The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-22 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL N

CITY, QUARTER TO 71
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday
a moderate extent, being 3,500 bales, but the
is still represented as being in a dull state.
were the same, 60 bales Egyptian realising Gild. to
el., 600 bales Surat 344. to 4d., and 2,840 American
30. to 6d. per lb.
In Railway Shares there had not been much doing.
Eastern Counties, New, 104; Edinburgh and Glas-
gow, 474 ; Birmingham, 185 ; Midland Counties, 64 ;
South Eastern, New, 184.
The crowning coup to the important intelligence
from China was given to-day by the unexpected and
decisive events described in the aecounts from Ail.-
ghanistan, and which have excited a feeing of ex-
treme gratification.
The accounts from Batavia continue of a very un-
satisfactory tenor. The want of confidence had caused
the withdrawal from circulation of nearly all the cir-
culating medium, which was either hoarded in pri-
vate, or bad been exported. The Government of
the Dutch East India possessions was about to adopt
all possible measures for restoring the prosperity of
Java, which had recently received another blow from
the embarrassment
weretobegiiiin of t
A ugustl:e bank.
analtera tiTe opium
onhvei) sas
agreeablele
to the mercantile community. The exchange on
Holland was 90 cents per florin, and the premium on
silver in the interior of the island had risen to 90 and
100 per cent.
The funds have been very brisk, on account of the
glad tidings from the East, but the " bear" party
have sustained losses which they must make good by
sales of stock, and which temporarily check the
favourable influence the change of affairs will have
upon prices, as soon as the public commence pur-
chasing. Consols for immediate transfer have been
at 941 to 94k, and for the January Account, at 95 to
I; Exchequer Bills are 56 to 58 prem.; New Three-
and-a-Half per Cents. realise 102 to 1014 ; and the
Three per Cents. 93i to 94k; Bank Stock is 170 to
171 ; and India Stock has touched 264 and 265.
The Foreign Bonds are lively. Spanish Actives
are 18 to 17i, the Three per Cents. 22 to 22k; Mexi-
can Stock has not supported the rise, on account of
the reported receipt by Government of news per
Clyde, being 354 to 35:1 ; Portuguese Converted are
32 ; Brazilian, of 1839, are 59 ; and Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. 52k.
For Railway Shares the inquiry is •limited, but
prices aro maintained. Great Westerns are 19i to
204 ; Birmingham Quarters 241 ; and South Western
18i premium. Bristol and Exeter are 25 ; Eastern
Counties, 144; Great North of England, 40 ; North
Midland, 374 ; and South Eastern Scrip, 1 dis.
PRICES OP SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Bristol and Exeter 7O . 4.5
Eastern Counties
Ditto Debentures 81. 6s. id.
Great North of England ........100
Great Western
London one Brighton
London and Birmingham 90

Ditto 1 Shares _
25
London and South Western ... 4114 ... .. 001 to
Northern and Eastern
Ditto Scrip
North Midlani lOO 621 to
South Eastern and Dever 5()
Ditto Scrip -
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London and Westminster . ... .. 20

MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, NOV. 21.
We have had rather more business doing to-day, and
prices are firm. Our quotations are—London and
Birmingham, Old, 321., 61f ; Ditto, New, 321., 31+ ;
Grand Junction, Quarters, (251. paid), 431 ; Ditto
Quarter, (71. 10s. paid), 244; Scuth Eastern Scrip,
181 ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury, 50 51; London
and Brighton, 35 35f ; Manchester Assurance, 9.

CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. ........ 94h
3 per Cent. Cons 94
3} per Cent. Red 104
New 3i per Cent... lo2i
New 5 per Cen'
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 ...... 1.2 9-16 i
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1660 l2
FOREIGN
Austrian, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent.
Brazilian 80nd5..........
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent.
Chilian 6 per cent.
Colombian, 6 per cent...
Ditto, 1824 2ll
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 79 1
Danish, 3 per :eta — 1
Greek, 1825,5 per cent — 1
Mexican, 5 per cent 324 1
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per ct.

India Stock .264 pm
Ditto Bonds ....... 54 pm
Ditto Old Annuities ... 913
Ditto New Annuities...
Ex. Bills, 1,000/....2d. 58 pm
Ditto 5001. .. •• .58 pm
Ditto Small ...... 58 pa
Bank Stock for Acct. 170
India Stock for Acct
Consols for Acct.
FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent.—
Russian, 5 pei cent —
Ditto, Metallic •—•
Spanish, 5 per cent 1 Si
Ditto, Deferred.... ~ 911
French, 5 per cent. —f. —c.
Exchange
French, 3 per cent —f. .
Dutch, 2 per cent. 52;
Ditto, 5 per cent. .. 101 a

SHARES.
Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) .. 45
Eastern Counties (•23 paid) Bl
Ditto New (—paid) loi
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ...
Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 60
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) 8
London and Brighton (50 paid) . ..... n 5
London and Birmingham (90) . ..... ..... ..
Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 49
Ditto Thirds (32 paid) ...... ....... . 62i
London and South Western ( 41/ 6s 10d pd) GOA
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) 9
North Midland Railway ( 100 )
Paris and Rouen (20 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) —
Ditto Scrip (20 paid) ... 18i

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR,—Being a subscriber to your valuable paper,
you will perhaps excuse my troubling you, but I
think it only due to the skill of Mr. Cronin that some
publicity should be given, for the benefit of the com-
munity, to his method of cure in cases of consump-
tion, asthma, &c.
I had been nine months under a medical man with
confirmed consumption, and given over by him as
incurable. I have now been five weeks under Mr.
Cronin, and am not like the same person, as my health
and strength are rapidly returning.
If you can find room for this in your next publica-
tion, I think it will be conferring a benefit on those
similarly afflicted.—l remain, Sir, your most obedient
servant, ADOLPHUS CARTWRIGHT.
Navigation and Sloop Office, Customs,
Nov. 21st.

STATE OF THE BAROMETER
AthTe sAltaAtepolftipthe. TtHo THE STORM
TtaOblitesMof
@Rom A CORRESPONDENT.)
DURING
On referring
wea-
ther, and the altitudes of the barometer about the
time of the Great Storm at Madeira, we find that the
aerial wave progressed from London to Mad •
about twenty-fours ; thus t Madeira
in
traversing in that time, a
distance of about 1,400 miles.
The barometer fell very
at London on the
22d, and passed its minimum, or lowest reading, on
the 23d, (28.783), a fearful storm raging at the time.
round the southern coasts of the island. It appears
that the fall of the barometer did not occur at Ma-
deira, until the 24th, so that the wave must have
swept with irresistible fury, over the space between
England and Madeira during the short interval of
twenty-four hours; (or what is much more probable)
the trough of the wave must have extended from
London to a point about 360 miles west, or north-
west of Madeira ; the usual rate at which these
storms travel being about fifteen miles per hour.
An interesting point is presented by the minimum
of the barometer occurring in September, on the
24th, and the curves of September and October, from
the 15th of each month respectively, being identical,
as both the minima were attended with bad weather.
Upwards of six-tenths of an inch of rain having been
registered at the September minimum, it becomes not
only interesting, but highly important, to study the
barometric changes ; for were we able to determine
the form and direction of these waves, a step would be
gained in meteorological science, and in a department
in which nearly all attempts to unravel the —h
p eno.
mena presented have hitherto been baffled.

A TROTTING MATCII.—A match to drive in
harness from the Elephant and Castle to Brighton,
making the best of the way, for 501. a side, came off
yesterday (Monday), between Mr. S. Lawrence and
Mr. T Angel. The conditions were, that each party
should ride his horse, and accordingly Mr. Lawrence
rode Lord William, and Mr. Angel a well-known fast
mare called Black Bess. Mr. Lawrence was the win-
ner. lie did the distance in four hours and ten mi-
nutes, coining in about half an hour in advance of
his opponent. Bets to a large amount were laid on
the event.

MITCHANL-Dr. Epps on Friday evening last deli-
vered his second lecture on human physio/ogy, in
the large hall of the Rising Sun Inn, Lower Toot-
ing, to a numerous, respectable, and attentive
audience. his first lecture, on Thursday, ov. 10,
was numerously attended; but the hall Friday
was filled to overflow, numbers of respectable
females of the place, and from the surrounding vil-
lages, were present, and all bestowed the greatest
attention upon the important truths advaned, and
the practical application so clearly and hiTpily
made out. The learned lecturer clearly sholiw,
that, if the human frame had
not a sufficiency of
nourishment in early y i outh, t was impossible that a
healthy structure could b e obtained; and condemned
terms
h
the Corn-laws as one of the causes of crooked lege
y frame ; and denounced
conduct of a person resi-
dent in the neighbourhood, who in his progress to
church on the previous Sunday, had pulled down and
andiin
no o f
measured
esahsourrteadnd unli
destroyed the bills announcing the lecture. lie con-
cluded his second lecture (of two hours' duration)
amidst loud applause. The profits arising from his
lecture the Doctor has kindly promised to the Anti-
Corn-law Association.

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