The Sun.
London, England, 1838-05-02 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY (THIS DAY), TWELVE O'CLOCK.
According to accounts received this morning, there has been a de-
cided improvement in the trade of Manchester. The demand for
yarns and for printed cloths has been better than for some weeks past,
and a small advance in the rates have taken place, and the prevailing
opinion was that prices have at length seen their lowest. There also has
been an improvement in the cloth market at Leeds,
The Lisbon mail has been received by the Iberia steamer, arrived at
Falmouth, sailed on the 25th ult.

FUNDS
Both the Bank and Stock Exchange are opened this morning, but
little business doing as yet. Consols, which left off on Monday at 931
for the Account and Money, opened at the same quotations. Exchequer
Bills, 68 ; India Bonds, 78 79 ; Bank Stock, 205 1 ; India, 271.
In the Foreign Market Portuguese Stock has receded 11 per cent. On
the arrival of the Lisbon mail on Monday it left off at 33f 1, at present
it may be quoted at 32; this fall is owing to another change in the
Portuguese Ministry, and the insurgents on the frontier gaining ground.
Spanish Active, 20/ j; Brazil, 76}; Mexican, 271 8}; Columbian,
271 1 ; Dutch Two and-a-Half, 541.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. ... V2/4N li,i
3 per Cent. Cons 93%
154 per Cent.
Ditto Red lOOl4 '4
New 314 per Cer t lOl%
New 5 per Cent.....
Bank LongAnnuitiestoexpire
Jan. 5, 1860 15 1-16 15
Oct. 10, 1559 —
Jan. 5, BM 1554
Jan. 5, 1880 .......... ... ... • •• --
April 5, 1880 —
Jan. 5, 1870 —
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian Bonds . ...... .....
' Belgi in Bends 101%,4
L./Igo Account •
Brannan Bonds . 76 5%
Ditto Account 76 5%
Buenos Ayres Bonds —
Ditto Account .......
•Thillian Bonds —
Ditto Account —
Columbian Bonds —
Ditto Account
C)lnathian Bonds, 18:13
Ditto Account . —
0 tnish Bonds .....
Ditto Account
Greek Bowls.. —
Ditto Bonds, 1825

India Stock 27031 1
Ditto Bonds
South Sea Stock
Old knnnities . .....
New Ditto
3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751 —
Exch. Bills, .£l,ooo 69 67 ova.
Ditto 500 69 67 pm.
Ditto Small
Ditto Commercial
Ditto Advertised pm
Bank Stock for Acc0unt........
India Stock for Account
Comola for Acconnt
THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Peruvian Bonds
Ditto Account ........
Portuguese Bonds
Ditto New Bowls
Ditto Account .. 33% 1% 2V7
Ditto, 3 per cent 321
Ditto Account 22 1%.74
Prussian Bonds
Russian Bonds, 1822
Ditto Account ............
Ditto Metallic
Spanish Bonds
Ditto Account
Ditto 80nd5,18.31
Ditto Account "0%%
French, 5 per cent.... f. 25
4

_ . per cent........... —l. —c.
Ditto Account
•
--- 3 per cent.. —f —,
Ilexican Bonds, 5 per cent —l --- Exchange 2st 50
Ditto Account
I)itto, 6 per cent,
Ditto Account. Ditto, , per cent 991 71,
Neapolitan — Ditto Account —
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK

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PerShar
Brazilian Imperial Mining Co. (Issued at 51. pm.) 20 Paid.
21% 5%e.
5
Ditto 31acatibas Cocaes 25 10
British Iron Company
Eastern Counties Railway 5 5
B iehton Railway Company
Asphalte, Claridge's Patent 2 14
Do British 1 2% 2
Bastenne and Gaujac Bitumen
Colonial Bank
National Cognac Brandy Distillery Company
Union Bank of Australia
COURSE OF EXCHANGE YESTERDAY.
Amsterdam C.F. 12 (42 tlibrattar 4S
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...... ...... . ..... 2U. 12 7 Genoa 26 15
Antwerp..,
Hamburg, 51.8. 13 14 Venice ei6
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sigh 25 75 Palermo per oz. 116
Ditto 3 Ms. 25 9.5 Lisbon 5.33,4
Marseilles.
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Maine, Ex. M. 1541,4 Bahia 25
Petersbuigh, ruble 3 Us. 10 Buenos Ayres
B,rliti
Vienna, effective 51 . 51. 10 14 Philadelphia 46
Trieste ditto lO 16 PRICE OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Madrid 35t4 Portugal Gold, coin ..... ...CO 0 0
Cadiz...,
B lhoa ...
B ircelona °s New Dollars
Saville '5 jSilver.bars, standard o4 I i,,c,
lIALF-PAST ONE.
The chief speculation in the course of the morning in the Foreign
Market was in Portuguese Stock, which experienced a fall of 1 per
cent. The exact cause of this depression is not as yet ascertained. The
accounts received by the Lisbon mail are not of an unfavourable nature.
We have no tidings as yet of the City of Londonderry steamer, which
left Vigo on the 21st ult. for Falmouth. It is supposed she experienced
heavy gales, and was obliged to put into Corunna to repair her damage.
Consols may be quoted at 93 % for the Account, with little doing ;
Money 93i ; Exchequer Bills 67 pm.; India Bonds 79 pm. ; Bank
Stock 2051 ; lu'lia Stock 271.

Spanish Active 20 %, with Coupons ; Portuguese 321,, ; Three
per Cents. 221 ; Brazilian 751; Belgian 1011 ; Danish 74 ; Dutch
2i per Cents., 54.

The Batavian Dutch Steamer not as yet arrived.

In railway shares nothing doing. The Asphalte shares rather brisk.
Claridge's 12 prem.; Bastenne, 1i prem. Robinson's Asphalte shares
made their appearence this morning, and are, at present, to 1 prem.
THREE O'CLOCK.

Consols for Account, 93i,

- - - - -
AN AWKWARD MISTAKE.-On Saturday even-
ing last, a person of the name of Barker, a horse dealer, residing at
Little Shclford, was returning from Cambridge-market in a state of in-
toxication, and having arrived as far as Mr. Brewer's nursery-ground
on the Trumpington-road, from a violent concussion with some other
vehicle (as it is supposed) the gig in which lie was riding was upset, and
he was thrown into the road, where lie lay in a state of insensibility
until discovered by four young men, one named Henry Robinson, and
three brothers named Tuflil, who went to his assistance and removed
him from the road to the path. Having somewhat recovered from the
effects of the fall, he began to call out " murder," which drew the po-
liceman stationed at the extremity of the town to the spot, where he
found the four young men with Barker, who immediately gave
them into custody on a charge of robbing him of 954 in bank-notes,
and a check for W., which he said he had deposited in his waistcoat-
, pocket when he left Cambridge. The young men were consequently
taken in charge, and locked up in the station-house during the night.
The next morning Barker proceeded there, and told the inspector of
police to liberate the men, as he had found the money between the
lining of his small clothes where it appears lie had consigned it, as he
had been in the habit of doing when partaking too freely of liquor. The
men were detained in custody till Monday morning, when they were
taken before Colonel Pemberton at Trumpington, and the affair was
compromised by Barker giving them a small sum of money each, as
compensation for being falsely and unjustly imprisoned upon a charge
which, had they chosen to have taken into a Court of Justice, the ex-
pences incurred by the complainant might have exceeded the sum he
said he had been robbed of.

FRENCH AND GERMAN LITERATURE--As the
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Germans are the worst hands at making a book, though the best at col-
lecting materials of which books should be made ; so are the French,
when the timber and marble are found for them, first-rate hands at put.
ting them neatly together.—Quarterly Review.
T. WILLIAMS,
ESQ.--This gentleman, who re-
cently came triumphantly out of the judicial ordeal to which he was
subjected on a charge of forgery, was greeted by the population of North
Wales on his return to his estate, by a public reception at Carnarvon.
NEWS. —That you must go abroad for home-news
is proved by a Scottish journalist ; for the Ayr Observer of this week
gravely informs us, that `• a very considerable re-action in favour of
Conservative principles has taken place in the l'.rge and hitherto Whig-
Radically' disposed towns of Leeds, Manchester, Salford. &C.!