The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-22 00:00:00

LITERARY 11/Tl3 ScxEriTtric.

By a Royal decree, at Naples, the import duty on books has
been reduced one-half.

THEATEXCA.L.
Fraulein Lutzer, the charming German singer, left London
on Wednesday for Vienna. Staudigldeparts to morrow for the
Continent.

COURT-FASHIONABLE.
The Earl of Bective, eldest son of the Marquis Headfort,
was married at St. James's Church, on Wednesday, the 20th
instant, to Amelia, only daughter of Alderman Thompson, M.P.
The Earl and Countess of Verulam are expected to remain
in Grosvenor-square, until the first week in August.
Lord and Lady Poltimore left town on Wednesday for Devon-
shire.

Lord Foley had a dinner party yesterday, at which the Duke
and Duchess of Bedford, S. Rogers, &c., were present.
Lady Beresford left Portland-place on Wednesday for Bou.

Sir John and Lady Johnstone left Grosvenor-square on Wed-
nesday for Yorkshire.

3lXScisx.LANpous.

The interment of the late M. de Sismondi took place a few
days ago 'at Chenes. His will leaves the life-interest of his
property to his widow, and his neice at Tuscany to become sole
heiress after her death. His library is to become the property
of M. Rossi, his executor, after Madame Sismondi's death.
A representative of Russia lately said, " England and Russia
are like man and wife." It is known that in certain hyperbo-
rean regions the proof of affection which the weaker vessel re-
quires is—blows.
At a meeting of the merchants and manufacturers in the
Town-hall, Manchester, on Monday, the Chairman stated that
" the weak might go first ; but before we could see the snows
of winter, at least three-parts of our whole manufactures must
come to a stand. They were narrowing every week. There
was not a manufactory of any description w ith which machinery
was connected, which was not worse and worse every Saturday
than the preceding."

We regret to state that the venerable Member for
Middlese,x, Mr. Byng, was seized with sudden illness
at the House of Commons, yesterday, about five
o'clock. He was supported out of the House by two
friends, and put into a cab to be conveyed to his house
in St. James's-square. On inquiry at his residence
we were glad t) learn that he had recovered, and that
no apprehensions were entertained that the attack was
dangerous.

George Robins may well be entitled the " Übiquitous.'•
He announced yesterday the sale in the Cape of Good
Hope of Forty-three Thousand Acres of Land, and it is
the first sale of property in this healthy climate. The
hill pastures are all covered with sweet grass, from the
base to the summit ; and on the plains there is plenty of
succulent herbage, with grass ; and the profit arising
from ten thousand sheep (which the farm will carry) Is
beyond calculation. A farmer with money, or the great
capitalist, will find an opportunity at this sale to employ.
" his ways and means" to extraordinary advantage.
The Duke and Duchess of Leeds, Sir William
Lawson, Baronet, • Mr. Balfour, and many' other pas-
sengers, - arrived yesterday morning,
.by the steamer
Antwerperr,:captam Jackson, after only nine hours
paSsege,. froni AntWerp to tho 6t. ii..atharieu-wharf,
Tower; . .

HONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS

CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.

Consols left off precisely at the same prices they did
yesterday, 90+ 90-4 for Money, and soi 90i for the
Account, with very few real transactions, although they
at one time were marked as low as 901 for immediate
transfer ; Bank Stock, 165 1661 • India Stock, 248
249 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 46 48 ; New, 44 46 preen.
The prices of Foreign Securities, in which more bu-
siness than has been usual of late was done during the
day, were—Belgian, 1011 1021 ; Dutch Two-and• a-
Half per Cents., 51 511 ; the Five per Cents., 101 1011 ;
Danish, 82 83 ; Brazilian, 62 64.
The Share Market was very dull ; the prices were—
London and Birmingham 177 179 ; Birmingham and
Gloucester, 47 49 ; Great Western, 86 87 ; the Half
Shares, 614- 62 ; South Western, 61 62 ; North Midland,
59 60 ; the New Shares, 29 30 ; South Eastern and
Dover, 221 23 ; the Scrip, 21 3 ; Eastern Counties, 84
9+ •, Northern and Eastern, 40i- 411 ; Blackwall, 9 91 ;
and Brighton, 33+ 33+. per Share.
The nominal quotations of the bonds were—Colom-
bian, 21 211 ; Peruvian, 16 17 ; Portuguese Five per
Cents., 331 C 34 ; the Three per Cents., 191 20 ; Spanish
Five per ents., 21 21+ ; the Three per Cents., 20+ 21.
The cause of the decline in the price of Consols
noticed above, is to be found in the operations of the
parties engaged in expfessing by pigeons. These indi-
viduals for a long time contented themselves with bar-
gains in Spanish and other bonds possessing only a nomi-
nal value. Foom time to time, but only at intervals,
was a person unconnected with jobbing caught by them,
so that for a long period bargains were confined to the
dealers themselves, the individuals possessing the longest
purse fleecing his poorer confederates. This system would,
doubtless, have existed for some little time longer, had it
not been for the al s-nce of the chief operator, consequent
upon some transactions connected with the forged Ex-
chequer Bills. however, as it now is, dealings in this
description of documents are completely at an end. It
was necessary, however, now that Spanish bonds are no
longer marketable, that new species of speculation should
be found, and it would seem that the market for our own
funds, which for many years has been as free from
suspicion as the foreign market was tainted with the
certain charge of manufacturing false intelligence, are
chosen as fit instruments for victimising. The person
particularly alluded to has for two or three Sundays
been seen in the neighbourhood of the metropolis, and
by a singular coincidence filo.Fe pigeon expresses are
immediately afterwards brought into play.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)

The market remains in the same inanimate state without
any feature of moment. Consols are 901,4 90a for Money,
and 90% for the Account. Three per Cents. Reduced,
91i; Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 1001 m 0 ;
New Three.and-a-Ealt per Cents., 994; Bank Stock, 166
167 ; India Stock, 249 250 ; India Bonds, 28 ; Exchequer
Bills, Old, 46 48; New 44 46 premium.
Busi, ess in Foreign Securities has been limited to Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 51 51/ • the Five per Cents.
at 101 i 1011 ; Belgian, at 104; and Brazilian, 63.
Mexican Bonds are quoted at. 36b.
In the Share Market London and Birmingham have been
sold at 179 ; Great Western, 47 ; York and North Midland,
b 7 ; Bristol and Exeter, 41i ; and Brighton, 334 331.
The Bonds, in o hich time bargains have been made to-day,
are Columbian at the quotation of 201 ; Portuguese Five per
Cents., 33/ , Spanish Five per Cents., 201 ; and the Three
per Cents., `2034 _ . .

The official amounts from the outports of the clearances of
goods on the first day of the operation of the tariff, are more
than proportionably great to London. The quantity of articles
cf every day consumption has been large, and among them
several parcels of foreign produce, which under the
old system had been virtually prohibited. This remark applies
particularly to Coffee, of which some extensive entries for that
of South American growth appear. Although this description,
from its delicate flavour, will not answer to use by itself, yet
when mixed with other descriptions, this very delicacy will im-
Twe it, thus affording a superior sort at a much lower price.
he market here has already received an impetus thereby, and
much briskness, both at public auction and by private sate, has
to be noticed.

The Tea trade, and especially the country dealers, are com-
plaining very much of the manner adopted by some merchants
in forcing their stock forward. Sales consisting of nearly
50,000 paekages terminated only on Tuesday, and to-morrow
others, containing nearly 25,000, will commence. The
consequence of this is, that a sort of monopoly
in the article is given to some of the large houses
here, it being utterly impossible, in the time, for the
generality of the buyers to examine the various samples
properly, or for the distant ones either to reach the metropolis,
or receive the result of the tastings and transmit orders. In the
sales just concluded some of the catalogues were not delivered
until days had elapsed from the beginning, and it is considered
that some approach to periodical sales should be made, with a
proper interval between the commencement of the show and
the sale.

In the English Market a sale in Reduced Three per Cents.
for the savings banks, by the Government broker, caused the
market to decline from 91i to 9013, the latter price at which the
Stock was sold ; since that they have been down at 91i Con-
sols, and the whole of the markets are rather on the decline
from the repeated sales of money stock.
la the Foreign Market Mexican is flat, and several sales
have been effected in Colombian; the market opened at 21i,
and declined to 204 Spanish likewise en the decline.,
In the Share Market very little doing. Prices a shade worse
than yesterday.
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, JULY 19.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 991 Grand Canal Stock ..
Ditto Reduced ...... Ditto Debs. 6 per cent...
Ditto New 1830......... 99/ 1 Ditto 4 per cent ..
3i per Cent. Debs.
lavxaeoot. COTTON MARKET, JULY 20.—A good amount
of business was done to-day in cotton, but prices were not
higher. The market was freely supplied; 2,000 bales of Ame-
rican were taken on speculation, and the total sales consisted
of 6,000 bales.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, JULY 20.—Business was ra-
ther flat to-day, and fi w transactions took place in any descrip-
tion of Railway Stock. The following Railway Shares were
sold :—Grand Junction, 189; Ditto Halves, 94 ; London and
Birmingham Three-fourths, ; London and Birmingham
New, 30k; Ditto Quarters, 44.,
MANCHESTER STOCK XCHANGE, JULY 20.—The market
remains steady without much business doing. Our only sales
are—Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters, 3%; London and
Birmingham, 321. Shares, 60.