The Sun.
London, England, 1839-04-23 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O' CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON-MARKET APRIL 22.—We have had
no new feature to notice in the Cotton- Market. The
sales to-day, 1,500 bags, chiefly American, at rather
easier prices.
The arrivals this morning are a French mail, also a
mail from Gibraltar, by the Braganza, sailed April 13,
Cadiz 13, Lisbon 15, Oporto 16, and Vigo 18. By the
above conveyance we have received Gibraltar papers to the
13th April, they are filled with English and French intel-
ligence.
A vessel has arrived at Havre, a whaler, which left Con-
ception on the 16th of January. The captain states that
the war between Chili and Peru continues with great rage.
He also confirms the taking of Lima by General Santa
Cruz, and that the Chilian General, in his retreat had lost
most part of his cavalry; but other news from Valparaiso
denies the loss of the cavalry. It was generally believed
that this war would have an unfavourable issue for the
Chilians. He reports that the John Cockerell was at
Conception, and had caught three whales ; the ship
Pallas also three whales, and the Liancourt four whales.
These three vessels were going to continue the whale
fishery on the coast of New Zealand.
The only arrival this morning worth notice is the Lisbon
mail, and the intelligence it communicates is not of much
interest. All was tranquil there, and great difficulty was
expeiienced in forming a new Ministry. The New York
packet-ship of the Ist instant, has not arrived. no doubt
owitig to contrary winds; she is anxiously looked for.

THE FUNDS.

The opening price of Consols this morning may be
quoted as they left off yesterday-92i 93 for Money, and
93 to for the Account, and the business doing is of minor
importance.
In the Foreign Market, nothing doing as yet, and the
prices are nominal at present as they closed. Spanish Ac-
tive, 20i 4 ; Portuguese, 351 Three per Cents., 21+ ;
Belgian, 1031 Brazilian, 77.1 ; Colombian, 291 30 ;
Mexican 241 ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 55i 56 ;
Five per Cents., 1021

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Bank Stock

India Stock

3 per Cent. Red. 9214 14,
3 per Cent. Cone. 19.7414 3 2;
3 per Cent r 9,4%
Ditto Red. 99%75i
New 3% per Cent 10031,% 1
New 5 per Cent. -
Bank Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 5, MO 1434 7-18.4
Oct. 10, 1859 14 ij%l
Jan. 5, 1960 14%1
Jan. 5, MO 1
April 5, 1880.
Jan. 5. 1870 -
PRICES OF FOREIGN•FUNDS
Austrian Bonds

Ditto Bonds 46 48 pm.
South Sea Stock
Old Annuities
New Ditto
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751
Exch. Bills, £l,OOO 41 46 pm.
Ditto 500 44 46 pm.
Ditto Smali 44 46 pin.
Ditto Commercial — pm.
Ditto Advertised pm.
sank Stock for Account ...
India Stock for Account ...
Consols for Account ........93
'HIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Peruvian Bonds

Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account
Brazilian Bonds

Ditto Account
Portuguese Bonds.
Ditto New Bonds

Ditto Account
76
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account
Chilian Bonds:

Ditto Account 3511iM4
Ditto, 3 per Cent.
Ditto Account
Prussian Bonds

D Us Account
Colum!sign Bonds
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds, 1624
Ditto Account
Danish Bonds
Ditto Account
Greek Bonds
Ditto Bonds, 18125
Ditto Account
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent —
Ditto Account
Ditto, fi per Cent.
Ditto Account
Neapolitan
PEACES OF SHARES THI

Russian Bonds, 1E22 112U1,4
Ditto Account 112%
Ditto Metallic
Spanish Bonds
Ditto Account
Ditto Bends, 1834
Ditto Account 2014 %
French, G per cent. llof. —c.
4 per cent.
3 per cent. 81f. —e.
Exchange.
Dutch, 234 per cent.
Ditto Account 55%
Ditto, 5 per Bent 0234 %
Ditto Account
S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
any 25
, 17
SBl. 17s. rd. 434
. 1134 16
HALF-PAST OIVE.

Bristol and Exeter Railway Corny
Brighton Railway
London and Southampton
National Bank of Ireland

The dulness of the weather, with the scarcity of in-
telligence to the present hour, has not effected the Funds ;
on the contrary, Consols continue firm, with a slight im-
provement; in the early part of the morning they were
93 to 931, since which they have been done at 93/ I, for
the Account, and for Money 93 to 931.
Money continues easy, at about 21 per cent. for short
periods.
Exchequer Bills, 44 46 ; India Bonds, 46 48 ; Bank
Stock, 197. In India Stock nothing done. Portuguese
not quite so good as in the morning ; they receded to 354
at present 351, owing to the accounts from Lisbon not
being of so favourable a nature as was anticipated. Three
per Cents., 211-; Brazilian, 78 ; Spanish Deferred, 9a ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 55i 56 higher; Five
per Cents, 1021
Immense arrivals of wheat to-day.

SWITZERLAND.—The Count de Bombelles
and the Charge d'Affaires of France," says the Hevetie,
" have been at Zurich some days. Their presence toge-
ther excites just alarm, for past experience shows that the
alliance of such diplomatists has always been unfortunate
for Switzerland. Happily, at present, it is only, they say,
the eternal question of convent property. The Vorort is
pressed, overwhelmed with solicitations, as if the happi.
ness of two great kingdoms depended upon the existence
of some petty cloisters. But we deceive ourselves ; the
intermediate authority has other ideas at this moment ; in
supporting Austria it religiously pays the debt it has con-
tracted—it does not forget the good services done it by
the Cabinet of Vienna ; and, as it fears again to be in
want of them, for the Prince Louis Napoleon still gives it
the nightmare, it is but just that it should show itself
grateful."
ALLEGED MURDER AT MANCHESTER OF A
WIPE.-At the inquest held at Bury on Thursday on the
body of Mars, the wife of James Heywood, landlord of the
White Bear Inn, Market-place, Bury, who had come by
her death under circumstances which produced great ex-
citement and commisseration throughout the whole town,
the Jury, after hearing evidence returned a verdict of
64 Wilful Murder" against Heywood, who was committed
to Kirkdale Gaol for trial. Heywood's account of the ca-
tastrophe is, that his wife got suddenly out of bed, and
in falling her head came in contact with some of the
furniture and caused her death.

COLOSSAL STATUES.--The colossal statues of
Christ and the Twelve Apostles, executed by Thorwald-
sen for the cathedral of Notre-Dame, at Copenhagen, have,
as we learn by a letter from that city of the 6th inst., been
opened to public view in that church with great ceremony,
in the presence of the King and Queen, and Royal Family,
and the great officers of the state. Two baptismal fonts,
in the form of angels holding vases, also executed by the
great sculptor, have been placed in the same edifice. Thor-
waldsen himself was one of the sponsors of the first infant
christened at them, the child of the Danish sculptor at
Freund, his old pupil at Rome.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN LONDON.
—The Jacksonian Prize for the year 1838 has been ad-
judged to Edwin Lee, of Long-acre, for a dissertation
" On the comparative advantages of lithotomy and litho-
rity, and on the circumstances under which one method
should be preferred to the other."
ASCOT GRAND STAND.—The Ascot Grand
Stand, erected under the superintendence of Mr. Higgins,
is now near its completion.
TWEED SALMON FisHINGs.--The produce
of the salmon fishinga in the Tweed during the last fort-
night has been no less satisfactory than is usually looked
for at this early period of the season, and affords sufficient
ground for anticipating an abundant take as the weather
improves.—Berwick Warden.
SYMPTOMS OE SPRING.—A woodcocks nest,
containing four eggs, was found a few days ago in the New
Park Wood, Netherwitton, the seat of R. Trevelyan, Esq.
—Newcastle Journal.
A PLEASANT SENSATION.—In the course of
an inquest held on Friday before Mr. N.Vakley, on the body
of a suicide, the Coroner, in referring to the different
modes resorted to in effecting self-destruction, remarked
that he had found in his experience that of hanging to be
the most frequent, which he could only attribute to the
pleasant sensation, rather than otherwise, which it
caused in its first stage, and which induced the suicide to
proceed, inasmuch as cases of hanging frequently happened
where the feet of the deceased touched the ground, and
where they had ample opportunities of avoiding the fatal
consequences, if they were so disposed. The foreman of
the Jury ob.erved, that " pleasant" as banging might be,
he should be exceedingly sorry to try the experiment.