The Sun.
London, England, 1844-02-29 00:00:00

MONEY AND COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENMG.

The Funds closed rather flat this afternoon, but there has
been only a moderate business done. Consols for immediate
transfer and time were 97i to Exchequer Bills obtained
68s. to 70s. premium. The New Three-and-a-Half per Cents.
were 1021 to A.
Spanish Stock somewhat rallied upon the sudden depres-
sion that occurred just before our two o'clock report. The
Five per Cents. were last marked 24,1 to and the Three per
Cents. 34i to 35. The preparation for the settlement of the
account to-morrow has been the chief cause of the fluctuation.
Mexican Bonds leave off at 34i ; Colombian at 13i ; and
Belgian at 1054. Spanish Treasury. Bonds were done at 70.
The Railways became more active this afternoon, and in
many instances improved a little in value.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
The Cotton Market at Liverpool yesterday was firmer.
Speculators took 2,500 bales, and the total sales were 6,500
bales.—There was not so good a market for Shares. Bir-

mingham and Gloucester were 73 ; Chester and Holyhead,
5a ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 59 ; Grand Junction, 225 ; Li-
verpool and Manchester, 221; Birmingham, 238 ; Ditto.
Quartei-;284 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 404 ; Midland
Counties, 88 ; North Midland, Half, 44i ; Paris and Lyons,
21.165. ; South Eastern, New, 38 ; York and North Midland,
Half, 17k.
It will be observed from an advertisement which appears
in another column of The Sun, that the Spanish Treasury
Bondholders have agreed to another compromise with the
Spanish Government, as to their long-neglected claims. At
the meeting held yesterday, more unanimity was displayed
than was anticipated, there having been but two dissentients
to the reception of the terms offered, which are as follow :-
1. " That every 1001. of the Treasury Bonds, bearing 5 per
cent. interest, will be exchanged for 2111. 13s. 4d. (say two
hundred and eleven pounds, thirteen shillings, and four pence),
of 3 per cent. Bonds.
2. " That the former holders of Treasury Bonds who ex-
changed them for only an equal amount of 3 per cent. Stock,
when the capitalisation of the Coupons due from 1837 to 1840
took place, will also be entitled to all the privileges offered
to the actual holders, and therefore to the difference between
the 100/. of Three per Cent. Stock they then received, and
the 2111. 13s. 4d., after deducting from that difference the
value of the dividends paid to them at different periods."
The agent, M. de Casto, states :--" As I had the pleasure
to hear from you and Mr. Bramley, that you considered this
as an equitable arrangement of these claims,it would, I think,
be needless to call your attention to the advantages it gives
to actual bondholders, or to the spontaneous and even unso-
licited act of justice of the Minister in compensating those
holders who exchanged their Treasury Bonds for an equal
amount of Three per Cent. in 1842.
" I only beg further to assure you, that the present Minis-.
try being fully resolved to pay, as heretofore, the interest of
the Three per Cent. Stock most regularly and punctually,
you will, I trust, find this a valuable and safe conversion."
There is one other satisfactory feature in the report of the
meeting of yesterday. The assurance, almost officially given,
that the interest upon the Three per Cents. will be in 1
future regularly paid ; and if the following state-
ment of the anticipated resources of the Spanish
Treasury be correct, there can be no doubt but that
the promise will be fulfilled. The Chairman informed
the Bondholders that the payments in the Legion
certificates and the Aberdeen Bonds would cease
in March next, and upon these two items of national account
there would be a saving of something like from 150,000/. to
180,000/. It had been stated, and he thought correctly, that
it was the intention of that Government to apply the tobacco
duties, amounting to 800,000/. or 900,0001. to the specific
-payment of the Three per Cents. The surplus revenues of
Cuba, which produced a large amount—some 800,000/. per
annum, although at present mortgaged, would be emancipated
in about a year and a half. National property, too, he be-
lieved, yet existed to a very large amount, and these re-
sources offered, ultimately, better prospects to all classes of
Spanish Bondholders. The property yet unsold was, he
thought, estimated at upwards of sixty millions.
The Funds are firm to-day, and the payment of the
differences is proceeding well. Consols for immediate
transfer are 9711 to 4, and for the Account the same.
Exchequer Bills realise 68s. to 70s. premium, and East
India Bonds, • 86s. to 88s. premium. The New
Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have been marked 102 k to i ;
the Reduced at 103 A to i ; and the Three per Cents. 98i to i.
Bank Stock has been at 195 to 1, and East India Stock is,
nominally 278. The abandonment of Tahiti makes the
market good. The Commissioners have taken Consols at 97k.
The Foreign Market has been quieter. Spanish Bonds have
been higher, but now sales are making, and Five
per Cents. have receded from 241 I to - b h ; and
the Three per Cents. from 35h ft to 34i -h. The
' statement in M. tie Castro's letter buoyed them up, but
the rise tempts sales. Mexican Bonds are 34a to A; Colom-
bian aro 13i ; Peruvian, 30i ; and Brazilian, 794 to 80.
Belgian obtain 106 to 1064 ; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 541 to i.
Railway Shares are dull again, and the quotations are,
scarcely so good.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, FEE. 27.—We have no
material change in our market to-day. The quotations are :
—Dublin and Drogheda, 55i ; Sheffield and Manchester,
71;South
westernon Eigths,
3i ;
Manchester and Leeds,
108 ; Manchester and Birmingham, 404.
CLOSPNG PRICES.
278. pm
BRITISH FUNDS.
1
Bank Stock „.......... ..... 195 Indian Stock
3 per Cent. Red. ............ 98
~ Ditto Bonds
oi Bisoilsllsfo7Acc.t.l BB pm.
3 per Cent. Cons. .....«..
_y,i_. Ditto OM Annuities
3% per Cent. Re] ......... ni Ditto New Annuities 96%
50 7O
97 pm.
New 5 per Cent ...•••••-•• Ditto 500/. 69 pm.
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 7O pm.
Jan. 1860 ....... ..... IA Bank Stock for Acct.
Oct. 1859.... ..... 12
New 3% per Cent... ..... 102
India Stock for Acct 218%
Jan. 1860............ 12116
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian. 5 per Cent ... — !Portuguese 5 per Cent 75%
Belgian, 5 per Centi 105% Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds ... ..... ..: ... •80 Prussian, 5 per Cent
Buenos Ayres, 6 per Ce 0.... 35% Russian, 5 per Cent-. ...... -
Chllian. 6 per Cent ...... ...... 105 Ditto, Metallic .._
Colombian, 6 per Cent -... 13% Spanish, 5 Per Cent
Ditto, 1824 ... ........ .. ......... .. Ditto, 3 per Cent 353,
Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent..
93 'Ditto, Deferre4 13%
Danish, 3 per Cent ............ 873 Y French, 5 per Cent.......1::6t --c.
Greek, 18 5. 5 Per Cent - Exchange -f. - 4
Mexican, 5 per Cent
Ditto, 6 per Cent., UM...." Dutch, 234 per Cent 54%
Peruvian, 18.25. 6 per Cent... 31% Ditto, 5 per Cent ...
SHARE
Birmingham and Derby (TOO paid)
........
..........
56
Ditto Thirds (25 paid)
Ditto Eighths (11. Ma. paid)
Bristol and Exeter ( 0 paid) 3%
644
Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid)
......... 5
..... ..........
Eastern Union ( 5 paid) 5
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 mid) 58
Gravesend, Rochester, and Chatham (2)4 paid) V
Oreat North of England (100 paid)96
Great Western (75 paid) ,
•101%
Ditto Half Shares (50 paw).
.........
r 8
Ditto P ifths (12 paid).....:.:....,......
.......
18%
Hull And Selby (50 paid) 6O
Ditto Quarter Shares ( fipaid) 7
London and Birmingham (Stock)
London and Greenwich (1' t. ii a. 4,1 paid)
Ditto, Preference or Privilege (13/. 171 2d. pd) 17
London and South Western 411.65.( 10d; paid)
London and Croydon (Trunk) l6
•••
Manchester and Leeds (70 Dud) lO9
Midland Counties (100 paid)
67
Norwich and Brandon ( 2 paid) ....... . ,14
......... ......•• -
North Midland (100 paid) 87%
Paris and Rouen (20 paid) 22
Rouen and Havre ( H paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 353(
Ditto Scrip (25 paid) 36
West London Thames Extnaion i 2 paid)

POST-OFFICE NOTICE.
The following notices have appeared at the General Post-'
office, at St. 3lartin's- le-Grand :
" The next mails for Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands,
Egypt, and India, via Southampton, will be dispatched from
hence on the morning of the Ist March.
" The Lady Mary Wood will take out the Peninsular
mails on the 29th instant.
"The Oriental for the India, &c., mails, of the Ist of March.
" The next mail for India, &c., via Marseilles, will bo dis-
patched from hence on the 4th o March.
" Her Majesty's brig Crane, for the Madeira, Brazil, and
Buenos Ayrian mails of the sth of March.
" Medway for the West Indian mails, of the 2d of March.
" Caledonia for the American mails, of the 4th of Mar Ch.
" George Town for the mails of the 29th instant."

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DEATH FROM WRONG MEnicaNE.—On Tuesday af-
ternoon Mr. G. I. Mills, Deputy Coroner for Middlesex, held'
an inquest at the Hammersmith workhouse of the Kensing-
ton union, on the body of Henry Hawkins, an infant child,.
six weeks old, who died in consequence of wrong medicine
having been sent it by one of the medical officers of the union.
After a lengthened examination, the jury returned the fol-
lowing verdict :—" Died from disease of his lungs and brain,
and that the cause of the said disease was a certain medicine
which was administered to the said Henry Hawkins by mis-;
adventure ;" and the jury, in addition, requested the Deputy
Coroner would severely caution the medical gentlemen to
be less careless in labelling the medicine in future. The
Deputy Coroner, acting on the recommendation of the jury,
cautioned them as to theirfuture conduct in such matters.
MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The alliance between
Thomas M. Montgomerie, of Garboldisham Hall, Norfolk, and
the Honourable Georgiana Louisa Foley, daughter of the late
Lord Foley, was solemnised yesterday morning, at nine
o'clock, at St. George's Church, Hanover-square. The cere-
mony was performed by the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop
of Norwich, in the presence of the Duchess of Bedford, Lord
William Fitzgerald, Miss Geraldine, and Mr. Frederick Fitz-
gerald, Miss Taafe, &c.
A most diabolical attempt was made on Monday
night to set fire to the premises of Mr. J. H. Nunn, of Nether
Hall, Bradfield. The person appointed by Mr. Nunn to
watch the premises, on going round the steelyards about ten
o'clock, saw a man standing close to a wheat-stack, but he
unfortunately made his escape. Upon searching on the fol-
lowing morning, Mr. Nunn found on the spot where the man
stood some lucifer matches and a box, so that there is no
doubt of the malicious spirit of the party.—Essex Herald. -
PRIZE FIGHT FOR 1001. A SIDE.--On Tuesday a
prize fight took place about 30 miles down the Dover Railway
line for 1001. a side between two of the heavy weights, Tass
Parker and the Tipton Slasher (Wm. Perry). The same
men fought about nine weeks since, but the battle was inter-
rupted by the police. The combat yesterday lasted two hours
and thirty-two minutes, during which 132 rounds were
fought. Parker is considered a man of great fistic science,
but he yesterday proved that he has not a single atom of
"pluck" in his composition. He fought fairly for a few
rounds, and then had recourse to the unmanly mode of
striking his adversary, and then falling the moment he was
struck at to avoid a blow. Whilst Ile faty aon the round he
several times kicked the Slasher,and last his own umpire
declared that he had lost the fight through foul play. Par-
k-er's conduct created such universal disgust, that it is not
expected he will ever find a backer again. In consequence
of the determination of the superior, members of the prize
ring the arena was admirably kept, and no-- disturbance or
disreputable act took place amongst the spectators.