The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-03 00:00:00

Ditto New Shares
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Union of Australia..

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCH
a quiet market, and prices have
The only transaction reported 1
and Bury, 541.

CLOSING
BRITISH
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red.
3 per Cent. Cons.— 9ll
3/ per Cent. Red lOl
New 311 per Cent... lOO/
New 5 per Cen'
Lone Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 ...... 12 9.16
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 l4

FOREIG.
Austrian, 5 per cent. —
Belgian, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bonds... 64
BuenosAyres6 per cent.
Chilian, 6 per cent
Colombian, 6 per cent —
Ditto, 1824
Danish, 3 per cent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent 35/
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et.

Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...... —
Ditto New Shares ( 3 paid 3i
Great Western Railway (65 paid)
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Blackwall ( paid) ...... ..... 9A
London and Croydon Railway (Trunk)
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid)
Ditto New Shares ( 30 paid) 34A
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 23
York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... _.
._ .

Ditto New Shares (20 paid)
COURSE OF EXCHANGE—( YESTERDAY.)
Amsterdam CF. 12 7,1 Gibraltar ...
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam .........2 U. 12 8 Genoa . 25 90
Antwerp l2 7/ Milan
Hamburgh M.B. 13 15 Venice
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 60 Palermo, per oz 120
Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Lisbon
Marseilles
Bourdeaux 25 90 Rio Janeiro 26
Frankfort on Maine... 151 i Bahia
Petersburgh, 3Us ... 37 Buenos Ayres
Berlin 7 New York, 21days sight 46i
Vienna, effec. IL 3 M 957 Philadelphia 46
Trieste, ditto 9 58 PRICE 4 OF BULLION, PEA OZ.
Madrid
_ _ . __

Cadiz 36i
Bilbao

Portal Golci Coin 3 17 5
New Doubloons OO 0

Barcelona
Seville ... 36

New Dollars... ......... 0 4 10
,Silver in Bars... ..... 0 4 11

A most destructive fire broke out this morning, at
a few minutes before one o'clock, at the Rose wine vaults,
Great Wild. street, Lincoln's Inn-fields, which was com-
pletely destroyed, and three others considerably damaged.
THE STATE OF BIRMINGIIAM.—We regret that we
cannot corroborate the accounts of some of the Birmingham
newspapers in respect to the trade of the town. It is not, as
far as we can learn, better, but rather the other way. The
merchants, as a body, are comparatively without orders. The
manufacturers, on an average, do no more than half employ
their workmen, and their difficulties in procuring wages and
bearing stock for those they do employ are weekly increasing.
The shopkeepers, with a few exceptions, have little else to do
but dress and undress their windows, curtail their expenses, and
scrape together as they best can their rents and taxes. The
streets are daily crowded with objects of charity, some unde-
serving, but many, very many, really pitiable : whilst thousands
are pining, unseen, in cupboardless and bedless abodes. That
such is the cruel condition of very many may be inferred from
the melancholy report of the Pawnbrokers' Society, handed to
the Chamber of Commerce yesterday, in which it is stated
that their shops are daily beset by numbers of poor creatures,
craving loans of one penny, even upon some worthless rags, not
fitting for dusters. In a word, nearly every class in the town is
suffering, and this without any visible hope of a favourable
change. Even those that are well off do not contemplate
without fear the approach of winter. The best informed of
the real state of the country dread it. Such is the condition
of Birmingham, said, and we believe truly said, to be the most
prosperous town at the present moment in England. —Bir •
mingkam Journal of Saturday.
ADVERTISEMENT.—HOLLOWAY'S PILLS AND OINT-
MENT.—EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—Mrs. S. Old, residing at
Chapel-place, Belgrave-square, London, had a bad leg and foot,
which, by disease, became entirely shapeless, resembling, in ap-
pearance, the trunk of a tree, and covered with knots, rucks,
and rolls of hard flesh ; the case was such, that for three years
the lady could scarcely walk across the room. Surgeons of
great eminence were consulted, but afforded no relief ; she,
however, now declares that by the use alone of the above me-
dicines she can walk miles in a day. To be had at Professor
Holloway's establishment, 244, Strand, near Temple Bar,
where advice may be had gratis. Sold also by every respect-
able chemist throughout the kingdom.
By a Parliamentary return of all mates of the
Royal Navy, it appears that the total number who have passed
their examination for Lieutenants, up to 3d of March of the
present year, is 357.