The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-03 00:00:00

Consols have reached within a + per cent, of par this
morning, but they are now a shade lower. Not much
business has, however, been done. It was generally ex-
pected early in the (lay that the Commissioners would
have to give par for the amount of stock they have usu-
ally taken of late, so buoyant did the market look.
Those functionaries, however, took 30,0001. Consuls at
98g. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents, have been
sold at an improvement to 103, and Bank Stock at
2011. In the premium upon Exchequer bills scarcely
any alteration has taken place. India Stock for the
opening has been quoted at 294.
A large amount of business has been transacted in
the Foreign Stock market this morning. Spanish Five
per Cents. have realised 274 g ; the 'Three per Cents.,
381 1 ; the Passive, 7i ; and the Deferred, 16g. The
French Five per ents. are worth 121 f. 50c., the ex-
change being given at 25f. 70c. Duteh Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. are up to 604 / ; the Five per Cents. to 99g
i- ; Mexican to 37+ g ; Portuguese Converted 46411 ; and'
Colombian, ex Venezuela, to 16k. Brazil Stock is now
at 20+. The desire to speculate in the Foreign Stocks is
evidently on the increase.
The Railway Share market is on the rise. The Bir-
mingham and Gloucester, the Brighton, Lewes, and
Hastings. the Edinburgh and Glasgow, the Lancaster
and Carlisle, the South Western, and the Manchester
and Birmingham, all improved in value. London and
Westminster Bank shares have rallied to 5 prem. ; Na-
tional Bank of Ireland to 3/ disc. ; and Union of Aus-
tralia to 1 prem.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(Front the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 9954%
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 102%.503
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860..... .....
Ditto 30 Years, Expire sth Jan. 1860
India Bonds,l,ooo —
Ditto under 1,000 B7
Bank Stock for Account ...... ..............
Consols for Account
India Stock 29499
Exchequer Bills, I%d. I%d
1,0001.
Ditto Small
73 pm.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCI%.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account. SO
Columbian Bonds. l6
Mexican Bonds, 1837,5 per Cent. .... 37 37%
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Deferred Stock.
Portuguese Bonds'
46 5 per Cent. -
Ditto Converted
Ditto for the Account
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840 2734%
Ditto for the Account
714 3
Ditto Passive Bonds.
Ditto Deferred 15% '16%
• Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account.
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent —
Ditto Deferred
French Rentes, 5 per Cent
Dutch 234 per Cents.
tt
Ditto tor the Account. 6O
Dutch 5 per Cents
New Loan 1837, 5 per Cents. 99%
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE
Birmingham and Gloucester
Bristol and Exeter...-. ............. . 70 72
Bristol and Gloucester 3O ......... 48
Caledonian
Dublin and Cashel ... 2% 5%% "' to
Eastern Counties
Ditto New Registered.... Al. 6s. Ad.
Ditto Perpetual 5 per eent l3s. 4d. ... 1,4
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O .. ... 65
Great Western
Ditto x Shares
Grand Junction 100
Ditto % Shares
Lancaster and Carlisle 5 ......... 7%% ... to 8
London and Brighton ... .........
London and Birmingham.
_
London and South Western ...... 41%
Ditto Eighths -
Manchester and Birmingham ... % ..... -.. 4934
Midland Counties lOO --, to
Ditto Fifths 2 ......... 334
North British ' 234

Norwich and Brandon
7%U... to -.
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 18
Paris and Orleans ............ ....... . 20
Paris and Rouen
,4
% ... to ....
Rouen and Havre. .......„ ..... 8
'.' •ttio. tO ....
South Eastern and Dover
Strasburg and Basle ... ..... ...... "14 -
York and North Midland ......... 50 122 .... ... to
Ditto Scarboro' Branch ..•......
.. Yll
--•.i
JOINT STOCK BANKS. 254 ••••
3i••• to
London and Westminster 2O 2.5 to

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, APRIL 2.—We have had
a good market to-day for most shares, and a fair amount of
business has been done :—Dublin and Drogheda, 71; Dublin
and Cashel, 6 ; Eastern Counties, 11; Ditto New Registered,
13i ; Ditto Perpetual, 1/. 13s. 4d. ; Grand Junction Half-
shares, 116 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 8i ; Manchester and
Birmingham, 484 to 49it ; Manchester, Bury, and Bosseu-
dale, 7i ; Sheffield and Manchester, 704 ;Preston and IN'yre,
12i ; Soutit-Eastern 54 to j ; Union Bank, 8i ; Hud-
dersfield Canal, 174.. ,

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
MANCHESTER BETTING.—TUESDAY.
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
sto 2 agst The Ugly Buck—t. 16 to 1 agst Wadastra c.
6 to 1 agst Keeley
CHESTER CUP.
20 to •1 agst Bramble
'22 to 1 agst Merry Andrew--t.
;25 to 1 agst Vakeel--taken
25 to 1 agst Sir Robert—laid
I once .
35 td. 1 agst Haitoo
40 to 1 agst What—offers to t.

11 to 1 agst Pharaoh •
13 to 1 agst Pagan
14 to 1 agst Cattonite
18 to 1 agst Alice Hawthorn
—taken •
20 to 1 agst Jamie Forest
20 to 1 agst HOoton
20 to 1 agst Red Deer

Say.'
'3O to 1 agst lonian • .
'35 to 1 agst Campanero
40 to'l agat: Biy MorauS the
sister to Grey Mornus c)—t.
40 to 1 agstikkbar—taken
50 toJ.agst Telemachus

6 to 1 agst Rattan
64 to 1 agst Ugly Buck—
take 7 to 1
15 to 1 agst Orlando—taken
18 to 1 agst Running Rein
22 to 1 agst Cockamaroo
25 to 1 agst T'Auld Squire—i
offered I
'No offers for the Oaks.
NORTHUMBERLAND_, AND ,DURHAti STEEPLE

- • CHASE' EN'TRY.—Timnstimr.
Mr. V. Surtee's' Ariel—Mr. It. -Hoyle's Middlehana—ML
W. Greenwell's Byron—Mr. 11. W:FenWick's Kitten—Capt.
De Salis's Tommy—Lord Killeen's brother to Binks the Bag-
mangy-Captain Shewell's Rival—Mr. Cookson's' Charles
O'Malley—Mr. Thbmpion's Tanner—Mr. T. 'Butler's Albert
—Mr. Headlam's- CrefiTELL-Mr. Salkeld's Little Devil—
Mr. Lamb's Maria PeksianiL-Mr. Waring's Creeping Molly
—Mr. Yea's Safeguard—Mr. Wood's Moonraker—Mr. Moun-
sey's Sir—Mr: Dixon's Foxhunter—Mr. D. Cookson's Rufui
—Mr. Foster's Nubian—Mr. Clavering's Man Friday—Mr.
W. J. Johnstone's Donald Cair:(l---and. Mi. R. Crawford's
Blucher.

AOUTHAM STEEPLE CHASES.---TUESDAY.
Sweepstakes of 20 sous. each with 100 added.
Mr. Jenkins's Lyeurgus, llst 31b . . ............. . ..... (Owner) 1
Mr. Green's Vanguard, I2st ..................................... 2
Crawford's The Returned, list Sib ................ 3
Mr. Ekin's Blue Pill, lOst 31b
Mr. Tilbury's Tom Tug, lOst
Mr. Inman's Marston, lOst 31b ..... ............ . ............ 6'
Mr. Conolly's Shamrock; lOst 31b ............ . ... 7
Sweepstakes of3.sovs. each, .and 30 added. Three miles.
Mr. Tilbury's Duprez .. . ....................... (Mason) . 1
Mr. Birch's Dandy...
Little Robert, Waverley, Refuse, The Monk, Perfection,
Shakespeare, No Doubt, and Caroline, also started.
The third sweepstakes of 3 sovs, each, with 10 added, lOst
each, two miles, was won by Mr. Grindle's Ace of Diamonds
(Parker), beating Discord, Langollan, and Principe. Killed—
Discord, who was • running the winner in, fell at the dis-
tance, and was ridden over by some farmers and much hurt.
FINCHLEY ,STEEPLE CHASE,4uEsnAy. •
• , Sweepstakes of 3 sous. each.-11st 71b.
Mr. A. Dixon's Ragman-- .. . .......................
Mr. B. Land's Faith ... ............. ..

Several old coins bave been found near the sea-
shore, close to a field called Cae'r Henblas, near Bangor,
Canarvonshire. They are inscribed ftherang hyb; on the
re, erne, Civitas London; others have Bristol on the reverse.
They evidently belong to the reign of Edward 1. and are
probably some of the great coinage which he issued in 1279,
being therefore 565 years old.—Shrewsbury Chl
The Bush coach-office, in Bristol wher ronic e
an.
exten-
sive business has been carried on for, we believe, more than
a century, has this week closed, hi obedience to the
.giant
power of steam,i' and the absorption of its business in the
great vortex of railway monopoly. We hear that it is pro-
bable the premises will be occupied by the Branch Bank of
England.--Fx/ix Farley's Bristol Journal.- •• - - "' - BENEVOLENCE.—A few minutes after the election
of pensioners on Monday for the City of London General
Pension Society, the secretary received 5/. in an anonymous
letter, desiring that it might be given to the highest tome-
cessful candidate.

MOVE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
•
The Cotton Market at Liverpool, yesterday, was very
dull : sales, 2,000 bale;, of which 500 were on specula-
tion. There was no change in prices. The Share
market was brisk for French, Dover, and the minor
lines. Birmingham and Gloucester, 911; Chester .ani
Holyhead, 71 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 65; Grand
Junction, 232 ; Great Western, Half, 701 ; Caledonian,
611 ; Dublin and Cashel. 54 ; Birmingham, Quarter, 281;
North British, 31.35.; Paris and Lyons, 2. 15s. to 2/.145.;
Ditto and Orleans, 361, to ; South Eastern, 36.
-• The commercial advices received from Merida, Cam-
peachy, notices the fact that the Government of Yucatan
had issued a decree establishing an entrepot for imported
goods at that place. As British trade is increasing in
that direction, it may be of use to give the details. The
following are the provisions of the decree
" Art. Ist. A mercantile depot is to be established in
the port of Campeachy, where all goods may be stored
for one year, without being liable to duty, on .paying
two per cent. for storage, which two per cent. is payable
within thirty days after the goods are enterect

" 2d. Goods or merchandise taken from the depot
before the end of a 3 ear, for exportation, are not subject
to either State or municipal duty.
" 3d. Goods or merchandise taken from the depot for
the State market, or which have remained a whole year
in the depot, will pay both State and municipal duty.
_" 4th. Provisions, pitch, and inflammable stuffs, empty
vessels of every description, and naval stores, are prohi-
bited from being stored in the depOt.
" sth. The government of the depot will be adminis-
tered by officers appointed by the State."
The supplies of timber from Canapeaehy are at pre-
sent short in the Markets of London and Liverpool, at
feast as far as respects good-sized logs of mahogany.
The timber trade generally is good fur select samples.
The advices from St. Petersburgh relative to the brack
of tallow, and the probable supplies, state that the latter
cannot be estimated with any certainty, but the opinion
wag that it would fall short of those of last year. The
reason for this belief is that in consequence of the abun-
dance of grain and fodder, the proprietors of stock were
not compelled to slaughter. The business of the London
market was another inducement to keep back supplies.
The Russian merchants at St: Petersburgh were of opi.:
nion that prices would be kept Up. Speculation was on
the increase.
Difficulties exist as to the legality of mixing-chicory
in 'the coffee. 'About two years since, an order was
issued by the Excise department; as we are told, permit-
ting the addition, but now it is asserted that such a
-course of proceeding is illegal. The Treasury, it is to
be hoped, will consider the subject, so .that something
definite may be known upon the subject, which is of
general importance to the mass of the people, who 'buy
coffee generally in a ground state, not having. mills of
their own.