The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-02 00:00:00

MISCELLANEOUS.

Derby was inundated by a flood yesterday morning,
and a newly-marrivd woman drowned in her bed on the
grow„d-floor. The market was swept away, and other
extensive damage done.
The most sudden awful loss of human life on record,
took place in the year 1466, when the sea broke in on
Dort, in Holland, and drowned 100,000 persons.
The lion. Mrs. Stopford, %%ife of Archdeacon-Stopford,
and niece to the Earl of Mayo, died last Sunday, at
Courtown Castle, in her 39th year.

MONEY and COMM.ERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO TIIREE.

Scarcely a bargain has been made in Con Sols to-day,
the prices of which are quoted 90'to 90i for Money, and
904 to 90 for the Account. A purchase to some ex-
tent has been effected for the May account, at 90} ;
New Three-and a-Half per Cents., 99i 99 ; India
Bonds, 10 to 12 ; and Exchequer Bills, 33 to 35 prem.
The new Spanish Three, per Cents. have again en-
grossed the principal attention of speculators, who find-
ing the public cannot be induced - to lend themselves to
their introduction, are beginning to discover that the
Coupons are not quite so valuable documents as it was
attempted to prove them to be. If they ,be left quietly
alone they will speedily find their proper level, and be-
come like the Bonds from which they have been detached—
a dead letter:. the present quotation is 231 a, having fallen
from 241, the last price of yesterday, or decline of 1}
per cent. from the highest price. The Old Bonds are
nominally 241. Some little business has been done in
Mexican, but in consequence of some difficulty in ar-
ranging the Coupons, many dealers have closed their
accounts, and the most correct quotation for the Bonds
is 38 to 38i ex all the overdue Coupons ; Columbian,
26, to 27 Peruvian, 161 ; and Portuguese, for the Ac-
count, 36i.
• The increase in the earnings of the Brighton Railway
has caused an improvement in the • Shares, which have
been done at 36:1 4. The other lines, have been sold—
South Western, 59i; Midland Counties, 79k; Northern
and Eastern, 35 ; South Eastern and Dover, 25 1.
The quarterly average of the weekly liabilities and
assets of the Bank of England, for the period ending the
29th ult., gives the following results, by a comparison
with the previous returns :—The circulation has in-
creasA 183,0001., the difference between 16,952,00 CL
and 16,769,0001. The deposits have decreased 297,0001,
the difference between 8,657,000/. -and 8,934,000/. The
securities have decreased 513,000!., the difference be-
tween 22,586,0001. and 23,099,000/. The bullion has in-
creased 438,0001., the difference between 6,125,0001. and
5,687,000/. The balance in favour of the Bank is also
greater by 39,000/., the difference between 3,102,0001.
and 3,063,0001. These returns are generally reviewed
as satisfactory. Although the increase in the circulation
be so small this month, yet it has been gradually en-
larged during the whole of the present year, and
is now but 20,000/. below December, 1841. This may
be accounted for by the public availing themselves
of the opportunity of borrowing more freely when the
reduction of interest on loans was made. The quantity
of bullion is also favourable, and 'would lead to the ex-
pectation that the present rate of discount will not be
continued by the Bank. It was anticipated that
it would have been lowered at the meeting on
Thursday, but the object of not doing. so may
have been not to depreciate the nominal value
of money still further. It appears singular that the
Bank of England still adheres to the charge of five per
cent. for discounting bills, when 'it will lend money at
four por cent upon the same description or securites.
By the Sheffield packet ship intelligence has been re-
ceived from New York to the 15th ult. inclusive, and
which will be found in another column.
PRICES OF SHARES TIIIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. Paid. Per Shale.
United Mexican New Scrip
London au. Brighton
London and Blackwall
London and South Western 3BL 5Ol to

Manchester & Leeds (i Shares) 2 - -
4i to
Manchester and Bit mingham ... 40
Midland C .:unties
Northern and Eastern
South Eastern and Dover
Union of Australia.
Ditto New Shares
COURSE OF' EXCHANGE—(YESTEIWAY.)
Amsterdam CF. ,12 76Oibraltar ... ~ ,
Ditto, at sight
Rotterdam ...2 U. 12 8 IGenoa. . 25 90

Antwerp
liamburgh M. B. 13 15 Venice 47
Altona
Paris, 3 days' sight ... 25 70 jPalermo, per oz .......... 120
Ditto, 3 months 25 95 Lisbon
Marseilles
Hour deans 25 95 lit ° Janeiro ............... 27
Frankfort on Maine... 152 (Bahia

Petersburgh, 3Us ... 2.61 Buenos Ayres ......
7 New York, 21 days sight 4(4
Vienna, effec. It. 3 M 955 'Philadelphia ...... 46
Trieste, ditto 9 56 PRICEI. OF BULLION, TEL OZ
Madrid ...

Cadiz 36 Porto-gal Cold C0in...3 17 5
Bilbao ... 35i New Doubloons 0 0 0
Barcelona

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Seville
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL I.—Thyre comes
no relief to our market time, and each succeeding week
is steadily (although almost imperceptibly, as from day
to day) bringing about a still further reduction in our
quotations. This applies to the various qualities of
Americans under."fair," of which the great bulk of our
stock consists ; as well as to long stapled descriptions in
general, including Sea Islands. To-day there was a public
sale of the, last kind, when it was shown to what a
limited extent the demand for that description is cir-
cumscribed—Only a comparatively small part of what
was offered was sold, and that at a reduction in the pre-
vious rates of nearly id. per lb., nor could the buyers
have been induced to take a much greater quantitT, even
should the prices have been reduced another halfpenny.
In fact they will 7of be forced beyond the supply
of their present wants. The sales of the week
amount to 18,940 bales, of which 1,200 Ame-
rican have been taken on speculatin, and 600
with 250 Surat, and 200 Madras for exportation. They.
comprised 3,390 Upland, at 44d. to Gid. ; 6,690 Orleans,
4itd, to 7d. ; 3,560 Alabama, 4ilfl. to .yid. ; 50 Sea
Island, 101 d, to 18d. ; 10 stained ditto, 10d. ; 170 Per-
nams, 6id. to 7 d. ; 500 Marahuni, sd. to 60. ; 580
Bahia, 6d. to 6 d. ; G6O Egyptian, 7d. to 9d. ; 2,680
Id
-Surat, 3d. to 4 . ; 10 Laguayra, 6d. •, GO Peruvian,
54d. to 6}d. ; and 490 Sea Island at public sale, out of
the 1,296 put up.
LIVERPOOL • SHARE MAMKET, APRIL I.—There was a
bare inquiry for all descriptions, and the market was
heavy throughout the day. The sales were—Eastern
Counties, Now, 2 prem. i t clinburgh and Glasgow, 451 ;
Grand Junction, 180 ; Di4o, New, Quarters, 241 ;
Great Western, Halves, 64 ; London an . ilirminifffMt
paid up 321. Shares, 581- ; Manchester and tccli,
quurters, 4/, Gs.'"Gd.; North Union, 22/. 10s. 101
AimicliEnTil ST9c4 Ii;N9tI4NOE, Arhu. I,—There
is a very general inquiry for took, and it may be pre. aumed that the difficulty of employing money, nmathe
low rate of interest will have a beneficial influence,

and 13irinincrliam, 271 and 274; Leeds Quar-
s
Manche,—.
• n.nk, Ldinburgh and
ters, 41 and 4i Alliance —..
Glasgow, 454 to 46+.

Taylor and Nall, the two WTI Whil ppa Ipft for
execution at York, have hitherto maintainefl zY moo
awful hardihood of demeanour (Nall In particular, his
conduct having been very light and frivolous). If no re-
prieve arrives, the last seutVnee of the,, law will be carric4
into execution this day week.--,becaf ifyrcure,