The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-01 00:00:00

BOURSE--PARIS, TUESDAY, MARCH 29.

First Highest Lowest Last
Price Price. Price Price.
Frvicli h tier Cent, ll7 50 ... 117 55 ... 117 45 ... 117 55
4per Cents. ......
S per Cent* 80 45 .. SO 50 ... Si, 45 ... 80 50
,tank of trance
Lanitt:. Sant 1.000/. Shares 112; ...11`29 ...1017 54 —lOl7 50
5,0001. ~wares 1'045 ...5045 ...MA, ~.5045
de:gian Bank 1851 11'57 51 ...1057 50 ...1.57 50 ...1051 50
5 pert:encl., 1840 1116% ... 1004 ... 106% ... 100,i
tpanish Active 55% ... 25% ... 25% ... 25%
Passive 5% ... 5% ... 5% ... 5%
Portuguese 5 per Cents.
NeapUittn ... . O-16 30 ... 106 50 ... 106 30 ... 106 50
RAILWAY SHARES.
Versailles, It. B 345 .... 345 ... 312 50 ... 312 50
L.B .. 215 .. 215 ... 215 ... 215
Rouen 522 50 ..."525 ... 522 50 ... 523 75
irieaus
Strasburg to Bale 2ll 25 ... 241 25 .. 240 ... 240

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, THURSDAY EVENING.
Shortly after the commencement of business, some
purchases were made in the English Funds which,
although to a small amount, had the effect of raising
the price of Consols. It has seldom occurred that so
large a quantity of unemployed capital has been
afloat as at the present time : numbers of the bill-
brokers have funds in their hands without the oppor-
tunity of investing them. It is usually the case, that
'at this particular period of the year, discounts are
difficult to be obtained, but now, money is more
plentiful than bills, although Monday next is consi-
dered one of the heaviest days of the year, and
acceptances falling due that day will have to be pro-
vided for on Saturday. The great dulness which has
for some time existed in all branches of mercantile
operations, may account for the small quantity of
paper offering ; which, however, shows that trade is
not in a very healthy state. Consols left off at 89i
buyers' for Money, and 90 for the Account. Exchequer
Bills 29 to 31 premium.
The settlement in the Foreign Stocks has passed
off quietly, although the transactions, especially in
Mexican, had been somewhat extensive. Many of
the accounts have been carried over to the next set-
tling day, at rather higher rates of, continuation,
great distrust being exhibited in taking foreign bonds
as security. A surer criterion of value may be dis-
covered in the interest demanded for loans upon
these documents than in the quotations, as much as
twelve per cent. having been paid, some of this de-
scription being the security. The last quotations of
Mexican were 42i to 43 ; Colombian, 27 to 271; the
Portuguese Five per Cents., 351 to 35i; the Three
per Cents., 201 to 214,and Spanish, 24i to 24i. The
last price of Belgian was 103 to 104 ; of Brazilian,
68-3: to 69i ; of Danish, 81i to 821; of the Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51i to 521; and of the
Five per Cents., 1021 to 102/,
Railway Shares were all better, and several pur-
chases were made for real investment. Great
Western, 27 to 28 ; the Half Shares, 14 to 144 ; Bir-
mingham, 84 to 86 prem. ; South Western, 59 to 60 ;
Gosport, 59 to 60; Birmingham and Gloucester, 56
to 58 ; North Midland, 69 to 70; the New Shares,
841 to 351; and Brighton, 36 to 36+ per share ;
Eastern Counties, 13+ to 124 discount.
The conduct of the Stock Exchange Committee in
allowing the Converted Coupons of the Spanish Stock
to be quoted in their official lists, has been pretty
freely commented on during the days and the prin-
ciple upon which they have acted remains yet unex-
plained. Applications were made some time since for
a relaxation of their rules in favour of the Greek loan,
which was guaranteed by our own Government,• and
of the Portuguese Treasury Bills, both of which were
refused. These securities have either all been paid
oft; or are in the course of regular payment, but pre-
ference is in the present instance given to the interest
due, four years since, from a country which in no
single instance has kept an engagement, and which,
according to the statement of the Finance Minister,
laid before the Cortes, will not, for a series of years
yet, be in a situation to make even the smallest re-
mittance to the foreign creditors, having claims to
the amount of nearly forty millions sterling of capital,
and about ten millions sterling of arrears of interest.

(From The San of Night.)
The prices of the English funds are all better, although
no great business has been done. Consols 89t 1 for
Money, and 898 90 for the Account ; buyers in both
instances. Consols, 901 for the May account. New
Three-and-a-half per Cents., 99* to 99f ; Bank Stock
1691 ; Lillis. Bonds, 9 to 11, and Exchequer Bills 253
to 30 premium.

It was expected that the Bank of England would have
reduced their rate of discount, but the meeting broke up,
without declaring any alteration,
The settlement in the Foreign Stock is going off well;
many, however, is very tight, and the continuation in
Mexican is t, and in Spanish 3-16 per cent. The prin-
cipal feature is the qUotation:of the New Three per Cent.
Spanish Stock, which is very cautiously received, much
doubt being expressed whether any dividend will ever be
paid, although professions havegone so far. _lt h as been sold
at 20i, and is now quoted 21+ ; the Old Bonds, with
the Coupons, 24a 24i ; Mexican, 421 421; Portuguese
Five per Cents., 35 to 35+ ; Colombian, 26:1 26i, and
Peruvian, 174.
A decided improvement has . taken place in Shares,
and purchases to rather a considerable extent have been
made. Midland Counties, 79; New North Midland, 34k;
Manchester and Leeds Quarter Shares, 4k; South Wes:
tern,-.5q; and Brighton, 36k.
Accounts from Swan River to the Ist September have
been received, and are more satisfactory than they have
been of late. The crops were coming on exceedingly
well, and hopes were confidently entertained of a good
harvest. A quantity of stock had arrived from King
George's Sound, and in consequence of many of them
having been lost by eating some poisonous plants, a
Committee had been formed for the purpose of investi-
gating its nature, and adopting precautions against a
similar occurrence. The fishery was being extended,
asd as far as it had progressed, had met with success.
The quantity of oil sent home from the Southern Co-
lonies generally was 6,886 tuns in 1840, and 6,489 tuns in
1839, while the consumption was upwards of 900 tuns
more in the former than in the latter year. The export
of whalebone also showed an increase.

Launceston Papers to the 28th October have arrived
by the same vessel. These do not present so cheering a
statement as the above, although no particular distress
existed, except among merchants, arising principally
from overtrading.
From the Ist of January, 1840, to the 13th of Sep-
tember, 1841, fifty-one insolvencies, with debts amount-
ing to 121,3501, had been declared, while the average
dividend would be considerably under 55. in the pound ;
two of these parties had been twice 'declared insolvent
since 1840.

The intelligence lately received of the defeat of the
Peruvians by the Bolivians, has proved to be correct,
the official account having arrived. It appears that Ga-
marra. and 500 of his troops were killed, and the re-
mainder of his army, consisting of 3,000 men, taken
prisoners. The Bolivians had marched towards Lower
Peru, with the intention of subjugating that province also.
LIvERPOOL COTTON MARKET, MARCH 30.—Re-
mains in the same dull state. Middling and inferior de-
scriptions of American were per lb. lower, and other
sorts unaltered. The sales were 400 Surats, 31 to 4* ;
100 Egyptian, 7d. to 71. d; 40 Bahia, 6i to 64; and 2,460
American, 4+ to 6:1, being a total of 3,000 bales.
LIVERPOOL SHARE MARKET, MARCH 30. Was
flat, and few sales took place in any stock. A small
number of the following Shares were sold at the quota-
tions. Eastern Counties, New, 4/. 6s. 8. ; Great Western,
Fifths, 10* ; London and Birmingham, 1741 ; South
Western, 59k, and Manchestsr and Leels, 78A-.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MARCH 30.—There
has been more inquiry to-day both fur Railway
and Bank Stocks, but in consequence of little of either
offering, business has been limited. London and Bir-
mingham, 175 to 176 ; South Western, 59i to 601 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 27 to 27* ; Bristol and
Exeter, 39+ to 40 ; Manchester and Liverpool District
Bank, 108.

CLOSING PRICES
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock ... [lndia Stock ..... ...
3 per Cent Red !Ditto Bonds
i ...... 11 pm
g per Cent Cons B9i Ditto Old Annuities ...
3} per Cent Red — Ditte New Annuities...
blew 36 per Cent
New 5 per Cent.
Long Annuities toexpire Ditto Small 99 pm
Jan. 1860 ..... ..... Bank Stock for 0pen...1696
Oct 1859. ........ India Stock for Acct.... 241
Jan. 1860. ... ..... 12,1 Consols for Acct 9O
FOREIGN FUNDS.

Austrian, 5 pet:rent.— Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgi.n, spm Cent — Ditto, New Ditto 351
4
Brazilian ...... Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres 6 percept Russian, 5 per cent —
Chilian, 6 per cent... !Ditto, Metallic —
Colombian, 6 per Cent.. Spanish, 5 per cent..., 24i
Ditto, 1824.......... ..... 27 Ditto Deferred.... .
Danish, !3 per cent — French,ii 5 per cent. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent — ;Exchange I --e.
Mexican, 5 per cent.... 423- ;French, 3 per cent —'. —c
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 11i Dutch, 2i per cent. , , 52
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. 102 k
SHARES.
Great Western Railway (65 paid) 92
London and Brighton (50 paid)..
London and Birmingham (90) ......... 175
London and South Western 4 ...... 59}

London and Croydon Railway (Trunk) l3
Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) ... ..
Ditto New Shares (30 paid) 35
Ditto Quarter Shares ( 2 paid) 4l
Midland Counties Railway ( 100 paid)
Northern and Eastern (40 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto New Shares (40 paid • 344
York and North Midland (50 paid) ... 941