The Sun.
London, England, 1844-04-01 00:00:00

Versailles, R.B.
L. 8....• •• •• •• •• 242 50 248 75 .• 240 .. 240
Rouen 915 .. 915 .. 915 .. 915

Rouen to Havre 690 -. 690 .. G9O •• 690
Orleans

Strasburg to Bale • • • • • • •••• 290
Avignon to Marseilles• • • • • • 760

.. 292 50 .. 290 .. 290
.. 767 50 .. 760 .. 767 50

RAILWAY SHARES, FOR TIIE ACCOUNT.
Versailles, 11.11 397 50 .. 397 50 393 75 393 75
L. 8.•• •. •• ...... 242 50 259 235 240
Rouen •••• .• ..... 917 50 • 917 50 .. 915 .. 915
Rouen to Ilavre ....... 690 •• 990 .. 690 .. 690

e-ais• ...... Co. • • 907 50 • • 902 50 • • 902 50
071

Strasburg to hale .... 290 .. 293 75 290 .. 291 25
Avignon to Marseilles-- 767 50 .. 7G7 50 .. 763 75 .. 763 75

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
The demand for Cotton at Liverpool yesterday was very
moderate ; sales 3,000 bales, at about previous rates. For
Shares there was a firm market, and a fair business was done.
Birmingham and Gloucester were 871 ; Chester and Holy-
head, 74 , Eastern Counties, 114 Edinburgh and Glasgow,
64: ; Great Western, Half, 701 ; Dublin and Cashel,
51.-18 s. 9d ; Birmingham, 2341 ; Ditto, Quarter, 28; Brigh-
ton, 44* ; Manchester and Birmingham, 47; ; Paris and
Lyons, 24 ; South Eastern, 37/.
Much curiosity is exhibited to learn the plan of the South
Sea Company's Directors, by which they are about to employ
their money (the amount of which we are not aware of at
this moment), as unquestionably a large sum will thus be
made available for trust and other purposes. As to the effect
likely to be produced on the Money Market by the operations
of the Directors of the South Sea Company, it is impossible
to form the least opinion. This Company, with exclusive
privileges, was established about 130 years ago, and, as its
capital advanced, it lent its surpluses to Government, and the
latter owes the Corporation about 10,000,0001. As we have
•already observed, it is not publicly known how much of the
capital of the Company can be made available fur advances,
and employment at a higher rate of interest than the Pro-
prietors now receive from Government—i. e. 3 per cent.
There are not any accounts from the colonies to-day.
In Consols for the Account to-day not a single bargain
has been transacted. For Money the only prices have been
98; and 4. The Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have
been 102; to 102 a. Bank Stock remains at 200, and Exche-
quer Bills are at 68s. to 70s. premium.
In the Foreign Stock Exchange a good deal of business
has been transacted, and prices of South American Bonds are
on the rise; Peruvian have been clone at 314; Mexican at
37 ; Colombian ex Venezuelian at 15; • and Chilian De-
ferred at 501 ; Spanish Actives have been quoted at 261 ;
the Three per Cents. at 37; ; and the Passive at 7*. The
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have not been quoted to-
day • the Five per Cents. are at 101 i. to 102.
Tire variations in the Railway Shares have been very li-
mited to-day.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 29.—The
market has been rather animated to-day, and there has been
a good business at the prices quoted :—Eastern Counties,
Registered, 13; ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarter, 16 ;
Grand Junction, 233 ; Lancaster and Preston, 381 ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 471;; North Midland Thirds,
30 1-3 d ; North Union, 1071; Sheffield and Manchester,
681; South Eastern Scrip, 37* ; Sheffield and Man-
chester, Quarters, 8 1-16 ; Chester and Holyhead, 74;
Bury and Rossendale, 64; ; Huddersfield Canal, 164.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red Ditto Bonds ..... 88 pm.
3 per Cent. Cons.
3% per Cent. Rel
DRto ew Annuities...
New 3% per Cent 102% Ex. Bi, 1,0001. 110... 70 pm.
New 5 pel• Cent...........„ Ditto 500/ ....... ........ 70 pm-
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ?0 pm.
Jan. 1860 Bank Stock for Acct.... 200
Oct. 18.59 Consols for Acct..........
Jan. 1860 !lndia Stock for Acct....
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent ...... !Portuguese, 5 per Cent
Belgian, 5 per Cent !l)itto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds .....* .....„.. 82% Prussian, 5 per Cent ......
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Russian, 5 per Cent.
Chllian, 6 per Cent - ,Ditto, Metallic
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Ditto, 1824 Ditto, a per Cent 373
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent 93 (Ditto, Deferred 153
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 18-5, 5 per ,Exchange
Mexican, 5 per Cent ..... 57 'French, 3 per Cent —f —c.
Ditto, 6 per Cent., lan Dutch, 2% per Cent
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent— 314 Ditto, 5 per Cent 102%
SH A RES.
Birmingham and Derby (100 paid) 63
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) 7%
Chichester and Brighton ( 5 paid)
Dublin and Cashel (233 paid) , 55
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
Ditto, Perpetual 5 per cent. (133.4 d. paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid)
(}Teat extern (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Fifths (12 paid) l9
Hull and Selby (50 paid) 6O
. Lon ion and Brighton (50 paid)
London and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid)
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk)
Ditto Scrip (;34 pad)
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Ditto Half Shares ( 0 paid)
• Manchester and Birmingham-. t
• Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) 7
Newcastle and Darlington Junction (15 paid)
' North Midland (100 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (40 paid) 45
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)
Paris and Rouen (20 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 37g
Strasbourg and Bale (14 paid) l3
York and Scarborough Branch Ws paid)

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
- NOTICE TO MARINERS.
Light at the Port of Brindisi, Adriatic Coast.
Admiralty, March 29, 1844.

Sir,—l am commanded by my Lords Commissioners
of the Admiralty to transmit to you herewith, for the
information of the Committee for managing the affairs at
Lloyd's, a copy of a dispatch from her Majesty's Consul
at Naples, reporting the establishment of a light at the
entrance of the port of Brindisi.—l am, Sir, &c.,
(Signed) JOHN BARROW.
To W. Dobson, Esq., Lloyd's.
(COPY.)
Naples, March 8, 1844.
_ _

Sir,—l beg leave to report to you, for the inf;)rmation
of the Earl of Aberdeen, that I have received a note from
his Excellency the Prince of Scilla, Minister of State for
Foreign Affairs of the Sicilian overnment, apprising
me that a light has been established at the entrance of
the port of Brindisi, on the Adriatic coast, on a small
island, on which a fort is constructed, and on which a
small military detachment is usually maintained. The
place is designated in the charts as the " Forte a Mare,"
and the official communication represents the position of
it to be in lat. 40 deg. 39 min. 17 sec. N. lon. by the
meridian of Paris, 15 deg. 57 min. 57 sec. E., and from
the Royal Observatory at Naples 3 deg. 42 min. 50 sec.
east; the height of the light from the level of the sea
being 123 palms, equal to 103 feet. In the event of a
good light being established in that position, it wili
prove of great benefit during the winter season to
vessels coming down the Adriatic. —I have, &c.
(Signed) TIIOS. GALLWEY."
To John Bidewell, Esq. &c., Foreign-office,

LONDON, Mutat 29.—Wind this day at noon, light
easterly breeze, and fine clear weather.
DEAL, MARCH 29.—Wind N.N.E. to E.N.E., light and
thick fog—Arrd.lberia, steamer, Constantinople. Sld. George
Fybe, Calcutta; Wakefield, St. John's, New Brunswick.
COWES, MARCH 29.—Arrd. Familiar, Nyeboy, Rio ;
Woodmanstowe, Hindmarsh, Matanzas ; Condor, Hanaburgh
for St. Thomas, with loss of bulwarks and bowsprit, &c.,
having been in contact with a steamer.
DARTMOUTH, MARCH 28.—Arrd. Commerce, Brown, Gib-
raltar for Hull, short of provisions and water. Arrd. 01T,
Dart, Newton, Madeira.
PLYMOUTH, MARCH 29.—Wind variable.—Arrd. Halifax,
Grayburn, Ichoboe ; Lord Stanley, Appleton, Sierra Leone,
sailed 6th ult. Sld. John Burnham, Barrett, Prince Ed •
ward's Island; Teesdale, Malta ; Manley, Montreal.
FALMOUTH, MARCH 29.—Wind variable and light.—
Sid. her Majesty's steamer Bromo, Batavia. Off, Aura,
Hember, for Baltic, (46 days).
BRISTOL, MARCH 29.—Sld. Bristolian, and Flora, Africa.
SWANSEA, MARCH 28.—Arrd. Thirteen, Valparaiso ; Eliza
INcehNovblo,eo,rkl e.ftsJaanne.d,l9A,lSc3t..o
nHee,lAe nriacahla
Hughes, Davies, Cuba.
LIVERPOOL, MARCH 29.—Wind rrd. Colchester,
WC
Cunning, and Henry
since
back leaky ; Fatima and steamer Fire Queen, Calcutta ;
Brutus, Aden ; Isabella, Buenos Ay-res ; Tinamara, Ceara ;
Sarah, Barbadoes ; Lady Basset, Antigua ; Cybele, Texas ;
Sir C. Campbell and Walter, New Orleans ; Rhode Island
and Trewaithe, New York Asia, St. John's, New Bruns-
wick ; Elizabeth, Halifax; Mahaica, Montreal.
SUNDERLAND, Mnxctl 27.—Sld. Dorade, St. John's, New
Brunswick; Cornelius, Richebucto ; Marneluke, Miramichi ;
Prince of Wales and Whitwell Grange, Quebec.
CORK ,Maticit 27.—Arrd. Dahlia, Young, St. John's, New
Brunswick.
CLYDE, MARCH 27.—Sld. Caledonia, Montreal.
SHIELDS, MARCH 28.—Commodore, Marquesas ; Crusader,
Madeira and Valparaiso Britannia, St. John's, New Bennewick.
HULL, MARCH 29.—Arrd. Aberfoyle, Bombay. Sld. Pan
Itunnoy, Quebec.

COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE for April.
The, famous. Thomas Ingoldsby opens this number with one of
his most humorous versitications, called " The Wedding Day,"
which is capitally illustrated by Leech. "The Medical Stu-
dent" contributes a striking tale, entitled "Marianne Ester-
ling ; Mrs. Trollope gives a delightful account of a week's
ramble at Aix- les-Bains and its neighbourhood. The Mar-
chioness of Londonderry concludes her attractive narrative
of her recount Tour. Mr. Laman Blanchard furnishes a pi-
quant article called " April Fool's Day all the Year Round,"
and the humourist department of the Magazine is also well
supported by two clever anonymous papers on " Social
Nuisances," and "The Right of Self Commemoration."
The " Recreations in Natural History," are continued with
unflagging interest, the subject of the present part being
" Elephants." There are several other papers, which will
well repay attention; but one in particular, entitled "The
Emperor Nicholas, his Nobles, Serfs, and Servants," will be
perused with the greatest interest. In poetry,,the number
for April is unusually rich, comprising articles by Miss Cook,
Mrs. Gore, Horace, Smith, &c.
A letter from Algiers states that the inhabitants of
the environs have been for some time in great terror front
the appearance of-lions and panthers prowling-round their
dwellings, and sometimes carrying off human beings. These
wild beasts, it seems, generally disappear in the spring, re-
tiring to the mountains, where they remain till the snow
drives thattl down again upon the plain.

DUTCH AND FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, MARCH 28.—The Chamber of Represen-
tatives continued the discussion of the project of law rela-
tive to the examining jury.
M. Lebeau delared that he would support the plan of
the Government. He observed that it was the Catholic
party that, in 1835, obtained the nomination •of the
members of the juries for the Royal preroga-
tive. He then proceeded to show that the Chamber of
Representative, had always shown a partiality in favour
of the Catholic University, and against the University
of Brussels. At the close of his speech, M. Lebeau
having made an observation on an opinion of
M. Dumortier, that Honourable Member retorted
with such warmth, that he was called to order by the
President. M. Dumortier, instead of attending to this
call, declared the conduct of the President to be arbi-
trary, which excited a tumult that it would be difficult
to describe, at length on the repeated desire of the whole
assembly, and a declaration of M. Lebeau that he had
the highest esteem for the character of M. Dumortier,
the latter retracted the offensive expressions which had
fallen him. The Chambers soon afterwards adjourned.
AMSTERDAM, MARCH 28.—The Handelsblud to-day
has another long article earnestly recommending to its
readers not to let the day pass without subscribing to
the voluntary loan, and quotes from another journal a
very impressive address to the same effect.

THE HAGUE, MARCH 26.—1 t is thought that his Im-
perial Highness the Grand Duke Alexander of Russia,
who is now at Weimar, may very probably pay a visit
some weeks hence to the Hague.
THE HAGUE, 'Hamm 29.—The Stoats Courant con-
tains, in the Dutch and French language, the boundary
treaty between the Netherlands and Belgium.
ROTTERDAM, MARCH 27.—We learn that in the last
few days very considerable sums have been subscribed in
this city to the voluntary loan.
The different journals contain articles from several
towns respecting the readiness of the inhabitants to sub-
scribe to the loan, but the official joarnal does not state
the total result of the subscription, which was finally
closed on the 28th March.