The Sun.
London, England, 1844-03-25 00:00:00

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LONDON, MAncit 25.—Light South-Westerly breeze, and
cloudy, TA ith rain at times.

DE :ti,, Mitten 23.—Wind E.S.E. to N.N.W. and N.W.
moderate.—Arrd. Viscount Sandon, Lancaster, China, sld.
Nov. 27, St: Helena, 3d. ult. ; H.M.S. Forte, Plymouth.
Sld. Agatina, Launceston ; Druid, Singapore; Chandos, Ber-
bice ; York, St. John's, N. 13; James, Halifax ; Lady Seaton,
Montreal ; Isabella Wood, Ceylon. The Corsair, Aikin, from
New York to London, ashore on the Goodwin Sand, has
been got off, •in the. Downs, with damage, loss of anchors, &c.
PORTSMOUTH, MARCH 24.—Wind W.S.W. to W.—Acrd.
Royal William, Shields, for Rio. Sld. Mediator, New York ;
. Sir John Falstaff, Quebec ; Spectator, Bordeaux.
COWES, MARCH 23.—Arrd. Malcolm, M'Farlane, Biennia,
out 194 days
SOUTHAMPTON, MARCH 24.—Acrd. Severn, steamer, West
Indies; Sld. Swiftsure, ditto.
BRIDPORT, MARCH 23.—Sld. Devon, St. John's, New-
foundland.

PLYMOUTH, MARCH 24.—Wind W.—Castor, Newfound-
land. The sloop Mounts Bay, got ashore on Battery Point
this morning, but was assisted off, without apparent damage.
The Commerce, Bean, from Bordeaux to Havre, which put
in here 20th instant, with damage, is discharging to repair.
FALMOUTH, Mauch ind N.E. to i.W., fresh
breezes and squally. 24.—Wind W.S.W., fresh breezes.-Off
port, Cowslip, Colledge, Mauritius, sailed Dec. 20.
LANCASTER, MARCH 21.—Arrd. Thomas Hughes, Ichoboe.
CLYDE, MAncit 21.—Sld. Jane Blanc, Madras and Penang;
Athol, Bombay ;' Glasgow, Trinidad.
DUBLIN, MAncit 23.—Sid. Naparima, Cape of Good Hope.
MARCH 22.—Arrd. Apprentice, Johnson, Mauritius.
PETERHEAD, MARC!! 21. Sld. Joseph Green, and Travel-
ler, Davis' Straits.
JERSEY, Matzen 21.—Sld. Welcome, Newfoundland; Di-
ton, Gaspe ; P.R.C., Arichat.
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21.—The schooner Ivy, in leaving the
harbour yesterday, got ashore, but is expected off.
YARMOUTH, MARCH 22.—The Cosmopolite of Sunderland,
is reported to be riding at anchor in the roads, with broadside
stove. . •

DEAL, MAncit 24.—Wind S.W. to S.W. by W.—Arrd.
Isabella Wood, Ceylon.
LivEnpooL,MAncit23.—WindN.W. mod. ; do.—
Arrd. Woodstock,Nicholson,Mauritius ; Mathew Peace, Lovey,
La Guayra,Feb. 4. ; Kingston,Thompson, La Guayra (Jan. 29) ;
Letitia Heyn, Arnold, New Orleans ; Hibernia and Oxford,
New York. 24.—Duchess of Kent, Atkinson, Calcutta ;
Robert Bain, Ritchie, Bombay; Barbara, Peerse, Mauritius,
Dec. 27 ; Sarah, Fletcher, Savannah ; Thos. P. Cope, Phila-
delphia ; Southerner, Palmer,New York ; ElizaAnn,M‘Allister,
St. John's, N. B. (24 days) ; Meliza, Quebec. Sld. Brooke,
Cape of Good Hope, Iron Queen, Rio ; Princess Royal, Africa ;
Governor of Jamaica, Thos. Battersby, New Orleans ; George
Washington, New York ; Iceni, Newfoundland. Put
back, Susan, for Africa. The Arabian, for this port, was
on the Bar of the Mississippi about the 20th ult. The Thonas,
hence to Belfast, was run down this morning off Crosby Light
by the Nithsdale (st.) from Dumfries, master, mate, and one
man saved. A brig, water-logged and abandoned, supposed
the Queen, of Sunderland, was passed on the 15th inst. in lat.
51 lon. 14, by the Mathew Peace, arrd. at Liverpool.

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
• There was a quiet market for Cotton at Liverpool on
Saturday : sales 3,000 bales, at former prices.—The trans-
actions in Railway Stock were tolerably numerous, but with-
out any rise in prices. Chester and Holyhead were 7to7i ;
Eastern Counties, 118 ; Great Western, Half, 70 ; South-
Western, 821; Manchester and Birmingham, 47i ; Paris and
Orleans, 35 ; Norwich and Brandon, 7 ; South Eastern, 36 ;
Ditto New, 36i to 368.
The information which we gave on Saturday with respect
to the assents and dissents to the scheme of the reduction of
the interest upon the Three-and-a-Half per Cents., was sub-
stantially correct, and the opinion in well-informed circles—
official details being yet kept secret—is, that the amount that
will be required for those holders who do not agree with the
plan will be considerably under a million sterling. A
Morning Contemporary gives the dissents at only about
60,0001, but an important omission is made in not giving the
amount of assents as respects the Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
of 1818, the amount of stock involved in which is about ten
millions sterling. We believe the amount assented to is not
far short of eight millions sterling; and when the residents
abroad who are holders shall have time to send their instruc-
tions, no question is entertained but that a large amount of
the deficiency will be made up. The plan, taken altogether,
has been successful beyond all calculation.
The concession made by Government with regard to goods
imported from Peru, which have been bonded in this country
Lut twelve months, the auctionrduty upon which is not to be
exacted, has been the subject of some conversation among
mercantile men to-day. The reciprocal principle unquestion-
ably has been carried out to a full extent upon this occasion ;
and it is to be hoped, that as regards other countries nearer
home, the same good feeling may soon be exhibited among
those nations who claim friendly relations with Great Britain.
The West India mail brings rather later advices from Bar-
badoes ; and, indeed, in Jamaica, matters appear to have
slightly improved. Rain had fallen in the former island to
some extent.
The Funds are very well supprted, and in fact Consols
have not been done under 98a to for Money, the Govern-
ment broker having purchased at the highest rates for the
Commissioners and-98i to A for Account. Exchequer Bills
have been 68s: to 705., and India Bonds 86s. premium. The
New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have risen to 1028 to 8.
Bank Stock is 200 to 20u1, and India Stock 293.
There has been a very quiet market for Spanish Bonds,
but the tone of prices is good, as the letter addressed by
the Finance Minister to the Committee of Spanish
bondholders- is .construed by some as rather favourable,
For our own -part, however, we think we perceive
in it, an obscure remark respecting a new loan. The Active
Stock is 25i to i; and the Deferred 15 ; the Three per Cents.
are nominally about 35i to 36k. Mexican Actives have
risen to 36k, . and the Deferred to 151 ; Brazil
Bonds for Account are 82k, and Buenos Ayres 374; Portu-
guese Converted obtain 48 ; Dutch Two--and-a-half per Cents.
have been marked 57a to 4, and the Five per Cents. 1011 to
Railway Shares are steady, with a fair business-doing. Bir-
mingham and Derby realise 38 ; Do. and Glou-
cester 14 to 15 ; Brighton, 58 to 8 ; Greenwich, 7i ;
and South-Eastern, 138 discount ; Bristol and Exeter
are 1 to 2 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 14 to ;
Great Western, New, 20i ; Birmingham, 136 ; Ditto, New
Quarter, 264 ; Croydon, 3 ; Manchester and Leeds, 44 ; New-
castle and Darlington, 20 to ; and Paris and Orleans, 15
premium.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
A-From the Otficial List.)
3 per gene:Consols. Annuities 98%
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 102%%
India Bonds, 1,000
Bank Stock for Account - 200% 200
Consols for Account 98%
India Stock

Exchequer Bills, I%d. 130.
1,0001.
bOOI.
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account. 8234
Buenos Ayres Bonds, 6 per Cent ..........
Mexican Bonds, .837, 5 per Cent. .. .......... ~ 36
Ditto Deferred Stock ..... -1534%
Portuguese-. Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted 46
Spanish Bonds. Five per Cent 1840.... .....
Ditto for the Account .................
Ditto Deferred l5
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent
Ditto Deferred
Dutch 23¢ per Cents 57%
Ditto for the Account
Dutch 5 per Cents 101%%
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE
Birmingham and Derby ..... .-... 100 .. - to
Birmingham and Gloucester"... 100
Bristol and Exeter, . 7O 71%
Bristol and Glouo^ster
Chester and Holyhead 5 6% to
Eastern Couhties
Ditto New Registered...... 8/. 6s. tad....... 13%% ... to
Edinburgh and Glasgow 5O 64g to ...
Ditto Registered
Gravesend, Rochester, Chatham 234
Great North of England lOO
Great Western . 75 lll
Ditto % Shares
Harwich (Braithwaite)
H arrowgate ard Knaresboro' ... 3
London and Brighton
London and Birmingham. Stock
Ditto M Shares 2 28% to
London and Greenwich
London and Croydon (Trunk)... 13% ...... 10%...... to
Manchester and Leeds 7O ll4 to
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40
Midland Counties
North British
Newcastle and DarlingtonJunct. 18 ... ...... 39% to 38
Northern and Eastern 45 '7% ..... to
Ditto U Share- 1234 -
North Midland
Ditto Thirds 2l/. 13s. 4d. 3O to
Paris and Orleans ............. ...... .. 20 ..... .... 35 '%... to
Parisand Rouen
South Eastern and Dewar 5O SE. 54 ... to
Ditto Scrip
Yost( and North Atidtand
Ditto New,Sliiiret 2O
JOINT BTOCL BANKS.

Union of London
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MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 23.—There is
more business doing to-day, without any change in prices.
The sales are :—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 64i to 64 ; Lan
caster and Preston, 38i ; London and Brighton, 441 ; Lon-
don and South Western, 82; ; Manchester and Birmingham,
47i • South-Eastern, 36* ; Bristol and Gloucester, 44} ;
Edinburgh, Leith, and Newhaven, 91.

SPORTING EVENTS EXTRAORDINARre—BeII'S Life
in London, of Sunday, the 31st inst., will contain copious
accounts of all the exciting sporting events of the present
week, including Northampton, Croxton-park, and Epsom
(Spring) races; the two Grand Military Steeple Chases and
Match at Northampton ; High Wycombe, Grantham, Uttox-
eter, and Blackburn Steeple Chases ; Caledonian Coursing
Meeting; aquatic matches; Angling Episode, No. 3, by
Ephemera ; hunting appointments and runs ; pedestrian,
pigeon shooting, canine, and other sports; together with the
lively entertainments -of the " Fancy " on Tuesday, em-
bracing three "assauts des arms." Office of Bell's Life, 170,
Strand, price 6d.f which, if inclosed, or six postage stamps,
to Mr. Clement, jun., will ensure a paper in due course of
post. Bell's Life;. of. March 24, contained the lists of the
horses training at the Curragh, by Messrs. Keegan, Walsh,
Cleary, Igoe, Irarrison, Lyons, Jaques; Farrell, Conolly,
Dunn, Davis, King, Monaghan, Wynne, and Macken, with
accurate reports 9f the Sandemount, Kildare, Mullingar,
Dundalk Grand Irish National, Wicklow, and many other
Steeple Chases.
OUR MODERN POETS.—Crabbe, Rogers, Words-
worth, Scott, Coleridge, Southey, Campbell, Moore, Byron !
Of this glorious brotherhood, who once were all living at the
same period, the survivors are Rogers, Wordsworth, Camp-
bell, and Moore.' Byron, the youngest of the band, was the
first to be withdrawn from it ; he died in 1824, in the thirty-
sixth, or thirty-seventh year of his age ; Crabbe, in 1832,
in his seventy-eighth;_ Scott, a little later in the same year,
in his sixty-second; Coleridge (who was for some time a
contributor to this paper), died in 1834, aISO in his sixty-
second; Southey, in 1843, in his sixty-ninth. Of the sur-
vivors, Rogers is the senior, having been born in 1762; he
is, consequently, in his eighty-second year. He first distin-
guished himself in the year 1786, by an " Ode to Super-
stition ;" his "Pleasures of Memory" did not appear till 1792.
Wordsworth was born in 1770, and is in his seventy-fourth
year ; Campbell, whose "Pleasures of Hope" appeared in
1799 (born in 1777), is in his seventy-seventh ; and Moore,
in his sixty-foufth, having been born in 1780. Long may
they be preserved to us.—Post.
The Right Hon. the Speaker of the House of
Commons had a Parliamentary dinner on Saturday last, at
his mansion in Eaton-square, when among the guests of the
Right Hon. Gentleman were Lord George Bentinck, the
Attorney-General for Ireland, Colonel Hugh Baillie, Viscount
Barrington, Mr. L. W. Buck, Sir John D. B. Johnstone,
Bart., Mr. IL G. Knight, Lord Rendlesham, Mr. Robert
Palmer, Hon. R. B. Wilbraham, Mr. Allix' Mr: T. P. Wil-
liams, Colonel T. Wood, Mr. P. Greenall, Mr. W. S. Dug-
dale, Mr. W. Rashleigh, Mr. James Bradshaw-, Mr. T. B. M.
Baskerville, Hon. C. E. Law,• Mr. C. B. Adderley, Mr. A.
Lefroy, Mr. Octavious Morgan# and Mr. Edward Stanley.
Sir Charles Burrell was prevented joining the party from
indisposition, and Mr. J. H. Lowther was precluded from
dining with the Right Hon. Gentleman I.)y the demise of his
uncle, the Earl of Lonsdale.