The Sun.
London, England, 1841-08-21 00:00:00

(From The Sun of Last Night.)

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, AUG. 19.—The sales
to-day amount to 5,000 bales, at steady prices. There
is little alteration since yesterday. 500 have been taken
by exporters.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET,ttUO. 19.—Rather li-
mited business has been done at e Stock Exchange this
day, and prices are more fluctuating. Midland Counties
Quarter Shares, 191 ; London and Birmingham new
Shares, 32/., 24 ; Eastern Counties, 7,4; Grand Junc-
tion Half Shares, 981; South Eastern and Dover, 171.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 17.—There
is a marked- improvement in the Share Market, and
prices have an upward tendency :—Manchester and
Leeds, Halves, 21i ; London and South 'Western, 52i;
London and Birmingham,. 160 161 ; North Union,
80 ; -Huddersfield Canal, 26f ; Bank of Manchester, Si.

The Hamburgh mail has arrived with the letters and
papers of Tuesday's date. No alteration had taken place
in exchange, though gold was rather higher.

The English Stock Market Continues firm. Consols
are now 89} for Money, and 891 for the Account ;
Exchequer Bills, 13 15 ; and India Bonds, 5 7 prem.;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 89i ; Three-and-a-Ilalf
per Cents., 98f1 99 ; Bank Stock, 165 169 ; India Stock,
245 247.

Spanish Active Stock, 191 20 ; Passive, 4i ;
Deferred, 9i 101 ; Portuguese Five per Cents., 294
301 ; Ditto Three per Cents., 11 18+ ; very little bu-
siness doing. _ _

The business doing in the Stock Exchange has been to
a very limited extent.
The intelligence received here from the Continent
within the last few days is not very gratifying for our
commercial interests, since in addition to the proposal
set on foot for a Customs Union between France and
Belgium, Luxemburgh and Brunswick are reported to be
on the eve of joining the Prussian League.

The feeling- of the Tea trade as to the inaccuracy of
the intelligence purporting to come from China, and to
which we bore testimony on the very day the news was
published, is sufficiently- tested this morning by the in-
disposition evinced at the public sales in progress, to
offer any advance on the previous quotations.
The weather works its.benefits to the poor. Corn is
down Is. to 2s. per quarter to-day.
Consols for Account, 891 ; October, 891 ; Colom-
bian, 201 ; Mexican, 25* 26* ; Spanish, 191
CLOSING PRICES.

BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock .. 169 ' India Stock .. .. .
3 per Cent Red. 89,71 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons B9 Ditto Old Annuities ...
3i per Cent Red 99 IDitto New Annuities...
New 3 per Cent 9s ',Ex. Bills, 1,000/....21d 14 pm
New 5 per Cent — 1 Ditto 5001 l2 pm
Long Annuities to expire 1 Ditt Small l2 pm
Jan. 1860 l2 15.16 Bank Stock for Acct...
Oct 1859 l2 India Stock for 0pg....
Jan. 1860. Consols for Acct B9
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent 109 IPortuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgidn, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian 80nd5.... 67 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 l9l
Ditto, 1824. ... ..... Ditto, Deferred ...
Danish, 3 per cent 79 'French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent Exchange f. c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... French, 3 per cent. —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent, 1825. Dutch, 2h per cent. ...
Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent 102
SHARES
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid s6b
Ditto Fifth (4 paid)
Gosport Junction Railway (50 pd)
Londonland Brighton (50 paid)...
London arid Birmingham Railway (90 pd)
Ditto Thirds (32 paid)
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid)
London and Greenwich Railway (20 pd) 171
London and South Western
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ... .. 56
North Midland Railway (100 paid)
Ditto New Shares (40 paid)
York and North Midland Railway (50 paid) 77h
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDAY).
Amsterdam CF. 12 7 Gibraltar ... ... 46
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 7 Genoa . .. 25 80
Antwerp
Hamburgh M. B. 13 124 Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 45 Palermo, per oz 118 h
Ditto, 3 months 25 70 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 80 Rio Janeiro 27}
Frankfort on Maine... 150 Bahia

Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37* Buenos Ayres
Berlin--
Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 948 Philadelphia
Trieste, ditto
OF BULLION, FEB. OZ.
Madrid ... .. 361 !Portugal Gold Coln £0 17 5
Cadiz
Bilboa
Barcelona
Seville

WINDSOR, AUGUST 19.—A day or two since
a lad in the employ of Mr. Henry Adams, butcher, of
this town, who has a farm at Datchet, caught a beauti-
ful blackbird, in one of the fields, which was perfectly
white. While in the act of securing it, one of its legs
was unfortunately broken, and upon taking it to Windsor
the lad killed it, but without in the least injuring its
plumage. The Queen having been informed of the cir-
cumstance, sent a messenger to the boy's master, re-
questing to see the bird, and that it might be sent to the
Castle. The lad, highly delighted, immediately trudged
up to the Castle with the bird, which he left, with a
humble request that her Majesty would be graciously
pleased to condescend to accept of it. The Queen kept
the bird, and the " fortunate youth" was dismissed with
a handsome present sent to him by her Majesty. The
bird has since been sent to London to be stuffed as a
curiosity,