The Sun.
London, England, 1840-05-21 00:00:00

THE TUNES.

Ministers being in the Minority last night in the House
of Commons on Lord Stanley's Bill, has not had any
,ff,et on the British Funds to the present time, and the
market continues inactive.

;Money was rather in demand in the course of yesterday.
at 4 per cent. in the House.

COnsols opened this morning at the leaving off prices
of yesterday 9.2.!,- a both for Money and the Account. For
the July Account, 93 t.: e. Exchequer_Bills rather lower,
one shining, 21 23 ; India Bonds 2 4 prem. ; Bank Stock,
176}; India Stock, 252} 2531.
In the Foreign Market, although the Queen of Spain's
troops have been successful, it has not had the least effect
on the Spanish Funds. They opened at the closing prices
of yesterday. Spanish Active, 284 29 ; Portuguese ra-
ther lower, closed at 354 361 ; at present, 358 i ; Three
per Cents. 241 i ; Colombian same as they left off, 264 i ;
Mexican same, 31i 321 ; Brazilian 75.1 76 ; Dutch Two-
aud.a-Ilalf per Cents. a shade lower, 54} il; Five per
Cents., 1018 i.
The Share Market steady, with no business doing.
The (licit Western steamer, from New York, may be
expected on Saturday or Monday.
PRICES OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red....
3 per Cents. Con.
34 per Cent.
Ditto Red lOOl 100 New Ditto —
New 34 per Cent. 10133i 3 per Cent. Ann. 1751
New 5 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities to expire Ditto ...... 500/. 21 23 put.
Jan. 5, 1860... 13 13-164 Ditto Small
Oct. 10, 1859.
San. 5, 1869. ..... Ditto Advertised
Jan. 5, 1880.
April 5, 1830.
Jan. 5, 1870.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds
Belgian Bonds — Ditto Account
Ditto Account — Portuguese Bonds —
Brazilian Bonds
Ditto Account
Buenos Ayres Bonds
Ditto Account — Ditto Account -
Milan Bonds — Prussian Bonds ..... ...
Ditto Account
Columbian Bonds
Ditto Account.
Columbian Bonds, 1824 263 Spanish Bonds .. ......
Ditto Account 264 Ditto Account
Danish Bonds ... .. Passive
Ditto Account Deferred
Greek Bonds
Ditto Bonds, 1825 —— 4 per cent... —f. —c.
Ditto Account — 3 per cent... —f. —c.
Mexican I3onds, 5 per cent -- Exchange... 251. 40c.
Ditto Account ...... .. Dutch, 24 per cent ... 544
Ditto,6 per Cent 324 Ditto Account
Ditto Account .. 323 t Ditto, 5 per cent —
Neapolitan
-_.. PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
X. s. d. £. s. d. £. a. d.
IiAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Bristol and Exeter 5O ...... 29 .. ... to
Cheltenham and Great Western
Gosport Junction
London and Brighton
London and South Western
London and Croydon (Trunk)... 131 ll ..... to 114
Manchester and Leeds
Northern and Eastern
North Midland .. 100 1044 to 105 4
Ditto New
South Eastern and Dover
50
York and North Midland ..

JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster......... 20

lIALF-PA ST ONE.
Reported at Liverpool on the 18th of May:-13,320
barrels of flour; 115,239 bushels of wheat; 10,380
bushels of Indian corn.

A letter has been received at the North and South Ame-
riegn Coffee-house, via Batavia, from Yoon-koo Bay,
China, of Jan. 1. Although not of so recent a date as
previously received, it is of some interest :—" It
states our latest accounts from China represent the
markets for imports as dull, particularly for Cotton• the
highest offer for the best qualities only 11s. sd. to 118.
83, owing chiefly, it is said, to the Chinese imagining
that the late importations of that article ere much more
extensive than is actually the case. In exports there was
not much doing ; some more Nankin silk had been taken
at the opening prices, and the Chinese are firm in represen-
ting the crop as unusually short. The scarcity of tonnage
for the conveyance of teas from Whampoa to Toonkoo,
has had the effect of keepine many out of the market who
would oti erwise be purchasing; which, with the
recent withdrawal of the East lneia Company's finance
agency, it is to be hoped, will tend to restrict speculations
within moderate bounds.

But little bu•ines has been done lately in exchange on
England. Frtights to London from Toonkoo is 6/. 6s.
Latest date from England 12th August, via Suez ; Bom-
bay 10th October, via Calcutta.

Accounts received from the Island of Java this morning
state that a severe shock fro,n earthquake had been expe-
rienePd in several parts of the island, having done consi-
derable damage.

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In the Foreign Market, Spanish Active has continued
during the morning a 28k, with little doing ; Portuguese,
351 II; Three per Cents. nothing done ; Brazilian, 76 ;
Colombian 261; Mexican 321 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. 541
In the Share Market little doing. London and Brigh-
ton rather higher, 13k; South Western. higher, 53i to
53! ; Manchester and Leeds, higher, 83 ; Northern and
Eastern, higher, 24 ; North Midland, lower, 1041 to 105 ;
South Eastern and Dover, higher, 8 71- ; Great; Western,
nothing done.

ANTI-CORN-LAW LECTURE. -- CHARTIST
Oreostnote.—Mr. Sidney Smith arrived in Brighton on Mon-
day afternoon at half-past six o'clock arid proceeding forth with to
the Town Hall, delivered a lecture on the repeal of the Corn.
laws. At eight o'clock when the lecture commenced, in spite
of the little publicity the lecture had previously received, there
was a very respectable attendance. We have often heard Mr.
Smith discourse on this most important subject ; but we
scarcely remember an occasion on which he equalled his present
effort. His style is clear and manly, his delivery rapid yet dis-
tinct, while his wit and sarcasm are unrivalled. He set out by
stating that he represented the largest constituency on the face
of the earth, and yet a constituency which be should never rest
contented until he saw it completely extinguished,—he meant
the poor and the suffering portions of the community.
He proceeded in a strain of natural eloquence to attack
the aristocracy for their selfish enactment of the Corn-laws,
and ridiculed the pretensions of the clergy to piety while they
hypocritically thanked Gott at one moment for cheap and
abundant food, and then went about wita an ink horn at
their button holes to gain signatures to Corn-law petitions. It
would be impossible to convey to our readers
hoale ln idecture ,ea of the linhiche
of argument pursued unless we gave the w w
extended to a period of two hours and a half. Mr. Smith was
repeatedly cheered during the progress of his address ; but as
soon as he had concluded, and when the more respectable por-
tion of the audience had departed, a small body of Chartists,
about 12 or 14 in number, headed by Mr. Reeve, and who re-
presented themselves as the men of Bighton,—the
attention intelligf
the
ence
and respectability of the town,—invited the o
lecturer, and proceeded to make use of the usual fallacious doc-
trine that because we could not obtain everything, we were to
strive for nothing ; with them it was universal suffrage or no-
thing. Mr. Smith patiently listened to the several speakers,
and exposed the evil tendency of their doctrines, which pre-
vented al: reform ; he, however. did not, he said, wish to con..
(Tel the fact that tie himself was an advocate of the largest ex-
tension of the suffrage, but he preferred union for a possible j
change to agitation for a present impossibility.—Brighton
Guardian.