The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-01 00:00:00

CLE•RED OUTWARDS.

Year ending sth of January, 1840:—ships, 18,424 ; tonnage,
3,085,752. Year ending sth of January, 18.11 :—ships, 19,710
toms: ge, 3,392,626.
Ships employed in the coasting trade:—

ENTERED INWARDS.
tonYneaagre, 10,65 G
endl7n6gs,otho.f January, 1840 :—ships, 130,9.54; tonnage,
10,610,404. Year ending sth January, 1841 :—ships, 133,25)9 ;
CLEARED OUTWARDS.
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Year ending stli of January, 1840 :—ships, 142,895 ; tonnage,
11,066,073. Year ending sth of January, 1841 : —ships, 146,127;
tonnage, 11,417,991.
We have not been able to afford space to give the contents of
these very useful tables, particularly the table distinguishing the
countries to which the vessels employed in the foreign trade re-
spectively belong. The greatest tonnage so engaged, we observe.
is that of the United States, which last year was 432,486 tons in-
wards, and 396,566 outwards. Prussia is next in rank, and Nor.
way follows.
This was settling day in the Foreign House, but from the limPed
extent to which speculation has been entered into in the Foreign
Securities of late, the differences to be paid were unusually small.
In Spanish Actives the extreme fluctuations during the Account
have not amounted to more than % per cent., and in the other
securities the same apathy has existed. Spanish Actives opened
this morning at 23 h to 4; at the close of business, however,
prices were not quite so firm, the quotation for the Account being
23f to 4. Dutch Stock improved foliy I per cent. on the closing
quotations of )esterday.; but in the other Foreign • Securities there
was no material alteration.

TIMES.—Money in all the markets was in demand to-'ay, and
the cone:A rate on Consols wai about 5 per cent. This, in the
absence of any news to give an impulse to business, necessarily de-
pressed prices, and the English stocks closed with rather a !way/
tendency.

tithil:""rj3i:liii:".
The accommodation required fur the settlement in the Foreign
Funds Funds was trifling, as speculation has nut taken an active lead
w:,O
them, but nevertheless from 7 to 8 per cent. was paid h.
have altogether been of Ught character, with
requited it. ' The fluctuations in the various elescriptlYtoinot of stock
Bixm:::::ltiet
Tetr.easur'yi which
easily id,erec,lictii,etiiigi Col:eiti
settlement t lferionnen6t 4o
ft tol ,6eo, arrearsth the
l 'Oft ia!d: ttehirceeesessnt;Eotiir:lieerC:fl3loitrifieftrleci ;-
lion of the bondholders as extremely doubtful, and
account has been little else than a nominal
(1:r...,_._..g
ob, r,
i Change to.
There was rather a better supply of bill, t tutu'
Faris, Ilamburgh, and
day, and it having exceeded the demand .
O„',thveinent in the rates
AMsterdam, there was consequently' an :,- ‘,merp, Brussels, and
of exchange on those places. Billsdutire "
i rates on those places re-
Leghoen, were rather in request, an
main( d the same as last pest. 1
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with i0c,,1.:, i1e_..1:1,1l weat D tdh,aer
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reopen
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as
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It is stated that oil the Ist
51;111 be scarcely
ir,e,sdtuacnttioitti
aonfioitusnstctodcko,,oloyooft.ob_ 10700,000 f, and that on the Ist
000 or 8,000,000 less. The payment
of March it will he
'ffre3asi),uoroyoc,ooouoldf.,haintldierto only dispose
e6pxeoir;eoCle,edotsit t
p ,
o thate procure
r eh:
opmaeyyl,n3gt
:aubtifEibne:r4itf,'.or6lo,fif. the floatit•g debt could not, it was supposed,
the deficiencyja
supply
sto
of the bal f. year's di v ri7dn'ci.,:ttrtisabte °
on, :
Administration
nh
,:sae
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ii.
ge
cent. for months' date, and 4 per cent. for a
w' '''",ii per cent. This arises from no scarcity of money, year,
• 0 Per c Years ago th
at " or -g
which
is said to abound in the Bourse, and is obtainable by private indi-
viduals at '2. per cent., but the credit of tt e State does not stand so
high as that of private individuals. This drain on tV:e coffers of
of time bond
the Bank of France will doubtless be felt to be very seasonable by.
the Directors or the Bank of England, and it is to be hoped that
this event will have the OM of replenishing their (mi.

POST.---The general condition and prospects of the stock mar •
kets remain the same. The scarcity of money is, however, or
past year. Of the pressure experienced in this respect at
more
urgently felt than it has been at any period since the close ofthe
Exchange some idea will be conveyed by the difference thereate
trans-
i be
een the quotations of Consols for time and for timed'
s the Ss tock.
fer, which is per cent.
The result of the debate on Lord Morpeth
part of the metro-
inatthb"utto abandon office.
's Registration Bill
was such as to lead to the conclusion,
polls, that Ministers have no alternative
i
eir interests, seem, indeed,
Those most attached to them, and to
mercial men, v-e shall most
be net the prevailing view of ourwce
confidently risk the assertion.
probably be contradicted.
Yet
things cannot go on 'hey are now
on every tweount, not only to expectonit Lt even to wish it. If this
Ail parties are satisfied that
doing any longer.

DEATHS FRONI FIRE IN 1810 —By the re-
turns from the city and liberty of Westmin,ter, and the Coro-
ners of the city and the e.stern division of Middlesex, it op-
years that during the !ast twelve months no less than 245 chil-
dren have been bwrnt to death in those districts, chiefly owing
to their parents leaving them alone in a room with a fire in it.
Of these about four-fitths Were girls, and the remainder boys.
This ariscs fratn the difference of the clothing between boys
and girl . The greater number were the offspring at the
working arid poorer classes of society, whos" Imsiness takes
thin fcom.their homes.
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