The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-19 00:00:00

BOURSE.-PARIS, IVEDNESDAY, MARCH 17.

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First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Pricy. Price
:,:cl.• 5 ner c..}-”, ....... i I i 25 ... I 1 • 45 .., 11 120 .., .11 25
4 per Cents 9B ... 98 ...98 .E 98
3 per • v.. •6 90 is 15 ... 76 90 ... 77
.Ank o: s'rarice
I...tiitte Batik 1,6001. 81), 1060.. •..1090 ... ICEO ...1060
30401. Stares 51(0 ...5100 ...Mill; ...5160
olgisn sank ' - B7O ... 870 ... 845 ... 845
5 per Cents... lOl% ... 101 N ... 101% ... 101
3 per Cents 6j 60 ... 61) C 0.... Go 60 ... 1960
New Loan lO2 ... 1 2 ~ 101% ... In%
panish Active 241,i •
... 24% ... 24% ... 2,4
Passive 5% ... 5% ... sii ... !•14
ieapolitan •• 102 40 ... 102 45 ... M.l 40 ... )01 45
€ornan :O2 .. in 2 ... 1(.2 ... Ws
RAILWAY SHARES:,
Versaillcs,R. B 3..)2 a° ... 3,2 50 ... 321 50 ... 3.12 50
L.B. .........
louen
irleans .. -

_ 488 76
itraotturg to Bale 233 75 ... 2SB 75 ... :88 75 . ,VBS 75
llontpellier to Cette 207 50 ... 207 56 ... 205 ... 1105

MONEY and
_CO MMERCiAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 18. —The demand
for Cotton to-day has been wholly confined to the trade. The sales
do not exceed '2,500 bales,
.principally of American descrip-
tions. Prices are entirely :without change.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 18.—The following
ire the transactions reported at the Stock Exchange this day :
Grand Junction, Half Shares, 1004 ; Great Western, New
Shares, 614 ; Hull and Selby, 43 ; London and Birmingham,
New Shares, 204 ; London and South Western, 564; Midland
Counties, New Shares, 15.

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH B.—The sales
are— 13riqol and Exeter, 34 ; Livetpool and Manchester, 188;
Ditto, Quarters, 45; Ditto, Halves, 90; Lancaster and Pres-
ton, New, 221; Stafford and Rugby, 2 ; Bank of Manches-
ter, 7%.

A French brig-of-war, bound to France, put into St. He-
lena the 26th January for water, with a piratical vessel carry •
ing 18 guns and 73 men, that she had captured in one of the
bays of Madagascar.

BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, MARCH 16.—1 n general affairs
do not offer any interest, and the prices were nearly the same
as yesterday. The Actions of the Society of Commerce, for
the 17th of May nest, were a little better, from 1613/4 to 162.
The Foreign Funds are without variation with little business
doing. Spanish has been a little mere offered. Integrales,
5O to 7-16. Ardoin's, 21 to 3-16.

ELGIA N BANS—The general assembly of the Bank ofßelgium
has taken an important resolution. On the proposition of its
Council of Administration it has decided to issue ten thousand
new Actions of 1,000 francs, at the interest of 5 per cent.,
and old Actions will continue at, the interest of 5 per cent.
The Director of the above Bank also stated that persons had
come forward to take the whole amount on the above reduc-
tions, but he thought it his duty to stipulate that the two .thirds
of the New Actions to be issued may be reclaimed by the
ancimat shareholders.

Accounts from Madrid of the 9th instant state that four com-
mercial houses there have offered to the Government to ad-
vance 90 millions of reals in specie, 48 millions of which is to
be applied during two years to the payment of interest for the
capitalization of Coupons, and 42 millions for the wants of the
Treasury. •

The intelligence received by the She!drake packet from
Vera Cruz of some money (11,550 dollars) having arrived in
part to pay the dividends, has had the effect to improve that
Stock 2 per cent. this morning. The barbarity commit-
ted by the Texians or Indians from the north, murder-
ing in cold blood men, women, and children, is generally sus-
pected by the well-informed in the City to be greatly exag-
gerated.
The Mexican picket has brought 800,000 dollars for mer-
chants' account.