The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-05 00:00:00

Whole number .....
These held shares as fol'ows ;-- five
Number,of persons holding stock to the amount 0' ev-,
• .... 64k.
- shares and under
Ditto, 10 shares and under ........................
....................
20
........
5 • „
100
500
Boverwhich 5 00
is
th shares
appears ............ .. ....... ........ ..............................................................................
the
less than 50 shares was 3,251. These are prineiPastly
stockholders in this country. The large holders rn°
The re'
Siding abroad, of whom 42 belong to the nobility. the ,eir
of the. sharo3 olviied abroad is 27,000,000 dole., and ° reap.;
'naming 6,000,000 dole, about 6,000,000 doll. are rel'" tor'
in this city, and the remainder in Philadelphia. it 15ital be"
fore evident that much the larger portion of the e„3.,Ppnce
longs to foreign residents who can exercise no f t,P;
Philadelphia, while, on the other hand, all the ear"t", O°P t"
other banks is owred at home, where the proprietors af„- do ,""
spot to lock after their own interest, an,l if necessary
1.7
t bis
even at the sacrifice of other in'erests." t
as
The prodigious amount of the value of the sloe. beld tot, t
country may be estimated from these particulars, if e°rateiaeP
it is believed they substantially are. The following,
zo fork
of the position of the Bank's affairs, taken from the re y. cILY
Herald, if it could be now wound up and its prer-3060,`"
posed of at present prices, which of course in such quo 0'
is quite out of the question, will not be very consang i310(11,3
private and joint-stock country bankers' which were 01,,,e.p f
the Banker's Circular puffs, and the lavishly breke3osists
oapit
under
travelling agents of certain London bankers and
which the Banker's Circular is understood to be thed States
hand instrument, to take very large amounts of Unitcot taece
Bank Shares and Securities at very -high prices, ot fro
more than a year. ago. It was shown under this head of tl3
United States Bank on its own exhibit at the begianil4
year had lost more than one half cf its capital.
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•re,
may be inferred that the tenor of the at/a:lic,
both political and monetary, received from the 4,10
Stater tc-day, had the effect of depressing the vr.0010;
stocks, and it is fortunate, this being the 4th et the •OP
when to large an amount of mercantile HI; fall dro'woli
no, pressure for money was occasioned by it. d frog
flurtthited t.i.:day from 881 to 883- for money? otbe'
89. k ssi- for the aeclurit, the Market clooeg
he .Ezehettuu Bills were 10e. to 115. Prai-tilio"
and India Bonds 15e. cl'count; The Reduce" TO°
and Half per • Cents, realised-98 to 97a, and the
peTr nts.:BB} to 88. •
Fua saeurlVes were dull, and undere-,, er doe.'
fluelce of our own finds hal a downward ten cue 4
Spanish Active Bonds were at 24 4-ato 2: portnpii;
Thr. e per Ce;:t3. at 19i to 194; Ai es lean ors'
Colom!.i,n, 231 to 23/ ; Buenos Ayres 24 te.23,1; vu!cla
7q-; Fien:ch Five per Cents, 113 f. 60e.; and
0,0
Two.and-a-Half p( r Cerits., 50a to 50.
The Railway Stlerbs were rather steiady, but ther:litca
not much husiiie3s done in them. Great Westerefenli4:
24 ; the New, 111; and the Fifths, 5i ; the vir :fax
ham, 80 t) 79 ; Vie South Western, Ha and
and North Midland 30 to 31 prem.; Bii;hten ":7•'couot;
South Eastern 16,4 ; and Hull and Selby 61, d's. were
Natimal Provitail 13.ruk of England New Sbitre- f
diieount. ie,c °f
Most persons' in the City take a very gloomY 0;14
the affairs Of the lini•el States Back, but some le`c wee
it would be a national beaefit if the institution
b-oken up.

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each.--Elegant Silver -Watches, suitable for the Oritiolesc;
pocket. with the horizontal escapement, jewelled in fuucor
silver dials, hand to mark the seconds, maintaining Pk. to ti-1
continue going whilst being v ound, and double b3'.lrtauV.4t;
cases ; Flee 4/. 16s. 6d each. The performance is tc'0,4,00
A. B. SA VOI-ZY and SONS, 9, Cornhill, London,.
the Bank of England.

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SI LVER PLATE.--Now published grari;eri,..„ll
will bob Sent pest free, if P•lplied for by a raid re SIT::
Pamphlet of T. COX SA V.ISIIY'S Prices of Silvre'llo
and Forks, with Drawings of the Patterns Tea cnd `;`,4 Plate,
vices with Designs, Presentation Plate, Ilver-0115
poT
Ware, the new i'lated on White Metal Spew" ar.
CO"-
Ladle? and Gentlemen's Gold and Silver Watches,nroial
Jewel'ery, Cutlery, Ladies' Gold Neck Chains, with
of the New Patterns.

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The ground floor, first, second. and third floors are fitt
ter the exhibition of-an extensive s,,,:tk.
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Goldsmith, 47, Cornhill (Seven doors from G'
street), L3ndor±_________
Silve
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TABLE CANDLESTICKS, s9pecior t° 00, 6
for durabilitv, equal in appearance. Table candlehst, ;IS'
inches. high, 7s. per pair; 9 inches high, 9s. ; 1? inci..eei; 13,9.
per pair , ditto, with rich shell mountings, D inches 'als"ed Ce:
per pair; snuffer trays', with shell mountings and c'' :0 an""
tre, 4s. ca, h. The particular metal of which tiit7)jd froo
great variety of otter articles are made, can ord.Y.be
silver by reference to the stamp. Catalogues gratis. t.
[(IPPON and BUitTON, Wells.
B 1 R 'l' ii S.
On the ilith ult., Mrs. William M of Ha
unns, ,an" r i_elare'
Clapliam-road, of a Mfg'
On the 3d inst., at Nclsox Hou;e: ,Stoke New'Rtgfo ot •
Elme,hurst, of a son. ' j 80(4-
On the 4th ins.., at St. Paul's-churchyard, Hire''
hilt, of a datrdi'er. fileAth-
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At Conn:ngton Casila; Hunts, the lady of John 3--
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. ,.n, itsq., of Lloyd-square, Pentouville. G Lau"
On the4th inA, at St. James's, ‘,Ve.,:tininstert Mr' .
titer °f
mail, of Duke-street, St. James s, to Johanna, claug-
J. v.,ii.h., ~, ,. , Devon to Eliza, el:lest daub`
Denham Oid, Eyq., of lia!ham-bill, Surreyi___--

Di D. naer
On the 9th ult., at Rcarquhar, parish (..f Dor' neck, "tier 101
Sutherland, who was born in 17V, and cous:quent
attained the patriarchal age of 119.
On the 15th_ of January, at Demerara, 11. J. G°l"
of the
youngest scat of Captain Hugh Goldicutt, formerly
Rifles, age
3d d M.
har t.
On the inst., at Upper Holloway, Mr. J. Engel
On the 3d inst., at Bexley, J. T. Rua, Esq., aged 81'
London Printed and Published by IVIURDO Y. SW d
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No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, No: 112,
the ccunty of Mitilesez.—Friday, March 5, 1841' # -

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41. reo
to of gratrlatior, in to us unieCetintable: We I'll t't
zesiueneo, besides,- fer this city- ; we fear the evil s'lbatit
e'elYot
with the United States Bank. We fear fee
ehiladelphia Med south of that city, and then it rao_lo'noe
cruise than that New York, with her cornrnorePe
should feel tile shock, and most severely too of the
The comparison made by the writer of the preceding' gee
eccie paid out by the United States Bank since the r
Tie
inn, aad tbe stock of the Bank of England, is fallaftset
3ank of the United States has paid, by means of,_"'f
F.ffgland, nearly six millions of dollars ; but the Bara,,:doete
ad has in Ler vaults almost as many pounds. die
mereover, whether there is juSt, gr.eind for the son bleeeed
New York will suffer to the extent anticipated. -t • eel
by well-informed parties here, that both the New
Ir"
eir r'te'
Boston banks, at all events, will continue to answer tl.
in specie. l°
The English Funds have been supported bettei
have been expected.
HERALD. —The financisi and political news from
k(t Yorkt
to-day,
produced c e dp au t ctohres
measured by the actual decline merely in the 9."''rel Jeri'
stocks, for it must be remembered that the funds we tee
sively on the rise yesterday, and with a firm and evident tbe
prathbic'ofintliiirseismsi;nre'SnsiotnbelVSout;l(:tk'boesilei
dency to a greater rise still, so strong was the confident!, ',eater
renewed pacific aspect of public affairs, to which the g
easiness in discounts and money con ributed materiallYe
foe
The failure of a who!esale grocery establiAnnent, ofiver,
standing in he City, combined with various failure; to I:,tee
pool and other parts of the country tends rather to'ullite.
Credit, but in flu r a there has riot been more ceemeerc.io
rangement of this sort than what is usual and might
peeted after two or three years of indifferent trade. tiirti
The accounts to-day from the United States of thee at of
suspension of the United States Bildt, arid generally , !eerie
the Philadelphia Banks which had so recently resualo':,' '5,01
payments, have proved the engrossing subject of cotivfs,,,,eve
in the City to-day. It is believed that these events wi".l the
the forerunners of greater commercial disasters still ;pro,
Union, and that foreign commerce must be deeelY es°, by
raised, if not almost paralysed for some time to -elle to
such a state of things, independent of the. ruinous
ctioo
which merchants may be exposed from past transatority•
upon which payments were at, or coming to, roa but tf
There may be some reality in these apprehensions,.
sob
the action of authority on the other side of the water le Ors
oes
as it ought to be—that is, to leave the Banks to frid
level, and sink or swim according to their deserts or Pellurstisa
is more than probable. the crisis would be of slice t no
comparatively, and would be amp'y compensated by %web
steady business and a more solid money system for tee 401
This is not the first time that such an opinion has teen erok
for in treating of the balance sheet of the United Sta'es.tv;ss
in the beginning of the present year in some detail, 'bolt"
then observed and proved that as, upon the Bank's ow`,' Nets,
ing, taken conjunetively with the ruling value of States 5 yieo
of which it was and is so large a holder, it could not ceqjersi
shillings in the pound of the original capital to the stocky stoat
the very best thing for them as for the United States° ,5e to
it should go to a liquidation at once, be wound up awl ce,"ast it
be as a money institution, in which character for y.ear? it
' had worked only a most tremendous amount of reisclilesi
was believed, according to the accounts now received; tn
Tht
Bank must now inevitably came to a liquidation'ot 01
climax of misfortune or disgrace is no reflection or _ foie
the present management, which, to eo it bare hal oity
the commencement been saddled with the gratefuluttglars tf
of endeavouring vainly to redeem the redeemable erojigalt
its predecessors. The effort has been vain. The Erb ttj
vast and moon-struck dreams of Mr. 'Biddle, to w„;iieefer..,
Bank had been pledged, and in which involved pt
of withdrawal, as is now clear, left nothing for ibis '„u-,orts
but a perpetual and daily struggle for existence, by a"
expedients more or less detrimental to credit, and abra',iey os
ing the Bank at the mercy of any accident, or ao,Y, Phe oe,t6i,
which dependent at the moment. No position COo", _ing
disgraceful and discreditable for an institution Pr'',(ldiellal
have, and which 'ought to have, a capital of 35,000need51"
Now that, as it may be hoped, the Ba nk is,brcught to a 'Thud'
the effect will probably be all the more beneficial for gener,-ol
and whatever the present loss to the stockholders, it "rtiallel
haps be less than if the Bank had continued business
as its pretensions were, and economically as the eaPlraet
been properly pared down by the present board of mane 0 r
The bank paper system in America has altogether tir
recklessly managed, or rather mismanaged, it has be,ensitect
hands almost universally of such wild and unprineiPlv"of fcC
lators, that, whatever the present suffering of masses to
for
viduals, it can only be a public benefit for the Union, a-Nits
all States trading with the Union, that it should COolew and
term and be altegether and for ever . exploded
,as.;l'''
for time past conducted. It is tolerably c'ertlesies
the banks of the south and south-west, the' ",,,e itiett
of which had had a meeting to consider of res—li
and .separated without a conclusion, would fol!ow one elti,:
mitted, in their career of insolvent suspension and Or
sible paper system. !It was doubted whether the Pl,r, tbP
batiks would be able to keep up specie payments, anucr
case the whole machinery of paper money would C'd'riAett
stopped at once, or like that of Buenos Ayres, w°11:1,106
in a depreciation of the paper dollar to the specie '
of
one-fourteenth of its-nominal amount. fiber
The following is given as the last account of the 0, A:"
stockholders of the United States Bank'at home and
" According to the last report of the Bank to the as e
ture, the number of stockholders at home and abroad
down as follows e•—• 1,393,
Number of stockholders in England and elsewhere.... • 1,45,'
Ditto Pennsylvania ... ......................................... LOP
Ditto United States elsewhere than Pa. .........