The Sun.
London, England, 1838-02-17 00:00:00

TUI FUNDS.

In consequence of the Bank of England having lowered their rate of
Interest, from five to four per cent., a vast deal of business was done I❑
the course of the day in most of the British Stocks, and some extensive
purchases were made; the Scotch Banks, also, bought some Three and
a_Half per Cents. the boars of Stock became alarmed, and many of
them changed their accounts.

In the course of the morning Consols reached 92 N, buyers for the
Account, but towards the close of the Market they declined to 92i ,
and closed at that price. Consols opened this morning at the game
price. Exchequer Bills, 55 57 ; India Bonds, 55 57; Bank Stock,
2051 206 ; India Stock, 266.
In the Foreign Market, Brazil Stock, which improved in the course
of the day to 74i, did not maintain its price. and receded to 731
owing to the information in the private letters from Bahia that the in-
surgents were determined to make an absolute resistance ; they were
well supplied with money. Brazil Stock opened at the same.
There was a little improvement in Spanish Active, which closed at
19 % ; opened at same ; Por.ugnese Stock closed at 2.7 opened at
same ; Three per Cents., IS ; Mexican, 29 ; Colombian, 971 ; Dutch
Two-and-a- Half per Cents., 53% 34.
A meeting took place yesterday at the City of London Tavern, at
which it was resolved to memorialize the Lord Mayor and the Gresham
Committee, to remove the Change from Guildhall to the Excise office.
A letter was received at the meeting from Mr. Spring Rice, expres.
sive of his consent to the proposal.

Arrivals this morning—French mail, ship letters from New York, by
the Sheffield. It i 3 supposed that the arrival of the Hibernia from New
York, off Holyhead, is not correct. We shall ascertain, by thesccond
arrival from Liverpool, if correct or not.
We are very dull in the City, owing to the bad state of the weather
and so few arrivals this morning.

PRICES OF STOCKS THu.
Bank stock ......... ............ '2os t,,
2 per Cert. ileg. 93%14
3 per Cont. Cons ..«.... ...91%14 14...X1
]'4 N.: Cent
Ditto Red. 100,41,4%
New 3>4 per Cow 100,,,N
New 5 per Cent.. . ..
Ba.ik I.,..ngAnnuitiesto expire
Jan. 5, 1860.... —
Oct. 10. !Asi) —
Jan. 5, 13(10 —
Jan. 5, 13tY0
April 5, ISS' -
'4ll. 5, 177,1
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
AustT:All Bonds
Beigion B -.rids lO3
Ditto Account —
Braailion Bonds ..
Ditto Acc.lunt 74 3 V2:,'i
Buenos Ayres Bonds ..•
Ditto Account ... ..... ..........
:billion Bonds. ..................
Ditto '
,

S DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
fitdia Stoer SCS
Ditto Rom!:
1 South Sea Sax k
Old .thunities ... —.
Nf W Oitto . ~.......•..... -3
rei Cent. Annuities, !Mi., --
, Exch. Bills, £ 1,4 v' 55 57 urn
Ditto •......•..•..•..,5041...... 5 . 57 pm.
Date Small
Ditto Commercial
Ditto Advertised — pin
Bank stock for Account. SO
India Stock for Account —
COP go's for Acconnt -,N,
THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
1 Peruvian fionds —
Ditto Account ••••••••• ......... ••
Portuguese Bonds —
Ditto Account
Vitt° New Bonds 27N
1 Ditto Account .. 27% t 4
att.°, 3 per cent.... .......
Prussian Bonds
___

Danish .
Isicnctisoun..t.
.. _ ._.
Russian Bends, 1822
.
Columbian Bonds ...... ... Ditto Account...
Ditto Account. . ...."
..
Ditto Metallic
Columbian Bonds, in' ........27y2% Spanish Bonds • Ditto Aczount .. •.•.... 273 i Y,,% Ditto Account —
Ditto Bend.s.lß.ll 19%1,, 19
Ditto Account ..... ......... ... Ditto Accnont 19%1A 19
Greek Bonds., ..... . ... ........ French, 5 per cent.......... —l. —c.
Ditto Bonds, 1625 ""
----- 4 per cent. ....... ... —l. —c.
Ditto Account
—. 3 per cent. 79 25%
7,lexican Boncis, 5 per cent — Exchange 2s°. 50„.
Ditto Account . ..... ........... Dutch, Ti per cent 5lO/t7 Ditto, 6 per cent. - 293 Ditto Account —
NDitto Account... ....... ...:29% ii 1 Ditto, 5 per cent. lO-2%3i 3
Lopoliz.tn —l Ditto Account ... ........... ...
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK

Paid. Per share.
Oristol and Exeter Railway Company lu 6'4 %
commercial Blackwall Railway Company .
2 6 5-i, 6%
Dublin and Kilkenny Railway Company ......
:.stern Counties Railway 3 2.4 2
Ckeat Western Railway Company fii 843 5
Harwich Railway Company 1 0%
Hull and Selby Railway Company lO 6
R'iahto. Railway company
London and Mackwall Railway
Ditto Scrip 3 6,i% 71a
1 endon and Greenwich Railway Company 2O 18
London and Southampton Railway Company 5O 4034
London and Southampton (New) Railway i 21.4
Nl:mchester and Birmingham Railway 7 0%4
Northern and Eastern Railway Company ...
London and Westminster Bank 2O 2134
COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY.
C.F. 12 6
Amsterd ..m
Hato, at sight
Rotten:bun 2U. 12 6 Genoa 26 15
Antwerp...
Harnlsurg. M.B. 1313% Venice 46
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70 Palermo per oz. 11734
Ditto 3 Ma. 25 95 Lisbon 534
Marseilles.
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Mains, Ex. M 15334 Bahia 25
Petersbutgh, ruble 3 Us. 1U Buenos Ayres --
ictttiove 8 2
M.
107
,31,
CDourbkiln, 21 days' sight
Bcrlin
11
TcVms
dri
aei
deni srinti ed:
.. ' .. ...............
.................. 3
5,1 05
413 PRlCEPortugalForeign
Gold,Ooko' l BULLION,d
in,
obarsin
N. Doul - 0

J3ilboa •••• • ew abloons
B ircelona
94 Silver, bars, standard 0 0 0
HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
owing to the badness of the weather, with a heavy fall of snow, the
second Liverpool letter is net expected to arrive before late in the after.
noon, consequently we cannot confirm or contradict the arrival of the
Hibernia from New York, off Holyhead.
Consols were in the early part of the morning at 92i for the At.
count ; since which the market became heavy, and they receded,to 92i ;
purchases being effected a reaction took place, and Consols
buta m
may
'tineqeuoted at present 92i 4 for Account ; Exchequer Bills 55 57 :
India Bonds 55 57 ; Bank Stock 2051; India Stock 265.
In the Foreign Market little doing. Brazilian Stock not so good as
also lower, early part of the day, and have reeeded to 734. Spanish Active
19 ; Portuguese 271 ; Mexican .29} ; Colombian 27} ;
Dutch Two.and-a-half per Cents. 53;
A good deal is doing in Shares. Brighton 51 premium.
THREE O'CLOCK.

Cons'li ibr the Account, 924 3

BALLOT.—The following petitions were presented
by Mr. Hume on Thursday evening from four parishes in Kil-
kenny, St. Patrick. St. Mary's, St. John's, and St. Canices ;
from Wemyss, in Fifeshire ; from Carnarvon, Highgate, Kil-
burn, and Willsden, all praying for th© Ballot, Extension of
Suffrage, and Triennial Parliaments.
THE ELGIN BURGHS.—Mr. Fox Maule would
be returned this day without opposition as Representative of
the Elgin Burghs. The state of the roads and irregularity of
the mails have prevented our receiving the intelligence, but
the nomination was to take place this forenoon, Tuesday, the
13th instant, and no other candidate had taken the field. Op-
position, indeed, was from the first hopeless.—lnverneds
Courier of Wednesday.

COMMUTATION OF TITHES.---From returns laid
before Parliament by the Tithe Commutation Commissioners,
it appears that up to Dec. 31, 1837, five cases of tithe com-
mutation have been actually completed by apportionment. In
each of these cases the tithe owner was an ecclesiastic. The
number of meetings up to the same date which have been held
under the Tithe Con.ii.utatiun Act has been 3,360, and 889
agreements between the parties have been received by the
Commissioners, 467 have been confirmed, 16 have been re-
jected, and 406 are under consideration.

ROXBURGH ELECTION COMMIT-
TEE.-(TIIIS DAY.)

The Committee met this morning at eleven o'clock.

Mr. Sergeant MKREWETHOR resumed his argument. After referring
to the cases, upon which Mr. Austin relied as establishing the point
that the existence of a riot was of itself sufficient to invalidate
an election, the Learned Sergeant contended that even upon the
authority of the precedents which Mr. Austin himself cited,
unless the riot affected the majority, it was clearly the law of
Parliament, that it would not prejudice the return. He
alluded in particular to the Coventry cases of 1827 and 1823—arguing
that it was the petitioner's duty, in bringing his case before the Com-
mittee, to have proved not the 73 being the number required to
give his client's actual majority out of the 108, as contended
by Mr. Austin, but merely 46, being the number required to turn
Mr. Elliott's majority. His Learned Friend had laboured to es.
tablish this point, referring to the case of Rutherford Sheil
in support of ;his argument, this being the individual who went to
Hawick on the first day of polling, and after remaining there three
hours returned to his home, pretending that he was unable to reach the
poll, from his apprehension of being ill-used by the crowd. It was
quite clear from the lists called for by the Hon. Member for Marylebone,
that petitioner could not make any thing of this part of the case. It had
been proved by these lists that at Hawick, out of 645 qua-
lified electors, 537 of them had polled, leaving 108 absentees. At
Jedburgh, where there was no allegation of riot, out of 609, 588 had
polled, leaving 1 1 1 unpolled ; and at Kelso, out of 520, 437 had polled,
leaving 83 unpolled. It was obvious from these returns that there was
scarcely any difference between the numbers unpolled in the different
districts; and the plain inference was, that the riots at Hawick, if the
cases of individual assaults which had been proved could be so called,
could not iu any way have influenced the election.

IPSWICH ELECTIONCOMMITTEE.

(THIS DAY.)

At the corvmeneement of this day's scrutiny, the following was the
state of the revised poll :

Gibson. Kelly. Tunell. Wason.
Original Poll
Objections allowed—Votes
struck off l3 13 15 16

Revised Poll 5BB 580 580 577
The Committee now proceeded to take a new class of objections,
founded on the value of the qualifications of the 101. householders.
The first objection was taken by the Tories to the ♦ote of Mr.
Ship, Stoke Bridge. After hearing a great deal of contradictory evi.
dence, which, with speeches of Counsel, occupied till past 2, the Com-
mittee retained the vote.

BELFAST ELECTION COMMITTEE.
(THIS DAY).

Mr. ANDREWS concluded his arguments in defence of Mi. Gibson's
qualification.
Mr. WHITESIDE, at some length, replied ; and about half-past one the
Committee ordered the room to be cleared.
They remained in deliberation till three o'clock, and then decided
that the qualification was not valid.

BRISTOL ELECTION COMMITTEE.
(THIS DAY.)

The Committee met at Eleven o'Clock this morning.'
The CHAMMAN said the proceedings closed yesterday by Mr. Talbot
proposing to put in a paper, produced by the Under-Sheriff: The Com-
mittee was then unable to decide on the point, in consequence of the
Speaker having taken the Chair, and the room had now better be cleared.
This was accordingly done, and in about twenty minutes the public were
re-admitted-

The CHAIRMAN then announced that the Committee had decided
that the document proposed to be put in by Mr. Talbot as evidence could
not at present be received as evidence.
Mr. HARE was then examined to prove that the Liberal Association
and the Charity Trustees had apartments in the Albion Chambers
under the same roof. lie stated that he had seen Mr. Briton and Mr.
Hartley there. The next question was, "In what capacity did Mr.
Briton act 2" This was objected to by Mr. Austin, and the Committee
suggested that the witness might be asked " what Mr. Briton did,"
Mr. Wortley said that was all he wanted, and asked, " What did you
see Mr. Briton du ?" Witness—Nothing.—(Loud laughter.) In
answer to questions by the Committee, the witness said the Adelphi
Chambers were like chambers at inns of court—they were distinct suites
of rooms.

Mr. T. Jackson, own-officer in Chancery, produced the writ for the
election at Bristol, dated the 17th July.
Mr. Flare, in answer to questions made by Mr. AUSTIN, said that
the return was signed by Charles Payne and Joseph Cockran, two of
the petitioners.—(Laughter.)

Mr. John Arundel, clerk to Messrs. Drummond, was called to prove
an entry in the ledger of that establishment, but it appearing that it
had been made from the cash-book, an objectsou was taken
by Mr. Austin, and the clerk who made the entry in the cash.book was
sent for.

John Howell, a baker, residing in Alfred-street, Kingsdown, Bristol,
was then called, and detailed a conversation which took place between
himself, Mr. Berkeley, Mr. Robert Fisk, and Mr. Harman Visgar,
a few days before the election. He stated that Mr. Berkeley, at the
close of the interview, presented him a tract, saying, " Perhaps
after you have read that you will be disposed to alter your mind."
He had not that tract in his possesion, nor could he say what became of
it. He examined it with another copy a day or two after receiving it,
and found it to correspond. He could not say that the copy produced
was the one which he compared. .

Mr. ADOLPHUS objected, that the pamphlet proposed to be put in by
Mr. Talbot could not be received as evidence.

The Committee decided that the course proposed by Mr. Talbot was
inadmi,sible.

Benjamin John Fowler, a journeyman shipwright, of Bristol, deposed
that the day before the nomination, Mr. Berkeley and Mr. Cunningham
came to the yard where he was working. Mr. Cunningham gave him
the tract (produced.) It was " lowance" time when they came; and
they had two or three gallons of beer extra, witness got one glass. There
were between fifty and sixty men in the yard ; witness is not a voter.
The witness was cross.cxamined at very great length for the purpose
of showing that the paper produced was not the identical one given by
Mr. Cunningham. His answers were in several instances of a rather con-
tradictory nature.
Mr. THESSIGER then proposed that the paper should be put in and read.
Mr. CROWDER obj 'eted to its reception, on the ground •that it had
not been properly identified.
The Committee decided that the papers should be received.
Mr. TALBOT here proposed to read the paper, but on searching for it
it could not be found.

John Blair, sawyer, in the employ of Mr. Hillhouse, shipbuilder,
produced a tract which he received from Mr. Cunningham in the pre
score of Mr. Berk&ey. About 100 others were distributed amongst the
men in the shipyard at the time.