The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-21 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
The public securities keep up well. Money continues
very easy both in the Stock Exchange and among the ge-
neral discount brokers, and it is difficult to find any safe
and at the same time profitable employment for it.
For immediate transfer Consols realised 901 to 901. to-
day, and for the Account 903- to 90a. The premium on
the unfunded debt remained without alteration, namely,
13s. to lbs., and of East India Bonds the quotation was
again par to 2a. prem. Bank Stock was a shade better,
namely, 172 k to 173, and India Stock rose to 2553- and
256. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. reali-ed 99
to 994, the Reduced Three-and-a- Half per Cents. 96
and the Three per Cents. 891 to -if.
The Foreign Market was dull. The New Portuguese
Five per Cents. went down from 344- to 34 and 33,1, and
the Three per Cents. were heavy at 20+-. Spanish Active
Stock was firm at 234 ; Mexican receded to 30} to 30i ;
Colombian were at 22k; Peruvian at 17a ; Brazilian at a
decline from 694 to ; Dutch Two-and-a- Hall pe,
Cents, were at ; Belgian at an improvement from
1024 to 1034, and Danish Bonds at 774 to
A good demand exists for the leading Railway Shares
Great Western were done at 303-, the New at 15,i, the
Fifths at 7.1 to 8; the Birmingham Thirds at 22, the New
at 22i; the Greenwich scrip et 2, and the York and
North Midland at 33 to 35 premium. Brighton were 1
Manchester and Birmingham 14k, and South Eastern 143-
discount. London and WeArninster Bank New Shares
were at and Union of Australia at 9+ premium. Na-
tional Bank of Ireland Shares re ilised 2 discount.

This afternoon the Foreign Exchanges were not quite
firm. Bills at three months' date were negotiated as
follows :—Paris 25 65 to 67i ; Hamburgh 13 94 to 9i ;
Amsterdam 12 31 ; Antwerp 12 31 ; Frankfort 1491- to
150 ; and Trieste 10 Itolo 2. Thc.. Exchanges from
the northern ports has come over very firm for the last
three or four post days.
The exports of the precious metals from the port of Lon-
don in the week ending Thursday last were:—
Silver Coin to Hamburgh
Ditto ditto Rotterdam
Ditto ditto Swan River B.OOO
Ditto ditto Belgium
Ditto Bars Hamburgh

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL. COTTON MARKET, Arßtt. 19.—The sales of
Cotton to day have been to a moderate extent, amounting to
2,500 bales, wholly to the trade. In prices we have no altera-
tion to notice since last Friday's report.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, APRIL 19.—The transac-
tions at the Stock Exchange this day comprise the follow-
ing :—Chester and Birkenhead, New Shares, 184 ; Edinburgh
and Glasgow, 36 ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock,27 ; Grand
Junction, Quarter Shares, 28i; Great Western, Half Shares,
65/ ; Liverpool and Manchester, Half Shares, 96i ; London
and Birmingham, 159; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 23; ; London
and Brighton United Company, 474 ; North Midland, 81.
MArcenEsTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 19.—There is
a fair demand for Railway Stock, but very little offering.
London and South Western, 584 and 58 ; Manchester and
Birmingham, 251 and 254 ; Manchester and Leeds, 66/ ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 36 ; Bristol and Exeter, 35/ ex in-
terest; Alliance Bank, 171; Uniun Bank of Manchester, 7Z,-.

We have received Alauritius Papers to the 7th of January
by which it appears that the small-pox is still raging there.
The ship Baltimore has arrived from New York, bringing
New York Papers to the 2d inst. At the time of her sailing
there was no information respecting the President. General
Harrison was indisposed. The United States Bank Shares
closed at 173-, being 19 per cent. ad.:atice on the previous day.
The above arrival is only one day later than the last account.

Consols opened this morning at the closing_ prices of yester-
day, 902 6 for the Account, Money 904 ; Exchequer Bills, 13
15 prem. ; Bank Stock, 172 173; India Stock, 255 256.
In the Foreign Market the prices continue nominal to the
present hour. Spanish Active, 23i ; Deferred, 124 ;
Passive, 51 ; Portuguese, 344 ; Three per Cents., 20i k ;
Brazilian, 69 70; Colombian, 224 234; ;Mexican rather
lower, 30i1 8; Dutch Twe- and. a- Half per Cents., 524; Five
per Cents., 984 994.
Sit A RES.—Great Western, 30i 31i, prem., New, I.siprem. ;
London and Brighton, 1a dis. ; Blackwall, 53(.1 4 dis. ; Bir-
mingham, 6S 70 prem. ; Southampton, 571 sti per share;
Croydon, 131 14 per share ; Greenwich, 84 k per share ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 15 1-q dis•
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.

RAILWAYS. Paid, Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto New
London and Brighton
London and Birmingham ...... ... 90
Ditto Thirds
thtto New ...
London and Greenwich
Ditto Scrip
London and South Western 3BL - .. to
Ditto Tenths
tlanchester and Birmingham ... 40
Midland Counties
South Eastern and Dover
York and North Midland
A veszel arrived, on the 29th of March, at Baltimore, which
left Bermuda on the 20th March, at which period nothing was
known of the President steamer.

We still continue without any information of the President,
nor is there any other news of the least importance. Other files
of Maui itius pacers have been received to the 15th Januuary,
but they do not contain any news.
Consols are not quite Si- good as in the early part of the
morning, when they were 91)1 ;at present 94 for the Ac-
count ; Money, 90 ; Exchequer Bills, 13 15 prem. ; Bank
Stock, 173 1721 ; India Stock, 256 2551 lower ; India Bonds,
par, 2 premium.
In the Foreign Market very little doing. Spanish Active,
23* ; Portuguese, 301 ; Three per Cents., 20i ; Dutch
Five per Cents., 994.
Not much doing in the Share Market, and the prices are
firm. Great Western, New, 65,4 ; London and Brighton
Birmingham, Thirds, 54 ; Midland Counties, 90; York and
North 85,

Consols, Account, 90/, sellers ; Colombian, 223 23
Mexican, 301 Portuguese, 333 34h; Spanish, 23,i a.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock 1724 India Stock 255 k
3 per Cent Red. B9; Ditto Bonds 2 pal
3 per Cent Cons 9o'4 .Ditto Old Annuities ...
34 per Cent Red..
New 34 per Cent 99 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2id 15 pm
New 5 per Cent ... Ditto 500/ l5 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small l4 pin
Jan. 1860 ... 124 !Bank Stock for 0pg....
Oct 1859. ... 124 !India Stock for 0pg....
Jan. 1860.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent lo3* Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian 80nd5........., 684 Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent...... Ditto, Metallic —
Colombian, 6 per cent... !Spanish, 5 per cent
Ditto, 1824 .. .... 22a Ditto, Deferred .. 123.
Danish, 3 per cent 77i ,French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —l Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 30i 1 Fren ch , 3 per cent —f. —c.
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 24 per cent. ... 52-,1,
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent 99
IES.

SHA

Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 6si
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd) —
Ditto Thirds (32 paid),:, 54
Ditto New shares ( 2 paid) 241
London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd) —
Ditto Scrip. (3 paid) 4i
London and South Western ... ........... ...
Ditto Tenths
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) ... •. 25/
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) .. ...... 90
South East.rn and Dover (33 paid)... 18/
York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 85
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDAY).
Amsterdam CF. i 2 7 "Gibraltar 4B
Ditto) at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 71 Genoa . 25 85
Antwerp
Hamburgh M.B. 13 12/ Venice 47
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 55 Palermo, per 0., 119
Ditto, 3 months 25 80 Lisbon
Marseilles • . . 25 85 Oporto 521
Bourdeaux 25 85 Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 1501 Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres ......
8er1in......
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M lO 2 Philadelphia 46
Trieste, ditto
Madrid
__.. ...... ... _ .. _

Cadiz 3si
Bilboa ...35

Foreign Gold, bars 3 17 9
New 'Doubloons 0 0 0

Barcelona
Seville

New Dollars 0 4 10h
ISilver in Bars 0 5 0

THE TABARD INN (TALBOT,) IN THE
BOROUGII.—The exterior of the inn is simply a narrow,
I square, dilapidated-looking gateway; Its posts strapped
with rusty iron bands—its gates half covered with sheets
of the same metal. " The Talbot Inn" is painted above,
and till within the last five or six years there was also
the following inscription t—" This is the Inno where
Sir Jeffry Chaucer and the nine-and twenty Pilgrims
lay in their journey to Canterbury, anno Intl,' This
inscription was formerly ou the frieze of a beam laid
crush-wise upon two uprights, which stood in the road
in the front of the tabard; and from ',high hung the
sign/ creaking as it swung to and fro with every pa3i=
ing gust, he sign and ifs Sitppnrts yere tetoVed in
1766, when all such characteristic teattif62 the
streets of London in the olden time disappeared, in obe-
dience to a Parliamentary dict for their destruction. The
writing of this inscriplon was etitictifly not very ancient;
but hatii not improbably, been renewed ftotr, time lo time
from a very remote period. Tyrwhitt, hnweVer, thinks it
is not elder than the ri4Onteenth tentbry, from the fact
that Speght, who noticed the Tabard lh hl4 edition of
Chaueer (1602), does not mention it ; he therefore stip•
poses it to have been put up after the great fire of South-
wark in 106, whet] sane portion of the itin was burnt;
and it, cons, quench of the change of name Wliitih thtin„took
place. Aub'cy; writiog, a little after the per.od of the
fire, sayis; ignottint landleird, or tenant, instead of
the ancient sign of the tiihnirl; i'.tt tip the Talbot, or dcg."
—C. h night's " _London," Part I.

• •
1 tie ociety or P'm a usicians will give its
second annual concert on Friday evening, when Handel's
L' Allegro eil it Ptrisieroso will he p rformed for the first
tore for many yca, s 11 a host of vocal and instrumental
talent, who have off red their services in aid of the funds
of this laudable inst tution, which was established in 1839,
by Miss Mason and a few other ladie=, for the support of
aged and indigent female professors of music.
It ought to be generally known that members of
Town Councils are not only exempt from, but absolutel,
disqna'ified f,r, serving on juries. In a recent case tried
in the Sheriff,' Court at Devonpor', a Mr. Liscombe,
one of the Town Council of that borough, having ob-
jected to s,rse on a jury on the ground of his being
a me., ber of the ToAn C,uc eil, ii ,e übj,:ction was over-
ruled by the under-she iff.. Af,,r the trial bad proce•ded
for some time, a copy c f the Act of Parliament wa,
tame', and rh diclualific tinn di•c,vrred. Mr. Lise,:mbe
wa' rh.erefore direct. dto leav, e jury box. and anothr r
gentleman who had been summoned as a juror, and re.
inaluud in uai.irt, althuugll uot.caacci, was swore ill