The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-18 00:00:00

BOURSE.-PARIS, MONDAY, MARCH 16.

r lest Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price. Price
French 5 per Cents ll3 ... 113 10 ... 113 ... 113
4 per Cents ' 102 ... 'I/ ... 102 ... 102
3 per Cents B3 25 83 35 ... 83 25 ... 83 SS
Bank of r'rance
Latlitte Bank 5,000 f. Sh 351195 ..
3 ...5.:i8
51955 .3 5 .3
511;5 .....5119855
Belgian Bank Ol5 ... 1)15 ... 905 ... 905
5 der Cents 104% ... 105% ... 105% ... 105%
3 per Cents 74 65 ... 74 (iS ... 74 56 ... 74 ;4
Dutch 2% per Cent, 53%, ... 51‘4 ... 53% ... 53%
United States Bank Loan -9% ... 09% ... MI 9914
Spanish Ac:ive .
Passive l% ... 7% ... 7% ... 7%
Old Deferred
Near oli tan
Roman lo3h ... 104 ...103% ... 103%
RAILWAY SHARES.
St. Germain
Versailles. R. 11 555 ... 555 ... 555 ... 553
L.B. 3! 5 ... 3C6 25 ... 383 ... 3:36 25
Orleans ..
Strasburg to Bale .........
ASPHALTES AND BITUMENS.
Seyssel (A)
s.—ViEwria, MAaCH '7.
five
peArUcSeLl:.l • 10034
Fenr per Cents.
Three p=r Cents.
llNtatntiquNens
t 42.%
Bank Shrtres
--Allgemeine Zeitung, March I.i

METROPOLITAN ANTI-CORN-LAW ASSOCIA-
TION.—It is by mistake that a meeting of the body is announced
or this day in another part of our paper. No such meeting is to
take place.
The Countess of Jerse)'s ball, to night, is ex-
pected to be the most brilliant given this season. The invita-
tions are particularly numerous, and her Royal Highness the
Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Augusta of Cambrid.e
intend to honour the ball with their presents.

[ADVERTISEMENT.]
(Co.)
TO THE EDITOR OF I'HE STANDARD.
SIR—In the Leading Article of this evening's Standard
is the following passage, the first sentence indicating the
law, the second specifying the equity of the Standard:—
"Though not holding ourselves responsible for adver-
tisements generally, there is a line which, even in that de-
partment of our business, we will not knowingly pass. We
will not publish lies and forgeries, even as advertisements,
when we know them to be lies and forgeries."
Sir, in July last I took an advertisement, upon a matter of
business, to the office of the Standard. A proprietor of
that journal declined to admit it, because it stated a fact
not complimentary to the Times. Not considering a pro-
prietor a it person to decide upon what should, or should
not, be admitted, I desired that the letter for advertisement
should be given to the Editor; and stated that, as there
was nothing objectionable in the letter (similar letters to
upon the same fact, had been admitted by the Morn-
ing Chronicle, the Morning Herald, the Morning Auver-
tiser, the Morning Post, the Globe, the Courier, and the
.
Sun) I was quite willing to abide by the jus of the
Editor's decision. The proprietor remarked that he knew
the Editor of the Standard too well to suppose that he
vto ald admit anything against the Times. I, however, per-
sisted in having the letter referred to the proper authority;
and the Editor of the Standard wrote, on the back of the
letter, " I think that this ought not to be inserted."
i Knowing that there was nothing objectionable n the
letter, knowing that the fact of advertising exonerated
an Editor from participating in the substance of a writing,
and supposing that a public Journal was a public vehicle
of communication, I observed to the office clerk that, as
the editor only thought, I should wish to advertise the
letter, but was t hen given to understand that it was merely
the excessive politeness of the editor, who worded his re-
fusals in the pensive style. I was elsewhere referred to
the columns of the Standard to find out the reverential awe
with which the Standard looked up to the Times, and to
the columns of the Times to discover that the 7'imes could
(to occasion or order) prove the unsophisticated address of
that part of London which is famous for the freshest oys-
ters, and the most free language, to be not altogether con-
fined to the realms below bridge.
Sir, as the proprietor of the Standard had refused an
advertisement, because it reflected upon the misconduct of
the Times, I concluded (from that, as well as from the
proprietor's alleged foreknowledge of the result) that the
Editor's refusal was grounded upon a similar motive. From
this evening's Standard it is gratifying to learn that the
Editor, in the advertising " department of business," acts
upon the golden rule of doing as he would be done by ;
and, " though not responsible for advertisements gene-
rally," is sometimes actuated by principles of tire strictest
impartiality, and by a regard for the interests of truth and
justice, more than by any love, or fear, of the Times.
Sir, I have the honour to be your obedient servant,
March 14,1840. G, D. LOWNDF.S.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY)

DEAL, MARcu 17.—Wind N.N.E., moderate breezes.—
Arrived the Lavinia, Hall, from Sydney; Statira, Booth, Ja-
maica; James, Wright, Trinidad; George Robinson, Lockyer,
Newfoundland ; Camillus, Miles, Demerara ; and Demerara
Packet, Bombay.
LivEttrooL, Itlmtcx 17.—Wind N.E. to E.—Arrived the
Southampton, from Lima, sailed the I,lth November; Thomas
Fielden, Smith, -Valparaiso, sailed Bth December; Mary and
Jane, Varney, New Orleans ; Lyons, ditto ; Agricola, Pringle,
New York; and General Wolfe, Harrison, Cephalonia. Off
port the Senator, New Orleans ; England, New York, sailed
the 19th ult. ; Asiedla, Charleston; and Ann, Berbice. Sailed
the Malabar, Sou'lwood, for Calcutta ; Calcutta, Gib on,
Calcutta; Calista, Honduras; Richard, Smith, Jamaica; Co-
lumbine, Mason, Savannah; Victory, Blackley, New York ;
Iris, Bradley,;Newfoundland; Trinity yacht, Butcher, St. Mi-
chael's ; and Phantom, Saunders, Odessa.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL. COTTON MAR&ET, TOESDAY._The sales to-
day are 2,000 bags, no change in prices.

The letters by the New York packet, England, have
not as yet been received.
We have received New York Papers to the 23d Feb.,
by the packet ship England arrived at Liverpool.
MONEY MARKET.—This is a packet day, but the opera-
tions in exchange on England have been email. The
sales have been 108 k, and for Southern I to 1 per cent.
less. The packets were detained on account of the Great
Western till to-morrow. The news from Liverpool is to
the 4th, and had most favourable influence in Wall street.
There has been great excitement in Wall-street to-day in
relation to the Manhattan Bank ; a large amount of stock
was thrown into the market by Prime, Ward, and Henry,
and rold at about 80 per cent.—such an uLexpected amount
from that source created quite a panic, and only 70 per
cent. was offered for the stock at the closing of the Board.
The fall in this stock in the past few days has been 30 per
cent., a decline almost unprecedented.
STArs OF TRADE.—The different markets sbow a fresh
amount of business doing, almost altogether fur city trade.
We have been so long without news from England that
some anxiety prevailed here ; at the South there are some
appearances of renewed activity—at New Orleans, on the
3d inst. increased supplies of Western produce had caused
a decline in the price of those articles.
In dry goods time is every prospect of a further fall in
prices, nd every description of produce is falling ; the in-
terior 6 full of it.

Cotton—This market has continued very steady during
the mast week, the art ivals have been rather larger than for
a few seeks previous, but the Sock is stilt very small.
In the southern parts, the downward tendency continues;
atelrrleston the late English news has operated to cause a
decline ; at Savannah, a rise in the river increased the
surlies ; at Mobile a great anxiety to sell exists ; and a
rise in the rivers would cause a great decline ; at Augusta
the decline was caused by the great disposition to sell
evinced by the planters at New Orleans ; the receipt of the
news from England to the 16tb December checked opera-
; tions. The Exchange comes from New York, 8 to Bi,
United States Bank Shares 76.
Pernambuco, Jan. 16.—Theslast transactions in the Ex-
change were at 32i, and at this rate there are now no
drawers, and it may be quoted at 32d. nominal. Silver
scarce.

Manhattan Bank,—There has been much said about
the report of the Committee not being understood ; the
following is in few figures the round numbers :
Capital and Profits
Water works and real estate 1,600,000
Loss in Kentucky Stock, United
_ _

States Stock Loss, in Sara-
toga Stock, and bad debts...

500,000

I 2,100,000
Consols left off yesterday "at'. 90i- a for Money; and
901 91 for the Account, opened this morning at 90i
for Money, and 91i for the Account; Exchequer Bills.
17 19 prem. ; India Bonds, 1 3 prem. ; India Stock, 247
249 ; Bank Stock 177 179, for the opening ; Portu-
guese, 34-1 ; Three per Cents., 241; Spanish Active
28'1 29 ; Deferred, 13i 14k ; Passive, 71, ? Colombian,
24t 261 ; Mexican, ; Brazilian, 77i 78 ; Dutch
Two-and-a_Half per Cents., 521 ; Five per Cents.,
100 k 101.

t'IIICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE 0 CLOCK
Austrian Bonds — Peruvian non.is —
Belgian Bonds -
Ditto Account
Brasilia 71 Bonds ......... ..... Ditto New Bonds
Ditto Account - 3,114
Buenos Ayers Bonds
Ditto Account
Zhilian 3ond i — ' Prussian Bonds ........ ....
Ditto tecim. tit — Russian Bends, 152•2.......
C °hunt Lill Pc -ids — ! Ditto Account... ......... ...
Ditto ki:..,m nt — Ditto Metallic
Columbian 3: - d 5,1824
ID it:e -It:co,tit 25 5 . Ditto Account. 'ilOsi
.3anish Bonds
Ditto At :nt — Deferred 133,
Greek Bonds... — French, 5 pet c0nt..... —f. —c.
Ditto Bonds, IS°' . 4 per cont. —f. —c.
Ditto Account — 3 per cent. —C. .--r.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Exchange. —t. —c.
Ditto Account
Ditto, 6 per Cent.
Ditto Account rj2oii Ditto, 5 per cent teozi
Neapolitan — Ditto Acc0unt........

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Paid. Per Share.
Lyndon and Blackwall Railway 1754 155 y.,
London and Birmingham Railway Company
15$

Ditto New Shares
Union Bank of Australia
lIALF-PAST ONE.

Film—The American papers received this morning
state that a large fire was raging with great violence at
Colombia (Pa.) when the Caro left for Philadelphia. It
originated in the stables attached to Colonel Bogg's Ho-
tel, sixteen horses belonging to the western mail contrac-
tors having been burned. It was supposed to be the work
of design, as a small fire in another part of the town was
discovered.

Accounts from the Havannah of the Ist February state
that there was no variation in the coffee market, but a de-
cline
was anticipated as soon as the new crop came in
freely to market; fine qualities were quoted ,8 75 cents
to $9 25 cents per quintal.
The Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon were much
the same as on last post day, with the exception of Am-
sterdam, which wore 4- lower, and Hamburgh higher.
A meeting takes place this day at the Londcn Tavern to
suggest improvements of the Peninsular and Mediterranean
Mail communications.
Up to the present time we have no further arrivals. The
two Jamaica Mails still remain due.
Consols are not quite so good as they were in the early
part of the morning, 91 for the Account at present ; Money,
901 -1; Exchequer Bills, 17 19 prem. ; in India Bonds end
India Stock nothing doing ; Bank Stock for the opening,
175 i.
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active is heavy owing to
a part of the account still hanging in the market, in conse-
quence of which Spanish still comes to market. Spanish
at present 28k, it has been done at 28i ; Portuguese, 341 •
Three per Cents., 24i; Spanish Deterred, 13z ; Colom-
bian, 25; Mexican, 29+; Dutch Two and Half er
I Cents., 591; Five per Cents. 1001. p

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 17) (India Stack .9.19
3 per Cent. Red - I Ditto Bonds ..
3 per Cent Cr.ns
314 per Cent. Red...-
- Ditto New Annuities
New
Seeper Cent -
()IN I:.'x. Bills, 1,0901 2d 19 pin
New r Cent
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. :MO
Oct. 1859
- \ Bank Stock lc: On ..... .....- -
India Stock Pm Acct..- -
Jan IStiO ......... -'......... ..- (Consols for Acct....— -
FOREIGN FUNDS
Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese Bonds, sper cent. 3lg,
Belgian, 5 per cent 191 Ditto, New Ditto ...........».. -
Biaxiliiin Bonds 7SU Prussian, 5 per cent. -
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent - j Russian bonds, 5 per cent.... -
Chilian, 6 per cent 4O IDitto, Metallic -
1 Colombian, Gcr cent 2SW Spanish, 5 per cent 25,-
Ditto, 1524 Ditto, Deferred
Danish. 3 per cent '7B% I French, 5 per cent.......... -I:. -c•
Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct - Exchar.ge _.....t. -c
Mexican, 5 per cent French, 3 per cent.......... -t• r-:.2._c•
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825 f(29U Dutch, :::!ii per
1 Peruvian,ls2s.6 per cent l7 Ditto, 5 per cent.. .............. lul
SHARES. en
Great Western Railway ~ .0
1 Ditto 'qew Shares
London and Brighton Railway .................... -
.................. I.
~,li
London and Blackwall Railway .......-- ...... -
.....
....,z
London and Birmingham Rai1way................
..... 1..r._
Ditto Quarter Shares ....... - ........ .......
...................... 4:l;i,r,
Ditto New Shares ..... ................... . .
iNorth Midland Railway ................ ...... ..... ......... (- (-163 i
Ditto New Share,
I Sauth Eastern and Duyar •....... ......