The Sun.
London, England, 1846-03-18 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The San of Last Night.
There was a steady market for Cotton at Liverpool
yes-
terday; and American was well supported. Sales 5,000 bags,
nearly all to the trade. A further improvement occurred in
the Share market, which wore a better appearance than for
some weeks past.
The following interesting intelligence shows that Canada
possesses mineral wealth as well as agricultural resources :
" Some of the British officers in Canada have lately made an
important discovery of some of the richest copper mines in
the world. This discovery has created great excitement.
Some of the O'Hara, .eo route to England, will carry with
them specimens of the ore; and, among them, one piece
weighing 2,2001b5. The ore is very rich, yielding, 86 we
learn, 72 per cent. of pure copper. Part of the copper was
taken from the bed of a river, and some broken oft from a
cliff on the banks. The latter is six feet long, four broad,
and six inches thick."

The Peterel, with advices of Jan. 25 from Rio do Janeiro,
does not furnih much news. There is some satisfaction,
however, in reflecting that the balance of trade was last year
rather more favourable to Brazil, and the grand desideratum
appears to be the formation of such a system of finance as
will increase permanently, and without resort to paper
issues, the national revenue of the empire.
There are no other ship arrivals to-day, with late intel-
ligence.
__ _

The English Stocks have been depressed again this morn-
ing, and although there has not been much doing a sale of
Consols has sent down the quotation to 95% again for pre-
sent transfer. Time bargains have been effected at 9614 to
96%. The premium on Exchequer-bills has been 33a. to
365.' and Bank Stock for Account has been at 212. South
Sea Stock has realised 106%.
The Foreign Securities have been generally very well
supported. Spanish Five per Cents. are 26, the Three per
Cents. 36 to 364. Portuguese Three per Cents. have been at
561 i. Mexican Active Stock has been quoted 31% to lx,
and the Deferred 161/2 to 34. Belgian Four and-a-Half per
Cents, have been 98, and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
5914 to %.
Shares are rather flat. The market does net get get up so
well here as is said to be the case at Liverpool, but some ex-
pect more briskness after to-day's account is settled. A glance
at the quotations in the list shows that there are many pro-
mising "scrips" to be bought at extremely low prices.
BRITISH TUNDS. ONE CLOSING

O'CLOCK. PRICES.
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities .. .. 961 95% 95 X
South Sea Stock .. .. .. .. .. .. 10611 106%
Bank Stock for Account .. .. .. .. 212 213
C'.onscls for Account .. .. .. .. . 1 96X % X 96X
Exchequer Bills. 1 %d. 14 d.
1,0001. .. .. .... 36 33 —-- pm. 33
3001... .... 34 37 33 pin. 33
Ditto. Small .... 34 37 33 pm. 33
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Small .. .
Danish, 3 per Cent
Equador Bonds --•Mexican Bonds. 1637, 4 per Cent .. 3116 %
Ditto, Deferred .. 163 i lii
Peruvian Bolide, 6 per Cent......
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent .. .•
Ditto, 3 per Cent .. 56%
Ditto, 4 per Cent .. • •
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent .. ..
Ditto, for the Account .. • • 26
Ditto, Passive Bonds . • • • 5% 7‘
Ditto, Deferred .. 16%
Ditto, Three per Cent .. .. 36
Ditto, for the Account 363(
Dividends on the above payable in Loudon.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cent .. 98
CL051599N984%:
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent .. 59% Ye
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Cortileatos .. 94% 95
BUSINESS
PRICES OF
RAILWAY SHARES. PRICES,
PAID. DONE
jfj•K.
Aberdeen.. .. .. 10 .... 8 7 ... 7
Amber., Notting., Boston, and
Eastern Junction 2%....
Birmingham and Gloucester.. ..100...
Ditto New (issed at 7)4 dis.) .. 1734 ... 31% .......
Buckinghamshire 425. .....
Caledonian .. 10 .... 11% 10% ....
Ditto, Half Shares 2%.... 2%
Cambridge and Oxford.. .. 1%
Chester and Holyhead .. 20 .... 20 ........ •
Cork and Waterford .. 1% • ...
Direst Manchester (Rastrick's) ~ 51,x .. ..........
Direct Northern 211 .... •
Dublin and Belfast Junction. .. 10 ....
Eastern Counties, .. 141. 1t5....: 21% 21 .• • .
Ditto New .. .. 81. 165..... 6p.
Do. I'erpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1.61. 131. 4d. % p........
Ditto, ditto, .. .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. % % p......
Ditto, York Extension 10s. 11. E
East Lincolnshire
Essex and Suffolk .. 1% % ..........
Goole, Doneast., and thedield, &e. 425. % p• •
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 15 .... 17 .
Great Western .. .. • • •• 85 ••• • ••••• • • • • •
Ditto, Quarter Shams 5 .... 16% 16
Lancaster and Carlisle • • • • as •••• ••••. .....
Ditto, New .. • • • • • • 5 •• • • 2% • • .......
Leeds and Carlisle • • • • • • 251.... 1%
Liverpool and Leeds Direct • • 2% 2%4
London ant Birmingham . • 100 .. • . 219 31716
Ditto Thirds .. 16 .... 49%16
Ditto Quarters .........2 •• • • 27 ••••• • .• • •
Ditto Fifths• • • • •• . •
•• • ••••• • • • • •
London and Black wall 161. 13s. 4d. 8% .......
London suit Brighton .. • • 50 ••• • 64 631
28422: 43331:
s.
p.
....
...
...
..
.. 4333
Ditto, Consol. Eighths • • .. 40
Ditto ditto Fifths .. • • •• 20 •• • • 29% 29%
London and Croydon .. • • 131. 15s. 9d. 21% ex d.
London and Sontle-Wes•ern.. 411. 611. 10d. 76% 76
LoDnattotno,alindewyCorokns.o.l. tat"!
Lynn and Bareham . • • • • • 10 8%%
Ditto, Half Shares .. • • 36 ••• • 59 •• • •
London, Salisbury, and Yeovil ..
420% 13,
Ditto, Fifths ........2 •• • • 11% 12 .... • • 12
31DanietthoesEtex.rteannsaioBnirming..ha;i
Ditto, Quarter S.h.arei.i.(C)..
42211 e •73:16t:
p.. :1:
317:7917xEppe
ManchesterllDa iti
tc
thoe,s tNeer Manchester, Buxton,nd
Southampton &
.. Matlock..
:: 412821. —a
..
321
Newcastle and Darlington Janet. 23 _
Ditto, New
Ditto, Now, Brandling • . • • 29 •• • • 37 •• .
Newcastle and Berwick .. •• 10 •• • • 19% 19
North British .. .. • • 20
Ditto, Carlisle Extension • • 1% .... 2% %
North Kent and Direct Dover • • 2% 2% 2.... 2
ONNxeofitbrtdh.,mWSPtaot4rffenoes.rlitde"srh,i&brure WY; ilv.Cerhh.ernitliptra.n... 12% .... 12% %• : . 12%
Portsmouth Direct .. • • • • 3% •• . • 3 . ....... 3
Scottish Midland . • . .. • . 5• • • • 5 • . av
Shrewsburyand Birmingham •• 2% 3..23 2:4
Shropshire Union .. 425.
di5.....• s4 de•
South Midland .. • • 425.1%0g p 1 p
South and Midlands Junction .. 425.
1 die
South Eastern and Dovor .. • • 33% 36% 36 a,
Ditto, New (ins. at 321.) .No. 1. 16 17 ,7
Do.,
NNee; ((da00..31351.16)5. d..)
No. 4.
42.. 102% .
io
Vale of death .. • • • • • • 9 —.. 2%
..... 24
Waterford and Kilkcnuy • • • • 5'A ••• • ...... 2
Watertil., Wextll., Wick., & Dub. 1%
...
York awl Nortk Midland . • • • 50 •• • • 95% 96.......
...... 95%
IDitto, Half Shares .. • • • • 25 48 48
Ditto, Selby • • 30 ....
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bord., Toul., & Cette (Mackenzie) 2 _
.........
Ditto, ditto (Espelete) • • 2 ••••
Dendre Valley .. • . • • • 2 ••••
Deitch Rhenish .. • • • • • ' " "' • 6IAY2 • •
Grt. North. of France Constituted 5 .... 16%
..
Louvain and Jemeppe • • • •
•
Jamaica South Midland Junction 1 .... 2 6.
Luxembourg .. • •
Namut and Liege .. • • • • 4 .
Rouen and llavre . .. • •
Sambre and Meuse .. • • • 6 •• • 4 •••• • • • •
Tours:and Nantes Constituted • • 5 •• • • ••••• • • • • •
JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
British North American • • • • M., ••• • •"•• ' • • •
Union of Australia .. • • •• " ••• • • ••••• •• • •
Ditto, New .. .. • • • • 2% •• .. .
MINES.

•• •• -
.. .. 84

Real del Monte, Unregistered
COURSE OF EXCHA.
Amsterdam ......C.P. 12 91,
Ditto, at sight 12
Rotterdam .... •• 2 LT. 12 10
Antwerp • • ...... ••• • .. 20 13
Itarnhurgh .• .. • • M.B. 13 IVA
A.ltona• •
Paris, 3 days' sight .. • • 25 75
Ditto, 3 months ..... 26
Marseilles •• •• •••• •• •• 26 10
llourdeattx.• .....• •• • • 26 10
Frankfort on Maine.... l22}i
Petersburgh, 3 U 5....
Berlin • • .. • • • • • • .• • • •.
Vienna, eine. no—. • • 10 10};
Trieste, ditto.... ••• • • . 10 10;4
Madrid • • ...... ...„

•• •• 8.% ••• • • • •• • 3%
cG &.—(YESTERDAY.)
Gibraltar.. ..... .......

Leghorn ........ ••.• • • 30 75
Genoa ••••. • • • • •• • . 516 10
Milan ..

Venice........ .. 11

_....
1 Naples ••••••• - • • • • •• 39%
Palermo, per es 119%
Lisbon. . • •
Oporto ••.••••• • • • • • • • • 62A
Rio Jaaelro

Bahia ......

Iluenog .Ayres .. • •
New York, 21 dayit' eight

Philadelphia .... • • ....

PRICES OP RCLLION, PER OL.
Foreign Gold in burs...C3 17 9
Portagal Gold Cein 3 17 5
New Doubloons . .
New Dollars •••. • • • • 0 4 9%
illror in bars ...• .• .• 0 4 1114

dadiz • . ... : ........
1111bAo..
BAroclona ••
Seyille.. • • .... • • • • • • „

We regret to announce the death of Lady Methuen,
wife or Lob d 2110thhem ttild Oster of Sli 11eiirf 3111dt:clay, Bart.
COMPENSATION. —.lt IS laughable enotigh to observe
that as sure as any Parliamentary gentleman contradicts with pro-
minent Indecency, the declarations upon the faith of which he got
returned as a rrotectionist, his name io h 8 foiirid it: the next list
of diners with Sir Robert Peel. Sirnilis Simla yautlet.—Post.
At the adjourned licensing meeting of the Remington
niVistrates on Monday, the consideration of the appliCatida fOr a
renewal of the lice,,se to Cremerne House, Ckelsea, was resumed,
and the magistrates decided not to renew the license.
On Mt a lay an inquest was held touching the death of
Miss Tunstall, the vocalist, formerly of Vauxhall-gardens, who ex-
pired very suddenly at her rkisidence in Wellington-street, Newington-
causeway, on the morning of Friday last. A verdict of "Natural
death" was recorded.
FA/LURES iN GLAscow.—Sereral failures are re-
ported to have taken place hero this week. The liabilities of one
party, extensively engaged In the iron trade, are said to arnomit to
upwards of 100,0001. —Glisegats tither.
' There are building at this time on the banks of the
River Wear, at Sunderland, no less than $4 ships, snit 14 More are
lying in the river fitting out and for sale, making a total Of 97, many
of them of large burden.—Yeiccastie Paper.
By the advices lately receired from Brasil it fql etra
that a discovery has been made in the Cocacs mine by a negro in the
employ of the :National BraXilian CoMpany. This is a vein twelve
Whom' wile, and traced to st lertaih of tliitt4',Stiln fathoms. it
.
Partici" 5.- of a barley-corn.
consists ofc"tttltitrui *,44 t'4 Iff4 t:2 Minutest
POPULAR KNOWLEDGR._Jf knowl,l,-Ft be in itself

. 'woo, the tailor thd Measure of it the better for the possecor, no
matter Whether he be of the higher or the lower, the learned or the
unlearned caste. For our own parts, we are strongly
superficial knowledge is not Innen better than do knowledge, and
all must agree that inaccurate knowledge is worse than none at alt.
Elenes we are no friends of what ii commonly termed popular litera-
ture; that is, literature lit only for the ignorant,
leaves them so. We may be told that their ca
as we 'nay regard our own mental superiority, which Ands and
I,acitiee will not
of opinion that
admit of higher teaching—a libel on common sense I Complaisantly
that meet literary subjects may and should be made as intelligible to
i the peasant, if he can read and reflect, as to our noble selyes, But,
unluckily for popular improvement, they are not made intelligible.
Gooks of elementary instruction arc often written without method, and generally abound in unmeaning conventional terms, and we call
"Every man a mouthful and no man a bellyti:,: mayha been everybody ignorant that does mot understand them. The maxim,
Current
uassuredi
T el,
lopg enough ; more so within ttkese fifteen years than at any limner
perlv.l, awl LW TOILIO PTO 1291 Y liiirly begin W disimie.-414eniRtn•

titan, % —great Northern K France Constituted, 16U —Great Indian
Peninsular, %—Great Western Canida, —Jersey, +X.—Luxem-
bourg*, 114—Madrid and Valentia, I—Orleans and Bordeaux, 11%
—Sambst and Meuse, 4

THE Coxvicr Wicxs.—We are glad to learn that the
case of this unfortunate young man has, by the humanity of
a number of individuals, been brought under the especial
notice of the Government, and that strong hopes are enter-
tained that the capital sentence will not be carried
into effect. This appears to be one of those
cases where lenity might be shown with little
danger to society. There are great doubts respecting the
sanity of the convict, and besides, from his own account, he
was almost driven to madness by the cruel treatment of his
master. This may be true, or it may not, for any evidence
produced, but it is known to many, that the life of apprentices
in London is too frequently of the most dismal character,
and that insults and cruelties are inflicted on young lads
which almost exceed human endurance. The law has given
to the master the power and authority of a parent, while he
has none of those natural feelings which rarely fail to miti-
gate punishment. The crime, we readily admit, was very
great, but when we compare it, under all the circumstances,
with many of those committed by persons arrived at mature
years, who have had their sentences commuted, or who have,
by accident, escaped conviction, we are strongly inclined to
plead for mercy to this young man, who has only entered
his twentieth year.