The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-18 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD,

Trade, to-day, was dull again, and prices much the saute as on Mon-
day la,t. The supply was tolerably good. Beef, 3s. 2d. to 4s. 261. ;
Mutton, 4s. to ss. ; Vcal, 4s. 6d. to ss. 6d. ; Pork, 4s. 2d. to ss. :2d. ;
Lamb, Gs. 4d. to 7s. 2d. : Calves, 246 ; Pigs, 380 ; Sheep and Lambs
8,763; Beasts, 1,009.

COLONIAL MARKETS.

To-day there was but one small public sale ; and that was of 2,000
bags of white Bengal Sugar, which went at very firm prices-555. to 63c.,
according to quality, are the quotations. British Plantatation Sugar
sells slowly, 'but prices are firm ; lowest; 535. ; middling 595.; best,
645. 6d. per cwt.; 2,000 hits. will not have been sold this
week, we judge. For Refined Sugar there is no price, as there
are no goods in the market. Tea continues flat, but is not lower. In
Rice, Spices, and Cocoa, nothing passing. Small, unusually small, as is
our public business to-day, by private contract, there is scarcely any
business passing. The imports, owing to contrary winds, remain light.
As we have sixteen or seventeen East Indiamen off the coast, we may
shortly expect come large importations of produce. We had a small
sale of 279 bags of Saltpetre, which fetched former rates to-day.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MAY 17.

There was a good business transacted in Cotton at this day's market,
both speculators and dealers buying largely, the former having taken
2,500 bags. 6,000 bags are the entire quantity parted with, for which
our last quotations were readily obtained :-200 Egyptian, 83d. to 10d.;
30 Pernam, 9Ad.; 200 Surat, 4yd. to 5d.; 30 Bahia, Sad.; 5,540 Ame-
rican, sd. to Sad.

COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK.

Wheat. Barley. I Oats. 1 Beans. Pease.
Per Quarter. s. to s. S. B. S. to S. S. to S. S. to s.
Blandford ..—.............. 57 72 27 34 20 22 40
Brigg*. 54 58 23 24 18 26 31 44 30 32
Cambridge..---.. 57 34 25 40 38
Chard .—....—.............. 56 61 21 27 18 20 34 38 31 40
Huntingdon .--.. 46 60 34 38 24 29 39 42 —.
Long Sutton—... 23 33 10 20 30 34
Louth .......----... 43 56 21 25 18 26 30 37
ynn............--.—... 52 63 22 31 16 - 27 30 32 32 34
Newark
Nottingham ---...... 44 59 28 31 19 28 35 42 —.
Peterborough . 49 62 35 42 22 29 38 43 —,
Plymouth —.. 40 58 30 34 20 23 -
P0ntefract..,......,,..,,. 67 43 27 43 ——
Sleafonl .....—, ,—.. 65 70 36 33 22 28 41 43
Uppitigham .., 143 64 21 30 18 28 32 44
Wisbech
LEEDS 'CORN MARKET.— May 15
Wheat, Norfolk and Suffhlk, 601 b.
York. and Lincoln. 601 b. Ws. to 6"s. 11:7
ro
Barley, Norfolk and Suliblk
Yorkshire and Lincolnshire
Grinding
Beans 631b.. 32s. to 41s. (7
Oats, I'otatoe
—lllealing, For. lid. tolly,d . ' Eng. 101/2d. to 11%d. per steno.
Shelling '> s. to 28i. per load.
Rapeseed, English, 23/. to 21/ Foreign, 24s to 251. per last.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK.
Consols opened this morning at the closing prices of yesterday-941 for
the Account and Money, little doing as yet. Exchequer Bills, 67 69 ;
India Bonds, 79; Bank Stock, 204 205.
In the Foreign Market, although the news from Spain is of a fa-
vourable nature, and the price of Spanish Stock coming higher from
Paris, little improvement has been made in Spanish Active this morning,
which may at present may be quoted 22.-1 left off yesterday at 21ti
223 ; Portuguese., 361 371 ; Three per Cents., 251 1 ; Brazilian, 791 ;
Mexican, 2SI 29; Colombian, 27! 28; Dutch Two and a Half per
Cents., 54i a.

The particulars of the Budget, which is to be announced this evening,
is anxiously looked for by the City capitalists, and speculators in the
Funds.

PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock 204%, I adia Stock 27034
3 per Cent. Red. 93% Ditto Bonds
3 per Cant. Con; 84% Vs South Sea Stock
31 per Cmt......,,.. ~. ........ ... 101 lig Old Annnities,........ ...... ....
Ditto Red.... ........ ~.
New 3% par Cent............. 1024 Y 4 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 —....
New 5 per Cent... . Exch. Ellis, .(7.1,t 0 '........ 67 69 pm.
Bonk Long Annuities to expire DIU° ...............300 67 (59 pin.
Jan. 5, ISM... l5 1-1 G Ditto Small
Oct. 10, 165 n...
Jan. 5, 16it0 l5 5-11% Ditto Advertised
Jan. 5, 1860............. .... .. Bank Stock for Account....... 20414
April 5, 1&t0 ...... ..... ... Indift VtocL for Account... ...... 271
Jan. 5, 1670........ ........ .... Console for Acconnt 04% 4
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Austrian Bond.;
13e!gian Bends
.1011,', Ditto Account
Ditto Account...
Brazilian Floods ~.,...• — Ditto Now Bonds 3;%-
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds — Ditto, 3 per c0nt..... ......... ,25% 4,
Ditto Account ........
:h ill ian Bonds ......... ..... Prussian Bcnds

Ditto Account ......... ......
Columbian Bonds

Rusdian Bonds, 18j2
Ditto Account

Ditto Account ...
C3huribian Bontig, 1824 —
Ditto Account 29
Dinith Bonds ..........., ......

Ditto Metallic..." ....... —
Spanlsh Bonds
Ditto Account —
Ditto Bonds. 1834 22%
N % "'"'.

- - - - - ... . _ .. .
Ditto Account — Ditto Account 2-44% u %'si,
Greek 8cnd5......
Ditto Bonds, 1925 — --- 4 per cant. —f. —.--
Ditto Account—
— 3 per cent. _f. .....a.
--f.
MLA 24 per cent 54%
Ditto, 6 per cent.
NI
eDxirto anAßecoont 5
29 Ditto Account _
Ditto Account per cent.... Exchange
48 ,i D.i.to, 5 per cent lOO% 3Gati
Nca;)olitan — Ditto Account —
POCES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Paid. Per Share.
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company lO 81,4
Gnat A estern Railway Company 65 95
Sr gh ton Railway Company" 8 9%
London and 131ackwall Railway
L ‘nclon and Greenwich Aailway Company 2O 153 e,
London and Southampton (New) Railway lO 31
London and Croydon Railway Company 2O 1614
Ditto New Serir,
M:.i.chcstor and Birmingham Railway 7 8%.7.4
N nib Midland Railway Company 35 41
Aspbalte, Claridge's Patent '2 11% 11 12
• Do British
Do. United States...
Bitumen, Bastenne and Gaujac
Do. Robinson
—...3

Do. Polonceau •, 2X,
Colonial Bank
Ditto Scrip
London and Westminster Bank 2O 21%
Mexican and South American 5 6 L 4,
National Provincial Bank of England
HALF-PAST ONE.
. ,

A Hambro' mail has just arrived, of the 15th inst., bringing the Me-
talics, 104 Bank Shares, 1,434. I❑ the above Papers we do not
find any political news of clnsequence.

Consols have been during the morning at 94k, for Account; for
Money, 94h; Exchequer Bills, 69; India Bonds, 79; Bank Stock, 2041 ;

India Stock, 2704.
In the Foreign Market the chief speculations have been in Spanish
Stock, which reached 227, since which it may be quoted at 2.2 i with
Coupons ; Portuguese 37 ; Three per Cents, 25* ;. Brazilian, 79i;
Mexican, 281 ; Columbian, 28; Dutch Two.and..a.llalf per Cents., 54k.

No accounts as yet of the steamers.
In Shares very little doing. Claridge's Asphalte 10 prem. ; Uni:ed
States 1 prem. ; Polonceau IA per Cent. premium. Railways rather bet-
ter; Brighton has risen to IA prem.

THREE 0' CLOCK

Consols for Account, 043

ANTWERP, MAY 16.—Lord Brougham embarked
this morning on board the City of Hamturgh steam-boat, for London.

The Masonic Fraternity, which, in point of num-
bers and respectability, has made extraordinary advances under the
auspices of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, continue to evince
the most laudable zeal in the maintenance and extension of their chari.
ties. The respective schools for the education of the sons and daugh-
ters of deceased and impoverished Freemasons, were never in so flourish.
ing a condition as at this moment, notwithstanding that an institution for
the sustenance and shelter of aged and decayed Freemasons, has been
making comparatively silent but rapid progress during the last three
three years. We understand that Alderman Thomas Wood, a highly
esteemed member of the Tuscan Lodge, will preside at the approaching
festival in laid of the Masonic Asyltun. Our warmest wishes are offered
for the perfect and early success of this excellent charity.
A benefit is to be given this night for the Destitute
Polish Refugees at the Haymarket Theatre. The attractions of the
evening arc great, and enforced as thdy are by charity, we trust they will
not attract in vain. Every friend of humanity—of patriotic virtue—of
national independence—will, we trust, on this occasion unite heart and
hand in endeavouring to make the benevolent experiment of this night
adequate to its charitable object. In every view that can. be taken of
the Polish question, men of every class in society, and of every shade in
politics, arc interested in the preservation of the Polish Refugees, from
the melancholy prospect which now stares them in the face. As men,
Englishmen, and Christians, we arc interested in the relief of brother
men who are more distressed, and who have been more outrageously op.
pressed than ever men were before. It is notorious that men of the
first families, used to all the refinements of society, are now suffering
hardships, by working on public railways, &c. &c., which would render an
exchange with the lot of the commiserated negro preferable. While the
Polish Refugees exist, the Polish nation may be said to exist in England,
i extinguished transiently though it be by incorporation with Russia in
violation of the treaty of Vienna. The time may,come when the exis.
tence of these opr.ressed martyrs of rational freedom may be a matter of
vital importance to the liberty and independence of England and of the
world. They may become a bulwark against the future anti. English en-
croachments and liberticiee designs of Russia. The most narrow inte-
rests of selfish expediency are, therefore, as emphatically involved in
the preservation of the Polish Refugees, es the claims of humanity, the
sympathies of Christian charity, and the rights of individual freedom and
of national independence.
A Touch OF A tiTiqulTY.—A manager of a
French theatre, announcing a play called The Death of Abel, advertises
that it would Le acted " in the costume,o be
of the times."
the authorl tlie compelled to publish
inks poetical, and be assured at
the same time that your readers ore surfeited.
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