The Sun.
London, England, 1840-09-05 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The various reports which prevailed in the course of
yesterday, and had the effect. to depress both Consols
and Be!gian stocks, appear this morning not to be en-
titled to any credit. Tr,e Nem-is, which arrived yes-
terday afternoon only, brought the receding of the
French Funds.

In Foreign Exchanges )esterday afternoon, that on
Paris was rather better, but in other places they con-
tinued firm.

Consols opened th;s morning at the leaving off prices
of yesterday, 89i 90 for the Account ; Money, 891,
Exchequer 13,115, 16 18 prem.; B4idg. Stock, shut ;
India 13,nids 5 4 dis. ; India Stock 249 230.
In the Foreign Market, saute as the Bittish, inactive,
Spanish Active, 244 i ; Deterred, 11i i ; Passive, 5,-
6 ; Portuguese 84i ; 'Dave per Cents. 22i ; Colom-
bian, 234 244 ; Mexican. 27i 28 ; Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. 51i. ; Five per Cents. 1011.
Nothing doing as yet in Shares.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Birmingham and Gloucester BO . . 6S
Eastern Counties
Great Western - to 86i
Ditto New ...
Midland Counties lOO - to

MINES.
Real D:1 Monte, Registered 631
Ditto Unregistered —
Cata Branca
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, SEPT. 3.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Hall Stock 97k Grand Canal Stock —
Ditto Reduced ...... ... i Ditto Debs. ti per cent C.,6,
Ditto New, 1830 ...'.. 97/1 Ditto 4 per cent
36 per Cent. Delis.

HALF-PAST ONE.

We have received the Barbados Papers to the 19th
of July, which state that the heavy and almost inces-
sant rains which have fallen since Monday last have
completely changed the face of the country, and must
cheer the hearts of the planters. A large crop of
sugar is expected. There has been another distressing
wreck to the windward of the Island. Only a fortnight
ago the Susan CI ane was wrecked, and now we have to
report the loss of the barque Emerald, Neilson, master,
from London, hound to St. Vincent, which struck upon
the Cobblers Rocks early on Monday morning, the 13th
ult. The ship has gone to pieces ; the cargo, we be-
lieve, totally lost, with five :race-horses drowned ; crew,
with the passengers, happily all saved.
Both the British and Foreign Markets have continued
during the whole of the morning inactive.
Consols at present 89i 90 for the Account ; Money,
891 ; Exch. quer Bills, 18 16 prem. ; India Bonds,
5 3 discount ; India Sock, 250 ; B ink Stock, shut.
Spanish Active, 244 ; Portuguese, nothing done ;
Brazilian, 794 ; Russian, 1124 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 51i-.
In Shares scarcely a bargain doing. B;rmingbam
and Gloucester, 68 ; Eastern Counties, 104 ; Great
Western, 86 ; ditto, New Shares, 48 ; Midland Coun-
ties, 73k.

WOOLWICH, SEPTEMBER 4.—The Alban
steam-vessel, master John King. arrived here on Monday
from Southampton, having transferred a det, chment
of the 77th regiment to the Oriental mail steam vessel
previous to her departure for the Mediterranean. On
Wednesday the Alban embarked Captain Gray, Lieut.
Meheux, and a detachment of the Woola iela division of the
Royal Marines, and proceeded with them to Pembroke, to
relieve a detachment of the Portsmouth division at present
doing duty there. She also embarked at the same time
Captain Leonard, Lieutenant Onalow, and a party of about
100 men of the Woolwich division of the Royal Marines,
and will call at Portsmouth to transfer them to the Strom.
bo' i armed steam-vessel, under orders to proceed'immediately
for the Mediterranean. The Stromboli, Commander J,
W. Williams, is a splendid steam vessel, constructed last
year for service in the East Indian seas, and for that pur-
pose was armed with six guns of liege calibre, carrying
balls of one hundred and five pounds weight a distance of
three miles with tremendous and deadly efraet. These
pieces of ordnance weigh about 65 cwt. each, and are con-
structed on a new principle, which renders them safe and
easily managed on board of steam-vessels, where the con-
cussion from those formerly used was apt to derange the
machinery. Before being adopted these guns underwent
severe tests last year by the detachment of the Royal Ar.
tillery stationed at Deal, and in vessels in the Downs.
The late plot stated to have been discovered in
Galicia and Cracow, seems to have been nothing but the
discovery of a correspondence between some young people,
who were zealous advocates of the re-establishment of
Poland. The seizure of the papers of a man of letters,
Dr. Kreuzberg, at Prague, has also created some sensation.
Baron Wesselenyi, the Hungarian Hampden,
who has been for some lime, with the permission of the
authorities, at Grafenberg, for the recovery of his health,
was expected to return about the middle of this month,
and several of the independent nobles resolved to welcome
him on the frontier, and accompany him home.
On the 18th of August the first train started on
the railway from Milan to Monza, which, although not the
first road of the kind in Italy, is that which excites the
greatest interest, from the circumstance of its being pro-
jected to continue the line to Venice. The Archduke
Rainer, with the Archduchess, and a number of officers
and high functionaries, graced the ceremony with their
presence, and ventured in the first train.
BOROUGH OF SOUTHWARK IMPROVEMENTS.
—PROPOSED NEW STREET.—The report of the Metropo-
litan Improvements Committee having recommended that
the sum of 30,0001. be given towards the improvements of
the borough of Southwark, it is proposed by a plan sub.
mitted by the architect, Mr. Hitchcock, for approbation,
to form a new street from Gravel-lane, immediately facing
Charlotte-street, Blackfriars-road, to St. George's Church,
High street, Borough. The contemplated street will in-
tersect Prince's-street and Pepper-street, and take in the
whole of Norfolk-street; then crossing the Sauthwark-
bridge-road, include Mint-square and Queen-street and
remove the major portion of the houses between
Redcross-street and the Borough High-street. It
is intended that the houses to be hi& in the
line of the new street shall be firs-class bui (4-
ings, and thus form a handsome and convenient com-
munication with Blackfriars-road. The houses which
will be taken down to effect so desirable an alteration are
in a ruinous state, and are of the lowest description, and the
neighbourhood will be much improved and benefited by
their removal. Upwards of seventy of the most influential
inhabitants have signed a requ.,Hon to the High Limirff to
call a public meeting to take immediate measures for carry-
ing the plan into execution.
TURNPIKE ROADS.—Asa remarkable instance
of the present o, approaching revolution in the state of
turnpike roads, it may be mentioned that some certain half
dozen miles of a former important highway in the ne-gh-
bourhood of Doncaster and wherein a few years back the
Edinburgh mail travelled, is now overgrown with grass,
and the tollgate has remained closed for near two and a
half days toi.ether. The tolls of the Doncaster and
Selby road, let for this year, on Wednesday last, for 7451.
Last year they let for 1.0.154.'
TIIE WEATHER IN PARIS.—The temperature
yesterday continued nearly the same as on Tuesday. The
thermometer, at mid- ay, was at 29 of the Centigrade
scale, 84 of Fahrenheit's, but by two o'clock had got up
to 30 5. lOths C.. 87 F. At half-past six a violent storm
of till, der and lightning came ou, slivered !ty heavy' rain,
whi-h caused a diminution of sae lica:.—Paris Paper of
Tuuraday.