The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-16 00:00:00

CLOSE OF THE PROCEEDINGS.

11}: /STOL, FRIDAY.-At twelve o'clock to-day genera?.
Meeting of the members was held at the Viet aria .*Room,, for
the purpose of cksing the proceedings.
he President, Air. HANDLEY, having taken the chair,
Earl SeEscEa, in a complimentary speech, proposed that
"the thanks Of the Society he given to the Ma3or, the High
Sheriff. the Corpora:ion, and other constituted aut.horiti,e of
Bristol, iOr the kind reception they had given the Society, and
the very handsome manner in which they had entertained them
during their stay in Bristol."
SHUTTLEWORTII, of London. having seconded the mo,-
tion, it was tut and carried unanimously.
Lord 'PORTMAN then moved, and the Honourable Cap-
tain SPENCER. seconded, .• A vote of thanks to the different
Institution, of Bristol, anti to the Proprietors of the Victoria
Booms for the use of the building, Great Western Railway, &e."

Captain PORTEIt remarked thal the Great Western gallosay
charged a very high price for the conveyance of the stock, &c.
The PaESinENT said he believed it had arisen from a mis-
conception; it. was intended to represent the circumstance to
the railway directors, and no doubt they would do what waa
right.
Mr. ions BLAKE, of Warminster, proposed "a vote of
thanks to their President, H. Handley, F.lsq., for his able and
easielient. conduct throughout his year of office."

The Fut(' was carried by acclamation.
Mr. HAIY returned thanks, and resigned his office to the
next President, !lie Earl of Hardwick, who, he regretted, no
absent on a to t,,e King of Prussia.

Thy proceedings of 41.7 >nciety were then closed.

MONEY MARKET
,CITY NEWS.

CITY, F.RIDAY EVENING.
SUN.—The weak parties having been got lid off, the market,
now that the account has been closed, has again become firm, and
Cons.tals left off at 901 90i, for I%loney, and 90i for the Account,
rather an extensive business having been done. Panic Stock,
1651 1661 ; India Stock, 247 249; Exchequer Bills, Old,
48 50; New., 46 48 prem. •
The prices of Foreign Securities were—Ptelgian, 101 102 ;
Dutch Two..and-a- Half per Cents., 51 .511; the Five per
Cents., 100?,- 101*; Danish, 81 N; and Brazilian, 64 66.
Mexican was quilted 354 36k.
for Shares was rather improved—London and
Birmingham, 177 179; Birmingham and Gloucester, 47 49;
Great Western 86 87 ; the Half Shares, 61 61i ; South
Western, 601 Ell; North Alidland, 59 60; South Eastern
and Dover, 22 22k ; Eastern Counties, 818 ; Northern and
Eastern, 391 Blackwall, 9 91; and Brighton, 33k 331,
per share.
The rates of the Foreign Exchanges were all firm, at the
quotations of Tuesday; Hamburgh, however, was a shade higher.
The Bonds were quoted—Colombian, 21 2;1 ; Peruvian,
16% 171/2; Portuguese Five per Cents., 324 33i ; the Three
per Cents., 19 191; Spanish Five per Cents., 204; the
Three per Cents., 20i 21.
A communication appeared in The Sun of last evening,
complaining that several fruitless applications had been made
at the !Money Order Office for the cash tor a post-effice order.
in consequence of the country postmaster having neglected to
seed " advice" for the receipt of the money to London. If
these be any consolation to be found in the tact, that this par-
ticular party does not stand alone in the grievance, it may be
sa..ely used, inasmuch as not a day passes without. numerous
answers of a similar tendency being received by applicants.
There is no branch of the public serviee which is more
i calculated to benefit the community, and especially the
poorer orders, or the details of which are so bully managed as
this. Much personal inconvenience and great loss of time
have to be endured before the individual in possess-un of the
order er,..n make his way to the small window, at v,Neil it
is to he presented to invisible official! ; after this ordei.!r has
been passed, more time is wasted io searching if it be cor-
rect, and ultimately it may be, that owing to the neglect of
persons in the c:.uutry, whose duty it was to acknowledge
the receipt of the motley, the applicant is sent back with the
loss of, generally, nearly as hour consumed in visiting lite
turn, with the prospect of a simi!ar occurrence on the next day.
A most ingenious contrivance also has lately been added,
apparently for the axle purpose of adding to the annoyance, in
the shape of a long wooden box, into which those requiring
orders, as well as those wanting payment, are alike confined ;
an open room, with two counters, could hare ufforeied • far
greater facilities for business, and done away with the liabilil;es
of robbery, for the furthering of which the box is so athnirablf
adapted. When it is remembered that this loss of time falls
chiefly on these parties to whom time is money, the necessit y of the
alteration will be clearly seen. Some plan surely might be found
by -which all these orders wonl,l be payable at any post •office with-
out the necessity for " advice ;" any banker's clerk who has been
sufficiently long at business to understand the mere routine of
the office, would be able, in the course of half an hour, to make
such changes as would completely do away with the cause of
the present complaint.
Tile Hibernia packet-ship has brought New York papers, to
the 24th ult., two days later than that. previously received, the
chief extracts from which will he found elsewhere. The steam
packet from Boston is now expected hourly.
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—(YESTERDAY.I

Amsterdam CF. 12 8 !Gibraltar ... ..
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...... ...9 U l2 81 Genoa . 25 90
Antwerp
Hamburgh 11.8. 13 13 i Venice
Altona . 13 14 Naples .. .. 40
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz lll4
Ditto, 3 months 95 85 (Lisbon • 5•.'
Marseilles
Boutdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro •26i
Frankfort on Maine.— 1511. Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 !Buenos Ayres
Berlin-- ... ........ .... 7 New York, 21 days sight 461 •
Vienna, effec. 11. 3 Al. 9 56' Philadelphia
Trieste, -ditto 9 59 eatc.r.s OF nut.t.lo iv, reit 07.
Madrid • • 361 ;Foreign Gold, bars £3 17 0

Cadiz
Bilbao ...... :36 ,New Doubloons U 0 0
Kareeloatii4,•., 36 New Dollar.= 0 0 0
Seville