The Sun.
London, England, 1845-02-05 00:00:00

LAMP.

The great fault which has-proved fatal to the success of the Vesta
Lamp, viz., the em'ssion of black smuts and smoke. is entirely ob-
viated in the I'aragon—the brilliancy and purity of its light surpasses
any other yet seen, and burns for one half-penny per hour.
C. Watson's Warehouses, 41 and 42, Barbican, and 16, Norton Fol-
gate, are replete with every variety. Ihe Spirit, analysed by Dr.
Lire, is sold by C. Watson, at 4s. per gallon.
Contracts given for Chapels and Public Buildings.

COURSE OF EXCHA]
Amsterdam CF. 12 8
Ditto, at sight l2 6
Rotterdam 2U. 12 8i
Antwerp
Elamburgh M.B. 13 14
Altona l3 14
Paris, 3 days' sight 25 80
Ditto, 3 months 26 0
Marseilles
Bourdeaux
Frankfort on Maine 122

;GE.—(YESTEiti:A Y .)
Gibraltar.....
Leghorn ... . ..... 31
Genoa ...
26
10
111i1aa . ............
Venice .....
Naples
Palermo, 0z... 118 i
Lisbon ......... ...,.... 53i
Oporto
Rio Janeiro ..
Bahia
Buenos AI, -18 •••-•
NewYtek.:.:'tlyesight
PRI( !KS Z;? WON', I t.
Foreign .:•4.11, bars. £3 17 9
Portuga: (7!.)1d Coin 3 17 5
New Do"; ,00na.... u 0 0
New 74,11318 0 4 94
Silver mars n 4 Li

Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37

Berlin —

Vienna, effect IL 3M. 10

Trieste, ditto
Madrid
Cadiz
36

Barcelona 36

Seville

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.

ES:—The premium on gold at Paris is 121 per mile, which, at

the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold,
gives an exchange of 25 46 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at
short being 25 62i, it follows that gold is 0.65 per cent. dearer in Lon-
don than in Paris.

By advicea from Hamburgh thg price of gold is 434 per mark, which,
at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. bid, per ounce for standard
gold, gives an exchange of 13 9i ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on
London at short being 13 11}, it follows that gold is 0.90 per cent.
dearer in London than in Hamburgh.

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The course of exchange at New York on London is 110/ per cent.,
and the par of exchange between England and America being 109
23-40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.68 per cent. in favour
of England. But the quoted exchange at sew York being for bills at
GO days' sight, the interest must be added to the above difference.

The Queens Speech produced no effect :upon the public securities ;
they were, however, rather flat, from an increased demand for money,
arising out of sales made to pay the necessary funds into the hands of
the Accountant-General in Chancery, to prosecute the several new
railway schemes before Parliament.

Not much business has been transacted in the foreign market, but
prices continue pretty firm. ColoMbian in a trifling degree has ad-
vanced—a strange position of affairs, considering the late refusal of
Lord Aberdeen to interfere further respecting the claims of the bond-
holders. Probably the circumstance of its being a low-priced security
induces some of the more Adventurous speculators to purchase at the
risk of a rise following the general excitement at present existing for
time bargains.

The. confidence with which many persons in the City have spoken
of certain railway lines as likely to receive the sanction of the Board
of Trade has created much surprise, If the predictions of Hies,. per-
sons turn out to be correct, it will increase a suspicion already afloat,
that information as to the proceedings of the Board occasionally rinds
its way prematurely into the market.

Tho new Conservative Club-house, erected on the
site of the late Thatched-house Tavern, on the west aide of
St. damns's-street, will be opened, with much ceremony, on
Monday next, the 10th inst.
TILE PRICE OF BRICKS.—Since the commencement
of the year, the price of bricks, at the kiln, has increased
almost thirty per cent. A few weeks ago they were at 365.
the thousand, and they are now nearly 465. the thousand.
The cause of this increase of price is attributed to the late
Building Act, in consequence of which double the quantity
of bricks are now used in the construction of houses to what
was required before the passing of the Act