The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-07 00:00:00

ONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER: 7, 1842.

BELGIAN FUNDS.—Bstussus, Nov 4
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent ,
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent 102%
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent 92
-- Three per Cent...........
-- Thirty-seven Milli, ns, ditto
(1640) 1(3%
Loan of City, 1832, Four per Cent 9•2
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Cent St
Bank of Belgium, Five per Cent .... 77
National Society
Exchange on London (short) -
-Brussels Papers, Nov 4.
A tiSTRI 4.141 .FUNDS....VIENNA, Om 27
Five per Cents. Metalliques „. 1( 9
Four per Cents
Three per Cents
Bank Shares ..... .............. .. ..... ......... ........ 104
Allgemeine Zeitung, Oct. 31.

Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by part
of the Royal suite, left Windsor Castle at nine on Satur-
day morning, for the Slough station, and immediately
left by a special train of the Great Western Railway,
for town. On arriving at the Paddington terminus,
her Majesty and suite entered two of the Royal car-
riages and four, which were in readiness, and pro-
ceeded to Buckingham Palace, where the Royal party
arrived shortly before ten o'clock, thus accomplishing
the journey from Windsor Castle to Buckingham
Palace within the hour. Prince Albert afterwards
went to Somerset House, to attend the meeting at the
office of the Duchy of Cornwall. Her Majesty and
Prince Albert left town at one o'clock, on their return
to Windsor Castle, by a special train.
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Many persons attention has been probably drawn
to certain most malignant and injurious aspersions,
which have been circulated with more or less explicit-
ness, upon the character of a lady of high rank, and
the conduct of a younger member of the Royal fa-
mily. We have ourselves scrupulously abstained from
mentioning them, in the full belief that they were—
what they have turned out to be—simply false and
scandalous. Nor should we now have noticed them,
except to state that we are authorised, on the very
highest authority, to give these calumnies the fullest
and most peremptory contradiction which language
admits of. We will not weaken the force 'of the sim-
ple contradiction, to which we gladly give all the
publicity within our power, by expressing the deep
indignation which we, in common with everybody else,
must feel at those whose reckless carelessness or
heartless appetite for scandal (for we cannot suppose
anything so unnatural as malice) has given currency
to these falsehoods. Inventors and propagators—
who have imagined, spoken, and printed such cruel
assertions—we scarcely know who have most reason
to be ashamed of their share in anything so mis-
chievous and unfeeling. We will only express our
hope that this most peremptory and unqualified denial
will have the effect of crushing, at once and for ever,
reports which it is humiliating to think should ever
have obtained a moment's credit.—Times.

THE INDIA AND LEVANT MAILS.

A telegraphic dispatch, which was forwarded from
Marseilles at daybreak on Wednesday, was only re-
ceived in Paris, ov, Mg to the misty state of the at-
mosphere, on Thursday morning : it simply announced
the arrival, on the evening of the Ist instant, of the
French Levant steamer, with dates from Constanti-
nople and Alexandria of the 17th ult.' Smyrna the
19th, and Malta the 25th. The dispatches and papers
by this mail were expected in Paris on Friday.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
(From The Sun of Saturday Evening.)
The arrival of the 'West India 'mail furnishes later
dates from all the colonies, the principal being Ja-
maica Sept. 26, Barbadoes Sept. 17, Trinidad Sept.
13, and Demerara Sept. 17.
The news from Jamaica is 'satisfactory, the rain
having fallen abundantly vegetation looking healthy,
the prospects of the agriculturists being good, and
the labourers conducting themselves with propriety,
though it is alleged against them as a matter
of complaint, that they were rmore anxious
to cultivate their own grounds than those of their em-
ployers. The loss of another steamer the Isis, be-
longing to the fleet of the West India Mail Company,
has excited much regret in the city, and will no doubt
be a heavy blow for the Association, which, as we
believe, takes it own risks. The accident in the present
instance :appears to have been attended with
such serious results from the circumstance
of the Isis having been previously ashore, and from
the want of a proper naval yard to effect substantial
repairs in her ere she proceeded on her voyage.
The planters of Jamaica, like our own landholders,
finding protection and bolstering no longer the order
of the day, and left to their own resources, have been
compelled to exercise a little energy within the last
two years, and the result, according to their own dear
organ, the Jamaica Dispatch, has been highly satis-
factory, evincing clearly what might have been done
sooner under a better system, much to the saving of
consumers in the mother country. The whole island
is said to have exhibited the most marked signs of
improvement, and the miserable plan of raking up the
ground by hand bills has been superseded by the deep
furrowing of the plough, while agricultural societies
were promoting the pursuits of grazing and the culti-
vation of necessaries never before attempted in the
colony. The Governors of late years are said to have
bestowed much more care on these subjects than
under the ancien regime, and especially Sir Charles
Metcalfe, whom the colonists evidently hold in great
remembrance. The health of Lord Elgin and family,
who were sojourning in the mountains, had been im-
proving. The Legislature was to meet for the dis-
patch of business on the 25th of October last.
From Demerara our accounts certainly do not im-
prove. The greatest privation was experienced in
many families, and the young men who had been em-
ployed as clerks and overseers were unemployed, and
in too many instances, falling into bad habits. Money
could scarcely be realised upon any description of pro-
perty, so prostrated was confidence and trade.
The troops sent to the Brazilian frontier had re-
turned in good health, but beyond entailing expense,
the expedition appears to have had noparticular result.
In Demerara provisions were riot so scarce. We
find nothing of general interest from the minor de-
pendencies of Antigua, Dominica, St. Lucia, &c.
The report of the Liverpool Cotton Market gives
the sales yesterday at 4,000 bales, and for the week
at 23,000 bales. The stock is 486,860 bales, exceed-
ing rather that of last year. Railway Shares had be-
come dull. Eastern Counties were quoted 8k; North
Midland, Half, 32 ; and South Eastern, New, 17.
Not a single transaction was reported this morning in
Consols for Account. The nominal price is, therefore
93'; for Money the current quotation now is 934 i;
Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Annuities are
heavy at 1001 ; the New Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. at 101 i ; Exchequer Bills were at 60 ; and
Bank of England Stock has advanced to 169.
Guy Fawkes' day has lost much of its interest in
the Stock Exchange as well as elsewhere. Time
was, when scores of pounds' worth of fireworks
were fired off in remembrance of the happy escape of
" the Commons" from the underhanded deadly inten-
tions of the famous Guy.
There are good accounts fro Mexico to-day,
brought by the West India steamer the Medway.
She brings, we hear, a further remittance for the next
half-yearly dividends, Mexican Stock has improved
to 33, and the Deferred to 91. Old Portuguese Five
per Cents. for Account have realised 58 this after-
noo., and the Converted Stock remains at 32k I.
Spanish Three per Cents. have been bought at 21i k.
'The Five per Cents. Dutch, remain at 10011 4, and the
Brazilian New Five per Cents. at 55.
A slight movement upward has occurred to-day in
a few of the Railway shares. The Great Western
New Shares, have been down at 14 premium, and in
the Fifths, at premium ; London and Brighton re-
main at about 131 discount ; South Western are at
18i premium ; York and North Midland at 41 pre-
mium ; Midland Counties at 344 discount; and Man-
chester and Birmingham at 19;1 discount. Joint
(London) Stock Bank shares are at 3i premium.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, NOV. 4.—There
is little doing to-day. Sheffield and Manchester, 31 ;
Manchester and Birmingham, 19i to 194; Manches-
ter and Leeds, 66 to 67; Edinburgh and Glasgow,
451 to 46; South Western, 59 to 591; Manchester
Assurance, 9 1-16th.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.
Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. .. 93a Ditto Bonds ••••
3 per Cent. C0n5..... 931 Ditto Old Annuities ...
3/1 per Cent. Red.........100i Ditto New Annuities...
New 3a per Cent... ...... 101 a Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 66 pm
N.mw 5 per Cen..,
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small ...... 58 pm
Jan. 1860 ...... 12i Bank Stock for Acct. 256
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 , Consols for Acct.
FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent. ... Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent ,Ditto, New Ditto
Brazilian Bonds... 64 Prussian, 5 per cent —
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. 22 Russian, 5 per cent....,,
Chilian, 6 per cent. — Ditto, Metallic ...... .
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, 5 per cent..., l7l
Ditto, 16;24 2l Ditto, Deferred.... —
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 79i French, 5 per cent. —f. —e.
Danish, 3 per :ent — Exchange
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. French, 3 per cent —l. —e.
Mexican, 5 per cent 33 Dutch, 21- per cent. 524
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Ditto, 5 per cent. ... 100 a
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per et.
SHARES.
Eastern Counties (23 paid) B3
Ditto New (—paid) l6
Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) . . .... '•, 466
Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) 4l
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) ...... 71
London and Brighton (50 paid) 36g
London and South Western (411 6s 10d pd) 60
Manchester and Birmingham (40 paid) 2Ol
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto Half Shares (40 paid)
South Eastern and Doter (50 paid)......... 221
Ditto Scrip (20 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid)

BRIGHTON, Nov. 4.—TI I E PAVILION. -In con-
sequence of her Majesty having postponed her visit
to Brighton, orders were received yesterday at the
Pavilion to immediately stop the whole of the work-
men engaged in the repairs, &c. It is a great disap-
pointment to the town, as orders arrived only on
Tuesday last for all workmen to get finished by the
Bth. The town continues filling very fast.
WA MIER CASTLE.—The arrival of her Majesty
and Prince Albert, and their illustrious children, is at,
present fixed for Thursday next, the 10th, or Satur-
day, the 12th. As the castle is not sufficiently capa-
cious to accomodate all the Royal suite, it is expected
that the members of the Royal household in at-
tendance on the Queen will be limited to the number
which usually attend her Majesty on her visits to
Claremont.

WALMER CASTLE.—The Duke of Wellington ar-
rived at the castle on Thursday afternoon from Aps-
ley House. There is an erroneous impression that
the Queen and Prince Albert are to honour the Noble
and Gallant Duke by a visit ; that is not the case, the
Duke gives up the castle entirely for the use of her
Majesty and Court.
HER MAJESTY'S LATE VISIT To SCOTLAND..--A
private letter from Perth informs us of the intention
of the Earl of Mansfield and the nobility and gentry
of the neighbourhood, and the municipal authorities
of Perth, to perpetuate the visit of the Queen to that
city in her Royal progress to the Highlands from
Edinburgh, by erecting a noble arch at the entrance
to the burgh from the Bridge of Earne, where th•
temporary triumphal arch was erected by the plat-
form at which the city keys were presented by the
Ptovost ; it is to be of stone from Craigleith quarry.
The Council have voted 1001. from the city funds, and
the members individually have come forward with
subscriptions to defray the expenses of the erection,
and the Earl of Mansfield has given 25/. in further-
ance of the object of the promoters of so handsome an
ornament to the city.
FRENCH PLAYS. Mr. Mitchell has succeeded in
engaging the distinguished comic actor M. Vernet
for the ensuing season of French plays at the St.
James's Theatre. The established favourites of last
season, Plessy, Dejazet, and Bouffe have been re-en-
gaged. La Pere de la Debrdante, will be one of the
earliest productions for M. Vernet's performance.
MOUNTSHANNON, Nov. I.—The following bull .tin
was issued this morning :—" The Countess Dowa;er
of Clare has had a tranquil night, and is not worse
to-day. Her Ladyship has escaped the immediate
danger of her recent acute attack, but suffers much
from the consequent debility."
A " genteel English stranger," says an Irish pro-
vincial journalist, visited and left Cork last week, after
vainly attempting forgeries to the amount of 2,6001.
upon the Provincial Bank, and Bank of Ireland, in
that city. He assumed the designation of " Henry
Belville," and represented himself as a man of capital
about to invest largely in eteam•mill operations.