The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-10 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET and CITY NE W

FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT.

CITY, TUESDAY EVE?iING.
TIMES.—The premium on gold at Paris is 13# per
mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10d.
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of •25
49 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short
being 25 65, it follows that gold is 0.64 per cent.
dearer in London than in Paris.
By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 434 i
per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. /
per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13 911;
and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short
being 13 101, it follows that gold is 0.34 per cent. dearer
in London than in Hamburgh.
The course of exchange at New York on London is
108 per cent., and the par of exchange between Eng-
land and America being 109 23-40 per cent., it follows
that the exchange is 1.58 per cent. against England.
But the quoted exchange at New York being for bills
at 60 days' sight, the interest must be deducted free)
the above difference.

SUN.—The English Securities left off very sA, and at,
* per cent. advance even on the high rates of the morn-
ing, Consols being 100 to *. Bank Stock for Account
touched 202,1 to 203. India Stock was quiet at 294.
The Foreign market continued dull, Spanish Actives
leaving off the same as in the morning, and also the
Three per Cents. Mexican rallied a little, the Deferred
being 154 ; Colombian were 148 ; Brazilian new 77i to
; Belgian, 104/ ; Russian, 117* ; and I)utch Five per
Cents. 1008 to 1.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these:—Bristol and Gloucester were 22 to 21 ;
Chester and Holyhead, 2* to 8 ; Eastern Counties, New,
58 ; Hull and Selby, 9+ ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 21 ;
South Western, 43k ; Manchester and Leeds, Half, 18 ;
Northern and Eastern Scrip, 91 to 10 ; Ditto, Quarter,
41- • ' and Paris and Rouen, 17f, to 9- premium.
4Green-
wich Preference were 28 discount. London and West
minster Bank Shares were 58 to 5 ; and Provincial of
Ireland, New, 61 premium.
The following is the official return of the exports of
bullion from the port of London for the week ending
Thursday last :
Silver coin to Belgium
~ China .
bars to Rotten
COURSE OF EXCHA3
Amsterdam CF. 12 6
Ditto, at sight l2 4
Rotterdam 9 U l2 6i
Antwerp 26 0
Hainburgh M.B. 14 0
Altona l4 0
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70
Ditto, 3 months 25 95
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 26 0
Frankfort on Maine l22i
Petersburgh, 3Us 364
Berlin
Vienna, effee. 11.3 M 957
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 36i
Cadiz
36
Barcelona 36
Seville .

50,000

lam
GE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Gibraltar
Leghorn 3O 65
Genoa 25 95
Milan
Venice 47
Naples 39
Palermo, per oz ll7
Lisbon s3k
Oporto s3k
Rio Janeiro 23
Bahia . 23
Buenos Ayres
NewYork,2ldys sight
Philadelphia
PRICEZ OF BULLION, PER OZ.
Foreign Gold, bars..L3 17 9
Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Doliars 0 4 91
Silver in Bars 0 4 Ili

BANK OF ENGLAND.

Yesterday a special meeting of the proprietors of
Bank Stock was held in the Court-room of the Corpora-
tion, for the purpose of electing a Governor and Deputy-
Governor for the year ensuing. Mr. William Cotton, the
Governor, presided, and the Court having been opened
in the usual form, the ballot was commenced. Pursuant
to a request expressed in general Court last month, Mr.
W. Cotton and Mr. J. B. Heath were placed on the
house list to serve in the following year, as many im-
portant negotiations already commenced would have to
to be continued, relative to the charter, the consideration
of which must soon be brought before Parliament.
At four o'clock the glasses ware closed, and, after an
investigation, the scrutineers announced that there had
been given for Mr. William Cotton, to be Governor, 98
votes ; for Mr. John Benjamin Heath, as Deputy-Go-
vernor, 97 votes; and for Mr. John Cook, whose name
was put up for the latter office, one vote.
The Governor and Deputy-Governor then took the
usual oaths on their appointment to their respective
offices, and the Court was adjourned until to-morrow
morning, when the election for Directors will take place.
There is no doubt but that the proprietors given in the
house list, and past Directors, will be on the ballot re-
elected.

The Court adjourned at half-past four o'clock.

Mr. Thomas Pate, son of Mr. Wm. Pate, farmer,
of Haddenham, Cambridgeshire, is about to present to
the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, a beautiful skeleton,
(it is supposed) of a wolf, which was found in the neigh-
bourhood of that place. Mr. Pate is to have for his
liberality free access at all times to the Museum, with
the liberty of admitting any number of friends.
PERILS OF AN EASTER-OPFERING COLLECTOR:.
Owing to the extraordinary increase of the value of the
tithes exacted by the Rector of Hackney, a stronc, and
something like united determination to resist further
payment of " Easter-offerings" exists among the pa-
rishioners. The following plain-speaking placard was
freely distibuted throughout the parish on Saturday, and
has served to increase the hostility to the clerical poll-
tax :—" The inhabitants of Hackney are cautioned against
submitting to a pious fraud, in the shape of what are
called Easter-offerings. By the late commutation of
tithes the Rector is to receive a fixed rent-charge of 9811.
per annum, instead of, as formerly, a sum under 5001.
This increase has been, in fact, obtained by including in
the rent-charge nearly the whole of what has hitherto
been contributed by the inhabitant as Easter-offerings.
Should, therefore, any one, nut duly authorised, make
any demand on them for Easter-offerings, they are re-
quested to hand him over to the police, in order that he
may be summarily dealt with as a person endeavouring
to extort money under false pretences."
FATAL AFFRAY AT HORSLYDOWN.—Last evening
between the hours of six and seven, a quarrel ensued in
front of the bar of the Coal Smack public-house, Horsly-
down, between two persons of the names of Dean and
Fishey, which has resulted in the death of the former.
From the few particulars that could be obtained,it appears
that Dean, who was the son of a coalmeter, was standing in
front of the bar, using obscene language, when Fishey re-
monstrated with him on his impropriety. This caused
high words to pass between the parties, and from words
they came to blows. They then retired into tho
streets, where several rounds were fought ; Dean, it
seems, was severely beaten, or else he received
some serious injury by being thrown down. Finding
what state he was in, he immediately repaired to a.
neighbouring surgeon, who recommended him to go
to the hospital. The poor fellow started off for that
purpose, and had just reached the entrance of Guy's
Hospital, when he was suddenly observed to stagger,
and then fall to the ground. He was picked up in an
insensible state, and Carried into that institution, and
the house-surgeon was promptly in attendance, and en•
deavoured, but in vain, to restore him to conscious-
ness, the vital spark having for ever flown. Informa-
tion of the melancholy occurrence was forwarded to the
police, who apprehended Fishey last night, shortly after
ten o'clock.

THE BRITISH INSTITUTION.—On Thursday, the
election of a keeper for this institution took place, when
Mr. John Seguier, the brother of the late keeper, was
chosen to be his successor. The onlyikther candidate
was Mr. John Burnet, the celebrated7ainter and en-
graver; though some of the newspapers have nominated
Mr. Unwins, the Royal Academician, much, we believe, to
the surprise and annoyance of that gentleman, who never
entertained an idea of the kind.—Literary Gazette.
THE ROYAL NURSERY.—WhiIe her Majesty and
Prince Albert are inhaling the genial and invigorating
sea breeze, and rusticating at Osborne, in the Isle of
Wight, the Royal progeny will be domiciled at the pic-
turesque seat at Eaglehurst, which has been selected as
the marine residence of the Royal infants. The stately
tower of Eaglehurst is not far from Calshot Castle, in
the Southampton river, commanding beautiful sea views
in all directions, and is surrounded with rich plantations.
It was formerly the seat of the Earl of Cavan, _and ori-
ginally built by the late Temple Luttrell. The lofty
tower of Eaglehurst is well known to seamen as " Lut-
trell's Folly."
BROCOLI FROM CORNWALL.— Very large quanti-
ties of brocoli are now sent to Bristol by the steamers,
for sale in the Bristol and Bath markets, or to be for-
warded by railway to London. The very large brocoli
raised in the west of Cornwall surpass everything of the
kind that can be raised in the neighbourhood of those
markets.—.Royal Cornwall Gazette.
TAILORS' PROTECTION SOCIETY.--The journeymen
tailors of the metropolis have for a length of time been
using their best endeavour to establish an Association
forr inroads
es
which had bn m
purpose o f pereotec tiadng themselvesfrom e
upon their interests
recent system of competition in the trade, by the em-
ployment of persons, females, and hot ers, who work out
of doors, instead of the old system when masters had all
their work done on the premises. After a series of
meetings held in town, and an arrangement made for a
division of the metropolis into sections for mutual acting,
a correspondence was opened with provincial towns
throughout the whole kingdom, the most of which formed
local societies for the same purpose, and entered into
correspondence and co-operation with the central
committee in London. Yesterday the committee
met at the Music Hall, 72, St. Martin's-lane,
to receive delegates from the country. Mr. Par-
rott was unanimously called to the chair, and Mr.
Parker acted as secretary. There were present a
great number of delegates from different ' parts of
England, such as Manchester and towns of the like im-
portance, and from other large towns there were com-
munications by letter, all tendering adherence and una-
nimity to the general movement. The primary object
of the association, as we understood it, from what came
before the meeting, is to get up a number of petitions to
Parliament, praying for a Committee to inquire into the
state of the trade, and to call upon the • lature to
is
enforce such Acts, now almost become obsolete, which
enforced penalties upon those who employed themselves,
or those who employed others, in trades to which they
had not served a legal apprenticeship. The delegates
assembled at ten o'clock. and continued their sitting till
five o'clock. The communications from the country
were all of the most flattering description, as regarded
heartiness in the cause, but were deeply tainted with
sad details of the miserable endurance of those who were
employed by these cutting establishments. The Com-
mittee resume their sittings to-day it the same hour, and
to continue till their business be completed.
The number of English visitors at Paris is at the
present moment greater than it has been ever since the
peace, not less than 500 passports are daily presented at
the English Embasm for visa.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.--On the 9th inst., at
Brighton, Sir John Dean Paul, Bart., of Rodborough,
Gloucestershire, to Elizabeth, youngest daughter .of
Samuel, late Lord Bishop of St. Asaph. .