The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-23 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
WTI', QUARTER TO THREE.
The Cotton Market at Liverpool was firm yesterday.
Sales, 5,000 bales, of which speculators took 600 bales Ame-
rican, and exporters 400 bales. 300 Surat, 31d. to 40. ;
100 Pernams, sid. to 6d. ; 50 Egyptian, 7d. to 74c1. ; and the
rest American, at 40. to 54d. per lb. The transactions in
Railway Shares were on a limited scale, except for Paris and
Orleans, Paris and Rouen, Manchester and Birmingham,
which were much inquired after. Birmingham, Quarter,
22 ; Eastern Counties, 12i ; Great Western, 1121; Dublin
and Cashel, 5 ; Birmingham, 228 ; Manchester and Birming
ham, 541; Paris and Orleans, 371 ; Paris and Rouen, 374 ;
South Eastern, 36.
The return of the amounts of cheques passed through the
Clearing-house, to which the private bankers of the City of
London have alone access, shows that in the year 1840 no
less a sum than very nearly nine hundred and eighty millions
was cleared. This is not a very large increase on the
sum cleared by crossed cheques in the previous
twelve months, and it may therefore, be inferred
that the augmentation in trade and commerce had not, up to
the termination of the last year, been very considerable. The
present returns give the clearances of the three principal pri-
vate bankers, viz., for Messrs. Barclay and Co., 107,000,0001.,
for the Messrs. Slyner, 105,000,0001. ; and for Messrs.
Jones Loyd, 103,000,0001. Each of these firms have
an immense discount, as well railway as other
general business. Were the Joint-Stock Banks ad-
mitted to the Clearing-house, and the West-end
Banks, it is calculated that the amount of cheques that
would have passed through must have been at least
250,000,0001. worth more.
The mercantile accounts received from St. Petersburgh
mention that much apprehension was entertained by the
merchants connected with the trade to Pekin, that the
direct intercourse now opened with the Chinese ports would
most materially interfere with them. In fact, already it is
stated, that the amount of manufactures sent annually over-
land from St. Petersburgh to Pekin, and other parts of the
Celestial Empire had fallen off to some extent. As to the
surplus of Tallow to be shipped off the river for England, no
correct data had been formed.
The public sales of Wool having terminated, it may be
important to state that they have gone at very full prices,
except a proportion of the Van Diemen's skin, which went a
fraction lower. About 3,411 bales of Colonial and East India
have been offered, and 2,500 of Foreign.
The English Funds wear a very firm appearance, and there
has been no extraneous or speculative influence used to get
them up, a moderate business only having been transacted.
Consols have been 99* to 100 for Money, and 991 to 100 for
Time. Exchequer bills have been marked 765. to 745., and
India Bonds 91s. premium. The Commissioners have given
99* for Reduced Three per Cent. Annuities. Bank Stock is.
looking better also, viz., 197 to 1961, but India Stock remains
flat at 2901.
There has been a disposition this morning to sell Peruvian
Stock, and this has caused some fluctuation in them, the
range of prices having been from 30 to 29. Mexican Bonds
have been on the advance, having touched 358 to ; Colom-
bian, are 15k. Belgian Bonds realise 104*; and Dutch Two-
, and-a-Half per Cents., 60A ' • both being well supported.
L'ortuguese Converted Stock has been at 46. Spanish Ac-
lees are dull at 25* ; and the Three per Cents. at 37* to
Railway Shares are dull, but they realise full prices.
BRITISH FUND'S THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List)

Bank Stock . 197 1964,E
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 99% 100
3% per Cent. Annuities, 1818 102%
3% per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 103%14
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860 12% 7-16
Ditto 20 Years, Expire 10th Oct. 1859
India Stock
India Bonds,l,ooo 9l
Ditto under 1,000 9l
South Sea Stock ll4
Bank Stock for Account
Consols for Account
Exchequer Bills, llid. I%d
1,0001.
5001
Ditto Small
Ditto Advertised
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Belgian Bonds, 5 per Cent 104%
Columbian Bonds. 15%
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent.
Ditto for the Account 35%Mi
Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Cents.
Ditto for the Account 29S 30 29%
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Cent.
Ditto Converted 46
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds.
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account
Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 391
__.,

Dutch 23; per Cents • 60%
. Dutch 5 per Cents. 100%%
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester
Chester and Holyhead 5 7% to
Eastern Counties
Ditto New Registered 8/. 6s. Bd.
Great North of England
Great Western
Ditto % Shares
Harwich (Braithwaite)
London and Birmingham. lOO 2'25
London an Brighton
London and Croydon (Trunk)... 13%
Newcastle and Darlington Junct. 18
Northern and Eastern 45 57% to
Ditto Scr:p
North Midland
Ditto 34 Shares
South Eastern and Dover 32%
York and NorthiMidland
Ditto Scarboio' Branch
Paris and Orleans L'i)
Paris and Rouen 2O 37% to 39 •
Strasburg and Bable

This morning, at twenty minutes to ten o'clock, her
Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, acccompanied by
Prince Leiningen, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, and
Sir George Couper, arrived at the London-bridge
Railway-station, in order to proceed by a special train to
Dover, en route for the Continent. The Illustrious party
were received by Mr. Whitehead, the Company's secre-
tary, and Captain Charlewood, R.N. After acknow-
ledging the salute, the party entered the carriages,
and, the signal being given, the engine was attached,
and they proceeded on their journey. • The engine
which was elegantly decorated with flags and ever-
greens, was driven by Mr. B. Cubitt, the Company's en-
gineer, who was also accompanied by Captain Cbarle-
wood, R.N.

ALMACK'S.—In consequence of the Duke of We
lington not giving a grand ball this year, in celebratiOn of
her Majesty's• birth-day, as was expected, the Countess of
Jersey and Viscountess Palmerston, by previous appoint-
ment, met yesterday to arrange for the second assembly.
The result of the conference of those Ladies Paramount was,
thaLthe next ball should take place on Thursday, instead of
Wednesday, as originally fixed. The object they have in
thus altering the ball is, that it is proposed to be a " full
dress " reunion, intended for the celebration of the Birthday
Drawing-room.,
ROYAL .MARRIAGE.—The nuptials of his Imperial
Highness the Prince Albrecht of Austria, eldest son of the
Archduke Charles, uncle of the Emperor of Austria, with her
Royal Highness Princess Hildegarde, third daughter of the
King of Bavaria, is to be solemnised on Wednesday the Ist
of next month, at Munich. The Crown Prince and Princess
of Bavaria, the Archduke Charles of Austria, the Prince
Hereditary and Princess of Modena, the Dowager Grand
Duchess of Hesse, 'Prince and Princess Luitpold of Bavaria,
&c., were expected at Munich this week, in order to be pre-
sent at the Court festivities.
Lord Worsley has for a time been prevented from
attending to his Parliamentary duties in consequence of au
affection of his right eye. Mr. Alexander has been iu at-
tendance on hii Lordship.
Lord Forester has returned to town from Willey-
park, Shropshire.
Sir Robert Peel had a lengthened audience of his
Majesty the King of the Belgians, on Sunday afternoon, at
Buckingham Palace.
Mr. Sergeant MereWether has been elected Re-
corder of Devizes, vice Mr. L. Bruges, now one of the mem-
bers of Parliament for that town. •
MELANCHOLY DEATIL—Mr. Edmond T. Clark, a
student at the Charing-cross hospital, has lost his life from
the effects of an accidental puncture in one of his fingers
while dissecting the body of a deceased person about three
weeks since. The wound being slight, Mr. Clark took little
notice of it at the time ; but in a few days alarming symptoms
were presented, inflammation rapidly increased, and notwith-
standing eyery effort of the medical -skill of the institution, he
'gradually sunk, and finally death terminated his sufferings.
The deceased was 22 years of age. •
EXTRAORDINARY MATCH.—WINDSOR, MONDAY.
A trotting, match for 251. a side came off this morning, be-
tween a light bay galloway, thirteen hands, and a bay cob,
fourteen hands high. The parties to whom they belong re-
side in the neighbourhood of Dorset-square :—The distance
was from Regent's-park to Windsor, between twenty-three
and twenty-four miles. • The galloway was ridden by its
owner, and the cob was driven in a heavy gig. The match
was won by the .saddle horse, which completed the distance
in one hour and twenty-five minutes, beating the one in liar-
ness by two minutes only. The winner was immediately
takeh back to town by railway, but the other, which is
greatly distressed, remains at the New Inn, Windsor.
SOCIETY FOR TEACHING THE BLIND TO
Yesterday a meeting of the highest respectability, which
crowded the Hanover-square rooms in every part, was held
to celebrate the anniversary, for the sixth time, of that most
benevolent Association, which has for its object the teaching
of the blind to read. At one o'clock the Lord Bishop of
Winchester took the chair. The children of the schools were
ranged in the orchestra, to the number of 100, and sung the
hymns with much sweetness, exciting the deepest feelings
of compassion among their hearers. The Right Rev. Chair-
man opened the meeting by an address on the great benefits
which resulted from the Institution—namely, the occupation
given to the mind amid the affliction of darkness, and the
blessings of spiritual consolation afforded by self-instruction,
to those who would otherwise have been destitute of other
information than they heard. He urged the claims of the
Society most earnestly, declaring that though much had been
done, yet there:was abundance of work to do, as even in his
own diocese of the county of Surrey he could find numbers of
cases which would do honour to the Institution to undertake
the instruction of. The report stated many instances of good
done both abroad and at.home, and stated that the Institution
in Queen-street was getting too small for the health of the
inmates, and arrangements must be made for enlarged accom-
! inodations. The subscriptions received last year were.
251/. is. 3d., and the donations, collections, sermons, &c.,
327/.`,os. 2d. ; the amount received for work hy the pupils,
30/. 9s. 7d., leaving a: balance of 581. Ss. 6d. in favour of the
Society. The salaries to the schoolmasters, matron, &c.
amounted to 3191. 14s. 7d. ; • and there was a balance of 34/
3s. 6d. on the printing and embossing account, which was a
separate fund. A letter was read from the Lord Bishop of
London, apologising for not taking the chair, and sending 10/.
Reading and singing by the pupils closed a most harmonious
meeting.
REVIEW OF THE ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY, &C.,
'AT WooLvvicm—Lieutenant-General Baron de Stjernerona,
Aide-de-Camp of the late King of Sweden, accompanied by
Baron Charles Bjtirnstjerna, an officer in the Swedish Horse
Guards, and the eldest son of General Count Bjiirnstjerna,
Envoy EXtraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary for Swe-
den at the British Court, with Count Rosen, arrived at Wool•
with yesterday, and at twenty minutes past two o'clock pro-
ceeded from the residence of Lieutenant-General Lord Bloom-
field, G.C.B. and G.C.11., to view the different departments
of the Royal Arsenal. At twenty minutes to four o'clock
the three troops of Royal Horse Artillery in the garrison as-
sembled on the common in review order, under the command
of Lieutenant-Colonel Cobbe, and on the arrival on the
ground of the distinguished party, the troops passed at a
walking pace, a trot, and at full gallop, to the evident admi-
ratiOn of the gallant officers who had come to Woolwich to
witness the proficiency of this fine corps. The troops then
went through the whole of the evolutions of a review-day,
which, occupied upwards of an hour, and when they dis-
mounted their guns and rested upon them, the Lieutenant-
General went up to Lieutenant-Colonel Cobbe, and expressed
his entire approbation of the whole he - had witnessed. The
troops, after remounting their guns, fired in an incredibly
short space of time, and then returned to their quarters.
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