The Sun.
London, England, 1847-03-22 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Night.)
The Cotton Market, at Liverpool, this week, has declined
to IV. per lb. on American sorts. Sales, 16,450 bales.
Stock now, 455,650 bales, against 831,000 at this time last
year.

Accounts from Antwerp state that large purchases of
grain bad been made there for French and German houses,
and that buyers were evidently attracted by the excellent
disposition of the Be!gian merchants to deal fairly by them,
and accept moderate profits. About 100 vessels had been
advised as arrived or about to arrive with grain in the Bel-
gian ports, and Constantinople appears to have sent large
supplies.
There was an iniprovement here yesterday in the rates o
the foreign exchanges.
The following sre the results of a comparison of the Bank
of England averages during the week to the 13th inst., and
that to the 6th inst.:—
Notes Issued, now £24,786,340
Decrease ... 207,545
Rest, increase
Public deposits increase 144,431
Other deposits increase 247,476
Seven-day and other bills decrease 48,395
Notes decrease 160,600
Other securities increase
Bullion
Decrease
The circulation of notes, therefore, has again been lessened,
but the Bank continues to discount liberally.
The idea that there may be some political object in the
arrangement made between the Bank of France and the
Emperor of Russia, although not presenting any very
formidable aspect, is made available by the Bears
to keep down the prices of stock. -Consols have
been 88 to 89 for transfer ; and 88% to 8914 for Ae-
count. The Scrip is again at 14 discount. Exchequer-
bills are par to 3s. premium. Bank Stock for Account is not
higher than 20514.
The Foreign investments are very quiet. Spanish are
merely nominal. Portuguese Four per Cents hare been
quoted 34. Mexican Stock is worth 21%.
Railway Shares have been dull.
FUND 6. ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. 88X% 89 89
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 6, 1860
Ditto, 30 years, Jan. 5. 1860 .. • • 9 3-16 9 3-16
India Bonds, 1,0001. •• • • .. 8 p 8 p
Bank Stock for April 14 .. • • .. 205 X, 204
Consols for Account .. •• •• •• 88 89 88% 89% 811
Consols, Scrip • • .• • • •• • • • % dis
Exchequer Bills. I%tl. 2d.
1,0001... .. .... par 3 pm. a p
5001. .... par 3 pm. 3 p
Ditto. Small •• •• par 4 pm, 4 p

ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Chilien Bonds, 6 per Cent
Ditto, Deferred .. .. • .
Mexican Bonds, 1846, 5 per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account .. .• 21%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. 83
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. 34
Russian Bonds .. .. • • .. 111 110
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Passive Bonds
Grenada, 1 per Cent .. _ _
Ditto, Three per Cent .. 34%
Dividend% on the above payable in London.
Belgian, Two-and-a-Half per Cent •• 534 52% 52%
Dutch Two-and-a-Halt per Cent .. 58% %% 58%
Ditto. 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 91% 92 924 92 yi
BUSINESS
CLOSING
PAID. DONE AT PRICES.
ONE O'CLOCK.

•• • •

PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES.

Amber., Notting., Boston, tnd
Eastern Junction . .. • .
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 5 .... 13%
Buckinghamshire 61. 45.... • % p....
Caledonian • • • • .. .. 30 .... . • •
Direct Northern Scrip .. 2% • • •• -
liastent Counties . .. 20 .... 19% %,34 .•• • • •
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. I 3s. 4d. • • .•
Ditto, ditto.. .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d.
.. • • • .....
East Lincolnshire .. .. 4 ....
Great Northern (London & York
Regd.) .. 231
Do., do (Direct Northern Regd.) 3% ..........
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 2734 • • • • • .
Great North of England ...100 23231 23131 •• ..
Ditto, New .. 5 .... 59% ..........
Ditto, New .. .. 20 .... 57 ••••••••
Ditto, New 131 .... 13 • •
Great Western .. 85
Ditto, half Shares .. .. 50 66
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 12% ..........
Ditto, Fifths .. 20 .... 2631 .. •
Ditto, New .. 431 .... 73
Hull and Selby .. .. •• 50 .• ~103%.. •
Ipswich mid Bury StEdmunds .. 14 .... .......
Ditto ditto, and Norwich .. 5 ..........
Leeds and Bradford .. • • .. 35 ..........
London and Blackwell 16/. 13s. 4d.
Ditto, New, No. '1 . 4 .... -
London, Brighton, and S Coast.. 50 .. • • 5331
Ditto, Consol. Eighths .. .. 10 .... 1231 ..........
London an North-Western • • 100 .... 178 179 177% ..
Ditto, Quarters . .. 2 .. . 18%
Ditto, 40/. Shares M. &B. .. 40 ..........
Ditto, 101. Shares M. &B. (C) 1 .• • • 7% . •• . • •
Loudon and South-Western .41/. Gs. 10d..• 6331 %
Ditto, New .. 2231 ..........
Ditto, Tenths (Consolidated) • • 50 ..., 53% ..........
Ditto. Scrip.. .. .. • • .. 5 .... 554 .....
Ditto, ditto .• .• 4 .... 4 . .....
Manchester and Leeds .. 82 ..... .
Ditto, Thirds (Keg.).. .. • .71. 4a... • . 2% p
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. • . p
Manchester and Southampton .. 2 .... 1% 1 %
Midland .. • • • • ..100 .. • 1163 11734 .... 118
Ditto, New .. .• .. 30 .... .. ••.. • ... 34
Ditto, New

•,%%•
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 100 .... 90 ..•••••• •
..........
Ne wcastle and Berwick .. .• 20 .. •. 29
Ditto, New .. .. • •• . 5 .... 8%.
Newmarket and Chesterford • • 10 .... ..........
Ditto, Extension .. .. 21. 12s. ......
Norfolk .. • • .. •• • • 100 •• • • 136 ••••• • • • • •
Nortn British .. 25 .... 33% 33 x die
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. .. 2}i .... 4
Ditto, Thirds .. .. • • 1 .... 3% ....
Northern and Eastern .. 50 .... 55 . . 5,
North Staffordshire .. • : .. 5 8
Ditto Scrip (late Churnet and
3%
Reading, Guildford, and Reigate 5 •• •• ........ S z int
Scottish Central l5 ..........
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. 3 ••—
..........
Ditte, Class 11 • • 1 h ~.......
Shropshire Union . 42a 1
South Staffordshire Junction .. 11.132.4 d — ........ •
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33.4 — ..........
bo., New (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 3% 4 •• ••
South Wales .• • • • • •• •• 10 •• •• .•• • • ••
South Yorkshire, Doncaster, and
Goole .. .. • . .. 2
Windsor. Staines, &S. Western.. 425.
York and Newcastle .. .. 25
Ditto, New.. .. .. 10 15% % .
Ditto, Preference .. .. 4
York sad North Midland .. .. 50
Ditto, Extension .. 20
Ditto. Preference • • 2

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens 0 .... 16% ..........
Bord., Toul., & Cette kConstituted) 4 .... 2 ........
Dutch Rhenish .. 7 .... ........
Louvain ala Sambre ..
Northern of France • • .. • • 8 .... 135 y ........
Paris and Lyons 8
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Australasia .. . • • • • •• 40 ••• • 22 ....
London Joint-Stock

.. 10 .... .-=
MLATES.

Real del Monte, Unterdetered .. • ... 3% ......

M. SOYER IN DUBLIN.

Accounts from Dublin inform us that "the Regenerator"
is getting along swimmingly. His kitchen arrangements
are now nearly completed, and by the beginning of next
week will be brought into full operation. On St. Patrick's
day he produced 100 gallons of a very delicious soup, it,
which the chief ingredient, as far as flavour is concerned,
consisted of a weed, found on the sea-coast, called " dillisk,"
and which, as we are assured, forms an exceedingly palatable
and nourishing food. This soup, from the fact of it having
been first made on the saint's day, the Regenerator has very
appropriately named " St. Patrick's Soup." It has been
partaken of by the Lord-Lieutenant, at the Castle, and
tureens of it we're served at the various public dinners held
in honour of the saint, and at the clubs. At Morrison's
Hotel, too, it was introduced, and much approved. It is un-
derstood that M. Soyer's large kitchen, in the erection of
which he has been most actively engaged during the last
fortnight, will be opened by the Lord-Lieutenant in state on
this day (Monday).

MR. GYPSON'S BALLOON.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Stn,—ln the report which your widely-circulated journal
gave of the accident which attended the private trial of Mr.
Gypson's new and magnificent balloon it is stated that the
cause of the disaster was owing to the netting being of an
" inferior description," and that it was " discovered by com-
petent judges to lie defective in its meshes." Now, although
the termination of the experiment would seem to justify this
conclusion, I have no hesitation in pronouncing it premature
and incorrect, and will, as briefly as possible, point out the
circumstances under which the first fracture happened, and
the final separation, which led to our being "left in the
lurch " with feelings of disappointment and regret. When
the inflation was commenced the weather was remarkably
fine. No sooner, however, had the upper hemisphere of the
gigantic machine become distended with about 15,000 cubic
feet of gas than the breeze freshened considerably, and
agitated the balloon with greater violence than is usually
experienced at public gardens, owing to the protection
afforded by the surrounding trees of such places. The gas being
exceedingly good on this occasion, and the lower lines of
the netting being left ten feet longer than is commonly re-
quired, in order to allow room to test some ingenious
machinery invented by Mr. Gypson, and in readiness tor use;
the balloon in consequence was subjected to the full force of
a strong wind, which had greater power on it from the ad-
ditional length of the hoop-lines. A tremendous strain from
a fitful gust that swept over the gas-works broke one line
first, and had it been practicable to repair that, a " stitch in
time would most indisputably have saved nine ;" but the
wind being stronger than the united efforts of about fifty
assistants and friends the balloon could not be hauled down,
and the pressure becoming from wind and restraint unequal
on the netting, the injured part yielded gradually, and that
which will bear more than a ton and a half weight, when
every respective line has its proper bearing, continued to
give way, until an aperture was worked sufficiently large to
admit of the escape of the balloon. Notwithstanding the
accident, I boldly give my opinion that the netting is good,
strong, and fit for general use; and, as a positive proof of the
earnestness of my faith, and my perfect satisfaction of the
construction of the whole apparatus, I intend to share with
the intrepid proprietor of the balloon the honours and
dangers of a second private trial, which will take place pro-
bably in the course of a week or ten days.
I remain, Sir, your obliged servant,
HENRY COXWELL.

Editor of the zErostatic Magazisze.

(FROM A CORRESPONDENT.)—A gentleman, of the
name of Thomas Thompson, who has resided this last twenty
years in a village called Brading, in the Isle of Wight, died
suddenly on the 4th March, of apoplexy, at the advanced
age of eighty-eight years. He was a complete miser, and
scarcely allowed himself common necessaries. although pos-
&ssed of considerable wealth, viz., to the extensive amount
of 100,0001., the whole of which he has bequeathed to his
godson, a Mr. Thomas Harris, of 1, Beletha-terrace, Barns-
bury park, who, on being informed of his good fortune, ex-
claimed in tears, " Alas ! it will be useless to me, as I shall
only squander it away, unless I have E. S. to share it with
me., He is a young gentleman who has been very poor of
late, but was always very charitable, and he, I understand,
intends giving a large sum towards the relief of the poor
Scotch and Irish.
ALLOWANCES TO WITNESSES IN THE NEW COUNTY
COURTS.—The judges of the superior courts have fixed the
scale of allowance to witnesses in the New County Courts:—
Gentlemen,. merchants, bankers, and professional men, 7s. 6d.
a day; tradesmen, auctioneers, accountants, clerks, and yeo-
men, 53. ; journeymen, labourers, and the like, 2s. Travel-
ling expenses per mile, one way, 6d.
FIRE AT SOMERS-TOWN.—Late on Thursday night
a fire broke out upon the premises belonging to Mr. J.Crosier,
oil and colourman, carrying on business at 15, Brewer-street,
Somers-town. It originated in the shop, and before it could
be extinguished the stock in trade was considerably damaged.
Mr. Crosier was insured in the Atlas office. The origin of the
fire was unknown.