The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-23 00:00:00

!VIISCELL.ANZOII.

A number of curious suits of ancient armour were Fold on
Thursday at Messrs. Oxenham's rooms ; Lord Charleville, Mr.
Hull of Wardour-street, as agent for the Board of Ordnance at
the Tower, and a gentleman commissioned by the Russian Am-
bassador, were the chief purchasers, the sale producing on the
whole 6001.

The musical entertainment for the benefit of the unemployed
printers of Edinburgh, held in that city last Monday, was at-
tended by upwards of 1,200 persons.
On account of her Majesty's intention to pay frequent vi,its
to Claremont, a small barrack is about to be erected for the
accommodation of her guard of honour, and the military in at-
tendance on the Court.
The largest gun ever made in this country, weighing nearly
18 tons, and calculated to carry 4551b5. of solid shot, and shells
of 3301b5., its length being 12 feet, was landed at the Royal
Arsenal, Woolwich, on Thursday, together with the howitzer
cast by Messrs. Walker for Mehemet Ali, and two other 130
pounders, intended for service in Egypt.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NE WS

CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.

The English Money Market has been without any particular
feature or business. The funds appear to have an inclination
to advance still further, were speculators to show any disposition
to enter into extensive operations. At the termination of
business Consuls were 908 9034 for Money,anri 904 90/ fur the
Account. 'Bank Stock, 1654 1664; India Stock, 248 249;
Exchequer Bills, Old, 46 48 ; New, 44 46 premium.
The prices of ForvLn Securities remained firm. Belgian
Bonds were 1011/z 10214 : Dutch Tv% o-aiiii-a- Half per Cents..
51 514 ; the Fire per Cents., 101 1011 ; Danish, b 2 83 ; and
Brazilian, 63 65. Mexican was quoted, 364 364.
The Share Market was exeeeoingly near;, pi ices, however,
differed but little from those of yesterday—London and
ham were 178 180; Riimingharn arid Gloucester, 48 50 ;
Great Western, 56 87 ; the lia.f-Share,, 614 62; N,,r,h
59 60; the i!ew shales.' 29 :s0; south Eastern and
Dover. 224 23 ; the Sctip, 24 3 ; Eastern Counties. 84 94 ;
Nor het n and Eastern, 404 414 ; Blackwall, 9 94 ; and
Brighton, 33 334 per share.
The Foreign Exchanges did not, vary materially from the
state in which they were on Tuesday. Hamburgh advance,,
to 13 11, 13 114 ; and Paris declined io 251. 674 e., 2.5 f. 72ict.
The quotations tor the Bonds were—Colombian, 21 214 ;
Peruvian, 16 17 Portuguese Five per Cents.. 334 331 ; be
Three per Cr•nts., 194 194; Spani-h Five p,r e;erds.. 21 2i4;
the Three per Cents., 20i 21. •
The conversation in the Howe of Gime ons. last night on
the -übject of the Stade duties has mimic' ed touch art, tow.r in
the City anong. tlN4e, , yti„..epteFeted. t -trttdt77-w•!th
sod as tbd COlCaterce with. thit city Is very fa-

tensive, it is needless to state that the question is worthy of
consideration. It may be fairly stated that, with the excel.' Mt
of Russia, and until lately, Mexico, Ira trade has b -en -übjecten
to so much annoyance as has that which has to pass up th.
Elbe, and that annoyance owing selely_ to this imito.t. Th.
rates charged by the Hanoverian Tariff, and fixed upon ats.i•
trary principles, and without the slightest reference to Ham-
burgh, which city is more intimately interested, have
been collected in the most vexatious manner, the slightest
deviation making the parties liable, however innocent
they might be of any intention to deli and. to the
most annoying proceedings and heavy fines. If the de-
scrip ion of the goods in the market from this country differ
in the slightest &Wee from the Hanoverian book of rates, the
trouble and additional uhatges are numerous. FOr instance, it
tire duty be levied by the paeltage, and if it be• in a bale and
termed such in the ship's papers, It paya a certain rat, ; but it
the German word ballen, which meant precisely the same
thing, be used, but one half is charged. In .hipping beer from
this country, it is understood to be a Briti-h manutactore, but
if it app, ars as such in the doettrnenta submitted to the cols
lectors of the duty, it pays exactly ten times as much as it would
if called beer. Examples have been cited, upon trifing errors,
by which the loss to that country would, hail they been
pet mated to pass undiscovered, have been but trifling, have
been visited' with the confiscation of ship and cargo, which
have been released, only by submitting to very heavy penalties;
one, in particular, where by misdescribisg a small parcel of
goods the difference 'would not have been es., the fine levied to
procnre the restoration amounted to upwards of 21b1. The
duty was originally fixed at one-sixteenth per cent., but by
innovation the charge now varies from one-half to five per
cent.; besides this, there is the trouble of paying no less than
e;ght different exactions first on the ship; then the cargo,
each article being separately enumerated, next a commission
of six-and-a-quarter per cent. on these to the officers,
as a fee for their trouble of collecting them ; then harbour dues
under the denomination of " ship's expenses," a separate com-
mission also upon this ; next a certificate of return, and lastly
a tax upon the passing Stade outward bound ; this last being
doubtlessly the most cheerfully paid of them all. Much doubt
exists as to whether the Congress of Vienna, and the subse-
quent Convention at Dresden in 1819, did not abolish those.
duties in toto; but even if they be legal, it is no less imperative
upon the Government to take the necessary measures to re-
lieve one of the principal branches of trade from the great op-
pression under which it now labours.
(From The Nun to Last Night.)
The sales on the Stock Exchange to-day have been very
trifling in amount, but some small speculative bargains have
been made. Consols are 90i 904 for Money. and 903/4 for
the Account. Three per Cents. Reduced, 91 91*; ftit ee-
an.l.a. Half per Cent-. Reduced, 100t1 1004 ; New Three-
andia-L alt per Cents., 994 100; Bank Stock, 166 167;
India Stock, 248 249; India
.Bonds, 26 28 ; Exchequer Bills,
Old, 46 48; New 44 46 premium.
Busi ess in Foreign Securities has consisted of .some sales
in Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 51i, and the F.ve
per Cents., 10011.
The quotation of Mexican is 361 for Money, and 364 for time.
In the Share Market the business has been timited. South
Western at 62 ; Northern and Eastern, ' 404 • South Eastern,
28; Brighton, 33%; North Midland,
60; York and North
Midland, 88; the New Shares, 351; Edlbburgh and Glaa-
gow, 454 ; the New Shares, Si.
The Bonds, quoted to-day, are Venezuelan, 274 ; Portu-
guese Five per Cents., 334 ; Spanish Five per Cents., 214 ;
and the Three per Cents., -403/4.
The French-Belgian treaty stilt continues a paramount topic
of conversation, and remarks are freely made upon the policy
which had led to the adoption of this course. It may not be
uninteresting, under the circumstances, to notice a few parti-
culars of the trade between this and the two countries, as
given by official papers. In 1833, . the brat year after
the separation from Holland, the number of yards
of linen shipped to Belgium were 59,197 ; in 1834
97,459 ; in 1835, 104,904; in 1836. 126.475 ; in 1837,
85,927 ; in 1838, 63,275; in 1839. 57,960; in 1840, :5,596.
The quantity of yarn in these years were 12,269tb5.,
41;5531b5., 31,035tb5., 58,0-21bs., 588.5051b5., 1,340,9021b5.,
72-2 4501b5., and 743,1721b5. respectively. There is also
another item tot thread and small wares, but of insignificant
amount, being of the average value of about 6001
per annum. Those accounts have Item published but
to 184 u. It is, however, well known that in 1941
the shipments were lather larger than the preceding year,
arising chiefly from orders for the. northern parts of France, to
which the transit through Belgium afforded the readiest mode
of access The introduction of linen irons the one country to
the other being now prohibited, mush of the stock thus
accumulated will be thrown on the hands of the pre-
sent haters It is considered to be slsubtful by many,
whether this agreement is not contrary to the tenor
01 some existing treaties with this country, and it is expected
that the Government will take this matter up, as well as rev.ve
the apparently dormant question of Dora aggressions in the
East, since between the two an ewe mous injury is being in-
flicted 0, our trade.
Two packet ships have arrived from New York, viz., the
Oxford, at Liverpool, and the thiladelphia, at Pl,!moutli.
Both of them left on the Ist inst., consequeatly do not bring
any later intelligence than that received per last steamer.. The
Oxford has brought hone 32 cabin and 125 steerage passengers.
Liv Eit POOL COTTON MARKET. JULY A good quantity
of Cotton was sold to-day, and prices were steadily maintained.
5,000 bales met with purchasers, and business closed steadily.
Llvauponi. SHARE MARKET, JULY 21.-Our market was
quiet to-day ; a small amount of busit.ess was, however, done
in the undermentioned Railway Shares:—Edinburgh and
Gla-gow asd South Easterns were setnewhat lower ; Eastern
Counties, New, 6/. 9s. 2L1.; Grand Junction, New Quarters,
274 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 164; DiOto Halves, 84 ;
London and Birmingham, New 32/. Shares, 30i ; London and
South Western, 624 ; Paris and Rouen, 14.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 21.—There has
been a little more doitig, without alteration in prices, except
in Aianehester and Birmingham; and Bank of Manchester and
Birmingham, 254; North Alid.and, Half-shares, 304; Ditto,
1 hinds, 20; Bank of Manchester, 34.
CLOSING PttICES.
BRITISH FUNA S.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. .... ... 916 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent. C0n5..... 9O Ditto Old Annuities
3i per Cent. Red.. itmi Ditto New Annuities...
New 3fr per Cent... lOO Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 46 pm
INl,i,v 5 per Ceti'
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small
Jan. 1860 ... ...... . Bank Stock fur Acct —
Oct. 1b 59
Jan. Ib6o l2l, Consuls for Acct.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent. ... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds... Prussian, 5 per cent. ,
Buenos Ayres6 per cent. Russian, n per cent ..
Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, Aietallic.. .... ....
Colombian; 6 per cent — Spanish, 5 per cent....
Ditto, 1t,24 - Ditto, Deferred....
Danish, 3 per cent — French, 5 per cent. —f. —r.
Greek, 182.5, 5 per cent — Exchange
Mexican, 5 per cent. 364 , French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
I)itto, 6 per cent. 1837 ;Dutch, 2i per cent. sli
Peruvian,lB2s, 6 per et. 16i Ditto, 5 De- •7err,. . ... .016
SHARES.
Hirt-fir:oam and Gloucester Railway (100 p) 481
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...••• ... 461
• iito ..ew Shares r. 3 paid .
Great western i ailway (65 paid) ..... ... 86)
London and Brighton (50 paid) .....-• • 33g
Lon ion and South 'A estern (411 6s 10dpd) 52
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
North Midland Railway ( IOU)
south I..aAt ru and Dover (50 paid) 22a
York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ..... 88
Ditto New Shares (20 paid)
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDA Y. )

Amsterdam 1. F. i 2 8 [Gibraltar .
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam —.2 U. 12 8i Genoa ..

Antwerp l:2 7i. N 11lan
Hamburgh
%It ona
Pal r oz

1141

... 46
:I5 90

40
I I9i

Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 6U termo, re:
Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon
Marseilles
.Oporto ' ')26
Bourdeaux 25 90 kw Janeiro :6O
Frankfort on Blaine... 151 i Bahia
l'etersburgh, 3Us „. 37 Buenos Ayres
Berlin-- .. ......... ... 7 New York, 2ldays sight 464

Vienna, effee. 11. 3M. 957 Philadelphia 4ti
Trieste, ditto 9 58 riticE:3 OF MULLION, PER 07.
Madrid . 36i Foreign (.old, bars £3 17 9

Cadiz

Bilbao... . ............ 36 Ncw Doubloon,. 0 0
Barcelona
Seville 36 Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 11i

COURT IRCU. AR.

Sir Robert Peel had an audience of the Queen yesterday, at
Buckingham Palace.
Her Maj, sty and Prinee Albert walked in the Royal Gar-
dens yesterday, and the Prince of Wales and the Prinee,s
Royal were taken an airing in the gardens.
His Royal Highness Prince A:bert, attended by C.ionel
Bouverie, presided, yesterday afternoon, at a meeting of the
Commission tor promoting the Fike Arts in the rebuilding of
the Houses of Parlionent. The Duke of Sutherland. the
Marquis of Lansdowne, the Rid of Lein ter. .Jr. 11 nitmin
Hawes, Dl. P., and Mr. Samuel sogers, is ere among the Com-
missioners present.
The Commission met at two, and broke up sown after four
o'clock. _ . _

Air. Frederick Newenham had the honour to submit his
large portrait of her Majesty, painted for the Junior United
Service Club, to her Majesty and Prince Albert, who were
graciously pleased to express their approbation.
Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess a..d the Princess Au-
gusta of Cambridge arrived in town yesterday from their resi-
dence at Kew, and visited the Duchess of Kent at Clarence
House, St. James's, and lunched with her Royal Highness.
The Duchess and the Princess Augusta visited her Majesty and
also the Princess of Saxe Coburg Gotha, at Buckingham Pa-
lace, and afterwards returned to their residence at Kew.
Prince George of Cambsidge visited the Queen yesterday.
The Royal dinner party at Buckingham Palace, yesterday
evening, included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent,
their serene Highnesses the Hereditary Prince and Princess of
Saxe Coburg Gotha, the Duke of Wellington, the Marquis
of Exeter, Earl of Jersey, Lady Charlotte llundas, Viscount
and Viscountess Sydney. Baron de Massow, Baron de Bran-
denstein, and the Hon. General Upton.
The Hereditary Prince of Saxe Coburg Gotha visited the
Duch,ss of Kent yesterday.
Mr. William King, of Fulham, and Mr. Joseph Baidell, of
Oxford-street, hsd an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday.
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