The Sun.
London, England, 1842-03-04 00:00:00

THE FUNDS.

The English Securities opened buoyant this morning, with-
out any variation, and but little doing. Consols for Money are
894 4, and for the Account 894 a ; New Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. 983 99; Exchequer Bills, 27 a 29 premium.
The Foreign Market is firm, and Mexican Stock continues
to improve; the present price is 387 4 ; Colombian, 243 3 ;
Chilian, 73 a 75 ; Peruvian, 16 ar 17 ; Portuguese Five pi r
Cents., 32,4 334 ; Ditto, Three per Cents., 194 a 20 ; Spanish
Active Stock, 243 i • Passive, 53 4; and Deferred, 124 4;
Dutch Two-and•a-Half per Cents., 513 524 ; ditto Five per
Cents. 102% 103. The transactions to thepresent have, how-
ever, been to a trifling extent.
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
a AILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Bristol and Exeter 7O ..... 384 to
Cheltenham and Great Western. 724 l64— ... to
Great Western
Ditto New 5O -
Ditto Fifths
Gosport Junction
London and Birmingham 90
Ditto Thirds -
York and is4;irth Midland 5O
Ditto Nnv Shares

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JOINT STOCK BANKS.
London Joint Stock
Union of Australia.
PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, MARCH 2.
3 per Cent. Consols
Three and Half Stock 9B : Grand Canal Stock ...... ...

Ditto Reduced ...

Ditto Debs. 6 per cent...

Ditto New 183(......... 984 Ditto 4 per cent
3i per Cent. Debs.
HALF-PAST ONE.

But little business has been transacted in the British Secu-
rities, the markets are steady and without any material varia-
tion. Consols for Money are 89i and for the Account
891 u ; New Three-and-a •Half per Cents. 99; India Bonds
9to H premium ; Exchequer Bills are firm, and an improve-
ment of Is. upon the quotations of yesterday may be noted ;
they are now 293. premium.
The principal operations in the Foreign Stock Market have
been in Mexican Stocks, which have fluctuated 1 per cent.
during the morning, having at one period been done at 37/,
and as high as 384 ; they have since receded, and may now be
quoted at 381-, ; olombian Bonds are steady at Bra-
zilian 66k, Portuguese Five per Cents. 33i, and the Three
per Cents. 191; Spanish Stock 24k; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 54, and the Five per Cents. 1021.
In Shares the bodiless has been limited. Great Western are
90, and the New Shares 62i 4. London and Birmingham
Thirds 59k.

We regret to state that the stoppage of the payment of the
notes and drafts of the banking-house of Wigney and Co., of
Brighton, has been announced this morning. The firm drew
npon Masterman and Co., by whom payment was refused soon
after the commencement of business. The extent of the liabi-
lities of the house have not yet transpired. Mr. Wigney, the
head of the firm, is the present Member for Brighton.
TWO O'CLOCK.
Consols, 891 %; Colombian, 241 ; Mexican, 381 a ;
Portuguese, 324 33k; Spanish, 24 .
QUA TER TO THREE.

The Overland letters, via Marseilles, will be dispatched
this day, and we regret that better accounts cannot be
forwarded to our Indian friends respecting the staff
of trade here. Silks are improving, and perhaps this
may be some little satisfaction. to them, while teas
liear a higher value. For the more important East Indian
staples, however, we cannot say as much, whether as regards
sugars, indigo, or cotton, which are chiefly affected by
the prevalent uncertainty in the alterations to be proposed
in the import duties. A statement just completed,
of the stock of Tea in London on the I,t inst., makes it
30,164,0201b5., while at this same date last year, we ha i
36 ,3U1,5391bs at our disposal. The imports have rather increased,
but we must remember that last year they were limited. The
home consumption in London alone, since the commencement
of the present year, has been 4,252,176 lbs.

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FOREIGN POSTAG E.—With the view to great( r
facility of communication with Madeira and the Azores, the
Post-office authorities have adopted a new regulation, which
came into operation yesterday, respecting the transmission, of
the mails to those places. The West India Contract Packets
are in future to touch at Madeira in their outward voyage, so
thot letters intended to be delivered either there or at the
Azores, will be forwarded by that conveyance, and not by the
Brazil packets, as heretofore, unless specially marked to be
sent by other channels. The mails will be made up on the Ist
and 15th of every month. By this means it is considered that
a more rapid and more certain communication will be established
than could be obtained by adhering to the former mode of transit.
DEATH OF THE TOWN CLERK OF THE CITY OF
LONDON.—. The death of Mr. Woodthorpe, the Town Clerk
of the City of London, occurred yesterday at two o'clock. He
was for many years an efficient officer of the Corporation.