The Sun.
London, England, 1838-10-05 00:00:00

MONEY AND CO;vlmElt( I
CITY (THIS DA 1,71, i;
Arrivals this rti,)rning Fr,nch 0-t owl "\is,s Nu
shi;. 'letters.

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We have reeeive.l the .Itatrnal of (.!ornwer(y: of A Ow; rp of
yesterday's date, the 4th of October ; it '{.yes not toe ant eny
poitical news of imp: lane,.
The Bourse at 13russels hail bin thrown ii;to grt,t con.
fusion, owing to the err..st of M. 16es toe moe,ent he entered
the place, in consequence of the I,lse t legrApb-c d,•stoo eh of
the taking of Estella. He was conducted before the Judge of
Instruction.
The still prevailing north-easter'N winds have prevented
arrivals from any quarter this morniog, with the exc,ption of
the Foreign Mails; in consequence of which we have a blank
day for information.
The near approach of the payment of the. dividends, the
Three per Cents. Reduced, Three-and-a-half Reduced, Lo3ia
Stock, and Bank Stock. which takes place hut the 104 h
inst., will no doubt cause nioney to he plentiful. both for com-
mercial affairs end speculation in the various Funds.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 91 94 for Money, and
94 to i for the Account, opened this al, trot, g at the sante prices,
and to the present time there is verb little animation in either
of the markets. Exchequer Bills, 67 69; India Bon& 66 68;
Mink Stock for openinp, 207 k 2055; Indis Stock, :261 263.
In the Foreign Market the pr;ees may br quoted a, n..mi-
nal at present. Spanish Active, as it left off, 18% i-, ~-ith
Coupons; Portuguese 34,} 1 ; Three per. Cents '2'4 ; 13,..z-
-ban 794 80:1; Mexican 224 23/ ; Colombian 24:1. 'I; I )utth
Two-and-a- Half per Cents, 534 544 ; Fire per C,:lits 1004 J;
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DA i Al ONE 0'Ci.,,0,:h
Bank Stock .. .... , ...... ••• I . '' S''''''.'-"-
...
3per ce,,t. ~,, .
...... ~ ... ---.;_ntto iion:is -.......,
3per Cant. -eels
'Pit tier Cent...... ~, . .... ....... , (Y,l Aitnratie,; .....,
Dieo Re.',.
New 3% pc: cent lnti.,;, •J 34 . ~e;. -.:.ent. Annuities, ...:.-',;._
New per Cent... „ , ~ i kNel'. tmile, x. 1,00, ....„,.. 69 71 '',-.
Bw.1•, LaugAnnultiest 'titpire I 11,tto ....... . ,50-- .. f 9 71 ors.
Jan. 5, 180., — i D,.tto 4',r/i.,..11 ..
Oct. It), -,,,,) ..... 1 Ditto Corninerciak ........,. - -- oil-.
Jan. 5, 19itc l5 7-11753/41 Ditto Advertise'', ...... ~.... - -- r.,1 .
Jan. 5, 13i-31' -
April ',, itk‘,.....,.
~....
Jan. :„ 1,,,5'7'',,„ . —,Cortol4 ton Account )134 4
PitICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THis DAY AT ONE O'Ci :,..,iTh..
Austrian Bonds -
Beignin Bonds . ... .. -
aittu Account . - Portuguese 1i,i„,...........,„, .....
liraziloanidond; .
Ditto Account .......... ..... . - attf, Account .. -
Buenos Ayres Ilorels - D,tto, 3 per cent .. .. -
DIM' Atcoant - Dil•-, A..e0ir.,.1.
C:illi:::. Bondi" - .'riusian .3(.nd5,.. ....... ~..,,, -
.V,to Account . .. - Itus•',ll iiennr, 115*" ......
-
Ctitular, 1...,-)nqi.,......" ....... .. -! OAtt, I.CCO,AIIt: ..„.....,_.,.„, -
Ditto Aci:ount ~ . --, Di....-, ..tlef.allic .... .......- -
Atli-fit:Am: Bcads, th',-. - i Spaills'a 80ie:Li...., ....
iiao itccount ....-... ...... -- 1 Ditto Account .. . . -
) ,:i.,ti 'let .1s ... .
;)itto iiccolv.at ...... ......
,i'ore:A 8ri05.... . ..,......„..... - Frean'o, , pe, c,,,,,,,. ~ ...„ _f, -
Jit to &rids, 1131:5 - - ---- 4 ..t.r Cont., . ... . --- • --.
Ditto /sect:aril - pet C,EIL• .... -••• •• t —,
•
-enicat, 13.41,t'5, 5 per cent.,, -..--- ~m0nt.144,
it.to Account - ! flat ~i, 2114.0er ce;:, 53%
-,.itto. n per cant.... - 1 0,,n, A.:count •
lilt.(, A.ecount .
.:caFolitin... . .. „ ~.... -I Ditto A::,,01r-i. _
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Paid. Per :-.,hate
Bra,inan Imperial Mining Co (issued at 51. pm.) wi -
itt i St. John del Rey
ahytancy Iron Mining Company
134
~:,tern i titaiiti,s Bail-way...-. ........ .. ............ •.. 714 5,,
Brighton Ftatl,av Co,i,i, -,,
G.Jvanized Iron Company
..
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IIALF-PAST ONE.
The Consol Mark,- t has continued during the morning in a
,t tt eof inactivity. The Continental intelligence being of an
in,ignificant description, the speculators are at a loss to know
bow to act.
Consols may be quoted 94 for M-,nay, for the Account a
shade lower than in the early part of the day, 94 ; Exchequer
Bills, 69 71 pre,n ; India Bonds, 70 prem. ; Batik Stock fur
opening 207 i 2084.
In the Foreign Market the only speculation has been in
Sparish, 184 i ; Portuguese, 34.; :1., Thrue per Cents., Sl4;
Brazilian, 791 80k; Dutch Two .and-a. Half, li3} 54i; Five
per Cents, 1004.
In Shares nothing doing. Brighton 2i- dis.
THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red
3 per Cent Ceas 01 'Ditto Old Annuities -
314 per Cent 'Ditto Sew Annuities ... ...... . -
3t,,, per Cent. Red 10.% Ex. Bills, 1.•,02/ 2340 '7l pm
Nem, 34 per Cent 102 ~ Ditto 51 1 7i pir
Long Annuities to expire i Ditto 500/ 71 on
Jan 183 - ,Bank Stock for Act. -
Oct. 1850
Jan. 1500
FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian, 5 per cent lPortuguese 'ond 5 per cent..
Belgian, 5 per cent - to `Jew Ditto ...
Brazilian Bonds 7934 rrussian, 5 per cent
Buenos Ayr s, 6 per cent., - Russian Bonds, 5 per cent
chiiian, 6 per cent - Ditto, Metallic
Colombiain, 6 per cent - Spanish, 5 per rent lle%
Ditto, 1824 - Ditto, Consolidated
Danish, 3 per cent 75 French, 5 per cent. -f -:
Greek Thruis, 1825, 5 per cent - I Exchange -f -c.
Mexican, Star cent French, 1 per cent ....... ..... -f. -•
Ditto,ll per cent.. 15•)5 - ~utc.11,23, per cent. `3iB
Peruvian, 1825,6 per rent . - Ditto, 5 per cent..,.. l' 0!4
(CLOSING PRICE OF SHARES.—(THIS DAY.)
Eastern Counties Railway . ...
Great Western Railway .. .
Londo,. and Brighton It' itway
London and Blackwall Railway
London and Birmingham Railway
Ditto Quarter Shares

7u pm.

The first operation of the Act for the Abolition of
imprisonment for Debt would appear to have had very little
effect in diminishing the number of inmates in prisons devoted
to that purpose. Only about thirty prisoners have yet b..!en
discharged from the Debtors' Prison, Whitecross•strect, and
twenty more are on the eve of receiving their discharge. The
remainder, consisting of near 360, remain incarcerated, being
either taken in execution or in course of application for relief
under the Act for the Relief of Insolvent Debtors.

It is stated in the columns of a Contemporary, on
the authority of Captain Saumarez, that in tke female house at
Chelsea, connected with the Kensington Union, there are at
this time twenty-two lunatic females in one room, who have
been there for two yew s : and that in the house for the males
at Kensington, there wai a lunatic who had been confined in
a straight waistcoat for some time ; a lad who had been hand-
cuffed for several weeks ; and among the aged in the same
ward fifteen idiots. If these are the results of central manage-
ment, so near the point of centralisafon, what is likely to be
the case in distant Uniona, where such facts are not easily
ascertained, and still less likely to be made public ?

The following details of the mosaic pavement lately
discovered in the Forest of Brothonne, in Normandy, is given
by the Journulde Rouen :—" It is twelve feet in length by
nine in width, and is covered with various deices, among
which is the figure of Diana, with a lion at her feet, of ad-
mirable execu. ion. There is al'o a quantity of gilding about
it, a very rare circumstance, which is hut slightly tarnished. A
piece of money hAs also been turned up, said to b-• of a very
remote period. The work has been suspended till the autho-
rities arc consulted, as other' valuable discoveries are expected
to be made in the same forest, if carried on with proper pre-
cautions."

ANOTHER CAPTURE OF WHALES.-KIRK-
WALL, SEP. 25.—Sixty of these monsters were captured near
Stromness last we,k, supposed to b part of the same drove
that were attacked in Scapa Bay a few days before. The Earl
of Orkney has been with us for the last eight days or so, and
proceeds south to-morrow. lle happened to he out the way
of Stromness the day of the whale chlso, and joined heart
and hand in the pursuit. The scene was certainly novel in
the extreme.

THE POPULAR DEMONSTRATIONS.—The fre-
eueney with which of late meetings of the people have oc-
cured, the determined tone which has been adopted by them,
the absence, with a few exceptions, of indiscreet or violent
language, and the uniform good order and propriety with
which they have ben conducted, have made a deep impression
on the minds of those who have been watching the symptoms
of the times. When men, whose neresities require their daily
and almost hourly exertions to enable them to earn sufficient
to satisfy their bare wants, to whom the loss of a day's work is
the less of the day's meals for the family, meet by thousands,
all complaining of one g&vatee, all aiming at one object, and
resolutely discarding all luestions that might distract their at-
tention from its attainment ; it becomes a matter of certainty
that their complaints are not groundless, nor their aim chime-
rical ; and it would be the height of folly—it would be mad-
ness in any Goverement, to turn a deaf ear to their remon-
strances, or to trte!t their demands otherwise than with serious
consideration.— Wilts Independent.
FOUL AIR.—In a communication on the progress
of the works at the Thames Tunnel, made to the institution
of civil engineers at one of its last meetings, Mr. Brunel stated
that the excavators were much more inconvenienced by fire
than water. Some of the gases which issue forth ignite very
rilpidle, and the reports from Guy's Hospital stated some of
the men to be so much injured by breathing them, that but
small hopes were entertained of their recovery. The explo-
sions are frequent, and put out the candles of the workmen,
hut the largeness of the space prevents their being dangerous,
These deleterious gases issue from the mod of the river, and
proceed from a crevice at the top. Chloride of lime had been
used, but without success. The breathing of the gas product's
sickness and other disagreeable sensations.
Flits. TAYLOR, TILE MATIIEMATICIAN.—The
Bishop of Durham presided at a dinner of the British Asso-
ci.tion, and took the opportunity of introducing to the notice
of the company the claims of a lady. Mrs. Taylor, " a hand-
some woman, and well dressvd too," as his Lordship naisely
expressed himself, who, beirg the daughter of a mathemati-
cian, had cultivate 3 science with success, and published a work
on navigation, which his Lordship b lieved to be the best ex.
tent. The Bishop further seid, he was exerting himself to
procure from Governmrnt a pension for this lady, who now
teaches navigation, some of her pupilt being old Captains of 60.
—Evening Paper.
DAlo,Ey.—While the wheat crop of the present
year, not only in England, hut thronghout Europe, is unfor-
tunately d fieient, that of Barley is one of the most abundant
known for several years, as an itist.ince of which it may be
mentioccd that on the farm of Mr, John Newhery, in thepta parish
of Clist Hotiiton, he bushelslies 233 of the product of
four acres of ground !I Oats—On the farm cf C. Cross,
Esq., of Duryard, St. David's, in this city, one single corn of
this description, threw up eighty-three stalks I 1---Exeter Post.
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It is eitaten n a provincial ...,Tourn'el that " in conse-
quence of the unfavourable suite of the weather the Carjs-
brook archers will not have another meeting this
season I"
%What would these people have, if the finest autumn that ever
was known will not sattsfy them ?
Earl de nvlo(Jion, in St. James's square, is
fill, 11 with workoi( D. who tire eret,,
trierdiistigerniso.r a fitttl
exterior of the ed fire from his '
Wrest Park his Lordship is his own architect.