The Sun.
London, England, 1841-02-25 00:00:00

NEWSPAPER STAMPS.

Extract from a Return to an Order of the House
o&f:1ommons, dated 2d February, 1841, for the
following London Papers, from the Ist of July
to the 31st of December, 1840, inclusive :
SUN
GLOBE
STANDARD
COURIER lll,OOO

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING..

The improvement in the Foreign Exchanges yesterday
afitrnoon hai had rather a favourable eff,et on the value of
Stock. At one time there was a diflerence in favour of
the quotation of Consols fur present delivery of per cent.,
the current prices being 88i to 888, and for to-morrow 881
to 88i. For Apr 1 the price was about 89 to Exche-
quer Bills were heavy at 5 to 7 premium, and India Bonds
at 15 discount, India Stock was worth 247 to 248, Bank
Stock for Account was steady at 166, and the Reduced
Three-and-a-half per Cents. Annuities touched 978
to 98.

The Foreign Market was dull, and beyond a trifling im-
provement in Spanish Stock which was marked 238 to 24,
for the Active, there was scarcely any alteration in price?.
Chilian Bonds were heavy at 60 to 61, Portuguese Old
Five per Cents. were at 624, the New at 31-k, and the
Three per Cent. at 19a. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. were steady at 50k to 50i, and the Five per Cents.
at 991 to 991.
The value of some of the Railway Shares got up a
little to-day, tut neither the sales nor purchases were to
any extent. Great Western were at 24 to 41, the New at
11, the Fifth at 54; to 4k, the South Western at 19k, the
Manchester and Leeds at 44- to 5, and the York and
North Midland at 24 to 26 rerernium ex dividend. Edin-
burgh and GlasgoW were at 51, Blackwall se, and
South Easttra and Dover at 16} discount. Provinci d
Bank ( f Ire'and Shares were 184, aad Union of Australia
New, 6 premium.
We observe that 2,000 packages of tea, recovered from
the Mary Elizabeth, stranded off Holyhead, are to be
offared at Live-pool to public competition. This tea is
said to be worse than the wastel and kiln-dried sold here
a week or two back, not having had the salt washed out ef
it, although saturated from its long continuance in the
water, but being merely dried and re-packed. If the
trade were up in arms before on account of a much better
parcel being put up here, what will they say to this? At
Liverpool the auction, when it comes off, is expected to
excite considerable attention.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY, FEB. 23.—The
Sales to-day are 5,000 bags, of which. 400 Surat, at 44. and
; 100 Bahlas, 8* 8L ; 100 Illaranhams, Bto by ; lOU Egyp-
tians, 10* to 104 ; and the revaainder in American, at steady
prices.
No report from the telegraph.

MANCHESTER. STOCK EXCHANGE, FEE. 23.—We have had
a moderate business to-day, at steady prices. Lancaster and
Preston 321 ; Ditto New 191,7 • Gosport Junction 46*; Man-
chester and Leeds 76 to 77 ; Ditto New 321 to 33* ; Man-
chester and Birmingham 25 ; Bank of Manchester 91. 6s. 3d. ;
Union Plate Glass 7.

Consols opened this morning at the closing prices of yester-
day, 88 I for the Account ; Money same. The market at pre-
sent is inactive. Exchequer Bills, 4 6 premium ; Bank
Stock, 165 167; India Stock, 247 245.

In the Foreign Market scarce anything doing. Spanish
Active, 231 24 ;Deferred, 12A ; Passive, 51 ; Portuguese,
31* 4 ; Three per Cents ~19 ; Chilian, 61 63 ; Colombian,
2241; Brazilian, 71} 72k; Mexican,,27*l ; DutchTw o-and-
a-Half per Cents., 50t ; Five per Cents. 99k.
Shares.—Great Western, 23/- 24j pretu. ; New, 10i 11
prem. ; London and Brighton, 8 7i dis. ; Blackwall, 5i 5
dis. ; Birmingham, 79 81 prem. ; Southampton, 57 5.5 per
share; Croydon, 111 12* per share ; Greenwich, 81 per
share ; Manchester and Birmingham, 15i 14 dis. ; South
Eastern and Dover, 16* 151 dis.

Owing to the north-easterly winds ha'ving set in again we
are deprived to the present moment of arrivals, consequently
we have no intelligence of the least consequence to communi-
cate. Since the esriy part of the morning Consols have rather
improved from 88a to 888 for the Account, and at present
may be quoted tittsg 4. Spanish Stock is also firmer, owing to
the Administration at Madrid proscribing measures for the
capitalization of the interest of domestic and. foreign debts.
Exchequer Bills 5 7 prem. ; India Stock 247 248 ; India
Bonds 15 discount.

In the Foreign Market the chief business done was in the
Spanish Active which has improved from 231 24 to 24k ; De-
ferred 12i; :Passive 5171 6 ; Portuguese 31i; Chilian 60 ;
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 504 a ; Five per Cents.
99 t.
In the Share Market some business has been doing. Great
Western, 69 ; New, 61 • Fifths, 96 ; London and Blackwall,
174- ; Manchester and Ceeds, 74i ; South Western, 58; York
and North Midland, 74 ex.-div.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock

3 per Cent. Red 59/4 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons ...... .. 884 Ditto Old Annuities
3 per Cent Red........ 98 Ditto New Annuities...
New 31- per Cent .. ... 974 Ex. Bills, 1,000/....24d 7pm
New 5 per Cent ... ...... Ditto 500/ 6pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 6pm
Jan. 1860. l3 1-16 Bank Stock for Acct ...166
Oct 1859 — India Stock for Acct ...

Jan. 1860 ... ...... Consols for Acct BBB
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent... Portuguese, 5 per cent. 62
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto 3l,
Brazilian Bow's .. .. Prussian, 5 per cent.... —

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BuenosAyres,6 per cent Russian, 5 per cent. . . 113
Chilian, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent 24
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto, Deferred l'2.
Danish, 3 per cent..... French,s per cent... --f. —c.
Greek.lB2s, 5 percent. Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent --f. —c,
Di to, 6 per cent, 1825 Dutch, 4 per cent
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent..... 99-J
SHARES. •
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid)........paid)........
Ditto Debentures ( 2 paid) ••• 41
Great Western Railway (65 paid) B9l
Ditto New Shares (50 I,aid)
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 8
London and Blackwall Railway (22i pd) 17 ti
London and South Western
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) .. ......
South Eastern and Dover (33 paid) ..... ... 16i-
York and North Midland Railway (50 pd) 76

MR. VINCENT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

Sra,—Having been invited to attend a public dinner in
London on Monday next, and having read a paragraph in
a weekly paper, to the effect that my principle; are
changed, I beg of you to permit me to declare in the
columns of your Paper that my political principles are
unchanged—that lam more than ever convinced of the
necessity of adopting the People's Charter as the ba,is of
the House of Commons—and that I am still prepared to
struggle with the people for the attainment of that measure.
My long imprisonment has had no other effect than to
cause me to love more fervently those principles, for
advocating which I have been so long under the paternal
care of her Majesty's " Liberal " Ministers ; and the
working men of England may rest assured that no power
on earth can ever induce me to desert them or their cause.

I cannot allow this opportunity to pass, without thank.
ing the Editor and Proprietor of The Sun for their kind-
ness in readily g ring insLrtion to letters and other mat-
ter connected with my long imprisonment.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
• HENRY VINCENT.
5, Greenland Grove, Cromer-street, Fei. 24, 1841.

IMPORT DUTIES.—We shall probably be en-
abled to judge from the extent of support which the re-
solutions of Saturday meet with amongst the Tories, of
the degree in which they are friendly upon principle to
the liberalization of our commercial code. If they arc,
it will be an encouraging sign of the recent progress of
sound principles, inasmuch as hitherto they have, with
scarcely an exception, been the firm friends of monopoly
and restriction. Should the course of events, however,
throw the reins of power into their hands, we are pre-
pared to find them not only bidding for popularity by
the adoption and extension of the principles of freedom
as applied to foreign trade, but in other ways attempting
to obtain the credit of measures which, when advocated
by the Whigs, they have bitterly and undeviatingly op-
posed. The Ministers, we conceive, have, at this time, a
valuable opportunity—which, once lost, may nut soon (if
ever) recur—of strengthening themselves in the goud
opinion of a very influential portion of the public, by cor-
dially embracing, and doing their utmost to forward the
views which the inquiry of last Session, upon evidence so
strong and pregnant, clearly developed, and which have
evidently made an impression upon the country- not
altogether incommensurate with their intrinsic importance.
One thing is certain; that; if the institution of revenue
duties for protecting and prohibitory duties should fail
(which we do not think it could, ultimately) as a direct
fiscal expedient, the imposition of new taxes would be
rendered less unpopular, if it had previously been tried,
and the new taxes themselves would doubtless become
more productive, if the public had previously received the
relief of such a large remission of auties on tl,e principal
articles of consumption, as greatly to increase the extent
of their use; whilst, at the same time, the bold and
judicious reduction of taxes on articles of foreign mer-
chandise would increase, to an unknown extent, the de-
mand for articles of British manufacture, and, conse-
quently, the demand for the labour of our artisans. We
cannot for a moment doubt, that Government arc quite
alive to these facts; but whether they will be able to act
upon their convictions must, we repeat, depend upon the
degree of encouragement they receive from the commercial
interests.—Manchester Guardian. _

Mr. Matthew WyEZll7ing obtained from the
Goverment one of the guns taken at Waterloo, has cast
the metal into a fine colossal likeness of the Duke of Wel-
ilni :hc ±:f:ilC3trlalit itatit which hi-.
and which is to be erected opposite the entrance to Hyde
Park.... Court Journal.