The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-10 00:00:00

l'h i rty .3 eyen.

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Loan of City, 1932, 4 per Cent.. .......
Society of Commerce, 45i per Cent
Bank of Belgium, 5 per
Nationa I Society .
11.••••••••••• ••••
Exchange on London (short)
--Brussels Papers, April 7.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—Vientea, MARCH 30
five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents. ....... 0000000 98%
Three per Cents. ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••• 78
Bank Shares •.« ••••••••••••••••••_. •••••••••••••••••••••••••• 1630
April 4.
HA DIBU Re BORSENHALLE, APRIL 6.

FEB. 13. P. S. Exchange steady ; moderate transae-
ions on London at 30.

We have received the Journalof Antwerp,of yesterday's
date.

Accounts from St. Petersburgh, of the 25th of April,
state that it has been resolved to reduce the army
110,000 men, a measure which will assure a saving of
fifteen millions in the treasury. The Emperor with much
pain consented to this pressing measure.
BOURSE OF AMSTERDAM, APRIL 6.—The National Funds
are without anything doing, consequently no variations,
but the prices of yesterday are sustained. Ardoin's re-
mains at 20 11-16.
The letters by the overland express from India have
been received at the Post-office, but too late fur the first
delivery, consequently they will not be sent out until to-
morrow.
This day being observed as a strict holiday in the City,
Lloyd's and other public offices are shut, and at the Cof-
fee• houses there is a very thin attendance.
We have no account as yet respecting the President
steamer.

REPEAL OF THE BREAD TAX.—There are
two things which seem more .especially to have contri-
buted to the success which has hitherto attended the,ope-
ration of the League—the taking up of the broad ground
of justice, and the demanding of the abolition of the bread
tax in preference to nibbling at details; and the restric-
tion of the exertions of the League to this one object. By
this means the League has escaped the waste of time and
irritaton which must have been produced by discussions
of detail ; and it has saved itself from all hazard of n: g-
I e cting the main object amid a press of kindred busine.s.
To this policy the League will continue to adhere. Its
members rejoice to see the sound principles of free
trade gaining ground in all directions, but they will
not abandon the work they have taken in hand
to turn themselves to any other. There are many
questions closely connected with the Corn-laws, and if
they took up one because of this relation they could not
well refuse to take up others. The best way to avoid
destruction is to refuse to have anything to do, as mem
Leers of the League, with any ether till this is scald. The
re-roejustment of the duties imposed upon commodities
which may be taxed is. quite a did .rent question from the
extrication of one article—food. from the vortex of taxa-
tion altogether. Again, demanding as justice the teal
abolition of the Corn-laws, they cannot enter into discus-
sions regarding the relative merits of a fixed or sliding
scale of duties—a higher or lower rate of duty.—Anti-
Corn-law Circular.

THE OLDEST BRIDGE IN ENGLAND.—The
oldest bridge now existing in England is the triangular
bridge at Croyland, in Lincolnshire (sometimes called
Crowland), which is said to have been erected about A.D.
860, but with what view it is difficult. if not alongether ira
possible, to determine. It is obvious that utility was not
the motive of the builder, though it may be aliovied to claim
the qualities of boldness of design and singularity of con-
struction as much as any bridge in Europe. It is formed
by three semi-arches, whose bases stand in the eircumfer.
ence of a circle, equi-distant, from each other, and uniting
at the top. Nicholson says that this curioui triune forma_
tion has led many persons to imagine that the architect in.
tended to suggest an idea of the Trinity thereby. This to.
nerable bridge is now nearly 1,000 years old I
We understand that a brother of the poet Cow-
per, just deceased, has bequeathed the sum of 2,0001., the
interest of which is to be applied to the purpose of coun-
teracting the influence of Romish seminaries in this
coum t ry. Brighton Gazette.
Stables at Lyndhurst ate ordered to be prepared
for her m.jecty's Stag Hounds, which will arrive on Mon-I.
day the Mg butane,

Austrian 5 per Cents.
Bank Shares
Anglo-R 1635 1634ussian Loan 107%
Russian 5 per Cent. Ist series, Certificate 102% 10.%
Inscription, Ist Series HA%
Russian 5 per Cent. Hope and Co. 3d and 4th
Series -
Ditto In Certificates
New 4 per Cent. (1S40) —
67
Dutch Actual Debt, 2yi. pe. Cent 5O 49X
Ditto 5 per Cent
Polish Bond.
144 --
New ticket
I
Anglo. Danish Loan, 3 per Cent J
74X 736 wegian Loan, 1834, 4 per Crat... —
Spanish, New 5 per Cents. 16% 16
EXCHANGES OW LONDON.
HAMBURG, APRIL 6.-13 6% _Two months, 13 4%
PETE RSBURGH, !MARCHmonths, 39%, pence.
STocatious, Mancu 3 t_.—Seventy.five days 11. 46. CHRISTIANIA, IVA RCH ?7.—Three months, '4
64.

WHAT is POPERY ?—Priestcraft working out
Christianity to its own purposes. The Pope at
Rome, the College of Cardinals at Rome, the
whole army of priests, of whom the heads and
chiefs are in that city, which swarms throughout
Eurve, are all engaged in using Christianity
and perverting it to their own profit, and practis-
in on the people. Disguise it how men may,
this is the life and soul of Popery. In what re-
spect and degree does the Anglican Church differ
from Popery so explained ? The archbishops,
bishops, rectors, vicars, curates, heads of houses
at the Universities, spiritual tutors, are one and
all engaged in working, and, we will boldly add,
perverting, Christianity to their own profit and
purposes. They may take different means from
the Romish priesthood, they may appeal to dif-
ferent prejudices, they may disguise their object
more artfully, but it is impossible to deny that
all these men are engaged in a conspiracy to
work Christianity to their own profit. That we
affirm is Popery, and we challenge the Anglican
priesthood to deny or disprove our assertion.
IV

rIONEY anti COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL, 8..--We are with-
out improvement in the trade demand, and nothing is being
done on speculation, consequently the market continues
fire, and prices unsettled. Export buyers are increasing
their transactions, and have taken this seek 1,600 bales
of American, at 7 a 81, the better qualities being fir
Russia; American descriptions are on the average lower
than Friday last, the decline being more apparent on the
lower qualities ; other descriptions are very heavy of sale
at previous rates. The sales to-day are 2,600
bales of
all kinds.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET.—The following are the
transactions at the Stock Exchange this day :—Edinburgh
and Glasgow 341; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 241 ;
Grand Junction quarter shares 234- ; New ditto, 241;.
London and Brighton United Company 454 Manches-
ter, Bolton, and Bury 54 ; Midland Counties 881; North
Midland 78; North Union 81.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL B.—ln conse-
quence eof the scarcitf stok, the business done in our
market to-day has beeny liomited,c although we continue to have
buyers for most kinds of railway stock at advanced prices.
Should the India mail, which is due, bring favourable intelli-
gence from China, our market will undergo a further advance.
Liverpool and Manchester Halves, 911 ; Manchester and Leeds,
661/2; London and South Western, 56 a 57 ; ditto Tenths, 18.
a 19s. prem ; Manchester and Birmingham, 24h ; South Lan-
cashire Banks, 51. 6s. 3d. ; Lancaster Canal, 28.

We have received by the Stag frigate Rio Janeiro
papers to the 14th February, about fifteen days later than
the last arrival, also the Price Current of the above date.
MONEY MARKET.—Discounts.—The prevailing rates
for approved commercial paper was from 8 to 9. per cent.,
and at these rates money was abundant during the first
fifteen days ; so early as the 4th, the Bank rate was reduced
to 8 per cent., and Treasury Bills, to the ext-nt of 400
contos of rei., were negotiated on the 11th at 7 per cent.
and the brokerage. Atter the 11th, however, money was
in more demand, and since the arr:val of the Pengu;,n
packet,with the intelligence that no loan had been made, the
demand has increased, and the uncertainty as to wtot mea-
sures will be devised to meet the wants of the cPuntry, keeps
the market in some degree of feverish excitement. There
are those who still think that a loan will be effected, but
we must not fail to recollect that the time in which it was
sought was most unpropitious, whilst the credit of Brazil
in England is not by any means se good as it was up to
September, 1839. It appears to us that some of the capi-
talists of England decline to grant Brazil a loan unless
the Portuguese claim of 488,0001 sterling shall be in-
cluded in the amount of the loan, or the payment of the
same be otherwise provided for. What will, in the inter-
val, his Excellency the Finance Minister do ? The
source from which he has hitherto derived assistance is
thoroughly drained. If we are rightly informed, his
Excellency depended upon this loan. His position has
now become much more painful and difficult. The
amount of the dividends in England is yet unprovided for,
though it is possibly understood that this will for the
time be advanced by the agents of the Government.
The delay which has already occurred has been injurious
to our commerce, and his Excellency has a duty to per-
form in determining upon some course. We think•it
would be more consistent to make some pecuniary sacri-
fice than to permit the national credit to be eternally com-
promised.
EXCHANGE.—The rate upon London opened at 31, and
fluctuated between 31 and 30i, with one or two excep-
tions for small sums, until the 21st, and 30i and 31
towards the end of the month. Stocks have fluctuated be-
tween
74} and 74, the former having been the first price
of the month, and 74 to 7441 the selling prices to-day.
Specie is in brisk demand, both for export and specula-
ion, and a consequent rise in prices existed since the 4th

nople, dated - the 18th of March, says that the situation of
Reschid Pacha is more and more precarious.—Le Commerce.
WEDNISDA If, APRIL 7.
First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price, Price
French 5 per Cents /13 30 ... 113 20 ... 113 • 0 ... 113 20
4 per Cents 99 25 ..., 99 25 ... 99 25 99 25
3 per Cents 7B 80 78 60 78 7u 78 70
Rank or France ..«...,...«.• 3160 ...3150
Lailitte Bank 1,0001. Sh lO6O ...1060 ...1060
5.000 f. Shares 5150 ...5160 ...5150 ...5155
Belgian Bank
3 per Cents...".
per Cent 5.......
Spanish Active ..... 24% ... 24% ... 24% ... 24%
Portuguese 3 per Cents 20% ... 80% ... 20% ... 20%
Neapolitan 103 90 ... 103 90 ... 193 90 ... 103 90
..... 1051 •.. 10334 103 ... 103%
RAILWAY SHARES.Vers
St. Germainailes •••••••••••••••••••ft 720 .4. 725 •96 720 ••• 725
.R. 8.... ....... 385 „. 385 ....385 ... 38 LB. ..... £BO 280 ... 275
Orleans . ........ 485 ... 485 ... 485 ... 485
Montpellier to Cette 250 250 250 „. 850
Strasburg so Bale 236 ... 237 50 ... 236 25 .. 23', 25
Rouen 455 ... 455 ... 455 ... 455
BELOIAN WUNDS—Eavints, APRIL 7.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent ... ... 100
Loan of Thirty Millions, 4 •per 1,034
3per Cent..........
7u
100%
81%
98
7734