The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-23 00:00:00

REPLY OF THE AGENTS.

" 16, Tokenhouse-yard, Nov. 21.
" Sir,—We have the honour to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter of this date, referring to certain
charges that have, from time to time, appeared in the
public journals, respecting a supposed improper issue of
Spanish Three per Cent. Bonds, and inviting our reply
to questions, which we have now the pleasure to answer
in the order in which you have placed them.
" Ist. The amount of Three per
Cent. Bonds and Provisional Certifi-

cates issued by us to this date,iri
exchange for the Five per Cent. cou-
pons to 1840, is
" 2d. The amount of the same Stock
issued in exchange for the Spanish
Treasury Bonds, under the agreement
of February last, is..

366,136 8 5

" Total issued in London and Paris £6,458,063 0 11
" 3d. The amount deposited by the Spanish Govern-
ment with the contractors for the capitalisation was, we
believe, 7,272,100 reels, or about 72,791/. sterling, and
that the guarantee which was delivered to us at the time in
sealed packages still remains in our possession.
"4th. We have received no intimation yet from the
Spanish Government of the amount intended to be re-
mitted in anticipation of the next dividend, and we can-
not therefore say whether it will exceed the sum actu-
ally required for the bonds in circulation, but we may
mention that on former occasions the Government has
remitted beyond those wants, and has applied the sur-
plus to the payment of the dividends on the Spanish
Indemnity bonds.
" We decidedly bear testimony with you to the cour-
tesy and uprightness of M. Borajo, the Spanish financial
commissioner here, and we may add that, both on the
part of that gentleman and the Spanish Government,
we have remarked the strictest regard to integrity and
good faith as to the public in the present capitalization.
We have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient
servants, "REID, IRVING, and CO."
SUN.—The English Investments leave off firm, Consols
being 1001 4 for Money and Time. The Three per
Cent. Reduced were 99;1 ; the New Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents., 1024; and Exchequer Bills, 605.,t0 625. prem.
The Foreign Market was a little better, Spanish
being 24 to 244 for the Actives, and 35i 4 for the Three
per Cents. Messrs. Reid, Irving, and Co., have an-
swered an application of the Committee of Spanish Bond-
holders, to the effect that the issue of Three per Cent.
Bonds does not exceed 6,458,063/. The amount to be
remitted for the next dividends has not yet been certi-
fied by the Spanish Government. Mexican Bonds were
firm at 364 4 ; and Brazilian at 89 to 891. Portuguese
Converted were 544.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Dublin and Belfast were 14 ; Great
Southern and Western (Ireland), 4 to 34 ; Lancaster
and Carlisle, 21 ; Birmingham, ns ; Ditto, Thirds,
354 ; Brighton Loan Notes, 14 ; Croydon, 21 ; Man-
chester and Leeds, Half, 194; Midland, 8; Ditto, Fifths,
1 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 29 to 29i ; Northern
and Eastern, Scrip, 101 ; Norwich and Brandon, ;
South-Eastern, 4K ; Ditto, Scrip, 7 ; York and North
Midland, Scarborough Branch, 214 ; Ditto, Selby Ex-
tension, 12.1 to 134 ; Boulogne and Amiens, l 4 a ; Or-
leans and Vierzon, 81 ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 34 4 ; and
Paris and Rouen, 18H premium ; Bristol and Exeter,
14 discount to par. Eastern Counties have been 111 to
11 ; Birmingham and Gloucester, 1:1 ; Blackwall, 10i ;
Brighton, 21 ; and Greenwich, 34 to 3 discount. Aus-
tralasian Bank Shares were 4 premium.
The Exchange on Amsterdam and Antwerp was
rather higher this afternoon ; on LlarebFgh scarcely so
good ; and on Paris, Frankfort and Trieste about the
same.

THEATRE ROYAL, DRURY-LANE.—We are given
to understand that the entire profits of the last season
are to be expended upon one scene alone in 13alfeN
new opera, called The Daughter of St. Mark. A
procession takes place from the amazing height of
forty-three feet, in which nearly six hundred persons
make their appearance, the costumes of whom are of
the most varied and brilliant description. Its pro-
duction will form all together a musical era in this
country, the whole opera being in recitative.

PETITION TO PLEAD "IN FORMA PAUPERIB."--•
At the opening of the Lord Chancellor's Court yester-
day, a petition was presented to his Lordship to sanction
the issuing of that " writ of Right," " which unto
poor people," as the Act (21st Edward III.) states,
"shall be given for God's sake, and upheld by the aid
of counsel learned in the law," in favour of the Widow
Acherley, now or about eighty years of age,
the lineal
descendant of the Lord Chief Baron Sir Robert Atkyns,
Knight of the Bath, whose race are now in default
(since her right accrued fourteen years) of heirs male
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Chamberlaynes of Maug;ersbury, the Leighs of High
Leigh and Joddrel Hall, in Cheshire ; the distinguished
Admirals Sir Charles an Sir Edward Hamilton, and
Sir Graham Hatnond, Baronets, and also the present
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0R . —After the
ceremony of the consecration of the new church at Cam-
berwell, the poor in the workhouse were provided with
an excellent and ample dinner of roast beef and plum-
pudding, and a pint of porter. The children belonging
to the charity schools had also a dinner provided for
them, at the Grove-house Tavern, Camberwell-grove, of
which 300 partook. The Bishop of Winchester, the dis-
trict clergy, the churchwardens, and other parish officers,
had a splendid entertainment provided for them in a
handsome marquee, erected on the lawn in front of the
Rev. J. G. Storey's (the Vicar) house