The Sun.
London, England, 1839-05-31 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

It appears that the exportation of Bullion has consider-
ably diminished this week, though that of Gold bears a
larger portion. From the official returns from the period
between the 23d and 24th May, both inclusive, it appears
that cold in bars has been exported to the extent of 8,060
ounces, and in coin 6,150, but in Silver the export has
been reduced to 11,272 ounces in coins only.
The notice issued by the Dank of England yesterday,
we have no doubt will have in a short time a good effect to
improve the money market, particularly for commercial
purposes.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAT 31.—The Cotton
Market continues dull and without any improvement in
prices ; the sales are 2,000 bags, chiefly of American
descriptions.
The arrivals this morning are French, Ostend? Dublin,
and Hamburg: mails, arid ship letters from Canton.
Accounts from Ghent of the 26th May, state that two
of the cotton manufactories there have left off working
since the 25th of May, an another is going to follow,
owing to the work people not consenting to a diminution
of their wages ; this determination had caused a great fer-
mentation among the working classes.
According to accounts from Odessa of the 9th May, it

appears that fifty thousand infantry, twenty thousand
cavalry, and a train of 150 pieces of cannon, were ap-
proaching the Turkish frontier.

We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yester-
day's date, but it does not contain any later dates from the
East than previously received.
A Hamburg mail has arrived with papers of the 29th May
bringing the price of Metaliques 106 ; Bank Shares 1511.
The above papers do not bring any fresh intelligence from
Constantinople or Egypt of later dates than already pub-
lished.

The following official answer has been sent by Viscount
Palmerston to an application from Liverpool respecting
the intention of the French raising the bluckade of Buenos
Ayres :

Foreign Office, May 1139.
Sir,—l am directed by Viscount Palmerston to acknow-
ledge the receipt of your letter of the 22d inst., and to ac-
quaint you in answer, that her Majesty's Government have
not been informed that the French Government have de-
termined to raise the blockade of Buenos Ayres, or to
adjust their differences with the Government of Buenos
Ayres through the medium of Great Britain.

J. BACKHOUSE.

THE FUNDS.
Consols opened this morning at the closing prices of
yesterday, 931 Money:; 93 Account, with little doing
at present ; Exchequer Bills 26 28 ; India Bonds 28 30 ;
Bank Stock 195 196 ; India Stock 256 257.
_ .

In the Foreign Market nothing doing to the present
time, and the prices are nominal. Spanish Active 191} ;
Portuguese 35+ 4 ; Three per Cents., 21+ ; Belgian
1011 102 ; Brazilian 791 4 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. 551- 56i ; Five per Cents. 10244.
No reports, or any arrivals from New York at present.

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS
Bank Stock 194%, 4
3 per Cent. Red. ''''t9l4
3 per Cent. Cons. 9336%1
3y4 per Cent lou
Ditto Red. 93 MCI
New 314 per Cent
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities toexpire
Jan. 5, 1860 14%
Oct. 10, 1859 —
Jan. 5, 1860 14 11-16
Jan. 5, M 0...—. ............
April 5, 18.90 —

Jin. 5,1870
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds — !

DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
India Stock
Ditto Bonds 3U 28 pm.
South Sea Stock
Old Annuities
New Ditto
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751
Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 28 26 pm.
Ditto 500 .. 2a 2'i pm.
Ditto Small 2S 26 pm
Ditto Commercial —
Ditto Advertised ...27 28 25 pm.
Bank Stock for Account ...
India Stock for Account ...

Consos for Account
THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Peruvian Bonds

Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account
Ch ilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds 284
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, 1824.... 31.1N
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account
Greek Bonds
Ditto Bonds, 182.5
Ditto Account
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto, 6 per Cent 2314
Ditto Account
Neapolitan.
PRICES OF SHARES THL

Ditto Account
Portuguese Bonds
Ditto New Bonds
Ditto Account 35% 'Az %
Ditto, 3 per Cent. 2IU ye
Ditto Account
Prussian Bonds
Russian Bonds, 1822
Ditto Account
Ditto Metallic
Spanish Bonds 19%3t
Ditto Account. 19%V4
Passive
Defy rred B%
French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
--- 4 per cent —f. —c,
--- 3 per cent —l. —c.
--- Exchange. —f. —c.
Dutch, 2% per cent. 156%
Ditto Account
Ditto, 5 per cent........, IO2N
Ditto Acc0unt........
DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
16 10X
5
17
Company 9O 170 69
5
:25
HALF-PAST ONE.
This being settling day in the Foreign Market, the
jobbers and brokers are chiefly occupied in paying and re-
ceiving the differences. It is expected that the settling
will go off easy.
Consols have been buoyant during the morning, and
reached 93i i far Money, for the Account, 938. Ex-
chequer Bills lower, 28 26; India Bonds ditto, 30 28;
Bank Stock ditto, 194 ; India Bonds, 256.

Eastern Counties Railway
Gosport Junction
Brighton Railway

LorTdon and 13irtniaghana Railway,
Ditto U:Shares ,
British North American Bank

In the Foreign Market, Spanish has improved to 19j;
Portuguese, 35k; Three per Cents., 21i; Belgian,
1011 ; Colombian 304 to 31 ; Mexican, 2tie ; Dutch
Two-and- a- Half per Cents. 56k; Five per ents., 1021.
We have no further arrivals to communicate.

TWO O'CLOCK.
Money is exceedingly scarce, particularly in the Foreign
market, owing to its being settling day. A high rate of
discount is given for the continuation of the Account.
Consols are now 93i buyers for the Account.

THE MARKETS-(THIS DAY.)

CORN-EXCHANGE.

The arrivals of English Corn this week have been small,
and of foreign wheat considerable ; the demand for wheat
slack; a decline has taken place since Monday of ls. per
quarter on English, and 2s. per quarter on Foreign. Very
little doing in Barley ; Beans and Pease have not sold so
freely as on Monday ; the Oat trade firm, at previous
rates ; the Flour trade heavy, and ship parcels were offered
lower.

ARRIVALS
Barley. Oats. I Flo 1.
52 qrs. 1,260 qrs 4,140 ,acks
5,890
580

Wheat.
English ..... 3,4E0 qrs
Irisn
Foreign
SMITHFIELD.

- brls.

Supply moderate, trade dull, and prices barely supported.
Beef 3s. 4d. to 4s. 4d. Mutton 4s. 4d. to 43. 10d. Veal
4s. Bd. to bs. 6d. Pork 4s. 4d. to ss. 4d. Lamb 63. to
6s. 6d. Beasts 478, Sheep and Lambs 9,500, Pigs 490,
Calves 295.

CITY FISH MARKET.
Supplies good, and prices much as last quoted.

COURT CIRCULAR.

WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—The Queen went to-day to
Ascot Races. Her Majesty left the Castle shortly before
12 o'clock in an open carriage drawn by four greys, with
outriders in scarlet liveries. Her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Kent sat by the side of her Majesty ; their
Serene Highnesses the Prince and Princess Leiningen sit-
ting opposite. The Hon. Colonel Cavendish, the Clerk
Marshal, rode on the right of the Queen, and Lord Alfred
Paget, Equerry in Waiting, was on horseback on the op.
posite side of the carriage; both gentlemen wearing the
Windsor uniform. Six (open) Royal carriages and four
followed, conveying the Countess of Albemarle, the Coun-
tess of Surrey, Lady Eleanor Paget, Lady Constance
Paget, Lady Frances Cowper, and other Ladies of the
Royal suite and visitors, and also the Earl of Albemarle
(Master of the Horse), Viscount Melbourne, Earl of Ux-
bridge, Earl of Surrey, Earl of March, Earl of Fingal!,
Lord Clarence Paget, Hon. Major Keppel, Hon. William
Cowper and Col. Buckley.
Lord Morpeth remained at the Castle, and Viscount
Palmerston and other Noblemen and Gentlemen rode on
horseback to the Races.

The Royal retinue passed at a walking pace through the
town, where a great number of spectators had assembled,
who received her Majesty with every demonstration of
respect.

His Imperial Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of
Russia, and his Royal Highness Prince Frederick Henry
of the Netherlands took their departure from the Castle
this morning, at nine o'clock, for town. Viscount Tor-
rington, Count Orloff, Prince Barintinsky, Prince Dol-
gorouky, Baron de Lieven, General Kaveline, M. de Tol-
stoy, M. de Adlerberg, M. Joukovsky, M. Youriewitch,
and M. de Patkul, attended his Imperial Highness the
Grand Duke. And Baron Bentinck, the Netherlands
Charge d'Affaires, and Captain Arriens, Attache, were in
attendance on his Royal Highness Prince Frederick.
Count and Countess Woronzow also left the Castle this
morning for town.

The Royal dinner party at the Castle yesterday included
Colonel Richardson and Colonel Bouveric of the Royal
Regiment of Horse Guards, and also Lieutenant-Colonel
Townshend and Major Barton.
Last evening the following had the honour of joining
the Royal Circle :—The Earl and Countess of Dunmore,
Earl and Countess of Leicester, Earl and Countess
Bruce, Lord Leveson, Lord and Lady Rivers, Hon. Mrs.
and Miss Cavendish, Mr. and Mrs. d'Hareourt ; Captains
Trent, Hamer, Forester, Tyrrell, and Oliver, of the
Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, and Lieut. Smith.
Viscount Melbourne will leave the Castle to-morrow
morning for London.
The Ascot Race Ball, last night, at the Town-hall,
was attended by upwards of 300 of the principal Nobility
and Gentry of the neighbourhood. Among those present
were Prince Dolgorouky, Lord and Lady Rodney, Lord
and Lady Bredport, Lord Alfred Paget, Lord Portarling-
ton, Lady Mary Long, Sir Charles Morgan, Lady King,
Hr. and Mrs. Mitchel, Sir East Clayton East, Lady and
Mr. Graham, Colonel and Mrs. Milman, and Colonel
Rowley.
His Imperial Highness the Hereditary Grand Duke of
Russia, and His Royal Highness Prince Frederick Henry
of the Netherlands, were presented to her Majesty the
Queen Dowager yesterday, at Marlborough House. The
Grand Duke was attended by Viscount Torrington, and
also by Count Orloff, and other Noblemen of his suite.
The two Princes afterwards called upon the Royal Family
to take leave.

The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Queen Dowager
at Marlborough House yesterday, and the Princess Au-
gusta at Clarence House, St. James's.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge returned on
Wednesday night to Kew.
Messrs. Milton, Lambert, and Westlake, had an inter-
view with the Marquis of Normanby yesterday at the
Colonial Office.
Earl Talbot bad an interview with Lord John Russell
yesterday at the Home office.
Sir James Sterling, R.N., Captain Moorsom, and Mr.
D. Leatry, had interviews yesterday, with the Marquis of
Normanby.
Despatches from Sir William Nicolay, Governor of the
Mauritius, were received yesterday at the Colonial Office.

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