The Sun.
London, England, 1841-06-30 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
As if by common consent business pursuits seem to have
been completely abandoned in the City to-day. Not a single
public tale of produce Las been in'progress, if we except that
of Tea, most of which has been withdrawn, though certainly
at rather improved rates. The returns of the number who
have polled at the different places were very contradictory.
The business in the Funds was very limited, but the few
bargains entered into were at very low prices, and in some in-
stances at a trifl:ngimprovement. Probably it might be the
wish of some of the jobbers to pretend that the market had be-
come firmer, on account of the result of the election in favour
of the Tories. Consols were marked 893 to 4, for the open-
ing. Exchequer Bills mere at Bs. to 10s. premium ; and East
' India Bonds at 2s. premium to par. Bank Stock brought
168, and the Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 983
to 99.
The Fareign Securities have been heavy, and a shade lower.
Spanish Active Bonds at 22 to 21i ; Portuguese New at 33 to

Brazilian at. 674, and the Dutch Five per Cents. at 1004.
The Railway Shares have been dull, but steady. Great
Western at 254, the Nev at II to 114, the Birmingham Quar •
ter at 18, and the South Western Tenths at 4 prem. Brighten
were 4, and Hull and Selby 13 discount.
The Foreign Exchanges evinced the same firmness, the
alteration in the rates being very trivial, or most currently
these :—Paris, 25f. 624 c. to 674 e. ; Hamburgh, 13 104 to ;
Amsterdam, 12 41 to ; Frankfort, 150; Antwerp, 12 3/2 to
; and Trieste, 9 58 to 59.

(From The Sun of Last Night.)
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JUNE 28.—We have had a very
good business done in the Cotton Market to.day. The sales are
5,000 halos to the trade at steady pri,;cs. We have nothing to
report in export or speculation of any moment, but present appear.
ances indicate more stability and improvement.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARELT,JUNE2B.—There is but little change
to •notice in tic rates to.day. At the Stock Exchange present
prices are, Grand Junction, 202; IIalf• Shares, 1001 ; London
and Birmingham, 58; Manchester and Leeds, 52 ; Midland
Counties, BE4.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JUNE 28.—Our mar-
ket remains quiet.—Manchester and Leeds, 54; London and
Birmingham, 158; London and south Western, 54i
55; North Midland, 68 ; Midland, Thirds, ; Man-
ehe4er and Birmingham, 2323}; Manchester Assurance,9/. tis

Consols are at the same quotations as they left off; 89} a for
the Account ; Three per Cent. Reduced, 891 a ; Three-and-a-
Half Reduced, 98: 1 ; Exchequer Bills, 8 10 prem.; Bank Stock,
1681 1691 ; India Stock, 248 249 ; India Bonds, par, ~, prem.
The Foreign Market is in the same state as that of the British.
Not a bargain doing, and the prices arc nominal.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Great Western
Ditto New
London and 111ackwall -
An attempt was made in the course of the morning to depress
the British Funds, but it did not succeed, and Consols continue
firm at present at 891 ; Reduced, 891 ; India Bonds, 2 prem.
par; Exchequer Bills, 10 8 prem. ; Bank Stock, 169.
In the Foreign Market the only transactions were in Spanish,
which may be quoted at 211 221. The other prices the same as
' ZZ the morning.
- -CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bulk Stock ...„.. 160 i India Stock —
3 per Cent Bed ... .894 IDitto Bonds 2 par
3 per Pent Cons —i Ditto Old Annuities ... b 7
3} per Cent Red 99 11;:•4.0 New Annuities...
New 31 per Cent -l Ex. li;2°• 1,000/....2id Bpm
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 4301 9pm
Long Annuities to expire 1 Ditto timO•••••• 11 pm
Jan. 1860 .. 12 13-16 Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct 1859 124 India Stock for 0pg....
Jan. 1860. Consols for Opg B-
9 FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per cent Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto - 33a
Brazilian Bonds. 67i 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 22
Ditto, 1824. ... ..... Ditto, Deferred ...
Danish, 3 per cent — ,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, 1625. IDutch, 21, per cent. ... 52,E
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent 1000

. . .
SHARES - -
Great Western Railway (65 paid) ~. 9Ol
Ditto New Shares (50 paid 6ll
Hull and Svlby (50 paid) 37
London and Brighton (50 paid) 46
London and Blackwall Railway (25 paid)... 16
London and Birmingham Railway (90 pd)
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 5 paid)
London and South Western
Ditto Tenths (li paid)
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ...... ... .. Ll.
North Midland Railway (100 paid)
Ditto Thirds ( 5 naid)
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY).
Amsterdam CF. 12 71 Gibraltar .
Ditto; at sight
Rotterdam ...... ...2 U l2 8 IGenoa
Antwerp l2 61 Milan
Hamburgh M.B. 13 131 Venice ...
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 23 55 Palermo, per oz IINI
Ditto, 3 months 25 80 'Lisbon
Marseilles
Pourdeaux 25 85 ;Rio Janeiro 27
Frankfort on Maine... 149:4 Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 371 'Buenos Ayres
Berlin...
Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M 957 Philadelphia 46
Trieste, ditto
Madrid ...
Cadiz
Bilboa
Barcelona - 36 New Dollars 0 4 104
Seville .. 36 Silver in Bars 0 5 OA

ELECTION MOVEMENTS IN LIVERPOOL.-
THE CONTEST.—The friends of Lord Palmerston and
Sir Joshua Walmsley, and of Lord Sandon and Mr.
Cresswell have respectively been very active since our
last. The canvass is now finished, and every thing ready
for the great struggle. The supporters of all the
candidates speak of the result with confidence. We
believe that the contest will be severe, but that the
free trade candidates will have a very large majority
of votes amongst the ten-pound householders of the
town. The principal strength of Lord Sandon and Mr.
Cresswell lies amongst the old freemen, of whom they
will poll many more votes than their opponents. At the
last election they polled nearly three to one of the free-
men—that is, nearly 1,900 to little more than 700, and
they only won the election by about three hundred
votes. They owed their victory on that occasion to the
supiness of a large portion of the householders, of whom
upwards of two thousand did not vote at all. We have
reason to believe that many hundreds of these self-dis-
franchised electors will record their votes to morrow in
favour of the Free Trade Candidates.—Liverpool Times.
REPETITION OF THE WILFUL ATTEMPTS TO
DESTROY the PICTURES IN THE METROPOLITAN EXHI-
TIONS.—The malicious and rascally attempts to damage
the works of art in the collection of the Royal Aca-
demy, we regret to say, has found an imitator, or it may
be the same miscreant is the author of the mischief.
The Gallery of British Artists in Suffolk-street, Pall-
mall East, was selected yesterday for. a second
display of villainy, and the partial destruction
of a valuable painting is the result. The
picture is No. 597 in the catalogue, and is marked as
sold. It is in illustration of the Witch of Datchworth,
from the text of Strut's Queen Hoo Hall, and is painted
by Mr. Thomas Clater, who pourtrays the two rustic
damsels listening with superstitious wonderment too the
witch's prophecies. The eyes of one of the youogcr
damsels are scraped out, as if by the forcible thrusting of
the finger nail into the soft paint, and thus the canvas
is literally laid bare in -a portion of the Work
most important to the composition. The. effect pee-.
duced by this dastardly act is singularly infelicitous,
giving to that which was all loveliness the most hideous
effect. It will require great skill to restore it to iWori--
ginal state. A high reward is offered for the detection-of
the offender, whom, it is feared, possesses neither the ex-
cuse of a want of knowledge of art, nor of the absence of
education to justify:, an act which a savage would
shrink from committing. It is feared, that this villainy
is stimulated by some thoughtless wager. If such be
th 3 case the keepers of other galleries of art should be
doubly watchful, as doubtless a visit to all of them in
turn is contemplated for the same rascally purpose.
THE HOUSEHOLD FAMILY EXPENSE BOOK.
—This is the title cf a very curious and useful production,
the object of which is to elucidate to the full cnnvic ion of
every holder the actual working of the various taxes which our
legislators have imposed upon him. The book is in the cus-
tomary form of an account book, containing a page for every
week in the year, but in addition to the column appropriated
to the price of each article of the usual household consump-
tion, there are also parallel columns to bring constantly before
the eye of the account-keeper the additional tax levied upon
his comforts under the head of Landlord's Tax, East and
West Intia Merchants' Tax, and Government Tax. Thus,
upon the item of beer, which we will suppose in a family
whose weekly expenditure is 51. 3s. costs 45., a tax is paid to
the landlord of Is., and another to the Government of the
same amount, making the total tax 2s. for one week in that
one article. Upon the weekly expenditure of Si. 3s. we find
the householder paying
Ist. The Government Taxes
2d. The Landlord's taxes
3d. The West India Tax ... . 0 3 0

£1 19 1
One of the most important facts that is thus made to stare the
tax-payer in the face is, the small proportion which the taxes for
upholding the na'ional establishments of the country, including,
the weight of the enormous uational debt, bear in comparison
with what proceeds immediately, and without any redemption of
utility, into the pockets of the monopolist. We venture to pre-.
diet that the man who has faithfully jetted down every week
the items in the columns of this useful, book, will be-
come by the end of the year impervious to .the eloquence even
of my Lord Sandon himself, overpowering as we have some-
times found it. We cordially recommend the work to our
readers, whom we refer to the advertisement in another,
column. We subjoin, as a pendant, the following facts from
the preface t.o the book, which contains a great deal of politico-
commercial information :

COMPARATIVE TAXATION OF ENGLAND AND OTHER
COUNTRIES.
Taxes upin Land in England... ... £1,531,915
Taxes upon Land in Prussia
Taxes upon Land in Austria ......... 8,700,000
Taxes upon Land in France
Taxes on the People in England
Taxes on the People in Prussia
Taxes on the People in Austria 7,700,000
Taxes on the People in France ' 17,533,240
—Liverpool Times.
DREADFUL ACCIDENT AT HUDSON.—A cor-
respondent wri►es us yesterday as follows :—" Hudson, Juncs,
1841.—1 hasten to give you an account of a most dreadful ae-
cieent which has taken place in our city to-day. It has been
the custom of the chief superintend nt latterly to let the cars
go down the descent from the head of Warren-street, without
the engine or horse-power, and always thinking that a man
placed at the break of each car was sufficient far safety.
But on the run down this morning the breaks did not
perform as well as usual, and the consequence was that six
large freight cars ran off the dock, and one lost. The amount
of property lost cannot be ascertained exactly, but as near as
can be found out, will not be less than 20,000 dollars ; but that
is not anything, where the loss of life is taken in consideration
—for five persons who were known to be in the cars were lost
—and how many more cannot be told. Two were taken out,
one mashed to a complete jelly. And on the other all means
were tried, but in vain, to resuscitate him."