The Sun.
London, England, 1838-08-17 00:00:00

del Monte Mining Co., Registe

--Ditto Unregistered - ,
Brighton Railway Comp,tn v
i.ondon and Blackwall Railway
, i rid ,1 and Greenwich tiailway Company 2O
London and Southampton Railway Company 5O
Loudon and Southampton (New) Railway l5
Asphalte, Claridge's Patent 2
1)3 British
Galvanized Iron Company
London Joint Stock Bank
Provincial Bank of Ireland
Union Bank of Australia
HALF-PAST ONE.

36 7

No further arrivals at Liverpool from New York ; but the
packet ship Shakspeare, of the 25th ult., was daily expected
there. _ _ _ _

The extreme fluctuation of Consols during the week has
been from 94i to 94, at present may be quoted at 94 for
Money, and 941 for the Account. Exchequer Bills, 75 72,
lower; India Bonds, 75 72, ditto; Bank Stock, 2071, ditto;
India Stock, 2644 265, nothing doing.
In the foreign market Spanish Active same as in the morn-
mg, 213 3. Portuguese, no alteration, 361 71. Three per
Cents., 24+. Brazilian, 834 4. Dutch Two-and-a-Half,
544 3. Five per Cents., 1021.
In Shares not much speculation. Brighton, 23 discount.
Southampton, 3 discount. British Asphalts, I'4- premium.
THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for Account, 94k.
THE FUNDS.—CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 2074; India Stock
3 per Cent. Red 9 Bondsl% Dittßondsl.;
3 per Cent. Cons 9l , Ditto Old Annuities —
'3!Q per Cent Ditto New Annuities . .
4 per Cent. Red 10.21 Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2151 l 74 put.
New 3'4 per Cent 101% Ditto 51 1 71 pir
Long Annuities to expire ; Ditto 500/ 73 pm
Jan. 186 ,
Oct. 1851
Jan. 1360
FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian, 5 per cent lPortuguese Bonds, 5 per cent..
Belgian, 5 per cent 10:14! Ditto New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds — ;Prussian, 5 per cent
Buenos Avr s, 6 per cent.
Chilian, 0 per cent — !Ditto, Metallic
Colomb:am, 6 per cent ;Spanish, 5 per cent 21%
Ditto, 1824 26%; Ditto, Consolidated
Daiii,h, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —c
Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent — French, :i per cent --E —.l
Ditto, 6 per cent.. 1825 — ;Dutch 2y, per cent.
Peruvian, 1825,6 per cent — I Ditto,'s per cent. 102%
(CLOSING PRICE OF SHARES.—(THIS DAY).
Great Western Railway 7S
London and Brighton Railway
London and Blackwall Railway
London and Greenwich Railway
London and Southampton Railway
London end Southampton (New) 37
North Midland Railway

Viscount and Lady Howick, Lady Charles Somer-
set, Colonel Walcot, and other fashionables left London
yesterday by the Antwerp Company's steam-ship Princess
Victoria. The same Company's packet Antwerp arrived
yesterday morning, after a passage of twenty hours. Lord
George Seymour was on board.
BRISTOL AND EXETER RAILWAY.—The Half-
Yearly General Meeting of the Company was held at the
Merchants' Hall, Bristol, on Tuesday, when a more than
usually large and respectable company assembled.
Yesterday evening an alarming fire broke out in the
workshops and residence of Mr. Woodward, builder, New-
port-street, Lambeth-walk, which for some time threatened
destruction to the houses in the immediate neighbourhood.
The parish engine was soon on the spot, and was followed
in quick succession by the Waterloo-road, the West of Eng-
land, the Southwark Bridge-road, the Farringdon-street, and
the 'Chandos-street engines. Unfortunately there was only a
sufficiency of water for two engines for a considerable time,
from which circumstance the whole of the materials were
destroyed. The fire appeared to be entirely the result of ac-
cident. We regret to state that the amount of damage done
is about 5001., and that Mr. Woodward is uninsured.
Yesterday morning a fire broke out in the engine
room of the extensive cement and plaster of Paris works
.be-
longing to Messrs. Weston, Mill-wall, Poplar. The engine
belonging to the parish was soon brought into operation by a
party of police constables, but tended very little to check the
-progress of the fire. The London establishment engines soon
arrived, and all of them were well supplied with water
from ditches situated near the premises, but the fire was not
got under for some time. We are sorry to state that the loss
is very extensive, as the greater portion of the storehouses
and their contents arc entirely destroyed. The fire was visi-
ble for many miles round the metropolis. Not the least clue
can be obtained as to its origin. The building and stock are
believed to be insured.
A respectably-dressed man succeeded yesterday in
gaining possession of a basket of linen from a lad, the son of
a police constable in East-lane, Hoxton, by sending him to
deliver a sham note at a gentleman's house in the neighbour-
hood. The thief had taken his victim into a public-house in
the lane, and persuaded him to leave the basket in charge of
the landlady, and on the lady's disappearance had got posses-
sion of the basket without suspicion, under an impression that
he was the lad's father.
Yesterday afternoon, between four and five o'clock,
as a gentleman named Meadows was passing through Deptford
Broadway on a valuable horse, the animal "shied," and one
of its hind legs got under the fore-wheel of a waggon heavily
laden, belonging to Mr.
Mumford, miller of Lewisham, and
was broken. A veterinary surgeon was instantly sent for, and
the horse (which was worth SO guineas) killed on the spot.
Mr. Meadows narrowly escaped with his life.
A LAW CASE.—A commercial traveller, named
Taylor, yesterday summoned a gin-shop keeper residing in the
Strand to the Court of Requests, Westminster, for the sum
of 100. Mr. Taylor, it appeared, had gone into defendant's
shop and called for a pennyworth of gin and a halfpennyworth
of milk, which he drank. tendering, as he swore, Is. in pay-
asking for his change he wa, tc,1,1 that lie hart not
paid at ail. The barman offered to swear that complainant
had not paid ; but the Commissioners adjuged the gin-shop
keeper to pay the 100., with about ss. costs