The Sun.
London, England, 1844-08-07 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, TUESDAY EVENING.
The English Stock Market maintained the improve-
ment of the morning up to the close of business. Con-
sols for Money being 991 sellers, and for Account 99f
buyers. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. were
1011 to ; Reduced, 102} to -; and the Three per Cents.
99,4,- to par ; Bank Stock touched 2001.
The Foreign investments, also, looked a trifle better,
Spanish Fly° per Cents. being 22k to I ; and the
Three per Cents. 33 to ; Portuguese Converted
touched 43i to for account ; Mexican were 35i to 36 ;
Colombian, 131 to ; and Dutch Four per Cents. 96i
to 96.

The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Birmingham arid Gloucester New were
10 ; Chester and Holyhead, 1 to 1 ; Dublin and Cashel,
31 to 44 ; Great Western, 59 ; Hull and Selby, 121;
Birmingham, 128 ; Greenwich Preference, 2 ; South-
Western Eighths, 31 , Croydon, ; Midland, 5t061 ;
Sheffield and Manchester, 1 ; Norwich and Brandon 94;
South-Eastern, 51 ; Ditto, New, 81 ; Trent Valley, 8 ;
York and North Midland, 63 ; Paris and Orleans, 17k;
Paris and Rouen, 17 to ; and Rouen and Havre, Bto
9 premium. Chichester and Brighton have been 1 ;
Eastern Counties, 11* 101 ; Greenwich, 54 ; and Mid-
land and Birmingham and Derby, 21 discount. National
Provincial Bank of England Shares were 4i premium.
The rate of exchange on Paris and Amsterdam was
the same as on Friday last; on Antwerp, and Hamburgh
and Frankfort, there was a trifling decline; and Trieste
was firmer.

The following is the official return of the exports of
buillion from the port of London for the week ending
Thursday last :
Silver coin to Rotterdam, 8,000 ounces.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The transactions in Cotton were yesterday extentive at
Liverpool, being 8,000 bales, of which exporters took 1,000;
600 Surat sold at 3d to 31d; 400 Egyptian, at 6id to 71d;
150 Pernam, at 54d to 6d; and the rest American, at 31d to
60 per lb.—The Railway Shares were quoted as follows:
Birmingham and Gloucester, 114; Bristol and Gloucester,
57 ; Chester and Holyhead, 51. lls. 3d.; Eastern Counties,
12b ; Ditto, Perpetual, 2/. 14s. 4d.; Liverpool and Manches-
ter, New, 35 premium; London and Birmingham, 230;
Ditto, Quarter Shares, 27i ; London and Brighton, 491;
Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 112; Midland Counties, 110;
North Union, 134 ex-dividend; Sheffield and Manchester,
82} ;
,South-Eastern, 391; Ditto, 121; Trent "Valley, 91;
Paris and Lyons, 21. 11s. 6d.; Ditto and Orleans, 38i ; Or-
leans, Tours, and Bordeaux, 2 1-10.

The letter received from Messrs. Lizard', by the Commit-
tee of Spanish American Bondholders has excited a good
deal of animadversion ; though, judging from previous oc-
currences, it cannot be said that it created any surprise. The
positive refusal to afford the least:information only shows that
the creditors here have nothing to hope for from the present
agents, and in this feeling it is to be expected they will act by
remonstrating with the Mexican Government. About 44,000
dollars have come over for the dividends by the West India
steamers.

The late accounts from Jamaica and the other West India
islands are rather more favourable as to the weather, rain
having fallen pretty generally. At Barbadoes there had been
symptoms of the approach of what is generally called the
hurricane season. Immigration seemed to be still going
on more freely into Trinidad than the other islands,
but the planters finding the sugar cultivation less
profitable, and alarmed, as are all the West Indians, at the
change of duty, were taking measures to reduce the duties.
Jamaica was healthy and quiet, except as regards the agitation
respecting the Sugar Bill. In Dominica tranquillity was wholly
restored, and the militia are highly lauded for their prompti-
tude and discipline. It is stated that the census had less to do
with the disturbances than was supposed, and that the
leaders were advocates of a new system, a kind of St. Do-
mingo republic.
The Stock Market begins to look up again, and there is a
fair business doing. The declaration of M. Guizot has served
to tranquillise, in some measure, the more timid holders, and
the safe acconchement of her Majesty relieves any anxiety on
that score. Consols have been at a rally from 98i to 98* The
Government purchase of 10,0001. has been made at 99k. Ex-
chequer Bills have been marked 775. to 755. premium, being
still rather depressed. Bank Stock is supported at 200.
The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have rallied to 101 i a ;
and the Reduced Three per Cents. to par.
There is a small business doing in the Foreign Investments,
and which, although not quite so flat, exhibit, nevertheless,
a want of buoyancy. Spanish Five per Cents. are 224, the
Three per Cents. 32i to 33k, and. Portuguese Converted 43
to Mexican Bonds are 35k, Colombian 13 Chilian 104,
and Brazilian 84. Belgian Bonds ars 103, Russian 120, and
Dutch Two-and -a-Half per Cents. 61i.
For the Railway Shares there is rather les* inquiry, and
the advantage continues to be rather with the buyers. The
French lines have rallied a little from the lowest rates of yes-
terday. The London and Westminster Bank Shares are
Gi premium.

Erratum in Saturday's List—Edinburgh and Glasgow
Railway, 65 to 66.
IitiANCIIESTErt STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 5 —Our market
has been strong, and closes with a good demand, at higher
rates :—Eastern Counties, 12k ; Huddersfield and Manches-
ter, 4 ; London and South-Western, Eighths, 4}; Man•
chester and Leeds, 118 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 50* ; Manchester
and Birmingham, Quarters, 5i ; South-Eastern, 38i; Tren
Valley, 10.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bask Stock
3 per Cent. Red lOO Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. Cons
3% per Cent. Red 102% Ditto New Annuities ...
New 3% per Cent. lolk El. Bills, 1,0001. INcl ... 75 pm
New 5 per Cent — Ditto 5001
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 77 pie.
Jan 186 U IN ,Bank Stock for Acct....
Oct. 1859 l2 5.16 Consols for Act.......... VN
Jan. 1860 ......
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per Cent
Belgian, S per Cent — !Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds
per Cent .......
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent — Russian 5 per Cent l2O
Chllian, 6 per Cent .... ...... .. 15. Ditto, Metallic.....—
Colombian, 6 per Cent ...... 13% 6panish, 5 per Cent 22%
Ditto, 1824 Ditto, 9 per Cent 3.1
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 113% Ditto, Deferred
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 18:5, 5 per Cent.... Exchange ..... ........
Mexican, S per Cent . ..... ... French, 3 per Cent —f. —c
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 14;37....... Dutch, 234 per Cent 6134
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent... Ditto, 5 per Cent 101!(
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) ll3
Ditto, New Shares, 17% paid , 27%
Chester and Holyhead ( a paid)
Chichester and Brighton, 5 paid
Dublin and Cashel, 2% paid
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent., 13s 4d, paid,Ne I I A
Great Western (75 paid)
Hull and Selby, 50 paid 61%
London and Birmingham (Stock)
London and Brighton (50 paid) „..„...........
London and Greenwich (I2t. 15s. 4d. paid) 7%
Diito, Preference or Privilege, £lB 1712 d paid 20%
Lendostand South Western (411. k. lad. NA
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk) lli%
Midland Counties (IOU paid) 106%
Norwich and Brandon, 4 paid l3
South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) .....
Ditto New Shares, 4 paid
Trent Valleyrth Midland (50 paid) , 2 paid lO
York and No
113
York and Scarborough Branch (2}. paid)
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris end Rouen. 20 paid
Rouen and Havre, IU paid l9
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 41 Gibraltar —
Ditto, ai. 5ight......... 12 2 Leghorn 3O 50
Rotterdam 2U. 12 5 Genoa 25 85
Antwerp
flamburgh M.B. 13 13/ Venice ... ...
Altona l3 14 Naples
Paris, 3 days' sight— 25 60 Palermo, per oz llB4
Ditto, 3 months...... 25 85 Lisbon 541
Marseilles - 544
Boardeaux
Frankfort on Maine.. 121 Bahia 23
Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Buenos Ayres —
Berlin 7 NewYork,2ldys sight
Vienna, effec. 11. 3 M 952 Philadelphia --
Trieste, ditto
Madrid 37 Foreign Gold, bars...£.3 17 9
Cadiz

36
Barcelona 36
Seville

_Jgal
New Doubloons 0 0 0
New Dollars 0 4 101
Silver in Bars 0 4 11:

SPANISH AMERICAN BOND-
HOLDERS.

The following further correspondence between the
Committee of Spanish American bondholders and
Messrs. Lizardi and Co., the Mexican agents, was circu-
lated in the City on Monday:— . _

" 13, Austinfriars, Aug. 2.
" Gentlemen,—Your letter of the 27th ult., in reply
to mine of the preceding day, was yesterday laid before
the Committee of Spanish American bondholders, and I
sin desired to express to you their extreme dissatis-
faction with its contents, and especially with your re-
fusal to furnish the Committee with any information as
to the moneys in hand to meet the dividend now four
months in arrear.

" The Committee desire me to express in the strongest
terms their unanimous opinion that the withholding of
this information i 3 utterly unjustifiable, inasmuch as the
proportion of duties assigned in Mexico for the pay-
ment of the dividends belongs to the bondholders, and
they have consequently a right to know from time to
time the amount of such moneys, and the mode of their
appropriation.
" The Committee need not dwell on the enormous
sacrifices which the bondholders have heretofore made
to meet the convenience of the Mexican Government.
They had fully expected that in return for those con-
cessions the bondholders would have received from the
Mexican Government and from yourselves that con-
sideration which the circumstances of the case called for
and required.
" The Committee trust, therefore, that you will, on
further deliberation, furnish the particulars requested in
my letters of April 23 and the 27th ult.—l am, &c.,
" G. R. ROBINSON, Chairman.
" Messrs. F. de Lizardi and Co."
" 26, Auatinfriars. Aug. 3.
" Sir,—We have to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of yesterday, addressed to us on the part of the
Committee, of Spanish American bondholders.
" As regards the first part of your communication, we
have no other reply to make than to refer you to our
letter of the 27th of July.
" Respecting the latter part, wherein you allude to the
concessions made by the bondholders, wo beg to assure
you that we are fully sensible of their importance; and
that the same are duly appreciated in the proper quar.
ter is, we think, sufficiently proved by the great sacri-
fices made by the Mexican Government, in the midst of
very trying financial difficulties, to meet its engagements
with its creditors.—We remain, &C.,
" F. DE LIZARDI and CO.,
" Per pro. M. J. de Lizardi.

" G. R. Robinson, Esq."

y
IIAYMARKET THEATRE.— Mr. Webster, the spi-
rited Lessee of this theatre, takes his benefit to-night.--
A gentleman who has done so much for the promotion
of the sterling drama, needs no appeal to the glowing
sympathies of the public to testify their approbation in
his behalf. It is Mr. Webster 's singular merit and
good fortune to have kept open the " little theatre in
the Haymarket" upwards of 440 nights continuously !
That circumstance in itself speaks volumes in his praise
as a good manager, and proves that the
__public duly
appreciate meritorious enterprise. May Webster's re
ward be equal to his deserts !
The Duke of, Northumberland has presented a do-
nation of 504 to the General Theatrical irand.