The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-21 00:00:00

COLONIAL MARKET.

The Markets were rather quiet. Few sales were made by
private treaty, and the auctions were unimportant. Prices,
however, were firm for all articles. The imports still light.

TEA MARKET.

The demand was dull for Free Trade Tea, but holders re-
fused to sell at lower rates. For Company's Congou 2s 4d.
was asked.

TALLOW MARKET.
Prices still high, viz. at 525. 6d on the spot and to arrive, but
few sales have been made.

SPIRIT MARKET.
Rum became dull of sale and prices have given way for ordi-
nary sorts. Brandy neglected.
PROVISION MARKET.

Butter sold slowly but prices did not give way. Bacon in
fair request, and prices firm.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, THURSDAY.—WC have
no alteration in the Cotton Market worthy of notice ; the
sales 3,000 bags, chiefly American.
LIVERPOOL SHARE LlST.—Grand Junction less 4, &c.,
ex. div. ; Quarter Shares (New), 30; Half Shares, 50;
South Western, 57.

A much better time prevails, and most Railway Shares
close with a tendency upwards. The weather has cleared
up, and appears settled.

We have received the Journal of Antwerp of yester-
day's date.

BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, AUG. 18.—The integrales
have been in favour to-day. Closed yesterday at 51 to
50 15-16th, but they soon got up to 51i; but owing to
some sales, they remained at 512. 7-16th. The National
funds remained at the prices of yesterday. The actions
of the Society of Commerce are more sought after, and
they :_inproved 5 per cent.
Ardoinc. Spanish followed the fluctuations of the
Bourse of Antv...frp, which was improving. The busi.
to any extent.
ness doing was not

It was reported at Nimeguen, that his Royal Highness
the Prince of Orange was coming there to inspect the
fortifications of that place.

THE FUNDS.

The British Funds continue heavy and depressed, al-
though there is every prospect of a continuation of fine
weather end a good harvest.
This is not crying to any unfavourable continental intelli-
gence being received, but, if we are well informed, is en.
tirely owing to the appteaching account day, which takes
place on the 27th inst. Report says that the Hebrews are
great Bulls in Consols, and arc trying to get out of this
account, and to come in for the next at lower prices ; this
has the effect to depress the Market.
Consols, which left off yesterday at 90 for the Account,
opened at 90i- ; some sales having been effected, they
receded to 894 A, same for Money ; Exchequer Bills 23
25 prem. ; Bank Stock 1671 1681; India Stock nothing
done as yet.
In the Yoreign Market Spanish Active, 252'; Deferred
121 1; Passive 6k ; Portuguese 344 35 ; Three per
Cents. 224 231 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
511 ; Five per Cents. 1011 102; Brazilian 791 801 ;
Colombian 20- 25 ; Mexican 281 29.
SHARES.—Great Western Railway 23 25 prem. ; Lon-
don and Brighton 101 dis. ; Blackwell Ito a Edis. ;
Birmingham 77 79 prem. ; Southampton 561 per share ;
Croydon 114 4 per share ; Greenwich 7/ 81 per share ;
Manchester and Birmingham 10 9 dia.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto New 4O -

Manchester and Leeds
North Midland, (New)
South Eastern and Dover 23
HALF-PAST ONE.

The seizure of the British Queen steamer has caused
some surprise in the city. The following is posted at the
North and South American Coffeehouse The steam-
ship British Queen has entered out, and ready to receive
goods." We suppose by the above notice the affair has
been settled. She is to sail an the Ist September.
Consols continue heavy. The report of two hundred
thousand Russians being raised to be concentrated in her
southern provinces, has rather damped the spirits of the
speculators. We hear that the French prices have come
lower from Paris, it was also reported that Austria was
preparing to march a large army into her Italian States.
Consols, in the course of the morning, receded to 89k
for the Account. at 89 ; Exche-
quer Bills 23 25 prem. ; Bank Stock for Account tottil ;
Spanish Active continues steady at 254 k; Portuguese
35 ; Three per Cents. 22i; Dutch Two-and a-Half sli;
Colombian 24i ; Mexican 284.
In Shares little doing. Great Western 9©; New, 494;
Manchester and Leeds, 98; North Midland, New, 411.

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.—We have just
been given to understand that the opening of the line to
Bath is definitely fixed for Monday the 31st of August.
Several experimental trips have been made during the
last few days, in all cases attended with a successful re-
sult. On Thursday one of the engines went at a
speed of sixty miles an hour, or a mile per mi-
nute. On Tuesday, the Meridian and tender did the
distance from Salford, through Keynsham, to the entrance
of No. 3, tunnel, nearly four miles, in the incredibly
short period of three minutes. On Friday a powerful
locomotive drew the enormous weight of 24 waggons,
loaded with gravel, for the ballasting of the line. The
skew-bridge at Bath will be completed in a very few days,
and the elegant station at that place will also be ready by
the end of next week. All doubts are now removed as
to the time for opening, as this part of the works was that
which caused the principal delay. The progress of the
works at the Bristol terminus is very satisfactory, and is
as rapid as possible.—Bristol Standard.
STOCKJOBBING.—The Commerce says, an es-
timate, for the correctness of which it can vouch, has been
made of the amount of difference paid on time bargains at
the Bourse 011 the last settling day. This amount, it
says, is twenty-two millions of francs. This journal
adds the following observations :—" It will be seen
that the Government, which has closed the gaming
houses, has left in full activity the most fatal foiers
of this social leprosy. It is no longer permitted
to our women cooks to throw their wages into the
wheel of our lottery k but all classes of the population are
invited to risk the fate of their famil:es and the honour of
individuals in stockjobbing. The most extraordinary
things are stated at ;the Bourse of the scandalous profits
which have been made there ; the names of parties and the
amount of their gains arc given, and public morals have
again to blush at what is passing in certain regions. We
do not, however, pity the dupes, for, if only one-half of
what is reported be true, they ought to rise against the
authors of so much disaster, and call upon public opinion
to put down such infamous proceedings."
The great banking-house at Havre of Widow
Mitchel and Sons has stopped payment, inconsequence of
several persons, alarmed at the prospects of war, having
suddenly drawn out their deposits.
PRUSSIAN AMNESTY.--A letter from Magde-
burg, of the 11th instant, in the Leipsie Gazette, says :
" In a few days all political prisoners will be set at liberty.
M. de Humboldt has had a great share in this merciful
measure. Not only all the political prisoners without ex-
ception, amounting to between thirty and forty, but also
all who have been condemned for baling been engaged in
duels, will be set at liberty."
SUPPOSED MURDER.—Mr. Johrl Mather, a
farmer and lime-burner of Ashover, Derbyshire, it is be
licved, was last week robbed on the highway, and after-
%lards murdered. He left home on horseback, accompanied
by hie daughter on a Welsh pony, with a 10/. note, half a
sovereign, and sure silver on his person. He left his daugh-
ter at Calow, and on hie reeve at the Crown public-house,
Chesterfield, he had the pony with him upon which bis
daughter had ridden. This was abent nine at night, and
very won afterwards deceased was found lying across the
road, in a stale of insensibility. After lingering in a state
of insensibility tietil Monday night, he expired, leaving a
wife and nine childree. On searching his clothes neither
purse, money, nor pocket handkerchief was found ; and this
fact, together with a wound being found at the back of the
neck, as if made by a bludgeon, and another on the back of
the left hand, caused a _strong impression that deceased had
been violently assaulted, arid then robbed. An inquest has
been held on the body, and a veeditet retterneci—" That the
deceased died from the wound at the iceeek of the head, but
how of by what means given does not appoaiY
DESPATCI/ OF BUSINESS FROM RAILWAY
TRAVELLING.—On Wednesday, the first day the Ayrshire
Railway was opened, a manufacturer in Paisley left town
for Ayr by the train at half-pant two p. m, He went to
Ayr, engaged twenty weavers, dined, bought a fine sal-
mon, brought it home to Paisley, where he arrived at half-
past eight, and had the fish cooked and served up, on the
same night, to a "upper party, whom he had previously
invited. It was formerly considered good labour to go or
return from Paisley to Ayr on the name day. It used also
to be considered great despatch to go and return between
Glasgow and Paisley, and transact business, in the course
of three hours. Last week we, however, met a Glasgow
gentleman who went out to Paisley, did the business he
went on, and was back in Glasgow within one hour. it
is also common for some of the Glasgow merchants to
come out to Paisley in the morning, make their purchases,
and be in their places of businesa by ten o'clock.— Glasgow
Chronicle.
The recent opening of the North Midland and
other railways is about to afford a much quicker convey-
ance for letters between the metropolis and this part of the
kingdom than we have hitherto experienced. On and
after Monday, the 24th August, the London bags for this
town and neighbourhood will be brought to Leeds by rail-
way, and be immediately dispatched by the present Dar-
lington mail, which is to be continued to Newcastle, where
it is expected to arrive at four o'clock in the afternoon,
only twenty hours after leaving London. By this arrange-
ment the London letters and evening newspapers will be
delivered here on the evening of the second day instead
of on the following morning, as at present. The present
mail will be continued as heretofore, and the new mail,
we are informed, will leave Newcastle for the South at I
seven o'clock in the morning.... Tyne Mercury.