The Sun.
London, England, 1844-06-15 00:00:00

MONE Y AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.

The value of Consols this afternoon was slightly de-
preciated, 97i having been paid, though the latest bar-
gains wexo at 98 to 94.. The Unfunded Debt continues
firm, as also the heavy securities.
As usual, after the settlement of the account, the Fo-
reign Szcurities have undergone some fluctuation.
Spanish Actives improved this afternoon to 22i and
23*, and the Three per Cents. to 341
.3.41,; but the most
decided alteration was in Mexican Bonds, which got up
to 34i owing partly to the more favourable advices
from the United States. Portuguese Converted were
steady at 47. Belgian Bonds were 104.
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these:—Birmingham and Gloucester New were
54 ; Croydon, 41 to 41 ; Manchester and Leeds, 351 ;
Ditto and Birmingham, 15 ; Newcastle and Darlington,
21i5i ; South• Eastern, 2i- to
2 ;
York and North Midland,
; DNiottrow ich
New,rn and Brandon,
64
68i to 69i ; Ditto Half, 33 ; Scarborough Branch, 16i
to 16/ ; and Paris and Orleans, 171 to 18 premium ;
Brighton, 31 to 3k ; Greenwich; 54 to 5; and North
Midland, 7 to 7+ discount.
With the exception of a slight decline on Hamburgh,
occasioned by the lower quotations per to-day's mail,
wecannot notice any alteration of moment in the Foreign
Exchanges.
The American accounts read well as regards trade.
The following are polit'cal extracts relative to Cuba
and Central America

" The Florence has arrived from Mantanzas, with ad-
vices to the 22d May.
"There had been a number of people, white and black,
arrested two d ,ys before the Florence sailed, on suspicion
of being conc:•rnel in the abortive insurrection. The
Court was sitting at Mantanzas, trying the negroes be-
longing to the plantations. There had been a number
condemned, taken oat to the plantations to which they
belonged, and shot. The prisons and forts were crowded
with prisoners.
"It was said that-Mr. Donald, a native of New York,
and an engineer, was arrested and imprisoned, charged
with being concerned in the riots ; else several other
engineers.
" The Thomas H. Benton, Captain Roberts; arrived
yesterday from San Juan, reports that he (Captain It.)
attempted to enter the port of St. John's, in Central
America, but was refus,d admittance, it being under a
blockade by H. B. M. schooner of war Hornet, Lieut.
Miller. The blockade had last, d three months. the
British vessels which enforced it being relieved monthly."

(From The Sun of Last Night.).
• A large business was done in Cotton at Liverpool yester-
day at very full prices. Speculators took 1,500 bales Ame-
rican, and exporters 500 ; the total sales being 8,000 bales,
via., 150 Peruam at 50. to 61., 50 Bahia at 54, 240 Ma-
ranham at 51d, 60 Egyptian at 60. to 7d., 200 Surat at 3d.
to 30., and the rest. American at 30. to 50. per lb.—
Slaares were on the whole rather dull, Birmingham and
Grand Juncti.m being, however, again firmer. Birmingham
and Gloucester, 92 ; Caledonian, 3; ; Chesterand Holyhead,
5 ; Grand Junction, 217 ; Lancaster and Carlisle, 5, ; Bir-
mingham, 213 • Ditto, Thirds, 351 ; Ditto, Quarter, 2-q ;
South-Eastern ?New, 11/. 6s. ; Paris and Lyons, 31. I Is. 6d. ;
Orleans and Bordeaux, 2/. Is.
The result of the debate in the House of Commons on the
second reading of the Bank Charter Bill has been the subject
of much conversation in the City this morning, and many
complaints arc made that the Government will not concede
two of the points so much asked for, namely, an extension of
the amount of the issues of notes by the Bank of
England upon securities, and a more liberal mark
as to the amount of the issue by the country bankers.
However, almost all hope is given up that in Committee
there will be any material alteration in the principle of the
nnasure as at first brought forward by the Chancellor of the
Exchequez.
A large amount of merchandise has been cleared for home
consumption yesterday and to -day. The river, the docks,
and the revenue departments of Customs and Excise, are in
a most bustling state. The receipts this week have been
almost unprecedezated, and what- is the more satisfactory,
is the fact, that the purchases, in the majority of instances,
have been bursa fide and not iu time bargauie.

We are without anti• arrivals of interest this morning. The
rig to raise the wind by the Financial Minister of Madrid
has failed,' according to our letters received to-day, from
thence, although in a place like that, one scheme soon fol-
lows another.

The Exchange from Hamburgh comes over at 13 64,
being rather lower, and the price of gold at 434.
Not a great deal of business was done in the Consol Market
this morning. The price for the Account touched 98i at one
time, but the general rate has been 95a. The Three-and-a-
Half per Cents, have been done at two percent. above par;
Long Annuities at 12 7-16ths ; and ReducPd Three per Cents.
at 9811 4. The premium on Exchequer Bills has advanced to
755. Bank Stock left off yesterday at 198 a. It has just been
sold at 197 a.
This is the settling day for the half-month in the Foreign
House, and, as money is very easy, all has gone off well as
vet. Spanish may be quoted a shade better, the Three
-Cents. having touched 34 ; and the Fire per Cents.
224 for the end of the month. Dutch and Belgian
Bonds are firm. Portuguese Five per Cents. are worth 78.
Mexican are fiat at 334; and Colombian ex Venezuelan at
1211 4. A bargain was made in Russian at 118.
The London and Birmingham Railway Shares have rallied
this morning from 112 to 118 premium, but this value has
since gone back to 116 premium. The New Shares com-
mand 34, and the Qaarters ditto, 22A premium. In general,
the Railway Share Market looks buoyant, but not many real
transactions have vet been reported.
MANCHESTER TOCIC EXCHANGE, JUNE 13.—We have
had a dull market to-day, and only a small amount of busi-;
nesslias been transacted. Manchester and Leeds Half Shares,
441; Paris and Lyons, 3 9-16 -A ; Trent Valley, 74 ; Man-
chester, Bury, and ltossendtee, 5, ; Chester and Holy-
head, 51.
CLOSING PRICES.
BniTisti t

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red ' 9S Ditto Bonds - pm.
S per Ceti,. Cans.
St(, per Cott'. Red -*, 102 'Ditto New Annuities ...
New SIA per Cent — ;Ex. Bills, 1,0001. 1 lid... 73 pia
New 3 per Cent — ! Ditto Will
Long Annuities to expire I Ditto Small 7.3 pm.
Jan 1.6' —. -Bank Stock. for Amt....
Oct. ISS" ll% Consols for Upg.. lt%
Jan. IEICO .........
FOrtEIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 per Cent — Portuguese, 5 per Cent
Belgian, 5 per Cent lOl% Ditto, New Ditto..
. 000000000 .••
BBuraetelisanAyßroezdas
per
ce..r —....
,Puruunssiaiann,ppaerreCrenntt! ... 000000
Es
Chilian, 6 per Cent — Ditto, Nletallic
%
23%
o
Coirlorrito,blistarti, 8 per Cent ...... V.% §yanish, 5 per Cent Ditto, I per Cent
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent...... 'Ditto, Deferred
Danish, 3 per Cent ..... ....—• . 'Fiend'', 5 per Cent —l. —c.
Greek, 18 5, 5 per Cent ..... 'Exchange .... .......... —f. —..e.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 78.57....... ---!Dutch, 2% per Cent CI
Peruvian, 1925, 6 per Cent... 'Ditto, 5 per Cent .....„ 100%
SHARES.
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid)
Eastern Counties (".3 paid)
Ditto Registered (8/ ft 8d paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid) •••• ........
London and Greenwich (12t. 15s. 4d. paid)...„„ B's
London and Croydon (Trunk)lS kli
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid,
Manchester end Birminham 55
Newcastle and Darlingron Junction. 21 paid 4_'
- - North Midland (100 paid)
Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) 7%
South Eastern and Dover (33 ks 4d paid) . ....
Ditto New Shares ( 4 paid)
York end North Midland (50 paid'
COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—(YES'IERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 ' 6 Gibraltar —
Ditto, at sight l2 4 Leghorn, • 30.45
Rotterdam .2 U. 12 6/1 Genoa 25 90
Antwerp 25 90 Milan —
Flamburgh M.B. 13 14 Venice .... 47
.... ..........
Altona ..
Paris, 3 days' sight... 25 65 Palermo, per oz ll7
Ditto, 3 mouths 25 85 Lisbon 54
Marseilles
Bonrdeaux
Frankfort on Maine.. 121} Bahia - 23.
Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Buenos Ayres —
Berlin 7 NewYork,2ldyssight
Vienna, efFec. 13 M 953 Philadelphia —
I rieste, ditto
Madrid '37 Foreign Gold, bars. f-3 17 9

Cadiz
Bilbao 36 New Doubloons OO 0
_ _

Barcelona 36 1 New Dollars 0 410

Seville - I Silver in Bars O4 1

Post of yesterday.)
THE NEW _CURRENCY BILL.
The Islelw'roCmurtrheenc3yfoßnillilng
i/ virtually carried ; and the
Continental scale of prices has been recognised as the
scale of prices best fitted for the meridian of England.
Sir Robert Peel's currency scheme is, confessedly,
borrowed wholesale from Mr. Jones Loyd, one of the
most rampant of the advocates of free ,trade in corn—
although, as Mr. Gisborne slily remarked, not a free-
trader in his own business of banking. Mr. Charles
Buller, indeed, complimented the Minister on having
adopted the doctrines of the " Politiaal Economy Club"
as the basis of his legislative measures, and expressed a
hope that a repeal of the corn-laws (as to the expediency
of which all the members of the " Club" in question
are agread) might be the next of the Right Hun. Ba-
ronet's reforms.
Mr. Charles Buller's wish might have been spared.
The corn-laws are, in effect, abolished by Sir Robert
Peel's new currency measure. Tjader the action of that
measure, prices in England must be forced down to the
Continental level. The corn-laws must, aerefore, in all
time to come, prove inoperative. Their specific repeal
will scarcely. be thought necessary by even the most
ruthless f.ce trader.
The Ministerial measure was .opposed, last night, by
Mr. Hawes. by Mr. Hastie, by Mr. Charles Buller, and
by Mr. GiShorpe—all of them unflinching free traders,
and staunch supporters of the principles of the money
law of 1S 19. Yet even these honourable gentlemen
shrink from a movement sa startling as that which is
involved in the Bank Charter project. The fears, there-
fore, which Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Wodehousc, and Col.
Sibtherp expressed as to the effect of the measure on the
industry et' the country may fairly be assumed to be nut
without cause.
Of all the.triumphs'which, -under the auspices of Sir
Robert Peel, the free traders have achieved, this on the
currency question is, beyond comparison, the greatest.
Well might Mr. Muntz exclaim, that he could under-
stand why the free-traders on his side of the House
shOulcl support the Minister. but bow country gentle-
men, who are attached to the corn-laws and high prices,
should support him, did, as the Hon. MemLer fur Birs.
mingham admitted, surpass his comprehension.
We shall hereafter carefully analyse the speeches de-
livered on the occasion. At present we have only space
to announce the utter abandonment by the House of
Commons of the last remnants of the policy of protection

• INCENDTARISM.-It will be remembered that Mr..
Milner Gibson (who was formerly M.P. for Ipswich) a few
evenings back, asked Sir James Graham, whether the atten-
tion of Government had been directed to the recent fear-
fully prevalent system of incendiarism in the counties of
Suffolk, Norfolk, and Essex. The Hon. Member has now
placed a notice on the books of the House of Commons, inti-
mating that it was his intention, " on the first supply night,"
to submit a " motion relative to the incendiarism now pre-
valent in the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, and ],arts of
Essex." This is indefinite enough as regards the form in
which the matter is to be brought under the attention- of the
House; but still it is gratifying to see that the Hon. Mem-
ber has taken the subject in hand. Nothing could be more
unsatisfactory than allowing such a state of things to con-
tinue month after month sub
and atrocity.. sub silentio,
ocity.. There must .be
while the fires are in-
creasing constantly in nu
some cause for the evil. Ought not that cause be incinired
into and investigated., and, if possible, remedied ?—.4drertiser.