The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-22 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
A slight improvement on the prices of yesterday has taken
place on Money Stock, Consols being 911/2 911 for money, and
• 91% 91* for the account ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 901 904 ;
• Three-and-a-Half per Cents. Reduced, 991 994 ; New Three-
i and-a-Half per Cents.' 1001 100,1, Bank Stock, 166 ; India
Stock, 243, 245 ; the Bonds, 18, 30 ; and Exchequer Bills;
l 37, 39, prem.
• Foreign Securities are the same as yesterday, these as well
as our own Stocks looking firm. The Dutch Two-and •a-
Half per Cents., 52%, 52/ ; the Five per Cents., 1001, 101 ;
Belgium, 1031, 1041 ; Danish, 80, 81 ; and Brazilian, 67,68.
A great deal of speculation has been going on in Mexican,
which is quoted 4 per cent. lower than the closing price on
Wednesday evening, it being then 39, and now 35, having been
marked this morning 33*. The cause assigned is, that an ex-
pedition had started from Mexico to overcome Texas. That
such would be the case, and the extent of the preparations were
known long since, and while they were going on Mexican Stock
rose; now that the intended object is in the course of being
attained, down the quotations are forced.
'I he Spanish Three per Cent. Stock is nearly two per cent.
lower, being 241, inasmuch as M. Aguado, the banker, at
Paris, is dead. It all that the holders of this Stock asserted
be true, the future dividends have been provided for by the
Government ; the demise of this gentleman, thtieefore, should
have had no effect.
Such, however, is the real nature of these speculations, in
the course of a few days a scarcity of Stock will doubtless
be made, and the unfortunate bears on the Account day will
have to settle at the former rates.
The Share Market is good. Birmingham, 179 180; Quar-
ters, 37 ; Thirds, 30* ; Cheltenham and Great Western, 17i :
Great Western, 941 ; New, 65* ; South Western, 611 ; South
Eastern, 301 30; ; Brighton, 37 37*.
The bonds of the insolvent States are quoted—Colombia, 26 ;
Peruvian, 18; Portuguese Five per Cents., 37 371 ; the Three
per Cents., 214 22*; Spanish Active, 24*; the Three per
Cents., 24/.
The arrival of two of the West India Mail Steam Packet
Company's vessels, has been announced this morning, and
grosser instances of bungling throughout the whole arrange-
ments cannot be imagined. More than two months have now
elapsed since any intelligence has been received from Jamaica,
such of these ships which have returned to England having
missed the mails ; meanwhile property and vessels to an
immense amount are on the sea, uninsured for want of proper
advice. Merchants connected with the West Indies are loudly
complaining, not only of the delay in remittances, but of the
risk their produce is exposed to. One of these vessels, it ap-
pears, has again come away without the bags, or, as it has been
stated, " with mails scarcely sufficient to fill a pocket-handker-
chief;" and the other by accident appears to have letters on board.
By way of covering all these blunders, the " Tay," with the im-
portant correspondence on board, landed it at Falmouth, whence
it may be expected to-morrow, and proceeded to Southampton,
from which port the captain and passengers have actually ar-
rived in London twenty-four hours before the letters.
This is the second instance in which a similar thing has oc-
curred, thereby fully proving the preferability of Southampton
over Falmouth for a packet station.
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 20.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 984 i Grassi Canal Stock ...
Ditto Reduced ...... ... Ditto Debs. E 3 per cent...
Ditto New 1830... 99 Ditto 4 per cent ... 3l per Cent. Debs.
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 21.—Speculators
purchased 2,0C0 American, and 400 were also taken by the
shippers. Prices remained steady, and the sales consisted of
i 600 Surats, 31d. 4d. ; tco Egyptians, 9d. ; 70 Peruvian, 71d. ;
and :3,310 American 41d. 7d., being a total of 4,000 bales.
LIVERPOOL SHARE .MARKET, APRIL 2l.—Eastern Coun-
ties were in good demand at 101 ; 11/. 14s. 2d. for the Deben-
tures, and Si. 19s. 2d. for the New ; as were also Great Wes-
tern Halves, 651; Fifths, 101; and London and Birmingham
Quarters, at 37. Other shares remained without variation,
Edinburgh and Glasgow being 52, 524; Grand Junction New
Quarters, 1(3-1 ; Brighton Quarters, 371/2 - New,' 81 ; South
Western, 61* ; Manchester, Bolton, and dury, 641/2 ; Man-
chester and Birmingham, 281/2 ; ilanchester and Leeds, 831/2 ;
the Quarters, 51/2.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCIIANCE, APRIL 21.—Our Market
has not undergone any particular change to-day. Bolton and
Preston, 21-s; ; Eastern Counties New Shares, 5/. 14s. 2d. ;
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 514 ; Liverpool and Manchester,
190 ; South Eastern and Dover, 32 ; Manchester an d Bir-
mingham, 274.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock 166 India Stock
3 per Cent Red. 90:4 Ditto Bonds
3 per Cent Cons 9lg Ditto Old Annuities ...
:34 per Cent Red...., 99 iDitto New Annuities...
New 3} per Cent
New 5 per Cent. — Ditto 5001......... 39 prs
Long Annuities i:oexpire Ditto Small 37 pm
Jan. l8;60 ..... ..... 12} Bank Stock for Acct ...
Oct 1859.... ..... 12i India Stock for Acct....
Jan. 1860. ......... 124- Consols for Acta ......... 91i
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5
F c,..• cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian,. 5 pei rent 1044 Ditto, New Ditto —
erazilian Bonds. — Prussian, 5 per cent —
Buenos Ayres 6 per cez t Russian, 5 per cent.....,
Chilian. 6 per cent..... Ditto, Metallic ..... ..
Colombian, 6 pet cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent. —
Ditto, 1894.......... ..... Ditto, Deferred....
Danish, 3 per cent Bo* French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Greek, 18:25,5 per cent — Exchange — I —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 36 French, 3 percent —.'. —_,,
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 212 per cent. , 52
Peruvian, 1825, ii per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . ]OO
SHARES.
Bristol ~..nd Exeter (70 paid) ... ...... ... .. 45
Cheltenham and Great Western (72* paid) 17*
Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) .... loi
Ditto Debentures . ...
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) .... 52*
Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 84 •
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 94A
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) . ........
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Blackwall (25 paid). l2i
London and Birmingham (90) . ..... .. 160
Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 37
Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid)
... 30*
London and South Western
Loudon and Croydon Railway ( Trunk) - 14
Midland Counties Railway ( 100 paid)
South Eastmi and Dover (50 paid) • 30*
York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... 94

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WEST INDIA MAIL.
FaLatounr, APRIL 20.—The Royal Mail Steam•packet
Company's steamer Forth, Captain Frere, arrived here this
evening, bringing dates from Havannah, 15th ult. ; Nassau,
30th ; Bermuda, sth inst. ; and Fayal, 14th inst. In addition
to the mails from those places she also brings letters from
Mexico and New Orleans, but no Jamaica mails.
We cannot learn any political news. Santa Anna is still
President of Mexico, and the Government are increasing the
number of their ships of war. The Forth does not bring any
%peon:, and only five passengers. The steamer Tay left Nassau
15 hours before the Forth, and as this vessel was leaving Fayal
the Tay was going in. It appears that the Tay brings the
Jamaica mails, &c. We may look for her tomorrow. No
steamer at Havannah when the Forth left ; one from England
looked for.
Before the Forth can proceed for Southampton she requires
a supply of coals. _

Capt.ain Frere reports the Channel full of ships, beating up.
On the 13th, about 100 miles west of Corvo, spoke the South
Sea ship Active, for London, with 3,525 barrels of oil, all well.
Yesterday, 30 leagues south-west of Scilly, spoke the Centu-
rion, of Jersey, Mauritius for Falmouth, for orders.
Three large ships are in our offing to-day, keeping company,
apparently East Indiamen, showing their ensigns. Wind E.

The Mauritius Papers of January 16th announce
the death of Lady Smith three days after that of her husband.
Her delicate state of health it appears had, ever since her resi-
dence in the island, precluded her Isom mixing in company.
HAYMARKET THEATRE.—A merry " comedietta,"
of the free anti easy family, was produced last night, called A
Lover by Proxy. It was eminently successful, for it was acted
with spirit, and its humour was at once felt and relished by
the audience. Mr. Webster, Miss Charles, and Mrs. W.
Clifford, represented the principal characters. This airy trifle
is by Bourcicault. It is light and sparkling, and will doubtless
be a popular interlude for some weeks to come.
The Shildon tunnel, which unites the Stockton and
Darlington, and the Auckland and Weardale Railways, was
opened for merchandise and passengers on Tuesday last. The
Directors and friends in several coaches drawn by an engine,
preceded the coach containing passengers, which was drawn
by a horse. The tunnel is above a mile long, and passengers
can now be conveyed from London to the South Church station
by railway; thence to Rainton Meadows by omnibuses, when
they will again be conveyed by railway to Newcastle, so that
the entire distance from London to Newcastle may be traversed
by railway, with the exception of one-and-half hour's travelling
on the road between South Church and Rainton Meadows.
The Darlington Mechanics' Library and Reading-
room have decided to admit newspapers by a majority ofil4 to 8.
THE DEATH OF SENOR AGUADO.—The French
Government received, on Tuesday afternoon, a telegraphic
despatch from Bordeaux, announcing that M. Aguado sank
under the attack of apoplexy, at Gijon, in the Asturias, en
the 12th inst. A few days before his departure from Paris
he experienced a slight attack, which was considered by his
friends an alarming symptom ; he, however, treated it lightly,
and having promised, for the last four years, to visit his
mines in the Asturias, he determined on undertaking the
journey. He was informed at Bordeaux, that the Spanish
Government had ordered the Isabella steamer, lying at
Passages, to be placed at his disposal, in order to convey
him to Gijon ; but he declined accepting the offer, pre-
ferring to travel thither by land, as it would give him
an opportunity of seeing the country. He repaired first to
Valladolid, where he stopped some days, having assigned a
rendezvous in that city to his brother and to Messrs. Re.
miss and Marliani. He took his departure thence for Oviedo,
and, it appears that, in crossing -the mountains, he under.
went considerable hardship, His progress through them was
retarded by snow during forty-eight hours, which he passed in a
desolate cabin, wanting even the necessaries of life. A let-
ter written by him, ur.der date Oviedo, the llth, reached Paris
on Wednesday, in which he describes the sufferings which he
and his five companions had to endure in those mountains.
Upwards of 100 men were employed in opening a passage for
them, and they had to walk afterwards five miles knee-deep
through the snow, before they could arrive at the nearest vil-
lage. M. Aguado was only 56 years of age. His father like..
wise fell a victim to a similar attack about the same period of
life. He leaves a property estimated at upwards of 2,000,000/.
sterling, to be divided among his three sons.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—THE LATE FATAL ACCI-
DENT TO MR. WILLIAM SA MS.—Last evening, at eight
o'clock, an inquest was held at the Star and Garter Tavern, in
Pall-mall, before Mr. Higgs, the Coroner for Westminster,
on the body of Mr. William Sams, late of No. 1, St. James's-
street, bookseller, print publisher, and proprietor of the Royal
Subscription Library, whose death occsirred under the follow-.
ing melancholy and
ninesditressing circumstances The deceased,
between eight and o'clock on the evening of Saturday last,
accompanied by Mrs. Sams and his daughter, was driving in a
from Hammersmith-bridge, being on their
four-wheeled open chaise carriage, drawn by two horses, along
a lane leading
way to their scat at Roehampton. When within a short
distance of Walham-green, one of the horses became restive,
,aeu,
and the ladies screaming, started the other, and both of the
the eireetion towards the
church, the vehicle came in contact with a post. the collision
co. n i roils intro Fakl hea tinx7r( furious gallop, and in turning the
was tremendous; the carriage was overturned, and the de-
ceased and the ladies were thrown out. The deceased was
found lying underneath the carriage; he was extricated as
quickly as possible, and found to be very severely hurt, so much
so, that he was quite speechless, and presently became perfectly
insensible. fie was conveyed to a surgeon's at Walham-green,
and afterwards removed to his residence in St. James's-street,
where he expired about three o'clock on Wednesday afternoon.
(In a pest reorient examination his death was Lund to proceed
fi °in concussion of the brain, and a slight fracture of a portion
of the skull. Mrs. Sams escaped with but trifling injury, but
Miss Sams received rather a severe laceration of the neck.
The melancholy catastrophe was purely accidental. Verdict,
`• Accidental death," The deceased was 49 years of age.-