The Sun.
London, England, 1840-03-23 00:00:00

FUNDS.

Consols opened this morning at the same quotations they
:eft off on Saturday, 903 for money, for the,Account, 90,1
91, with little or nothing doing as yet ; Exchequer Bills,
15 17 prem. ; India Bonds, 1 3 prem ; Bank Stock for the
opening 177 179; India Stock, 247 249 ;
In the Foreign Market Spanish Active, which closed
on Saturday at 2Si i, is not quite so good at present, 2811 i;
Deferred, 14i ; Passive, 71 i ; Portuguese same as they
closed 334 344 ; Three per Cents., 231 244; Colombian,
243 25; Mexican, 293; Brazilian 783 ' • Dutch Two arid-
a- Half per Cents., 52i 53i; Five per Cents. 1013.
Plitt ES OF STOCK., "1 i, is DAY ti' ONE ircl,iit:K.
dank Stock .. —•_lndia Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Ccnki. Con ...... ..90%1i •,,i; , South Sea Stock —
3!•9 tier Cent ! Old Annuities
oaf° Red. ) New Ditto
Ncw 3% per Cent 99% 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities toetpire Ditto 300 15 18 pm.
Jan 5, 1860 Ditto Small l5 18 pm.
Oct. 10, 1859 — Ditto Commercial
Jan. 5, 1860 — , Ditto Advertised ..... pm.
Jan. 5, 1850 Bank Stock for Account ... 178
Aprils, 1880 — India Stock for Account ..
Jan. 5.1870 — Consols for Account 01 9,77,
PRICES OF FOREIGN FU NOS THIS DA 1 AT ONE () CLOCK
Austrian Bonds — Peruvian Bonds —
Belgian Bonds .. —' Ditto Account —
Ditto Account
3razilis n Bonds
Ditto Account
3uenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account — Ditto Account —
Chilian 3ond t ........»...,.... —, Prussian Bonds —
Ditto •teco,. nt — , Russian Bands, 1821 —
:tintnt ian P.c nds — Ditto Account
Ditto teem nt — Ditto Metallic
Columbian 3: 7 d 5,1624
Iltto teasel _, Ditto Account. ........... thii,„iii
:anise Bonds
' ....................... 7:4
Ditto At cc :nt —l Deferred ..................... 13%
Greek Bonds.
Ditto Bonds, 1825 — ----- 4 per cent —f. —e.
Ditto Account — --- -- 3 per cent. _t'. —e,
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — ---- Exchange —f. —c.
Ditto Account — Dutch, ‘.)!, per cent. 5334
Ditto, 6 per Cent. -; Ditto Account 'wilitiy,„
Ditto Account
" Koapolitan... ~..... . ... . lOl% • Ditto Acc0unt........ _
PKICESUP SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE o.t .:IAI- K.
Paid. PCT snare
Bristol and Exeter Railway Company 40 9%
klroat Western Railway Company 65
Ditto New 3i) 31‘,‘ I
Ir noon and Birmingham Railway Company., 150
Ditto New Shares
N,.rtn Midland Railway Company lOO 07
Ditto New
British North American Bank
tendon and Westminsterißank 'A . 2244
Union Bank of Australia - 1734 21
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 21.
3 per Cent. Consols ... -- 'Grand CanalDehs. ti percent.
14 per Cent. Stock
Ditto Reduced - Hibeinian Bank —
Ditto New, 1830 ......... -- City of Dublin Steam Comp.
33 per Cent. Debentures... 91%) National Insurance Compan y
Bank Stock
grand Canal Stock --1 Ballast Office Debentures, 4
Royal Canal Stock
II A L F-PA 11 T OWE.
We have received the Journal of Commerce, of Ant.
werp, of yesterday's date.
AMSTERDAM EXCHANGE, MARCH 20.—" The National
Funds bad to-day a favourable tendency, and a great deal
of business was done in Integrals, which were in request.
The actions of the Society of Commerce opened at
180, and closed 180 i.
Although the prices from Paris come without any
change, Ardoin's Spanish has followed the course of Ant-
werp Exchange, and is lower than yesterday ; but at the
close of the market some changes appeared which caused a
firmness in the market.
Papers from Nassau of the 28th December bring the
opening of the Session on the sth of December, by the
Governor, Colonel Francis Cockburn ; the following is an
extract of the Governor's speech :
" This being the usual period of the year for the Legis-
lature being brought into Session, you have been called
together accordingly.
" The matters to be submitted to your consideration,
though not numerous, are some of them, of
-importance,
and will require your early consideration. The Bills
for raising a revenue, and the payment of the
Civil List, are about to expire, and I anticipate
with confidence that you will avail yourselves of the very
favourable opportunity thus afforded of marking the high
extent of your loyalty and affection for our most gracious
and beloved Queen.
" There are some other subjects, which will also be
submitted to your consideration, and on which I shall lose
no time in communicating with you by message ; and, re-
lying on your early and continued attention to the des-
patch of business, I look forward to releasing you from
your legislative labours at an early period.
"Mr. Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Assembly,
" I shall direct the public accounts and e,timates to be
prepared and submitted for your information.
" Honourable Gentlemen of the Legislative Council,
" It will, I am sure, be as pleasing to you to hear as it
is to ma to communicate that the accounts received from
our islands are highly satisfactory as to the industrious
habits of the agricultural labourers, and to which it may in
great measure be attributed that the salt ponds have
been more productive than for years past, and the harvest
of corn, which is excellent in quality, more abundant than
on any former occasions."
From the New York Papers received this morning.
From the Disputed Territory :
We have just heard that lumbering parties, belonging
to T. C. Perlay and W. Bull, New Brunswick, and Mr.
Noble of Brighton, were made prisoners by the Maine
authorities, when engaged in making timber on a permit
from Massachusetts. Such conduct will probably occasion
some altercation between those States.
Consols are not quite so good as in the morning, and
may be quoted 90i for Account, Money 903Hpr;ern, Exchequer.. Bank
Bills, 17 15 18 prem. ; India Bonds, 1
Stock for opening, 178.
In the Foreign Market little doing.
2HBAri; per
nothing . Spanish Active,
- a 1 ' d-
Scarce a .
Cents. 7 ; Fiveper Conte, 10
04
bargain doing in the above market.
Hamburg and Dutch mail not arrived as yet.
done;cn Dutcho , 470`-`ca r

LEGACY DUTY, __A return has been made to the
House of Commons, showing the amount of capital on
i
which the several rates of legacy duty have been paid n.
Great Britain iu the year 1839, and also an abstract of
the total amount of legacies which paid duty since
1797_ The latter amounts to the enormous sum of
1,081,468,0001. ; the total amount of capital on which
legacy duty was Ipaid in 1839, was 4'2,052,2971., and
of that more than four millions sterling, paid the ten
per cent. duty, and 21,604,065/. paid the one per cent.
duty; the former being the per centage payable by
distant relatives or strangers in blood, and the latter by
children or parents, or any lineal descendant or ancestor.
The total legacy, probate and other duties of tins de-
scription, paid into the public treasury since 1797, was
about fifty-eight millions sterling.
THE KING OF HANOVER.—According to a retu n
made to the House of Commons, the sums received out
of the Consolidated Fund by the King of Hanover
since his accession to the throne in January 21, 1827,
amount to 53,365/. 7s. Bd., being at the rate of 21,000/.
a-year. In addition to this income, he possesses a
house forming part of the apartments in St. James's
Palace, the house on the north side of Kew Green,
with out-offices, gardens, and pleasure-grounds, and a
small house on the south side. He has been allowed,
also, the herbage of 400 acres of land called the " Old
Deer Park," and 100 acres within the lawns and plea-
sure grounds at Kew, These two tracts, however, are
to be resumed by the Crown at Lady-day next.

The Right Honourable Edward Ellice had a
dinner-party, on Saturday, at his residence in Arlington-street.