The Sun.
London, England, 1845-03-21 00:00:00

COVET-FASHIONABLE.

Lord and Lady Wharncliffe intend to remain in town
during the Easter recess. His Lordship continues slightly
indisposed from an attack of gout. Lady Emmeline Stuart
Wortley is staying on a visit to her Noble Father, the Duke
of Rutland, at Belvoir Castle.
The Lord Chancellor and Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon.
Miss Copley have left town for his Lordship's seat, Turville
Park, near Maidenhead.

The Right Hon. Sydney Herbert continues to occupy his
late official residence at the Admiralty until the Right Hon.
Gentleman shall have taken a mansion for the season.
Lord Suirdale, after an absence of two or three years on
foreign service in China, with the 98th Foot, has arrived at
the residence of his Noble Father, the Earl of Donoughmore,
at his seat, Palmerston, Dublin.

The Earl' of Hardwicl:e, Earl Fitzwilliam, and many others
of the leading nobility of the county, attended the meeting of
persons interested in the Bedford Level at Ely.
Earl and Countess Delawarr have arrived at Bourne Hall,
Cambridgeshire, where the Noble Earl and family purpose
to remain until after the Easter holidays.
The Earl of Essex has arrived in Chapel-street, Park-lane,
from Cashiobury Park, near Watford, Herts. The Countess
and family are staying at that seat. Viscount Malden has
arrived in town.

The Earl and Countess of Gainsborough and Lady Louisa
Noel are passing the Easter holidays at Exton, Rutlandshire.
Viscount and Viscountess Catnpden are staying at Portman-
square until after her Ladyship's accouchement, which is ex-
pected shortly to take place.
The Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane arrived in
town on Wednesday from Brightor, where they had been
passing the winter. _ _

The—Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry and the
Lady Alexandrina Vane have arrived at Holdernesse House,
from Wynyard Castle.

MISCELLANEOUS.

A notification ba7sl7eerTis7st7ediTyTheP;;t-office authorities
that on Good Friday no business will be transacted during the
day at the money order office, St. Martin's-le Grand.
The Earl of Shrewsbury has sold 85 acres of land in Che-
shire to a building company for 35,0001., and has purchased
the estate of Cotton, in Staffordshire, with the proceeds.
The soiree at the British and Foreign Institute was at-
tended by the Duke and Duchess of Victoria, Donna Espar-
tero, and Colonel Gurrea, whose presence excited no little in-
terest. Thanks to the polite and efficient management of
Mr. Buckingham, the evening passed most agreeably.
Stockwell-green, a beautiful and open, piece of ground at
the corner of the road to South Lambeth, and nearly opposite
the Swan, at Stockwell, after being so many years the most
open and healthy part of that vicinity, has now been nearly
covered with buildings, and to such an extent that nearly
all trace of the former green is lost. The large Tenter-
ground, nearer Kennington-common, is also being built upon,
so that the road, from Kennington to Clapham-common may
now be said to be a continuous street.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
The Public Securities have been flat. Consols close the
same as in the morning, viz. 993/4 to , but Exchequer-bills
declined to 595. premium.
Spanish Five per Cents. brought 30% to 30; and the
Three per Cents. 403/4 %. Portuguese Converted were 683% ;
Mexican Stock was 36% ; not being so good as in the
morning.

, The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been
these :—The Birmingham and Gloucester, ex Div., 33 ;
Bristol and Gloucester, 294 to 281,4; Caledonian 4% % ;
Chester and Holyhead, 34 %; Dublin and Belfast, 3%;
Eastern Counties, 6% to 7% ; Perpetual, No. 2, % ; Edin-
burgh and Glasgow, 13; Ely and Bedford, 3/4 to 1; Great
North of England, 95 ; Ditto, New, 30 • Great Western,
Half, 511 ; Guildford, Fareham, and Portsmouth,i 23/ to %;
Hull and Selby, 45 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 101/ ; London
and Birmingham, Quarter, 293/ ; Brighton, 14 to 131/ ; South-
Western, 38%; Ditto, New, 9% ; Croydon, 4/2 to 4% ;
Manchester and Leeds, Quarter, 164 ; Midland, New, 124 ;
Newcastle and Berwick 131% ; North British, 7 ; North
Kent, % %; Norwich and Brandon, 7 to 7%; Rugby 3 to
; Coventry and Nuneaton, 3/4 ; Diss and Yarmouth, % to
K; Direct Northern, ; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 1 ;
entish Coast, 14 to ; Newark and Sheffield, Ito 11/s ;
North Wales, 1% 4 ; Scottish Midland, 1% ; Aberdeen, 14 ;
Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 2 ; South-Eastern, 1014 ;
Staines and Richmond, ; Soul Wales, 33/ ; Trent Val-
ley, 1574 4 ; Waterford and Mienny, 2%-; West Corn-
wall, 3 4 ; Yarmouth and Norwich, 7% 14 ; fork and North
Midland, 53 ; Selby, 47 ; Great Northern of France, 2 ;
Orleans and Vierzon, 16 to % ; Paris and Lyons, 2% ;
Paris and Orleans, 334 ; Paris and Rouen, 26 ; Tours and
Nantes, Ito ; and Sambre and Meuse, 3% premium.
Greenwich have been 1% to 2 discount. London and West-
minster, 71/s premium; and British North American, 414 to
1/, discount. Bolanos Mine Scrip was 74; and Real del
Monte, 43% to 5.
There was an improvement in the rate of Exchange on
Paris, Trieste, and Amsterdam. The others were steady.
(Fr•rn The Sun of Last Night.)
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 2,000
bales only, the market being very ,quiet ; 400 bales were
American, on speculation. Prices compared with Friday last
were 1/0. to 14d. lower per lb.—Shares were steady, and a
large business was done. Aberdeen, 2% ; Barnsley Junc-
tion, 7 ; Ditto, Half Shares, 34 ; Birkenhead, Manchester, and
Cheshire, 10 93/4 ; Blackburn, Burnley, and Ac-
crington, 6% ; ;Bolton, Wigan, and Liverpool, 1014 11;
Caledonian, 9% 10 ; Cambridge and Lincoln, 6%;
Chester and Birkenhead, 46; Ditto, New Shares, 38 38%;
Ditto, Half Shares, 221/2 234; Chester and Holyhead, 8%;
Churnet Valley, 774 ; 'Dundee and Perth, 3 Dundalk and
Enniskillen, 274 ; Eastern Counties, 213/4 1,4 ; Ditto, Per-
petual, 265. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 61% ; Ditto, Quarter
Shares, 15% ; Edinburgh and Northern, 11,4 ; Ely and
Bedford, 2%; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock, 174 18 ;
Ditto, Half Shares, 8%; Grand Junction, 226; Ditto, Half
Shares, 113; Great Grimsby and Sheffield, 3%; Great
Western, Half Shares, 1013/4 ; Ditto, Fifth Shares, 403/4 ;
Lancaster and Carlisle, 35% ; Limerick and Waterford,
4% 1/v ; Liverpool, Ormskirk, and Preston, 3% %; London
and Birmingham, 232 ; Ditto, 32/. Shares, 44 ; Londonderry
and Enniskillen, 2 ; London and South-Western, New 501.
Shares, 12 ; London and York, 3% ; Direct Northern,
4? ; Leeds and Thirsk, 44 ; Leeds and West Riding,
6 s ; Lynn and Derehain, Lynn and Ely, 5%; Marl,
c ester and Birmingham, Quarter Shares, 11% ; Ditto, New
Shares, 5 6s. 3d. ; Manchester, Bury, and Rosendale, 14% ;
Manchester and Leeds, Quarter Shares, 1714; Midland Rail-
way, 140 140%; Ditto, 401. Shares, 13% 16s. 3d. ; Ditto,
Fifth Shares, 33A ; Newark and Sheffield, 2% 24 ;
North British, Half Shares, 4/. 95., 41,4 ; North
Union, 142; Preston and Wyre, 313/4 ; Sheffield and
Manchester, 111 112; Ditto, Quarter Shares, 13% 13% ;
Shrewsbury, Wolverhampton, and Birmingham, 04 51,4 ;