The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-21 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, MONDAY EVENING. 1
Stocks close better than they were in the morning,
being -991 to 1 for Consols, and 981 i for Reduced
Three per Cents. There was no alteration, however, in
the Three-and.a-Half per Cent. Securities.
The Foreign. Market also looked more buoyant.
Spanish Actives touched 24 to if, and the Three per
Cents. 35 to /., Mexican were done at 35* to i, being
about previous quotations. Venezuela were 40-i- to I,
and Colombian 148 to 1. The northern investments re-
mained as in the morning. -
The additional transactions in Railway Shares have
been these:—Birmingham and Gloucester were 8 to 10i;
Caledonian, 11 to i; Blackwall, 9i, and Greenwich, 58
to # discount. Bristol and Exeter have been 14 to 12k;
Ditto arid Gloucester, 18 to 181; Chester and Holyhead.,
2 to 11; Dublin and Cashel, 21 to 3i; Eastern Coun-
ties, New, 51; Great Western, 46; Ditto, Half, 271;
Harwich (Locke.), 1; Lancaster and Carlisle, 2 ; Bir-
mingham, 124 i to 125; Greenwich, Preference,l; South-
Western, 461; Ditto, Eighths, 41; Croydon, 41; Ditto,
Scrip, 9 to 81; Manchester and Birmingham, 16i; North-
On and Eastern, 12; North Midland, Thirds, 71; Trent
alley, 51 to 51; Paris and Rouen, 181; and Rouen and
Havre, 9i to f premium. British North American
Bank Shares'were 88 discount; Union of Australia, 14;
and Union of London 2i premium. .
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
There was aYe dull market for Cotton at Liverpool on
Saturday, and therendency of prices was still downwards.
Sales only 2,500 bales, of which speculators only took 300.
Shares are rather better, and there were buyers of the prin-
eipal lines. ' Eastern Counties, 12/ ; Birmingham, 226 ;
Ditto, Thirds, 88; Brighton, 451 ; South-Western, 871 ;
Midland Counties., 891 ; North Midland, Half, 45 ; Paris and
Lydhs, 31. ls. 6d.; South-Eastern, 385 ; Di:to, New, 125. 1
Accounts from the North of England state, in reference to
the corn trade, that the demand for foreign wheat is slow,
and not much business has passed therein at Hull during the
past week; what has taken place has been at lower rates;
the same remarks apply to barley, but the other descriptions
of spring corn arc held with more firmness. The supplies
of wheat and barley from abroad have been on a large scale
during the present week, and a considerable portion of the
former has been paid duty upon. Spring sown corn is still
suffering from the effects of so prolonged a continuance of
in
dry weather, the f 4 howers that have fallen, though bene-
ficial to a certain e t, being very far short of what is re-
quired in the pres parched state of the soil in many
districts. ..
The English Stocks have been rather flat to-day, and there
is not much business doing. For transfer to-morrow Consols
have realised 995 to 1, and for Time the same. Exchequer
Bills have been rather higher, a notice for the usual paying
off, and the renewal at lid. per centum. per diem having ap-
peared. The NeVi Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have been
marked 1021 to Ii- the Reduced, 101 i to 5; and the Three
per Cents. 985 to 5. Bank Stock has been rather firmer, viz.
192 to 193 ; but India Stock has receded to 2861 and 285.
The CoMmissionere have taken 20,000/. Reduced at 981.
The Foreign market has been more animated. Spanish
Active Bonds have realised 231 to 231, and the
Three per Cents. 345 to 341, having taken rather a wider
range for account, viz, from 345 to 35. Portuguese
Converted Bonds have been steady at 465 to 47,
the accounts from Lisbon being more satisfactory. Mexican
Deferred Stock has realised 15i, and Colombian Bonds have
been heavy at 14/ ; Peruvian are 285 ; Chili= Deferred
Stock is 52 to 1.4; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have
alternated from 60/ to 61/; Russian are 1171 to 118.
The Railway Shares look firm again, with one or two ex-
ceptions. Birmingham, South-Western, and the French
lines are buoyant. Birmingham and Gloucester are not quite
so good, being 10 discount. The Banks are dull.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, NAY 17.—We have no
particular change .to report in any stock, except in Cale-
donians, which have been sold at 21:discount. North Union,
1081 ; Blackburn and Preston, 51 ; Caledonian, 3 ; Manchester
Assurance, 101; Manchester Exchange, 132.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
_,,......... 19.2 Indian Stock 2s'i pin.
'I per Cent. Red 9S Ditto Bonds 94 pm.
5 per Cent. Cons. - 99 Ditto Old Annuities „, _
31 - • Cent. Itei...:, 1011 Ditto New Annuities —

Ex. Bills, 1,0004 Ilid pm.
Ditto 5001 — pm
Ditto 5ma11............... pm.
Bank Stock for Acct 19:5
Consols for Acct 99%
India Stock for Acct 286
I FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per Cent ... ...... !Portuguese, 5 per Cent......
Belgian, & per Cent — Ditto, New Ditto _
Brazilian 'Bonds ........... ;Prussian, 5 per Cent —
Buenos Ayres, 6 per 'Cent" !Russian, 5 per Ccnt .....
'llllian, 6 per Cent • --. Ditto, Metallic —
Colombian, 6 per Cent ...... 14% Spanish, 5 per Cent 24li
Ditto, 1824 Ditto, 3 per Cent 35
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent...... Ditto, Deferred l3
Danish, 3 per Cent
Greek, 18.5, 5 per Cent — .Exchange —f. .—c.
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., 1837 — Dutch, 2% per Cent.... 60%
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per Cent 2B % Ditto, 5 per Cent .........100%
SHARES.
Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid)... ....•••••• 89%
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) ...... ... ..... :... .. 83%
Bristol and Gloucester (30 paid)
Caledonian, 5 paid
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid)
Dublin and Cashel, 2% paid
Eastern Counties (23 ioaid)
Ditto Registered (816 s Sd paid)
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid.......... 66
Great Western (75 paid)
Ditto Half Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Fifthly 12 paid 22
Harwich (Braithwaite), 2 paid 2%
Ditto, Locke, 2% paid . a
Lancaster and Carlisle, 5 paid 7
London and Birmingham (Stock)
Ditto. New-Thirds, 2 paid - 38
:Ditto, Quarter Shares ( 2 pMd):......... `2sl
London and-latackwall (16/,13s 4d,) 7%
London and Greenwich (Lt. 15s. 4d. paid) 7%
Diito, Preference or Privilege, £iB 17s t!el paid 19
London and 'South Western Olt 6s. 10d. paid)
Ditto Eighths (15s. paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk) l.
Ditto, Scrip, 10 paid lB
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Manchester and Birmingham 56
Northern and FAotern (45 paid)
North Midland (tOO paid)
Ditto. Thirds, 221 13$. 4d. poid 29
Trcnt Valley, 2 pain.... 7
Paris and Rouen, 20 pain
Rouen and Havre, 8 paid ..„„ 174

3 k per . . _
.slew 314 per Cent lO2,
New 5 per Cent.
Long Annuities to expire
Jan, 1860 ..... 1
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860....
• FOREIG

PORTUGAL.
OUTRAGE ON A BRITISH SUBJECT.
(Abridged from a Second Edition of the Times.)
By her Majesty's steam-packet Pacha, G. Wilson, Com-
mander, which arrived at Southampton yesterday evening,
we have received intelligence—from Gibraltar, May 10;
Cadiz, May II ; Lisbon, May 13; Oporto May 14; and Vigo
May 16. The Pacha has brought 44 passengers.
LISBON, TUESDAY, MAY 14.
A fresh, and, if possible, more atrocious outrage upon the
rights of British subjects than that lathe case of Mr. Fletcher,
arising from Senhor Cabral's " suspension of the guarantees,
is now in the course of perpetration upon a victim of equal
respectability, Mr. John Alfred Tozer, of Coimbra, brother
to the British Consul at Figueira. Mr. Tozer has now been
thirty days under arrest, and dragged during that period
through no fewer than six Portuguese prisons; one the com-
mon felons' calabonco, or dungeon, at Coimbra; another the
Limoeiro, or ordinary felons gaol, in Lisbon, sickened with
noisome exhalations, and literally covered with vermin from
the persons of his convict associates, a fact which can be proved
on oath ; and up to the present moment no formal act of accu-
sation nor specific charge has been preferred against him
ees twi oansed,
nor any allegation but the vague one that he was concerned
in bribing some soldiers at Coimbra to join the insurgents in
Almeida, a charge which, on the two sergeants who affirmed
)ndtilltiheatql!
tithheasvtiilnl gvabgeeener dwindled down to
present when money
was offered them. Mr. Tozer is an independent merchant,
with no motive whatever to mix himself up in the conta-
minating politics of Portugal, and the secret of his arrest and
degradation (for no amends can prove a compensation to
a statement,see
feelings outraged by a forced association during 30 days with
the felons, foul air, and vermin of filthy Portuguese dun-
geons, of six of which he has now had experience) will be
probably found in the fact of his having in a manly and
English, but incautious manner, expressed in society his
opinion of the unconstitutional and despotic proceedings of
the rulers of the day. From the first, Mr. Tozer demanded
to be brought to immediate trial, a demand which, on va-
rious pretences has been systematically refused to the pre-
sent time. •
The correspondence between the British Consul at Figueira
and the Civil Governor, produced no results, and Mr. Tozer,
has been sent to Lisbon, and is confined in the Castle. This
is the fou, teenth day of his incarceration in the metropolis :
and so active have been the movements of the authorities,
both Portuguese and British, that we are not yet informed
whether any steps have been taken to transfer his case to the
ConserVatorial Court. It is stated, that as the case has been
referred to the Government, he cannot be released without a
Royal order.
A circular has been issued from the Home-office to various
municipal chambers, acknowledging their congratulations
upon the termination of the civil war newly
kindled in the country by the most scandalous am-
bition." The decision to postpone the meeting of the
Cortes to the Ist of November has been prudently re-
yoked, it being held too monstrous to falsify Senhor Cabral's
solemn declaration that he would "immediately render to
the Chambers an account of his use of the extraordinary
powers conceded to him." We shall have stormy debates on
the 23d inst. Baron Tozal has secured the active co-opera-
tion of the leading members of the Finance Committees of
both Chambers now in Lisbon, by which means his financial
projects will have undergone an attentive consideration pre-
paratory to the, meeting of the Cortes, and fresh delays will
be avoided. The regiments which participated in the late
revolt are thus punished by Royal decree :—The 12th In-
fantry and Ist Rifles have their numbers chaned respectively
to the " 17th Infantry " and the "9th Rifles." The existing
corps are nominally dissolve but will be immediately re•
formed, and consist of the same loyal characters. The 4th
Dragoons, who originated
the rebellion at Torres Novas, are,
without change of designation, to have their head-quarters
henceforth at Santarem, and the Bth Dragoons to have theirs
in Castello Braves. Great apprehensions had prevailed that
the continued drought would have a bad effect on the har-
vest, but several showers lately have removed these fears,
and restored prices which were rising to their usual level.
The orange crop has however been ruined.

EXTENSIVE FIRE AT TATTERSALL S FARM, WILLES-
DEN-PADDOCKB,.OII Sunday the inhabitants of the pic-
turesque village of Willesden, about five miles from Hyde-
park corner, were "aroused from their usual quietude by the
outbreak of a fire upon the extensive range of premises
belonging to Edmund Tattersall, Esq., who is universally
known-for his cownexion with the sporting world, situate at
the Paddocks, Willesden. The fire originated in the rick-
yard, contiguous to which stands a line of stabling chiefly
built of wood. In the yard there were at the time of the out-
break two immense stacks of hay, containing (our reporter
was informed) 140 loads. It appears that a boy employed
upon the premises Was amusing himself by cleaning out a
kettle which had contained a quantity of pitch, used the day
before for farming purposes. To do this the more effectually
he heated the vessel by kindling a fire near to a hedge close
by the ricks. By some accident, at present unexplained, he
upset the pot of pitch, and the wind blowing very fresh at the
time, the flames communicated to the body of hay. Alarmed
by the circumstance, the boy ran away into the fields to seek
for help, and in a few moments several labourers were upon
the spot attempting to subdue the violence of the raging ele-
ment. Finding it impossible to check the flames, information
was sent off to Willesden and London, and several engines
were promptly in attendance, but although great efforts were
made by the firemen, aided by at least 200 countrymen, the
flames could not be subdued, and the whole of the hay would
have been consumed had not the expedient of cutting the
unbumt from the burning mass been resorted to ; but the
operation was performed with great difficulty, and some
danger to those engaged in it. By two o'clock the smoulder-
ing ashes of the stacks were quenched, but up W half-past
five o'clock men were employed in, cutting and tru.:+sing the
hay which remained uninjured r.nfortunately, this is not
b iso d uninjured,,
niafirjesure w• cl
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more than one-fourth of the original quantity. Mr. Tatter-
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is inured ha the Royal Ezchalige fire-othce.