The Sun.
London, England, 1842-11-29 00:00:00

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, MONDAY EVENING.

Stocks closed without any increased firmness,
but although there were a few sales made the
prices kept up. Consols brought 941 4 for Money
and 95 to for Account. Exchequer Bills receded
to 555. and 535. premium, East India Bonds were at
50s. to 525. premium. Bank Stock has been up to 172 i,
and closed at that price. East India Stock was firm
at 2651 to 2661. The New Three-and-a-Half per
Cents. were 10111 to 4.
The Foreign Market was rather animated ; the spe-
culative Bonds, except Mexican, which left off at 30,
being generally a better sale. Portuguese New Five
per Cents. improved to 374 and 38f, the Converted to
314 to 32, and the Three per Cents. to 221. Spanish
Actives were steady at 174 to 18, and the Three per
Cents. improved to 22i and 224. Dutch Two. and-a-
Half per Cents. realised 524 ; Buenos Ayres Stock
was at 22 to 22k, and Peruvian at 17 to 171.

The transactions in Railway Shares since the morn-
ing have comprised Eastern Counties Debentures -at
21, Birmingham Quarter at 241, South Western at a
decline to 18/, Northern and Eastern Scrip at 41, and
Paris and Rouen at 41 premium. Brighton were 14/,
Blackwall 11, and South Eastern 27; discount. British
North American Bank Shares were 71 discount.
(From The Sun of Last Night.)
Good accounts continue to be received from

Liverpool. On Saturday 10,000 bales were sold at
steady prices, the demand from the speculators being
extensive. One half was Surat. A fair business was
also done in Railways,'and the market was good for
Brighton, and Paris and Rouen Shares. Eastern
Counties were 8i ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 48 ;
Grand Junction, 183 ; Great Western, Half, 60i ;
Birmingham, 187 ; Paris and Rouen, 241 ; and
South Eastern, 18k.
There are later accounts by the Patrick Henry
from the United States. The dates are, New York,
Nov. 7 ; Philadelphia, Nov. 6 ; Quebec, Oct. 31 ; and
Montreal, Nov. 4. Commercial affairs do not appear
to have varied much, 9,41 money was abundant.
Produce ruled low, but some of the American jour-
nals anticipate a better business in British manufac-
tures than the tariff might be supposed to admit of.
The sth of December, when . resumption of specie
payments is to be attempted at New Orleans, was
looked forward to with much interest.

A general topic of conversation in the City to-day
has been the sudden disappearance of a young man
employed as collecting clerk in the establishment of
the London Joint-stock Bank, and who has with him
upwards of 20,000/. in notes, &c. Having failed to
return to the Bank, suspicion was excited, and within
two hours vehicles were dispatched in every possible
direction to trace out the party, whose name is Jordan.
It is supposed, therefore, that he will be unable to
escape, and that even if he succeeded he might not,
from the large amount of the notes, 1,000/. and 500/.
each, get rid of them.
There is a quiet market for the Public Securities,
and prices are not buoyant. The Savings' Bank pur-
chase has been in Consols at 941, and in Reduced An-
nuities at 94*. Consols for present transfer, realise
941 to 941, and for Time 95 to 951; Exchequer
Bills are at the decline to 545. and 565. premium.
New Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have been marked
1011 4 ; and Reduced, 1001 to loci ; the Three per
Cents. are 93* to 911; Bank Stock is rather brisk,
at 1711 to 1721 ; but there are no bargains in India
Stock ; India Bonds are 50s. to 525. premium.
The accounts from Lisbon notice the increased
favour into which the new Treasury issue was get-
ting, and also the election of Deputies for the Lisbon
district favourable to the Government. The Stock is
firmer, New Five per Cents. at 371, and Converted at
311. The financial project for Spain, coupled to a
commercial treaty with England, excites much 'atten-
tion. The Active Bonds are 17* to 18, and the
Three per Cents. are up to 221 and 221. Mexican
Stock is down again to 301 and 29*. The over-issue
is clearly proved to be contrary to the letter and spirit
of the Government decrees and stipulations for the
conversion, and excites the greatest indignation in all
respectable quarters. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents. are 521.
The Share Market is more animated, and the quo-
tations are supported. Eastern Counties are 134;
Brighton, 141; Hull and Selby, 141 ; Greenwich, 8 ;
Midland Counties, 37* ; North Midland, 374- • and
South Eastern Scrip, 2 dis. ; Great Western New,,
are 121 121 • Birmingham Quarter, 24 ; South West-
ern, 191 ;
Northern and Eastern Scrip, 31; and York
and Nort Midland, 43 prem. London and West-
minster Bank Shares are 2 prem.
The large public sales of Tea are going off very
heavily.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, NOT. 26.—The
market is very steady, and Railway Shares continue
in good demand. Our quotations are—London and
Birmingham, 186; Manchester and Leeds, 69 to
70; Manchester and Birmingham, 19.,i to 20 ; Paris
and Rouen, 231 to 231 ; Liverpool and Manchester,
I 75-2 to 184 ; South Eastern Scrip, 18 to 19 ; South
Western, 60 to 61.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH, FUNDS.

Bank Stock
3 per Cent. Red. ...... 946
3 per Cent. C0n5.....
3i per Cent. Red... 1004
New 3i per Cent... ...... 101 i
New 5 per Ceti:
Long Annuities to expire
Jan. 1860 ...... 12i
Oct. 1859
Jan. 1860 l2l
FOREIGN
Austrian, 5 per cent.
Belgian, 5 per cent
Brazilian Bonds...
Buenos Ayres 6 per cent. 22i
'Ulan 6 per cent.
Vombian,:6 per cent —
Ditto, 1824
Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent 79
Danish, 3 per sent
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent —
Mexican, 5 per cent 3O
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. 17i
SHA
Eastern Counties (23 pa
Ditto New (—paid) .

India Stock .2651 pm
Ditto Bonds ....... 52 pm
Ditto Old Annuities ...
Ditto New Annuities...
Ex.-Bills, 1,000/....2d. 55 pm
Ditto 5001...... 56 pm
Ditto Small 53 pm
Bank Stock for Acct. 174
India Stock for Opg...
Consols for Opg. ...... 95
I FUNDS.
Portuguese, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto
Prussian, 5 per cent.
Russian, 5 pm cent ...,
Ditto, Metallic —
Spanish, 5 per cent l7i
Ditto, Deferred
French, 5 per cent. —f —c.
Exchange —f —c
French, 3 per cent —f. —c.
Dutch, 4 per cent. s2i
Ditto, 5 per cent. ...... 101

,RES.
iid)

Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... ... 484
Ditto New Shares ( 5 paid) 5%
Great Western, (65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid)
Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) Bl
Hull and Selby (50 paid) 3l
London and Brighton (50 paid)
London and Blackwall ( paid) .. .....
London and Birmingham (90)
Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 49%
London and Greenwich Railway (12115 s 4dpd) 44
London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 60%
Midland Counties Railway (100 paid)
Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 16%
Northern and Eastern (45 paid)
Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) 9A
North Midland Railway (100)
Paris and Rouen (20 paid)
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) 22%
Ditto Scrip (20 paid)
York and North Midland (50 paid) ...

CITY POLICE EXPENDITURE.—The City Police
Committee have sent in a report to the Corporation
relative to the expenditure of last year. From that
report it appears that the number of constables ap-
pointed in December last was found insufficient for
the purposes to which their labours were applied—the
security of the City, and the Committee advised that
the force for 1843 should not exceed 542 men, and
that an order should be passed directing a rate to be
made for one quarter, from Christmas to Lady-day of
two-pence in the pound on the net annual value of
all houses, and one penny per square yard on all va-
cant spaces of ground, in the mode prescribed by the
Act of Parliament ; and that a further order should be
passed prior to Lady-day next for a rate either for the
remainder of the year, or some shorter period, such as
circumstances may appear to require, in addition to
which the incidental expenses for the year 1842 may
be charged upon each ward respectively. The neces-
sary order was passed accordingly.
ROBBERY OF THE LONDON JOINT-STOCK BANK.
—An unusual bustle was excited in the City in the
course of yesterday, in consequence of an extensive
robbery committed upon the London Joint-Stock
Bank by one of the junior clerks of the establishment,
named Edwin John Jordan. The thief, who is a
tall, thin young man, had been sent out on Saturday
to collect the amount of the cheques, and received at
the Bank of England eighteen notes for 1,0001. each,
one for 5001., one for 300/., one for 2001., two for
1001. each, three for 501. each, two for 401. each, two
for 301. each, one for 20/., and one for 51. Total,
19,715/. As he did not appear at the London Joint-
Stock Bank at four o'clock, some apprehensions were
entertained that he had met with some accident, but
it is stated that the Managers had no suspicion that he
had decamped. It *as, however, we are given to
understand, ascertained that he had exchanged bank-
notes for 500 or 600 sovereigns at the Bank of Eng-
land in the course of the day, so that little doubt was
then felt as to his departure with the whole of the
property. Mr. Bush, the Solicitor to the Committee
of Bankers for protection against forgeries and fraud,
was engaged during the whole of Sunday on the busi-
ness, and caused a reward of 6001. to be offered for
the apprehension of Jordan and the recovery of the
notes. John and Daniel Forrester were also actively at
work. The numbers of the notes are known, and
have been advertised, and messengers were sent off to
the different parts of the Continent. Mr. Bush's ar-
rangements to meet occasions of the kind are so excel-
'Mit, that every expectation is entertained of the re-
covery of the property.
Mr. Henry Curran, the eldest son of Mr. H. Grat-
tan Curran, of Dublin, who- was one of those who
perished in the Reliance, East Indiaman, off Bou-
logne, had entered the naval service about three
years, and being placed upon the India station made
the voyage to China last year in the ill-fated ship. He
had not completed his twentieth year. But his abi-
lity and worth had caused him to receive promotion
unusual for a person of his youth and standing. His
bereaved parents were in daily expectation of his ar-
rival when the melancholy catastrophe occurred.