The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-14 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Pro-Corn lairds of Fife, says the Fife Herald of Thurs-
day, held, or rather attempted to hold, a hole-and-corner
meeting in the county-hall to-day, the result of which was
only to render doubly sure the assurance afforded by the late
meeting with the League deputation, that the monopolists
are a miserable minority of the inhabitants of the county.
The Anti-Leaguers were fairly beaten, and the chairman,
in high dudgeon, dissolved the meeting without coming to
a vote.

For several days past, in conseqence of severe snow storms
in Scotland, the northern mails have not arrived at the Ge-
neral Post-office until several hours after their stated time.
From Carlisle to the north of Scotland the snow is lying on
many of the roads to the depth of 10 inches.
On Saturday Mr. Nicholas Maher'was elected Member for
Tipperary without any opposition,
Mr. O'Connell has addressed a letter to the Irise Catholic
Bishops, entreating them to use all their influence to main-
tain •in every district in Ireland the most perfect order and
imperturbable tranquillity.

MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, TUESDAY EVENDIG.
The verdict in the Irish State trials having reached
the City by express, the Funds rather declined just before
the close, although there was not much done. Consols
realised 97* j, the Three per Cents. Reduced 98, and the
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. 103.
Spanish Bonds were also rather lower, the Active being
22& to 23, and the Three per Cent. 31i to 32. Portuguese
Converted were flat at 46. Mexican Deferred receded to 11k.
Brazilian were 78i to 79*.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been
these :—Eastern Counties, New, were 12; ; Brighton, 5; to
; Greenwich Preference, 1*; Manchester and Birmingham,
*; and South Eastern, 151 discount ; Great Western have
been 35* to *; Guildford Junction, I*: Lancaster and Car-
lisle. *; Manchester and Leeds Quarter, 8 ; Norwich and
Braudon, 2 ; Paris and Rouen, 12* ; South Eastern Scrip, 9i
to / ; Yarmouth and Norwich, 51: and York and North Mid-
land Scarborough Branch, 18 premium.
The Exchange upon Paris. Hamburgh, and Antwerp, was
rather better this afternoon. On Frankfort it was scarcely so
high.
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 Victoria and Canton... 22,000 ounces.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There was a fair demand for Cotton at Liverpool yesterday.
Sales-5,000 bales, exclusive of 1,500 by speculators; 1,200
Surat sold at 4d to 4id ; 300 of Maranham at sid to bid ; 350
of Pernambuco, at 6id to 6id; 20 Egyptian, at 9d; and the
rest American at Sid. to 7d. for Orleans.

Shares were rather dull, and the market generally was not
so good. Birmingham and Gloucester, 70i ; Eastern Counties,
ex New, 10i ; Grand Junction, 227 ; South Western Eighths,
£3. 9s. ; Midland Counties, 91i ; Paris and Lyons, 3 ; South
Eastern, 34i.
From Saxony we learn that the Stocking trade was re-
viving. _ - _ -

There are no tidings yet of the West India mail, nor have
we any late ship arrivals.
The Funds look very steady, and there is rather more
doing. Consols for immediate transfer are 971 to 4, and for
time the same. Exchequer Bills bring 675. to 695., and India
Bonds 82s. to 84s. premium. The Commissioners have taken
Consols at 974 India Stock has risen to 2774 and 2784.
Bank Stock is 1934 to 1924. The New Three-and-a-Half
per Cents. realise 102 to 4.
Spanish Bonds are not quite so good, the accounts this
morning representing the revolutionary, spirit as rather on the
advance. The Five per Cents. are 234 to 23, and the Three per
Cents 328 to 32. Mexican Bonds are rather dull at 341 to
for the Five per Cents. Columbian are 128 to 4, and Peru-
vian 274 to 28. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. are 55
to 4.
The Share market is inactive, and prices are not buoyant.
Brighton have been down to 54 discount ; Great Western,
New, and one or two others are also lower.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEB. 12.—Our mar-
ket is not quite so firm to-day, particularly in South Eastern
Shares, which have been more freely offered. The sales
are :—Manchester and Birmingham, 394 ; Sheffield and
Manchester, 634 ; Ditto, Quarters, 74 South Easterns, 354 ;
Ditto, Scrip, 354 4 ; Manchester Assurance, 10.
CLOSING PRICES.
I3RITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock

3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons 97*
33/4 per Cent. Red lO3
New 33/4 per Cent
New 5 per Cent
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860• l2/
Oct. 1859

Ditto Bonds
Ditto Old Annuities —
Ditto New Annuities
Ex. Bills, 1,000/. 1/d 69 pm
Ditto 5001 67 pm
Ditto Small 67 pm
Bank Stock for Acct 1931
India Stock for Acct —

Jan. 1860 ' •
FOREIG
A istriau, 5 per cent
per cent
Brazilian
13 ienos A yi es 6 per cent —
Cnilian, b per cent.
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto 1824
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 93
Danish, 3 per sent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Periv 1116.1825,6 per ct.

Consols for Acct...... 971
FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent
Russian, 5 per cent —
Ditto, Metallic .....
Spanish, 5 per cent 23
Ditto, 3 per cent 32
Ditto, Deferred.... .. 13i
French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Exchange.......... —f. —c.
French, 3 per cent. —f. —c.
Dutch, 21 per cent. 55i
Ditto, 5 per r.Pnt.,:t... 101 i

COURSE OF EXCIIAN
Amsterdam
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 6i
Antwerp -25 95
Hamburgh M.B. 13 15
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight
Ditto, 3 months 25 85
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90

GE.—(YESTERDAY.)
Gibraltar .... —
Leghorn .... 30 75
Genoa 25 95
Milan
Venice ... 47
Naples
Palermo, per oz 1181
I isbon
Oporto 53
Rio Janeiro 23

Frankfort on Maine ...122
Petersburgh, 3 Us. ... 36i
Berlin

Bahia
Buenos Ayres —
New York, 2I days sight

Vienna, effee. tl. 3M. 955
Trieste, litto
Madrid .
Cadiz
Bilbao

Philadelphia. ..... ......,..
PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ,
Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 9
Portugal Gold Cola.. 3 17 5
,New Doubloons V 0

Barcelona

New Dollars 0 4 9

Seville

Silver in Bars ..... 0 41 l

CURIOUS PH ENOMENON.—A good many years since
a breast-wall or quay was built at Ardentallan, in Argyllshire,
for shipping stones from a quarry at which much work has
been done. When Mr. David Smith, builder, at Oban, was
erecting the beacon of Skervuil, in Jura Sound, for the
Northern Lights' Board, he fitted the courses of blocks for
that work to their places on the quay, and has occasionally
had upwards of 200 tons of stones upon it at a time, without
accident. The quarry has lately been worked for the repairs
of the Caledonian Canal, and on the 23d ult. there were
between 170 and 180 tons of dressed stones lying upon the
quay ready for shipment, when, to the astonishment of
the quarriers, the crane upon the quay was observed to move
and shake without any visible cause, and some openings ap-
peared at the surface of the quay, which were rapidly
widening ; the men on the instant cried out for the foreman,
who rushed to the spot, and saw the quay, with its crane and
the cairn of blocks upon it, moving outwards from the
shore, and sinking in the deep water; and in less than two
hours the whole had proceeded seaward about 50 yards,
and settled with a depth of 11 feet water over them.
The whole mass is now so completely absorbed in mud
and clay, that although the height of the quarry and
materials could not be less than 20 feet, it has not
lessened the depth of water at the entrance of the place.—
Scotsman.
A GLIMPSE AT SPANISH LIFE AS IT IS.—Between
Pancorbo and Burgos we passed several half-ruined villages,
which appeared parched—almost calcined—by the sun. I
doubt if Decamps, the painter, ever encountered, during his
rambles in the heart of Asia Minor, anything more burnt
and tawny, more crumbling and decayed, than these wretched
collection of hovels. Wandering about among their dilapi.
dated walls, were a few jackasses, of that philosophical and
contemplative aspect peculiar to the Spanish donkey, who is
fully aware of his own utility, considers himself as part of the
family '
to which he belongs ; and, moreover, having read
Don Quixote, assumes an additional degree of importance, on
account of the possibility of his being lineally descended
from Sancho's celebrated Dapple. Besides the asses, the
only living things visible were souse magnificent dogs of va-
rious breeds ; amongst others, several enormous greyhounds,
uch as one sees introduced in the paintings of Paul Veronese
and Velasquez ; and here and there a group of peasant chil-
dren, whose eyes sparkled, like black diamonds, through their
filthy rags and long tangledhair.— Gautier's Travels in Spain.

TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE.
ERRATUM in the list of Sheriffs appointed by her Majesty
in Council, for the year 1844, published in the Second Sup-
plement to the Gazette of the 30th of January last :
Leicestershire.—For Archibald Algernon Henry St. Mawr,
Esq., commonly called Lord Archibald Algernon Henry St.
Mawr, of Burton on the Wolds; read, Archibald Algernon
Henry Maur, Esq. commonly called Lord Archibald Alger-
non Henry St. Maur, of Burton on the Wolds.