The Sun.
London, England, 1842-08-29 00:00:00

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Apsley House is in the course of improvement.
Earl Fortescue is making extensive alterations in his
mansion at Castle Hill, and the state apartments at
Devonshire House are being greatly enlarged.
Captain St. George Lister is spoken of as a candi-
date for the office of Commissioner of the City Police.
Mr. T. B. C. Smith, it is said, has been appointed
to the office of Solicitor• General for Ireland, and it is
also rumoured that he will contest the vacancy in the
University in the room of Mr. Jackson against Mr.
Alexander Hamilton.

MONE Y and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE,
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The market is exceedingly good, and prices have
an upward tendency, Consols being 93 buyers for
Money, and 934 934 for the Account. Three per
Cents. Reduced, 93:41; Three-And-a-Half per Cents.
Reduced, 101,3 102 • New Three-and-a• Half per
Cents., 101 101 f; Bank Stock, 167 168 ; India Bonds,
34; Exchequer Bills New, 49 52 ; Old, 51 53 prem.
Business in Foreign Securities has been but
trifling. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. have
been sold at 52t- ; the Five per Cents., 104 ; and
Danish, 841. The intelligence from Brazil, noticed
below, has had an unfavourable impression on the
Stock, which has been sold at 64i.
To show the distaste evinced by the public for
speculating in the Bonds, no transaction has taken
place in Mexican to-day, although accounts have been
received from that country, and a further sum for
the dividends. •
The Share market has been almost without busi-
ness. London and Brighton have changed hands at
33*; Great Western, 844,-; Blackwall 8 81 ; and
Edinburgh and Glasgow, New, 3i.
The Bonds quoted to-day are Colombian, 27i ;
Spanish Five per Cents., 21 ; and the Three per
Cents., 20.

The arrivals to-day are numerous, the principal of
which are the Columbia, with accounts four days
later from New York, and the Trent, with intelli
pence from the Havannah to the Ist inst., and Vera
Cruz to the 12th of July. No new feature had oc-
.cttrred in commercial matter 3 at New York.

The statement:; relative.- to produce in the West
Indies arc extremely favourabk,.While trade centinued
to be exceedingly depressed ; and much einbarraEs
meat existed in monetary affairs, but Which it was ex-
pected had now seen the lowest point.
Front Rio Janeiro it is learnt..that sanguine expec-
tations were held by the Government that the insur-
rection in the province of St. Paul would shortly ht
put down ; private letters, however, are not so much
in favour of this opinion,. and the outbreak having
spread into the mining districts, it is feared that tilt
consequences will be serious. Meioovhile the
prices;
of coffee were going on at rather higher prices;
and the improyed demand for European goods noticed
in the last accounts continued.

Mexican atiiiirs remained much in the same state.
Santa Anna had completely gained the army over to
his interest, and the report that he is aiming at being
appointed Dictator receives a degree of confirmation
by these advices. A further remittance of 29,001
&Ito; has been received on account of the dividends,
and more is promised by the two. succeeding vessels.

PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
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A ILWAYS. Paid. Per Share.
Edinburgh and Glasgow .50
Ditto New ...
London an Brighton ...... 50 ...... to
London and I3lackwall
London and Birmingham 90 lB7 ...... to
'MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, AUG. 27.-IVe
end this week without any material improvement.
Edinburgh and Glasgow, 49 'ex div. ; Ditto, guar..
ter, 3i ; Union Bank of Manchester, 8-f to 88.

A few nights since, says the Journal d Arranchea,
28 houses in the village of 'Jayne l'esnel were reduced
to ashes. The loss is estimated at 300,000 f. The dis-
aster was occasioned, it is supposed, by lightning.