per Cent 94
Society of Commerce, 4 %per Cent llB%
Bank of Belgium, 5 per Cent 7754
National Society .
—Brussels Papers, May 1.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, APRIL 23.
Five per Cents. Metalliques 107%
Four per Cents.
Three per Cents.
Bank Shares . ..

--411genzeine Zeitung. April 28.
HAMBURG BORSEN HALLE, APRIL 39.
Bills. Money,

Austrian 5 per Cents. ... 10534 105
Bank Shards
An 10-Russian Loan 107% 107%
Russi in 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate
Inscription, Ist Series 102% 182
Russian 5 per Cent. Hop., and (.o. 3d and 4th
Se i,s 91% 98
Ditto in Certificates
Dutch ctual Vebt, 2Yi pe Cent 5l 5"1F4
Ditto 5 per Cent 99% 091 A
Polish Bond,
New icket
72

1/4
Anglo- .anish Loan, 3 per Cent • 721/4
Norwegian,lman, 1t434, 4 per Cent......
EXCHANGES ON LONDON.
HAmsulau, APRIL 30.-13. 6'4.—Two months, 13. 5.
PRTKIIIIBURGI, APRIL '22. —ll 41-3-2.
BERLIN, APRIL9R.—Three menthe, 6. 211/4.
CHRISTIANIA", APRIL 25.—Tfirm modths, 5 2.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—BERLIN, APRIL 26.
Money.
St. Schuld. Sch., 4 per cent lo'l% 102%
Prussian Engiish Loan, 15:30,4 per cent 102,5, 101;74,
Exchange on London, three months 6 21!i
—Prussia*: State Gazette, April 27.
HALF-PAST OA.E.

We still continue, as in the early part of the morning,
without any further arrivals or intelligence to communicate,
and was it not for the fine state of the weather we should
be very dull.
Some interest has been excited in the City by the deal-
ers in tea upon-the arrival of the large quantity of tea in
Holland from Java, the quality of which is stated not to
be of an indifferent description, and realised at the sale in
Amsterdam, Bohea, 31 francs 4 cents, to 30f. 12c. ; Congou
Bohea, 194 f. 4c. ; Congou, 244 f. 4e. ; Souchong,
1631. 4c ; Pekoe, 141. 4c. ; Twankay, 63f. 4c.
Consols have receded about per cent. since the mor-
ning, and may be quoted 93i Money • for Account, 93k.
Exchequer Bills, 43 44 ; India- Bonds, 45 47 ; Bank
Stock, 197 ; India Stock, 256.
In the Foreign Market some business has been doing.
Spanish Active rather lower, 20 ; Portuguese also, 37 ;
Three per Cents., 24; Belgian, 101 f cx div- ; Brazilian,
781 ; Colombian, 34; Mexican, 251; Dutch Two-and a-
Half per Cents., 6i-; Five per Cents., 1921 11-.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS

Bank Stock ' 197% India Stack 251
3 per Cent. lied , ‘l2 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. C( us. 9314 Ditto Old Annuities
34? per Cent. Red. 99%8 Ditto New Annuities
New 3,,,', per Cent 101% Ex. Bills, 1,0001 '. 2d 44 pm.
New 5 per Cent Ditto 500/ 41 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001. 44 pm
Jan. 1860
Oct. 1859 -16 Ir.dia Stock for Opg
Jan. 1860
..... 931,4
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Asturian, 5 per cent 1075„ Portuguese Bonds, sper sent.
Belgian, 5 per cent 101% Ditto, New Ditto 'l7
Brazilian Bonds iB Prussian, 5 per cent
Buenos Ayr:s, 6 per cent.... Russian Bonds, 5 per cent 113
Chilian, 6 per cent — Ditto, Metallic
Colomban, 6 per cent 29;Q Spanish, 5 per cent 2O
Ditto, 1824 '3lx, Ditto, Consolidated —
Danish, 3 per cent ....... French, 5 per cent. . f. —c.
Greek Bonds, 1825, sper ct. Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent. French, 3 per cent —f. —c
Ditto, (i por cent., 1825 2514 Dutch .‘24 per cent.
Peruvian, 1823,6 per cent..... 113Y4 'Ditto:s per cent. ... 102%
SHARES
3ristol and Exeter Railway
_ ..

Eastern Countios Railway...

Great Western Railway :,....

~.... - - ~256

London and Brighton knilw;
London and Blackmail Rally
London and Birminzham R;
Manchester and Birminglian
North Midland Railway

ty
My
tilway 159
1 Itailway
. . 611,6

The debate on the Jamaica question is not
likely, we understand, to close to. night. It may, how-
ever, be brought to a termination, and a division take
place, sooner than is expected ; and no Member therefore
should be absent.

THEINFORMATIONS AGAINST PUBLIC COM-
PANIES.—The introduction of a Bill into the House of
Commons to put a stop to the informations against public
companies for not having the printer's name attached to
their prospectuses has already been noticed. At the
Town-hall,"Soutlivark, yesterday, during the sittin, of
Sir M. Wood, Stowell. the common infornier, stepped
forward, having a copy of the proposed Act in his hand, and
said that he wished to call the attention of Sir Mathew to
it. The first clause, he said, went to repeal the 27th
section of the 39th George 111. ; the second clause
which authorized the printing of any book or paper,
inflicted no penalty, so that a person could, if the
Bill passed in its present shape, publish the most ob-
scene work which could possibly be conceived, and that
without rendering himself liable to the slightest pe-
nalty, while the person who might happen to hawk such
publication about the ;street was liable. Sir Matthew in-
quired whether that was not sufficient ? Stowell said it
was not ; for the very next clause completely undid what
the previous one enacted. It wanted the words "to dis-
perse" or " assisting to disperse" introduced. There was
besides another most material omission. The word " book"
was left out ; so if a scurrilous, blasphemous, or obscene
book were published and exposed for sale in the public
streets, however offensive such a work might be to mora-
lity, the police could not take the vendor into custody, for
the clause, as it stood, made it no offence. The term
" paper" was the only one used and described. After
some further conversation, Stowell said he had written to
the Attorney-General on the subject, and, as an instance
of the evil which an imperfect Act of Parliment produced,
stated that a few weeks since he gave a dealer in obscene
books into custody, aid Sir F. Roe inflicted the full pe-
nalty of 201., and was about issuing a distress warrant when
he foetid that the Act was silent on the subject of selling,
and the &lie was in consequence discharged.
A MAN DROWNED IN ALE.—Yesterday after-
noon an inqu'st was held before Mr. Carter, at the Grey-
hound Tavern, Kennington Common, on view of the body
of John Fisher, a fine young man, aged 28 years. It ap-
peared in evidenca that the deceased, who has been but
recently married, was in the service of Mr.
r.Turner,
brewer, of Church-street, Newington, and was subject 4o
a giddiness in his head. On Tuesday evening last. be ae.
cidentially fell into a vat of strong ale, and whertitaaen out
was quite dead. Verdict—" Accidental death."
A GENTLEMAN.—In the Insolvent Debtor's
Court yesterday, an application was made against an in.
solvent for a re-hearing, who,' it was alleged, had obtained
his discharge by a forgery. The accomplice it the matter
described himself as a g- ntleman," and doted, in his
affidavit, that when he signed the name he was not aware
he was " doing wrong." The Court granted a rule nisi.