The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-07 00:00:00

MONE YAND CO N.IMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, MONDAY EVENING.
The English Securities closed at about the rates of
the morning, Consols being 99+ to • 'ln the other
Stocks we did not notice any alteration, if we except an
advance of 23- to 3 per cent. in the value. of India Stock,
owing to the appointment of Sir Ifenryliardinge, bar-
gains for account being effected as high as 281 to 288.
Spanish Stock closed a little better, the Five per
Cents. being 23i to i; and the Three per Cents. 331 to
Mexican Bonds were 352-., The West India Mail
has been telegraphed. Brazilian New were 79. to 79i,
being rather higher. Portuguese Converted were
heavy at 45.

Tile additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these :—Birmingham and Gloucester were 4;
Eastern Counties, 13; Midland Counties, 9; and North
Midland Bi, discount. Bristol and Exeter have been 5
to 54; Ditto and Gloucester, 19k; Eastern Counties
New 6i; Great Western, 42i ; Glasgow and Dumfries,
* to 1; Harwich (Braithwaithe), 1; Ditto (Locke), 1;
Birmingham Thirds, 371; Ditto Quarters, 25k; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 16i; Newcastle and Darling-
ton, 231 to -1-; South Eastern, 51. to si; Ditto New, 8 to
*; York and North Midland, 70; Paris and Orleans, 11;
and Paris and Rouen, 17-1-, premium. London and
Westminster Bank Shares were 5i to 5* premium.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There was a continued good demand for Cotton at Liver-
pool on Saturday, at firm rates,—sales about 6,000 bales, in-
cluding 1,000 on speculation.—There was less done in shares,
Dover being the exception, as for them there was a good de-
mand. French shares were rather better.
It is much to be regretted that the commercial letters re-
ceived from the Brazils do not hold out any sanguine expec-
tation from the new treaty between this country and the
Ministers of the Emperor. Nor can any favourable arrange-
ment be made, as is stated, until the Government of this
country makes concessions as to the sugar duties, so as to
embrace the produce of the Brazils, and the admission of the
staple for home consumption at a redUced rate of duty.
The accounts and advices from India and China are not of
much importance, if we except the fact that the markets
were generally overstocked with British manufactures.
We have accounts to Feb. 23, from the Cape of Good Hope,
but being only a day later, they furnish nothing of particu-
lar interest. The exchange on London, at 30 days was 2*
per cent. premium.
The Funds have been a shade better to-day, but there is
only a limited business doing. Consols for transfer have
realised 99* to and for Time 99i to Excheqozr Bills
are at the high premium of 755. to 775. East India Stock
nominally supports the rally upon the previous depression,
the appointment of Sir Henry Hardinge being looked upon as
satisfactory. Bank Stock has been marked 195 i to 196. The
New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have obtained 1021 to
1021; the Reduced, 1011 to ; and the Three per Cents. 98i
to 4. The Commissioners have taken Consols at 99g.
The intelligence from Madrid, of the resignation of all the
Spanish Ministers, has led to a fall in the Stock of about
one per cent., the reaction here, however, not being equal to
that in the continental markets. For the Five per Cents.
the quotations have been 234 to 23*, and for the Three per
Cents. 341 to 33*. The West India mail being expected to
bring a fair remittance from Mexico, the Stock has im-
proved a little. The Active has been at 35k.
and the Deferred at 14 Colombian have been quoted 14i-;
and Peruvian 29, being dull. Danish Bonds are firm at 88,
and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 61 to 61i. Ve-
nezuela Deferred have realised to Ili.
The market for Railway Shares has been firm, with a
moderate business doing, and we quote Blackwall and South-
Eastern rather higher. National Bank of Ireland Shares are
3a discount.

-MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAT 4.—We have no
material change since yesterday. Manchester and Leeds
Half, 47i ; Sheffield and Manchester, 79i ; South-Eastern,
37i to 38; Ditto New, 111; Dublin and Cashel, 4-1.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red LB% ;Ditto Bonds ......... ...... pm.
3 per Cent. Cons. ......
3s per Cent. Eel
New 3% per Cent ......
New 5 per Cent ... .....
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 75 pm.
Jan. 1860 1.% ,Bank Stock for Acct.... .
Oct. 1859 — 'Consols for Acct
99%
Jan. 1860 --'lndia Stock for Acct.... 287%
- - -4 FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per Cent —
Ditto, New Ditto —
Prussian, 5 per Cent
Russian, 5 per Cent
Ditto, Metallic . ,
Spanish, 5 per Cent `23%
Ditto, 3 per Cent .........
Ditto, Deferred
French, 5 per Cent....... —f ....c.
Exchange —f. —c.
French, 3 per Cent. —f. —c
Dutch, 2% per Cent...—. 61
Ditto, 5 per Cent .........100%

FOREIG

Austrian, 5 per Cent
Belgian, 5 per Cent —
Brazilian Bonds
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent —
Milan, 6 per Cent —
Colombian, 6 per Cent
Ditto, 1924
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent ll3
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 18,5, 5 per Cent
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837.
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent 29

- - -
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) 96
Bristol and Exeter (;0 paid) 75
Bristol and Gloucester (30 paid)
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) 7
Eastern Counties (23 paid)
Ditto Registered (Si 6s Sd paid)
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid)
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Manchester and Birmingham 56%
Midland Counties (100 paid) Ol
North Midland (100 paid)
Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) ...... ........
South Eastern and Dover (33/ 2s 4d paid) ......
Ditto New Shares ( 4 paid)
Paris and Orleans (20 paid)

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.
LONDON, MAY 6.—Light northerV.
DEAL, MAY 4.—Wikd N.E. by Is., strong ; 5th—N.N,W.
to N.E., fresh.—Arrd. Coquette, St. Helena. Sailed Fox-
hound, South Seas ; Athenian and Trov, Bombay ; Mary
Ann, Algoa Bay ;Colony and Randolph, dape of Good Hope ;
Floraville, West Coast of Africa ; Woodmansterne, Ascension
and ditto; Edward Thorne, Miramichi ; Messenger, Ima-
gine, Horneley, and Elizabeth. Quebec; Henry, Woolley,
Montreal ; Harriet, Newfoundland.
OFF THE START, MAY 4.—Thomas Coutts, Bombay.
FALMOUTH, MAY s.—Wind E., light breezes.—Acrd.
Penguin packet, Rio, sailed March 13, on freight about 20,000/.
in gold and diamonds. Off port John Brewer, China. The
brig Ann, which sailed from Liverpool Dec. 13 or 16, had
not reached Rio when the Penguin left.
YARMOUTH, ISLE OF WIGHT, MAY 3.—Wind, E.—The
Vivacious, from Ensworth and Newport, got on the Shingles,
and remained two hours, when she got off and proceeded.
NEWPORT, MAY 4.—The Severn (steamer), Parfitt, in
leaving her station this evening, got athwart the bridge, and
after hanging two hours upon a spring Hoed tide, filled, and
went down, head foremost.

LivEnrooL, MAY 4.—WindE.S.E., light. 5.—N., light.—
Arrd. Elizabeth, Patten, New Orleans ; Enterprise, Ro-
bertson, Calcutta. s.ld. 4. Albert, Edward, China; Marina,
Cape of Good Hope ; Chilian, Lima ; Richard Weston, De-
merara ; Margaret Trinidad; Arabian, Cahaba, and Liver-
pool, New York ' • Richmond and Marion, Halifax • ' Britan-
nia (steamer), Halifax and Boston; Bridge Town, Ellicolie,
and Ocean Queen, Quebec. s.—Lima packet, Cape of Good
Hope ; Revoke, Ditto ; Bee, Africa ; Merchant, Rio; Ga-
zelle, Miramichi ; Ann, Boston ; Peter Hattrick, New York.
CLYDE, MAY 2.—Sld. Nelson, Bombay.
CORN, MAY 2.—Sid. Lord W. Bentinck, Port Philip.
SHIELDS, MAY 2.—Sld. William and Ann, Quebec. 3.
Thunder, Rio. 4. Cingalese, Cape of Good Hope ; Ma-
zeppa, Montreal.
SUNDERLAND, MAY 4 —sld. Spartan, Quebec.
DEAL, MAY s.—Sld. Cleopatra, China ; Fairy Queen, Cape
of Good Hope.
PLYMOUTH, MAY s.—Wind variable. Arrd. Johanna
Cristoff, La Guayra, for Hamburgh.
OFF PENZANCE, MAY 3.—Montezuma, Selkirk, Sydney ;
Briton, Jeffrey, Mauritius.
Main-rola, MAY 2.—Sld. Ocean and Jane, Quebec.
DINGLE, MAY 2.—Sld. British Queen, Halifax.
STROMNESS, MAY. l.—Arrd. Suffolk, Hull, for Quebec,
bore up leaky, and crew refusing to proceed.

Sir Robert Peel has taken a house in the Isle of
Wight for thirteen weeks from the Ist of June.
REMOVAL or TROOPS.—Orders have just been
issued for the removal of the undermentioned troops to the
several quarters mentioned :—The Ist Dragoon Guards from
Newbridge to Dublin; the 49th Foot from Portsmouth to
Winchester; and the 76th Foot from Plymouth to Gosport.
SERIOUS ILLNESS OF SIR JOHN LOWTHER, BART.
—We regret to hear that this -venerable Baronet, brother of
the late Earl of Lonsdale, has for fome days past been la-
bouring under severe indisposition, so as to cause alarm to
the members of his family. The respected Baronet is at
Swillington House, near Ferrybridge, Yorkshire, surrounded
by his family. Although the accounts received in town on.
Saturday were more favourable than these forwarded pre-
viously, yet it was feared the Hon. Baronet would sink under
the attack, as his advanced age and consequent infirmities
will militate against his recovery.. Sunda afternoon
TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.—During
thousands of persons visited Trafalgar-square. For several
hours the spacious terrace was lined with frpmenpaildlaerr,s,gathvoe
appearance of whom from the base of the Pelson
a living interest to the scene.
It is said that the expensive establishment of the
Royal Buckhounds, which, with the salary to the noble
master, the Earl of Roslyn, 2,1.! the chief
&c.,huntsman, Mr.
Davis, and the wages to whippers-n, feeders, amounting
to a ' considerable item in the Civil List, is to be broken up.
llis Royal Highness Prince Ahlbert vfill still keep up his fiue
with which t e Prince will regularly hnnt
pack of hariers,
next season.
FIRE IN PARLIAMENT-STREET, THROUGH THE
sriscoxnvc-r OF A FOOTMAN.—Yesterday morning, at a
quarter before eight, a fire was discovered raging in the base-
ment story of the offices adjoining the spacious residence of
Mr. Driver, the eminent land surveyor, situate at No. 8,
Richmond-terrace, Westminster. It appears that the care
of the plate was entrusted to the footman, William Cotton,
whose duty it was to sleep in the pantry, but, availing him-
self of the family's sojourn at East Grinstead, Sussex, he re-
mained out the whole of last night, leaving the gas burning
in the pantry. Upon an alarm being raised, the engine from
the Chandos-street station, and five other engines belonging
to the fire brigade, were speedily upon the spot, and a good
supply of water having been obtained, the firemen succeeded,
in less than an hour, in subduing the flames. The pantry,
however, and the valuable family plate, is nearly entirely
destroyed, and the staircase and one of the front offices
abutting upon Parliament-street, are considerably injured,
and but for a massive door connecting the offices with the
family mansion impeding the progress of the flames, the
valuable collection of pictures and costly furniture, &c., be-
longing to Mr. Driver, might have fallen a sacrifice to the
devouring element.
" BELL'S LIFE IN LONDON" OF SUNDAY NEXT
Tay 12.—Newmarket Second Spring Bleeting—The Suffolk
Handicap and important matches between Oakley and St.
Lawrence—Semiseria and Extempore—Pegasus's fore-
gatherings of Gorhambury Races—Shrewsbur7 otherand
Races—Racing, Steeple-chasing, andFox-huntingaet
* Romester
—Angling, by Ephemera—The Cricketters' R
Aquatics—Sailing-matches and Regattas on the Team
Pedestrianism—Coursing—Alphabetical List of " Run-up
Dogs"—Pigeon Shooting—Fa doings on Tuesday, and
the usual Sporting varieties. Puce of Bells' Life, 6d. Office,
170, Strand. Bells' Life of last Suday, May 5, gave three
long and wide folio columns of Chester Races, 100 advertise-
ments connected with sporting matters, Marylebone, Cam-
bridge and Oxford Crieketting, Meetings of the Royal
Thames Yacht and Thames Regatta Clubs, &c.
BRIDGE OVER THE SEVERN.—The project of
a bridge over the Severn at Newnham, is, we under-
stand, connected with the contemplated Railway, to be
called the " South Wales and Great Western Union
Railway," communicating with the Great Western
Branch near Gloucester, and leading through Mon-
mouth, Chepstow, Newport, Neath, and Carmarthen, to
Pembroke ; thus giving a direct communication with
the South of Ireland. The estimate for this line is
about 2,500,0001., and so abundant is capital that sub-
scriptions are fast filling up. Mr. Brunel is the engineer
employed.— Wiltshire Independent.