The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-25 00:00:00

SUN, LONDON, MONDAY MORNING,

THE

will not go the length of trying to make an example
of them, but will content himself, as we hear is to be
the case, with bringing forward next session a Bill to
reform the representation, grounded on the cases of
gross bribery which the llon. and Learned Gentleman
has most distinctly brought before the public.
Mr. Vincent is still going about, we see, promoting
the cause of popular representation. "On Tuesday
evening," says the Derby Reporter,:"the Lecture Ball,
Derby, was crowded by the middle and working
classes, who were anxious to hear Mr. Vincent, one of
the champions of the Complete Suffrage movement set
a going by Mr. Sturge, and other middle-class pro-
perty men. On and about the platform we noticed
many middle-class men, who joined heartily in the
applause which many of Mr. Vincent's arguments
elicited. The meeting seemed to excite greatinterest."
Meetings of the distressed shopkeepers continue to
be held throughout the manufacturing districts. At
such a meeting, held at Burnley-, on this day week,
when the suffering shopkeepers, who have, heretofore
stood aloof from the suffrage question, came to a reso-
lution to exertthemselves to procure for their unrepre
sented fellow countrymen an organic change in the
representative system. So out of distress will grow
some great measure of Parliamentary Reform,

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.

CITY, SATURDAY EVENING.

The prices of the Funds towards the close of business
evinced a tendency to improve still further, and the last
price of Consuls was 904 90,1- for Money, and 90i 91
for the AccDunt ; !Bank Stock, 1651 1661 ; India
Stock, 249 250 ; Exchequer Bills, Old, 46 48 ; New,
44 46 prem.
The nominal prices of Foreign Securities, for no real
business was done, were—Belgian, 1011 1021 ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 51 511; the Five per Centii.,
101 101% ; Danish, 82 83 ; and Brazilian, 63 65.
The quotation for Mexican remained at 36k 361. •

Scarcely any transactions were entered intt;in ghures;
London and Birmingham were 178 180 ; Birmingham
and Gloucester, 48 50 ; Great Western, 861 87 ; the
Half Shares, 61 ; South Western, 61i- 62i ; Nortit
Midland,s9 60 ; the New Shares, 29 30 ; South Eastern
and Dover, 22-i 23 ; the New Shares, 2i 3 ; Eastern
Counties, St 91; Northern and Eastern, 40} 41i Black-
wall, 9 9} ; and Brighton, 33i 33E1 per share.
The usual return of the average assets and liabilities
of the Bank of England, for the twelve weeks ending
the 16th instant, was published in the Gazette of last
night. The circulation, by comparison with the former
return, has increased 484,000/., the difference between
18,279,000/. and 17,795,0001. ; the. deposits are greater
by 554,000 L, the difference between 8,565,000/. and
8,011,000/. ; the securities in deposit are more by
532,000/., the difference beta een 21,713,000/. and
21,181,000/. ; and the stock of bullion is larger
by 498,0001., the difference between 7,818,0001. and
7,320,0001.. There is a trifling decrease in the rest, the
balance between the liabilities and the assets last time
being 2,695.0001. and now 2,687,0001.
In ordinary months this increase in the circulation
might be viewed as indicative of an improvement in
commercial prosperity ; it must, however, be remem-
bered that in the present return the amount necessary
for the payment of the dividends has to be calculated. lt
has to be admitted that the enlargement is not wholly
owing to that circumstance, but that the demand for
money, for commercial purposes, has decidedly im-
proved on the month, of which the present accounts
• embrace a part. The payments, on account of duties,
and the impetus which the tariff has given to trade,
have caused a larger amount of hills to be thrown into
circulation, and so far the figures may be viewed as fa-
vourable, but no decided opinion can be given until the
returns of the general circulation of the kingdom be.
published, from which the state of trade throughout the
country at large may be deduced.
The stock of Bullion, taken in connexion with the ac-
counts of the harvest, is doubtless favourable. It is at
this season of the year, that the necessity fur gold first
shows itself, should there be any undue demand for
but the amount of metal in store shows a steady increase,
thereby proving, in conjunction with the rates of Ex-
change, that the inquiry for exportation has not her])
large. It was expected, that the quantity of light coin
paid into the Bank would have given a large supposi-
tious increase in the present return, but it has
been asccrtanu.d that almost the a hole receive,
had been 1.1,-fivered to be revoined, as well us a
am' Ulit of diver in addition, so that the ricomnts n 0.%
presented may fairly he considerei as repres:enting au
approximation to the truth,
The letters from Rio Janeiro, the latest of which are
dated the 254,h of May, state business t'a be still ex
cessively dull, and without any new feature. Hopes,
however, are held out that an improved demand will arise
tar our nrinufactures, but consequent only on a diminu-
tion of the stocks.

Political ati:iirs remained touch in the same state, no-
thing decisive was known as to the insurrection in St.
Paul, but it was supposed that the prompt measures of
the Government wouid easily put it clown. Exchange,
27 F ; Local Stock, 721.
(From The Sun of Saturday.)
The amount of business transacted in the Funds to-day has
been smaller than is usual on a Saturday. Prices, however,
are improving, Consols being 904 90j for Money. and 901
91 for the Account; Three per Cents. Reduced, 90; ; Three-
arni.a. Half per Cents. Reduced, 1004 lotfa ; New Three-
and-a-Ealt per Cents., 100; Bank slocl,, 166 167 ; India
Stock, 249 250; Exchequer Bills, Old, 46 48; New 44 46
premium.
A purchase in the Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at
blk, comprises all the busi: ess in Foreign 'Securities.
The quotation of Mexican is 36i.
In Shares nothing of moment has been done.
The Honda, quoted to-day, are Colombian, 211; and Spa-
nish Fire per Cents., 21i.
The only arrival with any late news is the l'eterel, from rvio
de Janeiro, dates May 26, but nothing later respecting toe
insurrection at San Paulo.—Exchange, 27/d.
The French-Belgian Meaty and the Stade duties have re-
called attention to a matter which has long injured our com-
merce, and, if net shortly adjusted, threatens to annihilate one
branch of it. altogether—namely, the subject of Dutch aggres-
sions in the Indian Archipelago. Holland being in possession
of Java, has for years been endeavouring to obtain a monopoly
of trade in that part of the world, to the exclusion of every
other nation ; and although a treaty was made long since, by '
which it was agreed that neither that country nor this should use
means for fettering the commerce of the other, yet every
means have been used quietly to form agreements
with the native chiefs extremely favourable for Dutch,
and highly detrimental to British interests. No op-
portunity occurred of striking a great blow until
the separation of Belgium, when, upon the pretext of
excluding the manufactures of that country, most vexatious
Custom-house regulations were formed, and strictly enforced,
by which our trade with Sumatra, and numerous other iude-
pendent islands, is almost,. it not wholly, put a stop to. Con-
ventions were entered into with the several native provinces,
by which they were bound to carry out the above-named rule,;
among which, and that most loudly complained of, is, that no
goods shall be allowed to be landed in their territories unless
accompanied by certificate of having passed she ordeal of one of
four Javanese Custom-houses, at which a duty is levied far
above what had been stipulated to be paid under the treaty
before alluded to. Instances have occurred in which goods
bonded in defiance of these orders hive been confiscated, and
the owners had a narrow escape of life, and all in direct contra-
vention of the understanding between the two Governments.,
The effect is to shut out our manufactures from all ports except
those in Java, at which the duty there charged amounts almost to
a prohibition ; and even were it not so, it is contended that the
English have no right to be obliged to enter a port of another
nation before proceeding to dispose of its mercharidize in free
countries. Memorials have been presented, and a correspond-
ence carried on between our Ambassador and the authorities at
the Hague; but having been conducted in a very shuffling,
manner by the latter, no result but an evident desire to procras-
tinate redress has yet been produced. Some time has now
elapsed since the correspondence was printed by order of the
House of Commons, and the public are completely ignorant of
w iiat may have transpired subsequently but this much is
known, that no relief has been given, and that our export trade
has fallen off in consequence.
CLOSING PRICES.
BRITISH FUNDS.

t3ank Stuck

3 per Cent. Red. .. 9li I Ditto' Bonds ....... ..... —pm
3 per Cent. C0n5....
3i per Cent. Red... 1001 Ditto New Annuities...
New 3i per Cent... lOO Ex. Bills, 1;0001. ...21 48 pm
N.tw 5 per Cer,. — Ditto 500/...... 49 pm
Long Annuities to expire Ditto Small 46 pm
Jan. 1860 .... ..... 12 9.16 Bank .Stock for Acct —
Oct. 1859 — India Stock for 0pg....
Jan. 1860 — Consols for Acct....:.. 91
' • FOREIGN FUNDS.
Austrian, 5 per cent.... —. . Portuguese, 5 per cent. --
Belgian, 5 per cent — ' Ditto, New Ditto —
Brazilian Bonds... ' . Prussian, 5 per cent.
Buenos Ayres6 per cent. Russian, 5 per cent. .... 114/
Chilian, 6 per cent Ditto, A letallic .. .
Colombian, 6 per cent... Spanish, S per cent...... 21A
Ditto, 1824 — Ditto Deferred.... . --
Danish, 3 per cent. — French, 5 per cent. --f. —e.
Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Exchange —f —c.
Mexican, 5 per cent 36A French, 3 per cent. —f. —e.
Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 per cent. —
Peruvian,lB2s,6 per ct. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. ....
SHARES.
Great Western Railway '(65 paid)
Ditto New Shares (50 paid) 6I.
London and Brighton (50 paid)
itto Loan Notes (10 paid)
. North Midland Railway (100)
Ditto Thirds (211. 13s. 4d. paid) - 19i.
South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) —
Ditto Scrip. (10 paid)

. .
LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, JULY Thesa lesfor the
vseek up to last night were 37,990 bales, at steady prices, and
on the whole the dealers are of opinion that the demand is im-
proving, as affairs look better at Manchester, and there have
been a few parcels taken on speculation. The stock is still
rather above what it was at this time last year, being 660,500
bales.
MANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, JULY 22.—The market
is much the same as yesterdiy, with more inquiry for Man.
cheater and l4irmingham. Edinburgh and Glasgow, Quarters,
3k,; Manchester and Leeds, 7.5 76; London and Birmingham,
176 179; Ditto, ditto, Quarters, 461 47.

PHOTOGRAPHY.—This art is daily improving, and
it furnishes, probably, the best means of procuring a
memento of those whose features are worthy of remem
brance. Mr. Beard has lately been making portraits of
such diminutive size that they may be set in bracelets,
lockets, and even in signet rings. However indistinct
these may appcar to the naked eye, they all possess the
advantages of being absolutely correct as copies, so that
any degree of distinctness may be developed in propor-
tion to the magnifying power employed whenever we
choose to resort to the aid of a lens.
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The rate-payers 'of Lambeth have just received a
notice from the collector, requiring payment of a poor-
rate of Is. fid, in the pound—the second of that amount
this year ; a highway rate of 4id. in the pound ; a
church-building rate of 4d., and sburial-ground rate of
Id. On an aisessment of 40/. this amount to
4/. Its. Bd.; and when collected will produce 50,000/.
The poor-rate includes the police (5,0001.) for the half
.Sear,-the, eounty (3,724 L) for the same period, and in-
,tArßst and prt.ogpr.inopa "-ol.money borrowexl.for,ißY-
proving-the workhotbe,