The Sun.
London, England, 1844-09-24 00:00:00

BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
S per Cent. Consols. Annuities 99% %
India Stock
South Sea Stock 115%
Bank Stock for Account ........"...............
Consols for Account •........•.............. 00000000000 99%
Exchequer Bills, INcl. 1 %d-
-1,0004 ..„.„.............».. •••••••••••• 74 76 pm.
500 k.... "•, ......•"•...".. •••••••••••• 74 71i pm.
Ditto 8ma11:...•..• •......• ••.......... 74 76 pm.
Ditto Advertised.
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Columbian Bonds. 14%3(
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent. .... 36%
Ditto for the Account
Spanish Bonds. Five per Cent 1840 23N%
Ditto Passive Bonds. ...... ..... ............... .....
Ditto Three per Cent. ......,.......,..,,., 34%1,,
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 2% per Cents. ..... ........ .............„....« 62%%
PRICES OF SHARE THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SNARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester lOO ......... 102....... to 103
Ditto New
2534% .to
....

••• ,
Bristol and Exeter ..... ..... ..... 70 -
Bristol and Gloucester... ... 30 ..»,.... 44
Chichester and Brighton 5 5% ..... to
Eastern Counties ..... ..
......... 25 ....
Ditto New Registered. Bl. 6s. Sd
Grand Junction lOO 213
Great Western ...-......•-••••........ 75 144% ...... to
Ditto % Shares .......... ....,.... 50 -.. B7 ... ... to 66%
Ditto Fifths.
Lancaster and Carlisle 5 6% to
London and Birmingham
London and Blackwall 16% ••••••• 611 ...... to
London and Brighton ... ........
London and Greenwich ~ .
London and-Greenwich (Preference) 18%
London and South Western ' 41% ...... '71% 73... to 71
Ditto Eighths 3l .... ..... 2%% ... to
London and Croydon -
...... to
London and York 2% 4% % ~.. to
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
Midland Counties lOO ......- 108 ......... to 107%
Birmingham and Derby lOO .. 76% ...... to
North British 5 .... 5%
Norwich and Brandon
get Yarmouth and Norwich lB ..... .... ........ to
Ditto New
York and North Midland
50 •...,....-104
Boulogne and Amiens .. 2 2%%%... to
Orleans. Tours, and Bourdeaux 1
(d'Anthouard's Company) j
Parisand R0uen......•..•.....•.• .... 29 ••-•..•• 38% ....•• to
MANCHESTER : STOCK EXCHANGE, SEPT. 23.—We
have had an animated market, and prices firmer.
Barnsby Junction, 4 15-16 ; Blackurn, Burnley, and
Accrington, 3 13-16 15-16 ; Bristol and oucester,47-4- ;
Churnet Valley, 4i i ; Eastern Counties Perpetual,
No. 2,19 s. ; Huddersfild and Manchester. 21. 18s. ;
Lancaster and Preston Three-quarter Shares, 264 ex
div. ; Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester, 5-1 5-16 ;
London and York, 4/i- ; Manchester and Birmingham,
491 ; Manchester and Buxton, 2 3-16 ; Trent Valley,
loi ; Boulogne and Amiens, 24 ; Manchester and Sal-
ford Waterworks, 60.

THEATRE RO YAL, DRURY-LANE

This splendid national establishment opens for the
season on Monday next. Mr. Bunn, the only ma-
nager who, for years past has made Drury-lane an-
swer, continues, we are happy to say, to be
the lessee. His name is a guarantee that whatever is
done there will be well done. Opera and ballet are
to be the leading features, and, judging from the
success of last season, as contrasted with the failures of
several preceding seasons, we think Mr. Bunn is right
in confining his attention to the musical drama.
Drury-lane will become the Grand English Opera
House—the Academie Royale de Musique of Eng-
land. We perceive that Duprez will again appear at
Drury-lane during the present season ; Madame Anna
Thillon is also engaged, and the services of Madame
Balfe, Miss Delcy, Burdini, Weiss, and King, have
also been secured in addition to those of the
favourites of last season. Adele Dumilatre is to be
the deesse of the ballet, with Planquet, Clara
Webster, and a host of favourites to support her.
Mademoiselle Maria from the French Opera, and
Mademoiselle Finart from the Madrid Opera, both of
whom are new to an English public, are
also engaged; and a provisional engagement has
been entered into with Carlotta Grisi. Petipa and
Montessu are also engaged, and last though not least
Wieland. Mr. Bunn opens with a more efficient
ballet corps than has ever before been
assembled within the walls of an English
theatre. Indeed we doubt whether there is at the
present moment any Continental theatre which comes
at all near to Drury-lane, in the strength of its corps
de ballet. Among the novelties we are promised the
the new ballet of the Corsaire. Auber's new opera
La Sirene, Donizetti's Anna Bolena, a new opera by
Benedict, and a new opera by Balfe ; besides
various revivals, including, we are happy to
see, Robert le Diable and LeB Huguenots.
Benedict resumes the musical direction, with Tully
as chorus-master. The Grieves reign supreme
in the scenic department and Cooper is stage-
manager, while the general management of the
whole is under the direction of Mr. Bunn.
We prognosticate for old Drury a season
which shall surpass in brilliancy, success, and
profit, even the last, which is acknowledged to have
been the most successful season for years.

Sir Robert Pigot has announced to his tenantry his
intention of allowing them twenty per cent. in the pre-
sent year's rental, to meet the losses sustained by the
late unpropitious season.

The trustees of Lord Crewe have made a donation
of ten pounds to the funds of the National School, South-
wick, per the Rev. F. J. James.

Lord Howick, M.P., spent a few days in Newcastle
and neighbourhood last week. The Noble Lord has
been engaged in promoting the objects of the proposed
railway upon the atmospheric principle, between New-
castle-upon-Tyne and Berwick.
UNFORTUNATE AND SINGULAR OCCURRENCE,--OH
Monday, the 9th instant, as a married woman, named
Davies, from Govilon, was proceeding on her way from
that place to Abergavenny, and was passing through the
wicket gate, opening from the fields near Pengrwllod on
to the bridge, an adder, which was lying coiled up by the
side of the pathway, sprung at her and fastened itself to
her arm. The terrified woman succeeded in shaking it
off, and ran onwards as fast as she could, but what was
her horror to find, when she paused to take breath, that
the reptile was in swift pursuit of her, and had well nigh
reached her, when fortunately a man came up and suc-
ceeded in destroying it. Afterwards, the nest of the
adder was found, containing eighteen young ones. The
woman, who was in a delicate state when the accident
occurred, has not yet recovered, and now lies in a dan-
gerous condition.—Hereford Times.
READING MICHAELMAS FAIR.--The annual Sep-
tember fair, on the 21st inst., was an unusually extensive
one, there being a large supply of cheese, horses, cattle,
and, owing probably to the fineness of the weather, a
vast influx of visitors, dealers, &c. The quantity of
cheese pitched was from 400 to 500 tons, being a full
average supply. Business commenced with an animation
which continued throughout, London as well as provincial
dealers being numerous and free buyers at the following
prices :—Fine Wilts, 525. to 58s. per cwt., one fine dairy
realising 595. Coward, 345. to 38s. The average prices
of good useful Wiltshire were from 40s. to 48s. ; loaf,
465. to 655. Prices, generally speaking, must be quoted
at from 3s. to 4s. per cwt. higher than last year—an
advance which may be attributed to increased consump-
tion and this season's diminished produce, occasioned by
the extreme dryness of the season, and the consequent
shortness of the grass-crops. The supply of horses of
inferior descriptions was very large, but they moved off
slowly. Those of superior character were scarce, and
realised, as usual, their full value. There was more than
the annual average of booths, stalls, shows, &c., and the
" pleasure folks" mustered in great numbers.

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MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NE WS
ClTi , QUARTER TO THREE.
The saleS of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 4,000
bales, at former prices. Business was very dull. Specu-
lators took' 200 and exporters 300 bales. Sales, 20
bales of Pernams, at 5.1.1., 800 bales of Surat at
24d. to 3id., 360 Maranham at 58d., and the rest
American.---Shares were rather dull. Birmingham
and Gloucester were 103 ; Chester and Birkenhead,
32:1 ; Dublin and Cashel, 104 ; Eastern Counties,
No. 2, 18* ; Glasgow and Dumfries, 1 1-5 ; Ditto and
Greenock 12i. ; Grand Junction 213; Ditto New, Quar-
ters, 39 ; Great North of England, New' 14i ; Liverpool and
Manchester, New, 354; London and Birmingham 321.
Shares, 36 ; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 24i ; London and
York, 41 ; Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters, 5 ;
Manchester and Leeds, 122; Midland Counties, 1074 ;
Ditto, Fifths, 31. Is, 6d. ; Norwich and Brandon, 14 ;
South-Eastern, 384 ; Trent Valley, 94.
The arrivals in the Thames continue exceedingly
numerous, and the river presents a very annincated ap-
pearance from the crowded lines of vessels and the num-
ber of ships still coming in. This is a time of year when
usually the number of ships coming home is greater than
at any other season, and the steamers experience some
difOculty in navigating at any speed from the Tower up
to Blackwall. It might have been supposed under
such circumstances that the railway would have
offered far greater inducements and facilities for the
transmission of goods than would really appear to be
the case. Among other complaints we have heard a
very general one of the extreme shallowness of the
river at low water, arising in a great measure, as is
said, from the more free current under the new London•
bridge.

It is stated in a letter from Liverpool, posted at the
North and South American Coffee-house, that up to the
I2th of August the packet had not arrived at Per-
nambuco from Rio de Janiero, and was therefore still
supposed to have been detained for some special purpose.
A really admirable epitome of " Counting House"
practice, of which scarcely one previously existed that
could be fully relied upon, has been compiled by Mr.
Tate, under the revision of some of our most experienced
merchants, the only proper judges in such cases ; and
we may assert, as practical men, that the information
upon commercial valuations, the Stocks, standarding of
gold and silver, regulations for the coinage of gold and
silver, marine insurances, exchanges and invoices, and
account sales, is both complete and accurate.
The Funds are to-day tolerably well supported, and
this, too, in the absence of any operations of magnitude.
In fact, the market is extremely quiet, although the
Hebrews are again in attendance. Consols for immediate
transfer realise 998 to 99k; and for time are 998. Ex-
chequer Bills have been 745. to 765. premium. East
India Stock is firm at 2841; Bank Stock at 2071 to 208-11-;
and South Sea Stock at 1151.
The Foreign Investments have been rather flatter.
Spanish Active Bonds have realised 23 to 23i, the
Three per Cents. 344 to 341 and the Passive si. Mexi-
can have been 36i for Money, and 37 to 37+ for Account.
Brazil Bonds have touched 90 ; Colombian are 148 to
14i, being heavy ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
obtain 628 to 62i.
For Shares there is not much demand, but in some
cases there is an appearance of rather more firmness.